: <OTES AND COMMENTS. Without a pass no child can go to school in Russia, or adult make a short trip. The government derives a big revenue from passes—that's why. A Baltimore man who long has been afflicted with a nervous trouble tried to commit suicide, shot himself through the head, and is now appar- ently well and entirely cured. Ventll ation sometimes is a great ald to health. The aggregate bonded debt of the cities of the United States is over £500.000. 000: that of the cities of Eng- land, $1,025,000,000, and that of the cities of France, $640,000000, In the last seventeen vears the increase in the debt of American cities was 5116, 000.000, and of these of England 000.000, R005, are 300 farmers’ clubs in Michigan, with a total membership of 20000, and they are being urged to look sharply after the nominations for the State legislature at the next elec tion, and see that they men who will care for the farmers’ inter- ests. It is proposed to have a club in every township. The rinderpest and the drou said, have brought the Orange State to the verge of ruin. The droutn has lasted for ten months, and still continues, A cabbage is sold shilling, and there in carcases of bhul- locks. Jusiness ig being wound up all over the place, and trade almost at a stand still. There to g0 to for a If no meat except worn-out w agon iw A Colorado man whe turned from the Klondike tune in nuggets and gold antly exclaims to sweat for Klondike that with an ture of HO tion rarely inter of picking ug regions verage degrees “1 am willing no place to is better to moral ninet woman abou eentl to a large d laid hands on. she averred Jock ed streets. A Georgia be the largest ermelons ever section. The Railroad opens farming lands, cent this road a large acreage in also be more melons planted alo: line of the Georgia Sout da Railroad than ever year the melon-growers owing to a light cre money, | this year they are going to very the r hold of what up to sj paper cage before Sparks, Mc acer wl up and the are preparing t mel farmers adja Lo 0 plas ns hern and hefore made looks tion, into exister repre ences, senting to : stained glass designers parent tors, a engineers to appoint branches estate and These sub- respective] pavements, ; other things « tifying of the m words it taxpayers comm matters of parks, cart and beau. othe on rchitecture, public the In an organizat experience onnected with etropolis. r of whenever it OT Ine toward architec tion will step rfec have read before the London Sta- giving the insanity A paper tistical ipal centage of them, declares Society, eight prin- causes of and of cases Only in a hundred cases of ciassif lover are self, ing to t gponsgible, if somewhat ! authorit is a kind of transient tending, he » goes on on the luna her LIi( he analyse ati get rated tc acord ULSY jes ywever, to and restore to ways of iableness and san Of the other causes of madness same can hardly be said, their showing much greater potency persistence Drink resSaon the force and is set down for about one third of all the cases; a like proportion i8 ascribed to domestic troubles and mental anxiety: old age and adverse circumstances are includ ed in the classification, the cases re- sulting from each being about thirteen in the hundred; while only four in the hundred are set down as due to re- ligions excitement. Thus among the causes enumerated religion and love are, contrary to the general belief, by far feeblest in their operation. In line with the efforts which are American lands from complete devasta- A. Schenck, the manager the fa- mous Biltmore estate, near Mashville, N. C., maintains that the only practical solution of the forestry problem rests the co-operative institutions formed within towns and cities and designed for the purpose of protecting the forest belts within their immedi- ecighhorhoods. While Dr. Schenck es to admit that towns and cities would be much better | forest tion, Dr. C. is themeeives account of the resources at thelr com- | mand and the perpetual character of sich corporations can ve induced to WEEKLY SERMONS. Rev, FT. DeWitt Talmage's Weekly Discourse. — in enterprises of this kind, therefore, is to create strong cities of the country for the fal purpose of protecting contiguous for lands Dr. Schenck is firmly con- that stockholders in such cor- would be sure to draw good from their investments in run, if not in the beginning, the experiment, if once un- would inevitably prove suc- cessful. As forests are rather slow in coming to maturity, Dr. Schenck sug zests that charters incorporating for- organizations be granted for a term of years than in ovdinary preci ost vineed porations dividends the long and that dertaken, “Stirring Folks Up'wFonrtesnth Sermon inthe New York Herald's Competitive Series 1s hyn Pennsylvania Minister. Dr. Talmage On Ordinery Feople. “Ahab, whom Jezebel hls up.” I Kings, xxi., 25 A large part of the ovil and a larger part of the good in the world world never be done but for the doers being stirred up to it, Life is much iike the sea; there scoms al- wavs some wind to smite the surface or some stealthy undercurrent to send its rest- leasness up from the depths, The lesson is many sided; if fully consid ered it covers the whole complex question of life's rolationships. It is not one part of the world against the other; part of the world giving, the other ever receiving im- pressions, for one who is stirred up by evil may be a constant impulss to another's good, No matter how weak dependent on others, thers is still some power going forth--conselously or uneoan- | sciously--which makes more positive the i : | good or evil of the world's conflicting | forces, We find ourselves pressed by life's im pulses or irritations, Its attraeti repulsions find ready allies in our tions, and often we fall because we estimate the opposing! realize that we have been impelled wile stirred ORLY longer OR The Cost of Trains. -five per cent, of do not own In owl through rental, a including all its as one of the cars run “Ninety {ravel. ing public right, dwelling house, which, contents, costs as much rdinary modern on any first-class rath The oing statement, arouse the incr was the their Or oceupy ong passenger oad.” is of re- which edulity made assistant agent of road. facts to continued Mr the average from S6G.00M) tn foyveg calenlated to the averag George J, individual, Charlton, and ticket Alton Rall give you a few cent by inelina- general passenger under he Chicago and orees, o i to a | usefulness we had thought beyond our | power, The example of { beth of Beripture | nearly three costs | me assertion,” The to-day is chair ear These Jezobel the the “new w thousand years awgo--fs | chosen because women are mors prone t i ktirring up to evil than though bl ! fs the woman who whenever needs {t, and happy { man who never stirs up his wile thing but good. Wao are ready to ving stirred u cost of I3s SAM nf passenger al nan of not lining from S10,000 to £12,000 LT.n A rec figures bare cost of the oar asad husband is the Bh men represent the ‘stirs up” her When you the expenses of of figuring, as tl tal will fig for the ha that from enance, in add to year maint condemn hab to y how Ahab influ His negative weakness pro pe sitive badness We oursel we sre on io not great sins, | ordinary busi a return in in ay capital invested, vot geravate the situation yen et frm ons bad bee restful that hoard ves that aearag yes |] id Making Rats Work. ibility oF . | direction of wr if turned in the apr Who can estimate have lost had not his true hearted w great rth St Jute S40 men in ne Liz pr What araretr Charles H. Tayl ID. Jordan wher he said, "No man » possessed a rarer gi of etl and no « more patien y ” fis par posit #rmen, wn just arrangement ¥ Then i ii rl AD a play what nanaged to entry these he ae with God we sl Mi Likethe winds of th fata As we He will given ail he master fot +h # it has hast st bappily it ® ese are ih ore caught ea ceeding d and turned into until a 4 fine Enawing away in the ing after the last main rodent army, trickle fron steam were ap veral more Big w the | urney thr x Tis the zet af & That decid The! And not the hi ment | How specimens | pipe det Bld Zen ars the OTL ola water Dip plied clear <2 1 to the and the tonde: oy SeWer was 6Y [ress gionary So opal | hurch has been set ia { the stormy about been five Progress and i d the the mo in iring last ivanced « wol of Captain Pratt, Penn., where they horough training that teachers in Sheldon Jackson near future there shall be re hild n iren were at . Carlisle ROOD was n eat {1 and vor become Dir our hand an « It vas du agfety? Are the mrdoans so touch gained inereass of strength sonl doing G5d's will. Paul of the Methodist Epise } yd To a ay il 3 ing | 1i~ | The Jesse lee Industrial | Wesley learned lessons of patience self-discipline has made, | enee to stir up to right orwrong. Y¢ received the | roeky shore, and though thera 1s ana . . , | fineneced, says If Aleutian Islands, if | coloriesa until the warmth of ¥ Post-Dispatc h i heavy that tb ¥ hisd hero who | Educating the Aleuts. i Jesus ‘set His face steadfast said, gather for good working in Alaska | oh ue the opposing foroes will bring benef U'nalaska, sheltering and davas of sompanit natiig We influence by what we are year of | watohed the groundswell as the will fit them to | ible cause, knew of the tem i § tha . 3 in ihe You have taken in y 3 ot saused it Ia | tossed sea shall Lslp { Then learn of ti ' . ‘ Jerusalem’ beeauss His Fhe Woman's Home Mis work tog to the ast few years under great lim From the Daggings of a jealc us wife thirty Aleut children, | *c0lding Xantippi Socrates drew le i seeming but our being sends forth 1 sent he t dashed, surging and moaning their own + | on the ocean, Ho we influence any native | the sympathetie stone, teachers in the y it : ive Christian to glow with radianes o shall be any nati rae 4 . 80 there are lives about us; dull and unin homes and native Christian parents, | teresting thay seem. but the stimu they are now in process of being creat- | human sympathy will make them sine as ed by that school, the Jesse Lee Home | With God's own glory, wns at Unaiaska being the only evangel-| ¥OU are stieriag folks wp Goon: dat - izing influence at work among the Pastor Bagtin Church, Claris, Penn. Aleuts of Alaska, - ORDINARY PEOPLE. Dr. Talmage Discourses pon Ordisary or Inconspicnons Veople, “Salute Asynctitas, Phlegon, Her our there ug of Friends in Death, The last few weeks have been trying onee for the birds, even the hardiest, A Brewer man reports a pathetic sight that came under his observation. No- ticing, partly covered by a drift, the corpse of a frozen dove he went to ft, when to his surprige he found under cach outspread wing an English spar row, both frozen dead. —Lowiston {Me.) Journal, Bad Weather to Die Ia. An old Scotch woman was dying. The the wind was howling and rain dashing against the window panes. They were gathered around her bed. "I maun dee, doctor, | maun dee,” “Ay, ay, I'm mickle feart ye are gaun” “Weel, weel, the Lord's will be done! But it's an awfu’ night to be gaun skirling through the clouds.” The largest mass of pure rock sit in the world lies under the province of It ia known to be 550 miles long, twenty miles broad and 250 feet in thickness. Text: iia." Romans xvi. 14-15. Matthew Henry, Albert Darne:, Adam Clark, Thomas Beott, and all the commen. tators ss by theese verses without any especial remark, The other twenty people mentioned in the chapter were dislin- guished for something and were therefore discusasd by the Hlustrions expositors; but nothing is said about Asyneritus, Phlagon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and Julia. Where wers they born? No one knows? When did they die? There is no record of their decease, For what were they distinguished? Absolutely nothing, or the trait of character would have heen brought out by the Apostle, But they were good people, beeauss Paul sends to them is high Christian regards. They were or- dinary people moving in ordinary sphere, attending to ordinary duty, and meeting ordinary responsibilities, What the world wants {a a religion for Sriisay bo Jithers bo in the United Btates 70 I le, there are certainly pot more thas 1 extraordinary; and then there are 69,000,000 ordinary, and we do well 10 wen turn our backs joral clo while upen t be Dib dade and consplencus Jeopie of the Bibles and consider In our text ® Spend 3 too much olour time int Daa oe remark- ables, and building thrones for magnates, and sculpturing warriors, and apotheosis. ing fh ianthropist, The rank and fle of the Lord's soldlery need especial help, The vast majority of people will never | lead an army, will never write a tate Cons stitution, will never electr ify a bonate, wili never make an important invention, will never decide the fate of an nation, You de not expeet to; you do not want to, You will not ben Moses to lead a nation out of bondage. You will not be a Joshua to pro- long the daylight until you can shut five kings in a cavern, You will not be a Bt, John te unroll an Apoealypse, You will not be 4 Paul to preside over an apostolic college You will not bes Mary to mother a Christ, You will more probably he Asyn- eritus, or Phiggon, or Hermanas, of Patrobas, or Hermes, or Philologus, or Julia Many of you are women st the head of households, Esery morning you plan for the day. The culinary department of the household is your domlaiovn. You decide all questions diet. All the sanitary regulations of your house are undor your supe rvision, To regulate the food, and the apparel and the habits, and decide the ti wousand questions of home life is & tax and general health if there be no divine { ol The decide ry who provide the food of the world the health of the world You have amid the tav- United Btates and » the fact that a human race are petent cookery, may have takes havo taken Jes. 08 ia astronomy unless ‘ They who decide and the food of uran of the of the of the 10 vast multitude slaughtered by Fhough a young won use and m painting, and less: 5 not well educated lessons in dough! apparel of the world, he world, decide the world Then there are ali the ordiaary business They need divine and Christ When wo begin to t at % i t right off and talk sha large f de an Ann ay lessons in m she has «ndd on an nein, 15iness fifo it men who i who sold nd! we i bs P14 DU {ions « KiNes an rid liars of go year nr “ nillion dollars of ra or dm of srt of Ti millon, towns or the amber & ittie surplus f wodding me when tha and the and the sagh the hot har. oid man's vers neinnatus, just as noble 4 know ve the fries at Christ T drew His simi i the far rs as H said a #OWer went {orth to sow,” as en He built His the = of a arn anderings, and < that night with compared himself 8 lamb in the pastars feld, and who said that the eternal God is a farmer, ‘My Father i= the husbandman, now, let us have a religion for pary people in pare isssions, in ovcupa in ture. in thie b id, in in verything, 1 salute ituries Asyneritus, Phiegon, as, Patribas, hermes, Philologus and antfit ’ ine, short ften life, when Gry ne " me Toussh if yon feel that wl that you are not extra ordinary. | am tired and sick, i bored imost to death with extraordinary peo. You know ras well as I do, my brother nd sister, that the most of by people sens to say, “That is well done.” The wenther of }ife is not sc severe onthe Knows or galas or does more than it can Know or gain or do. If, therefore, you feel that you are ordinary, thank God for the defenses and tranquility of your position. Then remember, if you hase only what f= called an ordinary home, that the great deliverers of the world have all come from such a home, And there may be seated, Joint for the ages, Jot uoroll the seroll of men mighty in chareh and State, and you will find thoy neatly all came from log cabin or poor homes, Genius almost always rane out in the third or fourth generation. You can not find in all history an instance where the fourth generation of extrmordinary people amount to anything. 1.2% us all be content with such things as we have, God {s just as good ia what He keeps away from us as in what He gives us, Even a knot may be useful if it is at the end of a thread. AA A Sensitive Pensioner, Pension Commissioner Evans recently received [rom a pensioner ia San Antonio, Texas, an expréss order for $879, It was money which the sender believed he had not properly received. Mr. Evans had an investigation made of the case, and ascer- tained that the pensioner was honestly ene titied to the money he was receiving, vis, $12 per month for deafness, and d dirocteu the entire amount be retuned to him, Pauper Descendants ot Columbus, announces that the ts of “Christopher Cos of a poor house A Bpanish ne Iu pis, descendants of “Ch m of Call, | 1 Provided for Her Cat. the death of un cat, the Temple snys the “By quarter in Pars” | Transcript, ’ francs for its elementary schools. The cat's mistress, who died in 1802, lofi the money for the maintenance of her pet ent, with the reversion at its death to the district municipality 1f it would look after the cat, It speaks well for the honesty of the trustees that the cat, which #8 now dead at the age of 10 vears, should have survived its mistress five years” - en —- An improved monkey placed on the market has mounted ball it turn easily, wrench Just the adjusting BCTOW bearings make on ww Baby's Sore Hend Lafed skin are quickly cured by Tetierine t dot the poor litle thing scream fiself fui pass when relief is CUNY Every skin uhide from a simple chafe or chap to the wert et Ar of Tetter or Ringworm 18 cured Giekly and surely by Tetterine At druggists bey roam! for Sik amps by J. T. Supt: luc savannah, Ga od in st Hope never hurls fores with daly; it gives co » Judguent, anyoue it never inter urage and clears Denfness Cannot Be Cared ul applications, as Jey st rearh the send portion of the ear, 3 oO cure de aad that constitu. remedies, DD afness is caused by an n- condition of lining of the istachian Tube tag bp med you have a n d or lmper oct hearing rent ness | UU and 1 wmtion can be taken out to its normal condit lestroy: d for ver Xin Ly eatarrh, whie 1s ondith itl give Ons fins, in by the maneous When mbit and whet we restit sx the inflam this tube re caring will be ut of ten are ing butan it sarfaces Dollars for any Arrh that ¢ srrh Bend tored Alin “5 | mn of the Hu ase of Deafr {eatnsed by wot be cured by Hall , Troe, mu = Ad ed O8 Cat # Lat ure Toledo, 0. ¢ the best, To Cure a Cold In One Day. 1 vke Laxative Bromo Quis rot t= permanent] rv ryred & ut Ans a f ve Hest rer. $4rinl tH. Kix Lad, Wl Ax Both the method and results when Syrup of Figsis taken; it is pleasant yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- tem effect: ally, dispels colds, head. aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the remedy of its kind cover pro- Supiable to the fwitach, prom it in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most many excellent qualities commend it and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50 sent bottles by all leading drug. Any reliable druggist who cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFUA Fig SYRUP CO. ay [anno 8 Sa. ILE, KY. W YORK, &Y WAGON A better Seals a tess money than ever Den oh as Addres Jones of Binghamton, Binghamton, N. ¥. FENCING i Iron Posts, Gates, etc. | CAR Save YOu mon ARGER. 34 id Catalogue free K. L. SHELLABARGER . St. , Atlanta, Ga. ESE MEN WANTED. TO TRAVEL for onl established house ition. B40 per month and all expentes B & CO, 6 Locust 81. Philadelphia, Something entirely new, FREIGMT PAID SCALES Por Netting. AL half cost of =o best Farm Yard, Cemetery Fences, bE wz ZivoL COULD NOT SLEEP. . | Mrs. Pinkham Relieved Her of All Her Troubles. IAncock, 176 Seeond Mich., had ovarian attendant aches is well, Here her own words: ‘Your Vegeta ble Compound has made me feel like 4 new person Before I be gan taking it I was all rus down, felt tired and sieepy most of the tine, had pains in my back and and soch terrible headaches all the time, and could not sleep well pights. I al had ovarian ible. Through advice of a nd 1 began the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- table Compound, and since taking My monthly so painful, but have slightest pain since taking | mr medicine. 1 cannd your iw | Manor Grand Rapids, with its Ow Mrs St. trouble and pains ’ eho are side “£0 tron the {ric 10 be nt praise 1d too much. My a change such r and have omen who are Ne on oa NNSA. 1 al a proiit, nlarged, if proper Most fertiizers d not contain Potash. es need ¢ nly of pot t — at least 10% — besi 3 (#18 des phosphoric acid and nitro- woks which tell all about ¢ fs ar GEEMAN KALI WORKS, gs Nassau Se, New York. EXD XXX XX XDD 2 §DO YOU . e§ SUFF A at Saks = Am SRE X 3 FER. . Nearal senses ? “J a#a ina ’ If so, Relief r hw E XXX r=—0 Er 3 IXDEXEXIXDGEX xX a 3 wil] se Ney kau SS Is Hac Jains in th oat, Sm Je inflammation nas have tried it is have found it Beon the win 380 x "i nis = 0 tile, and all Dru i inls, sent post pa t of Te Price CELESTIAL OIL CO, Ma. ean or i om tress ay hg = Si. Baltimore us ¥ A POEEIROCOOOERROCOE pe Write Beantimal A Fa. amenivned the world o Baiger's ont; J. Bevidew, 178 beak. barley. and PF. Saeed, ot grewiss THE bush. Saleer's cele If vom Sous, wri them, We wish te gain 0 000 pew curiemore, bese will send ou wisi 10 DOLLARS WORTH FOR 100. 1 pkg of rare farm pods, Hog Pes, Send Ves, He. Wheat, Fheep Rape. Jeraswion Owe, eee. bn Coding ver mammoth Seed Catalogs, tellisg off | avout the $400 poll prises for asd Bows Se aay EC) pew marvelous corn aed sate,“ Profigie” sins mangle of same, all mailed You wpeR reowigh of bat Je prssiEivEy worth B10, 10 get » wie E000 bids, Potatoss » 1 0 Active, relinble men W ANTED to solicit onders fon | Pruit and Ornamental Nursery Stock. | Stock strictly firet-class and true to name, Permanent employments good pay. Fusiness easily learned, State age and ooo Write at once for terme and territory. lished thirty-two years, The R. G. CHASE CO. PHILA, PA, South Penn Square, 1f affiicted with } Ey : son's Eye hn acre eyes, Gee
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