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CHURCH MUSIC.
Dr. Talmagre Discourses on Chris
tian Melody.
God' Music Found 1b Everything A De
fense or Sacred Song The Tower of
rigorous Hymn A Picture or the
Grand Chora of He&vcn.
On the occasion of the dedication of
the "big1 organ in his tabernacle at
Brooklyn Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage
preached an appropriate sermon, taking1
his text from Genesis iv. 21: "His
brother's name was JnbaL He was the
father of all such as handle the harp
undorg-an." Dr. Talmage said:
Lamech had two boys, the one a
herdsman and the other a musician.
.Tubal, the younger son, was the first
orran builder. He started the sound
that rolled from the wonderous instru
ment which has had so much to do with
the worship of the ages. But what
improvements have been made under
the hands of organ builders of our day.
I do not wonder that when the first full
organ that we read of was given in 757
by an emperor of the cast to a king of
France, sounded forth its full grandeur
a woman fell into a delirium from
which her reason was never restored.
The majesty of a great organ skillfully
played is almost too much for human,
endurance, but hovr much the instru
ment has done in the reformation of
divine service it will talte all time and
eternity to celebrate.
There has been much discussion as to
where music was born. I think that
at the beginning, when the morning
btars sang together, and all the suns of
God shouted for joy, that the earth
heard the echo. The cloud on which
the angels stood to celebrate the crea
tion was the birthplace of song. In
animate nature is full of God's htringed
and wind instruments.
Silence itself perfect silence is only
h. musical rest in God's great anthem of
worship. "Wind among the leaves, in
hectb humming in the summer air, the
rush of billow upon beach, the ocean
far outsounding its everlasting psalm,
the bobolink on the edge of the forest,
the quail whistling up from the grass,
are music On sltluckwell's island I
hoard, corning from the window of the
lunatic asylum, a very sweet song. It
as sung by one who had lost her
reason, and I have come to believe that
the deranged and disordered elements
of nuture would make music to our car
if we only had acuteness enough to
listen.
The day of judgment, which will be
a day of uproar and tumult. I suppose
will bring no dissonance to the ears of
th ise who can calmly listen; although
it be as when some great performer is
executing a boisterous piece of music,
he sometimes breaks down the instru
ment on which he plays so it may lie
on that last day that the grand march
of God, played by the fingers of thun
der, and earthquake, and conflagration,
inuj- break down the world upon which
the music is executed. Not only is in
animate nature full of music, but God
hns wonderfully organized tho human
voice, so that in the plainest throat and
lungs there are fourteen direct muscles
which can make over sixteen thousand
different sounds, and there are thirty
indirect muscles which can make, it
has been estimated, more than 17:5,000,
600 sounds.
Now, I say, when God has so con
structed the human voice, and wnen
He has filled the whole earth with har
mony, and when He recognized in it
the ancient temple, I have a right to
come to the conclusion that God loved
music. 1 propose, this morning, in set
ting apart this organ for sacred use, to
bpeak about, sacred music; first show
ing you its importance, and then stat
ing some of the obstacles to its ad
vancement. 1 draw the first argument for the im
portance of sacred music from the fact
that God commanded it. Through I'aul
He tells us to admonish one another in
psalms, and hymns and spiritual songs;
and through David He cries, out: "Sing
ye to God. all ye kingdoms of the earth."
And there ure hundreds of other pas
sages 1 might name, proving that it it.
as much a man's duty to sing as it is his
duty to pray. Indeed, I think there are
more commands in the ltible to sing
than than there are to pray. God not
only asks for the human voice but for
instruments of music. He asks for the
cymbal, and the harp, and the trumpet,
us well as for the organ.
I draw another argument for tho im
portance of this exercise, from the im
pressivencss of the exercise. You know
.something of what secular music has
achieved. You know it has made its
impression on governments, upon laws,
upon literature, upon whole genera
tions. One inspiriting national air is
worth 30,000 men as a standing army.
There comes a time in the tiattle w hen
one bugle is worth a thousand muskets.
1 have to tell you that no nation or
church can afford to severely economize
in music. Many of yon are illustrations
of what sacred song can do. Through
it you were brought into the kingdom
if Jesus Christ
There was a Scotch soldier dying in
New Orleans, and a Scotch minister
came in to give him the consolations of
the gospel. The man turned over on
his pillow, and said: "Don't talk to me
aVuit religion." Then the Scotch min
ister liegnu to sing a familiar hymn of
Scotland that was composed by David
Dickinson, leginuing with the words:
O, niiitliiT. dear JiTUHalrm.
Whrn -nail I come to thro'
He sang it to the tune of "Dundee."
and every hotly in Scotland knows that
and as he lgan to sing the dying sol
dier turned over on his pillow and said
to the minister: "Where did you learn
that?" "Why," replied the minister,
"my mother taught me that" "So did
mine." said the dving Scotch soldier,
and the very foundation of his heart
was upturned and then and there he
yielded himself to Christ O. it has an
irre.sitible power. Luther's sermons
have been forgotten, but his "Judg
ment Hymn" sings on through the ages
and will keep on singing until the blast
of the archangel's trumpet shall bring
about that very day which the hymu
celebrates.
In addition to the inspiring rausi; of
our own day. we have a glorious in
hentance of church psalmody which
lias come dow n freighted w ith the de
votions of other generations tunes no
more worn out than they were when
our grandfathers climbed up on them
irora the church pew to glory. Dear
old souls how thev used to sing! When
they were cheerful our grandfathers
and grandmothers used to sing" "Col
cbnster." When they were very niedi
ve, then the board meeting house
, with "South Street" and "St Ed
.ond's." Were they struck through
with great tenderness, iiiey sang
"Woodstock." Were they wrapped in
visions of the glory of the church, they
sang "Zion." Were they overborne
w ith the love and glory of Christ, they
sang "Ariel." -And in those days there
were certain tunes married to certain
hymns and they have lived in peace a
great while, these two old people, and
we have no right to divorce them.
"What God hath joined together let no
man put asunder."
I have also noticed the power of sa
cred song to soothe perturbation. You
mav have come in here this morning
with a grat many worriments and
anxieties yet, perhaps in the singing
of the first hymn you lost all the worri
ments and anxieties. You hare read
in the Bible of Saul and how he was
sad and angry, and how the boy David
came in and played the evil spirit out
of him. A Spanish king was melan
choly. The windows were all closed.
He sat in the darkness. Nothing could
bring him forth until Faraneli came
and discoursed music for three or four
days to him. On the fourth day he
looked up, and wept, and rejoiced, and
the windows were thrown open, and
that which all the splendors of tho
court could not do, the power of song
accomplished. If you have anxietica
and worrying, try this heavenly charm
upon them.
Do not sit down on the bank of tho
hymn, but plunge in that the devil of
care may be brought out of you. It
also arouses to action. A singing
church is always a triumphant church!
If a congregation is silent during the
exercise, or partially silent, it is the si
lence of death. If, when the hymn is
given out, you hear the faint hum of
here and there a father and mother in
Israel, while the vast majority are si
lent, that minister of Christ who is
presiding needs to have a very strong
constitution if he does not get the
chills. He needs not only the grace of
God, but nerves like whalebone. It is
amazing how some people, who have
voice enough to discharge all their
duties in the world, when they come
into the house of God have no voice to
discharge this duty. I really believe
that if tho church of Christ could rise
up and sing that where we have a hun
dred souls brought into the kingdom of
Christ there would be a thousand.
But I must now speak of some of the
obstacles in the way of the advance
ment of this sacred music;, and the first
is that it has been impressed into the
service of superstition. I am far from
believing that music ought always to
be positively religious Refined art has
opened places where music has been
secularized, and lawfully so. The
drawing room, the musical club, the
orchestra, the concert by the gratifica
tion of pure taste, and the production
of harmless amusement and the im
provement of talent have become
great forces in the advancement of our
civilization. Music has as much right
to laugh in Surrey gardens as it has to
pray in St I'uul'.s. In the kingdom of
nature, we have the glad fifing of the
wind as well as the long meter psalm
of the thunder.
False religions have depended more
upon the hymning of their congrega
tions than upon the pulpit proclama
tion of their dogmas. Tartini, the
musical composer, dreamed one night
that Satan snatched from his hand an
instrument aud plaved upon it some
thing very sweet a dream that has
often been fulfilled in our day, the
voice and the instrument that ought to
have been devoted to Christ captured
from the church and applied to pur
poses of superstition.
Another obstacle has been an in
ordinate fear of criticism. The vast
majority of people, singing in church,
never want anybody else to hear them
sing. Everybody is waiting for every
body else to do his duty. If we all
sang, then the inaccuracies that are
evident when only a few sing would
not be Iteard at all; they would Ik
drowned out God only asks you to do
as well as you can, and then, if you
get the wrong pitch, or keep wrong
time. He will forgive any deficiency of
the ear and imperfection of the voice.
Angels will not laugh if you should
lose 3'our place in the musical scale or
come in at the close a bar behind.
There are three schools of singing, I
am told the German school, the Italian
school, and the French school of sing
ing. Now, 1 would like to add a fourth
school, and that is the school of Christ
The voice of a contrite, broken heart
although it may not be able to stand
human criticism, makes better music
to God's ear than the most artistic per
formance when the heart is wanting.
1 know it is easier to preach on this
than it is to practice; but I sing for two
reasons first lecause I like it and
next lecause I waut to encourage those
who do not know how. 1 have but
very little faculty in that direction, yet
I am resolved to sing. God has com
manded it and 1 dare not be silent He
calls on the leasts on the cattle, on the
dragons to praise Him, and wo ought
not to be behind the cattle and the
dragons.
Another obstacle that has leen in
the way of the advancement of this
holy art has been the fact that there
has been so much angry discussion on
the subject of music. There are those
who would have this exercise conduct
ed by musical instruments In the
same church there are those who do
not like musical instruments and so it
is organ anil no organ, and there is a
fight In another church it is a ques
tion whether the music shall lie con
ducted l3' a precentor or by a drilled
choir. Some want a drilled choir and
some want a precentor, and there is a
fight Then there are thoe who would
like in the church to have the organ
played in a dull, lifeless droning
way, while there are others who
would have it wreathed in fan
tastics branching out in jets
and spangles of sound, rolling
and tossing in marvelous convolutions
as when in pyrotechnic display after
you think a piece is exhausted it breaks
out in wheels rockets, blue lights and
serpentine demonstrations Some
w ould have the organ played in almost
inaudible sweetness and others would
have it full of staccato passages that
make the audience jump, with great
eyes and hair on end, as though by a
vision of the witch of Endor. And he
who tries to please all will fail in
everything. Nevertheless you are to
admit the fact that this contest which
is going on. not in hundreds but in
thousands of thechurchesof the United
States to-day is a mighty hindrance to
the advancement of this art In this
way scores and scores of churches are
entirely crippled as to all influence, and
the music is a damage rather than a
praise.
Another obstacle in the advancement
of this art has been the erroneous no
tion that this part of the service could
be conducted by delegation. Churches
have said: "O what an easy time we
shall have. This minister will do the
preaching, the choir will do the singing
and we will have nothing to da" And
vou know as well as I that there is a
great multitude of churches all through
this land where the people are not ex
pected to sing; the whole work is done
by delegations of four, or six, or ten
persons and the audience is silent In
such a church in Syracuse an old elder
rersisted in singing, tod so the choir
appointed a committee to go and ask
the "squire if he would not stop. Yon
know that in a great multitude of
churches the choir is expected to all
the singing, and the great mass of the
people are expected to be silent and if
you utter your voice you are interfere
ing. There they stand, the four, with
opera glass dangling at their side, sing
ing "Rock of Ages Cleft For Me," with
the same spirit that the night before,
on the stage, they took their part in
the 'Grand Duchess" or "Don Giovan
ni." My Christian friends have we a right
to delegate to others the discharge of
this duty which God demands of us?
Suppose that four wood thrushes
should propose to do all the singing
some bright day when the woods are
ringing with bird voices It is decided
that four wood thrushes shall do all the
singing of the forest Let all other
Toices keep tilent How beautifully
the four warble. It is really fine
music. But how long will yon keep
the forest still? Why. Christ would
come into the forest and look up as He
looked through the olives, bad He
would wave His hand and say: "Let
ererythlng that hath breath praise the
Lord;" and, keeping time with the
stroke of innumerable wings, there
would be five thousand bird voices leap
ing into harmony.
Four spirits now do all the tinging.
But how long would Heaven be quiet?
How long? "Hallelujahl" would cry
some glorified Methodist from under
the altar. "Praise the Lord," would
sing the martyrs from among the
thrones "Thanks be unto God, who
giveth ns the victory!" a great multi
tude of redeemed spirits would cry.
Myriads of voices coming into the har
mony and the one hundred and forty
and four thousand breaking forth into
one acclamation. Stop that load sing
ing! Stop! O no, they can not hear
me. You might as well try to drown
the thunder of the sky, or beat back
the roar of the sea, lor every soul in
Heaven has resolved to do its own sing
ing. Alas! that we should have tried
on earth that which they can not do in
Heaven, and, instead of joining all our
voices in the praise of the most high
God, delegating perhaps to uncon.se
crated men and women this most solemn
and most delightful service.
Now, in this church, we have resolved
upon the plan of conducting the musio
by organ and cornet We do it for two
reasons One is that by throwing tho
whole responsibility upon the mass of
the people, making the great multltudo
the choir, we might rouse more hearti
ness. The congregation coming on tho
Sabbath day feel that they cannot
delegate this part of the great service
to anyone else, and so they themselves
assume it We have had a glorious con
gregational singing here. I'eoplc have
come many miles to hear it. They are
not sure about the preaching, but they
can always depend upon the singing.
We have heard the sound coming up
like "the voice of many waters" but it
will be done at a better rate after
awhile, when we shall realize tho
height and the depth and the immen
sity of this privilege.
I forgot to state the other reason why
we adopted this plan. That is we do
not want any choir quarrels You know
very well that in scores of churches
there has lieau perpetual contention in
that direction. The only church fight
that ever occurred under my ministxy
was over a melodeou, in my first settle
ment Have you never been In church
on tho Sabbath day, and heard the
choir sing, and you said: "That is
splendid music." The next Sabbath
you were in that church, and there was
no choir at all. Why? The leader was
mad, or his assistants were mad, or
they were all mnd together. The ma
jority of the choirs throughout tho land
are not made up of Christian people,
and three-fourths of the church fights
originate in the organ loft I take that
back and say nine-tenths A great
many of our churches are dying of
choirs
We want to rouse all our families to
the duty of sacred song. We want each
family of our congregation to le a
singing school. Childish jctulance,
obduracy and intractability would be
soothed if we had more singing in the
household, aud then our little ones
would lie prepared for the great con
gregation on the Sabbath day, their
voices uniting with other voices in the
praises of the Ijord. After a shower
there are scores of streams that come
down the mountain side with voices
rippling and silvery, iouring into one
river and then rolling In united
strength to the sea. So, I would have
all the families in our church send
forth the voice of prayer and praise,
jKiuring it into the great tide of public
worship that rolls on and on to empty
into the great wide heart of God.
Never can we have our church sing as
it ought until our families sing as they
ought
There will be a great revolution on
this subject in all our churches. God
will come down by His spirit aud rouse
up the old hymns and tunes that have
not lveen more than half awake since
the time of our grandfathers. The si
lent pews in the church will break
forth into music, and when the con
ductor takes his place on the Sabbath
day there will lie a great host of voices
rushing into the harmony. My Chris
tian friends, if we have no taste for
this service on earth, what will we do
In Heaven, where they all sing, and
sing forever.
1 want to rouse you to a unanimity in
Christian song that has never yet been
exhibited. Come, now! clear your
throats and get ready for dnty, or you
will never hear the end of this I never
shall forget hcarlnc a Frenchman sing
the " Marseillaise " on the Champs
Elysees Paris just before the battle
of Sedan in 1870. I never saw such en
thusiasm before or since. As he sang
thdl national air, O! how thn French
shouted! Have you ever In an English
assemblage heard a band play, "God
Save the Queen?" If you have, yon
know something about the enthusiasm
of a national air. Now, I tell you that
these songs we sing Sabbath by Sabbath
are the national airs of Jesus Christ
and of the Kingdom of Heaven,
and if you do not learn to sing them
here, how do you ever expect to sing
the song of Moses and the Lamb? I
should not be surprised at all if some
of the best anthems of Heaven were
made up of the best songs of earth.
May God increase our reverence for
Christian psalmotly, and keep us from
disgracing it by our indifference and
frivolity. When Cromwell's army went
into battle, he stood at the head of
them one day, and gave out the long
meter doxology to the tune of the "Old
Hundredth," and that great host com
pany by company, regiment by regi
ment battalion by battalion, joined in
the doxology:
Irale God from whom all blrsslnc flow.
1 st Him. nil crostnre b-r- below,
lntt- Him above, ye heavenly hot.
rrale Knturr, Son and Holy Ghent.
And while they sang they marched,
and while they marched they fought
and while they fought they got the
victory. O, men and women of Jesus
Christ let us go into all our conflicts
singing the praises of God. and then, in
stead of falling back, as we often do,
from defeat to defeat we will be
marching on from victory to victory.
Glory to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Ghost as it was in the
beginning, is now and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.
While Mr. Irving was in Essex last
year he had an opportunity of perform
ing one of those unostentatious acts of
generosity with which his name is so
often coupled. To the village in which
he was staying came a band of strolling
players with a booth. Doing badly,
and bearing that the "head of the pro
fession" was in the neighborhood, they
sent a deputation to him to beg a loan
of five pounds, which they promised to
repay as soon as their luck changed.
Mr. Irving inquired into the circum
stances of the case, found that the sor
rowful tale of his petitioners was true,
and sent them ten pounds as a gift
By the Sad Sea Waves. Miss Passe
"I think a lighthouse is the most ro
mantic thing in the world. I should al
ways like to live by one." Manager
Hardluck "You would live by strategy
if you had been playing to one all win
ter as I have." Brooklyn Eaf le.
THE QUEEN OF SPORTS.
Pleasures of Bicycling on tho
Boulevards of Chicago.
Why Wlir-Uog I I-tln-d to Hc-ira-
th- National ''part for Mm and W'um-
ea A JlrMlth-;iTln; Kx-rrU- Amid
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Sjxtial Chicago Letter 1
Ever since the court of various states
have decided that the bicycle is a
vehicle, its popularity has jrrown among
the conservative portions of the Amen
sin population. A few years iuro wheel
ing was considered a fad practiced by
would-be athletic young men. Ti-day
itaid heads of families and dignified
women can te seen m every my auu ' on a wheel i the r-i-try : nitfa r-r-rillagc
mounted on wheels accompanied .jjfii. KhJiop loe". when be made,
by their sons and daughters similarly : . w ntoriou. remark alMit women
cquippetL
In the course of five years the bicycle,
which has already risen from a fad to a
convenience, will have lieemne a ncces-
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sity. Hveryw here mails are In-ginning
l lie improved, thanks to the efforts of
the wheeling fraternity, and soon it
w til le ;; great saving of tune to reach
places di-tant ten or fifteen miles from
one's home by means of a bicycle in
stead of the electric cars or the "dum
my" railway train.
Poor roads have cost the farmers of
the Tinted States millions of dollars.
A highway which is unfit for bicycle
travel is certainly unfit for heavier and
more clumsy vehicles. Whenever,
therefore, the wheelmen succeed in jwr
Mtadinj' county lioards to make roads
passable anil durable, they render a
serice to the farming communities
which, unfortunately, is not always ap
preciated by those most lienetlted. In
many counties of the west it costs the
farmers five cents to haul a bushel of
wheat eight miles, and then it can le
hauled 011I3 at the most favorable sea
son of the year. If they had grxnl
roads, suitable for use at any time of
the year, this cost of transportation
could easily h reduced to one cent jier
bushel, liesides affording the women
and children an opportunity to take an
occasional pleasure drive. Heonoiny in
mad building is nothing less than crimi
nal negligence, and the sooner farmers
learn to understand this, the In-tter for
their own welfare and the enjoyment of
city Kople who would sjK'iid much of
their time in the country if they could
reach it without risk to their vehicles.
The jKiptilarity of the bicycle is prol
ably due to the fact that anylnhly can
learn to ride it The balancing of the
wheel is the hard thing to master, but
after one has invested in a machine he
will lie enthusiastic enough to tame it
To the lieginner it will seem that his
bicycle is an animated thing dominated
by a desire to dump him whenever he
mounts it This stage of bicycling is un
questionably the most disagreeable and
calculated to cool the neophyte's vault
ing ambition. Instead of annihilating
distances he is of the earth most earthy
His first trip usually consists of limited
journeys from the ground to the wheel,
onsumitig nlxuit live minutes, anil
from the wheel to the ground, requiring
the fraction of a second.
Sometimes these little trips terminate
with a heavy fall and a clamorous de
mand for raw alcohol or some other
liniment
The second lesson usually finds the
rider able to balance his wheel. m the
third day he will learn to mount and
n the fourth he is ready to take his
first road ride.
In a large city the latter venture is
something very serious. Hundreds ol
vehicles drawn by horses have to ! en
ountered lieforc a quiet and suitablt
-pot for practice is reached. Youns?
riders bub men and women are. as a
rule, evtremelv nervous, and whenever
they see a team approaching or hear a
horse coming ltchind them they lose
their presence of mind and run into the
curb or take an ungraceful fall Some
tunes it happens that they run intc
horses and pedestrians; a proceeding
which, while not very graceful, is
watched with considerable interest by
set ires of young surgeons living in the
Nuilevards.
The second stage of uncertain riding
is called the wobbling period After a
lieginner has overcame his fenr of
horses but lieforc he has mastered his
nervousness lie is apt to allow his
wheel to go from one side of a street to
the other when meeting an obstruction,
lie seems to know that he should do
something, but lt-s not kno-.v how it
do it The result of hesitation is a fall
which, however, can le managed with
out sustaining an injury or even a
bruise, for one of the first things
learned h every incipient wheelman is
to fall as easily as possible and to save
hi- machine from breaking.
After the wobbling stage has ten
passed, riding Ksiimcs a real pleasure,
and no one is more ready or willing to
laugh at his clumsiness than the bicycle
graduate. He cannot see how it was
possible that he should have lee n so
awkward and nervous, and fails to
sympathize with his friends who have
not progressed as rapidly as he. In
stead of lxing ashamed of his adven
tures and mishaps he takes pride in re
counting his marvelous escapes from
sudden destruction and loves to entrr-
nEACTT OS THEHA
tain his auditors wnth thrjlliuir account
3f what mirht have leen if be had not
aad his wits about him
Whenever a wheelman meet with an
-ccident you may rest assured that. e
xtrdinj: to his version of tb affair, he
was entirely without blame, and that
aad some other rider been placed in ha
position a Srt-class funeral would have
been the result. This unfortunate hab-
Si r $&!&
H of "blowing" about arcld-nt U on
which, if not .suppn-AMd will !rr the
popular ctimai of cyrlers and rrlioe
them to the jrrade usually x-rded to
fishermen and ambitious NimrvU.
W omen riders are more Ritrrp! and ,
daring than their male companions, ,
They pavatteution only toUeirwbeK -
and labor under the impression that ,
horses will lj careful not to come in;
contact with them; or. a one hodman
nuts it "women on wheels will nvsh
in where nin-h fear to tread-" Never
theless ladies rarely meet with acci
dents or have hard falls w bich i prob
ably duo to the fact tliat ilnr of
horse- are more considerate of their
comfort and usually pv them the right
of way.
A voung woman gracefallv mountrd
on bicycles resembling w itches riding
on broomsticks must bae had it ter- (
rible attack of d.Tsju-psta r the bines
or else the city of itutfnlo mast l full
of clumsy girls. The CbM-ag w heel
woman is daring, pretty and graceful,
and so are her sisters in hnalrel of
western citie and village wbrro
cycling has leeome a popular jwtsttiMe !
Women, it has lieen remarked ever
since the writer can remeinlwr, mel ,
out-of-ir eserrise. ami there certainly
is no more wholesome sport than
wheeling l-rom the moment the fair .
rider mount lier wheel until sbr r
turns from her ride she enjoys a mod
erate amount of physical exertion
amidst heulth-givmg NurroutMlnwrs.
New scenes, not accs-siblo to th?
pedestrian or even the owner of a
horse and buggy, are presented to her
view from daj to dav. wink; the rival
ry to excel in distance riding, which is ;
sum to spring up among her com
panions, add, strength to every muscle
of her ldy autl expand her respiratory 1
organs. j
A few old-fashioned fellows who bar
failed to progress with the tunes may '
cast slurs uj-in girls addictiti to bicycle
riding, but the eommoii-ensc jspie ,
and they constitute the majority 111 this
enlightened country are glad to ,.
that American women every where aro
licginning to cultivates an excreis.? ;
which has proved of tremendous 1-encfit
to their sex in Ihigland. Prance and 1
Germany, where the sport has liven
wipular for many years.
There is no way in which visitors can
view a city more thoroughly than on
wheels. Chicago has a si stein of Nuile
vards, concreted and asphaltum streets,
which is unparalleled in the I in ted
States; and bicyclists from abroad
should not neglect to bring their ma- 1
chines when coining to pay us a visit J
They can reach every jnnt of interest
from the heart of the city, including 1
Jackson park, where the World
Columbian H.ositiou will le loeatetl. I
Washington park and the various .s.uth 1
side lioulcvards. On the West side of ,
the city thev can reach Douglas parte. ;
Garfield park and ilumliohlt park the '
three being connected by a jierfect 1
boulevard system. n the North swlo I
thev can view the waterworks, the fa- j
mous lake shore drive. Lincoln park ami
itS7oological garden, and Kvaiiston, th
prettiest suburb of Chicago A trip
around the city of ttty miles can uasily
.VtIVa
&
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. 17 'I M,
S!W
."I'mmiv KTtArrrn
lie made in a day. as the roadways to he
traversed are erfect. and it is not Mir
prisini: that bridal couples coming from
the smaller cities of the northwest
should si'iid their honeynniti tin
bicycles instead tif patronijrinir sbm and
postlv hacks. Many have- already done
so. anil the fact that th"ir nnmlier is con
stantly increasinc proves tlmt cycling
is becoming the national sport of litb
sexes
G W U iii-riKirr
lllretrieitj' In rililnc.
The fishermen of San Dicen. Cal .
have nti!i7cd electricity in their war
iijvin the tinny trills. Incandesci m
electric liirhts are loivcris-1 in?- tie
water at nilit. and a large in-t i- j i- I
bclou them The tlsh are attractt i
the flare and arc p!am!v visible 'en
biirliciently numerous the net are
hauled up The catches f enirrnuis
Mr . ICeilr.
Stern roliceman (to wandering min
strel 1 Ytni must accompany m my
gitl innn.
Wandering Minstrel - C ''a n:y
What wotihl you like to sing?- .lur
All l l'i---.
Spique- I wonder why .Inek Fr.,-ey
alwavs wears a s!.ch hat
S;nne - To match the rest of (i
tin's". I sujjis.! Puck
sure Itrllrf.
Hay -fever Victim- I v-ctor. can t von
tell tnc low 1 can finii relief from '
constant inclinatim t snivre"
rhysician Yes. sir. Snecae- Cu.cir
go Tribune.
A ljrtlenl.tr lit.
Customer This coat desn't fit 't"
t tiirht acrtss the bren.st.
Tailor You want to take alint f-ttx
dollars out of yoar inside jefcet anl it !
Iv all richu lnck
In the l.lsht "f IIUtrj.
"Itttirc Wauihinoa was a-Hm.nl of
hb ann-?.tirv.
"Woll. norr. hov do job knotv "
"Whj hv exit the farailj tree, vrra
know." A:nTKRij Clslitnan.
,n --omniltltis Htnjljr.
Mr I'sMe. iq I rn in iht mgid"
Kmplovor-1 bare n partiealar
ji-ctiotu n,Rrli,.. if ,w ifrr it to th
tin-n th- j.
"How aSact vtmr wreal rKircL Itoff
bjT ukel hi oW frioL "I sppor
it U in Uh tcntJt niiiion bj tais ta-
"No." said Itssrbr, sadlr: 'l ka-sat
CTJie intn it-j 6rt yet-"" Jolv
Mol-rti imrthip
Chollj Will vou marrr me, Kthcl?
EthW ' '.n-rftlj Ys.
Chollr All rirkt. HI r and ak
mainrzia if I zsaty marry yoa.-
Ufc
lu-nii -t iiot-ri nuu.
Isbe The dayv art growinr vhortcr
now, arent they?
He Yei. and so am L Mnnsey's
WeeklT
tk-vp Don
Teaehvr (in the
here ts WIe?
! th- IV-wl.
jreography elstsBr
ltri?ht !-y Is the soap. Ufe
"Are you ens-aped to Jac HallT"
Yc" Are yoa?' Lifc-
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t. L- ""n. -V
1 fj 9J. L3T r
&ztt,t r mvrjb''rj.s''n
I 1VI..-.I CVr-. I town.
Pc Broker Hrar boct IV Curbb"
IV Lodgrr-No. WVaf- hapr-Bri
to bias
"Knocked ftaf
"Yus don't y w" Wa h ca;M
-p la beat"
VelL ye, something like th-t- A
barrel of tioar fell oa hlo."- N. Y
Weekly
" "" 7Z- -. w.,
T"r ll "?
th Word?
TKrr It a S ItCS d?lT VITrruwor
a 3 iiwa pty urn
. . . . , . i .
ia Uu rsirnsf. tt wr-ic. whica b
irord aJ kr except e wwrd. T U
true of rtb c oae pr-rrlriff e. h "T.
from Tb Ir llrlrr Mrdic.tie (a TJu
hou $4" a "Oreret crrrjt'
they c and puUh. Uok for .: M-d
thrs Hi aase tiJ ti wsrd ad tey ma
return ye Ux. hcaaural bthorra m
tastplc ttvc
Snr Sfjkc Witiot Tfciafctnar -"l j
kcw lh Hocydew-rr Dviij-jo r
lie inx rtrl I have ever kl.wJ "Ots
tail Jut at Ux-f ii y !" Lil-
Th Cosrt of Empire. J
Tix pt iutnrza. U t-eniwrd Eoirranu
in lbt d.rrrUoa h. ! b- prtMl wita I
lloiftLrr su awt Jt.;tcr . etdsl
to ma-arj. tt bate u new y rlud ear
ar Mr-OTer. t& jir.e I.-rU'tin,:
:u-pt irJic ta perK-oi ctvt . I j
diwpaad eifre. airnti. ad Uisli.y t
tiirae and cxi-i. tr&l "IaTrfr s. tvr
li. aimer. nvic ad tnarf to 11
wiia advutt-i--
lr voe Ute t aiat yt wtfl cone b ,
roftclo'le tkftl u rrat t&nr rV j
t;lcb- arr pUttrd &ivar
Vwyan Horki
art-MarUia'a
I'rocr-.
It I very taiporum. in th e of vv
materia! jrocrv tfcat ready t ple
lac to the ute aaJ t t . ei: l&iwi.
sreeitable U the io B nl heiltl m It
nature at! effrvt l'oei.- trw n-i
Itir s r jj U Kir 1 U r jHr!rt ki
tire aad iaut pealie iliurolw a.
.Soki of tlte ,tnni-r'C" exMMW t
ta- wimloWM-J the "in :Ttlfck lalKir" r
t-v let! that j-u ran a tn.-l le-r Ibd sani.
hmrJ-., i.try A. l- UsUij
Il-is'T ue taerrtiry and kllb" at ih
for bl-rf-l liea.- "if rMir b-l b4 !r
J 1 fa Hud's I--rariAa will nukoUy r
More It V a Iw-aitbful coudiUon It 1 Ue"
lest lei'xutilv btotnl por-.fter 1b thj wwrid,
and It never lear? uu tn ll afw eSwts
It jWMiti'. l.i take im1 cikilaraUfcK. )
a diwutiBuatM-e uf It use will m1 ouc a
cr tug fur wore
Tm eiritim-tanre aiM wclrkt U the
tej I ua about U lae." riHnarrl th" rom
ct u he cance! il.'Ht t.1 hl ck)a acd
ball Ilaltlmorr AHe'XM-an
Intiuim. ael j-eopie. anrm tMo't.fv
oerwirpd. wearied out father- w. ri.-:
the blM'e-t reult In m a uU-iu ue t-?
Ilr Hhernmu J'n. k.. AUMMers Wlen
the liver er kiJaey are arreted, pr.ajt
hrtlt.11 Is i.eceari' t chaur t tide t.
ward Ii-aVii. ere the disease -shhc t hrnu
Jc ;Kib' la-uralne ami there l t-V r.c
betier t e lound In the whole raaRct'
wa'crtu DMslica Hhl every here
Is order to fleht the file- insiftt!1T iLc
mw Utw t make u f-s! many tlauk un v
Hietit- HuJ?an' Kire
Win ilmi't )iu trj Curler IJUJe Uer
I'lds Tho wre - jIUve cure for m k
hmtduchc 14 ml ail the i.. jrluel h tlN
onliTtsl lier Umj one jill a ioe
The iHstaiitauts-n. cuaira I t l!tti
lluk Lx'lwt-cn the IkOMm.- tl aud the 1 be,
ult Wui.!tti-Viu Utr
m -
I'l KE our tvmch with Hale" Hmiey r'
(reitund and Tar
I'ike s Timtiiitclej llrois Cure in n.intr
"Tur h'eIlUr Imi hreuUi4 hi lut
vtMHikl not he p(MHtsl to a mau of ht
tiunieHal luwi' Kir - Wa.hlMtrUiH Str
V-tis nwur, ernwinsr thinner rtrn
day Pitir ehihl. imn't Mama ret y- u
box of Dr Hull Worm Ititrmir
A 4Trn wheel 1 uuully w-let on Us
travels, it f refers to t nma Is ei-c Hal
tiniere Ameriraa
FnK twent five reit yu 'hii j:et Carter
I.lttie I.iver l'iii the Ik'ii hver utrt-in''1' :.
IhevMjrld I mii tforiji tthin One jUi. a d-)-
Till tsit.lc atri'Dt. e tfe .- fln '
that n nil ha- a wtr .irt ui cITrx t c hi
c.xu Yi'nKrrs .S'a'!'wr.
THE GENERALMARKETS.
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wort, tco th-Tre miJd and zrnUr,
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hur. for thefre jrwnt4i give
eatifactio&, or rocr zsoeT is re-
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with stota. h t:titlc. and n s t .
t x tj. tlaMr ttIKcr Uratmca! 1
phvsctn He final! v siJrr tr ..
everything. aul sttsta.h va.s ak;T
worn out. atnl that I wtitiki have u
rca.se cait slnl frxxl for a time at
least I was uj weak that I cm! I
tiot wink Finally oa the rrwn
cicudatKKi of a frictKl who had avx!
your jse:ara:Kas
1
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Stomach.
with lcieUsM! re
slt.s, ! pt.cirel a
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ITmvcj. ajl om
niejuttl ttsiaj; it It secmsi t!.j
aic 1 at oace I gatnol in
strength aatl tloh raptilr . v aj
jetite l-evamc $fl, al I sflc:r i
:x Iwil cects from w hat 1 ate I
feel now like a new :naa and n
snlcr that August FKwrr has en
tirelv ct:rel inc ot I ivsrrjeata in '
wtirst torat Jmks K DkiiKki k,
Saugcrtics. New Votk
V H I'tsev. St (,etge s .S C .
writes ! have tisc-I vnu' Au'tst
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DON'T
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