Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1893 — Page 12

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TITE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 1893 TWELVE PAGES.

THEY TAKE THE PREY.

Tin: iu:v. nu. talmagr fkeaciiks WOKUS OK IIOP12 TO TUB WEAK. A rrwnn Full of Knronraxrmmt to ThMf Who Labor I ndcr I)Inlvantain In the Slrnesle of Life EIoinmt Plea in Those Who Are I nen verteil. NASHVILLE, Dec. 17. Dr. Talmajrp. who is now in this city on his western lecture tour. solvtei as his topic for today a text full of spiritual encouragement for thobe who Uber under disadvantage i:i thi' stniprKle of life. The text chosen was T.-aiah xxxiii. -U, "The lame take the prey." The utti-r (lem.iliuon of th? Assyrian ho?t wiw her predicted. Not only robust nuMi should go forth and gather the spoils of conquest, but even men crippled of arm and crippled of foot should go our and ca.rtur3 much that was valuaMe. Their physical disadvantages should not hinder their great enrichment. So It has teen in the pa.-t, so it is now. so it will to in the future, so It is in all drartments. Men 1 xborlng under setni.i'rlv great disadvantaged and amid the most unfavorable circumstances, yet making grand achievements, getting great blessing for themselves, gn-at Kes.-ing f r the world, great blessing for the church. And so "the lame take the prey." Do you know that the three great poets of the world were Totally blind Homer, Os.-dan. John Milton? Do you know that Mr. Pr cctt. who wrote that enchanting lwok. "The Conquest of Mexico." never saw Mexico, could not evt-n see the pup-r on which he was writing? A framework across the shct. between which. u; and down, w-int th pen immortal. Do you know that Gambassio, the? s..-ulpt T. could i.ot see the marble befor him, r the chisel with which he cut it Int shapt'. be iv iiohintr? Do you know that Alexander I'op who.--e poms will last a.- I r.g fu th-i ICnglLsh language, was so much of an invalid th.u he Lad to b? !"".ved i;p every r.i-. ruing In rough canvas in order to stand cn his feet at all? ! a Denpite DissihmilasM. Do you know that Stuart, the celebrated painter, did mmh of his wonderful work under the shadow of the dungeon, where he had been unjustly imprisoned for debt? Do you know that Demosthenes by almost superhuman exertion first had to conquer the lisp of his own speech tfor he conquered assemblage with his eloquence? Do ynu know that Ilacon struggled all through innumerbsJe sieknee-e.?, and that Lord Byron and Sir V.?iter Scott went limning on clubfoot through all their life, and that many of th threat poets and painters and orators and historians and heroes of the world had something to keep thm b-uk, and pull thm down, and impede tlieir way. and cripple their physical or their intellectual movement, and yet that th-y pushed on and pushed up until they reached tha spoils of worldly success, and amid the huzza of nations and tenturL'd "the lame took the prey?" You know that a vast multitude of these men started under th" disadvantage of obscure parentage Columbus, the son rf the weaver; Ferguson, the astronomer, th. son of the shepheid. America the prey of the one; worlds on worlds the prey of th? othr. But what is true in seruiir directions is more true in spiritual nr.d religious directions, and I proceed to prove it. Thre aro in all corr.munit.'f s many invalids. They never know a well day. They adhere to their occupations, but they go panting along the streets with exhaustions, and at e vntime they lie down on the lounge, with achings beyond all medicaments. They have tried all prescriptions, thy have gone through all the cures winch were proclaimed infallible, and they have come now to surrender to perpetual ailments. They consider th-y ars among many disadvantages. ;j'id when they see those who are buoyant in heslth pas by they almost envy their robujt fram?s and easv respiration. But I have noticed among that invalid class those who have the greatest knowledge of the bible, who are in nearest Intimacy with Jesus Ch-ist. who have the most glowing experiences 0f the truth, who have had the m. ?t remarkable answer to prayer, and who have most exhilaxant anticipations of heaven. The tenictatiors which weary u who are in robust health they have conquered. Many who are alrt and athletic and swarthy linger in the way. The laxne take the prey Robert Hall, an invalid. Edward Payson, an invalid. Itlchard Baxter, an invalid, Samuel Rutherford, an invalid. This morning, when you want to cell to mind thos who are Christlike, you think of some darkened room in your father's house from which there went forth an influence iotent for eternity. A step farther: Through raised letters th? art cf printing Las been brought to the attention of the blind. Tou take up the bible for the bl!mt. and you close your eyes, and you run your fingers over th raided letters, and you say: "Why, I never could get any information In this way. What a slow, lumbrous w ay of reading! God help the. blind!" And yet I find annit that class of persons among the blind, the deaf and the dumb the most thorough acquaintance with God's word. Shut out from all other sources of information, no sooner does their band touch the raised letters than they gather a prayer. Without hearing, they catch the minBtrehy of the skies. Dumb, yet with pencil or with Irradiated countenance, they declare the glory of God. Comfort fur the UIluil. A large audience assembled in New York at the anniversary' of the de-jf and dumb asylum, and one of the visitors with chalk on the blackboard wrote this question to the pupils, "Do you act find it very hard to be deaf and dumb?" And one of the pupllj took the chalk and wrote on the blackboard this sublime sentence in answer; "When the mang of the angels shall burBt upon our enraptured ears, we will scarce regret that our ears were never marred with earthly sounds." Oh, the brightest eyes in heaven will be those that never saw on earth! The ears most alert in heaven will be those that in this world heard neither voice of friend, nor thrum of harp, nor carol of bird, nor doxology of eorvtrr srat i on s . A lad -who had been blind from infancy was curd. The oculist operated upon th lad and then put a very heavy ban''ajre over hi eyes, and after a few weeks had gone by the bandage was removed, and the mother said to the child, "Willie, can you see?" He said. "Oh. mamma, Is this heaven?" The contrast between the darkness before and the brightness afterward was overwhelming. And I tell you the glories of heaven will be a thousandfold brighter for those who never eaw anything on earth. While many with g'Xrd vision cloeed their eyes in eternal light, and many who had a good, artistic and cultured ear wenf down int eternal discord, triebe afflicted ones cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he made their sorrows their advantage. And so ''the lame took the prey." In the seventh century there was a legend of j?t. Modobert. It was Faid that his mother was blind, that one day, while locking at hU mother, he felt no sympathetic for her blindness that he rushed forward and kissed her blind eyes, and, the legend says, her vision cam Immediately. That wu only a. legend, tut it U a truth, a glorious

truth, that the kiss of God's eternal love has brought to many a blind eye eternal illumination. A step farther: There are those In all communities who toil mightily for a livelihood. They have scant wages. Perhaps they are diseased or have physical infirmities, so they are hindered from doing a continuous day's work. A city missionary finds them up the dark alley, with no fire, with thin clothing, with very coarse bread. They never ride in the street car; they cannot afford the 5 cents. They never see any pictures save those In the show window on the street, from which they are often Jostled and looked at by some me who seems to say in the look: "Move on! What are you doing here looking at pictures?" Yet many of them live on mountains of transfiguration. At their rough table he who led the 5,000 breaks the bread. They talk often of the good times coming. This world has no charm for them, but heaven entrances their spirit. They often divide their scant crust with some forlorn wretch who knocks at their door at night, and on the blast of the nisht wind, as the door open to lei them In. is heard the voice of Him who said, "I was hunerry and he fed me." No cohort of heaven will b too bright to transport them. By God's tvdp they have vanquished the Assyrian host. They have divided among them the spoils. Lame, lame, yet they took the prey. I was riding along the country road one day, and I saw a man on crutches. I overtook him. He was very old. He was going very slowly. At that rate It would have taken him two hours to go a mile. I said. "Wouldn't you like to ride?" He said: "Thank you, 1 would. God bless you." When he sat beside me. he said: "You see, I am very lame and very old. but the Lord has been a good Iord to me. I have buried all my children. The Lord gave them, and the Lord had a right to take tb-m away. Blessed be His name! I wa-s very tick, and I had no money, and my neighbors came in and took care .f me, and 1 wanted nothing. I surfer a great deal with pain, but thn I have so many irv-rcies b-ft. The Lord has been a good Lord to me." And betöre we had got far I was in doubt whether I was givinsr him a ride or he was giving me a ride. He said: "Now, if you please, I'll x-t out here. Just help me down on my crutches, if you pp-a.se. God bies you. Think you. sir. tiood morning. Good morning. You have been fet to the lame, sir, you have. Good morning." Swarthy men had gone the road that day. I do not know where they c;ime out, but every hobble of that old man was toward the shining gate. With his old crutch he had stru. k down many a Sennacherib of temptation which has mastered you and me. Lame, so fearfully lame, so awfully lame, but he took the prey. A step farther: There are in all communities many orphans. Difii.ig our last war and in the yrs immediately following how many children at the North and South we heard say. "Oh. my father was killed in the war!" Have you ever noticed I fear you have not how well those children have turned out? Starting under the greatest disadvantage, no orphan asylum could do for them what tludr father would have done h.id he lived. The skirmisher s-t one night by the light of fiigots in ihe swamp writing a letter home, when a sharpshooter s bullet ended the letp r v. hieb, was never folded, never posted and never read. Those children came i:j under great disadvantage. No father to light their way for them. Perhaps there was in the old family bible an old yellow letter pasted fast which told the story ofthat father's long march an.l how he suffered in the hospital, but they looked still further on in the bible, and they tame to the story of how God is the father of the fatherless and the widow's portion, and they soon took their father's place in that household. They battled the way for th-ir m .tlier. They came on up. and many of th m have already in the j ears since the war taken isitions in church and state north and south. While many of those who suffered nothing during those trmes ha'e had sons go out into lives of indolence and vagabondage, these who started under so many disadvantages because they were so early bereft, these are the lame who took the prey. A step farther: There are those who would like to be ?ood. They say. "Oh, if I only had wealth, or if I had eloquence, or if I had hih social posltkn, how much I wc.ld accomplish for G xl and the church!" I star.d here today to tell you that you have great opportunities for usefulness. Who built the pyramids? The kin:? who ordered them bnilt? No: the plain workmen who added stcr.e after stone and stone after stone. Who built th dikes of Hollar. d? The government that ordered the enterprise? No; the plain workmen who carried the earth and ransr their trowels on th? wall. Who are those who have built these vast citie?? The capitalists? Xo; Xw ccrpehters, th masons, the plumber's, the p'a.-rt-srers, the tinners, the roofars. dependent '.n a day's wage for a livelihood. And so in the great work cf assuaging hunmn suffering, and enlightening human Ignorance, and halting human iniqu'ty. In that great work the chief part is to lj done by ordinary men, with ordinary speech, in an ordinary manner and by ordinary means. The trouble is that in the army of Christ we all want to be captains and colonels and brigadier generals. We are net wdlllng to march wdth the rank and file and do duty with the private soldier. We want to belong to the reserve corp, and read about the battle while warming ourselves at the camprires or on a furlough at home, our feet upon an ottoman, we sagging back into an armchair. As you go down the street you see an excavation, and four rr five men are working and perhaps twenty or thirty leaning on the rail lookirg over at them. That is the way it is In the church of God today where you find one Christian hard at work there are fifty men watching the job. Ministers Without Pnlplts. Oh. my friends, why do you not go to work and preach the pospel? You say, "I have no pulpit." You have. It may be the carpenter's bench; It may be the mason's wall. The robe In which you are to proclaim this gospel may be a shoemaker's apron. But woe unto you if you preach not this gospel somewhere, somehow! If this world Is ever brought to Christ, It will be through the unanimous and long-continued efforts of men who, waiting for no special endowment, consecrate to God what they have. Among the most useless people in the world are men with ten talents, while many a one wdth only two talents, or no talent at all, is doing a great work, and so "the lame take the prey." There are thcusands of ministers of whom you have never heard In log cabins at the "West, In mission chapels at the East who are warring against the legions of darkness successfully warring; tract distributors month by month undermining the cltadela of sin. You do not know their going or their coming, but the footfalls of their ministry are heard in the palaces of heaven. Who are the workers In our Sabbathschools throughout this land today? Men celebrated, men brilliant, men of vast estate? For the most part not that at all. I have noticed that the chief characteristic of the most of those who are successful In the work is that they know their bibles, are earnest in prayer, are anxious for the salvation of the young, and Sabbath by Sabbath are willing to ?lt down unobserved and tell of Christ and the resurrection. These are the humble workers who are recruiting the great army of Christian 'youth not by might, not by pover, not by profound argument, not by brilliant antithesis, but by the blessing of God on plain talk and humble Ptory and silent tear and anxious look. "The lame take the prey." Oh, this work of saving the youth of

our country how few appreciate what It Is! This generation tramping on to the grave we will soon all be gone. What of the next? An engineer on a locomotive going across the western palrles day after day saw a little child come out In front of a cabin and wave to him. So he got la the habit cf waving back to the little child, and it was the day'e Joy to him to see this little one come out In front of the cabin door and wave to him while he answered back. One day the train was belated, and it came on to the dusk of the evening. As the engineer stood at his post he saw by the headlight that little girl on the track, wondering why the train did not come, looking for the train, knowing nothing of her peril. A great horror seized upon the engineer. He reversed the erifrlne. He gave it in charge of the other man on board, and then he climbed over the engine, and he came down on the. cowcatcher. He said, though he had reversed the engine, it seemed as though it were going at lightning speed, faster and faster, though it wa really slowing up. and with almost supernatural clutch he caught the child by the hair and lifted it up, and when th train stopped and the passengers gathered around to see what was the matter there the old engineer lay, fainted dead away, the little child alive and In his swarthy armü. "Oh." you say, "that was well done!" But I want you to exercise some kindness and some appreciation toward those in the community who are snatching the little ones from under the wheels of temptation and sin snatching them from under thundering rail train's of eternal disaster, bringing them up Into respectability in this world and into glory for the world to come. You appreciate what the engineer did. Why can you not appreciate the grander work done by every Sabbath school teacher and by every Christian worker? Oh. my friends. I want to impress upon myself and upon yourselves that It is not the number of talents we possess, but the use we make of them. The KojmI Family. God has a royal family In the world. Now, if I should ask, "Who are the royal families of history?" you would -ay, "House of Hapsburg, house of Stuart, house of Bourbon." They lived in palces and had great equipages. But who are the Lord's royal family? Some of thern may serve you in the household; some of them are In unlighted garrets; some of them will walk this afternoon down the street, ou their arm a basket of broken food; some of them are in the almhouse, despised and rejected of men. yet In the la.t great day, while it v.;il be found that some of us who fared sumptuously every day are hurled back into discomfiture, they are the lime that will take the prey. One steo farther: There are a great many pcp'.e discouraged about getting to heaven. At mv desk In the Christian HenJd office I am in daily receipt of numerous letters from people .brought up In good families and who had Christian parentage, but who frankly tell me they are astray, a thousand miles from the right tratK, and fear their case is hopeless. My brothers. It is to you I want to preach now. I have been lookins for you. I will tell you how you got astray. It was not maliciousness on your part. It was perhap3 through the geniality and sociality of your nature that you fell into ,jn. You wandered away "from your duty, you unconsciously left the house of God. You admit the pospel to be true, and yet you have so grievously and so nrolongedly wandered you say rescue is impossible. It would take a week to count up the names of those in heaven who wore on enrth worse than you tell me you tre. They wont the whole round of Ini-i'dty; they disgraced themselves; they disgracd thir household; they despaired of return because their reputation was gone, their property was gone, everything was gone. But in Mnie hour like this they heard the voice of God. and they threw themselves on the divine compa.-.-uon, and they rose up more than conquerors. And I tell you there is the same chance for you. That Is one reason why I like to preach this gosp-I, so free a gospel, so tremendous a gospel. It takes a man all wrong and makes him all right. In a former settlement where I preached a member of my congregation quit the house of God, quit respectable circle;, wert Into all styles of sin and was slain of bis iniquity. The day for lib burial came, and his body was brought to the hous of God. Some of hi.- comrades who had destroyed him were overheard alons? the street on their way to the burial saying. "Come, let us go end hear Talmage damn this old sinner!" Oh, I had nothing- but tears for the dead, and I had nothing but Invitations to the living-. You see I could not do otherwise. "Christ Jesus came to seek and s.tve that which was lest." Christ in hi-? tiylnff prayer said. "Father, forgive them," and that was a prayer for you and a prayer for me. Ob. start pn the road to heaven today! You are not happy. The thirst of your soul will never be slaked by the fountain of sin. You turn everywhere but to God for help. Rl?ht where you are, call on him. He knowj you. He knows all about you. He know? all the odds against which you have been contending in life. Do not go to him with a long rigmarole of a prayer, but just look up and say, "Help! Help!" Yet you say, "My hand trembles so from my dissipations I can't even take hold of a hymn book to sing." Do not worry about that, ray brother. I will give out a hymn at the close so familiar you can sing it without a book. But you say. "I have such terrible habits on me I can't get rid of them." My answer is, "Almighty grace can break up that habit and will break it up." But you say, "The wrong I did was to one dead and in heaven now. and I can't correct that wrong." You can correct it. By the grace of God. go into the presence of that one. and the apologies you ought to have made on earth make In heaven. "Oh." says some man, "if I should try to do rl?ht. if I should turn away from my evil doin?r unto the Lord, I would be jostled; I would be driven back; nobody would have any sympathy for me." You tire mistaken. Here, in the presence of the church on earth and in heaven, I give you today the ris:ht hand of Christian fellowship. God sent me here today to hear this, "I.et the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thought, and let him return unto the Lord, who will have mercy, and unto our God, who will abundantly pardon." Though you may have been the worst sinner, you may become the best saint, and In the great day of judgment It will be found that "where Fin abounded grace does much more abound," and while the spoils of an everlasting kingdom are being awarded for your pursuit It will be found that the lame took the prey. Blessed be God that we are this Sabbath one week nearer the obliteration of all th inequalities of this life and all its disquietedness! Years ago, on a boat on the North river, the pilot gave a very sharp ring to the bell for the boat to slow up. The engineer attended to the machinery, and then he came up with some alarm on deck to pee what was the matter. He saw it was a moonlight night, and there were no obstacles in the way. He went to the pilot and said: "Why did you ring the bell In that way? Why do you want to stop? There's nothing the matter." And the pilot eald to hlni: "There la a mist gathering on the river, don't you see that? And there is night gathering darker and darker, and I can't, see the way." Then the engineer, looking around and seeing it was a bright moonllfrht, lookd into the face of the pilot and saw that he was dying, and then that he was dead. God grant that when our last moment comes we may be found at our post doing our whole duty, and when ttie mists of the river of death gather -n our eyelids may the good Pilot take th wheel from our hands and guide ua Into the harbor of eternal rest! Drop the anchor, furl the sail, I um safe within the vale. ,

BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.

this ccn.ronATox disposes of its iioxus. Uasinens Mntter Novr in n Satisfactory Condition Pporm Arranm-U for Ihe Various Industrial Societies of the tne. . The executive committee of the state board of agriculture has finally sold the requisite amount of the Morton-place bonds to pay off premiums due from the state fair. The amount due on these premiums is between $10,500 and $10,000, none but the spesd premiums having been paid at the time of the fair. Payment will begin next Friday, Dec. 22. Secretary Kennedy declined to say to whom the bonds had been sold, as It "was a sort of note-shaving business and the persons mlg'nt not want it known." The persons to whom the money Is due will be satisfied to get their money without being inquisitive enough to ak who Is furnishing the cash. Secretary Kennedy has prepared the programs for the congress of the Indiana industrial association, which will be held In the state house during the first week In January. The first of the series is the forty-second annual convention of the delegate state board of agriculture, for which the following program has been prepared: Tuesday 9 a. m. Boll-call of counties and districts. 10 a. m. Address by President V. K. Officer. Appointment cf committee on credentials. Bepcrt of secretary, treasurer, general superintendent and department superintendents. Report of auditing committee. 1:30 p. m. Address by Claude Matthews, governor of state. 2 p. m. Address by Caleb S. Denny, mayor of the city. 2:45 p. m. Address by Prof. H. A. Huston of Purdue university, Lafayette, "The Sugar Beet of Indiana." Discussion. 4 p. m. Address by Mrs. V. C. Meredith of Cambridge City. "The Mission of the State Fair." Discussion. Wednesday 9 a. m. B ailing r Intitcs. Roll-call of delegates. Ileport of committee on credentials. 10 a. m. Nominations for eight members of the board. 10:45 a. m. Address by Mrs. ,viilia D. Waugh of Crawfordsville. "Farn hig: Its Sunshine and Shadow." Discussion. 1:30 p. m. Election of directors. Unfinished business. Adjournment. The eighth annual convention of the Indiana wool-growers' association w ill be held In room 15 on Tuesday, Jan. 2. at 1:30 o'clock. The program Is as follows; Address by president, the Hon. J. F. Tomlln?on. Bepcrt of secretary and treasurer. "Wool Handling." C. E. Carroll. Hartford City. "Changing Phases of Shop Husbandry." J. W. Hull, Indianapolis "Improvement of Flocks by Selection," C. A. Phelps. New Castle. "Breeding and Feeding for Mutton," J. C. McGaughey. "How to Sclert a Ln ml) to Head a Flock." J. F. Hirgins. New Muysville. "The Signs of the Times, an 1 Whither Is the theep Industry Tending." the Hon. J. A. Mount. Shannomla le. "Scab in Sheep," .Mortimer Levering, Lafa yette. "Best Mode for the Common Farmer to Handle Sheep." J. M. Ilarshbarge, CrawforJsville. Coincident with the meeting of the wool-growers the Indiana civil engineers and surveyors will hold forth in their fourteenth annual convention. It will, however, continue during the two following days. The program is lengthy and will be furnished i'pn application to the secretary, W. P. Carmichael of Williamsport. The Indiana short-horn breeders will meet in their twenty-second annual convention at 9 o'clock on Tuesday. Their propra m is as follows: Address by president, the Hon. James IT. Sankey. Unfinished business. New business. "Our Interests at Fairs." James D. Williams, Bond Creek Mills. Ind. "What Constitutes a Model Dairy Cow?" Philip F. Nye. Goshen. Ind. "What Our Favorites Did at the World's Kair." Mrs. V. C. Meredith, Cambridge City, Ind. "How Can the Prf.?s Ben Serve th? ohorthorn Breeders?" George G. Hill, editor American Farmer (Chieaeo). "Have the Breeders of Indiana Made An3' Advancement In the Lat Twenty Yers? Also In the Last Ten Years?" Governor Claude C. Matthews. "Lessons from the Cattle Show at the Columbian Exposition," Alvin H. Sanders, editor of Breeders' Gazette (Chicago). The seventeenth annual convention of the Indiana swine breeders' association cornea on Thursday. It will be held ln room 12 at 9 a. m. The program is as follows: Address by the president, Joseph Cunningham. "Obstacles to Overcome by Beginners," W. P. Burkit. Waldron. "The Clover Crop In Relation to the Farm and Swine Baising," J. M. Miller, Upland. , "In what Ways Do You F?ed and Care for Your Herd?" S. D. Ghere, Thorntown. "What Advantages Did You Find In the Handling of Pure-Bred over CrossBred Hogs?" S. H. Anderson. Oxford. "What Advancement Has the Chester Mrs. S. IV. mils Tells of a family blessing. Thus she writes to Mrs. Pinkham: " I suffered for 10 years with female complaints of the worst form, accompanied by severe spinal trouble, causing incessant backache, weakness of the stomach, and nervousness. " I gave up all hope of ever being well again. , Just then I began to take : "Lydia ZT. Pinkhairts Vegetable Co77z$ouiid. . I followed your directions and treatment until I am now a perfectly well woman. " I gave it to my two daughters, aged 14 and 16 years, and they are fine, healthy girls. It is surely a blessing to our family." 816 Holly St West Philadelphia, Pa. All Jrn;fit$ tell it. Address in confidence. Lvdia L. lixiutAM Med. Co, Lynn, Ma&j, Urs. nj&Mm'Uv9rriU&. 25 cent.

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cTOtuion, tiereaiimrj-, or tucerntive, no BSncy In the -world 1 o tydy, coaomicsi. aoid Dlaihng aa the CUTICURA wi 7 Remedies. coDaMlng of 7 CrTiecRA, Uie rent kin enr. kin puriCiT aijd bcautl'ier. ami Ccttccra RexoiriST, tlw new blood purider and greatest of humor remedies. In a word, the ara ibe sr,t' lila curt, blood purifiers, and humor remedies of modern times, aria may be used in the treatment of every humor and difvas, trom tTtetna to scrofula, wl'.'b the ciont prti.'yii:g and Lnf.uling success, roid everywhere. Totter Dri b and Cuexical Cokp., Boston. " Ilow to Cure Blood Humors " mailed free. Pi J WTI-ES, b,.acVbeut.rpfl, riueb. bands and faillfjj icg hair cured by Ct'TTvCKA Soap. RHEUMATIC FAiaS In one minute theCutloir AntlFaln ILster relieves rheumatic, eciatle, hip, ludrxr, ehet. ar.d muscular puins and weaknesses. Price, ü-'c. 3 White Breed of Hogs Made in the Last Five Years?" B. W. Harvey, Bloomingdale. "The Care of Young Pigs." I. J. Smith, Windsor. "What Varieties of Fed Are Best for Breeders During the Winter?" T. M. Mints, Mohawk. "Is It Profitable to Raise Two Litters from a Sow in One Year?" Cot. Barnett, Lo!?Hnpprt. "Which Is the Bst Method in Feeding?" A. D. Wood. Carroll. "Have Fall Litters Bern Profitable?" II. O. Boyd. Bu.hville. lnd. "How I Oot the Pigs to Perfection That Were Winners," Thomas Lanham, Ed in burg. "Is the Large Number cf Pigs Farrowed by the Duroe Jersey Hows an Advantage. U the Breed?" James Cross, Lebanon. "Is Special Management Required for the Victorias, and How t. Manage Thm," Oeor,? F. Davis. Dyer. "History of the Suffolk Breed cf Swire," X. C. Green. Winchester. Th? Farmers' reading circle will meet at 9 a. m. on Wednesday, the 4th, when the following program will be carried out: Report of secretary. Report of corresponding secretary. Addrvss by t-hiirmati of executive committee, Mrs. V. C. Meredith. Address- by J. A. Mount of Shannondal". Election of officers. The Indiana beeheepers in thirteenth annual convention will meet in room 15 011 Friday at 0 o'clock a. m. The program follows: Address by President R. S. Russell. "Honey as Food and Medicine," Dr. J. M. Hicks. Indianapolis. "Profits of Beekeeping Combined with Other Vocations," J. A. C. Dobson, Bruwr.Fhurg. "Do You Wish to Prevent Swarming?" Oeortje P. Wilson, Tollgate. "Our Resources Compared with Those of Other Statt-s." Oeoige C. Thomson, Southoort. "Properly Managing the Apiary," Charles F. Muth. Cincinnati. "Bees for Profit." David Learning. Arcadia. "Controlling the Mating ot. Queens." W. S. Ponder. Indianapolis. "Characteristics of Different Races," J. V. Michael. German. O. "Bees for Profit with Least Attention," Dr. E. H. Coil ins, Camel. "Value of Jlv.u-y Kxhibits and Bee Conventions," E. fcv Pope, Indianapolis. The Indinaa tile, bri-d-: and druinage assfK-iation will hold its tirr.t annual meeting in room PJ0, continuing Jan. 3 and 4. This is the program: Addit;s by the president, J. J. Billin trs lev. "Farm Drainage." Prof. W. C. Latta, La fayette. "A Clane Backward," M. C. Dawson, Rushville, Ind. "Drying and Burning Clays." Windfall manufacturing tympany. Windfall. "Drainage of Marshes," William M. Whit ten. South Bend. "Manufacture of Drain Tile and Bri'-k." F. E. Dickenson. WoU-otsville. "Burning Tllc" W. E. Dawson, Colfax. "Making Large Tile." Samuel Cowgill, Summitville. The Indiana highway and improvement as? x iation will iP"et in the hall of the house of reiresintat Ives on Wednesday and Thursday. Programs can he had by addressing the secretary, Evans Woollen. Indianapolis. Playing fnrd. You can obtain a pack of best quality playing cards by sending flftet-n rents lu postage to 1 S. EUSTIS, Gen'l Pass. Agt.. C, B. & Q. R. 11., Chicago. 111. THE BEST Your wife will mo Anticipating the demand, cpecial arrangements to supply

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We will furnish the Famous SENTINEL SEWING MACHINE (No. 4) and the STATE SENTINEL for one year lor

This Machine is fullv warranted and money will be refunded

3, same as No. 4, except with SENTINEL one year lor

POINTS OF SUPERIORITY. INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL SEWING MHCHINE H9 the latest design of beat woodwork, with skeleton drawer caies, made in both walnut and oak, highly finished and the most durable made. The itand in rigid and strong, haying brace from ovreach nd of treadle rod to tabl, has a large balance wheel with belt replacer, a very eaey mation of treadle. The head is free ot plate tensions, the machine is so set that without any change of upper or lower tension you can lew trom No. 40 to No. 150 thread, and by a rery alight chang of disc tension on face plate, you can eew from the coarsest to the tineit thread. It haa a self-setting needle and loose pulley device on hand wheel for winding bobbins without running the machine. It is adjustable in all its bearines and haa less Springs than any other sewing machine on tue market. It ia the quickest to thread, being eell-tureading, except the eye of needle. It la the easiest machine in changing length of stitch, and ia very foiet and eaay running.

Address all orders to THE SENTINEL, Indianapolis, Ind. P. S. This Machine is shipped direct from the manufactory to the purchaser, saving aU ciddle men's profits. .

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lriendBtocopoaft.:ry)a receive tl.or:cine and can doasyon pleaeeatoat thru. C.rrojpondenoP V!J er,7el-.n(. Knclom st.irno It eonven-nnt ti. i O 14 vr Will cure The worst cases & I Of Skin i Disease J From a Common PimpSe S On the Face I To that awful Disease 5 Scrofula. I Try a bottle To-day. fry -wj yir jprs'ir l'Siw Send 3 2-cent stamps to A. P. Ordwriv & Co., Boston, M-- for bejt medical work published Nerve ix Blood Tonic J$mam Jx-criptiv9 7LLIAKS' OOc. NEDICIKE CO per box. Schenectady, K.Y, $ for $'2.50. and Brcckvllle, Ont MACHINE be in want of a 13 Kii THE SENTINEL has made your wants. two drawers instead of four, will $16.00.

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One Hüffler, with Shirrer Plate, One Set of 4 Plate Hemmers, One Binder, One Presser Foot, One Heramer and Fo'.lci

One Hraider foot. One Tucker, One Quilter, One Plate Gauge, One Slide for Braide, One Oil Can (with Oil), One Thread Cutter,

rinse away. all, upon a washing day. it does the work,

as Claus Soap. K. FA1RBANK & CO., CHICAGO, ILL.

iny Truw tiiue, luoDcyw.ct healtnwtiü 'J klimis' wonJtTlul "curealls." epeciflea, etc., hen 1 v Ul tend i"Ki;L the prefer j.t.on ci EfW nad positive remedy for theprorr.pt last.rsg cure of Lest j-ianliood. firUtlv Bmissiou. At-rvnn Virukmo in

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ATTACHMENTS Accompanying Each machine ARE AS FOLLOWS:

1 I Attachments fn bracket are all interchangeable into hub on prester baa Pix Bobbins, Feven Needles, One Large Screw Pme One Small Screw Driver, One Wrench, One Instruction Book.

YARRANTY. Every Machine ia fully warranted for five yeara. Any part proving defective will be replaced free of charge, excepting needles, bobbins and shuttles.

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