Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 46, Petersburg, Pike County, 3 April 1890 — Page 4

The World

The following dissourse was delivered by Bev. T. DeWitt Talmage in the Brooklin Academy of Music, his text being: A living dog IS better than a dead lion.— Krcles. lx, 4. The Bible is tlfe s .range st, the loveliest, the mightiest the weirdest, the best of books. Written by Moses the lawyer, Joshua the soldier, Samuel the judge, Ezra the builder, Job the poet, David the shepherd, Daniel the Prime Minister, Amos the herdsman, Matthew the custom-house officer, Luke the doctor, Paul the scholar, John ,the exile; and yet a complete harmony from the middle verso of the Bible, which is the eighth verse of the one hundredth and seventeenth Psalm, both ways to the upper and lower lids, and from the shortest passage, which is the thirtyfifth verse of the eleventh chapter of John, to the longest verse, which is the nin^h verse of the eighth chapter of Esther, and yet not ;»n imperfection in all the sevenhundredandseventy-three » thousand, six hundred and ninety-three words which it is Composed of. It not only yeaches. over the past, but over the future; has in it a ferry-boat, as in second Samuel; and a telegraph wire, as in Job; and a railroad train, as in Nahum, and introduces us to a foundryman by the name of Tubal Cain, and a shipbuilder by the name of Noah, and an architect hy the name of Aholiab, and tells how many stables Solomon had to take care of his horses, and how much he paid for those horses.^? But few things in this versatile and comprehensive Book interest me so much as its apothegms, those short, terse, sententious, epigrammatic sayings, of which my text is one—“A living dog is better than a dead lion.” ' Here the lion stands for nobility, and the dog for meanness. You must know that the dog mentioned in the text is not one of our American or European or Scottish dogs that, in our mind, is a synonym for the beautiful, the graceful, the affectionate, the sagacious and the true. The St Bernard dbg is a hero, and if you doubt it, ask the snows, of the Alps, out of which he picked the exhausted traveler. The shepherd dog is a poem, and if you doubt it ask the * Highlands of Scotland. The artic dog is the rescue of explorers, and if you doubt it ask Dr. Kane's expedition. The watch-dog is a living protection, and if you doubt it, ask ten thousand homesteads over whose safety he watched last night But Solomon, the 4 author of my text, lived in Jerusalem, and the dog he speaks of in the text was a>dog in Jerusalem. Last December I passed days and nights within a stone’s throw of where Solomon wrote this text and from what I saw of the canines of Jerusalem by day, and heard

oi tnem oy mgoi, i Uii uimrrMiHiu lilt; alight appreciation my text puts upon <■ the dog of Palestine. It is lean and snarly and disgusting, and afflicted with parasites, and takes revenge on the human race by filling the nights with clamor. All up and down the llible,the most of which was written in Palestine or Syria, or contiguous lands, the dog is used in contemptuous comparison. Hatael said: “Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing?” Ip self-abne-gation the Sy:ro-Ph«3nician woman said: “Even the dogs eat' of the crumbs which fall from the master’s tabl^” a Paul says, in Philippians: “Beware of dqgs;” and St. John, speaking of Heaven, says: “Without are dogs.” On the other hand the lion is healthy, strong and loud-mouthed, and at its roar the forests echo and the mountains tremble. It is marvelous for strength, and when its hide is removed the muscular compactness is something wonderful and the knife of the dissector bounds back from the tendons. By the clearing off of the forests of Palestine and the use of fire-arms, of which the lion is particularly afraid, they have disappeared from places where once they ranged, bat they were very hold in olden times. They attacked an army of Xerxes, while marching through Macedonia. They were so numerous that one thousand lions were slain in forty years in the amphitheater of Wie. The Barbary lion, the Cape lion, the Senegal lion, the Assyrian . lion make up a most absorbing and exciting chapter in natural history. As most of the Bible was written in regions lion-haunted, this creature appears in almost all parts of the Bible as a simile. David understood its habits of nightprowling and day-slumbering, as is seen from his description: “The young lions roar after their prey and seek their meat from God. The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.” And again he cries out: “My soul is among lions.” Moses knew them, and said: “Judah is couched like a lion.” Samson knew them, for he took honey fromAhe carcass of a slain lion. Solomon know them, and savs: “The King’s wrath is as the roar of a lion,” and again: “The slothful man says. There is a lion in the way.” Isaiah knew- them, and says, in the millennium, “The lion shall eat straw like an ox.” Ezekiel knew them, and says: “The third was as the face of a lion.” Paul knew them, and says: “I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.” Peter knew them, and says: “The devil as a roaring lion walketh about.” St. John knew him, and says of Christ: “Behold t he -Lion of the tribe of Judah!” Now, whi t does my text mean when it puts a living dog and a dead lion side by side, and says the former is better than the latter? It means that small faculties actively used are of more value than great faculties unemployed. How often you see it! Some man with limited capacity vastly useful. He takes that which God has given him and says: “My mental endowment is • not large and the world Would not rate me high for my intelligence, and my vocabulary iis limited, and my educationpvas defective, hut here goes what 1 have for God and salvation, and the -making of the world good and happy.” He puts Bn » word here and a word there,- encourages i, faint-hearted man, gives a Scripture passage in consolation to some bereft woman, picks up a child fallen in the street and helps him brush off the dust :»nd puts a five-cent piece in his, bind, telling him not to cry, so that the boy is singing before he gets round the corner; waiting on every body that has a letter to carry or a message to deliver; conies into a rail-train, or stage-coach, or repot, or shop, with a smiling face that sets ever/ body to thinking; *TI that man can, witb^what appears unall equipment in life, be happy, why, can net I, possessing far more than lie has, tie equally happy?” One day of that k nd of doing things may pel amount to much, but forty years of that—no < me but God Himself can appreciate its immensity. There are tens of thousands of such people. Their circle of acquaintance is small. The man is known over at the store. He la’derk, or weigher, or drayman, and be is known among those who sit near him clear Hack in the church V under the galleries and at the ferry! galea, whsre be ennea knocking the spow frpm bimbo* M)4 threshing bln I /

arms around his body to retire circulation, on some January morning. But if he should die to-morrow there would

not be a hundred people who would know about it He will never have his Dime in the newspapers but once, and that will bo the announcement of his death, if some one will pa; for the insertion, so much a line for the two lines. But be will come up gloriously on the other side, and the God who has watched him all through will give him a higher seat and a better mansion and a grander eternity than many a man who had on earth, before his name, the word Honorable, and after his name LLD. and F. R. S. Christ said in Luke, the sixth chapter, that in Heaven some one who had it hard here would laugh there. And I think a laugh of delight and congratulation will run around the heavenly circles when this humble one of whom I SDoke shall go np and take the precedence of many Christians who in this world felt themselves to be of ninety per cent, more importance. The whisper will go round the galleries of the upper temple: "‘Can it be possible that that was the weigher in our store?” “Can it be possible that that was the car-driver on our street?” “Can it be possible that was the sexton of our church?” Can it be possible that is the man that heaved coal into our cellar?” “I never could have thought it Wbat a reversal of things! We were clear ahead of him on earth, but ho is clear ahead of us in Heaven. Why, we had ten times more brains than he had, we had a thousand times more money than he had, we had a social position a mile higher than he had, we had innumerable opportunities more than he had, but it seems now that he accomplished more with his one talent than we did with our ten;”^vhile Solomon, standipg among the thrones, overhears the whisper, and sees the wonderment and will, with benignant and allsuggestive smile, say: “Yes, it is as I told the world many oenturies ago—better is small faculty actively used than great talent unemployed,” “better is a living dog than a dead lion.” ltut 1 thank God that we aro having just now an outburst of splendid beneficence that is to increase until the earth is girdled with it It is spreading with the speed of an epidemie, but with just the opposite effect, of an epidemic. Do yon not notice how wealthy men are opening free libraries, and building churches in their native village? Have you not seen how men of large means, instead of leaving great philanthropies in their wills for disappointed heirs to quarrel about, and tho orphan courts to swamp, are becoming their own executors and administrators? After putting aside enough for their families (for “he that provideth not for his own, and especially those of his own household, is worse than an infidel”), gfeare saying: “Wbat can I do, not after I am dead, but while living, and in full possession of my faculties, to properly direct the building of the churches, or the hospitals, or the colleges, or the libraries that I design for tho public welfare, and while yet I have full capacity to enjoy the satisfaction of seeing the good accomplished? There aro bad fashions and good fashions, and whether good or bad, fashions are mighty. The simple fact is that the world has been, and the world is now, full of dead

lions. They are people of great capacity and large opportunity, doing nothing for the improvement of society, nothing for the ^salvation of souls. Some of them are monetary lions. They have accumulated so many hundreds of thousands of dollars that you can feel their tread when they walk through ahy street or come into any circle. They can by one financial move upset the money market. Instead of the ten per cent, of their income which the llible lays down as the proper proportion of their contribution to the cause of God, they do not give five per cent., or three per cent, or two per cent, or one per cent., or a half per cent, or a quarter per cent. That they are lions, no one doubts. When they roar, Wall street Stato street Lombard street and the Bourse tremble. In a few years they will lie down and die. They will have a great funeral, and a long row of fine carriages; and mightiest requiems will roll from the organ, and polished shaft of Aberdee*n granite will indicate where their dust lies, but for all use to the world that man might as well have never lived. As an experiment as to how much he can carry with him put a ten cent piece in the palm of his dead hand, and five years after open the tomb, and you will find that he has dropped even the ten cent piece. A lion! Yes, but a dead lion! lie left all his treasures on earth, and has no treasures in Heaven. What shall the stone-cutter put upon the obelisk over him? I suggest, let it be the man’s name, then the dato of his birth, thA the date of his death, then the appropriate tieripture passage: “Better is a living dog than a dead lion.” One of the good fashions now starting will sweep the earth—the fashion for wealthy men to distribute, while yet alive, their surplus accumulation. It is being helped by the fact that so many large estates have, immediately after the testator's death, gone into liquidation. Attorneys with large fees are employed on both sides, and the case goes on month after month, and year after year, and after one court decides, it ascends to another court and is decided in the opposite direction, and then new evidence . is found, and the trials are all repeated. The children who, at the father's funeral seemed to have an uncontrolable grief, after the will is read go into elaborate process to prove that the father was crazy, and therefore incompetent to make a wili; and there are men on the jury who think that tho fact that the testator gavo so much of his money to the Bible society and the missionary, society, or the opening of a free library, is proof positive that ho knew not what he was signing when he subscribed to tho words; “In the name of God, amen. I, being of sound mind, do make this my last will and testament The tom wills, the fraudulent wills, the broken wills have recently been made such a spectacle to angels and to men that all over the land successful men are calling in architects and saying to them: “How much would it cost for mo to build a picture gallery for our town?” or, “What plans can you draw me for a concert hall?” or, “I am specially interested in the ‘incurables,’ and how large a building would accommodate three hundred of such patients?” or, “The church of God has been a great help to me all my life, and I want you to draw me a plan for a church, commodious, beautiful, well ventilated, and with plenty of .windows to let in the light; I want you to get right at work in making out, plans of such a building, for, though I am well now, life is uncertain, and before I leave the world I want to see something done that will be an appropriate acknowledgment of the goodness of God to me and mine; now when can I hear from you?” In our own city we have many examples of this. What a granieurof beneficence has our fellow-citizen, Mr. Pratt, demonstrated, btilding educational institutions which will put their hands on tho nineteenth century, and the twentieth century, and all the centuries! AH honor to such a man! I)o not say bo when he is dead, say it now. It would be a good thing if some of the eulogies we chisel on tombstones wore written on paper in time for the philanthropists ft read them whitoyotttPjr

arc all vc. Less post-mortem prai.*S, and more smte-mortem.

A T**>r Scotch lad came to America at twelve years of age, and went to Pittsburgh. He looked around for work, and became an engineer in a ^cellar, then rose to become a telegraph messenger boy, then rose to a position intfral'iroad office, then rose to a place in a teleglfeph office, then rose to be superintendent of a railroad, then rose till be became an iron and steel manufacturer, then rose until he opened free libraries in his tithe la nd, and last month a Jfree libra -y in Allegheny City, and now offers two million dollars for a free library in Pittsburgh. This exampj-*' will hi) catching until the earth is revolutionized. How majestic such men in comparison with some 1 wot of, who amass wealth and clutch it with both hands until death begins to feel for tlteir heartstrings, and they dictate to an attorney a last will and testament, in which they spite sotnc daugb ter because she- married against her fa thers wish, and fling a few crusts to God and suffering humanity, as much as to say: “I have kept this surplus property, through all these severe winters, and through all these long years, from i. needy and suffering world, and would keep it longer if I could, but as I must give it up, take it, and much good may it do you!’’ Now wo begin to understand the text: • “Better is a living dog than a dead lion.” Who would attempt to write the obituary of the dead lions of commerce, the dead 'lions of law, the dead lions of medicine, the dead lions of social influence? Vast capacity had they, and mighty range, and other men in their presonce were as powerless as the antelope or heifer or giraffe when from the jungle a Numidian lion springs upon its prey. But they get through with life. They have made their last sharp bargain. They have spoken their last hard v.-ord. They havdkcotnmitted their l^t mean act. When a tawny inhabitaht of the desert rolls over helpless, the lioness and whelps fill the air with shrieks and howls, and lash themselves into lamentation, and it is a genuine grief for the poor things. But when this dead lion of monstrous usefulness expires, there is nothing but dramatized woe, for “Better is a living dog than a. dead lion.” My text also means. that an opportunity of the living present is better than a groat opportunity passed. We ■ spend much of our time in saying: “II I only had.” Wo can all look back and see some occasion where we might have done a great deed, or might have effected an important rescue, or we might have dealt a stroke that would have accomplished a vast result Through stupidity or lack of appreciation of the crisis, or through procrastination, wi let the chance go by. How much time we have wasted in thinking of what we might have said or might have done! We spend hours and days and years in walking around that dead lion. We can not resuscitate it It will never open its eyes again. There will never bo another spring in its paw.

Dead as any feline terror oi qouid Africa, through whose heart thirty years ago Gordon Gumming sent the slug. Don’t let us give any more time to th( deploring of the dead past. There areother opportunities remaining. They? may not be as great, but they are worth our a ttention. Small opportunities all around, opportunities for the saying o! kind words and doing of kind deeds. Helpl essness to be helped. Disheartened ones 1*> be encouraged. Lost ones to bt found. Though the present may be in significant as compared with the past “Betiter is a living dog than a dead lion.’ The most useless and painful feeling is the one of regret. Repent of lost op portunities we must, and get pardon w< may, but regrets weaken, disbearter and cripple for future work. If a sea captain, whoonce had charge of a Whitt Star steamer across the Atlantic ocean, one foggy night runs on a rock off Newfoundland and passengeJs and ship perish, shall he refuse to take command el a small boat up the North river and say: “I never will goon the water again unless I can run one of the Whitt Star line?” Shall the engineer of a lightning express, who at a sta tion misread the telegram of a trapi -dispatcher and went into collision and for that has been put down tc the work of engineering a freight train, say: “I never will again mount an engine unless I can run a vestibule express?” Take what you have of opportunity left. Do yoiir best with what remains. Your shortest winter day is worth more to you than can be the longest day of a previous summer.’ Your opportunity now, as compared with (previous opportunities, may be j small as a rat-terrier compared wi th ;the lion which at Matabosa, fatally wounded by; the gun of David Livingstone, in its death agony leaped upon the missionary explorer, and with its jaws crushed the bone of his arm to splinters, and tlierf rolled over and expired, but, “Better is a living dog than a dead lion.” In the great city it will be found that the last shall be first. There are in the grog-shops and in the haunts of iniquity to-day those who will yet be models ol holiness and preach Christ to the people. In yonder group of young men who came here with no useful purpose, there is one who will yet live for Christ and perhaps die ifor Him. In a pulpit stood a stranger preaching, and he said: “The last time I was in this church was fifteen years ago, and the circumstances were peculiar. Throe young men had come expecting to disturb the service, and they had stones in their pockets which they expected to hurl at the preacher. One of the young men referred to refused to take part in the assaplt, and the others in disgust at his ccwardice, left the building. Oae of the thro3 was hangad for forgery. Another is in prison, condemned to death for murder. I was the third, but the grace of God saved [me.” My hearers, give no one up. The case may seem desperate, bat the grace of God likes to undertake a dead lift. I proclaim it this day to all the people—Free Grace! Living and djriijg, be that my theme—free grace! Sound it across the continent, sound it across the seas—free grace! Spell out those words in flowers, lift them in arches, build them in thrones, roll them in oratorios—free grace! That will yet Edenize the earth and people Heaven with nations redeemed. Free grace! Salvation! O, the Joyful sound, "Tfs pleasure to our eaVa, A sovereign balm for every wound, A cordial for our fears. Hurled In sorrow and in sin At death’s dark door We lay. But we urise by grace divine, To see a Heavenly day. The Book-Kaktna: Disease. Doubtless the mania for blackening with ink tho face of white paper is a harmless one in the case of persons whoso leisure fcMmple, hut it is worse than hypochonWU when it attacks and masters the young man or young woman whose living and whose future usefulness depend upon a right use of early years. It Is worse than a lottery, this lithrary drawing,, for all except those who are willing to set face and heart, mind and sou! heroically upon making a long, steady, conscientious tug of years at the almost insurmountable barriert that oppose a literary career. For tho heroic few the rewards are well worth the flgbi-Maurleo Thompw* in Abjw

-;- A HO VEL OCCUPATION.

The Art »f by •• A gentleman of New York was talking in the Colonade l«at evening a tout self-suppor ing women. Said he: “Amrng the many occupations hi vented by impecunious women, perhaps the mast original is that of » woman ot thirty, who had been for several years at the heal of her father's luxurious establishment. She learned, thoroughly the aril of entertaining, and one day , when suddenly left a penniless orphan, she determ ined to make this knowledge of some practical use, She was not "much of a musician, and she didn’t have either the knack or desire to teach what languages t.he knew. She couldn’t write or paint, and, in fact, fonnd it difficult to find within herself any knowledge sufficiently great to he worth money enough to support her. ‘I only knew one thing thoroughly!’ she cried, ‘but the only tiling I know how to do is to give dinner parties. I know that exactly and completely, but the question is not how to give dinner parties, but how toget^hem to give.’ Thinking the matter over in every light a sudden inspiration came to her. There were numbers of people who had the means but not the knowledge for giving dinners; why couldn 't she teach them? “She told her idea to friends and they encouraged her by employing her on such occasions, thus relieving themselves ot infinite cai-e and worry. Her method was this: She went to the intending dinner-giver ihe day the invitations were issued and discussed ways and means. On the day of the dinner she ordered the flowers, favors and dinner cards, arranging them herself, got the dinner table into proper condition, saw that all changes of plates and silver were read} , and, like a major-general, stood and g-ave orders until dessert was served, upon which she drew a sigh of reUef, put on her gloves and slipped away. He patronage increased when her friends found what clever and original ideas she had, and realized how completely she lifted all the care anil responsibility from their shoulders. She made a business of getting all the latest ideas from florists, caterers and shopkeepers and applied them at once, while they were new. After she became interested in the work she began to develop all sorts of original inspirations, which were popular and effective. She also made a point of hunting up clever little verses and quotations for dinner cards and wrote them out herself upon cards that she procured from various artist friends, who had dined sumjituously at her own table in by-gone days, and who were willing to be obliging now. At present she has secured a clientele which keeps her occupied all through the season, and yet she manages to live very comfortably on the proceeds of her work. Naturally, commissions on all the things she recommends comes into her hands, and these added to her other earnings make a sum sufficient for her needs.”—Philadelphia Press.

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A «wn»»ni. face is nearer ■» Rood for an Invalid as healthy weather. To make a lick man think he’s dying, aiitfiat u necessary la to look half dead yourself. Hope and despair are as catching as cutaneous oampiaints. Always look sunshiny, therefore, whether yon feel so or not. The great bell of Hung-wu, which baa | long lain half buried in the ground, has at i length been lifted by foreign machinery i and hung in a pagoda built of iron by a torj eign firm. According to prophecy, this bell was never to be lifted until China had ! entered upon a new career of prosperity.

The Beauty of Health. How many women with r^fular features that might be beautiful, are not, andinstead of awakening our admiration only arouse | our pity. Their hollow eyes and sunken cheeks and sallow skin ’ haunt our memory, i Alas! an invalid wife or mother or sister Alls the house with gloom and sadness, and an otherwise happy fireside is shadowed with a pail of regret. Blessed be the physician who has invented a remedy with power to strengthen the female organization, that regulates the delicate functions of feminine life, that relieves those bearing-down pains, that renews the appetite, that perfects digestion, that brightens the eyes tfnd beautii lies the complexion with the glow of health. Such a remedy is Dr. Bull’s Sarsaparilla It is woman’s best friend for counteracting ! the evils that afflict; her sex. Thousands of ladies owe their beauty to a use of this; incomparable alterative. Demand it of y our druggist. Take no other.—Parts Sins. “Meet your wife with a smile on yonr lips,” says an exchange. Better wait until the odor of the “smilol’ has abided somewhat, though.—Texas Siftings. • Ihs, “Air lio«." To aDy one contemplating a journey the shortest and most direct line is always to be desired, and where one can get t his, together with accommodations which can not be excelled, no farther inquiry should he made. The Louisville. Evansville & (it. Louis ,lAir Line" com prists each of these features, being sixty miles the shortest line between St. Louis and Louisville, amt the only Hue running elegant Parlor Curs on dav trains, and Pullman Sleepers ou night trains. 'This line is also the most direct route to alt points in Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee-the Virginias and Carolinas. Two Trains each way dsiiy. For tit kets, iutoriuation or sleeping- car reservation, call ou or address H. E. Morris, City Passenger Agent, 116 North | Fourth street, St Louis, or at Onion De- - pot Jos. S. Odiornk, 6. P. A.. i Louisville, Ky. The Duke of Fife was revealed lately as I a partner in tho honking firm of Henries, Farouhar & Co., as well as in Scott & Co. Fifteen contestants elitd for the fray. Armpit with good steel s.ud in battle array— Striving for lucre, as brave Knights of old Strove for their honors and medals of gold. Drivin each shining pen over the paper— j Seeking to sound, as the most propercaper. ! The praises of remedies known the world over— ; From Paris to Calais, from Cal a s to Dover; ! Bn; each Knight vainly strives—language falls ilndei seription . I Of the manifold virtues of “Fa vc rite Prescription When ill or depressed with that “dragg- ; ing down” feeling, consequent upon weakness, suffering from headache, weal: or lame back, and the many ills common to the weaker sex, take Dr. Pierce’s Prescription, which is guaranteed to give satisfaction or price (*1.00i returned. See printed guarantee on bottle-wrap]>er. Dr. Pierce’s Pe.lets—gently laxative or I actively cathartic a -cordin g to dose. 25 cents. I There probably lever vras a woman who ; said an unpleasant thing to a man that she ' did notr.dd that she was tailing him for his own good. —Atchif on Glolje.

Hovr’s This! We offer One Hu idred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarr i that can not be cured by taking Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J* Obexey & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the unders gned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last fifteen years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions, and financially able to carry out apy Obligations made by their firm. West&Tftiax,Whi lesale Druggists, Toledo. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly on the blood and mficous surfaces of the sy v cm. Testimonials free. Price, 75c. per bott le. Bold by all Druggists Maxy people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it { others do just the same w th their time. Disastrous Failure! We can mention no failure more disastrous than that of physical energy. It in volves the partial suspension of the digestive and assimilative processes, and entails the retirement from business of the liver and kidneys. Only through the good offices of Hostetler’s Ston ach Bitters can the restoration of its former vigorous status be hopedfor. W hen this aid has been secured, a resumption of activity in the stomach, liver and bowels may be relied upon. The Bitters conquers malaria and kidney troubles. A max seldom rs ashes” means until when the wind is Elmira Star. what “ashes to |fe has to sift ammo awing great guns.— Home-Seekers’ U< If-Rate Excursions via the tVabash. ,On April 22 and Kay 20 the Wabash Kailroad will sell tickets at one fare for the round trip to points in Kansas, Nebraska, T_i:._rn.^-tA.-.. I nvna WftlV 4 rounu Cl ip WJ JWiun m Axauoaa, Arvui«,om., Indian Territory, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Jtah, Idaho, Montana, North and South Dakota, Northwestern Iowa and Minnesota. Tickets will be good returning thirty (Sib days from date of sale. For particulars apply to the nearest ti cket kgent of the Wabash c:r co nnecting railroads. Bna can apprecis te a lass from her Husband seventy-five ; re;:.rs after the marriage •eremonv is perfor mad. Consumpt'on To the Editor PI ers that I have a pc above named dis< as thousands of hopel as manently cured. 1st bottles of my rente readers who have ec send me their ezar dress. Respectful y 181 Pet Surely Cured. ms i inform your ireadsitive remedy for the 3. By its timely use esses have been perall be glad to send two iy i ’ree to any of your ist mption If they will jss and post-office a£T. A Slocum, Ml. C., •1! treet, New York. 6ns can dance ell ig it in a pair of shoes two sixes top small fi r t er, and enioy every minute of the time Commox sense tc at plipter in the flesh t he part can heaL I aust be destroyed b< Shallenberger’s Anti his. and health retui * no other known A fists, or sent by mai ihallenberger & Co. let; ns that a thorn or unit be removed bcfofe (al aria in th» system fo e health can return, lot a for Malaria does is Immediately. There itiilote. Bold bydrugfor one dollar. A T. Bochester, Pa Chemists are eel la:a henpecked husijands. They hate tc a much oxperiehce with retorts.—Burlii gton Free Press. Mr wife for severs valid and slowly gre tors, but their sk: recommended Dr. B her health began t weighs fifteen poun four months ago,anc well.—O. W. Strain,' 1 t ears had been an inv worse. I tried doc1 failed. A neighbor ill's Sarsaparilla anti mend at once. She a more than she did f pls quite strong’ and acton, 0. The fashionable w man in the forties is ot generally ambit! >uti to discover a now ,Tinkle.—Binghamt >n Leader. A PICK ini : Sense Of health and stre jfth renewed and of ease and comfort for on 's the use of Syrup of Figs, as it acts i n ha rmony with nature to effectually clear le the system when costive or bilious. I ’or sale in 50c and 81.00 'bottles by all leadin ; d -uggists. Some men are hoi i i preat, some achieve greatness, and son e are United States Senators.—Washing on Star. Six Nbee!* Free, wi. b B sent byCrasin & >., Philada., Pa., to an y one in the U, B. ot mada, postage pad, upon receipt of *> ibbins’ Electric Soap wrappers SeB list novels on circulars a round each bar. rHE revolver and the bank cashie aro ke, they never go <•:! unless the;/ aro ided.—Washington Si nr. Sou hardly realize thai it is medicine, viking Carter's Little L ver Pills; they are try small; no bad elects; all troubles om torpid liver are re ieved by their use. A dead-beat can gem rally stand a loan, even if he can't supp >rt himself.— iinghamton RcpuMtican. itixo away^grow thmner ^ very Poor child. You m ed Dr. Bull’s 1 ’orm >yers and you w raid soon gro r fat mrty. Mamma, g< t her some. Isn’t it __ dest inhabil ’ashington

The EmpNaa Ancaan’a Ta«t. At Another time I figured in a way not calculated to increase my reputation as a diplomat Royal persons deem it a duty to address, as far as possible, every one in the circle- Her Royal Highness one .evening entered into conversation with me. Among other things she said she was very fond of reading, but sometimes had difficulty in getting interesting books. With the innocent inexperience of an American, I replied: “Why your Royal Highness’ palace adjoins the Royal Library.” I had sense enough to perceive that I had made a mistake, but, as Macbeth says, retreating is worse thangaing ahead, I finished the sentence as 1 had first intended: “And there are 500,000' volumes on its shelves.” In a German this speech would not have been very leniently judged. But, with tact and grace, she answered very kindly: “That is true, but we sometimes want new '‘books.” I think she was rather pleased with my simplicity.—Philadelphia Times. —A traveler, calling at a hotel, lesft his umbrella in the stand with a label attached, on wlirch was written in bold characters: “This umbrella belongs to a man who can deal a blow w ith his fist of the force of 250 pounds. Coming back in ten minutes.” Having accomplished his errand, he went to look for his umbrella, but found in its place a card inscribed as follows: “This card belongs to a man who can run fifteen miles an hour.. Isn’t coming back.”— Elbeuvien.

Po* Threat ifiswsSte, effsAual >3 fi-as' “Bruarn’.i Bretttttwsi Sold oiiiji to Jsrrra. S, Cc!*t, etc, tha use of i® eta. TH*ius ft re no g<-v<? liars, though some of them are very shiHXal ;»n<l ialentaJ.—iIf. O. Picayune. ToR3CGFt.iT7.fcs stomach Jiverand bowefcs, md promote gueerttoa, take one of Carter’s Little Igvot Plfis ovary oigbt Try them. Thf stuttering matt can never make a pronounced ititccse. —Itavenport Citizen. BsoscKiTis is crawl by frequent smell doses of Fsvi’s Cure far Consumption. Osk rrln for Lent— .Surer allow your qjo- ‘ * M * avees. brelia to bo permaoeiitiy horror A pockkt mirror free to smokers of “Tonsill’s Peach5 5c. Cigar. A GJeoioem ought to be a good st.ratagist.*—Yettowine’s News. CORES PERMANENTLY RHEUMATISM. The CiJpfik. . The Care. Lowell, Mass., July 0,1^7. -The bey Osrfxi Robinson, ajpioor cripple on crotches, who Tvas cured by St. Jacobs Oil ©# rtteunuRteai'inlSSl, is we!!; the cure has remained penaunsaL tie is now at work evesv day at manual labor. OEO.C. OSGOOD, M. Jk Ax Danesists ani> Dealkbs. THE CHARtES A VOEEiES CO.. Sailimcre. M.

J y 11 ASKING. " He stole from my bodice a rose. My cheek was it’s color tho while; But, ah! the sly rogue I He well knows, Had be asked it, I must have said no.”

“Yes, I remember that occasion. I was young then. I am not old now. 1 had not a pain nor an ache. My blood was pure and my cheeks showed its crimson. I was happy and healthy. But now, woe is me! I do not see a well day. I have these distressing dragging-down pains, this constant weakness, and 1 feel all the time worn and weary.r , For all such sufferers, Dr. Fierce’s Favorite Prescription is a panacea of inestimable value. As an invigorating tonic, it imparts strength to the whole system. For overworked, “worn-out,” debilitated teachers, milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses, “shopgirls,” housekeepers, nursihg mothers, and feeble women generally, Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is the greatest earthly boon, being unequaled as an appetizing cordial

and restorative ionic: Contains no alcohol to inebriate ; no syrup or sugar to derange digestion; a legitimate medicine, not a beret-aye. As a soothing and strengthing nervine, “Favorite Prescription” is unequaled and is invaluable in allaying and subdning nervous excitability, exhaustion, prostration, hysteria, spasms and ether distressing, nervous symptoms, commonly attendant upon functional and organic disease, It induces refreshing sleep and relieves mental anxiety and despondency. ’ A Book of 1GQ pages, on “Tfoman and Her Diseases,” sent to any address, in plain, sealed envelope, on receipt of ten cents, in stamps. Addrefs, WOHi-n'a Dispensary MrdiCav Association, No. S33 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.

One tiny, Sugar-coated Pellet a dose. Constipation, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, and Bowels. 25 cents a vial, by drugg!

Dr. Pierce’s Pellets PURELY VEGETABLE/ PERFECTLY HARMLESS / Unesjnaletf as a MVER PILL, Smallest, c&«Bpe«, Contests io take. Cures- Stck Headache, Bilious Headache, and all derangements of the Stomach sts.

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REMEDY FOR CATARRH,—Rest. Easiest to use. lest. Relief is imi nedlate. A cure is cerUia. For e Head it has no equal. TDISO’S a theaj Cold inti It is an Ointment, of which a small particle is applied Jo the nostrils. Price, SOc. Sold by druggists or sect by ibjmI. Address, it. T. H.vzisi.T'isa, Wterreo, Pa,

La Grippe has Left the System badly debilitated ' in millions of cases. Take Ayer’s Sarsaparilla and restore Tone and Strength. It never fails. Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass A Proclamation! Hr. I. Clay Lewis, Fnltnn. Ark., says: - •*A year a go I bad bilious fever; Tu tt’s mils were so highly reecommendcd that I used them. Never did medicine have a happier effect. After .prattle. of a quarter of a century, I proclaim them the best ANTI-BILIOUS medicine ever used. 1 always pro* scribefMs Pills Cora All Bilious Diseases, SO*NT* in"

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