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THE BET.M. TMIAGE THE BBOOKLIK WTIXFS SUNDAY SERMON. Snfcjfrt:—**A Strait l> u 4 Dow« lUlifio..*’ Ttarr: the Lord mid vntomc.Amo* wsa* ams thorn? anJ I mid* a piumb lime.' —Amos rii. a Tke solid masonry of the world has to me a f-rimtioß. Walk about some of the trium phial arches and the cathedrals, IWor 600 years old, and we them stand for centuries, as erect as when they were huiJded, walls of Kreat height not beading a quarter of an inch this way or that. So greatly honored were the masons who hmMed these walls that they were free from taxarioa and ca!lcd*‘free T ’ aeneous. The trowel gets most of the credit for these buildings, and its dear ringing on stone and brick has sounded across the ares. Bat there is another implement of just as much importance as the trowel, and my text recognises it. Bricklayers, and stone masons, and carpenters, in the building of walls, use an instrument made of a cord, at the end of which a lump of lead is fastened. They drop it orer the side of the wall, and as the plum met naturally seeks the centre of gravity in the earth, the workman disco vers where the wall recedes, and where ft bulges out. and just what is the perpendica hr. Oar text represents God as standing on the wall of character, which the Israelites had built, and in that war measuring it “And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what sees! thou? and I said, A i4umblin» ~ What the world wants is a straight up and down religion. Much of the so -railed piety of the day bends this way and that, to suit the times. It is horizontal with a low state of sentiment and morals. We have all been building a wall of character, and it is glar ingly imperfect and needs reconstruction. How shall it be brought into the perpendicu lar! Only I7 the divine measurement, “And the Lord said unto me. Amos, what seest thou! and I said. 1 plumb lines.’' The whole tendency of the times is to make us act by the standard of what others do. If they pier cards, we play cards. If they dance, we dance. Iff they real certain steles of books, we read them. We throw over the wall of our character the tangled plumb-line of other fives and reject the infallib:« test which Amos saw. The question forme should not he what you think is right* but what God thinks Is right. This perpetual reference to the behavior of others, asthough it derided any thing but human faUihifily. is a mistake as wide as the world. There are Id.WO plumb lines in use, but only one is true and exact, and that is the fine of God's eternal right. There is a mighty attempt bring made to re construct and fix up the Ten Commandments. To many they seem too rigid. The tower of Pisa leans over about thirteen feet from the perpendicular, and people ro thousands off miles to see its grateful iarimUio, and by extra braces and various architectural con trivances it is kept leaning from century to century. Why not have the ton granite blocks of Binat set a little aslant? Why not have the pillar of truth a leaning tower? Why is not an ellipse as good as a square * Why is not an ohhqne as good as straight up and down! My friends, we must have a standard; shall it he Gods or man's? The divine plumb-line needs to le thrown over all merchandise. Thousands of years ago Soloanoa discovered the tendency of buy ers to depredate wok He saw a man bat log down an article lower and lower, and say ing it was not worth the price asked, and when he had pnrchn«ed at the lowest point be told everybody what a sharp bargain he had struck, and how he had outwitted the mer chant. Proverbs xx, H: “It is naught* it is naught, saith the buyer, but when he is gone his way then he boasteth." So utterly askew is society in this manner that you seldom find a seller asking the price that be experts to get. He puts on a higher value than be pro nows to knowing that hr will have to drop. If h- vantafiftr ha ads sarcotv firv. And ir ha want. 3,ooohank* A-VCM. "It ia naqght," saith tha ham. “Tha fabric is defaatira; tha stria of rmfeispoc: lean gat •hawbara a battar aitids at a «nailer price; it is oat of fashion; it isdamagalatwiilfade; It will not wear wen.” Altar a while the merchant, from osar persuasion or fry an da •he to dbpewe of that poitiralar stock of goods, says: -‘Well, take it at your own price," and tha purchaser goes home with light step and dßs iato his prtvate office his confidential friends, and chuckles while he taOs how that for half (uie? he got the goods. In other words, hr brs and is proud of ir, Nothing would moke times asgooL and the earning of n MW so cost, as the univer sal adoption of the law of right. Suspicion strikes through all bargain making. Man who sail know not whether they will cm get tha money. Purchasers know not whether the goals shipped aril! be in accord ing to the sample, and what, with the large nomber of clerks who are nuking false an trim and then absconding to Canada, and the et pioaaonof firms that fail fer millions of dol lars. honest men as* at their w its end to make ahaiag. He who stands op amid ail the pressure and does right 1- accomplishing BoeneChing toward the establishment of a high commercial prosperity. 2 bare deep sym pathy for the la hiring ebssos who tod with hand and foot. But we must nrt forget the wtafaem men who, witbont any complaint or bannerol pcorewnons through the street, are enduring n stress of eirconutancss terrific. Tha fortunate people of today ar.* those who uereeeiTing daily wages or tegular salaries. Andthe men most to be pitted are those who conduct a bosinma while pr.es are falling, and yet try to pny their rlerks and employes, and are in such fearful straits that they would quit bessLoesi tomorrow if it were not for tha wreck and ruin .f others. When Beopio Ml meal wfcnt a rewadr low price tmy parchaaol an artarlo it gisrs mo more ihomay than mtisfartioa. I know it meant tha bankruptcy and defakntiou of men in many departments. The mm who toil with the brain need full as much svmiwihv as thorn who tori with the hands. All husmess Wb» struck through with mspkion. and panirs are only the rrtuH of want of confi- Tha pnasure to «lo wrong Is all the stronger from the fart that in ear day the large bun-, Bam home, are swallowing up the amaller. i the -hwh. .lining oo blwrih .md mXIwL’! The large house. troWyll the small ones be- , cuma they ran afford it. They eaa afford to ' make nothing, or a.'tually kwr.ouanmr stylet of goods, assure 1 they can make it tip os others. Ho a great dry poh house goewout aMa of ila regular line and arils hooka at row*, or lem than cost, and that swamps the booh •rOetrs: or the dry goals honse mils tnewbrar •• figures, that swamps the small daaler fas krirm-hrac. And the same thing ffoea oo in other stylos of merchandise, and fta ronseqmnie is that an along tha ! budnem atroets of nil our ritiea then ! urn merchant, of small capital who am ] ha lenifir strmrgta to keep their hemh ’ thsU ? >< !L l ios ! a.?7 , t2. ™ B dowl i noahhig agaimt the man who has the Ug aaora, for eiwy man has m large a store and great a husimat as ho ran manse. To ho right and do right waster all this prvwsury ! regain* martyr grace, requires dirinr sup pmt, requires cetrsam] reiafororoemt. Yet •bar* are team of tbouwuM of such men getting aplendidly through. They we others gomr~up and theurodre* going down, hut I •ney «»ep their pntjruro and their c,usage, i and their (hrwtiaa crmaistencT. and after • I «mi» their turn of ww will rvmn. lb* •»nm off th* Us Ut'iMv will d»* an>l Lh*if toys will fit pnseema «f the bows*. aft* I with a dpr in tha mn+ th, and fall to thtj vbia with tha bast liquor, ami baton* a pair . ts sfuvtkinu bays they will pa* *rt>rvlhmfl ! ea «W tarnpsk* road to temporal «u»d eternal fmddvm. Thru tha buww*« will break up, uH tbesmalW IWWI will hart far onmr tauity. Or the spirit of cratentreemt mod rich! Miq will taka pof the larga firm, a« rro-ntly in Ike cum of A. A Low 4k Co., on*.tha firm will my: "We haw etvstgii mourr for all our IMdiMrittouab'fair cfcinfren: now, lot fiimnlva Nestoem awl moke wav for other iwh tha mum low. lw-e i of bang ram"; art mml tT*ri£ D b» come a common thing. 1 know of scores of great business houses that have had their op portunity of vast accumulation, and who ought to quit But, perhaps, for all the day« of this generation the struggle of small houses to keep alive under the overshadowing pres sure of great houses will continue; therefore, taking things as they are, you will be wise to preserve your equilibrium, and your honesty, and your faith, and throw over all the coun ters, and shelves, and barrels, and hogsheads, and cotton bales, and rice casks, the measur ing line of divine right 44 And the Lord said onto me, Amos, what seest thou f an 1 I said, A plumb line.” In the same way we need to measure our theologies. All sorts of religions are putting forth their pretensions. Some have a spirit ualistic religion and their chief work is with ghosts, ami others a religion of political econ omy proposing to put au end to human mis ery by a new style ot taxation, and there is a humanitarian religion that looks after the body of men and lets the soul look after itself, and there is a legislative religion that pro poses to rectify all wrongs by enactment of netter laws, and there is an {esthetic religion that by rules of exquisite taste would lift the heart out of it* deformities, and religions of all sorts, religions by the pock, religions by the squaro foot, and religions by the ton—all of them devices of the devil that would take the heart away from the only re ligion that will ever effect anything for the hum.an race, and that is the st raight up and down religion written in the book, which be gins with Genesis and ends with llevelation, the religion of the skies, the old religion, the God-given religion, the everlasting religion, which says: “love God above all aud your neighbor os yourself.” All religion? but this one begin at the wrong end and in the wrong place. The Hibie religion demands that we first get right with Go.L It lie gins at tbe top and measures down, while the other religions begin at the bottom and try to measure up. They stand at the foot of the wall up to their knees in the mud of human theory and speculation, and have a plummet ana a string tie 1 fast to it. And they throw the plummet this way and break a !;aad tlicre, and they throw plummet an other way an-.l break a head there, and then they throw it up, and it comes down upon their own pate. Fools! Why will you stand at the foot of the wall metsur ing up when you ought to stand at the top measuring down? A few days ago I was in the country, thirsty after a long walk. And I camo in, and my child was blowing soap bubbles, and they rolled out of tbo cup, blue, and gold, and green, ana sparkling, and lieautiful, and orbicular, and in so small a sjiace I never saw more splendor concentrated. But she blew luce too often an! all the glory vanished into ads. Tlien 1 turned and took a glass of plain water and was refreshed. And so far as soul thirst is concerned, 1 put against all th? glowing, glittering soap bubbles of worldly reform and human speculation one draught from the fountain from under the throne of God, clear as crystal. Glory to God for the religion that drops from at>ove, oot coming up from beneath! “And the Lord nid unto me, Amos, what seest thou? and I uud, A plumb line.” 1 want you to notice this fact, t hat when a man gives up the straight up and down re ligion in the Bible forany new fangbvl relig ion, it is generally to suit his sins. You first hear of his change of religion, ami then you bear of some swindle he has practiced in Col orado mining stock, telling some one if lie will Ct in SIO,OOO he can take out $lO >,(KK), or ho s sacrificed his chastitv. or plunged into ir remediable worthiness. His sins are so broad he has to broaden his religion,and he be ’ome3 as hroad as temptation, as broad as tho ; sours darkness, as broad as hell. They want a religion that will allow them to keep tbeir sins, and then at death say to them: “Well done, good and faithful servant,” and tolls them: “All is well, for there is no hell.’ What a glorious heaven they hold lie fore us! Come, let us go in and sea it. There is Ilenxl and all tbe habes he massacred. There is Charles Guiteau, and Jim Fisk, and Robes pierre. the friend of the French guillotine, andall the liars, thieves, hous * burners, gar rofcers, pickpockets and liliertine* of all tho , centuries. Tlr\y have all got crowns, an l I thrones, and harps, and scepters, and when they chant they sing: “Thanksgiving, and honor, and glory, and power 1 3 the broad ro i ligion that let us all into heaven without ro j pentanoe and faith in those disgraceful dog j mas of ecclesiastical old fogy ism.” My text gives me a grand opportunity of saying a useful word to all young men who ! are now forming habits for a lifetime. Os , what use to a stonemason or a bricklayer is a plumb line? Why not build the wall by the unaided eye and hand ? Because they are in j sufficient, because if there baa deflection in I the wall it cannot further on lx? corrected, j Beau so by the law of gravitation’ a wall I must be straight in order to l>e symmetrical j and safe, A young man is in' danger of j getting a defect in his wall of character that i may never lie corrected. One of the l>ost friends 1 ever had died of delirium tremens j at 00 years of age, t hough he had not since j 21 years of age—before which he hail been dissipated—touche 1 intoxicating liquor until that particular carousal that took him off. Not feeling well in a street on a hot summer dav lie stopped Into a drug store, just as you ! and I would have done, and asked for a (lose of something to make him feel better. And ! there was alcohol in tlio dose, ami j that one drop aroused tho old appe i tite, and be entered the first liquor store, and | stayed there until thoroughly under the power of rum. He entered his home a raving maniac, his wife and daughters fleeing from his presence, until lie was taken to tho city hospital to die. Tho combustible material of early habit had lain quiet nearly forty years, and that one spirk ignited tho conflagation. j Rememlier that the wall may lm one hundred feet high, and yet a deflection ono foot j from the foundation affects the entire struct ure, And if you live I#oo1 # 00 years, and do right I the Ust eighty years, you iniy, nevertheless, do something at twenty years of age that will ! damage all your earthly existence. All you i who have Imilt houses for youselves or for I others, am I not right m saying to thes3 | young men, you cannot build a wall so high as to lie independent of tho character of its foumlatious ? A man before thirty years of age may commit enough sin to last him a lifetime. A cat that has killed on? pigeon cannot be cured. Keep it from killing the fir*, pigeon. Now, John, or George, or Charles, or William, or Alexander, or An drew, or Henry, or whatever bo your Chris tian name or surname, say here and now: “No wild oats for me, no cigars or cigarettes for me. no wine or beer for me, no nusty stories for me. no Sunday sprees for me. I am going to start right and keep on right. God help me, for lam very weak. From the throne of eternal righteousneas let down to me the principles by which I can bo guided in building everything from foundation to capstone. Lord God, by the wounded hnna ot Christ, throw me a plumb line!” Ix>rd Nelson’s general direction when going into naval battle was, no man can do wrong that places his ship close alongside that of tbe eaetny. My friend, you will never do wrong if you keep your life close alongside the Ten Commandment?. Do right, nml you can tie as brave as Maria Theresa, who rode up tbeHillof Defiance and shook her sword at the four comers of tbe earth. “But,* 1 you say, “you shut us young folks out from all fun.” Oh, no! I like fun. I be lieve in fun. 1 have bad lots of it in my time. But I have not bad to go into paths of sin to find it. Iffo rTOfift to me, but because of an extraordinary parental example and influence I wns kcq»t from outward trangreasions. though ray heart was bad' enough and desperately wicked. 1 have had fun inimitable, though I never swore one oath, and never gambled for so much ns the value of a |iin, aud never saw the inside of a hay fit of sin save as when, ten years w,th ominissioner of police and a detective and two elders of my cnnroh, I explored these cities by midnight, hot out of curiosity, but that I tirglr. in pulpit discourse set before the people the poverty and Ibn horrors of un derground city life. Yet though I never was intoxicated for an instant, and n**ver com mitted one art of dissoluteness, restrained .only by the grace of God, without which re straint I would have gone headlong to the bottom of infainv, I have bad so much fun that I don’t believe there is a man oa the planet in tbe present time who bos bad more. Hear it, men and bag*, wobmb and girls, ail tbe fun U oa the side of right. Sin may seem attractive, but it is deathful, and like the manchineel, a tree whose dews are poisonous. The only genuine happiness is in an honest Christian life. The Chippewa, wanting to see God, blackens hia face with charcoal and fasts till ho has a. vision of what he calls God. My God I can see best when I take my hat off and let tho sunshine blaze in my face, and after a rea sonable breakfast. He is not a God of black ness and, starvation, but of light and plenti tude, and the glory of the noonday sun is Egyptian midnight compared to it. There they go—l wo brothers. The one was convert ed a year ago in church,ono Sunday morning, during prayer, or sormon, or hymn. No one knew it at tho time. The persons on either side of him suspected nothing, but in that young man’s soul this process went on: “Lord, here I am, a young man amid the temptations of city life, and I am afraid to risk them alone; come and be my pardon and iny help; save me from making the mistake that some of my comrades are making, anil gave me now.” And quicker than a flash God rollod heaven into his soul. He is just as jolly ns lie used to lie,is just as brilliant as ho used to be. He can strike a ball or catch one as easily as before he was converted. With gun or fishing rod in this summer vacation he was just as skillful as before. The world is brighter to him than ever. He appre ciates pictures, music, innocent hilarity, so cial life, good jokes, and has plenty of fun, first-class fun, glorious fun. But his brother is going down hill. In the morning his head aches from the champagne debauch. Every- Ixxly sees hs is in rapid descent. What cares he tor right, or decency, or the honor of his family name? Turned out of employment, depleted in health, cast down in spirits, the typhoid fever strikes him in the smallest room on the fourth story of a fifth rate boarding house, cursing God, and calling for his mother, and fighting back demons from his dying pillow, which is bosweated and torn to rags, ho plunges out of the world with the shriek of a destroyed spirit. Alas for that kind of fun! It is remorse. It is de spair. It is blackness of blackness. It is woe unending and long reverberating, and crush ing as though all the mountains of ull continents roll on him in one avalanche. My soul, stand back from such fun. Young man, there is no fun in shif>- wreckmg your character, no fun in dis gracing your father’s name. There is no fun in breaking your mother's heirfc. There is no fun in the physical pangs of tho dissolute. There is no fun in the profligate’s death-bed. The.tJ is no fun in an undone eternity. Paracelsus, out of the ashes of a burnt roy? said he could recreate the rose, but he failed in the alchemic undertaking, and roseate life once burned down in sin can never again be made to blossom. Oh, this plumb line of the everlasting right! God will throw it over all our lives to show us our moral deflections. God will throw it over all churches to show whether they are doing useful work or are standing instances of idleness and pretense. He will throw that plumb line over all nations to demonstrate whether their lives are just or cruel, their rulers good or bad, their ambitions holy or infamous. He threw that plumb line over the Spanish monarchy of other days, and what became of her? Ask tho splintered hulks of her overthrown armada He threw that plumb line over French imperialism, and what was the result? Ask tho ruins of her Tuileries, and the fallen column of tho Place Vendome, and the grave trenches of Sedan, and the blood of revolutions of differ >nt times rolling through tho Champs Elysees. He threw that plumb-line over ancient Rome, and what became of the realm of tho Caesars? Ask her war eagles, with beak dulled and wings broken, flung helpless into the Tiber. He threw it over the Assyrian Empire of a thousand years, tin thrones of Semiramis, and Bardanapalus, and Shalmaneser, of twenty-seven victorious ex peditions, the cities of Phoenicia kneeling to the scepter, and all tho world blanched in tho presence. What became of all tho grandeur? Ask the fallen palaces of Khorsaboa and tho corpses of her 185,000 soldiery slain by the angel of the Lord in one night,and the Assyrian sculptures of the world's museums, all that now remains of that splendor before which nations staggered and crouched. God is now throwing that plumb lino over this American republic, and it is a solemn time with this nation, and whether we keep His Sabbaths or dishonor them, whether righteousness or in iquity dominate, whether wo are Christian or infidel, whether wo fulfill our mission or refuse it, whether we are for God or against him, will decide whether wo shall as a na tion go on in higher and higher career or go down in the same grave whore Babylon, and Nineveh, and Thebes, and Assyria are sepulchered. “ But,” say you, 44 if there be nothing but a plumb lino what can any of us do, for there is an old proverb which truthfully declares: 4 If the best man’s faults were written oa his forehead it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.’ What shall wo do when, according to Isaiah, God shall lay judgment to the line and righteousness to the plummet? Ah, here is where the Gospel comes in with a Saviour's righteousness to make up for our deficits. And while I 830 hanging on ths wall a plumb line, I se? also hanging there a cross. And while tho ono condomns us tho other 6nves us, if only wo will hold to it. And here and now you may lie set fre? with a more glorious liberty than Hampden, or Sidney, or Kosciusko ever fought for. Not out yonder, nor down there, nor up here, but just where you are you may got it. Tho invalid proprietress of a wealthy estate in Scotland visifcojj tho continent of Europe to get rid of he? maladies, an 1 she went to Baden-Baden and tried thosi waters, and went to Carlsbad and tried those waters, aud went to Horn burg ami tried tho*e waters,and instead of getting better she got worm, and in despair she said to a physician: '‘What shall I do?” His reply was: 4 'Medicine can do nothing for you. You have one chance in the waters ot Pit Koathly Keofc land.” “Is it possible!” sho replied. “Why, those waters are on ray own estate!” Bho re turned, and drank of the fountain, and in a few months completely recovered. Oh sick, and diseased, and sinning, and dying hearer, w hy go trudging all the world over, and seeking hero aud there relief for your dis couraged spirit, when close by, and at your very feet, and at the door of your heart, aye, within the very estate of your own conscious ness, the healing waters of eternal life may be had, and had this very hour, this very minute, this very Sabbath ? Blessed be God that over against the plumb line that Amos saw is the cross, through the emancipating power of which you and I may live and live foreverl Canine Reasoning. _ General George 11. Sharpe lately told me a capital story. The hero of it was a dog belonging to the General’s son-in-law, Congressman Irn Davenport. The family supplied the dog with a basket in which a nickel was daily deposited. Seizing the handle of the basket with his teeth he would trot to the butcher's, buy him self five cents’ worth of meat and trot home again. Then having eaten ail the meat 1 hat his appetite craved he prudent ly proceeded to bury the rest. Up. to this point there is nothing novel in the in cident. Many a dog has been trained to do its own marketing, while nothing is more common than to sec a dog bury ing meat for a rainy day. But listen to the rest of the story. General Bharpe says that one morning the dog, instead of bounding away as usual nfter his basket had been handed to him, paused in a contemplative attitude and then, overturning the basket, seized the nickei in his mouth and going oil to one corner of the garden rrocceded to bury that. “You can sec,” flic General added, “how the dog reasoned. It occurred to h m that if a nickel was good fora piece of meat, he might as well bury the one as the other.” It seems to me I never met with a better example of canine ap preciation of cause and effect. Stic York Tribunt. .. ...... In Deo., Custom House St., Boston, Mass., offered eight premi ums payable in gold coin, which they say crea ted a great interest among people who kept hens, so much so, in fact, that they authorize us to say that they shall offer Nov. Ist, 1887, another list of premiums for the bests results from tho use of .Sheridan’s Powder to Make Hens Lay. Os course all who compete cannot get ono of the premiums, but some or the last year’s reports sent us show that the parties ought to nave been well satisfied if they had not received any other benefit than the in crease of eggs they got while making the trial. For cxamplo the first premium was twenty five dollars taken by C. A. French, Washing ton, N. H.,who fed thirty hens the Sheridan’s Powder for eight weeks. 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The best way to secure both Is to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which expels all Impurities from the blood, rouses the kidneys and Itver, overcomes that tired feeling, and impaits that freshness to the whole body which makes one feel perfectly well. “I have taken not quite a bottle of Hood's Sarsa parilla, and must say it Is one of the best medicines Tor giving an appetite, purifylug the blood and regu lating tbe digestive organs, that I ever heard of. It dhi mo a great deal of good.”—Mas. N. A. Starlet, Canastota, N. Y. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $3. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD ft CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IQO Poses One Dollar ■RUIvvSJ ELY'S CREAM BALM’ Brice 50 cento. ■ RElni " ,l1 doinore i" C’urlnx loteverPlH catarrh |L 'I lian SSOO in any \ j.ply Balm into each n<»stril uva!- 1 >' Bros., ZVTt Greenwich St. HV. SIOO to S3OO w bo can furnish tliclr uvvn horses and give their tlm« to the bustneM. Spare moments tnay be profitably employed also. A few vacancies In towns and titled B. F. JOHNSON ft CO., ltua Main bt., Richmond, Va fIATPNTQ Obtained. Rond stamp for mr | Cli | O inventors* Guide. L. Bus ■ ham. Patent Attorney, Washington, D. C. KIPPER’S ilia A BURI CURS FUR INDIGESTION and DYSPEPSIA. Over 8,000 Physicians hav# sent ns their approval s i DIOKBtYIiN. saying that It is the beet prsparattM for indigestion that they have ever used. We have never hoard of a oase of Dyspepsia whsrs DIOKBTYLIN was taken that was not cured. FOR CHOLERA INFAHTUM. IT WILL CURB TIIK MOST AOQRA VATKD CASKS IT WILL STOP VOMITING IN I’RKONANCY IT WILL ULLIRVK CONSTIPATION For Summer Complaints and Chroule btarrhena which are the direct results of Inuterfm-t digestion, DHIK.STYI.IN will effect an Immediate cure. Take DYUKKTYUN for all pains and disorders of the stomach ; they nil come from lndlghetloa. Ash four dr:EXi«l for DIOKSTYLIN (price |l per large not (Jet. Ts he does not have It send om dollar to ns and we will send a bottle to you, express prepaid Do not heslinte to send your money. Our house Is SELECT SIFTINGS. Pioche, Not., it raising cucumber, three feet long and ten pound, in weight. Surnames were first adopted in the reign of Edward the Confes/jor. A Washington physician hog success fully performed the operation of implant ing teeth. Astronomy was cultivated in Egypt and Chaldea, 2800 B. C.; Persia, 3209; India, 3101, and in Chins, 2952. The first voyage of discovery was that Ktromzed by Necho, in which some urnicians left Egypt by the Red Sea and returned byway of Gibraltar. In 1087 the sea retired from the coast of Peru and returned in mountainous waves which destroyed everything on the coast, among other places Callao. A straight line can bo drawn through seventy-five miles of the Indian River, Florida without touching shore. It is called tho straightest river in the world. An Oconee (Ga ) man has a gander that follows him around like a dog, and will sound the alarm when a stranger en ters the yard, aud attacks the intruder with his wing, and beak. The first bread was made by the Greeks, aud the first wind-mills by the Saracens. Turnpikes were originated in 1267, the sum of one penny having to be paid for each wagon passing through a certain manner. The first record wc have of coal i, about three hundred years before the Christian era. Coal was used as a fuel in England as early as 852, and in 1234 the first charter to dig for it was grant ed by Henry 111. to the inhabitants of Newcastlc-on-Tync. It is i curious fact that the name of Daniel Webster appears upon none of the rolls of the counsellors of the Su preme Court, nor is there anywhere a record of his admission to the bar of that court. It is probable that he was already so distinguished as a lawyer when he argued his first case in the Su preme Court that if any one thought of it, it was taken for granted that he had taken the oath and signed the roll, and no one raised the uucstion. Every trace of the Colorado beetle has been destroyed in Germany by the timely use of disinfectants und tilling of the fields in which the pest appeared. WHAI AILS YOU? Do you fori d Jll. languid, low-spirited, life less, and indescribably miserable. Doth physi cally and mentally; experiwico a sense of fullness or bloating after eating, or of “gone ness,” or emptiness of stomach in tho morn ing, tongue coated, hitter or bad taste in mouth, irregular appetite, dizziness, frequent headaches, blurred eyesight,“floating specks” before the eves, nervous prostration or ex haustion, irritability of temper, hot flushes, alternating with chillv sensations, sharp, biting, transient pains here and th<*re, cola eet, drowsiness after meals, wakefulness, or iisturbed and unrefreshing a’eep, constant, ■ndescribable feeling of dread, or of impend ing calamity? „ ) If you have all, or any considerable number if these symptoms, you are suffering from hat most common of Amcriean maladies— liilious Dyspepsia, or Torpid Liver, associated with Dyspepsia, or Indigestion. The more complicated your disease lias become, the greater tho number and diversity of symp toms. No matter what stage it has reached. Dr. Picrce , «i Golden vied I cal Discovery will subdue it, if taken according to direc tions for a reasonable length of time. If not cured, complications multiply and Consump tion of the Lungs, fikln Diseases, Heart Disease, Uheumutism, Kidney Disease, or other grave 'iialHdiro are quite liable to set in and, sooner or later, induce a fatal termination. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis co very nets powerfully upon the Liver, and through that great blood-purifying organ, cleanses the system of all blood-taints and im mrities, from whatever cause arising. It is equally efficacious in acting upon the Kid neys, and other excretory organs, cleansing, itrengthening, and healing their disease's. As in appetizing, restorative tonic. It promotes ligestion and nutrition, thereby building up both flesh und strength. In malarial districts, this wonderful medicine has gained great celebrity in curing Fever and Ague, Chilis and Fever, Dumb Ague, and kindred diseases. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis covery CURES ALL HUMORS, from a common Blotch, or Eruption, to the worst Scrofula. Salt-rheum, “ Fever-sores,” k-aly or Rough Skin, in short, ail diseases •caused by bad blood are conquered by this powerful, purifying, and Invigorating tnedi :ine. Great Eating Ulcers rapidly heal under its benign influence. Esfiocially has it mani fested its potency in curing Tetter, Eczema, Erysipelas, Boils, Carbuncles, Sore Eves, Scrof ilous Sores and Swellings, Hip-joint Disease. ‘ White Swellings,” Goitre, or Thick Neck, ind Enlarged Glands. Bend ten cents in ♦tamps for a large Treatise, with colored plates, on Skin Diseases, or the same amount for a Treatise on Scrofulous Affections. “FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE." Thoroughly oHwnae it by using Dr. Pl*rre>» t.oldru Medical Discovery, and good digestion, a fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital strength and bedily health will be established. CONSUMPTION, which is Scrofula ok the Langi, is arrested and cured by this remedy, if taken In the earlier stages of the disease. From its mar velous power over this terribly fatal disease, when first offering this now world-famed rem edy to the public, Dr. Pierce thought seriously of calling it his “Consumption Ccm," but abandoned that name as too restrictive for a medicine which, from its wonderful com bination of tonic, or strengthening, alterative, or blood-cleansing, anti-bilious, pectoral, and nutritive properties, is unequiued. not onlv as a remedy for Consumption, but for ill Ultroulc Dineoses of the Liver, Blood, and Lungs.! Foe Weak I,ung», Spitting of Blood. Short. ! »<*« of Breath. (Tironln Nanai Catarrh, Ilrun chitia, Anthuin, Severe Cougha. and kindred I affections, it is an efficient remedy. . So i d . ttS. Drugginta, at SI.OO, or 81k llottle. I . or Send ten centn In ntamps for Dr. Pierce', book on Consumption. Address, World’s Dispensary Medical kuwlitim, 663 Main IL, BUFFALO, N. 1. /lri *ent ExcaunoaCo, Box KUO, Now York, hiinx* 1 ronipiftc "tori... King I’urrlr: 4a rol. iilu, l at—r a than- plan.; I ro, Drapmy drwga I A—ttwro»aat.My)waat»«ta«»a«T— ■»- rtur trad. an yoor •T.a.lU'. ranch" 1. Mradllyla- I i cn wlnx, lakiui l,Bt monib n a basis. Wo boos to i Handle at leattVooj * r month ’ ** i Mo MR*, A .LX* A Co. , brtrtf l»t«. halt Lafcs City. Utah. « Addrrat B, W. TAIIOUX 4c CO.. Ctlaw. 1 ||A. wiMBMi-Ts UCM idfo^&gaac? ■ g^mrmmnmiiTWTmrnn lo lookJtVii r epos i I (Be sut [y like/ tljis.\ ijh Little Kt|esfraK!feeßfwicr| iq tt]e near Gated Ifiind 5! will do tt }{s as el^flbarv Aam rut ly llty tf/i.i. ji t Comp s N I— *.'£ ABENTSWANTED it tfu?’ ts'S're PATTERNS, for making Russ, £n, Hoods, Mitt»-ns, etc. M.v thin*' sent by mail f>r S’.. SeuJ for late reduced price list. * E. Kew A Cs.f Tslris, O, DALY HAMMERLESS. I DALY THREE DARREL MANHATTAN HAMMERLESS. IPICPEI IREECH LoAs!'v Send for Catalogue of Specialties. SCUOVEKLI\U, DALY A CALLS, 84 and BO Chambers Street, New York. m mr Great Starching AND IRONING POWDER. HOW TO WASH AND IRON . Tbe art of starching, ironing and washing brought to perfection in “ Rough on Dirt. Added to starch gives splendid gloss, body, stiffness and polish. The only washing com pound that can bp so used. Prevents starch railing or nibbing up. Makes Iron slip easy. Saves labor. Baves three-fourths the starch. A revelation In housekeeping. A boon to wo men. A new discovery, beats tbe world. Cleans and parlflea everything. Invaluable as the only safe, non-injurious and perfect waeher anddeanser for general household purpoFes. CT k DPUIMIS The most inexpertenred O I Anumno. girl can, with Rough oo Dirt, do as nice washing and ironing as can be done in any laundry. Boiling not Decvxsarv. 1® A ®c- Mgs. at an first-class, well stocked Grocer*. 18. Wells. Jersey City. N. J.. V. 8. A. nPIIIU Habit Cured • uriuw fwA s. a. eaatu. ran w—« o—*—«>»» Wto 18 a dav. Samples worth Si.sn. fre* Lines not under the home's feet. Write Brewster Safety Rein H.>id* r Holly. Mi A /2J.OLD Is worth SSUO per lb. Pettit's Eye Sal** is VN worthsUßß. boltssoAdt 25c ahoaS? dealers Blair’s PiHs. G :“.2L“ ST DATPNTQ obtained by m. H. GBI- KrV 1 ■ o *TON A CO.. Wa.h --■ la«laa» P. C. Bend for our booh of lntnie"ii Danaiaisa toSoldlema Rrilrv Send«tamo ■ Bnsiflns w‘ r, ‘ ,ur * ''“ i 1 n■■ ■ WWiiWiVii# HAM. Atfy, Washington, p c. OPIUM SSKS£&£ EXHAUSTED VITALITY A Inst Eadsal Wait far Twnf •od MiMb-Afad Mas now thyselFnxMHp SMMHi §gss?sSjgg|£|l
Charlotte Messenger (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Oct. 22, 1887, edition 1
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