Pittston Gazette

              } \\ «° f Oldest NewsDaoer in the Wyoming Valley PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, APRIL S. 18112. A Weekly Local and Family journal. HIGH PRICED SLABS. squirt of water strikes me 111 tne race, and looking up to see whence it .coines the pleasure of travel either tor themselves or others. Every time I would get sleepy and droop forward I would bury my face in this gooselDerry bush. It annoyed me very much, hnt she kept on carrying it, and even reproved me for knocking a young thorn loose with my eye. TAllEKNACLE PULPIT. I have preached here twenty-three years, and 1 expect, if my life and health are continued, to preach here twenty-three years longer, although we will all do Well to remember that our breath is in our uiDstrils, and any hour we may be called to give an account, of our stewardship. All we ask for the future is that you do your best., contributing all you can to the support of our institutions. Our best days are yet to come; our greatest revivals of religion, and our mightiest outpourings of the Holy Ghost. We have got through the Red sea and stand today on the other bank clapping the cymbals of victory. enough we had one very precious broken that day. We were, as a church, obliterated. "But arise and build," said many voices. Another architect took the amphitheatrical plan of a church, which in the first instance was necessarily somewhat rude, and developed it into an elaborate plan that was immediately adopted. But how to raise the money for such an expensive undertaking was the questionexpensive not lDecause of any senseless adornment proposed, but expensive because of the immense size of the building needed to hold our congregation. It was at that time when for years our entire country was suffering, not from a financial panic, but from that long continued financial depression which all business men remember, as the cloud hung heavy year after year and commercial establishments without number went down. Through what struggles we passed the eternal God and some brave souls today remember. .Many a time would I have gladly accepted calls to some other field, but I could not leave the flock in the wilderness. aoors, wmcn l entered lor preacnmg toe Gospel. WAS IT HYDROPHOBIA. TWENTY- THIRD ANNIVERSARY SERMON PREACHED BY DR. TALMAGE. After awhile came an ecclesiastical trial, in which I was arraigned by people who did not like the way 1 dill things, and al-. though I was acquitted of all the charges, the contest shook the American church. That battle made me more friends than anything that ever happened and gave me Christendom and more than Christemdom for my weekly audience. On the demolition of each church we got a better and a larger church, and not a disaster, not a caricature, not a persecution, not an assault, during all these twenty-three years, but turned out for our advantage, and ought I not to believe that "all things work together for good *" Hosunnah: Remarkable Experience of a Woman BILL NYE BUYS A TREE SECTION Allow me to relate to you an experience unique, as far as I know, in the annals of railway adventures. While Traveling in i» Railroad Car. FOR DOMESTIC PURPOSES Subject of the Discourse, "The Three I, in my husband's unavoidable absence, crossed alone in the middle of dreadful weather from Dublin to Holyhead, and having had a rough passage I sought and found the solitude of an empty second class cji riago. After the usual delay we started, and as the train moved a gentleman, for he had every appearaape of one, jumped in. I looked suspiciously at him. wondering why he should have delayed getting on till the last moment and remembering that, for better or worse, I was compelled to enjoy or endure his society for a# considerable time; as the train was an express and stopped but seldom. He was a man of perhaps thirty-five years-of age, and from the few surreptitious glances I was able togjve while he was arranging himself and his rug I decided he w»s mild and harmleaa looking. The Woman Who Sat D"ext to Him In Tabernacles, a Story of Trials ami Trl- Get* Fired lTp TonurCl the Last and the Train—Life Among the Sacs—He ttmphfl"- — Review of the History of the Han a Kude Shock She wu on the way home to plant a new,kind of seed potato and her third husband. He was in the express car. where it was sort of quiet. I envied him. One of the neighliors said that lie was killed by being run over by a train because ho could not hear it coming. Poor man! He 1 -t his hearing most Doctor'* Church. [Copyright. 1893, by Edgar W. Nye.] Brooklyn, April 3.—This is a festival day at the Tabernacle. Dr. Talmage is celebrating the twenty-third anniversary of his settlement in Brooklyn. In white flowers embedded in green at the I wick of the pulpit stood the inscription, "1869 and 1802." l)r. Talmage's subject was, "The Three Tabernacles, a Story of Trials and Triumphs," and his text, Luke ix, 33, "ljet us make three tabernacles." There is a peculiar industry at Sioux Falls, S. D. It is the only one of the kind I know of. It consists in cutting and polishing the beautiful chalcedoir as it is called, from the petrified fore of Arizona. The material is ser Sioux Falls in the form of star broken tree trunks, and there tli are cut across the grain and poli; ornamental purjDoses. for Infants and Children. Do you wonder that last Sabbath I asked you in the midst of the service to rise and sing with jubilant voice the long meter Doxology: "CMtoria is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me.1' H. A. Archer, M. D., Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. T. Caatorla cures Colic, Constipation. Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea. Eructation, Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promote# CU gestion. Without injurious medication. NOT NECESSARY TO PICK FLAWS. ! mercifully j She is a ] married Praise (Jot! from whom all blessinus flow. Praise biiii, all creatures here below. Praise him aliove, ye heavenly host. Praise Father. Son and Holy Ghost. Another lesson I have learned during these twenty-three years is that it is not necessary to preach error or pick flaws in the old Bible in order to get an audience; the old Book without any fixing up is good enough for me, and higher criticism, as it is called, means lower religion. Higher criticism is another form of infidelity, and its disciples will lDelieve less and less, until many of them will land in Nowhere and become the worshipers of an eternal "What is it." The most of these higher critics seem to be seeking notoriety by pitching into the Bible. It is such a brave thing to strike your grandmother. The old Gospel put in modern phrase, and with-out any ggf the conventionalities, and adapted to all the wants and woes of humanity, I have found the mightiest magnet. and we have never lacked an audience. w or I woll but firm, with slabs ibed for ination and set teeth. She jo, and expects -t' nt Dw in a few "The use of 'Castoria'is go universal and Its merits so well known that it seems a work of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the intelligent families who do not keep Castoria within easy reach." . Carlos Marttn, D. D., New York City. Late Pastor Bloomingdale Reformed Church. u For several years I have recommended Sour ' Castoria,' and shall always continue to o so as it has invariably produced beneficial results." them to com veral weeli Our Arab ponies were almost dead with fatigue, as, in Decemlier, 1880, we role near the foot of Mount Hermon in the Holy Land, the mountain called by one "a mountain of ice," by another "a glittering breastplate of ice," by another "the Mont Blanc of Palestine." Its top has an almost unearthly brilliance. But what must it have been in the time to which my text refers? Peter and James and John were on that mountain top with Jesus when, suddenly, Christ's face tool on the glow of the noonday sun, and Moses and tlijah, who had lieen dead for centuries, came out from the heavenly world and talked with our Saviour. What an overwhelming three—Moses, representing the la*; Elijah, representing the prophets, and Christ, representing all worlds. Yes, twenty-three years have passed since I came to live in Brooklyn, and they have been to me eventful years. It was a prostrated church to which I.#ame, a church so flat down it could drop no fart her. Through controversies which it would be useless to rehearse it was well nigh extinct, and fora long while it had been without a pastor. But nineteen members could be mustered to sign a call for my coming. Nothing can be more beautiful than si slice cut from the butt of a big tree and polished till its surface is like plate days. She says that (his is the Arc de Triumph gooseberry which she has. It is superior to the Polled Angus gooseberry, running more to jam and less to worm than the Angus or the Isabella. She wears a white flannel yachting cap with catskin earmuffs to it, and a seal plush cloak that is prematurely bald on the shoulders. I judge also by the front of the cloak that she got her wraps on before she ate her breakfast, and then only hurriedly ate a soft fried egg and some buckwheat cakes with real Vermont maple sirup on them. the i Edwin F. Pardm. M. D., "The Wlnthrop," 126th Street and 7th Ave, New York City. At last, after, in the interregnum, having worshiped in our beautiful Academy of Music, on the morning of Feb. 32, 1874, the anniversary of the Washington who conquered impossibilities and on the Sabbath that always celebrates the resurrection, Dr. Byron Sunderland, chaplain of the Luited States senate, thrilled us through and through with a dedicatory sermon from Haggai ii, 9, "The glory of this house shall lDe greater than that of the former, saith the Lord of Hosts." The corner stone of that building had been laid by the illustrious and now enthroned Dr. Irenaus Prime. On the platform on dedication day sat, among others, Dr. Dowling of the Baptist church, "ITrDCJrook of the Methodist church, Mr. Beecher of the Congregational church and Dr. French of the Presbyterian church. Hosannah! Another £D"D,000 was raised on that day. Not many minuter had, however, passed* when a dog's bark in the carriage alarmod me nota little; but, sir, you can well imagine that I felt frozen to my seat with an indescribable terror, while my hair seemed to rise from the roots and stand on end, when I became aware that it was the man iu the corner who was brfrking like a large rtngrv dog! No v ';an v, nvey to you the horror I felt the horrible thought passed through my mind—"Hydrophobia; he will tear me to pieces in a minute!" Th* Cshtaub Compaky, 77 Murbat Strut, New Vo*t As a committee was putting that call before me in an upper room in my house iu Philadelphia, there were twoother committees on similar errands from other churches in other rooms, whom my wifo was entertaining and keeping apart from unhappy collision. The auditorium of the Brooklyn church to which I came defied all the laws of acoustics; the church had a steeple that was the derision of the town, and a high box pulpit which shut in the preacher as though lie were dangerous to be let loose, or it acted as a barricade that was unnecessary to keep back the people, for they were so few that a minister of ordinary muscle corfld have kept back all who were there. jjS From Paiis, BgiUq, View, Next to the blessing of my own family 1 account the blessing that I have always had a great multitude of people to preach to. That old Gospel I have preached to you these twenty-three years of my Brooklyn pastorate, and that old Gospel I will preach till I die, and charge my son, who is on the way to the ministry, to preach it after me, for I remember Paul's thunderbolt. "If any man preach any other Gospel, let him be accursed." And now, as I stand here on my twenty-third anniversary, I see two audiences. The one is made up of all those who have worshiped with us iu the past, but have been translated to higher realms. But, paralyzed ns I was, I yet remembered that I could step the train, an«t afraid even to move n y eyelids, tried to remember on which sidb the communication cord was. On mine, I thankfully perceived. But if I did stop the train, how could I account to the guard" for my action? What proof should I have to offer that the gentleman in the corner had been barking? Good heavens! he was barking again, more angrily and furiously than before, growling and snapping. Terror stricken, a horrible fascination nevertheless compelled me to look him in the face, and ohl blessed reaction of feeling, I saw he was asleep; ye«. sir, sound asleep, and barking as he slept. When she reads this in her quiet little homo near Fort Dodge she will be sorry that she wore out all the foliage of her gooseberry bush on a great coarse man who is not fond of shrubberv. Impetuous Peter was so wrought upon by the presence of this wondrous three, that, without waiting for time to consider how preposterous was the proposition, he cried out, "Let us make three tabernacles —one for thee, one for Moses and one for Elijah." Where would they get the material for building one tabernacle, much less material enough to build two tabernacles, and still less, how would they get the material for building three? Where would they get the hammers? Where the gold? Where the silver? Where the curtains? Where the costly adornments? Hermon is a barren peak, anil to build one tabernacle in such a place would have been an undertaking beyond human achievement, and Peter was propounding the impossible when he cried out in enthusiasm, "Let us build three tabernacles." Hew M, PiMHia and Boston. Tama. la., is not a large place, but the center of a rich fanning country and the social center of a large colony of Indians, numbering :D.V), I lielieve. These red men demonstrate the fact that the Indian may be made sC If supporting, for these Indians own their lands, on which they raise mushrats. The government gives each Indian about $12.18 annually as a reward for being neither absent nor tardy on pay day. With this the Indian is enabled to buy lemon extract, by means of which lie is enabled to get The following Sunday 328 souls were received iuto our communion, mostly on confession of faith. At two other communions over 500 souls joined at each one. At another ingathering 638 souls entered this communion, and so many of those gathered throngs have already entered heaven that we expect to feel at home when we get there. My! my! Won't we be glad to see them—the men and women who stood by us in days that were dark and days that were jubilant! Hosannah! The work done in that church on Schermerhorn street can never be undone. THEY ARB ALL HERE! THEY ARE BEYOND A QUESTION OF DOUBT THEo FINEST LINE OF DRESS FABRICS EVER SHOWN. \ tf'f. I JlCI !; My first Sabbath in Brooklyn was a sad day, for I did not realize how far the church was down until then, and on the evening of that day my own brother, through whose pocket I entered the ministry, died, and the tidings of his decease reached me at 0 o'clock in the evening, and I was to preach at half past 7. But from that day the blessing of God was on us, and in three months wc began the enlargement of the building. Before the close of that year we resolved to construct the first Tabernacle. It was to be a temporary structure, and therefore we called it a Tabernacle instead of a Temple. What should lDe. the style of architecture was the immediate question. I had always thought that the amphitheatrical shape would be appropriate for a church. What groups of children—too fair and top sweet and too lovely for earth, and the Lofd took them, but they seem present today. The croup has gone out of the swollen throat, and the pallor from the cheek, and they have on them the health and radiance of heaven. Hail groups of glorified children! How glad I am to have you come back to us today! And here sit those aged ones, who departed this life leaving an awful vacancy in home and church. Where are your staffs, and where are your gray locks, and where your stooping shoulders, ye blessed old folks? "Oh!" they say, "we are all young again, and AMONG THE SACS. Stealthily I watched him for nearly an. hour—was he indeed only dreaming, or would he wake to fall in doglike fury on his fellow traveler? I, however, became convinced that he was sleeping like a child —or rather, like a dog—he snored loudly and groaned from time to time; and at last (terribly anxious moment for me) woke with an audible shudder, and, looking decidedly dazed, turned toward me (as if to see if I had observed the shudder) and remarked quite sanely, "What bitter weather for traveling!" And he slept nor barked no more till I left the train. O O O O O O O O OOOOOOOoOOOOOOOOO o o oo o o o o glass, while every fiber of the beautiful and softly tinted wood seems frozen into a lasting picture by the patient hand of time. From the guaranteed sombre fast black to the mcst delicate shade—in any light or dark color, we have it. From the cheapest, but nevertheless pretty 5 cent Ghallie to the finest quality of Henrietta, Bedford Cord Cheveron or Landsdown, we have them. If you talk about your everyday style of dress goods, such as the indispensable muslin, gingham, calico, every style and grade is upon our shelves. While no shrewd merchant asks an exorbitant profit on this class of goods, we are prepared to offer them by the piece or yard at what other deale 1/ e to pay for them. Trimmings and fancy goods, the variety is complete. We can match any shade and think can suit you in any style, and as to price, we know we are right—as right as any house in the county. You can get one of these slabs for from $10 to $40(). I bought one of the latter to hold the door open in my new and costly villa at Buck Shoals, N. C. Some of theso slabs are two feet across, and none of them seems to represent any kind of tree existing at the present time. They afford, therefore, a wonderful field for the active mind to stroll about in. Perhaps over this beautiful slab, while yet it was in the heart of a sapling, some belated pterodactyl sprawled on his way to his damp home. Possibly the icthyosaurus crawled out of a hole in this tree on groundhog day. drnnk, And yet that is what this congregation has been called to do and has done. The first Brooklyn Tabernacle was dedicated in 18T0, and destroyed by fire in 1872. The second Brooklyn Tabernacle was dedicated ill 1874, and destroyed by fire in 1680. The t hird Brooklyn Tabernacle was dedicated in April, 1891, and in that we are worshiping today. What sounded absurd for Peter to propose, when he said on Mount Hermon, in the words of my text, "Let us build three tabernacles," we have not only done, but in the mysterious province of God were compelled to do. What self sacrifices on the part of many, who gave almost till the blood came! What hallelujahs! What victories! What wedding marches played with full organ! What baptisms! What sacraments! What obsequies! One of them on a snowy Sabbath afternoon, when all Brooklyn seemed to sympathize, and my eldest son, bearing my own name, lay beneath the pulpit in the last sleep, and Florence Rice Knox sang, and a score of ministers on and around the platform tried to interpret how it was best that one who had just come to manhood, and with brightest worldly prospects, should lie taken and we left with a heart that will not cease to ache until we meet where tears never falL These Indians are Sacs and Foxes mostly. What work is done is done by the wife. She has a low, groveling streak in her nature, and so she works. The husband has nobility of character and other things also which he is willing to impart to those near and dear to him. Two distinguished architects were employed, and after much hovering over designs they announced to us that such a building was impossible for religious purposes, as it would not lie churchly. and would subject themselves and us to ruinous criticism; in other words, they were not ready for a revolution in church architecture. Utterly disheartened as to my favorite style of architecture, I said to the trustees. "Build anything you please, and I must be satisfied," But one morning a young architect appeared at my bouse and asked if we had yet selected a plan for our church. I said, "No, and what we want we cannot get." "What style of building do you want ?" he asked. And taking out a lead pencil and a letter envelope from my pocket, in less than a minute by a few curved lines I indicated in the rough what we wanted. "But," I said, "old architects tell us it can't lie done, and there is no use in your trying." He said: "I can do it. How long can 1 have to make out the plnns?" I said, "This evening at 8 o'clock everything is to be decided." While I was at Tama the Indians were just cleaning house. House cleaning among the Sacs and Foxes is attended to very much as it is done among the other Indian tribes. It is done by moving the house. the bath in the river from under the Throne has made ns n;»Ue and bounding. In the place from which we come they use no staffs, but scepters!" Hail, fathers and mothers in Israel; how glad we are to have you come back to greet us. But the other audience I see in imagination is made up of all those to whom we have had opportunity as a church, directly or indirectly, of presenting the Gospel. - Yea, all my parishes seem to come back today. The people of my first charge jn Bell»-\ iile, N'ew Jersey. The people of my second charge in Syracuse, New York: The people of my third charge iu Philadelphia. Aud the people of all these three Brooklyn Tabernacles. Look at them, and all those whom, through the printing, press, we have invited to God and heaven, now seeming to sit in galleries above galleries, fifty galleries, a hundred galleries, a thousand galleries high. Now, have you -ever heard of a like experience (for no fancy tale is this, but literally true from beginning to end), or that human beings ever dream they are animals? And yet, if not, what was it? Strangely enough, we had not received this letter two hours when we heard of another case. The sufferer, this time a laborer, barked so loudly and so exactly like a dog that his comrades, believing him to be in some way uncanny, struck. His employer threatened to send for a doctor and have his throat cut open for examination, and the unlucky wretch, frightened to death, ceased to bark for a few days. His disease was, in fact, a rare nervous affection.—London Spectator. We have been unjustly criticised by people who did not know the facts, sometimes for putting so much money in chftrch buildings, and sometimes for not giving as much as we ought to this or that denominational project, and po explanation has yet been made. Before I get through with the delivery of this sermon and its publication and distribution, I shall show that no church on earth has ever done more magnificently and that no church ever conquered more trials and that no memliership ever had in it more heroes and heroines than this Brooklyn Tabernacle, and I mean to have it known that any individual or religious newspaper or secular newspaper that hereafter casts any reflection on this church's fidelity and generosity is guilty of a wickedness for which God will hold him or it responsible. UNJUST CRITICISM. The Sacs ami Foxes need a thorough renovating and a Keeley institute. They were the first to ascertain that lemon extract and cologne taken in sufficient quantities would intoxicate, and it is said that oue of these Indians will drain the life blood from an alcohol stovo at one sitting. THE SECOND TABERNACLE. Who can tell what has happened in the early history of this petrified forest? Nobody can. Away back yonder in the misty past, long befcjre the climate got so that the hired girl could bear her hand in it, while yet the Hot mnd boiled with the mighty heat of a new laid world and the air was filled with disagreeable odors, and the evening and the morning indicated that workmen on the foundation of the earth liad blown out the gas at night, and the angels went about over the face of the earth flying high and holding their noses,.this tree was sprouting. That second tabernacle! What a stupendous reminiscence! But, if the Peter of my text had known what an undertaking it is to build two tabernacles he would not have proposed two, to say nothing of three. As an anniversary sermon must needs be somewhat autobiographical, let me say I have not been idle. During the standing of those two tabernacles fifty-two books, under as many titles, made up from my writings, were published. During that time also I was permitted to discuss all the great questions of the day in all the great cities of this continent, and in many of them many times, besides preaching anil lecturing ninety-six times in England, Scotland and Ireland in ninety-four days. There was consideral Dle sickness among these Indians last spring. It Wius caused in a singular way. All the cigar stores in Tama had alcohol cigar lighters, and the Indians got to lighting their pipes at these, anil while ostensibly lighting a refractory pi]ie they did. then and there being, suck the juice out of the alcohol retort by means of a straw. Dealers then put some foreign sutwtance into the alcohol reservoir, and most all the men folks of the trilie staid at home for guitrt awhile anil complained of not feeling first rate. Easter is at our door. You want new hat?, inexpensive but stylish. Oar millinery department is the place. Your children want school hats; we have them in endless variety, from 25c up, durable and pretty. Gents' and Boys' Hats—very latest fashion. If a saving of 20 per cent in buying counts with you, then fail not to come to see us. Women at Balls. "Why cannot some of the society leaders have the strength of mind and sufficient sense of propriety to inaugurate a new order of things in ball etiquette?" said the exasperated good natured man, after a wearisome season. "If a few right minded, intelligent women would qnly take umbrage at the really humiliating position that is held by their sex in a ballroom, and would combine together to act independently of the unwritten law that compels every jvonian to be an abjectly helpless creature as soon .aa_8he dons evening dress, they would bestow an inestimable benefit upon men as well as upon women. I greet them all in your name and in Christ's name, all whom I have confronted from my first sermon in my first village charge, where my lips trembled and my knees knocked together from affright, speaking from the text, Jeremiah i, 6, "Ah, Lord God, behold 11 cannot speak, lor I am a child!" until the sermon I preach today from Luke ix, 33, "I jet us make three tabernacles," tlione of t he pCw*fc «tid the present, all gather in imagination, if not in reality, all of us grateful to God for past mercies, all of us sorry for misimproved opportunities, ail- hopeful for eternal raptures, ana wnne tne visible ana tne invisible audiences of the present and the past commingle, I give out to be sung by those who are here today, and to be sung by those who shall read of this scene of reminiscence and congratulation, that hymn which been rolling on since Isaac Watts started it one hundred and fifty years ago: Those, fellow citizens, were times when the country was new. Those were days when the hot mist from the seething earth came back at once as warm rnDii. only to bo immediately utilized ft* mist again; when mammoth forests, like gigantic asparagus beds, sprang forth in a few montlis and overshadowed the silent and slimy home of the saurian monster. TWO CHUKCHES AND NO MONET. One year it was sent out through a syndicate of newspapers that this church was doing nothing in the way of liberality, wbeu we had that year raised $04,000 in irarn casn rrrr rmgrous uses, -rturn iDnn been |HTsiste«it and hemispheric lying against this church. We have raised "durmy pastorate, for church building and church purposes, $908,000, or practically a million dollars. Not an Irish famine, or a Charleston earthquake, or an Ohio freshet, or a Chicago conflagration, but our church was among the first to help. We have given free seats in the morning and evening services to 240,000 strangers a year, and that in twenty years would amount to 4,800,000 auditors. We have received into c/lir membership 5,357 members, and that is only a small portion of the number of those who have here been converted to God from all parts of this land and from other lands. At 8 o'clock of that evening the architect presented his plans, anil the bids of buflder and mason were presented, and in five minutes after the plans were iDresented they were unanimously adopted. Stj tbnfc 1 -mmiil tt*A Uh. tlfco ah(, f.r trustees during the work I went to Europe, and when I got back the church was well Digh done. But here came in a staggering hindrance. We expected to pay for the new church by the sale of the old building. The old one had been sold, but just at t he time we must have the money the purchasers backed out aud we had two churches and no money. During all that time, as well as since, I was engaged in editing a religious newspaper, believing that such a periodical was capable of great usefulness, and I have been a constant contributor to newspapers ttiul pariailtrals Mrjinw liile nil th+rwp had become easy in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. On a Sabbath in October, 1889,1 announced to my congregation that I would in a few weeks visit the Holy Land, and that the For want of room we are going to dispose of our entire stock of trunks and satchels. Have every article in this department marked at a lower price than first cost. Tama has streets which in spring are composed mostly of adhesive copying ink. There is no bottom to the mtid. It is impossible to drive over it when the frost is coming out of the ground. "Some of my sex have become, I am sorry to say, quite callous to the suffering around them, but for my part I am too soft hearted to resist the wistful eyes and pitiful stereotyped smile of those who have no partners for supper. There is something pathetic about the helplessness about these poor creatures that appeal to my chivalry, but what nonsense it all is. Why cannot women walk from group to group, or go down to supper with another woman with the same ease as at an afternoon tea? Given the same conditions of freedom, and balls would be delightful instead of being so often unmitigated bores."—New York Tribum. It was tinder those circumstances, we are told by old settlers whose memory is yet good, that these early forests grew. Then Nature, with a long, rainy day on her hands, one time decided that she would tr-y"i)reserving a forest for future use. Thus we have here, surrounded "by electric lights and high slivers in society, along with the telephone and artificial ice, a slab of wood whose bark has been abraded here and there where the icthyosaurus has scratched his warty back against it in the mellow millions of years that left no other hi«torv. officers of the church had consented to my goiDg, and the wish of a lifetime was about to be fulfilled. The next Sabbath morning. about 2 o'clock or just after midnight, a member of my household awakened me by saying that there was a strange light in the sky. A thunderstorm had left the air full of electricity, and from horizpn to horizon everyt hing seemed to blaze. But that did not disturb me, until an observation taken from the cupola of my bouse declared that the second Tabernacle was putting on red wings. Lace curtains and other hangings and draperies, show a large line. We mean to lead and offer extraordinary values. Any one can be suited as to style and price. we At Fairfield we found the same at of affairs. There was no nse for on agon. They could ate miliotbus or baggage w By the help of God and the indomitable and unparalleled energy of our trustees (here and there one of them present today, but the most in a lietter world), we got the building ready for consecration, and on Sept. 25, 1870, morning and evening dedicatory services were held, and in the afternoon the children, with sweet and multitudinous voices, consecrated the place to God. Twenty thousand dollars were raised that day to pay a floating debt. In the morning old Dr. Stephen H. Tyng, the glory of the Episcopal church and the Chrysostom of the American pulpit, preached a sermon which lingered in its gracious effects as long as the building stood. He read enough out of the Episcopal prayer book to keep himself from being reprimanded by his bishop for preaching at a lion-Episcopal service; and we, although belonging to another denomination, responded with heartiness, as though we were used to the liturgy, "Good Lord, de- r^:r^ ; \\\ Cloaks, jackets, newmarkets, wraps—we never did show a line of spring garments as now. This department receives our special attention and special ducements are offered. Misses' school jackets take a prominent place. Prices are figured way down. \\ v\ i/r nA\\ 11 Csk%-\ mm /if® Our God, bur help in ages past. Our hope for years to come; Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home. in- Undtr the blessing of God and through the kindness of the printing press my sermons now go every week into every neighborhood in Christendom, and are regularly translated into nearly all the great languages of Europe and Asia. The syndicates having charge of this sermonic publication informed me a few days ago that my printed sermons every week, in this and other lands, go into the hands of 25,- (XX),(X*) people. During the last year, I am authoritatively informed, over 2,000 different periodicals were added to the list «f those who make this publication, and yet there are ministers of the Gospel and religious newspapers that systematically and industriously and continuously charge this church with idleness and selfishness and parsimony. I scouted the idea and turned over on tlie pillow for another sleep, but a number of excited voices called me to the roof, and I went up and saw clearly defined in the night the fiery catafalque of our second Tabernacle. When I saw that I said to my family: "1 think that ends my work in Brooklyn. Surely the Lord will not call a minister to build three churches in one city. The building of one church generally ends the usefulness of a pastor. How can any one preside at the building of three churches?" But before twenty-four hours had passed we were compelled to cry out, with Peter of my text, "Let ua build three tabernacles." We must have a home somewhere. The old site had ceased to be the center of our congregation, and the center of the congregation, as near as we could find it, is where we now stand. Streets That Are Centuries Old. Mr. Manhattan Beach is well known as one of the heartiest eaters in Harlem. He can do more eating without a rest than any two men in the city. Of late his eyesight has become affected, and he was asked if his appetite was as good as ever. Gastronomical Item. In many towns the names of streets linger unchanged for centuries. The visitors to Antwerp can still identify the Canal an Sucre, where, during the Spanish Fury of 1576, the dead bodies of the murdered citizens lay piled half way up the houses, 8,000 of the inhabitants of the city perishing at the hands of Alva's soldiery during those awful threte days, when, as a contemporary expresses,it, "hell seemed let loose." Becoming somewhat excited over this great thbnght. I bought another beautiful $250 specimen to pound steak on. We may not always have steak at our house, but we propose to have something to pound it on whenever we do have steak. QOOOOOOOOOoOOOOOOOO o o o o o o o o 6 o o Q-.Q A. B. BROWN'S BEE HIVE, "Well, I should say so," was the response; "I can't read the bill of fare as, well as I used to. Yesterday at dinner I| overlooked two kinds of Soup and slipped up on the custard pie. I can never tell now when 1 am through dinner. , If my eyesight does not improve I am afraid I'll starve to death some day."—Texas Sittings. * i MAIN & WILLIAM STREET. PITTSTONL The railroad agent at Billiugs. A. T., near where this petrified forest is situated, gets thirteen to seventeen letters per week from people who want specimens of t'lis petrified wooCl. Here is liver us!" In Sienna the city is divided into contrades, or parishes, each of which is named after some animal or natural object—the owl, the goose,, thf tower, etc. There are seventeen of these divisions, and residents in them give as an address the name of their contrade, which has come down unchanged through the centuries. St. Catherine, of Sienna, resided . in the "Oca" (goose) contrade, and the name is still unaltered. These different divisions of the city each run a horse at the annual "Palio," and great is the rivalry between the contrades. Indeed, the medifeval custom of street feuds and fights is frequently kept up by the residents in the various parishes— only some twenty years ago deadly enmity raged between the denizens of the "Wave" and the "Tower" district. Fire and war and, deadliest of all, modern improvements sweep away streets and their names In many localities, or sometimes a name survives long after the reason for its selection has passed away. SPECIAL REDUCTION IN PRIGES During the short time we occupied that building we had a constant downpour of religious awakening. Hosanna! Ten million years iu heaven will have no power to dim my memory of the glorious times we had in that first Tabernacle, which, because of its invasion of the usual style of church or  one I call the attention of the whole earth to this outrage that has been heaped upon the Brooklyn Tabernacle, though a more con re crated, lienevolent and splendid convocation of men and women were never gathered together outside of heaven. 1 have never before responded to these injustices, and probably will never refer to them again, but I wish the people of this country and other countries to know that what they read concerning the selfishness and indolence and lack of benevolence and lack of missionary spirit on the part of this church, is from top to*bottom and from stem to stern, falsehood—dastardly falsehood— diabolical falsehood. What is said against myself has no effect except, like that of a coarse Turkish towel, the rubbing down by which improves circulation and produces good health. Why He Remained Seated. WATCHES AND CLOCKS Station Agent, Billing?, Dear Slit May I ask you lo write .me regarding "Natural Curiosity," the petrified forest of Arizona? la it a fart, and liow large an area does it cover'/ I would be pleaded to have you 8eud by express some specimens of red moss agate, amethyst and smoky topaz. I would love to visit this place if the article in St. Nicholas is true. Yours truly. A Moslfeip priest once asked all those of his congregation who loved God and feared their wives tostand up. "Instantly," says the narrator, "the whole gathering rose, save one. When the priedfc observed this he approached the solitary exception and said: 'I see that you remain seated. Is it because you do not love God?' 'No,' an- Bwered the man; 'I love God.' 'Then is it because you do not fear your wife?' 'On the contrary,' was the reply, *1 am unable to rise because my wife gave me such a beating this morning that I am almost helpless.' "—San Francisco Argonaut. IN THK TUB Having selected the spot, should we build on it a barn or a tabernacle, beautiful and commodious? Our common sense. FOR A PEW WEEKS. make the trip, and had long ago given it tip, so we walked from the depot half a mile to the hotel. It is called the Leggett House. architecture, was called by some "TaJmage's Hippodrome," by others, "Church of the Holy Circus," and by other mirthful nomenclature. But it was a building perfect for acoustics, and stood long enough to have its imitation in all the large cities of America and to completely revolutionize church architecture. People saw that it was the common sense way of seating an audience. as well as our religion, commanded the latter. But what push, what industry, what skill, what self sacrifice, what faith in God were necessary! Impediments and hindrances without number were thrown in the way, and had it not been for the perseverance of our church officials, and the practical help of many people, and the prayers of millions pf good souls in all parts of the earth, and the blessing of Almighty God the work would not have been done. But it is done, and all good people who behold the structure feel in their hearts, if they do not utter it with their lips, "How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts!" On the third Sabbath of last April this church was dedicated, Dr. Hamlin, of Washington, preaching an inspiring sermon, Dr. Wendell Prime, of New York, offering the dedicatory prayer and some fifteen clergymen during the day taking part in the services. Hosannah! Don't buy until you see our Prices. The Largest Line in Tou/n. At 1 o'clock a. in. we also legged it from the Leggett House to the depot to catch an early train. Early rising is what has placed me where I am today. Some think it was pure accident, and that I am greatly overestimated, and that my wonderful popularity is largely assumed, but such is not the case I assure yon. Early rising has done it. This makes twice I have lDeen an early riser within a few weeks. This name i'j not the correct one, but a little conceit of my own. The ageut has many of these letters, and wishes me to put a piece in the paper begging the public not to write to him any more regarding this matter, as it is breaking him down. He says that elderly maiden ladies, who brought the war to a speedy close by making prune pie for the soldiers., now write to him for agates, forgetting that he is getting forty dollars per month from the railroad, not specially for the purpose of gathering moss agates or petrified trees for others. J. D. Clark. i. i. mm. LEiDiit Nicimie Instead of putting them in an angular church, where each one chiefly saw the back part of somebody else's head, the audience were arranged in semicircle, so that they could see one anot her's faces, and the auditorium was a great family circle seated around a fireplace, which was the pulpit. It was an iron structure, find we supposed fireproof, but the insurance companies looked at it, and after we hail gone too far to stop in its construction they declined to insure it except for a mere nothing, declaring that, oeing ot iron,"it the lnflatnmable material between the sheets of iron took fire no engine hose could play upon it. And they were rig-lit. During those days we educated and sent out from a lay college under otir charge some twelve hundred young men and women, many of them liecoming evangelists and many of them becoming regularly ordained preachers, and I meet them in all parts of the land toiling mightily for God. STATIONARY DEPARTMENT. Electricity in the Home. Great is the need for a good electric motor for housework. It is no good to talk about setting up in our houses neat little dynamos that a housemaid could learn how to work in a few hours. Th« tousemaids never would learn, and we should soon find the neat little dynamo standing rusty and dust grimed in the area, forgotten of man and maid. Pine Tablets, Papeteries, Teachc Bibles, Blank Books, Inks, Rubber Stamps, &c. 108 Sheets Fine Linen Paper 25 cents. 25 U Envelopes 10 cents. Blackfriars remains as a title, though the convent has vanished;, the uames of Newgate, Ludgate and London Wall have survived the civic portals and boundaries. Old residents in the suburbs may remember that some modern "avenues" really commemorate the rows of elms which they have displaced, and that the seemingly unmeaning titles of "lane" or "gardens" recall a time before the trim villas so designated covered a veritable rural walk between hedgerows or a series of market gardens. It is not often, as in Antwerp and Sienna, that the- ancient divisions of the city remain unchanged for centuries.— London Globe. Before closing let me say a word regarding the question of prohibition in Iowa. Many do not believe that it is a success. Cynics may revile prohibition as much as they like, but it is one of the most delightful things, if not carried to excess, that 1 have ever prilled the cork out of. In Marshalltown, a very thriving and prosperous city of Iowa,a young man who had never sat up so late be- I discover a large mail with a nozzie in his clinched hand. He is a fireman, and has ascended the casement and stands by my open window trying to But this continuous misrepresentation of my beloved church, in the name of Almighty God, I denounce, while I appeal to the fair minded men and women to see that justice is done this people, who within a few years have goue through a struggle that no other church in any land or any age has been called to endure, and I pray God that no other church may ever be called to endnre, viz., the building of three tabernacles. 1 ask the friends of the Brooklyn Tabernacle to cut out this sermon from the newspapers and put it in their pocketbooks, so that they can intelligently answer our falsifiers, whether cler ical or lay. Sometimes he is not sure that the freight will be paid or he would be more prompt to send things. Sometimes an unknown man who cannot spell, to say nothing of paying the freight, orders a quart of Indian arrowheads and 1,000 feet of petrified lumber to build a house of. This bothers the agent, who is also telegraph operator, line repairer, ticket and baggage agent and the head of a family, lie wishes to notify the public by thiis means that hereafter it will be impossible for him to supply petrified sills for thoso who are building in Ohio, especially as the petrified forest is owned Dy other parties, who threaten to prosecute people who girdle the trees or cut the timber without paying stumpage. If electricity is to be any good in the house, it must come in ready in a boxpotted energy which can be applied, like grease, whenever it is wanted. In this shape it may have a hundred uses. The footman, instead of turning the knife machine, will connect it with the electrical motor, the cook will use it to turn the handle of the egg whisk, toe coffee roastet and the coffee grinder, and to turn the meat. In the laundry it will do our mangling and ironing. In the tD...ule it will clip the horses, and in the gardener's department pump the water and cut the lawn. Everything, in fact, that now revolves by the exertion of muscular effort will be arranged to turn by electricity. [CARTERS 1869—1892. How suggestive to many of ns are the words spelled out in flowers above the pulpit—"ltW and "1892''—for those dates bound what raptures, what griefs, what struggles, what triumphs. I mention it as a matter of gratitude to God that in these twenty-three years I have missed but one Sabbath through physical indisposition, and but*' three in the thirty-six years of my ministry. And now, having reached this twenty-third milestone, I start anew. I have in my memorandum books analyses of more sermons than I have ever yet preached, and I have preached, as near as I can tell, about 8,380. DIJS^Y CMM0NijD TAR SOAP It seems that the hotel is on tire. It is difficult to write with the same degree of care In a hotel that is on tire, I find. C hie cannot pause to paint such wonderful word pictures where the roof is blazing, as this one is 1 am told, So I will close now and pour some of the water ont of my shoes and jDocket«. A tire department ought to knock on the window liefore it turns the hose on u literary man that way. They are brave pien, but thev are often uncouth. put me out. And with these you may put that other statement, which recently went through the country, and which 1 saw in Detroit, which said that the Brooklyn Tabernacle had a hard financial struggle, because it had ali along been paying such enormous salaries to its pastor, I)r. Talmage, when the fact is that after our last disaster and for two years I gave all my salary to the church building fund, and I receivedffi,000 less than nothing; in other words, in addition to serving t his church gratuitously for two rears. 1 Jet it have Sfi.OOO for building purposes. Why is it that people could not do us justice and say that all our financial struggle as a church came from doing what Peter, in my text, absurdly proposed to do, but which, in the inscrutable providence of God, we were compelled to do—build three Education That Women Seek. THE FIRE OF 18731 It is curious to note that the form of edncation which women seem just now most anxious to obtain is almost purely literary. At a time when men are loudly complaining that Oxford and Cambridge have almost cut themselves off from the active life of the country, and that by neglecting the practical study of law, medicine, surgery and technical production they have resolved themselves into what would be called at a Continental university a gigantic "Faculty of Arts," women are crowding to these discredited institutions and eagerly taking np the abandoned "arts'' as the latest and most complete form of intellectual life open to them. f CURE tBck Headache and relieve alt the troubles Incident to a bilioua state of the system, suoh a■ Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Distress after eating. Pain in the Side, 4i. While their most femarkafcle success has been shown in enring t One Sunday morning in December, 1872, the thermometer nearly down to zero, I was ou my way to church. There was an excitement in the street and much smoke in the air. Fire engines dashed past. Hut my mind was on the sermon I was altout to preach, until some one rushed up and told me that our church was going up in the same kiud of a chariot that Elijah took from the banks of the Jordan. That Sunday morning tragedy, with its wringing of hands and frozen tears on the cheeks of many thousands standing in the street, and the crash that shook the earth, is as vivid as though it were yesterday. But it was not a perfect loss. When the electricians have given us the household motor, and not till then, shall we be able to say that man has chained the thunderbolt and made it an obedient slave. —London Spectator. During these past years I have learned two cr three things. Among others I have learned that "all things work together for good." My positive mode of preaching has sometimes seemed to stir the hostilities of all earth and hell. Feeling called u(Kin fifteen years ago to explore underground New York city life, that I might report the evils to lie combated,I took with metwo elders of my church andaNew York police commissioner ami a policeman, and I explored and rejiorted the horrors that needed'removal and the allurements that endangered our young men. There came upon me an outburst of assumed indignation that frightened almost everybody but myself. That exploration put into my church thirty or forty newspaper correspondents from north, south, east and west; which opened for me new avenues in which to preach the Gospel that otherwise would never have been opened. SICK Yesterday I rode most all day in a seat just back of a lady who was traveling with a large gooseberry bush. Why do women feel better while traveling if they can convey a large, thorny parrot, or a young plum tree, or a jug of buttermilk? It certainly cannot enhance fore iu his life concluded to sit up one night till midnight and see if there were any evidences of drinking. He counted sixty-one gents who did not know whether Iowa was in Marshalltown or Why II e Kept Dors. feeadache, yet Garter's Little Liver PITH cm qgually valuable in Constipation, curing and nreD venting thiaRnEoyinKcomplaint,while they also correct all disorders or the stomach stimulate the lirer and regnUte the bowels. JEven if they only HEAD Once the hotel where I was caught on fire and a rude fire laddie burst, in on me while I was taking ine tub. I did not know who it was. I was shocked. I did not even know that it was a man. I dove to the bottom of the tub like a frightened deer, and wuuld have remained there if he had not gone out. An old man living in a tumble down house on the East side was asked why -be continued to keepiD about his premises' a large and increasing family of worthless curs of small sizes. "Well, I'll tell you," he answered confidentially, "1 have got a large bulldog—a regular fighting dog— which 1 keep in my house, and I keep these other dogs around the place to keep off anybody who might come around to steal the bulldog."—Buffalo Express. While men are beginning to assert that they can no longer afford the luxury of a university education, that they must leave that either to the men of leisure or the future schoolmasters and teachers, women turn to it as perhaps the most practical opening left to them. Perhaps they are ight. It is not impossible that in time /omen's hands may have a great share in D.he higher secretarial and educational work of the country. But there is no form of opinion more fluctuating than the views of woiu«... as to their place and possibilities in life. The change of ideal from that of household usefulness at the end of the last cen tury to elegant usefulness at the beginning of the present century has been succeeded by a strong bias toward literature and culture. It-is not impossible that this may in turn be replaced by an experiment in women's capabilities in the technical instruction which is coming on as the practical balance to the literary activity of tin last few years.—London Spectator. Healthful, Agreeable, Cleansing. tabernacles. All were anxious to do something, and as on such occasious sensible people are apt to do unusual things, one of the members, at the risk of his life, rushed in among the fallen walls, mounted the pulpit and took a glass of water from the table and brought it in safety to the street. So you see it was not a total loss. Within an hour from many churches came kiud invitations to occupy their buildings, and hanging against a lamppost near the destroyed building, before 12 o'clock that morning, was a board with the inscription, "The congregation of Brooklyn Tabernacle will worship tonight in Plymouth church." JLehStbey would be almost priceless to those wha niter from this distressing complaint; but fortunately their goodness does no tend here, and those Cures Now 1 feel better that this is off my mind. The rest of my sermon will be spun out of hosanuahs. I announce to you this day that we are at last, as a church, in smooth waters. Arrangements have been made by which our financial difficulties are now fully and satisfactorily adjusted. Our income will exceed our outgo, and Brooklyn Talieruacle will be yours and belong to you ami your children after you, and anything you see contrary to this you may put down to the- confirmed habit which some people have got of misrepresenting this church, and they cannot stop. When I came to Brooklyn I came to a small church and a big indebtedness. We have now this, the largest Protestant church in America, and financially as a congregation we are worth, over and beyond all indebtedness, considerably more than $150,000, IN SMOOTH WATF.nS AT LAST. Chapped Hands, Wounds, Burns, Etc. Removes and Prevents Dandruff. who once try them will find these little pills valuable In so many ways that they will not be willing to do without them. But after allele* head I will now close this letter and rescue one of the dining room girls. I noticed her yesterday at table, anil I thought then that if a fire should break out she would be the first one I would rescue. WHITE RUSSIAN SOAP. At Cedar Falls the sheriff made a raid on the men who kept ppirits, and poured nineteen kinds of liqtior into the river just above Waterloo. Waterloo gets her water supply from the river, and all one day she got punch from the hydrant. Business was at a standstill, it is said, and teams ran into each other from morning till night. Even the horses seemed to be exhilarated. Possibly this is not true, but it was told to me by our advance agent, and if a man cannot believe his own advance agent whom, oh, whom can he believe? vice versa ACHE "But why jin- you so very anxious to see a whale, Mrs. Trotter?" asked the captain, after the lady hint asked for the twentieth time if one was in sight. Curious Mrs. Trotter. Specially for Use in Hard Water. Ill the bane of bo many lives that here la when we make our great boast. Oar pill* core it whii Others do not. Carter'* Little Liver Pflle are very man ant Wry eaay to take. One or two pill* make a dose. They are strictly vegetable and do not gripe or purge, bat by their gentle action please all who nee them. In vials at 25 cents; Ave for $1. Sold fey drnggiata everywhere, or s«nt by ruaiL CARTER MEDICINE CO., New Yorki WALL PILL. SMALL DOSE SMALL PRICS DIIDTimr We the undersigned wer. nllr I Kr. entirely cured of ruptur» IIWI I UlILl by Dr. J. B. Mayer, 8?. Arch 8t, Philadelphia, Pa., 8. Jones Philip- K(-nnet Square, Pa. ; T. A. Kreltz, Slatlnetor. Pa. ; E M. Small, Mount Alto, Pa. ; L. H. Kur kel, 437 W. Tenth St., Alleotown, Pa.: Re*. H. Kherman, Hunhury, Pa. ; J. D. Fehr, 10 Chestnut St., Reading, Pa. ; D. J. Dellett, 214 e Twelfth St., Heading, Pa.; J. Yates, 424 Yte. 8t.. Phlla.: Wm. Dlx, 182*! Montrose 8t., Phlla delphla ; H L. Rowe, 309 Elm 8t., Reading. Pa Qeoive and Fh. Burkort, 479 Locust St., Bea dk. Pa. 8end for circular. Dr. MAH AH. it at Hotel Pimn, Beadino Pa., on the found Smtmrday of e aeh month Caii to tot him. Years passed on and 1 preached a series of sermons on Amusements, and a false report of what I did say—and one of the sermons said to have been preached by me was not mine in a single word—roused a violence that threatened me with poison and dirk and pistol aud other forms of extinguishment, until the chief of Brooklyn police, without any suggestion from me, took possession of the church with twenty-four policemen to see that no harm was done. That excitement opened many "I want so much to see one blubber, captain. It must be very impressive to sea such a large creature cry. "—Harper's Baear.One Is Knongli "So," he eaid sadly, on account of my poverty? "yon refuse me Mr. Beecher made the opening prayer, which was full of commiseration for nie and my homeless flock, and I preached that night the sermon that I intended to preach that morning in my own church, the text concerning the precious alabaster box broken at the feet of Christ, and sure To prevent blue from fading add aa ounce of sugar of lead to a pail of water and soak the material in the solution for two hoars, then let it dry before being' washed and ironed. This is good for ail shades of blue.—New York Journal, Bine Need Not Fade. "No," she replied, in sensible tones, "No, it is not on that account." "Then why is it?" Om«IU«| LtMb to Omuauyiu ■* Kw&p's Balaam will atop th» oou«b l| on* "On account of my own."—Detroit Free Press. As I am closing this letter * cold