Why H. hrnewrd tils Youth.
"Why, Brother Dickey, I hardly knew
you, you're looking go young and spryl
What's up now?"
"Well, uh, I's atudyin' 'bout gittin'
married crgin dat's all."
"Getting married?"
"Yes, suh, I mad de 'qtiaintance cr a
young gal t'er day, en she 'lowed dat ef
I'd shave off my gray whiskers, en' chop
off de hair what on my head, en' stop
limpin' wid de rheumatism, en' wear
cloze what come out de sto', en' smoke
se-gars, 'stidder pipe, en' stop prcachin'
'gin dancin', en' secure my life in her
favor fer one hundred dollars, she'd
marry me. Dat's how come I look so
young!"
I'nnl'l for Anonjmiini Loiter Wrltrrs.
Don't fail to tell the editor you are
going to quit taking his paper.
Don't neglect to say you "know
whereof you speak."
Don't forget to declare that you ex
pect he "will be too cowardly to print
this."
Don't waste time trying to disguise
your handwriting. Nobody will bother
over it.
Don't let your conscience trouble you
afterward. You have neither put gray
hairs in the editor's head nor caused
him to lose sleep.
Don't give up if your letter is not re
ferred to the next morning. Keep on
buying the paper and watching for it.
Th. Old Hntilt.
"That's a new arrival in heaven." re
marked the shade of Sherlock Holmes;
"also he was accustomed to wearing a
soft hat on earth."
"Marvelous!" exclaimed the other
shade admiringly; "how do you know?"
"Simple enough. Whenever he has
oscasion to tip his halo he tries to grab
it by the crown."
His Veracity Alain Impeached.
"When we speak of the 'Father of
Lies,' said the Sunday School teacher,
"whom do we mean?
''IlerosJotos'promptly answered a lit
tle Boston boy who happened to be in
the class.
it Iff beat Award on tuvua and Chouolato
The Judges of the Pan-Aincricnu Ex.
position, Buffulo, have awarded three
gold medals to Walter linker & Co.,
Limited, Dorchester, Mass., for I lie su
periority of their Brenkfnst Cocoa nnd
nil of their cocoa and chocolate prepa
rations, and the excellence of their
exhibit. This Is the thirty-seventh
highest award received by them fioi.i
the great expositions In Europa cud
America.
JRnrely Experienced.
"So Floaters has at last got a Job
with tho corporation, eh?"
"Yes, and a good sulury ho gets,
too."
"For doing nothing, of course?"
"Yes, but you mustn't forget tbnt
ho brings a lifetlmo of experleuco 111
that line." Klcbmoud Dispatch.
Care of tho ' oiuplexloii.
Many persons with delicate akin suffer
greatly in winter from chapping. Frequent
ly the trouble arlftsa from the una of Impure
aoapa and cheap calves. The face and hands
should be wanned only In clear, hot water
with Ivory Hoap. A little mutton-tallow or
almond jill may be used after the bath to
often bs akin. Eliza H. Pabueb.
Some people never attempt to look
plensant except when they arc having
their pictures taken.
A woman can't throw a stone, but she
ean heave a sigh.
It takes a pretty sharp fellow to flatter
successful. .
Bad Coughs
" I bad a bad cough for tlx
weeks and could find no relief
until I tried Ayer'a Cherry Pecto
ral. Only one-fourth of the bottle
cured me."
L. Hawn, Newlngton, Ont.J
Neglected colds always
lead to something serious.
They run into chronic
bronchitis, pneumonia,
asthma, or consumption.
Don't wait, but take
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
just as soon as your cough
begins. A few doses will
cure you then.
Tins slits t 2c, tic., tl. All aratrlils.
Con.ult rour doctor. If ha says take It,
then do as he .sr.. If ha tell you nut
to take It, then don't take It. He knows.
LeaVe It with him. Wo are willing.
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Liver Pills
That's what you need: some
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THE SWEET INFLUENCES.
Dr. Ta Image Says We Are Affected for
Good or Evil By forces That We
Seldom Recognize.
Th Importance of Good Actions Qod Helps
Us to Uvt Right.
(Coprrlfrht,
Wasmiwotoi, D. C In this discount
Dr. Taltnage demonstrates thnt we ara
affected by forces that we seldom recog
nise and enlarges upon human accounta
bility. The text is Job xxxviii, 31,
"Canst thou bind the sweet influences of
riciades?"
What is the meanini of that question
which God put to Job? Have we nil our
lives been reading it, and are most of us
ignorant of its beauty and power and
practical auftgeativeness? .A meaningless
passage of fcicripture many thought it to
be, but the telescopes were busy age after
age, and astronomical observations kept
on questioning the skies until the mean
ing of my text comes out lustrously. The
l'leiades is a constellation of seven stars
appearing to the linked eye, but scien
tific instruments reveal more than 400
properly belonging to the group. Alcyone
is the name of the brightest star of that
?roup called the l'leindes. A Russian as
ronomer observed that Alcyone is the
centre of gravitation of our solar system.
Kngh Macmillan says that the sun and its
planets wheel around that centre at the
rate of 422.000 miles a day in an oroit
which it will take 19,000,000 years to com
plete. The Pleiades appear in the spring
time and are associated with flowers and
genial warmth and good weather. The
navigation of the Mediterranean was
from May to November, the rising and
the setting of tho Pleiades. The priests
of Belus noticed that rising and setting
2000 years before Christ.
Now, the glorious meaning of my text
is plain as well as radiant. To give Job
the beautiful grace of humility God asked
him, "Canst thou bind the sweet influ
ences of the l'leiades?" Have you any
power over the laws of gravitation? Can
you modify or change an influence wielded
by a atar more than 400,000 miles away?
Can you control the winds of the spring
time? Can yon call out the flowers? How
little you know compared with omnis
cience? How little you can do compared
with omnipotence!
The probability is that Job had been
tempted to arrogance by his vast attain
ments. He was a metallurgist, a zoolog
ist, a poet, and shows by his writings he
had knowledge of hunting, of music, of
husbandry, of medicine, of mining, of
astronomy and perhaps was so far ahead
of the scholars and scientists of his time
that he may have been somewhat puffed
up; hence this interrogation of my text.
And there is nothing that so soon takes
down human pride as an interrogation
point rightly thrust. Christ used it
mightily, l'aul mounted the parapet of
his great arguments with such a battery.
Men of the world understand it. Demos
thenes began his speech to the crown and
Cicero his oration against Catiline and
Lord Chatham his most famous orations
with a question. The empire of ignor
ance is so much vaster than the empire
of knowledge that after the most learned
and elaborate disquisition upon any sub
ject of sociology or theology the plainest
man may ask a ouestion that will make
the wisest speechless. After the pro
foundest assault upon Christianity the
humblest disciple mav make an inquiry
that would silence a Voltaire.
Called upon, as we all are at times, to
defend our holy religion, instead of argu
ment that can always be answered ny
argument let us try the power of interro-
ration. We ought to be loaded with at
east half a dozen questions and always
ready, and when Christianity is assailed,
and we are told there is nothing in it and
there is no God and there never was a
miracle and that the Scriptures are un
reasonable and cruel and that there nev
er will be a judgment day, take out of
your portable armory of interrogation
something like this: What makes the
condition of woman in Christian lands
better than in heathen lands? Do you
think it would be kind in God to turn
the human race into a world without any
written revelation to explain and en
courage and elevate and save? And if a
revelation was made, which do you pre
ferthe Zenda-Vesta of the Persian or
the Confucian writings of the Chinese
or the Koran of Mohammed or our Bible?
If Christ is not a divine being, what
did He mean when He said. "Before
Abram was, I am?" If the Bible is a
bad book, what are the evil results of
reading it? Did you see any degrading
influence of the book in your father or
mother or sister who used to read it?
Do you not think that a judgment day
is necessary in order to explain and fix
up things that were never explained or
fixed up? If our religion is illogical and
an imposition upon human credulity, why
were Herschel and Washington and Glad
atone and William McKinley its advo
cates? . .
How did it happen that our religion
furnished the theme for the greatest
poem ever written, "Paradise Lost, and
to the painters their greatest themes in
the "Adoration of the Magi," "The
Transfiguration," "The Last Supper,"
"The Crucifixion," "The Entombment,"
"The Last Judgment," and that all the
schools of painting put forth their utmost
genius in presenting "The Madonna?'
Why was it that William Shakespeare
after amazing the world as he will amaze;
the centuries with the splendor and pow
er of "The Merchont of Venice," and
"Coriolanus," and "Richard III." and
"King Lear," and "Othello," and "Mac
beth." and ''Hamlet" wrote with his own
hand his last will and testament, begin
ning it with the wordR: "In the name
of God, amen! I, William Shakespeare,
of Strstford-on-Avoa. in the County of
Warwick, in perfect health and memory
(God be praised!) do make and ordain
this my last will and testament, through
the only merits of Jesus Christ, my Sav
iour, to be made partaker of life ever
lasting and my body to the earth whereof
it is made?" Had Shakespeare lost his
reason when he wrote his faith in Christ
and the great atonement? Put your an
tagonist a few questions like that, and
you will find hiin excusing himself for an
enengement he must meet immediately.
These words also recognize far-reaching
influences. Job probably had no adequate
idea of the distance of the worlds men
tioned from our world, but he knew them
to bo fur off, and we, who have had
the advautage of modern sidereal inves
tigation, ought to be still more impressed
than was Job with the question of the
text, as it puts before us the fact that
worlds hundreds of thousands of miles
distent have a grip on our world. There
are sweet influences which hold us from
afar. There may have been in our an
cestral line perhaps 200 years ago some
consecrated man or woman who has held
over all the generations since an influ
ence for good which we have no power to
realize, and we .n turn by our virtue or
vice may influence those who shall live
200 years from now. Moral gravitation
is as powerful as material gravitation, and
if, as my text teaches and science con
firms, the Pleiades, which are millions
of miles from our earth, influence the
earth we ought to be impressed with
how we may be influenced by others for
away back and how we may influence
others fur down the future. That rill
away up among the Alleghaniea, so thin
you think it will hardly find its way down
the rocks, becomes the mighty Ohio, roll
ing into the Mississippi and rolling into
the sea. That word you utter, that deed,
you do, may augment itseit as the years
go by until rivers cease to roll ana the
ocean itself shall be dried up in tha burn
iug of the world. Paul, who was all the
liuie suing important cuiuk, said noth
ing more sturtliugly suggestive than when
he declared. "Noue of us liveth or dietb
to himself. Words, thoughts, actions,
have an eternity of flight.
As Job could not bind the sweet in
fluences of the Seven Stars, as they were
called, so we cannot arrest or turn aside
the good projected long ago. Those in
fluences were started centuries before our
cradle was rocked and will reign cen
turies after, our graves ara dug. Oh, it is
a tremendous thing to live! God help us
to live aright.
Astronomers can easily locate the Ple
iades. They will take you into their ob
servatories on a clear night and aim their
revealing instrument toward the part in
the heavens wluue those seven stars have
Jheir habitudu. and tuey will uouil to tha
constellation Taurus, and you can se
for yourself. Hut it is impossible to point
to influences far hack thnt have affected
onr character and will affect our destiny.
We know the influences near by pa
ternal, maternal, conjugal but by tha
time we have gone back two generations,
or, at moat, three, our investigations
falter and fail. Through the modern,
interesting habit of searching back to
find the ancestral tree we may find a
long list of names, hut they are only
names. The conserration or abandon
ment of some one 200 years ago was not
recorded. It would not be so importnnt
if you and I. by our good or bad be
havior, blessed or blasted only those im
mediately around us, but our goodness
or our badness will reach as far as tho
strongest rav of Alcyone yea, across the
eternity. Under this consideration,
what do you think of those who give
themselves up to frivolity or idleness
and throw away fifty years of their exist
ence as though thpy were shells or peb
bles or pods instead of embyro eternities?
I suppose one of the greatest surprises
of the next world will be to cee what
wide, far-reaching influence for good or
evil we have all exerted. I am speaking
of ourselves, who are only ordinary peo
ple. But who can fully appreciate the
far-reaching good done by men of wealth
in Great Britain for the working classes
Mr. Lister, of Bradford; Edward
Akroyd, of Halifax; Thomas Rikes, of
Huddcrsfiold; Joseph Wentworth, and
Josiah Mason, and Sir Titus Salt? This
last great soul, with his vast wealth, pro
vided 756 houses at cheap rent for 31X10
working people, and chapel and cricket
ground and croquet lawn and concert
hall and savings bank, where they
might deposit some of their earnings,
and life insurance for those who looked
further ahead, and bathhouses and parks
and museums and lecture halls with
philosophical apparatus, the generous
example of those men of a previous gen
eration being copied in many places in
Canada and the United States, making
life, which would otherwise be a pro
longed drudgery, an inspiration and a
joy.
If something appears against us, they
soy, "Wait till I hear the other side.
If disaster shall befall us, we know from
whom would come the first condolence.
Family friends, church friends, business
friends, lifelong friends. In our heart
of hearts we cherish them.
When the heirs of a vast estate in
England wished to establish their claim
to property worth moo,0()0,000 they offered
a reward of $500 for the recovery of an
old Bible, the family record ot which
contained the evidence requisite. But
any Bible, new or old, can help us to a
vaster inheritance than the one spoken
of, one that never fades away.
The sweet (influences of the heavenly
world, which many wise men thought
for a long while was Alcyone, the centre
of the constellation of the l'leiades
world of our future residence, as we hope:
world of chorus and illumination; world
of reunion; world where we shall be
everlastingly complete; world where our
old faculties will be itensified and quick
ened and new faculties implanted; world
of high association with Christ, through
whose grace we got there at all, and
apostles and poets, Ilulmkkuk, and St.
John of Patmos, and Kdward Young, his
"Night Thoughts" turned into eternal
day; and lioratius Bonar of modern
hymnology, and Hannah More, and Mrs.
Hcmans, and Mrs. bigourney, who atruck
their harps till nations listened; and
David, the victor over Goliath with what
seemed insufficient weapons; and Joshua
of the prolonged day in Gibeon, and
Huvelock, the evangelist hero, and those
thousands of men of the sword who
fought on the right side. What company
to move in! What guests to entertain!
What personages to visit! What choirs
to chant! What banquets with lifted
chalice filled with "the new wine of the
kingdom!" What victories to celebrate!
The stories of that world and its holy
hilarities come in upon our souls some
times in song, sometimes in sermon,
sometimes in hours of solitary reflection,
and they are, to use the words of my
text, sweet influences. But there is one
star that affects us more with its sweet
influences than the centre star, the
Alcyone of the Pleiades, and that is what
one Bible author calls the Star of Jacob
and another Bible author calls the Morn
ing Star. Of all the sweet influences that
have ever touched our earth those that
radiate from Christ are the sweetest.
Born an Asiatic villager, in a mechanic's
home, living more ciuong hammers and
saws and planes than among books, yet
at twelve yeurs of age confounding robed
ecclesiastics and starting out a mission
under which those born without optio
nerve took in the clear daylight and
those afflicted with unresponsive tympa
num were made to hear and those almost
doubled up with deformities were
straightened into graceful poise and the
leprous became rubicund ana the widow's
only son exchanged the bier on which
he lay lifeless for the arms of his over
joyed mother and pronouncing nine bene
dictions on the Mount of Beatitudes and
doing deeds and speaking words which
are filling the centuries with sweet in
fluences. Christ started every ambulance,
kindled every electric ray, spread every
soft hospital pillow and introduced all
the alleviations and pacifications and
rescues and mercies of all time.
He was the loveliest being that ever
trod our earth more beauty in His eyes,
more tenderness in His manner, more
gentleness in His footsteps, more music
in His voice, more dignity in His brow,
more gracefulness in the locks that rolled
upon His shoulders, more compassion in
His soul.
Sweet influences oi the Holy Ghost,
with all His transforming and comforting
and emancipating power. When that
power is fully felt there will be no mora
sins to pardon, and no more errors to
correct, and no rrore sorrows to com
fort, and no more bondage to break. But
as the old-time ship captains watched
the rising of the Pleiades for safe navi
gation aud set sail in Mediterranean
waters, but were sure to get back into
port before the constellation Orion came
into sight the season of cyclone and
hurricane so there is a time to sail for
heaven, and that is while the sweet in
fluences are upon us and before the
storms overtake and deluy. Open nil your
soul to the light and warmth and com
fort and inspiration of that gospel
which has already peopled heaven with
millions of the ransomed and is helping
other millions to that glorious destina
tion. Do not postpone the things of God
land eternity until the storms of life
swoop and the r.gitations of a great futurs
are upon us. Do not dare wait until
Orion takes the place of the Pleiades,
Weigh anchor now and with chart un
rolled and pilot on board head for the
reunions and raptures thut await all the
souls forgiven. "And they need no
caudle, neither light nor the sun, for
the Lord God giveth them light, and
thej shall reign forever and ever.
Shocking Turklah Superstition,
: Hanon, a village on the borders nf
Anatolia, in Turkey, was the scene of
a horrible tragody a faw days ago.'
There had been an epldumlc In the
district for some weeks, and, as its
ravages ever became greater, the vil
lagers finally felt satisfied that It was '
the work of sorcerers, and, after a '
thorough investigation, thoy arrested
a man named Asian and his sister and I
openly charged them with being the
direct cause of the disease. The two
prisoners avowed their Innocence, but
the mob insisted that they had been
using incantations and Other evil
spells, and that their sole object in
doing so was to Invoke an epidemic.
Without delay sentence was pro
nounced. Asian was burned alive on
an improvised scaffold, and his sister
was mercilesaly tortured with red hot
irons.
News ot the shocking crime was at
once taken to tha local authorities and
In a few hours the principal instiga
tors were arrested. It is not believed,
however, that this step will aid much
toward the extirpation ot superstitious
Ideas in Hunan.
THE SABBATH SCHOOL
nlcrnnllonal Lesson Comments For
November 3.
Subject: Death of Joseph, flea. I., 15-26
Golden Text, Pss. xc. It Memory
Verses, 18-21 Commtafsry oa
the Day's Lesson.
Let n stt'dy currfnl'" th Intervening
histfrv. 1. .Toseph seninor for his father.
45: 17-28. fhnraoh and his servants were
well nleased when thf knew that. Joseph's
brpthren had eome. The king joins with
Joseph in sondin" for Jacob and his fnm
ilr. Great rtrn'-islons wet-e nadn for their
oumev. At first .Taeob's lienrt fainted,
for the news seemed no good to be tP",
but when ho spn- th wagons and t'i
"goo things op Eent" thnt Josenh had
sent h believed and his "tiirit, revived.
1. The innrney to Eirvpt. 4fl: 1-27.
"immediately the whn'e family prepsrcit
to move to Eirvnt wih their flocks and
reovnble Dronerty. The journey was
about miles along tho usual caravan
route, but it win i long, hard journev for
an oM man. r ith wom-n and cliild'er.
end flocVa and hrrds. W7hen they reacd
Tteer-sheba Ood sent .Tacnh n vision for his
rncoitratrement. ennfimiing the ancient
r.oniises and bidding bm go on to Eirynt.
T.'tMe could Jach si-e the real imnirtsnee
of this jnii'ney. b"t it was o-e of the links
in He chain of divine providence through
which the pro-nises were to be fulfilled."
The number of Jacob's ehiWren that went
down into Eevnt, inclnd'nir his sons' wives,
we a seenlv-five. Acts 14.
3. Tne Tolinp- of Jacob and Joeph.
4: W-34. When Jacob rec-h-d the lmd
of Ooshen Joseph went forth in his cher
iot to meet his father. Joseph fell on h;s
father's nec' "and wept on his neck a
rood while." It had bften pesrlv twenfv
three years "'nee Joseph had left his fath
er to n to Sheehem.
4. The meeting of Jacob and Thirnoh.
47: M0. "First .Tosenh selected five of
nis brethren and introduced them to
Pharaoh, who welcomed them, and hade
Joaeph pive official positions to any who
proved themselves rnen of antivitv, erev
and ability. Then. Jpenh introduced his
father to the kin-r. Here Joseph shows
the nobleness of his character in not being
ashamed of his father." Jacob's account
of his life to Phureoh is very touching.
Pin and sorrow had weighed hire down
and was brineine him to an early old ne.
6. Jacob bleasing his sons. Chanters
49, 40. The time was anproaehin" when
Jacob knew he mils': die: h is sick and
nearly blind. Josenh took his two sons.
Mnneh and Ephraire. to his father,
who blessed then. "In this scene we need
but. notice the pronhetic adoption of
Ephraim and Mmesseb pi his own sons
and hends nf tribe, nnd the "living of th
chief blersing to Enh'nim. the younger."
Ephraim became the lentHnit tribe vr.t to
Jndnh. Just before his death Jacob pro
nhesied concerning his sons and pro
nounced blessincs upon tem.
8. Jacob's death end burial. 40: 20 to
W): '4. Jneoh wn 147 years of see when
he died. Ttefo'e his death he secured n
solemn pledge from Josenh that he would
bury him in Egynt f47: W-31). and later
he charred them to bury him in the civo
where Abraham and Isaac were buried.
These instructions were enrefullv curried
out. At this time Joseph revisits th"
scenes of his boyhood, after on absence of
forty veers.
15. "Saw their father was dend." Tin's
t once argues both a sense of guilt in
their own consciences and a want of con
fidence in their brother.
10- "Thy father did commend." Al
though this is not recorded elsewhere it
was undoubtedly true. They had probeblv
asked their father to help them in their
trouble. Jacob must have advised them
to humble themselves before their brother
ana obtain a fresh assurance of his for
giveness. 17-, "."'R'e." etc. These words were
wonderfully well chosen, nnd were spo
ken in a wnv to appenl in the most forci
ble manner to Joseph's piety and filial af
fection. Ther cast themselves wholly on
his me-cy. "Joseph wept." How touch
log! He wept out of svmpathr with their
deep sorrow of manv years which nothing
but forgiveness and reconciliation could
alleviate.
18. ' Fell down Thus again and again
do we see the fulfilment of Josenh's dreams
in a remarkable manner. 37- 5-8
.19. "In the place of God." I have for
given you and the matter is now between
.you and God. I am not your judge to pun
ish you.
i.20, i"7e me!"lt evil" fn- V- And what
they did was Just as wicked as though the
results had hcen disastrous. Thev intend
ed it for evil, and God judges accordine to
the motive which prompts the act. "God
meant ,t for good" (R. V.) God over
ruled their wickedness and made it work
put rood. This fact would comfort them,
for it would be h great relief to know that
the irmry to Joseph which they had in-te-ded
had hen averted
t"v "1?we!tt.!n Fwnt." ITe continued
which was fifty-four years after the death
of his father. "His father's house." All
the descendants of Jacob remained in
rvpt 144 years after the death of Joseph.
I hey came to Egypt seventv-one years be
fore his death, which makes the entire
time m Egvpt 913 years. "An hundred and
u He was seventeen years old
when he came to Egvnt. thirteen years
were spent in slavery and prison and
eightv years on the throne: for it is proba
b'e that, he retained his high office to the
close of his life.
23. "I'pon Joseph's knees." They were
educoted by him. or under his direction;
his sons and their children continued to
acknowjpnEe b'm as patriarch, or head of
the fami.v. as long as he lived.
2t "Wi," 'ureiv, viBit .vou" Joseph had
unbounded confidence in the promises
made to his ancestors. The Egyptian
throne Jind not weaned his affections from
In - f8ff-.0i(Ii. W.V!ietl in the "ful1 ""or
ante of faith." "Bring you out." Though
ye have everything that can make life
coinfortab.e, yet this is not the land
given by covenant, the land which repre
sents the rest that remains for the pcoplo
Of tiOd.
.2.. "Carry up my bones." "That I mnv
liijallv rest with my ancestors in the land
which God gave to Abraham, and which
is a pledge as it is a type of the kingdom
of heaven." See Hcb. 11: 22. Joseph's
request was granted. When Moses de
VV, from KwPt be took Joseph's body
(hx. 13: IB), and Joshua buried him in
ehechem. Josh. 24 : 32.
20. "They embalmed him." The Egvp
tians had special physicians for each dis
ease; the emhalmers formed a class by
themselves. "In a coffin." Coffins were
not universally used in Egvpt, and Mere
only used for persons of eminence and dis
tinction. Joseph was Put, as the duty of
the embalmers, in a chest of wood, such
as may be seen in our museums to this
day. Others think Joseph's coffin was ot
stone.
TWENTV-FIVE DOLLAR LUNCIIKS.
It is pleasant to be able to teacU
even the Flgnro its Paris history. 1
read the story of Emlle, so long fam
ous as maltre d'hotel ot Dljuon's, and
the mysterious diuer who ate one
shrimp, one radish, two or three
spoonfuls of f. soup especially pre
pared for him, a mouthful of sole, a
slice from an entire chicken, a nibble
at a beefsteak, two leaves of lettuce,
four grapes, one glass of the finest
wine and a bottle of champagne that
he simply used as the ordinary indi
vidual uses rose water. His lunch
never cost less than $25, and he always
distributed 10 In tips. The Figaro
says no one know who he was. Well,
I can put the dots on the "i's" and the
crosses on the "t's" to that story. He
'was un Englishman and was familiarly
known as "Tubby" Morris. He lived
at the Grand hotel spd ihere he died
some years ago. He was one of the
rare men who made money out ot bet
ting. He could nevor pull out a news
paper without finding several bank
notes mixed up In its pages. His gon
troBlly was proverbial among the pour.
Jnat What ! Told Him to tr.
In a Massachusetts town last winter
James A. Kiis was asked by a gaunt, fu
nereal sort of chap what he should say
by way of introducing him to an as
semblage. "Oh, ' said Mr. Riis, in a spirit of
levity, "say anything you like. Say 1
am the mot distinguished citizen in the
country. They generally do."
Whereupon his funereal friend march
ed upon the stage and calmly announced
to the audience that he did not know
this man Kiis, whom he was charged
with introducing; never heard of him.
"He tells me, he went on, with never
a wink, "that he is the most distinguish
ed citizen in the country. You can judge
for yourselves when you have heard
him'
"Injnn Snmmar,"
Here is a Georgia boy's composition
on "Indian Summer:"
"Iujun Summer is the best season of
the year, 'cept swinimin' time. The days
are so still you kin hear Dad swearin'
two miles off, as well as every lick Ma
hits him with the broomstick. The rea
son it is called Injun Summer is because
they ain't no injuns in it, 'cept them
Dad sees when he comes home from
the Store with two gallons of Apple
Brandy an' says He reckons He knows
who is boss of the Household, an' no
Woman on Earth can rule him. Let us
All be Thankful for Injun Summer an'
be good till after Chris'mus."
Caree niaori anal Akin Trouble-,
medicine t rea i
If yon suffer from Ulcers, Eexema, Sorof
ula, Blood Poison, Canner, Eating Bores,
Itching Hkin, Pimples, Boila, Bone Paina,
Bwellinga, tthaumatiam. Catarrh, or any
Blood or Hkin Diaeaae, we adriae yon to take
Botanlo Blood Balm (B. B. B.). Especially
recommended for old, obatlnato, deep-seated
eases beoanse Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.)
eures where all else fall, heals every sore,
makes the blood pure and rich, gives tha skin
the rich glow of perfect heath. B. B. B., tho
most per feat blood puritlor made. Thor
oughly tested for 80 years. Costs tl per large
bottle at drng stores. To prora ft onres,
medicine sent free by writing Blood Balm
Co., 13 Mitchell Street, Atlanta,, Oa. De
scribe trouble and free medical advice also
given. Medicine sent at once, prepaid.
If the world owea us a living it ought
to get a mortgage on itself and nay its
debts.
All goods are alike to Tctmau Fadfi.ksi
Dyes, as they color all fibers at ono boiling,
Bold by all druggiats.
In many of the perfume factories ol
Europe only the purest olive oil is used
in fixing the perfumes of flowers.
What's the use of buying trouble when
you can borrow it?
How's Tllla?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward foi
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Chenkt A Co., Props., Toledo, O.
We, tho undersigned, hare known F.J. Che
ney for the last 15 years, and behove him per
fectly honorable in all business transaction!
and financially able to carry out any obliga
tion made by their firm.
Wrst ft Tbcax, Wholesale Druggiats, Toledo,
Ohio.
Waloiko, Kinnan A Marvik, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Price, 75c. per hot!"
Sold by all Drnggiats. Testimonials free.
Hall's Family Pills are the boat.
The girl who thinks ahe can marry any
man she pleases may live to discover tb'
she doesn't please any of them.
Beat For the Bowels.
No matter what ails you, headache to a
cancer, you will nevor get well until your
bowels are put right. Cascaketb help nature,
euro you without a gripo or pain, produos
easy natural movements, coat you just 10
cents to start gotting your health book. Oas
0 abets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up
in metal boxes, every tablet has O.C. 0.
stamped on it. Bownro of imitations.
Few people get out of breath blowing
about their own achievements.
FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervons
nsss after first day's uas of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Reatorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free
Dr. B. H. Kiwi, Ltd., 9B1 Arch Bt., Phila. Pa.
Crumbs of comfort may be all right,
but they don't make a square meal.
Vn. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup forohlldren
teething, soften the gums, reduces inflaaima
tion(allys pain, cures wind eolie. 25o s bottl e
Any tramp will tell you that a dog in
the mangel is worth two in the front yard.
I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption sarad
my life three years ago. Mas. Tmomas Bos
sins, Maple St., Norwioh, N.Y., Feb. 11, 1900.
Singular people Old maids and bache
lors. Social elements are queer things. Even
the washerwoman must draw the line
aomewhere.
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With many millions of families Syrup of Figs has become the
ideal home laxative. The combination is a simple and wholesome
one, and the method of manufacture by the California Fig Syrup
Company ensures that perfect purity and uniformity of product,
which have commended it to the favorable consideration of the
most eminent physicians and to the intelligent appreciation of all
who are well informed in reference to medicinal agents.
Syrup of Figs has truly a laxative effect and acts gently with
out in any way disturbing the natural functions and with perfect
freedom from any unpleasant after effects.
In the process of manufacturing, figs are used, as they are
pleasant to the taste, but the medicinally laxative principles of the
combination are obtained from plants known to act most bene
ficially on the system.
lo det its beneficial effects-
bviy the eruinerManjfactjred by
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" I have not yet found a case of ovarian or womb trouble which
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You have brought health to hundreds of women in Minneapolis as
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outshoot all other black powder shells, becsuse they are msdn
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ALL REPUTABLE DEALERS KEEP THEM
$900 TO $1500 A YEAR
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Traveling Representatives cr Local Managera)
salary hoo to tijoo a year and all expense,
according to experience and ability. We also
want local representatives sa!sry fa to tis a
week and commission, depending r.pon the urn
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at position prefcred. Address, Dept. B.
THK BE1X COMPANY. Philadelphia. Ia.
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