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REV DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOLLYN DIVINE’S SUNDAY SERMON. Text: “So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord , and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his fool unto his crown. And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes. Then said his wife unto him: i Dost thou still retain thine integrity f Curse God , and die. 1 ’’—Book of Job, ii., 7, 8 and 9. A story oriental anil marvelous. Job was the richest man in all the east. He had cam els and oxen and asses and sheep, and, what would have made him rich without anything else,seven sons and three daughters. It was the habit of these children to gather together for family reunion. One day Job is thinking of his children as gathered together at a ban- 1 quet at the elder brother's house. While the old man is seated at his tent door he sees some one running, evidently, from his manner, bringing bad news. “What is the matter now? ” “ On,” says the messen ger, “a foraging party of Sabeans has fallen upon the oxen and the asses, and destroyed them and butchered all the ser vants except myself.” Stand aside. Another messenger running. What is the matter now? “Oh.” says the man, “the lightning has struck the sheep and the shepherds, and all the shepherds are destroyed except my self.” Stand aside. Another messenger run ning. What is the matter now? “Oh,” he says, “the Chaldeans have captured the camels and slain all the camel drivers except myself.” Stand aside. Another messenger running. What is the matter now?” “Oh, he says, “a hurricane struck the four cor ners or the tent where your children were assembled at the banquet, and they are all dead.” But the chapter of calamity has not ended. Job was smitten with elephantiasis, or black leprosy. Tumors from head to foot—fore head ridged with tubercles—eyelashes fall out—nostrils excoriated—voice destroyed— intolerable exhalations from the entire body, until with none to dress his sore, he sit? down in the ashes with nothing but pieces of broken pottery to use in the surgery of his wounda At this moment, when he needed all encouragement, and all consolation, his wife comes in, in a fret and a rage, and says: “This is intolerable. Our property gone, our children slain, and now you covered up with this loathsome and disgusting disease. Why don't you swear? Curse God and die'. 1 An, Job knew right well that swearing would not cure one of the tumors of his ago nized body, would not bring back one of nis destroyed camels, would not restore one of his dead children. He knew that profanity would only make the pain more unbearable.and the poverty more distressing, and the bereave ment more excruciating. But, judging from the profanity abroad in our day. you might come to the conclusion that there was some (?reat advantage to be reaped from profan- Blasphemy is all abroad. You hear it in every direction. The drayman swearing at his cart, the sewing girl imprecating the tangled skein, the accountant cursing the long line of troublesome figures. Swearing at the store, swearing in the loft, swearing in the cellar, swearing on the street, swear ing in factory. Children swear. Men swear. Women swear! Swearing from the rough calling on the Almighty in the low restaurant, clear up to the reckless “Oh Lord!” of a glittering drawing room: and the one is as much blasphemy as the other. There are times when we must cry out to the l*ord by reason of our physical agony or our mental distress, and that is only throw ing out our weak hand toward the strong arm of a father. It w’as no profanity when James A. Garfield, shot in the Washington depot, cried out: “My God, what does this mean?” There is no profanity in calling out upon God in the day of trouble, in the day of darkness, in the day of physical anguish, in the day of bereavement; but I am speaking now of the triviality and of the recklessness with which the name of God is sometimes used. The whole land is cursed with it. A gentleman coming from the far west sat in the car day after day behind two persons who were indulging in profanity, and he made up his mind that he would make a record of their profanities, and at the end of two days several sheets of paper were cov ered with these imprecations.and at the close of the journey he handed the manuscript to one of the persons in front of him. “Is it possible,” 6aid the man, “that we have ut tered so many profanities the last few days!” ‘lt is,” replied the gentleman. “Then,” said the man who had taken the manuscript: “I will never swear again.” But it is a comparatively unimportant thing if a man makes a record of our improprie ties of speech. The more memorable consid eration is that every improper word, every oath uttered, has a record the book of God’s remembrance, and that the day will come when all our crimes of speech, if unre pented of, will be our condemnation. I shall not to-day deal in abstractions. I hate ab stractions. lam going to have a plain talk with you. my brother, about a habit that you admit to be wrong. The habit grows in the community in the fact that young people think it manly to swear. Little children hardly able to walk straight on the street, yet have enough dis tinctiveness of utterance to let you know that they are damning their own souls or damning the souls of others. It is an awful thing the first time the little feet are lifted to have them set down on the burning pave ment of hell! B ’ Between 16 and 20 years of age there is apt to come a time when a young man is as much ashamed of not being able to swear gracefully as he is of the dizziness of bis first cigar. He baa hiß hat, his boot and his coat of the right pattern, and now, if he can only swear without awkwarkness, and as well as his comrades, he believes he is in the fashion. There are young men who walk in an atmosphere of imprecation—oaths on their MpS under their tongues, nestling in their shock of hair. They abstain from it in the elegant drawing room, but the street and the club house ring with their profanities. They have no regard for God, although they have great respect for the ladies! My young brother, there is no manliness in that. The most ungentl**manly thing a man can do is to swear. Fathers foster this great crime. There are parents who are very cautious not to swear in the presence of their children: in a moment of sudden anger they look around to see if the children are present when they indulge in this habit. Do you not know, oh father, that your child is aware of the fact that you swear? He overheard you in the next room, or some one has informed him of your habit. He is practicing now. In ten years he will ■wear as well as you do. Do not, oh father, be under the delusion that you may swear and your son not know it. It is an awful thing to start the habit in a family the father to be profane, and then to have the echo of his example come back from other generations; so that generations after genera tions curse the Jx»rd. The crime is also fostered by master mechanics, bom carpenters, those who are at the head of men in hat factories, and in dock yards and at the head of great business establishmente. When you go down to look < . t , th *.7j rk °L l . he *c«olding, and you find it is not done right, what do you say? It is not praying, ia it ? The employer swear-s --ine employe is tempted to swear The rain ••ys: “I don’t know why inf employer, worth $50,000 or $100,001), should have any Inxury I should lie denied simply tmrause I am poor. Because lam poor and dependent on a day's wages, haven't I as much right to •wear as he has with his large Incomer Employers swear, and that makes so many employes swear. The Habit also comes from Infirmity of temper. There are a good many people who, when they are at peace, have righteousness of « eech. but when angered they blaze with Imprecation. Perhaps all the rest of th« year they talk in right lanzuage, but now they pour out the fury of a whole year in on* red hot paragraph of five minutes. I knew Os * man who excused himself for the habit, eaylng: “I only swear once in a great while. I must do that just to clear myself out ” The habit comes also from the. profuse us? of bywords. The transition from a byword which may be perfectly harmless to impre cation and profanity is not a very large transition. It is “my stars!” and “mercy on me!” and “good gracious!” and “by George!” and “by Jove!” and you go on with that a little while, and then you swear. These words, perfectly harmless in themselves, are next door to imprecation and blasphemy. A profuse use of bywords always ends in pro fanity. The habit is creeping up into the highest styles of society. Women have no patience with flat and unvarnished profanity. They will order a man out of the parlor in dulging in blasphemy, and yet you will some times find them with fairy fan to the lip, and under chandeliers which bring no blush to their cheek, taking on their lips the holiest of names in utter triviality. Why, my friends, the English language is comprehensive and capable of expressing all shades of feeling and every degree of en ergy. Are you happy? Noah Webster will give you ten thousand words with which to express your exhilaration. Are you right eously indignant? There are whole armies in the vocabulary, righteous vocabulary —whole armies of denunciation, and scorn, and sarcasm, and irony, and cari cature, and wrath. You express your self against some meanness or hypocrisy in all the oaths that ever smoked up from the pit, and I will come right on after you and give a thousandfold more emphasis of denunciation to the same meanness and the same hypocrisy in words across which no slime has ever trailed, and into which the fires of hell have never shot their forked tongues—the pure, the innocent, God hon ored Anglo-Saxon in which Milton sang and John Bunyan dreamed and Shakespeare dramatized. There iR no excuse for profanity when we have such a magnificent language—such a flow of good words, potent words, mighty words, words just to suit every crisis and every case. Whatever be the cause of it, profanity is on the increase, and if you do not know it, it is because your ears have been hardened by the din of imprecations so that you are not stirred and moved as you ought to be by profanities in these cities which are enough to bring a hurricane of fire like that which consumed Sodom. Do you know that this trivial use of God’s name results in perjury? Do you know that peopl" who take the name of God on their lips in recklessness and thoughtlessness are fostering the crime of prjury? Make the name of God a football in the community, and it has no power when in court room and in legislative assembly it is employed in solemn adjuration! See the way sometimes they administer the oath: 4 ‘S’help you God kiss the book!” Smuggling, which is always a violation of the oath, becomes in some circles a grand joke. You sav to a man: “How is it possible for you to sell these goods so very cheap? I can t understand it.” Ah!” he replies, with a twinkle in the eves, “the custom house tariff of these goods isn’t as much as it might be.” An oath does not mean as much as it would were the name of God used in reverence and in solemnity. Why is it that so often jurors render unac countable verdicts and judges give unac countable charges, and useless railroad schemes pass in our State capitals, and there are most unjust charges made in tariffs — tariff lifted from one thing and put upon another? What is an oath? Anything solemn? Any thing that calls upon the Almighty? Any thing that marksan event in a man’s history? Oh. no! It is kissing the book! There is no habit, I tell you plainly—and I talk to hun dreds and thousands of men to day who will thank me for my utterance—l tell you, my brother —I talk to you not professionally but just as one brother talks to another on some very important theme—l tell you there is no habit that so depletes a man’s nature as the habit of profanity. You might as well try to raise vineyards and orchards on the sides of belching Stromboli as to raise anything good on a heart from which there pours out the scoria of profanity. You may swear yourself down; you cannot swear yourself up. When the Mohammedan finds a piece of paper he cannot read, he puts it aside very cautiously for fear the name of God may be on it That is one extreme. We go the other. Now what is the cure of this habit? It is a mighty habit. Men have struggled for years to get over it. There are men in this house of trod who would give half their fortune to get rid of it. An aged man was in the delirium of a fever. He had for many years lived a most upright life and was honored in all the community, but when he came into the delirium of this fever he was full of imprecation and profanity, and they could not understand it. After he came to his right reason he explained it. He said: “When I was a young man I was very pro fane. I conquered the habit, but I naa to struggle all through life. You haven’t for forty years heard me say an improper word, but it has been an awful struggle. The tiger is chained, but he is alive yet.” If you would get rid of this habit, I warn you, my friends, to dwell upon the useless ness of it. Did a volley of oaths ever start a heavy load? Did they ever extirpate mean ness from a customer? Did they ever collect a bad debt? Did they ever cure a toothache? Did they ever stop the twinge of the rheu matism ? Did they ever help you forward one step in the right direction? Come now, tell me, ye who have had the most experi ence in this habit, how much have you made out of it? Five thousand dollars in all your life? No. One thousand? No. One hun dred? No. One dollar? No. One cent? No. If the habit be so utterly useless, away with it But you say: “I have struggled to over come the habit a long while, and 1 have not been successful. ” You struggled in your I own strength, my brother. If ever a man wants God, it is in such a crisis of his history. God alone by His grace can emancipate you from trouble. Call upon Him day and night that you may be delivered from this crime. Remember also in the cure of this habit that it arouses God’s indignation. The Bible reiterates from chapter to chapter, and verse after verse, that it is accursed for this life and that it makes a man miserable for eternity. There is not a sin in all the cata logue that is so often peremptorily and suddenly punished in this world as the sin of profanity. There is not a city or a village but can give an illustration of a man struck down at the moment of imprecation. A couple of years ago, briefly referring to this in a sermon, I gave some instances in which God had struck swearers dead at the moment of their profanity. That sermon brought to me from many parts of this land and other lands statements of similar cases of instan taneous visitation from God upon blas phemers. My opinion is that such cases occur somewhere every day, but for various reasons they are not reported. In Scotland a club assembled every week for purposes of wickedness, and there was a competition as to which could use the most horrid oath, and the man who succeeded wa* to be President of the club. The competition went on. A man uttered an oath which con founded all the comrades, and he wan mad* ITeai dent of the club. His tongue began to swell, and it protruded from his mouth, and he could not draw it in, and he died, and the physician said: “This is the strangest thing we ever saw; we never saw any account in the books like unto it; we can’t understand it.” I understand it He cursed God and died. At Catskill. N. Y., a group of men stood in a blacksmith's shop during a violent thun der storm. There came a crash of thunder, and some of the men trembled. One man said: “Why, 1 don’t ere what you are afraid of. lam not afraid to go out in front of the shop and defy the Almighty. lam not afraid of lightning.” And he laid a wager oil the subject, and he .went out, and ne •hook his fist at the heavens, crying: “Btrike if you dare!” And instantly he fell under a bolt. What destroyed him? Any mystery about it? Oh, no. ’He cursed God and died. Oh, my brother. God will not allow this sin to go unpunished. Thera are styles of writing with manifold sheets, so that a man writing on one leaf writes clear through ten, fifteen or twenty sheets, and so every pro fanity we utter goes right down through the leave* of the book of <lod's remembrance 1 1 is no exceptional sin. Do you suppose you could count the profanities of lust w.-ek—the profanities Os office, (tope, shop, \actor jf They cursed God, they cursed His word, they cursed His only begotton Bon. One morning, on Fulton street, as I was passing along. 1 heard a man swear by the name of Jesus. My hair lifted. My blood ran cold. My breath caught. My foot halted Do you not suppose that God is ag gravated? Do you not suppose that Goa knows about it? Dionysius used to have a cave in which his culprits were incarcerated, and he listened at the top of that cave, and he could hear every groan, he could near every sigh, and he could hear every whisper of those who were imprisoned. He was a tyrant. God is not a tyrant, but he bends over this world and he hears everything— every voice of praise, every voice or impre cation. He hears it all. The oaths seem to die on the air, but they have eternal echo. They come back from the ages to come. Listen! Listen! “All blesphemers shall have their place in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” And if, according to the theory of some, a man commits in the next world the sins which he committed in this world—if unpardoned, unregenerated—think of a man’s going on cursing in the name of God to all eternity! The habit grows. You start with a small oath, you will come to the large oath. I saw a man die with an oath between his teeth. Voltaire only gradually came to his tremen dous imprecations; but the habit grew on him until in the last moment, supposing Christ stood at the bed, he exclaimed: “Crush that wretch. Crush that wretch!” Oh, my brother, you begin to swear and there is nothing impossible for yob in the wrong di rection. Who is this God whose name you are using in swearing? Who is he? Is he a tyrant? Has he starved you, frozen you, tyrannized over you? No. He has loved you, he has sheltered you, he watolied you last night, he will watch you to-night. He wants to love you, wants to help you, wants to save you, wants to comfort you. He was your father’s God and your mother’s God. He has housed them from the blast, and be wants to shelter you. Will you spit in his face by an imprecation ? Will you ever thrust him back by an oath ? Who is this Jesus whose name I heard in the imprecation ? Has he pursued you all your life long ? What vile thing has be done to you that you should so dishonor his name ? Why, he was the l>amb whose blood sim mered in the fires of sacrifice for you. He is the brother that took off his crown that you might put it on. He has pursued you all your life long with mercy. He wants you to love him, wants you to serve him. He comes with streaming eyes and broken heart and blistered feet to save you. On the craft ot our doomed humanity ne pushed out into the sea to take you off the wreck. Where is the * hand that will ever be lifted In imprecation again ? Let that hand, now blood tipped.be lifted that I may see it. Not one. Wnere is the voice that will ever be uttered in dishonoring the name of that Christ? Let it 6peak now. Not one. Not one. Oh, lam glad to know that all these vices of the community, and these crimes of our city will be gone. Society is going to be bettered. The word by the power of Christ’s gospel is going to be saved, and this crime, this iniquity, and all the other iniquities will vanish before the rising of the sun of right eousness upon the nation. There was one day in New England memor able for storm and darkness. I hardly ever saw such an evening. The clouds which had been gathering all aay unlimbered their bat teries. The Housatonic. which flows quietly, iave as the paddles of pleasure parties rattle the oar kicks, was lashed into foam, and the waves hardly knew where to lay them selves. Oh! what a time it was! The hills jarred under the rumbling of (rod’s chariot. Blind ing sheets of rain drove the catle to the bars, or beat against the window pane as though to dash it in. The grain fields threw their crowns of gold at the feet of the storm king. When night came in it was a double night. Its mantle was torn with the light nings, and into its locks were twisted the leaves of uprooted oaks and the shreds of canvass tom from the masts of the beached shipping. It was such a night as makes you thank God for shelter, and open the door to let in the spaniel howling outside with terror. We went to sleep under the full blast of heaven’s great orchestra, the forests with up lifted voices, in chorus that filled the moun tains, praising the Lord. We woke not until the fingers of the sunny morn touched our eyelids. We looked out the window and the Housatonic slept as nuiet as an infant's dream. Pillars of eloua set against the sky looked liked the castles of the blest built for heavenly hierarchs on the beach of the azure sea. All the trees sparkled as though there had been some great grief in heaven, and each leaf had been God appointed to catch an angel’s tear. It seemed as if our Father had looked upon the earth, His wayward child, and stooped to her tear- wet cheek and kissed it. Bo will the darkness ot sin and crime leave our world before the dawn of the morn ing. The light shall gild the city spire and strike the forests of Maine and the masts of Mobile, and all between. And one end rest ing on the Atlantic coast and the other rest ing on the Pacific beach, God will spring a great rainbow arch of peace, in token of everlasting covenant that the world shall never more see a deluge of crime. “But.” says some one, “preaching against the evils of society will accomplish nothing. Do you not see that the evils go right on?” I answer, we are not at all discouraged. It seemed insignificant for Moses to stretch his hand over the Red sea. What power could that have over the waters? But the east wind blew all night: the waters gath ered into two glittering palisades on either tide. The billows reared as God's hand pulled back upon their crystal bits. Wheel into line, oh Israel! March! March! Pearls crash under their feet. The shout of hosts mounting the beach answers the shout of hosts mid sea, until, as the last line of the Israelites have gained the beach, the shields clang and the cymbals clap, and as the wa ters whelm the pursuing foe the swift fin gered winds on the white keys of the foam play the grand march of Israel delivered, and the awful dirge of Egyptian overthrow. So we go forth, and stretch out the hand of Erayer and Christian effort over these dark. oiling waters of crime and sin. “Aha! Aha!” says?the deriding world. But wait. The winds of divine help will begin to blow; the way will clear for the great army or Christian philanthropists: the glittering treasures or the world’s beneficence will line the path of our feet; and to the other shore we will be greeted with the clash of all heaven’s cymbals: while those who resist and deride and pursue us will fall under the sea, and there will be nothing loft of them but here and there, cast high and dry upon the beach, the splintered wheel of a chariot, and, thrust out from the surf, the breathless nostril of a riderless charger. That Tired Feeling Is experienced hr almost every one «t thl season, and many people resort to Hood's laraaparllht to drive away the languor and exhaustion. The blood, laden with Impurities which have Imen areumulallnx lor month*, move# *t«gKi*hly through |»h«* veina. the mind fails to think qutekly, and the body IsstM slower 10 respond. Hood's Banrapar Ila 'a Ju*t what t* needed. It purifies, vitalises, «n<l enriche* the Mood, makes the head eieor, create* nn apietlt* . overcome* that tired feeling, tone* the nervuiia k-ya lent, and impart* new mrength and vigor to the whole body* Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is proven in he no vo t'y sup* rloc to sny other *nr*a p trills, «»r hi o*| purifier, that one !ia« well »ald: "It* heal h Kteins effect* upon the Mood and entire human organUm art* a* much more positive than the lemedls* of a quarter of a contury ago asthff - team power of todar It 1 1 advance ous drudgery of year* ago." Hood’s Sarsaparilla b,C, i. gOM>«OJ, A[K.h-.-srl««, Mw.ll, Im | >*C. I. HOOD A 00, ApHhrarMo. Ulwell. ««' 100 DosotOne Dollar 100 Pom On» Dollar — “PNEUMONIA.” Wlr iii; JjrN , S!n% t Sco “ r, ° br (New York Telegram.) Many a strong well-built man leaves home to-day; before night he will have a chill and in a few hours will be dead! This is the way the dreaded pneumonia takes people off. The list of notable men who are its victims is appalling. It sweeps over the land like a scourge and destroys poor and rich alike. Everyone dreads it. Its coming is sudden, its termination usually speedy. What causes it? Pneumonia, we are told, is invited by a certain condition of the system, indicated if one has occassional chills and fevers, a ten dency to cold in the throat and lungs, rheu matic and neuralgic pains, extreme tired feelings, short breath and pleuritic stitches in the side, nervous unrest, scalding sensa tions, or scant and discolored fluids, heart flutteringß, sour stomach, distressed look, puffy eye sacs, hot and dry skin, loss of strength and virility. Those indications may not appear together, they may come, disappear ana reappear for years, the person not realizing that they are nature’s warning of a coming calamity. In other words, if pneumonia does not claim as a victim the persons having such symptoms some less sudden but quite as fatal malady certainly will. A celebrated New York physlcial told the Tribune that pneumouia was a secondary disorder, the exposure and coll being simply the agent which develops the disease, already dormant in the system, because the kidneys have been but partially doing their duty. In short, pneumonia is but an early indication of a bright’s diseased condition. This impaired action may exist for years without the pa tient suspecting it, because no pain will be felt in the kidneys or their vicinity, and often it can be detected only by cheraicai and mi croscopical observations. Nearly 150 of the 740 deaths in New York City the first week in April (and in six weeks 781 deaths) were caused by pneumonia. The disease is very obstinate, and if the accompanying kidney disorder is very far advanced, recovery is impossible, for the kid neys give out entirely, and the patient is lit erally suffocated by water. The only safeguard against pneumonia is to maintain a vigorous condition of the system, and thus prevent its attacks , by using whatever will radically and effec tually restore full vitality to the kidneys, for if they are not sound pneumonia can not be prevented. For this purpose there is nothing equal to Warner's safe cure, a remedy known to millions, used probably by hundreds of thousands and commended as a standard specific wherever known and used. It does not pretend to cure an attack of pneumonia, but it does remove the cause, of and prevent that disease if taken in time. No reasonable man can doubt this if he re gards the personal experience of thousands of honorable men. When a physicician says his patient has either bright's "disease or pneumonia he con fesses his inability to cure, and in a measure he considers his responsibility ended. In many instances, indeed, persons are reported as dying of pneumonia, heart disease, apoplexy and convulsions, when the real cause of death, and so known by the physi cians, is this kidney consumption.'Thousands of people have it without knowing it and perish of it liecause their physicians will not tell them the facts! The same fate awaits every one who will not exercise his judgment in such a matter. Liquor-Drinking Baseball Player* Ferguson, the veteran umpire, player, and manager, was full of reminiscences and bas# ball reform yesterday. Among other thing) he said: “I nave watched closely the devel opment of the baseball phenomenons, and some of the men deserved the success they made, while others are out of their occupa tion except when carrying, the hod or de bauching in a gin mill. Look at Burdock, for instance; there is a wonderful player, and vet of what account is he to himself or tc baseball ? There is one of the greatest, if not the best infielder in the country. He cannol control his abominable taste for liquor, and consequently he is useless. The club ownen have forgiven his tricks until they have lost all patience with him. He has been fined agair ana again, and yet he will go right off and dc the same thing again. Now he appears to havf been shelved at last, and in the interest ol the game he ought not to be' taken back again. Such practices cast a reflection upon every other player in the country. You read in the papers of another of Burdock’s es capades, and people say: * Oh, he’s a ball nlaver,’ as if all ball players did such things. I have always been in favor of retiring men from the profession who cannot conduct themselves like true gentlemen both on and off the field. I was always opposed to rein stating those unfortunate players, Hall and Devlin, and although they had powerful friends, and every effort was made to have them taken back, better counsel prevailed and it was not done. Base ball is the sport of the people, and we must keep it clean and wholesome, or the foundation will be knocked from under it. Players are now paid good salaries, and young’ men of intelligence and social position are daily entering the ranks. Let the loafers go, 1 say, and so will say every other true friend or the game. “ Returning to Burdock, what do you sup pose if that great second baseman would take care of himself he could be drawing as a salary to-day? Look at Dunlap with hi* $4500, and Johnny Ward demanding SSOOO. Burdock could get those figures with ease if he had only taken care of himself, and not muddled his brain with that manhood destroying tanglefoot. '"—New York Sun. Hurry Up! Temperance brothers and sisters, hurry up! The great army of outcasts,of helpless women and innocent children look to you for aid to emancipate them from the worse than death in which they are now plunged. Agitate for “sweeter, purer laws.” Already a broad streak of light is in the horizon, in tie name I ot the Lord God Almighty, do not slacken one single effort for right, until the line of dawn shall have broadened into the light of perfect day. The American saloon of today stands at the bar oi American civilization for its ver dict. The testimony is in, and of such a nat ure that we no longer ask shall anything be done with the dramshop? but wbat shall be done with it? Society has laws for its pro tection, and in the exercise of personal liberty you cannot oppose the good of society. Tho safety of the State and the protection of the Sure is the demands of temperance reform.— frs. Mary T. Lathrop. Nearly everyboiy need* a good spring mcdlel 10 like H'jod’* Sarsapirllla to expel Impurities which accumulate In the blood during the winter, keep up strength ms warm weather com*** on. c cate an ap petite and p-omote healthy, digestion. Try Hood* Haraapartlla and you will bo convince I of It* larnerlt*. It I* the Ideal spring medicine reliable, beneficial, pleata it lo take, and give* full value tor tne money. “I t ike Hood's Raraooarllla as a spring tonic, and I recommend It ail who have that mtsera le llred feeling. • O. Parukluk, 319 Brl Ige strew, Brooklyn. Make the Weak Strong “Mv appetite wa* poor. 1 could not sleep, had headache a greut deni, pain* In my t a ’k. my bowel* •ltd not move regularly. Hood'* Saraaparlllu In a short time did m so much g od that I feel like a new matt. My pains and ache* ir • relieve I, my appetite Improved. I say to otb*r« iry II rod * Sarsaparill u* (i y . Jackkos. itogbury Stat on. Conn. German Student Beer-Drinkers. A writer in a late number of the Cornhill Magazine describes at length the German Kneipe , or beer-drinking club for German students. In some of the German universi ties these beer-drinking clubs have regular sessions, and the drinking is carried on wi;h much formality, and the quantity consumed is well-nigh incredible. “It is no uncommon thing,” says this writer, “ for a student to drink from twenty to thirty pints of beer in the course of a single club meeting. What would appear quite impossible is accomplished in • way as disgusting as can well be con ceived. “The difficulty,” this writer adds, “is met by artificially creating a vacuum. The beer-honorable, full to bursting point, makes a momentary exit from the club-room, and sticks a finger in his throat. The titilla tion of the uvula produces a result that may be better imagined than described, and the beery champion returns to his place relieved of his previous potations and ready for fresh ones.” No young man can go through such drink ing bouts in his college life and not deterior ate morally and physically. It is to that 6ort of “personal liberty” and general demor alization that we should drift rapidly in this country but for the temperance teaching which nere obtains, and if the beer-makers and venders were allowed unrestricted sway. —National Temperance Advocate. Chronic G'oughs'and Colds, And all diseases of the Throat and Lungs, can be cured by the use of Scott’s Emul sion, as it contains the healing virtues of Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphitgs in their fullest form. Is a beautiful creamy Emulsion, pal atable as milk, easily digested, and can be taken by the most delicate. Please read: “I consider Bcott’s Emulsion the remedy par excellence in Tuberculous and Strumous Af fections, to say nothing of ordinary colds and throat troubles.”—W.R 8. Connell, M. D., Manchester. O. m a recent interview with a reporter, a leading New York liquor dealer said that whisky was the most dangerous liquor in the market; that it was more easily adulterated ihan any other spirits, and that it usually contained seven different substances, all dan gerous to the health and life of the consumer. “Ah me!” sighed Potts, “I’m tired of living, The world is hollow, ambition’s vain.” “Come now!” said his chum, “I know the symptoms; It’s all yeur liver—that’s very plain. You need not suffer, fur help is easy; Pierce's Pellets go right to the place. *A friend to the bilious,’ I well might call them— There's nothing better; they'll suit your case.” Potts ceased his sighing and bought the “Pellets.” No niefre he mourneth bis hapless lot! His face is cheerful, his heart is lightsome, His melancholy is quite foreot! Force in matters of opinion can do no good, but it is very apt to do hurt; foi no man can change his opinions when he will, or be satisfied in his reason that his opinion is false because discountenanced. —Jeremy Taylor. Papular Education. We sympathize with the feeling which often leads citizens to boast that no child born in this country need grow up in ignor ance, and yet it is a fact that many |>eople who have learned to read and write have never taught themselves to think. A man who suffered from catarrh, consumption, bronchitis, scrofula, or “liver complaint,” might read, till hts eyes dropped out, how these and many other diseases have been cured by Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discov ery, but if he did not take the lesson to him , seif and test the virtues of this great medi cine, his time would be thrown away. 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Charlotte Messenger (Charlotte, N.C.)
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May 5, 1888, edition 1
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