Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 3, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 May 1896 — Page 6

!-*-; TALMA6FS, SERMON. w ' ..—fc- * Tli* Principal Causes of Suooeea and Failure in Life. bUmpMMM Md Indolence Two Prim* finin of Nea-baecess—Ths OreeiMt SaecMM* Achieved by liod-Fearlns Men. Key. T. DeWitt Taimage preached a sermon on the causes of success and failure in life before his Washington congregation, taking for his text: * Men shall clap their haada at him and shall Utt him out of hla place.—Job xxvii.. tX This allusion seems to be dramatic. The Bible more than once makes snch allusions. Paul says: “Weaie made a theater or spectacle to angels and to men.” It is evident from the text that acme of the habits of theater-goers were known in Job’s time, because he describes an actor hissed off the stage. The impersonator comes on the boards 'and, either through lack of study of the part he is to take or iuaptness or other incapacity, the audience is offended, and expresses its disapprobation and disgust by hissing. "Men clap their hands at him and shall hiss him out of his place.” My text suggests that each one of ns is put on the stage of this world to take some part. What hardship and suffering and discipline great actors have undergone year after year that they might be perfected in their parts, 70U have often read. But we, put on the stage of this life to represent charity and faith and humility and faith and helpfulness—what little preparation we have made, although we have three galleries of spectators, earth and Heaven and hell! Hare wc not been more attentive to the part taken by others than to the part ! taken by ourselves, and, while we needed to be looking at home and concentrating on our. own duty, we have been criticising the other performer*, , and saying: “That was too high,” or “too low.” or “too tame,” or “too demonstrative," while we ourselves were making a dead failure and preparing to be ignotniniously hissed off the stage? Kach one is assigned a place; no supernumeraries hanging around the drama of life to take this or that or the other part, as they may be called upon. No one can take our place. Neither can we put off our character; up ehange of apparel can make ns anyone else than that which we eternally are. Muuy make a failure uf their part in the drama of life through dissipation. They have enough intellectual equipment and good address and geniality unbounded, llut they have a wine closet that contains all the forces for their social and business and moral overthrow. So far hack as the year t»Mi King Kdgar of’England made a law that the drinkiug eups should have pins fastened at a certain point iu the side, so that the indulgcr might be reminded to stop before he got to tine bottom. But there are .no pins projecting from the side of the modern wine cup or beer mug, and the first point at which millions stop is at'the gravelly bottom of their own grave. I)r. Sax. of France, has discovered something which all

in iDkcrs ought io Know. tie nas ! found out that alcohol, in every shape. I whether of wine or brandy or beer, contains parasitic life called |>acillus j I> tumaniac. By a powerful micro- j scope these living things are discovered, aud when you take strong drink you take them into the stomach and into your blood, and getting into the crimson canals of life, they go into every tissue of yopr body, and your entire organism is taken possession of by these noxious infinitesimals. When ,iu delirium tremens a man sees every form of reptilian life, it seems it is | only these parasites of the brain j in exaggerated si*e. It is not a 1 hallucination that the victim is sotT-ring from, He only in the ■Mom what is actually crawling and rioting in his otvn braid. Every time you take strong drink you swallow these maggots, and every time the imbiber of alcohol in any shape feels vertigo or rheumatism or nausea it is only .the jubilee of these maggots. Efforts ptre being made for the discovery of .some germicide that cau) kill the parasites of alcoholism, but Hu* only thing that Will ever1 Jgxiir-'. I site them is abstinence from alcohol and teetotal abstinence, to which 1 would before God nvear all these young men and old. America is a fruitful country, and we raise large crops of wheat and corn aud oats, but the largest crop we raise In this country is the crop of drunkards. With sickle made out of the ilturp edges of the broken glass of bottles and demijohns they* are cut doyn, and there are whole swathes of them, whole winrows of them, and it takas all the hospitals and penitentiaries and graveyards and cemeteries to bold this harvest of belL Some of you are going down under this evil, and the never-dying worm of alcoholism has wound around you one of itss Coils, and by next New Year’s dsy it will have another coil around you. and it will after awhile put a coil around your tongue and coil around your braio and a coil around your lung and a coil around your foot and a coil around your heart and some day this never-dying worm will with one spring tighten all the coils at ooce, and iu the last twist of that awful convolution you will cry out: *t>h. my God!” and be gone. The greatest of dramatist in the tragedy of “The Tempest” sent staggering across the stage * “Stephan o,” the drunken butler; but across the stage of human life strong drink sends kingly and queenly and princely natures staggering forward against the footlights of conspicuity and then staggering back into failure till the world is impatient for their disappearance, and human and diabolic voices join in kissing them off the stage. Many also make a failure in the drams of life through indolence. They are always making calculations how little they can do for the compenaa

tion they get. There ere more laxy ministers, lawyers, doctors, merchants, artists and farmers than have ever been counted upon. The community is full of laggards and shirkers. I can tell it from the way they crawl along j the street, from their tardiness in meeting engagements, from the lethar- | gies that seem to hang to the foot when they lift it, to the hand when they put it out, to the words when they speak. Two young men in a store. In the morning the one goes to his post the last minute or one minute behind. The other is ten minutes before the time and has his hat and coat hung up, and is at his post waiting for duty. The one is ever and anon, in the after* noon, looking at his wa tch to see if it is not most time to shut up The other stays half an hour after he might go, and when asked why, says he wanted to look over some entries he had made to be sure he was right,' or to put up some goods that had been left out of place. The one is very touchy about doing work not exactly belonging to him. The other is glad to help the other clerks in their » work. The {first ■will be a prolonged nothing, and he will be poorer at 60 years of age than at 20i The other will be a merchant prince. Indolence is the cause of more failures in all occupations than you have ever suspected. People are too lazy to do what they can do, and want to undertake that which they can not da In the drama of life they don’t want to be a common soldier, carrying a halberd across the stage, or a falconer, or a mere attendant, and so they lounge about the scenes till they shall be called to be something great. After awhilq, by some aecidentof prosperity or cirpumstanchs, they get into the place for which they have no qualification. And very soon, if the man be a merchant.he is goingaraund asking his creditors to compromise for ten cents on the dollar. Or if a clergyman, he is making tirades against the ingratitude of churches. Or if au attorney, by unskillful management he loses .a case by which widows and orphans are robbed of their portion. Or, if a physician, he by malpractice gives his patient rapid transit from this world to ’.the next. Our incompetent friend would have made a passable horse doctor. but he wanted to be a professor of anatomy in a university. lie could have sold enough confectionary to have supported his family, but he wanted to have a sugar refinery like the Havemeyers. He could have mended shoes, but he wanted to amend the constitution of the United States. Towards the end of life these people are out of patience, out of money, out of friends, out of everything. .They go to the poor house, or keep out of it by running in debt to all the grocery and dry goods stores that will trust them. People begin to wonder when the curtain will drop on the scene. After awhile, leaving nothing but their complimeuts to pay doctor, undertaker and Gabriel Grubb, the grave-digger, they disappear. Exeunt! Hissed of? the stage. Others fail in the drama of life through demonstrated selfishness. They make all the rivers empty into the sea, all the roads of emolument! end at their door, and they gather all the piurnes of honor for their brow. They help no one, encourage no one, rescue no one. “How big a pile of money can 1 get?" and ‘‘How

muon oi me worm epn i aoaorb?” are the chief questions. They feel about the common people as the Turks felt toward the Asapi, or common soldiers, considering them of no- use except to fill up the ditches with their dead bodies while the other troops walked over them to take the fort. After awhile the prince of worldly success is sick. The only interest society has in his illness is the effect that his possible decease may have on the money markets. After awhile he dies, direat newspaper capitals announce how he started with nothing and ended with everything. Although. for sake of appearance, some people put handkerchiefs to the eye. there is not one genuine tear shed. The heirs sit up all night when he lies in state, discussing what the old fellow has probably done with his money. It takes all the livery s.ables within two miles to furnish funeral yquipag.es, and ail the mourning stores are kept busy selling weeds of grief. JjThe stonecutter^ send ip. proposals fora monument. The minister at the obsequies reads of the resurrection, which makes the hearers fear that if the uncrupulous financier does not come up ip the general rising he will try to get a "corner’* on tombstones and graveyard fences. All goed men are glad that the moral nuisance has been removed. The Wall street speculators are glad because there is more room for themselves. The heirs are glad because they get possession of the long-delayed inheritance. Dropping every feather of all his plumes, every certificate of all his stock, every bond of all his investments, every dob lar of all his fortune, he departs, and all the rolling of "Dead March in Saul,” and all the pageantry of his interment, and all the exquiaiteness of sarcophagus, and all the extravagance of epitaphology can not hide the fact that my textrhas come again to tremendous ,fulfillment: "Men shall clap thei* hands ar him and shall hiss him out of his place.” Now, compare some of thes^going* out of life with the departure of men and women who. in the drama of life, take the part*that God assigned them and then went away honored of men and applauded of the Lord Almighty. It is about fifty years ago that in a comparatively small apartment of the city a newly-married pair set up a home. The first guest invited to that residence was the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Bible given the bride bn the: day of her espqusal was the', guide of that household. Days of sunshine were followed by days of shadow. Did you ever kow a home that for 50 years had no vicissi- ; tube? The young woman who left her l father's house fbr her young husband’s j home started out with a parental

benediction and good advice she will never forget. Her mother said to her the day before the marriage: “Now, my child, yon are going away from us. Of course, jas long as yodr father and I live yon will feel that you can come to us at any time. Bat your home will be elsewhere. From long experience 1 iind it is best to serve God. It is very bright with you now, my child, and you may think you can get along without religion, but the day will come when yon will want God, and my advice is, establish a family altar, and, if need be, conduct the worship yourself.” The counsel was taken, and thait young wife consecrated every room in the house to God. Years passed on and there were in that home hilarities, but they were good and healthful; and sorrow's, but they were comforted. Marriages as bright as orange blossoms could make them, and burials in which all hearts were riven. They have a family lot in the cemetery;, but all the place is illuminated with stories of resurrection and reunion. The children of the household that lived have grown up, and they are all Christians, ! the father and mother leading the way and the children following. What care the mother took of wardrobe and e ucation, character and manners! hard she sometimes worked! When the head of the household was unfortunate in business she sewed until her fingers were numb and bleeding at the tips. And what close calculation of economies add what ingenuity in refitting the garments of the elder children for the younger, and only God kept account of that mother’s sideaches and headaelies and heartaches and the tremulous prayers by the side of the sick child’s cradle and by the conch of this one fully grown. The neighbor* often noticed how tired she looked,and old acquaintances hardly knew her in the street. But without complaint she waited and toiled and eudured and accomplished all these years The children are out in the world—an honor to themselves and their parents. After awhile the mother’s | last sickness comes. Children and grandchildren, summoned from afar, come softly into the room one by one, for she is too weak to sec more than one at a time. She runs her dying fingers lovingly through their hair and tells them not to cry, and that she is going now. but they will meet agaiu in a little while in a better world, ahd theln kisses them good-by and says to each: “God bless and keep you. my dear child.” The day of the obsequies comes, and the officiating clergyman tells the story of wifely and motherly endurance, and mauy hearts on earth and in Heaven echo the sentiment, and as she is carried off the stage of this mortal life there are cries of “‘Faithful unto death;’’“She hath done what she j eould,” while overpowering all the voices of earth and Heaven is the plaudit of the God who watched her from first to last, saying; “Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make theo ruler over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!” But what became of the father of that household? He started as a young man in business and had a small income, and having got a little ahead, sickness in the family swept it all away. He went through all the business . panics of 40 years, met many losses, and suffered many betrayals,

but kept right on trusting in l»od, whether business was good or poor, setting his children a good ex* ample and giving them the best of counsel, and never a prayer did he offer for all those years but they were mentioned in it. He is old now, and realizes it can not be long before he must quit all these scenes. But he ia going to leave his children an inheritance of prayer and Christian principles which all the defalcations of earth can never touch, and as he goes out of the world the Church of God blesses him and the poor ring his door-bell to see if iig is any better, and his grave is surrounded by a multitude who went on foot and stood there before the procession of carriages ear*e up and some say: “There will be no one to take his place,” and others say: “Who will pity me now?” ami others remark: “He shall be held in everlasting remembrance.” And as the drama of his life closes, all the vociferation and*bravos and encores that ever shook the amphitheaters of earthly spectacle were .tame and feeble compared with the long, loud thunders of approval that shall break from the cloud of witnesses in the piled-up galierv of the heavens. Choose ye between the life that shall close by being hissed off the stage {and the life that shall close amid acclamations supernal and arch angelid. Oh, men and women on the stage ot life, mafiy of you in the first act of the drama, and others in the second, and some of you in the third, and a few in the fourth, and here and there one in the fifth, but all of you between entrance and exit, I quote to you as the peroration of this sermon the most suggestive passage that Shakspeare ever wrote, although you never heard it recited. The author has often been claimed as infidel and atheistc, so the quotation shall be not only religiously helpful to ourselves, but grandly vindicatory of the greatest dramatist. I quote from his last will and testament. “In the name of God, Amen. L, William Shakspeara, of Stratforu-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick. gentleman, in perfect health and memory (God be praised), do make thisihy last will and testament, in manner and form following: First. I commend my sonl into the hands of God. my Creator, having and assuredly believing through the only merits of Jesus Christ, my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting.” Reward. I The most miserable man on earth | may be happy in the thought of a ] home in the future. God has proiu- : ised us that, and it is tbit for which we hope and work.--Archbishop ire1 land. Catholic, St Paul. Minn.

POLITICAL BUNCOMBE. A S« J«m; Or*tor's Impadaat Claim for Republicanism. ' A sample of the kind of flapdoodle with which republican orators stuff their credulous hearers is found in the address of State Senator E. CL Stokes, chairman of the late"republican state convention of New Jersey. After claiming that every good thing on earth was the result of republican leg* islation or office-holding, and that all calamity an i misfortune has been caused by the wicked democrats, he proceeded to explain why this was so. “The republican party,** he said, “is a party whose principles are as broad as the nation and as great as the republic; a party that stands for all that is great and inspiring. It stands for human freedom and has sympathy for liberty at home and abroad, it stands for justice and equal rights for alL*’ Brave words." Truly a noble plat- | form for any party. But dioes this j declaration of principles represent re- | publicanism of to-day? Is the party | which stands for a combination of | local selfish interests, all seeking for , government favors at the expense of ; the whole people, really one of broad ! national principles? Does the party ; which makes its campaigns on appeals j to sectional prejudice, ignorance and : greed, stand for all that is great and ! inspiring? What kind of freedom is favored by the shameless spoilsmen I who corrupt the voters whom they j have impoverished with funds wrung i from the beneficiaries of class legislaj tion? Freedom to bear heavy tax buri dens and to buy dear goods from tariff. , created monopolists? Liberty, to trade with foreign nations only on payment j of heavy fines on all goods taken in i exchange for those we send abroad? Are commerce-restricting laws which ! force the masses to pay annually enorI mous sums to a privileged class enacted | in the spirit of liberty? Does true ! freedom mean the oppression of the many by unjust taxatin, in order that ■ the few may roll up great fortunes? ; H»s the party of Huay and Platt, of Fat-Frying Foster and Blbcks-of-Five Dudley enacted a single law during the past 30 years that has been on the side of liberty and against restriction? It is possible that Senator Stokes was not ashamed to publicly declare ' that the republican party stands for justice and equal rights for all. He s certainly should have - been. The attempt of the party which owes its , present existence to the defense and ; advocacy of injustice to pose as the j champion of equal rights is an insult to the people who for over years i have been robbed by the party’s laws The farmers who have been fet^ushed into poverty by a system of taxation which violated every principle df equal rights; the workingmen who under protection paid far heavier taxes on their necessities than the tfich men did on their luxuries, know how little i truth there is in the republican claim. They know that the once great party of Lincoln has passed into the hands ; of a gang of corrupt agents of monopi oly, and that the only promise for any real reform in the interest of the masses must come through the democracy, the party of the common pea^lg,_ warning to Trusts.

rhe Now York Pro** Is Afraid thoy Will G«t Too Urcmty. Our esteemed contemporary, The Press, perceives with alarm the continued formation of new trusts. The leather trust, the iron ore trust, the coke trust, the sugar trust, the flow- ; er trust, the steel rail trust and the new Bessemer billet trust and various I otfcir combinations of like character i hav,* been organized' for the purpose of sliding competition and fixing the ; pri< es of their products to suit themselves. Every new trust is a new noj tice to the people of the United States that the democratic party did not succeed in its efforts to replace the protective with a revenue tariff. We still have a high protective tariff with duties averaging 43 per cent, as against an average of 49 ner eent under the McKinley act Without the cover afforded by protective duties the greater number of the trusts cduld not maintain themselves. It is the basest ingratitude upon the part of the beneficiaries of high duties that they should so far forget themselves in thejyear of , a presidential election as to go ion with the business of getting up new trusts and calling anew the attention of voters to the facility for robbery afforded by the law as it now stands. The Press, with Pecksniffian gravity, reminds the trust makers tbht “the object of protection is domestic competition,” and it further insists that the voters know it. Will the trusts j take the hint? Possibly the gentlemen who are organizing combinations to restrict 1 production and raise prices do not bcj Here that the people of the United States can any longer be fooled with the idea that high tariffs are primarily intended to create competition and to increase' wages. They are perfectly justified in such a conjecture. 11t does not require any particular astuteness i of intellect to understand that if the object of tariff duties be not to raise prices there would |.be no jprotec- ! tionists in the country. When competition leads to a lowering of prides combination is the cover for it. This is comprehended fully both by those who insist upon protection and those who oppose it. How well the people understand it was evidenced by the overthrow of the republics^ party itsz 1890 and 1892. The Press is very much afraid that the trusts in their inop- | pertune greed for undue profits will I make it impossible to convince the people that late bnssinesa depression and disaster are the result of the paltry reductions effected in tariff duties j instead of untoward financial condij lions —Philadelphia Record. —Each kpg of nails used by the .'armers this year wfll cost more than twice as much as last. The highly protected nail trust will make fortunes for the few firms which control the nail industry, ilow will that help the farm*:*?

SCHEME TO INJURE FARMERS. Senator Elkina* Tariff BUI Imooeee Yen Eel Cent. Addition*! Unties Senator Elkins, of West Virginia. U a typical republican protectionist who makes great pretenses of lore lor the American farmer. His sincerity is shown by his action in introducing a tariff bill which imposes additional duties of ten per cent on all goods imported in foreign vessels. This he claims would stimulate our shipping industry and restore our position in the world’s carrying trade, which wo lost under protection. If congress is foolish enough to pass the Elkins bill, it is easy to see that the principal *result will be a fall in the prices of farm products. If our vessels cannot carry freight as cheaply as those of othef countries, a discrimination of ten per cent would force' foreign ships to oharge ten per cent more on all goods or else would give American shipping a monopoly of the import trade. In either case it is certain that all the foreign products ! which we now take in exchange for our surplus crops and other exports would cost more than they do now. The greatest injury to the farmers, however, would come from the fact that if the foreign vessels which now [ carry our farm produce to Europe were compelled to. return empty to this country, they would have to charge higher ra*es for carrying our exports. This would meau that our ability to sell abroad, which depends largely upon the cheapness of our products as compared with those of competing nations, would, be considerably lessened. In ord«g to pay the increased freight charges the price of all our products —exports of wheat, corn, meats, etc., would have to be cut down or w« should lose the market. Do the farmI ers want anything of that kind? If I cot they should send to congress dera- [ ocrats who are opposed to prote ction and all kinds of discriminating duties. FOREIGN PROTECTED MiLLERS. | American Floor Manufacturer* Want “Retaliatory Legislation** Against Foreign Countries. A somewhat novel view of tariff discrimination on the part of foreign countries was expressed at a recent bearing before the ways and means committee in Washington. An association of manufacturers of wheat flour demanded “retaliatory legislation” against Germany, France, Italy, Spain. Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal j and Sweden because those «*ounSI?ies impose on imported flour duties \yhich ! are higher than those \bhich they imI pose on imported wheat. Herein, it was urged, is a wicked “discrimination'’ against flour, and the offending | countries should be punished by retaliatory statutes. In this war, it was held, they could be compelled to buy American, dour instead of American wheat, and the millers in this country I would derive much benefit from the change. But why do the countries mentioned I iimf ose higher duties on flour than those, which are paid on wheat? Is it not for the "protection of otheir own millers? They btiy American wheat, but they prefer that it shall be ground in their own mills, both for the reason that it is their policy to sustain and protect their domestic milling indusI try and because their, people prefer the methods and the products of doI mestic mills. Ought our protectionist I millers to complain because the forI eign millers are thus protected? If they persist in complaining and in demanding “retaliation,” can they reasonably expect to gain anything by the legislation they suggest? We think that retaliatory legislation would dc more harm than good, and that our own wheat growers and flour millers would b§ hurt by ii.—N. Y. Timea .

WILSON TARIFF DID IT. Aofordii; to Calamity Ore an* It Is Re* *pon*)bl« for All Onr Ills. According to the calamity organs, the Wilson tariff is responsible for all the business, social and other ills i Which have troubled the country since } the McKinley law* was Repealed. Fires,„ i droughts, failures resulting from dis-j I honesty or incompetency, burglaries, | big crops of potatoes, small crops of - har, floods, weevil, low-priced wool, i high-priced hides, the Russian thistle, i divorces, the bicycle craze, strikes, the j decreased demand for horses through j the extension of the trolley system j and the increase of high tariff lying bpve all been caused by democratic I free trade. If any farmers’ crops have been light the Wilson tariff did it. The same wicked law froze the Florida orange groves, and also caused a mild winter in the north which prevented the harvesting of a fall ice crap. Owing to the competition of untaxed I cheap weather from Canada and Mexico the winters have been colder and i the summers hotter than when McKin- | ley ruled the land. Grass refuses to grow and trees bud since protection was struck down by the disloyal enemies of high taxes. Tjjere cah be no doubt that it was the reduction of eight per cent, in tariff duties which ! bgpught about all the calamities which | afflicted the country during the past two years. By simply restoring the Mclpnley rates the dark clouds of gloom will be lifted off the land; nature’s frown will relax into a broad grin; the price of ice will fall and the universe will resume business under the guiding han<L of the 43 per cent, statesman from Ohio. With the aid of the protective tariff and Providence, | particularly the former, the old world will after 1S97 revolve more rapidly, stimulated and renewed by all-power ful taxes on foreign goods. A Sana nt When Dr. Bayard declared that protection did more to corrupt public life, to bandi&h men of independent mind from public councils and to lower the tone of national representation than any single cause, he could not lave know that he was making a shoe to flt the Fifty-Fourth congress,, yet congress has put its foot in tha brogan and tke fit fc so snug that, try as it may, it eanp#t extricate itself -Philadelphia Record.

BOOXJ5 AND AUTHORS. Mr. Leonard Huxley is hard at work on the life of his father, the late Prof. Huxley. According to HamiLton W. Mabie, the “Scarlet Letter1'* and “Pembroke” are the best American novels. Some of Prof. Richard T. Ely’s works oh sociological questions have been translated into Japanese. Gen. Joe Shelby. United States mar* sbal for the western district of Missouri, is writing a book about bis wartime experiences. Judge Albion W. Tourgee has undertaken a crusade against books with uncut leaves, which he pronounces “a senseless and snobbish fad.” Mr. William Theodore Peters, who is spoken of as “the well-known young American poet,” is giving readings m Paris. - M. Henri Houssaye, recently elected a member of the French academy, has been chosen president of the Sqelete des Gens de Leitres, in the place of M. Emile Zola, retired. F. Hopkibson Smith, artist and story writer, has closed his lecture season. He lectured 50 times between January 16 and April i, and received an average of $200 for each appearance. SNOW-CAPPED PEAKS. There are 27 mountains in Nevada more than 10,000 feet high. There are four mountains in Wash- ! ington more than 10,000 feet in height. Mount Washington, 6,2SS feet high, j is the highest peak in New Hampshire. Mount Rosa, in the Sardinian Alps, is the highest in that region, 15,550 feet. _ " California has 40 mountains, each of which exceeds 10,000 feet, and quite a number axe adore than 12,000. The Simplon, under the shadow of which lay the once famous stage route | from France to Italy, is 11,542 feet j hiSh* ■ •;» - There are 412 mountain peaks in the I United States or its territories, each having a height greater than lC.oOO feet. Mount Miltsin, 12,000 f**et. is the greatest elevation in luprocco. Although almost under the equator, its I summit is never free from snow That Extreme tired feeling afflicts nearly every, body at this season. The hustlers cease to push, the tireless grow weary, the energetic become enervated. You know just what wo mean. Soato men and women endeavor temporarily to overcome that Tired | Feeling by great force of wiU. But this is I unsafe, as it pulls powerfully upon the nervous system, which will not long stand such strain. Too many people “'work oa their nerves,” and the result is seen in tut* fortunate wrecks marked “ nervous pros* t rat ion.” in every direction. That tired FeelLng is a positive proof of thin, weak, impure bloodfor If the blood is rich, red, vitalized and vigorous, it imparts life and energy to every nerve, organ and tissue of the body. Hie necessity of taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla for that tired feeling is, therefore, apparent to every one, and the good it will do you is equally beyond question. Remember that / • - ■ " ■ .

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