LL Stitch in Time Saves Nine.” A broken stitch, like the “« little rift within the lute,”” is the beginning of trouble. “I am tired, not ill.”" *‘1It auill soon pass away.” ** I don't believe in These are thz broken stiches that lead fo serivus fdlness. Nature is wise ard in Hood's Sarsaparila she has farnished the means up broken stitches. Why? starts al the root and cleanses the blood. Bad Blood — “For years troubled with my blood, my [ace was pale, I newer felt aell. Hood's Sarsaparilla made me feel beller and gave me a healthy color.”” Mae Cross, 2 Cedar Av., South, Minneapolis, Mirr. vod Sarsaparill NEE ET TTT Hood's Plils cure liver ile; the non irritating and only cathartic to take with Hood's Barispariiis. medicine.” fo flake Because od Was po Three bottles of Valae of FPlotures. Pictures do more toward farnishiasg a house and determining the status of its inmates than anything else. If you Lave a suspicion (hat you are not wiss in choosing and hanging pictures, gel advice from someone whose tasts not be questioned, says the Plttsbur Dispatch. Cheap pictures are not nec essarily poor, but a poor picture usually cheap. To be able to discer: the difference is a quality with which every one is not blessed. A good pla: is to purchase coples of Iasmous pic tures, etchings and engravings, These are almost sure In fram ing pictures remember that golc frames are for oll paintings and dark pictures, white frames for and black enamel modern photographs nle @ to be good water col ors Flemish cal or and oak for etchings an FOR MIDDLE-ACED WOMEN. Two Letters from Women Helped 1 hrough the “Change of Life™ by Lydia E. 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TALMAGE. : THE DISCOURSE. — | Subjeot; The Responsibility of Those Who | Are Well and Strong—Physionl Energy Not ¥adieative of Spiritual Power ight the Battles of the Weak, {Copyright 180. | Wasminorox, D, C.~Ino this discourses Dr, Palmage sets forth the responsibility of hose who ars strong aod well, as in a | tormer discourse he preached to tha dis- ! abled and “the shut in,” text, Judges xiv., | 1, “And Samson went down to Timnath.” | "There are two sides to the character of 3amson. ‘The one phase of his life, if fol. lowed Into the partisulars, would adminis. there ia A phase of his character fraught with lessons of solomn and eternal import, 'o these graver lessons we devote our jermon, This giant no doubt in early lille gave It is al. most always so. There were two Napolsons | —the boy Nupoleon and the maa Napoison -but both alike; two Howards—Llhes boy Howard and the man Howard-—but both the man Samson-=hut both alike. This giant was no doubt the hero of the piay- ground, and nothing ecouid stand his exhibition of youthful prowess, eighteen years of age he was be trothed to the daughter of a Philistine, toward Timnath, a lion eame out him. and, although this young giant weanponless, ad the monster by the long mane aud him as a hangry bound shakes a March hare and made his rack and eft him by the wayside bleeding under the smaiting of his and the grinding heft of There he stands, looming up above men. & mountain of flesh, his arms bunched with muscle that ean lift the gatas of a city, taking an attitude deflant of everything. His hair had never been t, and it rolled down seven great plaits over bis shoul ders, adding to his bulk flerceness and ter ror. The Phiilstines want to conquer him, and they m find ont the secret of his strength lies, There is an evil woman lviag in the val ley of Sorek by the name of Della They appoint ber the agent in the oase The wns Lie sel shook bones ¢ fist itis hee therefore n ai ing, and then Dellianh “Wall,” withes his strength hasays, seven green such as they Insten I should be perfectly powerless.” bo ahe binds him with the seven green withes Then she ciaps her hands aud says, “They come—-the Philistines!” and he walks out as though there were no impediment, conxes him again and says, the secret of this great strength, And he replies, If you should take some rog ed that have never been used, and tie me with i should be just like other men.” him with ropes, claps her hands and sh te, *They ¢ Philistines! * He walks out as easily as he did belore--not a slogle obstruction. She coaxes him again, and he says, ‘Now, if you should take these seven long plaits of hair and by this b joom weave them intoa web, [ could got AWAY. 8a the loom is rolisd ap, and the shuttl kward and for ward, and the long pinits of halr are woven joto a web. Then she claps her hapds and says, “They come-the Philistines!” He walks out as ensily 1 sre, drag ging a part of the loom him, But after awhile she | teil the trath, He says take a razor or shears and cut off this hair, 1 i be powerless bands of myenemies.” Ba them She ties ome-—the not ouse flies ba @ » & as he did bel with ersundes “If you shoul mane wanipuiating the head to th , instead of waking 5 they will put a man wide awnke 80 saleeg [I hear the blades of the grinding against each and 1 cks falling off I'he shenes or raz omplishes what green withes and ypes and house | wild not Kad denly she her hands apd The Philistines | ipon t Samson He rouses up with a struggle, but his strengtd is nil gone. He is in the hands of Lis en- emios I hear the groan of the giant take his eyes out, and thea I see him stag geting on in his blindness, feeling his way as he goes on toward Gaza, i yi door is open, and the glant is thrust in He sits down and puts his haods on the mill erank, which, with exbausting bori- rontal motion, goes day after day, weok after weak, month after month--work, work, work! The consternation the world In captivity, his locks shorn, his eyes punctured, grindiag corn in Gaza! First of ail, behold in text that physical power isnot index of moral power, ~the lion found it whom he slew found D2 ODE § A ri Maps SAys a Eo as in pris of always an out and the 3000 men it out; yet he was the by low passion, [am far from any discredit upon physical There are those who seem tO admiration for delicacy and constitution. I never conld in weak nerves or sick headache, Want. ever effort in our day is made to make the men and women mora robust should have the favor of every good citizen as well as of every Christian, Gymnastics may positively religious, Good people sometimes ascribe (0 a wicked heart what they onght to ascribe toa slow liver such pear neighbors that they often catch each other's diseases. Those who never saw a sick day and who, like Hercules, show the giant in the cradle have mors to answer for than those who are the sab. jeots of litelong infirmities. He who can throwing stamina bave great slekness of ha | have a double account to meet in the judg- ment, How often it is that you do not fad physical wnergy indicative of power! one dizzy with perpetual vertigo, if inuscles with the play of health (in them are worth more than those drawn up in shrouie passing objects is better than one with vision dim and uncertain, then God will require of us efficiency just in proportion to what He has given as. Physioal energy ought to be a type of moral power We we have capacity to assimilate food. Our spirftual hearing cvuglt to be us good as our physical hearing. Our spiritual taste | ought to be as clear as our tongue. Ham- sons in body, we ought to be giants in moral power, But while you find a great many men who | realize that they ought to use their money | aright and use their intelligence aright, | how few men you find aware of the fact | that they ought to use thelr physical or- | ganism aright! With every thump of the sart there is something saying: “Work! Work!” And lest we should complain that we have no tools to work with, God gives us our hands and feet, with every knuckle and with every jolot and with every muscles saying to us, “Lay hold and do something.” ut how often it is that men with physi onl strength do not serve Christ! They are Hike n ship full manned and fully rigged, capable of vast tonnage, able to endure all stress of weather, yet swinging idly at the doeks when these men ought to be crossing and recrossing the great ceean of human suffering and sin with God's supplies of mercy, How often it is that physical strength is used in dotag Ponitive damage or in luxurious eass, when, with sleoves rolled up and bronmed bosom, feariess of the shafts of opposition, it ut to be laying hold with all 1ts might and tugging away to lft up this sunken wreek of a world, It is & most shameful fact that much of thie business of the shurch and of the world must be done by those comparatively inva. 1d. Richard Baxter, by reason of his «dis. oases, all his days sitting in the door of the ! God that will endure as long as “The! saint's Everlasting Rest;” Edward Payson | ‘never knowing a well day, yet how he | preached and how he wrote, helping thou. ands of dying souls like himself to swim io | n son of glory. And Robert MeCheyne, » walking skeleton, yet you know what he did tn Dundes and how he shook Heotland with zeal tor God: Philip Doddridge, ad | vised by his friends, because of his illness not to enter the ministry, yet you know what he did for the “Rise and Progress ol Religion’ in the chureh and in the world Wilberforce was told by his doctors that ho could not live a fortnight, yet at that very time entering upon p iinutheoplie en. terprises that demanded the greatest en. durance and persistence; Robert Hall, sul. fering exeruciations, so that often in the pulpit while preaching he would stop and ile down on a sofa, then getting up again to preach about heaven until the glories ol the celestial city dropped on the multi. tade, doing more work, perhaps, than al most any well man io his day. Oh, how often Is it that men physioal endurance are not as great io moral and spiritual stature! While thers are achievements for those who are bent all their days with sickness —achisvements of patience, achievements of Christian en. durance-—I call upon men of health, mes of muscle, mon of nerve, men of physical power, to devote themselves to the Lord Behold also, in the story of my text, il. lustration of the fact of the damage that strength ean do it it be misguided. It this man spent a great with great of my text, To pay a bet which he had people. He was not only shiof, and a type of those men in all ages of the world who, powerfal in body or mind used thelr strength for ROS, iniquiteus puarp It is not the small, weak men of the day who do the damage. These small men who go swearing and loafing about your stores aud shops and banking houses, assalling Christ and the Bible aod the chureh-—they do not do the damage "hey have no {on flusncs, They are vermis that you erush with your foot. Jat it is the giants of the day, the misguided giants, giants in § fenl power, Or giants in mental a or giants in social position, wealth, who do the da men with sharp pens th stab re. ligion and throw poison all through yur literature, the men who use the power of wesitt to sanction lpiquity and bribs make truth and ho bow to scapter Misguided giants } : gut for them! In the middie and iat. tar part of the last century no lvubl t wers thousands of men in Paris and Edin ! and Loondon who hated God and blasphemed the name of the Almighty, y Jdid t little they ware jon, insignificant Yot there ware giants io those days, Who can eal. 1inte 1 havoe © on With =»’ very y, with fiery ail t im Or bys umen, giants R Phe re justices an fen yp ing but bu mischief the s enthasinsm imagination pulsive nature Hume, wi 6 David Te wel ut si. Xen itaire, t1 marsh fey Lent #10 Sra; # most isarned ® > of his day, » great host ol fos and i afldelity? aut in the dary whos wind against religios most fas WOU, i 8 master +t ahall stand and mw royal r t may be sl pe trails n the temple A WOIMAD res that pull »ortit 0's ears, of giantz have gon through the % to me that platform Hams e down t same [ascina it is high time and printing impurities aodern society. Fastidiousnsss and prud ery say, ‘Better not speak; you will rouse dverse criticism; you will make wore what you want to make better; better deal in glittering generalities; the su sate for polite ears.” Dat thereco 2 volee from heaven overpowering mincing santimeniaiities of t ing, “Cry nioud, ef it ike a tramp, transg rossi sins eit the of biect is to ject is t Gel nes ths ie day. say are pot, Ht upihy v ae and show My people their sas and the house of Jacob thelt The trouble is that when people write 6 speak upon this theme theyare apt to cove it up with the graces of belles jellires, so that the erlime is made attractive jonstead if repulsive, Lord Byron, in Don Juan adorns this crime until itsmiles like a May queen. Michelet, the great French writer pvers it up with bewitching rhetoric until it glows ike the rising sun, when it coght to ba mad» loathsome as a =malipox hos. There ars to-day inflasnces abroad which, if unresisted by the pulpit and the fit only for storm of fire and brimstone thal whalmed the cities of the plain, If, then, we are to bs compailad to go go tot This body and soul must soon part, What dust to dust, tiny But what shall of the latter? be the des. Shall it rise into the tias slain, or will It go down out of both? Blessed be God! He ia so styled in He is ceady to fight ali our battles from the first to the last | “Who is this that cometh up from Edom | with dyed garments from Bozrah, mighty to save?’ In the light of this subject I want to eali fous attention to a fact which mAy not ave been rightly considered, and that is the fact that we must be brought into judgment tor the employment of uz post i eal organism, Shoulder, brain, hand, foot wa must answer in judgment ..r the use we have made of them. Have they been usad for the elovation of society or for its depression? In proportion as our arm ia | strong and our step elastic will our aceount ut Inst be Intensified, Thousands of ser. mons are preached to invalids. [I preach this sermon to stout men and healthful women. We must give to God an account for the right use of this physical organism, These invalids bave comparatively little to account for perhaps. T or eould not lft twenty pounds. They eould not walk hail a mile without sitting down to rest, Yet how mueh many of them aceompiished! Ising up in judgment, standing beside the men and women who had only little physi. onl energy and yot consumed that energy fn a conflagration of religious enthusiasm, bow will we feel abashed! © men of the strong arm and the stout heart, what use are on waking of your jysical foroes? Will you beable to stand the test of that day when we must answer for the use of every talent, whether it where a physieal Sheds 48 « mental acumen or a spiritual oe KEYSTONE STATE. LATEST NEWS GLEANED FROM VARL OUS PARTS, CLOUDED MIND CLEARED. Frederick Barto Has Lived Five Days With ¥ront of Cranium Torn Away Physicians Puzeled -Wus Melancholy Before Aceldent —Seranton Man Prefers Life Imprisonment to Signing a Deed. The case of Frederick Barto, an aged oft- {zen of Bomerville, who has lived for five days with the front of his skull worn away and a fracture at the base of his brain, con- tHnues to excite the wonder of the physicians, Barto's temperature has remained normal ever since he recvived kis terrible Injuries, gently at ali times, A strange feature Barto's case is that his was a paralytic, with a melancholy disposi tion aud a clouded mird h nd now isn nal condition is greatly improved, ago Barto returned from a Newark hospital where he had under treatment for a year. He moved around wit eruteh and a cane, Last Saturday night he was on the New Street when an eastbound frefght train bi. Heat tempted to jump out of the way, but owing to his crippled condition he fell just as be cleared the track. reach of the pliot of the engine, footstep at the side « in his skull, and aged 150 foot, bafore Leen crossing bore down on The sharp ried jtsel! ho was There was an aperture in length and : when 3 the pate In in this position dr BX inche two fnohes wide in ii who ked up. he was 1 Wagoner, { that ie considered DBarto's arkalide oun word h in; and weakened a @ the nocldent there wis Row chances of his re yery. Iudefinite Tovrm in Jail, who for six years has BL Bb wed as directs Dennis Gorman, ~ ipied a cel because he ranlor gstody of a ineral » Fell 250 Feet to Death, 35 Feel Uy Swam . aplared in al Norristows Mantel] was erford Hospital Overerowded. H, C. Orth, superintend ane Hospital, Harrisburg, vererowd- ations for on Lo He # on but 927 were crowded and the removal of county homes, but temporarily the congestion, Daring the year 205 patients were dis hargoed mine Freight Conductor Killed. While drilling cars at Bridgeport Oondue tor Jerry Jacoby, who lives in the vicisity of ['wentieth and Brown sires Philadelphia received injuries from which he died five minutes after being received at Charity How. ie was run into by a th legs were cut off near the atslomen Ylour Warehouse Collnpsed. Three floors of 8. L. Brown & Company s big wholesale warehouse building, at Wilkes Barre, collapsed utider the we 500 barrels of flour. The buliding is four stories, and the collapsed portion was over a one-story arch under which a railroad track ran. ae dollars, ight of about in Brief. pre. Julia W. Conner, of San Francisco, Cal, the granddaughter of the poset, Samuel Woodworth, who wrola “The Old Oaken Jacket,” is visiting in Bethlehem, and is the guest of Mra, 8, J. Pottinos, The Northampton Club, Bouth Bethlehem 's leading social organization, has purchased the handsome building on West Fourth street, near Broadway. The borough of South Willlamsport has brought suit against the Amerioat Telephone claim of over $3,000. The company refused to pay the locnse tax of 80 cents on each pole, George F. Finley, aged 86 years, and a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature Colonel Charles D, Gold, one of the wealth. aged 55 years, Julius Benirer, an employes of Byram's mill, Chester, caught his left arm in the machinery, badly lacerating it. 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