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Juuh oirup. Taslva Uood. UH i lime. Hold ny flruKltlsts. I - En 1W mm bsJ vV h mm in i iiftismi WHEN SUN OF LIFE SETS Dr. Talmage Says the Christian Finds Fulfillment in (he Time of Old Age. The Light of the Evening Tide Last Hours Illumined. ashinqtos, D. C In this subject Dr. TalmsRe puts a glow of gladness and triumph upon passages of life that arc usu ally thought to be somewhat gloomy; text, arhnrinh xiv, 7, "At evening time it shall be light." While "night" In all languages is th symbol for gloom and suffering, it is often really rlieeiiul, bright and impressive. sprnk not of such nights as come down with no star pouring light from above ot silvered wave tossing up light, from be neathmurky, hurtling, portcntious, but such as you often see when the pomp and mognificence of heaven turn out on night parade, and it seems as though the song which the morning stars begun so long ago were chiming yet among the constellation! and the sons of God were shouting for joy. Such ights the sailor blesses from the fore cnstle, nnd the trapper on vast prairie, and ike belated traveler by the roadside, and the soldier from the tent, earthly hosti gazing upon hravenly and shepherds guard ing their flocks afield, while angel hanU above them set the silver bells a-ringing, "Ulory to fiod in the highest and On earth pence; good will toward men." What a solemn and glorious thing is night in the wilderness! Night among the mountains! Night on the ocean! Fra grant night among tropical groves-! Flash ing night amid arctic severities! Calm night on Roman campagnal Awful night among the cordillcras! Glorious night mid sea after a tempest! Thank God for tho night! The moon and the stors which rule it are lighthouses on the coast toward which I hope we are all sailing, and blind mariners are we if, with so many beaming, burning, flaming glories to guide us, we cannot rind our way into the harbor. My text may well suggest that, as the natural evening is often luminous, so it shall be light in the evening of our sorrows, of old sge. of the world's history, of the Christian life. "At eventime it shall b light." This prophecy will be fulfilled in the evening of Christian sorrow. For a long time it is broad daylight. The sun rides high. Innumerable activities go ahead with a thousand feet and work with a thousand rm". and the pickax struck a mine, and the battery made a discovery, and the in vestment yielded its twenty per cent., and the hook came to its twentieth edition, and the farm quadrupled in value, and sudden fortune hoisted to high position, and chil dren were praised, and friends without number swarmed into the family hive, and prosperity sang in the music and stepped in the uance and glowed in the wine and ate at the banquet, and all the g -da of mu sic and ease ana gratification gathered around this Jupiter holding in hia hands so many thunderbolts of power. But every sun must set, and the brightest day must have its twilight. Suddenly the sky was overcast. The fountain dried up. The ong hushed. The wolf broke into the fam ily fold and carried off the best lamb. A deep howl of woe came crashing down through the joyous symphonies. At one rough twang of the hand of disaster the harpstrings all broke. Down went the strong business firm! Away went long es tablished credit! Up flew a flock of calum nies! The new book would not sell! A patent could not be secured for the inven tion! Stocks sank like lead! The insurance company exploded! "How much," says the Sheriff, "will you bid for this piano! How much for this library? How much for this family picture? How much? Will you ict it go at less than half price? Going going gone!" Will the grace of God hold one up in such circumstances? What has become oi the great multitude of God's children who have been pounded of the flail and crushed under the wheel and trampled under the hoof? Did they lie down in the dust, weep ing, wailing and gnashing their teeth? Did they when they were afflicted like Job curse God and want to die? When the rod of fatherly chastisement struck them, did they strike back? Because they found one bitter cup on the table of God's supply, did they upset the whole table? Did tniy kneel down at their empty money vault end say, "All my treasures ore gone?" Did they stand by the grave of their dead, saying, "There never will be a resurrec tion?" Did they bemoan their thwa'-ted plant and say, "The stocks ore down; would God I were dead':" Did the night of their dis aster come upon them moonless, starless, dank and howling, smothering and choking their life out? Xo, no! At eventide it was light. The swift promises overtook them. The eternal constellations, from their circuit about God's throne, pqured down an infinite lustre. Under their shin ing the billows of trouble took on cresti and plumes of gold and jasper and ame thyst and flame. All the trees of lift rustled in the midsummer of God's love. The night blooming assurances of Christ! sympathy tilled all the atmosphere with heaven. The soul at every step seemed to starl up from its fuet bright winged joys, wsrb ling heavenward. '.It is good tli.it I hav been afflicted!" cried David. "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away!' exclaims Job. "Sorrowful, yet always re joicing," says St. Paul. "And God' shal! wipe uway all tear from their eyes!" ex claims John in apocalyptic vision. Ai eventime it was light. Light from th cross! Light from the pi-omiies! Ligh from the tin-one! Streaming, joyous, out guhing, cvei-lusting light! Again, the' text shall find fulfillment it the time of old uge. It is a grand thing t( be young, to have the sight clear and tht hearing ucuts and tho step clastic and all our pulsi's marching on to the drumming ol n stout heart. Midlife and old age will b denied many of us, but youth we all know what that is. Those wrinkles were not ol ways on your brow; that snow was not al ways ou your head; that brawny . '.uscli did not always hunch your arm; you hav not uhvays wont spactaclcs. Grave one dignilicd as you now are. Jon once wenl rousting down the hillside or threw of your hat for the race or sent the ball fly iug sky high. Hut youth will not ulwuyi hint. It stays only long enough to give ui exuberant spirits and broad shoulders fo burden carrying nnd un arm with which tc buttle our way through difficulties. Life'i path, if you follow it long enough, wil come under frowning crafj and cross trem bliug causeway. ItlesHcd old age, if yoi let il come naturally! You cannot hide it. You may try to cover the wrinkles, hut you cannot cover the wrinkles. If the time has conic for you to be old, be not ashamed to be old. The grandest things in all th( universe ire o'd old mountains, old riv ers, oil scat, old stars and an old eternity, Then do not be ashamed to he old unlesi you are older than the mountuins and old er than the stars. How men and women will lie! They say say they ore forty, but they are sixty, 'ihey say they are twenty, but they ore thirty. They say they are sixty, but they are eighty. Glorious old age if found ill the way of righteousness! How beautiful the old age of Jacob, leaning on the top of his staff; of John Quincy Adams, falling with the, harnest on; of Washington Irving, sitting, pen in hand, amid the scenes himself had made classical; of John Angcll James, to the lust iiroclainiing the gospel to the maskes ol lirmingham; oi Theodore Frelinghiiysen, down to feebleness and emaciation devot ing his illustrious faculties to the kingdom of Clod, At eventide it wai light! See that yon do honor to tho aged. A philosopher stood at the corner of the ttreet day after day, saying to the passers by: "You will be an old man; you will be an old man. You will be an old woman; you will be an old woman." . People thought that he waa crazy. I do not think that he was. Smooth the way for that mother! feet; they have not many more steps to take. Steady thoso tottering limbs, they will soon be at rest. Plow not up that face with any more wrinkles; trouble and care have marked it full enough. Thrust no thorn into that old heart; it will soon cease to bent. "The eye that mocketh its father and rufuseth to obey its mother the ravens of the valley iliall pick it out, and the yUiig caglvjl flwll tat it." . Xou aare watcm-d tne calmness and the glory of the evening hour. The laborers have come from the field; the heavens aro glowing with an indescribable effulgence, as though the sun in departing had forgot' ten to shut the gate after it. All the beauty of cloud and leaf swims in the lake. For a star in the sky, a star in the water; heaven above and heaven beneath. Not a leaf rustling or a bee humming or a grass hopper chirping. Silence in the meadow, silence among the hills. Thus bright and beautiful shall be the evening of the world, The heats of earthly conflict are cool; the glory of heaven fills all the scene with love, joy and peace. At eventime it ia light light! Finally, my text shall find fulfillment at the end of the Christian's life. You know how short a winter's day is and how little work you can do. Now, my friends, life is a short winter's day. The sun rises at 8 and sets at 4. The btrth angel and the death angel fly only a little way apart. Baptism and burial are near together. With one hand the mother rocks the cra dle and with the other she touches a grave. I went into the house of one of my pa rishioners on Thanksgiving Day. The lit tle child of the household was bright and glad, and with it I bounded up and down tho boll. Christinas Day came and the light of that household hod perished. We stood, with black book, reading over the grove, "Ashes to ashes, dust to oust." But I hurl away this darkness. I cannot have you weep. Thanks be unto God, who givcth us the victory, at eventime it shall be light! I have seen many Christians die. I never sow any of them die in darkness. What if the billows of death do rise above our girdle, who does not love to bathe? What though other lights do go out in the blast, what do we want e! them when aU the gates of glory swing open before us, and from a myriad voices, a myriad harps, a myriad thrones, a myriad palace there dashes upon us "Hosanna! Hosannal" "Throw back the shutters and let the sun in," soid dying Scovillc McCullum, on of my Sobbsth-school boys. "Throw back the shutters and let the sun in." You can see Paul putting on robes and wings of as cension as he exclaims: "I have fought the good tight! I have finished my course! I Have kept the faith!" Hugh McKall went to one side of the scaffold of martyrdom and cried: "Fare well sun, moon and stars! Farewell all earthly delights!" then went on the other side of the scaffold and cried: "Welcome, God and Father! Welcome, sweet Jesus Christ, the Mediator of the covenant! Welcome, death! Welcome, glory!" A minister of Christ in Philadelphia, dying, said in his last moments, "I move into the light!" They did not go down doubting and fearing and shivering, but their battle cry rang through all the cav erns of the sepulcher and was echoed back from all tho thrones of heaven: "O death, where is thy sting? O grave,' where is thy victory?" Sing, my soul, of joys to come. I saw a beautiful being wandering up and down the earth. She touched the aged and they became young; she touched the poor and they became rich. I said, "Who is this beautiful being wandering up and down the earth?" They told me that her name was Death. What a strange thrill of joy when the palsied Christian begin to use his arm again, when the blind Christian begins to see again, when tho deaf Christian begins to hear again, when the poor pilgrim puts his feet on such pave ment and joins in such company and has a free seat in such a great temple. Hungry men no more to hunger, thirsty men no more to thirst, weeping men no more to weep, dying men no more to die. Gather up all sweet wors, all jubilant ex- Ercssions, all rapturous exclamations; ring them to me, and I will pour upon them this stupendous theme of the soul's disenthrallmentl Oh, the joy of the spirit as it shall mount up toward the throne of God, shouting: "Free! Free!" Your eye has gazed upon the garniture of earth and heaven, but eye hath not seen it; your ear has caught har monies uncounted and indescribable caught them from harp s trill and bird'a carol and waterfall's dash and ocean's dox ology but ear hath not heard it. How did those blessed ones set un into the light? What hammer knocked off their chains? What loom wove their robes of light? Who gave them wings? Ah, eter nity is not long enough to tell it, seraphim hove not capacity enough to realize it the marvels of redeeming love! Let the palms wave; let the crowns glit ter: let the anthems ascend; let the trees of Lebanon clap their hands they cannot tell the half of it. Archangel before the throne, thou fnilcst! Sing on, praise on, ye hosts of the glori fied, and if with your Bcepters you cannot reach it and with your songs you cannot express it then let all the myriads of the saved unite in tho exclamation: "Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!" There will be a password at the gate of heaven. A great multitude come up and knock at the gate. The gatekeeper says, "The password." They say: "We have no password. We were great on earth, and now we como up to be great in heaven." A voice from within answers, "I never knew you." Another group come up to the gate of heaven and knock. The gate keeper says, "The password." They say, ''We have no password. We did a great many noble things on earth. We endowed colleges and took care of the poor." The voice from within says, "I never knew you." Another group come up to the gate oi heaven and knock. The gatekeeper says, "The password." They answer, "We were wanderer from God and deserve to die, but we heard the voice of Jesus " "Aye, aye," says the gatekeeper, "that il the password! Lift up your heads, ye everlusting gates, and let these people come in." They go in and surround the throne, jubilant forever! Ah, do you wonder that the last hours of the Christian on earth are illuminated by thoughts of the coming glory? Light in the evening. The medicines may be bitter. The pain may be sharp. The parting may be heartrending. Y'et light in the even ing. As all the stars of the night sink their anchors of pearl in lake nnd river nnd seo so the waves of Jordan shall be il luminated with tho down flashing of the glory to c.une. The dying soul looks up at the constellations. "The Lord is my light nnd my snlvation; whom shall I fear?" "The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." Close the eyes of tho departed one; earth would seem tame to its enchanted vision. Fold the hands; life's work is ended. Veil tho face; it has been trans figured. Mr. Toplady in his dying hour said, "Light." Coming nearer the expiring moment he exclaimed with illuminated countenance, "Light!" In tho lust instant of his breathing he lifted up bis bauds and cried: "Lightl Light!" .Thank God for light in the evening! ICupfrlalrt, lui, L. Xlopscn. How Dlrds Dress Wonuilj. Many birds, particularly those that are prey for sportsmen, possess the faculty of skilfully dressing wounds. Some will even set bones, taking their own feathers to form the proper band ages. A French naturalist writes that on a number ot occasions he has killed woodcocks that were, when shot, con valescing from wounds previously re ceived. In every instance he found tho old injury neatly dressed with down plucked from the stem feathers and skilfully arranged over the wound evi dently by the long beak ot the third. In some instances a solid plaster was thus formed, and In others bandages had been applied to wounds or broken limbs. One day be killed a Jjlrd that evidently bad been severely wounded at some recent period. The wound was covered and protected by a sort of net work ot feathers, which had been plucked by the bird from its own body and io arranged as to form a piaster, completely covering and protecting the wounded surface. The feathers were fairly netted together, passing alter nately under and above each uther and forming a textile fabric ot great pro tective power, Youth's Companion, THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Tippling Wnmen In All Classes Bishop Colrmnn Rays Conditions la England Are Even Worse Than Mere There Is a natter Showing Among- the Men. The Biirlit Rev. Txitihton Coleman. Epis copal Bishop of Delaware, who startled his hearers in a mission address at ew Brunswick by the statement that there is an alarming increase of .intemperance among women along with a decrease of intemperance among men, repeated the statement to a reporter of the New York World. He said that his opinion hod been formed only after exhaustive investigation and observation of conditions in this coun try and abroad. Bishop Coleman said that a newspaper hostile to his views set on foot an inquiry in New York with a view of disproving his charge. Committees of impartial citi zens went to the various fashionable ho tels and women's restaurants, taking notes of the orders of women patrons. They nund that to take wines, cordials, even whisky with one's meals was an almost in variable rule among the wealthy and fash ionable set. Not only this, but in so called ten rooms intoxicants were served to women who ordered them without even the pretense of ordering a meol. ''Intemperance among women, however," said the Bishop, "is not confined to the women of the wealthy and fashionable class. The use of stimulants, medicines, bracers, tonics and all similar devices serving as a mask for the liquor habit is becoming .nore general among the middle classes. In England conditions ore worse even than here, for the 'grocers' license' advanced by Mr. Gladstone as a temper ance measure has had a vastly different re sult. "Mr. Gladstone hoped that intemper ance would be decreased by making it pos-. sible for the middle class to secure the liquor in small quantities from their gro cers instead of compelling them to go to public-houses, where the temptation to drink in excess would be much greater. Instead of this, however, the grocer's li cense enables women to indulge the drink habit secretly. Whisky and gin are bought at the groceries and are charged to the husbands' accounts as tea or cheese. The evil is as prevalent among the aristocratic ks among the middle classes." As to the decrease in drunkenness among men Bishop Coleman said: "Not so many years ago there was a tendency on the part of many people to laugh at a drunken roan; to see sometning funny, or absurd, or ludicrous in drunkenness, but nothing sinful or wicked. Now, however, that men are coming to consider drunkenness as some thing to be ashamed of, there is increas ing vigor to the resistance against all sorts of temptations to excess." Bishop Coleman said that much of this refonn is due to the positive attitude taken by all denominations of the Chris tian church, especially the Kpiscopalians. Advice af Mr. Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie was the chief speaker at the celebration of the twenty-sixth an niversary of the Hailroad Branch of the Young Men's Christian Association, New York City. The hall on the second flooi of the building was filled to overflowing with railroad men. Seats had been re served for them until just before the meet ing ooened, when many visiting ladies en tered the hall and took them. The place was literally packed. Mr. Carnegie soid: "Gentlemen, I congratulate you of the railroad world on oacupying the proud po sition, as I believe, of the most temperate body of employes in the world. You are an example to the workingman in othei branches of the outspreading tree of labor, and your influence cannot fail to prove ot incalculable benefit. No rule that a man can adopt will bring greater reward than this, to abstain from the use of alcohol at a beverage. A drinking man has no place in the railway system. Indeed, he should have no place anywhere. "There is no room for antagonism upor a railroad between employer ond employe, for your President and Superintendent dc not own the property any more than you do; therefore you are, as just said, mem bers of the same corps you are all equally the servants of the company. There il another feature of cheering import in youi positions. The road to promotion is cleat and direct. You can ail certify to that, for I doubt not mnnv of those now in mi j thority over you begun as you did, in su bordinate positions, ond have won then way by merit, not by favor. "Fellow railroaders, there rests upon you grave responsibilities; you have ,in your keeping the lives of the public. 1 need not say the traveling public, for with u ab travel. Strict sobriety, unceasing vigilance, stanch courage, faithfulness to duty, are demanded from you, and thai these are characteristic of the force is tes tified at recurring intervals and by the position you have reached and occupy in tho estimation of your grateful fellow-cit iifens." Georgia to 'leach Temperance. Nearly twenty years ago, largely through the instrumentality of one devoted womun aided by roble workers, especially the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the first Temperance Education law in the world was enacted in Vermont. As State after State in rapid succession placed sim ilar laws unon its statute books they were represented in white on the map of the United Statps ns an object lesson, while the rest of the Union was drawn in black. The Governor of Georgia has just sent Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, Sunerintendent foi World's and National Woman's Temper once Union, of Boston, the pen with which he signed the Inst of these laws now'passed by the Legislatures of every one of the forty-five States of the United States and by the National Congress, all of which re quire temperance physiology to bo taughf nil pupils in nil schools under State and Federal control. A company of distinguished people gath ered informally in Mrs. Hunt's parlors Jmuint.v 25 to witness the removal of this last "black cap" from the national mup, and to welcome Georgia to the whito sis terhood thus made complete. This study that gives with other laws of health the scientific reasons for total ab stinence is now legally engrafted upon the educational system of this entire countrv, and is fust spreading to other lands. lis beneficent results, already manifest in the greater sobriety of the American working man. end in the increased length of huninn life, are destined to become more and more apparent. Their thorough enforcement will mean a new generation of citizens too wise to stultify themselves with intoxi eantr, ond thus the peaceful solution, through education, of the temperance prob lem. New York Sun. John Burns on Salooukeepers. John Burns, he famous English labor lender and ths champion of lubor in the British Parliament, is upon record as hav ing recently made a starting statement coiice-.-nmg the relation of saloons to the progress of municipal improvements de signed to better the condition of working men at Battersen, England. Battersea being l he borough fivm which Mr, Burns is a representative in Parliament. Tho follow ing is the statement: "Bear this in mind; in everything that we have undertaken we have had the per sistent and malignant opposition of tho saloonkeepers." " Immoderate Matter ts Drinking." Sir Dyce Duckworth, an eminent British physician, warns iusuranue companies against accepting as risks "immoderate moderate drinlcen" men who pride them selvei upon never being intoxicated, but who often or usually drink in tho course of the day "more than ia good for them." Ihii nractice, ha soys, counts more vic tims than cousumptiou or any other dis ease. Keaotloa la Osruinny. In Germany there ia a marked reaction against beer drinking in business hours. Ihe sharp competition of manufacture and commerce demand that men shall have all their wita about them in order to keep the pact act by modern business methods. GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN PRECWANT. TH0UCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. Poemi Daw a Soon the Trnth Will Illu mine All Oar Hearts rray to Be "pared , From Living Without Work A Bonrce of (Iratltari. The heralds of the summer dawn Are . oyoua in the dewy fields; The morning wind brings up the hill The fragrance that the meadow yields A minglsd scent, elusive, sweet. Of new-mown grass and clover white, And locust blossoms by the brook That glimmers in the early light. Now all the east in splendor shines, The world awakes to greet the day. The quail is whistling "no more wet. The river mists are rolled away; For now the sun is on the hills. The shadows stretch across the mead The joy of morning freshly fills Each spreiding tree, each wayside weed. Not so has dawned the light of truth Upon the darkened world of thought; But slowly to our waiting eyes Has grown the gleam our souls have sought. So. slowlv growing through the years, The blessed truth that "makes men free!" The clouds of superstition still Obscure the light that all should sec. Yet surely as the dawn unbars The gatewnv of the eastern sky To flood the fields with radiance, And oil the lnnd to glorify, So surely shall the light of truth Uoon its heaven-appointed way Illumine all our hearts at Insf, And shine "unto the perfect day." Harriet Waters Forbusli. I Ivlng by Dally Work. That which we earn, or which wc work for, is worth more to us than that which is given to us without any effort on our part. This is in accordance with God's best aealings with His children, nnd all of man's experience tends to confirm this truth. Even in Eden, before man's fall, ma.i was set to dress the garden and keep it. He had to work for his living while yet at his best, and while God wso caring for him as His favorite child. When later, in the wilderness, the children of Israel were being led by God. and fed by bread from heaven day by day. they had, each ond all, to earn enough for a living by picking up their needful food. When the rich Boo7. wns won to on interest in attractive Ruth, the Monhitish young widow, he did not say to the lohorers in his lordly fields: "Give her all the grain she needs or wants," but he raid: "Let her glean, even nmong the sheaves." That was the better way for Ruth. Having what she gleaned was better than would have been having what was given her in charity. It wns the same in the new dispensntion as in the old. The word of the apostle was. as to the early Christians: "If anv man will not work, neither let him eat.' Our highest privilege is of -working for our living, not of living without work. Let us be grate ful that we have the blessing of work. AVhen we have a living support in connec tion with work, thnt is something more to be grateful for. May we be spared from living without work ! Sunday-School Times. Why Few Art Called. "Of the various reason often contra dictoryassigned for the disinclination of young men to enter the ministry, none, it seems to us." says the New Y'ork Examin er (Bapt.), "touches the real source of the difficulty, which may be summed up in a single -entence they do not wont to en ter it. All the various objections to the ministerial career that hove been enumer ated would count for nothing if a young man were possessed by a consuming zeal for that form of Christian servioc. The fact that the ranks of medicine and the law are overcrowded does not deter vounn men from entering them; nor does the other fact that the majority of the fledg ling doctors and lawyers find the struggle for existence to sav notliina of success and a competency a long and bitter one? act as a carrier to aspiring youth. A gen uinely consecrated heart would not shrink from whatever hardships tlu pursuit of so high and sacred a vocation as the Gospel ministry might entail, if the possessor of it were persuaded in his inmost being that it was his vocation, a veritable call from God to his soul. Magnify these hardships as you will and we are not disposed to minimize them, or some of them, at least they would still be, yea. they are to many a noble soul, but as a thread of gossamer in barring the way to tho fultilm;i cf the heart' desire." Spiritual 1'roEress. "We believe, without undue optimism," snya the New York Observer (Pres.) "that the spiritual progress of the church dur ing the past year has been very encourag ingthe more so because there is an im pression among men thot skepticit-m is on the increase, and that the world at large has settled down to a quiet, easy-going condition in respect to credal and doctrinal belief. But the general outlook in Chris tendom does not bear out this impression. The 'Onward, Christian Soliders of the churchly song breathes the true militant and progressive spirit the ark of God is safe in the land of the true Israel. If nothing else were counted as verifying this comforting outlook we might say: Behold the missions! See the sacriliccs made even by delicate women in helping to spread the gospel of Christ in the far corners of the earth. In the teeth of persecution, amid every discouragement, in spite of the indifference or hostility of the ago itself, the p. ogress of foreign missions is co-extensive with the drum-beat of civilization." Your Best Work. A timid man, a discouraged worker, k, sad-hearted struggler, can never do the best work of which he is capable. The timid man is afraid to let out his forces. Tho discouraged man thinks there is no use in exercising his forces. The sad hearted man has weakened his forces so that he cannot respond to a call. It is not merely cheerfulness in our work that wa need; it is downright fuith, honest, whole souled daring. Ti v to do your best with a question whether it pays or whether there is any hope of success, or whether life is not a great, cloudy experience and you will fail. The best in us conies up through confidence, and it is kissed into power by smiles of hope, and it is led on by shouts of victory, and crowned by beau tiful patience. "The best" is born of con test, and is colored by blood. And it ia measured in God'a glorious presence, not by banners, or human plaudits, or sound ing trumpetB, but by the amount of virtue which has entered into it. Dlfflenltlea Are Opportunities. Difficulties are absolutely nothing to the man who knows that he is on the mission on which God has sent him. They are only opportunities for him to show his power; problems to manifest his skill in their solution; thuuder clouds on which to paint the frescoes of his unrealized ten derness. Kev. F. 13. Meyer. A Pure and Noble Life. There is not a man on earth so humble but what he can rise and livo a pure and noble life and command respect from hia fellow men and from God. Kev. T, E. Monroe, Much Klsslns; In Itussuv As many kisses as shots are ex changed on a big field day with the Russian army. The emperor kisses his officers, the ofllce: s, the officers kiss each other, men embrace lovingly; old generals kiss; In tact, everybody Is kissing and being kissed when the csar reviews his troops. On a public holiday the mistress of the bouse salutes all her servants, both male and female, with a morn ing kins, while her lord and master scarcely enters or leaves the room that day without first bestowing a kiss on the forehead, cheek or hand cf hia MDUUb - i Miss Marion Cunningham, the Popular Young Treasurer of the Young Woman's Club of Emporia, Kans., has This to Say of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable. Compound. "Dear Mrs. Pinkham: Your Vegetable Compound cured mc of womb trouble from which I had been a great sufferer for nearly three years. During that time I was very irregular and would often have intense pain in the small of my back, and blinding headaches and severe cramps. For three months I used Lydla B. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and aches and pains are as a past memory, while health and happiness is my daily experience now. You cer tainly have one grateful friend in Emporia, and I have praised your Vegetable Compound to a large number cf my friends. You have my permission to publish my testimonial in connection with my picture. Yours sincerely, Miss Marion Cunningham, Empmh, Kans." $5000 FORFEIT IF THE ABOVE LETTER IS NQT riEXON'E. When women are troubled with irregular, suppressed or pni'iful menstruation, weakness, leucorrha-a, displacement or ulceration of tho womb, that bearing-down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, backache, bloating (or flatulence), general debility, indigestion, and nervous pros tration, or are beset with such symptoms as dizziness, faintness, lassitude, excitability, irritability, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, "all gone," and "want-to-be-left-alone" feelings, blues, and hopelessness, they should remember there is one tried and true remedy. Lydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles. Refuse to buy any other medicine, for you need the best. Mrs. Pinkham Invites all sick women to write her for advice. She luvs guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. ".1 & a 7flrfS$uperiorF)ODDER Plants m - ! rAhont lomilrwahmdof Iwarf ExnMla -J ..':. MP t m ln5f?r it pom) bin to rtow twine tun hp 'IV&SfoX&jC "d M-liie H ow Ani1 at io. alb. It ia f rVK tTjtTS&j-S 1,1 o1-1 f proline, halxcr'i catalog ulia. V4ft T7i'h3. Giant Incarnate Clover na-.f..sis?Jtt rroduoea a lnxnrtant within tit week after teecunii and lou and lota of paaturaira all tummer Ion betide. Will 0o weU anwuerc. l'rica dirt cheap. wmm Grass p Clovers and Fodder Plants IL ft4t' Tf mch aa Thousand H Hided TiiV-F inn ntuone ia nnmrui uw. tv-ua vi um j vu mwv, uwwu iuuitr uimaa, nc, aic Salxer'a Grasa Mixture BW- TMdlnf a ton of macnlfloent hay ud an endleM araoaat of pactttraca) oa any fann In America. Bromum tnermSa 6 ton of Hay pmr Acre The great rntna of tho century, (rrowtnu wheiTTet any wide awake Amerlcjin frardener or farmer, iumy, wa uu v i-ut ytm afro, aut vmuu muu JOHN A. SAL2ER SEED Danger In tha FigaratlTr. "Why, pa, this is roast beef!" ex claimed little Willie at dinner on the evening when Mr. Chumplcigh was present as the wiiest of honor. "Of course," said the father. ' What of that ?" "Why, yon told nia this morning that you were going to bring a 'mutton-head' home for dinner this evening." In th Ulna Oram Region. "X tnko off my list to a 80n. box of Totter Ine. It boa oured me of skfn disease which doctors in seven States failed to cure." C W. Cantrell, Louisville, Ky. 50o. a box by mail from J. T. Bhuptrine, Savannub. Ga If your drui girt don't keep It. The child that criea for the moon mar grow up and want the earth. TRADE , MAHH. A BOON TO HUMANITY. St. Jacobs Oil cures the most difficult cases of Khcumatism after every ot her form of treatment has failed. St. Jacobs Oil never fuils. IT CONQUERS PAIN Price, 25c. and 50c. WET WEATHER, WI5D0M! rr THE ORIGINAL OIL.ED CLOTHING SLACK OR VtLLOtv ML KEEP YOU DRY NOTHING ELSE WILL TAKff NO SUB3TITUTPS raTAiniut kdph 5H0VTOM FULL LINE OF aARMtNT3 AND HAT3- A.J.T0W.g CO.. B03TON, MA33. Wills Pills Lead the World. An You Sick? Band your nama and P. O. addrrm to Tha R. B. Willi Medlolna Co., Hagsntown, Md. -1 ... nDnDQV HEW DISCOVERT; r af 1 4r 11 fV 1 quia rUf and cures wont east. U,os of tastiioonla's snd IO day" Ireatmrat frtr. Br. B. U. lll au. Bui. At ante, lit- tsl. fssj'st J ail C of description. Br.!. se-eV W -UlLLls let- lie 11 Ouaraiitewl, 1 Write for prices. JKKKE MAHIilist ""- 1 1' H 'lll!tlj!!'tt, Mu Hold Medal at llMftnla Kxpusltion. McILIlliNINV'S TA11ASCO l.-.'V;irL Thompion'i Eye tofsr Is mm i mr I JiM - V j - v. -. - l rop three fft tall Kale; Teoaintc, prodn::lnff 80 tonaof or TnorotiaTTilT teteri farm aeeda toil Is f oand. Oar treat ratlo-re, worth iinoto la mailed to yoa with tuaiiy farm teed aaoiOaaa, upoa vuim tvt COMPANY. La Crosse. Wis. '. H!H: h'.ik.ih-j Pair. VMMZZL l,2uf,;4 rftlrff. ! lJ01:l,rf,7,2( Piilrs. Business More Than QoubJad in four car THE REASONS i V L. louK.iui makes and rscllsmoremen't $.1.(10 and 9;i.50rilioen th:in auy other two man ttf:tetnrera in the world. W. h. Douglas $3, 00 and $3.50 urines plaoed ildo by side with $5.00 and $0.co shoes of other tnnkes, are found to be juxt as pood, Ther will outwear two pairs of ordinary $;.) and 93.60 shoes. Mailt of tht best Itathert, including Patint Corona Hid, Corona Colt, and NativmU Kamtaroo, I taut Color KtiI-Ii tad A l way. KIm t6, W. L. Domtlos t-VOO "Gilt fcUj lin" cannot be equalled at any price. Shoci I v mail UAc.lru. f'utnioir . i ?: I"af 1 1 I'm-U 1 1 m , tfiJJl MOTEL EMPIRE, BROADWAY ANO 63d ST., N. Y. CITY. ABSOLUTELY J9 MODERATE FIREPROOF. RATES. From Grmucl Contral Bullon tak tmn marked Broadway uU 7th Avo. hvod Diimuea u tuii-lm. un erohhlnij iy ot tUe fprrlon, takntlielttb Avemia KlevAtsd Itaflway to mh at., from wUlco il una uiiimtu'ft walk tu liolal. The Hotol Eit'tro le&Mirant li noted for K es. cellent oookliiH. ftll.-ieut aervloa and mtvdei-ate price. WUhlu ten intimitis oi auiuat! iiwul ai.d Ui,fjUiS ce'.trua. All cam Pa the Kaii'tro. bend to Knijjti lor dworiiitlva booklets. W. JOHNKON yl'INN, roprltor. JIOKTIMI II M. HJtl.l., Manager. APVKRT13B IN This IT PRY PAPER. HKII7. II rftia 150 Kinds fcr 16c. It is a fact ttnt Rslr'iTPir(HtleiTid Sower , mill am sou no in murv yiiitw-u. fti id un inurs Umih Uutn nny uittrr d In Ainrrir. 'I iwit U tnthi n (or thin, own nilopjristvt fr. tw(ur jiiMfui Uou of tmr i-htUf rtvri.s. In J tve inako Urn tuUttwLug Uttvio ( ' WUWsaMJU uuci I For f 6 Cenim RomtvaL tn Uae r rl l--la nAtmhm, tt a.a"i-ftl-rltlt Kt.lWM1 IS Mfti f UriM -eat-M--, fit) ptMjrU-t UMat taiU'Hk , It !(-! t -o -ax-Ik, e gWCgrM.l j iMaUf ml Swir In all )-OjtiitAi jKiitlTlT n, l.iutieU vt elin.i D li'tt and lot off t ) V iitl.r with cr t t i tt'ihuk'nn aiKMtt J'-1- ' ()t and ltrtiuiuS , i t S-ai l a:. HI I, I0NN A. t U t. uST y-ow- r- i. .s.) 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