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Ringing
the oars, sometimes =n
buzning sound, or snapping lke
port of a pistol,
that excoudingly
sommon Loss of
ing results from ontarrh,
Barsaparilia, the great blood
n
disease,
blood,
Noises in ronring,
the n
Aro eatarrh,
disagreeable
caused Ly
and very
disoase, smell or hear
I
purifier,
this
nlso sod 'e
ia
peenhinrly
which
If you
successful
it
remedy for
by the
suffer from
cures purifying
entarrh, try
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© best in fact the One True Blood Pari
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Hood’s Pills
Not Altogether Raw,
Here is a story of a raw recruit
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for his rifle
“Let me sce your rile
The raw recruit handed
iret
after dinper
Zn
aro the best
pills, care hondache,
who
10RD
sked
wer his rifle
3 PON “ils gtale vor hh § .
and a pleased smile stole over his face.
As the officer received the weapon he
sald in a tone of deep disgust:
“You're a fine soldier. You've
rifle, and pow what
given
you
are
and
ont
ale,
irew
or business
turned j
putting his hat his pocket
’
a big knife, and preparing f
in
said a volce that could not be mis
me that rifle, or I'll bore hole
you in n"
offi nstantly decided
any farther with the raw re
in a minute
er |
play
and the rifle was promptly surren
intimation
father, “i
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AAT)
An
boy's
“Johuny,’
the slippose tha
Are going fo nang up your stocking next
ristmas, . ' 1 not, Wh
Is Meant
Where
Vhat
Misery
by This
Doctors Make
of
Mistakes
Form Acute
When a cheerful, brave, light-hearted
woman
perfecti
sa picture.
It is usually thisway
She has been feeling
¢; head
for some tin —
ached, and
i Sy
a5 %
?
RE
: AR >
back also; has fos mn)
+ ris : 4 > ~A
hcart has
fast :
Her doctor
dyspepsia: you'll be
she doesn't
jut
grows worse day by 1
1e realizes that a distressi
complaint is established
Her dox
She has
ishes; the
bid, mel:
Her doct
told her
tor has made a mi
lost faith in him ;
comes the broods
n
i Yeria st >
hould
knew, : have
and cured her, but he did
and she was allowed to suffer
chance she
she came
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her very
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she wrote to Mrs, Pinkham.
Masa. , for advice, feeling that sl
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curative
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GERMAN KALI WORKS, v
93 Nassau Si, New York.
REY. DR. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Washington Pivine's
Sunday Sermos,
“Wrestling With
peruaturasl.’”’
Rubject: the Su
———
Texr: “And when he saw (hat he prevailed
not agninst him he touched the hollow of his
thigh, nud the he Ww of
out of loint us he wrestled
he sald, Lot me go, for the day breaketh,
And he sald. I will not let thee go except
thou Liess me," Genesis xxxil,, 25, 26.
38
with him Aud
from a
and gre ant
that Jacob
bis offended
baits by the
reat for the
There ig a cloud of dust
herd of cattle and sheep
camels, They are the
stnds to gain the good
brother, That mnisht
brook Jabbok. Dut there is
weary map, no shining Indder to let the
angels down int his dream, but a severe
struggle that lasts until morning with an un
known visitor, ‘They each try to throw the
other, The nnknown visitor, to reveal his
superior power, by a touch wrenches Jacob's
thigh bone from its socket, perhaps maiming
him for life, As 0 the morning sky ths
elustors of purpis oud begin to ripen,
Jacob sees it is an ang with whom he
boon contending and n one of his brother's
ocondjutors, “Let me go." cries the angsl,
Hifting himself uy
day breaketh.'’
You see, in the first place, that God
good pe atimes 10 get int
struggle, Jucob was a good o
he is loft alone in ti} mi
with a tremendous inf nee by the | 1
Jabbok, For Jd oseph, a pit Dan . B
wild beast's den ; for David, dethronsment aod
exile; for John the Baptist, a tens diet
and the executioners ax; for Peter, a pr
for Paul, shipwreck i
joe
mos; for Christ, the ro ‘or
nts
present
will of
Jasob
no
ple s¢ Tm » BK Leg
but
1e
for
for
wilde
liste
whom 1
racks, the gibbet the thug
scrows?! F ughters 1
Lord Almighty. Some ons it
reformer, :
“Th :
wor
%, 1}
ha
2 Chris
against
tian has his fi
fortune soma of you 1 ad tha
wrestle, Redl oT vadr ppe
wo from id ellar, What
i } i Wham
expected
your st
bought vy
fled,
me
trusted wou
not with lo
Arms and grip ike s 100 hold of vou
inpnawlal vy e, from «hi i have pn
yol es
it
th
i
sped
gamed
as
hand of their
is infers
BENG
8 wrest
as they went
regale 4 by
wore the writhi
fal strugel
waver,
with n
Jaht
§
At
wrestler the ors
Thanks 2 us the
red Jesus Christ
heart tnat first was
8 bv i
the supp
ing 10 soe a tan
inder disadvan-
woman, with
back, fighting the
ia
he
ages, Ate
felpieas iH
ginnls of
afivoting
Pamsarsoy
walls v
able i
the Alps, o the
at Bamaklava, wh
rode t
are
and
se four
rage mors admis
Hanibal erossin
i Thermopyime, ©
of death
had
there
that
#
for
the jaws
he six yd ree hisses heroes
hear them op, but
ia in
braad
? with aching
and exhausted strength,
night by the brook Jabb
Could it be that pons would her
Mien to be gr No. con-
s gaoul, 1 midnight air is full of
win in She hears it
now, in thes f the night wind, in the
rippie ol k Jabbok, the promise
made so long rioging down the sky,
dren, 1 will preserve
ws trust in me!”
woman, “How
iistress you keop cheerful?”
what I eall ross pray-
When I had my rent to pay and noth.
ing te pay it with and bread to buy and noth
ing tobuy it with, I wit
ery. Butno do not get discouraged.
Igo along the sireet, when | come to a eor-
ner of the street, I say ‘The Lord help
1 then go on until I come to another cross.
£ of the street, and again say, ‘The Lord
And so I utter a prayer at every
erossing, and since 1 have got into the habit
of saying these cross prayers [ have been
able to keep up my courage.”
WAS no of
humble home, She ght
1
lothing, fo y
3d the strugyg
’
shelter,
head and weak #id
through the long
give
weions?
ha b
Fe the rescue,
ugn
the bro
ag
fatherieas
"
ne sald
1a it tant in sueh
io it Dy
ars,
teed to
1
§
me
sometimes are surprised to find out that
what they have been struggling with in the
darkness is really an “‘acge: of blessing."
Jacob found im the morning thar
God dispatched messenger to promise pros
perity for him and for his children. And so
many &
found out that he has been trying to throw
down his owe blessing.
trinis. Nothing short of seourging,
ul what he was,
through the wilderness, pursued by his own
swe: t singer of Israel, The
dungeon were the best schools at whieh
Joseph over graduated, The hurricane that
upswt the tent and killed Job's children pre.
pared the man of Us to bethe subject of the
magnificent posm that has astounded the
of the straw but to thrash ir,
atthe people who have always had jt their
own way. They are proud, discontented,
Neola and unhappy. IT you want to fing
eheeriul folk, go among thos who hava Leen
purified : the fire, After Rossini had ren.
dered “William Tell” the five hundredth
Hime a company of musicians sams under his
window in Paris and serenaded him. They
at npon his brow a golden erown of laurel
onves, But amid all the applause and an.
thoxinem Rossini turned to a friend and said,
“I would give all this teillient scons for a
tow days of youth and ov,” Contrast the
me ancholy feeling of Rossini, who bad
everything this werld could give bim, with
| the joyful exporienss of Insane Wats, whose
sorrows were groat, when he says:
The hill of Zion yields
A thousand sacred swosts
Dofore we reach the heavenly folds
Or walk the golden streets,
Then jot our songs nbound
every tear be dry,
We're marching through Immanuel’s
ground
To Inlver worlds on high,
Tt in prosperity that kills and trouble that
AAV ON While the Israelites were on the
march amd great
| they buhiaved well, After awhile they praved
for meat, and the sky darkened with a great
i lock of qualls, and these quails fell in great
atin
i nto and ate and stuffed themselves until they
died, Oh, my friends, it is not hardship or
trinl or starvation that injuries the soul, but
| ubundant supply. It is not
{ trouble that eats up the Christian life, It is
| the quails, It is the quatis, You will yet
{ fad out that
brook Jabbok is with an sogel of God
down to bless and t
Learn again that, while our wrestling with
trouble might be triumphant, we must ex-
i pect that it will leave iis mark upon us.
Jacob prevalled, but the angel touched him,
and his thigh bone sprang from its gookets,
and the good man want Hmping on his way
We must earry through this world the mark
of the combat. What plowed these premature
wrinkles in your face What whitened your
hair before it was time for frost? What
silenced forever so much of the hilarity of
your household? , It is because the angel
of trouble hs you that you go limp-
on your way. You need not be surprised
t those who have passed through the fire
o not feel as gay as they did, Do
ut of patienocs with these who some
of their despoudency. They may
mph over thelr loss, and yet their gait
il yon that they have been ir
Are we Btoics that we can u
% i" fol Yori oh ;
erndle rifled of the bright ey
come
y PAYS,
t
ing
ng
tha
ones
be
out
n we stand unm {
earthly delight ur
who wept Himself, be
with us if we pour ourteam (ito t
graves that open to sv yw dowa what w
ved best! Was Lazarus mors dear to Hi
lead to us No,
far t nat
Hp! Ca
gardens
Will Jesus
f
of
m
We have
Yon
ald the heart
sted ones
1 not weap.
, the mysterious re.
Un this
ps put {orth
. withered,
wrings
bites
than our beloved
a rngnt Hue
} Ween
le i
Ars
lor
th banners
‘the day
y who
it rh
ugh
shor than 1}
ewan t]
his ehil
pains of
The
ning sky
swing open
rise
f the east begin
eaketh,
and Me
} n ware alk
ven bit i Prosi
ng 10.
the
deliver
nd sald
y a1
int sing
sats of
" ’
Alter 3 i t
Maianchthon, "Oot Philip, Ist us
the Foriysixth Psalm, God is ar refuge
and streagth in every time of trouble.’
Death to many--oary, to all-is a stragaie
and a wrestis, Wao have many friends whom
it would be hard to leave. 1 sare not how
bright ype im, it is a bitter thing
} 1pon this Inir world and koow thax
never its blossoming
its agtumna fruits, its sparkling
and to say farewsll 10 those with
in hood or eounseind
that night, like Ja-
to wrestle, but
us unbioseed,
heaven that a dy
r half but was not
Thea Inttico ray turned te
the san, or a book set to dim the
he midnight taper, or the room may
with the cries of orohanage or
widowhood, or shureh Christ may
HOUrn OVer onr but, if Jesus calls,
is well, The wrestling by the
k will eens. The hours of desth's
ight will pass along 1 9 cloek in the mors.
moraiog, 4 o'closk in
ing, 4 o'clock in the
the morning, 8 o'olook in the morning—‘"the
our fature hh
Again sea
wa played onl
UATs
jsate
id in
dod!
MAY
f unt
unt
ioliverad Hf
the af
ng
strong
ihe wm
day bregketh
No I would have it when [ die. Iaminn
y be gane, I would bike to stand hore
twenty years years and preach this gospel, I
against this world, The
find with this world is
well But when the
time comes to go 1 be ready, my
worldly affairs all settled, If I have wronged
others, 1 wast then to be sure of thelr for.
giveness, In that isst wrestling, my arm
enfeebled with slokness and my head faint, I
want Jesus bealde me, If there be hands on
this sida of the flood stretehed out to hold
ma back, | want the heavenly hands stretohed
out todraw me forward, Then, O Jesus,
y me on and help me up! Unfeariag,
abting, may [ step right out into the ligh
and be able to look back to my kindred and
friends, who would detain me here, exelaim-
ing: “Ieot me go! Let me go! The day
breaketh
haste t
have Ferri
Be KE
wmiy faut I have to
that it treats me too
ge.
frust
*
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Une
CORN YIELD ABOVE THE AVERACEL.
Agrienliaral Department Heturns for the
Month of November.
The retarns to the Department of Agrioul.
ture for November ns to rates of yield make
the average of corn 27.3 bLushe's, which is
above the vield indicated by the figures in
October, Last year the preliminary esti.
ante of yieid was 26.2 bushels,
The rates of yield in the large sad prin~ipal
sorn States are as follows
New York, 31.17; Penssylvania, 37.1; Ohdo,
30.9; Michigan, 37: Indiana, 32.4; lilinots,
4; Wisconsin, 43 6: Minnesota, 30.6; Towa,
5 : Missouri, 26. 3: Kansas, 27.1; Nebraska,
8.1.
The average yield »f buckwheat is 187
bushels per acre, against 20.1 bushels last
year and 16.1 for 1804. The average vield
per sere of potatoes is 86.6 bushels, which,
though not phenomenal, is nevertheless
above the average for the past (an years, The
average yield of hay as indioated Jy the »
liminary returns is 1.56 loos, against os
inst year. The average yield of tobacco is
679 pounds per acre, against 747 pounds last
year and 738 pounds 1n the year 1894,
The European agent notes the mck of
trast worthy estimates of the Rassian wheat
| shortage, The advanos in price, which is
expected to be fairly maintained, will result
in inereased acreage in Giraat Britain, Wet
weather in October throughout Central Bu.
rope was unfavorable for the potato erop, A
good corn yield has been realised on the
lower Dannbe,
A A SAB. Wl th
Loses a Leg in af Rlestion Bet,
Jobn Broderick, a railroad man. and an
etithineiastie Demosrat, made a decidedly
navel wager at Anderson, Ind, before sieo-
tion, and it. One of his lower limbs
was artificial, and be bet a limb off his body
agai-s=t $5 with a stranger who did not know
his physieal sondition, Broderiek shipped
He sitiflaial lng and fu in bed until he ean
wn i
London,
BOOTO=
Closing Hours in
Albert Larking, assistant
of the Early Closing Association,
Mr.
tRry
writes that traders to whom legisinti@
in this matter is distasteful are mainly
responsible for the introduction of any
bill to log hours of shop
isaigtants generally, through their
the volun
from
reduce the
un
willin full in with
4
i
p u
guess 1o
»
1
opoeals made to then time
Mr. 14
'
of exampies of this kind of
number
ition,
wrking gly in
Op pos
would have thought a
four n
reasonable,
and adds: "One
ights of the
but in all
t8 10 secure
0 o'cl on
veek perfectly
paris of
even this reasonable hour
falled
generally
Loudon our effor
in place of
tak . Yh a
0:30 and 10 o'clock have hat
legislative policy ia ap
oul
proved is evidenced by the steady ine
income
ill
nthe of this
after year af our
year
nployers and assistants,
‘rease
thie
the first seven m
f
ben than £3230
g no loss mn LK
waiting for legislation,
wi
however,
we Are certain
which
no
and
aave
work,
pen our atdumn anag
Op «
or
wid
Capa
\ # 0 (fron
rv the turn of our from
] absence thr
present late
+ mad sights of Lond
tg kee shops
crowded with well-dressed
wotnen ho ought t Kow betler, as
inate As and who
would 8HOD
ves
eariter, and thus 211 n the |
of ayers
the
Hh
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1a
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lian servant
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