Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 40, Petersburg, Pike County, 20 February 1890 — Page 4

“THE GLORIOUS CHRIST.” An Eloquent Discourse by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage. Christ, Che AU-SuMeient for Earthly Comfort. nocks the Stink From Death— The Testimony of Witnesses Who Here Died la Christ. The following sermon was delivered in the Brooklyn Academy of Music by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage on the “Glorious Christ” His text was: He that eoineth from above Is above alt— John, ill., 31. The most conspicuous character of history steps out upon the platform. The finger which, diamonded with light pointed down to him from the Bethlehem sky, was only a ratification of the finger of prophecy, the finger of genealogy, the finger of chronology, the finger of events—all five fingers pointing in one direction. Christ is the overtopping figure of all time. He is the vox humana in all music, the most graceful line in all sculpture, the most exquisite mingling of lights and shades in all painting, the acme of all climaxes, the dome of all cathedraled grandeur, and the peroration of all splendi d language. The Greek alphaibet is made up of twenty-four letters, and when Christ compared Himself to the first letter and the last letter, the alpha and the omega, He appropriated to Himself all the splendors that you can spell out either with those two letters and all the letters between them. “I am the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.” Or if you prefer the words of the text— “Above all.” ^

lY.nat does it mean. juu bare piled up all Alpine and Himalayan altitudes, the glory of Christ would have to spread its wings and descend one thousand leagues to touch those summits. Pellon, a high mountain of Thessaly; Ossa, a high mountain, and Olympus, a high mountain; but mythology tells us when the giants warred against the gods they piled up these three mountains, and from the top of them proposed to scale the heavens; but the height was not great enough, and there was a complete failure. And after all the giants—Isaiah and Paul, prophetic and apostolic giants; Raphael and Michael Angelo, artistic giants, cherubim and seraphim and archangel, celestial giants—have failed to climb to the top of Christ’s glory they might all well unite ih the words of the text and say: He that eorneth from above is above all. First, Christ must be above all else in our preaching. There are so many books on homiletics scattered through the country that all laymen, as well as all clergymen, have made up their minds what sermons ought to be. That sermon is most effectual whieh most, pointedly puts forth Christ as the pardon of all sin and the correction of all evil—individual, social, political, national. There is no reason why we should ring the endless changes on a few phrases. There are those who think that if an exhortation or a discourse have frequent mention of justification, sanctification, covenant of works and covenant of grace, that therefore it must he profoundly evangelical, while they are suspicious of a discourse which presents the same truth, but under different phraseology. Now, 1 say, there is nothing in all the opulent realm of Anglo-Saxonism, of all the word treasures that we inherited from the Latin and Greek and the, Indo-Eu-ropean, but we have a right to marshal it jn religious discussion. Christ sets the example. „ His illustrations were from the grass, the flowers, the spittle, the salve, the barn-yard fowl, the crystals of salt, as well as from the seas and the stars; and we do not propose in our Sabbath-school teaching and in our pulpit address to be put on the limits. 1 know that there is a great deal said in our day against words, as though they were nothing. They may be misused, '* but they have an imperial power. They ate the bridge between soul and soul, between Almighty God and human race. What did God wrtie upon the tables of stones? Words. What did Christ utter on Mount Olivet? Words. Out of what did Christ strike the spark for the illumination of the universe? Out of words. “Let there be light,” and light was. Of course, thought is the cargo and words are only the ship; but how fast would your cargo get on without the ship? What you need, my friends, in all your work, in your Sabbath-school class, in your reformatory institutions, and what we all need is to enlarge our vocabulary when we come to speak about God, and Christ, and Heaven. We ride a few old words to death when there is such illimitable resource. Shakespeare employed fifteen thousand different words for dramatic purposes; Milton employed eight thousand different words for poetic purposes; Rufus Choate employed over eleven thousand different words for legal purposes; but ’the most of us have less than one thousand words that we can manage, less ^han five hundred, and that makes us so sthpid.

When we come to set forth the love of Christ we are going to take tenderest phraseology wherever we find it, and if it has never been used in that direction before, all the more shall we use it. When we come to speak of the glory of Christ, the Conqueror, we are going to draw our similes from triumphal arch and oratorio, and every thing grand and stupendous. The French navy has eighteen flags by which they give signal, but these eighteen flags they can put into sixty-six thousand different combinations. And I have to tell you that these standards of the cross may be lifted into combinations infinite and yafrieties everlasting. And let me say to these young men who come from the theological seminaries into our services every Sabbath, and are after awhile going to preach Jesus Christ, you will have the largest liberty and unlimited resource. You only have to present Christ in your own way. Jonathan Edwards preached Christ in the severest argument ever penned, and John Bunyan preached Christ in the sublimest allegory ever composed. Edward Payson, sick and exhausted, leaned up against the side of the pulpit and wept out his discourse, while George Whitefield, with- the manner and voice and start of an actor, overwhelmed his auditory. It would have been a different thing if Jonathan Edwards had tried to write and dream about the pilgrim's progress to the Celestial city, or John Bunyan had attempted an essay on the human will. Brighter than the light, fresher than the fountains, deeper than the seas, are all these Gospel themes. Song has no melody, flowers have no sweetness, sunset sky has no color, compared with these glorious themes. These harvests of grace spring up quicker than we can sickle them. Kindling pulpits with ^heir fire, and producing revolutions with their power, lighting up dying beds with their glory, they are the sweetest thought for the poet and they are the most thrilling illustration for the orator, and they offer the most intense scene for the artist, and they are to the embassador of the sky all enthusiasm. Complete pardon for direst guilt Brighest hope for grimmest death. Grandest resurrection for darkest sepulcher. Ob, what a Gospel to preach! Christ over all in it. His birth, HU suffering, His miracles, His parables, HU fill »*r», 81? fll«

ment, His intercession—what glorious themes! Do wo exercise faith? Christ is its object Do we hare lore? It fastens on Jesus. Have we a fondness for She Church? It is because Christ died for it Hare we a hoi* of Heaven? It is because Jesus went ahead, the herald and the forerunner. i The royal robe of Demetrius was so costly, so beautiful, that after he had put it off no one ever dared put it on; but this robe of Christ, richer than that, the poorest and the wannest and the worst may wear. “Where sin abounded grace may much more abound.” “Ob, my sins, my sins,” said Martin Luther to Staupitz, “my sins, my sins!” The fact is, that the brawny German student had found a Latin Bible that made him quake, and nothing else ever did make him quake; and when he found how, through Christ, he was pardoned and saved, he wrote to a friend, saying: “Come ever and join us great and awful sinners saved by the grace of God. You seem to he only a slender sinner, and you don’t much extol the mercy of God; but we that have been such very awful sinners praise His grace the more now that we have been redeemed,” Can it be that you arc so desperately egotistical that you feel yourself In firet-rat© spiritual trim, and that from the root of the hair to the tip of the toe you are scarless and immaculate? What you need is a looking-glass, and here it is in the Bible. Pbor, and wretched, and miserable, and blind, and naked from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, full of wounds and putrefying sores. No health in us. And-then take the fact that Christ gathered up all the notes against us and paid them, and then offered us the receipt

And bow much we need mm in our Borrows! We are independent of cir-' cumstances if we have His grace. Why, He made Paul sing in the dungeon, and under that grace St. John from desolate Patmos heard tie blast of the apocalyptic trumpets. After all other candles have been snuffed out, this is the light that gets brighter and brighter unto the perfect day; and after, under the hard hoofs of calamity, all the pools of worldly enjoyment have been trampled into dbep mire, at the foot of the eternal rock the Christian, from cups of granite, lily-rimmed and vinecovered, puts out the thirst of His soul. Again, I remark that Christ is above all in dying alleviations. I have not any sympathy with the morbity abroad about our demise. The Emperor of Constantinople arranged that on the day of his coronation the stone-mason^hould come and consult him about theHombstone that after awhile he would need. And there are men who are monomaniacal on the subject of departure from this lifo by death, and the more they think of it the less they are prepared*to go. This is an unmanliness not worthy of you, not worthy of me. Saladin, the greatest conqueror of his .day, while dying, ordered that the tunic he had on him be carried after his death on his spear at the head of his army, and then the soldier, ever and anon, should stop and say: “Behol^ all that is left of Saladin, the Emperor and conqueror! Of all the states he conquered, of all the wealth ho accumulated, nothing did he retain but this shroud.” I have no sympathy with such behavior, or such absurd demonstration,,tig with much that we hear uttered in Regard to departure from this life to the next. There is a commonsensical idea on this subject that you and I need to qpnsider—that there are only two styles of departure. A thousand feet underground, by light of torch toiling in a miner’s shaft, a ledge of rock may fall upon us, and we may die a miner’s death. Far out at sea, falling from the slippery ratlines ajjd broken on the halyards, we may die a' sailor's death. On mission of mercy in hospital, amid broken bones and reeking leprosies and raging fevers, we may die a philanthropist’s death. On' the field of battle, serving God and our country, slugs through the heart, the gun-carriage may roll over ns, and we may die a patriot’s death. But, after all, there are only two styles of departure—the death of ithe righteous and the death of the wicked—and we all want to die the former. God grant that when that hour comes you may be at home. You want the hand of your kindred in your hand. You want your children to surround you. You want tfie light on your pillow from eyes that have long reflected your love. You want the room still. Y'ou do, not want any curious strangers standing around watching you. You want your kindred from afar to hear your last prayor. I think that is the wish of all of us. But is that all? Can earthly friends hold us up when the billows of death come up to the girdle? Can human voice charm open Heaven’s gate? Can human band pilot us through the narrows of death into Heaven’s harbor?

Can any earthly friendship shield us from the arrows of death, and in the hour when Satan shall practice upon us his infernal archery? No, no, no, no! Alas! poor soul, if that is all. Better die in the wilderness, far from tree" shadow and from fountain, alone, vultures circling through the air waiting for our body, unknown to men, and to have no burial, if only Chri3t could say through the solitude: “I will never leave thee; I will never forsake thee.” From that pillow of stone a ladder would soar heavenward, angels coming and going; and across the solitude and the barrenness would come the sweet notes of heavenly minstrelsy. Gordon Ilall, far from home, dying in the door of a heathen temple, said: “Glory to Thee, O God!” What did dying Wilberforce say to his wife? “Come and sit beside me, and let us talk of Heaven. I never knew what happiness was until I found Christ” What did dying Hannah More say? “To go to Heaven, think what that is! To go to Christ, who died that I might live! Oh, glorious grave! Oh, what a glorious thing it is to die! Oh, the love of Christ, the love of Christ!” What did Mr. Toplady, the great hymn-maker, say in his last hour? “Who can measure the depths of the third Heaven? Oh, the sunshine that fills my soul! I shall soon be gone, for surely no one can livo in this world after such glories as God has manifested to my soul.” What did the dying Janeway say? “I can as easily die as close my eyes or turn my head in sleep. Before a few hours have passed 1 shall stand on Mount Zion with the one hundred and forty and four thousand, and with the jhst men made perfect, and we shall ascribe riches, and honor, and glory, and majesty, and dominion, unto God and the Lamb.” Dr. Taylor, condemned to burn at the stake, on his way thither broke away from the guardsmen and went bounding and leaping and^jumping toward the fire, glad to go to Jesus and to die for Him. Sir Charles Hare, in last moment, had such rapturous vision that he cried: “Upward, upward, upward!” And so great was the peace of one of Christ’s disciples that he put his fingers ppon the pulse in his wrist and counted it and observed it; and so great was his placidity that after awhile he said: “Stopped!” and his life bad ended here to begin in Heaven. But grander than that was the testimony of the worn-out first missionary, in the Mamartine dungeon,

be uried: “iam now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand; I hare fought the good fight, I have finished my course. I hare kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lend, the righteous Judge, will give me in that day, and not to me only, but to all the m that love His appearing!” Do you not. see that Christ is above all in dying alleviations? Toward the last hour of our earthly residence wtrare speeding. When I see the sunset, I sav: . “One day less to live.” When I sac the spring blossoms scattered, I say: “Another day gone forever.” When I close this Bible on Sabbath night, I say: “Another Sabbath departed.” When I bury a friend, I say: “Another earthly attraction gone forever.” What, wimble feet the years have! The roebucks and the lightnings run not so fast. From decade to decade, from sky to sky, they go at a bound. There is a place for us, whether marked or not, where you and I will sleep tie last sleep, and the j*uBn are now living who will, with scuemn tread, carry us to our resting-place. Ay, it is known in Heaven whether our departure will be a coronation or a banishment. Brighter than a banqueting hall through which the light feet of the da ncers go up and down to the sound of trumpeters will be the sepulcher through whose’ rifts the holy light of Heaven streameth. God will watch you. lie will send His angels to guard your slumbering ground, until, at Christ's behest, they shall roll away the stone. So, also, Christ is above all in Heaven. The Bible distinctly says that Christ is the chief theme of the celestial ascription, all the thrones facing His throne,

au tne palms wavea oeiore ms race, all the crowns down at His feet. Cherubim to cherubim, seraphim to seraphim, redeemed spirit to redeemed spirit, shall recite the Saviour's earthly sacrifice. “Stand on some high hill of Heaven, and in all the radiant sweep the most glorjous object will be Jesus. Myriads gazing on the scars of His suffering, in silence first, afterward breaking forth into acclamation. The martyrs, all the purer for the flame through which they passed, will say: “This is Jesus, for whom we died.” The apostles, all the happier for the shipwreck and the scourging through which they went, wiU say: “This is the Jesus whom we preached at Corinth, and at Cappadocia, and at Antioch, and at Jerusalem.” Little children clad in white will say: “This is the Jesus who took us in His arms and blessed us, and when the storms of the world were too cold and loud brought us into this beautiful place.” The multitudes of the bereft will say: “This is the Jesus who comforted us when our heart broke.” Many who wandered clear off from God and plunged into vagabondism, but were saved by grace, will say: “This is the Jesus who pardoned us. We were lost on the mountains, and He brought us home. We were guilty, and He has made us white as snow.” Mercy boundless, grace unparalleled. A nd then, after each one has recited his peculiar deliverances and peculiar mercies, recited them as by solo, all the voices will come together into a great chorus, which will make the arches echo and re-echo with the eternal reverberation of gladness and peace and triumph. Edward I. was so anxious to go to the H oly Land that when he was about to expire he bequeathed one hundred and sixty thousand dollars to have his heart, after his decease, taken to the Holy Land in Asia Minor, and his request was complied with. But there are hundreds to-day whose hearts are already in the Holy Land of Heaven. Where your treasures are there are your hearts also. Quaint John Bunyan, of whom I spoke at the opening of the discourse, caught a glimpse of that place, and in his quaint way he said: “And I heard in my dreams, and lo! the bells of the city rang again for joy; and as they opened the gates to let in the men I looked in after them, and lo! the city shonf like the sun, and there were streets of gold, and men walked on them, harps in their hands, to sing praises withal; and after that they shut up the gates, which, when I had seen, I wished myself among them!”

Cocaine H illncinatlone. MM. Magnan and Saury report three cases of hallucination due to the cocaine habit. One patient was always scraping his tongue* and thought he was extracting from it little black worms; and the other made his skin raw in the endeavor to draw out cholera microbes; and a third, a physician, is perpetually looking for cocaine crystals under his skin. Two patients suffered from epileptic attacks and a third from cramps. It is important to notice that two of these patients were persons who had resorted to cocairfe in the hope of being able to cure themselves thereby of the morphine habit, an expectation which had been disappointed. For more than a year they had injected from one to two grains of cocaine under the skin, without, however, giving up the morphine injections, which were only reduced in quantity. The possibility of. Substituting cocainism in the endeavor to cure morphinomania is a danger, therefore, which must be carefully held in view.—British Medical Journal. Aa Ant Fifteen Venn Old. It is well known that Sir John Lubbock has shown how long insects may live when kept out of harm’s way. Tho greatest ago yet attained by any insect, so far as known, is that reached by a queen of an ant (Formica fusca), which lived in his care until August 8, 1888, when she must have been nearly fifteen years. Another queen of the same species died at the advanced age of thirteen years. He has now a queen of another kind of ant (Lasius nigor) which is more than nine years old, “and sdll lays fertile eggs, which produce female ants.” He has also workers of Lasiusniger and Formica fusca, “which were at least seven years old.” At the other extreme of insect longevity stands the May fly, or Ephemera, the type of fleeting existence, these insects having the reputation of living but a few hours or a day.—Science. What Will Besom; of Niagara? Prof. Woodward declares that in about I 2d0 years the rock over which the enters plunge at Niagara will be all worn away. The area of the rock worn away at the Horseshoe Falls between title years 1842 and 1875 was 18,500 square feet, equal to 0.425 acre; between 1875 and 1880, a period of 11 years, 60,000 square feet, or 1,37 acres, were worn out by the monster cataract. The main length of the contour of the falls is 2,800 feet. The time required to recede one mile, if tho rate is 2.4 feet per year, is 2,,200 years. Before this catastrophe is due, doubtless, provisions will he made to confine the waters of Lake Erie, so that a disastrous inundation wiU not take place. What wonders will have come and went before these 2,200 years elapse!—St Louis Bepublic. —It would be interesting to compare the number of wedding rings and the number of engagement rings that are sold in this country every year, -Somerville Journal,

PRESS PLUNDER. FoBTT-srrEX thousand of the 78,000 paupers in the New York State almshouses are of foreign birth. It is estimated that there are 3,000,000 orange and lemon trees in California, mostly in the southern section. Robert E. Gick, although serving out a life sentence in Joliet prison, acts as the warden’s coachman and trusted messenger. About 400,000,000 people use opium, while 750,000 are confirmed opium-eat-ers; and of these, 95,009 live in the United States. ' Subgeon-General Joint B. Hamiltos says that not one-third of our population of a military age can pass the ex ami nation of aj recruit. While one of Pittsburgh’s mounted policemen was chasing a criminal his horse suddenly lay down. The policeman got off, and so did the fugitive. Distance is continually being abridged. By the new route via British America it will be passible to go from London to Yokohama in twenty-three days. A sessatiox has been created among New York gastronomers over the alleged discovery that they have been eating black squirrel hash, dono in old sherry, at diamond-back terrapin prices. The superintendent of the Michigan Military Academy broke through the ice when skating the other day, and tho cadets showed their discipline by singing “Down Went McGinty” with military promptness and precision. , Prom the year the Patent Office was established up to the present time 3,500 patents have been granted to females. The first woman patentee was Mary Sees, who invented a machine for weaving a mixture of silk and thread.

A Madison (Mich.) widow tills three birds with one stone by inserting in the same issue of the Adrian Times her husband's obituary notice, a card Of thanks and a notice that she will auction off her late partner^ personal effects. A mas at Ann Arbor, _%*;h., has secured a divorce on the ground of extreme ccuelty. He alleged that his wife fed him on bread and milk, refused to sew buttons on his clothing, nagged him for expensive trappings for herself and twice actually assaulted him. The wife did not deny the accusations. Some smart person has been studying “the evolutions of popular songs and favorite hymns.” It seems that all the trifles of the day were stolen from the great composers. It is suspected that the arrangement called “Where Bid You Get That Hat?” is identical with “The Pilgrims’ Chorus” in “Tannhauser.” A Woman In the Cam. There always is. She is the power behind the throne. A woman’s influence over the man who loves her is often absolute. To wield so great a power to guide, strengthen and help her husband, a woman’s mind should be clear and healthy. It can not be if she is suffering from any functional derangement. How many a home is made unhappy because she who should be its life and light is a wretched, depressed, morbid invalid! Wives, mothers and daughters, why suffer from “female complaints” winch are sapping your lives away, when Dr. Pierce’s * Favorite Prescripton will renew your health and gladden those about you. It has restored happiness to many a saddened life Why endure martyrdom when release is so easy? In its special field there never was a restorative like the “Favorite Prescription. ” To cleanse the stomach, liver, and system generally, use Dr. Pierce’s Pellets. 25 cents. * The Influenza has become so common that It is no longer interesting. It is a sort of hoarse chestnut, so to speak.—Boston Transcript. Tibbee, Miss., Oct. 16,1886. Messrs. A. T- Shallenberger & Co. Rochester, Pa. Gentt.—The bottle of Shallenberger’s Pills sent me in February last I gave to W. G. Anderson, of this place; a long standing case of chills and fever. He had tried every thing known 1\7V Cl . UWU Uf v* J ** * Cl without any permanent good. In less than teivdays after taking your Antidote he was leivvaj s aivct uuiug jwui. aa**— sound and well, and has gone through the entire season without any return. It seems to have effectually driven the Malarious poison from his system. Yours truly, V. A. Anderson. “Nothing is harder to bear than a long ■ucoession of pleasant days,” sighed the umbrella-maker.—Fliegende Blatter. CwSfl. Consumption Surely < To the Editor:—Please inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for -the above named disease. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy free to any of yonr readers who have consumption if they will send me their express and post-office address. Respectfully. T. A. Slocum, M. C., 181 Pearl street. New York. AH economist is often a man who can tell •very body else how to economise without being able to do it himself. —Texas Siftings. No Farmer Should Build Any Fence until he has written to-S. H. Garrett, Mansfield,!}.,for Catalogue of Fence Machines,etc. 1 A cloud upon a real-estate title does not always have a silver lining.—Hutchinson News. For twenty-five cents yon can get Carter’s Little Liver Pills—the bestliver regulator in the world. Don’t forget this. One pill a dose. The street beggars work on the principle that nothing succeeds like distress.—Philadelphia Times.

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The Voyage of life. life is beset by evilsi adebanp-sonevery aide. From birth to manhood and from manhood until old age eter nal vigilance is theories of health. There is one remedy that has saved many a rickety, headaching, blood-poisoned, dyspept iomortal to a life of usefulness and robust health. It istaiO’vn as Dr. Bull’s Sarsaparilla, and it is a 8ar iaparilla that isa Sarsaparilla. Not a thousand doses of molasses and water for a doU ir, but a concentrated essence of the b»t virtues of sarsaparilla and other alterat ve herbs. It heals, it cures where other sarsaparilla and blood remedies have no more effect than so much stagnant water. If your system craves an alterative, if you va ue lie, you do yourself a great injustice if 3 on fail to try this excellent remedy. Demimd it of your druggist and take no other.— Sidney Times. It seems rather personal to the drummajor when the band behind him starts ti p: “Where did you get that hat!”—Boston Courier. Florence, Ala. The personally conducted excursions to this rapidly growing city been so successful that the Chicago &'• Eastern Illinois Railroad, Evansville Route, will run one on each of the following dates—Feb. 4th, 11th, 18thand 25th. For copy of “Alabama As It Is,” and further information send to Willi a*n Hill, Gen. Pass. Agent, Chicago, I1L It was presumably a visitor to a great brewery who sang “With all its vault* I love thee still.”—The Hotel: Gazette.

Gratifying to ALL The high position attained and the universal acceptance and approval of the pleasant liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Figs, as the most excellent laxative known,illustrate the value of the qualities on which its success is based and are abundantly gratifying to the California Fig Syrup Company. The collapse of a real-estate boom only means that the wind has been taken out of the sales_Binghamton Republican. Dox’t take our word for the good quality of Dobbins’ Electric Soap Get one bar of your grocer, and let it tell you ile owns'ory next Monday, and be governed by l:iat» good or bad. Remember Dobitns’ fflectne. Ax exchange says the best thing to give an enemy is kindness; but that deoendti on the enemy's size —Texas Siftings. * I have looked over the list of ingredit nts in Bulls Sarsaparilla and have no hesitation in pronouncing it a safe compound 1 hat promises well in diseases to which it is applicable.—L. Y. Yandeil, JI. D. The inexperienced carver is apt to f nd tbat a knife, like some rules, can work b >th ways.—Burlington Free Press. $300 Prizes—Case School of App ied Science offers five 5300 prizes on entn ice examination. For particulars address Pr sident Staley, Cleveland, O. It is no use to talk pessimism to a dar! cey with a five-doilar bill.—Terre Haute ' ix nress. Alwats avoid harsh purgative pills. T ley first make you sick and then leave you constipated. Carter's Little Liver Pills regu ate the bowels and make you weiL Dose,onej iiU. Most of ns worry over our trials, but she lawyers worry if they haven’t any.—Yorkers Statesman. Coi gii axd Hoaissexess.—The irrita ion which induces coughing immediately relieved by the use of “Brown's Bronchia^ TrochesSold only in boxes. _ A max who itches for fame must scratch around lively to secure it—Epoch. How My Throat Herts ! Why don’t you use Hale’s Honey of Horehonnd and Tari Pike’s Toothache D rops Cure in one min ute. If you evgr expect to get rich you must make moniqf when times are hard. Get the Bestl Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers are the best They taste good. They are safe. They are sure. A max makes a g rist of enemies by aspiring to things other men want Ko straxger should leave the city without a box of “Tansill’s. Punch” 5c. Cigars. Ip you would lift me, you mfist be on higher ground.—Emerson. Best, easiest to use atd cheapest. PIso’s Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. 35c. A max who attempts to flatter you takes you for a fooL "Good and Honest.” fis thus praised: sAAtv. State of Ohio TreasOhio3Ftb.,6D889IQ'JUS' ¥ “I have used St JaVjfjl. cobs Oil in my family for years, and find lit to be the medicine of medicines FOR GENERAL USE. ttis a good, honest medicine and honest men trill not hesitate to recommend it to suffering humanity." JOHN P. SLEMMONS. . Bookkeeper. At Drcgg sts akd Dealers. (HE CHARLES A VOGEkER.CO.. BalUmoro. Hi ,JH E- PEOPLES I REMED Y. PR I C E if $1 Salvation OU Titfs Pills Is an invaluable remedy for SICK HEADACHE, TORPID UVERri DYSPEPSIA, PILES, MALARIA, COSTIVEHESS AND ALL BILIOUS DISEASES. Sold E’ rerywhere. Ely’s Cream Halm Is the beat remedy for children j Buffering fron Cold in Head, Snuffles] OB CATARF!H. Apply Balm into eac inostrlL ELY BROS., fit Warren St., K. T.

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6. INTELLECTUAL WOVEN. “I do believe those women, "Who for years and years and years,, Keep polishirl*: their'intellects. To ornament their biers”— should again call the attention of their sex to the remiedv especially provided for the correction of their physical ailments by Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo. It is called “ FavoritelPreseriptioii.” Women for years itnd years and years have used it and have pronounced it the best corrective of all “ female weaknesses ” ever invented. t

As an invigorating, rtrtorative tonic, soothing cordial and bracing nervine, for debilitated and feeble women generally, Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription has no equal. In fact, it is the onlj medicino for the peculiar weaknesses and ailments incident to females, sold by druggists, under a positive guarantee from its manufacturers, that it will, in every case, give satisfaction or its price ($1.00) will ta> promptly refunded. It improves digestion, invigorates the system, enriches the blood, dispels aches and pains, produces refreshing sleep, dispels melancholy and nervousness, and builds up both the flesh and strength of those reduced ‘below a healthy standard. It is a legitimate medicine—not a beverage. Con

tains no alcohol to inebriate ; no symp or sugar to sour or ferment in the stomach and cause distress. It is as peculiar in its marvelous,_ remedial results as in its composition. Tbferefore, don't be put off with some worthless compound easily, but dishonestly, recommended to he “ just as good,” that the dealer may snake more profit. “Favorite Prescription” is incomparable. The manufacturers’ unprecedented offer to guarantee satisfaction in every case, or moiiey refunded, ought to convince every invalid of this fact. A Book, on Woman's Ailments, and their Self-cure (ISO pages), sent under seal, in plain envelope, for ton ets. in stamps. Address, World's Dispensary Medical Association, «53 Main St., Buffalo, N. T.

Dr. Pierce’s Pellets regulate and cleanse the liver, stomach and bowels. One a dose. Sold by druggists.

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