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REV OR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUNDAY SERMON. Text: '‘Malea chain."— Ezekiel vii.,3T At school and in college in announcing the mechanical powers, we glorified the lever, the puiley, the inclined plane, the screw, the ax e and the wheel, but my text calls us to study the philosophy of the chain. The*e hubs of metal, one with another, attractcnl the »id Bible authors, and we hear the chain rattle *md see its coil all the way through fr< in Genesis to Revelation, flashing as an ornament, or restraining as in captivity, or holding as in conjunct.on as in case of ma chinery. To do him honor Pharaoh hung a chain of gold about the neck of Joseph, and Belshazzar one about the neck of Daniel. The high priest had on his breast-plate two chains of gold. On the camels' necks, as tho Ishin;‘.elites drove up Xo Gideon, jingled chains of gold. Tho Bible refers to the Church as having such glittering adornments, saying: “Thy xu'C'.i is comedy with chains of gold,” On the other hanvl, a chain means captivity. David the psalmist exults that power had been given over his enemies, **to bind their kings with chains.” The old missionary apostle cries out: ‘‘For the hop *of Israel,l am i»ound with this chain.” In‘the prison w here Peter is incarcerated, you hear one day a great crash at the failing off of his chains. St. John saw an angel come down from Heaven to manacle the powers of darkness, and hav ing “a great chain in his hand,” and the fallen angels are represented as “reserve 1 in everlasting chains,” while in my text, for the arrest and limitation of the iniquity of bis t.me, Ezekiel thunders out: “Make a chain What I wish to impress upon myself and upon you is the strength in right and wrong direct ons, of consecutive forces, the superior power of a chain of influences above one in fluence, the great advantage of a congeries of links above one link, and in all family government and in all effort to rescue others and in all attempts to stop iniquity, take the suggestion of ray text and make a chain! Uhat which containi the greatest import ance, that which incloses the most tremen dous opportunities, that which of earthly things is most wretched by other worlds, that which has heating against its two sides all the eternities, is the cradle. The grave is nothing in importance compared with it, for that is only a gully that we step across in a second, but the cradle has within it a new eternity, just born and never to cease. When three or four years ago the Ohio River overflowed its banks and the wild freshets swept down with them harvests and cities, one day was found floating on the bottom of the waters a cradle with a child in it all un hurt, wrapped up snug and warm, and its blue eyes looking into the blue of the open heavens. It was mentioned as something ex traordinary. But every cradle is, with it 3 young passenger, floating on the swift currents of the centuries, deep calling to deep, Ohios and St. and Mississippi* of influence, bearing it on ward. Now, what shall be done with this new life recently launched* Teach him an evening prayer? That 13 important, but not enough. Hear him as soon as he can recite some gospel hymn or catechism? That is important, but not enough. Every Sabbath afternoon read him a Bible story? That is important, but not enough. Once in a while a lesson, once in a while a prayer, once in a •while a restraining influence? Ail these are important, but not enough. Each one of these influences is only a link, and it will not hold him in the tremendous emergencies of life. Let it be constant instruction, constant prayor, constant application of gooi influ ences, a long line oi consecutive impressions, ranching from his fir=t year to his fifth, and from Ins fifth year to his tenth, and from his tenth to his twen ieMi. ‘ Make a chain!” Bpi.-modis education, paroxysmal dis cipline, occasional fidelity.amount to nothing. You can as easily hod an anchor by one link as hold a child to the right by isolated and intermittent faithfulness. The example must connect with the instruction. The conversation must combine with the actions. The week day consistency must conjoin with the Sunday worship. Have family prayers by all m“ans; but be petulant an l in consistent and unreasonable in your house hold and your family prayers' will lie a bla ph mous farce. r>o great ai our tunes, arc the temptations of young men to dis siput.on, and young women to social so lies, that it is mo-t important that tin first eighteen years of their Jne be charged with a religious p over that will ho d them when they get out of the harbor of horm into the stormy ocean of active li.e. There is such a th ng as impressing children so powerfully with good, that s xty years will have no more i»ower to efface it than sixty minutes. What a rough time that young man has in do ng wrong, carefully nurtured as lie was! His father and mother have Lmhjii dead for year*, or over in Scotland, or England, or Ireland; but they have stood in the doorway of every dram-shop that he entered, an l under the chandelier of every house of dissipation, saying: “My son, this is no place for you Have you forgotten ths o d folks? Don’t you recogniz** these wrink.es, an l this stoop in the shoulder, nnd this tremulous hand? Go homo, my )roy, go horns! B • the God to wh rn we consecrated you. by the cradle in which we rocked you. by the grass-grown graves in the cl i country churchyard, by the heaven where we hope yet to me*t you. go home! Go home, my boy, go boon!” And some Sunday you will he surprised to find that young man su Jdenly asking forth j prayers of the church. Some Sunday vou will see him at the sacrammt and periiuD* drinking from the same kind of chalice tiat the old lolks drank out of years ago when they commemorated the suff-rings of the Lord. Yes, my lari, you do not h ive such fun in sin a< vou seem t > have. I know what spoils your fun. You cannot shake off the Influence of those prayers long aero offered, or of those kind admonitions. You ca mot make th*»m go away, and you f****l lik* ,ay ing: “Father, what are'you doing here.’ Mother, why do you bother me wirh Kiiggo<- tions of those old n times? ’ But they will not go away. They will push you back from your evil paths, though they have to come from th ir lining homes in h-aven an i stand iu the very gates of hob. and th ir back* scorched by the fiery blast niul w.t’i their hand on your sbourier, and their breath on your brow, and their eves looking straight into your , they will say: “We have come to take you horn**, O. non of mnny anxieties!” At last that young min turns through the consecutive ip fluence of a pious parentage, who out of pr&vers and fide!;! « innumerable, made a chain 7h it 1h the chain that pull* mighti y this mo-mug on five hundred of you. You may be too proud to shed a tear, and vou may*, to con vince others of your irnperturhabil.ty, snide to your friend beside vou. but there is n »t bo much power in an Alpine avalanche after It ha* slipped for a thousand feet and having •truck n lower cliff i* taking its second botin i for fifteen bundre i feet more of plunge, oh there is power In the chain shit pul * out this moment toward God and Chrfar and Heaven! Oh! the almighty pull of t •* long chain of early gra ious iu Alien *•*' But nil r#*>p e between tlr'rty and 'orty years of age, ye*, between forty and fifty aye, t> tween fifty and sixty years, an 1 all seotuayvtarian* as well. n«*e! a surrounding coni" .ction of good influence*. In Sing Sin/. A»f . i :i, Moya n nsinr, an l all the oth-r gr *at prison*, are me i an l women who went wror: ; iu rmd-iife and old age. We need aroun lus a cordon of good influences. We forget to apoly th * well known rule that a chain i* no stronger than it* weakest link. If ti e ' hain lie made up of a thousand links and nine hundred an I ninety nine are strong, bu.t one is weak, the chain will bo in danrer of breaking at that one weak link. W<* may bestmng in a thousand exml'cnce* and yot have ouo weaknee* which endangers us. That in tbs reason that we sometimes*** in-n dis tinguished for a whole round of virtu*** col - lrrwa and go down. 7he weak link in the otherwise stout chan gave way uniu lbs orcteuiSk > The first chain bridge was built in Scot land Walter Scott tells how the French imitated it in a bridge across the river Seina But there was one weak point in that chain bridge. There was a middle bolt that was of poor material, but they did not know how much depraded on that middle bolt of the chain bridge. On the opening day a pro cession started, led on by the builder of the bridge: nnd when the mighty weight of the procession was fairly on it, the bridge broke and precipitated the" multitudes. The bridge was all right except in that middle bolt. So the bridge of character may be made up of mighty links, strong enough to hold a mountain, but if there be ono weak spot, that one point unlooked after may be the de struction of everything. And what multi tudes have gone down for all time and all eternity because in the chain bridge of their character there was lacking a strong middle bolt He had but one fault and that was avarice: hence, forgery. He had but one fault and that was a burning desire for intoxicants; hence, his fatal debauch.. She had but one fault ami that an inordinate fondness for dress, and hence her own an 1 her husband's bankruptcy. She had but one fault and that a quick temper; hence, the disgraceful out burst What wo all want is to have put around us a strong chain of good influences. Christian association is a link. Good litera ture is a link. Church membership is a link. Scripture research is a link. Faith in Go lis a link. Put together all these influences. Make a chain! Most excellent is it for us to get into com pany better than ourselves. If we are given to telling vile stories let us put ourseivos among thote who will not abide such utter ance. If we are stingy let us put ourselves among tho c haritable. If we are morose let us put ourselves among the good-natured. If we are given to tittle-tattle lot us put our selves among those who speak no ill of their neighbors. If we are despondent let us put ourselves among those who make the best of things, if evil i* contagious, lam glad to say that good is also catching. People go up into the hill country for physical health; so if you would be strong in your soul get yourself up off the lowlands into th? alti tudes of high moral association. For many of the circumstances of our life we are not responsible. For our parentage we are not responsible. For the place of our nativity, not responsible; for our features, our stature, our color, not responsible; for the family relation in which wo were bom, for our natural tastos, for our mental character, not responsible. But we are re sponsible for the associates that we choose and the moral influences under which we put ourselves. Character seeks an equilibrium. A. B. is a go.xi man. Y. Z. is a bad man. Let them now voluntarily choose each other's society. A. B. will lose a part of his goodness and Y. Z. a part of his badness.and they will gradually approach each other in character and will finally stand on the same level. One of the old painters refused to look at poor pictures because he said it damaged his styL. A musician caunot afford to dwell among discords, nor can a writer afford to peruse books of inferior style, nor an architect walk out among dis proportionei structures. And no man or woman was ever so good as to be able to afford to clioosa evil associations. Therefore I said, have it a rule of your life to go among those better than yourselves. Cannot find them? Then what a pink of perfection you must be! When was your character com pleted? Whit a misfortune for the saintly and angelic of heaven that they are not en joying the improving influence of your society! Ah, if you cannot find those better than yourself, it is because you are ignorant of yourself. Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharasees, hypocrites! But, as 1 remarked in the opening, in sacred an l in all styles of literature a chain ra ans not only adornment and royalty of nature but sometimes captivity. And I sup pose there are those in that seme deliberately and persistently making a chain. Now here is a young man of good physical health, good manners an 1 good education. How shall he put together enough links to make a chain for the down hill road? I will give him some directions. First, let him smoke. If he can not stand cigars, let him try cigarettes. I think cigarettes will help him on this road a little m'jre rapidly because the doctors say there is more poison iu them, and so he ’will be helped along faster, and I have the more confidence in proposing this because about fifty of the first young men of Brooklyn dur ing the last year were, according to the doc tors’ reports, killed by cigarettes. Let him drink light wines first, or ale or lager, and gradually he will be ab e to tase some thin/ stronger, and as ail styles of strong drink are more and more adulterated, his progress wiil be facilitate i. With the old time d.inks a nian seldom got delirium tremens before thirty or forty year* of age; now he can get the madness by the time be is eighteen. Let him play car ls, enough money put up always to add interest t ; > the game. If tho father and mother wiil play with him that wiil help byway of countenancing the habit. And it will be such a pleasant thing to think over in the day of judg ment when the parents give account for the elevated manner iu whica they have reared their children. Every pleasant Fun lay afternoon take a carriage ride and stop at the hotels on either side the road for Sabbath refreshments. Do r.ot let tho old-fogy preju dices agmnst Sabbath breaking dominate you. Have a membership of some cub v/ht*re libertine* go an 1 tell about their vic torious sins, and lau/h as loud as any of th» m in der sio.i of those who belong to the same rex os your sister and mother. P.tcb vour Bible overboard as old-fashioned and fit only for women and children. Read all t;ie maga zine articles that put Christ.anitv at disad vantage. an i go to hear all the lectures that malign Christ, who, they sav, instead of l»e --ing the Mighty One he pretended to l*>, was an imposter and the imp'anter of a great de lusion. Go. at first out of curiosity, to see all tho houses of dissipation, and then go be cause you have felt thi thrall of their fas.-i --natior Getting along splendidly now! Let m« see what further can I suggest in that direction. Become more defiant of all decency,more loud-mouthed in your atheism, more thorough y alcoholized, and instead of the stakes that will do well enough for games of chance in a ladies’ parlor, put up something worthy, p it up more, put up ail you have. Well done! You have suc ceeded. You have made a chain—the tobacco habit one link, the rum habit one link, the impure cinb another 1 nk. infi lelity another link, Sabbath desecration another link, uncleanness another link, and altogether they make a chum. And eo there jp. a chain on your band an l a chain on your foot an 1 achu u on your tongue an 1 ach tin on your eye and a chain on your brain and a chain on your property and a chain on your soul. Some day you wake up 'and you say: “I am tired of this and I ain going to get loose from th:* snacKic." You |x>ut!d away with the hammer of good resolution, but cannot break the thrall. ! Your friends join you in a conspire ry of help, but fa 1 exhausted in the unavailing at- 1 tempt. Now you begin, nnd w.th the writh ing of a Laocoon, to try to break away, and th* muscles are distended, and the great bends of perspiration dot vour forehead, and thi* ey.-s stand out from tho sockets, and with all the con rente re 1 energies of body, mind nnd soul vou attempt to g**t loose but have only made the chain *;nk deeper. All the devils that encamp in the wine flask and the rum jng an I the ilecantef —for each one has a devil of its own—come out nnd sit aroun l you and chatter. In «o no ; midnight you spring from yonr oouen } mi l cry: I am fast: O God. let me loose! O y«* power* of dark- 1 ii‘*wi, let me loose! Father and mother and brothers and Mister*, help me to get loose!” And you turn your prayer to blas phemy an<i then your blasphetnv mto prayer, and to all the din nnd uproar there i* plavod an accompaniment, not nn acrompanim-ut bv key and p*dal, but the accompaniment is rattle, and the rattle is that of a chain. For five years, for ten year*, for twenty years, you have been making a chain. But here I take a tNp higher and tell too there i* a power that can break any chain— chain of body, chain of mind, chain ofeouL Th'* fetter* t hat the hammer of the Gospel have broken off, if piled together, would mske a mountain. Th* captives whom Ghrist has sat free, if wt<*od side bv «i!\ w.4ild msk** nn army (foic'rnr thin a ship chandler* ftirnwe ever i we*led a cabia, qu.c-er t~au a key over unlocked a handcuff, quicker than the bay onets of revolution pried open tho Bastile, you may be liberated and made a free son or a free daughter of God. Yon have only to choose between serfdom and emancipation, between a chain and a coronet, between Satan and God. Make up four mind and make it up quick. When the King of Sparta had crossed the Hellespont and was about to march through Thrace, he sent word to the people in the different regions asking them whether he should march through their countries as a friend or an enemy. “By all means as a friv-nd.” answered most of the regions, but the King of Macedon repl ed: “I will take time to consider it.” “Then,” said the King cf Sparta: “Let him consider it, but meantime, we march—we march.” So Christ, onr King, gives us our choice between his friendship and hi* frown, and mnuy of us ha* 7 * long been considering what we had better do; but meantime lie marches on. and our opportunities are marching by. And we shall l>e the loving subjects of His reign, or the victims of our own obduracy. 80. I urge you to precipitancy, rather than slow deliberation, and I write all over j'our - soul the word* of Christ Isa w inscribed on the monument of Princ *>s E’izabeth ra the Isle * of Wight, the words to which her index finger pointed in the open Bible when she was found dead in her bed after a lifetime of trouble: “Come unto Me, ali ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will givo you rest.” Is there a drunkard hero? You mav.by the Faviour's gr.iee. have that fire of thirst utterly extinguished. Is there a defrauder here? You may be ma lea saint Is there a libertine here’ You may be made a* pure os the light. When a minister in an outdoor meeting in Scotland was eulogizing goodnes*. there were hanging around tho edge of the audience some of the most denraved men and women, and the minister said noth ing about mercy for prodigals. And a de praved woman cried out: “Your rope is not long enough for the like of us.” B!e ; sed be God. our Gospel ran fathom the deepest depths and reach to farthest wanderings, and hero is a rope that is long enough to rescue the worst: “Whosoever will.” But why take extreme cases, when we all have been or are now the captives of sin and death? And we may through tho gr>at Emancipator drop our shackles and take a throne. You have looked at your hand and arm onlv a-i being useful now, and a curious piece of anatomy, but there is something about your hand and arm that makes ms think they are an undeveloped wing. And if you would know wliat pos sibilities are suggested by that, ask the eagle that has looked close into the eye of the noonday sun; or ask the albatross that has struck its claw into the black locks of the tempest; or ask the condor that this morning is descending to the highest peak of Chim borazo. Your right hand and arm and your left hand and arm. two undeveloped wings, better get ready for the empyrean. “Rise, my seal, and Mrctch thy wing, Thy be ter portion tr*c j.” There have been chains famous in the world’s historv, such ns the chain which fastened the prisoner of Chillon to the pillar, into the staple of which I have thrust my hand, on the isolated rock of the Lake of Geneva; such as the chain which the Russian exile c’anks on his wa * to the mines of Siberia; such as the chain which Zenobia, the captive queen, wore when brought into the presence of Aurelian. Ave, there have been races in chains, an 1 nations in chains, and there has been a world in chains: but. thank God, the last one of them shall he broken, and under the liberating power of the omnipotent Gospel the shackles shall fall from the last neck, an l tho last ann. and the last foot. But these shattered fetters shall all be gathered up again from the dun geons, and the work-houses, and the mines, and the rivers, and the fields, and they shall again be welded,and again strung link to link, and polished and transformed until this world, which has wandered off and been a recreant world and a lost world, shall by that chain be lifted and hung to tho throne of God. no longer the iron chain of oppression, but the golden chain of redeeming love. There let this old ransomed world swing forever! Roll on ye years, roll on ye days, roll on ye hour.s.and hasten the glorious consummation! The Ginger Plant of Commence. The rhizome, or root, of Zingiber offi cinale, is known as ginger. It is a reed j like plant, with annual leafy stems three I to four feet high, and flowers in cone shaped spikes borne on other stems : thrown up from the rhizome. It is a na tive of Asia in the warmer countries of i which it is universally cultivated, but is | not known in the wild state. It ha. j been introduced into most tropical coun ■ tries, including the West Indies, j Ginger occurs in two torms—dried ; with the epidermis as coated ginger, and as scraped ginger when the epidermis is | removed. The uncoated ginger i» 1 prepared by scraping and washing the rhizome and then drying it in the sun. Thus prepared, it has a pale huff hue and breaks easily, exhibiting a short and farinaceous feature with numerous bris tle-like tibres. When cut w ith a knife the younger and terminal portion of the rhi/ome appears pale yellow, soft, and amylaceous, while the older part is flinty, hard and resinous. Coated ginger or that which has been dried without the removal of the ep.der- i mis is covered with a wrinkled, striated . brown integument, which imparts to it a ! somewhat coarse and crude appearance, ; whr< h is usually remarkably less deve!- ! oj>ed on the fiat parts of the rhizome. | internally it is usually of a less bright and delicate hue than ginger from w hich the cortical part ha. been removed. Much of it, indeed, is dark, horny, and r csinou&< —Prairie Farmer, A Kentucky Child Wonder. Fifteen years ago was born a son to Mr. Andrew Woods, a wealthy stock man and fanner near Keene, Ky. After a few mouths the child seemed well developed, but suddenly the body began to dwindle while the head grew. The child’s bones were of chalky formation, and at live years of age “Dot” was regarded as a marvel. He grew in knowledge, had a great curiosity, ami was carried on a pillow to every attractive meeting or speaking within the adjoining counties. At *.en he be.arne aesthetic in taste aid dressed with great care every day. Physicians despaired of his life, as the limbs were but a few inches long. The chest could be seen iu full play, the heart beating and heaving like a maiden’s. His living to fifteen was regarded by the people as miraculous, for lie ate, saal a gentleman, hurdiy enough to keep a chicken alive. For year* inu«eums have resorted to all sorts of extravugint offers to the parent*, but they would never consent ui having him exhibited. The child's death a few days ugo was painless, and the reman!* were deposited in a buby coffin and followed to the burial by a great concourse of neighbors. Precau tions have been taken against ghouls, who might seek to profit by robbing the grave. Little “Dot” complained, and lor the first time, a few days before, of the pressure ujkiii hi* heart, which wa* smothering him. He had attained a , great degree of intelligence, and recently attended a political speaking, converging like a matured mind upon that and other topics. —Cincinnati Commercial, Dinirula. ion of Cetewayo, obstinatclr atacm that he it potentate of Zululand. i A Leper as White as Snow. Johnson, the leper, lies in a room off from the contagious ward, says the Chi cago Herald, reporter wbo visited the hospital, lie is hideous. Ilia bands and hairless fare arc incrustcd with scale-like blotches of reddish-brown. The face shows most distinctly the ravage* of the horrible disease. The lower lids of the eyes are drawn down and turned inside out. The lips are blue, and the uose i* swollen to twice its na tural si/e. His back and abdomen aie covered huge tubercles. These scales slightly change color from time to time. There is no known remedy for leprosy. It has for all times defied the efforts of physicians. But one important discovery ha* been made of late years, and that is that the disease is contagious, and is not hereditary, as is generally supposed. The germ of the disease is known to exist, and animals have been inoculated, afterwards showing un mistakable signs of the malady. Btill no cure has been discovered, or even a remedy to alleviate the leper’s suffering. Leprosy is a slow disease, and Johnson may live for even fifteen years. .There are two forms of the disease—viz.: b ack • leprosy and white leprosy. In tho for -1 mer the scales are dark and in the latter 1 perfectly white. Johnson is suffering from the former. The leprosy of the ancient Jews consisted of shiny smooth blotches on which the hair turned white and silky, and the skin and the muscular flesh lost their sensibility. It was in curable. It was not until about the year I*oo A. D. that the black leprosy appeared. In time the toes and fingers drop off, and when the eating process reaches the vitals death ensues. YELLOW FETER. Prevention Belter Than Core. , The following statement speaks for itself: “This certifies that I was, with my family, • a resident of New Orleans during the terrible 1 Yellow Fever epidemic which visited that ! city in IS7S. We were strangers there, and j unaccliinated, but having previously used \ Ayer's Ague Cure for malarial disorder*, I j fully believed it would prove a preventive of ( the scourge. I took the Ague Cure myself, and had my little girls take it daily, but I could not persuade my husband to use it He fell sick of the fever and died, but 1 my children and I were not attacked. Our exemption from sickness at this time was | considered miraculous, but I believe it was Ayer’s Ague Cure, and feel sure that we owe to this rao licine the fact that we survived the epidemic.”—Mrs. L. E. Osborn, Prescott, Ark. The recent naval manoeuvres of Eng land’s fleet show that “the chief navai need of the country is a largely increased number of cruisers, and that the prime factor in modern na val warfare is speed.” Log Cabin Success. What ails the young men? Robert Garrett's father left him a fortune of twenty millions. He was from childhood reared in luxury; he received a splendid education with an especial training into a thorough knowledge of railroad management and was expected to succeed his father as a railroad king. Within three years after the responsibili ties which his father's death threw upon him were assumed, he is report-M a broken down man. with mind and health permanently shattered. George Law is another young min left with millions of money, who is report -d among the “wrecks.” Hi* father, bred a stone mason, wasof gigantic size and strength, with commensurate brain power, so he be came a great contractor, then a railroad king nnd left half a dozen millions for hi* son to dissipate. The young man is a sue ceHsos a dissipator. The founders of both of these great estates were born in the nif>st humble walks of l;fe, grew strong, mentally anil physically, l»y simple living and honest labor and developed into financial giants. Th»*ir sons «w*re reared in the Jap or luxury and developed into in tellectual pigmies. The great men of our country have not, as a rule, come fr'im the elegant mansions of the cities, but from the Cabins of the rural districts. Simple ways of living, free dom from dissipation and enervating pleas ures, simple remedies for disease, effective anil which leavo no poison in the system, de velon brawny, brainy men. who compel the world to recognize their strength and power. The wholesome, old-fashioned Log Cab n remedies are the safest and surest for family use. Our grandmothers knew how to pre pare the teas and syrup* of root*, herbs and balsams which drive disease out of the sys tem by natural methods and leave no after ill-effects. The most potent of these '‘ld time remedies were, after long and sear<-hing investigation, secured by H. H. Warner, of safe cure fame, and are now put out for the “healing of the nations” in the Warner** Ix>g Cabin remedies. hegulato the regulator with Warner's Log Cabi sarsaparilla, and with pure blood giving health, strength, mental and bodily vigor, you may hope to cope successfully ! with the most gigantic financial problems of the age, without wrecking health and man hood. A mocking bird in Albany, N. Y., whistled “Ho.danger’* March.* Woman's Work. There is no end to the t&s** which daily confront the good housewife. To be a suc ce-gfu! lions *ke#q>er, the first requisite is good health How can a woman contend against th.-trial* and worries of h’>uaekecp ing if she l>e suffering from lh‘s* distressing irregulariti- s, ailm- nte and we*kties-c* pe culiarto her ex? Dr Pierces Favorite Pre scription is a specific for these disorders. The on ly remedy, sold by druggists, under a positive guarantee from the manufacturers. Butts faction guaranteed in every case, or nn n*y refunded. See printed guarantee on bottle wrapper. Thirty-one of the ninety-six counties* in Tennessee contain no railroad*. A laeueral Tie-up of all the means of public conveyance in a large city.even for a few hours, during a strike of the employes, means a general » ar alyzing of trade and industry for the time ixing. and i* attended with an enormous ag gregate losm to the community. How much more serious to the individual i.* the general tie-up of Inn system, know n a* cimatipation. and die to the strike of the moat important organ* for more pru lent treatment an l t»et ter care. If too long neglected, a torpid or sluggish liver will produce serious forms of kidu-y and liver diseaaes, malarial trouble and ctitonic dyspepsia. Dr. Pierce's P easaut Purgative Pellets are a preventive and a mr* of these disorder*. They are prompt, sure and effective, pleasant to take, and positively harm!*-**. Time Like the Present. Taken when o»-nsi paten it* Urst noticed, one or two II AM BURG FIGS will put ibe bowels in healthv condition, and will pre vent the devoJi*pm*»Ht of serious tr* uhl*. •JRcanti. Dent one Pig. Mack Drag Ca, N. ‘ Y. Yery Likely. He—“ Jake, quit yer talking at the table. Now lemme ketch ye openin’ ver mouth agin while ye're eatin’, an’ I’ll send ye ’way from the table hungry.”— Bazar, Their Onlv JlrdlciPf Chest. Deerlodge, Montana, Dec. 16,1685. I have l»een using Bravdrkth’k Pills for the Lst thirteen years, and though I have had nine children, 1 have never had a doc tor in the house, except three times, when we bad on epidemic of scarlet fever, which we soon banished by a vigorous use of Brandreth's P ' 7 *. I have used them for myself, two or a night for a month, for liver com? dy..~»eiwia, and consti pation. In d iOy c. c-nips. wind colic, indigestion, c -wo P.raxdreth's Pills fixed the ch ; it once. A box of Pill* is all the ra. cbe-t ws require in the house We’ r t aa for rheumatism, colds, catarrh, bi r and impure bio**!. They never 1 • led to cure ail the above complaint* a v*ry few day*. William w. B. Miller. The French eaters of horseflesh prefer the animals curried. The t'smlDK C'onei. It is fancied bv a grateful patron that the next comet will appear in the form of a huge bottle, having “Golden Medical Discovery” inscribed upon it In bold characters. Wheth er this conceit an l high compliment will be verified, remains to be seen but Dr. Pierce will continue to send forth that wonderful vegetable compound, cn 1 potent rradicator of disease. It has no equal In medicinal and health giving pr»pertie'i. for imparting vigor and tone to the liver aud kidneys in purity ing the blood, and through it cleansing and renewing Hie whole system. For scrofulous humors, nnd consumption, or lung scrofula, in its early stages, it is a positive specific. Druggists. The smaller the “talker” the bigger the salesman, often. Delicate Children, Narslcg Mother*, Overworked Men, aud for ali dis eases where the tissues ere wasting away from the inability to digest ordinary food, or from overwork of the brain or body, all such should take Scott’s Emul-ion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites. “I used the Emulsion on a lady who was deHcate. and threatened with bronchitis. It put her in such good health and flesh, that I must say it is the best Emulsion I ever used.”—L. P. Waddell. M. D.. Hugh's Mills. S. C. No opium in Piso's Cure for Consumption. Cure* where other remedies fail. 35c. If You Are Sick With Headache, Neuralgia, Rh urn at ism Dyspep sia. Biliousness. Blood Humors. Kidney Disease. 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El pH Best Cough Hyrup. Taste* good. Use i _ Ell in tune. Hold by druggists. HI 9 I believe Piso’s Cur© m for Consumption save*! v my life.—A. H. Dowell, b g Editor Enquirer. Ellen- V 9 ton, N. C., April 23. 1887. I Iplsol The rest Cough Medi cine is Piso’s Cure fob m Ip Consumption. Children jS 9 take it without objection. Eg | By all druggists. 25c. % CURES WHERE AIL ELSE FAILS. M Be«t Cough Syrup. Ta*te*good. Use R iu tiwfl. Bold by <lruitl*. - gey M. R.r -40 DR. SCKENCK’S PULMONIC S YRU? I Is the oldest and best established medic.ne for direct treatment of Consumption and all affections cf lungs U /It ripens and loosens the tubercles. j Rids the Lungs of purulent matter, 3 \ Cleans and heals the sore spots, O «Prevents other deposits of tubercles, “ ( Helps the return of flesh and spirit, \Cu*-ts where other remedies fail. Do not fail to send for Dr Schenck's now »rd admirable treatise on t e Lungs, the Liver, and the Stomach, w *h thrir fl,*»-v>-s and cure. It abounds in e*ce!!ent informa tion. and will give you ideas about these j vital orpins and the low*-, of health yjo never had before. Sent free. DR. SCHENCK S MEDICINES. <*URCIY VEUCTACLC. PULMONIC SYRUP, SEAWEED TONIC AND MANDRAKE PiLLS are for sale by all Druggets. Fell printed directions with each p.»« kage. Address ail comnvmicaiioos to Dr. J. 11. Scbeack u Son. Philadelphia, l a. COMMON SENSY (Tj *f >*~\ onnu t \ rtf CiTUEH, HAY FITII. I Y 1 vVsN. \ Asthma. ItrMefcl'ta. »is 4 Vl il *.l ut the llwAMi. Thr**i i V and Lung* |ngrn»nu« A I Hen ot tihdlOk. • \aoo *mw. UoniinuoM* <-urrw#i* ' ■ of ucofiiMwl %ir pr«iw(r*t«ng run fTina and kaaling Mru* »-lims \ sll AAhsr nanlM r*u a.a Hm4- mA* c«ur« to V<«* ■!••••«. J Tom emm ho rstd wttlls stop. arwr n* OAYS ’ TWIAL U»*k showing ■riflfl of and —■ w how ;«» . Air*oil 'iMum of tho Ctoimon Seut Curt Co.. Bt.UBt..OhIoMtAIIL .F
Charlotte Messenger (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Oct. 6, 1888, edition 1
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