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REV. DR. TALMAGE THE ic !OOKLYN DIVINE’S SUNDAY SERMON. Text: “.1 man of great stature, whose fingers and 1 oes were four and twenty, six ha a ', and six on each foot; and he a'so uas the on of the giant. But when he defiled Israel , Jonathan , the son o f Shimea, David's hro her, slew him." —l. Chronicles xx., 5, 6 and 7. Malformation photographed, and for what reason.' Did not this passage slip in by a mistake into the Sacred Scriptures, ns some times a paragraph utterly obnoxious to the editor gets into his newspaper during his ab * aence' Is not this Scriptural errata i No, no. there is nothing haphazard about the Bible. This jw.'sage of tscripture was as cer tainly intended to bo put in the Bible as the Ctsage: *‘ln the beginning God created the a Yens and the earth," or, "God so loved the world that Ho gave his only begotten son.’’ And I select it for niv text to-day bemuse it is charged with practical and tremendous meaning. By the people of God the Fhilist ines had been conquered,with the exception of a few giants. The race of giants is mostly extinct, lam glad to say. There is no use for giants now ex cept to enlarge the income of museums. But there were many of them in olden times. Goliath was, according to the Bible, eleven feet, four and a half inches high. Or, if you do not believe the Bible, the famous Pliny, a secular writer, declares that at Crete by an earthquake a monument was brokeu open, discovering the remains of a giant forty-six cubits long, or sixty-niue feet * high. So, whether you prefer sacred or profane history, you must come to the conclusion that there were in those olden t rues cases of human altitude monstrous and appalling. David had smashed the skull of one of thess giants, but there were other giants that tho Davidean wars had not yet subdued, and one of them stands in my text He was not only of Alpine stature, but had a surplus of digits. To the ordinary fingers was annexed an additional Huger an 1 the foot hid also a superfluous addendum. He had twenty four terminations to hands and iect where others have twenty. It wa3 not the only instance of tho kind. Tavernier, the learned writer, says that tho Emperor of Java had a son endowed with the same number of extremities. Volcatius, the poet, had six fingers on each hand. Man pet ius in his celebrated letters speaks of two families near Berlin, similarly equipped of hand and foot. All of which I can believe for l have seen two cases of the same physi cal superabundance. But this giant of the text is in battle, and as David, the dwarf warrior, had dispatched one giant, the brother of David slays this monster of my text, and there ho lies after the battle in Gath, a dead giant. His stature did not save him, and hissmierfluous appen dices of hand and foot did not save bin*. Ttie probability was that in tho battle hie sixth finger fin his hand made him clumsy in the usu of his weapon, and his sixth toe crippled his gait. Behold tho prostrate and inaliorm.it »< I g ant of tho text: “A man great of stature, whose fingers and toes were lour and twenty, six on each ha id, and six on each foot; ami he also was tin son of the giant. But when he defied Israel, Jonathan, the son of JShimea, David's brother, slew him." Behold how superfluities are a hinderance rut her than a help! In all the battle at Gath that day there was not a man w.th ordinary hand and ordinary loot and ordinary stature that was not letter off than this physical curiosity of my text. As physical si..e is apt to run in families .the probability is that this brother of David who did the work was of an abbreviate-! stature. A dwarf on the right side is stronger than a giant on the wrong side, and all the body, and mind, and estate, and oppor tunity that you cannot use for Go land the betterment of the world is a sixth finger and a sixth toe, and a terrific hinderance. The most oft; e good done in the world, and the most of those who win the battles lor the right, are ordinary people. Count the lingers of their hand and they have just five— no more and no less. One Doctor Du IT among missionaries. I ut three thousand mis sion mes that would tell you they have only common endowment, t ine Florence Night inga •* to nttr« the sick in conspicuous places, but tea thou.sind women wiio arc just as good nur.-os though never heard of. Tho “Swamp Angel* was a big gun that during tho w ar made a big noise, but muskets of or dinary cal bro au-i shells of ordinary heft did the execution. Pres.dent Tyler and his cabinet go down th* Potomac one day to exp r meat with the Peacemaker, a great iron gun that was to affright with its thunder foreign navies. The gunner touches it off and it explodes and leaves cabinet min isters dead or ihe deck, while at that time all up and d'-wn cur coasts were cannon of ordi nary bore able to lie the defense of the nation, and* re ady at t h- first touch to waken to duty. The curse of the world is b g guns. Ait.*r the politicians who have mao > all the noisa go l:otn»lioaisc from angry dis -uss on on the evening of the first Monday in November, the next day the |x**p!e with the silent ballots will settle everything, and settle it right, a million of th.* white slips of paper they drop making al out as much noise as tho fa 1 cf an apple blossom. Clear back in the country to-day th»re are mothers in p'ain apron, and shoos fu-hioimd on a rough lanfc by th • shoemaker at the end of the lane, rocking babi s that are to be tho Marl n Lut liers. and the Faradays, and the Edisons, and the Bismarck*,and tho Glad stones, an « the Washingtons, and the George Wbitefields of the year IHSSS, and who will make the 20th century so bright th it this much lauded nineteenth iu comparison will seein like thu dark ages. The longer I live the more 1 like common folks. They do the world's work, bear ing tho world’s burdens, weeping the world's sympathies, carrying the world’s con solation. Among lawyers wo see rise up a Rufus Choate, or a William Wirt, ora Sam uel Southand, but society would go t > pieces to-morrow if there were not thouvmds of common lawyers to see that men and women get their rights. A Valentine Mott or a Wiilard Barker rises up eminent in the medi cal profession, but what on undruite! aweep would pneumonia, and diphther.a. "*n<i scarlet fever, have iu the world it it were not for t-n thousand common doctors. The old phvsician in his gig rolling up the lane of tho farmhouse, or ri«img on hors- back, his medicia-** in the saddle-bags, arriving on the ninth day of the fever, and coming in to take hold of the pul eof the patient, while the family, jwile with anxiety, are looking on and waiting for his decision in regard to the patient., and hearing him say: ‘'Thank God. 1 hive nifstere 1 tho cn<n. be is getting well,'* excites in mu an admirat.on quite equal to the m n tion of the names of the great metropolitan doctors, I'ancoast or Gross or Joseph C. Hutchinson, of ihe past, or the illu»trioui living men of the present. Yet w hat do we see in all departments? People not satisfied with ord nary sphere* of work and ordinary duties. Instead of try ing to so* what they cun d<» with a hand of live fingers they want six. Instead of usual endowment of twenty mtuiiil an I pedal addenda they want twenty four. A cerium amount of money ior livolihool and for the suojJ/ of thosi whom leave be hind us after we have «!• parted this 1 fe is important, for w« have the tant authority so: saying: “He that provuleth not for h a own. and especially thorn of his own bou*eho'd is worse than an infi iel.” but the large fcn I fabulous sums for which many strug&l-*, if obtain d would lie a hin derance rather than an advantage. The an ieti -s nni am oyatvx* that those have whose estates have become plethoric can only be told by fluxes who po-uesi tb*if). It w.il lisa good thing when through y»ur fndti»trv and public prosperities you can own the bo in which you lire. Put Ptt 'pnaHyou own fifty houses and you have all h'**? rents to collect nni all thn*e ten ints topic is* Suppose you have hf-i»chnd out Jn iiusinm* wb>v*%see until in alroo* Her/ direction you have icv&r.HKU s The fire bell rings at night; you rush up stairs to look out of the window to see if it is in any of your mills. Epidemic of crime comes ami there are embezzlements and ab seondings in all directions, and you wonder whether any of your bookkeepers will prove recreant. A panic strikes the financial world, and j'ou arc like a hen under a sky full of hawks and trying with anxious cluck to get your overgrown chickens safely under wing. After a certain stage of suc cess has been reached you have to trust so many important things to others that you are apt to become the prey of others, and you are swindled and defrauded, and the anxiety you had on your brow whan ?rou were earning your first thousand dollars s not equal to the anxiety on your brow now that you have won your three hundred thou sand. The trouble with such a one is he is spread out like the unfortunate one m my text. You have more fingers and toes than you know what to do with. Twenty were useful, twenty four is a hindering suoerfluity. Dis raeli says that a King of Poland abdicated his throne and joined the people and became a porter to carry burdens. And some one asked him why he did so and he replied: “Upon my honor, gentlemen, the loxd which I quit is by far heavier than the one you see me carry. The weightiest is but a straw when compared to that world under which I labored. I have slept more in four nights than T have during nil my reign. I begin to be a King myself. Elect whom you choose, for me who am so well it would be madness to return to court.” “Well,” says somebody, “such overloaded persons ought to be pitied, for their worri ments are real and their insomnia and their nervous prostration are genuine.” I roply that they could get rid of the surplus by giving it away. If a man Ins more houses than ho can carry without vexation, let him drop a few of th:»m. If hia estate is so great he cannot manage it with out. getting nervous dvsnepsia from having too much, let him divide up with those who have nervous dysnepsfa because they cannot get enough. No! they guard their sixth finger with more care than they did the original five. They go limping with what they call gout, and know not that, like the giant of my text, they are lamed by a siqier finou* toe. A few of them by lnrge chari ties bleed themselves of this financial obesitv and monetary plethora, but many of them hang on to the hindering superfluity till death, and then ns they are compelled tn give the money un anyhow, in their last will and testament tliev generously give some of it to the Lord, expecting no doubt that He will feel much obliged tc them. Thank God that once in a while we have a Peter Cooper, who. owning an interest in the iron works at Trenton, add to Mr. Lester: “I do not fe *1 quite »*asv about the amount we are making working under one of our patents, we have a monopoly which B»ems to rao something wrong. Everybody has to come to us for it and we are making money too fast.” So they reluced the price, and this while our philan thropist was building Cooper Institute,which mothers a hundred institutes of kindness and mercy all over the land. But the world had to wait five thousand eight hundred years for Peter Cooper. !am glad for the benevolent institutions that get a legacy from men whe dur ng their life were as stingy ns death, but who in their last will and testament bestowed money on hospitals and missionary societies; but for such testators I have no respect. They would have taken every cent of it with them if they could, and bought, up half of heaven and let it out at ruinous rent, or loaned tho money to ce’estial citizens at two l>cr cent, a month and got a corner on harps ami trumpets. They lived in this world fifty or sixty years in the presence of appall ing suffering and want, and ma le no effort for their relief. The charities of such people are for the most part in “paulo post future” tens * and they are goin r to do them. The probability is that if such a one in his last j w II bv a donation to benevolent societies J tries to atone for his lifetime close-fisted-! the heirs at law will try to break the will by proving that the old man was senile or crazy, and the expense of the litigation , will about leave iu the lawyers’ hands what j was meant for the American Bib’e Society.; O ye overweighte 1 successful business men,! wli ther this sermon reach your ear or your . eye. let me say that if you are prostrated 1 with axieties about keeping or investing these tremendous fortunes, I can tell you ; how you can do more to get your health back and yonr spirits raised than by drinking gallons of bad-tasting water at Saratoga, Hamburg or Carlsbad—give to God and humanity and the Bible ton per cent, of all your income, and it will make a new man of v< u, and from r**-tles« walking of tho floor at flight you shall have eight hours’si ep without the help of bromide of potassium, and from no appeti e you will baldly bo able to wait your regular meals, and your wan cheek will fill up. and when you die the blessings of those who but foi you would havo perished will bio all ovei your gravo with violets if it be spring, or gladiolus, if it bo autumn. Perhaps some of you will take this advice, but the most of you will not. Ami you wili try to cure your swollen hand by getting on it more fingers, and your rheumatic foot by getting on it more toes, and there w ill boa sigh of relief when you are gone out of the world: and when over your remains the min ister recites tho words: ‘ Blessed are tho dead who die ;n tho Lord,” persons who have keen appreciation of the ludicrous will hardly be able to keep their face straight. But whether in that direction my words do goo! or not, I am anxious that all who have only ordinary equipment be thankful for v.liat they have an l rightiy employ it. I think you all have, figuratively as well as literally, finger* enough. Do nit ong for hindering superfluities. Standing in tho presence of this fallen giant ot my text and in this post raoi-t-m examination of him. let us learn how much better off we i are with just the usual hand, the usual foot You have thanked God for a j thou* tml tilings, but I warrant you never i thanked Him for thow two implements of j work and locomotion, that no one but, the j Infinite and Omnipotent Go l could have i ever planned or marie, tho hand ami tho foot. Only that soldier or that mechanic who in a battle or through machinery has lost them knows anything about their value, nnd only tho Christian scientist can have any appre ciation of what divine masterpieces they are. Sir Charles Bell, the English surgeon, on the battlefield of Water loo. while engaged in amputations of tho wounded wsi so impressed With the wondrous construction of the hum in hand that when the Earl of Br dgewaP r pave Tony thou-and dollars for essays on the wis dom and goodness of God. and eight books were written. Kir Charles P.e 1 wrote his en tire book or. the wisdom and goodness of God asdisplaved In the human hand. The twenty-seven lx me* in hand and wrist, w th rartilngaa nnd li ;aments and ptnlangM of the fingers, all Hindu just ready t> knit, to sew, to build up. to pull down, to weave, to write, to plow, to pound, to wheel, to bat tle, to give /non ily salutation. The tip* of the finders are so many telegraph o.lices by reason of sensitiveness of tou h. The bridges tho tunnel -, the cities of the who e earth ore tho victories of the hand. 'lho hands are r.ot dumb, but'often speak as dis tinctly as tho lips. With our banns we invite, wo rrpd, we invoke, we entreat, we wring them in grief or clasp them in joy, or spread them abroad in I enedteiion. The maiformstion of the giant's ban lin the text g onlies the usual ban ! Fashione |of < lod more equi-itely and I wondrcusly than any human mecl au»m j thnt ■■ as over contrived, I charge you use it j for God Him the lifting of the world out of j tbs moral predicament. Employ it in the sublime work of gospel handshaking. You ! can se« the hand is just mad** for that. Four j fingers just set right io touch your neighljor'x j hand on one side and your thumb set so as to j clench it on the other side. By all itst«oae*.nnd j joints, an I muscles, and cartilages, And liga ments, the voice of nature joins with the I voice of God commanding von to these hands. The custom is as* old as the Bible, anyhow. Jehu said to Jehonadeb: t “Is thine heart right as my heart Is with thine heart? If it be, give me thine hand.” When hands jo n in Christian s dotation a gospel electricity thrills across thu palm from h*-artto heart. and from the Shoulder of one to the shouluer of the other. Mhakn lianas n“l around. With the timid and for tr.e'r *ncoursg -m *nt, shako ban K With a* U in warm hearted sympathy. shake hands. With the young man just en tering business, and discouraged at the small sales and the large expenses, shake hands. W ith tho child who is new from God, and started on unending journey for which ho needs to gathor great supply of strength, and who can hardly reach up to you now because you are so much taller, shake hands. Across c radles and dying beds and graves, shake hands. With your enemies, who havo done all to de fame anl hurt you. but whom you can afford to forgive, shako hands. At the door of churches where people come in. and at tho door of churches where people go out. shako hands Let pulpit shake hands with pew, and Sabbath day shake hands with week day, and earth shake hands with heaven. Oh the strange, the mighty, tho un defined, the mysterious, the eternal power of an honest handshaking. The difference be tween these times and the millennial times is that now some shake hands, but then all will shako hands, throne and foot-stool, across seas nation with nation, God an! man, church militant and church triumphant. Yea; the malformation of this fallen giant’s foot glorifies tho ordinary foot, for which I fear you have never onco thanked God. The twenty-six bones of the foot are the admiration of the anatomist. The arch of tho foot fashioned with a grace and a poise that Trajan’s arc'll at Beneventum, or Constantine’s arch at Rome, or arch of Triumph at the end of Champs Elysees could not equal. Those arches stand where they were planted, but this arch of the foot is an adjustable arch,a yield ing arch, n flying arch, and ready for move ments innumerable. Tho human foot so fashioned as to enable man to stand upright ns no other creature, and leave tho hand that would otherwise have to help in balancing the body free for anything it chooses. The foot of the camel fashioned for the sand, tho foot of the bird fashioned for the tree branch, the foot of the hind fashioned for the slippery rock, the foot of the lion fashioned to rend its prey, the foot of the horse fashioned for the solid earth, but the foot of man made to cross the desert, or climb the tree, or scale the cliff, or walk the earth, or go where he needs to go. With that divine triumph of anatomy in your possession where do you walk? in what path of righteousness or what path of sin havo you I set it down? Where have you left the? mark of your footsteps? Amid the petrifactions in tho rocks have been found the mark of the feet of birds and beasts of thousands of years ago. And God can trace out all the footsteps of your lifetime, and those you made fifty years ago are as plain as those made in the last soft weather, all of them petrified for the Judgment Day. Oh, the foot! How divinely honored not only in its construction but iu the fact that God represents Himself in the Bible as having feet: “The could <on the dust of His feet:” “Darkness was under Ilis feet;” “The earth is My footstool.” And representing cyclones and euroclydons and whirlwinds and hurricanes as winged creatures. Ho describes Himself as putting His foot on these monsters of the air and walking from pinion to pinion, saying: “He walketh upon the wings of the wind.” “Thou hast put all things under His feet,” cries the psalmist. Oh, the foot! Give me the auto biography of your foot from the time you stepped out of the cradlie until today nnd 1 will tell your exact character now and what are your prospects for tho world to sput.q oqq jpi jo qoiqM oq su eqq anil -S?oq siqq oj oa«o[ o* poAjo-oj iiatuoAi ei|l fit? I uy *Btu|e joq oavS ui !jatd uojfnj qou pnq oq.u übuioav u puy •suipi joj pesjsu apupdoj.Mp jeq ui dn ihnsfooi puv ‘paaved -du uuuiOiW p[jood u Udq£ *eAj?)V.i)'pi jsoui oqj su.u | utrq jaq ?*q* pepuajuoo uioojq aqq jopun puo ‘jptuq oqq jjo sjaMoy peqonja jotflouu puy qnjtnnroq isoui ©qq sum puoq Joq quqj *i;o poddup sjoivm eqj su plus puu ‘qoojq tmquuoiu eqi us pauq aoq pia jdqiouu I puy •inji'jn*eq eqq saoq epuui d7iu:i jnjiqnuoq oqq pms puu ‘saujoq qqiM ! puuq aoq pouopp.u oubeqqpuy *pu«q eqq |0 oouujuoddu ot(!j qnoqu Aj[uaiu m bjom oq.u aouioAv oojqq jo kuipu-u sum y *&ieq)o d[oq oy pom oqy soop puii puuq pmpiuoq oqj , juq3 puu ‘sseupijdsn qsoyuouS jo sqiud }noq« j sooJt mqy aooj piji.nuoq isotu oqy hi ijuqx j 'Aap uoo Jno ao ouioq ano ‘pofj ano jo gotajos : aq* ui &q yi yo[ <jsoi jo poiucj oq 300; jno ji og i ~-no.tt si oirjuq oqy mun GAomyou op y *ojj„ tpmsoq ‘Aumu uiiq A.uuo p|uoM s.ioipios oqy i uoq.w puu stq 'uuuuuGSfuy 40 ' dqy ju ‘eSpi.iqMO.ix sumoi(x J|s 'uoippaod jo siuG»jaef) pjo eq) jo A\tui eqy oqui ?(>u ; s;gS puuq .qoq.u jnoA juqy qno ‘juoq v Suipodj Aq joSuqGJoj sjq jo quioC : »qi 3ho[ ‘jgjtjav quo.iS eqij ‘opuayy saijuijo I moaojoj t»uu mou uifll 0% sSuo|«q 3t anq gooj >qi jo K.»uoq xih-A'juowj oqi Suouiu ao jsijm : i uu puuq jo sauoq uoags-Aiuomi oqy Suouiu , auoq jo ‘gajou jo opsum u qou st ajaqy puu •41 JO qouq oqj cj puuq spy jo uqud oqi uiojj | puu ‘Gunjjo; jo uoai Gqy quaAV (hqsui siyy ;o A\oqoq oqy oj (jea; siyy jo qoju eqy qSnojqy *«sojj ; oiiy uo p.»3jids o.iga\ <jsuq3 jo jggj qjoq puu 4K!->MO jo spuuq* ooiAjae I oy Suo|G(i puuq lusiuuqoaui ! euiAip jo HGOGia e-a:n qijoq ;j..uj oqy -noqu 3qnop ou qqSirn eaaqj quqx -euio.) present was tho most attractive, an 1 she said: “'1 he most beautiful of them all is tho 1 one that gave relics to my necessities," and ns she so said her wrinkles and rags and her decrepitude and her I tody dis appeared, nnd in place thereof stool the ! Christ who long ago said: “Inasmuch as ve d d it »o one of the least of these ye did it to Me! ’ and who to purchase the service of our hand and foot here on earth or in resurrec tion state, had Ills own baud and foot lac erated. WISE VtbRDS. Books outlive empires. Sweet meat must have sour sauce. Great plenty breeds much dainty. Tripe broth is better than no porridge. Blessed are the missionaries of cheer ful ne«s. Always to be sparing is always to bo in want. Honors achieved far exceed those that are created. The simple faith of a little child i 9 the world's truest homage. Dreams are ofttiincs the fulfillment of % prophecy with n ourselves You cannot mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right. The power of forgiveness is the noblest attribute in the human character. lie deserves to find himself deceived who seeks a heart in the unthinking man. To be autocratic is to be unjust to ourselves. No man is “sufficient unto U.m elf.” I ’espa’rand happiness are so closely linked that each is riven by the wealth of the other. For people to live happy together the real -ecrct is that they should not live ! too much together. Faith is letting down our nets into | the untransparent deeps, not knowing what we shall take. A man is a great bundle of tools. lie is born iuto this life without the knowl edge of how to use them. Education is the process of learuiug their use. Fnmaua Wami*n. It is a significant fact that most of the wo rn' n who have achieved fame in art, litera ture, or “affairs." h«vo enj .y.-d vigorous heabh. This shows that the mind is never < Hpnblc of the severe and continued applies i tion nec-ssary to creative work, iiult-HH the j body is at Hs nest. The woman who aspires te fill an exulted placu among her associate*, must, l* fr*H from 'StWI» debility an! fe male weaknesses. Dr. Piene’* Favorite i'm- I Hcrijitioii will banish they, and it is warrant led t. restore those functional harmonies i w»d«-h are in lfspen**able to heslth. A* a spe !cl fie for all th**** chronic weakueotet nnd ail { ut* nts p'cuffar t j WO n*.u. il is uu qu-..w». “DOCTORING OLD TIME.” A Htriklns Time Simplicities. In one of Harper’s issues is glvdp a very , fine illustration of Roberts’s celebrated paint ing. known as “Doctoring Old Time.;’ It represents a typical old-timer, with his bel lows, blowing the dust from an aheient j clock, with its cords and weights carefully ( secured. One of tho?e clocks in this genera tion is appreciated only as a rare relic. \ The suggestive name, “Doctoring Old | Time,” brings to our mi Ad another version the title, used for another purpose—“old v 1 Time Doctoring.” \ We learn, through a reliable source, that . one ot the enterprising proprietary medicine firms of the country has been for years in- . vestigating the formulas and medical prep- 1 arations used in the beginning of this cen tury, and even before, with a view of ascer taining why people in our great-grandfathers' time enjoyed a health and physical vigor so seldom found in the present generation. They now tiiink they have secured the secret or secrets. They find that the prevailing opinion that then existed, that “Nature has a remedy 1 for every existing disorder,” was true, and l acting under this belief, our grandparents I used the common herlw and juants. Con- $ tinuai trespass upon the forest domain has made these herbs less abundant and has driven them further from civilization, until they have been discarded as remedial agents be- • cause of the difficulty of obtaining them. i H. H. Warner, proprietor of Warner’s safe cure and founder of the Warner ob servatory, Rochester, N. Y., has been press ing investigations in this direction, into the annals of old family histories, until he has secured some very valuable formulas, from which his firm is now preparing medicines, to l*e sold by all druggists. They will, we learn, be known under the , general title of “Warner’s Ix>g Cabin rem edies.” Among those medicines will be ‘'sarsaparilla," for the blood and liver, “Log Cabin hops and buchu remedy;” lor the stomach, etc., “Log Cabin cougn and con sumption remedy,” “Log Cabin hair tonic,” “Log Cabin extract,” for internal and ex ternal use, and an old valuable discovery for catarrh, called “Log Cabin rose cream.” Among the list is also a “Log Cabin Plaster,” and a “Log Cabin liver pilL" From the number of remedies, it will be seen that they do not propose to cure all diseases with one preparation. It is believed by many that with these remedies a new era is to dawn upon suffering humanity and that the close of tho nineteenth century will see these roots and herbs, as compounded under tho title of Warner’s Log Cabin remedies, as popular as they were at its beginning. Although they come in the form of proprietary medicines, yet they will be none the less welcome, for suffer ing humanity has become tired of modern doctoring and the public has great confidence in any remedies put up by the firm of which H. H. Warner is the head. The people have become suspicious of the effects of doctoring with poisonous drugs. Few realize the injurious effects following the prescriptions of many modern physicians. These effects of poisonous drugs, already prominent, will become more pronounced in coming generations. Therefore we can cor dially wish the old-fashioned now remedies the best of success. Thirty-one of the ninety-six couatieain Tennessee contain no railroads. W. L. Douglas, the best known shoe manu facturer in the world, was bora at Plymouth, Mass., August 22 1845. When he was seven years old he was bound out to learn tho ‘-hoc making trade His early life was a hard one. but he did rotcomplain. H-.- had an ambition to lie master of his t rade; he worked hard and learned all he could. Having saved a little money by hard work at tt e bench he began to manufacture shoes at Brockton, Mass., July 6, 187(5. His know ledge of th\* business gave him a gr*at advantage over his competitors. He worked hard and saved his money: his busi ness began to increase and in May,lßßU,his ad vertisement firs . appeared in the papers, ad vertising W. L. Douglas s;> - hoe. He has since milled several other kin Is, which h<* describes in his advertisement that appears in this paper from time to time. It is a fact known by those who wear his show that he gives more value for the money than any other shoe manufacturer in this country. W. L. Doug las’s iactory is 42ft feet long, 30 feet wide, three stories high: lle employs 3IX) w< irkm *n with a pay roll of #♦,00!) pe<- week. His sales are 1,80) pairs per ».ay: Isis business is in creating very rapidly and will reach over -v 1,000,000 this year. He pays the highest Wt ges paid in the city, arid is bighW regarded by those who w».rk for him. It you are in want of a pair of »h **s it will pay you to gc to go to your dealer and examine a pair lie fore you* buy any other make. There is one thing certain, you will find his shoes the best value for the price, and free from shoddy. W. L. Douglas builc up his reputation by making h most sh es. Tho Coffee Harvest. Both banks of the Amazon River are fringed with sugar and coffee plantations of vast extent. Tne coffee trees are naturally about twenty-five feet in height, but in order to improve the quality of their fruit are kept pruned to about six feet. The bush bears a snow white blossom of exquisite fragrance, which after dropping is succeeded by a small irieen button. This develops into a pink berry,wh ch when ri, e announces it by Dccoming a deep purple. It is then plucked, and after pacing through the processes of drying, husking, win nowing, sunning and sorting becomes the colic* of commerce. —San Franciic: ChrsiMe. Great Lillie tlrn Homo of the greato-t men that ever lived were of small stature and insign licant ap pearunc . The reader will reudily recall many instances. Very small are Dr. Pier.-e's Pleasant. Purgative Pellets, but they are far more effective than file huge, old-fashioned pills which are so difficult to swallow amt so harsh in their action. The “tel lets" are gen t'e and uuver cause c< n-tipation. Korlivtr, stomach and bowel derangements tliey have no equal. Washington bids fair to have a NaJ tional Zoological Garden. Cnavenlloual “.Vionon” Itetoiitlona. Whereas, The Mouon Route (L. N. A. & C Hv. Co.) desires to make it known to the world at large that it forms the double con necting link of Pullman tourist travel lie tween the winter cities of Florida and tho hunnnor r< sorts of the Northwest; and Whereas, Its “rapid transit” system Is un Hun*assed. its elegant Pullman Buffet Sleep er and Chair ear service between Chicago •uid Louisville, Indianapolis ar*d Cincinnati unequalled; and Whereas. Its rates are as low as the 1< west; then lie it lie sol red, That in the event of starting on a trip it is good policy to consult w th E. O. McCormick, Gen’l Pass. A gent Monon Route, The making of grass ensilage is all the rage in England. Tlit* C<» in in a n Let* There is aidace no love can reach, There is a time no villi’© can teach, Th-re is a chain no power can break, There is asleep no sound can wnke. Hooner or later that time will arrive, that p'aco will wait for your coming, that chain must bind you in lielp!o« death, that sleep must fall on yoiirsmw. But thousands ev ery year go untimely to th ir fate, a.d ihotiMand* more lengthen out th- ir days by heedful, timely care. For the failing strength, the weakening organ*, the waiting blood. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Mi-dica) Discoverr is n wrndcrftil restorative hid! a ,wolonger of strength nn I hfe. It purifies the Id *» l and ffivigoraies the system, thereby fortifying it * t Iheisv. Os druggist*. Remember Allcock’s are the only genuine Porous Plasters. They act quickly and with cer ta nty, and can be worn fer weeks without causing pain or inconvenience. They are in valuable in cases of Bpinal Weakness. Kidney and Pulmonary Difficulties, Malaria, Ague Cake, Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Strains, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Sciatica, Heart, Spleen and Stomach Troubles, anil all local pains. ; Beware of imitations, and do not be de- Vived by misrepresentations. Ask for All caciv’s, and - ino explanation or solicitation inamce yor • pt n substitute. Tap ".r nr- lean-made printing presi was yby < Clymer, in ltfiT. Children* Naming Moth rwAjvei ' vd Men, and for all dis eases whebe tho 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 Emu Mon of Pure Cod Liver Oil w ith Hypophosphites. “I used the Emulsion on a lady who was dedicate, 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. One-thirJ of the students of the Kansas Agricultural College are girls. Children Cry for 11. If a child will take a medicine with pleas ure, you may know that it is not in any wav offensive to the taste Child en like HAM BURG FIGS, and it is no iongor necessary to disgust them with castor-oil. 25 cents. Dose one Fig. Mack Drug Co., N. Y. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Thomp son’s Eve-water. Druggist sell at 35c.per bottle THE ONLY Brilliant Durable Vk Economical Arc Diamond Dyes. They excel all others in Strength, Purity and Fastness. None others j are just as good. Beware of imitations—they 1 are made of cheap and inferior materials and give poor, weak, crocky colors. 36 colors; 10 cents each. Send postal for Dye Book, Sample Card, directions for coloring Photos., making the finest Ink or Bluing (10 cts. a quart), etc. Sold by Druggists or by WELLS, RICHARDSON A CO., Burlington, Vt. For Gilding or Bronzing Fancy Articles, USE DIAMOND PAINTS. Gold, Silver, Bronze, Copper. Only 10 Cents. P-. f CELERY 1 B | COMPOUND "cures {proofs" “Paine's Celery Com nCU'/fflgiQ pound cured my nerv -0 011 s sick headaches." Mrs. L A Bri'.ntnbk, Nervous P ro stratio n Compound, I am cured of rheumatism." Rheumatism “It hrti done me more K ieSney good for kidney disease „ than any 4 olher medi t?!SC3S'3S cine." Geo. Abbott, Sioux City, lowa. AX p “Paine's Celery Com- Kund has been of great iicfit for torpid liver, I 1 indigestion, and bilious- Disorders jeumbcthc. L pall, Qnechee, V t. P^CATARRH Jj ELrs CREAB BALM I COLD IN HEAD .Y r.l.i s . r.i r- n -t.. N. V. OPHI&3 UA'HT f y » l «“v»«!y I*ll mi in 10 to ao rlUnl rl/v.51! lixys. San larmm or Home Treatment. Trial Ire*-. No 'urc. No Pay. The lluninn© llniifily ('«>., La Fit ettv* Iml. SLoo Cabins were not liot houses uDd the people who dwelt in them were not hot-house growths. They were n hardy,healthy generation and the rem edies used wcie simple preparations reproduced in Warner's Los Cabin Cough nnd Con sumption Itemed* and Warner’s “Tip pecanoe,” the great stomach tonic. un >’ Uclrtow. Ag.rW w,Il paid. iiiu,traw/c»UlofU. free. Mention tliis Paper. 0300Qi> > •nrovpgoy. Bineimmtoa. S. WANTED ELWIA fah si m , bi , loc^itr. WSSlCUciirlii & WrlshUilaa Hro«,l»>j.N. V. kWt i'* uiu.!i,h.n. Anthlu. n.'.'hlm'-t'-'hind. Vtc!: IU thoroughly UuKUt by MAIL. Cfroulan K> ynnt’n ( ollrgr, 157 Main Ht., Puffalo. N. Y. Hftfß Uw>»«*»■■uewi■—«; wwau;i». M a** ■Umn «t is th* p.nh«r •»* o»u* o«tBi nil- IwmIIII. AsUu.M, i*L* ale . Uu* AircntHwanti d. hi an hour. 50 new nrtfi’lmi. Cat'lgu>> and Honipiiti fret*. C. E. Marshall, l.<>fkport, K. Y DETECTIVES WaatH ie *ff*t • ■xintj. Shrewd men U net under instru xnm In our Heerrt Herrtr- Kaoerlen'-e n»t o*ee«*ar)r. Partioulsr* free. Urißiaa IhtMtiie Uarrau t'0.44 Arcade.Ziatizaiti.O Wl« n day. Hitmulr. wort ns| tl» Fr#»« Lines not «tad#r the h trur'* foet. Write to Brewster Safety Re la Holder Co.. Holly, Mich JfR WP A|)CI Full of thrdlin; adventuree. 11l IriKNH l ' ><”* Lux- been I kMIlv hiokimr for, but did not ■ w -—-A know where to met. Nearly COWBOY.SiHi’"'"':':’ rib »e »ri.i, a li, muon BICYCLES. V'-ste n {?Jldarante# LOWEST Plllt l«. WB*' W. GIMIPA CO., Dim ton. O. r ‘*r«rM rrtull stock in Amerb-a. L “ OTTO, factory price our price ttQ-Ofr *S: - : : ss:: : Se3RCKEfF“| f / ClI nn A tllji rin"n. TSa a**r SI lOttt to a rwls« wst, 0.4 • Olj nKftV» K (fthi*. K«*sir*eiic«%ir»«Mte "rwa BLOOD AND BRAIN, Pure blood is what oils the machinery of life, cases every movement of the body, removes stiff, ness of the joints, drives out pain from the nerves, stimulates the brain, protects the liver and kidneys from irritation, enables physical exertion without fatigue, prolongs life, and makes men and women perfect in health and feature. Good blood and good brain are inseparable. Aim to keep the blood pure by using the only true blood remedy, B. B. B* (Botanic Blood Balm.) Miss S. Tomlinson, Atlanta, Ga., says “ For many years I have been afflicted with fhet> matism combined with severe kidney troubles, indi gestion and nervous prostration. Eheumatism Scveral physicians were em ployed and numerous patent medicines resorted to without benefit. At last l began the uso of B. B. 8., and its effect was like magic. Rheumatic pains ceased, my kidneys were relieved, and my constitution improved at once.” Z. T. Ilallerton, Macon, Ga., writes: “ Three years ago I contracted a blood poison. I applied to a physician at once, and his treating came near killing me. 1 employed anold physician and th-n went to Kentucky. I Hot Springs then went to Hot Springs and * ® remained two months, but noth ing seemed to cure me iiermanently, although tem porary relief was given me. I returned home a ruined man physically, with but little prospect of ever getting well. I was persuaded tc try B. B. and to my utter astonishment it quickly healed every ulcer.” W. C. McGaughey, Webb City, Ark., writes: “ 1 owe the comfort of my life to a use of B. B. B. I was troubled with blood poison B&d BiOOd for five or s * x y eari * anc * found no relief equal to that given by this valuable remedy.” Mrs. Emma Griffiths, Unitia, Tenn., writes: “ The doctors said my boy twelve years old had scrofula. His knees were drawn up and joints were stiff, and for three years he had been Scrofula unable to walk. One bottle of B. B. has done him so much good he can now walk, and his pain has ceased. Its action on my boy has teen pronounced most wonderful.” (5J MARVELOUS MEMORY DISCOVERY. Aojr book learned In one reading. Mind wandering cared. Apeaking without note*. Wholly unlike artificial nysteniß. Piracy condemned by Supreme Court. Great inducement!! to corre*j>onflfnce classes. Prospectus, with opinions of Dr. Wm. A Ham mond, the world-famed Specialist in Mind diseases, Daniel Greeuleal Thom noon, the great fsyohol oglst, .1. M. IS iu-It lev, 11. 11., Editor of the <_7irts tian Advocate. Kirh.-ird Proctor the Scientist, nnd others, sent post free by PROF. A. LOIaKTTE, 287 Fifth Ava, New York. J. ure« togUcliUnutan* fcjlsur S rtLwJ Klieumatia k»isi«s Oral iLx, it it vtauil, 14 PHIo. ARE V@ytiARRIEDV T :’Z’& thiN . ,vi:if|. j.-iiv:, it» mvn.i.- i. in *« ( 4MN» . ".ii, KM UOVViiLCi'i' i>OCi ’.i' i, ilox iliua. *. N. U--4 I IF THERE IS HEARTBURN \ ! sour cnictations, pr»in and distention, you j know thnt the food is fermenting, not digest ing. Clean the mucous l:nings by using Mandrake as compounded in Dr. Schenck's Mandrake I‘ills. This not only cleanses the surfaces but sets the secretions going and improves their quality so that there will be no more sourness. DYSPEPSIA has a hundred shapes. Always painful and distressing. Toe Stomaclfirr.u: t Le treated carefully and persistently. For this purpose there is nothing in nature like Mandrake. Dr. Schenck's Mandrake Pills never faiL COSTS VEN ESS* A dangerous condition of.bowels, leading to inflammation, piles, rupture, hemorrhage. ! Due to bad digestion. Never was a case that the Mandrake Pdk» would not cure. An 4 so cf DSARRHCEA and painful irregularity of bowels owing to the irritation of the mucous linings by the passage of sour and indigested food. Cleanse and soothe the linings and see that the stomach stops imposing on the bowels. Schenck's Mandrake Pills are sovereign. Tnr mla t*y nil Prupgiftta Price 2h ctn. per box* 3 box«* f«r «.■> ctn.; or l»v mail, \>‘ free, w* us pr»L«. Dr. J. 11. Bcliwiic k A Son, Phil*. "CAUTION Beware of Fraud, as my name aed the prion are stamped on Hie bottom of all mv advet lined ehoea teforo leaving the factor}', which protect the* wearers high prices and luleilor yooda. If a dealer offers W. L. DoiiKlas slioea at a re duced 1 nice, or says lie has tJit-m without my name and price .lampel uu the botti-ui, put hliu dowu BA • fraud. W. 11. DOUGLAS I $3 SHOE. nrxTiMnt. ' TAIK* wAWwWS NoVrll’"’ 1 ' •*“! » ILL w. 1.. I>OIrOI.AS .4 SHOT. Ih. otlitnal and only han i-svwtd writ ft *ho**. I.oual, cus i tom-maile «ho«-s costing from u- «<». h Ooi.'GLAit I'oi in: kiior. Ktllrood M«n and l.<*fi. r Can k-rn all w« hi i|« m. 1 hmootli »•»•,! le a-, a IJand-Scv. .«l hboc. No Tacks or Wax Tfir>-»1 io hurt tte feet. tv. 1.. |>Or<3l.,%H •.’.riOMKli; It unexcelled for tesyjr we «r. lb-sl Calf Him* for tier i-rlcc*. jy. ,l i*or«ii. tH woukino. MAN ft SIIOM Is tie te*t in ite world for rt>ii*l l wrar: one pan onctit t*» v«*at ?* man « vw. i,'b *'' ,>u i:UT ” Cw. 1.. imi oi A,»i.ib till Ties v, hmi mm* ic'res tmi iiualt |t«)s a chance to wear tlw *t shoe* in lhr world. •j>AH made In ('nterrea*. Dutton and I,ace. |f not
Charlotte Messenger (Charlotte, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Oct. 13, 1888, edition 1
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