THE REV. DR. TALMAGE.
SHE BROOKLYN 1)1 VINK’S SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subject: “Forbidden lloney.”
1 Text: “7 did but taste a tittle honey with
Vie end of the, rod that mm in my hand , and
to I I must die —l Samuel xiv., 43.
Tho honoy beo is a most ingenious architect,
E Christopher Wren among insects, a geome
ter drawing he.xngons and pentagons, a free
booter robbing the fields of pollen arid aroma,
a wondrous creature of Goo, whose biography,
written by Huber and Swammerdam, is an
enchantment for any lover of nature. Virgil
celebrated the l>eo in bis fable of Aristams,
and Moses, and Samuel, and David, and Solo
mon, and Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, and. St.
John u®ed the delicacies of liee manufacture
as a Bible symbol. A miracle of formation is
the bee: five eyes, two tongues, the outer hav
ing a sheath or protection, hair on all salt s of
Its tiny body to brush up tin particles of
flowers ; its flight so straight that a! I tho world
knows of the bee lin;. 'the honeycomb is a
palace such as no one but God con d plan
awl the honey lice construct; its cells
sometimes a dormitory, sometimes a Store
house, and sometimes a cemetery. Th >so
winged toilers first make eight strip; of
wax, and by their nntenme, which are to
them hammer and chisel, and square and
plumb line, fashion them for use. Two
and two, these woikers sliajie the wall.
If an accident happen they put up but
tresses or extra beams to remedy the dam
age. When about the year 1770 an insect,
before unknown, in the night time attacked
the beehives all over Europe, and tho men
who owned them were in vain trying to plan
something to keep out tho invader that was
the terror of the beehives of the continent, it
was found t hat every where the bees had ar
ranged for their own protection, and built
before their honeycombs an especial wall of
wax. with port-holes through which tho bees
might go to and fro, but not large enough to
admit the winged combatant, called tho
Sphinx Atropos.
I)o you know that the swarming of the boos
is divinely directed? The mother liea starts
for a now home, and because oi this tho other
bees of the hive get. into an excitement which
raises the heat of the hive some four degree*,
and they must die unless they leave their
heated apartments, and they follow the
mother boo and alight on the branch of a
tree, and cling to each other and hold on
until a committee of two or throe have ex
plored the region and found the hollow of a
tree or rock not far oIF from a stream of
water, and they here set up a now colony,
and ply their aromatic industries, and give
themselves to the manufacture of tho saccha
rine edible. But who can tell tho chemistry
of that mixture of sweetness, part of it the
very life of tho boe aud part of it tin life of
the fields;
Plenty of tho luscious proluct was hang
ing in the woods of Beth aven during the
time of Saul aud Jonathan. Their army was
in pursuit of an enemy that by God's com
maud must bo exterminated. The soldiery
were positively forbidden to stop to eat any
thing until the work was done. If they diso
beyed they were accursed. Coming through
the woods they found a place where the lu es
had been busy, a great honey manufactory.
Honey gathered in the hollow of the frees
until it had overflowed upon tho ground in
great profusion of sweetness. All the army
obeyed orders and touched it not save Jona
than, and ho not knowing the military order
about abstinence,dipped the end of a stick he
had in his hand into the candic l liquid, and
as, yellow and brown,and tempting, it glowed
on tho end of tho stick ho put it to h s mouth
and ate the honey. Judgment fell upon him,
and but for special intervention ho would
have been slain. In my text Jonathan an
nounces his awful mistake: “I did bu:. taste
a little honey with theen lof th iro 1 that was
in my hand, and, 10, I must die.” Alas, what
multitudes of people in all ages have lie ai
damages 1 by forbidden honoy, by which I
mean temptation, delicious and attractive,
but damaging and destructive.
Corrupt literature,fascinating but deathful,
comes in this category. Where one good,
healthful book is read now there are one
hundred made up of rhetorical trash con
sumed with avidity. When tho »w>y jn the
cars comes through with a pile of publica
tions look over th * titles and notice that nini
out of every ten of tho books are depletin'*
and injurious. All the way from New York
to Chicago or New Orleans notice that ob
jectionable tiooks dominate. Taste for pure
literature is poisoned by this scum of the
publishing houses, Every book in which sin
triumphs over virtu re, or in which a glamor
is thrown over dissipation, or which leave*
you at its last line with fo* respect for the
marriage institution and less abhorrence
for tho paramour, is a depression
of your own moral character. Tin
book bindery may l»c attractive, and the plot
dramatic and startling, and the style of
writing sweet as the honey that Jonathan
dipped up with his rod, but your best bit r
ests forbid it. your moral safety forbids it,
your God forbids it, aud one taste of it may
lead to such bad results t hat you may have
to say at the close of the experiment, or at
the close of a misimproved lifetime: *1 did
but taste a little honey with the roil that wa.*
in my hand, and, 10, 1 must die!' 1
Corrupt literature is doing more to-dav for
the disruption of domestic life than an v other
cause. Elopements, marital intrigues, riy
correspondence, fictitious names given at
postofiice windows, clandestine me-•tiff's in
parks, and at ferry gates, and in hole! 'par
lors, and con jugal perjuries, are among the
liinnable results. When a woman, young
* ,f>r head thoroughly si tilled
with tho modern novel she is in ap
palling peril. But some one will say “ The
heroes are so adroitly knavish, and the per
sons so bewitching!y untrm. and the turn
the story so exquisite, and all the Ch irac
tors so enrapturing, I cannot quit them ”.
My brother, my sister, yon can find styles of
literature just us charming that will elevate
and purify and ennoble, aud Christianize
while they please. Tho devil doe* not own
all the honey. There is a wealth of good
[looks coming forth from our publishing
houses that leaves nocxcuso for the choice of
that which is debauching to lady, mind an 1
soul. Go to some intelligent man or woman
and ask for a list of books that will l.e
strengthening to your mental and moral
condition. Life Is so short and your time for
improvement so abbreviate! that you can
not nflord to fill up with husks and cinders
and debris. In tho interstices of business
that young man is reading that which will
prepare him to lie a merchant prim e, and
that young woman is filling her mind with mi
intel igence that will yet e.tlier make her tjio
chief attraction of a good man's home or give
her an independence of character that will
qualify her to build lierown homo and main
tain it in a happiness that requires no aug
mentation from any of our rougher sex. That
young man or young woman ran by the right
literary and moral improvement of the spare
ten minutes hero or 1 here in everyday, rise
head and shoulders in prosperity and churn *
ter and infill‘ms? above the loungers who
read nothing, or read that which bed war Is.
Hoe all the forests of good American litera
ture dripping w ith honey. Why pick up the
honey corn I** that have in them the fiery te**s
which will sting you with an eternal poison
while yon ta*t • it? < hie book nmy for yon or
me decide everything for this world an 1 the
next, it was n turning point with me wb n
in VVynkoop’* IxjoUstore. Syracuse, t *;u
I picked up a book odled “Tin.
IVv-ities of Buskin.” It was only a Ixxdc of
•struct*. but it wm nil pure honey, and
I wax not satisfied until I h id purchas 'd all
yjs works, at that time expensive beyond an
*»asy cagMcity to own them, and what m
he i von I went thrmuli in reading his “.-even
Janip* of Architecture” and his “Mono* of
Venice” it is ifiipoisih o for me lo describe,
oxcept fey stying that it gave mo a rapture
for good liooxs and an everlasting disgust fur
decrepit or immoral looks that will last me
whilo my immortal wail lasts. All around
the church and the world today there «ro
laisy hives of intelligence oocupio I by authors
and aUttioreshes, from who «p n drip , Asa.
tillation which is the very nectar of hea>-.
nnd why will you thrust your real of Inquiid
tivcncHs into th- de.ithful saebariuo of per
ditiou t
Stimulating liquids also come into the cate
gory of temptations de’icious but deatbfuL
You say: “I cannot bear tho taste of intoxi
cating liquor, and how auy man cm like CJ»
to mo an amazement.” Well, then, it is no
credit to you that you do not taste it. Do
not brag about your total abstinence, lie
cause it is not from any principal that you
reject alcoholism, but for tho same reason .
that you reject certain styles of food—you
simply don't like the taste of them. Bub
multitude* of people have a natural fondness
for all kinds of intoxicant. They like it so
much that it makes them smack their lips to
look at it. They an dyspeptic, an l they
take it to aid digestion, o. they are annoyed
by insomnia, and they take it to produce
sleep, or they are tnmbl *J, an l they take it
to make them oblivious, or they feel
good, aud they mus* celebrate their
hilarity. They begin with mint iulep
sucked through two straws on the bong
Branch piazza anl end in the ditch,
taking from a jug a liquid half kerosene and
half whisky. They not only like it,but it is an
all consuming passion of body,mind and soul,
and after a while have it they will, though
ono wine glass cost the temp >ral and eternal
destruction of themselves, and all their fam
ilies, and the whole human race. They would
■ay: **i am sorry it Is go ng to cost me, and
my family, ami all the world’s population so
very much, but hero it goes to my lips, and
now let it roll over my parched tongue and
down my heated throat, the sweetest, the
mod, inspiring, tho rapturous thing
that ever thrilled mortal or immortal.
To cure the habit lie fore % it comes to
is last stages, various plans 'were tried in
oldon times. This plan was recommended in
tho books: When n man wanted to reform he
put shot or bullets into the cup or glass of
strong drink—me additional shot or bullet
each day, that displaces so much liquor.
Bullet after bullet, added day by day, of
course the liquor became less ami less until
the bullets would entirely fill up I he glass and
there was no room for the liquid, and by that
time it was said the inebriate would bo cured.
Whether any ono was ever euro 1 in that way
1 know not, but by long experiment it is
found that the only way is to stop short off,
an l when a man doe:; that lie nee is God to
help him. An 1 there have been more cases
than you can count when God has so helped
th: man that he quit forever, and I could
count a score of them hero to day, some of
them pillars in the house of Go I.
One would suppose that men would take
warning from some of the ominous names
given to tho intoxicants, ami stand off from
the devastating influence. You have noticed
for instance, that some of the restaurants are
called “The Shades,” typical of the fact that
it puts a man’s reputation in tho shade, nnd
his morals in the shade, and his prosperity in
the shade, and his wife and children in the
shade, and his immortal destiny in tlie shade.
Now, I find on some of the liquor signs
in all our cities the words: “Old Crow,”
mightily suggestive of a carcass, and the
filthy raven that swoops upon it. “Old Crow 1”
Men and women without numbers slain of
rum but ntibtiriod, and this evil is peeking at
th<*r glazed eyes, and perking at their bloated
check, and perking at their destroyed man
hood and womanhood, thrusting beak and
claw into the mortal remains of what once
was gloriously alive but now morally dead.
“Old Crow!” But alas, how many take
no warning. They make mo think of
Cesar on his way to assassination, fearing
nothing; though his statue in the hall crashed
nto fragments at his f« et, and a s-roll con
fining the names of the conspirators was
thrust into his bam’*--, vet walking right on to
meet the dagger that wa,. to take his life.
Tlii i infatuation of strong drink is so mighty
in runny a man that, though his fortunes are
crashing, ami his health is crashing, and his
domestic interests are crashing, rad we hand
him a long scroll containing th:* names of
]»-rilsthat await him, he goes straight oil to
physical, and mental, and more) assassina
tion. In pro|x>rtion as any style of alcohol
ism is pleasant to your taste, ami Ttimulating
to your nerves, arid for a time delightful to
all your physical and mental < jrfctitution, is
the peril awful. Remember Jonathan and
the forbidden honey In tho w>«*ls of Beth
aven.
Furthermore, the gamester's indulgence
must lie put to tho list of temptations deli
rious but destructive. I have rosgwl the
ocean eight times, and always one of the best
rooms has, from morning till latent night,
b vii given up to gambling practices. 1 heard
of men who went on board with enough
money for European excursions who landed
w.timut enough money to get their baggage
up to the hotel or railroad station. To many
there is a complete fascination in games of
hazard or the risking of money oil possibili
ties. It seems as natural for them to hot as
to eat. Indeed, tho hunger for food is often
overpoweiod with the hunger for wagers, ns
in the case of Lord Baudwich, a persistent
gambler, who, not being w illing to leave the
dice table long enough for the taking of fool,
invent <1 n preparation of food that he could
tike without slopping tho game—namely, a
slice of beef between two slices of bread,
which wa; named after Lord Sandwich. It
is absurd for those of us who have never felt
tho fascination of the wager to speak slight
ingly of the temptation. It has slain a mul
titude of intellectual .and moral giants, men
and women stronger than you or I. Down
under its | lower went glorious Oliver Gold
smith,ana Gibbon, the historian, and Charles
l*’ox, the statesman, and in olden times fa
mous Senators of the United States, who used
to be as regularly at the gambling house all
night as they were in the halls of legislation
by day. Oh, the tragedies of the faro table!
I know persons who began with a slight
stake in a ladies’ parlor, and ended with
the suicide’s pistol at Monte Carlo. They
nlayod with the square pieces of bone with
black marks on them, not knowing that
Satan was playing for their bones at the same
t ime, and was sure to sweep all the stakes off
on his side of the table. The last New York
legislature sanctioned the mighty evil lust
spring by passing a law for its defense at the
race tracks, and many young men in these
cities lost all their wage's at Coney Island
this summer, and this fall are borrowing
from the money tills of their employers or
arranging by means of false entries to adjust
their demoralized finances. Every man who
voted for the Ives pool bill has on Ills hands
an l forehead the blood of these souls.
But in this connection some young convert*
say to me: “Is it right to play cards? Is there
any harm in a game of whist or euchre?’
V.VII, I know good men who play whist and
eii dm* and other styles of game without any
wagers. I hart a friend who played cants
with his wife and children, ana then at the
close said: “Come, now, lotus haveprayers.”
I will not judge other men’s consciences, but
1 tell you t-*at cards are, in my mind, so as
ho dated with the teinjioral an l eternal dam
nation of solcndid young men. t hat 1 should
no sooner say to my family: “Como, let us
have a game of cards,” than 1 would go into
a menagerie nnd say: “Como let us have a
g imo of rattlesnakes,” cr into a cemetery,
and sitting down by a marble slab, say to
the grave diggers: “Come, lot us have a game
of skulls.” Conscientious young ladies are
silently saying to me while 1 speak: “Do you
think card playing will do us any harm?”
Perhaps not, but how will you feel if in the
great day of eternity, when we are asked to
give nti account of our influence, some man
shall say to you: “I was introduced to games
of ehattee in the year tea?, in BrookJjm, it
your home, ami I went on from that sport to
something more exciting, mid went cm down
until I lost my business, and lost iny morals,
and lost my soul, and these chains that you
see on my wrists and feet are tho chains of a
gamester’*doom, and I am cm my way to a
gambler’s hell.” Honey at tho start, eternal
catastrophe at tin dost.
Ftock gambling come* Into tlu» same cata
into Wail street. New \ ork, or State street,
Boston, or Third street, Philadelphia, and
d<qMisitiiig a small sum of money, run tlie risk
of taking out a fortune. Many men ai o do
ing an honest and safe business in the stock
market, and you ai* an ignoramus If you d».
not know that it *s just as legitimate to
*leal in stocks «*s to deal in coffee, or sugar,
or flour. But ready all the outsiders who
go (hero cm a little financial excursion lose
all. The old spiders eat up the* unsuspecting
Hi s. I had a friend who put his Itand cm
hh hip pocket find said to me in sui(Stance:
“I have there the value of a hundred and
,A tv thousand dollars.’’ Ilis home is today
lienhiloiH. What was the matter? Wail
fttrewt. (Jt the vast majority who are victim ,
I zed you hear not ono word. One great stock:
firm goes down, and whole columns of news
papers discuss their fraud, Or their dis
aster, and we are presented with their
features and their biography. But where
ono such fanious.flrm sinks five hundred un
known men sink with them. The great
steamer goes down and all the littlo boats
are swallowed in the same engulf nient. Gam
bling is gambling, whether in stocks, or
breadstuff, or dico or race track betting.
Exhilaration at the start, and a raving brain
and a shuttered nervous system and a sac
rificed property and a destroyed soul at t he.
last. Young man, buy no lottery tickets,
purchase no prize packages, bet on no base
oall game* or yacht racing, have no faith in.
luck, answer no mysterious circulars pro
posing great income for small investment;
shoo away the buzzards that hover around
our hotels trying to entrap strangers. Go
out an l make an honest living. Have God.
on your side nnd be a candidate for heaven.
Remember all the paths of sin are banked
with flowers at the start, and there are
plenty of helpful hands to fetch the gay
charger to your door and hold the stirrup
whilo you mount But further on tlie hoi’s©
plunges to the bit in a slough inextric able.
The Lest honey is not like that which Jona
than took on the end of jho rod and brought
to his lip, but that which Go I puts on th©
banqueting table of Mercy, at which we am
all invited to sit. I was reading of a boy
among the mountains of Switzer land ascend
ing a dangerous place with his father and the
guides. The boy stopped on the* <*dge of the
cliff and said: ‘ There is a flower 1 mean to
got.” “Come away from here,” said the
father, “you will fall off.” “No,”'raid he, “I
must get that beautiful flower,” and tho
guides nreh-ad toward him to pull him hack,
when they heard him say: “I aimo.-t
hive it,” as he foil 2,00) feet. Birds of
prey were sewn a few days after circling:
through the air and lowering gradually to
the place where the corpse lay. Why seek
flowers on the edge of a precipice when you
may walk knee deep amici the full blooms of
the very Paradise of God? When, a man may
sit at a king’s banquet, why wall ho go down
the steps and contend for the gristle and
bones of a hound’s kennel?
“Sweeter than honey and tho honeycomb,”
says David, “is the truth of God.” “Willi
honey out of tho rock would I have satisfied
thee,” says God to tin recreant. Here is
honey gathered frors the blossoms of trees of
life, and with a rod made' out of the wood of
the cross I dip it up for all your souls.
The poet Hesiol tells of an am
brosia and a nectar tho drinking
which would make men live forever.,
nnd one sip of this honoy from the Eternal
Rock will give you immortal life with God..
Come off of the malarial levels of a sinful 1
lifo. Come and live on the uplands of gram
where the vineyards sun themselves. Oh,
taste and see that the Lord is gracious. Bo
happy now and happy forever. For those
who take a different course the honoy will
turn to gall. For many tilings I have ad
mired Percy Shelley, tho great English poet,
but 1 deplore the fact that it was a great
sweetness to him to dishonor God. The poem
“Queen Mab” ha* in it tho maligning ol tho
deity. The infidel poet was impions enough
to ask for Howland Hill’s Surrey chapel that
he might denounce thj Christian religion
He was in great glee against God and tho
truth. But he visited Italy, nnd one day on
the Mediterranean with two friends in a l oat
which was twenty-four feet long, he was
coming toward shore when an hour’s squall
struck the water. A gentleman standing on
shore through a glass saw many boats tossed
in this squall, but all outrode the terror ex
cept one, that in which Shelley, the* infidel
I mot, and his two friends were sailing. That
never came ashore, but the bodies of two of
the occupants were washed upon the beach,
one of tnem tho poet. A funeral pvre was
built on the sea shore by some classic friends
and tlie two bodies were consumed. Poor
Shelloy! lie would h ive no God while ho
li veil and he probably had no God when he
died. “The Lord knowoth tho way of the
righteous, but tho way of tho ungodly shall
psrish.” Beware of tho forbidden honey I
WISE WORDS.
Thoughtfulness for others is a beauti
ful trait of character.
Only those who are very weary know
what a blessing rest is.
An ounce of encouragement is worth a
pound of fault-finding.
Even the weakest man is strong enough
to euforec his conviction.
Poverty may excuse a shabby coat, but
it is no excuse for shabby morals.
strength with men is insensibility,
greatness is ptide, aud calmness indiffer
ence.
A man without earnestness is a mourn
ful nnd perplexing spectacle. But it is
a consolation to believe, as we must of
such a one, that he is in the most effectual
and compulsive of all schools.
Things which never made a man
happy develop a power to make him
strong. Strength and not happiness, or
rather only that happiness which comes
by strength, is the end of human liviug.
One never knows a man till he has re
fused him something, and studied the
effect of the refusal; one never kuows
himself till he has denied himself. The
altar of sacrifice is the touchstone of
character.
The sun uses its power of brightness to
shine; the violet on the banks uses its
fragrance to breath it forth, and all
things are using their power up to
tlie highest capacities. All but man;
man alone is guilty of what might be
called the great sin of unused nower.
A Prince’s Costume.
The Prince of Wales when he took
his morning draughts at the Honibtirg
springs puzzled beholders with an
amazing costume. It was made ap
parently out of a snuff-colored blanket,
delicately set off by a red silk handker
chief tied around his neck, so as to show
above tho collar a “thin, red line.” Phis
striking costume was based on tan
leather shoe* and crowned by a light
gray felt Tyrolean I at. A white Pomer
anian dtfg followed at his hue's. His
invariable salutation to his feminine ac
quaintances was: “Are you drinking the
watahs this morni noVj--Sarati/<fia.n.
Wolves and Cattle.
Three prospectors in Texas came upon
a herd of 300 cattle the other day just as
eight big gray wolves cut out a cow and
calf and pitched upon them. The cow
bellowed, and at once with a rush the
heard gathered nnd drove away the
wolves. The latter soon discovered an
other cow aud calf, and made a dash for
them and, in spite of the frantic efforts
of the mother, got the c alfdown; but
again the he rd c ame to the rescue, and
this time chased the wolves until they
gave up the contest and disappeared.
It is said that one’s turn to be killed
on the English i ail ways does not come
till 7,367,730 journeys have been mode.
That is to say that that projiortiim of
journeys has been made during the
jiost year to each person who has been
killed; 726,584,300 journeys were made
lust year, ami only 05 passengers were
killed.
There is no limit to the age at which
a man may not make a fool of himself.
WHICH DO YOU BELIEVE?
Both Hides of no Absorbing Controversy
Clearly Hinted.
According to “ Scribner’s Statistical Atlas
of the Census of 18*0,” there was not a single
death from kidney disease in the entire
United States from 1870 to 1860 1
But can this I»e possible ? If we are to be
lieve the articles of one of our best adver
tisers, kidney disease, and diseases arising
from kidney derangements. Is actually rev
spousible forth© majority of deaths !
AVhy, then, such a discrepancy ?
Fortunately for the people their statements
are confirmed.
The suspicion is nourished by them, anil we
confess w ith good reason, that because the
ni'slical profession is notable to cure extreme
kidney disorders, the profession officially dis
guises from the public the fact of th -ir
prevalence; meanwhile its journals are tilled
with regrets at this prevalence and the im
potency of the profession to treat it suc
cessfully!
Why is the public misled!
These advertisers shrewdly say it is be
c-nwsethc profession, if it concedes what they
dif.irn, that kidney disease is universal, fears
t;bat the people will desert the powerless
doctors and use tho advertised preparation!
We do not know hut they are right! But
what should the people do?
I Do? Read the evidence and guile them
selves accordingly!
The advertisers claim to have cured hun-
I deeds of thousands of cases of Bright’s dis
| ease and all lesser forms of kidney, liver and
blood derangements. They offer s•>,fit!o tor
proof that their statements of cures, in every
quarter of the globe, arc not true, so far as
they know. These statements are from
prominent men and women all over the
world, and the closest scrutiny is invited!
If a physician cures a man and he knows
it and says it, people believe him. If War
tier’s sale euro cures a man and he knows it
and says it over his own signature, it is just
as conclusive evidence in tho latter case a;
iti the former.
A few years ago, after having broken
down prejudice in England, Canada, the
Lnited States, Australia, India and China,
the owners of this great remedy applied for
the privilege of its manufacture and sale in
Germany. The laws of that great country
are very stringent, and nothing can tie manu
factured or sold until it wins permission from
the government, and this will not be granted
until the government is satisfied that the best
interests of the public aud its individuals will
be served by such a preparation.
The medicine was chemically and misero
scropically analyzed (as accurately as possi
ble), the formula* were examined (with per
haps a secret prejudice against them) by tho
Government chemists, searching inquiry was
everywhere made at home and abroad to
verify its past record and reputation. Finally,
it was triumphant even under the most
critical examination, and full permiSHTOCi was
given to make and sell Warner’s safe cure in
tho Fatherland—tlie only life privilege of the
kind ever granted to auy American proprio
tary preparation.
Unprejudiced people will say that this favor
able consideration of the merits of Warner s
safe cure by the German government was a
very significant as well as a very distinguished
compliment to its merits, and so it is.
The evidence Is all in favor of these intel
ligent advertisers, who h ive certainly won
universal public approval, because of their
straightforward course in proclaiming the
merits of their remedies.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
, Lawyers arc well dressed because tie}
have more suits to try thuti other men.-
Waterloo Observer
Edith—“ You ought to read this book
of Howells’s, ma. It’s so real. I never
saw auy tiring like it.” Lite.
You can’t always judge by appearances.
The man who wears a diamond pin may
be real 1 y w cal t hy.— LoweU t'iti~m.
If the receiver is as bad as the thief,
what’s the use of having one appointed
for our busted 1 >an k? Dansvu;lie Breeze*
Women arc said to give back talk, but
do not men do the same thing when they
criticise the modern bustle? Boston
Courier.
The merchant who ‘USesn’t bebeve it
an “ad” is likely t«> know a good dca
about subtraction—from his bank ac
count— Washington Criti \
“I may be small, but Tin a rouser,*
said the hotel bell-boy, as he vveut liu
rounds awakening patrons who bad ieL
orders to be called early.
“Bright things fell from Bessie’s hp»,”
in Mrs. Holmes’s last novel, probably
means that Bessie dropped the gold till
ing out of her teeth.— Rak/ray .idea .ito.
The man in a l alioou, bizarre,
Away from friends and hearth
Harrounrted by raruied air,
Is the man who want* the earth.
—The ('olonet.
The latest novelty in gentlemen’s wear
is a small thermometer for a breastpin.
When a mail gets left he can thus easily
tell whether it is a cold day. Barling on
free Press.
There was once a fair maid of South Ycrttou:
VYiio’da hat with a big bunch of fern on,
The crown spsol up straight,
Two pound* was its weight,
With a brim thatau engine could turn on.
—Harpers Bazar.
The Agricultural Bureau of the United
States Government has advised people to
cat the English sparrow in order to g»t
ri<l of it, but it is not thought thac spar
rows will ever till the place in the minds
of epicures now occupied by that deli
cious dish—quail on trust Titl-Bits.
A Universal Sign.
In every country we have visited one
friend familiar in our own country has
followed us, ti e sign of “Dost no bHls.”
fu England we found it ‘Stick no bills;’*
in France it w; “Defense d’affieierc;’*
u Italy, “E pro ita 1* elUsionc;” and in
■ ermany, “Anklcte-n verboden.” In
lia'y and in France the sb*n is %**y com
non, but in Germany it i< not so, from
vvh cli I conclude that t * Italian* and
French are better advertises than the
.Germans an ; tl *y hate to see a dead!
wall goto w. ste. — S*trat<*iLm.
\ T»t 111 Krll|(»(*
of all othrtrmedk itWK by Dr. R. Y. PSmts
"Golden Mod ion! Discovery” ht ttppri aching. I
Unrivalled in bilious disorders, impure btnal, I
and consumption, which is scrofulous dte-ase <
of tho lungs. \
Tax money now u-c*.l for th© praaoculom
of crime would, if there were no saloous, go
to sell*m>ls.
Chronic Catarrh
Cannot i»« eurert by local application*. It I* a eon
Ktituttonal rtixea** a art requln** a eonstltuMonal r rm
ert y Ilk** flood's Sarsaparilla, which, work Lug throng
ttuFble>(d.«radlea*4Hth« impurity whieh witiw a*l
promote* the dixesirfo au<! HT<*et* a permanent
runs. At the warn-* tlmo Hoort'-t Snmut>arliU MMt
up the whole system anrt make* you feel renew**! La
strength anrt health. Be sure to ,;et lio>*•!'«.
“ I hare taken Uoott'* Sar foe catarrh an l
It ba* done me a (treat deal of I reeomoi -rv! U |
to all within my reach.' t>. Roaares
Thomjwoa, Ct.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all rtmffsMt*. $1 : *1 * for $X Prepared only
by V. L BOOH & CO.. Abotherurles. Lowell. **«•*.
too Doses One Dollar
The Speeial Oftrir
< f The Yocth sChWAWV*. vkkSi ore hxxv*
published, includes th* »hn:rikV DnMe
H» ii?ay Naalvis ftv Tkodsqgivin* *nd
tTtriduto*. with oAtvdtowts »w! fritfajc i
p'etur* s. |wvttty j*»g* & wk Tfcrsc* «Hh the
| «4hrr weekly jonant. to January I, will
J (mMust frw t-»allncwsnSi>*.'rilwcs win*
sL7*tor u mi’s ;ut*«-:igrti»a to Lwe-re,
f tKXtTtoe ri *r.\skw h*> tea ntvlly •»*« !
1 trge*!, it s finally dhtslniul. «x» tsUssr :
Iw.vkly lilwnry japr givtssM nradi f-sr so
town pariev.
Great Britain has Hand- of
ami juvenile haip‘r.uce with
an aggregate wmtecriibof I.SMjHttL
Brlteale Blwawa
nf either «ex„ fcwkrver wlatei |u;«ply.
thor»>wghly ami pmnanrnlly »wri
! UtvnN in stawp f*v large illiidnile l trw
WtAls «h>)(isasary Asswia
ti'-n. Main Street. Ikiffali. X. Y.
Lfqpmr uten Snr* J-MSar* at stafae; Uhrta
thn men have swns at slate. Which are fin
mmst vahnhk .*
VrarwTrark U«rrTh««
Aiuoivt other valinM** Bess- iafeflnl hy
this tcnchcr k the fact that i«r a very batg
time Dr. Ilrrev’s k ‘t*»»Mrti IWkal lhc*v
rry of liver cumertsves
vtrl bl** •*! | . toewgthe h«»!ieW |d»y
'kSau of the nan, aid th-* ai»> oewcl
in ; phywV aw tte reN priwil. arel jr u*(\!
[by alt t*ir itsnopitS- n 3 *mrie a**! «ffi
coey inMbikvts a chrvwlc* !»U:re, as
malarial n«et-cwr. aiSnwn s tte
tory awl dtgvstiw sphiis>,Hwr dtawre and ■
In all carca where the cse ts at# aJttaUw ;
remedy is iiala-atrel-
Mrs. Mary A. livmaWv' has dt-Bivered
more* tbaa eight hundred tooaperMKW ad
dretswa.
Baiisktrr*. Wive** BtMbrv*
Bml for raunphlet tut Pnoss fre*. !
ecttreSv >e«le*L W J. R. Marrbssa. Utica. N. Y
N-rtfala. bronal 4
Debility. Wastim. i
Ghmaic an! llandsfess rent te rtwnd
by lb* «H*(f Sodfls Rwrusuvc of huerid j
Invert HI with li> |» qvtessdstbs Urvmdmnt -
I nhyshoaitts tis-e- It at*! testify t*» HsjgvtrWt \ah*e.
rbase retvl the Mhsw*: “I ttsrtl S- «*. s ’
Emu!>i ik tor aa eto:i»aata- with lb m .j
©rrltagr. Iz-tss of Kis»acaa:a>?'. |
ri|eej»h ssawss. &K*. AH ««t there have -
NLtiHii I Inlpw t«iMi CuMlwwlas savre? :
a ease «Hf well *W*n|Q|«tl t *«a-.ssam|4v.'*sx.”--
T. J. FIXhUY, M. R, \j*esi* Texas.
t '»(•«• Mgdtww Hwrety ( Mini.
j To the F«htnr> -I’Vacs, nd-srits »wr rerskr- •
i that I law k pmititt- mady Imt tte itew]
' name*! (Ihros*. By stss totady *ts» tßsesisatals ]
| of tecjH.'brs k'osa's have toen ;rm«a«wt}i3» ;
I cured. I shall It* gSafl so>s*avS twj hflles«f ;
my reiru tlv r» tug to any of >«bt p-'>kre 1
havw€a*esut»»t*ti*»it iff !hev will retwl S'*r thx».r |
Express. KS.il P. U, a-lhrv-s, Uc-jkoL’bliv.
r. A. SHI UM. M.I .. IM IVuuri N. \
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I INDIGESTION Had DY SPEPSIA*
PIOKSTYUS, Mkjrtsit (Sal» «» Cftbwi rnmnOM
! for th.ic t&ev aunL
W# knf r.«w kMunJi •.f » v-«w
! DPJESTU4S wa»ukvttikAi re«ft<<<*ti!*i
FO3 CHOLERA IHFAHTU9L
rr will t-rms tor *wr cucatvcu;p cctta
it wtiisror tosrnxn. tx iikimnaxcv
rr w«!i ittiiuvr c-vviii knox
Pre Samiw-r O—nAtOn-.i »*■! COwvfcic J«*»rrt».ww i
wbh-b ar- irew.2t» twsreef’ort -AcmwAcw.
toWSt» IIX w W j
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Ike Mfcuuo-k ■ iftey mw tt*wm UMftmZcm* ut
MOKXrrriX HjsTtce 4, swr iu|«
roctu*-. IF ke »•« kak<o u eaA tfa» AOw %» m
an«l w* will <*n<t m Mtk ft* 9wdL.esf.rMn r«MMrt
Do not hesic.u** to> wol awret <mr won a
MiUUi*. y'se»b!k*kort tweoev ft«* yMxsrs.
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MARVELOUS
MEMORY!
DISCOVERY.
\% holly OH like nrttttvaal
Any heok IroroeJ in oar r. ndins.
kw Wins tren,Rkaiuus* rfovowo. 1
tlv.* SefientbU. W. XT. A<ft». inuft 1' Ibrui *
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1 1-*' at MvfkU-Vrelk: A (ivtlw i
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rewity of IVtttt. rhtta r. tYwkre -**4
three tamw ekore*- os COkatoOft's* l '
tTopoortop mct rm
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III.KH IX R»o.r« < OH II I
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vrc'irentenn. II t «I.k.W
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PENSIONS!^
Booksir rrx Stationery
mb iftwM tllr IrtM. pm aocl X.-t.- •
t livubrs N-torww! « 4ur*A« (Amr. ’
«Mo>»>Mikekv t . Miimlih>nhtn
Jfvmn ron o* taint; a K3'
Hwv*** «*a hmtmw.' «»1 y»m try »n
■ nn « VXI «• »—"»* T*. mrw wwn. WJCEn N » Hrfm* r*««. rM
■ •wjf RKI4 l» ****•+•—* • **’*« *o4tmM»t M ««. %ii*>«>wi Um "I use
The of many thousands of cases
»f those chronic weaknesses and distressing
.ailments peculiar to females, at the Invalids’
Hold and Hurjrical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y.,
has afforded a vast cx|x.*ricnce in niycly ndnpt
irwr and thoroughly testing rqpnedies for tho
car*-of woman's peculiar nmladi<*s.
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription
Is th«* outgrowth, or result, of this great and
valaaMc experience. Thousands of testimo
nials. received fr«»m patients and from phyei-
CISSB ftflio have tested it in the more nyyra
v«tol and obstiuato cases which hud baffled
their skill, prove it to !»o the most wonderful
remedy ever devised for the relief and cure of
mifferimr wom<*n. It is not tveommended ns a
"oitrcMal!,” but as a most perfect Specific for
I woman’s peculiar ailments.
An a potverftil, in viKornting tonic,
it ini]arts strength to the whole system,
to the womb arid ita appendages in
; rirtiouJar. For • overworked, ‘‘worn-out,"
1 ran-fttown." duddlitatcd tenclwra, milliners.
, .p-gu'is," ti*»u«!-•
i k;v*p--rs, nursing mothfra, and feeble women
! T'-aecajly, Hr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription
: is the jriv*n‘*vt cAfthly te»on, beitvr une«iualc<i
i a.~ an r.pperizing cordial an<l ri'Storntive tonic.
A -4 a soothing and »trenst;iriiliig
nervisits “Favorite Prescription” is nne-
Rinded and is Invaluable in unaying and suh
i duing ir. rvous «*xcitability. irritability, e.v
--1 haustion, pmstcation, hystetia. Ppasms nnd
j otlier <h<re.'?ing, nervous .-yuiptoms eom
i imuily attendant u* c»n funct>;:iii:i nnd orgunic
! disease of the womb. It imluo s refreshing
i j> and relieves mental unxiety and de
[ -rhh'acy.
Hr. £*!crcc*o Favorite F rescript ion
I ia a Irsilimafc i-arefully
I cuoftpo.in ! rw need and skillful
J piiy<n .in. and sdi»p!ed to v.'«sunti’s delicate
organiz-ition. It is purely in its
j oomjwisirion and |« rfcctiy ?iarml< ra in its
i effects ia any c\»nrt*rion of the system. For
momio>r sickness, «>r n;u:;co, from whatever
rauft* ansina, weak siouu’eii, indigestion, dys
; i>cnsia and kindred 1 > mptoms, its use, in 6iimll
, will |>wi«* very liencilcial.
“t'aiaiilc Prescription” is a posi
tive (aro for th** in <st compiimteil mid ob-
SJinot*' eases of l ucm rhe.i, excessive flowing,
; painful menstruation, unnattirn) suppn*sidon.**,
ptvdtpsuA, or falling of the womb, weak back,
** fiaualo wkukwess,“ autc'. orsion, ix*troversion,
I b *arinjr-down sensations, chronic congestion,
inflammation and ulrvratioii of the womb, in
tiaminaiion. pain and tenderness in ovaries,
acivunpanied witSi ** internal beat.”
A« a regulator and promoter of func
tional action, nt that critical period of change
fr-wo girlhood to womanhoon, “Favorite I’n -
©rriptroo” is a perfectly safe remedial agent,
and rein produce only good re?oils, it
fiiiwlly dnetdons raid vahiab’c in its efT< < ts
i when taken for those diFor.bTS and dermnre
, nient* incident to that inter and most critical
period, known ns “ Tim Ghangv Life."
•'Favorite Prescription.”when iaken
in ronacrtion with the use of Pr. Pieree i:
I tlobtou Discovery, and small laxtdiv
I doses <’f Or. I'teroc’s i’ui-gntii c Prik-ts d.ittle
, Uver Piltai. cures Dvor, Kidney and Illndd* t
[ ■<biases. Their combined use also ruiiovu
! blood taints, and abolisbes ramvroua am
?kr.itubus humors fnun the sjrtem.
•'Favorite t*rc?»eriptte>£» ” is the only
I fnc»te-iaebww<mien,sold W\-druggists,unde*
u positive tpiarnnlor, from tiie nmnu
I tetaws. that it will give satsslaotion in every
ease,or njiaiey will be ivfnmled. This gum-.ui
t.-e l.s* be- « pniited «»!i the bottle-wrapiH-r,
faithfully cam* *! out for many yeai-g.
i.arge bottles led doeos; or nix
kottlfs tor
For iarg *. illustrated Trestisn on Diseases et
* Id l * pages, paper-covered.*, send ten
irots m stamps. Address,
World’s Dispensary Medical Association.
GG3 Slain SI, BUFFALO, N
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IBEITS WANTED vVtWSiVAW,
OsPATTKIINS. for making Run,
few* S Ti>lM-*e lloodft. Mltlena. etc, lift
z*—clone M'rt by mail for fl. Send
1 £ afar*wry A for late reduced prim list.
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Jk TH P f\| » Obtained. Send stamp for
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AAAiI A I tmXTtr. AffTtUairunterf. w» best sell-
Aft Jr ■ I ing articles In the world. 1 sample Free.
IRfift WAddrexa 7.4 V BKOXHON. Ik fruit , MU ft.
*• " ***• Sample* worth sl.», FRRI
'-oms nm iiMbf the horse's feet-. Write
W Brewster solely itda Holder Co., ll.rtlv. Mich.
I CUE! FITS!
WVr.twyfirel cl-.n- t mean tneivljr lo st»>p them
i. - saw and l!» n U>e them r»*t cm (or-vti. I m**an a
r> * -si core. 1 h»v- made tt*«* dire KITH, K.PIL
1-C>Y «*r F t 1.1.1 NC stCKN KS.S»Uf«» long study. I
•anwsk m> r*m. .ty »-..-ur« tl.*- wore* eases. Hecauss
(li-okw-f wn y rcaa**n :**r :«ot now ncnvini a
care, fiend at »«»• m I r ;* treat and a Free Bottle
mCwtpißtalMtaremedy. Ci,.- I 'ortvSand I\h»1 Olticn.
ILG.KtMAT..*h;| I rarlSt. New York.
ISIPfil/ FOH A1.I„ ftf'-i week and exjstnses
rAS !|KS !>.:*< L Valuable and particulars
WW MIIK% fr.v, P, O. VICKKC.Y. Augusta, Me.
fflJfiivirl
aawuAualiAll
Pn» t »n#w yonnclf to tirf ak. keep up
Y«tlk, H«*ahh, Vigor. At first «igim of going
bark, begin »«r* WCUG’ Hkalti: Cr.xswcß.
For weak tram, d-'hite von*, n U.-n.-ws cn
•rgr. lNm*s I>y«{M>psta, Mental i r t'l.\.-.col
MciWcm and Getterel tebihiy.
Fewer and to take, true merit, un*
SfTOptel t«r TOffWtO LlVitw MIQIIT
SWIXTS, ., Svronin Prrsdmtion,
heavy 1 .bored or nutlena oliaurtcd,
limt laagubL faint, “ALL Gv»oE ” be!-nr,
in the Wk or homL WU m
or strenaoch. $t ,«for ft, Priggfcd* or ICa