Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 6 November 1891 — Page 3

fiR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. A DISCOURSE ON BRICKS WITH- < - . » OUT STRAW. RThough the Pharaohs of Old Egypt Bavo Been Dead lor Many Centuries, There Are Still Many Pharaohs Who Are Demandlng Bricks Without Straw. The Tabernacle Pulpit. The subject of this morning’s sermon was “Bricks Without Straw,” a continuation of the series on the confirmation of Holy Scripture which Dr. Talmage found in his journey from the Pyramids to the Acropolis. His text was Isaiah xix, 1. “The burden of Egypt.” What is all this excitement about in the streets of Cairo, Egypt, this December morning in 1889? Stand back! We , hear loud voices and see the crowds of people retreating to the sides of the street. The excitement of others becomes our own excitement. Footmen come in sight. They have a rod in the hafid and tasseled cap on head, and their arms and feet are bare. Their garb is black to the waist, except as threaded with gold, and the rest is white. They are clearing the way for an official dignitary in a chariot or carriage. They are swift and sometimes run thirty or forty miles at a stretch in front of an equipage. Make w-ay! They are the fleetest footed men on earth, but soon die, Tor the human frame was not made /for such endurance. Now, my hearers, in this course of sermons lam only serving you as footman, and clearing the way for your coming into the wonders of Egyptology, a subject that I would have you study far beyond anything that can be said in the brevity of pulpit utterance. Two hundred and eighty-nine times does theBible refer to Egypt and the Egyptians. . No wonder, for Egypt was the mother of nations. Egypt, the mother of Greece; Greece, the ipother of Rome; Rome, the mother of England; England, the mother of/our own land. According to that, Egypt is our greatestgrandmother. On other Sabbaths I left yon studying what they must have been in their glory; the Hypostyle Hall of Karnac, the architectural miracles at Luxor, the Colonnade of Horemheb, the cemeteries of Memphis, the value of a kingdom in one monument, the Sphinx, which with lips of stone speaks loud enough to be heard across the centuries, Heliopolis and Zoan, the conundrum of archaeologists. But all that extravagance of palace and temple and monument was the cause of an oppression high as Heaven and deep as hell. The weight of those blocks of stone, heavier than any modern machinery could lift, came down upon the Hebrew slaves, and their blood mixed the mortar for the trowels. We saw agafn and again on and along the Nile a boss workman roughly smite a subordinate who did not please him. It is no rare occurrence to see long lines of men under heavy burdens passing by taskmasters at short distances, lashing them as they go by into greater speed, , and then these workmen, exhausted with the blasting heats of the day. lying down upon the bare ground, suddenly chilled with night air, crying out in prayer: “Ya, Allah!” “Ya, Allah!” which means O God! O God! But what must have been the olden times cruelty shown by the Egyptians toward their Israelitish slaves is indicated by a picture in the Beni-Hazzan tombs, where a man is held down on his face by two men and another holds up the victim's feet while the officials beat the bare back of the s victim, every stroke, I have no doubt, fetching the blood. » Now you see how the Pharaohs could afford to build such costly works. It coni them nothing for wages, nothing fiut the tears and blood of the toilers, and tears and blood are a cheap drink for devils. “Bricks without straw” may not suggest so much hardship until you know that the bricks were usually made with “crushed straw,” straw crushed by the feet of the oxen in the thrashing, and, this crushed straw denied to the workmen, they had to pick uj) here and there a piece of stubble or gather rushes from the waterside. This story of the Bible is confirmed by the fact that many of the brick walls of Egypt have on the lower layers brick made with strftw, but the higher layers of brick made out of straw or rushes | from the river bcnk, the truth of the Y book of Exodus thus written in the brick walls discovered by the modern explorers. That Government outrage has always been a characteristic of Egyptian rulers. Taxation to the point of starvation was the Egyptian rule in the Bible times as well as in our own time. A modern traveler gives the figures concerning the cultivation of seventeen acres, the value of the yield of the gold stated in piastres: Producel,Bo2 Expenses Clear produce Taxes 493 Amount cleared by tbe farmer 315 Or, as my authority declares, 70 per cent of what the Egyptian farmer makes is paid for taxes to the Government. Now, that is not so much taxation as assassination. What think you of that, those who groan under heavy taxes in America? I have heard that} in Egypt the working people have a song like this, “They starve us, they starve us, they beat us, they beat us; but there’s some one- above, there's some one above, who will, punish them weITJ who will punish them well.” But 70 percent, of Government tax is a mercy as compared to what the Hebrew slaves Buffered there in Bible times. They got nothing but food hardly fit for a dog, and their clothing was of one rag, and their roof a burning sky by day and the stars of Heaven by night. You say, “Why did they stand it?” Because they had'to stand it. You see, along back in the world’s twilight, there was a famine in Canaan, and old Jacob and his sons came to Egypt for bread. The old, man’s boy, Joseph, was prime minister, and Joseph— I suppose the father and the brothers called him Joe, for it does not make any difference how much a boy is advanced in worldly success, his father and brothers and sisters & always call him by the same name that ■k he was called by when two years old— Joseph, by Pharoah’s permission, gave to his family, who had just arrived, the richest part of Egypt—the Westchester V farms or the Lancaster farms of the an- ■ cients. ■ Jacob’s descendants rapidly multiplied. ■ After awhile Egypt took a turn at famine, and those descendants of Jacob, the ■ Israelites, came to a great storehouse which Joseph had provided and paid in ■ 4 money for corn. But ’ after awhile the v money gave out and then they paid in r ' cattle. After awhile the cattle were all <. tn the possession of the Government, and' then tbe Hebrews bought corn from the Government by surrendering themselves as slaves. Then began slavery in Egypt The H'* Government owned all the Hebrews, ■ft And let modern lunatics, who in America propose handing over telegraph companies and railroads and other things to ba run by Government see the folly of rl' Jetting Government get its hands on E everything. I would rather trust the people than any government the United States ever had or will have. Woe . , worth the day when legislators and eonZ grosses and administrations get posses■r:. '-a- > Br •- *

eton of anything more than It is necessary for them to have. That would be the revival in this land of that old Egyptian tyranny for which God has never had anything but red hot thunderbolts. But through such unwise processes Israel was enslaved in Egypt, and the long line of agonies began all up and down the Nile. Heavier and sharper fell the lash, hungrier and ghastlier grew the workmen, louder and longer went up the prayer, until three millions of the enslaved were crying: “Ya, Allah! Ya, Allah!” O God! O God! Where was help to come from? Not the throne, Pharaoh sat upon that. Not the army, Pharaoh’s officers commanded that. Not surrounding nations; Pharaoh’s threat made them tremble, Not the gods Ammon and Osiris or the goddess Isis, for Pharaoh built their temples out of this diabolical servitude. But one hot day the Princess Thonoris, the daughter of Pharaoh, while in her bathing house on the banks of the Nile, has werd brought her that there is a baby afloat on the river in a cradle made out of big leayes. Os course there is excitement aH up and down the banks, for an ordinary baby in an ordinary cradle attracts smiling attention, but an infant in a cradle of papyrus rocking on a river arouses not only admiration but curiosity. Who made that boat? Who made it watertight with bitumen? Who launched it? Reckless of the crocodiles who lay basking themselves in the sun, the maidens wade in and snatch up tbe child, and firsfbne carries him and then another carries him, and all the way up tbe bank he runs a gantlet of caresses, till Thonoris rushes out of the bathing house and says: “Beautiful foundling, I will adopt you as my own. You shall yet wear the Egyptian crown and sit on the Egyptian throne.” No! No! No! He is to be the emancipator of the Hebrews. Tell it in .all the brick kilns. Tell it among all those who are writhing under the lash. Tell it among all the castles of Memphis and Heliopolis and Zoan and Thebes. Before him a sea will part. On a mountain top, alone, this one will receive from the Almighty a law that is to be the foundation of all good law while the world lasts. When he is dead, God will come down on Nebo and alone bury him, no man or woman or angel worthy to attend the obsequies. The child grows up and goes out at d studies the horrors of Egyptian oppression and suppresses his indignation, for the right time has not come, although once for a minute he let fly, and when he saw a taskmaster put the whip on the back of a workman who was doing his best, and heard the poor fellow cry and saw the blood spurt, Moses doubled up his fist and struck him on the temple till the cruel villian rolled over in the sand exanimate and never swung the lash again. Served him right! But, Moses, are you going to undertake the impossibilities? You feel that you are going to free the Hebrews from bondage. But where is your army? Where is your navy? Not a sword have yeti, not a spear, not a chariot, not a horse. Ah! God was on his side and He has an army of his own. The snowstorms are on God’s side—witness the snowbanks in which the French army of invasion were buried on their way back from Moscow. The xain is on His side —witness the 18th of June at Waterloo, when the tempest so saturated the road that the attack could not be made on Wellington’s forces until 11 o’clock and he was strong enough to hold out until reinforcements arrived. Had that battle been opened at 5 o’clock lifthe morning instead of at 11, the destiny of Europe would have been turned the wrong way. The heavy rain decided everything. So also are the winds and the waves on God’s side — witness the Armanda with 150 ships, 2,650 guns, and 8,000 sailors, and 20,000 soldiers sent out by Philip 11. of Spain to conquer England. What became of those men aud that shipping? Ask the wind and the waves all along the English and Irish coasts. The men and the ships all wrecked or drowned or scattered. So I expect that Moses will be helped in rescuing the Israelites by a special weaponry. To the Egyptian the Nile was a deity. Its waters were then as now very delicious. It was the finest natural beverage of all tbe earth. We have no such love for the Hudson, and Germans have no such love for the Rhine, and Russians have no such love for the Volga, as the Egyptians have love for the Nile. But one aay, when Pharaoh comes down to this river, Moses takes a stick and whips the waters, and they turn into the gores of a slaughter house, and through the sluices and fish ponds the incarnadined liquid backs up into the land, and the malodor whelms everything from mud hovel to throne room. Then came the frogs with horrible croak all over everything. Then this people, cleanly almost to fastidiousness, were infested with insects that belong to the filthy and unkempt, and the air buzzed and buzzed with flies, and then the discows to bellowing and horses to neighing and camels to groaning, as they rolled over and expired. And then boils, one of which will put a man in wretchedness, came in clusters from the top of the head to the sole of the foot. And then the clouds dropped hail and lightning. And the locusts ’Came in, swarms of them, worse than the grasshoppers ever were in Kansas, And then darkness dropped for three days, so that the people could not see their hand before their face, great surges of midnight covering them. And last of all, on the night of the 18th of April, about eighteen hundred years before Christ, the destroying angel sweeps past; and hear it all night long, the flap! flap! flap! of his awful wings until Egypt rolled on, a great hearse, the eldest child dead in every Egyptian home. The eldest son of Pharaoh expired that night in the palace and alt along the streets of Memphis and Heliopolis and all up and down the Nile there was a funeral wail that would have rent the fold of the unnatural darkness If it had not been impenetrate. The Israelitish homes, however, were untouched. But these homes were full of preparation, for now is your chance, Oye wronged Hebrews! Snatch up what pieces of food you can and to the desert! Its simooms are better than the bondage you have suffered. Its scorpions will not sting so sharply as the wrongs that have stung you all your lives. Away! The man who was cradled id the basket of papyrus on the Nile will lead you. Up! Up! This is the night of your rescue. They gather together at a signal. Alexander’s armies and all the armies of olden time were led by torches on nigh poles, great crests of fire; and the Lord Almighty kindles a torch not held by human hands, but by omnipotent hand. Not made out of straw or oil, but ukindled out of the atmosphere, such a torch as the world never saw before and never will see again. It reached from the earth into the Heaven, a pillar of fire, that pillar practically saying: “This way! March this way!” Oh that supernatural flambeau more than a million refugees set their eyes. Moses and Aaron lead on. Then come the families of Israel. Then come the herds and flocks moving on across the sands to what is the beach of waters now called Bahr-el-Kulzum, but called in the Bible the Red Sea. And when I dipped my hands in its blue waters the heroics of the Mosaic passage rolled over me. After three days’ march the Israelitish

refugees encamped for the night on the bank of the Red Sea. As the shadows begin to fall, in the distance is seen the host of Pharaoh in pursuit. There were 600 finest war chariots followed by common chariots rolling at full speed. And the glittering of the wheels and the curse of infuriated Egyptians came down with the darkness. But the Lord opened the crystal gates of Bahr-el-Kulzum and the enslaved Israelites passed into liberty, and then the crystal gates of the sea rolled shut against the Egyptian pursuers. It was about 3 o’clock in the morning when the interlocked axletrees of the Egyptian chariots could not move an inch either way. But the Red Sea unhitched the horses and unhelmeted the' warriors and left the proud host a wreck on the Arabian sands. Then two choruses arose, and Moses led the men in the one, and Miriam led the women in the other,- and the women beat time with their Leet The record says: “All the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for He hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.” What a thrilling story of endurance and victory! The greatest triumph of Handel’s genius was shown in his immortal dramatic oratorio, “Israel in Egypt.” He had given to the world the oratorio of “Esther and Deborah” and Athaliah, but reserved for his mightiest exertion, at the full height of his powers, the marshaling of all musical instruments to the description in harmony of the scenes on which we this morning dwell. He gave twenty-seven days to this production, with its twenty-eight choruses, enthralling his own time and all after-time with his “Israel in Egypt.” But in all the departments to-oay there are Pharaohs. Sometimes Capital a Pharaoh and sometimes Labor a Pharaoh. When Capital prospers and makes large percentage on its investment and declines to consider the needs of the operatives and treats them as so many human machines, their nerves no more than the bands on the factory wheel—then Capital is a Pharaoh. On the other hand, when workmen, not regarding the anxieties and. “business struggles of the firm employing them, and at a time when the firm are doing their best to meet an important contract and need all bands busy to accomplish it, at such a time to have his employees make a strike and their employers into extreme perplexity and severe loss —then Labor becomes a Pharaoh of the worst and must look out for the judgments of God. Let all oppressors, whether in homes, in churches, in stores, in offices, in factories, in social life or political life, in private life or public life know that God hates oppressors, and they will all come to grief here or hereafter. Pharaoh thought he did a fine thing, a cunning thing, a decisive thing when for the complete extinction of the Hebrews in Egypt he ordered all the Hebrew boys massacred, but he did not find it so fine a thing when his own first boni that night of the destroying angel dropped dead on the> mosaic floor at the foot of the porphyry pillar of the palace. Let all the Pharaohs take warning. Some of the worst of them are on a small scale in households as when a man, because his arm is strong and his voice loud, dominates his poor wife into domestic slavery. There are thousands of such cases where the wife is a lifetime serf, het opinion disregarded, her tastes insulted, and her existence a wretchedness, though the world may not know it It is a Pharaoh that sits at the head {of that table, and a Pharaoh that tyrannizes that home. There is no more abhorrent Pharaoh than a domestic Pharaoh. There are thousands of women to Whom death is passage from Egypt to Canaan, because they get Hd of a cruel taskmaster. What an accursed monster is that man who keeps fiis wife in dread about family expenses, and must be cautious how she introduces an article of millinery or woinenly wardrobe without humiliating consultation and apology. Who is that man acting so? For six months —in order to win that woman’s heart, he sent her every few days a bouquet wound with white ribbon, and an endearing couplet, and took her to concerts and theaters, and helped her into carriages as though she were a princess, and ran across tbe room to pick up her pocket handkerchief with the speed of an antelope, and on the marriage day promised all that the liturgy required, saying, “I will?” with an emphasis that excited the admiration of all spectators. But-now he begrudges her 3 cents for a postage stamp, and wonders why she rides across Brooklyn bridge when the foot passage costs nothing. He thinks now she is awful plain, and he acts like the devil, while he thunders out: “Where did you get that new hat from? That’s where my money goes. Where’s my breakfast? Do you call that coffee? Didn’t I tell you to sew on that button? Want to see your mother, do you? You are ajways going to see your * mother! What are you whimpering about? Hurry up, now, and get my slippers. Where’s the newspaper?” The tone, the look, the impatience—the cruelty of a Pharaoh. That is what gives so many women a cowed down look. Pharaoh, you had better take your iron heel off that woman’s neck, or God will help you remove your heel. She says nothing. For the sake of avoiding a . scandal she keeps silent; but her tears and wrongs have gone into a record that you will have to meet as certainly as Pharaoh had to meet hail and lightning and darkness and 'the death angel. God never yet gave to any man the right to tyrannize a woman, and what a sneak you are to take advantage of the marriage vow, and because she cannot help herself, and under the shelter of your own home outPharaoh the Egyptian oppressor. There is something awfully wrong in a household where the woman is not considered of as much importance as the man. No room in this world for any more Pharaohs! But it rolls over on me with great power the thought that we have all been slaves down in Egypt, and sin has been our taskmaster, and again aud again we have felt its lash. But Christ has been our Moses to lead us out of bondage, and we are forever free. The Red Sea of a Saviour’s sacrifice rolls deep and wide between us and our aforetime bondage, and though there may be desserts yet for us to cross we are on the way to the Promised Land. Thanks be unto God for this emancipating Gospel! Come up out of Egypt, all ye who are yet enslaved. What Christ did for up He will do for ybu. “Exodus!” is the word. Exodus! Instead of the brick kilns of Egypt come into the empurpled vineyards of God, where one cluster of grapes is bigger than the one that the spies brought to the Israelites by the Brook Eshcol, though that cluster was so large that it was borne “between two upon a staff.” - — « Gen. Oglethorpe, the founder of Georgia, used to tell of a missionary who, flattering himself that he had thoroughly imbued an American Indian with the right spirit in which to take the Lord’s Supper, said: “Do you not feel a mental comfort, an inward refreshment from that holy cup?” “It is very good,* said the promising proselyte, “but,” with a smile, .rum’s better,* e

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Before Vandyckmade has first journey to Italy he padFh farewell visit to Rubens, and presented him with three Os his pictures. One of these, “The Romans SeiringJDhrist in the Garden of hung in the principal room in his house, and was never weary of praising it. The master returned his pupil’s generosity by E resenting to him one of his finest orses. Vandyok made his first stop at Savelthem, a village near Brussels. Here he fell in love with a girl named Anna van Ophem, and forgot Italy and his art while gazing in her face and wandering by her side through the fair valley in which she dwelt. But Anna regretted his idleness, and was curious to see the pictures that he could paint. Finally, he yielded to her persuasions, and painted two pictures for the parish church of Savelthem. One of these was a “Holy Family,* in which the Virgin was a portrait of Anna, while St. Joachim and St. Anna represented her father and mother. This picture he gave to the church. It has long since disappeared, and it is said that it was used to make grain-bags by French foragers. The second picture, for which he was paid, represented St. Martin of Tours, when he divided his cloak with two beggars. The saint was a portrait of Vandyok himself, and the horse he rode was painted from that which Rubens had given him, This picture was very .dear to the people of Savelthem, and when, in 1768, they discovered that the parish priest had agreed to sell it, they armed themselves with pitchforks and other homely weapons, and, surrounding the church, insisted that the picture should not be removed. In 1806. however, they were powerless before the French soldiers, and, though they loved their saint as dearly as ever, he was borne away to Paris and placed in the gallery of the Louvre, where he remained until 1815, when he was taken again to Savelthem and restored to his original place. It is also said that, in 1850, a rich American offered $20,000 to any .one who would bring this picture to hiin no matter how it was obtained. Some rogues tried to steal it, but the watch-dogs of Savelthem barked so furiously that the men of the village were alarmed, and rushed to the church so quickly that the robbers scarcely escaped. Since then a guard sleeps in the church, and St. Martin is undisturbed, and may always be seen there dividing his cloak and teaching the lesson of that Christian charity for which his own life was remarkable.—St. Nicholas. Men of mature age generally write the most impassioned love letters. Attachments at that age are deeper, and less anxiety not to compromise oneself is shown and felt. From 25 to 40 they are more cautiously worded, and even occasionally signed with initials. Men between these ages, beside being desirous to avoid conuniting themselves, are more or less ashamed of any display of sentiment. A young man from 18 to 25 will inundate the object of his affection with letters full of the most fervent protestations, as evanescent as they are ardent. After 50 men are often wise enough to vote the writing of love letters an unprofitable occupation; but some carry on the practice to a very advanced age. Their protestations are then ingeniously flavored with touc hes of the paternal, which sometimes entirely mislead the unsophisticated recipients. A German of most ages vrill address his sweetheart in the second person singular, and indulge in dreary descriptions of his every-day life, giving her little anecdotes about himself, interspersed by a quantity of sentimental platitudes which most of our* own girls would designate “bosh.” Frenchmen, in their love letters, are as expensive as they are insincere. Not that they have the least idea at the time that they do not feel every syllable they write. Compliments and aggregated expressions of devotion are idioms, of the French language, and flow naturally from a Frenchman’s lips, even under the most discouraging circumstances.

Returning home from a dinner pa.rty in St. Petersburg once, Prince Gortschakoff missed from the pocket of his overcoat his pocket-book, containiing 30,000 rubles. He at once informed the Chief of Police, who assured him that the thief would quickly be hunted down. Sure enough, before a week had passed the Chief restored to the Prince the entire sum of money intact, but without the pocket-book, which, he said, the thief confessed having thrown away to avoid identification. This was very well; but a day or two later Gortschakoff, putting on the same overcoat, was surprised to find in a pocket overlooked before the missing pocket-book, containing untouched the 30,000 rubles, which he never had lost at all. The idea of restoring the supposed stolen money to the Prince from the public funds, in hope of thus winning favor for zeal and efficiency, speaks woilds for the police officer’s ingenuity, but presents a curious phase of Russian official ethics.— New York Tribune. Dr. Haley communicated to the Australian Medical Journal the interesting fact that for some years past has found minimum doses of iodide of potassium of great service in frontal headache; that is, a heavy, dull headache, situated over the brow, and accompanied by languor, chilliness and a feeling of general discomfort, with distaste for food, which sometimes approaches to nausea, can be completely removed by a two-grain dose dissolved in half a wine-glassful of water, and. this quietly sipped, the whole fiquaiitity taken in about ten minutes. In .many cases, he adds, the effect of these small doses has been simply wonderful—as, for instance, a person who a quarter of an hour before was feeling most miserable, and refused all fimd, wishing only for quietness, would now take a good meal and resume his wonted cheerfulness. JxGsoNsays he has found more grass widows In olover than in weeds.

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There are many plants whose leaves, flowers and seed contain virulent poisons, which every one should know, so as to avoid them and keep children from them. Buttercups possess a poisonous property which disappears when the flowers are dried in nay; no cow will feed upon them while in blossom. So caustic are the petals that they will sometimes inflame the akin of tender fingers. Every child should be cautioned against eating them; indeed, it is desirable to caution children about tasting the petals of any flower, or putting leaves into their mouths, except those known to be harmless. The oleander contains a deadly poison in its leaves, and is said to be a dangerous plant for the parlor or diningroom. The flowers and berries of the wild briony possess a powerful purgative, and the red berries, which attract children, have proved fatal. The seeds of the laburnum and catalpa trees should be kept from children, and there is a poisonous property in their barks. The seeds of the yellow and the roughpodded vetches will* produce nausea and severe headache. Fool’s parsley has tuberous roots which have been mistaken for turnips and produced a fatal effect an hour after they were eaten. Meadow hemlock is said to be the hemlock which Socrates drank; it kills by its intense action upon the nerves, producing complete insensibility, and palsy of the arms and legs, and is a most dangerous drug, except in skilful hands. In August it is found in every field, by sea-shore and near mountain tops, and ladies and children gather its large clusters of tiny white flowers in quantities, without the least idea of their poisonous qualities. The water hemlock or cowbane resembles parsnips, and has been eaten for them with deadly effect. i. The water dropwort resembles celery when not in flower, and its roots are also similar to those of the parsnip, but they contain a virulent poison, producing convulsions which end in death in a short time. The fine-leaved water dropwort and the common dropwort are also dangerous weeds. The bulbs of the daffodils were once mistaken for leeks and boiled in soup, with very disastrous effects, making the whole household intensely nauseous, and the children did not recover from their effects for several days.— Country Gen tieman. Disastrous Failure! It is with feelings of regret that we announce the failure of hosts of people troubled with inaction of the kidneys to take efficient means to renew their activity. • This failure is most disastrous, for a complete wreck of the organs themselves must eventuate if timely means are not taken to reestablish their secretive function on a basis of activity and regularity Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters renews both, and prevents ultimate and fatal disaster. As it is one of the functions of the kidneys to strain from the blood, in its passage through them, impurities procreative of dropsy, rheumatism, and gout, an early impetus is all the more needful to be given to their operations when tardy or ineffectual. The unmedicated stimuli of commerce do not answer this purpose. Use the'Bitters for dyspepsia, malaria, constipation and biliousness.

Ail a Mistake. The reporter that had accompanied the special train to the scene of the wreck hurried down the embankment and found a man who had one arm in a sling, a bandage over one eye, his front teeth gone, and his nose knocked four points to star-board, sitting on a broken' truck of the sleeping-car and surveying the horrible ruin all about him. “Can you give me some particulars of this accident?” he asked, taking out his note-book. “I haven’t heard of any accident, young man,” replied the disfigured party, stiffly. He was one of the officers of the road. A Good Man Gone Wrong. “Smithers used to be a good novelist before his baby was born.” “How did that affect his work?” “His style was ruined by the books he had to read the youngster. His last novel began: ’What is this? This is our hero. Is he »• blonde? Yes, he is a blonde, and his name is William Wilkins. I do not think William Wilkins is a pretty name, do you? You do? Well, so did Maud See the house with the green shutters. That is where Maud Brompton lives with her aunt. Have you an aunt?’” “What a shame!”—Harper’s Magazine. A man who hM practiced medicine far forty years ought to know salt from sugar; read what he says: Toledo, 0., Jan. 10,1887. Messrs. F. J. Cheney A Co.—Gentlemen—l have been in the general praetice of medicine for most forty years, and would say that in all my practice and experience have never seen a preparation that I could prescribe with as much confidence of success as I can Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by you. Have prescribed it a great many times and its effect is wonderful, and would say in conclusion that I have yet to find a oase of Catarrh that it would not euro, if they would take it according to directions. Yours truly, L. L. GORSVCH, M. D., Office, Sls ttammit St. We will give 8100 for aay case of ffatarrh that cannot be cured with Hall’s Catarrh Cum Taken internally. F. J. CHENEY A Co., Props., Toledo, O. MFSold by Druggists, 75c. For a Curtain Drama, Johnny—Popper, does it follow because a man wears glasses he has bad eyesight? Popper—As a rule, Johnny. “Then you must have awful poor eyesight.” “Oh. no, sonny.” “Then why did mommer say you look through ten glasses a day.?” “I will explain it to mommer to-night.” t —Jewelers' Circular. A Prominent G. A. R. Man. Ever since I came out of the Army in *631 had been in poor health, suffering from Kidney and Liver Complaint. Bwamp-Boot did me more good than all the medicines I had ever taken. At present am feeling better than for years. , It is the best medicine on earth. W. Spznozb. 30th Ind. Inf..Elkhart,lnd. A Light Family. There is a family in Lithonia, Ga., consisting of husband, wife, and four children, and the total weight of the six is less than 300 pounds. The wife and mother weighs seventy-five pounds.

I hare bsan taking Hood’s BsrsaparUls for ths past four yean at intervals. I wss troubled with catsirh. and the mediclao effected a perfect cure. I teßs U now whenever I feel debilitated, and it always gives mo immsdlate strength, regulates ths bowels, sad gives snsxosUaat appstite.* Urn CAMraaUe FwkMsbiurfW.Va. Uy daughter has had catarrh for nine years. She coughed aad expectorated co much that every owe thought she had consumption. I tried everything I heard sd, bat gained no relief. I seat her to Florida ia September for foe winter, sad there her Meads advised her to use Rood** Sarsaparilla. She wrote mo foal she had taken fores botUea. aad aererfott segood ia berUfe.” Mas. MoXniewr. m WiUtaap sea street Newport Xy.

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“German Syrup” ForThroat and Lungs “ I have been ill for Hemorrhage “ about five years, “have had the best Five Years. “medical advice, “and Itook the first “ dose in some doubt. This result“edin a few hours easy sleep. There • ‘ wasno further hemorrhage till next ■ “ day,, when I had a slight attack “ which stopped almost immediate- ‘ “ly. By the third day all trace of t “ blood had disappeared and I had “recovered much strength. The • “fourth day I sat up in bed and ate i •• my dinner, the first solid food for “two months. Since that time I “have gradually gotten better and “ am now able to move about “house. My death was daily “ pected and my recovery has been “ a gtoat surprise to my friends and “the doctor. There can be no doubt “about the effect of German Syrup, “ as I had an attack just previous to “its use. The only relief was after “ the first dose.’ * J R. Loughhkad, Adelaide, Australia. O

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