Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1896 — Page 7

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Frank James on Train Robberies.

Frank James, brother of Jesse James, the famous train robber and desperado, Is now engaged in the peaceful occupation of a ticket taker in a St. Louis theater. He was one of the “James boys,” for whose apprehension $30,000 reward was offered, but now he is a quiet, peaceable citizen, with only a restless gray eye to suggest the possession of daring and courage. Every nhjht he is to be found in the doorway of the Standard Theater, St. Louis. Frank James can with difficulty be Induced to talk of his former life. A few days since, however, he read the report of a train robliery near San Francisco. He thinks such outrages can be stopped only by vigorous work on the part of the railway companies, and said: “When a man engages in the traiif robbing business he is badly in money, and will take desperate chances to secure it. “I am opposed to train robbery, nnd the only way it will be stopped is td have armed guards on each train. Two or three would be sufficient, but they should be well armed and encased In a steel cage of some kind. The car should have port, holes, through which the guards*could command a view of the outside. - “One point .they should keep in view, and that is the spape between the*engine «hd the express oar. This point should be watched, because robbers could uncouple the express car from the rest of the trnift and with the engine pull it several miles down the track, and with dynamite blow everything up. “The second and main reason Is that the robbers would be aware of the guards’ presence in the car, and if they could get to the couplings of the car, all they would have to do would be to pull the engine away from the train for a short distance, reverse the lever and come back against the train with such force that the express car would be demolished and the guards killed. Until these ideas dre carried out, the robbers will continue to thiuk that train robbery is a science.” Jesse James, Jr., the son of the notorious outlaw/is now 20 years of age, and is employed by the Armour racking Company at Kansas City. ’JIc lives there with his mother, Mrs, Zerelda ■lames.—New York Journal.

Old Business.

Japan has a banking house that has been in business without a break for over three hundred years. The bank hat* now more* than thirty branches, and U the largest private bank in Japan.

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TALMAGE'S SERMON.

THE THEORIES OF RUIN AND RESTORATION ARE PRESENTED. A Dramatic Bible Fcene— The Diaabled Unman Soul Humbled and Restored—The Important Port of Every Prayer—Glories of the Gospel. For Another's Sake. Dr. Talmage's sermon of last Sunday is a vivid nud novel presentation of the theories of ruin and restoration. The Bible scene described is dramatic. His text was 11. bainuel ix„ 1 and 13: “Is there yet any that is left of the bonse of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake? * * • So Mcphibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem, for he did eat, continually at the king's table and was lame on both his feet." Was there evpr anything more romantic and chivalrous than the love of David and Jonathan? At one time Jonathan Was up and David was down. Now David is up and Jonathan g family is down. As you have often hoard of two soldiers before going into battle making a covenant that if one is shot the survivor will take charge of the body, the watch, the mementos and perhaps of tbe bereft family of the one that dies,' so David and Jonathnn have made a covenant, and now that Jonathan is dead David is inquiring about his family, that he may show kindness unto them for their father Jonathan?** sakec Careful search is madfj and a son of Jonathan of the drendfully homely i)flgie of Mephibosheth is found. His in his infancy, had let him fall, and the fall had put both his ankles out'of place) and they had never been set. This decrepit, poor man is brought into the palace of King David. David looks upon him Svith melting tenderness, no doubt ■seeing in bis face a resemblance to his old friend, the deceased Jonathan. The whole bearing of King David toward, him seems to say: “How glad 1 am to see you, Mephibo6heth! How you remind me of your father, my old friend and benefactor! I made a bargain with your father a good many years ago. and I tmi going to keep it with you. What 1 can I dofor you, Mephibosheth? I am resolved what to do— I will make you a rich man. *1 will restore to you the coniiseated property of your grandfather Saul, and you shall be a guest of mine ns long as you live, and you shall be seated at my table among the princes.” It was too much for Mephibosheth, and he cried out agaiust it. calling himself a dead dog. “Be still,” says David. “I don’t do this on your own account. Ido this for your father Jonathan’s sake. I can never forget his kindness. I femewtier when I was hounded from p!ace to place how he befriended me. Can I ever forget how ho stripped himself of his courtier apparel and gave it to me instead of my shepherd’s coat, and how he took off his own sword and bolt and gave them to me instead of my sling? Oh, 1 can never forget him! I feel as if 1 couldn’t do enough for you. his son. 1 don’t do it for your sake: I do it for your father Jonathan's sake.” “So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem, for ho did eat continually at the king’s table and was lame on both his feet.”

A Disabled Foul. There is so much gospel in this quaint incident that I am embarrassed to know where to begin;. : Whom do*Mephibosheth nnd David and Jonathan make you think Of ! , -,* • Mephibosheth: in tbcv<firat-place, stands for the disabled lunniui soyl. Lord Byron describes sin as a charming recklessness, as a gallantry, as a Don Juan. George Sand describes sin as triumphant in many intricate plots. Gavnrui, with his engraver’s knife,, always shows sin as a great jocularity. But the Bible presents it as a Mephibosheth, lame on both feet. Sin, like the unrso in the context, attempted to .carry us and let us fall, and we have been disabled, and in our whole moral nature we are decrepit Sometimes theologians, haggle about a technicality. They use the Words “total depravity/’ and some people believe in the doctrine, and some reject it. What do you mean by total depravity? Do you mean that every mhnris'as bad as he can be? Then I do not believe it either. But do you meairthat sin has let us fall; that,it has sacrificed and disabled and crippled our entire moral nature until we cannot walk straight and are lame in both feet? Then I admit your proposition. There is not so much difference in an African jungle, with barking, howling, hissing, fighting quadruped and reptile, and paradise, with its animals coming before Adam, when he patted them and stroked them and gave them names, so that the panther was as tame as the row. and the eondor as tame as the dove, as there is between the human soul disabled and that soul as God originally constructed it. I do not care what the sentimentalists or the poets say in regard to sin. In the name of God. I declare to you to-day that sin is disorganization. disintegration, ghastly disfiguration, hobbling deformity. Your modern theologian tells yon that man is a little out of sorts. lie sometimes thinks wrong. He sometimes does wrong—indeed, his nature needs a little moral surgery, an outside splint, a Slight compress, a little rectification. Religion is a good thing to have, it might smile day coiue into use. Man is partially wrong, not ail wrong, lie is lameflin one foot. Bring the salve of divine grace, and the ointment, and the pain extractor, and we will have his one fqpt cured. Man is only half wrong, not altogether wrong. In what is man's nature right? In his will, his affections,«his judgment? No. There is an old book that says. “The whole head is sick and the whole heart faint.” Mephibosheth lame in both feet! Our belief of the fact that sin has sacrificed and deformed our souls increases as wo go on in years. When y,ou started life, } on thought that man was a little marred by sin, and be was about one-tenth wrong. By tnc time yon had gone through the early experience of your triple or occupation or profession you believeil*’that man was about half wrong. By tbeiime you came to midlife yon believed that man was three-fourths wrong. But within these [last few years, since you have been so lied about and swindled and cheated, you have come to the conclusion that man is altogether wrong, and now you can say with the prayer hook and with the Bible, “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.” Whatever you may have believed before, now you believe taut Mephibosheth is lame on both feet. Hnmblet, but Restored. Again, Mephibosheth in the text stands for the disabled human soul huttibled and restored. When this invalid of my text got a command to come to King David's palace, he trembled. The fact was that the grandfather of Mephibosheth had treated David most shockingly, and now Mephibosheth says to himself: “What does the king want of 1 me? Isn't it enough that lam lame? Is he going to destroy my life? Is he going to wreak ou me the vengeance which lie holds toward my grandfather Saul? It’s too bad.” But go to the palace Mephiboshetli musty since the king nas commanded it. With staff and crutches and helped by his friends, I see.Mephibosheth going up tbe stairs of tin palace. I hear his stuff and crutches rattling on the tessellated floor of the throne room. No sooner have these two persons confronted each othei 1 , Mephibosheth and David, the king, than

Mephlbosheft! threw* himself flat on his face before the king and styles.tumself a dead dog. In the east when a fiau styles himself a dog he utters the utmost term of self abuegation. It is not,a term so strong in this eountjy, where, ft a dog has a fair chance, he sometimes shows more nobility of character than some human specimens that we wot V»T, but the mangy curs of the oriental cities, as I kuow by my own observation, are utterly detestable. Mephibosheth gives the utmost term of self loathing when he compares himself to a dog, and dead at that. Consider the analogy. When the command is given from the palace of heaven to the human soul to come, the soul begins to tremble. It says: “What is God going to do with me now? Is he going to destroy me? Is he going to wreak his vengeance upon me?” There is more than one Mephibosheth trembling now beeahse God has summoned him to the palace of divine grace. What are you trembling about? God lias po pleasure in the death of a sinner. He does not send for you to hurt you. He sends for you to do yon good. A Scotch preacher had the following circumstances brought under his observation: There was a poor woman in the parish who was about to be turned out because she cou’,s not pay her rent. One night she heard a loud knocking at the door, and she made no answer and hid herself. Tile rapping continued louder, louder, louder but she made no answer and continued to hide herself. She was ajinpst unto death. She said, “That's the officer of the law come to throw me out of my. home.” A few days after a Christian philanthropist met her’in the street and said: “My poor'woman, where were you the other night? I came round to your house to pay your rent. Why didn’t you let me in? Were you at home?” “Why,” she replied, “was-that you?” “Yes. that was me. I came to pay your rent.” “Why,” she said, “if l had, jiad any idea it was you, I would have Jet ypu in. I thought it was an officer come to east me out of my homo.” O soul, that loud knocking at thy gate is hot ihe sheriff conic to' Rut you in jail. If is the best friend ytiu ever had come to lie your security. You shiver with terror because you think it is wrath. It is mercy. Why, fhen, tremble before the King of heaven nnd earth calls you to his palace? Stop trembling and start right away. "Ob;” you say, “I can’t start. I hav’e beeii so lamed by sin and so lamed by evil habit I can’t start. I am lame in both feet.” My friend, we come out with our prayers and sympathies to help you up to the palace. If you want to get to the palace, you may get there. Start now. The Holy Spirit will help you. All you have to do is just to throw yourself on your face at the feet of the King, as Mephiboshetft did. The Sinner’* Cry,

Mephiboslieth’s eaninnl comparison seems extravagant to the world, but when a'man has seen himself as he really is and seen how he' has been treating the Lord there is no term vehement enough to express his self condemnation. The dead dog of Mephibosheth's comparison fails to describe tbe man's utter loathing of himself. Mephiboslieth’s posturing docs not seem too prostrate. When a soul is convicted, first he prays upright. Then the muscles o? his neck relax, and he is able to bow his bead. After awhile, by an almost superhuman effort, he kneels down to pray. After awhile, when he lias seen God and seen himself, he throws himself flat on his face at the feet of the King, just like Mephibosheth. The fact is if we could see ourselves ns God sees ns we would perish at tbe spectacle. You would have no time to overhaul other people. Your cry would be, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner!”

And, again, Mephibosheth in my text stands for the sake of another. Mephibosheth would never have got into the palace on his own account. Why did David ransack the realm to find that poor man and then bestow upon him a great fortune and command a farmer of the name of Ziba to culture the estate and give to this invalid Mephiboshoth half the proceeds every year? Why did King L)nvid make such a mighty stir about a poor fellow who would never be dt any use to the throne of Israel? It was for Jonathan's sake. It was what Itobert Burns calls for “auld lung syne.” David could not forget what Jonathan had done for him in other days. Three times this chapter has it that all this kindness on the part of David to Mephibosheth was for his fattier Jonathan’s sake. The daughter of Peter Martyr, through the vice of her husband, came down to penury, and the senate of Zurich took care of her for her father's sake. Sometimes a person has applied to you for help, and you hare refused him, but when you found he was the son or brother of some one who had been your benefactor in former days and by a glance you saw the resemblance of your old friend in the face of the applicant you relented and you said, “Oh, I will do this for your father’s sake.” You know by your experience what my text means. Now, my friends, it is on thut principle thut you and 1 are to get into the King's palace. , In His Name. The most important part of every prayer is the last three or foitr words of it—" For Christ’s sake.’ Do not rattle off those words ns though they were merely the finishing stroke of the prayer. They are the most important part of the prayef. When in earnestness yon go before God and say "for Christ's sake” it rolls in, ns it were, upon God’s mind all the memories of Bethlehem and Gennesaret and Golgotha. When yon city before God “for Christ’s sake” you hold before God's mind every groan, every tear, every crimson drop of his only begotten Son. If there is ‘anything in all the universe that will nvdve God to an act of royal benefaction, it is t* say “Fcir Christ’s sake.” God is omnipotent, but he is not strong enough to resist that cry, “For Christ’s sake.” If a little child should kneel behind God’s throne and should say “For Christ’s sake,” the great Jehovah would turn aiymnd on his throue to look at her and listen. No prayer ever gets to lieu von but for Christ's sake. No soul is ever comforted but for Christ's sake. Xjie, world will never be redeemed but fo.ii.rpbrist's Our name, however illustrious it* may bis among men, before God staAflii only inconsistency and sin. But there is u' name, a potent name, a blessed name, a glorious name, an everlasting name, that we may put upon our lii>» as a sacrament and upon our forehead as a crown, and that is the name’of Jesus, our divine Jonathan, who stripped himself of his robe and put on our rage and gave us his sword and took our broken reed: so that now, whether we lire well or sick, whether we are living or dying, if we speak that name it moves heaven to the center, and God says: “Let the poor soul come in. Curry him up into the throne room of the palace. Though he may have been in exile, though sin may have crippled him on this side, and sorrow may have crippled him on the other side, and he is lame in both his feet, bring him up into the palace, for 1 want to show him everlasting kindness for Jonathan’s sake.” Again. Mephibosheth in my text stands for the disabled human soul lifted to the King’s table. It was more difficult in those times even than it is now for common men to get into a royal dining room. The subjects might have come around the rail of the paluce and might have seen the lights kindled, and might have heard the clash of the.kniv.es and the rattle of tfie golden goblets, but not get in. Stoat men with stout feet could not get in once in

all their Uvea to one banquet, yet poo# Mephibosheth goes in. lives there and U every day "at the table. Oh, what a getting up in the world it was for poor Mephibosheth! Well, though you and I may be woefully lamed with sin, for our divine Jonathan’s sake I hope we will all get in to dine with the King. Before dining we must be introduced. If you are invited to a company of persons where there are distinguished people present, you are introduced: “This is the Senator." “This is the Governor.” “This is the Fresident.” Before we sit down at the King's table in heaven I think we will want to be introduced. Oh, what a time that will be when you and I, by the grace of God. get into heaven and are introduced to the mighty spirits there, and some one will say, "This is Joshua,” “This is Paul,” “This is Moses,” “This is John Knox,” “This is John Milton,” “This is Martin Luther,” “This is George Whitefield.” Oh, shall we have any strength left after srn-h a round of celestial introductions? Yea, we shall be potentates ourselves. Then we shall sit down at the King’s table with the sons nnd daughters of God. and one will whisper across the table to us and say, “Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God!” And some one at the table will say: “How long will it last? All other banquets at' which I sat ended. How long will this lust?” And Puul will answer, “Forever!” nnd Joshua will say, “Forever!” and John Knox will say, “Forever!” and George Whitefield will say, "Forever!" A Glorious Gospel,

And the wine at that banquet will be old wine; it will be very it will be the oldest wine of heaven; It will be the wine that wns trodden out from the red clusters on the day when Jesus trod the wine press aloqe. Wine already more thnn eighteen centuries old. All our earthly imperfections .completely covered up and hidden. Mephjbosbetji's feet under the tnbie. Kingly fare. Kingly vesture. Ivingiy companionship. We shall reign for ever nnd ever. 1 think that banquet will mean more to those who hod it hard in this world than to those who had it easy. That banquet in David’s palace meant more to Mephibosheth than to any one else, because he bail been poor anil crippled and despised and rejected. And that man who in this world is blind will better appreciate the light of heaven than we who in this world had good eyesight. And that man who in this world was deaf will better appreciate the mmfic of heaven than we who in this world bad good hearing. Ami those will have a higher appreciation of the easy locomotion of thnt land who in tuia world were Mcphibosheths. O my soul, what a magnificent gospel! It takes a man so low down and raises him so high ! What a gospel! Come now, who wants to be banqueted nud impalneed? As when Wilberforce was trying to get the emancipation bill through tbe British Parliament and nil the British Isles were anxious to hear of the passage of that emancipation bill, when a vessel was coming into port and the captain of the vessel knew that the people were so anxious to get the tidings, lie stepped out on the prow of the ship and shouted to the people long before ho got up to the dock, “Free!” and they cried it, nnd they shouted it, nnd they sang it all through the land, “Free, free!” So to-day I would like to sound the news of your present and your eternal emancipation until the angels of God hovering in the air and watchmen on the battlements and bellmen in the town cry it, shout it, sing it, ring it, “Free, free!” I come out now as tbe messenger of the palace to invite Mephibosheth to come up lam here to-dn.v to tell you that God has n wealth of kindness to bestow upon you for his Son's sake. Tbe doors of the palace are open to receive you. The cupbearers liny-e already put the chalices oil the table, and tbe great. loving,, tender, sympathetic heart of God bend's over you this moment, saying, “Is there any that is yet loft of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?”

Nearly as Bad.

Telling wliat we have heard to another's disadvantage Is not so bad as starting a slander without provoentiori, but it is next to it. Slanders do more harm through being repeated by those who just tell what they have heard than through being first told by the one who invented them. If a slanderer 1 could find no one to pass along his slanders without being sure ns to their truth or falsity, he would have no success In ltis occupation. “Where no wood is, there the fire gocth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.” Before we tell anything to another's discredit we should first know (not merely think it) is true, and then we should be sure that good is to come of its repeating. “Evil is wrought by want of thought As well ns want of heurt.”

Comforting Thoughts.

Christian brother, is the way dark and ragged? Have you lost heart and hope 1 localise of the disappointments and sorrows Unit like poisoned nrrows wound nnd distress you? Remember that He who gave liis life for you trad every step of life's toilful'load and remember that He cnretli for you; that not an event occurs in your life without His knowledge that there can come to you no sorrow that may not help to round and polish nmj perfect your character and more abundantly qualify you firr citizenship in that city whose builder nud maker is God, and where nb,'earthly ill can ever come. Comfort yourself with such thoughts as these, but more especially covet the constant companionship of the Spirit that bringeth peace.

The Rev. Dr. A. .T. Diaz, who was recently expelled from Cuba by General We.vler. preaciiedon a rcceal gnnday In the Mount Auburn Baptist Church of 'Cincinnati. In the coani&&flils sermon He said “What the lnsurgftitft most need Is uuumutl Hjiito/. STlfe filJisusteringg>xlpeditions landed have done a f&r Cuba’s cause. Gen. G-omez is not 111, as reported. Though 73 years of age, he is robust, and will see the end of this fearful war and Cuba free at last. Cuevita. Mountain au Insurgent govern-' uient has been formed. A system of letter-carrying has been established. Other departments will be framed as soon as possible. The army is made up two-thirds of doctors and lawyers, and the other one-third of negroeg. They are all fearles men and will ultimately be victorious.” The moisture of the eye Is a genuine solvent. Mnhy persons have gone to bed troubled with a foreign substance in the eye, and hnve waked up In the morning to find it gone.,. In many cases of this kind the foreign matter has been dissolved by the moisture of the eye. The bones of the skull are arched because in that form the greatest strength is combiried with the least weight and quantity of material.

HEALTH IN OLD AGE.

A Reporter's Interesting Interview with a Lady of Seventy-two Years, Who Tells a Marvelous'Story. From the Union, Port Jervia. X. T. But a. short time ago, in a distant part of the country, we heard of a cure by the use of Ur. Williams’ Pink Pills, which seemed almost marvelous, and more recently another substantial evidence of their value reached our ears. Being of an inquiring turn of mind, and wishing to know just how much there was in tjm story, a reporter was sent to interview the person said to be thus benefited. If the narrative as it had reached our ears was true, it was only simple justice to let it be known—if it proved untrue, it would be well to know it. The persou alluded to above *s having been thus greatly l>enefifed bv the use of Pink Pills is Mr*. J.me Hotaleu, of Hainesville, N. J., a piMiant hamlet in Sussex County, about fifteen miles from this ottice. The reporter had no difficulty in finding Mrs. Hotnlen. It was nearly noon when we reached her pleasant homo, a double house, one part of which is occupied by her son. She is a pleasant-faced old lady, looking to be about sixty-live, but is in reality seventytwo years of age. Afirr a few preliminary remarks in explanation of the call, she was asked if she had any objection to giving us the details of the case and how she came to try this now famous remedy. • > "Not at all," said she. “If my experience enu lie of auy good to others, I am sure they are welcome to it —it cau do me no harm." “When were yon taken sick and what was the nature of the malady if” was asked. "It was about two years ago. The trouble was rheumatic in character —sciatica, they called it —and it was very painful indeed. The difficulty began in my hip and extended the whole length of the limb, crippling me completely. I suffered intensely from it, and the ordinary treatment gave me not the slightest alleviation. I was under treatment about a month as staled, but grew worse instead of better, aud was fast becoming discouraged.” “What brought Pink Pills to your notice?"

“My son called my attention to an article in a paper, in which it was stated that a Mr. Struble, of Branehvllle, a village in this county, had been gre'ntly benefited by their use. and suggested that it would be a good plttu to try them. But I was skeptical in regard to their value—in fact. I had no confidence In their efficacy and rather laughed at the suggestion. But the trouble increased nnd I was badly crippled. A few days later my son was about to visit a neighboring town nnd suggested ugaln that it might be well to try this much-talked-of remedy, and I then consented. He bought me a box of them and 1 began taking them at once. At the end of u week I noted a marked improvement, and by the time I hud taken the first box I was able to wolk without a cane. I continued their use, taking several boxes, and am, ns you see, In a very comfortable state of health." “Have you had auy return of the trouble?” “Not as yet, though at my time of life, seventy-two, it would not be surprising If 1 should have. If It optnc*. I should-at once begin the use of tlife pills. \ suppose I inherit a tendency to troubles of this kind—uiy mother died from them.” "Did you ever note any ill effects from the use of Pink Pills?" “None whatever. They never disturbed my stomach in any way or caused me any annoyance. Neither did I find it necessary to increase the dose, as the directions say may he desirnblc. I am aide, as you see, to attend to my own work." The reporter thanked Mrs. Ilotaleu for her courtesy aud bade her good day. It is not often that one can witness such a complete recovery from such a pertinacious trouble nt such an advanced age, and such instances cannot fail to produce a profound impression. Penders of the Union may rely on the absolute accuracy of all the statements here given—nothing has been exaggerated, nothing withheld. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain, in a condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life nnd richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They ore an unfailing specific for all form* of weakness either in male or female, aud all diseases resulting from vitiated humors in the blood. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt, of price, 50 cents a box, or six boxes for 52.50, by addressing Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co.. Schenectady, N. Y.

A Teat of Honesty.

The highly respected French simpleton, Monsieur Callno, discovered tho other day that he had left his umbrella somewhere. As he had vlsjted three stores, he knew It must be In one of them. So he started back and visited all three lu turn. “It has not been found here,” he was told lu the first store, and Monsbeur Callno shrugged his shoulders a little and went out. At the next store the same response was made. Monsieur Callno shrugged his shoulders still higher, and went to the third store. There the umbrella was waiting, and w r as promptly turned over to him. "Well,” he exclaimed with satisfaction, ”1 must soy that you are more honest than they are at those other stores!”

Homeseekers' Excursions South.

On the 15th and ICth of June, also July 0,7, 110 and 111, and several dates during August, September and October, the Chicago aud Eastern Illinois Railroad will aell first-class round-trip tickets, good 31 days from date of sale, for one sure, plus $2.00, for the round trip, to all poiuts in Florida nnd the South. Tracks, trains, time all the best. For further information address C. W. Humphrey, N. P. A., St. Paul, Minn. City ticket office, 182 Clark street, or C. L. Stone, G. P. & T. A., Chicago.

Must Have a Certificate.

After Sept. 1, in the State of New York, every boy aud girl who is between 14 and 10 years old nnd employed In a wholesale or retail store will be required to have a certificate from the department of health, under the new laws passed during the last session of the Legislature affecting the employment of minors In mercantile and manufacturing establishments. The health commissioner Is now busily at work getting In readiness to put the law Into effect.

Our Enormous Timber Wealth.

The timber wealth of the United States gives! a yearly product of over $1,000,000,000,' or twice the value of the entire output of all the mines put together—gold, silver, coal, Iron, copper, zinc and the refct.

Hall’s Catarrh Cure.

Is taken Internally. Price 75 cents. Burmese humanity to animals goes so far as to provide buffaloes kept in stables with mosquito netting. The mosquitoes are as annoying to cattle as to human beings, but when left out of doors the buffalo can protect himself by rolling in the mud and letting it cake upon him. I know that my life was saved by Piso’s Cure for Consumption.—John A. Miller Au Sable, Mich., April 21, 1805. A suitable place for everything, and everything In Its place. Never waste any time in debating with a doubt

A Hen's Nest in a W[?]ow.

It Is pleasant to think that the lower animals have their Individual traits, not less than men. and cau sometimes be n« “queer” as the queerest of human specimens. Such an Instance of originality Is recorded by the San Francisco Examiner, the subject of the story being a domestic hen, otvued by a Mr. 1-andgrafiT of that city. Some weeks a-go, as It appears, the hen—a fierce and quarrelsome bodyleft the roost provided for her and her associates, and took up her quarters among the branches of a willow lu her master’s back yard. There she soon began getting together materials for a nest, wfilcli she built securely lu the crotch of two branches. After a proper time had elapsed—the family, In the meantime, having observed her strange maudwivers with much l lut#rest—Mr. I-itmlgruff's man climbed Into the tree lu a temporary absence of the hen. Tht'te ht-4he nest were about n dozen chickens. While the man was looking nt them the mother returned, and, as the Examiner says, “made things interesting" for him. In fact site flew about his head so industriously that lu his hurried retreat he toppled over the step ladder and came to the ground with painful suddenness. At last ndvices the mother lieu was still feeding her chicks In. the nest, while the family aud neighbors were waiting to see how she would contrive to get them to the ground when such a proceeding became necessary.

Valuable Franchise Secured.

Th» fruuclilsc of easy digestion—one of the most valuable lu the gift of medical aolvuce-r----enu bo secured by auy persou wise euougU to nso Hostetler's Stomach hitters, either to suppress growing dyspepsia, or to uproot It at uiuturlty. Unions, rheumatic, and fever and ague sufferers, persons troubled with nervousness, and the constipated, should also secure the health franchise by the same means.

Made Fun of His Majesty.

Kaiser Wilhelm stopped at Frankfort for a few hours for the celebration of the anniversary of the treaty of peace, aud within three days x thero were forty arresta for lose Majeste In the town. In cases where dandruff, *calp disease*, falling aud grayness of the hair appear, do not neglect them, but apply a proper remedy and tonic' like Hair* Hair Uenewer. The Mediterranean Is not an ocean, and should not properly be mentioned here, but there are ulue different places known In It that are over three miles in depth, Just.the same. Arms of snowy whiteness; neck pure ns alabaster; completion like the blush of a r6se. She patronised Glcuu’a Sulphur Soap. Of druggist*. Gossip In always partly slander.

“ The North Pole made use of at last.” Baffle^ PLUC^ Always at the front and wherever *BATTLE AX" goes it is the biggest thing in sight* It is as remarkable for its fine flavor and quality as for its low price* A 5 cent piece of “BATTLE AX” is almost as large as a JO cent piece of any other equally good tobacco.

/jjhp Follow the directions, and you’ll get the best work from Pearline. Not yvvV'x that there’s any harm to be feared from it, no /li f niatter how you use it or how much you use. •tR /} jAy But to make ypur washing and J cleaning easiest, to save the most "i rubbing, the most wear and tear,. JijjJ y *2 the most time and money—keep to ffln \ r-j M the directions given on every packW| 1 j age of Pearline. If I \ (T\ you’ll do that with your flannels, Jv* __ if for instance (it’s perfectly simple and \ easy.) they’ll keep beautifully soft; i— - A and without shrinking. 1 iw Millions *%e Pearline “The Best Is Aye the Cheapest."; Avoid Imitations of and Substitutes for SAPOLIO

Far-Seeing Scotchwoman.

It would probably take many genera tions of undesired and undesirable a*-> versify to train Americans Into the tmrJ seeing thriftlneea of the Jteotcb. As illustration of this thrift the story of a Scotchwoman whs bad! been promised' a present of *i new* Itounct by a lady. Before she made tbs purchase, the lady called and asked the good woman: "Would you rather have a felt or at straw bonnet, Mrs. Wilson?" “Wee!,” said Mrs. Wilson; “I think F« tnk’ a strae nne; It’ll maybe be a moutvj fu’ to the coo when I’m done wl* It:”

A Child Enjoys

The pleasant flavor, gentle action &i»4 soothing effects of Syrup of Figs, when in need of a laxative, aud if the father or mother be costive or bilious, the most gratify lug results follow Its use; so that It Is the best family remedy known, and every family should have a bottla. In all countries In Europe a man M not permitted to become naturalised until he can show that he Is both respectable trad moral. Bay *1 worth Dobbins Floating Boras Soap it .ywm crocor, wild wrappers to Dobbins Soap Mfg. Co., nU> htlelpbla. I'o. They will send you, tr.-o of cpurge, post paid, a Worcester Pocket Dictionary, pages, clothbound jproltuely illustrated, offer good till Aug. 1 uaty. Mn». Winslow** Soothing Srauv for Children teething; soitens the gums, retimes lnUammsUo*. allays pain, cure* e-lnd colic. V cents a bottle. 1

BICYCLISTS SHOULD 1 fl : I j CURES Wounds, Bruises, Sunburn, Sprains, Lameness. Insect Bites, and ALL PAIN. After hard WORK or EXERCISING rub with i$ to AVOW LAMENESS. REFUSE SUBSTITUTES -Weak, Watery, Worthloss. POND’S EXTRACT OINTMENT cures PILES. POND'S EXTRACT CO.. 76 Fifth Aw. - M*wVort V. N. U. NOW »»— wT" Tir-HEN WRITING TO ApVKHTIKRRfI ' In * Br ,<>U *“ W