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Y.—In the Washington ‘Avenue Baptist Church Sunday morning, the pastor, the Rev. Robert MacDonald, delivered the last of the series of sermons on “Christians Outside the Church,” the special subject being, “Reasons Why Those Qutside the Church Stay Outside.” The text. was from I Corinthians, xi:22: “What? despise ye the Church of Christ?” Mr. MacDonald said: No church has power to take a man to Heaven beyond the power he has himself to gain entrance there. And whether or not he has the necessary ability depends upon whether or not he is taking up his cross and following in the steps of Lr hrist. Heaven is a state of blessedness rather than a locality beyond the stars, and must come to us before we can go to it. Whatever else is implied in following Jesus church membership is included. Jesus commanded baptism. To illustrate His meaning He Himself was baptized in the Jordan. His reason was “for so it becom- eth us to fulfill all righteousness.” If He, the Jesiees man, thought it necessary to fulfill all righteousness, think not for a mo- ment that any one of His imperfect follow- ers can be excused. Paul in Romans shows baptism to be the likeness of Christ’s death and resurrection. If we have been united with Him in the likeness of His death, we shall stand in the likeness of His resurrec- tion. All denominations make baptism the door of entrance to the church. t Pente- cost 3000 were added through baptism in a single day. Then there is ‘the Lord’s Sup- er.” “This is My body which was broken or you,” is the Redeemer’s word. The apostle to the Church of Corinth commends its Jetnstuasion as a memorial to their Lord. Baptism and ‘‘the Lord’s Supper” are then very significant and belong to the Christian Church. Not to join the church is to despise these helps to the cultivation of the spiritual life so full of sacred meaning. All Christians should embrace both as precious memorials of the Saviour’s death. To embrace these is to join the church. To neglect them is to despise the church. Worse than that. To neglect them is to disobey your Lord, whom you profess to serve. Even further, it is to show disregard for your Lord’s dying re uest, “This do in remembrance of Me.’ ou would submit to much inconvenience to comply with the dying wish of an earthly friend. But your Lord’s dying re- quest is ignored. How can you expect to grow spiritually? How can you ever hope to hear God say, “This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.” Instead of pleasing your Lord, you offend Him. You never thought it was so serious a matter before, did you? Sleep not this night un- til you possess as well as profess the Lord Jesus: Be an out and out Christian. Sym- pathize with and come into that organiza- tion that is perpetuating these sacred rites. Keep not isolated from the one or- ganization that God has set up for the re- demption of the world. Now for these reasons you stay out and feel justified in so doing. You object to the creed of the church. Creeds are forms, and you detest the for- mal. Yet I know of no one who needs forms more than you who raise this pro- test; your religious life is so slack. That which you need above all else is to con- form to worthy ecclesiastical order, for you are amazingly disorderly, religiously speaking. For others that may be a good excuse, but hardly for you. We all admit that no creed is as important as the life it contains, just as no cradle is as important as the babe rocked there, and as no suit of clothes is as important as the man who wears them. Nevertheless a Christian or a church without a creed is like an engine without a track—little progress can be made. There is neither ideal nor practical existence without belief, and what a man believes is his creed. And his creed is the channel through which the very water of life flows into his thirsty soul. Block up, the channel and the water becomes stagnant. But that is not the fault of the creed. Thou only art to blame. A grow- ing man, it is true, needs an expanding creed, and woe unto him whose creed is not expressive of the word of God and the revelation in .Jesus! We must admit that as/many a Christian is kept outside the church because of its creed, so many a man is in the church for the creed’s sake. Such a man is as devoid of vital hold on Christ as is an Egyptian mummy dead 10.000 years. Creeds are a curse when they take the place of the life, and more than one church in Christendom has lost its life and is clutching only its creed. Better stay out of a church like that and retain your life than, entering in, lose it. Such a church is, however, an exception to the rule that does not strengthen the life of every member within its fold, if they give it the opportunity so to do. It is our false thought about the church that is to be de- plored. Our question is, “What benefit will we derive?’ Our question ought to be, “What opportunity will it provide to render benefit to my fellows less favored than myself?” Our.Christian profession js a sham that does not interpose God and humanity in place of self. Conversion in- troduces us to God and estranges us from gelf. Not for self’s sake, then, but for Christ’s sake do we join the church. ‘When we become new men in Christ Jesus we take as instinctively to the church as does the duck to tite water or the bird to the air. A second reason I have heard you give for remaining outside the church is because its members are not good enough. You look for perfection. You find imperfection. You are at fault; not the church. You ex- pect too much. Come into the church and it will not be many months before you wonder how Satan ever so got possession of your mind as to beguile you into ex- pecting perfection of church members. But Jou will also find them much more Christ- ike than you expected—not :in absolute holiness, but in desire for more righteous- ness in their lives and in the world. Hear the apostle exclaim that life is a battle- field: “Fight the good fight of faith.” Life is a race course, so run that you may attain. Read his letters to the churches— disputings, contentions among you. These priceless letters to the Corinthians would never have been written had it not been so. Had the church at Ephesus been per- fect no letter to, the Ephesians would have been penned. Put away lying is his com- mand. Let him who stole steal no more. Let all clamor and wrath and envy be put away from you as becometh saints. ere the church of to-day perfect it would be very insipid. o struggles to be good. No fighting temptation. I, for one, would prefer to be out of it. I would sooner be imperfect, with a desire for holi- ness, than be perfect, and know it all and be it all, and never have desire for any- thing worth while. I would go so far as to thank God for an imperfect church, just as I have many a time thanked Him I was a member of a sinful race, with Jesus as Redeemer, than of a sinless race and know Him not. The church holds to its mem- bers that relation which the school does to the little boy. As it trains him for a rich intellectual existence by and by, so the church trains for rich spiritual exist- ence by and by. The most important condition of both is unwillingness to be taught. The church, in its relation to the world is as a regiment, with Jesus, the great victorious Commander, leading the way. In relation to its membership it is as i are trained for ing in time and stay out of the >» of this very » Lea 0 nity. You'll not C ch then longer becav erronious idea, that its members ought A to be periect,’ for you got the idea not | from the Word of God, but from your cwn evi! imagining. Even when the Master said to His disciples, “Be perfect, as your Father in Heaven is perfect,” He really said, be complete as Xe is, and when He : asked the rich young man if “he: would be perfect, to follow Rn He really said. if you will be full growm, if you would cease to lack the one thing you now lack, come and follow Me. The reason, then, we want you in the church is that you may help train us and let us help train you in truth and righteousness. Nobody needs the help of the church more than you, who will not come in. If you still resist our invitation to enter where you belong, more charitable toward us, anyway. And if you will not be one of us, pray do not obstruct our work by talking against us, thus prejudicing the world before whom we should stand in a good light that we may do it good. : Your reason for remaining out of the church may be that of Biblical or doctrinal difficulty. Many a man is losing his soul, not because he cannot believe in Christ, but because he cannot believe in Jonah and the whale. More than one man has said were it not for the “Garden of Eden” and the “Deluge” he would accept Jesus as Saviour. I know a man who has lost his religious fervor because he could not rec- oncile the doctrine oi election with the freedom of the human will and the uni- versality of God’s grace. And another whose religious activities have been par- alyzed because he could not reconcile the possibility of punishment of sin’ with the all mercy, all love of God. any such assinine questions are killing men’s enthu- siasm for the work of the Lord. If those inside of the church are influenced thus, we need not wonder that Christians out- side of the church question so foolishly. Those same men never think of question- ing what the president and officers of the club, or Masonic order, or Odd Fellows organization to which they belong believe about the world, whether it is round or flat, or whether Jesus created in six days or in 6000 years, or whether the earth re- volves around the sun or the sun around the earth, or whether heaven and hell are states of existence or fixed bodies. The reason you give for not demanding infor- mation about these questions of the sec- ular association, yet asking it of the church, is that these are not builded on these questions, while the church is. That is where vou are wrong. The church is not builded on the integrity of the story of Jonah and the whale, nor belief in the Garden of Eden, nor even in the infallibil- ity of the Scriptures, but on Jesus Christ and Him crucified. But you ask, “Do not your members believe in these ques- tions?” I do not know, I am sure. would not be surprised to find many who do not. Will we not expel them? Yes. if we find them as indolent and good for nothing religiously as you are who remain out of the church because of these ques- tions. But if they love Jesus Christ with all their hearts, mind and strength, and if that love inspires them towards righteous- ness in private life and make them eager for the salvation of men, we would as soon think of relinquishing our charter as a Christian church as to expel such choice souls as are they. But a fourth reason you ignore the church of Christ is because of disiike of certain members of the church. Else o its minister. This last reason is more prev- alent than vou have any idea of, and until human nature is more sanctified than at present people will separate themselves from the church for this reason. But if one church fails you here is there no other church, no other minister where you can worship at peace with God and man? Your duty is to find such and go there; if not of vour own denominational order, then of some other, rather than despise the church universal and refuse it your support. There is a large difference be- tween being at odds with some especial church and holding aloof from all churches because not in harmony with that one. If you cannot walk in sympathy with some one you are at fault if you do not walk in sympathy with some other. In Brook- lvn no one is forced to keep isolated from all churches because he cannot live in har- mony with some one church. If you can- not conscientiously enter one, I repeat it, you are at fault for not entering some other. As for this church, if you will per- mit me to say it, it has been during these last six vears a veritable haven of refuge for those kinds of peopie. We have rented more pews to znd baptized more people from other denominations than those of our own denominational faith and train- ing. Here are two pictures. You will in- stantly detect the more pleasing to gaze upon. Here is a person absenting himself from: all public worship, all Christian activ- ity, because troubled over some Biblical and doctrinal question, or because he does not like the church of his early choice, and he is leading a bitter, self-centered, indo- lent existence in consequence. Here is an- other who has a similar grievance, but overcomes it for the Master’s sake. He believes the Gospel to be the power of God unto salvation. He is convinced men are lost without Christ. He believes he is re- sponsible if the light within kum becomes darkness. Therefore he continues to be identified with that organization that rep- resents the kingdom of Heaven in the earth. i. A woman told me a while ago she “oined the church because it was her duty and for no'other reason. She did not especially like the minister. She could not digest all the creed. She disliked some of its mem- bers and preferred the width of the avenue between herself and them, but she pro- fessed to be a Christian and believed her lace was in the church rather than out. or fifteen years she remained outside and criticised. A barren, unsatisfactory spir- itual life was the consequence. She en- tered finally for Christ’s and her children’s sake, and the last year had been the hap- piest and most profitable of her existence. Do you believe.in Christ? Would you | honor Him? our place is inside the church of Christ as truly as the soldier's place is inside the regiment, or the sailor’s on board ship. But, you exclaim, the creed, the doctrines, the membership, the minister. Well, then, seek the church you can fellowship, even though ‘outside your denomination, and if no such church can be found take yourself speedily to Jésus Christ. Go into your closet and shut to the door with your prejudices on the out- side. Then fall upon your knees and pray to be converted all over again. Some of us, you know, need to be converted more than once. Even the seventy times seven recommended by the Master in the olden times. Let God overrule your prejudices and flood your heart with is grace. Then go in the spirit of a little child and ask admittance of the nearest Christian church. ILet nothing scand between you and that important obligation, that divine privilege, that necessary discipline, that priceless joy. eine On the Plain. Henry Clay Trumbull, speaking of the mission of the lowly road in the Christian’s life and its relative importance in compari- son to the mountain road, says: ‘There are times in every life when the soul stands on the ‘clear heights, and no task seems to be too difficult to the boundless enthusiasm of the moment, But what is to be done’ when the soul has descended into the plains, and the enthusiasm is gone and the task remains? Only to go on bravely, trusting to the clearer vision on the moun- tain top, and making faithful performance fill the place of enthusiasm. The moun- tain and the plain has each its place in Christian life—the mountain for the clear vision ahead, the lowly road along the plain for the actual performance of the journey.” t A Little Thorn. A little thorn may rend the finest fabric; so may a little sin mar the fairest United Presbyterian, soul.— ; peseta a day, and for ¢ { 20 family to support, i A Paradise For Criminals Zafferines, a Spanish Penal Settlement, Ruled by Con- victs Xavier Duroc in La Revue --- Translated For Public Opinion. ,:-: 2 in ij cCew0cee0s0ees0wed IN the Zaffarin islands, a i} few miles from Kiss, off the African coast, is the most astonishing and the i most comical fortress that ever wus constructed, a penal colony which is absolutely unique and en- tirely different from what one would expect even in Spain. The largest island contains the town of Zaffarines, which up to six o'clock in the morning is absolutely silent, the ruins and still- ness suggesting a town which has been deserted after a disaster. There are not even dogs or birds. At six o'clock, however, at the thin tolling of the ‘bell of La Conquista, a tower which is found at the centre and sum- mit of the island, the doors of the pris- on open, the stores and the heretofore deserted streets suddenly become ani- mated. For ten minutes there is life in the streets, the prisoners scattering in every direction, then they disappear and the town again looks like a dead city. The life, however, has been trans- ferred to the taverns amd the hovels; the rooms of the prison are empty, but the wine shops are full, each group of prisoners having its favorite tavern, although many have not attained this degree of discrimination and visit all impartially. Upon reaching the tavern many prisoners install themselves in a corner from which they do not move until it is time to return to the prison. PRISONERS WITH LIBERTY. There is no doubt that this island is the paradise of criminals. Here the prisoners have absolute liberty to de- vote themselves to sloth or drunken- ness, they may promenade freely in the open air, play at cards, talk, drink, assault or even stab one another. Some few work, carrying water, per- forming a crude form of masonry, ete., while not a few of them manifest by their yawning that they are extremely bored. It is needless to say that every lazy, quarrelsome, drinking gambling individual could easily accommodate himself to such a life, for here he is in his element. At Zaffarines he does not have to battle for subsistence since he is clothed, nourished and lodged at the expense of the state, “which does not interfere with his actions and leaves him free to act as he pleases. A single liberty is denied the prisoner and that is to leave the island; but this is little desired. The boarders of Zaffarines have also a douro in the bottom of their pocket, and for those who are not satisfied svith the infected mess served by the prison there is always the table d’hote at which many feasts take place. CARRYING OF ARMS COMMON, ‘The carrying of arms is an almost universal practice, and there are few prisoners who have mot in their linen belts a large knife. ‘This latter is not the traditional navaja which bends in the middle .and opens with a spring, but a large,” solid, pointed knife, and a man who has ot his herramiento is not a man at all. Although upon his entrance into the prison the criminal is searched; the coniscation of a knife {is a rare occurrence. It is possible that at the moment. of crossing the prison threshold the criminal has not his knife, but it is certain that he does not go to sleep without his “armed friend.” The question naturally arises, Where are these weapons obtained? The answer is easy; they are obtained from the keepers themselves. Author- ity in the prison of Zaffarines is merely a fiction, the true masters of the place being the prisoners, to whom every- thing is subordinated. The captain of the place, if he had to live on his salary, could not exist, therefore he in- stalls a tavern and the prisoners make him rich. In this tavern there are sold, besides liquors of all sorts, knives, re- volvers, cartridges, etc. the captain being the one chiefly interested in the multiplication of thefts, for the .pro- duct of these goes to swell his bank account. |. : i JAILERS AS RUM-SELLERS. Each of the two captains in the place is the owner of two establish- ments at which they have made a for- tune. One of them married the daugh- ter of a criminal, his son is an officer, and his daughter is about to marry one of the officers of the place. This is a family of the most eminent respecta- bility, the flower of the high life of Zaffarines. In 1901-1902, at head of one of this official's taverns, there was installed one of the orderlies who was a part of the garrison of the place, and who was under the command of the military son, and although the other tavern-keeping official recently died, his rum shops are kept by an in- fantry sergeant. A fifth tavern be- longs to a prisoner condemned for two homicides, and the two others are the property of free men who have no position in the prison. The penalty of hard and forced labor does not exist in the Spanish penal code, and in the penal settlements only those work who wish to. At Ceuta the workshops have a special organization, but at Zaffarines and other places the work is less well re- gulated, the only apparent distribution ¢f the men being into brigades. The workman obtains a minimum of thir-| fo teen centimes and a ma pay, the money. earned in the penal settlement is really a surplus which foxg - free workmen -are able to lay 1 by. Formerly the management of the settlement made certain deductions. for example, those men who earned less than twenty-five cents receiving nothing until there had been formed a fund of five douros, after which the whole wage was paid. The five douros was used for the purpose of sending the criminal home on the day of his liberation or to ray for his capture in case of escape or attempted escape from the island. SOME OFFICIAL THIEVES. In the management of these reserve funds, however, grave scandals took place, "the prisoner at the end of his term of service finding but little of the reserve fund at his disposal, the vam- pires of the administration so con- fusing the poor wretch that in the end he always left the prison with nothing in his pockets. In 1901 General Wey- ler decided that there should no longer be formed reserve funds and that each prisoner should receive each day the total wage due to him. This has not in any sense assisted the prisoner, for under the former rule the ‘reserve funds, in case the officials were honest, really represented a certain guarantee for the criminal, but now the convict no longer practices economies, gamb- ling houses have greatly increased, and theft is the most ordinary event 3 I Yr > Goats. H. G. Stephens, of the St. Charles Hotel, has long been interested in goats and is regarded as an authority on that humble animal. “Few people know the many admirable qualities of the goat,” he said. “Goats are the only animals that will boldly face a fire, and they are often kept in stables for the sole purpose of leading horses from the stalls in case of a conflagra- tion. Horses, you know, will burn to death before moving from the flames unless some other animal leads them out. Goats can foretell stormy weath- er and invariably find shelter before | a storm arrives. Even in domesticat- ed life the goat loves to clamber about on dizzy heights and will generally be found on a crag of rock, or if that is not available, on tie roof of a barn, of the top of a barrel. The most val wable variety of goat is the Cashmir, whose soft, silky hair furnishes ma- terial for expensive fabries. The Cashmir is a native of Thibet, but the shawls are made in France, Germany and, in later years, in the United States. To make a ingle shawl a yard and a half square, at least ten coats are robbed of their coats. “I now have a pet goat nearly twen- ty years cld. She is almost as intelii- gent as a human being and knows a lot. of tricks, and, is so strong that I can ride her with ease. T have seev specimens of the famous snake-eating goat of India. Tt is said that these goats devour the most dangerous rep tiles and have absolutely no fear of the poisonous vermin with which the country abounds.”—Milwaukee Even ing Wisconsin. . Too Busy to Make a Noise. : A Kansas City teacher of a kinder: garten was incapacitated from work one day last week by the following in- cident. .The subjcet of the lecture and object lesson was animals, birds and then more animals. ; “Now, children,” said the teacher, “1| want each of you to think of some an: imal or bird and try. for a moment tc be like the particu’ar ame you are thinking about, and make the same kind of noises they are in the habit of making.” . Here «was the command. Here the finale: Instantly the schoolroom: became a menagerie. Liohs roaring, dogs bark- ing, birds singing and twittering, cows lowing, calves bleating, cats meowing, ete., all in an uproar and excitement— all, with one single exception. .. : Off in a remote corner a little fellow was sitting perfectly still, appareatly indifferent and unmindful of all the rest. The teacher, observing him, ap- proached and said: Wn “Waldo, why are you taking no part with the other children?” Waving her off with a deprecating’ hand and wide, rebuking eyes, he fer- vently whispered: in i . “Sh—sh—sh, teacher—sh! T a ’ooster, and I'm a-layin' a aig!”—Kansas City Star. . Married Sisters. y A study in relationship is offcred by two families living in and near here. A veteran of the Civil War has a son who married a well-krown' :oung lady of the county, and to whom several children have been born. Later the father of the young man wedded a sis- ter of his son’s wife, and the relation: ships of the two families thus becomes decidedly interesting. A few of the odd relationships thus developed are as follows: The father is the son's brother-in-law and both grandpa and uncle of the young man’s children. The senior wife is both grandma and aunt of the younger family of children. sen- ior wife is both stepmother and sister: in-law of the young man, and so on ad infinitum.—Walla Walla Statesman. Future Life of Animals. Sir William Blunden, a doctor and baronet, has just favored a meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cru- elty to Animals with some views on the future state of animals. He “cer tainly believed,” he said, in the future existence of animals, and. though he could not bring forward evidence in support of his proposition, he could not at the same time forward evidence to the contrary. If they took the case of the tiaker's ass, which was born and. reared in hardship, he found it 1 to think that a merciful Creator = the hands of man without re me. compensauon in the not in the prezent SO in eh A ASN tt... ron WIT 22d HUMOR of THE DAY a Hig Useful Whiskers. Mary lost her little lamb And pined, and pined, and pied; Then wed a man with mutton chops To keep the lamb in mind. —Cleveland Plain-Dealcr. Hung Jury. “Is he a poet? He looks it.” “I think he has teen indicted on the charge, but never convicted.”—Town Topics. An Important Question. “I see that Russia has agreed to ai- vide Korea with Japan?” “Which gets the Kore?'--Cleveland Plain Dealer. Positive Proof. “But is she sure he is a real duke?” “0h, positive. Why, he borrowed money from her rater to buy the cn- gagement ring.”’—Chicago Post, Unfinished, Puffem—“Sir, I'd have you know that I am a self-made man.” Bluffem—*“Self-begun, perhaps; but you.were evidently interrupted.”—Chi- cago News. Would Still Have the Best of It. “You'll be sorry some day that you didn’t get married.” “Well, I'd rather,not be married and be sorry I wasn’t than be married and be sorry I was.”—1llustrated Bits. He Knew. “One of the component parts of sugar,” said the professor, “is an es- sential in the composition of the human body. What is it?” “I know!” shouted the grocer's boy. Sand!” r Weak Man. He who complains that the woman of his choice misunderstands him would better be content. In the long run he gains by Ler lack of comprehension. Few men can bear being continuously understood.—New Orleans Time-Demo- crat. ——— Better Yet. We see Pipes the plumber sitting in deep meditation, a contented smile hovering upon his face. “Ah!” we venture gayly, “building air castles?” “Better’n that,” he tells us. ing them.” —Judge. “Plumb- Effect on Business. “Coal vases?’ said the hardware merchant. “Yes, sir. Something nicely japanned?” “No, sir,” said the customer, a man with fierce mustaches and a foreign accent. ‘‘Haven’t you something in Russia iron?’—Chicago Tribune. Her Value: Mr. Tightfist—“And so you are the noble fellow who rescued my wife from in front of the trolley car at the risk of your life? -Take this quarter, my heroic man, as an expression of our undying regard.” Mr. Rags—*“All right, boss. You know better'n I do what the woman's wuth.” —New York Times, . Those Boston Girls. Bessie—“Oh, by the way, Nellie was talking about you last evening.” Kate—“The hateful thing.” Bessie—““Oh, but she said only the nicest things about you.” > Kate—“I wonder what mean thing she is getting ready to do to me.’— Boston Transcript. Eminently Qualified. “I'm at a loss to know what to make of my only son,” said the trust mag- nate. “He seems to have no brains for business.” “Permit me to hand you a sugges- tion,” rejoined the merchant prince. “Make a society leader of him.”"—Phil- adelphia Inquirer. “xe At the Capitol—‘Are you the prin- cipal person here, sir?” “Oh, no. I'm only the head of the department. The principal person is that young man over there with the high collar and cigarette-stained fin- gers.””—Boston Transcript. The Spring Styles. Mrs. Spenders—*{ wonder wit will be the popular style in bonnets iuis spring ?’ Mr. Spenders—‘My dear, women’s bonnets will be divided into two styles this spring, as usual; the style yon don’t like and the style I can't of ford." —Philadelphia Press. Just Wiped Out. “What's.become of Jobson?” 1ed that animal merely to suffer “Blest if I know. Let me think. He i dropped out ob sight last summer. t didn’t he?” “Yes, and I haven't heard his name "- , mentioned since.” “Oh, now I remembe a club woman.”—Alba He married 7 Journal. designs a AA tems AI 5 A Mystery to Himself. A man called at a San Francisco hospital and said he had forgotten his identity. He is detained under the ‘name of John Meyers, a small Bibie in his pocket bearing that name. The man thinks he is a native of New York and that he lives somewhere up the Hudson river, also that he is a graduate of Yale, and that he may at one time have been engaged in liter- ary work either as an illustrator or a writer. Railroad Gauge Changed. The work of changing the gauge of the Mexican National railroad has been completed at a cost of $13,000,- 000 gold, and the entire road, which was until a year ago the longest nar- row-gauge railroad in the world, is now standard gauge from Laredo to the City of Mexico. Salzer’s Earliest Cane. _Another new thing. Can be cut six times during a season and sprouts again with lightning rapidity. Next to Salzer's Teosinte it will make more green fodder than anything else, cheap as dirt and grows everywhere. . Of Salzer’s Renovator Gress Mixture just the thing for dying out pastures and meadow., r. E. Rabo d, East P#rk, Ga., writes, “I sowed Salzer’s Grass Mixture on soil ‘so poor two men could not raise a fuss on it,’ and in forty-one days after sowing I had the andest staad of grass in the county. alzer’s Grass Mixtures sprout quickly and produce enormously.” 100,000 barrels choice Seed Potatoes. SALZER'S NEW NATIONAL OATS. Here is a winner, a prodigy, a marvel, enormously prolific, strong, healthy, vigor- ous, producing in thirty States from 150 to 300 bu. per acre. You had best sow a lot of it, Mr. Farmer, in 1904, and in the fall sell it to your neighbors at $1 a bu. for seed. [A.C.L.] Every heart has its secret sorrow which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad. ! I do not believe Piso’s Cure for Consump- tion has anequal for coughs and colds.~-JorN F.Boyes, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900, Belfast is the great tea drinking city of the United Kingdom. You can do your dyeing in half an hour with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Cardiff exports 12,000,000 tons of coal a year, Newcastle about 4,000,000. Russia has sent four dukes to the front. The sporting editor says it is a sure sign of fighting when one of the combatants puts up his dukes.— Washington Post. Americans write about forty letters a year, and that average equals forty per cent. of all the letters written in the world. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded dis- ease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con- stitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's CatarrhCureistaken inter- nally, acting directly upon the blood and mu« cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy- ing the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the con- stitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hun- dred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure, Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CrexeY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation, _ Steam launches with glass bottoms are now at the service of those who ‘wish to view the marine growth about Catalina Island, Cal. Lorenzo Crossby, a Mormon elder, killed himself a day or so ago. The coroner shrewdly reported that the sui- oie was prompted by domestic troub- es. Tr Harvest operations in both the Eng- lish and Scottish border districts were only brought to a close a day or twe before Christmas. The harvest was by far the latest within memory. Swiss watches, according to a re- port just published, are becoming pop- ular in China. Those with fantastio on the face find the most ready sale. The sacred fires of India are never allowed to go out. The most ancient of these fires has been burning for 12 centuries. It is fed five times every two hours with sandalwood and other fragrant material combined with very dry fuel. RESTORED TO HEALTH. Many weak, suffering women do not know that their kidneys are sick. Backache tells of sick kidneys, and so do urinary disorders. Sick kidneys make bad , blood, and bad blood makes bad ‘digestion, heart palpitation, diz- zy headaches, nervous- ness, sleeplessness, sci- atica, rheumatic pains and constant depres- sion. Can’t be restored to health until the kid- neys are cured. Read how one woman was restored by using Doan’s Kidney Pills: Mrs. H. A. Van Sickle, 311 6th Ave. S. W., Roanoke, Va., says: “Kidney trouble was heredi- tary in our family, and I had been so continually afflicted with the disease that I began to despair of even tempor- ary relief. Sometimes I suffered so se- verely that x was confined to my bed. The aching in my back was intense, and the kidney disorder caused an ex- cess of uric acid in my blood which im- paired my digestion. I was compelled to deny myself of many of the little delicacies of diet. The doctors diag- nosed my case as congestion of the kid- neys. I had about given up hope when I began using Doan’s Kidney Pills, but I took only a few doses when their curative powers were proven to my satisfaction. I have never been with- out them in the hot Doean’s Kidney P dealers; price, receipt of price by Buffalo, N. Y. e sold by all s, or mailed on ) ter-Milburn Co., Write for free trial, 50
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