1
Clarence U. Crockett
Almost Blind
!lo-H Purifioflnnifiiht Restored
toy Hood's Sarsaparilla.
P.-- I -.- , tl.r.-. y,-ar u.,
'-" i "M Hi- lc-al which
i i 'i i 1 " I i',t il it yl into lr eyt-s a t)'l
' ' ' ' '" ' ' ''I ' I W- d-d cerWhiiiK
I - -I :: ' il !l th- n It III e of a
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I H 1 ' ' I i i 1 II i vm r : ik m;iM ,jf
WoiiM Lcto Hi3 Eyesight.
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'I ' ! ' I ' i ! !!." H c,k hi?
. i i ' i"i,. . In ;i -hurt lirtif th
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hi. I- I-. u n-." Ii
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Ii Hi
Triti
-l-M-ln
I A Sort of rasters.
j. Tit- T im- of lii.liunro thoclmmpion
jfi'i'M r li.-timeo, do-without-
if I f-t ..I tin world. Flints of from
1 1 ' ' t 1 1 v iIiivk nro very common
le - ii" 1 1 1 is rtirjdtm Hi'ct, Hii'l (men
; m :t it "j ii'Iiutu" foiiK'H forward
J I in i. it iI.c-m tli.i 'ypui'l fust" -n
l of hi nt v Ii v) (lays, during
vi, h 1 1 :i. tut ullnwH nothing but
v ! ii u;,i.r his lij.s. When
i ' - ' i-i "ii lu'L'iiii, tlic 1'nwter will
miv it t.i th- iTfM-rilif.l limit or lio"
J in i h- ntt. tn,t. In cm nms contract
ft .t!'! ft:irtliii( fcttt is the religious
. i ,n .i,t t i ,,f the South Sea IhI
f " n i -, w Ihtc 11n c(iiuitt itors aotna!
t In inclviK like barrels with
1 1"! - m i l'' of ;rss nnd lmrk to keep
I (ii I in-.-1 in.'; through overfieding.
St. Lkhii Kcjmlilic.
i I'l.ii.v, in th" lii-t c-ntnrv, wns the
l.i t mi.; t i il-S'T iin Dm tliilliiotid.
i Sh I lnh'M 'h rr
i I "' I "'i 1 : i I 1 1 tin s Inclp'ent Pon-
f .r I. ..ii. it : i tit- !l-,t ..n:h 'arc; A.. !jOc, $
.i - .-, i,. :ii l'i i i ' ,Mi'".-i.nicr- will
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KNOWLEDGE
Tring comfort and ImprovcTnent and
teivis tn personal enjoyment whea
rif;!ulv iiM-d. The ninny, who live bet-ti-r
than o;hr-rs and enjoy life more, with
less expfiiditiiM, by more promptly
B'lnitin the world's bci product to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
Ismtive principles embraced In the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
i excellence is due to Us presenting
in the form r.ioft acceptable and pleas
nit to the taste, tho refreshing and truly
benefit i.:l properties of a perfect lax
ative; effect unlly cleancir.g the system,
diipelHnu colds, heiuhuhes and fevers
sti'l peritiiinently curing constipation.
It has jtivrn satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
r.eyn. Liver and Uowels without weak
er.ing them and it is jerfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs U for sale by all drag
pints iii Me nml ! bottles, but it is man
ufi tured by the California Fig Syrup
t'. iMtly, whose name is printed on every
I s i-k:t ,, alo the nsme, Syrup of Figs,
siid l itig well informed, vou will cot
accept an? eulmtitute if ctlarcd.
Treated free.
rmin..i7 rrssn
with Tntatl
niptotr:i. f ('i.11v 'tisitr
book . ; -s free.
TIN DAYS T6f ATfrUWT FURMISKEO FR'.E h mail
VI- II. 11 l hl.lt .IM1V. pik.ullM. Atlanta. ti-
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' ScllraSight.
: LOVELL DIM,I0IID CYCLES.
LATEST IMPROVEMENTS, LIGHTEST YJEIGHTS.
11 r stnkr our buslitcts reputation of over fifty years that there
mi Ix itcr u-hrel mniJr n the world than the LO KLL. IHA3IOMK
AGENTS
V lU Ti.l l KVEKV RESPECT. IHCYCI.E CATAMHUE rKIE.
We have a few Ivovs' and cirK bicycles which we will close out at O 4 5.75
&affttia,!!
JOHN P. LOVELL ARMS
I' i o i it i ii
Beefsteak Under Its Aliases.
Au amiable mombcr of tha Travel
ers' Club la this oity, who possesses a
minuto ktiowlelo of foreign places,
is froqaentlj oonnulted hy frien-.ls con
torapUtia a European tour. Ha
brings forth hia neatjy kept notes of
travel and gives valuable pointers eon
corning routes, hotels, cafes, etc. Just
now ho is beset with inquiries about
Antwerp by intending visitors to its
Exposition. To one of these he im
parted this hiut: "In patronising tho
cafea, which, in various ways solicit
tho custom of Englu-h and Americans,
notice the Bpclliua; of tho word "lcef
steak" on tha outdoor signs, or bills
of faro, and bo governed accordingly.
If you prefer French cookery, seek
out restaurants whero it is spelled
biftek' or 'bifstik.' But if you wish
to try a purely Flemish cuisine,
look at the.so various ways of npelling
the word, which I copied literally from
signs and menus during my stay in
that city: 'Boefwdec 'IwaufMteake,'
'benvoateik,' 'biefsteck,' 'bafestecke,'
Mieov-8tohk 'bifTstoako,' and 'bceafe
utoeacke." " I'hiladtdphin 1'ecord.
There t'llk of recoiisl rnctm . tho
old Stiitcln use u I'c'ici m Hill, Ijij,
ton. 'JTie srheni'! incLt-i w : t Ii luu-h :'.p-
provsl in that city.
A KENTUCKY MIRACLE.
Jl DfiE JOHN M. It ICE TEI.I.S H0
HE WAS f I'KEO itV KIIEC.
C rippled lor ii Yearn Wih KrUtira. la
ll War.t Farm. He Expertetl I
nir, I! nr Win Snrtl In a
Marvt-laaa Mmtnrr.
(Fro-nth Coninjt-m, A'., ''.)
ThT Hon. Jjin 51. Ilhie, of Lailisa, LlT
rii County, K mtu ;';v, hn for tin put
tw. yfiri r-tlnl from n"tiv llf a Cri n
i.i il :in I Cir-tiit .In 1 of tn Si.vt j uVi Ja-ilt-hil
Dis!rit of K vitu '-.
II'i has for rainy ynrs srvel hii nitivj
eon n(y ,-ui I sl:iti in tho In.lslV.sr it Fr ink
fort anl nt Wis'iin jton, ail, until hts rs
tirtcnent, wns ;i not'l ftifuns In politl nl an 1
.In li-ltil .!in:les. Th Ju Is w -n km va
thr iuhoiit th" st ite an 1 pt flu Im
qmlili 'S w:ii.-!i o t i rn ik a K-mi'i ;!,- g m
tleman honor.; 1 wli-rev r he is known.
Ahout six year? a,'- th- ho lily tronMei
whi-h finally eius d his r-tir-m ;nt a! a tim j
wlien liis m -nt-il fa tilties w-r s in tin 7.nit:i
oT tli-ir str'-uth. Ii"in th-ir en-ro p.-lm -nt
iipiii his n itiii.illy strcn - eons'.iln'ion. A
few ttays n,-o a Kntu ;ky !'.' r-porter
called lij.oa Ju li; Kipe, w;,0 jn tf,,. f,jllT.
ini; wor.ls rel ile.I the history of t ie e.ms-M
that led to his relir.'inent ''It is just ahont
six y.'ars sin.'n h i an att i-k of rheuma
tism, slight nt first, but soon tlev 'lopint; into
Seiatic rheum-uisni, whieli li-aii Ilrsi with
acute shooting pains in th hipo, Kra-lu illy
xleielin down war I to my fvt.
"My eon lition t.ee,i n s ) ha 1 that I evon
t u illy lost all power of my l's. nn 1 th ;u I ho
liver, kidneys and Madder au I. in fnet, my
whole system hee.-f no derantj'.l. I tried tin
treatment nf many physi-iaus. hut receiving
no last ini; henellt from them. had recoups-?
to patent remedies, trying one kind after an
other until f helievo there w-re noun I had
not sampled.
'tn 1HS. nttended l.y my sou John. I w -nt
to Hot Spnnj,'". Ark. X was not mii"ii bene
fited l.y some months' stay there when t re
turned home. 5y liver was a-tnally tlead.
and a dull, j ersistent p iiu in its region kept
me on the rack all the time. In ISIK) I was
reappointed Circuit Judi;e. Imt it was impos
sible for ine to ive attention tn my duties.
In 1S91 I went to the Silurian Springs. Wake
shaw. Wis. I stayed there S'cne time, but
with'iut improvement.
"Airnin I returned home, ttifs time feelin-;
no hopes of recovery. The muscles of my
liml'S were now rduced by atrophy to mere
strings. Sciatic pains torture I !:! terribly.
nt it was the disordered condition of tiiy
liverthat was, I felt. Kradu.illy wearing my
life away, lloclors gave me up. all kinds of
remedies had been tried w.thout avail, tin I
I there was nothing more for me to do but re
sign myself to ftile.
"I lingered on in this condition sustain-.!
nltnost entirely by stimulants until April.
1H9.1. One tlay John saw an account of r.
Williams Pink Pills for Tale People in the
Kentucky 'out. This w.ts something new.
nnd as one-more dru after so many others
could not do so much harm. John prevailed
upon me to try the Fink Pills. It was, I
think, in the tlrst week in May the pills ar
rived. I remember I was not expected to
live for more than three or four days nt the
time. The effect of the Pills, however, was
marvelous, nnd I could soon eat heartily, a
thing I had not done for years. The liver
begun almost instantaneously to perform its
funetious. and lias tlmio so ever since.
Without doulit, the pills saved my life, and,
while I do not crave notoriety, i cannot re
fuse to testify to their worth."
The reporter called upon 5Ir. Hughes, tho
Louisa druggist, who informed him that I'r.
Williams' Fink Fills have been very popular
since Judge Jtice us -d them with sucii bene
fit. He mentioned several who havj fouu I
relief in their use.
An analysis of Fr. Williams' Fink Fills for
rale People shows that they contain, in a
condensed form, all the elements necessary
to give new life and richness ti the blood and
restore shattered nerves. They :m an un
failing specific for such diseases us lo-oaio-tor
ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus dance,
sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous
headache, the after effects ot la gripp , p il
pitation of tho heart, pale an I sallow com
plexions, all forms ol weakn-ss either in male
or female, and all diseases resulting fro.n
vitiated humors in tho Moo I. Ir. Williams'
Fink Fills are sold by all dealers, or will bo
hent, post paid, on receipt if pit- ( .0 cents
a box, or ti boxes for f -?.5tl -they are newt
Fold in bulk or by the 1001. by addrcssiug
lr. Williums' Sledicine Co., Schenectady,
N. V.
Tn announcing the .lent'i of the late
Chief Justice Stone, of Alabama, (S.v
i rnor Jones said of him : "No greater
nr purer man ever lived or died in
Alabama, and none whot death was a
greater calamity."
Boot-', which reached almost to the
knee, were made in Athens in the time
of Socrates. One Hinvm was tho
fashionable shoe ant boot-maker of
thnt day,
rquals cti-lom work, costing fiom
ti to y, nrsi Tame i"t .- . 7
T thr world. Name and price
-WQX V,mprd,.!5 "CT 5
MCaMSSjk. lull". See lo,t Pipers for full
rhil ul "IL. descriplion rff our complete
B(VUnft'ifhrt' for Udie and pe...
-bw llemen or eno lor ii-
e
struclions
how to or.
. r. -x-a,. r.n r-rt the bea
sernmaii. r".".. - - 0
bargains of dealer who push our shoes.
WANTED.
l.adief Liaht KenffVr. Wt.Wltf.
CO., BOSTON, MASS.
REV. DR. TALMAGE
rilE ER00KLTN DIVINE'S BVh
DAT ERM0N.
Text : One ft heration passfh awsv. an 1
hnother generation eoinetb" Ecclesiastiss
According to the longevity of popte In
their particular century has a genratlonteen
called 100 year", or fifty years, or thirty
years. Kyeoromon consent in our nineteenth
century a generation is flxej at twentv-flre
yea r.
The largest proeess:on that ever motel in
the procession of year, an 1 the jrreateat
srmy that ever marched Is th army of gene
rations. In each (feneration there are about
nine full leglments of days. Thes 9125 days
in each (feneration march with wonderful
precision. They nvir break ranks. They
never ground arms. Tbey ne-r pitch tents.
They never halt. Thv are never off on fur.
lougK They came out of the eternity past,
end they move on towar 1 the eternity future.
They cross rivers without any bridge or boats.
The 600 imrr.ortals or the Crimea dashing Int.
them emise no confusion. They move ns
rapidly at midnight ns at mldnoon. Their
haversacks are full of gco 1 bread and bitter
stoec, c'usters of richest vintage and bottles
of agonizing tears. With a regular treat
that noorderor "double quick" ern hasten or
o'istaele can slacken, their traanp Is on and
on and on an I on wMle mountains crumble
mi ' pyramids die. "One generation pisseth,
en t another generation coTieth.
'ili is Is my twentv-Tfth annlvrsiry s-r
rr..ti--ia1 ,nis?4 Tt is twenty-five year
suiee I su-nel tlis Brooktya pistorV.e. A
wiiolegener ition has pished. ThrMgeners
tions wi have fcnowu that which prcelel
enr own. that which is now at the front, an I
t he out coming on. We are at the ho'-ls of
our predecessors, Bn i our successors are at
cur he!. What a generation tt was that
,T":;'d I ns ! We who are now in the front
regiment are the only ones eo-nprHent to tell
the n-w generation jmt now coming In sight
wl'o our predecessors were. Biography can
not tell it. Autobiography cannot tell It.
l'io?raphles are generally written by special
friends of the departed perhaps by wife or
son or daughter and they only tell the goo 1
things. 'J'he biographers of one ot the tint
Presidents of the Unite I Slates make no ree
or I of the Fresi lent's account hooks, now in
the archives at the Capitol, which I hav
seen, telling how much he lost or galuel
daily at the gamingtable. The biographers
of on- of the early Secretaries of the Unite I
HlHfes never described the scene that day
witnessed wheu the Secretary was carried
dea l drunk from the State apirtments to his
own home. Autobiography is written by the
man himself, and no one would record for
future times his own weaknesses nnd moral
deficits. Those who keep diaries put down
only thingsthat read well. No man or wo
man that ever lived would dare to make full
record of all the thoughts and words of a
lifetime. We who saw and heard much of
the generation marching just ahead of
us are far more able than any book
to describe accurately to our successors who
our predecessors were. Very much like our
selves, thank you. Human nature In them
very much like human nature In us. At our
time of life they were very rau,!i like we now
are. At the time th-y were in their teens
they were very mu-'h like 3-ou are in your
teens, and at the time they were In their
twenties they were very mush like you are
in your twenties. Human nature got an aw
ful twist under a fruit tree in Eden, and
though the grace of God does much to
strighteu things every new generation has
the same twist, ant the eitne work of
straightening out has to be done over again
A mother in the country disttlcts, expect
ing the neighbors at her table on some gala
night, had with her own hands arranged ev
erything in taste, and ns she w is about to
turn fro n It to r;ceive her guests saw her
little child by accident upset a pitcher all
over the white cloth Bud soil everything, and
the mother lifted her hand to slnp the child,
but she suddenly remembered the time when
a little chil l herself, in her father's house,
where they had always before been used to
can lies, on the purchise of a lamp, which
was a matter of rarity anl pride, she took it
lu her han Is and dropped it. crashing into
pieces, and looking up In her father's face,
expecting chastisement, heard only tht
words, ''It is a sad loss, but never mind ,
you did not m"an to do It."
History repeat itself. Generations
wonderfully alike. Among that generation
that is past, as in our own, and as it will be
in the generation following us, those who
succeeded became the target, shot nt by
those who did not succeed. In those times,
ns in ours, a man's bitterest ene:nies were
those whom he had befriende 1 and helped.
Hates, jealousies an 1 revenges were just as
lively In 18K9 as in 1S9I. Hypocrisy sntmed
and looked solemn then as now. There was
just as much avarice among the apple bar
rels as now among the cotton bales an l
among the wheelbarrows as nraon'r the
locomotives. The tallow candles saw the
same sins that are now found under th.j
electric lights. Homespun was just as
prou 1 ns is the molern fashion plate.
Twenty-five years -yea. twenty-.! ve jenturies
have not change 1 hum in nature a particle.
I say I his for the encouragement of thos
who think that our times moaopollze all the
abominations of the ages.
One minute after A l:ni got. outside of
paradise he was just like you, O man ! On
step after Eve left the gat s le was Just like
you. O woman ! All the faults nu j vices art
many times centenarians. Yea, the cities
Sodom, Gomorrah. Pompeii. H-p-ulan-Mm.
Itelmpoils anl uu-eul M imp in w;n ns
much worse than ourmoleru cities as you
might expect from the fact that the modem
cities have somewhat yielded to the re
straints ot Christianity, while thoie ancient
cities were not llmite 1 in their abomina
tions. Yea, that generation which passe 1 off with
in the last twenty-live years had their be
reavements, their temptations, their strug
gles, their dis ippiintments. their successes,
their failures, their gladnesses and their
griefs, like thesi two generations now in
sight, that in advance an 1 that following,
lint the twenty-five years letwen 1S69 an I
1S94 how much they saw ! How much they
discovered! How much they felt! Within
that time have been performed the miracles
of the telephone and the phonograph. From
the observatories other worlds have been
seen to heave in sight. Six Presidents ot
the United States have beeu inaugurated.
Transatlantic voyage abbreviate I from ten
days to 5.,s'. Chicago and New York, once
three days apart, now only twenty-our
hours by the vestibule limited. Two addi
tional railroads have been built tothePa.jiflj.
France has passed from monarchy to repub
licanism. Many of the cities have nearly
doubled their population. During that
generation the chief surviving hero-js of the
Civil War have gone int j the encampment of
the grave. The chief physicians, attorneys,
orators, merchants, have pxssedoff theeirtti
or are iu retirement waltlnx for transition.
Other men in editorial chairs, tn pulpits, iu
Oovernors' mansions. In legislative. Sena
torial and Congressional halls.
There are not ten men or wo;nen on earth
now prominent who were promtnent twenty
five years ago. The crew of this old ship ot
a world i all change I. Others at the helm.
others on the ''lookout,' others climbing the
ratlines. Time Is a doctor who, with potent
nnodyne. has put an entire generation Into
sound sleep. Time, like another Cromwell,
has roughly prorogued parliament, and with
ieonoelasm driven nearly all the rulers ex
cept one oueen from their high places. So
far as I observed that generation, for the
most part they did their best. Ghastly ex
ceptions, but so far as I knew them they did
Unite well, and many of them gloriously
well. They were born nt the right time,
an l they died at the right tim. They left
tho world better than they found it. We are
Indebted to them for the fact that they pre-
fared the way for our coming. Eighteen
uindred nnd ninety-four reverently nn I
gratefully salutes lft9. -One generation
passeth away, and another generation
cometh.''
There are fathers and mothers here whom
I baptized iu their infancy. There is not
one p T5on lu this church's board of sessiou
or trustees who w is here when I cane. Her
an 1 there in this vist assembly Is one person
who heard my opening sermon in Brooklrn.
I nt not jnore" than oue person in every 590
now preseut. Of the seventeen p?rsons who
g ivi me a tinanim-nis call when I came, oaly
lbre. f IHieve, -u- livin-.
T.iit this sermon is not a dirge. It is an
anthem. While this world Is appropriate as
a temporary stay, as an eternal residence It
woul l le a d-a 1 failure. It would be a
dreadful sentence if our rae were doomed
to remain here a thousand winters and a
thousand simmers. Go 1 ke-ps us here just
long enou ::i to give us an appetite for
heaven. Ha l w been born in celestial
realms we would not be able to appreciate
the b'iss. It needs a pool many rough blasts
in this world to qualify ns to properly esti
mate the superb climate of that good" land
where it is nvr too coll or too hot. too
cloudy or too glaring. Heaven will be more
to us than to those supernal beings who were
never tempte-.l or :.ick or bereaved or tried
or disappointed. So you may well take my
text out of the minor key and set It to some
tun-; in the major key. "Ons genera
tion piss th away, and another generation
cornet h."
Nothing can ro'j us of the satisfaction that
nncounte I thousands of the generation just
past were converted, comforted ant har
vestel for heaven by this church, whether
in the present building or the three preced
ing buildings in which they worshiped. The
two great organs of the previon churches
went down in the memorable flres, bat the
multlta linous songs they led year after year
were not recalled or injured. Ther Is no
power m earth or hell to kill a halleluiah.
It is impossible to arrest a hosanna. What a
satisfaction to know that there are many
thousands in glory on whosa eternal wel-
larethts church wrought mightily! Noth
ing can undo that work. They have ascend
ed, the multitudes who serve. I Oo1 Intbat
generation. That chapter -'Is gloriously
ended. But that generation has left Its Im
pression upon this generation..
A sulor was dying on saiDboa.r.1. an 1 he
satd to his mates: ".My lads. I cm only
think of one passage of Scripture. The soul
mat sinnetn, tt snail me,- anl that keeps
ringing in my ears. 'The soul that slnnetb,
it shall die. Can't you think of somehtng
else in th Btble to cheer me np?" Well,
sailors are kin 1, an 1 th-y trie I to think of
some other passage of Scripture with which
to console their dying comrade, but they
eould not. One of them 6ld: "Let ns call
up the cabin boy. His mother was a Chris
tian, and I gns he has a Bible." The cabin
boy was called np, an-)rvthe dying sailor
asked him if he had a Bible. He said "Yes."
but hecould not exactly and it, and the dy
ing sailor scolde 1 him an I said, "A'n't you
ashamed of yourself notto read your Bible?''
Bo the boy explore! tne bottom of bis trunk
and brought out the Bible, and his mother
had marked a passage that just fitted the
dying sailor's cas, "The blool of Jesus
Christ, Hi9 Sod, eleinsith frou all sin."
That helped the sailor to die in peace. 8o
one generation helps another, anl goo 1
things written or said or done are repro
duce! long alterwar.!.
During the passing of the last generation
some peculiar events have unfolded. One
lav while resting at Slnrjn Springs, N. Y..
I think it w-is in 1S70. the year after my set
tlement in Brooklyn, and while w.ilking in
the park of that pla-e, I found myself asking
the question : ''I wonder if there is any
special mission for me to execute iu this
world.' If there Is. may Go 1 show It to me!
There soon came upon me a great desire to
preach the gop-l through the secular print
ing press. I realize I that the vast maiority
of people, ev.jn in Chr'stlin lands, never
enter a church, an 1 that it woul I b-s an op
portunity or usetuiness mtinite it that door
of publication were op-ue '.
And so 1 recorded that prayer in a blank
book and offered the prayer day In. anl dsy
out until the answer e-ime, though In a way
different from that which I had expected,
for it came through the misrepresentation
and persecution of enemies, anl I have to
record It for the encouragement of atl minis
ters of the gospel who are misrepresented.
that if the misrepresentation bj virulent
enough and bitter enough and continuous
enough there is nothing that so widens ons's
field of usefulness as hostile attack, if you
are really doing the Lord's work. The
bigger the lie told about me. the big
ger the demand to sea and hear what I really
was doing. From one stage of sermonic
publication to auother the work has gone on
until week by week, and for twenty-three
years, I have had tl-o world for my nu Hence,
as no man ever had. an 1 to-day more so
than at any other time. The syndicates In
form me thnt my sermons go now to about
25.090,000 of people in all lands. I mention
this not in vain boast, but as a testimony to
the fact that Go I answers prayer. Woull
Go 1 1 had belter occupied the field an 1 been
more consecrated to the work! May God
forgive me for lack of service in the past and
double and quadruple an 1 quintuple my
work in future.
In this my quarter century sermon I re-
eord the fact that side by side with tne pro
cession of blessings have gone a procession
of disasters. I am preaching to-day in the
rourtn church building since! began work in
this city. My first sermon was in the old
church on Schermerhorn street to an au II
ence chiefly of empty seats, for the church
was almost extinguished. 1 hat church filled
and overflowing, we built a larger church,
which after two or three years disappeared
in flame. Then we built another church,
which also In a line of fiery succession dis
appeared In the same way. Then we put nn
this building, and may it stan 1 for many
?-ears, a fortress of righteousness and a
Ighthouse for the stor.n tossal, its gates
crowded with vast assemblages long after we
have ceased to frequent them !
We have raised in this church over tl.-
030,000 for church charitable purposes dur
ing the present pastorate, while we have
given, free of all expense, the gospel to hun
dreds ot thousands of strangers, year by
year. I record with gratitude to God that
during this generation of twenty-flva years I
remember but two Sabbaths that I have
missed service through anything like physical
indispositious. Almost a fanatic on the sub
ject of physical ex-reise, I have male the
parks with whie'i our city is blessed the
means of goo 1 physical eon lit iou. A daily
walk and run In the op-Mi nir havj kept me
ready for work and iu goo I humor with all
the world. I say to all youu; ministers of
thegospol.it is easier to keep goo I ha lit h
than to regain it wlieu once lost. The reason
so many goo I nieu think the worl 1 is going
to ruin is because their own physical con
dition Is on the down grade. No man ought
to preach who has a diseased liver or an en
larged spleen. There are two things ahead
of us that ought to keep ns cheerful in our
work heaven and the millennium.
And now, having come up to the twenty
filth milestone in my pastorate, I wonder
how many more miles I am to travel? Youc
company has beeu exceedingly pleasint. O
my dear people, and I would like to marc'i
by your side until thegeneratlon with whom
we are now moving abreast and step to step
shall have stacked arms after the last battle.
But the Lord knows best, an 1 we ought to
be willing to stay or go.
Most ofyou are aware that I propose at
this time, between the close of my twenty
fifth year of pastorate and before the begin
ning of my twenty-sixth year, to be absent
for a few months in order to take a journey
around the world. I expect to sail from 8au
Francisco in the steamer Alameda May 31.
My place hereon Sabbaths will be fully oc
cupied, while on Mondays and every Monday
I will continue to speak through the printing
press in this and other lauds ns hereto'ore.
Why do I go? To make pastoral visitation
among people 1 have never seen, but to .
whom I have been permitted a long while to
administer. I want to see them iu their own
cities, towns nnd neighborhoods. I want to
know what are their prosperities, what their
adversities and what their opportunities, nnd
so enlarge my work and get more adapted-
ness. Why do I go? For edueatiomil pur
poses. I want to freshen my mind and heart
by new scenes, new face", new manners an 1
customs. I want better to understand what
are the wrongs to tie righted nn I the waste
places to bo reclaimed. I will put all I learn
in sermons to be preached to you when I re
turn. I want to see the SanJwie'a Islands,
not so much in the light of mo lern politics
as in tho light of the gospel or Jesus Christ
which has transformed them, and Samoa
nnd those vast realms ot New Zealand, and
Australia and Ceylon an I India. I want to
see what Christianity has accomplished. I
want to see how the missionaries have been
lied about as living in luxury and idleness.
I want to know whether the heathen re
ligions are really as tolerable and as com
mendable as they were represented by their
adherents in the parliament of religions at
Chicago. I want to see whether Moham
medanism and Buddhism would be goo t
things for transplantation in America, as it
has agaiu and again been argued. I want
to bear the Brahmans pray. I want to test
whether the Pacific Ocean treats Its guests
any better than does the Atlantic. I want la
see the wondrom architecture of India, an I
the Delhi and Cawnpore where Christ was
crucified in the massacre of His molern dis
ciples, au 1 the disabled Juggernaut un
wheeled by Christianity, and to sea If the
Taj which the Lmperor 8ha Jehan built in
honor of his empress rjnlly means any more
than tho plain slab we put above our dear
departed. I want to see the llelds where
Havelock and Sir Colin Campbell won the
day agRinst the sepoys. I want to see th
world from all sMc-. liowmqchofit is iu
darkness, how much of It is in tight, what
the Bible means by the "ends of the earth,
and get myself ready to appreciate the ex
lent of the present to be ma w to Christ as
spoken of in the Psalms, "Ask of me, and I
shall give thee the heathen for thine inheri
tance and the uttermost parts of the earth
for tby possession." and so I shall be ready
to celebrate in heaven the victories of Christ
in more rapturous song than I could hav-j
rendered had I never seen the neatnen
abominations before thev were conquered.
And so I hope to come hack refreshed, re
enforced aid better equipped, and to do in
ten vears more effectual work than I have
done tn the last twenty-five.
And now. in this twenty-fifth anniversary
sermon. I propose to do two things first, ti
put a garland n the grave of the genera
tion that has just passed off and then to put
a palm branch In the hand of the generation
just now coming on the field of action, for
my text is tru", "(.'n generation passeii
away, and another generation cometh." Ob,
how many we revered and honored and love 1
in the last generation that quit the earth!
Tears fell at the time of their going, ant
dirges were soun led. an d signals of mourn -inir
were put on. but neither tears nor dirge
nor somber veil told the half we felt. Their
coins; left a vacancy in our souls that has
never been filled up. We never get used to
their aWnce. There are times when the
sight of something with which they were as
sociated a picture, or a book, or a garmenf.
or a staff breaks us down with emotion, but
we bear it simply because we have to bear it
Ob, how snow white their hair got. and how
the wrinkles mnltinliel. and the sight grew
more dim, and the hearing less alert, and the
steD'taa' SraiJ. Wj LQ'Je day they were goae
ouToTthe cdiair'bytne'Br'sSiae, Chi from tne
plate at the meat, and from tne end or tne
church pew, where they worshiped with us.
Oh. my soul, how we miss them Bat let us
console each other with the thought that w
shall meet them again in the land of salnata-
lion and reunion.
And now I twist a garland for that de
parted generation. It need not be costly,
perhaps, just a handful of clover blossoms
from the field through which they used to
walk, or as many violets as yon could hold
between the thumb anl tDe lorennger,
plucked out of the garden where they use t
lo walk In the cool of the day. F-it theseold
lashioned flowers right down over the heart
that never again will ache and the feet that
will never again be weary, an 1 the arm that
has forever ceased to toil. Teace, father!
Peace, mother ! Everlasting peace ! All that
for the generation gone.
But what shall wc do with the p ilin
branch? That we will put la the hand of the
generation coming on. Yours is to be the
generation for victories. The last and th-
nreaent feneration hava beeu DTfeetlnir th I
steam power, and the ele-tric. light, anl th-)
electric forces. To thes i will be a ided trans
portation. It will be your mission to use
all these forces. Everything is ready for you
to march right up and take this world for
God and heaven. Get your heart right by
repentance and the parioning grace of the
Lord Jesus, and your min 1 right by elevat
ing books and pictures, and your body right
by gymnasium and field exercise, ant
plenty of ozone and by looking as often as
you can upon the faci of mountain ant of
sea. Then start '. In God's name, start ! An I
here is the palm brano'j. From conquest to
conquest, move right on an 1 right up. Yo-i
wilt soon have the whole field for your
self. Before another twenty-ftve years have
gone, we will be out of the pu pits, anl tne
offices, and the stTes, and tho factories, an t
the benevolent iuUitutious. anl yo-.i will
be at the front. Forward into the battle ! If
God be for you, who can be against you'
'He that spared not mis own son, nut uenv
ered Htm up for us all. how shall H noi
with Him also freely give us all things? "
And, as for us who are now at the front,
having put the garland on the grave of th-
last generation, anl having put the palm
branch In the band of the coming genera
tion, we will cheer each other in the remain
ing onsets and go into the shining gate
somewhere about the same time, an 1 greete I
by the generation that has preceded us we
will have to wait only a little" while to greet
the generation that will come after ns. Anl
will notthat be glorious? Three generations
in heaven together the grandfather, the
son and the grandson .the grandmother, the
daughter and the gran Man ghter. Au I so
with wider range anl keener faculty we
shall realize the full stgnllWuec of the text.
"One generation tiasseth away, anl another
generation cometh."
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Ai-ns G. Thcbmas is eighty years old.
Mas. U. 8. GnAST has nn annual-Income
of 24,000.
The Astor family is going in extensively
for literary pursuits.
Mas. Georoe W. Chilps will make her per
manent home in Washington.
The composer of "Nellie Gray," James It,
raine, is now Professor of Music at Harvard.
Senator Calvin S. Price, of Ohio, wears
out a watch chain in about two years by con
stantly fingering it.
James A. Garfieli. a nephew of the lnt
President Garfield, has been elected a jus
tice of the peace for Jamestown, Mich.
A Wobld's Fair souvenir quarter, inclosed
in a silver case, has been sent to the Queen
Regent of Spain by Mrs. Totter Talmer.
The late General Slocum's fortune is esti
mated at fl.000,000. He was at his death tho
richest of all the generals of the late war.
Pbesident Harris, of the Maine State Col
lege, is said to be the youngest college presi
dent In the country, being only thirty years
of age.
The betrothal of tho Czarowitz and Prin
cess Alix of Hess is regarded la Germany a
a voucher for Germany's friendship for
Bussia.
John Jacob Astor has written a novel In
which ho glorifies electricity as the control
ling force in the world at the closo of the
twentieth century.
Rev. H. Welleblev Welpev, who has been
appointed by Queen Victoria tutor and gov
ernor tn the Duke of Albany, is a lineal de
scendant of John Wesley.
Eight years ago President Cleveland's
wealth amounted perhaps to $50,000. Now
his property, as estimated by the assessors
books of New York, will amount to over a
quarter of a million.
In a letter, inclosing a contribution, to
President Black, of the Association of Demo
cratic Clubs. President Cleveland says all
members of the party 6hould labor to save it
from the disgrace of failure to redeem its
pledges.
Rev. Frank De Witt Talmaoe. a son of
Dr. Talmage, of Brooklyn, recently preached
his farewell sermon as pastor of the Olivet
Presbyterian Church. Philadelphia. He has
accepted a call to the pastorate ot the Second
Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg, Pena.
The new British Premier has much youth
ful freshness of feeling and manners. When
walking out, hand in hand with two of his
children, he seems more, it is satd. like a
lively elder brother of the two youngsters
than the great political head of England.
The oldest veteran of the Civil War now
living is said to be Rudolph Kelker, who wis
born December 1. 1803, and enlisted .'at
Pittsburg, in August, 18A1, as Quartermaster
Sergeant in Compnny M, Fifth Regiment ot
Pennsylvania Volunteers. Hn Is living in
Evans City, Butler County, Penn.
Jcdoe White, Mr. Cleveland's newly ap
pointed Judge of the United States Supreme
Court, will lie forty-nine years' ot age in
November. He is the youngest Judge in
that' tribunal. Chief Justice M. W. Fuller
is sixty-one, Judge Harlan is sixty-one.
Judge Gray is sixty-six. Judge Brewer is
fifty-seven. Judge Brown is fifty-eight,
Judge Shiras is sixty-two, Judge Jackson is
sixtv-two. and Judge Field is seventr-eight.
THE LABOR WORLD.
Vienna, Austria, has 100,000 idle.
I Bookbinpebs have thirty-two union.
Pocth Africa is to manufacture cotton.
Minneapolis, Minn., has a labor temple.
France has twenty-nine labor exchanges.
Chicaoo bricklayers get fifty cents an hour.
Ton pon Trades Council has 200,000 mem
bers. t Losro rays municipal workers union
wages.
Fall River, Mass., hasn't a non-union
spinner.
Battle Cbeek, Micb., is to have a labor
temple.
QrEENSLANO laborers say the Japanese
must go.
Uncle Sam hasn't a non-union window
glass worker.
Strasbcbo (Germany) bricklayers get
H.15aweek.
Toroxto. Canada, has a Sisterhood of
Bookbinders.
The great strike of coal miners was ex
psctel to affect 3000 mines and over a
quarter or a million employes.
Nearlt 150,000 miners In States east of the
Mississippi obeyed the order of the United
Mins Workers to suspen I work.
Jcdoe Dudley, of Omaha, Neb., dlrectel
the receivers of tha Union Pacific, to restore
the salaries of the employes of the road to
their for.ner figures.
Locomotive engineers, firemen, car con
ductors, brakemen, trainmen and other rail
way emploves have established a Brother
loo 1 Lyceum in Boston.
Ove of the big soap factories near th.
Cortlau-H street ferrv. New York, employs a
larg- number of Syrians, who dweil close
by in that little Oriental corner of the city.
Hats an 1 caps of verv light an 1 fin wir
cloth are a novelty jut introduced. They
are intended for railroad employes or others
who wear uniforms. Others are made wltn
light wire frames tin 1 canvas covers. .
Miss Lena Sctteb, a shop-girt of New
York City, who supportel her mother and
family on 6 a week, was so overjoyed at the
raising of her salarv recently to I7.M a week.
that she became delirious anl died two days
later.
BrrrALO (S. T.) grain shovelers won a
strike for last year s scale. 1 4 per 1000 bushels
on sailing vtssels. $4.50 for steamers anl
51.23 for trimming canal boots. Italians
were tried without su-wess. The nnion has
t6700 in Its treasury.
The unemployed ot Indianapolis, Ind.,
who had been supported at the public ex
pense ali winter, an 1 who refused to shovel
snow, break eton-s. or do anything else tul
draw their rations, are now demanding to
know why the work, which was promised
them In the spring, is not forthcoming.
Thk sweat shops of New York have learns 1
a new wrinkle In the method of manufactur
ing cheap goods. They take on girls- "to
lenrn the business," charging them foe the
privilege, and binding tbem to a term of
service. nen ineir Term is np rney are ais
eharged to make their way for more learners,
bnt the product ot their labor la sold all the
lame. The busuM gives proms on Wtn
tides, -.-
BILL jVRPS LETTER.
HE REGALES HIS READERS WITH
MORE BIO FISH STORIES.
Reluctantly He Will Soon Tear Him
self Away from Florida.
Eleven men in bncsmtn ttiiU ! T)jes ti f
low that evrry man wt h an ol'-aninoits corpiv
ros ty iw givm to aee ng double and treble like
Jack Faletaff? Dr. Hunter Cooper, of At'anta,
ctme here he othirdav with bi friend. Mur
phy Csndler. Ibey have been fisVn all ov r
toe state ami w, nud np at t leai water. H er
came from St. Petcml nrg last and tbe d ctoir
laimed ns about the ho. r. tie wn h H at he
h-lpid tora'ch Ibe-e at the nd c.f tbevliarf.
tot excited with his narrative as he to'd
how, whin themcmstir was leokcd. tha alami
wis given and ev, ry mm and bov in town ran
Joan to see, and after ibe right run n had txn-
led rip and 1k chain all over it, it took ev-
ry able-bodied man m town lourawit to mi re.
It actually weight d, raid le. "i.ver 5-tO
(Xiundu and its i was the most veeomous
w apon I ev. r beheld. It had len broken ff
fi tor two, but wl' wn left measured five
feet and eicht inches-" '"Oh. nieicv." said my
wife, "iseut, it as f til. Girls, you must Dot to
n bathing any more. Every day aoin.bo.ly
wonld tell about thes- awful' rrea'tnrtS d. vi'l
fidi and t barks and stingarrci and r-aan.-h.
it is a wonder tbey have not g it some of us be
fore now."
Dr. Corner is a fl st class rrn'l man anl
came from go d old liaptn-t Block. He atamb
nin in liis prcI"SMon auil in l is Uc iing. and
a nands me and he knows r, but I not c d Hint
very lime lie told a big atn l-.e appeal d to
Murphy for cci-firiimtion. 'lWit it s-
.liurpb? l..u raw that lieu. I k-Ige yon my
woid it was the bigcest monsler I ever laid mv
yes on." ' Slurph" simply nodded ai-scnt as
lie di e or branched (.ff on aeotber innst v.
Mur by is a Pn sbyterian and bis emeu I m -
ion in the Acnes tVctt metilu'e is tver le-
fuie bun lut still bo w. ul l not u" bark
on h s 111- nds, ivjiecially a hen star awjy ftoru
nome. tie n c'.ioiiktrly calls Hie doeb r
Hunt, and the dt.ctor c lis liini 'Mnipb,"
end they coimidc on everytbirg, ixctpt that
Murpb say Hunt pin js too nuieli r quel with
lie pietly gu U along Hie route, and .-omctiincs
nev rtuss a trim by it, which m verv piovoking.
And Hunt said that when prettv gtrSe pumie a
man it is very bad manners to run away from
them. My wife remarked that night af'tr we
retired that the liked tlr-in Is.ilr v ry much.
very mneb, indeed, and after a p .no idie raid
it would bj a right good law if i-verv hnnilaoii e
married man when he went far away I rem home
hctil I have to wear a ribl on on h s hat with
"fami y man" printed on it, just as a warning
to fuoludi Kirls. you know. 1 dident answer,
but snored a little as if I heard her not But
still I dident alb cethir discredit tho bawB h
story. The doctor appeal to Murphy were
only a circumstance- a badge of fraud, as the
wyerssiy. Nevertheless I was i alous of St.
Petersburg. I dident like to have Cle:ir Water
outdone in anvlhiDg rot even in monster.
n l so tbe next day I took paitienhtr notice f
he doctor as he was fishing in the p as. I
diagnosed him. He began to play the reveii
men in buckram sui's. The first repn ab o
rout be caught lie declared to le a six-ivotinder.
and tried to prove it by cur honest Swede.
Witmore. "Na, na," said Witmure, 'Mat vash
vay no more as tree pounds, but be is a v.ue
vish." Dr. Cooper quarreled biro out of an
other pound, and so tbey fussed atxjnt very
fish until Witmnre surrendered, and when the
lector caught a ten-pounder the Swede said,
'dot visu vay more dan apv ten ponmis lie sa
fifteen pound vish, certain. This suited
'.ho doctors turn exactly, and that night lie
was cusliiug in his piaise of the honest
Swede. I heard that le overpaid him fin
ing boat and made him ke p it. Our cot tag
girls were ont with thtm that day and tbey
all had glorions sp-jrt. They caught everal
hundred pounds of fine fiili. Our yonnge-t
caught the Inrgcvt grouper. It weighed 37
pounds and was three feet long. Hie Dr. ami
Mr. Candler strung the four largest on an
oar and toted them from the deck np to the
town and the load made I hem wngglo and tnii-t
their legs like drunken men to the iireat. amuse
ment of the people, They left their burden on
tne plana wain ana nan to nire a wagon 10
haul them away. Af'er a glorions fish eupper
ney spent the evening with us recounting tne
success of the day, and both deflated it was
tbe beet dy tbey had had in norma.
On parting tbe uooor sai I in sotto
voce. "Now Mj r, . when you, in your
l-.t'ers these glorions deeds relate, speak
of ma as I am nothing extenuate, battel
it all down in color I nave Ik en backing vou in
all yonr marvelous yarns about Clear Water
and can now do so w ith more self-respect than
heretofore, and if yon should rie;l a voiu-ht r
for anything iu-t wiite it out and tign mv
name to it. Clear Water harbor is the liveliest
village of the plain, and I shall certainly bring
my family here next winter. About that cro
quet business don't t-peak of it. It is only one of
Murph's nuiueious vagaries. He imagined that
because he is a Presbyterian and cau't fall fiom
grace that he is privileged to tell white lies,
but the devil is tho father of lies of all col irs
ami Mnrph had better be careful."
It was a cood;y company tnat dy and we
were grieved to part with them. Mr. Cand er
says he wants a bay front here ly tin ides of
SeptemtnT.
Another week will nnd ns Journeying liom?-
ward, and that will bring another pleasure
the reunion with kindred and liiend. The
poor, rejected and dejected hermit was made
to say:
"And what is Irendsbip bnt a name
A charm that lulls to sleep,
A ahade that follows wuaftli o fami
But leave a wretch to we p."
That is not so. That wag bnt the ntteranos
of broken hearted vc. Friendsh'p is a sweet.
savory reality, and mil lo the tlearent tie on
earth. Th re are no m ny who aie boui d like
linnmii and Fythia, but aimm! every one has
fr end-.. It it a pleasure to liebeve that wo
hav- friends at home who will IoTingly pi re ns
welcome, ami we know there are many there
we will njiice lo s e to look into their eye
and grq ih ir bar d-t and nceive th(i greet
ings. Ive and tr end bip a'e the best treas
nres of life lioiter than lame or we l:h There
are ft it n 's hi re bio, new found and new made
frieiiti-t ironi whom we part not willingly, for
they havo b -en kind and have done so much to
make our prolonged vst pi asaut. Thin is a
happy utile town. 1 was Kitting in my tianh
lei' pretty v. randa this iv.ning and c Hilled
ix tq urreis in tne irees n"ar ny. i saw a pair
jf qu i 1 and two i at bits in Hie i i t an I ap-
pioiclic.l I lie dwelling. I'linn i rr z-T uvea
right opjosite, and lie re was an owl quietly
fining en a limb near his v. r'lida. A ia I,
reneiable crane was wading in the water at tho
foot of the bluff. 'That solitary binl in ii'-ary
alwnvs there." said the co'uncl, "and win n he
s raigbtetiH np fu I length lik as m l inn a
Pirsbytenan pieacber." Neb dy dar. s to dii
tnrb th "se p tsin C'ear Water, for it is against
the law. Clear Wat r is eertainly a peaceful
little village, fur there hag not Ix-eii a fl-iht nor
a quarrel since we have leenlur-. Iiidred,
here aie ai.m good people here, who lav.ir giv
ing np the town char er. becansj the mayor
ind nurih.l have nothing tn do- tint the
fauips railrord i coming verr soon and Tampa
adii kv will find its way, and inaylic the mayor
and the marshal will lioih fl d L i-iii. s. Ita.il-
oads are great llsiii, Ivit ever gxt thing
has a m bad mixe I up wj b it. anq Clear Wa
ter will not rcape. Iu le- than ix months I
jjptc". to lie l.ere again, and Mr. J'tu say I
hall ride on the i ew ioid if I c me by Tnqa.
tn tbe meantime I will be at homo in I arteia-
ilK and be please 1 to answer any Ic ters abont
p-operly in Cleir Water. I havo already found
e'u er home f r a veral and will be glad to
f. tit none: mor-. I lix Abp in Atlanta, Cons'l
U''W. Anttons for an EdHcaUi"!.
A story is toM of n Mississippi
ooloret yonth who walke 1 r3J miles
from Vicksbnrg t Atlauta to atten I
school. This boy'a natna is P. T. Lee,
and the story he toM of hia great am
bition gained him many friends atoog
tho road, and thus ho had little diflt
cnlty in obtaining food and lodging.
Whenever it waa poasioie, no wonia
repay his friends for thoir kindnoas
by doing odd jobs for them. New
York Tribune.
The carat, nsed in cstimatin?- tlic
weight of gems, is a grain of Indian
wheat.
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I nsed two bottles of 'Mothkrs' Friend with m artelous results,
and wish every woman who has to pass through the ordeal of child-birth
to know if they use 'Mothers' Friend for a few weeks it will rob con
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The Vnl Xnr
The word "Mr.i" is a enrions one;
if indeed it is a word. The "Century
Dictionary" calls it "an abbreviation
of Mistress or Misses ;" bnt the sell
ing certainly makes it an abbreviation
of the first, and tho aecoud form is
apparently only a contracted English
pronunciation. Tho fnll word ban fall
en into disgrace now, and so, unless
one makes it very plain that the term
is quaintly nsed, one has to hay Misses.
"Abont 150 years agu and t-ailier,"
says an English writer, " '.Mrs.' was
applied qnite impartially to unmar
ried as well aa married ladies. Even
children were sometimes ntyled 'Mrs.'
The burial of an infant daughter of
John Mil toil, who died at the ago of
five months, ia recorded in tho regis
ter of St. Margaret, Westminster, and
her name is entered as 'Mrs. Kathcrine
Milton, followed by a email c to in
dicate that a child is meant." Thus,
apparently, oue is historically justified
in writing "Mrs." before a woman's
name, whenever there ia doubt. And
yet the lady may be so unscientific
as t'j take offense. Rochester l"ost
Express.
A Stranyo Mttsicat Instrument,
A mnstott instrument, tho like of
which baa never been seen before, is
tho outcome of ni an v years' hard think
ing by n Swedish electrician and
muaininn. There ia a frame, and on it
are hung a scoro of tunod bells, a
series of steol bars ntrnck by metalli;
hammers, a row of stool strings of
necessary touaion, a xylophone, and a
fraudulent bagpipe, ma lo ont of a liar
of steel an.l nn cleotric currotit. Tho
operator can sit at tho keys a few feet
away or a hundred milo.s it doc n't
matter which, so lonr ns tho connecting
cloctrio wiroa nro fixed up. For a be
ginner I should rooonimcii l tho hun
dred miles radius. Tho keyboard,
which is like that of a piauo. bnt with
fow keys, is equipped with (twitches,
so that one set of instrument.- or the
whole lot may be operated on at
Secret marriages nra in every
country in Europe considerel illegal.
From away up tn British forth America
comes the foUowrlng Kreeting to Dr. R. V.
Fierce, Chief Consnlting Physician to tbo
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, at
Buffalo, N. Y. Mr,: Allen 8barrard. of
Ilartncy, Selkirk Co., Manitoba, whose
portrait, with that of her little boy,
beads this article, writes as follows:
" I take great pleasure In recommending Dr.
Pierce's Favonto Preacrijition for falling of
tbe womb.' I was troubled with bearing
down pains and pains in my tack whenever
I would be on my fee any length of time. I
was recommend to trv Dr. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription, which I did with happy results.
I feel like a new person after taking three
bottles of it"
As wo have lust heard from the frigid
North, wo will now introduce a letter
received from the Sunny Booth- The follow
ing is from Mrs. J. T. Bmitb, of Oakf uskee,
Cleburno Co., Ala, She writes: "I was
afflicted and suffered untold pains and
misery, such as no pen can describe, for six
years. I was confined to bed most of the
time. I expected tbe cold band of death
evwy day. I was afflicted with leacorrhea
with excessive flowing falling of tha womb
bearing down sensation pain in tbe small
of my bock my bowols costive smarting,
itching and burning In the vagina, also pal
pitation of tho heart. When I began taking
your medicine I could not sit up, only a few
minutes at a time, I was so weak. I took
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription three
times per day. I also took hia ' Golden Medical
Discovery ' three times per day and one of
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets every nli(ht. I
have taken seven bottles of tbe Discovery,'
seven bottles of the ' Prescription and Ave
bottles of tbe ' Pellets.' I took these medi
cines seven months, regularly, never missed
a day. These medicines cured me. I feel as
well aa I ever did hi my life. Foer of tbe
best doctors ia the land treated my cose four
years. Tbey all gave mo np ai bopeleaf
they said I could not be cured, and could not
live. Through tbe will of God, and your
meddcln's, I nave been restored to the beet
of health. w Youn truly.
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Lion Hunting.
Mr. F. C. Solons, the well-known
African explorer, iu a recent article
on lion hitutimr, ssya:
"When lions are encountered in the
dajitime they will utmost invariably
give way before the presence of man,
cvou vhen several are together feed
ing upon the carcase of an auitual they
jnt-t tinve killed, and nt a time when
they lire presumably hungry. In parts
of th country where firearms have
been much used lions will sometimes
rr treat no rapidly wheu they are dis
till bid thai it is next to an impossi
bility to get a hhot at one. I remem
ber one cold, cloudy winter's morn
ing, in M-ishonttlaml, coming sudden
ly upon a male lion as he was chasing
a small herd of koodo cows. When
ho observed mo ho at once ftopped
nnd gacd fixedly nt me for just on
intant of time, and then, wheeling
round, went off through the forest at
such a pure that, had I not been well
mounted, I xhotild never have seen
him spaiu. As it was, I galloped af
ter him, und when ho found that my
horse was gaining on him he stopped
and i too.l at buy, when I shot him. In
parts of the country where they have
been but little dmturbed, lions will
only walk slowly away when unexpect
edly encountered in tho daytime, of
ten fuming round and gazing fixedly
nt the intruder, and sometimes grow
ing savagely and la itching their tails
angrily the while." New York Sua.
The (ViiIhij's teal Product.
Of nil the coal mined in tho world,
from the beginuiug of thin century to
the prestait time, tirent 1'lltain has
produced on '-hslf. In Ih',11 she mined
thirty-six jicr cent, of tho world'i
product, while the United States pro
duced thirty-three per cent. The
United States is increasing its output
of coal at the rate of ten per cent, per
milium, whilo the increase in Great
I'ritiii'i is IcshUihii two per cent. The
cost of c.uil is increasing in (Irest
Hritain nnd decreasing in tho United
States. England exports thirty-one
per rent, of her total product of coal,
while the United States exports lesi
j than oho per cent. New lork Dis
patch. :a
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Mrs. V. O. Ounekel, of Wo. 161 South
Beventh Htreet, Terra Haute, Indiana, wrltest
" I had been suffering f rom womb trouble for
eight yearn having doctored with the most
skillful physicians, but finding only tempo
rary relief from medicines iireecribed ry
them. I was advised by a friend to take
Dr. Heron's Favorite Prescription, which I
did, and found, in taking six bottles of tbe
Prescription' nnd two of tho 'Golden
Medical Discovery,' that it has effected a
positive cure, for which words cannot ex
press my gratitudo for tbo relief from the
great suffering that I so long endured."
Yours truly.
As a powerful. Invigorating, restoratire.
tonic " Favonta Prescription " improve
digest'on and nutrition thereby building up
soTicf, u-holetomB firth, and increasing the
strength of tbe whole system. As a soothing
and strengthening nervine "Favorito Pre
scription" is uneoualed and is invaluable in
allaying and subduing nervous excitability,
irritability, nervous exhaustion, nervous
prostration, tvuralria, hysteria, spasms.
Chorea, or St. Vitus s Dance, and other dis
training, nervons aymptoma commonly atten
dant upon functioiicl and organic diaeaae of
tbe womb. It induces refreshing sleep and
relieves mental anxiety ana despondency.
Even insanity, when dependent upon womb
disease, is cured by it.
Dr. Pierce's Favorite rTescrlption is a'
scientific medicine, ceref nlly compounded by
an experienced and skilful physician, and
adapted to woman's delicate organization. 1
is purely vegetable in iu composition and
perfectly harmhas in Its efferU in a ay condt
l ion of the iystem. For morning sickness, or
r.au-v-a, due to pregnancy, weak ntomacb, ia
digefction, dyspepsia and kindred symptoms,
its use will prove very beneficial.
Dr. Pierce s Book (1W pag, Illustrated I
on "Woman and Hr Diseases." giving suc
cessful means of Homo Treatment, will be
mailed ia plain envelope, aseurey sealed
from ibtervalion on receipt of ten cents
to pay postage, fcca tlx Doctor addnst
near the bead of this article.
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