Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 13 February 1891 — Page 3

THE LESSONS OF WINTER ALL SEASONS HAVE THEIR LESSONS FOR THE CHRISTIAN. Beautiful Imagery of the Bible. Teaching Xenon* From Nature—The Snow* ot Lebanon and Monnt Hutmon- The Dos* of St. Bernard. f Dr. Taira age’s sermon from Job xxxviii, 22, “Hast thou entered Into the treasures of the snow?” Grossly maligned is the season of winter. The spring and summer and autumn have had many admirers, but winter, hoary headed and white bearded winter, hath had more enemies than friends. without winter the human race would be inane and effortless. You might speak of the winter as the mother of tempests. I take it as the father of a whole family of physical, mental and spiritual energies. The most people that I know are strong in proportion to the number of snow banks they had to climb over or pfish through in childhood, while their fathers drove the sled loaded with logs through the crunching drifts high as the fences. i At this season of the year when tire are so familiar with the snow, those frozen vapors, those falling blossoms of the %ky, those white angels of the atmosphere, those poems of the storm, those Iliads and Odysseys of the wintry tempest, 1 turn over the leaves of my Biblg and—though most of it'was written in a clime where snow seldom or never fell—I find many of these congelations. Though the writers may seldom or never have felt the cold touch of the snowflake 1 on their cheek, they had in sight two mountains, the tops of which were suggestive. Other kings sometimes take off their crowns, but Lebanon and Mount Herraon all the year round and through ages never lift the coronets of crystal from their foreheads. The first time find a deep fall of snow in the Bible is where Samuel describes a fight between Benaiah and a lion in a pit, and though the snow may have crimsoned under the wounds of both man and brute, the shaggy monster rolled over dead, and the-giant was victor. But the snow is not fully recognized in the Bible until God interrogates Job, the scientist, concerning its wonders, saying, “Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow?’* rather think that Job may have examined the snowllako with a microscope; for, although it is supposed that the microscope was invented long after Job’s time, there had been wonders of glass long before the microscope and telescope of later day were thought of. So long ago as when the Coliscuin w r as in its full splendor. Nero sat in the emperor’s, box of that great theatey, which held a hundred thousand people, and looked at the combatants through a gem in his singers ring which brought everything close up to his eye. h—a-Vonf hundred years before 'Christ, in t hestor&s *3v fwvrffe <vs i"fui j glasses called “burning spheres,” and Layard, the explorer, found a magnifying glass amid the ruins of Nineveh and in the palace of Nimrod. Whether through magnifying instrument or with unaided eye I cannot say, but lam sure that Job somehow went through the galleries of the snowflake and counted its pillars and found -wonders, raptures, mysteries, theologies, majesties, infiinities walking up and down its corridors, as a result of the question which the Lord had asked him, “Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow?” , Oh, it is a wonderous meteor! Humboldt studied it in the Andes, twelve thousand feet above the level of the sea. De Saussure reveled among these meteors in the Alps, and Dr. Scoresby counted ninety-six varieties of snowflake amid the arctics. They are in shape of stars, in shape of coronets, in shape of cylinderes; are globular, are hexagonal, are pyramidal, are castellated. After a fresh fall of snow, in one walk you crash under your feet Tuilleries, Windsor castles, 'St. Paul's, St. Peters, St. Marks, cathedrals, Alhambras and Sydenham palaces innumerable. I know it.depends much on our own condition what impression the flying meteors of the snow made. I shall not forget twS rough and un*. pretending wood cuts which 1 saw in my boyhood side by side; one a picture of a prosperous farmhouse, with all signs of comfort, and a lad warmly clothed looking out of the door upon the first flurry of snow, and his mind no doubt filled with the sound of jingling sleigh bells and the frolic with playfellows in the deep banks, and he, clapping his hands and shouting, “It snows! it snows!” The other sketch was of a boy, haggard and hollow eyed with hunger, looking from the broken door of a wretched home, and seeing in the falling flakes prophesy of, more cold and less bread and greater privation, wringing his hands and with tears rolling down his wan cheeks, crying, “Oh, my God! it snows! it snows!” Out of the abundance that, characterizes most of our 'homes may there go ..Speedy relief to all whom’this winter finds in want and ex posuro. And now I propose, for your spiritual -and everlasting profit, if you will accept my guidance, to take you through someof those wonders of crystallization. And notice first God in the littles. You may take alpenstock and cross the Mer die Glace, 'the sea of ice, find ascend Mount Blanc, which rises into-the'clouds.like a pillar of the great white throne; or with arctic explorer ascend the mountains around the north pole,.and set' glaciers a , thousand feet high grinding against glaciers three thousand feet high. But I will take you on a less pretentious journey and show you God in tire snowflake. There is room enough between its pillars for the great Jehovah In that one frozen drop on the tip of your linger you may find the throne room of the Almighty. I take up the snow in my hand and see the coursers of celestial domifiion pawing these crystal pavements. The telescope is grand, but I must confess that I am quite as much interested in the microscope. The one reveals the universe above us; the other just as great a universe beneath us. But the telescope overwhelms me, while the microscopo comforts me. What you want and I want especially is a God in littles. If wo were seraphic or archangelic in our natures we would want to study God in the great; but such small, weak, short-lived beings as yob and I are want to find God in the littles. When I see the Maker of the universe giving Himself to the architecture of a snowflake, and making its Shafts, its domes, its curves, its walls, it irradiations so perfect I conclude He. will look after our insignificant affairs. And if we are of more value than a sparrow, most certainly we are of more value than an inanimate snowflake. So the Bible would chiefly impress us with God in the littles. It does not say, “Conskier the clouds,” but it says, “Consider the lilies.” It does not say, “Behold the tempests!” but “Behold the fowls!” and it applauds 'a cup of cold water and the widow’s two mites, and says the hairs of yonr head are all numbered. Do not fear, therefore, that going to be lo9t in the crowd. Do not think that because yon estimate yourself as only one snowflake among a three-davs’ January snow storm that you will be forgotten. The birth and death of a drop of chilled vapor Is as certainly regarded by the Lord »the creation and demolition of a planed- Nothing Is big to God and nothing is small. fc? .

And It is high time that we find this 1 mighty-real mos God close by and under our own little finger. To drop you out , of hiS-memory would be to resign his omniscience. To refuse you his protection would be to abdicate his omnipotence. When you tell me that he is the God of ; Jupiter, and the God of Mercury, and : the God of Saturn, you tell me something so vast that I cannot comprehend it. But if you tell me he is the God of the snowflake, you tell me something I can hold and measure and realize. Thus the smallest snowflake contains k jewel case of comfort. Here is an opal, an amethyst, a diamond. Here is One of the treasures of the snow. Take it for your present and everlasting.comfort. Behold, also, in the snow the treasure of accumulated power. During a snow storm let an apothecary, accustomed to weigh most delicate quantities, hold his weighing scales out of the window and let one flake fall on the surface of the scales, and it will not even make it tremble. When you want to express 'extreme triviality of weight you say, “Light as a feather,” but a snowflake is much lighter. It is ju*t twenty-four times lighter than water. And yet the accunShlation of these flakes broke down, a few days ago, in sight of my house, six telegraph poles, made helpless police and tire departments and halted rail traihs with two thundering locomotives. We have already learned so muefi of the power of electricity that we have become careful how we jjouch the electric wire, and in many > case a touch has been death. But a Jew days ago the snow put its hand on most of these wires., and tore them down as though they wei 'bwebs. The snow said: “You seem aitaid of the thunderbolt; I will catch it and hurl it to the ground. Your boasted electric adorning your cities with bubbles of fire, I will put out «as easily as your ancestors snuffed out a tallow candle.” The snow put its finger on the lip of our cities that were talking to each other and they went into silence, uttering not a word. The snow mightier than the lightning. In March, 1888, the snow stopped America. It said to Brooklyn, “Stay home!” to New York, “Stay home!” to Philadelphia, “Stay home!” to Washington, “Stay home!” to Richmond, “Stay home!” It put into a white sepulcher most of this nation. Commerce, whose wheels never stopped before, stopped then. Whqt was the matter? Power of accumulated snow-flakes. On the top of the Apennines one flake falls, and others fall, and they pile up, and they make a mountain of fleece on the top of a mountain of rock, until one day a gust of wind, or even the voice of a mountaifleer, sets the frozen vapors into action, and by awful descent they sweep everything in their course—trees, rocks, villages—as when in 1827 the town of Briel, in Valais, was buried, and in 1824, in Switzerland, 300 soldiers were entombed. Those avalanches were made up of single snowflakes. What traacdlAS of the snow have been , .Witnessed monks ArTStr'BernSri who for ages have with the dogs been busy in extricating bewildered and overwhelmed travelers in Alpine storms, the dogs with blankets fastened to their necks to resuscitate helpless travelersone of these dogs decorated with a medal for having saved the lives of twenty-two persons, the brqve beast himself slain of the snow on that day when accompanying a Piedmontese courier on the way to his anxious household down the mountain in search of him, an avalanche covered all under pyramids higher than those under which the Egyptian monarchs sleep of the ages! What an illustration of the tragedies of the snow is found in that scene between Glcnece and Glencremn one February in Scotland, where Ronald Cameron comes forth to bring to his father’s house his Cousin Flora MacDonald soy the celebration of a birtMay, and the calm day turns into a hurrSsane of white fury that leaves Ronald and Flora as dead, to be resuscitated by the shepherds! What an exciting struggle had Bayard Taylor among the wintry Apennines! “Oh,” says some one, “I would like to stop the forces of sin and crime that are marching for the conquests of the nations, but I am nobody; I have neither wealth nor eloquence nor social power. What can I do?” My brother, how much do you weigh? As much as a snowflake? “Oh, yes.” Then doyour sfiare. It is an aggregation of small influences that will yet put this lost world back into the bosom of a pardoning God. Alas that there are so many men and women who will not use the One talent because they have not ten, and will not give a penny because they can not give a dollar, and will not speak as well as they can because they are not eloquent and will not be a snowflake because they cannot be an avalanche! In earthly wars the gen- , erals get about all the credit, but in the war for God and righteousness and Heaven all the private soldiers will get crowns of victory unfailing. When we reach Heaven—by the grace of God may we all arrive*there —I do not think we will bo able to begin the new song right away because of the surprise we shall feel at the comparative reward given. As we are being conducted along the street to our celestial residence we will begin to ask where, live some of j those who wortiimghty on earth. We will ask, “Is here?” And the answer will be, “ Yes, I think he is in the city, but we don’t hear much of him; he was good and got in, but he took most of his pay in applause; he had enough grace to get through the gate, but just where he lives 1 know not. He squeezed through somehow, although I think the gates took the skirts of his garments. I think he lives.in one of those back streets in one of the plainer residences*.” Then we shall see a palace, the doorsteps of gold, and the windows of agate,* and the tower like tin* sun for brilliance, and chariots before the door, and people who look like primes and princesses going up and down the steps, and we shall say, “What ohe of the hierarchs lives here?” That must be the residence of a Paul of a Milton, or some one whose name resounds throug.fi all the planet from which we have just ascended.’* “No, no,” says our celestial dragoman, “that is the residence of a soul whom you never heard of.” When she gave a charity her left hand knew not what her right hand did. She was mighty in secret prayer, and no one but God and her own soul knew it. She had more trouble than anybody in all the land where she lived, and without complaining she bore it, and though her talents were never great, what she had was all consecrated to God and helping others, and the Lord is making up for her earthly privations by especial raptures here, und the king of the country had that place built especially for her. The walls began to go up when her troubles and privations and consecrations | began on earth, and it so happened—j what a heavenly coincidence!—that the ! last stroke of the trowel of amethyst on | those walls was given the hour she entered heaven. Yon know nothing of her. On earth her name was only once in the newspapers, and that among the column of i the dead, but she is mighty up here. : There she combs now out of her palace grounds in her chariot behind those two i white horses for a ride on the banks of .the river that flows from under the throne of God. Let me see. Did you i not have in yonr world below an c>id i classic which says something about , “these are they who come out of great tribulation, aed they shat! reign for ever and ever?”

Another treasure of the snow Is the suggestion of the usefulness of sorrow. Absence of snow last winter made all nations sick. TJhat snowless winter has not yet ended its disasters. Within a few weeks it put tens of thousands into the grave, and left others in homes and hospitals gradually to go dowh. Called by a trivial name, the Russian “grip,” it was an international plague. Plenty of snow means pnblic heal|h» There is no medicine that so s<rcn cures the world’s malarias as these white pellets the clouds administer —pellets small enough to •be homeopathic, but in such large doses as to be allopathic, and melting soon enough to be hydropathic. Like a sponge, every flake absorbs unhealthy gases. The tables of mortality in New York and Brooklyn immediately lessened when the snows of last December began to fall. The snow is one of the grandest and best of the world’s doctors. Yes, it is necessary for the land’s productiveness. Great snows in winter are generally followed by great harvests next summer. Scientific analysis has shown that snow contains a larger percentage of ammonia than the rain, and hence its greater power of enrichment. And besides that, it is a white blanket to keep the earth warm. An examination of snow in Siberia showed that it was one hundred degrees warmer under the snow than above the snow. Alpine plants perished in the mild winter of England for lack of enough snow to keep them warm. Snow strikes back the rich gases which otherwise would escape in the air and be lost Thank God for the snows, and may those of February be as plentiful as those of December and Jan iary have been, high and deep and wide and enriching; then the harvests next July will embroider with gold this entire American continent. But who with any analogical faculty can notice that out of such chill as the snow comes the wheat, without realizing that chilling sorrows prodpee harvests of grace! Thetstrongest Christians without any exception are those who were by bereavements or sickness or poverty or persecution, or all of them together, snowed under, and again and again snowed under. These snow storms of trouble! They kill-the malarias of the soul. They drive us put of worldly dependence to God. Call the roll of all the eminently pious of all the ages and you will find them the sons and daughters of sorrow. The Maronites say that one characteristic of the cedar tree is that when the air is full of snow and it begins to descend the tree lifts its branches in away better to receive the snow and bear up under it, and I know by mhch observation that tbqgrandest cedars of Christian character lift higher their branches toward God when the snows of trouble are coming., A Another .treasure ol the snow is the suggestion that this mantle covering the earth is like the soul after it is forgiven. “Wash me,” said the Psalmist, “and I * shall be whiter than snow.” My dear friend Gaaherie De Witt went over to Geneva, Switzerland, for the recovery of rirfr-ii-uiu *KaTr 38®ething better for him than earthly recovery. Littie did 1 think when I bade him goodby one lovely afternoon on the other side of the sea to return to America, that we would not meet again until we meet in Heaven. As he lay. one Sabbath morning on his dying pillow in Switzerland, the window open, he was looking out upon Mount Blanc. The air was clear. That great mountain stood in its robe of snow, glittering in the morning light, and my friend said to his wife: * Jennie: do you know what that snow on Mount Blanc makes me think of? It makes me think that the righteousness of Christ and the pardon of God cover all the sins and imperfections of my life, as that snow covers up that mountain, for the promise is that though our sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.” Was not that glorious! I do not care who you are. or where you are, you need as much as Ido that cleansing which made Gasherie DeWitt good while he lived and glorious when he died. Do not take it as the tenet of an obsolute theology that our nature is corrupt. We must be changed. We must be made over again. The ancients thought that snow water had especial power to wipe out deep stains. All other water might fail, but melted snow would make them clean. Well, Job had great admiration for snow, but he declared in substance that if he should wash his soul in melted snow, he would still be covered with mud like a man down in a ditch (Job ix. 30). “If I wash myself in snow water, and make my hands never soclean, yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch and mine own clothes shall abhor me.” We must be washed in the foun*4ainof God’s mercy before we can be whiter than snow. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord.” Oh, for the cleansing power! If there bo in all this audience one man or woman whose thoughts have always been right, and whose actions are always right, let such a one rise, or if already standing, lift the right hand. Not ones All we, like sheep, have gone astray. Unclean! unclean! And yet, we may be made whiter than snow—whiter than that which, on a cold winter’s .morning, after a night of storm., clothes the tree from bottom of trunk to top of highest branch; whiter than that, which this hour makes the Adirondacks, and the Sierra Nevada and Mount Washington heights of pomp and splendor fit to enthrone an archangel. Li the time of Graham, the essayist, in one mountain district of Scotland an average of ten shepherds perished every winter in the snow drifts, and so he proposed that the distance of every mile a pole fifteen feet high and with two cross pieces be erected, showing the points of the compass, and a bell hung at the top, so that every breeze would ring it, and so the lost one on the mountains would hear the sound and take the direction given by this pole with the cross pieces and get safely home. Whether that proposed plan was adopted or not I do not know, but I declare to all yon who are in the heavy and blinding drifts of sin ’and sorrow that there is a cross near by that can direct you to home and peace < and God; and hear you not the ringing of the gospel bell hanging to that crfiSsL saying, “This is the way, walk ,ye in it?” No wonder that the sacred poet put the Psalmist’s thought in.to rhythm with that ringing chorus we have so often sung; Dear Jesus, I long to be perfectly whole; 1 w ant thee forever to live in my soul. Break down every idol, cast down every foe 1 Now wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow! Whiter than snow! yes, whiter than snow! Now wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow 1 Get that prayer answered, and we will ■ be fit not only for earth, but for the heaven where everything is so white because everything is so pure. You know that the redeemed in that land wear robes that are white, and the conquerors i in that land ride horses that are white, and John in vision says of Christ, “His. > head and his hairs were white,” and the throne on which he sits is a great white throne. By the pardoning and sanctifying grace of God may we all at last stand i amid that radiance! > Too Imaginative. Blinkers—That stranger says that i onee, when in a foreign oonntry, the • natives were about to attack him, when 1 he unfurled the American flag, stated > that he was tinder its protection, and 1 they slunk away in terror. I wonder 1 what he is. Winkers—A miserable liar. —Street I <£ Smith's Good News. A man of Principal— The hankax

A THRILLINQ EXPERIENCE. Remarkable Statement of Person*.! Danger and Providential Escape. The following story—which Is attracting wide attention from the press—ls so remarkable that we canifot excuse ourselves If we do not lay It before our readers entire: To the editor Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat: Sir —On the first day of June, 1881, I lay at my residence in this city surrounded by my friends and waiting for death. Heaven only knows the agony I then endured, for words can never describe it. And yet, if a few years previous any one had told me that I was to be brought so low, and by so terrible a disease, I should have scoffed at the idea. I had always been uncommonly strong and healthy, and weighed over 200 pounds, and hardly knew, in my own experience, what pain or sickness were. Very many people who,will read, this statement realize at times that they are unusually tired and cannot account for it. They feel dull pains in various parts of the body and do not understand why. Or they are exceedingly hungry one day and entirely without appetite the next. This was just the way I felt when the relentless malady which had fastened itself upon me first began. Still I thought nothing of it; that probably I had taken a cold which would soon pass away. Shortly after this I noticed a heavy, and at times neuralgic, pain in one side of my head, but as it would come one day and be gone the next, I paid little attention to it. Then my stomach would get out of order and my food often failed to digest, causing at times great inconvenience. Yet, even as a physician, I did not think that these things meant anything serious- 1 fancied I was suffering from malaria and doctored myself accordingly. But I got no better. I next noticed a peculiar color and odor about the fluids I was passing—also that there were large quantities one day and very little the next, and that a persistent froth and scum appeared on the surface, and a sediment settled. And yet I did not realize my danger,'for, indeed, seeing these symptoms continually, I finally became accustomed to them, and my suspicion was wholly disarmed by the fact that I had no pain in the affected organs or in their vicinity. Why I should have been so blind I cannot understand. I consulted the best medical skill in the land. 1 visited all the famed mineral springs in America, and traveled from Maine to California. Still I grew worse. No two physicians agreed as to my malady. One said 1 was troubled with spinal irritation; another, dyspepsia; another, heart disease; another, general debility; another, congestion of the base of the brain; and so on through a long list of common diseases, the symptoms of many of which 1 really had. In this way several years passed, during which time I was steadily growing Sjrse. My condition had really become tiable. The slight .symptoms I had at first experienced were developed Into terrible and constant disorders. My weight had been reduced from 207 to 130 pounds. My life was a burden to myself and friends. I could retain no food on my stomach, and lived wholly by injections. I was a living mass of pain. My pulse was uncontrollable, la my agony I frequently fell to the floor and clutched the carpet, and prayed for death. Morphine had little or no effect In deadening the pain. For six days and nights I had the death-premonitory hiccoughs constantly. My water was filled with tube-easts and albumen. I was struggling with Bright’s Disease of the kidneys in the last stages! Silffsrin?. thus I received a call from my pastor, the’EeV.. Dr, Foote, at that time rector of St. Paul's EpLscopai ChiL'Ch, of this city. I felt that it was our last interview, bat in the course of conversation Dr. Foote detailed to me the many remarkable cures of cases like my own which had come under his observation. As a practicing physician and a graduate of the schools, 1 derided the Idea of any medicine outside the regular channels being in the least beneficial. So solicitous, however, was Dr. Foote, that I finally promised I would waive ray prejudice. 1 began its use on the first day of June, 1881, and took it according to directions. At first it sickened me; but this I thought was a good sign for one in my debilitated condition. 1 continued to take it; the sickening sensation departed, and I was finally able to retain food upon my stomach. Ih a few days I noticed a decided change for the better, as also did my wife and friends. My hiccoughs ceased, and I experienced less pain than formerly. I was sq rejoiced at this Improved condition that, upon what I had believed but a few days before was my dying bed. I vowed, in the presence of my family and friends, should I recover, 1 would both publicly and privately make known this remedy for the good of humanity, wherever and whenever I had an opportunity, and this letter is in fulfillment of that vow. , My improvement was constant from that time, and in less than three months I had gained 26 pounds" in flesh, became entirely free from pain, and I believe I owe my life and present condition wholly to Warner’s Safe Cure, the remedy which I used. Since my recovery I have thoroughly reinvestigated the subject of kidney difficulties and Bright’s disease, and the truths developed are astounding. I therefore state, deliberately, and as a physician, that I believe more than one-half the deaths which occur in America are caused by Bright's disease of the kidneys. This may sound like a rash statement, but I am prepared to fully verify it. Bright’s disease has no distinctive features of its own (indeed, it often develops without any pain whatever in the kidneys or their vicinity), but has the symptoms of nearly every other common complaint. Hundreds of people die daily, Whose burials are authorized by a physician's certificate as-occurring from “Heart D.isease,” “Apoplexy,” “Paralysis,” “Spinal Complaint,” “Rheumatism,” “Pneumonia,” and other common complaints, when in reality It Is Bright’s disease of the kidneys. Few physicians, and fewer people, realize the extent of this disease or its dangerot and insidious nature. It steals into the system like a thief, manifests its presence if at all by the commonest, symptoms and fastens itself in the constitution before the victim is aware of it! It is nearly as hereditary as consumption, quite as common and fully as fatal. Entire families, inheriting ’ it from their ancestors, have died, and yet none of the number knew or realized the mysterious power which was removing them. Instead of common symptoms it often shows none whatever, but brings death suddenly, from convulsions, apoplexy or heart disease. As one who has suffered, and knows by bitter experience what he says. I implore everyone who reads those words not to neglect the slightest symptoms of kidney difficulty. No one can afford to hazard such chances. I make the foregoing statements based upon facts wbfch 1 can substantiate to the letter. The welfare of those who may possibly be sufferers such as I was, is an ample inducement for mo to take the step I have, and if can successfully warn others from the dangerous path iu which I once walked, I am willing to endure all professional and personal consequences. J. B. Henios, M. D. Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 30. The Sort of Telegram She Would Send. The difficulty which boys and girls experience in expressing their ideas in writing is notorious. An examiner at a seminary for young ladies requested one of them the other day to give him her notion of what sort of telegram she would send to her father in the event of her having met with a railway accident. It was a thing that might occur, of course, and the lesson proved useful, but in any case, it would give an idea of her mental resources. He threw out no hints, but with the proviso that it should be as brief as possible, left the whole composition to Jhe young lady’s imagination. This was the telegram: “Dear papa— Dear mamma Is killed; Jane” (her sister) ‘'and I are in the refreshment room.” Mary 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 ot the blood, liver, kidneys, etc., is Prickly Ash Bitters. It Is purely a medicine and every article used in its manufacture is of vegetable origin of known curative quail* Wes. Useless for identification. “Is there any sign by which your missing wife may be identified?” ashed the chief detective. “I don’t' know, unless this: She always turns round when another woman with a new bonnet on passes- her.” — Philadelphia Times. 'fittf*'*** *" 4

To BO Bobbed or Health By a pestilential climate, ,by a vocation tailing constant exposure, physical overwork, or sedentary drudgery at the deek Is a hard lot. Yet many person* originally possessed of a fair constitution suffer this deprivation before the meridian of life is passed. To any and all subject to condition* inimical to health, no purer or more agreeable preservative of the greatest earthly blessings can be recommended than Hoatetter's Stomach Bitters, which inure* the system to climatic change*, physical fatigue, and mental exhaustion. It eradicate* dyspepsia, the bane of sedentary brain workers, preserves and restores regularity of the bowels and liver, when disordered from any cause, an- i nihilates fever and ague and prevents it, checks the growth of a tendency to rheumatism and gout, and neutralizes the danger to be apprehended from causes productive of kidney, bladder, and uterine ailments. To be convinced of the truth of these statements, it is only necessary to give this sterling preparation an impartial trial. A Hint for a living Wife. The average man wants to cock his feet up. If you said to the piazza group, “Make yourselves unreservedly comfortable?’ they’d all tilt their chairs back and hoist their feet to the railing. My friend next door had the foot hoisting habit so badly that he wore the paper off the wall; so his wife thought out a biting, caustic piece of sarcasm, and one morning nailed on the wall right where the tell tale marks were a pair of ; slippers, But he misunderstood the motive completely, kissed her for her thoughtfulness, and forthwith titled his chair back and up went his feet to the most comfortable attitude he had struck in a long time, his heel held in the silppers.—Exchange. Beware or Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, As mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces;’ - Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is tenfold to the good .you can possibly derive from them. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, and acts directly upon the blood and : mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cnre be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by E. J. Cheney & Co. «d~Sold by Druggists, price 75c per bottle. A Gladsome Time. Mother — Goodness me! Johnny! Johnny! Why ain’t you at school instead of hurrahing arouncf the streets like a wild Indian? Johnny (dancing a jig)—No school today! “No school? Why?” “Teacher’s dead.” —Street «Sr Smith's Good Neics. The Indian Question Has been the absorbing topic lately. A facetious correspondent says: “If the agents, instead of dosing the poor Indians with cough cures, to the disgust of their palates and destruction of their stomachs, had sold them Shiloh’s Consumption Cure, the only reliable cough cure, palatable to the taste and instantaneous in effect, they would all be on the reservations yet.” This is doubtful, but certainly nothing creates more alarm than a cough—nothing cures as quickly as Shiloh’s Cure. It was the first guaranteed cure for coughs, asthma and consumption. It is the first in the estimation of all who have iqsed it in throat or lung trouble. Remembet Shiloh’s Cure. Tq Smooth Over a Font-Nuptial Quarrel. He —My dear, would you like to wear a miniature of me in your breastpin? She (scornfully) —Nobody could paint yon little enough to appear natural.— J civ clef s Weekly. A lady in South Carolina Writes: 'My abor was shorter and less painful { than on two former occasions; physicians astonished; I thank you for for “Mother's Friend.” It is worth its weight ip gold. Address The Bradfield Beg. Co., Atlanta, Ga., for particulars. Sold by druggist. What is the difference between a muscular tramp and a newly-cleaned lamp? Only this, one is a well-lim bed tramp, ana the other is a well-trimmed lamp. —Oil City Derrick. <*l have been occasionally troubled with Coughs, and in each case have used bbown’s Bronchial troches, which have never failed, and I must say they are second to none in the world.” —Felix A. May, Cashier, St. Paul, Minn. An Ohio dentist has devoted himself to active politics, probably on the ground that his calling has fitted'him for “taking the stump. ” — l‘itsburgh Telegraph. Ckying all the time. Poor child, I know what makes you so peovish and cross. Mother must get; you a box of those sweet little candies called Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers. By mail. 25 cents. John D. Park. Cincinnati. Ohio. There is a girl in Georgia who has four fe’et. The man who marries her could keep ' his feet warmer by sleeping with four icebergs.—Acicman Independent. Lydia Pinkham’s warning to mothers should be headed by all. and “Guide to Health and Etiquette” heeded by everv mother and daughter in the civilized world. An English magazine is speculating as to “the kind of clothes ghosts wear.” We always supposed they wore spirit wrappers—• Norristown Heralu. Did you <Si’er go within a mile of a soap factory? If so you know what material they make soap of. Dobbins* Electric Soap factory is as free from odor as a chair factory. Try it once. Ask your grocer for it. Raising food from the plate to the mouth is the best health lift. For a disordered river try Beecham’s Puls. A Mexican lass remains a -lass until she is lassoed. Bronchitis Is cured by frequent small doses of Piso’s Cure for Consumption. King Alfonso has lost his youthful face and has the appearance of having gone to seed. FITS.—AII Fits stoppM free bv Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day’s use. Marvellous cures. Treatise aud it.oo trial bottle free to Fit cases. Send to Dr. Kline- SCI Arch St., Ftula., Pa, , Full of writcousness: the conscientious editor. * Prevention Is better than cure* and people who are subject to yhpnmafißTn, can prevent attacks by keeping the blood pure and free lrom the acid which causes the ‘ disease. This suggests the use of Hood*s Sarsapayillfi, unquestionably the best blood purifier, and which has been used with great success lor this very purpose by many people. Hood's Sarsaparilla has also cured innumerable cases of rheumatism of the severest sort, by its pow» ’ erful effect in neutralizing acidity of the blood, and 1 in enabling the kidneys and liver to properly remove l the waste of the system. Try it. r Hood’s Sarsaparilla 3 Fold by sll druggists. »l: Kix for $5. Prepared only f by c. I. HOOD & CO* Apothecaries, Lowell. Mas*. 100 Doses One Dollar : SHILOH’S s CONSUMPTION CURE. The success of this Great Cough Cue is | without a parallel in the history of medicine. | All druggists are authorized to sell it on a poss itive guarantee, a test that no other cure can sne--1 cessfmly stand. That it may become known. t the Proprietors, at an enormous expense, are • placing a Sample Bottle Free into every home m the United Kates and Canada. .If you have a Cough, Sore Throat, or Bronchitis, use it, for It will cnre you. If your child has the Croup, I or Whooping Cough, use it promptly, and reliiu 1 Is sure. If you dread that insidious disease Consumption, use it Ask your Druggist far - SHILOH'S CURE, Price to cts., 50 cts. and 1 s t.oo. If your Lung* are sore or Back lame, ' use Shiloh’s Porous Plaster. Price 25 eta, 1 la- .-..jijj ...jfte-. Sjs*, \ iriftijh

THE WIBABH LRTEL B-andsome equipment, E-legist, day coaches, and W-asner palace sleeping care A-rein daily service B-etween the city of St. liouta A-nd New York and Boston. S-pacious reclining chair care H-ave no equal L-ike those run by the I-ncomparable and only Wabaßh. H-ew trains and fast time E-very day iu the year. , From East to West the son’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. ete.. apply to any ticket agent or F. Chandler. Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent. St. Louis. Mo. Very Uk«)y, Little Freddy (to the minister) —I know why you wear such a long coat Minister —Why, Freddy? Little Freddy—To cover np the patches on the seat of your trousers.— The Epoch.’ Remember that “You are judged bv your house as much as by your dress. ” Stay at home and make it brlaht with SAPOLIO. It is used for all cleaning purposes. A -vtoman physician is of no account unless she’s killful. rijAcras o|i REtotfSiUlN Cubes Promitly ahd Permanently RHEUMATISM, Lumbago, Headache, Toothache, NEURALGIA, Sore Throat, Swellings, Frost-bite*, SCIATICA, Sprain*, Brntaea, Horns, Scalds. THE CHARLES A. VOGELEfi CO- BsWnwe. Mfc ON® ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the Bystem effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the~taste and acceptable to the stomach prompt in its action and truly m its effects, prepared the most healthy and agreeable its many excellent it to all and have madttt the most popular remedy knowJV Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c and $1 bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FI6 SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK, N.t. A S T H MA . Popham’s Asthma Specific iiiiiiiSm Gives immediate relief. I 11 If i 8 believed to be the Best ASTHMA Remedy • * iOX Trial Package^ for $1 pm; Box. THOS. FOPHAM, 2001 Bidge Avenue, Philada. pemetshsitfeet; Smaller Shoes may be worn with comfort. Price, 50 eta.. *t Drug Stores, or by mail. Trial Package and illustrated ■amphlet for a dime. TUI I‘EDiNK CO., Wbilc Build mo. Nxw YpitX. FAT FOLKSiIfIIS iaL Send So. for circulars and testimonials. Address. M. O. W. t. 8.1 rDIB, 243 State 84., CUeacoTlli. Name this paper when yon write.

ga jfnri CURE Biliousnessy Jim Sick Headache * This Picture, Panel-sire, mailed for 4 cents. MfllSflfli j. f.smith aco., rm r nr Aiio Makers of “ Bile Beans,” If! I I k Ik k n IM 255 °.57 firaenMfich St f N. Y. City. Kill kKb KJ hi ffw I» *FI ■ -pjISO’S REMEDY FOR CATARRH—Best. Easiest to use. m Jr cheapest. Relief is immediate. A cure is certain. For I Cold in the Head it has no equal. ■ It is an Ointment, of which a small particle is applied to the nostrils. Price, SOc. Sold by druggis ts or sent by mail. Address, E. T. Hazklxins, Warren. Pa. HBI CHICHESTER’S EHGUSH, RED CROSS DIAMOND BRARO A THE ORIGINAL AND GENUINE. The otlj Safe, hn, aad reluiMe Fill tor eale. \tW Ladles, uk Druggist hr CMcAerMr’e Bnfiu* Diamond Brand in Ked sad daid metallic \Y boxes sealed with blue ribbM. TsksssstherkM. Xtfmr Substitution! and Imilationt. V All pills is pasteboard boxes, pink wrappers, are dusencs Man terfeita. At Druggists, or sewita 4c. in stamps for particulars, lestieioal.il. and “Usßrf far ladlm.” ia Jettsr, be rrtara Malt ‘ssnyarasi szsxz CHK:Ht,TC " CH "Better of out of the fashion!!— ~ * s _ * §mFMIUon| hor house-cleioortg* Ibis a cake of scouring soap-Tty ih *sjjl Cleanliness is always fashionable and the use of or the neglect to use SAPOLIO marks a wide difference in the social scale. The best classes are always the most scrupulous in matters of cleanliness—and the best classes use SAPOLIO. ttjgjrW

i————mab -AtomMUR n urn," Or, as the world expresses it, “ a well- ■ preserved woman.” One who, understanding the rules of health, has followed them, and preserved her youthful appearance. Mrs. Pinkham has many correspondents who, through her advice and care, can look with satisfaction in their mirrors. LYDIA E PINKHANI’Sc’USS goes to the root of all female complaints, renews the waning vitality, and invigorates the entire system. Intelligent women of middle* age knom well its wonderful powers. All Druggists sell it as a standard article, or sent by mail, in form of Pills or Lozenges, on receipt of SI.OO. } ■ Send stamp for “Guide to Health and Etiquette, ’* si beautiful illustrated book. Mrs. Pinkham freely answers letters ot inquiry. Enclose stamp for reply, i Lydia E. Pinkham Mad. Co.. Lynn. Mat*. S 3 SHOE cen^iSSrkn. SC.OO Genuine Hand-sewed, an elegant and 9 stvlish dress Shoe which commends itself, an .00 Hand-sewed Welt. A fine calf Shoe nn*r equaled for style and durability. 50.50 Goodyear Welt is the standard dress Shoe O at a popular price. SaJO Policeman’s Shoe is especially adapted O lor railroad men. farmers, etc. All made in Congress. Button and Lace. 84.00 for Ladies, is the only hand-sewed Shoe <9 sold at this popular price. =■ 8Q.50 Don go la Shoe for Ladies is a new departore and promises to become very popular. SO.OO Shoe for Ladies and »1.75 for TWlaae* •m still retain their excellence for style, etc. All goods warranted and stamped with name on bottom. If advertised local agent cannot supply you. send direct to factory, inclosing advertised price or a postal for order blanks. W. L. DOUGLAS. Brockton, Maas. GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 187& W. BAKER & CO.’S % Breakfast Cocoa M from which the exeesa of oil ■HHwreML bos been removed, I* absolutely pure and Jlxaft ** i* soluble. m ffvk No Chemicals MB I IKVn are need in its preparation. It IHI: I Hplll hae more than three times the In | | 3yU strength of Cocoa mixed w,u> H| . I ||l Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, HI I Sill anc * i® therefore far more ecoNHI I A 111 nomical, costing less than one Em! I II If LMcentacup. It is delicious, nourlahing, strengthening, easily mexsTßP, and admirably adapted for invalids as well aa for persons In health. Sold by Grocers everywhere. W. RATTER. & CO., Dorchester, Mass. -VASELINEFOR A ONE-DO LEAK BILL sent us by mad we will deliver, free of all charges, to any person in the United States, all of the following articles, carefully packed: One two-ounce bott’e of Pure Vaseline 10 eta. One two-ounce bottle ot Vaseline Pomade.,.. 15 “ Ov.e jar of Vaseline Cold Cream 15 * One cake of Vaseline Camphor Ice 10 One cake of Vaseline Soap, unscented 10 One cake of Vaseline Soap, exquf sitely scented 25 One two-ounc* bottle of white Vaseline....... 25 sl-10 i Or, for postage stamp*, any single article at the price named. On no account be persuaded to accept from your druggist anu Vaseline or preparation therefrom unless labeled with our name, because you tcill certatm l v receive an imitation which has little or no value. Chsacbrough Mfg. Co- 34 State St- N, T. S Prettiest BOOK [W W Ever Printed, r SEEDp*“ One cent a pkg. Up if rare. Cheap, pure, best. 1000000 extras. Beautiful Illustrated Catalogue free. . H. Shumway. Kockford, lIL