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KKV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINKS SUN.
DAY SRItMON.
Subject: "Ihe Cftr of Ephesus."
Text: "Great is Diana of the Ephesians"
Acts xix., 34.
We bare landed this morning at Smyrna
a city of Afaatic Turkey. One of the seven
churches of Asia once stood here. You read
T toE"' the church in Smyrna
write. It is a city that has often been
shaken by earthquake, swept by conflagra
tion, Masted by plagues and butchered by
war, and here Bishop Polycarp stood in a
crowded amphitheater and when he was
asked to pive up the advocacy of the Chris
tian religion and save himself from martyr
dom, the proconsul savin?, "Swear and I
release thee; reproach Christ." replied,
& ghty and six years have I served Him,
and He never did me wron; how then can I
revile my King and Saviour!"
-.i?- ue he wa.8 brugbt to the firs into
which he was about to be thrust, and the of
ficials were about to fasten him to the stake
he said: "Let me remain as lam. for He
who RJveth me strength to sustain th fire
will enable me also without your securing
mewithnai!s to remain unmoved in the
lire. History says the fires refused to con
sume him, and under the wind the flames
bent outward so that they did not touch his
person, and therefore he was slain by swords
and spears. One cypress bending over his
grave is the only monument to Bishop Poly-
But we are on the way to the city of Ephe
bus, about fifty miles from Smyrna. We
are advised not to go to Ephesus. The
bandits m that region have had an uly
practice of cutting off the ears of travelers
and 8endlner there mwimanc
bmyrna, demanding a ransom. The ban
dits suggest to the friends of the persons
rrom whom the ears have been subtracted
that if they would like to have the rest of
the body they will please send an appropriate
sum of money. If the money is not sent the
mutilated prisoners will be assassinated.
One traveler was carried off to the robbers
den, and $ 500 was paid for his rescue. The
bandits were caught and beheaded, and
pictures of these ghastly heads are on sale in
the shops of Smyrna for any person who
may desire to have something to look at on
their way to Ephesus.
There have been cases where ten and
twenty and thirty and forty thousand dollars
have been demanded by these brigands. We
did not feel like putting our friends to such
expense, and it was suggested that we had
better omit Ephesus. But that would have
been a disappointment from which we would
never recover. We must, whMo
associated with the most wonderful apostolic
scenes. We hire a special railway train, and
in about an hour and a half we arrive at the
city of Ephesus, which was called "The Great
Metropolis of Asia," and "One of the Eyes of
Asia " and "The Empress of Ionia," the capi
r J learninS and magnificence. Here,
as I said, was one of the seven churches of
Asia, and first of all, we visit the ruins of that
church where once an ecumenical council of
two thousand ministers of religion was held.
Mark the fulfillment of the prophecy. Of
the seven churches of Asia four were com
mended in the Book nf Rvnlnfir. ar,rt
were doomed. The cities having the four i
. ii.ulUiw oi-iu. duiqu; me cities
having the three doomed churches are wiped
our It occurred just as the Bible said it
would occur. Drive on and you come to the
theatre, which wab 660 feet from wall to wall
capable of holding 56,700 spectators. Here
and there the walls arise almost unbroken,
but for the most part the building is down.
As I took my placa at the centre of this
theatre and looked around at its broken lay
ers of stone, gallery upon gallery, gallery
upon gallery, and piled up into the bleak
skies of that winter day, and thought that
every hand that swung a trowel on those
walls, and every foot that trod those stairs,
and every eye that gazed on that amphi
theatre, and every voice that greeted the
combatants in that arena had gone out of
hearing and sight for ages on ages, I felt a
thrill of interest that almost penetrated me
amid the ruins.
Standing there we could not forget that
in that building once assembled a riotous
throng for Paul's condemnation, because
what he preached collided with the idolatry
of their national goddess. Paul tried to get
into that theatre and address the excited
multitude, but his friends held him back, lest
he be torn to pieces by the mob, and the re
corder of the city had to read the riot act
among the people who had shrieked for two
mortal hours till their throats were sore aud
thty were black in the face, "Great is Diana
of the Ephesian?."
isow we step into the Stadium. Enough
of its walls and appointments are left to
show what a stupendous place it must have
been when used for foot-races and for fights
with wi d beasts. It was a building 680 feet
long by 200 feet wide. Paul refers to what
transpired there in the way of spectacle
when he says, "We have been made a spec
tacle." "Yes," Paul says, "I have fought
with beasts at Ephesus," an expression
usually taken as figurative, but I suppose it
was literally true, for one of the amuse
ments in that Sta aurn was to put a disliked
man in the arena with a hungry lion or tiger
or panther, and let the fight go until either
the man or the beast or both were slain.
It must have been great fun for thesa
haters of Christianity to hear that on the
mon o i" in the Stadium in Ephesus the mis
sion ry Paul would, in the presence of the
crowded galleries, right a hungry lion. Tho
people were ear!' there to get the best seat?,
and a more alert and enthusiastic crowd
uever assembled. Ther took their dinner
withthsm. And was there ever a" more un
equal combat proposed? Paul, according to
tradition, small, crooked backed and weak
ji . i . .
eea. out me grandest man m sixty cen
turies, is led to the center a3 the people shout :
"Ihere he comes, the preacher who has
nearly ruined our religion. The lion will
make but a brief mouthful of him."
It is plain that all the sympathies of that
crowd are with the lion. ln one of the
underground rooms I hear the growl of the
wild beasts. They have been kept lor several
nays without food or water in order that they
may be especially ravenous and bloodthirsty.
What cLar.ee is there for Paul? But you
canuot rell by a man's Szeor looks how stout
a Mow he can strike or L:v keen a blade he
c an thrust. Witness, heaven and earth and
hel', this struggle ot Paul with a wild beast.
Vhe coolest man in the Stadium is PauI.
What has ho to tear He has deiied all tha
jMjwers, earthly and infernal, an J if his boty
tumble under the toot and toota of the wild
beast, his soul will only the sooner find dis
enthrallment. Hut it is his duty, as far as
possible, to preserve his life.
Mow, 1 hear the bolt of the wil l beast's
dcor shoved bacjr, ant the whole audience
l ise to their feet as toe nrc3 brute springs
tor the arena ana toward its saiall occupant.
I thinlc th3 first plunge that was ma le by
the wild beast at the aposrle was made o;i tae
point of a sharp blade, an 1 the snarling
monster, with a hcvrl of p'lin and recking
with gore, turns back. Bus now thi little
missionary hss his turn of making attack,
and with a few well directed thrusts tha
mor.strr lies died in tiio dut or the are-ia,
end the apostle puts his right fojt on the
1
lion and snaces mm, ani -nen puts nu iett
foot on him and shakes him a scene which
Paul afterward uses for an illustration when
he wants to show how Christ will triumph
over death "He must reieu till He hath
put all enemies under His feet" yes, undei
JJr foe t
Paul told thft literal truth when ha said:
"I have fought with beasts at Ephesus," and
as the plural is use i I think he had mbn
than one such fight, or several beasts wen
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that day in the middle of the Stadium am
looked around at the great structure, to
whole scene cams back upon u-.
But we pass out of the Stadium, for wean
in haste for other places of interest in Ephe
sus. To add to the excitement of the daj
one of our party was missing. No man )
safe in that region alone unless he be armc
ani know now to take sure aim and notmiss
fire. Our companion, Dr. Louis Klopscb,
now the publisher of the Christian Herald,
had gone out on some explorations of his
own, and through the gate where Paul had
walked again and again, yet where no man
unaccompanied should adventure now. But
after some time had passed and every min
ute seemed as long as an hour, and we had
time to imagine everything horrible in the
way of robbery and assassination, the lost
traveler appewred, to receive from our entire
party a volley of expostulation for the
arousal of so many anxieties.
In the midst of this city of Ephesus once
floated an artificial lake, brilliant with
painted boats, and through the river Cayster
it was connected with the sea, and ships from
all parts of the known earth floated in and
out, carrying on a commerce which made
Ephesus the envy of the world. Great was
Ephesus ! Its gymnasia, its hippodrome, its
odeon, its athenaeum, its forum, its aque
ducts (whose skeletons are still drawn along
the city), its towers, its Castle of Hadrian,
its quarries, which were the granite cradle
of cities; its temples, built to Apollo, to Min
erva, to Neptune, to Mercury, to Bacchus,
a TT 1 - a .
io xiercuies, vj vaesar, to r ortune, to j upit
er Olympus. What history and poetry and
luisci auu u&i.va-t uavs hoc presented nas
come up at the call of archieologists' powder
blast and crowbar.
But I have now to unveil the chief wonder
of this chiefest of cities. In 1S63, under the
patronage of the English Government,
Mr. Wood, the explorer, began at Ephesus
to feel along under the ground at great
depths for roads, for walls, for towers, and
here it is that for which Eohesus was mora
celebrated tnan all else besides the temple
of the goddess Diana, called the sixth wonder
of the world, and in 1889 we stood amid the
ruins of that temple, measuring its pillars,
transfixed by its sculpture and confounded
it what was the greatest temple of idolatry
ui all time.
As 1 sat on a piece of one of its fallen col
umns I said, "What earthquake rocked ic
down, or what hurricane pushed it to the
earth, or under what strong wine of centur
ies am me giam; stagger and fail?" There
have been seven temples of Diana, the ruins
pf each contributing something for the
splendor of its architectural successors.
1 wo hundred and twenty years was this iast
temple in construction. Twice as long as
the U nited States have stood was that tem
ple in building. It was nearly twice as large
as St. Paul's Cathedral, London. Lest it
should be disturbed by earthquakes, which
have always been fond of making those re
gions their playground, the temple was built
on a marsh, which was made firm by layers
of charcoal, covered by fleeces of wool. The
stone came from the quarry near by.
After it was decreet! to hmM th f-mnf. i-
WUU WiUfJlO 1U
was thought it would be necessary to bring
the building- stone from nth Pi la nHc Hi-i. svn
day a shepherd by the name of Pixodorus,
while watching his flocks, saw two ram3
fighting, and as they missed the interlocking
of their horns and one fell his horn knocked
a splinter from the rock and showed by that
splinter the lustrous whiteness of the rock.
The shepherd ran to the city with a piece of
that stone, which revealed a quarry from
which place the temple was built, and every
month in all ages since the Mavor of
Ephesus goes to that quarry to offer sacri.
fices to the memory ot that shepherd who
discovered this source of splendor and
wealth of the cities of Asia Minor.
In removing the great stones from the
quarry to their destined places in the temple,
it was'necessary, in order to keap the wheels!
which were twelve feet in diameter, from
sinking deep into the earth under the un
paralleled heft, that a frame of timbers be
arranged over which the wheels rolled. To
put the immense block of marble in its pi ace
over the doorway of on? of these temples
was so vast and difficult an undertaking that
the architect at one time gave it up, and in
his chagrin attempted suicide, but one night
in his sleep he dreamed that the stone had
settled to the right place, and the next day
he found that the great block of marble had,
by its own weight, settled to the right
place.
The temple of Diana was four hundred and
twenty-five feet long by two hundred and
twenty-five feet wide. All Asia was taxed
to pay for it. It had one hundred and
twenty-seven pillars, each sixty feet high,
and each the gift of a king, and inscribed
with the name of the donor. Now you sea
the mean.ng of that passage in Ptevelation
jast as a king presenting one of these pillars
to the Temple of Diana had his own name
chiseled on it and the. name of his own
country, so says Christ, "Him that over
conieth will I make a pillar in the temple of
My God, and I will write upon him the namo
of My God and the name of the city of My
God, which is New Jerusalem, and I will
write upon Him My new name." How su- I
gesuve ana Deauuiuu
In addition to those pillars that I climbed
over while amid the ruins of Diana's temple,
I saw afterward eight of tbosa pillars at
Constantinople, to which city they had been
removed, and are now a part of tae Mosque
of St. Sophia. Those eight columns are all
green jasper, but some of those which stood
in Diana's temple at Ephesus were fairly
drenched with brilliant colors. Costly met
als stood up in various parts of the temple,
where thev could catch tha fnll.-h flush V
the sun. A flight of stairs was carved out
was coroneted. Around this figure stood
statues which by wonderful invention shed
tears. The air by strange machinery was
damp witn descending perfumes. Ths walls
multiplied the scene by concaved mirrors.
Fountains tossed in sheaves of light and fell
in showers of diamonds.
Praxiteles, the sculptor, and Applies, the
painter, filled the place with their triumphs.
Croesus, the wealthiest of th9 ancients, put
h?re and there in the temple golden heifers.
The paintings were so vivid and lifelike that
Alexander, who was moved at nothing of
terror, shuddered at one battle scene on these
walls, and so true to life was a painting of a
horse that when Alexander's horse was led
up to it be began to neigh, as ona horse is ac
customed to greet another. One painting in
all nations and the spoils of kingdoms were
kept here lor sare aeposn. criminals irom
aII Isnli fl vx Ka cholt.ni ff thic tennis
and the law could not touch them. It seemed
. . . - i
almost strange tnat mis mountain oi arcni
tectural snow outside did not melt with the
fires of color within.
The temple was surrounded with groves,
in which roamed for the temptation of
hunters, stags and hares and wild boars, and
all styles of game, whether winged or four
footed. There was a cave with statue so
intensely brilliant that it extinguished the
eye of those who looked upon it, unless, at
the command of the priest, the hand of the
spectator somewhat shaded the eye.
No wonder that even Anthony and Alex
ander and Darius cried out in the words of
my text, "Great u Diana of the Ephe
sians." One Whole month of each venr tha month
of May, was devoted to her worship. Pro
cessions in gams or purple ana violet and
scarlet moved through it, and thera were
torches and anthems, and choirs in white,
and timbrels and trianeries in music, sacri
fices and dances. Nations voted large
amounts to meet the expense of the worship.
Fisheries of vast resources wero devoted to
the sunnort of this rpsnlpnrJpnre Hnrooi
and Virgil and Homer went into rhapsodies
while describing this worship.
All artists, all arcbaeolog sts, all centuries,
agreed in saying, "Great is Diana of the
Ephesians." Paul, in the presence of this
Temple of Diana, incorporates it in his fig
ures of speech while speaking of the spiritual
temple, "Now, if any man build upon this
foundation, gold, silver, precious stones,
etc.," and no doubt with reference to one of
the nrevions t.Amnls wViirVi hrl hoon sur nn
Are by Herostratus just for the lame of de
stroying it, Paul says, "If anv man's work
shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, etc,"
and all up and down Paul's writings you
realize that he had not only seen, but had
been mightily impressedwith "what nenad
seen of the Temple of Diana.
In this city the mother of Jesus was said
to have been buried. Here dwelt Aquilla
and Priscilla of Bible mention, who were
proressors in an extemporized theological
seminary, and they taucht the eloquent
Apollos how to be eloquent for Curist.
Here John preached, and from here because
Df his fidelitv he was exiled to Pflt.mrvs FTro
Paul warred against the magical arts for
which Ephesus was famous. The sorcerers
rf this city pretended that they could cure
diseases, andparform almost any miracle,
by pronouncing these senseless words, Aski
Uataski Lix Tetrax Damnameneus Al
lion." But, all the glory of Ephesus I have de
scribed has (zone now. At some season of
the year awf.il malarias sweep over the
pmuu ana puc upon mattress or in graves
a large portion of the population. In the
approximate marshes scorpions, centipedes
and all forms of reptiiian life crawl and
oiss ana sung, wnne nyenas and jackals at
uight slink in and out of the ruins of build
ings which once startled the nations with
their almost supernatural grandeur.
But here is a lesson which has never yet
been drawn out. Do you not see in toat
temple of Diana an expression of what th?
world needs. It wants a Goi who can pro
vide food. Diana was a huntress. In
oictures on many of the coins she held a stag
oy the horn witn one hand and a bundle ot
arrows in the other. Oh, this is a hungry
world ! Diana could not give one pound of
meat or one mouthful of food to the
millions of her worshipers. She was a dead
divinity, an imaginary god, and so in
idolatrous lands the vast majority of people
never have enough to eat. It is only in the
countries where the God of heaven and earth
is worshiped that the vast majority have
enough to eat. Let Diana have her arrows
and her hounds. Our God has the sunshine
and the showers and the harvests, and in
proportion as He is worshiped does plenty
reign.
So also in the Temple of Diana the world
2xpressed its need of a refuge. To it from
ill parts of Vhe land came debtors who could
aot pay their debts and the offenders of the
law that thav might escap3 inci r
Keration. But she sheltei
little while, and while she kept them from
arrest she could not chansre their hearts nnH
the guilty remained guilty. But, our God
in Jesus Christ is a refuge into which we
may fly from all our sins and all our pur
suers, and not only be safe for time, but safe
for eternity, and the guilt is pardoned and
the nature is transformed. What Diana
could not do for her worshipers, our Christ
accomplishes for us.
of one grapevine. Doors of cypress wood.
which had been kent in e-ln for vnrj oni
bordered with bronza in bas relief, swung
against pillars of brass and resounded with
echo upon echo, caught up and sent on and
hurled back through the corridors.
In that building stood an image of Diana,
the goddess. The impression was abroad as
the Bible records, that that image had
dropped plumb out of heaven into that
temple, and the sculptors who really made
the image were put to death, so that they
could not testify of its human manufacture
and so deny its celestial origin. It was
thought by intelligent paople that the ma
terial from which t.jis idol was formed might
have dropped out of heaven as an aerolite.
We have seen in the British museum, and in
universities of our own west, blocks of stone
hurled off from oth?r worlds'. These aero
lites were seen to fall, and witnesses han
gone to the landing places, and scientists havi
pronounced them to bo the product of othei
world.
But the material out ot which the imagt
of Diana was fashioned contradicts that
notion. This image was curved out of ebonj
and punctured hera and there with ODenings
kept full of spikenard so as to hindar the
statue from decaying and make it aromatic,
but this ebony was covered with bronzaand
alabaster. A necklace of acorns coile-1 grace
fully around her. There were four lions on
each arm, typical of strength. Her head
Hock of age? elef t for me.
Let me hide myself in thee.
Then, in that temple were deposited
treasures from all the earth for safe keeping.
Chrysostom says it was the treasure house
of nations; they brought gold and silver and
precious scones and coronets from across the
sea, and put them under tha care of Diana of
the Ephesians. But again and again were
those treasures ransacked, captured or de
stroyed. Nero robbed them, the Scythians
scattered them, the Goths burned them.
Diana failed thos who trusted her with
treasures, but our God, to whom we may in
trust all our treasures tor this world and the
next, and fail any one who puts confidence
in Him He never will. After the last jasper
column has fallen, and tbe last temple on
earth has gone into ruins, and the world
itself has suffered demolition, the Lord will
keep for us our best treasures.
But notice what killed Ephasus and what
has killed most of the cities that lie buried in
the cemetery of nations. Luxury! The
costly baths, whBh had been the means of
health to the city became iU ruin. Instead
of the cold baths that had been the invigora-
nuu oi ma peopie, r,ne not Oaths, which are
only intended tor the infirm or the invalid,
were substituted. In these hot bath3 many
lay most of the time. Authors wrote books
while in thesa baths. Business was neglected
and a hot bath taken four or five time3 a
day. When the keaper of the baths was rep
rimanded for not having theni warm enough
one of the rulers said, "You blame him for
making the bath warm enough; I blame you
because you have it warm at all."
But that warm bath which enervated
Ephesus, and which is always enervating ex
cept when followed by cold bath3 (no refer
ence, of coursa, to delicate constitutions),
was only a type of what went on in all de
partments of Ephesian life, and in luxurious
mdulgenca Ephesus fell, and tha last triangle
u m 11310 was tintIed in Diana's temple, and
the last wrestler disappeared from her gym
nasiums, and tha last racer took his garland
in the Stadium, aui the last plea was heard
in her Forum, and even tha saa, as if to
nuaraw tne last commercial opportunity
from that
. , . 1 1 kuwucj uunu VliC
I beach, leaving har without tha harbor in
which had floated a thousand ships. Brook
lyn, New York, London and all modern cit
ies, cisatlantic and transatlantic, take warn
ing! What luxury unguarded did for Ephe
sus, luxury unguarded may do for all. Opu
lence and splendor God grant to all the peo
ple, to all the cities, to all the land, but at
tne same time, may He grant the righteous
use of them.
Gymnasiums? Yes, but see that the vigor
gained in them be consecrated to God. Mag
nificent temples of worship? Yea, but see that
in them instead of conventionalities and cold
pomp of service there be warmth of devotion
and the pure Gospel preached. Imposing
court houses? Yes, but in them let justice
and mercy rule. Palaces of journalism? Yes,
but let all the printing presses be marshaled
for happiness and truth. Gnat postoffice
buildings? Yes, but through them day by
ua, may curresponaenoe aeipiiu, elevating
and moral pass. Ornate dwelling houses?
Yes, but in them let there be altars of de
votion, and conjugal, filial paternal and
Christian fidelity rule. London for magni
tude, Berlin for universitie?, Paris for
fashions, Rome for cathedrals, Athens for
classics, Thebes for hieroglyphics, Memphis
for tombs, Babylon for gardens, Ephesus for
idolatry, but what shall be the characteris
tics of our American cities when they shall
have attained their full stature? Would
that 4 'holiness to tha Lord" might be in
scribed upon all our municipalities. One
thing i3 certain, and that is that all idolatry
must come down. When the greatest god
dess of the earth, Diana, enshrined in the
greatest temple that ever stood, was pros
trated at Ephesus, it was a prophecy of the
overthrow of all the idolatries that have
cursed the earth, and anything we love more
than God is an idol, and there is as much
idolatry in the Nineteenth century as in the
First, and in America as in Asia.
As our train pulled out from the station
at Ephesus, the cars surrounded by the
worst looking group of villains I ever gazed
on, all of them seeming in a wrangle with
each other and trying to get into a wrangle
with us, and we moved along the columns of
ancient aqueducts, each column crowned
with storks, having built their nests there,
and we rolled on down toward Smyrna, and
that night in a sailor's bethel as we spoke
ot tne cnrist wnom the world must know or
perish, we felt that between cradle and
CTaVe them noillrl not. ha anrthintr mnh
more enthralling for body, mind and soul
man our visit to Apnesus.
FAMILY OEEMATED.
Five Persons Burned to Death at Co-
1 um bus, Ohio.
Flames burst throuch the roof of a row of
tenement houses on tferth High street, Co
lumbus, Ohio, at 4 o'clock a few moraines
since. The row ws destroyed, and every
person was supposed to have escaped. It
was nearlv 4 o'cloa next afternoon when a
little girl living in the neighborhood, rum
aged through the ruins and found a naked
arm. Which led tO A Spnrrh nml tha Hicmra-ir
of five bodies burned beyond recognition.
Tha entire familj of Charles Bothers was
destroyed while sleeping in a little eight by
uveiveieeiroomin tne second story. Thev
i i t-i i ..... iT. . J
ere uanes oetners, agea tnirty ; .Elizabeth,
his wife, twenty-eight; Carrie, nine: Mvrtle.
six, and James, three years. The firemen
made no search at first. On their second
search thev found th f At.h
with the infant clasped in!his arms. It was
eviuenc tnat; He had started out.
uui was overcome uy the heat. The mother.
a.uc5iing near me t.eaa ox tne bad, was half
uunea ueueaiQ tne lauing roof. The cwo
gins slept, as they had retired in their cot.
The fire is sunnosed to h
Orijrin. The mom Waa nnlr 1-on faaf -fi-sim
the ground and the entire family might have
uwu rescuea. xnere were tnrae beds, a stove.
ciuu, a uurrau in me room.
PALO ALTO IS KING.
fcenalor Stanford's Jrnat Stallion
Trots a Mile in 2:08 3-4
Palo Alto, United States Senator Stan
ford's peerless stallionv is king of the trotting
turf. A iew days ago this greatest son of
the world's greatest trotting sire. Elec
tioneer, trotted a mile at Stocktou. Cal. in
-:uo4, equaling tne record ot the queen of
trocters, Maud S., and going dangerously
to mat oi nis recent stable companion
Sunol. '
The "rreat stallion narlA Tils mt'la "mriKMf'
-- ' w ww
skip or break and finished strong. Marvin.
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""5 Ul unveis, uanaieci tne riDoons over
mm, tinu was i dauiy e acea wnen tn? horse
Easseu unaer tne wiro in tima surpassad only
yone horse and eciualled onlv hv nnntVii-
The track had baeu in preparation for the
trial for some time, and when Palo Alto went
to tne wire it was almost in perfect shape.
The time by quarters was: 0:31, l:03Jf.
' A Great Medicine inntltatloa.
It is not often that The Tidixgs indulges
in a puff of any business enterprise, but in
this instance we are induced to say a few
words in reference to the great growtu of
the Dr. Kilmer Medicine Company at Bing
haniton, N. Y. From a small beginning
a dozen years ago the Dr. Kilmer Company
have grown to immense proportions already.
Having only just completed a large five
story addition to their factory the rapid
growth of their business demands still more
room, until another large addition
is now being contemplated to their
enormous establishment. In addition to tho
special pi act ice of Dr. Kilmer himself, ex
tending into several States, his several
proprietory remedies have large sales and
a joy great popularity all over tho coun
try. The justly celebrated kidney
remedy, known throughout the land a
Swamp-Root, has already reached the
largest sales of any kidney remedy in the
world. And what is more this remedy has
acquired its popularity and enormous sales,
not by great advertising, but mainly
nrouSh the reputation of tne cures which
it has wrought. Testimonials as to its
merits and the cures it has made have loen
received by hundreds from every State in
the Union. Where a remedy accomplishes
such cures as Swamp-Root has done incases
where they were even regarded as hopeless
it is a pleasure to refer to such facts ia our
columns. Buffalo Saturday Tidings.
Forty thousand acres of Austria-Hun
gary territory are to be planted wih vines
eAponea iram calilornia.
Where la JohnsonviUe f
"I hn.VA VirmcrVit a farm TKt : V.
tlie TnOnn V mrl u-nrklmr Vt -ni an. I aa if ( ,
in a nourishing country I think I shill estab
lish a town on it, and call it 'Johnmville.' "
This inan AXtmrt frnm u Ultr. W" IT
Skinner. This younpr man si arte I in business
something over two year.- ajto, with scarcely a
dollar, and he has made wonderful proxres.
Th flrsf vonrVit nmfltn rv..to.l , rt .
$4.A. There are hundreds and thousands of
younj? men in this glorious country of our-
who can do tust as gtxxl work as Mr. Skinner.
VVritfl niic VI v tn H V .In)ni:nn JV- V LM,.
mond, Va.. and they wil I give you an oppor-
i"unj io uo as wen or netter.
A Pleasing Sense
Of health and strength renewed and of ease
and comfort follow tho use of Syrup of Figs,
as it acts in harmony with nature to effectual
ly cleanse the system when costive or bilious.
For sale in 50c. and $1 bottles by all leading
druggists.
Causes no Nausea.
A-'A A WAD1J X IU1U ViUUZ V- UI O 13 UUi T 1
is; xwv'xi. v v vuij exug
remedy for croup mid. It speedily allays in
flammation to throat or lungs. Sknd by drug
gists, or address A. P. Hoxsie, Buffalo, N. Y.
Price 50 cts.
' " vaa a w a va Ul l(.l 111 Ob ia T 3 UaC(
- v-a. a. m , A lflt UJ V WlU
free. Dr. Kline. 931 Arch St.. Phlla,. Pa.
If A.ffllntAH wHth
- -j" vj dv t rxvvu ailwiiilF
ton's Eye-water. Druggists Bell at S5c.per bottle.
afarrh
Flood' tt tiartiayarilln, lie in a u Con-
tttitutiotuil Itetnedv, Readily
It cache 8 anil fure it.
"A sense of gratitude and a desire to benefit thosa
afflicted, prompts me to recommend Hood's Sarsa-
paruia to all who have catarrh. For many yeurs I
was troubled with catarrh and Indigestion and gen
eral debUlty. I got so low I could not tret around tha
house. I tried about everything I saw recommended
for catarrh, but falling in every insta.ice r being
relieved, I became
Very Much Discouraged.
At last I decided to take Hood's Sarsararllla and be
gan to get relief. I have now used, v it hln two years,
tenor twelve bottles audi feel better than I have
for years. I attribute my Improvement wholly to
the uae of
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Mrs. Chas. Rhine, Corner York aud Pleasant Street,
Hanover, Penn."
Hood's Pi 1 1 For tho liver and bowels, act
easily yet promptly and enVieutly. Price 2.c.
JOHNSON'S
Anodyne Liniment.
4a
THE MARKETS.
SEW YOttff.
Beeves 3 ft.; r. nn
- ... ' icC; , VIV
Milch Cows. com. to r.rri. . .20 Of) 4K tn
Calves, common to prime... 2 00 8 50
?"ttt5P 3 (S . j 15
fmbs . 5 50 & 12 V
iios Live 4 fV) A. o;"
Dressed t
Flour City Mill Extra 5 25
Patents 5 .35 5 60
Wheat No. 2 Red 1 (7 1 08
Rye State yo Mrl
Barley Two-rowed State. . . i Q 92
Corn Ungraded Mixed 70 ( 7S
Oats No. 1 White (& 42
Mixed Western 37 4Q
Hay Good to Choice 70 75
Straw Tonar Rvo rn
Lard City Steam 06.01
Butter State Creamery.... 27 2S3
Dairy, fair to good . l'J (3 25?
UV I r-i -it. i n-
Factory 14 17
Cheese State- Factory 7,Y lO1
Skims Light...... 4 yK
Western 9
Eggs State and Penn 25 20
BUFFALO.
Steers Western 2 50 3 35
Sheep Medium to Good. ... 4 00 4 25
Lambs Fair to Good 5 25 (gj 5 50
Hogs Good to Choice Yorks 4 05 (g 4 0
Flour Best Winter 5 00 5 15
Wheat No. 1 Northern 1 03 1 03)
Corn No. 2, Yellow t
Oats No. 3, White 37
Barley No. 2 Western 6
BOSTOJT.
Egg Near-by 30 33
Potatoes Native Rose 45 53
Cheese Northern, Choice. . 10 10 4
Hay Eastern ..15 00 16 00
Straw Good to Prime 14 00 15 00
Butter Firsta 34 23
WATIRTOWX (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
Beef Dressed weight 4 cs
Sheep Live weight 4 4
Lamts bj
Hogs Northern $X
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour Rye 5 10
V, heat No. 2 Red. Nov 1 C4 1 04
Corn No. 2 Mixed, Nov 66; e7
ats Ungraded White...... 37
Potatoes so 50
Butter Creamery Extra.... 27 28
SbipsdEaxfrakima ;.. 7 S
m ORIGINATED IN I3IO. r
xn::Tx or in Airosr a cehtusI.
Kvirv traroler. Krery family f-honlfi keep it at hanJ.
for tho rnmon ills of life liahle to orturto any on.
Jt is Soothing. Healing and IVnerratin. On.- uei al
v:iys wuriril. Xoiil prfrrw,'i.T(. lri'--Jvi lT C' Full
l..iiti.-?i.Urs fitt. 1. S. .IO!HON . tikt'.Tmwi.
OGNAiO KE
Mhm, Mass,, says
Kennedy's Medical Discovery
cures Horrid Old Sores, Deep
Seated Ulcers of QQ years
standing, Inward Tumors, and
every disease of the skin, ex
cept Thunder Humor, and
Cancer that has taken root.
Price, 1.50. Bold by every
Druggist in the United States
and Canada.
OOOOOOOOOOO
THE SMALLEST PILL IN THE WORLD !
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TINY LIVER PIIXSO
OhaTeallthevirtaesof the larger ones; a
equally effective; pnrely vegetable. Sj
xact size shown in this boi-Jer.
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wish to FIND SOME PAP.TY WITH CAPITAL
nT?1 l or -particular addrt-ns H. GL.Zi
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Lt Prtncipal Eximlncr U.S. Penaloo Bureau.
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