DR. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
The Subject, "Alleviations of War," Most
Pertinent to t?»e Kxcitlnff Times
Through Which We Xre Now Passing—
Cheer For Those Whose Hearts Are Sad
TEXT: "Though war should rise against
me, in tbls will I be confident."—Psalms
27, HI.
The ring of battle-axes and the elasli of
shields, aud the tramp of armies are henrd
all up and down the Old Testament; and
vou find godly soldiers like Moses, and
Joshua, and Caleb, and Gideon, and
scoundrelly soldiers like Sennacherib, and
Sbalmaneser, and Nebuchadnezzar. The
High Priest woubl stand at the head of the
army and say: "Hear, 0 Israel, ye ap
proach this dav unto battle against your
enemies, let not your hearts faiut; fear not,
and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified
because of them!" aud then the officers
would give command to the troops, say
ing: "What man Is there that hath built a
new house and hath not dedicated It? Let
him go and return to his house, lest ho die
in the battle and another man dedicate it.
And what niau Is he that hath planted a
vineyard and hath not eaten of it? Let him
also go and return unto his house, lest he
die in the battle and another man eat of It.
And what man is there thut hath betrothed
a wife and hath not taken her? Let him
go nnd return unto his house, lest he die In
battle and auother mau take her.'' Great
armies marched and fought. In the time
of Moses and Joshua all the raon were sol
diers. When Israel came out o( Egypt
there were tiOO.OOO lighting men. Abijah
commanded 400,000. Jeroboam commanded
800,000 men, of whom 500,000 were slain in
one battle. Some of these wars God ap
proved. for they were for the rescue of op
pressed nations, aud some of them He
denounced, but in all cases it was a judg
ment upon both victors and vanquished.
David knew just what war was when he
wrote in the text, "Though war should rise
against me, in this will I be confident."
David is here encouraging himself in
stormy times, and before approaching bat
tles administers to himself the consolatory.
So to-day my theme Is the "Alleviations of
War." War is organized atrocity. It is
the science of.assassination. It is the con
vocation of all horrors. It is butchery
wholesale. It Is murder glorified. It Is
death on a throne of human skeletons. It
is the cofiln in ascendancy. It is diabolism
at a game of skulls. Aud the time is coining
when war will be an impossibility. How
far in the future I cannot say, but there
will be a museum of curiosities in which a
father and sou will one day be walkiug,
and the son will sav, 'What is that sharp,
curved instrument?" and the father will
reply, "That is a sword." And the son
will say, "What are those round pieces of
iron?" and the father will reply, "Those are
bullets and cannon bulls aud bombshells.
Those are the ttyugs with which in the
Dark Ages peopleTdlled each other." Yet
the father will have hard work to make the
SOD believe that such things were ever
used for the destruction of human life.
But that time has not yet arrived, aud
having on other occasions spoken to you
of the •'Aggravations of War," now that
war is actually here it is time to speak of
its alleviations.
First, I find an alleviation in the fact that
It has consolidated the North and South
after long-continued strained relations. It
Js thirty-three years since our Civil War
closed, and the violences are all gone aud
the severities have been hushed. But ever
and anon. In oration, in sermon. In news
paper editorial, in magazine article, on
political stump, and In Congressional hall,
the old seetional difference nas lifted its
head; and for the first time within my mem
ory, or the memory of any one who hears
or reads these words, the North nnd the
South are one. It was not a four years'
war, but n fifty years' war; war of tougue,
war of pen, war of printing press. But by
a marvelous providence, the family that
led in opposition to our Government thirty
years ago, is represented at the front in
this present war. Nothing else could have
done the work of unification so suddenly
or so completely as this conflict. At Tampa,
ut Chattanooga, at lUchmond. and In many
other places the regiments are forming, aud
it will be side by side, Massachusetts and
Alabama, New York aud Georgia. Illinois
aud Louisiana, Maine and South Carolina.
Northern and Southern men will together
tinllmber the guns aud rush upon the forti
fication aud charge upon the enemy and
shout the triumph. The voices of military
officers who were under Sidney Johtisou
and Joseph Hooker will give the command
on the same side. The old sectional
grudges forever dead. The name of Grant
on the Northern side and of Lee on the
Southern side will be exchanged for the
names of Grant aud Lee on the same side.
The veterans iu Northern aud Southern
homes and asylums are stretching their
rheumatic limbs to see whether they can
again keep step in a march, aud are testing
their eyesight to find whether they can
again look along the gun-barrel to success
fully take aim aud fire. The old war cry
of"On to Richmond!" and"On to Wash
ington!" has become the war cry of"On
to Havana!" "Onto Porto liico!" "Onto
the Philippine Islands!" The two old rusty
swords that in other days clashed at Mur
freesboro and South Mountain aud Atlanta,
are now lifted to strike down Hispanic
abominations.
Another alleviation of the war is the fact
that it is the most unselfish war of the
ages. While the commercial rights of our
wronged citizens will be vindicated, that
is not the chief Idea of this war. It is the
rescue of hundreds of thousands of people
from starvation and multiform maltreat
ment. A friend who went out under the
flag of the Ked Cross two years ago to as
suage suffering in Armenia, and who has
been on the same mission, under the same
| Hag, in Cuba, says that the sufferings in
Armenia were a comedy and a farce com
pared with the greater sufferings or Cuba.
At least two hundred thousand graves are
calling to us to come on and remember by
what process their occupants died. It is the
twentieth century crying out to the nlne
i teenth: "Do you mean to pass down to us
the curse with which you have been blasted?
Or will you let me begin under new aus
pices ami turn the Island el desolation into
an island Edenic?"
It is a war inspired by mercy, which is an
attribute in man imitative of the same at
tribute of God. In no other age of the
world could such a war have been waged.
The gospel of kindness needed to be recog
nized throughout Christendom in order lo
make such a war possible. The chief rea
son why most of the European nations are
not now banded together avainst us is be
cause they dare not take the part of that
behemoth of cruelty, the Spanish Govern
ment, against the crusade of mercy which
our nation has started. Had it been on our
part a war of conquest, a war of annexa
tion, a war of aggrandizement,there would
have been by this time enough flying
squadrons coming to this couutry across
the Atlantic to throw into panic every city
on our American seaboard.
The wars oT the Crusaders were onlv to
regain an empty sepulchre; the Napoleonic
wars, with their six million slaughtered
men, were projected and carried out to ap
pease the ambition of one man; of thetwen
t.y-flve million slain in Jewish wars and of
the sixty million slain in the wars under
Julius Ciesar; of the one hundred and eighty
million slain in wars with Turks and Sara
cens; of the fifty million slain In wars with
Xerxes: of the twenty million slain in wars
of, Justinian; and the thirty-two million
slHln In the wars of Genghis Kahu, not one
man was sacrificed for mercy; but In till.-'
Hispanic-American war every Arummei
boy, or picket, or gunner, or standard
bearer, or skirmisher, or sharpshooter, ot
cavalryman, or artilleryman, or engineei
who falls, falls In the cause of mercy, and
becomes a martyr for God and his Country.
Another alleviation of this war is thai
It Is for the advancement of the eubllm#
principle of liV which will yet engirdle
the earth. > will this war frea
Cuba, but flnaftj v fj-ee Spain. By what
right does a p that stand, and a
forrupt court domiuitu i people for cen
turies, taxing them riding in
gilded chariot over the ne«» of a beggared
population?*^
Another nrmviation is that the war opens
with a great victory for the United States,
in the most jubilant manner let the victory
of our navy be celebrated. With the story
of the destroyed battleship fresh in the
minds of the world it would require no or
iinary courage to sail Into the harbor of
Manila and attack the Spanish shipping,
rbat harbor, crowded with sunken wea
ponry of denth, to enter it was running a
ri9k enough to make all nations shiver.
But Manila is ours, and the blow has
shaken to the foundation the palaces of
Madrid, and for policy's sake the doubtful
lations are on our side. For Commodore
Dewey and all who followed him let the
whole nation utter Its most resounding
huzza; and more than that, let us thank
he Lord of hosts for his guiding and pro
tected power. "Praise ye the Lord! Let
sverythlng that hath breatu praise the
Lord!"
Another alleviation is the fact that in
:his war the might is on the side of the
right. Again and again have liberty and
ustice and suffering humanity had the
odds against them. It was so when Ben
lildad'sj Syrian hosts, .who. were in the
wrong, nt Aphek, came upon the small
regiments of Isrnel, who were in the right,
the Bible putting it in one of those graphic
sentences for which the book is remark
able—"The children of Israel pitched be
fore them like two little flocks of kids, but
:tie Syrians filled the whole country." It
was so in the awful defeat of the Lord's
people at Gllboa and Megiddo. It was so
recently when gallant and glorious Greece
was in conflict with gigantic Mohumme
lauism, and the navies of Europe hovering
ibout the Bosphorus were in practical
iirotection of the Turkish government,
fresh from the slaughter of one hundred
thousand Armenians. It was so when, in
177(i, the thirteen colonies, with little war
shipping and a few undrliled and poorly
:lnd soldiers, were brought into a contest
with the mightiest navy_ of all the earth
ind an army that commanded the admira
tion of nations. It was so when Hungary
went under. It has been so during all the
struggles heretofore for Cuban indepen
lenee. But now it is our powerful navy
with enough guns to send the opposing
fleet as completely under as when the lied
Sea submerged Pharaoh's armv.
Another nlieviation is the fact that wo
iiuve a God togo to iu behalf of all those
jf our countrymen who may be in especial
sxposure at the front, for we must admit
;lih perils. It is no trifling thing for 100,-
}OO young men to be put outside of home
restraints and sometimes into evil com
panionship. Many of the brave of the
jarth are not the good of the earth. To
jetu the same tent with those who have
110 regard for God or home; to hear their
noly religion sometimes slurred at; to be
placed under influences calculated to make
jne reckless; to have no Sabbath, except
such Sabbath as in most encampments
imounts to no Sabbath at all; togo out
from homes where all sauitary laws are
observed into surroundings where ques
tions of health are never discussed; to in
fade climes where pestilence holds posses
don; to make long marches under blister
ing skies; to stand on deck and in the
llelds under lire, at the merey of shot and
shell—we must admit that those thus ex
posed need especial care, and to the Omui
present God we have a right to eommend
them, and will commend them. Postal
communication may be interrupted, and
letters started from eamps or homes may
not arrive at the right destination, but
however far away our loved ones may be
from us, and however wide and deep the
seas that separate us, we may hold com
munication with them via the throne of
Sod.
A shipwrecked sailor was found floating
on a raft, near the coast of California.
Willie in the hospital he told his experi
ence, and said that he had a companion ou
the eame raft for 6orne time. While that
companion was dying of thirst he said to
him: "'George, where are you going?' 1
and the lying sailor said: "I hope I am
going to God." "If you do," suid the res
cued sailor, "will you nsk Him to send
some water?'' After rtie death of his com
panion, the survivor said, Hie rain came in
torrents, and slaked his thirst and kept
him alive until he was taken to safety.
The survivor always thought it was in an
swer to the message he had sent to heaven
asking for water. Thank God we may
have direct and instantaneous communi
cation with the Lord Almighty through
Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, and in
that faith we may secure the rescue of our
imperiled kindred. Is not that a mighty
alleviation?
Morning, noon and night let us commend
this beloved land to the care of a gracious
God That He answers prayer Is so cer
tain that your religion is an hallucination
if He <Aoes not answer It. Pruy that in re
ply to such suppiicntion the farmers' boys
may get home again in time to reap the
harvest of next July; that our business
men may return in time to prepare for a
fall trade such as hns never yet fllled the
stores and factories with customers, and
that all the homes in this country now sad
dened by the departure of father or brother
or son may months before the Thanksgiv
ing and Christmas holidays be full of joy at
the arrival of those who will for the rest of
their lives have stories to tell of double
quick march, and narrow esenpe, and
charges up the parapets, and night set on
lire with bombardment, and our flag
hauled up to places from which other flags
were hauled down.
At Plymouth. England, on the 19th of
July, the prominent officers of the navy
were in a bowling alley, bowling with grc-at
glee—Lord Howard, the High Admiral;
Sir Martin Frohisher, the daring explorer,
and Sir Francis Drake, the first circum
navigator of the world—when word came
to them that the Spanish Armada was ad
vancing. The i'(fleers .continued at the
game of the bowling alley until the game
was finished, and then went out to investi
gate the tiding-!, and, sure enough, that
mighty fleet, which was considered invin
cible, and which was to bombard and over
throw England, was approaching, but the
invading navy was destroyed, for the Lord
Almighty appeared in the fight.
A storm such as had never swept tho
coast of England or aroused the ocean
swooped upon the Spanish Armada. Most
of the ships soon went down under the sea,
while others were driven helplessly along
to be splintered on the coasts of England,
Ireland, Scotland, and Norway. Another
Spanish Armada is crossing the Atlantic,
and we are ready to meet them. Tile same
God who destroyed the Armada in 1588
reigns in 1898. May He iu His might,
either through human arm or dumb ele
ment, defeat their squadron, and give vlo
torv to the old flag.
Yet what the world most wants Is Christ,
who is coming to take possession of all
hearts, all homes, all Nations; but the
world blocks the wheels of His chariot. I
would like to see thlscentury, wlii«h is now
almost wound up, find its peroration in
some mighty overthrow of tyrannies and a
mighty bulldingup of liberty and justice.
Almost all the centuries have ended witli
some stupendous event that transformed
Nations and chanced the map of the world.
It was so at tho close of the fourteenth cen
tury; it was so at the close of the flfteapth
century; It was so at the close of the Six
teenth century; It was so at the close of the
seventeenth century; it was so at the close
of the eighteenth century. May it be more
gloriously so at tho close.of the nineteeth
century! "Blessed be the Lord God of Is
rael from everlasting to everlasting, and
let the whole earth be' fllled With Hii
glory." Amen and ninen.
American) and Victoria'* Blrtlnlay.
The Niagara Falls (N. Y.) Council will as
sist Canadians in celebrating the Queen's
birthday and has declared it a legal holt
uav.
A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.
Don't Drink—The Necessity of Keeping
the Home Life Free From All Taint of
Knm and Ita Degrading Aaaoclatlona
—The lileaaed Kule of Sobriety.
For the sake of a sweet-faced mother
In the old home far away.
For the sake of a kindly father
Who thinks of you night and day.
For the sake of a gentle sister.
And the tender tieß that link
Your heart to the heart of a brother—
Don't drinki
For the sake of another, dearer
Perhaps, than all the rest,
For her memory like a blessing
That ever haunts your breast.
For the sake of your future, spreading
Even beyond death's brink,
Fot the sake of your soul Immortal—
Don't drink!
—Sacred Heart Review.
Drink and Family Life.
Viewed from whatever standpoint, the
value of total abstinenoe cannot but be
apparent to all unbiased minds. But there
are some phases of the situation more
striking than others.
Here, for instance, Is the father of a fam
ily. Is it not to his advantage, as also to
the advantage of those who look up to
him as their natural protector, to live a
life free from all taint of drink aftd its de
grading associations? By restraining the
appetite for intoxicants, and so avoiding
their ovil Influence, is he not enabled to
give his children a better chance in life
than thev could possiDly obtain were he
to spend his substance in the saloons?
A home wherein peace prevails under
the blessed rule of sobriety Is one ot the
greatest advantages a child can possess.
"There is no place lite home"—if that
home is one in the true sense of the word,
if it is a plaoe wherein is concentrated the
affections of all the members of the fam
ily, if it is a haven where all may gather at
evening to refresh themselves with lovo
and kindness after the tolls of the day.
But if, instead, the father of the household
is a victim of the drink evil, or if—to
make the picture darker though perhaps
not much less common—the mother in
dulges in drink to excess, ho or she, so far i
as their children, their natural depend- .
ents, are concerned, has poured "the sweet j
milk of ooneord into hell," and made that
home a mockery. Many a man who to
day Is a disgrace to humanity might in al)
probability have been an ornament to so
ciety were it not for the intemperance
which destroyed Ills home life, and wrecked
the happiness of his vouth.
A home to a child should he the embodi
ment of everything good and pure and
inspiring. Other things being equal, the
home wherein total abstinence is the rule
is the very best preparatory school a child
can have for the great struggle of life
which all must face sooner or later.
Alcohol Ahead.
A thlftk-se*, uglv-looklng fellow wa<
seated on a bench in the public park and
seemed to lw reading some writing on o
sheet of paper which he held in his hand.
"You seem to be much interested in youj
writing," 1 said,
i "Yoe; I've been figuring my account with
i old alcohol, to see how we staftd."
i "And he comes out ahead. I suppose?"
! "Every time, and he has lied like sixty.'"
! "How did you come to have dealings witb
' him in the first place?"
"That's what I've been writing. You
see, he promised to make me a beast
Then he said he would brace me up. but h«
■ made me go etasgering around, and then
he threw me into the ditch. He said 1
must drink to be sociable. Then he made
me quarrel with my best friends aad be
the laughing stock of my enemies. He
gave rne a black eye and a broken nose.
Then I drank for the good of my health.
He ruined the little I had, and left IUO sick
as a dog."
j "Of course."
I"He said he would worm me up, and I
1 was soon nearly frozen to death. He said
he would steady my nerves, but Instead he
gave me delirium tremens. Ho said he
; would give mo great strength, oud he
i made me helpless."
"To be sure,"
"He promised me courage."
' "Then what followed?"
"Then h« made me a coward, for I beat
my sick wifo and kicked my little sick
child. He said he would brighten my
i wits, but Instead ho made me act like a fool
and talk like an Idiot. He promised to
! make a gentleman of me, but he made mo
a tramp."—Christian Work.
A Temperance Leison.
■Whether alcoholic liquor is necessary ot
even useful to the soldier in the field is n
question which authorities will continue to
There Is, however, no qnestlon (hat in t
campaign in a tropical country like Cuba
liquor of any kind is more dangerous thar.
useful. In addition to this, the Soudan
campaign now going nn furnishes direct Il
lustration of the positive assertion that it
is not necessary.
The English papers ara nailing nttentior
to the fact that the victory at Atbara was
won on tea and coffee. An Invoice of Oer
man whiskey which had been sent to the
expedition was poured out on the sand, am'
even the beer was sent back. The result
was that after a long night march ami i
fierce battle under the blazing sun the mer
were fine and fit.
It is the common impression thatTooimj
Atkins is more of a drinker than hisAmeri
can cousin. If Tommy Atkins can do with
out his whisky and be all the better for it
his example might be safely followed bj
our soldier boys in Cuba.—Xew Yorl<
World.
Temperance and Athletics,
The Duke of Connaugbt recently spoke
of the improved sobriety in the British
army since he joined it. It is no doubt
very remarkable, nnd some of the credit
must be given to the Army Temperance As
sociation. But something is also due tc
the improvement in the social habits of the
officers, from whom the men naturally take
example; something, moreover, to the in
troduction of short servtce, as It was mninl)
old soldiers who were the best customer.'
of the canteen. And there is something
further, in the proof which several of Lord
Wolseley's campaigns and the recent light
ing of Gatacre's Brigade have given, that
abstinence from stimulants does no harm
in the field, and therefore cannot hurt pieu
in c.umps and quarters. But the main im
provement is undoubtedly due to the in
creased attention giv«n to gymnastic work
and to athletic sports. Men who go in for
these cannot attain excellence If they drink
to excess. And that has wrought a silent
revolution which is none the less effective
because it is not talked about. All these
things together have conspired to make
the soldier the self-respeotlng man ha is
to-day.—London Chronicle.
SHoti at llie Ruin Demon.
Combat the open saloon with tho open
home.
When the saloon goes, the devil will not
have long to say.
If "no grog-' is at the bottom of good
shooting the temperance advocates liavo n
good text in Manila.
It is estimated that in consequence ol
Intoxication the sum lost to the working
population of France in 1897 was 1,310,000,-
000 francs.
Shakespeare speaks of the "thousand
natural shocks that flesh is heir to,"and
some people Imagine that liquor is a cure
for each and evnrv one of them.
The Poialbllltle* of Electricity.
Ever since the electric ligbt and
power industry began to be a factor
in tbe economic affairs of the indus
trial world, its adaptation to tbe work
of transmitting the power of water
falls to more ur less distant points
lias been tbe dream of those who re
alize its vast possibilities, and who
believe that tbe ingenuity of man is
equal to the task of overcoming any
difficulties that may be encountered
in attempts to find a successful solu
tion of tbe problem. For more than
twenty years those who may be oalled
electrical enthusiasts have prophesied
that the day would come when the
power of Niagara would be delivered
at the door of the consumer in tbe
city of New York, and capitalists have
not been lacking who would have pro
vided the means for carrying out an
undertaking of this kind if they had
been given tbe proper assurance by
electrical engineers of prominence
that tbe results sought for could be
attained. Such assurance, however,
could not be given; for, although it is
known that there is no difficulty in the
way of accomplishing such a result
theoretically, the practical develop
ment of the art has not reached a stage
that would render the realization of
! such an undertaking possible.—Ap-
I pleton's Popular Science Monthly.
Tlie Queen'B Lamenegs.
Queen Victoria's "difficulty 111 mov
ing about," of wbicli so much lias
been bearil lately, is many years old.
as it originated in a fall which Her
Majesty met with about 1882, when
coming down the staircase at Windsor
Castle. The Queen has never walked
for more than a few steps for a num
ber of years past, but Her Majesty is
wheeled about in a chair, and there is
a lift for her use wherever she goes.
Saved by Lost Tickets.
Street car tickets in Washington are
sold at the rate of six for a quarter.
This has been the custom for years.
An officer of the company states that
tickets to the value of $48,000 have
never been used. The inference is
that they have been lost and de
stroyed.
The streets of Paris are swept every
morning by 2GOO male and GOO female
scavengers.
How Itellcf Caine.
From Cole Count;/ Democrat, Jefferson
City, Ho.
Wlion la grippe visited this section, about
seven years ago. Herman H. Eveler, of nil
\V. Main St., Jefferson, Mo., was one of the
victims, and has since been troubled with
the after-el|ects of the disease.. 110 is a
well-known contractor and builder, a busi
ness requiring much mental and physical
work. A y«ar ago his health began to fail
alarmingly, and that he lives to-day Is al
most a miracle. He says:
"I was troubled with shortness of breath,'
palpitation of the heart and a general de
bility. My back also pained me severely.
"I tried one doctor after another and
numerous remedies suggested by my
rlends, but without apparent benefit, anil
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and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets, —beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed. 10c, 25c, 50c.
A bat avoids wires and obstructions as
easily as if it could see perfectly.
ST.VITUS' DANCE, SPASMS and all nerv
oils diseases permanently cured by the use ol
Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for
FREE Sl.uo trial hottle and treatise to Dr.
R. H. Kline, Ltd.. 901 Arch "Street., l'hila.. Pa.
Alexandria possesses the largest arti
ficial hnrbor In the world.
A. M. Priest-, DruKeist, Slielbyville, Ind.,
savs: "Hall's Catarrh Cure gives the best 01
satisfaction. Can get plenty of testimonials,
as it cures every one who takes It." Druggists
sell it, 75<?.
Teeth nre stained in various colors
among the Malays.
To Cure Constipation forever*
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 250.
It C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money.
A cable's length is one-tenth of n nauti
cal mile (6080 feet).
Scut free, Klondike Map
From Gold Commission's official survey. Ad
dress Gardner cV Co., Colorado Springs, Colo.
A single bee collects about n teaspoonful
of honey during a season.
For Whooping Co«fsh. Piso's Cure is a sue
cessful remedy.—M,P. DIETER, 67 Throop Ave..
Brooklyn, N. Y.. Nov. ♦. IW4.
A fine ostrich Is calculated to yield £2OOO
worth of feathers.
NO-TO-DU for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habl t cure, makes weak
men strong, blood pure 50c, tl All druggist*
In South America there is a race of cats
which does not know how to mew.
The Samlay-school of the Temple
Baptist Church, of Brooklyn, has
more that 2000 pupils.
Of the 31,000,000 population of the
United Kingdom of Italy, 62,00.0 are
Protestants and 38,000 are Jews.
I I
1 ®
£• Among people where the practice of economy is a «
<*• necessity, the buying of soap is an important yearly item. «
% The grocer who has an eye to larger profits, may not «
» suggest Ivory Soap. He will recommend nothing else «
r* if he is conscientious. Ivory Soap is a pure soap, all «
& through. That makes it the most economical and best. |
% A perfect soap for the toilet tend laundry. g
Z - IT FLOATS. |
9 A WORD OF WARNING.—There are many white soaps, each represented to be " Just S
£ as coo 3as the ' Ivorythey ARE NOT, tut like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and a)
(a remarkable qualities of the genuine. Ask for" Ivory " Soap and Insist upon getting It V
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Coprright. 1851, by The ProcWt Ik Gambia Co., Cloet&n*U. (£>
Flrftt Suction Dredging.
Probably the fir&t successful at
tempt at suction dredging was on the
construction of the Amsterdam canal j
in 1867, where a centrifugal pump was !
fitted to an old bucket dredge. A ver
tical shaft, driving a "spinner" three
feet six inches in diameter was fitted
near the bottom of an upright cylin
der twelve feet high, so arranged that
the contents of the buckets falling
through it were met by the ascending
column of water from the centrifugal
pump. This liquefied the silt, and it
was forced to the shore through wood
en pipes placed on buoys or floats.
These pipes were connected by leather
joints or sleeves. This machine
could deposit at a point 1200 feet dis
tant 2000 tons of solid matter to a
height of eight feet above water sur
face in twelve hours. Three years j
later double machines of this kind
were used on canal work at Cron
stadt, Russia. Attached to the ver
tical shaft of this machine, however,
were water jets under high pressure,
which were directed into the cylinder.
By this means stiff clay could be suf
ficiently broken up to be moved
ashore. This kind of machine was
afterward employed oh the Danube.—
Engineering Magazine.
Consul Smith, of Moscow, in a note
to the State Department, announces
the finding of a gold nugget weighing
seventy pounds in the Spasso Preo
brajensk mines, in the district of
i'eansay. This nugget is the eleventh
in size among those found in the
whole world, and second in size to
only one other found in Russia.
PAINT r WALLSi CEILINGS
CALCIMO FRESCO TINTS
FOR DECORATING WALLS AND CEILINGSCaIcimo
paint dealer and do your own kalsomining. This materia! Is mad 3 on scientific principles by
machinery and milled in twenty-four tints and is superior to any concoction of Glue ana Whit
ing that cau possibly be made by hand. To be mixed with Cold Water*
IfSEXI) FOR SAMPLE CO I OR CARDS and if you cannot purchase this material
from your local dealers let us know and will put you in the way of obtaining it.
THE MIRALO CO., KEW BRIGHTON, S. 1.,-SEW YORK.
M—B—MBBHBHBKT BMW MHMBWHWBBMUMHHHBMBI
Worth Double the Price of the Best
* # Chain Bicycle.
Gear
Chainless Bicycles i4U
Makes Hill Climbing Easy.
That is the verdict of those who have ridden them. Call on almost
any Columbic dealer and try one. It won't cost you anything.
We continue to make the best chain wheels in the world.
We use the same material and the same care in building Col
umbia Chain Wheels that we do with the Chainless.
Columbia Chain Whoola S7B.
Hartford Blcycloa *®-
Vadatta Bieyclaa, MO, til.
Machines and Prices Guaranteed.
POPE MFG. CO., Hartford, Conn.
■—
What Brings Release From Dirt and Grease? Why,
Don't You Know?
SAPOLIO!
Dr. Morgan'* "Hed-K«x. Powder*.
A certain and sftfe core for headache and
neuralgia. Will relieve the most obstinate
cage of nervous or sick IK lache in a few
minutes. Price, 10 cents at 1 druggists'. 01
sent by mail for six 2-cent Ktampf. Sterling
Pharinacal Co., 905 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn,
N. V.
Persia has not a single railway.
R m.
For headache (whether sick or nervous), tooth
ache, neuralgia, rheumatism, lumbago, pains ami
weakness in the back, spine or kidneys, pam*
around the liver, pleurisy, swelling of the joints
and pains of all kinds, the application ol Radway s
Readv Relief will afford immediate ease, and its
continued use for a few dnys effects a permanent-
A CURE FOR ALL
Summer Complaints, •
DYSENTERY, UIAftRHEA. frr
CHOLERA MORBUS,
A half to a teaspoonful of Ready Relief in a b«lf
tumbler of water, repeated as often as the dis
charges continue, and a flannel saturated with
Ready Relief placed over the stomach or bowels,
will afford immediate relief and soon effect a cure.
INTERNALLY—A half to a teaspoonful in half a
tumbler of water will in a few minutes cure
Cramps, Spasms, Sour Stomach, Nausea, Vomiting,
Heartourn, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Sick Head
ache, Flatulency ajud all internal pains.
.Malaria In Its VarioiiM Forms Cured
and Prevented.
There is not a remedial agent in the world that will
cure fever and agile and all other malarious, bilious
ami oilier fevers, aided by RAILWAY'S PILLS,
so quickly as RADWAY'S READY RELIEF.
Price sU*cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
UAI>\VAY A- CO., 55 Elm St., New Tork-
UPMOIAMJftnNW.wonRR
ntllulUll Waftliliiffton, D.C?
m 3yraiulast war, 15abjudicating claim*, atty aiuco.
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|J Beat Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Cee Q
Ld in time. Sold by druggists. HI
T\/rPM r rT^T^ , "SP AI ' E K WHEN REPLY
IVIJjIN 11U1N IN'l; TO ADVTS. NYNTJ-88.