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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. 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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 .. i ? pate cur relUb illy. O'rr fcaeklntr li wry, I'iide potaailum. . .-In;,'* fail, yrs mrantaeacure?and our Ma rio i (ha only llntr that will cure pc-1-Tii.ir.r.'itly. I" ill rttttatt -.1 lakd, trot, COOK ItfcKCrVY to., < Iii J .go, Ul. li!3"Kr3D Youn B?at Uw-rrts?.| (.rimtv Munmin jbliB'ne.1, at thc remarkably lp 'oniv $1.00. pod ini 6-J4 dooly print* I ?pa on eiraftent rmely yet Nrriaeanly bound In givea I-'nglin'ri worri ?*i luivalents and pron inflation, uni ennan worJawltlr El gi uh deni is Invaluable t? ?':. nn ? rorougUy familiar--it]. Kn(c: wari, um who wjf-.r to Paru German, dd rea*, with ai/<'. BOOK 1*CB. HOl-t, I3? U.iiari IC, New Kerk (tty, jiarfieSri Tea ires Constipation. Itcjtore* Complexion Uh Samplefree GakfieldTeaCo .:il9\V.<.r.ib*it.,:i. V. Cu res Sick Headache 11! QT UAVC Agi-nta ATONf'E. Sarnpla "?Vivi KhVC RashloekiPat :?; trocbymail T Se. SUmp. tm.,-.-. I mis. ulled, onl.' jjikxI ie ever iuvented. Bents weights. Hali ia a tiny. Writs uti uutn, Phil:.. Pa. Morphine Ilabit Cured in 10 to 20 slays. M.; pay lill cm >d, DR. J.STEPHENS Lebanor (EN AND BOY ant to learn all about )rse ? How io Pl >odOnc? Knowlmperfcc in*1 and so Guard agai-"i iud? Detect Dlr*-. r?Lt a Cure when Ear;.. sslble ? Tell the nj,*-: by e Teeth? What io.ail th.- DUTercDl lliral? How to SI) ?? ? Hosie Prop !'!y A! d other Va uMl Info. : ? o', t.r. i e -.ding our 1M-PAUE ILIsUBTttlT uRSE BOOK, svhl ld, on receipt of only'if i-enl*- i.i ilaia***. BOOK PUB. HOUSE, 14 Leonard St., Now York Ci tua tills I lr. ED j.*.. ty. ?;.>\;:v in (inn. I sr rr . gu ami - I.r.e ll ' ?OOK WHS. MOIM, Ul UswaH li.. *.. r. (Hy. Piso's . rh :.. ii,. ? ?olu by drtrsfgatU or suit br wwi,