r The Niearagua Canal, The project of the Nicaragua Canal nas been debated in the U. 8, Beoate very vigor ously. One thing should be remembered about that climate; it is death to almost every foreigner who goes there, and lnborers especially succumb, It Is said that the Pan- ama Railroad cost a lite for every tie, What an idea of pains and aches is in thissentence, It is mostly dus to enrelessness, Every la- borer provided with Bt, Jacobs Oil would be armed against these troubles, Men's mus- cles there are cramped with rheumatic pain and they anche all over. That's just the con- dition whore this sovereign remedy can fts best work, The fearful malady 8 very much like the break-bone fever wu certain parts of America, ao losses continues The epidemie of bank without abatement, Snow is said to be twenty feet deep on a tevel in parts of Arizona 8raTz or Onto, Crry or TOLEDO, Fan. LUCAS COUNTY. Fras J. CaeseEyY makes oath that he is the son.or partner of the firmof F. J, Cuexey & 0. dong business in the City of Taledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL- LARS for each and every case of C varrh that e'nnot bacur 1 by thouse of HALLS UATARRH CURR. Frask J, Coungy worn to hefore me and subscribed presence, this 6th day of December A. VW, GLeasoxn, ( a seas } . {SEAL Notary Pub'fe, Hall's Catarrh Cure istaken internally snd act directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Bend for testimonials, free, F. J. Caexey & Co., Toledo. O. & “Sold by Druggists, Tio. t the resul : u South Dakota will statutory prohibition, question School Children will eat sweetments and you can't prevent it, The first you know of there i i the child is bilions done. Use Ripans T standard for such t Starvation and death are tral and Western Nebraska, Impure Blood-—Eczema Intense Itching & Burning Hood's Sarsaparilla Cured Cave Sound Relief. * I was trouble months with and ing out or aight and Br. Wm, 3M. 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AN INCOMPARABLE ALIMENT for the GrOWTH and PROTECTION of INFANTS and CHILDREN A superior nutritive in continued Fevers, And a reliable remedial agent in all gastric and enteric diseases: often in instances of consultation over patients whose digestive organs were re- duced to such a low and sensitive condition that the IMPERIAL GRANUM was . the only nourishment the stomach would tolerate when LIFE seemed depending on its retention ;— And 2s a FOOD it would be difficult te conceive of anything more palatable, Sold by DRUGUISTS. shipping Depot, JOHN CARLE & SONS, New York. "REV. DR. TALMAGE I! e Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sua day Sermon. — subliact: "Opportunity." ¥exr: "As we have therefore opportunl- ty, let us do good.” Galatians vi., 10. At Denver vears ago an sambled for divine worship. The the church for whom I was to preach night, interested in the ple, stood in the pulpit § and when no more pe crowded within the walls and said, with startling emphasis, “What an opportunity!” toe pe, and while a hymn was being sun at every stanza the word ‘‘opportunity’ swiftly and mightily unfolded, was being Alps and Himalayas of mean- ing and spread out into other latitudes and longitudes of significances until it became hemispherie, and it still grew in audiences pastor of that inlo of ald be made the word ed up into Rg: intil it encireled on an around n ty. have | . Never since word without being ote, in the acento pug. awliles an 100 of mn ishing ¢ what it is lefinition ibe at, ther alwa ba mw a and to stand between you and the e a choking at the throat and a } | wfore you have got three miles as old folke, Theres was on the day I spoke « silence for a long while, and then my ath to tell how good the Lord had been § sickness and in health, and irdship came how rovided the means of live indo housshold, and h und up Ing, “De Witt, I have a trust the Lord.” My father has bean thirty years, but in all the crises of mv and there have been thany of them —1 have felt the mighty boost of tha in the farm wagon, “De Witt, I have always found it safe to trust the Lord.” The fact was my th with world no one iy « HAV began when of niwn ve times Providence had f iithood fife imvroved it. This is one reason why I am an enthivsiss tie friend of all Young Men's Christian As sociations, men just arriving in the city and while they aro very impressionable, and it is the best op- portunity. Why, how big the houses looked to ug ns we first entered the great city, and so many people! It seemed some meeting must have just closed to fll the streets (n that way, and then the big placards announcing all styles of amusemeonts and so many of them on the samo night and every night, after our boy hood had been spent in regions where only once or twice in a whole year there had been an entertainment in school-house or chinreh, That is the opportunity, Start tha! innocent young man in the rignt direction, Six weeks after will be too late, Tell mo what such a young man does with his first six weeks in the great eity, and I will tell you what he will be throughout his life on earth and wheres he will spend the ages of eternity. Oppore tunity! We all recognize that commercial and liter ary and politionl successes depend upon tak- ing advantage of opportunity, The great surgeons of England feared to touch the tumor of King George IV, Sir Anloy Cooper docked at it and said to the king, *f will cut # your measly as though you were » plow man." That was Bir Astley's opportunity. church steeples and doing reckless things, His father sent him to Madras, India, as a | clerk in the service of an English offic Clive watched his time, and when war broke out came to be the chief of the host that | saved India for England. That was Lord Clive's opportunity, Pauline Lucea, the almost matchless singer, was but little recog nized until in the absence of the soloist in the German choir she took her place and be- gan the enchantment of the world. That day was Luces's opportunity. John Scott, who ame Lord Eldon, had stumbled | case of Ackroyd versus Smithson was to be tried, and his speech that day opened all ave nues of success, That was Lord Eldon’s oj portunity, William H. Seward was given by 21000 to get a collegiate educ y soon gone, his father su fight vour own way,” sud til gubernatorial chair and Unit Benatorial chair + , with a rigl President “fal Pe fhe day wi Own way in Henry Kin an orange b ait in the on the in milion, Ww the app r Christ I soon be gr e that riunity etimes feel ket, Y You # 1 ean hardly yo quiet! 1 seems | as ify with all this And t and ruined, and it is “Where's my hat ! “Who took r ‘Who has been busy with my plavihings?" | a~rushing this and a-rushing | that. until father and mother are well nigh | beaide themse! Cj, Hinge get broken . ¥ booka? ven, It is astonishing how much noise five or six children ean make and not half try. Put the After awhile the | voices are not go many, and those which stay | are more sedate. First this room gots quiet, | and then that room. Death takes some, | and marriage take others, until after awhile | hat man vonder | would give all he is worth to have that boy who is gone away forever rash into the room more with the shout that was thought too boistorons, That mother who was once tried boone i i i | | OR lems selssors cut up someting really valuable would like to have the child come back, willing to put in her hands the most wvalu- able wardrobe to cut ne she ple ates. Yes, yea The house nosy now will soon be sill enough, I warrant you, and as when you be. gan housekeeping there were just two of you, there will be just two again. Ob, the alarm. ing brevity of infancy and childhood! The opportunity is glorious, but it godn passes, Parents may say at the olose of Ife, “What a pity we did not do more for the religious wellare of our children while we had them with us!” Bat the Inmentation will be ofno avail, The opportunity had winge, and it vanished, When your ohild gets out of the eradle, Jet it edmb into the outstretohed arms of the bean. tifui Christ, ‘Come thou and all thy house into the ark.” But there is one opportunity so much brighter than any other, so much more invit ing, and so superior to all others that there are innumerable Angers pointing to it, and it is halood with aglory all ita own. It is yours! It is mine! It is the present hour, It "is the now. We shall never have it again. While 1 speak and you listen the opportunity is rest. loss ns {f to be gone, You cannot fy it down. You eannot imprison it, You cannot make it stay. All its pulses are throbbing with a haste that eannot be hindred ie It is the opportunity of invitation art and acceptance on your The door of the palace of God's m wide open, Goin, Bit down and be kings and queens unto God forever, “Well,” vou say, “lam not ready.” You Are you a six “Yeu” ¢ be saved 1d or © Iie nor? now x ve nt ing to do the wor saved, You God's You are niready change mercy Fic rf We ire for nedies were ITeW Worse At this time Dr, C Hietead with the used in his Dr. W.0O saw that OnE unices th f “4 were intervals of half as hour of rest, returned, Mr. Hochkin battle for life and told hie ved him from West Haven, y settle up his earthly af- escribed, bu H. malady, with Bailey the Clark, « iin had given up the wife, w ‘ that he Late that night Dr. Bailey bethought h the “musk’’ cure, and presoribed mos in ten grain doses to a drachm, giving one drachm every three hours, The ef was electrical, The throat spasms consed, and Mr. Hochkin was pro nounced oul of danger and gained strength rapidly. The remedy in this ease was fore warded to the physician attending Dr. Clark at Plainfield in the hope of saving the lat ters life, of Amputated His Foot Himself, Two years ago Robert Galbraith, agen seventy-four, a farmer of Payne Township, indiana County, Penn, fell from a load of hay and injured his loft ankle and foot, The injury has onused him great suffering ever #ince, and the family physician has long in sisted that unless the foot was amputated the farmer could never be any better, Galbraith Stubborniy refused to have the operation performed. One morning recently the farmer's daughe« tor went into his room, “Dalia,” sald he, “the job's done, The foot is amputated,” - On the bed by his side lay the foot. n the other side was a razor, ¢ old farmer had amputated hig own foot with his razor, to. had done it neatly, too, at the ankle oint, Although he is seventy-six years old, Farm. or Galbraith ix not even suffering from shook from his self-amputating operation, and the doctor says he could not have taken the foot off more neatly himself, A Yenr of Fire in Baltimore, a anf ¥reunte, damag Bele Rv more, 4, ws com Department, won 8042, 188.00 The ment responded to 831 alarms, ————— Bakin Powde THE TITLE OF GOVERNOR, With the Exception of Two States There Ie No Legisintion for It. A correspondent In one of our conten- poraries has raised the as to whether the Governor of Pennsylvania question § to be addressed by some distinguish FJ ing title, such as his Excellenc This 8 . is a very old conundrum, apply- y. ¥ as 5 {ug to the President of the U both nited States and to the Chief Executives {iu various Biotes, The Pittsburg Times revives the his torical fact that in Congress immediate. ly after the adoption of the Constitu- tion there mittee on ti- tie, There continued ny rong in by both the Southern gland Representatives, that the Presi- dent known "4 be was a joint com a truly Nn the subject, was debate on ery strong disposition, ana be some title, “Elective “Ex- shonid Wheth should his Majesty,” his ‘Highness,” or his the sublect of ridiculous dispute, ed with so mu and it was conduc 1 gravity by some ™\ Y KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and fends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. 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It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acta on the Kid. peys, Liver and Bowels without weak. ening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substances, Byrup of Figs is for sale by all drug gists in 60c and §1 bottles, but it is man ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will not gorept anv svbetitnts if ————— - Karl's ( gives fresh Wn auC cure 1p fur ehildren sucess inflame. 2he. a bottle PIERCE PLEASANT mm, PELLETS CURE = SICK HEADACHE, BILIOUSNESS, CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, POOR APPETITE, ALWAYS IN FAVOR. OuneGives Relief l L DOUCLAS @ a 15 THE BEST, KOE FIT FOR A KING, 5. CORDOVAN, 1 FRENCH SL ENANDLLED CALF, £4235 Fung Laur &Kancanom $3.00 p0LICE 3 soLes, 4005002. 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