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TALMAQK’S SERMON.
Now Loesons from tho Fnrable of
the Prodigal Son.
The T.trhfnln.M and Merry of Ood To*
ward m. Children Typified In the
Parental Love and C«rl*ear
anre with Offspring.
Rer. T. Hewitt Talmage delivered
the following sermon in the Brooklyn
Academy of Music, taking for his text:
When he w»* yrt a (treat w»jr off, Ms lather
•aw him. nn l had compassion, and ran and
fell on his neck anil kissed him.—Luke
XV., 20.
One of the deepest wells that inspira
tion ever opened is this well of a par
able which we can never exhaust. The
parable, I suppose, was founded on
facts. I have described to you tho go
ing away of this prodigal son from his
father’s house, and I havo showed yon
what a hard time he had down in the
wilderness, and what a mistake it was
for him to leave so beautiful a home for
suck a miserable desert. But he did not
always stay in the wilderness; he came
back after awhile. Wo do not read
that his mother camo to greet him. I
suppose she was dead. She would have
been tho first to come out. The father
would havo given the second kiss to the
returning prodigal; the mother the first.
It may havo been for tho lack of her
example and prayers that he became a
prodigal. Sometimes tho father does
not know how to manage tho children
of the household. The chief work
comes upon the mother. Indeed, no
one ever gets over tho calamity of los
ing a mother in early life. Still, this
young man was not ungreeted when he
came hack.
However well appareled we may be
in the morning when we start out on a
journey, before night, what with tho
dust and the jostling, wo have lost all
cleanliness of appearance. llut this
prodigal, when ho started from tho
swine-trough, was ragged and wretched,
and his appearance, after ho had gone
through days of journeying and expos
ui-e, you can more easily imagine than
desertbo. As tho people seo this prodi
gal coming on homeward they wonder
who he is. They say: “I wonder what
prison he has broken out of. I wonder
with what plague ho will smite the
air.” Although those people may have
been well acquainted with tho family,
yet they do not imagino that this is the
very young man who went off only a lit
tle while ago with quick step and rud
dy cheek and beautiful apparel. The
young man, 1 think, walks very fast.
He looks as though ho were intent upon
something very important. Tho peo
ple stop. They look at him. They
wonder where ho came from. They
wonder where he is going to.
You have heard of a son who went off
to sea and never returned. All the peo
ple in tho neighborhood thought the
son would never return, but tho parents
came to no such conclusion. They
would go by tho hour, and day, and sit
upon the beach, looking off upon tho
water, expecting to see tho sail that
would bring homo tho long-absent boy.
And so 1 think this father of my text
sat under tho vine looking out toward
the road on which his son had departed:
but tho father has changed very much
since we saw him last. His hairhas be
come white, his cheeks aro furrowed,
his heart is broken. What is all his
bountiful table to him when his son
may be lacking bread? What is all tho
splendor of tho wardrobe of that home
stead when the son may not havo a do
cent coat? What are all tho shoep on
tho hillsido to that father when his pet
lamb is gone? Still ho sits and watches,
looking out on the road, and one day he
beholds a foot-traveler. Ho sees him
riso above the hills; first tho head and
then the entire body; and as soon as ho
gets a fair glance of him he knows it is
his recreant son. He forgets the cruteh
and the cane, and the stiffness of tho
joints, and bounds away. I think tho
people all around were amazed. They
said: “It is only a footpad. It is only
some old tramp of tbo road. Don’t go
out to meet him.” The father knew
better.
The change in the son’s appearance
could not hide the marks by which the
father knew tho boy. You know that
persons of a great deal of independence
of character are apt to indicate it in
their walk. For that reason tho sailor
almost always has a peculiar step, not
only because he stands much on ship
board amid tho rocking of the sea, and
he has to balance himself, but ho has
for the most part an independent char
acter, which would show in his gait,
even if he never went on the sea; and
we know from what transpired after
ward, and from what transpirod before,
that this prodigal son wras of an inde
pendent and frank nature; and I suppose
that the characteristics of his mind and
heart were the characteristics of his
walk. And so the father knew him. He
puts out his withered arms toward him;
ho brings his wrinkled face against the
pale cheek of his son; he kisses tho
wan lips; he thanks God that the long
agony is over. “When ho was yet a
great way off his father saw him and
ran and fell on his neck and kissed
him.”
Oh, do you not recognize that father?
Who w'as it? It is God! I have no
sympathy with that cast-iron theology
which represents God as bard, severe,
and vindictive. God is a father—kind,
loving, lenient, gentle, long-suffering,
patient, and Ho flies to our immortal
rescue. Oh, that wo might realize it.
A wealthy lady in one of the Eastern
countries was going off for some time,
and she asked her daughters for some
memento to carry with her. One of the
daughters brought a marble tablet,
beautifully inscribed; and another
daughter brought a beautiful wreath of
flowers. The third daughter came and
said: “Mother, I brought neither flow
ers nor tablet, but here is my heart I
have inscribed it all over with your
name, and wherever you go it will go
with you.” The mother recognized it
as the best of all the mementoes. Oh,
that our souls might go out toward our
Father—that our hearts might be writ
ten all over with the evidences of His
loving kindness, and that we might
never again forsake Him.
In the first place I notice in this text
the father's eyesight; m the second
place I notico the father's haste; and
in the third place 1 notice the father's
kiss.
io Degm: i ne tamer s eyesigu~
“When he was a great way off his
lather saw him.” You have noticed how
old people sometimes put a book off on
the other side of the light. They can
see at a distance a great deal easier
than they can close by. 1 do not know
whether this father could see well that
which was near by, but I do know he
caa)4 see a great way off. “His father
tM tom-" i“«ii»aps Ue had beta look
inpfor the return of that boy especially
that day. I do net know but that ho had
been in prayer, and that God had told
him that that day the recreant boy
would come home. “The fathor saw
him a preat way off.”
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ns when we are coming back to Him.
The text pictures our condition—wi are
a great way off. That young man was
not farther off from his father's house,
sin is not farther off from holiness,hell is
not farther off fromlleaven.than wo have
hern by our sins away off from ouf tied
—aye. so far off that we could not hear
His voice, though vehemently He has
called us year after year. I do not
not know what bad habits you may
have formed, or in what evil places you
mav hare been, or what false notions
! you may have entertained, but you are
ready to acknowledge, if your heart has
not l>een changed by the grace of God,
that you are a great way off—aye, so
far that yon can not get back of your
selves. You would liko to come back.
Aye, this moment you would start, if it
were not for this sin, and that habit,
and this disadvantage. Hut I am to
tell yon of the Father's eye
sight. "Ho saw him a great way
off.” He has seen all your frail
ties, all your struggles, all
your disadvantages. Ho has b»en
longing for your coming. Ho has n't
been looking at you with a critic's eye
nor a bailiff s eye, but with a father's
eve; and if a parent ever pitied a child,
God pities you. You say: "Oh, 1 had
so many evil surroundings when I start
ed life.” Y’our Father sees it. You
say: "I have so many bad surroundings
now. and it is very difficult for mo to
break away from evil associations.”
Your Father sees it, and if you should
start heavenward—as I pray you may—
your Father would not sit idly down
and allow you to struggle on up toward
Him. Oh, no! Seeing you a great way
off. He would fly to the rescue. How
long does it take a father to leap into
the middlo of the highway if his child
bo there, and a swift vehicle Is coming
and may destroy him? Five hundred
times longer than it takes our heavenly
Father to spring to the deliverance of
a lost child. "When ho was a great
way off his father saw him.”
And this brings mo to notice tho
father’s haste. Tho Riblo says ho ran.
No wonder! lie did not know but that
tho young man would change his mind
and go back. He did not know but that
ho would drop down from exhaustion.
He did not know but that something
fatal might overtake him before he got
up to tho doorsill; and so the father ran.
Tho Bible, for tho most part, speaks of
God as walking. “In tho fourth watch
of the night,” it says, "Jesus came unto
them walking on the sea.” “Hewalk
eth upon tho wings of the wind.” Our
first parents heard the voice of tho
Lord, walking in tho garden in the
cool of the day; but when a sinner
starts for God, tho Father runs to meet
him. Oh! if a man over wants holp,
it is when ho tries to become a
Christian. Tho world says to him:
“Back with you. Have more spirit.
Don't be hampered with religion.
Time enough yet. Wait until you got
sick. Wait until you get old.” Satan
says: “Back with you; you are so bad
that God will have nothing to do with
you;” or, “You aro good enough, and
need no Redeemer. Take thino ease,
eat, drink and bo merry.” Ten thou
sand voices say: "Back with you. God
is a hard Master. Tho church is a col
lection of hypocrites. Back into your
sins; back to your evil indulgences;
back to your prayerless pillows. The
silliest thing that a young man ever
does is to coran homo after ho has been
wandering.” Oh, how much help a man
does want when ho tries to become a
Christian! Indeed, tho prodigal can not
find his way homo to his Father’s house
alone. Fnless some ono comes to meet
him he had better have stayed by the
swine troughs.
\\ hen tho Hue comes in, you might
more easily with your broom sweep back
the surges than you could drive back
the ocean of your unforgivon transgres
sions. What are we to do? Are wo to
fight tho battle alone, and trudge on
with no ono to aid us, and net rock to
shelter us, and no word of encourage
ment to cheer us? Glory be to God, we
have in the text the announcement:
“When lie was yet a great way off. His
Father ran.” When tho sinner starts
for God, God starts for the sinner. God
does not come out with a slow and
hesitating pace. The infinite spaces
slip beneath His feet, and He takes
worlds at a bound. “The Father ran.”
Oh, wonderful meeting, when God and
the soul como together. “The Father
ran.” You start for God and God starts
for you, and you meet; and, while the
angels rejoice over tho meeting, your
long injured Father falls upon your
neck with attestations of compassion
and pardon. Your poor, wandering,
sinful, polluted soul, and tho loving,
the eternal Father, have met.
I remark upon the father’s kiss. “He
fell on his neck,” my text says, “and
kissed him.” It is not every father
that would have done that way. Some
would have scolded him, and said:
“Here, you went off with beautiful
clothes, but now you are in tatters. You
went off healthy, and come back sick
and wasted with your dissipations.”
He did not say that. Tho son, all hag
gard, and ragged, and filthy, and
wretched, stood before his father. The
father charged him with nono of his
wanderings. He just received him. He
just kissed him. 11 is wretchedness was
a recommendation to that father’s love.
Oh, that father’s kiss! How shall I de
scribe the love of God?—the ardor with
which He receives a sinner back again?
Give me a plummet with which 1 may
fathom this sea. Givo me a ladder
with which I can scale this height.
Give me words with which I can de
scribe this love. The apostle says in
one pdace, “unsearchable;” in another,
“past finding out” Height overtopping
all height; effepth plunging beneath all
depth; breadth compassing all immens
ity.
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un, uus lovo; uoa so lovea mo worm,
j He loves you. Don't you believe it?
Has He not done every thing to make
you think so? He has given you life,
health, friends, home—the use of your
hand, the sight of your eye, the hear
ing of your ear. He has strewn your
path with mercies. He has fed you,
clothed you, sheltered you, defended
you, loved you, importuned you all your
life long. Don’t you believe He loves
you? Why, if now you should start up
from the wilderness of your sin, He
would throw both arms around you.
To make you believo that He
loves you. He stooped to manger and
cross and sepulchre. With all the pas
aionsof IIis holy uaturo roused, Ilo stands
before you to-day. and would coax you
to happiness and Heaven. Oh, this
Father’s kiss! There is so much mean
ing, and love, and compassion in it; so
! much pardon io iti go uauoA Heaven in
It. I proclaim Him the lord God, met
clful, gracious and long suffering, abun
dant, in goodness and truth. Lest you
would not believe Him, He goes up
Golgotha, and while the rocks are rend
ing, and tho graves are opening, and
the mobs arc howling, and the sun
Is hiding, Ho dies for rou. See
Him! Soe Him on the Mount of
Cruciflxtlon, the sweat on His brow
tinged with the blood exuding from His
lacerated temples! See His eyes swim
ming in death! Hear ‘,ho loud breath
ing of the sufferer as He pants with a
world on His heart! Hark to the fall of
tho blood from brow, and hand, and
foot, on the rocks lu-neath—drop! drop!
drop! Look at the nails! How wide the
wounds are! Wider do they gap as 11 is
liody comes down upon them. Oh! this
crucifixion agony! Tears melting into
tears. Itlood flowing into blood. Dark
ness dropping on darkness. Hands of
men joined with hands of devils to tear
apart the quivering heart of the Son of
God!
Oh! Will llo never speak again? Will
that crimson face never light up again?
He will speak again; while (he blood is
suffusing His brow, and reddening His
cheek, and gathering on notril and lip,
and you think He is exhausted and can
not speak. He cries out until all tho
ages hear Him; “Father, forgive them,
they know not what they do!” Is there
no emphasis in such a sceno as that to
make your dry eyes weep, and your hard
hearts break? Will you turn your back
upon it, and say by your actions what
the Jews raid by their words: His
blood bo on u i, and on our children!”
What does it all mean, my brother, my
sister? Why, it moan; that for our lost
race there was a Father's kiss. Love
brought Him down. Lovo opened the
gate. Love led to tho sacrilice. Love
shattered the grave. Lovo lifted Him
up in resurrection. Sovereign love!
Omnipotent love! Infinite lovo! lllood
ing love! F verlasting love!
Oh. for this love let rock) and hills
Their lasting silence break ;
And all harmonious human tonga ’3
The Saviour's praise) speak.
Now. will you accept that Father’s
kiss? Tho 'Holy Spirit conies to you
with His a.ousing, melting, alarming,
inviting, vivifying, influence. Hearer,
what creates in thee that unrest? It is
the Holy Ghost. Wljat influence now
tolls thee that it is time to fly, that to
morrow may bo too late; that there is
one i^cor, one toad, one cross, one sacri
fice, one Jesus? It is the Holy Ghost.
My most urgent word is to those who,
like the young man of ray text, are a
great way off, and they will start for
home, and they will get home. They
will yet preach the Gospel and on com
munion days carry around tho consecrat
ed bread, acceptable to every body, be
cause of their holy life, and their con
secrated bchavoir. Tho Lord is going
to save you. Your homo has got to bo
rebuilt. Your physical health lias
got to bo restored. Your world
ly business lias got to be re
constructed. The Church of God is
going to rejoico over your discipleship.
You are not Gospel hardened. You have
not heard or read many sermons during
the last few years. You do not weep,
hut the shower is not far off. You sigh,
and you have noticed that there is al
ways a sigh in tho wind beforo the rain
falls. There are those who would give
any thing if they could find relief in
dears. They say: “Oh, my wasted life!
Oh, the bitter past! Oh, the graves over
which I have stumbled! Whither shall I
fly? Alas for tho future! Every thing is
dark—so dark, so dark. God help me! God
pity me!” Thank the Lord for that last
uttenraco. You have begun to pray,
and when a man begins to petition that
sots all Heaven flying this way, and God
steps in, and beats back the hounds of
temptation to their kennel, and around
about tho poor wounled soul put) tho
covert of His pardoning morey. Hark!
I hear something fall. What was that?
It is the bars of tho fence around the
sheep-fold. Tho shepherd lets them
down, and the hunted sheep of the
mountain bound in; some of them their
fleece torn with the brambles, some of
them their feet lame with the dogs; but
bounding in. Thank God! Saved foi
time, and saved for eternity.
PENALTIES CP- PROGRESS,
Every Step of II invin Advancement Ila«
I!ceil Marked hr Bloml.
That we can not got somothing for
nothing, that progress always has pen
altio.s, is one of tho oldest lessons of
human experienco. Old as it is, how
ever, it does not appear to have l*;en
well learned and properly applied.
Tho general outcry against the use of
electrical appliances for illumination
and motive power forcibly illustrates i ho
prevalent ignorance of this venerable
truism. Because men have been killed
by contact with “live” wires and be
cause buildings have been fired by elec
tricity, we witness a vehement protest
against and stcut opposition by electric;
ty in many cases wlutre it really ought
to supplant existing facilities for light
or transportation or both. In a largo
New England City at this tinv* a fight
is being waged against tho substitution
of electric tor horse power on street
railways. It was decided that tho de
mand for rapid transit in that city
could be*-t be met by chartering elec
tric roads. But one or two acci
dental deaths occured and now the
slogan is: “The wires must go.” Steam
slays thousands where electricity kills
dozens. Moro persons aro killed by ga?
in one year than by electricity in ton
years. But we don't hear that steam
“must go,” nor is there an upheaval of
the public’s wrath against gaR. In all
human probability electricity will in a
few yoars be so well understood and so
safely handled that it will be productive
of fewer casualties in proportion to tho
extent of its use than any other motive
or illuminating agency. Invention is
applying itself to the task of reducing
electric danger to tho minimum. The
wild horso of tho heavons is being
tamed, and will soon bo as harmless as
any thing else that God has endowed
with power. Meantime let us recur to
the old lesson that nothing is not the
price we must pay for something. Ever/
step of human progress, from the condi
tion of a naked barbarian in the prime
val wilderness to tho present state of
tho most enlightened nations, has been
marked by blood. We get no advance
ment in government, in science, in re
ligion, or in any thing else, that we
don’t pay for. The land of dreams is
the only land where this rule is not in
force. Castles in Spain are the only
residences of people who make progress
without penalties.—Inventive Age.
—Tho clerk who is ambitious to ex
cel, and realizes that promotion is the
reward of labor and duty well per
formed, is on tho ultimate toad to fort
uno.
—One of the hardest tm.ks over set a
tnart is to forget the Rood deeds ho has
dqgf and to i:gif}£ ^imself for the nil
A GREAT SHIP S STORES.
Figaro* From the (t*w»rd'« l>ep»rtn»o»%
In a Transatlantic Bseer.
In the busy season an ocean grey
hound carries about 550 first cabin, 250
second cabin, and MO steerage passen
gers. There are 400 in the ship's com
pany, including doctors, printers, boiler
makers, six bakers, three butchers, sev
enteen cooks, hydraulic, electrical, and
other engineers to the number of thirty
two, 148 stewards, and eight steward
esses. So there may bo about 1,850
aboard.
Notwithstanding the fact that many
of the passengers are seasick from the
time they pass Sandy Hook until Fast
net is sighted, they manage to consume
in one trip something like 13,000 pounds
of fresh beef, 3,000 pounds of corned
beef, 4,000 pounds of mutton, 1,000
pounds of lamb, 2,000 pounds of veal and
pork, 15,000 pounds of bacon, 500 pounds
of liver, tripe and sausages, 200 hams,
300 pounds of fish. 20,000 eggs, 1" tonsof
potatoes, 3 tons of other vegetables, 3,
000 pounds of butter, 600 pounds of
cheese, 600 pounds of coffee, 350 pounds
of tea, 100 pounds of icing sugar, 150
pounds of powdered sugar, 670 pounds of
loaf sugar, 3.000 pounds of moist sugar,
700 pounds of salt. 200 pounds of nuts,
560 pounds of dried fruit, 20 barrels of
apples, 3,600 lemons, 20 cases of oranges
—and other green fruit in season—300
bottles of pickles. 150 bottles of ketch
up, saticn and horse radish, and 150 cans
of preserves.
There are also quantities of poultry,
oysters, sardines, canned vegetables and
soups, vinegar, pepper, mustard, curry,
rice, tapioca, sago, hominy, oatmeal,
molasses, condensed milk, “tinned’’
Boston beans, confectionery and ice
cream. Fifty pounds of ice-cream are
served at a single meal in the first
cabin.
Thirty tons of ice are required to keep
the great store-rooms cool. Eight bar
rels of flour are used daily. The bakers
are busy from dawn of day. They make
4,000 delicious Barker House rolls for
breakfast every morning. Thirty eight
pound loaves of white bread and 100
pounds of brown bread are baked each
day: also pies, puddings, cakes, etc.
Eight barrels of common crackers and
a hundred tins of fancy crackers, are
stowed away in the store-room, togother
with 100 pounds of wino and plum cake,
not a crumb of which is left when Liver
pool is reached. Six thousand bottles
of ale and porter. 4,200 bottles of mineral
waters, 4,500 bottles of wine, and moro
or loss ardent spirits are drunk inside of
six days by the guests of this huge
floating hotel. About 3,000 cigars are
sold on board, but many more are
smoked. Two hundred pounds of toilet
soap is supplied by the steamship com
pany.
One of the odd sights to be seen on
the pier soon after the arrival of an
ocean groyhound is the great stacks of
soiled linen which are being assorted by
about a dozen stewards. Here is tho
wash list for a singlo trip: Napkins,
8.300; table-cloths, 180; . sheets, 3,600;
pillow cases, 4,400; towels, 16,300, and
dozens of blankets and counterpanes.
Although the list is very short, it re
quires four large two-horse trucks to
carry the wash to the laundry in Jersey
City. In less than a week it is back in
the lockers of tho linen rooms, which
are in charge of a regular linen keeper.
There is no washing done abroad. Many
of the ship’s company havo their wash
ing done in New York, but the greater
number have it done in Liverpool.—N.
Y. Sun. _
THE SEPOY REBELLION.
Causes Which Operated to Tiring About
the Terible Indian Mutiny.
The causes which operated to bring
about the terrible Indian mutiny of 1857,
known as the Sepoy rebellion, were va
rious. The Princes who had been de
prived of their powers by tho East In
dian Company had been active in stir
ring up a general discontent. The Brit
ish had raised and armed a largo native
force, which was drilled and commanded
by British officers. This force wascom
posed partly of Sepoys of Bengal, who
were by religion high caste Brahmins,
and partly Mohammedans. These
troops came in time to realizo that
British power in-tho East largely de
pended upon them for maintenance, and
therefore grew arrogant and displayed at
times a mutinous spirit. Good manage
ment on the part of the officers, howev
er, for a long time prevented an out
break, and besides, a most bitter preju
dice existed between the Mohammedans
and the Brahmin soldiers which pre
vented their acting together. But it
was religious fanaticism that proved at
last the immediate cause of the trouble.
Early in 1857 Enfield rifles had been
substituted for the smooth-bore muskets
of the native troops. It was
necessary, to secure accuracy
of aim with the new gun, to use
a tightly-fitting cartridge, and this was
greased with lard that it might be more
easily rammed in. The manual of arms
required that the soldier, in loading his
piece, should bite off the end of tho
cartridge with his teeth. Now, to tho
Brahmin and to the Mohammedan also,
the swine is an abomination. To touch
or taste the fat of this animal is defile
ment and sacriloge, and to tho Brahmin
is total loss of caste as well. The de
posed Princes had tried to stir up disaf
fection among tho people by telling
them that tho nativo religions were to
bo overthrown, the sacred institutions
of caste destroyed, and the people made
to adopt the faith of the invader. The
introduction of the greased cartridge
Beemed to he a confirmation of theso
statements, and a storm of mutiny broke
out. Although, as soon as the objection
to tho greased cartridge became known,
the native soldiers were allowed to pre
pare a lubricant in which there was no
animal fat, nothing could stay the wavo
oj popular wrath. We can not tell you
how many of the Sepoys were put to
death by being blown from tho mouths
of cannon. According to some historians
a large number wore thus destroyed.
The excuse given by the British for
adopting this atrocious method was that
the Sepoys care little for death, but
were horrified at the thought of mutila
tion.—Chicago Inter Ocean.
—The new naval gun-works at tho
Washington yard now have an annual
capacity of fifty oight or ten-inch caliber
breach-loading stocl gune. With tho
new machinery one of these guns can
now be built in throe months. Only a
few years ago it roquirod two years to
complete one. Theso guns are not toy*.
The eight-inch rifles are twonty-five feet
long and weigh fifteen tons. The ton
inch rifles are thirty feet long and weigh
twenty-flvo tons. The eight-inch guns
throw a shot weighing one hundred
pounds._
—It requires annually 55,000 tons of
Dinder twine to biud tbe grain crop of
the country.
Rrlratlfle r»jmrlmrn**.
M. R. Regnard haa made a aeries of
experiments on living organism tinder
high pressure. Yeast was found to be
latent after having been subjected to a
pressure of 1,000 atmospheres for one
hour; an hour later it began to ferment
in sweetened water. Htarch was trans
formed to sugar by salvia at 1,000 atmos
pheres. At 600 atmospheres nig® were
able to decompose carbonic acid gas in
sunlight, but they died and began to
putrefy after four days. Cress seed
after ten minutes' exposure at 1,000 at
mospheres were swollen with water,
and after a week l>egan to sprout. At
900 atmospheres infusoria and mollusks,
etc,, were rendered morbid and latent,
but when removed returned to their
natural state. Fishes without bladders
can stand 100 atmospheres, at 200 they
seem asleep, at 300 they die, and at 400
they dio and remain rigid even while
putrefying-—Boston Budget.
I.nng Troubles, Rhoumatlsm, Ets.
Frequently a person is supposed to havo
consumption w beu it is some other disease
altogether that is reducing his flesh and
making him look pale and tnin.
J. wT Yates, Tullahonia, Tenn., writes:
“It does mo good to praise Botanic Blood
Balm. It cured mo of an abcess on tho
lungs and asthma that troubled me two
years and that other remedies failed to ben
efit.”
So you see it is sometimes well to try con
stitutional treatment. No remedy is so
good as B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) for
rebuilding wasted tissue, and giving health
to every portion of tho system reached by
that groat circulating stream of life, the hu
man Wood. Again, it is often supposed
that colds and exiKisnre are the only causes
of sciatica, rheumatism, etc. Such is not
always the case. It is frequently caused by
impurities in the blood.
Win. Trice, Luttsville, Mo., writes: “I
was afflicted with sciatica and had lost the
use of one arm and one leg for nine years. I
went to Hot Springs and also tried different
doctors, but found no cure until I tried Bo
tanic Blood Balm. It made me sound and
well. I am well known in this vicinity.”
Observe, even when the ronowned Hot
Springs failed, B. B. B. brought relief. Re
member, no matter what blood remedy you
have tried or intend to try, B. B. B. is tho
only one that will give you complete satis
faction. _ _
Some lawyors aro always poor, while
others in the profession meet with fee-nom
inal success.
Intelligent Teoplc.
When an intelligent person makes up his
nind to try Smith’s Tonic Syrup, made bv
Dr. John Bull, of Louisville, Ky., he will
not be persuaded by his druggist to take
some other remedy. He will insist on his
druggist getting tho medicine ho wants,
even though he may have to wait a week for
it. When a family has once used Smith’s
Tonic Syrup and experienced its quick ef
fect in curing all symptoms of malaria,
chills and fever, summer colds, etc., they
never allow themselves to bo without
it An Intelligent father would as soon be
without flour in the house as to be without
Smith's Tonic Syrup. The children like it,
and its effect is always satisfactory.
Tiif. diplomatic barber acts a part when
he goes over tho hood of a bald-headed cus
tomer. -Washington Tost.
The Demon of tho Marsh.
The evil spirit that hovers about stag
nant pools and inundated lowlands, is no
materialized bogey, no phantasm of a dis
ordered imagination, but a ]H>wer of evil
far more malignant than any familiar ana
thematized by Cotton Mather. It is Malaria,
which has for its destructive progeny fever
and ague, bilious remittent and dumb ague,
conquerable with Hostetter’s Stomach Bit
ters, as aro dyspepsia, constipation, liver
complaint, etc.
Water is good in ease of fever, but wa
tered stock makes the market feverish.—
Texas Siftings. _
the most potent remedios for the cure of
disease have been discovered by accident.
The first dose of Dr. Slrallenberger’s Anti
dote for Malaria was given, as an experi
ment, to an old lady almost dying from the
effects of Malaria, on whom Quinine acted
as a poison. One dote cured her ; and a sin
gle dose has cured thousands since. It is
the only known Antidote for the poison of
Malaria. Sold by druggists.
No language can express the feelings it
a deaf mute who steps on a tack in a dark
room.—Elmira Gazette.__
Syrup of Figs,
Produced from the laxative and nutritious
juice of California figs, combined with the
medicinal virtues of plants known to bo most
beneficial to the human system, acts gen
tly on the kidneys, liver and bowels, effect
ually cleansing the system, dispelling colds
and headaches, and curing habitual cons
tipation.
Tiie expenses of an electric company
may be summed up as current expenses.—
Lawrence American.
Mast of the worm medicines and vermi
fuges sold by druggists irritate the stomach
of a little child. Dr. Hull’s Worm De
stroyers never do. As harmless as candy,
yet they never fail. Try them.
i’he dude has his greatest swing in so
ciety when tho hammock season arrives.—
N. 0. Picayune.___
Ale disorders caused by a bilious state of
the system can be cured by using Carter’s
Little Liver Pills. No pain, griping or dis
comfort attending their use. Try them.
RESTAUUANT-kecpcrs are always ready to
steak a man whoa ho has money.—if. O.
Picayune.
Mr wife had chills and fever for nearly a
year and tried every thing. At last Smith’s
Tonic Syrup broke them. I now prescribe
it in my practice.—A. W. Travis, M. It., Sil
ver Lake, Kan.
TnE best illustration of mingled hope and
fear Is a lazy man looking for work.—Ash
land Press. _
We will give $100 reward for any case of
catarrh that can not be cured with Hall’s
Catarrh Cure. Taken internally.
F. J. Cheney & Co.,Props., Toledo, O.
Yon can easily fill the public eye if you
only have the dust—Terre Haute Express.
Rheumatic Pains are greatly relieved by
Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents.
The phonograph needs no eulogy. It
■peaks for itself.—Eiughampton Journal.
Those who wish to practice economy
should buy Carter’s Little Liver Pills.
Forty pills in a vial; only one pill a dose.
All masons are supposed to be “square”
fellows.—Rochester Post-Dispatch.
BRONCHiTrs Is cured by frequent small
doses of Piso’s Cure for Consumption.
Sand-baoqino may be classed among the
too base hits.—Texas Siftings.
For
Summer Complaints,
Bowel Disorders,
*v
Flux and Diarrhoea,
Use
Mississippi Diarrhoea
Cordial.
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