DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: "Pleasure* of Llfe'VOaj No Sym
pathy With the Wliolesa'e Denuncia
tion of AmuieinenM—G ortons Work
of the Y. 31. C. A.
TEXT: "And it came to pass, when ihelr
hearts were merry, that they said, Call for
Samson, that be may make us sport. Aud
they called for Samson out of the prison
house and he made them sport."— Judges
16:25.
There were three thousand people assem
bled in the Temple of Dagon. They had
come to make sport of eyeless Samson.
They were all ready for the entertainment.
They began to clap and pound, impatient
for"the amusement to begin, and they
cried, "Fetch him out! Fetch him out!"
Yonder I see the blind old giant coming,
led by the hand of a child into the very
midst of the temple. At his first appear
ance there goesup a shout of laughter and
derision. The blind old giant pretends he
is tired and wants to rest himself against
the pillars of the house, so he says to the
lad who leads him, "Bring mo where the
main pillars are." The lad does so. Then
the strong man puts his hands on one of
the pillars, and, with the mightiest push
that mortal ever made, throws himself for
ward until the whole hbuse comes down in
thunderous crash, grinding the audience
like grapes in a wine-press. "Aud so it
came to pass when their hearts were merry,
that they said, Call for Samson, that he
may make us sport. And they called for
Samson out of the prison-house; and he
made them sport." In other words there
are amusements that are destructive and
bring down disaster and death upon thy
heads of those who practice them. While
they laugh and cheer, they die. The three
thousand who perished that day In Gaza
are nothing compared to the tens of thou
sands who have been destroyed body,
mind and soul by bad amusements and
good amusements carried to excess.
In my sermons you must have noticed
that I have no sympathy with ecclesiasti
cal strait-jackets, or with that wholesale
denunciation of amusements to which many
are pledged. I believe the Church of Ood
has made a tremendous mistake in trying
to suppress the sportfulness of youth and
drive out from men their love of amuse
ment. If God ever Implanted anything in
us He implanted this desire. But instead
of providing for this demaud of our nature,
the Church of Ood has for the main part
ignored it. As in a riot the Mayor plunts a
battery at the end of the street and has it
lired off, so that everything is cut down
that happens to staud in tlie range, the
good as well as the bad, so there are men
i:i the church who plant the batteries ol'
condemnation and fire away indiscrimin
ately. Everything is condemned. They
talk as if they would like to have our youth
dress in blue uniform like tlie children of
an orphan asylum, and march down the
path of life to the tune of the Dead March
in Saul. They hate a blue sash, or a rose
bud in the hair, or a tasseled gaiter, aud
think a roan almost ready for a lunatic
asylum who utters a conundrum.
Young Men's Christian Associations of j
the country are doing a glorious work. ]
They have line reading rooms, and all tlie
influences are of the best kind, and are
now adding gymnasiums and bowling al
leys. where, without any evil surroundings,
our young men may get physical as well as
spiritual improvement. We are dwindling
away to a narrow-chested, weak-armed,
feeble-voiced race, when Ood calls us to a
work in which he wants physical as well
ns spiritual athletes. I would to Ood that
the time might soon come when in all our
colleges and theological seminaries, as at
Princeton, a gymnasium shall be estab
lished. We spend seven years of hard
study in preparation for the ministry, and
come out with bronchitis and dyspepsia
and liver complaint, and then crawiup into
the pulpit, and the people say, "Doesn't he
look heavenlyl" because he looks sickly.
Let the Church of Ood direct, rather than
attempt to suppress, the desire for amuse
ment. The best men that the world ever
knew have had their sports. William Wil
berforce trundled hoop with his children,
Martin Luther helped dress the Christmas
tree. Ministers have pitched quoits, phil
anthropists have gone a-skatiug, prime
ministers have played ball.
Our communities are filled with men and
women who have in their souls unmeas
ured resources for sportfulness and frolic.
Show me a man who never lights up with
sportfulness and hasno sympathy with the
recreations of others, and I will show you
a man who is a stumbling block to the
Kingdom of God. Such men are caricatures
of religion. They lead young people to
think that a man is good in proportion as
be groans and frowns and looks sallow,and
that the height of a man's Christiau stature
is in proportion to the length of his face. I
would trade off five huudred such men for
one bright-faced, radiant Christian on
whose face are the words, "liejoice ever
more!" Every morning by his cheerful face
lie preaches fifty sermons. I will go further
and say that I have no confidence in a man
who makes a religion of his gloomy looks.
That kind of a man always turns out badly.
I would not want him for the treasurer of
nn orphan asylum. The orphans would
suffer.
Among forty people whom I received
Into the church at one communion, there
was oniy one applicant of whose piety I
was suspicious. He had the longest story
to tell; had seen the most visions, and gave
an experience so wonderful that all the
other applicants were discouraged. 1 was
not surprised the year after to learn that
he had runoff with the funds of the bank
with which he was connected. Who is this
black angel that you call religion—wings
black, feet black, feathers black? Our re
ligion is a bright angel—feet bright, eyes
bright, wings bright, taking her place in
the soul. She pulls u rope that reaches to
the skies and sets all the bells of heaven
a-chimiug. There are some persons who,
when talking ton minister, always feel it
politic to look lugubrious. Go'fortli, O
people, to your lawful amusement. God
means you to be happy. But, when there
are many sources of innocent pleasure,
why tamper with anything that is danger
ous and polluting? Why stop our ears to a
heaven full of songsters to listen to the
hiss of a dragon? Why turn back from
the mountain-side nil abloom with wild
flowers and adash with tho nimble tor
rents, and with blistered feet nttempt to
climb the hot sides of Cotopaxi?
Now, all opera houses, theatres, bowling
alleys, skating rinks and all styles of
amusements, good and bad, I put on trial
to-day and judge of them by certain car
dinal principles. First, you judge of any
amusement by its heathful result or by its
beneficial reaction. There are people who
seem made up of hard facts. Tfiey are a
combination of multiplication tables and
statistics. If you show them an exquisite
picture they will begin to discuss the pig
ments involved in the coloring; if you show
them a beautiful rose, they will submit it
to a botanical analysis, which is only the
postmortem examination of a flower.
They never do anything more than feebly
smile. There are no great tides of feeling
surging up from the depth of their soul in
billow after billow of reverberating laugh
ter. They seem as if nature had built
them by contract and made a bungling job
out of it. But, blessed be God, there ure
people in the world who have bright faces
and whose life is a song, an anthem, a
pa-an of victory. Even their troubles are
like the vines that crawl up the side of a
great tower on the top of which the sun
light sits and the soft airs of summer hold
perpetual carnival. They are the people
you like to have come to your house; they
are the people I like to have come to my
house. Now, it is these exhilarant and
sympathetic and warm-hearted people that
are most tempted to pernicious amuse
ments. In proportion as a ship is swift it
wants a strong helmsman; In proportion as
a liorse is (ray It wants a strong driver; and
these people of exuberant nature will do
well to look at the reaction of all their
amusements. If an amusement sends you
home at night nervous so you cannot sleep,
and you rise in the iporning, not because
vou are slept out, but because your duty
iirngs you from your slumbers, you have
been whore you ought not to have been.
There are amusements that send a man
next day to ht« work bloodshot, yawning,
stupfd, nauseated, and they are wrong
kinds of amusements. There are entertain
ments that give a man disgust with the
drudgery of life, with tools because they
are not swords, with working aprons be
cause they are not robes, with cattle because
they are not Infuriated bulls of the arena.
If any amusement sends you home longing
for a life of romance and thrilling adven
ture, love that takes poison and shoots It
self, moonlight adventures and hair
breadths escapes, you may depend upon it
that you are the sacrificed victim of un
sanctilled pleasure. Our recreations (ire
intended to build us up, and if they pull us
down as to our moral or as to our physical
strength, you may come to the conclusion
that thev are obnoxious.
Still further: Those amusoments are
wrong which lead into expenditure beyond
your means. Money spent in recreation is
not thrown away, it Is all folly for us to
come from a place of amusement feeling
that we have wasted our money and time.
You may by it have made an investment
worth more than the transaction that
yielded you a hundred or a thousand dol
lars. But how many properties have been
riddled by costly amusement? The table
has beeu robbed to pay the club. The
champagne has cheated the children's
wardrobe. The carousing pnrty has burned
up the boy's primer. The table cloth of the
corner saloon is in debt to the wife's faded
dress. Excursions that in a itay make a
tour around a whole month's wages; ladies
whose lifetime business it is tc "go shop
ping,"'have their counterpart in uneduca
ted children, bankruptcies that shock the
money market and appall the church, and
that send drunkenness staggering across
the richly figured carpet of the mansion and
dashing into the mirror, and drowning out
the carol of music with the wiiooping of
bloated sons come home to break their old
mother's heart, when men go into amuse
ments that they cannot afford, they first
borrow what they cannot earn, and then
they steal what they cannot borrow. Fir.-t
they go into embarrassment and then into
theft, and when a man gets as far on as
that ho does not stop short of the peniten
tiary. There is not a prison in the land
where there are not victims of unsanctifled
amusements. How often I have had par
ents come to me and ask mo togo and beg
their boy off from the consequence of
crimes that he had committed against his
employer-jthe taking of funds out of the
employer's till, or the disarrangement of
accounts! Why, he had salary enough to
pay all lawful expenditure, but not enough
salary to meet his sinful emusemeuts.
And again and again I have gone and im
plored for the young man—sometimes,
alas! the petition unavailing.
How brightly the path of unrestrained
amusement opens! The young man says:
"Now lam of! for a good time. Never
mind economy; I'll get money somehow.
What a fine road! What a beautiful day
for a ride! Crack the whip and over the
turnpike! Come,boys, fill high your glasses!
Drink! Long life, health, plenty of rides
just like this!" Hard-working men hear
the clatter of the hoofs and look up and
say, "Why, I wonder where those fellows
get their money from. We have to toil and
drudge. Thoy do nothing." To these gay
men life is a thrill ami nn excitement.
They stare at other people and in turn are
stared at. The watch-chain jingles. The
cup foams. The cheeks flusn, the eyes
flash. The midnight hears their guffaw.
They swagger. They jostle decent men off
the sidewalk. They take the name of God
in vain. They parody the hymn they
learned at their mother's knee; and to oil
pictures of coming disaster they cry out:
"Who cares!" and to the counsel of some
Christian friend, "Who are you?" Passing
along the street some night you hear a
shriek in a grog-shop, the rattle of the
watchman's club, the rush of the police.
What is the matter now? Oh, this reckless
young man lias been killed in a grog-shop
fight. Carry him home to his father's
house. Parent? will come down nnd wash
iiis wounds and close his eyes in death.
They forgive him all he did, though he
cannot in his silence ask it. The prodigal
has got home at last. Mother will goto
her little garden aud get the sweetest
flowers and twist them into a chaplet for
the silent heart of the wayward boy and
push back from the bloated brow the long
locks that were once her pride. And the
air will be rent with the father's cry: "Oh,
my son, my son, my poor son; would God
I had dieil for thee, oh, my son, my son!"
You may judge of amusements by their
effect upon physical health. The need of
many good people la physical recupera
tion. There are Christian men who write
hards things against their Immortal souls
when there Is nothing the matter with
them except an inoompeteut liver. There
are Christian people who seem to think it
is a Rood sign to be poorly, and because
Richard Baxter and Robert Hali were in
valids they think by the same sickness they
may come to the same grandeur of charac
ter. X want to tell Christlau people that
God will hold you responsible for >'our In
validism if it is your own fault, and when
through right exercise nnd prudence you
might be athletic and well. The effect of
the body upon the soul you acknowledge.
Put a man of mild disposition upon the an
imal diet of whioh the Indian partakes, and
in a little while his blood will change its
chemical proportions. It will become like
unto the blood of the lion or the tiger or
the bear, while his disposition will change
and become fierce, cruel nnd unrelenting.
The body hns a powerful effect upon the
soul. There are people whose Ideas of
Heaven are all shut out with clouds of to
bacco smoke. There are people who dare
to shatter the physical vase in whiah God
put the jewel of eternity. There are men
with great hearts and intellects in bodies
worn out by tbeir own neglects. Magnificent
machinery capable of propelling the great
Etruria ncross the Atlantic, yet fastened In
a rickety North River propeller. Physical
development which merely shows itself In
a fabulous lifting, or in perilous rope walk
ing, or in pugilistic encounter, excites only
our contempt, but wo confess to great
admiration for a man who has a great soul
in an athletic body, every nerve, muscle
aud bone of which is consecrated to right
uses. Ob, it seems to me outrageous that
men through neglect should uilow their
physical health togo down beyond repair,
spending tho rest of their lives not in some
great enterprise for God and the world,
but In studying what is the best tiling to
take for dyspepsia. A ship which ought
with all sails sot and every man at his post
to lie carrying a rich cargo for eternity
employing all its men in stopping up leak
ages! When you may through soma of the
popular and healthful recreations of our
time work off your spleen and your quer
ulousness nnd one-half of your physical
and mental ailments, do not turn back
from such a grand medicament.
Again, judge of the places of amusement
by the companionship into which they put
you. If you belong to an organization
where you have to associate with the in
temperate, with the unclean, with the
abandoned, howgver well they may bo
dressed, In the name of God quit It. They
will despoil your nature. Tbey will under
mine your moral character. They will drop
you when you are destroyed. They will
not give one cent to support your children
wheu you are dead. They will weep not
one tear at your burial. They will chuckle
over your damnation. But the day comes
when the men who have exerted evil influ
ence upon their fellows will be brought to
judgment. Scene: tho last day. Stage:
the rocking earth. Enter dukes, lords,
kings, beggars, clowns. No sword. No
tinsel. No crown. For footlights, tte
kindling flames of a world. For orchestra
the trumpets that wake the dead. For
gallery, the clouds filled with angel spec
tators. For applause, the clapping floods
of the sea. For curtains, the leaves rolled
together as a scroll. For tragedy, the doom
of the destroyed. For farce, the effort to
serve the world and God at the same time.
For the last scene of the nfth aot, the
tramp of nations across the stage—some
to the right, others to the left.
Again, anv amusement that gives you a
distaste for domestic life is bad. How many
bright domestic circles have been broken
up by sinful amusements? The father went
off, the mother went off, the child went off.
There are nil around us the fragments of
blasted households. Oh! If you have wan
dered awav, I would like to charm you
back by the sound of that one word,
"Home." Do you not know that you have
but little moro time to give to 'domestic
welfare? Do you not see, father, that your
children are soon togo out into the world,
and all the Influence for good you are to
have over them you must have now? Death
will break In on vour conjugal relations,
and, alas! if you have to stand over the
grave of cne who perished from your neg
lect!
Let mo say to alt young men, your style
of amusement will decide your eternal
destiny. One night I saw a young man at
a street corner evidently doubting as to
which direction he had better take. He
had his hat lifted nigh enough so you
could see he had an intelligent forehead.
He had a stout chest; he had a robust de
velopment. Splendid young man. Cultured
young man. Honored young man. Why
did he stop there while so many were go
ing up and down? The fact is "that every
man has a good angel and a bad angel
contending for the mastery of his spirit.
And there was a good angel and a bad
angel struggling with that young man's
soul at the corner of the street. "Come
with me," said the good angel, "I will take
you homo. I will spread my wing over
your pathway. I will lovingly escort you
all through life. I will bless every cup you
drink out of, every couch vou rest on,
every doorway you enter. I will conse
crate your tears wheu you weep, your
sweat when you toll, and at tho last I will
hand over vour grave into the hand
of the bright augel of a Christian resurrec
tion. In answer to your father's petition
and your mother's prayer I have beeu sent
of the Lord out of Heaven to bo your guar
dian spirit. Come with me!" said the good
angel, In a voice of unearthly symphony.
It was music like that which drops from a
lute of Heaven when a seraph breathes on
It. "No, no," said the bad angel, "come
with me; I have something better to offer;
tho wines I pour are from chalices of be
witching carousal; the dance I lead is over
floor tessellated with unrestrained indul
gences; there is no God to frown on the
temples of sin where I worship. The skies
lire Italian. The paths I tread are through
meadows daisied and primrosed; come with
with me." The young man hesitated at a
time when hesitation was ruin, and the bad
angel smote tho good angel until It de
parted, spreading wings through
the starlight upward and awav, until a
door flashed ouen iu the sky and forever
the wings vanished. That was the turning
point in that young man's history; for the
good angel flown, he hesitated no logger,
but started on a pathway which is beauti
ful at tho opening, but blasted at the last.
The bad angel, leading the way, opened
gate after gate, and at each gate the road
became rougher and the «ky moro lurid,
and, what was peculiar, as the gate
slammed shut it name to with a jur that
indicated that it would never open. Passed
each portal, there was a grinding of locks
and a shoving of bolts; and the scenery on
either side the road changed from gardens
to deserts, and the June air became a cut
ting December blast, ami the bright wing«
of the bad nngel turned to sackcloth and
the eyes of the light became hollow with
hopeless grief, and the fountains, that at
the start had tossed wine, ' poured
forth bubbling tears and foaming blood,
and on tho right side of the road there was
a serpent, and the man said to the bad
angel, "What is that serpent?" and the
answer was, "That is the serpent of sting
ing remorse." On the left side of the road
there was a lion, and the man asked tho
bad augel, "What is that Hon?" and the
answer was. "That U tho lion of ail-devour
ing despair." A vulture flew through til*
skv, and the man asked the bad angel,
"Wha? Is that vulture?" and the answer
was, "That fs the vulture waiting for the
carcasses of the slain." And then the man
began to try to pull off of him tho folds of
something that had wound him round and
round, and he said to the bail angel,
"What Is it that twists me in this awful
convolution?" aud the answer was, "That
is the worm that never dies!" and then the
man said to the bad angel, "What does all
this mean? I trusted in what vou said at tho
corner of the street that night: I trusted it
all, and wily have you thus deceived me?"
Then the last deception fell off the char
mer, audit said: "I was sent forth from
the pit to destroy your soul; I watched my
chance for many a long year; when you
hesitated that night on the street I gained
my triumph; and now you nro here. Ha!
ha! You. are here. Come, now, let us 1111
these two chalices of lire and drink to
gether to darkness and woe and death.
Hail! hail!" Oh. young man, will the good
angel sent forth by Christ, or the bad angel
sent forth by sin, get the victory over your
soul? Their wings are Interlocked "this
moment above you, contending for your
destiny, as above the Appeuniues eagle and
condor light mid-sky. This hour may de
cide your destiny. God help youi To
hesitate is to diel
ENORMOUS WHEAT CROP,
Unless the Conditions Change Between
Now and Harvest Time.
The Government returns of the growing
wheat crop, issued by the United States
Department of Agriculture, Washington,
announce a total area sown to wheat of
43,000,000 acres and a condition for spring
wheat on June 1 of 100.9, and for winter
wheat on the same date of 90.8. The con
dition of oats on June 1 was stated at 98,
the condition of rye at 97, and the condition
of barley at 78.8.
Wheat's showing is a remarkable one,
and if the present promise could be main
tained until harvest the result would be a
"record." J. C. Brown, statistician of the
Now York Produce Exchange, calculated
that the figures indicate a total wheat crop
of 087,300,000 bushels—36o,Boo,ooobushels of
winter wheat und 270.600',000 bushels of
spring wheat. The record wheat crop of
the country heretofore has been 611,780,000
bushels in 1891, preceding the good trade
year of 1892. The wheat crop of 1897 was
530,149,000 bushels and of 1896, 427,684,000
bushels.
As stated by the Department of Agricul
ture the preliminary returns of the spring
wheat acreage, with the two Dakotns in
particular subject to revision, Indicate a
total area seeded of 16,800,000 acres, which,
added to nn area in winter wheat of 26,200,-
000 acres, makes a total wheat area
of 43,000,000 acres, or about 3,500,-
000 aeres more than last year. There
was an increase of 8 percent, in Minnesota,
22 in lowa, 10 in Nebraska, 11 in North
Dakota, Biu South Dakota, 5 in Oregon
und 20 in Washington. The average con
dition of winter wheat—9o.B is to be com
pared with 78.5 nt the corresponding date
last year and 81.6, the average for the last
ten years. The principal averages are: New
York, 98; Pennsylvania, 96: Maryland, 98;
Tennessee, 93; Kentuckv, 99; Ohio, 87; Mich
igan, 97; Indiana, 95; Missouri, 96; Kansas,
104, and California, 33.
The average condition of spring wheat—
100.9—is almost, if not entirely, unpre
cedented. It compares with 89.6 on June
1, 1897, aud 92.5, the average for the past
ten years. Nearly all the States of princi
pal production report a condition exceed
ing that indicative of a full normal crop.
North Dakota reporting 104; South Dakota,
103; Nebraska, 105-; lowa, 102; Minnesota,
100; Oregon, 101, and Washington, 97.
To Insure Cattle.
The Swiss canton of Berne will adopt nn
official system of insurance for the 276,409
head of cattle in the canton. Vxe maxi
mum value of a cow is estimated at tl6o.
The Snake Hunter of Snainry Mountain
From the far purlieus of Snappy
Mountain, above where the pellucid
•waters of Sang Kun pour their cur
rents down the pine-clad crests of the
Allepthanies, "Si" Summers, the ven
erable snake hunter of the Virginia
mountains, has been henrd from an<?
reports that he has not killed a snakt
this season. That this will be bad
news for the friends of "Si" will bf
Letter uuderfitood when it is known
that the killing of snakes is the crown
ing labor of "Si's" existence. H<
would "sooner kill a snake than ilgh?
Spaniards," not meaninc any reflec
tiou on his loyalty, either. He if
making money out of the rattlesnakf
business by extracting the oil froir
them and selling it as an in fallible
remedy for the rheumatism. He alsc
sells the skins for belts, and "nobbj
neckwear," and, altogether, "Si"isar
institution that Snaggy Mountain
would do well to supply with snakes
at all seasons for fear that he will gc
entirely out of the business. It is not
stated that "Si" is the originator of
the only bona fide American snake
story, but he comes pretty near furn
ishing the subject for the champion
ship snake story himself.—Baltimore
Sun.
GlailMone's Lone Service.
The length of Mr. Gladstone's po
litical service can be measured by the
fact that he entered Parliament at a
time when Andrew Jackson was Presi
dent of the United States, and retired
from it when Mr. Cleveland began
his second term. He held his first
Cabinet office when Daniel Webster
was also first serving in a like capac
ity in our National Government.
Lived a Century In One House.
A Mrs. Morley, who has died at
Cotham, in England, in her one hun
dred and first year, had lived in the
same house all her life, had never
slept out of her native village and had
never ridden iu a train. Until eight
years ago she managed a small dairy
and personally attended market with
her butter.
A Naval Hero's Story.
From the Times-Herald, Chicago, 111.
Late in 18G1, when President Lincoln is
sued a call for volunteers, L.J. Clark, of
Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, was among
the first to respond. He joined the mortar
fleet of Admiral Porter just before the me
morable operations on the Mississippi River
began. It was at the terriile bombardment
of the Vicksburg forts, that the hero of this
story fell with a shattered arm from a
charge of schrupnel.
After painful months In tho hospital, he
recovered sufficiently to be sent to his home
at Warren, Ohio. Another call for troops
fired his patriotic Heal and Clark soon en
listed in Company H, of tho 7th Ohio Vol
unteers. In the army of the Potomac, no
was in many engagements. Being wounded
in a skirmish near Richmond, ho was sent
to the hospital and thence home.
II I I terward he
IT].". began the
I _ study and
I If -the n the
y r. practice of
f/filliA —[p ' veterinary
{4M& 7-?^t^Seekif| ry a
wider field
&/ \ N th a n the
\ Ohio vil
-1 lage afford
ed, lie went
ty. t o Chicago
A Wounded Hern. where he
now has a wide practice, la a member ol
Hatch Post, G. A. R., and lives at 4935 Ash
land Ave.
Several years ago Dr. Clark's old wounds
began to trouble him. He grew weak and
emaciated, and his friends despaired of his
life. He finally recovered sufficiently to be
out but was a mere shadow, weighing only
90 pounds. The best medical attendance
failed to restore his lost strength and vigor.
"A friend gave me a box of Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills for Pale People," said Dr. Clark,
"and they helped me so much that I bought
a half dozen boxes and took them. I soon
regained my strength, now weigh 190
pounds and, except for Injuries that can
never be remedied, am as well as ever.
"I consider Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for
Pale People the best remedy to build up a
run down system, and heartily recommend
them to everyone in heed of such aid."
Within the last ten years the number of
German firms has giown from fifty-six to
ninety-two in China, and from thirty-eight
to fifty-seven in Japan,
Savannah, Fernandina, Jacksonville,
Tampa and Kejr Welt,
The Southern Railway and the F. C. & P.
R. R., Florida .Short Line, offers the quickest
time between New York and Savannah. Fer.
nandina, Jacksonville.Tampa and Key West.
Double daily service with through Pullman
Sleeping Cars New York to Tampa, leave
New York 4.30 p. m.and 12.05 a.m. Dining Cai
on afternoon train from New York to Char
lotte. Connections made at Tampa and Miam;
for Key West. For full particulars call on
or address ALEX. S. THWEATT, Eastern Pass
enger Agent, 271 Broadway, New York,
In a clvil-servlce examination In Eng
land there were 1866 failures In a class of
1972.
Beauty la Blood Beep.
Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im
purities from the body, llegin to-day to
banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by aking
Cascarets, —beauty for ten cent?. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c.
Scarlet flowers are said to stand dr ough
better than any others.
Try Allen's Fnol-Gaie,
A powder to shake in tho shoes. I* you
have smarting feet or tight shoes, try Ali
len's Foot-Ease. It cools the feet and wakes
walking easy. Cures swollen and sweating
feet, blisters and callous spots. Relieves
corns and bunions of pain and gives rest and
comfort. Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists
and shoestores for 25c. Trial p-eknge FREE.
Address, Allen 8. Olmsted Roy, N. Y.
Orange County, Cal., expects to market
600 carloads of celery this year.
Educate Tear Bowel* With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
10c, 26c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money.
Manila is a city of 250,000 Inhabitants?
according to the census of 1880.
To Cure A Cold In One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
Druggists refund money if It fails to cure. 25c.
Honduras has at present about 400,000
Inhabitants.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamum
lion, allava naJLn. /"urm wind cnlia 2rvv« hottjft.
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Australia is twenty-six times as large
as the United Kingdom, fifteen times
as large as France, and almost equal
to the United States.
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For headache (whether sick or nervous), tooth
ache, neuralgia, rheumatism, lumbago, pains ami
weakness in the back, spine or kidneys, pains
around the liver, pleurisy, swelling of the joints
and pains of all kinds, the application of Radway's
Heady Relief will afford immediate ease, and its
continued use for a few days effects a permanent
cure.
A CURE FOR ALL
Summer Complaints,
DYSENTERY, DIARRHEA.
CHOLERA MORBUS.
A half to a teaspoonful of Ready Relief in a half
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 i*. half a
tumbler of water will in a few minutes cure
Cramps, Spasms, Sour Stomach, Nausea, Vomiting,
Heartuurn, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Sick Head
ache, Flatulency and all internal pains.
Malaria in It* Varietur* Form* Cured
anil Prevented.
There is not a remedial agent in the world that will
cure fever and ague and all other malarious, bilious
and other fevers, aided by RADWAV'S PILLS,
so quickly as RADWAY'S READY RKLIEF.
Price 60 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
It Al> WAY A: CO., 35 Kim St., New York.
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IClldlUll Waalilngton, D.cT
WSuccessfully Prosecutes Claims.
Late Principal ExaminerU.S. Pension Bureau.
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PAINT or WALLS • CEILINGS
CALCIMO FRESCO TINTS
FOR DECORATIN6 WALLS AND CEILINGS «Ca ICi mo
paint dealer and do your own kalsomining. This material is made on scientific principles by
machinery and milled in twenty-four tints and is superior to any concoction of Glue ana Whit
' ing that ran possibly be made by band. To be mixed with Cold Water.
tar~SENI> FOK SAMPLE COLOR CARDS and if you cannot purchase this material
from your local dealers let us know and we will put you in the way of obtaining it.
THE MUBALO CO., MEW BRIGHTON, S. 1., SEW YORK.
SHOOTS
AMMONIA, WT*
WATER, 8
OR OTHER LIQUID.'^
It is a weapon which protects bicyclists against vicious dops and foot-pads: travelers against rob»
bers and toughs; homes agaiunt thieves and tramps, and is adapted to many other situations.
It does not kill or injure; it is perfectly safe to handle; makes 110 nois* or smoke; breaks no law ani
creates no lasting regrets, as does the bullet pistol. It simply and amply protects, by compelling th«
foe to give undivided attention to himself for awhile instead of to the Intended victim.
It is the only real weapon which protects and also makes fun, laughter and lots of it; it shoots, not
once, but many times without reloading; and will protect by its appearance in time of danger, although
loaded only with liquid. It does not get out of order; is durable, handsome, aud nickel plated.
Kent boxed and post paid by mail with full directions how to use for 60c. in Sc. Postage Stamps,
Post-office Money Order, or Express Money Order.
As to our reliability, refer to R. G. Dun's or Bradstreet's mercantile agencies.
SEW YORK UMOX SUPPLY CO., 185 Leonard St., Sew York.
It Was Before the Day of
SAPOLIO
The* Used to Sar 11 Wimn's Work is Never Cone."
Plso'e Cure for Consumption has saved me
many a doctor's bill.— S. F. HAKDT, Hopkins
Place, Baltimore. Md., Dec. 2, IWI4.
About 3000 books have been -written on
the anthropology oi Peru alone.
Bevel-Gear
Chainless
Bicycles
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