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the Bank of France at
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Note circulation of
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the largest in the history of the
M re. Winslow's Soothing Syrupfor © hildrea
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1n the fashionable thoroughfares of Lon-
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ordinately fond of milk.
“«¢A Thread Every Day
Makes a Shein in a Year.’
carried by the
’
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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,
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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
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berg
working
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ew order will affect 300 hands,
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Eighty new
ms, recently ordered The plac
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2A © iad
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g of theses jo«
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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
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Quickly
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ar
Neglected colds always icad
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and deprives you of sleep: or
they end in genuine consump-
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Don’t wait, but take Aver's
Chetry Pectoral just as soon «3
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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.
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to Be
“Iiid you say this was a comic opers
war’ the ¥ who
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“That remark
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