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REV. DR.JALMAGE. THE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDA V DISCOURSE. / Subject: Chrlut Oar Refuge ? 4 Metung* of Comfort. Coimnenclina the Behav? ior of the Disciples to Those Vf ho Ar? Burdened With Sorrow. [Copyright lam] Washington, D. C.?Dr. Talmage, in the following disc. urse. which he hasse ; for publication this week, gives a prescrip? tion for all anxiety and worriment, and illustrates the divine sympathy for all who are in any kind of struggle. Thc te::t is Matthew xiv, IS, "And His disciples went and told Jesus.'' An outrar?ous assassination had just taken place. To appease a revengeful woman King Herod ordered the death ol that noble, seif-sacriru.ng prophet,. John the lia pt isl. Thc group ol thc disciples v ere thrown into grief and dismay. They felt themselves utterly defenseless. There was no authority to which they ould op peal, and yet grief must always find ex? pression. If there be no human ear to near it, then the agonized soul will cry it aloud to tbe winds and the woods and the watara. But herc was an me that was willing to listen. There is a te I,ler pa thoa and at the same time a most admir? able picture in the words of my text. 'They went and to i Jesus." He could understand all their grief, and He imme? diately soothed it Our burdens are not more thau half so heavy to carry if another shoulder is put under the other end of them. Here wc find Christ, His brow shadowed with grief, standing amid the group of discinle . who, with tears an 1 violent gestieulatic.is and wringing ol hands and outcry of bereavement, arc ex? pressing their woe. Raphael, with his skillful brush, putting upon the wall of a palace some scene of sacred story, gave not so skilllul a stroke as when the plain hand of the evangelist writes, "They went ami told .fesus." Tho old Goths and Vandals once carre do vn upon Italy from th" north Ku rojie. and they upset the gardens, and they broke down the.statues and s\ -it ?wit everything that was goori and beau tifuf. So there is ever ana anon in .he history of all the sons and daughters of our race an incursion of rough handed troubles that come to plunder and ran? sack and put to the torch all that men highly prize. There is no cave so deeii'v cleft into the mountains as to afford us shelter, and the foot of fleetest courser cannot bear us beyond the quick pursuit. The arrows they nit to the string ny with unerring dart until we fall pierced and ?tamed. I feel that 1 bring to you a most appro? priate message. I mean to bind up all your griefs into H bundle and set them on fire with a spark from (Jed's altar. The prastiiption that cured the sorrow of thc disciples will cure all your heartaches. I have read that hen Godfrey and his army marched out to capture Jerusalem. as they came over the hills, at the first f!a>h ot the pinnacles of that beautiful city, the army that had marched in si? lence lifted a shout that made the earth tremhle. Oh, you soldiers of Jesus Christ, marching . n toward heaven. 1 would that ? to-day. by some gi.am from the palace oi Sod's merry and (Jori's strength, you muli! be lifted into great rejoicing and that as the prospect of its peace breaks ** youl enraptured gaze you might raise one glad hosanna to the Ix>rd! In the first place I commend the belia t ior of those disciples to all burdened souls who are unpardoned. There come? ? time in almost every man's history when he feels from some source that he has an erring nature. The thought may not havo such heft as to fell him. It may be only like the flash in an evening cloud just aftei a very hot summer day. One man to get rid of that impression will go to prayer, another will stimulate himself by ardent spirits, and another man will dive deepei in secularizes. But sometimes a nran can? not get rid of these impressions. The fact is, when a man finds out that his eternity is poised upon a perfect uncei'ainty, and that the next moment his foot may slip, he must do something violent to make him? self forget where he stands or else fly fot refuge. Some of you crouch under a yoke, and you bite thc dust when this moment, you ?'kV rise up a crowned conqueror. Driven and perplexed as you have been by sin, go and tell Jesus. To relax the grip of death from your soul and plant your unshackled feet upon the golden throne Christ let thc tortures of the bloody mount transfix Him. With the beam of His own cross He will break down the door cf your dun? geon. From the thorns of rm own crown He will pick enough gems to make your brow blase with eternal victory. In every tear on His wet cheek, in every gash of His side, in every long, blackening mark of laceration from shoulder to shoulder, in the grave shattering, heaven storming death groan 1 hear Him say. "He that cometh unto Me I will in nowise cast ont." "Oh." but yon sty. "instead of curing my wound you want lo make another wound?namely, that of eonvictio..!" Have you never known a surgeon to come and find a chronic disease and then with sharp caustic burn it all oat? So the ginee oi God conies to the old sore of sin. lt hag long been rankling there; but, bv divine grace, it is burned out through these fires of conviction, "tho flesh eomimr again as the flesh of a little child:" "where sin abounded, grace much more aboundeth.'' With the ten thousand unpardonable sins of your life, go and tell Jesus. You will never get rid of your sins ia any other way, and remember that th? broad invitation which I extend to you will not always be extended. King Al fred, before modern timepiece* were in? vented, used to divide the day into three parts, eight hourseach. and then had three wax candles. By the time thc first candle had burned to the socket eight hours lind gone, and when the second candle had burned to the socket another eight hours had gone, and when all the three candles were gone out then the day had passed. Oh, that some of us, instead of calculating our days and nights and years by any earthly timepiece, might calculate them by the numbers of onportunities and mer cies which are burning down and burning ont, never to be relighted, lest at last we be amid the foolish virgins who cried, "Our lamps have gone out:'' Again, I commend the behavior of the disciples to all who are tempted. I have heard men in mid-life say they had never led into temptation. If you have noF felt temptation, it is because you have not Lied to do right. A man hoppled and handcuffed, as long as he lies quietly, does not test the power of the chain, but when he rises up and with determination re? solves to snap the handcuff or break the hopple then he finds the power of the iron. And there are men who fiave been for ten and twenty and thirty yerrs bound hand ami foot by evil habits who have never felt the power of the chain because they have never tried to break it. It is very east to go on down with the stream and witn the wind lying on your oars, but jost turn around and try to go against thc wind and the tide, and you will find it is a different matter. As long as we go down the current of our evil habit we seem to get along quite smoothly, but if after a while wc turn around and lr-1 the other way. toward Christ and pardon and heaven, oh. then how we have to lay to the oars! You will have your tempta,ic.i. Yon have one kind, you another, you an? other, not one person escaping. Again, I commend the behavior of thc disciple* to all those who are aburod an I to the slandered and perrocuted. When Herod put John to death, the disciples knew that their own heads were not safe. And d > you know that every John has a Herod ? 1 here are persons in life who do not wish you very well. Your uisfortunes are hrmcvcomt to them. Through their i.vi h iiuv hiss at you, misinterpret , -Ut motives, p.nd would be glad to see you up? set. No man gets tin,.ugh life without having a pommeling. Sonic slander comes after you horned and husked and hoofed to gore and trample you, and what are you to do? I tell you plain'y that all who serve Christ must suffer persecution. It is the worst sign in the world for you to be be able to say. "I have not an enemy in tho world.'' A woe is pronounced in the Bible against the one of whom everybody sneaks well. If you arc at peace with all thc world and everybody likes you and approves your work, it is because you are an idler in the Lord's vineyard and are not doing your duty. All those who have served Christ, however eminent, all have been maltreated at some stage of their ex perienre. You know it was so in the time of George Whitefield when he stood ami invited, liieij into th^.jdngdom_o| _God; hat did the learned Dr. Johnson say ot n? He pronounced him a miserable mntebank. How was it when Robert ill stood and spoke as searceiy any unin ired man ever did spcHk of the glories heaven? And a* he stood Sabbath af ? Sabbath nreaching on these themes i face kindled with the glory. Tohn ster, a Christan man. said of this man, [obeit Hall is onV acting, and the smile his face is a reflection of his own van '." John Wesley turned all Kngland side down with Christian reform, and t the punsters were after him. and the sanest inkes in England were perpetrated out John Wesley., What is true of the lpit is true of the new: it is true rf the *eet: it is true of the shop end thc store. 1 who live godly in Christ Jesus must ffer persecution. And I set it down as the very mont sign all vour Christian ext**>ratMM 'f von aro iy. of you at neaee with all the world, ie religion of Christ is war. It is a allenge to "the world, the flesh and the ivil," and if you will btiekle on the whole mor of God you will find a great host sputing your path lietween tHs and saven. Again. I commend the behavior of the sciples te all the bereaved. How many garb of mourning! How many emblems sorrow you behold everywhere! God is His own way of taking apar' a fain i-. We must get on* of the way for com ig generations. We must get off the age that others may come on. and for tis reason there is a iong procession reacb ig down all the time into the valley of ladows. This emigration from t:me into ternity is so vast an enterprise thai we innot understand it. Every hour we hear fie clang of the sepulchral gate. The id must be broken. Thc ground must bc lowed for resurrect ic ? harvest. Eternity mst be peonled. The dus4 must press our yelids. "lt is appointed unto all men nee to die." This emigration from time ito eternity keeps three-fourths of +be imilies of the earth in desolation. The ir is rent with farewells, and the black fisseled vehicles of death rumble through very street. The body of the child that as folded so closely to the mother's heart I put away in I he cold and the darkness. 'he laughter freezes to the girl's lip. and lie rose scatters. The bow in thc harvest eld of Shunem say. " "Mv head, my ead!" and they t .rry bim home to die on lw lap of *i'B mother. Widowhood stands ith tragedies of woe struck into thc pal >r of the check. Orphanage cries in vain MT father and mother. Oh. thc grave is rueH With teeth of stone it clutches for s prcv. Between thc closing gates of the ?pulcher our hearts are mangled and rushed. But Christ is always near?before you, ehind you, within you. No mother ever irew her arms around her child with such "armth and ecslacy of affection as Christ as shown toward you. Close at hand, nearer than the staff upor hich you lean, nearer than the cup voil ut to your lip. nearer than the handker nef with which you wipe away your tears, preach Him an ever present, all sympa hizinp. compassionate Jesus. How can ou stay away one moment from Him with our griefs? Go now. Go and tel! Jesus. It is oi ten that friends have no power 0 relieve us. They would very much like D do it, but they cannot dis"ntanclp our nances, they cannot cure orv sickness nd raise our dead, but glory be to God hat He to whom the disciples went has all ower in heaven and on earth, and at om all He will balk our calamities and at ust the right time, in the pre?ence of an pplauding earth and a resounding heaven, lill raise our dead. He is mightier than lerod. He is swifter than the storm. He 1 grander than the sen. He is vaster than ?ternity. And every sword of God's om lipotence will leap from its scabbard and he resources of infinity be exhausted rath' r than that God's child shall not be de ivercd when he crier, to Him for reeces. Suppose your child was in trouble. How nuch would you endure to get him out? 1'ou would say. "I don't care what it will ?ost. I must get him out of that trouble." Do you think (Joel is not so good a father is you? Seeing you arc in trouble and caving all power, will He* not stretch out His arm and deliver you? He will. He is nighty to save. He can level the mount? ain and divide the sen. and can extinguish tlie fire and save the soul. Not dim of pye, not weak of arm. not feeble of re? sources, but with nil eternity and the uni rer?e at His feet. Go and tell Jesus. Will you? Ye whose cheeks are wet with the night dew of thc grave, ye uno cannot look up, ve whose hearts are dried with the breath of sirocco, in th" name of the religion of Jesus Christ, which lifts everv burden and wipes away every tear and delivers every captive and lightens every darkness, I im? plore you now go and tu Jesus. A little child went with her father, a sea captain, to sea, and when the first storm came the little child was very much frightened, and in-the night rushed out of the cabin and said. "Where is father, where is father?' Then they told her. "Eather is on deck guiding the vessel and watching the storm.' The little child im? mediately returned to her berth and said, lt's all right, for father's on deck." 0 ye who are tossed and driven ir> this world, up by the mountains and down by the valleys and at your wits tnds, I want you to know the Lord God is guiding thc ship. Your Eather is on deck. Ile will bring you through the darkness into thc harbor. Trust in the Loni. Go and tell Jesus. If you go to Him for pardon and gym* pathy, all is well. Everything will bright? en up, and jov wiil come to inc heart, and sorrow will depart, your sins will be for? given, and your foot will touch thc up? ward path, and the shining messengers that report above what is done here ivill tell it until thc great arches of God re? sound with the glad tidings if now with contrition and full trustfulness of soul you will only go and tell Jesus. But I am oppressed as I think of those who may not take this counsel and may remain unblessed. I cannot help asking what will be the destiny of these people. Xerxes looked olf on hi?s army. There were 2,000,000, perhaps the finest army ever mar? shaled. Xerxes rode along thc lines, re? viewed them, come back, and stood on some high point, looked off upon thc 2,000, 000 men and burst into tears. At that mo? ment, when every one supposed he would be in the greatest exultation, he broke down in grief. They asked him why he wept. "Ah," he saul. "I weep al thc thought thal so soon all this host will l>c dead." So I think of Ihese vast popula? tions of immortal m*.ri and women and re? alize the fact that soon the plaoas which know them now will know them po more. and they will be gone?whither, whither? There is a stirring idea which the Met put in very peculiar verse when lie said: 'Tis not for man to trifle; life is brief, And sin is here; Our age is but the falling of a kif, A dropping tear. Not many lives, but only one have we? One\ onlv one; How sacred siiould that one life ever bc? That narrow span! WEST POINT COMMENCEMENT. The Cloging Exercises Held and Dlplo mas Awarded. West Point, N. Y. (Special). ? The closing exercises of the graduating class of 1900 were held under a canvas canopy in front of the library build? ing. Upon a platform were seated thc speakers, the Board of Visitors, the Academy Board, tbe Secretary of War. General Miles. General Otis and prom inent army officers. After a patriotic selection by the Academy band, Gen? eral Charles F. Manderson, of Nebras ka. president of the Board of Visitors delivered an address to the graduating (lass. Then followed brief addresses by Secretary of War Root and Lieu tenant-General Miles. Colonel Alberl L. Mills, superintendent of the Acad erny, handed out the diplomas whict made the members of the graduating class part of the United States Army The good-bys followed. No Plague In San Francisco. In response to n recent message ol Inquiry from Secretary of State Haj eoueerning tbe existence of bubonh plague In San Francisco, Governoi [lase, of California, malled un extend* reply, declaring his firm belief that rn ease of bubonic plague bas ever existei !u Kan Francisco, POWERINALUMPO'COAL WORK THAT CAN BE COT OUT OF A HANDFUL OF BLACK DIAMONDS. Interesting Calculations Made by Chem? ists?A Pound Lump Will AccofnplUh More Than a Hundred Men?Pulls a Heavy Train One-sixth of a Mlle. If yon raise 330 pounds 100 feet nigh in one minute, you have done 33,000 foot-pounds of work in a min? ute, and thia is called one-horse power. When we have weight, dis banoe and time we have the three ele? ments which constitute a measure of work by which two men or two horses or two machines can be oompared. This had been done for some time be? fore men began to realize that there was a distinct relation between such units of work and quantities of heat. Count Rumford first attempted to measure this by determining the quan? tity of heat which was involved in the boring of a cannon at the arsenal at Munich, Germany. Other observers followed him, and finally adopted what is known as the mechanical equivalent of heat, namely, 778 foot? pounds. When the chemist wants to de? termine the power contained iu one pound of coal, he simply crushes his ooal to a fine powder and takes a small quantity of it, which he care? fully weighs, and by chemical means, burns under water. Having eprevi ously determined the exact weight and temperature of this water, he finds its temperature after this quan? tity of coal has been burned iu it, and then figures out that if the small pinch of coal which he burnt adds so much temperature to the small quan? tity of water, a pound of the coal will add a proportionate quantity to a larger weight of water. Let us, for the purpose of what follows, take a pound of what we will eall average coal, containing, say, 10,000 heat units. This would be somewhat smaller in size than a man's fist. If we could burn this pound of coal completely and entirely under water and let all its heat go into the water, we could raise the temperature of 625 pounds of water sixteen de? grees. Picture to yourself that you have a bathtub five feet long, two feet wide, and filled one foot deep with water, aud that this water has a temperature of sixty-four degrees. If the pound of ooal could be completely burned in that water and all the heat thereby involved could be imparted to this body of water, the later would have become sixteen degrees hotter, i. e., it would be a comfortable bath at eighty degrees Fahrenheit. This does not seem like very much work, but it gives a fair measure of the quantity of heat which slumbers in the lump of coal. The 10,000 heat units in this one pound of coal which we found suffi? cient to warm our bath, if expended in mechanical work, would give us 236 horse power. Watt, the father of the modern steam engine, found that a strong brewer's horse could, during eight hours, clo work sufficient to raise 330 pounds 100 feet high in one minute, and hence he called this quantity of work performed in this time one boise power. We must remem? ber, however, that the horse will not be raising constantly, for after each hoist the rope and hooks must be agaiu lowered, so that scarce four out of the eight hours are actually spent in the active work of hoisting. We have, therefore, hidden away in this oue^pound of coal the full day's work of a strong Percheron horse. The snowfall in winter often seri? ously impedes travel ou city streets, as well as on railways. This has led inventors to study out and patent a number of devices intended to melt away the snow. The fallacy of this mode or proceeding becomes apparent as soon as we figure out what a pound of coal eau do in that way. It takes 142 heat units to melt one pound of ice or snow when this ice or 'snow is already at thirty-two degrees. If it is colder, it will take as many more heat units as are required first to bring the Bnow to this melting temperature, known as the freezing point. There? fore, when the snow is just ready to melt, the heat in the pound of coal is just sufficient to melt seventy-one pounds of snow. This is less than one-third of an ordinary cart load. But we have just seen that this pound of coal carries within it tho power of 236 horses, each of whioh could eas? ily pull thirty times as much snow, if loaded in a wagon, as this one pound of coal can melt. Again, the 236 horse power of po? tential energy which we know to be slumbering in this pound of coal would do the work of an express loco? motive for one-fifth of a minute. In other words, it is enough to haul a train of eight cars, including Pullman sleeping cars aud dining cars, at the rate of fifty miles au hour one-sixth of a mile. It is enough to haul a train at the rata of niue miles an hour, including the grip car, the trailer, and its quotum of moving cable, a distance of neaily two miles; and it is enough also to pull au electric motor car, loaded with passengers, at the rote of ten miles an hour, two and one-half miles. Let us now compare thc power im? prisoned in this black diamond with the work of a strong man accustomed to hard labor. Many observations show that suoh a man can do, on an average, about one-tenth of a horse power. Allow him eight working hours, equal to 480 minutes. During this time be occasionally stops for ahort rests, to change his position, to pick up another tool, to judge of the result of his work and to plan for further procedure. This will easily consume one-tenth of the time, leaving 432 minutes, which, at one-tenth of a horse power gives him a total effect of 43.2 horse power as the result of his day's labor. This pound of coal con? tains more thau sufficient power to d in one minute the day's work of five such strong men. Or it would take about 2600 strong men, working stead? ily side by side, to do jointly as much work in one minute as nature has locked up for us, ready at our call, iu a single pound of coal. An exceptionally strong man has been known to do one-half horse powei of work as his'mightiest effort, but in two and a half minutes' work at thi* rate he exhausts his muscular force, Let us suppose 100 such men putting forth such extreme effort at rope, oi srank or crowbar; as they fall back, ed-faced and puffing, to catch their jreaths, we might imagine this little )lack lump saying to them: "I oan lo as much as your whole company, ind then can stand it for fully two ninutes longer before I am ex laustedl" In sawing wood, a man may work at he rate of about sixty strokes a min? ite and consider himself a "top lawyer," and his saw blade may have progressed five feet a minute, but a drcular saw, driven by machinery, nay be put through seventy times ;hat distance and saw seventy times a? nuch wood. And yet this one little xrnnd of coal contains power enough or 180 such saws. CURIOUS FACTS. Rod ants stung to death the four rear-old child of G. D. Speuskia, a armer at Millheim, Tex., recently. Hie ant hill, on which the child was itanding, caved in, and before the mild could be rescued the insects had itung it so severely that death re? mited in a few hours. Teutonic peasants were the pro? viders of blonde, hair for rich Roman princesses who loved the contrast of ts flaxen hue with their black eyes, they even had morning wigs, small md tightly curied, of any color, and icpt tho beautiful, fair evening ones ;o wear when receiving their admirers in the evening. Jerry Morrow, "the little man of rurkeyfoot," aoross the river from Steubeuville, Ohio, died recently. Ho was twenty-niue years of age, was only ibout forty inches high and weighed ibout thirty-eight pounds. His brain levelopmont, considering his small physique, was wonderful aud he pos? sessed scholarly tastes aud was a natural musician. He was never ex? hibited in freak shows, his taste re? belling agaius*. such exhibitions. An electrical tree has been discov? ered in India. Its leaves are so highly charged with electricity that whenever one is touched the individual investi? gating receives a shock that almost knocks him down. Even upon the magnetic needle this tree, which has beeu given the name of Philotcea elec Irica, has a stroug influence, causing magnetic variati ins at a distance of seventy feet. The electrical strength of the tree varies according to the time of day, being most powerful at noon. John Glenn, ofTJrbaua, Ohio, died the other day after having made a record for eccentric vows. Because his father bought what he thought was a better suit for his brother than for him, he vowed that he would not wear a coat for twenty years. Another time he toole offense at some trifling thing anti vowed he would not leave his house for twenty years, and for twenty years he was a voluntary pris? oner. Except for a few eccentricities like these he was said to have been quite sane. It is noted in the report of the New York Zoological Society that au alliga? tor from tho Indian River, Florida, was brought to the gardens in July, 1899, and then measured twelve feet and one inch. Since thou there has been added four iuches to his length, which is a remarkable rate of growth for so large au alligator. In the bird house the experiment has beeu tried of decorating the walls which form the backs of the cases with landscapes, and this has been so successfully done that the cranes havo several times tried to walk through the wall. Side-Lights on Life. A cynical woman says that when a man breaks his heart it is the same aa when a lobster breaks one of his claws ?another sprouts immediately aud grows in its place. The father of a bright baby can readily believe that smartness is hereditary. It is said that brains will tell, but sometimes tbe more brains a man has the less he tells. Never judge a man by the clothes he wears; judge him by tho amount he owes tho tailor. The more a man has the moro he wants?with the possible exception of twins. It's a good thing that man wants but little here below, for woman wants the balance. It sometimes happens that the man who knows his own mind doesn't know much after all. Every time a mau invents a good scheme some other fellow comes along and makes a fortune out of it. The only thing original about tho average joke is tbe sin of stealing it.? Chicago News. Burst an Artery Washing His Face. Because George Fisher, a Lehigh Valley freight haudler, washed his faco rather vigorously a few days ago before breakfast, he came near bleed? ing to death. He was rubbing the skin nuder his left eye, when suddenly he felt a warm stream running down his face, and in an instaut discovered that it was blood. The red fluid spurledout in such volume that Fisher became alarmed when he found him? self powerless to check the flow. A carriage was hastily summoued, and he was rapidly driven to the Fitch Hospital. When he arrived there ho was weak and was fairly drenched with blood. Tho surgeons discovered that ho was suffering from a spontaneous rup? ture of tho iufraorbital artery, which is situated just below tho eye. The ends of the artery were gathered up and rejoined.?Buffalo Eveuiug Newe. Advice to Sneezer*. Never turu your head when you sneeze, or you may rupture a blood vessel iu tho brain and go off as did good Mr. Samuel Halpcr, of Derby. Most persons do their sneezing at tho dinner table, after vigorously pep? pering their food. They should push back their chairs when they feel tho emotion coming on and turu their bodies away with their heads. To twist the head around II to compress certain muscles, veins aud arteries. I have known two mcu to die sneez? ing. In ancient days il, was not nu usual to seo healthy citizous drop dead in the street iu tho midst of this involuntary convulsive action. 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A Dry Hermon. "How was the temperance ser non yesterday?" "Dry."?Philadelphia 3ulletin. aWBMmWwB Pinkham The one thing that quail fies a person to give ad" vice on any subject ls experience ? experience orestes knowledge* No other person has so wide an experience with female Ills nor such a record of success as Hf rs* Pinkham has had* . Over a hundred thou? sand cases come before her each year* Some per sonallv, others by malla And this has been going on for 20 years, day after day and day after day* Twenty years of con? stant success ? think of the knowledge thus gained! Surely women aro wise In seeking ad? vice from a woman with such an experience, es? pecially when St ls free* If you are III get a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once?then write Mrs* Pinkham, Lynn, Mass* OUT! '. For ynor family> comfort and your own. HIRES Rootteer will contribute more to !t than tons of Ice and a (fros* of faru>. 5 callous for 25 cents. Wrlias for Hit of premlami eifel eil fret) for lah.la. rn AH LES E. If IKES CO. Malvern. Po. at ll afflicted with ?ore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water Sweat and fruit acids will not discolor froods dyed with Putnam Fadilms Dies. 3old by all druggists. An inventive genius has produced a to laceo pipe whloh has a whiatleln the stem, n order to enable the'smoker to summon a ?ab without taking the pipe from his mouth. Mrs. Wlnslow'isoothing 8yrupfor children fectiiing.softenslheizum^recluoinizinflftmma. Hon, allays pain, cures wind colic. 2&o. a bottle. Fargo, N. D.. with a population of less han 11,000, has 88 secret societies. The Best Inscription for Chills ind Fever la a bottle of GrOVS's Tastei.fm ^Hfix Tonio. It ls simply iron and quinine In i tasteless'form. No cure?no pay. Price 50u. Sixteen parks are maintained by the City )f Mexico. ( do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption las an equal for coughs and colds.?John F. Boyer, Trinity Springs. Ind., Feb. 15,1900. There are t?,C00 cells In a square foot of loneycomb. Have you ever experienced the joyful sen istionofa good appetite? You will if you :aew Adam's Pepsin Tutti Fruttl. Buenos Ayres bas twenty excellent mar cets in the city. FITS permanently cured. No Hts or nervoui ie$s after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Ve*veRestorer.$2trial bottle and treatise free Uh. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 031 Arch St., Phila., Pa. TOrFRAME BRIDE'S PICTURE. How a New Chicago Matron Remem? bered Her Friends. A recent Chicago bride who was go? ing out of town to live distributed photographs of herself and farewell gifts to her relatives and friends and had them framed in a unique aud at? tractive manmer. They wero to be mounted nn<ter glass in the manner familiar to all and known as passe? partout, butt instead of the usual mat of linen or cardboard Bhe used a ma? terial which was especially appropri? ate, and one w&ich made frame as well asas picture worthy of being pre? served among the family heirlooms. The picture which she gave her mother had a mat of the white satin which had been used for her wedding dress, and across one corner was a bit of the lace with which the dress was trimmed. To a sister she gave a picture also mounted in the while satin, but with a design of orange blossoms embroidered upon it, while the mount for the one given her maid of honor was of the white satin em? broidered with a graceful spray of hride roses. Friends less near re? ceived pictures mounted with the goods which had gone to make up the different gowns of her troussseau. The mount made from tho material of her "going-away gown" had forget-me nots embroidered in small scattered spray?, while some of the silk and figured goods were made up plain, be? ing sufficiently decorative in them? selves. In each case the mounted pic? ture was bound in the glass with a narrow strip of soft leather in a shade to correspond with the color of the mount. Upon the back of each was plainly written the name and date of the wedding. It is needless to state that the gifts were prized as the pic? tures alone never could have been, and it is safe to predict that other brides will follow'the graceful fashion. ?Chicago Chronicle. An Exception to tho Rul<s "We ought to put more personal warmth in our letters." "Oh, I don't know. A man I knew once put a lot of personal warmth in some letters, and it got him into court in a breach of promise suit."?Indianapolis Jour? nal. S, K. Coburn. Mgr. Clarie Scott, Writes: "I find Hall s Catarrh Cure a valuable remedy." Druggists sell lt, 76. It is estimated that about 2,000.001,000 bicycles have been made in Europe and America. To Care a Cold In Ona Day. Take Laxativi Bromo Qr rsi vb TiSt.ro. AU druggist* refund the money If lt falls to cars. E. W. Uaovi's signature ls on each box. Mo. The s'aughter houses of tbe City of Mex? ico net the treasury about t600,000 a month in taxes. HAIR " T T V V T V So many persons have hair that is stubborn and dull. It won't row. hat's i the reason? Hair *< needs help just as ?< anything else does at ?< times. The roots re? quire feeding. When hair stops growing it loses its lus? ter. It looks dead. Hivir visor acts almost instantly on such hair. It awakens new life in the hair bulbs. The effect is astonishing. Your hair grows, be? comes thicker, and all dandruff is removed. And the original color of early life is restored to faded or gray hair. This is always the case. $1.00 a bottle. All druggists. "I have usccl Ayer's Hair Vigor, nnd am really astonished at the good it has done in keening; my hair from coming ont. lt is the best tonic I have tried, and I shall continue to recommend it to my friends." Mattie Holt, Sept. 24,1898. Burlington, N. C. If you do not obtain all the benefits voa expected from the use of the Hair Vigor, write the Doctor about lt. DR. J. C. AYER, Lowell, Mats. ? ? T^ T V ? V ? $ WILLS PILLS-BIGGEST OFFER EVER MADE. For only IO (rn tra we will send to any P. O. sd dress, lu days' treatment of the best medicine on saith, 'uni put you on the track how to make .Vina, cy right at vour home. Address all orders to The lt. il. Wills Medicine Company, ?3 Ellan* belli St.. Hagenatown, Md. Branch OrMce-: 120 Indiiina Ave., \\ iriliiiia'nn, !>. C. nDADC V NEW DISCOVERT; gives fl JIT ll aT^aVJ I quick relro' ?n1 cara>? wort* CAxes. Book of testimonials sud IO days'treatment tree. Dr. a. H. obeeh'sions, Box B, Atlast*, ??. B H U 25. yr Pl SO'S eli RE FOR I ? UUHth WfltHt AU tlSE PAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes (Jood. Use in time. Sold by druffsista. CONSUMPTION BUT WRETCHED } Fight on for wealth, old "Money Bags," your liver is drying up and bowels wear? ing out, some day you will cry aloud for health, offering all your wealth, but you will not get it because you neglected Nature in your mad rush to get gold. No matter what you do, or what ails you, to-day is the day?every day is the day?to keep watch of Nature's wants?and help your bowels act regularly?CASCARElS will help Nature help you. Neglect means bile in the blood, foul breath, and awful pains in the back of the head with a loathing and bad feeling for all that is good in life. Don't care how rich or poor you are, you can't be well if you have bowel trouble, you will be regular if you take CASCA RETS-zzt them to-day?CASCARETS in metal box; cost 10 cents; take one, eat it like candy and it wiil work gently while you sleep. It cures; that means it strength? ens the muscular walls of the bowels and gives them new life; then they act regularly and naturally; that is what you want? lt is guaranteed to be found in? THE IDEAL LAXATIVE 10c "V^giaSE^l j?ul .j ? I rfca ^l^kh*-^ ALL 25c. 50c.^*"JllaOTirlM' m DRUGGISTS To any needy mortal suffering from bowel troubles and too poor to buy CASCARETS we will send a box free. 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