DR. TALMAGES SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "Life's Minor Chord"—Trial* and Tribulation* Are Kecesaary For the Proper Development of Character- Man'* Compensation For Sufleiing. TEXT: "I will open my dark saying upon the harp."—Psalm xllx., 4. The world is full of the Inexplicable, the Impassable, the unfathomable, the Insur mountable. Wo cannot go three stops In any direction without coming up against a hard wall of mystery, riddles, paradoxes, profundities, labyrinths; problems that we cannot solve, hieroglyphics that we cannot decipher, unagrums we cannot spell out, sphinxes that will not speak. For that reason David in my text proposed to take up some of these somber and dark things and try to set them to sweet music. "I will open my dark sayings on a harp." So I look off upon society and find people in unhappy conjunction of circumstances, and thoy do not know what it means, and they have a right to ask, Why is this? Why is that? and I think I will be doing a good work by trying to explain some of those strange things anil makeyo* more content with your lot, aud I shall only be answer ing questions that have often been asked me, or that we have all asked ourselves, while I try to set these mysteries to music and open mv dark savings on a harp. Interrogation the first: Why does God take out of this >vorld those who are use ful and whom we cannot spare and leave alive aud in good health so many who are only a nuisance to the world? I thought I would begin with the tery toughest of all the seeming lnscrutables. Many of the most useful men and women dlo at thirty or forty years of age, while you often find useless people alive at sixty and seventy nnd eighty. John Careless wrote to Brad ford, wlio was soou to be put to death, saying: "Why doth God suffer me aud such other caterpilllars to live, that can do nothing but consume the alms of the church, und take awny so many worthy workmen in the Lord's vine yard?" Similar questions are often asked. Here are two men. The one Is a noble character and a Christian man. He chooses for a lifetime companion one who has been tenderly reared, and sho is worthy of him and he is worthy of her. As merchant or farmer or professional man or mechanic or artist he toils to educate and rear his children. He is succeeding, but he has not vet established for his family a full competency. Heseems Indispensable to that household; but one day, before he has paid off the mortgage on his house, he Is coming home through a strong north east wind aud a chill strikes through him, and four days of pneumonia end his earthly career, and the wife aud children go into a struggle for shelter and food. His next door neighbor is a mau who though strong and well, lets his wife support him. Ho is around at the grocery store or some general loafing place in the evenings while his wife sews. His boys are imitating his example, and lounge and swagger and swear. All the use that mau is In that house is to rave because the coffee is cold when he comes to a late breakfast, or to say cutting things about his wife's looks, when he furnishes nothing for her wardrobe. The best thing that could happen to that family would be that man's funeral, but he declines to die. He lives on and on nnd on. So we have all noticed that many of the useful are early cut off, while the parasites have great vital tenacity. I take up this dark saying on my harp and give three or four thrums on the string in the way of surmising and hopeful guess. Perhaps the useful man was taken out of the world because he and his family were BO -constructed that they could not huve ondured some great prosperity that might have been just ahead, and they altogether might have gone down iu the vortex of worldliness which every year swallows up 10,000 households. And so he went while he was humble and consecrated, and they were by the severities of life kept close to Christ and fitted for usefulness here and high seats In heaven, and when they meet at last before the throne they will ac* knowledge that, though the furnace was hot, it purified them and pre pared them for an eternal career of glory and reward for which no other kind of life could have fitted thom. On the other hand, the useless mau lived onto fifty or sixty or seventy years because all the ease he ever can have he must have iu this world, and you ought not, therefore, begrudge him his earthly longevity. In all the ages there bus not a single loafer ever entered heaven. There is no place for jlm there to hang around; not even in the temples, for they are full of vigorous, alert and rapturous worship. If the good and useful go estly, rejoice for them that they have so soon got through with human life, which at best is a struggle. Anil If the useless and the bad stay, rejoice that they may be out in the world's fresh air a good many years before their final Incar ceration. Interrogation tbe second: Why do good people have so much trouble, 9ickuess, bankruptcy, persecution, the three black vultures sometimes putting their fierce beaks into one set of jangled nerves? I think now of a good friend I once had. He was a consecrated Christian man, an elder in the church, and as polished a Christian gentlemau as ever walked Broadway. First his general health gave out and he hobbled around on a cane, an old man at forty. After awhile paralysis struck him. Having by poor health been compelled suddenly to quit business, he lost what property he had. Then his beautiful daughter died; then a son became hopelessly demented. Another sou, splendid of mind and com manding of presence, resolved that he would take care of his father's household, but under the swoop of yellow fever at Fernaudina, Fla., he suddenly expired. So you know good men and women who have had enough troubles, you think, to crush fifty people. No worldly philosophy could take such a trouble and set it to music, or play it on violin or flute, but I dare to open that dark saying on a gospel harp. You wonder that very consecrated people have trouble? Did you ever know any very consecrated man or womau who had not had great Never! It was through their troubles sanctified that they were made very good. If you find any where in this city a man who has now, and always has had, perfect hoalth, and never lost a child, and has always been popular and never had business struggle or misfor tune, who is distinguished for goodness, pull your wire for a telegraph messenger woyandsend me word, aud I will drop everything and go right away to look at him. There never has been a man like that and never will be. Who are those arro gant, self conceited ereatur6S who move about without sympathy for others and who think more of u St. Bernard dog or an Aiderney cow or a Southdown sheep or a Berkshire pig than of a man? They never had any trouble, or the trouble was never sanctified. Who are those men who listen with moist eye as you toll them of suffering and who have a pathos In their voice and a kindness in their manner and an excuse or an alleviation for those gone astray? Thev are the men who have graduated at the Royal Academy of Trou ble, and they have the diploma written in wrinkles on their own countenances. My, myl What heartaches they had! What tears they have wept! What injustice they have suffered! The mightiest influ ence for purification und salvation is fouble. There are only three things that can break off a chain—a hammer, a flle or a fire —and trouble is all threo of them. The greatest writers, orators and reformers get much of their force from trouble. What gave to Washington Irving that exquisite tenderness and pathos which will make his books'favorltes while the English language continues to be written and spoken? An early heartbreak, that he never one* mentioned, and when thirty years after the death of Matilda Hoffman, who was to huve been his bride, her father picked up a piece of embroidery and said, "That Is a piece of poor Matilda's workmanship." Washington Irving sank frotn hilarity into silence and walked away. Out of that lifetime grief the great author dipped his pen's mightiest re enforcement. Calvin's ''lnstitutes of Re ligion," than which a more wonderful book was never written by human hand, was begun by the author at twenty-five years of age, because of the persecution by Francis, king of France. Faraday tolled for all time on a salary of £BO a year and candles. As every brick of the wall of Babylon was stamped with the letter N, standing for Nebuchadnezzar, so every part of the temple of Christian achieve ment is stamped with the letter T. stand ing for trouble. When In England a man is honored with knighthood, he is struck with the flat of the sword. But those who have come to knighthood in the kingdom of God were first struck, not with the flat of the sword, but with the keen edge of the salmeter. To build his magnificence of character Paul could not have spared one lash, one prison, one stoning, one anathema, one poisonous viper from the hand, one shipwreck. What is true of individuals is true of nations. The horrors of the American Eevolution gave this countrv this side of the Mississ ippi Biver to Independence and France gave the most of this country west of the Miss issippi to the United States. France owned it, but Napoleon, fearing that England would take it, practically made a present to the United States—for he received only $15,000,000 for Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, lowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Dakota, Mon tana, Wyoming and the Indian Territory. Out of tbe fire of the American Revolution cume this countrv east of the Mississippi, out of tbe European war came that west of the Mississippi River. The British em pire rose to its present overtowerlng grundour through gunpowder plot and Guy Fawkes' conspiracy and Northampton in surrection and Walter Raleigh's beheading and Bacon's bribery and Cromwell's disso lution of parliament and the battles of Edge Hill and the vicissitudes of centuries. So the earth Itself, before it could become an appropriate and beautiful residence for tbe human family, had, according to geol ogy, to .be wastied by universal deluge and scorched and made Incandescent by uni versal Ures, and pounded by sledge hammer of icebergs and wrenched by earthquakes that split continents, and shaken by vol canoes that tossed mountains and passed through the catastrophes of thousands of years before paradise became possible and the groves could shake out their green ban ners and the first garden pour its carnage of color between theGihon and the Hidde kel. Trouble—a good thing for the rocks, a good thing for nations, as well as a good thing for individuals. So when you push against me with a sharp interrogation Soint, Why do the good suffer? I open the ark saying on a harp, and, though I can neither play an organ or cornet or hautboy or bugle or clarinet, I have taken some lessons on the gospel harp, and if you would like to hear me I will play you these: "All things work together tor good to those who love God." Interrogation third: Why did the good God let sin or trouble come into the world when He might have kept them out? Sly reply is, He had a good reason. Ho bad reasons that He has never given us. He had reasons which He could no more make us understand in our finite stato than the father, starting out on some great and elaborate enterprise, could make the two year-old child in its armed chair compre hend It. One wiii to demonstrate what gran deur of character may be achieved cn earth by conquering evil. Had there been no evil to conquer and no trouble to console, then this universe would never have known an Abraham or a Moses or a Joshua or an Ezekiel or a Paul or a Christ or a Washington or a John Milton or a John Howard, and a million victories which have been gained by the consecrated spirits of all ages would never have been gained. Had there been no battle, there would have been no victory. Nine-tenths of the an thems of heaven would never have been sung. Heaven aould never have been a thousandth part of the heaven that it is. r will not say that I am glad that sin and sorrow did enter, but I do say that I am glad that after God has given all His reasons to an assembled universe He will be more honored than if sin and sorrow had never entered and that the unfallen celestials will be outdone and will put dowu their trumpets to listen and it will be in heaven when those who have con quered sin and sorrow shall enter as it would be in a small singing school on earth if Thalberg and Gottschaik and Wagner and Beethoven and Bheinberger and Schumann should all at onee enter. The immortals that have been chanting 10,000 years before the throne will say, as they close their librettos, "Oh, it we could only sing like tbatl" Hut God will say to those who have never fallen and consequently have not been redeemed, "You must be silent now; you have not the qualification for this an them." Bo they sit With closed lips and folded hands, and sinners saved bv grace take up the harmony, for the Bible suys "no man could learn that song but the hun dred and forty aud four thousand which were redeemed frotn the earth." A great prima donna, who can now do anything with her voice, told me that when she first started in music her teacher in Berlin told her sh? »<->"ld be a good singer, but a certain note she could never reach. "And then," she suid, " I went to work and studied and practiced for years until I did reach it." But the song o£ the singer re deemed, the Bible says, tbe exalted har monists who have never sinned could not reach and never will reach. Would you like to hear mo in a very poor way play a snatch of that tune? I can give you only one bar of the music on this gospel harp, "Unto Him that hath loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood and hath made us kiugs and priests unto God and the Lamb, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever, amen." But before leaving this Interrogatory, why God let sin come into the world, let me say that great battles seem to be nothing but suffering aud outrage at the time of their occurrence, yet nfter they have been a long while past we can see that it was better for them to have been fought, namely, Sal amis, Inkerman, Toulouse,;Arbela, Agln court, Trafalgar, Blenheim, Lexington, Sedan. But here I must slow up lest In trying to solve mysteries I add to the mystery that we; have already wondered at—namely, why preaohers should keep on after all the hearers are tired. So I gather up into one great armful all the whys and hows and wherefores of ycur life and mine, whloh we have not had time or the ability to an swer, and write on them the words. "Ad journed to eternity." I rejoice that we do not understand all things now. for if we did what would we learn in heaven? If we knew It all down here In tbe freshman and sophomore class, what would be the use of our going up to stand amid tbe juniors and the seniors? If we could out down one leg of the compass and with the other sweep a circle clear around all the insorutables, If we could lift Our little steelyards and weigh the throne of the Omnipotent, if we oould with our seven-day clock measure eternity, what would be left for heavenly revelation? So I move that we cheer fully adjourn what is now beyond our comprehension, and as, according to Rol lin, the historian, Alexander the Great, having obtained the gold casket In whloh Darius had kept his rare perfume, used that aromatic casket thereafter to kr\ep his favorite copy of Homer in nnd called the book, therefore, the "edition of the casket," and at night put the casket and his sword under his pillow, so I put this day the perfumed casket of your richest affections and hopes, this promise worth more than Homer ever wrote or sword ever oon quered, "What I do thou knowest not now, but thou sbalt know hereafter," and that I oall the "edition celestial." A TEMPEKANCE COLUMN. THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST IN MANY WAYS. The Cause of Temperance Aided by a Widespread and Enlightened Fnbllo Sentiment Which Frown* Upon Intoxi cation—The Light Wine and Beer Evil. A correspondent whose letter wo have printed, takes exception to the statement made by us, that the growth of temperance in this country in the matter ot the use ot intoxicating liquor is chiefly due to a wide spread and enlightened public sentiment which frowns upon intoxication. He as serts that the chief cause for the growth is the introduction and general use of light wines and malt liquors, particularly the latter. There would be more force in this argument of our correspondent if It was not offset by a number of highly sugges tive facts. The per capita consumption of distilled spirits in this country is less than half what it was in 1870, and as this con sumDtion includes an-enormous incrense of alcohol used in the arts, manufactures and medicines, the amount of distilled spirits used as a beverage must be on a per capita basis much smaller now than it was a generation ago. The use of light wines, or wines of all kinds in 1870 was more per capita than it is at the present time; in fact, on the per capita basis, there was more than twice as much wine drunk in this country in 1880 as there wns in 1896. When we come to malt liquors the signifi cant fact is presented that the use of these is on the decline. In the sixties, seventies and eighties there was a great Increase in the per capita amount of malt liquor used, but since the early years ot this decade the tendency has been the other way, and we should not be surprised if the consump tion of malt liquor during the present cur rent year was on the average quito two gallons per capita less than it was in 1893. As, therefore, the consumption of spirits, wines and malt liquors is decreasing, it can hardly be said that the gradual efface ment of drunkenness is due to the substi tution of one form of beverage for another. Then, too, it should not bo forgotten that the use of malt liquors and light wines has not been found In Europe to be n means of checking intemperance. The Frenoh for generations have used light wines in large quantities, and within the last two or three decades have been considerable consumers of malt liquors; but. in spite of this, since 1870 they have developed a taste for dis tilled spirits which threatens, if continued, to convert those who were formerly con sidered, in the absence ot intoxication, a temperate people, into a nation of drunk nrds. The same statement holds true ot Switzerland, whore the people have for a long time past used both beer and light wines, but are now finding the inducement to resort to distilled spirits almost irresist ible. Even In Germany, the home of beer and also of light wines, the official reports announce that there is a material growth in the average consumption of distilled liquors, a statement which we believe also holds true of the kingdom of Belgium. In England the average per capita consump tion of distilled spirits remains practically stationary. In this country—and ours is the only one—the consumption, never very large, lias been steadily decreasing. This change must be due to distinctly local causes, since the use of beer and light wines in all other parts of the world does not appear to produce the consequences which we find in our own country. In look ing about for a unique cause—that is, a cause which obviously has application here nnd does not have application elsewhere— the only discoverable one is the growth here in h murked degree of public opinion inimical to intemperance, this being the only great civilized country of the world where drunkenness brings to the drunk anl, in Mil but the very lowest classes, dis tinct social punishment, and in most in stances innteri.il business and industrial loss.—Boston Herald. Saloons Too Xumeroua. Why are saloons so numerous in the poorer districts of cities? It is not because the working people driuk more than the so called "upper class," but because they do not wield iulluence enough to keep the drink establishments from their very doors. Whether a city goes for license or no-li cense the people who live on the aristo cratic avenues aud boulevards are ulwuys sure that their surroundings will bo free from the degruding contact of the saloou. It Is manifestly unfair to crowd the streets inhabited by the working people with sa loons, while the rich are allowed to live far from the lirawls and the vice of saloon infested neighborhoods. If the men in whose hands are the grant ing of licenses wore compelled, with their families, to live iu close proximity to some of the "dives" that disgrace our cities, they would receive a much needed lesson, that, if they were just men, would make thorn more careful as to whom they granted permission to sell liquor. The nature ot the neighborhood aud the claims of the children of the poor to decent surround ings would also, we have no doubt, came in for a little of that consideration a plenti ful lack of which is shown at present by such men.—Sacred Heart Review. French Views on Temperance. The French Miuister of Public Instruc tion issued last year a decree imposing on all schools, whether for boys or girls, the necessity for giving lessons on the evils of intemperance. "Le Signal" says that the policy of this decree has been actively for warded by the University of Toulouse, which is at the hen.i of education through out a district which contains over ten thousand teachers. It has divided this district into forty sections, and summoned ull the teachers in each to hear an address on temperance teaching. A university prize will be annually awarded to the schoolmaster most successful In his temperance lessons. Last year one school master at Toulouse, Mr. Jllbaut, enrolled as pledged abstainers 1008 young folks between the ages of twelve and sixteen. An Insidious Hawaiian Drink. The Kansas City Journal thus quotes the letter of a soldier in Honolulu to his friends; "The Now York regiment here want togo home very bad. They are dying off very fast, there being a funeral from their camp almost evory day. It i9 mostly their own fault, as they won't take care of themselves, but drink and carouse around all the time. The natives make a kind of beer called 'snake.' If a white man drinks it it will make him crazy and probably kill him. One of our soldiers went to town yesterday and drank some of this 'snake.' It didn't do a thing to him but make him crazy. They had to keep him in irons most of tho night. He is ail right to-day, but walks around with a guard over him all the time." Notes of the Crttsade. Ireland has 230 distilleries; Scotland has 143. The British Army Temperance Associa tion recently held its regular half-yearly meeting in London. Lord Roberts, Com mander-in-Chief ot the armies in India, presided. Drink is an enemy to decency and up right living. Total abstinence is n reliable safeguard against the degrading influence of drink. Under a law just passed by the Vermont Legislature no town in that State need have a liquor agency, it the majority ot the people ure opposed. The editor of the Kennebec (Me.) Journal says: "There Is less drunkenness in Maine to-day than during any previous year of its existence as a State. A temperance now lecture hall and gym nasium was formally opened reoently in Dublin by the Dublin Workman's Total Abstinence Association. High Sheriff Al derman File presided at the opening cere monies. i A Trick «112 m Hotel Beat. "The strangest type of hotel beat 1 ever encountered," said a veteran New Orleans boniface, "walked into our bouse one evening about ten years ago, registered, and went directly to his room. I was at the desk, and noticed casually that he was a stout, sood-looking man, and that he wore a handsome fall overcoat. He had no baggage, and paid in advance, re marking that he had merely stopped aver en route to Qalveston, and his things had gone on. Next morning there was a terrible uproar. The stranger, it seemed, had been robbed. According to his story, he woke up to And the room in disorder and his 3oat, vest and shirt gone. He claimed to have had a gold watch, several hundred dollars and a number of valuable papers in the pockets of his coat and vest, and three diamond studs in the shirt. "I felt sure the loss was exagger ited, but there was no doubt about the things being gone, and I was on the point of compromising the claim when my lawyer—poor fellow, he's dead now—insisted on holding him off until we investigated his record. VVe soon found some of his state ments to be false, and he thereupon took alarm and quietly departed. I never saw him again, but a hotel de tective of my acquaintance encoun tered him in Chicago, and ho told me how the scheme was worked. The beat had on neither coat, vest nor shirt when he registered, and hart merely pinned a collar and cravat in side the lapels of his overcoat. It was simple as A, B, C, and made out % clear case when he raised the row in the morning."—New Orleans Times- Democrat. A Unique Postage Stamp. Canada's new penny postage stamp is unique. When Postmaster-General Mulock was in England recently he nras struck by the failure of the great mass of the people there to appreciate at their true value the portions of the British Empire beyond the sea. The thought occurred to him that no more effective object lesson of the vastness find soldarity of the empire could be given thau by presenting a picture on the new imperial penny postage stamps, contrasting the dimensions of Great Britain with those of all other Powers. The feature of the stamp is a neatly executed map of the world in miniature, distinguishing the British Empire from the possession of all other Powers. The British posses sions are printed in red, and these stand out in bold relief a dark background. Surmounting this pic ture is n representation of the crown, inderneath which is a bunch of oak tnd maple leaves, symbolizing the inity of Great Britain and Canada.— Sew York Post. Boston Outshine* tlie World. Boston claims to be the best-lighted •ity in the world, not excluding any if the European capitals, the Hub City leading by a large majority in the number of electric lamps it possesses oer tliousaud inhabitants. The fig ures are as follows: Boston ..1232 S'ew York Ks!i Dhlctigo 730 3an Francisco 6KO ■it. Louis 660 DlncinDHtl 851 Philadelphia .' 375 ilsltlmore 373 Srooklyu 286 I'ienna 241! Edinburgh 212 Paris 185 London IS4 Berlin 17X ]®M ever ; !§£€3§M : | Storm i® : !Sinner? ; 5 We never did; but we hsve Cm seen the clothing at this time » of the year so covered with | J dandruff that it looked as if it n had been out in a regular snow- > jj storm. | No'need of this snowstorm. I As the summer sun would ' < melt the falling snow so will | HaSf S Vigor ' melt these flakes of dandruff in | the scalp. It goes further than > this: it prevents their formation. , It has still other properties: I it will restore color to gray hair > in just ten times out ®f every , * ten cases. 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A Life-Sketch of Major Marcliand. | Major Marcliand, who was born on i November 22, 1863, at llioissey, in i the Department of Aine, began life as a notary's clerk, a career he soon re linquished for the army. In 1883 he i entered the Marines, and was in the I same year sent to Africa. After hav ing attained the rank of Snb-Lieu : tenant he entered the Military School at Saint Maixent, whence he was sent to Senegambia. Iu February, 1889, he was present at the siege of Koundian, where he was slightly wounded. In 1890 he proceeded to , explore the sources of the Niger and the region of Segon, and for some years supplied the French Govern ment aud geographical societies with | important details and descriptions of | his numerous exploration. At the | taking of Diena he was severely | wounded, and returned to Paris con j valescent. In July, 1891, he was ! nominated French agent at Sikouso, and ever since he has been engaged in an almost incessaut warfare with savage chieft#ius and in geographical 1 exploration.—Loudon Chronicle. To Save the Elephant. A Frenchman, M. Bourdarie by ; name, is agitating just now iu the interests of the elephant. He is ap pealing to the French Government and the King of the Belgians for sup | port. Every year 40,000 elephants • are killed in Africa for the sake of their ivory, aud M. Bourdarie fears ! that, like the buffaloes in America, these useful animals will become ex ; terminated if something is not done to limit the number killed. He con i aiders that the elephant instead of j being destroyed should be protected ' to serve the future agriculturists of i Central Africa, as the elephant is the j only animal that can work in these | regions. 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