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REV. DR. TALMAQE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVIXE'3 SUN.
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "The Ifs of the Bible.'
TXXT :
' If IViOM tPiU foralv (heir rln-
and if r-of. b.ot me, I pray fhee, out of Thi
There Is la onr English language a small
conjunction which, I propose, by Uod's he!p
to haul out of Its present Insignlaoancy and
eet upon the throne where It belongs, and
that Is the conjunction "If." Though md
of only tfo letters, It Is the pivot on which
everything turns. All time and all eternity
i i3 i). mar k in our utter
ance, we U;nore It In our appreciation, ant
none of us recognize it as the most trenaen
lous word in all the vocabulary outside ol
luuan w'jr'is wnicn aescnoe aelty.
' "ay, that word we take as a tramp
aion words, now appearing here, now ap
pearing there, but having no valae of its
own. when It really has a mllilonairedom of
wor..l, and In Its train walk all planetary,
stellar, lunar, solar destinies. If the boat of
leaves made watertight, in .whioh the infant
Mus sailed the Kilo, had sunk who would
hitvn led Israel out of Egvpt? If the Bed
8ea had not parted for the escape of one
host and then come together for the sub
mergence of another, would the book of
.io-ius ever nave been written If the shin
on which Columbus saileUfor America had
gone down in an Atlantic eyalene, bow much
longer would it nave taken lor the discov
ery of tills continent?
if Grouchy bad come up with reinforce
ment in time to give the Frenoh the victory
at Waterloo, what would have been the fate
of Europe.' IftheSpaniBh Armada bail not
leen wrecked off the coast, how different
would have been many ehapters in English
history! If the battle of Hastings or the
battle of Pultowa. or the battle of Valmy, or
in uaitie oi Jiiuaurus, or tne battle ot Ar-
beta, or the battle of Chalons, each one of
which turned the world a destiny, had been
UH 'i iH.i ine oioer way i
If Shakespeare bad never been born for
the drama, or Handel had never been born
for music, or Titian had never been born for
painting, or Tnorwaldsen bad never been
born for sculpture, or Edmund Burke had
never been born for eloquence, or Socrates
naa never Deen Dora lor philosophy, or
iilackstona had never been bom for the law
or Copernicus had ntver been born for
tronomy. or Luther had never been born for
the reformation !
Oh, that conjunction "if!" How much has
dppeiidn-i on it ! The height of it, the depth
of it, the length of it. the breadth of It. the
immensity of it, the infinity of it who can
measure.' It would swamp anything but'
omnipotence. But I must confine myself to
day to the "ifs" of the Bible, and In doinso
l snnil spent oitne"ir of overpowering
earnestness, tne "ii ot incre-iuLiry, tne 'ii
of threat, the "if" of argumentation, the "if"
of eternal significance, or so many of these
"ifs" as I can compass in the time that may
ie reasouaiuv auotteti to pulpit discourse.
First, the "if" of overpowering earnest
ness. My text gives It. The Israelites nave
been worshiping an idol, notwithstan linif
all that Go I had dono for them, and now
Moses offers the most vehement prayer of all
history, and it turns upon an "if." "If
Ihou wilt forgive their sins and if not, blot
ine, I praylhee, out of Tny book." Oil
what an overwhelming "if! It was
much as to say : "If Thou wilt not pardon
meal, o not par ion me. ir rnou wilt not
r.nng tne-n to tne promised laal, let me
never see the promised land. If they must
perish, let me perish with rhera. In that
rook where Thou recorder their doom re
cord my doom. If they ore shut out of
baaven, l"t rne be shut out of heaven. If
they go down into darknes, let me go down
into darkness. What vehemence and holy
recitiossness oi praver :
Yet there are those here who, I have no
iloul't, bare, lntheir all ahsoroing dt-aire to
have others saved, risked the sume prayer.
lor ii is a risK. tou must not mage it unless
you are willing to balance your eternal s:U
vation on such an "if." Yet there have been
cases where a mother has been so aax o m
for the recovery of a wayward son that her
prayer has swung and trembled an 1 poised
on an "if" like that of the text. "If not.
blot me, I priy thee, out of thy book. Write
ms name in tne Lsmij a Hook of Life, orturn
to tlio page wtiere my name Wit written ten
or twerdy or forty or sixty years a'o, and
with the black Ink of everlasting midnight
erase my Ilrst n ime, and my last name, an i
all my name. If he is to go into shipwreck,
let me be to-sed amid thes'une breakers. It
he cannot lie a partner in my bliss.let mebea
pennerin hiswoe. lhave for many years loved
1 ue u Go 1, and it hits lia.-n rav expp-l.i-
lien to sit with Christ and all Ihe redee.-ncd
at tne banquet of the skies but I now give
up my promised place at the feast, and my
promised robe, and my promised crown, an 1
my promised tnrone unless John, unless
George, unless Henry, unless my dariingson
can share them with tne. Heaven Will be n.
heaven without him. O Gol, save my boy
or count me among tne lost :
mat Is a terrillc prayr, and yet there is a
voung man sitting in the new on the m iin
lloor, or in the lower gallerv, or in the ton
gallery, who has already crushed such
prayer from his mother's heart. He hardly
ever writes home. or. living at home, wtial
does he care how much trouble he gives ner !
Herteais arikuo more to nun than tlio r.uu
that drops fro:n the eaves on a dark night.
1 ue fact tnat sne do-s not sleep because o
watching for ills return late at night does not
cnoke his laughter or Hasten his step forwarJ.
She has tried coaxing and kindness an 1
self saiT.liee and ail theor Unary praverstha:
mothers make for their children, and all have
fade '. hue l coming toward the vivid an I
venturesome and terriile prayer of my text.
S ie is going to lift her own eternity and swt
it up-n thut one "it, ' by which she expect.'
t decide whether you will go up with her oi
B';e down with you. hfie may tie tnia mo
ment looking heavenw irlatid saying"OLor I
reclaim him bvthy grace, and then addm"
that heart-ren-lering "iT of my text "if not
blot me. I pray Thee, out of Thy book.
After three years of alienee a son wroti
Ids mother in one of the New Englan 1
whaling villages that he w.is coming home
In a certain snip. Motnerlike, she st o
watching, and the ship was in the offing, bu
a fearful storm struck it and dashed the s'lip
oa the rocks that night. Ail thai night the
mother prayed for the safety of the son. and
j.i t at dawn ttiere w.isa knock at the colt a, -door,
and the son entered, crying out
"Mother, I knewyou would pray me home!
If I would ask all those in this ossembl ig
who have been prayed home to God by pious
motners to stand up, tnere would be seor
that would stand, and if I should os!c the
to give testimony it would be the testimony
of that New England son coming ashore
from the spilt timbers of the whaling ship
'My mother prayed me home !"
Another Bible "if" is the "it" of inere.lu
lity. Satan used it when Christ's vitality
was depressed by forty days abstinence troai
food, audtbetempter pointed tosome stones,
in color and shape like loaves of breaJ, and
said. "If thou be tne Son of God, com
mand that these stones be made bread.
Tiiat was appropriate, for Satan is the father
of that "if of incredulity, l'eter used the
same "it when, standing on the wet an 1
slippery deck of a fishing smack off Lake
Galilee, he saw Christ walking on the sea as
tnough it were as solid as a pavement of
basalt from the adjoining vo'canio bills, and
Peter cried, "If It be Thou, let me come to
i nee on tne water.
What a preposterous "If!" What human
foot was ever so constructed as to walk on
water' In what part of the earth did law of
gravitation make exception to the rule thf.t a
man will sink to the elbows when be touches
the wave of river or lake an 1 will sink still
farther unless he can swim But here Peter
looks out upon the form In the shape of a
maa defying the mightiest law of the uni
verse, the law ot gravitation, and standing
erect on the top of the liquid. Yet the in
xedulous Peter cxlea out to the Lord. "Ii
it tm, Tbon." Ala, forthat incredulous "If V 1 1
i coming ns powcriuny in tne latter part I
o. mis nineteenth Christian century as it did I
In the early part of the first Christian cen- I
inougti a small conjunction, it is the big-1
gesi diock to-day In the wav of the gosoel I
chariot, "if!" "If We have theological I
ooiiiiuurii-s men spena most or tnelr time I
ad employ their learning and their genius
in the manufacturing of "ifs." With that
weaponry are nssaued the l'entateuch. and
tho miracles, nnd the divinity of Jesus Christ.
Almost everybody Is chewing on an "if."
Wnon manv a man bows tor D raver, ha outs
bis !:nee on an ''if." f lie door ttrongh wBich
people pass into infidelity and atheism and
all immoralities has two doorposts, and the
one .s made of the letter "i"' and the other
of the letter -'f."
There are only four steps between strong
faith and complete unbelief: First, surrender
tan Idea of the verbal inspiration of the
Kcriptures nn 1 ndopt the idea that they were
all generally supervised by the Lord. See
on', surrender the idea that they were all
generally supervised by the Lord and adopt
the theory that they were not all, but partly.
supervised by the Lord. Third, believe that
Ihey are the gradual evolution of the ages,
and men wrote according to the wisdom oi
) he times In which they lived. Fourth, be
(lleve that the Bible is a bad book and no'
mJv unworthy of credence, but perniciou
fcnd debasing and cruel.
. Only four steps from the stout faith in
Which the martyrs died to the blatant car
icature of Christianity as the greatest sham
id tie centuries. But the door to all that
precipitation and horror is made out of an
if. ' The mother of unrests In the minds of
Christian people and to those wh regard
taojedJ.hlogs i thew!irof Incredulity,
1379. In S -b'innd. t saw a letter which hall
been written many Years ago by Thomas
L'arly to Thomas Chalmers. Carlyle at the
ime o.' writing the letter was a young man.
The letter was not to be published until after
he death of Carlyle. His death having taken
place, the letter ought to be published.
It was a letter In which Thomas Carlyle
expresses the tortures of his own mind while
relaxing his faith in Christianity, while at
the same time expresses his admiration for
Ir. f'nalmers, and in which Carlyle wishes
that he had the same faith that the great
Sco ch minister evidently exercised. Nothing
lhat Thomas Carlyle ever wrote in "Sartor
Kesanus," or the "French Revolution," or
his "Lite of Cromwell," or his Immortal
'Essavs," had in it more wondrous power
ban that letter which bewailed, b.La own
doubts and extolled the strortir fa'th of
another.
I made an exact copy of that letter, with
ihe understanding that it should not be pub
lished until after the death of Thomas
Carlyle, but returning to my hotel in Edin
burgh I felt uneasy lest somehow that letter
hould get out of my possession and be pub
lished be'ore its time. So I took it back to
the person by whose permission I had
sopied It. All reasons tiir its privacy having
vanished, 1 w sh it might be publ-shed.
Perhaps this scrmou, finding i's way into
i Scottish home, may suggest itj printing,
for that letter shows more mightily than any-
thing lhave ever read the different bet ween
he "I know" of Paul, an 1 tne "I know of
Job, an-1 the "I know" of lliomas Chalmers,
ind the "I know" of all those who hold with
firm grip the g'jspel, on the one band, and
the unaioorin-r. be&tormini; and torturing
if of increduiii v on the other. I like the
rositive faith of Mat sailor boy that Captain
fu ikuis of the steamship S.otia flicked up iu
I hurricane. tio alott, said Captain Jud-
i-.li to trs mate, "and look out lor wreci:s.
Ue tra t no mate ha I gone far up the rat
ing's he snouted "A wreck ! A wreck !
Wnere away !" said Captain Judkins. "Oil
he port bow," was the answer. Lifeboats
were lowered, and forty men volunteered to
Dtit out across the angry sea lor the wreck.
i'ney came back with a dozen shipwrecked,
in 1 among thetn a boy of twelve years.
Who are you said Captain Judkins.
rhe aii-wer was : "I am a Scotch boy. My
atlier and mother are dead, and I am on my
w.iv to America." "What have you here?
iid Captain Judkins as be opened the boy's
acKet an t took hold oi a rope nround the
kiv's lo Iv. "It Is a rope," said the boy.
But what is that tied by this rope under
four arm' "That, sir. is my mother's
Bible. She tol l me never to lose that."
"Could you not have saved something else?"
Not and saved that. "Old you expect to
o dowu?" "Yes, sir, but I meant to take
nv mother's Bible dowu with me." "Bravo !",
laid Captain Ju lkins. "I will take caro of
you."
That boy demonstrated a certainty and a
oulldcnce that I like. Just in proportion-
s you have iew "ifs" of incredulity In your
religion will vou llnd It a comfortable re-
ig.on. II y full an 1 unquestioned faith in it
s founded on tlio fat that it sooths and sus-
lins in time of trouble. I do not believe
hat nnv man who ever lived had more b!ess-
nrs and prosperity than I have received
n Go 1 Hnl the world. But I have had
--iu i'e en ct -h to allow me opportunity for
n ; n o-i: w letuer our religion is of any
ciu i xigen -y. I have had fourteen
ie it bore-ive:uents. to say nothing oi less t
ere-ivcm ii 9, tor 1 was the younger oi a
irge family. I have had as much pcisecu
ou as com- s to most people. I have ha 1
11 Kin s : trial, except severe an-1 pr--mged
sicUn-es, and I would have leen -lead
ng ago but for the consolatory power of
cir r-'ltg.on.
Any religion will do in time of prosperity,
iu t-i i.sai will do. Confucianism will do.
'neo-ojiay w.il do. No religion at all wiil
o. liu: w;i.-a the world gets alter you and
efciT.es your best deeds, when bankruptcy
ikes the place of large dividends, when vo.l
old for the last sleep, the still hands over
he still heart of your old father, who has
een planning for your weifnre all these
years, or you close the eyes ot your mother,
wlio has livel in your life ever since before
you werj born, removing her spectacles bo-
lle she wilt have clear vision In the home
to whieh she has gone, or you give the lust
kiss to the child reclining amid the n ivn
that pile the casket and looking as natural
and lileltke as sne ever did reclining in the
radle then the only religion worth anything
the old fashion religion of the gospel of
Je-us Christ.
I would give more in such a crisis for one
of the promises expressed in half averse ol
fhe old book than for a whole library con
taining all the production of all the otltei
religions of all the ages. The otherreliglon
ire a sort of cocaine to benumb and deader
he s-ml while bereavement and misfortun
lo taeir work, but our religion is inspira
tion, illumination, imparadisation. It Is t
nix. ure of sunlight and halleluiah. Do n !
-!u.ter:ite it with one drop of the tincture o:
redulitv.
Another Bible "if is the "if of eternal
significance. Solomon gives us that "it"'
twice in one sentence when he says, "If tho-.i
tie wise, thou Shalt Im wise for thvs-lf, but if
thou scornest thou alone shalt b"ar it. '
Christ gives us that "if when he says, "If
thou hadst known in this thy day the things
which belong unto thy peace, but now they
ire hidden Irom thin i eves. Paul gives us
that "if when he savs. "If they shall enter
into my rest." All these "ifs" and a s -oro
nore that I might recall put the whole re
sponsibility of our salvation on ourselves.
Christ's willingness to pardon no "ii" fcbout
that. Mealms of glory awaiting the right
eousno "if about that.
The only "if in all the case worth a mo
ment's consideration is the "if" that attaches
itself to the question bs to whether we will
accept, whether we wiil repent, whether w-i
win believe, wnotner we will rise loreyer. is
it not time that we take our eternal futui
off that swivel? Is it not time that we ex
tirptte that "if, that miserable "if," that
hazardous 11 ' we would not nilow th
uncertain "if to stay lonj; in anything else
of importance. i,et some one sav in regar.
to a railroad bridee, "I have reasons for ask
ing If that bridge is-Mff,, and vou would not
crosa it. Let some one say, "I have reasons
to ask it that steamer la trustworthy," an
yon would not take passage on it.
Let some one suggest in regard to a prop
erty mat you are about to purchase, "i nav
reason to ask if they oan give a good title.
and you would not pay a dollar down unt
til
on had soma skillful real estate lawyer ex
amine the title. But T allowed for years of
my lifetime, and some of you have allowed
for years of your lifetime, an "il" to stand
tossing up and down questions of eternal
lestiny. Oh. decide! Perhaps your arrival
lere to.day may decide. Stranger thlncra
than that have put to flight forever the "if'
of uncertainty.
A few Sabbath nights ago in this church a
-nan passing at the foot of the pulpit said to
me, "I am a miner from England." and then
he pushed back his coat sleeve nnd said, "Do
you see mar scar on my arm I said, "Yes
yoo must have had an awful wound there
some time- He said : "les : It nearly cost
me my life. I was in a mine in England 03
feet underground and three miles from th
sliart of the mine, and a rock fell on me. nn
my fellow laborer pried off the rock, and I
was inkling to aeain, and ne took n news
paper from around his luncheon and bound
it around my wound and then helped me over
iieioree miles underground to the shaft.
w.nere i was lilted to the top, and when the
wspaper was taken off my wound I rend
on it something that saved my soul, and it
was one or your sermons. Good night," he
said as he passed on, leaving me trunsflxed
wun graayui emotion.
ua wuojuiawa but thawordalnosaoeal'
oiessed or God, may reflch some wounded
toul deep down in the black mine of sin, and
:nut these words may be blessed to the stanch
ng of the wound and the eternal life of the
Kul? Settle this matter instantly, positively
ina lorever. May tne last "if." Bury deen
ne last -ir. now to do It Fling body.
nind and soul in a prayer as earnest as that
ji -noses in the text. Can you doubt th
earnestness of this prayer of the text ? It is
lo heavy with emotion that It breaks down
In the middle. It was so earnest that the
ranslators in the modern copies of the Bible
were oougea to put a mart, a straight lino,
dash, for an omission that will never be
""ed up. 8uoh an abrupt pause, such a sud-
I len snapping off or the sentence !
cannot parse my text. It is an of-
wnse of grammatical construction. But
lhat dash put in by the typesetters Is mightily
puggestive. -mi inou wilt lorgtve tneir sin
(then come the dash) "and if not, blot
tne. I pray Thee, out of Tbv book. ' Soma
f the most earnest prayers ever uttered
tould not be parsed anil were poor speci
mens of language. They halted, they broke
(own, they passed into sobs or groans or
Hence. God eares nothing for the syntax
tf prayers, nothing for the rhetorio of
prayers. Oh. the worldless prayers ! If thev
were plied up, they would reach to the ralu-
ow that arches the throne of God. A deen
igh may mean moivthnn a whole liturgy.
ut of the 116.000 words of the Enrliiih
anguage there may not be a word enough
xpressive tor tne soul
T he most efTecHvn nrftver T tiava . - T
Jiave been prayers that broke down with
motion the young man for the first time
rising in a prayer meeting and saying, "Oh,
Lord Jesus I" and then sitting down, bury
ing his face in the handkerchief, the peni
tent in the inquiry room kneeling and say.
ing, "God help me," and getting no farther ;
;he broken prayer that started a great re
rival in my church in Philadelphia. A
prayer may have in style the gracefulness of
in Addison, and the sublimity of a Milton
in d the epigrammatia force of an Emerson,
nd yet be a failure, having a horizontal
power but no perpendlculm power, horl
tontal power reaohing the er of man, but
so perpendicular power reaching the ear of
Bod.
Bet weep the first and the last sentences of
nfiett tfiWS W.13 puwyi"ff OI MlUMtnesa
loo mighty for word. It will take half of an
tt amity to tell of all the answers ot earnest
ind faithful prayer. In his last Journal
David Livingstone, in Africa, records the
jrayer so soon to be answered : "19 March
ny birthday. My Jesus, my God, my life,
ny all, I again dedicate ray whole self to
Thee Accept me, and grant. O gracious
"ather, that ere this year is gone I may finish
avtosk. In Jesus' name I ask it. Amen."
When the dusky servant looked Into Liv
ingstone's tent and found him dead on his
ineee, he saw that the prayer had been an
iwered. But notwithstanding the earnest
less ot the prayer of Hoses in the text, it
was a defeated prayer and was not an
iwered. I think the two "Ifs" in the prayer
iefeated it, and one "ir' is enough to defeat
ny prayer, whatever other good character
'aties it may have. "If Thou wilt forgive
their sins and if not, blot me, I pray Tiiee,
tint of Thy book." God did neither. As the
following verses show, He paniahed their
lins, but I am sure did not blot out one let
;er of the name of Moses from the Book of
Life.
There Is only one kind of prayer in which
you need to put the "if," and that is the
prnyar for temporal blessings. Pray for
riches, and they may engulf us ; or for fame.
jna it mny newitcn us ; or lor worldly suc
:ess. and it mav destroy us. Better sav. "If
it be best," "If I can make proper use of It,"
11 xnou seest 1 need it. A wife praying for
Ihe recovery of her husband from Illness
namped her foot and said with frightful
smphasis: "I will not have him die. God
ball not take him." Her prayer was an
iwered. but in a few rears after t h ;q- -oity
was stmeked By I Bo fact' that he had
moment of anger slain ber.
A mother, praying for a son s recover from
Illness, told the Lord be bad no right to take
him. and the boy recovered but plunged in
to all abominations and died a renegade.
Better in all such prayers and all prayers
pertaining to our temporal welfare to put an
"if," saying, "If it be Tby will." But in pray
ing for spiritual good and the salvation of
our soul we need never Insert an "If." Our
spiritual welfare Is sure to be for the best,
and away with the "ifs."
Abraham's prayer for the rescue of Sodom
was a grand prnyer in some respects, but
there were six "ifs" in It, or "perauven
tures," which mean the same thing. "Per
adventure there may be fifty righteous in the
city, peradventure forty-five, peradveuture
forty, peradventure thirty, peradventure
twenty, peradventure ten." Those six per
adventures, those six "ifs" killed the prayer,
and Sodom went down and went under.
Nearly ail the prayers that were answered
had no "ifs" lu them the prayer of Elijah
that changed dry weather to wet weather,
the prayer that changed Hezekiah from a
sick man to a well man, the prayer that
halted sun and moon without shaking the
universe to pieces.
Oh, rally your bouI for a prayer with no
"Ifs" in it I Say in substance: "Lord, Thou
hast promised pardon, an 1 I take it. Hero
are my wounds; heal them. Here is my
blindness ; irradiute it. Here are my chains
of bondage; by the gospel hammer strike
thorn off. I am fleeing tothe Cityof Refuge,
nnd I am sure this Is the rigid way. Thanks
be to God, lam free '."
Once, by th law. my ho;e were plain.
Hat now. In Chrint, 1 live again.
With the Mosaic earnestness of my text
and without its Mosaic "it's," let us cry out
for Go.L Aye, if words fail us, let us take
the huggestion of that printer's dash of the
text, and with a wordless silence implore
pardon and oomfort nnd II, e and heuveu.
l'or this assemblage, all of whom I shall
meet in the last judgment, I dare not olTer
the prayer of my text, and so I change it and
say, "Lord God, forgive our sins and wr.te
our nams in the book of Thy loving remem
brance, from which they shall never be blot
ted out."
Most Peraicions of Winds.
The most pernicious winds nre tho
snuiiels or hot winds of Egypt. They
come from the deserts to the south
west, and bring with them in!ia:tn
quantities of line dust, which pene
trates even the minutest crevice. The
thermometer often rises to 125 during
their continuance, and thousands of
hmnan beings have been known to
pcriBh from suUbcation iu the fiery
blast. It wns one of those samielsthat
destroyed the army of Sennacherib.
Alexander the (Jreat nearly lo6t his
whole force in another, and tho army
of Catnbvses was utterly annihilated.
Chicago Herald.
"vn nncisu punsis are rj-eTtiotnrrrnj
gorcrnment aid In stamping out tho
tociul evil In India. It would be
much more to the point If these re
formers vrr.ud get to work right at
h inio iu LondoD, and still more bo If
they'd lesin by reforming the Prlnco
of Wales and a few members of the
peerage. Worse evils exist In Bcl
(,'ravla than .-.re dreamt of In Bombay.
Spanish blood Is up over thellcavy
lossca In Morocco, and we shall sec
hor landing an army of sixty or seven
ty thousand men In Africa ere long.
I eriiaps tho Spaniards, once well
lodged In Morocco, will decline to
come out again, unless something
handsomo is offered them. The ces
sion of Clbraltar, for instance, nrght
teuipt them to yield the gro jnd won )
in .Morocco to ttie LnRllsh a trans
action which would greatly annoy
France. It might be difficult to carry
out while a French and Russian tee
Is f ruisicg near by.
Tub Methods of some Jsew York
bankers could not have been better
illustrated tlicm by ore incident at
tending the slo of P he securities of
the defunct Jladlson Square bank.
A block of ' securities, face value
J423.000, on which the bank's de
positors' good money had been loaned,
nrougnu under tno naramcr tho mu
nificent sum o $425! Such revela
tions as these make even the most
tender-hearted man agree with tho
wisdom of tire laws in China, where,
when a bank fails, the beads of all
Us Officers are at once chopped off.
woes man l'.jou persons were
silled upon surfaf railroads of all
kinds in the Urced Etates during the
past t.vflri months. Add to this
ghastly m'.id the two thousand
crippled tnd maimed victims, and the
total Is appalling. Of courso, the
overwhelming majority of the acci
dents wepp ou through railroad routes.
Ihey seem to roint directly to the
imminent need for tho adoption of
some new system ot . signaling.
V hat the public requires Is a sjstem
which shall render collisions and tel
cscorngs practically Impossible. It
is thought that the electric train
signal may bo the solution of the
problem.
',
After crosses nnd losses
men grow
hnmbVr nnd wiser.
Work helps ns to bear onr sorrnwo
ana glorines our joys.
I hev are hannv n-hnsA naf lima anrr
with their vocations.
If you haven't cot much, be th nnlcful
and you will double it .
We ought not to judire of men as of
a picture or a statue, nt the iirst sightt
Every thought which genins and pie
ty throw into the world nil era tho
world.
The highest reach of hn mntl Eninnno
is the scientific recognition of human
ignorance.
The soul withont i nVlm'linlinn ij
what an observatory would be withont
iciescope.
Life is short. Th ft HTMITIOP flint a
man begins to t-rjiov his wen lth th let
ter. ' ' '
A woman may be no more vain than
man is, but she will (in moro for
Tanity's sake than a man will.
Good temper, like s.
sheds brightness over everything; it i's
th e sweetener of toil
disquietude.
The worst Dnem i
better than he
best criticism of it.
AN ODD MEMORIAL.
U. U. Woourldge Put Cp Stones for Him
self and Doc.
Among the many odd ways In which
persons have marked their last Mat
ing place, the oddest of odd Is found
Jti tne little "city of the dead" at
MayUeld, Ky. One H. H. Woolrldge,
born in Tennessee In 1322, as says bis
memorial stone, having grown near
to mat point where we are wont "to
6iiun.e off this mortal coll," has con
ceived the idea of perpetuating hie
name by a set of monuments that
will at least mark him as an eccen
tric. A few years since he bqught
his lot, 18x38 feet, and Inclosed It
with a neat Iron fence. Soon there
after he bad erected a marble shaft
about seven-teen feet high, bearing
his uanie and date of birth only,
boon afterward he had another
erected by the shaft's side, with a
life-size statue of himself in marble
resting on a pedestal, which statue is
a most excellent likeness. Then fol
lowed, in succession, In stone, the
statue of his bound Tow-path In pur
suit or a deer; bis pointer Bob point
ing a fox; then cume the life sized
horse and rider, cut from sandstone
in one piece, a most excellent piece
of work, the rider representing Mr.
Woolridgo, the statue with rider be
ing about fourteen feet high. Then
followed the vault, which is built of
stone, covered by a slab of pure white
marble, upon which he cut the figure
of a gun. Then comes a pretty stat ue
of a peasant girl holding a skull upon
wnicn is nis name.
Woolrldge Is still alive, and. be
ing possessed of ample means and
alone in the world a bachelor there
Is no telling what may come . next to
assist in perpetuating his memory.-'
L,ouisvuie Courier-Journal.
Do Learn to Carve.
There is one accomplishment that
X would advise all young men and all
young women to acquire, although 1
believe It has been considered ud to
the present time one of the manly
arts. It Is the art of carving. I pre
sume that the athletic girl thinks she
can carve a fowl, but 1 have never
yes seen one of her sort who knew
which end of the fowl to tackle first.
and as to daint ily disjointing a bird.
sne had not the remotest idea as to
where in the fowls anatomy the
joints were located. Vuung men are
not much wiser unless they happen
to be heaas of families and have
dearly bought their experience.
I was at a dinner a few d;iys since,
and it was on tiiat occasion that 1 re
ceived my impulse for this little
homily.
There was a young man present
who was invited lo carve au ordinary
haked fowl. His face flushed as stion
as he took the carver's position, and
beads of perspiration broke out on his
forehead: Then be flourished the
carving-knife as if it had been a
broaJ-sword and made a lunge at the
fowL The knife's edge turned on
the chicken's breast bone and tha
bird careened Into his neighbor's lap.
This he took as a Joke, and col led
chicky! chicky:" with pallid lips,
while he was restoring it to its plate.
Another lunge, and his collar button
flew off and the released collar stood
up and encircled bis head like an ox
bow, lie continued to wrestle wit'i
that chicken until one cuff fell Int (
the gravy-dish, when a guest stepped
to the rescue of the chicken, an j
with a few deft strokes tli; re m be re j
it in a scientific manner, while ever,'
one at the table breathed a devoul
thanksgiving.
Lessons in carving should form
part of our curriculum of home traio-'
ing. Free Tress.
Concerning Hrooms.
In spite of the proverb to the con
trary, the modern new broom doe
not always sweep clean. Quite likelyi
it is a brittle affair, which breaks oil!
and leaves many splinters behind It.
There has been so much chemical
treatment of brooms In recent years
to make them look like green broom
corn, and to make them appear every
thing which they are not, it is not
strange that the new broom has suf
fered. It is a Rreat pity that
the ordiuary broom-corn btoom
is the general standby In most house-
hu'ds for sweeping.
It is no' to be
compared in sweeping carpe i th a
good carpet sweeper, which . i out.
last a couple of dozen brooms, and
will not cost half as much.
The common practice of coloring
cheap broom corn with a green color
ing matter, which Iooks suspiciously
like arsenical dye, should be discour
aged by all good housekeepers- The
green coloring matter can be easily
recognized, because it is unevenly dis
triouted. It is doubtful whether
this green solution In which such
brooms are dipped is not the cause of
I heir being so extremely brittle. Cer
tain it is that the excellent broom
which was sold in the stores a genera
tion ago is hardly to be found in the
khops to-day. It has been driven out
If the shops by the competition of
(heap manufacture, and for this the
public Is as much at fault as the
manufacturer. New York Tribune.
Heating by Electricity.
In some hotels In the 'West a sys
tem of heat regulation which is cer
tainly novel is carried out. For in
stance, a guest occupying room 156
usks for beat. The order is trans
mitted to a particular person, the
'typewriter ot the hotel generally.
She cocs to a switchboard and con
nection Is given electrical. y with that
room, allowing heat to pass into it.
The occupant of the room i, per
haps, particular. A hot-blooded per
son wishes merely to keep from freez
ing; another wants a high tempera
ture. Each can have his wish, for a
thermostat with a pointer is on the
wall, and the room will keep itself
automatically as desired. The regu
lation is 70 degrees, but it can be de
parted from as stated.
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"German
99
yrup
Judge J. B. Hiix, of the Superioi
Court, Walker county, Georgia,
thinks enough of German Syrup tc
end us voluntarily a slrong lettei
endorsing it. When men of rank
ind education thus use and recom
mend an article, wliat they say h
vorth the attention of the public.
It is above suspicion. " I have used
your German Syrup," lie says, "foi
my Coughs and Coldson the Throat
ind Lungs. I can recommend it foi
ilicra as a first-class medicine."
Take no substitute. 9
Best Coueh byrup. Tu Good. Vee I
I In tinin K-lri hv rtmcutfltd. I
I.IIHr S WHtKt- AIL tl?it fA I
The Testimonials
Published by the proprietors of Hood's
Sarsaparilla are not purchased, nor
are they written up in our office, nor
are they from our employes. They
are facts, proving that
Hood'sCures
I Was Given Up
To die, bavin? malarial fever so badly there
f-eroed to be no cure. I came east and began to
Juke Hood's SaraapsrlHa. I at once bean to get
better. At that time I liud no appetite snd fe-J-ere
headaches. Hood' Srmi,nrllla has com
pletely cured me of malaria and headaches. It
I aln a great help to niv stomach, a general
plood puritlerand an excellent nvrinij medicine."
OLlvra LiLo.HK, Olen Falls, X. Y.
Hood's Pills Cure Sick Headache. 2..
A Don; Hoarding Officer.
At Fouthampton there Is a well
bred Manchester terrier, whose pet
hobby is to meet and see off the Isle
of Wiubt and r-outhaniptou boats
from the landing-stage at the pier
head. As the time for arrival or de
parture draws near, he trots ud the
pier In a thoroughly business-like
manner, tlking notice of other dogs
or strangers.
' As soon as a boat Is at the stage
he is all activity, pops across the
gangway on to tho boat, and bustles
about everywhere, evidently consid
ering himself an important otlicial.
Just before the boat starts he leaps
upon the landing-stage again, and
stands in position close to one of the
posts upon which the hawser Is
looped.
Again at the last moment, when
the hawser is cast adrifu, he seizes
the end of the twenty yards or so ol
light casting-line attached to the
loop, and holds on like grim death,
refusing to give way until dragged to
the very end of the stage. Then he
quietly relinquishes his hold, placidly
watches the quickly receding boat,
and trots back to the town with a
seit satisuci air.
, 1 nave not been able to Cnd out
further particulars about the dog yet,
Din ne appears to no well known to
all the employes of the pier, and Is
evidently a general favorite. I am
told that ho hardly ever misses a
boat. I have seen him perform as
described on several occasions.
Wan One of the Family.
It would have done the heart of
the late Henry liergh good if he had
witnesed a scene at Thirty-fourth
street and Third avenue the other
day.
Lying in the dirty black mud in
the middle of the street was a digni
fied dog of the "ewfoL'nd!and species.
Standing over him in sorrow was an
elegantly dressed young man.
Come on, ol I man, pet up. Get
up, that's a good fellow," pleaded the
young man while the dog feebly
moved his tail and rolled his eye
toward his mater, but did not move.
Tnen the youth arted.
Dropping a book which he carried
into the mud lie stopped and lifted
the mud-covered dog in his arms and
carried it to tlio sidewalk, deposit
ing it by the side of a building.
His clothes were besmirched, the
bosom of liis shirt an I his cuffs
-oiled, but he paid no attention to
his appearance. He thanked an ur
chin who handed him the soiled
book and then hailed a cab.
"Vou see, he's an old dog," he said
to me apo'ogetically, noting my In
lerest in the episode.
He's one of the family, yon know.
I just brought him ia from the coun
try, and the rattling and jolting of
the cars must have acted unfavor
ably upon his heart, because he gave
out and fell right whe e vau saw
him. l'oor old fellow!"
"Well, good day, sir," and he again
raised the animal carefully, and de
posited it in the cab whieh drew up.
"Say, some of dein dudes would've
ifiven de dog de cold shake," com
mented a gamin as the cab rolled oil."
New York Herald.
Too Keep the Hands Soft,
A little ammonia or borax in tho
water, just lukewarm, will keep the
skin clean and soft. A little oat
meal mixed with the water will
whiten the hands.
Many people u-e glycerine on their
hands when they go to bed, wearing
gloves to keep Vie beading lrotu be
ing soiled; but glycei ine makes some
skins harsh and red. Such people
should rub their hands with dry oat
meal, and wear gloves in bed.
The best preparation for the hands
at night is white of ecg, with a grain
of alum dissolved in ic
"Roman paste" is merely white of
egg, barley, Hour, and honey.
They say it was used by the Ro
mans in olden times. Anyway, it is
a first-rate thing; but it is mean,
stick stull to use and does not do the
work any better than oat meal, The
roughest aDd hardest hands can be
made soft and white in a month's
time by doctoring them a little at
bedtime.
Lemon will remove sta!n9from the
hands. Manicures use acids In the
Shop, but the lemon is quite as good
jind isn't poisonous, while the acids
lire. You should have a nail brush
it course. Farm and Field.
Beautiful Tilings for Invalids.
One must be an invalid or a con
valescent to appreciate the vaiue of
I'.aving beautiful things in a sick
oom. The delicate stomach requires
Jelicate morsels of food temptingly
?3rved, and the sense of sight is de
limited by the US2 of pretty pieces of
ihina, glittering glass and silver and
r.nowy lin;n. 'Ihe eye longs for
beauty. A rose, an illustrated book,
ii bit of familiar scenery, a piece of
color in stuST or paint, any graceful
form or artistic object may be more
helpful tothe restless and helpless
patient than medicine or friends.
Flowers are always soothing. Strong
odors, such as tube roses and lilies
breathe forth, may cot be agreeab'.e
to nil persons, but there a e beauty
and rest for the eyes In a pot of krr..w-
ing ferns, a bunco of rose geranium
or a cluster of white and purple asters.
The prejudice ajalnst cut flowers in
a sic'K room Is unfounded. The
poisonous gas supposed to be iri v. n
n ' iiv a bouquet of flowers in three
I :vj, or as long as the blossom? live,
ili not equal the carbonic acid g;is
that escapes from a pbou of mineral
witer. Jiew York Advertiser.
THOSE GRAVES OF HUNS.
Farther Interesting Facta
About ae Si-
eovery.
Further Investigation has shown
that the 500 Huns' graves tliscovered
by the dean and parish priest of Apar,
near Czlko. In the county uf Tolna,
were evidently not those of men who
bad fallen on the battle Held, as was
at first believed. They formed the
regular burying ground of a colony of
Huns, as the skeletons of women anu
children outnumber those or men,
says a Vienna dispatch to the London
Standard.
In many cases the remains of man
and wife are found in the same crave,
side ly side, but where children are
burled with the mother they are
placed across her breast. The graves
are very narrow and are seven br ten
feet aeerj. They are arranged iu
regular rows, and the remains, which
are without co.llns, lie on the back,
the feet being turned toward the Fast
and the heads toward the Wesu
In seven graves, probably those of
warrior chiefs, the remains of horses
have been found buried witn tneir
owners, with their harness complete
and adorned with silver or bronze
work. On the skeletons of these
chiefs a number ot very skillfuly
made ornaments have been discov
ered, including, for instance, belt of
silver and bronze. The weapons are
knives, arrow-heads three-edged
javelins, spear points and axes. Sev
eral of theso chiefs held In their left
bands Roman coins belonging to the
end of the fourth century.
Among the food found in the graves
there were a numter of eggs with the
shells still nnbroken. Equally in
teresting is tho fact that in several
graves a limuan stilus was found,
showing that the Huns of that period
were more cultured than had hitherto
been believed. One of these stlli was
artistically made Cf silver and orna
mented. It was found In tho hand
of a woman, with a wax tablet close
by, ready to bo written on. Nearly
all the women have massive golden
earrings, iibuheand armbands, besides
knives, hand glasses, and various or-
nament.4 i.f c leer flmtur brnnje and
glas. The objects discovered at I
ziko promise t j be or tne
archa-ological interest.
greatest
Plenty of Chinamen to Kill.
The disregard of the Chinaman foi
death Is his most remarkable charac
teristic, unless It be the small provo
cation for which h will take the life
of ono of his fellow-countrymen,"
said Congressman Lowen of Califor
nia, In discussing the race. More
than once I have secreted one of
them in my bouse to keep him from
the highbinders. I was talking with
my Chinese cook about their troubles
with France, which was then In pro:
Kress. 'France no hurt us,' he said.
'Jend ships to tight us. Kill in, out)
Chinaman, i.0,0j0 Chinaman. That
no matter. Plenty more Chinaman,
hurt China. Washington Post
A Dubious Compliment.
I ued to think you were not a
man of your word, Jones, but I've
changed my mind."
"Ah, You understand me now,
friend 'mith. Lut what Jed you to
change your mind?"
'You remember that $10 you bor
rowed from me?"
Yes."
"You said if I lent it to you vou
would be indebted to me forever '
"Yes."
"Well, you are keeping your word
like a man." New York I'resc
IX Ol.llKV TIMES.
Teople overlooked the importance of
permanently lien. t'u ial effects and were
satisfied with transient action, but now
that it is generally known that Syrup
of Figs will perniiincntlv cure habitual
constipation, well informed people will
not buy other laxatives, which act for
a time, but finally in hire the m-stcm
t-. . .
mucins are eniHK-il to use tne prefix
sir to their names while their wives are
addressed as Your hadvship or My La
dv. DfwrvlDg ( oiiAilrnrt There Is no urtii le
wlitcli so richly dwerves the entire coatiaem-e
of the community a Hkown'k IIhonchiaL
Troches. Those sufferinK from Asthmatic ami
lironehiHl I)iease. fonijhs, ami Old, shoulj
try tin-in. I'riee 'J-'i rent.
Cloaca Maxima,
Home; still in use.
or big drain, of
is a pretty jrood
piece of engineering, even by
modern
standards.
Pjiotuhilix as a slang name for mon
ey had its origin in the tireek word
sjiondulos, a shell, shells, of that sjie
cii s U in once used as money both in
Greece and Egypt.
The savin in elotl-inir where Dobbins' Kleo-
irii- r-o:ii is ii,, i iimitt) t,m t the soap bill.
It i -io new experiment, but lina Wen Bold fur
To-day in.-! as i-ure a in 1SK.V
Try it.
V...
roeer has it or will order it.
Among the South Sea Islanders, for
a long time after their acquaintance
wiili Europeans began, all the values
were expressed in axes.
State or Onto, Citt of Toledo- I
Lrcig County. )
Frask J. C h e.net makes oath that be is the
enior ptirtner of the tlrmoC F. J. Chf.net A
Co., doiinr husine In the City of Toledo.
Countyand State aforesaid, and that said Arm
will pay the aura of ONE HUN'niti-;i DOL
LARS for each and every case of Cuar;!i that
c innot be cured by thj use of H am.'hCatahkh
It' HE. FlIAMC J. CHKNET.
i- worn to 1 efore me and nubacrlbed in my
preienee, I hia lit h dar of December, A. D. lssi
I ' A. W. Ulkasos'
sr.Ai.f
ii"T?r7. . - . . , A""Mr Puh ie.
Hall si at arm Cure is taken internally and acta
directly on tils blood and mncoim surfaces of
ttie system. Send for testimonial, free.
. . J- c hbnet & CO., Toledo. O.
rlrsold by Draughts, 75c
The highest over How dam in (heworld
is said to Ik Ijt Grange, built in Cali
fornia for irrigation. It is 127 feet
nine inches high.
Tlie tortures of dyspepsia, the lUfTerings of
scrofula, the agonizin? Itch and pain of salt
rheum, the dlsairreeable symptoms of catarrh
are removed by Hood's Sarsaparilla. '
Hood's Pills arc the best after-dinner pills,
assist digestion, prevent constipation.
It ia a custom in the Russian royal
family to apprentice every prince to
some trade.
BeechanVs Pills are tetter than mineral wa
ters. Hcecbam's no otlu-is. 2j cents a box.
The children of dissenters were first
admitted to English parish schools in
1803.
If afflicted with soreeyes use Dr. Isaac Thomn.
son s fcye-water.lirugi-tstssell AtStSSetS.
A number of Colorado gold mines
have changed hands and will be worked
rapidly.
l-USTALGtlDK HjK 1S93
rhniil.V,"!!"r ?"i"e P"" "me rraneed al
Ph.ihetlci.lly.ii, States and Counties, with all
i.th.T iiiuiters re Ut.ng to post office affair can
w K"VT'J ,,n,m U- "noTr, 1". O. Ho lis"
-i. h'W'L- l Nl'iue uian should t5
? ?, , 1 . h rlce paiM!r cover - 'uontuiy .
t- cocloth cover with inonthlr. uiuiy.
The title bailiff was formerly very
honorable, and the otlicial was vested
with many important powexs.
the lacihe coast
Chinese contractors.
an now show
ST. JACOBS OIL
Lameness,
Back-ache, Soreness.
SOOTHES, SUBDUES, CURES.
MATRIMONY.
Borne itfuuu Why Tankee Women flaw
Loaf Outnumbered the Men.
The excess of women over mn
nas long been a feature of the popu
lation statistics of Massachusetts,
and since Mormonism Is not permit'
ted to flourish in that progressiva
State the natural effect of this fem
inine surplus has been an unusual
number of old maids. The cause,
says the 'ew York Tress, is probably
Horace Greeley's advice to younw
men ou the subject of going West.
The Massachusetts young man has
been going West ever since, but we
decline to believe that it is his fault
that the Massachusetts young woman
has not gone West with him. She
stayed behind, not that she loved the
m :i.::. i-hiKPtt-i vounir man ie?s, but
that she loved Massachusetts more,
especially Boston. Hut as the Massa
chusetts young woman who did not
go West with the young man of Hor
ace Greeley's day became an old maid
she missed the young man. She was
left to lavish the wealth of affection
upon cats, birds and other pets. And
t . us it happened that a Massachu
setts old maid, having nobody else to
leave her fortune to, recently left It
to her j.et cat.
There are those who tninK me
tendency of our time is toward a re
duction in the ratio of marriages to
the population of the marriageable.
In one sense thi-s is a result of the
continual improvement in the inde
pendence and general social condition
of women. Not only are they no
longer the slaves of meu, but they
are not obliged to tie themselves to
men in order to get a living. As
civilization Increases the number of
occupations in which skill and tact
and passive endurance make success,
women, being often superior in these
I respects, take possession or a greater
number or places ana crowu men ouu
The tables seem to be turned against
the Inquiry of Miss Mona Caird, "Is
Marriage a Failure?" This question
caused a irreat deal of discussion in
print a few years ago. If It is to be
answered in the affirmative which
heaven forfend then it must also be
declared, on the strength of the lat
est returns from Massachusetts, that
singleness is a failure too. Thlsleaves
the relative merits of marriage and
of singleness JuFt where they were be
fore Miss Mona Caird dared to prick
the alleged bubble of matrimony with
her pen. If an old maid who died
rich was, nevertheless, so circum
scribed in the wealth of at'ectionaud
h'.mc life as to I e obliged to endow a
cat, what can be said of the success
of old maids who never get rich, even
In money?
I'nxlish Superstitions.
Superstition is by no means a de
funct anomaly in the customs and
characteristics of some of our smaller
towns or villages, says the Manches
ter (England) Mercury. First and
loremost of West countrysupersti
tions comes an entire and thorough
belief in witchcraft. Every west
country village has an old woman
who is a good deal mire feared than
the village policeman. Xo one dares
to contradict her will in anything.
If she takes a fancy to tho finest
cabbage in a man's garden, she may
cut It as if it grew in her own.
Though it should t e trie very pride of
his heart he must not try to stop her
proceedings; if he does a far worse
thing is sure to ! clali him. His pig
will be seized with sud len and deadly
sickness, or his daughter's hair will
fall oil. or a shower of rain will spoil
his hay just when it is about to be
carried.
The West country term for a
witch's pciwer is ' overlooking." If a
witch has evil feelings toward you
she is said "to overlook you." One
indubitable sign by which you may
know a witch is to bring her Into the
church and try to make her stand
with her face toward the east iN'o
real witch can do it for a moment;
however much she may strive, she
will stand at firmly fixed as a frozen
weathercock. o West country
farmers living near a witch will
doubt the cause when his horses or
cattle fall ill.
Sen to their belief in witches is
their faith in the power of a seventh
son or seventh daughter to cure dis
eases. It is in vain that tho clergy
man preaches, that the schoolmaster
teaches, that the parish doctor
remonstrates, the West country ma
tron bears off her sickly baby in
triumph tothe marvjor woman in the
neighboring village who happens to
have been born a seventh son or
seventh daughter. These privileged
individuals have but to touch the dis
eased part and the cure is certain and
immediate. There are also some
wise women who can cure various
complaints with a cnarra, which they
speak over the patient lotheneigh
borhood of Exmoor these things are
far more trusted In than all the med
ical faculty put together.
Kindergartens were devised by
l-roebei and practically carried out bv
Mr and Mrs. Rouge in Gcrmanv, in
hA"-" FOIt TUeSi Md
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rooi s naste is Nae
the Work Unless You Use
SAP
CURES PROMPTLY
Swellin
A UNIQUE INDUSTRY.
Balt-DlgKera Who Sell Worm to rut,,,
men.
What are you digging for her
anyhow?" was asked of as ruite.
lancous a gathering of nondescript.!
as was ever 6een, which was busii.
o vcupled turning up the black rich
earth In the western suburbs and Du,
linj IU1I1K mm vaua. --liait,
was
tho curt reply as tnej man
digging.
went ou
"Bait for waat?"
Why, Ash. Didn't you ever see
fishin' worm in your life before? Y0u
ain't got more sense than 'etu."
This mild rebuff led the investlKa
tor further afield to places where cH
sages of 60 were contending with
bovs of 10 or 12 for the choicer pir.if
of worms and worm territory. One
old reilow wno seeraea more tame and
docile than the rest was timidly aiJ.
proached and asked:
"Do you use up all those worm
yourself?" No; don't use any of 'eiu."
"What do you do with them?-'
reddle on the levee in the morn
ing "
"Say, ain't you onto this business?''
asked a sharp Infant alongside.
"Why, dis Is a dead easy ting; wc
digs de worms an' S4lls 'em to de
fishermen a' Sunday mornin' for a'
nickel a dozen."
From further investiuation it de
veloped that the "flshintf worm" in
dustry had become quite considerable
in St. Louis of late and that many
persons made an extra half dollar or
dollar selling worms Sunday morning
to the would-be Waltons about ths
depots and tho levees. St LouU
I'ost-Dls patch.
In the Cascade mountains is the
Great Sunken lake, the most deet.'v
sunken lake in the world. It is fifteen
miles long and four and a half wide.
It is 2,0(MJ feet down to the surface of
the water, but the depth of the wnt--.-is
unknown.
Earl and baron were titles created
William I. instead of the old Saxon ti
tles Alderman or Earl and Thane.
About one-third of the hot.s-s in
this country are lighted by gas.
Do Not Be Deceived
with fat.-. Emnrii and Paint whieh tln the
nan I. Injure Hie Iron and hurn red
The Rlsln Sun Srove e..lii, Brilliant, Od.,r.
less. Dural.le, and the ennturner I.a fur no t,
or vlass package wim every purchase
"fl OTHER'S
FRIEND" .
is a scientifically prepared Liniment
and harmless; every ingredient is of
recognized valu9 erj-1 in consuli.t usa
ly tho medical profession. It bhort-
ns Labor, Lessens Taia, Diminishes
ltenger to life of Mother and Child.
Hook 4 To Mothen," msdled free, con
taining valuable information and
voluntary testimonials.
Pent by express, charges prepaid, on receipt
of price, $1.00 per bottie.
B3ADFIELD REGULATOR CO., Atlanta, Ga.
Sold by aU drunisis.
T?11T tSfni"fV fsr.rtnen?edBjn
tnC VYUnOI MECHANICAL
RUPTURE
TREATMENT
f8acr3ful in KMI.IHW
...u , ... . k
1 B hiitLtV k CO.. 25S. lllilJM.. l'hllud..
FOR FIFTY YEARS 1
MRS. WINSLOWS
SOOTHING SYRUP i
faas iwn uM hj Million of Mothers ;
ji-r nn-ir rmnin-n w i.i.t? ie-;Uinfr r-r over
Kifry YfttM. It soothes theciiiM. soften th 2
gum, allays all pain, cures wlud ouilc, and
is ttie reuuHly for dlarr'va.
Twenty-five Cents a Botx;r. J
lw "u'ccfi ion. jiiiia0(-,
llrarfarlie, t uat EpitfJoH, liud
Completion, OfrtnMvr ttrfittb,
! and alt Uiurl("ra uf the btoiit-lil
I Liter -nrl R.
. RIPANS TABULEft
aT (rentiy y.-t proimmy. Perfect 1
Ik9 " fo"ow their uw. 8'd J
r f rials. . V, Vnrkata- i Iwirs), ft.
I Forfr-e Mmplee-a.MrvcM
l K 1 J! 1 1 1 r M i r A T. CO. , New TorV.
If any one doubt ttiat
w mh curr the tu tib
tlinate comi in t J to
BLOOD P3!S0H I
tiara, let htm wi te for
A SPECIALTY.
! p.ir tirulars anl tnve-tl-
uurrelian ilty. uur
fri'tii-hil t arktng t
I I OO.iHrO. When miroirr,
o 14 potaaaiom, earsapirilla or Hot Spring fail, we
m i ran tee a cure and our Ua-ic L yphilen?) i the oa'j
hinir that wUl cure permanently. 1' sitiTe rrof muI
;!led. free. Cook KkmkdT Co., CbicKti, lit.
KI00ER8PA8TILLEs!H"lM:'iA.
anestown. .Mam.
ttw '3-3ertnnuolw'..Mci,i..ii:i..!1.li.r.Jra.
Far Fc. Mink, Otter a ad t'oan Fella i wfj"
the highest market price for all km.tbof raw
fur. Enclose a ntani for our price list, f l;ai.
:,. Co.. .fi' lo Uj 'V. M si., s l!hnii.rl. It.
f Successfully Prosecutes Claim,
Late Principal ExAminer L' S. Pension Bur.s L
3 min last aar, Uadjudlcaiuigt-Uiius, attv iii.ro
Zn ? L"KT eTep A
0 1 be Pe"nadea intoun inrior artk-lu
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