Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 51, Petersburg, Pike County, 12 May 1893 — Page 6

WORLD’S FAIR MELANGE. -^rhe Problem of Living on Three Dollars a Day in Chicago. -* e»y at Hotels—Dw^en of SET lam. Etc. Sr. Louis, May 5.—The Globe-Demo-■crat’s special correspodence from Chicago gives the following interesting gossip for the benefit of intending World’s fair .visitors: ! “Wtiat will It cost*” A truthful answer .would he, “What you please.” It is possible |to spend a great deal of money in seeing the (World's fair. It is also possible to save considerable if one knows how before beginning to (pay for experience. Those who desire ta •“manage" can find a fine for effort here, f The first problem that confronts the intending visitor is the place -to stop. The general ’impression outside of Chicago seems to he that ■shelter must be engaged how or never There ’Isno doubt this impression is being fostered ’Industriously by interested parties in Chicago. [Every hotel-keeper is reaching out for eon •tracts with all his might, and at the same time Is conveying the idea that there is bound to be • dearth of accommodations. This will probably result in the American public paying some hundreds of thousands of dollars more than is necessary Contracts made now are a snare and will prove a delusion nine times out of ten. ' Better accommodations and better rates will be obtained by those who do not make engagements before coming here. There will be no crush. This is the best Judgment of those who have no personal interest in high prices. The wise fair visitor will give himself little nr no concern about his stopping place lintil hr tenches Chicago. He will leave his “bag" m the pareet-room at the depot. He will set out for that part of the city which he prefers, and In a couple of hours he wilt find something to suit his taste and his -purse. He need not take the first or the second or the third thing shown him. There will be vast opportunity for selection. and there will be wide range of prices. The ease with which this can be done will surprise everybody. Chicago always was a city of hotels. It is to-day a city of almost nothing but hotels. Chicago has been building hotel# for two years in anticipation of this World's fair. In the past six months the hotel manta has assumed additional phases. It has prompted the hasty transformatiou of stores and of manufactories into hotels. Groups of residences and rows of flats have been erected on plans which will permit their use for hotel purposes while the fair lasts. The - exaggerated development of »he caravansary idea is one of the things worth seeing. It is Chicago's exhibit for the World’s fair. Most of this hotel building and transforming is of such a character that no one need have any fear of safety. The papers have sounded some warnings about mushroom structures. Down near the grounds there have been erected mammoth buildings of which little more is expected titan that they shall stand till the end of October. But iu the city the new hotels are wellbuilt and welt supplied with modern convenienies. As * rule it will be well for the visitor to think ■twice before deciding that the best stopping place is that which advertises daily as “in «loee proximity to the grounds.”, All of the hotels near Jackson park are new'. Some are substantial enough Some are not. There is wo particular advantage in locating within -walking distance of the gates. The transport ation problem no longer exists. For ten cents one can go by steam cars from the heart of the etty in fifteen minutes to the gates-of the fair. For a nickel the trip can be made by cable or lag elevated road. There is going to be no diffleulty in reaching the fair from “up-towa.’* The opening day with its 360,000 visitors settled that. Another point mav be worth considering.

The visitor who locates up town will have a larger field in which to exercise selection of an -eating^place. If there is any extortien in restaurant charges, and any diminuition of the -diameter of pie. it will be found in the Ticinity of the fair grounds. Up town the stranger will eat with the Chicago -people. He will fare as well and as cheaply as they do. Down near Ate grounds, if anywhere, the transient is in danger of being marked for a special victim. The European plan prevails in World's fair hotel management. Nine out of ten of the Chisago hotels keep the rooming and the feeding separate. The contract applies only to the room. The guests eats where, when and at what pace he chooses. This is the plan of living which four-lifths of the people who tone to the fair will find it best to adopt. It may not seem the most economical at the first calculation, bnt it means no meals paid for and missed, It means greater freedom of, action. There are S and S3 a day hotels, including hoard and room, tout the World's fair visitor -who tries the American plan will miss the chief a»^l of the day and he will find his expense v -amt running higher than that of the one woo lives just as well on the European plan. As to prices! The charge for a room in Chi* eago—hotel or boardinghouse—ranges from $t to a day. The average price for an average room is now IS a day. Some hotel-keepers are willing to contract to give their twodollar rooms at any tune during the fair. Most of them, however, expect to advance twoctoliar rooms to S3 and Si in June, and if they make contracts now they insist an such antes. The chances are that the two-dollar rooms can be had for IS a day at any time during the fair, and it is more probable that they will go down to SI and Si-30 than that they will -advance to S3 and Si- Put down, therefore. S3 a day tor your room and exercise the privilege of selection after your come. The chances are strongly that you will do even better than this ft the money is an object. If you do not come until after June these cbsnces amount to almost a certainty For two .people in a room the Chicago landlords do not intend to double charges. The twodollar room becomes a three-dallar room when ♦wo occupy it. And where tour people are willing to crowd in together the per capita will be seduced still more. ‘That.*’said atypical landlord who is just opening a house with 350 rooms, “is the way we expect to make money. These World's fair visitors will want the rooms only for sleeping purposes. They will be out all day. They will submit to a little crowding at night to reduce the expenses. They will come in parties, and will not mind doubling up As for me, I would ratter put fourjpto one room at St than two in two rooumwTOapiece. It means only a little -extra for towels and service So you see we can all be suited, and the expense will not be so great after all.” it is well to beware of the average boarding house as distinguished from the hotel. The following is from a reputable Chicago newspaper: It may be unwittingly, or it may be with a mean malice, but whichever is the inspiration, the fact remains that boarding-house keepers are throwing unenviable discredit upon Chicago in the exorbitant prices they ask for board or lodging* Rates of living for visitors to the $ty are double and in some places just three times wrhat they were at the same time last year. No mercy whatever is shown, and the unfortunate who does not care to go to the hotels is obliged to see himself ruthlessly robbed. Private landlords seem to have lost all municipal patriotism In their abnormal craving for money, and disregard entirely the promise made to the people of the world by the World's fair officials that .strangers would not be robbed durin» their sta • in the city. A f light rise in Rrices might have been expects 3u as rents and provisions are somewhat Usher, but not even in aggravated eases does This rise exceed 10 per cent.. while the boardinghouse keepers show no hesitation whatever in demanding from SO to 300 per cent, more than icy formerly did. Investigation bears out all that the Chicago alleges. A couple of hours spent a tour of several fashionable boardmgme districts showed that the extortionate ideas are general. Haases where the usual sates are $10 to SM a week foe beard and soom expect to eharge from (30 to MO a week tor the same accommodations. The private room-renting houses, not hotels, entertain a atmilar Impression of the harvest before them. A room which a month ago brought from *15 to «Ka month rent is now expected to yield from AH to Mh One ra mi renter who came up here N

Iran Missouri, and who formerly kept a boM in one of the rirer towns, is authority for the statement that there is a general understanding in his fraternity that rooms shall not go for lees than 82 a night for oae person, or for IS a night when two occupy it. This applies to book rooms. It is the minimum rate. .The better class of rooms is held a: correspondingly higher prices. What was a $39 room a month ago is now a 325 room. A suite of three rooms, only fairly furnished, which rented st MO is now held at *150. A canrass of one district on the Xorth side failed to show a good boarding house where foci and shelter could be contracted for at less than *» a week. Among the West side boarding houses the same condition prevails. On the South side, which is more convenient for reaching the fair, the advances are still more. Xorth side and West side boardinghouse keepers have doubled on charges. The South side keepers have trebled. With such a slowing the intending visitor will: understand why it is well to beware'of the boarding house. These extortionate prices, however, can not last. They give a bad impression. But no ane need be imposed upon by them. It will not be necessary to pay them unless one foolishly enters into a contract at such terms before coining or makes no definite arrangement after coming. The boarding-house rates will drop with a rush before June. There is too much hotel room to spare. Xo combination to maintain the present figures is possible. As for the restaurants of Chicago they beat the world. They were not started to swindle the unwary. They were here before the World's fair whs thought of. They will go on when the World's fair is over. They feed 350.000 Chicago people daily and they can care for 250.000 strangers in addition without overtaxing their table or kitchen capacity. In the close relations of these restaurants to the Chicago public lies the assurance of safety to the stranger. Charges at the established restaurants have undergone little change in view of the World's fair patronage. There could not have been much change without a mighty kick from the home custom. Those who observe closely think the steaks are a little thinner and that the arc of the pie has become an eighth instead of a sixth of a circle, But in the main the Chicago restaurant goes on striving to please just as if there was no World's fair. . The visitor will find that while Chicago restaurants average high some are better than others. What is noticeahle is the fact that the highest degree of cleanliness and the best of cooking often goes with the more moderate prices. Brightness, miirors. clean linen and whole crockery are thrown in with a very modest bill. Having located his room and arrived at a thorough understanding with his landlord, the World's fair visitor can try a different restaurant for every meal. It will be possible to live comfortable in Chicago during the fair on *3 a day. The frugal visitor may make this 13 a day. The careless one. who doesn't count the quarters, may find lodging -and meals running up to $1 and *5 a day. All of this applies without distinction of sex. Chicago is the one city whose restaurants cater conspicuously to the custom of ladies. Rooms or tables are "reserved tor ladies" in the Chicago restaurant invariably. Even the dairy lunch room on every block where the bet roused sex perches on a stool has its row of tables and more painstaking service for the other sex. There is just one pitfall in this restauraunt programme up to to-day. When hunger overtakes a visitor o:i the fair grounds he is in danger, It is possible, if the visitor knows the places, to get in at one door and come out of another, giving up only tOc for a cup of coffee, the same for a glass of milk, ditto for a sandwich or three small doughnuts. But the danger lies in striking the White Horse lnn„ar some other of the fancifully named restaurants which are run under “concessions,!’ That means a percentage of profits to some brother-in-law of the World's fair management. Roast beef was 30c a week ago in one of the restaurants on the grounds. It was 50c on Saturday. It reached 80c on Monday, and a victim said he could see through it. Think of Americans paying Sc for half of a quarter of a pier Rice pudding 30! Crackers and a crumb of cheese 35c ! A Boston man who paid 40c for a dish of baked beans said he counted them and would make affidavit that there were only eleven beans in the lot. The commission has promised to overhaul these restaurants. Until there is reform let the visitor putt up his belt another notch and save his appetite until he i» without the gates. W. B. S.

THRIFTY CHEROKEES Wa.nt Bonds instead of Ca»h in Pnjrmonl for the Strip. Washington, May 6.—Secretary Carlisle accorded, an audience toC. J. Harris, E. E. Starr, E. T. Cunningham and D. W. Swipe, representing- the Cherokee Indians. Under the treaty concluded between the United States and the Indians, the Cherbkees ceded a large tract of land to the United States, commonly known as the Cherokee outlet, for which they receive in cash $295,736, and the United States eontracts to pay them in the future, beginning March 4,1895, $8,300,000 in five equal installments, the deferred payments to draw interest at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. The Cherokee Indians do not want the last four payments in cash when it is due, but have submitted a proposition to Secretary Carlisle to issue bonds for .•$5,640,000, bearing interest at the rate y 4 per cent, annually, the bonds and interest to be guaranteed by the United States government and to run for a term of years, and for the first payment of $1,660,000 to be paid in cash when due, interest in the meantime running at the rate at 4 per cent, as provided by the law. REVOLUTION IN NICARAGUA, Coder the Leadership at Ex-President Sarnia. Panama, via Galveston, May 6.— Mail advices, bring the news that a revolution, hits broken out in Nicaragua. The movement is an outcome of the old hostility entertained by the eastern department toward the western department of the republic. Ex-Presi-dent Savala is leader of the insurgent -'orces. He has succeeded in capturing -‘.he important city of Granada, capital of the province- of the same name. ! iavala’s success in getting possession of the place :is said to be due to treason on the part of the garrison. United States Minister Shannon, accompanied by his family, took passage on the steamer at the Nicaragua seaport of Cor in to for home. AhlvnurdVa Resignation Desired. Berlin, May 6.—Many of the electors of the district of Amswalde, which elected Reetor Ahlwardt, the spatiJ elvish agitator, to the reichstag, are anxious for his resignation owing to his recent outrageous conduct in that body. Meetings of the electorsthave teen held at which resolutions ^rere adopted requesting Ahlwardt to givt up his seat in the reichstag. Murdered Her Children and Herself. New York, May i.—Mrs. Fannie' Korn, of 101. West Sixty-third street, last evening gave poison to her two children, Edwin, 12 years old, and Florence, 6 years old, then shot them, and afterwards shot herself. AH were taken to the Roosevelt hospital.

MAY-TIME THOUGHTS. ▲ Seasonable Sermon by Rev. T DeWitt Taimasfe. 6 Thr Garden of Christ. Unlike Those si Man, Are Not Hedged About. Bat All Majr Enter In and Partake of Its Beauties. The following discourse on . “MayTime Thoughts,” was dictated by Rev. T. DeWitt Talma ge on the oeeasion ol his recent visit to Philadelphia to take part in the ordination of his son. Rev. 1 Frank Talmage. It is based on the : test: J A fountain of gardens, a well of firing-waters, and streams from Lebanon.—Solomon’s Song, tv., 15. Some of the finest gardens of olden times were to be found at the foot ol Mount Lebanon. Snow descended, and winter whitened the top of the mountain: then, when the warm spring weather came, the snows melted and poured down the side of the mountain side and gave great luxuriance to the gardens at the foot, and you see now the allusion of my text when it speaks of the fountain of gardens and streams from Lebanon. Again and again the church is re presented as a garden, all up and down the Word of God, and it is a figure specially suggestive at this season of the year, when the parks and the orchards are about to put forth their blossoms, and the air is filled with bird voices. A mother wished to impress her child with the love of God, and so, in the spring-time, after the ground had been prepared in the garden, she took a handful of flower seed and scattered these seeds in the shape of letters all across the bed of the garden. Weeks passed by, and the rains and the sunshine had done their work, and one day the child came in and said: “Mother, come quickly to the garden—come now.” The mother followed the child to the garden, and the little child said: “Look here, mother! See, it is spelt all over the grounds in flowers, “God is Love.” “Oh. my friends, if w<jp>nly had faith enough, we could see Gospel lessons all around and about us—lessons in shells on the beach, lessons in sparkles on the wave, lessons in stars on the sky, lessons in flowers all over the earth. Well, my friends, you know very well that there have been some beautiful gardens created. There was the garden of Charlemagne, and you remember that this king ordered gardens laid out all through the realm, and decided by decree of government what kind of flowers should be planted in those gardens. Henry IV,, at Montpelier, decreed that there should be flowers planted throughout his realm and gardens laid out, and he specially decreed that there should he Alpine pyrena and French plants. Shenstone, the poet, was more celebrated for his gardens than for his poetry; his poetry has faded from the ages for the most part, but his gardens -are immortal; to all the beauty of his place he added perfection of art. Palisade and arch and arbor and fountain and rustic temple had their most wonderfui specimens, and the oak and the hazel and the richest woods of the forest were planted in that garden. He had genius and he had industry, and all his genius and all his industry he applied to the beautification of that garden. He gave for it fifteen hundred dollars and he sold it at last for eighty-five thousand dollars, or what was equal to that number of dollars. It was an expensive garden, laid out with great' elaboration. And yet I have to teU you now of a garden of vaster expense—the garden spoken of in my text—a fountain of gardens with a stream from Lebanon.

gjnaiwr octJfcb uau uiv jfnrai our bition of his life to build Abbotsford and lay out extensive gardens round about it. It broke his heart that he could not complete the work as he desired it. At his last payment of one hundred thousand pounds, after laying out those gardens, and building that palace at Abbotsford, at that time his heart broke, his health failed, and he died almost an imbecile. A few years ago when I walked though those gardens, and I thought at what east expense they had been laid out, at the expense of that man’s life, it seemed I could see in the crimson flowers the blood of the old man’s broken heart. But I hare to tell : you now of a garden laid out at a Taster expense—who can calculate that Tast expense. Tell me, ye women who watched Him hang; tell me executioners who lifted,and let Him down: tell me, thou sun that didst hide, and ye rocks that did fall, what the laying out of this garden cost? This morning, ; amid the aroma and brightness of the I spring time, it is appropriate that I ! show you how the Church of Christ is a garden. 1 remark, first, it is a garden because of the rare plants in it- That would be a strange garden in which there were no flowers. If you can not find them anywhere else, you will find them at thegateway. If there be no especial taste and no especial means, you will find there the hollyhock, and the daffodil, and the dahlia. If there be no especial means, you will find the Mexican eactus,and the bluebell, and the arbutus, and the clusters of oleanders. Flowers there must be in every gar den, and I have to tell you that in the garden of the church are the raresl plants. Sometimes yon will find the violet, inconspicuous, but sweet a: Heaven—Christian souls, with no> pre tense, but of vast usefulness, compare lively unknown on earth, but to be glorious in celestial spheres. Violet: and violets all the time. Yon can noi tell where these Christians have been save by the brightening face of the in valid, or the steaming tureen on the stand near the sick pillow, or the neu curtain that keeps out the glare of th< sun from the poor man’s cot. Sue! characters are perhapps better ty pifiec by the ranunculus which goes creeping between the thorns and the briars o

this life, giving a kiss for a sting: and many a man has thought that life before him was a black rock of trouble, and found it covered all over with delightsome jessamine of Christian sympathy. In this garden of the Lord I find the Mexican cactus, loveliness within, thorns without, men with great sharpness of behavior and manner, but within them the peace of God, the love of God, the grace of God. They are hard men to handle, ugly men to touch, very apt to strike back when you strike them, yet within them all loveliness and attraction, while outside so completely unfortunate. Mexican cactus all the time. Said a placid elder to a Christian minister: “Doctor, yoo would do well to control your temper.” “Ah!” ‘said the minister to the placid elder, “I control more temper in five minutes than you do in five years.” These people, gifted men, who have great exasperation of manner, and seem to be very j different from what they should be. i really have in their souls that which l commends them to the Lord. Mexican 1 cactus all the time. So. a man said to | me years ago: “Do you think I ought ! to become a member of the church—I | have such a violent temper?. Yesterj day I was crossing Jersey City ferry. I It was very early in the | morning and I saw a milkman ' putting a .large quantity of water into i his can and I said: ‘That is enough, sir,’ and he got off the cart and insulted i me, and I knocked him down. Well,” said he, “do you think I could ever become a Christian?” That man had in his soul the grace of the Lord Jesus, but outside he was full of thorns, and full, of brambles, and full of exasperaj tions: but he could not hear the, story of a Saviour's mercy told without hav- ■ ing the tears roll down his cheek. There was loveliness within, butronghj ness outside. Mexican cactus all the | time. But I remember in boyhood that we had in our father's garden what we j called the giant of battle, a peculiar rose, very red ahd very fiery. Suggestive flower, it was called the giant of battle. And so in - the garden of the Lord we find that kind of flower—the Pauls and Martin Luthers, the Wyeliffes. the John Knoxes—giants of battle. What in other men is a spark, in them is a conflagration; when they pray, their prayers take fire. When they suffer they sweat great drops of blood: when they preach it is a pentecost: when they fight it is a Thermopylse; when they die If is martyrdomgiants of battle. You say: “Why have we not more of them in the church of Christ at this time?” I answer your question by asking another: “Why have we not more Cromwells and Humboldts in the world?” God wants only a few giants of battle: they do their work, and they do it well. But I find also in the church of God a plant that I shall call the snowdrop. Very beautiful, but cold; it is very nure, pure as the snowdrop, beautiful as the snowdrop, and as cold as the snowdrop. No special sympathy. That kind of man never loses his patience; he never weeps, he never flashes with anger, he never utters a rash word. Always cold, always precise, always passive, beautiful snowdrop: but I don’t like him. I would rather have one giant of battle than five thousand

snowdrops. Give me-a man who may make some mistakes in his ardor for the Lord’s service, rather than that kind of nature which spends its whole life doing but one thing, and that is keeping equilibrium. There are snowdrops in all the churches—men without any sympathy. Very good; they are in the garden of the Lord, therefore I know they ought to be there; but always snowdrops. You have seen in some places, perhaps, a century plant. I do not sup-' pose there is a person in this house who has seen more than one century plant in full bloom, and when you see the century plant your emotions are stirred. You look at it and Say: “This flower has been gathering up its beauty for a century, and it will not bloom again for another hundred years.” Well. I have to tell you that in this garden of the church,, spoken of in my text, there is a century plant. It has gathered up its bloom from all the ages of eternity, and nineteen centuries ago it put forth its glory. It is not only a century plant, but a passion flower—the passion flower of Christ: a crimson flower, blood at the root, and blood on the leaves, the passion flower of Jesus, the century plant of eternity. Come, oh, winds from the north, and winds from the south, and winds from the east, and winds from the west, and scatter the perfume of this flower through the nations. His worth . it ail the nations knew. Sure the whole earth would love Him, too. Thou, the Christ of all the ages, hast garments smelling of myrrh, and aloes, and casia, out of the ivory palaces. I go further and say the Church of Christ is appropriately compared to a garden, beeause of its thorough irrigation. There can be no luxuriant garden without plenty of water. I saw a garden in the midst of the desert amid the Rocky mountains. I said: How is it possible you have so many flowers, so much rich fruit in.a desert for miles around? I suppose some of yon have seen those gardens. Well, they told me they had aqueducts and pipes reaching np to the hills, and the snows melted on the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky mountains, and then poured down in water to those aqueducts, and it kept the fields in great luxuriance. And 1 thought to myself— ; how like the garden of Christ. All . around it the barrenness of sin and the . barrenness of the world, hut our eyes . are unto the hills, tram whence cometh . our help. There is a river, the streams i whereof shall make glad the city of our God, the fountain of gardens and ‘ streams from Lebanon. Water to slake , the thirst, water to refresh the faint- ■ ing, water to wash the unclean, water , to toss up in fountains under the snn of i righteousness, until yon can see. the [ rainbow around the throne. I wandered in a garden of Braxilt ian cashewnut, and I saw the luxu

rianceof those ga-dens was helped ithe abundant supply of water, t came to it on a day when strangers were pot admitted, but by a strange coineitlec.ee at the moment I got in the king's chariot passed and the gardener went up on the hill and turned on the water. I and it came flashing down the broad stairs of stone, until sunlight and wave in gleesome wrestle tumbled at my feet. And so it is with this garden of Christ. Everything comes from above—pardon from above, peace from abve. comfort from above,; sanctification from above. Streams from Lebanon, oh? the consolation in this thought. Would God that the gardeners turned on the fountain of salvation until the place where' we sit and stand might become Elim with twelve wells of water and three score and ten palm trees. But I hear His sound at the garden gate: I hear the lifting of the latch of the garden gate. Who conyjt there? It is the Gardener. who passes through the garden gate. He comes through this path of the garden, and He comes to the aged man and says: “Old man. 1 come to help thee, I come to strengthen thee. Down to hoary hairs I will shelter thee. 1 will give thee strength at the time of old age: 1 will not leave; I will never forsake thee. Peace, brokenhearted old mam I will be thy consolation forever.” And then Christ, the Gardener, comes np another path of the garden, and He sees a soul in great trouble, and He says: “Hush, troubled spirit, the sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night; the Lord shall preserve thee from all evil; the Lord shall preserve thy soul.” And then the Gardener comes up another path of the garden: and He comes where there are some beautiful buds, and I say: “Stop, oh Gardener, do not break them off.” But He breaks them off, the beautiful buds, and 1 see a great flutter among the leaves, and I wonder what He is doing, and ^e says: “I do not eome to destroy these flowers; I am only going to plant them in a higher terrace, and in the garden around my palace. I have eome into my garden to gather lilies. I must take back a whole cldster of rosebuds. Peace, troubled soul, all shall be well. Suffer the little children to eome unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of Heaven.” Oh, glorious Gardener of the church! Christ comes to it now. and He has a right to come. We look into .the face of the Gardener as He breaks off the bud, and we say. “Thou art worthy to: have them; Thy will he done.” The hardest prayer a bereaved father or mother ever uttered, —“Thy will be done.” But you have noticed that around everp king's garden there is a high wall. You may have stood at the : wall of a king's court and thought: ■ “How I would like to see that garden,” and, while yon were watching, the gardener opened the gate and the royal equipage swept through it. and you caught a glimpse of the garden, but only a glimpse, for then the gates closed. 1 bless God that this garden of Christ has gates on all sides; that they are opened by day, opened by night, and whosoever will may come in. Oh! howmany there are who die in the desert who might revel in the garden! How many there are who are seeking in the garden of this world that satisfaction which they can never find. It was so with Theodore Hook, who made all nations langh while he was living. And yet Theodore Hook on a certain day, when in the midst of his revelry he caught a glimpse at his own face and his own apparel in the mirror, said: “That is true. 1 look just as 1 am—lost, body, mind, soul and estate, lost!” And so it was with Shenstone about his gar,den, at which I spoke in the beginning hfmy sermon. He sat down amid all itsBSSufysahd wrung his hands and said: “I haveSost my way to happiness. I am frantic; lixate everything: I hate myself as mad man ought to.” Alas! so many in the gardens of this world are looking for that flower they can never find except in the garden at Christ.

Substantial eomtort win not grow In nature's barren soil. All we can boast t ill Christ we know Is vanity and toil How many hare tried all the fountains of this world’s pleasure, but never tasted of the stream from Lebanon! How many have reveled in other gardens, to their soul’s ruin, but I never plucked one flower from the ■ garden of our God! 1 swing open all the gates of the garden and invite yon I in, whatever your history, whatever j your sins, whatever your temptations, whatever your trouble. The invitation comes no more to one than to all: “Whosoever will, let him come.” The flowers of earthly ^gardens soon fade, but, blesSed be God, there are garlands that never wither, and through the grace of Christ Jesus we may enter into the joys which are provided for us at God’s right hand. Oh! come into the garden. And remember, as the closing thought, that God not only brings ns into a garden here, bnt it is a garden all the way with those who trust and love and serve Him, a garden at1 through the struggles of this life, a garden all up the slope of Heaven. ' There everlasting spring abides And never-withering flowers. Death, tike a narrow stream, divides That heavenly land from ours. —Let the love of your, brethren he as a fire within you, consuming that selfishness that is so contrary to it and so natural to man; let it set your thoughts on work to study how to do good to others; let your love be an active love, witnessing within yon, and extending itself in doing good to the souls and bodies of yonr brethren as they need and yon are able. —One of the most useless of all things is to take a deal of trouble in providing against dangers that never come. How many lay up rich -s which they never enjoy; to provide for exigencies that never eorne; sacrificing present comfort and enjoyment in guarding against wants of a period they may never live to see.—Jay.

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JEAfl PflflTS xiv «nni woxtxjx, ttnfeN by THE G(K)DW1S CLOTHfflGIIO., EVANSVILLE, IND. ask roams. avaarMia WAnnAWia August Flower” “What is August Flower foi ?*' As easily answered as asked. It is: for Dyspepsia. It is a special remedy for the Stomach and Liver.— Nothing more tlian this. We believe August Flower cures Dyspepsia. We know it will. We have rease ns for knowing it. To-day it has an honored place in every town and country store possesses one of the largest manufacturing plants in the: country, and sells everywhere. Ihe reason is simple. It does one thir ig, and does it right It cures dyspepsi 18

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