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A tR. w O Lowell, Mass. iifliif m wm IIWI III , W W'illl w- UUIC JilSTlvNliNLr GOD -fJAkJJ- JAJ DR. TALMAGE TELLS US HOW HEARS PRAYERS. j , ( , , Th. Unmu Ear tb. Sacred Trstibal. ot the ralac of tb Soul God In Oar w II. That O. Xel Hear? riantcd tb. Kar, Shall Copyrlslit. ISI'8, by American Frees Asso i elation. WAsraxaTOX, April 17. In this dis course Dr. Talmage sets forth the goodness and wisdom of God in the con struction of the human car and extoli Jnusio and encourages prayer; text, Psalms xciv, 9, "He that planted the ear, shall be not bear?" Architecture is one of the most fasci nating arts, and the study of Egyptiau, Grecian, Etruscan, Roman, Byzantine, Moorish, Renaissance styles of building has been to many a man a sublime life work. Lincoln and York cathedrals, St. Paul's and St. Peter's and arch of Ti tns and The ban temple and Alhambra and Parthenon are the monuments to the genius of those who built them. But more wonderful than any arch they ever lifted, or any transept window they ever illumined, or any Corinthian column they ever crowned, or any Goth io . cloister they ever elaborated, is the human ear. Among the most skillful and assidu ous physiologists of our time have beeu those who have given their time to the examination of the ear and the study of its arches, its walls, its floors, its ca nals, its aqueducts, its galleries, its in tricacies, its convolutions,' its divine machinery, and yet it will take another thousand years before the world comes to any adequate appreciation of what God did when he planned and executed the infinite and overmastering architec ture of the human ear. The most of it is invisible, and, the microscope breaks down in the; attempt at exploration. The cartilage which we call the ear is only the storm door of the great temple clear down out of sight, next door to the immortal soul. Such scientists as Helmholtz and Con to and De jBlainville and Rank and Buck have attempted to. walk the Ap plan way of the human ear, but the mysterious pathway has never been ful ly trodden but by two feet the foot of -sound and the foot of God. Three ears on each side the head the external ear, the middle ear, the internal ear but all connected by ! most wonderful teleg raphy. . I. Wonders of th. Ear. The external ear, in all ages adorned by precious stones or precious metals. The temple cf Jerusalem partly built by the contribution of earrings, and Homer, in the "Iliad," speaks of Hera, "the three bright drops, her glittering gems suspended from the ear," and many of the adornments of modern times were only copies of her ear jewels found in Pompeiian museum and Etruscan vase. But, while the outer ear may be adorn ed by human art, the middle and the in ternal car are adorned and garnished only by the hand of the Lord Almighty. The stroke of a' key of yonder organ sets the air vibrating, and the external oar catches the undulating sound and passes it on through the borielets of the middle ear to the internal ear, and' the 3,000 fibers of the human brain take up the vibration and roll the sound on into the soul The hidden machinery of the ear, by physiologists called by the names of things familiar to us, like the hammer, something to strike; like the anvil, something to be smitten; like tho stirrup of the saddle with which we mount the steed; like the drum, beaten in the march; like the harpstrings, to be swept with musio; coiled like a "snail shell," by which one of the innermost passages of the ear is actually called; like a stair way, the sound to ascend; like a bent tube of a heating apparatus, taking that which enters round and round; . like a i labyrinth with wonderful passages, into which the thought enters only to be lost in bewilderment; a muscle contracting when the noise is too loud, just as the pupil of the eye contracts when the light is too glaring. The external ear is de fended by wax which with its bitter ness discourages insectile invasion. The internal ear imbedded in by what is far the hardest bone of the human system, a very rock of strength and defiance. The ear so strange a contrivance that by the estimate of one scientist it can catch the sound of 73,700 vibrations in a second, the outer ear taking in all kinds of sound, whether the crash of an avalanche or the hum of a bee. The sound passing to the inner door of the outside ear halts until another mechan ism, divine mechanism, passes it on by the bonelets of the middle ear, and, com ing to the inner door of that second ear, the sound has no power to come farther until another divine mechanism passes it on through into the inner ear, and then the sound comes to the rail track of the brain branchlet and rolls on and on until it comes to sensation, and there the curtain drops, and a hundred gates shut and the voice of God seems to say to all human inspection, "Thus far and no farther." Teatlbale of the Soul. In this vestibule of the palace cf the soul how many kings of thought, of medicine, of physiology, have done pen ance of lifelong study and -got no far ther, than the vestibule? Mysterieua home of reverberation and echo. Grand Central depot of sound. Headquarters to which there come quick dispatches, part the way by cartilages, part the way by at?, part the way by bone, part the way by nerve, the slowest dispatch plunging into the ear at the speed of 1,090 feet a second. Small instrument of musio on which ' is played all the musio yon ever heard, from the gran deurs of an August thunderstorm to the softest breathings of a flute. Small in strument of music, only a quarter of an inch of surface and the thinness of one two-hundrtd-and-fiftieth part of an inch, and that thinness divided into three layers. In that ear musical staff, lines, spaces, bar and rest. A bridge leading from the outside natural world to we lnEiae .pP,rltaal worId. elng . afcatment at thisend the bridge, but the fog of an uplifted mystery hid GOL, inz. the atntment on the other endlrnlla the bridge, Whigpering gallery of the xua uuLaau iw) uuu b euwgj iue eat.. x(jat laauio ci prouuO- ing 17,592, 18G.C14.415 soands, and all that variety made not for the-regale- ment of beast or bird, but for the hu man ear. j About ,15 years ago, in. Venice, lay down in death one whom many consid ered the greatest musical composer of the century. Struggling on up from 6 years of ' age, when 1 he was Jef t father less, Wagner rose through the obloquy cf the world anV cf ttimes all nations seemingly psrainst- him until he gained il . J . . A t - t wo iavur vi a mug ana won me eniuusi- asm cf the opera houses of Europe and America. Struggling all the way on to 70 years of age to conquer the world's earl In that same attempt to master the human ear and gain supremacy over this gate of the immortal soul great battles were fought' by Mozart, G luck and Weber and by Beethoven and Mey erbeer, by Rossini and by all the roll of German and Italian and French com posers, some of them in the battle leav ing their blood on the keynotes and the musical scores. Great battle fought for the ear fought with batou, with organ pipe, with trumpet,! with cornet-a-pis-ton, with all ivory and brazen and sil ver and golden weapons cf the orchestra; royal theater and cathedral and acad emy of music the fortresses for the con test for the ear. England and Egypt fought for the supremacy of the Suez canal, and the Spartans and the Persians fought for the defile at; Thermopylae, but the musicians iof all ages have fought for tho mastery of the auditory canal and 'the defile of the immortal soul and the Thermopylae cf struggling cadences. J ) . Conquest of: the Ear. For the conquest of tho ear Haydn struggled on up from the garret, where ho had neither fire nor food, on and on until: under the too great nervous strain of hearing his own oratorio of the "Creation" performed he was carried out to die, but leaving as his legacy to the world- 118 symphonies, 163 pieces for the baritone, 15 ni asses, 5 oratorios, 42 German and Italian songs, 39 canons, 305 English and Scotch songs, with ac companiment; and 1,536 pages of libret ti. All that to capture the gate of the body that swings in from the tympanum to the "snail shell" lying on the beach of the ocean of the immortal soul To conquer the ear Handel struggled on from thg tjimewhen his father would not let him go to school the gamut and become a musician, ana from the time when he was allowed in the organ loft just to play after the au dience had left to tho timewhen he left to all nations his unparalleled oratorios of "Esther," "Deborah," "Sampson,' "Jephthah,?" ."Judas Maccabasus," "Is rael In Egypt" and the "Messiah" the soul of the great German composer still weeping in the dead march of our great obsequies and triumphing in the rap tures of every Easter morn. To conquer the ear and take this gate of the immortal soul Schubert composed his great "Serenade, " writing the staves of the music on the bill of fare in a restaurant, and went on until ne could leave as. a legacy to the world over 1,000 magnificent compositions in music. To conquerthe ear and take this gate of the soul's castle Mozart strug gled on through poverty until he came to a pauper's grave,1 ana one cniuy, wet afternoon the body of him who gave" to tne wona tne "Kequiem v ana the "G Minor Symphony" was crunch ed in on the top of two other paupers ... m m . m ' a r. - II V into a grave which to this day is epi- taphless. i For the ear everything mellifluous, from the birth hour when our earth was wrapped in swaddling clothes of light and serenaded by other worlds, from the time when Jubal thrummed the first harp and pressed a key of the first or gan down to the music of this Sabbath day. Yea,, for the ear the coming over tores of heaven. fGr whatever other part of the body may be left in the dust tho ear, we know, is to come to celes tial life; otherwise why the "harpers harping with their'harps?" For the ear, carol of lark, and whistle of quail, and chirp of cricket, and dash of cascade, and roarof tides oceanic, and doxology of worshipful assembly and minstrelsy, cherubic, seraphic and archangelic. For the ear all Pandean ppeg, all flutes, all clarinets, all hautboy, all bassoons, all bells and all organs Luzerne and West minster abbey, and Freiburg, and Ber lin, and all the organ pipes set across Christendom, the great Giant's Cause way for the monarchal of music to pass over. For the ear, all chimes, all tick ings cf chronometers all anthems, all dirges, all glees, all choruses, all lulla bies, all orchestration; Oh, the ear, the God honored ear. grooved with divine sculpture and poised with divine grace fulness and upholstered with curtains of divine embroidery, and corriddred by divine carpentry, and pillared with di vine architecture, and chiseled in bone cf divine masonry, and conquered by processions of divine marshaling I The earl A perpetual point of interrogation, asking, ;Ho'w? A perpetual point of apostrophe appealing to God. None but God could plan it. None but God could build it. j None but God could work it. None but God could keep it. None but God could understand it. None but God could explain it Oh, the wonders of the human earl ? A Sacred Thln. j How surpassing sacred the human earl You had better be careful how' you let the sound of blasphemy or uncleanness step into that holy of holies. The Bible says that in the ancient temple the priest was. set apart by the putting of the blood of a ram on the tip of the 6ar, tho right ear of the priest. But, my friends, we need all of us to have the 6acred touch of ordinaticn on the hang ing lobe of ; both ears and cn the arches cf the ears,! on the eustachian tube of I the ear, on the mastoid cells of the ear, In the tympanio cavity of the ear and on I ererything from the onUide rim of the I outside ear clear in to the tint rW i sonnd stna nff th anHifn nAna J depths of the immortal sonL! The Bible' , EMa ci aun ear s" and of "nnoir-' cumcised ears' and of "itching eari' and of "rebellions earR and nf nrnin ears" and of those who have all the or gans of hearing and yet who seem to be deaf, for it cries to them, jVHe that hath ears to hear, let him hear.,' 1 To show bow much Christ thought of the human ear, he one day met a man who was deaf, came up to him and put a finger of the right hand into the orifice! of the left ear of the patient and put a 1 finger of the left hand inio the orifice of i 1 the xiphzx of -the patient andacitated " A 1 - ' . . . . : . . . the tympanum and startled the bonelets and, with a voice that rang clear through into the man's soul, cried, j"Ephpha th f" and the rirtl vrml rl i nWnrVlii- nana I tha t" and the polypoid growths gave ! way, and the inflamed auricle cooled off, and that man who had not heard a sound for many years that night heard the wash of the waves of Galilee against the limestone shelving. To show how much Christ thought of the human ear, when the apostle Peter! got mad and with one slash of his. sword dropped the; ear of Malchus into the dust Christ cre ated a new external ear for Malchus cor responding with the middle ear and the internal ear that no sword could clip away. i And to show what God thinks, of the ear we are informed of tbe fact that in the millennial June which shall roseate all the earth, the ears of .the deaf .will i be unstopped, all the vascular growths gone-1 all deformation of the listening organ cured, corrected, changed. Every being on earth will have; a hearing ap paratus as perfect as God knows how to make it, and all the ears will be ready for that great symphonyj in which all the musical instruments of the earth shall play the accompaniment, nations of earth and empires of heaven min gling their voices, together with the deep bass of the sea, and the alto of the woods, and the tenor of winds, and the baritone of the thunder. "Hallelu iah 1" surging up meeting iahl" descending. I the"Hallelu- God In Ourselves. Oh, yes, my friends,. jre have been looking for God too far avvay instead of looking for him close by ahd in our own organism. We go up into the observa tory and look through the telescope and 6ee God in Jupiter, and God in Saturn, and God in Mars, but we fcould see more of him through the microscope of an aurist. No king is satisfied with only one residence, and in France it has been lest he learnlgtJ Cloud and Versailles) and the Tui- Acnes, ituu m vjieau jii.ii.uiLi in uoa uvuuj Windsor and Balmoral and Osborne. A1 t : i z r t. t n. I v ruler does not always prejfefnhe larger. The King of earth and heaven may have larger castles and greater! palaces, but I do not think there is any jone more curi odsly wrought than the human ear. The heaven of heavens cannot contain him, and yet he says he finds room to dwell in a contrito heart, jand I think in a Christian ear. .. ' We have been looking for God in the infinite; let us look for hjim in the infi nitesimaL God walking the corridor of the ear, God sitting in the gallery of the human ear, God speaking along the au ditory nerve of the ear, God dwelling in the ear to hear that which comes from the outside, and so near the brain and tbe soul he can hear all that tran spires there. The Lord of jhosts encamp ing under tho curtains of membrane. Palace of the Almighty in the human ear. The rider on the jwhite horse of the Apocalypse thrusting; his' foot into the loop of bone which the physiologist has been pleased to-call the stirrup of the ear. . j Are you ready now for the question of my text? Have you thp endurance to bear its overwhelming suggestiveness? "Will you take hold of sbme pillar and balance yourself under the semiomnipd tent stroke? "He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?" Shall the God who gives us the apparatus with which we hear the sounds of the world himself not be able to catch up song and groan and blasphemy and worship? Does he give us a faculty which he has not him self? Drs. Wild and Grnber and Toyn bee invented the acoumeter and other instruments by 'which to' measure and examine the ear, and dp these instru ments know more than the doctors who made them? "He that planted the ear, shall he - not hear?" Jupiter of Crede was always represented in statuary arid painting as without ears, Suggesting the idea that he did not want to be bother ed with the affairs of the world. But our God has ears. "His ears are open to their cry:" The Bible intimates that two workmen orr Saturday night do net get their wages. Their complaint in stantly strikes the ear of God, ."he cry cf those that reaped hath entered, tho ears of the Lord of Sabaoth." Did God hear that poor girl lastlnight as she threw herself on the prison bunk in the city dungeon and cried in the midnight, "God have mercy?" Do you really think God could hear her? Yes, just as easily a3 when 15 years ago she was sick with scarlet fever and her mother heard her when at midnight she asked for a drink of water. "He that planted the ear, shall ne noc nearr , Bow God Hears Prayers. When a soul prays, God does not sit bolt upright until the prayer travels im mensity and climbs to his ear. The Bk ble says he bends clear over. In more than one place Isaiah said he bowed down his ear. In more than one place the psalmist said he inclined his ear, by which I come to believe that God puts his ear so closely down to your lips that he can hear your faintest whisper. ,. It is not God away off up yonder. It is God away down here, close up, so close up that when yon pray to ihim it is not more a whisper than a kiss. Alvyes, he hears the captive's sigh and the plash of the orphan's tear and the dying sylla bles of the shipwrecked sailor driven on the skerries and the infant's "Now I lav me down to sleep" as distinctly as I he hears the fortissimo of brazen bands in the Dusseldorf festival, as easily aa ... he hears the salvo of artillery when the 13 squares of English troops open all their batteries at once at Waterloo. He that planted the eat can hear. Just as, sometimes an entrancing strain of music will linger in your ears lor days after ?yoa have heard it, an just as a sharp cry of pain I once heard while passing through Beilevue bospK tal clung tp my ear for weeks, and just as a horrid bJarphemy in .the Street sometimes haunts one's ears for days. so God not only aears,hut holds the Bangs, me -prayers, tne groans, the: wor ship, the blasphemy. How we hate all wondered at the phonograph, which holds not only the words you utter,' but the very tones of your voice, sol that 100 years from now, that instrument turned, the very words you now titter the vei7 tone cf your voico will be - reproaucea, Amazing phonograph I But more wonderful is God's power to hold, to retain. Ah, what delightful encour agement for our prayers! What ah aw ful fright for our hard speeches I What assurance of .warm hearted sympathy for all pur griefs I; "He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?" ; Better take that organ away from all sin. Better put it under the best sound. Better take it away from all gossip, from all slander, .from all innuendo, from all bad influence of evil associa tion. Better put it to school, to church, to philharmonic. Better put that ear under the blessed touch of Christian hymnology. Better, consecrate it for time and eternity to him who planted the ; ear. Rousseau, the infidel,; fell asleep amid his skeptical manuscripts lying all around the room, and in his dream he entered heaven and heard the song of the worshipers, and it was so sweet he asked an angel what it meant. The ,angel said, "This is tho paradise of God, and the song you hear is tho an them of the redeemed." Under another roll of the celestial musio Rousseau wakened and got up in the midnight, and as well as he could wrot;e down the strains of the music that he had heard in, the wonderful tune called '.'The Songs of the Redeemed." God grant that it may not be to you and to nie an infidel dream, but a glorious reality When we come to the night of death ana we lie down to our last sleep, may our ears really be wakened by the can tides of the heavenly temple and the songs and' the anthems and the carols and the doxologies that shall climb the musical ladder of that heavenly gamut, Witness on the Table. A man named jHogan was charged with murder. A hat, believed to be the prisoner's, was found near the body of the murdered man, and this was the principal ground for supposing Hogan waslhe perpetrator of the foul deed. O'Oonnell, who was retained for the do fense, felt the case required the exercise of his utmost powers. The counsel for the crown made a strong point oh the hat. O Gonnell cross examined thewit ness who identified it. .Are you per fectly sure that this was the hat found close to the body?" "Saftin sure, O'Connell proceeded to inspect the caU been. "Was the prisoner's name, Pat Hogan" (he spelled each letter slowly), in it at the time you found ' it?" " 'Twas, of course." "You could not be "No, sir. " "And all you swore is as true as that?" "Quite." 'Then get off" the table this minute I" cried G-'Connell triumphantly. Address ing the judge, he said: "My lord, there can be no conviction here. There is no name in the bat I" - In many of the county assize courts in Ireland witnesses give their evidence when sitting on a chair placed on top of a table which is fixed in front of- the bench. Some of these tables are covered with green baize. In the assize court in the town of Wicklow I have frequently heard a witness, after he has been call ed, ordered to "come on the table" by an official of the court. Notes ' and Queries. ! . The Hobbyhorse Craze In America. In St. Nicholas ! "The Story of the Wheel" is told bv 'Frank H. Vizetelly. Speaking of thodraisine, or hobbyhorse,' as it was derisively, called, Mr. v izetel ly says: ' I The first American appearance of the draisine was made in New York city. The people of the j new world eagerly welcomed the new sport. Small manu factories sprang up all over townj but the demand for wheels far exceeded the supply. Near Bowling Green these ve hicles were first exhibited. Around City Hall park and around the Bowery at all times of the day riders . might be seen. The craze for crazo it was isoon spread over the land, and the principal cities each had wheels. However, a re action soon set in, and as suddenly as the draisine bad risen into favor eo eudr denly dir? i l fall from grace, . ' -. ? : j , ... - i I j C..:dnt Head Him Oft j ' Duritv- V-e visit of a political: gentle man to I.j Stocky his servant came j into his rooi; i trarly one morning arid an nounced n.3 coldest weather of the sea son, "lilt a to cold, kunnel," he said, 'dat all ue whisky's froze had. " " What 1" shrieked the colonel, jump ing but of bed. . "Dey tells me de whisky 's froze, suh. " "Well, well I That beats my time I But, Eay, Johnl" Yes, suh. " "Just go down and " bring me up a hunk of it. I always did line cracked ice!" Chicago Times-Herald. Greatest Monument to Man's Handiwork. "The greatest structure ever raised by the. hand of man," writes Wilffam George Jordan of "The Greatest Things In the World," in The Ladies' Home Journal, "is the 'great pyramid of Cheops, founded 4,000 years ago and measuring 746 feet square on the base and 449 feet high.! It took 20 years in construction, 100,000 men working for three months, and being, then relieved, were succeeded by an equally large corps. The massive stones were brought from Arabia, 700 miles away. Thej cost of the work is estimated at $145,000,- i eoo.," : . - . THE WONDERS OF SCIENCE LUNG TROUBLES AND CONSUMP. TIQN CAN BE CURLD. An a Eminent New York Chemist Scientist Males a Free Offer to Our Readers. and ; The distinguished New York chem ist, I A. Slocum, demonstrating his discovery of a reliable and nbaolute cure for Consumption (Pulmonary Tuberculosis) and all bronchial, ihroat. inner, and' chest uixea, Hub bom coiicbp, catarrhal affections, general -decline and weakness ls of L'eidi, and all condition of WHstitur awav wUl -nd Till; EE FBKE BOTT Xlfs Tal liifTereiiv) of his New Dimoverie to any afflict d reader of the Eco.omit writing for them. , ' His "New Scientific Tn cured thousand iw timely uHe.Hrul hecoriPideisit aalmple professional duty to eueri,iK human', ity.to donate a trial of hin Infallil.! cure. . , Science daily develop and this great chemist i.m!unti. perimentiiig for vears. Im i.r.ui...,.i results as beneficial to iiuinaiiitv as, can be clainiMil hv .... i. - . -j u; illicit-1 il Cfnius. His assertion -tlmt troubles and eonmimni .. curate In any climate i pfov n, ly-'heartfrlt letters of grati tude, filed in his Americn and Euro teaii laboratories in thousand. fm, Wiose cured in all parts of the world. ' Medical experts eonre1 il.nt chial, chest and hinir tronbl Consumption, w.bicb, uninterrupted, means speedy and certain rienth. M Simply write to T. Ay. S.'ocum, M. C., PS Pine street, New York, giving p. at PJTiee and express ml d reus. n ml th. f r. medicine will he promptly M l.t. Suf-f.M-ers should mke iriKtant advantage o his trenrroiis nrntwn.it ;.,n Please tell the Doctor that you xaw us offer in the Economist. KEl)UG;i) - HATES IN LMAY. The Soalibard Air Lion ntirw.nn.. the following. Reduced Hates for 8pe. cial Occasions to tak place in May. BALTIMORE MP. j Quadrennial Conference of the SI. E. 'hurcfi, South. - . Kate of 'one fare for the '-round trip, tickeM on ale May 2nd-4U,w Ith final limit May 31 ft. " ' j NEW ORLEANS, LA. ' National Order of Elkn. ' Rate of the one fare for die round trip, tickets on sale May 7th-l)th, with final limit of fifteen days. General Assembly of the Prebbyler iau Church of the U. 8. j Rate of one faPe.for the round trip, tickets on sale. May 7th-lHh, with final 1-imit of June 4th.; ;. f NORFOLK, VA. , Southern Baptislind Auxiliay Con yenuors. Rate of one fare for the round trip, tickets on sale May 2nd-(Hh', with fin al limit of fifteen days. . CHARLOTTE, N.CVj Twentieth of May Celebration of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Indrpen dence. , , 1 '.Rate of one, fare for the round trip, tickets on mle May : Pith-dO, and one Cent per -mile travelled from points withm a radious of two hundred miles, tickets on sale ISth-lOth. with final dmit May 23rd. . Reunion of Confederate Veterans, j Rate of one cent pf r mile travelled, tickets on sale May 18th-19th with fin al limit May 23rd. For . full Information in regard to these rates call on or addnns any Agent of the Seaboard Air Line or write.to. T.J.ANDERSON, . General Passanger Agent. f Portsmouth, Va inef has demonstrated ten thotmand times that it Is almost infallible FOR WOMAN'S PECULIAR WEAKNESSES, irrefrnlarlties and derangements., It has become tbe leading remedy for this clasa of troubles. It exerts a wonderfully bealinr, strength enJng and soothing influence upon the menstrual organs. It cares "whites" and falling of thVwomb. It stops flooding- and i-lievts up- ' pressed and painful menstruation. For Change of Life It is the best medicine made. It is beneficial daring pregnancy, and heips to : bring children into homes barren . for years. It invigorates, fttima ' la tee, strengthens the whole sys tem. This great remedy is offered -to all afflicted women. "Whywi'I any woman suffer another minute with certain relief within reach? Wine of Cardui only costs $1.00 per bottle at your drug store. For advice, in ca$e$ re&ulrinp rpeeial direction$, addreat, giving tympt&mt. the LadUt' Advitory Department," The Chattanooga Midicins tb., Chat tanooga, Tenn. . Rs.J. W. SMiTH, Camden. S.C.. Myi: "M wife sted Wins of Cardui at hows : for falling of ths womb and it enUrsIf cured her." Krtt how mucn we can get, but bow little we can take is the principle on which we gain patronage everyday. Racket Store. Go to the City Fish: and Oyster Market for fine Oysters and nsb. op posite Swains Hotel, rnone no. isw. T. T. WIIITCOMB. r tt tr w I
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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April 22, 1898, edition 1
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