Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 23 January 1891 — Page 3

!A WONDERFUL WORD. DR, TALMAGE PREACHES AN ABLE SERMON ON “COME.” » * Tills Word May Bo Used for Good or tor Evil—lt Is Found Many Times In the Scriptures—lt Beckons, Other Words Drive. 4 Dr. Talmage chose the following texts for his sermon: “Come’’ (Gen. vi, 18); * “Come”(lffiv. xxii, 17). Imperial, tender and all persuasive is this word “Come.” Six hundred and seventy-eight times is it found in the ■ Scriptures. It stands at the front gate f of the Bible as in my text, inviting antei diluvians into Noah’s ark, and it stands at the other gate of the Bible as in my second text, inviting the post-diluvians into the ark of a Saviour's mercy. “Come” is only a word of four letters, » but it is the queen of words, and nearly the entire nation of English vocabulary bows to its scepter. It is an ocean into which empties ten thousand rivers of meaning. Other words drive, but this beckons. All. moods of feeling hath that wcrd _> “Come.” Sometimes it weeps and sometimes it laughs. Sometimes it prays, sometimes it tempts and sometimes it destroys- It sounds from the door of church and from the seraglios of sin, from the gates of heaven and the gates of hell. It is confluent and accrescent of all power. It is the heiress .of most of the past and the almoner of most of the future. “Come!” You may pronounce it so that all the heavens will be heard in its cadences, or pronounce it sb that all the woes of time and eternity shall reverberate in its one syllable. It is on ) the lip of saint and profligate. It is the mightiest of all solicitants either for good or - >. To-day I weigh anchor, and . haul in the planks and set sail on that great word, although I am sure I will not be able to reach the farther shore. I will let down the fathoming line into this sea and try to measure its depths, and, though I tie together all the cables and . cordage I have on board, I will not be V able to touch All the power of the Christian religion is fn that word “Come.” The dictatorial and commandatory in religion is of no avail. The im- ‘ perative mood is not the appropriate mood when we would have people sav- # ingly impressed. They may be coaxed, but they cannot be driven. Our hearts are hke our homes; at a friendly knock the dpor will be opened, but an attempt to force open our door would land the assailant.in prison. Our theological seminaries which keep young men three years in their curriculum before launching them into the ministry, will do well if in so short a time they can teach the candidates for the holy office how to say with right emphasis and intonation and s power that one word “Come!” That man who has such efficiency in Christian work, and that woman who has such power to persuade people to quit the wrong and begin the right, went though a series of losses, bereavements, persecutions, and the trials Oftwerity or thirty years before they could make it a triumph of grace every s. time-they uttered the word “Come.” You must remember that in many cases our “come" has a mightier “come" to conquer before it has any effect at all. .lust give me the accurate census, the statistics, of how many are down in fraud, in drunkenness, in gambling, in impurity or in vice of any sort, and I will give you the accurate census or statistics of how many have been slain by the word “come.” “Come and click wine glasses with me at this ivory bar.” “Cnmtsand see can win at this gambling table." “Come,' enter with me this doubtful speculatio.u!" "Come with me and read those infidel tract's on Christianity." “Come with me to a place of bad amusement.” “Come with in|e in a gay bout through underground New York.” If in.this city there ar« twenty »• thousand who are. down in moral character, then twenty thousand fell under the 1 • power of tile word “come.” I was beading of a wife whose husband had been overthrown by strong drink, and she went to the saloon where ho was ruined and said: “Give mv back my husband.” Ami the bartender, pointed , to a maudlin and ba.ltevod man drowsing ‘ in the corner of the bar-room said: “There he is. wake up; lu re’s your wife pome for you.' ” And the woman said: "Do you call that my husband? What have you been doing with him? Is that the manly brow? Is that the clear eye? Is that the noble heart that I married? What vile drug have you given him that has turned him into a fiend? Take your tiger claws off of him. Uncoil those serpent folds of evil habit that are crushing him. Give me back my husband, the one witli whom I stood at the altar ten years ago. Give him back to mo!” Victim was he. as millions of others have been, of ttfib word “come!” .

Now we want all the world over to harness this word for good as others' have harnessed it for evil, and it will draw the five continents and the seas be- , tween them: yea, it will draw the whole earth back to the God fi’om which it has wandered. It is that wooing and persuasive word that will lead men to give nj) their sins. Was skepticism ever brought into love of the truth by an ebullition of hot words against infidelity? Was ever tint blasphemer stopped in his oaths by denunciation of blasphemy? Was ever a drunkard weaned from his cups by the.temperance lecturer's mimicry of staggering step and hiccough? No. It was, “Come with me to church " to-day and hear our sin'gine;’’ “Come and let me introduce you to a Christian man whom you will be sure to admire; - ’ “Come with me into associations that are cheerful and good and inspiring; - ’ “Come with me into joy such as you never before experienced. - ’ With that word which has. done so much for others I approach you to-day. Are you all right with God? “No,” you say, “I think not; *1 am sometimes alarmed when I think of Him; I fear I will not be ready to meet Him in the last day; my heart is not right with God.” Come, then, and have it made right. Through the Christ who died to save - yon, come! What is the use in waiting? . The longer" you wait the further off you are and the deeper you are down. Strike out for heaven! You remember that a few years ago a steamer called the Princess Alice, with a crowd of excursionists aboard, sank in the Thames, and there was an awful sacrifice of life. A boatman from the shore put out for the rescue, and he had a big boat, and ho got it so full it-would not hold another person, and as die laid hold of the oars to pull for the shore, leaving hundreds helpless and drowning, he cried out, “Oh, that I had a bigger boat!” ’ Thank God, I am not thus limited, and that I can promise room for all in this gospel boat. Get in; get in! And yet there is room. Room in the heart of a pardoning God. Room in heaven. I also apply the word of my text to those who would like practical comfort. If any ever escape the struggle of life, I have not found them. They are not certainly among the prosperous classes. In most cases it was a struggle all the way up till they readied the prosperity, and since they have reached these heights there have been perplexities, anxieties and crises which were almost enough to shatter the nervesffcnd turn the brain. It would be hard to tell which have the biggest fight in this world—the prosperities or the adversities, the conspicui-

ties or the obscurities. > Just as soon As you have enough success to attract thia attention of others, the envies and JeaD ousies are let loose from their kennels. The greatest crime that you can commit in the estimation of others is to get on better than they do. T’hey think your addition is their subtraction. Five hundred persons start for a certain goal of success; one reaches it, and the other four hundred and ninety-nine are mad. It would take volumes to hold the story of the wrongs, outrages and defamations that have come upon you as a result of your success. The warm sun of prosperity brings into life a swamp full of annoying insects. On the other hand the unfortunate classes have«their struggles for maintenance. To achieve a livelihood by one who had nothing to start with, and after a while for a family as well, and carry this on until children are reared and educated and fairly started in the world, and to do this amid all the rivalries of business, and the uncertainty of crops, and the fickleness of tariff legislation, with an occasional labor strike, and here and there a financial panic thrown in, is a mighty thing to do, and there are hundreds and thousands of such heroes and heroines who live unsung and die unhonored. What we all need, whether up oi- down in life or half way between, is the infinite solace of. the Christian religion. And so we employ the word “Come!” It will take all eternity to find out the -number of business men who have been strengthened by the sromises of God, and the people who have been fed by the ravens when other resources gave out, and the men and women who, going into this battle armed only with needle or saw or ax or yardstick or pen or type or shovel or shoelast, ■ have gained a victory that made the heavens resound. With all the resources of God promised for every exigency, no one need be left in the lurch.

I like the faith displayed years ago in Drury Lane, London, in a humble home where every particle of food had given out, and a kindly soul entered with tea and other table supplies, and found the kettle on the fire ready for the tea. The benevolent lady said, “How is it that you have the kettle ready for the tea when you had no tea in the house?” And the daughter in the home said, “Mother would have me put the kettle on the fire, and when I said, ‘What is the use.of doing so, when we have nothing iii the house?’ she said: ‘My child, God will provide. Thirty years he has already provfdcd for me through my pain and helplessness, and He will not leave me to starve at last. He will send us help though we do not yet see how.’ We have been waiting all day for something to come, but until we saw you we knew not how it was to come.” Such things the •world may call coincidences, but I call them almighty deliverances, and though you do not hear of them, they are occurring every hour of every day and in all parts of Christendom. But the word “Come” applied to those who need solace will amount to nothing unless it be uttered by some one who has experienced that solace. That spreads the responsibility of giving this gospel call among a great many. Those who have lost property and been consoled by religion in that trial arc the ones to invite'thpse who have failed in business. Those who have lost their health and been consoled by religion, are the ones to invite those who are in poor health. Those who have had bereavements and been consoled in those bereavements are the ones to sympathize with those who have lost father or mother or companion or child or friend. What multitudes of us are alive to-day, and in good health and bouyant in this journej r of life, who would have been broken down or dead long ago, but for the sustaining and cheering help of our holy religion! So we say “Come!” The well is not dry. The buckets are not empty. The supply is not exhausted. There‘is just as much mercy and condolence and soothing .power in God as before the first grave* was dug, or tlie first tear started, or the first heart broken, or the first accident happened, or the first fortune vanished. Those of us who have felt the consolatory power of religion have a right tospeak out of our own experiences and say “Come!” Whitt dismal work of condolence the world makes when it attempts to condole! The plaster they spread does not stick.- The broken bones under their bandage do not knit. A farmer was lost in the snow storm on a prairie of the far west. Night Coming on, and after he was almost frantic from not knowing which way to go. his sleigh struck the rut of another sleigh, and he said, “I will follow this rut, and it will take me out to safety.” lie hastened on until lie heard the bells of the proceeding horses, but, coming up, he found that that man was also lost, and, as is the tendency of those who are thus confused in the forests or on the moors, they were both moving jp a circle, and the runner of the one lost sleigh was following the runner of the other lost sleigh round and round. At last it occurred to them to look at the north star, which was peering through tile night, and by the direction of that star they got-home' again. Those who follow the advice of this world Ln time of perplexity are in a fearful round, for it is one bewildered soul following another bewildered soul, and only those ’who have in such time got their eye on tlie morning star of our Christian faith can find their way out, or be strong enough to lead others withan all persuasive invitaition. “But.” says somejone, “you Christian people keep telling us to ‘come,’ yet you do not tell us how to come.” That charge shall not be true on this occasion. Come believing! Come repenting! Come praying! After ail that God has been doing for six'thousand years, some time through patriarchs and sometimes through the culmination of all tragedies on Golgotha, can any one think that God will not welcome your coming? Wilf a father at vast outlay construct a mansion for his son, and lay out parks white with statutes and green with foliage,and all a-sparkle with fountains, and then not allow his son to live in the house or walk' in tlie. parks? Has God built this house of gospel mercy, and will He then refuse entrance to His children? Will a goverhment at great expense build life saving stations all along the coast, and boats that can hover unhurt like a petrol over the wildest surge, and then when the lifeboat has reached the wreck of a ship in the oiling not allow the drowning to sieze the lifeline or take the boat for the shore in safety? Shall God, provide at the cost of His only Son’s assassination escape for a sinking world, and then turn a deaf car to the cry that comes up from the breakers?

“But,” you say, “there are so many things I have to believe, and so many things in the shape of a creed that I have to adopt, that lam kept back.” No, no! You need not believe but two things—namely, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, and that you are one of them. “But,” you say, “I do believe both of’ these things!” Do you really believe them with all your heart? “Yes.” Why, then you have passed from death into life. Why, then you are a son or daughter of the Lord Almighty. Why, then you are an heir or heiress of an inheritance that will declare dividends from now until long after the stars Ure dead! Hallelujah! Prince of God, why do you not come and take your coronet? Princess of the Lord Almighty, why do you not mount your throne? Pass up into the light Your boat is anchored, why do you not go ashore? Just plant

your feet hard down, and you will fee) under them the Rock of Ages. ', I challenge the universe for one Instance in which a man in the right spirit appealed for the salvation of the gospel > and did not get it Man alive! are you going to let all the years of your life go away with you without your having this great peace, this glorious hope, this; bright expectancy? Are you going to let the pearl of great price lie in the dust at your feet because you are too indolent or too proud to stoop down and pick it up? Will you wear the chain of evil habit when near by you is the hammer that could with one stroke snap the shackle? Will you stay in the prison of sin when here is a gospel key that could unlock your incarceration? No; no! As the one word “Come” has sometimes brought many souls to Christ, I wills try the experiment of piling up into a mountain and then sending down in an avalanche of power many of these gospel “Comes.” “Come thou and all thy house into the ark;” “Come unto me all ye who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest;” “Come, for all things are now ready;” “The Spirit and the Bride say ‘Come;’ and let him that heareth say ‘Come’ and let him that is athirst come.” The stroke of one bell in a tower may be sweet, but a score of bells well tuned, and rightly lifttfil, and skillfully swung in one great chime fill the heavens with music almost celestial. And no one who has heard the. mighty chimes in the towers of Amsterdam or Ghent or Copenhagen can forget them. Now it seems to me that this Sabbath hour all heaven is chiming, and the voices of departed friends and kindred ring down the sky saying “Come!” The angels who never fell, bending from sapphire thrones, are chanting “Come!” Yea, all the towers of heaven, tower of myrtyrs, tower of prophets, towpr of apostles, tower of evangelists, tow r er of the temple of the Lord God and the Lamb, are chiming “Come, come!” Pardon for all, and peace for all, and heaven for all who will come. When Russia was in one ot her great wars the suffering of the soldiers had been long and bitter, and they were waiting for the end of the strife. One day a messenger in great excitement a ran among the tent? of shotting “Peace! Peace!” The sentinel on guard asked, “Who says peace?” And the sick soldier turned on his hospital matress and asked, “Who says peace?” and all up and down the encampment of the Russians went the question, “Who says peace?” Then the messenger responded, “The Czar says peace.” That was enough. That meant going home. That meant the war was over. No more wounds and no more long marches. So to-day, as one of the Lord’s messengers, I move through these great encampments of souls and cry; “Peace between earth and Heaven! Peace between God and man! Peace between your repenting Soul and a pardoning Lord!” If you ask me, “Who says peace?” I answer, “Christ our King declares it.” “My peace I give unto you!” “Peace of God that passeth all understanding!” Everlasting peace!

Couldn’t Soft-Soap Him. “Good mornin’,” he saluted as he paused in front of a Michigan avenue clothing house and placed a wearylooking traveling bag on a box. The clothier, who sat in his shirt-sleeves eyed the stranger supiciously and did not return the salute. “Can I get a good suit here for about $1G?” inquired the man as he inspected some of the hanging garments. The dealer made no answer. Indeed, he kept his face turned away. “Suppose 1 should want to pay out S3O in- cash this morning—can you take it in?” continued the stranger. The dealer made no sign. “There are live fellows over at the hotel who want new suits. If I bring ’em over I suppose you will at least thank me for my trouble?” No answer. “I say, old fellow, how would you like to sell me a wedding outfit for cash down!” shouted the stranger, as he slapped the silent dealer on the shoulder. Then the dealer rose up and wavdd him off, and replied: “I vhas on to you, my frent! Please pass on!” “Why, what is it?” “Soap—three cakes for twenty-five cents —remofs paint, grease and tar—■ eafery family -wants him—special rates to der trade. It vhas no use to shtop here. ” The stranger looked him in the eye, uttered a “humph!” of disgust, and walked off as stiff as a crow bar. “It vhas all right,” said the dealer, as he looked after him. “He tries on some cloze and sells me some soap, und goes avhay und doan’ puy sometings; I like to know if dot pays my rent, und makes me pelieve I vhas full of peesness?”— Arkansaw Traveler. Fatal Cane. It is well known that in Spain the methods of “courting” are often exeedingly singular. Generally the lover signifies his choice by coming for three successive evenings with a guitar, and singing a serenade under the fair one’s window; and if he is regarded by the young woman’s parents as an eligible candidate, he is invited into the house. In Andalusia, a Spanish, province, a still more singular ’custom has lately been observed. When a young man there aspires to the hand of a young lady; he calls for three successive days at her parents’ house, at the same hour. The third day he always brings a cane, and goes away, leaving it behind him, apparently forgetting it. If his suit is regarded with favor, the young girl keeps the cane, and gives it back to him when he calls the next day. This makes him her affiancied husblhd. But if, on the contrary, the young man’s suit is not pleasing to the family, his cane out of the window into the street. This is regarded as a delicate way of telling him that he need not come again; and the young man, who has lingered near meanwhile, reads hisjown fate in the indignity put upon his walking-stick. — Youth's Companion. , The Pyramids as Building Material. The Bosphore Egyptian (writes “An Anglo-Egyptian” to the London Times') announces a new act of astounding vandalism, which that amiable journal does not hesitate to insinuate, is connived by the Egyptian Government. Three gangs of workmen, under two local sheiks, are daily extracting blocks from the lower courses of the two largest pyramids of Gizeh. These are broken up on the spot and carried away on a camel-back for building purposes. The sheiks allege that they are doing this work of destruction by permission of the government, whereas they, it is said, obtained only a permit authorizing them to remove scattered blocks (des blocs eparpilles). That these Arabs should exceed their license is not surprising ; but it is surely, to say the least of it, extraordinary that a Government partly administerd by Europeans should have granted such powers to native overseer, unchecked by the presence of one of their own officials. The pyramids do not belong to the Khedive noi to his government; they do not even belong to the Egyptians. They are the inheritance of the world.

THE NATIONAL SOLONS. SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRET SENTATIVES. Our National Lawmakers and What They Are Doing for the Good of the CountryVarious Measures Proposed, Discussed, and Acted Upon. * The Senate of tlie United States is foi* nn* adulterated free coinage. It reached this conclusion at midnight on the 14th when Senator Vest sprung his substitute for everything that had gone before, and it was adopted by a vote of 39 to 27. The vote was not so large but that the majority was the same as that which prevailed in the vote early in the evening when the Stewart free-coinage amendment was adopted Vest’s substitute was put in dramatically in order to get rid of the other provisions which had been kept in th<? bill. It doesn’t differ in its essence from the StewArt proposition, but it is simpler in that it provides for the free coinage of a silver dollar of 412*4 grains. The silver Senators had been generous enough to let some of the provisions of the original Sherman bill stand, in so far as the national banks were to be permitted to increase their circulation up to par and so on. But the simon-pure free-coinage men grudged this concession, and they were ready when Vest’s substitute was offered and massed tbeir votes in its support. Senator Aldrich tried to stop the progress of the substitute, but he had not the votes and it could not be done. There was unusual commotion, and a good many sleepy Senators wondered what the latest deal between the silver Republicans and the Democrats was. They could not help noticing that a Democratic Senator had assumed the leadership. The free coinage bill is passed and the election bill is again before the Senate. The final vote had barely been announced on the free coinage measure when Senator Hoar got the recognition of the Chair and moved that the election bill be taken up as unfinished business on the 15th,' The Democratic Senators were awaiting this and Senator Butler moved an adjournment. But they were not awaiting or expecting what followed. The motion to adjourn failed to secure a majority, the vote standing 33 to 33. Then the question recurred on Senator Hoar’s motion to take up the election bill. Again there was a tie. but Vice President Morton cut it by giving the casting vote for the first time since he has been presiding officer of the Senate. In the Senate, on the 15th, the joint resolution suspending for another year from March 29 next the act requiring steamers to carry life-saving appliances was reported and placed on the calendar. Mr. Washburn introduced a bill to credit O. M. Laraway, late Postmaster at Minneapolis, with $11,115, the value of postage stamps Stolen from his office in July, 1886. Mr. Manderson introduced a bill to establish a branch mint at Omaha, Neb., and Mr. McConnell one for a mint at Boise City, Idaho. Mr. Morgan offered a preamble and concurrent resolution on the subject of the recent information or suggestion for a writ of prohibition in the Supreme Court in connection with the Behring Sea dispute with Great Britain. The resolution declares such proceeding to be without precedent, to be prejudicial to the comity of nations, and to the usual and amicable conduct of international relations, and not in consonance with the dignity of the Government and people or with the respect due to the President of the United States. Referred. Mr. Sanders offered a resolution, which was agreed to, directing the Secretary of the Interior to inquire into the claims of settlers within the bounds of Yellowstone Park, March 1, 1872. After the journal had been appoved the House proceed to the consideration of conference reports on public building bills. A message from the Senate was received announcing the passage of the financial bill with a free coinage substitute. The reception of this message by the Democratic side was cordial and effusive, and Mr. Bland, of Missouri, expressed the hope that early action would be had upon the measure. The bill went to the Speaker’s table. Among the communications and petitions received and referred in the Senate, on the 16th, was a communication from the Treasury Department recommending an appropriation of 520.000 for the Marine Hospital at Lake View, Chicago. On motion of Mr. Dolph the Senate bill appropriating $1,873,000 for the early completion of the work for the improvement of the mouth Os the Columbia River, Oregon, and $815,000 for the early completion of the canals and locks at the cascades of the Columbia River, Oregon, was taken from the calendar and passed. The calendar was then taken up and a half-dozen private pension bills were passed. Conference reports on the bills for public buildings at Mankato, Minn. (89,000), and at Sioux Falls. S. I). ($100,000), were presented and agreed to. The election bill was then taken up and the Republicans determined to remain in session until the bill was brought to a vote. One or two motions to adjourn were made and lost and the Senate settled down to an all-night session, Mr. Faulkner having the floor. In the House, Mr, Dingley, of Maine, from the Silver Pool Committee, reported a resolution giving that committee leave to sit during the sessions of the House, and granting it power to conduct the investigation outside of Washington if desired. Adopted. The House then went into committee of the whole on the District of Columbia appropriation bill. Mr. Rogers, of Arkansas, after paying his respects to parliamentary law as recognized by the Speaker, passed on to a brief discussion of the free coinage bill. He appealed to the Republican majority not to ask once more the distinguished Speaker to assume any further responsibility in regard to the silver question. When in the history of the country had a Speaker ever met the demands of his party more bravely or more courageously than had the present Speaker—or more disastrously? Had it come to this that after the Speaker had suffered the terrible penalty resulting from tljg=> responsibility thrust upon him by a party caucus that his party would ask him to make still further sacrifice? Be (Mr. Rogers) submitted to gentlemen on the other-side that if there was further responsibility to be borne on this silver question it should be borne by a gentleman at the other end of the avenue, and by those who openly and boldly denounced free silver. After a continuous session of thirty hours the Senate adjourned at 6 p. tn. on the 17th until the 19th. The Republicans seemed determined to push the election biil to a vote, and the Democrats were equally determined that it should not reach this stage, and the Sergeant-at-arms was kept busy in his endeavors to secure a quorum. When he was dispatched for Senators Hampton and Butler and was. informed by them that , they would come into the chamber when they got good and ready, a new feature was brought into the battle. Dolph, of Oregon, demanded to know if a Senator could not be compelled to attend these sessions. The presiding officer said they could not. ‘‘Then,’’said Mr. Dolph, “if that is our situation we ought to know it.” “Most of us do know it,” suggested Mr. Vance. After that there were no more attempts to coerce the attendance of Senators. The Sergeant-at-arras simply notified Senators that they were needed. Some would respond, others would not. Senator Faulkner closed his speech at 2 o’clock, having had the floor continuously for twelve hours, during six hours of which he At noon not more than a dozen Senators were on the floor. Mr. Daniel followed Mr. Faulkner in a long speech against the bill. Mr. Aldrich, gave notice that on the 20th he would ask the Senate to proceed to the consideration of the resolution to change the rules of the Senate. “Suppose the election bill shall have the right of way then,»-queried Mr. Morgan, “do you propose to displace it?” “The Senate has my notice,” was the response. “I suppose that the election bill will have passed by that time.” [A laugh of incredulity on the Democratic side.] Valuable Autographs. Alexander Pope’s signature is worth 840. Shelley’s autograph Is in demand and will bring SIOO. The only known letter written by Titian brought S6OO. A letter that Raphael wrote to a lady was sold for 8300. An autograph by Burns will be readily purchased for 81Q0. The autograph of Gambetta, which is somewhat rare, will bring 880. The signature of Christopher Columbus finds ready purchase for 8800.

He Wreck Ashore Was more hopelessly stranded than a •wrecked constitution, whether its disaster bo the product of some formidable malady or that alow, premature decay that seems to fasten n pon some constitutions without apparent adequate cause. An excellent means of checking this gradual drain of the sources of vitality is the beneficent tonic, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, which promotes digestion, enriches the blood and gives substance as well as stamina to an enfeebled frame. Constipation, feebleness of the kidneys and bladder, fever and ague, and rheumatism, are among the bodily ailments which it remedies promptly and thoroughly. Persistence in its use is well merited by it. It Still Pursued Him. £ For two months before election he had been seeing nothing in the papers but appeals to citizens to register. Every page seemed to hold it in all sorts of places and all sorts of type. It was too much for him and he felt his head beginning to swim. At last he grabbed his grip and went for Canada. Entering the hotel he said: “Give me a room for the reSt of my natural life.” “But won’t you please register?” the clerk. “What! Here, too!” gasped the unfortunate man, and from that moment he became a raving maniac.—Philadelphia Times. Wow's This ? J , We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Ball’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo. O. We. the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last fifteen years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. He Knew Them. Magazine Editor—l’m going to run the last chapters of your story next month. Author—The last chapters! zWhy. the story has only been running a couple of months and isn’t fairly begun. Magazine Editor—l know it, but the women don’t seem to get interested in it, because they don’t know how it’s going to turn out, so I shall run the last chapters and just suit them.— Boston Traveler. Still Rolling. It has recently been demonstrated that some articles of merchandise, which have been before the public of England for the last half century, are nine times more used there than all other principal patent medicines put together. We refer to Beecham’s Pills, which in order to meet the wishes and requirements expressed by Americans, many of whom already know their value, are now introduced in such a thorough manner that ho home need be without them in America. We believe this shrewd and discerning people will soon join in the universal testimony that they “are worth a guinea a box,” although they can be purchased of druggists for but twenty-live . cents. These pills are round, and will therefore roll. They have already rolled into every English-speaking country in the world, and they are still rolling. All sufferers from indigestion, flatulency, constipation. and all other forms of stomach and liver troubles, have now this famous and inexpensive remedy within their reach; but should they find, upon inquiry, that their druggist does not keep Beecham’s Pills they can send twenty-live cents to the General Agents for the United States, B. F. Allen Co., 365 Canal street. New York City, who will promptly mail them to any address. •*

She Knew How It Was Herself. Bessie—l had a close call last evening. Jessie—So Jack has been up again, eh? —Binghamton Republican. The Only One. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway is the only line running solid vestibuled, electric-lighted and steam-heated trains between Chicago, Milwaukee. St. Paul and Minneapolis. « The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul RaiWay is the only line running solid vestibuled, electric-lighted and steam-heated trains between Chicago. Council Bluffs, i Omaha and Sioux City. The berth reading lamp feature in the I Pullman sleeping ears run on these lines is I patented, and cannot be used by any other i railway company. It is the great improvement of the age, Try it and be convinced. For further particulars apply at any ticket office of the road, or write to Assistant General Passenger Agent, 2(U'Und 209 • Clark street, Chicago, 111. Trying to Be Impartial. Master. —James, upon my word, you ! are wearing my new trousers! ! Valet.—Yes, sir; but I wore the eoat and vest yesterday.-— Texas Siftings. Those of you who are weary and heavy ladened with sickness and care,'weighed down with the infirmities that beset the human system, can find the one thing necessary to restore you to bright, buoyant health In Sherman’s Prickly Ash Bitters. It inI vlgorates and strengthens the debilitated ■ organs, aids digestion, and dispels the clouds arising from a diseased liver. A New York policeman just died from the small-pox. The small-pox can be caught during sleep.— Texas Siftings. I You wear out clothes on a washboard ten times as much as on the body. How foolish. Buy Dobbins’ Electric Soap and save this useless wear. Made ever since 1854. Don’i take imitation. There are lots of them. Many people in this world are so ignorant that they gain fame as newspaper writers. — Maverick. Many modest women suffer rather than apply to a physician; Lydia E. Pinkham s Vegetable Compound has saved thousands of such from lives of misery and early graves. A young lady calls her beau “honeysuckle,” because he- is always hanging over the front railings. FOR THROAT DISEASES AND COUGHS use Brown’s Bronchial Troches. Like all really good things, they are imitated. The genuine are sold only in boxes. “No more reflections, please,” said the looking-glass after it had tumbled down stairs. A cheerful home is where cheerful children play. They cannot be cheerful or have good health unless they are occasionally given Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers. John Milton, by writing ‘-Paradise Lost,” proved himself the original “fall” poet < “The world generally gives ‘honor to whom honor is due?"" Public approval has given SAPOLIO the first place in its line. Try a cake. “It is a mere matter of form,” said the lady as she adjusted her corset The best cough medicine is Plso’s Cure for Consumption. Sold everywhere. 25c. “Good-by” in the telephone reminds one of autumn; it’s the yell o’ leave. If afflicted with Sore Eyes, use Dr. Isaae Thompson’s Eye Water. Druggists sell it 2Sflu Marry in haste and repent at—your father-in-law’s. Cause of Rheumatism An acid which exists in sour milk and cider, called lactic acid, is believed by physicians to be the cause of rheumatism. Accumulating in the blood, it attacks the fibrous tissues in the joints, and causes agonizing pains. What is needed is a remedy to neutralize the acid, and to so invigorate the kidneys and liver that all waste will be carried off. We can honestly recommend Hood’s Sarsaparilla for these purposes. It has cured others of rheumatism and it will cure you. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Bold by all druggists. sl;slxfor|s. Prepared only by C. 1. HOOD A CO, Apothecaries. Lowell, Maae. too Doses On* Dollar * - -■

Tourists, Whether on pleasure bent or business, should take on every trip a bottle of Syrup of Figs, as it acts most pleasantly and effectually on the kidneys, liver, and bowels, preventing fevers, headaches, and other forms of sickness. For sale in 50c and $1 bottles by all leading druggists. • Innocent Womankind. Mrs. Magnus Scott—Are you going into the optical business, Mr. Snively? Snively — Such an idea has never crossed my mind. Mrs. M. Scott—My husband was saying this morning that you were buying out a store at the rate of 10 cents a glass. As he didn’t specify the class of business, 1 inferred it was an optical store.—jewelers' Circular. THE WABASH LHE. H-andsome equipment. E-legant day coaches, and W-agner palace sleeping cars A-re in daily service B-etween the eity of St. Louis A-nd New York and Boston. S-pacious recliniug chair ears H-ave no equal E-ike those run by the I-neomparable and only Wabash. N-ew trains and fasrtime E-very day in the year. From East to West the sun’s bright ray. Smiles on the line that leads the way. MAGNIFICENT VESTIBULE EXPRESS TRAINS, running free reclining chair cars and palace sleepers to St. Louis, Kansas City, and Council Bluffs. The direct route to all points in Missouri. Kansas, Nebraska, lowa. Texas, Indian Territory. Arkansas. Colorado, Utah, Wyoming. Washington. Montana, and California. For rates, routes, maps, etc., apply to any ticket agent or address i F. Chandler. Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent, St. Louis, Mo. A bar-tender can malt-treat a man as often as he pleases, without objections being raised. Beecham's Pills cure Billions and Nervous Ills. When a hen retires for the night it is quite proper to speak of her as a rooster. “THETPOiNT. it A From a Catholic Arch* bishop down to the Poorest of the Poor IBS all testify, not only to the 9 virtues of ST. JACOBS on, The Great Remedy For Pain, but to its superioritv over all other remedies, expressed thus: It Cores Promptly, Permanently; which means strictly, that the pain-stricken seek a prompt relief with no return of the pain, and this, they say, St. Jacobs Oil will give. This is its excellence.

Children always Enjoy ItSCOTTS EMULSION of pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda Is almost as palatable as milk. Children enjoy It rather than otherwise. A MARVELLOUS FLESH PRODUCER It Is Indeed, and the little lads and lassies who take cold easily, may be fortified against a cough that might prove serious, by taking Scott’s Emulsion after tlieir meals during the winter season. Heware vs substitutions and imitations.

PAINLESS. FIULd ? 3TWORTH A GUINEA A BOX.'’M® < For BILIOUS & NERVOUS DISORDERS s a! h ? Sick Headache, Weak Stomach, Impaired < $ Digestion, Constipation, Disordered Liver, etc., > ? ACTING LIKE MAGIC on the vital organs, strengthening the C ? muscular system, and arousing with the rosebud of health < C The Whole Physical Energy of the Human Frame. ( ? Beecham's Pills, taken as directed, will quickly RESTORE < ( FEMALES to complete health. \ \ SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. S S Price, 25 cents per Box. > 5 Prepared only by THOS. BEECHAM, St, Helens, Lancashire, England. / ) jj. F. Allay CO., Sole Agents for United States, 3(53 A - 3(57 Canal St., New > ( York, who (if your druggist does not keep them) will mail Beecham’s Fills on S afal I ill ■ I ■MMB RELIEVES instantly. ELY BROTHERS. 56 Warren St, New York. Price 50 cts.Mg_y< X—’gJ Waterproof collar m cuff —THAT CAN BE RELIED ON BE UP Mot to SpUt! TO - ■ ■ THE MARK JNTO~t tO DISOOIOPg —■ BEARS THIS MARK. IV trade Celluloid mark. NEEDS NO LAUNDERING. CAN BE WIPED CLEAN IN A MOMENT. THE ONLY LINEN-LINED WATERPROOF COLLAR IN THE MARKET. Cures where all else fails. Pleasant and agreeable to the I Efl taste. Children take it without objection. By druggists. Efl _ :—. CHICHESTER'S ENeLISH, RED CROSS DIAMOND BRAND A rum rox KU * r\\i\is A THE ORIGINAL AND GENUINE. The .aly Safe, Baro ud r«Katt. Pill *>rnl«. \ljj7 Ladle*. *»k Orufid.t for OHeAeNw*. Jhfiu* Diamond Brand in Red .nd <.'«<d netallio \y hue. mledwlthblne ribbon. Take a. .ther kind. Bafuaa BaLuUationa and Imitation,. V AU pill, in pasteboard boxee, pink vrappera, are daagerva. cuaterlhlte. At Draff isle, or al 4e. In .tamp, for particular,, teetinoniali, and “ItaOef for Lad lea.” m Uttar, by retan Matt CN.GNWTER PATENTS r - w »- ♦-»»• been?S^".s^ U4 jSrLmauJ When Writing tn Adwrtlaera, pleaaa aaff * BnaggMt WOOLMICM ffalMn JtaMh. “ w Adverttaemeat In thia

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The Hon. J. W. Fennimore is the Sheriff of Kent Co., Del., and lives at Dover, the County Seat and Capital of the State. The sheriff is a gentleman fifty-nine years of age, and this is what he says : “I have ‘‘ used your August Flower for sev- “ eral years in my family and for my “own use, and found it does me ‘ ‘ more good than any other remedy. ‘‘ I have been troubled with what I Sick Headache. A pain comes “ in the back part of my head first, and then soon a general headache ‘ ‘ until I become sick and vomit. *’ At times, too, I have a fullness “ after eating, a pressure after eating “ at the pit of the stomach, and ‘ ‘ sourness, when food seemed to rise “ up in my throat and mouth. When ‘ ‘ I feel this coming on if I take a “ little August Flower it relieves “ me, and is the best remedy I have “ ever taken for it. For this reason ‘‘ I take it and recommend it to “ others as a great remedy for Dys“pepsia, &c.” ® G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer, Woodbury, New Jersey, U. S. A. GRATE F U L—CO MFO RTI NG. ' EPPSSCOCOA BREAKFAST. “By • thorough knowledge of the natural lawi which govern the operations ofdlge-tlon and nutrition, and by a careful appHc atlon of the fine ties of weL-s. lected Cocoa, Mr. Epes has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many neavy doctors’ bllla It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gr dually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us 4 ready to attack wherever there is a weak pcinU We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortlfled with pure blood ai d a pioperly nourished frame.’’—“Civil Service Gcuette.” Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sol* only in half-pound tins ->y Grocers, labelled thus: JAMES EPPS & CO.. Homoeopathic Chemists, London. England. FOR A ONE-DOLIsAR BILIa sent us by mall we will deliver, free of all charges, to any person in the United States, all of the following articles, caretully packed: One two-ounce bott’e of Pure Vaseline 10 etn. One two-ounce bottle ot Vaseline Pomadte,... 15 • One jar of Vaseli”e Cold Cream 15 • One cake Os Vaseline Camphor Ice ...i.... 10 One cake of Vaseline S >ap. unscented......... 10 • One cake of Vaseline Soap, exquisitely scented 26 One two-ounce bottle ot White Vaseline 25 • c ‘ ■ sl.lO Or, for pottage stamps, any tingle article at the price named. On no account be persuaded to accept from your druggist any Vaseline or preparation unless labeled icitn our name, because you will rertaia ly receive an imi'-uion which has little os no value, CliesebroiiKh Mi's:. Co., *44 State St., N. Y. Dropsy TREATED FREE. - Positively Cured withVegetableßemediet Have cured many thousand rases. Cur? patienta pronounced hopeless by the l>est physicians. From first dose symptoms rapidly disap;»enr. and in ten days at least two-thirds of ad symptoms are removed. Send for free book of testimonials of miraculous cures. Ten days treatment furnished free by mail. If you order trial, send 10 cents iu stamps to pay postage. _ DIL H. H. GHEEX & SONS, Atlanta, Ga. $2.50 PER DAY Can be made easy bv any energetic person selling “CHAMPION PASTE STOVE POLISH.** brush required. No hard labor. No dust or dirt. Always ready for use. An article every housekeeper will buy. 210,000 packages sold in Philadelpnin. Exclusive agenev for one or more counties given competent person. Write to-day enclosing stamp for partica ars. You will never regret it. Address CHAMPION CO., 44 N. Fourth.St.a Philadelphia, Pa. EjELIwOBWImI Washington, D.C, Prosecutes ClauTis. ■ Late Principal Examiner U.S. Pension Burea'X ■ 3 yrs in last war, atty sinefe