"A House in a Fret, Let the mother become sick and helpless, and the house is all in disorder. When both father and mother are down, you may as well close the shutters. Order is brought out of chaos often very easily, and Mrs, John Malin, of Bouth Butte, Mont,, Feb, 17, 1898, found an easy way out of her difficulties, a: she writes thus : ‘My husband and I took very bad rheumatism from severe colds, ani my arms were 80 lame I couid not raise them to help Myself. I sent at once for a bottle of Bt. Jacobs Oil, and before the bottle was half empty, I could go about my work. My husband became so lame he could not get out ot bed. Two ani a half bottles com- pletely cured him. I will always praise St, Jacobs Oil and you may use this as you see fit." ‘This is a clear case of what best at the right moment, and how every household can be made happy where pain abounds. is In a new Gern eighty looms is motor, a weaving mill, each of the ariven by its own electric How's This! 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Me, 31 Gught Some geologists regard madstanes as fossil rorals THE PISTUR® OF HEALTH Hood's Sarsapar..ia Made Her Strong and Healthy. narilla has been of great bene. “Hood's Sarsa fit to our little girl. and also to myself and hus. and. When she was 3 years old Mabel was ry ¥ seized with stomach trouble, ike cramps or in. flammation., | was taking Hood « Sarsaparilia for my blood, # did not help her, | occasionally gave tie of my own medicine. | realized that for a prescription her a lit- SOON 8 Hood's Sarsaparilla w Doing He 80 gave it to her regular r Cood, ly. It has helped her wonderfully, trouble, and Our friends wm {f and Lu troubled witl GRnG were DOLL J - rés 0 Hood 's*=* Cure malaria, and Howl's Sarsaparilia built ns and keeps us healt! We cordially recommend Hood Ia.” Mus Winiiam Evass West Mysel nn Hood s Pills tle and effoctive. Tr Are water » ree B86 In Inn SU BU NOMA oo JOBS > Line this which da 3 . 3 . Heht the evo and acd \ a innumerable corsicrts any hora, sre fon sished 88 prices witlin reach of All Crpres 1 Galve ¢ whine Bor wie AE IN EAE ares tase warstodistributs N $500 CAS FRITS, for bave grok in snes, being ale to sade wiler Ly PUN > A Sn a AE RE. WY ROLE # AN AF youd smyihing ihe earth of in th §ouvere, an we take at Ban Frag €o Koammas Ci fineoln, Xb, flowe © ty i -s « Minnespela buts fon, or §5 Purk i Jununry o 5. February 1, bh : ’ ’ 1 1 1 1 March 1 “” 15 0 1 3 9 » ~ TOTAL, 65 por cont, We have paid to sur castomers in 75 dan, Profits pad twice each month, mousy oat we withdrawn any fim; 88 to $100 ose be Invested; write for nformati FISHER & CH, Bankers and Mrakres, iN U 17 a AAI OUR RING CURES RHEUMATISM. L00 sold Ih 1898. A free trial of these Mings bs of rite for particulars, Waren & Co, Hadly me, Sona W. L. DOUGLASN 83 SHON equals custom work, costing from 4 10 $6, best value for the money fn the world, Name and price stamped on the bottom, Every pair warranted, Take no substi. tute, See local papers for fuli description of our complete tines for ladies and gen. fn or send for Ji. Justrated Catalogue I giving in. structions ! how to or. der by mail, Postage free. You can get the best odd A of dealers who push our shoes, REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN- DAY SERMON, Subject: **Home Religion.” Text. “Return to thine owen house shew how great things God hath done thee, "Luke viil,, 39, After a flerea and shipwrackine nicht Christ and Hix disciples are elimbing up the slaty shelving of the beach, How pleasant it isto stand on solid ground after having been tossed so long on the billows! the disciples are congratulating each other on their marine escape ont from a dark, deep cavern on the Gadarene hills there is something swiftly and terribly advancing. Is it an apparation? broken away from his keepers, few rags on his person and stout shaakles which he has terrific paroxysm, With hleedine wounds of his flies down hill, perhaps a wrenched off in wild yell own laceration he to saa and escape assassination! Bat Christ stands His ground mo do the disciples, and as this fivine fury, with and uplifted fists, dashes at Christ, Christ says. “Hands off! Down at My feet, thou poor sufferer,’ And the demonias drops Arn exhausted, worshipfal, AwWnY, ve devils I" commanded Christ, and the 2000 flends which had been tormenting the man are transferred to the 2 MI swine, wileh £0 to sn with their ac ursed enrgo. The restored demonine sits down at Christ's feot and wants to stav there, him practically A mission to execute, the wonnds shevaled lo gnashing teath "a poor Christ says You h Wash off the filth and nooth Put on decent apparel gO straight to your desoiated home and your wife and children that vou will nor aight them and no y that you are restored to reason the omnipotent Son of God, after to the worship of vour entire } bold, Return to thine own bow great things God hat) Yee. the «#4 the home where our religious gratitude « i In the outside wor religion when we wi irr What makes Do not stop. in the s=a, = hea more do then 1 s AnD am entitled here. HOURS And shee me unto thee” he isthe first monstraled, ome genuine or bome tests her « a sham, pariors din Haght I engravings and sleeping apartments adorned, No, In such gantic wretchedness while some of k back house, where they i has their } Ww enndle, There were 1 Or save those made ur mother : wind them the weaver wut night into who @ shuttle in all } this n emotion is not r or rare hat makes a happy The six wise men ions for a happ ne, By py home where a n gotten without injustice, Kept quistude and with Chilo says that & happ where a man rules as 8 mon h Bias says that a happy bh % yoluntary wa io abroad. But HEht give a better ome js the ol ning without tearful 3 4 i } ss foso4 pestry, or go art t of Greece 1% a place spant is the pls a Ringd #18 a place xt 1 der t pin i of the gospel the swing While I speak this morning t ing at your front door. if He sdmitled, one whose jo ke are dews of the night who w idren into Hig arms and w y nursery, and your sieeg and your drawiag ro a blessing 1} Hye and § tiidren after you have done rk for their support and Inst pr t is the § ye iis vou sald to own ho hath place, use and shew fone unto We want thee redid or duties, Every hon akeaper needs Martha bad bad more re not roshed with such xd Mary in the presen no email thing to cleanliness and mend breakages and a¢ economy and ~ontrol all affairs © house d advantageous Expenses wil rua up, store bil @ in tw) as you thin might to be, furniture will Wear out, carpets will unravel, and the mar tyrs of the fire are very few in comparisos with the martyrs of housekeeping ; Yet thers are hundreds pie chureh thie « ning whe in their h managing all these affairs with a an adroitnese, an ness which they but for the grace al ity The exssperations which oshers have been to ment and sanctification. which seemed to relate only te on them all the grandears You nead the religion of Christ in cipline of your children, The rol other homes may be the first means yours will be the last, There will bard epithet. On Koave, you villian scoundrel, I'l thrash lite out of Yona are the worst child I ever knew that kind of chastisement makes pickpockets, murderers and the outlaws society. inat parent who in anger strikes his ehild rows the head dese the penis temtiary. And yet this work of discipline must be attended to, God's grace can di- rect us. Alas, for those who come to the work with flerce passion and recklesness of consequences | Hetween severity and laxa tiveness thers is no Both ruinous and both destructive, But there is 1 health. fal medium which the grace of God will sow to us, Then we need the religion of Chirst to help us in setting a 200d example, Cowper said of the oak . “Time was woen settled on thy leaf a fly could shake thee to the roo: Time has been when tempest could not,” Ia other words your children are very impressi- bie just now. They are alert ; they are gath- ering impressions you have no idea ol, Have you not been surprised sometimes, have i 4 keen ~ ¥ the © ae inrge of pet im this oe mposnr ingeguity and a faithiu fever could reache Hf our pract Christiar wear vat you spiritual deveiop- Emp! an hour of eternal are Bin vw Ave yimants bays nistor the which in be thn thieves, rvem choice, whieh you supposed was too profound of in. tricate for them to understand—some ques. tion of the child demonstrated the fact that he knew ail about it? Yau children are apt to think that waat you do js right. They have no idea of trath or righteousness but yourself, Things whioh you do knowing at the time to be wrong they take to be right. They reason this way “Father always does right. Father did this, Thoraiote this is right.” That is good logie, but bad issn. No one ever gets over having bad u bad example set him, Your conduet more than your teaching makes impression, Your gh, your frown, wut dress, your walk, your greet ngs, your goodbys, your comings, your goings, your habits at the table, the tones of r voles, are making an im pression which will last & million years after you are dead, and the son will be extin. he mountains will era ure interested in Spensippus, { Pinto in Of with them, show them you ull that interests them, nephew and successor | hung all around the schoolroom, You must when thay come to you they are playfal rip. ples striking against a rock, them understand that you were i yourself, that you know n boy's { boy's temptations, a ambition—vaa, that you are a boy yet, You may deceive f DOY once hoy a | are some distant supernatnral effuigence, and you may shove them off by vour rigor. ous behavior, but the time will come i they will find out the deception, and they will have for you utter contempt, Aristotle suid that a boy should study at seventeen years of age, Before that his time should bea given to recreation. | | cannot adopt that theory, Bat this sug ests i atruth in the right direction, Childhood ix | ton briaf, and we have not enough sympathy with its sportfulness, We want divine grace {to help us in the adjustment of ali these mntters, osides that, how ars vour children ever | to berome Christians if you yourssif ara not fa Christian? 1 have noticed that however worldly and sinful parents may be they went | their children good. When young | have presented themselves for admission to our membership, I bave said “Ara your father and mother willing And they have said, “Oh they are delighted to have us eo have not been in church for years, but they will be here nex mn baptizad i have no rents, however worldly, waa their ovoid good, H- to them, you yom They fifteen wil come?” ten ot t Bubbath {i that pe shildren to “an ties So it was demonstrate | in Canada, wh in her arms, sat by at handeuffs lay, and the handeafM« and play Al gies, in a polios o her little child 1 her are fm own ur Ws tO0% erastare rasheq anu HW oyou sw here w s tha Lis v darling y daring. AYEr BRS ING AR ey want th toh at will be the result ® restra { the gowpsi, fat! Aah mm I SAY It Is TOO sarily to bring them t nw ¢ Gr & prayer, ni other's exampie Gol? were faker was Fal 1 of the he rule EL Inthier's hh rastian minder Wis pastorate nn Re s sf $a ~ me time ame to the past vou remember {hat 1 BE ead she died § si% Kona has gone Ce f + gt. but ifs BOW that endl fathers P Ane never heard Oh die her father's lips AgHIn * lym a I nave i ever ast aa hy ri heard 36 thing is never heard my mother praye BAK, We Want religion ywe. There are 10,008 ¢ Up In the reg t must he sottiad favorite in the the . shat Tha ns AS BT fami family { 4 ior Bas one mother aaother fay thers are many treatment it te jruesti aave FT _" parents Is y and arbi Higee In A DH jaa l God, there will be a spirit of self sacrifice a spirit of will argiveness, and x Kin throw ite charm over the i hold, Christ will that hotse} i and will sas “Hashmnde vaur wives and be not bitter aint them Wives, that you reversno ur hasbhands, Childre your parents in the Lord Servants jlent to your masters And the fan like 5 garden on & summer mora she prass plot, and the floware, and the vines, and the arch of honeysuckle standiag in the sunlight glittering with dew, But then thers will be sorrows that some to the household, There are but fow families that escape the stroke ol finansia Financia! misfortuns comes to house where thers is no religion. They against divine allotments, they cutee (hod for the incoming ealamity, they with draw from the world becavss they eannol hold as high a position in society as they onc did, and they fre, and they scowl, and they sorrow, and they die. Daring the past few pears there have been tens of thoasands sf men destroyed by their fAnancial dis { resaes, But misfortunes comes to the Christian household, If religion has fall sway in that home, they stoop gracefully. They say {| “This is right.” The father says: "'Peraaps money was getting to be my idol, wy saytne into ove &gow + % will misfortune, We life, And to other homes trouble will coma, 1 say it not that yon may be foreboding, not that you may do the nowise thing of taking ready, We must go oue by one, There will We must must die, And yet thers are triumphant strains that drown thess tremu accents, thers are anthems that whelm the dirge. Heaven js full of the shout of delivered captives, and to the great wide field of human sorrow there come now the reaper angels with keen sickles to harvest the sheaves of heaven, say farewell, We ous Kaints will to the end sndars; Ba‘ely wi | the Shenherd op Those He purchased for His shesp, Go home this day and ask the blessing on your noonday meal. To-night set up the family altar, Do not walt untii you becomn nn Christian yourself, This day unite Christ will that Open the Bible and make you strong, pour out His fury upon eall not upon His name, read a chapter ; that will Kneel down and offer It may be a broken petition ; it mav be only “God be merciful to me, a sinner.” But God will stoop, and spirits will listen, and angels will chant, “Behold, he prays [" Do not retire from this house this mormine untii you have resolved upon the matter, You will be I will be gone. Many yeurs will und perhaps your younger anildren may forget almost everything about you, but forty years from now in Nab. bath twilight your daughter will with the fumily Bible on her lap reading to here an she will stop, and l come to her face, and a the ohildren will in SK eR you ory?” And SNe “Ne only I was thinking tl » very Bible out of which my usad to read at morning families gone, Pras, Boe be sitting Hilde 14 ttidren pecgiar tear gay, nming, iat ner er nad ls it we ristian ancestry 7 ed to the God who hilidres 10 RI — The Indian as a Fighter. “wr 2 The Indian is the most vicious nearth, sa yf the World's Major Barbour,la but a { pent Fair, ‘ pisinsman. *“*You read in the acco of the South African war where a hun- » out 00 binck men, There ivilized people On earth, itteriy ignorant of what vience of war, that can for with the Indians as frontier general would troops against a odds Were wr two Eaglishmen go 14} dred and wain (yy no race we which eall the se AR minunte npare N ieRdin: WAITIOIR, think of hus boly of Indians where the Why? the Indian is naturally a fighter and a 04 be greatly against him Because he has been white armies arKamsn, CARING the warfare. in which quick to learn what have tanght him in ‘Take that fight That was a skirn my po sixteen men I'he battle lasted not #, and eight men were Killed « [hose Bull was ki it's true, 1 it illustrates There wile were just on over inte Indian sconte rod the On Pp of Mtting id engaged the old demon him- of his picked warriors knew he sur- HO man » than an even chance of I've seen them. They love to fight Their ambition is to win glory 1n fight- Their traditions urge them on to t's their only really aristocratic business, are physically well hey know how, and 3 can bet they do fight when they get at it." Washington Post. ing ght vou Postoflice Supplies, All the supplies required by the 65,- 00 postoffices in this country are from Washington. These postoffices require six tous of station- ery every working day. They con- wounds of jute wrapping twine every week. This twine comes balls and, sccording to contract, ball four inches of string sticking out of ites middle. Thus em- ployes are induced to start unwrap- ping from that end. Formerly they were as apt as not to begin with the wrong extremity, winding up with a sume 25,000 3 in each has on an average was wasted, reams of manilia paper blanks every day. One of these is put on the out- side of every package of letters sent out from postofiices, bearing the name | by putting me through the furnace of tribu- | lation, Beside that, why should I fret any- | how? He who owneth the esttie on a thou aand hills and out of whose hands all the fowls of heaven peck their fool is my Father. He clotheth the lilies of the flald, He will olothe me, If He takes care of the raven, and the hawk. and the valtare, most corininly He will take care of me, His child,” Sorar troubles come -—sickness and death, Loved ones sleep the lust sleep. A child is buried out of sieht. Yon say: ‘‘Alas, for thy troubles, gence is sufficient. When > pasestn LS the waters, I will be with t » Whe the deep waters | call thee to go The rivers aa! ROT Ovarfow HHH fEea ii i : ete. Half a millon lead pencils are in Uncle postal service, as well as 7200 quarts 000 pounds of rubber bands and 12,- 000 gross of pens. The pens alone 30,000 pounds of stamping ink per Six million tered letter receipts, eighing scales for mail are an expense to the Gov- week being needed to replace those which are worn out, broken or burned up with postoffices. —New York Ad- vertiser. sr Pennsylvania’s Coal Resources, According to an estimate just made W. Ruley, of the bureau of wo | > Pipipippipipipini po » - ness; have further demonstrate Pippip oh -~ are, in every respect, * - sho - Pb variably contain alum, Ii ” fs 2 +R “wr WE ar er i i to SiS, after having analyzed ler in the at the lesome- ll over the fact cv fe £iil or . : i, and oi le fice oe fe of oe oe fe oie of fe fie ole fe fe fe of le diese ene i Art of Perspiration. The health the Italian way be summed up in two maxims “Seek perspiration when 11,” and “Avoid perspiration when well.” No matter whether the ment be grave or slight, prompt measures are taken to induce profuse perspiration, the usual recourse being to hot teas made from various heal- ing herbs, says Kate Fi Wash- ington. In ordimary health an 1talian takes every precaution against getting into a perspiration. Perhaps this feeling, more than the lethargy resulting from a warm cli- it wie of average aii- eld’s mate, may be he pousihle for the lack of active outdoor sports in Italy. Roller skating and bicycling are grow- ing in favor, shooting gal quiet boating have always} lar, but ericket, base-ball, similar games are hardly known even in their miidest form. Altbough resisting their long, ho Summers detriment to health, Italians perspire freely when taking most moderate exer In recognition of this treacherous fact both gentleman d move through life very r hur- rving except in dire neces- sity. i res Heries and een Popu- tennis, and without Re laborer quietly, anda never a Case of What Was on His Mind. The Hartford Post records a ing instance of precccupatic occurred in that city not long A teacher in one of the public schools asked her puplis write a sentence containing the pronoun “1.” A small colored boy thus: “My mother made ni wo responded i a shortcake, It was so short I didn’t get any of {L” cilia recension “STRANGE,” sald the actor, “that the ties should seem fewer as 1 get pearer home!"——Plain Dealer. | i Telephones for Everybody. Expiration of the patent on magnet teiephons Very use- ful piece of mechanis the free disposal of househoiders, Magnet telepho are not commons iv used : i are venient and shot patent w the a ig Lr ut COnD- Lover them is hard- effect upon tems of cit be in Cotn- ACES Or many the service for pri- ngs with magnet tele~ It famii- laces with enience 10 ialives or 10 be 80 a tele- magnet aud bas ion that that iy outiay that will ignet telephone in the coun- ng up involving nd invasion of s Weekly. is for f stringd string a wire Is a simp! thing, NO electric property. - TiskKs, ang 1t Harper nn Iss Frogs for the French. The best edivle frogs dressed for the table at Paris come from Alsace, packed in large baskets, re — Tne skeleton of the leathery wing- pd bat is bone for bone and joint for joint similar 0 that of waa, If your nearest. best and most esteemed neighbors bad written tho following letters they could be no more worthy of your con- fidence than they now are, coming, as they do, from well known, intelligent and trust worthy citizens who, in their several neigh borhoods, enjoy the fullest confidence and respect of al ] Inman, of Manton, Wexford Co., Mich., whose portrait beads this article, writes as follows: “1 began taking Dr. ago. For years I bave suffered with fallin and ulceration of the womb, but today; 1 am enjoying perfect health, 1 took four bottles of the * Prescription’ and two of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Die on Evary Indy Suffering from Semale ness should try the * Prescription * Golden Medical Discovery.'™ Miss Mary J. Tanner, No Bt. Lawrence Co.,, N. Y., sick for four years no work. Mre Alex. Robertson, of Half Rock, Mer cer Co., Mo., writes : *' For twenty years, 1 suffered with womb disease and most of the cannot express what I had eight doctors and all the failed—the one I was nervous, cold hands and feet, palpita- pains, got so weak I could not walk around. I bad to keep my bed, thinking I would never get any better, One day my husband got one of your little books and read it tome, He said there was nothing doing me any . 1 said 1 would try Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. 1 did try it. After the first few w my apes tite was better ; 1 was able to sit up in I wrote to the World's Dispensary Medical Association, at Buffalo, N. Y,, and described my case ; they sent mo a book on woman's discases. 1 read carefully and followed the directions as near as 1 could and took the medicine for two years. With the j of God and your medicines, 1 am entirely cured. That Was thirge yoars ago.” ours truly, Phe Solon
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