Decorah public opinion., November 15, 1895, Image 6

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TALMAGE'S SERMON.
I, HANDWRiTINC ON THE WALL”
LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT.
“When <Jo<l Writes Anytlilrj? on the Wall
a Man II»<1 lietter !<*•:» il It a* It Is” —
The Opening ami tiio Close o' Sin's
Baut[ket
d&fSfteiSi Iff! ASHINGTON. D .
(CmfvwlWltl hia COlUin e to
v 3 Washington. Dr .
Talmage’s pulpit
experience has been
f fftlfj»'ii a remarkable one.
R) Not only has the
V* church in which he
preaches been filled,
<$J) but the aud i -
V&J* ences have over
flowed into the adjoining streets to an
extent that has rendered them impas
sable. Similar scenes were enacted at
to-day’s services when the preacher
took for his subject: “Handwriting on
the Wall,” the text chosen being Dan.
5: 30, “In that night was Belshazzar,
the king of the Chaldeans, slain.”
Night was about to come down on
Babylon. The shadows of her two hun
dred and fifty tower 3 began to lengthen.
The Euphrates rolled on. touched by
the fiery splendors of the setting sun;
and gates of brass, burnished and glit
tering, opened and shut like doors of
flame. The hanging gardens of Baby
lon, wet with the heavy dew, began to
pour, from starlit flowers and dripping
leaf, a fragrance for many miles around.
The streets and squares were lighted
for dance and frolic and promenade.
The theaters and galleries of art in
vited the wealth, and pomp, and gran
deur of the city to rare entertainments.
Scenes of riot and wassail were min
gled in every street; and godless mirth,
and outrageous excess and splendid
wickedness came to the king’s palace,
to do their mightiest deeds of dark
ness
A royal feast to-night at the king’s
palace! Rushing up to the gates are
chariot*, upholstered with precious
cloths from Dedan, and drawn by fire
eyed horses from Togarmah, that, rear
and neigh in the grasp of the chariot
eers, while a thousand lords dismount,
and women, dressed in all the splen
dors of Syrian emerald, and the color
blending of agate, and the chasteness of
coral, and the sombre glory of Tyrian
purple, and princely embroideries,
brought from afar by camels across the
desert, and by ships of Tarshish across
tlfe sea.
Opca wide the gates and let the
guests ccme in. The chamberlains and
cup-bearers are all ready. Hark to
the rustle of the silks, and to the carol
of the music! See the blaze of the jew
els! Lift the banners. Fill the cups.
Clap the cymbals. Blow the trumpets.
Let the night go by with song, and
dance, and ovation; and let that Baby
lonish tongue be palsied that will not
say, “O, King Belshazzar, live forever.”
Ah! my friends, it was not any com
mon banquet to which these great peo
ple came. All parts of the earth had
sent their richest viands to that table.
Brackets and chandeliers flashed their
light upon tankards of burnished gold.
Fruits, ripe and luscious, in baskets
of silver, entwined with leaves, pluck
ed from royal conservatories. Vases,
inlaid with emerald and ridged with
exquisite traceries, filled with nuts that
were threshed from forests of disant
lands. Wine brought from the royal
vats, foaming in the decanters and bub
bling in the chalices. Tufts of cassia
and frankincense wafting their sweet
uoss from wall and table. Gorgeous
banners unfolding in the breeze that
came through the open window, be
witched with the perfumes of hanging
gardens. P'ountains rising up from in
ctosurcs of ivory, in jets of crystal, to
fall in clattering rain of diamonds and
pearls. Statues of mighty men look
ing down from niches in the wall upon
crownß and shields brought from sub
dued empires. Idols of wonderful work
standing on pedestals of precious
stones. Embroideries stooping about the
windows and wrapping pillars of cedar,
and drifting on floor inlaid with ivory
and agate. Music, mingling the thrum
of harps, and the clash of cymbals, and
the blast of trumpets in one wave of
transport that went rippling along the
wall and breathing among the garlands,
and pouring down the corridors, and
thrilling the souls of a thousand ban
queters. The Bignal is given, and the
lords and ladies, the mighty men and
women of the land, come around the
table. Pour out the wine. Let foam
and bubble kiss the rim! Hoist every
one his cup and drink to the sentiment:
”0 King Belshazzar, live forever!” Be
utarved head-band and carcanet of royal
beauty gleam to the uplifted chalices,
as again, and again, and again they
ape emptied. Away with care from the
palace! Tear royal dignity to tatters!
Pour out more wine! Give us more
light, wilder music, sweeter perfume!
Lord shouts to lord, captain ogles to
captain. Ooblet3 clash; decanters rat
tle. There come in the obscene song,
and the drunken hiccough and the slav
ering lip, and the guffah of idiotic
laughter, bursting from the lips of
princes, flushed, reeling, bloodshot;
while miugling with it all hear, ”Huz-
What is that on the plastering of the
wall? Is it a spirit? Is It a phantom?
I« it God? The music stops. The gob
'lots fall from the nerveless grasp.
There is a thrill. There is a start. There
is a thousand-voiced shriek of horror.
Let Daniel be brought in to read that
writing. He comes in. He reads it:
“Weighed in the balance and found
wanting."
Meanwhile the Modes, who for two
years had been laying siege to that
city, took advantage of that carousal
and came in. I bear the feet of the
conquerors on the palace stairs. Mas
sacre rushes in with a thousand gleam
ing knives. Death bursts upon the
scene; and I shut the door of that ban-
Qd.tlnft hnll, for ! do to look.
There is nothing there but torn banners,
and broken wreaths, and the slush of
upset tankards, and the biood of mur
dered women, and the kicked and tum
bled carcass of a dead king. For “in
that night was Belshazzar, the king of
the Chaldeans. *iain.”
I go on to learn some lessons from
all this. I learn that when God writes
anything on the wall, a man had bet
ter read it a 3 it is. Daniel did not mis
interpret or modify the handwriting on
the wall. It is all foolishness to ex
pect a minister of tin Gospel to preach
always things that the people like, or
the people choose. Young men of
Washington, what shall I preach to you
to-night? Shall I tell you of the dig
nity of human nature? Shall I tell you
of the wonders that our race has ac
complished? “Oh, no;” you say, “tell
me the message that came from God.”
1 will. If there is any handwriting an
ihe wall, it is this lesson: “Repent!
Accept of Christ and be saved!” I
might talk of a great many other
things; but that is the message, and
so I declare it. Jesus never flattered
! those to whom he preached. He said
to those who did wrong, and who were
offensive in his sight. “Ye generation of
vipers! ye whited sepulchres! how can
ye escape the damnation of hell?” Paul
the apostle preached before a man who
was not ready to hear him preach.
What subject did he take? Did he say,
“Oh! you are a good man, a very fine
man, a very noble man”? No; he
preached of righteousness to a man who
was unrighteous; of temperance to a
man who was a victim of bad appe
tites; of the judgment to come to a man
who was unfit for it. So we must al
ways declare the message that hap
pens to come to us. Daniel must read
it as it Is. A minister preached be
fore James I. of England, who was
James VI. of Scotland. What subject
did he take? The king was noted all
over the world for being unsettled and
wavering in his ideas. What did the
minister preach about to this man who
was James I. of England and James VI.
of Scotland? He took for his text
James first and sixth; “He that wav
ereth is like a wave of the sea driven
with the wind and tossed.” Hugh Lat
imer offended the king by a sermon he
preached; and the king said, “Hugh
Latimer, come and apologize.” “I will,”
said Hugh Latimer. So the day was
appointed; and the king’s chapel was
full of lords, and dukes, and the
mighty men and women of the coun
try, for Hugh Latimer was to apolo
gize. He began his sermon by saying,
“Hugh Latimer, bethink thee! Thou art
in the presence of thine earthly king,
who can destroy thy body. But bethink
thee, Hugh Latimer, that thou art in
the presence of the King of heaven
and earth, who can destroy both body
and soul in hell fire.” Then he preach
ed with sppalling directness at the
king’s crimes.
Another lesson that comes to us to
night: there is a great difference be
tween the opening of the banquet of
sin and its close. Young man, if you
had looked in upon the banquet in the
first few hours, you would have wished
you had been invited there, and could
sit at the feast. “Oh! the grandeur of
Belshazzar’s feast!” you would have
said; but you look in at the close of the
banquet, and your blood curdles with
horror. The King of Terrors has there
a ghastlier banquet, and human blood
is the wine, and dying groans are the
music. Sin has made itself a king in
the earth. It has crowned itself. It has
spread a banquet. It invites all the
world to come to it. It has hung in
its banqueting hall the spoils of all
kingdoms, and the banners of all na
tions. It has gathered from all music.
It has strewn, from its wealth, the
tables, and floors, and arches. And yet
how often is that banquet broken up;
and how horrible is its end! Ever and
anon there is a handwriting on the
wall. A king falls. A great culprit is
arrested. The knees of wickedness
knock together. God’s judgment, like an
armed host, breaks in upon the ban
quet; and that night is Belshazzar, the
king of the Chaldeans, slain.
Here is a young man who says, I
cannot see why they make such a fuss
about the intoxicating cup. Why, it
is exhilarating! It makes me feel
well. I can talk better, think better,
feel better. I cannot see why people
have such a prejudice against it. A
few years pass on, and he wakes up
and finds himself in the clutches of an
evil habit which he tries to break,
but cannot, and he cries out: “Oh,
Lord God! help me!” It seems as
though God would not hear his prayer,
and in an agony of body and soul he
cries out: “It biteth like a serpent and
it stingeth like an adder.” How bright
it was at start! How black it was at
last!
Here is a man who begins to read
loose novels. “They are so charming.”
he says; "I will go out and see for
myself whether all these things are
so.” He opens the gate of a sinful
life. He goes in. A sinful sprite meets
him 'ftith her wand. She waves her
wand, and it is all enchantment. Why,
it seems as if the angels of God had
poured out phials of perfume in tha
atmosphere. As he walks on he finds
the hills becoming more radiant with
foliage, and the ravines moro reso
nant with the falling water. Oh, what
a charming landscape he sees! Hut that
sinful sprite, with her wand, meets
him again; but now she reverses the
wand, and all the enchantment is gone.
The cup is full of poison. The fruit
turns to ashes. All the leaves of the
bower are forked tongues of hissing
serpents. The flowing fountains fall
back in a dead pool stenchful with cor
ruption. The luring songs become
curses and screams of demoniac
laughter. Lost spirits gather about
him and feel for his heart, and beckon
him on with “Hail, brother, hail, blasted
spirit, hail!” He tries to get out. He
comes to the front door where he en
tered and tries to push it back, but
the door turns against him; and in the
jar of that shutting door he hears these
words: “This night is Belshazzar, the
king of the Chaldeans, slain." Sin may
open bright as the morning. It ends
dark as the night.
I learn further from this subject that
death sometimes breaks in upon a
banquet. Why did he not go down to
the prisons in Babylon? There were
people there that would like to have
died. I suppose there were men and
women in torture in that city who
would have welcomed death, but he
comes to the palace; and just at the
time when the mirth is dashing to the
tiptop piteh, Death breaks in at the
banquet. We have often seen the
same thing illustrated. Here is a
young man just come from college. He
is kind. He is loving. He is enthu
siastic. He is eloquent. By one spring
he may bound to heights toward which
many men have been struggling for
years. A profession opens before him.
He is established in the law. His
friends cheer him. After awhile you
may see him standing in the Ameri
can senate, or moving a popular assem
blage by Ills eloquence, as irees are
moved in a whirlwind. Some night
he retires early. A fever is on him.
Delirium, like a reckless charioteer,
seizes the reins cf his intellect. Fath
er and mother stand by and see the
tides of his life going out to the great
ocean. The banquet is coming to an
end. The lights of thought, and mirth,
and eloquence are being extinguished.
The garlands are snatched from the
brow. The vision is gone. Death at
the banquet!
I have also to learn from the subject
that the destruction of the vicious
and of those who despise God, will be
very sudden. The wave of mirth had
dashed to the highest point when the
invading army broke through. It was
unexpected. Suddenly, almost always,
comes the doom of those who despise
God,and defy the laws of men. How was
it at the deluge? Do you suppose it
came through a long northeast storm,
so that people for days before were sure
it was coming? No; I suppose the
morning was bright; that calmness
brooded on the waters; that beauty sat
enthroned on the hills; when sudden
ly the heavens burst, and the mount
ains sank like anchors into the sea that
dashed clear over the Andes and the
Himalayas.
The Red sea was divided. The Egyp
tians tried to cross it. There could be
no danger. The Israelites had just
gone through; where they had gone,
why not the Egyptians? Oh, it was
such a beautiful walking place! A
pavement of tinged shells and pearls,
and on either side two great walls of
water —solid. There can be no dan
ger. Forward, great host of the Egyp
tians! Clap the cymbals and blow the
trumpets of victory! After them! We
will catch them yet, and they shall bo
destroyed. But the walls begin to
tremble. They rock! They fall! The
rushing waters! The shriek of drown
ing men! The swimming of the war
horses in vain for the shore! The strew
ing of the great host on the bottom of
the sea, or pitched by the angry wave
on the beach —a battered, bruised, and
loathsome wreck! Suddenly destruc
tion came. One half hour before they
could not have believed it. Destroyed,
and without remedy.
I am just setting forth a fact, w'hieh
you have noticed as well as I. Anna
nias comes to the apostle. The apos
tle says: “Did you sell the land for so
much?” He says, “Yes.” It was a lie.
Dead! as quick as that. Sapphira, his
wife, comes in. “Did you sell the land
for so much?” “Yes.” It was a lie,
and quick as that she was dead. God's
judgments are upon those who despise
Him and defy Him. They come sud
denly.
The destroying angel went through
Egypt. Do you suppose that any of
the people knew that he was coming?
Did they hear the flap of his great
wing? No, no! Suddenly, unexpectedly,
he came.
Skilled sportsmen do not like to shoot
a bird standing on a sprig near by. If
they are skilled, they pride themselves
on taking it on the wing; and they
wait till it starts. Death is an old
sportsman; and he loves to take men
flying under the very sun. He loves
to take them on the wing. Oh, flee to
God this night! If there be one in this
presence who has wandered far away
from Christ, though he may not have
heard the call of the Gospel for many
a year, I invite him now to come and
be saved. Flee from thy sin! Flee to
the stronghold of the Gospel! Now ia
the accepted time; now is the day of
salvation.
Good night, my young friends! may
you have rosy sleep, guarded by Him
who never slumbers! May you awake
in the morning strong and well! But
oh! art thou a detspiser of God? Is this
thy last night on earth? Shouldst thou
be awakened in the night by some
thing, thou knowest not what, and
there be shadows floating in the room,
and a handwriting on the wail, and you
feel that your last hour is come, and
there be a fainting at the heart, and a
tremor in the limb, and a catching of
the breath—then thy doom would be
but an echo of the words of the text:
“In that night was Belshazzar, the king
of the Chaldeans, slain.'’
Oh! that my Lord Jesus would now
make Himself so attractive to your
souls that you cannot resist Him; and
if you have never prayed before, or have
not prayed since those days when you
knelt down at your mother’s knee,
then that to-night you might pray,
saying:
Just as I am, without one plea
But that thy blood w r as shed for me,
And that thou bidst me come to thee,
O Lamb of God, I come!
But if you cannot think of so long a
prayer as that, I will give you a short
er prayer that you can say: “God be
merciful to me, a sinner!” Or, if you
esnnot think of so loug a prayer as
that, I will give you a still shorter one
that you may utter: “Lord, save me,
or I perish!” Or. if that be too long a
prayer you need not make it. Use the
word “Help!” Or, if that he too long
a word, you need not use any vord at
all. Just Icok and live!
ERYSIPELAS AT 81.
PHYSICIANS FAVORED AMPU
TATION OF THE LIMB.
It was not done, und the Patient nn
Cared by Internal Remedies.
From the Republican-Register, Galesburg, 111.
B>gK sv iH®< twenty-nine miles west of
Galesburg. 111., on the line of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy Railroad, is an old,
quiet, little town. In earlier days, it was
noted as a good business point.
It was here that a representative of the
Republican-Register found Mrs. RhodaTal
cott, 81 years of age, who told bim. in the
presence of her grateful daughter, Mrs. E.
iSloan, the following story, which is given
as nearly as possible in her own language:
“Yes. it is with great pleasure that 1 can
give my testimony to the great value of
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. Over thirty years
ago I waß taken with a chill and erysipelas
set in. For sixteen weeks 1 was not able to
walk a step. The physicians proposed to
take off one of my limbs but flnully decided
not to do so. It mortified in spots, which
bad to be cut or burut out. After I was
able to get about, with the use of crutches,
every two or three mouths erysipelas would
set in again, aud I sutiered intensely from
it. I had a good many ditferent doctors:
Dr. Fitch, of fihoridan, Iowa: I)r. Brown,
of Chauute, Kansas: Dr. Scraft, of Bur
lington, Iowa; Dr. Trembly, of Oakland,
California; Dr. Searle, of Galesburg. Illi
nois, and a doctor in Kansas City, but
obtained no relief, aud after treatment
from all these phy siciaus, instead of getting
better, began to get very much worse. The
other limb broke out in two places with
sores about the size of a silver dollar. I
could not sleep night without the aid of
morphine. My limbs were so badly swollen
that I could not put on my shoes or walk a
step without either having on a heavy
bandage or a silk or rubber stocking. About
a year ago 1 read of and was told by a
neighbor, about Dr. Williams’ Pink Puls.
I concluded, as a last resort, to try them,
as 1 felt certain 1 could find no other relief.
From the very first after I commenced to
use the pills, I began to improve, and since
that time I have not been troubled at all.
I would not have done without the Pink
Pills for anything, as they have most cer
tainly prolonged my live. My general
health is much better than it has been for a
good many years, and I am now hi years
of age. Iluve not only used the Pink Pills
with success, but have recommended them
to my friends whom I thought needed such
treatment, and several have tried them and
found relief.”
Mrs. Sloan said that just before com
mencing to use the Pink Pills, she thought
her mother could live but a very short
time, and was most ugreeably surprised
after she had given the pills a trial.
Mrs. Talcott has made her home with her
daughter for five or six years, and she can
most cheerfully certify to the benefit she
has derived from tee use of the medicine.
I'he reporter also called on Mr. George
Kelly, the son of one of the prominent
hardware dealers of Biggsville. who has
used the Pink Pills. He was troubled with
pains in the stomach and back, and from
the very first he commenced to get better,
and now he is not troubled at all.
John McKee, the druggist in the village,
stated that he had sold a great many of Ur.
Williams’ Pink Pills, anil that they most
certainly give the best of satisfaction and
have accomplished great results. Quite a
number of the villagers are now using
them.
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain, in a
condensed form, all the elements necessary
to give new life and richness to the blood
and restore shattered nerves. They are an
unfailing specific,for such diseases as loco
motor ataxia, partial paralysis, Bt. V’itus’
dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism,
nervous headache, the after effect of la
grippe, palpitation of the heart. Pink Pills
are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post
daip’ou receipt of price. 50 cents a box. or
six boxes for $2.50, by addreisiug Dr. Wil
liams’ Medicino Company, Schenectady',
N. Y.
WISDOM.
A woman can look thoroughly satis
fied when she is not. A man can’t do
it.
Too many people in the church would
rather be comets than stars of Bethle
hem.
A big man groans most when he gets
sick because thero is more of him to
suffer.
Just as you are pleased at finding
faults you are displeased at finding per
fections.
Truth will be uppermost one time or
other, like cork, though kept under the
water.
Every man longs to be a woman just
long enough to show what a good wife
he would be.
Those who have no money are not
always poor and those who have it are
seldom rich.
IT BEATS THEM ALL.
Twenty-four Honrs Chicago to Atlunta.
The popular Big Four Route has, in
connection with the Queen & Crescent
and Southern railway, established a
fast schedule between Chicago and
Atlanta, leaving Chicago 12 o’clock,
noon, and arriving in Atlanta at 12
o’clock, noon, the next day. This ia
by far the best and quickest time from
Chicago and the northwest to Atlanta
and the south. Send for time card,
rates, etc., to J. C. Tucker, G. P. A.,
234 Clark etreet, Chicago.
Putting it Mealy.
Tailor—When you delivered Mr. Slow
boy’s suit, did you call his attention to the
fact that it was there when promised!
Boy—Yes. sir.
Tailor—What did he say?
Boy—He said he felt he could never re
pay you for what you bad done for hiiu.
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Rosa Bonheur and Mme. Dleulafoy, the
wife of the explorer, are the only two wo
men in France who are legally authorized
to appear in public in men’s attire.
A Child Enjoys
Tho pleasant flavor, gentle action and
soothing effects of Syrup of Figs, when in
need of a laxative, and if the father or
mother be costive or bilious, the most
gratifying results follow its use; so that it
is th« best family remedy known, and every
family should have a bottle on luiud.
A writer in an Austrian paper says that
Prince Bismarck's family is of Bohemian
origin and that the name was originally
spelled “Duscbfk.”
THEY BOUGHT OUT SALOON.
i The Methodist *f Union Course Are to
Have a New Church.
New 1 ork Times: After many years
of effort the Methodists of nlon
j Course, L. 1., have succeeded in rais
; ing funds sufficient to build a suitable
I house of worship and a oozy little struc-
I ture is now nearly completed.
I Perhaps there is no place in this
! neighborhood where there has been
| more wickedness, at least from tho
j Methodist point o? view, than in this
| village. The famous Unoin race courso,
from which the village derives its
name, was in its day the greatest gara-
I bling center in the neighborhood of
New York city. It was there that many
of the present day kings of the turf
made their first successful bets, and
where many old time famous horses
won their first races. Of course, that
was all long ago. The race track has
disappeared under pretty villas and
busy stores, but this change took time
and it was years before there were
enough Methodists to organize a church
| society. When such an organization
! finally did get into existence it started
! in to fight wickedness in a decidedly
novel manner. There was in the village
a particularly objectionable liquor sa
loon, which had survived from the old
race track days and which was the re
sort of bad characters. One enthusiastic
; member of the new church society sug
-1 gested that its first work should be to
j get rid of the objectionable saloon
keeper.
“How can we do it?” he was asked
“Buy him out,” was the answer. “We
need a building and I will give S3OO to
ward securing the saloon.”
This struck everybody as a good plan
and so the saloon keeper was bought
out and his den of iniquity converted
into a house of worship. In that build-
ing the church society grew stronger
and stronger and recently the plan for
the new building was perfected and the
money raised.
The society still worships in the old
saloon. By what seemed an intervention
of Providence, the building recently
narrowly escaped destruction. It was
right in tlio path of the terrible cyclone
which swept through the village on the
afternoon of Saturday, July 13. All the
buildings in the immediate vicinity
were wrecked or injured. A shed at one
end of the church was carried a quar
ter of a mile, and a tree at the other
end was pulled out by the roots. The
church building itself was uninjured,
but next morning, when the members
of the congregation gathered at tho
church, they found that the ■wind,
sweeping under the doors, had torn up
the carpet and some of the pews and
piled them in a promiscuous heap in
the center of the room. This seemed
like a Providential hint that it was
time for the congregation to move.
They held service, but on Sunday, July
28, they laid the corner stone of the
new church building.
The new structure will seat, when
finished, about 400 persons. It is un
pretentious, being built in the Queen
Anne style of architecture. The interior
will be finished in natural wood. The
windows are to be of cathedral glass.
The church will be dedicated next
month.
The Ruddy Englishman.
It has long been recognized, at least
by the caricaturist, that John Bull has
a stolid mind glooming behind an ex
ceedingly rubicon visage. The same
high authority on race type depicts
Brother Jonathan with a shrewd spirit
peering forth from drawn and parch
ment colored features. The humorist of
the quill gives a rough and ready ex
planation of this difference by calling
John Bull a beef-eater. Now the first
thing an American traveler notices in
England is that the beef is not so good
as that to which he has been accus
tomed; and is scarcely to be galled the
national dish. He soon learns to make
: the excellent English mutton his staple
| viand. Meanwhile, however, his belief
In the ruddiness of the English com
! p’.exion is strengthened by observation,
and if he has ever had the pleasure of
becoming familiar with the features of
the colonial fathers as they shine on
i the canvas of Copley and Gilbert
Stuart, he recognizes that our ancestors
were far more nearly related in temper
ament than we to the typical Briton.
The Englishman’s explanation of this
i —bitter beer on the one side and pie
for breakfast on the other —is scarcely
I more satisfactory than beef-eating hy
pothesis. One is forced to the opinion
i that the difference—superficially at-
I tributable to social conditions—is fun-
I damentally based upon climate.
LABOR NOTES.
_______
A co-operative cotton mill will be
started In Columbia, S. C.
1 The Clgarmakers' International
j Union issued two new charters last
i month.
The Order of Railway Telegraphers
favors the federation of all railroad or
ganizations.
The union manufacturers of the green
glass industry have agreed to advance
tho wages of employes 5 per cent.
Window glass manufacturers of
Pittsburgh, Pa., and vicinity, have or
ganized a “selling agency” with a cap
j ilal of 125,000,000.
The national strike of tailors to
: equalize conditions in other clothing
; markets with those which exist in New
York is now under way.
The Chicago & Alton shops, In
Bloomington, 111., began operation this
month lor a nine-hour schedule for the
I first time In two years.
The garment workers’ strike in Bos
ton is practically over. Fully two
thirds of the employers have granted
tnc terms of the strikers.
Kerry—What luck did you have fish
ing? Hargreaves—Got a bigger load
than I could carry home. “Of flah?”—
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Bhe Read* too Much.
“Fo you do not call at Miss Blyken’a
house any more.” said 0:10 young man.
“No. iShe reads too much to suit me.”
“Makes you feel ignorant, eh?”
‘•Not exactly that. She reud in one of
tha family magazines thnt is is not proper
fbr m yaimg man to invite a girl to the
theater without inviting tier mother, too.”
A Far Kailer Coarse.
Fuddy— Why doesn't Knipson try to ele
vato himself instead of uli tho time ex
horting others to live better and purer
lives!
Duddv—Because there is nothing selfish
In Knipson’s composition. He is willing
that others should reap the rewards which
follows exemplary conduct.
When Wrinkle* Seam the Brow,
And the locks grow scant and silvery, in
firmities of age come on apace. To retard
and ameliorate these is one of the benign
affects of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, a
medicine to which the aged and infirm can
resort as a safe solace and invigorant. It
counteracts u tendency to rheumatism and
neuralgia, improves digestion, rectifies
biliousness and overcomes malaria. A
wineglass before retiring promotes slum
ber.
The division of tium into months and
weeks is so old that its origin cannot pos
sibly be acertaiued.
Scrofula from Infancy
Troubled my daughter. At times her
head would be covered with scabs and
runningsores. We were afraid she would
become unnu.
. We had to keej>
we saw that she was better in every re
spect. The sores have now all healed.
I had a severe attack of the grip, was
left in bad condition with muscular
rheumatism and lumbago. Since taking
! Hood’s Sarsaparilla
I am all and can walk around out
doors without the aid of crutches.” \V.
H. Areuart, Albion, Indiana.
Hood's Pills euro all liver ills. 25c.
farmer Atronfe b| <r money selling our Di«>
I Cl 111161 HgCIIIS Sharpener Tank Heaters and
other specialties. Ad. Heairlmann lf|. to.. Stmlor, 111.
A | ■ WtnUlmd you the heal
OCICI/IIIAIC go Board of Trade; will fur
tii.sn flrst-clu-ss references. J. W. HakKit A Co.,
H 23 Rialto, Chicago, 111.
p J» pn''««,Fnnirho, Roaring in thenars and
V C, M w iliihamniation cured By AuraHne, the
great. Kngli-ii remedy. f your druggist, has none,
lor war 1 2V -lamps) fort rial hot tie wTi n tesi imonutls
Avery Auruliuo Cu.ill Classou Ave., Brooklyn,S. Y.
\U ANTED Any !a*ty wishing to make some
** money quickly and needing steady employ*
men t should work for me selling medicated wafers*
Address a. il. Dan, Jl. I)., 213 Columbus avo*
Boston.
w.noums
B jCiWOlvIl Wasliliijjion, o.c.
Prosecutes Claims.
■ l'jato Principal F.jnimluer IhS. Pension Bureau.
■ llyrsiulast war. Is adjudicating claims atty since-
hair R balsam
aud lxautifie* the halt.
I'romolea a luxuriant growth.
C-. Falla to Restore Qroy
:«R ITair to ita Youthful Color.
Cur,3 arJudr^lslling^
lll_ _ _ _ Cattle hides and all kind*
Ifll I 1 ■ M of sKiii-, u t.,ile for Bnhin
nil B M < nuns. Soft, lint.t,
■ W ■ AalV moth - proof. (Jot our
■■ ■ ■ «■ ■ ■ tail circular. W« make
frlsian, coon and gateway fur routs and rubra. If
yourdrulordon’t keep them get catalogue from us.
CaosßY t tu.su n Fl u Co.,bracket Hi’g, Roche»ter,N.T.
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