Enterprise-Courier from Charleston, Missouri • 3

ATM AGES SERMON. DUPONT NOT SEATED. DISAPPOINTED LIFE. Woman, With -Vf'ip A mmtUI library to llohed 1b Bootla 1 la but od ana of The Golds Rnla Clrcls PJ of tho Ordar of Th Kings Daughters sad Sons, Is taking th load In ths nutter. Write to CL 8.

Crane, general ger and ticket agent Wabash Railroad, SL Louis. Mol, for a book, telling all about the lake region reached. by the abash Railroad. 1 A plugged dime held close to thq eye will dot oat oil the beanty of the universe. A foshion article says bloomers are going np.

How shocking 1 Springfield Union. bin. We mast at times hare excitement. thousand voice in oar nature demand It It Is right. It Is healthful.

It is Inspiring: It Is desire God-given. But anything that first gratifies this appetite and hurls it back in a terrific reaction Is deplorable and wicked. Look out for the agitation, that, like rough musician, in bringing out the tone, ploys so hard he breaks down the Instrument God never made man strong enough to endure the wear and tear of gambling excitement No wonder it after having foiled ip the game, men have begun to sweep off imaginary gold from the side of the table. The man was sharp enough when he started at the game, bat manioc at the cloee. At every gaming table alt on one side Ecstasy, Enthusiasm, Romance the frensy of Joy; on the other aide.

Fierceness, Rage and Tumult The professional gambler schools himself Into apparent quietness. The keepers of gaming rooms are generally fot, rollicking and obese; but thorough and professional gamblers, in nine cases out of ten, are pale, thin, wheesy, tremulous and exhausted. Rather than enter ths companionship of such, accept the Invitation 10 a better feast The promise of God are the fruits. The harps of heaven are the music. Clusters from the vineyards of God have been pressed Into tankards.

The sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty are the guests. While, standing at the to fill the cups and divide the clusters, and command the harps, and welcome the guests, is daughter of God on whose-brow are tbe blossoms of paradise, end in whose cheek Is the flush of celestial summer. Her name Is Religion. 1 -r vs tf, V- inif' 1 f- rift crowd no too hard. It Is getting dark in the room.

Again, I urge yon to shun the companionship of idlers. Thera are men hanging around every store, and office, and shop, who have nothing to do, or set as if they had not. They are apt to come In when the firm era sway and wish to yon in conversation while yon are engaged la your regular employment. Politely attest to such persons that you have no time to give them during business hours. Nothing wonld please them so well as to have you renounce your occupation and associate with them.

Much of the time they lounge around the doors of engine houses, or after the dining hour stand upon the steps of a fashionable hotel or an elegant restaurant, wishing to give you the idea that that Is the place where they dine. But they do not dine there. They are sinking down lower and lower, day by day. Neither by day nor by night have anything to do with idlers. Before you admit a man into your acquaintance nak him politely; What do you do for a living If he says, "Nothing, I am a gentleman look out for him.

He may hare a very soft hand, and very faultless apparel, and have a high-sounding family name, but his touch is death. Before you know It, you will in his presence be ashamed of your work-dress. Business will become to you drudgery, and after awhile you will lose your place, and afterward your respectability, and last of sll your soul. Idleness Is next door to villainy. Thieves, gamblers, burglars, shop-lifters, and assassins are made from tho class whs have nothing to do.

When the police go to hunt up and arrest a culprit, they seldom go to look In st the busy carriage factory, or behind the counter where diligent clerks are employed, but they go among the groups of Idlers. The play la going on st the theater, when suddenly there Is a scuffle In the top gallery. What Is it? A policeman has come in, and, leaning over, has tapped on the shoulder of a young man, saying, "I want you, sir. lie has not worked during the day. but somehow has raked together a shilling or two to get into the top gallery.

He is an idler. The man on his right hand Is an idler, and the man on hla left hand Is an idler. During the past few years, there haa been a great deal or dullness In business. Young men have complained that they have little to do. Tf they have nothing else to do they can read and improve the4r minds and hearts.

These times are not always to continue. Business is waking up, and the super! oi knowledge that in this interregnum of work you may obtain will be worth fifty thousand dollars of capital. The large fortunes of the next twenty years are having their foundations laid now by the young men who are giving them-selves to self-improvement. I went Into a store In New York and saw five men, all Christians, sitting round, saying that they had nothing to do. It Is an outrage for a Christian man to have nothing to do.

Let him go out und visit the poor, or distribute tracts, or go and read the Bible to the sick, or take out -his New Testament and be making his eternal fortune. Let him go into the back office and pray. Shrink back from idleness In yourself and in others, if you would maintain a right position. Good old Ashbel Green, at more than eighty years of age, was found busy writing, and some young man said to him: "Why do you keep busy? It la time for you to rest. He tnawered: 1 keep busy to keep out of mischief.

No man is strong enough to be idle. Are you fond of pictures. If so I will show you one of the works of an old master. Here It Is: I went by the field of the slothful, an1 by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; and lo! It waa all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered ti.fi face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down. Then I saw and considered well.

I looked upon it aud received Instruction. Yet a little sleep, little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. So shall thy poverty come as one that travellcth and thy want as an armed man. I dont know of another sentence in the Bible more explosive than that. It first hisses softly, like the fuse of a cannon, and at laat bursts like a fifty-four pounder.

The old proverb was right. The devil tempts most men, but idlers tempt the devil. A young man came to a man of ninety years of age and said to blm: How have you made out to live so long and be so well? Tho old man took tbe youngster 40 an orchard, and, pointing to some large trees full of appiea, said: I planted these trees when 1 was a boy, and do you wondor that now I am permitted to gather the fruit of them? Wo gather in old age what we plant In our youth. Row to the wind and we reap the whirlwind. Flant In early life the right kind of a Christian character, and you will eat luscious fruit in old age, and gather these harvest apples in eternity.

I urge you to avoid tho perpetual pleasure-seeker I believe In recreation and amusement. God would not have made us with the capacity to laugh if he had pot Intended 11a sometimes to Indulge ft. God Tiatn hung in sky, and net in wave, and printed on grasa many a roundelay; but he whd chooses pleasure-seeking for his life-work does not understand for what God made him. Our amusements are Intended to help us in some earnest mission. The thunder-cloud hath an edge exquisitely purpled, but with voice that Jars the earth it declares, "I go to water the green fields.

The wild-flowers under the fence are gay, hut they say, We stand here to make room for the wheat-field. and to refresh the husbandman in their nooning." The stream sparkles and foams and frolics and says, 1 go to baptise the moss. I lave the spots on the trout. I slake the thirst of the bird. I turn the wheel of tbe mill.

I rock In my crystal cradle muckshaw and water-lily. And so. while the world plays, it works. Look out for the man who always plays and never works. You will do wen to avoid those whose regular business It Is to play ball, rkate or go a-boating.

All these sports are grand in their places. I never derived so much advantage from any ministerial association as from a ministerial club that went out to play ball every Saturday afternoon in tbe outskirts of Philadelphia. These recreations are grand to give ns muscle and spirits for our regular toll. I believe in muscular Chris tlanity. Hi The Pill.

YS. UV-; 8ha wss'a good her- 8ha wsa his wifs-V Th pia was good; his wife nude it; ho ate iL Bnt tho. win disagreed with him, aad ha disagreed with Us Now be takes a pill after pte and ia happy. So is his wile, Tbe pill be takes ia Ayer's. Moral: Avoid dyspepsia by using AvfirR Cathartic; Pills; I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i JM V'-T-.

out of TEN J- ,.1 A RAItlt THE Washington, May; IS. Saturday. Session of thn American Protactire association supremo council was the aaont Interesting of the convention, beennae the action of tbe executive 'eommittaa of tho advisory board In Mnekllsttng Mr. McKinley as a presidential candidate was reviewed. Tho report of the advisory board upon tbe action the committee wee made to the council late in the session.

It wee technically on Indorsement of the executive committee. It asserted. In substance, that the executive com-r mittee wee warranted. In view of the evidence presented to it, in placing a ban upon Mr, McKinley. Bnt in addfr tion It states that a further examine-' tlon of this testimony by the full board convinced the members the witnesses were unreliable end that their statements were Incorrect.

Therefore, tbe board concludes, Mr. McKinley should he placed upon the same footing, ao for as members of the A. P. A. ere concerned, with the other candidates for presidential nominations and should not be discriminated agatnsL Appended to tbe report wee a statement In writing by Delegate Huddle-of California, who aaaerts that committee, of which he was chairman.

Interviewed Mr. McKinley at hla home in Canton, Ohio, on the 14th and that the interview was satisfactory. The other members of the committee are said to have been Delegate Van Fossen, of Washington, and C. E. Zapt, state chairman of Kentucky.

THREE MEN KILLED IN A WRECK Filed ob the MOarankea Ditch Freight Train. Waldo, Win, May 18. Three were killed and two seriously and probably fatally Injured here Friday night by the wrecking of tbe fast freight No. 64 going south and due in Milwaukee nt 12:45 a.m. Tbe wreck was work of train wreckers.

Tbe killed are: JOHN O'CONNOR, engineer, Green Bay. EMIL CASPARI, brakeman. Milwaukee. JOHN MILLER, a tramp. Tbe Injured era: Loaia Tennis, fire man; hands and arms scalded and crushed.

Ben Turbin, tramp; leg broken. Waldo is a small station twenty miles from Milwaukee, on the Utt Superior division of tho SL Paul Road. The train does not atop there and was passing the station nt the usual rate of speed. A short distance below tho station it ran into a pile of ties which had been placed across the track and securely fastened. Engineer O'Conner whistle for brakes but there waa no time to check tho headway of the doom ed train before It struck the obstructions.

The engine and eight cars were piled up in heap between the main track and the aiding. Beneath them are the bodies of O'Conner, Casparl and Miller, the tramp. The latter waa riding in a box car in the front of the train. Fireman Tennis was pinned down under the wreck and nt a late hour had not been released. It is feared that hla injuries will prove fatal.

Turbin, the tramp, was also caught in the wreck and how severely hla injuries are cannot be told until be can be released. INSTRUCTED FOR MKINLEY. Wyoming ftepabtleaas Adapt a Compromised Flnaaelnl Flank, Sheridan, May 18. McKinley and bimetallism were voted for by the republican atato convention Friday. The committee on resolutions had warm session, lasting until midnight.

The plaform aa finally arranged ia intended to meet the demands of all factions and therefore thoroughly satisfies no one. The delegates were instructed to support Chairman Vander-venter for place on the hatioal committee and William McKinley for president. The financial plank la aa follows: We reaffirm allegiance to the principles of bimetallism aa enunciated in the republican state platform adopted at Caapar in 1894. We commend the record of our senators and representatives in congress In maintaining these principles. and we instruct our delegates to the SL Louis convention.

to take like action when the financial plank of the platform of thetr convention is being made. In another plank the convention pledged support to the nominees of tho SL Louis convention, irrespective of the platform adopted. Strikers Will I oynatt Bank. Milwaukee, May 18. At a masa meeting of the street railway men held nt Llederkrana hall Friday night resolutions were adopted boycotting the First National Bank of this city and calling on all workingmen to withdraw any deposits they may hare there and do all they can to Induce other depositors to do the same.

Thia action wae taken In the case of the bank be- cause Frank G. Bigelow, the president of that bank, la a director of tho Milwaukee Street Railway company, and the strikers believe the bank ia assisting the company financially. This step la more serious, aa It Indicates determination to carry the boycott Into every class of business If necessary to win the strike. May Tin In ka BonO. Denison, May IS.

The most aerloua strike ever known in the south west Is threatens 1. The grievance committee of the Brotherhood ol Locomotive Engineers, which has been to SL Louis to lay the case of Engineer William Lacame before the Missouri Kansas A Texaa officials, returned today. After a conference the company refused to reinstate Lanam and the grievance commit) entered Into federation all the organisations of railway train men, six In number, end the entire system of road baa been organized and federated. A committeeman said to-day: "Yon can atato offl dally that unless Engineer Lanams la reinstated Inside of five days there will not be a wheel moving on any part of the Missouri. Kan sv ft Texas system.

French JUrrlloa Brtnmi. li is spcidal. The final return of the muiiiripal tloetiona ere a follow: Republicans. 234: radical and social-iatM, 85: conservative. 20.

Battle With Mntnbries. Gweln. Mxtabelelnnd. dispatch. In an engagement nt Motcdtoi on Kntnr-day, half a mile fmci Marin's main kraal, the Matabele maintained a hot fire for fifteen minutes.

Cedi Rhodes and Capt. Metcalfe were well to th front The Maxim rapid-firing gvn wan not nned. It in impossible to en i mate (he number of the enemy killed, owing to tlie thick bush end the high grass which there waa In the locality of the HghL Deanltorv firing eoutiuued aa the rnemy retired. The Marin and other kraals were completely destroyed. The patrol started la pursuit of the retreating ha A.

THE DELAWARE CONTEST. cided. DE- By Vato nf SI mat to Rejected. Washington, May 1A The Senate, by a vote of 91 to 30, decided that Henry A. Dupont, of Delaware, was not entitled to a seat in the Senate.

All the populists and democrats voted against seating Dupont and nil the republicans in favor of seating him. This ends a question that bos been perplexing the Senate nines the beginning of the session. Rome of the best lawyers In the body were skeptical regarding Mr. Duponts title to his seat. Many who voted against seating him were in doubt ss to the suggestions of their votes k.1 many who voted to sent him were in equal doubt.

The wavering ones, however, were governed by the majority of their party. It was known for several days past that the fate of Du pout hinged upon the vote of Jones of Nevada, and when Jones left town Friday he paired against Dupont. MASSING THE WAR SHIPS. If Spats Persists In tfcv Exeentloa nf United States Cittern. War May Begin.

Washington special. The massing of a big naval force at Hampton Ronds attracts attention here, hinny conservative men are Inclined to believe that we are much nearer a war with Spain than most people think. Naval author! ties express the opinion that we have ships of war enough now between Old Point Comfort- and New York to blow the Spanish navy out of or under the water. The president and the members of the administration are not making much noise, but they are doing a lot of thinking, calculating and writing. The fleet is ready to move in couple of hours notice.

Captain Robert Evans, in command of the Indiana, one of the finest fighting machines, has been in frequent conference with the president. Captain Evans had lung conference with the secretary of state yesterday. As he left the state department he whispered to a friend that if they would only give him a chance In Cuba with his battleship, "no language but Spanish would be spoken in hell for the next five years. The promptness and vigor with which the administration haa intervened to save the Competitor's crew from death have been generally and properly commended, but another question ishow for its general Cuban policy is at stake in this matter. SILVER ON TOP IN IOWA.

Sound Money Democrats Raid to Organising Bolt, Dubuque, la, May 14. Excluding to-day's conventions, the delegates to tlie democratic state convention at Dubuque next Wednesday stand: Silver, 351; anti-silver, 182. The "sound money men are understood to be organising a bolt, to be based cm the convention's refusal to admit their men from Black Hawk, Woodbury, Linn and other counties, where irregularities are claimed. The silver men have secured eight districts and the gold men one, the Second, and the vote of Washington county will decide the complexion of the hirst district's delegation. The Fourth is also doubtful, hut the state convention will instruct for the nnit rule.

Ex-Governor Rotes will open no headquarters, hut the "sound money men. under the leadership of J. J. Richardson of tlie national committee, will have a camp of their own. FIVE YEARS IN PRISON.

Santenres of John Hnys Hammond and Others. Berlin special. A private telegram has been received here which states that the sentences of Col. Francis Rhodes, Lionel Phillips, J. If.

Hammond andGeorge Farrar, the four members of the Johannesburg reform committee condemned to death, and whose sentences were afterward commuted have been fix at imprisonment for five years. The sen to nits of the 30 other mom hers of the reform committee, which were fixed by tlie court at two years' imprisonment and a fine of 2,000. fol lowed by three years banishment, have been commuted to one year's imprisonment. California Ticket, Sacramento, May 16. Tbe pop-nlist state convention has made the following nominations: For lieutenant governor J.

L. Gilbert, of Fresno. For presidential electors at large Daniel McKay, of Sacramento, and J. V. Webster, of Kan Lula Obispo, For presidential elector K.

M. Ruck, of Humboldt: C. W. Thresher. of Butte, Samuel Stewart, of Solano: C.

If, Johnson, of Kan Francisco; If. Dillon. of Im Angeles; I). T. Fowler, of Fresno.

For Congress First district. George W. Montettli, of Marion; Hecoud district. F. MeGlsshen, of Nevada; Seventh Dr.

C. II. Castle, of Merced. DECISIVE ACTION EXPECTED. The United Sintra Will Bnt Permit Elevation of American Cittern.

Washington, D. dispatch. The tka condemnation to death of the crow of the Competitor, at least two of whom are American citizens, bv the Spanish court-martial in Havana, is causing ferment in Washington. The senti ment in Washington is all one way. It la that the United States can not and will not allow the execution of American ritisen undei a Weylcr court-martial.

Senator Morgan is expected to push his joint resolution recognising Cuban belligerency, and the disposition ia to rash it. through both houses and send it to the president ao that he will have the authority of Congress for leciaive action in case Spain refuses to reconsider the action of the court-martial in regard to the American. McKinley and PralMtlm. Raleigh. N.

May 18. In the publican state convention Friday Pritchard was nominated by acclamation for United States senator. McKinley was Indorsed for president without dissenting voice, and the policy of protection waa indorsed. COLLAPSE OF A DERRICK. Injnrsd, Ten Drainage Canal Wta Tfcran Fatally.

Chicago, I1L, May 13. During a short bnt violent wind storm yesterday afternoon a derrick' on the Drainage Canal at Sag Bridge, a few miles from this blown down and 10 men were injured, three of whom may die, The derrick, when it fell, carried with it on engine and boiler, a small abed and -a huge pile of mason which had Just been erected. 1 derrick fell in the middle of a crowd of over 60 workmen. WHY RICHARD CAYFORD LIFT THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. A Story la Wklak tai hMi.nii Mra.

Csyf erd gtrfalus Wltb rar-Inll. Tat At Baa Cmrm Tbe BaaUaato of Ik. MB MaMc X-aak Cy it aaa Iom the Examiner, San Resident. of the Mlaalon Dlatrlct of San Francisco have for months been marveling over the peculiar a of Mrs. Anna Cayford.

the wife of Richard Cayford, who resides at 13 Seventeenth Several years ago Mr. and Mrs. cayford took up their residence In the Hawaiian Islands, where Mr. Cayford, who Is by trade a blacksmith, applied himself diligently at his occupation, until at length he had. by reason of his hard work and frugality, placed himself and family upon a fair way to prosperity.

He had begun to look forward to the enjoyment of a quiet, happy life upon the beautiful Islands of the Pactnc. and In hie fancy had built for himself and his family a comfortable little borne, nestling snugly among the deep and fragrant foliage of that distant land. His wife shared with him In the contemplation of the happiness that the future apparently had in store for them. She had arrived at the age at which rest and contentment count for no much In a woman's life, when she was suddenly strtken with nerroue pro. ration.

Her condition becams very serious, and her physicians advised her that she must leave the Islands If she wished to regstn her health. Acting upon this advice Mr. Vayflnn! rtlepoMHl of his business and removes to Han Francisco. Mrs. Cayford Improved slightly with the change of climate until July.

INS, when she was stricken by paralysis of the heft arm and lg. and was entirely deprived nr the use of those limbs, having to ba arried about the bouse by her husband for a period of two months. She was treated for some time by a physician, tf hut he ws able only to partly relieve. was wi lie she was In this condition that she tired In a paper the advertisement of Williams' Pink Pills. She determined to get a bo of them end now tells of the relief she experienced, paid: When I first began taking William Pink rills." said Mrs.

Cayford, "I had absolutely no strength In either limb of the lefl side of my body. The treatment of my physician had Partly relieved the naralvsla. but after he had applied all his remedies 1 was still in radically a helpless condition. Be-orsl hail taken one full box of the pills I began to feel a return of strength the limbs that bad been so long useless. Keeling assured by the fast effect of the pills upon ms, I purchased a second box and continued to take them until I had need six boxes, when ths last fret's of paralysis had left my body and I had regained the full use of my limbs.

Yon cannot Imagine how delighted 1 was when I felt that my old-time activity was re-tnrniiig. It reminded me of the days when 1 was strong and healthy at my island home. I do not know wbat stronger testimony I could give as to of filial the merits to aay that they have restored me to of I such a degree of strength thabl now do II my own work without the least inconvenience, which as much as I ever lid before I was stricken with paralysis. But that is not all. I almost forgot to say that the pills have relieved me of a certain hesitancy in speech, which has troubled me for yearn.

My tongue used to become thick, and I would lisp most dreadfully and could not help myself. I noticed that after I began taking tbs pills I could talk more easily, and finally I was. entirely relieved of the lisping that affected my speech. I have taken the trouble to recommend the pills to an old lady who Is afflicted with paralysis. I have not seen her since she began taking them, hut her husband told the flted by them.

other day, that she had been by them. Dr. Williams Pink Pills con lain all the els meats necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They ore sold in boxes at SO cents a box, or six boxes for gs.ao, and may be had at all druggists or directly by' mail from Dr. Williams' Med.

Schenectady, X. Y. The Rev. Mr. Latham of Mayfleld, Ky.

advertises that he is selling 'one of the best books in the country to get money to linish a perpetual motion machine. FITS -All Vil-Mow-UV hjr Ir. Kline's Gmt Verve KcMwvr, M. KiUafterlU. Sim itaurli ww JIurvHouacumi Trr.lt-sm I SCI rt.

I hull l-frr-t lllnm. Srud luOr.XlliMil Art: 1-Si A local statesman in Pike County la spoken of os 1 director of the mint in a Julep factory. Kaunas City Htnr. Halt's Catarrh Cure I. a ixmet i tntiooal cure.

Price, 73c. Blond of Missouri is a great-grandson of President Monroe, and, naturally, admirer of the old gentleman's doctrine. Msgemaa's f'ampbnr lev with Ulyeerlae, rurMUtumwl Hudaud Fw-, Ttt-r Itrt lift, tisinHivA CUIMSn.VlIa.b-. C.U. Clark Users, CL A mass meeting of microbes doesnt nrrah or pass resolutions, hut it dues its hurrah work.

risos Cure for Consumption la the beat of all cough cures. George W. I Arts. Fsbucber, August Ud, 1W. The leading city In the manufacture of iron Is Pittsburg.

Cincinnati Is worth IIMil.751.43n, and has a debt of 136.240.197. The estimated population of Philadelphia in 1895 was 1.200.00)1. The debt of Chicago at the beginning of 1895 was 17.772.950. The most southern city of the United States la Key West. The city having the longest blocks Is said to be Louisville, Ky.

New York has the best water supply. Its aqueduct cost 130,000,000. Jersey City covers twelve and one-half aquare mile of territory. Boston has thirty-seven square miles area and 500,000 population. The assessed valuation of property In New York City Is 1.613.057,735.

Gladness Comes X7ith a better uiuk-rstanding of the transient nature of the many physical ills, which vanish before proper efforts gentle efforts pleasant efforts rightly directed. There is comfort In the knowledge, that ao many forms of sickness are not due to uny actual disease. bnt simply to a iWhlliMi ted condition of the system, which the pleasant everywhere esteemed so highly lnr all who value good health. Its beneficial effects are due to the fact, that it is the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness without, debilitating the oiwans on which it sets. It is therefore all important, in order to get its beneficial effects, to note when yon pare chase, that yon -have the genuine article, which is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Col only and sold by all reputable druggists.

If the enjoyment of good health, and the system la regular, laxatives or other remedies ore then not needed. If afflicted with any actual disease, one may be commended to the most skillful physicians, but if in need of a laxative, one should have the best, and with the well-informed everywhere. Syrup of Figs stands highest and is most largely asedand fives most general satisfaction. BAD COMPANY" THB GREAT. BBT EVIL OP OUR TIMES.

OsMss Text. My la the Way af Them I Refrain Thy Faot from Their Path, for Feet Baa to Evil Prom Ills, lh ARDLY any young man goes to a place of dlsalpn lion alone. Each one is accompanied. No men goes to ruin alone. He always takes some one elee with him.

May it please the court, said a convicted criminal, when asked if be hod anything to soy before sentence bf death was passed upon him may it please the court, bad company has been my ruin. I received the blessing of good parents, end, in return, promised to avoid all evil associations. Had I kept my promise, I should have been saved this shame, and been free from the load of guilt that hangs around me like a vulture, threatening to drag me to Justice for crimes yet unrevealed. who once moved In the first circles of society and have been the gueet of distinguished public men, am lost, and sll through bad company. This is but one of the thousand proofs that evil associations blast and destroy.

It is the invariable role. There is a well men in the wards of hospital, where there are a hundred people sick with ship fever, and he will not be so apt to lako the disease as good man would be ept to be emltten with moral distemper. If shut np with Iniquitous companions. In olden times prisoners were herded together In the same cell, but each one learned the vices of all the culprits, so that. Instead of living reformed by incarceration, the day nr liberation turned them out upon society beasts, not men.

We may, in our place of business, he compelled to talk to and mingle with bad men; but he who deliberately chooses to aaeoctate himself with vicious people, is engaged in carrying on a courtship with a Delilah, whose shears will clip off all the locks of his strength, and he will be tripped Into perdition. Sin is catching. Is infectious, is epidemic. I will let yoii look over the millions of people now inhabiting the earth, and 1 challenge you to show me a good man who, after one year, has made choice and consorted with the wicked. A thousand dollars reward for one such Instance.

I care not how strong your character may be. Go with the corrupt end you will become corrupt. Clan with burglars, and you will become a burglar. Go among the un clean, and you will become unclean. Many a young man has been destroyed by not appreciating this.

He wakes up some morning In the great city, and knows no one except the persons into whose employ he has entered. As he goes into the store all the clerks mark him, measure him. and discuss him. The upright young men of the store wish him well, but perhaps wait for a formal Introduction, and even then have some delicacy about inviting him Into their associations. But the bad young men of the store at first opportunity approach and offer their services.

They patronise him. They profess to know all about the town. They will take him anywhere he wishes to go if be will pay the expenses. For if a good young man and a bad young man go to some place where they ought not, the good young man has invariably to pay the charges. At the moment the ticket Is paid for, or the champagne settled for, the bad young man feels around in bis pockets and says, have forgotten my pocket-book.

In forty-eight hours after the young man has entered the store the bad fellows of the establishment slap hint on the shoulder familiarly and, at his stupidity In taking certain allusions, say: My young friend, you will have to be broken in; and they Immediately proceed to break him in. Young man, in the name of God, I warn you to beware how you let a bad man talk familiarly with you. If such an one slap you on the shoulder familiarly, turn around and give him a withering look, until the wretch crouches In your presence. There is no monstrosity nf wickedness that can unabashed under the glance of purity and honor. God keeps the lightnings of heaven in his own scabbard, and no human arm can wield them; but God gives to every young man a lightning that he may use, and that Is the lightning of an honest eye.

Those who have been close observers of clt life will not wonder why I give warning to young men, and say, "Beware of evil companions. I warn you to shun tho sceptic the young man who puts his fingers In hla vest and laughs at your old-fashioned religion, and turns over to some mystery of the Bible, and says. Explain that, my pious friend, explain that. And who says, Nobody shall scare me 1 am not afraid of the future: 1 used to believe in such things, and so did my father and n.o-hr, but I have got over it. Yea, he has got over it; amt If you sit In his company.

a little longer you will get over It too. Without presenting one argument against the Christian religion, such men will, by their jeers and scoffs and caricatures, destroy your respect for that religion, which was the strength of your father in hla declining yeara, and the pillow of your old mother when she lay a-dylng. Alas! a time will come when this blustering young Infidel will have to die, and then hla diamond ring will flash no splendor in the eyes of Death as be stands over the couch, waiting for hla soul. Those beautiful locks will be uncombed upon the pillow; and the dying man will say, I cannot die I cannot die." Death standing ready beside the couch, says, "You must die you have only half a minute to live; let me have it right nwoy your soul. Xo, says the young infidel, here are my.

gold rings, and these pictures; take them all. No, says Dagth. What do 1 rare for pictures! your soul. "Stand back, says the (tying infidel. "1 will not stand back, soya Death "for you have only fen seconds now to live; I want your soul.

The dying man says, "Dont breathe that cold air into my face. You crowd me too herd. It la getting dark in the room. God!" "Hush, says Death; "you sold there was no God. "Pray for me," exclaims the expiring lnflilel.

Too lute to pray," says Death; "but three more eeconds to live, end I will count them off one two three. He has gone! Where? Carry him out and bury him beside hla father and mother, who died while holding fast the Christian religloj. They died singing: bnt the young Infidel only said, Don't breathe that cold air in nr face. Yon ipyyj. The best reason In the world why EE some things sell so well Is because they are good.

That Is one reason for the great sales of BATTLE AX. But good quality Is only half the story. The other half Is the size of a 5 cent piece. It is as big almost as a 0 cent piece of other and poorer kinds. Facts are facts.

You can buy and see for yourself. Five cents Isn't much to invest. "Her ways are ways of pleasantness, gnd sll her paths are peace. Freparatlin tor the Itus "I am thinking of gwfng on the he said, and I wont a little Certainly," replied the advance agent of the "Uncle Tom troupe. "I have given considerable attention to elocution, and bave had some experience In private theatricals.

Is that of any value? Very little. Then what would you consider the best preparation? "Careful and painstaking pedestrian exercise. Ex. As to Investment. From the Chicago Tribune: "1here great difference between Fflsher'a twe boys.

He gave each of them 10,000. HI las has Invested his money in real estate. Julius is spending his in fine clothes. "Don't worry about Julius. He's spending his money in buying flowers for the rich Miss Boodelle.

It'll pay him a bigger Interest some day than ever Silas will get. (P. S. It did.) Ills Definition, Ills Honor You arc charged with knocking a than down and taking hla watch. What have yon to say? Ragglea Self-derfense, yer honor.

Yer see, twaa dis way I wuxx t'reat-rned wld der pneumony, an gentleman friend uv mine wot works in a horspittle told me dat If I didn't take somethin' purty soofl I'd croak. See? Judge. at a Poor Young Mob. He Miss McCroesua Imogen I cannot live without you She How did you acquire inch extravagant habits. Truth.

Thn Mew York Ware Miss Gotham to aatound her Aunt Cynthia from Hayseed Corners) What do you think of my new gown, aunt? It was made in Paris. Aunt Cynthia (neverey)--Lan'a sake, niece. I alien did hear thet your father waa purty cloac-llated, but I didn't think hed go 0 far as to send 'to Europe an have your dreanea made by cheap foreign pauper labor. Puck itlon Answered. Lecturer (who Intend to trree the origin of certain dishes and give their historical significance) Now, ludler and gentlemen, many of you will doubtless ba surprised at the question I am about to oak: Why do we eat mince in voice (from a dyspeptic-looking auditor) Because we an fools.

New York Weekly. Khoakad. Uncle Backwoods I ace it says here some of them New York banka have been doin business for thirty years and never rloaed their doors. Mrs. Backwoods Dear me, how are-leas! I wonder anybody trusts em with their money.

Puck. At tha Imcnarat Taldn. A stout genteman with rubicund visage bails a waiter: "What time ia It? A quarter pat-i midnight. "Ah! by the powers, and my wife expecting me home for lunch! Le Figaro. Wit aud II amor.

Iouie How do you come on with that leap year proposal? Emma I dont know yet. Harry la still examtn-ing my letters of recommendation. Judge. Bert I cant think of marriage Just yet; you know Im not rich. Angelina What difference does that make? Bert None, providing you are.

Rox-bury Gazette. Thou hast a pretty wit, quoth the monarch. "Aye, and a dry replied the Jester. Whereupon the king pushed the button Philadelphia Record. Corroborated.

New Yorker Are Philadelphians as alow as New Yorkers think they are? Philadelphian (surprised) Do New Yorkers think wain alow? Truth. Sen at has passed a bill authorizing a bridge across the Missouri river at Boonville. Edna Warney and Emm Canning-ham, aged ia and 15, drowned themselves nt Dowasvllle, Wire A i The New York Journal recently offered ten bicycles to the ten winners In a guessing contest, leaving the choice of machine to each. ALL OF THEM CHOSE Bicycles STANDARD OF THE WORLD Nine Immediately, and one after he had looked at others. the Journal bought Ten Columbias.

Paid $100 each for them. Obmi I 'l-iM times This aln works ruin firet, by un-healthful stimulants. Excitement ia pleasurable. Under every sky and In every Age men have sought It. The Chinaman gets It by smoking hla opium; the Persian by chewing hashish; the trapper in buffalo-hunt; tho sailor lu a nquallr the inebriate in the bottle, and the avaricious at the gaining Is- POPE MANUFACTURING A Mi maiu.

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