REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE S SUNDAY
SERMON.
Text: “Fs blind guides , which strain at
a anal and swallow a camelP'— Matt xxiii,
24.
A proverb is compact wisdom, knowledge
in chunks, a library in a sentence, the eleo*
tieity of many clouds discharged in one bolt,
a river put through a mill race. When Christ
quotes the proverb of the text He means to
set forth the ludicrous behavior of those who
make a great bluster about small sins and
have no appreciation of great ones.
In my text a small insect and a large quad
ruped are brought into comparison—a gnat
and a camel. You hc.vo in museum or on the
desert seen the latter, a great awkward,
sprawling creature, with back two stories
high, and stomach having a collection of
reservoir* for desert travel, an animal for
bidden to the Jews as food, and in many
literatures entitled “the ship of the desert.”
The gnat spoken of in the text is in the grub
form. It is born in pool or pond, after a few
weeks becomes a chrysalis, and then after a
few days becomes the gnat as we recognize
it. It is in its smallest shape, and yet inhabits <
the water—for my text is a misprint, and 1
ought to read, “strain out a gnat.”
My text shows you the Prince of inconsis
tencies. A man after long observation has
formed the suspicion that in a cup of water
he is about to drink there is a grub or the
grand parent of a gnat. He goes and gets a
sieve or strainer. He takes the water and
pours it through the sieve in the broad light.
He says: “I would rather do anything almost
t ban drink this water until this larva be ex
tirpated.” This water is brought under in
quisition. The experiment is successful. The
water rushes through the sieve and leave*
against the side of the sieve the grub or gnat.
Then the mau carefully removes the insect
and drinks the water in placidity. But going
out one day, and hungry, he de’vours a “ship
of the desert,” the camel, which the Jews
were forbidden to eat. The gastronomer has
r.o compunctions of conscience. He suffers
from no indigestion. He puts the lower jaw
under the camel’s fore foot, and his upper
over the hump of the camel's back, and
gives one swallow and the dromedary disap
l>ears forever. He 6trained out a gnat; he
swallowed a camel.
While Christ's audience were yet smiling at
the appos.teness and wit of his illustration—
for smile they did in church unless they were
too stupid to understand the hyperbole—
Christ practi ally said to them: “That is
you.” Punctilious about small tilings; reck
less about affairs of great magnitude. No
subject ever withered under a surgeon’s knife
Vnore bitterly than did the Pharisees under
Christ's scalpel of truth. As an anatomist
will take a human body to pieces and put
them under a microscope for examination, so
Christ finds His way to the heart of the dead
Pharisee and cuts it out and puts it under the
glass of inspection for all generations to ex
amine. Those Pharisees thought that Christ
would flatter them and compliment them,
and how they must have writhed under the
redhot words as he said: “Ye fools, ye whited
sepvdchres, ye blind guides, which strain out
a gnat and swaliow a camel.”
There are in our day a great manv gnats
strained out and a great many camels swal
lowed, and it is the object of this sermon to
6ket:h a few persons who are extensively en
gaged in that business.
First I remark that all those ministers of
the Gospel are photographed in the text who
are very scrupulous about the conventionali
ties of religion, hut put no particular stress
upon matt ere of vast importance. Church
services ought to be grave and solemn. There
is no room for frivolity in religious convoca
tion. But there are illustrations and there
ure hyperboles liko that of Christ in the text
that will irradiate with 6miles any intelli
gent auditory. There are men like those blind
guides of the text who advocate only those
things in religious service which draw the
corners of the mouth down, and denounce all
those things which have a tendency to draw
the corners of the mouth up, and these men
will go to installations and to presbyteries
and to conferences and to associations, their
pockets full of fine sieves to strain out the
gnats, while in their own churches at home
every Sunday there are fifty people sound
asleep, 'flhey make their churches a great
dormitory, and their somniferous sermons
are a cradle, and the drawled out hymns a
lullaby, while some wakeful soul in a pew
with her fan keeps the flias off unconscious
persons approximate. Now, I say it is worse
to sleep in church than to smile in church,
for the latter implies at least attention,
while the former implies the indifference or
the hearers and the stupidity of the speaker.
In old age, or from physical infirmity, or
from long watching with the sick, drow
siness will sometimes overpower one;
but when a minister of the Gospel
looks off upon an audience and finds
healthy and intelligent people struggling with
drowsiness, it is time for him to give out the
doxology or pronounce the benediction. The
great fault or church services to-day is not
too much vivacity, but too much som
nolence. The one Is an irritating gnat
that may be easily strained out; the other is
a great, sprawling and sleepy eyed camel of
the dry desert. In all our Sabbath-schools,
in all our Bible classes, in all our pulpits, we
need to brighten up our religious message
with such Christ-like vivacity as we find m
t he text,
1 take down from my library the biogra
phic.* of ministers and writers of past ages,
ii.spired and uninspired, who have done the
most to bring souls to Jesus Christ, and I
find thot without a single exception, they con;
serrated their wit and their humor to Christ
Klijah used it when he advised the Eaalite*
as they could not make their God respond,
telling them to call louder, as their God
might be sound asleep or gone a hunting,
•fob used it when he said to his self-conceited
comforters: “Wisdom will die with you.”
Christ not only used it in the text, but when
He ironically complimented the putrefied
Pharisees, saying: “The whole need not a
pii vsician,” and when by one word He de
scribed the cunning of Herod, saying: “Go
ye, and. tell that fox.” Matthew Henry’s
commentaries from the first i>age to the
last coruscated with humor as summer
•douds with neat and lightning. John Bun
yans writings are as full of humor as tbev
vre of saving truth, and there is not an aged
m*n here who has ever read “ Pilgrim's Pro
f-retw” who does not remember that while
leading it he smiled as often as he wept
C hryßottom, George Herbert, Robert South,
Jonn Wesley, George Wbitefleld, Jeremy
Taylor, Rowland Hill, George G. Kinney mid
f, n '” n °f th,! past who greatly advanced
the kingdom of God consecrated their wit
and their humor to the cause of Christ So
It has been in ail the ages, and I say to these
young theological students, who cluster in
services Sabbath by Sabbath, shariien
Tour wits as keen as cimetcrs, and then take
to into this holy war.
It is a very short bridge between a smile
au d a tear, a suspension bridge from eye to
Up. and it is soon crossed over, and a smile is
sometimes just as sacred as a tear. There is
m* much religion, and I think a little more,
in a spring morning than in a starless mid
ou&i. 1- igtotxs work without any humor
M ,* ,f L *P M a With a side of beef,
an i that raw, and no condiments, and no
de<*»rt succeeding. People will not sit down
at Much a banquet. By all means remove all
frivolity and all bathos and all lightness and
•f vulgarity— strain them out through the
«¥*ve of holy discrimination; but, on the
•t ier hand, beware of that monster which
•verstiadows the Christian church to-day
conventionality, corning up from the Great
fudiara desert of ecclesiastic-isra, having on
lt»- bock a hump of sanctimonious glooui, and
Whifm-‘fitly refuse to swallow that camel.
Ob, how particular a great many people
or 1 about the infinitesimals while they are
Otute reckless about tin magnitudes. What
did Christ sayr Di l he not excoriate the
people in His time who were so careful to
w wh their hands before a meal but did not
their hearts? It is a bad thing to j
h i/e unclean hands; it is a worse thing to I
tove an unclean heart How many people «
there are In our time who are very anxious
that after their death they shall be buried
with their feet toward the east, and not at all
anxious that during their whole life they
should face in the right direction so that they
shall come up in the resurrection of the just
whichever way they are buried. How many
there are chietlv anxious that a minister of
the Gospel shall come in the line of apostolic
succession, not caring so much whether he
comes from Apostle Paul or Apostle Judas.
They have away of measuring a gnat until
it is larger than a camel.
Again: My subject photographs all those
who are abhorrent of small sins, while they
are reckless in regard to magnificent thefts.
You will find many a merchant who, while
he is so careful that he would not take a yard
of cloth or a spool of cotton from the counter
without paying for it, and who, if a bank
cashier should make a mistake and send In a
roll of bills $5 too much, would dispatch a
messenger in hot haste to return the surplus,
yet who wjjl go into a stock company in
which, after a while, he gets control of the
stock, and then waters the stock and makes
SIOO,OOO appear like $300,000. He only
stole SIOO,OOO by the operation. Many of
the men of fortune made their wealth in that
way. On® of those men, engaged in such un
righteous acts, that evening, the evening of
the very day when he watered the stock, will
find a wharf rat stealing a newspaper from
the basement doorway, and will go out and
catch the urchin by the collar, ana twist the
collar so tightly the poor fellow cannot say
that it was thirst for knowledge that led him
to the dishonest act, but grip the collar
tighter and tighter, saying: “ I have been
looking for you a long while; you’ve stole my
paper four or five times, haven't you?—
you miserable wretch.” And then the old
stock gambler, with a voice they ct\n ‘hear
three blocks, will cry out: “Police, police!”
That same man, the evening of the day in
which he watered his stock, will kneel
with his family in prayers and thank
God for the prosperity of the day,
then kiss his children good night with
an air which seems to say: “I liope you
will all grow up to be as good as your
father.” Prisons for sins insectile in size,
but palaces for crimes dromedarian. No
mercy for sins animalcule in proportion, but
great leniency for mastodon iniquity. A
poor boy slyly takes from the basket of a
market woman a choice pear—saving some
one else from the cholera—and you smother
him in the horrible atmosphere of Raymond
Street Jail or New York Tombs, while his
cousin, who has been skillful enough to steal
$50,000 from the city, you will make him a
candidate for the New York Legislature!
There is a great deal of uneasiness and ner
vousness now among some people in our
time to have gotten unrighteous fortunes,
a great deal of nervousness about dynamite.
I tell them that God will put under their nn
righteous fortunes something more explosive
than dynamite, the earthquake of his omnip
otent indignation. It is time that we learn
in America that sin is not excusable in pro
portion as it declares large dividends and has
outriders in equipage. Many a man is riding
to perdition, postilion ahead and lackey be
hind. To steal one copy of a newspaper is a
gnat; to steal many thousands of dollars is a
camel. There is many a fruitdealer who would
not consent to steal a basket of peaches from
a neighbor’s stall, but who would not scruple
to depress the fruit market; and as long as
I can remember we have read every summer
the peach crop of Maryland is a failure, and
by the time the cron comes in the misappre
hension makes a difference of millions of dol
lars. A man who would not steal one peach
basket steals 50,009 peach baskets. Go down
in the summer time into the Mercantile
library, in the reading room, and see the
newspaper reports of the crops from all parts
of the country, and their phrasoology is very
much the same, and the same men wrote
them, methodically and infamously carry
ing out the huge lyin«j about the grain crop
from year to year and for a score of years.
After a while there will be a “corner” in
the wheat market, and men who had a
contempt for a petty theft will bur
glarize the wheat bin of a nation and
commit larceny upon the American corn
crib. And some of the men will sit in
churches and in reformatory institutions try
ing to strain out the small gnats of scoundrel
ism, while in their grain elevators and their
storehouses they are fattening huge camels
which they expect after a while to swallow.
Society has to be entirely reconstructed on
this subject. We are to find that a sin is in
excusable in proportion as it is great.
I know in our time the tendency is to oharge
religious frauds upon good men. They say:
“Ob, what a class of frauds you have in the
; Church of God in this day;” and when an
I elder of a church,or a deacon,or a minister of
, the Gospel, or a superintendent of a Sabbath
school turns out a defaulter, what display
heads there are in many of the newspapers.
[ Great primer tvpe. Five line pica. “Another
Saint Absconded;” “Clerical Scoundrel
isin;” “Religion at a Discount;” “Shame
on the Churches;’’ while there are a
thousand scoundrels outside to where
there is one inside the church, and
the misbehavior of those who never see
the inside of a church is so great it is enough
to tempt a man to become a Christian to get
out of their company. But in all circles,
religious and irreligious, the tendency is to
excuse sin in proportion as it is mammoth.
Even John Milton in his “ Paradise Ixist,”
while he condemns Satan, gives such a grand
description of him you have hard work to
suppress your admiration. Oh, this strain
ing out of small sins like gnats and this gulp
ing down great iniquities like camels!
This subject does not give the picture of
one or two persons, but is a gallery in which
: thousands of people may see their likenesses,
i For instance, all those people who, while they
i would not rob their neighbor of a farthing,
appropriate the money and the treasure of
the public. A man has a house to sell, and
he tells his customer it is worth $30,000.
Next day the assessor comes around and
the owner says it is worth $15,000. The
government of the United States took
off the tax from personal income, among
other reasons, because so few people
would toll the truth, and many a man with
an income of hundreds of dollars a day made
statements which seemed to imply he was
about to bo handed over to the overseer of
the poor. Careful to pay their passage from
Liverpool to New York, yet smuggling in
their Saratoga trunk ten silk dresses from
Paris and a half dozen watches from Geneva,
Switzerland, telling the custom-houae officers
on the wharf: “There is nothing in that
trunk but wearing apparel,” and putting a
five dollar gold piece in his hand to punctuate
the statement.
Described in the text are all those who are
particular never to break the law of gram
mar, and who want all their language an ele
gant specimen of syntax, straining out all
the inaccuracies of speech with a fine sieve of
literary criticism, while through their con
versation go Blander and innuendo and pro
fanity and falsehood larger than a whole car
avan of camels, when they might better
lracture every law of the language
and shock intellectual tasle, and better let
every verb seek in vain for its nominative,
and every noun for its government, and
every preposition lose its way in tho sentence,
an I adjectives and participles and pronouns
get into a grand riot worthy of the Fourth
Ward on election dav, than to commit a
moral inaccuracy. Ik-tter swallow a thou
sand gnats than one cauif 1.
Hucn persons are also described in tbe text
who are very much alarmed about the small
faults of others, and have no alarm about
their own great transgression*. There are in
every community and every church watch
dogs, who feel c&IIod upou to keep their eyes
on others and growl. They are full of suspi
cionH. They wonder if that man i* not die
honest: if that man is not unclean; if there if
not something wrong alxmt the other man.
They are always the first to hear of anything
wrong. Vultures are always the first to smell
carrion. Tney ure self appointed detectives. I
lay this down as a rule without any exception
that those people who have tho most faults
themselves are most merHleut in their watch
ing of others. From scalp of bead to sole of
foot they are full of jealousies anil hypercriti
cisms. They spend their life in hunting for
muskrats and mud turtles, instead of hunting
for Rocky Mountain eagles, always for some
thing mean instead of something grand.
They look at their neighbors’ imperfections
through a microicope and look at their own
imperfections through a telescope ujM.de
down. Twenty faults of their own do not hurt
them so much as one fault of somebody else.
Their neighbors’ imperfections are like gnats
and they strain them out; their own imperfec
tions are like camels and they swallow them.
But lest some might think they escape the
scrutiny of the text, I have to tell you that
we all come under the divine satire when we
make the questions of time more prominent
than the questions of eternity. Come now,
let us all go into the confessional. Are not
all tempted to make the question: Where
shall I live now? greater than the question:
Where shall I live forever? How shall l get
more dollars here? greater than the question :
How shall I lay up treasures in heaven* tho
question: How shall I pay my debts to man?
greater than the question: How shall I meet
my obligations to God? the question: How
zhall I gain the world? greater than the ques
tion: What if Hose my soul? the question:
Why did God let sin come into the world?
greater than the question, How shall I get
it extirpated from my nature ? the question:
What shall I do with the twenty or forty or
seventy years of my sublunar existence?
greater than the question: What shall Ido
with tne millions ot cycle* of my post terres
trial existence ? Time, how small it is!
Eternity, how vast it is! Tbe former more
insignificant in comparison with the latter ;
than a gnat is insignificant when compared
with a camel. We dodged the text. We
said: “ That doesn’t mean me, and that doesn’t
mean me,” and with a ruinous benevolence
we are giving the whole sermon away.
But let us all surrender to the charge.
What an ado alxmt things here. What poor
preparation for a great eternity. As though i
a minnow were larger than a behemoth, as
though a swallow took wider circuit than an
albatross, as though a nettle were taller than
a Ix>banon cedar, as thongli a gnat were
greater than a camel, as though a minute
were longer than a century, as though time
were higher, deeper, broader than eternity.
So the text which flashed with lightning of
wit as Christ uttered it, is followed bv the
crashing thunders of awful catastrophe to
those who make the questions of time greater
than the questions or the future, the oncom
ing, overshadowing future. O, eternity!
eternity I eternity!
A Trick in Rifle Shooting.
“No, sir, I do not claim to be an ex
pert at fancy shooting,” said Captain
Jack Crawford, in answer to the
Arounder’s inquiry. “There is too much
trickery—a sort of sleight-of-hand busi
ness connected with it. Ido pretend to
be a crack 6hot, and to excel in accuracy
and rapidity with a Winchester rifle.
The Winchester Arms Company have
offered repeatedly to back me for $5,000
against any man in the world in that
6ort of skill. I have fired twelve shots
in three and a half seconds. But here,
let me enlighten you as to one of the
neat little tricks used in fancy shoot
ing.” Here the scout produced what ap
peared to be, as he held it at a distance,
a brass shell tipped with a leaden ball.
“Looks like a bullet, don’t it?” he said,
with a laugh. “Well, it isn't. It is
simply a papier-mache protuberance ap
propriately colored to look like lead.
Now, I’ll show you what’s behind it.”
Picking open the end he disclosed to
view a quantity of shot—about 200. he
said, were in the shell, w ith just enough
powder in the butt to do the work.
“How are these used? You have
probably witnessed the feat of cracking
glass balls thrown in the air by shooting
at them with a Winchester, and while
r iding a horse going at a gallop. Well,
tliat’s the kind of a ‘ball’ cartridge that
is used, and the spectators look on with
wonder and admiration, supposing that
it is done with a single bali; and that ia
something, my boy, that no man in the
world has ever done or will do, because
it is a physical impossibility.” —Bujlalo
Courier.
A Wonderful Beetle.
The light of the fire-flics of tropical
America seems to be dependent upon
the will, as when feeding or asleep it is
not seen, attaining its greatest brilliancy
during activity and flight. The color
of tbe light is a rich green, but the eggs
emit a light of a bluish tint, according
to Dubois. This naturalist lias made
some extremely interesting experiments
with the Pvrophorus. The eggs which
he dried retained their luminosity for a
week, the light reappearing when they
were placed in water. He ground the
luminous organs in :i mortar, after hav
ing dried them in vacuum and then
mixed them in boiled water, tho latter
immediately becoming luminous. Dr.
Dubois concludes that the light of tho
Pyrophorus is intended as illumination
for itself alone. To prove this he cov
ered one of the upper lights with wax
and the animal moved in a curve; when
both spots were covered the beetle jooii
stopped and then moved in an uncertain
manner, carefully feeling the ground
with his antenna.. The spectrum of the
light was extremely beautiful, being
continuous, without dark or brilliant
rays.— Christian-at - Work.
How the Sparrow Came.
The English sparrow’s advent here
was very like the rablit which Australia
is so anxious to get rid of. A miller
caterpillar, indigenous to this climate,
was found to lie destroying the trees in
the parks, besides being a nuisance in
consequence of its propensity to hang
from the trees by a web like thread.
Persons passing under the trees were
liable to have the crawling creatures
drop down their necks or upon their
clothes, and some remedy was sought to
rid New York of these pests. A for
eigner suggested the importation of a
few sparrows. Sevcnty-tivc pairs were
brought over from the Old World, and
the severe winter which followed killed
the birds. A second attempt was made,
and every one was asked to care for the
little creatures and build sparrow
houses. This was done and the sparrows
were saved the next winter. Tho young
broods raised iu tine country were soon
1 able to take care of themselves. It did
not take long for the acclimated for
eigners and their descendants to migrate,
and uow they are found all over the
United States. —New York Mail and Ex*
press.
A Clock Without a Tick.
i A curiously considerate invention has
just been produced in the shape of a
I noiseless clock for sick rooms, lu place
i of the usual pendulum, the hands are set
I iu motion by the unrolling of a chain, the
i end of which is Listened to a buoy float
; ing in a tank of liquid. This fluid es
| capes at a uniform rate, and can be
! utilized to feed a lamp-wick, thus giving
> the apparatus the double character of
| clock and lamp. When the lamp is
lighted the necessary diminution of
liquid takes place by combustion, nt
other times by a carefully regulated
t dropping.
WOMAN SUCCEEDS.
One of tbe Successful Ones Tells Hew It
Is Done.
No propor estimate of the future econom
ical progress of theVouutry can be made
that does not take into consideration an ele
ment which may be termed “the woman in
bußiuess.”
She is knocking at all the doors of com
mercial enterprise, and there are very few
into which she has not already forced an
entrance, The results seem to indicate that,
beyond a doubt, she has come to stay.
Khe cannot perhaps often reach the levers
which move tne great driving wheels of busi
ness, but she proves a most important factor
in the minor but scarcely less important
machinery of detail.
Phil Armour’s private secretary is a
young lady who was first employed as a
stenographer and type writer. She proved
so capable ami efficient that her sphere of
usefulness has been gradually enlarged, until
she now has probably a closer acquaintance
with Armour’s extended business than auy
other person connected with it.
It used to be claimed that woman had
neither physical nor mental stamina to con
duct a large business.
Mrs. Frank Leslie has made a success of
as complicated a business enterprise as almost
any in the country. The strong point in this
case is that when she took the helm, the
Feank Leslie Publishing Company had but a
short time previously failed.
Madam Demorest conducts a very exten
sive business, which includes the publishing
of a magazine. Mrs. Annie Jenness Miller
conducts a famous dress reform movement,
and is also the editress of a very successful
magazine called Dress. Her daily mail is
said to Ihj larger than that of any other
woman in tho United States.
Mrs. Miller says: “Warner’s safe cure is
the only medicine I ever take or recommend.
The safe cure has the effect to give new
energy and vitality to all my powers.”
These women have demonstrated that the
sex can succeed in business if they take
proper care of their health. That is the
main point, even with the sterner sex, and it
is the subject to which, above all others, the
women of to-day should give their attention.
And here, as everywhere, comies in play the
old maxim. “An ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure.”
A Stupendous Cattle Ranch.
A cattle ranch is a stupendous thing,
scarcely to be portrayed on paper in the
mere enumeration of figures and num
bers. When I say that one firm of cattle
kings—that of Lux & Miller—owns
102,000 domestic animals, iu neat cattle,
sheep and pigs, with two great cattle
ranches, and eight ma n farms, beside
20,000 acres in grain, comprising in all
700,000 acres, or 109 miles of land, the
mind can scarcely take it in. Perhaps
it may give a clearer idea to say that
they own all the land on the west bank
of the San Joaquin River for fifty miles
and rearly all on the opposite side: and
it is said of them that in driving their
beef cattle to market in San Francisco,
for over a hundred miles they drive
them over their own land, and “put up”
each night at one of their ow n ranches.
Cosmopolitan.
Cleveland's Future Home.
Mr. Cleveland inteuds to remain a
citizen of New York State, and on his
retirement from Federal office he will
select some portiou of the State in which
he will make his home, says a Washing
ton correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle.
Those most fully aware of the drift of
his thought in this regard say that at
present the choice lies between Albany
and Brooklyn, with a probability that
Brooklyn will be selected, although it is
known that there arc many ties which
draw him to the State capital. That
decision, however, is a matter for the
future. The renunciation of Buffalo as
a place of residence has been formally
made and is final. The act leaves the
President without a voting place in the
State until he determines where in the
State he will live, and consequently he
did not vote in the State in 1880 or
in 1887, for he could not.
A Queer Character.
The Human Express Agent, Edwin H.
Low, of the Uptown Steamship Office,
ha* a correspondent in London who is a
queer character. He charges you so
much for his time ami calls himself a
University Agent, if you have a friend
in London he will hunt him up and de
liver a cable message to him. He lias a
staff of newspaper men who assist him,
and no commisson ever stumps them. If
you see the cabled mention of a friend’s
death he'll find out all the particulars.
If you cable him to interview Gladstone
he won’t say he can’t. He’ll cable back
in a few hours: “Tried Gladstone; he
wouldn’t talk,” and charge you for his
time.— New York
Beauties of the Bicycle.
Friend—“ Why, Wheeler, what a state
you’re in! Had an accident?”
Bicycler—“ Yes, slightly. In that
race against time yesterday I broke my
machine, my head, two fingers, a rib—”
Friend—“ Hold on. for heaven’s sake.
Was there anything you didn’t break?”
Bicycler (sadly)—“Yes; the record.”
— Tid-Bit*.
Interesting to Women.
A philosopher may hold forth on the
immutability of Time, the indestructi
bility of Cosmos, the popularity of the
equinoxes, the disintegration of the
Belva Lockwood party or the differentia
tion of female suffrage, but he can’t in
terest the average vyoman one-hundredth
part as much as a cut in the price of
nairpins or a four-line announcement of
a remnant sale. — Binghampton Republican.
('onantiipflon Hurcly Curnl.
To the Editor:—Please inform your readers
that I have a positive remedy for the above
named disease. By its timely use thousands
of hopeless cases have been permanently
cured. I shall I*3 glad to send two bottles of
my remedy free to any of your readers who
liave consumption if they will send ine their
Express and P. O. address. Respectfully,
T. A. BLOCUM, M. C., 181 Fearl Bt., N. Y.
By means of a solution and an instrumsnt
called a Nebulizer the worst case of Catarrh
can be quickly and pleasantly cured. For
particulars address City Hall Pharmacy, 201
B’way, New York Free pamphlet.
After Diphtheria
H.arlet fever or pneumonia, the patient recover*
trength slowly, a* tho system Is weak and debtli
tuted. and the blood poisoned by the ravages of the
disease. What Is needed Is a good reliable tonic and
blood purifier like Hood * Sarsaparilla, which ho«
just the eleiients of strength for the body, and vlt.il
tty mid richness for the blood which soon brings
t.ock robust health.
"After recovering from a prolonged sickness with
diphtheria, an I needing somethin'* to build me up
1 t*>ok two bolt'ea or Hood's H irvaparilla. 1 felt r<*n4
results from the Aral done. It seemed to go from the
t >■> of my head to tho ends or my toes. I know
Mood's Sarsaparilla Is i% good thing."—O. B. Strat
ton. Druggist Westfield, Maas.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Bold by all druzxlUa. $1; six for sl. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD A 00., Apothecaries, Mwell, Mmi.
100 PJMfiS-O-ne. s©ller
Barn tun's Profits ®nd Losses.
The Showman Barnum’s profits on
leading exhibitions have been estimated
as follows:
Joice Heath, nurse of Washington. $25,900
Aztec children *>.ooß
American Museum,Hvo years (flw,-
000 a year) JJMH
Uptown Museum
White whale, woolly horse and
Circassian girls.. 25,000
Caravans, ninetsen years (SIOO,-
000 a year) 1,900,0 w
$3,000,000
His losses have been;
American Museum,burned.s4oo,ooo
Uptown Museum, burned.. 50,000
Iranestan, burned 25,000
Failure Jerome Clock Com
pany 25,000
Caravan destruction 150,000 750,000
$2,250,000
Reader, is not even this doing pretty
well for one who started as a bartender.
—New York letter.
Rate's Teeth.
The rnt is finely equipped for the pecu
liar life he is ordained to lead. He has
strong in the shape of four
long and very sharp teeth—two in the
upper jaw and two in the lower. These
teeth are wedge shaped, and, by a won
derful provision of nature, have always
a fine, sharp cutting edge. On examin
ing them carefully, the inner part is
found to be of a soft, ivory-like compo
sition, which can easily be worn away,
and the outside is composed of a glass
like enamel, which is exceedingly hard.
The upper teeth woik into the under, so
that the centres of the opposed teeth
meet perfectly in the act of knawinc,
hence the soft part is being continually
worn away, while the hard part keeps a
sharp, chisel-like edge all the time, and
at the same time the teeth are constantly
growing up from the bottom, so that as
they wear away a fresh supply is ready.
—Swiss C.o&s.
A Trial by Jnry.
That gr eat American jury, the people, have
rendered n unanimous verdrefc in favor of
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets, the
standard remedy for bowel and stomach di3
orders, biliousness. Bick headache, dizziness,
constipation and sluggish liver
Mr. Powderly says that “for every man
the Knights of Labor have lost on account
of their temperance clause they have gained
500.”
Walkens advertisements for Dr. Sage’s
Catarrh Remedy are the thousands it tas
cared.
Since Prohibition has been enforced in
Kansas, church membership has, it is said,
increased from ten to forty per cent
Come to the bridal chamber Death !
Come to the mother, when she feels
F A r the first time, her first-born’s bieatb,
And thou art terrible!
The untimely death which annually carries
off thousands of human beings in the prime
of youth, is indeed terrible. The first ap
proach of consumption is insidious, and tne
sufferer himself is the most unconscious of its
approach. One of the most alarming symp
toms of this dread disease is, in fact, the ine
radicable hope, which lurks in the heart of
the victim, preventing him from taking
timely steps to arrest the maladv. That it
can be arrested in its earlier stages is hevond
question, as there are hundreds of wefl-au
tnenticated cases where Dr. Pierce’s Golden
Medical Discovery has effected a complete
cure.
The enormous strides temperance is making
are shown in the joint proclamation outlaw
ing liquor in tho home fishing fleets of Great
Britain, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
and Denmark.
HIS PHOTO.
The venerable bene
factor of mankind,
intent upon his good
works, is known as
! we see him here.
His familiar face and
form have become a trade mark, and the
good he has done is illustrated in the follow
ing marvelous instance: Jan. 17, 1883,
George C. Osgood & Co., druggists, Lowell,
Mass., wrote: “Mr. Lewis Dennis, No. 136
Moody st., desires to recommend St. Jacobs
Oil to any afflicted with rheumatism, and
desires especially to say that Orrin Robinson,
of Grantville, Mass., a boy of 12 years, came
to his house <ra the summer of 1881 walking
upon crutches, his left leg having been bent
at the knee for over two months and could
not be bent back. He could not walk upon
it Mr. Dennis had some St. Jacobs Oil in
the house and gave it to him to rub on his
knee. In six days he had no use for his
crutches and went home well without them,
and he has been well since St. Jacobs Oil curea
him.” In July. 1887, inquiry was made of the
Messrs. Osgood to ascertain the condition of
the little cripple, which brought tbe follow
ing response: “Lowell, Mass., July 9, 1887.
The poor cripple on crutches, Orrin Robin
son, cured by St. Jacobs Oil in 1881, has re
mained cured. The young man has been
and is now at work every day at manual
labor. Dr. George C. Osgood, M. D.“ No
other remedy can make the same showing.
Rubber Stamp rr^-nTii"
•lla Ink to mark inrn. Knmpleaof all ktn<i»or t-arrl*.
‘2-i UlrtHtion rant* only only -JSr. \V. N. TURNER.
Canton. Mo.
AiwiiwftaaMttg
I.ll*l*l SCOTT’MAGAZINE, Philadelphia.
H Ely’s Cream Balm
Is the ben) remedy for children
fiufft-rlog from
Cold in Hoad, Snuffles
CATARRH
Apply Balm Into each noniiii.
Bly Broil,23BGreenwich St, X. y
SIITS!
Wb«n t my enra I do not moan merely to clop them
fora time and then have them return Main. I mean a
relic*l cure. I have made»be iliaeaae of PITA. EPflr
KPSY or FALLING HICKN KHS a lifalon* etudy. I
warrant my remedy to cure the wore*- oaaee. Because
ether* hare failed is no reaaon for not now receiving e
core. Hand at once for a treatise and a.rVvw Bottle
•f m/ infallible remedy. <iive Krpreea and Poet Often.
U ii. ROOT. M. IM2 Pearl Hi. New York.
Blair’s Pills Rheumatic Remedy.
Oval Ilex, 31 1 round, 14 Plll>»
* M I—l
SUfrßypßMgpßyQ^lriTY
PMitADEbPHiA-Sr.NO auw f» CaWsu!
"MAN" I
BEAST,
Mexican
Mustang Liniment
The (.imharmniwlilt In ran of
The Ilo.MWlf. ltforg.nenU u.
The Mechanlo need. It iln,i on bl,
bench.
The Miner need* It In eue of emergency.
The Pioneer need* it-esn't get along wtta
est It.
The Farmer need* It la hi* house, hi* atai*
end hi* stock yard.
The Mteambeat man or the lloatmaa *«d*
U in liberal supply afloat and ashore.
The Horee-fancter needs It—lt I* his best
friend and safest reliance.
The Steck-srewer needs It—St will save him
thousands of dollars and a world of tronbla.
~ MARVELOUS
MEMORY
DISCOVERY./
Wholly unlike artificial system*
Any hook learned In one reailiof.
Recommended by Hark Twain, Bichard pßocroa
the Scientist, Honn. W. W. Abtok. Jcdah P Ben;*.
gn, Dr. Minor. Ac. Clras of 100 Columbia Law htu
denta; V 0 at Meriden ; X*) at Norwich ; xo nt OberUa
OoUege; two classes of each at Yale; at Uni
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three large classes at Cliatauqua University, Ac.
Prospectus post pres from
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KIPPERS
INDIGESTION and DYSPEPSIA.
Over 6,000 Physicians have sent us their approval «f
DIOWfTYLIN, saying that it is the best preparattoa
ter Indigestion that they have ever used.
We have never beard or a case of Dyspepsia where
DUUBTYLIM was taken t» it was not cured.
FOR CHOLERA INFANTUM.
IT WILL CURB THE MOST AGGRAVATED CASES.
IT WILL STOP VOMITING IN PREGNANCY.
IT WILL BELIEVE CONSTIPATION.
Per Sommer Complaints and Chronic Diarrhoea,
which are the direct results of Imperfect digesUoa,
DIGMSTTLIN will effect an Immediate cure.
Take DYOESTYLIN for all pains and disorder* of
Che etomach; they all come from Indigeetlon. Ask
rear druggist for DIGESTYLIN (price $1 per large
bottle). If he does not have It send one dollar to u
and we will send a bottle to you, express prepaid.
Be net hesitate to send your money. Our nous* I*
rettahle. Established twenty-five yean.
„ WM. F. KIIADER Sc CO.*
Mn«foctnrl»g Chemists. 83 John gf.> H.T.
OAAA A MOSTH. Aqtnts Wanted. best sell
II Inu articles‘n tbe world. 1 "ample Fr>f.
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RERBRAND FIFTH WHEEL OTlffi
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cni hifrs w*
jULUILIIW bounty collected: Desenera
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PP’ f e 8S a day. Hample* worth fl.sn. FREI
AsM Lines not under the horse's feet. Write
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GOLD Is worth ssoo per lh. Pettit's Eye Sslm is
worth fLOOfi, but Is sold at 25c. a box by dealers.
Furr My return mall. Fall Deaerlptlee
ftlH( p ki lleeS/’s Now Taller Kj.tew es Press
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■Vl drees F.. H.fli lies Sc Co»» W ashing! on J). C.
XV. L. DOICLAS SHOE, the original
nnd nulv hand-sewed weft SI allot* in ilie
world, eiimils cu*«tom Mtnd«* liuud-eewed
hliocN that co«t 11*0III to $9.
W. L. DOUGLAS
$3 S B*4 Q
Tlib only S 3 BKAMI.KBS
Shoo in tho world, with-f -}
_ out tacka or nails. / Mix]
Finest Calf, perfect |pgj»- 1
and warranted. Congress, FrCMojl
Button and laice, all csjlr 'C uj 3k
styles toe. A* stylish Ajr KSB
and durable as those Cy 1
coat Ing to or $6. Boy _X/ BcP' r cfl
all w«*ar the W. Jr . aitY
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writ# W. L.DOIGLAS, L rock to*- “wi.
mpa
fifffs Dinar TO WEAK SPOTS.
D.,'l .How yours.lf to Lruk Korp up
Youth, Health. Vigor. A« good at 80 years as
atil, as good at 75 aunt 40. At the find s
ot going back »n*gin the use of Wills' Health
Rkmwkti Rejuvenates lagging vital tone*.
caused the blood to course through tho vein*
as in youth. For vreak men. deli, ate women.
Cure* Dyspepsia, Drain or Nervous Wesknee .
Exhausted vitality. Restore* Vigor. $t (**
Drug, or Ex. E. K. Wnxti, Jersey < lty, N. J-
Buchu-Paiba.
cure, all nnnoyirr Kidney. Bladder and
Urinary diseases, < .darrh .*f iWadHer. Ac. $1
Druggists E. H. Wkui, Jersey City, N. J
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