REV DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUNDAY
SERMON.
Tmt: “Ask ftr&ihe old paths, where is
the good way, and walk therein , and ye shall
find rest for your touts.— Jeremiah vl„ 16
A great London fog hat come down upon
tome of the ministers and some of the
churches in the shape of what is called ‘ad
vanced thought'' in Biblical interpretation.
All of them, and without any exception,
deny the full inspiration of the Bible.
Genesis is an allegory, and there are many
myths in the Bible, and they philosophize
and guess and reason and evolute until they
land in a great continent of mud, from
which, I fear, for all eternity they will not
be able to extricate themselves.
The Bible is not only divinely inspired, but
it is divinely protected in its present shape.
You could as easily, without detection, take
from the writings of Shakespeare Hamlet,
and institute in place' thereof Alexander
Smith's drama, as at any time during the
last fifteen hundred years, a man could have
made any important change in the Bible
without immediate detection. If there had
been an element of weakness, or of de
ception, or of disintegration, the
Book would long ago have fallen to
pieces. If there had been one loose t rick or
cracked casement in this castellated truth,
surely the bombardment of eight centuries
would have discovered and broken through
that imperfection. The fact that the Bibio
stands intact, notwithstanding ail the furi
ous assaults on all sides upon it, is proof to
me that it is a miracle, and every miracle is
of God.
“But,” says some one, “while weadm t
the Bible is of God, it has not been under
stood until our time.” My answer is, that if
the Bible be a letter from God, our Father,to
man, His child, hi it not strange that that
letter should have been written in such a
way that it should allow seventy genera
tions to pass away and be buried before the
letter < ould bo understood i Thac would be
a very bright Father who should write a
letter for the guidance and intelligence of
His children not understandable until
a thousand years after they were buried and
forgotten! While as the years roll on other
beauties and excellencies will unfold from the
Scriptures, that the Bible is such a dead
failure that all the Christian scholars for
1800 yean* were deceived in regard to
vast reaches of its meaning, is a demand
upon my credulity so great that if I found
myself at all dispo ed to yield to it I should
to morrow morning apply at some insane
asylum as unfit to go alone.
Who make up this precious group of ad
vanced thinkers to whom God has made et-
S*cial revelation in our time of that which
e tried to make known thousands of years
ago and failed to make intelligible? Are they
so distinguished for unworldliness, piety and
scholarship that it is to be expected that they
would have been chosen to fix up the defec
tive work of Moses and Isaiah and Paul
and Christ? Is it all possible? 1 won
der on what mountains these mod
ern exegetes were transfigured? I
wonder what star pointed down to their birth
place? Was it the North Star, or the Even
ing Star, or the Dipper? As they came
through and des<-ended to our world did Mars
blush or Saturn lose one of its rings? AVhen
I find these modern attempting to
Improve upon the work of the Almighty and
to interlard it with their wisdom and to sug
gest prophetic and apostolic errata. I
am filled with a disgust insufferabia
Advanced thought, which proposes to
tell the Lord* what He ought to have
said thousands of years ago, and would have
6aid if He had been as wise as His ninetenth
century critics! All this comes of living
away back in the eternities instead of 1888. I
have two wonders in regard to these men.
The first is how the Lord got along without
them before thev were born. Toe second
wonder is how the Lord will get along with
out them after they are dead.
“But,” say some, “do you really
think the Scriptures are inspired
throughoutf Yes, either as history or
as guidance. Gibbon and Josephus and
Prescott record in their histories a great
many things they did not approve of. When
George Bancroft puts upon his brilliant his
torical page the account of an Indian massa
cre, does he approve of that massacre? There
are scores of things in the Bible which neither
God nor inspired men sanctioned. Either as
history or as guidance the entire Bible was
inspired of God.
“But,” says some one, “don’t you think
that the copyists might have made mistakes
In transferring the divine words from one
manußi ript to another ?” Yes, no doubt there
were such mistakes; but they no more affect
the meaning of the Scriptures than the mis
spelling of a word or the ungrammatical
structure of a sentence in a last will and
testament affect the validity or the meaning
of that will. All the mistakes mode by the
copyists in the Scriptures do not amount to
any more importance than the difference be
tween your spelling in a document the word
forty, forty or fourty. This book is the last
will and testament of God to our lost world,
and it bequeaths everything in the right way,
although human hands may have damaged
the grammar or made unjustifiable interpo
lation.
These men who pride themselves in our
day on being advanced thinkers in Biblical
Interpretation will all of them end in athe
ism if they live long enough, and I declare
here to-day they are doing more in the differ
ent denominations of Christians,and through
out the world, for damaging Christianity
and hindering the cause of the world’s
toetterra -nt tnan five thousand Robert
Ingersolls could do. That man who stands
Inside a castle is far more dangerous if ho can
be an enemy than five thousand enemies out
side the castle. Robert G. Ingersoll assails
the castle from the outside. Theso men who
pretend to lie advanced thinkers in all the
denominations are fighting the truth from
the jnode. and trying to shove back the
bolts and swing open the gates.
Now, I am in favor of the greater freedom
of religious thought and discussion. I would
have as much liberty for heterodoxy as for
ortho loxy. If I should change my theories
of religion I should preac h them out and out,
but not in the building where X am accu*>
tom**! to prea h. for that wtu erectei by
people who beli-ve in au entire Bible, and it
would be dishonest for me to promulgate son
ti merit* diffen-ct from thus* for which that
building was put up. When we enter any
denomination as ministers of religion we take
a solemn vow that wo will prear-h the senti
ments of that denomination If wo change
our tbeorf**, as we have a right to change
them, then there is a world several thousand
miles in circumference, and there are htin.
dreds of halls and hundreds of academies of
nvedc wh *re weean ventilate our sentiments.
I remember that in all our cities, in time
of political agitation, there are the Republi
can heed juarters and the Denirr-ratic head
quarters. Suppose I should go into one of
these headquarters pretending to be in syrn
lathy with their work, at the same time
electioneering for the opyiosite party. I would
■oon find that the centrifugal fore© was
greater than the centripetal! Now. if a
man enters a denomination of Christiana,
taking a solemn oath, as we all do. that we
will promulgate the theories of that denom
ination. and then the man shall proclaim
•otne other theory, he has broken his oath,
and be is an out and-out perjurer. Never
theless. I declare for largest liberty in re
ugioiM discussion. I would no more have
; , <0 iw • monument to Thorn*-*
! aim interfered with than I would ha** in
terfeml with the lifting of the splendid mon
• SPTif 0 . Largest liberty for
ft* largest liberty for the mind,largest
liberty for the soul. *
Now. I want to show yon, as a matter of
advocacy for what I believe to be the right,
the snfendors of erthodoxy. Many have sup
posed that its dis ip'et are prop's of flat
skulls, an I no leading, and behind the
E, and the victims of guliibf ity. I shall
w . 7* tt that the wrd orthodoxy
for the greatest splendors
lutaute of beared. Behold tb> splendors es
its achievements. All the missionaries of the
Gospel the world round are men who be
lieve in an entire Bible. Call the roll of all
the missionaries who are to day enduring
sacrifices in the ends of the earth for the
cause of religion and the world’s
betterment, and they all believe in
an entire Bible. Just as soon as
a missionary begins to doubt whether there
ever was a Garden of Eden, or whether there
is any such thing as future punishment, he
comes right home from Beyrout or Madras,
and goes into the insurance business! All
the missionary societies this day are officered
by Orthpdox men, and are supported by
Orthoddx churches.
Orthodoxy, beginning with the Sandwich
Islands, has capture 1 vast regions of bar
barism for civilization, while heterdoxy has
to capture the first square inch. Blatant for
many years in Great Britain and the United
States, and strutting about with a peacockian
braggadocio it has yet to capture the
first continent, the first state, the
first township, the first ward, the first space
of ground as big as you could cover with the
small end of a sharp pin. Ninety-nine out
of every hundred of the Protestant churches
of America were built by people who
believed in an entire Bible. The pul
pit now may preach some other Gospel,
but it is a heterodox gun on an orthodox
carriage. The foundations of all the
churches that are of very great ti9e in this
world to day were laid by men who be
lieved the Bible from lid to lid, and if
I cannot take It in that way I will not
take It at all; just as if I received
a letter that pretended to come from a
friend, and part of it was his and part some
body else’s, and the other part somebody
else’B, and it was a sort of literary mongrel
ism, and I would throw the garbled sheets
into the waste basket.
No church of very great influence to day
but was built by those who believed iu an
entire Bible. Neither will a church last
long built on a part of the Bible. You
have noticed, I suppose, that as soon
as a man begins to give up the Bible
he is apt to preach in some hall, and
he has an audience while be lives, and when
he dies the church dies. If I thought that
my church in Brooklyn was built on a quarter
of a Bible, or a half a Bible, or three-quarters
of a Bible, or ninety-nine one hundredths of
a Bible, I would expect it to die when
I die; but when I know it is built
on the entire Wond of God, 1 know it will last
two hundred years after you and I sleap the
last sleep. On, the splendors of an ortho
doxy, which, with ten thousand hands and
ten thousand pulpit** and ten thousand Chris
tian churches, is trying to save the world!
In Music Hall, Boston, for many years
stood Theodore Parker battling orthodoxy,
giving it, as some suppose 1 at that time,
its death wound. He was the most fascinat
ing man I ever heard or ever expected to hear,
and I came out from hearing him think
ing in my boyhood wav: “Well, tbats the
death of the cburcb.”, On that same street
and not far from being opposite, stood Park
Congregational Church, called by its enerniw
“Hell-fire Corner.” Theodore Parker died
and his church died with him; or, if it is in
existence, it is so small you cannot s e it
with the naked eye. Park Congregational
Church still stands on “Hell tire Corner,”
thundering away the magnificent truths of
this glorious orthodoxy just as though Theo
dore Parker had never lived. All that Bo>-
ton, or Brooklyn, or New York, or the world
ever got that is worth having came through
the wide aqueduct of ortho-Joxy from the
throne of God.
Behold the splenlors of character b iilt up
by orthodoxy. Who had the greatast human
intellect the world ever knew? Paul. In
physical stature, insignificant; in mind, head
and shoulders above all the giants of the age.
Orthodox from scalp to heel. Who was the
greatest poet the ages ever saw, acknowledged
to be so both by infidels and Chris
tians? John Milton, seeing more without
eyes than anybody else ever saw with eyes.
Orthodox from scalp to heel. Who was the
greatest reformer the world has ever seen' so
acknowledge 1 by infidels as well as by Chris
tians. Martin Lather. OrthoJox from scalp
to heel.
Then look at the certitudes. O man. be
lieving in au entire Bible, where did you
come from? Answer: “I descended from a
perfect parentage in Paradise, and Jehovah
breathed into my nostrils the breath of life.
I am a son of God.” O man.believing in a half
and-half Bible, believing in a Bible in spot*,
where did you come from? Answer; “It is
all uncertain; in my ancestral line away
back there was an or.tng-outanz and a tadpole
and a polywog. and it took millions of years
to get me evoluted.” Oh man. believing in a
Bible in spots, where are you going to when
you quit this world? Answer: “Going into a
great to be, so on into the great somewhere,
and then I shall pass through on to the great
anywhere, and I shall probably arrive iu the
nowhere.” That is where I thought you
would fetch up. O man, believing in
an entire Bible, and believing with all your
heart, where are you going to when
leave this world? Answer: “1 am going to
my Father's house; I am going into the
companionship of ray loved ones who have
goDo before; lam going to leave all my
sins, and I am going to be with God and like
God forever and forever.” Oh, the glorious
certitudes of orthodoxy!
Behold the splendors of orthodoxy in its
announcements of two destinies.
Palace and penitentiary. Palace with
gates on all sides through which all may
enter and live on celestial luxuries world
without end, and all for the knocking and
the asking. A palace grander than if ail the
Alhambras and the Versailles and the Wind
sor Castles and the Winter Gardens and the
imperial abodes of all earth were heave! up
into one arcbitectur al glory. At the other
end of the universe a penitentiary where men
who want their sins can have them. Would
it lie fair that you and I should have our
choice of Christ and the palace, and other
men l«e denied their choice of sin and
eternal degradation f Palace and penitentiary.
The first of no use unless you have the last.
Brooklyn and New York would be tielter
places to live in with Raymond Street Jail,
the Tombs and Sing Sing, and all the small
pox hospital* emptied on them, than heaven
would lw if there were no hell. Palace and
penitentiary. If I see a man with a full bowl
ot sin, and be thirsta for it, an I bis whole
nature craves it, and he takes ho’d with both
hands and presses that bowl to liis lip*, and
then presses it hard between his teeth,
and the draught begins to pour its sweet
ness down his throat; shadl we snatch
away the bow), and jerfc tbe man up to the
gate of heaven, and push him in if he does
not waut to go and sit down and sing psalms
forever? No. God has made you and me so
completely free that we need uot go to
heaven unlet-s we prefer it Not more free
to soar than free to sink.
Nearly all the heterodox people I know be
lieve all are coming out at the same destiny;
without regard to faith or character we are
ail coming out at tbe shining gate. There
they are, all in glory together. Thom
-04 Paine and George White field, Jezebel
and Mary Lyon, Nero and Charles Wes’ey,
Charles GuiU-au and James A.Garfield,John
Wilke* Booth and Abraham Mncoln—all in
glory together! AU the innocent men, wo
men, and children who were mawtacred. side
by side with their murderers. If we are all
coming out at the same destiny, without
regard to character, then it is true.
I turn away from such a debauched
heaven. Against that cauldron of piety and
blasphemy, philanthropy ana assaasination,
self sacrifice and beastliness, I place th«* two
destinies of the Bible foiever and forever
and forever apart.
Behold also the splendors of the Christian
Orthodox death twds.
Those who deny the Bible, or deny any
part of it never die well. They either go
out in darkness or they go out in silenc**
portentous. You may gather up all the
biographies that have come forth since th *
art of printing was invented, and I challengo
yon to show me a triumphant death of n.
man who rejected tbe Hcriptunw or reject* i
any part of them Here f mske a great wi4»
avenue. On the one I put the death bed* of
those who believed in an entire Bible On
the other side of that avenue I not tb *
death beds of those who rejected par'*
of the Bible, or rejected all of
the Bible Now. tak* mv arm anl let u«
pass through this dividing even* Lo*t<» *
upon the right aid Here are the de itht«e U
on the right aid* of this avenue •* • i
tory through our Lord Jesus Christ!*
“Frae grace!*..“Olory, fUn-sM" “4 mm
■weeping through the gates washed In th«
blood of the Lamb?” “The chariots are
coming!” “I mount, I fly!” “Wings, wings!"
“They are coming for me!” “Peace, b«
still!” Alfred Cookman's death-bed, Richard
Cecil’s death b 3d, Commodore Foote's death
bed. Your father’s death-bed, your mother’c
death-bed, your sister's death-bed, your
child's death-bed. Ten thousand radiant,
songful death-beds of those who believed an
entire Bible.
Now, take my arm and let us go through
that avenue, and look off upon the other
6ide. No smile of hope. No shout of triumph.
No face sii|»ernaturally illumined. Those
who reject any part of the Bible
never die well. No beckoning for
angeb to come. No listening for the ce
lestial escort. Without any exception they
go out of the world because they are pushed
out; while on the other hand the
list of those who believed in an entire
Bible and gone out of the world in
triumph is a list c o lonz it seems intermina
able. Oh, i 3 not that a splendid influence,this
orthodoxy, which makes trial which must
otherwise be the moat dread:ul hour of life—
the la*t hour—positively paradisaical?
Young men, old inen. middle-aged men.
take sides in this content between orthodoxv
and heterodoxy. “Ask for the old paths,
walk therein, and ye shall find rest
for your sou’s.” But you follow
this crusade against any part of the
Bible—first of all you will give up Genesis,
which is as tru? as Matthew; then you
will give up all the historical ports of the
Bible; then afler a while you will give
up the miracles; then you will tin<i it
convenient to give up the Ten Command
ments; and then after a while you will wake
up in a fountainless, r o k less, treeless desert
Hwept of everlasting sirocco. If you are
laughed at you can nfford to be laughed at
for standing by the Bible iust as God has
given it to you and miraculously preserved
it.
Do not jump overboard from the stanch
old Great Kast-*m of old fashioned Orthodoxy
until there is something ready to take
you up stronger thau the fantastic yawl
which has painted on the side: “Ad
vanced Thought/' and which leaks at the
prow and leaks at the stern and has a steel
pen for one oar and a glib tongue for the
>ther oar. an I now tips over this way an 1
:hen tija over that way, until you do not
know* whether the p is*e»gers will land ill tbe
breakers of despair or on the sinking sand
of infidelity and atbsism.
lam in full sympathy with the advance
ments of our time, but this world will never
advance a single inch bevond this old Bible.
God was just as capable of dictating th*'
truth to the prophets and apostles as He is
capable of dictating the truth to
these modern and prophets.
God has not learned anything in a thousand
years. He knew just as much when He gave
the first dictation as Ho does now. giving the
last dictation, if He is giving any dictation
at all. Eo I will stick to the
old |taths. Naturally a skeptic and
preferring new things to old. I never
so much as to day felt the truth of the entire
Bible, espe *ially as 1 see into w hut spectacular
imbecility men rush when they try to chop
up the Scriptures with the axe of th?ir
own preferences, now calling upon
philosophy, now calling on the Church,
now calling on God, now calling on the
devil. I prefer the thick, warm robe of the
old religion—old as God—the robe which has
*ept so many warm amid the cold pilgrimage
of this life and amid the chills of death.
The old robe rather than the thin, uncertain
gauze offered us by these wiseacres who be
lieve the Bible in spots.
On July 27th, 1814, at seventy-two years of
age. expire! Isabella Graham, she was the
most useful woman of her day amid the poor
and sick, at the head of the orphan asylum*
and Magdalen asylum-:, anl an angel of
mercy in hospital and reformatory. Dr. Ma
son, one of the mightiest men of hfs day, said
at her funeral that she was mentally and
spiritually the most wonderfully endows l
jierson he had ever met. She was au im
personation of the most orthodox orthodoxy.
Her la-t word was peace. As a sublime
fieroration to my sermon. I will eive an ex
tract from her last will and testament, show
ing how one who be'ieves in an entire Bible
may make a glorious exit:
An extract from a will:
“My children and my grandchildren I leave tc
my covenant God, the God who hath fed me all mi
lire with the bread that peri*heth and (he bread
that never perisheth, who haa been a Father to mj
fatherless children and a hu-band to their widowec
mother I has far And now receiving my Redeemer'*
te-tiinony, I ret to my ecal that God is true; anC
believing the record of John that God hath giver
to me eternal life and this life is in ilia Son..
who. through the eternal Spirit, overcomes without
spot unto God, and being consecrated a priest for
ever bath with His own blood entered into the !
holy plare, having obtained eternal redemption foi
me. I also believe that He will perfect what I
concerns me. support and carry me earely through
death, and present me to His Father, complete it:
His own righteousness, without spot or wriukls.
Into the hands of this redeeming God, Father, Soc
and Holy Ghost I commit my redeemed -pirit.-
ifi A BELLA GBAHAM.
Let me die the d?ath of tbe righteous, and
let my last end be like hers. “Glory be tc
the Father, an 1 to the Son, and to tbe Holy
Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is not*
and ever shall be, world without enil Amen
and AmenJ” _
Rattle Between Eagles and Storks.
A truly Homeric battle of birds is re
ported to the Frank furter Zeituny by an
eye-witness, in a letter from Sophia.
“Early on Thursday morning, 1 ’ he says
‘•we saw an unusually large number of
eagles, probably about 200, taking their
fight toward the mountains of the
Jantra. A crowd of persons watched
the spectacle, and the crow d greatly in
creased a few hours later, when a num
ber of storks, not fewer than :tOO, flew
straight toward the regiment of eagles,
evidently bent on war. In an instant
eag'es and storks were mingled in deadly
allray. It wai a fearful combat. Every
now and then a wounded or dead bird,
stork or eagle, fell to the ground. Thp
battle lasted for nearly an hour, wbefi
the two armies, apparently weary of
fight, flew off in opposite directions.
Upon a rough reckoning it was estimated
that at least a third of the combatants
fell in the severe struggle. The prefect
sent some men up into the mountain* to
count the dead eagles and storks.
Probably, as in many wars of unfeathered
bipeds, the advantage lay on neither
side.” m
lie Wanted to I’ateN Fish.
“I have changed my mind about tak
ing you with me on that fi-Liug excur
sion next week,"said .a St. Paul husband,
lilting his eyeglasses from the bridge of
his nose aud twirling them betweeu his
fingers as he looked intently into the
flame of the lamp. “I have come to the
conclusion that it will Iw* l*ettcr for all
concerned if you stay at home.”
“I’m not surprised, John,' 1 replied the
wife, hotly. “Fin not the least bit sur
prised. You never keep your promises.
This mikes the fifth time in th*j pa«t
month that you’ve prom to take me
to some place with you and then ch;;ng»d
your mind. I never heard of such a man.
You must In; going crazy. What Is
your reason for breaking your la«t prom
ise- I d like to know «l)y I can’t g> on
the fi-h»ng excursion with you ’’
“Because.” said John, without a
tremor in h»» voice, “because 1 have just
read here in the N’ ientifo- Monthly that
ssh • an hear a person talking a half a
mile away. —&*. i*aut (/«>.”
Th- report* of the officers of the
Afghan l». unda r v say that the Indian
‘O die a are mi mti< h larger thin the
i u«>itn Cossacks that it would take
• u \t» of the latter tv contend with 50, -
0 .0 Indians.
An Organ of Paper Pulp.
A very original musical instrument has
recently been constructed at Milan,
Italy—an organ whose pipes, instead of
being of metal, are of paper pulp. Its
history is quite curious. Father Giovan
ni Crispi Kigsliixo, having learned that
the parish dell’lncoranata, at Milan, was
destitute of music for the offices, con
ceived the idea of devising a cheap ma
terial that would permit of constructing
organs under such conditions that the
most unpretending communities could
purchase one of these instruments.
This monk, who had passed his life
in poverty, was confronted by lack of
money, and, notwithstanding his efforts
to carry out his undertaking, was begin
ning to despair of success, when he had
the fortune to meet an artisan, Luigi
Colombo, who understood the construc
tion of the instrument and was good
enough to aid him in carrying out his
design. They both went resolutely to
work, and finally, in June, 1886, finished
the instrument in question. Unfoitun
natcly, by reason of lack of funds, they
could not exceed twenty-two registers,
forty-four pe lals and 1400 pipes. The
final lesult. however, is extremely inter
esting, since it is generally agreed that
the instrument possesses great power
and a sweetness of tone not found in
organs hitherto constructed.— New York
TUeyram.
Care Tor Khenmnlimn.
G. G. Treat, of West o*onvill*\ Ma>s.,
writes of Allcock’s Porous Plastkrs-
For rheumatism, neuralgia, pain in the
side or bazk couehs, colds, bruises and any
lo<«l weakness, they truly possess wonderful
curative qualities. I have recommended
them to my neighbors with the happiest, re
sults, many of whom but for Allcock’s Po
rous Planters woi Id »>e in a crippled eon
dition at home. In every instance where
they they have been faithfully and properly
applied the result has been wonderfully satis
factory.
Men are inclined to accept a pretty
woman at her face value.
A Itube In (he Houm©
is the source of muoh sunshine and joy,
brightening meny o dark cloud and lighten
ing many a heavy loud —but joys continual
abide only in a healthy body. The Creator
with great wisdom has distributed over the
earth vegetable remedies for every ill of
human kind. This marvelous I-abomtorj
reveals its secrets to man only by long and
searching lal*or. Few men have attain© i
greater success than Dr R. V. Pierce; uorde
\ i**d for suffering humanity a greater pro
duction than his “Golden Medical Discovery”
the unfailing remedy for consumption in its
earli r stages, as well as for chronic nasal
catarrh, serolula, tumors and all blood disor
ders.
irrigation has produced a great crop
of mosquitoes at /.os Angeles. Cal.
“’’’hat Miss Jonej is a nice-looking girl,
isn’t ►he?”
“Yes, and he’d be tbe b?lle of the town if
it wasn’t for one thing.”
“What’s that?”
“She has catarrh so bad it is unpleasant
to be near her. &h" has tried a dozen things
and nothing helpi her. I ain sorry, for I
like her, but that doesn’t make it any less
disagreeable for one to bi around her.”
Now if she had used Dr. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy, there would have b*3en nothing of
the kind said, for it will cure catarrh every
time.
A window glass works is the latest
enterprise in Salt Lake City, Utah.
An Extraordinary Phenomenon.
No other term than the above would ap
ply to tbe woman who could boo her youtn
ful beauty fading away without a pang of
regret. Many a woman heroines premature
ly old and haggard because of Junctional de
rangement. What a pity th it all such do
n- 1 know that Dr. Pierce* Favorite Prescrip
tion will restore their organs to a normal
state, and make them youthful and beautiful
once more! For the ills tc which tbe daugh
ters of Eve are peculiarly liable, the “.Pre
scription is a sovereign remedy. It is the
only medicine sold by druggists under a pos
itive guarantee from the manufacturers, that
it will give satisfaction in ever}* case, or
money will be*returned. See guarantee on
bottle wrapper.
There are 44,000 deaf mutes in this
country who are voters.
“There is nothing you require of your
agents but what is just and reasonable and
strictly in accordance with business princi
ples.” That’s the sort of testimony any
house can be proud of, a id it's the testimony
•if hundreds of men who are profitably em
ploye*! by B. F. Johnson & Co., Richmond.
Va. Write fer full particulars.
Tickling the Palate
The only trouble with HAMBURG FIGB is
that they are ho pleasant to the palate that
children are apt to eat them when not abso
lutely necessary, if they ran get bold of
them surreptitiously. They will injure no
one, but medicine should not be taken unless
needed. 25 cents. Dose one Fig. Mack
Drug Co., N. Y.
.Honey Hade Keeping ||*na.
Hundreds of farmers who never kept an
account, would kill evrey “peaky ken" on
the farm, if it was not for the “woman folks.”
The women intuitively know that the hens
do not “eat their heads off every six months, ”
but properly kept |*ay better than any other
farm animals.
This is tru*. A record, simple to krep, so
it wtoild !>e used and show the facts in de
tail, would prove that every hen paid a profit
They could lie made to |>ay, from one to
three dollars earl, Mr. James L. Burges*,
Nashua, N. II , rej»orted to tlis Nashua Tele
graph that hi* wife made a clean net profit
last year, of for eggs alone, from only
sixteen hens. He thiuks her su'ver* was
largely due, to asiug Sheridan’s Condition
Powder, a much advertised preparation to
make I e is lay.
Do y«air hern pay lik«» that? Do you want
to learn how t * make them pay b"lte» ? Are
you in delicate health, and want to com
in-nee poultry raising lor the sak« of open
air employment 1 If so, get aonie rel able ad-
Iv ic 3 how to do it. A new, enlarged and iin
proved ♦•dition of that valuanle !>uok, the
Farmer's Poultry R-osng Guide, la; just
■ been piint-d. It contains much very piac
r tical mforma* ton.
Among the many new featurts. which ev
ery per*on who ke* |M hens sliouM have, is
blank records and accounts for each ir.«mth
of tlie year. It also contains a long series of
very valuable articles, by A. F. limiter,
; ' H »w to Make Mo iey With a Few Hens.”
jOf him the Lovill, Ala*a. Journal says:
* “Tbs DKHt • ©rouble poultry literature we
bav?re*d *© find under the name A. F.
• Hunter. ll* evidently knows what he h
i talking alnHit.” These two feature* alone,
j are w. rth ten times the emt of the book .
* ahi<'ti th • publi-hen*. I H Johns* n A C0.,2J
rust/tii II us* Bt, B at n Mas;, sent, po t
paid, for only 2-i ««n s in din p>.
I iheie is realty no way that perrons on a
Ifarmornetr a la*ga to *n cui secure a cash
income, w.ih so httle effort u by keeping a
f*-w Imw For such this b >oh is very valoa
i bla Hen Ito Jutmxm kCx, for testimonial
‘ c ircular.
U. W. Cuffing of Hiiigham. Mi«s, ay.
I *‘l belie e «h- Farin«r’s Piul»4y Rai.-ui/
Guide wM- h ! receive! weth a large can of
I Huii-»a» s ovder i«l| f*r fUI ©ordain.-
moe*) rtuucai kno«l dgt fTa pecvoirs kOi
• tdv a few sow > than utkO/ p ultry bjjka
which cos -two dollars.
Employed the Wrong Man.
Dr. B.— “ You don’t mean to tell me
that old Sawbones charged you fifteen
dollars for cutting off your arms
Mr. P.—“ Yes, fifteen dollars.”
Dr. B. —“ Now, why didn’t you send
for me? I would have cut both arms on
for less money than that.”— Lift.
C'envenllonal “Men,*” llnnololloos.
Whertas, The Monon Route (L.N. A. &
C. Ry. Co.) dw-ires to make it known to tne
world at large that it forms the double con
necting link of Pullman “ urist travel be
tween the winter Hi -a f Florida and the
summer resorts of tie thwart; and
Whereon, It* "no -nsit system
surpassed, its eh- dI ■ >,i Buffet Weep
er and Chai’ - i • ..-tween Ch eng
andLoutavil i 113 and. Cincinnati
UD h?“"a. : /’"'. - ■ low as the lowest;
- ...... tiie event of starting on
a trip it is good potion to consult with K. u.
McCormick. Ocii l raw. Agent. Monon Route,
18.% Dearborn «t., Chicago, for full par**™-
lars. (In any event send for n Tourist Guide,
enclose 4c. postage.)
If afflicted with sure cyan u'e Cr-. Thomie
son’s Eve-water. Druggist, sell at A%(tperbottle
Lactated
Food
Endorsed by
10,000 Physicians
A* a perfect food for invalids, In
dyspepsia, fevers, sick headache,
diarrhoea, feeble digestion and all
wasting diseases, and for infants
deprived of mother’s milk, or when
weaning.
•me Favorite Food
in Hospitals.
Hahnemann Hospital.
New York City.
u We hftvc beert using Lactated Food for sev
eral months past in cases of dyspepsia, after
operations, and with children, and in all cases
it has answered admirably. Wc would gladlv
recommend it as a food easily digested, nutri
tious, and not disagreeable to the patient.
F. 8. Fulto.i, M. D. t House Surgeon.
New York Infant Asylum.
Mt. Vernon. N. Y.
“We are using your I dictated Food in our
infant asylum whenever wc require the use of
artificial food, and find it superior to any which
we have ever lined. Beiug pleasant to the taste,
It is specially adapted to children. We have in
our branch institution over 250 children.
Mrs. L. M. Bates,
Chairman of Mt. Vernon Branch
The Most Palatable,
Nutritious, and
Digestible Food.
The Best and Most Economical Food.
100 Meals for an Infant for SI.OO
Easily prepared. At Druggists—2scts.,socts.,sl.
Kt'K valuable pamphlet on “ The Nutrition of
Infants and Invalids/’ free on application.
WUU. RICHARDSON k CO., CURIINOTOR.VT.
CAIUTION
Beware of Fraud, as my name and the price ara
stamped on the bottom of all my advertised shoe*
before leaving the factory, which protect the wearen
against high price* and inferior good*. If a dealflf
off era \V. L. Dougin* shoes at a reduced price, o*
Bays he ban them without my name and price stamped
on the bottom, put him down as a fraud.
W. L. DOUGLAS
$3 SHOE. GENTLEMEN.
The only fine calf $9 ttenmlr** Shoe In the world
n»ad** without (arise er nail*. As atyllah and
4ural>le a* tiuwe corning *.*> nr $6, and having no
lark* or nails to wear the stocking or hurt the feet,
make* them as comfortable and well fitting as a
h»n i ••■wed «hoe. Huy the beat. None genuine un
!.-*• s'aiMiN-d «>n bottom **W. L. Douglas $3 Shoe
warranted.'’
W. 1.. llO|!i:|.,tM4 NHOK. the original and
<Mtl» hj*n t newed welt $4 shoe, which equals custom
made show ousting from to $9.
W. 1.. OOUGI.A* |‘4.}o Mil OK U unea
celled for heavy wear.
W. 1.. IMM'G I.AH UMIOK I* worn by all
Ho .... and U the beet school tiioe In the world.
All the above good* are made in Concrete, Buttot
nod Lace, and if not rd I bv your dealer, writ*
\V. L. DOtUMS, Hi eckten, Ma*o.
■end for a Catabroi* the
( 01.1 KI.K OF
PHYSICMN* AND SI K GEO If S,
ha i/rmoKF. md.
which offers the Slade r. t of Medicine superior
T.TmoHAH npiK (IV.nl. mV How.r.l Ht. _
z ul .BhotCuns f S»g^Wffvc,i««v»i
x o
rp, y -weyiir-,
U. Ur Uu. UtaVoi ts.t’itt.barsXTr^V
Rein**, Tent*. Brrerh-Pv. ling dootita RheUrun *t $»,•)
Slmr-e ivvrrel Brv*vh l ";».|«T' ,;t $4 to git. Fr*e«-hl‘V».tl*»e
lUtfe* | V 0 gif*; Doulile barrel Muakle loader* at gA»
to g-ts. Keiw iting KilW, I* ale«Mter, gi Ito %S 0 U»vol*tSA
ft to t*»; Flob- rt klrttM. g J V> to gv Lunsw-nt C. O. D U
euunla* tt«vol«rr» hr mail to any P 'V AJdreaa UMtO
ironiiuir ws-trutl sox aoßt\ Fuuw.re, r—a*.
MARVELOUS
MEMORY
DISCOVERY.
Any knelt lenrned in one r« tiding.
Hind o«Mil«rlpi cared.
HpenMnn witbaai note*
IVhallr unlike nrilHcial •vnlemn.
Piracy i end* iniifd hr Haprrsae I'aarf.
Great tndthvinrnta to corrr#pcu*lnee claseee.
pro*-!** to*, with opitiicna of Dr. Win. A Hon*
me"d. tl»r wnnd-fati*»-«l >i«<ctaltal in Min t diwaj-m.
liaulrl (•remlrnl Tlmeitnen. the great Peychol
ngikt. amt other*, wilt |"**t fr»e t*y
PHtIF. A. LoiSL lTL.zn Fifth Arm, Nhw York.
10,000 AGENTS WANTEO to lepptj FIFTY MILLIONS people with
THK Lire or I By tha author of
BEN.HARRISON I benhur.
Trr Loo Cabins of
m, America have been birth
places of some of the
grandest men. Lincoln,
HpS ; jjj lirant, Sheridan, firstsaw
- •■K! the light of day through
Sts’?Lillies the chinks of a Log
Cabin. Warner’s Log Cabin Sarsaparilla
aln' originated in a Log Cabin and
,tßi.ci, pre-eminent among the blood
puriiiers of to-day as Warner’s “Tippe
canne" does as a stoma, h tonic.
IT \
jSt vC^|»m'iU'»«uuiimiiiiiiiUilulllinillllllfludffiß
la
They have been tried for over flftr year*, and
are to-day the most popular In nse.
Your fatheri aud mothers used them. They tre
the Safest, Purest, and Best Remedy for Liver
sod Stomach Diseases ever compounded.
For Hale by all Dnipplet*. Prim 2?» ct*. per box j
% Imve* for C 5 ct*.; or eent by mail, povtage free, on
receipt of price. Dr. J. 11. Scht-cck A hou. Fhilai'a.
Tb<* ch«-ajw«t, Aral
liorirwDUtl Ko- AfVfeTf.
Hue in the market. MiF-Arf yjaWdlaMlW
I- - gi net of all hind..
fur Sttalnr. Thrmh y/Ajjg'ldluflPjetuiZyflL
in«. ■ivl (iinßing. » .pyc ll /vsnL
l-rlal'r. ),» and ‘ / ]■
i• rial Mill*. Tliro- AgL --u£
ling iH*; ‘
*!«.. ■ aperiaii*. t yt|u ! ■ -TTftfEi
K*n4 for ll.uf rarad iTj 1 ? I LlfllATll'lflMßßHff
I'Mingo*. 'JW
A.Hjmiqi’ltAß,
Pennsylvania Agricultural Works, York, Pa,
r.rq.bar’a tit.Bd.rd «ndhaw ain,.,
****** A ‘ B - Fi BRUHiB a SOS. York, Fa.
Afflo 9H a day. Ha us pi*** wnnh $1.30 Free*
wc Vh Linen not under the horse’s f«*et. Write to
V Iff Brewster Safety Rein Holder Co., Holly, Mich
HERBMIO FIFTH WHEEL
knpmsawii URUBIIANIi CO., rwmwte
■■ ipa A ■ Catch Mi cm alive with
FLIES! V!japM
jrhdaor irrocera, or mailed, poetaim liaid. on rcoedpt
Os A rent*. T. It. DAW LEY. Mnnofac
mrer, Beckroaa St eel. New » writ*
sm* WE PELL AM. AMERICAN
A BICYCLES.
Andgusrant** LOWF.BT PRICEA.
vM./Pi A * W. GI’H I* «V CO.. Daytoa. O.
barefot retail alack la America.
»- in OTTOt factory price gfio on, our price $40.00,
SO In. ” “ •* 6S.no, ” “ as.og
«!lu. " ** M woo, •• ** M.ng.
40 la. m m m gS.OO. ** ** SO.Ok
44 In. M “ " 4000 M “ 27 00,
Order quick. Aleo2*o neennd-baud Wheels. Repel*
tag A Nickeling. Ricyolee A (ions taken la trade
H. N. V. SA.
ni •_»„ Dalle umu tnjllrt Beulaaf
Blair S rlllS. Hkeumalio K.».dy
Oval Sext Jli rauodt 14 Fllta*
* (J^SOOC ID"
•telylow. Axents well paid.
free. Mention this Paper.
OSGWO 1 ) ’ N. r .
EQLS. at ativtMnffaUa <n f*« war!'! ntfcw •** realty aatSO
Tmm «aa*. aejj— , lkk «* Cm., SlabMa
5100 to S3OO made working fog
us. Agents proferra t who can furnish their own
horses and *ho their whole time to the boslnes*
Spare moments may re profitably employed al*a
A few vacancies to towu* and cities. B. V. JOHA
tON A CO., I0l» Mala st,, Blckmoad, Va.
iiiiiiiiiSip
*3 JorßiEo’Jsli LivcrCamplaii®.!
They hare been tried for over fifty ye are, and
are to-day the moet popular in nee.
Tour fathers aud mothers used thorn, They are
the Safest, Purest, and Best Remedy for Liver
and Stomach Diseases ever compounded.
For Pal* by all Druggists. Prfr* 25 ct*. per box;
8 boxes for G 5 eta.; or sent by mail, i*<*tag* free, oa
gsedpt of price. Dr. J. 11. bcheock A hon, Phiiai’a
WEBER
PIANO-FORTES,
| ENDORSED BT THE LEADING ARTISTS, «nw-
I NAJUANS. AND THE PRESS. AS THE
BEST PIANOS MADE.
I Price* as reasonable and terms as saajr as consist
ent with thorough workmanship.
CATALOG! EM HAILED FREE.
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.
* WAREROOMS,
Filth Avenue, cor. 16th St., N. Y.
ilood poisoamfi, jysasrE
tbe Lnuary « )rtr»n* p-w.tjvety cur«d or no rbuga
• Our me.li.--me .e • i>r% i.ni.v. «*f »ri» and V'-iitf
i Fever Full et/d> pMinpie Until. HPiit free oa remSpAfll
Opium habit rßrs.®RL" , .r«*y:
Ireatnunt Irul |»>. No* ;.r«. No pay Tha
llaaswaa KrweAy Ca,, |,u Fa vat(«>, | B 4,
t’l- ->»|p»i lie .|M
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