The Publicity of It. “You oughtn’t to have turned me down that way, Luella,” said young Spoonamore, as they rode home from the swell party. “In what way?” innocently asked Miss Quickstep. “Kept me dancing attendance on yot all evening, and when I tried to talk t you, as I did several times, vou turnec your back on me. Is that the way al young women treat the men they're en gaged to marry?” “Yes, if the men are too fresh.” “Was 1 too fresh?” “A little, dear.” . “Did you want to humiliate me before all those people?” “Oh, no,” she said, lightly. “But you needed the treatment—or suppose we call it an operation—and I had to per- form the operation. If everybody saw it 1 couldn't help it.” “So you call it an operation do you? he said, glaring at her in the darkness of the carriage. that!" “What was it?” “It was a clinic!” And they rode on in silence. An Encouraging Trade Outlook, It was in the morning hours of “bake day” in the little out-of-the-way village The mingled odors of fresh bread, pies, and cookies floated out of the open kitchen windows. . From one of the smaller cottages at the end of the street came a barefooted child in a colorless calico dress and slat sunbonnet. With the important air of a heavy buyer she entered the village store, and handed across the counter a blue teacup. The proprietor took the cup, and said, in brisk tones: “Well, Emmy, what does want today?” your ma large white egg on the counter. poured, and the cup set before the cus- tomer, “Mr. Smif,” she said, purchase. “I'll be back for some ginger. Ma the black hen was on.” And the buyer walked out the store door and street to her hom as she took her said to tell you When He Was Twenty.One. There is a young criminal his birthday in a way that cause household a great deal of consterna On the eve on the fete, rt} midnight, the young man’s suddenly startled from their sin a loud voice in the. house “There's a man in the house! a man in the house!” The valiant paterfan his room. bearing in his hands a billet of fire wood, to learn the the disturbance and t« truder. His son was shouting at the top of hi “Where's the 7 gentleman “Here, sir; young man. al” s rushed ELSE man! Chose the Better Part. sixteen months,” returned soldier, “and during all that time I met with but native whose veracity could not be questioned He was a sort of servant for three or four of us, and one day I missed a dol lar and asked him if he “1 have, was ply. “‘And you are a thief.” “7 am. “ ‘But why didn't you lie about it? | asked * ‘Oh, because it is greater to be a thie than a liar!” he replied as he cocked his hat on his ear and went strutting around. “I was in Manila for saud the i one SCNOT, “1 was given up to die with quick consumption. I then began to use Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. | improved at once, and am now in perfect health.”’— Chas. E. Hart- man, Gibbstown, N. Y. It’s too risky, playing with your cough. The first thing you know it will be down deep in your lungs and the play will beover. Be- in early with Ayer’s Ere Pectoral and stop the cough. Three sizes : 285¢c., Bbc., $1. All druggists. Consult r dootor, then do a2 Te says. ease him, Wi willing. LCA ER ( sii, Mase. are made rich- er and more productive and rich soils retain their crop-pro- ducing powers, by the use of fertilizers with a liberal percentage of Potash. Write for our books—sent free which give all details. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau Street, New York City. GRASP OPPORTUNITIES. Dr. Talmage Says New Year Will Ee One of the Greatest of All Time. The World's Normal Condition Willi Be Reformed. mage'’s first discourse for the new year he speaks words of encouragement to all the timid and doubting. The text is Exodus xii, 2, “This month shall be unto you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.” The last month of the old year has passed out of sight, and the firet month of the new years has arrived. The midnight gate last Wednesday opened and January entered. She deserves 4 better name, for she is called after Janus, the heathen deity who, they supposed, presided over doors, and so might be expected to preside This month was of old called the wolf month because, through the severity of its weather, the hungry wolves came down seeking food and devouring human life. In the missals of the middle ages January was represent- ed as attired in white, suggestive of the enow, and blowing the fingers, as though suffering from the cold, and having a bun- dle of wood under the arm, suggestive of the warmth that must be kindled. les, January i& the open door of the year, and through that door will come what long processions, some of them bear- ing palm leaves and some myrtle, others with garlands of wheat and others with cypress and mistletoe. They are coming, and nothing can keep them back-—the events of a twelvemonth. It will, I think, be one of the greatest years of all time. It will abound with blessing and disaster. National and international Soni raveruics €ar dethronement, year that destinies. The tamest year for many a decade past has dug its millions of graves We can expect greater events in this year than ever before, for the world's pop- and weep and triumph and perish The mig! hee! f mechanism have wider The fires are kindled furnaces scven times but seventy heated. The velocit whirling he air and saili seas 11 i 1 mae atier wheeis of BWed Pp in not An unpre cedented demonst re the now ing year has closed the earth might cease tremble with the | cannonade and k 1s and swords be turned 1 3 making plow- the foundries that make The front door of a stupendous year has 1. Before many of you there will be of opportunity for making the world better or worse, happier or mu Let us pray that it may be a i i he speedy Would ne redem;p tion hemisphere to God that this might be the year in which the three great instruments now chiefly used for secular purposes might be put to their nightiest use in the world’s evangeliza tion — the telegraph, the telephone, Electricity has such po . sich strong arm, such swift htning that it occurs that St fen ® g foot. may be the angel and heard in apocalyptic vision ! started back and eried out, “I saw anoth- er angel flying in the midst of heaven ha ing the cverlasting gospel to preach 4 them tha* dwell on the earth and t They were tongues of fire that sat on called to God by tongue of electric Prepare your bat and make ready to put th wires the world wide messace of “wh ever v » Furthermore, month of January has the greatest } 1d depth of cold rivers are WOun crvet The fountains that the sun r parks now toss we jet, every drop would be a frozen tear The sleds craunch through the hard snow Warmest attire the wardrobe ean afford is put on that we may defend curselves against the fury of the elements. Hardest world fire? uonon ai C0 Highest not ne je the season of greatest generosity on the How much a scut- tle of coal or a pair of shoes or a coat or a shawl may do in assuagement of suffering Seated by our mn blast, let us not forget the fireless Suppose each one of household or one disabled man or one in On our way home from the night tempestuous, I Oh, the might of the cold! The arctic Thames in 1205 became firm as any bridge and the inhabitants crossed and recrossed on the ica and booths and places of tem- years ago New York Harbor was paved with ice so that the people passed on foot to the ad- joining islands. But the full story of the cold will never be known. The lips which would have told it were frozen and the benumbed. Only here and there a fact ap- pears. In 1661 the cold was so terrific that the wolves entered Vienna. In 1468 it was s0 cold that wine was cut with hatchets and distributed among the soldiers. In 1234 a whole forest was killed by the cold at Ravenna. In 763 the Black Sea was frozen over. As we go further back the frosts are mightier, but as we come fur ther down the frosts lessen, The worst severities have been halted. and the snows have lost their depths, and the thermometers announce less terrific falls of temperature, and the time will come when the year will be one long sum- mer of foliage and bloom. While the world’s normal condition will be reformed, the worst climates will be corrected. You could not have a millennium with a Jan- uary blast possible, Do not read your almanac backward. Do not go out and ask the trees hung with icicles by January storm whether they will ever again blossom in May and leaf in June. We are moving toward the world's redemption. The frozen tears will melt, the river of gladness will resume its flow, the crocus will come up at the edge of the snowbank, the morning star 1 open the door for the day, and the armies of the world will “groun s” all around the world. The Jatuary of frost will be abolished, and the balm and radiance of a divine at- mosphere will fill the nations. ou do not see it and hear it for yourself 1 think at the utmost your grandchildren will see and hear it. heavens will take part in the conflict between righteousness and sin, and that will settle it, and sottle it Hand settle yop 1643, t n this very month of January, wo months after a great baitle had been fought between the army of the king and the army of Parliament, herds and o'clock at EL ———— skies—the sound of drums, the clash of arms, the groans of dying men and then silence, These shepherds and travelers they heard, and large numbers of people, expecting that all was a deception, went the same uproar and tumult in the heav- ens—~the two armies in battle. hearing of this seeming combat in the heavens, sent embassadors to inquire into the mystery. In the night they also heard the conflict and came back and took solemn oath as to this mysterious occurrence, Whether those shepherds and travelers and embassadors of the king were in de- lusion I cannot say, but this I know--that the forces of God and the forces of Satan are now in combat, the heavens as well as the earth in struggle as to who shall win this world for blessedness or woe, and, as the armies of God are mightier than the armies diabolic, "we know who will triumph, and we have a right to shout the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. The King of Kings, the Lord of Hosts, the God of Joshua and Havelock, leads m the conflict. I have no fear about the tre- mendous issue. My only fear is that we will not be found in the ranks and fully armed to do our part in this campaign of the eternities. Again, I remark that the month of Jan- uary has seen many of the most stupen- dous events in the world’s history and a rocking of cradles and the digging of graves that have affected nations. In this month American independence was de- clared, followed by Lexington and Bunker Hill and Monmouth and Valley Forge and Yorktown. January saw the proclamation that abolished American slavery. Though at the time there were two mighty opin- ions and they were exactly opposed-—those who liked the document and those who dis- liked it-—there is but one opinion now, and if it were put to vote in all the States of the South, “Shall slavery be reinstated?” there would be an overwhelming vote of “No!” The pen with which the document was signed and the inkstand that cop- tained the ink are relics as sacred and val uable as the original Declaration of Inde- pendence, with all its erasures and inter- ineations. The institution which for sev- enty or eighty years kept the nation in angry controversy disappeared, and nothing is left to fight about. The North and the South to-day are in as complete accord as ever were flute and cornet in the same orchestra The North has bui yy has ft it its factories on the banks of the Chattahoochee and the Roa- noke, and the South has sent many of its ables attorneys into our northern court houses, its most skilful physicians into our sick rooms, its wisest bankers into our exchanges, its most consecrated ministers into our pulpite—all this the result of i amation of January 1, 1863 Furthermore, I notice that January has honored with the nativity of the greatest among the nations. nund Ba was born this month, the iarvel and glory of the legal world ; ene. ion of the seligious world, Benjamin Frank. lin of the philosophic world, William I. Prescott of the historic world, John he military world. Robert Burns world, Polycarp of the ma: Peter the Great aniel Webster of the some Ed- ut I cannot read the epitaphs of one out f a hundred illustrious graves in this fi mth of the year. Ma of those half their work through the help of of whom we know little or nothing. Lord Herschel is known all the world over and will be known through all time, but lttle i said of her who was born this first mon‘h of the year, and without whe help he. never could have been what he was~his sister, Caroline Lucretia Augus ta. Bhe helped him hunt the worlds She repaired and adjusted his telesco ciphered out his astronomical She his amanuensis She planned for him his work. She discovered seven comets and made “A Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters The month of Janvary introduced her to the observa. tories, but she has never been properly in troduced to the world ivate faith in God and the feeling He will do for you that which is best, you will be ready for either win or shadow. The other eleven } the 3 12 will not all gladness or of grief. The cup sweetness is insipad we She lems was ear be made up of Between these just opened gates of the r and the closing of those gates there be many t wien you will You will have questions to dec will need supernatural impulse, may be illnesses of the body or i plexities of mind or spiritual exhanstions to be healed and comforted and strength- ened. During the remaining twenty-six days of this month lay in a supply of faith and hope and courage for all the days of the eleven months Start right, and you will be apt to keep night. Before the ship captain gets out of the New York Narrows he makes up his mind what #¢a route he will take. While you are in the narrows of this month make up your mind which way you will sail and unroll your chart and set your compass and have the lifeboats well placed on the davite and be ready for smooth voyage all the way across or the swoop of a Carib bean whirlwind. Rev. Solomon Spiu'ding was for some time in poor health. and to while away the time he wrote a preposterous religious ro mance. One Joseph Smith somehow got hold of that book before it wae printed and published it as a revelation of heaven, calling it the “Book of Mormon,” and from that publication came Mormonism, the monster abomination of the earth. Rev. Solomon Bpaulding might have been better engaged than writing that book of falsehoods. However much time we have, we never have time to do wrong. Harness January for usefulness, and it will take the following months in its train. Oh, how much you may do for God between now and the 31st of next December! The beautiful “weeping willow” tree was introduced by Alexander Pope into England from a twig which the poet found in a Turkish basket of figs. He planted that twig, and from it came all the weep. ing willows of England and America, and your smallest planting of good many un der God become an influence continental and international. Now that the train of months has started, let it pass, Janvary followed by February, with longer days, and March, with ite fierce winde; and April, with its sudden showers; und May, with its blos- somiflg orchards; and June, with its car nival of flowers; and July, with its ha- vests; and August, with its sweltering heats; and September, with its driftin leaves; and October, with its frosts: an November, with its Thanksgiving scenes: and December, with its Christmas hilasi ties. March on, O battalion of monthe, in the regiments of the yesrs and the bri gades of the centuries! March on and join the months and vears and centuries already until all the river, of time have emptied into the ocean of eternity, but none of all of the, host ought to render higher thanks to or take oom- fort or make more magnificent resolve than this the first month of the new year, But what fleet foot hath the months and {oyrat People Nightly talk about how they kill time. Alas, it dies soon enough with. out killing. And the longer we live the , William C. nt said an old friend of his declared “that the going of time is like the drumming of the Jortridgs or muffled grouse in the woods, alling alow and distinet at first and then following each other more and more rapid. Yl hoy end at last Ju A-Whirving pound, r, y value time, siartlingly ‘Gxclaiied, “Avs ‘death (Copyright, 1000, L. Klepreh.y “°° on want ide ere * ANOTHER HeMARKABLE © derstand. A medical rule, dislikes to ar ot ts: know edge Lug valu cine, In bars him from doing so. man, 0s ol a proprietary med etiquette Yet there 3 most aq fact, professional many eminent physicians, those vanced in their professions, credit to the great curative properties of from the by an who give [ull Vogeler’'s Curative Compound fact that it 1 manufactured and reliable company, Jacobs Oil, from the formula of a brother physician, who to-day stands in {he front ranks of the most eminent medical men in London, and on account of its merit it is largely prescribed by the medi eal profession, but in the case which we are about to relate the attending physi cian called it ““rabbish,” but turned out Mrs. Nettleton the “rubb.sh or not, it her Mrs. Nettleton graphically relates particulars of her own which doubtless be of interest to many lady readers: “I had been an intense sufferer for many years from dyspepsia, troubles, when a little placed in my bands, and, although at that time I had been bedridden fo six months, I determined, aft some of the wonderful testimonials there oid propriciors as it tells doctor saved life.” case, Ol liver and kidney pamphlet was more reading which had been 1 Of in of cases similar to mine by the Curative ( completely cured timely use Vogeler's some, cepecially as ompound, to my docte even benefit up is most interesting and, me, and I had almost gi all hope of ever being well again. It i * 1 in fact, marve { to relate, that the very first dose of fifteen drops relieved me. It wae not long before 1 was able to get up and about; three months WARS from taking the first dose | better health than I had enjovi been vears I. continued well months back, when I ws my troubles being dyspepsis tion I had a doctor nih, but continued mo again found mys I bethought myself Vogeler's Curative immediately sent for i - +I i! ’ i Lae « Or & medicine not had a movement of bul Vogele r's soon put on my completely cured me of course the first, yet I fully me this attac) been alive fo-day Vogeler's Curative +d only thought to my; last illness took p! only have been saved much a 875 doctor's bill.” Mrs mended Vogeler's Curative Nettleton said indigestion and eczema. and it has proved a bey os Swinbank, ous st, ha names of no } cured end of { Vogeler's MONEE by Carative By the way, the proprictors have Londor Ley in thie discovery, confidence great ran’s that person and address cobs Oil Co naming this 25 Clay St Mrs. Nettleton iz a cc Irighton Road paper.’ saltimore nfection has where she file : ’ : lished many years, and Jom spected by Ired ans Al cianses ier siatements regards Vogeler's Carats ‘ompound no be regard In Newfoundland » are said to be guarded against ing a cod’s head or a bone from a | caught without touching th 1 fhe tio of trinity nn Pwitzerand Has decreased thirty years PLrEA Light, washing i nt t SOIrway 8 « straight 4 round the {iords S1AaTe oy Onio, Cry ov ToLevo, 1 or Locas Covsry §° Fraxg J, Cupxrey makes ongh that he is the resior pariner of the firm of F. J, Cuexyy & Co. daing business inthe City of Tole do, Coanty and Btate aforesaid, and thet said firm will pay the sum of oxE HUNDRED voLLans for each and every case of caraneu that cannot be cured by the use of Hars's Cararnu Cone, Fraxg J. Coexey, fiworn to before me and subseribed in my presence, this 6th day of December 1556 A.W. Greasox Notary Public, Hull's Cataryiy Cure is taken jmternally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the srstem. Bend for testimonialy, free, " F.J. Cuexey & Co., Toledo, 0. Bold by Druggists, 75 {all's Family Pills are the best ‘ SEAL : A nD Some fellow r stand up fo he { alr sex un theraselves ir rowded ca oklyn, N. Y., Jan, 10th, — A very timely practical suggestion comes from a physi t of this city : he save Takes Garfield lea, the Hird Medicine especially needed at this season to br wonderfal it wnen the sysiem is apt f order from eating rich This remedy cleanses the system on regulate: the liver, kidneve, stomach an bowels. It is simple, pur nd effective, and i# good for young and old Four per cent. of sailing one-half per na yea out ood and cent dOnt Heat For the Boweis, 4 what ails headache will never weil until your put right, Cascarzrs help nature, without a gripe or pain, produce tural movements, cost vou just 10 SIA. gettin our health back. Cas # Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put uj metal boxes, every tablet has CC, C. ( stamped on it f ns matter you Ere you OH 8 get Beware of imitati S permanently cured, No fits or nervous f Dr. Klis Cand treatise 1 Arch St. Phila er Grreal {res a Mre. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften the gums, re es inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind 250 a ba colic tthe ir Consumption save) Murs, Tuomas Ros. N.Y. Feb, 17, 1900 Iamsure Piso's Cur my life three years ag »ixs, Maple 8t., Norwich Wh nisl & ‘ AiWays Tetter is Terrible, ut Tetterine cures it. “My wife has kad BLY years i Tetterine is the ¢ that does ber good. Send a box ras Crane, Miss . & boz by mail I. T. Shuapirine, Savannah, Ga. if vour drug gist don’t keep it 50 ftwen H.H. Gurexs = Soxs Atiania ' that cessful Dropsy Specialists in the world. Bee their libaral affer in advertiseraent un another column of this paper Only #1 Only ive twelve years of age i A NOTED PHYSICIAN Makes an Ymportant Statement of Interest to All Women. “Deas PIXgnaM ~The hone est, intelligent plivsician is above the *Bchool.” Whatever is best in cach titer to what school a physician belongs, 1, as 2 matter of conscience, con only pre 7 Es HIB, - - DIL. WANATA, of Lansing, Mich, i proven that there is nothing in Materia | Medica which equals Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound in severe cases of female disorders, I unhesitatingly prescribe it, and have never yet been sorry. I know of noth- ing better for ovarian troubles and for falling of the womb or ulcerations : is absolutely restores the affected parts to their normal condition quicker and better than anything else. I have known it to cure barrenness in wo- men, who to-day are happy mothers of children, while the medical pro- fession looks down upon * patents,’ have jearned, lead, “to look-up to by tever name it be known. lf my f{ w phwsicians dared tell the truth, hundreds of them i my sentiments.” Mich. and int tion, ¥ “8 would voice c— Waxarta, Lan: abore fteslivpria [ Lydia E. Pinkham's Compound cannot be bstitute. ing, . { is not genuine, Vegetable equnlic i. Ace pt Mrs. Pinkham advises sick woe men free. Address Lynn, Mass, Wills Pill S | Are You Sick? Send your name and P. O. address to The R. B. Wills Kedicine Co.. Hagerstown, Md, no 8G ‘Lead the World. - W. CC. HOLMES Improved my Farm Level “Eclipse.” RYT Hest todate jeve! made Write for 12 North OPS quick rallet ad Sur Ga anes wx of etisnonisls and 10 days’ Sree. Dr. B BE GRILLE 5 SONA Bex B, Ataste, Ge. rice 84.50 with rod, ese ri pt uinr THY Ld Atlanta NEW DISCOVERY; gives EEE ) WHERE ALL ELS - * Cough Brrop. Tastes Good. Tso time. Sold by drogise, TISE IN This BXU 2 IT PAYS DO YOU GUN CATALOGUE. Winchester Repeating Arms Co., WP ST i1T’'S FREE. Send stonce to the New Haven, Conn. qualit In the process of > New York, N.Y. »
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers