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The Progress., 1897-08-07

right to ASK = r1Ke, tAen, bal
ance for God. Ecor omize in anything
rather than in your Christian charities.
There is not more than one out of 800
of you who ever give enough to do You
any good, and when some cause OF
observation-disclosures missionary society
or Bible society or church oryauiza-
ton comes along and gets anything
from YOU, what do you say? You
saw: Il have been bled," and there
never was more magnificent figure o:
speech than that ussd in common par
lance. Yes. you have been ble" and
you are spiritually emaciated, when
If you had been coura geOuS enough to
60 through your property and say:
THAT belongs to God, and this be-
longs to Cod and no more dared to
appropriate it to your own use than
something that belonged to your neigh
Dor, instead OF being hled TO death by
charities you would have been rein
vigorated and recuperated and built
up for time and eternity. God viii
keep many of you cramped in money
matters until the day of Your death
unless you swing into larger gener-
osity.
People quote as q joke what Is a Di-
waters and it will return to thee after
many days" What did God mean by
that? There is an allusion there. In
Egypt, when they SOW the corn, it is at
Q time when the Nile is OVERLOOKING ia
banks, and they SOW the SEED corn on
the waters, and as the Nile begins to
recede this seed corn strikes IN the
earth and comes up a harvest, and that
is the allusion. 1t seems as if they are
throwing the corn away on the waters,
but after awhile they gather it up in
harvest. Now, says God in His word:
"Cast thy bread upon the waters, and
it shall come back to thee after many
days" 1t may seem to you that you
are throwing it away on charities, but
it will yield a harvest of green and
gold-a harvest on earth and harvest
in Heaven. If men could appreciate
that and act on that, we would have no
more trouble about individual or ma
tional finances.
Prescription the third, for the cure
of all our Individual and national tinan-
cial distresses: A great spiritual awak-
enlng. 1t is no mere theory. The mer-
chants of this country were positively
demented with abe monetary excite
ment in 1s47. There nev>r before nor
depression as there was at that time.
A revival came, and 500, 600 people were
born into the kingdom Of God. What
came after the revival? The grandest
financial prosperity we have ever had
in this country. The finest fortunes,
the largest fortunes in the United
States, have been made since 1857.
We'll" you say, what has spiritual
improvement and revival to do with
monetary improvement and revival"
Much to do. The religion of Jesus
Christ has direct tendency to make
men honest and sober and truth-tell-
ing, and are not honesty and sobriety
and truth-telling auxiliaries of ma
terial prosperity. If we could have
an awakening in this country as in the
days Of Jonathan Edwards, of North
ampton, as in the days of DIR. Finley of
Basking ridge, as in the days of DIR.
The Progress., 1897-08-07
Prescriptions for the Alienation
of Financial Distress
POINTERS for CrOakers Who 1nfest tos
Country-Chesrful Behavior and
Convention One Of the
! P0nncO0s.

help restore good times The text is
Wherefore doth q living man complsin:-La-
mentations, iii, 50.
A cheerful interrogatory in the most
melancholy book of the Bible! Jere-
miah wrote 90 many sad things that
we have q word named after him, and
when anything is surcharged with
grief and complaint. we call 1t jere.
:miad. But in my text, Jeremiah, a
by a sudden jolt, wakens us to thank
full spirit
Our blessings are so much more nu'
merous than our deserts that he is sur.
.prised that any body should ever find
fault Having life, and with it thou
sand blessings, it ought to hush into
perpetual silence everything like crit
.icism of the dealings of God. Where
fore doth living man complaint"
While everything In our national
finances il Frightening. for the last
l1ew years the land has been set to the
tune Of Naomi" There has been
here and there . cheerful soloist, but
1.-THE grand chorus has been one OF lam
entation, accompanied by dirges over
Frustrated commerce. silent manufac-
tories, unemployed mechanism, and
all those disorders described by the
1.-TWO short words. ''hard times" The
the bloody luxury of war, more than
80 years ago. There were great ma
tional differences. and we had not
enough Christian character to settle
them by arbitration and treaty, and
so we went into battle, expanding life
and treasure. and well nigh swamping
the national finances; and north and
south, east and west have ever since
been IA wing for those tour years in
diligence in barbarism. But the time
has come when this depression ought
70 end-yea. when it will end
II the people are willing TO do
two or three things by way Of
financial medicament, for the people
rs well as congress must join in the
work Of recuperation. The best po-
litical economists tell us that there is
NO good reason for continued prostra-
ton. Plenty OF money awaiting in
vestment. The national health with
never SO strong an arm or 30 clear .
brain. Yet we go on grooming, groan-
ing, groaning, rs though God had put
this nation upon Cruel, and allowed us
but one decent breakfast in six months
The fact is the habit of complaining
has become chronic in this country,
and after all these years of whimper
under such q momentum Of SWIVEL that
we cannot stop.
There are three prescriptions by
which believe that our individual and
national finances may be cured OF their
present depression. The first is cheer
full conversation and behavior. I have
noticed that the people who are most
vociferous against the day in which we
live are those who are in comfortable
circumstances. / have made inquiry
OF those persons who are violent in
their jersmiads against these times,
and have asked them: Nov. after
all, are you not making . Eving?"
After some hesitation and coughing,
clearing their throat three or four
times, they say, stammeringly: Yea"
So that with = great multitude
OF people IL Is not . question of getting
a livelihood, but they are unhappy and
dissatisfied becsnse they can not make
rs much money ~ they would like to
The Progress., 1897-08-07

IN L0elr Cr1Oc lucy SSs SA
. day when they wish they couio MAKE
four dollars or Eve dollars ON: says
some one, ARE you not aware OF the
fact that there is great population
ont of employment, and there are hun
dreds of the good families of this coun-
trv who are at their wits end, not
knowing which way to turn?" Yes,
/ know 1t better than any man In
private life can know that sad fact, for
it comes constantly to my eye and ear.
R,,t who is responsible for this state OF
things?
Much of that res 2onsibii ty l put
unon men in comfortable circumstan-
ces, who, by an everlasting growing,
keep public confidence depressed and
new enterprises from starting out and
new houses from being built. You
knew very well that one respondent
man can talk so men into dependency,
while one cheerful physician can wake
ND into exhilaration a whole asylum OF
hypochondriacs. 1t is no kindness to
the poor or the unemployed for you to
Join in this deploration. If you have
not the wit and the common sense to
think of something cheerful to say,
then keep silent. There is no man
that can be independent of depressed
conversation. The medical journals
are ever illustrating it. was reading
of Eve men who resolved that they
would make IN experiment and
see what they could do in the
way of depressing a stout, healthy
man. and they resolved to meet
him at different points in his journey;
and rs he stepped out from his house
in the morning in robust health. one
ct the Ave men met him and said:
"Why, you look very sick to-day. What
il the matter?" He said: Il am in ex-
cellent health; tn is nothing the
matter" But passi- g down the street,
he began to EXAMINE his symptoms,
and the second of the five men met
him aud said: ''Wty. how bad you
look" We'll" he replied, 81 don't
feel very wellw After awhile the
third man met him, and the fourth man
met him, and the fifth man came up
and said: why, you look as if you
had had the typhoid fever for six
weeks. What is the matter with
your" And the m<n against whom
the stratagem had been laid
went home ard died. And
II you meet man with perpetual talk
ABOUT hard times and bankruptcy ana
dreadful winters that are to come, you
break down his courage. A few au-
tumns ago, as the winter was coming
on, people said: ave shall have a ter
rlble winter. The poor will be frozen
out this winter" There was some
thing in the large store of acorns that
the squirrels had gathered, and some
thing in the phases of the moon, and
something in other portents, that made
you certain we were going to have a
hard winter. Winter came. 1t was
the mifdest one within my memory
and within yours. All that winter
long / do not think there was
an icicle that hung through the day
from the caves of the house. So you
prophesied falsely. Last winter was
coming. and the people said: I'VE
shall have unparalleled suffering
among the poor. 1t will be a dreadful
winter" Sure enough it was a cold
winter; but there were more large
hearted charities than ever before
4 l.
The Lamar register., 1897-03-13

VlAvI aierins orsan.. Rooa . isS kraaaso..t
The Lamar register., 1897-03-13

the other OF those metals. so long as
these conditions prevail. will be the
paramount metal, the other will fiuc-
tuate up and down In the markets OF
he world. Which Of these two metals
is to be paramount until we have the
concurrent action of nations? II is
that which Is the standard money of
the nations having the chief trade of
the world. Who are those nations?
Are they China. Japan, or the South
American states. some of them hav-
ing a gold standard. some OF them hay-
ing a silver standard and all OF them
having deprecated paper standard
but oneH"
Commenting on the impossibility OF
the restoration of the parity between
gold and silver without international
4ction. Senator Allison said:
Here lies Europe with It's silver and
roId, having a gold standard with a
trade twelve times as great aS thai of
the trade OF all the silver countries
combined. Therefore unless we can
niuinlze this difference in the value
ot these two metals in the exchange
of the world this divergence will go
IA and the people who have the silver
money are the people who win be most
distressed In the exchanges necessary
n be made.
The Lamar register., 1897-03-13
BHIc-A-sRAc.

horseshoe nail OF gold wiJh a
.s'ed head furnishes popular scarf
SSeled watch depending from q
II q diamonds represents a pleasing
ai'eF candelabra In Louis XIV. de-
hsai
aoTelty likely to please holiday
&ioas is the silver flask which repre-
y bicycle wheel In form and deco
aion.
yoAaTs formed of graduated rows of
,ash and held In shape by diamond
=, are in great request for even
4 Eear.
The Lamar register., 1897-03-13

simply because the combination won'twork-
A sick man 10 in very much the same 6x
about getting at the nourishment he needs
to keep him alive. There IL plenty of GOOD
food al hand. but his digestive organism 10
out of order; the nutritive combinations %
Of his system won't work. He can't possi-
Sly get at the nourishment contained in the
food He takes 1t into his stomach, but it
does him no good II isn't made into good
blood. He is just as badly of as II the
food was locked up where he couldn't touch
IL He gets no strength or health out Of it
All these uiai-uutritive conditions have .
perfect and scientific remedy in DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. 1t puts the nu-
tritise combination " or the system into
perfect working order, 1t gives the diges-
tive and blood making organs power to
make pure, red. healthy blood. and pour it
into the circulation abundantiy and rapidly.
II drives out all bilious poisons and scrof-
ulous germs. cures indigestion, liver com
plAint nervousness and neuralgia, and
builds up solid flesh, active power and
nerve force.
Mrs.. Rebecca r. Gardner. Of Grafton, York Co.,
Va writes: I was 70 sick with dyspepsia that
could not eat anything for over four months I
had to s;arve myself. as nothing would stay nv
stomach. was 80 badlyod eonid not eat even q
cracker. thought was going to die. weighed
only So pounds, 1 tried almost everything,
and nothing did me zny good. until took two
bottles Of the Golden Medical Discovery am
well as / ever was and weigh Iss pounds"
The Lamar register., 1897-03-13
An Int.rrtatIonnI Coln.

There is a proposition before Con-
gress TO enlarge the use for silver by
introducing into the currency system
an international coin" on the style OF
the discredited trade dollar. coined un-
der the act Of 1873. This comes in
the form Of a bill recently introduced
by Representative Beach OF Ohio.
which. It Is believed. contains features
which will do away with many OF the
objections which were found to the
trade dollar when Il formed portion
OF the currency. Like some other sill
yer propositions, an international
agreement" is one OF the important
features OF the bill
BY its terms the president OF the
United States il authorized and re-
quested to enter into negotiations with
the governments Of China, Japan. the
several republics and colonies of the
American hemisphere, the Hawaiian
islands and the Dominion OF Canada
with view to securing n uniform
standard Of value in trade and com
merce."
This is following out a suggestion
made by President Arthur in 1884 and
developed In letter written by Sena-
tor FreIInghuysen to the chairman of
the senate committee on foreign re-
lations.
This same suggestion was among
those outlined by Mr Blaine. who was
one Of the advocates of an arrange
mept for a uniform standard among
the nations OF the American hemis-
phere. The scheme was indorsed by
ali Of the delegates to the International
American conference in 1883. with the
exception OF those from the United
States, who were divided over the mat
ter three being in favor. three against
and two non-eommittaL
II would seem that. as far as the
international feature of the scheme is
concerned. il might be practicable, and
have the effect Of giving to American
merchants a considerable advantage
over those Of Europe in handling the
trade of the silver standard countries.
while the proposed coin would not nee
cssarily become a part Of our domes-
tic currency. All which this country
might coin would be readily absorbed
by China. which has no fixed standard
nor coinage system of It's own, and
by other Asiatic Seattle
Post-InteIligencer.
The Lamar register., 1897-03-13
wh.r. Faurt Wa. Born.

The house in which Faust is sup
posed to have been born, in Roda, near
Weiman was recently sold for old
building material for s22. 1t is nearly
i've centuries old. and narrowly es-
capped being taken to the Chicago ex-
hibition a few years ago.
The Lamar register., 1897-03-13
nismnrck.. smokIng.

Bismarck is a passionate smoker. but
of late tobacco seems to disagree with
him. and he has a daily struggle with
himself as to the number of pipes he
may indulge in.
The Lamar register., 1897-03-13

bank officers can't get at
their own money. There
may be millions IN the safe,
but If their credit depended
on getting at 1t in . hurry
they would be bankrupt.
The Lamar register., 1897-03-13
Sometimes q

Sometimes Q
burglar only sue
ceeds in damaging
the lock of q SAFE
so that the combi-
nation won't work
Hs -s-
The Lamar register., 1897-03-13
Denver Directory.

lngle buggy harness Tor $50. DO not be
deceived by worthless limitations but order
direct from aud get the lowest wholesale
prices Catalogues free. All goods stamped
FRED MUELLER. iI13 Larimer Street
Denver. Colorado
Goods sent for examination
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-12-10
P,TH AND POINT.

-Bridget's Observation-Disclosures Ito
Mike, who has just set up new stove)
-"Don't build foire in it till OF troy
tn oven, fer if it don't bake well Oil
how it stint back.'"-Judge.
The Lady and the Tiger.-Bishop
Gullem-"Yes, it is good work, and
trust you believe in maintaining foreign
missions" 'Indeed, do. Why, papa
sees Mr. Mckinley every day about one. -
Harlem Life.
Where They Are.-''Where are the
great men of whom the stage used to
boast?" asked the tragedian. doing
the continuous on the other shore, most
likely" answered the comedian irrev-
crently.-Philadelp North American.
None the Worse.--Mrs. Chugwater
-"Josiah, I canned those gooseberries
three years ago. How do they taste?"
Mr.. Chugwater-"Well, they're no
worse than when you put them up. You
can't spoil the darned things by canning
1n."-Chicago Tribune.
-Clerk-"I wouldn't like to cut this
piece of lace just for one yard, madam;
and, besides, that isn't enough to trim
anything Shopper-"Oh! 1 didn't
want it for trimming; but it's so nice to
have a piece Of lace about the house as
all heirloom, you know."-Pucl1.
Caught Napping.-Mr. Wigs (ad-
miringly) Mrs. Hanson looks as
pretty as a picture this afternoon
Mrs. Wiggs-"That costume is very be.
coming. She has a husband who likes
to see woman decently dressed, and
isn't too mean to pay for tn. Y.
Weekly.
-Candid.-Mrs. Caustic-"John, my
dear, do you know, you are very clever
nlan-very?" Mr.. Caustic (surprised)
-"Thank you, my dear; but why do
you think so speciality" Mrs. Caustic
-"Because you have managed SO that
am probably the only one who knows
what fool you really are."-Brown-
ing, King G. Co.'s Monthly.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-12-10
fro BE CoNTINUED.1
A NOVEL LADDER.
1t Was Heightened by q Heroic Man,
Form.

1t Was Heightened by q Heroic Man,
Form.
A ladder is made to he walked on. but
u human ladder is 4 novelty, and soroe'
times grand novelty. Such lad3es
came into requisition in New York rot
very long ago. 2ut after all. though
the act was no7el, the actor was but o.;e
in the long line of men and women who
in life's emergencies, are always on
hand to exhibit that spirit Of courageous
self-forgetfulness which makes the
looker-on feel that there is something
grand left in humanity yet.
1t was but the old story of tene'
ment house on fire, and Il small crowd
of frightened escaping tenants. They
came down the fire escapes in desperate
haste, before the firemen arrived upon
the scene. But between the last rung
of the ladder and the ground was d~sp
of ten feet.
The light, flimsy ladder swayed tc-
meath the weight of the most venture.
some tenant, who stood irresolute.
frightened to take the big drop, and rz-
able to return, for above was an ever
increasing weight of human beings
pressing downward. It was a moment
of peril and it threatened to be one OF
catastrophe. But just then the janitol
stepped forward. self-possessed and
self-forgetful. Standing on the stool
he reached up and found that his arms
could just grasp the end of the shaA.
ladder
his ground, holding on to the fi1psy
ladder. while men, women and children
scrambled over him to a place of safety
BY means Of that human ladder tbs 3,
all reached the ground. Cen
naOiOn
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-12-10
distant part Of the house had slammed.

distant part Of the house had slammed.
For quite time sat up in bed and
listened, but no more unusual sounds
followed.
Mrs. Snyder's words concerning mys-
terious happenings in my house and
Sarah's unreasonable fears for my safe
ty. followed by the two events just men,
toned, did have an effect upon me, al
though the first event was due wholly
to an ordinary cause, and the second,
the apparent sound of slamming door,
might he. and probably was, just what
it seemed. A gentle night breeze had
arisen, and some of the windows in the
upper part of the house might have
been left open, thereby producing
draught and causing an intervening
door to swing shut. True, the sound
seemed to come from beneath me. But
then that was probably imagination
In the silence of night sudden noise
is rather difficult to locate. How often
the most common events. under un-
familiar circumstances, become mex
plicable mysteries!
am not of superstitious makeup.
and therefore Sarah's vague fears did
not produce in me a feeling of fright;
but there was watchfulness about my
senses AS though there were funny
things" to use Sarah's term. about the
house, which would become apparent
in due time.
Nesting my head down on the pill
low, redolent with the grateful health
giving aroma of spruce, I closed my
eyes.
Sleep did not come as quickly as had
boosted to my old nurse it would. and
it was some time before my conscious
ness began to wander into the domain
of vague fancies and indistinct ideas
which characterize the period between
waking and sleeping.
Then. almost before my eyes could
| open, I suddenly sat up in bed and
listened with hearing sharpened by the
sense of expectancy which had come
! over me.
Out through the silence of my room
there came stealing the sound of a voice
but such a voice! Not possessed by
any human being, surely! Pitched on
q high, quavering tone, and yet so soft
and small; so faint, as though borne
from a great distance; SO plain, as
though right at my bedside; bearing no
semblance to human tones, but never
theless undoubtedly a voice; for after
u time I could distinguish word now
and then.
If there were in the world weird, mis-
shapcn little folks like fairies and
gnomes, and we could hear their con-
vcrsation. imagine their voices would
| sound like this one to which now was
listening.
| There was no wonder Mrs. Snyder
had been impressed by it, if this were
the voice she had heard.
Strange indeed, and unnatural, as
though not of this world, it seemed to
me. A creeping sensation came over
me, not exactly like that produced by
fear; there was more of awe, of sol
cmIity, about it.
fro BE CONTINUED
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