Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 1 July 1892 — Page 3

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UlX* X WHAT IT COST TO OIVB HUMANITY SALVATION. The Lowly Birth of Christ—The Temptation in the Wilderness—Christ Before Pilate-How Nature Groaned and shuddered nt the Crucifixion. Tnlmnge In London. Dr. Talmage preached in London last Sunday and was greeted by an enormous audience, lie entitled his sermon "The Immense Cost,” from the text, I. Cor. vi, 20, “Ye are bought with a price.” Your friend takos you through his valuable house. You examine the arches, the frescoes, the grassplots, the fishponds, the conservatories, the parks of doer, and you say within yourself or you say aloud, "What did all this cost?" You see a costly diamond flashing in an earring, or you hear a costly dress rustling across the drawing-room, or you see a high-mettled span of Horses harnessed with silver and gold, and you begin to make an estimate of the value. The man who owns a large estate cannot instantly tell you all It is worth. He says, “1 will estimate so much for the house, so much for the furniture, so much for laying out the grounds, so much for the stock, so much for the barn, so much for tho oqulpage—adding up In all making this aggregate.” Well, my friends, I hear so much about our mansion in Heaven, about Its furniture and the grand surroundings, that I want to know how much it is all worth, and what has actually been paid for it. I cannot complete in a month nor a year the magnificent calculation, but before I get through to-day I hope to give you the figures. "Yq are bought with a price.” With some friends I went to your Tower to look at the crown jewels. We walked around, caught one glimpse of them, J and being in the procession were compelled'to pass out. I wish I could take this audience Into the tower of God’s mercy and stretgth that you might, walk around just once, at least, and see tho crown jewels of eternity, behold their brilliance and estimate their value. “Ye are bought with a price." Now if you have a large amount of money to pay, you do not pay it all at once, but you pay It by installments —so much the Ist of January, so much the Ist of April, so much the Ist of July, so much the Ist of October, until the entire amount is paid, and I have to tell this audience that "you have been bought with a price,” and that that price was paid In different installments. The first installment paid for the clearance of our souls was the ignominious birth of Christ In Bethlehem Though we may never be carefully looked after afterward, our advent into the world is carefully guarded. We come into the world amid kindly attentions. Privacy and silence are afforded when God launches an immortal soul into the world. Even the roughest of men know enough to stand back. But I have to tell you that in the village on the side of the hill there was a very bedlam of uproar when Jesus was born. In a village capable of accommodating only a few hundred people many thousand people were crowded, and amid hostlers and muleteers and camel drivers yelling at stupid beasts ot burden the Messiah appeared. No silence; no privacy. A better adapted place hath the eaglet In the eyrie—hath the whelp in the lion's lair. The exile of Heaven Heth down upon straw. The first night out from the palace of Heaven spent In an outhouse! One hour after laying aside the robes of Heaven, dressed in a. wrapper of coarse linen. " One would have supposed that Christ would have made a more gradual descent, coming from Heaven first to a half way world of great magnitude, then to Caesar’s palace then to a merchants castle In Galilee, then to a private home in Bethamy, then to a fisherman’s hut, and last of all to a stable. Not It was one leap from the top to the bottom. Let us open the door ot the caravansary in Bethlehem and drive away the camels. Press on through the group of idlers and loungers. What, O Mary! no light’ "No light,” she says, “save that which comes through the door.” What, Maryl nofood? "None,” she says, “only that which was brought in the sack'on the journey.” Let the Bethlehem woman who has come in here with kindly attentions put back the covering from the babe that we may look upon it Look! Look! Uncover your head. Let us kneel. Let all voices be hushed. Son of Maryl Son of God! Child of a day —monarch of eternity! In that eye the glance of a God. Omnipotence sheathed in that babe’s arm. That voice to be changed from the feeble plaint to the tone that shall wake the dead. Hosanna! Hosanna! Glory be to God that Jesus came from throne to manger, that we might rise from manger to throne, and that all the gates are open, and that the door of Heaven, that once swung this way to let Jesus out, now swings the other way to let us in. Let all the bellmen of Heaven lay hold the rope and ring out the news, "Behold, I bring you glad tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people; for to-day Is born in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord!” The second installment paid for our soul’s clearance was tho scene in Quarantania, a mountainous region, full of caverns. where there are to this day panthers and wild beasts of all sorts, so that you must now go there armed with Knife or gun or pistol. It was there that Jesus went to think and to pray, and It was there that this monster of hell—more sly, more terrific than anything that prowled in that country—Satan himself, met Christ The rose in the check of Christ—that Publius Lentullus, in his letter to the Roman senate,- to Jesus—that rose had sp'attaijed4tß pedal*. Abstinence from food had thrown IJrtn into emaciation. A long a'bstlnezco'from food recorded In profane History is that of the crew of the ship Juno; for twenty-three days they had fiothfijg io eat. But this sufferer had fasted' a month and ten days before He broke fast Hunger must have agonized every fiber of the body and gnawed on the stomach with teeth of death. The thought of a morsel of bread or moat must have thrilled the body with something like ferocity. Turn out a pack of men hungry as Christ was a-hungered, and if they had strength, with one yell they would devour you as a lion a kid. It was lu that pang of hunger tha£ Jesus was accosted, and Satan said, “Now change these stones which look like bread, into an actual supply of bread.” Had the temptation come to you and me under these circumstances, we would have cried, "Bread it shall be!” and been almost impatient at the time taken for mastication. But Christ with one hand beat back the hunger,and - with the other han<> beat back the monarch of darkness. Oh, ve tempted ones! Christ was tempted. We are told that Napoleon ordered a coat of mail made, but ha was not quite certain that it was 1 Impenetrable, so he said to the manu- ' facturer of the coat of mail, “Put it on now yourself, and let us try it,” and with shot after shot from hts own pistol i the Emperor found out that it was just 1 what it pretended to be—a good coat of 1 mall. Then the man received a large reward. I I bless God that the lame coat of mall : that struck back the weapons of tempta-

tion from the head of Christ we may now all wear; for Jesus comes and says: "I have been tempted, and I know what It Is to be tempted. Take this rdbe that defended mo. and wear It for yourselves? I shall see through all trials and I shall see you through all temptations.” "But,” eavs satan still further to Jesus, "Come and I will show you something worth looking at; and after a half day’s journey they camo to Jerusalem, and to tho top of the temple. Just as one might go up in tho tower ot Antwerp and look off upon Belgium, so satan brought Christ to tho top of tho temple. Borne people at a groat height tool dizzy, and a strange disposition to jump; so satan comes to Christ in that very crisis. Standing there at the top of the temple they looked off. A magnificent roach of country. Grain fields, vineyards, olive groves, forests, and streams, cattle in the valley, flocks on the Jiills, and villages and cities and realms. “Now,” aavs satan. "I’ll make a bargain. Just jump off. 1 know it is a great way from the top of tho Temple to the valley, but if you are divine you can fly. Jurnp’off. It won’t hurt you. Angels will catch you. Your Father will hold you. Besides, I’ll make you a largo present if you will. I’ll give you Asia Minor, I’ll give you China, I’ll give you Ethiopia, I’ll give you Italy, I’ll give you Spain, I’ll give you Germany, I'll give you Britain, I’ll give you all the world.’’ What a temptation it must have been! Go to-morrow morning and get in an altercation with some wretch crawling up from a gin cellar In the lowest part of your city. "No,” you say, "I would not bemoan myself by getting into such a contest.” Then think of what the king of heaven and earth endured when He came down and fought the great wretch of heli, and fought him lu the wilderness and on top of the temple. But I bless God that in the triumph over temptation Christ gives us the assurance, that we also shall triumph. Having Himself been tempted, He is able to succor all those who are tempted. In a violent storm at sea the mate told a boy—for the rigging had become entangled at tbe mast—to go up and right It A gentleman standing on the deck said: "Don’t send that boy up, he will be dashed to death.” The mate said: "I know what I am about.” The boy raised his hat In recognition of Jhe order, and then rose hand over band and went to work; and as he swung In the storm the passengers wrung their hands and expected to see him fall. The work done be came down in safety, and a Christian man said to him, “Why did you go down into the forecastle before you went up?” “Ah!” said the boy; "1 went down to pray. My mother always taught me before 1 undertook anything great to pray.” “What is that you have in your vest?” said the man. “Ohl that is the New Testament," he said; “I thought I would carry it with me if I really did go overboard.” How well the boy was protected. / I care not how great the height or how vast tbe depth, with Christ within us and Christ beneath us and Christ above us and Christ all around us nothing can. befall us in the way of harm. Christ himself having been in the tempest will deliver all who put their trust in him. Blessed be His glorious name forever. The third installment paid for our redemption was the Saviour’s sham trial. I call it a sham trial—there has never been anything so indecent or unfair in any criminal court as was witnessed at the trial of Christ Why, they hustled Him into the courtroom at 2 o’clock in the morning. They gave Him no time for counsel. They gave Him no time for subpoenaing witnesses. The ruffians who were wandering around through the midnight of course they saw the arrest and went into the courtroom. But Jesus’ friends were sober men, respectable men, and at that hour, 2 o’clock in the morning, of course they were at home asleep. Consequently Christ entered the courtroom with the ruffians. Oh, look at Him! No one to speak a word for Him. I lift the lantern until I can look into His face, and as my heart beats in sympathy for this, the best friend the world ever had, Himself now utterly friendless, an officer of the courtroom comes up and smites Him in the mouth, and I see the blood stealing from gum and lip. Oh! it was a farce of a trial, lasting only perhaps an hour, and then the judge rises for sentence. Stop! It is against the law to give sentence unless there has been an adjournment of the court between condemnation and sentence, but what cares the judge for the law? “The man has no friends—let Him die, says the judge, and the ruffians outside the jail cry: "Aha! aha! that’s what we want! Pass Him out here to us! Away with Him! Away with Him!” Oh! I bless God that amid all the injustice that m'ay have been inflicted upon us in this world we have a divine sympathizer. The world cannot lie about you nor abuse you as much as they did Christ, and Jesus stands to-day in every court-room, in every house, iu every store, and. says: “Courage! By all my hours of maltreatment and abuse, I will protect those who are trampled upon.” And when Christ forgets that two o’clocK morning scene, and the stroke of the ruffian on the mouth, and the howling of the unwashed crowd, then He will forget you and mo in the injustices of life that may be inflicted upon us. Further, 1 remark: The last great installment paid for our redemption was the demise of Christ. The world has seen many dark days. Many summers ago there was a very dark day when the sun was eclipsed. The fowl at noonday went to their perch, and we felt a gloom as we looked at the astronomical wonder. It was a dark day in London when tbe plague was at its height, and the dead with uncovered faces were taken in open cartsand dumped in the trenches. It was a dark day when the earth opened and Lisbon sank, but the darkest day since the creation of the world was when the carnage of Calvary was enacted. It was about noon when the curtain began to be drawn. It was not the coming on of a night that soothes and refreshes; it was the swinging of a great gloom all around the Heavens. God hung it. As when there is a dead one in the house you bow the shutters or turn the lattice, so God in the afternoon shut the windows of tho world. As It is appropriate to throw a black pall upon the * coffin as it passes along, so it was appropriate that everything should be somber that day as the great hearse of the earth rolled on, bearing the corpse of the king. A man's last, hours are ordlnarily kept sacred. However you may have hated or caricatured a man, when you hear ho Is dying, silence puts its hand on your lips, and you would have, a loathing for the man who could stand by a deathbed making faces and scoffing. But Christ in His last hour cannot be left alqiie. What! pursuing Him yet after so long a pursuit’ You have been drinking His tears. Do you want to drink Ills blood? They come up closely, so that notwithstanding the darkness they can glut their revenge with the contortions ot his countenance. They examine His feet. They want to feel for themselves whether those feet are really spiked. They put out their hands and touch the spikes, and bring them back wet with blood and wipe them on their garments. Women stand there and weep, but can do no good. It y is no place for the tender hearted women. It wants a heart that crime has turned into granite. The waves of man’s hatred and of hell’s vengeance dash up against the : mangled feet, and the 1 hands of sin and i pair and torture dutch lor His holy ;

■ — heart. Had He not been Aorooghly fastened to tho cross they would have lorn Him down and trampled Him with both feet. How the cavalry horses archod their nocks and champed their bits, and reared and snuffed althebloodl Had a Roman officer called out for a light bls voice would not have been beard In tbe tumult; but louder than tho clash of spears, and tiio walling of womanhood. and tho neighing of tbe chargers, and the bellowing of tho crnclflers there comes a voice crashing through—loud, clear, overwhelming, terrific. It Is tho groaning of tho dying son of God! Look! what a scene! Look, world, at what you have done! I lift the covering from the maltreated Christ to lot you count tho wounds and estimate the cost. Oh, when tbe nails went through Christ’s right hand and through Christ’s left band that bought both your hands with all their power to work and lift and write! When the nails went through Christ’s right foot and Christ’s left foot, that bought your feet, with all their power to walk or run or climb. When tho thorn went into Christ’s temple, that bought your brain, with all its power to think and plan. When the spear cleft Christ’s side, that bought your heart, with ail its power to love and repent and pray. Oh, sinner, come, come back! It a man Is In no pain, If ho is prospered, if ho is well, ami he asks you to come, you take your time and you say: "I can’t come now. I’ll come after awhlla There is no haste.” But if he is In want and trouble you say: “I must go now.” To-day Jesus stretches out before you two wounded hands and He begs you to come. Go and you live. Stay away and you die. 'Oh, that to Him who bought us we might give all onr time, and all our prayers, and all our successes. I would we could think of nothing else, but come to Christ. He Is so fair. He is so loving. He is so sympathizing. He is so good. I wish wo could put our arms around His neck and say, “Thine, Lord, will I be forever.” Oh, that you would begin to love Him. Would that I could take this audience and wreathe it around the heart of my Lord Jesus Christ. When the Atlantic cable was lost, in 1865, do you remember that the Great Eastern, and tbe Medway, and the Albany went out to find it? Thirty times they sank the grapnel two and' a half miles deep in water. After a while they found the cable and brought it to the surface. No sooner had ft been brought to the surface than they lifted a shout of exultation, but the cable slipped back again into tbe water and was lost. Then for two weeks more they swept the sea with the grappling hooks, and at last they found the cable, and they brought it up in silence. They fastened it this time. Then, with great excitement, they took one end of the cable to the electrician’s room to see if there were really any life in it. and when they saw a spark and knew that a message could bo sent, then every hat was lifted, and the rockets flew and the guns sounded until all the vessels on the expedition knew the work was done and the continents were lashed together. Well, mv friends, Sabbath after Sabbath Gospel messengers have come searching down for your souls. We have swept the sea with the grappling hook of Christ’s Gospel Again and again we have thought that you were at the surface, and wo began to rejoice over vour redemption; but at the moment of our gladness you sank back again into the world and back again into sin. To-day we come with this Gospel searching for your soul. We apply the cross of Christ first to see whether there is any life left in you, while all around the people stand, looking to see whether the work will be done and the angels of God bend down and witness, and oh! if now we could see only one spark of love and hope and faith, we would send uff a shout that would be heard on the battlements of Heaven, and two worlds would keep jubilee because communication is open between Christ and the soul, and your nature that has been sunken in sin has been lifted into tbe light and the joy of the Gospel. How Bears Fish. Very few people know that bean take to water naturally. They roam over the mountains and through the forests, dig open rotten logs for ants and worms, and secure all the hornets’ nests they can, and tear them to pieces and eat the young grubs, pick berries of all descriptions and eat them, and would seem to belong to the dry-land animals. The fact is different. They love the water, not, perhaps, as well as the mouse and deer, but better than most dry-land animals. They are very fond of fish, and are expert fishermen, and show more cunning and instinct, if not reason, than many city chaps I have seen about the lakes. a I came suddenly upon a very large bear in a thick swamp, lying upon a large hollow log across a brook, fishing, and he was so much interested in his sport that he did not notice me until I had approached very near to him, so that I could see exactly how he baited his hook and played his fish. He fished in this wise: There was a large hole through the long on which he lay and he thrust his forearm through the hole and held his open paw in the water and waited for the fish to gather around and onto it, and when full he clutched his fist and brought up a handful of fish and sat and ate them with great gusto; then down with the paw again and so on. The brook was fairly alive with little trout and red-sided suckers and some black Buckets, so the old feHow let himself out on the fishes. He did not eat their heads. There was quite a pile of them on the log. I suppose the oil in his paw attracted the fish and baited them even better than a fly-hook, and his toe-nails were his hooks, and sharp ones too, ana once grabbed, the fish are sure to stay. They also catch frogs in these forest brooks, and drink of the pure water in hot summer days, and love to lie and wallow in the muddy swamps, as well «os our pigs in tho mire. They often cross narrow places in lakes by swimming, and also rivers, and seem to love to take a turn in the water. I once saw one swimming from the mainland to the big in Mooselucmagantic Luke, with just a streak of his back out of the water, looking like a log moving along. Sometimes you see only their heads out of the water; at other times half of their bodies are to be seen. We account for this difference by their condition. If fat, the grease helps buoy them up; if lean they sink lower in the water.—Lewiston Journal 1 Marriages in Switzerland. An analysis of the number fit marriages in Switzerland, published by the Statistical Office of Berne, shows that . the proportion is very low as compared j with other countries, being about 7.4 ’ per 1,000 inhabitants. Os every 1,000 men and 1.000 woman of marriageable age forty-nipe men and thirty-eight ; women are married. The figures show 1 a falling off in marriage, and also an 1 increase in divorce. The causes are 1 said to be religious differences and au < increased mixture of races.

by Their Beauty. One of the most interesting things that the naturalist finds to study is the effect of various colors and forma in rendering animals visible or inconspicuous. TlilsTOeansof concealment is useful mainly In enabling the animal possessing it to remain hidden from the searching eves ol its enemies. Some of tho accounts given by travelersand naturalists of the eclipsing effect ot certain color combinations seem hardly credible. Among the most gorgeous of the inhabitants of the air are the sunbirds of Africa, and yet Mrs. Barker, the traveler, assures us that even the keen of a hawk will fail to detect these' birds when they are flitting In a field of flowers. Most species of the East Indian sloth, which feeds upon trees, have an orange-colored spot on their backs, which renders them very conspicuous when they arc seen out of their ordinary environment; but when they are clinging to the trees the color of their hair resembles withered moss, while thp orange spot on their backs so closely imitates the scar made by the breaking off of a branch that even hunters are deceived by it. The color and stripes of the tiger sometimes render it invisible in bright sunshine amid the dried yellow grass of a jungle. Maj. Walford, an English hunter, says: "Once while following up a wounded tiger I failed for at least a minute to see him under a tree in grass at a distance of about twenty yards—jungle open—but the natives saw him, and I eventually made him out well enough to shoot him; but even then I could not see at what part ol him I was aiming.” But perhaps the most wonderful effect of color and contrast in concealing large animals is in the case of the zebra and giraffe. Alfred Russell Wallace says of the giraffe that the large, blotch-like spots on the skin, and the strange shape of the head and horns, like broken branches, so tend to its concealment that even the keen eyed natives have been known to mistake trees for giraffes, or girafles for trees. As to zebras, Professer Henry Drummond says in his book on "Tropical Africa,” after describing how the black and white stripes seem to take away the sense of a solid body altogether, the two colors blending into an unconspicuous gray, while at close quarters the effect is as of bars of light seen through the branches of shrubs: "I have found myself in the forest gazing at what I supposed to be a solitary zebra, its presence betrayed by some motion due to my approach, and suddenly realized that I was surrounded by an entire herd, which were all invisible until they moved.” A recent writer in Nature, after quoting this passage from Drummond, together with a statement from Francis Galton that in clear moonlight a zebra may be invisible although so near that its breathing can be heard, carries the idea of protection furnished bv the zebra’s stripes a step further by suggesting that they conceal it from the eyes of its enemies while it sleeps. Who Owns a Mailed Letter. A letter once mailed no longer belongs to the sender, but is the property of the person to whom it is addressed. Such is the postal law, but it is a law often violated by postmasters in small places, where correspondents are likely to be personally known to the postoffice authorities, and sometimes leads to curious complications in large ones where this is not the case. Important business interests have been affected by the same law. A firm which had long been really insolvent had succeeded in keeping the knowledge from the public, and continued to receive money from investors, which the partners emplo.ved dishonestly for their own advantage. It was their intention to raise one more large sum of money, part of which was to be contributed by a business friend of one of them, and then to leave the . country with their spoil, and let their creditors shift for themselves. But the wife of the business friend and the wife of the man who meant to victimize him frequently corresponded with each other, and tbe latter wrote a gay, gossiping letter to the former in which she mentioned that her husband had been in poor health lately on account of business troubles, but that she trusted their approaching trip to Canada would restore him. Remembering, too late, that her husband had asked her to mention neither of these facts, and fearing to vex him, she went to the post-office to recall the letter. The post-mas-ter refused to give it up. She could give po reason for demanding it. and became petulant and irritated when he continued to refuse. He remained firm and the letter was sent. The recipient showed it to her husband whose suspicions it aroused. He made an investigation, and as a consequence the dishonest firm was broken up, and.both the partners arrested and punished. Intercepted letters have long been a popular theme of drama and romance. A letter which could not be intercepted, but had to go in spite of the sender’s express desire and entreaty, might offer an interesting variety.—Youth’s Comaniou. Aniline Coloring:. Aniline dyes are noted for their great coloring power, one part of rosaniline salt in one million parts of water still possessing a deep crimson color and instantly dying a skein of silk moistened with vinegar. The dyes are used for many purposes—coloring toys, sweetmeats, wines, dress fabrics, and other articles. The fugitive nature of some of them is rather a drawback. Germany is now the headquarters of the manufacture of these dyes. Large quantities are produced and used in this country also. . lu China. In visiting China you sec men with their fingers nails growing to the length of three or four inches. They are the scholars or mandarins, and the nails are worn to distipguish them from common men or laborers. And if you should attempt to grasp them by the hand to shake it they wquld not respond, but simply clasp their own hands together and give you a "salaam,” or bow.

Opening fbr a Yonng Man. Ambitious Youth—l see you advertise for a private secretary? Millionaire—Yes. Did you ever play base ball? "Um—yes; I’ve always been very fond of base bal), but, of course, I would not neglect my emuloyer’s interest to attend a game. No, Indeed, sir!” "Are you a good player?” “Well, yes; for an amateur.” "Belong to a nine?" "Yes; but I'll resign If you wish. I’m captain and catcher of the Novermuff club.” "Good! You’ll do.” “Eh? I thought you wanted a secretary.” ■ “So Ida But I want a secretary who can catch the bombs which the cranks throw at mo, so the Infernal things won’t hit tho floor and explbdo.”—Puck. Couldn’t Board Him Free. Young Man Lodger—Will you marry me? Landlady—Let me see. You have boarded with me four years. You have paid promptly. You have never grumbled at yodr food. No; I cannot marry you. “Perhaps if I had acted like Duffer and abused the coffee, grumbled at tbe scarcity ot butter, always been a month behind in pay, you would have married me.” "Yes. perhaps I would. As It Is I will marry Duffer.” “What!” “Yes, I will mary Duffer. He needs some discipline. You are too good a boarder to put oo the free l.'st—TidBits. All Aboard! Make haste. Your baggage is all right, but have you got a supply of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters? No! Then you have made a sad omission, and If you are troubled with stomachic qualms en route—ls yog are sea sick, my dear sir, or madam, you wiU have deserved your fate. How dreadfully the waves or the jarring of the engine or screws shake you up! Now there is a mute but awful call to the ship's side. Now, if you had the Bitters along with yon this wouldn’t happen. Travelers and tourists, take our advice, and before yon start on your yachting or ocean voyage, your coastwise trip or inland anting, obtain the Bitters, and thus fortify yourselves against stomachlo difficulties, malaria, dyspepsia, and the effects of exposure In rough weather or bad diet or water. Take It, too, for biliousness, kidney trouble, and rheumatism. Syrians In Gotham. The recent signs ot activity among the Syrian residents of New York City, who number about 1,000 are interesting. Theynowhavea weekly paper of their printed here in Arabic, and they also have formed an organtzation known as the Syrian Society of New York, which will have a free reading-room and school for the benefit of those who need them. The Syrians live in extreme squalor qnd poverty near the Battery: yet one of ther leaders. Ameer Haddad, who is a doctor and a scholar, says that a gcod many more immigrants from Syria will land this year. S. K. COBURN, Mgr., Claris Scott, writes: “I find Hall’s Catarrh Cure a valuable remedy.“ Druggists sell it, 75c. , Patches for Kid Gloves. “Kid gloves will rip despite our best efforts to keep them in good condition,” said an exquisite young man at the Southern last night, “But we have at last learned how to mend them. Instead of sewing up the rent, as formerly, we now take a small piece of court plaster or surgeon’s plaster (the latter is the better), turn the glove wrong side out and neatly apply the plaster over the rent or rip, first having drawn the rent part of the glove nicely together.”—St, Louis Globe-Democrat. The Only One Eier Printed—Can Yon 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 is true of each new one appearing each week from The Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house places a “Crescent’ on everything they make and publish. Look for if, send them the name of the word, and they will return you book, beautiful lithographs, OB SAMPLES FREE. Quite Apropos. "So you have met Miss Smithers?” “Yes. I was introduced at a social.” “She is a woman of great erudition, I understand.” “Yes, a regular nobody.”—Detroit Free Press. Sick Headache, lassitude, weakness and loss of appetite, caused by malaria, can be Immediately cured by Beecham’s Pills. A Little Heavy. Jinks—l hear they are putting an elevator behind Dr. Fourthly’s pulpit. I should think he'd be able to walk up those few steps. Filkins —Oh, but you must remember he has to carry his sermon.—Louisville Commercial. Actors, Vocalists, Public Speakers recommend Hale’s Honkt of Horehound and Tab. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure iu one Minute. If some men knew as much as. they talked there would not be any sale for the encyclopedias. f Whenever I see Hood’s Sarsaparilla I want to bow and say ‘Thank Yen.’ I was badly affected with Eczema and Scrofula Soies, covering almost the ' whole of one side of my face, ■ nearly to the top of niy head. Running sores dis- . charged from both ears. My x is. aislej.. eyes were very For nearly a year I was deaf. I took HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA and the sores on and in my | ears healed. I can now hear and seihis well as ever.” j Mrs. AmandaPaislKy, 176LanderSt.,Newburgh, N.Y. j HOOD’S FILLS cure all Liver Ills, jaundice, ' sick headache, biliousness, sour stomach, nausea. j PLAINTS Perry Davis’ Pain-Killer BEST MEDICINE IN THE WORLD. ■Vk ■ ■ ■■ ANAKESIS gives instant 11 || I fl relief, and is an INFALLII % BLE CURE for PILES. | | |B Price, ;at druggists or Lu ■ ■™ ■■ Box SI 16. New York Six. WANTED * "KN TO TRAVEL. We par RSO ■““ ■ to SIOO a mouth and expenses. STONE a WELLINGTON. Madison. Wix. L

S LOVELL DiAMama CYCLES oft p S WW — For Lacies and Cents. Six styles 3k Xf* \l /w'ljsk //SWbt n Pneumatic Cushion and Solid Tires. Ul BB “ B |\ Diamond Frame, Steel Drop Forgings Steel I Hi '-3. Tubing. Adjustable Ball Bearings to all running parts, W M inclu ‘ i,ne P,d,ls - Suspension Saddle. NUW \g | Strictly HIGH GRADE in Every Pnrticulnr. I Seed «cents la itui M fi>r Our 100-nagr illmtratrd cata-l I4M ■ Biejeie Catak>rM suax. Issue of Guas, ttlfles, Revolvers, Sporting Goods, ete. £uS \j JOHN KLOVELL ARMS CO., Mfrs., I*7 Washington St, BOSTON, MASS- pT 4e»aL BOREJ I.:;-g WELLSo# ■ ma. should nee PisosCure for W with onr famouo Well tUld-fl XiF-O&L M Consumption. It has cored M Machinery. The oalv WSTIHU Tj <-. 1 ■ thousands. It has not injur-■ uerlect self-otoamng and IF JO ■ed one. It is not bad to take Bi het-dropping toots m use. Jl' ■lt Is tbe best cough syrup. ' ■ LOOMIS <i N YMAN, < Sold everywhere. Me. gg TIFFIN, onio. 1— yjjj.,,;, *• w. n. c No. : »» When W'rittnir to Advertisers, pteaee any rush J“| 1 saw Use, Adv-rtueuient lu thispatwr. -■ ' ’ ** '' '.'TV-'- " • ' . ’ n ■

“German Syrup” I simply state that I am Druggie* and Postmaster here and am there* fore in a position to judge. I have tried many Cough Syrups but fo* ten years past have found nothing equal to Boschee’s German Syrupy ! I have given it to my baby for Croup with the most satisfactory results. Every mother should have it. J. H. : Hobbs, Druggist and Postmaster, i Moffat, Texas. We present facta, living facts, of to-day Bosehcew German Syrup gives strength ty th* body. Take no substitute. ENJOYS i Both the method and results wh«* ' Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acta j gently yet promptly on the Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sy> tem effectually, dispels colds, heaik aches and fevers and cures habituiß constipation. Syrup of Figs is th* only remedy of its kind ever pro, dneed, pleasing to the taste and a*i ceptable to the stomach, prompt fatf its action and truly beneficial in it* effects, prepared only from the moab , healthy ana agreeable substances, ita many excellent qualities commend n to all and have made it the moal popular remedy known. j Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50* and $1 bottles by all leading drug; gists. Any reliable druggist wh4 may not have it on hand will prot cure it promptly for any one wM wishes to try it. Do not accept substitute. CAUFORNIJI FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FItANCISCO, CAL. LOUISVILLE. KV. NEW YOM. N. K RELIEVES all Stomach Distress. REMOVES Nausea, Sense of Fnllnff* Congestion, Pain. REVIVES Failing ENERGY. RESTORES Notmal Circulation, caA Warms to Tob Tips. DR. HARTER MEDICINE CO.. St. Lonit. Mt? DR. T. FELIX GOURAUD’S ORIENTAL CREAM, OK MAGICAL BEALT-FkASIL 60 S5-S Removes Tan. Pimples. Fredk les. Moth Patches. Rash anl Skin Diseases, and every bleiw c q \ 6ll on beauty, an* defies dete« tio< haß stood ot 40 yeax% ■ v//andissoharmleat £ So Xj Vj we taste it nZ ] .<1 sure it is properly >4 hr) made. Accept nt / / counterfeit of t o Jwa ' \ similar name. Dr, 03 \ LA. Sayer said it aTe/ \ aladyof the hau£ yTyrf JU S \ ton a pat lentil * /i I y° u l“di-K td* / / 1186 them. I reo I Xl* vs L. ommend ‘Gouw k y aud's Cream' iM the least harmfd of all - the Ski> preparations.” One bottle will last six months. usin< it every day. Also Poudrk Subtile removes supe? fluous hair without injury to the skin. FERI). T. HOPKDjS. Prop.. 37 Great Jones St.. N.T. tyßeware of base imitations. ?1.000 Reward for arrest and proof of any one selling the same. GUITARS -.nUIDOUKS Guitars from 18.50 upwards. 1 Mandolins from 112.00 upvrarig The Marquette. The Arion. Quarter-sawed Sycamore. Mahogany, fine finish. The Lakeside. Thf Conservatory. Quarter-sawed Oak. Antique. | High Grade, fine finish. All the above sold under our own guarantee: 100,900 of a* instruments in use. Your local dealer-will order for you. nine have name burned on inside. Send fur illustrated catalogue LYON Jt HEALY. 53 Monroe Street, Chicax* reeeeeee»ee*e*eeooeeeee«oo«ee*99v«. t RIPANS TABULES regulate ; • the stomach, liver and bowels, puri- » 2 lA' ''SB the blood, are safe and effectual. * t“ e medicine Ipiowu for bilious- > * f Zj/nesß, constiiiation, dysfiepsia, foul< • breath.headache.mentaj depression, • painful digestion, bad con.plvxaon.' • * and all diseases caused by failure of 1 • the stomach, liver or bowels to per l • form their proper functions. Persons given to ovtar-' ■ geoting are benefited by taking one after each Deal.' • Price, $2 : sample. 15c. At Druggists, or sent bj mail.' ' • RIPANS CHEMICAL CO.. lOßpruce St.. New York, j ’ 0 $ FAT FOLKS REDUCED Mrs. Alice Maple. Oregca, Mo., write* I V 1 I J “My weight wa* 320 pounds, now it i*» IMk ■ reduction of Mblhs.” For circulars address, with 6oOr.UWi’.SNYBER. McVicker ■ Theatre. AS JOHN XT. men 32 is, BE&ntOB U ™ Washington, I>. C. Bw Successful I v Prosecutes Claims. ■ Late Principal Examiner U.S. Pension Bureau, M 3 yrs In last war, 15 adjudicating claims, atty oiucaa HEMORDIA THE ONLY STRE CLRE. Price gI.GO by malL. HEHOBDU co., 110 Fulton St., New lark. Barlow’s Indico Blue. llie Family Wash Blue, for sale by Grocers.