THE REV. DR. TALMAGE,
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subjoct: “How to Bare the Cities.”
Text: "And the men of the city said unto
Elisha: Behold , I pray thee , the situation of
this city is pleasant , as my Lord seeth; but
the water is naught , and the ground barren.
And he said: Bring me a new cruse , and
put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
And he went forth unto the spring of the
tenters , and cast the salt in there , and said:
Thus , said the Lord , I have healed these
waters: there shall not be from thence any
more, death or barren land. Soothe waters
were healed unto this day.”—2 Kings ii.,
It is difficult to estimate how much of the
prosperity and health of a city are dependent
upon good water. The time when, through
well-laid pipes and from safe reservoir, an
abundance of water from Croton, or Ridge
wood, or Schuylkill is brought into the city
is appropriately celebrated with oration and
pyrotechnic display. Thank God every day
for clear, bright, beautiful, sparkling water
ns it drops in the shower, or tosses up in the
fountain, or rushes out at the hydrant.
The City of Jericho, notwithstanding all
its physical and commercial advantages, was
lacking in this important element. There
wn.> enough water, but it was diseased, and
the people were crying out by reason thereof,
jilishtt, the prophet, comes to the rescue. He
says: “Get me anew cruse; fill it with salt
and bring it to me.” So the cruse of salt was
brought to the prophet, and I see him walk
ing out to the general reservoir, and lo! all
the impurities depart, through a supernatural
and divine influence, and the waters are
good and fresh and clear, and all the people
clap their hands and lift up their faces in the
gladness. Water for Jencho—clear, bright,
beautiful, God-given water I
At different times I have pointed out to you
the fountains of municipal corruption, and
this morning I propose to show you what are
the means for the rectification of those foun
tains. There are four or five kinds of salt
that have a cleansing tendency. So far as
God may help me, I shall bring a cruse of
salt to the work, and empty it into the great
reservoir of municipal crime, sin, and shame,
ignorance and abomination.
In this work of cleansing our cities, I have
first to remark, that there is a work for the
broom and shovel that nothing else can do.
There always has been an intimate connection
between iniquity and dirt. The filthy parts
of the great cities are always the most iniqui
tous parts. The gutters and the pavements
of the Fourth Ward, New York, illustrate
and symbolize the character of the people in
the Fourth Ward.
The first thing that a bad man does when
he is converted is thoroughly to wash him
self. There were, this morning, on the way
to the different churches, thousands of men in
proper anpnrel who, before their conversion,
were unfit, in their Sabbath dress. When on
the Sabbath 1 see a man uncleanly in his
dress, my suspicions in regard to his moral
character are aroused, and they are always
well founded. So as to allow no excuse for
Jack of ablution, God has cleft the continents
with rivers and lakes, and has sunk five great
oceans, and all the world ought to be clean.
Away, then, with the dirt from our cities,
not only because the physical health needs an
ablution, but because all the great moral and
religious interests of the cities demand it as a
positive necessity. A filthy city always has
been and always will lie a wicked city.
Through the upturning of the earth for
great improvement our city could not be ex
pected to be as clean as usual, but for the
illimitable dirt of Brooklyn for the last six
months there is no excuse. It is not merely
a matter of dust in the ej’es, and mud for tne
shore*, and of stench for the nostrils, but of
morals for the soul.
Another corrective influence that we would
bring to bear upon the evils of a great cities
is a Christian printing press. The news
papers of any place are the test of its moral
ity. The newsboy who runs along the street
with a roll of papers under his arm is a tre
mendous force that cannot be turned asido
nor resisted, and at his every step the
city is elevated or degraded. Tbia hun
gry, all-devouring American mind must
have somethin to read, and upon ed
itors and authors and book publishers and
parents and teachers rests the responsibility of
what they shall read. Almost every man
you meet has a book in his hand or a news
paper in his pocket What book is it you
have in your hand! What newspaper is it
you have in your pocket? Ministers may
preach, reformers may plan, philanthropists
may toil for the elevation of the suffer
ing and the criminal, but until all
the newspapers of the land and all
the booksellers of the land set themselves
against an iniquitous literature—until thert
we shall be fighting against fearful odds.
Every time the cylinders of our great pub
lishing houses turn they make the earth
quake. From them goes forth a thought like
on angel of light to feed and bless the world,
or like an angel of darkness to smite it with
corruption and sin and shame and death. May
God by His omnipotent Spirit purify and ele
vate the American printing-press!
I go on further and say that wo must do
pend upon the school for a great deal or eor
reeting influence. A comttnihity can no more
afford to have ignorant men in its midst than
itcan afford to have uncaged hyenas. Ig
norance is the mother of hydra-headed crime.
Thirty-one per cent of ail the criminals of
New York State can neither read nor write.
Intellectual darkness is generally the pre
cursor of moral darkness. I know
there are educated outlaws—meii
♦ ho, through their sharpness of in
tellect, are made more dangerous. They
use their fine penmanship in signing other
people's names, and their science in ingenious
burglaries, and their fine manners in adroit
libertinism. They go their round of sin with
well-cut apparel, and dangling jewelry, and
watches of • eighteen karats and kid gloves.
They are refined, educat'd, magnificent vil
lains. But that is the exception. It is generally
the case that the criminal classes are as igno
rant as they are wicked. For the proof of
what 1 say, go into the prisons and peniten
tiaries, and look upon tne men and women in
carcerated. The dishonesty in the eye, the
low passion in the lip, are not more conspicu
ous than the ignorance in the forehead. .The
ignorant classes are always the dangerous
classes. Demagogues marshal them. They
are helmless, and are driven before the gale.
It is high time that all city and .State au
thority, as well as the Federal (rfwi nnn-nt,
appreciate the awful statistics that while years
ago in this country there was set, apart forty
eight millions of acres for school purixwes,
tb'U'o are now in New England one hundred
and ninety-one thousand iieoplo who can
neither read nor write, and in theHtate of
I eniisylvania two hundred and twenty
two thousand who can neither read nor
write, and in the State of New York two
hundred and forty-f»ne thousand who can
neither read nor write, while in the I inted
mates there are nearly six millions who can
neither real nor wrtye. Statistics enough to
stagger anti confound any man who loves his
God and his country. Now. in view of this
***» A/H* 1 m ,uvor 'OHipulaory educa
tion. \V hen parent/* are so bestial a*te neglect
this duty to the child, I say the law
with a strong hand, nt the sane* time with a
gentle handjooght to leal these little ones into
the light of intelligence and good morals. It
was a beautiful tableau when in our city a
ewarthy jioliceman, having picked up a lost
child in the street, was found appeasing ita
cnee with a stick of candy he had bought at
the apple stand. That was well done, and
beautifu Ily done. But, oh! these thou
eonds of little ones through our streets
who are crying for the bread of knowledge
and intelligence. Khali we not give it to
them? The officers of the law ought to go
down into the cellars and up in the garret*
and bring out these benighted little ontW, and
put them under educational influences after
they have paned through the bath and under
the comb, putting before them the spelling
V™**. * r > “ 1 teazling them to real the
I“ n l ****** °M the
rj2" t ; J2*""** A /° th « poor in spirit, for
heaven.” Our city
vught to be father ac£ mother both to t*im
outcast little one*. A* a recipe for the cure
of much of the woe, and want, and crime of
our city, I give the words which Thorwaldsen
had chiseled on the open scroll in the hand of
John Gutenberg, the inventor of the art of
printing: “Let there be light!”
Still further: Reformatory societies are an
important element in the rectification of the
public fountaina Without calling any of
them by name, I refer more especially to
those which recognize the physical as well as
the moral woes of the world. There was
pathos and a great deal of common sense in
what the poor women said to Dr. Cuthrie
when he was telling her what a very good
woman she ought to be. ‘’Oh,” she said, “if
you were as hungry and cold as I am, you
could think of nothing else.” I believe the
great want of our city is the Gospel and
something to eat 1 Faith and repentance are
•f infinite importance; but they counob sat
isfy an empty stomach I You have to go forth
in this work with the bread of eternal life in
your right hand, and the broad" of this
life in your left hand, and then you can touch
them, imitating the Lord Jesus Christ, who
first broke the bread and fed the multitude
in the wilderness, and then began to preach,
recognizing the fact that while people are
hungry they will not listen, and they will
not repent. We want more common sense
in the distribution of our charities; fewer
magnificent theories, and more hard work.
Still further: The great remedial influence
is the Gospel of Christ. Take that down
through the lanes of suffering. Take that
down amid the hovels of sin. Take that up
amid the mansions and palaces of your city.
That is the salt that can cure all the poisoned
fountains of public iniquity. Do you know that
in this cluster of three cities,New York, Jersey
City and Brooklyn, there are a great multi
tude of homeless children. You see I speak moro
in regard to the youth and the children of the
country, because old villains are seldom re
formed, and therefore I talk more about the
little ones. They sleep under the stoops,in the
burned-out safe, in the wagons in the streets,
on the barges, wherever they can get a board
to cover them. And in the summer they sleep
all night long in the parks. Their destitution
is well set forth by an incident. A city
missionary asked one of them: “Where
is your home?” Said he: “I don’t have no
home, sir.” “Well, where are your father
and mother?” “They are dead, sir.” Did
you ever hear of Jesus Christ?” “No, I don’t
think I ever heard of Him.” “Did you ever
hear of God?” “Yes, I’ve heard of God.
Some of the poor people think it kind of lucky
at night to say something over about that be
fore they go to sleep. Yes, sir, I’ve heard of
Him.” Think of a conversation like that in
a Christian city.
How many are waiting for you to come out
in the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ and
rescue them from the wretchedness here! Oh,
that the Church of (rod had arms long
enough and hearts warm enough to take them
up! How many of them there are! As I was
thinking of the subject this morning, it
seemed to me as though there was a great
brink, and that these little ones with
cut and torn feet were coming on
toward it. And here is a group of
orphans. O fathers and mothers, what do
you think of these fatherless and motherless
little ones? No hand at home to take care of
their apparel, no heart to pity them. Said one
little one, when the mother died: “Who will
take care of my clothes now?” The little ones
are thrown out in this great cold world. They
are shivering on the brink like lambs on the
verge of a precipice. Does not your blood run
cold as they go over it?
And here is another group that come on to
ward the precipice. They are the children of
besotted parents. They are worse off than
orphans. Look at that pale cheek; woe
bleached it. Look at that gash across the
forehead; the father struck it. Hear that
heart-piercing cry; a drunken mother's
blasphemy compelled it. And we
couie out and we sav: “O yo
suffering, peeled and blistered ones,
we come to help you.” “Too late!” cry thou
sands of voices. “The path we travel is
steep down, and we can’t stop. Too late!”
And we catch our breath and we make a ter
rific outcry. “Too late!” is echoed from the
garret to cellar, from the gin-shop and from
brothel. “Too late!” It is too late, and they
go over.
Here is another group, an army of
neglected children. They come on toward
the brink, and every time they step ten
thousand hearts break. The ground is red
with the blood of their feet. The air is heavy
With their groans. Their ranks are being
filled up from all the houses of iniquity and
shame. Skeleton Despair pushes them on to
ward the brink. The deatn-knell has already
begun to toll and the angels of
God hover like birds over the plunge
of a cataract, While these chil
dren are on the brink they halt, and throw
out their hands, and cry: “Help! help!” O
Church of God, will .you help? Men and
women bought bv the blood of the Son of
God, will you help? while Christ cries from
the heavens: ‘ ‘Save them from going down;
1 am the ransom.”
I stopped on the street and just looked at
the face of one of those little ones. Have you
ever examined tho faces of the neglected chil
dren of the poor? Other children hare glad
ness in their faces. When a group of them
rush across the road, it seems os though a
spring gust had unloosened an orchard of
apple blossoms. But these children of the
poor There is but little ring in their laughter,
ami it stops quick, os though some bitter
memory tripped it. They have an old walk.
They. Ho not skip or run up on the lumber
just for the pledsdi'O of leaping down. They
never bathed in the mdmlfctitt stream. They
never waded in the brook for pdbMtt*. They
never chased the butterfly across tho lawn,
putting their hot right down where it was
just before. Childhood has been dashed out of
them. Want waved its wizard wand above the
manger of their birth, and withered leaves
are lying where God intended a budding giant
of battle. Once ifi a ftbile one of these chil
dren gets out. Here is one. Hot instance. At
ten years of age he is sent out by his parents,
who say to bun: “Here is a basket —tlttw
go off and beg and steal.” The boy
says: “I can't steal.” They kick
him into a corner. That night he puts his
swollen head into the straw; but a voice
conies from heaven, saying: “Courage, poor
boy. courage’” Covering up his head from
tho beastialitv, and stopping his ears from
the cursing, ne gots on, bettei* and better.
He washes his face clean at the public hy
drant. W ith a few pennies got at running
errands, h»» gets a better coat Rough
men. knowing that he comes from a low
street, say: “Back with you, you little
villain, to the place where you came from.”
But that night the boy says: “God help me,
I can't go back;” and quicker than ever
mother flew at theory of a child's pain, the
Lord responds from tne heavens: “Courage,
poor boy, courage!” ills bright face gets
him a position. After a while lie fa second
clerk. Years pass on And he is first clerk.
Years pass on. The glory of young manhood
Ison him. He comes into the Ural. He goes
on frorn one business success to another, He
has achieved great fortune. He is the friend
of the church of God, the friend of all good
institutions, and one day he stands talking to
the Board of Trade, or to the Chamber of
( Commerce. People say: “Do you know who
that is? Why. that is a merchant prince,
ami he was born on Elm street. But
God says in regard to him something
halter than that: “These are they which
carne out of great tribulation, and
bod their robes washed and made white in the
blood of the Jaamh.” O, for some one to
write the history of boy heroes and girl hero
ines who ha ve triumphed over want andstarv
ation, and filth ana rags. Yea, tho record
has already been made—made bv the hand of
liod; and when these shall come at last with
songs and rejoicing, it will take a very broad
banner to hold the name* of all the batle
flelds on which they got the victory.
Home year* ago a roughly-clad ragged boy
came into my brother’s office in New York,
and soil I: ‘Mr, Talmig*, leud rno five dol
lars.” My brother said; “Who ore you?”
The boy replied: “I am nobody. Lend me
llvedollars ” “What «lo you want to do with
live Hollars?” “Well,” the boy replied, “my
Wither is sick and poor,and I want to go into
tie* newspaper businew, and I shall get a home
for her, am! I will pay you bock.” My brother
gave him tlie five Hollars, of course, never ex
|*ectingte see it again; but tie said: “When wll
vou piy it?” Th** boy said: “I will pay it in
six mouth*, sir. " Time wont by, and one flay
a la l came into my brother’s office, and said:
“'lburq’a your five dollars.” “Wbat do yon
OMftal What five dollars?” inquired my
brother. “Don’t you remember that a boy
came in here six months ago and wanted to bor
row five dollars to go into the newspaper
business?” “O, yes, I remember; are you the
ladr” “Yes,” he replied, “I have got along
nioely. I have got a nice home for my mother
(she is sick yet), and I am as well clothed as
you are, and there’s your five dollars.” G,was
he not morth saving ? Why that lad is worth
fifty such boys as I have sometimes seen mov
ing in elegaut circles, never put to any use
for God or man. Worth saving! Igo farther
than that, and tell you they are not
only worth saving, but they are being saved.
One of these lads picked up from our streets,
and sent West by a benevolent society, wrote
East, sAying: “I am getting along first rate.
I am on probation in the Methodist Church.
I shall be entered as a member the first of
next month. I now teach a Sunday-school
class of eleven boys. I get along first rate
with it. This is a splendid country to make a
living in. If the boys running around the
street with a blacking box on their
shoulder, or a bundle of papers under their
arms, only knew what hign old times we boys
have out here, they wouldn’t hesitate about
coming West, but come the first chance they
get.” So some by one humane and Chris
tian visitation, and some by another, are be
ing rescued. In one reform school through
which two thousand of the little ones passed,
one thousand nine hundred and ninety
five turned out well. In other
words, only five of the two thousand
turned out badly. There are thousands
of them who, tnrough Christian societies,
have been transplanted to beautiful homes all
>ver this land, and there are many who,
through the rich grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ, have already won the crown. A little
girl was found in the streets of Baltimore and
;aken into one of the reform societies, and
they said to her: “What is your name?”
She said: “My name is Mary?” “What
is your other name?” Khe said: “ I don’t
know.” So they took her into the reform
society, and as they did not know her last
name they always called her “ Mary Lo3t,”
since she fiad been picked up out of the street.
But she grew on, and after awhile the Holy
Spirit came to her heart, and she became a
Curistian child, and she changed her name;
and when anybody asked her what her name
was, she said: “It used to be Mary Lost; but
now since I have become a Christian, it is
Mary Found.”
For this vast multitude, are we willing to
go forth from this morning's service and see
what we can do. employing all the agencies I
have spoken of for tne rectification ot the poi
soned fountains? Wo, live in a beautiful
city. The lines have fallen to us in
pleasant places, and we have a goodly
heritage; and any man who does not like a
residence in Brooklyn, must be a most un
comfortable ami unreasonable man. But, my
friends, the material prosperity of a city is
not its chief glory. There may be fine houses
and tieautiful streets, and that all be the
garniture of a sepulchre. Some of the most
prosperous cities of the world have gone
down, not one stone left upon another. But
a city may be in ruins long before a tower
has fallen, or a column has crumbled, or a
tomb has been defaced. When in a city the
churches of God are full of cold formalities
..ail inanimate religion; when the houses of
commerce are the abode of fraud and unholy
traffic; when the streets are filled with
crime unarrested and sin unenlightened
and helplessness unpitied—that city is in
ruins, though every church were a St.
Peter’s, and every moneyed institution were
a Bank of England, and every library were a
British Museum, and every house had a
porch like that of Rheims.and a roof like that
of Amiens, and a tower like that of Antwerp,
ami traoeried windows like those of Freiburg.
My brethren, our pulses beat rapidly the
time away, and soon we shall be gone; and
what we have to do for the city in which we
live we must do right speedily, or never do it
at all. In that day when those who have
wrapped themselves in luxuries and despisad
the poor,shall come to shame and everlasting
contempt, I hope it may be said of you
ami me that we gave bread to the hungry,
and wiped away the tear of the orphan, and
upon the wanderer of the street we opened the
brightness and benediction of a Christian
home; ami then, through our instrumental
ity, it shall b« known on earth and in heaven,
that Mary lost became Mary found!
The Treatment of Warts.
“In my own experience,” says a cor
respondent, “I have found nothing t(
remove warts. After having tried thr
numerous remedies that have come to m;
notice and meeting with little succcsr
from any of them I finally came to thosr
conclusions, which apply principally t<
the so-called seed warts: Being a fungu:
growth of the tissues they would, if lef'
entirely alone, mature and ripen anc
then die like the fungus growths of I
vegetable nature.
“I had occasion to remove some wartr
from the hand of a gentleman not lonj
since who had, as he expressed it, ‘triec
everything under the sun, ’ hut withou
success. I directed him to avoid irrita
ting them by cutting or scraping, for i
time, which he did, and soqn had th<
satisfaction of seeing them slowly disap
pear. Since then I have recommended
this plan to several, but have heard
definitely from but one, which was t<
the effect that the warts were slowlj
taking their departure.”
Gipsy Provsrbs.
After misfortune comes fortune.
Better a donkey which lets you ride,
than a fine horse which throws you off.
Those sre the fattest fishes which fall
back into the water. \
It is not good to choose women or cloth
by candle-light.
What is the use of a kiss unless there
be two to divide it?
W'ho has got luck, need only sit at
home with his mouth open.
Who wants to steal potatoes must not
forget the sack. \
Two hard stones do not grind small.
I’olite words cost tittle and do much.
Who flatters you has either cheated you
or wants to cheat.
Who waits till nnother calls him to sup
per, often remains hungry.
If you have lost your horse, then you
ran throw away saddle and bridle as
well. , „....
Cold City Fact*.
The Burlington Fm Freu man nays:
“Please send us a few cold facts,” Her.
foes:
The ice man now comes
Bringing this season's rate.,
Amt he sings the same tune,
"Price never n bates."
And the man with the screens
Present* bis large bill.
And the gnnlener anon follows
With terms for his skill;
And the hoy with the hoae
Wet* you down to your tor*.
And a elinging mnat(Uito
Enlarge* yoor nose;
These are fact*, cold and hard,
Am every one knows.
Bottcn Olobst
RELIGIOUS READING.
Recompense.
We are quite sure
That He will give them back—bright, pure
and beautiful—
We know He will but keep
Our own and His until we fall asleep.
We know He does not mean
To break the strands reaching between
Tho Here and There,
He does not moan—though Heaven be
fair— , ,
To change the Rpirita entertaining, there,
Ibat they forget
Tho eyes upraised and wet.
The lips too still for prayer,
The mute despair.
He will not take
The spirits which He gave, and make
The glorified so new
That they are lost to me and you.
I do believe
They will receive
Us—you and me —and bo so glad
To meet us that when most 1 would grow sad
1 just begin to think about that gladness.
And the day
When they shall tell us all about the way
That they have learned lo go—
Heaven’s pathways show.
My lO't, my own, ami I
Shall have so much to see together by
and-by.
Ido net believe that just the same swcot
face.
But glorified is waiting in the piaca
Where we shall meet if only 1
Am counted worlhv in that by and by.
Ido believe that Godi will give a swtot sur
prise
To tear stained, saddened eyes,
And that His Heaven will be
Most glad, most tided through with joy for
you and me.
As wo have suffered most. God never
made. . . .
Spirit for spirit, answering shade for
shade.
And place i them side by side.
So wrought iu one,though separate, mysti*
fled.
And meant to break
The quivering thread between. When we
shall wake,
I am quite sure, we will be very glad
That lor a little while wo were so sad.
--George Klingie.
One Hummer .lfotnln*.
The following extract from a private
letter will have a special interest to the
friends of “Ireuaus” and Mark Hop
kins.
This morning early as I sat at my win
dow, I saw some one coming up the
porch steps of our cottage. Knowing
that the servants were nob jet up, !
spoke, aud our neighbor, Mr. O ,
eaiu, “I have brought you some roses with
the dew on them, and I will leave them
at the door.” I thanked him and spoke
of the still beauty of the early day.
“Yes,” he answered, “hut it will be a
sad day for Williarastown, for just now.
at sunrise. Dr. Mark Hopkins passed
away.” For the hour that followed, I sat
looking across the waving fields, with
only the son*? of birds on the bree <\ to
that horn: from which a great a good man
had gone to join the company of kindred
spirits. 1 thought of that other sum
mer day, just two years ago, when
“Ircntcus” went home from these New
England hills,‘and of how he was loved
and honored here, and I tried to picture
the loveliness of the dear country that
can surpass such a scene as thi9, where
one alt r another of the fathers
who have led us pass on, and meet out
ot our sight.
Just then the chapel bell rang sweetly
the call to morning prayer, and I joined
the number that were silently gathering
from every part of the village. After
all were seated, tho president entered,
followed by the senior elass in their
gowns and caps significant of their
having completed their course of study.
President Carter opened the service by
saying that it was his sad duty to an
nounce to the college the death of Dr.
Hopkins, and in a few sentences he
touched a.l hearts by his own deep feel
ing and evident loss. “In a sense,” he
said, it seems as if the starngth of tho
hills had gone from us, but the influ
ence of the life wo have cherished has
gone into all the world and will linger
here as a stimulus and benediction for
ever; and to this Senior Class who have
had his instruction to the very close of
his life it will be a memorable season.”
There will be much said and written
about the death of I)r. Hopkins, but
nothing ir.ore heartful or touching will
be offered to liis memory than that early
morning service.
The students \\ith loving hands had
already draped the desk of the chapel
in black, and as with l>owed heads they
joined in prayer, few eves were dry,and
then they rose, and their voices
rang out in a glorious hymn of praise.
Hr. Somerville lit the lllxhl&tids.
One of the interesting events con
nected with evangelistic work during the
last few months has been the tour ot the
Jlev. Dr. h'omervillc in the Highlands of
Scotland. This venerable minister has
traveled over a great part ot tho world,
preaching the gospel of salvation. Hav
ing received the honor of being ap
pointed Moderator of the Free C hurch
Assembly, he undertook to visit the
Highlands during his year of office, his
addresses being translated sentence by
sentence into Gaelic by some of the
local ministers. In giving an ac
count of his labors. Dr. Somerville re
marked that there was something very
peculiar al>out the Highlands and High
landers. He did not know any country
in the world where they would find
such flocking of people to hear the gos
pel as in the Highlands of Scotland.
They would come from a great distance
and at great inconveiiiuuco in the worst
of weather, and at midday or night, and
hear with avidity and earnestness the
minister declaring the .gospel of Jesus
Christ. That was a very interesting
feature of the Highlands, and with re
gard to communions, these were extra
ordinary things indeed; he did not
think they could get parallels to the
commun ons of Highlands uny where in
the world.—(Evangelical ( hnstian.
Many People ReftaM to Take Ce 4
Liver Oil on account of Its unpleasant U*ta.
This difficulty haa been overcome In Scott's
Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophov
phitee. It being os palatable aa mtlk, and the
most valnabl remedy known for the treatment
of Consumption. Pcrofula and Bronchitis,
General Debility, Wasting Diseases of Chil
dren. Chronic Cough* and Colds, has caused
physicians in all parte of the world to one Ik
Physicians report our little patients take it
with pleasure. Try Scott's Emulsion and be
eonvlnoed.
flke te Ike Idol es my Ileert.
Well, then, why don’t yon do something to
bring Imu k the rose* to her cheeks end the
|Uii» to her eyes? Don’t you re • ►he is suffer
ing from nerv on* debility, the result of female
weakness? A bottle of l)r. Ilarier's Iron Tonic
will brighten tlkore pale < hurts, and sand new
take form, if you lots her,
Solitude dulls the thought; too much so
ciety dim! pates it.
“A little fire is quickly troddeD out
Which, being suffered, rivers cannot
quench.”
Procrastination may rob you of time, but
by increased dilligence you can make up the
loss; bnt if it reb you of life the loss is ir
remediable. If your health is delicate, your
appetite fickle, your sleep broken, your mind
depressed, your whole being out of sorts,
depend on it you are seriously diseased. In
all such case.* Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical
Discovery” will sjieedily effect a genuine,
radical cure—make n new man of you and
save you from tho tortures of lingering dis
ease
Avoid temptation, through fear you may
not withstand it.
“Throw Physic to tlie Dogs”
when it is the old-fiishiolletl blue mass
blue pill sort, and insist on using Dr.
Piercer “Pleasant Purgative Pellets," a
modern medical luxury, being small, sugar
coated granules, containing the active princi
ples of certain roots anti herbs, and which
will lie found to contain as much cathartic
l»ower as any of the old-fashioned, larger
pills, without the latter’s violent, drastic
effects. The pellets operate thoroughly but
harmlessly establishinga'pernianently healthy
action of the stomach and bowels, and as an
anti bilious remedy are unequalled.
A new process of deodorizing furs makes
certain kinds much more desirable.
* * * * Piles, fistula*, rupture and strict
ure radically cured. Book of particulars 10
cents in stamps. World's Dispensary Medical
Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
Nevor run into deht, unless yon see plainly
away away to get oat again.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomn
sons Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c. j er bottle
Prof. Loisette’* Memory Discovery.
No doubt can be entertained about tlie valu
and genuineness of Prof. Lolaette’s Memory System,
as it is so strongly recommended by Mark Twain
Mr. Proctor. Hon. W. W. Astor, Judah P. Benjainie
Dr. Buckley, and others. For full details send for
Prof. L's prospectus at 2J7 Fifth Avc., New York.
From It the System is taught by correspondence
quite as well as by personal instruction. Colleges
near New York have secured his lectures. He lias
had HOColumbia Law students, two classes. 31leaeb.
at Yale, jm at Meriden. *J9D at Norwich, 40* at
Wellesley College, and I'*) at University of Penn.
We cannot conceive how a System could receive
any higher endorsement.
Friendship is a golden coin that brightens
with the using.
Daughters. Wives. Mothers.
Bend for Pamphlet on Female Diseases,free,
I securely sealed. Dr. J. B. Marchisi.Utica.N. Y.
Best, easiest, to use and cheapest . Fiso’s
Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists.
Warm Weather
Often causes extreme tired feeling and debility, and
In the weakened condition of th* system diseases
arising from im. urj blood are llible to appe.-r. To
rain strength, to overcome disease, and to purify,
vitalize an I enrich the blood, take Hood’s Sir&v
paiilia, which is p cnliariy adapted to the needs of
this season.
“When I took Hood's Sarsaparilla that heaviness
in my stomach left; the duilues' in my head, and
the gloomy, despondent feeling disappeared. I be
gan to get stronger, my blood gained better circula
tion. the coldness In my hands and feet left tna. and
my kidneys <lo not bother rue as before.”—G. W.
Hull, Attorney at Law, Miller .burg, O.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by a'l druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only
by C. 1. HOOD Sc CO., Apothecaries, Lowell. Mass.
JOO Doses One Dollar
DmmNt to aud Heirs. Send for clr
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'»K* IXIO,I of the h ‘* ur - Thousand *
Sfele n «I, on « but Is enthusiastic OVtM
Vr. WM. M. BAIRD, Waaklagf m, H, J
‘UM °f C ONSUMPTION CIHKD
ot n IwilhtMil n failure-. Address.
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EXHAUSTED VITALITY
A Great Medical Wsrk for Tosnr
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•old. It treats upon Nervous and Physical Debility
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) vigor, and Impurities of the Blood, and the untold
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end concealed in a plain wrapper. lifotrrUim
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A am* this paper. •
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SlD*)’* Kemrfly for Catarrh M the HR
Heat. futMieat to Uae.and Cheapen*.
■ Alan mod fhr *Xdd in the Head,
HeadMelii Hn« Fever. Art, W renin. |H
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OK of YOUTH byspei<Nio.Wß..«
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not experiment—thoOnKUKAt, ANt Bus t.
(Dr. IIAKTn*?“S Live ft. PILLS a
Cure Const*pution.Liver Complaint uud HleVB
Headache, bomplo IJooe «rd Dream Pookf
mailed on rer' ipt of two eenta In pootoge f
dh.martff. mud'Cin*: any.
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PAT KtlTfl 1 inventor’* Guide. /. £lx9
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The Original
LITTLE
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"Vevvets PILLS.
ltF.wAiir: or imrATioys. AttrAis
auk Fort Jin, riEiicii’s rur. lists, ok
LITTLE HVOAR-COATI'Ii FILLS.
Ilcing onflretr regctalilf. tiny <ip
erntc without dintiirl-ntiot' to tl*‘‘ <' tcm. diet,
or occupation. Put up in abn« riaK hermeti
cally sealed. Always freni amt n ibble. As
a laxative, alterative, or purgative,
these little I Vllets give the west perfect
satisfaction.
SI HOME £S
Bilioutt II fL
Dlzziiif«S €'«*»,*t i |>ii«
tioii, Indigestions nv. m
Biliou** AltarkH'Mniall l\ Sh'ffa
derangcmentM of the Btom- A w;7/js'
ach and bowels, are prompt - *ni v*
ly relieved and permanently r \
cured bv the use of Ds*.
Pierce** Pleasant Pnrcaiive Pellete.
In explanation of the renutuaJ power ol ilwh*
Pellets over so jrrent a variety of diseases. >t
inoy truthfully te* said that thefr nrtion upon
the system is universal, not » Klu.’ld or tissue
escaping (heir renativo influence. ;; "l<! by
druggists. 25 centM .1 vmh Mann fact ur.'nl a* th<*
Chemical Laboratory of tVonf.n's
Mkdical Association, Buffa! ». N. Y.
4^SsoO™
Psis offered by tlie manufaetur
fy / ,-rnof Dr. Shkc’m Catarrh
[/ \ ' , f RGeiiiedt-i for a « usc of
I
' ; T\ they cannot cure. t
SYMPTOMS OF CATAIIKII. Pul!,
heavy headache, obtfriction ot /!»*• n<v*n
passages, discharges failing from ne- l»n<!
into tlie throat, Pomctim<» profuse, w:»bry,
nnd acrid, at others, thick, lenuehjng, mu*- •»»*.
purulent, bloody and putrid: tlie eyes ifo
weak, watery, nnd inflamed; there *• r:m:»w,'
in the ears, dejifnos*, hacking or ,f ’
clear tho throat, expectoration of olniiwv*
matter, together with scales from h!m-i> tin
voice is changed aud bus «i nomil twang, ifv>
breath is offensive; smell a:»d ia«b are un
paired; there is n sensation dizziness. w «to
mental depression, a hacking cough ami gen
eral debility. Only a few of tbo ffpove-muned
symptoms’are likely to bo present ‘u any on**
case. Thousands of* eases annually, without
manifesting hull' of the above symptoCi** r '' -
suit in consumption, nnd end in tie*
No disease is so common, more deceptive uUe
dangerous, or less understood by physicians.
By its mild, soothing, and healing properties,
Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy cures the w»rst
eases ol Catarrh, “ cold in life head, 79
Cor> /.a, nnd Cafarrhal HcadilHn'.
Sold by druggists everywhere; jO cuts.
“I'ntold Ar(iii) from Catarrh.”
Prof. W. Haitbner, the famous mesimrig*.
of Ithaca, X. w rites: “.'oine fen years ago
I suffered untold ago*;/ from chronic nasa*
catarrh. My family physician gave ne* up as
incurable, and said I mat die. My case wre
such a Inid one. that every day, towards sun
w.-t, my voice would beeoin.' no ho-ariv* I couk‘
barely speak above a whisper. In the morning
my coughing and clearing of my throat woule
almost strangle me. By the use of Dr. bage s
Catarrh Remedy, in three months, I wnsawei*
man, uud the cure haa beeu permanent."
“Constantly Ilaivkintr and Spitting.”
1 Thomas J. Rrsmso. Fjq., &02 Pine Street,
St. Louis. Mo., writes: “I was a great *uff< o r
from catai rh for throe years. At. t imt* 1 eouwi
hardly i>rvathe, and was constantly hawking
nnd spitting, and for the last eight months
could not breathe through th* 1 nostrils. *
thought nothing omid t-H* done for me. Lucie
ily, l was advised to try Dr. Nagc’s Catarrh
Remedy, and I urn now a well man. I believe
it to be the only mire* remedy for catarrh now
manufactured, and one has only to give 1* a
fair trial to cx perience astounding results ane
u permanent cure.”
Three ftlotllen Caro Catarrh.
Eli Robbins, ftttnyan P. 0., Columbia Co.
Pa., says: “My daughter hud catarrh wmi
she was five years old, very badly. I saw I)i
Sage’s Catarrh Remedy advortlsud, and pro
cured a bottle for her, and noon saw that 1
helped her ; a third t»ottb* effected a perma
nent cure. She is now eighteen years old ano
soun'l and hearty. ’
fftom POR ff/CTALOGtfBS
I Lecture on | I
I.'ROUGH ON RATS." Jl* MbSPSH
[jjuJUgy
This Is whst ki'Jrd your poor tmthrr. .-araslL
Avoid aMything contAiaing It throurhout yr**
fat are UFfult’l careen*. We older brads OF
ject toifts special ‘ihaigb’nsM,’
DON'T FOOL
Iu futile efforts with insect |in 11 1 MT
der, borax or wbat not, used at ZkSSBx ■
readom all over tbo ho«iae te get aZM&TSL
rid of R<«K:hre. Water tmgw,
lea For ‘i or S night*
“Heroa on Rats’ dry powder.! , § "
about and down the stale, drain W ▼,
pipe. Firatthtegia UlO morning wash It all
•way down the sink, <lraiu pipe, when all tbs
iuwis horn garret to cellar will disappear,
ne secret lam the fact that wherever leweti
s:sE?ars«i c J!S
H lonio« Rats,” la aolTall areamd tea
worid, la every dime, fa the m<wt riten nlsrtf
■dvsrtlied and haalba larvret sale of of
article of tta kind on tho te cm of the fW*
DESTROYS POTATO BUGS
9 w*W. ind Hi pli.rl -im afOnUlMt n
I «pr*y or wbimh BmMi. Imp rival
1 Smd up. lie., ate. and SI Bum. act <•
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