DB. TALMAGFS SERMON
IMPORTANCE OF CHRISTIANITY
IN THE HOME.
(Preached at Grimsby, Canada.)
Text: ‘'Entreatme not to leave thee, or to
return from following after thee; for whither
tho:i goest, I will go; and where thou lodgeet,
1 will lodge: thy people shall be my people,
and thy God my Goa: where thou difjt, will
I die, and there will I be buried: the .Lord do
so to me, and more also, if aught but death
part thee and me. Ruth L, lb and 17.
Famino in Judah. Upon fields distin
guished for fertility the blight came, and at
the door of princely abodes want knocked.
Turning his back upon his house and his
lands, Elimelech took his wife, Naomi and
his two Bons and started for the land of
Moab in search of bread. Getting into
Moab, his two sons married idolaters—Ruth
the name of one, Orpah the name of the
other. Great calamities came upon that
household. Elimelech died and his two sons,
leaving Naomi, the wife, and the two daugh
ters-in-law. Poor Naomi: in a strange land
and her husband and two sous dead. She
must go back to Judab. She cannot stand it
in a place where everything reminded her of
her sorrow. Just as now, sometimes you
see persons moving from one house to anoth
er, or from one city to enother, and you can
not understand it until you find out that it is
because there were associations with a cer
tain place that they could no longer bear.
Naomi must start for the land of Judah: but
how shall she get th?re? Between Moab and
the place where she would like to go there
are deserts: there are wild beasts ranging the
wilderness: there are savages going up and
down, and there i 3 the awful Dead Sea.
Well, you say, she came over the read once,
she can do so again. Ah! when she came
over the road before she bad the strong arms
of her husband and her two sons to defend
her; now they are all £one. The hour of
parting has come, and Naomi must be sepa
rated from her two daughters-in-law. Ruth
and Orpah. They were tenderly attached,
these three mourners. They had bent over
the same sick bed: they had moved in the
same funeral procession: they had wept
over the same grave. There the three
mourners stand talking. Naomi thinks
of the time when she left Ju
dah, with a prince for her companion.
Then they all think of the marriage festivals
when Naomi's two sons were united to these
women, who have now exchanged the wreath
of the bride for the veil of the mourner.
Naomi smarts for the land of Judah, and Ruth
and Orpah resolve to go a little way along
with her. They have gone but a short dis
tance when Naomi turns around and says to
fcer daughters-in law: “Go back, There
may be days of brightne c s yet for you In
J’our native land. 1 can t bear to take you
away from your home and the homes of ybur
kindred. I am old and troubled. Go not
along with me. The Lord deal gently with
you as ve have dealt with the dead and with
me.' But they persisted in going, and so the
three traveled on until after awhile Naomi
turns around again and begs them to go back.
Orpah takes the suggestion, and after a sad
parting gce» away: but Rnth. grand and
glorious Ruth, turns her back upon her home.
She says: “I can't bear to let that old mother
go alone. It is ray duty to go with her.'*
And throwing her arms around weeping Na
omi, she pours out her soul in the tenderness
and pathos and Christian eloquence of my
text: “Entreatme not to leavo thee, or to
return from folic wing after thee: for w hither
thou goest. I will go: and whither thou lodg
est, I will lodge: thy people shall be my peo
ple. and thy God my CGcd: where thou aiest
I will die, and there will I be buried: the
Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught
but death part thee and me. ”
Five choices made Ruth in that text, and
five choices must we all make, if we ever
want to get to heaven.
I. , In the first place, if we want to become
ChrMiaus, we must, like Ruth in the text,
chobse the Christian's God. Beautiful Ruth
looked up into the wrinkled face of Naomi
aod said: “Thy God shall be my God.'’ You
fee it was a change of gods. Naomi's God
was Jehovah; Ruth's God was Chemosh, the
divinity of the Moabites, whom she had wor
shiped under the symbol of a black star.
Now she comes out from that black-starred
divinity, ani takes the Lord in whom there
is no darkness a: all: the silver-starred divin
ity to whom the meteor pointed down in
Bethlehem, the sunshiny God. of whom the
psalmist wrote: “The Lord God fs a
sun. 5 ’ And so, my friends, if we want
to become Christians, we must change
gods. This world s the Chemosh to
most people. It is a black-starred god. It
can heal no wounds. It can wipe awa" no
sorrows. It can pay no debts. Jt can'save
no undying soul. It is a great cheat, so
many thousand miles in diameter and so
many thousand miles in circumference. If
I should put this audience under oath, one
half of them would swear that this world Is
a liar. It is a bank which makes large adver
tisement of what it has in the vaults and of
the dividends that it declares, and tells us
that if we want happiness, all we have got
to do is to come to that bank and apnly for
it. In the hour of need, we go to that bank
to get happiness, and we find that the vaults
are empty, and all reliabilities have ab
sconded and we are swindled out of every
thing. O thou bla-k-starred Chemosh, how
many are burning in ense at thy shrine!
Now, Ruth turned away from this god
Cbemo-h, and she took Naomi’s God. Who
was that: The God that made the world and
£ut you in it. The God that fashioned the
eaven and filled it with blissful inhabitants.
The God whoso lifetime study it has been to
make you and all his creatines happy. The
God who watche i us in childhood, and led us
through the gauntlet of infantile distresses,
feeding us when we were hungrv, pillowing
us when we were somnolent, and sending his
only Bon to wash away our pollution with
me tears and blood of his own eye
and heart, an 1 offering to be our
iverlasting rest, comfort, and ec
itasv. A loving God. A sympathetic
Goa. A greathearted God, An all-encom
passing God. A God who flings himself on
this world in a ven* abandonment of ever
lasting affection. The clouds, the veil of his
face. The sea, the aquarium of his palace.
The stars, the dew-drops on his lawn. The
God of Hannah's prayer and Esther's conse
cration, and Mary’s broken heartland Ruth's
loving and bereft spirit. Oh, choose ye be
tween Chemosh and Jehovah! The one ser
vice is pain and disappointment: the other ser
vice is brightness an i life. I have tried both,
! r hose the service of Gcd because I was
Ashamed to do otherwise. I felt it would be
imbecile for me to choose Chemosh above
lebovab.
“Oh, happy day that fixed my choice
Oh Thee, my fiaviotir. and my God!
Well rnay this glowing heart rejoice,
And tell its rapture all abroad.
*‘Ob, happy bond that seals my vows
To Him who merits all my love!
Let cheerful anthems fill His house,
While to His faered throne I move.
“High heaven, that heard the solemn vow,
That vow renewed shall daily hear,
Till in life's lat&it hour I bow,
And bless in death a bond so dear.’’
O* Again, if we want to be Christians
ske Ruth in the text, we must take the
uhristans path. “Where thou goest I will
ro, cried out the beautiful Moabite® to
Naomi, the mother-in-law. Dangerous prom
ae that. There were deserts to be erosied.
there were jackals that came down through
vhe wildernes-. There were bandits. There
wa'4 the Dead sea. Naomi fays: “Ruth, you
must go ba k. You are too delicate to take
this journey. You will give out in the first
Iw *?' .* You cannot go. You have not
the physical stamina or the moral courage to
go with me.'* Ruth responds ‘ Mother. I
am going anyhow. If I rtay in «bland I
will be overborne of the Idolaters; if Igo
along with you, I shall serve God. Give me
that bundle. Let me carry it lam going
w: toi* you, mother, anyhow.’’
Ano if we want to serve God we must do
is Ruth did. crying out: “Where thou goest,
1 "in Never mind thn Dead Sea. Afoot
or horseback. If there be rivers to ford, we
»ust ford them, if there Jpe mountains to
icela. we mustscele them. Jf there beeae
tines to tiant, we must tight them. It requires
grit and pluck to get from Moab to JudaL Oh,
how many Christian there are who can bo
diverted from the path by a quiver of the lip.
indicative of scorn. They do not surrender to
temptation, but they bend to it. And if in a
company there be those who tell unclean
stories, they will go so far as to tell some
thing on tne margin between the pure and
the impure. And if there be tnose who
swear in the room and use tbe rough word
“damn,'’ they will go so far as the word
•Morn,’’ and look over the fence wishing they
could go farther : but as to any determine
tion, like Ruth’s, to go the whole rood of all
that is right, they have not the grace to do it
Th-y have not in all their body as much
courage as Ruth had in her little finger.
Oh, my friends, let us start for heaven and
go clear through! In the river that runs by
the gate of the city we shall wash off all oui
bruises. When Dr. Chalmers printed his
astronomical discourses, they were read in
the haylofts, in the fields, in the garrets, ami
in the palaces, because they advocated the
idea that the stars were inhabited. Oh,
heirer! does not your soul thrill with tbe
thought that there is another world beauti
fully inhabited? Nay, more, that you by the
grace of God may become one of its gloriot/
citizens?
111. Again I remark, if we want to become
Christians, like Ruth in tbe text, we must
choose the Christian habitation. “Where
thou lodgest, will I lodge," cried Ruth to
Naomi. >he knew that wherever Naomi
stopped, whether it were hovel or mansion,
there would be a Christian home, and she
•wanted to be in it. What do I mean by a
Christian borne? I mean a home in which th„
Bible is the chief book: a home iu which the
family kDeel in prayer: a home in which
father and mother are practical Christians: a
home in which on Sabbath, from suDrise to
sunset, there is profitable converge and cheer
ful song and suggestions of a better world.
Whether the wail be frescoed or not, or only
a ceiling of unplaned rafters; whether mar
ble lions are couchant at the front entrance,
or a plain latch is lifted by a tow-string, that
home is the ante-chamber of hearen. A man
never gets over having lived in such a home.
It holds you in an eternal grip. Though
your parents may have been gone forty
years, the tears of penitence and gladness
that were wept at the family altar still glit
ter in your memory. Nay,‘do you not now
feel hot and warm on your hands, the tears
which that mother shed thirty years ago,
when, one cold winter night, she came and
wrapped you up in the bed and prayed for
your welfare here and for your everlasting
welfare before the throne ?
O ye who are to set up your own home, set
that it t»e a Christian home: Let Jesus mak«
the wine at that wedding. A home without
God is an awful place, there are so mam
eerils to threaten it. ani God himself i> sc
itterlyagainst it: but “the Lord en r ampetb
around about the inhabitation o': the just.’
What a grand thing it i- to have God stand
guard at that door, and ths Lord Jesus the
family physician: and the wings of angels th«
canopy over tae pillow.and the Lord of Glory
a perpetual guest. You say it is important that
tbe wife and mother be a Christian. I say to
you it is just as important that the hus
band and father be a Christian. Yet
how manv clever rren there aiewho say:
“My wife does all the religion of my bouse.
lam a worldly man: but i have confidence in
her, and I think she will bring the whole fam
ily up all right.' 5 It will not do, my brother.
The fact tbit you are not a Christian has
more influence on you.* family than the fact
that your wife is a Chris ian. Your children
will say: ’‘Father's a very good man; he is
tot a Christian, and if he can risk the future,
[ can risk the future.” O father and husband!
oin your wife on the road to heaven, and at
light gather your family at the alt ar. Do you
ay: “1 can't pray. Jam a man of few words
ind I don't thinic I could put half a do>en
sentences together in such a prayer.'* You
sau pray: you can. If your child were down
v.th scarlet fever, and the next hour were to
lecide its recovery or its death, you would
Dray in sobs and groans and paroxysms of
•arnestness. Ye*, you can pray. When the
d*rnal life of j our household may depend
lpon your supplication, let your knees limber
ind go down, but, if j'ou still insist that j*ou
•annot compose a prayer, then buy or bor
row a prayer book of the Episcopal church,
ind gather your family, and put your prayer
x>ok on a chair and kneel down before it,
ind in the solemn and hu-hed presence of
God gather up all your sorrows and terapta
:ions and sins, and crj* out: “Good Lord, de
iver us.”
IV. Again I remark: If we want to he
roine Christians, like Ruth in the text, we
nust choose Christian association'. “Thy
Deople shall be my people,” cried out Ruth to
Naomi. “The folks you associate Witn 1
want to associate with. Thej* wi 1 come aud
=O4 me, and I will go and sea them. I want
ic mo ve in the highest of all circles, the circle
o' God's elect; aud therefore, mother, lam
going back with you to the land of Judah.”
Do you who are seeking after (God—and I
suppose there are many such in this pres
ence—do you who.' are seeking after
God prefer Christian society to
worldly society ? “No,” you say.
“I pirefer the world's mirth, and the
world’s laughter, and the world's innuendo, i
and the world's paraphernalia.” Weß, this
is a free country, and you shall h ive the '
right of choice ;”but Jet me tell you that the '
purest mirth, and the raoit untrammeled
glee.and the greatest resilience of soul are in
side Christian companionship, and not out
side of it. I have tried both sty.e3 of com
panionship—the companionship of the world
and the companionship of Christ, and I know
by experience. 1 have been now so long in
the sunshiny experience and society of
Christian people, that when I am compelled
to go for a little while ainid intense worldly
society I feel depressed. It is like going out
of a June garden into an icehouse. Men
never know fully how to laugh until th*»y
become Christians. The world’s laughter
has a jerk of dissatisfaction at the end: but
when a man is consecrated to God, and he is
all right for the world to come, then when he
laughs, body, mind and soul crackle. Let a
group of ministers of th3 gospel, gathered
from all denominations of Cnristian*', be to
gether in a dining ball, or in a social circle,
and >*ou know they are proverbially jocuud,
O, ye unconverted people! I know not how
you ran stand it down in that moping, bil
ious, saturnine, worldly association. Come
up into the sunlight of Christian foriety—
those people for whom all thingsare working
right now.and will work right forever. I tell
you that the sweete*t japonicas grow in the
Lord's garden; that the largest grapes are
from the vineyards of Canaan: that the most I
sparkling floods break forth from the
of Ages. Do not too much pity this Ruth of
my text, for she is going to become joint
owner of the great harvest fields of Boa/.
V. Once more: If we want to become
Christians, we must, like Ruth in the text,
choose the Christian's death and burial. Bhe
exclaimed: “Wheretboudiest will I die, aud
there will I be buried. ' I think we all, when
leaving this world, would like to be sur
rounded by Christian influences. You would i
not like to have your dying pillow surrounded
by caricaturists and punsters and wine
bibbers. How would you like to have
John Leech come with his London pic i
torials and Christopher North with his
loose fun, and Tom Hoed with bis rhyming
jokes, when you are dying? No! No! No |
Let me have a Christian nurse in my last
sickness. Let me have a Christian physician
to administer the medicine, l#t it Le a
Christ.an wife, or \ arent. or child, tbal
watches the going out of the tides of my
mortal existence. Let Christian men come
Into tho room and read of the illuminated
valley and the extinguishment of grief, and
drown the hoarse blasts es death with the
strains of “Mt. Pisgah” and “Ht Martin.”
In our last moment we wilfall bo children.
Haid Dr. Guthrie, the famous Hcoteh clergy
man, when dying: “King me a bairn's hymn.’’
Yea, we will all be children then. In that
hour the world will stand cotifouuded around
us. Our friends may cry over us; tears will
not help us. They may look sad: what wi
want is radiation in the last momonV- •
thinking it will help them die. In oui
last moment we wa» ; t tha!. breed which
came down from Heaven. Who will
give it to us ? Ob, we want Chria
tian prfoplo in the room, so that
if our hope begins to struggle they may say.
“Courage, brother! all is Well! Courage!"
In that expiring moment I want to hear the
old aongs w# used to sing in church and
prayer meetings. thatlaet mom«tl wjaj
b bear the voice of some Christian friend
pleading the tins and shortcomings oi
my life may be forgiven, and the doors of
heaven may be opened before my entranced
spirit
“Come sing to me of heaven,
When fm about to die:
Sing sones of holy ecstasv,
To waft my soul on hign.”
Yei. Christian people on either side of the
bed, and the Christian people at the foot of the
bed, and Christian people to clone my eyes.
, and Christian people to carry me out, and
1 Christian people tD look after those whom I
leave behind, and Christian people to re
member me a little while after lam gone.
“Where thou diest, will I die, and there will
I be buried.” .
Sometimes an epitaph covers up more than
it expresses. Walking through Greenwood
Cemetery I have sometimes seen an inscrip
tion which impressed me how hard the
sculptor and friends were trying to make out
a good story in stone. I saw from the in
' ccription that the manor woman buried there
% 1 died without ho re. The inscription told
me the man was a member of Congress, or a
bank President, or some prominent citizen,
but said nothing about his soul's des
tiny. The bodj* is nothing. The soul!
The soul! And here by this inscription
I see that this man was born in 1800 ana died
in JS7S. Seventy-five years on earth, and no
, Christian hope! Oh, if in all the cemeteries
of your city tbe graves of those who have
gone out of this world unprepared should
sigh*on the wind, who would have the nerve
: todrive through such a place? If all those
who have gone out of this world unprepared
could come back to-day and float through
the air, telling the story of their discomfiture,
, this audience would fall flat on its face, ask
ing to be rescued from the avalanche of hor
ror.
My bearers, do you wonder that this Ruth
of my text made the Cnristian’s choice and
closed it with the ancient form of imprecation
upon her own soul, if she ever forsook Naomi:
' “The Lord do so to me. and more also, if
aught but death part thee and me.” They
wure to live together. Come the jackals,
come the bandits, roll on Dead Sea! My
hearers, would you not like to be with your
Christian friends forever? Have there not
gone out persons from your household whom
you would like to spend eternity with* They
were mild, and loving, and gentle, and beau
tiful, while here. You have no idea that the
joys of heaven have made them worse.
Choose their Christ, and you may have their
heaven. They went in washed through
the blood of tbe Lamb. and you must have
the same glorious ablution. With holy
violence I put my hands on j*ou to-day,
to push you on toward the * immediate
choice of this only B'aviour. Have him you
must, or perish world without end. Elect
this moment as the one of contrition and
transport. Oh, give one intense, earnest, be
lieving, loving gaseintD the wounds opened
for your eternal salvation!
Koine of you I confront for the first and
the last time until the judgment, and then
we shall meet. Will you be ready?
Signs in Wearing Apparel.
An old saw says concerning the cloth
ing:
At Easter let your clothes be new
Or else bo sure you will it rue.
In the north of England it is believed
by the people that the rooks will spoil
their clothe; on Easter Sunday if they
are not entirely new. As once a year is
not, in most cases, too often to renew the
clothing, this superstition is not is baleful
as many.
An old superstition pertaining to cloth
ing is that before putting on new clothes
a aim of money must be placed in the
right-hand pocket, which will insure its
always being full. If by mistake, how
ever, it be put in the left-hand pocket, the
wearer will never have a penny so long as
the clothes last.
If an article of dress is put on inside
out, it is good luck.
Chambers’s “Book of Days'* says that
when William the Conqueror, in arming
himself for the battle of Hastings, hap
pened to put on his shirt of mail with
the hind side before, the bystanders
were shocked by it, as being a ill omen,
till William claimed it as a good one, be
tokening that he was to be changed
from a duke to a king.
It is said of the cast-off clothes of the
dead that they never last very long, but
that as the body decays so do the gar
ments. In Denmark a corpse is never
allowed to be buried in the clothes of a
living person, lest as the clothes rot in
the grave that person to whom they be
long should waste away and perish. So
in the Netherlands even the rings of the
dead are never given away.
The apron is not without its supersti
tions. Women turn them before the
new moon to insure good luck for the
ensuing month. In a town
in England, when a married woman’s
apron falls off it is a sign that.something
is coming to vex her. when, however,
the apron of an unmarried girl drops
down she is frequently the subject of
laughter, ns it is a sure sign that she is
thinking of her sweetheart. If a young
woman's petticoats arc longer than her
dress, it is proof that her mother doe 3
not love her as much as her father, a
notion which extends as far as Scotland.
If the stocking is put on wrong side out,
it is lucky, but unlucky to turn it. To
clothe the left foot before the right one
is a sign of misfortune.— yeio York Cm
mrrciaL
Senator Gorham’s Nutmeg.
United States Senator Gorham tells
the following story on himself: For
manj* years he has been a sufferer from
regular attacks of neuralgia. On some
occasions he has been confined to his
home a day or two. so intense was the
pain. An old lady friend once called
upon him while he was suffering from
one of his attacks. She displayed to
much sympathy that she almost forgot
to name the request, she had to make—
but she did not. Upon leaning that the
Senator was troubled with neuralgia she
voluntc red to give him an infallible
remedj*, provided be would promise not
to laugh at her or accuse her of being a
believer in conjuration, spell*, etc. The
Senator, in a good-natured way, in
formed her that he was under treatment
of an eminent physician who sometimes
afforded him temporary relief. The old
lady finally prevailed upon the Senator
to give her remedy a fair trial, where
upon she suggested that lie should get an
ordinary nutmeg, such a* is used in
cooking, drill a hole through it, attach
it to a piece of string or nbl>on, and
wear ir around his neck continually.
The Senator while suffering one day,
determined to give the nutmeg remedy a
trial. He followed the old lady'sdirec
t ons, and iu a few hour* felt greatly re
lieved. He has worn the nutmeg ever
since, and is seldom troubled with nru
ra |g a. He has con lilted several physi
cians on the subject, and they Mate that
the nutinrg posses reit.iin virtue* which
luay have effect on neuralgic pains.—
Haiti mure Hun.
An Invention ha* been pe. reeled foi
; e«*iceutratiog the Jicnt of the sin and
j utisg It uartcadof fuel to waim room*.
BEL NYE ON EXPLORERS.
the humorist tackles the sub
ject OF ARCTIC DISCOVERIES
Some Historic Information Prom
the Time of Erik the Red Down
to Lieutenant Greeljr.
Let us for a moment look back across 1
the bleak waste of years and see what !
wonderful progress has been made in the
discovery of the pole. We may then
ask ourselves who will be first to tack
his location notice on the gnawed and
season-cracked surface of the pole itself,
and what will he do with it alter he has
so filed upon it.
Iceland, I presume, was discovered
about 860 A. D., or 1,026 years ago, but
the stampede to Iceland has always been
under control, and jou can get corner
lots in the most desirable cities of Ice
land and wear a long, ricketty name with
links in it like a rosewood sausage, to
day, at a low price. Naddodr, a Nor
wegian vikmg. discovered Iceland A. D.
860, but he did not live to meet Lieuten
ant Greely, or any of our most celebrated
northern tourists. Why Naddodr yearned
to go north and discover a colder country
than his own, why he should seek to
wet his .feet and get icicles down his
back in order to bring to light more snow
banks and chilblains, I cannot at this
time understand. Why should a robust
vikiDg roam around in the cold trying to
nose out more frost-bitten Esquimaux,
when he could remain at home and vike?
But I leave this to the thinking mind.
Let the thinking mind grapple with it.
It has no charms for me. Moreover, I
haven't that kind of a mind.
Octher, another Norweigian gentle
man, sailed around North Cape and
crossed tbe Arctic circle in 880 A. D.,
but he crossed it in the night, and didn't
notice it at the time.
Two or three years after, Erik the Red
took a large snow-shovel and discovered
the east coast of Greenland. Erik the
Red was a Northman, and ho flourished
along about the ninth century and be
fore the war. He sailed around in that ;
country for several years, drinking bay I
rum and bear’s oil and having a good ■
time. He wore fur underclothes all the |
time, winter and summer, and evaded
the poll tax for a long time. Erik also
established a settlement on the south
east coast of Greenland in about latitude |
sixty degrees north. These people re- ;
mained here for some time, subsisting |
on shrimp salad, sea-moss farina, and
neat’s-foot oil. But finally they became
so bored with the quiet country life and
the backward springs that they removed
from there to a land that is fairer than
day, to use the words of another. They
removed during the holidays, leaving
the axle grease and all they held dear,
including their remains.
From that on down to 1380 we hear or
read varying and disconnected accounts
of people who have been up that way,
acquired a large red chilblain, made an
observation, and died. Representatives
from almost every quarter of the globe
have been to the far North, eaten their
little hunch of jerked polar bear, and
then the polar bear has eaten his little
hunch of jerked explorer, and so the
good work went cn. The polar bear,
with his wonderful retentive faculties,
has succeeded in retaining his great se
cret regarding the pole, together with
the man who came out there to find out
about it. So up to 1380 a large number
of nameless explorers w*ent to this cele
brated watering place, shot a few pem
mican, ate a jerked whale, shuddered a
couple of times, and died. It has been
the history of Arctic exploration from
the earliest ages. Men have taken their
lives and a few doughnuts in their hands,
wandered away into the uncertain light
of the frozen North, made a few observa
tions—to each other regarding the back
ward spring—and then cached their
skeletons forever.
In 1380 two Italians named Lem took
a load of sun-kissed bananas and made
a voyage to the extreme North, but the
historian says that the accounts are so
conficting, and as the stories told by the
two brothers did not agree and neither
ever told it the same on two separate oc
casions, the history of their voyage is not
usdd very much.
Years rolled on. Boys continued to
go to school and see in their geographies
enticing pictures of meu in expensive fur
clothing running sharp iron spears and
long, dangerous stab-knives into fero
cious white bears, andsuorting around on
large cakes of cold ice and having a good
time. The'e inspired the growing youth to
rise up and do likewise. 8o every nation
’ncath the sun has contributed its assort
ments of choice, white skeletons and
second-hand clothes to the remorseless
maw of the hungry and ravenous North.
And still the great pole continued to
squeak on through days that were six
months long and nights that made break
fast seem almost useless.
In 1477 Columbus went up that way
but did not auccecd in starving to death.
He got a bird’s-epe view of a large de
posit of dark-blue icc, pot hungrv, and
came home.
During the fifteenth and sixteenth cen
turies, the northern nations of Europe,
and especially the Dutch, kept the dis
covery business red-hot,but they did not
get any fragments of the true pole. The
maritime nations of Europe, together with
other foreign powers, djmasties. and hu
man beings, for some time had spells of
visiting the seas and neglecting to
come back. It was the custom then, as
it is now, to go twenty rods farther than
any other man had ever been.eat adeviled
boot leg, curl lip, and perish. Thou
sands of the best and brightest minds of
all ages have yielded to this wild desire
t) live on sperm oil.pain killer.and jerkc 1
walrus, keep a little blue diary for thir
teen weeks, and then feed it to a tall,
white bear nith red gnms. Bill Nye, in
Chicoqo Nexrs.
Business Traits.
A selfish fellow—The fish vender.
A man of mettle—The stove dealer.
Is clever nt taking people in—The
•tape driver
Worse than a gross man A grocer.
A hard laboring uian with a brief
career—The lawyer.
Always in h hole The grave digger.
His life « perpetual grind -The nullcr.
A well bred man-The baker.— Lite.
Gray hair, how* v»*r ciused. in restor«<l to
it* original color by Hall * Hair Renews.
Pt*r.«ons suffering from Agu«of lons stand
leg will find a »pe isle in Ayer s Ague Cura.
Tberfito. nfth. Cordcana,Te*., J
h ccK>'
so swollen and painful Jha
walk up the Sta.r* i«in
«u!U
its n< final proportions.
Scotland has experienced the heaviest rain
storm ever known.
Summer coughs and colds general v come
to sSTbut the uae of Ked Star Cough Cuo
invariably drives them away. bate, pi ompt,
sure.
The Treasury Department has decided that
cotton ties rut from bales I '* l*'
and returned to the United Stat«, ranmd '*
admitted free of duty, as they are no, "‘.rnned
in the same condition as exerted, but bein t
cut mast be regarded as old scrap iron.
One kind of medicine will not cure all iauds
of diseases: Dr. Kilmer's Prepartions are
Specifies— a remedy for each * iscase. Tlie> are
theresult of a succestful practice since ISoS.
Guide In Health ISent free) Ihnghamptcn,
.V. Y.
England will abandon the isleof Port Ham
flton.
Mevskans Peptomzed keks TOXIC, the
only preparation of beef containing its entire
nutritious properties. It contains blood
making force generating and Jife-susiainmg
properties: invaluable for indigestion, d>r
pepsis, nervous prostration, aud all for"’” ';' |
general debility; also, m all enfeebled condi
Sons whether the result of exhaustion, ner
vous prostration, overwork or acute disease,
particularly if resulting from pulmonary
eompininlP. Caswell, Hazard & ko ., Fro- ,
prieton*, New York, Sold by druggists.
Turkey is preparing for war.
The great success of many agents employed
bv B.r. Johnson & Co., of Richmond, is
a pretty good evidence of the excellence and
popularitv of the books they offer to sril
through their agents. This is a reliable
house, and any contract marie with them you
can depend on will be faithfully carried out.
Fully 25.000 men were in line in the Arti
Tan’s Day parade of the Knights of Lal>or in
Baltimore.
Can Consumption He Cured?
We have so often ?een fatal results follow
the declaration that it can be cured, that no
have uncon9cicnslv settled down in the heliei
that this disease must necessarily prove fatal.
It is true that occasionally a community
has witnessed an isolated cave of what may
appropriately be termed spontaneous recov
ery, but to what combination of favorable
circumstances this result was due none have
hitherto teen found able to determine.
We have now the gratifying fact to an
nounce that the process by which nature ef
fects this wonderful cuange is no longer a
mystery to \he niedicai profession, and that
the changes brouhgt about in the system un
der favorable circumstances by* extrinsic
cause * may be made as certainly ami im re
expeditiously bytheuseof the proper remedy.
In other words, nature is imitated and as
sisted.
Tuberculous matter is nothing or less
than nourishment imperfectly organized.
Now, if we can procure tbe organization of
this food material so that through the pro
j cess of elective affinity it may take its place
in the system, we can cure the disease. This
: is just'what Fiso's Cure for Consumption
| does. It arrests at once the progress of the
i db-ease by preventing the further supply of
; tuberculous matter, for while tbe system is
\ under its influence ail nourishment is organ
! ized and assimilated. It thuscontrols cough,
j expectoration, night-sweats, hectic fever, and
I all other characteristic syiatoms of Con
j sumption.
Many physicians are now using this medi
i cine, ana all write tliat it comes fully up to
i its recommendations and makes Consump
i tion one of the diseases they can readily cure.
I The forming stage of a disease is always the
I most auspicious for treatment. This fact
. should induce persons to resort to the use of
j Fiso's Cure when the cough is first noticed,
i whether it has a consumptive diathesis for
j its cause or not, for this remedy cures all
kinds of coughs with unoqualed bTiiitT and
I promptness. In coughs from a simple cold,
Itw’o or three doses of the medieince have been
found sufficient to remove the trouble. So
in all diseases of the throat and lung*, with
I symptoms simulating th«*e of Consumption,
| Fiso’s Cure is the only infallible remedy,
j The following letter recommending Fiso’s
Cure for Consumption, is a fair sample of
! the certificates received daily by the proprie
| tor of this medicine:
Albio.v, X. Y., Dev. 29, ,885.
I had a terrible Cough, and two physicians
said I would never get well. I then went to
a drug store and a«keff fora good cough inedi
cine. Tiie druggist gave me FLso’s Cure, and
it has done me more go**l than anything I
ever used. Ido n<*t I could live with
out it. LEONORA VERMILYEA.
The printing of Giver certificates is delay \
I in order to force silver into circu ation.
An Editor'* Testimonial,
j A. M. Vaurhan. Edit >r of the Greenwich Review,"
Greenwich, u.. writer*: “Last January I met with a
very severe accident, caused by a runaway hooe. I
Ufted almost every kind of salve to heal tho wound*,
j which turned to runnincr »or«>. but found nothing to
| do me any fjood till I was recommended HENRY'S
CARBOLIC SALVE. I boiir.-ht a box. and It helped
me at once, and at the end of two months I war
completely well, ft |» the best rbtve in the market.
; and I never fall of telling my friends about It. and
i uifre them to ose it whenever in need.
The prohibition party is nominating candi
dates for Congress in Maryland
HOW TO FSB. trK m ■
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Browns Iron
Bitters
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Pensions
CURES ALL HUMORS,
from a common Blotch,
to the worst Scrofula.
“Fever-no res,” Scaly or!
In short, nfi .lieeui’os ranted hy bsd Wood
conquered by this porifyljW. »»•
Invizoratlug tnctiicmc. Great bsllsg Ll*
rent rapidly heal under J) 4 * 1 ]
Especially ha 3 it manifested
cunntr 'l etter, Bom Boilw, Car*
bn n de*, Soro Eye*, Scroti* I on* Sore*
and S'.vellings» Hi J*. *f # oin ‘ P'rafirT?
White swelling*, C.oitre, or rhieM
Neck, and Enlarged Glands,
cents in stamps for a largo treatise.-with col
ored plates, on Skin Diseases, or
amount for a trcnti-e on £creftdous Affection*.
“THE BLOOD 18 THE LIFE.”
Thoroughly dowse it by using Dr. Pierce •
Golden llcdical Dimcoxerr. and good
distention, a fair nliSn. bi»o>nn. npljr
iu, vital strength, and Miuiiducn ot
constitution, will do established,
CONSUMPTION,
which io Serofnlouu Disease of the
Lungs, is promptly and certainly srresUsd
and cured by this God-given remedy, ir taken
before tbe last stages of the dteoase are reached.
From its wonderful power over this tembly
fatal disease, when flrefc offering this now cel
ebrated remedy to tho public. Dr. Pitrcx
thought seriously of calling it his “Con
sumption Cure,’ 5 but abandoned that i»aiae
as too limited tor a imdkine which, from its
wonderful combination of tonic, ©rbtrrnsrthen
ing. alterative, or blood-cleansing, anti-bilious,
pectoral,and nutritive proi-erties.isunequalsd,
not only & remedy fur consumption of tbs
lungs, but for ail
CHRONIC DISEASES
or TRX
Liver, Blosd, and Lungs.
If you feel dull, drow?y. debilitated, haw
sallow color of skin, or yeJlowwh-browu spots
on face or body, frequent headache or diaai
nees*. bad taste in mouth, interns] heat or chills,
ahernuting with hot flashes, low spirit* and
gloomy borebodings, irregular onfietite. and
coated tongue, you are suffering from Indl
gcMion, Bj *pep«)n, and Torpid liver,
or “ In many casra only
part of tlic«e symptoms are experienced. As
a remedy for nil such L’r. I'icrce’s
Golden TXedicQl Discovery baa no
equal.
For Weak Lnnga, Spitting of Blood,
Khortnc** of llrcatb. Bronchitis.
Severe rough*. Consumption, and
kindred affect * r, 9, it 1* a sovereign remedy.
Send ten cents in stamps for Dr. JMerce’s
book on Consumption. Sold by Druggists.
PRICE SI.OO, ”»bVoToo!
World’s Dispensary (Medical Association,
Proprietors. Mu in St., Littalo, N. Y.
little
« \eas■avvt nirrn
UTfeitWo iiivrai
90 ©WOIG PILLS
ANTI-RILIOr* ami f'VUCARIIC.
Sold by DruggiM*. UO outs a *laL
£ 5j5300 REWARD
ww, ss offered by tbe proprietors
yLf of Dr. Pago's Catarrh Remedy
, m / for h cast-of oatarrh which they
N yj cannot cure.
Bf \ $ a If you have a discharge from
rawk the nose, offensive or other*
Lr/ >• '.vise, partial lons of smell, taste,
or bearing, weak eyre, dull pain
or pressure in brad, you have Catarrh. Thou
sands of cmgc* terminate In consumption.
Dr. Sage's Catxhrh KcwnoT cures rh#* worst
cnees of Catarrh, “Fold in tire Head,**
and Catarrhal Ilrsdac’ac. io « nta
I miCC A new and reliable compll*-
LAUIC.O ,lnn ot I-' l * l looking and
Mn'ring Rei-ripe*--. mailed on
receipt of 23 cent* in stomp*. Addr#*s«,
GEO. K. IICI.I.OWM.
2* N. IIoI'.S-lay St., Baltimore, sfd.
S7CO to $2500 ', ,
expense, can !>e made working for u<
preferred who ran fnmi«h tli*-irnwu h
■ and give Ih**ir whole time to the Liretiv-
Spare fiemeil* may he profifaMv 1 niployel
A few vacancies fn t. w?»,' and 1 i*x
F*. F. JOHNSON* co .
Main St.. Ke brn nwl. V«.
■ *? 1* Mrprt :a
m«.-h I MV-, in
and prk* oa
Engine. Saw-Mill.
Grist-Mill. Cotton
6in, Feeder, Con
denser. Cane-Mill.
Ba bin - Oil on 1 otb-r
u.-rhln*-rv »▼ wrlrln*
toTiioMAiMAnr.
t avlßgtss, Ga.
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