REV. DR. TALMAGE.
HIE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY
SERMON.
Text: The Queen Vashti refused to come.
Esther i., 12.
If you will accept my arm I will escort you
into a tbrono room. In this fifth sermon of
the series of sermons there are certain voman
y excellencies which I wish to commend, but
instead of putting them in dry abstraction, I
present you their impersonation in one who
seldom, if evei, K''s sernionic recognition.
"We stand amid the palaces of Shushan.
Th pinnacles are aflame with the morn in e
light. The columns rise festooned and
MTiytthetl, tho wealth of empires flashing
from thn grooves; the ceilings adorned with
images of binl and beast, and scenes cf
pro .-. ess and conquest. The walls are hung
with shields, and emblazoned until it seems
that the whole round of splendors is ex
hausted. Each arch is a mighty leap of
architectural achievement. Golden stars,
shining down on plowing arabesque. Hrng
insof embroidered work, in which ming)
the blueness of the sky, the greenness of
the grass and the whiteness of the sea foam.
Tapestries hunj; on silver rings, wedding to
gether the pillars of marble. Pavilions
reaching out in every direc tion. These for
repose, Idled with "luxuriant cou hes, in
which weary limbs sink until all fatigue is
submerged. 1 hese for carousal, where Kings
drink down a kingdom at one swallow
Amazing spectacle! Light of silver dripping
ilown over stairs of ivory on shields of gold.
Floors of stained marble, snnset red and
night black, and inlaid with gleaming pearl.
Why, it seems as if a heavenly vision of
amethyst, an I jacinth, and topaz, and
:hrysopra:-us had descended and alighted
upon Wiushan. It stents as if a billow
of celestial glory had dashed clear over
heavens battlements upon this metrop
olis of Persia. In connection with this
palace thero is a garden, where
the mighty men of foreign lands are
seated at a banquet. Under the spread of
oak, and linden, and acacia. the tables are ar
ranged. The breath of honeysuckle and
frankincense tills the air. Fountains leap up
into the lighr, the sprav struck through with
jainl ows tailing in crystalline baptism upon
liowering shrubs then rolling down through
channels of marble, and widening out here
and there into pools swirling with the finny
trib-s of foreign aquariums, bordered with
scarlet nne!:ion;s, hvpericums, and many col
ored ranimru!,!. Meats of rarest bird and
Jeast smoking up amid wreaths of aromatics.
The vases tilled with apricots and almonds.
Iho basket piled up with apricots, and
dates, and figs, and oranges an l pomegran
ates. Melons ta.,tefii!iy iined with leaves
of acacia. The bright waters of Eulneus
Idling th; urns, ami sweating outside the
Mm in Hashing leads amid the traceries,
uine from the royal vats of Ispahan and
Shiraz, in bottles of tinged shell, and lily
(diapedcups of silver, and flagons and tank
ards of solid gold. Th music rises higher,
and the revelry breaks out into wilder trans
port, and the wins has flushed the cheek and
touched the brain, and louder than all other
voices a. e the hiccough of the inebriates, the
gabble of i'ojls, and tlie song of the drunk
ard s. a
In another pirt of tho palace Queen Vashti
is entertaining the princesses of Fersia at a
banquet. Drunken Ahasuerus says to his
nervants: "You go out and fetch Vashti
from that banquet with the women, and
bring her to this banquet with the men, and
let me display her beauty." The servants
linme ltatA.y nrt to obey the king's com
mand, but there was a rnl,s in Oriental soci
ety that no woman might appear in public !
"iiuuui, uuviog ner lace veiled, let here
.-as a mandate, that no one dare dispute, de
manding that Vashti ccme in unveiled before
the multitude. However, there was in Vashtis
soul a principle more regal than Ahasuerus,
more brilliant than the gold of Shushan, of
more wealth than the revenue of Persia,
w hich commanded her to disobey the order
vt ithl KinS": an,l so all the righteousness
and hohms-; and modesty of lier nature
uses up into one sublime refusal. She
siys: " I will not go into the banquet
unveiled." uf coiuse, Ahasuerus was
infuriated; and Vashti, robbed of her po
rtion and her estate, is driven forth in
1-overty and ruin to sudor the scorn
t a nation, an I yet to receive the
ipplause of after generations, who
shall, rise up to a huire this martyr to
kingly insolence. A Veil, the last vestige of
that ieast is gone: the last .garland has faded;
the last arch has fallen: the last tankard has
been destroyed, and shushan is a ruin; but
s long as the world stands there will be
mu.tituJes of men and women, familiar with
the Dib:e. who will cone into this picture
gallery of God and admire the divine iortrait
of ashti the Queen. Vahti the veiled,
Vashti the sacrifice, Vashti the silent
In the iirt place, I want vou to look upon
ashtith.-i Queen. A blue ribbon, raved
wjtu white, drawn around her forehtai, 'in
dicated her queenly position. It was no
small honor to bo queen in such a realm as
that. Hark to the rustle of her robes! See
t he blaze of her jewels! And yet, my friends.
t is not necessary to have palace and regal
robe in order to be queenly. When I fee a
woman with stout faith in God. putting her
toot upon all meanness, and selfishness, ani
godless display, going right forward to serve
v'hrist and the race i-y a grand and glorious
.-ervice, I say: "Tint woman is a queen.'
and tha ranks of heaven look over the
battlements upon the coronation: and
whether she come up from the shanty on
the commons or the mansion of the
iashionable square, I greet her with the
si-.out: "A!i had! Queen Vashti"" "What
glory was there on the brow of Marv, of
fi:otland; or Elizabeth, of England"; or
Margaret, of France, or Catharine, of Rus
sia, compared with Hie worth of some of our
Christian mothers, manv of them gone into
glory? or of that woman mentioned in the
.-oriptures, who put her all into the Lord's
treasury.' or of Jephtl.ah's daughter, who
madea demonstration of unselfish patriotism?
or of Abigail, who rescued the herds and
flocks of her husband.' or of Ruth, who
'oiled under a tropica! sun for poor, old,
helpless 'ao!jn.' or of Mrs. Adouiram Jud-t-on,
who kindled the lights of salvation amid
t lie darkness of Hurmahf or of Mrs. Hemans,
who poured cut her whole sole in words
which will be forever associate 1 with
hunter's horn, ami captive's chain, and
bridal hour, and lute s throb, an i curfew s
l.nell atthe dying day.' and scores and hun
dreds of women, unknown o:i earth. who have
given water to the thirsty, and bread to the
hungry, and medicine to the sick, and smiles
ro the discouraged their footsteps heard
along dark lane, and in government hospital,
and in almshouse corridor, and bv prison
gate? There may be no royal robe there
may be no palatial surroundings. She does
not need them; for all charitable men will
unite with the crackling lips of fever struck
bospital and' plague blotched lazaretto in
greeting her as she passes: "Hail! hail!
Queen Vashti."
Among the queens whom I honor are the
female day school teachers of this land. I
put upon their brow the coronet. They are
the sisters and the daughters of our towns
and cities, selected out of a vast number of
applicants, because of their especial intel
lectual and mcral endowments. There are
in none of your homes wo.nen more worthy,
'..'hese persons, some of them, come out from
u ftluent homt s, choosing teaching as a usef 1
profession: others, tin ling that father is oldei
than he used to be, and that bis eyesight and
htrength are not as good as once, go to teach
ing to lighten his load. But I tell you th
history . f the majority of the female teach
trs in the public schools when I say: "Fathei
is dead.'' Aft.T the estate was settled, th
.family, that were comfortable before, ari
iirown on their own resources.
It is hard for men to earn a livinsr in this
day, but it is harder fcr women their health J
:... sunken. lucir arms hoc so frtrong. 1 America take the platforms and the pulpits,
tue r opp ..rtumt ies fewer. These perso.is an i no honorable man will charge Vashti
'iiitr ti e:all,n;ly going through the ordex : with having lost her veil
an examination as to their qualification!, k I Again: I want you this morning to con
teuch, hau U :wil lered s'ep over the sill of sider Vashti the sacrifice. Who this that
rue puohe school t.ulo two things instruct I see coming out of that palace gate of Shn
the young and earn their own bread Hei ' shan? It seems to me that I have seen her
-uijxis :uc io me last a'srec. 1 in .
management of forty or fifty fidgety and
tractable children, the suppression
tueir vices and the development o!
Ueir excellencies, the management oi
rewards and punishments, the sen-lint
oar crties for five nights of the week, then
r;'4S "W the Public schoo
---w-w- w va,M, gi0 uen i .
f air chance.
Threw no obstacle in the way.
I f they come out ahead in the race, cheer j
theni. It you want to smite any, smite the ;
;,T , rJ - aa j, r.ne V0011 Poor as to acknowledge her acquaintanceship.
rfn)lUiiaP.tmilryI the ork,ing Vashti the sacrifice. Ah, mTadlhafe
of so many wild colt for the harness of life, seen it manr a time. Here "is a home empal-
er J.f ?ak' "alS. un aced with-beauty. AlT that refinemS,
iM.e reacners; they can take up the cudeels from the right. Soon the bright apparel of
or themselves, but keep your hands off of th children will turn to rags: soon the houe
oeteneeless woman. Father may be dead, hold sons: will beeome the sobbin of a broken
v-ur tcsre are encua brothers Utt to demand h?art. Th? cli story or?r aain. Brutal
mi m ta; the? gt iustice. 1 Crotaon brtaJOag up oaiTiifft ftut of
"Within a stone's throw of this buildini
there died years ago one of tho principals oJ
our public schools. She had been twenty-fin
years at that post She had left the touch of
refinement on a multitude of the young. She
had, out of her slender purse, given literally
hundreds of dollars for the destitute who
came under her observation as a school
teacher. A deceased sister's children wer
thrown upon her hands, and she took care of
them. She was a kind mother to them, while
she mothered the whole school. Worn out
with nursing in the sick and dying room of
one of the household, she herself came to die.
She closed the school book and at the same
time the volume of her Christian fidelity: and
when she went through the gates they cried:
"These are they who came out of great tribu
lation, and had their robes washed and mad
white in the blood of the Lamb."
Queens are all such, and whether the world
acknowledges them or not, Heaven acknowl
edges them. When Scarron, the wit and
ecclesiastic, as poor as he was brilliant, was
about to marry lime, de Maintenon, he was
asked by the notary what he proposed to
settle npen mademoiselle. The reply was:
"Immortality! The names of the wives of
kings die with them; the name of the wife of
Scarron will live always." In a higher and
better sense, upon all women who do their
duty God will settle immortality! Not the
immortality of earthly fame, which is mor
tal, but the immortality celestial. And they
hall reign forever and ever ! Oh, the opportu
ity which every woman has of being a queent
The loneer I live the more I admire good
womanhood. And I bave come to form my
Dpinion of the character of a man by his ap
oreciation or non-appreciation of woman.
If a man has a depressed idea of womanly
character he is a bad man, and there is no
exception to this rule. The vritings of Goethe
can rever have any such attractions for me as
Shakespeare, because nearly ait the womanly
characters of the great German have some
kind of turpitude. There is his Mariana
with her clandestine scheming, aad his
Mignon of evil parentage, yet worse than
her ancestors, and his Theresa the brazen,
and his Aurelia of many intrigues, and his
Fhilina the termagant, ani his Melina the
tarnished, and his Baroness, and his Count
ess, and there is seldom a womanly charac
ter in all his voluminous writings
that would be worthy of residence in
a respectable coal cellar, yet pict
ured, and dramatized, and emblazoned
tili all the literary world is compelled to sse.
So, no! Give me William Shakespeare's idea
of woman; and I see it in Desdemona, and
Cordelia, and Rosalind, and Imogen, and
Helena, and Hermione. and Viola, and Isa
bella, and Sylvia, and Perdita, all of them
with enoujrh faults to prove them human,
tmt enoughTdndly characteristics to give ns
the author's idea of womanhood, his Lady
Macbeth only a dark background to bring
jut the supreme loveliness of his other female
diaracters.
Oh, woman of America! rise to your op
portunity. Be no slave to pride, or worldu
ness, or sin. Why ever crawl in the dust
ivhen you can mount a throne? Be queens
onto God forever. Hail Vashti!
ATjain : I want you to consider Vashti the
reile J . Had she appeared before Ahashuerus
md his court on thatday, with her face un
rovered, she would have shocked all the deli
cacies of Oriental society, and the very men
wuo m their intoxication rtemaaded that she
rae, in their sober moments would have
Jespised her. As some flowers seem to thrive
nest in the dark lane and in the shadow, and
where the sun does not seem to reach them,
so God appoints to most womanly natures
i retiring and unobtrusive spirit. God
3nee in a while does call an Isabella
to a throne, or a Miriam to strike the tim
bral at the front of a host, or a Marie An
:oinette t quell a French mob. or a Deborah
w stand at the front of an armed battalion,
?rying out: " Up! up! This is the day in
w hich the Lord will deliver Sisera into" thv
bands." And when women are called to such
outdoor work, r.d to such heroic positions,
Sod prepares them for it: and they have iron
in their soul, and lightnings in their eye, and
whirlwinds in their breath, and the borrowed
itrength of the Lord Omnipotent in their
right arm. They walk through furnaces as
though they were hedges of wild flowers, and
?ross seas as though they were shimmering
sapphire, and all the harpies of
nell sink down .to their dungeons at
the stamp of their womanly indigna
tion. But these are exceptions. Generally
Dorcas would rather make a garment for the
poor boy; Rebecca would rather fill the
trough for the camels; Hannah would rather
make a coat for Samuel ; the Hebrew maid
would rather give a prescription for INaa
man's leprosy; the woman of Sarepta would
rather gather a few sticks to cook a meal for
famished Elijah; Phoebe would rather carry
a letter for the inspired Apostle: Mother Lois
would rather educate Timothy in the Script
ures. When 1 see a woman going about her
daily duty with cheerful dignity presiding
at the table; with kind and gentle, bat
firm, discipline presiding in the nurs
ery, going out into the world with
out any bla?t of trumpets, following
in the footsteps of him who went
about doing good I say: "This is Vashti
with a veil on."' But when I see a woman
of unblushing boldness, loud voiced, with a
tongue of infinite clitter clatter; with arro
gant look, passing through the streets with a
masculine swing, gayly arrayed in a very
hurricane of millinery. I cry out: "Vashti
has lost her veil?" When I see a woman
struggling for political preferment, and re
jecting the duties of home as insignificant
and thinking the offices of wife, mother ana
daughter of no importance, and trying to
force her way up on into conspicuity, I say:
"Ah, what a pity! Vashti has lost her veili"
When I see a woman of comely features,
and of adroitness of intellect, and en
dowed with all that the schools can
do for one, and of the bieh social
position, yet moving in society with super
ciliousness and hauteur, as though she would
have people know their place, and an unde
fined combination of giggle, and strut, and
rodomontade, endowed with allopathic quan
tities of talk, but only homoeopathic infin tapir
mals of sense, the terror of dry goods clerks
and railroad conductors, discoverers of sig
nificant meanings in plain conversation,
prodigies of badinage and innuendo I say:
"Vashti has lost her veiL"
But do not misinterpret what I say into a
depreciation of the work of these glorious
and divinely called women who will not be
understood till after they are dead, women
like Susan B. Anthony, who are giving their
life for the improvement of the condition of
their sex. Those of you that think that
women have under the laws of this country
an equal chance with men are ignorant of
the laws. A gentleman writes me from
Maryland, saying: Take the laws of this
state. A man and wife start out in life full
of hope in every respect : by their joint efforts,
and. as is frequently the" case, through the
economic ideas of the wife, succeed in ac
cumulating a fortune, but they have no
ehildren; they reach ld age together, and
then the husband dies. What does the law
of this State do then i It says to the widow;
"Hands off your late husband's property: do
not touch it; the State will find others to
whom it will give that; bui you. the widow,
must not touch it, only so much as will keep
life within 3-our aged body, thaA you may
live to see those others enjoy what rightfully
should be your own." And the State seeks,
the relatives of the deceased husband, whether
they be near or far, whether they were ever
heard of before or not, and transfers to them,
singly or collectively, the estate of the de
ceased husband and living widow.
Now, that is a specimen of unju t law3 in
all tho states concerning womanhood. - In
stead of flying oflf to the discussion as to
whether or not the giving of the right of
voting to woman will correct these laws, let
me say to men. be gallant enough, and fair
enough, and honest enough, and righteous
enough, and God loving enough to correct
these wrongs against women by your own
masculine vote. Do not wait for woman
suffrage to come, if it ever does come, but so
far as you can touch ballot boxes, and Legis
latures and Congresses begin the reforma
tion. rtlt until lustlrt is dona tn woman
bv the laws of all the States, let the women of
neinr sho rnmoo v,r,i 1 i
tnenlless. trudging along with a broken
hart. Who is she? It is Vashti the sacra
fice. Oh. what a change it was from regal
position to a wayfarer's crust A little whil
ago approved and sought for; now ione so
tt v. ao. J
uerus. the husband and the father, fa taV
mg hold on paths of sin. Ha is pdnllv
going dov.-n. After a while he will flounder
and strueg'.e like a wild beast in the hunter';
net further away from God. farther awai
Lapithae. The house full of outrage, and
cruelty, and abomination, while trudging
forth from the palace gate are Vashti and
her children. There are homes represented
in this house this morning that are in danger
of such a breaking up. Oh Ahasuerus.
that you should stand in a home, by
a dissipated life destroying the peace
and comfort of that home. Gad
forbid that your children should
ever have to wring their hands, and have
people point their hands at them as they pass
down the street, and say, "There goes a
drunkard's child." God forbid that the lit
tle feet should ever have to trudge the path
of poverty and wretchedness. God forbid
that any evil spirit, born of the wine cup or
the brandy flask, should come forth and un
root that garden, and, with a blasting, blis
tering, all consuming cnrs9, shut for ever the
palace gate against Vashti and the children.
Oh the women and men of sacrifice are
poing to take the brightest coronals of heavea !
This woman of the text gave uo palatial resi
dence, gave up all for what she considered
right. Sacrifice! Is there anything more
sublime t A. steamer called the Prairie
Bludso, the engineer, declared he would keep
the bow of the boat to the shore till all were
eff, and he kept his promise. At his post,
scorched and blackened, he perished, but he
saved all the passengers. Two verses of pa
thetic poetry describe the scene, but the
verses are a little rough, aud so I changed a
word or two:
Through the hot black breath of the burning
Jim Blad'o'g voice was heard.
And ihey all had trust in his etnbborness,
And knew he would keep his word.
And euro's yoa're barn they all got otf
fore the smokestacks fell:
And Bladio'i ghost wentnp above.
In the smoke of the Prairie Balle.
He weren't no taint, bnt at Judgment
I'd rim toy chance with Jim,
Longside of tome pions eentlemen
That wouldn't ehake hands with him.
Ile'd teen big duty, a dead Far thing.
And went for it there and then.
And Chrigt Is not going to be too hard
On a man that died for men.
Once more: I want you to look at Vashti
the silent. You do not hear any outcry from
this woman as she goes forth from the palace
gate. From the very dignity of her nature
you know there will be no vociferation.
aometimes in life it is necessary to make a
retort; sometimes in life it is necessary to
resist; but there are crises when the most
triumphant thing to do is to keep silence.
The philosopher, confident in his newly dis
covered principle, waited for the coming of
more intelligent generations, willing that
men should laugh at the lightning rod,
and cotton gin and steamboat waiting for
long years through the scoffing of philo
sophical schools, in grand and magnificent
silence. Galileo, condemned by mathema
ticians.and monks, and cardinals, caricatured
everywhere, yet waiting and watching with
bis telescope to see the coming up of stellar
re-enforcements, when the stars in their
courses would fight for the Copernican sys
tem; then sitting down in complete blindness
End deafness to wait for the coming of the
generations who would build his monument
and bow at his grave. The reformer, exs
erated by his contemporaries, fastened in a
pillory, the slow fires of public contempt
burning under him, ground under the cylin
ders of the printing press. yet calmly waiting
for the day when purity of soul and heroism
f character will get the sanction of earth
and the plaudrts or heaven. Affliction, en
during without any complaint the sharpness
of the pang, and the violence of the storm,
and the heft of th9 chain, and the darkness
of the night waiting until a divine hand
shall be put forth to sooth tho pang, and
hash the storm, and release the captive. A
wife abused, persecuted, and a perpetual
sxila from every earthly comfort waiting,
waiting, until the Lord shall gather up his
dear children in a heavenly home, and no
poor Vashti will ever be thrust out from the
palace gate. Jesus, in silence, and answer
ing uut a. nuru, ui inning luo gui, uetiriii
the cross, in prospect of the rapturous con
summation when
Angels thronged hie chariot wheel,
And bore him to his throne:
Then f.ve;t their golden harps and sang
1 nc glorious wore is aone.
si Arctie explorer found a ship floating
h?lplessly about among the icebergs, and
go ng on board he found that the captain
I as frozen at his log book, and the helms
man was fro :en at the wheel, and thi men on
the lookout were frozen in their places. That
was awful, but magnificent. All the Arctic
blasts an i all the icebergs cauld not drive
them from their duty. Their silence was
louder than thunder. And this old ship of a
world has many at their posts in the awful
chill of neglect, and frozen of the world's
s?orn, and their silence shall be the eulogy
of the skies, and be rewarded lonjj after this
weather-beaten craft of a planet shall have
made its last voyage.
I thank God that the migbtest influences
are the most silent. The fires in a furnace of
a factory, or of a steamship, roar though
they only move a few shuttles or a few
thousand tons, but the sun that warms a
world rises and set? without a crackl , or
faintest sound. Travelers visiting Mount
..Etna, having heard of the glories of sunrise
on that peak, went up to spend the night
there and see the sun rise next morning, but
when it came up it was so far behind their
anticipatious they actually hissed it The
mightiest influ?uces to-day are like the
planetary system completely silent Don't
niss the sun !
O, woman ! does not this story of Vashti
the queen, Vashti the veiled, Vashti the sac
rifice, Vashti the sileut, move your soul?
My sermon converges into the one absorbing
hope that none of you may be shut out of the
Ealaee gate of heaven. You can endure the
ardships, ani the privations, and the
cruelties, and the misfortunes of this life, if
you can only gain admission there. Through
he blood of the everlasting covenant you
go through those gates, or never go at all.
When Rome was besieged the daughter of
its ruler saw the golden bracelets on tiie left
arms of the enemy, and she sent word totbem
that she would betray her city and surrender
it to them if they would only gie her those
bracelets on their left arms. They accepted
the proffer, and by night this daughter of
the ruler ot the city opened one of the gates.
The army entered, and keeping their
promise, threw upon her their bracelets,
and also their shields, and under the great
weight she died. Alas, that all through the
ages the same folly has been repeated, and
for the trinkets and glittering treas
ures of this world men ani women
swing open the portals of their immortal
soul for an everlasting surrender, and die
under the shining submergemeut
Through tho rich grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ may you be enabled to imitate the
example of Rachel, and Hannah, aud Abi
gail, and Deborah, and Mary, and Vashti.
Amen I
The Wind Lifts a Train.
Mr. C. W. Woodward, a traveling
man hailing from New York, related an
interesting story yesterday of a trip from
Buffalo to this city in the storm Thurs
day night. He is a guest at the Forest
City house, and narrated his experience
to a small circle of friends. 44After
leaving Dunkirk," he said, "the wind
was so severe that we proceeded along at
a snail's pace. At times the force of the
hurricane lifted one side of the train
several inches from the track, and then
it would descend to the rails again with
a startling thump. We were asked by
the conductor to sit on one side of the
cars to balance them. A number cf
Cleveland passeDgers left the train at
Erie, preferring to remain in that city
over night rather than to risk riding any
further. It was the first time in seven
teen years' traveling that I wa3 ever
alarmed in a railway train." Cleveland
Ltadtr.
A Draft For One Cent.
Professor John W. Jr(aton, of New
York, has in his jxis-cssion the smallest
draft ever uttered by the United States
Government. The following is its form:
Assay Office of the United States.
Treasury Deft., New YoRK,April2, 1S59.
01
foa.
100
Pay to the Bearer on account ot Warrant
Tfo. 134, in silver dollars, One Cent.
To the Cashier. S. T. J ENKINS.
Mr Jenking i3 now chief bookkeeper
of the Seamen's Bank for Savings The
check was to balan e an account and was
necessary to that end. The document is
very valuable as a svsrics.ty, Muil ami
EtfTtif,
Content ts. Discontent
One, satisfied with what must be her lot
Twas not a corner lot serenely meant
Never t wander from her humble cot.
Made beautiful by wise and sweet content
And one, dissatisfied with all he had.
Roved from his place into the world's mad
whirl.
What did ho find? Well, it was not so bad
The fellow found that rottage and that girl
The Century.
Conaumptlan UBreJr Cured.
To the Editor: Please inform your readers
that I hare a positive remedy for the above
named disease. By its timely use thousands
of hopeless cases hare been permanently
cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of
my remedy free to any of your readers who
bave consumption if they will send me their
Express and P. O. address lleppectfulb,
T. A. SLOCUM. M. C. JSlPearii bt, V Y.
Gold was discovered in California ius
orv vcars ago.
Man wants but little here Ielow,
But wants that little strong.
tv.: ocnoioiiir fma of a miree. The av
l Ilia 13 r
erase man or woman does not precisely ban-
terror it, as anue, out
it to be prompt, sure and effective. Dr.
Pierces Pleasant Purgative Pallets leave
.v..- Acirc in noint of effleaov. and
UUIU1UK t-" v. ... i' - ,
y-t their action is totally free from any un
pleasant svmptons, or disagreeable after-effects.
Purely vegetable, perfectly harmless.
A young girl in North Adams, Mass.,
has seven grandparents living. She has
one great grandfather, two great grand
mothers, two grandfathers and two
grandmothers.
Its thousands of cures are the best adver
tisement for Dr. Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
Peaches were introduced into England
from Persia in 1562.
"Necessity is the Mother of Invention," Ca
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let, address 264 B'way, New York.
II Sufferers from Connumpllwn,
Scrofula. Bronchitis, and General Debility
will try Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil
with Hypophosphites, they will find immedi
ate relief and perminate benefit. The Medi
cal Profession universally declare it a remedy
of the greatest value and very palatable.
Read: ,-l have used Scott's Emulsion in sev
eral casfs of Scrofula and Debility in Chil
dren. Results most gratifying. My little
patients take it with pleasure." W. H. Hcl
bert, M. D., Sa'isbury. HI-
Bronchitis is cured by frequent small doses
of Piso's Cure for Consumption.
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Rheumatism,
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Neuralgia,
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Ely's Cream Dalm
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CATARRH
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Much has been written and said about how )
to make home pleasant. The moralists ana 1
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it would seem nothing more remained to De 1
said. But the philosophers have gone far out
or tneir way 10 account ior iu f' ' -ill-assorted
couples and unhappy homes, ana
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unharness of married life can be traced m
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wife is a sufferer from some "female com
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printed on wrapper enclosing bottle.
The Inrge number of graves scattered
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URES Nervous Prostration, Nervous Head
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Price $1.00. Sold by druggists. Send for circulars.
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David G. Lowe, Esq., of St. Agathc, ManitntxL,
Canada, says: Being troubled with a terrible bil
ious attack, fluttering of the heart, poor rest at
night, etc.. I commenced the use of your Golden
Medical Discovery and ' Pellets, and derived the
very highest benefit t'lerefrom."
Bilious
Attach
"FOR THE BLOOD) DS THE LIFE."
Thoroughly cleanse the Worvl. wliifh la
the fountain of health, by using Db.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovert,
and good digestion, a fair 6kin, buoyant
spirits, and bod'ly health and vigor will
be established.
Golden Medical Discovery cures all
'rM"-"' "wtksow me power 10 cure eucn inveterate blood and skin diseases as the follow ins- resMmr.! ....
certainly be credited with possessing properties capable of curing any and all kla and blood .1 1 , Era-vs' must
obstinate or duBcult of cure than Salt-rheum. " n B,ooa aiscacss for none are more
"CoLUMBrs, Ohio. Aug. 18th, 1S87.
world's Dispensary Medical Associa
tion. CC3 Main Street, Buffalo, 2i. Y.:
Gentlemen For se-eral years I have felt it
to be ray duty to give to you the facts in rela
tion to the complete cure of a most aggra
vated case of salt-rheum, bv the useot our
SALT-RHEUM
AND
Rheumatism.
relative of mine had been a great sufferer from 6alt-rheurn lor
upwards of forty years. The disease was most distressing in her
hands, causing the skin to crack open on the inside of the finders
at the joints and between the fingers. She was obliged to Protect
the raw places by means of adhesive plasters, salves, ointments and
bandages, and dining the winter months had to have her hands
dressed daily. The pain was quite severe at times and her general
health was badly affected, paving the way for other disea-es to
creep in. Catarrh and rheumatism caused a great dal of sufferinir
in addition to the sa it-rheum. She had used faithfully, and with
the most commendable perseverance, all the remedies" prescribed
by ber physicians, but without obtaining relief. She afterwards
began treating herself by drinking teas made from blood-purif v
ing roots and herbs. She continued this for several vears but de
rived no benefit. Finally, about ten years ago. I chanced to read
pne of Dr. Pierce s small pamphlets setting forth the merits of his
Golden Medical Discovery ' and other medicines. The na me struck
CONSUltZPTION, WEAK LUNGS, SPITTING OP BLOOD
Golden Medical Discovery cure rim. 3 t.,, c;... . . w
sumption (which is Scrofula of the Lungs),
mjj iu umiucnui uiu:-urii j mg, mviirora
ting and nutritive properties. For Weak
iPfWftttaanriftM I f005 BrTTS
UCrlSUmPuOSL I 92.Z Ohio' ,rnu--.
iaassssBaasssssaaaBBSsassBl 7y Vi f J?? ior tne good your
"TTcvT 'Golden Medical Discovery' has don nVi-
Poor an having but one dollar in the world, I rJaved tn r & tVZ
wife took It as 0 rXZ?JJlJ . jft
GilXEO I
I9R Pmm9 I
waatinr Dlsraap vc.-
Gofdv, JJfPced taking you?
" ' "-1
pounds. Then I used to eat about ono
eat four or five if Idardto." e
DI3PEN8ARY
raairclh) April May
An the months in which to purify the blood, for at
Mother season 1, the body so soeptible
from medicine. The peculiar purifying and revir
teg qualities of Hoofs Sarsaparilla are needel to ex
pel disease and fortify the system agalast the debili
tating effects ot mild eather. Ever year lsorsases
the popularity of Hood's Sarsaparilla, for Ufa Just
what people lWs eason- "J? '
spring medicine. If you have neer tried it, do KM
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Tor many months I suffered greatly. My whole
system seemed to be te entirely run down, my am
bition was gone, had pains In my back, and a feebng
of lassitude which I could not throw off. I was
treated unsucce,-fully for kidney trouble. One day
at by brother's I saw a bottle of no d's Sarsapirilla
and determined to try it. Before the first bottle was
taken I candidly s y 1 ws relie ved. 1 have used the
medicine off and on ever since, and recommend it
for kidney or liver oontplalnU." Sin. W- H. Straso;
KI Atlantic Avenue. Brooklyn, N. Y.
food's Sarsaparilla
BoldbyaUdrugsliU. CI: six for S3. Prepared onty
byC L HOOD 4 CO.. Apothecaries, Lowell, ilasa.
I OO Doses One Dollar
CURES WHERE All ELSE FAILS.
Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good.
ie. woiamraraggu.
I bsllSTS Piso's Care
for Consumption sared
my life. A. II. Dowkll,
Editor Enquirer, Eden
tco, N. C., April 23, 1887.
Tho BEST Cough Medi
cine is Piso's Ccre fob
Consumption. Children
take it without objection.
By all druggists. 26c
CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS.
Beet Cough Syrup. Tastes pood. Uee
In time, holl r.TdrneglsU. gl
TgMiiBrgKvfiwgrp
S230
A UOyTU. A genu tranua. s best s!
ln articles f n the world. 1 sample Fret.
Address JA Y BSO-VSo.V. OttnAt. Mich.
G
OLD Is worth 500 per lb. t ettlt's Eye Salve ft
worm Sl.UUi, but is sold at Z5o. a box by dealers.
ESUiv' Dill Great English Gout as
EMail S rlliSi Rheumatic Rtm.tfjL
Oval .Hi reaua, 14 Pills
CURE"trheDEAF
P sea's Piisn IsrraOTas)
Ess Dbows perfectly Restore th
U ri n m . waeiasr the deafness is et
ayeoiis, termer injuries kttaa
ii 1 lcWVle,
1 in.s Sf nste. no1
wiaesr efctiatUy. We
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ItneWr, esr. Hta Fl New Yesa,tw
Ulaeoatsil book ef arauis. TVESm
i
Kone rermlfie tmle
tajcpfd Willi the abort I
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AMD
ICGFTMGHT, 1&7.J
indescribable feeling of dread, cr of Im
pending calamity?
If you have ail, or any considerable
number of these eymptoms, you are
suffering from that most common of
American maladies Bilious Dyspepsia, or
Torpid Liver, associated with" Dyspepsia,
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number and diversity of symptoms. No
matter what stage it hHS reached. Dk.
PlEKCE'S GOLDEN MEDICAL DlSCOYEHY
will subdue it, if taken according to di
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If not cured, complications multiply and
Consumption of the Lungs, Skin Diseases,
Heart Disease. Rheumatism. Kidney Dis
ease, or other grave maladies are quite !
humors, from a f-ommon Blotch, or Erup-
iu me nvin-i ccroiuia. rait-raeum,
" Fever-sores," fccaly or Rough Skin, in
short, all diseases caused by bad blood, are
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55!!
Pniing 01 :ood. Shortness of
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'fJeC?u?h' Asthma, and kindred affec
tions. It is a sovereign remedy. While it
f Xorth Clautoru. Miami
I have not the words to
Cough of
Five Years'
Staxdixb.
family, wftj, good
1 h
meal 8 an now can
be put back where
DlRcoTcry f 1,00,
MCOIQAL ASSOCIATION, Propr'., No.
LlYER
Disease.
Wqhth $1000
h BOTTLL
ana,
liar manner as to derive the full n.ellfini 1
e-h. It will cure, when In the power of m
scrofula, salt rheum, sores, boil. iimi 1 s. h
drsnepsia, biliousness, sici headache. : ,,;
general iebllity,cataiTh,rheiimatism .Hn y 1
complaints. It overcomes that extrem? tire 1
-l.B
Purifies the Blood
"Seven years sg-. while my little boy was myj
lntheyard.be was bitten byaspkier. TLe'
euterei his blood, and sores soon broke out iVj5t
his body; they Itched terribly n1 caused him ioTet.
suffering. Several times we succeeded ia heu:i:lg th.
sores up, but In spite of all we could do t: t
soon break outagain. Finally wetried H xl .Sar.
Iarilla, and he took one bottle and one thrl of .
other. hen the sores disappeared. He has not a Vx
spot on him now, and I consider him perfects
cured." Wm. H. E. Wakd, Downington, Pen a.
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I t y C. L HOOD & CO, Apothecaries, Lowell, SUs
fOO Doses One Dollar
W. L.DOUGLAS
RTTOTT.
taVO.wrJkCe UJ.1LL.UL.
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W. 1.. DOI'IILAS 1S-Z.5Q SHOE U ones
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S5
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OJWaterproolCoai
UU llitMt.
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Dandelion. Mandrake, Dock, Juniper E..r.-ir
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5? M
CMlxITY
mi
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Unl .rS sf 7
a n
liable to set in, and. sooner or later, in
dwe a fatal termination.
Dh. Tierce's Golden Medical Discct
ery acts powerfully upon the Liver, and
through that great blocxUpurifyirig organ,
cleanses the system of all blood-taints and
impurities, from whatever cause arising.
It is equally efficacious in acting upon the
Kidneys, and other excretory organs,
cleansing, strengthening, and healing their
diseases. As an appetizing, restorative
tonic, it promotes digestion and nutri
tion, thereby building up both flesh and
strength. In malarial districts, this won
derful medicine has gained great celeb
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and Fever, Dumb Ague, and kindred
diseases.
Mrs. I. V. Webber, of Yorkshire, Cattarauqyu
Co.. A. I., writes: "For five years previous to
taking 'Golden Medical Discovery and Pellet.
I was a great 6ufferer; had a severe pain in my
right 6ide continually: was unable to uo my own
work. I am now well and strong."
ence. irulent blood-poisons are. by its
use, robbed of their terrors. Especially
has it manifested its potency in curing
Tetter, Eczema, Erysipelas, Boils, Carbun
cles, ore Eyes, rkrofulous Sores and fiwcll-
intfT. Ilil.ioint Tliuiiu "WV.i.o c , 11;
Goitre, or Thick Neck, and Enlarged Glands.
. . .ivva, UJU l.UiOJgCl UliUilU.
my fancy, and seeing that it was essentially a blood-Durifier I im
mediately recommended it to the old lady Vho had K long a
sufferer from 1 saJt-rheum. She comment taking Uat once aid
took one bottle but seemed to be no better, flower 1 realSd
Wer dldf, tee to effect a change lHhe
cr.and encouraged her to continue, i-he then purchased a
IrentTriryu1.
Child's. iUrulLt
almost'cured J rhttiSm cn,tiJ'lv klt b-r, and the catarrh was
almost cured, so that it ceased to be much annoyance She ha
rSTlf"1 lrom that da- to thand has bad n
murn of either saiurheura or rheun.atism. The Discovers-
" . ... .j i.a.i.ii Nui-rut'um i rom ner svstem.
hme mVer eiShtr J"ns old, and very healthy for one of such
?VKtt? lhis 1,tter- of ,rfcich yn 0811 any us rou
rtri h SSIw wia!?.en,fferer from falt-rhcura might chance to
,T?J?J:jfnAobt.ain1rt'I'?? Ly Uirir your 'Golden Medical Discovery'
7,J ? . m ,w curtive properties, and as much above
the multitude of nostrums and sA-ealled 4patnt medicinea ' o
zeakusiy flaunted before the public, as V&iit??teba
mcuus- Respectfully yourn.
v . v heeler, 1S2 21st St.
promptly cures the severest Coughs, it
strengthens the system and purifies the
blood.
Mrs. h. XV. Rice, of Kctrfane, Vermont.
V8 I feci at liberty to acknowledge
the benefit I received from two bottles of
the Golkn Medical Discovery. which curt-d
a cough of five years' standing, and dyspep
sia, from which I Lad suffered for a" long
time. I have also used Dr. Pierce's Extract
rt CmA. irJ , TP.. .
effe." 1 " C,r' m mj
XV. R. Davis, Esq.. of Bcr.tHle, Florida..
writes: i have taken your wonderful
'Golden Medical Discovery and have been
cured cf consumption. I am now sound and
well, and have onlv spent three dollars, and
I was."
six Bottle for $5.00 fcjr Dni??ittt.
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