1'LATTSMOUTU WKICKLV JIKKALI), THURSDAY, JUNK ;;, 1SS7.
SPIRITUAL ARCHERY.
THE OMNIPQTENT ARROW OF, THE
GOSPEL.
Ir. Talmnjio'H Dlxronrto lit tlm Tiibrna-
1 Ho Toll ltln ir.ir-rn IIoto Tlicy,
1.1 ko Nlmruil, May in-eomo "M!g!ity
Hunter Ucforo tho Lord."
imooKLYN, Juno 20. Many of t he fam
ilies belonin to tho clinrch of which the
llov. T. DcWitt Tulmaye, I). I)., is pas
tor, have roiio to tlio country for t!io
summer, but t till tho i;reat thrones of
I'Coplo that for eighteen years Imvo been
Hcen In nnd around lirooklyn TulM;ri!aclo
on Sabbath days, nre found there. It is
estimated that about ."00,000 BtrnnKcrs
liavo visited this church during the iast
year. The hymn sunf this morning was:
Salvation, oh, the joyful boutid!
"Tlrf I'li-asnre to our cars;
A sovereign halm for every wound,
A cordial for our fears.
Dr. Tnlmayo's text
mighty hunter before
was: "He was a
the Lord." Gen
csid x, U. J It; said:
In our day hunt nip; Is a .sport; but in
tlio lands and timers infested with wild
beasts it was a matter of life or death
with the neonlo. It was very different
from going out on a sunshiny afternoon
with a patent breech loader to shoot reed
birds on tho flats, when Pollus and
Achilles and Diomedes went out to clear
tho land of Hons and timers and bears.
My text sots forth Nimrod as a hero when
it presents hi:.a with broad shoulders and
fdiaggy nppnrel and eunbrowned face, and
firm bundled with muscle "a mighty
hunter before tho Lord." I think he used
tho bow and the arrow, with great success
practicing archery.
I have thought if it is such a grand
thjn and such a brave thing to clear wild
beasts out of a country, if it is not abetter
and braver thing to hunt uown and da
Etroy those great evils of society that are
stalking the land with fierce eye and
bloody paw and sharp tusk and quick
ppring. I have wondered if there is not
such, a thing as gospel hunting, by which
those who have been flying from the truth
may be captured for God and heaven.
The Lord Jesus in his sermon used tho
art of angling for an illustration when ho
said: "I will make you fishers of men."
And so I think I have authority for using
hunting as an illustration of gospel truth;
and I pray God that there may bo many a
man in this congregation who shall beln
to study gospel archery, of whom it may
after a while bo said: "He was a mighty
hunter before the Lord."
How much awkward Christian work
there is dono in tho world 1 How many
good people there are who drive souls
away from Christ instead of bringing
them to him I Religious blunderers, who
upset more than they right. Their gun
has a crooked barrel, and kicks as it goes
oil. They are like a clumsy hunter who
goes along with skillful hunters; at the
very moment he ought to bo most quiet
he is cracking an. older cr falling over a
log and frightening away tho game. How
few Christian people Lave ever learned
the lesson of which I read at the begin
ning of the service, how that the Lord
Jesus Christ at the well went from talk
ing about a cup of water to the most prac
tical religious truths, which won the wo
man's soul for God. Jesus, in tho wilder
ness, was breaking bread to the peoplo.
I think it was good bread; it was very
.light bread, and tho yeast had done its
work thcrougldy. Christ, after he had
broken the bread, said to the people: "IIc
waro of tho yeast, or of the leaven, of tho
Pharisees I" So natural a transition it
wa3, and how easily they all understood
him. Cut how few Christian people who
understand how to fasten the truths of
God and religion to tho souls of
men! Truman Osborne, one of tho
evangolist3 who went through this
country some years ago, had a wonder
ful art in tho right direction. He came to
ray father's house one day, and while wo
wero all seated in the room, he said: "Mr.
Talmage, ere ail your children Christians?"
Father said: "Yes, all but De Witt."
Then Truman Osborne looked down into
tho fireplace, and began to tell a story of
n storm that camo on the mountains, and
tho sheep wero in tho fold; but there was
ono lamb outside that perished in the
etorni. nad he looked mo in the eye, I
should have been angered when he told
me that story; but ho looked into the fire
rinse, and it was so pathetically and
beautifully done that I never found any
peace until I wa3 sure I was inside the
fold, where tho other sheep are.
The archers of old times studied their
art. They were very precise fin the mat
ter. The old books gave special directions
as to how tho archer should go, and as to
what an archer should do. He must
Stand erect and firm, his left foot a little
In edvanco of his right foot. "With his
left hand he must take held of tho bow in
the middle, and then with tho three fin
gers and the thumb of his right hand, he
Bhould lay hold of tho arrow and aCix it
to tho Btring so preciso was the direction
given. But how clumsy we are about re
gious workl How little skill and care
we exercise I How often our arrows miss
tho mark! Oh, that we might learn the
art of Jdoing good and become "mighty
hunters before the Lord!"
In the first place, if you want to be ef
fectual in doing good, you must be very
euro of your weapon. There was some
thing very fascinating about the archery
of olden times. Perhaps you do not know
what they could do with the bow and ar
row. "Why, the chief battles fought by
the English Plantagenets were with the
long bow. They would take the arrow of
polished wood and feather It with the
plume of a bird, and then it would lly
from tho bowstring of plaited silk. Tho
broad fields of Agincourt and Sblway
Moss and Neville's Cross heard tho loud
thrum of the archer's bowstring. Now,
my Christian friends, we have a mightier
weapon than that. It is the arrow of the
Gospel; it is a sharp arrow; it is a straight
arrow; it is feathered from tho wing of
the dove of God's spirit; it files from a
bow made out of the wood of the cross.
As far as I can estimate or calculate, it
has brought down 400,000,000 souls.
tPaul knew how to bring the notch
of that arrow on to that bow
string, and its whir was heard through
the Corinthian theatres, and through the
court room, until the knees of Felix
knocked together. It was that arrow that
6tuck in Luther's heart when ho cried
out: "Oh, my sins! Oh, my Bins!" If
it strike a man in tho head, it kills his
skepticism; if it strike him In the heel, it
nvill turn his step; if it strike him in the
heart, he throws up his hands, as did one
of old when wounded in tho battle, cry
ing: "Oh, Galilean, thou hast con
quered." !
. In the armory of the Earl of Pembroke
there are old corslets which show that ths
arrow of the English-used to go through
tho breastplate, through tho body of the
warrior, and out through the backplate.
What a symbol of that Gospel which is
sharper than a two edged sword, piercing
to the dividing asunder of oul and body,
nnd of the Joints and marrow! "Would to
(hid wo had more faith iu that 'o.-pell
The humblest man in this house, if lie had
enough faith in him, culd bri.-.g Wi
souls to Jcstm I rhaps .'00. Just in pro
portion as this ago seems to believe less
and less in it, I Wliuve more and more' In
it. What nro men ubout that they v.i!l
not accept their own deliverance? Thcro
is nothing proposed by men that can do
anything like this gor-peL The religion
of Kaiph Waldo Emerson i the
philosophy of icicles; tho religion of
Theodore Parker was a eirocco of
the desert, covering up tho toul with
dry rand; th" religion of Kenan is tho
ronmncu of believing nothing; tho religion
of Thomas Carlyle is only a condensed
London fog; tlio religion of tho liuxleys
and the Spencers is merely a pedestal on
which human philosophy sits shivering in
the night of the noul, looking up to tho
stars, offering no help to the nation:; that
crouch and groan at the base. Tell ma
where thcro is one man who has rejected
that gospel for another, who to thoroughly
fcattoned and helped nnd contented in Ida
skepticism, and I will take tho car to
morrow and ride 500 miles to see him.
The full power of tho gospel has not yet
been touched. As a sportsman throws up
his hand and catches tho ball Hying
through tho air, just so easily will this
gospel after a while catch this round
world flying from its orbit and bring it
back to tho" heart of Christ Give It full
swing, and it will pardon every r-.in, heal
every wound, euro every trouble, emanci
pate every slave, and ransom every na
tion. Ye Christian men and women who
go out this afternoon to do Christian work,
as " you go into tho Sunday schools and
the lay preaching stations and tho peni
tentiaries and tho asylums, I want you to
feel that you bear in your hand a weapon,
compared with whi-h tho lightning has
no speed, and avalanches no heft, and tho
thunderbolts of heaven have no power; it
is tho arrow of the omnipotent gcrpel.
Tako careful aim. Pull the arrow clear
back until the head strikes the bow.
Then let it fly. And may the slain of tho
Lord be many.
Again: if you want to be skillful in
spiritual hunting you must hunt in un
frequented and secluded places. Why
does the hunter go three or four days in
the Pennsylvania forests or over liaqnetto
lako into the wilds of tho Aflirondaeks?
It is the only way to do. The deer aro
shy, and one-"bang" of tho gun clears
the forest. From tho California stage
you see, as you go over tho plains, heio
and there, a coyote trotting along, almost
within rango of tho gun sometimes quite
within range of it. No cno cares for that;
it is worthless. The good game is hidden
and secluded. Every hunter knows that.
So, many of tho souls that will bo of
most worth for Christ, and of most value
to the church, arc secluded. They do not
come in your way. You will have to go
where they are. Yonder they are down
in that cellar, yonder they are up in that
garret. Far away from the door of any
church, the gospel arrow lias not been
pointed at them. Tho tract distributor
and tho city missionary sometimes just
catch a glimpse of them a3 a hunter
through the trees gets a momentary t,izlX
of a partridge or roebuck. Tho trouble
is, we are waiting for the gamo to come to
U3. Yv'e aro not good hunters. We aro
standing In Schermerhorn street, expect
ing that the timid antelope will come up
and cat out of our hand. We are expect
ing that tho prairie fowl will light on our
church steeple. It is not their habit. I
tho church should wait 10,000,000 of
years for tho world to come in and be
saved, it will wait in vain. Tho world
will not come. What the church wants
now is to lift their feet from damask otto
mans, and put them in tho stirrups. "We
want a pulpit on wheels. The chiirch
wants not so much cushions as it wants
saddle bags and arrows. We havo got to
put aside the gown and the kid gloves,
and put on tho hunting shirt. We have
been Ashing so long in the brooks that
run under the shadow of the ciiuh that
tho fish know us, and they avoid the hook
and escape as soon as we como to
the bank, while yonder is Urper Eaxanac
and Big Tapper's lake, where the first
swing of tho gospel net would break it
for the multitude of the fishes. There is
outside work to bo done. What is that I
see in the backwoods? It is a tent. Tho
hunters have made a clearing and camped
cut. What do they care if they havo wet
feet, or if they have nothing but a pine
branch for a pillow or for the northeast
storm? If a moose in tho darkness steps
into the lako to drink, they hear it right
away. If a loon cry in the midnight,
they hear it. So in the service of God wo
have exposed work. Vve have got to camp
out and rough it. We aro putting all our
caro on tho 70,000 people of Brooklyn,
who, they cay, come to church. What
aro we doing for tho 700,000 that do not
come? Have they no eouls? Are they
sinless that they need no pardon5"
Aro thero no dead in their houses
that they need no comfort? Are they cut
off from God, to go into eternity no wing
to bear them, no light to cheer them, no
wclcomo to greet them? I hear today
surging up from tho lower depths of
Brooklyn a groan that comes through our
Christian assemblages and through Gur
Christian churches; and it blots out all
this scene from my eyes today, as by the
mists of a great Niagara, for the dash and
the plunge of these great torrents of life
dropping down into the fathomless and
thundering abyss of suffering and woe. I
sometimes think that, just as God blotted
out the church of Thyatira and Corinth
and Laodicca, because of their sloth and
stolidity, he will blot out American and
English Christianity, and raise on the
ruins a stalwart, wide awake missionary
church, that can take the full meaning of
that command: "Go into all the world and
preach the Gospel to every creature. He j
that beheveth and is baptized shall be
saved, and he that belioveth not shall be
damned."
I remark, further, if you want to suc
ceed in Gospel hunting, ycu must have
courage. If tho hunter stand with trem
bling hand or shoulder that flinches with
fear, instead of his taking the catamount,
the catamount takes him. What would
become of the Greenlander if, when out
hunting for the bear, he should stand
shivering with terror on an iceberg? What
would have become of Du Chaillu and Liv
ingstone in the African thicket, with a
faint heart and a weak knee? When a
panther cornea within twenty paces of
you, and it has its eyes on you, ana it nns
squatted for tho fearful spring, "Steady
there."
Courage, O ye spiritual hunters! Thero
are great monsters or iniquity prownng
around about the community. Shall we
not in tho strength of God go forth and
combat them? Wo not only need more
heart, but more backbone. What is the
Church of God that It should fear to look
in the eye any transgression? There is
tho Bengal tiger of drunkenness that
prowls around, and instead cf attacking
it, how many of us hide under the church
pew or the communion table? There in
bo much invested in it wc are ifraid to
assault ;minionsof dqrsjhabels,
in vats, In tsplgnts, In corTrscivws, In g!n
p.-'hirv with marble floors and Italian lop
tables, and chased ice coolers, a:. I In Hie
strychnine, and the logvwtod, and the tar
taric acid, and the mix vomica, that co to
main,' up our "pure" American drinks.
I hn ked with onderii.g eyes on tlio
"Heidelberg tun." It is tlio groat liquor
vat of Germany, which is paid to hoM S'OtJ
hog.;henls of wine, and only three th;:es
in 10') years has it been filled. Hut, as I
stood and looked at it, I said to myself:
"That is nothing S00 hogs-head:!. Why,
our American vat hold:. 4,500,f:0 barrels
of strong drinks, ami wo keep SlK),0nf) men
with nothing to do but to see that it is
filled." Oh, to attack thi3 great monster
cf intemperance, and the kindred mon
sters of fraud and uiideanne.ss, requires
you to rally all your Christian courage.
Through tho press, through tho pulpit,
through tho platform, you mu.t assault
it. Vould to God that all our American
Chri.-I iaus would band together, not for
crack brained fanaticism, but for holy
Christian reform. I think it was in !'.'.)'
that thero went out from Lucknow, India,
under tho sovereign, the greatest hunting
pn rty that was ever project ed. There were
10,000 armed nidi in that hunting party.
There "were camels, and horses, and ele
phants. On some princes rode, and royal
ladies, under exquisito housings, and ijOO
coolies waited upon tho train, and tho
desolate places of India were invaded by
this excursion, and the rhinoceros, and
deer, and elephant, fell under tho stroko
of the paber and bullet. After a while
tho party brought back trophies worth
fifty thousand rupees, having left tlio
wilderness of India ghastly with tho slain
bodies of wild beasts. Vv'oidd to Cod
that instead cf here and there a straggler
going out to light these great monsters of
iniquity in our country, tho million mem
bership of our churches would band to
gether and hew in twain these great
crimes that make tho land frightful with
their roar, and nro fattening upon tho
bodie j and souls cf immortal men. Who
is ready for such a party as that? YTho
will bo a mighty hunter for tho Lord?
I remark again: If you want to bo suc
cessful iu rpiritual hunting, you need not
only to bring down tho game, but bring
it in. I think one of the most beautiful
pictures of Thorwaldscn is his "Autumn."
It represents a sportsman coming homo
and standing under a grapevine, lie has
a staff over his shoulder, and on the other
end of that staff are hung a rabbit
and a braco of birds. Every hun
ter brings homo tho game. No
ono would think of bringing
down a reindeer cr whipping up
a stream for trout, and letting them ho iu
tho woods. At eventide tho camp is
adorned with tho treasures of tho forest
beak and fin and antler.
If you go out to hunt for immortal
souls, not only bring them down under
the arrow of tho gospel, but bring them
Into tho church cf God, tho grand homo
and encampment we havo pitched this
side the skies. Fetch them in; do not let
them lie out in the cren field. They need
cr- prayers, and sympathies, and help.
That is tho meaning of the church of Gcd
help. O yo hunters for tho Lord!
not only bring down tho game, but bring
it in.
If Jlithridates liked hunting so well
that for seven years ho never went in
doors, what enthusiasm ought we to havo
who are hunting for immortal souls? If
Domilian practiced archery until he could
stand a boy down in the Roman amphi
theatre, with n hand out, the fingers out
stretched, and then the king could shoot
an arrow between the fir.gers without
wounding them, to what drill and prac
tico ought not we to f nbject ourselves in
order to becomo spiritual archer.? and
"mi L-hty hunters before the Lord!" But
let me say you will never work any better
than you pray. The old archers took the
bow, put ono end of it down beside tho
foot, elevated tho other end, and it was
the rule that tho bow should be just tho
size of the archer; if it were just his size,
then ho would go into tho battle with con
fidence. Let mo say that your power to
project good in the world will correspond
exactly to your own spiritual stature. In
other words, the first thing in preparation
for Christian work is personal consecra
tion. Oh! for a closer walk with God,
A cairn and heavenly frame,
A li;;iit to shiee upon tho ror.d
Tiiii.t leads me to tho Lamb.
I am sure that thero aro some here who
at some time havo been hit by the gospel
arrow. You felt the wound cf that con
viction and you plunged into the world
deeper, just as tho stag, when the hounds
are after it, plunges into Ecrooa lake, ex
pecting in that way to escape. Jesus
Christ is on your track to-day, impenitent
man! not in wrath, but in mercy. O ye
chased and panting souls, hero is the
stream of God's mcrcyr and salvation,
where you may cool your thirst! Stop
that chaso of sin today. By the red foun
tain that leaped from tho heart of my
Lord, I bid you stop. Thero is mercy for
you mercy that pardons; mercy that
heals; everlasting msrey. Is thero in all
this house any ono who can refuse the
cfler that comes from tho heart of the
dying Son of God?
There is a forest in Germany, a place
they call the "deer leap" two crags
about eighteen yards apart, between a
fearful chasm. Thi3 is called the "deer
leap" because once a hunter was on the
track of a deer; it came to one of these
crags; there was no escape for it from the
pursuit of tho hunter, and in utter de
spair it gathered itself up, and in the
death agony attempted to jump across.
Of course, it fell, and was dashed on the
rocks far beneath. Hero i3 a path to
heaven; it is plain; it is Bafo. Jesus
marks it out for every man to walk in.
But here i3 a man who says: "I won't
walk in that path; I will take my own
way." He comes on up until he confronts
the chasm that divides his soul from
heaven. Now, his last hour has come,
and he resolves that he will leap that
chasm, from the heights of earth to the
heights of heaven. Stand back now and
give him full swing, for no soul ever did
that successfully. Let him try. Jump!
Jump! Ha misses the mark, and ho goes
down, depth below depth, "destroyed
without remedy." Men! angels I devils!
what shall we call that place of awful
catastrophe? Let it be known forever as
"The Sinner's Death Leap."
It is said that when Charlemagne's host
was overpowered by three armies of the
Saracens in the pass cf RoncesvoHes his
warrior, Roland, in terrible earnestness,
seized a trumpet and blew it with such
terrific strength that tho opposing army
reeled back with terror; but at the third
blast of tho trumpet it broko In two. I
see your soul fiercely assailed by ail the
powers of earth and helL I put the
mightier trumpet of the Gospel to my lips
and I blow it three times. Blast the first:
"Vrhosocver will let him come." Blast
the second: "Seek yo tho Lord while he
may be found." Blast tho third: "Now
is the accepted time; now is the day of sal
vation." Does not the host of "your sins
fall back? But the trumpet doe3 not, like
that of Roland, break la two. As it was
handed down to U3 from the hps of our
fathers wo U&nd it dowa to tie lips of our
children, nnd tell them to sound It when
wo are dead, that r.'.l 1!"' g ::erat ion of
men may know that ;s:r God is a pard n
Ii:g God, a sy u' pat ii't U: C.m, a loving ol;
and that more t o him th:-n th;: r'lthemn
cf heaven, more to him t'.:ui lh" thro::;- on
which In- ; its, i-ore t him l'',"n are the
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tercet, enlith'd "An am I the
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World," de
scribes a tomb m Iiaba of nr rveir.us
architecture. Twenty thop- :,nd men were
twenty-two years in erecting that and tlio
buildings around it. .'landing at that
tomb, if you r peak or Hrv-, after you have
ceased you hear the echo coming from a
height of 100 feet. It is not like other
echoes. Tho Found is drawn cut in sweet
prolongation, as though the Migels of God
were chanting on tho wing.
How many r:on!s here to day, in the
tomb of f:in, will lift up t's voice of peni
tence and prayi-r? If now they would cry
unto God, t he echo w onl 1 drop from afar
not struck from tlio marble cttno! i of
an earthly mausoleum, but bounding hack
from the warm heart, of angel.-:, llyirg
with the news; for there is joy among the
angels of God over one sinner that repent
eth. A MYSTERIOUS STONE FORT.
Ono of TciMiossrc's Ant Ifjuittes Work of
tlio T'loutnl ISuililcrs.
Thero is nothing in Tennessee, or in tho
south, wkoscs antiquity is so mysterious
and entirely beyond the domain of decent
speculation as tho old ston-j fort, which is
about a mile and a half below the town
of Manchester. Tlio two prongs of Dark
river como within, say, two hundred
yards cf each ether, and then widen out,
making a territory of perhaps one thou
sand acres in tho iLiks of tho river, and
below the Narrow.-?. At the Narrows the
fort commences by a stone wr.Il, now
covered with earth, running from one
river to the other, and the walls are bruit
along tlio banks of boih rivers down to a
point where a canal had been cut from
ono river to the other. There a wall is
made from one river to the other, perhaps
a quarter cf a mile. On the outside of
this wall is a hollow, and in this hollow
is tho sign of tho canal or cut, evidently
intended to protect the fort by both the
wail and the canal.
From the upper to the lower wall at
places there are high bluffs on both rivers.
Wherever this bluff precipitous is found
there is no wall, but wherever there is no
natural barrier the wall is built. The en
trance to the fort was at the upper end,
and tho gateways chow that tho builch-rs
were doing their work intelligently. The
entrance is by a narrow prwswny, with
walls on ciiher side and oli'scts i-o r.s to
prevent the enemy on tho outside from
having a direct entrance for themselves,
and so as to protect those on the insido
from missiles from the outside. The fort
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d is, or was
when the writer first snw it, heavily tim
bered, mr
of tho trees of large size
growing on top cf tho vrrlls.
Col.
Sam Murray, who settled there
about lt'OS, cut one of tlio trees from the
top of the wall and found it to be G00
years old. One n !lo rm tho river from
the fort is an immens j mound tho largest
one, perhaps, in tho country making it
probable that tho fort was "built by "the
mound l.uil-lers. Beyond this nobody
knows anything about- it. Col. Murray,
who was a man of high intelligence,
claimed to have conferred with the Indians
cf different tribe, bnt none of them could
give him any account of it, either by tra
dition or otherwise. This fort is one of
tho many evi lenees that in this country,
at some remote period, ihc-ro was a race
of people of more stability and intelli
gence than tlio roving Indians which tho
first settlers found. Nashville American.
Tho iVT-.aI:-.r Tandem Trleyclo.
I noticed m a walk through the park a
few dajs ago that tho tricycle is becoming
very popular, and more especially the ma
chine known as the tandem tricycle. It
is tho proper thing fjr a lady cud gentle
man to use ono of these tandems, and
many couples were spinning along merrily
over tho hard walks of tho park. Some
of tho ladies were jaunty little caps and
blue flannel dresses trimmed with white
braid. Tho cfi'ecfc was very pleasing.
These tricycles aro much mora expensive
than tho bicycles. A rood eno costs in
the neighborhood of $ GOO, and r omc como
as high as $500. It will be remembered
that an American artist and his wife made
a trip through Lngiand and the continent
on one of these machine:! not long ago.
The trio was described in one of tho
magazines, and cf course tbst gave a boom
to tricycle riding. Tho labor of working
these machines is about equally divided
between the two riders and they are
especially well adapted to long distance
traveling, but are practically out of reach
of any one not having a good bank ac
count. Brooklyn Eagle.
Facing Ceath Frivolously.
"It is more than passing strange to
me," said a down town minister, "how
little tho immediate prospect of death
seems to affect some people. The dispo
sition of their immortal souls seems but
secondary r.3 compared with their appear
ance in the coffin and their funeral ar
rangements. Tho other day I was called
to tho bedside of a young lady who was
very ill. While I was thero the physician
gravely shook his head and said the pa
tient would die that night. She looked a
little put cut, and when the doctor went
I asked if I might pray, and was request
ed to wait a few moments. I retired to
another room, and to my surprise I heard
the young woman ask her mother for
some paper, with which she proceeded to
put up her hair, remarking at the same
time: 'Mamma, do not take the papers
out of my hair until I am in the coffin, for
I might as well look as nice as I can,
since there will be so many come to see
me.' Ah, you newspaper men always
srnilo at such things, but it was simply
awful to me. ' ' Philadelphia Call.
Tied Their Tails Together.
A small boy seeing two Chineso looking
in a Kearney street shop window the other
day slipped up behind them and tied their
cues together. When they learned what
had happened they rushed after their
tormentor, who stood grinning from be
hind a telegraph pole, but as they took
opposite sides of the pole in passing they
were brought up with a jerk that threw
them down, and it was not until the
services of a police officer had bc-n secured
that they could take their several ways
amid an amused thrjng of spectators.
San Francisco Examiner.
Thero is complaint at Cornell that tho
townspeople find the lectures by distin
guished lecturers so attractive that they
:ake all tho best seate in the hall to tho
iScbasioriof the staient?.
.c.&3.&Bi7:c: ZUiZ' is a D.tik Bay : r, 15 bauds bl;'h. wi igldng 1,300
pounds. if is elo-e, compart to,m and noted l . it.t .it ion for t iidur.iiiee makes him
one of the I . t horses of thed iv. lb' has a lceord of X-VJO, nnd pared tin: fifth
heat of a race at Columbus, Ohio, in J:-5. lie was bred in Kentucky, sired by
(h iTl llir.ggoM, ami his dam was Trcuinsi !i. lie h;:s already got one colt in tlio
5?:"0 list a losirv lou showing for a horse with his chances ami itamps him as
ono of the fori niot h. .rses in the bind.
The old pacing Pilot M-o! is what made Maud S., Jay Eye See, itml others of
lesser note trot. '1 he ar; r Blue Hull sin-il mote trotters in thr i;:;o list than imy
other horse in the world, and tht ir in t value far exceeds all horses in Cass county.
Speed and bottom in hoi s. if not wanted for sporting purposes, ate f till of im
ii r.se 1 i :,i lit in ."-living time and labor in every occupation in hirh the horse is
( mploycd. It is tin old saving that "lie who e;.ti.-es two Math s of grass to grow
where only one or; v.- belore is a public benefactor;" win less a Ik net actor he who
produces a horse. vhi h, with same rare and expense, will with ease travel (bublu
the distance, or do twice the work of an ldinary horse. It coMs no more to fecl
ami care to raise a good ltoi-c tlnii a poor one. The good are always in demand,
and if sold bring double or treble th-.: price of the common hor.se.
SirAKLii IlOV will rt.-uid the coming season in f.Vs comity, at the following
places and times: W. M. Lotighi idge's stable at Murray. .Monday and Tuesday of
each week. wnt's .-( able, one mile ;at of Iaht Mile Gro e, Wednesday and
Thursday. Louis lCorr H's, at the foot of Main street, l'hith-ntoi'.th, who hnsa
splendid and convenient stab.; lined up for the occasion, Friday and Saturday.
TERMS ;
To insure main with foal, A 10.00. if paid for before foaling, and if nof, 1!.00.
Care will be taken to prcvuit accident-;, but will not be r sponsible, if any occur.
Any one selling mare will be held responsible for fees of kit vice.
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