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IPW MlW'ltPPPIWWPWIWi gutwjattg2g3Hi THE PITTSBURG piSPATOH, MONDAY, APRIL 6. 1891. ATTACK ON INFIDELS, Her. T. DelYitt Talmage Takes Skep ticism for lho Subject of ONE OF THE SERMONS ON PLAGUES. The Reasons TYnicIi lie (Jives for Sol Being an Unbeliever. GOD XEVttt DID SAKCTIOX POLIGAMI tf TECIAL TELEOEAM TO TOE UIRPATCn.l Kew Yoek, April S. Continuing his course of sermons on "The Ten Plagues of the Cities," Rev. Dr. Talmage to-day took for his subject "The Plague of Infidelity." The discourse was delivered to large and appreciative audiences at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the forenoon and the 2 ew York Academy of Music in the even ing;. The text was, Romans 3 :4: "Let God be true, but eery man a liar." That is, ii God sajs, one thing and the whole human race tays the opposite, Paul would ac cept the Divine veracity. Hut there aro many In our time who have dared arraign the Almighty fur falsehood. Infidelity is not only a plague, hut it i the mother of plagues. It seems from what we hear on all Miles, that the Christian religion is a huge blunder; that the Mosaic account of the creation is an ab surdity largo enough to throw all nations Into rollicking guflaw; that Adain and Kro never existed; that the ancient flood and Noah's Ark were Impossibilities; that there never was a miracle; that the Bible is the friend of cruelty, of murder, of polygamy, of all forms of base crime; that the Christian religion is woman's tvrant and mac's stultification; that the lhble from lid to lnl :s a fable, a crueltj, a humbug, a ham. a lie; that the ruartyis who died for its truth were miserable dupes: that the Church of Jesus Clmt i properlj gazetted as a fool: that when Thomas Cirlyle, the skeptic, said, "The lhble is a nobl book." he was d.oppiug into iuibecilitv; that when Theodore Parker de clared in Music Hall. Uostun, "Never a bov or girl m all Christendom but r.as profited by that great book," he was becoming very weak minded; that it is something to bring a blush to thecbeelof every patriot, that John Adams, the father of American independence, declared. The Bible is tho best book m all the world;" and that lion-hearted Andrew Jackson turned into a snivelling coward when he said, "That book, sir, is the rock on which our republic rrsts;" and that Daniel Webster abdicated the throne of his intellectual power and resigned his logic, and from being the great expounder of tho Constitution -and the great lawyer of liis age. turned into an idiot, when he said, "Jlyluart assures and reassures me that the gospel of Jesns Christ must bo a divine reality. Flora the time that at my mother's leet, or on in father's knee, I first learned to lisp verses from the sacieJ writings, they hive been my daily stud) and vigilant contemplation, and if there is anthingiumy style or thought to be commended, the credit is due to my kind jiarcuts in instilling into my mind an early love of tho scriptures," 35 The Cry of the Latter-Day Skeptic 7 his book, having deceivd them, and hav ing deceived the mighty intellects ot the past, limit not be allowed to deceive our larger, miStler, vaster, more stupendous intellects. And so out w i;h the book from the courtroom, where It is used in the solemnization of testi mony. Out with it from under the foundation of church and asvlum. Out with it from tho domestic circle. Gathertogctherall the Bibles the children's bibles, the family liibles, those nely hound, and those with lid i early worn out and pages almost obliterated by the fingers long ago turned to dust bring them all together, and let us make a b.infire ot them, and by it warm our cold criticism, and aller that torn under with the ploughshare of pub lic indignation the polluted asnes of that loath sume, adulterous, obscene, cruel and dcathful book which is so antagonistic to inan's liberty, and woman's honor and the world's hapnn ess. Now, that is the substance ot w hat infidelity proposes and declares, and the attack on the Jiible is accompanied by great jocosity, ana there is hardly any subject about which more mirth is kindled than about the Ilible. I like lun; no man was ever built with a keener ap preciation of it. There is health in laughter instead of harm ph sical health. mental health, moral health. mritual health provided yon laugh at the rigut thing. The morning is jo cund. The Indian with its own mist baptizes tho cataract Minnehaha. r laughing water. Yon have not kept jour eyes open, or yonrears alert, if you have not seen tho sea "smile, or heard the forests clap their hands, or tho or chards in blussom week aglee with redolence. But there is a laughter winch is deatbf ul, there is a laughter w hich has the rebound of despair. It is not health to gugle about God, or chuckle about eternity, o- smirk about the things ot the Immortal suui. You know what caused the ac cident ears ago on the Hudson River Kail road. It was an intoxicated man who. for a joke, pulled the string of the air-brake and stopped the train at the most dangerous point of the journey. But the lightning train, not knowing there was any impediment in the way, came down, crushing out of tho mangled vic tims the immortal souls that went speeding iu fitantlv to God and judgment. It was onlv a joke. He thought it would he such fun to stop the tram. He stopped it! And so infidelity is chull .inxions to snip the long tram of "the Uible, and the long tram of the churches, and the long train of Christian influences, while coming oora upon us arc death, judgment and eternity coming 1,000 miles a minute, coming with more force than all the avalanches that ever slipped Iroin the Alps, coming with more strength than all the lightning express trains that ever whistled or shrieked or thundered across the continent. IVhy lie Is Not an Infidel. Now in this sentiment of infidel thinkers I cannot join, and I propose to give you some reasons whv I cannot be an inhdel. and so I willtry to help ont of this present condition any who may have been struck with the awful plague of skepticism. First I cannot be an infidel because infidelity has no good substitute for the consolation it proposes to take away. You know there are millions of people who get their chief consola tion from this book. What would ou think of a crusade of this sort? bunpose a man should resole that he would organize a con splraiy to destroy all the medicines Irom all the apothecaries and from all the hospitals of the earth. The work is done. The medicines are taVen and they aro thrown into tho river, or the lake, or the sea. A patient wakes up at midnight in a paroxjsm of distress, and wants auanodjne. -Oh," bajs the nurse, "the ano djnes are all destro.ved: we have no drops to give you, hut instead of that I'll lead you a hook on the ab-urdities of morphine, and on the absurdities of all remedies." But the man continues to writhe in pain, and the nurse says: TU continue to reaa you some discourses on anodynes, the cruelties of anodynes, the indecencies of anodjnes, the ab surdities of anodynes. For vour groan, I'll give ou a laugh." Herein the hospital is a atient having a gangrened limb amputated. e sajs, "Oh, for ether. Oh. lor chloroform.''' The dor-tors say, "Wbj they aro all destroyed; wc don't have any more chloroform or ether; but I have got something ,i great deal bettor. I'll read voa a pamphlet against James Y. Simpson, the discoreier ot chloroform as an anaesthetic, and against Drs. Aguew, and Ham ilton, and Hosack. and aiott, and Harvey, and Abernethy." "But,"' says the man, 'I must have some anaesthetics." "No," ay the doc tors, "they are all destroyed, but we have got something a great deal better." "What is fliat:" "Fun." Fun about medicines. Lio down alive patients in Bellevue Hospital and stop jour groaning all jo broken-hearted of all the cities, and quit j our crying; w e have the cathollcon at last! Here is a dose of wi:. here is a strengthenin" plaster of saicasm. hero is a bottle of ribaldry that you are tu keep well 6haken up and take a spoonful of It after each meal, and if that does not cure you, hero is a solution of blasphemvin which you mav bathe, and here is a tincture of derision. Tickle the skeleton of death with a repartee! Slake the Kiug of Terrors cackle! For all the agonies of all the ages, a joke! Milhonsof people willing with uplifted hand toward heaven to afli'in that the gospel of Jesus Cnnst is full of consolation lor them. and jet infidelity proposes to take it away, Hiving nothinir. absolULdv notiiin- Mwnt rn Is there any greater height, or depth, or length, or breadth or immensity of meanness in all 1 God's universe7 I A ltellgion of Antul Negatives. Infidelity is a religion of "Don't Know." Is there a GodT Don't know! Is the soul immor. talf Don't know! If wo should meet oach I otherm the future world will we recognize each ! otfcerf Don't know! A religion of "don't j know" for the religion of -I kuow," "I know m ' wham 1 liavo believed. "I know that ray Ila deemer liveth." Iuddelity proposes to suhsu tute a religion of awful negatives for our re ligion of glorious positives showing right before us a world of reunion and ecstasy, and high companionship, and glorious worship, and stu pendous victory; the mightiest joy of earth not high enough to reach to the base of tho Himalaya of uplifted splendor awaltingall those who on wing of Christian faith will soar toward it. Furthermore: I cannot1 an infidel, bee us ot the false charges inl.ie!itv Is ail the tin c making against the Bible. I'er!i.t;H the tiamlf r that has made the most impression and that some Christians have not been intelligent enough to denv is that tho J.ilile l.uuis ncihg. amy. Does the God of the Bible uphold polvg amy, or did he? How many wives did God mako tor Adam? He made one wife. Does not your common sense tell you when God started the marriage institution, he started it as he wanted it to continue? If God bad favored polygamy he could havo created for Adam 6 wives, or 10 wives, orM wives, just as easitj as He made one. At the very first of the Biblo God shows himself in favor of monogamy and antagonistic to polygamy. Genesis ii, 21: 'Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife." Not his wives, but his wife. How many wives did God spare for Noah in the ark? Two and two the birds: two and two the cattle; two and two tho lions: two and two the human race. If the God of the Bible had favored a multiplicity ot wives He would have spared a plurality of wives. Whon God first launched the human race He gave Adam one wife. At the second launching of the human race He spares for Noah one wife, for Ham one wife, for Shem one wife, for Japhet one wife. Docs that look as though God favored polvg atny? In Leviticus xvni., 18, God thunders His prohibition of more than one wife. A Permission Not a Sanction. God permitted polygamy. Yes; just as he permits to-day murder and theft and arson and all kinds of crime. He permits these things as jou well know, but he does not sanction them. Who would dare to say he sanctions them? Because the Presidents of tho United States have permitted polvgamy in Utah, you are not, theicfore to conclude that they patronized it, that they apnroved it when on the contrary, thev denounced it. All of God's ancient Israel knew that the God of the Bible was against polygamy, for in the 450 vears of their stay in Eg pt there is onlv one case of polygamy re corded onlv one. All the mighty men of the Bible stood aloof from polvgamy, except those who, falling into the" crime, were chastised within an inch of their lives. Adam, Aaron, Noah, Joseph, Joshua, Samuel, monogamists. But j ou say: "Didn't David and Solomon favor polvgamj?-' Yes. and did they not get well punished for it? Head the lives ot tnose two men, and vou will come to the conclusion that all the attributes of God's nature were against their behavior. David suffered for his crimes in the caverns of Adullam andMassada, in the wildrness of Mahanaim, in the bereave ments of Ziklag. The Bedouins after him. Absalom after him, Ahitophel after him, Adonljah alter him, the Edomites alter him. the Syrians after him, tho Moabites after him, death after him. the Lord God Almighty after him. The poorest peasant in all the empire married to the plainest Jewess was happier than the King in his marital misbehavior. How did Solomon get along with polvgamv. Read his warnings in Proverbs, read his self disgust in Ecclesiastes. He throws up his hands in loathing, and cries "tit: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." His 700 wives nearly pestered tho life out of him. Solomon got well paid for his crimes well paid. I repeat that all the mighty men of the Scriptures were aloof from polygamy, save as they were pounded and flailed, and cut to pieces for their insult to holy marriage. If the Bible is the friend of polvgamv why is it that in all tho lands where the Bible predominates, polygamy is forbidden, and in the lands where there is no Bible, it is favored? Polygamy all over China, all over India, all over Africa, all over Persia, all over heathendom, save as the mis sionaries have done their work: while polvgamy does not exist in England and the United States, except in defiance of law. The Bible abroad, God honored monogamy. The Bible not abroad, God abhorred polygamy. Not Antagonistic to Women. Another false charge which infidelity has made against the Bible is that it is antagonistic to women, that it enjoins her degradation and belittles her mission. Under this impression many w omen havo beep overcome ot this plague of infidelity. Is the Bible the enemy of woman? Come into the picture gallery, the Louvre, the Luxembourg of the Bible, and see which pic tures aro the more honored. Here is Eve, a perfect woman, as perfect a woman as could be made by a perfect God. Here is Deborah, with' her womanly arm hurling a host into the battle. Here is -Miriam, leading the Israel- itish orchestra on the banks of the Ilea Sea. Here is motherly Hannah, with her own loving band replenishing the wardrobe of her son Samuel, the prophet. Here is Abigail, kneeling at the foot of the mountain until the 400 wrathful men, at the sight of her beauty and prowess halt, halt a hurricane stopped at thesight of a waterlilv, a dewdrop aashing back Niagara. Here is Ruth, putting to shame all the modern slang about mothers-in-law as she turns her back on her home and her coun tiy. and faces wild beasts and exile and death, that she mav be with Naomi, her husband's mother. Ituth, the queen of the harvest fields. Kutb, the grandmother of David. Ruth, tho ancestress of Jesus Christ. The story of her virtues and her life sacrifice the most beautiful pastoral ever written. Here is Vashti, defying the bacchanal of a thousand drunken lords, and Esther, willing to throw her life away tliatshe may deliver her peo ple. And here is Dorcas, the sunlight of eternal fame gilding her philanthropic needle, and the woman with perfume in a box made from the hills of Alabastron, pouring the holy chrism on the bead of Christ, the aroma linger ing all down the corridor of the centuries. Here is Lydia, the raerchantess of Tyrlan pur ple immortalized for her Christian behavior. Here is the widow with two mites, more famous than the Peahodjs and the Lenoxes of all the ages, while hero comes in, slow of gait and with careful attendants ana especial honor and high favor, leaning on the arm of inspira tion, one who is the joy and pride of any home so rarely fortunate as to have one, an old Christian grandmother. Grandmother Lois. Who has more worshippers to-day than any being that ever lived on earth, except Jusus Christ? Mary. For what pur pose did Christ perform his first miracle upon earth? To relieve tho embarrassment of a womanly housekeeper at the falling short of a beverage. Why did Christ break up the si lence of the tomb, and tear off the sbrond and rip up the rocks? It was to atop the bereave ment of tl.e two Bethany sisters. For whose comfort was Christ most anxious in the hour ot dying excruciation? For a woman, an old woman, a wrinkle-faced womau, a woman who in other days had held him in her arms, his first friend, his last friend, as it is very apt to be, his mother. All the pathos of the ages compressed into one utterance, "Behold thy mother." Does the Bible antagonize woman? More Charges Against lufidblity. Infidelity scrapes no lint for the wounded, bakes no bread for the hungry, shakes up no pillow tor the sick, rouses no comlort for the bereft, gilds no grave for the dead. While Christ, our Christ, our wounded Christ, our risen Christ, the Christ of this old-fashioned Bible blessed be His glorious name forever! our Christ stands this hour pointing to the hospital, or to the asylum, saying; "I was sick and ye gave ale a couch, I was lame and 3 a gave Me a crutch. I was blind and ye phv ticianed My eyesight, I was orphaned" and ye mothered My souk I was lost on the mountains and ye brought Me home; inasmuch as ye did it to one of the least of these, ye did it to Me." But I thank God that this plague of infidelity will be stayed. Many of those who hear me now by the Holy Ghost upon their hearts will cease to be scoffers and will become disciples, and the day will arrive when all nations will accept the Scriptures, The book is going to keep right on until the fires of the last day are kindled, borne of them will begin ou one side and some on the other side of the old book. They will not find 4 bundle of loose manuscripts easily consumed like tinder thrown into the lire. When the fires of the last day are kindled, some will turn on this side, from Genesis toward Revelation, and others will turn on this side, from Revelation toward Genesis, and in all their way they will not find a single chapter i.r a single verse out of place. That will he the first tiino we can afford to do without the Bible. hat will be the use of the Book of Genesis, descriptive of how the world was made, when the world is destroyed? What will be the use of the prophecios when they are all fulfilled? What will be the use of the evangelistic or Pauline description of Jesus Christ when we tee him face to face? What will be the use of his photograph when we have met him in glory? What will be the use of the Book of Revelation, standing as you will with your foot on the glassv sea, and your hand on the ringing harp, and your forehead chapleted with eternal coronation, amid the amethystine and 12-gated glories of heaven? The emerald dashing its green against tho beryl, and the beryl dashing its blue against the sapphire, and the sapphire throwing its light on the jacinth, and the jacinth dashing its fire against the cbrysoprase, and you and 1 standing in tho glories of 10,000 sunsets. Progress. I It is very important in this age of vast mi. I tenal progress that a remedy be pleasing to the taste and to the eye, easily taken, acceptable to the stomach aud healthy in it nature and 1 (fleets. Possessing these qualities. Syrup of 1 Figs is the one perfect laxative and most gen- CURES PERMANENTLY SCIATICA. N. Ogden, Mich., May 17, 1S0O. "My brother Rev. Eamuel Porter, was cured by St. Jacobs Oil -of excruciating ECiatlc pains in Ms thigh." J. M. L. POEJEE. LUMBAGO. 410 Kearney St, Ean Francirco, Cal. April 2S, 1S90. My wife and I both have been afflicted with lame-back and sore throat, and have found pematacnt cure by use of Bt Jacobs Oil. E.J. Ijihaus. IT ES THE BEST, s T. JACOB'S OIL SOLD 1IY spjAsaus j i. JOS. FIiElllNG 4 SON, .. 2Jret street, -nl6-83 PltUburc. SUNDAY'S BIG PAPER. THE DISPATCH OF TWENTY PAGES FILLED TO THE BEIM WITH HEWS. Graphic Details of tho Situation In tho Coke Regions All the News of the World Arranged for tho Reader in a Blost At tractive Manner. The Dispatch, of yesterday maintained its reputation as one of the leading newspapers of the country. Svherever in the wide world tbero was anything of general interest going on it was reported iu its columns. The condi tion of affairs in the coke regions is fully told. Beyond tho sews there were many fine selected articles, some of them being artistically illus trated. Following are some of the principal news features: Foreign. Peculiar effect of the Jackson decision on the English marriage law.. ..Serious charges against S. Le Bapty, appointed as the English assistant manager of the World's Fair....Far nell says success will attend his cause at the general election.. ..Heavy sentences passed upon Irish prisoners for boycotting.. ..Another massacro feared in India.... A remedy sug gested for London's smoke nnisance. . . .Indica tions that the prohibition against Yankee pork in Germany will Do repealed. ...Laboucbere predicts that Parnell will only have 6 Members of Parliament to at least 70 for McCarthy.... Threats against Prince Ferdinand's life Wages of iron workers in the North of Eng land reduced The Kaiser's congratulations to Bismarck Forced paper money to be introduced into the Argentine Republic... Germany not satisfied with the Czar's explana tion of Carnot's decoration.. ..The Newfound land press still bitter against the Government ....The bank of Corradini, at Leghorn, fails for 13,000.030, and its bead is a f ugltivo from justice.... Roman police raid the houses of Socialists and Anarchists. ...The death of Earl Granville a serious loss to the Gladstone forces ....Life not very safe in Moscow... .Immigrants by hundreds dropping into London in spite of the precautions against them. ...Dr. Brown Sequard's elixir again coming to the front.... King Milan wants 4,000.000 francs placed to his credit The Pope's health is good.. ..Herbert Vivian has a new reform scheme.. . .The Gor-don-Cumming case to be heard iu about a month... .A wedded alliance between Austria and Italy not popular.. ..Big steamers to be built in America to capture the subsidy.... Sir Charles Dilke will accept a nomination for Parliament. Domestic. The funeral of the dead coke workers at tended by thousands, but there was no disor der. The end of the fight not yet In sight. Two more victims of the deputies' bullets die, ....A New York man who had both of his legs cut off, survives only to die of the grip.. ..W.J. Tolbert, South Carolina Stale lecturer, says the farmers mean to control things at all haz ards.... Edwin Booth makes bis last appear ance for the season. ...Rev. Mr. MacQueary has enough calls to lecture to keep him busv. ....The net earnings of the National Cordage Company for this year aro estimated at $2,000, 000.. ..Astronomers demand that the Na tional Observatory be divorced from the Navy Department .... The deaths of Cap tain Thomas H. Lapsly, of Braddock, Captain James D. Touhey, of Erie; Peter M. Dox, of Huntsville, Ala., and Clifton Bell, of Denver, are announced.. ..Cleveland again de feats the Pittsburg Club, at St. Augustine.... The ballot testimony In the Greevy-Scull con test all taken.. ..Rev. Dr. Bronnan to be conse crated Bishop at Erie.. ..Gould and Wana maker discuss telegraph tolls.... Blaine's reply to Rudmi expected soon.... A view that the Supreme Court has jurisdiction In the New Orleans cases. Detective O'Malley says the Italians lynched at New Orleans were innocent, with one exception.... Bishop Gllmour, of Cleveland, dying.... Potters' clay of a superior kind found near Shenandoah, Pa.. ..Supervis ing Architect Windrim resigns, to accept his new post at Philadelphia.. ..Ex-Senator Blair says his Chinese views have been misrepresent ed The fight in the New York M. E. Confer ence over tho admission of women.. ..Grip has run its conrsj in New York. ...Gould has a scheme to assume control of 40,000 miles of Southwestern railroads Continua tion of the Sugar Trust inquiry in New York.... Local. Citizens, in mass meeting, after a hot debate, approve a curative act to reimburse the city for street improvements already made. ...David Hunter appointed snperintendent of the Alle gheny Bureau of Lighting.. ..Officials of the Columbia Iron and Steel Company say business will be resumed.... The Pennsylvania Con struction Company's plant closed by the Sheriff ....The Poor Boards are practically dead. ...Sam Brown buys out C. S. Holmes, of the Monongahela House.. ..F. A do Marquiez, a Mexican glass manufacturer, says thalj outside the Government officials the people of Mexico have little love for Americans.... No changes expected at the new Govermont building because of the resignation of Architect Windrim. ...The Bar Association adopts resolution on the street im provement matter.. ..Members of the Trades Council object to the Carnegie Library Associa tion.. ..Cheaper telephone service promised by a new company.... Death ot Dr. H. H. Hof mann.... Detective Murphy may not be able to attend the Gilkinson inquest to-day.. ..Chief Bigelow asked by the Court to explain why ho failed to abate a nuisance. ...Collenge throws Reilly once and lack of time stops their contest ....But few new cases of the grip reported. PROF. KOCH RECOMMENDS The Soden Mineral Pastilles (troches made from the Soden Springs, Frankfurt, Germany), for Soke Throat, Catabrhs, Coughs and Colds. Dr. Koch said: "A cough for which I tried many other medicines, which bad not the slightest effect, soon became better and has now entirely disappeared through use of the Soden Mineral Pastilles." The genuine Soden Mineral Pastilles must have the testimonial and signature of Sir Mor rell Mackenzie around each box. Price 50c. M EISNER 4 MENDELSON"S SODEN MINERAL PASTILLES. SOLI) BY JOS. FLEMING & SON, 412 Market street, mhl9 82 Pittsburg. WAR! WAR! WAR! Not on Italy, but on French Satinea ANOTHER GREAT PURCHASE. 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Some have as serted that it is a dangerous microbe which comes into the system..breeds several millions every second, and soon overruns the body with disease. Others have said that wo are passing through a region of star-dust, and that the minute particles are drawn into the body with every breath. Whatever it may be, it is certain that it is something within the body which is fighting with tho body to undermine the life. What would common sense dictate in such an emergency? Counteract the enemy. Drive it from the system. Do not trlfl with it. Act promptly and wisely at the first approach which you can readily detect. Take something which can counteract their deadly influence. Spirits of some kind are the best thing to take, and whiskey Is preferable to any other kind of spirit; but it should be borne very carefully in mind that only pur whiskey will have the effect, and it should also be remembered that Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey stands at the head of all preparations and is the only medicinal whiskey upon the market. Scientists have as serted this, the doctors have verified it, and millions of people have proven it beyond a doubt. There are manv unscrupulous dealers who will assnre you that any whiskey will answer the purpose, but they are wrong and are trying to deceive you. In case of Grip you cannot afford to take any chances, therefore take that which is, beyond question pure, medicinal and the only valuable whiskey upon the market. u Used in hospitals; indorsed by physi cians, and sold everywhere at $t 50 per full quart felM&l-MWF We make more porous plasters than all other makers In this country combined, because the public appreciate the mer it that exists in our goods. BENSON'S is the only me dicinal plaster for house- V,n11 nan all tV,ao Katnr. C weak imitations. Get tha Genuine. fe2-M-89 efore and After a mm Fortify the System BY THE USE OF SOOTT'S Ol'Purc Coil Liver Oil and HYPOPHOSPHITES OB T.rMTl -AJSJT3 SODA It Increases the resisting power against Disease. Re stores to health and strength the debilitated. Heals the Lungs and Cures the Cough, j x;uiiuuuu; us muni JJJLEBYjiLLpRUGGISTS. S' COTT'S EMULSION SOLD BT JOS. FLEMING fe SON, 412 Market street. mhl9-S2 Pittsburg. M. 0PPENHE1IVIER & CO., Have removed to their new) Nine-Story Building, , NO. 811 PENN AVE., Manufacturers of Men's, Youths", Boys' &.ChiIdren.'hs CLOTHIM Importers and Jobbers of1 Woolens and Tailor Trimmings Mail Orders receive prompt and careful attention. WHOLESALE EXCLUSIVELY. ap6-MSWK c: mA L UJIG BALSAM Price, 25c, 50c, and $! a Bottle AMUSEMENTS. HARRY WHjLIAMS' ACADEMY. Monday Matinee, April 6. Night Prices ot Admission. Every Night and at the Matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. WEBER Wilson and Cameron. Richmond and Glenroy. and Ryan and Richfield. James McAvoy. FIELDS' Miss Bessie Gilbert OWN The Pros. Kosskuff. Tho Fremonts. COMPANY. Weber and Fields. And the Laughable Comedy. A CRAZY QUILT. Four Matinees Weekly Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. April 13 The Night Owls. ap6-12 IDUCTTIESIfcTIEl Pittsburg's Leading Theater. NEIL BURGESS- TO-NIGHT, FIRST TIME. Great New York Success, the COUNTY FAIR. Matinees Wednesday and Sat urday. Next week "Natural Gas." apS-33 GRAND OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT, Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. MANNING OPERA COMPANY. "INFLUENCE." Next week "Fashions," introducing Robert Fitzsimmons. ap5-87 Celebrated Grand Denver Range Sold by all stove dealers. Manufactured by GRAFF & CO., 632 and 634 Liberty street fe-21-jtwy laird'sIhoe stores Crowded all last week to utmost capacity. No abatement Daily Sales Over 2,000 PAIRS. $1 4000 REMAINS YET UNSOLD AT 433 WOOD ST. STORE. Fire Sale Stock MANY ONLY SLIGHTLY SOILED. Greater Reductions Than Ever! ENTIRE BALANCE MUST BE SOLD! BRING WHAT THEY MAY! NO RESERVE! i For Men. For Women. For Children. All Warranted, With Privilege to Exchange. SPECIAL 5-DAY SALE! . AJT LAIRD'S MARKET ST. STORES. $20,000 STOCK - HALF PRICE! HALF PRICE! From Tuesday morning until Saturday evening, This Week Only, GENTS' SHOES' HALF PRICE ! LADIES' SHOES HALF PRICE ! BOYS' SHOES HALF PRICE! GIRLS' SHOES HALF PRICE! SLIPPERS HALF PRICE ! Laird's Market Street Store. Special 5-Day's Sale. Large and complete force of polite and competent shoe sales men and salesladies, rendering prompt service and satis faction to patrons. w. mTHird's 3vn.nvnnvnoTH: shoe stores, 406, 408, 410 I Bargains f 433 WOOD ST. MARKET STREET j Both Stores 1 FIRE SALE. Wholesale House, 515 Wood Street sp5-Kwxan NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. SPRING CARPETS WALL ".PAPER! In Carpets we show a very fine lineofBoyal "Wiltons, Axminster, Velvet, Body Brussels, Tapestry and all kinds of Ingrain in style, qnality and price. Just what you want. Wall Paper for rooms, ceilings and halls, in choice styles and artis tic colorings, and all the new ideas in the market. You are invited to inspect our stock. Geo. W. Snaman, 136 FEDERAL STREET, ALLEGHENY. fo!6-MWF McNAUGHER & CO., Contractors for Paving Sidewalks With Cement, Brick and Fire Brick, Concreting Cellars, 110 FEDERAL ST.. ALLEGHENY. PA. Curbstone furnished and set. 1 e7-58-D WORTH w. A.T - m m iJllKf I NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ST1TLM SPECIAL SALE! TWO DAYS OILY! TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW, KAUFM ANNS' FAR-FAMED BARGAIN HOUSE. 4 14 Sr BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL HEN, Clerks, Bookkeepers, Salesmen, Etc. Your calling requires stylish, nobby and becoming clothing, and if you will but come here to-day or to-morrow we will show you at the low price of $10 DOLL The very suits you desire and need. We guarantee them equal to any. thing sold elsewhere for 15 or $16. Hundreds of them were sold Saturday; enough are left, however, to supply any demand To-day and to-morrow. SILK UMBRELLAS GIYEN ERES. As a special inducement we will give a neat, Gold-Headed Umbrella gratis with every one of the above j5io Suits. Now own up, did you ever hear of a more liberal offer? TO-DAY AND WE WILL OFFER The tallowing re markable bargains in Children's Keef ers: 250 Children's Fancy Check and Plain Cloth Eeef ers, in an excellent Yariety of fashion able shades and pat terns, with sailor collars or round collars, at only $1 98. 175 Children's Fine and Elegant Reefers, made of Plain Broadcloth and Fancy Checks, with, shawl and Notched Collars, trimmed with tinsel braid, worth $5, at only $3 49. An Important and Novel Event Our Special Grand Opening CHILDREN'S BONNETS Will take place to-day and to-morrow. Ladies, don't miss this new and original affair, ns Children's Hats beine a specialty in onr new Millinery De partment, we have tried to lay before vou the most extensive and magnificent line of Girls' headgear ever exhibited in this city. 3J o c L4 KAUFM ANNS' Fifth Ave. and -FOR- -AT- TO-MORROW Boys' Kenownea GomMnation Fine All-Wool Suits I Consisting of complete suit, extra pair of pants and hat to match, at only FOR THE ENTIRE OUTFIT. The (treat success that has attended tho sales of these suits is due solely to the fact that even without the extra Pants and Hat we give free, they would be and are matchless values at $4 65. Sails of the same quality are being sold daily at other houses for $6 and over. OUR SPECIAL GIFT. With every Boys' Suit bought at our store to-day and to-morrow, no mat ter how low its price may be, we will give free of charge one of our amus ing Ring Toss, affording no end of fun. Ftp V " HlfHiK 1 1 W ufctA f IlilB ;,J3ff! 1 '1. EJBf-flV Smithfield St ab29-87-XTbu I 1 riT-rniikiimm