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IMAGE'S TOUR. lt PJWOurao Giving His Obsorva tlokiB Ut Russia and Groat Britain. Sumartna' lo the Csar's Domain Th Coun try Swept by tba Withering Blast of Bamlne Falsehoods A boat Ruj la Berated Preaohlna" the Goipel la Oreat Britain The subject of Rev. Dr. Talmage's recent sermon at the Brooklyn taber nacle was "Observations In Bussla and Oreat Britain," the text selected being Psalm cxxxlx., 0: "If I take the wings of the morninir and dwell In the utter most parts of the sea, even there shall Thy hand load me." Following is the sermon: What an absurd book the Bible must "be to a man who has no poetry In his eouL "Wings of the morningl" What kind of a bird is It, and how long are Its wings, and of what color? Ahl some of us have seen and felt its wings. They oro golden. They are buoyant They are swift. They are widespread. The 18th of last June I took "the wings of the morning" an 1 started for Europe. June 80, on "tho wings of the morning" I started from Liverpool. July 13, on "the wings of tho morning" I entered Germany, the land of Martin Luther and many of that Hit, living and dead. On "the wings of t io morning" I en tered St Petersburg, Russia. On "the wings of tlio morning" I entered Mos cow. On "the wings of the morning" I entered tho palaces of Russia, greeted by the emperor and empress, sur rounded by a lovely brood of princes and princesses. On "the wings of the morning" I entered Inverness, tho capi tal of the Scottish Highlands, country of Robert Burns and Thomas Chal mers, tho ono for poetry, the other for religion. September 21, "on the wings of tho morning" I entered tho finest haven of nil the earth Now York har bor and looked off to tho most Inter esting place I hud scon in three months 1 South Oxford street Brooklyn. 0, I like "the wings of tho morning." I am, by nature and by grace, a son of tho morning. I think I must have boon born in tho morning. I would liko to die In the morning. I have a notion that Hoavcn is only an everlasting morn ing. - In the summer of 1892, my text was fulfilled to me again and again. "If I take tho wings of tho morning and dwell in tho uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall Thy hand load me." Yes, lie led me as ho always has lod me since I took my first walk from the cradle to my mother's lap at Bound Brook until this pulpit whero I now stand, and He will lead me until I Btop for all time about three miles out yon dor, wh.ro tho most of you will be my fellow slumberors. You all know why I went to Russin this summer. There are many thou sands of pooplo who have a right to say to me, as was said in the Bible parable: "Give account of thy stewardship." Through the Christian Herald, which I have the honor to edit we had for months. In publisher's, In reportorlal, and editorial column, put before tho people the ghastly facts concerning twenty millions of Russians who were starving to death, and subscriptions for the relief fund had come by letters that seemed not so much written with ink as with tears, some of the letters prac tically saying: "We find It hard to got bread for our own families, but we can not stand this cry of hunger from be yond the seas, and so please to receive the enclosed." And others hod sont jewels from their hands and necks, say ing: "Sell these and turn them into bread." And another letter said: In closed is an old gold piece. It was my mother's. ' She gave it to me and told me never to part with It ex cept for bread, and now I enclose it" Wo bad gathered thirty-five thousand dollars in money, which we turnod into three million pounds of flour. When I went down to the board of trade at Chicago and left five thousand dollars of the amount raised with a prominent flour merchant taking no receipt and leaving ali to him to do the best thin, and returnod, it was suggested that I had not done things in a business way. How could we know what sort of flour would bo sent? There aro Ktylcs of flour more fit for the trougli of the swine than the mouths of hungry men and women. Well, as is customary, when tho Hour come to Now York it was tested, and wo found indeed they had cheated us. They gave us better flour than wo had bought I bought in Chicago fino flour, but they sent us superfine. Ood bless the merchants of Chicago. . . Now, we know nothing about famine in America. The grasshoppjra may kill the crops in Kansas, tho freshets may rWtrnv tho crons aloncr the Ohio, the potato, worm may kill tho vines of Long ' Island, and rust may get into the wheat of Michigan, yet when there has been ', dreadful scarcity in some parts of the llnn1 thnra hiui been nlentv In other V parts. But in districts of Russia, vast enough to drop several nations Into them, drought for six consecutive years has devastated, and those dlstrlots , were previously the most productive of t all the empire. It was like what w 0 would have In America if the hunger ' fiend somohow got . out of . hell and alighted m our land, and swept his - win? over Minnesota, and said: "Let nothing grow here," and over Missouri, and said: "Lot nothing grow here," and ;.' over New York state, and said: "Let ; nothing grow here," and over Ohio and , Georgia and Massachusetts and renn sylranla and Nebraska and Dakota and the Carolines, and said: "Let nothing grow here,? and the hunger fiend had swept the same withering and blasting wing over the best parts of America In the years 188T, 1881, 1889, 1890, 1891, and t 1809, and flu ally all our families - put on small allowance, and ws had all I risen from the table hungry, and after ; awhile the children had only quarter k enough, and after avrhlle one meal a , day, and after awhile no good food at I all, but a mixture of wheat and ehaff and bark of trees, and then three of the children down with hunger typhus, and then all the family unable to walk, and then crawling on hands and knees, and then one dead in each room, and neigh bors, not quite so exhausted, oomlng In to bury them, and afterwards the house becoming the tomb, with none to carry the dead to more appropriate sepuloher -whole families blotted out That was what occurred In Russia In homes more than were ever counted, In homes that were once as comfortable and happy and bountiful as yours or mine, In where God is worshiped as muoh homes as vurtuous as yours or mine, as in yours or mine. It was to do a lit tle something towards beating back that Archangol of Wretchedness and Horror that we went, and we have now to report that according to the esti mate of the Russian famine relief com mittee, we saved the lives of 138,000 peo ple. As at the hunger relief stations, the bread was handed out for it was made into loaves and distributed many people would halt before taking it and religiously oross themselves and utter a prayer for the donors. Some of thorn would come staggering back and say: "Please toll us who sent this broad to us." And when told it came from Amer ica they would say: "What part of America? Please give us the names of those who sont it" Ah, Ood only knows tho names of those who sent It, but Ho certainly does know, and many a prayer is going up, I warrant you, day by day for those who sont flour by tho ship Leo. Perhaps some of us at our tables rattle off a prayer that may mean noth ing, although we call It "saying graoe," but I warrant when those poople who received tho bread which saved their lives "said graco," it meant some thing. Our religion may not demand that we "cross ourselves," but I havo learned that whilo crossing ono's self in some cases may mean nothing but more form, I believe in most cases it means: "O, thou of tho suffering Cross of Cal vary, have morcy on mo and accopt my gratitude." Prefer your own form of religion by all means, but do not depre ciate the religious forms of others. From all that I can learn, thero wcro several good poople before wo wcro born, and I rather expget there will bo sevoral left after we are dead. I have traveled in many lands, but I toll you plainly, ns I told Emperor Alexander III. In tho palace at Peterhoff, that I had never been so Impressed with the fidelity to thoir religion of any people as by what I had seen In Russia, and es pecially among her public men. I said respectfully to a Rusnlan, when I saw him cross himself: "What do you do that for?" "O," he said, "when I do that I always say: 'God have morcy on me!' " I hold In my hand something very sug gestive. What does that black and un comely thing look atce? That is what is called hunger-breod from Russia; that is what millions of people lived on for months before help came from En gland, Scotland, Ireland and America; that is a mixture which seems to have in it not one grain of sustenance. It Is a mixture of pigweed and chaff and tho sweepings of stables. That is some thing which, if dropped In the street your dog or cat might sniff at, but would not eat That was the only food on which millions of men and women lived. You must look at that hunger bread of Russia before you can get proper appreciation of what an attractive and beautiful thing a good loaf of bread la It is so common to us we cannot realise its moaning. Stop and look at It In a bakery window or see It on your family table I mean an honest loaf of bread, white as a ball of packed snow, with a crust brown as the autumnal woods, and for a keen appetite more aromatlo than flowers a loaf of bread as you re member It In childhood, when the knife In the hand of your father or mother cut clean through, from crust to erust and put before you, not a quarter of a slice or a half a slice, but a full, round slice and another and another just suited to a boy always ready to eat and for the most time hungry, even in a well-supplied house. I remember and you remember, If you had a healthy childhood, Just how It tasted. Myl Myl rium nuddlng does not taste as gooa now as that plain bread then. It was then bread at the table and bread be tween meals, and bread before break' fast and bread before going to bod Why does not some poet ring a canto on a loaf of bread, or some historian tell its history? Not like many articlos of food, pretentious, and Iced all over like wedding cake, or dotted with fan tastic ingredlonts, but that grandest nroduct of the earth, that richest yield of the flour mill, that best benediction of a hot oven, a Ood-glvcn loaf of bread. But the rhythm of it the luxury of It the meaning of It the benediction of it the divine mercy of It only those know who have seen a famine. No wonder Christ put this food Into tho sacrament and said of a broken loaf of bread: "This la My body." Thank God that I ever saw that transcendant and compact kindness of the infinite - God a loaf of bread And it was our joy this summer to hand over a shipload of mate rial for gladdening many thousands of Russians with such a beatitude. But I have been asked by good people in Great Britain and America again and again, why did not the prosperous peo ple of Russia stop that suffering them selves, making it useless for other na tions to help? And I am always glad when I hear the question asked, be cause It gives me an opportunity of ex plaining. Have yon any idea what It requires to feed twenty million people? There Is only one Being In the universe who can do It and that is the Being who, this morning, breakfasted sixteen hundred million of the human race. The nobility of Russia have not only contributed lavishly but many of them went down and staid, for months among the ghastllness and , the horror and the typhus fever and the- amaU-pox, ithat, they might ad minister to the suffering I sat at the dlnln g table la the house of one of our American representatives beside a bar oness who had not only Impoverished her estates by her contributions to the suffering, but who left her own horns and went down Into the worst or misery, and until prostrated with fever) then reviving and tolling oa until pros trated by the small -pox. Bhe had eonw home to get a little strength, and In a few days she was going down again to the suffering dlstrlots, and she commis sioned me to execute in America a liter ary enterprise by which she expects with her pen more money, all of whloh Is to go for bread to those who lack it Then there are the Bob rinskis. They are of the nobility, not only the nobility of earth but the nobility of heaven. You know we have in America certain names which are synonyms for benevolonoe George Peabody, James. Lenox, William E. Dodgo, Mr. Slater, and so on. What their names mean In America, Hob rlnskl means In Russia, Tho emperor has made larger contributions toward this relief fund than any monarch ever made sinco tho world stood, and the uporb kindness written all over the faces of emperor and empress and crown prince is demonstrated in what thoy have already done and are doing for the sufforers In their own country. When a fow days ago I road In the papers that the emperor and empress hearing an explosion, stopped the royal rail-train to find out what accident had occu-rod, and tho-empross knolt down by tho side of a wounded laborer and hold his head until pillows and blankets could be brought, ond the two wounded men were put upon the royal train to bo oarriod to a place where they couia bo better cared for, I said to rov wife: "Just liko hor." When I saw a fow days ngo in tho papers that tho emperor and empress had walked through tho wards of the most virulent cholera hospital, tnlklng with the patients,shaklng honds with them and cheorlng them up, it was no surprise to me; for I said to my self: "That Is just liko them." Anyone who has evor seen tho royal family w.lll believe anything in tho way of kindness ascribed to thorn, and will Join me In tho execration of that too preva lent opinion that a tyrant Is on the throno of Russia. If Ood spares my life, I will yet show by facts beyond dispute that the most slandered and systematically lied about nation on earth is Russia, and that no rulor over lived more for the elevation of his poo plo in education and morals and reli gion thdn Aloxandor III. So I put all tho throo prayors togothcr: God save the president of the United States! God save the queen of England! God save the omporor and empress of Russlal I will, whother In sermons or lectures, I have not vet deoidod, show that nlne- tcen-twentloths of all the things writ ten and published against Russia are furnished by mon who have been hired by other countrlos to "write up" or rathor write down Russia, so as to divert commerce from that empire, or because of Interna tional Jealousies. Russia being larger than all the rest of Europe put to gether, you can see how natural would be the Jealousies. I know of two promi nent European newspapers that keop mon on salaries to catch up everything unfavorable to Russia and magnify the incident And the stereotyped stories of Siberian cruelty In one cose out of a hundred are true, but in nlnoty-nlne out of a hundred cases they are fab rication. And in the one case as soon as It is reported the official is discharged They who have been sent to "write up" Russia and Siberia have done as that man would ao wno. sent to"wrlte up"Ne w York should write up the slums as a speclraon of what New York Is, or sent to write up the American Congress, should write up some depraved politicians as a specimen of Amerloan statesmanship, or sent to write up the sanitary condition of this country, should send a kodak ploture of all the warts and carbuncles he could find as a specimen of American health. I believe I can' reverse the opinion of anv man antagonistic to Russia who will give me an honest hearing, as my own opinions have been reversed by what I recently saw and heard. Before passing to the other field of my summer observation, I give you one little spoctmen of tho falsehoods about Russia. I stood in ixmaon wun my tickets for St Petersburg, Russia, in my Docket It was 9 o'clock in the after noon, and at S o'clock I was to take tho train. An American physician came In and said: "You cortalnly are not going to Russia." I said: "Why not?" Then a morning paper was shown mo, say' lng that in St Petersburg there were two thousand cases of virulent cholera; the city had been divided into hos pital dlstrlots, and the doctors wore at their wits' end what to do with the the number of patients; W10 population was flying In terror. It was almost ns 1 bad In Moscow. While reflecting on those accounts, two inosmges arrived from other frlonds protesting against the foolhardlness of my rushing Into the presence of two thousand cases of cholera In one city, ui course, 1 nai tea. I halted for four day. Meanwhile telegram from 8t l'etersburg encour aged me to go. I went There was not a single case In cither city until four weeks after I left those cities. But the continental falsehood had done its commercial errand. Tens of thou sands oi Americans and English men who proposed to summer In Russia turned In other directions. At the large hotel in St Petersburg at which stopped, though capable of holding five hundred guests, and months before every room and every hallway and every mattress and 'every pillow had been engaged by telegraph by sight seers, all the orders were canceled, and Instead of five hundred guests, I should think about thirty, and that Including our party. And so It was In all the hotels In Northern Russia, and the sub traction of that amount of commercial profit from those cities yon may Imag ine. But that whole subject of syste matic fabrication I adjourn to some other hour, Yet, I must tell yon of a picture . ' of pathos and moral power Impressed upon my mind so that neither time nor eternity can efface It The ship Leo swung to ths docks a few miles below 81 Petersburg, loaded with flour from America. The sailors on board huzzaed as they oerne to ' the wharf. From a . yacht, on which we had de scended the river to the sea, the promi nent eltlsens of St Petersburg disem barked. The bank was crowded by prosperous citizens, who stood on the wharf, and back of them by poor laborers who had come down to offer their serv ices free of all charge for the removal of the breadstuff's from the ship to the Imperial freight train that took the flour to the interior free of charge. While we stood there, the long freight train rumbled down the docks, the locomo tive and each car decorated with a flag the American flag and the Russian flag alternating. Though a flag to some eyes Is only a floating rag, you ought to see how the American flag looks 6,000 miles from home. It looked that day like a section of heaven let down to cheer mortal vision. Addresses of welcome and responses were mado, and then the work began, tho only con test being who should lift the hardest and be most expeditious. From ship to rail train. From rail train to kneading board. From kneading board to oven. From oven to tho white and quivering lips of the dying. Upon all who, whether by contribution small or large, helped make that scene possible, may there come the benediction of Ulm who fWlared: "I was hungry aad ye fod Me." But I must also give a word of report concerning my other errand the preaching of the gospel In Groat Britain last summer. It was a tour I had for many years anticipated. With the themes of the gospel I confronted more pooplo than ever before In the same length of time multitudes after multi tudes and beyond anything I can de scribe. Tho throngs in all tho cities were so groat that they could be con trolled only by platoons of police, that nono should bo hurt by the pressure, each servlco indoors followed by a service for tho waiting throne's outdoors, and both by handshaking to tho last point of physical endurance. From tho day In which I arrived at noon In Liverpool, and that night addressing two vast assemblages, until I got through my evangelistic journoy, it was a scene of blessing to my own soul and I hopo to others. I missed but thrco engage ments of all tho summer, and thoso from being too tired to stand up. At all the assemblages lnrgo collections were taken, tho money being given to local charities, focblo churches, orphan asylums or young men's Christian asso ciations, my services being entirely gratuitous. Hut what n summer! There must have been much praying here and elsewhere for my welfare, or no mortal could hnvo gone through all I went through. In every city and town I had messages poured into my ears for families in Amorlca. 0, sons of Scotchmen, Englishmen, Welshmen and Irishmen, there aro hearts on tho other side of the sea beating in affoo tion for you and praying for your pres ent and eternal welfare. They wanted me to give you their love, and here It Is by the wholesale, for I cannot give it by retaiL Disappoint not the old. louts on the other sido the Atlantic. You will probably never see them again In this world Their hair Is whitening and their step is not as firm as when you saw them lost So live that you may meet them in Heaven, nnieuome often, and while you know they are praying for you, do not forget to re member In, your prayers those who were your first friends, and friends than whom you will never havo better I mean your old father and mother. By the memories of the oiasootcn mra, where you were baptized, and of the English fireside, by which you played, and of the Welsh hills and valleys, among which you roamed, and the old homes on the banks of the Tweed and the Shannon and the Clyde, I charge you, be honorable and true and Christian. You have good ances tral blood lu yonr veins. Prove yourself worthy. It seems to me that the gospel Is making migniy striae over there, uniy one wing 1 anw m the chapels and churches I did not like. That is a lack of appreciation of each other, as between the National cnuron and the Dissenters. Now, each Is doing a great work that the other oannot da God speed them all, they of the Episco pacy and they of tho Dissentersl Some need the ritual 01 tne imsuodu ouurtu and others the spontaneity of the Wes leyan. In tho kingdom of God there la room for all to work and each in his own way. Somo people are born Eniscooalians and others Methodists and others Baptists and others I"resbyterians, and do not let us force our notions on others, as tor myaoii, 1 was born so near the lino that I feel as much at home in ono denomination as another, and when In the Episcopal church, the liturgy stirs my soul so that I cannot keep back tho tears, and It overwhelms me with Its solemnity and its power. Whea in an old-fashioned Methodist church, the responses of "Amen!" and "Hallelujah!" lift me un til, liko Paul, I am In blessed bewilder ment as to "whether In the body or out of the body, Ood knowetb." And as for the Baptists, though I have never been anything but sprinkled, I have Immersed hundreds and ex pect to Immerse hundreds more In the baptistry undor this pulpit whore I now stand. What la the use of con troversy about anything, except how we shall keop close to the Cross and do the most for helping people for this world and the next? May thore come in England more cordiality between the National church and the Dissenters. Although I would bo called a Dissenter there, almost my first step In England was Into a banqueting ball the lord mayor's banquet givon to the bishops and high omoials of the National church, the groat and good and genial Archbishop of Cantorbuary at their head, and a more magnificent group of folks, intellectually and spiritually, I never got amongst; and I found thai though we had never met before, the archbishop: and myself were old friends, , But all up and down Great Britain, I found a multitude that no man can number enlisted for Ood and eternity, and I tell you the kingdom is oomlng. ' If the pessimist would get out of the way, the people who snivel and groan and think everything rone to the dogs or is about to go I say If these pessimists would only get out of the way ths world would toon see the salvation of God, Christianity is only another name for elevated optimism. Was Isaiah an optimist? See his deserts incarnadined with red roses, and snowed under with white lilies, and his lamb asleep between t ie paws of a lion. Was 8t John an opti mist? Read the uplifting splendor in the Apocalypse and the Hallelu; ih Chorus with which the old book, wl.'oh they cannot kill, closes. Tho great. 'st thing I can think of would be to hav a triple alliance of America, England t.ad Russia in complete harmonization, 11 .id then to have upon all of them com a deluge of the Holy Ghost Lot the defamation of other nati nl cease, l'oaco and good will to men. For that glorious consumma tion, which may be nearer than wo think, let us pray, remombering that God can do more in five minutes than man can do In five centuries. If the ocYisuinmatlon is not effected In our day, I shall ask the privilege of coming out from Heaven a littlo while to look at this old world when it shall have put on its millennial beauty. I think God will lot us como out to see It at least once In Its perfeoted state before It is burned up. I should not won dor if all Heaven would adjourn for an oxeursion to this world to see how a shipwrecked planet was got off the breakers and set afloat again amid tho eternal harmonica Meanwhile, let us do all wo can to make it better, end it will somehow tell In the final result though It be only a child's sob hushed, or a trickling tear wiped from a pale face, or a thorn extracted from a tired foot or a sinful soul washed whlto as the wool. May God help us to help others! And so these lessons of grati tude iind sympathy and helpfulness and vindication. I have brought you on tho wings of this morning. V. & L. E. r. e. In effect July 24, 1892. CENRTAL STANDARD TIME. iNu.lMNol BABTWASU Nu7oiNu.7 Toledo Lv Oakllarbor Freinout Clyde , lit-llevue , Mouroevllle Norwulk Ws nittou Spencer Lodl .. Crustou . 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Tint fragmentary flashes of conver sation, passim? words, almost tho Idle words of earnest mon, how valuable they arc Paxton Hood. What Is tho ruin of life? Of artf Of happiness? Of womanhood? Of enter prise? Of success? Just this: Ill-regulated emotion. Uawols. Thero are saint-like lives and martyr deaths which are not recorded and aro worth all the more In Heaven's surht because unsustulned by human admiration. Between the Lights. No man or woman of tho humblest sort can really be strong, pure and good without the world being the bettor for it without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of this goodness. l'hilllp Brooks. In order to do good to others we must come Into personal contact with them. It was never expected that Christians would hand bread to each other as Jonathan ate honey off the end of his staff. C 8. Robinson. Do not allow yourself to be drawn Into a quarrel whioh docs not concern you. "He that passeth by and med dloth with strife that belongeth not to htm is liko a man that taketh a dog by the ear." Proverbs, xxvL, 17. The greatest need of the times Is a positive Christianity, a Christianity that believes with the heart and speaks out of that belief, and works up to the full measure of the feeling and the utter anceNew Orleans Christian Advocate. In this country questions remain unsettled until they are brought Into the forum of a debate and landed In the urn of destiny, which Americans call the ballot box, where King Majority, the only ruler fit to survive, arbitrates finally upon them. Tie a sinister statistic this whloh the W. a T. U. sends out, via., that "80 per cent of the inmates of our penal In stltutlons have at some time been Bun-day-school scholars, and that 75 per cent of these attribute their downfall to the use of Intoxicating drink." We have but to name God before sorrow, and It changes color) before burdens, and they btow less; before the vanity of life, and It disappear The whole sphere and scene of life Is changed, lifted Into a realm of power and wisdom and gladness. T. T. Mun ger. It Invisible ourselves, we could fol low a single human being through me day of his life and know all nis secret thoughts and hopes and anxieties, his prayors and tears and gooa resolves, nis doliirhts ana woes ana sirugKies, we should have poetry enough to fill a yc urns-Drift Wood. Prabytarlans to the Fore. Tls rather strange that the Presby terians should have come ao markedly to the fore In the matter of presidential Bundldates. Everybody knoVs that Presidont Harrison is a Presbyterian elder. Mr. Held is a member of Dr. Jnhn Hall's church in New York. Ex- President Cleveland la the son of Presbyterian clergyman, and attends a Presbvterian church. Mr. Stevenson It connected with the Presbyterian ohuroh through his wife, who la a daughter of the late Eev. Dr. L. W. Green, of Dan ville. Ev. Gen. Bid well has long been the mainstay of the Presbyterian ohuroh at Chlco, CaL We are not Informed as the religious connections of the Far mers' alllanoe candidate. The only thing for unbellovers and agnostlos to do la to vote that ticket, and hope that that isn't Presbyterian, too. An Interesting Story. The Jchovistte subnamee and titles In the nobrew Scriptures offer an Inter esting and profitable study. The name Jehovah means "I am." ' It asserts the self-exit tenoe, eternity and unchange ableness of the Deity. When combined with other and modifying designations the name Jehovah adds to Its original signification the meaning of the suffix. Thus Jehovah-Jlreh la the providing God. Jehovan-Nlssl la the banner God) L a. the enstim or rallying point of the faithful; Jehovah-Bobl la God the shep herda suggestive name among a pas toral people. Jehovah-6hehem Is the Ood of peace, dwelling la everlasting calm himself not only, but quieting the strifes and agitations of this lower world, St Louie Bepubllc Mllonvule .lewett Kcio Dowcrstou Plicrroilsv lie Valley Junction... .Ar Marietta Lv Hiinitirliltfo Canal Dover Lv Lv Valley Junction Navarre Mnn-iiUon Orrvllle Arl l'lttsburc tv Yminirtnwn . ........ Akron. Lv Orrvllle Lv Creston .... . Lodl Hiiencer Wellington Norwulk Mouroevllle Bellevue Clyde remont Oak Harbor Toledo ar No.27 Nos., 1.8 and 2 run dully. A.O.Bi.au. JAMES M. HALL Urn I .vinnsKer. ru n. 4 50 5 U2 4 00 4 10 4 au si 5 4' 13: 6 4: 0 5. Ku.o.N'o.e ' p.m, ! 2 Ml 3 02 2 50 I 3 (l I 3 OX , 3 25 8 50 a. in S 15 8 57 8 45 8 ; .". 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Also an ample supply of fresh and reliable gsiden seeds, in both bulk and packages We Invite everybody to come into our store snd examine the numerous varieties, quantities and excellent quality of the goods we handle. We have strictly full-cream cheese made by two of the most celebrated cheese makers in the state of Uhio. The oest Japan tea for 60 cts. per lb. that was ever sold In Wellington at that price, and a handsome discount lo 5 lb. lots. We roast our own coffee and everybody that ever tried rt buys It again. The best varieties of csndy and more of it than you ever see outside the great cities. Fruits from all dimes, both ripe and evspurutid. Vegetables of all rlr.sies and every delicacy "f the season. A large variety of health foods lor dyspeptics ond Invalids, including the dtgervedly famous Long's Btesklast Flour, whitb the most tender and delicate stomach wlllassisiiUle. Compressed ptunoup, Highland evaporated cream, imp-rial cream dert, fruit flavored puddine, Imperial table jlly. Fremont hams and r-nrnn, Hiiltlmore ovsters from first hands, pick ft s, saucer, ketchup, olives, rellsbesand canned goods In more kinds and larger quantities than has been kept In the whole town heretolore. Our basement is full of lime, cement, calcined plaster. ,. plastering hair, rock lump salt etc. In glassware. cb'os, and decorated table .re, and earthen goods, our stock Is ample and attractive. We have no loiter- schemes nor gift attnchniems lu out trnnnacltons and will sell all pnnds of sam qusllty st as low pnen as the lowest. Prol. Loisette's Memory System 1 Cresting greater Interest than ever In all parts of the country, and persons wishing lo Improve their memory should send for bis prospectus tree as advertised Id aa othercolmon Personal. A young lady of seventeen summers, highly educated, refined snd of prepos sessing appearance, desires to hrm the acquaintance of some nice young man, whom she would advise, if troubled with dyspepsia, to use that great blood purifier, Sulphur Bitters. 42