DR. TALMAGES SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "The Gallows For Haman"-. From the Life anil I»eath of Tht« Persian Courtier tenons of Warning and Instruction Are Drawn. TEXT: "So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Morde cai."—Esther vii., 16. Her» Is an Oriential courtier, about the most offensive man in Hebrew history, Haman by name. He plotted for the de struction of the Israelltlsh nation, and I wonder not that in some of the Hebrew synagogues to this day when Haman's name is mentioned, the congregation clench their lists and stamp their feet and fry, "Let his name be blotted out!" Ha man was Prime Minister in the magniflaent court of Persia. Thoroughly appreciative of the honor conferred, he expects every body that he passes to be obsequious. Coming in one day at the gate of the pal aoe, the servants drop their heads in honor of his office; but a Hebrew, named Morde cai, gazes upon the passing dignitary without bending bis head or taking off his hat. He was a good man, and would not have been negligent in the ordinary court esies of life, but he felt no respect either for Haman or the nation from which he had come. So he could not be hypocriti cal; and while others made Oriental salaam, getting clear down before this Prime Minister when he passed, Mordecai, tbe Hebrew, relaxed not a muscle of his neck, and kept his chin clear up. Because of that affront Human gets a decree from Abasuerus, the dastardly king, for the massacre of all the Israelites, and that, of course, will include Mordecai To make a long story short, through Queen Esther this whole plot was revealed to her husband, Ahasuerus. One night Abasuerus, who wns afflicted with in somnia, in his sleepless hours calls for bis secretary to read him a few passages of Persian history, and so while away the night. In the book read that night to the king an account was given of a conspi racy, from which Mordecai, the Hebrew, had saved the king's life and for which kindness Mordecai had never received any reward. Haman, who had been fixing up a nice gallows to hnng Mordecai on, wns walking outside the door of the king's sleeping apartment and was called in. Tho king told him that he bad just had read to him the account of some one who had saved his, the king's life, and he asked what reward ought to be given to such a one. Self-conceited Haman, supposing that be himself was to get the honor, nnd not imagining for a moment that the deliv erer of the king's life was Mordecai, says: "Why, your majesty ought to make a tri umph for him, aud put a crown on him and set him on a splendid horse, high-step ping and full-blooded, and then have one of your princes lead tho horse through the streets, crying, 'Bow the knee, here comes a man who has saved the king's life!"' Then said Ahasuerus in severe tones to Haman: "I know all about yourscoun drelism. Now you go out nnd make a triumph for Mordecai, the Hebrew, whom you hate. Put the best saddle on the finest horse, and you, tbe prince, hold the stirrup while Mordecai gets on, and then lead his horse through the street. Make haste!" What a spectacle! A comedy nnd tragedy at one and the same time. There they go! Mordecai, who had been despised, now starred and robed, in tho stirrups. Hainan, the ehancellor, afoot, holding the pranc ing, rearing, champing stallion. Mordecai bends his neck nt last, but it is to look down at the degraded Prime Minister walking beneath him. Huzza for Mor decai! Alas for Haman! But what a pity to have the gallows, recently built, en tirely wastedl It Is fifty cubits high, and built with care. And Haman had erected it for Mordecai, by whose stirrups he now walKs as groom. Stranger and more start ling than any romance, there go up the steps of the scaffolding, side by side, tho hangman and Haman the ex-chuncellor. "So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai." Although so many years have passed since cowardly Ahasuerus reigned, and the beautiful Esther answered to his whims, and Persia perished, yet from the life and death of Haman we may draw living les sons of warning and instruction. And first, we come to the practical suggestion that, when the heart is wrong, things very insignificant will destroy our comfort. Who would have thought that a great Prime Minister, admired and applauded by millions of Persians, would have been so nettled and harassed by anything trivial? What more could the great "dignitary have wanted than bis chariots and' attendants, nnd palaces and banquets? If affluence of circumstances can uake a man contented ind happy, surely Haman should have been contented nnd happy. No; Morde eai's refusal of a bow takes tho glitter from the gold, and the richness from the pur ple, and the speed from the chariots. With a heart pulled up with every Inflation of vanity and revenge, it was impossible for him to be happy. The silence of Mordecai at the gate was louder than the braying of trumpets in tho palace. Thus shall it al ways be If the heart is not right. Circum stances the most trivial will disturb the spirit. It is not the grent calamities of life that create the most worrlment. I have seen men, felled by repeated blows of misfor tune, arising from the dust, never despond ing. But the most of the disquiet which men suffer is from inslgnillcant causes; as a lion attacked bv some beast of prey turns easily around and slays him, yet runs roar ing through the forests at the alipbting on his brawny neck of a few insects. You meet some grent loss in business with com parative composure; but you can think of ■etty trickeries Inflicted upon you, which rouse all your capacity for wrath, and re laininvour heart an unbearable annou nce. If you look bnck upon your life, ou will find that the most of the vexations ud disturbances of spirit, which you felt, ere produced by circumstances that were ot worthy of notice. If you want to be appy, you must not care for trifles. Do ot be too minute in your inspection of the reatment you receive from others. Who ares whether Mordecai bows when you ass, or stands erect and stiff ns a cedar? 'hat woodman would not make much learing In the forest who should stop to )iud up every little bruise and scratch he eceived in the thicket; nor will that man iccompllsli muoh for the world or the hurch who is too watchful and apprecia te of petty annoyances. There are mul- Uudes of people in the world constantly arrowed because they pass their lives not a searching out those things which are at ractlve and deserving, but in spying out rith all their powers of vision to see ,-hetber they cannot find a Mordecai. Again: I learn from the life of the man nder our notice that worldly vanity and in are very anxious to have piety bow be >re them. Haman was a fair emblem of Jtire worldliness, and Mordecai the repre sntative of unflfnehing godliness. Such ■ere the usuages of society in ancient meg that, had this Israelite bowed to the rime Minister, it would have been an ac nowledgment of respect for his character id nation. Mordecai would, therefore ive sinned against bis religion had he ade any obeisance or dropped his chin ilf an inch before Haman. When, there re, proud Haman attempted to'compel homage which was not felt, he only did at the world ever since has tried to do en it would force our holy religion in ' to yield to its dictates. Daniel he bad been a man of religious eom >mtees, would never have been thrown o the den of lions. He might have made •ne arrangement with King Darius lereby he could have retained part of his •m of religion without making himself so mpletely obnoxious to the idolaters ul might have retained the favor of his rulers *nd escaped martyrdom If he had only been willing to mix up hla Christian faitn with a few errors. His unbending Christian oliaracter was taken as an In sult. Fagot and rack and halter in all ages have been only the different ways in which the world has demanded obeisance. It was once, away up onthetop of the Temple, thnt Satan commanded the Holy One of Naza reth to kneel before him. But it is not now so much on the top of ehurches as dowt in the aisle and the pew and the pul pit that Satan tempts the espousers of the Christian faith to kneel before him. Why was it that the Platonic philosophers of early times, as well as Toland, Spinoza and Bolingbroke of later days, were so madly opposed to Christianity? Certainly not be cause it favored Immoralities, or arrested civilization, or dwarfed the intellect. The genuine reason, whether admitted or not, wns because the religion of Christ paid no respect to their intellectual vanities. Blount and Boyle, and the hosts of infidels hatched out by the vile reign of Charles the Second, as reptiles crawl out of a marsh of slime, could not keep their patience, be cause, as they passed along, there were sit ting In the gate of the church such men as Matthew, and Mark, and Luke, and John who would not bend an inch in respect to their philosophies. Satan told our first parents that they would become as gods if they would only reach up and take a taste of the fruit. They tried it and failed, but their descend ants are not yet satisfied with the experi ment. We have now many desiring to be as gods, reaching up after yet another apple. Reason, scornful of God's Word, may foam and strut with the proud wrath of a Hainan, and attempt to compel the homage of tho good, but in the presence of men and angels It shall be confounded. "God shall smite thee, thou whited wall." When science began to make Its brilliant discoveries there were great facts brought to light that seemed to overthrow the truth of the Bible. Tho archaeologist with his crowbar, and the geologist with his hammer, and the chemist with his bat teries, charged upon the Bible. Moses's account of the creation seemed denied by the very structure of the earth. The astronomer wheeled around his telescope until the heavenly bodies seemed to mar shal themselves against the BlDle as the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. Observatories and universities rejoiced at what they considered tho extinction of Christianity. They gathered new courage at what thev considered past victory, and pressed on their conquest into the kingdom of nature until, alas for them! they dis covered too muoh. God's Word had only boon lying in ambush that, In some un guarded moment, with a sudden Dound, it might tear infidelity to pieces. It was as when Joshua attacked the city of Al. He selected thirty thousand men, and concealed most of them; then with a few men he assailed the city, which poured out its numbers and strength upon Joshua's little band. According to previ ous plan, they fell back in seeming defeat, but, aftor all the proud Inhabitants of the city had been brought out of their homes, and had joined in the pursuit of Joshua, suddenly that brave man haltod in his flight, and with his spear pointing toward the city, thirty thousand men bounded from the thickets as panthers spring to their prey, and the pursuers were dashed to pieces, while the hosts of Joshua pressed up to the city, and with their lighted torches tossed it into flame. Thus it was that the discoveries of science seemed to give temporary victory against God and the Bible, and for a while the church acted ns if she were on a retreat; but when all the opposers of God and truth had joined in the pursuit; and were sure of the field, Christ gave the signal to His church, and turning, they drove back their foes in shame. There was found to be no an tagonism between nature and revelation. The universe and tho Bible were found to be the work of the same hand, two strikes of the same pen, their authorship the siimt God. Again: Learn the lesson that pride goeth before a fall. Was any man ever so far up as Human, who tumbled so far down? Yes, on a smaller scale every day the world sees the same thing. Against their very ad vantages men trip Into destruction. When God humbles proud men.it is usually at the moment of their greatest arrogancy. If there be a man in your community greatly puffed up with worldly success, you have but to stand a little while and you will see Him come down. You say, I wonder that God allows that man togo on riding over others' heads and making great assump tions of power. There is no wonder about it. Haman has not yet got to tho top. Pride is a commander, well plumed ami caparisoned, but it leads forth a dark anil frowning host. We have the best of author ity for saying that "Pride goeth beforo de struction und a haughty spirit before n fall." The arrows from the Almighty's quiver are apt to strike a man when on the wing. Goliath shakes his great spear In defiance, but the small stones from tbe brook Elah made bim stagger and fall like an ox under the butcher's bludgeon. He who is down cannot fall. Vessels scud ding under bare poles do not feel the force of the storm, but those with all sails set capsize at the sudden descent of the temp est. Again: this Oriental tale reminds us of the fact that wrongs we prepare for others return upon ourselves. The gallows that Haman built for Mordecai became the Prime Minister's strangulation. Robe spierre, who sent so many to the guillo tine, had his own head chopped off by the horrid instrument. The evil you practice on others will recoil upon your own pate. Slanders come home. Oppressions coaie home. Cruelties come home. You will yet be a lackey walking beside the very charger on which you expected to ride others down. When Charles the First, who had destroyed Strafford, was about to be beheaded, he said, "I basely ratified an unjust sentence, and the similar injustice I am now to undergo is a sensible retribu tion for the punishment I Inilioted on an innocent man." Lord Jetties, aftor in carcerating many innocent and good peo ple in London Tower, was himself impris oned in the same place, where the shade* of those whom he had maltreated seemed to haunt him, so that he kept crying to his attendants: "Keep them off, gentlemen, for God's sake, keep them off!" The chick ens had come homo to roost. The body of Bradshaw, the English judge, who had been ruthless and cruel in his decisions, was taken from his splendid tomb in West minster Abbey, and nt Tyburn hung on a gallows from morning until night in tho presence of jeering multitudes. Haman's gallows came a little late, but it came. Opportunities fly In a straight line, and just touch us as they pass from eternity to eternity, but the wrongs we do others fly In a circle, and however the circle muy widen out, they are sure to come back to tho point from which they started. There are guns that kick! Furthermore, let the story of Haman teach us how quickly turns the wheel of fortune. One day, excepting the king, Haman was the mightiest man in Persia; but the next day, a lackey. So wo go up, and so we come down. You seldom find any man twenty years in the same circum stances. Of those who, in political life twenty years ago were most prominent, how few remain in consplcuity. Political parties make certain men do their hard work, and then, after using them as hacks, turn them out on the commons to die. Every four years there is a complete revo lution, and about five thousand men who ought certainly to be the next President are shamefully disappointed; while some, who this day are obscure and poverty stricken, will ride upon the shoulders of the people, and take their turn nt admira tion and the spoils of office. Oh how quickly the wheels turnl Ballot-boxes are the steps on which men come down quite as often ae they go up. Of those who were long ago successful in the accumulation of property, how few have not met with re verses! while many of those who then were straitened in circumstances now hold the I bonds and Irank keys of the nation. 01 all flokle things in the world, fortune Is the most fickle. Again: thin Hainan's history shows nt that outward possessions and clrcum< stances cannot make a man happy. Whtls yet fully vested in authority ana the chiei adviser of the Persian monarch, and every thing that equipage and pomp and splen dor of residence oould do were his, ne is an object lesson of wretchedness. There are to-day more aching sorrows under crowns of royalty than under the ragged caps of the houseless. Much of the world's affluence and gaiety Is only misery in oolors. Many a woman seated in the street at her apple-stand is happier than the great bank ers. The mountains of worldly honor are covered with perpetual snow. Tamerlane conquered half the world, but oould not subdue his own fears. Ahab goes to bed, sick, because Naboth will not sell him his vineyard. Herod is in agony because a lit tle child is born down in Bethlehem. Great Felix trembles because a poor minister will preach rlgnteousness, temperance and Judgment to come. From the time of Louis the Twelfth to Louis the Eighteenth was there a straw-bottomed chair in France that did not sit more solidly than the great throne on which the French kings reigned? Were I called to sketch misery in Its worst form, I would not go up the dark alley of the poor, but up the highway over which prancing Bucephali strike the sparks with their hoofs and between statu ary and parks of stalking deer. Wretch edness Is more bitter when swallowed from gemmed goblets than from earthen pitcher or pewter mug. If there are young peo ple here who are looking for this posi tion and that circumstance, thinking that worldly success will bring peace to the soul, let them shatter the delusion. It Is not what we get, it is what we are. Dan iel among the lions is happier than King Darius on his throne. And when life Is closing, brilliancy of worldly surroundings will bo no solace. Death Is blind, and sees no difference between a king and his clown, between the Nazarone and the Athenian, between a bookless hut and a national library. In olden time the man who was to re ceive the honors of knighthood was re quired to spend the previous night fully armed, and with shield and lance to walk up and down among the tombs of the dead. Through all the hours of that night his steady step was heard, and, when morning dawned, amid grand parade and the sound of cornets the honors of knighthood were bestowed. Thus it shall be with the good man's soul in the night before heaven. Fully armed with shield and sword and helmet, he shall watch and wait until the darkness fly and the morn ing break, and ainid the sound of celestial hnrpings the soul shall take the honors of heaven amid the Innumerable throng with robes snowy white streaming over seas of sapphire. Mordecai will only have to wait for his day of triumph. It took all the preceding trials to make a proper background for his after successes. The scaffold built for him makes all the more imposing and pictur esque the horse into whose long white mano he twisted his Augers at the mount ing. You want ot least two misfortunes, hard as flint, to strike Are. Heavy and long continued snows In the winter are signs of good crops next summer. So, many have yielded wonderful harvests of benevolence, and energy because they were a long while snowed under. We must have a good many hard falls before we learn to walk straight. It is in the black anvil of trouble that men hammer out their for tunes. Sorrows taki up men on their shoulders ind enthrone them. Tonics are nearly always bitter. Men, like fruit trees, are barren unless trimmed with sharp knives. They are like wheat—all the bet ter for the flailing. It required the prison darkness and ohlll to make John Bunyan dream. It took Delaware ice and cold feet at Valley Forge, and the whizz of bul lets, to make a Washington. Paul, when he climbed up on the beach at Mellta, shiver ing in his wet clothes, was more of a Chris tian than when theship struck the break ers. Frescott, the historian, saw better without his eyes than he could ever have with them. Mordecai, despised at the gate, is only predecessor of Mordecai, grandly mounted. Late New* Paragraphed. Twenty-live applications for pensions on account of tho Maine disaster have been tiled. Ceylon and the Straits Settlement, Haytl and the Dutch West Indies have declared their neutrality. The Bertillon system of identifying criminals has been adopted in tho Denver (Col.) 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A Chinaman enlisted In the army at Santa Ana, Cal., and Cbfneso in San Fran cisco are contributing funds to the Red Cross Society. The colony of beavers In tho National Zoological Park at Washington have con structed three large dams, one of which is four feet high. The Senate passed a bill conferring American register on the steamship China, which has been chartered as a transport for the Manila expedition. Thirty-nine of the crew of the Spanish steamer Rita, captured off Torto Rico,were taken to New York to be sent to Spain by the Austro-Hungarian Consul. A sheet containing war news, oondensed from the newspapers each morning and printed at the printing-office nt Joliet, 111., is passed Into the cell ot each prisoner at two o'clock every afternoon. J. W. Howard, son of General 0. O. How ard, obtained his commission as Major of volunteer engineers In the army without the aid or influence of any one. He was appointed on merit after having passed a rigid examination. 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AgKat deal of this Ice is put up by the compav In Its own ice bouses, but as the past wiißer has been so warm a very large proportßn will have to be purchased. m A TEMPERANCE COLUMN. THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST IN MANY WAYS. Jamie's Interpretation—An Oriental Fa hie From Which We Majr Learn a Helpful Lesson—The First Glass Is the First Step In Drunkenness. Sandy MoPherson was fond ot his wife, And of Jamie, his little son, But fonder was he of the dram shop fine Where he went when his work was done. One night as he slept he dreamed a dream: That a plump and pompous rat, Followed by two so lean and weak That they would not tempt a cat. Passed by his door. Behind the threo Followed a blind one near. He woke and pondered over his dream, But could not make it clear. His wife, too. studied at it In vain. But Jamie looked so wise That Sandy said, "Coom, laddie, an tell — I see It In yer eyes." "Ay, feyther," said Jamie eagerly, "The fat rat is the mon Who keaps the public-house, ye ken, Whore ye sae aft hae gone. "An' the twa lean rats are mlther an' me, An' the blind ane—shall I tell?" The father nodded. Said Jamie, low, "The blind ane Is—yersell" "Yer rlcht!" cried Sandy McPherson then. Though his face was red with shame; "Y'er rlcht, my laddie, au' I'm all wrang, An' weel desarve yer blame!" But listen, now. As the days went by And his dull, bleared eyes grew clear, And you would not know him, the wife or lad. For he had no rats to fear. An Arab Legend. The Arabs have a fable from which we may learn a helpful lesson. Once upon a time a millor, shortly after he had latn down for an afternoon nap,was startled by a camel's nose being thrust In at the door of the house. "It is very cold outside," said the camel; "I only wish to get my nose in." The miller was au easy kind of a man, and so the nose was let in. "The wind is very sharp," sighed the camel; "pray ullow me to put my neck in side." This request was also allowed and the neck was nlso thrust in. "How fast the rain begins to fall! I shall get wet through. Will you let me place my shoulders under cover?" This, too, was granted; and so the camel asked for a little, and a little more, until he had pushed his whole body Inside the hotise. The miller soon began to be put to much trouble by the rude companion he had got in his room, which was not large enough for both, and as the rain was over, civilly nsked him to depart. "If you don't like It you may leave," sauc ily replied the beust. "As for myself, I know when I am well off, and shall stay where I am." This is a very good story; we hope the | Arabs are all the wiser una better for it; ] but let us also try to turu it to good uc- I count. There is a camel knocking at the heart of us all, young nnd old, seeking to be let i in; its name Is Sin. It comes silently and craftily, and knocks: "Let me In;" only a very small part at first. So In comes the nose; and It is not long before, little by lit tle, It gains entire possession. Once in possession, the master soon becomes the tyrant. Thus It Is that bad thoughts enter the heart; then bad wishes arise; then wrong deeds; until evil habits rule. "It is the first step that leads astray;" If the first step Is not taken, the second will never be known. It is the first glass thot Is the first step in the path of drunkonnass. More Brain and Less Whisky. Fnr be It from the descendant of a long ! line of seamen to bo a willing heretic. | Nevertheless, we protest against those pa ! gan notions derived from the devotees of Bacchus and believers in Neptune, which still rule deck and yard. When men really believed In the muddy god of the trid«nt, It was appropriate that, as the ship llrst touched water, a bottle of wine should be offered In propitiation of Neptune. Our highly specialized commanders need not less, but more brain, and whisky is a brain thief. Those who, per ulium, pour whisky over the bow from a broken bottlo ore very likely to make a funnel of their throats. What has come of such proced ure is known to readers of naval records. Are sailors in more danger from strong drink than soldiers? We do not affirm this. We do but believe that some of the most awful disasters that hove overtaken the arms of the United States, both on land and sea, have come from alcohol in the stomach and on the brain. Who does not recall our "Oneida" and the British "Vic toria," both of which went down like a flash? Perhaps alcohol had nothing to do with either disaster. Some think it hod. It can be shown that the decline of Dutch sea power ran parallel with the Increase of the use of strong drink. It is a matter of prosaic fact that the abolition of the grog ration In the British service marked a tremendous advance in the health, morals and strength of the en tire service. —llev. Dr. Griffith,in Indepen dent. Haste to the Rescue. From the camps of soldiers ot different points information comes of rum's mis chievous work among our brave boys. On every side they are exposed to the snares of rum's agents, and not a few have already fallen victims. Let us haste to the rescue. What is done must be done quickly. Tiie friends of temperance knowing as tlvey do the value of temperance, the arts of the tempter, the availability of means to save, should put forth every effort and aot leave this large body of brave men to perish. Government should be appealed to to sup press by Its strong arm the murderous traffic, especially In the environments of the camps. Again nnd again, even In large cities, this was done during the Civil War. 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Ltd.,(Ml Arch St..Phlla.,Pa. M issourl hSs more chickens than any ott.er State in the Union. No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents. ' Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak men strong, blood pure. 50c, tl. All druggists. Scarlet flowers are said to &tand drought better than any others. S. K. Coburn, Mgr. Clarle Scott, writes: "I find Hall's Catarrh Cure a valuable remedy." Druggists sell it, 75c. The people of the • United States use 490,000,000 matches every day. Mrs. Winsiow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, sol teas the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c.a bottle. The Quakers are the most largely repre sented community in the British Parlia ment. Biliousness "I have used your valuable CASCA RETS and And them perfect. Couldn't do without them. 1 have used them for some time for indigestion and biliousness and am now com pletely cured. Recommend them, to every one. Once tried, you will never be without them In the family." EDW A. MAKX, Albany, N. Y. CATHARTIC bwccoeto TRADE MM* mOMWHW^^^r Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do flood. Never Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c. 26c, 50c. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... Sterling fmyur, Chtnf*, Montreal, N«w Ynrfc. SCI M-Tn.nin Sold and guaranteed by all drug ■ I U-DAb gists to CVKE Tobacco Habit. "A Fair Face May Prove a Foul Bargain." Marry a Plain Girl if She lleee SAPOLIO John Nicholas .brown, who gave $200,000 for a public library building in the city of Providence, a little more than a year ago, has recently in creased this amonnt to nearly $250,- 000, in order that the building may bo placed in proper surroundings. The largest tank steamer in the world will be launched at the Roach shipyards, in Chester, Penn. The capacity will bo 720,000 gallorw of oil. THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS is due not only to the originality and simplicity of the combination, but also to the care and skill with which it is manufactured by scientific processes known to the CALIFORNIA. FIG SYRUP Co. only, and we wish to impress upon all the importance of purchasing the true and original remedy. As the genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured by the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. only, a knowledge of that fact will assist one in avoiding the worthless imitations manufactured by other par ties. The high standing of the CALI FORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. with the medi cal profession, and the satisfaction which the genuine Syrup of Figs has given to millions of families, makes the name of the Company a guaranty of the excellence of its remedy. It is far in advance of all other laxatives, as it acts on the kidneys, liver and bowels without irritating or weaken ing them, and it does not gripe nor nauseate. In order to get its beneficial effects, please remember the name of the Company CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. BAN Fit AN CISCO. CaL LOriBVILLE. Ky. NEW TOItK. N. V. A MALAMA CESiTM/wJ'iriSD. Tde History of JOHNSOH'S HAPPY PILLS. For malaria, chills and Fever, and Livei Complaints, Is unparalleled In He annals ot a medicine. THEY CURE. NO MERCURY* THE HAPPY MEDICINE CO., West New Brighton, S. 1., Borough of Richmond, N.Y< jEjjn The Combined Experi- j}|jj| |n| Ghainless Bicycles, |g| HEMS THC FREIGHT. BEST SCALES. LEASt MONEY- JONES OF BINGHAM TON, NY GA I I Heals ami stains the sore while #% m ia the borne is at work. DAUinCD Mailetl free fur r UW Utn jo «'t". Per fun. MOOHE HHPS., V. H., Albany, N. Y. * »ore eyes,us© 1 ! Thompson's EyeWater MENTION M CURES WHERE M.L ELSt f*na Ed U Beat Cough Syrup. Tastes Quod. MHi Ej Id time. Sold by druggists. 11l