Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 22 September 1893 — Page 3

. IS'/l iy; 1 v; '.rV- " . , A laffron-colored Index Os th* condition of a billon* *tc<n*oh and •luflKlih Uv*r 1* the human countenance. Not only th* akin, bnt th* •ytballi, ar* tinged with th* yellow hu* when th* bile get* into th* blood. B**id„ thia, itok headache* enine, th* tongu* become* furred, pain* are fait in the U»er and through the right ahouldar blade, and dlnin*** 1* experienced upon rialng from a atttlng or recumbent poitur* by th* blllou* Invalid. For th*** and other Indloatlona of blllouane**, Hoat«tter'* Stomach Hitter* 1* a •overeign remedy. It la alio efflcaoiona in chllla and fever, dumb ague, ague cake, inactivity of the kidney* and bladder, rhaumatlam and nervouaneea. It atln.ulat**, reatore* dlg**tlon and eleep, and tend* greatly to mitigate the inflrmltiea of age. Where' Tommy—Mamma said to Mrs. Comback that matches are made in Heaven. Is that true, papa? Papa—Certainly It is true. Your mamma knows what she is talking about Tommy—But where does they get tfae brimstone?—Detroit Free Press. Making the licet of It. A curiosity well worthy of its place in the local museum was a bird’s nest made wholly of long spiral steel shavings, without the loast particle of vegetable fiber. It was found in Switzerland at a place which is the center of a large watch manufacturing district. LOW RATE HARVEST EXCURSIONS to low*. Minnesota. Kansas. Nebraska. Colorado. Wyoming. Utah. North and South Dakota. Manitoba. Tennessee. Mississippi, Alabama. Louisiana. Arkansas, Indian Territory. Oklahoma Texas, and Arizonia. will leave fromall stations of the Wabash Kailroad on October 10th. at very low rates. . Tickets good returning twenty days from date of sale. For particulars apply to the nearest agent of the Wabash Railroad. Jk Bousing Idea. Hortense —What loud clocks you have on your stockings! Lucille—Yes, they ’re alarm clocks to wake ray leet when they go to sleep. —Puck. Many a man is compelled to stand punishment who never fought a prize fight. Skm Hbadachk, lassitude, weakness and loss of appetite, caused by malaria, can b* Immediately cured by Beecham’s Pills. After the proposal—“ And do you love him, child?” “Love him, mamma? I’ve seen his bank book.” Hatch's 'Universal Cough Syrup most prompt, pleasant. and effectual. 25c. Occasionally a man gets mad, and then you find out bis real sentiments.

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TALMAGE’S SERMON. | HE TELLS US HOW TO REINFORCE OUR FAITH. ——• ■ ' Th* First Mode of Accompllshlug This Is to i Study the Bible—Testlmoney of Eminent Believers—The Evidence of Science, Effloacy of Prayer. tt the Tabernacle. In his serinon at the Brooklyn Tabernacle Sunday forenoon, Rev. Dr. De Witt Talmage preached to a vast audience on the subject of “Re-enforce-ment,” the text being Luke xvii, 6, “Lord, increase our faith.” “What a pity he Is going there,"said my friend, a most distinguished general of the army, when no was told that the reason for my not being present on a celebrated day in Brooklyn was that on that day I had sailed for the Holy Land. “Why do you say that?” inquired some one. My military friend replied, “Oh, he will be disillusioned when he gets amid the squalor and commonplace scenes of Palestine, and his faith will bo shaken in Christianity, for that is often the result.” The great general misjudged the case. I wenj to the Holy Land for the one purpose of having my faith strengthened, and that was the result which came of it. In all our journeying, in pH our reading, in all our associations, in all our plans, augmentation, rather than the depiction of our faith, should be our chief desire. It is easy enough to have dur faith. destroyed. I can give you a recipe for its obliteration. Read infidel books, have long andafrequent conversation with skeptics, attend the lectures of those antagonistic to religion,give full s wing to some bad habit, and your faith will be so completely gone that you will laugh at the Idea that you'ever had any. If you want to ruin yohr faith, you can doit more easily than you can 'do anythiug else. After believing the Bible all my life I can see • plain way >by which in six weeks I could enlist my voice and pen and heart and head and entire nature in the bombardment of the Scriptures, and the church, and all I now hold sacred. That it is easy to banish soon and forever all respect for the Bible I prove by the fact that so many have done it. They were not particularly brainy nor hail especial force of will, but they so thoroughly accomplished the overthrow of their faith that they have no more idea that the Bible is. true or that Christianity amounts to anything than they have in the truth of the “Arabian Nights’ Entertainments” or the existence of Don Quixote’s “windmills.” -They have destroyed their faith so thoroughly that they never will have a.return of it. Fifty revivals of religion may sweep over the city r the town, the neighborhood, where they live, and they will feel nothing but a silent or expressed disgust. There are persons in this house who twenty years ago gave up their faith, and they will never resume At. The black and deep toned bell of doom hangs over their head, an<f I take the hammer of that bell, and I strike.it three times with all my might, -and it sounds, “Woe! woe! woe!” But ifiy wish, and the wish of most of you, is the prayer expressed by the disciples to Jesus Christ, in the words of mv text, “Lord, increase our faith.” 1 -• • Study* the Bible.

The first, mode of accomplishing this is to study: the Bible itself. I do not believe there is an infidel now alive who has-read the Bible through. But as so important a document needs to be read at least twice through inorder that it may be thoroughly understood, and read in- course,. I now offer SIOO reward to any infidel who has read the Bible through twice and read it in ■course. But ! cannot take such a man’s own word for it, for there is, no foundation for integrity, except the Bible, and theman who rejects the source of truth, how can I accept.his truthfulness? So I must have another witness in the ease beforeil give.the reward. I must have the testimony ■of some one who has seen him read it all through twice. Infidels fish in this Bible for incoherences and contradictions and absurdities, and if you find .their Bible you will see interlineations in the book of Jonah and some, of .the chapters of that unfortunate prophet nearly worn out by much use, and some, parts of II Samuel or I Kings you will find dim with finger marks, but the pages which contain the Ten Commandments, and the psalms .of David, and the sermon on the mount,.and the book of John the Evangelist -will not have a single lead pencil stroke .on the .margin nor any finger marks showing frequent perusal. The father of one .of the Presidents of the United States was a pronounced infidel. I knew it .when many years ago I accepted hie invitation to spend the night in his home. Just before retiring at night he said in a jocose way, “I suppose you are .accustomed .to.read the Bible before going to bbd,.and here is my Bible from which toroud.” He then told me what portions he would like to have me read, and .he only asked for those portions on which he could easily be facetious. You know you can make fun about anything. I suppose you could take the last letter your father or mother ever wrote and find something in the grammar, •or the spelling, .er the tremor of the penmanship about which to be derisively critical. The internal evidence of the truthfulness of the Bible is so mighty that no one man out of 1,600,000,000 of the world's present population, or the vaster millions of the past ever read the Bible in eourse and read it prayerfully and earefu.ly, but was led to believe it. The internal evidence of the authenticity of the Scriptures is so exact and so vivid that no man honest and sane can thoroughly and continuously and prayfuJly read them without entering their discipleship. So I put that internal evidence paramount. How are you led to believe in a letter you receive from husband or wife or child or friend? You know, the handwriting. You know the style. You recognize the sentiment. When the letter comes, you do not summon the postmaster who stamped it, and the postmaster who received it, and the letter carrier who brought it to your door to prove that it is a genuine letter. The internal evidence settles it, and by the same process you can forever settle the fact that the Bible is the handwriting and communication of the infinite God. Weighty Testimony. Furthermore, as I have already intimated, we may increase our faith hy the testimony of others. Perhaps we of lessor brain may have been overcome by superstition or cajoled into an acceptance of a hollow,pretension. .So I will this morning turn this house into a courtroom and.summon witnesses,and you shall be the jury, and I now im* panel you for that purpose, and I will put upon the witness stand men whom all the world acknoweldge to be strong intellectually and whose evidence in any other courtroom would be incontrovortable. I will not call to the fitness stand any minister of the gospel, for he might be prejudiced. There are two ways of taking an oath la a courtroom. One is by put-

ting the lips to the Bible, .and the other is by holding up the right hand toward Heaven. Now, as in this case it is the Bible is on trial, we will not ask the witness to put the book to his Ups, for that would imply that the sancltlty and divinity of tne book are settled, and that would be begging the question. So I shall ask each witness to lift his hand toward Heaven in affirmation. Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, appointed by President Lincoln, will take the witness stand. “Chief Justice Chase, upon your oath, please to state what you have to say about the book commonly called the Bible.” The witness repfte*: “There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, andl resolved as a lawyer and judge I would try the book as 1 would try anything in the courtroom, taking evidence for and against. It was a long and serious and profound study, and using the same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I always do in secular matters I havp come to the decision that the Bible is a supernatural book, that it has come from God, and that the only safety for the human race is to follow its teachings.” “Judge, that will do. Go back again to your pillow of dust on the banks of the Ohio.” Next I put upon the witness stand a President of the United States—John Quincy Adams. “President Adams, what have you to say*about the Bible •and Christianity?” The President replies: “I have for many years made it a practice to read .through the Biljle once a year.. My custom is to read four or five chapters every morning immediately after rising from my bed. It employs about an hour of my time and | seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day. In what light soever we regard the' Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable ana inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue. • Next I put upon the witness stand Sir Isaac Newton, the authored the “Principia” and the greatest natural philosopher the world has ever seen. “Sir Isaac what have you to say concerning the Bible?” The philosopher’s reply is, “We account the Scriptures of God. to be the most sublime philosophy.” Next I put upon the witness stand the enchantment of letters, Sir Walter Scott, and when 1 ask him what he thinks of the place that our great book ought to take among other books he replies, “There is but one book, and that is the Bible.” Next I put upon the Stand the most famous geologist of all time, Hugh Miller, an elder of Dr. Guthrie's Presbyterian church in Edinburgh, and Faraday and Keppler, and they all testify to the same thing. They all say I the Bible is from God, and that the mightiest influence for good that ever touched our world is Christianity. The next man I put mpon the witness stand is the late Earl of Kintore, and I ask him what he thinks of Christianity, and he replies: “Why do you ask me that? Did y©u not hear me preach Christ in the ‘Midnight Mission’ of London.” “Oh, yes! I remember!” But I see many witnesses present today in tne oeurtroom, and LcaH you to the witness stand.'but I have only a second of time for .any oneef .you. As you pass along just give one sentence m regard to Christianity. “Under God it has changed my entire nature,” says one. “It brought me from drunkenness and poverty to sobriety and a J 1 M —

good home,” says another. “Itsolaced me when I lost any child,”, says another. “it gave me hope >of future treasures when ng- property was swept off by the last panic,” sgys .another. “It has given me* peace.and a satisfaction more te me than all the world beside,’’says another. “It has been to me light and music and fragrance and radiant anticipation, ’’.gays another. Ah, stop the pvooession -of witnesses. Enough! Enough! All (those voices of the past and the present have mightily inereased-our (faith. The Evidence of "Science. Again <eur belief is re-enforced 'by archaeological exploration. We must confess that good jnen at one time were afraid of geologist’s hammer and chemist's crucible .and .archaeologist's investigation, but now intelligent Christians are receiving And still expecting nothing but confirmation from .all such sources. What supports the Palestine Exploi-atwa Society? Contributions from churches and Christian benefactors. I saw the marks of the -shovels of that exploring -society amid the ruins of ancient Jericho, aud.all up and down from the dead Sea toCaesarea Philippi. “Dig away!” says the 'church of God, ‘‘and the deeper you sfiig’ the better I like.” Tne discovered monuments of Egypt have chiseled them the story -of the sufferings of the Israelites in Egyptian bondage, as we find it in the ißible; there, in imperishable stone, representations of the slave, -of the whips and of the taskmasters who compelled tho making of brieks without straw. Exhumed Ninevea and Babylon, with their dusty lips, declane the Bible true. Napoleon-s soldiers tn the Egyptian campaign pried up a stone, wnkih you may find in a British museum, a stone, as I remember it, presenting perhaps two feet of lotteewd surface. It contains words in three languages. That stone was the key that unlocked ■the meaning of all the hieroglyphics of tombs and obelisksand tel Iso ver and .over again the same event* which. Moses recorded. The sulphurous graves of Sodom and •Gomorrah have been identified. The remains of the tower of Babel have been found. Assyrian documents lifted from the sand and Behistuu inscription, hundreds of feet high up on the rock, echo and re-echo the truth of Bible history. The signs of the time indicate that almost every fact of the Bible from lid to lid will" find its corroboration in ancient city disentombed, or ancient wall cleared from the dust of ages, or ancient document unrolled by archroologist. Before tne world rolls on as far into the twentieth century as it has already rolled into the nineteenth, an infidel will be a mau who does nqt believe his own senses, and tho volumes now critical and denunciatory of the Bible, if not entirely devastated by the book worms', will be taken down from the shelf as curiosities of ignorance or idiocy. All success to the pickaxes and crowbars and powder blasting of those apostles of achiojeologieal exploration. I like the ringing defiance of the old Huguenots to the assailants of Christianity: “Pound away, you rebels! Your hammers break, but the anvil of God’s work stands.” How wonderfully the old book hangs together! It is a library made up of sixty-six books and written by at least thirty-nine authors. It is a supernatural thing that they have stuck to- ; gether. Take the writings of any other thirty-nine authors, or any ten authors, or any five authors and put them together, and how long Svould they stay together? Books of ‘‘elegant extracts” compiled from many authors are proverbially short lived. I never know one such book, which, to use the publisher's phrase, “had life init,” for five years. Why is it that tho Bible, made up of the writings of at least thirty-nine authors, has kept together for a long line of centuries when the natty-'

tendency would have been to fly apart like loose sheets of paper when a gust ol wind blows upon them? It is because God stuck them together. But for that Joshua would have wandered off in one direction, and Paul Into another. and Ezekiel into another, and Luke into another, and Habakkuk Into another, and the thirty-nine authors into thirty-nine directions. Put the writings of Shakespeare and Tennyson and Longfellow, or anj’ part of them, together. How long would they stay together? No book bindery cOuld keep therp together. Th* Efflcooy of Prayer But I come to the height of my subject when I say the way to re-enforce our faith Is to pray for it. So the disciples in my text got their abounding faith. “Lord, increase our faith.” Some one suggests, “Do you really, think that prayer amounts to anything?” I might as well ask you is there a line of telegraphic poles from New York to Washington; is there a line of telegraphic wires from Manchester to London, from Cologne to Berlin. All the people who have sent and received messages on those lines know of the'r existence. So there are millions of souls who have been in con<tant communication with the capital f the universe, with the throne of the Almighty, with the great God himself, for years and years and years. There has not been a day when supplication did not flash up and blessings did not flash down. Will- some ignoramus who has never received a telegram or sent.pne come and toll us that there is no sue# thing as telegraphic communication? Wilf some one who 'has never offered a prayer that was heard and answerd come and tell us I that there is nothing in prayer? It may not come as we expect, it, but as sure as an honest prayer goes up a merciful answer will come down. During the blizzard of four or five years ago yon know that many of the telegraph wires were prostrated, and I telegraphed to Chicago by the way of Liverpool, and the answer after awhile came around by another circuit, and the prayer we offer may come back in away we never imagined, and if we ask to have our faith increased, although it may come by a widely different process"from that which we expected, our confidence will surely be augmented. Oh, put it in every prayer you ever make between your next breath and your last gasp, “Lord increase our faith”—faith un'Christ as our personal ransom from present guilt and eternal catastrophe; faith in the omnipotent" Holy Ghost; faith in the Bible, the truest volume ever dictated or written or printed or read: faith in adverse providences, harmonized for our test welfare; faith in-a judgment day that will set all things right which have for ages been wrong. Lessons of the Storm. What a frightful time we had a few days ago down on the coast of Long Island, where 1 had been stopping! That archangel of tempest which, with 1 its awful wings, swept the Atlantic ; coast from Florida to Newfoundland did ’ not spare • our region. A few miles away, at Southampton, I saw the bodies of four men whom the storm had slain 1 and the sea had east up. As I stood 1 there among the dead bodies I said to 1 myself, and I said aloud: “These men represent homes. What will mother ' and father and wife and children say 1 when they know- this?” Some of the victims were unknown. ■ Only the first name of two of them was

found ■ out—Charley and William. I ■ wondered then and I wonder now if. 1 they will remain unknown and if some ' kindred far away may be waiting for their coming and never hear of the ; ' rough way of their going. 1 saw also one of the three who had come in alive, but more dead than alive. The 1 ship had become,helpless six miles out. . and as one wave swept the deck and went down the furnaces till they hissed and went out the erv was, “Oh, my i God, we are lost!” Then the crew put ■on life preservers, one of the sailors saying to the - other, “We will meet again on the shore-, and if not, well, we must all go sometime.” Os the twenty.-three who put on the life preservers,. only three lived to . reach the beach. But what a scene it was as the good and kind people of Southampton, led on by Dr. Thomas, the great and good surgeon of New York, stood watching the sailors struggling in the breakers. “Are you still alive?” shouted Dr. Thomas to one of them, out in the breakers, and he signaled yes and then went into unconj sciousness. Who should do the most | for the poor fellows and how to re- | suscitate them were the questions that j ran up and down, the beach at South- | .ampton. j How the men and women on the ( shore stood wringing their hands imI patiently waiting for the sufferers to come within reach, and then they were lifted up and carried indoors and waited, on with as much kindness and wrapped as.warmly as though they had been the princes of the earth. “Are they.alive?” “Are they breathing?” “Do you think they will live?” “What can we do for them?” were the rapid .and intense questions asked, and so much money was sent for the clothing and equipment of the unfortunates that Dr. Thomas had to make a proclamation that no mere money was needed. In other words, .all .that day it was re--1 suscitation. And that is the . appropriate word! for ; us this morning as we stand and look off upon this awful sea of doubt and unbelief on which hundreds are this moment being wreaked. Some of them were launched by Christian parentage on smooth seas and with promise for prosperous vovage, tout.a Voltaire cyclone struck them on .one side, and a Tom Paine cyclone struck them on the other side, and a bad habit cyclone struck them on all sides,.and they have foundered far away from shore, far away from God, and they have gone down or are washed ashore with no spiritual life left in them. But, thank God, there ape many here to-day with faith enough left to encourage us in the effort «t resuscitation. All hands to the beach! With a confidence in God that no denial, let us lav hold of them! Fetch them out of the breakers! Bring Gospel warmth and Gospel stimulus and Gospel life to their freezing souls.’ Resuscitation! Resuscitation! Do Good. Do good to all men, as you have opportunity. Deal out kindnesses and favors with an unsparing hand. The cause you understand not search out. If you cannot find happiness by direct search, trv another plan. Make others happy, and see if that does not make you truly blessed. A little child was asked to share its apple • with its playmate. It refused, and at once frowned and looked miserable. Another child was asked to do the same thing, and, with a benign.- i ant smilp. that told of inward joy, it called 6u its ipother to divide the luscious fruit. All the malevolenpassions are tormentors; all the. be nevclent affections conduce to happiness. A Texas horse thief swapped aline animal for a couple of copper watches. Ko Inflated currency fur him.

"Ma'a Papa's Boy.”) Mr. Robert Martindale relates an unusual small boy story which came under his observation while riding to this city on the Cleveland division of the Big Four Road. While the train was standing at Anderson, a little fellow not over 4 years of age mounted it and took a seat with such an air of being in the right place that the occurrence attracted no attention, and the train started with him a passenger. He was so small that the conductor did not notice him until the train stopped at Pendleton, the first station this side of Anderson. The conductor then made some inquiry about him, butcould find nobody who laid a claim to him. “Whose boy are you?" asked the conductor, approaching him“Me's papa’s boy,” was the reply, with wide open blue eyes. “Where do you live?” he then asked. “In Anderson,” was the answer.

“Who is with you?” “Me’s by m'self.” “Where do you'want to go 0 ” The conductor was getting worried. The answer was so blurred in baby talk that no one in the crowd of passengers who had become interested could make out whether the little fellow said “Dunkirk” or “Dunreith.” Neither could the boy speak his destination plain enough, to make it known. “But who i?" going to pay *"our fare?.” asked the conductor. ■ “Me; here’s the money.” The youngster fished in his waist pocket and brought out a cent, which he put into the conductor’s hand. “Well, my boy,” said the latter, smiling at the situation, “I guess you will have to go home again. Your mamma will want you and you have ridden as far as you can for a cent You may keep it and pay the man on the train going home.” The boy was put on the first train for his home and once at the station he was safe.—lndianapolis Journal. Value of the Search Light. Search lights have become indispensably to steamers of ail classes and in military and naval operations. By -•their use objects miles away can be revealed aad illumiwed in the darkest night, a»si their powerful .beams of light can be thrown in any direction. One of tie earliest applications of. the search light in marine wort: was to vessels passing through Suez Canal. Formerly the psssage could only be made i». daylight, and was very tedious i and costly; now the electric light is at the service of every ship »s it enters the canal, and the journey is..in nearly every case, pursued uninterruptedly. A most welcome innovation has been made by the Suez Canal authorities, who have pronounced that it shall be obligatory after Oct. 1 next on all vessels passing through the canal by light to emplgy an apparatus for dividing the light er'the projector into two divergent rays. Approaching vessels may, by this means, travel right up to each other without their respective helmsmen teing blinded. The diverging apparatus which is to be used has been divised by one >of the agents of the -compaisy. (English Prison Tnnishment. The only instrument used purely tfor punishment in English jails nowadays » a crank handle weighted heavily with lead and working heavily inside a box, an ■indicator, at a slit recording the number of revolutions made—B.lXo to 11,000 constituting a day's work. Among the purely mechanical labor is included the working at the crank handles >of the huge water pump and by cranks, too. all the meal used in the prison is ground, but in the case of the ■corn-grinding the prisoner may rest as -often as he likes provided he gets through hie allotted task. Ohann Against Cholera. The Persians resort to curious rites for the purpose es averting the attacks of the -cholera. One of the most widely practiced of these is that of passing under the Koran. Two elders stand opposite each other, holding between them a scroll of the Koran, wrapped in a silken scarf. Under this swinging talisman the peasants pass one by one, and then go home, convinced that the cholera will not he able to touch them. The Persians stick to these ancient ceremonies in spite of the fact- that the epidemic is working sad havoc among them. Hand hi Hand. As Mittoti pictures Adam and Eve departing from Eden hand in hand. so. ’if ever they return to Eden, they will do so hand in hand. Man and woman together build the home. Man and woman together can possibly build a better state than the worlA has yet seen. The broader the suffrage, other things being equal, the less easily it- is corrupted as a whole.—Joseph Cook. Gettlac Old. Little Dot—lt’s just wonderful howfast I'm agin'. Little Dick—Aging? • Little Dot—Yes. Look at my writan’. The letters is all wavy, like grandma's. —Street & Smith's Good News. Probably* “Where did Johnson go last night? He told me he had a pressing engagement.” “Probably he's engaged, you know.” —Truth.

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The Chance of the Jack Rabbit. The inadvisablenessof disturbing the balance of nature in the relationshipof wild animals is well illustrated by wnat is passing in San Bernardino County, California. A State bounty of 15 was placed on coyotes, and this prowler of the foothills and plains was then worth powder and shot. So coyote scalps were collected to such an extent in San Bernardino Coqpty and elsewhere that the jackass rabbit had the restraints upon his existence very much slackened and increased in great numbers. It is hardly doubtful that thousands of rabbits are worse depredators upon the farmer's thrift than scores of coyotes, which do not trouble the crops, butonly seize a few lambs or sheep when they get the chance. San Bernardino is now so pestered with rabbits that the supervisors have passed an ordinance voting 20 cents per pair of ears for their slaughter. There is money in this, too, and it will be well if the County Treasury is not bankrupted.

Chinese Surgery. Like most things io China, the practice of surgery differs considerably from that in vogue in less enlightened western countries. Bone setting in the celestial empire is a complicated affair, and doubtless much more efficacious than European methods. In setting a fractured limb the surgeon does not "attempt to bring tho bones together, but merely wraps the limb in red clay, inserting some strips of bamboo into the clay. These strips are swathed in bandages, and in the outer bandage the head of a live chicken is placed. Here comes in the superior science, of the celestial. - After the bandage has teen secured the fowl is beheaded and its blood is allowed to penetrate the fracture, for it nourishes the fractured limb and it “heap good medicine.” Mirrors. Ladies will be interested as to the subject of mirrors, and the first record concerning them dates back to the days of the venerable Moses and they were made of brass. When the Spaniards landed in South America they found mirrors of polished black stone in use among the natives. In the fifteenth century the first glass mirrors were made in Germany by a blowpipe and were convex. The first manufactory of glass mirrors for sale was established in Venice early in the sixteenth century. In the reign of James 1., men, women, and children wore looking glasses publicly, the men as brooches or ornament i in their hats and the women at their girdles or on their bosoms.

Crosses of the Present. The crosses of the present moment always bring their own special grace and consequent comfort with them: we see the hand of God in t hem 'when it is laid upon us. But the crosses of anxious foreboding are seen out of the dispensation of God: we see them without grace to bear them: we see them, indeed, through a faithless spirit which banishes grace. So everything in them is bitter and unendurable: all seem dark and helpless. Let. us throw self aside; no more seif inte'rest, and then God's will, unfolding every moment in wi'i console us also every moment for all that He shall do around us, or within us, for our discipline. Stuttering Teutons. There are over 80.000 stuttering children in the schools of Germany. The increase has been so great during the past four years that the defect is considered contagious. The Famous Dr. Gutzman is- authority for the statement that the increase is due to mimicry—that the young mimics who imitate stutterers soon become involuntary stutterers. The schools of the City of Breslau have a total of 2,400 stuttering children. Parisian Custom. On tho stairway landings of almost every Parisian ehateafiHhere are small tables designed to hoid candles. When guests are saying good-night this table presents a pretty picture. The candles are of varied colors, the "candlesticks of odd designs and the lights are pleasantly soitened by colored shades. A green candle in a silver candlestick, with a perfectly formed pond lily for the shade, is but one of the many novelties. The Snmmer Complexion. Girls take more interest in tanning themselves than men do in getting a fine tone on a pipe. The girl who colors evenly in the sun’s rays is -very vain of it. and you may see her sitting on the rocks reading, with one hand spread in the sun. or'notice her on the piazza comparing browns with the other girls.—Boston Journal. Rather Frank. Her Fat her —You wish to marry my daughter, I understand. Her Adorer —I do sir. • Her father (severely)—My wife tells me that you are A fool. Her Adorer—WeU, I suppose I am.— Quips. . . CONDUCTOR E. D. LOOMIS. Detroit. Mich., says : “The effect of Hall s Catarrh Cure is wonderful.” Write him about it. Sold fry Druggists, 75c. Oujfht Not to Kick. “By Jove." said Lighter as he stepped off the scales, ‘‘l've lost five pounds!” “Yououghtn't to kick about that.” remarked Brightside: “suppose you had been an Englishmen.”—Life. An heit break should invariably go with every fortune which is left "to a rapid or frivolous young man.

“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 tome —J. W. Smith, P.M.andGen. Merchant, Townsend, Ont. I have used it myself for constipation and dyspepsia and it cured me, It is the best seller I evephandled—C. Rugh, Druggist, Mechanicsburg, Pa. ®

/ ki KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly usea. The many, who live bet- • ter than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world’s best products to the'neeos of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure.liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleasant to the taste, the refreshing andtfuly beneficial properties of a perfect laxative ; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers ana permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medkal profession, because it acts on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels without weak 4 ening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. Syrup of Figs is for sale by all druggists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man' ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will bo. accept any substitute if offered.

fIICKftpATE. BieNeHlJork.Chicago^i £()U i y Imus west UHILi PALACE SuPERB BUFFET ® DINING SLEEPERS. CARS. No change of care between New York, Boaton and Chicago. Tickets sold to all points at Lowest Bates. Baggage Checked to Destination. Special Bates for Parties. L. WILLIAMS, B. F. HORNER, Genl Superintendent. Gonl Pass'g*r AgsnK HARVEST EXCURSIONS Will be run from CHICAGO, PEORIA and ST. LOUIS via the BURLINGTON ROUTE AUGUST 22, SEPTEMBER 12, OCTOBER 10. On these dates ROUNO-TRIP TICKETS will be SOLO at LOW To all points in NEBRASKA, KANSAS, COLORADO, WYOMING, UTAH, NEW MEXICO, INDIAN TERRITORY, TEXAS, MONTANA. Tickets jjood twenty days, with stopover on going trip. In the East should purchase through tickets via the BURLINCTON ROUTE of their nearest ticket agent. For descriptive land pamphlet and further Information, write to P. S. EUSTIS, Qen’l Passenger Agent, Chicago, 111. rorm Ad-iui-sj IEWIS’ 98% LYE L Powdered L| (PATENTXD.) The and purest Ly« made. Unlike other Lye, it being a fine |AP cwder packed in a cau with ’•remora le lid, the contents are always ready for use. Will make the best perfume*.! Hard Soap in ‘AO minutes without boiling. It is the MV best for cleansing waste-pipes, ■ W disinfecting sinks, closets. waah> M w. ing bottles, paints, trees, etc. DENN A. SALT M’F’O CO, Gen. Agts., Phi la., Pa, Zir Oktet Medicine in the Werld is probably DK. ISAAC THOMPSON’S ( CELEBRATED EYE-WATER? This article is a carefully pretared pnysk’ian’s prescription. and has been in constant use for neariv a century. There are few diseases to which mankind are tubject more distressing than sore eyes, and none, perhaps, for which more remedies have been tried without success. For all external inflammation of the eyes It is an infallible remedy. If the directions are followed it will never rail. We particularly invite the attention of phvsicians »o its merits. For sale by all druggists- JOHN L. THOMPSON, SONS t CO,, Tboy, N. Y. Established ITSu 1 nnn nnn acres of IyUvUjUUU fcrsalebytheSaiNTpAUL «& Duluth Railroad Compant in Minnesotx Send for Maps and Circo lars. Thsy will be sent to you & f’h.be;. Addiw. HOPEWELL CLARKE, L»nd Commissioner, St. Paul, Minn. nEMEOESS AND HEAD NOISES CURES LS C, v E*rt '.'«hton». \\ hlapemlroard. Successful when all rtmeditsfail. Sold rntf* hr f. Hocox. 853 N.X. Writo fcr boui of proofs • KLB KIDDERB P*BTILLeSSSS : wn. Mass *"—■ a« WANTm toTr.xvK’ s(K> 7. ,o tHOfi a month .f expense*. SsfUNE Jt WELLINGTON. M.IDIhON. WIS. dominoes Uws» story. A> «oau s jott. .J’Mk.in* t’uto C»., N, J. F. W. N. U. - • - - No. 38-03 When Writing to Advertisers, say you tusw the Advertiseiueut in this pa{M)r. ICenenmptlvea and pe pie ■ who ha* e weak lungs or* Aschma. should uso Piso's Cure for MB ConAurupUan, H has eareMMH — tbousttnds. ft bn, not InJar-■ •done. It is net bad t,o take, n o It Is tbs best, cough synip. M