Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 28, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 November 1893 — Page 2

THAT LITTLE “IF.” Dr. Talmago Talks Upon the “Xfa" of the Bible. ItoSmall, bat Immensely Important Conjunction, According to Where and How It Is Used—Moses" Frayer Unanswered. f The following discourse by Rev. T. DeVVitt Taimage, on “The ‘lfs’ of the Bible,” was delivered in the Brooklyn tabernacle, being based on the text: If Thou wilt forgive their sin—: and if not. blot me. I pray Thee, out of Thy book.—Exodus xxxi , 32. There is in our English language a small conjunction, which I propose, by God's help, to haul out of its present insignificance and set upon the throne where it belongs, and that is the conjunction “if.” Though made of only two letters, it is the pivot on which everything turns. Ail time and all eternity are at its disposal. We slur it in our utterance, we ignore it in our appreciation, and none of us recognize it as the most tremendous Word in the vocabulary outside of those words which describe deity. If! Why ttiat word we take as a tramp among words, now appearing here, now appearing there, but'having no value of its own. when it really lias a millionairedom of worlds,and in its train walk all planetary, stellar, lunar, solar destinies. If the boat of leaves, made water-tight in which iufant Moses sailed the Nile, had sunk, who would have led Israel out of Egypt? If the Red sea had not parted for the escape of one host, and then come together for the submergence of another host, would the Book of Exodus ever have been written? If the ship on which Columbus sailed for America had gone down in an Atlantic cyclone, how much longer would it have taken for the discovery of this -continent? If Grouchy had come up with rc-enforeeraents in time- to give the French the victory at Waterloo, what would have been the fate of Europe? I f the Spanish Armada had not been wrecked off the coast, how different would have been many chapters in English history. If the battle of Hastings, or the battle of Pultoiva, or the battle of Valmy, or the battle of Mataurus, or the battle of Arbela, or the battle of Chalons, each one of which turned the world’s destiny, had been •decided the other way. If Shakspeare had never been born for the drama, or Handel had never been born for music, or Titian had never been born for pain ting, orThorwaldsen had never been boru for sculpture, or “Edmund Burke had never been born for eloquence, or isoemtes had never been born for philosophy, or lllackstone had never •been born for the law, or Copernicus ihad never beeu born for astronomy, or Luther had never beeu born for t le a-e formation! Oh, that conjunction “if!" llow much has depended on it. The height of it. the depth of it, the •length of it, the breadth of it, the im"inensity of, the infinity of it, who can aneasure? It would swamp anything •but Omnipotence. But I must confine ■myself to-day to the “ifs" of the Bible, und in doing so 1 shall speak of the “if” of overpowering earnestness, the •“if" of incredulity, the “if” of threat, itho “if” of argumentation, the “if” of ■eternal significance, or so many of these “ifs" as 1 can compass in the time that may be reasonably allotted to pulpit discourse.

Urst, the it or overpowering earnestness, My text (jives it. The Israelites have been worshiping an idol, notwithstanding all that God had done for them, and now Moses oilers the most vehement prayer of all history, ■and it turns upon an ‘'if.” iTf Thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, oiyt of Thy book.” Oh, what an overwheming “if!” It was as much as to say: “If Thou wilt not pardon them, do not pardon me: if Thou wilt not bring them to the promised land, let me never see the promised land; if they must perish, let me perish with them; in that book where Thou recordest their doom, record my doom; if they are shut out of Heaven, let me be shut out of Heaven; if they go down into darkness, let me go down into darkness.” What vehemence aud holy recklessness of prayers! Yet there are those here w-ho, I have no doubt, have, in their all-absorbing desire to have others saved, risked the same prayer, for it is a risk. You must not make it, unless yon are willing to balance your ■eternal salvation on such an “if.” Yet there have been cases where a mother Zhas been so anxious for the recovery •of a wayward son than her prayer has •swung and trembled and poised on an “if’ like that of the text. “If not, blot roe, I pray Thee, out of Thy book. Write his name in the Lamb’s Hook of liife, or turn to the page where my name was written ten or twenty or forty or sixty years ago, and with the ■black ink of everlasting midnight •erase my first name and my last name aud all my name. If he is to go into shipwreck, let me be tossed amid the same breakers.. If he can not be a partner in my bliss, let me be a partner in his woe. I have for many years loved Thee. 0, God! and it has been my expectation to ’sit with Christ aud all the redeemed at the banquet of the skies, but 1 now give up my promised place at the feast, and my promised robe, and my promised crown, and my promised throne, unless John, •unless George, unless Henry, unless my darling son can share them with •me. Heaven will be no Heaven without him. 0. God, save my boy, or count me among the lost.” That is a •terrific prayer, and yet there is a young man sitting in the pew on the ’main floor, or in the lower gallery, or • in the top gallery, who has already crushed such a prayer from his mother's heart. He hardly ever writes (home, or, living at home, what does ;lie care how much trouble he gives her9 Her tears are no more trouble to him than the rain that drops from the • eaves of the house on a dark night. The fact that she does not sleep be•cause watching for his return late at night does not choke his laughter or

hasten his step forward. She has tried coaxing and kindness, and self-sacri-fice and all the ordinary prayers that mothers make for their children and all have failed. She is coming toward the vivid and venturesome and terrific prayer of my text. She is going to lift her own eternity and set it upon that one “if," by which she expects to decide w;hether you will go up with her or she down with you. She may be this moment looking! heavenward, and saying: “O Lord re- j claim him by Thy grace,” and then j adding that heart-rending “If’ of my text: “If not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book.” After three years j of absence a son wrote his mother in: one of the New England whaling vil-! lages that he was coming home in a certain ship. Mother-like, she stood i watching, and the ship was in the off-1 ing, but a fearful storm struck it and dashed the ship on the rocks that night. All that night the mother prayed for the safety of the son, and just at dawn there was a knock at the j cottage door, and the son entered, cry- j ing: “Mother, I knew you would pray | me home!" If I would ask those in this assemblage who have been prayed ! home to God by pious mothers to stand j up, there would be scores that would « stand; and if I should ask them to give testimony, it would be the testimony j of that New England son coming ashore from the split timbers of the whaling ship: “My mother prayed me .home!” Another Bible “If" is the “If’ of in- ! credulity. Satan used it when Christ, ! with his vitality depressed by forty j days' abstinence from food, the tempter pointed to some stones, in color and shape like loaves of bread, and said: “If Thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.” That was appropriate, for Satan is the father of that "if” for incrdulity. Peter used the same “If when, standing on the wet and slippery deck of a fishingsmack of Lake Galilee, he saw Christ waAcing on the sea as though it were as solid as a pavement of basalt from the adjoining volcanic hills, and Peter cried out: “If it be Thou, let me come to Thee on the water.” What a preposterous “If!" What hdman foot was ever so constructed as to walk on water? In what part of the earth did law of gravitation make exception to the rule that a man will sink to the elbows when he touches the wave of the river or lake, and will sink still further, unless he can swim? But here Peter looks out upon the form in the shape of a man defying the rr.ightest law of the universe, the law of gravitation, and standing erect on the top of the liquid. Yet the incredulous Peter cries out to the Lord: “If it be Thou.” Alas! for that incredulous “If.” It is working as powerfully as in the latter part of this nineteenth Christian century as it did in the early part of the first Christian century. Though a small eonjunction, it is the biggest block to-day in the way of the Gospel chariot. “If!” “If!” We have theological seminaries which spend most of their time and employ teeir learning and their genius in the manufacturing of “Ifs.” With that weaponry is assailed the Pentateuch, and the miracles and the divinity of Jesus Christ, Almost everybody is chewing on an "If.” When a man bows for prayer, he puts his knee on an “If.” The door through which people pass into infidelity and atheism and all immortalities has two door-posts, and the one is made up of the letter “I” and the other of the letter “F.” Any religion will do in time of prosperity. Buddhism will do. Confucianism will do. Theosophy will da No religion at all will da But when the world gets after you and defames your best deeds, when bankruptcy takes the place of large dividends, when you fold for the last sleep the still hand s over the still heart of your old father who has been planning for your welfare all these years, or yet close the eyes of your mother who has lived in your life, ever since before you were born, removing her spectacles because she will have clear vision in the home to which she has gone, or you give the last kiss to the child reclining amid the flowers that pile the casket, and looking as natural and life-like as she ever did reclining in the cradle, then the only religion worth anything is the old-fashioned of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.- I would give more in such a crisis for one of the promises expressed in half a verse of the old Book than for a whole library containing all the productions of all the other religions of the ages!- The other religions area sort of a cocaine to benumb and deaden the soul while bereavement and misfortune do their work, but our religion is inspiration, illumination, emparadisation. It is a mixture of sunlight and hallelujah. Bo not adulterate it with one drop of the tincture of incredulitv.

Another Bible “if’ is the “if’ of eternal significance. Solomon gives us that “if’ twice in one sentence, when he says: “If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself; but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.” Christ gave us that “if’ when He says: “If thou hadst know in this thy day, the things which belong unto: thy peace, but now they are hidden from thine eyes.” Paul gives us that “if* when he says: “If they shall enter into my rest.”. All those “ifs” and a score more that I might recall put the whole responsibility of our salvation on ourselves, Christ’s willingness to pardon: No “if” about that. Christ’s willingness to help: No “if” about that. Realms of glory awaiting the righteous: No “if” about that. The only “If” in all the case worth a consideration, is the “if” that attaches itself to the question as to whether we will accept, whether we will repent, whether we will believe, whether we will rise forever. Is it not time that we-take our eternal future off that swivel? Is it not time that we extirpate that “if,” that miserable “if,” ,thit hazardous “if?” We would not allow the uncertain “if ’ to stay long in anything else of: importance. Let some one say regard to a railroad bridge: “I have

reasons lor asking if that bridge is safe,” and yon would not cross it. Let some one say: “X hare reasons to ask if that steamer is trustworthy,” and you would not take passage on it. Let someone suggest in regard to a property that you are about,to purchase: “I have reason to ask if they can give a good title,” and you would not pay a dollar down until you had some skillful real-estate lawyer examine the title. But I allow for years of my lifetime and some of you hare allowed for years of your lifetime an “if’ to stand tossing up and down questions of eternal destiny. Oh. decide. Perhaps your arrival here today may decide. Stranger things than that have put to flight forever the “if’ of uncertainty. A few Sabbath nights ago in this church, a man, passing at the foot of the pulpit, said to me: “1 am a miner from England,” and then he pushed back his coat sleeve and said: “Do you see that scar on my arm?” I said: “Yes; you must have had an awful wound there some time.” He said: "Yes; it nearly cost me my life. I was in a mine in England six hundred feet under ground and three miles from the shaft of the mine, and a rock fell on me, and my fellow-laborer pried off the rock and 1 was bleeding to death, and he took a newspaper from around his luncheon and bound it around my wound, and then helped me over the three miles under ground to the shaft, where I was lifted to the top, and when that newspaper was taken off my wound I read on it something that saved my soul, and it' was one of your sermons. Good-night,” he said, as he passed on, leaving me transfixed with grateful emotion. Between the first and last sentences of my text there was a paroxysm of earnestness too mighty for words. It will take half of an eternity to tell of all the answers of earnest and faithful prayer. In his last journal. David Livingstone, in Africa, records the prayer so soon to be answered: “19 March—Birthday. My Jesus, my God, my life, my All. I again dedicate my whole self to Thee. Accept me, and grant 0 gracious Father that ere this year is gone,I may finish my task. In Jesus’ name I ask it. Amen.” When the dusky servant looked into Livingstone’s tent and found him dead on his knees, he saw that the prayer had been answered, But notwithstanding the earnestness of the prayer of Moses in the text it- was a defeated prayer, and was not answered. I think the two “ifs” in the prayer defeated it, and one “if” is enough to defeat any prayer, whatever good characteristics it may have. "If thou wilt forgive their sins—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of Thy book.” God did neither. As the following verses show, He punished their sins, but I am sure did not blot out one letter of the name of Moses from the Book of Life. There is only one kind of prayer in which you need to put the “if,” and that is the prayer for temporal blessings. Tray for riches and they may engulf us, or for fame, and it may bewitch us, or for worldly success of any sort and it may destroy us. Better say: “If it be best. “If I can make proper use of it,” “If Thou seest I need it.” A wife, praying for the recovery of her husband from illness, stamped her foot and said with frightful emphasis: “I will not have him die; God shall not take him.” Her prayer was answered, but a few years after, the community was shocked by the fact that |he in a moment of anger had slain her. A mother, praying for a son’s recovery from illness, told the Lord He had no right to take him, and the boy recovered, but plunged into all abominations and died a renegade. Better in all such prayers pertaining to our temporal welfare, put an “if,” saying: “If it be Thy willP’ But praying for Spiritual good and the salvation of our soul we need never'insert an “if.” Our spiritual welfare is sure to be for the best, and away with the “ifs.”

ADranams prayer r*or me rescue or Sodom was a grand prakg^ha-^ome respects, but there were] six^Tfs” in it; or “peradventures,!’ which mean the same thing. “Perydventure there maybe fifty righteous/n the city, peradventnre forty-five, peradventure forty, peradventure thirtyi peradventure twenty, peradventure ten.” Those six peradventures, those six “ifs” killed the prayer and Sodom went down and went under. Nearly all the prayers that were answered had no “ifs” in them. The prayer of Elijah that changed dry weather to wet weather. The prayer that changed Hezekiah from a sick man to a well man. The prayer that halted sun and moon without shaking the universe to pieces. Oh, rally your soul for a prayer with no “ifs” in it. Say in substance: “Lord, thou hast promised pardon and I take it. Here, are my wounds, heal them. Here is my blindness, irradiate it. ilere are my chains of bondage, by the Gospel hammer strike them off. Iam fleefng to the City of Refuge, and I am sure this is the right way. Thanks be to God,.I am free.” Once, by the law. my hopes were slain, But now, in Christ, I lire again. With the Mosaic earnestness of my text and -without its Mosaic ’fifs,” let us cry out for God. Aye, if words fail us, let us take the suggestion of that printer’s dash of the text, and a with a worldless silence implore pardon and comfort and life and Heaven. For this assemblage, all of whom I shall meet in the last judgment, I dare not offer the prayer of my text, and so I change it, and say: “Lord God, forgive our sins, and write our names in the Book of Thy loving Remembrance, from which they shall never lie blotted out” —The duty of a prophet is not to prophesy good things, but to utter the prophecy which God suggests. Micaiah is nobler in chains than the whole rabble of Ahab's priests, in sleek and wellfed and comfortable serfdom to the court. /

I PROTECTION TO LABOR FRAUD. Utn Are on the Free List and American Labor Is Not Protected by Duties on tioods — Canadians Moving Back and Forth at Will. “One effect of the temporary shutting down of the many New England cotton mills during the past two months, and the subsequent reduction | in the wages of the operatives, has been ; the stimulus given emigration from this ! and other New England states to Can- i ada. “Few factories but ha£g felt the ef- ! fects of this exodus of the French- ; Canadians back to the farms from which ■ the promise of high wages and speedy j enrichment enticed them, and for j weeks past the depot platforms at the i village railway stations have been piled ■ high with their trunks and huge boxes, f filled with clothing and household , goods, billed for points beyond the ' Canadian border. “There i$ no more reliable indicator of the industrial situation in the cotton ; manufacturing centers than the period- | ieal movement of the migratory portion j of the French Canadian population. When the tide of industrial prosperity I is on the rise, and with it the wages of the cotton operatives, the French Can- j adian, taking it at the flood, hies him j from the farm to the factory, and gain when it begins to ebb, he is the first to take alarm, and with the accumulated savings of his sojourn in the states fly back to the farm. ” The above, from the Providence Journal, is quoted by the Manufacturer, of Philadelphia, one of the staunchest, not To say the most bitter, of | protectionist journals. It is assumed j that this furnishes a clinching argu- j ment for protection to American wageearners by means of tarriff duties. But does it? Does it not rather stamp the whole system as a farce and a ! fraud? Does it not make clear that trade in labor is free and that when I the reward for labor is higher in this than in other countries there is nq obstruction to its migration and importation, except the trouble of moving and the expense of transportation? Not more certainly does the liquid in ! a spirit level flow toward the lower end of the tube than does the tide of immigration flow toward the country of greatest natural and actual advantages for the employment of labor. Labor, like water, is constantly seeking its level. Men being on the free list, they can and do sell their labor in the highest market. Hence wages the world over are about as nearly level as are j the waters of the seas and of the great bodies of water closely connected with them. If day wages are much higher j in one country than in another it is be- I cause labor is more eflicient in the former than in the latter country. This theory is in accord not only with common sense but with all well-authenti-cated facts obtained by democrats or republicans. When James G. Blaine was secretary of state, in 18S1, he made a report on wages in the cotton industry, in this and other countries, based upon statistics obtained by foreign consuls. He was forced to come to the conclusion that "undoubtedly the inequalities in the wages of English and American operatives are more than equalized by the greater efficiency of the latter and their longer hours of labor.*’ The previous secretary of state, William M. Evarts, made a similar report and came to a similar conclusion. He said: “One workman in the United States, as will be seen from the foregoing extracts, does as much as two workmen in most of the countries in Europe.” That labor is more efficient in this country is demonstrated every day of the year by our exports of goods to all parts of the globe. Our shoemakers, carpet and cloth weavers, piano, carriage and wagon makers, and mechanics and workingmen of all kinds receive double the day wages paid in Europe and yet their products are exported to Europe and sold in competition with the products of Europe's cheapest labor. Many large manufacturers have declared that labor is cheaper in this than in any other country— all things considered. No. a duty on goods gives no protection to labor that makes the goods As lion. Ben Butterworth frankly admitted, “the manufacturers and the trusts get the protection and the profits of the tariff.” The American working*man sees the effect of protection in the I increased prices of what he purchases. His labor is constantly in competition with the labor of all other countries both in our own and in foreign countries ('This fallacy exploded, protection will have no other leg upon which to stand. But anyway, it has twice been knocked completely off its pins in this country and the last obsequies are now being performed. No humbug ever deserved to be buried deeper than this one. Byron W. Holt.

INCOME TAX SENTIMENT. Congressman Warner, Who Represents the Wealthiest District In this Country, Fa* vors Taxing: Men’s Wealth Rather Than Their Wants. In the face of a prospective deficit of $70,000,000 on one hand and the emphatic demand of the people to reducg tariff duties on the other hand democratic congressmen, who feel the responsibility of the situation, are casting about for a way out of the predicament. Many of them from the south and west have long been in favor of an income tax. In fact, they introduced about twenty different income tax bills during the first session of the last congress. During the last few months representatives from all parts of th3 country have declared fgr an income tax. Hon. John DeWitt Warner, of the Thirteenth congressional district of New York, probably represents more very large incomes than any other congressman. The Vanderbilts, Goulds, Astors, Huntingtons, Rockefellers, Havemeyers, Whitneys and perhaps 400 or 500 of the wealthiest of New York City’s 1,200 or 1,300 millionaires live in this district Under an income tax this district would probably contribute more to the revenue than any other district an i more than any one state, except, perhaps, ten or twelve of tho largest And ret Jlr. Warner is

not afraid to advocate an income tax. He not only thinks it more just than a tariff tax but he believes it would meet the approval of the tens of thousands of mechanics, clerks and laborers in his district We quote the following- from an interview with Mr. j Warner in the St. Louis Republic, of j October 23: “1 certainly prefer an income tax; if ; it is necessary to raise sufficient revenuc, rather than the retention of such i high tariff duties as to involve an In- j ordinate proportion of protection. I would not hesitate a minute how to ; vote if the question were presented between a protective tariff which would furnish th«T necessary revenue, and a bill which made the duties one-third lower and enacted an income tax to supply the deficiency. Personally, 1 think it would not be long before a substantiall • revenue tariff would bring as much money into the treasury as would higher ra tes, because not only would imports increase as a result of lower tariff rates, but we should have an era of prosperity that exports would greatly increase, and would naturally be paid for to a large ex ent by a further increase of imports.” "But do you think it necessary to put the entire machinery of collecting an income tax into operation to raise twenty or thirty millions?” was asked. “The machinery need be no more .elaberate than for the collection of any other tax. and I fear the amount Of the deficit to be provided for the first year - may reach $50,000,000 or more. I do not think, however, that an income tax would be really necessary, because the increase in customs receipt under a revenue tax might soon gfve us a surplus and we could issue, in the meantime, treasury certificates redeemable at the pleasure of the government within no more than ten years. There may be a disposition in the house, however, to insist upon legislation which will meet the whole revenue problem at once. “Members may say that my expectation of the increased customs receipts is only a prediction and that adequate revenue ought to be certainly provided for now. We shall have,then,a contest between different plans for meeting the emergency. There will be the same opposition to an income tax that there is to any new form of taxation, and of the contest between the income tax, the plan for the issue of bonds and r ther plans I should not be surprised if the final outcome were the authority to meet any temporary deficit by the issue of s ort term bonds, in anticipation of income, leaving the question of whether an income tax is needed to be settled by experiment, and this seems to me to be the best plan at present” “But do you not think that the needed revenue can be raised by increasing the internal revenue tax on beer or whisky?” “I presume that it could be raised by doubling the beer tax,” said Mr. Warner, “but I do not favor such a proposition as supplementing a tariff already so high as to levy from those in poor circumstances the greater part of the necessary income of the government. If it is true that an income tax would levy its heaviest burdens on the rich while it let the poor escape taxation this would hardly be more than a fair offset for the enormous disproportionate burden whieh is imposed upon consumption instead of wealth by tariff taxation. The increase of the tax on beer would simply carry further the same wrong theory of legislation. If, however, it were a question of taking it off clothes and putting it on beer I would be for taking it off clothes, but I am not in favor of putting it on both' in order to saddle the whole tax on consumption.” “But do you believe that the increase in the tax on beer would affect the retail price?” asked your correspondent “The consumer would have to pay it in the end. You cannot lay a tax on a theory that it will be paid by nobody and that it will not affect the cost of the articles, on which it is laid. The consumer; would have to pay the increase, whether it were in smaller glasses or poorer beer, or a reduction of the inducement to competition among producers. I repeat, if wealth already paid most of the federal taxes and in some emergency the question arose as to how to increase the revenues -by taxes on consumption, I might think a plumping levy on beer to be a good thing. But the trouble is that the most of federal taxes are now levied on consumption; such will be the case, even when the tariff is reduced to a revenue basis; and, therefore, if we need additional taxes, I believe in levying them on men's wealth rather than men’s wants.”

“Cheap American Pencil*” Abroad. As one more instance of the way the American manufacturer has to be protected against his foreign competitors, the American Stationer cites a statement made by Mr. Johann Fabef, of Nuremberg in regard to the difficulties which he is encountering in his Euro- j pean trade through the underselling of American lead-pencil manufacturers. He said that ^England was “flooded ; with cheap American pencils” to such an extent that his product had no chance of sale. American cedar pencils are sold in England at Irom sixty to sixty-eight cents a gross —--a price which the Germans cannot touch. This only shows j how flagrantly Ilerr Faber has been deceived. If he had looked into the American tariff laws, in which the ; duties are never higher than are absolutely needed to withstand foreign competition, he would have seen that the rate on lead pencils Js 50 cents a gross and 30 per cent ad valorem additional. This amounts to about 130 per cent, of indispensable protection, and hence it is clear that the Germans can undersell the Americans by fully that margin. Yet it is just possible that the profound German mind is on track of that great beauty of protection which consists in reserving the blessings of dear goods and high prices for its own people, and which ruthlessly degrades the foreigner by selling him the same goods at a ruinously low figure.—N. Y. Post.

Nervous Heaaacnes There are no people more mtserablenhan those who suffer from this trouble, and there are none more happy than those who have been cured by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Read below: “ 1 personally recommend Hood's Sarsaparilla lo my friends because It has been of great benefit to me. I have been suffering with dyspepsia and nervous headaches for several years. Aftei using other preparations without success, ] concluded to try Hood's ar.d am pleased to say I have been benefited more by Hood's Sarsaparilla than by ell other medicines combined, la fact. It has cured me. I have also used it as 0 blood purifier with marked success, and I Hood’s5^ Cures also find Hood's Pills very beneficial'’ D. Webster Baker, 38 South Pena St., York, Pa. Hood’s PHIs cure Constipation by restoring the peristaltic action of the alimentary canaL The Greatest Medical Discovery of the Age. KENNEDY’S MEDICAL DISCOVERY. DONALD KENNEDY, OF ROXBURY, MASS., Has discovered in one of our common pasture weeds a remedy that cures every kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula down to a common Pimple. He has tried it in over eleven hundred cases, and never failed except in two cases (both thunder humor). He has now in his possession over two hundred certificates of its value, all within twenty miles of Boston. ; . A benefit is always experienced from the first bottle, and a'perfect cure is warranted when the right quantity is taken. When the lungs are affected it causes shooting pains, like needles passing through them; the same with the Liver or Bowels. This is caused by the ducts being stopped, and always disappears in a week after tailing it. If the stomach is foul or bilious it will cause squeamish feelings at first. No change of diet ever necessary. Eat ■> the best you can get, and enough of it. Dose, one tablespoor.fui.in water at bedtime. Read the Label. Send for Be ok.

AUgUSt Flower” Eight doctors treated me for Heart Disease and one for Rheumatism, but did me no gpod. I could not speak aloud. Everything that I took into the Stomreh distressed me. I could not sleep. I had taketi all kinds of medicines. Through a neighbor I got one of your books. I procured a bottle of Green’s August Flower and took it. I am to-day stout, hearty and strong and enjoy the best of health. August Flower saved my life and gave me my health. Mrs. Sarah J‘ Cox, Defiance, O. ® Profitable Employment We want to engage the services of an energetic man or woman to represent THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL. We offer employment that will pay far better than clerkships. Send for circulars, illustrated premium list, sample copies and private terms to agents. CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 204 Boston Bldg.. Denver. Colo. T GOOD FARM FOR SALE CHEAF-ON EASY TEEMS. CONTAINS 80 ACRES-M Seymour, Webster county. Mo.; one of the FINEST FRUIT sections in the country. Farm contains dwelling house, some fruit trees, plenty of Umber .'nd goal spring water. Neighborhood tint-class. Owner a nonraaident. Title perfect. Address E. H. THIEJlECKE. 226 Walnut Street, ST? LOUIS, MO. WIFTS SPECIFIC •• For renovating tho entire system, eliminating all Poisons from the Blood, whether of scrofulous OC origin, thin preparation has no equal. “For eighteen months I had an eating sore on my tongue. I waa _ treated by best local physician*, but obtained no relief: the sore gradually grew worse. I finally took S. S. S., and was entirely Oared after using a few bottles.” C. B. McLemoke, Henderson, Cex. s Treatise on Blood and Skin Dio, eases mailed free. Tas Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Oe,