Pittston Gazette

              ?:r;i:7\':.r: I Oldest NewsDaoer in the Wvomin? Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1892. A WeeKly Local and Family lournal. n/KST" bright little twins known as Eyetlier and Nyether. Each passenger had some bright little episode to gt*t off at the expense of the broad and massive mother, bnt she took our sallies good naturedly and replied with many a little esprit da corps of her own. THE GLORIOUS PALM. springing, aim iearn tne great lesson 01 usefulness. ' What art thou doing up there, little star? Why not shut thine 1 have BILL NYE AS A HERO. you were two years oia your nrst can tor a drink at midnight woke her from a sound sleep as quick as any one will waken at the trumpet call of the resurrection. UOD 01 R SHEPHERD. reguiariy ana property cleaned ana trimmed. Be very careful in trimming the wick not to let any of the charred part fall into the burner. This is a fruitful source ot trouble. Lamps with metal reservoirs are undoubtedly safer than those of glass or china, as the former, if upset, can be picked up and replaced before the oil- can escape. Therefore, where children an about, it is better to have only metal containers or else metal containers which en® be slipped into the china or glass stands." Of course the oil used must be of good quality. There is no saving, but, on the contrary, waste and some danger in poor oiL Bad oil clogs the wick and the burner, besides giving off an unpleasant and very dirty vapor. eyes and sleep, for who cares for thy shirw ing?" -No," saith the star, "I will not I sleep. I guide the sailor on the sea. I cheer the traveler amoug the mountains. I help tip the dew with light. Through the window of the poor man's cabin I cast a beam of hope, and the child on her mothf er's lap asks in glee whither I come and ! what 1 do and whence I go. Ta gleam and flitter, God set me here, Awayl I have no time to sleep." Tried HE HAS THE HERO BUSINESS DOWN OR. TALWAGE SPEAKS OF THE TYPE LESSON IV, SECOND QUARTER, INTER- TO A SYSTEM OF CHRIST'8 TRIUMPH | Oh, my young lady, what is that under the sole of your fine shoes? It is a palm leaf which was torn off the tree of maternal fidelity. Young merchant, young lawyer, young journalist, young mechanic, with good salary and fine clothes and refined surroundings, have you forgotten what a time your father had that winter, after the summer's crops had failed through droughts or floods or locust, and how he | wore his old coat too long and made his ; old hat do, that ho might keep you at I school or college? What is that, my young man, under your fine boot today, the boot that so well fits your foot, such a boot as your father could never afford to wear? MATERNAL FIDELITY. NATIONAL SERIES, APRIL 24. the new jive cent package of Pyle's Pedrlinc and like it— decidedly—economical for use —economical to hand to servant—no waste by upsetting. C\\\7 Pear line is never rkllwW peddled—gives no prizes—is a prize in itself; _ and further I know, when a grocer tells me "this is just as good as" or "same as" Pearhne, he does not know the truth, or else is not telling it. Manufactured only by ®® JAMES P\ LE, New \ork. Rescuing Dining Room Girls to Order. When we approached the boat we saw at once that it was not the City of New York. Even the novice could detect the little points of difference. I can truly say that I never saw a sadder sight in the nautical line than the steamer which treads the dnsty road between Jeff and Cedar City. As we approached the mud pie which is used as a landing our driver sounded the sackbut as a signal for the old colored inebriate who acts as crew to InWer the drawbridge. The latt®r in an old :md well gnawed collection of warped fence boards, one corner of which curls up like tiie toe of a burned boot. Tlie Entry Into Jerusalem—A I.e»»on for Teil of tbe l.enxon. Ph. **|||, 1-0—Mem- The Water of Rome anil That of MexiCro, Arbor Day—Thank C•»C! for the Trees. ory Verses. 1-6—Gol.len Text. Ps. dill, Mo., Compared—Crossing the Missouri. The Gospel of Self Kserlfjee. I — Commentary by the Rev. D. M. A Would Be Author. Brooklyn, April 10.—This day is recognized as Palm Sunday throughout the world, and that fact gave direction to Dr. Taluiage's sermon. Among the hymns sung was theJiymn— Stearns. [Copyright, 18MB, by Edgar W. Nye.] The snowtlake comes straggling dotkn. "Frail, fickle wanderer, why eoinest thou here?" "I am no idle wanderer," responds the snowflake. "High up in the air I was born, the child of the rain and the cold, and at the divine behest I come, and | am no straggler, for God tell* me where to put my crystal heel. To help cover the roots the grain and grass, to cleanse the air, to make sportsmen more happy and the Ingle fire more bright, 1 come. Though so light I ani that you toss me from your muffler and crush me under your foot, I am doing my best to fulfill what I was made for. Clothed in white I come on a heavenly mission, and, when nty work is done and God shall call, in morning vapor I shall go back, drawn by the fiery courses of the sun," L "The Ijord is my shepherd. I shall not want." Inasmuch as this psalm comes between one that describes the death and resurrection of the Christ, and one that speaks of the fullness of the earth belong ing to the King of Glory, it looks as if this, too, was a kingdom psalm. It isone of the most helpful and piactical of all the psalms for the daily life, but we arc constantly en joying kingdom truth by anticipation, ft is true for us now in a measure, but the fullness of fulfillment is yet future. Da vid knew how he cared for his sheep, how he fed them, protected them, led them and nil but laid down his life for them. He finnly believed that in much greater de gree Jehovah as a shepherd cared for him. He is the good, great,chief Shepherd, whoac Vually laid down His life for the sheep, rose ftgain from the dead, knows all His sheep by name, seeks them when they go astray, will never lose one of them, and when He appears in glory will reward all the under shepherds who have been faithful to Him (.John x, 11, 14, 37-iJft, Heh. xiii, 30; Luke xv, C; I Pet. v, No good thing will He we withhold from any who are truly His, but will supply all their need according to •His great riches (Ps. Ixxxiv, 11, xxxiv, 10; Phil Iv, 19). To believe heartily and live daily upon this one verse would bring joy to many a sad heart. A statement like this that dues not hring of, joy and peace is simply not believed. As to what the chief Shepherd will do for Israel when He comes in His glory read Isa xl.SMl; K/.ek. xxxiv, 11-3S. My last letter was written at Beatrice, Neb., at a hotel which was on fire, and as a number of errors have crept into ,the press regarding my bravery at this great fire, known as the Paddock House fire, I will say that I did nothing at that time that was not my plain dnty, nothing that I would not do again. 1 would have been less than man if I hud shrank from my duty at that time. Victor palms in every hand. Text, John xii, 13, "They t »k branches of palm trees and went forth DD meet him," Clad iu raiment pure and white. One more hint. Never turn down a lamp, allowing it just to glimmer. It is meant to burn with the flame at full height, and when allowed to smolder in this way it will either sinoke or smellpossibly both—and most certainly heat rapidly and become a distinct source-of danger.—London Q.ueen. How was that possible? How could palm branches be cast in the way of Christ as he approached Jerusalem? There are scarcely any palm trees in Central Palestine. Even the one that was carefully guarded for many years at Jericho has gone. I went over the vfery road by which Christ approached Jerusalem, and there are plenty of olive trees ;jnC: fig trees, but no palm trees that I could see. You must remem ber that the climate has changed. The palnD tree likes water, but by the cutting down of (hp forests, which are leafy prayers for rain, the land ha* become unfriendly to the paint tree, Jericho once stood in seven miles of palm grove. Olivet was crowned with palms. The Dead sea has on its banks the trunks of palm trees that floated down from some oldtime palm grove and are preserved from decay by the salt which they received from the Dead sea. It must be a leaf from the palm tree of your father's self sacrifices. Do not be ashamed of him when he come to town, and because his manners are a little old fashioned try to smuggle him in and smuggle him out, but call in your best friends and take him to the house of God and introduce him to jrour pastor and say, "This is my father." If he had kept for himself the advantages which he gave you he would lie as well educated and as well gotten up as you. When in the English parliament a.mem ber was making a great speech that was unanswerable a lord def jsiyely cried put, ('I remember you when you blackened my father's boots!" "Yes," replied the man, "and did I not do it well?" Never be ashamed of your early surroundings. Yes, yes, all the green leaves we walk over were torn off gome palm tree. I was engaged in writing, in fm t. tDaCl jnst seated myself and loaded uji uiy stylographic pen with bluing, which I carry with ine. and was just alwnt to hhink — -V" to' "*ir wh x thf When the omnibus passes over this bridge the entire crew has to stand on this corner to hoJd it down or the wheels will not go over, but the crew bad been out the night before attending a dinner given by the board of trade, I think, and he did not have entire control of his faculties, so he neglected to stand on the warped gang plank-, and a serious accident wits only prevented by getting off the 'bus and lifting it on the boat. HIS FIRST AND ONLY SPECULATION. From Paiis, Benin, Vienna, A Han wno Gambled In Stocks Without Knowing What lie Was Doing. pretDaratorDv writing, ei __ —J J PICKI.VO OCT A OIRL TO SAVK. "I never speculate," said a man who has acquired a fair share of the world's goods, and who enjoys them as ui'uch perhaps* as any other man similarly situated. And yet I made my first real start on a speculation. I won at it and quit ahead of tbe game, as gamblers say. I have remained ahead of that game ever since. "What doext thou, insignificant grass blade under my feet?" "I am doing a Wprk," gays the grass blade, "as best lean. I help to make up the soft pf flejd and lawn. I am satisfied, if, with millions of others no bigger than I, D we can give pasture to flocks and herds. I am wonderfully made. He who feeds the ravens gives me substance from the soil and breath from the air, and he who clothes the lilies pf the field rewards me with this coat p{ greet):" lew M, PdiMeiplia anil Boston, The boat itself is broad amidships, with no saloon to speak of, though if you are acquainted with the pilot you can get .something out of his overcoat pocket which will answer every purpose, it is said. "It was out in California that I was led into jet sjwrrlation. It was in the days when mining stocks went up into the sky like rockets and came down like the sticks, just as certain men wanted them to do. I went out there to make my fortune, but in some way it would not make. I really believe in luck, for I did have the worst possible kind of luck, and then of. a sudden— but I will come to that later. THEY ARB ALL HERE! THEY ARE BEYOND A QUESTION OF DOUBT THE FINEST LINE OF DRESS FABRICS EVER SHOWN. SPARE THE TUBES. FORGET TUB PXPLEASANT THINGS. I |iave cultivated the habit of forgetting the unpleasant things of life, and I chiefly remember the smooth things, and as far as I remember now tny life has for the most part moved on over a road soft with green leaves. They were twn off two palm trees that stood at the start of the TOad. The prayers, the Christian example, the gpod advice, the hard work of my father and mother- How they toiled! Their fingers were knotted with hard work. Their foreheads were wrinkled with many cares. Their backs stooped from carrying our burdens. The train does not start until this boat gets across, no matter when that is, and it is very uncertain, for the boat might spring aleak and fill full of sand in a little while. Then it would be very difficult for it to start Tip again. The crew, as J said, consists of p colored man named Potiphar P. Rawlo, of Callaway county. He has been married ten years, and eight children have blessed their home, so he is told; but aa he has lived on the boat all that time, night and day, he only knows about his family by report. Lately he has taken to drinking, and talks of establishing a residence at Sioux Falls for the purpose of obtaining a divorce. Let woodmen spare the trees of America, if they would not ruinously change the climate and bring to the soil barrenness instead of fertility. Tbanks to God and the legislatures for Arbor Day, which plants trees, trying to atone for the ruthlessness which has destroyed them. Yes, my text is in harmony with the condition of that country on the morning of Palm Sunday. About three Jnjljjoq people have pome Jerusalem to attend the religious festivi ties. Great news! Jesus will enter Jerusalem today. The sky is red with the morning, and the people are flocking out to the foot of Olivet, and up and on over the southern shoulder of the mountain, and the procession coming out from the city meets the procession escorting Christ, as he comes toward the city. There is a turn in the road, where Jerusalem suddenly bursts upon the vision. "For what, lonely cloud, goest thou across the heavens?" Through the bright air a voice drops from afar, saying: "Up and down this sapphire floor I pace to teach men that like me they are passing away. 1 gather UP the waters froiq Jake and sea. and theq, \yhen the thunders toll, I refresh the earth, making the dry ground to laugh with harvests of wheat and fields of corn. 1 catch the frown of (he storm and the hues of the rainbow. At evening tide on the western slopes 1 will pitch my tent, and over me shall dash the saffron, and the purple, and the fire of the sunset. A pillar of cloud like me led the chosen across the desert, and surrounded by such as 1 the Judge of Heaven and Earth will at last descend, for 'Behold he cometh with clouds!' " WESSONS OP THB CLOUDS. OOP O O O O O O O O OOOOoOOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOC "Have you ever heard of the man who was so poor that he always earned his breakfast, ate it; earned his dinner, ate it; earned- his supper; ate it, and then slept where it did not cost anything? Well, I was a good deal poorer than that man, for I ate my breakfast and then earned it. It was demoralizing, you may be sure. But I happened to meet a man in San Francisco who was making a big stir out therei in those days. He was throwing stocks wherever he pleased, and that meant everywhere. The way that man made moneytook every one's breath away. For some reason he took an interest in me—perhaps it was because I could not make a cent where he could make millions. 5 From the guaranteed sombre fast black to the most delicate shade any light or dark color, we have it From the cheapest, but nevertheless pretty 5 cent Challie to the finest quality* of Henrietta, Bedford Cord Cheveron or Landsdown, we have them. If you talk about your everyday style ol dress goods, such as the indispensable muslin, gingham, calico, everj style and grade is upon our shelves. While no shrewd merchant asks an exorbitant profit on this class ot goods, we are prepared to offer them by the piece or yard at what other deale ave 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. % "He maketh nDo to lie down in green pastures; He lendeth me beside the still waters." Or, as in the margin, pastures of tendeT grass and waters of quietness, When sheep lie flown in good pasture they must be abundantly satisfied, and with quiet water close at hand what more can they want? What glories of millennial blessedness are here foreshadowed fot Israel! and they shall dwell safely and uone shall make them afraid (Ezek. xxxiv, 13-13, 88). No more hunger nor thirst, and the lCainh iu the midst of the throne shall feed them and shall lead them into living fountains of waters (Bev. vii, Ifi. 17). But what about the believer nowJesus Christ Himself is uot only our Redeemer, but He is also our green pasture and fountain of living waters. "He that oateth me shall live by me," and "He thai eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwellet h in nie. and I in him," and "the water that I shall give him shall be in.him a well of water spring Ing up int-o everlasting life" (John vt. 56, 57; tv, 14). They long ago went into slumber among their kindred and friends on the banks of the Raritan, but the influences they threw in the way of their children are yet green as leaves the moment they are plucked from a palm, tree, and we feel them on our brow and under our feet, and they will strew all the way until we lie down in the samp slumber. Self sacrifice! What a thrilling word. Glad am 1 that our world has so many specimens of it. The sailor boy on shipboard was derided because he would not fight or gamble, and they called him a coward. But when a child fell over board and no one else was ready to help, the derided sailor leaped into the sea, and, though the waves were rough, the sailor, swimming with one arm. carried the child on the other arm till rescued and rescuer were lifted into safety, and the cry of coward ceased and all huzzaed at the scene of daring and self sacrifice. shrill cry of fire was seen approaching, and a fire laddie, in less time than it takes to tell it, was tip my window like a squirrel, playing the hose on a beautifnl and elaborate scarlet embroidered nightie of mine which hnng over the head of mv couch. How sad it is, after ten years of wedded happiness, living of course simply but happily, the wife on shore and the We had ridden that day all the way from Jericho, and had visited the ruins of the house of Mary and Martha and Lazarus, and were somewhat we*ry of sight seeing, When there suddenly arose before pur vision Jerusalem, the religious capital of all Christian ages. That was the point of observation where my tex; comes in. Alexander rode Bucephalus, Duke Elie rode his famous Marchcgay, Sir Henry  rode the high mettled Conrad, Wellington rode his proud Copenhagen, but the conqueror of earth and heaven rides a cplt, one that had been tied at the roadside. It was unbroken, and I have po doubt fractious at the vociferation of the populace. An extemporized saddle made out of the garments of the people was put on the beast. While some people griped the bridle of the colt, others reverently waited upon Christ at the mounting. Oh, my friends, if everything in the inanimate world be useful, let us immortal meq and women be useful, and }q that respect be like the palin tree. But I must not be tempted by what David says of that green shaft of Palestine, that living and glorious pillar in the eastern gardens, as seen in olden times—th«D palm tree; I must not be tempted by what the Old Testament says of it, to lessea my empliasis of what Jqhn, the evangelist, says of it in my tex|. " 'Young man,' he said to me one day„ 'do you want to make some money?' The statement in the Nebraska papers that I Was perfectly cool even at first is very kind, but not borne out by the facts. I was not real cool till the hose company had been playing on me for some little time. "I thought I did. I thought it so emphatically that I impressed him with my earnestness. W " 'Well,' he said, 'give me $100 and I'll Qx it for you so that you can make something.'Regarding my heroism in saving the life of a slender and beautiful dining room girl, or doughnut lady, I will say that the press, especially of Omaha and Beatrice, has erred in its enthusiasm and haste to do me a favor'altogether out of proportion to the act of courage and heroism itself. " 'A hundred dollars!' I said. If I had D100 I'd get out of this country. I haven's 100 cents.' 3. ''He rvstureih my soul, lie leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake." He is the great restorer, and when He comes ngain He will restore all things of which the prophets have spokotv Then a king shall reign in right eousness and princes shall rule in judg ment. Righteousness shall be the girdle of His loins and faithfulness the girdle of His reins (Acts iii, 21; Isa. xxxii, I; xi, 5) As to present experience, as He is the only Saviour, so He is t he only restorer, and all our dealings must be personally with Him self. Salvation, onoe ours, cannot he lost Hegives him%e(f to usand he is ours forever, and where He truly begius a work He will «wry it on (John x, 97, 28; Phil, i, 6).' But a, very little thing may interrupt our com muaion and-cause us to walk in darkness. The least turning from righteousness will Easter is at our door. You want new hats, inexpensive but stylish. Our 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. Notice that it was a beautiful and lawful robbery of the palm tree that helped make np Christ's triumph on the road to Jerusalem that Palm Sunday. The long, broad, green leaves that were strewn under the feet of the colt and in the way of Christ were torn off from the trees. What a pity, some one might say, that those stately and graceful trees should be despoiled. The sap oozed out at the places where the branches broke. The glory of the palm tree was appropriately sacrificed for the Saviour's triumphal procession. So it always was, so it always will be in this world—no worthy triumph of *ny sort without the tearing down of something else. " 'You haven't, eh? Then 1 11 lend it to you.' " 'I never could pay you,' I said. " 'Yes you can. You can pay me some day. Just sign a note for it. Business is business, yon know. Then go away and don't ask any questions. Just keep still till I get ready to talk.' A WIDOW'S HEBOISM, When recently Captain Bnrton, the great author, died, he left a scientific book in manuscript, which he expected would be his wife's fortune. Re often told her so. He said, "This will make you independent and affluent after I am gone," He suddenly died, and it was expected that the wife Would publish the book. One publisher told her he could himself make out of it $100,000. But it was a book which, though written with pure scientific design, she felt would do immeasurable damage to public morals. I always, while stopping at a hotel, very early decide in my own mind which of the dining room girls I would save in case of fire. This I do invariably while I am perfectly cool, knowing that should a fire break out I might in the wild excitement of the moment rescue right and left without any discretion or sense. Once I rescued a shrouded figure in the darkness and uncertainty of night, and when I took her to the light and got three reporters there to take down what she might say by way of thanks. I fonnd when it was too late that she was a little colored bootblack who could neither read nor write. "I went away, no richer and no poorer, save that my name, which .. .su't worth anything to anybody, was at the end of a note for $100. The two processions of people now become one—those who came oat of the city and those who came over the hill. The orientals are more demonstrative than we of the western world, their voices louder, their gesticulation* more violent and the symbols by which they express their emotions more significant. The people who left Phocea, in the far east, wishing to make impressive that they would never return, took a red hot baH of imn and threw it into the sea, and said they would never return to Phocea until that ball rose and floated on the surface. Be not surprised, therefore, at the demonstration in the t«Ct "I did not know much about stocks, and I did not care much about them. I only knew that there was a madness in the San Francisco market a few days later. Some stocks went up and sC'ine went down. The stocks went np out of sight. Then a hurricane sjruck tjie whole market and blew it away. 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. Brooklyn bridge, the glory of our continent, must have two architects prostrated, the one slain by his toils and the other- for a lifetime invalided. The greatest pictures of the world had, in their richest coloring, the blood of the artists who made them, The mightiest oratorios that ever rolled through the churches had, in their pathos, the sighs and groans of the - composers, who wore their lives out in writing the harmony. American Independence was triumphant, but it moved on over the lifeless forms of tens of t housands of men who fell at Bunker HilJ and Yorktown and the battles between which were the fcpmorrhages of the nation. With the two large volumes, which had cost her husbaud the work of years, she sat down on the floor before the fire and qaid to herself, "There is a fortune for me in this book, and although my husband wrote it with the right motive and scientific people might be helped by it, to the vast majority of people it would be harmful, and 1 know it would damage the world." Tiien she took apart the manuscript sheet after sheet and put it into the fire, until the last line was consumed. Bravo! jSfce bef JixdUwfld. hfir home, her chief worldly resources under the best moral and religious interests of the world. cause a thir souls aud Him, Lace curtains and other hangings and draperies, we show a large line. We mean to lead and offer extraordinary values. Any one can be suited as to style ano but as all clouds are earth taoru, let us live in the heavenlies where we belong (Epli. ii 5, 6,) and wo may have uninterrupted com munion. Or if a cloud arise through our failure to abide iu Him, one truly penitent look to Htm and He will restore our souls to conscious fellowship with Himself and not a cloud between. "A few weeks later I met my friend. " 'Oh, by the way,' he said, 'I hare a note of yours in my pocket.' i THE TWINS. husband ou the wave, to snap the golden cord and to go forth unfettered, forgetting the happy pant forever. Is it not indeed tough? " 'Yes,' I gulped, feeling the strings of my heart tighten, 'but I can't pay it now. I warned you'  The dining room girl whom I rescued at Beatrice was heavier than I had supposed, and I had not more than half rescued her before I regretted it. However, as I reached the foot of the first fire escape she returned to consciousness and sprang out of my arms with a Csry of horror, I calmed her, however, so that her fears at last vanished, and with a deep drawn sigh, having already noticed that I was very much out of breath, she took me over her shoulder and carried me to the foot of the fire escape.price. As the colt with its rider descends the slope of Olivet, the palm trees lining the road are called upon to render their contribution to the scene of welcome and rejoicing. The branches of these trees are high up, and some must needs climb the trees and tear off the leaves and throw them down, and others make of these leaves an emerald pavement for the colt to tread on. Long before that morning the palm tree had been typical of triumph. Herodotus and Strabo had thus described it.  finds the palm leaf cut in the walls of Nineveh, with the same significance. In the Greek athletic games the victors carried palms. I am very glad that our Lord, who five days after had thorns upon his brow, for a little while at least had palms strewn under his feet. Qh, the glorious palm! Amarasinga, the Hindoo scholar, calls it "the king among the grasses." Linnaeus calls it "the prince of vegetation." THE VISTA OK PALMS. " 'Never mind about that now,' he said. 'Here's your note. Now I'm going to give it back to you on one condition—that you promise me never to speculate again.' Cloaks, jackets, newmarkets, wraps—we never did show as fine a line of spring garments as now. This department receives our special attention and special inducements are offered. Misses' school jackets take s prominent place. Prices are figured way down. 4. "Yea, though I walk through the val ley of the shadow of death I will fear nc evil, for thou art with rae, thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." Possibly there is a reference to the awful valley of death that slwU be in connection with the judg ment upon the enemies of Israel when il shall require seven months to bury thi dead. (Compare Kzek. xxxix, 12; Joel in, 2.; In those days Israel, the rod of God, shall be His comfort (Ps. Ixxiv, 2; cx, 2; Jer. x 10; Mic. vii, 14). As to present experience we can rejoice that the sting of death which is sin (I Cor. xv, 55-57), has been taken away. Sin stung Jesus todeath, and left its sting in Him. so that death cannot now harm any child of God. We may nevei die, but, like Enoch and Elijah, be trans lated body and soul (I Cor. xv, 51,52). Bui if Jeaus should yet tarry awhile and wt pass out from the body for a little season the promise will be as good in death as it has been iu life. "1. the Ixird thy God, will bold thy right band, saying. Fear not, I will help thee" (Isa. xli, 13). To die iD gain, to depart and be with Christ is fat better. Absent from the body is present with the l/ord (II Cor. v, 8; Phjl. i, 21, 23) Not for one moment will the Saviour leavt us, so that abiding in Him there may not even be a shadow. Many have found it so and found it sunshine all the way. I had intended to make this letter more profound and recondite than usual, but other matters seem to crowd out those plans and prevent the work being so recondite as I had arranged for "I made him the promise. " 'Young man,' he said then, 'you have been in the biggest game that ever was played in this market. You have won. I knew you would win. That's why I let you try it But, young man,' and he raised his hand, [jointing eloquently with his finger, 'you never in the world could have won it if you hadn't been on the inside. That's why I made you promise.' THE KINO DOM OF GOP ADV ANCES, Yesterday I received a condensed story in manuscript from a man who wishes tne to get it published at once, as "it should lDe issued at least four weeks before the national conventions," he says. Otherwise the conventions will most likejy be bitter disappointments, I judge. He says "the book is a timely one, and should have beeh published two months ago to fit people for the coming national convention." He says this to me in a tone of reproach which I am sure I do not deserve. I could not have published the book, even if I had been at home, and had fyctotae by this time. Possibly not by another year even, or may be later than that. The kingdom of God advances in all the eart h, but it must be over the lives of missionaries who die of malaria in the jungles or Christian workers who preach and pray and toil and die in the'service. The Saviour triumphs in all directions—but beauty and strength must be torn down from the palm trees of Christian heroism and consecration and thrown in his pathway. How much" are we willing to sacrifice for others? Christ is again on the march, not from Bethpage to Jerusalem, but tor the conquest of the world, He will surely take it, but who will furnish the palm branches for the triumphant way? Self sacrifice is the word. There is more money paid to destroy the world than to save it. There are more buildings put up to ruin the race than churches to evangelize it. There is more depraved literature to blast Ken than good literature to elevate them. ooo o OOP oooo'oooooooooooooo 00 A. B. BROWN'S BEE HIVE I notice recently that King Humbert of Italy has severely criticised the Roman lire department, and I agree with him that it needs a thorough overhauling. Having seen the Roman fire department myself, I would say that the insurance company that would take a risk in Rome would deserve to die in want. "Then he looked at a memorandum, wrote me out a check which made me speechless and sent me away. I do not to this day know what is the process of gambling in stocks."—New York Tribune. To what better use could those palm trees on the southern shoulder of Mount Olivet and clear down into the Valley of Gethsemane put their branches than to surrender them for the making of Christ's journey toward Jerusalem the more picturesque, the more memorable and the more triumphant? And to what better use could we put our lives thau into the sacrifice for Christ and his cause and the happiness of our fellow creatures? Shall we not be willing to be torn down that righteousness shall have triumphant way? Christ was rorn down for us. Can we not afford to lie torn down for him? If Christ could suffer so much tor us, can we not suffer a little for Christ? If he can afford on Palm Sunday to travel to Jerusalem to carry a cross, can we not afford a few leaves front our branches to make emerald his way? MAIN & WILLIAM STREET. PITTSTON. Oh, for a power to descend upon us all like that which whelmed Charles G. Finney with mercy, when, kneeling in his law office, and before he entered upon his apostolic career of evangelization, he said: "The Holy Ghost descended on m? in a maaner that seemed to go through me, body and soul. I could feel the impression like a wave of electricity going through and through me. Indeed it seemed to come in waves and waves of liquid love. It seemed like the breath of God. 1 can recollect distinctly that it seemed to fan me like immense wings. I wept aloud with joy and love. These waves came over me and over me one after another, and until, I recollect, I cried out, 'I shall die if these waves continue to pass over me.' 1 said, 'Lord, I cannot bear any more."' And when a gentleman came iuto the ofllce and said, "Mr. Finney, you are in pain?" he replied, no, out so nappy mat 1 cannot live/ The Fish Deposits of Colorado. SPRING GOODS Superintendent W. C. Hart, of the northern division of the Colorado World's fair mineral department, is back in the city, having returned from a trip to the northwestern part of the state. During his absence Mr. Hart made investigations leading to one of the most remarkable geological discoveries ever known in the west. Vast fish beds, covering hundreds of square miles in northwestern Colorado, are brought to light and cannot fail to awaken a great interest in scientific circles. The beds, so far as traced by Mr. Hart, extend a distance of 150 miles in the region of the Green river country and were traced to"" Among all the trees that ever cast a shadow or yielded fruit or lifted their arms toward heaven, it has no equal for multitudinous uses. Do you want flowers? One palm tree will put forth a hanging garden of them, one cluster counted by a scientist containing 307,000 blooms. Do you want food? It is the chief diet of whole u&tionu. One palm in Chili will yield ninety gallons of honey. ' In Polynesia it is the chfef food of the inhabitants. In India there are multitudes of people dependent upon it for sustenance.In the first place, the Roman hose is decayed. It would not hold railroad ties or hoop poles. I did not get to see Humbert while I was there, but I wrote him a well timed note regarding his fire department, and in that note I said that if he would give less attention to his personal appearance and more to the question of the Roman fire department he would make a hit. «HT THE* BARGAIN STORE I hate to have a stranger hop on me that way for not publishing his book and going out afterward personally to canvass for 1t. Few people of the great vork-a-day world realize that I am engaged in business—a business which occupies my time and requires my best energies. The idea that I sit up in a large haymow all day reading rejected manuscripts, and then in the evening that I go about from house to house as a professional parlor entertainer, giving readings from my 6wn works in ex- 5. "Thou prepurewt a table before me it the presence of mine enemies; thou anoint est my head with oil; my cup runnetL over." Following for a moment the king dom line of truth we turn to Isa. xxv, 6-9 and at the very time of the overthrow ol Israel's enemies we read of a great feast foi the people of God. Zecfa. xiv, and Rev xix, may be read in the light of this with great profit. The anointing speaks ol priests and things, and suggests Isa. lxi, ( for Israel and Rev. v, 9, 10 for the church in connection with Ps. cx, 4 for Him \vhC is both king of Israel and head of tht church. As to the daily life of the Chris tian, enemies are everywhere, seen and un seen, but the soul that has learned to feed on Christ has a continual feast. Christ Himself had a continual feast, even in the presence of his enemies, as He delighted in the Father's will and made that His meat and drink (John iv, 34; vi, 38). us dc likewise and our caps shall run over This winter has proven what I said to be true. I wrote a piece also for the Roman morning paper—The Roman Candle, it was called—a piece which I signed "Veritas," and in which I said it was time to call a halt. The piece was never published, and I had to leave Rome before I had got my visit out on account of it. There were some good points in it too. I managed to mildly roast Humbert in it, and got off two or three good local hits in the piece; then I got it put into good Italian by the restaurant where I stopped while in Rome. Do you want cable to hold ships or cords to bold wild beasts? It is wound into ropes unbreakable. Do you want articles of house furniture? It is twisted into mats and woven into baskets and shaped into drinking cups and swung into hammocks. Do you want medicine? Its nut is the chief preventive of disease and the chief cure for vast populations. Do you want houses? Its wood furnishes the wall for the homes, and its leaves thatch them. Do you need a supply for the pantry? It yields sugar and starch and oil and sago and milk and salt and wax and vinegar and candles. points more than 100 miles toward the interior of the state. Scientists have known of the existence of primeval deposits of fish in Wyoming, but for the first time a discovery of a similar character is reported in this state. The beds are 150 to 200 feet thick. To the ordinary observer their origin would remain forever a mystery. We are receiving large quantities of nice Spring Goods in all the departments. We show special inducements in our Carpet Department just now. The process is going on every moment in all directious. What makes that father have such bard work to find the hymn today? He puts on his spectacles and holds the book close up, and then holds it far off, and is not quite sure whether the number of the hymn is 150 or 130, and the fingers with which he turns the leaves are very clumsy. He stoops a good deal, although once he was straight as an arrow, and his eyes were keen as a hawk's, and the hand |ie offered to his bride on the marriage day was of goodly shape and as God made it. I will tell you what is the matter. Forty years ago he resolved bis family should have no need and his children should be well educated and suffer none of the disadvantages of lack of schooling from which be had suffered for a lifetime, and that the wolf of hunger should never put its paw on his doorsill, and for forty or fifty years he has been tearing off from the palm tree of bis physical strength and manly form branches to throw in the path way of his household. Jt has cost him muscle ana Drain ana neaitti ana eyesignt, and there have been twisted off more years from his life than any man in the crowd on the famous Palm Sunday twisted off branches from the palm .trees on the road from Bethpage to Jerusalemr My hearers, the time will come when upon the whole church of God will descend such an avalanche of blessing, and then the bringing of the world to God will be a matter of a few years, perhaps a few days or a few hours. Ride on, O Christ! for the evangelisation of all nations. Thou Christ who didst ride on the unbroken colt down the sides of Olivet, on the white horse of eternal victory ride through all nations, and may we, by our prayers, and our self sacrifices, and our contributions, and our consecrations, throw palm branches in the way. I flap my hands at the coming vie tory. THE GLORIOUS FUTUBK. change for broken cindies and the heel taps of large public dinners, is erroneous and ought to be exploded somewhere on a vacant lot outside the citv limits. Quite a large line of Wash Dress Goods in the latest productions of American and European Mills to be sold at bargain prices. Our Shoe Department never was better supplied with nice, stylish and durable goods as at present. We guarantee a saving of from 25 to 50 per cent, on al) the goods we handle. On« Prick to All for Cash Only. How untold millions of fish could be piled in distinct layers over a large area of country which is now 5,000 to 10,000 feet above sea level is a problem which might stagger the most profound geologist. After careful investigation, Mr. Hart has arrived at a theory which at least appears plausible. According to his thedry, there was a time when thevegion of the fish deposits formed 'the shore of a salt water ocean. As thS tides swept the waters against the rocky, shores, marshes were formed on the opposite side of the rocky barrier. The tides surged against the barrier with such force as to throw the fish into the shallow waters. Owing to the heated temperature of the air, the water in the marshes evaporated before the tide again returned, leaving the fish to expire in the mud. This manuscript is, or will be, ready for the printer in a few days, so the writer says. He never wrote anything before for publication, being an engine wiper at the roundhouse, but he' can hardly wait for this book to come out, He thinks 1 am setting it up now and sewing on the bindings, perhaps, of evenings after the children are asleep. This is a mistake. GIVE US MORE PALM TIIEES. Oh, the palm! It has a variety of endowments, such as no other growth that ever rooted the earth or kisse4 the heaveus. To the willow, God says, "Stand by the water courses and weep," To the cedar he says, "Gather the hurricanes into your bosom." To the flg. tree he says, "Bear fruit and put it within reach of all the people." But to the palm tree he says, "Be garden and storehouse and wardrobe and ropewalk and chandlery and bread and banquet and manufactory, and then be type of what I meant when I inspired David, my servant, to say, 'The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree.'" This winter Humbert was out to see a Roman fire, and the department did not reach the scene for an hour and a half. Over 7,000,000 francs worth of property was destroyed. One engine tipped over on the way to the fire, and the others might as well have itone so, for the hose would not hold water—even the coarse and impregnable water of Rome. I feel this morning as did the Israelites when, on their march to Canaan, they came not under the shadow of one p;tlm tree, but of seventy palm trees, standing in an oasis among a dozen gushing fountains, or as the Book puts it, "Twelve wells of water and threescore anil ten palm trees." Surely there are more than seventy such great and glorious win la present today. Indeed, it is a mighty grove of palm trees, and I feel something of the raptures which I shall feel when, our last battle fought, and our last burden carried, and our last tear wept, we shall become one of the multitudes St. John describes "clothed in white robes and palms in their hands." 6. "Surely goodness and mercy shi.il fol low me all the days of my life; and 1 will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.' Israel shall dwell safely in her own land they shall obtain joy and gladness, aud sor row and sighing shall flee away (Isa. XXXv, 10). The church shall dwell in the New Jerusalem, the glory of God will lighten it and the Lamb be the light thereof (Bev xxi, 23). The goodness and mercy of thf Lord shall fill the whole earth; we shall see it and enjoy it in all the vigor and fresh ness of eternal youth if only we are re deemed by the precious blood of the  As to the "present life "He who spared uct His own Son but delivered him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?" And inasmuch as all things are for our sakes, and working to gether for our good, and he will nevei leave us nor forsake us, how can it be any thing but goodness and mercy all the w ay along to all who are the house of Christ f Any publisher who would like this manuscript, however, can obtain, it by writing me and inclosing postage, together with a promise to get the book thoroughly scattered among the masses prior to the great national conventions. national Suction Baigain Co. The water of Rorao is in many respects like that of Mexico, Mo. We fltopped there for lunch not long ago. Mexico, Mo., is one of the thriving and thoroughly prosperous towns of that prosperous and now rapidly grooving state. But the waters of Mexico, Mo,, like the board bill of a man who boarded at our house once while engaged in upbuilding his fellow man, still remains unsettled. The next flow brought a new supply ot fish, and after many centuries the beds ol today were formed. The deposit of each return of the tide is distinctly marked in the cliffs and on the sides of the canyons of the mountain streams. The deposit was raised to its present elevhtion by the same hidden forces which formed the mountains. —Rocky Mountain News. The author is not a man of letters, though ho has received quite a number, he says, from the division superintendent, and has attracted some attention in literary circles by having his pay garnisherd eighteen times in eighteen months. He has a style, he says, something like that of Laura Jean Libby, but he does not think so rapidly as she does. Eight pounds of manuscript in twenty-four hours is his highest record, so he says he knows that he is not so prolific as a writer as Laura is. 12 North Main Street, Oh, Lord God, give us more palm trees —men and women made for nothing but to be useful; dispositionsall abloom; branches of influence laden with fruit; people good for everything, as the palm tree. If kind H-ords are wanted they are ready to utter them. If helpful deeds are needed they are ready to perform them. If plans of usefulness are to be laid out they are ready to project them. If enterprises are to be forwarded they are ready to lift them. People who say "Yes! Yes!" when they are asked for assistance by word or deed, instead of "No! No!" Sew Torn Headquarters I W# f PITTSTON. PA. What makes that mother look no much older than she really isf You say she ought pot yet to have one gray line in her hair. The truth is the family was not always as well off as now. The married pair had a hard struggle at the start. Examine the tips of the forefinger and thumb of her right hand, and they will tell you the story of the needle that was plied day in and day out. Yea, look at both her hands, and they will tell the story qf the time when she did her own work, her own mending and scrubbing and washing. THE CAREWORN MOTHER. SPECIAL REDUCTION IN PRIGES Feet. The water of Mexico tastes some of Jefferson City, but has a strong flavor of Callaway county. We went to the Hail thou bright, thou swift advancing, thou everlasting Palm Sunday of the skies! Victors over sin and sorrow and death and woe, from the hills and valleys of the heavenly Palestine, they have plucked the long, broad, green leaves and all the ransomed—some in gates of pearl, and some on battlements of amethyst, and some on streets of gold, and some on seas of sapphire, they shall stand in numbers like tho stars, in splendor like the morn, waving their palms! I want to know where is the proper place to pnt your feet—on the ground, on the table or on a chair? Why I ask is that recently 1 had my hands in my trousers pockets (mind you, my own trousers and not anybody else's), and a fellow remarked that an Irishman never knew what to-do with his hands, anyway. Then he sat down, lit a cigar and elevated his feet ou the table. Whereat I waxed wroth, an 1 told him that if an Irishman did not know what to do with his hands I'd be eternally grilled if the average American knows what to do with his feet. , OF  WATCHES AND CLOCKS wash basin at the eating works and turned on the fancet, but soon had to poke out the water with a stick. At table I asked for a glass of water and the colored man and brother' went to this same fancet to get mv glass filled, A man in Mexico who had been drinking considerably, and was said to have his skates on a great deal of the time, told me while I steadied him up against the depot that his only reason /or drinking was that he had to cut away the sandbars in his system every few days or rfin aground. The Care of Lamp*. FOR A FEW WEEKS. But still he thinks with great rapidity, and many of his quick thoughts, he says, are just as good as any that he has. He has thought quite a number of thoughts almost identical with those thought by such men as Tolstoi and Thomas Brower Peacock, of Topeka, Kan., thus showing that he can if necessary think as good a thought as those men who have made a good living by it. Most of the mysteries that bother others do not bother me, because I adjourn them: but the mystery that really bothers me is why God made so many people who amouDt to nothing so far as the world's betterment is concerned. Ther stand iD the way. They object. They discuss hindrances. They suggest possibilities of failure. Over the road of life, instead of pulling in the traces, they are lying back in the breechings. They are the everlasting No. They are bramble trees, they are willows, always mourning; or wild cherry trees, yielding only the bitter; or crab apple trees, producing only the sour, while God would have us all flourish like the palm tree. Planted in the Bible that tree always means usefulness. Granted cleanliness and ordinary care, there can be no accident. To begin with, the lamp should be trimmed and filled with oil in the morning cvt'ry day. Once « week the oil container should be tLoroughly emptied out and the small amount of dirty oil thrown away. Next see that the burner is clean. Whenever the lamp burn* badly this should beat once looked to. asit often is the ciuse. If the burners an? boiled for a few minutes in soda and water at regular intervals there will be no difficulty iu the burning. Con't buy until you see our Prloet. The Largest Line in Town. Yea, look into the face and read the story of scarlet fevers and croups and midnight watchings, when none but God and herself in that house were awake, and then the burials and the loneliness afterward, which was more exhausting than the preceding watching had been, and no one now to put to bed. How fair she once was, and as graceful as the palm tree, but all the branches of her strength and beauty were long ago torn off and thrown into the pathway of her household 1.1. mm, uiDim IITCHIK To Train OlrU for Servants. A new undertaking, which womer. every where will be interested in, is the Indua irial association, which, however, is yet to be tried. It 1s a movement in which Mrs. John A. Logan and Mrs. E. B. Day, of New Orleans, are the leading spirits, and has for its aim the training of young colored girls for domestics. The idea is to open a home in Washington, which shall be Q&der the management of a board of directors and be self supporting, where competent, trained help can be procured. It Is evidently a step in the right direction toward solving that most vexed of ail household problems —ft rook Wp PmrU Furthermore, I have since seen in the street cars men who looked as if they ought to know better cross their legs and make a doormat of every man, woman or child that entered. It may save the pric« of a shine, but it is expensive to others. In clubs and other public places some put their feet on the rails of chairs, others on the table and some make mantel ornaments of them. This is particularly observable in the lean, long man. The fat man seldom offends in this respect. For heaven's sake start a pedaiian society and teach people, where to put their feet.—Cor. New York Bun. STATIONARY DEPARTMENT. Above all, he says that the book is a timely one, and when an author comes right out and says that his book is timely you must admit it. I would print it for him myself, but the Little Gem printing press which I am doing all my publishing with now is in nse. I loaned it to a Kansas man, who is using it to print a stud book and mark his linen. Fine Tablets, Papeterles, Teache Next see that the wicks fit exactly. For this purpose, when new wicks are required, the lamp burner should always be sent. Some people buy their wick by guess, a most foolish plan, for not only must it be of the right width, but also of the right thickness, so as to allow of the oil reaching the flame properly, and also to let the wick be turned up or down easily. Another thing to ascertain is if the wick is worn out. A lamp should have a fresh wick •very month at least. Be careful before fitting in a new wick to see that the latter is perfectly dry. It should be placed for ten or fifteen minutes on a hot plate before fixing it iu the lamp, so as to remove any moisture. Mexico is at the conflnenco of the Alton branch with the Wabash railroad. The branch, a« it is called, is h road which runs from Cedar City, opposite Jefferson City, or Jeff, as it is called, to Mexico. In starting from Jeff we got on a fonr horse 'bns at the hotel, filling it inside and climbing to the deck ami covering the entire ontside to a depth of fonr feet. Bibles, Blank Books* Inks, Rubber Stamps, &c. 108 6heeta Fine Linen Paper 25 oents. Enoelopee 10 cente. Alas! that sons and daughters, themselves so straight and graceful and educated, should ever forget that they are walking today over the fallen strength of an Industrious and honored parentage. A little ashamed, are you, at their ungrammatical utterance? It was through their sacrifices that you learned accuracy of speech. Do you lose patience with them because they are a little querulous and complaining? But how little any of us or all of us accomplish in that direction. We take twenty or thirty years to get fully ready for Christian work, and in the afterpart of life we take ten or twenty years for the gradual closing of active work, and that leaves only so little time between opening and stopping work that all we accomplish is so little an angel of God needs to exert himself to see it all. 25 L' Hti Contribution. E8TATE OF LUCY M. BEA8E, L*TE OF" the Borough of Wast Pittston, Deceased. CASES CURED™* cured ir UNCOM-I ■ Z ■* ORGANIC! KM rasntl WANT H  OF V 1 ll Bxaminafonfrtt6ymail.■!■ P.HAROLD HAYC8 BUFFALO, N. r. Priest—Pat, there's a hole in the roof of the church, and I am trying to collect enongh money to repair it. Come, now, what will- yon contribute? Pat—Me services, sor! Priest—What do you You're no carpenter. The Bl|ht People in the Bight Placet The "Brewers" shomld to "Malta" go. The "Boobies" all to "Scilly." The "Quakers" to the "Friendly Isles." The "Furriers" to "Chill." The little, snarling, caroling babes. Who break onr nightly rest. Should be packe4 off to "Babylon," To "W'-laad or to "Brest." Letten testamentary upon the above named estate having toengrantei to the undersigned, all persons indebted to sntd estate are requested to make payment and those having cleats or aamanda to present the same without delay to We rode some distance to the ferry across the Missouri, sometimes riding on fonr wheels and then gayly tooling along on one. I could feel my late hair turning gray. Improving a Dog, Lady—Why did yon have your dog*« tail cat off? I guess you have forgotten how querulous and complaining you were when you were getting over that whooping cough or that intermittent fever. A little annoyed, are you, because her hearing is poor and you have to tell her something twice F She THE GOSPEL OF USEFULNESS. J08EPH L. CAKE, Executor, FRANK C. MOSIEB, Attorney for estate. Boy—To make him more affectionate. Nearly everything I see around, beneath and above in the natural world suggests useful service. If there is nothing in the Bible that inspires you to usefulness, go out and study the world around you thfc mean, Pat? It is said that soaking the wicks in vinegar, and then drying them thoroughly, prevents all chance of smoking; but of this there should be no fear where the lamp la On the way we passed the humble cot of a colored woman who lives on the gorier and who ia the mother of two Lady—Hem! Did that do it? Boy—Yes'm. He can wag all the time now without gettin tired.—Good Newt, Pat—No, but if it rains next Soonday Oi'll sit ovar $9 hole.—Brooklyn Eagle.