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TALMAUE’S SERMON.
Tho Brooklyn Preacher Talks on
“Poor Investments."
The Sonia of Men Mortgaged to Iniquity;
and the Only Means of Redemption
and Release the fttood of
Jeans Christ.
Rev. T. PeWitt Talmage delivered
Ihe following discourse on the subject
nf ‘‘A Poor Investment" at Topeka,
Kas., taking for his text:
Te have sold youreelvc* for naught; and ye
lhall Ire redeem'd without tuoucy.-Isaiah
til., a.
The Lord’s people had gone headlong
luto sin, and as a punishment they had
been carried captive to Babylon. They
found that iniquity did not pay. Cyrus
seized Babylon, and felt so sorry for
these poor captives that, without a dol
lar of compensation, he let them go
home. So, that literally, iny text was
fulfilled: ‘‘Ye have sold yourselves for
nought; and ye shall be redeemed with
out money.’’
There is enough Oospel in this text
for fifty sermons. There are persons
here who have, like the people of the
text, sold out. You do not seem to be
long either to yourselves or to ‘‘the
world, the flesh, and the devil," but the
purchaser never paid up. ‘‘Ye have
sold yourselves for nought."
When a man passed himself over to
the world he expects to get some ade
quate compensation. He has heard
the great things that the world does
for a man, and he believes it. He
wants two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars. That will be horses and
houses, and a summer resort, and jolly
companionship. To get it he parts with
his physical health by overwork, lie
parts with much domestic enjoyment,
lie parts with opportunities for literary
culture, lie parts with his soul. And
so he makes over his entire nature to
the world. Ho does it in four install
ments. He pays dov/n the first install
ment, and one-fourth of his nature is
gone. He pays down the second in
stallment, and one-half of his nature
is gone He pays down the third, and
three-quarters of his nature
are goue; and after many years
have gone by he pays down
the fourth installment, and lo! his en
tire nature is gone. Then he comes up
to the world and says: “Good morning.
1 have delivered to you the goods. I
have passed over to you my body, my
■nind, and my soul, and I have come
now to collect the two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars.” “Two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars?” says
the world. “What do you mean?”
“Well,” you say, “I come to collect the
money you owe me, and I expect you to
fulfill your part of the contract.”
“But,” says the world. “1 have failed.
1 am bankrupt. I can not possibly pay
that debt. 1 have not for a Jong while
expected to pay it.” “Well,” you then
bay, “give me back the goods.” “Oh,
no,” says the world, “they are all gone.
I can not five them back to you.” And
there you stand on the confines of eter
nity, your spiritual character gone,
staggering under the consideration that
“you have sold yourself for nought.”
I toll you the world is a liar; it does
not keep its promises, it is a cheat,
and it fleeces everything it can put its
hands on. It is a bogus world. It is a
six tliousand-year-old swindle. Even
if it pays the two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars for which you con
tracted, it pays them in bonds tliat will
not be worth anything in a little while,
.lust as a man may paydown ten thou
sand dollars in hard casli and get for it
worthless scrip, so the world passes
over to you the two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars in that shape which
will not be worth a farthing to you a
thousandth part of second after you are
dead. “Oh,” you say, “it will help to
bury me, anyhow.” Oh, my brother,
you need not worry about that. The
world will bury you soon enough from
sanitary considerations.
Post-mortem emoluments are of no
use to you. The treasures of this world
will not pass current in the future
world, and if all the wealth of the
bank of England were put in the pocket
of your shroud, and you in the midst of
the Jordan of death were asked to pay
three cents for your ferriage, you could
not do it. There comes a moment in
your existence beyond which all earth
ly values fall, aud many a man has
wakened up in such a time to find that
he has sold out for eternity, and has
nothing to show for it. I should as
soon think of going to Chatham street
to buy silk pocket-handkerchiefs with
no cotton in them, as to go to this world
expecting to find any permanent hap
piness. It has deceived and deluded
every man who has ever put his trust
in ik
History tells us of one who resolved
that he would have all his senses grati
fied at one and the same time, and he
expended thousands of dollars on each
sense. He entered a room, and there
were the first musicians of the land
pleasing his ear, and there were fine
pictures fascinating his eye, and there
were costly aromatics regaling his nos
tril, and there were the richest meats,
and wines, and confections, pleasing
the appetite, and there was a soft couch
of sinful indulgence on which he re
clined; and the man declared afterward
that he would give ten times what he
had given if he could have one week of
such enjoyment, even though he lost
his soul by it! Ah! that was the rub!
He did lose his bonl by it! Cyrus the
Conqueror thought for a little while
that he was making a fine thing out of
this world, and yet before he came to
his grave he wrote out this pitiful epi
taph for his monument: “I am Cyrus.
I occupied the Persian empire. 1 was
king over Asia. Begrudge me not this
monument.” But the world in after
years plowed up bis sepulcher.
The world clapped its hands and
stamped its feet in honor of Charles
Lamb; but what does he say? *‘I walk
up and down, thinking I am happy, but
feeling I am not" Call the roll, and be
quick about it Samuel Johnson, the
learned! Happy? “No. I am afraid I
shall some day get crazy.” William
Hazlltt, the great essayist! Happy?
“No. I have been for two hours and a
half going up and down Paternoster
row with a volcano in my breast”
Smollet, the witty anthor! Happy? “No.
1 am sick of praise and blame, and 1
wish to God that I had such circum*
starnes around me that I could throw
my pen into oblivion.” Buchanan, the
world-renowned writer, exiled from his
own country, appealing to Henry VIII.
for protection! Happy? “No. Over
mountains covered with snow, and
through valleys flooded with rain, I
come a fugitive.” Moliere, the popular
dramatic author! Happy? “No.^ That
wretch of au actor just now recited four
o( my Hues without tlut proper accent
is.
and gesture. To hare the children of
mj brain ao hung, drawn and quartered
tortures me. like a condemned spirit-”
I went to see a worldling die. As I
went Into the hsll I saw its floor was
tessellated, and its wall was a picture
gallery. I found his death-chamber
adorned with tapestry until it seemed
as if the clouds of the setting sun had
settled in the room. The man had
giren forty years to the world—his wit,
his time, his genius, his talents, his
soul. T>id the world come in to stand
at his death-bed, and clearing off the
rials of bitter medicine, put down any
compensation? Oh, no! The world
does not like sick snd dying people,
snd leaves them in the lurch. It ruined
this man, and then left him. lie had a
magnificent funeral. All the ministers
wore scarfs, and there were forty-three
carriages in a row; but the departed
man appreciated not the obsequies.
1 want to persuade my audience that
this world is a poor investment; that it
does not pay ninety per cent, of satis
faction. nor eighty per cent., nor twen
ty per cent., nor two per cent., nor one;
that it gives no soluce when a dead bn lie
lies on your lap; that it gives no peace
when conscience rings its alarm; that
it gives no explanation in the day of
dire trouble; and at the time of your
decease it takes hold of your pillow
case, amt shakes out the feathers, and
then jolts down in the place thereof
sighs, and groans, and execrutions. and
then makes you ptit your head on it.
Oh, ye who-have tried this world, is it
a satisfactory portion? Would you ad
vise your friends to make the invest
ment? No. “Ye have sold yourselves
for nought.” Your conscience went.
Your hope went. Your llihle went.
Your Heaven went. Your God went.
When a sheriff under a writ from the
courts sells a man out, the officer gen
erally leaves a few chairs and a bed.
and a few cups and knives; but in this
awful vendue in which you have been
engaged the auctioneer's mallet has
come down upon body, mind and soul.
Octng! Gone! “Ye have sold your
selves for nought.”
How could you do so? Did you think
that your soul was a mere trinket which
for a few pennies you could buy a toy
shop? Did you ever think that your
soul, if once lost, might bo found again
if you went out with torches and lan
terns? Did you think that your soul
was short-lived, and that, panting, it
would soon lie down for extinction?
Or had you no idea what your soul was
worth? Did you ever put your fore
fingers on its eternal pulses? Have
you not felt the quiver of its peerless
wing? Have you not known that, after
leaving the body, the first step of your
soul reaches to the stars, and the next
step to the farthest outposts of God’s
universe, and that it will not die until
the day when the everlasting .lehovah
expires? Oh, my brother, what possessed
you that you should part with your soul
so cheap? "Ye have sold yourselves
for nought, ”
liut 1 have some good news to tell
you. I want to engage in a litigation
for the recovery of that soul of yours.
I want to show that you have been
cheated out of it. 1 want to prove, as I
will, that you were crazy on that sub
ject, and that the world, under such cir
cumstances, had no right to take the
title deed from you: and if you will join
me I shall got a decree from the High
Chancery Court of Heaven reinstating
yoxi into the possession of your soul.
“Oh,” you say, “I am afraid of law
suits: they are so expensive, and 1 can
not pay the cost.” Then have you for
gotten the last half of my text? “Ye
have sold yourself for nought; and ye
shall be redeemed without money.”
Money is good for a great many
things, but it can not do anything in
this matter of the soul You can not
buy your way through. Dollars and
pounds sterling means nothing1 at the
gate of mercy. If you could buy your
salvation, Heaven would be a great
speculation, an extension of Wall street.
Had men would go up and buy out the
place, and leave us to shift for our
selves. Hut as money is not » lawful
tender, what is? I answer Blood!
Whose? Are we to go through? Oh,
no; it wants richer blood than ours.
It wants a king's blood. It must
be poured from royal arteries. It
must be a sinless torrent. Hut
where is the king? I see a great
many thrones and a great many occu
pants, yet none of them seem to be
coming down to the rescue. Hut after
awhile the clock of the night in Bethle
hem strikes twelve, and the silver pen
dulum of a star swings across the sky,
and I see the King of Heaven rising up,
and lie descends and steps down
from star to star, and from cloud
to cloud, lower and lower, un
til He touches the sheep-cov
ered hills, and then on to another
hill, this last skull-sliaped, and there,
at the sharp stroke of persecution, a
rill incarnadine trickles down, and we
who could not be redeemed by money
are redeemed by precious and imperial
blood.
We have in this day professed Chris
tians who are so rarefied and ethereal
ized that they do not want a religion of
blood. What do they want? You
seem to want a religion of brains. The
Bible says: “In the blood is the life.”
No atonement without blood. Ought
not the apostle to know? What did he
say? “Ye are redeemed not with cor
ruptible things, such as silver and gold,
but by the precious blood of Christ.”
You put your lancet into the arm of
our holy religion arid withdraw the
blood, and you leave it a mere corpse,
fit ouly for the grave. Why did Got!
command the priests of old to strike
the knife into the kid, and the goat,
and the pigeon, and the bullock, and
the lamb? it was so that when the
blood rushed out from these animals
on the floor of the ancient- tabernacle
the people should be competed to think
of the coming carnage of the son of
God. No blood no atonement.
1 do not know how you will get away
from this subject. You see that you
aro sold out, and that Christ wants to
buy you back. There are three persons
who come after you to-day: God the
Father, God the Sou, and God the Holy
Ghcst. They unite their three omnipo
tences in one movement for your salva
tion. You will not take up arms
against the Triune God, will yon? Is
there enough muscle in your arm for
such a combat? liy the highest throne
in Heaven, and by the deepest chasm in
hell, l beg yon look out. Unless you
allow Christ to carry away your sins,
they wlil carry you away. Unless you
allow Christ .to lift you up, they will
drag you aown. There is only one
hope for you, and that is the blood.
Christ, the sin-olTering, bearing your
transgressions. Christ, the surety, pay
ing your debts. Christ, the Diviue Cy
rus, loosening your liabylonisk captiv
ity.
1 think that God intended to impress
us w ith a vividness of that color. The
green of the grass, the bine of the sky,
would not have startled and aroused us
like this deep crimson. It is as If Uud
had said: “Now, sinner, wake uf
and see what the Saviour endured fov
you. This is not wafer. This is not
wine. It is biood. It Is the blood of
My own Son. It is the blood of the Im
maculate. It is the blood of Ood.”
Without the shedding of blood Is no re
mission. There has been many a man
who in courts of law has pleaded “not
guilty,” who nevertheless has been con.
demned because there was blood found
on his hands, or blood found in his
room; and what shall we do in the last
day if it be found that we have recruci
fied the Lord of giory and have never
repented it? You must believe in the
blood or die. No escape. Unless you
let the sacrifice of Jesus go in your
stead you must yourself Suffer. It is
either Christ's blood or your blood.
. **Oh,” says some one, “the thought of
blook sickens me.” Good. God intend*
ed it to sicken you with your sin. I)o
not act as though you had nothing to
do with that Calvarian massacre. You
had. Your sins were the implements
of torture. Those implements were not
made of steel, and iron, and wood, so
much as out of your sips. Guilty of
homicide, and this regicide, and this
deidide, confess your guilt to-day. Ten
thousand voices of Heaven bring in the
verdict against you of guilty, guilty.
Prepare to die, or believe in that blood.
Stretch yourself out for the sacrifice or
accept the Saviour’s sacrifice. Do not
fling away j'our one chance.
It seems to me as if all Heaven were
trying to bid in your soul. The first
bid it makes is the tears of Christ at
the tomb of Lazarus; but that U not a
high enough price. The next bid
Heaven makes is the sweat of Geth
semane; but it is too cheap a price.
The next bid Heaven makes seems to
be the whipped hack of Pilate’s hali
but it is not a high enough price. Car
it be possible that Heaven can not bu;
you in? Heaven tries once more. It say?.
“1 hid tliia time for that min’s sou!
the tortures of Christ’s martyrdom, the
blood on His temple, -the blood on His
cheek, the blood on His chin, the. blood
on His hand, the blood on His side,
the blood on His knee, the blood on His
foot—the blood in drops, the blood in
rills, the blood in pools coagulated be
neath the cross; the blood that wet the
tips of the soldiers’ spears, ths blood
that plashed warm in the faces of His
enemies.” Glory to God, that bid wins
it! The highest price that was ever
paid for anything was paid for your
soul. Nothing could buy it but blood!
The estranged property is bi ought
back. Take it. ‘‘You have sold your
selves for nought; and ye shall be re
deemed without money.” O atoning
blood, cleansing blood, life-givingblood,
sanctifying blood, glorifying blood of
Jesus! Why not burst into tears at the
thought that for thee He shed it—for
thee the hard-hearted, for thee the lost?
‘‘No.” says some one; “I will have
nothing to do with it except that, like
the enemies of Christ, 1 put both my
hands into that carnage and scoop up
both palms full, and throw it on my
head and cry: ‘His blood be on us and
on our children!’” Can you do such a
shocking thing' as that? Just rub your
handkerchief across your brow and
look at it. It is the blood of the Soil of
God whom you have despised and driven
back all these years! Oh, do not do
that any longer! Come out boldly and
frankly and honestly, and tell Christ
you are sorry. You can not afford to so
roughly treat Ilim upon whom every
thing depends.
Would you like to be free? Here is
the price of your liberation—not money,
but blood. I tremble from head to
foot, not because I fear your presence,
but because I fear that you will miss
your chance for immortal rescue. This
is the alternative divinely put: “He that
believeth on the Son shall have ever
lasting life, and he that believeth not
on the Son shall not see life, but the
wrath of God abideth on him.” In the
last day, if you now reject Christ, every
drop of that sacrificial hlood, instead of
pleading for your release as it would
have pleaded if you had repented, will
plead against you.
() Lord God of the judgment day
avert t*»at calamity! Let us sec the
quick nash of the cimetcr that slays
the sin but saves the sinner. Strike,
omnipotent God, for the soul’s deliver
ance! Heat, O eternal sea, with all
thy waves against the barren beach o!
that rocky soul and make it tremble.
Oh! the oppressiveness of the hour, the
minute, the second, on which the soul’s
destiny quivers, and this is that hour,
that minute, that second!
Some years age there came down a
fierce storm on the sea coast, and a
vessel got in the breakers and was go
ing to pieces. They threw up some sig
nal of distress and the people on shore
saw them. They put out in a life
boat. They came on, and they saw the
poor sailors, almost exhausted, cling
ing to a raft, and so afraid were the
boatmen that the men would give up
before they got to them, they gave them
three rounds of cheers, and criedt
“Hoid on, there! hold on! We’ll save
you!” After awhile the boat came up.
One man was saved by having the boat
hook put in the collar of his coat, and
some in one way and some in another;
but they all got into the boat. “Now,”
says the captain, “for the shore.
Pull away now, pull!” The peo
ple on the land were afraid the
lifeboat hud gone down. They said:
“How long the boat stays. Why,
it must have been swamped and they
have all perished together.” And there
were men and women on the pier-heads
and on the beach wringing their hands;
and while they watched and watched,
they saw something looming up through
the mist, and it turned ont to be the
lifeboat. As soon as it came
within speaking distance the people on
the shore cried out: “Did you save
any of them? Did you save any
of them?” And as the boat swept
through the boiling surf and came to
the pier-head, the captain waved his
hand over the exhausted sailors that lay
flat on the bottom of the boat, and
cried: “All saved! Thank God! All
b_ved!” So may it be to-day. The
waves of your sin run high, the storm
is on you, but I cheer you with the
Gospel hope. God grant that within
the next ten minutes we may.
row with you into the harbor of
God's mercy. And when these Chria*
tian men gather around to see the re
sult of this service, and the glorified
gathering on the pier-heads of Heaven
to watch and to listen, may we be able
to report all saved! Young and old,
good and bad! All saved! Saved for
time. Saved for eternity. “And so it
came to pass that they all escaped safe
to land.”
—All that is needed to make a man
hate himself is for him to get a good,
square look at himself.
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Hill'e Hair and Whisker Dye, 60 oenU.
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Bppday Is tho summer landlord's day of
wrea>.—Boston Transorlpt
Pint In the Side nearly el ways com®* from
Ir a woman would change her sex, whet
would be her religion I She would be a
he then, of course.—National Weekly.
Best, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso *
Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. 25c.
It takes an unusually good swimmer
nowadays to float a loan.—Boston Herald
‘ Don’t
“ Monkey”
with your
Blood.
t Delay b dangeron* m afck
peaa; It la especially haaardou*
In dlnoaae* of the Blood. Cor
ruption breed* corruption; and
mild caaea, If neglected, darelop
Into incurable chronic dU
orders. _ . .
SO 0 1» a aaf e, epeedy and
\ V eure cure for all
, Q, O.eontaalou. blood
V polaonln*. Inherit
ed Scrofula. Skin Eruption*,
and liaa cured thouaanda of
caaea of Cancer. _
It l» a powerful tonic for deli
cate persona, yet la harmlee*
and Incapable of InJurlD* th*
moat aenaltlre system.
A trcatla# on Blood and Skin
Diseases mailed rmu on appli
cation.
Druggists Soil It.
SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,
Drawer 3, Atlanta, Oa.
“AugustT
Flower”
For Dyspepsia.
A. Bellanger, Propr., Stove Foun
dry, Montagny, Quebec, writes: “I
have used August Flower for Dys
pepsia. It ^ave me great relief. I
recommend it to all Dyspeptics as a
very good remedy.”
Ed. Bergeron, General Dealer,
Lauzon, Eevis, Quebec, writes: “I
have used August Flower with the
best possible results for Dyspepsia. ’ ’
C. A. Barrington, Engineer and
General Smith, Sydney, Australia,
writes: ‘ ‘August Flower has effected
a complete cure in my case. It act
ed like a miracle.”
Geo. Gates, Corinth,Miss.,writes:
“ I consider your August Flower the
best remedy in the world for Dys
pepsia. I was almost dead with
that disease, but used several bottles
of August Flower, and now con
sider myself a well man. I sincerely
recommend this medicine to suffer
ing humanity the world over.” G>
G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer,
Woodbury, New Jersey, U. S. A.
Have You Tried It?
-ITT NOT,
TryJHtow!
Go to your Druggist, hand
him one dollar, tell him you
want a bottle of ... .
PRICKLY ASH
★ BITTERS ★
The Best Medicine known
for the CURE of
All Diseases of the Liver,
All Diseases of the Stomach,
All Diseases of the Kidneys,
All Diseases of the Bowels.
PURIFIES THE BLOOD,
CLEANSES THE SYSTEM,
Restores Perfeet Health.
» LIVER
PILLS
DO ROT GB1PE ROB SICKBR.
•eraeura for SICK HEAD*
ACHE, Impaired digestion, consti
pation, torpid glands. Thcyarouaa
vital organa, remora nausea, dls
slnaaa Act Ilka magic on Kid
neys and bladder. Conaoer
3 billons uervont uls
E aa a orders. Establish nat
3 ^ oral Daily action.
Beautify complexion by purifying
blood. raxxLT Vxo stash.
The dote It nicely adjusted to suit eu^ at one Dili eaa
never be too much. Each yIaI contains 42, earned in rati
pocket, llko lead pencil Bunlueas man's great
convenience. Taken easier than sugar. Sold eeery
yrhere. All genuine goods bear '•Crescent*
Send S-cent stamp. Ton get SS page book With tempi*
BR. HARTER MEDICINE CO . St. Low!*. Mo.
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 187R ~
W. BAKES k CO.’S
Breakfast Cocoa
_ from which the cxccm of oil
In baa been removed,
• la absolutely pars and
it is soluble.
No Chemicals
•re need In He preparation. It
baa mere than three times the
strength of Cocoa mixed with
Starch, Arrowroot or Sagar,
end ie therefore fir more eco
nomical, costing less than one
cents cup. It 1e dellctoua, acor
' X , ." «; mv • *
A-head of everything
that can be used for washing
and cleaning, is PEARlS
INE. Ifyourworkisheaw
it is a necessity; if y0ur
workislight, it isaluxury
It lessens the labor of
washing.andhelpsevery
where in the housework.
There s nothing so harm
less—nothing so effect
ive—nothing so popular
and yet so new—it is rapidly
succeeding soap. Try it for wash.
/ ing dishes—try it for washing any.
thing—everything; only try it—for vour own sake and ours.
A house without Pearline is “ behind the times.”
-w-~w Peddlers and some unscrupulous grocers will tell yon, 11 this
LJ Tt r r| >s “ good as " or “ the same as rearlinc.” IT’S FALSE—
| VV tl JL v_^ Pearline is never peddled, and if your grocer sends you some
thing in place of Tear line, do the honest thing—rW it tack, .gj JAMES PVI,F„ New York
"When slovens get tidy they polish the
bottoms of the pans:-When
axe given
never tired of cleaning up
Two servants in two neighboring houses dwelt,
But differently their daily labor felt;
Jaded and weary of her life was one,
Always at work, and yet ’twas never done.
The other walked out nightly with her beau,
But then she cleaned house with SAPQLIO.
READ
What Mr. E. n. Corns, Warden
of the Ohio Penitentiary, at Co
lumbus, Ohio, says:
March 18th, 1890.
“ Sometime ago I was in Nash,
▼llle, and while there was taken
with a severe spell of hlirrhiea,
which I am subject to. I called
at a drug store for something to
rolleve mo and was recommended
to try
DUNOAKT’S
BLACKBERRY ELIXIR
and I bought one bottle, which
gave memmost miUKDIATR
relief.”
This excellent remedy Is un
surpassed for the treatment of
DYSENTERY. DIARRHOEA AND FLUX
and never fails to relieve
Teething Children.
• Price, 50 Cents,
THE WEBB MANUF’O CO.,
PROPRIETORS,
NAUHVlilJit TENET.
i — ¥!qc<&9 I
(gWmppOan
My wife and child having a severe attack of Whooping
Cough, we thought that we would try Piso’s Cure for Con
sumption, and found It a perfect success. The first bottle
broke up the Cough, and four bottles completely cured
them.—H. Stbinqek, 1147 Superior 8t, Chicago, Illinois.
R. M. BARTLETT’S
Commercial College
OWING TO INCREASED PATRONAGE
This College has removed to tbs largest bulldlnr In tbs
city, mi I table for educational purpose*, occupying th*
entire building above the ground floor. Oldest, largest
and cheapest In the world. Send for Illustrated catalogue.
Ks*. 102, 104 ansi 144 W. Fnortla Itreet, i ladnnatl^
DONALD KENNEDY
Of Roxbury, Mass., says
Kennedy’s Medical Discovery
cures Horrid Old Sores, Deep
Seated Ulcers of 40 years
standing, Inward Tumors, and
every disease of the skin, ex
cept Thunder Humor, and
Cancer that has taken root.
Price, $1.50. Sold by every
Druggist in the U. S. and
Canada. _
AN ASTONISHING
TONIO FOR WOMEN.
UcELREE’S
It Strengthens the Weak, Quiets the
Nerves, Relieves Monthly
Suffering and Cures
FEMALEDISEA8ES.
ASK YOUR DRUGGIST ABOUT IT.
Si.00 PER BOTTLE.
^CHATTANOOGA MED. CO., Chattanooga, Tenn.
Test u>«*ean>»
l '_j ef
Sw COAT \\
"DOUR (oom water In the sierra bolding the! I
X end light aa here shown or anywhere else I I
where there Isa seem, and see If Itta watertight. 11
Tliere are (roods m the market that look rery nice T1
bat will leak at every seam. We warrant l I
Tow«f, IMPROVED Pish II
Slicker to lie water tight at every seam sad U
everywhere else; also Hot to peel or stict, and 1
authorize oar dealers to make good any Slicker 1
that falls In either point. 1
Watch Out fur the Soft Woolen Collar 1
and fish Brand Trade Start W \
A* Jr TOWBRi V^Vfr., Bostoiy, f\as*.
I EWIS’ 98 <*> LYE
1 POWDEBED AKD PEXPTOtED
■» (PATSKTSD)
The stroujest and purest Lye
made. Will make the best per
i fumed Hard Soap in 30 minute*
1 without bni’in /. It la the best
for cleansing waste pipes, dis
infecting sinks, closets, wash
ing bottles, paints, trees, eta
PE5UA. SALT HTG 00.,
Gen. Agts., Phila., Pa
Patents! Pensions
Sand tor la-rotator's Outdo or Ho v to Obtain a Pntoat.
Sand far Di*n»t ofrtXSWH and HOCXTY I. A WO.
PATRICK O’RARRZLL, . WA8HIBGT0M. 0. a
| ruu tils rtWm Oasr^-a. ’
MONEY-™* w- b-ms-MQNEY
NEGRO PREACHERS AND TEACHERS READ.
Toll all ex slaves to «ena
money ordenfor a gold
i-mhlcin badge—Vaughan’*
new book (containing let
ter* from Negro Bisnopj,
Frederick Douglass.Bishop
Newman, Senator Cullom,
Ex-Mayor Carter Harrison,
Judge Thurston, and insny
others. IftO pages, illustra*
ted), blanks, papers, ate.,
fullr explaining hi* Kf*
SLAVE PENSION BILL.
Club, are now forming ev
ery where and are eiidor*
in* “Vaughan* bill. °slo*
trodueedln the Klfty-Ar**
Congress in their heh»>!,
asking I&00cash oodlttP«
month for,rune and d Iter
ent amount* for other*.
Mavor Vaughan* new
book, that is the best bU
tory of the r*ee e' er writ
ten; gives cogent reason*
why the Government
should and must grant tha
former negro slave fKS
•ion. Write at once anil get
your naineaetc.dn his len
•ion register. No charge
except as above until the bill becomes a in* .
VACHHAN, < Ex-Mayor) Washington, D.C. r‘v-u **__
RICH CUT GLASS AND ARTISTIC POTTERY.
fLO?b&C9
381 MAIN 8T., MEMPHIS, TENN.
DINING, TEA & CHAMBER SETS a Specialty.
ALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PRORPT 1TTSST10 ■
ses'naix et„ MK**r^,I?vTrART
PUT UP IN BEAUTIFUL BOXES BENT TO AM F
OF THE LN1TRO STATES.
tr" When TOO visit Memphis go U'F
K ESTAl RANT for R Good Dinner.
■F-BAMB THIS FATES UK) Wl rmnU. _
GINNING OUTFITS!
I Cotton Presses. 61ns, Shifting, Pslleji,
i Engines and Boilers, Firs Frosts, (IrsU Bsrs,
I timers! Itepolr Work, lUchlnery Bnpplws.
! CHICKASAW IRON WORKS, • Memphli, Tenn.
■F-RAJIS TB» TArlR ,n,7 Oa, »• mie
ncucmuc »«« AU lilllsri X dltkidsd.
rCHSIUnS crease. »Syi»»rk«jperlencs. t,»**Jr'
A. W. n<CORRICI A BOSS, Wuklatuia. D. C. I llMlkeW ,
Or*ABl THIS PAFEB wlki|eiltt___
SUMMER RESORTS.
Crescent Hotel,
EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS.^
of Korthwo.t Arku»». CorotlTQ
Scenery, high elevation. For descrlpti ® P 1 ^
address OB ESC EFT HOTEL. Eurekm Springs, a.
•TXiKI IRIS F AFSR tt— *** »««**» -
educational._
Bethel Classical «9 Hlfltarr Acadsm,
L.NB E.TABM.IIEIA I{I?1M
THE NATIONAL.
•JTKAMI toil TArtR mrnj ttrn*rm*m+__ __
WESLEYAN FEMALE COLLEGE,
M-mu fa urn ■niwy* ***■__
CECILIANOJDLLE0.E,
OMlIlan, Kj. Bw»* —«•• _•
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ttea uMatkfWri mm. MS Ad4» *•** ^
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