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CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY JANUARY 10, 1891. "TAUKKKACl.K PUMUT. KtW YEAR'S SERMON DY REV. DR. TALMAGE. M Nprsk 11 f tit tilth! llrlurnt ttis Fuwri 11 f Light nml thn I'nwers of Unrkiim Vlirlnllnn Nrnl thn Help Thitt Cninrt fnun On High. HliOOKI.YN, .Inn. 4. Dr. Tnlumgo's New Year's ecriuou l 11 ringing battle cry to minister mid Christian everywhere, call lug upon them to Join In n combined c'.inrge on the lutreuchmeut of sin anil Sa tan. It iiimlo n deep liiiiri'-iliin 011 the rnst crowds who heard It In this city this 'morning, mid nt Tlio Christian Herald scr vlro tonight in Now York. Tim cuthusl ANtu nt the Intter service wns lucrcnied by tUo effect Ivn nlil rendered hy u largo vol unteer choir which Inn Ix-cn orgnulxcd from tlio nudleneos, who sung with n vol tinio nml fervor seldom ninnlcd, After the singing of tlm hymn commencing, (Vmn, Holy ftplrlt, lirnttMily iloTfl, ,j Willi nil tlijr quickening inmrns Dr. Tnlnmgo preached the following sor mon from the text, I.ukti xxlv, -tit, "Tarry ye In tho city of Jerusalem until join) en dued with Mivcr from on bight" For n few month, In tlio irovhlincu of (Sod, I have two iiilil(n, 0110 in llrooklyn nudtho other In Now York, and through tlio kindness of tlio printing press tin ivr wldcnlnit opportunity. To all such hear ers and renders 1 coiuu with nil fk.'cIii1 message. Tim lima has nrrlvitl for n for ward mowmient such ns thu chuif'hnud tlio world Imvu never win. That there is a need for Mich n religious movement In evident from tlio fart that inner mIiicu our world wait swung out umuug tho planets hnn thrru Ikmui miicIi an organ Ui'd and do tiTinlned elTort to overthrow righteous neM, and make tho Ten Commandment obsolete ami tho wholu Hlhln a drtlslon. Meanwhile alcoholism Is lakliiK down Its victllliN liy the hundred of thousands, nnd tho polttiral parties get down on their knees, practically saying! "O thou al mighty rum Juki wo how down before theel (llvo um tho olllceit city, state and national, Oh, give us tho ollieos, and we will worship thoo for uver And ever, Amen." Tho Christian Sabbath moanwhllo, ap pointed for physical, mental And spiritual rest, Is being secularised And abolished. As if tho IniiI publishing houses of our own country had exhausted their literary filth, tho French mid HuhiIiiii sowers have Ixhmi Invited to pour their scurrility and moral slush Into tho trough where our American swine nro now wallowing. Meanwhile thcru an.' enough house of In famy In nil ourcltlos, open and unmolested of tho Inw, to Invoke the omnipotent wrath which hurled Sodom under a deluge of brimstone. The paudemonlao world, I think, has massed Its troops, and they uro at this moment plying their batteries ukiii family circles, church circles, social circles, political circles and national circles. Apollyon is In tho saddle, and riding nt tho head of his myrmidons would capture this world for darkness nud woe. TDK MINISTKUS OK TIIK UNITKU HTATKS. That Is one side of the conlllct now rag ing. On tho other side wo have tho most niAKulltccnt gospel mnchluery that tho world ever saw or henvon over Invented. In the llrst plnco there are In this country more than eighty thousand ministers of religion And, take them as a class, more conse crated, holler, more consistent, more self denying, more faithful men never lived. I know them by the thousands. I have met them in every elty. I aiii told, not by them, but by people outside our proferslon, peo ple engaged In Christian And reformatory work, that tho clergy of America are at the head of nil good enterprises, nud whoever else fall they may be depended on. The truth of this Is demonstrated by tho fact that when a minister of religion does fall, it Is so exceptional that tho newspapers re port It as something startling, while a hun dred men In other callings may go down without the mutter Ixdng considered as es pccially worth mentioning. In addition to their equipment In moral character tho clergy of this country have All that tho schools can give. All archico IorIcaI, rhetorical, scientific, scholastic, literary attainment. So much for the Christian ministry of nil denominations. In tho next place on our side of tho con flict wo have tho grandest churches of nil time and higher stylo of uiembc.rshlp nud lore of them, and a host without number f splendid men and women who are doing their beat to have this world purified, elo TAted, gospcllxed. Ilut wu all feel that omethlng is wanting. Knough hearty ongs have been sung And enough earnest sermons (preached within the Inst six months td save all tho cities of America, and saving tho cities you save tho world, for they overflow all the laud either with their religion or their Infamy, C1IRI8TIANITV UA8 YKT MUCH TO WIN. Out look at some of tho startling facts. It is .nearly nineteen hundred years 'since Jesus Christ cam by the way of Bethle hem caravansary to save this world, yet the1 most of the world has Iron no more touched by this most stupendous fact of all eternity than if on the llrst Christmas night the beasts of the stall, amid the bleat ings of their own young, had not heard tho bleating of tlio Lamb tbnt wits to be slain. Out of tho eighteen hundred million of the human race fourteen hundred million nro without God and without Iioh In tho world, the came' ((river of Arabia, Ma homet, with his nine wives, having half as many disciples aa our blessed Christ, nud aaore people are worshiping chunks of painted wood nud carved stone than nro worshiping tho livlug and eternal God. Meauwhlle, the most of us who uro engaged in Christian work I speak for myself as well as others nro tolling up to our full capacity of Ixxly, mind nud soul, harnessed up to the hist buckle, not able to draw a pound more than we nro drawing or lift an ounce more than we are lifting. What is tho matter? My text lets out the secret. We nil need more of the power from on high. Not muscular power, not logical power, not scientific power, not so cial power, not financial power; not brain power, but power from on high. With it wa could accomplish more in one week than without it iu a hundred years. Aim I um going to gut It, if lu answer to prayer, earnest anil long continued, God will grout it me, his unworthy servant. Men and women who know how to pray, when you pray for yourself, pray for mo that I may be endued with power from on high. I would rather have It than nil the diamond fields of Golcouda, nud nil the pearls of tho sea, and nil tho gold of the mountains. Many of the mightiest intel lects never had a touch of it, nud many of the le&s than ordinary Intellects have been surcharged with it. And every man and womuu on earth has a right to usplro to it, a rly lit to pray for it, and, properly per sistent, will obtain it. Power from on the level Is u good thing, such power am I may give you, or you may give me, by encouraging words and ac tions. I'ower frorp on ')'j level when we stand by each oilier lu any Clirlsiliin un dertaking, Power from on the level when nl her pulpits are lu accord with ours. Power from on the level wlieiitlioivllgliius mid secular press forward our Christian uudei takings. Hut power from on the level Is not siilllclotit. Power from on high Is what wo need to take possession of Us. Power straight from (lod, .Supernatural power, omnipotent power, all conquering power. Not more than nno out of a thou sand of tho ministers has It continuously. Not morn than one out of (en thousand Christian has It all thu time, (JUeli lu abundance, these last ten years of the Nine teenth century would accomplish mciro for (lod, nud the church, nud the world than the previous ninety years of this century, MOIIK I-OWKII VIIOM ON IIKIII NKKDIIH A few men nud women in each age of the world have possessed It, Caroline Fry, the luimortnl tjunkeress, had II, and three hundred of the depraved nml suffering of Newgale prison, under her exhortation, repented and believed. Jonathan Kd wards had It. and Northampton meeting house heard tlio outburst of religious emo tion as ho spake of righteousness and Judg ment to come, .Samuel lludgett, thu Chris tlau merchant, had It, and lilsleucfnctlniui showered the world. John Newton had it. lllshop Uillmer had it. IsaU'lla Gra ham had It. Andrew Fuller had It. The great evangelists Daniel Ilaker and Dr. Neltletou aiid Truman Oslniru and Charles (1. Finney had It. In my boyhood I saw Truman Oshorn rise to preach in tho vil lage church at Soinervllle, N. J,, and be fore ho had given out his text or uttered n word Hoplu lu the audience sobbed iiloud with religious emotion. It wan tho power fioin on high, All iu greater or less de gree may have it. Once get it and noth ing can stand lsifore you, Satan goes down. Caricature goes down. Infidelity goes down. Worldliuess goet dowii. All opposition goes down. TIMICU (IP IILKHHINO. Several times lu the history of the church and thu world has this power from on high neon demonstrated. In the hevuuteeiith century, after a great season of moral de pression, this imwer from on high catnii ilown upotidohn Tlllotson and Owen and Flavel nml Maxtor and lliinynn, and there was n deluge of mercy higher than thu tops of thu highest mountains of sin. In thu P.lghtccuth century, lu Kiiglaud and America, religion was at a low watermark. illlaiu Cowper, writing of tho clergy o! those days saldi K.xivpt a few with Kit's spirit Itlest, llopluil anil rhlueas may diworllxi tlio rest The Inlldol writings of Shaftesbury nud Untitles anil Uliulili had ilonu their work. Ilut power from on high can hi upon both thu Wesleys and Iady Huntington on thu other side thu Atlantic, and upon William Tuunaut anil Gilbert Tetinaut and David Ilraluerd on this side thu Atlantic, and both hemispheres fult thu tread of a par doning God, Coming to later date, there may I si hero and there lu this audience nn aged man or woman who can remember Now ork In 1831, when this power from on high descended most woudrously. It came upon pastors and congregations and theatres and commercial establishments. Chatham Street theatre, New York, was the scene of a most tremendous religious nwakenlng. A committee of Christian gentlemen called upon the lesseu of the theatre, nud said they would like to buy the lease of thu theatre. He said, "What do you want It for?" They replied, "For a church." "For wh-n-atf" said tho owner. "For a church," wns the reply. Tho owner said, "You may have it, and I will give you n thousand dollars to help you on with your work." Arthur Tnppau, ii man mightily persecuted lu his time, but n man, as I saw him In his last days, as honest and pure nud good as any man I ever knew, Htupied on the stage of old Chatham theatre as the actors were closing their morning rehearsal and said, "There will be preaching hero to-night on this stage;" and then gave out and hang with such people as weru there tho old hymn: Tho toleu of froo grove cries, escape to the niimtituln. For nil that U'lloves Chrltt has opened a fountain. The barroom of the theatre was turned Into a prayer room, and eight hundred per sons were present at the llrst meeting. For seventy successive nights religious services were held In that theatre, and such scone of mercy and salvation as will Isj subjects or conversation nml congratulation among the ransomed in glory as long as heaven huts, lint I come to a later time 1857 remoinU'red by muuy who are here. I re member It csiicclally, as I hod Just entered the ofllce of the ministry, It wns n year of hard times. A,great panic had Hung hun dreds of thousands of sople penniless. Starvation entered habitations that had uever liefore known a want. Domestic lfo iu many eases became a tragedy. Sui cide, gnrrotlug, burglary, assassination wsre rampant. What an awful day that wm when tho banks went down! There hits Iteon nothing liko it lu thirty years, and I pray God there may not be anything like it In tho next thirty centuries. Talk about your Hlack Fridays! It was ltlack Saturday, Black Sunday, Hlack Monday, Dlack Tuesday, Illack Wednesday, Hlack Thursday as well as Hlack Friday. This nation iu Its extremity fell helpless before the Iml and cried for pardon nud pvnee, and upon ministers nml laymen the power from on high descended. P.ugiuo nouses, ware rooms, hotel parlors, muse ums, factories, from 13 to I o'clock, while the operatives were resting, were ooned tor prajers nml sermons and Imiulr) rooms, and Uurton's old theatre on Cham bers street, where our ancestors used to assemble to laugh at tho comedies, and all up and down the streets, nud out on the docks and on the decks of ships lying nt the wharf people snug, "All hnll tho power of Jesus' mime," while others cried for mercy. A great mass meeting of Chris thins on a week day, In Jayne's hall, Phila delphia, telegraphed to Fulton Street Prayer meeting lu New York, saying, "What hath God wrought?" and n tele gram went back saying, "Two hundred souls saved at our meeting today." A ship came through the Narrows Into our harbor, the captain reporting that himself nud nil the crew had been converted to God Iwtweeu New Orleans and New York. In the busiest marts of ourbuMcst Amer ican cities, where tho worahlpon of Mam mon had been couutlugtheirgohleu Is-ada, muu began to calculate, "What shall It profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soulf" Tho waiters lu restau- rntitM nfti.p tin, idoMliiLf nt tholr iluv's work knelt among tho tables where they hadV nvrvisi, I'uiieuiiiuu iukvu i-uiimmil ul uiu commissioner of police to bo permitted to attend religious meetings. At Albany members of the New York legislature as sembled In the room of tho court of ap peals nt half-past 8 o'clock in tho morning for prayer and praise. Printed Invitations were sent out to the llremuu of New York saying, "Come as suits our conve nience U-st, whether iu tire or citizens' dress, hut cornel come!" Quarrymeu knelt among the rocks. Fishermen knelt In their bouts. Weavers knelt among the looms. Sailors knelt among the hammocks. Schoolmasters knelt among their classes. A KiMi.lcmiiu traveling said them was n tine of prajer meetings from Omaha to Wnshltu n city, and ho might havcuihled a line of prayer meetings from thu Aliunde to the Pai'lllo const, and from thu St Iuv re i ice to tho (lull of Mexico, III.KSH (101) Mitt IW7I lu tlmoilii)s what songs, what sermons, what turnings to God, what recital of thrilling experiences, what prodigals brought home, What burning tidings of souls saved, what serfdom of sin emanci pated, what wild rout of the forces of darkness, what victories for the trutlil What millions on earth and lu heaven nro now thanking God for IM7, which, though thn year of worst financial calamity, was tho year of America's most glorious bless ing. How do you account for 18.17, Its spiritual triumphs on the heels of Its worldly mlsfortutiuf It was what my text calls tho power from on high. That was thirty-three years ago, and though theiu have been In various parts of thu laud many stirrings of thu Holy Ghost, there has been no general awakening. Docs it not seem to you that we ought to have and may have the scenes of power lu 1857 eclipsed by tho scenes of power In IMUf The circumstances are somewhat similar While we haxe not had national panlu and universal prostration as lu 18.i7, there has Ix-cn n stringency lu tho money market that has put many of the families fit .he earth to their wits' end. Iiirgo commer cial Interests collapsing have left tnultl tudes of employes without means of support. The racked brains of business men Imvu almost or entirely given way. New Illustrations all ovor thu land of thu fact that riches havu not only feet on wlilcji they walk slowly ns they come, but wings on which they speed when they go. Internal God I thou kuowest how cramped mid severe and solemn n time It Is with many. And as the business ruin of ls7 was followed by the glorious triumphs of grace, let the awful struggles of 1WH) hu followed by tho hallelujahs of a nation saved in IWH. I.ICT US ALL 1'ItAV MdltKt Brethren In tho Gospel ministry! if wo spent half as much time lu prayer as we do iu tho preparation of our sermons until lug could stand liuforuus. We would have tho power from on high as wo never had It. Private tuemlsM-shlp of all Christen doin I If we spent half as much time lu pos itive prayer for this Inlluenco as we do lu thinking about It nud talking about it, there would not be secretaries enough to take down the names of those who want to ivu lu their names forculistmcut. Wo woulir have hundreds of cases like thoo recently reported when a man said to nu evangelist: "I am a lost sinner. Pray fur me. .Sly wlfo lias been a professor of religion for years, but I knew sliu did not enjoy religion, and I said if that was all there was lu religion I did not want It. Hut for the last few days she Iiiih looked nud acted iu such nu elevated and glorious spirit that I cannot stand It away from God, 1 want the same lellglon that In spires her." Cornel Conic! all through the United States, and all through Christen dom, and all around thu world let us Join hands In holy pledge that we will call upon God for thu power. Oh, for thu power from on high, the power that camu on Pentecost, yea, for tun thousand Pentu costs! Such times will come, and tlioy will come in our day if we havu thu faith, and the prayer, and the consecration. As tlio power from on high iu I8."7 wn more remarkable In academies of music and lyceum halls and theatres than in churches, why not this winter of 18111 in these two academies of music, places of se cular entertainment where we are during the rebuilding of our Brooklyn Tiibcriiiicli1, so grandly and graciously t tented by the owners and lessors and lessees; why not expect, nml why not have the power from on high, comforting power, arousing power, convicting power, converting pow er, saving power, omnipotent powcrf My opinion Is that lu this cluster of cities b the Atlantic coast, there are live hundred thousand people now ready to accept tin gospel call, If, free,d from nil the couveit tluualitiesof thu o'.iureh, it were earnestly and with strong faith presented to them, Iu these brilliant assemblies there are hundreds who nro not frequenters of churches, and who do not bolluvu much if at all in ministers of religion or ecclesiast ical organizations. But God knows you have struggles lu which you need help, nud bereavements In which you want solace. and pel seditions in which you ought to have del. 'use, and perploxltlciu which you need guidance, and with a profound thoughttuluess you standby the grave of the old year, and the cradle of tho young year, wondering where you will Iw and what you will be when "rolling years shall cease to move." Power from on high de scend upon them! Men of New York and Brooklyn, I olTcr you God nud heaven! From the day you camu to these cities what a struggle ou have luell I can tell from your careworn countenances, um!- tho tears iu your eyes, and the deep sigh you have Just breathed that yiu want re-ouforcement, ami heio it is, greater than Blucher when hu re en forced Wellington; greater than thu Bunk of England when last mouth it re-t-uforced the Barings namely, tho God who through Jesus Christ Is ready to pi.rdon all your sin, comfort nil your sorrows, scatter all your il.iubts, nud swing nil thu i-hlulng gntrs of heaven wide open Isjfore your re ileenie I spirit. Come Into -thu kingdom of Godl Without a half second of delay come lu! 1 1IKY LACK KKLI HON. Man f of my hearers todi.y are what tho world calls, and what I would call splcn did fellows, and they seem happy enough, nud are Jolly and obliging, and If 1 were In trouble I would go to them with as much coulhWnre ns I would to my father, if he were yst ullve. But when they go to their rooms nt night, or when the excitements of social and business life are oh", they nro not content, and they want something better than this world can olTer. I umlen.) mil them fco well I would, without any fe.i of being thought rough, put my right 'and on their one shoulder and my left hni.,1 on their other shoulder and push them Into the kingdom of God. But I cannot. Power from on high, lay hold of them! YeaM ago, at the close of a rellgiotiH h-t-vice in Brooklyn Tabernacle, a gentleman most distinguished In appearance, and with Mtuarkuble cerebral duelopmeut, came forward with his wife nud daughter, nud said to mo iu n most courteous and ele gant way, "Let me introduce you to my wife And daughter, who wish some coun sel iu regard to religious matters," and the three sat down. After I had conversed w rth the wife and daughter 1 turned to thu gentleman and said, "Pet hups you have somu lutereat yourself in these matters)1" "Noun whatever," was tho reply, polite yet firm, but before the meeting had closed ' saw his hand lifted to his forehead and hu ejes closed, nud I said, "Sir, have you not changed your mind, nud are you uot thoughtful on this subject?" Hu saldi "I um. Since coming to this sent I have sought nud found Christ as my Saviour, and I have but one deslru more, Mid that is before I leave this house to Join my wife and daughter iu making profession of the Christian religion, flmvo ih-oii known ns on the wrong side long enough." What was It that had come upon hlmf It was power from on high. At tlio llrst communion after the dedica tion of our former church three hundred nnd twenty-eight souts stoist up lu the nlsles nud publicly espoused thecausuof Christ, At another tlmo four hundred souls; nl another time five hundred; and our four thousand llvo hundred memlier ship were but n small part of those who within those sacred walls took upon them selves thu vows of thu Christian. What turned themf What saved theinf Power from the level t No. Power from ou high. WK MAY BKK OltKAT TIIIM1S. But greater things are to be seen If ever these cities and ever this world is to Isj taken for God. There Is one class of men And women lu all these assemblages iu whom t hnvo especial Interest, and that Is those who had good fathers nml mothers once, but they nro dead. What multitude of us nro orphans! We may be 40, 60, 80 years old, hut we uever gel used to having father nnd mother gone. Oh, how often wo havu had troubles that we would liko to have told them, and we always felt as long as father nud mother were alive we had some one to whom we could got Now I would like to ask If you think that nil their prayers lu your Isjliulf havu Is-cn an swered. "No'-j-ou say, "but It Is too late; tho'old folks are gone now." I must courteously contradict you. It Is not too late. I have a friend iu the minis try who was attending the last hours of an nged Christian, nud my friend said to tho old Christian, "Is there no trouble ou your mind?" The old man turned his face to the wall for a few moments, and then said: "Only ono thing. I hope for thu salvation of my tun children, but not one of them Is yet saved. Yet I am sure they will be. God means to wait until I am gone." So bodied. When my friend told of the cir cumstances eight of the ten had found thu Iiord, and I have no doubt thu other two Ixioru this have found him. Oh, that the long postponed answers to prayer for you, my brother, for you, my sister, might this hour descend lu power from ou high. The history of these unanswered prayers for you God only knows, They may have Is'cu olTered iu tlio solemn birth hour. They may havu Ih-uii olTered when you weru down with scarlet fuver or diphtheria or membranous croup. They may have liecu olTered some night, when you were sound asleep In tho trundle bed, nud jour mother came lu to see If you were rightly covered lu the cold winter night. They may have been olTered at that time which comes at least once in almost evciy one's life when your fatheraud mother had hard work to make n livlug, and they feared that want would come to them ami you. They may hau la-en olTered when thu lips could no longer move and the eyes weru closed for thu long sleep. Oh, unanswered prayers of father and mother, where aru your Iu what room of thu old homestead have they hidden? Oh, unanswered prajers, rise In. i mist of many tears into a cloud, and then break in a shower which shall soften the heart of that man who is so hard he cannot cry, or that woman who Is ashamed to pray! Oh, armchair of the aged, now empty and in tho garret among tho rubbish, speak out! Oh, stalT of thu pilgrim who has ended his weary journey, tell of thu parental anxie ties that is-ut uver thee! Oh, family Bible with story of births and deaths, rustle somu of thy tlmuworn leaves, and let us know of thu wrinkled hands that onco turned thy pages, and explain that spot whete a tear fell upon the passage, "O Absalom, my son, my sou, would God I had died for thee!" Oil, FOIt l'OWKlt FItOM ON 111(111! Good and gracious Godl what will la conic of us, If after having had such u devout and praying parentage, we never pray for ourselves! We will pray. Wo will Isgin now. Oil, for tho power from ou high, power to move this assemblage, power to savu Brooklyn nud New York, power of evangelism that shall sweep across this continent like an ocean surge, power to girdle thu round earth with a red girdlo dipped in thu blood of thu cross! If this forward movement is to begin at nil there must lie some place for It to ls.'gin, ami why not this place? And thero m.ist Ikj somu time for it to begin, and why uot this time? And so I sound fur your ears a rhythmic invitation, which, until a few days ago, never cume under my eye, but It is so sweet, so sobbing with pathos, so triumphant with Joy, that whoever chimed it, instead of Isiug anonymous, ought to Iw Immortal: Thy sins I bore on Calvary's treu; Tho strljies, thy due, were laid on me. That s-ncu and pardon ml-lit be free O w retched sinner, comul Hardened w It It guilt, wuuldst thou Ira blestf Trust not thu world; it gives no rest; I lainx relief to hearts opprcst O weary sinner, come! Come, leave thy burden nt the cross; Count nil thy gains hut empty dross. My grnio rru)s all earthly loss O needy sinner, comul Come, hither bring thy txsling rears, Thy aching heart, thy bursting tears, Tls mercy's voice salutes thlno ears; O trembling sinner, come! An Important Operation. Dr. James S. Barnard, recently called from Clyde, N. Y,, to tho chair of operative clinical and onlltial surgery in thu Mary Hand Homeopathic Free hospital at Balti more, lias distinguished himself by suc cessfully performing a unhiuu operation upon Sebastian Brown, ono of the best known lawyers iu Baltimore, who over u year ago, wlilii sitting in his otilce, sud denly found himself unablo to move. Ho recovered, btr similar attacks followed. By a skillful operation Dr. Barnard suc ceeded lu ext acting from the lower part of the bowel a apple stem. Philadelphia Ledger. A I.nwjrir l'rieit. Padre C Garcia, thu priest for tills cud of tho peninsula, while In thu city on this trip has made Inquiries as to what would be required to admit him to tho San Diego bar. He mastered law lu Guadalajara while at his ecclesiastical studies, and was ndmittisl there, practicing for a time In in terior Mexico lieforu coming to thu coast. He learned that thu courtesy could bu ex tended to him ou presentation of his cor- tlilcntu from Mexico, which he will havu forwarded. Tho padre does uot expect to practice here, but desires tho honor of ad mission, San Diego Union. I'tioiiiigruplis In HosplfUU. The telephone hits for somu tlmo been used iu various hospitals as a means of communication letweeu patients who weru suffering from infectious disease' and their visiting friends. It Is now proposed that the phonograph bu brought Into thu hos pital for tliu entertainment of thu patients, nnd It la argued that a phonograph iu n ward, wiih a largu and constantly renewed supply of cylinders, would boa source of amusement and pleasure to the patients, which would admirably supplement the hospital treatment. New York Commer cial Advertiser. RED CROSS STOVES HT Reduced Prices, KRUSE & WHITE. 1210 O STREET, H. W. BROWN DRUGGSITInjl BOOKSELLER The Choicest line of Perfumes. D. M. Ferry's? Finest Flower nnc1 Garden Seeds. 127 South Eleventh street. Most Popular Resort in the City. Exposition Dining Hall, S. J. ODELL, Manaokk. -o ii' 9, 1 121 and 1123 N Street. o Meals 25 els. $4.50 per Week. HVnHaiynTflRIHIHr j A TWICE TOLD TALE ! "he wise man sulcctctlt the "Uur linglon route" nnd therefore stnrtcth aright, ' fsjc array etb himself iu purple nnd fine linen, for lo, nnd behold, he Is snuglv ensconced In n'iowerccntcr" on the famous vcstlbulcd flyer, where smoke nud dust are never known. He provideth himself with a book from the generous library near nt hand, ndjustcth his traveling can, aud pro cccdeth to pnss n day of unalloyed pleasure nnd contentment. And it came to pnss, being hungry and nthlrst, he steppeth into the dining car, nnd by the beard of the prophet, 'twas n fenst fit for the gods. Venison, Illue Point, Hergundy, frog legs, can vnsbacks, Mum's extra dry, English plum pudding, fruits, nuts, ices, French coffee, verily, the wise man wnxeth fat, nnd while he lightcth a cigar, lie takcth time to declare that the menl wns "out of sight." t occurrctb to the wise ti hat the country through which he journey ed was one of wondrous beauty, inso much that it wns with deep regret he noted the nightly shadows fall. How ever, tenfold joy returned as he beheld the brilliantly lighted car, and the merry company It contained. Verily, it afforded a view of Elysium. The wise man retlreth to rest. De liriously unconcerned, he sleeps the sleep of the righteous and awakes much refreshed. Ills (rain is on time, bis journey ended. He rcjolceth with exceeding great joy, as he holds a re turn ticket by the same route, the "G rent liurlington." MORAL: Travel by J. FRANCIS, Gen. Pass, nud Ticket Agent, Omaha. 100 Ehgrayed Calling Cards And Copper Plate, for $2.50. If you have a Plate, we will furnish 100 Cards irom same, at $.150. WESSEL PRINTING COMPANY. Nebraska's Leading Hotel. THE MURRAY Cor. lltli nud Harney Hts , STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS All Modern Improvements nnd Conveniences. B. BILLOW AY, Pro-rletor. IRA HIQBY, Principal Oltrk. The foolish man buycth a ticket of a scalper. In the morning, behold, he saveth fifty cents; and lo, nt nightfall he is out $9.27. lie 6tartctli wrong. With might and mnln he hurricth to the depot, only to find his train four hours Into. 1 he peanut boy sizcth him up and sellcth him a pnpet of an uncer tain date. A lie journeyctli along, he formeth n new acquaintance, for wbomhccnshctli n check. Five minutes for refreshments. While he lushcth to the lunch counter some one stealcth his gripsack, lie changctU cars, lo these many times, nnd It strik cth the foolish man that he "doesn't get through pretty fast," and be be tnoancth his ill luck. He iretteth n cinder In liU pv nnl A verily he sweareth and cusscth full free. iiccxciiungi-iii inrce pieces 01 sliver lor a hunk in n sleeper, and awnkcth just in time to catch an infernal nigger sneak' ing off with his boots; the Porter's ex cuse a vallcl h nothing, nnd the foolish man straightway puttetli bis boots un der his pillow, that no mnn may break In and steal. His train runneth into a washout, a. hnckmnn taketh htm in to the tune of six shillings, and the foolish man liftcth up his voice in great lamentation, for lo nnd behold, the tavern Is away but half a block, Hcreacl)cti home wenry nnd hcartt, sore; liis trunk Cometh next day minut the cover and one handle, he resolveh hereafter to travel only by the "Great Hurllugton." the Burlington Route A. C. ZIEMER, City Pnss, nnd Ticket gent, Lincoln, o