Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 16 September 1892 — Page 3

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TALMAGE IN EUROPE. HE DISCOURSES REGARDING KINO’S HIGHWAY. The Dlfftarenoe Ilotween the Kight and the Wrong Itoud-Tho Christian's Progress Iloaveuwurd In the Path of Rectitude. _____ Another busy week of Dr. Talmage’s preaching tour has just ended. After concluding services before immense audiences at Swansea, Exeter and Bristol. he preached four Hines fin Plymouth to the largest religious gatherings ever witnessed in the city. Before leaving' Plymouth the Mayor, at a public meeting at which many clergymen were present, thanked the American preacher for the great good his sermons had produced In awakening the community. Dr. Talmage on the dav of his departure was driven to the wharf and alighted at the top ot the flight of stone steps down which the pilgrim fathers went when they embarked on the Mayflower to seek the New World. The sermon selected for last Sabbath was entitled “The King's Highway,” the text chosen being Isaiah xxxv, 8-10: “And an highway shall be there, and a wav, and it shall be called the way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but It shall bo for those; the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. No Hon shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon. It shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there, and the ransomed of tho Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” There are thousands of people hero this morning who want to find the right road. You sometimes see a person halting at crossroads, and can toll by his looks that be wishes to ask a question as to what dliection ho had better take. And I stand In your presence this morning conscious of the fact that there aro many of you here who realize that there are a thousand wrong roads, but only one right one, and I take it for granted that you have come in to ask which one it Is. Here is one road that opens widely, but I have not much faith in IL There aro a great many expensive tollgates scattered all along that way. Indeed at every rod you must pay in tears or pay In flagellations. On that road, if you get through it at all, you have to pay your own way, and since this differs so much from what I have heard In regard to the right way I believe it Is the wrong way. Here Is another road. On either side of Hare bouses of sinful entertainment and invitations to come in and dine and rest, but from the looks of the people who stand on the piazza I am very certain that it Is tho wrong house and tbe wfong way- Here is another road. It is very beautiful and macadamized. Tho horses’hoofs clatter and ring, and they who ride over it spin along the highway until suddenly they find that the road breaks over an embankment, and they try to halt, and they see the bit in the mouth of the fiery steed and cry, “Whoa! whoa!” But it Is too late, and—crash!— they go over ihe embankment We shall turn this morning and see if we cannot find’a different kind of a road. You have hoard of tho Appian Way. It was 350 miles long. It was twentyfour feet wide, and on either side the road was a path for foot passengers, it was made tfat of rocks cut in hexagonal shape and fitted together. What a road it must have been! Made of smooth, hard rock, 350 miles long. No wonder that in the construction of it the treasures of a whole empire were exhausted. Because of invaders, and tbe elements and time—the old conqueror who tears up a road as he Roes oveF It—there is nothing left of that structure except a ruin. But I have this morning to tell you of a road built before the Appian Way. and yet it is as good as when first constructed. Millions of souls have goneover.it- Millions more will come. The prophets and apostles, too. Pursued this road while here below; We therefore will, without dismay, Btlll walk lixChriat, the good old way. “An highway slAa.ll be there, ahd a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness, the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those; the wayfaring men, though fools, shall therein. No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon. It shall not bo found there, but the redeemed shall walk there, and the ransomed of tho Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away!” First, this road of the text is the King’s highway. 'ln the diligence you dash over tho Bernard pass of the Alps, mile after mile, and tnere is not so much as a pebble to jar the wheels. You go over bridges which cross charms that make you hold your breath, under projecting rocK, along by dangerous precipices, through tunnels adrip with the mqltings of tho glaciers, and perhaps for the first time learn tho majesty of a road built and supported by government authority. Well, my Lord tbe King decided to build a highway from earth to Heaven. It should span all the chasms of human wretchedness; it should tunnel ail the mountains of earthly difficulty; it should be wide enough and strong enough to hold fifty thousand millions of the human race, if so many of them should ever be born. It should be blasted out of the “Rock of Ages” and cemented with the blood of the Cross and be lifted amid the shouting of angels and the execration of devils. The King sent his Son to build that road. He put bead and hand and heart to it, and after the road was completed waved His blistered hand over the way, crying “It is finished!” Napoleon caid 15,000.000 francs for the-buildiug of the Simplon road, that his cannoh might go over for the devastations of Italy; but our King, at a great expense, has builta road for a different purpose, that the banners of heavenly dominion might come down over it, and all the redeemed of earth travel up over it Being a king’s highway, of course it Is well built Bridges splendidly arched and buttressed have given way and crushed the passengers who attempted to cross them. But Christ tho King would "build no such thing as that The work done, He mounts the chariot of Hfs love, and multitudes mount with Him, and He drives on and up the steep of heaven amid the plaudits of gazing worlds! The work is done — well done — gloriously done —magnificently done! Still further, this road spoken.of is a clean road. Many a fine road has become miry and foul because it has not been properly cared for, but my text gays the unclean shall not walk on this one. Room on either side to throw away your sins. Indeed if you want to carry them <along you are not on tho right road. That bridge will break, those overhanging rocks will fall, the night will come down, leaving you at the mercy of the mountain bandits, and at the very next turn of the road you will perish. But if you are really on this clean road of which I have been spnaktng, then you will stop over and anon to wash in the water that stands in tho basin of the eternal rock. Aye, at almost every step of the journey you will be crying out, “Create within me a clean heartl” If you have no suqh aspirations as that It proves that you have mistaken your way; and it you will only look up and see ‘A!*-. L-’S-L'xif', " ; x'>-

the finger board above your head you may road upon it tho woras, “There Is a wav that seometh right unto man, but the end thereof Is death.’’ Without holiness no man shall soothe Lord; and If you have any Idea that you can carry along your sins, your lusts, your worldllnoss, and yet got to tho end of tho Christian race you are so awfully mistaken that, In tho name of God, this morning I shatter tbe d<-)uslon. Still further, the road spoken of Is a plain toad. “The waylarlng men,though fools, g.hall not err therein” that Is, if a man is three-fourths an idiot ho can find this road just as well as if ho were a philosopher. The linbocllo boy, the laughing stock of the street, and followed by a mob hooting at him, has only to knock onco at tho gate of Hoaven and Itswlngs open, while there has been many a man who can lecture about pneumatics and chemistry, and tell the story of Faraday’s theory of electrical polarization, and yet has been shut out of Heaven. There has been many a man who stood In an observatory and swept the heavens with bls telescope, and yet ho has not been able to see tho Morning Star. Many a man has been familiar with all tho higher branches of mathematics, and yot could not do the simple sum, “What shall It profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” Many a man has been a fine reader of tragedies and poems, and yet‘could not “read his title clear to mansions in the skies.” Many a man has botanized across the continent, and yet did not know the “Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley.” But If one shall come in tho right spirit, asking the way to Heaven, he will find it a plain way. The pardon is plain. The poace Is plain. Everything is plain. He who tries to got on tho road to Heaven through tho New Testament teaching will get on beautifully. He who goes through philosophical discussion will not get on at all. Christ says: “Como to mo and I will wash all your sins away, and I will take all your troubles away.” Now what is the use of my discussing It any more? Is not that plain? If you wanted to go to London and I pointed you out a highway thoroughly laid out, would I be wise In detaining you by a geological discussion about tho gravel you will pass over, or a physiological discussion about the muscles you will have to bring into play? Na After tho Bible has pointed you the wpy to Heaven is it wise for me to detain you with any discussion about the nature of the human will, or whether the atonement is limited or unlimited? There is the road—go on it. It is a plain way. “This Is a faithful saying, and worthy of ali acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” And that is you, and that is me. Any little child hero can understand this as well as I can, “Unless you become as a little child, you cannot see the kingdom of God.” If you are saved it will not be as a philosopher, it will be as a little child. “Os such is the kingdom of Heaven.” Unless you get the spirit of little children you will never come out at their glorious destiny. Still further; this road to Heaven is a safe road. Sometimes the traveler in ; those ancient highways would think himself perfectly secure, not knowing ; there was a lion by the way burying his bead deep between his paws, and then when the right moment came, under the fearful spring the man's life was gone and there was a mauled carcass by the roadside. But, says my text, “No lion shall be there.” I w;ish I could make you feel this morning your entire security. I tell you plainly that one minute after a man has become a child of God he is as safe as though he had been 10,000 years in Heaven. He may slip; he may slide; he may stumble; but he cannot be destroyed. Kept by the power of God, through faith unto complete salvation. Everlastingly safe. The severest trial to which you can subject a Christian man is to kill him, and that is glory. In other words, the worst thing that can happen a child ot God is Heaven. The body is the old slippers that he throws aside just before putting on the sandals of light His soul, you cannot hurt it No fires can consume It No floods can drown it No devils can capture it Firm and unmoved are they Who rest their eonls ou God; Fixed rb the ground where David stood, Or where tbe ark abode. His soul is safe. His reputation is safe. Everything is safe. “But,” you say, “suppose his store burns up?” Why, then, it will only be a change of investments from earthly to heavenly securities. “But” you say, "suppose his name goes down under the hoof of scorn and contempt?” The name will be so much brighter in glory. “Suppose his physical health fails?” God will pour into film the floods of everlasting health, and it will not make any difference. Earthly subtraction is heavenly addition. The tears of earth- are the crystals of Heaven. As they take rags and tatters and put them through the paper mill, and they come out beautiful white sheets of paper, so often the rags of earthly destitution, under the cylinders of death, come out a white scroll upon which shall be written eternal emancipation. There was one passage, of Scripture the force of which I never understood until one day at Cbamounix. with Mont Blanc on one side and Montanvent on the other, I opened my Bible and read. “As tho mountains aro around about Jerusalem, so the Lord is around about them that fear him.” Tho surroundings were an omnipotent commentary. Though troubles assail, and dangers affright; Though friends should all fail and foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, whatever betide. The Scriptures assure us the Lord will provide. Still further, the road spoken of is a pleasant road, God gives a bond of indemnity against all evil to every man that treads it. "All things work together for good to those who love God.” No weapon formed against them can prosper. That is tho bond, signed, sealed and delivered by the President of the universe. What is tho use of your fretting, O child of God, about food? “Behold tho fowls of the air; for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly father foedeth them.” And will He take care of the sparrow, will He take care pf the hawk, and let you <iie? What is the use of your fretting about clothes? “Consider the lilies of the field. Shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?” What is the use of worrying for fear something will happen to your home? "Ho blesseth the habitation of tho just” What is the use of fretting lest you will be overcome with temptations? “God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that yo are able; but will with the temptation also make away to escape, that yo may bo able to bear it” Oh, thia King’s highway! Trees of ■Mfe on either side, bending over until their branches interlock any drop midway their fruit and shade. Houses of entertainment on either side the road for poor pilgrims. Tables spread with a feast of good things, and walls adorned with apples of gold in pictures of silver. I start out on this King’s highway, and I find a harper, and I say, “What te your name?” The harper makes no response, but leaves me to guess, as, with his eyes toward Heaven and his hand upon the trembling strings, this tune comes rippling in the air: The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” I go a little further on the same road

and meet the trumpeter of Heaven, and I say: “Haven't you got some music for a tjrod pilgrim’” And wiping his lip and taking a long breath, ho puts his month to tho trumpet and pours forth this strain, “They shall hunger no morn, neither shall they thirst any more, neither shall tho sun ftght on them, nor any heat, for tho Lamb which Is in the midst of the throne sliall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from tholr eyes.” I go a little distance further on the same road and I meet a maiden of Israel. Slio has no harp, but she has cymbals. They look as if they bad rusted from soq spray, and I say to the maiden of Isreal, "Have you no song for a tired pilgrim?” And like tho clang of victors’ shields sne cymbals clap as Miriam begins to discourse, “Sing yo to tho Lord, for bo has triumphed glorously; the horse and tho rider hath lie thrown Into tlm sea. And then I see a white robnd group. They come bounding toward me, and 1 say, “Who aro they?” Tho happiest, and tho brightest, and the fairest In all hoaven—who aro they?” And the answer comes, "These aro they who came out of groat tribulations, and had their robos washed and made white with tho blood of tbo Lamb.” I pursue this subject only one step farther. What is tho terminus? I do not care how fine a road you may put me on, I want to know whore it conies out. My text declares it, "The redeemed of tho Lord come to Zion.” You know what Zion was? That was the King's palace. It was a mountain fastness.’ It was impregnable. And so heaven is the fastness of tho universe. No howitzer has long enough range to shell these towers. Let all tho batteries of earth and hell blaze away; they cannot break in those gates. Gibraltar was taken; Sebastopol was taken; Babylon fell; but those walls of heaven shall never surrender either to human or satanic besiegement The Lord God Almighty is tho defense of it. Great capita! of the universe! Terminus of the King’s highway. Dr. Dick said that, among other things, ho thought in heaven we should study chemistry and geometry and conic sections. Southey thought that in Heaven he would have the pleasure ot seeing Chaucer and Shakespeare. Now, Dr. Dick may have his mathematics for all eternity, and Southey Ins Shakespeare, Give me Christ and my oidjrlends—that is all the heaven I wantfUiaTTS' heaven enough for me. O garden of light, whose leaves never wither, and whose fruits never fail! O banquet of God, whose sweetness never pails tbe taste, and whoso guests are kings forever! O city of light, whose walls are salvation, and whose gates are praise! Opalace of rest, where God is the monarch and everlasting anes tbe length of bis reign! O song louder than tho surf beat of many waters, yet soft as the whisper of cherubim! When my last wound is healed, when the last heartbreak is ended, when the last tear of earthly sorrow is wiped away, and when tbe redeemed of tho Lord shall come to Zion, then let all tbe harpers take aown their harps, and all the trumpeters take down their trumpets, and all across Heaven there will be chorus of morning stars, chorus of white robed victors, chorus of martyrs from under the throne, chorus of ages, chorus of worlds, and there be but one song sung, and but one name spoken, and but one throne honored—that o' Jesus only, Freemasonry. Some of the traditions of the Masonic order ascribe its origin to the time of Solomon, and even earlier—to the days of the flood. It is certain, however, that modern Freemasonry sprang up during the Middle Ages, probably about the tenth century, when certain craft-guilds were formed. It served important purposes in the erection of the great cathedrals of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, when masons and other craftsmen required in the erection and decoration of these buildings, collected from different parts of Europe, dwelt in huts around them, and established chosen masters at the head. The adjective “free’’ was prefixed to the name of the order because its members were exempted by papal and royal ediets from burdens imposed upon other laboring classes. Like other guilds, the masons were bound to certain religious observances. Modern Freemasonry originated in England and Scotland; it was introduced into France in 1725, into Russia in 1731, and into Germany in 1740. Now Grand Lodges exist in almost every city and town of civilized and semi-civilized countries. In later times Freemasonry became obnoxious to the Romish Church, and it has been prohibited by the Pope in Austria, Poland, Russia, and Spain. Ladies were excluded from the order in its early history when none but men followed the masonic craft and actual working men were admitted, and the force of custom debars them still. Four Presidents have been Masons—Washington, Jackson, Johnson, and Garfielcj.— lnter-Octan. Rice Culture. The best rice is that raised in South Carolina, where the rice is sown in trenches, which are eighteen inches apart, and flooded to a depth of several inches. The water is then drawn off and later, tie fields are flooded again, to kill the weeds. The water is allowed to stand nearly two weeks this time, and is not again turned into the field until the grain is almost ripe. Marshy places are not so good as well-irrigated land. Most of the rice used in Europe is imported from India. There, and also in Clifoa, the hills are chosen rather than the plains, and are so well irrigated that often it is only with the greatest difficulty that the fields can bo weeded on account of the water. In seme districts canals are carried along the hillsides. Upland rice is a species cultivated in Ceylon, Fara and Hungary, which requires dry land, rotting if placed under water. The only States of North America which cultivate rice for market are r South Carolina and Georgia. Rice Will not grow as far north as Minnesota. What the Indians use there -is Canadian or wild® rice, -which grows abundantly in tho Northwest, in miry places, and often on the margin of the lakes. It reaches the height of seven or eight feet, and the long and narrow seed makes a nourishing meal of which the Indians are very fond.— lnter Ocean. Experience keeps a dear school; but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. However, they that will not bo counseled cannot be helped, and if you will not hear reason she will surely rap your knuckles. — Franklin. The faith of eighteen is that society exists for its sake. Middle age is generous and tolerant, and does not care to tell the yffiiug that they are valued mainly for their future, and that the real work of the world is dona by men who have ceased to be ornamental.— Amelia Barr. Coon meat is the leading delicacy for -dinners both among the blacka and whites at Jefferson, Texas.

PosalMlltles of the Blind. John Metcalf wusanativoof England, born in the year 1717. Ho lost his sight from tho effects of tho measles, when four years old, aud very shortly became totally blind—utterly unconscious of light! His first efforts towards sustaining himself were made upoq the violin. Ho became an expert performer on the instrument when a mere boy, and for many years attended as a musician at the “Queens Head,” in High Harrowgate. At the age of twenty-five he had saved money enough with which to purchase a wheeled carriage and horses, for tho Conveyance of people to and from places of public amusement. Soon after he sold his horses, and enlisted as a musician in the Volunteers, and was taken prisoner at the battle of Falkirk. He was soon released, however, and returned to Knaresborough, where he was born, and commenced the business of a common carrier between that tow n and York, a distance of sixteen miles; and while thus engaged, he served as guide at night through the intricate passes, or when the tracks were covered with snow. As might be expected, strangers often hesitated abcut placing themselves under the guidance of a man so utterly blind that even the glare of the sunlight upon the snow was not perceptible to him; but he never failed them. Over the trackless waste he would conduct the traveler, where, as far as the eye could reach, only a sheet of unbroken and unmarked snow lay upon the earth, and he never went | ■wrong, never hesitated. But. more than this; when at the age I of forty he could follow the chase as well and as keenly as the rest. He had | his own hounds and his own horses, and i he could follow these hounds as surely as the keenest sightest man of the country. Later in life, but in his prime, he was engaged in a business which it would seem impossible that a blind man could follow. But, incredible as in may seem, j it was nevertheless so. The business was that of projecting and contracting for the making of high roads; building bridges and houses, and other works of like character. John Metcalf was on a visit to his native place in the year 1788, being then 71 years of age—healthy, rugged and strong. Shakspc.'tre Sold the Use of His Name. Now, William Shakspcare, loved ard loving gentleman as ho was, is under- i stood to have been very shrewd in money matters. None know she mean- ■ ing of popert.y better than he. Had he not been so, and rightly so, his father j would never have stirred outside tbe | door; tho Lambert mortgages would j have remained unpaid; r.or would tbe j Quincys have swarmed around for their i kiusman’a crambs, and nudged each ; other to lock up good things where ho I could place the*, wcaitii they saw him ' hoarding. Is it not, therefore, impossi- ! bio to supr.poee him ignorant of or indifferent as to the cash value of his own j name? Is it not quite as impossible, again, to believe that, if printed r.t his owminsLince, he allowed the publisher to dedicate tbe book to a friend; that if dedicated to cither of bis own patrons, Pembroke or Southampton, he (Shakspearc) was unable to write his own dedication; cr, writing it, asked his publisher to siffn it? If the escape from these difficulties is not byway of assumption that' Shakspcare sold the use of his name to the printers of anonymous poetry precisely as Lo is known to have sold i‘ to tiro printers of anonymous plays, then those difficulties are' hopeless indeed!— Manhat'.an Magazine. Straw as Fuel. “Yes, I've lived out West for ten year,” said a traveler, who was bearded like a forty-niner; “I mean on the prairies of Nebraska. Great country, too.” “What do>th'3 folks do for fuel ?” “Well, nowadays we're following after the Rooshuns, the Rooshun Mennonites, you know, in the fuel business. They are right smart ingenious in some things, and this is the way they get over the fuel difficulty. They build their houses of four rooms, all cornering together in the center. Right there they put up a great big brick oven, with thick walls. From the furnace door back to the back yard is a passageway. Every morning, noon, and night they lug a jag of straw in from the stack and burn it in the furnace. The thick walls get red hot, and stay so for hours, warming every room in the house. Even in the coldest weather three fires a day in the furnace will keep the house warm. For the cooking stoves we burn corn stalks to get meals with, and thus our farms raise our fuel as we go along. Pretty good scheme, isn't it?”—Chicago Herald. A DlabJtteal Trio. If there is one more fiendish than the hateful trinity, dyspepsia, biliousness and irregularity of the bowels usually existent together, we are unaware of it. Those co-operative organs, the stomach, the bowels and the liver, are usually thrown out of gear together, and the restoration ot regularity to one is usually the signal for the others to fall into line. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters controls all three beneficently and completely, not only regulating but invigorating them. It also exerts a most happy inrfhcnco upon the kidneys aud the blood, giving a healthful impulse and enriching the second. It overcomes malaria and a tendency to chronic rheumatism and neuralgia, and improves appetite and sleep. To the nervous it affords unspeakable relief. A wineglassful three times daily will, if persisted in. achieve results to be expected from no other medium. The Opal. There are numbers of foolish people flow-a-davs who will actually refuse the gift of an opal or sell any they may possess rather than be tho owner of so dangerous a source of bad luck and dispelled affection. Yet the opal was the reverse of an inauspicious stone in ancient days. It was classed by Ononiacritus among those that insure the efficacy of prayer. According to Berquem.it made its wearer loVable and conciliated affection. If rejoiced the heart, from poison and Infection, dissipated melancholy, and strengthened tho sight Could one,then, wish for anything better, either as a gift or possession. M. L. THOMPSON s CO.. Druggists. Coudersport, P».. any Hall s Catarrh Cure is tile best and only sure cure for catarrh they ever sold. Druggist! sell it, 75c. A Wonderttil Potato. Wonderful things happen in Ireland as well as elsewhere, if the following can be vouched for. which is not likely. It is related that a gentleman in Ireland recently, on cutting open a potato at dinner, found in the center a hall sovereign, around which the vegetabie had grown. Though discolored, it was in a good state of preservation, and is now a pretty ornament to a watch chain. FTTSr-AU Hts stopped free by Dr. Kline's Greet Nerve Restorer. No Fite after first day's use. Manvelous cures. Treatise and S> 00 trial bottle tree to nt case*. Sand to Dr. Kline, tsi Arch St.. Phils. Pe. So many young men who start out to follow the band wagon, realize when they are old that they were following a hearse. " • -v. •

He Caught On. A peasant one day put on a new Paper Collar and grenaed his Boots with Chicago butterine and liio.l hiinxelf to tlio I own and to the Office of an Insurance Company, where he Demanded the num of One Hundred Dollars. “For what?” asked the President. “Because I have kept my house insured with you for a Thousand Dollars for these last fourteen years, and it has never burned and caused you loss.” Then the President called him a Wooden-Headed Carrot nnd other Select Names and ordered him to Cheese I the Racket. Tho Peasant was looking about Town for the aforesaid Cheese ■ when a Lawyer winked him into a stairway and said: “Foolish man! An Insurance Company pays not far what you save, but for what you lose. Fee, $50.” Moral —Tbe Insurance Company haa settled the Loss nt S9OO. TIIF TRUE LAXATIVE PKINCIPI.B Os the plants'used in manufacturing the pleasant remedy, Syrup of Figs, lias a permanently beneficial effect on tho human system, while tho cheap vegetable extracts and mineral solutions, usually sold as medicines, are permanently injurious. Being well-informed, you will use tho true remedy only. Manufactured by tho California Fig Syrup Co. Insect Destroyer. The most cleanly and effective of in-sect-destroyers is quassia water, made by boilingfour ounces of quassia chips in a gallon of soft water for ten minutes and adding uo it while hot four ounces of soft soap, This, applied with a lirush, will kill ali the aphis family, and whom syringed on the plants it kills all it touches. For syringing with, there should only be two ounces of soft soap to the gallon of water. LOW RATE HARVEST EXCURSIONS. The announcement that the NorthWestern Line, comprising over 8,000 miles | of thoroughly equipped railway, has arranged to run two low rate Harvest Excursions during the months of Angust and September, will be gladly received by those who are interested in 'the development of tho great West and Northwest, as well as by those who desire to visit this wonderfully productive region at a season of the year when exact demonstration can be made of the merits and advantages it offers . to home-seekers and those in search of safe and profitable investments, | These excursions will leave Chicago on | August 30th and Sept. 27th. and tickets can be purchased at the very low rate of one fare for the round trip to points in lowa. I Minnesota, North and South Dakota. Nebraska. Wyoming. Colorado. Utah. Idaho, and Montana. They will be strictly first-class in every particular and will be good for return passage at any time within twentv days from date ot purchase. Full information concerning rates and arrangements for these excursions can be obtained upon application to any coupon ticket : agent, or to W. A. 'Thrall. G. P. T. A.. I Chicago i North-Western Il'y. Chicago. A Woman lor the Place. Gaskett (reading)—A woman runs a locomotive on a West Virginia railroad. Spatts—She wouldn’t be afraid of , train robbers. “Why not!” "Because she is accustomed to holding up her train herself.”—Detroit Free Press. ■ Nothing Like It. 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 iny ease was beyond cure. I found no P.emedy like Swamp-Root and to-dav, thank God. I am a well woman. Mr.s. A. Whelchel, OUo. lad. At the Seaside. Heroic Girl—What has become ot that handsome man who cheered so loudly when I rescued the little boy from drowning? Friend —He is over there on the veranda proposing to the girl who screamed and fainted. —New York Weekly. Don’t Trifle with Affections of the throat and lungs. Take Hale’s Honet of Horehound and Tab. — Fike's Toothache Dbofs Cure in one Minute. Cause and Effect. Clubberiy—Didn’t you call on Miss Pinkerly the other night in your new suit? Tiitter —Yes, why do you ask 9 1 Clubberiy—l met her the next morning and she was so deaf she couldn't hear a word I said.—Texas Siftings. W. J. McDonald, superintendent Lanneau Manufacturing Co.. Greenville S. C'., says: -My wife has used Bradycrotine for ‘ headache, and it Is the only thing that relieves her sufferings'.’’ Os all Druggists. 50c. Proof Against Attack. Nibs—Strange about Whoopem's disappearance, isn't it? Could he have been niade away with? ■ Jibs—lmpossible! He had no enemies and always wore a Waterbury watch. Anyone would be justified in recommending Beecham's I’ills for all affections of the liver aud other vital organs. In nearly every family there is a black sheep. For this reason there is a good deal of charity for blaek sheep. Our Baby a besuty, fair, plump and healthy. But when jRp * wo Scrofula fcy*" Humor spread over her I head, neck and forehead J lown into her eyes, one Kuiuia Frederick. ;;reat sore, itching and burning. Hood’s Sarsaparilla gave her new life and appetite. Then the humor subsided, the itching and burning ceased, and theVores entirely healed up t j She is now perfectly well.” I. W. Frederick. Danforth street, near C.escent avenue, Cypress Hill, Brooklyn, N. Y. , HOOD’S PILLS cure all liver ills, biliousness, nausea, sick headache, indigestion. The Wabash R. R. Go. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. | Walt for the Great Low Rate HARVEST . EXCURSIONS to be run by the WABASH ; KAILKOAI> on .August 90th, September *27th, and October 25th, 1592, to points West, SouthWest, and Northwest. Remember the Wabash is the Great Through Rec lining Chair Car ; Route, and is the only railroad in the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan giving its patrons Free Seats in these luxurious palace cars. Go West and enjoy a few weeks rest and recreation at a nominal expense. For maps, time tables and full particulars, address the nearest Wabash Agent, or write to F. Chandler. Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent, Wabash R. R.. St. Louis. Mo. Ely's Cream Balm | Price SO C.nte, | Apply Balm into each nostril. ILX BOOS. MWarreu 8L N. T. ■ Pteo'a Remedy fin Catarrh I. tbe Beat, Fjuaieat to Pae, end Cheapest | ■ Boid by druggist, or Mtn bj nugl. K Mo. IT. HMeitlbo, Wothm Hl ■ ’ a* i.

‘August Flower” I have been troubled with dyspepsia, but after a fair trial of August Flower, am freed from the vexatious trouble —J. B. -Young, Daughters College, Harrodsburg, Ky. I had headache one year steady. One bottle of August Flower cured me. It was positively worth one hundred dollars to me —J. W. Smith, P.M. and Gen. Merchant, Townsend, Ont. I have used it myself for constipation and dyspepsia and it cured me, It is the best seller I ever handled —C. Rugh, Druggist, Mechanicsburg, Pa. <9 MONTHS. A troublesome skin disaase J caused me to scratch for ten months, and has been cured by a few days’ use of gTICXJI M. H. Wolff, Upper Marlboro, MdSWIFT’&EeiFIB I was enred several years ago of white swelling' in my leg by using aTe na symptoms of re turn of the disease. Many prominent physicians attended me and all failed, but S. S. S. did tho work. I’A ft. W. Kirkpatrick, Johnson City, Tenn. Treatise on Elcod and Skin Dis-1 eases mailed free. Swift Specific Co., J < Atlanta, Ga. Bkadi ■ Harvest Excursions August 30th and Sept. 27th, FBOM Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis to the Cities and Farm Districts throughout the 'WEST Southwest and Northwest Round trip tickets will be sold by your local ticket agent on these dates at HALF RATES! See that they read over the Burlington Routs from Chicago, Peoria or St. Louis. It is the directline to the territory in question. Send for pamphlet with map and complete information to P. S. EUSTBS, C. P. A., Chicago, Ix><” F Nr \r A d ’ I .=□ .=□ .m .=» PRINTING OFFICE OUTFITS at reasonable rates and upon liberal terms. Writ! fob Pabticvla'bs. FORT WAYNE >EI'SPATEK UNION, Fort Wayne, Ind. I WfffiWxl- Coat WORLD! I SLICKER The FISH BRAND SLICKER is warranted waterproof, and wil: keep you drv in the hardest storm. The new POMMEL SLR KEi: is & perfect riding coat, and covers the entire saddle. Beware of imitations. Doni buv a coat if the ‘‘Fish Brand” is not on it. Il.ustratetl Catalotnie free. A. J. TOWER, Boston, Mass. _ A CLEAR COMPLEXION. Dr. O. P. Brown's beautifies the skin and tisufrr tr sues.preventing the sbrinkn.'.Mnrn ’Ft "bleb produce... wrinTISSUE BUILDER t<Jnw which meet skins, hungry for nourishnier.t absorb like a sronge? liruggistsor by. mail fI.OO. Seud 10c tor SAMPLE: with Lady's paper illustrating Ages ci Woman's Life, and devot 'd to the care of JW aud Body, J. GIBSON BROWN. 47 Grand Street, Jersey City. New Jersey. $5 to sls LIGHTMIN3 PLATER and platlagjewelry.watcher S EvlX tatiewßrc, Ate. Plate* ’Jj« jewelry good ■pf ncw ' on kinds of metal AST wiih gold, silver or nickel. Fo experience. No capital. ® Ttr . T bouse has <oeds usedinj plating. Wholesale Ments |5. W rite for circa* H. C. DELXO Jto Csslumbua, 0., • RIPANS TABULES ® stomach, liver and bowels, purl-i * fv tile blood, are sal* ant * effectual ,> • the boat medicine known for bilious- A xiP fy I Dess. cotisdpUion. dyspepsia, foul# breath,headacte.mental depression,# painful digestion, bad complexion,# Z and al! diseases caused by failure of ♦ Z tbe stomach, bver or bowels to per- • • form their proper functions. Pet-sons given to ov«r-Y beating are benefited by taking one after each neal. I • Price, $2 ; sainple. 15c. At Druggists, or sent bj mall. X • RIPANS CIfEMICAL CO.. lOSpruce St,. New k ork. 0 •••••••••••••••••••at >••••••••••••» $40,000,000 i Earned by the Bell Telephone Patent in 1891. Your invention may be valuable. You should protect it by patent. Address for full and intelligent advice, of charge, W. W. DUDLEY & CO., Solicitors of Patents, Pacific Bldg 522 F St. N. W„ Witsliington, D. C< JSention paptr. m |YON HEALY, 63 Monroe BL, Chicago. g Wml Will »!<il Frw their newly enlarged jEr of Band Instruments. forms and Equipments, 400 Fine II -fl lustra'..jns, describing every article by Bands or Drum Corps, |j\> Ccr.ains Instructions tor Amateur Rad ds, 11 Yvk 41-AM BxeAisaarand Drum -Major’s fsetics, By /j ||J and 3 Selected List of Band Music BARFIELD ofbad eatiiig;cur#« Sick Headache) restor««Complexion;cur*aConmtipat ion.. Cm Tim oowpA* to U» W«« took Stmt, Bow Xwft QQ. fj Q FIT FOLKS REDUCED Alice Maple. Oregca, Me., write* I A ui I J ”My weight weeS2o pound*, now it t« lIA • reduction of 125 Ibe.” For circular* addrm*. with 6c_ Or. 0.W.F.8K YDML MeVleker** Theatm UAucmmo.ll£ PATENTS! PENSIONS! Send for Inventor's Guide, or How to Obtain a Patent. Send for Diguat of Pension and Bounty Law*. PATRICK O’FARRELL. Wiiahini.'tou. vol Bi t YCLES •lb Brtech-Loader■ IB xm.iicheaper tuaa«i***7.5°. 1.1 K s^sUUlW^£ oidert ami Largwt Spencertaa /llusinesa College and ShortZ so’ . / hand School. Cleveland, Ohio. //fl// / Founded m IMS 32.000 fora. te CjPC-O J > pupila Elegant catalogue free. Barlows Indico Blue. Th. Far. Uy Waah Bin.. loj Ml. by Grorere. F. W. N. U.. .........;: NO. 30-93 When Writing to Advertieera, any yoa saw the Adverti.euieut In thia paper.