REV. DR. TALMA GL
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN
DAY SEKMON.
Text: "Behold the fowls of the afcr"
Watthew vJ., 20.
Tbere is silence now in all our January
forest?, except as the winds whistle through
the bare branches. Our northern woods
are deserted concert hall?. The organ lofts
in the temple of nature are hymnless. Trees
which were full of carol and chirp and chant
are now waiting for the cominz back of
rich plumes and warbllnz voice?, solos,
uets, quartetes, cantatas and Te Deuras.
But the Bible is full of birds at all seasons,
nri'l nrophets and patriots and apostles, and
Christ Himself, employ them for moral and
religious purposes. My text is an extract
from the sermon on the mount, and perhaps
it was at a moment when a flock of birds
flew past that Christ waved His hand toward
them and said. "Behold the fowls of the air!"
And so in this course of sermons on God
everywhere! preach to you this third ser
mon conce-niins the Ornithology of the
IiiUr: or, God Among: the Birds.
Most o the other fciencesyou may study
or iot study as you please. Use your own
ju lyrnent, exercise your own taste. But
buut this science of ornithology we have
no o-iion. The divine command is positive
when it says in my text, "Behold the fowls
of the air!" That is, stu lv their habits,
xa-nin their colors. Notice their speed.
!Se thf hand of Gol in their construction,
it is rasy for me to obey the command of
the text, for I was brought up among the
rai-e of wings and from boyhood heard their
matins at sunrise and their vespers at sun
set. heir nests have been to me a fascination,
nnd my satisfaction is that I never robbed
one of them any more than I would steal a
-lnl I from a cradle, for a bird is a child of
t.be sky, and its nest is the cradle. They are
'wlino.it human, for they have their loveB and
bates, affinities an 1 antipathies, understand
ioy and prief, have conjugal and maternal
instinct, wage wars and entertain jealousies,
have a Jancuace of their own and powers of
Association. Thank God for birds and skies
full of them ! It is useless to exoect to un -derstaud
the Bible unless we study natural
history .
Five hundred and ninety-three times does
the Bible allude to the facts of natural his
tory, and 1 do not wender that it makes so
many allusions ornithological. The skies
and the caverns of Palestine are friendly to
the winged creatures, and so many fly and
roo.it and nest and hatch in that region that
inspired writers do not have far to go to get
ornithological illustration of divine truth.
There arc over forty species of birds recog
nized in the Scriptures.
' Ob, what a variety of wines in Palestine!
The uove, the robin, the eagle, the cormo
rant or plunging bird, hurling itself from
sky to wave and with Jong beak clutching
its prey; the thrush, which especially dis
likes a crowii; the partridges; the hawk,
Lold and ruthless, hovering head to wind
ward while watching for prey; the swan, at
home among r.;e marshes and with feet bo
constructed it can walk on the leaves of wa
ter plants; the raven, the lapwing, malodor
ous and in the Bible denounced as inedible,
though it has extraordinary headdress;
the stork; the ossifrage, that always
had a habit of dropping on a stone the turtle
it had lifted and so killing it for food, and
on one occasion mistook the bald head of
uEschylus, the Greek poet,for a white stone,
and dropped a turtle upon it, killing the
famous Greek; the cuckoo, with crested
' lit a I and crimson throat and wings snow
tipped, but too lazy to build its own nest,
and so having the habit of depositing its
eggs in nests V elongmg to other birds the
blue jay, tin' - rouse, the plover, the magpie,
the kingfis er, the pelican, which is the cari
cature of all the feathered creation, the owl,
the goldfinch, the bittern, the harrier, the
bulbul, the osprey; the vulture, that king of
'scavengers, with neck covered with repulsive
down instead of attractive feathers;thequar
relsome starling; the swallow.flying a mile a
minute and sometimes ten hours in succes
sion; the heron, the quail, the peacock, the os
trich, the lark, tbp, crow, the kite, the bat,
the blackbird a) many others, with all
color., all sounds, all styles of flight, all
habit?, all architecture of nests, leaving
nothing wanting Jn suggestiveness. They
were at the creation placed all around on
the rocks and in the trees and on the ground
to serenade Adam's arrival. They took
their places on Friday, as the first man was
made on Saturday. Whatever else he had
or did not have, he should have music. The
lirst sound that struck the human ear was ft
bird's voice.
I Yea, Christian geology for you know
there is a Christian geology as well as an in
ifidel geology Christian geology comes in
and helps the Bible show what we owe to
the bird creation. Before the human race
came into this world the world was occupied
by reptiles and by all sorts of destructive
monsters millions of creatures loathsome
and hideous. God sent huge birds to clear
the earth of these creatures before Adam
an.i Eve were create ). The remains of these
birds have been found imbedded in the
rocks. The skeleton of one eagle has been
found twenty feet in height and fifty feet
from tip of wing to tip of wing. Many ar
mies of beaks and claws were necessary to
clear the earth of creatures that would have
destroyed the human race with one clip. I
like to find this harmony of revelation and
science, and to have demonstrated that the
God who made the world made the Bible.
Moses, the greatest lawyer of all time and
a great man for facts, had enough senti
ment and poetry and musical taste to wel
come the illuminated wings and the voices
divinely drilled into the first chapter of
Genises. How should Noab, the old ship
carpenter, 600 years of age, find out when
the world was fit again for human residence
after the universal freshet? A bird will
tell, and nothing else can. No man can
comedown from the mountain to invite
;Noah and his family out to terra firma, for
the mountains were submerged. As a bird
first heralded the human race into the
jworld, now a bird will help the human race
back to the world that had shipped a sea
that whelmed everything.
Noah stands on Sunday morning at the
window of the ark, in his hand a cooing
dove, so gentle, so innocent, so affectionate,
and he said: "Now, my little dove, fly away
over these waters, explore and come back
and tell us whether it is safe to land." After
a long flight it returned hungry and weary
and wet, and by its looks and manners said,
to Noah and his family; "The world is not
fit for you to disembark." Noah waited a
week, and next Sunday morning ho let the
' dove fly again for a second exploration, and
Sunday evening it came back with a leaf
that had the sign of just having been
plucked from a living fruit tree, and the
bird reported the world would do tolerably
well for a bird to live in, but not yet suffi
ciently recovered for human residence.
Noah waited another week, and next Sun
day morning he sent out the dove on the
third exploration, but it returned not, for it
;. found the world so attractive now it did not
1 want to be caged again, and then the
emigrants from the antediluvian world
landed. It was a bird that told them when
to taRe possession of the resuscitated planet.
So the human race were saved by a bird's
wing, for, attempting to land too soon, they
would have perished.
Aye, here comes a whole flock of doves
rock doves, ring doves, stock doves and
they make Isaiah think of great revivals
and great awakenings when souls fly for
shelter like a flock of pigeons swooping to
the opening of a pigeon coon, and he cries
o-:t, "Who are those that fly as doves to
tJieir windows?" David, with Saul after
him, and flying from cavern to cavern, com
pares himself to a destrt partridge, a bird
which especially haunts rocky places, and
hoys and hunters to this day take after it
with sticks, for the partridge runs rather
than flies.
David, chased and clubbed, andvharriod of
r ursuers, says, I am hunted as a partridge '
on the mountains." Speaking of his forlorn
condition, he says, "I am like a pelican in
the wilderness." Describing his loneliness,
he says, 'I am a swaliow alone on the house
top." Hezekiah, in the emaciation of bis
sickness, compares himself to a crane, thin
and wasted. Jot had so much trouble he
oul i not sleep nights, and he describes his
insomnia by saying, "I am a companion to
owls." Isaiah coaipares the desolations of
banished Israel to an owl and bittern and
cormorant amon; a citv's ruins.
Jeremiah, describing the cruelty of pa
rents toward children, compares them to the
ostrich, who leaves its eggs in the sand un
cared for, crying, "The daughter of my peo
ple is become like the ostriches of the wilder
ness." Among the provisious piled on Solo
mon's bountiful table he speaks of "fatted
fowl." The Israelites in the desert got tired
of manna and they had quails quails for
breakfast, quails for dinner, quails for sup
per, and they died of quails. Th9 Bible re
fers to the migratory habits of the birds and
says, "The stork knoweth her appointed
time and the turtle and the crane and the
swallow the time of their going, but my poo
jle know not the judgments of the Lord."
Would the prophet illu.strata the fate of
fraud, te Doints to a failure at incubation
w.nd safll ; "As a partridge sitteth on egs
and hatchsth them not, so he that getteth
riches and not by right shall leave them in
the midst of his days and at his end shall be
a fool." The partridge, the most careless of
-.11 birds in choice of its dace of nest, build
ng it on the ground and often near a fre
quented road or in a slight depression of
ground, without reference to safety, and
soon a hoof or a scythe or a cart wheel ends
all. So says the prophet, a man who gathers
un-Jer him dishonest dollars will hatch out
of them no p3ace, no satisfaction, no happi
ness, no security.
What vivid similitude! The quickest way
to amass a fortune is by iniquiDy. but the
trouble is about keeping it'. Every hour of
every day some such partridge is driven off
the nest. Panics are only a flutter of
partridges. It is too tadious work to become
rich in the old fashioned way, and if a man
can by one falsehood make as much as by
;en years of ham labor, why not tell it?
And if one counterfeit check will bring the
dollars as easily as genuine issue, why not
make it? One year's fraud will be tqtial to
a half a lifetime's sweat. Why nut live
solely by one's wits? A fortune thus built
will be firm and everlasting. Will it?
Ha! build your house on a volcano's crater;
50 to sleep on the bosom of an avalanche.
The volcano will blaz?, and the avalanche
will thunder.
There are estates which have been coming
together from age to age. Many years ago
that estate started in a husband's industry
and a wife's economy. It grew from gen
eration to generation by good habits and
high minded enterpris?. Old fashioned in
dustry was the mine from which that gold
was dug, and God will keep the deeds of such
an estate in His buckler. Foreclose your
mortgage, spring your snap judgments, plot
with acutest intrigue against a family prop
erty like that aud you cannot do it a per
manent damage, Better than warrantee
deed and better than fire insurance is the
defense which God's own hand will give it.
But here is a man to-day as poor as Job
after he was robbed by satan of everything
but his boils, yet su ddenly to-morrow he is
a rich man. There is no accounting for his
sudden affluence. He has not yet failed
often enough to become wealthy. No one
pretends to account for his princely ward
robe, or the chased silver, or the full curbed
steeds that rear and neigh lik e Buc ephalus
in the grasp of his coachman. Did ha come
to a sudden inheritance? No. Did he make
a fortune on purchase and sale? No. Every
body asks where did that partridge hatch.
The devil suddenly threw him up, and the
d"l will suddenly let him come down.
T'olahidden scheme God saw from the first
cu;u,otion of the plot. That partridge,
sv " vlisaster will shoot it down, and the
hir C it flies the harder it falls. The proph-
eftlll( as yu an( nava of te n seen, the
t mistake of partridges.
uut from the top of a Bible fir tree I hear
the shrill cry of the strork. Job, Ezekiel,
Jeremiah, speak of it. David cries out, "As
lor the stork, the fir tree is her house."
This large white Bible bird is supposed,
without alighting sometimes to wing its
way from the region of the Rhine to Africa.
As winter comes all the storks fly to warmer
climes and the last one of their n umber that
arrives at the spot to which they migrate is
killed by them. What havoc it w ould make
in our species if those men were killed who
are always behind! In oriental cities the
stork is domesticated and walks about on the
street and will follow its keeper.
In the city of Ephesus I saw a long row
of pillars, on the top of each pil lar a stork's
nest. But the word "stork" ordinarily
means mercy aad affection, from the fact
that this bird was distinguished for its great
love for its parents. It never forsakes them,
and even after they become feeble protects
and provides for them. In migrating the
old storks lean their necks on the young
storks, and when the old ones give out the
young ones carry them on their backs.
God forbid that a d uuab stork should have
more heart than w e. Blessed is that table
at which an old lather and mother sit;
blessed that altar at which an old father
and mother kneel !
What it is to have a mother they know
best who have lost her. G od only knowc
the agony she suffered for u?, the times she
wept over our cradle and the anxious sighs
her bosom heaved as ws lay upon it, the
sick nights when she watche I us long after
every one was tired out but God and herself.
Her lifeblood beats in our hearts, and her
image lives in our face. That man is grace
less as a cannibal who ill treats his parents,
and he who begrudges them daily bread and
clothes them but shabbily, may God have pa
tience with him; I cannot. I heard a man
once say, "I now have my old mother on
my hands." Ye storks on your way with
food to your aged parents, shame him !
But yonder in this Bible sky flies a bird
that is speckled. The prophet describing
the church cries out, "Mine heritage is unto
me as a speckled Dird; the birds round
about are against her." So it was then; so
it is now. Holiness pickei at. Consecra
tion picked at. Benevolence picked at.
Usefulness picked at. A speckled bird is a
peculiar bird; and that arouses the antip
athy of all the beaks of the forest.
The church of God is a peculiar institu
tion, and that is enough to evoke attack of
of the world, for it is a speckled bird to be
picked at. The inconsistencies of Christians
are a banquet on which multitudes get fat.
They ascribe everything you do to wrong
motives. Put a dollar in the poor box and
they will say that you dropped it there only
that you might hear it ring. Invite them
to Christ and they will call you a fanatic.
Let there be contention among Christians,
and they will say, "Hurrah I The church is
in decadence "
Christ intended that His church should
always remain a speckled bird. Let birds
of another feather pick at her, but they
cannot rob her of a single plume. Like the
albatross, she can sleep on the bosom of a
tempest. She has gone through the fires of
Nebuchadnezzar's furnace and not got
burned; through the waters of the Red sea
and not been drowned; through the ship
wreck on the breakers of Melitia and not
been foundered. Let all earth and hell try to
hunt down this speckled bird, but far above
human scorn and infernal assault it shall
sing over every mountain top and fly over
every nation, and her triumphant song shall
be: "The church of God! The pillar and
ground of the truth. The gates of hell shall
not prevail against her."
But we cannot stop here. From a tall
cliff hanging over the sea I hear the eagle
.calling unto the tempest and lifting its
wings to smite the whirlwind. Moses, Jere
miah, Hosea and Habakkuk at times in their
writings take their pen from the eagle's
wing. It is a bird with fierceness m its eye,
its feet armed with claw3 of iron and its
head with a dreadful beak; Two or three of
them can fill the heavens with clangor. But
generally this monster of the air is alone
and unaccompanied, for the reason that its
habits are so predaceous it requires five or
'ten miles of aerial or earthly dominion all
IXor itsel- - - - . ;
The black brown of it3 back, and the
white of its lower feathers, and the fire of
its eye, and the long flap of its wing make
glimpse of it as it swings down into the val
ley to pick up a rabbit, or a lamb,, or a child
and then swings back to its throne on the
rock something never to be forgotten. Scat
tered about its eyrie of altitudinous Bolitude
are the bones of lta conquests. Bat while
the beak and the claws of the eagle are the
terror of all the travelers of the air, the
mother eagle is most kind and gentle to her
young. God compares His treatment of His
g;ople to the eagle's care of the eaglets,
euteronomy xxxii.. 11, "As an eagle stir
reth up her nest, fluttereth over her young,
spreading abroad her wings, taketh tnem,
beareth them on her wings, to the Lord
alone did lead."
The old eagle first shove3 tha youn? one
out of the nest in order to make it fly, and
then takes it on her back and flies with it
and shakes it off in the air, and if it seems
like falling quickly flies under it and takes
it on her wins: again. So God drAs crith-us-
Disaster, failure in business, disappoint
ment, bereavement, is only God's waj of
shaking U3 out of our comfortable nest in
order that we may learn how to fly. You
who are complaining that you have no faith
or courage of Christian zeal have had it too
easy. You never will learn to fly in that
comfortable nest.
Like an eagle.Christ has carried us on His
back. At times we have been shaken off,
and when vo were about to fall He came
under us again and brought us out of the
gloomy valley to the sunny mountain.
Never an eagle brooded with such love and
care over her young as God's wings have
been over us. Across what oceans of trouble
we have gone in safety upon the Almighty
wins! From what mountains of sin we
have been carried and at times have been
borne up far above the gunshot of the world
and the arrow of the devil !
When our time on earth is closed on these
great wings of God we shall speed with in
finite quickness from earth's mountains to
heaven's hills, and as from the eagle's cir
cuit under the sun men on the ground seem
small and insignificant as lizards on a rock,
so all earthly things shall dwindle into a
speck, and the raging river of death so far
beneath will seem smooth and glassy as a
Swiss lake.
It was thought in ancient times that an
eagle could not only molt its feathers in old
age, but that after arriving to great age it
would renew its strength and become en
tirely young again. To this Isaiah alludes
when he says: "They that wait on the Lord
shall renew their strength. Thev shall
mount up with wings of eagles." Even so
the Christian in old age will renew his spirit
ual strength. He shall be young in ardor
and enthusiasm for Christ, and as the body
fails the soul will grow in elasticity till at
death it will spring up like a gladdened child
into the bosom of God.
Yea, in this ornithological study I see
that Job says, 4 'His days fly as an eagle that
hasteth to his prey." The speed of a hungry
eagle when it saw its prey a score of miles
distant was unimaginable. It went like a
thunderbolt for speed and power. So fly
our days. Sixty minutes, each worth a
heaven, since we assembled in this place
have shot like lightning into eternity. The
old earth is rent and cracked under the
swift rush of days and months and years
and ages. 'Swift as an eagle that hasteth
to his prey." Behold the fowls of the air I
Have you considered that they have, as you
and I nave not, the power to change their
eyes so that one minute they may be tele
scopic and the next microscopic, now seeing
something a mile away and by telescopic
eyesight, and then dropping to its food on
the ground, able to see it close by and with
microscopic eyesight?
But what a senseless passage of Scripture
that is, until you know the fact, which says,
"The sparrow hath found a house and the
swallow a nest for herself, where she may
lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of
Hosts, my King and my God !" What has the
swallow to do with the altar3 of the temple
at Jerusalem? Ah, you know that swallows
are all the world over very tame, and in
summer time they used to fly into the win
dows and doors of the temple at Jerusalem
and build a nest on the altar where the
priests were offering sacrifices.
These swallows brought leaves and sticks
and fashioned nests on the altars of the tem
ple and hatched the young jparrows in those
nests, and David had seen the young birds
picking their way out of the shell while the
old swallows watcheJ, and no one in the
temple was cruel enough to disturb either
the old swallows or the young swallows, and
David burst out in rhapsody, saying, "The
swallow hath found a nest for herself, where
she may lay her young, even Thine altars,
0 Lord of Hosts, my King and my Godl"
What carpenters, what masons, what
weavers, what spinners the birds are 1 Out
of what small resources they make so ex-
Suisite a home, curved, pillared, wreathed.
ut of mosses, out of sticks, out of lichens,
out of horsehair, out of spiders' web, out of
threads swept from the door by the house
wire, out or ine wool or the sheep from the
pasture field. Upholstered by leaves actually
sewed together by its own sharp bill. Cush
ioned with feathers from its "own breast.
Mortared together with the gum of trees
and the saliva of its own tiny bill. Such
symmetry, such adaptation, such conveni
ence, such geometry of structure.
Surely these nests were built by some
plan. They did not happen just so. Who
drafted the plan for the bird's nest? God!
And do you not think that if He plans such
a house for a chaffinch, for an oriole, for a
bobolink, for a sparrow, He will see to it
that you always have a home? "Ye are of
more value than many sparrows." What
ever else surrounds you, you can have what
the Bible calls "the feathers of the Al
mighty." Just think of a nest like that, the
warmth of it, the softness of it, the safety
of it-r"the feathers of the Almighty."
No flamingo outfiashing the tropical sun
set ever had such brilliancy of pinion; no
robin redbreast ever had plumage dashed
with such crimson and purple and orange
aod gold "the feathers of the Almighty."
Do you not feel the touch of them now on
forehead and cheek and spirit, and was there
ever such tenderness of brooding "the
feathers of the Almighty?" So also in thig
ornithology of the Bible God keeps im
pressing us with the anatomy of a bird's
wing.
Over fifty times does the old Book allude
to the wing "Wings of a dove," "Wings
of the morning," "Wings of the wind,'
"Sun of righteousness with healing in his
wings," "Wings of tb.3 Almighty," "All
fowl of every wing." What does it all
mean? It suggests uplifting. It tells you
of flight upward. It means to remind you
that you yourself have wings. David cried
out, "Ob, that I had wings like a dove, that
1 might fly away and be at restp Thank
God that you have better wing3 than any
dove of longest or swiftest flight. Caged
now in bars of flesh are those wings, but the
day comes when they will be liberated. Get
ready for ascension. Take the words of the
old hymn, and to the tune unto which that
hymn is married sing:
Rise, my soul and stretch thy wing;
Thy better portion trace.
Up out of these lowlands into the heavens
of higher experience and wider prospect.
But how shall we rise? Only as God's holy
spirit gives us strength. But that is coming
now. Not as a condor from a Chimborazo
peak, swooping upon the affrighted valley,
but at a dove like that which put its soft
brown wings over the wet locks of Christ at
the baptism in the Jordon. Dove of gentle
ness ! Dove of peace !
Cone, holy spirit, heavenly dove.
With all thy quickening powers;
Come shed abroad a Saviour's love.
And than shall kindle oars.
f A remarkable surgical operation has
recently been performed in Berlin. A
;patient suffering from chronic neuralgia
has been cured by the removal of the
diseased nerve from the, interior coating
of the skuUL
THE GRDP
Left me in a terribly weak condition; my
health nearly wrecked. My appetite was all
gone, I had no strength,
felt tired all the
time, had disagreeable
roaring noises In my
head, like a waterfall. I
also had severe headaches
and severe sinking
pains in my stomach.
Having heard so much
about Hood's Sarsaparil-
lo Tnn1lli1 r rv it
All the disagreeable ef- Geo W LooK'
fects of the Grip are gone, I am free from pains
and aches, and believe Hood's Sarsaparllla is
surely curing my catarrh. I recommend it to
all." Geo. W. Cook, St. Johnsbnry. Vt.
HOOD'S PILLS cure Constipation by restor
ing the peristaltic action of the alimentary canaL
Morphine Habit Cared in 10
to 20 day. No paytlll cured.
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PATENTS
Diet for the Ncrfqns
Eat freely of all nutritious, easily di
gested foods, but more important than
food in such cases is good brain work ;
physical laborwill also be of advantage.
Interest yourself in the work so that you
will entirely forget yourself, and in a
few months you will te surprised to find
yourself entirely free from nervousness.
While in such a disease the stomach is
weak and must not bo overtaxed, there
is no strict line of diet to be followed;
rare meat, well cooked cereals, vege
tables, as little bread and butter as possi
ble, and never fried articles; sweets aro
bad at all times and are particularly so
if you have nervous indigestion, but one
can always find at the ordinary family
table food to fit this disease. Work is
of greater importance. New York
World.
a tombnstable Table.
'Speaking' of queer names, and their
itill more queer collocation," wntc3 a
ady from Easton, Penn,, "I am reminded
)f a table of which I once sat, which
aientally I named the combustable table.
The boarders' names were Brush, Bush,
Hay, Wood and Cole. All that seemed
acking was a match." New York Tri-june.
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U"dt size and wldl
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rw, tr v 1 rrv.i
si: sit jj m
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exclasWe sale 'te shoe dealers aad general merchants where I haTene
catalogue. II not lor sale
width wanted' Pasta ze Free.
"German
Syrup"
I simply state that II am Druggist
and Postmaster here and am there
fore in a position to judge. I have
tried many Cough Syrups but for
ten years past have found nothing
equal to Boschee's German Syrup.
I have given it to my baby for Croup
with the most satisfactory results.
Every mother should have it. J. H.
Hobbs, Druggist and Postmaster,
Moffat, Texas. We present facts,
living facts, of to-day Boschee's
German Syrup gives strength to the
body. Take no substitute.
A Mine of Ice.
Wonders will never cease. Tom Kirby
has discovered that he possesses a verit
able mine of ice. In a large fissure in the
steep wall of rock facing the railroad
track on Bear Creek, on Kirby'a land,
ice is being taken out for family use by
every one in the neighborhood. Mr.
Kirby made a trip to the place and
brought back a sack full of clear, hard
ice. He informed a Gazette reporter that
there were hundreds of tons of ice be
tween the rocky wails that must have
been there for centuries. Hendrick
(Cal.) Gazette.
BTAT OF OHIO, VTTT OF TOLEDO," I
Lucas Countt, ("
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that ha tt the
senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney A
Co- doing business in the City of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said firm
will pay the sum of $100 for each and every
case of catarrh that cannot be cured by the
use of Hall's Catarrh Cure.
Fraote J. Chin it.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 6th day of December, A. Dn i88d.
v. . A. W. Gleasok,
f Notary Publie.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
of the syetem. Send for testimonial!, free.
W .1 inrKFV A Co- Toledo. GL
Bold by Druggists, 75c :
An experiment of Marcy's proves that
mastication will accelerate the flow of
blood through the carotid arterv.
Cure for Colds, Fevers and General Debility,
Smaii Bile Heans. &c. per bottle.
A blind man The dealer in window
ehades.
Indigestion relieved by Small Bile Beans.
No one can be made rich with money
who would not be rich without it.
Liver Complaint cured by Small Bile Beans.
The original pin was a fish-bone.
Throat Diseases commence with a Cough.
Cold or Sore Throat. " liroivn' Bronchial
Troche" give immediate relief. Sold only tn
boxes. Price 25 cents.
In Germany aluminum cravats are now
cn sale. They arc advertised as feather
weight, silverwhite wash-goods that will
wear forsver.
a i
iWIILAi
FOB
GENTLEMEN.
sewed shoe that will not rip; Calf,
seamless, smooth inside, more comfortable,
stylish and durable than any other shoe ever
sold at the price. Every style. Equals custom-
shoes costing from $1 to 5.
following ar f Vic sane high standard of
54.oo and $5.00 Fine Calf, Iland-Scwcd.
$3.50 Tclicc. Farmers aad Lcttcr-Carricrg.
$3.50, 2.35 and 52.00 lor Working Men.
92.00 ana 51.75 lor ouins ana uoys.
93.00 Hand-Sewed. I FOF?
52.50 and 3.00 Dongola, J LADIES.-
91.75 lor Hisses.
13 A DUTY 70a owe yourself
to get tbo best -value ior your
loney. Economize In your
footwoar by purchasing W.
Jj. Douglas Shoes, whlcn-
xepresent ue Desi vaiue
at the prices aaveruaea
as tnonsanas can tes
tify. So yon wear
ueor
liToar place sena aireci to k aciory, iwiuf ,
1m Douglas, Brockton, Class
sized samnle rab ab-p iif mi
tested wds. Write at once to
MANN dc CO., CAPE VINCENT, N. Y
Nervous & Chronic Diseases
Treated by mall by the Latimer Medicine Company!
eomraltiag physician, 1645 North Tenth St., Philada.,
Pa. All letters confidential. Advice Free. rvSehd
10c In stamps for sample of DR. LATIMER'S
HEADACHE dc NEURALGIA TA BI.ET8.
Mil Hi1
Consumptive and peopla
who hare weal lungs or Asth
ma, should usa flao's Core for
Consumption. J has eared
thousands. It has not Injur
ed one. It is not bad to take.
It is the best cough syrup.
Boia ererrwnere. 25c.
M GIVEN AM
I 1 I 1 1 I 111?'0 evT applicant for a catft
IIIIIIIILI logue we are sendinr free fun.
ONE EXJOYS
Both the method and results wLeu
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidnep,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers nnd cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to thz taste and ac
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c
and $1 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE- - MW yORIT. N-V-
Wo Offer You a Remedy
tcliich Insures Safety to
Xie of Mother and Ch ild,
MOTHER'S FRIEND
ft
Mobs Confinement of Its
Pain, Horror and Hislc
After twine one bottle of "HI other's Friend" t
uSTerod but llttio p.-.ln.and did uotcxperience ha
weakneo &fterward usual in each cases. Jlrs.
Annus Oags:, Lamar, IIo., Jan. ICtb, 1331.
Bent b7 express, charprea prepaid, on receipt of
price, Sl.bOpr bottle. Uot;k to Jlotbera mailed free.
B2iAI2I?IELD JSEGUL.ATOR CO., ,
ATLANTA, GA,
BGLO CY ALL. ESUGGISTi
Tin Tint Pa TtMvived
bands, Injure the iron and burn red.
The Rising Sun Stove Polish is Brilliant, Odor
less, Durable, and the consumer pays for no tin
or glass package with every purchase.
EdfATiSr...
POKIXE gives instant relief and is a cuicX, safe
cure for Rheumatism in its many forms. Address
W. T. CHEATHAM, JR., Henderson, . I -
TO YOUNG MEN.
Splendid opportunity to learn a business that wilt
give steady employment and a salary of $HH) a year,
bend 2c. stamp for circular, containing full informa
tion. Address Geo. H. Lawrence, 53 E. 10th, N.Y. City.
LUXURIES LEAKSV1LLE BLANKETS.
Housekeepers 5 lb.. .. Carolina's l'rlde, CM lb.,
S6 per pair. Leaksville Honest Joans Gray, l?rown
and Black -J 5c, 4 Oc. and liOc. ler yard. Kerse
Gray, 3'i l-'Jc Brown, !. a yard; very Rood.
Wool Varu, all colors, 5c a hank. If your dealfT
does not keep these poods order of J. . 8COTT
dc CO.. Special Selling Agts., Greeniboro, X. C.
Cares Consumption, Coughs, Croup, Sore
Throat. Sold by all Druzzists on a Guarantee.-
Unlike the Dutch Process
No Alkalies
OR
Other Chemicals
are used in the
preparation of
Vf. BAKER & CO.'S
reakttCocoa
which is absolutely
pure and soluble.
i It has more than three times
I the strength of Cocoa mixed
iwith Starch, Arcowroot or
Sugar, and is far more eco
nomical, costing less than one cent a cup.
It is delicious, nourishing, and easily
DIGESTED.
Sold by Grocers everynher.
W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mais.
S. N. U. 3.
A UOMAU HAS
IXii?1 V tt of life, aatf ft
try unfitted tor tkm cares of hovsekseDioc o
ar ordinary duUea, If afflicted xlatD
SICK HEADACHE
DAY AFTER DAY
MdyM mm are few diseases that yield mam
KJfftLJT-m9akMl taHt. It la Oters
fZS Sl?? Importance that a reliable remedy
smm always be at hand. During a period of mors
SIXTY YEARS
J??0 "Porta where ssr
aave not been permanently and
PROMPTLY CURED
BY
aea ef a
as tJ
DR. C. McLAUE'S
LIVER PILLS,
maOad to amy address oa tb. receipt of 23 oenU ta
postage stamps.
IttrchaBers of these Pflls sheld be careful to pre
EE !.f?lB,,5.rttel There are several ooaater-
Veiling Softens
mm
f ptf
mm