DR TAIMK SERMON. THE BLACK SERVANTS OF THE SKY. Text; “And the raven, brought Him oread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening.”—l Kings, xvii., fit* The ornithology of the Bible is a most in teresting study. The stork in the heaven* which knoweth her appointed time.” The common sparrows, suggestive of the Divine a-- Providence. The ostriches of the desert, by careless incubation reminding one of the recklessness of some parents in regard to their children. The eagle, suggesting the •iches that take wings and fly away. The aelican. emblemizing solitude. The bat, a flake of the darkness. The night-hawk, tne ••‘TAfrage, the cuchoo, the lapwing, the osprey, by God’s command in Leviticus flung fut of the world’s bill of fare. I wish I could save been with Andubon as he went through »he forests with gun and pencil, bringiug •own and sketching the fowls of heaven, his infolded portfolio thrilling all Christendom. What wonderful creatures the birds are. Their voices this morning seemed like songs of heaven let loose and bursting through the rates. Look at their feathers, which > are clothing aid conveyance at tha tame time. Consider the nine vertebrae of the neck. Consider the fact that each bird i\as to each eye three eyelets the third eyelet a cm tain for gradunt ng the light of the day. Some of these birds scavengers and some of them orchestra. Think God for quails’ whistle and larks’ carol, and the twitter of the wren, by tbo ancients called the king of birds, because v.-hen the fowls of heaven went **to a contest as to which could fly the high est and the swung under the sun, a wren on the back of the eagle sprung up still higher, and so was tailed the king of birds. Consider those birds that have golden crowns snd crests, showing that they are feather im perials. Hear the humming-bird serenade the ear of the honey suckle. Look at the belted king-fisher striking like dart from sky to water. Hear the voice of the owl giving the keynote to all croakers. Look at tne con dor amid the Andes battling down the rein deer, when, its eyes destroyed, the poor crea ture goes tumbling over the rocks. I cannot tell whether aquariam or aviary is the best tltar from which to worship God. But in my text there is an instance that baffles all the ornithological wonders of the world. The grain crop had been cut o.T. Famine was in the laud. A minister of God, Elijah, sat at the mouth of a cave by the' brook Cherith, waiting for something to eat. Why iidn : t ho go out to the neighbors? There were no neighbors. It was a wilderness. Why didn’t he go out and pick berries! ■“There were no berries, and if there had been, “h-y would have been dried up by the brought. One morning this man of God, tested at the mouth of the cave, is looking ap into tin pitiless heaven* when he sees a flock of birds approaching. Oh, if they were cnly partridges and he had an arrow with which to br.ng them down! But, as they lome nearer, he fin Is they are not comestible, tut unclean, and their eatiog would be spirit ual death. The length of their wings, the itrength of their beak, the blackness of their »lor, the loud, harsh “crack, crack” of their voice nrove them to be ravens. They fly irouud the prophet's head, round and round, in 1 then on a fluttering wing come to the level of his lip, aad one raven brings the bread and another raven brings ths meat, and having discharged their tiny cargo, their wheel away and other flocks of ravens come until the prophet is satisfied and these black servants of the wilderness table are gone. The breakfast bell, and the supper tell, sounded for rfx months, and joine say for twelve months, calling the prophet up to get his food, while these raven* Hung the sounds on the air: “Crack, crack. / rruck.” Guess where they got the food •'from. Some say that they got it from the kitchen of King Ahab. Some say that they got it from Obadiah. Some say that these iavens brought the food to their young in the ni'sts in the tree tops, and Elijah had only to climb up and get it. Some say the whole story is improbable, and that this flesh must have been the torn flesh of living Animals, and therefore unclean,or it was car rion, and then unlit for the prophet. Some (ay that the word in my text translated “ravens” ought to have been translated “Arabs:” so that the text ought to have read: “And the Arabs brought bread and llesh to him in the morning, and bread and m flesh to him in theevening.” Anything but admit the Bible to be true. Hew away at this miracle until all the miracle is gone; go m with your work of depleting; but, my brother, know that you rob only one man, tod that is your.-elf, of one of the most beau tiful, comforting, blessed, triumphant le sons it all the ages. I ran tell you win these purveyors were. They were ravens. I ?au tell you who freighted them with provisions. God. I can tell you who launched them. God. I can tell you who told them whi h way to fly. God. I can te 1 you who told them at what cave to iwoop. God. I can tell you who it was that Introduced raven to prophet, and prophet to raven. God. Hero is a passage of scripture which I ought to give in a whisper lest, ut tering it in a louder tone, some one might drop down under its power. The passage is this—“He that taketh away from the words yf the prophecy of this book,’ God will take iway bis part out of the Book of Life, and but of the Holy City.” Standing then this morning and ■ watching the ravens feed # Flijah, I hope the dove of God’s spirit may iwoop down the sky, and with out-spread •ring, pause at the lip of every soul hungry for comfort. On the banks of what river nave the great battles of the world been fought? While you are examining the map of the world to answer that, I will toll you " on what banks the great conflict of to-day is being; fought. On the Thames, on the Hud son, on the Mississippi, on the Kennebec, on the (Savannah, on tho Rhine, on the Rhone, on tin NUe. on tho Ganges, on the Hrangho. It is a battle of six thousand years. Eleven hundred million troops are engaged, and the number of the fallen is \ aster than the number of those who march. It is the battle for bread. Sentimentalists, seated in arm-chair in pictured study, with slippered feet on damask ottoman, tell us this world is a great scene of avarice and greed. I don't believe it. Take all the neo ; »*sitie.-> out of tho case, and nine-tenths of ■te n 4>t m. «b shops the factories, the bank ,Y F tug i tba earth would be closed to y in ft,''"' I sa> take the necessities out of the ■ > ho ~ that man toiling in Colorado " i Nf England factory, or count ry on ob ,t bills in the bank, or meas i -mg the fa:.j on the counter! He is a i amfiion < if forth for some home circle . \ v needed to be cared for; or in behalf of • flturch ot God that most be supported, J t, in b*half of an asylum of mercy w th* mast be sustained. Who is that wc% an bending over the sewing machine, or carr ng the bundle, or mending the gar ment, or sweltering at the wash tub? That I ifnDe' .orah, tbavis oneof the Lord’s heroines koing tut agalnst Amalakitish want that cornea dtwn with iron chariot to crush her end bers. Tne great question of this day is not the question of Home Rule, but whether there will be anr home to rale; not a ques tion of tariff, but whether there shall be any thing to tax. With the vast majority of peo ple, it is a question of “bow shall I support my family ? how shall I meet my wants? how ihall I pav roy rent? how shall I clothe and , (belter and e*lunate tho.-* depend"nt u pon me If God will help mo to assist you in the solu tion of that question, the happiest man in this bou e will b? your preacher. I have gone nut on a cold morning with expert sportsmen ii hunt for pigeons. I have gone out on the meadow to hunt for quail. I have gone town with some of my irtends on the marshes to hunt for reed birds, but this morning I am rat for ravens. Notice, in ths first place, in regard to these winged caterers that they were sent directly from God to Elijah. *1 have commanded the raven* to feed thee,” says God in an ad joining passage. They did not come out of lome oth *r c ave, they did not just happen to f ood into his mouth. They came direct!* rom God. The Bible says so. The same God who Is going to supply you. He is your father. It would take a great while to make calcula tion of how many pounds of food, and ho-i many yards of cloth you will require during your life, even though you know how many years you were to live. A very elaborate calculation. God can tell without any cal culation. He has a great family and he ha* everything methodized, and there is a plate for each one of us if we do not act like naughhty children and kick and scramble and try to upset things—a plate for each one of us, ftnd we will bo served in our turn. God has already ordered all the suits of clothes you will ever wear down, to the last one in which you will be laid out. God ha* already ordered all the food you will ever eat. down to the last crumb that will bo put into your mouth in the dying sacrament. Ido not say he will always give us just what we would like. A parent must decide for a child. The child might say: “O, give me sugar an 1 confections, and nothing else.” The parent would say: “O, that wouldn’t be good; that wouldn’t be well for you. You must take something plainer first.” The child might sav: “Give me nothing but great blotches of color in my garments.” “O,” the parent would say, “that wouldn't be appropriate; that wouldn’t be beautiful.” The parent de cides for the child what is best lor him to eat, and what is best for him to wear. Now, God is our father, and we are minors of tho family, and he is going to feed us and clothe iis, although he may not always gratify our infantile wishes for sweets and glitter. These ravens did not bring pomegranates from the silver platter of King Ahab for Elijah. They brought bread and meat; the very best thing, the vary best food. Elijah was going to have a hard time, and God wanted him, to be stout and strong, and he gives him stoat food. They cud not bring cake or pie or custard > but bread and meat, sub stantial diet. And God is going to supply us. He does not promise us the luxuries which sometimes kill the body, but he prom ises Us food, and you have a right to take courage. God has no hard times iu His his tory. His ships never break on the rocks. His banks never faiL He not only has the food, but He has the mode of conveyance; not | only the bread, but the ravens; and if in 1 order to satisfy you it were necessary, God would send out of the heavens a great flock of ravens, reaching from his gate to yours, so that the food could be flung down the sky from beak to beak and from talon to talo” “Though troubles assail and dangers affright, Though treasures all fail, and foes all unite, Yet one thing assures us, whatever betide, The Scripture assures us the Lord will pro vide.” • Notice also, in regard to these winged caterers, these black servants of the sky, and in regard to this whole question brought be fore us, that nothing could Elijah hoard up as a surplus. The raven did not bring enough one morning to last a month, they did not bring enough one morning to last until the next morning. They brought enough in the morning to last until the even ing, and thev brought enough in the evening to last until the morning. Twice a day. “And they brought bread and flesh to him in the.morning, and bread and flesh to him in the evening.” In other words, they brought Just enough. Oh I wish we could all learn that esson. You know the great struggle of the world is for a surplus. It is nob merely enough for this week, or this year, but it is for fifty years: it is for a lifetime. You have mors faith in the Nassau Bank, ths Fulton Bank, the Bank of England, than in the Royal Bank of Heaven. You say: “That is all very poetic; you can take the black ravens; give me the gold eagles.” If in the morning'the food bj exhausted, do not sit down after breakfast and say: “I dou’t know where tho next meal is to come from;” but go out, look up into the sky, and you will see two ravens, not like tho insane raven of Edgar A. Poe, alighting on his chamber door. “Only this and nothing more,” but Elijah’s two ravens, the Lord’s two ravens, the one bringing bread, the other bringing meat. Plumed butcher and baker. Oh, now good God is, and how great are His resources! When the city of Rochelle was besieged, and the inhabitant were dying of famine, history tells us that he saw washed upon tne beach as never before, and as never since, enough shell-fish to feed the whole city. God is good, God is gracious, God is bountiful. In 1555, in England, there was great drought, and in Essex among the rocks where there has been nothing planted and nothing cultured, history tells us there came up a great crop of peas, enough to fill a hun dred measures, and there were enough blos soming vines promising as much more. Oh, God is good, God is gracious. If people would only trust him. I need not go so far. I could go to this audien e and find 500 instances this morning in your family histories, illus trating that Goa takes care of His dear children. The morning 1 left home to earn my own livelihood, my father sat on the front seat, and I sat on the back seat, and I felt sad on leaving home, and my father had away of improving circum stances, and he said to me: “De Witt, lam an old man now, but I want to tell you one thing; I have during the course of my life come up to my last dollar; but when that was spent, God always provided. Trust tho Lord and you will never want any good thing.” Was not that a good thing to say to a boy just starting out in the world 1 I have found it true. In my family line there was an incident that I tried to mention, but I only had part of the facts. I have them now fresh from a member of my own family. There was a great drought up in New Eng gland, in Connecticut, and the crops were failing, and the cattle were dying for lack of water. Mr. Birdseye, a Christian man, had bis cattle and herds driven down into the valleys to get water. This went on for a while, and finally the neighbors said: “Mr. Birdseye, you mustn't send your cattle down here to use our waters: our waters are fail ing us; we are all going to die together; dot not send your herds and flocks down here any more.” So Mr. Birdseye went back to his house on the hill, and he called his family together, and he called h s slaves—for slavery was in vogue in Connecticut—and he read a passage of Scripture, and then they all knelt down and Grayed God for water; and the family story i that there was great sobbing and weep ing at the family altar bacausa tho herds were perishing and there was a prospect that the family would die of thirst. They arose from their knee 3, and Mr. Birdseye took a 6taff and walked out over the hills, hardly knowing why or where he walked, and going along a place where he had been scores of times,and never noticed anything especial, he saw that the ground was very dark, and he thrust his staff into it, and bored into it, and water flowed forth. He beckoned to bis slaves and his servants to come, and he told them to bring buckets and to bring pails, and they were brought, and water was taken to the house, and taken to ths barn, and then a trough was placed there and a larger excava tion was made, and the waters poured in, and in larger volnme, and have been pouring in ever since. It is a perennial spring that i* pouring now. I call that old greatgrandfather Elijah, and 1 call the brook that started that day and has been running ever since, Cherith. and the lesson for you and for me is, that when we are in any kind of distress, we must pray and dig. and pray and dig, and dig and pray, and pray and dig. How does that pas sage go! ‘The mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but my loving kindness shall not faiL” If you put God on trial and condemn Him for being guilty of cruelty, to day I move a new trial. If your biography is ever written. I can tell you what the first chapter will be about, and the second chap ter, and the middle chapter, and the last chapter, if it is writtm accurately. The first chapter wfil be about mercy, the middle chapter about m r-,y. the last diapter about marry --the liter • y that hovered over your cradle, the mart yr t at will hover over your grace, the matey ♦ hat hovers over all be tween. “We may like (ha > htps by tempest be toes’d, On perilo ’oops. tail..«*A be lost: Though ► gXtyi** wind and the tide, The prof g \fauna the I xml will provide." My tu g gives to me a more strik ing an i g Bve lesson; and that is. that refte' it M Bnw in an unexpected and mamir# CTrible conveyance. If it had been U l% cal meadow-lark,lf it had been a meek turtle dove, if it had been a sublime albatross that brought food to Elijah, I would not havt been so surprised; but no, It was a fierce and inauspicate bird out ol whiih we make one of the most forceful and repulsive words in our language: “ravenous.” That bird hai a passion for picking out; it is glad to worry the sick and the slam. With vulturous guzzle it destroys everything it can put its beak on, and yet for six months, or tor twelve months, as som9 think, that bird brought Elijah food. Your supply ii going to come in an unex pected conveyance. You got in some busi ness trouble an l you think some great hearted man will come around and will put his name on the back of your note, or he will stand by you in some groat enterprise. No, he will not; no, he will not. God will start some old Shylock to help you, a man who never helped anybody. He will be wrought upon in such away that he will come and help you. Circumstauc33 most ominous will turn out most auspicious. It will not be a chaffinch, its wings and feathers dashed with white and chestnut. It will b 9 a raven. O, here is where we all make a mistake, and that is, in regard to the color of God’s providences. A white providence comes to us. We say: “That is a mercy.” A black providence comes tout, and we say: •‘O, that is a disaster.” A white providence comes to us, and we have plenty of money, plenty of frieuds, large government secur ities, plenty of mortgages, $100,001), every thing bright, beautiful and fair. And that petition, “Give me this day my daily bread,” seems to you inappropriate, because you have enough anyhow for a hundred years. But a black Providence comes, and this investment fails, and that investment goes under, and misfortune is added to mis fortune, until all your property is gone, and then you begin to cry to God. Now you look for help from Heaven. Now you see the in sufficiency of this world; now you are brought very near to God, and your hopes of Heaven are bright It was the black Providence that saved you. It was the white Provi. dence -that destroyed you. It Was the Providence so full of harshness and dis sonance that brought the greatest mercy to yoursonl. It was a raven; it was a raven. A child is born in your house. Your friend) send their congratulations. The elder chil dren stand with amazed look at th9 new comer and ask manv questions genealogical and chronological. Great brightness in that house. That little one has its two feet planted in the very centre of your affectiou,aud with its two bands it takes hold of your very soul; but one of the throe scourges of children: scarlet fever, or croup, or diphtheria, blasts all that scene. The chattering, the strange questions, the pulling at your dress as you cross the room; all that has ceased. As the great friend of children comes to the cradle and stoops down and puts His arms around your little one and folds it to His heart and walks away into the bower of everlasting summer, your eyes follow and follow, and yod keep looking that way; and when once you thought of Heaven once a week, now you think of it all the time, and you are purer and more tender than you used to be, and you are waiting for the day to break. Oh, how changed! You are a better man than you were before that trouble; you are a better woman. It is not egotistical for you to say it: you are better. What brought that blessing? It was trouble that cast its shadow on your heart; trouble that cast its shadow on a short grave, and trouble that cast its shadow on your home black-winged trouble. It was a raven; it was a raven. Dear Lord, teach ray people that it i* not the dark Providence that is so destructive as the white Providence, and that “whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every one whom Ho reciiv eth;” and that when trouble comes, it is not because God has a grudge against you, but because he loves you and wants to bring you nearer to Him, and lift you up to higher ra diation and on grander platform. O'j, chil dren of God, get out of your despondencies; fling your sorrows to the winds. God never had so many ravens as He has now. Some times. perhaps, under the cares of life you leel like ray little child of four years, who under a childish perolexity said one da7: “I wish I could go to Heaven and see God and pick flowors.” Ah! my dear, at t'ue right time you will go and pick the flow »r j, Until that time, pray. I suppose Elijah prayed all the time. Tremendous work ahead of him, tremendous work behind him. And what you want ask for. I put it in the boldest shape, and I risk my eternity on the truth of it, when I say, as c of God in tho right way for what you want and you will get it—if its best for you. O, tho mercies of God! Some times we cannot understand them. They come this morning; they alight on the plat form: they alight on the edges of the galler ies; they alight on the back of the pews, bringing food from God for all your souls. Ravens! ravens! Mrs. Pithy, a well known woman in Chicago, was left by her husband a widow with a half dollar and a cottage. She was palsied, and had a mother ninety years of age to take care of. It was marvelout how that woman got of God, in the way of temporal supply, everything she asked for, so that the servant, the hired servant in the house, notice 1 it and used to speak of it. One morning they arose from prayer and the servant said to her: “Why, you have forgotten to ask for coal, and the coal is out.” They stood there anl asked God for coal, and in an hour the door swung open and the hired servant said: 4 ‘Coal’s come. A man who had never done that thing before, and never did it again, hearing that that woman was in straitened circumstances thought it would be a good thing to send coal. You do not understand it. I do. Ravens! Ravens! You have a right, my brother, my sister, to take God’s care of you in the past as evidence that He is going to take care of you in the future. Is it not a wonderful thing that all vour life, for two or i three times a day, God has given you food? * I look upon it as a wonder that all my life, three times a day. God has given me food, save once, and then I was lost on the mountains at noon. But that very morning and that very night I met the ravens. Oh that you might feel so much the goodness of God that you could trust Him for the two lives, the life you are now living, and the life which every tick of the watch and every stroke of the clock informs you is approaching. Look down and you see noth ing but your own spiritual deformities; look back and you see nothing but wasted oppor tunity; look forward and you see nothing but fearful judgment and fiery indigna tion: but look up and you see the whipt shoulders of an interceding Christ,and the face of a pardoning God, and the irradia tion of an opening Heaven. Take this food for your soul to-day. It comes now into all your hearts, and the only question I want to ask is. how many of these people are going to take God for their portion here and their portion hereafter, going to trust Him now, for the food of the oody, and trust him also for the food of the soul? Amid tho clatter of the hoofs and amid the clang of the wheals of the judgment chariot, the whole subject will be demonstrated. BY THE RlVfc.n. Each of them loving, each of them loved, Gliding down with tbe river, Nature smiled, and the sun übova Brighter shone to hold such love By the fairy banks of tb< river. Years had passed, and a woman wept. Wept as she sat by the river. Wept for the love that had died away*, Wept for tbe love that was 1 Jet for ave, By the dull cold banks cf the rival. Ever the careless streamlet flows Ever on to the river, Only the breeze a requiem sighed, For tbe heart that broke, for the love that died, By tho fairy banks of the river. —CasuelCn Mu ya ring. Hot Springs--Jumping from tbe fry I ing pan into tbe fire. The “Isle of June." “What i 3 the most beautiful piece that you have ever visited?” asked a lady of an sld English naval officer. “New Provi dence; in the Bahamas,” was tho answer. To this view many travelers would not Assent, but Nassau, aa the island is popu larly called from its principal town, is one of the most beautiful gardens of tho sea. Columbus, who visited the island during his first voyage, called it Femandia, anu Ponce de Leon thought that he had found here the earthly paradise. An old Eng lish adventurer named it New Provi dence, and tourists of recent years called it the Isle of June, because the winter months are like June in the temperate rones. Nassau is the capital of the Bahamas. It is a place of old sea romances, from the dramatic pirates to the blockade runners. English naval officers, worn with service, are often sent here to re cruit. England holds it to be one of her most health-giving retreats. The island is some twenty-one miles long and seven wide, and is famous tot its cocoanut trees and pineapple farms. The winter market ot Nassau is one of the most wonderful in the world, as in It are found all the products of the tropics, together with those of the temperate rones. Mr. Frank Stockton, in a magazine article on the “Isle of June,” once gave|a list of the fruits to be found there, an amazing catalogue of familiar and unfamiliar names. It is also famous for green turtles, and the sea is as prolific in food as the land in fruits.— Youtht Companion. Conquered by a Gatling Gun. Cultas Jim is the name of an Indian who runs a ferry across the Chelan rivei n Washington Territory. He is the worst enemy the United States has it that region. The Indians on the Colum bia reservation, at the Southern extrem ity of which is his ferry, have long de sired that the reservation be thrown open that they may take up lunds in severalty and settle down and be “working Indi ans.” Cultas Jim has opposed this schemi violently. He has two scouts in his employ who know every inch of ground in east ern Washington. £ome time since th* government desired the service cf these scouts hnd made the proper applicai'Su Jim would not listen to the request. Fo, this action a squad of United States sol diers escorted him to to Fort Okanogan where he was allowed to witness a Gat ling gun in full operation. He saw i’ fella large fir tree at a single breath, anc returned to tell the tribe about th* “great saw,” and evinced his submissioi to Uncle Sam by heeding the applicatioi previously made.— Cheney (W. T. )tien tineL Falling of the hair is arrested, and bald ness averted, by using Hall’s Hair Renewer. Obstinate eases of fever and ague can be cured by taking Ayer’s Ague Cure. There are ten newspapers published in Hamilton county Kansas. This county has le*3 than 4,000 inhabitants. Sick and bilious headache, and all derange ments of stomach and bowels, cured by Dr. Pierce’s “Pellets”—or anti-bi ious gran ules. 25 cents a vial*. No cheap boxes to allow waste of virtues. By druggists. One third of New York is rcpoi ted to be under local option. Stop that Cough that tickling in tho throat! Stop that Consumptive Condition! You can be cured! You can’t afford to wait! Dr. Kilmer'3 Cough Cure [Consumption Oil] will do it quickly and permanently. 25 cents. Ten normal schools will lie held in North Carolina this year. Life seems hardly worth the living to-day to many a tired, unhappy dis< ouraged woman who is suffering from chronic female weakness for which she has been able lo find no relief. But there is a certain cure for all the painful complaints to which the weaker sex is liable. We refer to Dr. Pierce's “Favorite Prescription” to the virtues of which thousands ot women can testify. As a tonic and nervine it is unsurpassed. AIJ druggists. There are 347 female blacksmiths in England all of whom actually swing heavy hammers and do men’s work. Hints to CoiiKnmptivea. Consumptives should use food as nourishing j as can be had, and in a shape that will best I agree with the stomach ana taste of the pa tent. Out-door exercise is earnestly recommended. If you are unable to take such exercise on | horseback or on foot, that should funiish no ! excuse for shutting yourself in doors, but you j should take exercise in a carriage, or in some \ other way bring yourself in contact with the : open air. Medicines which cause expectoration must i be avoided. For five hundred years physi-, cians have tried to cure Consumption by using them, and have failed. Where there is great, derangement of the secretions, with engorge ment of air-cells, there is always profuse ex pectoration. Now Piso’s Cure removes the engorgement and the derangement of the se cretions, and consequently (and in this way only) diminishes the amount of matter expec torate 1. This medicine does not dry up a cough, but removes tho cause of it. When it is impossible from debility or other causes to exercise freely in the open air, apartments occupied by the patient should be so ventilated as to ensure the constant acces sion of fresh air in abundance. The surface of the Inxly should be sponged as often as every third day with tepid water and a little soft soap. (Tnis is preferable to any other.) After thoroughly drying, use friction with the hand moistenod with oil, Cod-Liver or Olive is the best. This keeps the pores of the skin in a soft, pliable condi tion. which contributes materially to the un loading of waste matter from the system through this organ. You will please recollect we cure this disease by enabling tbe organs of the system to perform their functions in a nermal way, or. in other words, we remove obstructions, while the recuperative powers of the system cure the disease. We will here say a word in regard to a cough in the forming stage, when there is no constitutional or noticeable disease. A cough may or may not fore shadow serious evil: take it in its mildest form, to say the least, it is a nuisance, and should he abated. A Cough is unlike any other symptom of | disease. It stands a conspirator, with threat '-ning voice, menacing the health and exis tence of a vital organ. Its first approach is in whispers unintelligible, and at first too often unheeded, but in time it never foils to make itself understood—never fails to claim tb« attention of those on whom it tails. If you have a cough without disease of the the liuigs or serious ixinstitutional distur bance, so much the better, as a few dosee of I'iso’s Cure will be all you quay need, while if you arc far advanced in Consumption, several I bottles may be inquired to effect a i* rmnneut cure. Hie dentists are said to be pul through these hard times. Waiting. I sit and watch the rain drops fall, I gaze out at the dull gray skies, I only fee the rain clouds’ pall. Or watch the ghostly mists that rise. I do not turn my head to see The narrow room that holds me here; I watch the rain and long to be Far from my prison room so droar. Why, laughter waits for me out there, And hearty clasp of loving hands, And merry songs and faces fair— Could I out break my prison band*. But here I pine, as one in ban, Forbidden by the fates to roam, Until that laggard tailor man Shall send my only trousers homau — Burdette, in Brooklyn Eagle, i The first sugar cane was cultivated m ; Louisiana in 1722, on the .leanits’ planta- | tion, where stands to-day the office of th# , New Orleans Times-Democrat. Bowen's Budget,, Fort Plaiu, N. Y., for March, 1880, says: In the multiplicity of medicines placed upon the market, it is some times difficult to distinguish between the meritorious and the worthless. There are at least two excellent remedies wildly used* the efficiency of Which are unquestioned. We refer to St. Jacobs Oil and Red Star C< tign Cure. - It is said that the membership of the United States Senate represents $102,000,000 of wealth. Solicitor of Patents, F. O. McClearv, of Washington, D. C., says the only thing that did him any good, when suffering with a severe cough of several weeks standing, was Red Star Cough Cure, which is purely veg- ! etable and free from opiates and poison. Camels in America. The camels turned loose upon the Arizona desert tome years ago have so multiplied that they roam the Gila Valley in man of 100 or niore. The j hunters of the Territory have great sport in chasing them. A camel hunt is a long way : ahead of the old-fashioned deer-drive. Where Are You Going? If you have pain in the back, pale and sal- ! low complexion, bilious or sick headache, j eruptions on the skin, coated tongue, slug gish circulation, or a hacking cough, you are going into your grave if you do not take steps to cure yourself. If you are wise you will do this by the use of Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery,” compounded of the most efficacious ingredients known to medical: cience forgiving health and strength to the system through the medium of the liver and the blood. There are 23,000 children attending the pub lic schools in Washington Territory. The pure t, sweetest and best Cod Liver Oil in the world, manufactured from fresh, healthy livers, upon tho seashore. It is abso lutely pure and sweet. Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all others. Physi cians have decided it superior to any of the other oils in market. Made by Caswell, Haz ard fc Co., New York. Chapped hands, face, pimples and rough skin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York There are 1881 Cherokee Indians in Swain coiuity, N. C. Anal her Life Saved. Mrs. Harriet of Cincinnati, Ohio, writes: “Early last winter my daughter wan at tacked with a severe cold, which settled on her lungs. We tried several medicines, none of which seemed to do her any good, but she contained to get worse, and Anally raised large amounts of blood from her lungs. We called in a family physician, but he failed to do her any good. At this time a friend, who had been cured by Dlt. WM. HALL’S BALSAM FOR THE LUNtiS, advised me to give It ft trial. We then got a bottle, and she began to Improve, and by the use of three bottles was entirely cured. Some of the public baths in New York have been opened for the summer. There are 11 in all. "A ;M[iini p hamj| Oil.a |Ah*l Every Ingredient In from Vegetable H products that grow In sight of every sufferer. ■ IT has no Morphine, Opium ° r lujurotia Drugs. l> Every dose „ I A®% ssfif* t 0 S KM S Til Mucous \ JAaI j (?■ n J fs \ Membranes \iW TST - .tt Nose, Throat, Broncbal Tubes. Air-cells ■ and Lung Tissues, causing Cough. What Diseases Invade thcLungs?! Scrofula, Catarrh-poisons, Micro-organ- ■ isms. Humors, and Blood Impurities. What are th© Primary Can sen ? I Colds, Chronic Cough, Bronchitis, Conges-■ tion. Inflammation, Catarrh or Hay-Fever, ■ Asthma, Pneumonia, Malaria, Measles, ■ Whooping Cough and Croup. RELIEVES QUICKLY-CURES PERMANENTLY It will stop that Coughing, Tickling in HJ Throat, Dry-hacking and Catarrh-dropping. Is your Expectoration or Npnta Frothy Blood-Stained Catarrhal Pus ( Matter) Yellowish Canker-like Phlegm Tubcrbular Muco-purulentl It prevents Decline, Night-Sweats, Hec tic-Fever, and Death from Consumption. 25c, 50c, $l.O0 —6 bottles $5.00. Prepared at Dr. Kilmer’* IMspenwiry. THnghamton, NTYVlnvalid*’ Guide to llealtli” /Sent Five). BOLD BY ALL DRUGGIST*. I I’imple*. IHofche**. Srnly or Oily BUIn, lllcinlNlir* and nil Skin IMicnmn Cared and Complexion Renutifled by Beeson's Aroma'ic Alum Sulphur Soap. Sold by Druggist* or sent by mail on receipt or | 25 cent* try W.U. IHIKYDIIPPEL. Mus-S laciurer, 208 Nor.h Front SL, Philadelphia. Pa. 5 h n i:—jy HERMAN WSEi If FOR ONE DOLLAR. I A lot H*w Diction*r? c«u«a mi at WaJi ;c*« io oaoeunwr* tlirutndv of th* <4«rt*aa Longiijmc*. D (tv** KngM*a wned* with tea <»*n*aa sqsl vJ—<*. and Goan wards with ftagfcsfc SofluJtiou* A firi Qmi* h>oL Scad 11.00 IS ■ ■■ ■. - j—■-"»/ BEST IN THE i Magazine Rifle. ... ... ... M :i . > -.«—*!! Til, .h.-l.r, r-fl. Carl*. V —. v* \. .■■ill... gi.»r.nl, ■: m l t>.« only .Uotutoly r:tl» on iho mvk.t, v " UAI,I.AtI!> UAUJUtr, BPOHTII.O AND TARGET Rin.ES. world Moowofd. Send for liunw CRMw*. MARLIN FI UK A HUS CO„ Hew llrtcr, Com. ppjCKER'*S ■ It absolutely and *£•uiv*-'y HE. H ’lb*.. Md . »*yr: " J bad a bad caeeof Scrofula which mused Mi wup tion of tbn skin on iny face 1 *.iwnsded to wee Brown’s Iron Bitten*. Four bott»cß tn»-/tf eoinpletely cured me.” . Mrs. M. W. Sale. 614 8. Pine St.. stys: "Ml little boy was suHenng f*>rtl » notions atta.-k of blood poisoning and not benefiting him in the least, I titetfjjrmr n** Iron Bitters. Two bottles cored him. his blood was in n terrible slate. It u» c*rt**nd »* great tonic and purifier and I heartily ELAINE BloxbaM. Dale W Va s^_ ■ I litre used flr -wn’s Inin Hitters for Chronic EC. 7i(irn»— fo pnm<» iced by my pliysici.inß-witU nu* u l.snoHrfJl effect 1 r.miislly r.rormjvmd it Mr, jnMitts Mcßae. Lumber Bndge. ' i hid a JmiWi.i fir my blood. £•'»*>«« * : ,*'R J^ter r Ring Wortt ftrofdfe Iron Bitter his curedn»e. , ,/mine hsa abate Trade Stark and on wrapper. 'l‘iiki- n«ofte*r. Mmteentyby WWWMMI ii.'.*, BM.TMWBI.SIB- I, .Fort, .11 .""1 t., Ijbnngl conquered by this powerful, pjint . tt i InvlKorailnßfnwlicinc. nys, in Harper. ceru rapidly iictd und-r it. Especinny lion it inan,fd . curlnpr Teller, H'.ao »»"«» THE DAT. buncloH, Sort* ' » , ! and StwelllH)}*, It*. tVhllo Sni-tllllK», O'! •■rnttinm r t Neck, ond fcnlarßol olaTid. l, '' Un ? s r< cents in stamps 1m a large treatise, s-J id-Bttn. oretl Hates, on t-'klfl m th amount fur ntrvutise on JfcroftilousAO.ttli me si “THU m.ooo '-'ed at a p Thnrotighlv demise it Tv urtfW Hr. I'ier Golden iflcdlcal I>i*erj, nml go* digrMion, a fair *kin« bn *P»J[**w Ite, vital Mrcnglli. and «ou tducfca of conslittniU'Uy wIU tic established. I CONSUMPnON, which is Scrofulous Disoa*© of thr Lungs, is promptly and certefnly arrested) und cured by this God-jriven remedy, if take* before the last stnires of the disease are reached. From ite wonderful power over this terrmnr ratal disease, when llret offering this now cel ebrated remedy to the public. Dr. Fnneß thought ecrloimly of calung it his M. inptiof? C*»rcy w but abandoned that name as too limited for a medicine which, from ii* wonderful combination of tonic, or strengtheD ing, alterative, or blood-cleansing, ant i-biliouflk pectoral, and nutritive property-;, is tmeqmded, not only as a remedy for consumption or to* lungs, but for ail CHRONIC DISEASES or TnE Liver, Blood, and Lungs. If you feel duff, drowsv, debilitated, hav® sallow color of skin, or yellowish-brown spot* on face or body, frequent hendnebe or dizzi ness, bad taste in mouth, internal heat or chills, alternating with hot Hashes, low spirits and gloomy borebodings, irregular appetite, ana coated tongue, you are suffering from Indl* gent lon, Dyspepsia, and Torpid Liver* or “BillousiiCM**” In many cases only part of these symptoms arc experienced. A* a remedy for ail such eases. Dr, Pierce** Golden Medical Discovery hm no equal. For Weak Lung*, Spitting of Blood? Shortness of Breath, Bronchittfw Severe Coughs, Coiimi nipt ion, and kindred affections, it is a sovereign remedy. Send ten cents in stamps for Dr. Fiercer i book on Consumption. Sold by Druggist*. PRICE SI.OO, TSS World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Proprietors, QC3 Main St., BcrrALO, K.T. little oasawt LIVER 'K’SVr WY&.aVyve BILLS. I ANTI-KIMOI S and CATHARTIC. Sold by Druggists. 25 cents a viaL e J|ssoo REWARD Igjto is offered by tho proprietor* wjjiy of Dr. Cage's Catarrh Remedy ! Rf * for a cnee of catarrh which they bi •' canuot cure. W \ Pj If you have a discharge from reWCTk MP the nose, offensive or other yfyV wise, partial loss of qtnell. taste, ” ‘ or hearing, weak eyes, dulljwin or pressure in head, you have Catarrh. Thou sands of eases terminate In consumption. Dr. Page’s Catarrh Remedy cures the wonl cases of Catarrh. “Cold in the Head,’* •ltd Cntarrbal Headache. U) cents. OP CIS. 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