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REV.-DR TALMAGE. THL RKOOKLYH DIVINE'S SUN Vr.xr 'Then tu oar month flllM with lauirbter. Psalm exxvi., 2. "Ke tht ett teh In the heavens shall laugh." Psalm iL,4: : Thfrtr-elght time does the B:bla make rfrnce to-this confljruratlon of tb? fa tursan1 quirk expulsion of brth which wc cnll lsahtT. Sometimes It Is born of th sunshine and sometimes the midnight. Fom-timcs It stirs the sympathy of angels end sorr.tlmes the cachlnaatlon of devils. AH h!lthy people laojrb. Whether It plas th Lord or dlplase Hlrn, that de pend upon when we lu?h and at what we Jitijrh. My theme to-day Is the laughter of the JiiMe nmdy. Sarah's Uuirh, or that of kpiclrn : fav! 1 s laosrh, or that of spirit ual XTi!tMon : the fool's laosrh, or that of n'nl m"rflm-nt ; GoVs laaifh, or that of InHnlte Tf damnation ; heaven's lau?h, or t lint of eternal triumph. S-.-ne. n oriental t-nt. The occupants, old Abraham and Barah, perhaps wrinkled and decrepit. Their throe guests are three enirls, th Lord Almighty one of them. In return tor th hospitality shown by the old people God promises Sarah that she shall I'o-ne the sncsirsi of the L-rl Jesus Mr!f. Sarah lauih In the fa of God. Fhe do.- not l.e'1-Te It. Rhe is affrighted at what she has done. She denbs It. She sny, "I did not lanirh Then God retorted with an nphasls that sllenai all dUpnta tlon. "K jt thou .lMt lausrh." My friends, the tatrn of skepticism In all atts Is only tb i-eho of HsrahV laughter. God says He will a-'-omplfsh a thin, and men siy It can not t done. I a jrreat multitude lsusrh at the mlra-1. s. They sir they are contrary to the lawn ,'. nature. Whrtt Is a law of nature? It ii f way of doin a thlnjr. You or-dirnr-lv n ross a riv-r at one ferry. To-morrow you rhnnjf" for one day. and yoa ko toss another ferry. You made the rule,. Hhv you not th rk'ht to change It? Yon or Unardy -o;nein at that door of the church. Kuppos tint n-xt NaM.ath you come lr, nt ll"othrdoor. It is a haMt you have. Hive von not a riirht to change vour hat.lt? A l'tw of M il ir is God's haMt HU way of lorn thin.-. If M makes the law. h is fIV i"t a riiht to chin ire it at any tim He wants to )ianic it? V'ns! lor the fo'ly of those who lauafh at I wh'Tj H Hty. "I will do a thlni?."' t . responding. "Von can't dolt." Go 1 ") mil nj. i;i( ih tni It Is all true 1U- :0. i.o.rnm Iau!is, H"r'ert Spencer Srti irt Mill laughs, urwit German lHUVers t i" . Harvard laughs softly. A trrat m.iriv of th. 1 M-.f!i Jfu- rows of professors gntelonthe r.-r1" heiw...n OhriHtimttv and ind lelity, ltih v.ftiy. Tiiy h iy, , We didn't lautrh." T;nr was Sarah's 1 1 i"k. God thunders from the l-e-iv.-ns. "Jji,t thou didst bmh !" .The Kard-n of E l-n was only a fable. Thre n-ver was any ;irk laiilr, or if it wus built It was too s nail to h ive two of every kind, 'f'ne pihar of fire I..y niht was onlv the northern lights, the ten nl my a brilliant Hpe-imen of juirirlery. The s.a parted bc m.se the wind blew violently n K'r.-nt wii'.ie from one direction. The sun nd moon did not put themselves out of the way f..r Joshua. Ja-ob'a ladder was only borirontal an I pi'turesiue clouds. The de-Mr)in- nnfe K.Mitin the firstborn in K,'pt w is on'y cholera infantum bcorn-) epidMni.-. The gullet of the whalo, by Iosltlve musurem-nf, too small to swallow a pro;. iiet. Tiim btory of the immaculate coiK'-ption a shock to all dect-noy. The lame, tie ,:;rn'o. th blind, the halt, cured by mere human surgery. The resurrection of rhri-f.s friend only a beautiful tableau, Christ mi 1 It.srus and Mary nud Martha a.-tiiK their parts well. My friends, there Is not a doctrine or statement of God's holy word that has not) been derided by the skepticism of the daj. I take up this book of Kin James's trans lation. I consider ft a perfect Bible, but liere are skeptics who want it torn to pieces. And now. with this Itible in my hand, let me tear out all those portiom whioh the skepticism of this day demands shall bo torn out. Wlmt shall ko first? "Well." says some one in the audience, "take out all that about the creation na. nb0ut the first settlement of the world." A way ro- Gfness. "Now," fcnys no ne one, "take out all that about the miraculous mil taneof the children of Israel in the wllderne." Away goei Exodus. "Now," shvs some one else in the'nu Hence "there are things In Deuteronomy an 1 Klns that arn not lit to be read." Away go DsiUerouomy an J the Klnjra. "Now," says some oue, "tre-book of Job is a fable that ou-flit to chbh out." Away Koes the book of Job. "Now." says some on, "those pass ages in the New Testament whioh imply the divinity of Jesus Christ ouifht to come out." ' Away ro the Evangelists. "Now," says some one. "the took of Revelation how prepotero js ! It represents a ra in with the moon under his feet and a sharp sword In Ms hand." Away kos the book of Revela tion. Now there are a few pieces left. What shall wo do with tnem? "Oh," says sme man in the au Hence, "I don't believe a word In the Bible from one end to the oth er." Well, It Is all tfone. Now you have put out the last liizht for the nations. Now ft Is the pitch darkness of eternal midnight. How do you like it? But I think, my friends, we bad better keep the Bible a little longer intact. It has doue pretty well for a good mmy years. Then there are old people who fltd It a com fort to have It on their laps, and children like the s:ories in it. Let us ke-p it tar a curiosity anyhow. If the Bible is to bo thrown out of the school an 1 out of the courtroom, so that men no more swear by it, and it is to be put in a dark corridor of the city library, the Koran on one side and the writing of Confucius on the other, then let us each one keep a copy for himjolf, for we might have trouble, and we would want to be under the delusions of its consolations, nnd wo might die, and we would want the delusion o( the exalted restdonco of Go i's right hand, which it mentions. Oh, what an awful thing it Is to lauh la Go I's face an t hurl His llevelatlOn back at Him! After Awhile the dar will come when t :iey wili say they did not laugh. Then all the hyper crltlclstts, all the caricatures nn l all the learned sneer in the quarterly reviews will be brought to judgment, and amid the rock ing of evrrytbing t-nath anil amll the flaming of everything above God will thun der, '-But thou didst laugh r I think the tnost fascinating laughter at Christianity I ever rem-mb-r was a imvn in N-w England. He made the word of tlo l eem ridiculous, and he Uu'hel on at our holy r'.tgion until he came to die, and thou he 'said "My life bas been a failure -a failure domestically. I hive no children. A fatlur-s'-'cia'ly, for'l am treate I in the tr-ets like a pirate. A failure professionally Imus? I know but one minister that has adopted my -mtimnt " For a quarter of a century che laughed at Christianity, an 1 ever u e i.n:iiny has been Uu"hiri at him. Nw. it is a mean thing to g.'i into a man's hoW nnd teni his goods. I ut 1 you the mot gigantic I ur glary ev r u v-utfj th r ; .s t'.'u to The meanest Utjehter tct nttrod Is th4 laugh of the skePtic. v The next lausrnter mentioneii in the Bible Is David's laughter, or the expression of spiritual exultation. "Then was our mouth filled with laughter." He got very much , down sometimes, tut there are other chap ters where for four or five time lie calls upn the people to praise and exult. It was not a mere twitch of the Hpsit was a demonstra tion that took hold ot his whole physical na- tore. "Then was our mouth fl'bvi.with laughter." My friends, this wor d will never be converted to God until Cristlans cry less and laugh an 1 sing more. Ttie horror are a poor tait. It people are to b peruvid to adopt our holy religion, it will be because they have made up their minds :t is a happy reUjfloa. They don't like a mjrbil Chris tianity. I know tbre are morbid people whe njoy a funeral. Th"y coxe early to seethe friends take leaxe o tn corps, umir.'j a ride to thecenviery. but all healthy people enjoy a welding better than they do a bnnai. Now. you make the religion of Christ s-pulcbral " nni hearseMke, and you make It repulsive. I say p'.ant the roee Oi Sharon aiong the church walks and columbine to. clamber over the church wall, nnd have a smllo on the lip. and have tpe mouth flllei with holy laughter. : Thereil no man In the world, except the Christian, that has a right to fed an untrammeled g!es. Ho Is promised eTerrtblng Is to be for the best here, and he is on the way tc,a de'ixht which will take all the processions wl!h palm branches and all the orchestras liarped nd cymbaled an I trumpetod to express. "Oh." you say. "I have so mu;b trouble. Have you more trouble than Paul had? What does he siy? "Sorrowful, 3et alwa"s rejoicing. Por. vet making many ri"h. Having noth ing, yet possessfnz all things." The mrrl-st laugh I thin I have evr heard has been in the sickroom of Gi l's dear children. Wneu Theo,1osius was put upon the rack, he suf fered var- great torture at the Jlrst. Somebody asked him how he endured all that pain on the rack. He repllei "When I was first put on the rack, I suffered a trreat deal, but very soon a young man In white stoo 1 by my sld", an I with a so't au I com fortable handkerchief he wipe! the sweat from my brow, and my piles were reHered. It was a punishment for rne to get from the ra?k, be-ause when the pi'n was all gone the angel was gone." Oh. rejolcs evermore : You know how it is in the army an arsy in encampment. If to-lay news comes that our side baa had a defeat, an 1 to--Borrow another portion or the tidings comes, say Ing we have had another defeat, it demoral izes all the host. But if the news comes of victory to-day and victory to-morrow the whole army Is impaaslone t for the contes. Now. In the kingdom of oar Lord Jesus Christ report fewer defeats tells us the vic toriesvictory over sin nn 1 death and hell. Pjolce evermore, and again I say rejolc. I believe, there Is more 'religion In a laugh than in a groan. Anybody can groin, but to laugh in the midst of banishment and persecution nnd indescribable trial, that re quired a David, a Daniel, a Paul, a mo lern heroine. The next laughter mentioned In the Bible 1 li.it I shall speak of is the fool's laughter, or the expression of sinful merriment. Solomon was very quick at simile. When he makes a comparison, we all catch it. What Is the laughter of a fool like? He says. "It is the crackling of thorns under a pot." The ket tle is swung, a bunch of brambles is put un der it, and the torch is applied to it, and there is a great noise, and a big blaxe, and a vpufter and a quick extinguishment. Then it is darker than it wus before, Fool s laugh ter. The most miserable thine on earth is a bid man's fun. There they are ten men in a barroom. They have at home wives, mothers, daughters. The impure Jest starts at one corner of the barroom, and crackle, 'rackle, crfcji it goes all around. In 600 such guffaws there is not one Item of happi ness. They nil feel b nneane I If they have any conscience left. 3 Have nothing to do' with men or women who tell Immoral stories. 1 have no confidence either in their Chris tian character or their morality. So all merriment that springs out of the defects of others caricature of a lams foot, or a curved spine, or a blin 1 eye,' or a deaf par will be met with the ju lmnt of God, either upon j-ou pr upon your children. Twenty years a;o I knew a man who waa particularly skillful in Imitating the lame ness of a neighbor. Not Iour ayjo a son of th skillful rnimlo had his les: amputated for the verj defect which his . father had mimicked years before. I do not say it was a judgment of Ood. I leave you to make your own inference. So all merriment born of dissipation, that winch Btarta at the counter of the drinking restaurant or the wineglass in the home circle, the maudlin sirnper.the meaningless joke, the saturfraltan gibberish, the paroxysm ot mirth about noth ing which you sometimes see in the fashion able clubroom or the exquisite parlor at twelve o'clock at night, are the crackling of thorns under a pot. Such laughter aul such sin -end in death. When I was a lad, a book came out entitled, 4,I)ov Junior's Patent Sermons." It made a great stir, a very wide lausb, all ovr the country, that book did. It was a caricature of the Christian ministry, an i of the word of God, and of the day of judgment. Oh, we had a great laugh! The commentary on the whole thing is that the author of that book died in poverty, shame, debauchery, kicked out of society and cursed of Almighty God. The laughter of such mends the echo of their own damnation. The next laughter that I shall mention as being in the Bible Is the laugh of Go l's con demnation, "He that sltteth in the heavens shall laugh." Again, "The Lord will laugh at him." Again, 4I will laugh at his calam ity." With such demonstration will Gol greet every kind of great sin and wicked ness. But men build up villainies higher and higher. Good men almost pity God be cause He Is so schemed against by men. Suddenly a pin drops out of tbe machinery of wickedness or a secret Is revealed, and the foundation begins to rock. Finally the whole thing Is demolished. What is the matter? I will tell you what the matter Is That crash of ruin Is only the reverberation of God's laughter. In the money market there are a great many good men and a great many fraudulent men. A fraudulent man there says, "I mean to have my mil lion." Ho goes to work reckless of hon esty, and he gets bis first 100,000. He gets after awhile his $200,000. After awhile he gets his $500,000. "Now." he says, "I have only ono more move to make, and I shall have my million." He gathers up ali his resources. He makes that ono last grand move, he falls and loses all, and he has not enough money of his own left to pay the cost of the ear to his home. People can not understand this spasmodic revulsion. Some said it was a sudden turn in Erie Rail way stock, or in Western Union, or in Illi nois Central . soma said one thing and some another. They all guesaed wrong. I will tell you what It was. "'He that sitteth In the heavens laughed." A man In New York said he would be the richest man in the city. He left his honest vrprk as a mechanic and got Into the city councils some way and In tea years stole $15,000,000 from the city govern ment. Fifteen million dollars! He held the Legislature of the State ot New York in the grip of his right hand. Suspicions were aroused. The grand Jury presented indict ments. The whole land stood aghast. The man who expected to put half the city in his vest pocket goes to IJlackweli's Island, goos to Ludlow street jail, breaks prison nnd goes across the sea, is rvrretfr I " 1 back and again rcmandel to jail. Why? "He that sitteth in the heavens laughed." Rome was a great empire. She had Hra -e and Virgil among her poets . she had Augus tus and Conttantine amornr .hr emoror. Hut what mean th defacM r.inthoa, an I the Forum turn! into a cattle market, and the broken waUM Coliseum, and the archU tectural skeleton of her jrreat aueiu-M? What was that thunder? "Oh." vou sav.. that wa the roir of the battering ram- against her walls. No. What was that quiver? "Oh." you say. "thnt wa the tramp of hotil legion. No. The quiver an ! the roar were the outburst of omnipotent laugaier ?rom the d,-r,e 1 an 1 insulted heav n. Rome defied Go !. and H- bushed h?r down. Thei defif I Gol. and He. laucb! her down. Nineva .IflM God, an t H lauehed her down. Rabylon detied G f ; and He lu.rhed h-r down. There is a gr difTreac brtween God" laiiirh aal 1I smile. His smile ts eternal . batttul-. H -smile,! when Iavdang, and Miriam 'lapp l the eymfcal. and Haauth made grmnts for her .son. and Paul preached, and John kindled with apocalyptis vision, an 1 'whea anv man has anything to do aal doasit well. HttsTdi! Wiv. it is the 15:a of Mr. the apple orchards in full tIoo c : is aorc- ing breaking on a rippling im at high' noon, ail the Wlis rlsge peat Rat His I aught laHoa ua. a ecit VaTea 3r oar 41 n : tt is a wastrng aw&r.' W may let the satirist laugh at tu, aalj all our companions may laugh at us, aad we may be made the tart lor the merriment of earth and hell, but God forbid that w should ever come to the fulfillment of the prophecy against the rejectors of the tratb, "I will laugh at your calamity" But. my friends, all of us who reject Christ and the -ardon of the gospel must come under that tremendous bombardment. God wants us allto repent. He counsels. He coaxes. He Importune, and He dies for us. He comes down out of heavD. He puts all the world's fin on one shoulder, n- puts alt the world's sorrow on the other shoulder, and then with that Alp on one side ani that Hlmalav on the other He starts tip the hill back of Jeru salem to achieve our salvation. He puts the paina of His right foot on one lore spfke. ind He puts the palm of His lett 'oot on another long spike, and thsn, with His han ls spotted with His own b!oo!. He gf-stlenlatee. saying "Look, look ani ' v. With the crimson reil of My sacrifice I will rover up all vour sins ; with My dying .'roan I will wal'ow up all 3-our irronn. Look ! Live ! But a thousan I of you turn your hack on that, nnl then this to'c of nvltatlon turns to a tone divinelr Ominous, that sohs like a simoom throueh the first chapter of Trovrbs. "Because I have called and y refused. I have stretched out My right han 1, and no man regarlef, but ye have set at nau?ht all My counsel ani would none of My reproo', I. also will lausrh at your calamity." O 1. what a laush that 1b deep laugb. a Ion., reverberating laugh, an overwhelming laugh. Gol grant we may never hear it. But in this day of merciful visitation yiel iyour heart to Christ, that you miy spDd all your life oa earth un ler His smile and escape forever the thun der of the laugh of God a JndiKnatiou. The other laughter mentionei Jn the Bible, the only one I shall speak 0 is heaven's laughter, or the expression of eternal triumph. Christ said to His dis ciples, "Blessed are ye that wep now. fo ve shall laugh." That makes me know positively that we are not to spend our days mhfaven singing long meter psalms. " The formallstic and stiff notions of heaven that -ome people have would make me misrabie. 1 amglnlto know that the heaven oT the Bible is not only a place of holy worship. .- a vrt nni A sVAnt SArtla lit V hnf tf "What vou. "will the rinsing laua o around the ircles of the saved?" I say yes pure Laughter, cherini? lausrhter, holy laughter. It will be a lautfh of congratulation. When -e meet a friend who has suddenly ooje to a fortune, or who has Ot over -ome dire sickness, do we not shake. and, do we not lnucrh with htm? And vrhfii we srt to heaven an i see our friends ther' some of them hnvincr come up out of T"ai tribulation, why. we will say to one of ;hrn, "The last time I saw you you had be.n -uflVrinj; for six weks under alow intermit rnt fever." or to another we will say "You fill IPVri, Ul II) liuviuri no 1, iw asm j j. v i , or tm years were limpinsr with the rheu- mat ism. and you were full of complaints when we saw you last. I congratulate you on this eternal recovery." We shall laugh. Yx, we shitll congratulate all those who have come out Wgfeat financial embarrassments in this world because they have become mill ionaires in bfaven. Yh shall laugh. It Lshall be a laugh of reasso-iation. It is just natural for us to laugh when we meer a Triend we have not seen for ten years as any- j thing is possible to be natural. j When we meet our friends from whom wet have beea parted ten or twenty or thirty j years, will it not be with infinite congratu'a- j tion? Our peremption quickenel, our i knowledge improved, we will know each : other at a flash. We will have to talk over j all that has happened since we have been separated, the one that has been ten years in j heaven telling us all that has happened in the ten j-ears of his heavenly residence, and we telling him in return all that has hap pened during the ten years of his absence from earth. Ye shall laugh. I think George Whltefleld and John Wesley will have a laugh of contempt for their earthly colli sions, and Toplady and Charles Wesley will have a laugh of contempt for th"ir earthly misunderstanding?, and the two farmer who were in a lawsuit all their days will have a laugh of contempt over their earthly disturbance about a line fence. Exemptiou from all annoyance. Immersion In all glad ness. Ye shall laugh. Christ says so. Ye shall laugh. Yes. it will be a laugh of tri umph. Ob, what a pleasant thing it will be to stand on the wall of heaven and look down at satan and hurl at him defiance and see him caned and chained and we forever free from his clutches ! Aha! Yes, it will be a laugh of royal Kreetinv. You know how the Frenchmen cheered when Napoleon came back from Elba , you know how the English cheered when Wel lington came back from Waterloo ; you know how Americans cheered when KosButh ar rived from Hungary, you remember hovf Rome cheered when Pornpey came back vic torious over 900 cities. . Every cheer was a laugh. Bat, oh, the mightier greeting, the gladder greeting, when the snow white cav alry troop of heaven shall go through the streets, and, according to the Book of Reve lation. Christ in the red coat, the crimson coat, on a while horsr. and all the armies of heaven following Him on white horses ! Oh, when we see and hear that cavalcade we shall cheer, we shall laugaj Does not your heart beat quickly nt the thought of the great jubilee upon which we are soon to en ter? I pray God that when we get through with this worl t and are going out of it we may have some such vision as the dying Christian had when he saw written all over the clouds in tbe sky the letter "W," and they asked him. standing bv his side, what he thought that letter "W" meant. "Oh," he said, "that stands for wel come." And so may it be when we quit this world. "W" on the gate, "W" on the door of the mansion, "W ' on the throne. Wel come ! Welcome ! Welcome ! I have preached this sermou with Ave prayerful wishes that you might see what a mean thing is the laugh of skepticism, what a bright this is the laugh of spiritual exulta tion, what a hollow thing is the ladgh of sin- lul merriment, what an awlul thing i3 th laugh cf condemnation, wnat a radiant, rubi cund thing is the iaugh o' eternal triumph. Avoid the ill; choose the right. R com forted. 'Bsso l are ye that weep A' ye shall hiu?h tw shall lau. Flight ot the Frigate Bird. Mr, J. Lancaster, who has spent five years npon the west coast of Flor ida in the study of the habits of aqua tic birds, of which he has made a specially, asserts that he has seen frigate birds tir for seven consecutive days, night atid day, without ever rehting. According to his observa tions the fatigue of these birds is not excessive, even in such long continu ances in the air. In fact, the frigate bird can easily, and almost without a flap of the wings, not only maintain itself, but also rly with a speed of nearly" a hundred miles an hour. The prad of the wiDg extended varies between eleven and thirteen feet. It feed., pathers materials for its nest here and) there, and even sleeps on the mg. rrhis well proves that in this bird thfi motion of the wings is, in a maimer, independent of the will. The 'albatross, which alo has been the abject of Mr. Lancaster's obser vation, is larger than the frigate bird, its wmg-spread reaching at least six teen feet ; bat if it follows shins at ea obliged to take a rest upon a rock or upon the ship itself at the end of about four or five days. ScicntiSo American. President From the Farms. Ten Presidents of tho United States were called from farms. 1. Washington, the i land snrreyor adid farmer, from Mount Vernon. 2. John Adam, of 'Qaincy, irho, (taring the last year of his Presidency, said: 'I am weary, worn and dis gusted to death. I had rather chop wood, dig ditches, make fences npon my poor little farm. Alas I poor farm, and poorer family, what have you lost that your country might be free!" 3. Jefferson, farmer, philosopher and statesman, from Monticello, Va. 4. Madison, farmer and lawyer, of Montpelier, Ta. . . j 5. Monroe, farmer, from , Oak HilU Vs. 6. John Quincy Adams, from the Qaincy farm of 100 acres, near Bos ton. ('It is said that most of the trees were raised by John Qaincy Adams from the seeds which he was in the habit of picking up in his wander ings. The most peculiar interest at taches to a shell-bark hickory which he planted more than nfty years previous to his death. In this tree he took a peculiar satisfaction, but he was an enthusiast in regard to all the trees of the forest, differing in this re spect from his father, who was an agriculturist of the Cato stamp was more inclined to lay the ax to them than to propagate them.") 7. Andrew Jackson, of the "Her mitage" in Tennessee, who as farmer, soldier and lawyer, was a most ex cellent type of the best Americanism. 8. Van IJuren, of Kinderhook, N. Y., was called' to the Presidency from his sheep and wool fafm, although he was a lawyer of far above average ao- quirements ami ability 9. William Henry enry namson, irom ww a his farm at North Bend, Ohio. 10. Tyler, of Sherwood Forest farm, Ya., where he subsequently died. J I. James K. Tolk, of Duck River, Tenn., also came from the farm to the Presidency. This selection of Presidents from rural home?, from among the farms of , the country, illustrates the fact that in those days there was no profession or calling which held a more exalted position in public estimation than that of agriculture The rorum. The Prairie Dogr Nuisance. A Western Kansas genius claims to have discovered a remedy for the prairie do,; nuisance. The remedy is not very expensive, being merely an empty tin can. The can, he says, is to be driven, opeu end down, into iheir holes, and the soil tramped Bolidly round about it. ; The dogs come up into the can and work until exhausted, and nnally smother, at least her says they do not trouble him any more. Merchants are selling cheap cans, made for this purpose, in many towns of Western Jhvansas.--Courier Journal. A XO-TO-BAC MIRACLE. PHYSICAL PEIIFKCTION PREVENTED BV THE irE OF TOBACCO. An Old Timer ot Twnty-toree Years To bacco ('bewinc nnd Smokinjr Caret). nn! GalniTwentr 1'ouixU in Tblrtr lny. Lake Geneva, Wis., July .21 Special. Tho ladies of our beautiful little town are making an interesting and exciting tlifio for tobacco-using husbands, since tho injurious . effects of tobacco and tho ease with which it can be cured by a preparation called No-To-Bac, bnvo been 30 plainly demonstrated by the cure of Mr. F 0. Waite. In a written statement he says 1 "I smoked an I ehewed tobacco for twonty-throo years, and I am sure that my case was one of the worst in this part oftho country. Even after I went to bod at night, If I - woke up I woold want to chew or smoke. It . was not only killing me but my wife was also ailing from the in jurious effects. Two boxes of No-To-Bae cured me, and I have no more desire for to bacco than I havoto jump out of the win dow. I have ained twenty pounds In thirty days, my wife is well, and we are Indeed 1oth happy to say that No-To-Bae is truly 'worth its weight in gold to us." Tho cure and improvement In Mr. Walte's case is looked upon as a miracle In fact, it Is tho talk of the town and county, and it Is estimated that over a thousand tobacco users will be using No-To-jiac within a few weeks. The peculiarity about No-To-Bae at a patent mediein Is that the makers, thr Sterling Remedy Company. No. 45 Randolph street, Chicago, abso'utely guarantee the use of three boxes to euro or refund the money, and the cost, 12.50, is so trifling as compared with the expensive and unneces sary use of tobacco that tobacco-using hus bands havo no good excuse to offer when their wives insist upon taking No-To-Bae and getting results in theway of pure, swot breath, wonderful Improvement In their mental nnd physical coa lition, with a prac tical revttalization of their nicotlzoJ nervee. It k probable that the corn pack will b eonslderably reduced tbe present season. If It Only Helped m. I.lttte. It wouM he worth 5o cent. One hoar free tern from the terrible irritatin; itrh rf teller - worth more than a whole hot i f Tetterin it wi I rr(k-iirc ai.d if tie .rai 'ixtiiz th t will rnr. Srt-ntat drnz More-. jf t iliai! from J. T. Sbor trine. Savannah, G Tax population of Chattanooga, Teas., ia 14X3 less tnaa ta 1372. If f.!C'M iTh nre tjn ue Tir lstc Thorny sou s Eye water.Drugsl t sell at ZSc tt iilUt In M Uoaiiior iomethm;: i ncdo-l to k'pup the aprtff , afcist dii?stion aal givn sroot. b!aUhfui sip. For th? purpsi Hxi's !jrsart nlla is peculiarly a lapte-i. As a biood par- Hoodfs Sara 4v parilla Sr It has no equ?, n t ix chlSy by i:s (L XW Cb iowcr to nsak pare V ,!cl thf.t it has won Q -cch faji as a cure for scrofula, sa'.t rhU3i aad others! silor di3Kroes. Get Hood's. II4'a Pills c&r heo4oc&e oad tSeftkL The Arc made 'with ROYAL BAKING POWDER- brcad, biscuit, cake, rolls, muffin's, crusts, and the va rious pastries requiring a leavening or raiding agent Risen with ROYAL BAKING POWDER, all these things arc superlatively light, sweet, tender, delicious and wholesome. ROYAL BAKING POWDER is the greatest of time and labor savers to the pastry cook. Besides, it L economizes flour, butter and eggs, and, best of all, makc3 the food more digestible and healthful. ortVAL BAKING POWDER CO.. 106 WALL ST., NEW-YORK. The Howe's Ordinal Home. The original home of the horse has been generally supposed to be the countrr which forms the highlands of Asia, about the fortieth degree of latitude, and recent authorities re port that herds of wild horses ate still to be seen in certain parts of Western Mongolia and Northern Thibet. From time immemorial this country has been favorable to the growth of horses. At a very early date, savor aI thousands of years before Christ, the horse was taken westward. The Baby lonians used horses in their expedi tions. The cuneiform characters which are used to express the word horse mean literally the 4animal of the East." In Egypt the horse is not found depicted on tho monuments until about B. 0. 1600. In Nubia the horse was ap preciated and loved. In a hieroglj phio inscription the statement is made that when Piankhi, tbe Ethiopian invader of Egypt, had captured the stores and treasury of his foe, Nimroi, he went into the stables and finding that the horses had suffered from hunger, he burst into a rage and said: "I swear by my life, and by my beloved Ra, that to have kept my horses-hungry is more heinous in my sight than any other offense which thou hast com mitted against me.' The native land of the Arab horse includes the Arabian peninsula, the lands about the Tigris and Euphrates, and the Damascus district. All Arab horses are asserted to be descended from a fabulous mare called "Kuhailat of the old woaa.M New York Sun. Kailroa I Up the Jtiuj:r.u. The project to build a railroad to the top of the Jungfrna, 13,773 feet high, is likely t be carried out if the Swiss Government approves. This will be tho most ambitious scheme in railroad building ever undertaken. The promoters offr to spend $20,000 to build an observatory at the summit and man it if the Government will grant the concession. Chicago Her ald. Good Character Important. Besides the Jiappy satisfaction that a ele conscience and i;fHMl character brinir to ever heart, it has a commercial value that it U well to take into consideration. For instance. It. F. Johnson & Co., of Richmond, Va.. am adver tising in thin paper, and offer specially good business opiortuniti'a to menof character nnd staii'linv; in thrir r-ictiTe ruminuuitiM.Tb)' xvant parties to work ull or part of their time na may suit thtdr convenience. Taxcablc deposits of tin have been dlsoov red In Montana. Th La 4 lea. Tbe pleasant effect and perfect safety wttk rhich ladies may use the California liquid lax. ative. Syrup of Fitfs, under all oonditlona makee it their favorite remedy To get the true and genuine article, look for the name of the California Kig Syrup Co., printed near the tottom of the package. Moskonb have secured land and money ta establish a college at Lamonl, Iowa. Hall's Catarrh Car Is taken Internally. Prlee 7lo. Tim total wheat area this year U.M.480.CC3 acres, against 88,501,000 last year. Kari' ( nTr Root, tha groat blood purifier, rives fre-iineo and claariieas to the complex, ion and cures constipation, a cu.. U) cu., $L St. Paul's Catbedbal, London, is insured for 1475,000. EVERY MAN V 53, LK2 "1 lii - Vsf jrt aU Apt 7Xi4 possible by th? jmrroa &iitioo'wicteil much Information Illative to bwe, but verv runrij srivn a Camlet Ana.v. of every tbirtj; p-rtainir. to CourUhi. M"rr n 1 the irokictka sn 1 nnj o HeSt.hy FaUi; tozetber with VaUible llw aal i're Tiptioni. hxp.artsoa of lioUnteal XVacUoe, Corre-t u& of Ordiotry Merb. New JJltioo. itevitoi aal Ealar-! wit-i Cwaplmim Index. With UiM &.k in ttv . iKiose there i no exeae for not koowinj wht to 1o in an ar-rv,-y. ra't wait until yoa have iiitia in roar famii-r t'nr on nri-r, tan mi at oes ,or v.i Toiup-. u.l,y w iwse nAmim 01 any oewo f BOOK PUBLISHING HOUSE. Best Things to Eat " Poison lor th C?Utm. J. P. Brown accosted the reporter the other day with the question, Would you oeuere mat iinueve wm invaria- bly poison their youuj if the latter are placed. in captivity? We replied that we were somewhat Veptieal, and that we would want evi dence ou the matter. He said that he felt that way hirn- self, but stated that after the recent rainstorm his boy Bonnie captured two young linnets, and as soon as fair weather camo taey wero placed in a cage on tho porch. " In a short time the mother bird located them, but left only to return in a few minutes with something which she dropped into tho open mouth of one of tho little birds. She then flew away, and before an returned tho bird she had fed lay dead in tho-bottom of the caje. Prosently tho mother drepped something into tho mouth of the other captive and it perished as quickly as its companion. Colfax (Cl.) Sentinel. ASSIST 1SATUX1IS a little now and then, with a gentle, cleans ing laxative, thereby removing offending matter from the stom ach and liowels, and. toning up and Invigo rating vne uver ana I quickening its tardy actiou, ana you uiere by remove tbe cause of a multitude of dis tressing diseases, such as headaches, Indigss- lion, imiousnesa, uiu uiww, wum, m vwm elos, piles, fistulas and maladies too numerous to mention. If people would pay more attention to properly regulating the action of their bow sis, they would have less frequent occasion to call for their doctor's services to subdue attacks of dangerous diseases. That, of all known agenta to accomplish this purpose, Dr. Pierce's Pleasant i'elkU are unequalled, ia proven by the fact that once ?isod, they are always In favor. Their secondary effect U to keep the bowels open and regular, not to further constipate, as ia tho case with btbor pills. Hence, their great popularity with sufferers from habitual con stipation, piles and indigos tkm. W. L Douclas $ 3 S H O o aaut a Sma 5. CORDOVAN, 4-.3.P FlNECAlf&KWwSRSl 43.UP0UCE.3SOU3. LADIES 3 BesTD0601. , SENO FOR CATALOGUE W'L'DOUaLAO, BROCKTON, MASS. Tea ena save money by weavlsg the W. I.. Dau-rlne 63. OO Shec. TleeaBse, w ore tlo largrit tnsurctarrs of this gradscf of i la t 10 world, s&d guarantee laelf talus sjr itaojplaj tLs came asd rrtc on bottom, which trotrrt rou titliiit hlah rrlcaaa th UilddlemoJi 1 rc";. Our bor cuol cosmos work la ttrlt. r r.fttnr sad wc-Artsg qaslUtoa, WhTtbra sli evrywhre I lower prices far tea rlue gtvrn tbo tor otlirr mk. Tk bo i tUtuta. It jour de!er co&aot suj.pl j you. w i aictva aa4 moU who have weak taags or Asth 04, ahoaM ase Piso's Care for Coosa aiptloa. It has mmf4 !imft. ft has Betta)r eaoae. It is oot baa 10 tote. It Is ta-i oat eoafh srrasv eM auMTVhara. 5 s u HIS OWN D Mj J. Haal!n Aytrv, A. M n M. D. This is a mot ValuibU Book for the Household, tisachin? as it do the eiij.dutnguibe'i 8ympt.os 4 and Meant of ir-vntinx mch Ii easea, and the Himplwt Iliaites which will alleviate or cure. 508 PACES, PROFUSELY I1.LUSTKATE0. 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