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college, with college students pov- erty. The first installment of the in come was not due, ard he was glad that, whenever the lQneliness of his bachelor lodging becarae oppressive or his lardar bare, the h,,spitable homes of his people were opeI. to him. There was a parsonage attached to the church, but 1t was as bpre of furniture as his pocketbook wa, of money. A few of his parishionels suspected the condition of his finanQ.,s, and one day they suggested that hn take a weeks vacation. On his ret;irn one of his church officers handed him the key of the parsonage. He entered and to his amazement found it cafpeted and cozi- ly furnished from basement to garret. In the cellar was a stock of coal, and the pantry was filled with provisions. Even the kitchen stove contained a fire, ready laid. "All had to do in beginning housekeeping" said Dr. Tal- mage In telling the incident, was to strike a match" This was one of his earliest gleams of Ministers Sun- shine"
 Belleville, however, could not retain hifn long, Other churches offered a wider sphere of labor, and at the cad of his third year he accepted call to e church at Syracuse, N. '. There his powers became more widely known, and invitations to more prominent pull pits poured in upon him. In 1862 call came from the Second Reformed church of Philadelphia, giving him the opportunity of reaching the people of great city. He accepted it, and his vivid, dramatic address, his anecdotal 0ffiuence and his fresh and pertinent illustrations took the people by storm. His brilliant vocabulary and the su- perb imagery that marked all his ad- dresses were a revelation. It was pull pit oratory redeemed and sublimated. This sudden popularity might have spoiled some men. but young Talmage kept a close watch on himself. 1t gave him a sense of enlarged responsibility, and he became even more careful not only in the preparation of bis sermons, but in his general conduct.
 tslS LAST CIGAR.
 At tee beginning of hiS Philadelphia nAaessAe . cAA11eeho tne41sat oc'
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PASSING OF A GREAT PREACHER
Remarkable Career of the Late Rev. Dr. T. De Witt TamageSW Wen
 deru Influence For GoodHow Three of His Churches Took on "Red Wings of Fire -Interestng Anecdotes.

cured. pr. Talmage at. that time was a smoker. A member of his congrega- ton, a tobacco merchant, called on him in his study, and, detecting the odor of tobacco, he casually remarked on leav- ing that he would like to have the pleasure of sending the doctor some choice cigars. Next day the preacher found on his study table box filled with fragrant Havanas, and on the top of the cigars was the card of the send CT, inscribed, with compliments" He took out a cigar, looked at it, turned 1t around between his thumb and finger and soliloquized, Shall I smoke and enjoy these and thus very likely impair my influence with this man and bis friends and my congregation in gensr- al, or shall put influence and example first?" He laid the cigar back In the box, closed it with a snap and returned it to the sender with this note:
 My Dear sir-I have stopped smoking quit today. T. D. w. T.
 The sudden resolution, acted out in the spur of the moment, was typical of his whole life. #.+a.. ...-#.e
 In 1869, seven years after his settle ment in Philadelphia, Dr. Talmage re- ceived simultaneous calls to Chicago, Brooklyn and San Francisco. Their demands spurred him to still higher ef fort. He chose Brooklyn, as he believed that city needed him most. The call bore only seventeen signatures, but it was unanimous, for there were but sev- enteen members in the church. They had large building, but the pews were mostly empty, and though it stood among a teeming population the church was exerting little influence. In March, 1869, he preached his first ser mon there. The transformation that followed seemed magical. Every serv- ice was crowded. Within a year it was decided to erect new edifice capable of seating 5000. Dr. Talmage's first sermon was from the text, Compel them to come in," but it seemed an in- aptitude, for the people came in such numbers that many were compelled to stay out. FRED WINGS OF FIRE"
 Two years sfterward, on a Sunday morning in December, 1872, Dr. Tal- mage looked from the window of his house and saw his beloved church put ting on red wir gs of fire" until 1t swept the heavens, lurid mass of confagra- ton.
 Undismayed by the destruction of their churc,a, the congregation soon be- gan to build a still larger structure which would seat 5000. Although the completed edifice was the largest church of its denomination in America, it was never large enough to hold the crowds who came to listen to the now famous preacher. The regular hearers alone were nearly sufficient to fill the
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-17

cuIared. lie now devoted himseIf al- most exclusively to his editorial duties on The Christian Herald, to which he lad been a regular weekly contributor since 1878 becoming editor in chief in 1890. Dr. Louis Klopsch, the proprie- tor of that journal, had been his inti- mate friend and business associate for many years. He had syndicated Dr. Talmage's sermons since 1885, furnish ing them regularly every week to over 8, 900 newspapers. It Is estimated that the total number of weekly readers cached by the syndicate and through other channels was not less than 20,- O0O, ,O00, an audience far more. vast than has ever been addressed by any other writer or preacher in the world, ancient or modern.
 "A MISSION OF BREAD"
 During the ne1t two years he varied his literary work by frequent preach ing and lecture tours and an occasional visit abroad. He had a big. warm heart and generous impulses, and he was interested in various philanthropic
 movements, some of them of wide scope. His love of such work was fos- tered by his experience in 1892 when he visited Russia with Dr. Klopsch on "a mission of bread" first sending on ahead the steamship Leo, laden with 50,0O0 sacks of flour, the gift of gener- ous Americans to the starving Russian peasants. While in St. Petersburg the Americans were summoned to Peter ! hof, the imperial summer residence, where they were presented to the Cxar Alexander, the empress, Czarowitx Nicholas, the present emperor, and oth- CT royalties. That the stalwart Ameri- , can preacher made an impression was evident from the fact that the emperor sent to the visitors handsome gifts of gold and silver. The enthusiastic mu- nicipalities of St. Petersburg and Mos COW gave them public fetes, and in the former city the astonished divine was carried on the shoulders of a cheering Russian crowd in front of the dohma, or town hall. Dr. Talmage often refer red with kindling eye, to this Russian welcome, and he spoke many a kindly word for the young czar. In later years, with voice and pen, he greatly helped the cause of Armenian, Cuban and Porto Rican relief, in the great In- dia famine and few years ago in Chi- nese relief. Altogether. with his splen- did talent for reaching the popular | heart, $2,O00,0O0 was raised in these various worldwide charities. He was a member and active worker in a num- Der of charitable organizations, but in these, as in all others of the same char acter, he invariably kept in the back ground. He is one of the incorporators of the Bowery mission of New York. the pioneer of American rescue mis- siops.
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-17

FUND OF hELIGiOUS LITERATURE.
 All his life he was inordinatefy fond of religious literature. Even in child hood he would read Scott's Commenta. ries, bulky volume. when he was too use stool instead. If he could have mastered even a single foreign lan- guage, he would probably have become a missionary like his brothers, but he had no knack of acquiring strange tongues, so he stuck to the plain An glo-Saxon and to such purpose that his sturdy utterances have been translated into nearly score of foreign Ian guages. When he visited Athens in 1890. he was presented to Queen Olga, who told him that she had the pleas ure of reading his sermons in her na- tive Greek in her own capital in the columns of a weekly publication" Through such means he doubtless reached much vaster audiences in for eign lands than any missionary could ever hope to reach. When he was mak- ing his round the world trip, he found his sermons read in so many places that he afterward used to say jocular- ly. T felt on that trip as though l was making a round of pastoral calls"
 Speaking of the secret of his own powers, Dr. Talmage once said: ''I take the subjects that are interesting people all around me every day and particularly at the moment. jot down my notes in a little book and always try to get down the precise point wish to make. Then I take all availa. ble sources of information on that point ard slft them thoroughly, avoid.
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-17
TCspyright, 1902, by Louis Klopsch,l

tCOpyright, 1902, by Louis Klopsch,1 HERE is but one man In
 America who can draw and
 hold and thrill every Sab
 bath the year round an au-
 dience of thousands and who breaches the gospel every week to 20,000,OO0, but one man who thinks ill pictures and paints with large brush in colors that burn and glow, and the nations gather around his pictures and feel an upBft and holy thrill" This was said by a celebrated orator ten years ago of Thomas De Witt Talmage, the farmers boy, whose remarkable career has just ended. Yet there was nothing in his boyhood home or early surroundings from which an augury could be drawn of the worldwide fame he afterward attained. On little farm in the New Jersey village of Bound Brook, the youngest son of family of twelve children, the future pulpit ora tor first saw the light seventy years ago. His parents toiled hard and lived frugally that they might give their children an education. The eldest broth CT at the close of his college career went to China as a missionary and won renown there. Another became a minister, and De Witt, the youngest of all, chose the profession of the law. After graduating with honor from the University of the City of New York he spent year in special studies. But his parents never ceased to hope that he might become a preacher. Their hopes were fulfilled, and in 1853, at the age of twenty-one, he entered the College of New Brunswick to prepare for the min istry.
 As student he was eccentric rather than brilliant. He set the laws of pull pit oratory at defiance and with bold originality spoke the thing that was in him in current phraseOlogy and ill his own way. You must change your style," his teacher said to him. 'Oth- erwise no pulpit will be open to you" But somehow the people listened to the daring young preacher whose doc trines, while familiar and orthodox, were explained in novel and urIcon- ventional language and illustrated by figures and events of the ordinary daily life.
 HIS FIRST PAsToRATE.
 At the conclusion of his theological course he received an invitation from a church at Belleville, N. J., to be- come its pastor. He accepted it and spent three years in that quiet town. He was fond of relating an incident of that early time which to the last occu- pied grateful place in his memory. He was promised stipend of $500 year, which seemed to him a magnifi- cent income. But he was fresh from
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-17
Thex,d Come Back.

"Rimcr's having some success with his poems now. l believe"
 Nonsense! What makes you think that"
 He told me he was holding his own" "Just so. He's just realizing that he might as we'll hold them as send them out anywhere."-Philadslphia Press.
Connecticut western news., 1902-04-17

Trains stop only on signai. or when oonduo. tor is nottned. Daily except sunday
 Additional trains leave ponphkeepaie for High. land and Now Paitx f79s, ts,s0. a,sI tO:s0 IIts0. q m ia:so, zoo s;eo, oa, 500 tSRi, aeo, % pm
 Trains leave New Paltz for Highland and f2.ih l.<h nsb A4h ss5 Bdn 6 s0 D. m. . o6, Canaan R2, salisbury 90, Lakevilic a. Arrive at hillerton 8 ts m, New York iisah m Train No 10 leaves New York SS D m Nil. t8i, Norfolk b6. Arrive at winsted IS m
 Trains and 10 oarry through coach between Winsted and Grand Central station, New York. viA Miorton and Harlem Division N. YC.
 Trains leave khiEoclin zoo a m, axf p m, arrive at silvernails 10 ts Ia m, sai m-
 Trains leave Shvernniis n <s a m OA D m arrive at Rhineclin ia b m. a2 D m
 Trains leave Poughkeopzie for Hopewcl Junction S a m, % and b0o ?. m. sunday . ueep m.
 Trains leays Hopewen Jct for Poughkeepaie 1ols A m-, bi and ss D. m. sunday s D m.
 Passengers for Milerton on the IaaS ?. m train from Ha tford will change at State Line. arriving nt Milerton at sie D. m
 Western Express, train + makes direct con~ neotion at Campbell Hall with fast express via Ontario q Western Ry for the West, due Chicago following day aS0 D, m. Special attention given to western travel Rates Of fare el t0 Aa lower than any other line,
 Tickets to all points tn the west at reduced pAtea sold at tho poughkeepsie ofloe.
 M. 2. MartlA TrAmo hanager, nartfords ct
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-01
Sleep SWeetly, BaWaii.

On the heaving of the ocean,
Like a loving mothers breast,
Lie the Islands of Hawaii,
As an infant on it's rest
Sleep sweetly, Hawaii. so fearless and
free;
Fair daughter of ocean, the child of the
sea-
Fond the mothers arms are cIaspIng.
With caresses soft and light,
In the foaming of the surf-beat,
On the shores by day and night.
Sleep sweetly, Hawaii; each silvery tide
But draws thy fond mother more close to
thy side
Where the light cascades are falling
To the ocean from the steep,
These are gentle baby fingers
Which within the mothers creep
Sleep sweetIy, Hawaii tenderly blest;
As lovingly brooded as bird in its nest.
Soft the baby eyes are hidden,
In the sunshine and the calm,
Mid the radiance of the mountains,
Fringed with fragrant fem and palm
Sleep sweetly, Hawaii, the stars in the
sky
Are Joined in the tune of thy kind lula
by.
Robes of verdure, closely ciinging
Weave the beauty of thy garments
Cloth of gold and leafy lace.
Sleep sweetly, Hawaii, each cloud as 1t
flies
But brings thee a message of love from
the skies
flushed amid the tender silence.
Still thy heart is beating low,
In the fiery, livid pulsing
OF the lurid crater'S glow.
Sleep sweetly. Hawaii, the murmur of
Is echo of music from coral formed
caves.
Calmly rest, with sunbeam smiling
Ger the dimples of thy face,
Clasped amid the loving waters
OF thy mothers fond embrace.
Sleep sweetly. Hawaii. SO trustful and
strong;
All nature is singing thy glad cradle
song.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-01
Kdiuldni.

Heard We those winds which sighed and
swept
From sea to sea while rain-tides wept?
Tho storms fling OF and tempest leaps,
Dark midnight past, the Princess sleeps!
Saw We that place-the gentle tread,
Kahilis bending, fragrance shed?
Mid all the throng which bows and
weeps,
In robes of white, the Princess sleeps!
Know We the crown-no goldsmith arts,
But forged from out a thousand hearts,
For her who, midst the change of state,
Was gracious, triumphing Ger fate?
For such the world in homage keeps
A crown, although the Princess sleeps.
From Hawaii Fair" by Philip Henry
Dodge.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-01

took a pinch of baked dog. We had
limpets with rock salt; kukui-nuts
roasted and pulveriZed; and the pale,
quivering bits of tish-1esh, not an hour
dead, and still cool with the native cool
ness of the sea. 1t was a fishful feast,
anyway; and not even the fruits or the
flowers could entirely alleviate the in
ward agony consequent upon d morsel
OF raw nSh swallowed to please our host.
There was music at the farther end of
the palm-leaf pavilion, and thither We
wendell our way. The inner court was
feStooned with flags and covered with
large mat. Upon the mat sat. or reclin-
ed, several chiefeSSeS. l am never able
to account for the audacious grace OF
these women, who throw themselves up
on floor, and stretch their supple limbs
like useresseS, with kind of imperial
scorn Tor your one-horse proprietles.
Their yoluminous light garments scarcely
concealed the ample curves OF their
bodies, and the marvellous creatures
seemed 10 be breathing to slow hiuSlc,
While their SiumberouS eyes regarded US
with u gentle indifference that was more
tantaiiZing than any other species OF
coquetty that L have knowledge Of
AT one side OF the enclosure
group of musicians twanging upon ma
tive harpS, and beating the national cal
abaSh. Song after song was sung. pipe
alter pipe was smoked, and bits OIL easy
and playful conversation filled the inter
walls. The great charm of a ma
tive feast is the entire absence or ali
formally. We proposed an i'm
mediate adjournment to the beach. The
Inner court was soon deserted and our
little party-wt now embraced, tigur-
atiVely, several magnificent chiefeSSeS,
as We'll as the primitive Hawaiian or
chestra-moved in silence toward the sea.
The long, curVing beach gliStened and
sparkled in the moonlight. The sea,
within the reef was like tideleSS river,
from whose pellucid depths, where the
coli al spread its wilderness of branches,
an unearthly radiance was reflected. A
fleet of slender canoes foated to and fro
upon the water, and beyond them the
Dreaming reef flashed like a girdle of
silver, betting US in from all the world.
And all the air was Shining and
soft as tho the moon had dissolved in
an ecstacy, and nothing but a snap of
cold weather could CONCEAL her again.
y, nerever we lay, pi..ows were mystic
riously slipped under our heads, and the
w!llingest hands in the world began an
involuntary performance of the lomi-
lom.
Let me not think upon the lomi-lomi,
for there is none of it within reach; but
L may say of it that. before the Skilful
and magnetic hands of the manipulators
are folded, every nerve in the body is
seized with an intense little spasm of
recognition, and dies happy. dream
less sleep succeeds, and this is followed
by an awakening into new life, full of
proud possibilities."-Chas. Warren Stod-
dard
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-01
"Eove=Eife on a Eandi."

1T was the 'witching hour of sunset,
and we sat at dinner with fearful eyes
over the Commodore's curry. We
dined, as usual, in the Commodore'S I'M
rivaIled lanai-the very thought of which
is a kind of spiritual feast to this very
hour.
The Commodore was a roaring old
sea dog, who had been last ashore some
where in the early part of the century
and finding himself in quarters more
comfortable than his widest fancy dared
to paint. he resolved to end his amphl-
biouS days on that strip of SHINING
beach and nevermore lose sight of land
until he should slip his cable for the last
time, and sail into undiscovered seas.
Meanwhile, he entertained his friends at
Waikiki, a kind of tropical Long Branch,
a few miles out of Honolulu. OH
there in the Pacific, under the vertical
sun, all shadow is held at a premium
There are stationary caravans OF cocoa
trees that seem to be looking for their
desert home-weird slender trees, with
tattered plumes and hopeless air about
them, as though they were born to sor-
row, but meant to make the best OF IL
Still these fine old palms cast a thin
shadow, about the size and shape OF a
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-01

colossal spider, and there IS comfort
in trying to sit in it. OF course there
are other trees with more foliage, and
vines that run riot and blossom them
selves TO death; but somehow LIE sharp
arrows of sunshine dart in and sting a
fellow in an unpleasant fashion, and
nothing short of a good thatch is to be
relied upon. So out from the low caves
of the Commodore'S cottage, on the sea-
ward side, there was a dense roof of
leaves and grass, that ran clear to the
edge of the sea, and looked as tho it
wanted to go farther and this Is
the Hawaiian lanai
''Of course, tbs Commodore always din
ed in his lanai. Black coffee was
offered US, in cups of the pattern of
gulrs eggs. By this time all the sky was
saffron, ali the sea shadow of saffron,
and in the golden base that lay between
d schooner with d piratical slant to her
masts swan by, beyond the foam that
Missed along the reef. Hawaiian
feast days are not set down in the caien-
dar. Somebody's child has birthday, OF
there is a new house that needs christen>
ing; or perhaps church is in want and
the feast can net a hundred or two dol
lars for it-since all the eatabies in such
cases are donated, and the eaters enter
to the feast with the payment of one
dollar per head. Our feast was not
sanctified; a chief of the best blood was
countrymen and lovers. AS We
entered the premises, it appeared to us
that half the Island was under cover;
for limitieSs lanaiS seemed to run on to
the end of time in bewitchinS ViStaS-
Numberless lanterns swung softly in the
evening gale. A multitude of white-rob-
ed native girls passed to and fro with
that inim!taOle grace which L have al
ways supposed Eve copied from the ser
pent and impaired to her daughters,
who still affect the modern EdenS of the
earth. Young Hawaiian bloodS, clad In
snow-white trousers and ballet shirts,
with wreaths of MALE around their
necks and ginger-fOwers i'll their HAIR,
grouped themselves along the evergreen
corridors, and looked unutterable things
without any noticeable effort on their
part.
''Thro' the central corridor, under 4
long line of lanterns, was spread the cor
poreal feast, and either side of ii in
two raVenouS lines, sat, tailor-faShion,
the hungry and the thirsty. 1t is use
less TO attempt idealization of the
Hawaiian eater. He simply devours
whatever suits his palate, as tho he
were a packing-case that needed filling,
and the sooner filled the more creditable
the performance. But the amount OF
filling that he is equal to is the marvel,
and the patient perseverance OF the man,
SO long as there Is a crumb LETT, Is some
thing that L despair of reconciling with
any known system of physiology. The
mastication began early in the afternoon.
1t was eight p. m. when we looked In
upon the orgie, and the bones were not
all picked, tho they seemed likely to be
before midnight.
viii you eat?" said the host. 1t was
not etiquette to decline, and we sat at
the end of the lanai with nameless dishes
strewn about us in hopeless confusion.
We dipped a finger into pink poi, and
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