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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.
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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
$0.00 Per Iff
Wo respectfully solicit a share of the
pntronaee. K01UNS A' KOHl-.K 1
A. L. COBB, M. D.,
physician m m&m.
Having permanently locate 1 in Abler.
Union county. Oregon, will he found r -.Hy
to attend to rails in all the various town
and settlements of tho Wallowa valley.
Chrome EHf.cur.0. Mpoctalty.
Sfi-My motto is: "Live and let live."
in
A. C. CRAIG, - - Proprietor
(Union Depot, Oregon.)
Splendid accommodations for conimcr-
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rial men. Tables always auppiieu wiiu m
beJ tho murhet affords.
jriS-JIoT and C'oi.i) Mi.vnuAl, Haths"$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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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