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2 POOGHKEEPSIE SEMI-WEEKLY EAGLE. JULY 3, 1889. FEOW TO MAIE EfflEIDS. DR. TALMAGE SAYS IT IS A SAQREO AWD DIVINE ART. F lrien d s lilp a n A lto ÂŁ e t 1 i« r -D ifferen t T h i n s fr o m G e n i a li t y âT h r o w i n g t h e ISfantle o f C h a r ft:^ O s e r . t h e D e f e c t s i n O t h e i âS;HChe V a la e o f N o h le S ii e n d g . B booklyn , Junp 30.âAt the Taijemacle this morning, after the pastorj the Rw . T. Be W itt Talmage, B. D., had made aDuexpo- Sition of a passage of Scripture, the congr.e- gation, led by cornet and organ, sang the hymn begiimiiig: 1 I have found a friend, ' Jesos is nnne. Dr. Tahoage^s subject -sras ââJSow to Ma.kpi jHends,â and his test Proverbs^xvili, 34: ^âA man that hath friends must show himself friendly.â He said: I About the-sacred and divine a r t of making and keeping friends I speakâa subject da âąwhich I never heard of any cue preachingâ and y e t God thought i t of-enough importaucse to put it in the middle of the Bible, these writings of Solomon, bounded on one side by the populetr Psalms of David and on tho other by the writings of Isaiah, the greatest of the prophets. It seems all a matter of haphazard how many fr»euds we have, or whether we have any frieads at all; but there is nothing ^ accidental about it. There is a ld»iv which governs the accretion and dispersion a t friendships. They did not âjust happen any more than t t e tides just happen to rise or fall, or the sun just happens to risaor set. It is a science, an art, a God given regula tion. Tell me bow friendly you are to others and I will tell you how friendly others are to you. I do not say you wEl not have enemies; indeed, the best way to get ardert friends is to have ardent enemies if you got their emity in doing the' right thing. Good inen.and women will always have enemies be cause their goodness is a perpetual rebuke to evil; but this mtagonism of foes will make more intense the love of your sidberents. ,Ybur friends will gather closer around you .becatise of the attacks of your assailants. The more youi' enemies abuse you, the better your coadjutors will think of you. best-friends _W0 Gver lidxi appBajrcd. a t soigg juncttCFB whtGii J we were especiaHy bombarded. There have been times in my life wâhen Unjust assault multiplied my friends, as near as I could calculate, about fifty a minute. You are bound to some people by many cords that neither time nor eternity can break, and I will warrant that many of those cords were twisted by hands malevolent, Human nature was shipwrecked about fifty-nine cei>- turies ago, the captain of that craft-one Adam, and his first-mate, running the famous cargo aground on a.snag in the River Efiddekel; but there was a t least one good trait of hranan nature that waded safely ashore from that shipwreck, and that is the dispositron to take the p art of those unfairly dealt with. When i t is thoi*oughly demonstrated that some one is being persecuted, although a t the s tart slan derous tOErgues were busy enough, defraiders â finally gather around as thick as honey bees on a trellis of bruised honeysuckle. If, when set upon by the furies, you can have grace enough to keep your mouth shut, and pre- ; serve your equipoise, and let others fight âąyour battles, you will find yourself after a while -with a whole cordon of allies. Had not the world given to Christ on his arrival at Palestine a very cold shoulder, there would not have been one-half as many angels chanting glory out of the hymn books of the sky bound in black lids of midnight. ELad it not been for the heavy and jagged and tortur ous cross, Christ would not have been the ad mired and loved of more people than any being who ever touched foot on either the eastern or western hemisphere. Instead, therefore, of giving up in despair because you havo'enemies, rejoice in the fact that they rally for you the most helpful and enthusi astic admirers. In other words, there is no vimlence, human or diabolic, that can hin der my text from coming true; âA m a n that hath fiends mast show himself friendly.â ^yOUB FRIENDSHIP MUST NOT BS A PBEâPENSE. I It is my ambition to project, especially upon the young, a thought which may be nignly shape their destiny for the here and the hereafter. Before you show yourself friendly you must be frienxily. I do not rec ommend a dramatized geniality. There is such a thing as pretending to be en rapjKirt with others when we are their dire destruct- ants, and talk against them and wish them calamity. Judas covered up his treachery by a resounding kiss, and caresses may be de moniacal. Better the mythological Cerbe rus, the three headed dog of hdl, barking a t us, than the wolf, in sheepâs clothiug, its brindled hide co-vered up by deceptive wool, and its deathful howl c^enced into.«an irmo- cent bleating. Disraeli writes of Bord .Hanfredj who, after committing .many outrages upon the^people, seemed suddenly to become friendly, and invited them to a banquet. After most of the courses of food had been served he blew a horn, which was in those times-a signal for the servants to bring on the dessert, but in this case it was the-slg- nal for assassins to enter and slay tbe guests. His pretended friendliness was a-crnel fraud, and there are now people whose smile is a falsehood. Befoiâeyou begin to show your self friendly you must be friendly. Get your heart right with God and man and this grace will become easy. You may by your own resolution get your nature in'fco asemblaisCB of this YirtuQ, but the grace of God can sublimely lift you into it. Sailing on tbe River Thames two-vessels ran aground. The owners of one -got one hundred horses amd pulled on the grounded ship and pulled it to pieces. The g w p ^ of ^ trouble. So, we may pull and haul a t our the oceanic tides of Godâs uplifting grace to hoist us into this kindliness I am eulogizing. If when â und«' the flash of the Holy Ghost we see -our own foilfies and defects aiui de pravities, we â will be very tenient and very easy with others. We win look into their characters for things coimaendatory and not dampA-tory. If you womd rub your oevn eye a little more -^goronsly ydSt -would find a mote in it, tbe exti'action of which -would keep you so btcsy you -would naot have much time \to sbouldar your broadax and go forth to split -up the beam in yo u r neigh borâs eye. In a Christian spirit k e ^ on exploring the characters of those you meet, and I am sure you -will find something in them delightful am.i fit for a foundation of friendliness. You invffce-me to come to yoartjountry seat ;md speed a few days. Thank ya a i I arrive alxrat-noon of a beautrfal summer day. W hat do you d<>? As soon as I arrive you take me out under -the-shadow of tbe great dims. You take-nje down to thse artificial lake., the spotted trout floating in And out among the-white piilais of the pond lilies. You take me to tbff stalls and kennels where yc»i keep your fine stock, mid here are the Durham cattloAad tbe Gor don setters, and the high stepping.steeds by pawing and neighing, tbe only language they jCaa speak, asking for harness or saddle, and ;a short turn do-wn the road. Hien we go .back to the house, and you get me in â right light and dio-w me the Ken- and the Bierstadts on the wall, and ta k e , ine into & e m u s ic\ ' roiBta,^ a n d s i u ^ ' m i i F t h e b t d ' c a D a r i e e l b i * fceb^-frjlM>w[aaisweH^ tlife robins-ia tlMR .te^tops. self ^or© ^ thb jeone of timi. '-âNow, why do \we -nof-^ that -way in regard to the characters of others, and show the bloom and the musm. and ttie^bright fountains? No. We say come along and let me show you that manâs character. Here is a green scummed frog pond, and thereâs a filthy cel lar, and I guess under that hedge there nnnst be a black snake. Come, and let us for an hour or two regale ourskves -with the nui sances. Oh, my friends, better cover up the faults and extol -vii^es, and this habit once establMied of imi-rorsal friendliness will beeome-as easy as ft is this morning for a syringa to flood the air -with sweetneÂź, as easy as it -will be further on in the season for a quail to \whistle up from tbe grass. When VÂź hear something bad about somebody whom we always supposed to be good, take out yourlead pencil and say: \I^et me see-! Before I accept that baleful story against that man^s character, I will take off from it twenty-five per cent, for the habit of exaggeration which belongs to the man who first -told the story; then I will -take off twenty-five per cent, for the additions which theq)iritof gossip in every community .has put upon the original story. Then I -will fake off twenty-five per cent, from the fact that the man may have been ^ put into cir cumstances of oveiâpowering t^ptation. iSo, I have taken off seventy-five percent. But i have -not heard his side of the story at all, and for that reason I take off tbe remaining twenty-five per cent.â Esouse me, sir, I donât believe a word of it. A DEFECTIVE 3IAXIM, But hei-e comes in a defective maxhui, sc often quoted: Whereâ there is so mtich smoke there must be some fira â Look at all the smoke for years around Jenner, tbeiutro- duoer of vaccination; and the smoke around Columbus,â the diÂźX3verer; and the smoke around Martin Luther, and Savonarola, and Galileo, and, Paul, and John, and Christ, and ibeE me where was the fire? That is on© of the Satanic arts to make smoke -without fire. Slander, like tbe -vs?orld, may be made out of nothing.' If the Christian, fair minded, com mon sensical spirit in regard to others pre dominated in the world, we should have the millennium in about six weeks, for -would not that be lamb and lion, cow and leopsird lying down together? Nothii^ but the grajce of God can ever put us into such a habit of mind and heai't-as that. The whole tendeiKjy is in the opposite direction. This is the way the world talks: I put my name on the back of a manâs note, and I had to pay it, and I wfll never again put my name-on the back of.any manâs note. I gave a b^gar ten cents, and five>minutes after I saw him enteilng a liquor store to spend it. I -will never again give a cent to a beggar. I helped that young man start in basiness, and lo, after a while, he came and opened a store almost next door tc me, and stole iny customers. I will never again help a young man start in business. I trusted in what my neighbor promised to do, and he broke his word, and the Psalmist was right before he corrected himself, for *-aIl men are liars.ââ So men become suspicious and saturnine and selfish, and at every addi tional wrong done them they put anothei layer on the wall of their exclusivenes, and another bolt -to the door that shuts them out from sympathy with -the world. They get cheated out of a thousand dollars, or misin terpreted, or disappointed, or betrayed, and higher goes the wall, and faster goes another bolt, not realizing that while they lock others out, they lock themselves in; and some day they wake up to find themselves imprisoned in a dastardly habit. No friends to others, others are no friends to them. Thereâs an island half way between England, Scotland and Ireland, called the Isle of Man, andi fhe seas dash against all sides of it, and I am told 'that -there is no-more lovely place-than that Isle of Man; but when a man becomesinsular in his disposition, and cuts himself off from tbe main land of the worldâs sympathies, be is despicable, and all around him is an Atlan tic ocean of selfishness. Behold that Isfe of Man! Now, supposing that you have, by a divine regeneration, got right toward God and hu manity, and yon start out to practice my text: âA man that hath friends must show himself friendly.â PulfiUthis by aH forms of appropriate salutation. Have you noticed âąthat the head isso poised that the easiest thing on earth is to give a nod of recognition? To swing the head from side to side, aswhen.it is wagged In derision, is unnatural and un pleasant; to throw it back, invites vertigo; but to drop the chin in greeting is accom panied with so little exertion that all day long and every day you-might practice it -with out the least semblance of fatigtie. So also the structure of tbe-hand indicates hand shak ing; the knuckles not-made-so that the fingers can turn out, but so made that the fingers can. turn in, as in clasping hands; andl the thumb divided from and set aloof from the fingers, so that while the fingers take your neighborâs hand on on© side, tbe thumb takes it on the other, and pressed together, all the faculties of the hand give emphasis to the salutation. Kve sermons in every healthy hand, urge us to band shaking. BE KIND HVEBYBODV. Besides this, every (igy when you start out, load yourself up with kind thoughts, kind words, kind expressions and kind greetings. When a .man or woman does -well, tell him so, teU hei* so. If you meet someone -who is im proved in health, and it is demonstrated in girth and color, say: âHow well you loc^r But âą if, on the other hand, under the -wear and tear of life he appears pale and exhaust ed, do not introduce sanitaiy subjects or say anything at all about physical conditions. In the case of improved health, you have by ------------ â â *â 1 towards Whib in the case of the failing health you have arrested tbe decline by your silence, by -which he concludes; âIf I were really so badly off, he would have said some thing about it. â W© ajfe all, especially those of a nervous -temperament, susceptibleto-kiud -words and discooraglng words. Porm-a con - spiracy against us, and let tea men meet us at certain points-on our -way ewer tobusiness, and let each one»say: âHow sick you k><^;â though -we sboald start out -well, after meet ing the fii*st and hearinghisdepressjng-salute, We would beginâ to-exanrine 0U7* symptonis. After m eetii^ the second gloomy accosting, w© would corsciudeWe did co t feel quite as as -usnal. Afta: meeting -the thii*d, OUT seasaiions would ba dueadfiil, and after 'meet- lag the fouith, unless W« âąexpected a conspir acy, -we would go bom© and go to bed, and -the othei' six pessimists -would be auselesasur- plus-of disciouragement. My dear sic, my dear madam, what do youmeorvby goingabxit^bis â worid -srith disfaeartenraeniB ? Is not tbejsop- ply of gloom nnd troabie and misSoriurse enough to meet the demand without your running a tectocy -of pins and spikes? Why should you plant black and blue in the wca*ld when God so seldom plants them? Plenty of scarlet colors, plenty <3f yellow, plenty of green, plenty of pink, but very seldom a plant black or blue, I never saw a black flowK', and thereâs only here and there -a blue bdl or a violet; but tbe blue is for the-mosfc part reserved for tbe sky, and we bave to look to see that, and .when we look up no color can do us harm. Why not plant along the paths of o t h ^ tbehilgbtness^ instead of the gloomsi Do not prophesy misfortune. If Mendelssohn* of Lady Chi you must be a prophet at all be an Ezekiel Asne, of -Orestes and^ and not a Jeremiah. In ancient times p r e s  ets who foretold evil -wereâdoin^righfeior they âąwere divinely d i r e c t ^ 'b u t eta of evil in our tune aip^. g e n ^ i^y false prophete. Some of ;oUr -w ^ b e r people aro prophesying we shall have a sum mer of unparalleled scorch. It will not be that at all I think fve a re going to have a summer of great harvest* and universal health; at any rafe Iknow as'much about it as they do. Last fall all'the weattfer-pro phets agreeciin saying we shouldbliave a âąwin ter of extraordinary severity, blizzard on the beds of blizzard. It was the mildest -winter I aver remember to. have passed. Indeed, tbe autumn and the spring almost shoved winter out of the procession. Real troubles have no heralds running ahead of their som ber chariots, and no one baa any authority in our time to 'announce their coining. Load yourself up with helpful words and deeds. The hymn onca sung in our churches is unfit to be sung, for it says; We shouldauspect some <janger near â Where we possess delight In other words, manage to keep miserable all the time. The old song sung a t the pianos a quarter of a century ago was right: âBand words can never die. â Such kind words have their nests in kind hearts, and when they are hatched out and take -wing they circle round . in flights that never cease, and sportsmanâs gun cannot shoot them, and storms cannot ruffle their 'wings, and when -they cease flight in these lower skies of earth they sweep around amid the higher altitudes of heavea At Baltimore a few days ago I talked into a phonograph. The cylinder containing the words was sent on to Washington, the next day that cylinder, from another phono graphic instrument, when -turned, gave back to me the very words I had uttered the day before, and with the same intonations. Scold into a phonograph, and ft will scold back. Pour mild -words into a phonograph,and it will return the gentleness. Society and -the world, and the church, are phonographs. Give them acerbity and rough treatment, and acerbity and rough treatment you will get back. Give them practical friendliness, and they will give back practical friendliness. A father asked his little daughter; âMary, why is it that everybody loves you?â She answered: âI donât know, unless it is because I love every body, â â âA man that hath friends must sho-w himself friendly.â. We want semething like that spirit of sacrifice for otheas which was seen in the Engfish channel where in the storm a boat containing three men was upset, and all three were in tbe water strug gling for their fives. A boat came to their relief, and a roj)e was thrown to one of them, and be refused to take it, saying: âK rst fling it to Tom; he is just ready to go down. I can last some time longer.â A maAlike that, be he sailor or landsman, be he in upper ranks of society or lower r^ k s , will always have plenty of friends. What is true manward is true Godward. We must be the friends of God if we want him to be our friend. We cannot ta-eat Christ badly all our lives and exi)ect him to treat us lovingly. I was read ing of a sea fight, in which Lord Nelson cap tured a French officer, and when the French officer offered Lord Nelson his hand, Nelson replied: âFirst give me your sword, and then g^veme your hand.â Surrender of our re sistance to God must precede Godâs proffer of pardon to us. Rei>entance before forgive ness. You must give up your rebellious sword before you can get a grasp of the divine hand. IT IS GOOD TO ELATE GODâS FRIENDSHIP. Oh, -what a glorious state of things to have the friendship of God! Why, we could afford to have all the world against us and all other worlds against us if we had God for us. He could in a minute blot out this universe, and in another minute make a better universe. I have no idea that God tried hard when he made all things. The most brilliant thing known to us is light, and for the creation of that he only used a word erf command. As out of a flint thefrontiersman strikes a spark, so-out of one word Grod struck the noonday sun. For the making of the present tmiverse I do not read that God lifted so much as a finger. The Bible frequently speaks of Godâs hand, and Gk)dâs arm, and Godâs shoulder, and Godâs foot; then sup pose he should put hand and arm and shoulder aud foot to u-tmost tension, -what could he not make? That God, of such demonstrated and undemonstrated strength, you may have for your present and everlast ing friend. But a stately and reticent friend, hard to get at, but as approachable as a country mansion on a summer day when ail the doors and -windows are wide open. Christ said: âla m the door.â And he is a wide door, a high door, a palace door, an always open door. My four-year-old child got hurt, and did not cry until hours after when her mother came home, and then she burst into weeping, and some of the domes tics, not understanding human nature, said to her; âWhy did you not cry before?â She answered: âThere -was no one to c r y to.â Now I. have to tell you that while human sympathy may be absent, divine sympathy is always accessible. Give God your Jove and get his love; your service and secure his help; your repentance and have his pardon. God a friend? Why, that means all your -wounds medicated, all your sorrows soothed, and if some suddep ca tastrophe should hurl yououtof earth it would only hurl you into heaven. If God is your friend, you cannot go out of the world too quickly or suddenly, so far tts your own hap piness is concerned. Thei»e were two Chris tians last Tuesday who entered heaven ; the one was standing at a window in perfect health watching tbe shower, and the light ning instantly slew him; but the lightning did not flash down the sky as swiftly as his spirit flashed upward. The Christian who died on the same day next door had been for a year or two failing in health, and for the last three months had suffered from a disease that made the nights slegpl'e^ and the days an anguish. Do you not really think that the case of the one who âąwent instantly was more desirable than the one who entered the shining gp,te through a long lane of insomnia and <*>ngestion? In the one case, it -was like ycxir standing weari ly a t a door, knocking and -waiting, and won- dei-ing if it will ever open, and knocking and waiting again; while in the other case, it was a swinging open of the door a t tbe fli*st touch of your knuckle. Give your friendship to G ^ , aod ^ave Godâs friein^bip for you, and even toe w o r^ accident -wfll be a -victory. HTJSIAN FRIENDSHIP REFPESHINO. How refreshing is human friendship, and true friends, what priceless treasure I When sjekness cx>mes, and trouble comes, and death cornea, we send for occr friends first of all, and tbeir appeai*ance in oair doorway in any crisis iarre-enforceinent, and when they have entered we say; âNow it is aU right!â Oh, what wceild -we do without friends, personal friends, bu-âmes3 friends, family friends? But we Want something mightier than human friend ship in toe great exigencies. When Jonathan Edwards in his final hour had given tbe last good-by to all his earthly friends, he turned on his pillow and closed his eyes confidently saying: âNow where is Jesus of Nazareth, my 'true and never failing friend?â Yes, I admire tHiraan friendship as s^n in \thecaseof'Da-vid and Jonathan, of Paul and Onesiphorus, of Herder and Goethe, of Goldsmith and Reynolds, of Beaumont and Fletcher, of -Cowley and /Harvey, of Erasmus aad Thomas More, ^ Lessing and »chin and -Erln- *ylades, each re- l. I [uesting tiiat hHpaKJf m-fght jaVc the pdintqf he^geatlso other be ^ a r e d ; of ^j^jifeioBBaas sn^ .'PelojiM^, whd Joclecl to ^ s h i ^ & in bilile detertoine^ to dle^tb; âątender^ ^friendship in. all the nnivei*^ -is the ^iindship between Jesus Christ and a believing souL Yet after aH I have said I feel I fixave only done what James' 'MSirhall, the miner, did in 1848, in California, before its gold min^ were known-Z. He reached in and put qpon the table of his employer, Capt. Su-tton, a thimbleful o fâgold dust ââWhere did you get toAtf â ^ 4 employer. The reply was; âI got it this morning from a mill race, from âąwhich the water had been drawn, off.â But that goM dust, which coqM have been* taken up between the finger aiid tbe th-amb, was the prophecy and specimen -that revealed Californiaâs -wealth to all nations. And today i have only put before you a specimen of toe value of divine riaenctship, only a thimblefal of mines inexhaustible and infinite, though all time and all eternity go on -with the ex ploration. ________________ ODDS AND ENDS. The Prim ross league com prises 800,OOC members. A cord of Missomâi hickory turns out 300 ax handles. The two p-eat movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the feai* of evil. W hat next? Cowboys ar4 seriously con templating the use of ostriches for herding cattie. ' There are ninety-seven cptton mills in In dia, which consumed 283,009,000 pounds of cotton last year. Most people would succeed in small thingf if they were not troubled with great ambi tions.âLongfellow. The electric light from the Eiffel \tower car be distinctly seen at Fontainebleau, thirty- seven miles away. âą The lac© trade gives occupation to almosi 70.000 wonien in Normandy and to nearlj 200.000 persons in France. Boys digging in sand at Haverstraw one day came upon bones supposed' to be those oi a revolutionary soldier. We do love beauty a t fiiâst sight; and w⏠do-cease te love it, if it is not aecompaniec by amiable qualities.âLydia Maria Child. There ai*e now about 5,OOOJK}0 owners ol farms in the United States. About 1,000,OOC of the farms have been acquired since ISSO. An eminent artist recently painted a snow stern so natm-ally that he caught a bad cole by sitting near i t with his coat off. A San Fi-ancisco-firm has built toe largest wine cellar in the world. It is capable oi holding 3,000,*000 gallons of wine. Its cost was §250,000. W hat is the difference between a summer dress in -winter aud an extracted tooth? One is too thin and the other Is tooth out. Some men get on in the world upon the same principle that a chimney sweep passes uninterruptedly through a (^âowd.âDouglas JeiTold. Youth is the time of - hope. When a mar gets a little older he stops hoping and begins reaching out for what he can get. Paiâson (to candidate for Sxmday S chool- Have you been christened, my boy? Boyâ Yesh, shir. Got marks in three plashes or m'y left arm,âLondon .Punch. In a sixteen page love letter exhibited ir court in Providence the other day toe wore âdarlingâ occurred thirty-seven times, anc yet the girl in the case said it was âa cold, unfeeling epistle,â ' A Philadelphia policeman who stole certaiu clothing contributed ,for the Johnstown suf ferers was arrested, indicted, convicted, sen- âątenced and taken to prison in three hours and twelve minutes. Who says that Philadelphia is slow? A new Industry is developing on the island of Guadalupe. There are now about fifty tl^usand wild goats there, and they are being kfiled for their skins and ^tallow. Steamer? have already arrived a t San Diego, Cal., -witt cargoes of goat skins and tallow. John Williams, ahachelor in Augusta, Me.. was told that a ceidain -widow hai set hei cap for him, and John was so afraid that he might be roped into marriage that he went to toe bam and hung himself. Another library of womenâs writings is tc be foundedâ^this time in Germany. It is tc be started in a small town, where a room in the public library will be loaned for toe col lection until it is sufficiently formed to be taken to Vienna or Leij^O to be formally made over to the Allgemeine Deutsche Frauec verein. A Belgian journal gives an account of a beauty sho-w held at Paris in 1655. In .re membrance o f -the oldest competition, of the kind toe prizes were golden apples. The fiiâst prize was, of course, awarded to the queen of France, and toe second was obtained -with 1,723- points by a Mile. Semure. Most of the prize winners were ladies from Normandy. Thirty yeai's ago the Thomas Dickason, a New Bedford whaling ship, was lost in the Okhotsk sea. Last summer the bark Cajie Horfi Pigeon took a whale in the same sea, aj*d imbSided in the blubber was the iron of a> harpoon^-wito the words â Thomas Dicka- sonâ stamped on it. It was as bright and shai-p as when it was first struck into the \Whale a t least thirty years ago. A -wonderful snake story comes from Mur- rumburrah, in New South Wales. A man killed a large black snake, and,- seeing that the reptile was of a j>^uliar shaj)e, he opened the body. Iiiside,wafe a bullockâs fiom, out of which popped a rat, stiU ali-ve. It is sup posed that the snake chased the rat into toe horn, and, being unable to dislodge him, swallowed r a t and bom together. A Scrap of Paper Saves Her Life. It was just an ordinary scrap of wrap ping paper, but it saved her life. She was In the last siages.of consumption, told by physicians that she was incurable and could live only a short time; she weighed less than seventy pounds. On a piece of wrapping paper she read of Dr. Kingâs New Discovery, and got a sample bottle; it helped her, she-bought a large bottle; it helped her more, bought another %nd grew better fast, continued Its use and is how strong, healthy, rosy, plump, w e i g h  in g 1 4 0 p o u n d s . For fuller particulars send stamp to W. H. Cole, Druggist, Fort Smith. Trial Bottles of this wonderful Discovery Free at HUMPHERY & FOR MAN Drugstore, 28S Main street. MWF&wâ4 Marriage is said to be a lottery; but we notice there are plenty of young fellows who want to take a hand in it, ^W h en the banks of the canai break the water immediately rushes out to finda receiver. _ ______________ _ M i \ A house in Kansas City is built with ceilings four feet high. Thatâs what might be called a low-stoop house. The man -who always wears thick-soled shoes must expect to have some diflaculty in marryifig off his daughlerB. jSTEAlttlWATiNw â Huffison Biv#r # D s y li^ t, â : D i T ' L l i l l l 'STEAMERS; '' ' ' ââN e w 'IT o e k â a n d â A l b a n y ,â DAILY (StTNDAxs E x cepted .) GOING SOUTH. AIUiw. Hudspn, Catskfil. POUGHKEEPSIE. Wes^Pomt, aioO Yonkers. 4.2J S'** IS ?. M. Yonkers. 12.-^ West Point, g o in g ; n o b t ^ ^ arooklyn A l b S ' Bailroads, Connections made; Sarstoa^ br Special Express. A F in e JBand a u d O r c h e s Boat. 8.40 9.oa ii'so Newbnrvb. POUGHKEEPSIE. l.li :ndsoa, ---- 6.10 .tt»ob«d to eac! my28a&w ST E A M E R MARY POWELL For Hew York, ON AND AFTER WEDNESDAY, MAY 22 d , Will leave Poughkeepsie, 8.30 A. M. â â Milton, 8.45 â â New Samburgh, ' 7.00 ABBIVING AT NE-W YOEK a i 1 0 . 4 5 A. M. BETOBNINGLEAVE VKSTRY ST.. 3 .1 5 P.M.: 22 d : S T ..3 .3 0 P . M. ^ ; O n SATURDAYS will ! leave NEW YORK ene hour earlier. TICKETS SOLD TO OCEAN; GROVE, OCEAN BEACH, PHIL &DELPHIA, Sw. mylS SEASON 1 8 8 9 . Poughkeepsie and Hew York âPOUGHKEEPSIE Transportation Gompây DAILY Passenger and Freight Line. J. H.lBEINCKERHOrP.-.PresidentEana Treasâ. A.IV. IV, HAIGHT,ISecretary.' Steamer J. L. Easbrouok, C-APTAIN J. H. COOPER. Steamer D. S. Miller, CAPTAIN B. D. CARPENTER, Will leave Main St. Landing Daily (Satur days excepted,) at 7 P. M, laM ings. S ^ G o o d accommodations for Passengers. Pare 75 Cents. Excursion Tickets* $1,252 Goodfany tim e during the Season onlourline and Steamer Mary Powell. FREIGHT HANDLED WITH CARS AT REAS ONABLE RATES, ALL KINDS OF FARM PROD OCR SOLD AT HIGHEST MARKET PRICE AND RETURNS PROMPTLY MADE. â WE KEEP ON HAND AND FOR SALE Salt o f a ll k inds, Coe^s Phosphate, GrBin, ei-rouiul P laster. H ay B a n a s , asw m ll22 A. V .Y .-rA J r - f r . F fcây. C L i O r a i n a . SOLID FACTS. WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED OVER 500 GARMENTS COATS, VESTS and PANTS SEA S O N A B L E GOODS! A t a. B e a u c tion of 25 Per cen t from B egular Prices, CDME -WHILE THEY ABB TO BE HAD AT J. J. BAHRETâS, 262 MAIN 8T. FU R N H U R E I GEO. HUGHES. MANUFACTURER AND DEALER, 406,408 and 410 Main St, (SOUTH SIDE, ABOVE HAMILTON 5T.) WE ARE OFFERING Parlor Suits of our Owe Make â mâ Silk, Brocatelles, Tap'estrles, Silk aad Mohair Plushes, AND A ^ t THE Best and Latest Patterns of Coverings â I S â Walnut, Cherry and Mahog- âą any Frames At Greatly Reduced Prices! OUB STOCK IS LARGE. B U 7 E B S A R E ISV IT E D TO CALL a n d E X A y n n E . Our Union and. Excelsior Folding Beds, â ARE WAY AHEAD OF ALL OTHERS. WE HANDLE ONLY THE BEST , QUALITY OF FURNITURE. All kinds of Hall Racks and Fancy Odd Pieces. K ^ i s g n i i i s s H i n n n i s n - â â j s i H H H t f i i i m i u a E K S ;i si-ji J S I âą sn 0 , 05 - 7 -a-a-â ,«£» oca j ck \; oooox - .«» cc Ÿ« = ExpreSS i::jiiiinssiiiiin M i =?s^ 5S| ?- 0 =: i ; i ; ? : s s i i = i : i i i : : S..: : : : : : ::::::::: g-^j limited. : ssi i Esi : 1 si i si:: 1 si i gs* i âą ?si : s:i i i S?' Special. Sr: Ssj.-s^S^'^i R t e n H n s i n ! ; n g i ! ? ? i S » 1 .y Local y'. f i - - : : : : S: ; M&S' ^ ! i : f ; f ; ; ; ; i 1 ; i ^^Jress oS: : : : : : cSl: Sr.i ^ Kkwienciwcvrisiv.-^- ^-a-)ooccoo->r«-.c-' iy' ' * si i ^ oi-a*a-a-».jocooooocl oo: to-cicc'.c = S' }.*ÂŁxpreB 8 §?.SfggSgS^gi $.i si ?S!2:§;g§Sj f c d i n i i d i n i i i j i i s S } - ^ ^ ^ TRAVHIJWIGl , IT. y . Q. & H . R . R . S , , fRuii oh Sunday, >âą) Albany Local. â gnunsdiinniusg}^ mmmmirm ;; i; \West Shore Haiiroad. Trains leaving H ighland a t 12:23 and < ;',2 P, M rxn t h rough to -Jersev City Trains stop on sign a l. *Rnn« on Sundays. ' Aocom. ------ j j j j ?E*|preES g5g.g:fc5g; ; t gxg: \:Sl\ I ZS'-Sr ; : S'- : : ________ j *gpec3a1.^ : -si; i : : S; e; ?5Se-.occcoa:â j »2x^^rei ' a S r : : §8â s: pie.iai. Kg!»gg;gg; a sis. -d â : I i eicneis3>oio-.-<!-s^ j Ksssidi I dl j;;;;; New Y o rk and M a ssachusetts. GOING WEST. GOING EAST I j I I I I STATIONS. 'til's II if !3' !3 I I Pine Plains. Lneâm Lâd M inâs Halstead. Tannerâs, gosto.n C o r n e a . ii I l i iii ilii is if 1111 A, M, P.â M.'P, M, iday Train g o ing E a s t 1 â arriving a t B o s ton Co: Sunday Train going W est leaves Boston Corn* c& P.M., arriving a t P o u g ^ ^ p s r i Health is Wealth! one m ontliâs treatm ent '$100 a b o x . cr> ix boxes for $5.00, sent by mail prepaid on receipt oi price. W eCruarantee S ix B o x e s To cure any case. W itkeacli ordei^received by u e for s ix boxes, accompanied w ith $3.uu we w ill Bend tke purciiaser our w ritten guarantee to refund th e m oney if the tveatm e n t does not efferi a cure
