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Bath rooms with hot and c6Jd'wattr.''l:.;:';,c, I brick block; mipdlV ST. oyoiii iSteisl Go IliP' The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun day Sermon, abtact! "The Lewaa fWlator. Txr: "Bast tftou entered into ths trtas re of the show?' Job xxxriii., 2i Grossly maligned is the season of winter. Ts spring and summer and autumn hart bad .many admirers, bnt winter, hoary beaded and white bearded winter, hath had more enemies than friends. Yet without winter the human race would be inane and ' effortless . You might speak ot the winter as ' the motber of tempests. I take it as the ' father of a whols family of physical, mental and spiritual energies. The most people that 1 know are strong in proportion to the num-1 ber of snow banks they had to climb over or I push through in childhood, while their I fathers drove the sled loaded with logs I through the crunching drifts high as toe I fences. At this season of the year, when we are j to familiar with the snow, those frozen Tap- I pors, those falling blossoms of the sky, those white angels of the atmosphere, those poem of the storm, those Iliads and Odysseys of the wintery tempest, I turnover the leave I of my Bible and though most of it was j written iu a clime where snow seldom or i never fell I tind many of these beautiful I congelations. Though the writers may sel- i dom or never have felt the cold touch of the" I snonnakeon their choel,", they had insight two mountains, the tops ot which were sug gestive. Other kings sometimes take off their crowns, but Lebanon and Mount Her mon all the year round and through the ages never lift the coronets of crystal from their foreheads. The first time we flnl a deep fall of snow In the Bible is where Samuel describes a fight between Benaiah and a lion in a pit. and though the snow may havj crimsouei uuder the wounds of both man and brute, the shaggy monster rolled over dead, and the giant was victor. But the snow is not fully recognized in the Bilile until God in terrogates Job, the scienti.it, concerning its wonders, sayin?, 'Host thou entered into the treasuresof "the snow?" I rather think that Job may have exam ined the snovvUake with a microscope; for, although it is supposed that the microscope was invented long alter Job's time, thera had been wonders of glass long before the microscope and telescope of later day were thought of. So long ago as when the Col iseum was in its full splendor, Nero sat iu the emperor's box ot that great theatre, which held a hundred thousand people, and looked at the combatants througu a gem iu his finger ring uhich brought everything close up to his eye. Four hundred years before Christ, In the stores at Athens, were sold powerful glasses called "burning spheres," and Layard, the explorer, found a magnifying glass amid the ruins oi nineven and in tne palace or Plim rod. Whether through magnifying instru ment or with unaided eye 1 cannot say, but I am sure that Job somehow went through the galleriesof the snowflake and counted its pillars and found wonders, raotures, mys teries, theologies, majesties, infinities walk ing up and down its corridors, as a result of the question which the Lord had asked him, 'Hust thou entered into the treasures of the snow" Oh, it is awonderous meteor! Momboldt studied it in the Amies, twelve thousand feet above the level of the- sea. De Saussurj re veled among theso meteors in the Alps, and Dr. Scoresby counted ninety-six varieties of snowflake amid the arctics. They are in shape of stars, in shape of corouets, in shape ot cylinders; aro globular, nre hexagonal, are pyramiaal, are castellatod. After a fresh fall of snow, in one walk ynu crush under your feet, Tuilleries, Windsor castles. St. Pauls St. Peters, St. Marks, cathedrals, Alhambras and Sydenham palaces innumer able. I know it depends much on our own condition what impression these flying meteors of the snow make, I shall not forget two rough and unpre tending wood cuts which I saw in my boy hood side by side; one a picture of a prosper ous farmhouse, with all signs of comfort, and a lad waruily clothed looking out of the door upon the first flurry of snow, and his mind no doubt filled with the sound of jin gling sleigh bells and tho frolic with playfel lows in the deep banks, and he, clapping his hands aud shouting, "It snows! it snows!" The other sketch was of a boy, haggard and hollow eyed with hunger, looking from the broken door of a wretched home, and seeing in the falling flakes prophecy of more cold and less bread and greater privation, wring ing his hands and with tears rolling down his wan cheeks crying, "Oh, my God! it snows ! it snows !" Out of the abundance that characterizes mo-f of our homes may there be speedy relief to aii whom this win ter finds iu want and exposure. And now I propose, for your spiritual and everlasting profit, if you will accept my guid ance, to take you through some of these won ders of crystallization. Aud notice first God in the littles. You may take alpenstock and cross the Mer do Glace, the sea of ico, and ascend Mont Blanc, which rises into the clouds like a pillar of thegreat white Thron;, or with arctic explorer ascend the mountains around the north pole, and see glaciers a thousand feet high grindingagainst glaciers three thousand feet high. But I will take you on a less pretentious journey and show you God in tho snowflake. Tbere is room enough between its pillars for the great Je hovah to stand. Iu that one frozen drop on the tip of your finger you may find ths throne room of the Almighty. I take up the snow in my hand and aee the coursers of celestial dominion pawing these crystal pavements. The telescope is jcrand, but I must confess that I am quite as much interestod in the microscope. The one reveals the universe ebove n; the other jus as great a universe beneath us. But the telescope overwhelms me, while the microscope oumforts me. What frou want and I want espeowlly is a God in ittles. ft we were scraphiow archangelic in our natures we would Want to study God in the great; but such small, weak, short lived beings as you and I are want to find God in the littles- When 1 see the Maker of the unWerse giv ing Himself to the architecture of a snow flnke, and making its shafts, it3 domes, its curves, its walls, its irradiations so perfect I conclude He will look after our insignificant affairs. And if we are of more value ttau a sparrow, most certainly we are of more value than an inanimate snowflake. So the Bible would chiefly impress us with God is) the littles. It does not say, "Considor tbv ' clouds," but it says, "Consider the lilies." U doe not say, "BeboM the tempests!" but "Behold the fowls!" aud it applauds a cup of '.old water and tbs widow's two uiites, and says the hairs of your bead are all numbered. Do not fear, therefore, that you are going to be lost in the crowd. Do not think that be cause you estimate yourself as only one snowflake among a three days' January snow storm tbet you will be forgotten. The birth and death of a drop ot chilled vapor is as certainly regarded by the Lor i as the crea tion and demolition of a planet. Nothing is big to God and nothing is small. What makes the honey Industries of South Carolina such a source of livelihood and wealth? It is because God teaches the lady bug to make an opening in. the rind of the apricot for the bee, who cannot otherwise got at tho juices of the fruit. So God sends the ladyhu.; ahead to prepare the way for the honey bee. He teaches the ant to bite each grain of corn that she puts in the ground for winter food in order that it may not take root and so ruin the little granary. He tenches the raven in dry weather to throw pebbles into a hollow tree, that the water far down and out of reach may come up within the reach of the bird's beak. What a com fort that He is a God in littles! The emperor of all the Russias in olden time was looking at a map that spread before him hi vast dominions, and he could not find Great Brit ain on the map, and he called in his secretary and said: "Where is Great Britain, that 1 hear so much about!" ''It la under your thumb," said the secretary; and the em peror raised his hand from the map and saw the country he was looktnji for,. . And it is high time that we find this . mighty realm ot God clou by and under our owa little Barer. To drop voa out of His mesrety would he to resura His omniscience. To refuse joa His protection would be to ab dicate His omnipotence. When you tell me that He Is the God of Jaoiter.and the God of Mercury, and the God of Saturn, you tell me something so vart that I cannot comprehend it. But if you tell me He is the God of the. nowns, you teu me somwtnmg t can noia and measure and realize. Thus the smallest snowflake contains a jewel case of comfort. Here is aa opal, an amethyist, a diamond. Here is one of the treasures of snow. Take it for your present and everlasting comfort. - Behold, also, in the snow the treasure of accumulated power. During a snow storm let an apothecary, accustomed to weigh most delicate quantities, hold his weighing scales out of the window and let one flake fall on the surface ot the scales, and it will not even make it tremble. When yon want to ex press extreme triviality of weight you sav, "Light as a feather," but a snowflake is much lighter. It is just twenty-four times lighter than water. And yet the accumula tion of these flakes broke down, a few days ago, in sight of my house, six telegraph poles, made helpless police and fire departments and halted rail trains with two thundering locomotives. We have already learned so much ot the power of electricity that we have become careful how we touch the electric wire, and 1 in many a raje a touch has been death. But , a few days ago the snow ptit its hand on most 1 of these wires, and tore them down as thouzh they were cobwebs. The snow said: "You seem afraid of the thunderbolt; I will cateh it and hurl it to the ground. Youc Ixustei i electric lights adorning your cities with bub- j I bles of fire, I will put out as easily as your ancestors suuffed out a tallow candle." The snow put its finder on the lip ot our cities that were talking with each other and they ! went into silence, uttering not a word. Tho ' snow mightier than the lightning. ! In March, the snow stopped Anier i lea. It said to Brooklyn, "Stav home1" to New York, "Stay home I" to Philadelphia. ; "Stay home!" to Washington. "Stay hoine!" j to Richmond, "Stay home!" It put into a white sepulcher most of this nation. Com- merce, whose wheels neverstoppel before, ; stopped then. What was the matter? Power ' ot accumulated s-uowflakes. On the top of , the Apennines one flake falls, and others fall, and they pile up, and they inako a m-mntaiii ' of fleeca on the top of a mountain of t.k-a, i until one day a gust of win.l, or ev en tne I voice of a mountaineer, s?tsthe fivz?n vapors j into action, and by awful descent they sweep everything in thoir course trees, ro, villages as when in 182, the town of Uriel, iu Valais, wes buried, and inlfi'il.in Switzer land, three hundred soldiers were entombod. These avalanches were maie up of siuglo snowflakes. What tragedies of the snow have been witnessed by the monks ot St. Bernard, who for ages have with the dogs been busy in ex tricating bewildered aud overwhelmed travelers in Alpine storms, tho do?s with blankets fastened to their backs and flasks of spirits fastened to their necks to resuscitate helpless travelers, oneof t hese dogs decorated with a medal for having saved the lives o twenty-two persons, the bravo beast himself slain of the snow on that day when accom panying a Piedmontese courier on ha way to i his anxious household down the mountain, i the wife and children of tho Pjedmonteso ! courier coming up the mountain in ssareh of I bim, an avalanche covered all under pyra mids higher than those under which tho Egyptiau monarchs sleep their sleep of the I ages! What an illustration of the tragedies ot ; the snow is found in that sene between : (Jlencoe and Glencrerau one February in j Scotland, where Ronald Cameron comes ! forth to bring to his father's house his I cousin Flora McDonald for the celebration I of a birthday, and the calm day turns into a ' hurricane of white fury that loaves Ronald and Flora as dead, to be resuscitate I by the shepherds! What au exciting struggle I had Bayard Taylor umoug the wintry j Apennines! I In the winter of 1819, by a similar fores, j tho destiny of Europe was decided. Ths trench army nwrcbeJ up toward Moscow five hundred thousand men. What can re sist them? Not bayonets, but the dumb ele ments overwhelm that host. Napoleon re treats from Moscow with about two hundred thousand men, a mighty nucleus for another campaign after he gets "back to Paris. Tim morning of October 19, when they start for home, is bright and be.autiail. The air is tonic, and although this Russian campaign has been a failure Napoleon will try again iu some other dirodion with his host of brave Durviving Fr8?hinen. But a cloud comes ou the sknd the air gets cnui, ann one of the soliiers feels on his cheek a snowflake. and then there is a multi plication of theso wintry messages, and soon the plumes of the otHcars are decked with an other style of plume, and then all the skies let loose upon l.he warriors a hurricane of snow, and the inarch becomes difficult, and the horses find it hard to pull the supply train, and tho men bein to fall under the fatigue, aud many not able to take another step lie down in the drifts never to rise, au 1 tha cavalry horses stumble and fall, a id one thousand of the army fall, and teu thousand perish, and twenty thousand go down, aud fifty thousand, and a hundred thousand, aud a hundred and twenty thousand and a hun dred and thirty-two thousand die, and the victor of Jena and bridge of Lodi aud Eylau and Austerlitz, where three great armies, commanded by three emperors, surrendered to him; now himself surrenders to the snow flakes. Historians do not seem to recognize that the tide in that man's life turno I from Dec. 16, 1809, when he banished by hideous divorce his wife Josephine from the palace, and so challenged the Almighty, anil ths Lord charged upon him from the fortress of the sky with ammunition of crystal. Snowel under! Billions, trillions, quadrillions,quin trillions of flakes did the work. And what a suggestion of accumulative power, and what a rebuke to all of us who get discouraged be cause we cannot do much, and therefore do nothing! Oh, says some one, "I would like to stop I the forces oE sin and crime that are marchin r i for the conquests of the nations, but I am 1 nobody: I have neither wealth nor eloquence ! nor social power. What can 1 do?" My I brother, how much do you weigh? As rnueu ' as a snowflake! "Oh, yes." Then do your : share. It is an aggregation of small infl'j- ences that will yet put this lost world back ' into the bosom of a pardoning God. Alas that there are so many men and women who will not use the one talent becausa t'aey have not ten, and will not give a pmny because they cannot give a dollar, and will not spea'i as well as they can because they are not elo quont, and will not be a snowflake bscauso they cannot bean avalanche! In earthly wars the generals get about all the ereJit, but in the war for God and righteousness and heaven all the privata soldierj will get crowns of victory unfaidu?. When wa reach heaven by the grace of God may we all arrive there I do not tiling we will be able to begin the new song rigut away becauss of the surprise we shall feel at the comparative rewards given. As we are being conduct ad along the strsec to our celestial residence we will bein to where live some of those who were mig.ity on earth. We must ask, "Is So-and-s) here?" And the answer will be: "Yes. I think he is in the city, but we don't hear much of him; he was good and he got in, but he took most ot his pay in earthly applause; he had enough grace to get through the gate, but just where he lives I know not. He squeezed through somehow, although I think the gates took the skirts ot hs gar-, ments. I thins he lives in one ot .those back streets in one of the plainer residences." Then we shall see a palace, the doorsteps ot gold, and the wiudows of agate, and the tower like the sun for. brilliance, and char iots before the door, and people who look like princes and princeses going up and down the steps, and we shall sav, "What one ot the hierarchs lives here?" That must be the residence of a Paul or a Milton, or some one whose name resounds through all the planet from which wa have Just ascended." "No, no," sari our celestial dragoman; "that is the residence of a loul whom you never heard ' "When she cave her charity her left hand knew not what her right hand did. She wu ! mighty in secret prayer, and no one but ! God and ber own mil knew it. She had more trouDi i than anybody in all the land I where she lived, and without complaining , j sh bona it. and though her talents weru ; never great, what she had was all conse i crated to God and helping others, and the I Lord is making up for her earthly privation I ' by esoecial raptures here, and the King of , this country had that place built especially I lor her. The walls began to go up when her j troubles aud privations and consecrations 1 began on earth, and it so happened what a I i heavenly coincidence' that the last stroke ' : of the trowel of amethyst on those walls was ! I given the hour she entered heaven. I "You know nothing of her. On earth her ' name was only once in the newspapers, and j that amougha column of the dead, but : I she is mighty up here. There she comes now out of her palace grounds in her chariot be- I hind those two white horses for a ride on the 1 I banks of the river that flows from under the throne of God. Let me see. Did you not 1 I Bave in your world below an old classic wuich says something about these are thev 1 wao come out of great tribulition, and they I hJ raicn for ever and ever " I Aa we pass up the street I Had a eood manv on foot, and I sav to the dragoman: "Who are these?" And when their name is an nounced I recoiinizo that some of them were 1 on earth great poets, aud great orators, and great rowchants, and great warriors, ami when I empress tuy surprise aoout their goms; I afoot the dragoman ays: "In this country people ant rewarded not according to the number of their earthly talent-, but accord- ! ing to the us thby made of what they had ." I And then I thought to invself: "U'hv, that theory would make a snowflake that falls cheerfully and IB the right plaTe, and does all the work assigned it, as 'honorable as a whole Mont lilaac of suowflakes." 1 "Yes, ye," savs the ce)ostial dragoman, I "many of thesi pearls that yon find ou the 1 foreheads of tho righteous, and many of the gems iu the jewel omseof priwv an I princess, i are only the petrified no ilakes of earthly . tempest, for Hod doos not forget the promise ! made iu regard t) them, 'Tney shall be Min 1 said the Lord of host in tlv.f day when ( make up My jewels.'" Accumulated power! ; All tho prayers and charities and kindnoscs ' and talents of all the good -oncmtered arid compacted will be the world's evangelizttiou. This thought of th.' aggregation of the many smalls into that one mighty is another treas ure of the snow. j Another treasure of the snow is tho sug- i gestion of th usfjlnessof sorrow. Absence , of snow last winter made all nutious sick. That snowless winter has not yet ended its ' disasters. Within a few weeks it put tens of thousands into the s;rave, and left others in homes and hospitals gradually to go i down. Called by a trivial name, the Rus sian "grip," it was an international plague. Plenty of snow means public health . There Is no medicino that so soon cures the world's malarias as these white pellets that the clouds administer pellets small enough to be homeopathic, but in such large doses as to f be allopathic, and melting soon enough to be hydropathic. Like a sponze, every flake ab sorbs uuhoalthy gases. The tabids of inor- . tality in New York and Brooklyn imme diately lessened when the snows of last De cember bojan to fall. I ho snow is one of the grandest and best of the world's doctors. Yes, it is necessary for t ie land's produc tiveness. Great snows in winter are general ly followed by great harvests next summer. 1 Scientific analysis has shown I hat snow con tains a larger percentage of ammonia than ' the rain, and henco its greater power of en- I richmeiit. And besides that, it is a whit) blanket to keep the earth warm. An ex amination of snow in Siberia showed that it was a hundred degrHs warmei- under the snow than above the snow. Alpine plants perished in the mil i winter of England for : lack of enough snow to keen them warm. Snow strikes back the rich gases which other wise would escape in tho air ami be lost. Thank (iod for the snows, nnd may thoso of Pebniary be as plentiful m those ot Dei-ember ami January have lieen, high und deep and wide ami enriching; th n the harvests next July will embroider with gold this en tire Auieri'-an continent. ; What mellowed and glorilie I Wilherfon-e's Christian characier? A financial mistort ine ( that led him to write, "I know not why my 1 life is spared so long, ex-e;it it be to show j that a man can be as happy without a tor tune as with one." What gave John Milton such keen spiritual eyesight that he could see the battle of the ;in;els:' Kxlinmiishment of physical eyesight. Whit is the highest observatory for studying tiio stars of hop- ; and faith and spiritual prom is-? The bc ' liever's sick bed. What proclaims the richest ' ' and most golden harvests that wave on nil i the hills of heavenly rapture:' The snows, I the do:p snows, the awful snows of earthly : calamity. And that comforting thought is , one of tbe treasures of the snow. I I Another treasure of tho snow is the sngges- I tion that this mautle covering tho earth is like the soul after it is forgiven. "Wash me." said the Psalmist, "aud I shall be whiter than snow." My dear friend Gash- . erie De Witt went ovbr to Geneva, Swiizer- ' laud, for the recovery of his health, but the Lord had somethiug better for hnu than ; earthly recovery. Little did I think when I bade him gool-by one lovely afternoon oil 1 the other side of tne sea to return to America, that wo would not rne;t again till we meet 1 in heaven. As he lay oue Sabbath morning 1 on hisdyin pillow in Switzerland, the win dow op'.ai. he was looking out noon Jlor.t lilanc. The air was clear. That great mountain stood in its robe of snow, glitter ing in tho morning light, and my friend said to his wife: "Jennie, do you know what that snow ou Mount Diane makes me think of? It makos me think that th ) righteousness of Christ and the pardon of God cover all the sini and imperfections of my life, as that snow covers up that mountain, for the promise is that though our sins bo as scarlet, they shall be as whito as snow." Was not that glorious? I do not care who you are, or where you are, ycu need as much as 1 do that cleansing which made Gasherie De Witt good while he lived and glorious when he died. Do not take it as the tenet of an obsolete theology that our nature is corrupt. We must be changed. We must be made over again. The ancients thought that snow water had especial power to wash out deep stains. ; All other water might fail, but melted snow ! would make them clean. Well, Job had I great admiration for snow, but he declares in substance that it he should wash bis I soul iu melted snow he would still becov- i I ered with mud, like a man down iu a ditch j l (Job ix., M). "If I wash myself in snow i water, and make my hands ever so clean, yet snalt thou plunge me in the ditch and mine own clothes shall abhor me." ; We must be washed in the fountain of I God's mercy beforo wa can be whiter than snow. "Without holiness, no man shall see tho Lord." Oh, for the cleansing i power I It there he in all this audience one manor ' woman whose thoughts have always been i right and whose actions are always right, let such a one rise, or if aiready standing, j lift tho right hand. Not one! All we. like sheep, have gone astry. Unclean! unclean! ; And yet wo may be made whiter than snow whiter than that which, on a cold winter's morning, after a night of storm, clothes tho tree from bottom of trunk to top of highest : branch, whiter than that which this hour , makes the Adirondack?, and the Sierra i Nevada and Mount Washington heights of pomp and splendor fit to enthrone au arch angel. iu the time of Graham, the essayist. In one mountain district of Scotland an overage of I ten shepherds perished every winter in the snow drifts, anil so he proposed that at tbe distance oi every nine a poie uiteen ieet nigu and with two cross pieces be erected, show I ing the points of the compass, and a bell nung at tne lop, so tnai fver.v reeie wuuiu ring it, and bo tbe lost one on the mountains would hear the sound and take the direction given by this pole with the cross pieces and , get safely home. Whether that proposed plan was adopted or not I do not know, but I declare to all you who are in the heavy and blinding drifts of sin and sorrow that there is a cross near by that can direct you to home arid peace and God; and hear you not the ringing ot tbe cospel bell hanging to that cross, saying, "'This U the way: walk y in itr SMILES OF CONTENTMENT ISSUED FROM THE PENS VARIOUS HUMORISTS. OF Pleannnt Incidents Occurring the World Over Salngii that Arc Cheerful to th Old or Young -Jokes That tvorj LhhIj Mill Enjoy Heading. The .silver Lining. StraDjrer (in railway station) So yon went on a long journey to get a situa tion as newspaper reporter, only to tind that tho newspaper bad suddenly changed hands? Despopdeut Youth Yes. Tbe trip took all tbe money I had saved up, aud now I don't know what to do. Stranger Keep up your courage. Every cloud has a silver liniug. I got a situation on a newspaper when I was yonng. but I was discharged for a slip which I could nut help, and could not pet another job as reporter anywhere. Pretty cloudy, wasn't it ? Despondent Youth Yes, but where was Ihelsilver lining? Stranger Driven to desperation, 1 started a peanut and apple stand, am' now 1 am oho of the wealthiest fruit imjiorters iu the country, instead ing a worn-out editor iu a poor '(' l'o7.- IVcekiu. of be LoU-c A Dil'.eiont Anlmat. OllllSIIlg on a king! Yallorliv Mll)e: meldie. gives a coon no authority to 7'e.nf.s Sijliiiij.i. lint lat llo .-O, hull ! , (.rowing; Neighborhood. " ies, sir," said the real p-dn'c man, "it's a splendid investment, I assure mi. You'Ii double your money in a' your." "lint I'm afraid it's rathor far out," tniil the victim dubiously. "I'ar out ! Why, it's not six miles from the ciutier of tiicen and Yoimge! that's nothing nowadays, iglit al most cull il, central property, in fact, it's a growing neighborhood." "Well, I guess I'll take a couple of lots." "See here, you infernal, lying, rasc ally swindler, I'll have my money back or prosecute you for falso pretenses. I wont out to tee those lots you sold me. YVhy, it's a wilderness, sir -a perfect MiidornAs. Actually, a crop of hay is growing on the street!" "A!i - just so. Very fine luxuriant hay, too. 1 told you it was a good glow ing neighborhood, didn't I? What you kickiu' about?" !rij). Times ('Iiango. "All! soitgne-i!" sighed the-ice man ns he half rose from his seat in the car and sank back again. "What is it?" was asked by an ac qiiinlaiice. "Dil you see that man make up a face at me as wo passed?" "Yos." "Well, he's a butcher, and uses font hundred pounds of ice per day. Lasl year at this time lie was fending nie Uf. roasts of beef and tickets to thf theater. "--Frc 1'rexs. Ambition. Fond Mother My son, with your nd vantages you should rise above yoni fellows. Why should not you hope one day to po to Congress? Ambitious Sou That's what I'm aim ing for mother. 1 am already takina boxing lessons. Street d'' Smith's Gouu News. A Warning lo Boy. Sunday School Teacher Why did the whale Kwallow Jonah? Little 15oy For goiu' fishia' ou Sun day. Texas Sifting. 1.7 Trolits on .small Capital. Tramp (to handsomely-dressed lady on the avenue) I'lease, mum, my family is starvin', au' I'll have ter sell my wheeibairer ter buy bread. It's just around the corner, mum. Would yo like ter buy it? Lady Mercy me! What could I do with a wheelbarrow? I live in a flat, my good man. unt 1 will help you gladly. Here's a dollar. Tramp (to himself)-That's $( I've made ter day tryin' ter sell a wheel ban er to kind people what lives in Hats, an' I ain't got no wheelbaner nuther. Sew 1 ork Weekly. An l".rcr-ll?:ii'ir Tl-Iist. Thousand MdaK.uikt at 2 convipsr iri'c. Good to a Thousand Points. Thi n and cillo hooks aro now sold by tho Cincinnati, Hamil ton & Dayton P.. U at tho rat; of JUL anil a--esptsdoaaU division of ths C, H. fi 1). au 1 fifteen othr rojili, reaching a tlnuiin l or more points, Th3 purc'.iasi of uno of those mileajs bookiauures tho pism;or not only she.ip riding but aa ever-roaiy tie'.;ot. Thoy will bjirood forpassaie bstweea Cincinnati, Indianapolis, UhicATO, St. LonK T dado, liuf falo, Salaman-!8, FU Wayne. Peoria. Ann Ar bor, Cadillac (Mich.) anl ioau'njrablo other points. The followln; roads will accept them between at 1 stations: Buflnlo Southwestern. Chioago & Erie and N. Y., P. & O. Divisions of the Erio B'r, Dayton Union; Dayton, it. Wayno fc (Jhlosiro, Flint & Pere Marquette, Fu Wayne, Cinolnnatl & IjonUville, Grand Trunk bstwesn Detroit and Buffalo, Indian apolis, Decatur A Western. Lake Erie & W ost ein, Louisville, New Alhauy Ohicairo.Terre Hauts 4 Peoria. Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern Michigan, Wheeling Uke brio and Vannalia Line for continuous pawns' us tffceftCiasioufttf and gt, bauj, s - - " j liil'.oiliy Wlial'fo' yo' staring at nie Ko v Hull A cut km ook lm- 1 T3BII.UX0 EXPEEIZXOL CenaraVe Stateasat uf Peraaaal : cer aaa Pravlasaclal The following story which is sllii siie. wide attention from the press is soremarx-. xola that we cannot excuse ourselves kf WS do not lay it bofore our readers, entire. Tn th Editor Roclir'.er (.V. ') Democrat 'V dn-.-O.n tho tirst day of June, 1S3U 1 law at my residence in this city surrounded mf r.iv triends and waiting for death. Heaven ociy knows the agony I then endured, tar words can never describe It. And yl if a tew years previous any one had told ma that l was to be brought so low, and by so ter rible a disease, I should have scoff sd at sh idea. I ha 1 always been uncommonly stroaex and healthy, and weighed over 300 pound m l hardly knew, in my own experieaesv wnut pain or sickness ware. Terr man. yryj jm ,tUO win rean mis statement rem a, times that they are unusually tired I anuot account tor it. They feel dull l n venous parts of the body and do understand w hy. Or they are oxcsathnely lutigry one day andentire.y wuhoutappetitsr the ueit. This was just the way I felt arhen the relentless malady which had fastened ifc v;if upou me Cist began. Still I though uothi:is- of it, that probably I had taken old vrhu-j would soon pa.-. away. Hhortly afler this I no;ied a haavy, and at tunas le.i.algu-. nam iu one gidj of my head, but is r. wojl.l i-omv one day anl bo gone th l lest. 1 paid little attention t it. Thenmr -loiiia 'h would get o.it oT order and say ' "". failed to dio 'sv. causing at tiroes r-'it inconvenience. Yr, evea as a p'oy- Citt-i, I did not thin'-; tua: tnese things -e-uit anything serious. I ranoied I wan off.-:-.ng irom malaria aui doctored mysatf i oi-.liuiv. lint 1 ;ot iu better I next . loli'-.-d a peu-.iliar color and oior about th l.iid, 1 was (lassing Also that there were arge ipm.itities one day an 1 very little tin i'ii, ant that a persistent frotti and scum ipp-.ued on the surias', and n sediment -'tied. And yet 1 did not r?uiii3 my ani-r, for. Hide-I, s-em these svmptouM Minimally. 1 Dually bocnue accu.-tonied ta 'diem, and my suspi.-ion was w holly disarmed nv the Met Hint I had no paiu in the .ili' vtfd organs or in their vi -iuitv. r,"ay I dioull 1:avc bv-eu so bhud I cauuot UDvier- I consulted the bst medical skill In ths land. I isited all the tamed mineral sorin? in America and traveled from Maine U ' a iloruia. Still I grew worse. Ju two p.iysicians agreed as tj niv malady. On said 1 was troubled with spinal irritation; jnol'n-r, oysnopia; another, hoirt uisr&se; u ni 'the:-, xciierul debility; another, cooget, Uon of tint base of tin brain; and so '":i through a long list of common diseases, taj :y.iiptonis ot many of wh;eli i really had. iu triis way several years passei, during, whicu time I wj-, stoa nly growing worss. My condition lind really b-vouie pitiabl. 'i tie litrlit. swiipionis 1 had at first esperi--uc st were tlrvcopeil into lerrible and con--iant disomcr. My weigtu had been re-..u-'ed fr-'in I07 to Y-A) pouuos. My lil'a was i bard-u oi myself ami iri-nds. I could .-ct :i in no In d on my stomar. i, and i lived v. hoiiy t v cctii.!i. 1 Hiha living mass . pain. M i.n:-e w-.s linen;, roianie. In myatony 1 triqiu-ntiy tt II to the floor and I'.utcb'il the ' .ir;i und prayed lor deatb. Morp: ine iia i lit;le or no ctlect m deadeciiixg live puin. l or sis days ami nights 1 had thu ,Htli-prcnionitory lii'-cougli constantly. .My water was lilled with tube-oasts audi :iii umen. I was struggling with Bright' divase of the kidneys in its last stages! While Mill mug thus 1 received a call from my pastor, tho Hev. Dr. Footc. at that time) i, ctor of tit. Paul's Episcopal Church, of this city. I felt that it was mir last interview, but in the curse of conver.-ation Dr. Foots detailed to nic the many reniRi kabla eurs of cases like my own which had come under his ui scrviitiun. As a practicing physician and a ciMiluale oi the schools, I derided the idea ol mi v medicine out.-dde the regular channels I cmg iu the h nst beneiicial. So sodcitious, however, was Dr. Koine, that 1 tinally prom ised 1 would waive my prejudice. I bewail its u.-o on the lirst day ot June, 18M, and tool; u n.vor.ling to directions. At first ic sicki ned m.j: but this I thought was a good s.gn ti r in m my det iliiatfd condition. I c. iiitciue 1 to take it; the sickening s.-n.-atiou cii parted and 1 was tinally able lo retain lood upon my stomai o. In a lew days I noticed a deemed change for the iiett"r, as also did my wife and :Yi"inl- My hiccoughs ceased iinl I experienced U -s p:un tunn lonneny. 1 was m rejoiced at tins unproved condition that, upon what I hail tedeved butatew myi lie.oro wus my nyittg bed. I vowed in .1." presence of my i im.lv and friend?, should 1 recover, I woum both putjlic'.y and piiv.i'elv make know this remedy for tile g..od of humanity, wherever ami wneuever I nud an opportunity, ami this letter is in fu! iidiiit iit ot that vow. My improvement was constant from that tim-, and in less than three months 1 had gained twenty-six ponnis in t;,ts!i, ti'M-ame entirely ireo iroin pain ui i behove I owe my life and present condition wholly to Warner's Sale Care, the remedy WilICQ I U-cd. s ince my n-covery I have thoroughly rt investii;.iled the subject oi kidney difficulties nud Uright.'s di.-cise, and tho truths devel oped are astounding. I therefore state, d liotrately, and as a physician, that I believe ..ml e f.'ii'ifi o;ir-half the Uaths which occur i,i Amrrira ms cdii.W li-j Wright's disease ii' l.ic l;iihfjs. This mav s-ui:d likearAsri ...l.-itcment. b it. inm prepared to fully verily it. Hright's disease has n.i distinctive feat ures of its own (indeed, it otten develops witho.ilan v pain whatever in the kidneys or then- vicinity), but has the symptoms ot n.iarly cvary other connion complaint, liuiidreds of people die daily, whose burials are authorize! by a physician's certificate a, or. -lining from "Hearc Disease," "Apo plexy," Paralysis," Spinal Complaint," "liiieumatism," "Pneumonia," and other common complaints, whea in reality it is from I'.right disease of tin kidneys. Pew physicians, and fewer pcooie, realize the ex tent of t his disease or its dangerous and in sidious nature. It steals into the system liko a thief, manifests i;spresjiK'e if at a'l by the commonest symptoms and fastens itself in the constitution before the victim is awaro of it. It is nearly as hereditary as consump tion, ipiito ns common and fully as fatal. Ei' ire families, inheriting it from their an-i-is'h'j, have died, and vol none of the nnm b 'r knew or realized tho mysterious power which was removing them. Instead of com mon symptoms it ottfn shows nonewhat i'ver, but briinrs death sud lenly, from con vulsions, apoplexy or heart disrase. As ono who has suffered, and knows by its bitter ex-pei-ienea what he says, 1 iinplnra everyone who reads thesa words not to neglect the slightest symptoms of kidney difficulty. No uni can afford to hazard such chances. I make the foregoing statements based upon facts which I can substantiate to the letter. The welfare of thnsa who may pos sibly b9 suff erers such as 1 was, is an ample iiidwwment forme to take tho step I have, and if I can successfully warn others front i h dangerous path iu which 1 ones walked. 1 am willing to endure all professional ami personal consequences J. B. HEMON M. T). Rochester, N. Y., DeomVr .10. Insiend of I rvlnir t" nppes the fili'o , Spring potts keep on nildlnitduel to the fttii.e The survival of th- li'l Ihut alwHys wins in h do -t is the doctrine fi;ht. if bollfvtsl to be rmined by polsononn miasms art . tog from low, marshy lanil, or Iroiiulecajlug vegeia--.. . tie matter, unit wUlcb, breathed Into toe laa . enter anil poison the blood, lr a healthy condition .. tha ltlnn.1 u mAlntAliteri hv tnklnc ftnnrt" llama ' n barsaparllla has cured many severe com of tale die- s treMtng alToctlon even Iu the advanced stages Whs v the terrible cbill and fever prevailed. Trj It , -And If you decide to take llood'i Smiljaririatto t not be Induced to buy any subaUtuta. -' 1 ,,j Hood's aarsaoarma t cs.A k stll rimnrcrlat- Alt air fnr AV Prinaji il mmtm by C I, HOOD c ua. Apouecarte uweu "n -y i ' 1 00 Posen QnA Joii4iI tf m oV,y
The New Bernian (New Bern, N.C.)
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