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
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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
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the action of the Liver and K Idm. ntdoM-iot
complexion, make* the skin smooth. ;
Injure the teeth, cane headache, orprou ' ‘
fttipation—ALL OTHER IRO* MEDICINE v
Physicians and Druggist*, everywhere roeem-.. »«•
Me. Y. Adams. 199 R>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,f<?i<>d .
curlnpr Teller, H'.ao »»"«» THE DAT.
buncloH, Sort* ' » ,
! and StwelllH)}*, It*.
tVhllo Sni-tllllK», O'! •■rnttinm r t
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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
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little
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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.
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