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PALMAGH'S SERMON.
"^tHE WORLD AS IT WILL BE"
SUNDAY'S SUBJECT.
t«Kl II. Peter 3: IS.—A New Earth,
Wherein Dwelleth RlgUteotuneits—
Story at the N«r Eartli an It Will
U» In Centuries to
Down In the struggle to make the
world better And happier we sometimes
get depressed with the obstacles to be
overcome and the work to be accom
plished. Will it hot be a tonic and in
Inspiration to look at the world as, it
will be when it has been brought back
to paradisaical condition? So let us for
a -few moments" transport ourselves
Into the future and put ourselves for
ward, in the centuries, and see the
world -in its rescued and perfected
state, as we will see it if in those times
we are permitted to revisit this
planet, as am sure we will. We all
want to seethe world after it has been
thoroughly gospelized and all wrongs
have been righted. We will want to
come back, and we will come back,
to look upon the refulsent consumma
tion toward which we have been on
larger or smaller seal- toiling. Hav
ing heard the opening of the orchestra,
on whose strings some discords trav
eled, we will want to hear the last
triumphant bar of the perfected ora
torio. Having sr.cn tho picture as the
painter drew the first outlines on the
canvas, we will want to see it when it
lp as complete as Reuben's "Descent
from the Cross," or Michael Angelo's
"Last Judgment." Having seen the
-world under the gleam of the star of
Bethlehem, we will want to see it
when, under the full shining of the
Sun of Righteousness, the towers shall
strike twelve at noon.
There will be nothing in that coming
century of the world's perfectoin to
hinder our terrestrial visit. Our power
and velocity of locomotion will have
Improved infinitely. It will not take us
long to come here, however far off in
God's universe heaven may be. The
Bible declares that such visitation is
going on now. "Are they not all min
istering spirits sent forth to minister
to those who shall be heirs of salva
tion?" Surely, the gates of heaven
will not be bolted, after the world is
Edenized, so as to hinder the redeemed
from descending for a tour of inspec
tion and congratulation and triumph.
You know with what interest we
look upon ruins—ruins of Kenilworth
castle, ruins of Melrose abbey, ruins of
Rome, ruins of Pompeii. So this world
in ruins is an enchantment to look
at, but we want to see it when rebuilt,
repillared, retowered, realtered, re
dedicated. The exact date of the
world's restoration I cannot foretell.
It may be that through mighty awak
enings it may take place In the middle
of the near-by twentieth century. It
may be at the opening of the twenty
first century, but it would not be sur
prising if it took more than 100 years
to correct the ravages of sin which
have raged for 6,000 years. The chief
missionary and evangelistic enterprises
were started in this century, and be
-not dismayed if it takes a couple of
centuries to overcome evils that have
had full swing for sixty centuries. I
take no responsibility in saying on
what liage of the earthly calendar it
:will
N
aaft-j
roll in, but God's eternal veracity
Is sworn to it that it will roll in and
as the redeemed in heaven do as they
please, and have all the facilities of
transit from world to world, you and
I, my hearer or reader, will come and
look at what my text calls "A new
earth, wherein dwelleth righteous
ness."
I imagine that we are descending at
that period of the world's complete
gospelization. There will be no peril
•In such a descent. Great heights and
.. depths have no alarm for glorified
spirits. We can come down through
chasms between worlds without
growing dizzy, and across the
spaces of half a universe without los
ing our way. Down and farther down
we come. As we approach this world
~we breathe the perfume of illimitable
gardenS. Floralization that in the cen
turies past was here and there walled
in, lest reckless and dishonest pluck
or despoil it, surges its billows of color
across the fields and up the hillsides,
and that which was desert blossoms
as the rose. All the foreheads of crag
crowned with flowers the feet of the
mountains slippered with flowers. Oh!
_^hts perfume of the continents, this
Z' aroma of the hemispheres! As we ap
proach nearer we hear songs and
laughter and hosannas, but not one
groan of distress, not one sob of be
reavement, not one clank of chain.
Alighted on the redeemed earth, we
are first acosted by the spirit of the
twenty-flrst century, who proposes to
guide and show us all that we desire
to see. Without his guidance we would
lose our way, for the world is so much
changed from the time when we lived
in it First of all, he points out to us
a croup of abandoned buildings. We
ask ihte spirit of the twenty-first cen
tury, "What are those structures whose
walls are*'falling down, and whose
gates are rusted on the hinges?" Our
escort tells us: "Those were- once
penitentiaries filled with offenders, but
the crime of the world has died out.
Theft and arson and violence have
quitted the earth. People have all they
want, and why should they appropriate
the- property of others, even if they
-had the desire? The marauders, the
assassins, the buccaneers, the Herods,
the Nana Sahibs, the ruffians, the
bandits are dead, or, transfigured by
the power of the Christian religion,
and are now upright and beneficent
and useful. Prisons are of no more "use
in this world, except as places to be
Visited by curiosity seekers, as farther
back in the annals of time tourists
visited the fortress where the prisoner
"'of Chillon was incarcerated, or Devil's
island, where Dreyfus endured four
years of eruelty."
After passing on amid columns and
statues erected in memory pt those
•who have been mighty for' goodness
in the world's history, the highest and
ihe most exquisitely sculptured are
those in honor of such as have been
most effectual in saving life or improv
ing life, rather than those renowned
for destroying life, we come upon
anptber group of buildUigjp that must
'have be^n transformed from their
orici9&l shape and adapted to other
escort He answers: "Those were
almshouses and hofffoitals, but accuracy
in making and prudence in running,
machinery of all sorts have almost
abolished the list of casualties, and
sobriety and industry have nearly
abolished pauperism, so that those
buildings, which once were hospitals
and almshouses, have been turned into
beautiful homes for the less prosp
red
and if you will look in you will set ihe
poorest table has abundance, and the
smallest wardrobe luxury, and the
harp, waiting to have its strings
thrummed, leaning against the piano,
waiting for its keys to be fingered. Yes,
we have on the shelves of our free
V'braries the full story of dispensaries,
and crutches, and clinics, and surgery,
and what a time of suffering there
must have been on those battlefields of
Sedan and Gettysburg and south Af
rica one or two hundred years ago.
We can hardly believe now that the
science of wholesale murder and multi
form assassination was so popular that
In the United States in four years 500,
000 men on one side went forth to put
to death 500,000 men on the other side.
"Hospitals and almshouses must
have been a necessity once, but they
would be useless now. And you see all
the swamps have been drained. The
sewerage of the great towns has been
perfected. And the world's climate is
so improved that there are no pneu
monias to come out' of the cold, or
rheumatism out of the dampness, or
fevers out of the heat. Consumptions
banished. Pneumonias banished. Diph
theria banished. Ophthalmia banished.
Neuralgias banished. As near as I can
tell from what I have read, our atmos
phere of this century is a mingling of
the two months of May and October
of the nineteenth century."
And'we believe what our escort says,
for as we pass on we find health glow
ing on every cheek and beaming in
every eye, and springing in every step,
and articulating in every utterance,
and you and I whisper to each other
as our escort has his attention drawn
to some new sunrise upon the morn
ing sky, and we say to each other,
"Who would believe that this is the
world that we lived in over a hundred
years ago? Look at those men and
women as we pass on the road! How
improved the human race! Such
beauty! Such strength! Such grace
fulness! Such geniality! Faces with
out the mark of one sorrow! Cheeks
that seem never to have been wet by
one tear! A race sublimated! A new
world born!"
But I say to our escort: "Did all
this merely happen so? Are all the
good here spontaneously good? How
did you get the old shipwrecked world
afloat again, out of the breakers into
the smooth seas?" "No, no," responds
our twenty-flrst century escort. "Do
you see those towers? Those are the
towers of churches, towers of reforma
tory institutions, towers of Christian
schools. Walk with me, and let us
enter some of these temples." We en
ter, and I find that the music is in the
major key, and none of it in the minor.
Gloria in Excelsis rising above Gloria
in Excelsis. Tremolo stop in the or
gan not so much used as the trumpet
stop. More of Ariel than of Naomi.
More chants than dirges. Not a thin
song, the words of which no one under
stands on the lip of the soloist, but
mighty harmonies that roll from out
side the door to chancel, and from floor
to groined rafter, as though Handel
had come out of the eighteenth century
into the twenty-first, and had his foot
on the organ pedal, and Thomas Hast
ings had come out of the early part of
the nineteenth century into the twen
ty-first and were leading the voices.
Music that moves the earth and makes
heaven listen.
But I say to the twenty-first century
escort: "I cannot understand this.
Have these worshipers no sorrows, or
have they forgotten their sorrows?"
Our escort responds: "Sorrows! Why,
they had sorrows more than you could
count, but by a divine illumination
that the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries never enjoyed, they under
stand the uses of sorrow, and are com
forted with a supernatural condolence,
such as previous centuries never ex
perienced."
I ask again of the Interpreter: "Has
death been banished from the world?"
The answer is: "No, but people die
now only when the physical machin
ery is-worn out, and they realize it is
time to go, and they are certainly and
without doubt going into a world where
they will be infinitely better off and are
to live in a mansion that awaits their
immediate occupancy." "But how is
all this effected?" I ask our escort.
Answer: "By floods of gospel power.
You who lived in the nineteenth cen
tury never saw a, revival of religion to
be compared with what occurred in the
latter part of the twentieth and the
early part of the twenty-first century.
The prophecy has been fulfilled that
'a nation shall be born in a day' that
is, ten or twenty or forty million peo
ple converted in twenty-four hours. In
our church history we read of the
great awakening in 1857 when 500,000
souls were saved but that was only a
drop of the coming showers that since
then took into the kingdom of God
everything between the Atlantic and
Pacific, between the Pyrenees and the
Himalayas." The evils that good peo
ple were in the nineteenth century try
ing to destroy have been overcome by
celestial forces. What human weapon
ry failed to accomplish, has been done
by omnipotent thunderbolts.
The good work was helped on by
the fact that it became a general habit
among millionaires and multi-million
aires to provide churches and schools
and institutions of mercy, not to be
built after the testators were dead, but
so that they might be present at the
laying of the corner-stone, and at the
dedication, and leave less inducement
for the heirs at law to prove in
orphans' court that when the testators
made their last will and testament
they were crazy. The telegraphic wires
in tho air, and the cables under the
sea, thrill with Christian invitalton.
Phonographs charged with gospel ser
mons stand in every neighborhood.
The 5,000,000,000 of the world's in
habitants in that century are 5,000,
000,000 disciples.
"But," I say to our escort, the spirit
of the twenty-first century, "you have
shown us much \ut what about In
ternational conditions? When we lived
on earth it was a century that bled
with Marengo, and Challons, and Lodi
Brldge, and Lucknow, and Solferlno,
and Lelpslc, and Waterloo, and San
Juan." Our fscort replies: "Come I
with me to this building of white mar
ble and glittering dome." As we pass
up and on we are taken into a room
where the mightiest and best repre
sentatives of all nations are assembled
to settle International controversies.
As we enter I hear the presiding officer
opening the council of arbitration,
reading the second chapter of Isaiah:
"They shall beat their swords into
plowshares, and their spears into
pruning hooks nation shall not lift
up sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war any more." Questions
which in our long-past nineteenth
century caused quarrel and bloodshed,
as when Germany and France were de
ciding about Alsace and Lorainne, as
when the United States and Spain were
deciding about Cuba—such questions
in this twenty-flrst century settled in
five minutes, one drop of ink doing
more than once could have been ac
complished by a river of blood.
And now you and I have left our
escort as we ascend, for the law o£
gravitation has no power to detain
ascending spirits. Up through im
mensities, and by stellar and lunar and
solar splendors, which cannot be de
scribed by mortal tongue, we rise
higher and higher, till we reach the
shining gate as it opens for our re
turn, and the questions greet us from
all sides: "What is the news? What
did you find in that earthly tower?
What have you to report in this city
of the sun?" Prophetic, apostolic,
saintly inquiry. And standing on .the
steps of the house with many man
sions, we cry aloud the news: "Hear
it, all ye glorified Christian workers
of all the past centuriesl We found
your work on earth was successful,
whether on earth you toiled with knit
ting needle, or rung a trowel on a ris
ing wall, or smote a shoe last, or en
dowed a university, or swayed a scep
ter whether on earth you gave a cup
of cold water in the name of a dis
ciple, or at some pentecost preached
3,000 souls into the kingdom. In that
world we have just visited the deserts
are all abloom, and the wildernesses
are bright with fountains. Sin is ex
tirpated. Crime is reformed. Disease
is cured. The race is emancipated.
1 he earth is full of the knowledge of
God, as the waters cover the sea.'
The redeemed of the Lord have come
to Zion with songs and everlasting joy
upon their heads.' 'The Lord God
Omnipotent reigneth, and the king
doms of the world have become the
kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ.'
Let the harpers of heaven strike the
glad tidings from the strings of their
harps, and the trumpeters put them
in the mouth of their trumpets, and
the orchestras roll them into the grand
march of the eternities, and all the
cathedral towers of the great capital
of the universe chime them all over
heaven."
And now I look up and see the cast
ing down of the bejeweled and radiant
crowns at the sacred feet of the en
throned Jesus. Missionary Carey is
casting down before those feet the
crown of India saved.^ Missionary Jud
son is casting down the crown of Bur
mah saved. Missionary Abeel cast
ing down the crown of China
saved. David Livingstone cast
ing down at these feet the crown of
Africa saved. Missionary Erainerd
casting down the crown of this coun
try's aborigines saved. Souls that went
up from all the denominat'ons in
America in holy rivalry, seeking which
could soonest cast down the crown of
this continent at the Savior's feet, and
America saved.
But often you and I who were com
panions in that expedition from heaven
to earth, seated on the green bank of
the river that rolls through the para
dise of God, will talk over the scenes
we witnessed in that parenthesis of
heavenly bliss, in that vacation from
the skies, in our terrestrial visitation
—we who were early residents in the
nineteenth century, escorted by the
spirit of the twenty-first century, when
we saw what my text describes as "a
new earth, wherein dwelleth right
eousness." "Glory to the Father, and
to the Son and to the Holy Ghost, as
it was in the beginning, is now, and
ever shall be, wopld without end.
Amen."
ANOTHER SET OF RULES,
A set of rules for young men to fol
low are those laid down by a man who
built up an immense business, the ram
ifications of which extended all over
the United States. They will bear pe
rusal, and are as follows:
Keep good company or none. Never
be idle.
If your hands cannot be usefully em
ployed, attend to the cultivation of
your mind.
Always speak the truth. Make few
promises.
Live up to your engagements. Keep
your own secrets, if you have any.
When you speak to a person, look
him in the 'face.
Good company and good conversa
tion are the very sinews of virtue.
Good character is above all things
else.
Your character cannot be essentially
injured except by your own acts.
If any one speaks evil of you, let
your life be so that none will believe
him.
Drink no kind of intoxicating
liquors.
Ever live (misfortune excepted)
within your income.
When you retire to bed, think over
what you have been doing during the
day.
Make no haste*, to be rich, If you
would prosper.
Small and steady gains give compe
tency with tranquillity of mind.
Never play at any game of chance.
Avoid temptation, through fear you
may not withstand It.
TffE LEON REPOKTER, THURS^lYf^ DEr^MTtK
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Earn money before you spend it.
Never run into debt unless you see a
way to get out again.
Never -uirrow, if you can possibly
avoid it.
Do not marry until you are able tc
support a wife.
Never speak evil of any one.
Be just before you are generous,
Keep yourself innocent if you would
be happy.
Save when you are young, to spend
when you are old.
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Read over the above maxims at least
once a week.
Beyond Doubt. 1
"Who was the scientist that made
the discovery that baldness is a sign of
intellect?"
"I don't know his name. All I know
is that he was bald."
New Pass In Rocky Mountains.
After numerous hairbreadth escapcs
a party of explorers in the Uocky
Mountains stumbled onto a new pass.
In a like manner, people who believed
dyspepsia incurable are astonished to
find that llostetter's Stomach Bitters
used faithfully will make the digestion
strong, the bowels regular, the liver
active. Try it.
No fool is fool enough to acknowl
edge it.
FITS PermanonMyOurfu.Wontaornorvousnossaftflt
arst day's nso of Dr. Kliiie'a Great Nerve KvsU.i-er.
Bend Tor FllEE S2.00 trial liottle mid treatise.
Du. H. II. KXIKK. Ltd..931 Arch St.. Philadelphia, ft*.
The average man is polite to a lot of
other men he would rather kick.
I know that rav life was saved by Piso's
Cure tort on sumption.—John A. Mi.lcr, Au
Sable, Michigan, April 21. 18Un.
Some men cut acquaintances while
scraping them—barbers, for instance.
THE CHRISTMAS ISSUE
Of the Lake Shore Book of Trains is
something entirely out of the ordinary
in the way of railroad literature and
will be of interest to all. Copy will be
sent to any address on receipt of 2-cent
stamp—F. M. Byron, G. W. A. Chi
cago A. J. Smith, G. P. A., Cleve
land.
It is considered a deadly insult to
tell a 15ostjnian that he doesn't know
beans.
Winter XSxrttrflious.
The Southern Pacific Company and
its connections operate the best first
and second-class service to California,
Arizona, Texas and Mexico. Through
Pullman Palace Sleepers and Tourist
Sleepers from all principal eastern
points. Personally conducted Tourist
Excursions from Cincinnati, Louisville,
St. Louis, Chicago, St. Paul, Minne
apolis, Des Moines, Omaha, Kansas
City. etc. For particulars and descrip
tive literature write W. G. Neimyer,
Gen'l Western Agent, 238 Clark St.,
Chicago W. H. Connor, Com'l Agent,
Chamber Commerce Bldg., Cincinnati,
Ohio, or W. J. Berg, Trav. Pass Agt.,
220 Ellicott Sq„ Buffalo, N. Y.
In ancient times Grecian athletes,
when training for physical contest-!,
were fed on boiled grain, tigs, and new
cheese. They were not allowed to eat
meat, and their only beverage wa.s
warm water.
Dnily Paper for SI a Year.
The lowa legislature meets this winter, congress
will deal with rauny problems, unit wars In Africa
and the Philippines will lead to imiat results. Tlie
Des Moines Daily News will tell you all about
thess events and all other news of Iowa and tho
world, including telegraphic markets. Subserlp
tion price, one year, $1 six mounts, 75 cents
three niontbK. 60 contK, cash in advance. Address
The News, Des Moines lowa.
A real blessing seldom has to assume
a disguise.
Vaccinate Your HogR.
Reliable men wanted to vaccinate swine
with Dr. Gillett's Hog Cholera Serum liber
al offer to field operators inclose stamp for
particulars. W.J. Gillett, M.D.. Parsons,Kas.
The father of David Livingstone was
an operator in a cotton mill.
A HOLIDAY BOOK FREE.
Christmas is near at hand and the an
nual question, "What .shall I buy for
Christmas?" again recurs. A book of 25S
pages, with 3000 fine illustrations, issued
by the Mermod & Jaecard Jewelry Co.,
401-407 N. Broadway, St. Louis, Mo., will
solve the question. It contains everything
good and new in Diamonds, Watches,*
Gold and Silver Jewelry, Silver and Plated#
Silver Ware, Table Cutlery and China,
Clocks, Lamps, Music Boxe3, Umbrellas
and a thousand of these pretty Silver
Novelties, so beautiful and yet not costly.
You will find in it articles suitable for
Christmas presents, ranging in price all
the way from 20 cents to $1,000. The Msr
mod & .Taccard Co. have been in business
in Lit. Louis for more than 50 years, and
their reputation for fair dealing and relia
bility is known all over the United States.
Send a postal card with your name und
post office address plainly written, to
Merm nd & Jaccard's, 401-407 N. Broad
way, St. Louis, Mo., ask them to send yon
their catalogue for l(KK),and it will be sent
by return mail.
The way of the wise man is to let
woman have her own way.
The little island of Elba, once cele
brated as the temporary abiding place
of the great Napoleon, has recently
come into prominence in a new way.
Years ago deposits of iron were discov
ered on the island, but the mines were
never worked. Now great smelter3
and machine shops have been set up
and the whole island is alive with the
hum of industry.
THIS IS
THE TABLET
14,
Epicurean meals do not make ath
letic men.
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES do not
spot, streak or give your goods an un
evenly dyed appearance.
The funniest thing about some men
is their efforts to be funnv.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,
As mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole system
when entering it through the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never be used except on
prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the
damage they will do is tenfold to the good you
can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by !•'. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo. O., contains no mercury, and is taken
internally, noting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of tho system. In buying
Hall's Catarrh Cure be
sure you cet the genuine.
It is taKen internally, and made ill Toledo, Ohio,
by P. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonialsfree. Sold
by Druggists, price 75c per bottle.
Hall's Family Pills are tho best
Many a man's wits are sharpened on
the strap of poverty
A ISnrcaln I» Uuilars.
All music lovers will be interested in
the "ad" of John M. Smyth Co. shown
in another part of this paper, which
they offer an elegant guitar for J2.65.
The firm is thoroughly reliable. Get
their catalogue of everything to cat,
•wear and use.
Mrs. Leland Stanford, in a San Fran
cisco interview, says that she lias al
ready piven $l!,000,000 to educational
institutions
011
the Pacific coast, and
that what she lias left at her death
will go for similar purposes.
OLDEST MAN IN AMERICA
Tells How He Escaped the
Terrors of Many Winters
by Using Feruna.
Mr. Isaac Brock,
-the Oldest Man in the
United States.
Mr. Isaac Brock, of McLennan county,
Tex., has attained the great age of 111.
years, having been born in 1788. He is nu
ardent friend to Peruna and speaks of it in
the fo lowing terms:
"During my long life I have known a
great many remedies for coughs, colds,
catarrh and diarrhoea. I had always sup
posed these affections to be different dis
eases, but I liavo loarued from Dr. Hart
man's books that these affections are tho
same and are properly called catarrh.
"As for Dr. Hartnian's remedy. I'eruua,
I have found it to be the best, if not tho
only reliable remedy for these affeo-tions.
"Peruna has been mi/ stand-by
for many years, and I attribute my
good health and my extreme age to
this remedy. It exactly meet» all
my requirements.
"I have come to rely upon it almost en
tirely for til- many little things for which
I need medicine. I oelieve it to be espe
cially valuable to old people."
Isaac Brock.
Catarrh is tho greatest enemy of old age.
A person entirely free from catarrh is sure
to live to a hale and hearty old age. A free
book on catarrh sent by The Peruna Medi
cine Co., Columbus, O.
ASTERJSINK
Ever use it? You should.
WHEAT, which brums the highest price in the
mirkets of the world thousands of cattle are
fattened for market Without belntifed grain and
without a day's shelter. Sen.l for information
nt'd secure a free home in Western Canada.
Write the Superintendent of Immiijrat'on, Otta
wa. or address the undersigned, wuo will mail
you atlases, pamph ets, etc.. free of cost. N.
Bartholomew, 3Uli Fifth St.. Des Moines. Ia.
Man c{in be coaxed only when he
doesn't discover that he is being
coaxed.
Love's young dream is all right, but
the first pumpkin pie comes along ev
ery fall.
The Lord made Adam first so Eve
would have somebody to talk to aa
soon as she got here.
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MILLIONS
of acres of choice agri
cultuial LANDS now
opened tor .settlement
in Western Canada.
Here is mown the cel
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"Both my wife and mr*elf have been
nsine
CASCARETS, and tbey are the best
medicine we have ever had in the house. Last
week my wife was frantic with headache tor
two days she tried some of yourCASCARETS
and they relieved the pain in her head almost
immediately.
We
rets." CHAS STEDEFORD,
Pittsburg Safe & Deposit Co., Pittsburg, Pa.
"Sonny," aaid Uncle Eben, "}-okout fob
ANNUAL SALES. 5.000.000 BOXES.
V.-~ CASCARETS are absolutely harmless, a purely vegetable compound. Ho mercurial or other mineral pill-poison In Cascarets. Cascarets promptly, effectively and permanently
cure every disorder of the Stomach, Livef and Intestines. They not only cure constipation, but correct any and every form of irregularity ol the bowels, including diarrhoea and dysentery.
Pleasant, palatable, potent. Taste good, do good. Hever sicken, weaken or gripe. Be sure you get the genuine 1 Beware of imitation* and substitutes I Buy a box of CASCAHBTS
to-day, and if not pleased in every respect, get your money back I Write us for booklet and free sample 1 Address STERLING REMEDY COMPAHY, CHICAGO or HEW YORK.
FOB 80 OATS YOU OAlf TRY IT VOB lO CENTS.
®RheumaticDrop"Cures,
-•cJlglan Qut'on'H Homo.
The queen of the Belgians was
brought up in her father's castle at
Pesth amid surroundings and customs
which remind one of the feudal ages,
At night her father himself descended
the great staircase to lock the outer
gate and the door of the principal hall.
This hall was divided into two parts,
one end being raised a little above the
other. At the elevated end the daugh
ters of the house sat at their needle
work or painting or music, while their
attendants sat at the lower end of the
hall.
Many Specie* of I.lvlng Things.
The curator of the biological depart
ment of the Smithsonian institution
estimates thit. there are 450,000 species
of animals in the world, of which 2,500
belong to the mammalian group, 12,500
1o birds, 4,400 to reptiles, 12,000 to
fishes. There are 10,000 kinds of spi
ders, 150,000 kinds of insects 6,150
kinds oi: worms, 1.5C0 kinds of sponges
and a vast number of other kind of
animate that one would have to look
up in dictionary to know anything
about, and then know very little.
An Electrical Postman.
In Geneva there is an electrical
postman, or at least a substitute for
the postman. In high houses letters
rightly dropped into the box provided
ring an electric hell on the floor to
•which they are going and actuate an
automatic hydraulic lift, which carries
the letter up to the floor and descends
to be ready fCr the next.
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WHAT A
Has to say who has had 35 YEARS of active Print
ice of Msdielnoi
I have never before in my 35 years of practice of medicine given my testimonial of recommetr
datiqn to any patent medicine, but there is a remedy, the'result of which has come under my own
observation for there is no Disease which has so baffled the medical skill of all ages as.Rheums*
tism and to find a Reliable remedy for the same. At last we have found it in Drops," manu
factured by the Svanson Cure Company, Chicago, III. The 5 DROPS," has proven
ttselt wonderful for its curative power in Rheumatism, not as a Temporary Reliever only, but to
IyM|kt'p*tu,
give a Permanent Cure even in chronic cases. Sometime ago, 1 had
among others several Rheumatic cases under my treatment and pre
scribed for these patients the very best Remedies which I skillfully se
lected, but without desirable results. I then heard of 5 DROPS" and
of its Wonderful and prescribed it to a few patients who found
relief from its use within a few days. After that I prescribed it to a great
number and to my surprise, I will say that in the course of Two or Three
Weeks after tliey had used 5 DROPS" and "5 Drop" Plasters they
were Cured. Among these were a few who had, for a number of years,
been suffering with Chronic Rheumatism, who had piloted themselves
around on Crutches. Tliev came to my office without Crutches and told
me they were perfectly Well. They give all the credit to "5 DROPS"
[TRADE-MARK.] and to "5 Piasters and this is their testimony to the Swanson
Rheumatic Cure Company for their kindness and for tlie conscientious
way in which they are placing these Wonderful Remedies among suffering humanity, which they
told live to write to the Company as an acknowledgement. As I have seen the Curative Power of
*'5 DROPS" and ''5 Drop" Plasters, in a great many instances, lean Truly recommend them
and also that the firm is perfectly honest and reliable to deal with.
SWANSON'S C. A. JACKSON, Physician and Surgeon, Kearney, Neb., Ang. 29, 1899.
Is the most powerful sprclllc known. Free from opiates nnd perfectly harm,
less. Keller Is usunlly felt the first nleht. It. Is a positive cure for Itheumu.
tlsm. Bclutlca, Ncuralfirln,
Backuchc, A.(hmu, ]I:iy Fever, Catarrli, Sleep.
IMHUUI, Xcrvouincn, \-rvci:M and Xeuruliclc Headaches, Earache, Toothache, Heart
Wcnkuefts, Ci*oui», Swelling, l.a Grippe, Malaria, Creeping Kiimlmca*, etc., etc.
9A nAVC
to »«lle
sufferers to Rive "5 DROPS'' at leant a trial, we will send a
l*»-4 I prepaid by mail, for 10 cts. A sample liottle will convince you. Also, largo bottles (304
doses) tl.00, 6 bottles for *5. Sold 1V us a-Ml nprents. AGKNTS WANTKD In New Territory. WRITE-ITS TO-DAY.
BWAXSOX RHEUMATIC CUKE CO., 1GO to 1C1 Lake 8U, CHICAGO, I1L,
ir-y^rk icit•••••••••*
"A"
STAR
"Star" tin tags (showing small stars printed on nnder tide
of tag), "HorseShoe," "GoodLuck," "Cross Bow,"
and "Drumniond" Natural Leaf Tin Tags are of equal value in
securing presents mentioned below, and may be assorted.
Every man, -woman and child can find something oa the list
that they would like to have, and can have
JEt™ SES IKES
1 nTatcli Box 26
2 Kn fe, one blade, eood tt'eol
3 Scissors, 4H inches 25
4 Child''* Hot., Knife, Fork and Spoon 2*
fi and Pepper Ret, one each, quad
ruple plate on white metal 6(1
6 French Briar Wood l'lpe 25
7 Razor, hollow ground, line English
s'eel 50
8 Butter Knife, trii-lo plate, best
quality
9 Sugar Shell, tnrle plafe, best qual.. 60
10 8ramp Box, sterling silver 70
11 Knife, "Keen Kntter," two blad"
9
75
12 Butcher Knife, "Keen Kutter," 8-ln
blade 75
13 Shear**, "Keen Kutter." 8-imrh 75
14 Nut Set, Ciackcr and 6 Picjis, silver
plited «0
16 Ba«*e Hall,"Association," best qual.
100
16 Alarm CJoch, nifkel 150
1 Si\ Genuine ttogers' Teaspoons, best
la'ed goods 150
18 Wa'ch, nickel, stem wind and set.. 20U
lfl Carvers, guod steel, buckhorn
handle* 200
20 Six Genuine Kogers' Tablespoons,
best plated goods 250
21 Six each. Knives and Forks, buck
horn handles 250
22 Sit each. Genuine Roger*' Knives
and Forks, best plated goods SOU
will Inst longer ami aflord ire pleasure than a dime'', worlb
both recommend Casca-
SSc sample bottle.
Public Money to Unn Pawnshops.
In Germany the capital for carrying
on the pawnshops hy the municipal
authorities is derived either from the
city treasury or the city savings bank,
which is usually operated in connec
tion with the shops. The articles of
fered in pawn are valued hy sworn ap
praisers.
liners' Clothes.
A marked peculiarity of the Boers'
clothes is that they never fit, according
to modern ideas, and apparently no
attempt is made to make them do so.
This peculiarity is noticeable in almost
all the photographic portraits of most
Boers.
Much Gambling In Francr.
Gambling in France is said to have
reached such proportion's that the gov
ernment has begun to study the ques
tion seriously. It is estimated that
half of the suicides in Paris are due
to losses at the races.
Tea in China.
In all these years of tea-drinking tea
has not been drunk at meals in China.
The water from which it is made is
always freshly boiled and used as soon
as it reaches the boiling point.
Take Your Choice.
As far as comfort goes, there isn't
any difference between marrying for
money -without love and marrying for
love without money.
TIN
TAGS
12 gauge 2000
37 Remington, double-barrel ham
mer Shot Gtin, 10 or gauge 2000
38 Bicycle, standard make, ladi-es or
gents 2500
Shot Guti, Remiugton, double bar
rel, hamuierle.HS 3000
39
40 Reglna Muaic Box, 15.V inch Diso..&0J0
THE A9QVS OFFzR EXPIRES N0VEM3ZR 30TH. 1901.
NniirA 1 Plain Star" Tin Tags (that i«, S'ar tin ta-»s with no sin -II
u)jooiai nuiiuo stars printed on under side of tag), are
hundred, If received bv tis on before \fa-ch l«t. 19 in.
WBKAlt IN MINI) that a dime'« wonh ol
STAR PLUG TOBACCO
other b. and. MAKE THE TEST!
Send tags to CONTIXE VTA.I, TOBACCO CO., SI. Louis, Mo.
not uood for nre*etit*.
but will be paid for in CASH on the basis of twenty ceutsper
of
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TAOS.
83 Clock, 8-d»r, Calendar, Thermom
eter, Baromver 6(N)
24 Gun case, leather, no butter made. 600
2o Revolver, nutomatic, double action,
82 or 38 caliber 600
28 Tool Set, not plaj'tliiugs, but real
tools 650
27 Toilet Sot decorated porcelain,
very handsome 8(W
28 llewiugtou Kttlft No. 4, 21
or 33 cal. 8(K)
29 Watch, sterling stiver,full jeweled 1000
SO Dress Suit Case, leather, handsome
and durable 1000
31 Sowing Machine, first class, with
all attachments 1500
32 Revolver, Colt's, J8-ca!ibei% blued
steel 1500
&3 Rifle, Colt's, l»S-*hot, Si-caU^er 150J
34 Guitar (Washburn), rosewood, in
laid 2000
85 Mandolin, very hands me 2000
36 Wiuch^ster Repeating Shot Gun,
it
any
10c.
25c. 50c.
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