Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 29 January 1892 — Page 7

DP TAT M A PFC QPPIWAM 171 V. lALIUAIiLtO OJLIViUUII. — RELIGION IN BUSINESS AND 80- ' G,ET V n . ■ Whatsoever You Do. Let It Ba to the Glory nt God-Thera Is Ko Work Too •melt or Too Groot for the bplrlt ot Uhrtstlanlty. Ta barn no la Talks. Dr. Talmage’s text was taken from I. , Corinthians x, 31: “Whether, therefore, I ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do ' all to the glory of God.” When the apoitle in his text sets forth ‘the idea that so common an action as the taking of food and drink is to bo conducted to the glory of God, he proclaims the importance of religion In the ordinary affairs of our life. In all ages of the worjd there has oeen a tendency to set apart certain days, places and occasions for worship, and to think those were the chief realms in which religion was to act. Now, holy days and places have their importance. They give opportunity for especial peiiformunco of Christian duty, and for regaillng of the religious appetite, but they cannot take the place ot continuous exercise of faith and prayer. In other words, a man cannot be so much of a Christian on Sunday that he can afford to be a worldling all the rest of the week. If a steamer puts out for Southampton and goes one day in that direction and the other six days in otiher directions, how long before the steamer will get to Southampton? It will never get there. And though a man may seem to be voyaging heavenward during the holy Sabbath day, if during the following six days of the week he Is going toward the world, and toward the flesh, and toward the devil, he win never ride up into the peaceful harbor of Heaven. You cannot eat so much at the Sabbath banquet that you can afford religion abstinence the other six days. Heroism and princely behavior on great occasions are no apology for lack of right demeanor in circumstances insignificant and Inconspicuous. The genuine Christian life is not spasmodic; does not go by fits and starts. It toils on through heat and cold up steep mountainsand along" dangerous declivities, its eye on the everlasting hills crowned with the castles qf the blessed. I propose this morning to plead for a religion for to-day. In the first place, wo want to bring the religion of Christ into our conversation. When a dam breaks, and two or three villages arc overwhelmed, or an earthquake in South Africa swallows a whole city, then people begin to talk about the uncertainty of life, and they imagine that they are engaged In positively religious conversation. No. You may talk about these things and have no grace of God at all in your heart We ought every day to be talking religion. If there is anything glad about it anything beautiful about it, anything important about it we ought to be continuously discussing it. I have noticed that men, just in proportion as their Christian experience is shallow, talk about funerals and graveyards and tombstones and deathbeds. The real, genuine Christian mau talks chiefly about this -life and the great eternity beyond, and not so much about the insignificant pass between these two residences. And yet how few circles there are where the religion of Jesus Christ is welcome. Go Into a circle even of Christian people, where they are full of joy and hiarlty, and talk about Christ or Heaven and everything is immec'iately silenced. As on a summer day, when the forests are full of life, chatter and chirrup and carol—a mighty,chorus of bird harmony, every tree bratrtji an orchestra—if a hawk.appear in the sky every voice stops and the forests are still; just so I have seen a lively religious circle silenced on the appearance of anything like religious conversation. No one had anything to say, save, perhaps, some old patriarch in the corner of the room, who really thinks that something ought to be said under the circumstances, so he puts one foot over the other and heaves a long sigh, and says, “Ob, yes; that’s so, that’s so!" My friends, the religion of Jesus Christ is something to talk about with a glad heart. It is brighter than the waters; it is more cheerful than the sunshine. Do not go around groaning about your religion when you ought to be singing jtor talking it In cheerful tones of voice. How often it is that we find men whoso lives are utterly inconsistent, who attempt to talk religion, and always make a failure of it! My friends, wo must live religion, or we cannot talk it. If a man is cranky At and cross and uncongenial and hard in - _ his dealings, and then begins to talk about Chirst and Heaven, everybody is repelled by it. Yet I have heard such men say, in whining tones, “We are miserable sinners,” “The Lord bless vou," “The Lord have mercy on you,’ - their conversation interlarded with such expressions, which mean nothing but canting, and canting is the worst form of hypocrisy. If we have really felt the religion of Christ in our hearts, let us talk it, and talk it with illuminated countenance, remembering that when two Christian people talk God gives espocial attention -and writes down what they say. Malachi 111, id, “Thon they that feared the Lord spake often one to another; and the Lord harkened and heard it, and a book of romcmberance was written.” Again I remark, we must bring the religion of Christ into our employments. • “Oh," you say, “that is very well if a man handle largo sums of money,or if he have an extensive traffic, but in my thread and needle store, in my trimming establishment, in the humble work in life that I am called to, the sphere is too small for the action of such grand, heavenly principles.” Who told you so? Do you know that God watches the faded leaf on the.brook’s surface as certainly as Ho does the path of a blazing sun? And the moss that creeps up the side ot the rock makes as much impression upon God’s mind as the waving tops of Oregon pine and Lebanon cedar; and the alder, crackling under the cow’s hoof, sounds as loud in God’s ear as the snap of a world’s conflagration. When you have anything to do in life, however humble It inay seem to be, God is always there to help you to do it. If your -work is that of. a fisherman, then God will help you, as Ho helped Simon when ho dragged Gennosarot. If your work is drawing water, then He will help you, as when He talked at the well curb to the Samaritan woman. If you are engaged in tbe custom house. Ho will lead you, as 110 led Matthew sitting at the receipt of customs. A religion that is I not good in one place is not worth anything in another place. The man who has only a day’s wages in his pocket as certainly needs tho guidance of religion as he who rattles the keys of a bank and could abscond with a hundred thousand hard dollars. There are those prominent in the churches who seem to be on public oc- , casions very devout, who do not put tho principles of Christ’s religion into practice. They are tho most inexorable df creditors. They are the most grasping of dealers. They are known as sharpers on the street. They fleece every sheep they can batch. A country merchant comes in to buy spring or fall goods and he gets into tho store of one of these professed Christian men who really hate tib grace in their hearts, and he is completely swindled. He is so overcome that he cannot get out of town during

J . the week. He stays In town over Sunday, goes Into some church to sot Christian consolation, when wbatis his amazement to find that the very man who hands him the poor box in tho church Is tho one who relieved him of his money! Butnever mind, tho deacon has his black coat on now. Ho looks solemn and goos homo talking about “the blessed sermon." If the wheat In the churches should bo put into a hopper, tho first turn of tho crank would make tho chaff fly, I tell you. Some ot theso mon are great sticklers for Gospel preaching. They say; "You stand there In bends and surplice and gown Mud preach—preach like an angel, and wo will stand out here and attend to business. Don’t get buslnoss and religion in tho same bucket. You attend to your matters and wo will attend to ours.” They do not know that God sees every cheat they have practiced In tho last six vears; that Ho- can look through the Iron wall of their tiroproof safe; that Ho has counted 'every dishonest dollar-they have in their pocket, and that a day of judgment will coine. These inconsistent Christian men will sit on tho Sabbath night in the house of God singing at*>hp ciosp of the service, “Rock of Ages, cleft for me,” and then when tho benediction is pronounced shut the pew door and say as they go out, “Goodby, religion, I’ll be back next Sunday." I think that the Church of God and the Sabbath are only an armory where wo are to get weapons. When war comes, if a man wants to fight for his country he doos not go to Troy or Springfield to do tbe battling, but he goos there for swords and muskets. I look upon the Church of Christ and the Sabbath day as only tho place and time where and when wo aro to get armed for Christian conflict; but the battlefield is on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday “St. Martin’s” and “Lonox” and “Old Hundred” do not amount to'anything unless they sing all the week. A sermon is useless unless we can tako it with us behind the plow and tho counter. Tho Sabbath day is worthless if it last only twentyfour hours. There aro many Christians who say: “We are willing tb servo God. but we do not want to do it in theso spheres about which we are talking; and It seems so insipid and monotonous. If wo had somo great occasion, if wo had lived -in tho time of Luther, if we had been Paul’s traveling companion, if we could servo God on a groat scale, we would do it, but wo can’t in tliis'everyday life.” I admit that a great deal of the romance and knight errantry of life have disappeared before tho advance of this practical age. The ancient temples of Rouen have been changed into storehouses and smithies. Tho residences of poets and princes have been turned into brokers’ shops. The classic mansion of Ashland has been cut up into walking sticks. The groves where the poets said tho gods dwelt have been carted out for firewood. The muses that we used to read about have disappeared before the emigrant’s ax and the trapper’s gun, and that man who is waiting for a life bewitched of wonders will never find it. There is, however, a field for epdurance and great achievemont, but it is in everyday life- There are Alps to scale, there are Hellesponts to swim, there aro fires to brave; but they aro all around us now. This is the hardest kind of martyrdom to bear. It took grace to lead Latimer and Ridley through the fire triumphantly when their armed enemies and their friends were looking on; but it requires more grace now to bring men through persecution, when nobody is looking on. I could show you in. this city a woman who has had rheumatism for twenty years, who has endured more suffering and exhausted more grace than would have made twenty martyrs pass triumphantly through the fire. If you are not faithful in an insignificant position in life, you would not bo faithful in a grand mission. If you cannot stand tho bite of a midge, how could you enduro the breath of a basilisk? Do not think that any work God gives you to do in the world is on too small a scale for you to db. The whole universe is not ashamed to take care of one little flower. I say: “What are you doing down here in the grass, vou poor little flower? Aro you not afraid nights? You will be neglected, you will die of thirst, you will not bo fed. Poor little flower!” "No," says a star, “I’ll watch over it to-night.” “No,” says a cloud, “I’ll give it drink.” “No,” says the sun, “I’ll warm it in my bosom.” Then I see the pulleys going, and tho clouds are drawing water, and I “What ' afo you . doing there, O clouds?” And they reply, “We are giving drink to that flower.” Then the wind rises and comes bonding down the wheat and sounding its psalm through the forest, and I. cry, “Whither away on such swift wing, O wind?” And it replies, “Wo are going to cool the cheek of that flower.” And then I bow down and say, “Will God tako care of the grass of the field? And a flower at my foot responds, “Yes; ho clothes the lilies of the field, and never yet has forgotten me, a poor little flower. Again, wo need to bring the religion of Christ into our commonest trials. For severe losses, for bereavement, for trouble that shocks like an earthquake and that blasts Hko a storm, wo prescribe religious consolation; but, business man, for tho small annoyances of last week, how much of tho grace of God did you apply? “Oh,” you say. “theso trials are too small for such application!” My brother, they aro shaping your character, they are souring your temper, they are wearing out your patience and they are making you less and less of n man. I go into a sculptor’s studio and see him shaping a statue. He has a chisel in one hand and a mallet in the other, and he gives a gentle stroke—click, click, click! I say, “Why don’t you strike harder?” “Oh,” he replies, “that would shatter tho statue. I can’t do it that way; I must do it this way!” So he works on, and after awhile the features come out, and everybody that enters the studio is charmed and fascinated. Well, God has your soul under process of development, and It is the little annoyances and vexations of life that are chiseling out your immortal nature. It is click, click, click! I wonder why some great providence does not come, and with one stroke prepare you for Heaven. Ah, no. God says that is not the way. And so ho keeps on by strokes of little annoyances, little sorrows, little vexations, until at last you shall be a glad spectacle for angels and for men. . Wp must bring the religion of Christ into our commonest blessings. When the autumn comes and the harvests aro in, and the Governors make proclamation, we assemble in churches and we aro very thankful. But every day ought to boa thanksgiving day. Wo do not recognise the common mercies of life. Wo have to see a blind man led by his dog before wo begin to bethink ourselves of what a grand thing it is to have eyesight Wo have to soe some one afflicted With St Vitus’ dance before we are ready to thank God for tho control of Our physical energies. We have to see some wounded man hobbling on his crutch or with his empty coat sleeyb pinned up before we learn to think what a evand thing God did for us when he gave us healthy use of our limbs. We are so stupid that nothing but the mlsfortunes of others can rouse us up to our blessings. As the ox grazes in tho pasture up to its eyes tn clover, yet never thinking who makes the clover, ard as

I. 1 .. 11 - 1 - I, the bird picks up tho worm from th# furrow, not knowing that it la God who makes everything, from tho animalcule in the sod to the seraph on tho throne, so wo go on eating, drinking and enjoying, but ndffir thanking or seldom thank; Ing; or, if thanking at all, with only half a heart. 1 compared oar Indifference to the brute; but perhaps I wronged the brute. I do not know but that, among Its other Instincts, it may have an instinct by which it recognizes tho divine hand that feeds It. Ido not know but that God is, through It, holding communication with whntwecal) “Irrationalcreation." Tho cow that stands under tho willow by tho water course chewing its cud looks very thankful, and who can tell how much, a bird means by Its song? Tho aroma of tho flowers smells Hko incense, and the mist arising from tbe river looks like the smoke of a morning sacrifice. Oh, that wo wore as responsive! Yot whothanksGod for tho water that gushes up in tho well, and that foams In tho cascade, and that laughs over tho rocks, and that patters In the showers, and that claps Its hands in the sea? WhothanksGod for tho air, the fountain of life, the bridge of sunbeams, tho path of sound, tho great fan on a hot summer's day? Who thanks God for this wonderful physical organism—this sweep of the visions, this chime of harmony struck into tho ear, this soft tread of a myriad delights over tho nervous tissue, this rolling of the crimson tide through artery and vein, this drumming of tho heart on our march to immortality? We take all theso things as a matter of course. But suppose God should withdraw theso common blessings! Your body would become an inquisition of torture, the cloud would refuse rain, and the earth would crack open, under your feet. The air would cease its healthful circulation, pestilence would swoop, and every house would become a place of skulls. Streams would first swim with vermin and then dry up, and thirst and hunger and anguish and desoair would lift their scepters, and compare such a life as that with the life vov live this morning with your families about you! Is it not time that with every word of otrr lips and with every action of our lives, wo began to acknowledge these every-day mercies? "Whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to tho glory of God.” Do I address a man or a woman this morning who has not rendered to God one single offering of thanks? I was preaching one Thanksgiving Day and announced my text, “Oh, give thanks unto tho Lord, for Ho is good;for His mercy endureth forever.” Ido not know whether there was any blessing on tho sermon or not, but tho text went straight to a young man’s heart He said to himself, as I read the text: “ ‘Oh, give thanks unto the Lord, for Ho is good’—Why, I have never rendered Him any thanks. Oh, what an ingrate I have been!” Can it be, my brother, that you have been fed by the good hand of God all these days—that you have had clothing and shelter and all beneficent surroundings, and yet have never offered yOur heart to God? Oh, let a sense of the divine goodness shown you in the evervday blessings melt your heart, and if you have never betore uttered one earnest note of thanksgiving let this be the day which shall hear your song. What I say to one I say to all of this audience. Take this practical religion I have recommended into your everyday life. Make every day a Sabbath and every meal a sacrament and every room you enter a holy of holies. W’e all have work to do; let us be willing to do it. We all have sorrows to bear: let us cheerfully bear them. We all have battles to fight; let us courageously fight them. If you want to die right you must live right. Negligence and indolence will win the hiss of everlasting scorn, while faithfulness will gather its garlands and wave its scepter, and sit upon its throne long after this earth has put on ashes and eternal ages have begun their march. You go home to-day and attend to your little sphere of duties. I will go home and attend to my little sphere of duties. Every one in his own place. So our every step in life shall be a triumphal march,and the humblest footstool on which we are called to sit will be a conqueror’s throne. Chinese Cookery. The Chinese are a nation of cooks. There is scarcely an individual in their vast community who is not more or less competent to cook for himself a respectable dinner. Chinese tradition points to a date some thousands of years before the Christian era, at which an inspired ruler of old first taught mankind the application of fire to food. But, without wishing to be irreverant, we think it desirable to confine our investigations to periods of greater historical certainty. The peasant sits down to dinner cooked bv the hand of his wife or daughter-in-law. In large establishments the cooks are invariable men. Ilalf a dozen coolies will squat round a bucket of steaming rice and from four to isix small savory dishes of stewed cabbage, onions, scraps of fat pork, cheap fish, etc. They fill their bowls at discretion from the bucket. They help themselves discreetly with their chopsticks from the various relishes provided. On ordinary occasions even a wealthy Chinaman will sit down to some such simple fare, served indeed on a table instead of on the ground, but in almost equally simple style. It is only when a blanket is substituted for the usual meal that eating is treated seriously as a fine art, in a manner worthy its importance to the human race. Then the guests will assemble between 2 and 4 p. m., and will remain steadily at the table until any hour from 10 p. in. to midnight. Pipes are lighted between the courses and a whiff or two of light tobacco smoke is inhaled into the lungs, while within easy reach’ of the table, if ..the festivity is at all on a grand scale, the deafening noise of a theatrical performance continues almost without intermission.—Temple Bar. Cost ot Deporting Chinamen. r' In the last eighteen months nearly one hundred Chinamen have been deported. Fully as many have been tried and acquitted. The Southern Pacific charges sfil from Tacoma for every Chinaman deported. The cost of the trial and capture of a Chinaman is nearly SSO. 'The total exiicnse of capturing, convicting and a Chinaman averages SIOO. Considering that the time of the Deputy United States Marshal is worth something the cost of capturing those acquitted is $lO. Hence the total expense that t|ie Ninth District has incurred in deporting Chinamen in the last year and a half is. counting the services of all the officers, nearly $15,000, This is for one Judicial district only and the expense es keeping Chinamen out of this country is said to be quite large.—Seattle Press-Times. ■ ■ - /. -7 ' v ■ A

MRS- POTTER PALMER. Short Sketch hart Picture of the President of tho Board of Lady Managers. ' The women of tho United States are fortunate In having so charming a repreeentatiVe os Mrs. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, on the Board of Managers for the World’s Fair. As President of tho Board of Lady Managers she occupies a very prominent position, and tho eyes of the world, so to speak, are upon her. In her official capacity she moots the vailous representatives of other nations, and consequently it requires a woman of social as well as executive ability. She has lately entertained various notaJ/r\\\ V Xe ; BEHTIIA HOKOBE J-ALMEB. hllities at her house,al lof whom must have taken away with them an agreeable impression of an American home, an American hostess, and a graceful, cultured, and charming woman. Mrs. Palmer is a native of Louisville, Ky. Her maiden name was Bertha Honore, and she was educated in a convent at Georgetown, D. C. She was married to Potter Palmer in 1871. Mrs. Palmer is acknowledged to be ono of Chicago’s most beautiful women, gnd the striking beauty of her clear-cut features has been effectively brought out by the artist in the excellent portrait here presented. Here is shown the highest type of mechanical engraving—the photo-zinc etching, which has now superseded all of the old- expensive methods. For a zinc etching the design Is drawn from a photograph on white cardboard double the size wanted. This is photographed on zinc plate, and the plate then put Into an acid bath, which eats or etches away everything except the lines which are to appear on the cut The engraving process is altogether mechanical, and is, therefore, mechanically perfect, as is shown by the above portrait. All the daily and weekly newspaper illustrations ate photo-zinc etchings, and they have become so cheap in price ttiat well-made portraits like the above can now be had from the Ft. Wayne (Ind.) Newspaper Union for $2.50, while a cut like it by the old method of wood engraving would have cost $6 or SB. The Ft. Wayne Newspaper Union will, upon request, give full information as to the making and cost of all kinds of zincetching illustrations. A Discord. A weary Congressman, who could “snore upon tbe flint,” occupied a room adjoining a German musician’s. “You will have to give me another room, I guess,” said the Congressman to the hotel clerk. - “What’s the matter? Aren’t you comfortable where you art?” “Well, not exactly. That German musician in tho next room and I don’t get alone well. Last night he tooted away on his clarionet so that I thought I never would go to sleep. After I had caught a few winks I was awakened by a pounding at my door. ‘What's the matter?’l asaed. ‘Of yon please.’ said the German, ‘dot you vould schnore of der sa:re key. You vas go from B flat to G, and it spoils der music.’ ’’—Boston Journal. Celt and Saxon. This is ono of Sheridan's tales: An Irishman met a Briton, of the true John Bull pattern, standing with folded arms in a contemplative mood, apparently meditating on the greatness of his little island: “Allow me* to differ with ye!” exclaimed the Celt. “But I have said nothing, sir,” replied John Bull. “And a man may think a lie as well as publish it,” persisted the pugnacious Hibernian. “Perhaps you are looking for fight?” queried the Briton. “Allow me to compliment yez en the quickness of your perciption,” said Patrick, throwing down his coat, and then they pitched in.—Washington Post. <• John Anderson, My Jo,” In the Scotch ballad, was about to totter down the declivity Os life with hia aged wife. How it would have smoothed the rough places for the respected Jehu and his venerable spouse could they have eased their growing infirmities ’frith Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, that benign help to the aged, the weak and those recovering but slowly from exhausting diseases. When the lamp of life is on the wane man specially requires medicinal-aid, a sustaining tonic, a wholesome corrective, ’kite aged and the feeble are particularly susceptible to influences which produce disease, convalescence is to often interrupted by a relapse. This standard American invigorant is eminently adapted to the needs of such persons, and it always “fljla the bill" Dyspepsia, constipation, rheumatism, kidney troubles and la grippe are among the Doubles that it overcomes. Why Caln Escaped. Allen, tho Quaker, once waited upon the Duke of ijussex in order to remind him of his promise to present a petition against capital punishment. The Duke did not seem quite to like the job, and observed that scripture has declared: “Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.” "Please Your Royal Highness,” replied tho Quaker, "when Cain killed Abel he was not hung for It-” “That's true,” replied the Duke, “but remember, Allen, there were not twelve men in the world then to make a jury.” A man who has practiceci medicine for forty years ought to kuow salt from sugar; read What be says: Toi-kuo, 0., Jan. 10.1887. Messrs. F. J. Cheney A Co.—Gentlemen—l have been in the general practice 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 Vou. Have prescribed . it a great manv times and its effect is wonderful, and would say in conclusion that I have yet to find a case of Catarrh that it would not cure, if they would take it according to directions. Yours truly, L. I- GORBVCH. M. D., Office, Sis Summit St. We will give *IOO for any case of Ca'-arrh that cannot be cured with Holl', Catarrh Cura, Taken internally. r--F. J. CHENEY & Co.. Prop*., Toledo, a WSold by Druggists. 75c. How Snakes Climb Trees. A snake moves by means of the ribs and the scales on tbe abdomen, to which each rib is attached by a set of short nuis’eles. Thm scales take hold of the surface over the serpent may be passing, and in that manner aid tho creature to glide, after! very rapidly, around the trunks of trees!and along the smaller branches. Somo species -eßmlr trees with wonderful agility, gliding up the straight trunks with muehjeaso as if they wore moving along the level ground.

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In front was a space of the forest leveled by a tornado, and beneath the fallen trunks the besiegers sought shelter from the sharp fire of the fort—ajl save one man. Like another Ethan Allen, he stood upon a tree elevated aoove the rest, returning the enemy’s fire. His companions below hailed him to know it he had any bullets to spare, as they were out. The reply’ was: Hang you, come up here; you can Patch a handful a minute!” WINTER EXCURSIONS. The Chicago, Union Pacific A NorthWestern Line offers tho very best facilities to persons desirous of visiting the resorts of California, Portland, Oregon, or Puget Sound points. Excursion tickets, good six months from time of purchase, are now on sale at very low rates and patrons of the line are assured a quick and comfortable journey. 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With Ely’s Cream Balm a child can be treated without pain anti with perfect safety. Try the remedy, it cures Catarrh. Jly sou’nas been afflicted with nasal catarrtf .since quite young. I was induced to try Ely’s Cream Balm, and before lie had used one' bottle that disagreeable catarrhal smell had all left him. Heappears as well as any one. It is the best catarrh remedy in the market J. C. Olmstead. Arcola, lIL One of my children had a very bad discharge from her nose. Two physicians prescribed, but without benefit. We tried Ely's Cream Balm, and. much tc our surprise, there was a marked improvement. We continued using the Balm and in a short time tho discharge was cured—O. A. Cary, Corning. N. Y. Apply Balm into each nostril. It is Quickly Absorbed. Give* Belief at once. Price 50 cents at Druggists or bv mail. ELY BROTHERS. 56 Warren St.. New York. It was an ancient superstition .that persons born on Christmas Eve were endued with vision sensible of all spirits’ and supernatural objects. To this causes were referred the dark looks of Philip 11. of Spain, whose mind was believed to be impressed by awful appearances to which he was subject John A. Smith. Ligonier. Ind., had been suffering from severe backache caused, physicians told htm. by chronic kidney trouble, and was all broken down in health. He began using Swamp-Root and is now able to do a good day’s work and considers himself a well man again. Swamp-Root did tho business; He considers it by far the best remedy he has ever used for Kidney Disease. A packing paper impermeable to water can be made as follows: Take unsized paper and coat it with an aqueous solution of dextrine. When dry apply a layer of siccative oil paint The Only On* Ever Printed—Can You Find the Word? There is a 3-iuch display advertisement in this paper this week which has no two words alike except one word. The same is true ot each new one appearing eaeh week from The Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house places a "Crescent” on everything they make and publish. Look for it, send them tbe name of the word, and they will return you book, bkautifull lithographs, OB SAMPLES EBBS. If you will investigate you will find that the reason some women are superstitious about allowing thirteen to sit down at their table is that they have only a dozen knives and forks. FOR THROAT DISEASES AND COUGHS use Brown's Bronchial Troches. Like all re<iHu yood things, they are imitated. The genuine on- eiM only in boxen. A. new form of baseball glove has in the palm an air cushion or pad, which can be removed and inflated. It is made in compartments, connected by free but restricted passages, and surrounds a central portion-which is unpadded. Beecham's Pills cure bilious and nervous Illness. Beecham’s Pills sell well because they cure. 25 cents a box. Since Boulanger's death in exile his bronze busts have been banished from the mantel-pieces of his quondam admirers; and no less than 130 of these images have been disposed of at pawnshops. ' Fourier Feeble lungs Against Winter Blasts with Halb s Honbx op Hokkhocnd and ‘ TAH Pike's TootUacbe Drops Cure in one Minute. The banks generally meet a crisis with reterve. Dyspepsia Caoaed me almost untold suflering. I Jelt miserable and nervous. My stomach would hardly digest bread and milk. But! sooti as er I began taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla I had a better appetite, and could notonly eat well but had No Afterward. ” I am »o glad I am bett r, for I feared I never should get well. My nursing baby, too, seems to be better tuan ever, and 1 tell xo-ka Hood’s Sarsaparilla makes him stronc. and that he get* mon or tt than 1 do. He 1* 10 months old. sod tat and welihsatlpound*." Mbs. F. BP^OnabA.»ou«hta«a Street, Loul*vl Te. Ky. Hood’* PHIS cure liver ilia. Price 15*

Wbw ths Mucov* fiunrACER of tho Bronchia aro soro and Inflamed, Dr. D. Jayne's Expectorant will afford prompt relief. For breaking up a Cold or subduing n Cough, you will find in it a certain remedy. Evert State has ftv “fovoritc non,” but only one has Its favorite daughter-- state ot matrimony.— The Hje, FITS.—AII Fit* stopped free hv Dr.Kllnc’s Great Nerve Ite.torer. N<> Flu alter first <t .y’e u-«. Mar▼ellouH cures, t re.tl-o and sr.'Xt trUl bottle free to Fit cases, fiend to Dr. Kline, fill Arab fit., Pulla., Pa. Muffle seems to boonrnnlc with the Italians. f I A Perfect Nncccse. VIL lbs Rev. A. Antoine, of Refugio, Tex., write,: Al far as I am able to judge. I thitik Paetor Koenig’s Nerve Tonic 1b a perfect Bunces*, for any one who Buffered from a most painful nervoueneßß an I did. I feel now Like myself again after taking the Tonic. Bt. Vincent’s Hospital, Toledo, 0., June 9.1890. We used Pastor Koenig's Nervo Tonic for epilei>tic fits in the case or a Mrs. Gorman, ami it stopped the fits from tho time Bhe commenced taking it. We wish you an extensive sale for this beneficent remedy, SISTER BRADY, Secretary. Gband Rapids, Mich., Oct. 8,1890. I used Pastor Koenig’s Norvo Tonic in Mrs. Sullivan’s case, and It gave entire satisfaction, and she has no end of praise for it, and novel: forgets to recommend it to the sick and Buffering. I have heard others say they used it with tho same good results. THOS. KEATING. ■■n w gw—A Valuable Book en Nervous LULL Disease-sent free to any address, fK r r and poor patients can also obtain Law this medicine free of charge. This remedy ha* lieen prepared by the Reverend Paßtor Koenig, of Fort Wayne. Ind„ since ISO* and Is now prepared under tus direction by tho KOENIG MED. CO.. Chicago, 111. Sold by Druggists at 81 per Bottle. 6 for 85. tarce Size. 81.75. 6 Bottles for 89. A Veteran of the Mexican War. Samuel L. Me Fadin whose portrait appears above, is a prominent citizen of Logansport, Ind., and one of but seventeen surviving veterans of a company of ninety-two young men wholeft that city forty-five years ago for the seat of War in Mexico. He now holds the position of Marshall of National .Association, and although well advanced in years is still hearty and hale. In writing of his health he says ;—I had been troubled for a long time with rheumatism. Kidney and Liver Complaint anil could hardly get around. Suffered great pain night and day. After trying many different kinds of medicines and finding no relief, at last througlxuthe advice of a friend I purchased Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root from one of our leading Druggists, B. F. Kesling, and must say it has helped me wonderfully, aalnow walk without pain. It is the only medicine that has done me any good, and has been a great benefit in invigorating and building up my system, greatly assisting the liver, kidneys and digestive organs. This is the first recommendation I have ever given a medicine and it affords me pleasure to call the attention of the public to the merits of this wonderful Specific. Those who try Swamp-Root have generally first employed the family physician, or used all the prescriptions witliin their reach without benefit. As a last resort, when their case has become chronic, the synip-, toms complicated and their constitution > run down, then they take this remedy, i and it is just such cases and cures that have made Swamp-Root famous and givi en it a world-wide reputation. SyW® c s CT \ 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 system effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers aud 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 ana 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 SI 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 iL Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. S4A FftAHCISCO, CAL. At. .

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“German Syrup” Just a bad cold, ana a hacking cough. We all suffer that way sometimes. How to get rid of them is the study. Listen —*' lam a Ranchman and Stock Raiser. My life is rough and exposed. I meet all weathers in the Colorado mountains. I sqmetimes take colds. Often they are severe. I have used German Syrup five years for these. A few doses will cure them at any stage. The last one I had was stopped in 24 hours. It is infallible.” James A. Lee, Jefferson, Col. „ . ® 1 * y It Cnr«s» Cold*, Coußrhn. Sore Throat, Cronp. Influenza, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma. A certain cure for Consumption in Aral B’aaes, and a reiir -relief m advanced Use atnnee. You will nee theexcelle iteH'ect after taking the first dose. S <1 by (lea.ers evuiywuere. Large botties, 5u cents and ll.uO. fiS?LIVER PILLS DO NOT GRIPE NOR SICKE3L Sure ears for SICK HEADACHE, impaired digestion,const!- - pation, torpid glands. They arouse vital organs, remove nausea, diz- [; 3 zinees. Magical effect on Kid- . neys and bladder. Conquer l * bilious nervous disorders. Estabjfeh natSV V urai Daily Action. Beautify complexion by purifying . blood. Purely Vegetable. The dose is nicely adjusted to suit case, as one pill can e never be too much.'Each vial contains 42, carried invert pocket, like lead pencil Business man’s great 1 convenience. Taken easier than sugar. Soldevery- ■ where. All genuine goods bear “Crescent’’ I Bend2-cent stamp. You get 32 page book with sample. L DR. HARTER MEDICINE CO., St. Louis, Mo. 5 ~ .JlwrZf ' -p < ?■■■-/. ’■ ■ ■ ■ J : —— s Six Hinrt Thompson, J ‘ \ mostnote^P^yslciano^^ land, says that more than ▼ half of all dioeaces come from L '■-? Aftk crTora ,n / Send for Free Sample of Garfield Tea to 319 West loth Street, New York City. GARFIELD TEA WH ofbad jatinc;;currs Sick Headache; restore«CoxnplexloiM;curesCoxistipation« BOREpt WELLSyi ■ with our famous W ell «‘ xlfachinervw Tbe only PFTIS : L 4 perfect self-cleaning and R fast-dropping tools in use. Ii LOOMIS & TIFFIN. OHIO. FREE. r"» ff by return mail, fall do ■ tC £■ Ea s cr ’PtWe circulars ol MOODY’S NEW and MOODY'S IMPROVED TAILOR SYSTEMS OF DRESS CUTTING. Reviscii to date; These, only, the V. genuine TAILOR SYSTEMS invented and |1 copyrighted by PROF. D.W. MOODY. Be* V k ,lml ware of imitations. Any lady of ordi« I narv intelligence can easily and quick■‘sST 1 v learn to cut and make any garment, > yWB J in an v style, to any measure, for ladies, men and children. Garndents guaranteed to fit perfectly without-trying on. Address MOODY A CO. CISCINNATI. a GRIND U Mn 0 il U Oy»ter Shells, dCTCTwIWE3 i Graham Flour and Corn, in tha ISSjj hand mill w WW too percent, more made-in SeeptuaT..”!. AISJ I’OWF-lt M11.1.S .-nd FARM FFr’P MILL**. Cib'ulars and testimonials sent ox» HP ik.u.i- WILSONBROS., SASSOS, FA. EVERY LADY NEEDS THEM! Dr. Wilson’s Pastils, used by eminent physician* Write for Circular Free. Sample box, SU rents. DR. K. T. WILSON. Rosedale, N. J. © Q FAT FOLKS REDUCED Mrs. Alice Maple, Oregc u, Mo., write* I \ ill II “My weight was 820 pounds, now it ia 196, ■ reduction of 125 lbs.” For circulars address, with 6c.. Or.O.W.F.SNYDER McVicker’nTheatre. Chicago.UL nil rn Remedy INSTAR! RELIEF. Final Mil r S cure i-;i lu days. Never rtrturus .no puqjelUlfolJ no salve; noßuppo«itonr. A victim tried m vain every remed-v; has discovered a simple cure which he will mail free to his rellow sufferers. Address J. It. REEVES. Box 3290, N.Y.tW.N.Y PATENTS AND PENSIONS Book and auv ice free, t uIIaMKH & Co., Wash,, L>. C. PATENTS! WASuixo i'o.'t. D. C. PKNSIOSS - Due all BOI.DIERSI I, disabled. 1? fee lor increase. Jti years experience. Write for Laws. A. W. McCormick & 6ons. Washington. D. C. A Cincinnati, ARlllUMorphlns Habit Cured in 10 lIPIIIMto iOdays. No pay till cured. Ul IUIH DR. J. STEPHENS. Lebanon,Ohio.