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TALMAGE'S SERMON. 'CONSOLATION FOR PARENTS" LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. rom the Following Text: "The Righteous la Taken Awy fioiu . the Evil to Come" Isaluli, Chapter LVII., Verse 1. E all spend much time In panegyric o longevity. We consider It a great thing to live to be an octogenarian. If any one dies in youth we say, "What a pity!" D r. Muhlenbergh, In old age, eald that the hymn written In early life by his own hand, .no more expressed his sentiments when it said: I would not live alway. If one be pleasantly circumstanced, lie never wants to go. William Cullen Bryant, the great poet, at 82 years of age, standing In my house in a festal group, reading "Thanatopsls" without spectacles, was just as anxious to live as when at 18 years of age he wrote that Immortal threnody. Cato feared at 80 years of age that he would not live to learn Greek. Monaldesco, at 115 years, writing the history of his time, feared a collapse. Theophras tm, writing a book at 90 years of age, was anxious to live to com plete it. Thurlow Weed, at about 86 years of age, found life as great a de sirability as when he snuffed out his first politician. Albert' Barnes, so well prepared for the next world at 70, said he would rather stay here. So it is all the way down. I suppose that the last time that Methuselah was out of doors In a storm he was afraid of getting his feet wet, lest it shorten his days. In deed, I some time ago preached a ser mon on the blessings of longevity, but I now propose to preach to you about the blessings of an abbreviated earth ly existence. If I were an Agnostic I would say a man Is blessed in propor tion to the number of years he can stay on terra flrnia, because after that he falls off the docks, and if he is ever picked out of the depths it is only to be set up In some morgue of the uni verse to see if anybody will claim him. If I thought God made man only to last forty or fifty or a hundred years, and then he was to go into annihilation, I would say his chief business ought to be to keep alive, and even in good weather to be very cautious, and to carry an umbrella and take overshoes, and life preservers, and bronze armor, and weapons of defense, lest he fall off into nothingness and obliteration. But, my friends, you are not Ag nostiC3. You believe In immortality and the eternal residence of the right ous In heaven, and, therefore, I first remark that an abbreviated earthly existence is to be desired, and is a blessing, because It makes one's life work very compact. Some men go to business at seven o'clock In the morning and return at eevi.'n In the evening. Others go at eight o'clock and return at twelve. Others go at ten and return at four. I have friends who are ten hours a day 1n business; others who are five hours; others who are one hour. They all do their work well; they do their entire work and then they return. Which position do you think the most desir able? You say, other things being equal, the man who Is the shortest time detained in business, and who ?an return home the quickest, is the most blessed. Now, my friends, why not carry that good sense into the subject of trans ference from this world? If a person die in childhood, he gets through his work at nine o'clock in the morning. If he die at forty-five years of age, he gets through his work at twelve o'clock, noon. If he die at seventy years of age, he gets through his work at five o'clock in the afternoon. If he die at ninety, ho has to toll all the way on up to eleven o'clock at night. The sooner we get through our work the better. The harvest all in barrack or barn, the farmer does not sit down in the stubble-field, but, shouldering his ecythe, and taking his pitcher from under the tree, he makes a straight line for the old homestead. All we want to be anxious about Is to get our work done, and well done; and the quicker the better, i Again: There Is a blessing in an ab breviated earthly existence In the fact that moral disaster might come upon the man if he tarried longer. Recent ly, a man who had been prominent In churches, and who had been admired for his generosity and kindness every where, for forgery was sent to state prison lor IS years. Twenty years ago there was no more probability of that man's committing a commercial dis honesty than that you will commit commercial dishonesty. The number of men who fall into ruin between fifty and seventy years of age is sim ply appalling. If they had died thirty years before, it would have been bet ter for them and better for their fam ilies. The shorter the voyage, the less chance for a cyclone. There Is a wrong theory abroad, that If one's youth be right, his old age will be right. You might as well say there Is nothing wanting for a ship's safety except to get it fully launched on the Atlantic Ocean. I have some times asked those who were echool-miiri-s or college-mates of some great defaulter, "What kind of a boy waa he?" "What kind of a young man was he?" and they have said, "Why, he was a splendid fellow; I had no Idea he could ever go into such an outrage." The fact is, the great temp tation of life sometimes comes far on in mid-life, or in old age. The first time I crossed the Atlantic Ocean it was as smooth as a mill pond, and I thought the sea captains and the voyagers had slandered the old ocean, and I wrote home an essay ! far a maeazine on "The Smile of the Sea," but I never afterward could have written that thing, for before we got home, we cot a terrible shaking up. The first voyage of life may be very smooth; the. last may be a euroclydon. Manv who start life in great prosper ity do not end it In prosperity. The great pressure or temptation comes sometimes In this direction; at about fortv-flve years of age a man's nervous system changes, and some one tells him he must take stimulants to keep himself up, and he takes stimu lants to keep himself up, until the stimulants keep him down; or a man has been going along for thirty or forty years in unsuccessful business, and here is an opening where by one dishnnnra.hlfi action he can lift himself "and lift his family from all financial embarrassment. He attempts to leap the chasm and he falls into it. Then it is In after life that the great temptation of success comes. If a man makes a fortune beforo thirty years of age, he generally loses It before forty. The solid and the permanent fortunes for the most part do not come to their climax until in midlife, or in old age. The most of the bank presidents have white hair. Many of those who have been largely successful have been flung of arrogance or wordllness or dissi pation in old age. They may not have lost their integrity, but they have be come so worldly and so selfish under the influence of large success that it is evident to everybody that their suc cess has been a temporal calamity and an eternal damage. Concerning many people, It may be said it seems as if it would have been better If they could have embarked from this life at twen ty or thirty years of age. Do you know the reason why the vast majority of people die before thirty? It is because they have not the moral endurance for that which is beyond the thirty, and a merciful God will not allow them to be put to the fearful strain. Again: There is a blessing in an abbreviated earthly existence In the fact that one Is the sooner taken off the defensive. As soon as one is old enough to take care of himself he is put on his guard. Bolts on the doors to keep out the robbers. Fire-proof safes to keep off the flames. Life in surance and fire insurance against ac cident. Receipts lest you have to pay a debt twice. Lifeboat against .ui i, wnsHntrhouse air-brake against railroad collision, and hun dreds of hands ready to ov. you and take all you have. Defence oiot .niii rtpfence against heat, sickness, defence against the world's abuse, defence all the way down to the grave, and even the tombstone sometimes is not a suf ficient barricade. If a soldier, who has been on guard, shivering and stung with the cold pacing up and down the parapet with shouldered musket, is glad when some one comes to relieve guard and he can tho fortress, ought not that . chmit for joy who can put down his weapon of earthly defence .j th vine's castle? who is the more fortunate, the soldier who has to stand guard twelve noura ur hna to stand guard six lilt) man w - vn,1M? Wo have common sense about everything but religion, common sense about everytmng uui from this world. What fool3 we all are to prefer the circumference to the center. What a dreadful thing It would be If we should be suddenly ushered from this wintry world Into the May-time orchards of heaven, and it our pauperism of sin and sorrow should be suddenly broken up by a presentation of an emperor's castle surrounded by parks with springing fountains, and paths up and down which angels of God walk two and two. We are like persons stand ing on the cold steps of the national picture gallery in London, under um brella In the rain, afraid to go in amid the Turners and the Tltians and the Raphaels. I come to them and say, "Why don't you go inside the gal lery?" "Oh," they say, "we don't know whether we can get in." I say, "Don't you see the door is open?" "Yes," they say, "but we have been so long on these cold Bteps, we are so at tached to them we don't like to leave." "But," I say, "it is so much brighter and more beautiful in the gallery, you had better go in." "No," they say, "we know exactly how it is out here, but we don't know exactly how it is in side." So we stick to this world as though we preferred cold drizzle to warm habi tation, discord to cantata, sackcloth to royal purple as though we preferred a piano with four or five of the keys out of tune to an Instrument fully at tuned as though earth and heaven had exchanged apparel, and earth had tak en on bridal array and heaven had gone into deep mourning, all its wat ers stagnant, all its harps broken, all chalices cracked at the dry wells, all the lawns sloping to the . river plowed with graves, with dead angels under the furrow. Oh, I want to break up my own infatuation, and I want to break up your infatuation with this world. I tell you, If we are ready, and If our work is done, the sooner we go the better, and if there are bless ings in longevity I want you to know right well there are also blessings in an abbreviated earthly existence. If the spirit of this sermon Is true, how consoled you ought to feel about members of your family that went early. "Taken from the evil to come,'' this book says. What a fcrtunate es cape they had! How glad we ought to feel that they will never have to go through the struggles which we have had to go through. They had Just time enough to get out of the cradle and run up on the springtime hills of this world and see how it looked, and then they started for a better stopping place. They were like ships that put in at St. Helena, staying there long enough to let passengers go up and see tho barracks of Napoleon's captivity, and then hoist sail for the port of their own native land. They only took this world In transitu. It is hard for us, but It is blessed for them. And If the spirit of this sermon Is true, then we ought not to go around sighing and groaning when another year is going; when we ought to go down on one knee by the milestone and see' the letters and thank God that we are three hundred and sixty-five miles nearer home. We ought not to go around with morbid feel ings about our health or about anticipated demise. We ought to be living not according to that old maxim which I used to hear In my boyhood, that you must live as though every day were the last; you must live as though you were to live forever, for you will. Do not be nervous lest you have to move out of a shanty into an Alham bra. One Christmas day 1 witnessed some thing very thrilling. We had Just dis tributed the family presents Christmas morning, when I heard a great cry of distress In tho hallway. A child from a neighbor's house came In to say her father was dead. It was only three doors off, and I think In two minutes wo were there. There lay the old Christian sea captain.his face upturned toward the window, as though he had suddenly seen the headlands, and with an Illuminated countenance, as though he were just going into harbor. The fact was he had already got through the "Narrows." In the adjoining room were the Christmas presents, waiting for his distribution. Long ago, one night, when he had narrowly escaped with his ship from being run down by a great ocean steamer, he had made his peace with God, and a kinder neighbor or a better man than Captain Pendle ton you would not find this side of heaven. Without a moment's warn ing, the pilot of the heavenly harbor had met him Just off the lightship. He had often talked to me of tht goodness of God, and especially of a time when he was about to enter New York harbor with his ship from Liver pool, and he was suddenly impressed that he ought to put back to sea. Un der the protest of the crew and under their very threat he put back to sea fearing at the same time he was losing his mind, for It did seem so unreason able that when they could get into harbor that night they should put back to sea. But they put back to sea, and Captain Pendleton said to hi3 mate, "You call me at ten o'clock at night," At twelve o'clock at night tbe captain was aroused and said, "What does this mean? I thought I told you to call me at ten o'clock, and here It is twelve." "Why," said the mate, "I did call you at ten o'clock, and you got up, looked around, and told me to keep right on the same course for two hours, and then to call you at twelve o'clock." Said the captain, "Is it possible? 7 have no remembrance of that. At twelve o'clock tho captain went on deck, and through the rift of a cloud the moonlight fell upon the sea and showed him a shipwreck with one hundred struggling passengers'. He helped them off. Had ho been any earlier or later at that point of the sea he would have been of no service to those drowning people. On board the captain's vessel they began to band together as to what they should pay for the rescue and what they should pay for provisions. "Ah," says the cap tain, "my lads, you can't pay me any thing; all I have on board is yours. I feel loo greatly honored of God in hav ing saved you to take any pay." Just like him. He never got any pay ex cept that of his own applauding con science. Oh, that the old sea captain's Goo might be my God and yours! Amid the stormy seas of this life may we have always some one as tenderly tc take care of us as the captain took care of the drowning crew and the pas sengers. And may we come into the harbor with as little physical pain and with as bright a hope as he had, and If it should happen to be a Christmas morning, when the presents are being distributed, and we are celebrating the birth of Him who came to save our shipwrecked world, all the better, for what grander, brighter Christmas pres ent could we have than heaven? Founder of Red Croaa Society. The name of the man who was the actual cause of the foundation of the Red Cross society, which has done so much to mitigate the horrors of war, is little known to the present generation. However, he Is still alive, and unfor tunately, it is said, in bad circum stances. His name is Dunant, and he was born in Geneva in 1S28. A man of means, he appears to have devoted a large portion of his wealth to works of charity In connection with his native city. The admirable labors of Flor ence Nightingale, which attracted the attention of all Europe, made a strong impression on M. Dunant, which was further increased by his own particl pation in the war of Napoleon III against the Austrians in 1859. There he witnessed war In all its horrors, and It resulted in his publishing a book on the subject which at the time attracted much attention. In 1863 he started on a pilgrimage, at his own ex pense, to various countries, to stir up men into Influencing the various gov ernments Into a conference which should have for its object the forma tion of some means for the mitigation of the horrors of war. The result was the historic conference In 1864 at Ge neva, the outcome of which was the convention which has made modern warfare comparatively humane. The greatest men havt but two words for their life rule God end country. ill mm New Yoiik, Oct 29. Money on call nom inally per cent. Prime mercantile paper 4(3.4', per cent. Sterling exchange was weak, with actual business in bankers' bills M.HjS4.83! for flemand, and I4.8'i!4.82;i for Blxtv days; posted rat?,4.B334.Hli!4: commercial bills, V4.S14.81',. Government bondi. easlcj; new 4s regist ered. 127; new 4s coupon. 128; old 4s, rcRistcred, U21i: old 4s, coupon, 1133; 5s resist jred, IH'4: as, coupan. now. 2k, registered. 09; Paclflc Cs of "93, Har idlver. 5Sc; Mexican dollars. 45'Js Bar silver In London. 27!4d per ounce. The following are tne closing prices onine stock exchanee: American Spirits 10 American Sugar Refining 140 American Tobacco 8.14 A. T. &S. F.. con i A.T. &S. R. prd 2?4 Canada Southern Chicago. Burlington & Qulncy 9o 0. C. G & St L. 84 ChicagiGas 97 Clilcaio, Milwaukee & St, Paul 93 V4 Chicago Northwestern 123 Chicago. Kock Island & Pacific 86 Ciesapeake & Ohio 224 Chicago Ureat Western 15 C, SU P.. M. & O vu?, Del., Lack & Western 154 Krie.com General Klectric 34 Louisville & Nainviue Laclede Ca.s 42 Manhattan.. I''! Missouri Pacific -9 Missouri. Kansas & Texas, pfd 31 National Lead Co.. com 34 New Jersey Central .9i" New York Central 107 Northern Pacific, com 18 Northern Pacific, pfi 02 Pacific Mail 30 Philadelphia & Reading 22 Southern Railway, otd 39K Tennesse Coal and iron 1 Union Pacific 224 V. S. Leather, pfd C2 Wabash, pfd 18 Western Union 87 '4. CHAIN MARKETS. Kansas Citv. Mo.. Oct 29.-Vhcat sold at lrre":u'T prices here to-day, generally about". t higher, though some sales were no -- e than steady, and there were some k U's a cent lower than yesterday. The demand was rather slow and the mar ket was very weak at the close with 69-lb wheat unsalable at Sic. Hard V..at - No. 1. 8Gc: No. 2, 88c; No. 3. 8."c. No. 4. 83;: rejected, 78c. Soft Wlicat-No. 1. 90c; No. 2, 94:; No. 3, 91c; No. 4. 8"jc; rejected, 83c l Spring Wheat No. 2. 83c; No. . 3. 9 2',C; rejected, hoc. Corn -Mixed, No. 2. 23'4c; No. 3, 23c; No. 4, 22c; no grade, 20c White Corn No. 2, 240. No. 3, 23c; No. 4. 22'Jc. Oats M.xed No. 2. 18c: No. 3. !7c; No. 4, 10.-. White Oats-No. 2, 21c : No. 3, 18'4&10c; No. 4. 17r418c. Kve No. 2, 42c; No. 3.4lc; No. 4, 39c Bran 47vjc in 100-lb sacks. Hay Choice prairie. H7.00; No. 1. !6.30; No. 2. a5.5J. No. 3. 5.00: choice timothy. t&5U No I 8 00 No.2,7.0J; choice clover, mixed. Sj.DOJ.7.00; No. 1, o. 50(i00; pure clover, j. 500.00; packing, 3. 50&4-00. rhlcnso Hoard of Trailo High. Low. So Closed Oct 28 Wheat Oct Dec May Cohn- Oci Vc Mav Oats Oct Dec May PoiiK Oct Dec Jan La no net Dec Jan Short Kim Oct Dec Jan 96K Hti4 sas; '-G'4 304 1854 19ft. 7 42 7 47 8 45 4 10 4 12W 4 27!4 4 42. 4 40 4 40 974 974 94 253C 205i 30 Vx 18 :tlX 7 72, 7 77V4 8 07ii 4 22ii 4 23 4 40 4 47K 4 60 4 5254 9-14 94?, 25; 27 ilOH 96, 93. 's 2o 30 4 19?s 12 19 1X 7 70 8 62!J 7 45 8 45 4 20 4 33 i 12V. 4 274 4 J 1 30 4 40 4 40 Kc;, l:utter, I'oaltrf and Potatoes Kansas Citv. Ma. Oct 29. Eggs-FresU candled Kansas and Missouri stock, 1 3 5fc dozm Dutter Extra fancy separator. 23c; firsts, 21c; seconds. JOc: dairir faucy. 20c; choice, 16c; store packed, 134l7c; fresh packing stock. 7H10;. Pou'tiy Hens. 5c: broilers. 75c; large, sprt .yi, tic; roosters, 124c each; ducks, 66c' young ducks, G54c; old geese, 554c; Bprings, 't4c; turkeys, 8c Pigeons, 60c per do. Potatoes Home grown, 4050c per bulna small way; 47543300 per bu in bulk car lots. No-thern stock, 6570c per bu in Jobbing wa-. 5056c, tacked, in car lots. Colorado. 70W75C per bu. Sweet potatoes, 6060c per bu. LIVE STOCK. Kansas Citt. Oct 29. Cattle Receipts, 6,151; calves, 271; shipped, 3,231 cattle, 673 calves. Market was slow and steady to a shade lower. Following are representative sales: SU1PPI.NO AND DltitSSBO llKEP STUItat Kft Wt Price. No. wt Prlcsw 20... .1,343. ...4 85 20.... 1,290. ...4 80 19... .1,528.. ..485 16.... 1,578.. ..4 80 61. ...1,248.... 4 55 2.. ..1,330.. ..3 51) 2 620. ...4 5 J 23. ...1,074.. ..445 NATIVE HEIFKHS. 1 550. ...4 50 1 830. ...400 12 860. ...3 90 3 966.... 3 73 23 708....3 35 7 ch.962....3 85 1 850. ...3 65 1 830.... 3 00 NATIVE COWS. 1.... 1,201... .3 75 I 8....1,183....3 40 1 .900....3 33 f 7 917. ...3 30 1 820....3 25 2 940.... 2 00 1 840. ...150 2 770 NATIVE FEEDERS. 80 993....4G5 I 1 1000 it 1 lu l A 0 f 13 976 183 4 25 4 20 Ad'.'.'.'.'. 9j'....405 I 2 90. ...400 2 1035... .3 75 1 940. ...S 45 NATTVB STOCKERS. B 873. ...4 25 2 810....4"5 9 522....4 25 5 630. ...3 00 3 )83...,3 00 30 6U6....4 5 9 644. ...3 00 1 600... .3 00 TTniro Rerpinta. 9.433: ShlDDCd. G5L The market opened 2 to 5c lower, grew strong er and about steady with yesterday. Following are to-day's sales: KaWt Price. No. Wt Price. No. Wt Price. 78 243 3 60 21 111 3 60" -24 80 3 60 e:i lluI M WJ. 1H7 a 5 -M 75 214 S524 66 231 3 524 7 230 3 624 10208 3 524 8 113 3 52' i DO UOO O DJ'l 20 261 3 5254 78 201 3 t2 70 215 3 524 65 207 3 6z4 shern Receints. 1.698 shipped, 273 The market was strong to 10c higher. ( . Follow!-g are representative sales: 77natlbs 77. .5 00 I 210 71lbs.... 71. .5 25 . 10 N sh. ..77.. ..3 00 44 N so 80. .6 25 107 Sv sh. 9ti..3 05 I 2 culls. 93. ..3 00 6 CU1L...93....2 60 9 ....111 2 50 Chisago Lire Stock. Chicago. Oct 2a Ho The market was active; 6c lowe; light t3.4033.80; mixed, ta 4533 80. heavy. a 203.80; rough, 3. 20.33. 30. Cattle The market was quiet and steady; beeves. I3.90a3.25; cows and heifers, ,00 4.50; Texas steers, 12.753.90; Westerns, I3.2j(34.3i; stockers and feeders, 12.903 4.4a Sheep Market steady, 10c lower; natives, 12604.40; ,Wet;rai. 2. 9 J A- 20. lambs, 13.8043. 70 Wheat and Cora la Liverpool Liverpool, Oct. 29. -Closing: Wheat Firm and strong. lH&Hid higher: October nominal; November, nominal; December, 7s 84d: Mav. 7s6Sd. Corn Firm. VillHd higher; October, nominal; November, 3s 24d; December, Is 244- AfUr a man once eets married, the law allows htm to kiss no other wom an but his wife, his mother and his sisters. Americans put too larg-o an imprint on everything they make. When a farmer buys a new wagon, he is really hauling about a sign for the manfac turer. The pigeons ot Jefferson City that gave the alarm the other night and pre vented a convict from making his es cape from prison ought to be invited to roost on the wmo historical perch with the goose that saved Rome. To Dorothy. Ah, Dorothy, I love you well! Why do you scorn me so? Why did you ring our friendship's knell And order me to go? Why, when the merest friendship ends, And Love declares himself, Comes there a rift which nothing mends? Oh, Love, thou art an elf! Sweet Dorothy, be friends again. And smile as oft of yore; And, though It be the direst pain, I'll ask for nothing more. A cood manv dcodIc never tret to iro O K . . abroad because they find they have tc be operated upon by the time they earn monev cnoutrh. An operation costs as much us a trip to Europe, and for the price of threo operations an experienced traveler can go nround the world. Playful Boulder, Col., University Stu dents tossed a freshmen in a blunkd and broke his neck. Freshmen whu go to a college inhabited by toughs have no buisness to have pipestcin necks. College prsidents have occupied more or less of the public attention during the summer. They must now resign themselves to two months of oblivion. A more commanding figure, the college foot ball player, with flowing lockf and well upholstered person, has crowded lesser creatures into the back ground. (Jive U4 Ke.st. This is the prnyer of tho nervous who do no sleep well. Let thorn uso Hostotter's Stomacii Hitters nnd their prayer will be tpcedily answer ed. Insomnia is tho product of indigestion and ncrvouBUosa, two nssociuto ailments, Booa rem clicd by the Bitters, which also vanquishes ma laria, constipation, liver complaint, rheumatism and kidney complaint. The cost of stealing a kiss in St. Paul is 825, according to Judge Twohy's decision. That Judge ought spell his name Too-High. Two Millions a Year. When people buy, try, nnd buy again, it means they're satisfied. The people of the United States ore now buying I'usearets Candy Cathartic at the rate of two million boxes a year and it will be throe million before New Year's. It means merit proved, that Cnscarets arc the mo-t delightful bowel regulator for everybody the year round. All druggists 10c, 25c, 50c a box, cure guaranteed. When a girl letivs homo as a bride, he travels in a st;tte room, and the gods have been good to her beyond complaint if she makes her first trip home in a chair car, and feeds her ba bies forms a lunch basket.' KN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OP THE WORD " CASTORIA," AND " PITCHER'S CASTORIA," AS OUR TRADE MARK. I, DR. SAMUE4- PITCHER, of Byannis, Massachusetts, was tlie originator of "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," the same tJiat has borne and does now Sfrf--? n eV6TU hear the fae-simile signature of Uut&ffcUc&M wrapper. This is the original "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," which has been used in the homes of tlie mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see tliat it is the hind yoiv have always bought ffi-?-" n & and has the signature oflA&C&M wrap per. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is March 's , 1897', Q& 4-h& Do Not Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennie: on it), the ingredients of which even he does not know. "The Kind You Have Always Bought" BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF Insist The Kind That 25c Will Keep a Doctor Out of tiie House Half tiis Year. The FmmllT Bf rirnxrd ft warrants! to brrak Vld. i'mr, Influent, bcirinninir f l'nrnmoni or lhetimtlai tn 84 hours. Safo for infant. Corrobor atlT atatamanU of eminent people with ft. The. larveet eat ever known. Kr you r et pocket. One bottle pre rente St cold after exponre. Wrap a quae, lar la paper and mall at our rlk. Tht most rrmarl M rknoMlk rrmtd) errr prt-liYd. hjr mall only. A. Thompon. M.D 1002 N. Broadwi,, SLUi.Mc rOCfUT BI!?I n order of MOO so,, ft. ol rnClteill rAlel Hooflnf or Wall and Cellini Manilla. Write for sample and prices. The Fay aiaailla RmBbs Vmmr, laaidei N.J. 1 Beat t Wjih bjnip. Tw GJ. Css ( fn t i. ft-- r-eo-e ""-a, ( f r E m t i CURE CONSTIPATION Me VmMi Tuifz HiVftSV 25c 50c Ninn-tflnths of the people consume about one-tenth of what they need. One-tenth of the people waste nine tenths of what they do not need. What secret vice sustains these condi tions? There is a place in history for him who answers correctly. We have found it necessary to make new rules governing fathers who have smart children they wish to tell about We will cheerfully listen to smart 6ayings of children, except on Uriday, when we are very busy, but have fcund it necessary to refuse to read their school compositions. Catarrh injhe Head Suffered with It for Five Years, but Hood's Sarsaparllla Cured. I had catarrh in my head and suffered with it for five years. I was also troubled with weakness. I have taken Hood's Sar saparilla and it ent irely cured the catarrh, built up my system and did me a great deal of good." W. E. Melloway, Co lumbia, Missouri. Remember Hood's Sarsaparilla la the best in faetthe One True Blood Purlfler. Hood's Pills cure 8lck headache. 25c. . 1 I. 4m "1? m in loi.vi' --wr. mm bbk '"'IT WILL KEEP YOU DRY. Don't be fooled with a mackintosh or rubber coat. If you wantacoatl that will kep you dry in the hard-1 est storm buy the Fish Brand E Slicker. If not for sale in your I town, write for catalogue to A. J. TOWER. Biston, Mass. U A I I Td VeSetabla .Sicilian HAIR RENEWER Prevents the hair from fall- in g out, and makes a new growth come in. You save what you have and get more. No gray hair. fiolr-addintr, pat. combination beam. K.. 1 ni.u. u'pfirhta. 1!. S. KLandard. 'AMei!'n(.,1t an,i rheaiifst. Rend for prioert. WEEKS SCALE WORKS, BUFFALO, N. Y. PENSIONS, PATENTS, CLAIMS. JOHNW.MORR I S, WASHINGTON. 0. C. LiM Prlncluid Examlaw V. B. 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