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llll IIBIIII The Oregon Scout. yol. III. UNION, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTE3VIBK 18, 18S0. NO. 12. V THE OREGON SCOUT. An Independent weekly Journal, issued ovory Saturday by JONES & CHANCEY, Publishers nnd Proprietors. A. K. .To.va", I Kdltor. f 1 II. Ciiaxckv, I Foreman. RATES OK mtSCKIPTION: One copy, one year 5 1 r, " ' Six moiit Its 1 'J11 " " Three months "I Invariably cash in advance If by nny chance subscriptions aro not paid till end ot jnar, two dollars will bo oharucd. Holes of advertising mado known oil appli cation. Correspondence from nil parts of the county tollcited. Address all communications to A. K. Jones, Kditor Oregon teout, Union, Or. Lodge Directory. Gram Hosiic Vai.i i:v I.odoe, No. Mi. A. F. and A. JI. Meets on tho second and fourth Saturdays of eacli month. O. F. Hem,. V. M. C. E. Davis, Secretary. Union Lodok, No. :. I. 0. O. 1 Hegulnr meetings on Friday evening of each week nt their hall In rnlon. All brethren in (rood standing are invited to attend, lly order of tho lodi). S. W. Lo.NO, N. G. G. A. Tuomi'SOv. Secy. Church Dlicctory. M. E. Ciinirii Divlno Borvico every Sunday nt 11 a. in iuhIT p. in. Sunday school at 11 p. in. Prayer meeting every Thursday orenlnir atfi:). Ukv. Watson, Pastor. PatstiVTr.ittAX Cnriim llopulnr church services every Sabbath morning and evening. Prayer niectlnir each week on Wednesday evening. Sabbath school overy Sabbath at 10 a. in. Hev. II. Vkiino.n Hick, Pastor. St. John's KrisroPAt, Cnuitcii Scrvico every Sunday at 11 o'clock a. m. Hev. W. H. Powem,, Hector. C'ovmty OJHecr. Judpo A. C. Craig Sherltr A. b. Saunders Clerk 11. F. Wilson Treasurer A. F. Henson School Superintendent J. L. Hlndmnn Surveyor E. Plmonls Coroner E. H. Lewis COMMlSSIONEItS. Geo. Acklcs Jno. Stanloy State Senator L. 11. Hlnehart Itl'.l'RKSnNTATlVES. F.T.Dick E. E.Taylor City OHIccr. JInyor D. M. Hoes cou.NCti..Mi:v. P. A.Pursel W. f. Ileiiileman J.S. Elliott J. It. Thompson Jno. Kennedy A. Levy Heeordcr M. 1 Davis Marshal E. E. atos Treasurer J. I). Carroll Street Commissioner b. Eaton Departure of Trnlnw. Hecular east bound trains leave atttioOn. m. West bound trains leave at :'M p. m. 11 C O V V.SSi O N A 1. J. R. CUITES, ATTOKrVHY AT LAW. Collecting and probato practlco specialties OUIce, two doors south of Postolllce, Union, Oregon. R. EAKIX, Attorney at Law aofl Notary Pule. Oflieo, ono door south of J. II. Eaton's storo Union, Oregon. I. N. CROMWELL, M. D., Physician and Surgeon Offire. one door south ot J. 11. Eaton's storo, Union, Oregon. A. E. SCOTT, M. D Has iiormanen'.lv located at North Powder, wliorelid will answer all calls. C. A. BONIIAM RESIDENT DENTIST, UNION, - OREGON. Dentistry in n'l its branches. All opera tions warranted. Gold Filling n. Bpecwilty. Olllco Corner A nnd Main Streots. Al. R.VKKK. J. F. HAKK.t. RAKER & RAKER, Attorneys M Connsellors at Law, AM) REAL ESTATE AGENTS. LaGkANDE, - - OltlXSON. D. R. REES, Notary Public -AND- Conveyancer. OFFICE State Land Oflieo buildin"-, Union, Union County, Oregon. II. F. RURLEIGII, Attorney it Law, Il-al INinle atul CoIIt'Ctin;; AkciiI. Land Oflieo Business a Specialty. Oflieo at Alder, Union Co., Orotron. JESSE HAKDK8TY. J. W. EHELTO.V SHELTON & HARDESTY, attok:vi:v.s a'jf b.aw. Will practice in Union, Raker, Grant, rjnuitilw and .Morrow Counties, also in tli Supremo Court of Oregon, the Diatriat, Ohcuit and Supreme Courts of the UiiIUhI SUiUt. Mining ami Corporation busing n spe etelty. Ollices in L"ni..n anj Corunconla, Oregon. SHINGLES. Having leased the sliinplo mill belnnuins to L. 1!. Kinclmrt, we arc prepared to lur nisli n superior quality and make of shin gles at the following rates: Delivered nt Union, At tho Mills, $3.25 For M $0.00 Per Iff Wo respectfully solicit a share of the pntronaee. K01UNS A' KOHl-.K 1 A. L. COBB, M. D., physician m m&m. Having permanently locate 1 in Abler. Union county. Oregon, will he found r -.Hy to attend to rails in all the various town and settlements of tho Wallowa valley. Chrome EHf.cur.0. Mpoctalty. Sfi-My motto is: "Live and let live." in A. C. CRAIG, - - Proprietor (Union Depot, Oregon.) Splendid accommodations for conimcr- . J ..... . 1 .1. 11. rial men. Tables always auppiieu wiiu m beJ tho murhet affords. jriS-JIoT and C'oi.i) Mi.vnuAl, Haths"$S KEHTDCKY LIQUOR STORE AXD SOWA B'AC1'MIV. Cor, Main and I Sts., Union, OreROi SIIBMtllAN .Vlttl.IiV, lrop. Ikfanufactiircrs and dealers in Soda Water, Snrsnpnnlln, limber Aie, irami so(ia anti (.nauipauu viuti, ujii'i, Orders promptly tilled. G, W. BIGGESS, I. D. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, Union, Union County, Oregon. Ollicoon A street. Residenco threodoors south of tho Court House. Special attention given to Surgical prac lice. W. R.JOHNSON, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Main Street, Union, Oregon. Plans nnd Specifications for Dwellings. Darns and Dridges furnished FKKK OF CIIAKGK. Bridge Building a Specialty All kinds ot Cabinet Work neatly execu ted. Repairing done on short notice. None but tho best workmen employed and satisfaction guaranteed. Call and interview mo. FRUIT AND SHADE tit tLtJLj dc5 APPLE, PKAR, PLFM, PPvl'XH, PFACII APRICOT. CItAllAPPLi:, CIIKIUtY. SHRUBBERY AND SHADE TREES Of woll known varieties, sultablo for thin climate. Can also furnish foreign sorts at one-third tho price asked by eastern can vassers. 1 desiro to sell trees at prices that people can afford to buy. L. J. ROl'SK, Cove, Oregon r 132-134 TIM Mrsct, Pnrilaifl, Oregon TS a regular graduate in medicine; has been longer engagfd in tlio special trout mont of all Venereal. Sexual and Chronic Diseases than any other physician in the Wost, as city papers show, and old resi dents know; $1,000 Toward for any ease which he fails to cure, coming under ids treatment, by following ins directions. DIt. VAN is tho most succemful Catarrli, T.miL' and Tliroat Doctor in America. JI a will tell vou your trouble without asking VOU II hiURie Ijlicnuuii, nn a .t rJIUMAXKNTl TUH in me louowingcases: K'KUVOIIS DEH1LITY. SperuiatorrlKmi. Seminal Losses, Sexual Decay, Failing Momory. Weak Kyes, blunted ueveinp mont. Lack of Knergy, Iinpovermhed Illood, Pimples, Impediment to Marriage; also Rlood and Skin Diseases, Syphilis, Eruptions, Hair Falling, Hone i'ains. Swell ings, Sore Tliroat, Ulcers, Effects of Mor curv, Kidney nnd RIadder Troubles, Weak Hack, PurnhiR Urine, Incontinence, Gonor ha'ii, Gleet, Stricture, recoives searching troatiuent. prompt relief nnd cure for life. NERVOUS Diseases (with or without dreams), DUensed discharges cured prompt ly without hindrance to business. 1J0TII SEXES consult confidentially. If in trouble call or write. Delays aro dang erous. Disenres of tho Eye or Ear, Ulceration or Catarrh, internal or external, Deafness or Paralysis. Singing or Uoaring Xoines, Thickened Drum, etc., permanently cured. LOST MANHOOD perfectly restored. CANCEUS AND Tl'MOHS permanently removed without the knife or caustic. Medicine compounded and furnishrd to nil patients at olflee strictly pureand vege table. Guarantee of I'kiima.vknt ou res in all caves undertaken. Corinultution free nnd strictly rjnfldential. All correspon dence promptly attended to; medicine sent by express to any address tree Irom expos ure. Call or tuldrcsd Private DUpensary Nqk. 132-131 Third St., 1'ortluntl, Orrgon, Turms strictly caeh. Olllco hours 6 u, tu. Sr. wan Moncisca to b ji. m. w. capps, m. d:, Sargcon and Homcopatliic Pliysiciai!, Unio.v, OitnuoN. Will go to any part of Eastern Oregon when solicited, to perform operations, or for consultation. lUedlolnes FiiriiUIif-d Without Iixtra Oliarue. Olllco adjoining Jones llros.' Store. Gko. WitiniiT, President. W. T. WmniiT, CnshiT. UNION, OIIEGON. Does a General Hanking Dusiness. Days nnd sells exchange, and discounts com mercial paper. Collections carefully attended to, and promptly reported. BOSS cissa GBOSI in m c o bj) CD o " 1 o a o a 71 8 to a a esg a m (D 63 3 a rt D n o O S- rt p; rt g O u rt O fH (13 renal una Sum 5 (MC3 gam MASON & HAMLIN J'liexrellctl can Fnvo From f.'jfi to f 1 J on tho ptirclimo or an instrument by Liuyiii inrouuu V. T. IVKKJKT, Agent Uainn, Ogn Latsndry Qi3een. The Best Washing Machine in the World. S. M. WAIT, Proprietor. Vait llros., Agonts for Union County. This mnchiuo is without doubt the best in existence, nnd gives entii it satisfaction wherever tried. This machine is in stock at. I. II. EATON'S STOKE, where they ran be lioughb at any time. Try tho Laundry ijucen. k k k k k k Tonsorial Rooms Two doors south of .fones llros.' store, Union, Oregon. J. M. Joiinso.v, Pnoi'Mirroit, Hair cutting, fihaving nnd shampooing uone neatly and in mo Doat style. CITY :- MEAT v MAM Main Street, Union, Oregon. IlKNEON IiRO.'B . . PjlOI'JtlCTOUS. Keep constantly on hand BEEF, POKK, VEAL. MUTTON SAU- SAGE, HAMS, LAKD, ETC. IAL :- Union, Oregon. Dam. Cuandleu, PnorniKToa IInTing recently purchnaed this hotel and reflttwl it throughout, I am prepared to accommodate tho hungry public in first clasb style. Cull and sao iuu. Liuoi: Sau I'I.e Koomd lor tho Accomuodution o( oniinercial trarelcrs. mm,mm Orcrana yTvasoti LtSainim nanos Mta'''; Ml gf DEAR MEMENTOES. DR. TALMAGE ON SACRED HOME RELICS. Treasures Kept in tho Throno Koom of tho Heart. The Beloved Ohairs Used by lather nnd Mother. Patient Endurance of SulToring Taught by tho Invalid's Ohair. Fprial to the Kansn City Timr. Brooklyn', N. Y., Sept. 5. 'Hie Itcv. Dr. T. DeWltt TalmaKc's text to-day was I. Siumit'l, xx., IS: 'Thou Rhnlt he inlsscd, because thy feal will be empty." Following Is tho tcrtnou In f.dl: Set on the table the cutlery and chased sil verware of the imlnee, for Kluc Saul Mill give a state dinner today. A dl8thigui?hcd place is kept at the table for his son-in-law, a cele brated warrior, David hv nnme. The guests, jeweled and plumed, conic In nnd taho their places. When people aro Invited to a king's banquet they aie very apt to go. Hut before the covers aro lifted from the feast S.uil looks nnmml and llnds a scat vacant at the tnble. lie says within himself, or perhaps nuillbly: "What does this mean I Where Is my son-in-law? Where is David, the great warrior! 1 Invited him. I expected him. What! A va cant chair at a king's banquet!" Tho fset was that David the warrior had been seated for the last time at his father-in-law's table. The dijy before Jonathan had coaxed David to go and occupy that place at tlio table, say ing to David In the words of my text: "Thou fhalt be missed, because thy scat will bo empty." PEAK rAMII.IAi: 1"0SSKS8I0NS. The prediction was fullllled. David was missed. Ills scat, was cmptr. That ono va cant chair spoke louder than all the occupied chairs at the banquet. In almost every house the articles of furniture take a living person ality. That picture a stranger would not see anything remarkable cither in its design or execution, but It Is more to you than all the pictures of tho Louvre ami the Luxembourg. You remember w ho bought It and who ad inireit It. And that hymn-book yon remem ber who tang out of It. And that cradle you remember who rocked it. And that Illblo vou remember who read out of It. And that bed you remember who slept In it. And that room you leinembcr who died In It. Hut there Is nothing hi all your house so eloquent and so mighty-voiced as the vacant chair. I suppose that before Saul and his guests got up from this banquet there was a great clatter of wine-pitchers, but all that racket was drowned out by the voice that camo up from the vacant chair at the table. Many have gazed nnd wept at John Qulncy Adams' va cant chair in tho house uf representatives, and at Mr. Wilson's vacant chair hi tho vice piesldcnev, nnd at Henry Clay's vacant chhlr m the American senate, and at Piince Albert's vacant chair hi Windsor castle, and at Thiers' vacant chair In the councils of the French nation; but all these chairs are unimportant to you as compared with the vacant chairs in vour own household. Have these chairs anv lc'isiius for you to learn) Are we any bette'r men and women than when they first address ed usi Tin: rATiimt's vacant ciiaiu. First, I K)intout to you tho father's vacant chair. Old men id ways like to sit in tho samo place and in tho same chair. They somehow leel mure at home, and sometimes when you are in then? place and they comu into tho loom, vou jump up suddenly and say : 'Here, father, here's our chair." The probability is It is an arm chair, for he Is not so strong as ho gui was nnil he needs a little upholding. Ills huir Is a little frosty, his gums are. a llttlo depressed, for in his early davs there wns not much dentistn. I'erhup a cane chair and old lashioned nppttrrl, for, though you limy have HiggeMcd some Impiovemeiit, fiitlcr does nut want any of your nonsi'iue. (iramlfather never had much admiration for ntw fangled notions, f sat at the table of one of my par ishoners In a former eongrcgatlon; an aged man was at the table and his ton was presid ing, and tho father somewhat abruptly ad dressed the sii and said: "My ton, 'don't now tiy to show oil' beeauso tho minister Is here!' Your father never HUed any new cus toms or maimers; he preferred the old way of doing tilings, and he never looked so happy as when with his eyes closed ho sat in the arm chair in the corner. From wrinkled brow lo the tip of tho slippers what tilaeldltvf The waves of the past years of his life bioko at tlie loot of that chair. Perhaps, sometimes, lie va a llttlo Impatient ami wiinei lines told the samo story twice; but over that old elu.li' how many blessed memor ies hover I I hope ou did not crowd thnt old chair, and that it did not get very much in the way. i-'ouietline.s the old man's chair get very much In tho way, especially if ho has been so unwise as to make over all his prop erty to his children with the understanding that they arc to take earo of him. I have seen In such eases children crowd the old man's chair to the door and then einwd It clear Into the btreet, and then crowd It Into the poor hotife, and keep on crowding It until the old man fell out of It Into the grave. IV T1IK IIEAIU'S Til HON i: HOOM. Hut jour fnthti 's chair was a sacred place. Tho eh I Wren used to climb up on tho rungs of It for a uood-ulght kiss, and the lomrer he stnjpd the better you liked it. Hut that chair lias ijceu vueam now lor komo time. The furniture dealer would not give you 60 cents for it, but it U a throno of iuilueiiee In vour I.. I ....... I.. .1... 1 1. 'I sun in mo iiirouo loom me cunir mai .Napo leon used to occupy. Jt was a beautiful chair, hut the most slgnlfilcant pari nf it was the let ter "N," embroidered into tho hack of the chair In purple and gold. And your father's old ciiair ius in me iiirouo room oi your Heart and your affections huve embroidered Into tlio baeK oi that elmlr m purple uuu gold tho let ter "F." Have nil the prayer of thnt old chnlr bceu answered Have all the counsels of that old chair b en practiced! Bpeak out, old arm chair! History (ells us of au old man whose three sons wero victors In the Olympic games, and when they came hack, these three sous, with their garland and put them on their father's brow, the old man was so re joiced at the victories of Ids three children that he fell dead In their arms And am you, O man, going to bring n wreath of Joy and Christian usefulness and put It on your father', brow, or on tho vacant chair, or ou tho memory of tho one departed I Spend out. old arm chair 1 With reference to your Mbcr, the word of my text have been fulfilled: 'Thou shall bo nilstdd became thy seat will be empty." ' WIIKKK TUB MOTIiai! HOCKM). Second 1 k a Jlttle further on In vour house and I find the mother's chnlr. ft Is rcrv ant to be a rooking chnlr. Hue has so ninny cares and troubles to soothe that It mubt have rockers. I rineinlxjr it well It wa au old chair, and the rockers were almost worn out. fori was the youuceit and the chair had rocked the whole fatally. It made crcnklm; n!p n It mnv ' but there was mu sic in the M'uint L was jnn high enough tc allow u children lo put our bend Into her lap. That iy a the bank where we deKilted nil out hurts and worries. Oh what a chair that was' It was diflYient from the father's chnlr; II was entirely dliTereut. You ask me howl j can not tell, Imt we all felt it was different. Perhaps there whs about this chair more gen tleness, more temlerne, more arlef when wr had done wrong. When we were wayward father scolded, but mother cried. It was a very wakeful chair. In the s!ck davs ot chil dren other chairs could not keep aw ake; that chair alwnys kept nwnke, kept eilv awake. That chair knew all the old lullabies" ami all the w.irtllem songs which mothers sing tc their sick clilldren songs in which all pity and compassion and sympathetic influences arc combined. That old chair has slopped roi'li lug for a go.id many years. It may be sot up In the loft or the garret, hut it holds u queenly pott cr yet. l'OW'KK OP TltR Oi.I) C1IM11. When at inlduii;ht miii went Into that trrog shop to get that ,ntoicuting draught, did you not hear a voice that snid: "Mv son, why go in there I" And louder than the boisterous encore of the place of w Icked amusement, a voice ssylng: "My son, what do you here)'' And when you went Into the house of sin a voice gnylng: "What would your mother do if she knew you were heref" And j oii wire provoked with your.U'lf, and you charged youri-clf with superstition ami fanaticism, and your head got hot with your own thoughts, and you went home and" vou went tolled, and no t ooncr had you touched tho pillow than a voice said: "What a pravcr lcss pillow 1 Man, what is tho matter)" This: You are too near your mother's rocking chair. "Oh, pshaw!" you say. "There's nothing lu that I'm MX) miles oil fr mi where I was born. I'm ;',(H0 miles off from the church whose bell wasth lirst music I ever heard." lean not help that; you are loo near your mother's rocking choir. "Oh," you say," "there can't bo any thing In that; that chair has been vacant a gre.it while." I can not help that; It Is all the mightier for that; It Is omnipotent, that va cant mother's chair. It whispers; it speaks; it weeps; It carols; it mourns; it prays; it warns; It thunder.'. A young man went off and broke Ids mother's heart, and while ho was awav from home his mother died, and tho telegraph brought tho son, and ho came into the room where sho lay ami looked upon her face, and he cried out : "O, mother, mother, what your life could not do your death shall effect. This moment I give my heart to (iod." And he kept his promise. Another victory for the vacant chair. With reference to vour mother the words of my text wero fullllled: "Thou fhalt bo missed, because thy seat will he empty." Titr. I'ltornnsT momhs't or urn. Somo ono said to a (Irechin general: "What was the proudest moment lu your llfoi" Ho thought a moment and said:" "The proudest moment lu my life was when I sent word homo to my parents that I had gained tho victory." And the proudest and most brilliant moment In your life will be tho moment when you can send word to your parents that you have con quered your evil habits by tho grace ot God, and becotno eternal victor. Oh. despise not parental anxiety ! The, time, will eomo wlien you will have neither father nor mother, and you will go around tho nlaco where they used to watch you, and ibid them gonu from tho house, and gouo from tho field, and gone from the neighborhood. Cry as loud for forgive ness as vou may over tho mound In the church yard, they will not answer. Dead I Dead I And then you will take out tho white lock of hair that was cut from your mother's brow just before they hurled her, and you will take the cane with which your father used to walk, and vou will think and think and wish that you had douo just as they had wanted you to, and would givo tho world If you had never thrust a pang through their dear old hearts. God pity the joimg man who has brought dis grace on his father's name! God pltv the young man who has broken his mother's heart I Hotter if he had never been born; bet ter If hi tho llrst hour of his Ilfo instead of be ing laid against the warm bosom of maternal tenderness, he had been conllned and sepul chcred. There is no balm powerful enough to heal the heart of oiie who has brought parents to a sorrowful grave, unit who wanders about through tho dismal cemetery, rending tho hair and wringing the bauds and ervlng: "Motherl Mothcrl" O, that lo-dav, by all tlio memories of the pnHt and by all the hopes of thn future, you would yield your heart to God 1 May your father's God and your mother's God bo your uuu lorever. TIIR INVAI.ID'OIIAIIt'S I.riSSO.V. Third I go on a lilt In further I I como to tho invalid's chair. What) How long have you i veil sieii i ' O, I have been sick ten, twenty, thirty years." Is it. possible? What a story of endurance! inert) ure in many rnmlllos of inv coiiureifa tlon these Invalid chairs. Tho occupants ot them think thev are doing no good lu the world; but that Invalid's chair Is tho mighty pulpit from which they have seen preaching all these yonr. Truit in God. Ono day, on au iiau i just on iron i Bamiiibky, ., I pror.elieiL and there was a trr-at Ihron of people i'.cic; but the thiong did not Imprc"! me so amen as the spectiielo or just one fnco tho face of au invalid who was wheeled In on her chair. I said to her afterward: "Madam, how long have you Imoii prostrat od" for she was lying Hat In tho chair. "O," sho replied, "I have been this way fifteen years. " i sniu: "uo you niller very inueii i" "O. yes," sho said, "I suffer very 'much; I suffer all tho time. Part of tlio tlni- I was blind. I a wavs Buffer." "Well." I said. "can you keep your courage upl" "O. yes," the raid, "I am happy, very happy Indeed." Her face showed It. .She looked tlio h.ipplcst of any ono on the around. O, what a moans of graeo to tho world, t:ies" Invalid chairs! On that Held of liuimm mill' i ing the grace of won gets lis victor-,, icitwara i'.iysou. the In valid, and Klchard II inter, the Invalid, and Jtobert Hall, tho invalid, ami tho ten thousand of whom tho world has never heard, but of whom all hoaveii in cognizant. The mo-tt con- splcumn thing on earth for God's eye and the eye of angels to rest on Is not n throno of eariniy power, hut It is tlio invnii rs chair. x, these mou ami women who are always suffer- Iiil', but never complaining these victim of spinal dlst!fw ami neuralgic torture, and rheumatic excruciation will answer to the roll cnll of the martirs, nnd rise to tlio martyrs' throne, and will wave tho martyrs palm. AI.W'ATS ritL'ACIIINO BU1IMI83IOX. Hut when oue of these Invalids' chairs be come vacant how Higguttlvo itisl No moro liolsterlng up of tho weary head. No moro changing fioin side to side to get an easy ikjsI tlon. No morn uso of the baudago and - the cataplasm and the prescription. That Inva lid's chair may bo folded up or taken apart or set away, but It will never lose Its queenly power; it will always preach of trut in God nnd cheerful submission. Suir.!rlug all ended now. With respect to that Invalid tho words of my text have bsou fullllled: '-Thou 'shall ho missed, U'causo thy scat will be empty." Fourth I pass on and I find one more vacant chair, it Is a high chair. It is the child's chair. If that chair be occupied I think It is the most potent chair in all thn household. All the chairs wait on if, all the chairs aro turned toward it. It means morn than David's chair at Saul's banquet At uny rate it nukes moro racket. That is a strange house thnt on bo dull with a child in It, How that child breaks up tho hard worldllness of the place and keeps you young to (V), TO and 80 years o I age. If you have no child of vour own ndon t oue; It will ojsn henveii to your soul. It wi I pay Its way. Its crowing In the morulug will give the day a cheerful starting, and Its glee i niL-m mjji give mo uny a cueeriui clote. You do not like children! Then vou had hot ter stay out of heaven, for there are so many lucre tuc wouiu iniriy inojto you crazy, uuiy alsMit Sa).000,f!(V) of them! The old crtiry dl elples told Hip mothers to keep the children nw.iy fjoni Christ. "You bother Him," they said: "you trouble the Master.'' Tm'iMe Himl lie has tilled heaven with that kind of trouble. STHI'MlTII OK A CIIIM)' OI(i: A pioneer lu California says that for tho first vear or two aft r hl residence In rra Ne vada county there wns not a simile child in all the ranch df a hundred miles. Hut flic Fourtli of Julv came and the miners were all gathered together and they were celebrating the I mirth w ith oration and poem and a ImiM-oim 1 rass bund, and while the band was phiving n lu lant's voice wus heard crying, aii'i ail the miner- were startled, ami the fw.u-'li . tne-i b-gan to think of their homi-s on the . i , i , toast, and of their wives and children f i .iw.iv and their hei.rls were filled with i !.'- as they heard the babe crv. Hit- the 1 1 . w nt on, 'and the child cried ioud r .i-el , i l.-r, and t lie brass ban I plau-d lou i -r v 1 i.-.b , try ing to drown out the Infantile bit .1 Hon, when a swarthy miner, the tears rniri ,u iwn Ins face got up and shook his li-t an i s lid: "Stop that noisy baud and r.ve t'io I v a chance." O, tliere was pathos in It as well as giM 1 cheer hi It! There Is no'hiiig to arouse uud melt and subdue the soul H..C a child's i ce. Hut when It goes awav from you tho high chair becomes a higher chair, and there Is dibolatlon all about you. In three fourths ot the homes of my congregation there is a va cant high chair, t-'omehow vou nr-UT get over it. There is no one to put to bed a', nig t, no one to ask strange questions about (. nl and heaven. O. what Is the use of thath ;li chair 1 it is to call you higher. What a drawing up ward It It to have children in heaven I And then It is such a preventive against sin. If a father Is going awav Into slu he leaves his lliing children with their mother, but If a father is going away into sin what Is he golnc todowitii his dead children lloating about hhn and hovering over Irs every wayward step? O, sneak out, vacant high cha r, and say: "Father, come back froth sin; mother, come back from worldlluess. I am watching you I am waiting for you." With respect to your child the words o"f my text have been fullllled: "Thou shalt bo missed because thy scat will bo empty." VOICE OAI.I.ISO TO HUAVnX. My hearers, 1 have gathered up the voices ot your departed friends and tried to Intone them Into one Invitation upward. I set In ar ray all the vacant chairs of your homes and of your social chele, and I bid them cry out: "Time Is short. Ktcrnltv Is near. Tako my Saviour. Ho at peace with my God. Comoup where I nuu Wo lived together on earth; come, let us live together in heaven." Wo answer that Invitation. Wo come. Keen a seat for us, ns Saul kept a seat for David; hut that scat shall not be empty. When we are all through with this world and we have shaken hands all around for the last time, and all our chairs hi tho home circle and hi tho outside world shall be vacant-may wo bo wor shiping God In that iihitetfcoia'wiilch we shall go out no moro forever. I thank God there will ho no vacant cJialrda heaven. E.cava(ioiiSiat.l'oini)eH. It sooms odd to spenk of a tloml city as a growing one. Hut that is exactly tlio caso with Pompeii. Thero aro ninny cities in Italy thnt do not grow half ns fast ns tho ono burled by tho ashes of Vesuvius one thousand eight hundred years ago. A person visiting it at intervals of a year notices a mark ed enlargomont of its boundaries. Tho Italians, you know, aro tho champion diggers. " Tlioy mako tlio shovel lly whon they attack the grave of Pompoli. Wo saw a gang of tlioin at work tlioro. A government overseer watches them like n hawk. Ho wanted to ho suro that tlioy pocketed no jewelry, coins or objects of art or utility yielded by tlio excavations. Tlio only produce of thoir (oil in that lino as wo stood by was a hit of iron, which tlio guide called a hinge, and tlio fragment of a small mar ble column. Tlio spades busily plied wore gradually bringing to light a beautiful house. Tho floors wero mo saic, with simple hut graceful designs in scroll patent nearly ns fresh of col or ns if laid yoalerday. The walls boro frescoes of fainter tints grinning masks, fawns, ciipids, bird.-', lisli nuu fruit. It had ovidontly been tho homo of a woll-lo-do citizen of Pompo" Tho nervous movomonts of the tvorknioll betrayed tlioir anxiety. They wero honing at every momrnt to mako a val uable "find." Perhaps thoy might hit upon a groat iron chest, studded with round knobs like a boiler, and full of gold, money or ornaments, or thoy might striko an other wondor in marble or bronxo, or thoy might ho startled by comitiir sud denly upon a skull or human rtmains. In the latter event the work is sits ponded 1 11 a careful inspection is mado. Tlio rosponsiblo and intelligent person in chariro proceeds to ascertain if tho dead Pompoiian had left a mould of lilniMilf or herself in tho plastic ashes. If so, ho prepares a mixture of plaster of Pans, breaks a hole in tlio crust, and slowly pours in the liquid till tho mould is full. When it has hardened tho cast ing is tenderly removed. Lo! thero is a rough imago, showing some poor crea ture in tlio agonies of death, prone ou the lloor, faou downward. Tims, most Usually, wero the inhabitants of tho doomed city caught by tho destroying angoi. mo skiiii, or leg, or arm, or whatever other part of the skeleton lias not relapsed into its original dust, may attaeli itself to the plaster cast in tho proper place, or mav require, to bo joined on by a pardonablo "restora tion. In either caso, tlio elieot la thrilling In its horrihlo ronlity. New j oris Journal of commerce. A Surprised Englishman. Traveled Americans aro always sur prised at ovorythlng that is now. Travoled English peoplo aro only sur prised to Jind anything familiar in strange places. Thero is an English man in town who has been around the world. Ho lias been, put to all sorts of tests in thn bono o( making hlra reully oston shod. Everything fallt'il nutil the other day ho was in a saloon Inking a drink ami u follow near him called out to tlio bartender: "A glass of half and half." "Uy Jove!" sad th Engllahniau, 'can it renlly boP" And of all his oxnerlono that is Lh only ono ho quot.-w 'MniUuu Chronicle. - :.' ' "