Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 1, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 May 1886 — Page 4

TALMAOE’S SERMON. ADisoourse On the Subject of Oongreea^onal Singing **• Artmuta For and jplut It—The Influence of Cknrch Music—The Moth, ode. Past aad Present—Prueeators and Choirs. Her. T. DeWitt Talmage took for the subject of a recent sermon delivered at the Brooklyn Tabernacle, "Congregational 8inging,” taking for his text: It came oven to pass, as the trnmpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heanl in praising and thanking ths lord —Ul. Chronletea. v. li,] The temple wss done. It was the very chorus of all mngniQceuee and pomp. Splendor crowded against splendor. It was the diamond necklace of the'Sarth. From the huge pillars crooned with leaves of flowers and rows of pomegranate wrought out in burnished raetal, down even to the tong) and snnffefs made out of pure gold, every thing was as complete as the God-directedarehiteet could make it. It seemed as if a vision from Heaven had alighted on the mountains. The day for dedication cams. Tradition- Says ' that there ®ere iu and around about the temple •n that day 300,(100 silver trumpets, 40,000 harps, 40,000 timbrels and 200,000 siugers; so that all modem demonstrations at Dusseldorf or Boston seem nothing compared with that. As this great sound-surged up amid the precious stones of the temple, it must have seemed like the River of Life dashing against the amethyst of the wall of heaven. The sonnd arose and God, as if to show that he was well pleased with the music whioh his children make in all ages, dropped into the mtdst of the temple a cloud of glory so overpowering that the officiating priests were obliged to stop in the midst of the services.

Thera has be? a much discussion as to where music wan born. I think that at the beginning, when the morning stars sang together and aii the suns ol God shouted for joy, that the earth heard the echo. The cloud on whic^ the angels stood to celebrate the creation was the birthplace of song. The*’stars that glitter at night are only so many keys of celestial pearl on which Clod’s fingers play the music of the spheres. Inanimate nature is full of God’s stringed and wind instruments. Silence itself—perfect silence—is only a musical rest in God’s great anthem of worship. Wind among the leaves, insect humming in the summer air, the rnsii of billow upon beach, the o<?san far out sounding .its everlasting psalm, the bobolink oh the edge of the forest, the quail whistling up from the grass, are music. While visiting Blackwell’s Island I heard coming from a window of the lunatic asylum a very Pweet song. It was snag by one who had lost her reason, and I have come to believe that even the deranged and disordered elements of nature would make music to our ear if we only had acuteness enough to listen. I suppose that even the sounds in . nature thM fee d iscordant and repulsive make harmony in God’s ear. You know that you may come so near to an orchestra that the sounds are painful instead of pleasurable; and I think that we stand so near devastating storm and frightful whirlwind we can not hear that which makes to God’s ear and the ear of the spirits above us a music as complete as it is tremendous.

The day of judgment, which win be a day of tumult and uproar, I suppose, will bring410 dissonance to the ears of those who can calmly Ijistea, although it will be as when some gr sat performer, in executing a boisterous ipiece of music, he sometimes breaks down the instrument upon • which he plays; so it may be on that last day that the gra.ad march of God, played by the fingers of thunder and earthquake and conflagration, may lireak down the world upon which the music is executed. Not only is inanimate nature full of music, but God has wonderfully organized the human voice, so that in the plainest throat and lungs there are fourteen direct muscles which can make over 14,000 different sounds! Bow, there are thirty indirect rauseles which can make, it has been estimated, more than 173,000,000 of sounds. Now,, I say, when God has so constructed the human voice, and when he has filled the whole earth with harmony, and when He recognized it in the ancient temple, I have a right to come tp the conclusion that God loves music. , I propose this morning to speak nbout sacred music, first showing you its importance and then stating some of the obstacles to its advancement. I draw the first argument for the importance of sacred music from the fact that God communded it. Through . Paul He tells us to admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs; through David J3e cries out: * Sing ye to God all ye kingdoms of the earth.” And there are hundreds of other passages I might name, proving that it is as much a man’s duty to sing as it is to pray. Iudeed I think there ere -more commands in the Bible to sing than there are to pray God not only ask s for the human voice, but for the instruments of music. He asks for the cymbal, and the harp, and the trumpet. And I suppose that, in the last days of the church, the harp, the lute, the trumpet, and till the instruments of music that have given tiheir chief aid to the theater and bacchanal, will be brought by their masters an'<l laid down at the feet of Christ and then sounded in the church’s triumph on her way from suffering into glory. “Praise ye the Lord !** Praise him with your voices. Praise him with stringed instruments and with organs. 1 draw another argument for the importance of this exercise from the impressiveness of the exercise. Yon know something of what secular music has achieved. You know it has made its impression upon governments, up on laws, upon literature, upon whole generations. One inspiriting National air is worth thirty thousand men nsa standing army. There comes a time in the battle when one bugle is worth n thousand muskets. In the earlier part of the civil war the Government proposed to economise in bands of music, and many of them were sent home; but the Generals in the army sent srinyt to Washington: “Yon are making a groat mistake. We are falling back and fulling back. We have not enough music.” Then the Government changed its mind; more bands of music were sent to the field, and the dity of shameful defeat terminated. 1 have to tell you that no nation or church can afford to ecoaom *t in music, should we rob the programmes of gayety when we have so many ate songs and tunes composed as well as that magnificent inheritance of church pealmody which has some down fragrant with the devotions of ether generations—tunes no more worn •at than when our great-grandfather* climbed up on them from the church-pew to glory! Dear old souls, how they used to ting! When they were cheerful our grandfathers and grandmothers used to sing “Colchester.” When they were vary meditative, then the meeting-house rang with “South Street” and “St. Edmonds.” Were they strucli through with great tenderness, they sang “Woodstock.” Were they wrapped in visions of the glory of the Church, they sang “Sion.” Were they ever borne with the love and glory of Christ, they sani; “Ariel.” And in those days there were certain tunes married to “»*“ hymns, and they have lived In we hit? ni-,rtghTtodiwoePthem. ,*“*-^,S2ys£ii£ of ohmeh music of artists

brought tato th» Kingdom ofJesueChrtat. Y«* stood ogt against the warning and the argument ot the pulpit; 'hut when In the sweat words of Charles Wesley 'or John Newton or Toplady, the lore of Jews was sung to yoor soul, then' you surrendered., as an armed castle that eould not he talked By a host, lifts its window to listen to a harp’s trilL There was a Scotch soldier dying in. New Orleans and a Booteh minister tame in to fin him the consofetienn ot the gospel. The man turned «nr on his pillow and said: “Don’t talk to me about reltgfon.” Then the Scotch minister haigai* to sing a familiar hymn of Scotland that was composed by Darid Dickinson, beginning with the word's- V He sun r it to the tune of Dundee, and every body, in Scotland knows that; and as he began to sing the dying soldier turned over on his piHow and said to minister: * “Where did you learn that**’ '.T ‘ “Why.” replied the minister, “my mothrer taught me that.” : “So did mine,” said'the dy ing Scotch soldier; aud the very foundation of his., heart was upturned, and them and there he yielded himself to Christ. Oh. it is an irresistible power! Eu*hert» sermons htfv'e been forgotten, but his “Judgment Hymn” sings on through the ages, and will keep on singing until the bloat of "-the archangel’s trumpet'shall bring a’eui that very day which the hymn celebrates. I would to Ood that those who hear me to-dav would take these songs of salvation as messages from Heaven; for. Just as certainly as the birds brought food to Elijah by the brook Cherith. so these winged harmonies, Oodsent, are flying to your soul with the bread or life. Open your mouth and take ■it, O hungry Elijah! O mother, dear Jerusalem, "’hen shall I come tp tliee? .

1 have also noticed the power ot sacred son* to soo'lie perturbation. Ton may hare come in here with a great many worriments and anxieties, yet perhaps hi the singing <»f the first hymn yon lose ail those worriments and anxieties. You hare read in the Bible ot Sant, and how he was sad and angry, and how the bov David came in atjd played tjte evil spirit out of him. A Spanish king was melancholy. The win lows were all closed. Bte sat in the darkness. Nothing oonld bring him 'forth until Franell came and discoursed music for three or four days to bint. On the fourth day he looked up and wept and rejoiced, and the windows were thrown open, and that which sdi thesplen-' dors of the court contd not do, the power of $ong accomplished. If yom have anxieties and worriiuen's try this heavenly charm upon them. Do not sit down on the bank of the hymn, but plange iu that the devil of care may be brought out of you. It also arouses to action. Do yon not know that; a singing church is always a triumphant church* If a congregation is silent rifting the exercise. partially silent, it is the silence of death. If when the hymn is given out you hoar the faint hum of here and there a father and mother in Israel, while the vast majority are silent, that minister of Christ who is presiding needs to have a very strong constitution if he does not get the chills. He needs not only the grace of God, but nerves like whalebone. It is amusing how some people with voice enough to discharge all their dnties in the world, when" they come into the house of God have no voice to discharge this duty. I really believe that if the Church of 'Christ could rise up and sing as it ought to sing,

mat where you have a hundred souls brought into the kingdom of Christ there would be a thousand. How was it in olden time? Cajetan said: “Luther conquered us by his songs.’* But I must now speak of some of the obstacles in the way of the advancement of this sacred music: and the first is, that it has been impressed into the service of superstition. I am far from believing thut music ought always to be positively religious. Refined art has opened places where music has been secularised and lawfully so. .The drawing-room, the musical club, the orchestra, the concert, by the gratification of pure taste and the production of harmless amusement and the improvement of talent, have hecome very forces in the advancement of our civilization. Music has as much right to laugh in Surrey Gardens as it has to pray in 8t. Paul’s. In the kingdom of nature we have the glad fling of the wind as well as the long-meter psalm of t&e thunder. But while all this is so, every observer has noticed that this art, which God intended Jfor the improvement of the ear and the voice and the head and the heart, has often been impressed into the service of error. Tartini, the musical composer, dreamed one night that Satan snatched from his band an instrument and played upon it something very sweet—a dream that has often been fulfilled in our day, the voice and the instruments, that ought to have been devoted to Christ, captured from the Church ami applied to purposes of ain. Another obstacle has been an inordinate fear of criticism. The vast majority of people singing in church never want anybody else to hear them sing. Everybody is waiting for somebody else to do his duty. If we ali saug, then the inaccuracies that are evident when only a few sing would lie drowned out. God asks you to do as well as you can, and then, if you get the wrong pitch or keep wrong time, he will forgive any deficiency of the. ear and imperfection of the voice. Angels will not laugh it yon should lose your place in the musical scale., or came in at the close a bar behind. There are three schools of singing, I am told—tile German school, the Italian school and the French school of singing. Now, I would like to add a fouth school, £nd that is the school of Christ. The voice of a contrite, broken heart, although it may not he able to stand human criticism, makes better music to God’s eur than the most artistic per-" formance when the heart is wanting. I know it is easier to preach on this than it is to practice; but 1 sing for two reasons: First, because I like it, and next, because I want to encourage those who do not knowhow. I have hut very little faculty in that direction and no culture at all, yet I am resolved to sing though every note should go off like a Chinese gong. God has commanded it and I dare not be silent. He calls on the beasts, on the cattle, on the dragons, to praise him, and we ought not to be behind the cattle and the dragons. Another obstacle that has been in the way of the advancement of tills holy art has been so much angry discussion on the subject of music. There are those who would hare this exercise conducted by musical instruments. In the same church there are those who do not Hike musical instruments, and so it is organ and no organ, and there is a fight. In another church it is a question whether the music shall be conducted try a precentor or by a drilled choir. Some want a drilled choir and some want a precentor, and there in a fight. Thcw there are those who would like m the church to have the organ’ played in a dull, lifeless droning way, while there are others who would have It wreathed into f ants sties, branching out into jets end spangles of sound, rolling and tossing in marvelous convolutions, as when in pyrotechnic display you think a piece (s exhausted it breaks out in wheels, rockets blue lights and serpentine demonstrations. Some would have the organ played in almost inaudible sweetness, and others would have it full of staccato passage* that make the audience jump with great eyes and hair on end as though hy a vision of the witch of Bndor, and he whu tries to please all will succeed Ic nothing. Nevertheless, you are to admit the fact that the contest which is going on in hundireds of churches of the Units*1 States today is a mighty hiuderanre to the advancement of this art. In Ihhi way scores end score* qf churches are entirety crl*iMMiHBiiH

pled us to all Influence, and to* music to * damage rather then • praise. Another obstacle in the advancement of thk art has baa* the asroneofu notion that this sart of the service eould be conduced by a delegation. Churched have “Oh, what an easy time we shall have. The mthisterwill do the preaching and the choir *ili do thssieglng, and we wiU have nothing to do.” . . Aqd y on know as well to I that there ara a great multitude of churches uU through this land where the people are not expected to sing. The whole work is done by a delegation of four or six oh ten persons end toe andiience ere silent. In such e church in Syracuse an old elder persisted In such stinging, and so the ehoir appointed a committee to go and ask Aie ’squire if he would not stop. Yon.know that in a great multitude of churches toe choir ate expected, end do, aU tbesidging and the great mass of people ere expected to he silent, and it you utter your vofte yop are interfering. There they ‘stand, the tour. With opera glass dangling at their side singing-, “Rock of Ages Cleft for Me,” with the same spirit that the night before on the stage they took their part in tbe “Grand Duchess” or ■■*SPoto.UtotMinh»->v— —.«WV wma My Christian frionde, have w<» a right to delegate to others the discharge of this duty which God demands of us? Suppose that four woodthrufhes propose tc do all the singing some bright day when the , woods are ringing with bird gpices. It is decided that four woodthriisbe* shall do l ill the singing of the forest. Let all other voices "keep silent. How beautifully the four warbled! It is realiv flue music. But how long will you keep the forest still? Why, Christ would come into that forest and look up as he looked through the olives, and he would wave his hand and say: “Let' every thing that hath breath praise the Lord,” and keeping time with the stroke of innumerable wings there would be five thousand bird voices leaping

into the harmony. Suppose this delegation of musical performers were tried in Heaven; suppose that four choice spirits should try to do the singing of the upper temple. Hush now, thrones and dominions and principalities. David, he still, though you were the “sweet singer of Israel.” Paul, keep quiet, though you have come to that crown of rejoicing. Richard Baxter, keep still, though thi# is the '-‘Sainf,’ Everlasting Best.” Four spirits now dp all the singing. But how long woidd Heaven be quiet? How long? “Hallelujah 1” .would cry some glorified Methodist from under the altar. “Praise the Lord!” would sing the martyrs from among the thrones. “Thanks he unto God who giveth us the victory 1” a great multitude of redeemed spirits would ery—myriads-ofvoicfes coming into the harmony, and Hie one hundred and forty and four thousand breaking forth into one acclamation. Stop that loud kinging! Stop! Oh, no; they can not hoar me. You might as well try to drown the thunder of the sky or beat back the roar of the ssa, for every soul in Heaven has resolved to do its own singing. Alas, that we should have tried on earth that which they can not do ia Heaven, and instead of joiuing all our voices ia the praise of the most high God, delegating perhaps to unconsecrated men and women this most solemn and most delightful service! Now, in this church, we have resolved upon the pian-of'eondueting the music by a precentor. We do it for two reasons: one is that by throwing the whole responsibility upon the mass of the people, making the great multitude the choir, wa might rouse more heartiness. The con

gregation coming on the Sabbath day feel that they can not delegate this part of the great service ty any one else, aad so they themselves assume it. We have glorious congregational singing here. People have come many miles to hear it. They are not sure about the preaching, but they can always depend on the singing. We have heard the sound coming up like“the voice of many waters,” but it will bn done at a better rate after a while, when we shall realise the height and the depth and the immensity of this privilege. Another reason why we adopted this plan: We do not wa jt any choir quarrels. You know very well that in scores of the churches there has been perpetual contention in that direction. The only church fight that ever occurred nnder my ministry was over a melodeon in my first settlement. Have you never been'in church on the Sabbath day and heard the choir sing and you said: “That is splendid music?" The next Sabbath you were iutihe church and there was no choir at all. Why? The leader was mad or his assistants were mad, or they were mad altogether. Some of the choirs are ihade up of onr bast Christian people! Some of the warmest friends I have ever had have stood up in them, Sabbath after Sabbath, conscientiously and successfully leading the praises of God. But the majority of choirs throughout the land are not made np of Christian people, and three-fourths of the church fights originate in the organ-loft. I take that back and say nine-tenths. Many of onr churches are dying: of choirs. Let us, as a church, givestUl more attention to the mqsic. If a man with voiee enough to sing keep silent daring the exercise he commits a crime against God and insults the Almighty. There will be a great, revolution on this subjects in all our churches. God will come down by his spirit and rotlse up the old hymns and tunes that have not been more than half awake aince the time of our grandfathera. The silent pews in the church will break forth into music, and when the conductor takes his plaee on ths Sabbath day there will he a great host of voices rushing into the harmony. My Christian friends, if we have no taste for this service on earth, what will we do in Heaven, where they all sing and sing forever? Let me prophesy in regard to any here who has no delight in the worship of Heaven, if you do not sing the pratses of God on earth I do not believe yon will ever sing them in glory, I would that our sihging to-day might he like tho Saturday night rehearsal for the Sabbath morning in the skies, and might begin now by the strength and by the help of God, to discharge a duty which none of ns have fully performed. Let those refuse to slug Who never knew our God; But ehihlren of tlie Heavenly King Should speak their Joys abroad. The hill of Zion yields A thousand sacred sweets. Before we reach the Heavenly Holds, Or walk the golden streets. Then let onr songs abound. And every tear ha dry; We're marehing through Emanuel's ground To fairer worlds on high. Come, now, clear your throats aad get ready for this duty or you will never hear the end of this. I never shall forget hearing a Frenchman singing the Marseillaise hymn on the Champ Blysees, Paris, just before the battle of Kedas. I never saw such enthusiasm before or since as he sang that National air. Oh, how the Frenchman shouted 1 Have you ever In an English assemblage heard a band play “God Save the Queen.” If you have you know something about the enthusiasm of o notional air. Now, I tell you that these songs ws sing Sabbath by Sabbath lire the national airs of Jesus Christ and of the kingdom of Heaven. When Cromwell's army went into battle, he stood nt the bead of them one day aad gave om the long meter doxology to the tune of '"Old Heart red,” and that great host, company by company, regiment by regiment, battalion by battalion, joined ia> the doxology: Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Praise Him oil creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye Heavenly host. Praise Father, Son nntl lloly Guost. And while they sang they marched, an<i while they matched they fought, and while they foaght they got the victory. Oh men and women or Jesus Christ, let as go into our conflicts singing the praises of God, and then, instead of fell ing book, as we often do, froui defeat kv detent, we-will be watching on from riotsry ts victor* • f

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Thu nick of time—The piece broken ont Of the ancient crockery-—The Rambler. Tr a cough disturbs your sleep, take Piso’s Cure for Consumption and rest well. A bank official’s life is a hard one at beat. Be is always receiring checks. Two Reasons why everybody needs and should take a food spring medicine, viz.: 1st, The body la how more susceptible to benefit front medicine than at any other season. id. The Impurities which hare accumulated In the blood should be expelled, and the system given tone and strength, before the prostrating effects of warm weather are felt. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the best spring medicine. It purifies the blood. It sharpens the appetite. It tones the digestion. It overcomes debility. It builds up the whole system. Try It this spring. “When In the spring I felt all run down and debilitated. 1 found Hoad's Sa saparitla just the medicine to build me up. My wife also, after much physical prostration, found In Us use new life and lastlng.benefit. Upon our little girl, who had been siek with scarlet fever, ltaeffect was marvelous, entirely removing the poison from her blood and restoring her to good health.” E. G. Stratton, Swampecott, Mass. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. SI; six for *5. Prepared by C. I. HOOD A CO- Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar The best and surest Remedy for Cue of all diseases caused by any derangement of the Liver, Kidneys, Stomach and Bowels. Dyspepsia, Siek Headache, Constipation, Billons Complaints and Malaria of all kinds yield readily to the beneficent influence of It is pleasant to the taste, tones up the system, restores and preserves health. It Is purely Vegetable, and eannot foil to prove beneficial, both to old and young. As a Blood Purifier it Is superior to all | others. Sold everywhere ht *1.00 a bottle.

died a catarrh remedy that has increased so rapidly in tales as Ely's or that has given such universal turn.—C. teuton, US Fulton

BULL’S SARSAPARILLA

THE LIVER SNniNtWMkHiaeta Hk» > tiler te riww layrlthi eftheMaa*, By lrt««a*rt|y to IUmtiUmer wwymlyi rf ll« hiMtlwiH Ike Wife mImm Ike Mood, ramlnR jaaudlee, HlUn MRftwhMK weak un» klttm twrlai, aluyM, weary frellag, u< May ether distressing irapiom fewrak ly termed Ihw treaties. Three are relieved at eaee hr the m* aT ML BI LL’S SiKSATUlUi, the (real Mead reUh Johk Bull.—I have been for a number of years severely afflicted with a mercurial headache and a dull, heavy pain in my liver. Three bottles of BULL'S Sarsaparilla gave me more relief than all the others combined: T. H. OWENS. Louisville. Ky. Di JomrBrtL.—I have examined the prescription (Or the preparation of Dt John Bull’s SAksaparilla. and believe (be combination to be an excellent one, and well calculated to produce an alterative impression on the system, i have used it both in public and private practice. and think it the best article of

DYSPEPSIA TarhMe ■tf'Utr, fatal, saaetag Mit al fit eMbe .teaft nm «f dlwaw wir* pr«i»l*Bf *w— m-- — * •Hesses W IriMd lftM estee the blood. BI LL'S SAH&Aft •j*ri '«• ‘nlrfta Ik. JonBeu.-t hare BO hesitation In that 1 believe your SARSAPARILLA to be -- -ured for the core of I medietne inanufaetun sarin* iebest Syphilis and many other ’cutaneous ’and glandular affections, having «*ed if with entire ben of the above case*! ~~ "* ~ JAMES MOORE, Louisville, Xj. snd vanous prescriptions that he has tried .for

Hes. nqri. at Lou. Marine Hosp. KIDNEYS »• |ml M«im erfttu of tt« M]r. ‘M4 ttitfi Ike KUMjt lew (he m# *- Natter take* fro* 1 IH*ejrt4»Nt«K preprrl; benefit to him than aU. lt-)uu> etfttefi nte of^^gwpsia THE BLOOD 13 THE LIFE. torse Cave, Ky. SCROFULA kllXtlvmWiaMNtflltAita, tk*u«t« Ikruusk Ike blumt, auulb

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The world renowned mm FOR 4NV\L!DS AND THE AGED. AN INCOMPARABLE ALIMENT FOR THE GROWTH AND PROTECTION OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN. A SUPERIOR NUTRITIVE IN CONTINUED FEVERS AND A RELIABLE REMEDIAL. * AGENT IN ALL DISEASES OF THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES By* " ' JomfOiBitjoHt Relieved at Last! “We know a gentleman In this county who, six months ago, was almost a hopeless cripple from an attack of rheumatism. Ke. could scarcely hobble across the room, used crutches, and said himself that he had tittle tl any hope of ever recovering. We taw him in our town Mat week, walk&tg about as lively at any other man, and. In the finest health and spirits. Upon our inquiry as to what had worked such a wonderful change in his condition, he replied that S. S. & had cured him. After using a dozen and a half bottles, he has been transformed from amiserable cripple to a happy, healthy man. Ue la none other than Mr. E. B. Lambert.”—Telephone. Treatise on'Blood and Skin Diseases matted free. Th* Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3. Atlanta, tin, or 157 W. 23d Street, N. T. A Beautiful Panel Picture. In order to advertise Well in’s Food In every home, we will malt, on receipt of Co. In stamps, (to pay postage), a beautiful panel picture, printed In «0^ 4V 43 Central Wharf. Boston, Matt. •Jrriease mention tins paper. One of the Beecher Fuoaily. James Beecher, M. D., of Sigourney, la-, says: “ t balsam called Du. Wm. have been using a cough Hall's Balsam run the Lungs, and in almost every ease throughout my practice 1 have had entire success. 1 have used and prescribed hundred* of bottles sinc&the days of my army practice (1SG3J, .when i was surgeon of Hospital No. 7, Louisville, Ky.’ Curd* colds, coughs and consumption. * FREE FARMS i* IaTiM The most Surrounds, towns. FAm raised in I COVERNMtl homestead. La* ultural Park in America, s mining and manufacturing IADISK! Magnificent cropa _JANOS OF ACRES OF LAND, subject to pre-emption* __ rsarte to actual settlers at 13.00 per Acre. LongTtwe. l*arkIrrigatedIw immense canals. Cheap railroad fates, tvery att ent to* show rfsettlers. For maps, pamphlets, etc., address Colorado Land * Loan Co., Opera House Block, Denver. Colo. Box. 2890. THE NEW DEPARTURE DRUMS k are made with patent double acting rods and ~ _folding knee rest. Light, Kite** o ‘ * bstautial and handsome, jed in the best Bands and Orchestras. Uneuualetl for

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0 LYON * HEALY, Chicago, S'l. I CURE F|W When 1 say cure i do nos mean merely to stop them R*» When 1 say cure i do nos mean merely to stop them rw * time and then hate theta return a^ain, I moan a radical cure. I have made the disease of FITS, EP1LBP8V or FALLING SICKNESS a life-long study. 1 warrant my remedy to cure the worst eases Bseaaae others have foiled fa n - s no reason tor rit now receiving a cure. Send at once foe a treatise and a Free Bottle of my in fallible remedy. Give Express *Jd Poet Office. It costa yon nothing for a triad, and VvlU cure. yon. v Address Or. B. <\ SOOT, 183 Pearl 81, New York. Pfao's Rerauly for Catarrh Is the Beat, Eafltent Use, and Cheapest CATARRH 1 Also for Cold In the Headr H%y Fever, Ac. SO cents. - achforyew and Per;ea»saffi8?J?tSW8Bh ifdeslmt. Buy direct and save 815 Write for menials from every State, GEORGE PAYNE A CO., 4» W. MonrooSt., Chicago. JkllT TUIC nilT sad return tOlB with IOC. and ■ ■Ul I Hlo UU I JouwiH itanejhebesltook ■ _ you ever read on LOVE, Courtship k M aukiaus. Address the Union Pu bushing Co., Newark, N. J. I HaMt, twlPaiiiw HDIIIRE lx cured. t home. Comspondeuca UriUMsgsgagfifi . . - _ tors. Tbk HumKkmxdy Company. Lafayette, ind. | When, where ___TT___-__ , _ ,» aadhowtoxget.lt. Send 25c for map ami fult hartieutars. Colony fofrmtn*. Address J. B. GARRISON, Belton. Bell County, Tex.

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