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DR. T AIM AGES SERMON.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE e». NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: "Making the Best of Things"—
Advice About Looking on the Bright
Bide—Blessings In Misfortune's Guise-
Bereavements Fortify Our Spirit.
TBXT: "And now men see not the bright
light which is In the clouds."—Job xxxvii;,
31.
Wind east. Barometer falling. Storm
signals out. Ship reefing matntopsall!
Awnings taken In. Prophecies of foul
weather everywhere. The clouds congre
gate around the sun, proposing to abolish
him. But after awhile ho assails the flanks
of the clouds with flying artillery of light,
and here and there is u sign of clearing
weather. Many do not observe it. Many
do not realize it."And now men see not
the bright light which is in the clouds." In
other words, there are a hundred men look
ing for storm, where there Is one man look
ing for sunshine. My object is to get you
and myself into the delightful habit of
making the best of everything.
You mav have wondered at the statistics
that in India, in tho year 1975, there were
over nineteen thousand people slain by
wild beasts, and that in the year 1876 there
were in India over twenty thousand peo
ple destroyed by wild animals. But there
is a monster in our own land which Is year
by year destroying more than that. It is
the old bear of melancholy, and with Gos
pel weapons I propose to chase it back to
its midnight caverns. I mean to do two
sums—a sum in subtraction and a sum in
addition—a subtraction from your days
of depression and an addition to your days
of joy. If God will help mo I will compel
you to see the bright light that thoro Is in
the clouds, nnd compel you to make tho
best of everything.
In tho first place, you ought to make the
very best of all your financial misfortunes.
During the panic years ngo, or tho long
years of fluancial'depresston, you all lost
money. Somo of you lost it in most unac
countable ways. For the question, "How
many thousands of dollars shull I put aside
this year?" vou substituted the question,
"How shall 1 pay my butcher, and baker,
anil clothier, nnd landlord?" You had the
sensation of rowing hard with two oars,
and yet all tho time going down stream.
You did not say much about it because
it was not politic to speak much of finan
cial embarrassment; but yoUr wife knew.
Less variety of wardrobe, more economy
at the table, self-denial in art and tap
estry. Compression; retrenchment. Who
did not feel the necessity of It? My friend,
did you make the best of this? Are you
aware of how narrow an escape you made?
Suppose you had reached the fortune to
ward which you were rapidly going? What
then? You would have been as proud as
Lucifer.
How few men have succeeded largoly in
a financial sense and yet maintained their
simplicity and religious consecration! Not
one man out of a hundred. There are glori
ous exceptions, but the general rule is that
in proportion as a man gets weil off for this
world "he gets poorly off for the next. He
loses his sense of dependence on God. Ho
gets a distaste for prayer meetiugs. With
plenty of bank stocks and plenty of Gov
ernment securities, what does that man
know of tho prayer, "Give me this day my
daily bread?" How few men largely suc
cessful in this world are bringing souls to
Christ, or showing self-denial for others,or
are eminent for piety? Vou can count
them all upon your eight fingers and two
thumbs.
One of the old covetous souls, when he
was sick, and sick unto death, used to
have a basic brought in—a basin filled
with gold, and his only amusement and
the only relief he got for his inflamed
hands was running them down through
the gold and turning it up in the basin.
Oh, what infatuation and what destroying
power money has for many a man! Now,
vou were sailing at thirty knots tho hour
toward these vortices of worldllness—what
a mercy it was, that honest defalcation! |
The same divine hand that crushed your
store-house, your bank, your office, your
insurance company, lifted you out of de
struction. The day you "honestly sus
pended in business made your fortune for
eternity.
"Oh," you say, "I could get along very
well myself, but I am so disappointed that
I cannot leave a competence for my chil
dren." My brother, tho same financial mis
fortune that is going to save your soul will
save your children. With the anticipation
of large fortune, how much industry would
your children have?—without which habit
of industry there is no safety. The young
man would say, "Well, there's no nce'l of
my working; my father will sooa step out,
nnd then I'll have just what I want." You
cannot hide from him how much you ure
worth. You think you are hldiug it; he
knows all about it. He cau tell you ulmost
to a dollar. Perhaps he has been to tho
county ofllce and soarehed the records of
deeds and mortgages, nnd he has added it
all up, and he has made an estimate of how
long you will probably stay in this world,
and is not as much worried about your
rheumatism and shortness of breath as you
are. The only fortune worth anything
that you caD give your child Is the fortune
you putin his head and heart, Of all the
young men life with seventy
thousand dollars'capital, howmany turned
out well? Ido not know half a dozen.
The best Inheritance a young man can
have is tho feeling that ho has to fight his
tii battle, and that life Is a struggle into
vhieh he must throw body, mind and soul,
ir be disgracefully worsted. Where are
die burial places of the men who started
life with a fortune? Somo of them in tho
potter's field; somo in tho suicide's grave.
But few of these men reached thirtv-llvo
years of ngo. They drank, they smoked,
they gambled. In" them the beast de
stroyed the man. Somo of them lived long
enough to get their fortunes, and went
through them. The vast majority of them
did not live to got their inheritance. From
the gin-shop or house of infamy thoy were
brought homo to their father's house, and
in delirium began to pick off loathsome
reptiles from the embroidered pillow, to
fight back imaginary devils. And then
they were laid out in highly upholstered
>arlor, the casket covered with flowers by
'ulgent parents—flowers suggestive of a
"rrection with no hope,
you sat this morning at your break
able, and looked Into the faces of your
'en, perhaps you said within yourself,
■ things! How I wish I could start
in life with a competence! How I
been disappointed in ail my expectn
of what I would do for them!" Upon
u-ene of pathos I break with a piean
igratulatlon, that by your financial
your own prospects for heaven and
ospect for heaven of your'ehildren are
ily improved. You may have lost a
it you have won a palaae. Let me
v, in passing, do not put much stress
rensures of this world. You cannot
m along with you. At any rate,
lot take thorn more than two or
'es; you will have to leave them at
ery. Attlla had three coffins. So
he of this life that he decreed that
>uld be buried in a coffln'of gold,
len that should bo inclosed in a
ver, and that should be inclosed
112 iron, and then a large amount
ihould be thrown in over his
io ho was burled, and the men
im were slain, so that no ttie
•here be|was burled, and no one
'ntcrfero with his treasures.
i world, who want to take
th you, better have three
rk, you ought to make the
bereavements. The whole
ood over these separations
• time to the handling of
departed, and to make
tho cemetery, and to say,
iok up again; my hope Is
3 gone; my religion Is
gone; my faith In God la eonel Oh, the
wear and tear pud exhaustion of this lone
liness!" The most frequent bereavement is
the loss of children. If your departed child
had lived as long us yon have lived, do yon
not suppose that he woald have had about
the same amount of trouble and- trial that
you have had? If you could make a choice
for your child between forty of an
noyance, loss, vexation, exasperation, and
bereavements, and forty years In heaven,
woald you take the responsibility of ohoos
lng the former? Would you snatch away
the cup of eternal bliss and put into that
child's hands the cup of many be
reavements? Instead !ot the com
plete safety Into which that child has been
lifted, would you like to hold it down to
the risks of this moral state? Would you
like to keep it out on a sen in whloh there
have been more shipwreoks than safe voy
ages? Is it not a comfort to you to know
that that child, instead of being besolled
and flung into the mire of sin, is swung
clear into the skies? Are not those chil
dren to be congratulated that the point of
celestial bliss which you expect to reach
by a pilgrimage of flity or sixty or seventy
years they reaohcd at a flash? If the last
10,000 children who had entered heaven
had gone through the average of human
life on earth, are you sure all those 10,000
children would have Anally reached the
blissful terminus? Bosldes that, my friends,
you are to look at this matter as a self-de
nial on your part for their beneflt. If your
children want togo off in a May-day party;
if your children want togo on a ilowery
ana musical excursion, you consent. You
might prefer to have them with you, but
their jubilant absence satisfies you. Well,
your departod children have only gone out
in a May-day party, amid flowery and
musical entertainment, amid joys and
hilarities forever. That ought to quell
some of your grief, the thought of their glee.
So it ought to be that you could make
the best of all bereavements. The fact that
you have so many friends in heaven will
make your own departure very cheerful.
When you are going on a voyage, every
thing depends upon where your friends are
—if they are on the wharf that you leave,
or on the wharf townrd which you are go
ing to sail. In other words, tho more
friends you have In heaven the easier it
will bo to get away from this world. Tho
more friends here, the more bitter good
byes; the more friends there the more
glorious weloomes. Some of you have so
many brothers, sisters, children, friends in
heaven, that I do not know hardly how
you aro going to crowd through. When
the vessel came from foreign lands, and
brought a Prince to New York harbor, the
ships were covered with bunting, and you
reme-mber how the men-of-war thundered
broadsides; but there was no joy there
compared with the joy which shall be
demonstrated when you sail up the broad
bay of heavenly salutation. The more
friends you have there, the easier your own
transit. What is death to a mother whose
children are in heaven? Why, there Is no
more grief in it than there is in her going
into a nursery amid the romp and laughter
of her household. Though all around may
be dark, see you not tho bright light in the
clouds—that light the irritated faces of
your glorified kindred?;
So also, my friends, I would have you
make the best of your sicknesses. When
you see one move off with elastic step and
in full physical vigor, sometimes you be
come impatient with your lame foot. When
a man describes an object a mile off, and
you cannot soe it at all, you become im
patient of your dim eye. When you hear
of a well man making a great achievement
you become impatient with your depressed
nervous system or your dilapidated health.
I wilt tell you how you can make the worst
of it. Brood over it; brood over all these
illnesses, and your nerves will become more
twltchy, and your dyspepsia more aggra
vated, nnd your weakness more appalling.
But that Is the devil's work.to tell you how
to make the worst of it; it is my work to
show you a bright light In tho clouds.
Which of the Bible men most attract your
attention? You say, Moses, Job, David,
Jeremiah, PauL Why, what a strange thing
it Is that you have chosen those who were
physically disordered! Moses—l know he
was nervous from the blow he gave the
Egyptian. Job—his blood was vitiated and
diseased, and his skin distressfully erup
tive. David—he had a running sore, which
he speaks of when he says: "My sore ran
in the night and ceased not." Jeremiah
had enlargement of the spleen. Who can
doubt it who road Lamentations? Paul
lie had lifetiuio sickness which tlio com
mentators have been guessing about for
years, not knowing exactly what tho
apostle meant by "a thorn in the flesh." I
do not know either; but it was something
sharp, something that stuck him. I gather
from all this that physical disorder may be
the means of grace to the soul. You say
you have so many temptations from bodily
ailments, nnd if you were only well you
think you could be a good Christian.
While your temptations may be different,
they are no more those of the man who
has an appetite three times a day, and
sleeps eight hours every night.
From what tl have heard I judge that
invalids have a more rapturous view of the
next world than well people, and will have
a higher renown in heaven. The best view
of tho delectable mountains is through the
lattice of the sick room. There are trains
running every hour between pillow and
throne, between hospital and mansion,
between bandages and robes, between
crutch and palm branch. Oh, I wish some
of you people who aro compelled to crv,
"My head, my head! My foot, my foot!
Mv back, my back!" would try some of
the Lord's medicine! You are going to be
well anyhow beforo long. Heaven is an
old city, but has never yet reported one
case of sickness or one'blll of mortality.
No ophthalmia for the eye. No pneumonia
for the lungs. No pleurisy for the side.
No neuralgia for the nerves. No rheuma
tism for the muscles. The inhabitants
shall never say, "I am sick." "There shall
bo no more pain."
Again, you ought to make the best of
life's flnalitv. Now, you think I have a
very tough subject. You do not see how I
am to strike a spark of light out of tho
flint of tho tombstone. There are manv
people who have an idea that death Is the
submergence of everything pleasant by
everything doleful. If my subject could
close in the upsotting of all such precon
ceived notions, it would close well. Who
can judge best of the features of a man—
those who are close by him, or those who
are afar off? "Oh," you say, "those can
judge best of the features of a man who
are close by him!"
Now, my friends, who shall judge of the
features of death—whether they are lovely
or whether they are repulsive? You? You
aro too far off. If I want to get a judg
ment as to whit really the features of
death are, I will not ask you; I will ask
those who have been within a month of
death, or a week of death, or an hour of
denth, or a minute of death. They stand
so near the features, they can tell.
They give unanimous testimony, if they
are Christian people, that death, instead
of being demoniac, is cherubic. Of all the
thousands of Christians who have been
carried through the gates of the cemetery,
gather up their dying experiences, and you
will find tliey nearly all bordered on a
jubilate. How often you have seen a dy
ing man join in the psalm being sung
around his bedside, the middle of the verse
opening to let his ransomed spirit free!—
long after the lips could not speak, he
looking and pointing upward.
Some of you talk as though God had ex
hausted Himself in building this world,
and that all the rich curtains He ever made
He hung around this planet, and all the
flowers He ever grew He has woven Into
the carpet of our daisied meadows. No.
This world is not the best thing Qod can
do; this world is not the best thing that
Qod has done.
One week of our year Is called blossom
week—called so all through the land be
cause there are more blossoms In that
week than in any other week of the year.
Blossom week! And that Is what the future
world is to which the Christian is invited
—blossom week forever. It Is as far ahead
of this world as Paradise ts abend of Dry
Tortugas, and yet here we stand trembling
and fearing togo oat, and we want to stay
on the dry sand, and amid the stormy
petrels, when we are Invited to arbors of
jessamine, and birds of paradise.
One season I bad two springtimes. I
went to New Orleans in April, and I marked
the differences between going toward New
Orleans and then coming back. As I went
on down toward New Orleans, the verdure,
the foliage, beoame thicker and more
beautiful. When I came back, the further
I came toward home the less the foliage,
and less it beoame until there was hardly
any. Now, it all depends upon the direc
tion In which you travel. If a spirit from
heaven should come toward our world, he
Is traveling from June toward December,
from radianae toward darkness, from hang
ing gardens toward icebergs. And one
would not be very much surprised if a
spirit of God sent forth from heaven to
ward our world should be slow to come.
But how strange It Is that we dread going
out toward that world when going Is from
December toward June—from the snow of
earthly storm to the snow of Edealo blos
som—from the arctics of trouble toward the
tropics of eternal Joy. - '
Oh, what an ado about dylngl We get so
attached to the malarial marsh In which
wo live that wo ure afraid togo up and
live on the hilltop. Wo are alarmod bo
cause vacation Is coming. Best programme
of celestial minstrels and hallelujah, no in
ducement. Let us stay here and keep ig
norant and sinful and weak. Do not in
troduce us to Elijah, and John Milton and
Bourdalone. Keep our feet on the sharp
cobblestones of earth instead of planting
them on the bank of amaranth In heaven.
Give us this small Island of a leprous world
instead of the immensities of splendor and
delight. Keep our bunds full of nettles,
and our shoulder under the burden, and
our neck in the yoke, and hopples on our
ankles, and handcuffs on our wrists.
"Dear Lord," we seen to say, "keep us
down here where we have to suffer, instead
of letting us ui> whera we-might livo un<l
BBlgn and rejoice."
We are like persons standing on tho cold
steps of the national picture gallery in
London, under umbrella In tho rain, afraid
togo in amid the Turners and the Titlans,
and the come to them and
say, "Why don't you go inside the gal
lery?" "Oh," they say, "we don't know
whether we can get In." I say: "Don't
you see the door is open?" "Yes," they
say; "but we have boon so long on theso
cold stops, we are so attached to them we
don't like to leave." "But," I say, "it is
much brighter and more beautiful in the
gallery, you had better go In." "No,"
they say, "wo know exactly how it Is out
hero, but wo don't know exactly how It is
inside.''
So we stick to this world as though we
preferred cold drizzle to warm habitation,
discord to cantata, sackcloth to royal pur
ple—as though we preferred a piano with
four or lite of the keys out of tuno to an In
strument fully attuned—as though earth
and heaven had exchanged apparel, and
earth had taken on bridal array and
heaven had gone into deep mourning, all
its waters stagnant, all iits harps broken,
all chalices cracked at tho dry wells, all
tho lawns sloping to the rlvor plowed with
graves with dead angels under the furrow.
I am amazed at myself and at yourself
for this infatuation under which wo all
rest. Men you would suppose would get
frightened at having to stay in this world
instead of getting frightened at having to
go toward heaven. This world is as bright
to me as to any living man. but I congrat
ulate anybody who has a right to die. By
that I mean through sickness you cannot
avert, or through accident you cannot
avoid—your work consummated. "Where
did they bury Lily?" said one little child
to another. "Oh," she replied, "they
burlod her in the ground." "What! in the
cold ground?" "Oh, no, no; not in the cold
ground, but in the warm ground, wherp
ugly seeds become beautiful flowers."
"But," says some one, "it pains me so
much to think that I must lose the body
with which my soul has so long compan
ioned." You do not lose it. You no more
lose your body by death than you lose your
watch when you send it to have it repaired,
or your jewel when you tend it to have it
reset, or the faded picture when you send
it to have it touched up, or the photograph
of a friend when you have it putin a new
looket. You do not lose your body. Paul
will goto Borne to get his, I'ayson will go
to Portland to get his, President Edwards
will goto Princeton to get his, George
Cookman will goto tho bottom of the At
lantic to get his. and wo will goto tho vil
lage churchyards and the city cemeteries
to get ours; and when we have our perfect
spirit rejoined to our perfect body,then we
will be the kind of men and women that
the resurrection morning will make pos
sible.
So you see you have not made out any
doleful story yet. What have you proved
about death? What is tho case you have
made out? You have made out just this—
that death ullows U3 to have a perfect
body, free of all aches, united forever with
a perfect soul free from all sin. Correct
your theology. What does it all mean?
Why, it means that moving-day Is coming,
and that you are going to quit cramped
apartments and be mansioned forever.
The horse that stands at the gate will not
bo the one lathered and bespattered, car
rying bad news, but it will bo the horse
that Bt.|Johu saw in Aposalyptic vision—
the white horse on which the King comes
to the banquet. The ground around tb<v
palace will quake with the tires and hooft™
of celestial equipage, and those Christians
who in this wrold lost their friends, and
lost their property, nud lost their health,
and lost their life, will find out that God
was always kind, and that all things
worked together for their good, and that
those were the wisest peoplo on earth who
made the best of everything. See you not
now the bright light in tho clouds?
WAR COST TO DATE.
About 83,000,000 a Day the Average
Expense of Fitting Arinv iui<l Navy.
WASHINGTON, D. C. (Special).—Tho ilrst
twenty-nine days of the war whleh the
United States is waging against the king
dom of Spain cost this country about SBO,-
000.000, or nearly $3,000,000 a day.
The cost of operations in the future will
probably not be so great, as quite one-half
of the expenditures so far have been in
the way of preparation, the acquirement
of warships, guns and equipments. The
ordinary cost should run about $1,000,000
a day. It Is estimated that more than
200,000 persons are actively omployed
helping the nation's land and sea forces to
get into lighting trim.
The persons who derive the most profit
from contracts with the Government are
those that have ships, guns, commissary
supplies, boots, shoes, uniforms, tonts, cut
lorv, tinware and flannels to sell, and the
railway companies.
FORCED MARCHES AT MOBILE.
The Regulars Put Through a Ten-Mlla
Trip Every Day.
MOBILE, Ala. (Special).—The four regi
ments of infantry at Camp Coppinger are
now more acclimatized.
The troops are getting some fine Cuban
practice bv forced marches of ten miles a
day, with advance and rear guards
out and ambulances following to pick
up those who may fall by the
wayside. These practice marches are most
severe, the men carrying full outfits and
200 rounds of ammunition, but they stand
the test well, and tew have been overcome
by the heat. At the volunteer camp the
troops are rapidly becoming efficient under
the unceasing Instructions of army and
volunteer officers, the men drllling»at least
eight hours a day.
Killed While at Prayer.
Sarah Jane Phillips, age twenty-two
years, while at prayer in her home in Au
denrled, Penn., was killed by a bolt of
lightning. She was near the chimney when
the flash struck the house.
Abyssinian Currency.
For small change tbe Abyssinian a
nse the amole, or bar of salt. This is
a block of hard crystallized salt, about
ten inches long and two and a quarter
inches in breadth and thickness,
slightly tapered toward the end; five
goto the dollar at the capital, but its
value varies according to the distance
it has to be brought from Lake Arral,
a salt lake near the entrance to the
Bed Sea. People are very particular
about this, too; if it does not ring
like metal when flicked with the finger
■nail, or if it is cracked or chipped,
they won't take it. It is a token of
affection, also, when friends meet, to
give each other a lick of their respec
tive nmoles, and in this way the ma
terial value of the bar is also de
creased.
For still smaller change cartridges
are used, of which three goto the
salt. It does not matter what sort
they are. whether "scatter-guu" or
rifle cartridges, nor, in the latter
case, does it matter whether they are
Berdan, Gras, Bemington or any other
ammunition. Some sharpers use
their cartridges in the ordinary way,
and then putin some dust and a
dummy bullet to make up the differ
ence, or else they take out tbe powder
and put the bullet in again, so that
possibly iu the next action the unhap
py seller will find that he has nothing
l>ut miss-fires in his belt; but this is
such a common fraud that no one takes
notice of it, and a bad cartridge seems
to serve as readily as a good one.—
New York Times.
Bread Riots.
Ihe world has seen many bread
riota. In 1756, when harvests all over
the world were short, wheat went up,
and iu England there were many in
surrections on account of the scarcity
of bread. In 17G7, when the price of
wheat rose in Mark Lane to the equiv
alent of SI.BO a bushel, there were
serious disturbances all over England,
and great violence was done by the
starving populace. Iu 1775, when the
price of wheat again went to an almost
prohibitive price to the poor, it was
necessary, iu France, for the troops
to guard the markets, and a general
insurrection was only kept down by
the prompt masting of troops in the
I disaffected and suffering places. The
j world well knows what a formidable
; part was played on the eve of the
i French revolution by the rise in food
stuffs, and it will be equally recalled
how frequent, since that revolution,
were the expressions of popular hun
ger aud despair up to the time of the
i enormous expansion of the American
; grain production and the fall in agri
-1 cultural prices. It is most pitiful to
! think of people, driven by want to the
i cry for bread, a cry which, if made too
j insistently, is answered with bullets.
! —lndianapolis News.
| Attendance at the World's Kxpo Alt lons.
Attendance at the great expositions
I of the world was as follows: French
I exposition of 1855, total attendance,
j '2OO days, 5,152,330; London's second
1 international exhibition, 1862, total
attendance 6,225,000, daily average
36,328; Paris exposition of 1867, total
attendance 10,200,000, opened 117
: days; Vienna exposition, 1873, total
attendance 4,100,000; Centennial ex
]>osition at Philadelphia, 1876, total
! attendance 9,910,966, daily average
62,333; first international exhibition
iin Paris under the republic, 1878,
total paid attendance 16,032,725, daily
average 82,650; Paris exposition of
j 1889, total paid attendance 25,000,000
(the exposition opened May 6th and
closed November 6th); World's Coluin
! biau exposition, Chicago, 1893, total
attendance 21,477,218, daily average
119,984i. The total attendance, in
cluding exhibitors and others holding
: passes, was 27,529,400, which exceeded
! by nearly a million the total, 26,538,-
' 543, claimed by the Paris exposition,
j Midwinter Fair, San Francisco, 1894,
' total paid attendance 2,250,000; open
i ing day 72,248 paid admissions, At
i lauta exposition, 1895, from Septem
18th to December 31st, total paid at
tendance 6,180,000.
A Remarkable Cane.
The following case was printed originally
! In The Monitor, a newspaper published at
j Meaford, Ontario. Doubts were raised a3
| to its truthfulness, consequently a close
watch was kept on the casa for two years
and the original statement has now been
completely verified.
Mr. Petch had been a hopeless parnlytlo
for live years. His case has had wide at
tention. He was oonflned to his bed, was
bloated almost beyond recognition, and
could not take solid food. Doctors called
the disease spinsl sclerosis, and all said he
could not live. The Canadian Mutual Life
Association after a thorough examination,
paid him his total disability claim of
$1,650, regarding him as forever incurable.
For three years he lingered in this con
dition. Aftej
(V>3 taking som«
If 2-5 . of Dr. Will
sft-.'-j' if m \ 1 lams' rink
(V?Hi' I * |r* Pills for Palo
yj \l\ \\IV rC? -Mr People thert
V a 8ll « hl
I Jill 8
VnL nl 11" J! sweat freely
—JfcJL II Next came e
1 J \ little feeling
I 11 Y 1 In his llmba
• \ This extend-
I \ |v» * ed, followed
T, • J ■ by a pricking
Paid //is Claim. sensation,
until at last the blood began to course
freely and vigorously through his body.
Soon he was restored to his old time health.
A reporter for The Monitor recently
called on Mr. Petch again and was told:
"You may say there Is no doubt as to my
cure being permanent. I am in better
health than when I gave you the first in
terview and certainly attribute my cure to
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People.
"To these pills I owe my release from the
living death, and I shall always bless the
day 1 was induced to take them."
Such is the history of one of the most re
markable cases In modern times. In the
face of such testimony, can anyone say
that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are not en
titled to the careful consideration of every
sufferer—man, woman or child? Is not the
case. In truth, a miracle ot modern medi
cine?
These pills are sold by all druggists and
are considered by them to be one ot tbe
most valuable remedial agents known to
science.
Beauty Is Blood Deep*
Clean blood means a clean skin. Ho
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, py
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets, —beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 60c.
A volunteer company has been dubbed
"The Disappointed Lovers" because ot the
number of young men belonging to it who
have enlisted on account ot disappoint
ment In love affairs.
The New York Ledger Is now successfully
sold by bright boys and girls, who thus
earn many valuable premiums. Two cents
profit on each oopy sold. No money re
3ulred In advance. Send name and nd
ress for complete outfit, Including Prem
ium List, to ltobert Bonner's Sons, Ledger
Building, ICO William St., N. Y. City.
The most offensive thing you can say to
a Tuscan Is that ho Is ignorant or ill-bred.
ST.VITUS' DANCE,SPASMS and all nerv
ous diseases permanently cured by the use of
Dr. Kline's Great. Nerve Restorer. Send for
FREE 81.00 trial bottle and treati»e to Dr.
R. H. Kline, Ltd.. 801 Arch Street., Phlla., Pa.
Tho Turkish Government has issued a
decree forbidding blood-revenge; but as It
has not the power to deprive the populaoe
of weapons, that crime continues to flou
rish.
Don't Tobacco Suit and Smoke lour life Amy.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
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Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, 50c or tl. Cure guaran
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
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Switzerland has a special academy, es
tablished by an association of hotel-keep
ers, at which every winter thirty men are
specially educated for the hotel business.
Sent free, Klondike Map
From Gold Commission's official survey. Ad
dress Gardner <fc Co.. Colorado Springs, Cola
During 1597 8923 head of live stock in
Switzerland were affected with foot and
mouth disease; of this number 1444 were
killed.
To Cure A Cold In One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 35c.
A Persian carpet has been iu use for 200
years in the main hall In the Shah's palace
In Teheran.
No-To- Uac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
man strong, blood pure 60c, 81 All druggists
American apples have already, in a large
measure, oonquered the markets of Eng
land and Germany.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is a liquid and is taken
internally, aud acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. Write for tes
timonials, free. Manufactured by
F. J. CHENEY & Co.. Toledo, O.
Tho number of ships with ladings that
entered all the harbors of Germany in 1895
was 57,436.
I use Piso's Cure for Consumption both in
my family and practice.—Dr. G. \V. PATTKK
RON, lukster, Mich., Nov. 5,1891.
In a civil service examination In Eng
land there were 186G failures in a class of
1972.
Mrs. Window's Soothing Syrup for children
tsething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wijut colic. 35c.a bottle.
In Canada 123,830,000 letters passed
through the mail last year.
Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
10c, 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money.
Carpet weaving in Persia Is done exclu
sively by women.
BAD
BLOOD
M CAICAR£T9 do all claimed Tor them
and are a truly wonderful medicine. 1 have often
wished for a medicine pleasant to take mid at last
have found it in Cascarets. Since taking them, my
blood has been purifled and my complexion lias im
proved wonderfully aud 1 feel much better in every
way." MRS. SALLIE K. SLLLAHH. Lutirell. Tcun.
CATHARTIC 4
PM
MANN
Pleasant. Palatable. Potent, Taste Good, no
Good, Never Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c.23c.i0c.
... CURE CONSTIPATION. ...
fllMliif Rrmrdy Company. Chlfife, Soalreal, New York. 319
yn.Tn.RiP Sc'd »ndguaranteed by all drug-
RU-IU-DAU gists to Cl'B£ Tobacco Habit
"JONES BE PATS THE FREIGHT."
and Wagon
United States Standard. All Sizes and All Kinds.
Not made by a trust or controlled by a combination.
For Free Book and Price List, address
JONES OF BKNOHAAITOX,
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No JSleed to Lose a Day of Delightful
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& or 'v'tdette.
Machines and Prices Guaranteed.
Pope Mfg. Co., Hartford, Conn.
" Don't Hide Your Light Under a Bushel." That's Just
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SAPOLIO
*o Care Constlpmtlon Forever.
tcareu Candy Catbartloi 10c or So.
It C. O. u. fall to cure, druggists refund money.
A tannery to tan the bides of dogs and
wolves has been established In Cheyenne
County, Kansas.
Fits permanently oured. No fits or nervous
ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
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Da. R. H. KLINE. Ltd.. 931 Arch St..Phlla..Pa.
T Commodore Schley pronounces his ttame
as If It were spelled "Sly."
THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS
is due not only to the originality and
simplicity of the combination, but also
to the care and skill with which it is
manufactured by scientific processes
known to the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP
Co. only, and we wish to impress upon
all the importance of purchasing the
true and original remedy. As the
genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured
by the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP Co.
only, a knowledge of that fact will
assist one in avoiding the worthless
imitations manufactured by other par
ties. The high standing of the' CALI
FORNIA FIG SYRUP Co. with the medi
cal profession, and the satisfaction
which the genuine Syrup of Figs has
given to millions of families, makes
the name of the Company a guaranty
of the excellence of its remedy. It is
far in advance of all other laxatives,
as it acts on the kidneys, liver and
bowels without irritating or weaken
ing them, and it does not gripe nor
nauseate. In order to get its beneficial
effects, please remember the name of
the Company—
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
BAN FUANCISCO, CaL
LOUISVILLE. Ky. NEW TORE, N. T.
0(T MORGAN'S "FUT-AKE" POWDER
■i—i ■■ i i.l A Certain Cure forTire 4
A ching< Swelling and
4- (\£ « PersDiriug Feot.
! _V\ \f | "Fut-Ake cures Bun-
VI XW lons » Chilblains,
i Frostbit*,. Ingrowing
; ) N ai ] 8( Hot Stinging
Fee*: also ana
u \l \ i prevents Blisters, Cal-
I U V f ollß and Sure Spots on
■■■aamamKammmmKMfeet.
Price. lOC'tH. at l»riiH«Ut*\ or mailed for
nix 2c. *tmnpH. STERLING PHARMACAL CO.,
J»(»6Myrtle Ave..Brooklyn, N. Y.
TRY
A MALARIA GERM MAGNIFIED, ■*- ,
Trie History or JOHNSON'S
HAPPY PILLS,
For malaria, Cftlils and Fever, and Livei
Complaints, Is unparalleled in (He annals
of a medicine.
THEY CURE. NO MtRCURY.
THE HAPPY PIEDICfIiE CO.,
West New Brighton, S. 1.,
Borough of Richmond, N.Y,
miTPIITA WATSON F. COLK.HAS, Patent
iKO IbM I V Lawyer, PO2 F Street, Washington,
II W% I kll I W D. C. 111 chest references.
''oreeyes, us!* 11 j Thompson's Eye Water
IVATMRPTNATTHISI-AI-EK WHEN KEI'LY
JVLtjIN 11U1N INU TO AI)VT>. NYN'U-23.
Boat Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Cse Wi
in time. Sold by druggists. Hi