THE RET. HE. TALMAGE,
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subject: the Rope.”—
j Preached at Martha’s \ineyard.”
Text: “Through a window in a basket
teas I -et down by the uall.' } — II Cor. xi., IW.
Sermons on Paul in jail, Paul on Mars Hill,
Paul in shipwreck, Pau before the Sanhedrim,
Paul before Felix are plentiful, but in rny
text we have Paul in a basket Damascus is
a city of white and glistening architecture,
some-, -nos called “the eye of the Fast,” some
times called “pearl surrounded by emeralds,”
at one time distinguished for swords of
the best material, caJled Damascus blades,
and upholstery of richest fabric called
damasks. A horseman by the name of
Saul, riding toward this city, had l>een
thrown from the saddle. The horse had
dropped under a Hash from the sky. which
nt tne same time was so bright it blind**!
the rider for many days, and, 1 think, so per
manently injured his eyesight that this defect
of vision became the thorn in the llesh he
afterward speaks of. Ho started for Damas
cus to butcher Christians, but after that hard
fall from his horse he was a changed man
and preached Christ in Damascus till the city
was shaken tc its foundation.
The Mayor gives authority for his arrest,
and the popular cry is “Kill him! hill him!”
The city is surrounded by a high wall and the j
gates are watched by tho police lest the
Cicilian preacher escape. Many of the houses
were built on tho wall,and their balconies pro
jected clear over and hovered above the gar
dens outside. It was customary to lower baa
kets out of these balconies and pull up fruits
and flowers from tho gardens. To this day
visitors at the monastery at Mount Kinai are
lifted and let down in baskets. Detectives
prowled around from house to house looking
for Paul, but his friends hid him, nowin one
place, now in 'another. He is no coward,
its fifty incidents in hi 3 life de
monstrates. But ho feels his work
is not done yet, and so he evades assassina
tion. “Is that preacher here?” the foam
ing i:K>b shout, at one house door. “Is that
fAnatic here#” tho jiolice shout at another
house door. Sometimes on the street incog
nito he passes through a crowd of clenched
fists and sometimes he secretes himself on
the housetops. At last tho infuriated
populace get on sflre track of him. They
nave positive evidence that ho is in the
house of one of the Christians, the balcony
of whose home reaches over the wall.
“Here ho is I Here he is!” The
vociferation and blasphemy and howling of
the pursuers are at the frontdoor. They break
in. “Fetch out that gospolizer, and let us
bang his head on the city gate. Where is he?”
The emergency was terrible. Providentially
there was a good stout basket in tho house.
Paul’s friends fasten a rope to the basket.
Paul steps into it. The bosket is lifted to the
edge of the balcony on the wall, and then
while Paul holds on to the ropo with both
hards, his friends lower away, carefully and
cautiously, slowly but surely, further down
and further down, until the basket strikes
the eartli and the apostle steps out, and afoot
and alone starts on that famous missionary
tour, tho story of which has astonished earth
and heaven. Appropriate entry in Pauls
diary of travels: “Through a window in a
basket was I let down by the wall.”
Observe, first, on what a slander tenure
grert results hang. Tho rojJeiraker who
twisted t hat cord fastened to that lowering
basket never knew how much would depend
upon the strength of it. How if it had been
broken and the apostle's life had l>eeii clashed
out? What would have become of tho < Chris
tian church? All that magnificent mission
ary work in Pi mphilia, Cappadocia, Galatia,
Macedonia would never have been accom
plished. .All his writings that make up so
indispensaole and enchanting a part of tho
New Testament would never have been writ
ten. The story of resurrection would never
have been so gloriously told as ho told it.
That example of heroic and triumphant
endurance at Philippi, in the Mediterranean
iCuroclydon, under flagellation and at his
lie-heading, would not have kindled tho
courage of ten thousand martyrdoms. But
that rope holding that basket, how much de
pended on it! So, again and again, great
: ©suits have hung on what seemed slender
circumstances.
Did over ship -*»f nn.ny thousand tons cross
ing the sea have such important passenger as
had once a boat of leaves from taffi ail to
stern, only three or four feet, the vessel made
waterproof hy a coat of bitumen, and float
ing on the Nile with the infant lawgiver of tho
dews on board? What if some crocodile
should ciunJi it? What if some of the cattle
wading in for a drink should sink it? Vessels
of war sometimes carry forty guns looking
t hrough the port holes, ready to ojien battle.
But that tiny craft on tho Kilo seems to be
armed with all tho guns of thunder that bom
barded Sinai at the lawgiving. On how
fragile craft sailed how much historical im
portance!
The parsonage at Epworth, England, is
on fire m the night, and the father rushed
through the hallway for the rescue of his
children. fSeven children are out and safe on
the ground,but one remains in tho consuming
building. That one wakes, and finding his
bed on nre and tho building crumbling, comes
to tne window, and two peasants make a lad
der of their bodies, one peasant standing on
the shoulder of the other, and down tho hu
man ladder the boy dscends—John Wesley.
If you would know how much depended or
that ladder of p -nsonts, ask tho millions of
Methodists on both sides of the nea. Ask
their mission stations all nround tho world.
Ask their hundre.ls of thousands already as
cended to join their fonnder, who would have
perished but far. the living stairs of peasants’
hhoulders.
An English ship stopped at Pitcairn Islnnd
• and right in tho midst of surroundig canni
balism and squalor the passengers discovered
a Christian colony of churches and schools
and 1 >eaut ifill homes and highest style of relig
ion and civilization. For fifty years no mis
sionary and no Christian influence hail Jamie 1
there. Why thisoasis of light amid a desert
of heathendom i Sixty years before a ship
had met disaster and one of the sailors, un
able to save anything else went to his
trunk and took out a Bible which
his mother had placed tlioro and swam
ashore, the Biblo held in his teeth. The book
was read on all sides until tho rough and
vicious population were evangelized, and a
church was started and an enlightened com
monwealth established, and the World’s
history has no more brilliant page than that
which tells of the transformation of a nation
by one book. It did not seem of much
importance whether the sailor continued to
hold the book in his teeth or let it fall in tho
breakers, but upon what small circumstance
depended what mighty results!
Practical inference: There are no insig
nificances in our lives. The minutest thing is
part of a magnitude. Infinity is made up of
infinitesimals. Great things an aggregation
of small things. Bethlehem manger pulling
on a star in the eastern sky. One book in a
drenched sailor’s mouth the evangelization
of a multitude. One boat of papyrus on the
Nile freighted with events for all ages. Tlio
fate of Christendom in a basket let down
from a window on the wall. What you do,
do well. If you moke a ropo make it strong
and true, for you know not how much
may depend on your workmanship. If
vou fashion a Ixmt let it be waterproof,
for you know not who inar sail in it. if
yon put a Bible in tlio trunk of your ix>y os
he goes from home, let it be heard in your
prayers, for it inay have a mission as far
reaching as the book which th ra.;or carried
in his teeth to the Pitcairn bench. The plain
est man’s life is an island between two eterni
ties—eternity pest rippling against his
shoulders, eternity to come touching his
brow. The casual, the accidental, that
which merely happened so. are iwrts of a
great plan, ami the rope tliat lets the fugitive
apostle from the Damascus wall is the cable
that holds to ita mooring the ship of the
church in the northeast storm of the centuries.
Again, notice unrecognized and unre
corded services. Who spun that rope i
Who tied it to the basket ? Who steadied
Ure illustrious preacher as he stepped into
‘t ? Who relaxed not a muscle of the arm
°r dismissed an anxious look from his face
until the basket touched the ground and
discharged its magnificent cargo ? Not
one of their names has come to us, but there
was no work done that day in Damascus or
in all the earth compared with the im
portance of their work. What if they
had in the agitation tied a knot that
could slip ? What if the sound of the mob
at the door had led them to say: “ Paul
must take care of himself, and we will take
care of ourselves?” No, no! They held the
rope, and in doing so did more for the Chris
tian church than any thousand of as will
ever accomplish. But God knows and has
made eternal record of their undertaking.
And they know. How exultant they must
have felt when they read his letters to the
Homans, to the Corinthians, to the Galatians,
to the Ephesians, to the Fhilippians, to the
Collossians, to the Thessalonians, to Timothy.
to Titus, tp Philemon, to the Hebrews, am!
when they heard how he walked out of
prison with the earthquake unlocking the
door for him, and took command of tho
Alexandrian corn ship when the sailors were
nearly scared to death, and preached a ser
mon that nearly shook Felix otf his judgment
seat. I hear the men and women who helped
him down through the window and over the
wall talking in private over the matter, and
saying: “How glad I am that we effected that
rescue! In coming times others may get the
glory of Paul’s work, but no one shall rob
us of tho satisfaction of knowing that we
held the rope.
Once for thirty-six hours we expected
every moment to go to the bottom of the
ocean. Tho waves struck through tho sky
lights and rushed down into the hold of the
ship and hissed against the boilers. It was an
awful time; but, by the blessing of God and
the faithfulness of the men in charge, we
came out of the cyclone and we arrived at
homo. Each ono before leaving the ship
thanked Captain Andrews. I do not think
there was a man or woman that went off
that ship without thanking Captain Andrews,
and when years after I heard of his death
1 was impelled to write a letter of condo
lence to his family in Liverpool. Ev
erybody recognized the goodness, the cour
age, the kindness of Captain Andrews; but
it occurs to me now that we never thanked
the engineer. He stood away down in the
darkness amid the hissing furnaces doing his
whole duty. Nobody thanked the engineer,
but God recognized his heroism and his con
tinuance and his fidelity, and there will
be just as high reward for the engineer who
worked out of Risrbt as for the captain who
Stood on the bridge of the ship in the midst
of the howling tempest.
There arc said to lie.about 60,000 ministers
of religion in this country. About 50,000 I
warrant came from early homes which had
to struggle for tho necessaries of life. The
sons of rich bankers and merchants generally
become bankers and merchants. The most
of those who become ministers are the sons of
those who had terrific struggle to get their
everyday bread. The collegiate and theologi
cal education of that son took every luxury
from the parental table for eight years. The
other children were more scantily appareled.
The son at college every little while got a
bundle from home. In it were the socks that
mother hail knit, sitting up late at
night, her sight not as good as once
it was. And there also were some
delicacies from tho sister’s hand for
the voracious appetite of a hungry student.
The father swung the heavy cradle through
the wheat, tho sweat rolling from his chin be
dewing every step of the way, and then sit
ting down unfter the cherry tree nt noon
thinking to himself: “I am fearfully tired,but
it will pay if I can once see that boy through
college, and if I can know that he will bo
preaching the Gospel after lam dead.” The
younger children want to know why they
can't nave this and that as others do, and the
mother says: “Be patient, my children, until
your brother graduates, and then you shall
have more luxuries; but wo must see that
boy through.”
The years go by, and the son has been
ordained and is preaching the glorious
Gospel, ami a great revival comes, and souls
by scores and hundreds accept the Gospel
from the lips of that young preacher, and
father and mother, quitoold now, are visiting
the son at that village parsonage, and at the
close of a Sabbath of mighty blessing father
and mother retire to their room, the son
lighting the waynnd asking them if he can
do anything to make them more comfortable,
saying if they want anything in the night
just to knock on tho wall. And then, all
alone, father and mother talk over the
gracious influences of the day and say:
“Well, it was worth all wo went through
to educate that boy. It was a hard pull, but
we held on till the work was done. The
world may not know it, but, mother, we held
the rope, didn't we*” And the voice, tremu
lous with joyful emotion, responds: “Yes,
lather, we held the rojie. I feel my work is
uone. Now, Lord, lettost Thou Thy servant
depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen Thy
salvation.” “Pshaw’!”says the father. “I
never felt so much like living in my life as
now. 1 want to see what that fellow is going
on to do, ho bus begun so well.”
Something occurs to me quite personal. I
w’as the youngest of a large family of child
ren. My parents were neither rich nor poor;
four of the sons wanted collegiate education,
and four obtained it, but not wit hout great
home struggle. Wo never heard the old peo
ple say once that they w’ere denying themselves
to effect this, but 1 rempmbe’r now that my
parents always looked tired. I don’t think
they over got rested until they lay down
in the Somervillo cemetery. Mother >vould
sit down in tho evening and say: “Well,
I don't know what makes me feel so
tired!” Father would foil immediately
to sleep, seated by tho evening stand
overcome with the day’s fatigues. One of
the four brothers, after preaching the gospel
for altout fifty years, entered upon his Heav
enly rest. Another of the four is on the
other side of the earth, a missionary of the
cross. Two of us are in this land in the home
ministry, and I think all of us are willing to
acknowledge our obligations to the old folks
at home. About twenty one years ogo the
one, and aliout twenty-three years ago the
other, put down the burdens of this life, but
they still hold th« rope.
O, men and women hero assemblad, you
brag sometimes how you have fought your
way in the world, but I think there hnvel>e?n
helpful influences that you have never fully
acknowledged. Has there not been some in
fluence in your early or present homo that
the world cannot see? Does t here not reach
to you from among the Now England hills,
or from western prairie, or from southern
plantation, or from English or Scottish or
Irish home a cord of influence that has kept
you right when you would have gone astray,
and which, after you hod made a crooked
track, recalled vou? Tho rope inav be ns
long as thirty yenrs, or five hundred miles
long, or three thousand miles long, but hands
that went out of mortal sight long ago will
hold the rope. You want a very
swift horse, and you need to rowiij
him with sharpest spurs, and to Jet the
reins lie loose u|»on the neck, and to give a
shout to th© ra«*r, if you are going to ride
out of reach of your mother’s prayers. Why.
a ship crossing the Atlantic in six days can’t
sail uway from that. A sailor finds them on
the lookout ns he takes his place, and finds
them on the most as lie cliinlm the ratlines to
disentangle a rope in tho tempest, and finds
them swinging on the hammock when he
turns in. Why not be frank and acknowl
edge it—the most of us would long ago have
been dashed to pieces hud not gracious and
loving hands steadily, lovingly and mightly
held the rope.
But there must come a time when we shall
find out who these Damascenes were who
lowered Paul in the basket, and greet them
and all those who have rendered to God and
the world unrecognized and unrecorded
services. That is going to be one of the glad
excitements of heaven, the hunting up and
picking out of those who did great good on
eartli and got no credit for it. Here the
church has been going on for nineteen cen
t-uries. and vet the world has not recognised
tne services of the people in that Damascus
balcony. Charles G. Finney said to a dying
Christian : “ Give my love to Kt. Paul when
you meet him.” When you and I meet him,
as we will, I shall ask him to introduce me
to those people who got him out of the
Damascene peril.
Wego into Jong wmoni to prove that w*
win be able to reoogniae people In heaven,
when there is one reason we rail to present,
and that is better than all—God will intro
duce us. We shall have them all pointed out.
You would not be guilty of the impoliteness
of having friends in your parlor not intro
duced, and celestial politeness will demand
that we be made acquainted with all the
heavenly household, w hat rehearsal of old
times and recital of stirring reminiscences!
If others fail to give introduction, God will
take us througn, and before our first
twenty-four hours in heaven—if it were
calculated by earthly timepieces—have
passed, we shall meet and talk with more
neavenly celebrities than in our entire mortal
state we met with earthly celebrities. Many
who made great noise of usefulness will sit
on the last seat by the front door of the
heavenly temple, while right up within
arm’s reach of the heavenly throne will be
many who, though they could not preach
themselves or do great exploits for God,
nevertheless held the rope.
Come, let us go right up and accost those
on this circle of heavenly thrones. Surely
they must have killed in battle a million men
Barely they must have been buried with all
the cathedrals sounding a dirge and all the
towers of all the cities lolling the national
grief. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven ?
“I lived by choice the unmarried daughter in
an humble home that I might take care of my
parents in their old age, and I endured with
out complaint all their querulousness and ad
ministered to all their wants for twenty
years.”
Let us pass on round the circle of thrones.
Who art thon, mighty one of heaven? “I
was for thirty years a Christian invalid, and
Buffered all the while, occasionally writing a
note of sympathy for those worse off than I,
and was general confident of all those who
had trouble, and once in a while I was strong
enough to make a garment for that poor fam
ily in the back lane.” Pass on to another
throne. Who art thou, mighty oneof heaven?
“I was the mother who raised a whole family
of children for God, and they are out in the
world Christian merchants, Christian me
chanics, Christian wives, and I have had full
reward of all my toil.” Let us pass on in
the circles of thrones. “I had a Sabbath
school class, and they were always on my
heart, and they all entered the kingdom of
God, and I am waiting for their arrival.”
But who art thou, the mighty one of heaven
on this other throne. “In time of bitter per
secution I owned a house in Damascus, a
hoitoe on the wall. A man who preached
Christ was hounded from street to street and I
hid him from the assassins, and when I found
them breaking in my house and I could no
longer keep him safely, I advised him to flee
for his life, and a basket was let down over
the wall with the maltreated man in it and 1
was one who helped hold the rope.” And I
said: “Is that all?” And ho answered: “That
is all.” And while I was lost in amaze
ment I heard a strong voice that sounded as
though it might once have been hoarse
from many exposures and triumphant as
though it might have belonged to one of
the martyrs, and it sakis “Not many mighty,
not many noble are called, but God hath
chosen the weak things of the world to con
found the things which are mighty, and bare
things of tho world and things which are
despised hath God chosen, yea and things
which are not to bring to naught things
which are, that no flesh should glory in His
presence.” And I looked to see from when*-
the voice come, and lo! it was the very on*
who had said: “Through a window in a bas
ket was I let down by the wall.”
Henceforth think of nothing ns insignifi
cant. A little thing may decide your all. A
Cunarder put out from England for New
York. It was well equipped, nut in putting
up a stove in the pilot box a nail was driven
too near the compass. You know how that
nail would affect the compass. Tho ship's
officer, deceived by that distracted compass,
Sut the ship 200 miles off her course, and sud
enly the man on the lookout cried: “Land
ho!” and the ship was baited within a few
yards of her’ demolition on Nantucket shoals.
A sixpenny nail came near wrecking aCu
narder. Small ropes hold mighty destinies.
A minister seated in Boston at his table,
lacking a word puts his hand behind bis
head and tilts back his chair to think, and the
ceiling falls and crushes the tablo and would
have crushed him. A minister in Jamaica,
at night by the light of an insect, called the
candle fly, is kept from stepping over a preci
pice a hundred feet. F. W. Robertson, the
celebrated English clergyman, said that he
entered the ministry from a train of circum
stances started by the barking of a dog. Had
the wind blown one way on a certain day, the
Spanish Inquisition would have been estab
lished in England; but it blew the other way,
and that dropped the accursed institution
with 75,(XX) tons of shipping to the bottom of
the sea, or flung the splintered logs on the
rocks.
Nothing unimportant in your life or mine.
Three noughts placed on the right side of the
figure one make a thousand, and six noughts
on the right side of the figure one million,
and our nothingness placed on the right side
may be augmentation illimitable. All the
ages of time and eternity affected by the bas
ket let down from a Damascus balcony.
The Giant’s Causeway.
The Giant’s Causeway is a scries of col
umnar basaltic rocks in County Antrim,
on the northeast coast of Ireland. For
eight miles along the coast the land abuts
on the sea. in cliffs of basalt, many of
them made up of rude vertical columns,
and the appearance of these columns
from the sea suggests a partial resem
blance to architectural forms. The name
Giant’s Causeway is often applied to all
this coast range of cliffs, but it properly
belongs to only a small part of it, which
is a platform of basalt in closely arranged
columns—from fifteen to thirty-six feet
high—which extends from a steep cliff
down into the sea till it is lost below low
water mark. It is divided across its
breadth into three portions, the Little,
Middle and Grand Causeway, these being
separated from each other by dikes of
basalt. The columns are generally hex
agonal prisms, but they are also found of
five, seven, eight and nine sides,in almost
every instance being fitted together with
the utmost precision, and it is said that
even water cannot penctrato between ad
joining columns. The name causeway is
given to the platform, as its columns ter
minate at so nearly a uniform height
that it presents an almost smooth area
extending to the water, seeming to the
primitive imagination a road that had
been prepared for the convenience of
giants.— lnter- Ocean.
Had Been Swimming.
I met a freckled village lioy,
Who loitered by the wav ;
His hat was off, his brickdust curls
With balmy windsdid play.
“Oh, whither bound, bareheaded boy,
Beeeath this blazing sky?”
“I’m going home—but have to wait
Unul my hair is dry !”
Detroit Free Press.
A horse notices where he is going, and
is on the lookout for a firm foundation to
put his foot on. It is an instinct with
him, therefore, to step over a prostrate
man. Injuries caused by a runaway horse
are nearly always inflicted by the animal
knocking people down, and not by step
ping on them.
Artillery Dr til it Weet Polit.
As though ordered to check the ad
vance of an ene my swarming up th«
heights and give him canister at shori
range, with crack ing whips and plunging
steeds and rattle and roar of hoof anc
wheel, and hoar se-throated command;
and stirring bugjlo peals, up the plait
they come at ate aring gallop until oppo
site the crowd of spectators at the guari?
tents, when there is a short, sudden blast
a simultaneous sAout from the “chiefs,*
a vision of rearing horses as the lieuten
ants and sergeants halt short on line witl
the brilliant guidon—generally the mos*
picturesque horseman of the warlik#
throng, and always posted on the flank
nearest the ladies—a flash of sabres ir
the air, a sudden “rein in” of the line o!
caissons, and gradual settle down to i
stand, long befaro which, nimble as cats
the cannoneers have sprung from thei)
scats, and are streaking it across the gaj
to where the chiefs are seated on then
excited chargers. Around sweep th«
guns with sudden swirl that well-nigl *
capsizes them—the three youngsters oi
each limber seemiragly hanging on a:
though seated on sticking plasrer—then
is a rattle and bang of pintle-hooks
hoarse shouts of “Drive on” to the gut
teams; gray and white forms leap anc
sway in and out among the wheels
spongers and rammers whirl in air
there is a belch of flame, smoko anc
thunder-cloud, a bellowing roar ; another
another—half a dozen in thick succes
sion ; a thick, sulphurous haze scttlei
down on the plain and envelops guni
and gunners; and suddenly comes an
other blare of bugle. “ Cease firing ”it
the shouk, and the mimic scene of Buena
Vista is over. Even before the smoki
has cleared away another order is given,
with prompt, exciting response; plung
ing horses* cracking whips, a rush ol
teams, limbers and caissons between
tho black muzzles of the guns; a suddec
whirl about of wheels and handspikes,
and the next instant smoke and flame art
belching in thundcr-claps over the vert
ground where stood the waiting team*
only a moment before. Then comes still
another signal, a stowing away of hand
spikes and rammers, a rapid rein-about
of the limber-teams, another blare, and
away they go, the white legs of the can
noneers flashing in the race beside theii
bounding guns; a rush across the road
to the edge of tho grassy level beyond,
another sudden whirl into battery, 8
thundering salute to the rocky heights
to tho west, an echoing roar from the
great colutnbiads and Parrotts at the •
“sea coast” down by the Hudson, and
the Point fairly trembles with the shock
and concussion. There is no hour of the
day to match the excitement and elan of
that of battery drill.— Harper's Magazine.
Silver on Their Shoes. _
The workmen in Mexican silver mines
become so skilful in stealing silver that
the owners employ detectives to work
with them. An owner tells this story:
“One day a detective came to me and
said when such and such men came out
to examine their sandals. I had that
done. On the bottoms of the sandats
was what appeared to be mud. but when
it was scraped into a pan and worked I
found that it ran at the rate of $3,000 to
the ton. My miners had plastered a thin
layer of mud from the over the
leather, and then sprinkled on the parti
cles of silver, and over all had put an
other layer of mud. They were working
for 37J cents a day, and carrying out
fifty cents worth of silver on the sole of
each sandal.”
An Exchange of Courtesies.
Mr. W. W. Corcoran, of Washington,
was the owner of a fine hotel at Nash
ville, Tcnn. Mrs. Freeman, a wealthy
widow, owned a tine brown-stone house
adjoining. Mr. Corcoran sent Mrs.
Freeman a note, saying that he intended
enlarging his hotel, and that he would
be pleased to learn the value whieh she
placed upon her house, ami that he would
send her a check for the amount. Mrs.
Freeman, whose wealth was reckoned by
the millions, replied that she had thought
of enlarging her flower garden, and that
if Mr. Corcoran would kindly place a
value on his hotel, she would be delighted
to send him a check for the amount.
—Epoch.
Calling Attention.
“Why in Halifax do you toot that old
horn?” shouted a citizen of Columbia
street at a rag buyer who was cracking
his cheeks.
“To call attention to the fact tliat I
want to buy rags, sir,” was the reply.
“Then let inc tike my way of calling
your attention to the fact that I don’t
want any!” continued the citizen as he
picked up a brick-bat and whizzed it
within an inch of of the tooter's head.
Detroit Free I*reu.
Dignity fines trot consist in possessing hon
ors, but in deserving them.
Nuv Pm»I« Ko(XnUTU«O*4
Liver Oil on account of Its Uflia«uit taste.
This difficulty has been otareMM la Scott’s
Emrreto* of Cod Liver Oil with Hyyopbor
phitee. It being as palatable as milk, aad the
most valoabl remedy known for the treatment
of Consumption. Scrofula aad Bronchitis.
General Debility. Wasting Diaessee of Chil
dren. Chronic Coughs and Colds, has caused
physicians in all parte of the world te use it
Physicians report our little patient# take U
with pleasure. Try Scott's Emulsion and he
convinced- -
It lea Part,
That Dr. Harter's Iron Tonic Is cooling to the
blood, control* cxceeelve pereptraSloo, aad
will safety tine you over that period charac
terized by headache. fainting
tve spasmodic affections* and wul give
strength and new life to the enUrs system.
Avoid temptation, through fwur you may
not withstand it.
Am Oleander Breath
is most distressing. not only to the jeren af
flict**! if be have any pride, teit to IW with
whom he rumn in contact. It is a «Wienie
matter to agrafe of, but it has parted net»nlv
friends tait lovers. Bart Iwalh awl catarrh
are inseparable. Dr. Sss*V (ktarrii Remedy
cures the word cases as thousands van testify.
The Indian* at Vancouver, British Colum
bia, have a land us seventeen lucres.
Bupeclally is IVstirs.
“Sweet is revenge especially to women.** swl
th** gifted, but naughty. land Byron. Furvlv !
he was in Lad humor when he unde ass
words. But there are complaints that only
women suffer, 1 hat are carrying numbers of
them down t»» early graves. There is hope
for those who suffer, is** matter how sorely,
or severely, in l>r. R. V. Pierre'S* “Fhvaritr
Prescript i* at." Safe iu its «tim it is a Wes -
ing. esywemfljr so wmmcm anil to men. too. for
when women suffer, the household is askew.
Friendship » ago Men coin that brightens
with the using.
* * * * Organ** weakness «r loss of pow
er in either sex. however induced, speedily
and i* rmanentlY cured. Endure 10 rente in
static m> for Wox of particulars. Worlds 3
Dfewmt Medical Association, Bwffuh*.
N.Y.
A new process *>f dwdorunnr furs makes
certain kinds much nu-redesirable.
Daaghier*. Wlurm .Welkers.
trend for Pfcraphlet on Female DreaeafTw,
securely sealed. Dr. J. B. Y.
If afflicted with s*w eyes use I hr. Isaac Thomu
wn‘» Eye w a ter. Druggists sell at 35c. per hoUie
Three months’ treatment for rSsofa <1
Remedy fi*r Oitarrh. buld bv druceists.
Weak and Weary
T escribes the comUtfr*! oC many dcWtuaKd
by the wartp weather, by disease or ©eerwwrtu
Hood's Sar*i»purt'L» fc* ja-l the medvtae •<*
bulbl up aad .»tret, s tho* the Mir. partly and
quU ki u the • ’not • * bUK»I, wml «*:«** the tost
appetite. If you need ago-sl nt«4lrta» b> sure to
try Ho Sara partita.
i “Durtnr Hi* summer I wes hreUa? all tea Uewa,
and thinking 1 needed smnethtng t» tone up nr
sy*te n, I took Hood's Sarsarar and Mt much
better. I hid also been tr-übkd wish «tyw«‘iw2&.
and Hood's Sarsaparilla helped me mere th »n any
thins eL-e l voukt ha ->***£» R. liuuov. Pwt
Wayne. lnd.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by tK dntXKfees. ft: rtv f*w **. l*repnred «wjy
by C. L 8008 * ItX. Apotheear.es. IjowWU Mass.
• OO Poses One Dollar
UNUI J X Kartou.reh Ward. t'tertaanMk.
EXHAUSTED VITALITY
I treat Mtdical Wart far Jems
aad SiOU-Ajui Mas.
Consulting rhvfttetem. Mnm then own sdWwa
sold. It treats anew N*r*oa* and Phmfcm) IVMllty,
Premature IwctW Mahaoatrd TUnUt*. Impairs*
Vigor, aad tmpultlat us tee Blank and the sulaM
miseries Urn it Contains SO a*m
substantial eaateased hdnltng. full gilt Wanaat*4
the best popular m*dt*al ttrettn prtMashed tn tie
tn n pnm wTupper. ißUnreMa
sompte/Wo If ysa send now. Address to shove.
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PATENTS ££23;
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A big offer. syTstrarag
Operating W ishl:«4 Mw*h»a*a. If yc« »**t
one sea 1 us your name J* O aad ajee* oflM
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Vltffth l rneasnillf. partyr
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DROPSY
FREE. ■
I DR. H. H. GKKKN Ac 8()NH
Specialists far Thirteen fears Beet.
Has* treated K-ve sod Ss mat U*
i sew* sondarful soecoee; ms w««tsbh iioiAm. •*>
tirwly hartalma. Kemose all spstl— of Pupm n
1 sieht to' senty days-
I Cura pausnta psonoonosd hepatosa hp too how w
phjmrians
Prom tho •ntdmsth* *ymp4<mm nady dwarf**.,
and tn too days at loam t«o~Curds of aU an
wen—d.
Soma amyory honshaar mthos* koswmi
sboutrt. RwawC-f. tt doa* cwt V
rMliiKttaumrSul o«rtrwinMlls yviwif. taiao
day- th* dißsnlty of Imlltnc o idonl ths p« •*
regular, tho oruwry orgat* ash to dtKtuurpo thss
full doty, sloop is edwl. ths swotbos sU or nsarty
:■***•. tho wr-ncth kswesnsi ord tpcoH* a. to r*d
Wssrs s»»n*tsnt y conns rwiss of tot Msod-ac. isiss
that ham boss tapv-d s ntsburaf Una. sndtho po
riant ossblo W Itre a woak One foil W-w
of esse lUammx. »»«• tons slots*. h*v bwtif
iwillra sad ohatsw tn S.»*roi* eatm. horn hws bine
•d sad dnppsd solar? Sesd be boo psmphst, sow
ts*rin* tsstuwmiaNi eossftvx&s. *M
T-n dors* UMtamt fem-nhnd free by mod.
If yon urdsr tnai *o-i litres mwampsta pit psWtoaa
Epltrna? (Fit** Ps*>it*sly Cored.
11. 11. UKKKX <3k SONS. M.
IjQ't Marietta Hires*. Atlanta, tin.
Blair’s Pills, 6^^
Beal Bern*jS4i rssnd. I « Pill*.
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thj nnntnoi. hnuni •lime* so nMtadm
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The treat ment of many thousands of esses
of there* chronlo weakneeree a»«l fiistnfsing
ailments peculiar to females, »l the Invalid*
Hotel and Sunrical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y.,
has affnrrtod a vast, experience in nicely adapt
ing ami thoroughly testing remedies for tho
cure* of woman s peculiar inalofiit s.
Dr. Flrrrc’s Favorite Preacrlptlon
to the outgrowth, or result, of this greet and
valuable experience. Thoueai.da of Ultimo.
niaK received from patients and from pbysk
clans nl»o have tatted it in the more* vagnt
vwtert and obstinate cases which had battled
their skill, prove it to bo the roost wonderful
remedy over oevtoed for the relict and cure of
suffering women, it is not Recommended ass
“cure-all, ' but as a roost perfect Specific for
woman's peculiar ailments.
Ann powerful, invigorating lonic,
It* imparts strength to the whole system,
and to the womb and ita appendages in
rartiiilar. For overworked, * worn-out,”
*• run-down,” debilitated teachers, milliners,
dressmakers, seamstresses, “shop-girls," house,
keepers, nursing mothers, and feeble women
! generally. Dr. Piercv'B Favorite i*r< seriptiou
! is the ffTvat«wt earthly boon, firing onequaM
as an appetizing cordial and restorative tonic.
Aa u aoo ill log and strengthening
nervine. ** Favorite Prescription" is une
qunfcd and is invaluable in allaying and sub
duing nervous excitability, irritability, ex
haustion. prnetraUon, hysteria, spasms and
other distressing, nervous symptoms com
monly attendant upon functional and organic
disease of the womb. It induces refreshing
sleep and relieves mental anxiety and de
spoudenoy. . „ . „
Dr. Pierre’s Favorite Prescription
la a legitiipate medicine, ear* fully
compounded by so experienced and skillful
i physician, and adapted to woman's delicate
I organization. It is purely vegetable in its
composition and perfectly harmless in Its
effects in anv condition of the system. For
. morning sickness, or nausea, from whatever
1 enure* arising, w«ak stomach, indigestion, dys
i pepsia and kindred symptoms, its use, in small
! dcrevt, will prove very beneficial.
“ pax orite Prescription ” Is a post*
tive rare for the inert complicated and oh
rtinatc care's of leucorrhea, excessive flowing,
painful menstruation, unnatural suppressions,
prolapsus, or falling of the womb, weak back,
u female weakness, anteversion, retroversion,
bearing-down sensations, chronic congestion,
inflammation and ulceration of the womb, in
flammation. pain and tenderness Jn ovaries,
accompanied with “internal heat.”
Am a regulator and promoter of funo
tional action, at. that critical period nt change
from girlhood to womanhood, “ Favorite Pre
scription ” is a perfectly safe remedial wfiont,
and can produce only good results. It is
equally efficacious anti valuable in its effects
i when taken for those disorders and derange
ments incident to that later and most critical
, period, known as “ The Change of Life.”
*» Favorite Prescript ion,” when taken
j in connection with tho use of Dr. Pierce’s
: HoMeu M'tiicaJ Discovery, and email laxative
! down of Dr. Pierce’B Purgative Pellets (Little
Liver PlUsk cures Liver, Kidney and Bladder
I dwrusco. Their ■combined use also removes
I blood taints, and nNdishca caneerous and
terofuha** humors from the system.
**F*vorltc Prescription ” is tho only
1 medicine for women, sold by druggists, ei uder
a positive guarantee, from the nianu-
J facturers. that it will give satisfaction in every
o«i>r, or money will be refunded. This guarnn •
tee has been printed on the bottle-wrapper,
and faithfully carried out for many years.
Large bottles (100 doses' SI.OO, or six
bottles for $5.00.
For large, illustrated Treatise on Diseases of
1 Women (Wi pages, paper-covered), send ten
: orate »n rtamps. Address,
Virid's Dispensary iedical Association,
663 Kiln M. BVTFALO, ». Y.
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Thista what kflied your poor teflur sAunM.
AraM aaythrog containing it throurhotrt yom
fat m> useful (ri c&rrers Weoider heads oh-
Jeci lotto fecial •Rewgh’Mam,*
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te futOe efforts with insect
wbat^ IjHßp;
d° f iWriter ? nShtoTlrtSe
“Rocgh ov Rats*
about and down the ttfak, dralu w v
pipe. First thing hi the rooming waab ft aH
away down the sink, drain pipe, when aH the
tenectn from garret cellar will dtenw.
The secret taia the tee* that wherever maecto
SSBB=HBB
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adverttoed and has the largest aale of ong
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For Potato Bogs, Insects on V lace, etc , atabie
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