THE REV. DR. TALMAGE.
ME BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUNDAY
SERMON.
Text:— “And Pharaoh said unto Joseph:
See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt,"
—Gonesi xIL, 41.
. You cannot keep a good man down. God
nos decreed for him a certain elevation to
which he must attain. He will bring him
through though it cost Him a thou
sand worlds. There are men constantly in
trouble lest they shall not be appreciated.
Every man comes in the end to bo valued at
just what he is worth. How often you see
men turn out all their forces to crush
one man or set of men. How do they
succeed 1 No better than did the govern-,
ment that tried to crush Joseph, a Scripture
character upon which we speak to-day. It
would be an insult to suppose that you were
not all familiar with the life of Joseph; how
his jealous brothers threw him into the pit,
but, seeing a caravan of Arabian merchants
moving along on their camels with spices and
gums, that loaded the air with aroma, sold
their brother to these merchants, who carried
him down into Egypt; how Joseph was sold
to Potiphar, a manor influence and office; how
by his integrity he raised himself to high posi
tion in the realm, until under the false charge
of a vile wretch he was hurled into the peni
tentiary; how in prison he commanded re
spect and confidence; how by the interpreta
tion of Paraoh’s dream he was freed and be
came the chief man in government, the Bis
marck of the nation; how in time of famine
Joseph had the control of a storehouse
which he had filled during the seven
Crs of plenty; how when his brothers who
thrown him into the pit and sold him into
captivity applied for corn he sent them home
with tbeir beasts borne down under the
heft of the corn sacks; how the siu against
their brother which had so long been hidden
came out at last, aud was returned by that
brothers forgiveness and kindness, an il
lustrious triumph of Christian principle.
Learn from this story in the first place,
that the world is compelled to honor Christian
character. Potiphar was only a man of the
world, yet Joseph rose in his estimation until
all the alf aii*s of that great house were com
mitted to his charge. From this servant no
honors or confidences were withheld. When
Joseph was in prison ho soon won the heart
of the keeper, and, though placed
there for being a scoundrel, he soon
convinced the jailer that he was an in
nocent man, and, released from close confine
ment, he became a general superintendent
of prison affairs. Wherever Joseph was
placed, whether a servant in the house of
Potiphar or a prisioner in the penitentiary,he
became the first man everywhere and is an
Illustration of the truth I lay down, that the
world is compelled to honor Christian char
acter.
There are those who affect to despise a re
ligious life. They speak of it as a system of
phlebotomy by which a man is bled of all his
courage and nobilitv. They say he has be
meaned himself. They pretend to have no
more confidence in him since his conversion
than before his conversion. But all that is
hypo-risy. It is impossible for any man
not to admiro and confide in a Chris
tian who shows that he has really become a
child of God and is what he professes to be.
You cannot despise a son or a daughter of
the Lord God Almighty. Os course naif and
half religious character wins no approba
tion. Red wald, the King of the Saxons, after
Christian baptism had two altars, one for
the worship of God aud the other for the
sacrifice of devils. You may have a contempt
for such men, for mere pretensions of
religion, but when you behold the excellency
of Jestis Christ come out in the life of one of
his disciples, all that there is good and noble
in your soul rises up into admiration.
Though that Christian be as far beneath
you in estate as the Egyptian slave of whom
wo are discussing, by an irrevocable
law of our naturo Potiphar and Pharoah
will always esteem Joseph. Chrysostom
when threatened with death by Eudoxia, the
Empress, sent word to her saying: “Go tell
her that I fear nothing but sin.” Such no
bility of character will always be applauded.
There was something in Agrippa and Felix
which demanded their respect for Paul, the
rebel f.ga.nst government. I doubt not they
would willingly have yielded their office and
dignity for the thousandth part of that
true heroism which beamed in the
eyo and beat in the heart of the unconquer
able apostle. The infidel and wordling are
compelled to honor in their hearts, though
they may not eulogize with their lips, a
Christian Ann in persecution, cheerful in
poverty, trustful in losses, triumphant in
death. I find Christian men in nil professions
and occupations, and I find them respected,
and honored, and successful. John Frederick
Oberlin alleviating ignorance and distress,
John Howard passing from dungeon to laz
aretto with healing for the body and the soul.
Elizabeth Frye coming to tho profligate of
Newgate prison to shake down their ol>du
racy as the angel came to the prison at Phil
lippi, driving open the doors and snap
ping locks and chains, os well as
the lives of thousands of tho follow
ers of Jesus who have devoted them
selves to the temporal and spiritual
welfare of the race, are monuments of the
Christian religion that shall not crumble
while the world lasts. A man in the cars
said: “I would like to become a Christian if
I only knew what religion is. But if this
lying and cheating and bad behavior among
men who profess to be good is religion, I
want none of it." But, my friends, if lam
an artist in Rome and a man comes to me and
asks what tho of painting is, I must not
show him the c Tub oi some more pretender
l will take hih to the Ranhiels and th »
Michael Angelos. • It is most unfair and dis
honest to take the ignominious failures in
Christian profession instead of the glorious
successes. The Bible and the church are great
picture galleries filled with masterpieces.
Furthermore, we learn from this story of
Joseph that the result of persecution is eleva
tion. Had it not been for his being sold into
Egyptian bondage by his malicious brothers
ari l his false imprisonment, Joseph would
iiover have become Prime Minister. Every
♦**ly accepts the promise: “Blessed
are they that are persecuted for right
eousness Bake, rfor theirs is the
Kingdom of hoaven,” but they do
net realize tho fact that this principle ap
n ics to worldly as well as spiritual success.
ii;wl it not been for JEschincs who brought
impeachment against Demosthenes, the im
mortal oration Do Corona, would never have
been delivered. Mon rise to high political
position through misrepresentation and the
a**aultof the public. Public abuse is all that
wine of our public men have had
to rely upon for their elevation. It
has brought to them what talent and
executive force could never have achieved.
Alany of those who are making great effort
for place and power will never sueceeed just
because they are not of enough importance
to be abused. It is the nature of man to
gather about those who are persecuted and
defend them, and they are apt to forget the
faults of those who are tho subjects of at
tack while attempting to drive back the
slanderers. Helen Btirk, a Scotch martyr
condemned with her husband to death for
<-hrfst s sake, said to her husband: “Rejoice*
we have Jived together many joyful days, but
thin day wherein we must die together ought
to be most Joyful to ns both. Therefore I
will not bid you good night, for soon we shall
meet in the heavenly kingdom." Jiy the flash
of the furnace best Christian character is
demonstrated.
* into another department, nn l I find
■nat ttaww great denominations of Christians
which have been u lost abuse* 1 have spread
the most rapidly. No good man was ever
more vilely maltreated than John Wesley.
Mis followers were booted at and maligned
ami called by every detestable name that in
fernal ingenuity could invent but the hotter
the persecution the more rapid the spread of
that denomination, until you know what a
great host they have become and what a tre
mendous force for God and truth they are
wielding all the world over. It was perMxni
tion that gave Scotland to Presbyterianism.
It was fiersecutioo which gave our own laud
first to civil liberty and afterward to
religious freedom. Yea, I may go further
back and aay it was persecution that gave the
world the salvation of the Gospel The ribald
mockery,the hungering and thirsting, the un
just trial and ignominious death where all the
forces of hell’s fury was hurled against the cross
was the introduction of that religion which
is yet to be the earth’s deliverance from guilt
and suffering and her everlasting enthrone
ment among the principalities of heaven.
The State has sometimes said to the Church:
“Come, let me take your hand and I will help
Cl.” What has been the result? The Church
gone back and has lost its estate of
holiness and has become ineffective. At
other times the State ba3 said to the Church:
“ I will crush you." What has been the re
sult ? After the storms have spent their fury,
the church, so far from having lost ~ny of its
force, has increased, and is worth infinitely
more after the assault than before it. Tho
church is far more indebtod to the opposition
of civil government than to its approval
The fires of the stake have only been
the torches which Christ held in His
hand, by the light of which the church has
marched to her present position. In the
sound of racks and implements of torture I
hear the rumbling of the whoels of the Gospel
chariot. Scaffolds of martyrdom have been
the stairs by which the church has ascended.
Aqua fortis is the best test of pure gold.
Furthermore, our subjoct impresses us that
pins will come to exposure. Long, long ago
had these brothers sold Joseph into Egypt
They had suppressed the crime, and it was a
Srotound secret well kept by the brothers.
ut suddenly the secret is out The old
father hears that his son is in Egypt, having
been sold there by the malice of his
own brothers. How their cheeks must
have burned and their hearts sunk
at the flaming out of this sup
pressed crime. Thg smallest iniquity has
a thousand tongues, and they will blab out an
exposure. Saul was sent to destroy the
Canaanites, their sheep and the oxen. But
when he got down there among the pastures
he saw some fine sheep and oxen too fat to
kill, and so he thought he would steal them.
He drove them toward home, but stopped
to report to the prophet how well he had
executed his commission, when in the dis
tance the sheep began to bleat and the oxen
to bellow. The secret was out and Bamuel
B<*id to the blushing and confounded Saul:
“What means the bleating of the sheap that
I hear and the lowing of the cattle?" Aye, my
hearers, you cannot keep an iniquity quiet
At just the wrong time the sheep will
bleat and the oxen will bellow. Achan can.
not steal the Babylonish garment without
getting stoned to death, nor Benedict Arnold
betray his country without being execrated
for all time. Look over the police arrests,
these thieves, these burglars, these adulterers,
these counterfeiters, those highwaymen,
these assassins. They all thought
they could bury their iniquity so
deep down that it would never come to resur
rection. But there was some shoe that an
swered to the print in the sand, some false
keys found in possession, some bloody knife
that whispered of the deed, and the pub
lic indignation, and the anathema of
outraged law hurled him into the Tomb*
or hoisted him on the gallows. At the close
of the battle between tne Dauphin of France
and the Helvetians, Burchara Monk was so
elated with the victory that he lifted his
helmet to look off upon the field, when a
wounded soldier hurled a stone that struck
his uncovered forehead and he fell. Sin will
always leave some spot exposed, and there is
no safety in iniquity. Francis the
First, King of France, was discussing how it
was best to get his army into Italy. Amaril,
tho court fool, sprang out from the corner
and said to tho king and his 6taff officers:
“You had better be thinking how you will
get your army back out of Italy after once
you have entered." In other words, it is easier
for us to get into sin than to get out
of it. Whitefiekl was riding on horseback in
a lonely way with some missionary money in
a sack fastened to the saddle A high
wayman sprang out from tho thicket and put
his hand out toward the gold, when White
field turned upon him and said:“Thatbelongs
to the Lord Jesus Chirst,touch it if you dare,”
and the villain fell back empty handed into
the thicket. (Jb, the power of conscience!
If offended, it becomes Gods avenging minis
ter. Do not think that you can hide any
great and protracted siu in your hearts. In
an unguarded moment it will slip off the lip,
or some slight occasion may for a moment
set ajar this door of hell that you wanted to
keep closed. But suppose that in
this life you hide it, and you get along with
that transgression burning ip your heart, as a
ship on fire w ithin for days may hinder the
llume from breaking out by keeping down the
hatchways, yet at last, in the Judgment, that
iniauity will blaze out before the throne of
Goa and the universe.
Furthermore, learn from this subject the
inseparable connection between all events
however remote. Lord Hastings was be
headed one year after he had caused the death
of the Queen s children, in the very month,
the very day, the very hour and the very mo
ment. There is wonderful precision in
the Divine judgments. The .universe is
only one thought of God. Those
things which seem fragmentary and
isolated are only diffgrent i»arts of that
one great thought. How far‘apart seemed
these two events—Joseph sold to the
Arabian merchants and the rulership of
Yet you see in what a mysterious
way God connected the two in one plan. So
all events are linked together. You
who aro aged can look back and
group together a thousand things in
your life that once seemed isolated.
One undivided chain of events reached from
the Garden of Eden to the cross of Calvary,
and thus up to heaven. There is a relation
between the smallest insect that hums in the
summer air and the archangel on his
throne. God can trace a direct ancestral
line from the blue jay that last spring
built its nest in a tree tiehind the house
to someone of that flock of birds, which,
when Noah hoisted the ark's window, with A
whirr and dash of bright wings went out to
sing over Mount Ararat The tulips that
bloomed this summer in the flower-bed were
nursed of last winter’s snow-flakes. The fur
therest star on one side the uni * e e could not
look to the furtherest star on the other
side ami say: “ You ore no relation to me; ”
for from that hright orb a voice of light
would ring across the heavens responding
“ Yes, yes; we are sisters." Sir Sidney Smith
in prison was playing lawn tennis in the
yard and the ball flew over the wall Another
ball containing letters was thrown back,
and so communication was opened with
the outside world, and Sir Sidney escaped
in time to defeat Bonaparte’s Egyptian ex
pedition. What a small incident connected
with what vast result! Sir I*obert Feel from
a pattern he drew on the back of a pewter
dinner plate got the suggestions of
which led to the important inven
tion ly which calico is printed. Noth
ing in God’s universe swings at loose
ends. Accidents aro only God's way
of turning a leaf In the book of his eternal
decrees. From our cradle to our grave there
is a path all marked out. Each event in our
life is connected with every other event in
our life. Our loss may be tho most direct
road to our gain. Our defeats and victories
are twin brothers. The whole direction of
I**® *■«* changed by something
which at the time seemed to you a
trifle, while some occurrence which
seemed tremendous affected you but little.
The Rev. Dr. Kennedy, of llasking Ilidge,
New Jersey, went into his pulpit one Sab
bath and by a strange freak of memory for
got bis subject and forgot his text, and In
great embarrassment rose before his audi
ence and announced the circumstance and de>
rim ed himself entirely unable to preach; then
launched forth in a few words of entreaty
and warning which resulted in the outbreak
ing of the mightiest revival of religion ever
known in that State,a revival of religion that
resulted in churches still standing and in the
conversion of a large number of mo who
entered tlie Gospel miniotrv who have
brought their thousands into the kingdom
of God. God’s plans are magnificent i
fieyond all comprehension. He molds us, I
turns and directs us, and we know it not. I
Thousand* of years are to Him bat aa the 1
flight of a shuttle. The most terrific occur
rence doe* not make God tremble, ami the 1
mod triumphant achievement doea not lift
Him into rapture That one great thought of
God goes on through *h*«soturta. i and nations j
rim and sass, and era* pern, and the world
Itself changes, but God still keeps the undi
vided mastery, linking event to event and
century to century. To God they are all one
event,one history, one plan.onfe development,
one system. Great ana marvellous are thy
works. Lord God Almighty.
Furthermore; we learn from this story the
propriety of laying up for the future. Dur
ing seven years of plenty Joseph prepared for
the famine, and when it came he had a
crowded storehouse. The life of moat men in
a worldly respect is divided into years of
plenty and famine. It is seldom that any
man passes through life without at least seven
years of plenty. During these seven prosperous
years your business heirs a rich harvest.
You hardly know where all the money comes
from, it comes so fast. Every bargain you
make seems to turn into gold. You contract
few bad debts. You are astounded with
large dividends. You invest more and more
capital. You wonder how men can be
content with a small business, gather
ing in only a hundred dollars where
you reap your thousands. These are the
seven years of plenty. Now, Joseph, is the
time to prepare for famine: for to almost
every man there do come seven years of
famine. You will be sick; you will be
unfortunate; you will be defrauded;
you will be disappointed; you will be
old, and if you have no storehouse
upon which to fall back you may be famine
struck. We have no admiration for this
denying one’s self of all present comfort and
luxury for the mere pleasure of hoarding up.
this grasping for the mere pleasure of seeing
how large a pile you can get, this always
being poor and cramped because as soon as
a dollar comes in it is sent out to see if it
can’t find another dollar to carry home on it*
back; but there is an intelligent and noble
minded forecast which we love to see
in men who have families and kindred
dependent upon them for the blessings of
education and home. God sends us to the
insects for a lesson which, while they do not
stint themselves in the present, do not forget
their duty to forestall the future: “ Go to the
ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and >
be wise, which, having no guide, overseer, or
ruler, provideth her meat in the sum
mer and g&thereth her food in the
harvest” Now there are two ways
of laying up money; the one by investing it'
in stock ana depositing it in banks and loan
ing it on bond and mortgage. The other wav
of laying up money is giving it away. He is
the safest who makes both of these invest
ments. But the man who devotes none of his
gain to the cause of Christ and thinks
only of his own comfort and luxury.
Is not safe, I don’t care how his money is in
vested. He acted as the rose if it should sav :
‘I will hold ray breath and no one shall
have a snatch of fragrance from me until
next week, and then I will set all the
garden afloat with the aroma. The time i
comes, but having been without fragrance for
so long, it has nothing then to give. But above
all lay up treasures in heaven. They never
depreciate in value. They never are at a
discount They are always available. Yon
may feel safe now with your present yearly
income, but what will such an income be
worth after you are dead? Others will get it.
Perhaps some of them will quarrel about it
before you are buried. They will
be right glad that you are dead.
They are only waiting for you to die.
What then will all your accumulation
oe wortn if you could gather it all into your
bosom and walk up with it to heaven’s gafco?
It would not purchase your admission; or,
if allowed to enter, it could not buy you a
crown or a rob?, and the poorest saint in
heaven would look down and say: “Where
did that pauper come from?”
Finally, learn from this subject that in
every famine there is a storehouse. Up the
long row of bnilding, piled to the very roof
with corn, come the hungry multitudes, and
Joseph commanded that their sacks and their
wagons be filled. The world has been blasted.
Every green thing was withered under the
touch of sin. From all continents
and islands, and zones, comes up the
groan of dying millions. Qjver tropical
spice- grove, and Siberian ice-hut. and
Hindu jungle the blight has fallen. The fam
ine is universal. But, glory be to God! there
is a great storehouse. Jesus Christ,our elder
brother, this day bids us come in from our
hunger and beggary, and obtain infinite sup- |
slies5 lies of grace enough to make us rich forever. ;
tany of you have for all a long
while been smitten of the famine. ;
The world has not stilled the throbbing
of your spirit. Your conscience sometimes
rouses you up with such suddenness and
strength that it requires the most gigantic
determination to quell the disturbance. Your
courage quakes at the thought of the future.
Oh, why will you tarry amid the blastings of !
the famine when such a glorious storehouse
is open in God's mercy?
“Ye wretched, hungry, starring poor,
BehOid a royal few*.
Where mercy spreads her bounteous store
For every hnmblfc guest.
“See. Jesus stands with open arms,
He calls, He bids you come;
Gvflt holds von back and fear alarms.
But ace, there yet la room.’'
A Fish rii.t Forages on land.
Though a true fish, the barramunda j
leaves its native streams at night, and
sets out on a foraging expedition after
vegetable food in the neighboring wood
lands. There it browses on myrtle leaves
and grasses, and otherwise behaves itself
in a manner wholly unbecoming its pis
cine antecedents and aquatic education, i
To fit it for this Strange amphibious life, i
the barramunda has both lungs and
gills; it can breathe either air or water,
at will, or, if it chooses, the two together, i
Though covered with scales, and ■
most fish like in Outline, it presents
points of anatomical resemblance both
to salamanders and lizards; and
as a connecting bond between the
North American mud-fish on the one
hand and the wonderful lepidosiren on
the other, it forms a true member of the
long series by which the higher animals
generally trace their descent from a re
mote race of marioe ancestors. It is
very interesting, therefore, to find that
this living fossel link between fish and
reptiles should have survived only in the
fossil continent, Australia. Everywhere
else it, has long since been beaten out of
the field by its own more developed
amphibian descendants; in Australia
alone it still drags on a lively existence
as the last relic of an otherwise longs
forgotten and extinct family.— Cora
hill.
A Horse With Eyeglasses.
A horse with eyeglasses is one of tha
attractions iu Syracuse, N. Y. The
farmer who owns him says he recently
discovered that theauimal was very near
sighted, and an occuiist to whom he took
the nag confirmed the farmer’s opinion.
The occuiist has had a pair of concave
glasses made for the nag, who now wears
them with evident pleasure to himself.
We are happy to observe that this af
flicted, though now benefited, animal
docs not reside in Boston. Had he done
so, there would hare been nothing re
markable about a horse in spectacles.
But at present he is an unique spectacle
himself, though how long he is to remain
so, it is difficult to aay. Aa soon as other
horses see these goggles, they will be
| wanting tome too.— BooUm Herald.
Home, Sweet Heme.
Magistrate (sternly, to tramp)—‘•The
address you give as your place of res
idence a vacant lot?”
Tramp —“Yes, yer hoaor; that’s where
1 1 sleep nights.”
HOrSEHOI-D AFFAIRS.
Oatmeal.
Oatmeal differs from the other cereals ,
10 cooking because it contains so much i
gluten. This substance is eighteen per \
cent, of oatmeal, and but ten per cent, of ;
wheat flour, and twelve per cent, of j
Indian corn. But these proportions do ]
not fully express the difficulty iu cook- i
ing arising from the presence of the large
amount of gluten. Oatmeal does not
leaven well, apd bread made solely of it
is generally unleavened. Loaves wet up
with milk do better, aud an addition of
25 to 33$ per cent, of wheat flour still ;
further improves the fermentation. Some ,
of the peasants of Europe addafewpota- ,
toes to the oatmeal dough, with wheat c
and pea flour, milk, and a little pepper, 1
cinnamon, nutmeg, and camway seed, (
making a loaf greatly prized by the
family. A lady, who has given the sub
ject considerable attention, says that, to
get a well leavened loaf, more than half
the flour should be wheaten.
The art of making oat cakes is one re
quiring a great amount of skill. It is
said that very few cooks can bake oat
cakes property. In beginning the work
the best way is to wet up the dough with
cold wster in smal i quantities as required,
and only enough for one cake at a time,
kneading it out as quickly as possible,
and then baking It with equal dispatch,
so as to have what is termed sweet, dry,
crummy cakes, free from that insipid and
boardv toughness and hardness peculiar
to them when otherwise done. Oatmeal
has a saccharine flavor when properly
cooked, both in bread and podding, and
,the difficulty in preparing and baking is
to get this.
There are buttered cakes, sugared
cakes, seed cakes, sponge cakes, etc., in |
■ great variety, as well as plain bread, to |
be made from oatmeal. Suet is better
than butter. The fat should be melted
in the water for making the dough and
incorporated with the meal while hot.
The kneading, etc., then follows, as in
the case of plain bread. These cakes
are short and very palatable. When
sugar is added, which is seldom, it is
dissolved in the hot or cold water used
in wetting up the meal. Caraway seeds,
] if used, should be mixed with the meal
before the dough is made. Soda cakes
are sometimes made, but egg> are seldom
used.
In baking, a gridiron is used over a
clear fire, generally baking the under side
only, but sometimes the cakes are turned
and toasted on the upper side before the
fire. The preferred way, however, is to
toast the cakes before the fire on both
sides, or OTer it, on an open, slate
bottomed gridiron. The cakes cooked
in this way are the best flavored. The
cook who does not want to take all this
trouble will use the oven, which is an
allowable way to bake these cokes. —Good
Umseketping.
Recipes
Corn-Starch Ccstard.— Put a pint
of milk in a frying pan. let it come to the
boiling point, then add a pinch of salt
and two tablespoonfnls of corn-starch.
Serve with sugar and cream.
Tomato Borp.—To one pint of toma
toes add one quart of boiling water and
i let bod; then add one teaspoonful of j
soda, when it will foam at once; add one !
j pint of sweet milk or cream, salt pep
per and plenty of butter.
Fried Onions.— Have frying pan hot, I
' put in a good sized piece of butter (or |
meat ftyings after firing meal's put in I
the onions" sliced: sprinkle with jwpper ,
and salt and poir in just a little hot !
j water, cover closely, let cook twenty !
i minutes; add a teaspoonful of flour in a j
‘ little milk and when it boils it is ready
j to serve.
Bread Gridi e Cakes.—Soak a small ]
! bowl of bread over night in milk- In the
! morning mix half a cupful of flour into ! 1
| which is put one teimxnfol and a half !
of baking powder with one quart of !
milk, three wed beaten eggs and a little :
salt. Beat up the brand with this bat
] ter until it is very light and fry a deli- i
cate brown. The batter should be thick. <
Veal or Beef Omelets.— Three j
| pounds of raw veal or beef, two medium
: slices of salt ]>ork; chop the meat fine, j
1 and thee add three eggs, four crackcre
i (rolled>. one-half cup of milk, two table- I
i spoonfuls of sage, one-half a tnblc
| spoonful of pepper, and what salt is
needed, besides the pork, to season it
well. Mix well together, and hake in a
tin about one and a half hours. Serve
I cold.
Stewed Cabbace. Slice fine and
! stew briskly in iron or porcelain till ten- j
der. If the cabbage is old. drain off the :
i water once or twice, and pour on fresh,
boiling water in its place. When tender .
! there should be little liquor left. Drain, j
and cover with sweet milk or cream
thickened with an even tablespoonful of
j flour; salt it. and .-ietmer tea minutes
I longer. This will make a more digesti- \
i ble dish than is furnished by the ordi
nary way of cooking.
The Age or Railroads.
Few people realize the extent and im
portance of the railroads in the United
States. We have grown so familiar with
| vast railroad systems that we do not ap
-1 preciate their magnitude. The building
1 of a new railroad now creates very little 1
comment. There are about 14ft. Oft# miles
of railroad in the United States. In all
the world outside there are less than
JOft.fiOO miles. We kave over two-fifth*
of the railroad mileage of the earth. Ia
the State of Georgia akwe there are
several hundred more miles of railroads
than there are in the German Empire.
And this proportion is inrnwsiag, for
nowhere is rail road construction proceed
ing so rapidly as in the United States.
These facts indicate a great change ia
the old condition.* of couuuercr. Fifty
years ago aa inland lowa of aay consider
able size would bare been aa impossi
bilitv. Population was thick at the porta
and grew sparse with the increasing dis
tance from riven end the sea. Railroads
are now the great channels of trade. I
They make ports amid Use mountain*. |
Railroads are built right along the looks
of our grant rivets, and compete auerem
fully with water traaspoetatiou. There
never was s time when railroad enterprise
wss bolder, or y ben railroad ranstaarats
impossible ret n^taTil tolbe^ro*i-
I.nm*Tr#nbl#s aa# Wasting !
Dtsaasss can ba cured. If proptrly rtsatsi la ;
Urns, as shown by the following rtsUm«t
from D. O- FaxsMAß, Bydnsr- "Having boon
n great raff arer from pulmonary attacks, and
gradually was tin* away for the two 7**ri,
It affords ms pleasure to testify thaj Soorr*«
Enniioi of Cod Llrer Oil with Urns sad
Soda has given ms great relief, and I
folly recommend It to all suffering la a, stmi
larway to myself. In addition, I would say
that it is very plsasaat to take.”
9300 Reward.
The former proprietor of Dr Sage’s Catarrh
Remedy, for years made a standing, public
offer in all American newspapers of SSOO re
ward for a case of catarrh that be could not
cure. The present proprietors have renew
ed this offer. All the druggist sell this Rem
edy, together with the “Douche,” and all
other appliances advised to be used in con
nection with in. No catarrh patient is longer
able to say “I cannot be cured.’’ You get
fSOJ in case of failure.
For the past two or three years every Sat
urday issue of the Toledo Blade has con
tained a strong leading editorial article de
nouncing the liquor evil. These articles are
evidently written by Mr. Locke (Petroleum
V. Nasby) and always end with the italic ex
hortation. in a line by itself, to “Pulverize
the Rum Power.”
Functional derangement of the female sys
tem is quickly cured by the use of Dr. R. v.
Pierce's “Favorite Peremption. *’ It removes
pain and restores health and strength. By
all druggists.
The W. C. T. U., of New Mexico, will soon
undertake the translation of Julia Coleman'S
temperance catechism into Spanish.
Brawn’s Little Joke.
“Why, Brown, how short your coat Is,”
I said Jones one day to his friend Brown, who
| wittily replied’ “Yes: but it will be long
enough before I get another.” Some men
spend so much for medicines that neiiher
heal nor help them, that new clothes is with
them like angels' visits—few and for between,
internal fevers, weakness of the lungs; short
ness of breath and lingering coughs, soon
yield to the magic influence of that royal rem
edy. Dr. R. V, Pierce's “Golden Medical Dis
covery.”
We are indebted for Euclid, Ptoletny
and Aristotle to the Arabian universities
in Spain during Moorish dominion.
The great tuccess of many agents employed
by B.F Johnson & Co, of Richmond is a pret
ty good evidence of the excellence and popu
larity of the books they offer to sell through
tbeir agents. This is a reliable house, and
pny contract made with them you can de
ft end on will be faithfully carried out.
I>aashlers. Wives. Mothers.
Send for Pamphlet on Female Disease l , free,
securely sealed. Dr. 4. B. Bffarcbisi, Utica,N.Y
Make No Mistake
IT joo have made up your mind to buy Hood’s Bar
opart lla do not be induced to take any other. Hood’s
Sarsaparilla is a peculiar medicine, possessing, by
nrtae of its peculiar combination, proportion and
preparation curative power superior to an j other
article at the kind before the people. Be sure to get
Hood's.
“In one store tho clerk tried to Induce me to bny
Tbeir own Instead of Hood's Sarsaparilla. But be
ootid not prevail upon me to change. I told him I
knew what Hood's Sarsaparilla wa*. I had taken It, (
was perfectly satisfied with it aud dfd not want any i
[ other.*'— Mas. Ella a. Gorr,«l Terrace Bt, Boston j
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
SoM by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only
by C L HOOD * CO. Apothecaries, Lowell, Rare.
j lOQ Poses One Dollar
ELY’S CREAM BALM
Give* Relief at once lor I
ft* IN HEAD.
CERES CATARRH.
N,l a t.iqnld or Snuff.
-bSAsWfc’itSH A IT'b Halm Intoparh noatrtl.
1,n *" 235 Greenwich St. NY.
Farms Wanted,
Abo Mining Lands Water Powers, Ac. The under
finned, recently from the north, has established a
Real Retate Apettey and sli persons having proper
ties for eale. In North Carouka, should correspond
with him at once. Terms reasonable. Address, M.
M- PRIDE. Meant Holly. Gaston Co., N.C.
Blair’s Pills.^»rA-
Orel Ist. Mi row od» 1 4 Pi lie.
SESO FOR CATALOG lie
s s li—4l
KIPPER'S
MM
A H(JRE CURE FOR
CCDIGESTIONand DYBPEPBIA.
far Indication tbatlW hare ever used.
FOR CHOLERA IHFARTUM.
IT WILL CURE THE MOST AGGRAVATED CASES.
IT WILL STOP VOMITING IN PREONaNCT.
IT WILL RELIEVE CONSTIPATION.
Pw Hammer Complaint* and Chronic DtarrhOMh
twAnufUt for DIOESTYLI.N (piWY per lanra
hnitteh if be does not have It send one dollar tore
10 yoa * ****£•■ prepaid.
•■u ■mmkress. a nit inn min.
■xsnama aianuLut bum umi LUMta
area tor C.m w .r i r .a.m.i,
Eauvrai.nu. salt j, UAI.KS,
•* •• rn-af. area Brev Tara.
V LIU IV kit Eror lade.
The treatment of man, thousands of cues
of those chronic weaknesses and dirtreMnc
ailments peculiar to female*, at the Invalids 1
Hotel and Surgloal Institute, Buffalo, N. Y.,
has afforded a vast experience In nicely adapt
ing and thoroughly testing remedies for tho
cure of woman’* roculiar mataUiw.
Dr. **lerce>« Favorite rveecrlptlon
1* the outgrowth, or result, of this neat and
valuable experience. Thousand, of testimo
nials. received from patients and from physi
cians who have tested It In the more aggra
vated and obstinate cart* which bad tallied
their skill, prove It to be the most wonderful
remedy ever devised for the relief and euro of
sufferiDg women. It 1* not recommended as a
"cure-all,” but aa a raoet perfect Specific for
woman’s peculiar ailments.
As a powerful, invigorating tonic,
It imparts strength to the whole system,
and to the womb and its appendages In
particular. For overworked, "worn-out,
n run-doWn," debilitated teacher*, milliners,
dressmakers, seamstresses, "shop-girls," house
keepers, nurilltlg mothers, and feeble women
generally. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
is tho greatest earthly boon, being unequaled
as an appetising cordial and restoralive tonic.
Aa a soothing and strengthening
nervine, “Favorite Prescription" lo une
qualcd nnd is invaluable in allaying und sub
nuing nervous excitability, irritability, ex
haustion, prostration, byNterin. spasms and
other distressing, nervous .-yjnptonis com
monly attendant upon function!.! and organic
disease of the womb. It induces refreshing
sleep and relievos mental anxiety u''a <le
spondeney-r Favorite Proscription
Is a legitimate medicine, carefully
compounded by an experienc’d and skillful
physiciflu. atld adapted to woman's delicate
organizHtidU. It Is purely vegetable in ita
composition and Perfectly harmless In its
effects in any condition of the system. For
morning sickness, or nausea, from whatever
cause arising, weak Btoinach, indigestion, dys
pepsia and kindred symptoms, its use, in small
doses, will prove very beneficial.
“Favorite Prescription” Is a posi
tive cure for the tnost complicated and ob
stinate cases of leu cor rhea, excessive flowing,
painful menstruation, unnatural suppressions,
prolapsus, or falling of the womb, weak back,
" female weakness," anteversion, retroversion,
bearing-down sensations, chronic congestion.
Inflammation and ulceration of the womb, in
flammation, ptfin and tenderness In oraries,
accompanied with “ Internal heat.’’
As a regulator and promoter of func
tional action, at that critical Period of change
from girlhood to womanliood, “Favorite Pre
scription ” is a perfectly safo remedial agent,
and can produce only good result®. It is
equally efficacious find valuable In Its effects
when taken for those disorders and derqngr
raents incident to that later and most critical
period, known as “ The Change or Life.”
M Favorite Prescription*” when taken
in connection with tho use of Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery, and small laxative
doses of Dr. Pierce’s Purgative Pellets (Little
Liver Pills), cures Liver, Kidney f»;d Bladder
diseases. Tbeir combined use also remove*
blood taints, and abolishes cancerou* ant
scrofulous humors front the system.
“Favorite Prescription ” Is the only
medicine for women. Sold rry druggists, under
u positive guarantee, from the manu
facturers, I hat It will give satisfaction in every
case, or money will be refunded. This guaran
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
( Women (MO pages, paper-covered?, scud ten
j cents in stamps. Address,
; World’s Dispinsary Medical Association,
663 main St, BUFFALO, N. Y.
Mvmau Us a a SOLDIERS and their Widows.
wAiuHn IIM?1 Pamnonanow for yon all. Ad
dniHO I*. 11. (jclaian & l'o.. Waebincton. D O.
Psntisnt
rcilSllltlS oak. Au-r.yrww.reoa. p. a
AP ft PA VH Kora Life Scholarship In thw
VbnrOLRHAN BowinensJ’OLLEGE
■rlOU- s ’E WAR K -Ter*ey. Prwftlonft ter
Ww W graduate*. National patronage. Write
or Circulars to 11. COLEMAN.
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FREE sa/trwsSSr
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“ relieved; ttyear*' pravtict*. sucre** or no fee.
Laai Mat trt*. A. W. McCormick k Soa, S,c.
ss'(« SS a day. Samples worth 11.717RK1
A7l *dnea not under the horse’* feet. Write
IP W Brewster Safety Hein Holder Co., Holly, Sfleb.
/MIL D Is worth AW perpound, Pettit's Eye Salee
VTfl.onii. but is sold at 25 cents a ooR by dealer*,
DA T E N T 8 Inventors’
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