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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 23, 1893-TWELYE PAGES. 1

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nit. TALMA(iK DRLIVKItM A TRini'TB TO WOHWLY HFLIKXCK. Thf "(.rent Womnn" of the TmI Wan Only n Type of the Chrlntlnn 3Iolher of Today The Virtue of llonpltnllty. BROOKLYN, Aus. 13. The Rev. Dr. Talmape chose for his subject today one of special interest to ti.e pentler sex. the announced topic bing. "A Great Woman." and the text II Kings Iv, 8: "And Its fell on a day that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a prreat woman." The hotel of our time had n1 counterpart In any entertainment of olden time. The vast majority of travelers must then be entertained at private abode. Here comes Elisha, a servant of the Lord, on a divine mission, and he must find shelter. A balcony overlooking the valley of Esdraelon is offered him. in a private house, and it is especially furnished for his occupancy a chair to sit on, a table from which to eat, a candlestick by which to read and a bed on which to slumber, the whole establishment belonging to a. great and good womati. Her husband, it seems, was a godly man. but he was entirely overshadowed by his wife's excellencies, just as now you sometimes find in a household the wife the center of disrnity and influence and power, not by any arrogance or presumption, but by superior intellect and force of moral sature weilding domestic affairs and at the same time supervising all financial and business affairs. The wife's hand on the shuttle, on the bankijT hotisp, on th worldly business. You Fee hundreds of men who are successful only because there is a reason at home why they are successful. The AVifrly Influence. If a man marry a Rood, honest soul, he makes his fortune. If he marry a fool, the Lord help him! The wife may be the silent partner in the firm, there may be only masculine voices down on exchange, but there oftentime comes from the home circle a potential and elevating Influence. This woman of my text was the superior of her husband. He, as far as I can understand, was what we often see In our day. a man of large fortune and only a modicum of brain, intensely quiet, sitting a lung while in the same place without moving hand or foot if you say "yes," responding "yes" if you say "no," responding "no" inane, eyes half shut, mouth wide open, maintaining his position in society only because he has a large patrimony. But his wife, my text says, was a great woman. Her name has not come down to us. She belonged to that collection of people who need no name ti distinguish them. "What would title of duchess or princess or queen what would escutcheon or gleaming diadem be to this woman of my text, who by her Intelligence and her behavior challenges the admiration of all ages? Long after the brilliant women of the court of Louis XV have been forgotten, and the brilliant women of the court of Spain have been forgotten, and the brilliant women who sat. on mighty thrones have been forgotten, some grandfather will put on his spectacles, and holding the book the other side the light read to his grandchildren the story of this great woman of Shunem wh was so kind and courteous and Christian to the grmd prohet Elisha, Yes, she was a great woman. In the first place she was great In her hospitalities. Uncivilized and barbarous nations honor this virtue. Jupiter had the surname of the hospitable, and ha was said especially to. avenge the wrongs of strangers. Homer extolled it in his verse. The Arabs are punctilious upon this subject, and rnong some of their tribes it is not until the ninth day of tarrying that the occupant has a right to ask his guest, "Who and whence art thou?"If this virtue is so hunored even among barbarians.' how ought it to be honored among those of us who believe in the bible, which commands us to use hospitality one toward another without grudging? Religious TrnmiiK. Of course I do not mean under this cover to give any idea that I approve of that vagrant class who go around from place to place, ranging their whole lifetime, perhaps, under the auspices of nm benevolent or philanthropic society, quartering them selves on Christian families, with a great pile of trunks In the hall and carpet-bag portentious of tarry Ing. There Is many a country parsonage that looks out week by week upon the ominous arrival of wagon with creaking wheel and lank horse and dilap idated driver, come under the auspices of some charitable Institution to spend a few weeks and canvass the neighborhood. Let no such religious tramps take advantage of this beautiful virtue of Christian hospitality. Not so much the sumptuousness of your diet and the resrality of your abode will impress the friend or the stranger that steps across your threshold as the warmth of your creetinjr, the Informal Ity of your reception, the reiteration by grasp ana by look and by a thousand attentions, insignificant attentions, of your earnestness of. welcome. There will be high appreciation of your welcome, although you have nothing but the brazen candlestick and the plain chair to offer Elisha when he comes to bhunem. Most beautiful is this grace of hosnl tallty when shown in the house of God. I am thankful I am pastor of a church where strangers are always welcome, and there is not a state In the union in which I have not heard the affability of tne ushers of our church complimented But I have entered churches where there was no hospitality. A stranger would stand In the vestibule for awhile and then make pllarrimaee un the loneNo door opened to him until, flushed and excited and embarrassed, he started back a?ain and coming to some halffilled pew with apologetic air entered It, while the occupants glared on him with a look which seemed to say. "Well if I must. I must." Away with such accursed Indecency from the house of God! Let every church that would maintain larjre Christian influence In community culture Sabbath by Sabbath this beautiful grace of Christian hospitality. t'hrltlan IIoiitnllt-. A good man traveling in the far West in the wilderness was overtaken by nisrht and storm, and he put In at a cabin. He saw flre;rms, along the beams of the cabin and he felt alarmed. He did not know but that he had fallenr Into ft den of thieves. He sat there greatly perturbed. After awhllt the man of the house came home with a gun on his shoulder and set It down in a corner. The stranger was still more alarmed. After awhile the man of the house whispered with his wife and the stranger thought his destruction was being planned. Then the man of the house came forward and said to the stranger: "Stranger, we are a rough and rude people out here, and we work hard for a living. We make our living by hunting, and when we come to the nightfall we are tired, and we are apt to go tp bed early, and before retiring we are always in the habit of reading a chapter from the word of God and making a prayer. If you don't like such things. If you will Just step outside the door until we get through I'll be greatly obliged to you."

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Of course the stranger tarried In the room, and the old hunter took hold of the hnrns of the altar and brought down the blessing of tlod upon his household and upon the stranger within their gates. Itude but glorious Christian hospitality! Again, this woman in my text was Kreat in her kindness toward God's messenger. Kllsha may have been a stranger in that household, but as she found out he had come on a divine mission he was cordially welcomed. We haVe a great many books In our day al)out the hardships of ministers and the trials of Christian ministers. I wish somebody would write a book alout the joys of the Christian minister, about the Fympathies all arourtd him. about the kindnesses, about the genial considera tions of him. Does sorrow come to our home, and Is there a shadow on the cradle, there are hundreds of hands to hlp. and many who weary not through the long flight watching, and hundreds of prayers going up that God would re store the sick? Is there a burniner, brimming cup of calamity placed on the pastor's table, arp there nt.t many to hflp him drink of that cup and who will not be comforted because he Is stricken? Oh. for somebody to write a book about the rewards of th Christian ministerabout his surroundings of Christian sympathy. Only n type. This woman of the text was only a type of thousands of men and women who come down from the mansion and from the cot to do kindness to the Lord's servants. I suppose the men of Shunem had to pay the bills, but it was the large-hearted Christian sympathies of the women of Shunem that looked after the Lord's messenger. Again, this woman in the text was great in her behavior under trouble. Il'jr only son had died on her lap. A very bright light went out In that household. The sacred wiltc-r puts it very tersely when he says. "He sat on her knees until noon, and then he died." Yet the writer goes on to say that she exclaimed. "It is well!" Great in prosperity, this woman was great In trouble. AVhere are the feet that have not been blistered on the hot sands of this great Sahara? Where are the shoulders that have not been bent under the bur den of grief? Where Is the ship sailing over glassy sea that has not after awhile been caught in a cyclone? Where Is the garden of earthly comfort but trouble hath hitched up Its liery and panting team and gone through it with buring plowshare of disaster? UmMr the pelting of ages of suffering the great heart of the world has burst with woe. Navigators tell us about the rivers, and the Amazon and the Danube and the Mississippi have been explored, but who can tell the depth or length of the great river of norrow made up of tears and blood rolling through all lands and all ages, bearing the wreck of families and of communities and of empiresfoaming, writhing, boiling with the agonies of 6.0h years? Ktna and Coto paxi and Vesuvius have been described, but who has ever sket htd the volcano of suffering retching up from Its depths the lava and the scoria and pouring them down the sides to whelm the nations? Oh. if I could gather all the heartstrings, the broken heartstrings. Into a harp I would play on It a dirge such as was never sounded. (irenter Than (Mirpin. Mythologists tell us of Gorgon and Centaur and Titan, and geologists tell us of extinct pecles of monsters, but greater than Gorgon or megatherium, and not belonging to the realm of fable, and not of an extinct species Is a mon ster with iron Jaw and iron hoofs walk ing across the nations, and history and poetry and sculpture in their attempt to sketch it and describe it have seemed to sweat great drops of blood. But, thank God, there are those who can conquer as this woman of the text conquered and say: "It Is well! Though my property be gone, though my chll dren be gone, though my home be broken up, though my health be sacrl flced. it is well, it Is well!" There is no storm on the sea but Christ is ready to rise In the hinder part of the ship and hush It. There is no darkness but the constellations of God's eternal love can illuminate it. and though the winter comes out of the northern sky, you have sometimes seen the northern sky all ablate with auroras that seem to say "Come up this way. Up this way are thrones of light, and seas of sapphire and the splendor of an eternal heaven Come up this way." , We may, like the ships, by tempest be tossed On perilous deeps, but Cannot be lost. Though sat an enrage the wind and the tide. The promise assures us the Lord will proviae. I heard an echo of my text In" a very dark hour, when my father lay dvlng, and the old country minister said to him. '"Mr. Talmage. how do you feel now as you are about to pass the Jordan of death?" He replied and It was the last thing he ever said "I feel well; feel very well: all is well," lifting up his hand In benediction, a speechless benediction, which I pray God may go down through all the generations. It was well! Of course It was well. Again, this woman of my text was great In her application to domestic du ties. Every picture Is a home picture, whether she is entertaining an Kliiia or whether she is giving careful atten tlon to her sick boy, or whether she 13 appealing for the restoration of her property every picture In her case Is a home picture. Those are not disciples of the Shunemite woman who, goiro? out to attend to outside charities, neglect the duty of home the duty of wife, of mother, of daughter, rso faithfulness In public benefaction can ever atone for domestic negligence. , The Mother's Mlanlnn. There has been many a mother who by Indefatigable toil has reared a large. family of children, equipping them for the duties of life with good manners and large Intelligence and Christian principle, starting them out, who has done more for the world than many another woman whose name has sounded through al tne lands and through all centuries. I remember when Kossuth was In this country there were some ladles who got reputation, honorable reputation, by presenting him very gracefully with bouquets of flowers on public occasions, but what was all that compared with the work of the plain Hungarian mother who (rave to truth and civilization and the cause of universal liberty a Kossuth? Yes, this woman of my text was great in her simplicity. When this prophet wanted to reward her for her hospitality by asking some preferment from the king, what did she say? She declined It. She said. "I dwell among my own people" as much as to

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say! "I am satisfied With my lot. All I want is my family and my friends around me. I dwell among my own people." Oh. what a Yebuke to the strife

for precedence In all ages I How many there are who want to get great architecture, and homes furnished with all art. all painting, all statuary, who have not enough taste to distinguish between Gothic and Byzantine, and who could not tell a figure in plaster of parts from Palmer's "White Captive." ana Iiierstadt's "Yosemlte ' men who buy large libraries by the square foot, buying these libraries when they have hardlv enough education to pick out the day of the almanac! Oh, how many there are striving to have things as well as their neighbors, of better than their neighbors, and in the struggle vast fortunes are exhausted and business firms thrown Into bankruptcy, and men of reputed honesty rush Into astounding forgeries! Of course I say nothing against refinement of culture, s plendof of abode, sump tuousness of diet, lavishness in art, reatness in apparel there is nothing aga'.nst them in the bible or out of ihe nioie. Jod does not want us to vrefer mud hovel to Knglish cottage, or nntanned sheepskin to French broadcloth, or husks to pineapple, or the clumsiness of a Door to the manners of a gentleman. God, who strung the beach with tinted shell and the tfrass of the field With 'he dews of the night, fcrtd hath exquisitely tinged morning cloud and robin redbreast, wants us to keep our eye open to all beautiful sights, and our ear open to all beautiful cadences, and our heart open to all elevating sentiments. Hut what I want to impress upon you Is that you ought not depreciate this vornan of the text, who. when offered kingly prefer ment, responded, "I dwell among my wn people. Grrnt In Her Plciy. Yea. the woman of the text was great In her piety. Faith In God, and she was hot ashamed to talk about It before idolators. Ah, woman will never appre ciate what she owes to Christianity until she knows and sees the dcgredätlon of her sex under paganism and Moham medanism. Her very birth considered a misfortune. She like cattle In the shambles. Slave of all work, and at last her body fuel for the funeral pyre of her husband. Above the shriek of the fire worshipers in India and above the rumblings of the juggernauts, I hear the million-voiced groan of wronged, in sulted, broken-hearted. down-trodden woman. Her tears have fallen in the Nile and Tigris and the La Plata, and on the steppes of Tartary. She has been dishonored in Turkish garden and Persian palace and Spanish alhambra. Her little ones have been sacrificed in the Ganges. There is not a groan, or a dungeon, or an island, or a mountain, or a river, or a lake, or a sea but could tell a story of the outrages heaped upon her. When I come to speak of womanly In fluence my mind always wanders off to one model the aged one, who twentyseven years ago was put away for the resurrection. Alnut eighty-seven years ago and Just before their marriage day. my father and mother stood up in the old meeting house at Somerville. N. J., and took upon them the vows of the Christians. Through a long lift? of vicissitude she lived harmlessly and usefully and came to her end In peace. No child of want ever came to her door and was turned empty away. No one in sorrow came to her but was comforted. No one asked her the way to be saved, but she pointed him to the cross. When the angel of life came to a neighbor's dwell ing she was theie to rejoice at the start ing of another immortal spirit. When the angel of death came to a neighbor's dwelling she was there to robe the departed for the burial. We had often heard her when leading family prayers in the absence of my father say, "O Lord, I ask not for my children wealth or honor, but I do ask that they all may be the subjects of Thy comforting grace!" Her eleven children brought into the kingdom of God, she had but one more wish, and that was that she might see her long absent missionary son, and when the ship from China anchored in New York harbor and the long-absent one passed over the threshold of his paternal home she said, "Now, Lord, lettest Thou Thy servant depart In peace, for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation." The prayer was soon answered. Tlmt Glorloun Word "Mother' It was an autumnal day when we gathered from afar and found only the house from which the soul had fled forever. She looked very natural, the hands very much as when they were employed in kindness for her children. Whatever else we forgot, we never forget the look of mother's hands. As we stood there by the casket we could not help but say, "Don't she look beautiful?" It was a cloudless day when with heavy hearts we carried her out to the last resting place. The withered leaves crumble under hoof and wheel as we passed, and the sun shone on the Haritan river until it looked like fire. But more calm and beautiful and radiant was the setting sun of that aged pilgrim's life. No more toll, no more tears, no more sickness, no more death. Dear mother! Beautiful mother! Sweet is the slumber beneath the sod. While the pure spirit rests with God. I need not go back and show you Zenobia or Semiramls or Isabella, or even the woman of the text, as wonders of womanly excellence or greatness, when I In this moment point to your own picture gallery of memory and show you the one face that you remember so well and arouse all your holy reminiscences and start you in new consecration to God by the pronunciation of that tender, beautiful, glorious word, "Mother! Mother!" Liked Filing Saws. Billy Broadland "I wish pop wasn't a farmer. I hate farm work." Willie Waybaek "So do I all except filin saws." "Why do you like that?" '"Cause it makes everybody Just as miserable as I am." Street & Smith's Good News. Johnny's Poor Lack. Little Johnny "Awful hard times, isn't ltr Papa "What's wrong now?" Little Johnny "Another railroad has K-ot a receiver, an two more banks has failed, an' I have lost every marble 1 had." Street & Smith's Good News. Always Soiuethlnjc Mlanlng-. "Papa, do men descend from monkeys?" "Yes. my boy." "And what about the monkeys?" Pu2zled Pater "The monkeys descend aw from the trees." L'Observateur. Xt Modern View. Mission Teacher "Why did the wicked children follow the prophet crying, 'Go up, thou bald-head?" Waif "I guess they was jus klddin him 'bout takin a seat In the front row." Street & Smith's Good News. Alirnya Kreah. He "What a fresh complexion Miss Flirtle haa." She (rival belle) "Yes; fresh every day. I believe." N. T. Weekly. THINGS THAT ARE TOLD. In all the wars in which Great Britain has taken part she hag won 82 per cent, of the battles. 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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.

LESSOX IX, THIRD QUARTER, IXTER5ATIOWL ft Kit I E9, ALU. 2iT. Text of the Lesson, Aet uvl, lf-.'t2 Mentor? Vernes, art Oolden test, 1 Cor, 1, 21 Commentary by the Rev. I). M. Men r tin. 19. "Whereupon. O King Agrlppa, I was hot disobedient unto the heavenly vision." Some two years, after the last lesson Felix was succeeded by Festus, and Paul was still a prisoner. The high priest and the Jews scon mädö mention of Paul, the prisoner, and apked that he might be brought to Jerusalem for trial, hoping to kill him on the way (xxv, 2. 3). The) were compelled, however, to appear against him at Caesarea, and It was then that Paul appealed to Caesar, which necessitated his being sent to Rome. Meantinv King Agrlppa and Bernice visit Festus, and he tells them of Paul and of his appeal to Caesar, but that he has no definite accusation against him, upon which Agrippa desires to hear him. Paul is now before Agrippa and Festus and the chief captains and principal men of the city, and has forgotten as far in his story as his conversion ort the way to Damascus and his consequent readiness to obey his new Master's orders. See II Sam. xv, 15; Isa. I, 19, and take heed. 20. "That they should repent and turn to God and du works meet for repentance." He began at Damascus, then at Jerusalem and so on In all the world, preaching these things. Compare I Thess. 1, 9, 10; Titus ii, 11-13, and see how he insisted on these things. We are all by nature against God. 21. "For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple and went about to kill me." It does not eem possible that people would hate a imoi and een try to kill him just fur being good, but the hatred of Josepn by his brethren, and of Daniel by his fellows, and of Paul by the jews simply prove the enmity of man against Uod, and It was fully shown out in the persecution and crucitixion of the Lord Jesus. 22. "Saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say hhould come. ' By the help of God he continued witnessing to small and great, reasoning out of the old testament, as we call it, concerning Jesus (chapters xvii, 2, 3; xxvlll. 23). Jesus himself taught that all scripture referred to Him (Luke xxiv, 27. 44). Philip preached Jesus to the Ethiopian from Isa. llii. 23. "That Christ should suffer, and that He should be the first that should rise from the dead and should show light unto the people and to the Gentiles." The suffering and death of Christ are seen In Gen. Iii, 15; xxil, 2, with Gal. Iii, 16; Ps. xxii. 1, 16; Isa. llii, 5, 6. and elsewhere. His resurrection is referred to in Ph. xvi, 10, with Acts iii, 15; Isa. liii, 10; Hos. vi, 2. etc., while His being a light to the nations is seen in Isa. xlii, 6; xlix, 6, etc. Although all was so plainly foretold, the Jews shut their eyes to the true significance or these things and would not hear of a suffering Messiah (John xli, 32-34). 24. "And as he thus spake for himself Festus said with a loud voice. Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad." He that departeth from evil is accounted mad (Isa. lix, 15, margin). The prophet Is a fool; the spiritual man is mad (Hos. ix. 7). Jesus himself was repeatedly told that lie had a devil (John vll, 20; vlil, 48). If we make Christ our center, we must of necessity be eccentric In the eyes of others and seem to them to be beside ourselves. 25. "But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus, but speak forth the words of truth and soberness." Paul knew whereof he alBrmed and realized that he was speaking In the hearing of a greater than Festus or Agrippa. He had no ambition to please men (Ual. i, 10; Thoss. II, 4), but he did desire to please Him who had called him (II Cor. v, 9, and II Tim. ii, 15). And he had a great ambition to win men to Christ (I Cor. ix, 22) and to magnify Christ in his body whether by life or death (Phil, i, 20). 26. "For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely, Ii MEDIUMS THAT MAKES GOOD BLOOD GILMORE'S AROMATIC UUIIIE Will completely change the blood In yonr system ia three months' time, and send new, rich blood count ing through your vein. If you feel exhausted and nervous,are cettinpthin and all rundown.Gilraore S Aromatic Wine, which Is a tonic and not a beverage, will restore you to health and strength. Motners, use It for your daughters. It is tbe best reirulator and corrector for all ailments peculiar to woman. Jt enriches the blood and lasting trenirth. 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for this thing was not done In a corher." When the high priest asked Jesus of His doctrine, He said, "I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort, and In secret have I said nothing" (John xvlll. 20). The story of Jesus of Nazareth was known far and wide, but It was to the great majority simply a story of "one Jesus, who was dead, whom some affirmed to be alive" (Acts xxV. IS). It ii, not much more to most people even now. 7. "King Agrippa, believest thou the prophet? I know that thou believest." One of Paul's mottoes was, "Believing all things which are written In the law and in the prophets" (xxiv, 14). Jesus's rebuke to the two disciples was, "O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken" (Luke xxiv, 25). Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the prophets (Amos iii, 7); therefore if we care anything about the secret of the Lord we will surely study prophecy.

28. "Then Agrlppa said urrto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian." The Ii. V. makes Agrippa say. "With but little persuatlon thou wouldst fain make me a Christian." Herod heard John the Baptist gladly and did many things; Fexil trembled under the spirit's words through Pau', and now Agrippa is moved, but nothing lasting ever came of it in either case as far as we know. The word preached does not profit unless mixed with faith In those who hear it (Heb. iv. 2). We have great need to take heed of the evil heart of unbelief, and to take heed how We hear (Heb. ill, 12: Luke viii. 1S. 29. "And Paul said. I wou'.d to God that not only thou, but also all that hear rne this day, were both almcit and altogether such rs I am. except these bonds." It was not liberty that Paul sought, nor personal comfort, except as he could use these for the glory of God, but he did always and everywhere seek to win men to Christ. Whether they were rulers like Agrippa, Festus or Felix, or public servants like the jailer at Phllippi, or slaves like Onesimus, he regarded not their circumstances, sought not their favor, despised not their poverty, but most earnestly coveted their eternal welfare. 30-32." This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds. This man might have been set at liberty if he had not appealed unto Caeftar." These thre& verses of our lesson tell of the private conference of the king, the governor, Bern-ice and they that sat with thorn when they had retired from the public assembly after Paul had finished his testimony. The two sentences I have quoted give their decision, and as we read them we feel like wishing that Paul had not appealed unto Caesar. But when we read chapter xxlii.ll. "The night following the Lord stood by him and said. Be of good cheer, Paul, for as thou has testified of Me In Jerusalem so must thou bear witness . also at Rome." we are compelled to be still and see God working out His own purposes In His own way. IInr1lnt;ton Route. The Burlington Route is the best railroad from Chicago and St. Louis to St. Paul, Minneapolis, Kansas City, St. Joseph. Omaha, Deadwood and Denver. The scenic line via Denver, Colorado Spings, Pueblo, Leadville, Rlenwood Springs, Salt Lake City and Ogden to all California points. All Its trains are vestibuled, and equipped with Pullman sleeping cars, standard chair cars (seats free), and Burlington Route dining cars. If you are going West, take the best line. OQOOQGG Worry tells, sadly, on Q q woman's health and q q beauty. Q BeechanVs Pills (worth a Guinea I a Box. 0 ' (Tasteless) Q fortify the nerves and Q will help to banish Q many an anxiety. CJ Price 5 cents. BARRY'S TMCOPHERQUS r OK TMt HAI R"" SKIN. An eleuant dregslnu. Prevents . . . 1 . - a J A 99 i jCJrs) l ilr.thehlrirrowlhlclcndSOft, Jiy. Curet eruptions and diseases of tho - ' .kin. Heals cuts, burns, bruises and ipraiDt. All druggUU orb.r UiallMcU. 44 btone SU M.V. THE BEST Your wife will Anticipating the demand, ipecial arrangements to supply

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ATTACHMENTS Accompanying;. Each tYJachino ARE AS FOLLOWS:

1 I Attachments In bracket are all interchangeable into hub on presaer Six Bobbins, Feven Needle?, One Large Screw Driver, One Small Screw Driver. One Wrench, One Instruction Book.

WARRANTY. Every Machine is fully warranted for five years. Any part proving defective will be replaced free of charge, excepting needles, bobbins and shuttles.