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Winslow's Soothing Syrupfor © hildrea teething softens the gums, reducing inflamma von, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25¢. a vottie, 1n the fashionable thoroughfares of Lon- dop a good house rents for £50,000 a year. To Cure Constipation Forever, Take Cascarets Candy Cathartie. 10c or 25a. ¥ CQ C. C. tail to cure, druggists refund money. Kome snakes will eat eggs; « thers are in ordinately fond of milk. “«¢A Thread Every Day Makes a Shein in a Year.’ carried by the ’ ir J “+ - One small discase germ bicod 1h the system <vdl comvert a healthy hurnan body -ordiltion of in- va biood pure and life-giv- Hood's Sarsapariia walidem. Do untd you are bed- ndden. Keep : ng ail tne accomplishes Dealer says an iressed tha a Lae educated students of jel day. He told abou nis chosen profe asserting that on but one © he ever met wit hands of experience in his native ¢ This happened in a ba where the general ignorance of habitants boarishit marks bit the stud from the realiz ment gion tions bh Alexandria ored people, everything looked dark.’ It was at this point that the smile ran around. on, thal discourt« 4 white men au kKwi Wag some exCcus« for In the course of rated an unconscious of humor that brought a smi and drew a laugh self as ¢ to his state profes “When i reached Million Women have boen relioved of female troubles by Mrs. Pinkham’s advice and medicine. The letters of a few are printed regularly in this paper. If any one doubts the efficiency and saoredly Mrs. Pinkham’s methods, write for a book she has recently mayor of Lynn, the post- master, and others of her who have made care- ful investigation, and wha verify all of Mrs. ham’s statements and claims. The Pinkham claims are sweeping. Investigate thom. THIRTY YEARS OF CURES Has the largest sale of any nk in the world. CRB WB 1 A A un Write far Pree Cntnlog HOw T0 RET [OFFICE ot Hous Jnstrastics by ton 30" ‘Women Eligible. "Portions Foran, If affiicted with 1am, ne | Thompson's Eye Water £ REV, DR. TALMAGE THE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY DISCOURSE. of the Chuteh of Christ is Unde veloped and Its Energy Dormant The Enemy Profits by This. [Copyright 1000] Wasmxarcx, D, O,~In this discourse Dr. Talmage shows how the cause of right- eousness Lin: lost many of its weapous and how they ato to be recaptured and put into effective operation; text, I. Samuel xill,, 19-21: “Noy there was no smith found Philistines aid, Lest the Hebrews make them sword: or spears. But all the Israel- ftes went down to the Philistines, to shiarpen every mun his share, and his coul- ter, und his ax, sud his mattock, Yet they uad a file for the mattoek,and for the coul- ters, and for the forks, and for the axes, apd to sharpen the gonads." What a galling subjugation for the Is- raelites! The Philistines had carried off all the blacksmiths and torn a i ———— i —————— his troops were afrighted-risiog up in hit stirrups, his haic fying in the ar he lifted up his voice until 20,000 troops heard him erying out, “Forward, the whole line! Wo want all the inymen enlisted. Minis ters are numerically too small, They dc the best they ean, ‘They are the most over. worked class on earth, Many of them die of dyspepsin because they cannot get the right kind of food to eat or, getting the right kind, are 80 worried thut they take it down in chunks, They dle from consamp- tion coming from early nnd late exposure, It a novellest or a historian publishes one hook a year, he Is considered indus. trious. But every faithful pastor must originate enough thought for three or foul volumes a year, and modicines and lightning rods and ple tures to sell to exhaust their vitality unre bored with agents of all sorts, are set in drafts at funerals and smiths’ trade in the land of Israel. The Philistines would not even allow these par. or spears, Tnere were only left in all the land. went on until they had taken all the grind- stones from the land of Israel, so that if an Israelitish farmer wanted plow or his axe he had ‘o go ovet to the garrison of the Philistines to get it done There was only one sharpening instrument farmers and mechanics having nothing to pickax save a simple file. Imdustry was hindered and work practically disgraced. The great idea of these Philistines was to keep the Israelites disarmed, They might but they would not have any blacksmiths fron. If they got the iron welded, they would have no grindstones on which to bring the instraments of agri- culture or the military weapons up to an edge, Oh, you poor, weaponliess Israelites, re- duced to a file, bow I pity youl Dat Philistines were not forever to keep their heel on the neck of God's children, than, on his hands aud knees, climbs up a great rock, beyond which were the Phii- theso apd kpees, climbs up the same roek, with thelr two swords, to pieces the Philistines, the Lord throw- ing a great terror 80 it was then: so it is now. men of God on uon them ipon tae, on their feet! I learn, lapgere SIrSS % ’ us io ys t een nliow of iis ene again and ave ol $ ply of swords to mies, 1 aud weny 1 lites seamed « Boars, andive no , ho fate for them t sistance, I see the fa eir pled re ALS Yi v BQY we smiths’ sh have noth So it {a ip the ¢chureh fay. We are too wililo ing left us i has gobbled that it 1 the got ali 3iT keep them, out any Rrasap apturel to on re weapons salentifie Christians tu and scholastic ( scholarship, and phiiosophie ( capture philos phy, and lJeeturing Chris tians to take back the lectioring | tiorm. We want to send out against Se Strauss and Renan a Theodore ( of Bonn and agalast the infidel = hivistians the atiteh itisis Hiteheock and Agassiz. We want to cap- ture all the philosophical apparatus and awing around the telescopes on the swivel until through them we can see the morn ing star of the Redeamer, and with slogleal hammer discover the Roek of Ages, and amia the flora of all realms find burden to beer, It is not hard study that makes ministers lcok pale, It Is the in- finity of interruptions and botheratious to which they are subjected, Numerically too It is no more the work of the pulpit to comvert and save the world than it is the work of the pew. If men go to ruin, 1 on your skirts mine, us quit this as on Let grand by a few clergymen, lay hold of the us in all our churches two or aroused and qualified men and to help. In most churches (o- day five or ten men are compelled to do nil the work, A vast majority of churches are at thelr wits’ end how to carry on a prayer meeting if the minister is not there, when thers ought to be enough pent-up energy and religious force to make anieel. ing go on with such power that minis. ter would never missed, The church stands working the | of a few ministerial cisterns uutili ithe 3 are dry and choked, while th thousands of fountains from might up the walers iife, wefore you and 1 ids we all hands Give three the be Fins i= have sod 1 will un up amid the ae surroundings of bitter wil y . loud, rehes our grave if to-day enon and women to ve the city, we I wish I under majesiic to MUS AL 1 and wome enough moral sives yveutiouaiitie the « stapiditis at These Iasraeliles we sharpened the text whi sh ighiare, qu hislr i ‘ andemploye onyT=ius, (Le of Athens & der his tremend Wer vhiat gave homas Chalmers wer in his ¥. + conquered the A's astronomy aad compelied it to ring be wisde greatness of the Lord i, for nd time, the morping of God uted for joy. That was what gave Jonathan Edwards his inRuence in his day He conquered the world's metaphysics and da yi and the see $ io Valley. We wast some one abie to ex- pound the first chapter of Genesis, bring to world, until, as Job suggested, “the stones of the field shall be in leagune™ with fight neninst Bisera, Oh church of God, go out and recapture these weapons! but all Christendom, felt thrilled Ly Lis Christian power, Well, now, my friends, wo all have tools of Christian Do not let them lose their edges We want no rusty blades fa this fight, We cannot rip up the We want no axe that caanot [ell he trees, We want no goad that cannot start the lazy team. Let us get the very best grindstones we ean find, though they be in possession of the Philistines, compel. ling them to turn the erank while we bear sion of the platiorm, enemy be recaptured for God, and the re. porters, and the typesstters, and the ed. itors, and the publishers swear all al leglance to tie Lord God of truth, Ab, my friend, that day must come, and if the faith or courage or the consecration to do it, then lot some Jonathan on his busy hands and on bis prayiog knees ciimb up on the rock of hindrance and, in the name of the Lord God of Israel, slash to pieces those literary Philistines, If these men will not be converted te God, then they must he overthrown, jSannin, | Jearn from this subject what a sarge amount of the ehureh’s resources ia uetually hidden and buried and undevei- oped. The Bible intimates that that wasn vory rich laud, this jand of [lsrael, It says, “The stones are iron, and out of the bills thou shalt dig brass ' and yet han. dreds and thousands of dollars’ worth of this metal was kept under the hills. Well, that is the difficulty with the ehureh of God at this day, Its talent is not devel. oped. If one-half of its energy eonld be brought out, it migut take the pubiie in- fquities of the day by the throat and make them bite the dust, If human eloquence were consecrated to the Lord Jesus Chriat, jt would in a few years persuade the whole earth to surrender to God, There is enough nndaveloped energy in this city to bring aif the United Hintes to Christ, oncugh of undeveloped Christian energy in the Uspited Ntates to bring the whois world to Obrist, but it is buried under strata of Indifference and under whole mountains of sloth, Now, is it not time for the mining to begin nnd the pirkaxes to plunges and for this buried metal to be brought out and put into the farcaces and foene td inte howitzers and carbines for the beorad’s ost? The vast majority of Christians in this Any are useless, The most of the Lord's battalion belong to the reserve corps, The most of the erew are asleop in the iam moeks. The most of the metal ix under the hills, Ou, Init not time for the church ol God to rouse up and understand that wa want all the snergies, all the talent and all the wealth enlisted for Gisela sake? 1 ike tiie nickname that the Eeglish sol diers gave to Bluclier, the commander, They called him “Old Forwards,” We havo had enough retreats in the ehurelh of Clirist; let us bave a glorious advange, And I say vo you as the general sald when i i i : i i § | volving wss21 until all our energles and facuitios shall be brought up to a bright, keen, sharp, glittering edge, Again, my subject teaches us on what a small allowance Philistine iniquity puts Yes, these Philistines shut up the mines, and then they took the spears and the swords: then they took the Liscksmiths; then they took the grindstones, and they took everything but a file, way sin works! It grabs everything. It begins with robbery nnd ends with rob. bery. it despoils this faculty and that fs gone, Was the man eloquent before, it Was hie affluent, it sends the sheriff to seil him out, Was he inflaential, it destroys bis popularity, Was he placid and genial and loving, it makes him splenetic and eros, and so utterly is he changed that you ean see he is sarcastic and rasping and tnt the Philistines have loft bim nothing but a file, 1 learn from this subject what a sad thing it is when the ohureh of God loses iis metal] These Philistines saw that if they could only get all the metallic weapons out of the hands of the Israelites all would he well, and therefore they took theswords and the spears. They did not want them to have no single metallle weapon, When the metal of the Israeiiles was gone, their strength was gone, This is the trouble with the ehureh of God to-day. It is sur. rendering its courage, It has not enough metal, Oh, Is it not high time that we awake ont of sleep? Church of God, Ht np your head at the coming victory! The Philist ines will go down, and the Israelites will go up. We are on the winnleg side. I think Jun now the King's horses are being hooked up to the chariot, and when Ha does ride down the sky thers will be such a hosabnna among Mis friends and such a walling song His snamios as will makes the aarth tremble and the heaves sing, 1 ses now the plumes of the Lord's eavalrymon tossing in the alr. The archangel be- fors the throne has alresdy bursished his trumpet, and then he will put te gold. on lips to his own, and be will blow the long, loud biaset that will make all the na. tions froe, Clap your hands, all yo peo- plet Mark! 1 Lear the falling thrones and the damming down of demolished (niquities, “Hastalal the Lord GQ reignet this world Lord J LATEST NEWS GLEANED FROM VARE- OUS PARTS, Jolin Scherer Ended His Life After Far tally injuring Woman He Loved Chil dren Saw the Tragedy Man Raved Like u Fiend aud Had Often Threatened Mur. der-—-His Victim Cannot Recover, The quiet little village of Pittvills suburb of Germantown, wos an the suited in the death of John Bchaerer, 47 yours, and the fatal we andiug of his Barbara, 41 years, The attempt to murder Mrs, Schaerer and the sulelde band, which were evidently earcfully planned, took place in the tidy little kitchen of their home on Twenty-first Sixty-sixth avenue, at 1.30 FV M., in the pre of their little Mary, and Sadie Sandon, a neighbor's daughter. Mrs Hoehaerer was shot twice in the back, A bul- the right shoulder and penetrated the right lung and the other plerced the middle of the back, injuring the spine and lodging in the liver, Mrs, Schaerer: had sufficient strength to run to the ¢ but when she re ached the bottom of th stairway she fell to th or Schaerer, his thought to be her lifeleas be wife wile, of her hus- sirect and cues daughter, LIAr, in 8 sWOOl with the stil poking rovolver in what he returned to his right hand, followed, Wt sealing ay the Kiteben, put temple and seg Death, it is Hadie Sandor the revolver (o it 8 bulle believed, inn from the house and told Hyes next Mrs ite ito % joa ives iu patrick hie GIT whe 3 were sfrale 14 i rer sh imed DY relatives ‘ y ribe at } s*¥ on the part An entanglement whi hraantz | Alma gt §s BE ANAL . berg working on Saturday ew order will affect 300 hands, arrived a flernoous Ihe Eighty new ms, recently ordered The plac me will give employment 10 2A © iad Waiona «© g of theses jo« fifty $4 AR one hundred a pioyees Laneastor’s State Tax Stoner, Treasurer lancaster county, paid oto the State Treasury 883, 081.53. being the amount due the State for personal property tax for the year 1509 Under the Jaw three-fourths « {f this amount goes back to Laneaster oc inty. The pay ws sot of this money was de jayed by the Sight of the former Treasurer Hershey who i alleged to have ombezzied county funds, Jacob ol Fire Bowes’ Wages Go Up. The fire bosses of the Philadelphin & Head. jg Coal and Iron Company of the Shamokin District notified that their salaries had been inoreased $5 ith, which i= the jargest mivance in Wages for that kind of work in the history of the company. The strict are also overjoyed on above wer Ce INO: per mol miners in this d AL LE account of rease to 9 per cenl -— Cure of Insane Patients, Agitation as to the small number of patisnin discharged {+ m the State Hospital for the {nsane at oo ristown, began at A recent meting of the trustees, has reeuited in good, At # monthly meeting of the trustees, it was total number discharged during the month of January Was seventy. eight, considerably « xeeeding the namber ia previous months, —————— Seranton Mill Burned, A big frame bal ding on Hekson avenue, Koranton, formerly used as was burned, The building was entirely dew stroyed, entailing a 3088 of $12,500, building was owned by the Green Ridge ery and stock owned by that eompnny and until about a month ago. So—————— Woman Killed the Hailroad. bridge on the fleading Haliroad Lalayette, Geyser, 50 years old, of Lafayetie, supposed knocked nnder the bridge. sh Contonarian Stricken. Iz suffered a stroke of apoplexy, is in her 104th year. Thirty Warkmen awewwu, The British steamer Expedient hes run down and sunk a harbor steamer near Als tona, Germany. drowned, A iy CA SO A AA TATAN ASI SATAN to be like all qualities of the genuine. COPERIGMY ERE BY Tou ¥ Matter of Courtesy. Walden. little wager Fol gt the rus Emily were more than those Being fBreart in its LILIDE Opp sOOn OeCurrec nt for Pregently they &“ ¥ fr ovrrie 8 ALE 5 LS which WAR the Dag Gol ” “uy iBE iD h nothing left of its fox the witl but the skinned stump : off the kh retire There are critical moments in « Rev. D. C. Garrett Had a Bad Cough «] bad s bad cough for six weeks snd could not find any relief whatever. | read what a wonderful remedy Ayer's Cherry Pectoral was for coughs and | bought a bottle. Before I had taken a quartet of it my cough had entirely left me. —L. Hawn, Newington, Oat., May 3, 189g. Quickly C ures Colds ar Neglected colds always icad to something serious. They run into chronic broachitis which polls dowa your general haalth and deprives you of sleep: or they end in genuine consump- tion with sll 1ts uncertain results. Don’t wait, but take Aver's Chetry Pectoral just as soon «3 you begin to cough. A few doses will cure you then. But it cores old colds, too, only it takes a little more time. We refer to such diseases as bron. LIARS CO. CINTINNLT to Be “Iiid you say this was a comic opers war’ the ¥ who came into camp with a flag of truce “That remark “Well ur general says Disposed Technion. asked Hipingoe soicier bas been made.’ Nes will He Conguers croup without fail for the cure of Consumption f Sse 5 ern vo “My wife had pimples on her face, but she has y NT - have all wilh oonslipal bern aH A ETS ang 3 ’ troubled Pagup ¥ CANDY CATHARTIC Pleasant. Pa Good, Never Sicken Yeu or Lirig= a ... CURE CONSTIPATION. Sterling emedy Compony, (hips, Nepiresl. Se» Tork, 4 wee NO-TO-BAC 50a tr URE Tob ooo Taanit: WwW. L. 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