Why He ken wed Rli Yiiuth. "Why, Brother Dickey, I hardly knew you, you'r looking 10 young and spryl What's up now?" "Well, suh, I'j tudyin' 'bout gittin' married ergin dat's all." "Getting married?" "Yes, suh, I made de 'qiiaintance er 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 sc-gars, 'stiddcr pipe, en' stop preachin' '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!" Dont's for Anonymnti Letter Wrltrra. 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. The Olil Hnhlt. "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." Ill Veracity Again Impeached. "When we speak of the 'Father of Lies,' said the Sunday School teacher, "whom do we mean?' "Hcroiotos'promptly answered a lit tle Boston boy who happened to be in the class. .Highest Award on Couoa uU choooiato The Judges of the Fan-Ainericnii Ex position, Buffalo, have awarded three gold medals to Walter Itnlivi- & Co., Limited, Dorchester, Mnss., for l he su periority of their Breakfast Cocou niul nil of their coeofi nud chocolate prepa rations, and the excclronce of their exhibit. This Is the thlity-seventh highest award received by them fior.i the great expositions In Etirops cud America. Karely Experienced. "So Floaters lins nt last got a Job with tho corporation, eh?" "Yes, and a good salary he gets, too." "For doing nothing, of course?" "Yes, but you mustn't forget that ho brings a lifetime of cxperleuco lu that Hue." lilchmoud Dispatch. Care ot the ' outple-luit. Many persons with delicate skin suffer f:reatly In winter from chapping. Freqnent y the trouble arises from the line of Impure soaps and cheap tnlves. The face and hnml should be wanked only In clear, hot water with Ivory Soap. A little mutton-tallow or lmondjnl may be used after the bath to soften Sh$ skin. Eliza H. Pabkeb. Some people never attempt to look pleasant except when they are having their pictures taken. A woman can't throw a stone, but she can heave a sish. It takes a pretty sharp fellow to flatter succesaf ul)y. Bad Coughs " I had a bad cough for six weeks and could find no relief until I tried Ayer's Cherry Pec to. ral. Only one-fourth of the bottle cured me." L. Hawn, Newlngton, Ont., 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. Tarst slitsi 1U., He., SI. All Initials. Contult your doctor. It he says take It, theu do at he says. If he tell you not to take It. then don't take It. He knows. Leave It with lilm. We are willing. J. C. 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C In this discourse Dr. Talmage demonstrates tlint we are .fleeted by forces that we seldom recog nise and enlarges upon human accounta bility. The text la Job xxxviii, 31 "Canxt thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades?" What is the meaning of that question which God put to Job: Have we all our lives been reading it, and are most of us ignorant of its beauty and power and practical suggeativeness? . A meaningless passage of Scripture 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 Pleiades is s constellation of seven stars appearing to the naked eye, but scien tific instruments reveal more than 400 properly belonging to the group. Alcyone is the nnme of the brightest star of that froup called the Pleiades. A Russian as ronomer observed that Alcyone is the centre of gravitation of our solar system. Hugh Macmillan says that the sun and its planets wheel around that centre at the rate of 422.000 miles it day in an oroit which it will take 19,000,000 years to com- rlete. The Pleiades appear in the spring ime and are associated with flowers and genial warmth and good weather. The navigation of the Meuiterranean was from May to November, the rising and the setting of the 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 bim, "Canst thou bind the sweet influ ences of the Pleiades?" Have you any power over the laws of gravitation? Can you modify or change an influence wielded by a star more than 400,000 miles away? Can you control the winds of the spring time? Can yon call out the flowers? How little vou know compared with omnis cience? How little you can do compared with omnipotencel 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 bad 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 tin; 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. Paul 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 raster than the empire of knowledge that after tho most learned and elaborate disquisition upon any sub ject of sociology or theology the plainest man may ask a n notion that will make the wisest speechless. After the pro roundest 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 nortable 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 dny 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 stone 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 amazs the centuries with the splendor and pow er of "The Merchant of Venice," and "Coriolanus," and "Richard III.," and "King Lear." and "Othello," and "Mac beth." and "Hamlet" wrote with his own hand his Inst will and testament, begin ning it with the words: "In the name of God, amen! I, William Shakespeare, of Stratford-on-Avon, in the County of Warwick, in perfect health and memory (God be praised!) do make and ordain this my last will and testament, through tho only merits of Jesus Christ, my Sav iour, to be msde 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 tagonixt a few questions like that, and you will find him excusing himself for an encngemcnt 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 be far off, and we, who have had the advantage 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 distant 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 m turn by our virtue or vice may influence those who shall live 200 years from now. Moral gravitation is as powerful as material pavitation, and if, as my text teaches and science con firms, tho 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 fur away back and how we may influence others fsr 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 itself as the years go by until rivers cease to roll and the ocean itself shall be dried up in the burn ing of the world. Paul, who was all the lime buying luii'ortaui tuius, said Dom ing more sturtlingly suguestive than when he declared. "Nmie 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 Seveu 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 are dug. Oil, it is a tremendous thing to livel God help us to live aright. Astronomers can easily locato the Ple iades, Thoy will take you into their ob servatories on a clear night and aim their reveuliiig instrument toward the part in the heavens where llnue seven stars have Jtieir habitude, and thuv will uulut to the constellation Taurus, and you ran see for yourself. But it is impossible to point to influences far back that have affected our character and will sffect our destiny. We know the influences near by pa ternal, maternal, conjugal but by the time we have gone back two generations, or, at most, 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, but they are only names. The consecration or abandon ment of some one 200 years ngo was not recorded. It would not be so important if you and I, by our good or bad be havior, blessed or blasted only those im mediately around lis, but our goodness or our badness will reach as far as the strongest ray 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 they were shells or peb bles or pods instead of embyro eternities? I suppose one of the greatest surprises of tne next world will be to see what wide, far-reaching influence for good or evil we have nil exerted. I am speaking of ourselves, who ere only ordinnry 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 Rikcs, of Hudtlersfiold; Joseph Wentworth, and Josiah Mason, and Sir Titus Salt? This last great soul, with his vast wealth, pro vided 750 houses at cheap rent for 3000 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 balls 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 agsinst us, they say. "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 vnst estate in England wished to establish their cluim to property worth 1100,000,000 they offered a reward of ?300 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, ono that never fades away. The sweet rinHuencee of the heavenly world, which many wise men thought for a long while was Alcyone, the centre of the constellation of the Pleiudes 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, Ilabakkuk, and St. John of Putmos, and Kdwurd Young, his "Night Thoughts" turned into eternal day; and Horatius Bonur of modern hymnology, and Hannah More, and Mrs. Remans, and Mrs. teigourney, who struck their harps till nations listened; and David, the victor over Goliath with what Beenied insufficient weapons; and Joshua of the prolonged day in Gibeon, and Havelock, the evangelist hero, and those thousands of men of the sword who fought on the right side. What company to move in I 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 Bibla 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 among hammers and saws and planes than among books, yet at twelve years of age confounding robed ecclesiastics &:id starting out a mission under which those born without optio nerve took in the clear daylight nud 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 and 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 tilling the ecu curies 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 more 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 and 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 delay. Open all 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 twoop and the saltations of a great future are upon us. Do not dure 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 that await all the souls forgiven. "And they need no candle, neither light nor the sun, for ;the Lord God giveth them light, and tho) shall reign forever and ever." ((hocking Turkish Superstition. ' Haran, a village on the borders nf Anatolia, in Turkey, wan the sctine of a horrible tragedy a few days ago.' There had been an eptdemlo In the dlHtrlot for some weeks, and, as Its ravages ever became greater, the vil lagers Anally felt satisfied that It was the work of sorcerers, and, after a thorough Investigation, they arrested a man named Asian and his sister and openly charged them with being thfl direct causo 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 mercilessly tortured with red hot Irons. News of the shocking crime was at once taken to the 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 tfce extirpation of superstitious ideas In Ilanan. THE SABBATH SCHOOL ntcroallonal Lesson -Comments November 3. For Subject: Death ot Joseph, Oca. I., 15-26-Goldcn Text, Pss. xc, 11 Memory Verses, 18-21 Commentary oa the Day's Lesson. Let us sti'dv careful'" th interrcntng historv. 1. .Toseph sending for his father. 4.1: 17-28. rhnraoh and his servants were well nles"d when thei knew that Joseph's brethren had come. The king joins with Joseph in sendiw for Jacob and his fam ilv. Great nrnvirn'ors wi nsde for their nurnev. At first, Jacob's heart fainted, for thi news seemed oo good to be r", but when he spi' th" wagons snd th "good thin" o Efmf" tlmt Josenh had sent h heli"vod and his nirit revived. The ion icy to Eirvpt. 4fl: 1-07. "immediately the who's family prrpnred to move to Eeynt with their flocks end trovnhlo prnnerty. Th journey was about "SO miles along the muni caravan route, but it wa n long, hard ionrnev for an old man. vif.h wn""n and children, snd flncfrs pnd herd. When thnv rarld Becr-sheha God sent Jacob a vision for his encouragement, confirming the ancient n-omises nnd bidding h'm go nn to Eorynt. Ltt' could Jacob rft the real ininortsnee of this jou'-ney h"t it was on of th links in the chain of divine providence thrntmb which the pro-picien were to be fulfilled." The number of Jacob's children thst went down into Ecvnt, including his sons' wives, w-s s seventy-five. Acts 7: 14. 3. Tne r"tinf of Jacob ard Joseph. 41: '8-34. When Jacob rerhd the l"nd of Goshen .Toeph went forth in his chr iot to meet his father. Joseph fell on h'S fath"r's nco'c "and wept on his neck a rood while." It had bcn pesrlr twentv three years 'nee Joseph had left his fath er to "n to Shechem. 4. The meeting of Jscoh and TMmraoh. 47: 1-10. "First Joseph, selected five of his brethren and introduced thm to Pharaoh, who welcomed them, and bsde Joseph pive official positions to any who proved themselves mn o' s"tivifv. ene-TV snd ability. Thn Jo'enh introdnerd his father to the Vinr. Here Joseph shows the nobleness of his character in not being ashamed of his father." Jacob's account of his life to Phsreoh is very touching. Pin and sorrow hd weighed him down and wss brineing him to an early old nc. (5. Jacob blessing his sons. Chanters 40. The time was anp-oachin when Jacob Vnew he mus: die: h" is sick and nearly blind. Jnenh took hi" two sons. Mannh snd Ephraim. to his father, who blessed them. "In this scene we need but notice thi pronhetie adoption of Ephraim and Minessch r-i his own ons and bends of tribe", and the giving of th chief Merging to EpbHiim. the vounger." Fphr.iim became the lendinrt tribe nxt to .Tudah. Just before his death Jacob pro phesied concerning hii sons and pro nounced blessincfl upon tlem. 8. Jacob's death end burial. 40: 20 to n: J1"-0" wn" venrs of aee when he died. Befn-e his death he secured a solemn pledge from .Toaenh that he would bury him in Egypt '47: ?0-31). and later he charred them to bury him in the cave where Abraham and Isnac were buried. These instructions were carefullv curried out. At. this time Jonph revisits th" scenes of his boyhood, after an absence of fortv yeirs. 15. '"Saw their father was desd." This k once argues both a sense of guilt in their own consciences ond n want of con fidence tn their brother. 10. "Thy father did command. Al though this is not recorded elsewhere it was undoubtedly true. Thev had probshlv jsked the.r father to help'them in their rouble. Jncob must have advised them to humble tliemseb-cs before their brother and obtain a fresh assurance of his for giveness. 17 "Forgive " etc. These words were wonderfully well chosen, and were spo ken in ft wnv to appenl in the moot forci ble manner to Joseph's piety and filial af fection. Thev cost themselves wholly on his roe-cy. "Joseph wept." How touch ing! He wept out of sympathv with their rtecp sorrow of manv years which nothing hut forgiveness and reconciliation could alleviate. .I8- "Fc!',,nw?;" Thus again snd again do we see the fulfilment of .Toicnh's dreams in a remarkable manner. 37- (i-R .10. 'In the place of God." I have for given you and the matter is now between you and t,od. I am not your judge to pun ish you. tl,20' -iT8 me?nt evil" fR- V-) And what they did waj just ss wicked as though the results had heen disastrous. Thev intend ed it for evil, and God judges accordinir to the motive which prompts the act. "God m,ltllt f0r-,;",Jrl" (R' V- Gf"1 over ruled their wickedness and made it work f d' i J18 fact wouM comfort them, for it would be great relief to know that to- 7Vv Jo,eph ;,,ich thcy ld in tended had been averted. in22i "?weI .,in pgynt." He continued whinhT' ,1,tha time of his death, of his father. "His father's house." All l!WniT;nt!ants ,of 'I001' remained in tZ 4 vfar?,nft the death of Joseph. I hey came to Egypt seventv-one years be fore Ins death, which mskes the entire Ze?J!Pt3S year"' "An h"red and ten esrs. He was seventeen years old when he came to Egvpt. thirteen years ZhtvT"4 i"4f,MSr7 nd PHsonTnd e ightv years on the throne: for it i. proba- cloe,e oVhl!f,te,Bed hU hiEh ffice t0 th" J!?' t"VPi.on OTePh' knees." Thev were educated by him, or under his direction; his sons and their children continued to jekpowledge h;m as patriarch, or head of the fami.v. ttn on , ,e iv(1(1 2u "iVi," mrely. visit you" Joseph had unbounded confidence in the promise, made to his ancestors. The Egvptisn throne hnd pot weaned his sffertions from InL Z, VrJ'e in the "fu" assur ance of faith." "Bring you out." Though ye have everything that can make life comfortab.e, yet this is not I he land given by covenant, the land which repre sents the rest that remains for the pcoplo of ( toa. 23. "Cany im my bones." "That I mav i rrsl; Wltl' mV nncestors in the land which God gave to Abraham, and which is a pledge ris it is a type of the kingdom of heaven." See Heb. 11: 22. Joseph's request was granted. When Moses de-?Z- ,,from kB'P' ',e tok Joseph's bodv Ihx. 13: IB), and Joshua buried him in Bliechem. Josh. 24: 32. 20. "They embalmed him." The Egvn tians had special phyjicians for each dis ease; the embalmers formed a class by themselves. "In a coffin." Coffins were not universally used in Egvpt, and were only used for persons of eminence and dis tinction. Joseph was put, as the duty of tho embalmers, in a chest of wood, such as may he seen in our museums to this day. Others think Joseph's coffin was of stone. TWENTY-FIVE DOLLAR LUNCHES. It is pleasant to be able to teach, even the Figaro its Paris history. 1 read the story of Emlle, so long fam ous as maltre d'hotel of Bijnon's, and the mysterious dinar who sto one shrimp, one radish, two or three spoonfuls of r. soup especially pre pared for him, a mouthful of sole, a slice from an entire chicken, a nlbblo at a beefsteak, two leaves ot 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. HIa lunch never cost loss than $25, and he always distributed $10 In tips. The Figaro says no one knew who be was. Well, I can put the dots on the "I's" and the crosses on the "fs" to that story. He 'was an Englishman and was familiarly known as "Tubby" Morris. Ha lived at the Grand hotel and there he died some years ago. He was one ot 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. Hie gen erosity was proverbial among the poor. Just Vht he Told II I m In Our. 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 I am the most 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 Riis, 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 "Injun nmmer." Here is a Georn-ia boy's composition on "Indian Summer:" "Iujun Summer is the best season of the year, 'ccpt swinimin' time. The days are so still you kin hear Dad swearin' two miles off, S3 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 A.pple 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." Cnros nieort mid Skin Trouble Medicine t re t If you suffer from Ulcers, Eosema, Scrof ula, Blood Tolson, Cancer. Eating Sores Itching Skin, Pimples, Boils, Bone Pains, Swellings, tlhnumatism, Catarrh, or any Blood or Hkin Disease, we advise yon to tnko Botanlo Blood Balm (B. B. B.). Especially recommended for old, obstlnato, deep-seated sues because Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) cures where all else fail, heals every sore, makes the blood pure and rich, gives the skin the rich glow of perfect heath. B. B. B., tho most perfeet blood purifier made. Thor oughly tested for 80 years. Costs 1 per large bottle at drug stores. To prove ft cures, 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 owes us a living it ought to get a mortgage on itself snd pay its debts. All goods are alike to Putnam Facklxsi Dtes, as they color all fibers at ono boiling. Bold by all druggists. 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 ThlsT Wo offer One Hundred Dollars Howard foi any cose of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, F. J. Chknky A Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F.J.Che ney for the last 15 years, and believe him per fectly honorable in all business transaction! and financially able to carry out any obliga tion made by their firm. West A Thuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Wai.dino, Kikmam A Mabvin, Wholesalt Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, sat ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Prico; 75c. per botf Sold by all Drnggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. The girl who thinks she can marry any man she pleases may live to discover tb' she doesn't please any of them. Best For the Vowels. No matter what ails you, headache to cancer, yoa will never get well until your bowels are put right. Cascabkts holp nature, euro you without a gripa or pain, produos easy natural movements, cost you Just 10 cents to start gotting your health back. Oas oabsts Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Bcwaro of imitations. Few people get out of breath blowing about their own achievements. FITS psrmanen lly cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Norve Bestorer. (2 trial bottle and treatis free Dr. B. H. Kuwb, Ltd., 981 Arch St., Phila. P. Crumbs of comfort may be all right, but they don't make a square meal. Mrs. Winslaw's Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften the gums, reduces infUmma tion,altays pain, cures wind oolie. 25o a bottle 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 Consnmptioa saved my life three years ago. Mas. Thomas Bos biks, Maple St., Norwich, N.Y., Feb. 17, 1800. Singular people Old maids and bache lors. Bocial elements are queer things. Even the washerwoman must draw the line somewhere. To 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 aud 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 tet its beneficial effects - bviy the .criirrMar.ufaciv.rccl by louiaville.Ky. Sal rrartciaeo.CeJ. Mcw YorhHM for av ali Mrs. Ellen Ripley, Chaplain Ladies Aid, Grand Army of the Republic, No. 7, 222 10th Ave., N. E., Minneapolis, Minn., Strongly Endorses Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. " Dear Mrs. Pinkham : Your Vegetable Compound cured me of ulceration of the womb, and getting such a complete cure I felt that the medicine had genuine merit and was well worth recommending to other sick women. " For fifteen years I have been your friend. I have never written you before, but I have advised hundreds of women to take your medicine, in fact it is the only real reliable remedy I know of for a sick woman. " I have not yet found a case of ovarian or womb trouble which has not been relieved or cured by the faithful use of Lydia E. Pinkham'fs Vegetable Compound. ' You have brought health to hundreds of women in Minneapolis as you have no doubt to others over the cour try." Mrs. Ellen Ripley. $BOOO FOnPKIT IF THE ABOVE LETTER IS JfOT GEXUINE. When women are troubled with irregular or painful menstruation, weakness, louoorrhcea,displacement or ulceration of the womb, that beer-ingr-down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, backache, flatulence, general debility, indigestion, and nervous prostration, they Bhouid remembrir there is one tried and true remedy. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles. No other medicine in the world has received 6uch widespread and unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has such a record of cures of female troubles. Refuse to buy any other medicine. I ' ?vW' 'tilM MADE'?:"-' e?23U l'V' J V IV.yra Cmnot (hprfpiitftMonof W. iliuen lir style, roinf Ait oilier matvO tukd BUS J '1 ,Ja I f kf'i' ' eel lent reputation hns tirv Jf AiVAa-sw W.L.Doutil.WDli. i &j??3mm r i-'ti.m 1 c'Ile:it reputation w .l.jjoui.ui jJ JX the beat $3.ojnnci ,r Tttiiataiiii 1. 1 heitundnrtl bo hirh that the tor liii mrnifT In hopg than he run iff. oiw where. Doner 1m make And sell more. &1.00 and &3.&0 shoe liny other tw manufacturer In the world. 1 nt i sP.vnlrt staosl. W. L. ItourUsj M and fS.tOsJiO sir of ibe hm bltfci crarf lillir arc J art aa t4 la rj wny. RalA hv fit fk)ua!a 1 w i S i 10 wearer at vnr prajit ; ana ine tm mne jfL lu "l"t I' I tout heavy, medlnm, W. X. Douirlaa, wi "MEW RIVAL" FACTORY LOADED SHOTGUN SHELLS outshoot sll other black powder shells, because they are mad-! better and loaded by exact machinery with the standard brands of powder, shot and wadding. Try them and you will be convinced. ALL REPUTABLE DEALERS KEEP THEM $900 TO $1500 A YEAR We want Intelligent Men and Women aa Traveling Representatives or Vocal Mauagenj aalarr (900 to Siyxt a year and all exvenaea, ccordlng to experience and ability. We alao want local repreMntatlvea : aalary $g to fij week and comminnton, depending upon the lime ievoted. Bend etarap for full particulara aa4 ate poiltloa prefered. Addreaa, Dept. B. IHU BEIX COMPANY. Philadelphia, r. nJlNDaOME AMERICAN I.ADY, Indepen dently rich, wont! good, honest husband. Ail drsss Hlr. B., ST .Vlarhet Hi., Chicago, 111. Use CERTAINS CURE. ! ULM IV ' V IXX M I C . Ik ' REFRE5rtlHG and ActI3 - PLEASAMTLY and (Jehtly. '0VErCOp.fc" pERMAKEIiTLY psuoeisTS Ed?c Line U EsIso at An Mny price. i Iouliui.:i.ttlAtn.i urt (Ami wffir hM f xf Uc nt tliena price. Th1 ex tn-vii won nj- meruit ion hhh's nitvr id g'Tr ix-i- n tlun other .cofta nuiM- hit repntntlon ir Mj ulifiui limit be main H.f - o ln J:Malw.yi beenpliv wearer reretve fooro :i tho W. L. Douelnt M.U) omI ! ti tad 90 alsMa. frtv 4n Amrriran elfin when on receipt of rrlei tional for carriRfre, 1 ment of foot tki shown: desired: 1e atA wlitiTi mtiallT worn: Dlainorcau or light ulen. Brockton. Ma as. WILIS PILLS 3IQ3EST 0FFE1 E-1 MADE, For only IO Cents ws will seal to mar P. O. 1. dress, lu days, treatment of the oHt uieilolnsji earth, and put you oa tua trok aowr to uitks tf on ryrlhtst vour home, Addrt all or.lar u 1'ae K. II. Wills tleiliolii l o.B)p.iiir, l Kliait. bethtt., tlasjeratovrn, .Mil. Itrannu il jiatt lXUIuillaiiii Ave., Washington. I. C. Vrea. Bi. . M. Void Medal at DnfTato Kxpnsltloa. McILHENNY'S TABASCO II rftlO THIS PAPER. UN O.i. it sa. . Mr I Ca i ALoa Frkk. aetUnfi dirrrt ,f ram factory m leatcrs exennenere, m gUw fsbotawllh I and Mc. ftiil. ASigZ . mam0 Iro Rr m Q Bice JO PGR DOT r Li
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