Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 1, Plymouth, Marshall County, 14 December 1900 — Page 6

TALMAGE'S SERMON.

TELLS OF OVER DAVID'S PASSAGE THE JORDON. mm A lot Unnoticed Ineldeat of OkSo Time Are Draws Lesnons of Oafort mad Hopef ulaea to Ail God's Cbtltftrea. (Copyrfrlit. 13W, Lauls Klopsch, N. T.) Washington. Dec. J. From an unnoticed Incident of olden time Dr. Talnaagc In this discourse draws soma comfortable and rapturous lessons. The text is II. Samuel xix., 18, "And there wcat over a ferryboat to carry oyer the king's household." Whica of the crowd is the kins? That short man, sunburnt and in fatigue dress. It is David, the exiled king. He has defeated his enemies and is now going home to resume his palace Good! I always like to ses David come out ahead. But between him and his home there is the celebrated river Jordan which has to be passed. The king is accompanied to the bonk of the river by an aristocratic old gentleman of SO years, Barzillai by name, who owned a fine country eat at Rogelim. Besides that. David has his family with him. But how shall they set across the river? While they are standing: there I see a ferryboat coming from the other side, and as K cts through the water I see the faces f David and his household brighten up at the thought of so soon getting home. No sooner has the ferryboat struck the shore than David and his family and his old friend Barrillai from Rogelim get on board the boat. Fither with splashing oars at the side or with one oar sculling at the stern of the boat they leave the eastera bank of the Jordan and start for the western bank. That . "western bank is black with crowds of peop'e. who are waving and shouting at the approach of the kins and his family. The military are all out. Some of those who have been David's worst enemies now shout until they are hoarse at his return. No sooner has the boat struck the shore on the western side than the earth quakes and the heavens ring with cheers of welcome and congratulation. David and his family and Barzillai from Rogelim step ashore. King David asks his old friend to go with him and live at the palace, but Barzillai apologizes and intimates that he is infirm with age and too deaf to appreciate the music, and has a delicate appetite that would soon be cloyed with luxurious living, and so he begs that David would let him go back to his country seat. I alikf of F.Ktltrment. I onco heard the father of a president of the United State3 say that he had just been to Washington to see his son in the White House, and he told me of the wonderful things that occurred there and of what Daniel Webster said to him. but he declared: "I was glad to get home. There was too much going on there for me." My father, an aged man, made his last visit at my house in Philadelphia, and after the church service was over, and we went home, some one in the house asked the aged man how he enjoyed the service. "Well." he replied, "I enJoyed the service, but there were too many people there for me. It troubled my head very much." The fact is that o!d people do not like excitement. If King David had asked Barzillai thirty years before to go to the palace, the probability is that Barzillai would have gone, but not now. They kiss each other good-by, a custom among men Oriental, but in vogue yet where two brothers part or an aged father tid a son go away from each other never to meet again. No wonder that their lips met as King David and old Barzillai. at the prow of the ferryboat, parted forever. An Unstable Craft. Every day I find people trying to ex- j temporize a way from earth to heaven. ' They gather up their good works and j some sentimental theories an(j (nev j make a raft, shoving it from the shore, j and poor, deluded souls get on board I that raft, and they go down. The fact i is that skepticism and infidelity never yet helped one man to .lie. I Invite all the ship carpenters or worldly philosophy to come and build one boat that can safely cross that river. I invite them all to unite their skill, and Bolingbroke shall lift the stanchions, and Tyndall shall shape the bowsprit, and Spinoza shall make the maintopgallant braces, and Renan shall go to tacking and wearing and boxing the fchip. All together in 10,000 year they will never be able to make a boat that can cross this Jordan. Why was it that Spinoza and Blount and Shaftesbury lost their fouls? It was because they tried to cross the stream in a boat of their own construction. What miserable work they made of dying? Diodorus died of mortification because he could not guess a conundrum which had been proposed to him at a public dinner. Ze-tixis. the philosopher, died of mirth, laughing at a caricature of an aged woman, a caricature made by his own hand, while another of their company and of their kind died saying. "Must I leave all these beautiful pictures?" and then jud;ed that he might be ioIstcrrd up in the bed in his last moments and be shaved and painted and rouged. Of all the unbelievers of all ages not one died well. Some of them sneaked out of life, som wept themselves away in darkness, some blasphemed and raved and torn their bedcovers to tatters. This :s the way wordly philosophy helps a man to die. TVnrd from tl.e Other Shore. Blessed be Cod, there is a loat coming from the other side! Transportation at last for our souls from the other shore; everything about this gospel from the. other shore; pardon from the other shore; mercy from the other chore; pity from the other shore; ministry of angels from the other shore; power to wrk miracles from the other f.hore; Jefjis Christ from the other shore. "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners," and from a foreign shore I sec the ferryboat coming, and it rolls with the surges of a Savior's suffering; but as it strikes the earth tho mountains rock, and the ilead adjust their apparel so that they may be fit to come out. That boat touches the earth, and glori

ous Thomas Walsh gets into It in his expiring moment, saying: "He has come! He has come! My Beloved is mine, and I am his." Good Sarah Wesley got into that boat, and aa she shoved off from the shore she cried: "Open the gates! Open the gates!" I bless God that as the boat came from the other shore to take David and h!s men across, so, when we are about to die, the boat will como from the same direction. God forbid that I should ever trust to anything that 6tarts from this side. Tha Boat's Companion. Now, I want to break up a delusion in your mind, and that is this: "When our friends go out from this world, we feel sorry for them because they have to go alone; and parents hold on to the hands of their children who are dying and hold on to something of the impression that the moment they let go tho little one will be in the darkness and in the boat all alone. "Oh," the parent says, "if I could only go with my child, I would be willing to die half a dozen times. I am afraid she will be lost in the woods or in the darkness; I am afraid she will be very much frightened In the boat all alone." I break up the delusion. When a soul goes to heaven, it does not go alone;

the King is on board the boat. Was Paul alone in the last extremity? Hoar the shout of the sacred missionary as he cries out, "I am now ready to be offered, and the tlmo of my departure Is at hand." Was John Wesley alone In the last extremity? No. Hear him say, "Best of all, God Is with us." Wae Sir William Forbes a.'on In the last extremity? No. Hear him say to his friends, "Tell all the people who are coming down to the bed of death from my experience it has no terrors." "Oh," says a great many people, "that does very well for distinguished Christians, but for me, a common man, for me. a common woman, we can't expect that guidance and help." If I should give you a passage of Scripture that would promise to you positively when you are crossing the river to the next world the King would be In the boat would you believe the promfse? "Oh, yes," you say. "I would." Here is the promise, "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee." Christ at the sick pillow to take the soul out of the body; Christ to help the soul down the bank into the bait; Christ midstream; Christ on the other side to help the soul up the beach. Be comforted about your departed friends. Be comforted about your own demise when the time shall come. Tell it to all the people under the sun that no Christian ever dies alone; the King Is in the boat. The Ferry to Heaven. Again, my text suggsts that leaving the world for heaven is only crossing a ferry. Dr. Shaw estimates the average width of the Jordan to be about 30 yards. What, so narrow? Yes. "There went over a ferryboat to carry the king's household." Yes, going to heaven is only a short trip only a ferry. It may be SO miles that is, SO years before we get to the wet bank on the other side, but the crossing is short. I will tell you the whole secret. It is not five minutes across, nor three, nor two, nor one minute. It is an instantaneous transportation. People talk as though, leaving this life, the Christian went plunging and floundering and swimming, to crawl up exhausted on the other shore, and to be pulled out of the pelting surf as by a Ramsgate life-loat. No such thing. It is only a ferry. It is so narrow that we can hail each other from bank to bank. It is only four arms' lengths across. The arm of earthly farewell put out from this side, the arm of heavenly welcome out from the other i side, while the dying Christian.standing midstream, stretches out his two arms, the one to take the farewell of earth, and the other to take the greeting of heaven. That mikes four arms' lengths across the river. Welcome at the I.anriiug. Again, my subject teaches that when we cross over at the last we shall be met at the landing. When David and his family went over in the ferryboat spoken of in the text, they landed amid a nation that had come out to greet them. As they stepped from the the deck of the boat to the shore there were thousands of people who gathered around them to express a satisfaction that was beyond description. And so you and I will be met at the landing. Our arrival will not be like stepping ashore at Antwerp or Constantinople among a crowd of strangers. It will be among friends, good friends, those who are warm hearted friends, and all their friends. We know people whom we have never seen by hearing somebody talk about them very much; we know them almost a well as if we had seen them. And do you not suppose that our parents and brothers and sisters and children In heaven have been talking about us all these years, and talking to their friends? So that, I suppose, when w cross the river at the last we shall not only bo met by all those Christian friends whom we knew on earth, but by all their friends. They will come down to the landing to meet us. Your departed friends love you now more than they ever did. You will be surprised at the last to find how they know about all the affairs of your life. Meeting on the Other Nliore. There was romance as well as Christian beauty in the life of Dr. Adoniram Judson, the Baptist missionary, when he concluded to part from his wife, she to come to America to restore her health, he to go bark to Itiirniah to preach the gospel. They had started from Burmah for the United States together, but. getting near St. Helena, Mrs. Judcon was so much better she said: "Well, now r can get home very easily. You go back to Burmah and preach the gospel to those poor people. I am almost well. I shall soon be well, and then I will return to you." After she had made that resolution, terrific in its grief, willing to give up her husband for Christ's sake, she sat down in her room and with trembling hand wrote some eight or ten verses, four of which I will now give you: "Wc part on thi3 green islet, love Thou for the eastern main; I for the setting sun, love; Oh, when to meet again! "When we knelt to see our Henry die

And heard his last faint moaa. Each wiped away the other's tears; Now each must weep alone. "And who can paint our mutual Joy When, all our wandering o'er. We both shall clasp our Infants three At home on Burmah's shore? "But higher shall our raptures glow On yon celestial plain When loved and ported here below Meet ne'er to part again." She folded that manuscript, a relapse of her disease came on, and she died. Dr. Judson says he put her away for the resurrection on the Isle of St. Helena. They had thought to part for a year or two. Now they parted forever, so far as this world is concerned. And he says he hastened on board after the funeral with his little children to start for Burmah, for the vessel had already lifted her sails. And he says, "I sat down for some time !r. my cabin, my little children around me crying, 'Mother, mother!' And I abandoned myself to heartbreaking grief. But one day the thought came

across me as my faith stretched her wing that we should meet again in heaven, and I was comforted." Was it. my friends, all a delusion? When he died, did she meet him at the landing? When she died, did the scores of souls whom she had brought to Christ and who had preceded her to heaven meet her at the landing? I believe it, I know it. Oh, glorious con solation, that when our poor work on earth Is done and we cross the river we shall be met at the landing! But there is a thought that comes over me like an electric shock. Do I belong to the King's household? Mark you, the text says, "And there went over the ferryboat to carry over the king's household," and none but the king's household. Then I ask, "Do I belong to the household? Do you?" If you do not, come today and be adopted into that household. "Oh." says some soul here, "I do not know whether the King wants me!" He does; he does. Hear the voice from the throne, "I will be a father to them. and they shall be mv tons and daugh ters, saith the Lord Almighty." "Him that cometh unto me," Christ says. "I will in nowise cast out." Come into the King's household. Sit down at the King's table. Come in and take your apparel from the King's ward robe, even the wedding garment of Christ's righteousness. Come in and inherit the King's wealth. Come in and cross in the King's ferryboat. RUSSIAN LANGUAGE. More Valuable to Acquire Thau Any Other Continental Tongue. When every progressive young Ger man is doing his utmost to acquire a thorough knowledge of some other lan guage than his own it seems a waste of time for the Englishman to learn German with an idea to making money. Instead, he should learn Rus sian. Russian is not the official language, but the actual medium of com munication throughout an empire that extends from the Baltic to the Yellow sea. Years ago on the Moscow ex change one might transact business as rapidly in German as in Russian: now the native merchants, even those who know German, require some special inducement to speak it, and in the hur ry of business turn aside impatiently from any one who addresses them in any other tongue than that they them selves habitually use. In the near fu ture a knowledge of Russian will be worth more to the mere commercial than any two continental languages. for Russia is making gigantic strides in all industries, says Pearson's Weekly. As a recent visitor aptly describes it, "Russia is a new America," To a young man who adds to a knowledge of Russian practical experience in any staple industry. Russia offers a promising career. Mere theoretical knowledge is not enough; this is taught, and well taught, in the special universities; St. Petersburg alone turns out some hundreds of efficient "technologs" every year. Practical work in any of the textile, engineering, or the chemical industries is not so readily obtainable in Russia, and a capable Englishman is sure of an engagement at a wage double or treble that he would receive at home. Spuln'4 Flag In America. The Hag of Spain floated over various sections of America from 1492 until 1S98, when it disappeared from this continent. It was first raised here by Columbus on Friday, Oct. 12, 1492, on San Salvador, one of the Bahama Islands, which are now British territory. Spanish possessions on this continent rapidly increased, but circumstances forced her from time to time to relinquish them. Her flag disappeared from Guiana, which finally fell into the hands of the English, Dutch and French in 1613. Brazil and Uruguay went to Portugal in 1C34. Jamaica was taken iby Great Britain in 1GS0. The Bahamas were taken by Croat Britain in 1GS0. Hayti went to France, and was called St. Dominique, in 171.". (Thili became independent in 1817. Florida was cedetl to the United States in 1819. Mexico became independent in 1S21. Colombia, New Granada, Pent, Paraguay, Ecuador and Bolivia, under the leadership of Simon Bolivar, threw off the Spanish yoke in 1824. Argentina attained independence in 1812. Venezuela attained independence in 1815. Spain agreed with the United States to give up all claim to sovereignty over the last of her possessions on the western continent August 9, 1 80S New York Weekly. llUtnrl- Iliilliliiii; llcMrnyed. The Luddington company's boarding house at Marinette, Wis., has been burned. It was bullt In 1S5G on Mission point, where there was a government trading post in 1814. Tho late Samuel J. Tilden was a guest there on one occasion and numerous other interesting facts were connected with the old structure. Ostrich Ar I'otyeamoiiH. Otrlches are polygamous, one male having several wives. The females In each family lay their eggs in one nest, and go off sporting while the male remains at the nest to do the hatch-lag.

Current ill V tS V J t . P Ai At. , 't A Chicago Uhird Mayor. That the third mayor of Chicago is aow alive and able occasionally to make his appearance in the streets of the city over whose destinies he once presided, seems at first thoughts to be an astonishing fact. Everybody knows, who ever stops to think, that Chicago is a very young city, (but the most do not stop to think, or, anyhow, do not on this matter of Chicago's paucity of years. Measuring time by the-successive mayors and their terms, it is seen that the first mayor might well be living today, and possibly not yet a very old man. But the lii?t mayor, W. B. OgJen, was about 40 years of age when he was elected, and. though he was a remarkably robust and healthy man. he could not have been expected to live to be 103. The third msiyor, Alson S. Sherman, was about 34 years old when he was elected mayor he was born at Barre, Vt., in 1811 and consequently he is ALSON S. SHERMAN. Third Mayor of Chicago. now S9. He is well preserved and. always large and fine-looking, he is now truly patriarchal. He resides at Waukegan. a suburb of Chicago, and does not often visit the city, not because he is to feeble for that, but he likes the spaciousness and comforts of his semicountry home. Grolvlh of "Oleo" Business. As indicating the enormous growth of the oleomargarine business in the last few years it is stated that during the last year 101,000,000 pounds of "oleo" were sold in the United States, much of it under false pretenses as genuine butter. This was a jump of 25,000.000 pounds over the sales of the previous year. During the last year also the number of oleomargarine factories In the United States has increased from seventeen to twenty-six. In thirty-two states of the Union there are now in existence laws which absolutely prohibit the manufacture of oleomargarine colored' to imitate butter. Notwithstanding these laws, however, no less than SO.OUO.OOO pounds of the imitation hatter wore sold in the states referred to during the last year. In the Crout bill, now before congress, it is proposed to make the tax on oleomargarine a part of the internal revenue tax of the federal government. While the state laws are not enforced it is safe to say that the federal statute would be, as the tax would be collected at the factory. Under the provisions of the flrout bill it is not proposed to hinder or interfere with tho sale of "oho" when offered on its own merits and without any attempt to deceive peop'o into thinking they are buying butter. With this idea in view the present tax of two rents a pound which is collected on all oleomargarine is to be reduced to one-quarter of a cent a pound on oleomargarine which is put on the market in its. uncolored and natural condi tion. On oleomargarine which is artificially colored yellow to imitate butter the tax is to be raised, on the other hand, to ten cents a pound. This provision will make it unprofitable for manufacturers and dealers to continue their present policy of selling colored l.HOWTH OF OLBOMAIUSARIXG BUSINESS IN RI3CENT YCAUS. oleomargarine as butter, which is a fraud on the consumer and on the farmer and dairyman as well. Garde Atvay Millions. The old lady who recently died and left President Ixmbet of France a legacy of $1,000,000, gave away great sums in charity during her life. On one occasion a man to whom she hael given a large sum for charity said to M. Ijoubet: "In very deed she carries her heart in her hand." The president's ready reply was: "Imjvossible, my frle'iid her heart is too large for that, and her hand is too small." Mob Must Tay for Hurntne The jury in the case of Robert 11. McBride, a newspaper editor ef Mitch ell, S. 1)., against Ahner E. Hitchcock a ii d forty-seven other citizens of Mitchell, has given McBride judgment for $700. McBride sued to recover $:,500 for the destruction of his printing office, tho WnoL-lv Moll A Robert II. McBride ."V" 1UIIU MlUVil Ol Mithell on Feb. 21, 189G. Articles published in tho paper did not meet the approval of tho people and they Fought rovengo by wrecking the office. When tho bombarding party completed Its work tho Mail office looked as though It had suffered from tho combined attack of a cyclone and a conflagration. The Tortugueso government has authorized the expenditure of over 35,000 rupees for the reception of Lord Curzon, viceroy of India, who Is expected to Tislt Goa this month.

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Topics 'V V V . w w ß t ßtK 7i JiO;? Countess of Hirminghim. An American woman is to be the first countess of Birmingham. Joseph Chamberlain, sec retary of state for the British colonies, is to be created Earl of Birmingham, and his beautiful and accomplished American wife, formerly Miss Enditott of Boston, will consequently become a countess. Almost Mrs. Chamberlain, alone among the important cities of the empire, Birmingham has been absent from the roster of the upper house of parliament, and now this neglect, according to persistent rumors in wellinformed quarters, is about to be repaired by the elevation of Colonial Secretary Chamberlain to the peerage, with the title of carl of Birmingham, his American wife, daughter of President Cleveland's secretary of war. Endicott, becoming first counter of Birmingham. Mosaics in an Old Tomb. A German archaeologist, Professor Jacobsthal, has just returned to Berlin from an expedition into Asia Minor, where for eighteen months he has been engaged in researches along t'e lines in which he is most particularly interested. He spent most of his time in eastern Armenia, in the valley of the Aras. In a lecture recently delivered in Berlin the professor says that but two of the ancient monuments in eastern Armenia are still in existence, and these two are of such highly artificial j work that one cannot find its equal in any part of Asia Minor. The smaller one of these monuments used to be the mausoleum of Jusuf Ibu Kutaijr, and according to well-preserved inscription was built in 1102. It is an octagonal building, some 2G feet in diameter and about oi feet high up to the roof. The other one is the mausoleum of Mu Mine Chatunr?. who the wife of the Seidchuk prince was mämmm MAUSOLKIWI OP JUSUF IBU K UTA UK. Ildcgiz, and was built in 118C. In its form it is a ten-cornered tower, 35 feet in diameter and about 78 feet hierh up to the roof. Commercialism tn Jat;alion A rmy. It appears that the struggle between (Jod and mammon is not unknown even within the ranks of the Salvation army. Commamler Booth-Tucker recently discovered that the headquarters ef the organization in New York were seriously infected with the spirit of commercialism in the shape of mining stock speculation, and the stringent measures he has taken to suppress it have made a stir in Salva tion Army circles not equaled since Ballington Booth's withdrawal. The desire to lay up treasure elsewhere than in heaven Is said to date from the coming of an officer recently transferred from Denver to New York. In a short time a considerable number of the officers in New York had invested in gold mining ha rep. and Colonel Brewer, the celitor of tho War Cry, became local manager for a large Seattle company. Commander BoothTucker, on learning this, gave the editor the choice of leaving his editorial jK)sition evr giving up all commercial alliances. The editor promptly transferred his mining stock and managerial position to a friend, but it is said that many other Salvationists have been affected by the speculative spirit, and that this fact will figure in a general shake-up at the annual assembly of the council of the national staff this week. Major General Knojc. Major (leneral C. K. Knox of the British army has been engaged in a GEN. C. E. KNOX, game of hide and seek with Gen, De Wett, the slipirry Boer commander, for several wes. General Knox haa figured promine.tfly In the Anglo-Boer vrax bait a shori time.

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PROUD OF LABELS.

luuar Man Frankly AdmlU Trarel Check Are l?lufl A distangy looking young man boarded a Fourteenth street car at Massachusetts avenue the other night He was carrying a leather suit case. Pasted all over the suit case were labels indicating much foreign travel steamship pasters slapped on at Dieppe-, Havre, Ostend, Bremett. Cherbourg, Liverpool, Yarmouth, Naples, and railroad labels that bore the names of all lines all the way from Constantinople to St Petersburg. The young man of distangy appearance put the suit case down between his legs, and all the people in the seats opposite began a fascinated port of inspection of the labels. A stout man with several of the component parts of a jag who sat nxt to the young man sf-emed to regard th labels with particular interest Ho stooped ovpt and deciphered them carefully and elaborately and then he looked up at the owner of the suit case with a leer. "Been around right smart, hain't you, podner?" he inquired. The young man rekarded him with a smile. "Never been farther away from Washington than New York in my life," he replied, without any hesitation whatsoever. "I got that whole tmneh of labels for half a dollar at a little money exchanging joint, down near the Battery, in New York. Hot ; scheme, isn't it?" i The frankness of the statement so dazed several of the passengers -who overheard it that they got off at tho wrong theater. Wa.shington Post. MUSK OX RAISING. Imltntrj Will l'roserut! Upon an KxttiisUe Scale. In "Sweden tho industry of raising the musk ox for its fleece has been started on a large scale, says the New York Journal. After making many unsuccessful attpnillti fh.n Tv'rlU-V,i-,fF A m tic expedition, which several seasons ago returned to Sweden from Green land, succeeded in there capturing alive two calves of the musk ox, a male and a female, and in bringing them to Sweden in good condition. In this way the musk ox industry started. At present there is a large herd of these animals, which are being cared for on a farm in northern Sweden, where all j conditIons are apparently suitable fo: 1 their development. The musk ox (ovi e for . Das moschatus) is a singular animal, j in appearance resembling both an ox , and a sheep, as the scientific name ; "ovibas' implies. Its introduction into Sweden will be of great benefit to that country, in the opinion of Kolkhoff, who, in flat contradiction to the statements of the older zoologists, says that the flesh of the animal is not merely edible, but of very agreeable flavor. As a fully developed musk ox weighs about l.HOO pounds this is an imnortont -ii.; i i t 11,11 cou.Mueiauon. j;ut me principal Value Of the animal lies in its he.ivv fleece of dark brown wool of extraordinarily line liber. The fleece of a single musk ox outweighs those of 2G sheep. OPEN IN WINTER. Ice-IIre:iUer l'rfient Interruption f Traffic ;tt lali von tx-k. Vladivostock is no longer the iceilosed port in winter it formerly was. for the resources of modern shipbuilding have been called in and powerful ice-ibreakers keep it open the whole year round, so that now there is no interruption of traffic at any season and t passenger steamers come at regular in tervals all the winter, therefore reasons for obtaining Port Arthur no longer exist, says a Russian correspondent. Still, the climate is not good in winter, and, naturally, the officers of the men-of-war prefer to winter in Port Arthur or Nagasaki, although in summer time the bright side of life in Vladivostock is quite as attractive as in the southern ports. The place has been strongly fortified, but strangers are strictly prevented from visiting the fortifications, which are to be seen on all the hilltops. Maga zines, masked batteries and Other means of offense and defense have been provided, and they are connected by an electric tramway and by telephone and telegraph, so that in case of attack communication with the various points can be rapidly established. The number of soldiers stationed at Vladivostock has been greatly increased, and probably it would be a more difficult place to capture than Port Arthur. Tli "Ontlrman Farmer. According to tradition there was once an old woman who kissed her cow and said: "Everyone to his own taste." Out at Bustleton there is a "gentleman farmer" who can give the aforesaid old woman cards and spades and beat her at her own game, says the Philadelphia Record. He doesn't kiss his cows, but he does something more remarkable. He actually scrubs their teeth with a large tooth brush! This man has many peculiar ideas about his life stock, and particularly his cows, which art of the very finest breeds So cautious is he about their eating and drinking that all the water the cows use is distilled. It is said that he has a separate tooth brush for each cow, and as he cannot depend I upon his men to do the brushing, ho does it himself, using the very best j castile soap. lie feels that in adopt- . lug this course he is assured of puro 1 milk, free from the possibility of mi- ! crobes. ltrmlfor! County's llonoretl Dead. Joseph W, Stockier of Orange, N. J., will eri'ct a monument In Athens, Pa.. I in commemoration of the soldiers and ! sailors of Bradford count'. It will Etand In tho center of the old academy lawn, on the spot where Gen. Sullivan of revolutionary fame camped on his march against the Six Nations of New York In 1779. The pedestal Is to be of pink Stony Creek granite. Surmounting the pedestal there will be a bronze group of heroic size, entitled "The Defense of tho Flag." The entire structure will be twenty feet high. Mark Twain usually breakfasts about 10 o'clock. He says that the early breakfast Is one of the American customs he admires most when abroad.

OLDEST HMMH AKEfitCA Tells Hok He Escaped the Terrors of Many Winters by Usino Pcruna. Mr. Jaac I5r k, tlx- OM.t -Man in t)n United States. Mr. Isaac Brock, of Mcl ty. Tex.. lns attair.od the gnat ace of 111 years, having been bora in 17SS. lie is an .ir!nt f-wmt t Pp. I runa and speaks of it in the followiag j terms: j "During my long l.f. I have known j a great nuny rcni'di.-s f. r coughs. : colds, eatarrh anil diarrhoea. I had always supposed thrse flections U I be diffennt !i.va.-. b;u 1 havo ! learned from Dr. Hartman'.? book-. that th ifTections ;:re ti e ma an-I are properly call 1 atan h. "As lor Dr. Hart man's ivmedy. Penma, I hae found it to be the bzt. if not the only reliable remedy for these affections. "Pcruna has been my stand-by for many years, and I attribute my good health and my extreme age to this remedy. It exactly meets I all my requirements. "I have come to rely upon it almost j entirely for the many litt!- things for j which I n'-ed medicine. I believe it to i Le especially valuable to old people." Isaac Brock. Catarrh is the greatest enemy of old age. A person entirely free from catarrh is sure to live to a bale and hearty old age. A free book on ca tarrh sent by The Peruna Medicnw ! C" Colurnblls 0 According to the- results ly l'rof. A. K. VerriH the Bermuda islands art? merely f .studios beau tili I the reninant of an island, than the present vt-ry much I arge jentire group, but which has Mink in the x-an. Tie original island had :in are;i of 09 nr 4o0 viuaro mibs. whereas the B--.-rm.i-das today are only about 20 squire miles in area. Within a eoniparativeiv i event eriod, says Prof. Verrill, tho Bermudas have subsided at least SO er 300 feet. Their base is the summit of an ancient volcano, while their surface is composed f thell sand elriftil into hills by the wind and consolidated by infiltration. 8100 Itewar.l, SIOO. The rr-aör of this j.arr ti-i'.l l,c j leased learn tbat ll.ore ) ;ti icasi oi.e :r ad.-rl uk that m"H U-v ha, lin-n M.- to curt' in all its stages arid thut i at;irrh. Hails Catarrh cure is the ! '''i ;l fnitt-ruiiy. Caurrh li:ifac.ns!m;-t;ui:aldi"f-u.M'. r'(niir s a (vn-.tHuiii'tal tiv;itmei.t. Hall's Catarrh i'v.rc i t;il.vi internally, stc'tinc öirt-cily upon th- blx.l aini jmu-oris snrfacrs of th- !yt-in. thereby !si r jr.tr Iii Iour.dation of t lie J soae.andi;ivi!!j.tl.epatlcrrt strength ly buiJ.'.inir up th- ..ns:iuiT!.n anl asMMiti; iiaturt' in tiii its vrk. Thf rprietor have so murli fdith in its curative powers that they tfTer One Hundred JVillarsfor any cas- that it fjils to cure. Send fur list of lVstiiniini j is. Adt'.res. F. J. C1IF.NKY A. CO . Toledo, O. Seid ty lnifcr(;i'ts 77e . Hail's Fumiiy l'iil are tr, t.evt. llißh l'rlo. for a IUok. Denton's ' New York." the first book dealing with that locality, brought $2,000 at a sale in London a few days ago. It is a small quarto volume and was published in Hi7o. It was bought by Dodd, Mead & Co. of New York. The work was in possession of Ixrri Ashburn. who. upon the death of his father, sold his collection liest for th ltonrK. No matter what ails you. headacha to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right CASCARKTS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural nmvements. cost you just 10 cents tt start getting vour health back. CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boves. every tablet has C. ('. C. stamped on it. Be- ! ware of imitations. ( kcwiilktr TruM. The mania for combinations has struck even the fraternity which caters to New York's love for fancy dancing. Every professional cukrwalker ha. cast his Jot with the new organization, which has raised the price of "walking" and caused managers to wax meditative. Kaie to Florida. For all information, folders, ma. and rates to Florida via the "Dlxi Flyer" line. Battlefield route via Iy'iout Mountain, write to Briard F. Hill. N. P. A., ;rJS Marquette building. Chicago, 111., or Y. U lanley, C.P.&T.A., N. C. & St. I. Ry.. Nashville, Tenn. llllllnarl Hr-1 IHtratr ifrm. Destruction of a number of billboards in a western city by tho fim department was orelered rtwntly. The reason given is that the biütKXirds wen regular and active disease-germ incubators, a menace to health and a nuisance generally. Yli !- l-:ttti Fit ttoiit. The British bark Inverurie arrive! at San Francisco from Swansea recently with her :lag at half-mast, there, having been three dtaths during t he vovag . Cn;l)ine I ! to Ciiiiiiiliin. Kemp'-- I'.ilsar.i will stop th tu! at once. !o to your druggist today and et a sample Imttle fre SoM in ." and ,Vi et nt bottles. Go at o:nv; delays are dangerous. C'olorrU SIikUmiI it I Oifortl. There ate many Siamese at Oxford, as well as Fast Indians and American negroes. 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