Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 3 October 1890 — Page 7

IN FAR-OFF PALESTINE. A SERMON PREACHED BY DR. TALMAGE, The Celebrated Divine Paints a Wonder, nal Word Picture of the Beginning of His Memorable Journey to the* Holy X,and and Other Old World Regions. Dr Talmage has begun a series of sermons on his recent journey to the Holy Land. The subject of the first sermon was “My first day in Palestine. The text was, I Kings, x. 7: “The half was hot told hie.” This is the first sermon in a course of Sabbath morning sermons on “My Recent Journey through the Holy Land and Neighboring Countries: What I Saw and What I Learned.” Out of the 64,000,000 of our present American population and the millions of our past only about 5,000 have ever visited the Holy Land. Os all those who cross to Europe less than 5 per cefit. ever get as far as Rome, and less than 2 per cent, ever get to Athens, and less than a quarter of 1 per cent, ever to Palestine. Os the less than a quarter of 1 per cent, ■who do go io the Holy Land some see nothing but the noxious insects and the filth of the Oriental cities, and come back wishing they had never gone. Os those who see much of interest and come Lome only a small portion can tell what they have seen, the tongue unable to report the eye. , The chief hindrance for going to Palestine with many is the dreadful sea, and though I have crossed it ten times it is more dreadful every time, and I fully sympathize with what was said one night when Mr. Beecher and I went, over to speak in New York at the anniversary of the Seamen's Friend Society, and the clergyman making the opening prayer quoted from St. John, “There shall be no more sea,” and Mr. Beecher, seated beside mo, in memory of a recent ocean voyage said, ‘‘Amon; I am glad of that/’. By the partial abolition of the Atlantic Ocean and the putting down of rail tracks across every country in all the world, the most sacred land on earth will come under the observation of so many peoplp who will be ready to tell of what they saw that infidelity will be i pronounced only another form of insanity,: for no honest man can visit the Holy Land and remain an infidel. This ‘Bible../ront which I preach has fallen apart, for I read from it the most of the events in it. recorded on the very places where they occurred. And -ome of the leaves got wet as the wave's dashed over bur boat ,on Lake Galilee. and the book was jostled,in the - saddle-4.an- for many weeks, but it is a new book to me, newer than any book that yesterday came out of any' of our great printing houses. All my life I had heard of Palestine, and I had read about | it, and talked about it, and preached about it, and st.nar about jt. and prayed about it. and dreamed about it, until 4 my .anticipations v-ere piled tip into f something like Himalayan proportions, and yet I have to cry out, as did the Queen of Sheba'when she first visited the. Holy Land, ••The half was not. told me.” Inorder to make the more accurate ’ and vivid a. book I have been,writing, a ajife of Christ, entitled “From Manger to> Throne,” I left home' last October, and on the' last, night of November we were walking the decks of the Senegal, a Mediterranean steamer. It was a >hip of immense proportions. There were butsfew passengers, for it is generally rough at that time.of year, and pleasnrists are not apt to be voyaging there and then. The stars were all out. that night. Those armies of light seemed to have had theif shields newly burnished. We walked the polished deck. Not much was said,, for in., all our hearts was the dominant word “to-mor-rbw.” Somehow the Acropolis, which a few days before had thrilled us at Athens, now in our minds lessened in the height of its columns and the glory of its temples. And the Egyptian pyramids in our memory lesssened their wonders of obsolete masonry, and the Coliseum pf Rome was not so vast a ruin as it a few weeks before had seemed to be. And all that, wo had .seen and heard dwindled in. importance, for to-morrow, to-morrow A we shall see the Holy Land. “Captain, what time will we come in ' sight of Palestine2”' ‘•Well,” he said, “it the wind and r sea remain as they are, about daybreak," Nevpr was I so- impatient fora, night to pass. I could not, see much use for that night, anyhow. I pulled a-ide the curtain from tho porthole of my stateroom, sb that the first hint of dawn would waken rite. But it was a useless precaution. Sleep was ajnong the impossibilities. Who could be -o stupid as to slumber when any moment ■ there might start, out. within sight of the ship the land where the most stupendous: scenes of all time and all eternity were enacted—land of ruin and redemption, . land where- was fought the battle that made possible, iand of Godfrey and Saladin, of Joshua ami Jesus? Will the night ever be gt>nc? Yes. it. is growing lighter, ami along the horrizon there is st met hi ng like a bank of clouds, ami as a v atehman paces the deck. I say to hiiif, “What, is that out yonder'?" “'I hat is land. sir/’ said the sailor. ’‘The land!" 1 cried, and soon all our friends,were aroused from sleep and the shore began more,, clearly to reveal ’itself. With roar and rattle and bang ■/ the am hor&lr >pped in the roadstead a half mile from land, for though Joppa is the, only harbor of Palestine it is the - worst harbor on all the’—eqasfs. Sometimes for wee,- no ship stops there, Between rocks tJboiit seventy-live feet apart a small boat must take the passengers' ashore. The depths arc strewn with the skeletons of those who have attempted •to land or attempted to embark. Twei/t yseven pilgrims perished with one crash e,of a boat again-t the rocks. Whole fleets of- Crusaders; of Romans, of . Syrians, of Egyptians have gone to Splinters there. A writer eight hundred years ago said he stood on the beach in' a storm at Joppa, and out of the thirty ships ail but seven went it? pieces oh the rocks and a thousand Os the dead were washed ashore. Strange that with a few blasts of powder like that which shattered our American Hell Gatja those rocks have not been uprooted and the way cleared, so that great ships, instead of anchoring far out from land, might sweep up to the wharf ~ for passengers and freight. But you must rernemlier that dand is under the Turk, and what the 'l urk touches he withers. Mohammedanism is agginst easy wharves, against, steamers, agaimH rail trains, against printing presses? against civilization. , / As we descend the narrow steps trl/the side of the strip we heard and quarrel and swearing of fifteen or sixteen different races of men of all features, and all colors and all vernaculars; all different in appearance, but all alike in desire to get our baggage and ourselves at exorbitant, prices. Twenty boats and only ten passengers to go ashore. The man having Charge of us pushes aside some, and strikes with heavy sticks others, and by violence that would not be tolerated in our country, but which seems to be the only manner of making any impression there, clears our way into one of the boats, which heads for the shore, We are within fifteen minutes of the Christ land. Now we hear shouting from the beach, and in five minutes we will be. landed. The prow of the boat is

caught by men who wade out to help us in. We are tremulous with suppressed excitement, our breath is quick, and from the side of the boat we spring to the shore, and Sunday morning, Dec. 1, 1889, about 8 o’clock, our feet touched Palestine. Forever to me and mine will that day and hour be commemorated for that pre-eminent mercy. Let it be mentioned in prayer by toy children and children's children after we are gone, that morning we were permitted to enter that land and gaze upon those holy hillsf and feel the emotions that rise and fall and weep’and laugh and sing and triumph at such a disembarkation. On tfce back of hills one hundred and fifty feet high Joppa is lifted toward the skies. It is as picturesque as it is quaint, and as much unlike any city we have ever seen, as though it were built in that star Mars, where a few nights ago this very September astronomers, through unparalleled telescopes, saw a snow storm raging. How glad we were to be in Joppa! Why, this is the city where Dorcas, that queen of the needle, lived and died and was resurrected. You remember that the poor people came around, thOead body of this benefactress, and brought specimens of her kind needlework and said. “Dorcas made this,” “Dorcas sewed that,” “Dorcas cut and fitted this,” “Dorcas hemmed that.” According to Lightfoot, the commentator, they laid her out in state in a public room, and the poor wrung their hands and cried and sent for Peter, who performed a miracle by which the good woman came back to life and resumed her benefactions. An day for one Womsn! She was the model by which many women of our day have fashioned their lives, and at. the first blast of the horn of wintry tempest there appear ten thousand Dorcases — Dorcases of Brooklyn, Dorcases of New York. Dorcases of London, Dorcases of all the neighborhoods and towns and cities of Christendom-—just as good as the Dorcas of Joppa which I visited. Thank God for the ever-increasing skill and sharpness and speed and generosity of Dorcas’ needle. ••What is that matrdoing?" I said to the dragoman in the streets of Joppa. “Oh. he is carrying his bed.” Multitudes of people sleep'out of doors, and th-iit is the way so many in those lands become blind. It is from the dew of the night failing on the eyelids. As a result of this, in Egypt every twentieth person is totally blind. In Oriental lands Hie bed | is made, of a thin small mattress, a blanket and a pillow, and when the man rises in the morning he just ties up the I three into a bundle and shoulders it a.nd I takes it away. It was to ‘that the Saviour referred when he said to' the sick man, “Take up thy bod and walk.” An American couch or an English couch would require at least four men to carry it. but one Oriental can easily manage his slumber equipment. But I inhale some of the odors of the large tanneries around Joppa. It is there to this <lay. a prosperous business, this tanning of hides.- And tha/remjrids me of Simon, the tanner, who lived at Joppa, and was the- host of Peter, the apostle, I suppose the olfactories of Peter were as easily insulted by the odors of a tannery as others. But the Bible says, ••He lodged with one Simon, the tanner/’ People who go out to do reformatory and missionary and Christian work must not be too sensitive. Simon, no doubt, brought to his homestead every Hight the mal-odors of the calfskins and ox-hides in his tannery, but Peter lodged in that home, not only because he may not have been invited to the houses of the merchant, princes sur- j rounded by redolent. gardens, but to teach all men and women engaged in trying to make the world better, that they must not be squeamish and fastidious and finical and over-particular in doing the work of the world. But reference to Peter rethinds me that we must go to the housetop in Joppa where he was taught the democracy of religion. That was about the - queerest thing that ever happened. On our way up to that housetop we passed an old well where the great stones were worn deep with the ropes of the buckets, | and it must be a well many centuries old, and I think Peter drank of it. Four or five goat or calfskins -filled with water lay about tlfe yard. We soon got up the steps and on tlie housetop. It was in such a place in Joppa that Peter one noon, while waiting for dinner, had a hungry fit and fainted away, and had a vision or dream or trance. I said to my family and friends on that housetop, ••Listen while I what, happened here/’ And opening the Bible we had the whole story. It seems that Peter on the housetop dreamed that a, great blanket Was let down out of Heaven, and in it were sheep and goats and cattle, and mules and pigeons and buzzards and snakes and all manner of creatures that fly the air, or walk the field, or crawl the earth, and in the dream a voice told him as he was hungry to eat, and he said, “I cannot eat. things unclean.” Three times he dreamed it. There was then heard a knocking at the gate of the house on the top of which Peter lay in a trance, and three rnep asked, "Is Peter here?” Peter, While-yet wondering what his (Iream meant, descends the stairs and meets these strangers at the gate, amd they tell him that a good man by the name of Cornelius, In the'cityof Ciesarea has also had a dream and Iras sent them for Peter and to ask him to come and preach. At that call Peter left Joppa for Ciesarea. The dream he had" pre-, pared him to preach, for Peter learned by it. to reject no people as unclean, and whereas he previously thought he must i preach only to.the Jews, now he goes to preach the Gentiles, fwho were conNotice how the two dreams meet— Peter's dreajn on the housetop,Cornelius’ dream at < lesa'rea. . So I have noticed providences meet, distant events meet, dreams meet. Eyery dream is hunting up some other dream, and eVery event, is searching for some other event. In the Fifteenth century (1 ffi?)-the great event was the discovery of America. Theart of printing, born the same century, goes out to meet that discovery and make the New World an intelligent world. The Deidaratitui of Independence, announcingequal rights, meets Robert Burns’- ( A man’s a man for a’ that. The United States was getting too large to be managed by one government, arid telegraphy was invented to compress within an hour the whole continent. Armies in the civil war were to be fitted out with clothing, and the sewing machine invention Came out to make it possible. ’lmmense farming acreage is presented Ln this country, enough to support millions of our native born and millions of foreigners; but the old st of plow and scythe and reaper and thresher cannot do the work, and there come steam plows, steam harrows, steam reapers, steam rakes, steam thj-eshers, and the work is accomplished. The forests of the earth fail to afford sufficient fuel, and so the coal mines surrender a sufficiency. The cotton crops were luxuriant, but of comparatively little value, for they could not be managed; and so, just the right time, Hargreaves came with his invention of the spinning jeny, and Arkwright with his roller, and McKinney with his cotton I gin. The world, after pottering along with tallow candles and whale oil, was crying for better light and more of it, and the hills of Pennsylvania poured out rivers of oil and kerosene illumined the nations. But the oil wells began to fail,

and then the electric light comes forth to turn night into day. So all events are woven together, and the world is magnificently governed, because it is divinely governed. We criticise things and think the divine machinery is going wrong, and put our fingers amid the wheels only to get them crushed. But I say, hands off I Things are coming out gloriously. Cornelius may be in Caesarea, and Peter in Joppa; but their dreams meet. It is one hand that is managing the world, and that is God’s hand; and one mind that is planing all things for good, and that is God’s mind; and one heart that is filled with love and pardon and sympathy, and that is God’s heart. Have faith in Him. Fret about nothing. Things are not at loose ends. There are no accidents. All will come out right in your history and in the world. As you are waking from one dreaiii up stairs an explanatory dream will be knocking at the gate down stairs. But standing on”this Joppa house-top I look off on the Mediterranean, and what is that strange sight I see? The waters are black, seemingly for miles. There seems to be a great multitude of logs fastened together. Oh, yes, it is a great raft of timbers. They are cedars of Lebanon which King Hiram is furnishing King Solomon in exchange for 20,000 measures of wheat, 20,000 baths of oil and 20,000 baths of wine. These cedars have been cut down and trimmed in the mountains of Lebanon by the 70,000 axmen engaged there, and with great withes and iron bolts are fastened together, and they are »■ floating down to Joppa to be taken across the land for Solomon’s temple, now building at Jerusalem, for we have lost our hold of the Nineteenth century and are clear back in the ages. < The rafts of cedar are guided into what is called the Moon Pool, an old harbor south of Joppa, now filled with sand and useless. With long pikes the timber is pushed this way and that in the water, then with levers®and many a loud, long “10, heave!” as the carters get their shoulders under the great weight, the timber is fastened to the wagons and the lowing oxen are yoked to the load, and the procession of teams moves on with crack of whip and drawled out words which, translated. I suppose would correspond with the “Whoa, haw, gee!” of modern teamsters, toward Jerusalem, which is thirty miles away, over mountainous distances which , for hundreds of years defied all engineering. And those rough cedars shall become carved pillars, and beautiful altars, and rounded bannisters, and traceried panels,' and sublime ceiling, and exquisite harps, and kingly chariots. As the wagon train moves out from Joppa over the plain of Sharon toward Jerusalem I say to myself, what vast numbers of people helped to build that temple of Solomon, and what vast numbers Qf people are now engaged in building the wider, higher, grander temple of righteousness rising in the earth. Our Christian ancestry toiled at- it, amid sweat and tears, and hundreds of the generations of the good, and the long train of Christian workers still moves onf] and, as in the construction of Solomon’s temple some hewed with the ax in the far away Lebanon, and some drove a wedge, and some twisted a withe, and some trod the wet and slippery rafts on the sea, and some yoked the ox. and some pulled at the load, and some shoved the plane, and some fitted the joints, and some heaved up tbfe rafters, but all helped build the tempie.’thougß some of these never saw it, s(k now let us all put our hands, ana our shoulders, and 0 our hearts to the work of building the temple of righteousness, which is to fill the earth; and one will bind a wound, and another will wipe, away a tear, and another will teach a class, and another will speak the encouraging word, and all of us will be ready to pull andolift, and in some way help on the work until the millenial morn snail gild the pinnacle of that finished temple, and at its shining gates the world shall put down its last burde'n, and in its laversi wash off its last’ stain, and at its altars the last wanderer shall kneel. At the dedication of that temple all the armies of earth and heaven will “shoulder arms” arfclj “present-arms’’and "ground arms” for “behold! a greater than,Solomon is here.” But my first davdn the Holy Land is ended. The sipff! is already closing his eye for the niiMt. I stand on the balcony of a hotel which was brought to Joppa in pieces from the State of Maine by some fanatics who came here expecting to see Christ reappear in I’alestine. My room here occupied by that Christian hero of the centuries —-English, Chinese, Egyptian, world-wide Gen. Gordon, a man mighty for God as well as for the wrfirld’s pacification. Although the first of December and winter, the air is ftiil of fragrance from gardens all a-blooln, and under my window are acacia and tamarisk, and mulberry and century, plants and orange groves and oleander. From the drowintss of the air and the fatigues of the day I feel sleepy. Good-night! To-morrow morning we start for Jerusalem. She Changed Her Mind. A young couple in an English village hacLbeen courting for several years. The young man one clay said to the young woman : “Sal, I canna marry thee.” “How’s that?” said she. “I’ve changed iriy mind,” said he. “Well, I’ll tell you what |we’ll do," said she. “If folk know that’s thee as has given me up, I shanna be able O to get another chap, but if they think that I’ve given thee up, then I can easy get another chap. So we’ll have the banns published, and when the wedding day comes the parson will say to thee, ‘Wilt thou have this woman t</be thy wedded wife?’and thee must sat,-‘I will;’ and when he says to me,, "Wilt thdu. have this man to be thy wedded husband ?’ I shall say, ‘I wanna.’” The clay came, and when thb minister said, “Wilt thou have this woman to be thy wedded wife ?” the man answered, “I will.” Then the parson said to the woman, “Wilt thoij have this man to be thy wedded husband?” and she said, “I will.”“Why,” said the young man furiously, “you said you would say, “I winna.” “I know that,” said the young woman, “but I’ve changed my mind since.” Jay Gould’s Pen-Wiper. As practical a man as Jay Gould has a mascot. He has clung to it for seventeen years. It is a pen-wiper made of blue velvet. It is always upon Mr. Gould’s desk, and he locks it in a special compartment when he leaves the office. The pen-wiper was fashioned by the fingers of Mr. Gould’s eldest daughters Miss Helen, when she was but 3 year, old. Just before the great strike on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, which cost Mr. Gould $1,000,000, the pen-wiper mysteriously disappeared. It returned to his desk in an equally mysterious way when the strike was oyer. Many persons criticise in order not to seem ignorant; they do not know that indulgence is a mark of the highest culture.

Setting Way Back on a Practical Joke. Next to a dog that amnse's himself by barking all night a rooster that persists in exercising its voice, is nature’s own nuisance, especially when the rooster lives in town. A banker who used to live next door to Dr. Jim White, in Richmond, Va., owned two little bantam roosters that he had taught to crow for a grain of corn. He would take a double-handful of corn into his back porch, lift his hand and the chickens would crow. Then he would give a grain of corn to each of them. This would be continued until all the corn was exhausted and the roosters were hoarse. This sort of thing annoyed Dr. White. He didn’t mind the quality of the noise, but he objected to the quantity. One day a .medical student dropped into the office about the time the serenade began. “I’d give five dollars to shut off that -infernal noise.” said the de ctor. “You can do it for loss than that,* said the student. “Why don’t you entice them into your back yard some time when old Rufe is down town, catch them and cut their vocal chords?” “By Jove! That’s the thing. Come arouhd to-morrow at eleven o’clock and assist me in the operation. ” The next day at the appointed hour the student was in the office on time, so were the roosters. Within two minutes one vocal chord of each chicken was cut and then the birds were tossed over the fence to their home. At noon the owner came out on his porch for his daily amusement White and the student watched him through a crack in the fence. He lifted his hand and the little squallers reared back and went through the motions, but did not utter a sound. The banker lifted his hand again with the same result. He went out into the yard and walked around his pets, but he couldn’t see anything wrong. Then he called his wife and the two made a critical examination. He madc4hem go through their pantomime for an hour andF got disgusted. He tried it eyery day for a week and then killed the roosters and ate them. W’hen he found out six months afterward what White t had done he bought two large donkey-voiced parrots, trained them to say “ Dr. White” and “White is an ass” and hung their cage in his back porch. ' White moved in-h week. Extra I.lability to STalar ial Infection. Persons whose blood is thin, digestion weak and liver sluggish, ara extra-liable to the attacks of malarial disease. The most trifling exposure may, under such conditions, infect a system which, if healthy, would resist the miasmatic taint'. 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Brave Men Faltered. Ik was a Green Mountain barge. 7 Says the Rar Harbor Record: It was crowded to its utmost capacity with men, women and children, with more than the usual complement of the former. When about half way up Mt. Desert St., the driver turned about on his elevated seat, put his head through the window and suag out in stentorian tones. “Can you squeeze one more woman in there?” It was a trying situation to the passengers of both sexesi The ladies blushed and shrank as much farther away from their male cavaliers as the limited space of the barge would permit, in order to give the lie to the implication conveyed in the question. The men seemed less inclined to deny the refutation, while one young man who had more courage than the rest answered in the laconic words of CoL Miller, “I’ll try, sir.” Commendable. All claims not consistent with the high character of Syrup, of Figs,are purposely avoided by the Cal. Fig Syrrip Company. It acts gently on the kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing the system effectually, but it is not a cure-all and makes no pretensions that every bottle will not substantiate. i The Ceffee Supply. Customer—Give me a pound of Java C(flfee. New Boy (diving with a scoop into a Coffee bin) —Yessir. Customer — Wait, I’ve changed my mind. I’ll take Mocha instead. New Boy—(diving into the same bin) —Yessir. Customer—See here, you started to get the Java out of that bin. New Boy—Yessir. No difference in th’ coffee, sir, only diff’rence is in th’ price.— Street & Smith's Good News. HOME-SEEKERS, ATTENTION I One More Cheap Excursion VIA. The Wabash Railroad. For the accommodation of Home-Seekers and others going West, the_Great Wabash Line will run one more LOW RATE EXCURSION to points in Missouri, Kansas. Texas, Arkansas. Oklahoma. New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, lowa,North and South Dakota. Nebraska, Minnesota, Montana, Idaho, and Utah, on Tuesday, October 1890. Tickets will be sold on above dates at HALF FARE, or one fare for the round trip, allowing an extreme return limit of thirty days, with stop-overs, etc. Remember the Wabash is the only line between the East and West operating magnificent FREE RECLINING CHAIR CARS on all through trains, and is distinctively the people’s favorite route. For rates, routes, maps, and other descriptive matter, apply to F. Chandler, G. P. &T. A.. St. Louis, Mo., or R. G. Thompson, P. &T. A., Fort Wavne, lud. The Coming Jurist. C—How did you come to put your son at studying law, when the whole country is overstocked with lawyers? D—Y’ou forgot that there are not very many great American jurists, so theffe is a fine opening for the lad. — Texas Siftings. The very best way to know whether or not Dobbins’ Electric Soap is as good as it is said to be, is to try it yourself. It can’t deceive you. Be sure to get no imitation. There are lots of them. Ask your grocer Improving a Quotation. Callowchump (who objects to some of the old man’s observations) —Where ignorance is bliss, ’twere folly to be wis6. Oldboy—Yes, young min; and where impudence is wit, ’twere folly to be bright. Strange Indeed that a plain thing like SAPOLIO should make'! everything so bright, but “a needle clothes others, and is itself naked.” Try a cake in your next house-cleaning. jj A man who always'tclls the bar-keeper to “hangit up” is a great bavower. No Opium in Piso’s Cure for Consumption. Cures where other remedies fail. 25c. What is the most unfortunate vegetable they could have on board a ship? A leek. i JSCOTTS] Emulsion ; Os Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites ‘ Os Lime and Soda. There are emulsions and emulsions, I and there is still much skimmed milk I which masquerades as creatp. Try as I they will many manufacturers cannot ao disguise their cod liver oil as to make I it palatable to sensitive stomachs. Scott’s Emulsion of PURE NORWEGIAN COD I.IUER OIL, combined with phites is almost as palatable as milk. J Ear this reason as well as for the fact of the stimulating qualities of the Hypophosphites, Physicians frequently prescribe it in cases of ' . CONSUMPTION, SCROFULA, BRONCHITIS and ! | CHRONIC COUGH or SEVERE COLD. I AU Druggists sell it, but be sure you get { the genuine, as there are poor imitations. \ \ .wmaOiiiigacTtoFfinLiH ' Sent for trial in your home before you buy. Local Ajrents CfJ. 1 (JM must sell inferior instruments or KJLGig •harsre double what we ask. UataloßUefree EABCIIAL A SMITH FI ANO CO., , ‘ y SS& £aat Stlrt N.Y. IB TTBED by CHILVRZN’S L'HIUtKEN. Thousands ot young men and women in this country owe their lives, their health and their hapniness to Ridire’s Food, their daily diet in Infuey and Childhood having been Ridge’s Food. 35 cents up. War Druggists, WOOLItICH St CO.. Palmer. Maas.. 1 CAT CHI Name this paper when you write. OLD CLAIMS ■ ClMdlUlßd Settled under NEW Eantr. Soldiers, Widows. Parents send for Mank aaplicatioa. and information. Pntrlek O’Fnrrell, Pension Agent. Wnahlmsrton. D. C. nmeiniiQ ■a EMC I A.M C NEW LAW. 300.000 soldiers, IltBwIUMo widows and relatives entitled. Apply at once. Blanks and Instruction free. ■ BOLTERS M CO.. AtTys, Waaliiiigton. IKC. Freeman a money, Washington, d. o> Patxnt. Pension, Claim and Land ArroaNnisH. D. Money, IO years member of CongressA. A. Freeman, 8 years Asst U. 8. Atfy GenYNiUNTAIN PEN-THE BEST OOT —BXNT ON

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