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-SR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON THE
COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE RAIN, y
Wonderful t'l Bonk I
fob How thm Hlm4f -of It Una Made
Wk Moo . Into toMela JiMr Wwln
Over Tmmt Hnsd,
.. JSboobxtM, -Ju' ; Or. TaJmttKe'o ser
ason today itoaa kind of gospel in which
..few people believe.. -The weather is a com
jwi object of complaint and fault finding,
IMS Or. Talmage finds a gospel In it, which '
today he .proclaims from. -toe text. "Hath
the rain a father" Job xxxviii, 28.
This Book of Job has been the subject of.'
unbounded, theological wrangle. Men have
- made, it the ring in which, to. display their
ecclesiastical pugilism. Some say that the
Book of Job is a true history; others, that
it is an allegory; others, that.it is an epic
poem; others, tuat .it , Is a drama. SomeJ
,aay that Job lived eighteen hundred years
before Christ,' others say that he never
:. lived at alL Some say that the- author of
' this book was Job; others, David; others.
. ..Solomon. The discussion has landed some
in blank, infidelity.- Now, I have no trouble
' with the, Books of ,Job or Revelatjon the
, two most mysterious books, in the Bible
because of a rule I adopted some yearsago.
" I wade down into a Scripture passage as
long as, 1 can , (ouch bottom, aud when 1
cannot then 1 wade out. I used to wade in '
-until it was over my head and then I got
browned, i I .study. passage of. Scripture
a long as. H is a oouifort.ahd.help tony
oul, but when it becomes a perplexity and.
a spiritual upturning . I quit. ' In 'other'
words, we ought to wade in up to our
heart, but never 1wade In 'until .it is Over
' our head. No' man should ever expect to
swim across this great ocean of divine
. truth.. I go down into that ocean as I go
' dowD" into the Atlantic ocean at East
Hampton, Long Island,' just-far enough to
bathe; then I come out. I never . had any
idea that with my weak band and foot I'
could strike my way clear ,over to Liver-,
pool.
GOD'S MTSTKKIOUS OOTBKNMKNT. -
1 suppose, you . understand . your family
, Ceoenjogy.-, You .know something about
i your parents,' your grandparents; - your
(reat grandparents. Perhaps ypu(. know!
wnere tuey mra uorn,-or wun .tney- uiwu.'
Have you ever studied the parentage of
the shower, "Hathjapt the rain, a father?"
This question is not asked by a poetaster
ex a scientist.. but, by ,he head o& the ,uni
veraeji To bumble and to uavevjob God
ska him fourteen .questions: About the
world's architecture, about, the ..refraction
of the sun's rays, about theidesaboutihej.
now crystal, about the lightnings, and
then he arraigns him with' the interroga
tion of the text, "Hath the rain a father?"
With the scientific wonders of the rain I
have nothing to do, ,'-. A . niinister get
through with that kind of sermons within
. the 4lmti three, years, and. if he .has piety
enough be get through with it. to the first
three months. A sermon has come to me
to mean one w rd of four letters, "help!''
Ton all knowxuat .the rain, is not an or-
' phan. You know it is. not cast out of the
Kates of heaven a' foundling. You would
answer the question of my text in the af
rmative. .. ..':
fiafeiy housedlnring'the storm, you hear
the rain beating against the window pane.
and you find it searching all the crevices
,. of the window sill. , It first comes down in
: solitary drops, pattering the dust; and then
it deluges the fields-and-angere-uie moun
tain torrents, and makes the traveler im
.piore shelter. ..You know that the rain is
wot n accident of the world's .economy
.Too know it was born of. the, cloud. You
know it was rocked in the rradle of the
wind. You know it was sung to sleep by
the storm, xou know that it a flying evan
gel from heaven to earth v.You know jt ia
the gospel of the weather. Y ou know that
God is its father.
,.,If. tbb&st ibe.true, then bow .wicked .is oar
murmuring about climatic 'change. '. The
first eleven Sabbaths after 1 entered the
aoinistry it stormed. Through the week
it was clear feather, but on. the Sabbaths
the old country "meeting "bouse looked
hk Noah's ark before it landed. A few
drenched people sat before a drenched pas
tor; but most of the farmers Btayed at
home and thanked God that what was bad
t .for. tie church was good- for- the crops.
' committed a good deal of sin in those days
in denouncing the weather. Ministers of
the Gospel sometimes fret about stormy
Sabbathspr . hob Sabbaths, . or., incitement
Sabbaths.- v. They forget the fact that- the
, same God who ordained the Sabbath and
sent forth his ministers to announce sal
ration also ordained the weather. "Hath
the raia a father?' j ' t ,,. -.. HJ
IMCE88ANT COMPLA1KT8 OF THE WEATHER.
Merchants, also, with their stores filled
with new goods, and their clerks hanging
idly around the counters, commit the same
transgression. There have been., seasons
j "when .the .whole spring and fall trade has
been ruined by protracted wet weather.
The merchants then - examined - the
"weather probabilities": with more interest
than they read their Bibles.' They watched
for a patch of blue sky. They went com
plaining to the store and came complain
ing home again. In all that season of wet
feet and dripping garments and impassa-
,, ble-streets.tbey uvej onoe asked the ques-.
Won, "Hath the rain a father?"
So agriculturists commit this sin. There
is nothing, more-annoying than-to have
.'.. planted corn. rot in the ground because of
too much moisture, or hay all ready for the
mow dashed of .a. -shower, of wheat al
. cnost ready for the sickle spoiled with the
rust. How bard it is to bear the agricul
tural disappointments. God-has infinite
resources, but I do not think he has capao-
Atj, to make . weather j to please . alL the
' farmers;: t Sometimes it is too. bat, or. it is
, too cold; tt is too wet, or it is too dry;, it is
too early, or r it ,1s too late. . They- forget
.;' that the God who promised seed time and
harvest, summer and winter, -cold and
heat, also ordained all theclimatic changes.
There is one question that onght to.be
-written on every barn, on every fence, on
every haystack, on every , .farmhouse.
"Hath the rain a father?"
If wo only, knew: what a, vast, enterprise
it is to' provide appropriate weather for
m this world we would, not be. so critical of
the Lord. . Isaac Watts at ten years of age
complained, that he did pot like the hymns
that were. sung in- the . English chapel.
"Well," said his father, "Isaac, instead of
. .your complaining about the hymns, go and
make hymns that are better." . And he did
-- 4fO and make . hymns .that .were. better.
.Now, I say to you if you do not like the
-weather get up a weather -company; .and
have a president, and, a secretary, -and
treasurer, and a board of directors, and ten
million dollars of stock, and then prpvid
r weather that will suit' us all. .-There is
- man who as a weak head, and he cannot
stand the glaraof the sun. . You must have
a cloud always .hovering over him.
I like the sunshine; I cannot live without
. plenty, of sunlight,, so you tnust alway
have enough light for me. Two shipi
jutet in mid-Atlantic. The one is going to
S liMt-.. U. ' 1 1
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iwioouiim; te
BouthaaHta ii: Jiiwui-i'
New York Provide weather that, while
Uti 1aW..."are IMpVit fat -iwit a headshwar.ef tearful motiQn4. Yea, there lis a ,
wind for the other. There is a farm that !
is dried np tor the lack of rain, and there !
-ipleaare party-going-iout f o a field ex
cursion." Provide -weather that" will suit
the dry farm and the pleasure excursion.
JMOr-sirs, I will not take one dollar of stock
in your weather company. .There is only
one Being in the universe who knows
enough to provide the right kind of weath
for this world. Hath , the rain a fa
ther?"
GOD tB IS FINITE ,1S INKINITKSIMALS. v
My text also', suggests God's minute su
pervisal. You see the divine Sonship in
every . drop, of ; raijL ,1 he jewels of the
shower are not flung. away,, by a spend
thrift who knows not how many he throws
or where they fall. '-They are all shining
princes of heaven, .They all have an eter
nal lineage.- rTbey are all the children of a
king,,, .'Hath., the, rain a father?' , Well,
then.1 say if. God .takes -notice of every
minute raindrop he. will take notice of the
most insignificant .affair of my 1li- - " '
the., astronomical i view . of things that
bothers me. --" " ; -. . -.
We look- up into tbe night, heavens, and
a bav Wnplitsl wnrldat" Anil hnwinKiff
we say.. .VWorldsl worlds!" and. row lnxig
nificant we feell We stand at the foot of
Mount (Washington or Mont .Blanc,, and
we feel thai we are only Insects, and then
we say to ourselves, i .Though the world is
so large, the sun is one million four hun
dred thousand times larBGr." ' "Ohl" .we
say.
it is no use, if God. wheels, that great i
mac
ichinery through immensity he will not ! he h'ave ,eft ,ns ana the8Q motherles8 chil
ce the trouble to look down at me." lu- ! j.
take I
fidel
conclusion. Saturn. Mercury -and
uap-wrare no mo rouuueu ami wtagneu v.
trt?
the globules on a lilac bush the morning "
terashower. '
God Is no more In magnitudes than he is
in mintttias.
If he has scales to weigh the 1
mountains, he has balances delicate enough
to weigh the infinitesimal. - You can no
more see him through the telescope than -
yon can see him through the microscope; no
more when 'you look up than when you
Jook down. -.Are not., the hairs of your'
head all numbered? And if Himalaya has
God," Hath not the rain a father?" I
take this, doctrine .of a particular Provi
dence, and 1 tnrust it into tne very midst
iof your veryday lite, rlf : God fathers a-fc
raindrop, ta..tnere, anyttung eo insignia
cant in your affairs that God will not
father that? -; i !
When Druyse, the gunsmith, invented
the needle gun, which decided the battle'
f S&dow&t was ita-mere accident? When
farmer's boy showed Blucher a short cut
-by which he could bripg his army np soon
enough- to decide Waterloo lor- England,.
was it a. mere aecideat?..When Lord Byron
ook Apieee of moaey and tossed it up to
-decide whether or not he should be' a(H-
ance4 to Miss Mlllbank, was, U, a mere ac
cident which side pf the money was up and.
which) waa down? . ; When -be. XJbristian
army - was besieged at.Beziers, and a
jlrunk,en drummer came; in at midnight
and rang the alarm bell, not knowing what
be waa doing, but - waking up the host in
time . pa fight; then enemies . that moment
arriving! was it an accident?
Av hen in one of the Irish wars a starv
ing mother, flying with, her starving child,
sank down, and- fainted on the rocks in the
night and her hand fell on a warm bottle
of milk,.did that just happen so? God is
either .in the affairs .of men or our religion
is worth-nothing at all, -and you had bet ter
take it away -from- ns and instead of this
.Bible, wh.ich teaches the doctrine, give Uff
a secular book,, and let- us, as the. famous
Mr. Fox, the member of parliament!, in his
last" "hour, cry uuc "Read me the eighth
book of Virgil '
Ohl my- friends, let us rouse up to an ap
preciation of the fact that all the affairs of
Our life., are under a king's, command, and
under a-father's watch. Alexander's war
horse. Bucephalus, would allow anybody'
to .mount bun, when he was unharnessed,
but as soon-as they put on that war horse,
Bucephalus, the saddle and the trappings
of the conqueror he would allow no one.
but Alexander,- to. touch' hinvU -And if a'
soulless horse could- bave'so much pride in '
bis ownnfl; shall not We immortals exult in
the fast that we are owned by a king?
"Hath the rain a father?"
GOD'S WATS" ARE PAST FINDING OUT.
A train mv subject teaches me that God's
dealings -with ns -are "inexplicable. : That
was the original force of my text. The
rain was a great mystery to the ancients.
They could not understand how the water
should get into the cloud, and getting
there, how it should be suspended, or fall
inz, why it should come down in drops.
Modern science comes along and says there
are two portions of air of different tetn
perature. and they are charged with mois
ture, and the one portion of air decreases
in temperature so the water may no longer1
be held -tn; vapor; and, it falls. And they
tell us that some of the clouds' that look
to be only as large as a man's hand, and to'
'am; almost' Qniet In the heavens, are great
-mountains of mist four thousand feet from
base to top. and that they rush miles a
ainutej , S . T f. S-. T .'i rr. r.
But after all the brilliant experiments of
Dr. James Hutton, and Saussure, and other
scientists there is an infinite mystery
about the rain. Ther is art ocean of the
nnfathomable in every raindrop, and God
ays today as he said in the time of Job,
If you cannot understand one drop of
-rain, do not -be-wurprised if my dealings
with you are inexplicable." Why does that
aged man, decrepit, beggared, vicious, sick,
of the. world and the world sick of him.
live on, while .here is. a, man in midlife.
consecrated to God,-hard' working, useful
in every respect, who dies? Why does that
old gossip, gadding along the street about
everybody's business but her own, have
such good health, while the Christian
mother, with a flock of little ones about
her whom she is preparing for usefulness
and for heaven -the mother who you think
could not be spared an hour, from that
household why. does she lie -down' and
die with a caacerf . :. i -i u . ! ;i . .4
-.Why .does that man, selfish to. the ..core,
go on adding fortune to fortune, consum
ing everything . on himself, continue to
prosper, while' that man, who has been
giving ten '-per cent, of all. h?s income
LjiO .God and the church, goes Into bank
ruptcy? Before we make stark fools of
ourselves, let us stop pressing Itbis ever
lasting "why;"- Let "us worship Where we
cannot understand. Let a man take that
one question,, "Why?" and follow it far
enough, and push it, and he will land in
wretchedness and perdition We want in
our theology fewer interrogation marks
and more exclamation points. Heaven is
the -place.' for -explanation. ' Eartli is the
.place for trust;, .If you cannot understand
so minute a thing as a raindrop, how can
you expect to understand God's dealings
J'Hatb the rain a father?" f
""' Again, my text makes me think that the
rain of tears iB of divine origin. Great
clouds of trouble sometimes hover over: os.
They are black, and -they are gorged, and
they are thunderous. They are more por
tentous, i than , Salvator or Claude ever
painted clouds of poverty, of persecution, -
r bereavement. - They hover over us, and
the get darker and blacker, and after
awhile a tear starts, and we think by an
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- extra 'sweasos' o'fche .eyelid- to wtop it.
Others follow, and after awhile there is a i
rain of ..tears. . "Hath that rain a father?". 1
god sees odr tears. ,1
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"Oh,"-you say,
tear is nothing but a !
drop of limpid fluid secreted by the lach
ryma gland it is only a sign of weak
eyes.". -Great mistake. It.is one of the
Lord's richest benedictions - to the world.
There are people In Blackwell's . Island in
sane asylum, and at Utica, and at all the
asylums of this land, who were demented
by the fact that they could not cry at the
right time. Said ' a- maniac in one of our
public Institutions, under a. Gospel sermon
that started -the tears: "Do- you see that
tear? that is the first 1 have wept- for
twelve years. I think it. will help my
brain." . . ' " ' . . .
, , There are a great many in the grave who
could not ' stand any longer - under the
glacier of trouble. If that glacier had only
melted into - weeping they could have en
dured it. -There have been, times in your
.life when you would havekiven the world,
if you had possessed it, for one tear...' You
could shriek, you could blaspheme, but you
eould not cry. Have you never seen a man
holding the hand of a dead- wife. who.. had
been all the world to him? The temples
livid with excitement,- the eye dry and
frantic, no moisture on the upper or lower
lid.; .You saw there were bolts of- anger in
the cloud, but no rain. To your Christian
comfort, be saidi "Don't talk to me about
God; there .is no God, or if there is I hate-
.But a few hours or days after, com-
HOme lead pencil that she owned
fn tA - HAinA ' lAiAPa tar lit ft It aha Wmfji
h ,, ,vaB w.v 1ro homK
outcry that appals, there bursts the foun-
of aDd as the sunliirht of God's
-mx-Uniy r.rik. ihat fountain of tears.
you find out .that .it is. a tenderhearted.,
.merciful, pitiful and-all; compassionate
God who was the father of that rain. "Oh,"
yon say, "it is absurd to think ' that God
is going to .watch, oyer tears.' No, my
friends.. There are three or four kinds of
them .that God counts, bottles and eter
nizes. - First, there are all parental tears,
and there are . morn of these than of .any
Other kind, because the most of the race die
ing ail arouna tne woria. - i n ey never get
over it. They may live to shout and sing
afterward, but there fat always a corridor
is the soul that is silent.'thongb it once re-
sonnded. : -.'
My parents never mentioned the death
of a child who died fifty years before with
out a -tremor- in the: voice and a sigh, oh,
how deep: fetched) It-was. better-she should
die. lilt was a mercy she: should die--itShe
.would i have,--been a lifelong invalid.- But
you; cannot, argue, away a parent's-grief.
How often; you -hear ithe moan, "Oh, my
child, my child!'? Then there are the filial
team. - Little -children -soon get over the
loss of parents. They . are . easily . diverted
with a new -toy. -But -where Is the man
that has come to thirty or -. forty , or fifty
years, of .age, who can think of -the. old
, people .without haying all the. fountains of
. his soul stirred up? You. may have had to
take care of her a good . many, years, but
you never can forget bow she used to take
care. of. you.., r..,. ',-...t , .
i-.There have been many sea' captains .con
verted in our church, and the peculiarity
of them -was- that they were nearly all
prayed ashore .by their mothers, though
the mothers went into; the dust soon, after
they went to sea. Have yon never heard
' an' old, man in delirium of some ' sickness
call for bis ' mother? The." fact is we get
so used to calling for her the first ten years
of our life we never get over .it, and when
! 'she goes away, from us it makes' deep sbr-
' row. You sometimes, perhaps, in. days of
trouble and darkness, when the world
would say, "You ought; to be able to. take
care of yourseir'-r-you wake up from your.
dreams finding yourself saying, ' Oh, moth
erl. mother!" Have these tears . no - divine
origin? Why, take-all the warm hearts
that ever beat in all lands, and in all ages,
and put them together and' their , united
throb would be weak .compared with -the
throb of. God's' etdrnal sympathy.' Yes,
God also is father of all that rain of re
pentance. ; ' 11
Did you ever see a rain of repentance? Do
you know what it fat that makes a man re
pent? I see people going around -trying to
repent; - They . cannot repent.- ..Do you
know no man can repent until God helps
him to repent?, How do I know? By this
passage, "Him hath God-exalted to be a
prince and a Saviour to give repentance."
Oh. it is a tremendous hour when one
wakes up and saysi"! am a -bad man
have not sinned against the laws of the
land, I but 1 have wasted my life; God
asked me for ! myr-servioes--and I haven't
adven-those, services.. . Oh, my- sins; God
forgive i me.1.' When that tear . starts it
thrills all heaven. An angel cannot keep
his eye off it, and thechurch of God assem-
blee around; and there is a commingling of
tears, and God is the Father of that rain.
-the Lord, long suffering, merciful and gra
cious. - jt ; .v ui-j-iit. x:.-- '.;- i
,; "THE CRT OF A MOTHER'S HEART
'"In a religious assemblage a man arose
and said: "I have been a very wicked man;
1 broke my mother's heart. I became an
Infidel , ' but- I have seen my evil way,
and I have "surrendered' my heart to
God. but it is a grief that I never can
get over that, my parents should never
have heard of toy salvation; I don't know
whether they are living or dead." '-While
yet . he was standing in the audience
voice from the' gallery said.Oh, my son.
my sonf... Ie looked up aud he recognized
heri It was his old mother. . She had been
-praying for-him -a-great many yea rev and
when at the foot of the cross the prodigal
aoe And tbe-praytng mother embraced each
other, there was a rain, a tremendous rain,
Lof Utars, sud -God-waj the-Fathar- of-fchose
tears. Oh, that God would break us down
with -ai; sense: of. our ein, and- then tift us
with an-appreciation of .bis mercyi-. Tears
over our wasted, life. .Tears over a grieved
'spirit. ' Tears over an injured father. Oh,
'that God would nidve"' upon- this 'audience
with a great wave of religious emotionl
The king-of Carthage was dethroned.
His people rebelled against hitv. He was
diiveh9intbcbanishment.ii -Hia wife and
children were outrageously abused.: Years
went,. by, And the king of Carthage made
many friends.- He gathered 'up a' great
raiy.;Ml -marched again toward-. Car
thage.. ; Reaching the gates of Carthage
iuuuhi saa vareoeaueo, una vvim rupes
around their 'necks, crying, for- mercy.
They said, "Wm abused you and we abused
your family; but we cry for mercy. v ;The
,king of Carthage looked" down npon the
'people from'' bis chariot ' and said: "I came
to bless,! didn't' come to destroy." You
drove me -out,-but this day T pronounce
pardon for all. the people. ; Open the gates
and let: the i my come in," . Tha- king
marched in and '.tookj the throne, and thev
people alishouted. 'Libng live the" king!" -'
ivly friends, - you - have . driven tne lxra-
1 Jesus -Christ, the- King of tbei churchy
away irom your heart; you have oeea mau
treating him all' these years; hut he comes
back today. He stands in front of the gate
j -O.i .'i u- a. u..'. .Riti.::aL:'J . .
'of youronL-, If yon will only pray for his
paraon ue win meet yon with ,hw gracious
punt ana ne wui say: '.r thy sins and thine
iniquities t win rcmemoer no more"upen
wlae lne i win iue tne tnrone. my
..A.. T t n ... t a .1 .it.
f r.
from the old, ' there will be a ram of tears.
and God will be the father of that mini .
J". - A Literary Cariosity. "
A veritable literary curiosity is the invi
tation to the annual dinner of the Fort
nightly Shakespeare club in New York.; It
reads this way: ; , . . . - : '
"Good friends.1 Sweet '-friends1 '"(Julius
Caesar),; 'tis hot June (Henry TV), (but)
there .are sweet rases -in--the summer air
(Love's Labor Lost), (which) sweetly rec
ommends itself unto bur gentle senses
(Macbeth).-.' 1--'--1 ------
"We hold a 'feast (AOdsnmiher -Night). "
It will be pastime passing' excellent (Tam
ing of the Shrew). - The ix-nuty of the king
dom will be there (Henry Vlll). Please
grace us with your company (Macbeth).
You shall be welcome (Pericles).
"Excuses shall not be udmitted (Henry
IV), and so fail notour feast (Macbeth). -;
"That you lo-love me I am nothing Jeal
ous (Julius Cteear), and so, 1 pray you,
come, sit down and do your best (Winter's
Tale). . , -. . - ' . , . ; - -'.:.:
"We know each - other well (Trolius and
Cressida).. let's take the ' instant by the
forewarrl top (All's Well), frame our minds
to mirth and merriment; which bars a
thousand harms and lengthens life (Tam
ing or the Shrew).- i We'll e'en) le red with
mirtb(Winter's Tale), and fleet the time as
carelessly as they -did in the golden time
(As Yon Like It). ; :: :.:-
"But wherefore: waste I time to counsel
thee, (Two Gentlemen). Brief let me be
(Hainlet). If' 'twere done. When 'tis done
were well it were done quickly (Mac
beth), .-.'' '. ;. ' -; - ;' .
Writ it straight (As You Like It), a
rare letter (Twelfth flight) (aye): a fine
volley of works and quickly shot off (Cym
beline). .' .' ' V ' " .'"'..T'.".'"".'.'
t"(Say) It is near dinner time (Two Gen
tlemen), I am as constant as' the; northern
star (Midsummer Night) and will be there
(Two Gentlemen)."- ,' - .
I'll " drink the . words you Bend and
thank you for your pains (Cymbeline).
"When all is done (Macbeth) (each guest
shall say) night hath been too brief (Troil-
us and Cressida). I am yours forever (Win
ter's Tale).. Adieu till we meet (Cymbeline).
-.-i-J - -.--' AJSTS A -KANBALL DlEHt, '' '
President of the Fortnightly Shakespeare.'
"Yet here's a postscript (Twelfth Night).
Open- thy purse that the- money (for- the
dinner) may be at once delivered (Two Gen
tlemen). ' Defer no time; delays have dan
gerous ends (Henry VI). A. B. D."
Philadelphia Enquirer.
As Strange as a Romaafse. ,
These are days of great and surprising
financial boosts. . - . , - i i ''; -. .
Twelve years ago a young man lived in a
Maine town. His parents were poor, so
poor that they- required help from, the
town. , The young man himself was erip
pled by rheumatism, was discouraged, and
instead of hustling for the wherewithal
spent his time in Idleness and fishing. - For
several years he, too, was supported by
contributions from relatives and the town
fathers. - ' The current belief was. "He will
never amount to anything." "
Well, did he? He cut loose from his
home and'- associates,- borrowed enough
money to carry him to Massachusetts and
struck in for fame and fortune with all the
vim and' trrif for which thoroughly awak
ened Maine boys are famous.""
That was' twelve! years ago: " Today be
can draw his check' lor $500,000; and unless
indications are amiss will be a' millionaire
within five years. ; He is one of the leading
shoe manufacturers in Brockton, - Mass.
and every dollar of bis fortune was won by
bis own endeavors.- tie has made a pres
ent of a handsome new school house to his
uative town. - He still owns and pays taxes
on the old home; place,-and ; there isn't a
man in town but who Is proud to point out
the house to strangers and. tell t lie story of
the man who. has made a big bright, mark
In the bustling world. Lewiston Journal,
Tha Coffee dp Bulnew Therakometer.
Germans began drinking -water during
the Seven Years war (175tMJ3), stolidly
scoffed at oppoafliou to the 'practice-, and
hated Napoleon ali the more for restricting
it by his "Continental Blockade."' U ni
versal peace was accompanied by universal
indulgence in the exhilarating cup. - Amerl
cans took' kindly to its contents. and by
constantly -' enlarging : demand Imparted
powerful : impetus to eottee coramerce and
culture. Rise in prices during the : great
civil war "diminished the consumption
about two hundred' thousand tons'v -But
for that it is asserted' that "the world
would not have had coffee enough." -1
Demand rose with: every Union victory.
and. fell with, every Union defeat. -, Con
sumption increased 80.84 .percent, in. 1864,
17.5 per cent, lo 1865, 23.8 per cent. in. laoo,
and 27.25-per jcent. ,-h 867. ; Removal, of
duties and. financial prosperity inereased
the call i fori the aromatic berryi and ad
ranee - in price uet-auacof short crops or
syndicate operations, diminished It., The
conee cup is a onsiness tnermometer in tne i
Ubited '' States. - Richard : Wbeatiey a
Harper's Weekly.: r ;.- ; -:',;.;
TIm tmeit ilM Tank In .the World. ; -'
.'The erection of an immense gas holder
said to be the largest lit the world is now
under, way for the East Greenwich station
in London. . Soma idea of the magnitude
of the structure may be obtained when' It
Is stated that it will have a capacity of 13,
000,000 feet of gas; that It will be 800 feet
in diameter, with' an altitude' of 180 feet
when at its' full ' height; that Its total
weight will be 8,200 tons,' of which '1,840
tons will be of wrought iron, 60 tons of
cast iron and 830 tons of- steel, and- that it
will require. 1,200 tons of coal to fill It with
gas. For the reception of the gigantic gas
ometer a concrete tank 803 feet in diameter
and 81 feet G inches deep has been made, at
a cost of. $75,000 the greater part. 'of the
work having been done by the stokers, who
would-1 otherwise ' have1 been ; discharged
during- the summer months.) - The cost of
the holder alone its manufacture, erection
and ' completionwill ; be $205,975. New
York Telegram. p - V
-i.O i C 'Vaci Tlme -Eating : Ecca. '
,' Edward Smith, a Wood Carver in the em
ploy of the Gilbert Clock company, made a.
wager with -one -of the workmen 'that he
could eat. twenty-four - eggs in -three min
utes. The contest between Smith aod the
eggs cam ioff Sat&rday'-afterno6n, and
was won by Smith.- As the bet was- for only
one dollar it looks' decidedly i though
Smith had the worst'-of It Wacerbury
American.- :c. :-
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Advantag-e of a Big. Wedding-. ...
There is a certain - frankness of tone in
this sentehed from a rtteut article by Mrs.
Florence Howe Hall. "One advautag of o
Urge wedding over a small tne and there-
lore, in most cases,. 01 a church .wedding,
is that the bride 'in 'likely to receive a
greater number of presents." -
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is here and has come to stay. It hopes
to win its way to; public" favor by ener
gy, iuslyfarnierit;1 jaM to thisnd
wea& ttot
if saiisned with its course 1 a generous
support:.'' ' '.--.'i"
The
four pages of six columns each, will be
issued ' every evening:, except Sunday,
and will be delivered in the city, or sent
by mail' for the moderate sum of fifty
cens a month.
will be to advertise
city, and adjacent country, ; to assist in
developing1 our industries, in extending
and opening up;: new channels' for pur
tradey'dri'-'Secum
helping T to take her prop
er! position -as the y
Leading-
City of
The ijpaper; bhaiiy and weekly will
be independent ;' in 'pblitics, aiid in Tits
criticism of political ' matters,1 as; in ; its
handling of local affairs, it will be 1
JUST.
"We will endeavor
cal news; ''and we as
oi ouT 'Ouject ana course De iormeairom
tne contents of the paper, and not from
rash assertions of outside parties. j
THE WEEKLY,
sent to any address for $1.50 per; year.
It ;w;ill Contain ; frbm four ; to six eight
cpltinin pages, and we shall endeavpr
to i make it ihe equal of the best. -j!sk
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Office, N V W; Cor. Wash i rigtori arid Second Sts.
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The . fi!t . ciitv of the Inlakd 'Emnire is sittiated at
the head of navigation on
is a thriving, OTGsperous
' ..." ' - ITS TERRITORY. V :- .
it is the suprjiy city for
cxiltxiral an Vgruzing conhtry, , its, trade , reaching' 'efcg
far south as Snmnier ijaKe, a distance 01 over tve
hundred miles. ', ,:. . . : . . . j ' .
.-,THE LARGEST WOOL MARKET. . "
-The rich' srraziiLsf country' alone the '"eastern.. slope
of ;thq the Cascades, furnishes-, pasture for thousands
of sheep, the "wool from -which finds market here..;; i
uUnei ' Jjaiies; is xneTiargesx original 'wuux Hiij.ppig:
point , in1 America, i atout 5,0OU,uuu pounas oeing
shipped last year. , i7. ...... ..
:, '-:r;:, ;; - T.rrs prodijcts. .,x-. .
;7The salmon' fisheries are the finest on the Columbia
yielding 'this yekr a revenue of $1,500,000 , hv-hich' can
and iU.Tfje.jnoxe, tnan doubled in he near .future.' '
'. ,T. prpducts of .the eautifulKlickital " valley, find
market here, and the country south .and east has this
year filled the "warehouses, and all available storage j
places to overflowing with.their products. ' '
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It is the richest city of its size on the coast arid it& ;
money is scattered over and is being . used to develop,
more farming country than is tributary to any other ,
city'EasternOregon,,,.;,..; u .v--;:i'v ;
v: Its situation is unsurpassed! .s. Its . climate:; delight- ,
ful! Its possibilities incalculable! Its resources un
limited! And on these comer stones she stands.
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the resources of the
Eastern; Oregon.
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to give all the ' lo
that your criticism
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