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The Emin ent Brooklyn Divine's Sud
Sermon.
day
Subject: "Apologies for not Er tcrlng tilt
Christian Life."
Text: "And they a I with one ron sent
vegan to make excuse."?Luke xiv., IS. '
After the invitations to a leveo are s3Uto..*.t
the regrets come iu. Oue mau apologize
for nonattendance on oas erouud, another
on another ground. Tho most of the regrets
arefounedou prior enzazemsnts. So ia
my text a givat banquet was spread, the in?
vitations w-rre circulated, an 1 now the re?
grets come in. The one gives anagiicultu
ral reason, the other a sro4k dealer's reason,
the other a domest c reason?all poor rea?
sons. The agricultural reason being that
the man had bought a farm and wanted ti
?ee it. Could lie not see it the next day?
1 be stock Healer's reason being that he bad
bought five yoke of oxpd, and he wanted to
fo and prove them, tis nad no business to
uy them until be knew what they were.
Besides thal a man woo can own five yoke
of oxen cm command his own time. Be?
sides that he might li ive yoked two of then
together and driven them on th? way io
the banquet, for locomotion was not
as rapi I then as nev, fhe mau who
gave the domestic reason said he
bad got married. He ought to hava
taken h;s wife with bin*,. The fact was they
did not want to go. ?'Aud they all with oas.
consent oeg?n to make excuse." bo now
God spreads a areat banquet; it is the gospel
feast, and the tab.e readies- across the hem
isoheres, aad toe invitarions 20 out an I raul
titu ies come and sit do vn and drink out of
the ebal ces of God's love, while other mm
titudis decline co nmg?che oue giving this
apology and the ot .er giving that apology.
"And they all with one consent began to
make excuse." I propose tods morning, 60
far as Go 1 may help tie, to examine tbe
?apologies which men make for not entering
the Christian life.
Apology the first; I am not sure there ls
anything valuable in the Christian re?
ligion. It is pleaded that there are so many
impositions in tnis day-?o m?ny things
that seem to be real are sham. A gilded
outside may have a hollow ipside. There is
so much quackery in physics, in ethics, in
politic**, tnat mea come to the habit of in?
credulity, aad alter awhiie they allow that
incredulity to collide with our holy re*
ligion.
But, my friends, I think religion has made
a pretty good record in the world. How
many wounds it has salved; how many pil?
lars or fire it has lifted in the midnight
wilderness: how many simoon struck Si*
baras it bath turned ini o the gardens of the
Lord; bow it hath stillel the chopped ssa I
What rosy light it hath sent streaming
through the rift of the storm cloud wrack;
what pools of cool water it hath gathered
for thirsty Hagar and Ishmael; what manna
whiter than coriander seed it nata dropped
all around the camD of hardly bestead pil?
grims; what promises it bath seat out like
holy watchers to keep tin lamps burning
around death beds I Through the darkness
tbat lowers into the sepulchre, what flashes
of resurrect lon morai.
Besides that, this religion has made so
many heroes. It brought Summerfield, the
Methodist, across the Atlantic Ocean with
his silver trumpet to biow the acceptable
year of the Lord, until it seemea as if all
our American cities would take the king?
dom or heaven by violence. It sent Je
hudi Ash rn au into Af nea alone, in a conti?
nent of na ie I barbai\ans, to litt the stan?
dard of civilization and Christianity. It
made John Milton among poets, Raphael
among painters, Christopher Wren arnon 1
architects, Thorwaldsei;' among sculptors,
Hanjel among musicians, Dupont arnon;;
military commander,*.; ani to give new
?wings to the imagination, and better bal?
ance to the judgment, and more determina?
tion to the wtiJ, an t greater usefulness
to the life, and grander nobility to the soul,
there is nothing in all the earth like our
Christian re igion.
Nothing in religion! Why, them, all
those Christians were deceived when in their
dying moment they thought they saw the
castled of tue ble-;s=d; and your child, that
with unutterable agony you put away into
the grave?you will never see him again,
nor hear his sweet voice, nor teal the throb
of his yoong heart? There is nothing in re?
ligion I Sickness will come upon you. Roll
and turn on your pillow. No relief. The
medicine may be bitter, the night may be
dark, the pain may be sharp. No rel ie.".
Christ never comes to the sick room. Lot
the Dain stat-. Let the f*>ver burn. Curse
it an J die. There is notuing in religion 1
After awhile death will come. You will
hear the pawing of the pale horse on the
threshold. The spirit will be brea angawav
Irom tha body, and it will take fliztat?
whither, whither? There is no God", no
mm stering angeJsto conduct, no Chrisr, no
beaven, no home. Nothing in religion t
Oo, you are not willing to adopt
such a dis ral theory. And yet
the world is full of sceptic?. And let nie
say there is no class of people for
whom I have a warmer symoathy than for
?keptics. We do dot know now to treat
them. We reride them, we caricature
them. We, instead of taking them oy tho
so;t hand of Christian love, clutch them
with the iron pincers of ecclesiasticism. Ob,
tf you knew how those men uad fallon away
rroai Christianity and become skeptics you
would not oe so rou^h on taem. Some
Were trought uo in home3 where religion
was overoone. Ina most wretcae 1 day ia
the week was Sunday. Religion was di'aven
Into them with a triohammar. Tney had a
tureit or prayer meeting. They wera
stuffea and t-houed wita catechis ns. They
were told by toeir parents tnat they were
the worst children tbat ever lived because
they Jis-ed tortfe down hill better than ro
read ??Pilgrim's Progress.' They nevet
beard tneir parents tau o" religion tut wi.h
tbe corners of tneir mamas drawn down
ani the eyesroliei up.
Others went into s-nepticivn through mal?
treatment on t..e part of some who pro*
?fviSea reJi?'0D* There is a man wno says,
^iy partner in business was voluble in
prayer meeting, and he was -officious in all
reliaious circle*:, bur, he cheated me cut of
|f>00ll,'and I don't want any of that re?
ligion."
There aro others who got into skept'eism
by a natural persistence in as.eiug qaa-ctiona
?woy or tow. How can God be one bein::
in three persons'*' 1 hey cannot understau i
lt. Neither can I. How can God ba a com
plete s vereign and yetman a free agent?
1 hey cannot understand it. Neither can I.
They cannot understand whv a holy Go i
lets sin come into tue world. Neither eau I.
They say: "Here is a great mystery. Here
ls a disciple of fashion, frivolous and go l
less all ber days-?.,he aves 011 to be an octo?
genarian. Here is a Christian mot-ier train?
ing her children for Uo 1 and for heaven,
Belf-sacrificing, Christlike, indisoensa do
.seemingly to that hou-ehoJd?she takes the
cancer and dies." The septic says, "I cau'c
explain that." Neither can 1.
Ob, I can 6eohow men reason themselves
into skepticism. With burning feet 1 hava
trod that blistering way. I know waat it is
to have a hundred nights poured into one
hour. There are men in this audienc3 who
would give their thousands ot dollars if they
could get back to the old religion of their
fathers. Such men are not to ba carica?
tured, but heJped, and not through their
heads, but through their hearts. Wbei
these men really do come into the kingdom
of God, they will be worth far more to the
cause of Christ than those who never ex?
amined the tvidences of Christianity.
Thomas Chalmers once a skeptic; Robert
Hall once a skeptic; Christmas Evans once
a skeptic, but when they did lay hold of tae
gospel caariot, how they made it speed
ahead 1
If therefore I stand this morning bsfore
n'en and women who bave drifted aw
in > skepticism 1 throw out no scoff. I
rataer impiead you oy the memory of those
(rood old times when you knelt at your
mother's knee and said your evening prayer,
and those other days of sickness when she
watched all nizht and gave you the me "li?
ri nes at just tbe right time and turne i the
pillow when it was hot, and wit'i hand lornr
a70 turned to dust soothed your Dams, and
with that voice you will never hear again
unless you join her in the better cou'itrv ?
told yu never mind?you would ba better j
hy and by, and bv that dvin< enuc b, where j
sie talked so slow y, catching her breath |
between th? words?by all those memories I j
ask you to come and take the same relig- I
ion. It was eooi enough for her?it is gool
enough 'or vou.
Ave, I make a better p'et bv th? woulds
and the death throes of the Son of Go J, who
approaches you this morning with torn brow
Mjd, JacfTS*^ bftDda and. wbipptjd, back ciy
ingi "Come unto Me all ye who are .wear (
and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Other persons apologize for not entering
the Christian life because of th3 incorrigi?
bility of their temper. Now, we admit it is
harder for some people to become Christians
than tor other.*, but the graca of God never
carno \.\> a mouutaia that it could not climb,
or to au abyss that it could not fathom, or
to a bondage that it could not break. T ie
wildest horse that ever trod Arabian sands
bas been broken to bit and trace. The mad*
est torrent tumbling from mouatain
shelving has bean harnessed to the mill
wheel aud th3 factery band, settine; a thou?
sand shuttles all a-buzz and a-clatter, and
tho wildest, the haughtiest, the most un?
governable man ever cr?atelby the graca
of God may be suoduei ani sent out on
ministry of kindness, as God sends an
August thunderstorm to water th3 wild
flowers down in the grass.
Good resolution, reformatory effort, will
not effect the chaug ?. Ic takes a mightier
arm and a mightier hani to bani evil
habits than the hand that bent tha bow of
Ulysses, aad it takes a stronger lasso taan
ever held the buffalo on the prairie. A. man
cannot go forta with any human weapons
and contend successfully agaiust these
Titans armed with uptorn mountains. But
you have koowa men into w io>e spirit the
influence of the gospel o' Christ cams, until
their disposition was entirely euarra I. So
it was with two merchants iu New York.
They wera very antagonistic. Taoy had
cons all thay could to injure eacn other.
They were in the sa ne line of business. Gao
of tbe merchants was convertel to Go I.
Having been converted, he asked the Lori
to teach him hoi to bear himself toward
that business antagonist, ani he was im?
pressed with 'the fact that it waa his duty
when a customer asked for a certain kint of
goo ls which he had nor, but whion he knew
his opponent had, to reoo nmeaf him to go
to that store. I suppose that is aoout the
hardest thing tae nun could do, but baing
thoroughly convertel to God he re-oivai to
do that very thing, and being asked for a
certain kind of goods which he had not he
said, "You go to nuoh ani such a store and
vou will get it" After awhile merchant
No. 2 found these customers cootia? so
sent, and be found also that merchant No. 1
had oeen brought to God, and be sougnt the
same religion. Now they are goad iriends
aad good neighbors, the grace of God en?
tirely changing their disposition.
? "Oh," says some one, "I have a rough,
jagged, impetuous nature, and religion can't
do anything for me." Do you know that
Martin Luther and Robert Newton aud
Richard Baxter were impetuous, all con*
?turning natures, yet the grace of God turnei
them into the mightiest usefulness? Oh,
how many who hava beeu pugnacious and
hard to please and irascible and more both?
ered about tho mote in their neighbor's eye
than about the beam like ship timber in
thai.- own eye have boen entirely changed
by the grace of God and have found out
that "godliness is prodtable for the life that
now is as well as for the life which is to
come.,:'
Peter, with nature t3tnpestuous as the sea
that he once tried to walk, at oae look of
Christ went out and wept bitterly. Rici
harvests of grace may grow on the tiptop of
tbe jagged steep, and flocks of Christian
graces may fina pasturage in fields of bram?
ble and rock. Though your disposition may
be all a-bristl9 with fretfulness,' though you
hava a temper a-gleam with quick light?
nings, though your avarica be hue that of
the horse-leeeh, crying, "Give I" though
damnable impurities have wrapped you iu
a'l consuming tiro. God can drive that devil
out of your soul, and over tho chaos and tha
darkness He eau say, 'Let there be light."
Converting grace has lifted the drunkard
from tue ditch and snatched the knife from
the hand of the assassin aud the false keys
from tho burglar, aud in the pestiferous
lanss of the city mat the daughter of sin
under tbe dim lamplight and scattered her
sorrow and her guilt with tae words, "Thy
sins are forgiven??o and siu no more." For
scarlet sin a sc iriet atonement.
Other parsons apologize for not entering
the Cbristion lifo because of tbe inconsistea*
cies of t bose who profess religion. There are
thousanus of poor farmers, They do not
know ths nature of soil nor the propar rota?
tion of crops. Their corn is shorter ia the
stalk aud smaller in the ear. T.iey have ton
le-s bushels to the acre than their neighbors.
But who declines being a larmer Because
there are so inauy poor farmers.
There are thousands of incompetent mer?
chants. They buy at the wrong time. They
get cheated in the sale of their goods. Every
bale of goods is to them disaster. They fail
after a while and go out ot business But
who declines to oe a merchant because
there are so many incompetent merchants?
'lhere are thousands of poor lawyers. They
cannot draw a declaration that will stand
the test. They cannot recover just dam- '
ages. They cannot help a defenaent escape
from the in justice of bis persecutors. They j
are tho worst evidence against any casein {
which they are retained. But who declines
to be a lawyer because there are so many
incompetent lawyers? Yet thero are tons '
of thousands of people who decline being re- !
ligious because there are so many unworthy
Christians. Now, I say it is illogical. Poor i 1
lawyers are nothin j against jurisprudence,
poor physicians ara nothing against medi?
cine, poor f armers are nothing against agri- j
culture, and menu, contemptible professors
bi religion are nothing against our giorious '
christianity.
Sometimes you have been riding along on ^
t summer night by a swam:), and you hava
>e?.i lights that kindled over deetyed vega- '
ation?lights Thieu ara called jack-o'-lan
A.TO or \vill-o'-the*-.visri. These lights aro
nerely poisonous miasmata. My friend)*, on
rour way to heaven you will want a better : '
igatthan the will-o-She-wisps which dance
i the rotten charaoter of dead Christians,
""?ssudations from poisonous treos in our
neighbors gar len wm make a vary poor
balm for our wounds. ?
Sickness will com?, and we will be pushel j
out toward the Ra l Sea wnica divides tnis
world from the nex% and not the incon* *
tistency of Christians but the roi of laith i
wdi wave baci the waters as a commander
wneels his host. Tae judgment will come I
with its thundersaod solemnities, atten ied j
by bursting mountains aud the deep lau?b i
0. earthquakes, and suns will fly betore the j
feet of God due sparks fro n tae anvil, and
10,000 burning worlds shall blaze like oan- ! I
ners in tne track of God omniootent. Oh, i
then we will stop and say, "Toerewasa J
mean Christian; there was a cowardly
Christian: there was an impure Christian " J
In that day as now, '*lf thou ba wise, thou i
(bait oe wise for tay?elf, bu if thou scorn* j
est thou alone shall hear it." Why, my |
brother, the inconsistency of Christians so l
far from being an argument to keep you (
away from God ought to oe an argument to
ari ve you to Him. The'best place lora skill.
Pul doctor is a neighborhood where they are |
?ll poor doctors: tne best place for an enter- i
prising merchant to opeu his store is in a t j
place where the bargain makers do not un- |
Jerstand their business, and the best place j
for you who want to become the illustrious j
and complete Christians?the best piace for f
you is to come rigat down among us wuc ?
are so incompetent and so inconsistent some5
times.
Other persons apologize for not becomiu;* | _
Christians because thay lack time, as thougj
religion muddled tbe brain of the account
ant, or tripped the pen of the author, ol
thickened the tongue of the orator, or weak
med the arm of the mechanic, or scattered
:he briefs of the lawyer, or interrupted the
ales of the merchant. They bolt their store
loors against it and fi?bt it back with
rowels and with yard sticks and cry,
'Awav with your religion from our store,
.ur office, our factory!"
They do not understand tbat religion in
bis workaday world will help you to do
nvthing you ought to do. It can lay a
eeJ, it can sail a ship, it can buy a cargo, it
an work a pullev, it can pave a street, it
an fit a wristband, it can write a oonstitu
ion, it can marshal a host. It is as aporo
riate to the astrono uer as his telescope, to
tie chemist as his laboratory, to the mason
s his nlumbline, to the carpenter as bis
lane, to the child a*> his marbles, to the
randfather as his staff.
No time to be religious hero! You have
o time not to lie religious. You might as ' j,
?ell hava no clerks in your store, no books ? -..
i your librarv. no compass on your shio, j ?
o rifle in the battle, no hat for your S
ead, no coat for your back, no shoes f or j O
our feet. Better travel on toward eternity ; B
are headed and bare footed, and houseless
id bomeles!*, and friendless, than go
irough life without religion.
Did religion make Raleigh any les3 of a
atesman, or Havelock anv leis of a sol?
er, or Grinnell any less of a merchant, or
"est anv less of a Dainter? Religion is the
>st security in everv bargain, it is the
reetest notQ in every song, it is tha bright- V]
tgem in every coronet. No time to b? ra- W
?iousl Why, you will hava to take time C<
be sick, to be troub'od, to die. Our O.
or'd is only the wharf from wilie i we are i Bl
embark for heaven. No time to secure E(
the friendship of Christ. No time to buv a
lamp and trim it for that walk through the
darkness which otherwise will be illumined
only by the whiteness of the tombstones.
No time to elucate the eye for heavenly
splendors, or the hand for choral harps, or
the ear for everlasting sang*, or the soul for
honor, glory and immortality . One would
think we had time for nothing else.
Other persons a^ologiz) for not entering
the Christian life because it is time enough
yet. That is very like those persons who
send their regrets and say: "I will come in
perhaps at ll or 12 o'clock. I will not be
tbera at the opening of the banquet, but I
will be there at the close." Not yet! Not
yet!
Now, I do not give any doleful view of
this life. There is notm'ng ia my nature,
nothing in the grace oi G > I, tba'; tends to?
ward a doleful view of bumsn life. 1 have
not much svi.imtby w.th A Idisoii's descrip?
tion or the "Vision of Mirzi." wilora he rep?
resents human life as bein? a bridge ot a
imnnred arches, an I both on ls of the fridge
covered with clouds, an 1 the race cooling
on, the most of them falling down through
the first span, and all of them falling down
through the last span. It is a very dismal
picture. I have not much sympathy with
the Spanish proverb which say-, "lue sky
is good, and tho earth is good?that which
is bad is between the earth and the sky."
But while wa Christian people are bound
to take a cheerful view of life we must also
confess that life is a great uncertainty, and
that man who says, "1 can't become a
Christian because there is time enouga yet,"
is runniug a risk infinite. You do not per?
haps realize tbe fact that this descending
grade of sin gets srreeoer and steeper, and
that you ire gataeri"g uo a rush and veloc?
ity which after awhile may not answer to
the brakes, Oh. my frie'idf, be not among
those who give their whole life to the world
and then g.ve th9ir corpse to God. It
doss not seem fair while our pulses are in
lull play ot health that we serva our?
selves and serve tue world and thea make
Go i at last the present of a coffin. It does
not seem ri?bt tnat we run our ship from
coast to coast, carrying cargoes for ourselves,
ami then wuen the ship is crushed on the
rocks give to Go 1 tae shivered timbers. It
is a great thing for a man on his dying pil?
low to repent?better than never at all-out
h >w mnoh better, how much more estrous,
it would have been if be had repented fifty
years before! My friends, you will never
get over these procrastinations.
Here is a delusion. People think, "I can
go on in sin and worldliness, but after awhile
1 will repent, and then it will bea3 though
lhad cone at the very start." That is a
delusion. No one ever gets fully over pro
crascination. If you give your soul to God,
some other time than tais, you will enter
heaven wita oily half tha capacity for cn
j iyment aud Knowledge you might hava
bad. Tnere will ba neighes of blessedness
you might have attained, you will never
reach; thrones o.'glory oa which you might
hava ueen seated, but waicla you will never
climb. U'e will never get over pro?
crastination, neither ia time nor in eter?
nity. We have starte I on a march from
which there ia no retreat. The shad?
ows of eternity gather on our path?
way. How insignifican; is tine compared
with the vast eternity! I was thinking of
this while coming down over the Atleghany
Mountains at noon, by that wonderful place
which you have all heard descrlbad as the
Horsehoe?a depra3sioa in the side of tha
mountain where the traiu almost .turns backs
again upoa itself, and you see how appro?
priate is th9 description o' the Horseshoe?
and thinking on this very theme and prepar?
ing this very sermon it seemed to me as if
the great courser of eternity speeding alon<|
had just struck the mountain with one hoof
and gone into illirnitaole space. Soshortis
time, so insignificant is earth, compared with
the vast eternity!
this morning voices roll down the sky,
and all the worlds of light ara ready to re?
joice at your disenthrall ment. Rush not
into the presence of the King ragged with
sin wheu you may hava this robe of right?
eousness. Dash not your foot to pieces
against the throne of a crucified Christ.
Throw not your crown ot life oft the battle
meats. All the scribes of God are this mo-**
ment ready with volumes of living light to
record the news of your soul emancipated.
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Hla Crime.
The following extra-judicial decis?
ion is said to have been delivered
lome years ago by a judge in a South?
on cilv. A man had been brought'
before Wm on a warrant for vagrancy.
Thc evidence was unmistakable, and
.ho young lawyer defending the, man
'aw that thc case was hopeless.
While badgering his wits to know
/rhat to say, however, he noticed that
Ila client was fairly well-dressed, and
"ailed "ie attention of the court to
ihat tact, declaring that no man who
-vore "good clotheg" qpuld with pro?
priety be considered a vagrant, as.
that word signified a ragged, dirty
vagabond. Observing that the court
madeamemoradumnr' "p ol clothes,"
qc wisely sat down without further
remarks. ,
"When the prosecuting attorney had
finished what he had, to offer, the
ludge, who was blessed with a fine,
rich brogue, said: "The caart, having
ittlntively haard the ividince and the,
remarks av counsil, is av the opinion
that, inasmuch as the prisoner wears
gooT clothes, he cannot properly be
considered a vagaut: but, as he has
not shown to the satisfaction of the'
caart, how he obtained thim clothes,
I shall bind him over for simple lar?
ceny!''
He was so bound over, and the pa-,
pera are on record in the County
Clerk's office.
Gold Nuggets.
One of the largest and most re
markable shaped nuggets ever found
was discovered in an Australian mint
in 1887. It was flat and almost the
exact counterpart in contour of a
colossal human hand held open, with
the exception of the thumb and fore.
Auger, which were closed together Id
a manner so as to make it appeal
that the thumb was holding the fin?
ger in place. Its greatest length was
twelve and a half inches. It wa3 of
the very purest gold, with but a lit?
tle of foreign substances adhering
(mostly between the "Angers"), and
weighed six hundred and seventeen
ounces. The famous "Lady Brassey"
nugget, also found in Australia,
weighed fifty-one pounds of pure
gold, worth $225 per pound. In 1891
a nugget of fifteen pounds' weight,
shaped exactly Wke a cross, with the
exception of the right arm, was dis
covered in the Buriss mine near th6
Bame place.
One of the boat of housekeepers is the
woman who hates dirt.
Some shepherds pay the most attention to
Ihe fattest sheep.
If your Rack Aches, or you are all worn out,
good for nothing, it ls general debility.
Brown's Iron B.tters will cure you, make you
strong, cleanse your liver, and jj ive you a good
appetite?tunes the nerves.
Love is the unknowable.
A wonderful stomach corrector?Be?chani'i
Pills. Beechams?no others. 25eents a1>ox.
If you cnn be silent keep silent.
For l-iipure or th'n Blood, Weakne-s. Mala?
ria, Neuralgia, Indigestion and Biliousness,
take Brown's Iron Kittrrs-it gives strength,
makin.,' old persona feel young?and young
persons strong; pleasant to take.
The downright fool doesn't now it.
Hood's is tbe Best
The Judgment of Long
Experience. *
Mr. Grant W. Barnes
" Richford, N. Y., Jan. 11,1893.
" Myself and my wifo have taken several
Kittles of Hood's Sarsaparilla with gratifying
?osulls. For years I have bad kidney trouble,
md also heart difficulty. 1 "'as unable io
deep ou my left side for years. Hood's Sarea
tarilla bas done me a i*rcat deal of good. I am
ree from kidney trouble, and can sleep on
ither side now, thanks to Hood's Sarsaparilla,
dy wife has had a chronic sore throat for
HoocTsSaCures
nore t!i n Z) years. It always troubled ber
nore or les--, but for the last 6 months, since
aking Hood's Sarsaparilla, she ha-* not bad a
ore ihroat except once when she took a slight
old. We cheerfully recommend Hood's Sar?
aparilla aa a good reliable medicine for the
ilood and to build up tbe system; I consider lt
he beat medicine in use." Chant Wa
.arses. GET HOOD'S.
Hood a rills are the best after-dinner Pill*, art?
ist digestion, cure heed ache. Try a box. 25 cents.
'&UffUSt
'' I have been afflicted with bilious*
less and constipation for fifteen years
nd first one and then another prep
ration was suggested to me and
ried, but to no purpose. A friend
ecommended August Flower and
fords cannot describe the admira
lon in which I hold it. It has given
ae a new lease of life, which before
fas a burden. Its good qualities
nd wonderful merits should be made
nown to everyone suffering with
yspepsia and biliousness." JESSB
Iarker, Printer, Humboldt Kas.?
RADFI ELD'S
FEMALE
REGULATOR
has proven an Infallibto
specific for all derange?
ments peculiar to tho
female sex,suchaschronlo
womb and ovarian dis
tmmem. ff taken in time it
regulates and nromotes
healthy action of all func?
tions of the generative
organs. Youno; ladies at
tho ago of puberty, and
older ones at tho meno
?auso.-sTill flndin Ita healing, soothing tonic.
Tho highest recommendations from promi?
nent physicians and thono who have tried it.
?? Ute tor book "To Women," mailed free. Bold
7 all firuggists. Bv.ADtlXLD fiMVUZOB CO.,
When Shall We Fly.
Hiram S. Maxim reports on our
progress in aerial navigation. He de?
scribes what has been done, explains
that his experiments have been much
delayed by his long absence from
England, but says that ho has now
got a grip on the air many times
greater than has ever been obtained
before. If his large aeroplanes can
be made to lift one-half as much in
proportion to the power consumed as
the small ones did in previous experi?
ments, he says he will have sufficient
power not only to make the machine
rise in the air, but to carry a consid?
erable load besides. He thinks he
has now proved that it is possible to
produce a really powerful and relia?
ble motor well within the limits of
weight, and that if he does not suc?
ceed some one else will, and that at
no distant date. He is inclined to be?
lieve that naphtha is the motor that
is destined to carry us through tho
clouds, nor does this seem a vain hope
if it be true, as he says, that a
naphtha motor could be constructed
which would develop 100 horse-power
and not weigh more than 500 pounds.
Mr. Maxim mentions that he has
been told by a Russian that the Czar
has spent ?100 000 out of his private
purse on the aeroplane system, but.
without any success as yet.
Intellectual Item.
i*J. is said that a man does not reach
his fuil mental power until the age of
25, and tlie development of talent ia
most marked between the ages of 30
and 45. I
Free Trip to Chicago.
j Boparstfl W-o-b-l-d-s F-v-i-r and use the
; letters to spell as many words as you can by
i using tbe letters aa many times as you wish*
; either back wards or forwards, but not use th*
i eame letter in making any one word more time'
than it appears in " World's Fair."
It is said seventy-tire small English words
can be spelled correcly from 'be ten letters
eintained In "World's Fair." Example: Wad,
waif, 3oar, idol, etc. If you are good ut word
m.k ng you can secure a free trip to tbe
Worl i's Fair and return, as the Scott Seed
Company will pay all expenses, including R.R.
fare, hotel bills, admissions to the Columbian
Exposition, and $XUn cash for incidental ex?
penses, to the first person able to make seventy
words from tire letters contained in " World's
Fair," as a^ove. They wi 1 also give a free
trip to the World's Fair and return with $25
for incidental expenses, to the first person
?anding sixty words a9 above. They will a!<-<
give a free trip to the World's Fair and return
(without cash for incidental expenses) to the
first person sending H Vi-fiee, words.
To the first person sending fifty words will
be given 550 in c?sh towards paying expenses
j to tho World's Fair ; to the first sending r> tty
words will be given $25 in cash towards pay?
ing expense's to the Vs orld's Falr.toeTC'i ot the
first five persons sending fhn fy-/uv words w.ll
be given *}10 in cash, and to ench ot the first ten
trending tiirt'i words will be given $5 in cash.
Only one prize will be awarded to tbe same
person. Write your name on list of words
.numbered) and enclose the same lostpuid
witti fifeen U.S. two-cent stamps for a largo
package of our Choice English Cottage Carden
Flower Seeds.
Tuts comblnaCon includes tbe latest and
most p pular Eng lsh fl-.wers of endless vario
oae aa will ic cont tined lu the elaborate
exhibit or English flowers at the World's Fair).
This "World's Fair" Contest will be care?
fully and con-cientioiigly conducte I solely for
thejpurpose of introducing our business in the
V. (?. You will receive tbe bingal value In
flower setds ever oftertd, and if you are able
lo make a good list of words and answer
promptly you will have a first-clase opportun?
ity to secure a free trip j rom your hume to
Chicng ? anil return.
We aro spending a large amount of money to
start our traae in the U. S. and want your t dal
cider. You wiU be more thxn gratified with
the result. Send to-day, and address the
Scott Seed Company, Toronto, Canaan.
But one in a thousand.?The figure one.
Pure grape
cream of tartar
PjjjTfc W^JmrnSt fl forms the
vi VBaA BflL^w acid principle
mW \\\y^^Wa%MMtKW of the Royal
rf> Al/I fclsfW exclusively
JEP#?%|SW The Royal
imparts that
IPOWDE?^ peculiar sweet
^ ness, flavor and
delicacy noticed in the
finest cake, biscuit,
) rolls, etc., which
expert pastry cooks A>b<$0[ U tClV
declare is unobtainable g-^ ^
by the use of any other ? Ut*&
leavening agent.
What ls Home Without
HOME f HOME
TACKS?
Several slzcn to suit,
in a compartment box,?
handy when you need
Tacks about thc home for
carpets, curtains, gimp, or?
naments, oilcloths, sheath?
ing,?1001 uses you know of.
Always fiud thc right tack at
the right time.
NAILS?
Several sizes iu h carton.
handy when you need nails
for a loose board, shingle, or
Fence Picket,
broken furniture, rickety
door, to hang your hat
and coat on, etc., etc.
Always the right nail nt the
right time.
FOR SALE EVERYWHERE.
Made Solely by the ATLAS TACK CORPORATION, BOSTON.
Warehovsrs: DostoD, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago. Baltimore, San Fr?nrl3r^, Lynn.
Factories: Taunton, Fairhaven, Whitman, Duibury, and Plymouth, Mas.?.
EVERYBODY WANTS THEM.
"A SUCCESS."
P. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., Gentlemen:?
I have .suffered from catarrh for about five years
*uid have tried several remedies without relief
until I commenced to use Hall's Catarrh Cure last
February. I must say that it is a A SUCCESS,
the dropping in my throat disappeared entirely
after the first bottle. It increased my appetite, so
that I now weigh eight pounds more than my cus*
iomary weight. I have recommended it to others
and all who used it have been greatly relieved and
speak highly of it. One of them was in my store
yesterday and expressed his wish to peddle it this
winter. Will you please let me know the lowest
terms you could furnish it for, as I would like to
keep it in stock. Hoping to hear from you
soon, I remain, Yours respectfully,
R. C. HAUSWEDELL,
Lake City, Minn.
BOLD BY DRUGGISTS, 76c,
PISOS CURE.FOP
IJH 'Vhe Seat Cough Pvnip.ra
HTastasS Good. I'sr- In time.RI
*"""j|Sold by Druggists. Jg\
ipyl i li I'l I NI l .ij|P
Wc offer
I you a ready
made medicine for Coughs,
Bronchitis and other dis?
eases of tlie Throat and
Lungs. Like other so called
Patent Medicines, it is well
advertised, and having merit
It has attained a, wide sale
under the name of Piso's
Cure for Consumption.
It is now a "Nostrum,"
though at first it was com?
pounded after a prescription
by a regular physician, with
no idea that it would ever
go on the market ag a proprie?
tary medicine. Hut after
compounding that prescrip?
tion over a thousand times in
oue year, we named it "I'iso's
Cure for Consuini tion," and
began advertising it in a
small way. A medicine
known all over the world is
the result.
Why is it not just as good
as though costing fifty cents
to a dollar for a prescription
and an equal sum to have it
put up at a drag store?
KNOWLEDGE
Bring? comfort .'iud improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. Tlie many, who live bet?
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting thc world's bert product! to
the needs of physics! being, will attest
the value to health pf the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of li,.
It.-* excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas?
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax?
ative; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
ana permanently curing enn-tipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it ads on the Kid?
ney, Liver and Bowels Without weak?
ening them and it ia perfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug?
gists in 50c and $1 lc tiles, but it is man?
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name ls printed on every
packacre, also the name, Syrup of Fig*,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if ottered.
VCL'n OWN HARNESS
V.Tf'l
THOMSON'S
SLOTTED
CL3NCM RIVETS.
No loo!, rc<iu cd. < rut 1*1 lo drl>#
?n i c 'neb th ni ? | .},? clinch
?iiso ut<dy smooth. H mi Jo la
? .ii? strong,
lun.'h and d-n-afsi**. -V Mt*". All
lemrtht. uniform '-oxes.
Auk .roar .leisler for ibent, < |
?Umps for a bo.t Mr- -'id by
JUDSON >. THOMSON MFG. CO..
UAI.THM'I. .11 ASM.
I N '
Unlike the Dutch Process
No Alkalies
? on -
Oilier Chemicals
aro used in tha
?.reparation of
IV. BAKER & CO.'S
\BreakfastCocoa
trlttch ls absolutely)
pure and soluble.
i It UA!>mor?thiinthreettmet
? renyth of Cocoa mixeo
I with Star, ll, Arrowroot oi
' Bufpr, aud is tar mure eco?
nomical, costing hot than one cent a cup.
It ls delkiou.'*, nourishing, aud lASUf
DIGESTKD._
Sold uyfiro<frs erjrTTrhar*.
W. BAKER &; C^orchester, Hpj*.
Do Not Be received
with Pastas, Enamels: and Taints which it*la tho
band*), Injure the Iron ;:n.i hura red.
Thr* Rtt-s< Sus Btove Polish h Prflliant, Odor.
leas. Durable, ??.nd Ilia j for bo Un
or glasa package with every pUKUM,
Ian ideal family medicine;
? For In<lltce.tlon, Ililiourineaa.
I Heniluche, loi.?llpi;;i..:>. Hud
SCopiplcxlon, Offs .-lr 'lr r.1,'1,
.and ul disorders ot thc ctoniuch,
I Liver and Bowels,
I . RIPANS T/.8UL69 ,
fact gently yet promptly. Perfect
I digestion foll.
Ebydmpt'ict- oi
J ttl vials!, rv. Pi
I For fr..; sampl
{_ BIPATO CHEMICAL CO., Sew Torie.
?B a-*rs?. m ra M, sm -/. mt
v York, s
take: '
THEBESJ:
Shiloh's
CURE;
Cures Consumption, Coughs, Cronp, Soro
throat. Sold by all Druggiiti oa a Guarant**;.
BLOOD PO.SOfi
A SPECIALTY.
If any or1*) doubt* thal
ve cm <
stinate cuss ia 21 to60
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ini 6-J4 dooly print* I
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rmely yet Nrriaeanly bound In
givea I-'nglin'ri worri ?*i
luivalents and pron inflation, uni
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