Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 52, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 May 1896 — Page 6

TALMAGETS SERMON. •And He Shall Divide His Spoil with the Strong.” | —- trkr Conquest of the Earth for Christ Not the Only Work of Christianity— The Heavenly Treasure# to Be Taken In. Also. Bee. T. PeWiitt Talmage gave words of encouragement to well-doers by promising them a “Division of the Spoils, in a recent sermon at Washington. He took for his text: He shall divide Ute spoil with the strong.— Isaiah lit. 12. In the Coliseum at Rome, where persecutors used to let out the halfstarved lions to eat up Christians, then: is now planted the figure of a cross. And I rejoice to know that the bright piece of wood nailed to a transverse piece has become the symbol not more of suffering than of victory. It is of Christ the conqueror that my text speaks. As a klngiv warrior, having subdued an etnpife, might divide the palaces and mansions and cities and valleys and mountains among Ins officers, so Christ is going to divide up §11 the earth aud all the heavens among’ His people, aud you and 1 will ha ye to take our share if we are strong in faith and strong in our Christian loyalty, for my text declares it: “lie shall divide the spoil with the strong.” ; The capture of this round planet for Christ is not si) much of a job us you might imagine, when the church takes off its coat an<$ rolls up its sleeves for the work, as it will. There are 1,60),- ■ 000.000 of people now in the world, and j 450.000,000 are Christiads. Substraet ! 450.000,000 who are Christians from the 1,600,000.001), and there are 1.150,000,000 left. Divide the 1,150,000,000 who are not Christians by the 450,000.- j 000 who are Christians, and you will j find that we shall have to average less . than three souls each, brought by us Into the kingdom of God, to have the j whole world redeemed. Certainly, j with the church rising up to its full duty, no Christian will be willing to I bring less thhn three souls into the j kingdom of (Sod. 1 hope, and pray j Almighty God, that 1 may bring more than three. 1 know evangelists who j have already brought 50,000 each for the kingdom ojf God. There are 200.000 people whose one : and only ale,,orbing business in the world is to fcave souls. When you take these things into consideration, , and that the Christians will have to ; average the bringing of only three j soul, each into, the Kingdom of our Lord, all impossibility vanishes from this omnipotent crusade. Why, 1 know j a Sabbath-school teacher who for many ■ years has been engaged in training the young, and she has had five different clusses, and they averaged seven to a , class, and they were all converted, and five times seven are 35, as near as 1 can calculate, S»o that she brought her three iuto the Kingdom of God and had 32 to apart;. My grandmother prayed her children into the kingdom of Christ, and her great-grand-children, and I hope all her .grandchildren, for God remembers a* prayer 75 years old. as though it were only a minute old; and so she brought her three into the kingdom of God. and had more thau a hundred to spare. Besides that, through the telephone and the telegraph, this whole world, within a few years, will be brought within compass of ten minutes, lieaides that, omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience are presiding in this matter of the world's betterment, and that takes the question of the world's Miration out of the impossibilities Into the possibilities, and then out of the possibilities into the posbabilities, and then out of the probabilities into certainties. The building of the.Cnion Pacific rajlroad from ocean to ocean was a greater undertaking than the ; girdling of the earth with the Gospel; for one enterprise depended upon the human arm. while the other depends j upon Almightine&s.

1K> 1 really i mean all the earth will i surrender to Christ? Yes. How about i the uninviting portions? Will Green- j land be evangelised? The possibility in that after a few more hundred brave lives are dashed out among the icebergs. that great refrigerator, the polar region, will be given up to the walrua and bear, and that the inhab* ItanU will come down by invitation Into tolerable climates, or those climates may soften; and. as it has been positively demonstrated that the Arctic region was onco a blooming garden and a fruitful field, those regions may change climate and again be a blooming gardec mad a fruitful field. It Ja proved boy on d controversy, by Gef-mau and American scientists, that the Arctic regions we*e the first portions of this world inhabitable; the world but beyond human endurance, -those regions were, of course, the first to be cool enough for human foot and -human lung. H was positively proved that the Arctic region was a tropical climate. Prol. ifeer, of Zurlich, says the remains of ’ flowers have been found in the Arctic region, showing it was like Mexico for climate, and It is found that the Arctic was the mother region from which all the flowers descended. Prof. Wallace ■ays the remains of all styles of animal life are found in the Arctic regions, including those animals that can Uve only in warm climates. Xow, that Arctic region, which has been demonstrated by flora and fauna and geological argument to have been as f«U of vegetation and life as our Florida. may be turned back to its original bloom and glory, or it will be shut up as a museum of crystals for curiosityaet hers once in a#hile to visit. But Arctic and Antarctic, in some shape, trill belong to the Redeemer's realm. What about other unproductive or vepulstve regions? All the deserts will be Irrigated, the waters will be forced up to the great American desert between here and the Pacific by machinery now known or yet to be invented. and, as Great Salt Lake City Jtas no rain and could not raise an up

pl« or a bushel of wheat in a hundred years without artificial help, but is now through such means one great garden, so ail the unproductive ports of all the continents will be turned in* to harvest fields and orchards. A half-dozen De Lesseps will furnish the world with all the canal3 needed, and will change the course of rivers and open new lakes and the great Sahara desert will be cut up into farms with an astounding yield of bushels to the acre. The marsh will be drained of its Waters and cured of its malaria. I saw what was for many years called the Black swamp of Ohio, its chief crop chills and fevers, but now, by the tiles put into the ground to carry off the surplus moisture, transformed into the richest and healthiest of regions. The God who wastes nothing. I think, means that this world, from pole to pole, has come to perfection of foliage and fruitage. For that reason He keeps the parth running through space, though so many fires are blazing down in its timbers and so many meteoric terrors have threatened to dash it to pieces. As soon as the earth is completed Christ will divide it up among the good. The reason He does not divide now is because it is not done. A kind father will not divide the apple among his children until the apple is ripe. In fulfillment of the New Testament, “The meek shall inherit the earth," and the promise of the Old Testament, “He shall divide the spoil with the strong," the world will be apportioned to those worthy to pos-j sess it. It is not so now. In this country, ; capable of holding, feeding, clothing and sheltering 1,300,000.0)0 people, we have only 60,000,000 inhabitants, we have 2.000,000 who can not get honest work, and with their families an aggre- ' gat ion of 5,000,000 that are on the verge ; of starvation. Something wrong, most certainly. In some way, there will be a new apportionment. Many of the millionaire estates will crack to pieces on the dissipation of grandchildren and then dissolve ipto the possession of the masses* who how have an insufficiency. j What, you say, will become of the expensive and elaborate buildings now devoted to debasing amusements? They will become schools, art galleries, museums, gymnasiums and churches. The world is already getting disgusted with mam* of these amusements, and no wonder. WhaT'j an importation of unclean theatrical stuff we have within the last few years | had brought to our shores! J Aud professors of religion patronizing such thingV Haying sold out to the devil, I why mma you deliver the goods and go over to him publicly, b<*dy, mind and soul, aud withdraw your name from Christian churches, and say: “Know all the worldly these presents that I am a papsmof uncleauliness and a ehiidyfnell!” Sworn to be the Lord's, you are perjures. If you think these offenses are to go on forever, you do not know who the Lord is. God will not wait for the Day of Judgment. All these palaces of sin will become palaces of righteousness. They will come into the possession of those strong for virtue and strong for God. “He shall divide the spoil with the strong.”

Hut. you say, * tuts is pleasant to think of for others, but before that time X shall hare passed up into another, existence, and I shall get no advantage from that new apportionment.” Ah, you hare only driren me to the other more exciting and transporting. consideration, and that is, that Christ is going to diride up Hearen in the same way. There are old estates in the celestial world that hare been in the possession of the inhabitants for thousands of years, and they shall remain as they are. There tare old family mansions in Heaven filled with whole generations of kindred, ami they shall nerer be driren out. Many of the victors from earth hare already got their palaces, and they are. 'pointed out to those newly arrived. Soon after our getting there we will ask to be shown the apostolic residences, and ask where does l*aul live, and John; and shown the patriarchal residences, and shall say: “Where does Abraham live, or Jacob?" and shown the. martyr residences, and'say: “Where does John lluss lire, and Ridley?” We will want to see the boulevards 'where the chariots of conquerors roll. I will want to see the garden where the princes walk We | will want to see Music row, where | Handel and Haydn and Mozart and j Charles Wesley and Thomas Hastings | and 11 rad burr hare their homes, out of j their windows, ever and anon, rolling j some snatch of an earthly oratorio or j hymn transported with the composer, j TVe will want to see Revival terrace, where Whitefield and Nettle-ton and l*ayson and Rowland Hill and Charles Finney and other giants of soul-reap-ing are resting from their almost supernatural labors, their doors thronged with converts just arrived, coming to ! report tile mse Ives. But brilliant as the sunset, and like the leaves for number, are the celestial homes yet to be awarded, when | Christ to you. and millions of others. I shall divide the spoil. What Jo you want there? You shall hare it. An orchard? There it ia; 13 manner of | fruits and fruit every month. Do you | want riryr scenery? Take your choice on the banks of the river, in longer, wider, deeper roll than Danube or Amazon* or Mississippi if mingled into | one, and emptying into the sea of glasa. mingled with fire. Do you want your kindred back again? Go out and ' meet your father and mother without the staff or the stoop, and your children in a dance of immortal glee. Do j you want a throne? Select it from the ; billion burnished elevations. Do you want a crown? Pick it out of that mountain of diamonded coronet*. Do you want your old church friends of earth around you? Begin to hum an ; old revival tune and they will flock , from all quarters to revel with you in sacred reminiscence. All the earth for j those who are here on earth at the time

* vrmmmma* mmsa* mm w of continental and planetary distrltration, and all the heavens for those who are there. Right after him comes a soul that makes a great stir among the celestials, and the angels rush to the scene, each bringing her a dazzling coronet. Who is she? Over what realm of earth was she queen? In «rhat great Dusseldorf festival was she the cantatrice? Neither. She was an invalid who never left her room for SO years; but she was strong in prayer, and she prayed down revival after revival and pen* tecost after penteeost, upon the churches, and whith her white hands she knit many a mitten or tippet for the poor, and with her contrivances she added joy to many a holiday festi* val, and now with thos* thin hands so strong for kindness and with those white lips so strong for supplication, she has won cornation and enthronement and jubliee. and Christ said to the angles who have brought each a crotyn for the glorified invalid: “No, not these; they are not good enough. But in the jeweled vase at the righthand side of iny throne there is oue that I have been preparing for her many’ a year, and for her every pang I have set an amethyst, and for her every good deed I have set a pearl. Fetch it now and fulfill the promise I gave her long ago in the sick room: *Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown.’" But notice that there is only one Being in the universe who can and will distribute the trophies of earth and Heaven. It is the Divine Warrior, the Commander-in-chief of the Centuries, the Champion of Ages, the Universal Conqueror, the Son of God. Jesus. You will take the spoils from His hand or nevqr take them at alL Have His friendship and you may defy all time 4&4jill eternity, but without it you are a pauper, though you had a universe at your command. We are dold in Revelation that Jacob's 13 sons were so honored as to have the 12 gates of Heaven named after them— over one gate of Heaven Naphtali, over another gate of Heaven Issachar, over another Dan, over another Gad, over another Zebulqn. over another Judah, and so on. But Christ's name is written all over the gates, and on every pauel of the gates; and have Hishelj). His pardon, llis intercession, jHis atonement, I must, or be a forlorn wretch forever. My Lord and my God! make me and all who hear me this day, and all to whom these words shall come. Thy repentant, believing, sworn, consecrated and ransomed folllowers forever. What a day it will be! This entire assemblage would rise to its feet if you could realize it. the day in which Christ shall, in fulfillment of my text, decide the spoil.” It was a great day when Queen Victoria, in the midst of the Crimean war. distributed medals to the soldiers whip had j come home siek and wounded,. At the Horse guards, in presence of the royal family, the injuried men were carried in or came on crutches— Col. Trowbridge, who lost both feet at Inker mann; and Capt. Sayer, who had the ankle joint pf his right leg shot off at Alma; and Capt. Curre. his disabled liitob supported by a soldier, and others maimed.-and disfigured, and exhausted—and with her own hands the queen gave each the Crimean medal. And what triumphant days for those soldiers when, further on,they received tije French medal, with the imperial eagle, and the Turkish medal, with its representation of four flags—France, Turkey, England and Sardinia—and beneath it a map of the Crimea spread over a gun wheel. And what r^yarda are suggested to all readers of history by mere mention of the Waterloo medal. and the Cape medal, and the Gold cross medal, and the medals struek for bravery in our American wars. But now insignificant all these when compared with the day when the good soldiers of Jesus Christ shall eomc in out of the battles of $his world, and in the presenoe of all the piled-up galleries of the redeemed and the unfallen, Jesus, bur King, shall divide the spoil: The more wounds, the greater the inheritance. The longer the forced march, the brighter the trophy. The more terrible the exhaustion, the more glorious the transport. Not the gift

oi a orWiixaui. riuuuu, ur a meuai ui brass, or silver, or gold, but a kingdom in which we are to reign forever and ever. Mansions on the eternal hills. Dominions of unfading power. Empires* 4>f unending love. Continents of everlasting light. Atlantic and Pacific oceans of billowing joy. It was a day when Aurelian, the Roman emper- j or, came back from his victories. In the front of the procession were wild boast.^ from all lands. 1.600 gladiators richly clad, wagon loads of crowns and trophiies presented by conquered eities among the Captives Syrians, . Egyptians, Goths, Vandals Sarmatians. Franks; and Zenobia, the beautiful captive queen, on foot in chains of gold that a slave had to help her carry, and jewels under the weight of which she almost fainted. And then came the chariot Aurelian, drawn by four elephants in gorgeous , caparison, and followed by the Roman senate and the Roman army; j and from dawn till dark the pro- ! cession was passing. Rome in all her history never saw anything more j magnificent But how much greater the day when under our Conqueror, Jesus, shall ride under the triumphal I arches of Heaven; His captives, not on j ; foot, bnt in chariots, all the kingdoms ; ol earth and Heaven in procession; the , armies celestial on white horses. Rub- j | ling artillery of thunderbolts never , again to be unlimbered. Kingdoms j i in line, centuries in line, saintly,; I cherubic, seraphic, archangelie splen- J I dor iu line; and Christ seated j i on one great rolling hosanna, j made out of all hallelujahs of all j ■ worlds, shall cry halt to the proces-i I aion. And not, forgetting even the | humblest in all the reach of His omnipresence, He shall rise, and then | and there. His work done and His glorv consummated, proceed, amid an : ecstasy such as neither mortal nor iimmortal ever imagined, to divide the' 1 spoil.

---- A RECIPROCITY BOOMERANG. I circular That Brought Aanrcn Sot Waatod-Ftmior Freer Trade. The ways and means committee of. the house of representatives recently went out a circular of inquiry to several thousand manufacturers and exporters, asking for opinions as to the desirability of re-enacting a reciprocity section of the tariff law under which the president would be enabled to negotiate treaties with foreign gov* ernments. The real object of <the circular was to make campaign capital for the republicans by representing the policy of freer trade through treaties as one which was favored by the party which is wholly committed to the doctrine of trade restriction. A large number of replies have been received by the ways and means committee, most of them being favorable to the abolition of duties which foreign countries impose on our exports. With true protection inconsistency many of the writers say that while they favor the imposition of heavy duties on goods brought into this country they would like to see foreign tariffs reduced or abolished. Most of the republicans whose letters; have been published want reciprocity with South America or West Indian countries only, and opposed the idea of re* ductions in duties on European goods. A considerable number of the replies to the circular were of a nature that must have beeu highly displeasing to the McKinieyite majority of the ways and means committee. They declare that they only favored reciprocity in so far as it tended toward the abolition of all restrictions on commerce, and boldly asserted their belief in free trade, pure and simple. Among others who wrote to this effect were Mr. A. B. Farquhar, proprietor of the great agricultural implement factory at York, Pa.;i the Reading (Pa.) stove works; Sargent <& Co. of New Haven, Conn'., and Lowell Manufacturing Co. Lowell, Mass. The latter company has a capital of $2,000,000, and employs about 2,000 workers in the manufacture of carpets. The following are extracts from its president’s message: “Onr market is entirely at home. We have made some efforts when trade was very dull in this country to secure trade abroad, but so long as there was a duty on wool this was simply* impossible. Theoretically, a drawback of 99 per cent, of the duty was allowed under the McKinley bill, but it was imdossible to estimate the amounts exactly in accordance with treasury instructions. Though some exports were putde of goods extremely depressed in this market, no exports were juade by this company under these conditions. “We know of no way of removing foreign restrictions upon our goods except by removing the restriction on exports" to this country from those nations. 1 j “Our output has increased about ten percent, in the last year, *while cost has decreased about *20 per cent., partly owing to the substitution of modern machinery, but more largely owing to the reduction of duties on wooL Selling prices, compared to those of six years ago, are about 20 per cent, less. “Foreign competitors have the advantage of Americans chiefly in the cost pf spinning and preparatory processed. They have also the advantage of more extensive and varied and nearer markets for carpet wools. The cost of their machinery also is less, a great part of the worsted machinery used in this country being made abroad sut* ject to heavy duties. The manufacturers of the United States can acquire an interest in the foreign trade whenever necessary, provided they are not hampered by national restrictions, esspecially if they have access, free of all duty, to a full supply of wool and other raw materials. The carpet trade requires annually nearly 100,000,000 pounds of carpet wool, practically all oi which is imported. It is of great importance to us that these wools should enter without dutv.” B. W. H.

THE WILSON BILL. KmonM Increasing Under It—Industries Not Asking for Higher Duties. We are told that the American tin plate industry is being destroyed under the Wilson act. and gentlemen upon that side of the house, when that assertion is made applaud with all the enthusiasm of ignorance. Do they not know that under one year of the Wilson act the tin plate industry has developed more than under three years of McKinleyism? Yet such is the fact, and they can can find it in any reputable trade journal of this country. Do they not know that the output of iron under the Wilson act in the last year was the greatest ever known in the history of this country? Do they not know that the cotton industry is prospering? Do they not know that the revenues are increasing from customs dues and otherwise? Now, Mr. Speaker, if I had time to go into the details of each of these assertions I could demonstrate to the house, item by item, the truth of what I have said. Are the gentlemen ignorant of the fact that the wages of more than 1,000,900 laborers have been raised under the Wilson act? Some of them say these are only partial restorations from decreases made after the election of 1893, when democratic government was foreshadowed. The facts are all against you, gentlemen. The Reform clnb, of Now York, printed before the election of 1S9I a detailed statement showing the reduction of wages and the discharge of employes in more than 1,000 protected establishments under the McKinley act. before there was any democratic election, tnd the fact is that these increases of wages within the last year under the Wilson act, carrying from 10 to 30 per cent., are made in many instances in industries where the cuts had previously been made under jthe McKinley bill, not after any democratic election, but prior to the election of 1803, and the rates of wages have been largely restored under the Wilson act. It has been well said that the McKinley act wfk a wane reducer, mill closer aad

i panto producer, end that tne whole | McKinley period was one of wage reductions, strikes find riots. Gentlemen, all ^that the country needs, so far as tariff legislation is concerned, at present to conserve and ! secure its prosperity, is that yon of the republican party should give heed to j the utterances of one of yonr great- t est leaders. The business interests of j ; this country, threatened with a tear- j I in? up by the roots, threatened with j an extortionate protection crusade, ' say to you to-day, abide by the decla- j ration of President Grant, “Let us j have peace.” All they need is peace j from your threatened disturbances. — | Hon. C. 1L Cooper, of Florida, fa Con* j [ gress. THE M'KINLEY LEGS. An Important Point Overlooked—t'asU ot the Tariff iiniln^s. ! In your editorial comments on the above topic under/date of February 24, you seem to ignogj/fiuS^ef the most important points of these tariff legs— namely,.leg pulling. The basis of all business interests in j the tariff is leg pulliug; that is to say, ; tfie business interest that has the strongest pull makes the longest leg. i While other interests may be pulling i the other leg, if they have not the pull ; : they do not effect the desired change, and therefore fail to make the inoney that the fellows do who get the change. I The people who have only the good of the countfjr at heart, divested of all , selfish interests, readily consent to have the tariff adjusted to the ocoi nomical necessities of the country, but j in any attempt to adjust it the selfish | desires of every business intervene ; and the contest becomes one j of leg - pulling — first, of the ' business legs proposed to be bene- j I fited by the change; second, the legs . of the statesmen who must pass the j enactment; third, and finally, the legs I of the people who must pay the taxes, j No wonder these legs, become awry, of j different lengths, or too long or toe j short. It does not seem that the peoj pie of this country will again so soon^ I consent to open this tariff question ; and again inaugurate a leg-pulling j campaign and demoralize business and I distract the country, either for McKin- ; ley or any other candidate or party. Mr. Lincoln's ultimatum “that the j legs should be long enough to reach from the l*>dy to the ground” is now ! fully complied with, and our feekJufly and firmly planted ou solid ground, i Don’t let us undertake to do or allow any more leg-pulling until necessity compels a readjustment- of the tariff question. — Cincinnati Cor. N. Y. j World. M03E FUSTIAN. : Protection Fallacy an to Wool Production Coder the New Tariff. When the tariff was taken off wool j ! the protectionists declared that the sheep industry in this country would immediately decline'‘and that the nutnj her of sheep in the United States ; i would be immensely reduced under the j j operation of the Wilson bill. ( The terror was about as substantial i as thft other scarecrows which art pa- j raded by the protectionists whenever j I a reform of the tariff is proposed. In its last issue the American Cotton i and W'ool Reporter shows that there I were in the United States 15,663,520 ( sheep in 1S90, and at the end of 1895 the i number was 15,001,837. In five years i the number of sheep decreased only j 03,683, and this decrease is due j to the fact that in some of the older ! states lands have been found more valuable for other purposes than for sheep raising. If free wool is fatal to j ; sheep raising why is it that both Utah j and Wyoming have 400,000 more sheep ! now than they had five years ago? Why has the number of sheep more ■ j than doubled in North Dakota since ; 1 1890, and why has it increased by more j I than 1,000,000 in Michigan? The re- j moral of the tariff on wool should af- ! feet the sheep raiser in those state as I much as^it affects the sheep raiser in j Ohio. Considering the depression of indus- j tries generally since 1830 the decrease \ of only 63.633 in the total number ol j . sheep in the United States would indi- ] ! cate that the wool industry has fared) j j remarkably welL / j When free wool is attacked as ?a*a! j to sheep raising in this country, the j ; enormous increase in the number of j i sheep in several states must be «x* ; plained.—Atlanta Journal.

--- THE IRON TRUST, Bow It Koducoa the OatfMt, Throws Men Oat of Work end Advances Brier*. The Lake Superior iron ore trust has j decided to reduce the output from its mines, in order to strengthen tiie large advance in price which will be charged this season for ore. The allotment tc the various mining companies has beet cut down 3,000,000 tons from what i was expected to be. The price for th« best Mesaba ore has been fixed at S3.~ per ton, as against ¥3.50 per ton a yea: ago. The addition of SL23 per tot will mean 810,000,000 profit to the trust This increase in the eost of ore wiL of necessity compel the iron and stee. makers of the lake regions to chare* higher prises for their finished products. With dearer iron and. steel the cost of all articles manufactured from them will be increased. Thus the American people will directly or indirectly contribute to a few protected ipine owners the enormous sum of at j least $10,000,000 in one year. The gigantic-sron ore trust is aided j to rob the pepple by a tariff duty which the democratic house in 1394 declared should be abolished. The agents of the trust in the senate refused to allow iron ore to come in free, and pretended that the tax was main- ! tained in the interests of American labor. The thousands of miners who will be thrown out of work because oi the trust’s reduction of the output ol ore by 2.000,000 tons, know now how much the protected interests care fet them. Will they vote this fall for Xinleyism, which means still high*! duties on ore, and further benefits ft* trusts? W.

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w. k. uuuukAit, Drocmon, maw. A SHINING EXAMPLE of what may be accomplished by never varying devotion to a single purpose is seen in the history oft the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., Chicago^ For 65 years they have simply been building grain and grass-cutting machinery, and while there are probably forty manufacturers in this line, it is safe to say that .the McCormick Company builds one-third of ait the binders, reapers and mowers used throughout the entire world. C ATARRU For jour Protection we positively state that' IhU retasoT not contain mereury or any other injurious drag. Nasal Catarrh !s a local disease and $» the result of cold* and sadden climatic changes. ELY’S CREAM BALM Opens and cleanses the Na«al'Passages Allays u_■■■1111 _ Pain and IhianwatKn., ff AVaCeVP 12k Ilea's the dorwt. Pro-||AY*r fc taeta tha Membrane" _ from Colds. Itesiores tbs Satsesof Taata and 3*ai% The Balm la cntckiy absorbed amt *;*aa neiiaf a* •sea. Pries Sgpents at t>nnhrisU or>y mail._ ZLI BiWruaua, id Warrao Stress K«sr Y&H 'HAY-FEVER^ Iay