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Deane -s is caused by an in. flamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube, When this tube gets in- flamed you havea rumnling sound or imper fect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the resuit, and unless the inflam. mation can bs taken out and this tube re- stored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in. flamed condition of the mucous surfaces, We will give One Hundred Dollars for any oase of [Valness (caused by eatarrh) that cans not becured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. FJ. Coexey & Co., Toledo, O Sold by Druggists, Tc. 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She waean orphan and a captive, har parents having heen sto'sn from thelr farnalitish home and sarriad to Shushan and had dint, leaving their danchter poor and in a stran~s land, Bat an Tsraslita who had hoon earr'al into the same captivity was at- tracted hy tha ense of the arphan, ” Ha adn eatad ber in his holy relicion, and nnder the ronf of that ood man this adopted shild be- gan to develon @ ewestness and exoeellenoy of character, if ever squaled, sertainly never surpassed, Beautiful Hadassah! Conld that adontad father ever spares her trom his housahald? Hor artlessnese, her girlish sporte, hor innocence, her orphanage, had wound themselves tharoughly aronnd his heart, just as around parent's heart among us thers ara tendrils olimbing and fnstening and blossoming and growing sironeer, I ox noot Inved ones eanh he was like others who hava nt home—wondering sometimes if sickness will and death and heroave. ment, Alns, worse than sanvthing that tha father expects hapnena to his adapted child? Ahnsnorue, an privesly seoundral, that Hadzsaqh, the fail kingdom, death was marrines t quite! How voune woman left the hama where God was worshiped! and religion honored ta entern palace devoted to pride, {dalatry an? gensy- As a lamh to the signohter ™ coma demands one in nil tha Warsa than y anieh a monster of int. gront tha reat haoome his wif chanes whan this isuerns knew not that At the instienting ¢ prime minister the king de wile wae a Joweas, fn fry Jews in the land shonld Se slain, Hadassah pleads the sanse af her breaking 1 nnn Dennis, i death thromoh the rales of tha sonure Ine hersslf in the very feos af “If I perish, time an all heard the deorea sane pressant. ervine, I periah ™ BW, it was un and ong that oy had their denth Barrow, gntnt nr thansanie of honussholds, and mothers diy prossnst thelr infants to thelr ba ’ « of massaere haste @ thatthe seaman sword satrnke mother miokhs also slay thas roschn.d 2 bud perighe ine in the sam But Hadasanh fa hn heart of the The hart hap store rnd a'th ¢ eres for the slavine an order that they for dafepnes dromeds ¥ £1 py TAwne i. fei ustrating wh or the he w higher than any fen If there ha nts to ntrodnes te ! Tou woble Christian Hatdnseah not wit het andi HifMraltien, Khe have expected tot men Is our ofthe t In the first text. a Ha rpc whe you might { the worst of woe we one of ar, place, our sabject is an {line RN eRaracter agen This Bible avout Hadassah, father nor mother” A nobleran her guaniian, but thers is no one ka the place of a par Who so to hear an ohild's prayer, or at MAY In under orp! long story her Hon tolls a “Zhe had “tt toot he vouthiyl sorrowa? gothrough life bearing the marks of orphans age, It will require more strength, more persistence, more grace 1o make sdeh a one the right kind of a Chhristian., He who at forty years loses a parent must res] under the blow. Even Age men are accustomed to counsel or be powerfully influenced by the advice of parents, if they are still alive, how much greater the bereavement when it comes in varly life, pafore the character is self ro tant, ana #hen Wily the heart is unso- Me and sas 3 fa pled ! i Ant vet behold what a obility of disposi. ited! Thouzh father An individual will down to old rely upon the Jat wafer tion Halassah exh mother Wet gone, grace Bad triumphed over fil disadvantages, Her willingness to sell her control over the king, het ham ¥, her faltnial worship of Go i, show her to have beeti ons ol the best of the world's There sre those who did not enjoy ro. markable early privileges, Perhaps, like the beautiful eaptive of the text, you were an orphan. You had huge sorrows in your lit. tle heart. You sometimes wept in the night when you knew not what was the matter, You felt sad sometimes even on the play- ground, Your father or mother did not stand ia the door to welcome you when you eames home from a Jong journey, You still feel the effect of early disadvantages, and you have sometimes offered them asa reason for your not being as thoroughly religious as you would like to be, But thesa excuses are not sufficient, God's grace will trinmph i you seek it. Ho knows what obstacies you have fought against, and the more trial the mors Help, After all, thers are no orphans In the world, lor the great God isthe Father of us all, Aunin, our subject is an fllasteation of what religion may ba under the pressure of poverty. The captivity and orushed condi tion of this orphan girl sad of the kind man whe 4 popted Suggest A Sondition of poverty, rom t rst acquaint ance we hal with Hadassats” we find her ‘he sams happy and contested Christian, It was only by compulsion she was afterward taken into a ol honor and sMaonce, the ham home of M her ‘ od a as A light that fi. umined every n. n some period in almost every man's life there comes a season of elreumstancess, when the severest oaleulation andl ost seraplne Sconams Are necessary in to subsist. once At the commence. thie fe the very troubla whizh keapa you from being what you oaneht to be? Yon have no time to think about Inving up treunnres in heaven when it is a matter of great fouht whether you will be enabled to pay vonr next quarter's rent, You eannot think of striving after a robe of righteousness until you ean get means enongh to buy an overcont to keep ont thaoold. Yon want the bread of life, hut you think you must get along withent that until you ean buv another harrel of flour for your wife and children, Bometimes you sit down discouragod and almost wish you were dead, Again, our subject (llustrates waat relizion may be under the temptation of parsonal at- tractivensss, The inspire! record savas of the heroina of my text. “She was falr ani beautitul,” Her very name s'gnifiad “a myrtle.” Yet the admiration and nralse and flattery o' the world did not blight her ha- mility, The simplicity of her manners and bhahavior equalad her axtraoriinary atirae- tions, It is the rama divine goodness whiah ruta the tinge on the rosa's shaak, and the whiteness into the lly, and the ¢laam on tha wave, and that puts eolor in the chesk and sparkle in the eve, and majesty in the fora. head, and symmetry into the form, and gracefniness into the gait, but inany, through the very charm of their personal appearances, have hean destroval, What simperings and affectations and impert. inences have often been the result of that which God has sent as a hlessing! Japonicas, ananones and hel. fotrapas never Swagger nt the beauty which God planted fn their very leaf, sepal, axil and stamen, There are many flowers that how down so modestly vou eannot tha color in thelr eheak until von lift their head, putting your hand under their round shin, Indesd anv kind of attractions, whether they ha thoss body, the mind or the heart, tamptations to nride and foolish nssumption, The of a man who, himesif stream, became «0 snamorad o ] un peraonsl the hasom= inneg and slngieal story mirrored in a ¢ nt! may arhitrari mythe seeing hia ANDAR L. f the «affects flinstrates s nf both anes that ha dint o the fatalities under which sexes hava fall 1 #nn by the yiey inde own ixtrnardinary eanaeitios ones . Men wh down in tha valley i of suneriority, extiraordin ations hare good mo t top of the mountain are seize tior, Monimia, the wife of Mithril strangiad with her own diadem, most of us wil sat have the tempintior *° We dnsmah her aliractiveness o thera may he same un the Into wi sams kind of must hava felt whe {let} YP. { han ApH an fvantage to hold nflictad Hane aq ah Jay than fora Iaboring vantages? My tment Yast responsibil aithfal, tt ¥ stand as mach sions as did Lot in or Jeremiah in Jerusalem, or Jonah in Nineve Hadas. sah in the court of Aharunrus, There are troes which grow the best when thelr roots Intel a ni the jagged rooks, and vou ver. iiy have but poor soil in which to develop, but grace is a thorough husbandman and MA raise a crop anywhere, Ginssware is molded overthe fire, and in the same way yOu are to oe fited as 8 vesssl of mercy. The best tir bave on it saw and gouge The foundation stons of yours other house same out on'y under Files and wrenches and arch, The Chris Be t ar ihe mus Never despair being a Finally our subject ilasirates what re ligion may be in high worldly position. Tae last we sve in the Bible of Hadasah is has become the agueesn of Pernia, Prepare now to sea the departure of her bamility and seilpacrifies and religiogs principle, As she goes Up YOu May expect grace 1o go down, It is easier to be humble in the obscure house of her adopted father on a th a of dominion, But you lo woman, What she was the myrtle, Applaaded not the eatss of her suffering people, and with all simplicity of heart still remains a worshiper of the God of heaven! Noble example followsad only bw a very few. 1 address some who, through the rood. ness of God, have risen 10 positions of ine in medicine, in me. ehatics and lo other useful occupations and professions, You hold an influence for good or for evil, Let us see whether, like Halas. sal, you can stand elevation, Have you as much simplicity of character as once you evidenced? Do you feel as much depend ence upon God, as mach your own weak- ness, as much your accountability for talents intrusted, or are you proud and overde- manding and ungrateful and unsympa- thetin and worldly and sensual and dev- flish? Then you have been spoiled by your success, aud you shall not sit on this throne with the heroine of my text, In the day when Hadassah shall come to the nder coronation, In the presence of to be knocked 4 ve of misfortune who are utterly destroys i it lifted up of success, Satan takes them to the top of the pinnacle of the temple and shoves them off. Thel head begins to whirl, and they lose their there wore luxuriant trees, with moderate gut beanoh asd moderate height pretending but luttls, thure tars foliage ts that shot far up, looking down with sontempt on the whole forest bing browse and shoul " " were | up as bia ef loose i iit 3 HUMOROUS SAYINGS AND DO- INGS HERE AND THERE. Jokes and Jokelets that Are Supposed to Have Been Recently Dorn-Ssyiogs and Doings that Are Odd, Curious, and Laugh~ able--The Week's Humor, Let Us All Laugh, He—Why do you think they are married? BShe-—1 heard her ask him for a kiss last night. —Life. Tie Kansas corn crop will be quite short, which makes the farmer weasg a wry face. Lowell Courier. IT 18 not the woman who fires the quickest that makes the match. —Richmond Dispatch, Waar has become of the old-fash- foned church member who wouldn't £0 to a clrcus?-— Atchison Globe, THis is the season when a candi. date rushes up to you and “fixes” vou with a 5-cent cigar. — Atchison Globe, SCRE -What part of Mrs Screech's music do you like best? Wilson—The refrain. —Harlem Life. NOME men ought to be ashamed of themselves, but they never happen to think about it Galveston News. up best HAaviXaG a “steady” keeps a girl a home as close at home evenings she was married Atchison Globe We don't believe a man knows auvthing more medicine than a short-haired man. Atchison Globe t t § if ii and had a bay. THERE are some young! feel going out for taking a few -Picas ike swallows une, didn't s comes the preacl moment never “WW he hem to Fo 1 men th cannot be on lant and a 82 News, “I's all up with ite, a% he sank : way, endeavoring after a hard day's Courier IT 1s quite natural that in seashore companies take for appliav the people killing musquitoes phia Record AS A soldier-fi mayn’t be of son givi delphia ADM this we Strong nderiul Man--1 boarding hous: Syracuse Post A BILL taking alcohol used in arts off the free list has passed puts a plain whisky and the elaborate cocktail on all fours adelphia Ledger. CustoMER-—"1)0 you warrant bathing suit?” * Was {« the Ths most "edt aii this Modiste-—~*“Madame, I prefer to say nothing except that when it is worn it will show what's in it?"-—Detroit Tribune, Oxe of the religious weeklies tells its readers how to make an soliag harp, but it doesn’t tell them how they can appease the neighbors after wards. —*omerviiie Journal CHINA offers a reward of 200 taels for the head of a Jap officer and 100 for the head of a private. It's a case of heads they lose, taels the other fel low wins, — Philadelphia Ledger Heres —Why did they all laugh at voung Dudley last evening? Kate Why, he held Miss Duollie's head so jong on his shoulder that he wore her hat home hy mistake Judge. Fraxk—"It makes me mad to see my wife so dead gone on that fool of a McFlurter.” Dick—"Oh, be chari- table! She used to think just as much of you. "—Hoston Transcript. Torsy—Mamma, ought 1to be kind to the cat? Mamma--Certainly, my child. Why do you ask? Topsy Because I've given it all the cream, and there's none for tea -—Tid-Bits SPEAKER (In the hen convention) ~“There are now three measures be. fore the house to increase the duty on eggs.” Mrs. Biddy—“Well, 1 move we lay ‘em on the table "— “Some men.” said Uncle Eben, “is go soured on human nature dat when er frien’ returns a borrowed umbrell dey t'inks it am a reflection on de umbrell’s quality. "Washington Star. Mavpe-—“Oh, he wrote me a iove- ly poem. It began: When you would know why men go mad, Go tare Into your mirrorees. Bertha—“What bosh! You're not so ngly as all that. "— Pearson's Weekly, Amy—I remember your friend Clare married Mr. Nicotine so as to reform him. He was such an intemperate smoker. How did she succeed? Joe — . He gave up tobacco en tirely—and took to drink.—-Arkan. saw veler. begin Jour everlastin pardon, Jady, but ‘deed it warn't my fault. 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