Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 51, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 May 1891 — Page 4

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THE MARRIAGE FEAST, Rev. T. DeWitt Taknage PreBenti the Lord’s Invitation. < Banquet of Choice Viands Prepared foi All who Will Come and Partake—A * Feast of the Holy Spirit, Free to the World. The following discourse was delivered by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage in tht new Brooklyn tabernacle, his subject being “Invitation to a Wedding.’ ’The text was: Come, for all things arc now ready. Holy festivities to-day. We gathei other sheaves into the spiritual garner. Our joy .is like the joy of Heaven. Spread the banquet, fill all the chalices. We are not to-day at the funeral of a dead Christ; we are celebrating the marriage of the King’s son. It was an exciting time in English history when Queen Elizabeth visited Lord Leicester at Kenilworth castle. The clocks in all the towers and throughout the castle were stopped at the moment of her arrival, so continuing to point to that moment as the one surpassing all others in interest. The doors of the great banqueting hall were opened. The queen marched it to the sound of the trumpets. Foui hundred servants waited upon the guests. It was a scene that astonished all nations when they heard of it. Five thousand dollars a day did the banquet eost as it went on day after day. She was greeted to > the palace gates with floating islands, and torches and the thunders of cannon, and fireworks that set the night ablaze, and a burst ol music that lifted the whole scene into enchantment. Beginning in that way, it went on from joy to joy, and from excitement to excitement, and from rapture to rapture. That wasthe great banquet that Lord Leicester spread in Kenilworth Castle. Cardinal Wolsey entertained the French embassadors in Hampton court. The best cooks of all .the land provided for the table. The guests were kept hunting in the parks all the day, so that their appetites might be keen, and then in the evening hour they were shown into the banqueting hall, with table aglftter with imperial plate, and ablush with the very costliest wines, and the second course of the feast was made of food in all shapes of men and birds and beasts, and dancing groups, and jousting parties riding upon each other with uplifted lances. Lords and

princes ana emoassaaors, mcir cups gleaming' to the brim, drank first to the health of the king of England, and then to the health of the emperor of France. That was the banquet that Cardinal Wolsey spread in Hampton court. But to-day,' my brothers and sisters, I invite you to a grander entertainment. My Lord, the King, is the banqueter. Angels of God are the cup-bearers, all the redeemed are the guests; the halls of eternal love frescoed with light and paved with joy, and curtained wp \ un■^fling beauty, are the banqutMng place; the harmonies of eternity' are the music; the chalices of God are the plate, and I am one of the servants come out *\vitli invitations to all the people, and oh, that yon might break tfte seal of the invitation and read in ink of blood, and with the tremulous hand of a dying Christ: “Come, come, ‘■tor all things are now ready."’ •Sometimes there have been great dis"appointments at a banquet. The wine has given out, or the servants have been rebellious, or the lights have failed; but I walk all around the banqueting table of my Lord to-day, and 1 find everything complete, and I swing open the door of this banqueting house and I say: “All.things are now ready.’’ Illustrating my text, I go on, and in the first place say that the Lord Jesus Christ is ready. Cardinal Wolsey did not come into the banqueting hall until the second course of the feast, and when he entered, booted and spurred, all the guests arose and cheered him; but I have to tell you that our banqueter, the Lord Jesus Christ, comes in at the beginning of the feast. Ay, He has been waiting for His guest, waiting for some of them one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one years; waiting with mangled feet, waiting with hand on the punctured side, waiting with hand on the lacerated temples, waiting, waiting! Wonder it is that the banqueter did not get weary and say: “Shut the door and let the laggards stay out: “Xo, He has been waiting. How much He is in earnest! Shall I show you? I gather up all the tears that flooded His cheek in sympathy, all the blood that channeled His brow and back and hand<and foot, to purchase ourj redemption. I gather up all the groans coming from midnight chill and mountain hunger and desert loneliness, and 1 put them into one bitter cry—I gather up all the pangs that shot from cross and spike and spear, into one groan—I take one drop of sweat on His brow, and I put it under the glass of, the Gospel, and it enlarges to lakes of sorrow, to oceans of agony. That Christ to-day, emaciated and worn and weary, comes here, and with a pathos in which every word is a heartbreak, and every sentence a martyrdom, He says to you and He says to me: ‘‘Come, come, for all things are

uun i cauj. Ahasnerus made a feast that lasted one hundred and eighty days. This lasts forever. Lords and princes were invited to that. You and I are invited to this. Yes, He has been waiting, He is waiting now. Other kings wrap themselves in robes of beauty and power before they come into a banquet. So does Christ. Oh, He -is the fairest of the fair. In His hand is the Omniponent surgery that opened blind eyes and straightened crooked.limbs, and hoisted the pillars of Heaven, and swung the twelve gates . which are twelve pearls. Oh, what a Christ — a Christ of beauty, a Christ of power. There are not enough cups on earth to dip up this ocean of beauty. There are not ladders to scale these heights of love. Oh, Thou Flower of.Eternity, Thy breath is thq,perfuime of heaven. Oh, Thou Daybreak of the Soul, let all nations clap their hands in Thy radiance. Chorus! Come men and angels and churubim and seraphim and archangel, all heights, all depths, all immensities. Chorus! Roll jjikthrough the heavens in chariot of univenat acclaim, over bridges of .hoaapoa, under arches of coronation, 'ir^-'ttie towers chiming with eternal jubilee. Chorus! Unto Him that loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and made us kings and priests unto God, to Him be glory. Ah! there is one word of five letters that I would like to write; but 1 have no sheet fair enough to write it on, and no pencil good enough to inscribe it. Give me a sheet from the Heavenly records and some pencil used by an angel in describing a victory, and.with hand struck with supernatural energy, and with pencil dipped in everlasting morning, I will write it out in capitals of lore—J-E-8-U-S Jesus! It is this One that is waiting for you and for me, for we are on the same platform before God. How long He waited for me! How long He has waited for you! Waiting as a banqueter waits lor his delayed guests, the meats smoking, and tb* beakers brimming, and with his finger on to strike

way. Waiting as it toother waits Ibr ft boy that ten years ago went oft dragging her bleeding heart after him. 1 Waiting. Oh, can yon not give me some feomparison intense enough, importunate enough, high as Heaven, deep as , hell and vast as eternity? Not expecting that you can help me with such a com-1 parison, I simply say He is waiting as only an all-sympathetic Christ knows how to wait for a wandering soul. Bow the knee and kies the Son* Come and welcome, sinner, come. But I remark again, not only Christ is waiting, hut the Holy Spirit is waiting. Why are some sermons a dead failure? Why are there songs that do not get their wing under the people? Why are there players that go no higher up than a hunter's halloo? Because there is a missing link that only the Holy Spirit can make. If that spirit should come through thiB assemblage this morning there would be a power felt like that wljen Saul was unhorsed on the road to Damascus; like as when Lydia’s heart was broken in her fine store; like as when three thousand souls were lifted out of midnight into midnoon at the Pentecost. Do * you notice that sometimes that Spirit takes an insignificant agency to save a soul ? I think it is very often that at just one passage of Scripture, Jvest one word of Scripture, a soul is saved because the Holy Spirit gives it supernatural power. Do you know what it was that saved Martin Luther ? It was that one verse: “The just shall live by faith.” Do you know what it was "that brought Augustine from his horrible dissipation ? It was that one verse: “Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ; and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.” ’Dp yon know what it was that saved Hedley Vicars, the celebrated soldier? It was the one passage: "Believe in. the Lord Jesus Christ and -thou shalt be saved.” Do you know what it was

that brought Jonathan Edwards to Christ? It wa« the one passage: “Now unto Him be glory forever und ever.” One Thanksgiving morning in church I read my text, “©, give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good,” and a young man stood in the gallery and said to himself: “1 have never rendered one acceptable offering of gratitude to God in all my life. Here, Lord, I am Thine forever.” By that one passage of Scripture he was brought Into the kingdom, and if I might tell my own experience I might teli how one afternoon I was brought to the peace of the Gospel by reading of the Syro-Phoenician's cry to Christ where he said: “Even the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the master's table.” Philosophic sermons never saved anybody? Metaphysical sermons never saved anybody. An earnest plea going right out of the heart blessed of the Holy Ghost, that is what saves, that is what brings people into the Kingdom of Christ. I suppose the world thought that Thomas Chalmers preached great sermons in his early ministry, but Thomas Chalmers says he never preached at all until years after he had occupied a pulpit. He came out of his sick room, and weak and emaciated he stood and told the story of Christ to the people. And in the great day of eternity it will be found' that not so much the eloquent sermons brought men to Christ as the story told, perhaps, by those who were unknown on earth, the simple story of the Saviour's love and mercy, sent by the powdr of the Holy Ghost straight to the heart. Come, Holy Ghost. Av, He is here this morning.* He tills all the place. I tell you, the Holy Ghost is ready. Then I go on and teU you the church is ready. There are those here who say: “No one cares for my soul.” We do care for it. You see a man bowing his head in prayer and you say: “That man is indifferent. ” That man bows his head in prayer that the truth may go to every heart. The air. is full of prayers.. They are going up this morning from this assembly. Hundreds of prayers straight to the throne of a listening God. The air is full of prayers —prayers ascending, noon by noon from Fulton street prayer meeting, Friday night by Friday night all over this land, going up from prayer circles. Yea, there is not a minute of an hour of any day that there are not supplications ascending to the throne of mercy. The church is ready. And if you should this morning start for your Father's house, there would be . hundreds and thousands of this assemblage who would say if thev knew it: “Make room for that man, make room for him at the holy sacrament; bring the silver bowl for his baptism; give him full right to all the privileges of the church of Jesus Christ.” Oh, I know there are those who say the church is a mass of hypocrites, but they do not really think so. It is a glorious church. Christ purchased it. Christ built it. Christ swung all its gates. Christ curtained jt with upholstery, erimsbn with crucifixion carnage. Come into it. Come into it I do not pick out this man or that man and say: “Y’ou may come.” I say all may come —whosoever will. “Come unto us and we will do yon good. The Lord hath promised good concerning Israel.”

» e are a garuen waned around Chosen and made peculiar grounds A little plot inclosed by grace Out of tile world’s wild wilderness, Do not say you have never been invited. I invite you now to the King's feast. One and all. All! All! But I go further and tell you that the angels are ready. Some people think when we speak about angels we are getting into the region of fancy. They say it is very well for a ‘man when he has just entered the ministry to preach about the angels?of Heaven, but after he has gone on further it is harldy worth while. My friends, there is not any more evidence in the Bible that there is a God than that there are angels. Did they not swarm around Jacob's ladder? When Lazarus’ soul went up did they not eseort it? Did not David say: “The char ots of God lire twenty thousand, even thousands of angels?” Are they not represented as the chief harvesters of the Judgment day? Did not one angel in one night slay one hundred and eighty thousand of Sennacherib's troops? Oh, yes, our world is in comj munication with two other worlds. All that communication is by angels. When a bad man is to die, a man who has despised God and rejected the Gospel, the bad spirits come on sulphurous wing and they shackle him, and try to push him off the precipices into the ruin, and they lift a guffaw of diabolical exultation. But there is a line of angels, bright and beautiful and loving angels, mighty angels, reaching all the way from earth to Heaven, and when others gather like them I suppose the air iB full of thehi. They j hover. They flit about. They push down | iniquity from your heart. They are ready to rejoice. Look! There is an angel from the throne of God. One moment' ago. it stood before Christ and heard the doxology of the redeemed. It is here now. Bright immortal, what news from the golden city? Speak, spirit . blest The answer comes melting on the air: “Come, come, for all things are now ready.” Angels ready to bear the tidings. Angels ready to drop the benediction. Angels ready, to kindle the joy. AU ready. Ready, cherubim and seraphim. Ready, thrones and

glorified kindred are ready. I have noi any sympathy with modern spiritualism. I believe it is horn in perdition. When I see the ravages it makes with human intellects, when I see the homes it has devastated, when .1 see the bad morals that very often follow in its wake, I have no faith in modern spiritualism. I think .if John MUton and George Whitefield have not anything better to do than to crawl under Rochester tables and rattle the leaves they had better stay home in glory. But the Bible distinctly teaches that the glorified in Heaven are in sympathy with our redemption. “There is joy in Heaven among the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth,” and if the angels hear it, do not our departed kindred there he^r it? There are those there "who toiled for your salvation, and when they bade you good-by in the last hour, and they said, “Meet me in Heaven,” there was hovering over the pillow the possibility that you might not meet But oh, the pathos when that hand was thrust out from the cover and they said good-by. For how long good-by was it? Now. suppose you should pass into the kingdom of God this morning, suppose you should say: “I’m done with the sins of this world. Fie upon all these follies. O, Christ! 1 take Thee now, take Thy service, I respond to Thy love, Thine am I forever”—why, before the tear of repentance had dried on your check, before your first prayer had closed, the angel standing with the message for thy soul would cry upward: “He is coming!” ard angels poising in midair would cry upward: “He is coming!” All along the line of light from doorway to doorway, from wing tip to wing tip, the news would go upward until it reached the gate, and then it would flash to the house of many mansions, and find your kindred out, and those before the throne would say: “Rejoice with me, my prayers are answered. Give me another harp with which to strike the joy. Saved, saved, saved!” i »■ Now, my friends, ii! Christ is ready, and the Holy Ghost is ready, and the church is ready, and the angels of God are ready, and your glorified kindred are ready, are you ready? 1 give with all the emphasis of my soul the question: “Are, yon ready?” If you do not get into the King’s feast it will be because you do not accept the earnest invitation. Arm stretched out soaked with blood from elbow to finger-tip, lips quivering in mortal anguish, two eyes beaming everlasting love, while He says: “Come, come, come, for all things are now ready.”

At Kenilworth Castle, I toldyou, they stopped the clocks when Qneen Elizabeth arrived, that the hand of time might point to that moment as the one most significant and tremendous; bnt if this morning the King should enter the castle of your soul, well might you stop all the clocks and have the finger of time pcinting to this moment as the one most stupendous in all your life. Would that I could come all through these aisles and all through these galleries, not addressing you perfunctorily, but taking yon by the hand as a brother takes a brother by the hand, and saying to one and ail, to each: “Come, eome, the door is open; enter now and sit down at the feast.” Old man, God has been waiting for thee long years. Would that some tear of repentance might triekle down thy wrinkled cheek, lias not Christ done enough in feeding thee and clothingthee all these years to win from thee one word of gratitude. Come, all the young. Christ is the fairest of the fair. Wait not till thy heart gets hard. Come, the furthest away from Christ. Drunkard, Christ can put out the fire of that thirst. He can restore thy broken home. He can break that shackle. Come now, to-day, and get His pardon and its strength. Libertine, Christ knew where you were last night. He knows all the story of thy sin. Come to Him this day. He will wash away thy sin and He will throw around thee the robes of His pardon. Harlot, thy feet foul with hell, thy laughter the horror of the street—O, Mary Magdalen! Christ waits for thee. And the one further off, further than I have mentioned, a case not so hopeful as ahy I have mentioned, self-righteous man, feeling thyself all right, having no need of Christ, no need of pardon, no need of help—0, selfrighteous man! dost thou think in those, rags thou canst enter the feast? Thou canst not. God’s servant at the gate would tear off thy robe and leave thee naked at the gate. 0 self-righteous man! the last to come. Come -to the feast. Come, repent of thy sin! Come, take Christ for thy portion. Day of grace going away. Shadows on the cliff reaching further and further over the plain. The banquet has already begun. Christ has entered into that banquet to whicfc^jpftu are invited. The guests are taking %heir places. The servant of the King has his hand on the door of the banquetting room, and he begins to swing it shut. Now is your time to go in. Now is my time to enter. I must go in. You must go in. He is swinging the door shut. Now, it is half shut. Now, it is three-fourths shut. Now, it is just ajar. .After awhile it will be forever shut!' Why will yo waste on trifling cares That life which God’s compassion spares? While in the endless round of thought The one thing needful is forgot.

Puritans and Pilgrims. After Henry VIII. threw off the papal yoke, and established the Chureh of England with himself at its head, there arose a class of people who believed in y^t more simple methods of worship, and who contended that the Church of England was altogether too much like the Church of Home. These were called the Puritans. There were two great parties among the Puritans. There were those who, admitting the authority of the Church of England, yet believed in bringing about its reform. They did not leave the church unless they were driven out, and they all the while believed in the church. These were known as Non-conformists. The other great party of the Puritans did not believe in the Church of England. Their desire was not so much to reform the church as to have a reformed church, something new, and, taking the Bible for their guide, to conform their religion to its guidance in every particular. These were called Separatists. Among these Separatists was that small band who first went to Holland and then continued their pilgrimage to Plymouth on the New England coast, and are known in history as the Pilgrims.—Boston Budget. snort Texts. Say no evil of others. Be good for good's sake. Every one has some good trait. Charity is the greatest of virtues. True affection is not born in a day. Learn to say no, when it is necessary. Hold on to your friends with hooks of steel. . ; A smiling face oftimes conceals a breaking heart. Never assume any obligation yon can not liquidate. The smallest shoe sometimes covers the tenderest corn. Despise qot little things; they make up the sum of life. A false friend is mors dangerous than in open enemy. Always bp fme to self;

The window class Trust. A New Child <it tile T»rifr-Or*»nl*atlou <tf the Trust end Advance uf Prices—Shah* Ins Down the McKinley Plums—An Industry That Lied. Forty-three manufacturers of wlndodr glass have recently met in Chicago and signed their names to an agreement raising the price of glass fifteen or twenty per cent. They take care not to call their combination a trust, and even said that they had “had enough of trusts;” but, all the same, this combination serves all the purposes of a trust It binds the signers together in a cast-iron compact to keep prices up to a certain figure. In the popular mind this is all that is necessary to constitute a trust This window glass trust is distinctly a child of the high tariff. The glass business has extended very rapidly during the past ten years, there being now about twice as many pots as in 188a This great growth was promoted large-1 ly by the discovery of natural gas, which supplied a cheap fuel admirably suited to the purposes of the glass manufacturer. The protectionists can thus point to the expansion of the glass industry; and they invariably claim this expansion as one of the bright and shining proofs of the “blessings of protection.” But they cannot claim that their system has put down glass to the consumers at lower prices in all these thirty years of high duties. The following table shows the price of different sizes of glass in 1860 and 1890:

Sizes. Quality. 8x10 inches....SU... sxlo •• .: th, 10x14 “ ........ i Jtl... 10x14 “ I2x 8 “ 12x 8 “ 18x24 •• 22x28 “ -I.|2d.. ■T*i~ Total 8 boxes-. Price pert* box of 50 feet. 1880 5 1.96 1 80 2.40 2.10 30’ 2 40 360 360 20.85 1890. , S 1.90 1824 204 1.9« •A 75 2.28 3 13 3.33 >13125 Here is it trifling reduction of 8 per centoin thirty years of high protection; bnt the trust has how put up prices 15 to 20 per cent, and so there has been no redaction in thirty years. On the other hand, here is a table giving the prices of imported glass in 1867 and 1889: Sis Not above 10x15. 1 xl>.to 16x2. 16x24 to24x30... Above 24x31.. Av-raire. Or a fall since 1867 of 54 per cent., showing clearly that instead of lower ing the price of window glass the tariff has kept up the price here. The domestic manufacturers keep prices close up to the price of foreign glass with the duty added. For the last ten years less than one-third of our window glass, has been imported, always enough, however, to keep the domestic manufacturers within bounds in the matter of prices. Of the various domestic industries conspicuous at Washington when the tariff bill was under discussion, none showed up more prominently than the window glass manufacturers. Their particular trade was already protected by duties averaging above lOOper cent., but according to representations made on their behalf this was insufficient to secure them against foreign competition. McKinley lent them a ready car and advanced duties in all sizes of g ass. The senate, however, insisted upoa retaining the old rates of duty, and this was done, except on the largest -dze where a higher duty was given. The same effect %s higher duties, however, was accomplished by adding a provision that all imported window glass should be shipped in boxes of 50 feet, instead of, as previously, boxes of 100 feet. Under the administrative tariff act, moreover, still further protection was given by assessing duties on coverings, on freights and insurance, and by allowing nothing whatever for broken glass. The organization of this trust, therefore, means a scramble for McKinley spoils. How the committee was imposed upon by the window glass men was made clear some time ago, when a syndicate of British capitalists made overtures for the purchase of certain window glass factories. Before the ways and means committee, the window glass manufacturers told a pitiful tale of hard struggles for existence, or how they were compelled reluctantly to pay rates of wages much below their inclinations, and of how raising import duties to a pr.atieally prohibitive height would be for the benefit of the workman. To the B itishers, however, they made it clear that their factories were a property well worth having at a good price, as a steady ten per cent, profit might safely be counted upon.

Som It Reduce Import*? The high tariff organs ought to try to get together and not pull in contrary directions. The New York Tribune, the leading protectionist journal of the country, has been pointing out ho v the McKinley law does not restrict trade, as imp rts are larger than ever; and therefore how false and wicked are all those who speak of that measure as a Chinese wall! . In a contrary way speaks the Manufacturer, the high tariff organ of the powerful Manufacturers’ club of Philadelphia. This mouth-piece of Pennsylvania protection rejoices thus: Tbe manner In which the McKinley tariff, wit'itn a tew months aft r its adoption is tulltlling the purpose of its p issage and the prediction of it* friend* is plainly indicated by the following facts: The imoorts of this country of foreign t-r lies for the month *f January this year wer • about t6.000.n00 less th m for tire same month last year. The imports of woolens an I worsteds for February, 1891, were more than &,'**>,W> less than for February, 1890. The exports of worded stuff4 from the Bradford district, England, fell from about U,':9>,00 ■ in February of last year to $380.no> In F bruary of this year a decline of £6 per cent. The exports of cutlery from 8n-ffleld to the United States lor the first quarter of the present v ear were Just one-half those for the same quarter of last year. In other words, McKinley’s “American bill” prevents the American .people from buying what they want. Barger Imports of Sugar. Importation of sugar in March and February are interesting to anyone who wishes to find out the effects of tariffs upon trade. In February our imports of dutiable' sugar, molasses and sugar candy fell to 85,683,111, the free imports from the Hawaiian islands being 81,810,658 additional. On March 1 sugar began to be imported free in bond for refining, preparatory to the removal of the duty on the 1st of April. At once sugar began to be imported in greatly increased quantities, the four ports of New York, Boston, Philadelphia and San Francisco alone reporting 813,499,568 worth of sugar imported in March. From July -1, 1899, to February 98, 1391, the importation of sugar was more than 819,000,000 less than in the same time tbe previous year. The imports for the single month of March, however, were nearly one-eighth of our usual importation for an entire year. The decline in imports in February and months immediately preceding was due to the prospect of free sugar. It was a recognition that the .tariff is a tax; and the enlarged importation since March 1 is an evidence that there is an enlarged demand and greater consumption for unta, ed sugar. It means that the removal ('? a duty is a saving to th* consumer.

A BOLD UNDERTAKING. ' An American Who was Gains Around the World on Foot. In these days, when there is such a Search for novelty, it will not belong before some one WU1 go aronnd the world ‘ on foot. Of course, the entire journey; on foot would not be practicable,'.but the carriage could be reduced to a few hundred miles by crossing America on latitude 66. More than a century ago a corporal in the English marine corps, an American by birth, named Lediard, undertook this stupendous task. He left London in the winter of 1786, with 5350 in his pocket, and his plan was to traverse Eurqpe and Asia on foot, qnd then be ferried across Behring straits to the American shore, wheafse he would continue his journey to the Atlantic ocean, somewhere between New' York and Labrador. He walked to St. Petersburg by way of Hamburg and Copenhagen, going around the Gulf of Bothnia to the north. Then he continued to Siberia, and went as far as Yakutsk, intending to press on toward Behring’s straits in .the spring of 1788. But in January of that year he was arrested by order of Empress Catherine, taken back to St. Petersburg, and afterward put across the Polish frontier, with orders not to enter Russia again without the imperial permission. Thus was his enterprise broken up.—Golden Days To Dispel Colds, Headaches and Fevers, to cleanse the system effectually, yet gently, when costive or bilious, o( when the blood is impure or sluggish, to permanently cure habitual constipation, to awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity, without irritating or weakening them, use Syrup of Figs. Thess is ono business industry that has some snap to it even in dull times—the whip manufacturer.—Lowell Courier. Sommer Tourists. Take the Chicago, St Panl & Kansas City Railway, the popular route to all points of interest in the scenic Northwest and the Puget Sound region. Connects witli transcontinental trains for all resorts dear to the hearts of pleasure seekers. F. H. Lord, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Phoenix Building, Chicago, 111. Cobs in the field is shocked, nnd when it is made into whisky it is shocking.—Binghamton Republican. » Before Too Start On a journey by sea or land, procure Hos tetter’s Stomach Bitters as a defense against traveler's nausea and climatic influences. Colic, cramps and dyspepsia don’t stand the ghost of a chance against this paramount alterative and stomachic. Neither do malaria, kidney trouble, siok headache and biliousness. ’ WriEN yon get close enongh to a frog to poke him with a stick that’s the sign of spring.—Buffalo Express. Gus. A. Dubois, a well known resident of St. Louis, says: ‘T have used several bottles of Prickly Ash Bitters for biliousness aiid malarial troubles, so prevalent in this cli ate, and heartily recommend it to all afflicted in a like manner. It is the best remedy I ever used.”

It is.acurious fact that when one is seized with a consuming passion one’s appetite fails miserably.—St. Joseph News Tub complexion becomes clear, the skia free from eruptive tendencies, the appetite : nd digestion improved, aches and pains cease, ihe body grows stronger, sound sleep at night a habit, aud the general health every way better when Dr. John Bull's Sarsaparilla is made use of. Auctioneers bavo their regular customers; but they also depend greatly upon the buystauders at a sale.—N. O Picayune. Dobbins’ Electric Soap does not chap the htrnds, being perfectly pure. Many people afflicted with Salt Rheum have been cured by its use. Preserves and whitens clothes. Have your grocer order it and try it mow. The young man who can write “a good hand” hasn’t half a chance in life with the youth who can hold one.—Washington Post. Am. cases of weak or lame back, backaclic, rheumatism, will find relief by wearing one of Carter's Smart Weed and Belladonna Backache Plasters. Price25 cents. Try them. The cat is a mewt animal, but she has a Toico like a fire alarm.—Binghamton Republican. In 1850 “Brown's Bronchial Troches” were introduced, and their success as a cure for Colds, Cougns, Asthma and Bronchitis has been unparalleled. Antone who has listened to the groaning of the big fiddle in the orchestra knows what “viols of wrath” mean.—Binghamton Republican. How cru el to force children to take nasty worm medicines. Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers are always sure and taste like dainty little candies. A detective’s allies should be all-eves—a lawyer’s are reputed to be all lies.—Boston Courier. The Grip of Pneumonia may be warded off with Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. This is the season of the year when potted plants want the earth.—Washington Star. _^_ Don’t wait until you are sick before trying Carter’s Little Liver Pills, but get a vial at, once. You can’t take them without benefit. It is a woman’s nature to pet something. If she has nothing to pet she is apt to be m a pet herself.—Somerville Journal. Bronchitis is cured by frequent small dosea of Piso's Cure for Consumption.

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