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b 0V N1) in a package buNDL es OF life the subject of 6 DR . TALMAGE'S SERMON. nt Preacher Drnn» Inaplra’don > r<-> » Phraae-Llfe, spiritual and I-hyalcai, Is Divinely protected- . 1593 by American Press Assoppyrlght. . clatjon j tVashixoton. March .—Under the familiar image of a bundle Dr. Talmage u ,r ■ ill this sermon the things which eb °m nrike up man’s earthly and heavp0 ' life text. I Samuel xxv, 29, “The e i f nl v Lord shall be bound in the Inmli" C f life "' ith the L ° rd tby God? 'Beautiful Abigail, in her rhythmic r fer the rescue of her inebriate husI n d who died within ten days, adj sse“ David, the warrior, in the words f the text. She suggests that his life, hrdcally and intellectually and spiritP j]r is a valuable package or bundle, finely bound up and to be divinely P 'The phrase “bundle of life" I heard DV times in my father’s family pray- '' Family prayers, yon know, have frwiuent repetitions, because day by j aV they acknowledge about the same y king's and deplore about the same frailties and sympathize with about the same misfortunes, and I do not tjow why those who lead at household devotions should seek variety of composition That familiar prayer becomes the household liturgy. I would not give ore if my old father’s prayers for 50 elocutionary supplications. Again and again, in the morning and evening prayer, 1 heard the request that we plight all be bound up in the bundle of life but I did not know until a few davs ago that the phrase was a Bible phrase. >'ow, the more 1 think of it the better I like it Bundle of life! It is such a simple and unpretending, yet expressive comparison There is nothing like grandiloquence in the Scriptures. While there are many sublime passages in Holy Writ, there are more passages homely and drawing illustrations from common observation and everyday life. In Christ 's great sermons you hear a hen clucking her chickens together, and see the photographs of hypocrites with a sad countenance, and hear of the grass of the field, and the black crows, which our heavenly Father feeds, and the salt that is worthless, and the precious atones flung under the feet of swine, and the shifting sand that lets down the house with a great crash, and hear the comparison of the text, the most Bpoetical thing we can think of—a bundle Ordinarily it is something tossed about, something thrown under the table, something that suggests garrets or something on the shoulder of a poor wayfarer. But there are bundles of great value, bundles put up with great caution, bundles the loss of which means consternation and despair, ind there have been bundles representing the worth of a kingdom. Blessed Bundles. During the last spell of cold weather th-re were bundles that attracted the attention and the plaudits of the high heavens, bundles of clothing on the way from comfortable homes to the door of the mission room, and Christ stood in the snow banks and said as the bundles passed "Naked, and ye clothed me. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have dene it unto me.” Those bundles are multiplying. Blessings on those who pack them Blessings on those who distribute them Blessings on those who receive them. With what beautiful aptitude did Abigail in my text speak of the bundle of life' Oh, what a precious bundle is life! Bundle of memories, bundle of hopes, bundle of ambitions, bundle of destinies' Once in awhile a man writes his autobiography, and it is of thrilling interest. The story of his birthplace, the story of his struggles, the story of hissnfferings, the story of his triumphs! But if the autobiography of the most eventful life were well written it would tike many chapters of adventure, of tragedy, of comedy, and there would not be an uninteresting step) from cradle to grave. Bundle of memories are yon! Boyhood memories, with all its injustices from playmates, with all its games Jith ball and bat and kite and sled. Manhood memories, with all your struggbs in starting—obstacles, oppositions, accidents, misfortunes, losses, successes. Memories of the first marriage you ever •aw solemnized, of the first grave you CTer saw opened, of the first mighty wrung you ever suffered, of the first 'ictory you ever gained. Memory of the 'Sir when you were affianced, memory c the first advent in your home, memory c the roseate cheek faded and of blue •yes closed in the last sleep, memory of anthem and of dirge, memory of great Pain and of slow convalescence, memory ® times when all things were against •« ri memor y °f prosperities that came ■ n “ e the full tide of the sea, memolesof a lifetime. What a bundle! ! *t that bundle today and unloose v cor d that binds it, and for a mo•at you look in and see tears and ton ? aDd ' an sßter and groans and in/tk 8 and ni '^ n *Shts of experience. tnPt ’ e a ß a ’ n the bundle with but J lll " 8 have some time viancn been thrumfingers of wee.

Hope 8 and Ambitiono. is a an^e ° f hopes and ambitions also ciaib ° St ® ver y In *n and woman, espe»i'l’ h t ” e star ting. What gains he *ill . JT est - or what reputation he dChleVe ' or w hat bliss he will ttak? W ? llat ' CVe h e w "’in- What a - r ‘ ’ . ege commencement day so student 111 *’ tc ! us as we see the Hr, u. s rece ive their diplomas and take Th.-ZVin thrown to their feet? Mill i> t faradays in science; they ** Will t ’, lll - vsons in poesy: they will ’ill U li Parkers in surgery; they Ales ander Hamiltons in na

tional finance; they will be Horace Greeleys in editorial chair; they will be Websters in the senate. Or she will be a Mary Lyon in educational realms, or a I rances M illard on reformatory platform, or a Helen Gould in military hospitals. Gr she will make home life radiant with helpfulness and self sacrifice and magnificent womanhood. Oh, what a bundle of hopes and ambitions! It is a bundle of garlands and scepters ftom which I would not take one sprig of mignonette nor extinguish one spark of brilliance. They who start life without bright hopes and inspiring ambitions might as well not start at all, for every step will be a failure. Rather would I add to the bundle, (rnd if I open it now it will not be because I wish to take anything from it, but that I may put into it more coronets and hosannas Bundle of faculties in every man and every woman! Power to think—to think of the past and through all the future, to think upward and higher than the highest pinnacle of heaven, or to think downward until there is no lower abysm to fathom. Power to think right, power to think wrong, power to think forever, for, once having begun to think, there shall be no terminus for that exercise, and eternity itself shall have no power to bid it halt. Faculties to love—filial love, conjugal love, paternal love, maternal love, love of country, love of God. Faculty of judgment, with scales so delicate and yet so mighty they can weigh arguments, weigh emotions. weigh worlds, weigh heaven and hell. Faculty of will, that can climb mountains or tunnel them, wade seas or bridge them, accepting eternal enthronement or choosing everlasting exile. Oh, what it is to be a man! Oh, what it is to be a woman! Sublime and infinite bundle of faculties! The thought of it staggers me, swamps me, stuns me, bewilders me, overwhelms me. Oh, what a bundle of life Abigail of my text saw in David and which we ought to see in every human yet immortal be ing! Carefully Wrapped I p. Know also that this bundle of life was put up with great care. Any merchant and almost any faithful house holder will tell you how much depends on the way a bundle is bound. The cord or rope must be strong enough to hold. The knot must be well tied. You know not what rough hands may toss that bundle. If not properly put together, though it may leave your hands in good order and symmetrical, before it reaches its proper destination it may be loosened in fragments for the winds to scatter or the rail train to lose.

Now, I have to tell you that thia bun die of life is well put together—the body, the mind, the soul. Who but the omnipotent God could bind such a bundle? Anatomists, physiologists, physicists, logicians, metaphysicians, declare that we are fearfully and wonderfully made That we are a bundle well put together I prove by the amount of jour neying we can endure without damage, by the amount of rough handling we can survive, by the fact that the vast majority of us go through life without the loss of an eye or the crippling of a limb or the destruction of a single energy of body or faculty of mind. I subpoena for this trial that man in yonder view 70 or 80 years of age, and ask him to testify that after all the storms and accidents and vicissitudes of a long lift he still keeps his five senses, and though all the lighthouses as old as he is have been reconstructed or new lanterns put in he has in under his forehead the same two lanterns with which God started him, and though the locomotives of 60 years ago were long ago sold for old iron he has the original powers of locomotion in the limbs with which God started him and though all the electric wires that carried messages 25 years ago have been torn down his nerves bring messages from all parts of his body as well as when God strung them 75 years ago. • Was there ever such a complete bundle put together as the human being? What a factory' What ar engine! What a mill race! What i lighthouse! What a locomotive! What an electric battery! What a furnace' What a masterpiece of the Lord God Almighty! Or, to employ the anticlimax and use the figure of the text, what a bundle! Know, also, that this bundle of life is properly directed. Many a bundle has missed its way and disappeared because the address has dropped, and no one car find by examination for what city oi town or neighborhood it was intended All great carrying companies have sc many misdirected packages that they appoint days of vendue to dispose oi them. All intelligent people know’ the importance of having a valuable pack age plainly directed, the name of the one to whom it is to go plainly written Baggage master and expressman ought to know at the first glance to whom tc take it. A Valuable Package. This bundle of life that Abigail ir my text speaks of is plainly addressed. By divine penmanship it is directed heavenward. However long may be th« earthly distance it travels its destina tion is’ the eternal city of God on high Every mile it goes away from that direction is by some human or inferna' fraud practiced against it. There arc those who put it on some other track who misplace it in some wrong conveyance. who send it off or send it back by some diabolic miscarriage. The value of that bundle is so well known all nj and down the universe that there are 1,000,000 dishonest hands which are trying to detain or divert it or to for ever stop its progress in the right direction. There are so many influences abroad to ruin your body, mind and soul that my wonder is not that sc manv are destroyed for this world am the next, but that there are not more who go down irremediably Everv human being is assailed at tne start Within an hour of the time when this bundle of life is made up t a. as sault begins. First of all there are the infantile disorders that threaten the body just launched upon earthly exist

ence. Scarlet fevers and pneumonias and diphtherias and influenzas and the whole pack of epidemics surround the cradle and threaten its occupant, and infant Moses in the ark of bulrushes was not more imperiled-by the monsters of the Nile than every cradle is imperiled by ailments all devouring. In after years there are foes within and foes without. Evil appetite joined by outside allrfrements. Temptations that have utterly destroyed more people than now inhabit the earth. Gambling saloons and rummeries and places where dissoluteness reigns supreme, enough in number to go round and round and round the earth Discouragements, jealousies, revenges, malevolences, disappointments, swindles, arsons, conflagrations and cruelties, which make continued existence of the human race a wonderment. Was any valuable bundle ever so imperiled as this bndle of life? Oh, look at the address and get that bundle going in the right way I “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and soul and mind and strength." Heaven with its 12 gates standing wide open with invitation. All the forces of the Godhead pledged for our heavenly arrival if we will do the right thing. All angeldom ready for our advance and guidance. All the lightnings of heaven so many drawn swords for our protection. What a pity, what an everlasting pity, if this bundle of life, so well bound and so plainly directed, does not come out at the right station, but becomes a lost bundle, cast out amid the rubbish of the universe. Two Treasures. Know also that a bundle may have in it more than one invaluable. There may be in it a photograph of a loved one and a jewel for a carcanet. It may contain an embroidered robe and a Dore’s illustrated Bible. A bundle may have two treasures. Abigail in my text recognized this when she said to David, “The soul of my lord is bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God. ’ And Abigail was right We may be bound up with a loving and sympathetic God. We may be as near to him as ever were emerald and ruby united in one ring, as ever were two deeds in one package, as ever were two vases on the same shelf, as ever were two valuables in the same bundle. Together in time of sorrow. Together in. time of joy Together on earth. Together in heaven. Close companionship of God. Hear him, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." “For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee." And when those Bible authors compared God's friendship to ti’ie mountains for height and firmness they knew what they were writing about, for they well knew what mountains are. All those lands are mountainous. Mount Hermon, Mount Gilboa. Mount Gerizim, Mount Engedi. Mount Horeb. Mount Nebo, Mount Pisgah, Mount Olivet, Mount Zion. Mount Moriah. Mount Lebanon. Mount Sinai. Mount Golgotha. Yes. we have the divine promise that all those mountains shall weigh their anchorage of rocks and move away from the earth before a loving and sympathetic God will move away from ns if we love and trust him Oh, if we could realize that according to my text we may be bound up with that God, how independent it would make us of things that now harass and annoy and discompose and torment us' Instead of a grasshopper being a burden, a world of care would be as light as a feather, and tombstones would be marble stairs to the King’s palace, and all the giants of opposition we would smite down hip) and thigh with great slaughter. God Im Near. A God away up in the heavens is not much consolation to us when we get into life’s struggle. It is a God close by. as near to us as any two articles of apparel were near to each other in that bundle that yon sent the other day tc that shivering home, through whose roof the snow sifted and through whose broken window pane the night winds howled. It was sanctified irony and holy sarcasm that Elijah used when he told the idolaters of Baal to pray louder, saying that their god might be asleepsot talking or on a journey or gone a-hunt-ing. But our God is always wide awake and always hears and is always close by and to him a whisper of prayer is as loud as an archangel’s trumpet, and a child’s “Now I lay me down to sleep" is as easily heard by him as the prayer of the great Scotchman amid the highlands when pursued by Lord Claver house’s miscreants. The Covenanter said, “O Lord, cast the lap of thy cloak about these children of the covenant, ” and a mountain fog instantly hid the pursued from their bloodthirsty pur suers. I proclaim him a God close by When we are tempted to do wrong, when we have questions of livelihood too much for us, when we put our darlings into the last sleep, when we are overwhelmed with physical distresses, when we are perplexed about what next to do, when we come into combat with the king of terrors, we want a God close by. How do you like the doctrine of the text, “Bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God?" Thank yon, Abigail, kneeling there at the foot of the mountain, uttering consolation for all ages, while addressing David No wonder that in after time he invited her to the palace and put her upon the throne of his heart as well as upon the throne of Judah. Know, also, that this bundle of life will be gladly received when it comes to the door of the mansion for which it was bound and plainly directed. With what alacrity and glee we await some package that has been foretold by letter, some holiday presentation, something that will enrich and ornament our home, some testimony of admiration and affection! With what glow of expectation we untie the knot and take off the cord that bolds it together in safety, and with what glad exclamation we unroll the covering and see the gift or pur-

chase in'all its beauty of color and proportion Well, what a day it will be when your precious bundle of life shall be opened in the “house of many mansions, "ami! saintly and angelic and divine inspection! The bundle may be spotted with the marks of much exposure. it may bear inscription after inscription to tell through what ordeal it has passed, perhaps splashed of wave and scorched of flame, but all it. has within undamaged of the journey. And with what shouts of joy the bundle of life will be greeted by all the voices of the heavenly home circle! Welcome Awaits. In our anxiety at last to reach heaven we are apt to lose sight of the glee or welcome that awaits us if we get in at all. We all have frttnds up there They will somehow hear that we are coming Such close and swift and constant communication is there between those uplands and these lowlands that we will not surprise them by sudden arrival. If loved ones on earth expect our coming visit and are at the depot with carriage to met us, surely we will be met at the shining gate by old friends now’ sainted and kindred now glorified. If there were no angel of God to meet us and show ns the palaces and guide us to our everlasting residence, these kindred would show us the way and point out the splendors and guide us to our celestial home, bowered and fountained and arched and illumined by a sun that never sets. Will it not be glorious, the going in and the settling down after all the moving about and upsettings of earthly experience? We will soon know all our neighbors, kingly, queenly, prophetic, apostolic, seraphic, archangelic. The precious bundle of life opened amid palaces and grand marches and acclamations. They will all be so glad we have got safely through. They saw us down here in the struggle. They saw ns when we lost our way. They knew when we got off the right course. None of the 32 ships that were overdue as New York harbor in the storm of week before last was greeted so heartily by friends on the dock or the steam tugs that went out to meet them at Sandy Hook as we will be greeted in the heavenly world if by the pardoning and protecting grace of God we come to celestial wharfage. We shall have to tell them of the many wrecks that we have passed on the way across wild seas and amid Caribbean cyclones. It will be like our arrival some years ago from New Zealand at Sydney, people surprised that we got in at all. because we were two days late, and some of the ships expected had gone to the bottom, and we had passed derelicts and abandoned crafts all up and down that awful channel—our arrival in heaven all the more rapturously welcomed because of the doubt as to whether we would ever get there at all. God's Promise. Once there it will be found that the safety of that precious bundle of life was assured because it was bound up with the life of God in Jesus Christ Heaven could not afford to have that bundle lost because it had been said in regard to its transportation and safe arrival, “Kept by the power of God through faith unto complete salvation. " The veracity of the heavens is involved in its arrival. If God should fail tc keep his promise to just one ransomed soul, the pillars of Jehovah’s throne would fall, and the foundations of the eternal city would crumble, and infinite poverties would dash down all the chalices and close all the banqueting halls, and the river of life would change its course, sweeping everything with desolation, and frost would blast all the gardens, and immeasurable sickness slay the immortals, and the new Jerusalem become an a'amdoned city, with no chariot wheel on the streets and nc worshipers in the temple—a dead Pompeii of the skies, a buried Herculaneum of the heavens. Lest any one should doubt, the God who cannot lie smites his omnipotent hand on the side of his throne and takes affidavit, declaring, “As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of him that dicth." Oh, I cannot tell you howl feel about it, the thought is so glorious. Bound up with God. Bound up with infinite mercy. Bound up with infinite joy. Bound up with infinite purity. Bound up with infinite might. That thought is more beautiful and glorious than was the heroic Abigail, who at the foot of the crags uttered it, “Bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God!"

Now. my hearer and reader, appreciate the value of that bundle. See that it is bound up with nothing mean, but with the unsullied and the immaculate. Not with a pebble of the shifting beach, but with the kohinoor of the palace; not with some fading regalia of earthly pomp, but with the robe washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb. Pray as you never prayed before that by divine chirography written all over your nature you may be properly addressed for a glorious destination. Turn not over a new leaf of the old book, but by the grace of God open an entirely new volume of experience and put into practice the advice contained in the peculiar but beautiful rhythm of some author whose name I know not If you’ve any task to do, Lei me whisper, friend, to you, Do it. If you’ve anything to say. True and needed, yea or nay, Say it. If you’ve anything to love As a blessing from above, Love it. If you’ve anything to give, That another’s joy may live, Give it. If some hollow creed you doubt, Though the whole world hoot and shout, Doubt it. If you’ve any debt to pay, Rest you neither night nor day— Pay it. If you’ve any joy to hold, Near your heart, lest it grow cold, Hold it. If you’ve any grief to meet. At a loving Father’s feet Meet it. If you know what torch to light, Guiding others in the night, Light it.

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gl ira f \ |k| f— I A o cut thi9 ad out and send to ua and if you IM I J Vr IM CL i-JVv a— rv live East of tile Rocky Mountains we will Wfa*»*>* w Bend thls H | CH . CRADE TO p BUCCY t’» you ivfieigntC. O. D. subject to examination, you can examine itatyour freight depot audit > u tin lit EQI U. TO ANY f 100.00 TOR BLGGY you ever saw, perfectly .satirdaetoiy and the GRaSOEST BAIU.AIN YOl HaVK KVER SEEN OR HEARD OF, SPECIAL OFFER PRICE $55.00 and freight charges, less the pay the railroad agent — - One Dollar sent with order. $16.50 BUILT IN OUR OWN FACTORY IN CHICACO, 1U 2' our Free Bugsy Catalogue "e show. Top Buggies made by $90.00 X IX H Xfl other makers at $21.50, $28.75 and $34.75 the exa r \ \\ ir\H / J same buggy that are sold by machinery dealers, at *45.00 t> BUGGIES \ / \>/ 1 and are being widely aiivertised by many at 835.00 to 860.00. AND \ \VI W ® 9 UR ACME QUEEN AT $55.00 is the most \ W I I wonderful value ever offered, THE LOWEST I’IIHEHHi SURREYS. \ AM Jnma QIOT«» ox the BEST Bl <;<;Y that US Bl Bl ILT. We maintain \ / our own five story buggy factory for the soH n n purpose of building ami selling a BETTER BVGdY THAN WK CAN BI Y ELSEWHERE and to SAVE OCR X 1 /X WSTOMKBS MANCFACTVRER’S PROFIT. /\ 1 Every Buggy We Make Is Guaranteed " \ Five Years and They Will out wear F ve / \ \ Ordinary Factory Riß9 ’ W THE MATERIAL AHO LABOR IN OUR ACME QUEEN l J co>t more than double that in the ordinary factory / MV ff buggy. We use a J2.&U cushion cloth, some use \ V/TuX X. /\ / /M/\ fA \ 90 cent; we use a 51.40 head lining, some use 40 cent. V /I\X 7N/ / \ we use 23 eent leather, some use 9 cent; weU.-.V 53.54) i \ \ colorsaud varnishes, some u-c 7.’> cent and SI ■ WE L PAY ALMOST DOUBLE the price rn st ma kers nnrr-u miD rsva/Ki mauc y P®? for " hw>,s ’ A ' ! Springs. Dashes nnd Socket*. ACME QUEEN. OUR OWN MAKE.) because wy WtXT THE BEST. Our Vi .el- gearai I bodies are Water Rubbed and the Material and tabor in Painting O U R ACME QUEEN, would paint three cheap buggies. $55.00 BARELY COVERS COST of material and labor, leaving us the smallest profit imagi naib ■ but we are building 70 buggies a day and to advertise our buggy factory we are willing to SELL THI S on Si.oo PROFIT EACH. We know f 70.00 daily profit on 70 buggies will satisfy us, advertise us every and build up the LARGEST BUGGY BUSINESS IN THE WORLD. THE ACME QUEEN we build in narrow or wide track, cloth >-r leather trimmed, end sprin_’-. buff ■ t leather quarter top. - olid panel back, springs in back, leather emered Bcws ami \ui». Rubber step-.. Velvet Carpet, body,24xui inches. No. 1 Sarven’s patent screwed rim wheels painted in I<> coats, body black, gear dark green with very delicate modest striping, complete with shafts, side and back curtains, boot storm apron and anti-rattiers ami shafts Pole, Neckyuke and WhiMetrees In p!a«e us shafts, 1f1.75 extra. IlltiGY WEHi H 8 400 POUNDS and the freight will average for 200 mile.,, 12.00; 300 miles, «2.75 t 400 miles. #3.25: 500 miles, #3.GO: 1.000 miles. #6.00. CCMn rY Ski P I AD with > ur order. "V GIARAMEE the Rurey to Reaeh You Safely and UHL. UVLLMn jf satisfactory, pay the rail »id nj ".t balance. #44.00 ant 'reirbt charges, otherwise n (thing and theagent will return buggy at our expense and we will return x *1 DON’T BUY A CHEAP FACTORY BUGGY now <d 1 almost exclu-ively by S ]l Machinery 1- . ■ and catalogue BUY THE BEST BUGGY MONEY CAN BUILD, direct from the at the LOWEST PRICE EVER KNOWN. ORDER TO DAY. DON’T DELAY WRITE FOR OUR FREE BUCCY, CARRIAGE AND HARNESS CATALOGUE, Address SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. Inc., CHICACO, ILL.

HOGS ARE UP. We will pay $3 for each hog we fail toi Cure with Cyclone, our famous remedy for Cholera or Typhus Fever in hogs. If you will notify us as soon as your hogs show symptoms of the disease, wo will send an experienced man to treaft them. We will take all hogs that caa stand alone and will cure them for fifty cents per head, and we will pay you $3 for each hog which dies under the treaty ment when given by our specialist. v But it does not require a specialist to give the treatment. Any one who will follow the directions carefully as they are given on each bottle, can make any C ire that we can. Ed. Klever, the great breeder, says, “I use Cyclone for a preventive and buy it in $5 lots.” Marion Gibson Supt. County Infirm, ary, Washington C. H., 0., says, “Cyclone prevents and cures. Best I ever saw.” Cyclone is not a “cure all,” but is made expressly for hogs. Write us if you desire to avail yourself of our offer. The Dahl-Millikan Company, Wholesale Grocers, Washington C. 11., Ohio. For sale by Smith & Yager, druggists.

VICK' 5 ' SEEDS Bulbs and Plants have gone to thousands cr ' •. satisfied Customers for a half century anti to celebrate the 50th year in business we have issued a Special Golden Wedding Edition of Vick’s Carden and Flora! Cuide j which is a work of art. It has 24 pages lithographed I' in colors. 4 pages souvenir, and nearly 100 pages filled with handsome half tone illustrations of Flowers, Vegetables, Plants, Fruits, etc:, elegantly bound in white and gold A marvel m Catalogue making . an authorI ity on all subjects pertaining to the garden, with care for the same, and a descriptive catalogue of all that is desirable. It is too expensive to give away indiscriminately, but we want -everyone interested m a good garden to have a cony, therefore we will send the Cuide with a DUE BILL-; for for 25 cents worth of flower and vegetable seeds ’ IDCiS It tells how credit is pjiven for full amount of pnrehase to bay other goods V ick’s Little Cem Catalogue A perfect little gem of a price list. It is simply the Guide condensed, fmply ilustratcd, PPpp and in handy shape for reference. * lluu Vicks Monthly Magazine, ■ enlarged, improved, and up to date on all subjects relating to Gardening, Horticulture, etc. Regular subscript: n price 50 cents a year. Special 1599 offer- raagaziiip one year and ick’s Garden nnd Floral Guide, for 35 cents. Ol’R .VKir PLAN of selling Vegetable Seeds gives you more for your . . . money than any other seed, house • in America, JAMES VICKS SONS, ROCHESTER, N. Y 3 HELP WANTED- TIALE. AGENTS get fifty cent's on each dollar: no experience necessary Write lor agent's outfit. Address The Catholic News, 5 Barclay St.. New York-