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The beet sugar men will do their
best to beat.
An ounce of organization Is worth a
ton of oratory.
Kipling Is in South Africa, but be
hasn't surrounded any Boers as yet.
Chile is now accused of creating a
coldness in the Pan-American con
gress.
Honolulu maintains a public com
mittee whose sole business is to exter
minate rats.
Once more the British have captured
the spot where Gen. Botha was a few
hours before.
Senator l)epew will be compelled to
play hookey from most of the midwin
ter banquets In Washington.
Late advices from Pekin are to the
effect that the empress dowager once
more has her authority on straight.
Joey Chamberlain intimates very
clearly that it is not the German vote
he is trying to catch.—Atlanta Journal.
Sixty-six per ceut of the young men
of the United States are unmarried.
They are brave enough in other re
spects.
A woman is suing Russell Sage for
$75,000. She will be glad to compro
mise for seventy-five cents before the
case ends.
When the gods love a man and want
him in a hurry they first make him
smoke anywhere from twelve to thirty
cigarettes a day.
Things are coming to a hopeful pass
when a New York alderman refuses
a $5,000 bribe and tells of it.—Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
Rake any hard-grained, matter-of
fact old Scotchman with half a dozen
lines of Bobbie Burns and you will al
ways uncover a poet.
The description given of the cos
tumes worn at the diplomatic recep
tions indicate that an Oriental circus
is wintering near Washington.
Gov. Odell of New York is an all
round athlete. If the presidency comes
fooling around his neighborhood he
will be found to be in prime condition.
Another defalcation has occurred In
Tx)s Angeles county. Lucky Baldwin's
Chinese cook has defaulted with a side
of beef and a barrel of potatoes. What
next?
Japanese papers have started a cru
sade against "tipping.” There are no
Pullman porters in Japan, however—
luckily for Darktown.—Los Angeles
Times.
The United States is now the world's
fourth nation in point of population.
When you consider quality instead of
quantity it is easily first.—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
A revoltulon is paralyzing Paraguay.
Gen. Egsqueeza, minister of finance,
has excited the enmity of a lot of pa
triots who want to squeeze a little on
their own account.
Herr Sonneberg of the German
Reichstag, seems to have also acquir
ed the very bad habit of allowing his
conversational machinery to do too
many stunts a day.
Melbourne has pledged undying
sympathy with the mother country iu
Its troubles. England should at once
dispatch this sympathy to the front
and try It on the Boers.
Premier Waldeck-Rousseau states
that the French submarine boat Is In
tended to capsize naval pre-eminence.
The premier is evidently figuring on a
gigantic paving contract for the deep
sea levels.
A public office holder in Chicago has
refused to accept his salary for five
months because he was away during
that time. Other public office holders
will now regard him with suspicion or
pity or both.
A man who sat in a woman’s lap in
a street car yesterday was promptly
knocked down by the woman's husband
without having a chance to explain
whether the strap broke or the car
started too suddenly.
A Brooklyn woman is bent on
changing her name from Fitzsimmons
because of Its pugilistic associations.
The lady should be told that a cham
pion heavyweight is first in the hearts
◦f most of his countrymen.
Sir Robert Ball's prediction that an
other glacial period will come, when a
great field of ice will sweep across the
hemispheres, crushing, grinding, be
numbing all things for hundreds of
thousands of years, and in its nature
worse than famine, flood and pesti
lence, is safe enough. It isn't due, he
adds, for several thousand years.
Scientists say that Chicago can be
lighted by windmills. Scientists do not
seem to be aware that Chicago has al
ways been lighted by windmills and
the world is none the wiser for it
rALM AGE'S SERMON.
&UTIE8 AND TRIALS OF THE DIF.
FERENT DECADES OF LIFE.
Ill the Y«»r» *f M»n Considered—Work
of The Tvfntin »nd Thlrtle* Should
Hr Crowned with Splendid Kew.rd
In the Seventies.
(Copyright. 1S0J, Louis Klopsch, N. T.)
Washington. Jan. 26.—From an un
usual standpoint Dr. Talmage in this
discourse looks at the duties and trials
which belong to the different decades
of human life; text, Psalms xc, 10,
“The days of our years are threescore
years and ten.”
The seventieth milestone of life is
here planted as at the end of the Jour
ney. A few go beyond it. Multitudes
never reach it. Whatever your age, I
will to-day directly address you, and
1 shall speak to those who are in the
twenties, the thirties, the forties, the
llfties. the sixties, and to those who are
in the seventies and beyond.
First, then. I accost those of you
who are in the twenties. You are full
of expectation. You are ambitious—
that is. if you amount to anything—for
some kind of success, commercial or
mechanical or professional or literary
or agricultural or social or moral. If
I find some one in the twenties with
out any sort of ambition, I feel like
saying. "My friend, you have got on
the wrong planet. This is not the
world for you. You are going to be
in the way. Have you made your
choice of poorhouses? You will never
be able to pay for your cradle. Who
is going to settle for your board?
There is a mistake about the fact
that you were boru at all.”
But supposing you have ambition,
let me say to all the twenties, expect
everything through divine manipula
tlon, and tnen you win gei an yuu
want and something better. Are you
looking for wealth? Well, remember
that Clod controls the money markets,
the harvests, the droughts, the cater
pillars, the locusts, the sunshine, the
storm, the land, the sea. and you will
get wealth. Perhaps not that which
Is stored up in the banks, in safe de
posits, in United States securities, in
houses and lands, but your clothing
and board and shelter, and that is
about all you can appropriate anyhow
You cost the Lord a great deal. To
feed and clothe and shelter you for a
lifetime requires a big sum of money,
and if you get nothing more than the
absolute necessities you get an enor
mous amount of supply. Expect as
much as you will of any kind of suc
cess, if you expect it from the Lord
you are safe. Depend on any other re
source, and you may be badly cha
grined, but depend on God and all will
be well.
Some of the mightiest things for God
and eternity have been done in the
twenties. As long as you can put the
figure 2 before the other figure that
helps describe your age I have high
hopes about you. Look out for that
figure 2. Watch its continuance with
as much earnestness as you ever
watched anything that promised you
salvation or threatened you demoli
tion. What a critical time—the twen
ties! While they continue you decide
your occupation and the principles by
which you will be guided; you make
your most abiding friendships; you ar
range your home life; you fix your
habits. Lord God Almighty, for Jesus
Christ's sake, have mercy on all the
men and women in the twenties!
Next I accost those in the thirties.
You are at an age when you find what
a tough thing it is to get recognized
and established in your occupation or
profession. In some respects the hard
est decade of life is the thirties, be
cause the results are generally so far
behind the anticipations. Nine-tenths
or me poetry or me uas ueen Knocaeu
out of you since you came Into the
thirties. Men In the different profes
sions and occupations saw that you
were rising, and they must put an es
toppel on you, or you might somehow
stand in the way. They think you
must be suppressed.
From thirty to forty is an especially
hard time for young doctors, young
lawyers, young merchants, young
farmers, young mechanics, young min
isters. The struggle of the thirties is
for honest and helpful and remunera
tive recognition. But few old people
know how to treat young people with
out patronizing them on the one hand
or snubbing them on the other.
Oh, the thirties! Joseph stood before
Pharaoh at thirty; David was thirty
years old when he began to reign;
the height of Solomon's temple was
thirty cubits; Christ entered upon his
active ministry at thirty years of age;
Judas sold him for thirty pieces of
silver. Oh, the thirties! What a
word suggestive of triumph or disas
ter!
Next I accost the forties. Yours is
the decade of discovery. I do not
mean the discovery of the outside, but
the discovery of yourself. No man
knows himself until he is forty. By
that time he has learned what he can
do or what he cannot do. He thought
he had commercial genius enough to
become a millionaire, but now he is
satisfied to make a comfortable liv
ing. He thought he had rhetorical
power that would bring him Into the
United States senate; now he Is con
tent if he can successfully argue a
common case before a petit jury. He
thought he had medical 6kill that
would make him a Mott or a Grosse or
a Willard Parker, or a Sims; now he
finds his sphere is that of a family
physician, prescribing for the ordinal/
ailments that afflict our race. He is
half way through life'a Journey and he
hi in a position to look backward or
forward. lie has more good sense
than he ever had. He knows human
nature, for he has been cheated often
enough to see the bad side of It, and
he has met so many gracious and
kindly and splendid souls he also
knows the good side of 't.
Now. calm yourself. Thank God for
the past and deliberately set- your
compass for another voyage. You
have chased enough thistledown; you
have blown enough soap bubbles; you
have seen the unsatisfying nature of
all earthly things. Open a new chap
ter with God and the world. This de
cade of the forties ought to eclipse
all its predecessors in worship, in use
fulness and in happiness.
My sermon next accosts the fifties.
How queer it looks when in writing
your age you make the first of the two
figures a 5. This is the decade
which shows what the other decades
have been. If a young man has sown
wild oats and he has lived to this time,
he reaps the harvest of it in the fifties,
or if by necessity he was compelled
to overtoil in honest directions he is
called to settle up with exacting na
ture sometime during the fifties. Sci
aticas and rheumatisms and neural
gias and vertigos and insomnias have
their playground in the fifties. A man's
hair begins to whiten and. although he
may have worn spectacles before, now
he asks the optician for No. 14 or No.
12 or No. 10. When he gets a cough
and is almost cured, he hacks and
clears his throat a good while after
ward.
O ye who are in the fifties, think of
it! A half century of blessings to be
thankful for and a half century sub
tracted from an existence which, in
the most marked cases of longevity,
hardly ever reaches a whole century.
By this time you ought to be eminent
for piety. You have been in so many
battles you ought to be a brave so!-*
dier. You have made so many voy
ages you ought to be a good sailor. So
long protected and blessed, you ought
to have a soul full of doxology.
In Bible times in Canaan every fifty
years was by God's command a year
of jubilee. The people did not work
that year. If property had by mis
fortune gone out of one s possession,
on the fiftieth year it came back to
him. If he had fooled it away, it was
returned without a farthing to pay.
If a man had been enslaved, he was
in that year emancipated. A trum
pet was sounded loud and clear and
long, and it was the trumpet of jubi
lee. They shook hands, they laughed,
they congratulated. What a time it
was, that fiftieth year! And if under
the old dispensation it was such a
glad time, under our new and more
glorious dispensation let all who have
come to the fifties hear the trumpet of
jubilee that I now blow.
My sermon next accosts the sixties.
The beginning of that decade is more
startling than any other. In his
chronological journey the man rides
rather smoothly over the figures 2 and
3 and 4 and 5, but the figure 6 gives
him a big jolt. He says: “It cannot be
that I am sixty. Let me examine the
old family record. I guess they made a
mistake. They got my name down
wrong in the roll of births.” But no,
the older brothers or sisters remember
the time of his advent, and there is
some relative a year older and another
relative a year younger, and. sure
enough, the fact is established beyond
all disputation.
bixty! Now your great danger is
the temptation to fold up your fac
ulties and quit. You will feel a ten
dency to reminiscence. If you do not
.ook out, you will begin almost every
thing with the words, “When I was
a boy.” But you ought to make the
sixties more memorable for God and
the truth than the fifties or the forties
or the thirties. You ought to do more
during the next ten years than you did
in any thirty years of your life be
cause of all the experience you have
had. You have committed enough
mistakes in life to make you wise
above your juniors. Now, under the
accumulated light of your past experi
menting, go to work for God as never
before. When a man In the sixties
folds up his energy and feels he has
done enough, it Is the devil of indo
lence to which he is surrendering, and
God generally takes the man at his
word and lets him die right away.
My subject next accosts those in the
seventies and beyond. My word to
them is congratulation. You have got
nearly if not quite through. You have
safely crossed the sea of life and are
about to enter the harbor. You have
fought at Gettysburg, and the war is
over—here and there a skirmish with
the remaining sin of your own heart
and the sin of the world, but I guess
you are about done. There may be
some work for you yet on a small or
large scale. Bismarck of Germany vig
orous iu the eighties. The prime min
ister of England strong at seventy
two. Haydn composing his oratorio,
"The Creation,” at seventy years of
age. Noah Webster, after making his
world renowned dictionary, hard at
work until eighty-five years old. Rev.
Daniel Waldo praying in my puipit at
one hundred years of age. Humboldt
producing the immortal “Cosmos” at
seventy-six years. William Blake at
sixty-seven learning Italian so as to
read Dante in the original. John
Wesley stirring great audiences at
eighty-five. William C. Bryant, with
out spectacles, reading in my house
“Thanatopsls” at eighty-three years
of age. Christian men and women in
all departments serving God after be
coming septuagenarians and octoge
narians and nonagenarians prove that
there are possibilities of work for the
aged, but I think you w’ho are passed
the seventies are near being through.
How do you feel about it? You ought
to be jubilant, because life is a tre
mendous struggle, and if you have got
through respectably and usefully you
ought to feel like pcop'e toward the
I close of a summer day seated on the
rocks watching the sunset at Bar Har
bor or Cape May or Lookout Mountain.
I am glad to say that moat old
Christians are cheerful. Danlal Web
ster visited John Adams a short time
before his death and found him lo
very Infiim health. He said to Mr. Ad
ams: ”1 am glad to see you. I hope
you are getting along pretty well."
The reply was: 'Ah, sir, quite the con
trary. I find 1 am a poor tenant, occu
pying a house much shattered by time.
It sways and trembles with every wind
and what is worse, sir, the landlord,
as near as I can make out, does not
intend to make any repairs."
An aged woman sent to her physi
cian and told him of her ailments and
the doctor said: “What would you
have me do, madam? I cannot make
you young again.” She replied: “I
know that, doctor. What I want you
to do is to help me to grow old a little
longer.” The young have their trou
bles before them; the old have their
troubles behind them. You have got
about ail out of this earth that there la
in it. Be glad that you, an aged serv
ant of God. are going to try another
life nnd amid better surroundings.
Stop looking back and look ahead.
Oh. ye in the seventies and the eigh
ties and the nineties, your best days
are yet to come, your grandest associ
ations are yet to be formed, your best
eyesight Is yet to be kindled, your best
hearing is yet to be awakened, your
greatest speed is yet to be traveled,
your glaudest song is yet to be sung.
The most of your friends have gone
over the border, and you are going to
join them very soon. They are wait
ing for you; they are watching the
golden shore to see you land; they are
watching the shining gate to see you
come through; they are standing by
the throne to see you mount. What a
glad hour when you drop the stafT and
take the scepter, when you quit the
stiffened joints and become an im
mortal athlete! But hear, hear; a re
mark pertinent to all people, whether
in the twenties, the thirties, the for
ties. the fifties, the sixties, the seven
ties or beyond.
w hat we all need is to tane me su,-»
pernatural into our lives. Do not let
us depend cn brain and muscle and
nerve. We want a mighty supply of |
the supernatural. We want with us a |
divine force mightier than the waters
and the tempests, and when the Lord j
took two steps on hestormed Galilee, |
putting one foot on the winds and the
other on tne waves, he proved himself
mightier than hurricane and billow.
We want with us a divine force great
er than the fires, and when the Lord
cooled Nebuchadnezzar’s furnace until
Shadrach. Meshach and Abednego did
not even have to fan themselves he
proved himself mightier than the fire, j
We want a divine force stronger than
the wild beast and when the I^ord made
Daniel a lion tamer he proved himself
stronger than the wrath of the jun
gles.
There are so many diseases in the
world we want with us a divine Physi
cian capable of combating ailments,
and our Lord when on earth showed
what he could do with catalepsy and
paralysis and ophthalmia and demen
tia. Oh. take this supernatural into all
your lives! How to get it.’ Just as
you get anything you want—by appli- j
cation.
A man got up in a New York prayer
meeting and said' “God is my part
ner. I did business with him for
twenty years and failed every two or
three years. I have been doing busi
ness with him for twenty years and
have not failed once.” Oh, take the
supernatural into all your affairs! I
had such an evidence of the goodness
of God in temporal things when I en
tered life, I must testify. Called to
preach at lovely Belleville, in New
Jersey, I entered upon my work. But
there stood the empty parsonage, and
not a cent had I with which to furnish I
it. After preaching three or four
weeks the officers of my church asked
me if I did not want to take two or
three weeks’ vacation. I said, “Yes,” j
for I had preached about all I knew,
but I feared they must be getting tired
of me. When I returned to the vil- |
lage after the brief vacation, they
handed me the key of the parsonage
and asked me if I did not want to go
and look at it. Not suspecting any
thing had happened, I put the key into
the parsonage door and opened it. and
there was the hall completely furnish
ed with carpet and pictures and hat
rack, and 1 turned into the parlors and
they were furnished—the softest sofas
1 ever sat on—and into the study, and
I found it furnished with bookcases,
and 1 went into the bedrooms,and they
were furnished, and into the pantry,
and that was furnished with every
culinary article, and the spiceboxes
were filled, and a flour barrel stood
there ready to be opened, and I went
down into the diningroom, and the
table was set and beautifully furnish
ed, and into the kitchen, and the stove
was full of fuel, and a match lay on
the top of the stove, and all I had to
do in starting housekeeping was to
strike the match. God inspired the
whole thing, and if I ever doubt his
goodness all up and down the world
call me an ingrate. I testify that I
have been in many tight places, and
God always got me out, and he will
get you out of the tight places.
But the most of you will never reach
the eighties or the seventies or the
sixties or the fifties or the forties. He
who passes into the forties has gone
far beyond the average of human life.
Amid the uncertainties take God
through Jesus Christ as your present
and eternal safety. The longest life
is only a small fragment of the great
there.
The highest calls may come from the
lowliest circumstances.
The average monthly salaries of men
teachers in Illinois is $61.69, and o.
women $53.51.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON VI. FEB 9; ACTS 5: l-ll
THE SIN OF LYING.
Golden Teit—"Wherefore, rutting Aw»j
Lying, Speak Every Mail Truth wltt
HU Neighbor-'—Eph. 4: 2S—Satan'i
Effort* to Destroy the Early Church
I. The Church Bountiful anil Beautiful.
—Vs. 32-37. Persecution did not destroy,
hut purified and brightened the church.
Their goodness was not a mere flash of
excitement, but a steady burning and
shining light. This description of the
early church reminds ub of the descrip
tion of the youthful Jesus. "The child
grew and waxed strong in spirit, tilled
with wisdom; and the grace of God was
upon him." "And Jesus increased in
wisdom and stature, and In fuvor with
God and man" (Luke 2: 40, 52). We can
easily see that a church of such a char
acter would make rapid advances, and
hasten on the day of the Lord's victory
over the world.
II. Satan enters the New Paradise.—
Vs. 1-4. Satan's kingdom was In danger,
and something must be done to put an
end to the progress of Christ's kingdom.
His first plan was by persecution, as we
learned In our last lesson. But this was
a signal failure. It led to more prayer,
more faith, more courage, more devotion.
It advertised the gospel. It scattered the
seeds of truth broadcast. It led to greater
miracles, to more fervent preaching, to
more active generosity, to fuller grace.
The attack from without being a failure,
the next plan of Satan was to destroy the
church from within, casting a shadow
over Its light, raising up false disciples.
Introducing evil motives, pride, ambition,
and hypocrisy into the very church itself.
The enemy planted tares among the
wheat. So he had driven man from para
dise ages before. Why may not the same
plan succeed again?
So he tempted Ananias. “Kept back
part of the price." The Greek means to
set apart for one's self wrongfully. "And
brought a certain part," representing It
as the whole. "Ills wife also being privy
to it." This shows that this was not a
sudden overwhelming temptation attack
ing them unawares, but a deliberate
plan. "Laid It at the apostles' feet." Ap
parently at some public religious service,
where they could be seen of men. Hypo
crites blow the trumpet, or how could
people know their virtues (Matt. <5: 2)?
Calvin says, “So it came to pass that he
honored the feet of the apostles more than
the eyes of God.”
"But 1'eter said." How did Peter know
the truth? How could he see into their
hearts? (1) The Spirit must have re
vealed It to him. (2) This was more nat
ural from the heart of Peter being clari
fied and quickened by the Indwelling
Spirit, "Why hath Satan filled thine
heart?" This Is the exact opposite of the
case of the apostles. They were filled
with the Holy Ghost, so that there was
no room for Satan. Ananias was tilled
with Satan, so flint there was no room
for the Holy Spirit. While It remained
was It not thine own?" No one compelled
you to sell the property and give It away.
But It was necessary that he should act
and speak the truth about It. "Why hast
thou conceived this thing In thin heart'.'
What caused you to form such a plan.
"Thou hast not lied unto men, hut unto
God." That is. the real force of the lie
was against God more than man. a he
sin wus against the teaching and influence
of God. There was no sin that Jesus con
demned so severely, with so many "woes
as hypocrisy.
lil. l ne i'anijer nv.'rieti uy mtr dirhoi
Punishment of the Offender.—Ys. 5-10.
"Ananias . . . fell clown, anil (rave up
the ghost.” His death was the direct act
of God, and In no sense the act of Peter
and the apostles. Very probably they were
as much astonished as any one. Had
Peter done this act, he would have been
a murderer, subject to the law of the
land. But he had no hand in It whatever.
"Great fear came on all." "About the
space of three hours." She waited thus
long anxiously for her husband's return
with the news of the praise and honor re
ceived for their large gift- Then, weary
and puzzled at his absence "his wife
. . . came In” to learn the reason "Not
knowing what was done." "Peter an
swered unto her." Answered her Inquiry,
shown by her looks or the fact of her
coming. "Tell me whether ye sold the
land tor so much?" She could now clear
her own conscience by confession. But
she shut the door of repentance by tell
ing a lie. "A wilful falsehood Is a cripple
and cannot stand alone. It Is eusy to tell
one lie, hard to tell but one lie."—Puller.
"Then fell she down straightway at his
feet.” The death was not Inflicted by
Peter, but by God.
Lying. It is of the utmost Importance
that we should not lie to ourselves, try
ing to deceive ourselves as to our mo
tives, offering excuses to ourselves in or
der to hide from ourselves the real rea
sons for our conduct; as when we make
the faults of Christians the excuse for
not becoming Christians, or when we say
to ourselves that we are wild, and do not
go to church because our parents were
too strict.
We should avoid inc m .-imy hfi hi ly
ing about others, or to others. Never
tell a lie. Truthfulnessi is the only con
dition on which human intercourse is pos
sible. and it lies at the foundation of all
personal character. No matter how bad
a man is there Is room for hope with re
spect to him If he Is essentially truthful
and honest; but If he is a liar, if truth
and error are confounded In ids own mind
and character, there is nothin* to build
upon. Hence the terrible denunciations
against liars and hypocrites In the Bible.
IV The Outcome—Acts a; 11-18. The
result was not the ruin of the church, but
a firmer piety and progress in every direc
tion "Great fear came upon all the
church." Not fear of man. but great awe
in the presence of God: great reverence
for the Holy Sprit, great fear of sinning,
great fear lest they might themselves be
deceived. This led to careful living, to
heart searchings, to watching and prayer.
Their eyes were opened to see the reali
ties around them, as Elisha's servant,
when his eyes wire opened, saw the
mountain full of horses and chariots of
lire round about the prophet (2 Kings 8:
17). “Upon as many as heard." They re
alized the terrible nature of sin, the pow
er ami nearness of Grid’s judgment
against it Thev lived in the presence of
God's all-searching eye that penetrated
Into the recesse s of the heart. They were
conscious of sin.
Those who Were not really ( hristians
we re afraid to join a community where
hypocrisy could he so severely punished,
and where then* were eyes that could
see the secret motives of thi‘ heart. Tills
sifting process was necessary, since there
was great danger that many might profess
to lie t'hristians In order to obtain a sup
pot t from tiie fund without working. It
would have been easy to gather into the
fojd many hypocrites who cared only for
the loaves and fishes, and thus to bring
disaster upon the good name of tho
disciples. , , „
Great numbers were added to the
church Many miracles and works of
grace Were wrought. There was special
need now' of such miracles as . re here
described, in order to show the real na
ture of tiie mysterious power in the
church, lest thev think of God as a God
of terror and not of love. Even the light
ning's stroke is a stroke of love. By
manifold beneficent uses of the sime pow
er we see its beneficent nature. The pow
er was sent to bless, not to harm, and
these miracles were object-lessons of the
gospel's mission.
tint Telephone Wire.
The first telephone wire was
stretched between Boston and Somer
ville. a distance of three miles, In 1877.
HERE AND THERE.
Over one million articles are pledged
with the pawnbrokers of London every
week.
The ratio of mortality in Switzerland
has decreased one-fourth in thirty
years.
A London physician advises a quiet
sea voyage as the best remedy for in
somnia.
The atmosphere, if compressed,
would make a sea tbirty-flve feet deep
around the globe.
! OLD JOE. THE NIGHT WATCHMAN ^
(From the Pall Mall Gazette, London.)
How often on returning home late
on a dreary winter's night has our
eympathy gone out to the poor old
night-watchman as he sat huddled up
over his cage Are. overlooking the ex
cavations which our city council In
their wisdom or otherwise, allow the
different water companies to make so
frequently In our congested streets
In all weathers and under all climatic
conditions, the poor old night-watch
man is obliged to keep watch over the
companies' property, and to see that
the red lights are kept burning. What
a life, to be sure; what privations and
hardships; no wonder they have aches
and pains, which nothing but St. Ja
cob’s Oil can alleviate.
"Old Joe” is in the employ of the
Lambeth Water Works, and is well
and favorably known. He has been a
night-watchman for many years, in
the course of which he has undergone
many experiences. What with wet and
cold, he contracted rheumatism and sci
atica, which fairly doubled him up, and
it began to look a serious matter for old
Joe whether he would much longer be
able to perform his duties, on which
his good wife and himself depended
for a livelihood; but as it happened, a
passerby, who had for some nights no
ticed Old Joe’s painful condition, pre
sented him with a bottle of St. Jacob's
Oil. and told him to use it. Old Joe
followed the advice given; he crawled
home the next morning and bade his
wife rub his aching back with the St.
Jacob’s Oil “a gentleman gave him,”
and undoubtedly his wife did rub, for
when old Joe went on duty at night he
met his friend and benefactor, to
whom he remarked: "Them Oils you
gave me, Guv nor, did give me a doing;
they was like pins and needles for a
time, but look at me now,” and old
Joe began to run and jump about like a
young colt. All pain, stiffness and
soreness had gone; he had been tell
ing everybody he met what St. Jacob’s
Oil had done for him. Old Joe Bays
now he has but one ambition in life,
and that is to always to be able to
keep a bottle of St. Jacob’s Oil by him
for he says there is nothing like it in
the world.
St. Jacob’s Oil serves the rich and
the poor, high and low the same way.
It has conquered pain for fifty years,
and it will do the same to the end of
time. It has no equal, consequently
no competitor; it has many cheap imi
tations, but simple facta like the above
tell an honest tale with which noth
ing on earth can compete.
Woman's function is a guiding, not
a determining one.
Thl» Will Interest Mothers.
Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for
Children, used by Mother Gray, a
nurse in Children's Home, New York,
cure Feverishness, Teething Disorders,
Stomach Troubles and destroy worms.
At all druggists', 25c. Sample FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y.
Only a cowardly painter would de
sert his colors.
VICKSBURG VETERANS VISIT |
Tlie Old Rattle Ground* and the New
Orleans Mardl Gra*.
The surviving veterans of the Cam
paign and Siege of Vicksburg and their
friends will please note that the Illi
nois Central Railroad Company will
run a low-rate excursion to the New
Orleans Mardi Gras, with a two nights
and a duy stopover at Vicksburg, leav
ing Chicago at 6:10 p. m., Freeport at
9:40 a. m., St. Louis at 10:15 p. m., Cin
cinnati at 6:00 p. m., and Louisville at
9:40 p. m., on Tuesday, February 4.
Both Standard Pullman and Excursion
Sleepers will be run from Chicago and
from Cincinnati and Louisville to New
Orleans; and in addition Excursion
Cars will be run from Freeport and
from St. Louis to New Orleans. The
price per double berth, whether occu
pied by one or two people, will be as
follows to New Orleans: In Standard
Sleepers from Chicago, $8.00; from
Cincinnati aud from Louisville, $7:00;
in Excursion Cars from Chicago and
from Freeport, $3.50; from St. Louis,
Cincinnati and Louisville, $3.00.
Applications for berths should be
made as follows, accompanied by the
price of same, on or before January 28.
For the Chicago and Freeport Cars, to
J. F. Merry, A. G. P. A., Dubuque,
Iowa; for the St. Louis Car. to C. C.
McCarty, D. P. A., 308 N. Broadway,
St. Louis, Mo.; for the Cincinnati Car,
to F. W. Harlow, D. P. A., Arcade and
Vine street, Cincinnati, Ohio; for the
Ixmisville Car, to \V. J. McBride, C. P.
& T. A., Fourth and Market streets,
Louisville, Ky.
This will be a great trip, and every
veteran, every son and daughter of a
veteran, and everybody else who wants
a good time, should at once apply for
their sleeping car accommodations.
The price of berths as quoted above
Includes the two nights at Vicksburg,
and this special excursion will arrive
at New Orleans Friday morning, Feb
ruary 7, in ample time to secure rooms
at nominnl prices, and to take in the
attractions in and about the city be
fore the Carnival of fun and frolic that
begins Monday morning, February 10.
Write the nearest of the undersigned
at once for a copy of “Historical Vicks
burg," "Survivors of the Vicksburg
Campaign," and the "Tourist Guide to
New Orleans.” For specific train rates
(which will be the special Mardi Gras
rates), limits, etc., consult your home
ticket agent, or address the nearest of
the undersigned:
J. F. Merry, A. G. P. A., Dubuque;
W. A. Kellond, A. G. P. A.. Louisville;
C. C. McCarty, D. P. A., St. Louis; f!
W. Harlow, D. P. A.. Cincinnati.
Taxes come high, but we must have
them.
WHEN YOG ECY STARCH
buy Defiance and get the best, 10 os. fn
10 cents. Once used, always used.
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