CRPITKL CITY COURIER.
AT THE TABERNACLE,
DR. fALMAQE RESUMES HIS SERIES
ON GOD EVERYWHERE.
Hit Idea of the Twelve Htones Mentioned
ky St. Jnha M In tlie Foundation of th
Wall of the New Jerusalem.
Brooklyn, Jnn. 3. Dr. Tnlmngo re
turned from his southern tour of preaching
and lecturing for ten days In Kentucky,
TenncMcc, Alabama, Georgia mid South
Carollnn, nnd resumed his course of ser
monson God everywhere. Having preached
on "Tho Astronomy of tlio Ulble; or, God
among tho Stars;" "Tho Chronology of the
Blblo: or, God among tho Centuries;" "The
Ornithology of tho llllilc; or, God Among
tho Birds," ho today speaks of "Tho Prec
lous Stones of tho Bible; or, God Among
tho Amethysts." Subject, "Tho Wall of
Hcftvou." Text, Revelation xxl, 10, "The
foundations of tho wallof thocity were gar
nished with nil manner of precious stones."
Shall I bo frank and tell you what nrc
my designs on you today f They aro to
mako you homesick for heaven; to console
you concerning your departed Christian
friends by giving you bouio Idea of tho bril
liancy of the ecuues in which they now com
mingle; to givo all who lovu tho Lord a
mora clovated Idea as to whuro they aro go
ing to pass tho most of tho years of their
existence, nnd to net nil tho Indifferent and
neglectful to quick and Immedlatu prepara
tion, that they may havo it likewise.
Yen, it is to induce many of our young
people to study n volumo of God that few
ever open, but without some acquaintance
with which It is impossible to understand
tho Bible 1 mean tho precious stones,
their crystallization, their powers of re
fraction, thclrcleavage, their fracture, their
luster, their phnsphoreseuce, their trans
parency, their infinity of color nnd shape,
nnd what they had to do with tho welfare
nnd doom of families ami tho destiny of
nations nye, tho positive revelation they
mako of God himself.
MAUVELB OF TIW UNIVKIISK.
My text stands us in tho presenco of tho
most stupendous splendor of tho universe,
and thnt is the wall of heaven, nnd says of
Its foundations that they are garnished
with nil manner of precious stones. All tho
ancient cities had walls for safety, nnd
heaven has a wall for everlasting safety.
You may say thut a wall miule up of nil
manner of precious stones Is figurative, but
you cannot understand the force and sig
nificance of tho figure unless you know
something about the real structure and
color nnd value of tho precious stones men
tioned. Now I propose this morning, so far as the
Lord may help me, to attempt to climb not
the wall of heaven, but the foundations of
the wall, nnd I ask you to join mu in the
attempt to scalo some of tho heights. We
shall only get part of tho way up, but bet
ter thut than to stay down on tho stupid
level where most of us have all our lives
been standing. Wo begin clenr down at tho
bottom and where the wall begins.
The first layer of the foundation, reach
ing nil around tho city and for 1,000 milos,
is a layer of jasper. Indeed there is more
of jasper in the wull of heaven than of any
other brilliant, because it not only composes
a part of the foundation, but makes up the
chief part of the superstructure. The jas
per is a congregation of many colors. It is
brown; it is yellow; it is green; it is ver
milion; it Is red; it is purple; it is black,
and Is so striped with colors that much of
It is called rlbton jasper.
It Is found iu Siberia and Egypt, but it is
rare In most lands nnd of great value, for
t is so hard tho ordinary processes cannot
rcak it off from the places where it has
been deposited. Tho workmen boro holes
into the rock of jasper, then drive into
theso holes sticks of dry blrchwood, and
then saturate tho sticks nnd keep them
saturated until they swell enough to split
tho rock, nnd tho fragments are brought
out and polished nnd transported nnd cut
Into cameos nud put behind the glass doors
of museums.
Tho portraits of Roman emperors were
cut into It. The finest intaglio ever seen is
in tho Vatican museum, tho head of Miner
va in jasper. By divine arrangement jas
per adorned tho breastplate of the high
priest lu tho undent temple. But Its most
significant position is where it glows and
burns and darkens anil brightens nnd
preaches from tho lowest stratum of the wall
of heaven. Glad am I that tho very first
row of stones In the wall of heaven is
jasper in mnny colors, and if you like pur-
Elo it is purple, and if you like brown it Is
rown, and if you like green it is green,
and if you like ochcr yellow it is ocher yel
low, nnd If you like vermilion it is vermil
ion, and if you like block it is block. It
suggests to mo that heaven is a place of all
colors colors of opinion, colors of creed,
colors of skin, colors of taste.
HIECIOUS STONES INDEED.
But we must pass up in this Inspection of
tho foundations of tho great wall of heaven,
nnd after leaving tho jasper the next pro
clousstono reached is sapphire, and it sweeps
around thocity 1, MX) miles. All lapidaries
agree in saying that the supphiro of tho
Bible Is what we now call lapis lazuli. Job
speaks with emotion of "the place of sap
phires," nnd God thought so much of this
precious stone that he put it in tho breast
plate of the high priest, commanding, "The
second row shall bo an emerald, a sapphire
nnd a diamond."
Tho sapphire Is a blue, but varies from
faintest hue. to deepest ultramarine. It is
found i pebble'iu the rivers of Ceylon. It
is elsewhere In compact masses. Persia
and Thibet and Burmnh and New South
Wales and North Carolina yield exquisite
specimens. Its blue is seen iu the valley of
the Rhino. After n burial of thousands of
years it has been brought to sight lu Egyp
tian monuments and Assyrian cylinders.
At Moscow and St. Petersburg nnd Con
stantinople I havo seen great masses of this
sapphire, commonly called lapis la.uli.
Tho closer you study its veins the more en
chanting, nnd I do not wonder that tho
sapphire is called into tho foundation of
tho wull of heaven. It makes a strong
stono for the foundation, for it is the hard
est of all minerals except tho diamond.
Sapphire based on jasper, a blue sky over
a fiery sunset. St. John points to it in Rev
elation and says, "Tho second, sapphire,"
nnd this suggests to mo that though our
forth and all its furniture of mountains
and seasaiidatmoanhere.s are tocollapsc anil
vanish we will throughout all eternity
havo in some way kept tho most beautiful
of earthly appearances, whether you take
this sapphire of the second layer as literal
or figurative. Tho deep bluu of our skies
and tho deep blue of our seas must not, will
not bo forgotten. If a thousand years after
tho world has gone to ashes you or I wont
to recall how tho earthly skies looked in a
summer noon or iu tho mldoeeau in a
calm, we will hove only to look at the sec
ond row of the foundation of the woll of
heaven
Oh, I am so glad that St. John told us
about itl "Tho second, sapphire!" While
we are living In sight of that wall spirits
who have come from other worlds and who
novf r saw our earth ill visit us, and wt
will vitit them, and some time wo will tx
In converse about this north when It was
yet afloat and oswlng, and wo shall wont
to tell them about hoy It looked at certain
times, and then It will be a great object
lesson for all eternity, and wo will say to
our visitor from some other world, a wt
fiolnt toward tho wall ju heaven, "It looked
Ike thnt stratum of fandatlon next to the
lowest." John, twenty-first chapter and
nineteenth verso, "Tho second, sapphire.''
TIIK DIVINE AIICIIITKCTUIIK.
A step higher and you comu to chalce
dony, another layer in the foundation ol
the wall and running 1.WH1 miles around
tho heavenly city. Cholcedoiiyl Translu
cent. A divine mixture of agates anil opah
and cornelians. Striped with while and
gray. Dashed of pallor blushing Into red
and darkening Into purple. Iceland and
tho Hebrides hold forth beautiful speci
mens of chalcedony.
But now we must make a swift ascent to
the top of tho foundation wall, for we can
not minutely examine, all tho layers, and
so, putting one foot on tho chalcedony ol
which we havo been speaking, we spring to
tho emerald, and wo aro one-third of the
way to tho top of the foundation, for the
fourth row Is emerald. That, I would Judge,
Is God's favorite among gems, because it
holds what seems evident Is Ids favorite
color on earth, tho green, since thnt is the
color most widely diffused across nil the
earth's continents tho grass, tho foliage,
tho everyday dress of nature. Tho emerald!
Kings used It us a seal to stamp pronuncla
metitos. Tho rainbow around the throne of
God Is by St. John compared to it.
Conquerors havo considered it tho great
est prize to capture. What ruthlessuess
when tho soldiers of L'lzurrn pounded It
with their hammersl Emeralds havo had
much to do with tho destiny of Mexico.
Flvo of them were presented by Cortez to
his bride, one of them cut Into the shape of
a rose, another Into the shape of u trumpet,
another Into the shape of a bell, with tonguu
of pearl, and this presentation aroused the
Jealousy of tho throne and caused the con
sequentdowitfall of Cortez. Dulthodcpths
of tho sea were decorated with those em
eralds, for in a shipwreck they went down
off tho coastof llarbory. Napoleon woreuti
emerald at Auslerlitz.
In tho Kremlin museum at Moscow there
aro crowns nnd scepters nud outspread mir
acles of emerald. Ireland is called tho
Emerald Islo not because of its verdure,
but because It wilh presented to Henry II
of Euglnnd with nn emerald ring. Nero
had a magnifying glass of emerald through
which ho looked at tho gladiatorial contests
at Rome. But hero aro 1,500 miles of emer
ald sweeping around tho heavenly city iu
one layer.
But upward still and you put your fixit
on a stratum of Hordouyz, white and rod, n
seeming commingling of snow and lire,
tho snow cooling tho lire, tho lire melting
tho snow.
ANCIENT BPLENDOtIS IN STONE.
Another climb and you reach tho surdltis,
named after the city of Sonllus. Another
climb and you reach tho chrysolite. A
specimen of this, belonging to Kpiphuuus,
In tho Fourth century, was said to bo so
brilliant that whatever was put over to
conceal it was shone through, and the em
peror of China has a specimen that is do
scribed as having such penetrating radiance
that It makes the night as bright as tho
day.
A higher climb nnd you roach tho beryl.
Two thousand years ago the Greeks used
this precious stono for engraving purposes.
It was accounted among tho royal treas
ures of Tyro. Tho hilt of Mu rat's sword
was adorned with it. It glows In tho Im
perial crown of Great Britain. Luther
thought tho beryl of tho heavenly wall was
turquolso. Knlisch thought it was chryso
lite. Joscphus thought it a golden colored
jewel. The wheels of Ezekicl's vision
flamed with beryl and were a revolving
fire.
Tho beryl appears iu six aided prisms,
and Is set in seals nnd intaglios, in neck
laces and coronets. It was the joy of an
cient jewelry. It ornamented tho affluent
with eardrops. Charlemagne presented it
to his favorites. Beautiful beryl I Exqui
sitely shaped beryl! Dlvinelycolored beryl!
It seems like congealed color. It looks like
frozen fire.
But stop not here. Climb higher nnd you
come to topaz, a bewilderment of lcauty
and named after an island of tho Red sea.
Climb higher and you come tochrysopro
6U s, of greenish golden hue and hard as
flint.
THE FAULK!) ritEVENTIVB.
Climb higher nnd you reach the Jacinth,
named after tho flower hyacinth and of
reddish blue.
Toko ono more step and you roach tho
top, not of tho wall, but the top of the
foundations of tho wall, nnd St. John cries
out, "Tho twelfth, nn amethyst!" This
precious stone, when found in Australia or
India or Europe, stands in columns and
pyramids. For color it Is a violet bloom
ing in stone. For Its ploy of light, for its
deep mysteries of color, for its uses lu Egyp
tian, lu Etruscan, iu Roman art it has been
honored. Tho Greeks thought this stone a
preventive of drunkenness. Tho Hebrews
thought it a source of pleasant dreams. For
all lovers of gems it is a subject of admira
tion nnd suggcstlveness. Yes, tho word
amethyst means a prevention of drunken
ness. Long before tho New Testament mode
reference to tho amethyst in tho wnll of
heaven the Persians thought that cups
m ado out of amethyst would hinder any
kind of llquorcontnlned therein from becom
ing intoxicating. But of all tho amethys
tine cups from which tho ancients drank
not one hod any such result of prevention.
For thousands of years tho world has been
looking in vain for such a preventive ame
thystine cup. Staggering Noah could not
find it. Convivial Ahasuerusdrlvlng Va-shtl
from tho gates could not find it. Kabul
breaking tho heart of beautiful Abigail
could not find it. Bclshnzzar, tho kingly
reveler, on tho night thnt tho Chaldeans
took Babylon could not find it.
Not ono of tho millions of inebriates
whoso skulls pave tho continents and pavo
the depths of the sea could find It. There
Is no such cup. Strong drink from hol
lowed amethyst imbrutcs tho wimo as
strong drink from pewter mug. It is not
the style of cup wo drink out of, but that
which tho cup contains, which decides the
helpful or damning result of tho beverage.
All around the world last night and today,
out of cups costlier than amethyst, men
and women have been drinking their own
doom and tho doom of their children for
this life nud tho next.
Ah, it is tho amethystine cups that do
tho wildest and worst slaughter. Tho
smash of tho filthy goblets of the rum
nieries would long ago have taken place
by law, but tho amethystine chalices pre
ventthe chalices out of which legislatures
nnd congresses drink before and after they
mako '.he laws. Amethystine clialires
have been tho friends of Intoxication in
stead of Its foes. Over tho fiery lips of
the amethystine chalices is thrust the
tongue of that which biteth like a serpent
dud stiugeth like an adder. Drunkenness
Is a combination of apoplexy and dementia.
Tho 4M,0lk),(XJ0 victims of opium come
out to meet the 150,000,000 victims of alco
hol, nnd tho two accents taka tho contract
for tumbling the human race Into perdi
tion, but whe'.her they will succeed In ful
filling the contract depends on the action
of the amethystine clips, tho amethystine
demijohns, the nmrthystluo ale pitchers,
tho amethystlno (logons, the amethystine
wlno cellars. Oh, Persians! Oh, Assyrians!
Oh, Greeksl Oh, Euyptlausl you were
wrong In thinking thnt a cup of amethyst
would prevent Inebriation.
But standing on the top of this amethys
tine layer of the foundation of tho wall of
heaven 1 bethink myself of the mistake
that many of the ancient Hebrews made
when they thought that the amethyst was
a producer of pleasant dreams. Just wear
apiece of amethyst over your heart or put
It under your pillow, and you would hove
your dreams II I led with everything beoutl
ful and entrancing. No, no. The stylo of
pillow will not decide tho character of the
dream. Tho only recipe for pleasant dream
Is to do rlghtnnd think right when you are
wide awake. Conditions of physical discus
may give a good man a nightmare, but
man physically well, If he liehove himself
aright, will not bo troubled with bad
dreams.
Nebuchadnezzar, with eagle's down un
der his head and Tyrlon purple over It,
struggled with n bod dream thnt mode him
shriek out for tho soothsayers nud astrolo
gers to come and Interpret It. Pharaoh,
amid tho marble palaces of Memphis, was
confounded by a dream In which lean cow
ate up the fat cows, and tho small ears of
corn devoured tho seven large ears, and
awful fomlno was prefigured, Pllatu'v
wife, amid cloud of richest upholstery,
had a startling dream, because of which
she sent a message In hot haste to u court
room to keep her husband from enacting a
judicial outrage. But Jacob, at Bethel,
with a pillow of mountain rock, hud n
blissful dream of tho ladder angel blossom
ing. Bunyau, with his hood on a hard plank of
Bedford jail, saw tho gates of tho celestial
city. St. John, on tho barrenest Island of
the ylCgean sea, lu his dream heard trum
pets and saw cavalrymen on white horses
nud a new heaven and a new earth. No
amount of rough pillow can disturb the
night vision of o solid, and no amount of
amethystine charm cundclcctnto thedream
of a miscreant.
ONLY THE IIEOINNINO.
But, some ono will Bay, why havo you
brought us to this amethyst, the top row of
tho foundation of the heavenly wall, if you
are not able to accept tho theory of the an
cient Greeks, who said that tho amethyst
wus a charm against Intoxication, or if you
are not willing to accept the theory of the
ancient Hebrews that the amethyst was a
iiroduccr of pleasant dreams? My answer
s, I hnvo brought you to tho top row, the
twelfth layer of the foundation of tho heav
enly wall of l,500mllcHof clrcllngniuelhyst,
to put you In a position where you cuu get
a new Idea of heaven; to let you see
that after you hove climlicd up twelve
strata of glory you aro only at tho base
of the eternal grandeurs; to let you, with
enchantment of soul, look far down and
look far up; and to force upon you tho con
clusion that If all our climbing has only
shown us the foundation of tho wall, what
must tho wall Itself be; and If this is tho
outside of heaven, what must the Insldo
be; and if nil this is figurative, what must
tho reality bur Oh, this piled up mag
nificence of the heavenly woll! Oh, this
eternity of decoration! Oh, this opalescent,
florcscent, prismatic miracle of architec
ture! What enthronement of all colorsl
A mingling of tho blue of skies, and the
surf of seas, and the green of meadows, and
tho upholstery of autumnal forests, and
the fire of August sunsets! All tho splen
dors of earth and heaven dashed into those
twelve rows of foundation wall! All that,
mark you, only typical of tho spiritual
glories that roll over heaven like tho At
lautio and Pacific oceans swung in ono bil
low. Do you uot see that it was Impossible thai
you understand u hundredth part of the
Buggestlveness of that twenty-first chapter
of Revelation without going into some of
tho particulars of tho wall of heaven, and
dipping up some of its dripping colors, and
running your eye along some of its won
drous crystallizations, nnd examining some
of the frozen light In Its turquoise, nnd feel
ing with your own finger the hnrdness of
its sapphire, and shielding your eyes against
the shimmering brilliance in Its beryl, and
studying the 1,500 miles of emerald without
a flaw? Yet all this only tho outsldo of
heaven und the poorest part of the outside
not the wall itself, but only tho foot of
tho wall, for my text says, "Tho founda
tions of tho wnll of tho city were garnished
with nil manner of precious stones." Oh,
get down your harp, if you con ploy ouul
Get down a palm branch, if you can reach
one. Why, it makes us all feel like crying
out with James Montgomery:
When shall theso eyes thy heaven built walla
And pearly gates behold?
THE HEAVENLY I-ALACK.
Oh, my soul! If my text shows us only
the outside, what must tho Inside bof
While riding last summer through tho
emperor's park, near St. Petersburg, I
was captivated with tho groves, trans
planted from all zones, nnd tho flower
beds, miles this way and miles that way,
incnrnuiiiiieu wun oeauty, ana tlio foun
tains bounding in such revel with tho sun
I light ns nowhero else is seen. I sold: "This
, Is beautiful. I never bow anything liko
! this before."
I But when I entered tho palace and saw
! tho pictured walls, and tho long lino of
1 statuary, und aquariums afloat with nil
bright scales, nnd aviaries u-chnnt with
bird voices, nnd the inner doors of the pal-
, ace were swung back by the chamberlain,
nnd I saw tho emperor nnd empress anil
princes and princesses, and they greeted mo
with a cordiality of old acquaintanceship,
I forgot all tho groves and floral liewltcli
ment 1 had seen outside before entrance.
And now I nsk, If tho outside of heaven
attracts our souls today, how much more
will be tho uplifting when wo get Inside
nnd see tho King in his beauty and all the
princes and princesses of tho palaces of
amethyst? Aro you not glad that wo did
not stop In our ascent this morning until
wo got to tho top round of tho foundation
wnll of heaven, the twelfth row, tho am
ethyst? Perhaps the ancient Hebrews were
not after all so for out of tho way when
they thought that tho touch of thenmethyst
gave pleasant dreams, for tho touch of it
this hour gives mo a very pleasant dieam.
Standing on this amethyst I dream a
dream. I close my eyes and I seo it all.
We aro there. This Is heaven! Not the
outside, but tho insldo of heaven. With
whut warmth of welcome our long ago de
parted lou-d ones have kissed us. My!
How they have changed iu looks. They
were so sick when they went away, and
now they ore so well. Lookl Yonder is
tho palace of our Lord, the King. Not kept
a moment outside, wo are ushered Into the
throneroom.
Stretching out his scarred hand ho says,
"I hove loved thee with an exerlosiiiq
love," and wo respond, "Whom have I i
heaven but thee?" But look! Yonil.r I
the playground of tho children. Clul .u
do not wont a ' rone. A throne w mid m
fit a chile ' e they are in tie pl.t)
grounds of heaven tho children. (Jut of
the sick crndlo of earth they came Into this
romping mirth of the ctinml playgrounds.
I chip my hands to cheer them lu the glee.
Yonder are the palaces of tho martyrs,
and before their doorways (ho flowers, crim
son a tho bloody martyrdoms through
which they waded up to glory. Yonder l
Apostolic row, nud tho highest turret Is
over the home of Paul. Hero Is Evangelist
place. Yonder nre tho concert halls In which
tho musician of earth and heaven nre tak
ing part-Handel with organ, nnd David
with harp, mid Gabriel with trumpet, nud
four nud twenty elders with voices.
And an nngel of God says to mei
"Whero shall I take you? On what street
of henven would you like to live? What
celestial habitation would you liko to oc
cupy?" Anil I niisweri "Now thnt I hove
got Inside tho wnll mndo up of all manner
of precious stone I do not core where you
J nit me. Just show mo whero my departed
oved one ore. I havo seen tho Lord, and
next I wont to see them, But here ate
those with whom I tolled In the kingdom
of (!od on earth. They are from my old
imrishes at Belluville nud Syracuse and
.'hlladelphla aiid'Brooklyn and from many
places on Isith sides tho seo whero I have
been permitted to work with them and for
them. Givo them the best places you can
find. I will help steady them as they
mount the thrones. I will help you bur
nlsh their coronets.
"Toko thesemy old friends to ns good
rooms us you eon get for them In tho house
of many mansions nud with windows look
ing out upon the palace of the great King.
As for myself, anywhere in heaven Is good
enough for mo. Hallelujah to tho lamb
that was slain." But 1 awoke. In (lie
ecstasy of the moment my foot slipped
from the layer of amethyst, that so called
producer of dreams, olid lu thu effort to
catch mvself tho vision vanished. And. In.
! It was but o dream!
The IttiMntSlion In Winter,
Tlio russet shoe ha Invaded December
and Is no longer tho sole property of the
summer youth. Many a well heeded citizen
wears It now who three short seasons ago
would hove scorned the Idea that one of Ids
nge and understanding could ever appear
nt Christmas with the footgear formerly
associated with beach sands and August
moonlights and noondays. But even citi
zens like theso are making footprints on
the sands of time with tho stout winter
russet.
Of course those who aro learned In the
differentiations of tho yellow shoo mascu
line comprehend that russet is not tho name
to apply to that perfect flower upon the feet
of our civilization, the fashionable and ex
pensive pigskin shoe, which is about tho
color of tho cup of ovorcreotucd chocolate
that Is offered its true wearer, the chappie,
when he appears late at au afternoon tea.
This pigskin shoo has a great free solo with
inquiring edges, nud masks its owner as a
person uot only willli g but able to go
about with shoes tho color of n poet's ecru
blotting pad, for they come high.
There Is a shoe midway between this cre
ation and the humblest russet of tho masses
which murks the man who is progressive
In his fashion, yet conservative in his taste.
This shoo looks worthy to bravo the storms
of winter. It Is neither too light nor too
dark, too dear nor too cheap, and although
those who wear It soy that it Is hard to find
It certainly speuks with no uncertain tongue
of a change iu tho tone of winter toes' de
mands. Bostou Transcript.
On tlio Florida Count.
"Some of the mostsiirprlslug things hap
pen down on tho Florida coast," sold a
mun who recently lived there. "I was at
break fust ono morning iu my house, ulKiut
a quarter of smile back from the beach.
when I noticed a vessel standing close in to
shore, blio seemed to he going wild, as if
nobody was steering, and was behoving in
au extraordinary way. I ran out and
shouted and waved my hat, but nobody
aboard seemed to seo mo, or If any ono did
It made no difference, for she came on nud
rammed into the sand, and stuck thero
with topsails shaking. They got out the
boats then and cuiuo ashore. Although
there was only tho usual surf, tho captain
and mate had taken olT their clothes, ami
tho men were completely demoralized. It
was a bright, pleasant day, with only a
fresh breeze, and a boy could have gone
out Iu a small boat.
"I took the crowd to mv house and irnvo
them Home hot coffee. Then they started
nort h and were never seen again. They were
Germans, and their bark was in good con
dition n strong vessel of teak, with a good
cargo on board. Tho cargo was saves), but
no attempt was mode to save the vessel,
though I guess tho crackers of the neigh
borhood got about everything that was
worth taking from her. Afterword I learned
something that gave n clue to the ierform
once. Shu was Insured for fifteen-sixteenths
of her full value." New York Sun.
Why Men llrcml tin. Third Time.
Thero Is much superstitious regard for
tho number three lu the popular mind, and
tho third repetition of anything is gener
ally looked upon us a crisis. Tims, an ar
ticle may bo lost twice nnd recovered, Imt
the third time that It disappears thu loser
usually gives it up as gone for good,
Twice a man may pass through some
great danger, but thu third time ho battles
with tho fates, according to tho supersti
tious belief, and is apt to lose his life. If,
however, tho mystic third can Ihi success
fully passed, all iu well.
Three was culled by Pythagoras the per
fect number, and thus also may m men
tioned tho trident of Neptune, thu tlireo
forked lightnings of Jove and tlio throe
headed dog of Pluto. The Idea of the Trin
ity is not confined to Christianity, but
occurs iu severnl religions. New York
News.
Heimtur normal)' (liitlmUm.
Friday night Senator Oornuin decided to
iuiKi-1, jiiiiuii'x mr it unei nine nuu went to
Daly's theater to enjoy tho piny. Justin
front of thu senator wit n lady wearing nn
immense hat with n regular stage obstruc
tion III till, hIiIIIU tt ft.llt lll.ru Tl, fallrtll'ft.r
the movements of the principals nbout the
Binge ne was compelled to keep up n sort of
seesaw, dodging motion with bin head nil
during the play,
"You didn't enjoy tho piny much," aald
a correspondent to tho senator ns he enmo
in.
"Well." he said. "I could hear verv well.
ta.!,l. He said thUwitliu significant
accent on tho word "hear." New York
Cor. llaltlmoru American.
A Wciril In Olllre Kueken.
To all young men who contemplate a
Journey to Washington for tho purpose of
securing employment the best advice U,
don't. The bumhlot situation iu n mer
cantllo house, where the pecuniary reward
In small, where the hours nre long and
where the lalKir Is haul, is better in tho cud
than a r.' vernmeiit clerkship. One way lie
opportiuwtleiof ndviiuceinriit, for tho util
ization niul llnal lewanl of every talent nud
all the nurgy that the young man hu
sesses. The other way lie hoKle.ssnes.H,
drudgery, stagnation, Harper's Weekly.
Sanitary
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At six per cent, per annum and a cash commission
or at eifjht per cent, no commission, for periods of
three or five years on well located improved real es
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INTKKIiST ALLOWED ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS
DEPOSITORS HAVE AIISOLUTE SECURITY.
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Capital Stock, $250,000. Liability of Stockholders, $500,000
INTEREST PAID ON DEPOSITS,
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Louis Stull, Cashier.
Directors. D E Thompson, C E Montgomery, Geo H.
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In Penmanship li admired by eveiyone. There li no penmanship lent out
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Being desirous of Introducing the written cards of
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