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TALMAGE’S SERMON.
B»e Fifth Discourse of the Series
On The Marriage Ring.”
fife* Inbui'i Doty to the Wife — R*.
■possibility of the Marriage State—
Aate-Xoptlel Lot* Compered
f‘ with Pest-Nnptlal Ufe.
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Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage delivered the
fifth diacourae of the aeriea on “The Mar*
riage Ring,” before a highly interested
eongregation, and the hnabanda, present
sad prospective, were given an outline as
to their dntiee. The text was:
And Isaac went ont to meditate In the field
•tthe eventide; and be lifted up his eyes,
end eaw, and, beheld, the eamels were com
Ilf.—Gen seta xxlv.,«.
Following is the sermon in flnll:
A bridal pageant on the back of drome*
Ces t The oamel is called the ship of the
rt. Its twinging motion in the d is
tanne is suggestive of a vessel rising and
tailing with the billowt. Though awk
ward, how Imposing these creatures as
they move along, whether in ancient nr
modern times, sometimes carrying fonr
hundred or four thonsand travelers from
Bagdad to Aleppo, or from Bassora to
Damascus. In my text comes e caravan.
W» notice the noiseless step of the broad
toot, the velocity of motion, the gay ca
parison of saddle and girth and awning,
sheltering the riders from the sun; and the
hilarity of the mounted passengers; and
we cry out; “Who are they?” Well, Isaac
has been praying for a wife, and it is time
he had one, for he is forty years of age;
aad hie servant, directed by the Lord, has
made a selection of Rebekah: and with her
companions and her maidens she is on her
way to her new home, carrying with her
the blessings of all'her friends. Isaac is in
the Raids, meditating upon his proposed
passage from celibacy to monogamy. And
he sees a speck against the sky, then groups
of people, and after a while he finds
that the grandest earthly blessing
that ever comes to a man is approaching
with this gay caravan. The drivers cry
“Kneel!” to the camels, and they kneel,
and putting foot on the neck of the stoop •
Ing beast the bride dismounts and greets
the man who was as worthy of her as she
was worthy of him. “And Isaac went out
to meditate in the field at the eventide;
and he lifted up his eyes,and saw, and, be
hold, the camels were coming.” ,
In this fifth discourse on the >‘Marriage
Bing,” having spoken of the choice of a
life-time companion, I take It for granted,
Oman, that yonr marriage was divinely
arranged, and that the camels have ar
rived from the right direction, and at the
right time, bringing the one that was in
tended for yonr consort, a Rebekah and
not a Jezebel. I proceed to discourse as to
how you ought to treat your wife, and my
ambition is to tell you more plain truth
than you ever beard in any three-quarters
of an hour in all your life.
First of ali, I charge you realize your re
sponsibility in having taken her from the
custody £nd care and homestead in which
•he was once sheltered. What courage
you must have had, and what confidence
In yourself, to say to her practically: “I
will be to you more than your father and
mother, more than all the friends you ever
had or ever can have. Give up everything
and take me. I feel competent to see you
through life in safety. You are an
Immortal being, hut I am competent
to defend you and make yon hap
py. However bright and comfort
able a home you have now, and
though is one of the rooms is the arm
chair in which you rocked, and in the gar
ret is the cradle in which you were hushed,
and the trundle-bed in which you slept,
and in the sitting-room are the father and
mother who have got wrinkle-faced and
ztoop-shouldered and dim eye-sighted in
taking care of you, yet you will do better
to come with me.” I am amazed that any
of us ever had the sublimity of impudence
to ask such a transfer from a home assured
to a home conjectured and unbuilt.
I ou wouiu mins me a very asriug buu
hazardous adventurer if I should go down
bo one of the piers of the North river, and
at a time when there was a great lack of
•ea captains, and I should, with no knowl
edge of navigation, propose to take a
ateamer across'to Glasgow or Havre, and
aay: “All aboard! Haul in the planks
and swing out,” and passing out in the sea
plnnge through darkness and storm. If I
aucceeded in getting charge of one, that
would be the ship that would never be
heard of. Bat that is the boldness of every
(nan that proffers marriage. He says: “I
will navigate you through the storms, the
■^clones, the fogs of a lifetime. I will rim
„ , Ar of rocks and icebergs. I have no ex
perience and I have no seaport, but all
aboard for the voyage of a life-time! I
admit that there have been ten thousand
shipwrecks on this very route, but don’t
hesitate. Tut! Tut! There now! Don’t
ery! Brides must not cry at the wedding.”
V In response to this the woman, by her
potion, practically says: “I have but one
Ufa to live and I intrust it all to you. My
arm is weak, but I will depend on the
Strength of yours. I don’t know much of
the world, but I rely on your wisdom. I
put my body, my mind, my soul, my time,
my eternity, in yoor keeping. I make no
reserve, though mine is a name that sug
geets all that was honorable in my father,
and all that was good in my mother, and
all that was pleasant in my brothers and
sisters. I start with you on my journey
which shall not part except at the edge of
yonr grave or mine. Ruth, the Moabitess,
made no more thorough self-abnegation
than I make, when I take her tremendous
words, the pathos of which many cen
taries have not cooled:
“Entreat me not to leave thee, or to re
turn from following after thee; for whither
thou goesV I will go, and where thou
lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be
my people, and thy God my God. Where
thou diest, will I die, and there will I be
buried. The Lord do so to me and more
also, if ought but death part thee aud me.
“Side by side in life. Side by side in the
burying ground. Side by side in Heaven.
Before God and man, and with my im
mortal soul in the oath, I swear eternal
fidelity."
Now, my brother, how ought you to treat
her? Unless you are an ingrate infinite
you will treat her well. You will treat her
better than any one in the universe except
your God. Her name will have in it more
music than in all that Chopin and Bach
or Rhsinberger composed. Her eyes,
swollen with three weeks of night
watching over a child with scarlet
fever, will be to’ you beautiful as
• May morning. After the last rose petal
has dropped out of her cheek, after the last
feather of the raven’s wing has fallen from
her hair, after across her forehead and un
der her eyes and across her face there are
as many wrinkles as there are graves over
which she has wept, you will be able truth
fully to say, in the words of Solomon’s
•ong:
Behold, thou art fair, my love! Behold,
Shoo art fair!
And perhaps she may respond appro
priately, in the words that no one but the
Robert Burns could ever have
found pen or ink or heart or brain to writs:
John Anderson, my Jo John
We clsab the hill tbeglther;
^^fiasoay 0 • *>tv day, John,
We’re bad wr ana aaltbar.
How w« am totter down.^oha,
Bui band and hand we’ll go; -s
And sleep tberltber at the fob*,
John Anderson, my Jo.
If any one assail her good name yon wttl
hare hard work to control yottr temper,
and if yon should strike him down the stn
trill not he unpardonable. By as complete
a surrender as the unlrerse erer saw, ex
cept that of the Son of God for yoursalra
tlon and mine, she has a first mortgage on
your body. mind, and soul, and the mort
gaga Is foreclosed, and yon do not more
thoroughly own vour two eyes dr your
two hands than she owns you. The longer
the Journey Rehekah makes, and the great
er the risks of her expedition on the hacks
of the camels, the more thoroughly Is
Isaac bound to be kind and indulgent and
worthy.
Now, be honest and pay yonr debts. Yon
promised to make her happy. Are yon
making her happy? Yon are an honest
man In other things, and feel the Import
ance of keeping a contract. If yon hare
Induced her Into a conjugal partnership
nnder certain pledges of kindness and val
uable attention, and then have failed to
fulfill your word, you deserve to have a
suit brought against you for getting goods
under false pretense, and then you ought
to be mulcted in a large amount of dam
ages. Review now nil the fine, beantifnl,
complimentary, gracious and glorious
things vou promised her before marriage,
and reflect whether you hsve kept vour
faith. Do yon say: “Oh, that was all sen
timentalism and romance and a joke,” and '•
that “they all talk that way.”
Well, let that plan be tried on yourself!
Suppose 1 am interested in Western lands,
and 1 fill vour mind with roseate specula
tion, and I tell you that a city is alreadv
laid out on the farm that T propose to sell
you, and that a new railroad will run close
by and ha^re a depot for easv transporta- |
tion of the crops, and that eight or ten cap
italists are going to put up fine residences
close by. and that the climate is delicious,
and that the ground, high up. gives no
room for malaria, and that every dollar
planted will grow up into a bush bearing
ten or twentv dollars, and my speech glows
with enthusiasm nnt 1 vou rush off with me
to an attornev to have the deed drawn and |
themonev paid down and thabargain com- j
plated. You can hardlv sleep nights be
cause of the El Dorado, the Rlvsium, upon
which von are soon to enter. You give up
your home at the East, you bid good-bve
to your old neighbors and take the train,
and after many days’ journey, you arrivo
at a quiet depot from which you take a
wagon thirty miles through wilderness ]
and reach your new place. You see a man
seated on a wet log in the swamp and
shaking with his fifteenth attack of chills
and fever, and ask him who he is. Ho
says: “I am a real estate agent, having
In charge the property around here.” You
ask him where the new depot is. TTe tells ,
you that it has not yet been built, but no
doubt will be if the company get their bill
for their track through the next Legisla
ture. Yon ask him where the'new city is
laid out. He savs. with chatteriug teeth:
“If you will wait till this chill is off I will
show it to you on the map I have in ray
pocket.” You ask him where the capital
ists are going to build their fine houses,
and he says: “Somewhere along these
lowlands, out there by those woods, when
the water has been drained off.” That
night you sleep in the hut of the real estate
agent, and though you pray for everybody
else you do not pray for me. Being more
fortunate than nanny men who go out in
such clrcums'ances, you have money
enough to get back, and vou come to me,
and, out of breath in vour indignation,
yon sav, “You have swindled me out of
/everything. Wliat do vou mean in deceiv
ing me about that Western property!”
“ Oh,” I reply, “that was all right; that
was sentimentalism and romance and a
joke. That’s the wavthev all talk.”
But more excusable would I be in such
deception than you. O man. who, by glow
of words and personal magnetism, in
duced a womanly soul into surroundings
which you have taken no care to make at
tractive, so that she exchanged her fath
er’s house for the dismal swamp of mar
ried experience—treeless, flowerless, shel
terless. comfortless and godless. I would
not be half so much to blame in cheating
yon out of ^farm as you In cheating a
woman out ■ the happiness of a lifetime.
My bro^hef? do not get mad at what I
but honestly compare the promises you
made and see whether yon have kept
them. Some of vou spent every evening
of the week with vour betrothed before
marriage and since then you spend every
evening away, unless you have influenza
or some sickness on account of which the
doctor savs ycvi must not go out. You
used to fill your conversation with inter
jections of adulation, and now you think
it sounds silly to praise the one who ought
to be more attractive to you as the years
go by and life grows in severity of strug
gle and becomes more sa-red by the bap
tism of tears—tears over losses, tears over
graves. Compare the way some of you
used to come in the bouse in the evening,
when you were attempting the capture of
her affections, and the way some of yon
come into the bouse in the evening now.
Then what politeness, what distillation of
smiles, what graciousness, sweet as the
peach orchard In blo-som week!
Now some of yon come in and put your
hat on the rack and scowl,and say: ’“Lost
money to-day!” and you sit down at the
table and criticise the way the food is
cooked. You shove back before the others
are done eating, and snatch up the even
ing paper and read, oblivious of what
has been going on in that home all day.
The children are in awe before the do
mestic antocrat. Bubbling over with
fun, yet they must be quiet, and with
healthful curiosity, yet they must ask
no questions. The wife has had enough
annoyance in the nursery and parlor
and kitchen to fill her nerves with net
tles and spikes. As yon have provided
the money for food and wardrobe, you
feel you have done all required of you.
Toward the good cheer and the Intelli
gent improvement and tbe moral enter
tainment of that home, which at the
longest can last hut * a few years, you
are doing nothing. You seem to have
no realization of the fact that soon these
children will be grown up or in their sep
ulchers, and will be far removed from your
influence, and that the wife will soon end
her earthly mission, and that house will be
occupied by others, and you yourself will
be gone.
Gentlemen, fulfill your contracts. Chris
tian marriage is au affectfbnal bargain.
In heatheu lands a man wins his wife by
achievements. In some countries wives
are bought by the payment of so many
dollars, as so many cattle or sheep.
In one country the mau gets on a
horse and rides down where a j
group of women are standing, and !
seizes one of them by the hair, and lifts .
her struggling and resisting on his horse,
end if her brothers and friends do not
overtake her before she gets to the jungle
she is his lawful wife. In another land ;
the masculine candidate for marriage is
beaten by the club of tbe one whom he
would make bit bridge. If he cries out
under the pounding, he is rejected. If be I
receives the blows uncomplaingly, she is
his by right. Endurance and hravery and
skill decide the marriage in barbarous
lands, but Christian marriaga is a volun- |
tary bargalfc in which you promise pm- |
taction, support, companionship and lovs.
Bu«i»9M men !»•▼• •» 4»*lr fireproof
safe* • file Of papers oontntnlng their con
tracts, and eometimee they take them out
and rend them orer to tee what the party
•f the (Iret part and the party of the sec
ond part really bound themselres to do.
Different ministers of religion hare their
own peculiar forms of marriage ceremony,
bat If yon hare forgotten what you prom
ised at the altar of Wedlock, you had bet
ter buy or borro# art Bplscopal prayer
book, which contains ths substance of all
intelligent marriage ceremonies when it
sayt:
I take thee to be my wedded wife, to hara
and to hold from this day forward, for bet
ter or for worse, for richer or for poorer. In
sickness and In health, to lore and to eher
lah till death us do part, accordin: to liod's
holy ordinance, and thereto I pledge thee
my troth.
Would it not be a good idea to hare that
printed in tract fjrni and widely distrib
uted?
Too fact Is that many men are more rina
to everybody else’* wires than to their
own wires. They will let the wife carry a
heavy coal-scuttle up-stairs, and will at
one bound clear the width of a parlor to
pick up some other lady’s pocket handker
chief. There is an evil which I have seen
under the sun, and It is common.among
men. namely, husbands in flirtation. The
attention they ought to put upon their own
wives they bestow upon others. They
smile on them coyly and askance and with
a manner that seems to say: “I wish I was
free from that old drudge at home. What
an improvement yon would be on mv pres
ent surroundings?” And bouquets are
sent, and accidental meetings take place,
and late at night the man comes to his pro
sale home whistling and hilarious, and
wonders that the wife is jealous. There
are thousands of men who, while not posi
tively immoral, need radical correction of
their habits in this direction. It is mean
ness Immeasurable for a man by his be
havior to seem to say to his wife: “You
can’t help yourself, and I will go where I
please, and admire whom I please, and I
defy your criticism.”
Why did you not have that put is ths
bond. Oh, domestic Shylock? Why did you
not have It understood before you were
pronauuced husband and wife, that she
should have only a part of the dividend of
your affections, that when, as tune rolled
on and the cares of life had erased some of
the bright lines from her faco, and given
nnwieldiness to her form, you would have
the reserved right to, pay obeisance to
cheeks more rubicund and figure lit he and
more agile, and as you demanded the last
pound of patience and endurance <?n
her part, you could, with tha
emphasis of an Edwin Forrest or a
Macready, have tapped the eccentric mar
riage document and have said: “It’s In
the bond!” If this modern Rebekah bad
understood beforehand where she was
alighting, the would have ordered the
camel drivers to turn the caravan back
ward toward Padan-aram. Flirtation has
its origin either in dishonesty or licentious
ness. The married man who indulges in
it is either a fraud or a rake. However
high up in society such a one may be, and
however sought after, I would not give a
three-cent piece, though it had been three
times clipped, for the virtue of either the
masculine or feminine flirt.. •
The most worthy thing for the thousands
of married men is to go home and apolo
gize for past neglects, and brighten up
their old love. Take up the family Bible
and read the record of the marriage day.
Open the drawer of relics in the box
inside the drawer containing the trink
ets of your dead child. Take up the
pack of yellow-covered letters that wore
written before you became one. Rehearse
the scenes of Joy und sorrow in which you
have mingled. Put all these things as fuel
on the altar, and by a coal of sacred fire
rekindle the extinguished light. It was a
blast from hell that blew it out, and a gale
from Heaven will fan it into a blaze.
It pleases me greatly to hear the
unconverted and worldly husband say
about his wife, with no idea that
it will get to her ears: “There is the most
godly woman alive. Her goodness is a per
petual rebuke to my waywardness. Noth
ing on earth could ever induce her to do a
wrong thing. I hope the children will take
after her instead of after me. If there U
any Heaven at all, I am sure she will go
there.”
Aye, my brother, do you not think it
would be a wise and safe thing for you to
join her on the road to heaven?
You think you have a happy home
now, but what a home you would
have if you both were religious! What a
new sneredness it would give to your mar
ital relation, and what a new light it would
throw on the forehead of your children. In
sickness, what a comfort! In reverses ol
fortune, what a wealth! In death, what a
triumph! God meant you to be the high
priest of your household. Go home jo-day
and take the Bible on your lap, an^uathcr'
all your family yet living around y<w£ and
those not living will hear of it in a flash,
and as ministering spirits will hover
father and mother and children gone, and
all your celestial kindred. Then kneel
down, and if you can’t think of a prayer tc
offer, I will give you a prayer, namely:
"Lord God, I surrender to thee myself
and my beloved wife, and these dear chil
dren. For Christ’s sake forgive us all the
past and help us for all the future. We
have lived together here; may we live to
gether forever. Amen and amen!” Dear
me I what a stir it would make among your
best friends on earth and in heaven!
Joseph II., the Emperor, was so kmd
and so philanthropic that he excited ths
unbounded love of most of h.s subjects.
He abolished serfdom, established tolera
tion and lived in the happiness of his peo
ple. One day while on his way to Ostend
to declare it a free port, and while at the
bead o' a great procession, li3 saw a wom
an at the door of h?r cottage in dejection.
The Kmperor dismounted and asked the
cause of her grief. She said that her hus
band had gone to Ostend to see the Em
peror and had declined to take her with
him, for, as he was an alien, he could not
understand her loyal enthusiasm, arid that
it was the one great desire of her life t<
see the ruler for whose kindness and good
ness and greatness she had an unspeak
able admiration; and her disappointment
in not being able to go and see him was
simply unbearable. The Emperor Joseph
took from his pocket a box decorated with
diamonds surrounding a picture of himself
and presented it to her, and when
the picture revealed to whom she
was talking, she knelt in reverence and
clapped her hands in gludness before him.
The Emperor took the name of her hus
band and the probable place where he
might be found at Ostend, and had him
imprisoned for the three days of the
Emperor’s visit, so that the husband re
turning home found that the wife had seen
the Emperor while he had not seen him.
In many families of this earth the wife,
through the convertiug grace of God,
hat teen the “King in his beauty,” and he
has conferred upon her the pearl of
great price, while the husband is an “alien
from the covenant of promise, without God
and without hope in the world,” and im
prisoned in worldlineas and sin. Ob, that
they might arm in arm go this day and
see Him who is not only greater and love
lier than any Joseph of earthly domin
ion, but “high over all, in eArth and air
anT sky.” His touch is life. His voice is
music. His smile is heaven.
—The Good Templars of Vallejo,
Cni, are building au Orphans' Home
MAQIC BY ELECTRICITY.
Bow “ affoted Fleet rlclaa InrprlMd and
'■•rtartled HI* Friends.
(K. T.Tjctl Philadelphia Preps. |
Ur. Wm. Har mar is Inventor Edison'*
chief electrician. He celebrated some of
hi. recent successes In his profession on
New Year’s Eva by giving an electric din
ner to twenty of hit classmates and
friends. Mr. Hanmer’s pretty little home
In Jersey City is an electric machine in
itself. A stranger can't walk across the
threshold without starting a burglar
alarm, ringing bells or lighting the gas in
ths hall. The walls are tilled with a net
work of wires and buttons, and up-stairs
there is a bed-room that would be worth a
fortune to a lasy man. When the visitor
puts hi* head on ths pillow the gas goes
out; touch a button on the side of the bed.
and it is lit again; fix an alarm attach
ment on the side, and the sleeper will be
awoke when he wants to by a gong.
The guests walked around on tip-toa
when they entered on Thursday night.
When each new-comer tried to sit down
the chair either doulded up or started for
the door, propelled by some uuseen agency.
If he touched a sofa the banjo on the op
posite wall began to play, and if he took
another seat the movement put out the
lights and queer phosphorescent figures
came up. Arter tne guests uaa aajournea i
to the dining-room, one of the number re
cruited courage enough to take a seat at •
table loaded withthe usual delicacies. The
others followed. At the head a figure of
Jupiter presided, and at a signal from the
host the great god began to make an ad
dress of welcome (phonographically). He
wore electric lights for shirt studs, * bibul
ous red light for a nose, and his green eyee
had the snap of lightning in them, while
blue bolts started from bis side-pockete
continuously. The table seemed bewitched.
Reach for an innocent-looking sandwich,
and the motion rang a bell on the
inside where the meat ought to be; pour a
glass o< lemonade, and it was incandescent
and full of fire as It touched the lips; put a
spoon into a dish of cream, and sparks of
red and green flame arose; try to pick a
grape, and an electric light flashed from
the stem that it was pulled from; but every
thing was good, and the coffee was cooked
by electricity.
When the little clock tinkled out twelve,
ushering in-the new year, pandemonium
seemed to have intruded into the quiet
dining-room. Two little cannons rolled in
through the door, apparently unaided. A
gong sounded under every chair; thelight*
went out, and the place was in au uproar
that lasted several minutes ami worked
the guests up to such a nervous state that
they left the house an hour afterward,
feeling that somehow they had been living
a half a century ahead of the times.
-H>
A QueerfSteyy of » Cold Wave.
ITallahasseelFla) Tallahassean ]
E.W. Clark had forty-two alligators,
ranging front one te three feet tn length,
iu a shallow pool back of his store. When
the cold wave came the pool froze solid
and t'ue alligators were imbedded in the
ice four four days. Every one who saw
the reptiles pronounced them deader than
Heetnr, but when the ice thawed they be
gan to ■■hfYT_;igmi of life, and yesterday
all but thi-eJhawled out as gay as larks.
The others iKyspate to life next summer.
ijlos tt^teve Money,
and we might ilwS’ lny—time and pain as
well, in our advice to good housekeepers
and ladies generally. The great necessity
existing always to have a perfectly safe
remedy convenient for the relief and prompt
cure of tbo ailments poculiar to woman
functional irregularity, constant pains, and
all the symptoms attendant upon uterine
disorders—induces us to recommend strong
ly and unqualifiedly Dr. Fierco’s “Favorite
frescription”—woman's best friend. It will
save money.
Courtship is not run by the rule of three.
—Merchant Traveler.
Loss of Flesh and Strength,
with poor appetite, and perhaps slight
cough in morning, or on first lyingdown at
night, should be looked to in time. Persons
afflicted with consumption are proverbially
unconscious of their real state. Most cases
commence with-disordered liver, leading to
bad digestion and imperfect assimilation of
food—hence tlio emaciation, or wasting of
the flesh. It is a form of scrofulous disease,
and is curable bv tho use obthat greatest of
all blood-cleanse g, anti-irflious and invig
orating compounds, known as Dr. Pierce a
“ Golden Medical Discovery.”
“Mamma, why is .papa bild?” “I am
his fourth wife, darling.”
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It Isn’t much of a dog that can’t make •
man go mad by biting him.— The Judge.
The value of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, in
colds and coughs, can not be overestimated.
A lame excuse—The apology of a ene
legged man.
Best, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso’s
Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. 50a
“Sure, an’ wouldn’t wan o’ tliim bear
skins make a foino buffalo robe)”—.V. Y.
Independent. _ _
A nooHors and healthy growth of hairls
maintained by using Hall's Hair Reuewer.
A hickory club is very good lumber to
floor a man with.—Merchant Traveler.
Many imitators, but no equal, has Dr.
Sage’s Catarrh Remedy.
Tpe reputation of the transgressor, like
his way, is hard.—Lowell Citizen.
Pi re’s Tooth ache Dnors cure in 1 minute, 2K«
Glenn't Sulphur Snap heals and beaut ifles. 25o.
LiERU.VH Conn Bemover kills Corns k Bunion*
Which U tho most ancient of the tree*?
The eider tree.
WOM N
llcedlig renewed »frca(tli. er wfc« ••Ner free*
la firm (tie* peculiar to their *ex, eheaU try
THB
BEST TONIC ‘
SNh&SSSKI
It doee not l.lecken th. toetE eeuse Imadsohs,«
pfif'iilff c**uetTpetJO» nII ofJbf iroa awiiieiMi w,
iSH&’iSiS&fiEd
other medicine 1 o»er
Mum Mart E Doasos, cur, (Mv nnd Hamilton
Bts.NuhTiUe.Tonuevei i kW*
Iron Bitter* f>>r finuhWMkuwi with freetbeoe
fit. I cheerfulij recommend it
sas# sr
•Ito wxauuuuu, tlfc HO.TJII***. *»•
Do You Know
n*» the ret? beet Mood perrter «*l *** «*•'
etne I* Hood’l Sanepsrillm _ __. ,
That It citn acfoful*. a*lt rheum, hoil*. pimple*.
Pod all other dlaeaaea of the Mood.
1 bat It cure* blllouanea*. Indlgeatton. flyepeiwM.
headache, and kidney and llrer complaint*.
That the body le now more eoacepUble to hen»«
from medicine than at any othar aeaaon.
“I waa troubled with dlaeaee of the kidney* «t*
yean, and waa urged to try Hood'l Pan*barilla. Aft
er taking half a bottle I felt greatly relleyed. my appe
tite baa nerer been *o good, and 1 alerpaoundly."
O. Cohodo*. Burlington,Vi.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
-Tor yean I anffered f om Indlgeatlon. being eery
reatlraa In lb* night, and In the morning 1 would get
np with a Tery tired feeling. After taking only part
of a bottle of Hood'l Sarsaparilla 1 alcpt well and felt
refreehed on waking. Hood'l Saraaparlll* ba* don*
me more good than anything elae.”
Mas H. 1). wi.vurs, Jackeoa Mich.
That to etefeorethdt thera
It nothin* eflael to Bood'e BraeaperfllA _ _
Tn»t It It ■ woedefful tWlcIM *af (ntarla* Mi
•btrpralni tht ippttlti.
ThAt ft purlfle*. tHaIIim, »od fiiriiW lift M®o4
■od 0tr«nr' hf n* the whole system
That deity* ere dangerowt-npw la the time to Uhd
Hood* Skrtaperflla.
“I can recommend Hood’* Straaptffila to til ae e
etfe. rare medlelde. It cured mu of terrible betd
tebce. end cured my little *1rl of tOelltora In herneck
which had been lanced twice.’' hw f. hi l-»o.
Gate* Are., Brooklyn, N. T. * 1—-1
Purifies the Blood
"I bare been takln* Hood * SereeperlUa for about
three month*. Before that time my blood waa in a
terrible eondltlon. After using It for about one mouth
my appetite waa better end my general health greatly
Implored. Tor a medicine e. good ee Hoodi Beraapa
rllla too much can not be .aid.- Ie L. Lia.rr, Bur
bae Beute, Futnem, Conn.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by alt drugxlata. lit all for «S. Made only
by 0. 1. MOOD A CO.. Apothecaries Lowell. Maas
100 Doses One Dollai*
Sold by ill drn**1»t». II: »1* for IS. Midi only by
c. J. HOOD * CO.. Apothecirlee, Lowell. Miee.
100 Dotes One Dollar
DROPSY
■^TREATED FREE. ■ |
DU. H. H. OrllEEtr <•)
Specialist* for Eleven Veare Paet,
Have treated Propnv and It. complication, with the
most wonderful .ucces.tu.c vegetable remedies, en
tirely Uarmleaa Remove all symptom, of drop«y In
eight totwenty days. , ...
Cure paUtcita pronounced nopeleaf by the beat ox
PVAlm*the first dose the symptom, rapidly disappear.
And In t»*n day* at loast two-thirds or All symptoms ara
r*Homo may cry humbug without knowing anything
About It. Remember, It doe* not coat von anything to
realize the merit a of our treatment for yourself, m
ten days the difficulty of breathing la relieved, the
pulse regular, the urinary organs made to discharge
their full duty, sleep 1* restored, the swelling all or
nearly gone, the strength Increased, and appetite made
good. IVe are constantly wiring cates of lontf sfund
ing, cases that have been tapped a number of times,
and tin*, patient declared unable to live a week. Give
full history irf case. Name sex. how long afflicted,
how badly swollen and where, are tow els cost lvo, have
legs bursted aul dripped water, bend for free pain- ,
phlet, rontalning testimonials, questions, etc. .
Ten days* treatment furnished free by mail. —*>sx
Epilepsy iflto positively cured.
If yeu oruer u lal, semt IQ cents lu stamps to pay
postage. if. u. GREEK A SONS, M. Da.,
So flouea Avenue, AtlWnta, tta, ;
H0W10 US£" Cata r r H
CREAM BALM-'
Place a particle of the
Balm Into each nostril
and draw strong
reatbs through the
nose. It will be ab
sorbed and begin Its
work of cleansing and
healing the diseased
membrane. It allaya
Inflammation and pre
vents fresh Colds In the
Head
NOT i LIQUID or SNUFF. _!
A few applications re- C UT\iF Sf
;ieve. A through treat- - * • * w n
ment will cure. Agreeable to use. 8end for circular.
1II. j}^ Owe,, »■ T.
HENDERSON’S
$2.60 A PAIR
Goat and Kid Button.
The universal favpr with which our I.ABIES’
OSAT BETTOSr (Stamped SA50 on tho sole;) ha.
tern roeeftved. ha* Induced u* to make one of Kid
ifao ThW .hoeS“e now betag msde In large quanti
ties ami are for sale In nearly every town in the West.
We guarantee them superior lu quality and work
manship to any offered to the public. They are
stitched with the best silk, nave sol.d sole leather
counters ami Inner-soles, anilarcmwloon fourwMihs.
Please remember, (.oat will altvay. outwear Kid.
TST THEM. For sale by nlLdealcr,.
C. H. BEVDEKSON & CO., Chicago,
w We arc the proprietors and sole manufacturer,
of tTic Famous Hed School Hottso Shoes for Bov* and
Girl.. Sendfor a set of our t ancy School hards.
■ Plan’s Remedy for Catarrh Is the Ujhy
Beat, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest. gg«
TAIao good Ibr Cold In the Head,
Headache, Hay Fever, Ac. 80 cat*. |y|
M. W. PmriTAM
Wayne, Du Pace Co., DUnatl,
HAS IMPORTED FROM FRANCE
Perekere* Hortf* tbIiMI at $8,600,404.
wklt-k Ipclum about
70 PER CENT OF ALL HORSES
WhoaS purity of blood Is established br pedifrees re
corded In the Pershf ron Stud Rook of Francs, tlie only
•tad Book sTsr published In that country.
EVEN IMPONTEO TO AMERICA.
STOCK ON HANOI
140
imported Brood larei
(1200
Imported Stallions,
Old enough for
•onricc,
126 COLT*
Two year* old and
younger.
Recognising the prin
table accepted by all IntellU
gent breeder* thi.t. how
ever w#ll bred animnla may be
. . . . w/d to be.IT their pedigrees are not
recorded, they should Be valmd only aa gmdea. I will
aell all Imported »d<vic at grade prices when 1 cannot
furnlah with tha animal sold, pedigree verified by tha
original French certificate of Ira number, and record la
tha Pei*eheron Stud Book of France. lOA-page Iliac
tratedI Catvtogue sent free Wayne, Ilia., la 35 mile*
weat of Chicago, on tha Chicago A North-Western Rf.
THE SEVEN STAGES OF MAN
ALL BEQUIRE AT SOME ACE
TAYLOR'S CHEROKEE REMEDY of Sweet Gum end Mullein.
^ Hlfihl i
TTH STAOE-tOXSl M PTIOX.
Dr. QulU'.-an, the leading physician on Long And
Bronchial troubles, of Great Britain*. recomine-'da
Mullein at preferable to Cod L ver Oil In Consump
tion. „
The Sweet Onm from a tree of the some name grow*
Ingin the South, combined with a tea made from the
Mullein plant oftheuld Helds*. For sale by all drug
gists atrents and 81 OOper battle.
WAXTUC A. T lYLOU, Atlanta, Oa.
No Rope to Cut Oft Horses’ Manes.
Celebrated "Etl.lPHE" HAI.T
KK ud BRIDI.E Combined,
can not be slipped by any borne. Bam
nle Halter to any part eft ho V.».
free, on receipt of »1. Bold by all
Saddlery, Hardware and Harness
Dealers. Special dlacount to the1
Trade. OT Send for Price-List,
j.c. Lioutuol'sb, Rochester, >.\
THE SILVER QUESTION.
Con grew Is crazy considering colimge. but If it
would save lives would recommend 1>R. WM.
HALL’S BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS.
More lives have been saved with It than wcreU>‘t
during the late war, an 1 for Colds, Coughs and Con
sumption no medicine stand* the test better l m
no WM M Af.I.'S RAL8AM. *
V I.T9T ev VTSCAm •
Always cubasls sy tmora
„ MEXICAN |
MUSTANG
UNONT. I
' IT mil FLU*.
ftbehetatisa,,
Baras and asalda.
Heists Bad Sited,
Cats aad Braises,
Sprains & Stitches,
Ceatracted HI ancles,
Stiff Joints,
Backache,
■raptIons, V
Frost Bites,
_ #.
>#f union.
Hcr*r«fc„, ^
Hmm »»4 OlllB
Bearla, ( racks, -
Berew Worm, Unk,
Fool Hot, Hoof AU,
Ua«,Mi< S'
Hwlaey, FoooAoro,
Manila Btralao,
Bore Feel,
Stlffneoe, . ,1
u»tntwu«i, auu ..wry Danoraomana .
For (aural u.o In ramlly, .tabU and itockTard.lt U >■'
TBI BERT OV ALL
LINIMENTS
V- —-'-t - •■»•. \
Scrofula of Lungs:
I am now 49 year* old, and have MfftfM for tbe Iaal ;
fifteen year* with a lnng trouble. 1 hara spent thou,
•and* of dollar# to arrest the march of tffte diseases
but temporary relief was all that I obtained. 1 wan
unfit for any manual labor for aeveral years. A friend
strongly recommended the use of Swift’s Specific (9, j
9. §.)« elalrnlnf that he himself had been greatly
benefited by Hs nee In acme 1 un* troubles. I resolved
to try It. The results are remarkable. My cough haa
left me, my strength bps returned, and 1 weigb alxty
founds more than I ever did In my life. It baa heen
fiiree years since I stopped the fac of the rrrodlclne,
but I have had no return of the disease, and there art
no pains or weakness felt In my lunfff. Idotnc hard
eat kind of work. T. J. Hot*.
Montgomery, Ala., .Jane 25.1«5.
Swift’s Specific is entirely vegetable. Tregtlse on
Blood and Skin f)i*rasB| mailed free.
Thk Swift Smcifio Co*, Drawer 3, Atlanta, Oa., Of
157 W.M Sf reel. N. V.
©r FALLTSO iicSSK'M a Ilfs long study. I warrhabtf
remedy to cut* the worst rases Because cthert hevs
foiled is no reason Ibr not now receiving a cure Bend as
onoe for a treatise and a Free BwtUojof my
remedy. Give Express and Poet Chbee. It east# yon
"*hlal!SZX!: Z o! k>.rrt
m MATRIMONIAL.
Kachlsauc contains over A*' advertleenb at#
Of partle. wishing to marry. Moody'. Book on Upmi
making. Tailor 8y«tem. and llouhlc Tracing Wheel, a*
premium. to 'adk*. Mail'd for 10 nnw
TRI HATIIMOslAL, tloelunall, Ohla.
DTKE’8 BEARD ELIXIR
— - - “ | Eatra Mi.a«gth S^». Baca. X«
f W.H «... .» •» fcrtcH fn*m
r mm rtf. »><k dT.-liaaa ••■*•* Sad P«*
P.M T. rt. t fc. V at*. a».a.F*»o mW.
LSmith »ff Co., Palatine, Uk.
Sni niCDCKEWLAWSiOmcerV pay from
ULlfICnO - l>c,«-rt«r* reliev
ed : Pensions mid lucres! w; experience tu ydsrsi
success or no fee Write clrc .lart and hRi.
A. W. McCOKMlCK A SON. Clnclusati. Ohio.
m A m m aivr ff> An sett's Man or Woman in
111 Aim I t "^county to aril our Roods Salary $l£
Uf U |A 1 prr laotbami hxptiibCS t xpriisrs in »<W
■■ ■ • Tanrr. Canvassing outfit FRRK! Particular#
V W free. Mtaodard Silver-warn Co. Boston. Maas.
|||%||r STUDY. Book-keeping nurtnoss
nUSIIC Forms, Penmanship, Arithmetic, W»ort
baud, etc., thoroughly taught bv mall. Circulars free*
lit M1NYM* tOLLFOK, Buffalo, N. Y. ,
Treated and cured without the knife.
Book on treatment sent free. Address
F. L. POND, M.1)., Aurora, Kane Co.,llL
Grand Extra Lame Scrap Pictures
l&c. M.C. llurkel, 479 Nelson Ave., Jersey CUy, M. J.
AnrnA SfOXTTT. Agents Wnnted. S# hj
\/nil se'llngartlcleslntlic world. 1 sample FRKK.
V4uU Address JAY itltoNSON, Iutmu. Mica.
yine blooded cattle, aheep. hogs, poultry.
I It** *i. docs tnraale. Catalogue* wllh 1 "k> engrav
ing., fr;“ N. 1>. bOY’EIi A CO.. Coateavlba, Pa.
"OtTk.. r. iqtq ~
ffllKK WIUTIXO TO ADYKRTI8FRS
plc.ae any you as* the AdT.rtls.ment la
this paper. Advertisers like to know
when and where their .dv.rtis.ai.ula *r#
pey lug beat.
T XX 23
Useless Doctors!
In vain, physicians came, with subtle skill.
And tried, in turn, prescription, lotion, pill;
With saddened looks they viewed her furry
[tongue.
In solemn sllenoo stethoscoped each lung;
From moulting head to gout distorted too,
They searched, then said, "Poor woman, ’tis
[no go "I
s
Mrs. F. Oats, of Shumtcav, 7B.. writes: “ When
I had used Dr. Pierce's 'Favorite Prescription’
one week, I could walk all over the door-yard,
and I could get into a wagon and ride two miles
to see my neighbors. I had not been able to walk
out in the door-yard for six months. After using
the * Favorite Prescription ’ two weeks, I rode in a wagon ten
miles; ray neighbors were all surprised to see me up and going
about and helping to do my housework, after doc toy lug
with thirteen of the best physicians we could get
~and the last one told my husband that I would never be able
to do my housework any more. I am thankful to my God that
I wrote to you. for I had suffered from ‘Female Weakness' until
I had almost given up in despair.”
Mrs. F. K. Wilcox, FVirwdsMp, N. TU writes:
lFRRIR'1 E “For five or six years I had been badly troubled
i Liiiiiuek wjt|j femaie weakness and terrible pains across
Dllil the small of my back and pit of the stomach.
lAM. Three bottles of Dr. Pierce’s ’Favorite Prescrlp
tion' acted like a charm, and cured me com
nlnfalv mv invat. inv "
Rev. Sid net C. Davis, Qalien, Miehignn, writes:
“ I wish, in this letter, to express my gratitude for
Mrs. Davis and myself for the great good which
has been accomplished tn her case by the use ol
your proprietary medicine®. When she began
wmmmmmmmmmmma to take them, in January last, she could not en
dure the least jar, could walk but a very few 6teps at a time, ana
could stay up only about thirty minutes at a time. Now ale no*
only sits up almost tho entire day, but can walk around, call on
her neighbor®, two and three blocks away, and not feel any
injurious effect® at all. When we consider that she had kept her
bed the greater part of the time foil i'
ll.. teen months, and would lose repeatedly th#
UFO-FAST advance she had made, her progess no1*
_ . ran i marvelous. We had almost lost confidence
Pod Mnym in medical practitioners, and advertiacd renre
lUli mUHIno. dies, but have found in your I>r. Pierce®
mmmmd ♦ pftVorite Prescription * and 4 Pellets the
properties needed, and which we believe will bring about a
complete and final recovery.”
TREATING THE WRONG DISEASE.
Many times women call upon their family physicians, one with dyspepsia, another with palpitation, another with bscksche. 0^
nervousness, another with pain here and there, and in this way they ail present alike to themselves and their easy-going and indifftreWI
doctor separate and distinct diseases, for which heprcscribes his pills and potions, assuming them to be such, when,1,1 reaH*T;
all symptoms caused by some uterine disorder. While the physician is ignorant of the cause of suffering, he encourages his P™ftioe
until large bills arc made, when the suffering patient is no better, but probably worse for the delay, treatment, and other oorapltostiens
made A proper medicine directed to the cause would perhaps have entirely removed tho disease, thereby instituting comfort instead
or proiongeu misery.
« Female Weiknni” Cored.—Mrs. Sarah
MnniDRS A. Lovei.v, Grtcnfckl. Adair Co.. Iowa, writes:
uuuiuno K y pIEBCEi m. D. Dear Sir—" Having been til
Ci II a number of years, and having tried in vain almost
■ Alla every advertised remedy, as well as having paid
nearly a hundred dollars to our local physicians,
without bcneflt, I was Anally induced to consult you. You ad
vised me to seud for your medicines I accordingly sent for your
’Medical Adviser,’six Iiottles of your * Golden-Medical Discovery,’
six of your * Favorite Prescription,’ and six vtais ©f your * Pleasant
PurgatirrPellet*.' When I ttrst began using these I could not
stand on ftty feet. In ninety days I could walk a mile, and do
light housework; whilst in six months I was completely cured,
and my health has remained perfect ever since. I recommend
you and your medicines wherever I go and loan your ‘Ad
viser’ to my friends. Two of our most prominent pbysieians
who have read your great work ‘The People's Common Sense
Medical Adviser, pronounce it ttte best family doctor book they
have ever seen.”
Mrs. Carouhk Drafts, comer Duke andArffyle
Streets, Halifax, H. 8., write*: “ Dr. R. V. Pierce,
I thank God, and thank you a thousand times,
for the relief that your valuable medicines, the
’ Favorite Prescription ’ and * Pellets' have given
me. I am perfectly cured of a chronic sickness
that had troubled mo for years. How my heart Is overflowed with
Joy and gratitude towards you, my tongue van never express.
7rr“m Mrs. V. H. pktwson, of Lockport, N. Y„ had
III RlIM suffered for three years from • female weak
MLL I1VI1 uega '• was greatly emaciated and all run down
flfllllU ** as slie expressed it, and Dr. Pierce’s ” Favorite
UOWN. Prescription ” and •* Golden Medical Discovery ’’
awlwwJ promptly cured her, as they have thousands of
similar eases.
Mrs. E. F. MoftOAN, of Newcastle, Lincoln (a..
Maine, says: “Five years ago I was * dreadful
sufferer from uterine troubles. llaviuy ex
hausted the skill of three physicians, X was com
pletely discouraged, and so weak I could with
difficulty cross the room alone. I began taking
Dr. Pieroe’s ‘Favorite Prescription’ and using the local treat
mcnt recommended in his ‘Common Sense Medical Adviser.
X commenced to improve at once. In three months I was per
fectly cured, and have had no trouble since. X wrote atetterto
mv family paper, briefly mentioning how my health had been
restored, and offering to send the fulf particulars to any one writ
ing me for them, and inclosing a stamped envelope far reply. I
have received over four hundred letters. In reply, I have de
scribed my case and the treatment used, and have earnestly
advised them to ‘do likewise.’ From a great many 1 have re
ceived second letters of thanks, stating that they had commenced
the use of ‘Favorite XYcscription,’ had sent the #1-50 required for
the ‘Medical Adviser,’ and had applied the jocal treatment so fully
and plainly laid dbwn therein, ana were much better already.
Mrs. Henry Patterson, of New Fork City,
writes: “I had been under an emtnent phy
sician's care for eight months for what be
caked ‘spinal disease.’ I became worse during
all this time, when, chancing to see a copy of
Dr. Pierre 's Medical Adviser at the residence
of a friend, I read that part devoted to ‘Woman and her .
Diseases.' I soon became ^convinced that my disease was m
uterine affection, which, as you say, caused syniuamctie tack-*
ache, inward fever, nervousness, and general debility. I com
menced the use of Dr. fierce's ‘ Favorite Prescription and
‘Golden Medical DlscoveryXirolying also the local treatment
which ho recommends In the Adviser, and in three months 1
was well and strong."
OVER-WORKED WOMEW.
For “ worn-out," “ run-down ’’ debilitated achooi teacher*, milliners, dress-makers, general housekeepers, and over-worked women
generally. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is the best of all restorative tonics. _
*-Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is not a “Cure-all,” but admirably fulfills a singleness of purpose, bring
a most potent Specific forall those Chronic Weaknesses and Diseases peculiar to ""““•J'“ * powerful,
irencMil a* well asuterine. tonic and nervine, and imparts vigor and strength to the whole system.
*^Tpromptly cures nausea and weakness of stomach indigestion, bkiaung. «J15*,tions £ *’1®^“?'™?“® PJJu
trition (tehilftv and sleenlessness. In either sex. " Favorite Prescription is sold by druggists under oor poei
tratuim debiU^and ®*fP*gg*~£ eeTwntpper around bottle, trice Reduced to $1.00-per Bottle,
or tlx Bottle# for $5.00.
gug ■¥ IHIfil in | inY should send for “The People’sOounnou Sense Medical Adviser,” ta whlch ovcr flfty pag**
EfEHT IWfMUPtWT ttre dtfvouxl to the consideration ofdlseaees peculiar to women.wit h
ous wood-cuts and colored plate*. TTwill be sent, post-paid, to any'addreasVoF $ 1.50. A large JPSSSiSi’JiSiS*
Women, profusely 11 lustra ted wig, colored plates and numerous wood-cuts, will be sent for ten cents In postage stamps. Address,
WORLD’S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. No. Ml Msia Street, MTFAM. N. Y*