TO CONQUER EVIL
REV. ; TA-MAG K'S SUNDAY
- ; ' SICltMON.;
Preached at Culver Park Assembly,
akttMaxinkuuk.cc.Iii,
; Tkxt: "lT7fn shall lawaket I will seek
u yet again." itot. xxlU., 85.
With an insight into human nature such as
no other man over roachod, Solomon, in my
text, sketches tho mental operations of one
who, having stepped aside from the path of
rectitude, deedres to return. With a wish for
somefhtn better, be said: "When shall I
awake? V henholl I come out of this horrid
niK&tmare or iniquity!" But, seised npon by
unci auK.-u.11 iiauib, ouu iur-u (town nui iy
- his Dassions. ha crip out: 'I wilt cnnlr it v..-.
again. I will try it once more."
Our libraries are adorned with on elegant
literature addressed to young men,, pointing
. out to them all the dangers and perils of life
complete maps of the voyage, showing all
tho rocks, the quicksands, the shoals. But
suppose a man has already made shipwreck;
Buppose Le is already off the track; suppose
ho has already gone astray. How is ho to
get bacfer That is a field comparatively un-
miucuou. x projxjs w auo rcss invseir. to suen.
There are those in this audience who, with
every passion of their agonized soul, are
ready to boor such a discussion. They com
pare themselves with what they were ten
years ago, and cry out from the bondage in
which they are incarcerated. Now, if there
be any , here, come with on earnest
purpose, yet feeling they are beyond
the pale of Christian sympathy, and that the
sermon can hardly be expected to address
them, then, at this moment, I give them my
right hand, and call them brother. Look
up. Thcro is glorious and triumphant hope
for you yet. I Round the trumpet of Gospel
deliverance, Tho church is ready to spread
a banquet at your return, and the hierarchs
of heaven to full into line of bannered pro
cession at the news of your emancipation.
So far as God may help mo, I propose to
show what aro tho obstacles of. your return,
and thon how you aro to surmount those
obstacles. The first difficulty in the way of
your return is the forcoof moral gravitation.
Just as there is a natural law which brings
, down to theoarth anything you throw into the
airt so there is a corresponding moral gravi-
. tation. In other words, it is easier to go
down than it is to go up; it is easier to do
wrong than it is to do right. Call to mind
the comrades of yoin boyhood days
some of them good, somo of them bad
which most affected you? Call to mind the
anecdotes that you have heard in tho last
five or ten years some of them aro puro
and some of them impure. Which tho
more easily sticks to your memory?
During the years of your life you have
M 1 .
iurmea certain courses conauci some or
them good, some of them bad. To which
stylo of habit did you tho more easily
yield? Ah, my friends, we htve to take but
. a moment of self-inspection to find out
that there is in all our souls a force of
moral gravitation 1 But that gravitation
may be resisted. Just as you may pick up
from the earth something and hold it in your
hand toward heaven, just so, by the power
' of God's grace, a soul fallen may be lifted
toward peace, toward pardon, toward heaven.
, Force of moral gravitation in every one of
' us, but power in God's grace to overcome that
force of moral gravitation.
Tho next thing in the way of your return
is the power of evil habit. I know there are
, those who say it is very easy for them to give
' up evil habits. I do not believe them. Here
is a man given to intoxication. He knows it
is disgracing his family, destroying bis prop
erty, ruining him, body, mind and souL
If that man, " being an intelligent man,
and loving his family, could easily
.give up that habit, would ho
not do so? The fact that he does not give
it up proves that it is hard to give it up. It
is a very easy thing to sail down stream, the
tide carrying you with great force; but sup
pose you turn tho boat up stream, is it so oasy
then to row it? Ar long as wo yield to the
evil inclinations in our hearts, and our bad
habits, we are soiling down stream; but the
moment we try to turn, we put our boat in
the rapids just above Niagara, and try to
row up stream. Take a man given to tho
habit of using tobacco, as most of you do.
and let him resolve to stop, and he iind3 it
very difficult. Twenty-soven years ago I quit
that habit, and I would as soon dare to put
my right hand in the fire as once to indulge
in it. Why? Because it was such a
terrific struggle to get over it. Now,
let a man be advised by his physi
cian to give up the use of tobacco.
He goes around not knowing what to do
, with himself. He cannot add up a line of
figures. Ho cannot sleep nights. It seems
as if the world had turned upside down. Ho
feels his business going to ruin. Whore he
was kind and obliging he is scolding and
fretful. The composure that characterized
him has given way to a fretful restlessness,
and he has become a complete fidget. What
power is it that has rolled a wave of woe
over the earth and shaken a portent in the
heavens? lie has tried to stop smoking or
chewing! After a while he says, "I am going
to do as I please. Tho doctor doesn't under
stand my case. Tin going back to my old
habit." And be returns. Everything assumes
its usual composure. His business seems to
t Tighten, tho world becomes an attractive
place to live in. His children, seeing tho
tUiToronce, hail the return of their
father's genial disposition. What wave
of color has dashed blue into the sky, and
greenness into the mountain foliage, and the
plow of sapphire into the sunset? What en
chantment has lifted a world of beauty and
joy on his soul? He has gone back to to-
, Laoco!
Oh, the fact is, as tvo nil know in our own
experience, that liabifc is a taskmaster; as
long as we obey it, it doss not chastise us;
but let us resist, and we Cud we are to bo
lashed with scorpion whips and bound with
ship cable, and thrown into the track of
tone-breaking J uggernauts I During the war
of 1812 there was a ship set on fire just abovo
Niagara Falls, and then, cut loose- from its
-. moorings, it came on down through the night
and tossed over the falls. It was said to have
been a scene brilliant beyond all description.
Well, there are thousands of men on fire of
evil habit, coming down through the rapids
and through the awful night of temptation
toward tne eternal plunge. Oh I how hard it
Is to arrest thorn. God only can arrest thoru.
" Suppose a man after five, or ton, or twenty
years of evil doing.resolves to do right? Why,
all the forces of darkness aro allied against
him. ne cannot sleep nights. He gots dor a
: on his knees in the midnight and cries, "God
help mo!" He bites his lip. He grinds his
teeth. He clenches his fist in bis detertnina-
at the bottles in tho window of a wino store.
It was one Ion;, bitter, exhaustive, hand to
hand fight, with inflamed, tantalizing and
-merciless habit. Whon he thinks ho is en
tirely free, tho old inclinations pounce upon
him like a pack of hounds with their muzzles
tearing away at the Hanks of ono poor rein
deer. In Paris, there is a sculptured repre
, imitation of Bacchus, the god of revelry. Ho
is riding on a panther at full leap. Oh, how
suggestive i Lot every one who is speeding
on bad ways understand he is not riding a
docile and well-broken steed, but he is riding
it monster, wild and bloodthirsty, going at a
demt.h lean.
How many there are who resolve on a bet
ter life and say: "When shall I awake?"
But, seized on by their old habits, cry: "I
will try it once more; I will seek it yet
aainl" Years ago there were some Prince
ton student who wero skating, and the ica
was very thin, and some one warned tho
company back from the air hole, and finally
warned them entirely to leave the place.
But one young man with bravad after all
the rest had stopped, cried out: "One round
more!" He swept around and went down,
and was brought out a corpse. My friends,
lliore aro thrm.-vtn.ls and tors of thounnds of
men losing their souls in thnt way. It is tho
urw round mor. '
will shake off my old associates, and I will
find Christian companionship." .And he ap
pears at tho church door come Sabbath day,
and the usher greets him with a look, as
much as to say: "Why, you hero? You are
tho lost man I ever expected to see at church I
Come, take this seat right down by the door r
Instead of saying: "Good morning ; I am glad
you are here. Come: I will give you a
first rate seat, right up by the pulpit Well,
the prodigal, not yet discouraged, enters
the prayer meeting, and some Christian man,
with more seal than common sensa savs:
Glad to see you. The dying thief was
saved, and I suppose there is mercy for youP
ine young man, disgusted, climea, throws
himsolf back on his d limit v. resolved he never
will enter the house of God again. Terhaps
not quite iuiiv discouraged about reioraia-
tion, he sides up by somo highly respectable
man he used to know going down the street.
and immediately the respectable man has an
errand down some other street I Well, the
proaigai, wishing to return, takes some mem
ber of a Christian association bv the hand, or
trios to. Tho Christian young man looks at
himt looks at tho faded apparel and the marks
of dissipation, and instead of giving him a
warm grip of tho hand offers him tho tip end
of the long fingers of the left hand, which is
equal to striking a man in tne race.
Uu. now tew Christian neoDle understand
how much force and Gospel there is in a
good, nonest nanasnakingl Sometimes, when
you have felt the need of enoouragnment,and
some Christian man has taken yon heartily
by the hand, have you not folt that thrilling
through every fibre of your body, mind and
soul, an encouragement that was just what
you needed? You do not know anything at
all about this unless you know when a man
cries to return troni evil courses or conduct,
ho runs against repulsions innumerable. Wo
say of some man, he lives a block or two
from the church, or half a mile from the
church. There are people in our crowded cit
ies who live a thousand miles from the church.
Vast deserts of indifference between thorn and
the houso of God. The fact is, we must keep
our respectability, though thousands and tens
of thousands perish. Christ sat with publi
cans and sinners. But if there comes to the
house of God a man with marks of dissipation
upon him, people throw up their hands in
horror, as much as to say: "Isn't it shock
ing?" How these dainty, fastidious Chris
tians in all our churches are going to get into
heaven I don't know, unless thoy have an
espocial train of cars, cushioned and up
holstered, each one a car to himsolf I They
cannot go with the great herd of publicans and
sinners. Ob. ye, who curl vour Jin of
scorn at the fallen, I tell you plainly, if you
had been surrounded by the same influences,
instead of sitting to-day amid the cultured
and the refined and the Christian, you would
have been a crouching wretch in stablo or
ditch, covered with filth and abomination 1
it is not because you are naturally any bet
ter, but because the mercy of God has pro
tected you. Who are you, that brought up
in Christian circles, ana watched by Chris
tian parentage, you should bo so hard on the
fallen.
I think men also are often hindered from
return by the fact that churches are too anx
ious about their membership and too anxious
about their denomination, and they rush out
when they see a man about to trive un his
sin and return to God, aud ask hiin how he is
going to be baptized, whethor by sprinkling
or by immersion, and what kind of a church
no is going to join. Ob. my fnonusl It is a
poor timo to talk about Presbyterian cate
chisms, and Episcopal liturgies, and Metho
dist love-feasts, and baptisteries to a man
tliat is coming out of the darkness of sin into
the irlonous lisrht of the Uosnol. Whv. it
reminds us of a man drowning in the sea, and
a ureboaE puts out lor mm, and tne man m
the boat says to the man out of the
boat: "Now. if I get you ashore.
ore yon going to live in my street?"
First get him ashore, and then talk about the
non-essentials of religion. Who cares what
church he joins, if he only joins Christ and
starts for heaven? Oh, you ought to have,
my brother, an illumined face, and a
hearty grip for every ono that tries to turn
from his evil wayl Take hold of the same
book with him, though his dissipations shake
the book, remembering that ho that con
vorteth a sinner from the error of his ways
shall save a soul from death, and hide a
multitude of sins.
Now, I have shown you these ob
stacles because I want you to under
stand I know all tho difficulties in the
way; but I am now to toll you how
Hannibal may scale the Alps and how
tne shackles may be unnveted and
how the paths of virtue forsaken may be re
gained. First of alL my brother, throw
yourself on God. Go to Him, frankly and
earnestly, and tell Him tbeso habits you
have, and ask Him, if there is any help in all
Hie resources of omninotont love, to eive it
to you. Do not go with a long rigmarole
eople call prayer, made up of "oris" and
'ahs" and "forever and forever amensT' Go
to God and cry for help ! help 1 help ! and if
you cannot cry for help, just look and livo.
t remember in the war I was at Antietam,
ttnd I wout into tho hospitals after the
battle, and I said to a man, "Whero
we you hurt?" He mado no answer,
but held up his arm swollen and splintered.
saw whero he was hurt. Tho siinplo fact
is, when a man has a wounded soul, all he
has to do is to hold it up before a sympathetic
Lord and get it healed. It does not take
any long prayer. Just hold up the wound.
Oh, it is no email thing when a man is nerv
ous and weak and exhausted, coming from
his evil ways, to feel that God puts two om
nipotent arms around about him and says:
"Young man, I will stand by you! The
mountains may depart and the hills bo re
moved, but I will never fail you." And then,
as the soid thinks the news is too good to be
true, and cannot believe it, and looks up in
God's face, God lifts His right hand and takes
an oath, an affidavit, saying: "As I live,
saith the Lord God, I have cc pleasure in tho
death of him that dieth."
Blessed be God for such a Gospel as this I
"Cut the slices thin," said the wife to the
husband, "or there will not be enough to go
nil around for the children ; cut the slices
thin." ' Blessed be God. there is a full loaf for
every one that wants it; brood enough and
to spare. No thin slices at the Lord's table.
I remember whon the Master Street hos
pital, in Philadelphia, was opened during tho
war, a telegram came saying: "There will bo
three hundred wounded men to-night; bo
ready to take care of them;" and from my
church there wont in somo twenty or
thirty men and womon to look after
these poor wounded fellows. As they
came, somo from ono part of the
land, somo from another, no ono asked
whether this man was from Oregon, or from
Massachusetts, or from Minnesota, or from
New York, I here was a wounded soldier,
and the only question was how to take off the
rags most, gunuy, and put on tno uanuago,
and administer the cordial. And when a
soul comes to God He does not ask where
yon came from or what your ancestry was.
Healing for all your wounds. Pardon for all
your truilt. Comfort for all your troubles.
Then, also, I counsel you, if you want to
tret back, to quit all yonr naa associations,
One unholy intimacy will fill your soul with
moral distemper. In all tho ages of the
church there has not been an instance where
a man kept one evil associate and was re
formed. Amoncr the fourteen Hundred mill
ion of tho race not one instance. Go home
to-dav. onen vour desk, take out letter paper.
stamp and oavolopo, and then write a letter
Boujuumig iiko mis: '
"My old companions: I start this day for
heaven. Until I am persuaded you will join
mo in this, f arewelL"
Thon slrn your name, and send the letter
xith tho first post. Give up your bad com
panions, or give up heaven. It is not ten bod
companions that destroy a man, nor five bad
companions, nor three bad companions,
but one. What chance is there for
that young man I saw along the street,
four or five young men with him, halting in
feont of a grog shop, nrging him to go in,f ha
resisting, violently resisting, until after a
while they forced him to go in? It was a
summer nigh and tho door was left open,
and I saw tho j process. They hold him fast,
and they putVh cup to his lips, and they
forced down felio strong drink. What chance
is tncre ior wq a young man?
i'r ('rUrnn "1vio.
counsel. Gather np all the energies of body,
mind and soul, aud appealing to God for
success, declaro this day everlasting war
against all drinking habits, all gambling
practices, all houses of sin. Half-and-half
work will amount to nothing; it must be a
Waterloo, fcthrink back now and you are
lost. Push on and you are Bayed. A Spar
tan general fell at the very moment of vic
tory, but he dipped his finger in his own
blood and wrote on a rock near which he was
dying, "Sparta has conquered." Though
your struggle to get rid of sin may seem to
he almost a death struggle, you can dip yonr
finger in your own blood aud write on the
Bock of Ages, "Victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ.''
Oil, what glorious nows it would bo for
some of these young men to send home to
their parents. They go to the postofflce
every day or two to see whether there are
any letters from you. How anxious thoy ore
to lioar.
Some one said to a Grecian general:
"What was the proudest moment In your
lifo?" ne thought a moraont, and raid:
"The proudest moment of my lifo wa when I
lent word noma to in? par outs tuat k bad
gained the victory." And tho proudest and
most brilliant moment in your life will be the
moment when you can send word to your pa
rents that you have conquored your evil habits
by tho grace of God and become eternal victor.
On, despise not parental anxiety I The time
will come when you will have neither father
nor mother, and you will go around the place
where they used to watch you and find them
gone from the house, and gone from tho field,
and gone from the neighborhood. Cry
as loud for forgiveness an younay over the
nymnd in the churchyard, they will not
answer. Dead I Dead I And then you will
take out the white lock of hair that was cut
from your mother's brow just before 'thoy
buried her, and you will take tho cane with
which your father used to wal k, and you will
think, and think, and . wish that you
had done just as they wanted you
to, and would ' give tho world if
you had never thrust a pang through
their dear old hearts. God pity the poor
young man who has brought disgrace on his
father's name! God pity tho young man
who has broken his mother's heart I Bettor
if he had never been born hotter if, in the
first hour of his life, instead of being laid
against the warm bosom of maternal
tendornoss, ho hod been coffined and
sopulchcrod. There is no balm power
ful enough to heal the heart of one
who has brought parents to a sorrowful
grave, and who wanders about thronirh the
dismal cemetery, rendlug the wair, and
wringing the hands, and crying: . "Mother!
mother r Oh, that to-day by all the
memories of the past and by all the hopes
of the future, you would yield your heart to
God. May your father's God and your
mother's God bo your God forever I
The statement that of the 338 prison
ers now con line J at the House of Cor'
rection nearly a hundred mo "opium
fiends," indicates a close connection be
tween opium and crime. A few months
ago Judge Murphy, in sentencing a
criminal, ' remarked that opium had
largely taken the place of whiskey as the
incentivoto crime m this city. Such
facts show the need for some better re
striction on the sale of opium than now
exists. Tho trouble seema to be that
the opium, morphine and cocaine bus
iness is too profitable to be given up,
nnd the publio interesls must suJTer.
an Fjancisccn Examiner.
A rmiiADKM-HTAN who hns just gol
back from a flying trip to the Paris Ex
hibition amused a party of friends by
telling stories of his visit. lie said, at
Boulogne a fisherman whom he saw
had five lines cast in tho water. A bell
was attached to each line, so that when
there was a nibble the bell would ring
and the Frenchman would haul in his
catch. In the time when none of the
bells were ringing this follower of Wal
ton walked up and down the bank, not
tho least concerned about tho lines.
The bells worked like a charm, giving
out a low but clear, tinkling sound
Hint could be heard a hundred yards
iway.
CRAZED BY AN IMPOSTOR.
llemarkablo Ignorance of Southern
NejjroRH A Human Sacriiico.
The negroes of Liberty countv. Ueortria
- a p
are in a state of excitement over the preach
ings of a man named Bell, n pseudo "Christ,"
why has been inciting the ignorant people of
the county and telling them that be will lead
tuoni into the l'romised Land of Cauaau
next month. .Hundreds have left their
farms and occupations to follow the false
Christ. Boll was tried for lunacy and sent
to ait asylum. His successor, a negro
named James, began preuching and telling
the people tnat human sacrifice was de
manded. Srivei al days ago, in a remote part
of the county, u woman, who was one of
James' followers, slew a little child, her
niece, cutting symbols on the head and body
and then throwing tbo body in the ditch.
The woman was arrested ami is in jail. Tho
white people fear tho violence of tne excited
negroes, who are cra&xl with Boll's and
J tunes' teachings.
A MODERN MARTYR.
Mrs. II. O. Heron Sentenced to Death
in Corca for I'rcaching Christianity.
Information has just been received at
Nashville, Term., that Mrs. Hattie Gibson
Heron, wife of Rev. David Heron, late of
Jonesboro, this state, is under sentence of
death in Corea for teaching tho doctrines of
Christianity.
The Rev. David Heron is well-known as a
Presbyterian minister. He went to Corea
about three years ago, the wife joining her
husband a few weeks later. Airs. Heron
preached the Gospel as well as her husband,
and was tbo means of converting u noble
man in Corea. who bdgun preaching Chris
tian. ,
The emperor had Mrs. Heron nrreste 1 and
thrown in prison. Her case was investi
gated, and finally tho sentence of death was
passed. Mrs. Heron was known as tbe most
beautiful ladv in Upper Euat Tennessee
"MARKETS."
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a$5.l0. Wheat Hou them Fult.. 67ia8S:
Corn Southern White, diia-lticts, xeliow
43a44 cts. Oats (Southern and Pennsylvania
0a34 cts. : Rye Maryland & Pennsylvania
50a5!-'cts. ; Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania
15 (X)a15 50 ;atraw-wheat,tJ.00aW.50; Butter,
Kasteni Creamery, 1.7a'JOcts.t near-by receipts
lfiaHcts; Cheeso ISastern Fancy Cream.
&'J cts.. Western, 8a'J cts; Eggs 12
altf; Tobacco Leaf Inferior, la2.U0, Good
Common, 3 00a $4 00, Middling, 5a$0.00 Good
to flue red, 7a$9; Fancy, 10&$IX
JNbw Yoke Flour Southern Common to
fairextra,$2.75aa35; Wheat-JNo 1 White 87
n8; Rye State, 54a56; Corn Southern
Yellow,44Xa44 yt. Oats-White,StateJ Wfa33-tf
cts.; Buttw-otate. 12al6 cts. ; Choeao-fcjtate,
7a84cts.; Kggs HalScts.
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Southern lied, 87a87); Rye Pennsylvania
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Oats-3i!a34cta; Butter-State, Wal" cts.;
Cheese N. Y. Factory, ilaUJi cts. Eggs
State, 14al4Vcta. .
CATTLE.
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a4 50, Hogs f 6 00;i 25.
nr.w Vokx Ho'f-?4 G0a5 00;Stiwp-$4 00
n.Vtt; Nogs 4 fi0ii5 y.
' k New Substitute for Glass.
The new translucent substance in
tended as a substitute for glass has
been satisfactorily adopted in some of
the publio buildings of London, and
various advantages are claimed for it,
among these being such a degree of
pliancy that it may be bont backward
and forward like leather and be sub
jected to very considerable tensile
strain with impunity ; it is also almost
as transparent as glass and of a pleas
ant amber color, varying in Bhade from
yery light golden to pale brown. The
basis of the material Is a web of fine
iron wire, with warp and weft threads
about one-twelfth .inch apart, this
being inclosed, like a fly in amber, in
a sheet of translucent varnish, of
which the base 'is linseed oil. There
is no resin or gum in the varnish, and
once having become dry. it is capable
of standing heat and damp without
undergoing any change, neither hard
ening nor becoming sticky. Briefly,
the manufacture is accomplished by
dipping the sheets edgewise into deep
tanks of varnixh, and then allowing
the coating which they thus receive to
dry in a warm atmosphere. It requires
somewhat more than a dozen of those
dips to bring these sheets to the re
quired degree of thickness, and, when
this has been accomplished, the ma
terial is stored for several weeks to
thoroughly set. ,
Hon to Build Up tho Teeth.
Teeth aro just as easily starved to
doath as the stomach. If we do not
furnish to the tooth of the young that
pabulum they require, they cannot
possibly be built up. It is the outside
of cornoats, wheat, barley, and the
like, or the bran so-called, that we sift
away and feed to the swine,' that the
teeth actually require for their proper
nourishment. These flouring-mills are
working destruction upon the teeth of
every man,, woman, and child who par
takes of their fine bolted flour. They
sift out the carbonates and the phos
phates of lime in order that they may
provide that fine white flour which is
proving a whitened sopulcher to teeth.
Oat meal is one of tho best foods for
supplying the teeth with nourishment.
It makes the dentine, cementum, and
enamel strong, flint-like, and able to
resist all forms of decay. If you have
children, never allow any white bread
upon your table. Bread made of whole
wheat ground, not bolted, so that the
bean which contains the minute quan-:
tides of lime is present, is best. Baked
beans, too, have a considerable supply
of these lime salts, and should be on ;
your table, hot or cold, three times a'
week. In brushing the teeth, always
brush up and down from the gum in
stead of across. American Analyist.
Naming the baby New Yorker I
congratulate you on the latest acquisi
ion to your family. Boy or girl. ?
NTebraskan Girl. New Yorker
What's her name to be ? Nebraskan
Well, she howls so much nights,
j o thought we'd call her Cyclonia.
A vls't to a izrocery iscenerally the tegln
alDgof a new order of things.
Brown's Iron Bitters Is a specific In all rases
f swamp fever.intermittentfever.and malaria
f any name. Low marshy ground, stagnant
jools of water, decaying vegetable matter,
ihanges of climate while suffering from en
tral debility, all produce malaria. Brown's
ron Bitters cures all forms. Don't use qui
line. It creates constipation, produces head
tche, and not infrequently rheumatism and
leuralgia; Brown's Iron Bitters never does. It
rill cure them.
The widow's mieht is greatly underes
timated. Oar Girls.
. KUtty is witty,
Nettie is pretty,
Lutie Is cute and small;
Irene is a qneeu,
An not to is a pot,
Nell is tbe belle of the ball;
Diantba is wealthy.
Bertha is healthy.
And health is the best of all.
Perfect health keops her rosy and radiant,
beautiful and blooming, sen Bible and sweet.
It is secured by wholcaomo habits and the nse
Df Dr. Pierce's Favorite Proscription, Bert.Ua '
Uikes it, and she also "takes the cake." Tho
snly guar ant ted cure for those distressing ail
ments peculiar to women. Satis faction or
rour money returned.
For Constipation or Sick Headache, use Dr.
Pierce's Pellets; Purely Vegetable. - One a dose.
The lady who never marries should be
named Ida Kline.
Indigestion.
A recent attack of indigestion or constipa
tion is easily cured if the right remedy is ap
plied, but every medicine except Hamburg
Figs is so disgusting to taste or smell that a
person prefers to let tbe disease take its course,
if the above laxative cannot be obtained. &
cents. Dose one Fig. Mack Drug Co., N. Y.
Successful aeronauts - are built from the
ground up.
Vigor and Vitality
Are quickly given to every part of tbe body by'
Hood's Sarsaparllla, That tired feeUng to entirely
overcome. The blood is purified, enriched and
vitalised, and carries health instead of disease to
evory organ. The stomach la toned and strength
ened, Uio appetite restored. The kidneys and liver
are roused and invigorated. The brain la refreshed,
the nerves strengthened. Tho whole system to bolli
op by Hood's Sarsaparllla. ' ;
"I was aU ma down and unfit for tmslnoss. I
was Indnoed to take a bottle or Hood's Sarsaparllla,
and it bolH me rlRh tup so that I was soon able to
resume work. I rooommond It to aU." n. W.
Bra TO, 4 Martin Street, Albany, N. Y.
Hood's Sarsaparllla
Sold by aU druggists. $1; six for S. Prepared only
by a t HOOD ft CO., Apothooariea, Lowell, Hats.
IOO Doaos Ono Dollar
IS YOUR FARM FOB SALE
If so address Cu-tis Wright, 33a Broadway. K. .
OLD ana Ort LA id sceunnts collected in all parts
of tb world. Stmd stamp for circular, Ac, '.o
United r-t atcs Collecting Aaencv.New flavur.Ut
PEERLESS DYES
Ars tho JtKNT.
bold by iiauuttisxa.
S5
I 98 n day. Somplos worth 'i.l3 Fre
lines not under horses' feet. Write Iirewa
at er Safety Itela Holder Co., HoIly.KUoh.
I prescribe an fuUy en
dome Dig as th only
specific for tbe ccnai core
Of thiS d(MHS.
O. U. 1JSO RAH AM, nr. r.,
, Amsterdam, JS. Y.
' We have sold rtlg O for
many years, and It has
? riven tne oest or. saua
artlon. . &. jJYCHK A CO..
Cblcaeo. 111.
tl.OO. Sold by Druggists.
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PEflflYlQYM PILLS.
lleit Cross iJlumond ltmnd.
Tbo nlj reliable ptll for mle. SaO m
n . I.alla. Mt tlrnwiHot for lh ni
Trith b&cth&m, TmK e- nit ov ht'r. ssl.
(suffix) for prtjeujer .v Hef for
ft TO DATS.y
j asaraotm 4 tsl
f j sauasSMMaffe
t 1 lira only by lbs
" Snai Chtnkal 9t,
c a-Vi2WE".srk1
What In tha -orld la the M of sitting
around waiting for something to turn-up.
You mlfht JuBt as well bH down In themwvinvr
and wait for the cow to come up to be milked,
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Johnson & Co- Richmond, Va., and thoy will
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Fire ccnta saved on soap; five dollars lost on
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all know, Dobblns's Electric. '
Even a small barber may be called a strap
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Ask your drupRlst for "Tansiirs Punch."
Hslrmar beplslted and yet tx ero'den, "
Money in Chickens
If yon know hew to rrepsrlv care
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