Decorah public opinion., June 08, 1897, Image 6

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KATHARINE TRENT.
TSp T WAS half-past 3,
/.'II and almost dark.
/ \ic/cii' Most of the seats
*1 / were occupied, ei-
C! f« ! ~' ther by the passen
rX*w)[) V £ers >n person or
y ; llT«m by their represen-
:Jrr> ' tative luggage, and
Jl V Vli th e lamplighter
(c&jj«• had just completed
disposed of wraps,
cane, umbrella, and the bundle
somo fruit of a day’s shopping
in town; had exerted himself in
every possible way to secure the com
fort and amusement of his companion,
and then, having failed to elicit th**
slightest response, had gone into per
manent retirement behind the even
ing paper.
But Miss Katharine Trent failed to
find anything interesting in the new
magazines, and was now leaning dis
consolately back in her seat, wrapped
in penitent eontemplation of the half
inch of Dick’s forehead and smoothly
parted brown hair visible above the
edge of the paper. A box of choco
lates and a big bunch of violets in her
lap seemed equally unregarded.
“1 suppose,” she thought, drawing
together her pretty brows, ‘‘if news
papers were .made of glass. I could see
Dick’s eyes; but it’s a good thing they
aren’t, for I should certainly feel in
clined to break that one into a thou
sand pieces.”
The train was going at a fair speed
now, and murmurs of contented con
versation reached her ear.
“Dick,” she said suddenly, sitting
holt upright, “here we are almost to
Bushey. Are you really going to go
as far as Watford with me?”
“I am afraid I must,” and Dick laid
down his paper with grave courtesy,
and looked for a moment straight into
’ter eyes. “Mother is down there with
Bessie, you know, and I telegraphed
ihem to expect me out to dinner. I
never like to disappoint Bess.”
But Kate had dropped her eyes
when Dick looked at her; the smile
and the “I’m so glad!” with which
she meant to begin her overtures of
peace had died on her lips, and she
stared with burning cheeks out into
ilie darkness, while Dick, with a hard
ly repressed sigh, again took refuge
in his .paper. But he read line after
line without catching a word of the
sense.
“I suppose T was an ass to think she
eared for me,” he was thinking. “It’s
plain enough now' that she doesn't and
never did:” and Dick spread out his
paper and refolded it with a vicious
punch.
The truth was that Miss Katharine
Trent was a bundle of startling contra
dictions. That she had a tender heart,
or that she was thoughtful and earn
est, no one who looked for a moment
into her big, serious blue eyes could
doubt. Yet often, if not indeed gen
>rally. she acted without a moment’s
reflection. Her little Italian singing
master was fond of calling her his
“beautiful chord of the ninth.” and
<aid that everything depended upon
her proper resolution.
It had begun to rain. A few drops
zigzagged their downward career
across the pane with most fascinating
unexpected movements; but Katharine
did not even see them. She was think
ing desperately of that look in Dick’s
eyes. Of course he loved her. She
knew that. Didn’t she love him just
us much? But here her conscience
awoke with a start, and informed her
KISSED IIIM.
that if she did love him she ha , Jnken
every precaution to conceal the fact
from herself, and Dick, and every one
else. “And don’t you,” conscience
went on, “don’t you treat almost every
fellow you know better than you treat
Dick? And didn’t yon this very after
noon refuse even to talk about mar
rying him?”
The train was flying now, and Kath
arine found herself listening frantieal
’y to the measured double slam of the
wheels, that brought nearer every in
stant the time when Dick would go.
"I know he’ll never look at me or
speak to me again. I don’t blame him.
I can’t ask him to forgive me. because
I should certainly cry, and —O!” Her
heart almost choked her with its heat
ing, for the train had begun to slow
up, and Dick was putting on his coat.
Suddenly a voice pitched in a girlish
sopranno fell on her ear.
“Good-bye, Will,” it said,“and please
write to us at once, won’t you? You
know mamma always worries so about
you. Good-bye”—a kiss —“good-bye!”
That was all, but it was enough; not
n minute for reflection, but Katherine
needed none.
Dick was beside her, hat and cane
in band, but Kate was already on her
feet.
“I will.” she said to herself, with a
swift glance around, while the pink
in her cheeks changed to red and
flamed clear up to her hair; “I will!”
The man at the other side of the car
riage was -looking out of the window.
“No one will ever know the differ
ence,” she went on, “and I can’t bear
to have him go.”
”1 telegraphed your father to meet
tills train," Dick was saying. “I real
ly must hurry.”
“Good-bye, Dick,” said Kate, her
voice positively ringing with cousinly
affection. “I am awfully sorry I can’t
go with you and see Cousin Bess; and
be sure to give my love to Aunt
Katie;” and, tiptoeing a little, she
pulled his face down to hers and kissed
him straight on the mouth.
For a moment, the universe seemed
to reel about Dick's head. Then he
sank into the seat and pulled Kate
down beside him.
“You will be carried by—O, Dick!"
and Kate was almost sobbing in an
agony of blushes.
“I think I'll change my mind, and go
on to Pinner!” remarked Dick, cheer
fullly, taking in at a glance the too
interested observer on the opposite
seat. “Your father —er —Uncle John
might not meet you, you know; and,
besides” —crushing both her hands
against him as he bent over her in a
blissful moment when their fellow pas
senger was looking the other way—
“besides, you have not told me when
you will marry me.” —Folks at Home.
CRIME IN LITERATURE.
A Significant Fact That Deserves a
Tittle Consideration.
An article in the Westminster Re
view deals with “Crime in Current
Literature,” the anonymous author as
serting that “never were there so many
pens engaged in dealing with crime
and criminals as at the present time;
the few, seriously and solemnly; the
many, lightly and irreverently, and
unwitting of the moral mischief they
thereby engender.” He refers especi
ally to the fondness for “detective
stories,” most of which, he finds, are
written by individuals who have not
and never had the remotest connec
tion with the police.” On this head
the writer furnishes the following sta
tistics:
The number of newspapers, strictly
so-called, published weekly in Great
Britain and containing serial stories
of one kind or another is nearly 800.
Of these 392 are published in England
and Wales, 113 in Scotland and 80 in
Ireland. Out of this total it has been
ascertained that in the year 1893 no
fewer than 240 published complete, or
portions of, detective stories —stories
of all phases and forms of criminal
ity, describing the details thereof with
greater or less degrees of minuteness:
here making the criminal a sort of
Claude Duval, or highway hero worthy
of emulation, and there rightly brand
ing him as an iniquitous scoundrel fit
only for the clutch of Jack Ketch, but
almost Invariably depicting the hide
ousness of crime as it certainly ought
not to be depicted. Many such week
ly newspapers as are published in pop
ulous centers have long ago recognized
the importance of this factor in help
ing to increase their circulation, and
they cannot be blamed for it. But it ia
a somewhat remarkable fact, which
the inquiry into this phase of the sub
ject has made evident, that in newspa
pers of the class indicated which are
published in Ireland tlie general char
acter of the serial stories was, and
like enough still is, much above that
of tlie stories published in the same
place in English or Scottisli newspa
pers. On an average, there are fewer
by far that make the same literary spe
cialty ,in story or “experience" form,
of the subject of crime and its detec
tion. In tlie light of the pas*, or even
of present, events in Ireland this evi
dence may be taken for what it is
worth; but it is none the less a sig
nificant fact deserving of a little con
sideration by those whom it may hap
pen to concern.
AT MONTE CARLO.
Characteristic! ALout Those Who Hay
at This Famous Kesort.
From a letter on the present season
at Monte Carlo, the famous resort and
gambling place, which is published in
a l'arls paper, the following extract is
not without interest to American read
ers, says the Baltimore Sun. In the
Salon de Jettx each afternoon and
evening there is a great crowd just now
and considerable sensation is being
created by the playing of some of tlie
more determined punters. Most re
marked among the boldest is an
American artist, a painter, recently
decorated with the cross of the Legion
of Honor, lie bets large sums with
out a moment's hesitation, and fre
quently makes enormous wins. It is
all done so rapidly as to astonish look
ers-on. The gentleman in question
wins or loses with but little show of
excitement and is certainly and em
phatically what the French style beau
jouetir. He seldom sits at a table, al
ways plays roulette and walks about
from table to table, attracting much
attention by his impetuous play. In
marked contrast to his style is that of
a stout gentleman, who never plays
except when seated, anti who, having
made selection of a number upon tlie
roulette table, remains faithful to it,
and, with an air of unending patience,
covers it with gold until, having made
a large win, lie slowly retires, all the
while having remained in his seat
impassive— not even the most marvel
ous good fortune causing his vacant ex
pression to alter in the least. It is
curious to note that, while the oilier
player seems to lie so popular and gen
erally liked, the stout party, wiiose
good or bad fortune seems to have so
little effect upon him, is decidedly un
popular. People appear to dislike see
ing him so unaffected by his phenome
nal good luck. “G’est pas un liornme,”
exclaimed a vivacious little French
lady, after the punter had so phleg
matically put into his pocket the 20,-
000 francs he had won in a single coup,
“e’est unc machine.” And that those
standing around felt as she did was
evinced liy their approving laughter.
In Oregon there are 25,000 acres of
prune orchards.
TALMAUE’S SERMON.
’’CONTRARY WINDS" THE P-3-
JECT LAST SUNDAY.
From the Following Text, “Tlie Wind
Wm Contrary"— Matt. —Tlie
Voice of Chi'Utlaulty the Only Alter
native La MUfoctuno.
-
S I well know by
[ experience on Lake
Galilee, one hour
I all may be crilm
LZj waves will be so j
A boisterous that you :
<, j are in doubt as to !
whether you will J
* land on the shore
Kn or on the bottom of j
the deep. The disciples in the text
were caught in such a stress of weather
| and the sails bent and the ship plunged
! for “the wind was contrary.” There |
! is in one of the European straits a i
I place, where, whichever way you sail |
the winds are opposing. There are
j people who all their life seem sailing
In the teeth of the wind. All things
seem against them. It may be said of
their condition as of that of the dis
! ciples in my text; "the wind was con- i
! trary.”
A great multitude of people are un- j
der seeming disadvantage, and I will i
today, in the swarthiest Anglo-Saxon |
that I can manage, treat their cases; !
not as a nurse counts out eight or ten j
drops of a prescription, and stirs ihem I
in a half-glass of water, but as when ;
I a man has by a mistake taken a large !
i amount of strychnine, or Paris green, 1
I or belladonna, and the patient is walk- I
; ed rapidly round the room, and shaken j
i tip, until he gels wide awake. Many of !
you have taken a large draught of the {
poison of discouragement, and I come j
out by the order of the Divine Physl- j
cian to rouse you out of that lethargy.
First, many people are under the dis
i advantage of an unfortunate name
! given them by parents who thought
they were doing a good thing. Homo
times at the baptism of children, while
I hare held up one hand in prayer, I
have held up the other hand in amaze
ment that parents should have weight
ed the babe with such a dissonant and
repulsive nomenclature. 1 have not so
much wondered that some children
should cry out at the christening font
as that others with such smiling face
should take a title that will be the bur
den of their lifetime. It is outrageous
to sftllct children with an undesirable ;
name because it happened to be pos- |
scssed by a parent or a rich unde from j
whom favors are expected, or some
prominent man of the day who may
end his life in disgrace. It is no ex
| cuse, because they are Scripture names,
; to call a child Jehoikim. or Tiglath
| Plleser. I baptized one by the name
; Bathsheba! Why, under all the cir
j cumambient heaven, any parent should
i want to give to a child the name of that
| loose creature of Scripture times 1 can
not imagine. I have often felt at the
I baptismal altar, when names were an
! nouneed tq me, like saying, as did the
Rev. Dr. Richards, of Morristown, N.
J., when a child was handed aim for
baptism and the name given; “Hadn't
you better call it something else?**
Impose not upon that babe a name
suggestive of flippancy or meanness.
There is no excuse for such assault and
battery on the cradle when our lan
guage is opulent with names musical
and suggestive in meaning, such as
John, meaning “the gracious gift ol
God;” or Henry, meaning “the chief
; of a household;” or Alfred, meaning
I "good counsellor;” or Joshua, meaniug
“God, our salvation;” or Ambrose,
meaning “Immortal;” or Andrew,
meaning “manly;” or Esther, meaniug
“star;” or Abigail, meaning “toy fath
er’s Joy;” or Anna, meaning “grace;"
or Victoria, meaning “victory;" or Ros
alie, meaning "beautiful as a rose;” or
Margaret, meaning “a pearl;” or Ida,
meaning “godlike;” or Clara, meaning
“Illustrious;” or Amelia, meaning
“busy;” or Bertha, meauing "beauti
ful,” and hundreds of other names just
as good, that are a help rather than a
| hindrance.
But sometimes the great hindrance
1 In life In not in the given name, but In
; the family name. While legislatures
are willing to lift such incubus, there
are families that keep a name which
mortgages all the generations with a
great disadvantage. You say; "1 won
der if he is any relation to So-aud-zo,”
mentioning some family celebrated for
crime or deception. It is a wonder to
| me that in all such famlies some sp:rit
?d young man does not rise, saying to
1 liis brothers and sisters; ’if you want
I to keep this nuisance or scandalization
of a name, I will keep it no longer than
until the quickest course of law I can
slough off this gangrene.” The city
directory has hundreds of names the
mere pronunciation of which has been
a life-long obstacle. If you have started
life under a name which either through
ridiculous orthography or vicious sug
gestion has been au encumbrance, re
solve that the next generation shaii not
be so weighted. It is not bemcaniug
|to change a n;une. .Saul of Tarsus be
jamo Paul tbe Apostle. Hudnssah,
“the myrtle,” became Esther, " the
| star.” We have In America, and I sup
pose it is so in all countries, names
which ought to be abolished, and can
be, and will be abolished for tlie reason
that they are a libel and a slander. But
if for any reason you are submerged
either by a given name or by a family
name that you must bear. God will help
you to overcome the outrage by a life
consecrated to the good and useful.
You may erase the curse from the
asms. If It one© stood for meanness,
yon can make it stand for genorosity.
If once it atood for pride, you can
make It gt’tml fur humility, if it once
j stnd for fraud, you can make It stand
; for honesty. If once it stood for wick
edness. you can make it stand for pur
ity. There have been multitutdcs of in
stances where men and women Inve
magnificently conquered tlie disasters
of the name inflicted upon thorn.
Again, many people labor under the
misfortune of incomplete physical
| equipment. We are by our Creator so
| economically built that we cannot af
ford the obliteration of any physical
faculty. We want our two eyes, our
two ears, our two hands, our two feet,
our eight lingers and two thumbs. Yet
what multitudes of people have but
one eye, or but one foot! The ordinary
casualties of life have been quadrupled,
! quintupled, scxtupled, aye, centupled,
, in our time by the Civil War, and at
the North and South a great multitude
I are fighting the battle of life with hall,
j or less than half the needed physical
j armaments. 1 do not wonder at the
j, pathos of a soldier during the war, who,
when told that lie must have his hand
I amputated, said: “Doctor, can't you
! save it?” and when told that i: was im
j possible, said, with tears rolling down
his checks: “Well, then, good-bye, old
band; I hate to part with you. You
have done me a good service for many
years, but it seems you must go. Good
bye.”
A celebrated surgeon told me of a
! scene in the Clinical Department of one
! of the New’ York hospitals, when a
poor man with a wounded leg was
! brought in before the students to be
i operated on. The surgeon was point
| ing out this and that to the students,
j and handling the wounded leg, and was
I about to proceed to amputation, when
; the poor man leaped from the table
| and hobbled to the door, and said,
l “Gentlemen, l am sorry to disappoint
you, but by the help of God r . will die
I with my leg on." What a terrific loss
j is the loss of our physical faculties!
* * *
Put to full use all the faculties that
I remain, and charge on all opposing cir
cumstances with the determination of
John of Bohemia, who was totally
blind, and yet at a battle cried out. “I
pray and beseech you to lead me so
tar Into the light that I may strike one
good blow with this sword of mine.”
Do not think so much of what faculties
you have lost as of what faculties re
main. You have enough left to make
yourself lelt in three worlds, while you
help the earth, and balk hell, and win
heaven. Arise from your discourage
ments, O men and women of depleted
or crippled physical faculties and see
what, by the special help of God you
can accomplish!
The skilled horsemen stood around
• Bucephalus, unable to mount or man
age him, so wild was the steed. But
Alexander noticed that the sight of his
own shadow seemed to disturb the
horse. So Alexander clutched him by
the bridle, and turned his head away
from the shadow, and toward the sun,
and the horse’s agitation was gone, and
Alexander mounted him and rode off,
to the astonishment of all who stood
by. And what you people need is to
have your sight turned away from the
! shadows of your earthly lot over
which you have so long pondered, and
your head turned toward the sun —the
glorious sun of Gospel consolation, and
Christiau hope, and spiritual triumph.
9*9
Now. suppose a man finds himself in
mid-life without education, what is he
to do? Do the best he can. The most
effective layman in a former pastoral
charge that I ever heard speak on re
ligious themes could, within five min
utes of exhortation, break all the laws
of English grammar, and if he left any
law unfiactured he would complete the
work of lingual devastation in the
prayer with which he followed it. But
I would rather have him pray for me,
if I were sick or in trouble, ihan any
Christian man I know of, and la that
church all the people preferred him in
exhortation and prayer to all others.
Why? Because he was so thoroughly
pious and bad such power with God he
was irresistible; and as l;e went on in
his prayer sinners repented and saints
shouted for Joy, and the bereaved seem
ed to get back their dead in celestial
companionship. And when he had
stopped praying, and as soon as I could
wipe out of my eyes enough tears to see
the closing hymn, I ended the meeting,
fearful that some long-winded prayer
meeting bore would pull us down from
the seventh heaven.
Not a word have I to say against ac
curacy of speech, or tine elocution, or
high mental culture. Get ail these you
can. But I do say to those who were
brought up in tbe day of paor cchool
houses and ignorant schoolmasters, and
no opportunity: You may have so
much of good in your soul and so much
of heaven in your everyday life that
you will be mightier for good than any
who went through the currieu'um of
Harvard, or Yale, or Oxford, yet never
graduated in the school of Christ. When
you get up to the gate of heaven no
one will ask you whether you can parse
the first chapter of Genesis, but wheth
er you have learned the fear of the
Lord, which is the beginning of wis
dom; nor whether you know liovv to
square the circle, but whether you have
lived a square life In a round world.
Mount Zion Is higher than Meant Par
nassus.
But what other multitudes thero are
under other disadvantages! Here is a
Christian woman whose liusbanl thinks
religion a sham, and while the wife
prays the children one way tao hus
band swears them another. Or hare is
a Christian man who is trying to do
his best for God and the Church, and
his wife holds him back and says on
the way home from prayer-meeting,
whero ho gave testimony for Christ:
“What a fool you made of yourself!
I hope hereafter you will keen still.”
And when he would be benevolent and
give fifty dollars, she criticises li.nj for
not giving fifty cents. I must do jus
tice and publicly thank God that J
never proposed at home to give any
thing for any cause of humanity or re
ligion but the other partner in the do
mestic firm approved it. And when it
seemed beyond my ability and faith in
God was necessary, she had three
fourths the faith. But I know men
who, when they contribute to charita
ble objects are afraid that Ihe wife
shall find It out. What ;* withering
curse such a woman must be to a good
man!
Then there are others under the
great disadvantage of poverty. Who
ought to get things cheapest? You say
those who have little means. But they
pay more. You buy coal by tlie ton,
they buy it by the bucket. You buy
flour by the barrel, they buy it by the
pound. You get apparel cheap, because
you pay cash. They pay dear because
the}’ have to get trusted. And the
Bible was right when it said: “the de
struction of the poor is their poverty.”
Then there are those who made a
mistake in early life, and that over
shadows all their days. “Do you not
know that that man was once In pris
on,” is whispered. Or, “Do you know
that that man once attempted suicide?”
Or, “Do you know that that man once
absconded?” Or, “Do yoji know that
that man was once discharged for dis
honesty?” Perhaps there was only one
wrong deed in the man's life, and that
one act haunts the subsequent half, cen
tury of his existence.
Others have unfortunate predomi
nance of some mental faculty, and
their rashness throws them into wild
enterprises, or their trepidation makes
them decline great opportunity, or
there is a vein of melancholy in their
disposition that defeats them, or they
have au endowment of over-mirth that
causes the impression of insincerity.
Others have a mighty obstacle in
their personal appearance, for which
they are not responsible. They forget
that God fashioned their features, and
their complexion, and their stature, *he
siz.e of their nose, and mouth, and
hands, and feet, and gave them their
gait and their general appearance; and
they forget that much of tlio world's
best work and the Church's best work
lias been done by homely people; and
that Paul the Apostle is said to have
been hump-backed, and his eye-sight
weakened by ophthalmia, while many
of the finest in appearance have passed
their time in studying killing attitudes,
and In displaying the richness of ward
robes —not one ribbon, or vest, or sack,
or glove, or button, or shoe-string of
which they have had brains to earn for
themselves.
* • •
In the way of practical relief for all
disadvantages and all woes, the only
voice that is worth listening to on this
subject is the voice of Christianity,
which is the voice of Almighty God.
Whether I have mentioned the par
ticular disadvantage under which you
labor or not, I distinctly declare, in the
name of God, that there is a way out
and a way up for all of you. You can
not be any w’orse off than that Chris
tian young woman who was in the
Pemberton mills when they fell some
years ago, and from under the fallen
timbers she was heard singing; “I am
going home to die no more.”
Take good courage from that Bible,
all of whose promises are for those in
bad predicament. There are better days
for you, either on earth or in heaven.
I put my hand under your chin, and
lift your face into the light of tlie com
ing dawn. Have God on your aide, and
then you have for reserve troops ail the
armies of heaven, the smallest company
of which is twenty thousand chariots,
and the smallest brigade one hundred
and forty-four thousand, the lightnings
of heaven their drawn sword.
An ancient warrior saw an overpow
ering host come down upon bis small
company of armed men, and mounting
bis horse he threw a handful of sand
in the air, crying, “Let their faces be
covered with confusion!” And both
armies heard his voice, and history
says it seemed as though the dust
thrown in the air had become so many
angels of supernatural deliverance, nnd
the weak overcame tho mighty, and the
immense host fell back, and the small
number marched on. Have faith in
God, and though all the allied forces of
discouragement seem to come against
you in battle array, and their laugh of
deflnance and contempt resounds
through all the valleys and mountains,
you might by faith in God, and impor
tunate prayer, pick up a handful of the
very dust of your humiliation, and
throw it into the air, and it ehall be
como angels of victory over all the
armies of earth and hell. The voices
of your adversaries, human and Satan
ic, shall be covered with confusion,
while you shall be not only conqueror,
but more than conqueror, through ihat
grace which has so often made the
fallen helmet of an overthrown antag
onist the footstool of a Christian vic
tory.
Deep Diving to Rooovor Treasure.
The greatest diving font ever at
tempted was that of the raising of
treasure that sank with the steamer
rear Seal Rocks, New South Wales.
News lias been received lhat every box
of sovereigns that went to the bottom
has been saved by Llie men who work
ed under tlie sea at a depth of twenty
seven fathoms. The names of the div
ers are Briggs and May. At times they
wore subject to a pressure of seventy
to seventy-five pounds to the square
ineh, causing ihem great suffering.
The Catterthun was wrecked in Au
gust, 1893, while on tho voyage from
Sydney to Hong Kong. Fifty-four of
her crew and passengers lost their
lives, including brave Captain Shan
non. The vessel’s cargo consisted of
produce and £IO,OOO in sovereigns.—
ban Francisco Examiner.
FOREIGN NOTES.
The monkey colony at Gibraltar —tbs
only wild meukeys In Europe—includes
about twenty Individuals at present.
A Scottish railway company has en
gaged a first-class speaker to give free
illustrated lectures In cities and towns
descriptive of the beautiful summer ro
sorts in Scotland.
Three hundred unpublished letters
by Hofer, Haspinger and others, valu
able documents to historians of the Ty
rol, were lately discovered In a dilapi
dated drug store at Bozen.
Poisoned Blood
These come from poi- sVj a | ar j a
Bonous miasms arising
from low marshy land and from decaying
vegei bio matter, which, breathed into
tbe lungs, enter and poison the blood.
Keep the blood puro by taking Hood’s
Sarsaparilla arid there will be little danger
from malaria. The millions take
HOOd’S S pari«' a
The Best—in fact the One True Plood Purifier.
i » i,~ «-».«« cure nausea, indigestion,
riOQG S Hills bihousucss. Price iSC.
HALL/S |
Vegetable Sicilian |
HAIR RENEWER
Beautifies and restores Gray
Hair to its original color and
vitality; prevents baldness;
cures itching and dandruff.
A fine hair dressing.
p. P .Hall & Co., Props.. Nashua, N. tl.
Sold by all Druggists.
ALABASTINE™-
A pure, permanent nnd artistic xvall-coatiog
ready for the brush by mixing in cold water.
FOR SALE BY PAINT DEALERS EVERYWHERE.
(A Tint Card showing IS desirable tints,
j-H r p s also Alabastine Souvenir Rock sent free
l IILL I to any ono mentioning this paper.
ALABASTINE CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.
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jm&o
'Western'Wheel Werka
uOMAKERS^
CfItCAGO H i tNOtS
CATALOG VE FREE
DRUNKARDS '"Saved™
The craving tor drink Is a disease, a marvel loos
rnre for which has been discovered called “ Anti-
Jag," which makes the Inebriate lose all taste for
itror.it driuk without knowing why, as it can be
liven secretly in ten, coffee, aonp and the like.
If " Anti-Jag” lsnotkept by your rliuggtst send
one dollar to tho Jtenova Chemical Co.. tin Broad
way, New York, and It will be sent postpaid, in
VUln wrapper, with fall directions bow to give
wcretly. Information mulled tree.
PATENTS, TRADEMARKS
Examination and Advice as to Patentability of In
vention. Sfivl for “Inventors’ Guide- or How toUst*
Patent." O’FAItRBLL A SON. Washington. V. O.
rCT nip 11 quickly. Sendfor’ClOOlnvontinnsWanted."
(JC I nlUil l-.dgur Tale Ji Co.. -45 Broadway. New York.
Healthy
Economy
fA daily constitutional
and a Columbia bicy
cle there’s healthy
economy for you—in
vigoration in the exer
cise—economy in the
wheel. Perhaps Colura
bias cost a little more in
the beginning, but they
are cheapest in the end.
Columbia Bicycles
STANDARD OF SfOA TO * LL
THE WORLD. W MJKL
HARTFORDS, next be5t,*60,*55,*50,*45
POPE MFG. CO.,
Hartford, Cana.
Catalogue free from any Columbia dealer; by
mail lor one 2-ccnt stamp.
SIOi) To Any Man.
WILL PAY 35100 FOR ANY CASE
Of Weakness la Men They Treat and
Fall to Cure.
An Omaha Company places for the first
time before tho public a Magical Tkeat
w*st for the cure of Lost Vitality, Nervous
and Sexual Weakness, and Restoration of
Life Force in old ami voting men. No
worn-out French remedy: contains no
Phosphorous or other hurnmil drugs. It is
a WoNDEJurcn Tukatmunt—magicul in its
iffeots—positive in its cure. All readers,
who are suffering from n weakness that
blights their life, causing that nieutal nnd
physical suffering peculiar to Lost Man
hood. should write to the STATE MEDICAL
COMPANY, Omaha, Neb., and they will
■end you absolutely FREE, a valuable
paper on these diseases, nnd positive proots
of their truly Magical, Tuhatmbnt. Thout
ands of men, who have lost nil hope of n
cure, are being restored by them to a per
fect condition.
This Magical Treatment may be taken
at home under their directions, or thuy will
pay railroad fare and hotel bills to all who
prefer to go there for treatment, if they
rail to cure. They are perfectly reliable;
have no Free Prescriptions, Free (Jure,
Free Sample, or C. O. D. fake. They have
P-*.’>o.ooo capital, nnd guarantee to cure
every case they treat or rofuud every dol
lar; or their charges may be deposited iu a
bank to bo paid to them when a cure ia
effected. Write them today.
«CURE YOURSELF!
I> Blit for tiniiAtur*’.
liirbarv'*. tuCamuistioni,
rrilatiuiia or ul<rrati<>ua
it uiucoui invmbranaa.
raiuloM, and not aatrla
, « PU ‘ poiaonou*.
•old fcy DranliU.
or asut in plain wrappar,
by eiprsaa, prepaid, for
tl Hi. or 2 iMiftlre, |3.7#.
CircuLi aant «u raquaaL