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TALMAGE’S SERMON.
▲ Qrooting to the Christians of
the Eternal City.
The Ttrooktyn r»«tnr. I.Ike St. Tael of
01*1, Visits the Christian* at Koine,
Carrying Them Words of ^
Oood Cheer,
The following is the discourse on
Kev. T. DeWitt Talmagc’s programme
for delivery at Rome, which is predicat
ed on the follow text:
I must also see Rome.—Art* six., iL
Here is Paul's itinerary. He was a
traveling or circuit preacher. He had
been moblied and insulted, and tho
more good ho did the worse the world
treated him. Hut he went right on.
Now he proposes to go to Jerusalem,
and says: “After that I must also see
Horae.” Why did ho want to visit
this wonderful city in which I am to-day
permitted to stand? “To preach the
tlospel,” you answer. No doubt of it;
but thcro were other reasons why he
wanted to see Rome. A man of Paul’s
Intelligence and classic taste had fifty
othor reasons for wanting to see it.
Your Colosseum was at that time in
process of erection, and he wanted to
itee it. The Forum was even then an
old structure, and the eloquent apostle
wanted to seo that building in which
eloquence had so often thundered and
wept. Over the Appian Way the tri
umphal processions had already
marched for hundreds of years, and he
wanted to see that. The Temple
of Saturn was already an antiquity,
and ho wanted to see that. The ar
chitecture of the World-renowned city,
he wanted to see that. Tho places as
sociated with tho triumphs, tho cruel
ties, tho disasters, the wars, the mili
tary genius, tho poetio and the rhe
torical famo of this great city, he
wanted to seo them. A roan like Paul,
so many sided, so sympathetic, so emo
tional, so full of analogy, could not have
t»een indifferent to the antiquities and
the splendors which move every rightly
organized human being. And with what
thrill of interest ho walkod these
streets, those only who for the first time
like ourselves enter Rome can imagine.
If the inhabitants of all Christendom
ivero gathered into one plain, and it
were put to them which two cities they
would above all others wish to see, the
vast majority of them would vote Jeru
salem and Rome. So we can under
stand something of tho record of my
text and its surroundings when it says.
Paul purposed in the spirit when he had
passed through Macedonia and Achaia
to go to Jerusalem, saying: “After that
I must also see Romo."
As some of you are aware, with my
family, and only for the purpose of what
we can learn and the good wo can get, I
am on the way to Palestine. Since leav
ing Brooklyn, N. Y.t this is the first
placo w6 have stopped. Intermediate
cities are attractive, but we have visited
them in other years, and wo hastened
on, for I said before starting that while
I was going to see Jerusalem I must also
see Rome. Why do I want to see it?
Because I want,by visiting regions asso
ciated with the great apostle, to sec tho
Gentiles,to have my faith in Christianity
confirmed. There are those who will go
through large expenditure to have their
faith weakened. In my native land I
have known persons of very limited
means to pay fifty cents or a dollar to
hear a lecturer prove that our Christian
religion is a myth, a dream, a cheat, a
lie. On the contrary, I will give tho
thousands of dollars that this journey of
my family will cost to have additional
evidence that our Christian religion is
an authenticated grandeur, a solemn, a
joyous, a rapturous, a stupendous, a
magnificent fact.
ISo I want to seo Rome. I want you
to show mo the places connected with
apostolic ministry. I have heard that
in your city and amid its surroundings
apostles suffered and died for Christ’s
sako. My common sense tells me that
people do not die for tho sako of a false
hood. They may practice a deception
for tho purpose of gain, but put tho
sword to their heart, or arrange tho hal
ter around their neck, or kindle a fire
around their feet, and they would say
my life is worth more than any thing 1
can gain by losing it. I hear you have
in this city Paul's dungeon. Show it to
me. I must Seo Rome also. Whilo I am
interested in this city because of her citi
zens who are mighty in history or virtue,
vice or talents, Ilomulas. and Caligu
la, arid Cincinnatus, and Vespasian.ar.d
Coriolanus, and Brutus, and a hundred
others whoso names aro bright wfith an
exceeding brightness, or black with tho
deepest dye, most of all am I interested
in this city because the preacher of Mars
Hill, and defier of Agrippa, and the hero
of the shipwrecked vessel in tho break
ers of Molita, and tho man who held
higher than any one that the world ever
saw the torch of Resurrection, lived
and preached and was massacred
here. Show me every place connected
with his memory. I must also see
Rome.
Jsut my text suggests tnat in t aui
there was the inquisitive and curious
spirit. Had my text only meant that he
wanted to preach here, he would have
said so. Indeed, in another place, ho
declared: “I am ready to preach the
gospel to you who are at Romo also.”
liut my text suggests a sight-seeing.
This man who had been under Dr. Gam
aliel had no lack of phraseology, and
was used to saying what he meant, and
he said: “I must also see Rome.”
There is Bueh a thing as Christian curi
osity. Paul had it r nd some of us have
it. About other people’s business I have
no curiosity. About all that can con
firm my'faith in the Christian religion
and the world’s salvation and the soul’s
future happiness I am full of an all-ab
sorbing, all-compeling curiosity. Paul
had a great curiosity about the next
world, and so have we. I hope some
day, by the grace of God, to go over and
see for myself; but not now. No well
man, no prospered man, 1 think, wants
to go now. Rut the time will come, I
think, when 1 shall go over. I want to
see what they do there, and I want to
see how they do it. I do not want to be
looking through the gates ajar forever.
I want them to swing right open. There
are ten thousand things I want ex
plained—about you, about myself, about
the government of this world, about
God, about every thing. We start in a
plain path of what we know and in a
minute come up against a high wall of
what we do not know.
I wonder how it looks over there.
Somebody tells me It is like a paved
city—paved with gold; and another man
fells me it is like a fountain, and it is
like * tree, and it is like a triumphal
procession; and the next man I meet
tells me it is all figurative. I really
want to know, after the body is resur
rected. what they wear and what they
eat; and J have an unmeasurable curi
oaity to know what It la. and how it la.
and where It la. Columbus risked his
life to find the American continent, and
■hall we ahudder to go out on a Voyage
of discovery which shall reveal a vaster
and more brilliant country? John
Franklin risked his life to find a passage
to summer? Men in Switacr
Uand travel up the heights of tho Mai*
terhorn, with alpenstock and guides,
and rockets and ropes, and getting half
way up. stumble and fall down in a hor
rlblo massacre. They Just wanted to
say they had been on tho tops of those
high peaks. And shall we fear to go
out for tho ascent of the etcrncl hills
which start one thousand miles lx-yond
where stop the highest peaks of tho
Alps, and when in that ascent there is
no peril? A man doomed to die stepped
on the scaffold, and said in joy: “Now,
in ten minutes I will know the great
secret.” One minute after the vital
functions ceased, -the little child that
died last night knew more than Paul
himself before he died.
Friends, tho exit from this world, or
death, if you please to call it, to the
Christian is glorious explanation. It is
demonstration. It is illumination. It
is sunburst. It is the op«ning of all the
windows. It is shutting up the cate
chism of doubt, and the unrolling of all
the scrolls of positive and accurate in
formation. Instead of standing at the
foot of tho ladder and looking up, it is
standing at the top of the ladder and
looking down. It is the last mystery
taken out of botany, and geology, and
astronomy, and theology. Oh, will it
not he grand to have all questions an
swered? The perpetually recurring in
terrogation point changed for tho mark
of exclamation? All riddles solved.
Who will fear to go out on that dis
covery, when all the questions are to 1k>
decided which wo have l>-.-n discussing
all our lives? Who shall not clap his
hands in the anticipation of that blessed
country, if it be no better than through
holy curiosity? As this Paul of my text
did not suppress his curiosity, we need
not suppress ours. Yes, I have an un
limited curiosity about all religious
things, and as this city of Rome was so
intimately connected with apostolic
times, the incidentsof which emphasize
and explain and augment the Christian
religion, you will not take it as an evi
dence of a prying spirit, hut as tho out
bursting of a Christian curiosity when I
say i must also see Home.
Our desire to visit this city is also in
tensified hy tho fact that we want to bo
confirmed in tho feeling that human
life is brief, but its work lasts for cent
uries, indeed, forever. Therefore
show us tho antiquities of old Rome,
about which we have been reading for
a lifetime, but never seen. In our be
loved America wo have no antiquities.
A church eighty years old overawes us
with its age. tVe have in America
somo cathedrals hundreds and thou
sands of years old, but they are in Yel
lowstone Park or California Canyon,
and their architecture and masonry
were by the omnipotent Cod. Wo want
to see tho buildings, or ruins of old
buildings, that were erected hundreds
and thousands of years ago by human
hands. They lived forty or seventy
years, but the arches they lifted, tho
paintings they penciled, the sculpture
they chiseled, tho roads they laid out, I
understand, are yet to be seen, and we
want you to show them to us. 1 can
hardly wait until Monday morning. I
must also see Rome.
We want to bo impressed with the
fact that what men do on a small scale
or large scale lasts a thousand years,
lasts forever, that we build for eternity
and that we do so in a very short space
of time. Cod is the only old living
presence. Rut it is an old age without
any of tho infirmities or limitations of
old age. There is a passage of Script
ure which speaks of tho birth of tho
mountains, for thero was a time when
tho Ande.s were born, and the l’yrennes
wore born, and the Sierra Xevadas were
born, but before tho birth of thoso
mountains the Bible tells us. Cod was
born, aye was never born at all, because
IIo always existed. Psalm xc. 2: “Be
fore tho mountains were brought forth,
or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and
tho world, even from everlasting to
everlasting. Thou art Cod.” How short
is human life, what antiquity attaches
to its worth! How everlasting is Cod!
Show us the antiquities, the things that
were old when America was discovered,
old when Paul went up and down these
streets sight seeing, old when Christ
was born. I must—I must also see
Rome!
Another reason for our visit to this
city is that we want to see the places
where the mightiest intellects and the
greatest natures wrought for our Chris
tian religion. We have been told in
America by some people of swollen
heads that the Christian religion is a
pusillanimous thing, good for children
under seven years of age and small
brained people, but not for the intelli
gent anil swarthy-minded. Wo have
heard of your Constantine, the mighty,
who pointed his army to tho cross, say
ing: “By this conquer.” If there bo
any thing here connected with his reign
or his military history, show it to us.
Tho mightiest intellect of the ages was
the author of my text, and, if for the
Christian religion he was willing to la
bor and suffer and die, thero must bo
something exalted and sublimo and tre
mendous in it; and show me every placo
ho visited, and show me if you can
where ho was tried, and which of your
roads leads out to Ostia, that I may see
where ho went out to die. We expect
beforo we finish this journey to see Lake
Calilee and the places where Simon,
Peter and Andrew fished, and perhaps wo
may drop a net or a hook and line into
those waters ourselves, but when follow
ing the track of those lesser apostles I
will learn quite another lesson.
1 want while in this City of Rome to
study the religion of tho brainiest of the
apostles. I want to follow, as far as we
can trace it, the track of this great in
tellect of my text who wanted to see
Romo also. Ho was a logician, ho was
a metaphysician, ho was an all-conquer
ing orator, he was a poet of the highest
type. He had a nature that could
swamp tho leading men of his own day,
and hurled against the Sanhedrim, ho
made it tremble. He learned all he could
get in tho school of his native village
then he had gone to higher school, and
there had mastered the Greek and the
Hebrew and perfected himself in belles
letters, until in after years, he astound
ed the Cretans and the Corinthians, and
the Athenians, by quotations from the
own authors. I have never found any
thing in Carlyle, or Goethe, or Herbert
Spencer that could compare in strength
or beauty with Paul’s epistles. I do
not think there is any thing in the writ
ings of Sir William Hamilton that shows
such mental discipline as you find in
Paul’s argument about justification and
resurrection. I have not found any
thing in Milton finer in tho way of,
imagination than I can finl in Paul i,
illustration* drawn fittm the impbl
thpatch There was nothing in Robert
Klniiiet pleading for his life, or in Kd
mund Burke arraigning Warren Hast
ings in Westminster IIall. that com
pared with the see no In the court-room
when, before robed officials, Paul bowed
and began hi* speech, saying: “I think
htyaelf happy. King Agrippa, because I
shall answer for myself this day.”
1 repeat, that a religion that ran capt
ure a mas llkft that must have some
power in t. It i* time out wiseacres
•topped tasking as though all the brain
of the world were opposed to Christian
ity. Where Paul leads, wo can afford to
follow. I am glad to know that Christ
has, in the different ages of the world,
had in His diseipleship a Mozart and a
Handel in music: a Raphael and a
Reynolds in painting; an Angelo and a
Canova in sculpture; a Rush and a
Harvey in medicine; a Orotius and a
Washington in statesmanship; a Black
stone, a Marshall and a Kent in law. and
the time will come when tho religion of
Christ will conquer all the observa
tories and universities, and phi
losophy will, through her telescope, be
hold the morning star of Jesus, and in
her lal>oratory see that “all things work
together for good,” and with her geo
logical hammer discern the “Rock of
Ages.” Oh, instead of cowering aad
shivering when tho skeptic stands be
fore us, and talks of religion as though
it were a pusillanimous thing—instead
of that, lot us take out our New Testa
ment and read the story of Paul at
Rome, or como and see this city for
ourselves, and learn that it could have
been no weak gospel that actuated such
a man, but that it is an all-conquering
gospel. Aye, for all ages the power of
God and tho wisdom of God unto salva
tion.
Men, brethren and fathers! I thank
you for this opportunity of preaching*
tho Gospel to you that are at Rome also.
The churches of America salute you.
Upon you who are, like us, strangers in
Rome, I pray the protecting and jour
neying care of God. Upon you who are
resident here, I pray grace, mercy and
poaco from God our Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ. After tarrying here a few
days we resume our journey for Palestine,
and wo shall never meet again, either
in Italy, or America, or what is called
the Holy Land, but there Is a holier
land, and there wo may meet, saved by
the grace that in the (-amo way saves
Italian and American, an-1 there in that
supernal clime, after embracing Him
who, by His sufferings on tho hill back
of Jerusalem, made our Heaven possible,
and given salutation to our own kindred
whose departure broke our hearts on
earth, we shall, I think, seek out the
traveling preacher and mighty hero of
the text who marked out His journey
through Macedonia and Aehaia to Je
rusalem, saying:
“After I have been there, I must also
seo Rome.”
A MILLION OF BABIES.
Fcllowlns Tliem Up from Tl'eir Hiith to
Their l>r»th.
Take your pencil and follow mo while
wo figure out on what will happen to the
1,000,000 of bahies that have been born
in the last 1,000,000 seconds. I believo
that is about the average—“ono eve ‘y
time tho clock ticks.” October 1, 1S90,
if statistics don’t belie as, wo will have
lost 150,000 of these littlo “prides of the
household.” A year later 53,000 more will
be keepingcompany with those who have
gone before. At the end of tho third
year we find that 22.000 more have
dropped by tho wayside. The fourth
year they have become rugged little
darlings, not nearly so susceptiblo to in
fantile diseases, only 8,000 having suc
cumbed to the rigors imposed by tho
master. I5y the time they have arrived
at the age of twelve years but a paltry
few hundred leave the track each year.
After three score years have come and
gone wo find less trouble in counting
the army with which we started in tho
fall of 1889.
Of the 1,000,000 with which wo began
our count blit- 370,000 remain; 630,000
have gone the way of all the world and
tho remaining few have forgotten that
they over existed. At tho end of 80, or,
taking our mode of reckoning, by year
1969, A. I)., there are still 97,000 gray
haired, shaky old grannies and grand
fathers, toothless, hairless and happy.
In tho year 1984 our 1,000,000 babies
with which we started in 1889, will have
dwindled to an insignificant 223 help
less old wrecks “stranded on the shores
of Tixno.” In 1992 all but seventeen
have left this mundane sphere forevor,
while the last remaining wreck will
probably, in seeming thoughtlessness,
watch tlio sands filter through tho hour
glass of Time and die in the year 1997 at
the ago of 108. What a bounteoas sup
ply of food for reflection!—St. Louis Re
public.
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I.et Children Have Pet I>og9.
“Do you know,” says a doctor, “that a
young dog is the healthiest thing in tho
world to bring up a young child with? I
don’t mean that the dog shall actually
sleep with the child, but be with it con
tinually—he played and romped with.
There is something in the mere healthy
animalism of tho dog which goes to make
the child healthy. For a dog can catch
every disease from a child, and just by
being about can often decrease the vio
lence of an attack—take off some of the
disease, you know. But a child never
takes a disease from a dog. Of course
the dog should he accommodated to tho
infant. A delicate baby should not bo
with a rough and vigorous young dog.
Nor should a healthy and hearty child
have too small a companion puppy. To
carry out this principle still further, a
dog is of great benefit in a consumptive’s
room. For one in the early stages of
that disease the constant presence of a
dog is tho best thing I know of.”—Chi
cago Journal.
Mellral Propertied of
Spinach has a direct effoct upon the
kidneys. The common dandelion, used
as greens, is excellent for the same
trouble. Asparagus purges the blood.
Celery acts admirably upon the nervous
system, and is a cure for rheumatism and
neuralgia. Tomatoes act upon the liver.
Beets and turnips are excellent appe
tizers. Lettuce and cucumbers are cool
ing in their effects upon tho system.
Onions, garlic, leeks, olives and shalots,
all of which are similar, possesses me
dicinal virtues of a marked character,
stimulating the circulatory system, and
the consequent increase of the saliva
and the gastric juice promoting diges
tion. Red onions are an excellent diu
retic, and the white ones are recommend
ed to be eaten raw as a remedy for in
somnia. They are a tonic and are nu
tritious. A soup made from onions is
regarded by the French as an excellent
restorative in debility of the digestive
organs.—Scientific American.
One has never so much need of his
wit as when he has to do with a 100I -
Chinese Proverb.
PRETZELS MADE BY HAND.
The Only Sort the Kplrnrenn Herman Will
Deign to Tonanmei
“Them la no Use in trying to make
pretzels by machine,said a Washington
baker man to a reporter. “I’re at
tempted it, and it's a dead failure. The
Germans won’t buy any but the hand
made. whtcV for some reason nobody
has boon ever able to make out, are
sweeter and of a better flavor, even when
the dough used is precisely the same
in both. Then, again, the ones turned
out by hand have a delicious sortof skin
which the machine-made lack. A curi
ous thing, it is, too. since there is no
difference in material, the kneading is
the-same, and the only variation in pro
cess is between stamping with steel
dyes and twisting into shape with the
hands.”
“Did you ever see a pretzel made?
Then just look here,” continued the
baker man, grabbing as he spoke a
small hunk of ordinary bread dough
from a heap on the table close by. lie
rolled the hunk rapidly over the board
with both bands until it was a long,
thin, cylindrical strip. Then taking
each end of the strip between a thumb
and forefinger he curled it with two or
three quick motions into the shape of a
perfect pretzel. The whole process re
quired perhaps four seconds, but he was
not trying to do it rapidly.
“IJut a pretzel isn’t made of ordinary
dough.” suggested the newspaper man.
“Its material is simply flour and water
with six pounds of lard added for each
barrel of flour. The pretzel dough is
made up just like bread’dough, and the
factory hand turns the pretzels out one
by one in precisely the way I showed
you. As fast as they are given shape',
like this one I have just made, they are
thrown into kettles of ladling lye, kept
at the temperature necessary by steam
jackets. A moment later they arc fished
out with skimmers and thrown upon a
bed of salt. Finally, with what salt
adheres to them they are picked up gin
gerly and laid in ovens with the unsalt
ed sides down. When they arc done
they are ready for consumption, usually
with beer. No method has thus far
been discovered of salting pretzels oth
erwise than by hand, so delicately must
they be handled at this stage of the per
formance.”
“But how are they cut out by ma
chinery?”
“Like ordinary crackers. The dough
is rolled out in thin sheets and laid
upon an endless belt, which carries
them along beneath a steel die that
cuts out half a dozen or more pretzel
shaped pieces at each hammer-like
stroke. The pretzels produced in this
way look exactly like the hand-made,
and, being of the same material, ought
to be quite as good, but they aro not.
The rest of the process has to bo per
formed by hand anyway. I fancy that
the Germans aro prejudiced also against
machine-made pretzels because they re
gard them as against manual labor.
Anyway they sell for three cents a
pound less in the market than the
hand-made ones bring. Pennsylvania
is Hie great pretzel-making State. It is
an enormous industry in Scranton,
Philadelphia, especially in Pottstown,
and all through the coal-mining re
gions, which are thickly settled with
Germans. The peoplo employed in
manufacturing them are all of that
race, and in fact wherever you find
pretzels in the world the German is
found also. To the Teuton they are, in
conjunction with beer, what ambrosia
was to the gods, with nectar on the side.”
—Washington Bar.
IN JAPANESE COSTUME.
The Countess Oyana Herelves at Horae In
the Old Native Dresses.
The Countess Oyana, wife of the
Japanese Minister of War, is one of the
few ladies of the court circle at Tokio
who receivo at their own homes in the
native costume which European fashions
are so fast driving out of the land of the
Mikado. Tho Countess prefers tho com
fortable and picturesque Japanese dress
to tho foreign costumes which the court
has adopted,and this in spite of the fact
that she is one of the first Japanese
women educated in America, having
graduated at Vassar in 188:1, the only
woman of her race who has received the
baccalaureate degree. Ktomatz Yama
kawa, as she was known before her mar
riage, spent about ten years in this
country, coming with the Japanese em
bassy in L872, and returning so thorough
ly Americanized that she had almost
forgotten her own language. She is re
membered by her college mates as an
exceedingly attractive girl, pretty —
even to American eyes—tall, graceful
and well formed. Tho return to her
native country was to her something ol
an ordeal. She came here a girl oi
twelve, adopted the Christian religion
and tho customs and habits oi
thought of Western civilization and
went back a marriageable woman of
twenty-two with the knowledge that
her parents would immediately find a
husband for her, very possibly one not
at all in sympathy with her ideas. Fort
unately tho chosen spouse was the
Count Iwao Oyana, who was himself ed
ucated in France, and as whose wife she
has taken immediate rank in social and
philanthropic eircles in Tokio. A num
ber of Japanese women have since come
to this country as students and several
are here now. Miss Shige Nagai entered
the Vassar School of Music in 1878, and
made a love match with Lieutenant
Uric, of tho Japanese navy, who was
educated by his government at our
Naval Academy at Annapolis, and first
met his piquant countrywoman at a
Vassar fete to which a number of An
napolis youth were invited. The wed
ding was agreed upon before either re
turned home. One of tho festivities
attendant on the marriage in Tokio was
the amateur presentation of ‘ The Mer
chant of Venice" before tho court and
Mikado. Miss Ume Tsuda studied at
the Archer Institute in Washington,
and is now teaching in Tokio in the
Peeresses’ School for Japanese Noble
women.—N. Y. Mail and Express.
Milwaukee'* l'oor Vanderbilt.
Quite a familiar figure on the streets
is a little old man who wears a straw
hat that once had a hand, but long since
parted company with it, and now
slouches down over its wearer's shoul
ders, almost covering his head of curly
gray hair, lie is so round-shouldered
that he appear** to be hunchbacked, and
his face is covered with straggling gray
whiskers. He earns meager wages as a
collector and lives nobody knows where.
Yet this poverty-stricken man is a first
cousin of Mrs. W. II. Vanderbilt, the
widow of the millionaire railroad mag
nate. His father and Mrs. Vanderbilt’s
father were brothers. When in an ex
tremity he appealed to his rich cousin
for aid, he received a very polite note
from her private secretary stating that
Mrs. Vanderbilt had so many calls for
charity that she was compelled to refuse
some.—Milwaukee News.
—Two happy couple* were married In
the presence of <10,000 people at the Pled*
iilont Exposition, at Atlanta, l<a.
Both couples were rigged out in
full suits.Of cotton manufacture. The
gentlemen were 111 at ease, and neither
had the fashionable cut In their gar
ments; but the brides were gotten up
without regard to expense. The dress
of one was cut en train, with V neck
front and back and short sleeves. It was
made of white cotton-bagging and elab
orately draped and trimmed with white
ribbon and wide white niching around
the train and at the shoulders. The
bridegrooms were dressed In suits of
ootton-bagging, the coats double breasted
Princo Alberts, and the vests low cut.
The buttons were green cotton bolls.
THE ONLY NIAGARA ROUTE
St. Louis to New York and Boston.
WABASH TRAIN NO. 43—VESTI RULED.
Leaves St. Louis.6:5S p. m.
Arrives Niagara Kails.P- m‘
Arrives New York.130 a. m.
Arrives Boston.»■
Only through line from St. Louis
to the Grand Central Station, New York
via Niagara Falls.
Reaches the Grand Central Station
OVER TWO HOURS EARLIER than
any competitor.
Arrives Boston via Hoosao Tunnel
FIVE HOURS EARLIER than any
competitor.
Is the ONLY Through Sleeping Car Line
St. Louis to Boston, leaving St. Louis
at night.
Stops at Falls View Station Expressly
to give patrons the best possible view of
NIAGARA.
Has been for NINE YEARS the only line
to New York and Boston running
DINING CARS.
For Tickets, Time-Tables and full
Information cull upon the nearest
Ticket Agent.
There are more pictures qf George Wash
ington sold in this country’ln a year than
of any other person. For figures apply to
tho Post-OflJco Depytroent — Yonkers
Statesman._'
CATARRH.
Catarrhal Deafness- Hay Fever—A New
Home Treatment.
Sufferers aro not generally awaro that
theso diseases are contagious, or that they
aro due to the presence of living parasites
in the lining membrane of tho nose and
eustaehmn tubes. Microscopic research
however, has proved this to be a fact, and
the result of this discovery is that a simple
remedy has been formulated whereby
Catarrh, Hay Fever and Catarrhal Deafness
aro permanently cured in from ono to three
simple applications made at home by the
patient once in two weeks.
N. B.—This treatment is not a snuff or an
ointment; both have been discarded by
reputable pb vsieiaus as injurious. A pamph
let explaining this new treatment is sent on
receipt of three cents in stamps to pay
postage by A. H. Dixon & Bon, cor. of John
and King Street, Toronto, Canada.— Chris
tian Advocate. _
Sufferers from Catarrhal troubles should
carefully read the a bo to.
Tnn fence owner who puts up a sign
“stiok no bills” as a warning to Agont# for
theatrical companies would possibly dp
more good by making it ‘‘bUi uo sticks,"—
Washington Capital.
" ’Min plensuros and palaces, tbo’ wo may roam, t
Be it over so humble, there’s »o place liko borne,
especially if blessed with a wifo whose
hours uro not spent in misery caused by
those dragging-down pains arising from
weaknesses peculiar to her sex. Pierce’s
Favorite Prescription relieves and cures
these troubles and brings sunshine to many
darkened homes. Sold by druggists under
u posit In guarantee from manufacturers of
satisfaction or money refunded. Read guar
antee on bottlo wrapper.
Tho cleansing, antiseptic and healing qual
ities of Dr. Sago's Catarrh Remedy are ua
equaled.
" And now a rival of Edispn’9 has come to
tho surface with an invention for piercing
the ears without pain. No modern opera
house should be without one.—Puck. *
West Brook, North Carolina.
Sept. Cth, 188&
DR. A T. SnALLENBEROER,
Rochester, Pa. Dear Sir—The two boxes
of Pills you sent me did everything you said
they would. My son was tho victim of
Malaria, deep-set, by living in Florida two
years, and the Antidote has dono more than
five hundred dollars’ worth of other medi
cines could have done for him. I have had
one of my neighbors try tho medicine, and
it cured him immediately. I now reconimend
it to every one suffering from Malaria.
Respectfully yours, W. W. Monroe.
* The law permits a man to use his wife to
rob his creditors. Yet iiLthe face of thl9 it
is argued that marriage re a failure.—Bing
hamton Herald. _
Conaumpt Ion Surely Cured.
To the Editor:—Pleaso inform your
readers that I have a positive remedy for
the abovo named disease. By its timely
use thousands of hopeless cases have been
permanently cured. I shall be glad to send
two bottles of my remedy free to any of
your readers who nave consumption If they
will send mo their express and post-office
address. Respectfully, T. A. Sloci'm, M. C.,
181 Pearl street, New York.
’ There Is a wide difference between the
best-known and tbo known UeatsUUMl ft
modern citv._ __
Oregon, the l*ara<Uae of Farmers.
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in the world. Full information free. Address
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Thb highest gnado of impudence—To wait
in an umbrella shop for a shower to pass
over.—-Flies endo Blatter.
Have no equal as a prompt and positive
cure for sick headache, biliousness, consti
pation, pain in the side, and all liver troub
les. Carter’s Little Liver Pills. Try them.
dentists ought to tnhlfft good fOfflpilgn
orators; they nhvo such an effective way
of taking the stump.—Baltimore American.
A Sorb Throat or Cough, if suffered to
Srogress, often results in an incurable
iroat or lung trouble. “ Brown's Bronchial
Troches” give instant relief.
The easiest way for a good Wife to get
along pleasantly is to practise whfct ner
husband preaches.—Atchison Globe.
Dangerous Tendencies
Characterize that very common complaint, catarrh.
The foul matter dropping fi>>m the head into the
bronchial tubes or lungs, may bring on bronchitis
or consumption, which reaps an immense harvest
of deaths annually. Hence the necessity of giving
catarrh immediate attention. Hood’s Sarsaparilla
cures catarrh by purifying and enriching the blood,
restoring and toning the diseased organs.
“Hood’sSarsaparilla cured me of catarrh, sore
ness of the bronchial tubes, and terrible headache.”
K. Gibbons, Hamilton, Ohio.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by *11 druggist*. II; >ix for 15. Prepared only
by C. 1. HOOD A CO.. Apothecaries, howell, Maaa.
IOO Doses One Dollar
T rtt Oil ttpon TroobledW atera la ®*1° •
tTnnrv of Horebound and Tar upon a cold.
Pita?? Toothache Drops Cure in one minuta
Tn*a is a silver lining to every eldhd—
J*S?n who can't get* credit fa nem
worried by duna— Boston Courier.
Do xor purge nor weaken the bowels, bat
art specially on the liver and bile. A perfect
lTver^rrectcr. Carter'» LitUeLlvcr Pills.
- Tn man who eats four meals * day on
the steamship must be fond of the *ea
board.—Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Tub best cough medicine Is
for Consumption. Sold everywhere. 26o.
Wo¥«t», like diseases, always search out
mir weakest points for attack", and they
goneraUyflncfthem.-^M'iljyaukeo Journal.
A 10c. smoko for5c. "Tansill’s Punch."
Tira weather is as uncertain as the age of
a-girl over thirty.—Richmond Recorder.
ONE ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
fentlyyct promptly on the Kidneys,
jiver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrun of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances,
its many excellent qualities com
mend it to all and have made it
the most popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
raay not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept
any substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE, KY. NEW YORK, N.Y.
Tutt’s Pills
To pnrge the bowel* doe* not make
them regular but leave* them ill nor«»
ronilltion than before. The liver lr.
the the neat of trouble, and
THE BEMEDY
mn*t aet on It. Tutt'a I.IVer Pill* art
directly on that organ, causing a free
flow of bile, without which, tlio bow
els are alwuy* constipated. Price, 25c.
Sold Everywhere.
Office, 44 Murray St., New York.
ssarijssf*
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BRAD FIELD REGULATOR CO ATLANTA nl
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. un
„nniY'„8„„CATARBH
CREAM BALM I
Cleanses the
Nasal Passages,
Allays Pain and
Inflam mation,
Heals the Bores,
Restores the
Senses of Taste
and Smell.
Try the CURE. HAY>
A particle Is applied Into each nostril and is agree
•ble. Price 60 cents at druggists: by mail, registered
It cents. ELY BROTHERS. M Warren St., New York.
SEND
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For Box by Kxpreu
of our Strictly Pure
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AMY MARI Woman or Child,
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They are the Remedy that
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MORSE'S PILLS
OMTION, LITEM COMPLAINT, DTfc
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