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ALL THINGS NOW BEADY
Dr. Talmaffe Discourse on tha
Greatest of Banquets.
Th Saviour Ever Beaay to Receive All
The Ctiareh Opea to AU TTlio Desire to
Enter Jfo Invitation XecescarT
Come Jfow.
In a late sermon at Brooklyn Iter.
T. Dewltt Talmage's subject was: "In
vitation to a Wedding," and his text
Lulcexiv. 17: "Come; for all tilings are
now ready." lie said:
Holy festivities to-day. We gather
our sheaves into the spiritual garner.
Onr joy is like the joy of Heaven.
Spread the banquet, fill all the chalices.
We are not to-day at the funeral of a
dead Christ; tvc are celebrating the
marriage of the King's son.
It ivas an excitimg time in English
hi.stary when Queen Elizabeth visited
Lord Leicester at Kcnilworth castle.
The clocks in all the towers and
throughout the castle were stopped at
the moment of her arrival, so continu
ing to point to the moment as the one
surpassing all others in interest The
door of the great banquet hall was
opened. The queen marched in to the
bound of the trumpets. Four hundred
servants waited upon the guests. It
was a scene that astonished all nations
when they heard of it Five thousand
dollars a day did the banquet cost as it
went on day after day. She was
greeted to the palace gates
with floating islands and
torches, and the thundenfof cannon and
fireworks that set the nightablazc, and
a burst of music that lifted the whole
scene into enchantment Beginning in
that way, it went on from joy to joy.
and from excitement to excitement and
from rapture to rapture. That was the
great banquet that Lord Leicester
spread in Kcnilworth castle.
Cardinal Wolscy entertained the
French ambassadors in Hampton court
The best cooks of all the land provided
for the table. The guests were kept
hunting in the parks all the day so that
their appetites might be keen, and then
in the evening hour they wcrn-shown
into the banqueting hall, with table
aglitto.r with imperial plate and ablush
with the very costliest wines, and the
second course of the feast was made of
food in all shapes, of men and birds and
beasts and dancing groups nnd joust
ing parties riding upon each other with
uplifted lances. Lords and princes and
ambassadors, their cups gleaming to
the brim, drank first to the health of
the king of England, and then to the
health of the emperor of France. That
was the banquet that Cardinal Wolsey
spread in Hampton court
Hut to-day, my brothers and sisters,
I invite you to a grander entertainment
My Ijord the King Is the banqueter.
Angels of God are the cup-bearers; all
the redeemed arc the guests; the halls
of eternal love, frescoed with light and
paved with joy and curtained with un
fading lwauty are the banqueting place;
the harmonics of eternity arc the music:
the chalices of God arc the plate; and I
am one of the servants come out with
invitations to all the people; and 0, that
you might break the seal of the invita
tion and read in ink of blood and with
the treimilous hand of a dying Christ:
"Come, come, for all things are now
ready." Sometimes there have been great dis
appointments at a banquet The wines
have given out or the servants have
been relM?llious, or the lights have
failed. Hut I walk all around the ban
queting table of ray Lord to-day, and 1
find everything complete, and 1 open
the door of the banquoting house and 1
say: "All things are now ready."
Illustrating my text i go on and in
the first place say that the Lord tlcsus
Christ Is ready. Cardinal Wolsey did
not come into the banqueting hall until
the second course of the feast and
when he entered booted and spurred,
all the guests arose and cheered him,
but I have to tell you that our lian
quctcr, the Lord ,lcsus Christ, comes in
at the lcginnlng of the feast Aj'c, ho
has been waiting for his guests; wait
ing for some of them 1891 years; wait
ing with mangled feet; waiting with
hand on the punctured side; waiting
with hand on the lacerated temples;
waiting, waiting! Wonder, it is that
the banqueter did not get weary and
say: "Shut the door and let the lag
gards stay out" No, he has been wait
ing. How much he is In earnest! Shall
I show you? I gather up all the tears
that floodctl his cheek in sympathy; all
the blood that channeled his brow and
back and hand and foot to purchase
our redemption. 1 gather up all the
groans coming from midnight chill and
mountain hunger and desert loneliness,
and I put them into one bitter cry; I
gather tip all the pangs that shot
from cross and spike and spear, into
one groan; I take one drop of sweat on
his brow, and I put it under the glass
of the gospel and it enlarges to lakes
of sorrow, to oceans of agony. That
Christ to-day, emaciated and worn and
weary, comes here, and with a pathos
in which every word is a heartbreak
and every sentence a martyrdom, he
says to you and he snj-s to me: "Come,
come, for all things arc now ready. "
Ahasuerus made a feast that lasted
1S9 days. This lasts forever. Lords
and princes were invited to that You
and I are invited to this. Yes, He has
been waiting, lie is waiting now. Other
kings wrap themselves in robes of
beauty and power before they come
into a banquet So docs Christ 0,
He is the fairest of tho fair.
In His hands is the omnipotent
surgery that opened blind eyes
and straightened crooked limbs and
hoisted the pillars of heaven and
swung the twelve gates which arc
twelve pearls. O, what a Christ a
Christ of beauty, a Christ of power.
There are not enough cups on earth to
din up this ocean of beauty. There are
not ladders to scale these heights of
love. Oh, thou flower of eternity, thy
breath is the perfume of heaven. 0hf
thou daybreak of tho soul, let all na
tions clap their hands in thy radience.
Chorus! Come men and angels and
cherubim and seraphim and archangel,
all heights, all depths, all immensities.
Chorus! Roll on through the heavens
in chariot of universal acclaim, over
bridges of hosannas, under arches of
coronation, by the towerschiming with
eternal jubilee. Chorus! Unto Him
that loved us and washed us irom our
sins in His own blood, and made ns
kings and priests unto God, to Him be
glory 1
Ah! there is one wori of five letters
that I would like to write; bat I have
no sheet fair enough to write on it, and
no pencil good enough to inscribe it
Give me a sheet of heavenly records,
and some pencil used by angel in de
scribing a victory, and then with hand
struck with a supernatural energy, and
with pencil dipped in everlasting morn
ing, I will write jt out ia capitals of
love: J-E-S-U-S, Jesus! It is this One
that is waiting for you and for me, for
we are on the 6ame platform before
God. How long He waited for me!
How long He has waited for youl Wait
ing as a banqueter waits forhis delayed
guests, the meat smoking, and the
beakers brimming, and the minstrel
with his finger on the stiff string ready
to strike at the first clash of the hoofa
at the gateway. Waiting as a laotber
waits for a boy that ten years agowent
off dragging her bleeding heart after
himl Waiting. 0, can you not give
some comparison intease enough, im
portunate enough, high as heaven, deep
as hell and vast as eternity? Not ex
pecting that you can help me with such
a comparison, I simply say he is wait
ing as only an all sympathetic Christ
know how to wait for a wandering
soul.
Bow the tmee and kirn the Bon
Come and welcome. ioner. come.
But I remark again, not only Christ
is waiting, but the Holy Spirit is wait
ing. Why are some sermons a dead
failure? Why are there songs that do
not' get their wing under the people?
Why are there prayers that get bo
higher up than a hunter's halloo? Be
cause there Is a missing link that only
the Holy Spirit can make. If that
Spirit should come through this as
semblage this morning there would
bo a power felt like that when Saal
was unhorsed on the road to Damascus,
like as when Lydia's heart was broken
in her fine store, like as when three
thousand souls were lifted out of mid
night into midnoon at the 1'cntccost
Do you notice that sometimes that
Spirit takes an insignificant agency to
save a soul? I think it is very often
that at just one passage of Scripture,
just one word of Scripture, a soul is
saved r because the Holy Spirit
gives it supernatural power. Do
you know what it was that
saved Martin Luther? It was that
one verse: "The just shall live by faith."
Do you lcaow what it was that brought
Augustine from his horrible dissipation?
It was that one verse: "Put ye on the
Lord Jesus Christ and make no pro
vision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts
thereof." Do you know what it was
that saved Hedley Vicars, the celebrated
soldier? It was the one passage: "IJe
lieve in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved." Do you know what it
was that brought Jonathan Edwards to
Christ? It was the one passage: "Now
unto Him be glory forever and ever."
One thanksgiving morning in church
I read my text, "O, give thanks unto
the Lord, for He Is good," and a young
man stood in the gallery and said to
himself, "I have never rendered one ac
ceptable offering of gratitude to God in
all my life. "Here, Lord, I am
Thine forever." By that one pas
sage of Scripture he was brought
into the Kingdom, and if I
might tell my own' experience, I
might tell how one Sabbath afternoon
I was brought to the peace of the Gos
pel by reading of the Syro-Phoenician's
cry to Christ where she said: "Even
the dogs cat of the crumbs that fall
from the master's table." Philosophic
sermons never saved anybody. Meta
physical sermons never saved anybody.
An earnest plea going right out of the
heart blessed of the Holy Ghost, that is
what saves; that Is what brings people
into the kingdom of Christ I suppose
that the workl thought that Thomas
Chalmers preached great sermons in
his early ministry, but Thomas Chal
mers says he never preached at all un
til years after he had occupied a pulpit
he came out of his sick room, and weak
and emaciated he stood and told the
story of Christ to the people.
And in the great day of eternity it
will be found that not so much the elo
quent sermons brought men to Christ
as the story told, pirhaps, by those who
were unknown on earth, the simple
story of the Saviour's love and mercyj
sent by the power of the Holy Ghost
straight to the heart Come, Holy
Ghost Ay, he is here this morning.
He fills all the place. 1 tell you the
Holy Ghost is ready.
Then I go on and tell yon the church
is ready. There arc those here who
say: "No one cares for my soul." We
do not care for it You see a man bow
ing his head in prayer and you say:
"That man is indifferent" That man
bows his head in prayer that the truth
may go to every heart The air is full
of pni3'ers. They are going up this
morning from this assembly. Hun
dreds of prayers straight to the throne
of a listening God. The air is full of
prayers prayers ascending noon by
noon from Fulton street prayer meet
ing, Friday night by Friday night all
over this land, going up from praying
circles. Yea, there is not a minute of
an hour of any day that there arc
not supplications ascending"' to the
throne of mercy. The church is ready.
And if you should this morning start
for your Father's house, there would
be hundreds and thousands in the as
semblage who would say if thej- knew
it: "Make room for that man, make
room for him at the holy sacrament;
bring the silver bowl for his baptism;
give him full right to all tho privileges
of the church of Jesus Christ"
0, I know there arc those who say the
church is a mass of hypocrites, but they
do not really think so. It is a glorious
church. Christ purchased it Christ
built it Christ swung all its gates.
Christ curtiined it with upholstery,
crimson with crucifixion carnage
Come into it Come into it I do not
pick out this man or that man and sny:
"You may come." I siy all may come
whosoever will. "Come with us and
we will do you good. The Lord hath
promised good concerning Israel."
Wo are a parden walled around
Clioscn and made peculiar ground,
A little p!nt inclosed lijr tfr.ice
Out of the worlVs wild wlldcrncs.
Do not say you have never been in
vited. I invite you now to the King's
feast All! All! But I go further and
tell you that the angels arc ready.
Some people think when we speak
about angels we arc getting into the
region of fancy. They say it is very
well for a man when ho has just en
tered the ministry to preach about the
angels of Heaven, but after he has gone
on further it is hardly worth while.
My friends, there is not any more evi
dence in the Bible that there is a God
than that there are angels. Did they
not swarm around Jacob's ladder?
When Lazarus soul went up did they
not escort it? Did not David say: "The
chariots of God are twenty thousand,
even thousands of angels?" Are they
not represented as the chief harvesters
of the judgment day? Did not one an
gel in one night slay 180,030 of Senna
cherib's troops? O, yea, our world Is in
communication with ttro other worlds.
All that communication is by angels.
When a bad man is to die, a man who
has despised God and rejected the Gos
pel, the bad spirits come on sulphurous
wing and they shackle him, and try to
push him off the precipices into the
ruin, and -they lift a guffaw of
diabolical exultation. But there
is a liae of angels, bright
and beautifal and loving angers, mighty
'angels, reaching all the way ftoa earth
to heaven, and when others gather like
them I suppose the air is full of them.
They hover. They flit about They
push down iniquity from your heart
They are ready to rejoice. Look!
There is an angel from the throne of
God. One moment ago, it stood before
Christ and heard the doxologv of the re
deemed. It is here now. Bright im
mortal, what news from the Golden
Citv? Speak, spirit blest The answer
comes melting on ;the air: "Come,
come, for all things are now ready."
Angela ready to bear the tidings. Aa
gels ready to kindle the joy. AU ready.
"Ready, cherubim and seraphim. Ready,
thrones 'and principalities and powers.
Seady, Michael the archaageL
Yes, I go further and say that your
glorified kindred are ready. IV have
aot any sympathy with, modern. Spirit
lalism. rbelkveitisborniapedaioB.
.When rseeTtkr ravaa,itiialcM,with
hamaa mteTIectrwlMMs-Xaa,lkaamM
it baa devastated, waaBlAaaSse aad
Kxuki that very often follow ia its
-rake, I kara so faitk ia oder Spirit
ualism. I think if Joaa Milton nI
George Wbitefield have aot aajthlaf
better to do than to crawl aader
Rochester tables and ratt'e the leaves
they had better stay home fa flory.
Bat the Bible distinctly teaches that
the dorified in Heaven are in ija-
jpathy with our redemption. "There
is joy m Heaven among the angels
of God over one sinner that repent
cth," and if the angels hear it. do
not oar departed kindred there
hear it? There are those there who
toiled for your salvation, and when they
bade yon good-by in the last hour, aad
they said, "Meet me in Heaven," there
.was hovering over the pillow the awfal
possibility that you mtght not meet
But O, the pathos when that hand was
thrust out from the cover and they said
good-by. For how long good-by was it?
Now suppose you should pass into the
Kingdom of God this morning, suppose
you should say: "I am done with the
sins of this world. Fie upon all of
these follies. O Christ I take Thee
now, I take Tliy service, I respond to
Thy love, Thine am I forever" why, be
fore the tear of repentance had died on
your cheek, before your first prayer had
closed, the angel standing with the mes
sage for thy soul, would cry upward:
"He is coming!" And angels poising
midair would cry upward: "He is com
ing! " All along the line of light from
doorway to doorway, from wing-tip to
wing-tip, the news would go upward
till it reached the gate, and then it
would flash to the house of many man
sions, and find your kindred out and
those before the throne would say:
"Rejoice with me, ray prayers are an
swerd. Give me another harp with
which to strike the joy. Saved, saved,
saved!"
Now, my friends, if Christ is ready,
and the Holy Ghost is ready, and the
church Is ready, and the angels of God
are ready, and your glorified kindred
are ready, are you ready? I give with
all the emphasis of my soul the ques
tion: "Arc you ready?" If you do not
get into the King's feast it will be be
cause you do not accept the earnest in
vitation. Arm stretched out soaked
with blood from elbow to finger-tip,
lips quivering in mortal anguish, two
eyes beaming everlasting love while he
says: "Come, come, come, for all
things arc now ready."
At Kcnilworth castle, I told you, they
stopped the clocks when Queen Eliza
beth arrived, that the hand of time
might point to that moment as the one
most significant and tremendous; but if
this morning the King should enter the
castle of your soul, well might you
stop all the clocks and have the finger
of time pointing to this moment as the
most stupendous in all your life. Would
that I could come all through these
aisles and all through these galleries,
not addressing you perfunctorily, but
taking you by the hand, an a brother
takes a brother by the hand, and say
ing to one and all, to each, "Come,
come, the door Is open, enter now and
sit down at the feast"
Old man, God has been waiting for
thee long years. Would that some tear
of repentance might trickle down thy
wrinkled cheek. Has not Christ done
enough in feeding thee all these years
to win from thee one word of grati
tude? Come, all the young. Christ is
the fairest of tho fair. Wait not till
thy heart gets hard. Come, the furthest
away from Christ Drunkard, ChHst
can-put out the fire of that thirst. He
can restore thy broken home. He can
break that shackle. Come now, to-day,
and get his" pardon and its strength.
Libertine, Christ knew where yon were
last night He knows all the story of
thy sin. Come to Him this day.
He will wash away thy sin
and he will throw around
thee the robe of His
pardon. Harlot, thy feet foul with hell,
thy laughter the horror of tho street
0, Mary Magdalen! Christ waits for
thee. And the one further off, further
than I have mentioned, a case not so
hopeful as any I have mentioned, self
righteous man, feeling thyself all right
having no need of Christ, no need of
pardon, no need of help O, self
righteous man! dost thou think in
those rags thou canst enter the feast?
Thou canst not God's servant at the
gate would tear off thy robe and leave
thee naked atthc gate. O, self-righteous
man! the last to come. Come to the
feast Come, repent of thy sin. Come,
take Christ for thy portion.
Day of grace going away. Shadows
on the cliff reaching-further and further
over the plain. The banquet has al
ready begun. 'Christ has entered into
that banquet to which you are invited.
The guests are taking their places.
The servant of the King has his hand
on the door of the banqueting-room,
and he begins to swing it shut Now
is my time to enter. I must go in. You
must go in. He is swinging the door
shut Now, it is half shut Now, it is
three-fourths shut Now, it is just ajar.
After awhile it will be forever shut!
Whr will ye wnte on trifling cares
That lifo which God'a compassion spam?
While lu tho entiles ronnd of thought
Hie one thing needful Is forgot.
POOR PICTURES.
Slilplonds or Worthier ralntlnjrs Comlag
From It ml jr.
Nearly every steamer from Italy
brings its contingent; for although the
paintings are chiefly of the Dutch and
Flemish schools, which happen to be in
vogue it is from Italy that there comes
just now most of these coveted bnt in
trinsically valueless "masterpieces."
They are sometimes copies by pupils of
the masters whose names they bear;
sometimes they are originals by these
pupils; more generally they are merely
"of the school of the respective mas
ters; most frequently they arc unblush
ing modern forgeries. The best of
them are to be bought at" auction sales
for $200 to $300 a piece. It is for this
article to use the commercial phrase,
which Is so appropriate that our Amer
ican connoisseurs are paying their thou
sands and tens of thousands of dollars.
As a rule the pictures have no pedi
gree whatever, and the dealer resorts
to the old device of mystery to enhance
the value of his goods. The surprising
thing is that it usually succeeds.
Shrewd business men who wonld
at once suspect something wrong,
and very "naturally, too. If told
that they could buy a certain bale of
dry goods or an invoice of wine on de
sirable terms, but they must not ask
whose warehouse it came from, swal
low complacently the picture dealer's
assurance that this masterpiece or that
has come straight from a great noble
man's collection, but "the family part
with it only on condition that their
ownership in the matter remain an ab
solute secret" Of course, there might
be such a case; but it is so rare that it
amounts to no more than the exception
which popularly is supposed to make a
rule. In that ease the buyer eoald gen
erally solve the mystery for himself.
Smith's Catalogue Ralssoaae aad other
hooks known to collectors, with few
omissfrra record the particalars cob
eeraiBg every even respectable pictare
by certain masters. Some old accepted
attributions have Beaa caaagwd, it is
trae, of late years, to the eshanced
repatatkm of hitherto comparatively
obscure painters, bat, aroadlj speak
ing, the pictures themselves have
known. Art Amatear.
"111 have to ask fare for
ma'am.' said the aoadactor, aa he west
through the railway traia. Tkat lit
tle fellow?" "res'm." "Way. ha is k
am childhood, sir?" "Is her" laqakW
the conductor, thoaghtfallj. "First
sacoad, ma'am?"
STOCK ITEM.
Uniformity ia size, color aad wclffc
will add to the valae of a lot of hogs
when they are ready to market.
The most important requisite ia horse
shoeing b the adoptitm of a correct sys
tem, aot the ase of any spesial form of
shoes.
Of the serea to nine months required
to feed a hog for market, from five to
evea of them should be speat ia good
pastarcs.
Feed influences breed to a very larga
extent In producing matton a very
inferior muttoa sheep can be raked to
a considerably high standard by proper
feeding.
Horses may look alike when standing
tide by side, but nothing short of beiaaj
bred alike will iasure matching in ac
tion, matching In speed aad matching
in temper and spirit
No advantage follows the retention
of shoes on the feet of a horse for more
than four weeks, as the growth of tho
born in that time produces a dispropor
tionate hoof. If in this time a shoe is
not worn out it should be removed.
An Illinois farmer veryproperly ob
jects to the term "breaking" colts. That
which usually goes under this nam
should never mean anything more than
educating the animals to do certain
kinds of work that will increase their
value and usefulness. We do not want
to break down the colt's spirit but
merely to direct it And this can best
be done by making the frisky young
creature know that you are his friend.
"People do not talk to their horses
enough," said a gentleman to a ques
tioner. "Horses are highly intelligent
and while they cannot talk to you,
seem to understand almost everything
said to them. I have found by expe
rience that a few words, spoken kindly
to a horse when frightened, will very
often do much toward quieting him,
and upon a horse which is used to be
ing talked to it will have a very good
effect I firmly believe more can bo
accomplished by the use of the voice
than by the use of the whip and tug
ging at the reins."
The first year of the colt's life should
be fruitful of instruction. Tho colt
will learn more easily when six months
old than one year old. It can also be
controlled mora easily. Hence it is
wise to handle the colt early. Its early
training should not stop with breaking
to halter. It should be handled until
any part of its body can be rubbed; un
til it is accustomed to the bridle, and
until it will drive as well as lead. To
teach it all this and to keep it from for
getting what it has learned is n little
trouble, but if the colt Is of good stock
the trouble is well paid for.
FARM NOTES.
If well fed from the start ducks ought
to be ready for market at ten weeks
old, and at that age should average five
pounds.
As the weather gets warmer more
care Is necessary to pick up the eggs
regularly. A day or two under a hen
in hot weather will spoil eggs.
To a considerable extent the quality
of the hay depends upon the stage at
which it is cut and the manner of cur
ing and storing away, and a very few
days' delay will make a considerable
difference in the quality of the hay.
Grass can be cut, gathered up and
stocked in tbe field or mowed away in
the barn by horse power much more
economically than by hand. And the
work can be done so much faster that a
good crop can be laid by in much bet
ter season.
Mustard seed may be sown as early
in the spring as the ground can be
properly prepared. Like most other
products of the garden, there should be
several sowings for the sake of succes
sion, if the old-fashioned black and
white mustards are used.
Wise farmers plow under clover, rye
or buckwheat for improving the condi
tion or fertility of the soil, and the
roots of clover form no inconsiderable
portion of tho plant as fertilizer. Clover
is embraced in every rotation or system
of farm crops and Is worthy of the
place.
Nearly all kinds of fruit should be
picked a little green if it is to be sent
any distance. If allowed tp get fully
ripe the handling necessary in shipping
will damage it The fruit should be
firm, of good color, neat clean and in
an attractive condition, as well as of
good quality when placed on sale.
If clover is stored away too green, or
when wet it is very liable to heat and
spoil in the mow, and for this reason it
is important to cure thoroughly. At
the time the first crop of clover is cut
the weather Is often showery, and for
this reason a supply of hay caps can be
used to good advantage in keeping-the
clover dry while it is curing out
John Watson, a farmer living be
tween New Point and Maitland, re
cently made an experiment which will
doubtless be of interest to many, if not
all farmers. He took 100 ears of corn
three years old, selected two grains
from each ear, subjected them to a
sprouting process, and ont of 200 grains
1ST grew. Holt County (Ma) Sentinel.
Fruit should be sorted when picked.
This applies both to tree fruits and to
small fruits. It is poor economy to
make the best fruit sell the poorest
When there is a good supply of fruit on
the market that which is of a good
quality will scU readily at good prices,
while that which is of a poor grade is
often hard to sell at any price Thus a
failure to sort will often cause a con
siderable loss.
ota.
Under present conditions of farming,
if the best profit is to be realized, it is
important to reduce the cost as much as
possible with every crop; and with hay
a proper outfit of machinery to handle
the crop largely with horse-power
rather than by hand will aid materially
to lessen the cost
If the turkeys are given to rambling
much it will be best to mark them, so
that you can identify them.
In cleaning out tbe hay mow give the
trash to the poultry to pick over; there
is always more or less seed they will
eat
Give the calves the run of a good
pasture; it is hardly good economy to
keep them confined to a close, dry lot
It is cot a good plan to breed the
sows for fall pigs too early. September
is plenty early for them to farrow.
The sleeping' place of the hogsshomld
sot be allowed to get too dusty or
filthy as neither condition is healthy.
In keeping aa account with a grow
ing crop, the work with the mea and
teams must always be charged agaiast
it
Fowls that fatten readily shoald have
plenty of exerciae or they will gat (aa
fat
Sprinkling salt saciea to whites
the ground aroaad the grape vises k
recommeaded as a goad icasadj for mil
dew amoag grapes.
Sheep need a chaage of pastare occa
sionally ia order to thrive to tha Vast
advantage- Low, wet laad is ohjcctkm
able to them.
A good shade k essential to a keg's
aamfort daring the saamer. It k
accessary that it he dry aad cleaa, aa
well as eofivemicat
Aa advantage with the iaeahator k
that with good management a
mote evea lot of poaltxy cam he
taiaW for market by it
OBJECTIONABLE PEOPLE.
T
Wearr.
C "There are a good maay thing golag
oa right aader my eyes every day that
make me exceedingly tired." remarked
a somewhat cynical bat very observing
man of the world the other aftersooa.
Ia the first alaer. It wearies ate when
.1 abaerve the karae of vulgar, loedly-
drassed. foml-moathed fellows wao loi
ter aroaad the front portals of certain
so-called 'sporting saloons, aad poe as
gamblers. They swagger aad strut
aad coatianally prate about their will
Isgaam to bet a handred' aa any con
ceivable thiag oa earth, wherea the
majority of them haven't two dollars ia
the world. Now a real downright
aimoa-pare gambler elicits my admira
tion to a certain extcat; bat thrsc shoe
string, tla-horn bluffers faugh! these
are no more like a thoroughbred gam
bler than a city railroad horse U like
St J alien, the great sob of Volunteer.
t "Thca, too, I am fatigued beyond ex
pression at the herculean effort made
by hundreds of young men working for
small remaneratioa to appear as 'the
glass of fashion and the mold of form.'
These chaps double up and slcrp in
cramped, dingy, uncomfortable quar
ters, and eat in the cheapest hasheries
they can find, just so that they can wear
the very latest thing in hatv tics, coats
or trousers. Poor fools, thi-y fancy
that they can keep up the pace sot by
the sons of rich men, and even when
they go to the theater must needs sit In
a box and make themselves offensive
and ridiculous ia the eyes of sensible
people.
"1 am also made the victim of over
powering ennui when I see youth rang
ing in years from sixteen to twenty-one
walk into a saloon, saunter up to the
bar, nod familiarly to the attendant and
drawl out 'whisky and 'polly water,
please.' O, how manly they think they
are when they try to force the fiery
liquid dawn their throats, choking,
coughing and spluttering as it trickles
down their avsophagus. Why is it pray
tell me, that boys can't 1 made to real
ize how asinine not to say harmful such
exhibitions arc? Another class that al
most puts me to sleep whenever I am so
unfortunate as to be in close proximity
to any of its members, is that composed
of fellows who are laboring under the
delusion that they are 'funny. Merciful
heaven, deliver me from these 'funny'
men, for of all the intolerable,
sickening nuisances on top of cartlu
they are the most trying to one's
nerves. There are qqite a number of
this class in Detroit and wherever they
arc, be it street car, beer hall, place of
public amusement or private residence,
they are eternally perpetrating "smart
sayings, which, to mo at lenst and I
believe to many others, are nauseous in
the extreme. I sometimes wish al
though the spirit of our age is against
barbarous and inhuman forms of pun
ishmentthat ull of these 'funny' indi
viduals would lie locked up together
and compelled to try their 'wit' on each
other until dissolution came to their, re
lief. "That contemptible human excres
cence, the street masher, more than
tires me with his ogling, his smirking
and his general idiotic behavior; he
makes me wrathy and fills my soul
with an unconquerable desire to use
my feet much after the same fashion
that I used to in those dear old days of
my youth, days when the sun roc a
a little earlier anil set a little later than
it does now, when half of the time, at
least -was given up to kicking an im
provised foot ball that bore a striking
resemblance to an inflated bladder.
"Yes, and women who gad the street
and crowd the dry goods stores, and
gorge themselves on ice cream soda
water, and flirt with their male proto
types, when they should be at home
attending to duties that they neglect
shamefully, they weary me to the crgn
of indignation, and yet dear boy, 'twas
ever thus, and doubtless ever will le.
even to the end of time." Detroit Free
Press.
Dividing L'p a Oooif Thing--
A boy stood on the corner of Fourth
avenue and Forty-second street and
called out in his loudest voice, and at
the same time waving his arm frantic
ally above his head:
"0, Jim! O, Jim! ffurry as fast as
ever you can !"
"What's all this yelling about?" de
manded an officer who had just crossed
the street
"I'm hollering to Jim."
"Who's Jim?"
"The kid carrying that grip down the
street"
And he turned from the officer and
pitched his voice about one vest button
higher, and shouted:
"O, Jim, but there's a feller up here
rolling a barrel of sugar into a grocery,
and one of the heads Is loose, and he's
blind on that side and can't sou it and
'it's going to fall out and scatter morc'n
a ton of sagar on the sidewalk! Hurry
right up, and git all the boys you kin,
and find all tbe papers you kin, for it's
the gloriousest chance to hit a big thing
you ever heard tell of!" N. Y. Sun.
A Depraved Little Wretch.
An Austin widow was contemplating
the preparation of matr'mony for a
second time, when the rumor reached
the cars of her little boy, Johnny, who
burst into the room where the widow
was entertaining the young man who
had been mentioned in that connection,
and exclaimed:
"If pa was alive he would cure ycu
of wanting to get married again."
Texas Sittings.
Mrs. Malaprop sometimes hits the
Bail oa the head. It rained ia torrents
as she left the church Sunday morning
without an umbrella. "How irrigating
this is!" she ejaculated. N. Y. Herald.
THE GENERAL MARKETS.
KANSAS Cmr, Tay ML
CATTLE Shipping Steer ..SIS 5U
Butcberr tr . 1W M
.Vsltve towi .... 39 7J
IIOGS Goo-i to choice heavy 3 S3 9 4 3
WIIEAT-Xo.z.red S7j
So. 3 brd.. ...... K 99
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TjlUCT 2 IB
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CHEESE FoU cms . a M
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BACON Hams .. Kj II
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LAKD ......-....,.... 7 71
POTATOES. . . X 12
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HOGS Packing. ... 153 l
SHEEP rmtr to choice 5 39
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wheat-No z ra. let m las
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BUTTER Creamery ..... .. 29 35
POBK -. .. .. U UJH
CHICAGO.
CATTLE-Caivaiac . t 9i
HOG raetoaa4aipiac
SHEET Tair to efcolee... . 7J 3
TLOCB mnasrrvsast
wheat-No. 2 r . ia is
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WHEAT-No. 2. rr4- . . 1199 I
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Totmeew to Et4.
The reasoa that they havo better
smoking tobacco in KagUad thaa here
is that frar best tobacco i Kt there.
It aweeteaed aad re-wweeteacd aatil
it is as coal and wt a tobacco can
be made, aad it fctcbr twice, or over
twice, a mack a the saw staff hastily
treated aad flaag on the awtrket here.
This U the explanation tobaccoeUi
girc. bat it leaves the aet!oa open
whether Aawrkaas would not payas
much as aay people ia the woxld for a
tobacco that wa foand to be worth it
price N. Y. San.
To Tyraat 2fcKrih
W UM .t cold by 3lcdt:f. T!ie
trranU, btlkjuurs coatisUoa al djr
pepvta. are del ratal its a W certain tr
fend copIetear by Hotrtcr' SUaufc(;
IMterv That conBeror of dirin ah
peodlly overcount atalan. rkrainalUm.
kidney and bladder trouble, aatea aad
ncrvrunci.
TTncx a wojn wssU to drlre anrtislor.
out ot tl bUM bo -boo' lu A asa
usually bwrt it. Ycmker Slatesssa.
Samiavr Tortt.
Tike the Chicago. St. Ial t Kaa
City Rilry. ta twular route U all points
r l.. ... .I., .ml VnpthmHl mtA tl. It
Pupel Sound rrjrfoo. Connect wtlh trn jf
conlineotal inUn tor ail rmort dr to the
hart vt nlesMiure e'ker. F 1L lo,
Ocneral Pavxmscr and Ticket. Agent,
r&ocnix ilulldlns, Calcaffo, IU.
Tuc only this; IhzX a ater ever loe U
hi ietitA tho cost of a tse&l caxc it
a way. Tex a hlfUrgs.
TnrK U one rrmedvthat ba avfxl raanr
debilitated, ukvjd tojoutl niort-U tuahte
of liapw Uofu!tio and robust health. It
will kivo vou If you w til citc tt a trial It .
Dr. John IIullS fraiunlU. Anr mrdcte
dealer will ujjilv you. You dooaril in
justice if you Ull to umj it.
To ttik victor bclonr the spoilt," aiil
the gallorv god who tra hcavltg erjs at
ibe tragedian. Washington 1W.
Gts. A. Drsoiii. a well known relent of
Ht. Louis. ar : "1 havo nol kereral bot
tle of Prickly AQ lUiDrm for bibounca
and malarial trouble, o prevalent tu tftt
climate, and hearuly m-omorwl it to all
aftlicu-U in a like manner. It i tbe beat
remedy I ever ujL"
Tnc mMtpollie man we know of l on
who never icnatt himself to look orer hi
own shoulder. Boton Tmnvrript.
Hakmm purgative remedies are fat plrinj:
way to the ccutlc actum and mild ufltvt of
Carter' Utile Liver 1Mb. If ) ou try them,
they will certainly plca you.
Tme holder of s tlralcht flush RcnTallj
"carriea things with a high hand.'' boston
Courier.
No ar.Mr.nT ha vtvedvi many sickly ehlj
dnm ft. llve a Dr Hull Worm IVrtroyer,
They never fad and children like thorn too
Pcorur. borrow trouble becauws It la ay
to prt, and need not be paid back. N O
Picayune.
l.iir.5 who poM tho finest oonipW
ions are patroun of tiieituV Hulpbur Sojp.
Hill Hair and WhNkrr Djo, Ux
fc the matter of "taring out" the nndrr
Ukor lnt "in it" with tho tramp ltoton
Courier.
Foit any caso of nervoutw, !"cpl
nev weak MnmiK-h, imliiri'Mion. d,i'pla, ,
relief I uro lu Curler Lttllo Llrcr I'tlla.
VISITOR- to the Zoo houlil not attempt to
make light of tho tapir. Pittsburgh Chrun
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