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TALM AGE’S SMIMON.
A Visit to Mnrs Hill, where Pn til
Astounded the Philosophers.
Tho Gromlrnr «nrt Glory of t* 'Grrrlon
AcropolU—Tho I'urthonon *h>V'<t'«
Wondrona Archltrrtarr-Tli*
rant and the Future.
Bcv. T. DeWitt Talmage continued
his series of discourses: "From the
Pyramids to the Acropolis" in the
Brooklyn tabernacle, taking for his
text:
While Psnl wait"*! for them »t Athens his
spirit was stirred in him when he saw the ritjr
wholly (riven to idolatry —Acta xvii.. IS.
It seemed as if morning would never
come. Wc had arrived after dark in
Athens, Greece, and the night was
sleepless with expectation, and my
watch slowly announced to me one and
two and three anil four o'clock, and at
the first ray of dawn I called our party
to look out of* the window upon that
city to which Paul said he was a debt
or. and to which the whole earth is
debtor for Greek architecture, Greek
sculpture. Greek poetry. Greek elo
quence, Greek prowess, and Greek his
tory. That morning in Athens we
sauntered forth armed with most gen
erous and lovely letters from the presi
dent of the i'nited States and liis scre
tary of state, and during all our stay in
that city these letters caused every
door and every gate and every temple
and every palace to swing open before
us. The mightiest geographical name
on earth to-day is America. The signa
ture of an American president and sec
retary of state will take a man where
an army could not. Those names
brought us into the presence of a most
gracious and beautiful sovereign, the
queen of Greece, and her cordiality was
more like that of a sister than the occu
pant of a throne room. Xo formal bow
as when monarchs are approached, but
a cordial shake of the hand, and earn
est questions about our personal wel
fare and our beloved country far away.
But this morning we pass through
where stood the Agora, the ancient
market place, the locality where phi
losophers used to meet their disciples,
walking while they talked, and where
Paul the Christian logician flung many
a proud stoic, and got the laugh on
many an impertinent Epicurean.
The market place was the center of
social and political life, and it was the
place where people went to tell and
hear the news. Booths and bazaars
were tset up for merchandise of all
kinds, except meat, but everything
must be sold for cash, and there must
be no lying about the value of commod
ities, and the Agoranomi who ruled
the place could inflict severe punish
ment upon offenders. The ' different
schools of thinkers had distinct places
set apart for convocation. The Pla
tusans must meet at the cheese market,
the Deeelians at the barber shop, the
sellers of perfumes at the frankincense
headquarters. The market place was
a space three hundred and fifty yards
long and two hundred and fifty wide,
and it was given up to gossip, and mer
chandise, and lounging, and philoso
phizing. All this you need to know in
order to understand the Bible when it
says of Paul: "Therefore disputed he
in the market daily with them that met
him.” You see it was the best place to
get an audience, and if a man feels
himself called to preach he wants peo
ple to preach to. But before we make
our chief visits of to-day we must take
a turn at the Stadium. It is a little
way out, but go we must. The Sta
dium was the place where the foot
races occurred.
Haul had beeu out there, no doubt,
for he frequently uses the scenes of
that place as figures when he tells us:
“Let us run the race that is set before
us,” and again: “They do it to obtain a
corruptible garland, but we an incor
ruptible. ’’The marble and gilding have
been removed, hut the high mounds
against which the seats were piled are
still there. The Stadium is six hundred
and eighty feet long, one hundred and
thirty feet wide and held forty thou
sand spectators. There is to-day the
very tunnel through which the defeated
racer departed from the Stadium and
from the hisses of the people, and
there are the stairs up which the victor
went to the top of the hill to be
crowned with the laurel. In this place
contests with wild beasts sometimes
took place, and while Hadrian, the em
peror, sat on yonder height one thou
sand beasts were slain in one celebra
tion. Hut it was chiefly for foot-racing,
and so I proposed to my friend that
day while we were in the Stadium that
we try which of us could run the
sooner from end to end of this histor
ical ground, and so at the word given
by the lookers-on we started side
by side, but before I got through I
found out what Paul meant when he
compares the spiritual race with the
race in this very Stadium, as he says:
“Lay aside every weight.” My heavy
overcoat and my friend's freedom from
such encumbrance showed the advan
tage in any kind of a race of “laying
aside every weight.”
We now come to the Acropolis. It is
a rock about two miles in circumfer
ence at the base, and one thousand
feet in circumference at the top, and
three hundred feet high On it has
been crowded more elaborate archi
tecture and sculpture than in any other
place under the whole heavens. Orig
inally a fortress, afterward a congrega
tion of temples and statutes and pil
lars, their ruins an enchantment from
which no observer ever breaks away.
No wonder that Aristides thought it
the center of all things—Greece, the
center of the world; Attica, the center
of Greece; Athens, the center of Attica,
and the Acropolis, the center of Athens.
Earthquakes have shaken it. Verres
plundered it. Lord Elgin, the English
embassador at Constantinople, got per
mission of the sultan to remove from
the Acropolis fallen pieces of the build
ing. but he took from the building to
England the finest statues, removing
them at an expense of eight hundred
thousand dollars. A storm overthrew
many of the statues of the Acropolis.
Morosini, the general, attempted to re
move from a pediment the sculptured
car and horses of Victory, but the
clumsy machinery dropped it. and all
was lost. The Turks turned the build
ing into a powder magazine, where the
Venetian guns dropped a fire that by
explosion sent the columns flying in
the air, and falling cracked and splin
tered. Hut after all that time and
storm and iconoclasm have effected the
Acropolis is the monarch of all ruins.and
before it bow the learning, the genius,
the poetry, the art, the history of the
ages. I saw it as it was thousands of
years ago. I had read so much about it
that 1 needed no magician’s wand to
restore It, At one wave oi mv baqd oa
that clear morning in 1SS0, it rose be
fore me in the glory it had when Peri
cles ordered it, and Ictinus planned it,
and Phidias chiseled it, and Protognes
painted it, and Paus&nias described it.
Itsgates, which were carefully guarded
by the ancients, open to let you in, snd
yon ascend by sixty marble steps the
propyliea, which Epaminondas wanted
to transfer to Thebes, but permission,
1 atn glad to say, could not be granted
for tiie removal of this architectual
miracle. In the days when ten cents
would do more than one dollar now,
the building cost two million three hun
dred thousand dollars. See its five or
lamented gates, the keys entrusted to
an officer for only one day lest the
temptation to go in and misappropriate
the treasures tie too great for him. its
ceiling a mingling of blue and scarlet
and green, and the walls abloom with
pictures utmost in thought and color
ing. Yonder is a temple to a goddess
called “Victory Without Wings.” So
many of the triumphs of the world had
been followed by defeat that the
(irecks wished in marble to indicate
that victory for Athens had come never
again to fly away, and hence this tem
ple to “Victory Without Wings," a
temple of marble, snow-white and glit
tering. Yonder behold the pedestal of
Agrippa, twenty-seven feet high and
twelve feet square.
Put the overshadowing wonder of all
the hill is the Parthenon. In days
when money was ten times more valu
able than now, it cost four million and
six hundred thousand dollars. It is a
Doric grandeur, having forty-six col
umns. each column thirty-four feet high
and six feet two inches in diameter.
Wondrous intercolumniations! Painted
porticos, architraves tinged with ochre,
shields of gold hung up, lines of most
delicate curve, figures of horses and
men and women and gods, oxen oil the
way to sacrifice, statues of the deities
Dionysius, Prometheus, Hermes, De
meter, Zeus, llera, Poseidon; in one
frieze twelve divinities; centaurs in
battle; weaponry from Marathon;
chariot of night; chariot of the morn
ing: horses of tlie sun, the fates, the
furies; statue of Jupiter holding in his
right hand the thunderbolt; silver
footed chair in which Xerxes watched
tlie battle of Salamis only a few miles
away. Here is the colossal statue of
Minerva in full armor, eyes of gray
colored stone; figure of n sphinx on
her head, gritiins by her side (which
arc lions with eagle’s beak), spear in
one hand, statue of liberty in the other,
a shield carved with battle scenes, and
even the slippers sculptured and tied
on with thongs of gold. I'ar out at sea
the sailors saw this statue of Minerva
rising high above all the temples,
glittering in the sun. Here arc stat
ues of equestrians, statue of a lion
ess, and there are the graces, and
yonder a horse in bronze. There is a
statue, said in the time of Augustus
to have of itsown accord turned around
from east to west and spit blood: stat
ues made out of shields conquered in
battle; statue of Anacreon, drunk and
singing; statue of Olympodorus, a
Cireek, memorable for the fact that he
was cheerful when others were east
down, a trait worthy of sculpture. Put.
walk ou and around the Acropolis, and
yonder you see a statue of Hygeia, and
the statue of Theseus fighting the Mi
notaur and the statue of Hercules slay
ing serpents. No wonder that Petro
nius said it was easier to find a god
than a man in Athens. OU, the Acrop
olis! The most of its temples and statues
made from the marble quarries of
Mount Pentelicum, a little way from
the city. I have here on my table a
block of the Parthenon made out of
tliis marble, and on it is the sculpture
of Phidias. I brought it from the
Acropolis. This specimen lias on it the
dust of ages, and the marks of explo
sion and battle, but you can get from it
some idea of the delicate luster of the
Acropolis when it was covered with a
mountain of this marble cut into all the
exquisite shapes that genius could con
trive, and striped with silver and aflame
with gold. The Acropolis in the morn
ing light of those ancients must have
shown as though it were an aerolite
cast off from the noonday sun. TJie
temples must have looked like petrified
foam. The whole Acropolis must have
seen like the white breakers of the
great ocean of time.
Itut we can not stop longer here, for
there is a hill near by of more interest,
though it lias not one chip of marble to
suggest a statue or a temple. We
hasten down the Acropolis to ascend
the Areopagus, or Mars Ilill, as it is
called. It took only about three min
utes to walk the distance, and the two
liill tops are so near that what I said in
religious discourse on Mars Hill was
heard distinctly by some English gen
tlemen on the Acropolis. This Mars
Hill is a rough pile of rock fifty feet
high. It was famous long before New
Testament times. The Persians easily
and terribly assaulted the Acropolis
from this hill top. Here assembled the
court to try criminals. It was held in
the night time, so that the faces of the
judges could not he seen, nor the faces
of the lawyers who made the plea, and
so, instead of a trial being one of emo
tion, it must have been one
of cool justice. Hut, there Tv as
one occasion on this hill mem
orable above all others. A little
man, physically weak, and his rhetoric
described by himself as contemptible,
had by his sermons rocked Athens with
commotion, and he was summoned,
either by writ of law or hearty invita
tion, to come upon that pulpit of rock
and give a specimen of his theology.
All the wiseacres of Athens turned out
and turned up to hear him- The more
venerable of them sat in the amphi
theater. the granite seats of which are
still visible, hut the other people
swarmed on all sides of the hill and at
the baie of it to hear this man, whom
some called a fanatic, and others called
a raad-cap, and others a blasphemer,
and others styled contemptuously "this
fellow." Paul arrived in answer to the
writ or invitation and confronted them
and gave them the biggest dose that
mortalsever took. He was so built that
nothing could scare him, aDd as for Jupi
ter and Atlienia, the god and the god
dess, whose images were in full sight on
the adjoining hill, he had not so jnuch
regard for them as he had for the ant
that was crawling in the sand under
his feet. In that audience were the first
orators of the world, and they had
voices like flutes when they were pas
sive and like trumpets when they were
aroused, and I think they laughed in
the sleeves of their gowns as this insig
nificant-looking m?in rose to speak. In
that audience were socialists, who knew
everything, or thought they did, and
from the end of the longest hair on the
top of their cranlums to the end of the
nail on the longest toe, they were
stuffed with hyp*rerltlcisiB, and they
Ufthod hack with a supercilious look to
listen. As in 18S!», 1 stood on that rock
where Paul stood, and a slob of which
I brought from Athens by consent of
the queen, through Mr. Tricoupls, the
prime minister, and had placed in yon
der memorial wall, I read the whole
story. Hi hie in hand.
What I hare so far said in this dis
course was necessary in order that you
may understand the boldness, the de
fiance. the holy recklessness, the mag
nificence of Paul's speech. The first
thunderbolt he launched at the oppo
site hill -the Acropolis—that moment
all a-gtit*cr with idols and temples.
He cried out: "Hod who made the
world." Why, they though that Pro*
metheus made it, that Mercury made it,
that Apollo made it, that Poseidon
made it, that Eros made it, that Pan*
droeusinade it, that Boreas made it.
that it took all the gods of the Par
thenon, yea, all the gou3 and goddesses
of the Acropolis to make it, and here
stands a man without any ecclesiastical
title, neither a I). I)., nor even a
reverend, declaring that the world wa*
made by the Lord of Heaven and earth,
and hence the inference that, all the
splendid covering of the Acropolis, so
near that the people standing on the
steps of the Parthenon could hear it,
was a deceit, a falsehood, a sham, a blas
phemy. Look at the faces of liis audi
tors: they are turning pale, and then
red, and then wrathful. There had been
several earthquakes in that region, but
that was the severest shock these men
had ever felt The Persians had bom
barded tlie Acropolis fr-vu the heights
of Mars Hill, but this Pauilnc bombard
ment was greater and more terrific.
“What,” said his hearers, “have we
been hauling with many yokes ol oxen
for centuries these blocks from the
quarriesof Mount Pentelicum, and have
we had our architects putting up these
structures of unparalleled splendor, and
have we had the greatest of all scnlp
tors, Phidias, with his men, chiseling
away at those wondrous pediments and
cutting away at these freiz.es, and have
we taxed the nation’s resources
to the utmost, now to be told
that those statues see nothing, hear
nothing know nothing!" Oh, Paul,
stop for a moment and give these
startled ami overwhelmed auditors
time to catch their breath! Make a
rhetorical pause! Take a look around
you at the interesting landscape, and
give your hearers time to recover! No,
he does not make even a period, or so
much as a colon or semi-colon; but
launches the second thunderbolt right
after the first, an:l in the same breath
goes on to say: <5od “dvvelletli not in
temples made with hands." O, Paul!
Is not deity more in the Parthenon, or
more in the Theseum. or more in the
Ereelithcium, or more in the temple of
Zeus Olympius than in tlie open air,
more than on the hill where we are
sitting, more than on Mount Hymettus
out yonder, from which the bees get
their honey. “No more!” responds
Paul. “He dwelleth not in temples
made with hands.”
Surely that must be the closing para
graph of the sermon. Ilis auditors
must be let up from the nervous strain.
Paul has smashed the Acropolis and
smashed the national pride of the
Greeks, and what more can he say? j
Those Grecian orators, standing on
that place, always closed their ad- I
dresses with something sublime and
climacteric, a peroration, and Paul is
going to give them a peroration which
will eclipse in power and majesty all
that he has yet said. Heretofore he has
hurled one thunderbolt at a time; now,
he will close by hurling two at once.
The little, old man. under the power of
his speech, has straightened himself
up, and the stoop has gone out of his
shoulders, and lie looks about three
feet taller than when lie began, and
his eyes, which were quiet, became
two flames of fire, and his face, which
was calm in the introduction,
now depicts a whirlwind of emo
tion as he tied the t#o thunderbolts to
gether with a cord of inconsumable
courage anil hurls them at the crowd
now standing or sitting aghast—the two
thunderbolts of resurrection and last
judgment. Ilis closing words were:
“Because He hath appointed a day, in
which He will judge the world in right
eousness by that Man whom He hath
ordained; whereof lie hath, given assur
ance unto all men in that He hath
raised Him from the dead.” Hcmember
those thoughts were to them novel and
provocative; that Christ, the despised
Nazarene, would come to be their
judge, and they should have to get up
out of their cemeteries to stand before
Him and take their eternal doom.
As that night in Athens I put my
tired head on my pillow, and the excit
ing scenes of the day passed through
my mind, 1 thought on the same sub
ject on which ii-s a boy I made my com
mencement speech in Xiblo's theater
on graduating day from the Xew York
university, viz.: "The Moral Effects of
Sculpture and Architecture,” but
further than I could have thought
in boyhood I thought in Athens
that night the moral effects of
architecture and sculpture depend on
what you do in great buildings after
they are put up, and upon the charac
ter of the men w-hose forms you cut in
marble—yea! I thought that night what
struggles the martyrs went through in
order that in our time the Gospel
might have full swing; and 1
thought that night what a brainy
religion it must be that could
absorb a hero like him whom we
have considered to-day, a man the su
perior oi the whole human race, the in
fidels but pigmies or homunculi com
pared with him; and 1 thought what a
rapturous consideration it is that
through the same grace that saved Paul
we shall confront this great apostle,
and shall have the opportunity, amid
the familiarities of the skies, of
asking him what was the greatest
occasion of all his life. He may
say: “The shipwreck of Melita.” He
may say: “The riot at Ephesus.”
He may say: “My last walk out on the
road to Ostia.” But, I think, he will
say: “The day I stood on Mars Hill
addressing the indignant Areopagite^
and looking off upon the towering form
of the g'xldess Minerva, and the inajesi
ty of the Parthenon, and all the brill
iant divinities of the Acropolis. That
account in the Bible was true. My spirit
was stirred within me when I saw the
city wholly given up to idolatry!”
—Mind what you run after. Never be
contented with a bubble that will
burst, nor with a fire-work that will
end in smoke and darkness. Get that
which is worth keeping and that you
can keep.—A non.
—1“The World, the Flesh and the
Devil,” is the title of a late novel by a
popular authoress. We agree with thf
critic, who says that rather than rea$
it one had better leave the first, mortify
tbt wound and b?j‘,ea lb tht third..
WITH THE WITS.
Am. who invest in good deeds here
will lie cutting coupons in the sweet by
and by —Pittsburgh Dispatch
\Vk have noticed that the cheaper the
trousers a young roan has on the more
fur lie puts on the collar and cuffs of
bis overcoat.—Atchison Globe.
“IIoxksty is the best policy, after all,”
said the old politiean. “Ilowr do you
know." asked the funny man, “did you
ever try it?”—Detroit Free Press.
Siik— “1 would still love you if yon
asked me to live in a cot." Ifc—“llow
about a Hat?” She (sighing)—“Even
love has its limitations.”—N. Y Sun.
Taii.ois—“How wide a collar shall I
put on your overcoat, sir.* t ustomer -
•Make it so wide that when I pass you
on the street I can turn it up so you
won't recognize me."—Clothier and
Furrier
Simtur — "What kind of poetry do you
write?" Finer—"The poetry of mo
tion.” Spacer—“What kind is that?"
Finer—"The kind that is constantly be
ing sent out and returned.”—N Y.
Herald
\Viri;_“| don't think I shall get a
new bom.ot this month, but I shall have
my old one trimmed over.” Husband—
“llless you, my dear." Wife—"Dont
bless me. Give me twenty-five dollars
for trimming.”—Cloak Review.
PERSONAL PARTICULARS.
PlIKSMIKNT WlM.IAM IlSNRY IlABRI
son, ninth president of the I'nited
States, lived only thirty-one days after
his inauguration to the office, in March,
18:'0.
Mr. Philip Armour has started a day
nursery in Chicago, which lie frequent
ly visits, and where, it is said, a friend
lately found him playing beanbag with
the children.
Bankkr Eugu.xk Kki.lt. of New
York, who is worth S5.000.000. earned
bis passage to this country by driving a
jaunting car in his native place. County
Tyrone, Ireland.
Tim late Herman Melville was the
grandson of a patriotic Boston mer
chant, who, disguised as one of the "In
dians," helped sink the tea in the harbor
at the time of the famous Boston tea
party
Col. F. F. Dknxino, of New York,
enjoys the honor of being the child of
parents wedded by the poet, William
C. Bryant, when the latter was a
justice of the peace in a Fong Island
village.
PEOPLE IN EUROPE.
It is now Baron von Pasteur, if the
French doctor wants to avail himself of
the title. The emperor of Austria has
conferred upon him the order of the
iron crown.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
recently visited Meyerling and attended
mass in the new chapel erected over the
very spot where his unfortunate son
Iludolph committed suicide some years
ago.
Cardinal Lavioerif. was once a beau
: sabreaur. Cardinal Howard formerly
1 held a commission in the Life guards,
and the cardinal archbishop of Perth
was in his youth the smartest of Aus
trian hussars.
Carruthers, a Scotch editor, looked
so much like Thackeray that upon one
occasion when Carruthers called upon
Thackeray, the maid who met him at
the door laughed in his face because slio
thought her master in a fit of absent
mindedness had come home and asked
1 for himself.
FROM OVER THE OCEAN.
The largest pyramid in Egypt weighs
over 0,000,000 tons.
England possesses 1,000.445 square
; miles of African territory.
London theater-going is said to have
j declined to a remarkable extcnL
--
If I’e<tcretl I>:»y nnd Night
| With nervousness, take Hostetler's Btom
; nch Hitters, which invigorates and so tran
quilizes tho nervous system. Tho basis of
recovery is a reform in errors of digestion.
The epigastric nerve and brain are united
in the closest bond of sympathy, so that
dyspeptic symptoms in the gastric region
are always accompanied by hurtful reflex
nervous action. Both are remedied by the
i Hitters, which also cures malaria, bilious
ness, rheumatism and kidney trouble.
“Dm you steal my scales!’’ demanded the
j excited grocer. “By no mentis,” responded
the suspected. “1 "merely made a weigh
with them.’’—Baltimore American.
The Only One liver Printed—Can Ton Find
tho Word?
There is a 3 inch display advertisement
in this paper, this week, which has no two
words alike except one word. The same is
true of each new one ap' earing each week,
from The l)r. Harter Medicino Co. This
house places a “Crescent’’ on everything
they make and publish. Look for it, send
them the name of the word and they will
return you hook, beautiful lithographs or
samples free.
Young people in the country are not so
slow. They often make love at a rattling
gate.—Yonkers .Statesman.
Mummies do not look as though they wore
in a hurry, yet, it is certain thet at first
they must have been pressed for time.
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The Christmas Wide Awake
Is as gay as old Santa Clans himself,
and it is a big pack of holiday delights.
Its exquisite frontispiece, in color. It
from the terra cotta baa relief "nay
and Night," by Caroline Hunt Rimmer,
daughter of Dr. Rimmer, the late fa
mous Art-Anatomist. Rarely has any
thing nioro beautiful been given in a
magazine. Perhaps the story that will
attract the most attention is the first
one of the "Fair Harvard" series,
"Snch Stuff as Dreams are made of.”
by John Mead Howells, the son of W.
IS. Howells. The opening story is as
delicious and fresh: “How Christmas
came in the Little Black Tent," by Mrs.
Charlotte M. Vnile. “Christmas with
•Ole Sherman,” ’ is an incident of the
war, in which General Sherman figures
genially. In her story “The Fairy •Con
tent.’ ” Mrs. Jessie llenton Frcinont is
at her brightest and best. "Queen
Margaret’s Needles," by Susan Cool
idge. is an historical ballad of Norway.
Another fine ballad is "The Fourth
Little Boy,” by Mary E. Wilkins, fully
illustrated. "The War of the Schools,”
by Capt C. A. Curtis, U. S. A., is a
splendid snow-balling story. "In Arctic
Pack-Ice" is a thrilling story by Lieut. -
Col. Thorndike, the first in a series of
“One Man's Adventures.”
The illustrated papers are interest
ing: “A Roumanian Princess," by
Eleanor Lewis, and “How I became a
Seneca Indian,” by Mrs. Harriet Max
well Converse.
The serials open well: "Jack Brere
ton’s Three Months’ Service,” a war
story by Mrs. Maria McIntosh Cox,
"The Lance of Knnana,” a historical
Arabian story by Abd el Ardavan.
Then there are the departments. "Men
and Things,” Tangles, and Post-Oflice,
besides many bright pictures and
poems.
Wide Awake is *2.40 a year. 20 cts. a
number. I). Lothrop Company; Boston.
A cheat mistuko perhaps was made
when l>r. Sherman named his great remedy
Prickly Ash Bittkks; but it Is presumed
that at that time nil remedies fur the blood,
etc , were culled Bitters. Had he called it
Prickly Ash "Regulator,” "Curative, ' or
almost, anything lint lllltfr*, it undoubtedly
would have superseded all other prepara
lions of similar character. Thenam&Bitters
is misleading; it is purely a medicine, and
cannot bo used us a beverage.
“Yoi'he bigger than I am.” remarked
the nnminer to the 1 unip of coal; •■but 1
th.uk 1 can do you up in grate shape ”
Whex you feel nil broke up, and life hard
ly seems worth living. W hen you hardly feel
able to attend to your daily work. Wheuyou
feel you would give half yon own for a little
more s rengih, Just give l>r. John Bull's
Sarsaparilla a triul mid see what a lift it will
give you. You will bless the day you tried
ltr. John Bull s Sarsi arillu.
The theatrical mechanic is not quarrel
some, but he often tlmls it necessary to
raise a scene.—Washington Star.
Deseuvino Confipexce.—There Is no
article which so richly deserves the entire
confidence of the community ns Brown's
Bronchial Tro< hes. Those sulfaring from
Asthmatic and Bronchial Diseases, Coughs,
and Colds, should try them. Price 25 cents.
“How no Z strike you;" said the artificial
limb to its mate “You're a corker,’’ was
the reply.—Washington Star.
Tnorr.HTi.Kss mothers are they who will
not, give sickly children Dr. Bull’s Worm
Destroyers. They remove i tie worms, and
the child grows strong. *
Why is it easy to break into an old man's
house? Because his locks are few and
his gait is broken.
Are unlike ivil other pills. No purging or
pain. Act specially on the liver and bile.
Carter's Little Liver Pills. One pill a dose.
There is nothing inconsistent in a carpet
dealer wearing a claw-hammer coal.—Tex
as Siftings.
W no seekers with his liver, constipation,
bilious ills, poor blood or dizziness—take
BoechaaTs Pills. Of druggists. 25 cents.
When are acrobats murdered?—when
they poise on each other.
Pain from indigestion, dyspepsia and too
hearty eating is relieved at, once by taking
one of Carter's Little Liver Pills imme
diately after dinner. Don’t forget this.
Monstrosities find freak quarters In the
dime museum.—Texas Siftings.
Half.'s Honey of Horehound and Tar re
lieves whooping cough.
Pike's Toothuche Drops Cure in one minute.
ONE ENJOYS
Both tho method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup 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 commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 60c,
and $1 bottles by all leading drug- j
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it Do not accept any
substitute.
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OWING TO INCREASED PATRONAGE
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DR. HARTER MEDICINE CO.. SI. Loulo Mo.
Elys catarrh
CREAM B/LM
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GOOD NEWS
FOR THE MILLIONSOF CONSUMERSOF
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It jItm I>r. Tutt plcanuro to an
nounce that ho U now putting up a
TINY LIVER PILL
which U of exceedingly small size, yet
retaining all the virtues of the larger
ones. They are guaranteed purely
vegetable. Roth sizes of these pills
are still issued. The exact size of
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Best, Easiest to Use. and Cheapest.
Bold by druggists or sent by mail.
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'COTYHICflT »W*
“ There's something behind it.n
That's what yon think, perhaps,
when you read that the proprietors
of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy offer
#500 reward for an incurable case
of Catarrh. Rather unusual, you
think, to find the makers of a medi
cine trying to prove that they be
lieve in*it. “There must be some
thing back of it! ”
But it's a plain, square offer, made
in good faith. The only thing that's
back of it is the Remedy. It cures
Catarrh in the Head. To its mild,
soothing, cleansing and healing
properties, the worst cases yield,
no matter how bad or of how long
standing. It has a record that
goes back for 25 years. It doesn’t
simply relieve — it perfectly and
permanently cures. With a Rem
edy like this, the proprietors can
make such an offer and mean it.
To be sure there's nsk in it, but
it's so very small that they are
willing to take it.
You've “never heard of anything
like this offer?” True enough.
But then you’ve never heard of
anything like Dr. Sage’s Remedy.
“August
Flower”
Perhaps you do not believe these
statements concerning Green’s Au
gust Flower. Well, we can’t make
you. We can’t force conviction in
to your head or med
Doubtinrj icine into your
throat. We don’t
Thomas. want to. The money
is yours, and the
misery is yours; and until you are
willing to believe, and spend the one
for the relief of the other, they will
stay so. John H. Foster, 1122
Brown .Street, Philadelphia, says:
“ My wife is a little Scotch woman,
thirty years of age and of a naturally
delicate disposition. For five or six
years past she has been suffering
from Dyspepsia. She
Vomit became so bad at last j
that she could not sit j
Every Meal, down to a meal but l
she had to vomit it j
as soon as she had eaten it. Tw’o
bottles of your August Flower have '
cured her, after many doctors failed.
She can now eat anything, and enjoy
it; and as for Dyspepsia, she does not
know that she ever had it. ” @
Have You Tried It? a
-IF NOT,- ■ .;#
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After usl'gone bottle of “ Mother’ll Friend” 1
sc tiered nut little pain, and did not experience that
weakness afterward visual In such cases.—Mrs.
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Sent tiv express, charges prepaid, on receipt of
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