' It,MUSE'S SERMON.
Subject of Discourse: "The Proud In
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Tklt: "He was a leper.” 11. Kings, v., 1.
Hero we have a warrior sick; not with
pleurisies or rheumatisms or consumptions,
out with a disease worse than all these put
together. A red mark has come out on the
forehead, precursor of complete
ment and dissolution. I have something aw
ful to tell you. General Naaman, the Com
mander-in-Chief of all tfce Assyrian forces
has the leprosy! It is on his hands, on his
face, on his feet, on his entire person. The
leprosy! Get out of the way of the pestilence!
If his breath strikes you, you are a'dead man.
The Commander-in-Chief of all tbe forces of
Assyria. And yet he would be glad to ex
change conditions with the boy atnisstirrup,
or the other that blankets his charger. The
news goes like wild fire all through the realm
and the people are sympathetic and they cry
out: “Is it possible that our great hero who
shot Ahabe, around whom we came with
such vociferation when he returned from vic
torious battle—can it be possible that our
grand and glorious Naaman has the lep
rosy?
Yea Everybody has something he wishes
he had not David, an Absalom to disgrace
him; Paul, a thorn to sting him; Job, car
buncles to plague him : Samson, a Polilah to
shear him; Ahab, a Naboth to deny him:
Hainan, Mordecai to irritate him; Georgo
Washington, childlessness to afflict him;
John Wesley, a termagant wife to pester him;
Leah, weak eyes; Pope, a croo-ed back;
Byron, a club foot; John Milton, blind eves
Charles Lamb, an insane sister, and you, and
you, and you, and you, something
never bargained for and would like to get
rid of. The reason of this is that God docs
not want this world to be too bright: other
wise, we would always want to stay and eat
these fruits, and lie on theso lounges and
shake hands in this plea*ant society. We aro
only in the vestibule of a grand temple. God
Hoes not want ns to stay on the doorstep, and
therefore be 6ends ache* and annoyances and
Borrows and bereavements and all sorts to push
ns on and push us up toward riper fruits aud
brighter society and more radiant prosj>eri
ties. God is only whipping us ahead. The
reason that Edward Payson and Rob
ert Hall had more rapturous viows of
heaven than other people had was be
came, through their aches and pains, God
pushed them nearer up to it If God dashes
out one of vour pictures it is only to show
yon a brighter one. If He sting your foot
with gout, your brain with neuralgia, your
tongue with an inextinguishable thirst, it is
only because He is preparing to substitute a
better body than you ever dreamed of, when
the mortal shall put on immortality. It is to
push you on and push you up toward some
thing grander, that God sends upon j'ou as
He did upon General Naaman something you
do not want. Seated iu his Assyrian man
sion—all the walls glittering with the shields
which he had captured in battle; the corri
dors crowded with admiring visitors who just
wanted to see him once; music and mirth and
banqueting filling all tbe mansion, from t.*s
eelatod floor to pictured ceiling—Naaman
would have forgotten that there was any
thing better and would have been glad to
atay there ten thousand years. Rut, oh, how
the shields dim and how the visiters fly from
the ball and how the music drops dead from
the string, and how the gates of the mansion
slam shut with a sepulchral bang, as you
read the closing words of the oulogiurn: “He
was a leper! He was a leper! 5 ’
There was one person more sympathetic
with General Naaman than any other person.
Naaman s wife walks the floor, wr ugmg her
bands and trying to think what «he can do
to alleviate her husbrad’s suffering. All
remedies have failed. The Surgeon-General
and the doctors of the royal staff have mot,
and they have shaken the r heads as much as
to say: “No cure; no cure.” I think that
the office-seekers had all folded up their
recommendations and gone home. Probably
most of tbe employes of the establishment
hart dropped their work, and wore thinking
of looking for some other sit.iation. What
shall now become of poor Naaoian’s wife?
She must have sympathy somewhere. In her
despair she goes to a little Hebrew»apti ve, a
servant girl in her house, to whom she tells
tbe whole story; as sometimes, when over
borne by the sorrows of the world, and find
ing no sympathy anywhere else, you have
gone out and found in the sympathy of some
humble domestic—Rose or Dinah or Bridget
—a help which the world could not give you.
What a scene it was ! One of the grandest
women in all Assyria in cabinet council with
a waiting maid over the declining health of
the mighty General! “I know something,’’
Bays the little captive maid. “I know some
thing,” as she bounds to her bare feet. “In
the land from which I was stolen there is a
certain prophet known by the name of
Elisha, who can cure almost everything, and
I shouldn’t wonder if ho could cure ray mas
ter. Bend for him right away.” “Oh.
hush!” you say. “If the highest medical
talent in all the land cannot euro that leper,
there is no need of your listening to any talk
of a servant girl.” But do not scoff, do not
sneer. The finger of that little captive maid
is pointing in the right dire tion. She might
have said: “This is a judgment on yon for
stealing me from my native land. Didn't
they snatch me off in the night, breaking my
father and mother's heart? And many a time
I have laid and cried all night because I was
so homesick.” Then, flushing up into child
ish indignation, the might have said: “Good
for them; I’m glad Naaman s got the leprosy;
J wish all the Assyriaus had the leprosy.”
No. Forgetting her own personal sorrows,
she sympathizes with the suffering of her
master and commands him to tbe famous
Hebrew prophet.
And how often it is that the finger of
childhood has pointed grown persons in the
right direction. Oh Christian soul, how long
hut since you got rid of the leprosy of sin ?
You sav: “Let me see. It must oe five years
now." “Five years. Who was it that pointed
you to the Divine Physician?” “Oh,” you
■ay, “it was my little Annie or Fred or
Charley, that clambered up on my knees and
looked in my face and asked me why I didn't
become a Christian and all the tirtie stroking
my cheek so I couldn’t get angry, insstxl
upon knowing why I didn’ t nave family
prayers.” There are grandparents here who
h * T *. b *™. brou « ht Ixs Christ by their little
grandchildren. There are many Christian
mother* here who had their attention first
railed to Jeeua by their little children. How
did yon set rid of the leprosy o' sin? How
did yon find your way to the Divine Pbyst
«*“* •‘Oh." yon Bay, “my child, my dying
child, with wan anil wasted finger pointed
that way. Oh, I shall never forgot,” you
eay. “that scene at the cradle and the crib
that awful night It was hard, hard, very
hard; but if that little one on ita dying bed
. had not pointed me to Christ, I don t chink I
ever would have got rid of my leprosy.” Go
into the Sabbath-school this afternoon and
yon will find hundreds of little fingers point
ing In the same direction, toward Jesus Christ
and toward heaven.
Yesra ago the astronomers calculated that
fbere most bam world hanging at a oertain
petat in the heavens and a largo prim was
offered for some one who could discover that
world. The toleecopee from the great ob
eervatoriee were pointed in vain; but a girl
at Nantaucket, Maes., fashioned a telescope,
and looking through it, discovered that star
* and won the prim and the admiration of all
the astronomical world that stood amaari at ‘
her genius. And so it is often the earn that ,
grown people cannot see the light, while i
eomeltttle child beholds the star of pardon,
»tnr of hope, the star of oonaolation, tin
elnr of Bethlehem,the morning star of Jesus. ,
•Hot many mighty men, not many wise men
•re celled ; bat God hath cboaoo tbe weak
things of the world to confound the mighty;
end hem thing* and things that are not, to
Mngtn naught things that are.” Oh, do not
d wpfcii the prattle of little children when
they ate making about God and Christ and
heaven. Yon am the way your child is polnt
petntlng; will yon take that pointing,or wait
uotil, iu the wrench of some awful bereave- ,
mentj God shall lift that child to another
world and thpi it will beckon you uowardf .
Will you take the pointing, or wfll you wait
for the beckoning? Blessed be God that the
little Hebrew captive pointed in the right di
rection. Blessed be Go 4 for the saving min
istry of Christian children
No wonder the advice of thisllttle Hebrew
captive threw all Naaman’s mansion and
Ben-hadad’s palace into excitement. Good
bye,Naaman! With face scarified and ridged
and inflamed by the pestilence and aided
by those who supported him on either side,
be staggered out to the chat iot. Hold fast
the flery coursers of the royal stable while
the poor sick man lifts his swollen feet and
pain-struck limbs into the vehicle. Bolster
him up with the pillows and let him take a
lingering look at ills bright apartment, for
perhaps the Hebrew captive may be mistaken,
and the next time Naaman comes to that
place he may he a dead weight on tho shoul
ders of those who carry him—an expired
chief tan seeking sepulture amid the lamenta
tions of an admiring nation. Good bye, Naa
man!
Let the charioteer drive gently over the
hills of Herinon lest he jolt the invalid. Here
goes the bravest man of all his day a captive
of a horrible disease. As the ambulance
winds through the streets of Damascus the
tears and prayers of all the people go after
the world-renown el invalid. Perhaps you
have bad an invalid go out from your house
ou a health excursion. You know how the
neighbors stood around and said: “Ah, he
will Dever come back again alive.” Oh,
it was a solemn moment I tell you when
the invalid had departed and you went
into the room to make the bed,
and to remove the medicine phials from the
shelf and to throw open the shutters so that
the fresh air might rush into the long-closed
room. Good-bye, Naaman! There is only
one cheerful face looking at him, and that is
the face of the little Hebrew captive,who is
sure he will get cured and who is so glad she
helped him. As tbe chariot winds out and
the escort of mounted courtiers and the
mules ladened with hacks of gold and silver
and embroidered suits of apparel went
through the gates of Damascus aud out on
the long way, the hills of Naphtali and Eph
raim look down on the procession, and the
retinae goes right past the battlefields whore
Naaman, in the days of his health, used to
rally his troops for fearful onset, and then
tbe procession stops and reclines a while in
the groves of olives and oleander—and Gen-
I eral Naaman so sick; so very, very sick I
How the countrymen gaped as the proces
sion passed ? They bad seen Naaman go past
like a whirlwind in days gone by, and had
stood aghast at the clank of Ills war equip
ments; but now they commiserate him.
They say: “Door man, he will never get
home alive! Poor man!” General Naaman
wakes up from a restless sleep in the chariot,
andhesaysto the charioteer: “How long
before we shall reach this Prophet Elisha’s?”
The charioteer says to a wavsidor: “How
far is it to Elisha's house?” He says: “Two
miles.” “Two miles.” Then they whip up
the lathered and fagged-out horses. The
whole procession brightens up at the pros
pect of speedy arrival. They drive up to
the door of the prophet The charioteers
shout “whoa!” to the horses, and the tramp
ing hoofs and grinding wheels cease shaking
the earth.
Come out, Elisha, como out; you have
company; the grandest company that ever
came to your house has come to it now, N»»
stir inside Elisha’s house. The fact was, the
Lord had informed Elisha thet the sick cap
tain was coming and just how to treat him.
Indeed, when you are sick and the Lord
wants you to get well, He always tells the
doctor how to treat you: and the reason we
have so many bungling doctors is because
they depend upon their owmstrength and in
structions ana not on the Lord God, and
that always makes malpractice. Come out,
Elisha, and attend to your business. Gen
eral Naaman and his retinue waifc?d and
waited and waited. The fact was, Naaman
bad two diseases—pride and leprosy; the one
was as hard to get rid of as the other. Eli
sha sits quietly iu his house and does not go
out. After a while, when he thinks he has
humbled this proud man, he says to a ser
vant: “Go out aud tell General Naaman tc
bathe seven times in the river Jordan, out
yonder five miles, and he will get entirely
well”
The message comes out “What!” says the
Commander-in-Chief of the Assyrian forces,
his eye kindling with animation which it had
not shown for weeks, and his swollen foot
stamping on the bottom of the chariot, re
gardless of pain. “What! Isn’t he coming
out to 6ee me? Why, I thought certainly he
would come and utter some cabalistic words
over me or make Borne enigmatical passes
over my wounds. Why, I don’t think he
knows who I am; Isn’t he coming out? Why,
when the Shunamite woman came to him, he
rushed out and cried: ‘ls it well with thee? Is
it well with thy husband? Is it well with the
child?’and will he treat n poor unknown
woman like that, and let me. a titled person
age, sit here in my chariot and wait and
wait? I won’t endure it any longer. Chariot
eer, drive on! Wash in the Jordan! Ha!
ha! The slimy Jordan—the muddy Jordan—
the monotonous Jordan. I wouldn’t be seen
washing in such a river as that. Why, we
watered our horses in a better river than
that on our way here, the beautiful river, the
jasper-paved river of Pharpar. Besides that,
we have in our country another Damascene
river, Abana, withfohaged bank and torrent
ever swift and ever clear, under the flicker
ing shadows of sycamore and oleander. Are
not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus,
better than all the waters of Israel?”
I suppose Naaman felt very much as we
would feel if, byway of medical prescrip
tion some one should tell us to go and wash
iu the Danube or the Rhine. We would an
swer! “Are not the Connecticut and the
Hudson just as good?” Or, as an Englishman
would feel if he were told, byway of medi
cal prescription, he must go and wash in the
Mississippi or the St. Lawrence. He would
cry out: “Are not the Thames and the Shan
non just as well?” The fact was,that haughty
Naaman needed to learn what every Eng
lishmen and every American needs to learn
—that when God tells you to do a thing, you
must go and do it, whether you understand
the reason or not. Take the prescription,
whether you like it or not. One thing is cer
tain ; unless haughty Naaman does as Elisha
commands him, he will die of hi* awful sick
ness. And unless yon do as Christ com
mands you, you will be seized upon by an
everlasting wasting way. Obey and live—
disobey and die. Thrilling, over-arching,
under-girding, stupendous alternative!
Well, General Naaman could not stand the
test. The charioteer gives a jerk to tbe right
line until the bit snaps in the horse’s mouth
and the whirr of the wheels and the flying
of the dust show indignation of the great
commander. “He turned and went away in
a rage.” So people now often get mad at re
ligion. They vituperate against ministers,
against churches, sgainst Christian people.
One would think from their irate behavioi
that God had been studying how to annoy
and exasperate and demolish them. What
has He been doing? Only trying to cure
their death-dealing leprosy. That Is all. Yet
they whip up their horses, they dig in the
spurs and they go away in a rage.
Ho, after all, it teems that this health-ex
cursion of General Naaman is to be a dead
failure. That little Hebrew captive might
as well have not told him of the prophet,and
this long journey might as well not have
been taken. Poor, sick, dying Naaman!
Are you going away in high dudgeon and
worse than when you came? As his chariot
halts a moment, his servants dumber up in
it and roan: him to do a* Elisha raid. They
say: “If* taty. If the prophet had told
yon to walk for a mile on sharp spikes in or
der to get rid of this awful disease you would
have done it. It fs easy. Come, my lord,
just get down and wash in the Jordan. You
> take a bath every doy anyhow, and in this
climate it i» so hot it will do you good. Do
! it on our ac'onnt, and for the sake of the
army you command, and for the sake of the
nation that admires you. Come, my lord,
just try this Jordan!? f»ath.” “Well,” be
says, “to please you l will do as yon fav.”
The retinue drive to the brink of. the Jor
dan. Tbe horses paw and neigh to get into
the stream themselves and cool their hot
flanks. General Naaman, assisted by his
attendants, gets down out of the chariot And
painfully comes to the brink of the river and
■tops in until the water comes to the ankle,
and goes on dee|*»r until tho water comes to j
the girdle, and now. st riding »r> far down in f
th ■ stream, just a litlle inclination of th i
bead will thoroughly irameiae him. H 1
bows once in the flood and comes np and
{hakes the water out of nostril and eye ; and
bis attendants look at him and say: “Why.
General, bow much better you do look.”
And be bows a second time into the flood
andheoomes up and tbe wild stare is gone
out of his eye. He bows the third time into
the flood and comes up and the shriveled
flesh has got smooth again. He bows the
fourth time into the flood and comes up and
the hair that had fallen out is restored in
thick locks again all over the brow. He
bows the fifth time into the flood and comes
up and the hoarseness has gone out of his
throat. He bows the sixth time and
comes up and all the soreness and anguish
have gone out of the limbs. “Why,” be says,
“I am almost well, but I will make a cora-
Slete cure.” and he bows the seventh time
ito the flood, and he come up, and not so
much as a fester, or a scale, or an eruption
as big as the head of a pin is to be seen on
bim. He steps out on the bank and says:
“Is it possible?” and the atbendauti look and
say: “Is it possible?” and as, with the health
of an athlete, he bounds back into tbe
chariot and drives on, there goes up from all
his attendants a wild “Huzza! huzza 1” Os
course they go back to pay and thank the
man of God for his counsel so fraught with
wisdom. When they left the prophet’s house
they went off mad; they have come back
glad.
People always think better of a minister
after they are converted than they do before
conversion. Now we are to them an intoler
able nuisance because we tell them to do
things that go against the grain ; but some of
us have a great many letters from those who
tell us that once they were angry at what we
preached, but afterward gladly received the
gospel at our hands. They once called us
fanatics or terrorists or enemies; now they
call us friends. Yonder is a man—l speak a
literal fact—who said that he would never
come into the. church again. He said that
two years ago. He said: “My family shall
never come here again if such doctrines as
that are preached. ” But he came again and
his family came again. He is a Christian,
his wife a Christian, all his children Chris
tians, the whole household Christians, and I
shall dwell with them in the house of the
Lord forever. Our undying coadjutors are
those who once heard the gospel and went
away in a rage.
“Now, my hearers, you notioe that this
General Naaman did two things in order to
get well The first was—he got out of his
chariot. He might have stayed there with
his swollen feet on the stuffed ottoman,
seated on that embroidered cushion until his
last gasp, he would never have got any relief.
He had to get down out of the chariot And
you have got to get down out of th3 chariot of
your pride if you ever become a Christian.
You cannot drive up to the cro?s with a
coach and four, and os saved among all the
spangles. You seem to think that the Lord
is going to be complimented by your coming.
Oh, no; you poor, miserable, scaly, leprous
sinner, get down out of that. We all come
in the same haughty way. We expect to
ride into the kingdom of God. Never until
we get down on our knees will we find merey.
The Lord has unhorsed us. uncharioted us.
Get down out of your pride. Get down out
of your self-righteousness and your hyper
criticisra. W e have all got to do that. That
is the journey we have got to make on our
knees. It is our infernal pride that keeps us
from getting rid of the leprosy of sin. Dear
Lord, what have we to be proud of? Proud of
our scales? Proud of our uncleanness? Proud
of this killing infection? Bring us down at
Thy feet, weeping, praying, penitent, believ
ing suppliants.
“For sinners, Ebrd, Thou earnest to bleed,
And I’m a sinner vile indeed;
Lord, I believe Thy grace is free,
Oh, magnify that grace in me.”
But he had not only to get down out of
his chariot. He had to wash. “Oh!” you
say. “I am very careful with my ablutions.
Every day I plunge into a bright and beauti
ful bath.” Ah, my hearers, there is a flood
brighter than any other. It is the flood that
breaks from the granite of the eternal hills.
It is tbe flood of pardon and peace and life
and heaven. That flood started in the teare
of Christ and the sweat of Gethemane and
rolled on, accumulating flood, until all earth
and heaven could bathe in it. Zechariab
called it the “fountain open for sin and un
cleanness.” William Cowper called it the
“fonntain filled with blood.” Your fathers
and mothers washed all their sins and sorrowj
away in that fountain. Oh, my hearers, dc
you not to-day feel like wading into it? Wade
down now into this glorious flood, deeper,
deeper, deeper. Plunge once, twice, thrice,
four times, five times, six times, seven times.
It will take as much as that to cure your soul.
Oh, wash, wash, wash and be clean.
I suppose that was a great time at Dam as
cus when General Naaman got back. The
charioteers did not have to drive slowly any
longer, lest they jolt the invalid; but as the
horses dashed through the streets of Damas
cus. I think the people rushed out to bail
back their chief tan. Naaman’s wife hardly
recognized her husband; he was so wonder
fully changed she had to look at him two or
three times before she made out that it was
her restored husband. And the little captive
maid, she rushed out, clapping her hands
and shouting: “Did he cure you? Did he
cure vour’ Then music woke up the palace
and the tapestry of the windows was drawn
away, that the multitude outside might min
?;le with the princely mirth inside, and the
eet went up and down in the dance and all
the streets cf Damascus that night echoed
and re-echoed with the news: “Naaman’s
cured! Naaman’s cured!” .
Bat a gladder time than that it would be in
all this place or wherever this ssrmon shall
be read, if the soul should get cured of its
leprosy. The swiftest white horses hitched
to the King's chariot would rush the news
into the eternal city. Our loved ones before
the throne would welcome the glad tidings.
Your children on earth with more emotion
than the little Hebrew captive would notice
the change in your looks and the change in
your manner, and would put their arms
around your neck and say: “Mother, I guess
vou must have become a Christian. Father,
• think you have got rid of the leprosy.” Oh,
Lord God of Elisha, have mercy on us!
Mesmerism in a Lion Cage.
A frightful scene has taken place at
Dijon. A mesmerist, M. Torcy, accom
panied by his subject, a cataleptic young
person named Mademoiselle Lucia, en
tered a cage of lions in Signor Salva’s
menagerie. The animals seemed at first
quite stupefied on eeoing strange persons
before them, but they soon began to
show their molar broadsides and to pre
pare for action. M. Torcy lost no time,
and having sent Mademoiselle Lucia into
a magnetic trance, he told her to fix her
gaze on the beasts and to place her arms
before them, which she did with perfect
impunity. She was then plunged into a
cataleptic fit, her body was stiffened and
her feet and legs fastened to two stools.
The animals goaded by the keepers and
by vigorous thrusts from M. Torcy’s
sticks, were made to jump several times
over the young lady’s body. This inhu
man exercise was continued until the au
dience, wrought up to the highest pitch
of terror and excitement, owing to the
ominous growling of the infuriated lions,
cried out: “Enoughl” The three ac
tors in this extraordinary scene were
loudly acclaimed by the spectators: but
it is to be hoped, in the interests of civ
ilization, that the authorities at Dijon
will speedily put a stop to any repetition
of the degrading spectacle, which was
more worthy of An assembly of Cherokee
Indians than of the inhabitants of a large
and prosperous French cit j.—London
Globe.
Lesser things will drop out, as the
hand close* upon tho larger duty or the
greater blessing. Just as tho hand that
reaches out to grasp the great strong
onk, lets go its hold upon the blade of
grass it had gathered.— P. Brooks.
How Tar Is Made.
Tar consists of two distinct kinds—
tree and mineral. The first is made
from the pine and fir trees, by burning
the wood in a confined manner, so that
tho wood is charred into coal and its
resinous properties, acid vapor and
smoke from the smouldering wood,
combining into a dark viscid liquid, or
tar, about the consistency of heavy mo
lasses. The manufacture and uses of
tree tar were as well known to the an
cient Greeks as to the people of the
eighteenth century, and there really is
no material difference in the process of
making between then and now. The
process of manufacture is as follows:
They select a spot ou a side hill, into
which they dig a hole four or five feet
square, leading from which is a spout or
trough. Over this they build a pyramid
of resinous wood to the height of eight
or ten feet, covering the entire pile with
turf or dirt, leaving a small aperture at
the top for the escape of steam and sur
plus smoke. The slow, confined heat
forces the resinous properties from the
wood down into the pit beDeath, where
it becomes a conglomerate mass of the
resinous properties, acid and smoke of
the wood. The Carolines and Georgia
produce more tar than all the rest of
our States. Pitch is tar boiled down to
a dense mass, and used hot to smear the
bottoms and sides of vessels, to make
them water-tight. It is also used for
sealing the interior of beer and ale kegs.
It is considerably used for medical pur
poses. Coal or rainoral tar is obtained
from the distillation of bituminous caol
(soft coal) and peat, and was first dis
covered by an English chemist in 1779.
It has a penetrating, nasty odor. Peat
consists of foots and fibres that have
been continually saturated with water
for ages (known as peat bog). Peat
when dried is much used &9 a fuel, espe
cially in Ireland. Large quantities of
coal tar results from the burning of bitu
minous coal in retorts while making gas,
and is also obtained in large quantitiei
from tho refining of petroleum. Cos!
tar is considerably used for painting iroi
surfaces that are exposed, and roofs. If
has also been found to contain very val
uable chemical properties, among whick
are the aniline dyes, which are the most
brillant of all in use.
The proud man both no God; the en
vious man hath no neighbor; the angry
man hath not himself. What good, then
in being a man, if one has neither him
self. nor a neighbor, nor God? —Bishop
Hall
St. Jacobs Oil deadens pain and makes tho
Ip me walk. Major Arnold, of the Occiden
tal Hotel, San Fradcisco, Cal., was complete
ly cured of rheumatism by its use.
A perfectly petrified rosebud has been
found at Valley Head, Ala.
When irritation of the throat causes a
tickling cough, use Red Star Cough Curo
which will effect immediate and permanent
relief. One of Brooklyn’s Board of Health
officers recommends it as purely vegetable
and perfectly harmless* Price, 25 cents.
Lieutenant Grcely believes in tbe theory
that there is an open sen. some fifteen hundred
miles in diameter, round about the pole, that
never freezes, the conjocturo being 1 bat the
pole itself is the centre of an ice-capped land,
covered with ice from one thousand to four
thousand feet thick.
For weak lungs, spitting of blood, shortness
of breath, consumption, night sweats and all
lingering coughs, Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medi
cal D.scovery” is a sovereign remedy. Supe
rior to cod liver oil. By druggist.
A hard thing to sharpen-—the water’s
edge
“As Good as New,**
are the words used by a lady, who was at one
time given up by the most eminent physi
cians. and left to die. Riduced to a mere
skeleton, pale and haggard, not able to leave
her bed, from all those distressing diseases
peculiar to suffering females, such as displace
ment, leurorrhoa. inflammation, etc., etc.
Bhe hegan taking Dr Pierce’s “Favorite Pie
scription,” and also using the local treatments
recommended by him, and is now, she says,
“as good as new.” Price reduced to one dol
lar. By druggist*.
A sole stirring subject—a nail in your
shoe.
“It Knocks the Spot*,*’
and everything in the nature of eruptions,
blotches, pimples, ulcers, sjjrofulous humors,
and incipient consumpli m, which is nothing
more nor less than scrofula of the lungs, com
pletely out of the system. It stimulates and
invigorates the liver, Lines up the stomanh,
regulates the bowels, purifies the blood, and
builds up the weak placos of tho body. It is
a purely vegetable compound, and will do
more tliun is claimed for it We refer to Dr:
Pierce's “ Golden Medical Discotcey."
A favorite winter resort—before the
fire.
Ts afflicted wil b sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thump
s m’s Eye water. Druggists sell at 25c.per bottle
Daughter*, Wives, Mothers.
Send for Pamphlet ou Female Diseases,free,
securely sealed. Dr. J. B. Marchibi,Utica.N.Y.
Bluebeard’s trade evicently was that of a
b dle-hanger.
The farmers, iu their swamps, we’re sure,
Could find the roots uud plants that cure;
H by their knowledge they only knew
rur just the disease each one grew.
Jake courage now and “Swamp-Root” try—
(for kidney, liver aud bladder complaints)
As ou this remedy you can roly.
tineel Caded gOU ™ h ° S ,he out ' inos marked by
A Deep .MyMery.
. W. h er , vc !: you are located you should write
to Hallett &. Co., Portland, Maine, and rc- '
ceive free, full information about work that I
you can do and live at home, making thereby
from *S to *25 and upwards dailv. Borne
u a 'iL m . 1 ' ?, ovt ' r *s° 1,1 “ All is new.
nectel. Eithersex All ages. No class of work
ing people have ever mane money bo fast here
tofore. Com tort able fortunes await everv
worker. AU this seems a deep mystery to
*T* bnt ," en< ! your address and
it will be cleared up ond proved. Better not
delay; now is the time.
Canvas woven silk has a heavy stripe with
good thread embr dJcry.
If Hifffrrr* from Consumption*
Fcrofuia; Brora hills and General Debility will
fry Scott’s Emcluow of Cod Liver Oil with
Hypr phosphites, they will find immediate re
lief and permanent 1 enolt. The Medical Pro
fession universally declare it a remedy of the
greatest value and very palatable. Read: “I
have used Hoott’.s Emulsion in several cases of
ScierulaandDetl'ilyin children. Results most
ratifying. My lit:Jo patients take It with
pleasure.”—W. A. Hulbkrt. M. D. f Salis
bury, m. •
Watered blank silk •ndcMhmwi.aprettv i
and stylish combination. ** j
Rel W is limned Is tv, ami n cure sore, i'K.'l I
Itemedy for Catarrh. 50c, I
His Preference.
Somehow or other I don't think I’d
care to bo the prettiest girl in the world,
he remarked.
She- “Why not?”
He “Because I'd rather bo next to
the prettiest.” — Siftingi.
Human things must be known in or
der to bo loved; divine things loved in
order to be known. -
One A rent (Merc Kent enlj) wented In ever, town lot
The “Ten.lir. Pinch” Sc clear. are„W |n ' 1,1 ‘'
Nevor sold so many in so a time. Will try ana
Klve you another nrrfer thl* month.
P. & A. L. Mn lard, EllJsburgr. to Y.
Your "Tansill’s Punch” So cigar Is n
W. D. Cbaiq, Druggist. Aledo. 111.
gi KSTICAIi VICIOETI
Cnre. Brighte’DiMie. tttarrt
of the Bladder, Torpid liver., ll
dissolves Gall-Stonee and 0 ravel.
SYMPTOMS ana COJpiTIOMS
of Urine for which this Eemody
should be taken.
Residing Stoppage Blood-tinged
Diabetic Albumen Brick-dust
Dropsical Dribbling MUky-plnh
-■ Headache Frequent Coetivene*
Bonencho Nervous Bedlsh-derk
Dric-ncid Settlings CaPurbeclie
K\ Backache Ncrveache Phosphate*
Bad-taste Foul-Breath Gail-color
KA IT IS A SPECIFIC.
LjLAIJ Jfrrry dot. fo.atmth. ,jrel.
Iteltevee and Cures internal Slime-fever
raentof tbe Prostate Gland, Sexual Weak
ness, Spermatorrhoea and Gout.
It Eliminates Blood Impurities, Scrofula,
Erysipelas Salt-Rheum, Byphill*. Pimples,
DlotcncsTFever-eorcs, and Canoer-talnta.
It la a most Wonderful Appetizer.
Bntldn up a Bunkova CpnrtlWitton.
%XT Tell your neighbors ail about it.
Sic, *l.oo—o bottles $5.00.«
iredet Dr. Kilmer’s Dlspousary, I
ighaniton, N. Y., U. 9. A.
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BLOOD
Os the Age.
Tk Giaat if tis Mdiciaes
Botanic Blood Balm.
IT POSITIVELY CORES
All Chronic Diseases.
srrofii B, Kidney, Bladder and
Blood Taint, , i ••Ivor Complaints,
Syphilitic Complaint, By*p> P»ia,
(«»n sumption, lEeaeniH,
Glandular Disease, ifeeutp WMeMe,
ricrr«. Female l»it»ea**es»
Chronic Rbe«natl*in AHcrttoiis» . •J*
Ery»lpelei», I ««**• Throat.
It purifies the blood, restoring
health and vigor, and removes ail
debility.
IT IS A SPLENDID TONIC.
Malaria in Hr. various forms flfuef
way under tf* influence.
Os the Thouswude Cured we Give the Teell
luonr of o JFcw Grntefol fntlent*.
Mis. Minmo W.li.*-, I L'SJS r h Vr*tady
pound, of ««b. *nd*m ,»
bottle* of b 11. H. eiToctod nn\ n t’ r ”SrosciJSß
Rer.W.W Wadsworth, Now nan, *• jAtOB K
I would not taka on* thou*anJ <W *” ” r
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merchant in Griffin. Ga. J. it. Barm, n, U “
T.ie B. B. B. medicine ha < done more fat “Lj,
affection than any 1 ever used. Its action issk k’o
It is a One toni«. T. O. Callahan, Charlotfik *
I have been confined to my bed for two month "tie*
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Four bottles of B. B. B. enabled me to discard lias
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