Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 23, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 October 1890 — Page 4

(2 Rev. T. Sermon of the Holy I>and Serie*. SUKMtel by a Contemplation <rf the IDead Son—The rower of God to PnaUl, Met Alone Individual. bat National Sin. Tbs fifth of the series of discourses on the Holy Land was delivered by Rev.' T. DeWitt Tnlmage in Brooklyn and New York City, from the text: He touebeth tiie bills and they smoke.— Psalm olr., si David, the poet, here pictures a volcano and what Church’s Cotopaxi does cm painter's canvas, this author does in words. You s<3e a hill, calm and still, and for ages immovable, but the Lord out of the heavens puts His finger on the top of it «t»d from ‘It rise thick vapors, inlerahot with fire. “He toucheth. the hills and they smoko.” Qod is the only being who can manage a volcano, and again and again has lie employed voloanio action. The pictures on the wall's of Pompeii the exhumed Italian city, as We saw them last November, demonstrate that the city was not fij. to live. In the first century, that city, engirdled with palaces, amp&radised with gardens, pillared into architectural exquisiteness, was at the foot of the mountain up the aides of which it ran with vineyards and villas of merchant princes, and all that marble and bronse and imperial baths, and arborculture and raittbtfwed fountains and a coliseum at the dedication of which nine thousand beasts bad been slain and a supernal landscape in which the shore gave roses to the sea, and the sea gave crystals to the. shore; yea, all that beauty and potnp and wealth could give was there to be seen or heard. But the bad morals of the city hod shocked the world. In the year 7U, on the 4th of August, a black column rose above the adjoining mountain and spread out, Pliny says, us be saw It, like a great pine tree, wider and wider, until it began to rain upon the city, first thin oBhes, and then pumice stone, and sulphurous fumes scooped, and streams of mud poured through the streets .till few people escaped, and tbo„ city was buried, and some of til'd" inhabitants eighteen hundred years aftor were found embalmed in the scoriao of that awful doom. The Lord called upon voicaptc forces to obliterate that profligate City. He touched the bills and they smoked.

coining oui volcano action can explain what 1 shall show you at the Dead Sea, upon which I looked last December, and of whose waters I took a bitter and stinging taste- ‘Concerning all that region there has been a controversy enough to fill libraries, science saying one thing, revelation saying another thing. But admit volcanic action Divinely employed and both testimonies are one and the same. Geology, chemistry, geography, astronomy, ichthyology, ornithology and zoology are coming bne by one to confirm the Scriptures. Two leaves of one book are revelation and creation, and the penmanship is by the same Divine hand. Our horseback ride will not bo so steep to-day and you can^stay on without clinging to the pommel of the saddle, but the scenes amid which we ride shall, if possible, be more thrilling, and by the time the horses snuff the sulphurous atmosphere of Lake Asphaltites, or the Dead Sea, wo will be ready to dismount and read from oar Bibles about what was done that day by the Lord when He touched the hi)ls and they smoked, s Take a detour and pass along by the rocky fortress of Masada, where occurred something more wonderful in the way of desperation than you have ■ ever heard of, unless you have heard of that. Herod built a palacp amid these heaps of black and awful rocks which look like a tumbled midnight. ‘ A great bknl of robbers, about one thonsand including their families, afterward held the fortress. When the Boman army stormed that steep and the bandits could no longer hold the place, their chieftain Eleasar, made a powerful speech which persuaded them to die before they were captured. First the men kissed their families a loving and tearful good-bye and then ; put a dagger into their hearts and the women and the children were slain. Then ten men were chosen by lot to slay all the other men, and each man lay down by the dead wife and children and waited for these executioners to do’ their work. This done, one man of the ten killed the other nine Then the survivor committed suicide Two women and five children had hid thomselves, and after all was over came forth to tell of the nine hundred and sixty slaughtered. Great and rugged natural scenery makes the most tremendous natures for good or evil. Great statesmen and great robbers, great orators and great butchers, were nearly all lorn or reared among mountain precipices. Strong natures are hardly ever born upon the plain. When men 1 ave any thing greatly good or. greatly evil to do, they come down off the rocks.

fasti on lrom unaer the shadow or Masada, the scene of concentrated diabolism, and come along where the salt crystals crackle under the horses’ hoofs. You are near the most Godforsaken region of all the earth. You to whom, the word lake has heretofore suggested those bewitchments of beauty. Luzerne or Cayuga, some great pearl set by a loving God In the bosom of the luxuriant valley, change all your ideaB about a lake, and see this sheet of water which the Bible calls the Salt Sea, or the Sea of the Plain, and Josephus calls Lake Aspbaltites.* The muleteers will take cam of the horses while we get down to the brink and dip up the liquid mixture in the palm of.the "hand. The waters are a commingling of brimstone and pitch, and have six times larger percentage of salt than those of the Atlantic ocean, the ocean having four per oent of salt, and this lake twentysix and a quarter, per cent Lake Sir-i-kol, of India, is' the highest -lake in the world. This lake, on the banks of which we kneel, is the lowest lake; It empties into no gea, among other things, for tho simple reason that water can not run -up hill. It swallows up the liver Jordan and madras no response of thanks, a nd never repots what it does with the 30,000,000 cubic feet of water annually received from that sacred River. It takes the tree branches and logs floated into it by the Jordan, and pitches them on the banks of biiumen to decay there. The hot springs near ltebanks, by the name of Callirhoe, where King Herod oamo to bathe off bis illneases, no sopnor pour into thia.sea than they are poisoned. Hot a fish scale swims it Not an insect walks it It hates life, and It you attempt to swim there it lifts you by an unnatural buoyancy to thd surface, as ifaueh as to say: “We want no Hie hero, but death is our preference fib,” Those'who attempt to wade > this lake and esbmerge them- '#*, come out almost maddened, as with the sting Of a hundred wasps end hornets, and with lips aqd eyelids swollen with the strange ablution. The sparkle of its waters is • not like the sparkle of beauty on otiiej lakes, but a metallo luster like unto the flash of a sword 'that would thrust you. The’gazelles and tM» ibexe s that lire on the hills be

have over It—And the Arab horses . been riding, though thirsty enough, Will not drink outol this dreadful mixture, A mist hovers over parts of it Almost continually, which, though natural evaporation, seems like c w:ing of doom, spread over liquid desolation. It is the rinsings of abomination. It is air aqueous monster coiled among the hills, or creeping with ripples, and stenehfttl with nauseating malodors. • In these regions once stood lour great cities of Assyria: Sodom, Gomorrah, Adtna and Zeboim. The Bible says they were destroyed by a tempest of fire and brimstone after these cities bad filled up with wickedness. “So, that' is absurd,” cries some one. “i t is evident that this was a region of salt and brimstone and pitch) long before that” And so it was The Bible says it was a region of sulphur long before the great catastrophe. “Well, now,” says some one, wanting to raise a quarrel between'science and revelation, ,“yott have no right to s»y the “CiticS of the Plain were destroyed by a tempest of fire and sulphur and brijnntone, because this he glob had these characteristics long before theso titles Were destroyed.” Vokanio action, is my reply. These cities had been built out of very combustible materials., The mortar was of bitumen easily igilited, and the walls dripped With pitch most Inflammable. They sat, 1 think, oft a ridge of hills, they stood high Up and conspicuous, radiant in their sins, ostentatioiis in their debaucheries, four bells on earth. One day there was a rumbling in the earth, and a quaking. “What’s up?” cry the affrighted inhabitants. “What’s that?” The foundations of the earth were giving away. A volcano, whose fires had been burning for ages, at God’s command burst forth, easily setting every thing aflame, and first lifting these cities high in the air, and then dashing them down in chasms fathomless. The fires of .that eruption Intershot the dense smoke attd rollod unto the heavens, only tdc.eswud again. And all the configu&tioh of that oonntry was Changod, and where .there was a hill there came a valley, and where there had been the pomp of nncleanness came wide-spread desolation. The red hot spade of volca nic action had shoveled Under the Cities Of the plain. Before the catastrophe the cities stood on the top of the suit and sulphur. After the eatastropbu they Were under the salt and sUlphUr. Science right. Revelation right. "He touched the hills and thev Btaoke.”

Mjftext implies that God controls Volcanoes not with the full force of His hand, but with tho tip of Ilia finger. /Etna, Stro'rhboli attd Vesuvius liwd at His feet like hoUnds before the hunter. These eruptions of the hill do not belong to Pluto’s realm as the anoionts thought, blit to the Divine dominions. Humboldt counted two hundred of them, but since then the Indian Archipelago has been found to have nine hundred of those great mouthpieces. They are on every continent and in all latitudes. That earthquake which shook all America about six or seven summers ago was only the raving around of volcanoes rushing against the sides of their rooky caverns trying to break out They must come to the surface, but it will bo at the Divine call. They seem reserved for the punishment of one kind of sin. The^even cities they have obliterated were celebrated for one kind of transgression. Profligacy was the chief characteristic of the seven cities over which they put their smothering wing! Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiro, Adma, Zeboim, Sodom and Gomorrah. It our American cities do not quit their profligsey, if in high life and low life dissoluteness does not cease to be a joke and become a orimo, if wealthy libertinism continues Jo find so many deers of domestic life open to its faintest touch, if Russian ana French and American literature, steepod in pruriency, does not get banished from the newsstands and ladies’ parlors, God will let loose some of these suppressed monsters of the earth. And I tell those American cities that it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, whether that day of judgment be in this present century or in the closing century of the eerth’s continuance. The Volcanic forces are already in existence, but In tho mercy of * God they VC chained in the kennels of subterraneous Are. Yet let profligacy, whether it stagger Into a laaaretto or sit on a commercial throne, whether It laugh in a faded shawl under the street gaslight or be wrapped In., the finest array that foreign looms ever wrought pr lapidary ever empearled, know right well that there is a volcano Waiting for it, whether in domestic life, or social life, or political life, or in the foundations of the earth, from which sprang out the dt vastations that swallowed the cities of the plain. -“He toucheth the hills and they smoke.”

X>U v tUD uiuituuiMU n iojvivou nuou we bad seen enough of this volcanic region of Palestine, and be gladly tightens tho girths for another m arch around the horses which are prancing and neighing for departure. We are off {'or the Jordan, only two hours away. We pass Bedouins whose stern features melt-intq.a'sroiletas we give them the salutation, “Salaam Alelkoum,” “Peace Ice with you,” their Bmlle sometimes leaving us in doubt as to whether it is caused by their -gladness to see us or by our poor, .prqnuiciation of tbe Arabic. Oh, they are a strange race, those Bedouins. ' Such a commingling of ruffianism and honor, of cowardioe. and courage, of cruelty and kindness! When a band of them came down upon a party in which Miss Whately was traveling, and were about to take pocket-books, and perhaps life, this lady sifting upon' her horse took out her note book and re coil and began to sketch these brigands, and seeing this composure, the bandits thought it something supernatural and fled. Christian womanliness or manliness is all-conquering. When Martin Luther was told that Duke George would kill jbim if he went to Leipsio, Luther replied: “I would go to Lol|>sio if it nflned Duke Georges nine days " Now we como through regions where there are hills: cut into the shape of cathedrals,with altars, and oolurwa, and arch, and ohancel, and pulpit, and dome, and architecture of the rocks that I think can hardly just happen so. l?erhapa it is because God loves the church so well He builds in the solitudes of Yellowstone Park, and - Yosemite, and Switzerland, and Palestine, these ecclesiastical pileSj And who knows btit that unseen spirits may sometimes worship there? “Dragoman, when shall we see the Jordan?" I nsk. All the time we were on the alert, and looking through tamarisk and willows for the greatest river of «dl the earth. The Mississi; Ohio is deeper, the tbe Hudson rolls am picturesque, the splendor on its ~ >ts more irrigation; but the Joi of rivers, and runs Bible, a silver thread strung like beads with heroics, and before night we shall ! meet on ita banks Elijah and Elisha, and David, andT Jacob, and Joshua, and John, and. Jesus. between two ss I got a of a river and said;-"Whatsit rtw<UB,*’ w*» **>

reply. And all along the line, which had been lengthened by other pilgrims, some from America, and some from and some from Asia, the cry _nded: "The Jordan! The *for- - Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims hate chanted on It* batiks and bathed in its waters. Many of thorn dip a tret gown in the wave and wring it out and carry it homo for their own abroad It is an impetuous stream, and rushes on. as though it were hastening to tell its story to the ages. Many an explorer has it whelmed and many a boat has it wrecked. Lieutenant Molineux bad copper-bottomed crafts split upon its sbelvings. Only one boat, that of Lieutenant Lynch, ever lived to sail the whole length of it At the season when the snows on Lebanon melt the rage of this stream is like the Con etna ugh when JohiistoWh per* ished, and the wild beasts that ihay be near rhh for the hills, explaining what ieremiah.says: "Behold He shall go Up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan,” No river so often Changes its mind, for it turns and twists; traveling two hundred miles to do that whioh in a straight line might be done in sixty miles. Among banks now low, now high,' now of rocks, now of mud and now of sand, laving the feet of the terebinths and oleanders, and acacias, and reeds, and pistachios, and silver poplars. This river marries the Dead Sea to Lake Galilee, and did ever so rough a groom take the hhnd of so fair a bride? This is the river which parted to let • an army of two millions of Israelites across. Here the skilled Major-General of the Syrian host, at the Seventh plunge, dropped his ioprosy, not only by miraculous cure, but suggesting to all ages that water, and plenty of it, has much to do with the sanitary improvement of tho world. Here is where some theological students of Elisha's time were Cutting trees with which to build a seminary, and an axe-head, hot sufficiently wedged to the handle, fleW off ihto the rivet aiid sank, and the young Wan deplored hot so much the loss of the axe-head ,ds the fact that It Was hot his dwn, and cried: “Alas! it was borrowed.” and the prophet threw a stick into the river and, in deOance of the law of gravitation, the iron axe-head came to the surface and floated like a cork upon the water, and kept floating until the young man caught it. A rpjracte performed to giVe one an opportunity to return that which was borrowed^ and a rebuke in all ages for those who borrow and never return, their bad habit in this respect so established that it would bed' miraole if they did return it.

res, irom tne oana oi inis river Elijah took team of fire, showing that the most raging element is servant of the good, and that there is no need that a child of God fear any thing; for, if the most destructive of all elements was that day fashioned into a vehicle for a departing saint, nothing can ever hurt you who love and trust the Lord. 1 am so glad that that chariot of Elijah’s was not made out of wood, or crystal, or any thing ordinarily pleasant, but out of fire, and yet he went up without having so muoh as a fad himself. When, stepping from amid the foliage of these oleanders and tamarisks on the hanks of the Jordan, he put his -toot on the .red step of the red equipage,. he took the red reins of vapor in his hands, and spurred the galloping steeds toward the.wide-open gate ofHeaven. It was a scene forever memorable; So the hottest afflictions of your life may roll you Heavenward. So the most burning persecutions, the most fiery troubles, may become uplifting. Only be sure that when you pull on the bits of fire, you drive up toward God, and not down toward the Dead Sea. When Latimer and Ridley died at the stake, they went up in a chariot of fire. When my friend P. P. Bliss; the Gospel singer; was consumed with the rail-train at Ashtabula bridge, and then took flame, I said: “Another Elijah gone up in a charter of fire?” But this river is a river of baptisms. Christ was here baptised, and John baptised many thousands. Whether' on these occasions the candidate for baptism and the officer of religion went into tfeis riVer, and then, while both were standing the water Was dipped in the hand of one and sprinkled upqn'the. forebead op the. other,-or whether tho' entire form Of the one baptized disappeared for a moment beneath the surface of tho flood, I do not now declare. While I can not think without deep emotion of the fact that my parents held me in infancy, to the baptismal font in the old meeting house at Somerville, and assumed vows on my behalf, I must tell you now of another mode of baptism observed in the River Jordan, on that afternoon in last December, the particulars of which 1 now for tho first' time relate.

It was a scene of unimaginable solemnity. A comrade in our Holy Laud journey rode up by my side that day and told that a young man, who is now studying for the Gospel ministry, would1 like to be baptised by me in the River Jordan. I got all tbe facts I could concerning bis earnestness and faith, and, through personal examination, made myself confident he was a worthy candidate.. There were among.our Arab attendants two robes' not unlike those used fht American baptistries, and theao we obtained. As we were to have a large group of diferent nationalities present, I dictated to my daughter a few versos, and had copied enough made to allow all to sing. Our dragoinan had a man familiar with the river wade through and across to shAw the depth and the swiftness of the stream, and the most' appropriate place for 'the ceremony. Then I read from the Bible the accounts of baptism in that, sacred stream and implored the presence pf the Christ on whose „pead»the dove descended at the Jordan. Then, as the-candidate and myself stepped into the waters the people on the hanks sang in full and resoundingvoice: On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand, Amt cast a wistful uyu To Canaan's fair and nappy land. Whom my possessions lie. Oli, tbe transporting* rapturous roe no ~ ‘ tees to mi That rises ers of d< living green,. I ^By. thlg time wo had reached the mide candidate sank under the floods end rage again under a baptism in the nsmenf the Father and the Bon end the Holy Ghost, *■ there rushed through our soils a tide Of holy emotion such as we shall not probably ■feel aga*n until we step into the Jordsn that divides earth from Heaven. Will those waters be deep?'' Will those, tides be strong? Ho matter, if Jesus steps in with ua Friends on this shore to help us .oft. Friends op the other shore to see * us lend. See! They are coming 'doWH the.-pills on the other side to greet us. ‘ How well we know their step! How easily wo distinguish their voices! From bank to bank we Tiaif them witp tears an$ they hall us they spy to us: “Ik that you, fpther?” “Is that you, mother?” And'wo anSwtr by Asking: “Is And view the landsoaoe o’er, > NottJordtin's stream nor Death’s sold hood Could fright us from the shore. I —We must learn to submit with grace to commit the follies which depend! »pop obamler. —TnUeyrM^

WHEEL NOTES. A balloon-tired ordinary is being shown in London. The mile record has been lowered 11 1-5 seconds during the present season. tV. C. Tuttle, the fleet Chicago cyclist, has joinefl the New York Athletic Club. There Is some talk of a business men’s cycling club being organized in Somerville, Mass. .. T. A. Edge recently has created anew hundred-mile road tricyole recordof OK. 10 m., 83. ' " ‘ ‘ ■ There are now twenty-five bicycle clubs in Buffalo and hundreds of unattached cyclists. English racing men predict a mile record of- 3:15 by Jones before the close of the season. The McKinley bill will increase Ute cost of wheels, the tubing used being Imported from England. The riders at -Vineland, N. J.; have formed a permanent organization to be called the Vineland Wheelmen. In the hundred-mile race of the North Road Club a new record of 8 hr., 83 m., 85 s. for fifty miles was made by P. C. Wilson. A: P. Benson, of the Newton, Mass.. Bicycle Club, lowered the Corey Hill record on Oct. 5 from 8m. Is. to 8m. 40s. The Canadian flyer, Fred C. Foster, of tbe Toronto Wanderers, was married recently to Miss Ellen Brown, of Toronto. Bicyclers are allowed to ride in Paris now, but are obliged to take out a license, which in case of reckless riding ‘s revoked. . In all probability an association will be formed in the near future to govern road-racing and trask-record events not made under L. A. W . rules. Manufacturers who expect to use the cushion should incline to the tncatt rather than to the extreme, so that the rear tire will not be soft-and mushy. In the National L. A. W. election in February, it is probable that there will be little opposition to the re-election of James R. Dunn for President Among the latest things in tires is one composed of woven steel wire covered with rubber and canvas. The inventor claims it to be equal to the pnuematic tire. - -J' j Tho challenge of the Buffalo Ramblers to any club in New York State for a one hundred-mile road race not having been aticepted inside of thirty days, it ha3 been withdrawn.

Liens for about s^ven hundred dollars have been entered against tho new club house of the Philadelphia Field and Cycle Club at Ardmore, and others will follow unless a settlement is made. • Tho road from Elisabeth to Springfleld, N. J., has recently been macadamized, opening a complete oiwpiit of good roads via Orahgo and Milbum to Springfield, Elisabeth and Newark. A bicycle club has been formed among tho members of tho First -Regiment N. G. S. P., Philadelphia. The club will practice military evolutions on the wheel and will make a sensation wJhen on parade. PECULIAR INFATUATION. Different Methods of Following the Injunction “Love On« Another.” Do men ever fall in love with each other? Women do. Not long ago a youn^ woman In New Jersey was married to a youthful laborer on her father’s farm. Sometime afterward it was discovered that the husband was a female; tho young wife refused, however, though earnestly entreated by her friedds, to give up her chosen consort The strangest part of the discovery was the fact that the bride knew her husband was a woman before she was led to the altar. ‘U men do not exhibit this strange infatuation for one of their own sex, they at least oftentimes give evidence of the fact that they love one another. There are many instances on record where one man has given his life for another. There are many more instances where men have given life to another. It is a proud possession—the knowledge that one has saved a precious human life. Meriden, Conn., is the home of such a happy man. John H. Preston, of that city, July 11th, 1890, writes: “Five years ago I . was taken very sick, 1 had several of the best doctors, and one and all called it a complication of diseases. 1 was sick four years, taking prescriptions prescribed by those same doctors, and I truthfully state I never expected to get any better. At this . time, 1 commenced to have the most terrible pains in my back. One day an old friend of mine, Mr. R T. Cook of the firm of Curtis & Cook, advised me to try Warner’s Safe Cure, as he had been troubled the same way and it had effected a cure for him. 1 bought six bottles, took the medieme as directed and am to-day a well man. I am sure no one ever had a worse case of kidney and liver trouble than I had. Before this 1 was always against proprietary medicines bat not now, oh, no," Friendship expresses itself in very .peculiar ways sometimes; but tho true friend is the friend in-need.' Grace—‘-W"hat air was that you were playing last night!” Laura—-“A millionaire, and I landed him.”—N. Y. Herald. ,

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Let every enfeebled woman know it! There’s a medicine that’ll cure her, and the proof’s positive! • Here’s the proof—if it doesn’t i 5 you good within reasonable time, report- the fact to ils makers and get your money back without a word—but you won’t do it I The remedy is Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription—and it has proved itself the right remedy iin nearly every case of female weakness. It is not a miracle. It won’t cure everything—but it^has done more to build-up tired, enfeebled and broken - down women than any other medicine known. Whereas the woman who’s not ready for it? All that we’ve to do is to get the news to her. The medicine will do the rest. "Wanted—Women. First to know it. Second to use it. Third to be* , cured by it. The one comes of the other. The seat of sick headache is not in the brain. Regulate the stomach., and you cure it. Dr. Pierce’s Pellets are the little regulators. PRICKLY ASH BITTERS One of the most important organs of the hitman body is the LIVER. When itfails to properly perform its functions the entire system becomes deranged. The BRAIN, KIDNEYS, STOMACH, BOWELS, all refuse to perform f heir work. DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, RHEUMATISM, KIDNEY DISEASE, etc., are 3te results, unless something is done to assist Nature in throwing off the impurities caused by the inaction of a TORPID LIVER. This assistance s» necessary will be found in Prtekly Ash Bittersi It acts directly on the LIVER, STOMACH and KIDNEYS, and by Hsmild and cathartic effect and general tonic qualities restores these organs to a sound, healthy condition, and cores all diseases arising from thesecauses. It PURIFIES THE BLOOD, tones up the system, and restores perfect health. > II your druggist does not keep it ask him to order it for you. Send 2c stamp for copy of “THE HORSE TRAINER,” published by us. PRICKLY ASH BITTERS CO*, Site ’roprietora,- - - ST. LOUIS, MO.

UUiiJJ ataJAIi, rAUiOj lo7o. . W. BAKER & CO.’S It absolutely pun and it is soluble. No Chemicals are used in it* preparation. It h*a mere than three times the strength of Cocoa mixed with Starch. Arrowroot or Sugar, and U therefore far more economical, costing lets than one eem I a cujk It is delicious, nourish lug, l strengthening, EASILY Digested. (and admirably adapted for invalid* | at well as for persons in health. Sold by Grocers everywhere.

w-hakkk. os cu.uorcaesier. mass. ’ .The Secret of Health hlhe power to eat, digest and assimilate a proper quantity of wliolesoms food. This _ • l._ ai. . .... n.Lll. I».neltlna nyiat can nerer be the cnee while Impurities exist t> the system. The blood most be purified; every purs oi *ub uuu/. ail imparities and vitalize the whple system. A Noted Divine says; ••I have been using Dr. Tnttfs liver Fills the past three months for djspepsla, weak stomach and nervousness. I never had anything W do me so much good. I recommend them as the best plain existence, and do all I can to acquaint others with their ’ merits. Ihey ...._hiBev.F.B. OS« New York. Tntt’s Liver Pills, FOB DYSPEPSIA. Price, 25c. 0fflce>.8SS4t farii Place, N. T. polvatloa OU SSBXKBS . ' . _il'

A Strong Foundation In health has the constitution fortified and built up with Eostetter’s Stomach Bitters. [re phy sJcafstructure nonrishedand sustained through the agency of assured < gestion and assimilation, regularity of the bowels and liver restored, -1— ___ the nerves invigorated, nightly repose sound and health yielding—these are among the results of its CM — __[aria, rheumatism, kidney complaint, are annihilated by it First Bcrglar—“Good Lord! lot’s run} here comes some one!” Second Burglar— “O! come on; it’s- only a policeman.”— Boosier. , Th* men who hold up trains for robbery should themselves be held up for example. —N. O. Picayune. ' IF yon wish to do the easiest and quickest week’s washing you ewr did, try Dobbins’ Electric Soap next washday. Folk _ _ [ow the directions. Ask your grocer for it Been on the market 94 years. Take no other. The fashionable resorts are becoming, filled, so to speak, with fall leaves.—Philadelphia Times. A Father loves his child. A mother worships it Both decide the child should occasionally bo given Dr. Bull's Worm Destroyers. It does not injure a joke to crack it, any more thau it spoils a horse to break it— Epoch. If you.waifb to he cured of a cough use Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. Max (to parrot)—“Hello, Polly I” Polly— “Hello I Do yea want a cracker?” Art one can take Carter’s Little Liver Pills they are so very small. Ho trouble to swallow. Ho pain or griping after taking. The crow does not fty frorn the corn-field without caws.—Washiugton i’tar. Bronchitis is cured by frequent small doses of Piso’s Cure for Consumption. Woken can not bo farmers—in the sense of ‘husbandmen,” at least

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