Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 20 November 1891 — Page 3

DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. HE DRAWS A LESSON FROM THE TEMPLE OF DIANA. On the Way from Smyrna to Ephesus— Bandits, Bobbers and Pilgrims—Present Appearance of the Place Where Paul Fought With Beasts. The Temple of Diana. ' Dr. Talmage’s text was Acts xix, 34. ••Great is Diana of the Ephesians.” We have landed at Smyrna, a city of Asiatic Turkey. One of the seven churches of Asia once stood here. You read in Revelation, “To the church in Smyrna write.” It is a city that has often been shaken "by earthquake, swept by conflagration, blasted by plagues, and butchered by war, and here Bishop Polycarp stood in a crowded amphitheater, and when he was asked to give up the advocacy of the Christian religion and save himself from martyrdom; the proconsul saying, “Swear and I release thee; reproach Christ,” replied, “Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He ■never did me wrong; how then can I revile my Kinir and Saviour?” When he was brought to the fires into which he was about to be thrust, and the officials were about to fasten him to the stake, he said, “Let me remain as I am, for he who giveth me strength to sustain the fire-will enable me also without your securing me with nails toremain unmovedin the fire.” History says the fires refused to consume him, and under the winds the flames bent outward so that they did not touch his person, and therefore he was slain by swords and spears. One cypress bending over his grave is the only monument to Bishop Polycarp. But are on the way to the city of Ephesus, about fifty miles ffom Smyrna. We are advised not to co to Ephesus; the bandits in that region have had an ugly practice of cutting off the ears of travelers and sending these specimens of ears down to Smyrna, demanding a ransom. The bandits suggest to the friends of the person from whom the ears have been subtracted that if they would like to have the rest of the body they will please send an appropriate sum of money. If the money is not sent the mutilated prisoners will be assassinated. One traveler was carried off to the robbers’ den and 87,500 was paid for his rescue. The bandits were caught and beheaded, and pictures of these ghastly heads are on sale in the shops of Smyrna for any persons who may desire to have something to look at on their way to Ephesus. There have been cases where ten and twenty and thirty and forty thousand dollars have been demanded by these brigands. We do not feel like putting our friends to such expense, and it was suggested that we had better omit EphesiA. But that would have been a disappointment from which we would never recover. We must see Ephesus—associated with the most wonderful apostolic scenes. We hire a special railway train, and in about an hour and a half we arrive at the city of Ephesus, which was called “The Great Metropolis of Asia,” and “One of the Eyes of Asia,” and “The Empress of lonia,” the capital of all learning and magnificence. Here, as I said, was one of the seven churches of Asia, and first of all we visit the ruins of that church where once an ecu- • menical council of two thousand ministers of religion was held. Mark the fulfillment of the prophecy of the seven churches of Asia; four were commended in the Book of Revelation and three were doomed. The cities having the four commended churches still stand; the cities having the three doomed churches are wiped out. It occurred just as the Bible said it would occur. Drive on and you come to the theater, which was 660 feet from wall to wall, capable of holding 56,700 spectators. Here and there the walls arise almost unbroken, but for the most part the building is down. Just Enough of it is left to help the imagination build it up as it was when those audiences shouted and clapped at some great spectacular. Their huzzas must have been enough to stun the heavens. As I took my place at the center of this theater and looked around at its broken layers of stone, gallery upon gallery, gallery upon gallery, piled up into ■. the bleak skies of that winter day, and thought that every hand that swung a trowel on those walls, and every foot that trod those stairs,* and every eye that gazed on that amphitheater, and every voice that greeted the combatants in that arena had gone out of hearing and sight for ages on ages, I felt a thrill of interest that almost prostrated ine amid the ruins. Standing there we could not forget that in that building once assembled a riotous throng for Paul’s condemnation because what he preached collided with the idolatry of their national goddess. Paul tried to get into that theater and address the excited multitude, but his friends held him back lest he be torn to pieces by the mob, and the recorder of the city had to read the riot act among the people, who had shrieked for two mortal hours till their throats were sore and they were black in the face, “Great Is Diana of the Ephesians!” Now we step into the Stadium. Enough of its walls and appointments are left to show what a stupendous place it must have been when used for foot races and for fights with wild beasts. It was a building 680 feet long by 200 feet wide. Paul refers to what transpired there in the way of spectacle when he says, “We have been made a spectacle.” Yes, Paul says, “I have fought With beasts at Ephesus,” an expression usually taken as figurative, but I suppose it was literally true, for one , of the amusements in that Stadium was to put a disliked man m the arena with a hungry lion or tiger or panther, and let the fight go on until cither the man or the beast or both were slain. It must have been great fun for these haters of Christianity to hear that on the morrow in the Stadium in Ephesus the missionary Paul would, in the presence of the crowded galleries, fight a hungry lion. The people were early there to get the best seats, and a more alert and enthusiastic crowd never assembled. They took their dinners with k them. And was there ever a more un- [ equal corniest proposed. Paul, according to tradition, small, crooked-backed, and weak-eyed, but the grandest man in sixty centuries, is lead to the center as the people shout: “There he comes, the preacher who has nearly ruined our religion. The lion will make but a brief mouthful of him.” It is plain that all the sympathies of that crowd are with the lion. In one of the underground rooms I hear the growl of the wild beasts. They have been kept for several days without food or water in order that they may be especially ravenous and bloodthirsty. What chance is there for Paul? But you cannot tell by a man’s size or looks how stout a blow be can strike or how keen a bla'de he can thrust Witness, Heaven and earth and hell, this struggle of Paul with a wild beast The coolest man in the stadium is Paul. What has he to fear? He has defied all the powers, earthly and infernal, and if his body tumble under the foot and tooth of the wild beast, his soul will only the sooner r find disenthrallment But it is his duty, far as possible, to preserve his life. '* Now I hear the bolt of the wild beast’s door shove back, and the whole audience rise to their feet as the fierce

brute springs for t e arena and toward • its small occupant I think the first plunge that was made by the wild beast . at the apostle was made on the point of a sharp blade, and the snarling monster with a howl of pain and reeking with gore turns back. But now the little . missionary has his turn of making att tack, and with a few well directed , thrusts the monster lies dead in the dust of the arena and the apostle puts his right foot on the lion and shakes him, and then puts his left foot on him and shakes him—a scene which Paul after- , ward uses for an illustration when he wants to show how Christ will triumph f over death—“he must reign till he hath ! put all enemies under his feet;” yes, unt der his feet. Ptful told the literal truth t when he said, “I have fouglA with 3 beasts at Ephesus,” and as the plural is t used I think he had more than one such .fight, or several beasts were let .loose j upon him at one time. As we stood that . day in the middle of the stadium and > looked around at the great structure, i the whole scene came back upon us. > But we pass out of the Stadium, for j we are in haste for other places of interr est in Ephesus. To add to the excite- , meat of the day one of our party was . missing. No man is safe m that region alone unless he be armed and knows how , to take sure aim and not miss fire. Our [ companion, Dr. Louis Klopsch, now the , publisher of the Christian Herald, had ; gone out on some explorations of his , own, and through the gate where Paul . had walked again and again, yet where . no man unaccompanied should venture ■ now. But after some time had passed, and every minute seemed as long as an . hour, and we had time to imagine every- , thing horrible in the way of robbery and i assassination, the lost traveler appeared, . to receive from our entire party a volley , of expostulation 7or the arousal of so many anxieties In the jnidst of this city of Ephesus once floated an artificial lake, brilliant with painted boats, and through the River Cayster it was connected with the ’ sea, and ships from all parts of the known earth floated in and out carrying on a commerce that made Ephesus the i envy of the world. Great was Ephesus ! Its gymnasia, its hippodrome, its odeon, its athenaeum, its forum, its aqueducts (whose skeletons are still strewn along the city), its towers, its Castle of Hadrian, its monument of Androcius, its quarries, which were the granite cradle of cities; its temples, built to Apollo, to Minerva, to Neptune, to Mercury, to Bacchus, to Hercules, to Caesar, to Fortune, to Jupiter Olympus. What history and poetry and chisel and canvas have not presented has come up at the call of archaeologists’ powder blast and crowbar. But I have now to unveil the chief wonder of this chiefest of cities. In 1863, under the patronage of the English Government, Mr. Wood, the explorer, began at Ephesus to feel along under the ground at great depths for roads; for walls, for towers, and here it is—that for which Ephesus was more celebrated than all else besides—the Temple of the Goddess Diana, called the sixth wonder of the world, and in 1889 we stood amid the ruins of that temple, measuring its pillars, transfixed by its sculpture and confounded by what was the greatest temple of idolatry in all time. As I sat on a piece of one of its fallen columns I said, “What earthquake rocked it down, or what hurricane pushed it to the earth, or under what strong wine of centuries did the giant stagger and fall.” There have been seven temples of Diana, each one contributing something for the splendor of all its architectural successors. Two hundred and twenty years was this last temple in construction. Twice as long as the United States has stood was that temple in building. It was nearly twice as long as St. Paul’s Cathedral. London. Lest it should be disturbed by earthquakes, which have always been fond of making those rogions their playground, the temple was built on a marsh, which was made firm by layers of charcoal covered byy fleeces of wool. The stone came from4he quarry near by. After it was decreed to build the temple, it was thought it would be necessary to bring the building stone from other lands, but one day a shepherd by the name of Pixodorus, while watching his flocks, saw two rams fighting, and as they missed the Interlocking of their horns and one fell, his horn knocked a splinter from the rock and showed by that splinter the lustrous w dteness of the rock. The shepherd ran to the city with a piece of that stone, which revealed a quarry from which the temple was built, and every mouth in all ages since the mayor of Ephesus goes to that quairy to offer sacrifices to the memory of that shepherd who discovered this source of splendor and wealth for the cities of Asia Minor. In removing the great stones from the quarry to their destined places in the temple, it was necessary, in order to keep the wheels, which were twelve feet in diameter, from sinking deep into the earth under the unparalleled heft, that a frame of timbers be arranged over which the wheels rolled. To put the immense block of marble in its place over the doorway or one of these temples was so vast and difficult an undertaking that the architect at one time gave it up, and in his chagrin Intended suicide, but one night in his sleep he dreamed that the stone had settled to the right place, and the next day he found that the great block of ■ marble had by its own weight settled to the right place. The temple of Diana i was 425 feet long by 220 feet wide. All Asia was taxed to pay for it. It had 127 pillars, each sixty feet high, and each the gift of a king, and inscribed with the name of the donor. Now you see the meaning of that passage in Revelation, just as a king presenting one of these pillars to the temple of Diana bad his own name chiseled on it and the name of his own country, so says Christ, “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and I will write upon him the name of i my God and the name of the city of my i God, which is New Jerusalem, and I i will write upon him my new name.” ■ How suggestive and beantiful! , Paul, in the presence of this Temple ’ of Diana, incorporates it in his figures i of speech while speaking of the spiritual • temple, “Now, it any man build upon l this foundation, gold, silver, precious ■ stones, etc.,” and no doubt with refer- ; ence to one of the previous temples which l had been set on fire by Herostratus just for the fame of destroying it. Paul says, i “If any man’s work shall be burned, he > shall suffer loss, etc.,” and all up and ■ down Paul’s writings you realize that he !, had not only seen, bnt had been mightily impressed with what he had seen of the ! Temple of Diana. ! In this city the mother of Jesus was 1 said to have been buried. Here dwelt ; Aquilla and Priscilla of Bible mention, i who were professors in an extemporized - theological seminary, and they taught i the eloquent Apollos how to be eloquent for Christ. Here John preached, and , from here because of his fidelity he i was exiled to Patmos. Hero Paul warred 1 against the magical arts for which Ephesus was famous. The sorcerers of this city pretended that they couid cure i diseases, and perform almost any miracle, by pronouncing these senseless words, “Aski Cataski Lix Tetrax Damnameneus i Alston. ” Paul having performed a miracle in the name oi Jesus, there was a lying family of seven brothers who imitated the apostle, and instead of their usual words of incantation, used the word Jesus over a man who was possessed of 1 .-J .J-Vr, i . < 1 .

I a devil, and the man possessed flew at them in great fierceness and nearly tore these frauds to pieces, and in conse* quence ail up and down the streets of Ephesus there was indignation excited against the magical arts, and a great bonfire of magical books was kindled in the streets, and the people stirred the blaze until thirty-five thousand dollars’ worth of black art literature had burned to ashes. ’ But all the glory of Ephesus I have described has gone now. At some seasons of the year awful malarias sweep over the place and put upon mattress or in graves a large portion of the population. In the approximate marshes scorpions, centipedes and all forms of reptile life crawl and hiss and sting, while hyenas and jackals at night slink in and out of the ruins of buildings which once startled the nations with their almost supernatural grandeur. But here is a lesson which has neve] yet been drawn out. Do you not see in that temple of Diana an expression of what the world needs? It wants a God who can provide food. Diana was a huntress. In pictures on many of the coines she held a stag by the horn with one hand and a bundle of arrows in the other. Ob, this is a hungry worldl Diana could not give one pound of meat or one mouthful of food to the millions of her worshippers. She was a dead divinity, an imaginary god, and so in idolatrous lands, the vast majority of people never have enough to eat. It is only in the countries where the God of Heaven and earth is worshipped that the vast majority have enough to eat. Let Diana have her arrows and her hounds; our God has the sunshine and the showers, and the harvests, and in proportion as He is worshiped does plenty reign. So also- in the temple of Diana the world expressed its need of a refuge. To it from all parts of the world came debtors who could not pay their debts and offenders of the law that they might escape incarceration, but she sheltered them only a little while, and while she kept them from arrest she could not change their hearts and the guilty remained guilty, but our God in Jesus Christ is a refuge into which we mayfly from all our sins and all our pursuers,; and not only be safe for time but sate for eternity, and the guilt is pardoned and the nature is transformed. What Diana could not do for her worshipers our Christ accomplishes for us. Bock of ages cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee. Then, in that temple were deposited treasures from all the earth for safe keeping. Chrysostom says it was the treasure-house of nations; they brought gold and silver and precious stones and coronets from across the sea, and put them under the care of Diana of the Ephesians. But again and again were those treasures ransacked, captured, or destroyed. Nero robbed them, the Scythans scattered them, the Goths burned them. Diana failed those who trusted her with treasures, but our God, to Him we may intrust all our treasures, for this world and the next, and fail any one who puts confidence in Him he never will. After the last jasper column has fallen and last temple on earth has gone into ruins and the world itself has suffered demolition, the Lord will keep for us our best treasures But, notice what killed Ephesus, and what has killed most of the cities that lie buried in the cemetery of nations. Luxury! The costly baths, which had been the means of health to the city, became its ruin. Instead of the cold baths that had been the invigoration of the people, the hot baths, which are only intended for the infirm, or the invalid, were substituted. In these hot baths many lay most of the time. Authors wrote books while in these baths. Business was neglected and a hot bath taken four or five times a day. When the keeper of the baths was reprimanded for not having them warm enough, one of the rulers said, “You blame him for not making the bath warm enough; I blame you because you have it warm at all.” But that warm bath which enervated Ephesus, and which is always enervating, except when followed by cold baths (no reference, of course, to delicate constitutions,) was only a type of what went on in all departments of Ephesian life, and in luxurious indulgence Ephesus fell, and the last triangle of music was tinkled in Diana’s temple, and the last wrestler disappeared from her gymnasiums. and the last racer took his garland in the Stadium, and the last plea was heard in her Forum, and, even the sea, as if to withdraw the last commercial opportunity from that metropolis, retreated down the beach, leaving her without the harbor in which had floated a thousand ships. Brooklyn, New York, London and all modern cities, cisatlantic and transatlantic, take warning! What luxury unguarded did for Ephesus, luxury ungarded may do for ail. Opulence and splendor God grant to all the people, to all the cities, to all the lands, but at the same time, may he grant the righteous use of them. Gymnasiums? Yes, but see that the vigor gained in them be consecrated to God. Magnificent temples of worship? Yes, but see that in them instead of conventionalities and cold pomp of service there be warmth of devotion and the pure Gospel preached. Imposing court houses? Yes, but in them let justice and mercy rule. Palaces of journalism? Yes, but let all of the printing presses be marshaled for happiness and truth. Great postoffice buildings? Yes, but through them, day by day, may correspondence helpful, elevating and moral pass. Ornate dwelling houses? Yes, but in them let there be altars of devotion, and conjugal, filial, paternal and Christian fidelity rule. London for magnitude, Berlin for universities, Paris for fashions, Rome for cathedrals, Athens for classics, Thebes for hieroglyphics, Memphis for tombs, Babylonfor gardens, Ephesus for idolatry, but what shall be the characteristics of our American cities when they shall have attained their full stature? Would that to the Lord” might be inscribed upon all our municipalities. One thing is certain, and that is that all idolatry must come down. When the greatest goddess of the earth, Diana, enshrined in the greatest temple that ever stood, was prostrated at Ephesus, it was a prophecy of the overthrow of all the idolatries that have cursed the earth and anything we love more than God it is an idol, and there is as much idolatry in the nineteenth century as in the first, and in America as in Asia. As our train pulled oilt from the station at Ephesus, the cars surrounded by the worst looking group of villains I ever gazed on,- all of them seeming in a wrangle with each other and trying to get into a wrangle with us, and we moved along the columns of ancient aqueducts, each column crowned with storks, having built their neats there, and we rolled on down toward Smyrna, and that night in a sailor’s bethel as we spoke of the Christ whom the world must know oi* perish, we felt that between cradle and grave there could not be anything much more enthralling for body, mind and soul than ourvlsit to Ephesus. _■/’ A doctor in California claims that the juice of eucalyptus leaves caused the hair to grow on his bald head. He was in the habit of pounding the leaves to pulp, which he applied to his head for the headache, when a new crop of hair appeared. I

Spelling art Composition* Col. F. W. Parker, writing in the Minnesota Journal of Education, bays: We give to spelling so much of our important time! What is it? It is making the form of a word. That is spelling, perse. Oral spelling is the des-’ cription of a word, naming its parts. A child can spell, i. e. learn the letters of a word, but might merely get it from sound. Spelling should be a description, as if I drew a house, which would be describing it. One of old Oommenius’ principles is this: “Things that have to be done should be done by doing them.” The powers of the teacher seem to have been directed to doing a thing by doing something else. As soon as the child begins to read he spells. Oral spelling should be put off till the second year to make sure that he gets the form right. The first year should be given to copying words. Much teaching is merely attempted forcing out of the mind what not yet got into it. Never spell any words for a child unless that child can follow with the idea, as the pencil traces the word. He thus learns t|w written and the spoken language together—learns to read and write at the same time. If all the spelling books were piled up and set on fire, they would give more light to the world than they ever did to the schodl-reom 1 The purpose of spelling is composition. In the first year provide the pupil with a correct copy of mental pictures. Give sentences, have the children copy them, and after they are erased have them reproduce them. Give the thought of what is spelled. The next year teach spelling by dictation. Train a child to know whAn he does not know a word. He will 4hen never spell wrong. All spelling cdnbe taught in composition. Children can be made to love tq talk with the pencil. A child knows a unit of thought by expressing it. Do an act and have them write it, or let them tell it orally. All of grammar can be taught in a beautiful way by action. Put no false syntax on the board; the wrong form is as likely to remain in the child’s mind as the right. Be right from the start. Pictures can be utilized in the writing of compositions. The little ones may write one, two or three sentences only about a picture, but by the second year the child can write a story about it. In the third year it can write a page of composition entirely correct. Is that not a foundation for grammar ? Another way of teaching composition is to tell the child stories, and have it reproduce them in its own words. In object teaching there is as much nonsense as in anything else. The fundamental mistake is that teachers attempt the impossible. They fail to understand that the child cannot see what they can see, find consequently talk above their heads. And lawyers can charge big fees, too! For example, if I should charge the press in the same proportion that lawyers charge for their time, I should get about SI,OOO for this letter. Here is a ease: Mr. B. L. White, now editor of the Providence Press, and I were associated as correspondents of the New York Tribune. The Alabama treaty, on whose provisions two continents hung breathlessly, had been signed and sent to the Senate, This was many years ago. A copy came to us as legitimately as any piece of news comes into the Press office, but it happened so that we could not tell where it came from. We were brought before the Senate and sent to a committee, and we refused to answer and tell where the treaty, as printed in the Tribune, came from. We were locked up about a fortnight. The great public was with us, and we had more applications for our autographs than we could pay postage on, and we had cases of wine, and cases of brandy, demijohns of whisky, boxes of cigars, woodcock, terrapin, canvasback ducks, flowers, and such things galore. Senators came to our rooms for drinks and lunches, and the whole thing from beginning to end was a great joke. But | —and, here comes the point—we were of course released by a tremendous ma- ! jority of the Senate, but there were cer- ■ tain legal points to be disposed of. We had been indicted for disrespect to the , Senate, or something of that kind. We engaged a lawyer, and he went into court and asked that our indictment be quashed. That was all, and the indictment was quashed. How much, Mr. Editor, do you think he charged for that five minutes’ work. He charged and I paid him SSOO for that job, and I have his name on my check to show it. Suppose a newspaper man had taken $500! Well, you know what Pistol said when he was compelled to eat the garlic. I have a moral. It is: Study law.Over 4,000,000 ounces of quinine are consumed annually throughout the world, and it has become the universal medicine since its discovery in 1640, when it was introduced into Europe by the Countess Cinchon, after whom the bark was named. Its abundance or scarcity may be said to be a matter of international concern. Wars and epidemics operate to advance its price. It occupies about the same place in materia medica that breadstuff’s do among articles of food. Yet it is said the natural supply of the cinchona bark is failing, and that resort must be made to cultivation in order to supply the world’s demand. Cultivation has already begun in the East Indies, but must be extended to every country producing this indispensable bark. Her Husband and Her Sow. An old lady of Clinton. Mo., brought suit against the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company for $5,000 for killing her husbana and SSO for killing an old sow. When the matter came up she dismissed as to her husband, but refused to fall a cent on the sow. It is when straws are made up into hats that they show which way the wind blows. The man who deals at the faro table is a vice president.

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The Vigilnntm Four well-known citizens organized themselves into a vigilance committee for the purpose of arresting some burglars that had committed a number oi depredations in the vicinity of their residences. They met together and swore themselves en a skull and three Bibles. They got up their pass-words, signs and grips, so that each would recognize the other in the dark under any circumstances. They armed themselves with revolvers, slug shots, bowio knives, brass knuckles and . buHs-eye lanterns. The thing worked well, as they were near neighbors, and they talked the thing over every night for a month. One dark night, one of the number heard a noise on the front window. He hastily jumped into his clothing, and ran out of his rear door, jumped over the fence and rapped three times on the basement window of another member’s house. Just then he beard some one say: “Sick him Tige,” and fearing he had been taken for a burglar, made a break for the fence, but not any too soon, as Tige had been on the alert, and succeeded in getting a mouthful of pantaloons. Over the fence went the vigilante and soon appeared at the door of another member’s house. Here he scratched softly, three times, and, hearing the noise of a clicking revolver, again flew the vigilante, over fences, barns, etc., through alleys, until he reached his own house. With a catlike tread, he sneaked along, up the steps, and had commenced to try the windows and door to see if the burglars had "been successful, when three bull dogs darted out and attacked him from aH sides. Bang, bang, bang, went some pistols from neighboring windows. The thing was getting hot. The dogs chawed him all over, and soon would have finished the vigilante, but one dog got the other dog by the leg, by mistake, and they got up a fight between themselves, during which time the vigilante succeeded in getting into the house a badly used-up man. It afterwards transpired that, when he scratched on the back doors of the other members’ houses, each thought it was burglars. They slid out the front doors, and went for the others, and when they saw the first member prowling around, examining his own windows, they let out their dogs with the above result. The committee disbanded the next day At the Harvest of Death ' Much grain is prematurely reaped by the scythe of disease that might have ripened to a golden maturity if “minor” bodily troubles had been attended to in time. Nothing is truer than this—bodily ailments not only grow apace but beget one another. Thue billlousness, constipation, dyspepsia follow close on the heels of one another, flourish together, the one perpetuating the other, and begetting a nu‘ ■ merous progeny of later ailments more or less severe as their cause is more or less disregarded and neglected. Incipient rheumatism, malaria and “slight” inactivity of the kidneys, of what dire disaster they are the cause when but slight or no attention is paid to their early warnings. Check these “minor” ailments' with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and forestall the inexorable reaper, who exacts the forfeiture of life as the penalty for disregarding the means of preserving it. No Use for Fast SteamersWho wants to cross the ocean in a jiffy? What shall it profit a man to take a vacation simply to be shot from one place to another as from a catapult? Everybody agrees that the most restful thing about a journey aboard is the ocean voyage. The time spent on the water, where one is cut off from business, from mails, telegraph, newspapers, society and all that worries or annoys, is the best medicine imaginable for tired Americans. Why wish It shortened? When one can cross the ocean in two or three days the advantages and attractions of a foreign trip will be greatly lessoned.—lndianapolis Journal. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contaifi Mercury, As mercury wiH surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Buch 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 A Co., To- | ledo, 0., contains no mercury, and Is taken ini temaily, and acts directly upon the bipod and 1 mucous surfaces of the system. In Buying ■ Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. , It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney <fc Co. JWSold by Druggists, price 75c per bottle. George All Kight. Anxious Mother—My dear, I’m afraid George is getting into bad company. He is out very late nearly every night. Observing Father- -Oh, he’s all right. He goes to see some girl or other. Shouldn’t wonder if he’d announce an engagement soon. “He hasn’t said a word about any young lady.” “No; but he’s keeping company with one B'll the same. His right wrist is full oi pin scratches.”—Street & Smith's Good News. Nothing Like Ik For seven long years' I suffered more or less with Kidney and Liver Complaint, and during that time doctored with a number of Phvsicians, who stated that my case was beyond cure. I found no Remedy like Swamp-Root and to-dav, thank God. I am a well woman. Mbs. A. Whelchkl, Olio, Ind. Country Beds. Farmer Acorn (ttrycity boarder) —Rest well las’ night?” City Boarder—Oh, y-e-s, I slept firstrate. I was four years in the army.— Street & Smith’s Good News. The Only One Ever Printed—Can You Find the Word? There is a 3-inch display advertisement In this paper this week which has no two words alike except one word. The same ia true ol each new one appearing each week from The Dr. Harter Medicine Co. Thia house places a “Crescent” on everything they make and publish. Look for it. send them the name of the word, and they will return you book, bxautwuu. utboobapbs, ob samples fbeb. Deceiving Her. Miss Scadds (coyly)—Do you love me for mv Intrinsic worth? Mr. Hunker—Yes, dear; I love you tor your Pa value.—Smith, Gray <fc Co’s Monthly. .

•I have suffered with catervh in my head for yean, and paid out hundreds of dollars for modiclnee. but have heretofore received only temporary reliet Rood’s Sarsaparilla helped me so much that my catarrh is nearly cured, the weakness ot my body is aU gone, my appetite is good-ln fact, I fool like another person. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the beat medicine I have over taken* Mas. A. CvugntoKAM. Providence, R.l.' “For several years I have been troubled with that terribly disagreeable disease, oatanh. I took Hood's Sarsaparilla with the very best results. It cured me ot that continual dropping in my throat and stuffed up feeling, it has also helped my mother, who haa taken it for run-down state ot health and kidnoy trouble." Mae. s. D. Hcatm. Putnam. Conn.

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The Magnetic Mineral Mad Hatha, Given at the Indiana Mineral Springs, Warren County. Indiana, on the Wabash Line, attract mere attention to-day than any other health resort in this country. Hundreds of people suffering from rheumatism. kidney trouble, and skin diseases, have been cured within the last year by the wonderful magnetic mud and mineral water baths. If you are suffering with any of these diseases, investigate this, nature’s own remedy, at once. The sanitarium buildings, bath-house, water works, and electrio light slant, costing over $150,000, just completes, open all the year round. Write at onoe for beautiful illustrated printed matter, containing complete information and reduced railroad rates. Address F. Chandler, General Passenger Agent. St. Louis, Mo., or H. L. Kramer, General Manager of Indiana Mineral Springs. Indiana. Inconsistent. “Why, what’s the matter with you?” exclaimed one amateur bear-hunter to another as they paused long enough to realize that they . had managed to outrun the grizzly; “what’s the matter with you, anyway? I’ve often heard you boast of your legal aspirations, and here you’ve been running away from a sure chance to be admitted to the b’ar. —Boston Courier. Scuffling for Dollars. To get the dollars we have to scuffle for them—no mistake about that; but there are different ways of going about it, and if you are not satisfied with -your progress at present, then write to B. F. Johnson St Co.. Richmond. Va., who can give you a good pointer or two. Bead carefully their advertisement in another column, and write them at once. “The early bird,” etc. Needed to Get Ready. Photographer—Now try and look pleasant. Victim —Well, then, you'll have to wait till I take off my shoe, for my corn hurts so I couldn't smile for a million dollars. —Danville Breeze. nTSj—AJI Fits stopped tree by Dr.Kllne’s Groat Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day’s use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and *2.00 trial bottle free to fit eases. Send to Dr. Kline. 931 Arch SUPhlbuffa. A Tender-Hearted Girl. » Old Million —My dear Miss Youngthing, if you’d only marry me I could die happy. Miss Youngthing—Why, Mr. Million, if you were dying I’d marry you in a minute.—Street & Smith’s Good News. B Perfectly Well X V Fuxmobk, Dubuque Co.. la., Sept., 1-T69. Miss K. Finnigan writes: “My mother and sister used Pastor Koenig’s Nerve Tonic for neuralgia. They are both perfectly well now and never tired praising the Tonio. Tippecanoe City, Ohjo, Oct. 21,1890. Since taking the first spoonful of Pastor Koenig's Nerve Tonic, the latter part of last May, I have not had any symptoms of fits, and I firmly believe that lam cured. I can never thank you enough for your kindness to mo. It is a wonderful medicine. MISS LYDIA GRANT. Capac, Mich., Oct. 8,1890. My wife at times became such nervous spells that she could not be kept in bed, and all medical treatment proved without effect. Since she used Pastor Koenig’s Nerve Tonio she has bad no spells and in healthier than over, therefore I consider myself under obligation to express my gratitude to you. CHRIST. SCiIOENEMAN. |"RFF-A Valuable Book an Nervous LULL Diseases sent free to any address, rK r r and poor patients can also obtain | ||Lta this medicine free of charge. This remedy has been prepared by the Reverend Pastor Koenig, of Fort Wayne. Ind., since 1876. ana Is now prepared under his direction by the KOENIC MED. CO.. Chicago, 111. Sold by Druggists at SI per Bottle. 6fbrS& Large Size, 81-75. 6 Bottles for 89. Ik ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Fjgs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system 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 beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. 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 FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. LOUISVILLE, KV. NEW YORK, H.V. DATENT®O“ icU ’ obtained. Noilly's rAI tlw I ©ten until patent is allowed. Advice - Book free. SUM MT! WASH Wash-D.q WFAK llLflll mu. Dr. J. H.DYE, Bctvalo. nTY. gfb mv A month and board, or hisheet coms6s PATENTaimgm PHNaxONa-Bav all SOLDIESUBI M dlaabled. 93 fee for iucreaae. 3» years experience. Write tor Laws. A.W. McCormick A Sons. Washington, D. C. A Cincinnati. O. FIT FOLKS REDUCED

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“August Flower” There is a gentleDyspepsia, man at Malden-<m-the-Hudson, N. Y., named Captain A. G. Pareis, who has written us a letter in which it is evident that'he has made up hit mind concerning some things, and this is what he says: “ I have used your preparation called August Flower in my family for seven or eight years. It is constantly in my house, and we consider it the best remedy for Indigestion, and Constipation we Indigestion, have ever used or known. My wife is troubled with Dyspepsia, and at times suffers very much after eating. The August Flower, however, relieves the difficulty. My wife frequently says to me when I am going ' to town, ‘We are out Constipation of August Flower, and I think you had better get anpther bottle. ’ lam also troubled with Indigestion, and whenever I am, I take one or two teaspoonfuls before eating, for a day or two, and all trouble is removed.” • It Cures Colds, Coughs. Sore Throat. Crons. tesj* eßZa ’ Whooping Cough, Bronchitis sm Asthma. A certain cure for Consumption ia 6r»l stage., and a sure relief in advanced stages. Use at once. You will see the excolle >t eflSot after taKin* the first dose. Sold by deaiexs •vexTWhcM. Large bottles, 40 ceute and SI.OQ. ONLY TRUE £9Firon Stonic Will purify BLOOD, regnlst* KIDNEYS, remove LIVER disorder, build strength, renew appetite, restore health and vlgororyouth. Dyspepsia. Indigestion, thattlredfeeU ingabsolutely eradicated. Mind brightened, brail power Increaaed, | | 8k |PA bones, nerves, mas. I I ■■ IL V cles, receive new force. | l|| Iff > suffering from complaints psLRU I LU collar to their sex, using It, find a safe, speedy cure. Returns rose bloom on cheeks, beautifies Complexion. B°ld everywhere. All genuine goods bear “Crescent. ’’ bend na2 cent stamp for 32-page pamphlet. OR. HARTER MROICINR CO., St Louis, Mj. ffIWJIS SOLID VESTIBULE TRAIN Daily at 9.00 p. m. from Chicago. New and aletaal equipment, built expressly for this aerrice. TraU lighted throughout by gas. Tickets and further inm* ra. Kiw roatoreeCoyplexioa j ewes Com. tlpatiea. 11150 to S2OO WSVw W* VW every county in the 0. 8.. A mon™. h£Xw e iffirw‘lS! out. Adapted to town or country. No patent I medicineorcheapjewelry. Splendid opening tor the right person. Gosml Jobe are aeareo and don't wait long for taker*. Even if you can spar, but a few hours a week, write at once to B. F. JOHNSON A CO., Richmond. Va., for information about the blggeat thing on earth—something that will open your eyes and BOREj-M WELLSO fob Kat-dropping tools in uro. • LOOMIS I Tirrnt. ohio. free. KF MM Age, stability, sound meth- | LHH odB i oae, h y Al Q es, inconte«taUIITIIAI b>e polioiM; th ® IfllJ I UAL extension system; low I IFF 00 * 1, Add,WM LI I L 921-&-5 Chestnut St. Pbilhd’h. CKANOTHINE * BurtiiHTin Mn pain wiu iiniiT mwTmii frrttmiim AnLumAiTUHiwuOi PILLS. A SURE CURE asEWOBBac. lIEKT* WIITEI 81 lIUIT

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