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REV. DR.TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN MIVINE’S SUNDAY SERMON Text: u The nay of the Lord of Hosts shad be upon alt pleasant pictures.*'— luaiah ii., parts of the 12th and 10th verses. Pictures are by soma relegated to the realm of the trivial, accidental, sentimental or worldly, blit my text shows that God scru tinizes pictures, and whether they are good are bad, whether used for right or wrong purposes, is a matter of Divine observation and' arraignment. The divine mission of pictures i« my subject a That the artist's pencil and the engraver's knife huve sometimes been made subservient to the kingdom of the bad is frankly admit ted. After the ashes and scoria were re moved from Herculaneum and Pompeii the walls of those cities discovered to the explor ers a degradation in art which cannot be ex aggerated. Satan and nil his imps huve al ways wanted the fingering of the easel; they wotfld rather have possession of that than the art of printing, for types are not so potent and quiy£ for evil as pictures. The powers of darkness think they have gained a* tri umph, and they have, when in some respect able parlor or public art gallery thev can hang a Canvas embarrassing to the good, but fascinating to the eviL It is not in a spirit of prudery, but backed up by God’s eternal truth when I say that you have no right to hhng in your art rooms or your dwelling houses that which would be offensive to good people If the figures pic tured were olive in your parlor and the guests of your -househo’d. A picture thut you have to hang in a somewhat secluded place, or that in a public hall you cannot with a grrtup of friends deliberately stand before and discuss, ought to have a knife stabbed into it at the top and cut clear through to the bottom, and a stout finger thrust in on the right fide ripping clear through to tho left Pliny, the elder, lost his life by going near enough to see the inside of Vesuvius, and the further you can stand off from the burning crater of sin the better. Never till the Rooks of the Lost Day are opened shnll we know wliut has been the dire harvest of evil pictorials and unbecoming art galleries. Despoil a mans imaginatroh and he becomes a moral carcass. Tbesbdw windows of English and American cities in which the low theatres have some times hung long lines of brazen actors and actresses in style insulting to all propriety, have made a broad path to death lor multi tudes of people. But so have all the other arts been at times suborned of evil. How has music been bedraggled! Is there any place so low down In dissoluteness that into it lias not teen carried David's harp, and Handel’s organ, and Gottschalk’s piano and Ole Bull’s violin; and the flute, which though named after fto insignificant a thing as the Sicilian eel, which has seven spots on the side like flute holes, yet for thousands of years has bad an exalted mission. Architec ture. born ih the heart of Him who made the worlds. Under it 3 acres and across its floors what babcbffhalirtn revelries have been en acted! It it not against any of these arts that they have lieen so led into captivity. What a poor world this would le if it were not for what my text calls “pleasant pict ures l” I refer to your memory and mine when 1 ask if your knowledge of the Holy Scriptures has not been mightily augmented by the woodcuts or in tno old family Bible, which father and mother read out of, and laid ou the taltfe in the old homestead when you were boys and girls. The Bible scenes which we all carry In our minds were not gotten from the Bible typology, but from the Bible pictures. To prove the truth of it in my own case, the other day I took up the old family Bib!e, which I inherited. Bureeuouzli, whpt I have carried in ray mind of Jacob's ladder was exactly the Bible engraving of Jacob s ladder; and so with Samßon carrying off the gates of Gaza; Elisha restoring the Khuhamite’s son: the massacre of the innocents; Christ blessing little children; the Crucifixion and the Lost Judgment. My Idea of all these is that of the old Bible engravings which I scanned before I could read a word. That is trui with nine-tenths of you. Jf I could swing open the door of your foreheads I would find that you are walking picture galleries. The great intelligence abroad about tho Bible did not come from the general reading of tho book, for tho majority 6f tho people rend it but little, if they read it at all: but all the sacred scenes liaje Iteen put before the great masses, and not printer's ink but tho pictorial art; must have tho credit of tho achievement First, fiainter's pencil for the favored few, and then engraver’s plate or woodcut for millions on millions! What overwhelming commentary on tho Bible, what reinforcement for patriarchs, prophet?, apostles ahd Christ, what distribution of Scriptural knowledge of all nations, in tho Elintings and engravings therefrom of olinan Hunt’s “Christ in the Temple;” Faul- Veronese’s “Magdalen Washing the Feet of Christ;” Raphael's “Michael the Archangel;” Albert Durer’s “Dragon of the Apocalypse;” Michael Angelo’s “Plague of *he Fiery Bernente;” Tintorofs “Flight into Egypt;” Rube n’s “Descent from the Cross ” Leonardo Da Vinci's “I-ostNuppor:” Comic's “Queen of Sheba:” Bellini's “Madonna at Milan;” Orcagna's “l,ast Judgment,'' and hundreds of miles of pictures if thoy were put in line, illustrating displaying, drama tizing. irradiating Bible truths until tho Bcripture* are not to day so much on paiwr »* on canvas, not so much in ink as in all the colon of the spectrum. In ISO forth from Strasburg, Germany, there came a child that waa to eclipse In speed and boldness and grandeur anything and everything that the world had seen since the first color appeared on the sky at the crea tion, l’aul Gustav Dore. At eleven yean of age he published marvelous litho graphs of his own. Baying nothing of what be did for Milton's “Paradise Lost,” emblazon ing it on the attention of the world, he takes up the Book of Books, the monarch of litera ture, the Bible, and in his pictures, “The Creation of Light," “The Trial of Abraham's Faith,” “The Burial of Sarah," “Joseph Sold by hie Brethren,” “The Brazen Serpent,” “Boazand Ruth.” “David and Goliath,'’ ' The Transfiguration,” “Tlie Marriage in Cana," “Babylon Fallen,” and two hundred and five Scriptural scenes iu all, with a boldness and a grasp and almost supernatural atfiatus that make the heart throb, ond the hralu f, • ,“‘ <l th ® tPa ™ start, and the cheeks blanch, and the entire nature ounke with the tremendous things of God and eternity and the dead. J actually staggered down the «t«p* of the Ijoiiflon Art Gallery under the !*>•«*■ of Pore's “Christ leaving the Prmtorlnaa” Profess you to be a Christian znan or woman, and see no divine mission in art and acknowledge yoo no obligation either in thank* to um or man) It is no more the word ofClod when put before us In printer’! Ink than by akiliruilt laying On of colors, or designs on metal through incision of corrosion. What a lesson in morale was presented by Hogarth, the Thomas Cota's engravings of tins “Voyage of Human Life,” and the ' Course of EmiJre;” •“1 hr “Turner's Blkve Whip." Ood in Artl Christ In Artl Patriarchs, pronb-t; awi •poetleeto artl Angels in artl Heaven Is aval The worid end ilia chin ch our’it to rams to the higher appreciation of tho divine mission of pictures, yet the authors of them hava generally been left to sa.'iii-strrratinu. West, the great painter, toiled in unappre cfetion till. Twine a great skater, while on the ice be formed the acquaintance of General Howe, of the English army, and through coming to admire West as a skater, gradually came to appreciate as much that which he accomplished by his hand as by his heel Bouton, the mighty painter, was punned, and had nothing with which to defend himself against the mob but th* arttatfe portfolio, which he held over hla head to keep off the stone, horled rs. him. The platan* of Richard Wfbon, off England. artarV , ff , fis t flrwSi was plod to pet for his “Alcyone” a piece of Bti Iton cheese. From 1640 to 1643 there were 4f.00 pictures willfully destroyed. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth it was tho habit of some jwople to spend much of their time in knocking pictures to pieces. In the reign of Charloe the First it was ordered by Parliament that all pictures of Christ be burnt Painters were so badlv treated ond humiliated in the begin ning of the eighteenth century that they were lowered clear down out of the sublimity of their art, and obliged to give minute accounts of what they did with their colors, ns a painter’s bill which came to publication in Scotland, in 1707, indicated. The f>ainter hail been touching up some old pictures in tho church, and ho sends in this itemized bill to the vestry: “To filling up a chink in the Red Sea and repairing tho dam ages to Pharoah’s host;” “to a new pair of hands for Daniel in the lion’s den, and anew set of teeth for tho lione-s;” “to repairing Nebuchadnezzar's licard;” “to giving a blu-h to the cheek of Eve on presenting the apple to Adam;” “to making a bridle for the Good Samaritan's horse, and mending one of his legs;” “to putting on a new handle on Moses’ basket and fitting bulrushes, and adding more fuel to the fire in Nebuchad nezzar’s furnace.” So painters were humil iated clear down below the majesty of their nrt. The oldest picture in Eng'and. a por trait of Chaucer, though now of great value, was picked out of a lumber garret. Great were the trials of Quentin Mats vs, who tailed on from blacksmith's anvil, till as a painter ho wop wide rpeogmtion. The first mission aries to Mexico made tho fatal mistake of destroying pictures, for the loss of which art and religion must over lament. But why go so far back when in this year of our Lord, 1888,and within twelve years of tho twentieth century, to lie a paint ir except in rare ex ceptions, means poverty and neglect? Poorly fed. poorly clald, poorly boused, because poorly appreciated! When I hear a man is a painter, I have two feelings.one of admira tion for tho greatness of lii* soul, nnd the other of commiseration for the needs of his body. But so it hns been in all departments of noble work. Some of tho mightiest, have been hardly bested. Oliver Goldsmith lmd such a big patch on the coat of his left breast that when bo went anywhere ho kept his hat in his haud closely pressed over the patch. The world renowned Bishop Asbui*}' had a salary of $64 a year. Painters are not tho only ones who have endured the lack of appreciation. men of wealth take under their patronage the suffering men of art. They lift no complaint; they make no strike for higher wages. But with a keenness of nervous organization which almost always characterizes genius, these artists suffer more than anyone nut God can realize There needs to boa concerted effort for the suffering artists of America, not sentimental discourse about what we owe to artists, but contracts that will give them a livelihood; for I nm in full sympathy with tho Christian farmer, who was very busy gathering his fall apples, and some one asked him to pray for a poor family, the father of which had broken his; log; and the busy farmer said: “I cannot stop now to pray, but you can go down Into the. | cellar and get some corned beef, and butfeer,< and eggs and potatoes; that is all I can do now.” Artists may wish for our prayers but they also want practical help from, men who can give them work. You have neard, scores of sermons for all either kinds of suffer ing men and women, but I think this is the; first sermon ever preached that made a plea for tho suffering men and women of American art. Their work is more true to. nature ami life than any of the pieces that have become immortal on the other side of tho sea, but it is the fashion of American* to mention foreign artists,', and to know little or nothing about our* own Copley, anti Allston and Inman, and 1 Greenough and Kenneth Let the affluent fling out of their windows and into the back? yard valueless daubs onj&bvas, and cffll in' the’*; splendid but unrewarded men, and tell them to adorn yOur walls, pot ftyly with, that which shall please tho taste, but enlarge! the mind, and improve the morals, and save the souls ot those who gaze upon them. 1 Brooklyn and all other AmcHoan cities need greit galleries of art. not only open annually for a few days on exhibition, but I which shall stand open all tho year round, and from early morning until ten o'clock at night, and free to all who would come and go. What a preparation for the wear and tear of tho day, a five min utes’ look in the morning at some picture that will open a door into some larger realm than that in which our population daily drudge! Os what a good thing the half hour of artistic opportunity on the way home in the evening from exhaustion that demands re up oration for mind and soul as well os Iwxly! VVho will do for Brook lyn or the city where you live what W. W. Corcoran did for Washington, and what I am told John Wunnamaker, by the dona tion of De Mtinkacsy’s great picture, “Christ before l’ilate,” is going to ao for Philadel phia? Men of wealth, if you are too modest to build and endow ssch a place during your lifetime, why not go*o your iron safe, and takeout your last will ’and testament, and make a codicil that shall b did for the city of your residence, a thron t for American nrt? Take some of the money that would otherwise spoil your children, and build an art gallery that shall associate your name forever, not only with the ~ great masters of painting who are gone, but with the great masters who ore trying to lire; and also win the admiration and love of tens of | thousands of people, who, unable to have j fine pictures of their own, would be .ad- I vantaged by your benefaction. Build yonr l own monuments, an i not leave it to the | whim of others. Borne of the best people sleep ing in Greenwood have no monuments at all, or some crumbling stones that in a few year* will lot the rain wash out name and epitaph; while sorao men whose death was the abate ment of a nuisance, have a pile of polished Aberdeen high enough fora King, and eulo gium enough to embarrass a seraph. Ob, man or large wealth, instead of leaving'to the whim of others your monumen tal commemoration and epituphiology to be looked at when oeople are going to and fro at the burial or others, build right down in the heart of our great city, or the city where yon live, an immense free reading room, or a free musical conservatory, or a free art gallery, the niches for sculpture, and the walls abloom with the rise and fall of nations, and lessons of courage for the disheartened, and rest for the weary, and life for the dead; and one hun dred and fifty year** from now you will be wielding influences in this world for good among those ;whose great-grandfather was your great-grandchild. How much better than white marble that chilis you if you put your band on it when yon touch it in the cemetery would be a monument in colore, in beaming eyes, in living possession, in splendors which under the chandelier would bo glowing and warm, nnd looked at by strolling groups with catalogue in hand on the January night, when the necropolis where tho body bleeps is all snowed under. Tho tower of David was hung with one thou sand deuPm 1 shields of battle; but you, oh mun of wealth, may have a grander tower named after you, one that shall bo bung not with the symbols of carnage, but with the victories of that art which was *o long ago recognized in my text as “pleasant pictures.” Oh, the power of pictures! 1 cannot deride, as some have done, Cardinal Muzarin, who, when to!d that he must die, took his last walk through the ai t gallery of his palace, saying: “Must I quit all this? izjok at that Titian! lx>ok at that Lorregio! I took at that deluge of < ’-aracci! Farewell, dear pict ures!” As the day of the Lord of Hosts, ac cording to this text, will scrutinize the pictures, 1 implore all parents to ere that in their households they have neither in book or newspaper or on canvas anything that will deprave. Rictunee are no longer the exclusive possession of the affluent. There is not a respectable home in tliese cities that has not specimens of w6odcut or steel en graving, if not of painting, and your whole family will feel the moral uplifting or depression. Have nothing on your wall or in books that trill familiarise the young with scenes of cruelty or wassail; have only those sketches made by artists ilk elevated moods, and none of those scenes that seem the product of artistic delirium t remena Pictures are not only a strong bat a uni- V«wl iMftMW*. Th* htuaes ran* is dlrkUd Into almost as mao; longuaze. aa there ar. nations, but the pictures tmay speak to people of all tongues. Volapuk many have hoped, with little reason, would become a world-wide language; but tbe pictorial is always a world-wide language, and printer's types have no emphasis compared with it. We say that children are fond of pictures; but notice any man when he takes up a book, and you will see that the first thing that he looks at is the pictures. Have only those in your house that appeal to the better nature. One engraving has sometimes decided an eternal destiny. Under the title of fine aria there have come here from France a class of pic tures which elaborate argument has tried to prove irreproachable. They would disgrace a barroom, and they need to be confiscated. Your children will carry tbe pictures of their father’s house with them clear on to the grave, and, pacing that marble pillar, will take them through eternity. Furthermore, let all reformers, and all Sabbath-school teachers, and all Christian workers realize that if they would be effec tive for good, they must make pictures, if not by chalk on black-boards, or kindergarten designs, or by pen cil ou canvas, then by words. Arguments are soon forgotten: but pictures, whether in language or in colors, are what produce strongest effects. Christ was always telling what a thing was like,and His Bermonon the Mount was a great picture gallery .beginning with a sketch of a “city on a hill that cannot be hid,” and ending with a tempest beating against two houses, one on the roeg and ths other on the sand. Ths parable of the prodi gal son, a picture; parable of the sower, who went forth to sow, a picture; parable of the unmerciful servant, a picture; parable of the* /«n virgins, a picture; parable of the talents, a picture. The world wants pictures,and the appetite begins with the child, whq consents to go early to bed if the mother will sit beside him and rehearse a story, which is only a picture. When we see how much has been accomplished in secular directions by pictures —Shakespeare's tragedies a picture, Victor Hugo’s writings all pictures, John Buskin’s and Tennyson's and Longfellow’s works all pictures—why not enlist, as far as possible, for our churches and schools and reformatory work and evangelistic en deavor, the power of thought that can be put info word pictures, if not pictures in color? Yea, why not all young men draw for themselves on paper, with pen or penciL their coming career, of virtue If they prefer ;that. of vice if they prefer that. After making tbe picture, put it on the wall, or paste it on tbe fly leaf of Some favorite book, that you may have it before you. I read tbs other day of a man who had been executed for murder, and the jailor found afterward a picture made on tbe wall of thb cell by the assassin's own hand, a pict ure of a flight of staira On the lowest step he had written: “Disobedience of parents;” on the second: “Sabbath break ing;” on the third: “Drunkenness abd gam bling;” on the fourth: “Murder,” and on tbe fifth and top step: “A gallons.” If tbht man had made that picture before he took the first step, he never would have taken any of them. Oh, man, make another picture, • bright picture, an evangelical picture; I will help you make it! I suggest six step* for this flight of stairs. On the Ijret Step J#titetbe words: “A nature changed by the Holy Ghost and washed in the blbod of the Lamb; 1 on the second step: “Industry and good companionship;” on the third gtep: “A Christ ian home with a family altar;” on the fourth step: “Ever widening usefulness;” on the fifth step: “A glorious departin'© from this worldon the sixth step: * ‘Heaven 1 heaven t heaven!” Write it three times, and let the letters of the one word be made up of ban ners, the second of coronets, and the third of thrones! Promise me that yon wjll do that, and 1 will promise to meet yofj on the sixth step, If the Lord will through His pardoning grace bring me there too. And here lam going to. say a vftffd, of cheer to people whp havenevqr bad a* word of consolation on that snbiefct* There, are men and women in this world by hundreds of thousands, and some of them am ttfre ty day, who have a fine natural taste, and yet ail their lives that taste has Men tap pressed. and although they coaid appreciate the galleries of Dresden and Vienna nnd Naples for more than nine hundred and ninety-nine out of one thousand who visit them, they never may go, for they must sup port their households, and bread apd school ing for their children are of more importance than pictures. Though fond of music, they are compelled to live amid discord.and though fond of architecture, they dwell in clumsy abodes, and though appreciative of all that engravings and paintings can do, they are in perpetual deprivation. You are going, alter you get on the sixth stenos that stairs just spoken of, to find yOnrsslvss in the royal gallery of the the con centered splendors of all worlds before your transported vision. In some way all the thrilling scenes through which we and the Church of God have passed in oar earth ly state will be pictured or brought to mind. At the cyclorama of Gettysburg, which we bad in Brooklyn, one day a blind man. who lost his sight in that battle, wes with his child heard talking while standing before that picture. The blind man said to the daughter: “Are there at the right of ths picture some regiments marching up a hill!” “Yes,” she said. “Well,” said the blind man, “is there a General on horseback leading them on?” “Yea,” she said. “Well, is there rushing down on these men a cavalry charge?” “Yet,” was the reply. “ Ana do there seem to be medy dying and dead?” “Yet.** was the answer. “Well, now, do yon see a shell from tbe woods bunting near tbe wheel ot a cannoni” she said. “Stop right there!”-eaid the blind man. '‘That is the last* thing I ever saw on eartk! What attire it was. Jenny, when Most-mr.-eve* sight!” Bat wbenyotvwbo life a hard battle, a very Gettysbnygf;. shall stand in. the Royal Gallery of Heaven,, and with your new vision begin to eee and'understand that which in your earthly blindness y you could not see at aIL -you will point out to your celestial comrades, perhan* to your own dear children wno nave gone Before, thu »cenes of the earthly conllicta in which you participated, saying: "There from that hili of prcepenty I was driven hnefc; in that valley of humiliation I was wounded. There I lost my eyesight That was the wav the world looked when 1 last saw it. But what a grand thing to get celestial vision, and stand here before the cyclorama of all worlds while the Rider on the white horse goes cm “conquering and to conquer,'' tbe moon under Hi* Kut and th* stars of Heaven for his tiara 1 His Heart i* Doable. 'William King, colored, about forty years of age, has been in town three or four day, said s recent issue of the New Haven Palladium. He is practically a vagrant, bnt earns considerable money by exhibiting himself to physicians and others. Msny medical men on whom he has called have willingly paid him a quarter after satisfying themselves that be tells the truth when he rays he has two hearts and can, at will, move one from the right cheat to either aide of the abdominal cavity. He also claims to hava an extra set of riba, but physi cians who have examined him doubt thia, although abnormal growtlie which feel like ribs art felt in the place whera he say■ extra riba are located. A philanthropie Mme. Batifol estab lished some time ago an annual prize of S2OOO to th* mo«t deterring and iadua trious young woman in Paris. The prixe ha* been awarded thia year b; th* appointed jury to Mile. Terminator, who ha* for yean kept her father, mother,and half a dozen brothen and tutors by being a “cutter ovt’Ma a mgUaery shop. The Flrat Locomotive Cab. ••Who built the flrat locomotive ii e subject of as much discussion, aa the problem of who built the first steam boat,” at lid a New York Central engiueor to a New York Tdtpram reporter. “Ameri cans have always believed that Robert Fvflton made the first practical steamboat, but tie Scotch engineers de clared that he stole all hia ideas from a Scotch engineer. “There is a-good deal of controversy about theifirst locomotive, bnt I know to a ceitainty who built the first cab ever put on a locomotive. This para graph about it from the New Haven Union is Arue. It was written by a friend of n line. “L’ncle I Dan Fisher lives at Old Say brook. YV hen about seventeen years of age he was ax fireman on the New Y ork, Engineer Samuel Dougherty, the first locomotive mver run over tho Harlem road. For five months he shoved wood into the furn ice of that locomotive, and at the end of that time he was as com petent to assume charge of a locomotive aa any person on the road. At that time-Minerva, the fourth en gine put on that road, the second and third being thft Y ork YVIII and Harlem, was purchased. It weighed about ten tons, had an elgbt-inch cylinder and twenty-inch stroke, and four driving wheels, four and one-half feet in diameter. Engineers were scarce in those days, and JohnWiggin, Superintendent of the road, made a diligent search for a com petent man, but without avail. He was finally informed of Fireman’s Fisher’s competency, and, calling him to the office one day, informed the youth that he wished him to run the Minerva on its first trip. At the end of the trip, dur ing which the Superintendent acted as fireman, he announced that he was per fectly satisfied that “Vncle Dan” was capable of haodliDg a locomotive, and for several years the youthful engineer held the throttle of the minerature loco motive—as compared with tboae of the present —on its daily trip. To “Uncle Dan” is due the honor of making an improvement on locomotives which engineers are very thankful for in winter and during storms in summer. The locomotives in those long past times had no cabs, it being thought that any thing that would protect the engineer from the weather would also tend to ob struct the view of the track. One day during hia first tvfinter on the Minerva, which locomotive-is still in existence, a violent hail storm swept along the line of the road. It was impossible to main tain a watch on. the track, aa the huge particle of ice, driven against the faces of the engineer and fireman by the fu rious winds had made several gashes and bruises; so the two men on the engine crouched behind the lioiler and trusted to Providence to prevent accidents. On his return from this trip “Uncle Dan” obtained several long strips of wood, which he steamed and bowed over the narrow space occupied by him and his fireman on the engine. This frame ho covered with canvas. At the front he nailed several boards, leaving a space for a large pane of glass on either aide of the whistle dome. This was the first cab ever placed on a locomotive, Saratoga’s Seltzer Sea. Oscar Brumler, of the Seltzer Spring, Saratoga, after making soundings, has concluded that there it a sea of mineral water under Saratoga. According to Brumler, Saratoga—the drawing room of America —is located on a stone roof 500 feet thick. Underneath this is a sea of mineral water over 3000 feet deep. All this being true, what is to hinder a firat class earthquake from causing the roof to fall into the sea referred tot Should the earthquake arrive in August, during the racing season, 20,000 men, women, race horses and capitalists would, in the language of Mr. Mantalini, “go to tho demnition bow wows” io about three minutes! With the men, women, horses and capitalists would come the go-down of all the hotels, boarding-houses and gambling parlon in the whole place. After such a smash-up the village of Saratoga would be succeeded by an open sea, to reach which yon would have to descend rocks for a distance of five hun dred feet —Albany (N. T.) Pott. A Welsh Nabob. G. W. Taylor, a native of Denbigshire. is the wealthiest living Welshman. He recently left Melbourne, Australia, to contest YVeat Denbigshire for a seat in the English House of Common*. He will hereafter devote himself to political life. On hi* Australian estate, which he ha* just sold, he realized the enormous sum of $21,725,000. Mr. Taylor is an ardent Liberal. It is said that be it almost cer tain of being returned to Parliament. ItSfMkrrat Ike SwaMi'sf the tall, •f New Verh. Hrats or Nsw Yobs, Amucnblt Cbabrrh, Albast, April 15, ISM. My family for th* last twelve years has e been using Atxcocs's Ponoi-g Pi.astsrk, and have found them wonderfully eflhwriooe In berk'”’ C ‘ >W “' >od P * iß ‘ in able ei*< About ten yean ago I was thrown from r *«*•*> and badly bruised la three day, three plasters entirely removed the pain and •nrenew Twte* they ban cured me of ae vere colds which threatened pultnonar, trouble. They aleocured my son of rheumv tom la the shoulder, from which ha had suffered two yam Jam w. Beam. Honry-mo*»n. “Say, Perkins, old boy, why don’t we see you at the club any more? 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Nov. 17, 1888, edition 1
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