Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 6 February 1891 — Page 7

ONE THING LACKING. DR. TALMAGE CONTINUES HIS EVANGELISTIC SERMONS. , The Great Array of Good Things an Average Congregation Can Boast Os, Yet Too Many lack That Which is Best of AIL Dr. Talmaee’s text was taken from Mark x, 21: 7“one thing thou lackest.” The young man of the text was a , splendid nature. IVe fall in love with f him at the first glance. He was amiable and frank and earnest and educated and refined and respectable and moral, and yet lie was not a Christian, And so i Christ addresses him in the words that I \ have read to you: ‘-One thing thou lackest.’’ I suppose that that text was no more appropriate to the young man of whom I have' spoken than it is appropriate to a great multitude of people in this audience. arc many things in which you are lacking. For instance, you are not iWfting in a good home. It is perhaps no more than an hour ago that you closed the door, returning to see whether it was well fastened, of one of the best in this city. The yonnger children of the house already asleep, the older ones hearing your returning footsteps, will rush to the door -to meet vou. And in these winter evenings the children at the stand with their lessons, the wife plying the ' needle and youjeading the. book or the paper, you feel that you have a good » home. Neither are you Jacking in the refinements and courtesies of life. You understand the polite phraseology of invitation, regard and a{>ology. You have an appropriate apparel. 1 shall wear no better dress at the wedding than when I coine to the marriage of the King’s son. If I am well clothed on other occasions I will be so in a religions audience. However reckless I may be about my personal I appearance at other times, When I come ! into a consecrated assemblego I shall I have on the best dress I have. We all I understand the proprieties of everyday i life and the proprieties of Sabbath life, I Neither are you lacking in worldly sue- i cess. .You .have not made as much money j t as yougwould like to ni£ke, but you have 1 an income. While others are false when i they say. they have, no income, ■or are ! making no money, you have never told I that falsehood. You have had a livelihood, or yoit have fallen upon resources. which is just the same tiling, for ■ God is just as good to us when he takes care of us by a surplus of. the past as. by present success. While there arc thousands of men with hunger tearing at the ’ throat with the strength of a t iger’s paw, ■ not one. of you is hungry. Neither are i you lacking in pleasant friendship. You j have real good fri, nds. if the scarlet I fever should coine to-night to your house you know very well who would come in ■ and sit up wit/i the sick, one, or. if death ! < should come, you know who would come ' in arid take your hand tight in theirs ! with that peculiar grip Which means j “I’ll stand by you;’’ and, after the life I has fled from the loved one, take you by j the arm and lead you into the next room, I and while you are gone to Greenwood I they would stay in the house and put aside the garments and the playthings | that might* bring to your mind too ■ ** severely your great loss. Friends? You I all have friends. , . | Neither are you larking in your ad- 1 r - miration of the Christian religion. There! •is nothing that makes you so angry as to i have a man malign Christ. You get red I in the face, and you say, “Sir. I want ; you to understand that though I am not'J my self a Christian. I don’t like such j things said as that in my store’’ and the : I man goes off, giving you a parting salu-; tation, but you hardly anwser him. You ! ’ are provoked beyond all bounds. Many i of yon have been supporters of religion' and have given more to: the cause of j Christ than some who profess His faith. I There is nothing that would please you i more than to see your son or daughter ■ standing at the altar W Christ, taking i the vows .of the Christian. It might be a little hard on you. and might make you nervous and agitated for ' a little while, but you would be man ! •nough to say: “My child, that is right, i Go on. lam glad you haven’t been kept ! back by ray example. 1 hope some day ■ to join you.’’ You believe: all the doctrines of religion. A man out. yonder : „ says. 9 *T am a sinn<T.’’ You respond, i “So am I.” Some one says, "I believe ! that Christ came to save the world.” You say. “So do I." . Looking at your character, at your surroundings, I find*i thousand things about which to congratulate you, and yet. I must tell yon in i the loveoand fear of God, and with refer- ' ••nep to my last account, “One thing thou I . . lackest.”-' . > < You heed, my friends, in the first! place, the element of happiness. Some j day you feel wretched. You do not know I what is the matter with you. You say, f “I did pot sleep last night. I think that' must be the reason of my restlessness;” I on “‘I have eaten something that didn’t agree with me. add I think that must be the reason." And yon are unhappy. Oh. my friends. .happiness does not depend upon Some’ of the happiest people I have ever known have been those who have been wrapped in consumption, or stung- with neuralgia, or burning wrt.h the sfiiw lire of some * fever. „ I shail' never forget one man in my first parish, who in excruciation of body cried out; “Mr. Talmage, j forget all my pain in the love and jo\ of Jesus Christ. I can’t think of my sufferings when I think of Christ." Why, his face was illumined! There are young men in this house who would give testimony to show, that there is no happiness outside of Christ, while there is great joy in His service. There are young who have ~ ' not been Christians more than six months, who would stand up to-ni&ht, if I should ask them, and say in the six months they have had more joy and satisfaction than in all Jhe years of their frivolity and dissipation. Go to the door of that gin shop to-night, and when the gang of young men come out ask them whether they are happy. They laugh along the street, and tney jeer and they shout, but nobody has any idea that they are happy. I could call upon the aged men in this b house to give testimony. There are aged < ( num here who tried the world, and they i tried religion, and they are willing to * testify on our side. It was not long ago that ar. aged man arose in a praying circle and said: “Brethren, I lost, my son just as he graduated from college, and it broke my heart, but lam glad now w he is gone. He is at rest, escaped from 1 all sorrow and from all trouble. And then, in 1857, I lost all my property, and you see I am getting old, and it is rather hard upon ine; but I am sure God will not let me drop out of his hands.” I went into the room of an aged manX- - , his eyesight nearly gone; his hearings nearly gone—and what do you,, suppose, he was talking about? The goodness of God and the joys of religion. He said: “I would like to go over and join my wife on the other side of the flood, and I am waiting until the Lord calls me. I am happy now. I shall be happy there.” What is it that gave that aged man so much satisfaction and peace? Physicial exuberance? No, it has all gone. Sunshine? He cannot see it. The voices of friends? He cannot hear them. It is the grace of God, that Is brighter than sunshine and that is sweeter than music. If a harpest takes a harp and finds that all the strings are broken but one string he does not try to play upon j

it. Yet here I will show you an aged man the strings of whose joy are all broken save one, and yet he thrums it with such satisfaction, such melody that the angels of God stop the swift stroke of their wings and hover about the place until the music ceases. Oh, religion’s “ways are ways of pleasantness, and all ber paths are peace.” And if you have not the satisfaction that is to be found in Jesus Christ, I must tell you, with all the concentrated emphasis of my soul, “One thing thou lackest.” I remark, again, that you lack the elements of usefulness. Where is your business? You say it is No. 45 such a street, or No. 260 such a street, or No. 300 such a street. My friend immortal, your business is wherever there is a tear to be wiped away or a soul to be saved. You may, before coming to Christ, do a great many noble things. You take a loaf of bjead to that starving man in the alley, but he wants immortal bread. You take a pound of candles *to that dark shanty, They want the light that springs from the throne of God, and you cannot take it because you have it not in your own heart. You know that the flight of an arrow depends very much upon the strength of the bow, and I have to tell you that the best bow that was ever made was made out of the cross of Christ; and when religion takes a soul and puts it on that, and pulls it back and lets it fly, every time it brings down a Saul or a Goliath.

There are people here of high social position, and large means, and cultivated minds, who, if they would come into the kingdom of God, would set the city on fire with religious awakening. Oh, hear you not the more than million voices of those in these two cities who are unconverted? Voices of those who in these two cities are dying in their sins? They want light. They' want bread. They want Christ. They want heaven. Oh, that the Lord would make you a flaming "evangel! As for myself, I have sworn before high heaven that I will preach this gospel as well as I can, in all its fullness, until every fiber of my body, and every faculty of my mind, and every passion of my soul is exhausted. But we all have work to-do. I cannot do your work, nor can you do my work. Qod points’us out the where we are to serve, and yet are there not people in this house who ate thirty, forty, fifty, and sixty years of age. and yet have not begun the. great work for which they were created? With every worldly equipment, ••One thing thou lackest.” Again, you lack tlie—element of personal safety. Where are those people who associated with you twenty years ago? Where are those people that fifteen ydars ago used to cross South ferry or Fulton ferry with you to New York? Walk down the street where you were in business fifteen years ago and see how all the signs have changed. Where are the people gone? How many of them are landed in eternity I cannot say, but many, many. I went to the village of my boyhood. The houses were all changed. I passed one house in which once resided a man who hail lived tyi, earnest, useful life, and he is in glory now. In the next house a miser-lived. He devoured widows' houses, find spent 'his whole life, in trying to make the world worse and worse. And he is gone—the good man and the miser both, gone to the same place. Ah, did they go to the same place? It is an infinite absurdity to suppose t hem both in the same place. If the miser had a harp what tune did he play on it? Oh. ipy friends, I commend you to this religion as the only personal safety! When you die, where are you. going to? When we leave 'all these scenes, upon what scenes will we enter? When we were on- shipboard, and we all felt ■ that we must go to the bottom, was 1 right in saying to one next to me, ••! wonder if we will reach Heaven •if we do go down tonight?” Was I wise or unwise in asking the. question? I tell you that man is a fool who never thinks of t he great future. I apply tny subject to several classes of people before iqe. First, to that great multitude,of young people in this house. Some of these young men arc in board-ing-houses. They have but few social advantages. They think that no one cares for their souls. Many of them are on small salaries, and they are cramped and bothered perpetually, and sometimes their heart fails them. Young man, to-night at your bed-room door on the third floor you will hear a knocking. It will be the hand of Jesus Christ, the young man’s friend, saying, “Oh, young man.„ let me come in: I will help thee, I will comfort thee. [ will deliver thee.” Take the Bible out out of the trunk if it has been hidden away. If you have not the courage to lay it on the shelf or table, take that Bible that was given to you by some loved one, take it. out of the trunk and lay it down on the bottom of the chair, then kneel down beside it, and read and pray and pray and read until all your disturbance is gone and you feel that peace which neither earth nor hell can rob you of. Thy father’s God, thy mother’s God. waits'for thee, O young man. "Escape for thy life!” “Escape now! “One thing thou lackest!” But I apply this subject to the aged—not. many here —pot many in any assemblage. People do not live tW get old. That is the general rule. Here and t here an aged man in the house. I tel) you the truth. You have lived long enough in this world to know that it cannot satisfy an immortal nature. 1 must talk to you more reverentially than 1 do to these other people, while at the same time J speak with gieat plainness. (> father of the weary step, O mother bent down under the ailments of life, has thy God; ever forsaken thee? Through all years who has been your best friend?" Seventy years of mercies! Seventy years ot food and clothing! Oh, how many bright mortJngs! How many glorious evening hotl’rs you have seen! G father, mother, God has been very good to yon. Do you fee l ! it? Sonic of you have children and grandchildren; the former cheered your young life, the latter twine your gray locks in their tiny fingers. Has all the goodness that God has been making pass before, you- produced no change in your feelings, and must it be said of you, notwithstanding all this. “One thing thou lackest’”

Oh. if you could only feel the hand of Christ smoothing the cares out of wrinkled faces! Oh. if you could only feel the warm arms of Christ steadying your tottering steps! I lift my voice loud enough to break t hrough the deafness of the ear while I cry thing thou lackest.” It was an important appeal a young man made in a prayer meeting when he rose up and said: “Do pray for my old father. He is 70 years of age, and he don’t love Christ!” That father passed a few more, steps on in life, and then he went down. He never gave any intimation that he had chosen Jesus, It is a very hard thing for an old man to become a Christian. I knotvit is. It is so hard a thing that it cannot be done, by any human work; but God Almighty can do it by His omnipotent grace. He can bring youat the eleventh hour—at half past 11--at one minute of 12 He can bring you to the peace and the joys of the glorious gospel. I must make application of this subject also to those who are’ prospeted. Have you, my friends, found that dollars and cents are no permanent consolation to the soul? Yon have large worldly resources, but have you no treasures, no Heaven? Is an embroidered pillow all that you want to put your dying head on? You have heard people all last week talk about earthly values. Hear a plain man talk about the heavenly. Do you not know it will be worse fyr you. O

prepared man, if you reject Christ, and reject Him finally—that it will be worse for you than those who had it hard in this world,because the contrast will make the discomfiture so much more appalling? As the heart bounds for the water, brooks as the roe speeds dewn the hillside, speed thou to Christ. “Escape for thyjife, look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to_ the mountain lest thou be consumed!’ I must make my application to another class of persons—the poor. When you cannot pay your rent when it is due, have you nobody but the landlord to talk to? When the flour has gone out of the barrel, and you have not ten cents with which to go to the bakery, and your children are tugging at your dress for something to eat, have you nothing but the world’s charities to appeal to? When winter comes, and there are no coals, and the ash barrels have no more cinders, who takes care of you? Have you nobody but the overseer of the poor? But 1 preach to you a poor man’s Christ. If you do not have in the winter blankets enough to cover you in tne night, I want to tell you of Him who had not where to lay His head. , If you lie on the bare floor I want to tell you of Him who had for a pillow a hard cross, and whose foot bath was 'the streaming blood of His own heart. Oh, you poor man! Oh, you poor woman! Jesus understands your case altogether Talk it right out to Him tonight. Get down on your floor and say: “Lord Jesus Christ, thou wast poor and lam poor. Help me. Thou art rich now, and bring me up to thy riches!” Do you think God would cast you off? Will He? You might as well think that a mother would take the child that feeds on her breast and lash its life out, as to think that God would put aside roughly those who have fled to Him for pity and compassion. Yea, the prophet says, “A woman may forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb, but I will not forget thee.” If you have ever been on the sea you have been surprised in the first voyage to find there are so few sails in sight. Sometimes you go along two, three, four, five, six and seven days, and do not see a single sail, but when a vessel does come in sight the sea glasses are lifted to the eye, the vessel is watched, and if it come very near then the captain, through the trumpet, cries loudly across the water: “Whither bound?” So you and I meet on this sea of life. We come and we go. Some of us have never met before. Some of us will never meet again. But I hail you across the sea, and with reference to the last great day, and with reference to two great worlds, I cry across the water: “Whither bound? whither bound?” I know what service that craft was made for, but hast thou thrown overboard the compass? IsXhere no helm to guide it? Is the ship at the mercy of the tempest? Is there no gun of distress booming through the storm? With priceless, treasures — with treasures aboard worth more than all the Indies—wilt thou never come up out of the trough of the sea? O Lord God, lay hold of that man! Son of God, if thou wett ever needed anywhere, thou art needed here. There are so many sins to be pardoned. There are so many wounds to be healed. There-are so many souls to be saved. Help, Jesus! Help, Holy Ghost! Help, ministering angels from the throne! Help, all sweet memories of the past! Help, all prayers for our future deliverance! Oh, that now, in this the accepted time and the day of salvation, you would hear the voice of mercy and live! see that the Lord is gracious. In this closing moment of the .service, when everything in the house is so favorable, when everything is sb still, when God is so and heaven is so near, drop your sins and take Jesus. Do not cheat yourself, out of heaven. Do not do that. God forbid that at the last, when it is too late to correct the mistake, a voice should rise from the pillow or drop from the throne, uttering just four words—four sad: annihilating words, “One thing thou lackest.”

Why .Life is so Short. Hardly a day passes without the telegraph announcing the death of some person at the remarkable age of 100 or upward. But why should it be remarkable ? Is it because in the Bible three score years and ten seems to have been placed as the standard of longevity, and four score an age only to be reached by reason of unusual strength ? Why should not man, under favorable conditions, live 100 years? All animal life has been demonstrated to possess a sufficient stock of vitality to keep it going about five times the period the particular animal requires to mature. The horse matures at 5 years and easily lives twenty-five; the dog is a pup until he is about 2 years old, and will live until he is 10 if not overfed, and so on through the list. But man, who should have enough sense to insure himself favorable conditions for extending life, takes about twenty years to mature, andy. instead close up to the century figure, peters out on an average age at 35. The fact is man is prodigal of the vital force with which he is endowed. He discounts it. Boys and girls are not content to mature when nature intends they should. They go to school or work before they should, and take on the clothed and manners of men and women befo e they have stopped growing. Boys become fathers, girls mothers, before they reach the age of normal maturity, and become old men and women before they should have re.ached the prime of life. There is no reason why a man should not live 100 years if he and his forefathers had not and were not spendthrift of their and his vital capital. As it is, man hardlv lives out half his days.— Chicago Herald. Monkeys' Tricks. _ The tigers of India are fond roi monkey-meat and the monkeys are/iiot fond of being eaten. They, therefore, match their brains against the tiger’s cunning and strength in this way: The monkeys drive away tigers and leopards by assembling in all their strength upon the trees beneath which the tiger is lurking, shaking the branches with might and main and pattering down upon and about their would-be devourer sueh a shower of dry sticks, twigs and leaves that the latter is forced, with an angry growl, to quit his lair and seek other and quieter quarters. But no peace is he allowed so long as he remains in their vicinity. The Shepherds Who Saw the Star in the East, In the “Chester Mysteries,” first performed in 1268, the shepherds who saw the star in the east have the homely names of Harvey, Tudd and Trowle, and Trowle’s gift to our Savior is “a pair of his wife’s old hose.” In the same scripture play Noah’s wife refuses to go into the ark without her “gossepes everich one,” and swears by St. John and Christ. When she is at last forced in by her sons she salutes Noah, on his welcoming her, with a hearty box on the ear.— Notes and Queries. The New York Times is of the opinion that wedding presents are made for ■how purposes. They swell a newspaper account of a wedding to gratifying proportions.

DOINGS OF CONG KESS. MEASURES CONSIDERED AND ACTED UPON. At the Nation’s Capital—What Is Being Done by the Senate and Monse—Old Matters Disposed Os and New Ones Con- “ sldered. Jw the Senate, on the 37th, House bill providing for the payment of Indian depredations claims was considered until 2 o’clock, when the apportionment bill was taken up as the unfinished business, the question being on Mr. Davis’ amendment to increase the total number of Representatives from 356 (as proposed in the House bill) to 360, and giving an additional member to each of the States of Arkansas. Minnesota, Missouri and New York. Mr. Davis explained and advocated the amendment. In the House a bill passed for a railway bridge over the Missouri between Council Bluffs and Omaha. The House then went into committee on the military academy appropriation bill. In the course of the general debate, Mr. Bogers ot Arkansas, referred to the recent Indian war „as unprovoked and indefensible. If the report of the massacre at Wounded Knee were correct, the massacre was the most shameful murder in the annals of our national history. If they were true, tha ’committee to whom the resolution of inquiry had been referred should lose no time in providing for a thorough investigation. Therb remain but twenty-nine days of the session and the two houses will be required to work with industry to properly complete the necessary legislation within that period. In order to make up some of the time lost the Senate will hereafter meet at 11 o’clock and as the Senate, when it does settle down to work, proceeds with commendable earnestness, ignoring trifles and technicalities, the belated appropriation bills and other measures that are considered urgent will be speedily disposed of. The Senate has five of the thirteen general appropriation bills, of which three are on the calendar, namely, pension, fortifications and army. In addition to these the Senate Committee has in course of examination and will soon be- ready to report the navy and District of Columbia bills. Before these are reported the House will ■liSve completed several others of the supply bills that are now op the calendar of that body. Senators Gorman, Gibson and Faulkner, on the 29th, informed the Democratic leaders in the House that they had been formally notified by the Republican .Senators in charge of the lelections bill that no further effort would be made to bring up either the bill or the closure resolutions. The death of the bill is certain to be followed by the demise of free coinage. It is now doubtful if the free coinage measure will get out of the Coinage Committee unless the House takes it out. The Senate, by a strict party vote passed the apportionment bill just as it came from the House. Four amendments were introduced to increase by one each the Representatives in Congress from Arkanas, Minnesota, Missouri and New York. All were defeated. Ths solemn and impressive duty of announcing the death of Secretary Windom tc the Senate was performed by Mr. Morrill, the venerable ‘•Father of the Senate.” When the Senate was called to order on the morning of the 30th. nearly every Senator was in his seat, and it was obvious from the air of solemnity that pervaded the chamber that something out of the ordinary had occurred. There was also an air of sadness in the House, and unusual attention was paid to the prayer of the Chaplain. Resolutions of respect were adopted and a committee appointed to attend the funeral. Both houses then adjourned until after the interment.

In the Senate, on the 31st, a number oi bill were reported from committees and introduced. Mr. Cullom presented the resolutions of the House of Representatives of Illinois instructing the Senators from that State to vote, against the Lodge bill and for the free coinage bill. 1 He said he regarded the resolutions iq the nature of petitions and asked that they be filed in the records of the Senate. So ordered. Mr. Morrill offered a resolution for the appointment of a committee of seven Senators to ■.join the House in attending the funeral ol Secretary Windom. The resolution was agreed to and Messrs. Morrill, Washburn, Allison, Harris, Payne and Gorman were • appointed. The army appropriation bill Was then taken up and passed. The House, ■on the same date, passed the military academy appropriation bill and immediately went into committee of the whole on the diplomatic and consular appropriation bilk Walking Fishes. It may seem absurd to speak of fishes as walking. The flying-fish is well known, but its flight looks much like swimming in the air. We naturally think of fishes as living all the time in water; as being incapable, in fact, oi living anywhere else. But nature maintains no hard and fast lines of distinction between animal life which belongs on the land and that which belongs to the water. If we can believe .the accounts of naturalists and there are no grounds for doubting them—there are fishes that traverse dry land and others that walk on the bottom oi the sea. It is reported that Dr. Francis Day, of India, has collected several instances of the migration of fishes by land from one piece of water to another. Layard once met some perch-like fishes traveling along a hot and dusty gravel road at midday. Humboldt saw a species of dorus leaping over the dry ground, supported by its pectoral fins; and he was told of another specimen that had climbed a hillock over twenty feet in 2 height. A French naturalist published in the “Transactions/of the Linnaean Society of Normandy,” 1842, an account of his observations on the ambulatory movements of the gurnard at the bottom of the sea. He observed these movements in one of the artificial sea-ponds or fishing-traps, surrounded by nets, on the shore of Normandy. He saw a score UTgurnards close their fins against their sides like the wings of a fly in repose, and, without any movement of their tails, walk along the bottom by means of six free rays, three on each pectoral fin, which they placed successively on the ground. They ’moved rapidly forward and , backward, to the right and left, grop\ing in all directions with these rays, as if in search of srdall crabs. Their great heads' and bodies seemed to throw hardly any weight on the slender rays, 4 or feet, being suspended in water, and having their weight further diminished by their swimming bladders. When the naturalist moved in the water the fish swam away rapidly to the extremity of the pond; when he stood still they resumed their walking and came between his legs. On dissection the three anterior rays on each pectoral fin are found to be supported each with a strong muscular apparatus to direct its movements, apart from the muscles that are connected with the smaller rays of the pectoral fin. Wise Sayings. A true principle never dies. Activity is not always energy. Every man ofres a debt to mankind. Be the afehitect of your own fortune. The present is the golden moment of life. In shoal water you know how deep ft is. \ Only very mean men always take the half cent. The most lijieral are oftener the most successful. Health is too costly a blessing to be fooled away. Loyalty to best convictions is an important duty. i

Gulf Stream Water, Probably you never beard of it before, the water of the Gulf Stream is confidently believed by certain old people on Staten Island to be a sovereign remedy for disorders of the stomach. They drink half a glass after each meal, smack their lips, take a stout horn of whisky and in about three days they get well. So they say. So pilots and other seafaring men who get out to the Gulf Stream are frequently importuded to bring in jugs of the Gulf water for the invalids. There is a man down there whose faith is unlimited, and he has been besieging for about thirty years a certain pilot of his acquaintance to bring him in some water. But the pilot always forgot. The other day, however, he tickled the old man almost to death by bringing him three jugs of the precious liquid. The old man began to brace up at once, and three days later he chased the pilot half way around the island to overwhelm him with gratitude. “So it did you good, did it?” said the pilot “Good? Why, bless you, my boy, it has added ten years to my Ife. I feel like a youngster again. I’ll bet that I can beat you in a foot race right here.” And the pilot did not smile nor jibe nor jeer. But when the flood tide had been running about an hour that evening he went softly down to the end of Stapleton pier, drew out a tin bucket and dipped up about a gallon of the limpid stream, and the next morning the old man was overjoyed to get two more jugs of Gulf Stream water from his thoughtful friend. “It’s a kind of shabby trick,” said the pilot,, apologetically; “but as long as there are buckets handy aronnd Stapleton I guess Uncle Josh needn’t go without Gulf Stream water.” A Squaw’s Kemarkahle Journeying. In the last century a Chinook Indian woman, known to Father Huk, a great traveler and missionary of that period, while he was with the Indians, on what we now call the Pacific coast, was many, years afterward met by him in Asia. Through many vicissitudes and strange experiences, she had passed from tribe to tribe and place to place, always moving northward, until she reached Beh ring Strait, and there having gone out in one of tho large canoes used by the seafaring Indians of that region, in a great storm they were driven across the strait to wreck and death to all save her, and she wandered on until she met Father Huk in the interior of Asia. She had not sought to return, but following the spirit of adventure bred in her by her strange experiences, she went on to see new lands.— CozirierJournal.

State of Ohio, City of Toledo, ) Lucas County, f “• Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he la the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, aud that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot he cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cube. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. . — 9 a. W. GLEASON, ■j seal. - Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. E. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. US'Sold by druggists, 75c. An Impossibility. Wagely—l understand you’ve been out West. Wooden—Yes; went everywhere, saw every thing. “Well, what impressed you most?” “Well, I think 1 was most impressed by their Sunrises.” “Pardon me; that was impossible.” “Why?” “Because the sun doesn’t rise in the West.” A Well Disc plined Pair. "i “I’ve got a clog,” said the West Side woman to her East Side visitor, “that actually balances himself on his head at command.” “That’s nothing.” retorted the East Side woman, “I’ve got a husband whose hair stinds straight up when I speak to him.”— Milwaukee Sentinel. Many people think that the word “Bitters” can be used only in connection with an intoxicating beverage. This is a mistake, as the best remedy for all diseases of the blood, liver, kidneys, etc., is Prickly Ash Bitters. It is purely it medicine and every article used in its manufacture is of vegetable origin of known curative qualifies. A Hopeless Case. Visitor (at public library)—Tf you have the bound volumes of the Congressional Record for the last ten years I should like Attendant (ringing telephoneviolently) Give me the police station, quickb.There’s an escaped maniac here!— 'Chicago Tribune. There is nothing (unless it be machine) that has lightened woman’sUabor as much as Dobbins’ Electric Soap, constantly soli since 1864. Allgroce'rs have it. Have you made its acquaintance? Try it. Susceptible to Impressions. “That strikes me quite forcibly,” observed Dinkelspiel as a large doublebreasted bale of hay dropped top of the elevator and landed on his head. SUDDEN CHANGES OF WEATHER cause Throat Diseases. There is no more effectual remedy for Coughs, Colds, etc,, than Brown’s Bronchial Troches. Sold only in boxes. Price 25 eta. Lonesome tor Two. “It’s awful lonesome £ere, George.” “Why, Ethel, you have me.” “I know it. That makes it twice as lonesome; once for each.” Poor little child! She don’t eat well, she don’t sleep well, she don’t look well, she needs Dr. Bull's Worm Destrovers. Papa, get her a box. Handkerchief flirtations at the beach are sea waves that are not sad. It was in a house where they never used SAPOIJO that “The pot called the kettle black,” Try it in your next house cleaning. Some men are club-footed, but it is the policeman who is club-waisted. Ao Opium in Piso’a Cure for Consumption. Cures where other remedies faiL 25c. Rule for church fair oyster suppers— Twice one is stew. , Totally Helpless From Sciatic Bheumaticm. "In May, 1885,1 was taken with sciatic rheumatism in my legs and arms, and was confined to my bed entirely helpless. In August Iwas just abie to move around. I was reduced to a mere skeleton, my appetite was entirely gone and my friends thought I could not live. I took almost everything I could hear of. but with no good results, during that winter. One day, reading about taking Hood's Sarsaparilla ini March, April and May, I concluded to try it. One bottle gave me so much relief that I took four bottles, and since then I have not been troubled with rheumatism, and my general health has never been better. My appetite is good and I have gained in flesh. I attribute my whole improvement to taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla.” Wm. F. Taylor. Emporium, Camerou County, Pa. N. B. If you decide to take Hood's Sarsaparilla do not be induced to buy any other. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by an druggists. »1; sixforSS. Prepared only Vy C. I. HOOD * CO? Apothecaries, Lowell. Masa. ISO Pom One Dollar

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