The Women's London Gardening As sociation is a successful organization, Its members are trained in the science and art of flower culture, arboriculture, horticulture and the like, Good house. keepers are gaid to prefer them to men, because they are more tidy, have better taste and a finer development of the sense of order. The United States possesses forty per cent. of the total railway mileage of the world. Mrs. W. R. rancis Is the wife of one of the best macists in Mew Haven, 141 Dixwell Avenue, Connecticut He says: “My wife was for several years in bad be , Friends persuaded her to take Hood she is certainly a good deal better since eve For Ladles:. 8 peculis business at ent of the doing and ex- Presid Pharmaceutical Association. alth, dus to a complication of disorders. 's Barsaparilia ry way Hoo cure difficu I's Sar over 2 years | suffered with a Complication of Diseases Sill I was a « od invalid, blood poor, spy gone, bowels out of order.and miserable in mind and body. formed by nfirn I read of such wonderful cures per Hood's tile, an Sarsaparilla that would try a if it didn't make me ! oouid ¥ MAKS Ie WOT It Did Make Me Better and found my wm m new woman, I have the blo Hood's Sarsaparilla the best Censtitutionnal { ‘ t wry proved 1 i. which does WwW § Treatment, and In many cases does all Local Treatment in the many d aMicted irs. Mantis ld re. Md AWRY Ww srases with which women are KE 1835 Ramsey Street, Baltim Habitual Constipation is cured by Heod's Pills Kennedy's MedicalDiscovery Takes hold in this order: Bowels, Liver, Kidnevs, Inside Skin, Outside Skin, Driving everything before it that ought to be ous You know whether you need it or not. Bold by every rogeiet, and manufactured Ly DONALD KENNEDY, ROXBURY, MASS, ———— Beauty often depends on plumpness; so does comfort; so does health. If you get thin, there is something wrong, though you may feel no sign of it, Thinness itself is a sign; sometimes the first sign; sometimes not, The way to get back plumpness is by careruL LIVING, which sometimes in- cludes the use of Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver oil. Let us send you—free—a little book which throws much light on all these subjects, Scorr kk Bows, Chematy, 130 South sth Avenue, New York, Your druggmt keeps Scott's Emuluon of cod liver otal druggists everywhere do, $1. It you have Malaria, Piles, Sick Head. @ i Costive Bowels, Dumb Ague or ° 9; your food does not assimilate, oTutt's Tiny Pn will eure these Rrouiblad, ia wal. @ Price, 18¢, OMioe, 30 Park DR. Ki QAMP \ Kidney, Liver and Bladder Cure PBI sn pain in jotnts or back, brick dust in rent enlls, irritation, « IpHamation. tion or eatarrh of biadder, Fie | Liver, PASS fr res kidney ey | ests in search of new specimens have spent years in finding the track ol a kuown phar | i & child notices is a swallow at the eave | exciaims ¢ REV. DR. TALMAGE, | A————————— BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY SERMON, —————————— THE Subjebt: “Religions Refuge.” TeXxT: “A goodly eedar, and wider it shall dwell all fowl of every wing. Eze. kiel xvii, 28, The cedar of Lebanon "is a royal tree, It stands six thousand feet above the level of the sea, A mimlonary counted the concen- tric circles and found one tree thirty-five hundred years old — long rooted, broad branches, all the year in luxuriant folinge The same branches that bent in the hurr. cane that David saw sweeping over Lob anon, rock today over the head of the American traveler, This monarch of the forest, with its leafy fingers, plucks the hon- ors of a thousand years and sprinkles them upon its own uplifted brow, as though some great hallelujah of heaven had been planted upon Lebanon and 1t were rising up with all its long armed strength to take hold of the hills wheace it came Oh, what a fine piace for birds to nest in! In hot days they come th.ther--the eagle, the dove, the swallow, the sparrow and the raven. There ls to many of us a complete fascination in the structure and habits of birds. They seem not more of earth than heaven—ever vacillating between the two No wonder that Audubon, with his gun, tramped through all of the American for Geologists bird's claw in tho new red sandstone The re is enough of God's architecture in a snipe 's ill or a grouse’s foot to confound universities, Musicians have, with clefs and bars tried to catch the sound of the nightin gals and robin, Among the first things that , and handf grandfather gos out crumbs to feed the sn The Bible is full of sions he bir hy of the and stuffed, like those of living birds, with fis mage a ‘Be shold the Christ, aRgie, the st with a wv bird ul ol Jia dish unto the | fescribes his desola like a pelican of an owl of the wings are tw to heaven, road New (Orieans this multitnds te wl whine and 1 but come, young nn aud maides wants you, His band is lov ase, I% smile is hea ven no handcuffs y your feet, no brand I went through the Religion will put or wrist, wa your forehon hea vis snowston noe n HA oN m i lying gir Her he pillos was the snow he casement, Her large, round eye bad of its} Loved ones stood bed trying to hold her back Her m could not give her up, and one nearer to her than either father or mother was frantic with grief I vaid: “Fanny, how do vou * she sald, “happy, uappy Mr. Talmage, tell all NK folks that religion will make thems happy.” As I eame out of the room, louder than all the sobs and wallings of grief, 1 heard the clear, sweet, glad voice of the dying gir, “Good night; we shall meet again on the other side of the river The next Sabimth we buried her We brought white Bowers and laid them on the coffin There was in all that crowded church bat one really happy and delighted face, and that was the face of Fanny. Ob, | wish that now my Lord Jesus would go through this audience and take all these flowers of youtn and garland them on His brow. The cedar isa fit refuge for birds of brightest plumage and swiftest wing, Hee, they fiyl they iy! “All fowl of every wing.” Again, I remark that theold may ou say, “Suppose a man has to go on crutches; suppose he is blind: suo he is deal; suppose that nine tenths of Bie 1 life has been wasted” Then | answer: Come with crutches. Come, old men, blind and deaf, come to Jesus, If you would sweep your nand around before your blind eyes, the first thing you would touch would be the cross It is hard for an aged man or woman to have grown old without religion. Theres taste is gone. The peach and the grape have lost their flavor. They say that somehow fruit does not taste as it used to, Their hearing gots defective, and they miss a great deal that is said in ther presence Their friends have all gone and everybody seems 80 strange, The world seems to go away from them and they are left all alone They begin to feel in the way when you come into the room where they are, and they move their chair nervously and say, “1 hope Iam not in the way Alas! that father an mother should ever ba in the way, When you were sick and they sat up ail night rook ing you, singing to you, administering to you, did they think that you were in the way? Are you tired of the oid poopie? Do you snap them up quick and sharp You will be cursed to the bone for your ingrati. tude and uakindrness Oh, how many dear old folks Jesus hae put to sleep! How sweetly He has close! their eyes! How gentiy folded their arms! How He has ™ $i hand on their silent bearts and sid; ‘Rest now, tire! pilgrim It i= all over, The tears will never start again, Hush! hush” Ho He gives His be loved sloop. | think the most beautiful ob fort an earth le an odd Chrletian Phe hais white, not with the frosts of winter, but the blossoms of the tree of life, | paver feel sorry for a Christian old man, Why feel sorry for thos upon whom the glories of the eternal world are about to burst? The are going to the goodly cedar, Thoug their wings are heavy with age, Hod shall renew theis strength ike the eagle, and shall make their nest in the the cedar. “All fowl of every wing." Again, the very bad, tho Fatigeousty Sjubt, may come. Men talk of the have ev known to see a white as st any und ti ther ater fil are foul? ) th 4 the ome t to our own cass and say “If God saved us oan MY anybody.” may thoss here who never had one earnest word all the | | Company B 11. AN { of an att said to them about their souls, Conside, me us putting my band on your shoulde: and looking n your eye. God has been goo to you, You ask, “How do you that! He has been very hard on “Where did you come from?’ “Then you have a home Have you ever thanked God for your home’! Have yon childre..” “Yes.” “Have vou everthanked God for your children Who keops them safe? Wore you ever slok? “Yes “Who made you well? Have you been feed every day? Who feeds you? Put your hand on your pulse, Wha wali it throb?! Listen to the respiration of your lungs, Who helps you to breathe? Have you a Bible in the house, spreading belors you u the future life Who gave you taat Binle Oh, it has been a story of goodness and mercy all the way through You have been one of God's pet children, Who fondled vou and caressed you ani loved you! And when vou went astray and wanted to come back did Heever refuse! 1 know of a father who, after his son came buck the fourth time, said, “No: I forgave you three times, but 1 will never forgive you again’ And the son went off and died, But God takes back His children the thousandth time as cheers fully as the first. As easily as with my handkerchief I strike the dust off a boox, God will wipe out all your sins Aganin, all the dying will fiad their nwt in this goodly cedar, It is cruel to destroy a bird's nest, but death does not hesitate to destroy one There was & beautiful nest in the next street, Lovingly the parent brooded over it. There were two or three little robins in the nest The scarlet fever thrust its hands into the nest are gone, Only thos are n th know me.” “Home.” gafe who have goodly cedar. They hav > foi athers their nests 1 over them ' Oh, to have stretehed ove the brand no danger +f the ced When and ro DIACK AY them In wud, voi ba every wing If all this audience he heavenly ! they dwell While everissting angele rol Eierun re shall feast thelr aon And scenes of bi, forever § Rise in ssoceesion to (heir view o— To Carr. W HAarRDENIROOK of the Second Regiment, G.. belongs the dou empt to cond military principles. Company C to give its first annual reception ball. It came in uniform, as ordered by Captain Hardenbrook, aud, with its fair ladies, disposed itself ¢he armory hall. Suddenly, however, it was discovered that the hall was not Company C's, but Captain Har denbrook's. The Captain informed the guards that he had them to come to the ball a little, and that, as several army of ficers were expected who would object to association with privates, coula not be allowed to dance. guards protested that they had paid 2 each, and had been dance. The drum-major. and about What was 82, he asked. to discipline? They could go if they wished, but they could dance. So most of the guards took their disappointed ladies and left the hall. The real soldiers, the army officers, interviewed afterward, de clared that the insult to the guards was purely gratuitous, and that they had not thought of objecting to a participation with them in the dasoe. Captain Hardenbrook's imitation ot the cad Is so perfect as to defy de tection. Sr —— THE war scare 1s over now, but at one time the situation was exceed. Ingly grave. Some idea of this may be afforded by recalling the fact that the pressure on the eolumns of the New York Herald was so great one morning as to necessitate the leaving out of that ringing editorial begin- ning “Never print» paid advertise went,” ete. THERE 18 DO denying that it takes a heap of responsibility off a man's shoulders to take some other fellow's advice. It giveshim a handy place to put the blame i he falls, and the birds | was | be spread abroad | comfort Zion, and shall | mleom.™ only ordered | g to show ofl | | the most of you this little while, an they | The | invited to | Captain drew up like a | home | not | SABBATH SC HOOL. INTE RNATIONAL LESSON MARCH 13. FOR Lesson Text: “Promise of nn New Heart,” Kuekiel Ay 1, Be Golden Text xxxvl, 20 xxxvi Ezekiel Commentary, 25. “Then will I sprinkle clean water upon vou, and ye shall wh clean; from all your flthiness, and from ali your idols, will I cleanse you.” Bix lessons in Isaiah, four in Jeremiah and one in Ezekiel us but the merest glance at the 160 chapters of thoso three books, and yet the waching of these lessons is in perfect accord with all prophecy. The words of this verse refer primarily to the yet future cleansing of the nation of Is rael (verses 20.24: Jer, xxxiii., 7. ®, and vet INRY Apply In a sense LO ever y truss bells ver. “0. “A new heart also will | give you, and A new spirit will I put w vithin you The seat of all our diff) or "within us, there must be a change there before apything be right : wv. “And | wi in you ana cause y 3 My statut * The ARTI t wh mbe i wi ght in Christ, and in prop ' d ag God will give to lsrs every Him, and wing and He give being Can t My Bpirit withi pan soutien now to teliover {hur ! urrender to Hix will do the rest bl. HT gave ! people no way « verse 1 inj future inher nnect ther and t year t ¥ Mosts (Ze Lord shall oe shinil es Lord God, i yet { by the house of lsrasl will prepare their blessing He is about fhis is His wa While He is ever give evary good toing, He will us foul our nesd and sek Him When we are specially led therefore to pray for any thing or lor any one, we may salely oon clude that the spirit is jeading us to ask for that which He is ready to give us 35, “As the flock of Jerusalem in emn feasts, so shall the waste with Socks of men, and they shall know that Lam the Lord,” Or, according to Zech. i, £7, "My vides through prosperity shall yet and the Lord shall vet vot choose Jeru Jerusalesn shall inquired yr He Hears ray for t : 'E se reday have her sol cities be filled And Zech, ii, 4 be inhabited as towns without walis for the multitude of men and cattle there in." These days are already dawning, and ve full accomplishment must be near. Uh, believer, make full surrender to and have perfect trust in the Lord, that He may make make Himself known through you. One of the clearest evidenoss that lsrasl will soon be re stored to her own land i that the restora. tion has already begun, and even now the populaticn of Jerusalem has overflown the walls of the city, and numerous buildings are being erected on the very lines men tioned in Jor, xxi, 4 Jesus sald that “Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled” (Luke xxi, 2. When a city I» visibly being built up and about to become a railroad center, it cannot well be said to be trodden down any longer We there fore know without a doubt that the times of the Gentiles are about fulfilled, Israel's redemption is near (though the tribulation must first come), and the elect church must be well nigh compistel, let us be con sumed with seal to bring in the remaining fow and hastem the kingdom. — Lesson Helper _- Ln ————— I'nMe old Homans were level-headed and knew some things which a great many people of to-day haven't found out. Cato, the censor, sald: “Our ancestors regarded it asa grand point in husbandry not to have too much land in one farm; for they considered that more profit came from holding little and tilling it well.” You see that was In old Cato's day, as he says, “Our ancestors regarded It." ete. but ib 18 new now, Tuene are many people In the West who never tasted really good roast beef, Thousands of cooks do not know how to cook it, and thou. sands of butchers do not know how to cut it The Best Blood Remedy 18 SWIFT'S SPECIFIC, because it never fails to force out the poison; it builds up the systern with new rich blood, and it is harmless, because entirely vegetable. Mrs. E, J. Rowert, No. 11 Quincy Street, Medford, Mass., says that her mother has been cured of Scrofula by the use of four bottles of 8, 8B, 8, after having had much other treatment and being reduced to quite a low condition of | health, as it was thought she SR “ “Having suffered much from contagious Blood Poison, after using half a dozen bottles scould not live, a— of Swift's Specific I was restored to perfec le alth, and all eruptive sores disappeared J. Crosuy Byrow, 208 Third Avenue, Pittsburg, Fa.” pen, Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseay es, mailed free, SWI FT SPECIFICCOMPANY, AT “August Flower” I am ready to testify under oath that if it had not been for August Flower I should have died before this. Eight years ago I was taken ] no ont but I employed three st doctors and received They told me that I had axtTA, GA. Y ERIE IE Ne Rau 1a hat You were 4 1 tie Tate sawing your 4 ‘sod inet year, # « $6 Ny bag of Gur ¥ hn st Blar t Re-dsoened Li ovis 2s contais per bust Brand CL. OVE R SEEDS. y tnd Far ‘ rey Rnd ¢ rivk x JOHN GARDINER PA CO., Seedomen, wisd's, Pa. and suffered 2s can, Everything that I had to throw it up Flower cured me. There icine CIC We Want Name and Aidrese of Evory ASTHMATIC iP. Harold Hayes M.D, | BUF FRLO, N.Y. € qual to SLEEPER, Apple W.L.DOUGLAS 3 SHOE ....x CENTLEMEN, CUR {ED TO STAY CURED “tyr on ES TAKE NO SUBSTITUTES. W. L. DOUGLAS FINE CALF HAND. SEWED $4.00 and $5.40 SHOES for Gentlemen are very stylish and durable, Those who buy this grade get a bargain, as shoes of this quality are sold every day from $6.00 to ¥9.00, buys a pair of these shoes gets a bargalne W.L. DOUGLAS 88.50 POLICE CALF W, L. DOUGLAS $2.00 and 81.78 SHOE is made with three heavy soles, SCHOOL SHOES are worn by the boys Extension Edge 1 It gives excellent satis: everywhere, They are made strong, faction to those whe want to keep their stylish and durable. feet dry and warm. If you want te CA JUTION. walk with ease, buy this shoe. Ome W. L. DOUCLAS' NAME AND THE pair will do for a year. W. L. DOUGLAS £2.50, $2.25 and PRICE Is stamped on the bottom of each shoe. Look for it. $2.00 SHOES are excellent shoes for every day. Workingmen all wear them. ww, L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, It is a duty you owe to vourself hard times to get the most value for your money You can in your foot-wear if you purchase W. L out question, represent a greater alue for make in the world, as thousands who have worn them will testify If there is po dealer in your vicinity who keep WL DOUGLAS the £ ne ad vertiesd price. Bloes Are sot to Bi parts of Lhe oouabry, postage 4 y rr aN ORDER BY BAIL Por Usptiemen's and Bays shoes, sia size end wiih whether ( Lhd Lave, Lap Toe, Narrow Cap of Fiais Medium French Mos 0 desired ptt dnd whdta usually worn, whether Opera of Uisimmos Sea » in desired and General Merchants of good credit can secure the exclasive ageney ihe ‘W. ay 4 GLAS SHOES shere | have ne agent, and can be advertised In these free, by applying at ence, He sure to send tor Special List “0. contain ing en formation, Sent tree. WW, L, BPOLGLANS, Breckian, Mam, W. LL. DOUGLAS £3.00, 82.50 and R200 SHOEN for Ladies are made of the best Dongola. They are very stylish, durable and splendid fitting, They meet the wants of all classes. Every lady whe Mass, and vour family during these Lo! onomize h, with- other 1 % 1 Doug il the mo any 1" « i" b send dion § urualy worn, a which sists wa Ee Titiant Onto, the hands, ks PE ee) Rin " Aa pays ior Bo Lh DR. O. P. BROWN'S GREAT EXTERNAL REMEDY, HERBAL OINTMENT reaches DINE ASE through he geires arouses cironlation, heals inflamma ton, bhanlehes 6. 1% and WW cena Droggists on mail i BROWN, 4 Grand Bt, Jersny Oly, NX, J “A woman best understands Hl woman's ilie."’ This ts why thousands of women hove been benefited by M Pinkham’'s advice, and cured by her remedies alter ali other treatment had failed. This is also why Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has been more succentul in curing Female Complaints than any remedy the world has ever known. v fem of Pit Wo i oe, a) - FIAKIIAN MED C0 yx Bold everrwhers.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers