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TEB FINGEB OF GOD,
A ELOQUENT SERMON FROM THE
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
Or. Talmnge Selects i Text frohi Exodus
J am! Preaches n Fovcrfnl Discourse A
Peroration of Wonderful Force and
Beauty of Expression.
f BnooKLYN, Oct. 23. Tlio cnpnclty of
the Tabernaclo was tested this morning
" A . ''7 iho vas crowd thnt filled it in every
part as Boon as tbo doors wore opened.
After reading and commenting on mv-
if - f ral passages of Scripture illustrative of
God's providential dealings, Dr. Tul
mage gave out tho hymn beginning
God moves in a mysterious way
Ilk wanders to porfofpn.
. His florinon was on the text Exodus viii,
I 10, "Tho Finger of God."
Pharaoh was sulking in bis mnrblo
thronoroom at Memphis. Plaguo lifter
plagne had come, and sometimes tho
'" KTPtian monarch was disposed to do
better, but at the lifting of each plnguo
he was as bad as lioforo. The necro
mancers of tho palace, however, were
t, compelled to recognize the divine move
ment, and after one of tho most cans-
perating plagues of all the series they
n' cried out in the words of my text,
s . "This is tho fingor of God" not tho first
,"" nor, the last timo when bad people sitid n
good thing. An old Philadelphia friend
1 ' visiting mo the other day asked ma if 1
' had ever noticed this passage of S rip-
ture from which I today speak. I told
. him no, and I said right away, "That is
a good text for a sermon."
s 5( We all recognizo tho hand of God and
, ait know it is a mighty hand. You havo
seen a man keep two or threo rubber
balls flying in tho air, catching and
' pitching them so that nono of them fell
to the floor, and do this for several min
utes, and you havo admired his dextcr-
, ity. But havo you thought how tho
hand of God'keeps millions and millions
i- of round worlds, vastly larger than our
world, flying for conturies without lot
ting ono fall? Wondrous power and
Bklll of God's hand! But about that 1
r' am not to discourse. My text lead mo
to speak of less than a fifth of the divino
hand. "This is tho finger of God."
i Only in two othor places doos tho Biblo
refer to this division of tho omnipotent
hand. Tho rocks on Mount Sinai aro
basalt and very hard stono. Do yon
imagino it was a chisel that cut tho ten
commandments in that basalt? No; in
. Exodus we read that tho tables of r.tono
wero "written with the finger of God."
. Christ says that ho cast out devils with
"the finger of God," The only inslanco
s
that Christ wrote a word ho wroto no't
with pen on parchment, but with his
linger on the ground. Yet, though bo
seldom roference is mado in tho Biblo
to a part of God's hand, if you And r
keop our eyes open and our heart right
wo will be compollod often to cry out,
"This is tho finger of God." It is mj
intontion bofore long to begin a series of
sermons on "Tho Astronomy of tho Bi
blo, or God Among tho Stars;" "Tho
Ornithology of the Biblo, or God Among
tho Birds;" "Tho Pomology of tho Biblo,
or God Among tho Orchards;" "Tho
Ichthyology of tho Bible, or God Among
the Fishes;" "Tho Geology of tho Biblo,
or God Among the Rocks;" "Tho Wa
ters of tho Biblo, or God Among tho
Boas;" "Tho Zoology of tho Biblo, or
God Among tho Beasts;" "Tho Precious
Stones of tho Biblo, or God Among tho
AraethyBts;" "Tho Conchology of tho
Biblo, or God Among tho Shells;" "The
Botany of tho Biblo, or God Among tho
Flowers;" "Tho Chronology of tho Bi
blo, or God Among tho Centuries," and
J want this coming winter to got you
and got myself into tho habit of sooing
tho finger of God ovorywhero utuf in
ovorythingj but this morning I want
to induce you to look for tho fingor of
God in your personal affairs.
(KOVIDENTIAIi CIKSTUKES.
To most of us gesticulation is natural.
If astrunger accost you on tho street
and ask you tho vfay to somo place, it is
as natural us to breatho for you to level
your forofliigor this way or that. Not
ono out of n thousand of yoa would
stand with your hands by your sido uud
make no motion with your finger. What
ever you may Buy with your lips is em
phasized and re-enforced nud translated
by your finger. Now God in tho dear
old Book says to us iumunorublo things
by tho way of direction. Ho plainly tolls
us tho way to go, But in evory exigoucy
of our life, if wu will only look, wo will
find a providential gosturo and n provi
dential pointing, bo thai wo may confi
dently say, "This is tho finger of God."
Two or threo times in my lifo, whon
perplexed on epilations of duty after
earnest prayer, I havo cast lots as to
what I should do. In olden times tho
Lord's people ciibt lots, Tho land of
Causun was divided by lot. Tito cities
were divided among tho priests and
Levltea by lot. Matthias was chosen to
the apostleship by lot. Now casting
loU U about tho most solemn thing you
can do. It should never bo done, except
with a solemnity liko that of tho last
judgment. It is a direct appeal to tho
Almighty. If after earnust prayer you
do not mui to get the divine direction,
I think you might without sin wrlto
upon one slip of iwper "Yes," and upon
iothr "No," or somo other decisive
words appropriate to the case, aud thou,
obHtwratteg from your talnd tho idtmtity
of the slip of paper, draw tho decision
and act upon it. In that case I think
yoa have a right to tako that indication
m tke flutter of God. But do not do
that moapt as the last resort and with a
4VMituM that leaves absolutely all
wtthOod.
for Mueh that concerns us we have
no raepoiwIUUty, aud we twed not xaake
appeal to the Lord for direction. Wo
ajr not romumslUe for nwet of our sur
rrnimHntff. We are not roponeibie for
the oooaky of oar birth, nor for whether
we ate Ainerioaiw, or Norweyietu, or
BootqhmaM, or Iiihuwt or KaglWh
men. We are Kt rttepoatiMe for the
age fai which we live. W are uet re
for owe lewperamem, ue ic
or mi m hi in i in immmm or a-
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Wo are not responsible for tho height r
Binttllnoss of our staruro. We are not
responsible for tlie fact that wo nro men
tally dull or brilliant. For tho most of
our environments ye have no moro re
sponsibility than wo havo for tho mol
lusks at tho bottom of tho Atlantic
ocean. Oh, I am so glad that there aro
nbont fivo hundred thousand things that
wo ore not responsible fori Do not blame
us for being in our manner cold as nn
iceberg or nervous as a cat amid a pack
of Fourth of July firecrackers. If you
uro determined to blamo somebody
blamo our great-grandfathers or great
grandmothers who died boforotho Revo
lutionary war, and who may have had
habits depressing and ruinous. Thcro
aro wrong things about ns all which
make mo think that one hundred and
(if ty years ago thero was somo terriblo
srank in our ancestral line Realize
that and it will be a relief semi-infinite.
Lot us tako ourselves as we aro this mo
ment, and then ask "which way?" Got
nil tho direction you can from careful
und constant study of tho Biblo, and
then look up and look out and look
around and seo if you can find the finger
of God.
LINCOIJJ'S WISE DELAY.
It is a remarkablo thing that some
times no ono can seo that finger but
yourself. A year before Abraham Lin
coln signed tho proclamation of emanci
pation tho White Housowas thronged
with committees and associations, minis
ters and laymen, advising tho president
to make that proclamation. But ho wait
ed and waited, amid scoff and anathema,
becauso he did not himself seo the finger
of God. After awhile, and ut just tho
right timo, ho saw tho divino pointing
and signed tho proclamation. Tho dis
tinguished Confederates, MaRon and
Slidell. were taken off nn English vessel
by the United States government. "Don'H
give thorn np," shouted all the nortnoni
states. "Let ns have war with Englund
rather than surrender them," was tho nl
most unanimous cry of tho north. But
William H. Sownrd saw tho fingor of
God leading in just tho opposito direc
tion, and tho Confederates wero given
up and wo avoided a war with England,
which at that time would havo boon tho
demolition of tho United States govern
ment. In other words, tho finger of God
ns it dirocts you may bo invisible to
everybody else. Follow the divino point
ing as you seo it, although tho world may
call you a fool. Thero has never been a
man or a woman who amounted to uny
thiug that has not sometimes boon called
a fool. Nearly ull tho mistakes that yon
and I have mado liavo -como from our
following tho pointing of some othor fin
ger Instead of tho finger of God. But,
now, suppose nil forms of disaster cloie
In upon a man. Suppose his business
collapses. Suppose ho buys goods and
ccnuot sell them. Suppose by a cow in
vention . thors can furnish tho same
goods at less price. Suppose a cold
Kpriug or a lato autumn or tho coming
of an opideWlo corners a man, and hi"
notes como duo and ho cannot ineot
thorn, and his ront must bo paid and
thero is nothing with which to pay it,
and tho wages of tho employees are duo
and thoro is nothing with which to meet
that obligation, and tho bank will not
discount, and tho business frlonds to
whom ho goes for nccommodutlon aro in
tho samo predienment, nud ho boars up
aud struggles on until, nftor awhilo,
crash goes tho whole concern.
hetteu TitnASunKS than money.
IIo stands wandering and saying: "I
do not seo tho meaning of all this. I
havo dono tho best I could. God knows
1 would pay my dobts if I could, but
hero 1 urn hodgod in and stopped."
What should that man do in that case?
Go to tho Scriptures and read tho
promise about all things working to
gether for good and kindred passages?
That is woll. But ho needs to do Bomo
thing bosidos rend tho Scriptures. IIo
needs to look for tho finger of God that
is pointing toward bettor treasures; that
is pointiug toward otornal release; that is
urging him to higher realms. No human
finger ovor polntod to tho oast or west
or north or south so cortainly as tho
finger of God is pointing that troubled
iniin to higher and hotter spiritual re
sources than ho has over enjoyed. Tljero
aro mon of vast wealth who aro as rich
for heaven us thoy uro for this world,
but thoy uro exceptions. If a mnn
grows in grace it is generally boforo ho
gets $100,000 or utter ho loses It. If a
man has plenty of rnilroiul securities
and has applied to his banker for moro;
if tho lots ho bought havo gone up fifty
por cont. in vuluoj If ho hud hard work
to got tho door of hls'flreproof safe shut
bocauso of a now roll of securities ho
put lu thoro just boforo lockiug up at
night; if ho bo speculating in a falling
market or n rising market and things
Huio for him a right turn, ho doos not
grow in graco very much thnt wcolc. Do
you know what mado tho great revival
of 1857, whon moro peoplo wero con
verted to God, probably, than in any
year slnco Christ was born? It was tho
defalcations und bankruptcy that Bwopt
American prosperity so fiat that it could
full no Hatter. I inn speaking of whole
souled men. Such men uro so broken
by calamity that thoy aro humbled und
Hy to God for relief. Men who havo no
bplrlt and uover expect anything aro not
much affected by financial changes.
iThoy are as apt to go into tho kingdom
undurono sot of circumstances ns an
other. They uro deadbeats wherovcr
they are. Tho only way to get rid of
thorn U to lend them a dollar and you
will never seo them again. 1 havo tried
that plan and it "works woll. But I am
speaking of tho effect of misfortnnoon
high spirited meu. Nothiug but trial
will turn such nieu from earth to heaven.
It i only through clouds and darkness
aud whirlwind of disaster such a man
can ee the finger of God.
UBKCtKH NOT ACCIDENTS,
A most interesting as well as a most
Hcful study is to watch the pointing of
the ttttf er of Ood. In the Seventeenth
oetttary South Carolina wns yielding
tyein awl tivrpontlnoand tar as her chief
productfoaa. But ThowiM) Smith noticed"
that tho grvuad near hi houoo in
CharUwtew ws very uck like the placet
in MmhHUwmr where, he k4 raited rice,
307 Com'l Street.
and somo of tho Madagascar rice was
sown there and grew bo rapidly that
South Carolina was lod to make rico.hor
chief production. Can yon not seo the
finger of God in that incident? Rev.
John Fletcher, of England, mosy will
know, was ono of tho useful ministers
of tho Gospel who over preached. Bo
foro conversion ho joined the army and
hail bought his ticket on tho ship foi
South America. Tho morning ho was
to sail Eomo one spilled on him a kettle
of water, and ho was soFcalded ho could
not go. Ho was very much disappoint
ed, but tho ship ho was going to sail ru
went out and was nevor heard of again.
Who can doubt that God Was arranging
tho lifo of John Fletcher? Was it
merely accidental that Richard Rodda,
a Cornish miner, who was on his knees
praying, remained unhurt, though heavy
stones foil boforo him and behind him,
nnd on either sido" of him, and onothei
fell on top of these so as to inako a root
over him?
A missionary in Jamaica lost hi3 way,
aud in tho night was wandering about,
when a firefly flashed njid revealed a
precipice over which in a moment more
ho would havo been dashed. F. W.
Robertson, tho groat preacher of Brigh
ton, England, had his life work decided
by tho barking of his dog. A neighboi
whose daughter was ill was disturbed
by tho barking of that dog ono night.
This brought tho neighbor into commu
nication with Robertson. That acquaint
anceship kept him from joining the
dragoons and going to India and spend
ing his lifo in military service, and re
served him for a pulpit the influence ot
which for Gospolization will resound foi
ull time and all eternity.
Why did not Columbus sink when in
early manhood he was afloat six milei
from the beach with nothing to sustain
him till ho could swim to laud but a
boat's oar? 1 wonder if his preservation
had anything to do with America? Had
tho storm that diverted tho Mayflower
from tho mouth of tho Hudson for which
it was sailing and sent it nshoro at Cupe
Cod no divino supervisal? Does nn
archy rule this world, or God?
St. Felix escaped martyrdom by crawl
ing through a hole in the wall across
which tho spiders immediately afterward
wovo u web. His persecutors saw iie
hole in tho wall, but tho spider's web
put them off tho track. A boy was lost
by his drunken father and could not foi
years find his way homo. Nearly grown
ho went into a Fulton street prayer
meeting and asked for prayora that ho
might find his parents. His mother wa
in tho room and roso and recognized Lor
long lost son. Do you say that these
things "only happened bo?" Te.ll that to
thoso who do not bolievo in a God, and
havo no faith in tho Biblo. Do not tell
it to mo. I said to an aged minister of
much oxperienco: "All tho ovonts of my
lifo seem to havo been divinely con
nected. Do you suppose it is so in all
lives?" H6 answored, "Yes, but most
peoplo do not notico tho divine leadings.'
I stand here this morning to say from
my own experience that tho tafest thing
in all the world to do is to trust tje
Lord. Inovor had a misfortune or a
persecution or a trial or a disappoint
ment, however excruciating at tho time,
that God did not make turn out for my
good. My ono wish is to follow tho
divino loading. I want to watch the
finger of God.
A NATIONAL APPLICATION.
Nations also would do well to watch
for tho fingor of God. What does the
cholera scaro in America mean? Somo
say it means that tho plaguo will sweep
our laud next summer. I do not boliovo
a word of it. Thoro will bo no cholera
horo uoxt summer. Four or fivo sum
mers ngo thoro wero those, who Bnid it
would sutoly bo hero tho following sum
mer becauso it was on tho way. But it
did not come. The sanitary precautions
established hero will makonoxt summer
unusually healthful. Cholera never
starts from whero it stopped tho be.ison
boforo, but nlwayj starts in tho filth of
Asia, and if it starts next summer'it
will start thero again it will not start
from Now York quarantine. But it 's
evident to mo that tho finger of God is in
this cholera scaro, aud that ho is point
ing this nation to something higher and
letter. It has been demonstrated as never
boforo that we are in tho hands of God,
IIo allowed tho plaguo to como to our
very gates, und then halted It. Tho
quarantine was right und necessary, but
oh, how easily tho plaguo could have
leaped tho barriers lifted nguinst HI
Thanhs to tho president of tho United
States, uud thanks to tho health officers,
and thanks to tho Thirteenth regimeut,
and thanks to nil who stood between this
evil uud our national health, but moro
than all and higher than all thanks to
Godl Out of that solemnity wo ought
to pass np to something better than any
thing that has over yet characterized us
as u nation. Wo ought to quit our na
tional sins, our Sabbath breaking, and
our druukenness.und our impurities, aud
our corruptions of nil forts as n people.
Tho tendency Is in solf gratulation atour
prosperity to Jorgat tho mercy of God
that has kept us from being blotted out
for our ctimes, und that sUll multiplies
our temporal piosperities. Forward and
upward! Seo you not tho fingor of God
lu this protecting mercy?
I rejoice that thero uro many encour
aging signs for our nation, aud ono is
that this presidential campaign has less
malignity und abuse thau any presiden
tial campaigu sincu wo have Wen a na
tion. Turn over to tho pictorials wul
tho columns of tho political sheets of
tho presidential excitements all the way
buck nud seo what contumely Wushing
ton und JoiTcrson uud MadUouuud Mou
imo aud Jnckbou went through. Now
seo tho almost entire ubwnco of all that
Tho polltlcnl orators, I notice, this year
aro apt to Ix-sin by eulogizing the hon
esty and good indentions of the opposing
candidate, nnd tny that he is bettor than
his party. Instead of vitriol, camomile
flowers. That we seen to have escaped
tho degradation of the usual quadrennial
blllingfgato U aneucourngiugfaot. Per
hnits this leUuiweut may have somewhat
mulled from tho edu hovering over
tho home of one of the candidate, a sad
In whkh tWe whole nation eywa
thi, Fwhaj yre ve Ww to ah-
sorbed in paying honors to Christopher
Columbus that wo havo forgotten to
anathematize the prominent men of the
present. No man in thiscountryls fully
honored until he is dead. Whatever be
tho reason, this nation has escaped many
of the horrors that ordinarily accompany
the presidential contest. But let us not
pause too long in hilarity about the pres
ent and forget tho fuct that there are
not only temporal possibilities far great
er than those attained, bat higher moral
nnd religious possibilities. Tho God of
our fathers is the God of their children,
, id iiis fingor points ns to a higher na
tional ireer than many havo yet sus
pected, i or our churches, our schools,
our colleges, our institutions of mercy,
the best days aro yet to come;
ONWAUD THE WATCnWORD.
But notice that this finger of God al
most always and in almost everything
points forward and not backward. All
tho way through tho Bible the lamb and
pigeon on the altar, the pillar of fire
poised above tho wilderness, peace offer
ing, sin offering, trespass offering, fin
gers of Joseph and Isaac and Joshua and
David and Isaiah and Micah and Ezekiel,
all together made tho one finger of God
pointing to tho human, tho divine, the
gracious, the glorious, the omnipotent,
tho gentle, the pardoning and suffering
and atoning Christ. And now tho same
finger of God is pointing the world up
ward to tho eam Redeemer nnd for
ward to the timo of his universal domi
nation. My hearers, get out of the habit
of looking back and looking down, nnd
look up and look forward. It is useful
onco in awhile to look back, but you had
hotter for tho most part of your time
stop remiiiiscenco and begin anticipa
tion. We have none of us hardly bo
gnn yet. If wo lovo the Lord and trust
him and yon may all love him and trust
him from this moment on wo no moro
understand the good things ahead of us
than a child at school studying his A B
C can understand what that has to do
with his reading John Ruskin's "Seven
Lamps of Architecture" or Dante's "Di
vina Commedia." The satisfactions and
joys wo havo as yet had are like the
music a boy raukeB with his first lesson
on tho violin compared with what was
ovoked from his great orchestra by my
dear and illustrious and transcondent
but now departed friend, Patrick Gil
more, whon ho lifted his baton and all
tho strings vibrated, and all tho trum
pets pealed forth, and all tho flutes car
oled, und all the drums rolled, and all
the hoofs of the cavulry charge which
ho imitated were in full beat. Look
ahead! Tho fingor of God points for
ward. "Oh, but," says somo one, "I am get
ting old, and I havo a touch of rheuma
tism in that foot, and I beliovo something
is tho matter with my heart, aud I ca. -not
stand as much ns I used to." Well, 1
congratulate you, for that shows you
are getting nearer to the timo when you
aro going to enter immortal youth and
bo strong enough to hurl off tho battle
mouts of heaven any bandit who by un
heard of burglary might break into tho
Golden City. "B'lt," says soino one, "I
feel so lonely. Tho most of my friends
aro gone, nnd tho bereavements of life
have multiplied until this world that
wus onco so bright to mo has lost its
charm." I congratulnto you, for when
you go thero will'be fewer hero to hold
you back and more thero to pull you in.
Look ahead! Tho fingor of God is point
ing forward. Wo sit hero in church,
and by hymn nnd prayer nnd sermon
and Christian association we try to get
into a frame of mind that will bo accept
ablo to God and pleasant to ourselves.
But what a stupid thing it all is com
pared with what it will bo when wo have
gone beyond psalmbook nnd sermon nnd
Biblo, and wo stand, our last imperfec
tion gone, in the presence of that charm
of tho universe tho blessed Christ and
havo him look in our face and say: "I
havo been watching you and sympathiz
ing with you nnd helping you nil these
yeurs, and now you aro here. Go whero
you plcaso and nevor know a sorrow and
never shed it tear. Thero is your mother
now she is coming to greet yon and
thero is your father, nnd thoro aro your
children. Sit down under this treo of
life, and on tho hanks of this river talk
It all over." I tell you thoro will be
more joy in ono minute of that than in
fifty years of earthly exultation. Look
nhendt Look at the finest housoon earth
nnd know that yon will havo a finer one
in Jieaven. Look up the healthiest pei
son yon can find nnd know you will yet
bo healthier. Look np tho ono who has
the best eyesight of any onoyou have evor
heard of, und know you will havo better
vision. Listen to tho sweetest primn
donna that over trod tho platform, and
know that in heaven you will liftamore
enrapturing song than ever onchauted
earthly unditorium,
A VISION OF Sl'IXNUOlt.
My friends, I do not know how wo aro
going to stand it I meau tho full lurush
of that Bplendor. , Last summer I saw
Moscow, In somo respecU tho most
splendid city under the sun. The em
peror afterward usked mo If I had seon
it, for Moscow is the prldo of Russia.
I told him yes, aud that I had Been Mos
cow bum. I will tell you what I meant.
After examining niuo hundred brass
cannons which wero picked oat of tho
snow ufter Napoleon retreated from
Moscow, oach cannon deep cut with the
lotter "N," I ascended tho tower of-somo
two hundred uud fifty feet, just bofore
suuset, uud on each platform there wero
bells, largo and small, and I climbed up
among tho bells, and then as I reached
tho top nil tho bells underneath mo
beguu to ring, und they wore joined by
tho bells of fourteen hundred towers
and domes uud turrets. Some of tho
bells seut out n fulnt tiuklo of sound, a
sweet tintinnabulation that seemed to
bubble in the air, and others thundered
forth boom after boom, boom after
boom, until ft seemed to shake the earth
and (ill the heavens sounds so weird,
to sweet, so awful, so grand, so charm
ing, so tremendous, so soft, to rippling,
so reverberating and they eeemed to
wreathe aud whirl uud ro4 uud sink aud
bunt und roll uud mount aud die.
When Napoleon saw Moscow Vara it
oould nothao been uidre brilliant than
"wha I WW itU the fourteen hHaired
turrets aflame with the sunset, roofs ot
gold and waili of malachite, and archi
tecture of all colore mingling the brown
of autumnal forests and the bluo oi
summer heavens, and the conflagration
of morning skies, and the green of rich
meadows, and the foam of tossing seas.
Tho mingling of bo many colors with so
many sounds was an enhancement
almost too much for human nerves or
human eyes or human ears. I expect to
Bee nothing to cqnal it until you nnd 1
seo heaven. But thnt will surpass it and
mako tho memory of what I saw that
July evening In Moscow almost tame
and insipid. AH heaven aglow and all
heaven a-ring not in tho sunset, but in
tho sunrise. Voices of our own kindred i
mingling with the dosologies of empires. ;
Organs of eternal worship responding to
tho trumpPtB t! at have wakened the
dead. Nations ia white. Centuries in
coronation. Anthems liko the voice oi
many waters. Circlo of martyrs. Circle
of apostles. Circlo of prophets. Thrones
of cherubim. Thrones of seraphim.
Throne of archangel. Throue of Clirist.
Throne of God. Thrones! Thrones!
Thrones! The finger of God points that
way- Stop not until you reach that
place. Through the atoning Christ all
I speak of mid more may bo yours and
mine. Do you not now hear tho chime
of tho bells of that metropolis' of tho uni
verse? Do you not see the shimmering
of the towers? Good morning.
Neither or Them Got Licked.
Dan Mocdy was a raftsman on the
Susqnehauna river, and it was his boast
that ho tould lick any man on tho river
from tho mouth of tho Chemung to
Havre do Grace. Dan li ved nt Towanda,
Jn Bradford county, and finally grow
old and rheumatic. In his old age "tho
boys" used to put a stranger up to ques
tion Dan about his many fightn, nnd after
the old man got thoroughly interested
and was boasting freely of his youthful
exploits this question was sprung on
him:
"But, Uncle Dan, didn't anybody over
lick you?"
"No, sir, never got licked in my en
durin lifo."
Tho next question was: "But, Uncle
Dan, you camo near getting licked once,
didn't you? Seems to mo I've heard that
you came awful near getting licked just
once. Tell us about that, won't you?"
The old man had to be pressed to get
the story out of him, but he would tell
it occasionally, and hero it is: "Once I
was haulin a load of boards along the
road from a mill up on Sugar creek. It
was an awful hot day, and goin past a
piece of woods when tho shade only
came half way across the road I met u
feller in a buggy. 'Turn out,' says he.
'Turn out yourself,' says I. 'See yo fur
ther first,' says he; 'drive out into the
sun yerself.' Well, I didn't drive out,
and I did tell him what 1 thought of
him, and bimeby wo kem to blows. 1
jumped down offen tho load and ho got
outen his buggy, nnd w j went at it, und
wo fit nnd fit and fit, lmt neither of us
seemed to get the beat of it," Horo tho
old man would pause a moment until he
was asked:
"But whicli of you turned out, Uncle
Dan?" Thuu he wonld reply:
"Oh, I did; wo fit 60 long that the sun
went down, so that ihero was shade
clear across the road, and I turned out.
I didn't care then, of course, and that's
the nearest I ever came to getting
licked." St. Louis Republic.
do Itail United It.
Tominio's mother had left him
to entertain Johnnie, his younger
brother, while sho went out to do an
hour's shopping. When sho returned
Thomas was on hand with nn im
portant question.
"Does little boys about Johnnie's
sizo, mamma, have hair on tho in
eidoofthem?" "Of course they don't," sho ex
claimed. "Why do you ask that?"
"Oh, nothiu," ho said, starting off,
"only I guess I'vo wasted a bottle of
hair oil in Johnnie." Detroit Free
Press.
STARTLING FACTS!
The American people aro rarldlr becoming a
roco of nerrous irrocka, and the following iurrccU
thebcBtromcdrt AlphonsoIIempllmff.of Butler,
reswears that whon bis son was spoeehlus from
St. Vitus Uuco, Dr. Miles' Croat Roatorntlva
Nervine cured him. Alr. J.H.llltlr,or Vilpnr
also.lml , J. I). Taylor, ot Loftansport, Ind., each
gained Jtf pounds from taking It. Mrs. II. A. Gard
ner, o( Viitula, Ind., iras cured of mofO conrul
slonsn dr, ana much hcadacbe, dlulnces, back
scne, ana ctrroui prostration, by ono bottle.
Daniel Myers, Urooilrn. Mich., says bis dauchtcr
was cured of Insanity of ten years' staodlns. Trial
bottles and flue book of marvelous cures, FHUK
at drusa lts This remedy contains no opiates.
Dr.MI!os'ModlcalCo.,Elkhnrt,lnd.
fmiLVL BOTZXE FREE.
Bold by D. J.Fry, druggist,Salcin.
Act on a new principle
recalato tho liter, ctoui&ch
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I recommend it as superior to any prescription
amoirn to me." H. A. Ancmta, M. D.,
Ill So, Oxford EL, Brooklyn, H. T.
"The use ot ' Castoria ' is so universal and
Its merits bo well known that it seems a wort
of supererocatlon to endorse it. Fowarethe
intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
Cablos Mahttw, D-.Dm
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Late Pastor Bloomingdalo BoXonned Church.
Tmt Ciktaoti Compawt, 77 Mcniar Btbiugt, Nnr Yonx.
Choice
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Strawberry
NOW IS THE TIME TO PLANT THEM.
Dozen. Per 100,
Bubach No. 5 and Crawford, fertilize
each other, and best combination for
large, early berries for home market.
Matteson, only a few hundred left; earli
est berry in Salem market for several
years
Warfield, early, a great bearer and most
beautiful fruit
Pearl, early and "a pearl."
Oregon everbearing
TT.n.vfi manv other varieties.
above .as especially early varieties,
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next few weeks on well prepared
year. Jouy early stocK.
"Why grow late berries that
low prices'? Plants are carefully
tor mail or expiess. Must De sola in next ie-w weeus.
ftSCall next door to P. O. or at residence, North
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SALEM STEAM
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prompt manner. COLONEL J. OLMSTEP.
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E.M.Waite Printing Co.
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your Castoria. ' and shall alwaya continue to
do so as It has Invariably produced beneficial
results."
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"Tho Winthrop," 125th Btreet and 7th Ave.,
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