Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 26, Petersburg, Pike County, 5 November 1897 — Page 6

COMFORTING THOUGHTS Btasaisga of an Abbreviated Earthly Existence. T. D*VHU Tatmc* P Cw*ronlitf Thoa|hU for Thuo® Who H»«« Loot ChUUroo—A Mainuu for Miu; Wounds. In the following sermon Re*. T. DeWitt Talmage offers words of consolation and comfort to those who har« (wen bereft of their children. The text is: The righteous is taken away from the evil u erne. -Isaiah lvlL. L We A}1 spend much time in panegyric of longevity. We cousider it a great thing to lire to be an octogenarian. 11 Anyone dies in youth we say: “What A pity P* Dr. Muhieubergh, in old age, •Aid that the hymu written iu early life by his own hand, no more expressed his sentiment when it said: 2 would aotlive si way. If one be pleaxautly circumstanced, c» uevyr wants to go. William Cullen ;reat poet, at S3 years of ih my house in a festal [ing “Thauatopsis** without _ was just as anxious to live f at IS years of age he wrote yOiat immortal threnody. Cato feared <^a4 bO years of age that he would not lire to learu Greek. Moualdesco, at US years, writing the history of his time, feared a collapse. Theophrastus, writing a book at Ik) years of ago, was anxious to live to complete it. Thurlow Weed, at about Srt years of affCi found life as great a desirability AS when he snuffed out his first politician. Albert Barnes, so well prepared for the uext world at TO.-said he would rather stay here. So it is all She way down. 1 suppose that the last time that Methuselah was out of doors la a storm he was afraid of getting his feat wet lest it should shorten his days. Indeed, 1 some time ago preached a

■ermuu on me messiugs oi iuugevity, but 1 now propose to preach to you about the blessings of an abbreviated earthly existence. If 1 were an agnostic I would lay a tnau is blessed in proportion to the number of years he can stay on terra lirma, because after that he falls off the docks and if he is ever picked out of the depths, it is ouly to be set up iu some morgue of tiu universe to aee if auybody will claim him. If 1 thought tonl made man only to last forty or fifty or a hundred years, and then he was to go into annihilation, 1 would say his chief business ought to be to keep alive and even iu good weather to be very cautious, aud to oarry an umbrella and take overshoes, uid life preservers, aud brouie armor and weapons of defense, less he fall oil into nothingness ami obliteration. Hut my fr.euds, you are not agnostics. You believe in immortality and the eternal residence of the righteous la Ileaveu, and, therefore, l first remark that an abbreviated earthly exlienee is to be desired, aud is a blessing, because it makes ones life-work eerjr compact. Notne men go to business at seven o'clock iu the morning aud return at nereu tn the evening. Others go at eight o'clock aud return at twelve. Others go at ten aud return at four. 1 have friends who are ten hours a day in business; others who are five hours; others who are one hour. They all do their workwell; they do their entire work aud then they return. Which position do you think the most uestrnble? You say. other things being equal, the man who is the shortest time detaiued in business and whocau return home the quickest, is the most blessed. .Now, tuv friends,why not carry that good tease into the subject of trau&ferottce from this world? If- a person die in cbildh k> 1. he gets through bis work At nine o'clock iu the morning, it lie die at.4S years of age, he gets through bis work at 1? o'clock noon, if he die At 70 years of age, be gets through is> work at five o'clock in the afternoon, if he die at ‘.HI iie has to ton all the way up to n o'clock at night. l he sooner ur« get through our work the better. The harvcst all in barrack or barn, the jATtuer does not sit down iu the Stubblefield, but, shouldering his scythe. And taking his pitcher from under the tree, he makes a ataight liue for the old homestead. AH we want to be anxious About is to get our work done, aud well done, and the quicker the better. Agaiu: There is a blessing in an ab- , breviated earthlv existence iu the fact

that moral disaster m ght come ujmu Vhe mau if he tarried long. Recentij, * man who had U-eu proiumrut >u churches. aud who had been admired fur his generosity and kindness everywhere, for forgery was sent to the •tale prison for 15 years. Twenty years ago there was no more probability of that mau's committing a commercial dishonesty than you will commit commcrvjpl dishonesty. The camber of tucn who fall into ruin between 5J aud 10 years of age is ieappaiing. If they had died 30 years before, it would have been better for them and better for their families The shorter the voyage, the less chance for a cyclone. There is a wrong theory abroad, \ that if one's youth be right, his old age will be right. You might as well sat there is nothing warning for a ship's safety except to get it fully launched on the Atlantic ocean. 1 have sometimes asked those, who were cehool-mates or college-mates of some great defaulter: “What kind of a boy was he? What kind of a youug man wan hef“ And they have said: “Why, be was a splendid fellow; l had no idea be could ever go iuto such au outrage.'* The fact is. the great temptation of life sometimes come far ou in midlife, or in old age. The great pressure of temptation comes Sometimes iu th.v direction; at ahont 45 years of age a man's nervous system changes, and some one tells him he must take stimulants to keep hkn'clf up. aud he takes stimulants to beep himself up, until the stimulants keep him down; or a man has been going along for 30 or 40 veara in unsuc

cessful business, and here is an open* inf* where by one dishonorable action he can lift himself and lift his f amity 1 from all financial embarrassment, lie attempts to leap the chasm and he falls into it. | Then it is in after life that the great temptation of success comes. If a mau makes a fortune before SO years of age, he generally loses it before 40. The solid and permanent fortunes for the most part do not come to their climax j until in mid-life, or in old age. The I most of the bank presidents hare white [ hair. Many of those who hare been .! largely successful hare been flung of ! arroganee or worldliness or dissipation j in old age. They may not hare lost, j their integrity, but they hare become so worldly and so selfish under the iuj flueuce of large success that it is eri- ’ dent to everybody that their success : has been a temporal calamity aud an s eternal damage. Concerning many ; people, it may be said it seems as if it would hare been better if they could hare embarked from this life at SO or SO years of age. Do you know the reason why the vast majority of people die before SO? It is because they have not the moral endurance for that which is beyond the SO, and a merciful God will uot allow them to be put to the fearful strain. Again: There is a blessing iu au j abbreviated earthly existence in the ; fact thatone Is the sooner taken off the j defensive. As soon as one is old enough ! to take care of himself he is put on his

guard. Bolls on the doors to keep out the robbers. Fireproof safes to keep off the flames. Life insurance aud tire insurance against accident, Receipts lest you have to pay a debt twice. Lifeboat against shipwreck. Westiughouse air-brake against railroad col- ! lision. aud hundreds of hands ready to overreach you and take all you have. Defense again-t cold, defense against j heat, defense against sickness, defense against the world's abuse, defense all the way down to the grave, aud even the tombstones sometimes is uot a sufficient barricade, if u soldier, who has been on guard, j shivering and stung with the cold, pacing up aud down the parapet with shouldered musket, is glad wuen some one comes to relieve guard aud he can go inside the fortress, ought uot that man to shout for jov who can put down his weapon of earthly defeuse and go into the King's castle? Who is the more unfortunate, the soldier who has to stand guard twelve hours or the man who has to stand guard six hours? I We haw common sense about everyi thing but religion, common sense alniut everything but transference from this world. 1 Again: There is a blessing in an abbreviated earthly existence in the fact that one escapes so many bereave- ; meats. The longer we live the more attachments aud the more kindred, the more chords to be wounded or | rasped or sundered. If a man live on to TO or years of age, how many graves are cleft at his feet! in that i ioug reach of time father aud mother i go, brothers and sisters go, children go. grandchildren go, personal fneuds | outside the family circle whom they ' had loved with a love like that of David aud Jonathan. Besides that, some men have a natural trepi- ; datiou about dissolution, aud ever aud anon during forty or fifty or sixty years. this horror of their dissolution shudders through soul and body. Now. suppose the lad : goes at 1*» years of age? lie escapes 5i) j funerals, oU caskets, SO obsequies, SO j awful wrench lags of the heart It is hard euough for Us to bear their departure. but is it not easier for us to bear their departure than for them to stay and bear SO departures? Shall we not by the grace of ti«*d rouse ourselves into a generosity of bereavement which practically say: ' It is hard f enough for :ue to go through this bereavement, but how glad 1 am that he will nevef: have to go through it." So i reason with myself, aud so you will find it helpful to reason with yourselves. B.tvul lost his son. Though David was king, h*> lay on the earth mourning aud inconsolable for some time. At th.s distance of time, which do you really think was the one to be congratulated, the short-lived child, or the long-lived father? Hail Dav.d died as early as that child.died he would, in the first place, have escaped that particular bereavement, then he would have escaped the worse bereavement of Absalom, his recreant son, and the pursuit of the Philistines, and the fatigues of his military campaign, aud the jealousy of J-aul, aud the perfidy of Ahithopel, and the curse j

: Auirnei, anu me uesirncuou oi ms t family at Z klag. aud. above all, he I , would hare escaped the two great ealamilics of his life, the great sins of ; uucleanuess and murder, David lived to be of vast use to the church and the world, but so far as his own happiness | was concerned, does it not seem to you that it would have been better for him to have goue early? Now, this, my friends, explains some things that to you have been iuexpli* I cable. This shows you why when God ! takes little children from a household, ! lie is very apt to take the brightest, ! the most genial, the most sympathetic, ‘ ! the most talented. Why? it is be-j ( cause that kind of nature suffers the ! most when it does suffer, and is most j liable to temptatiou. Uod saw the tempest swecpiug up from the Carrib- ! bean, and he put the delicate craft into the first harbor. "‘Taken away from the evil to come.” i c .Again, iny friends, there is a blessing i ! in an abbreviated earthly existence in ; I the fact that it puts one soouer in the i center of things. All astrouomers, in- i fidelsas well as Christian, agree in be- | ! lieviugthat the universe swings around 1 some great center. Anyone who has ’ studied the earth and studied the tteaveus knows that God's favorite ! figure iu geometry is a circle. When God put forth His hand to create the universe He did not strike that hand at right angles, but He waved it in a! circle, and kept on waving in a circle until systems and constellations and 1 galaxies and worlds took that motion. 1 Our planet swinging around the sun, other planets swinging around other

suns, but somewhere a, great hub, around which the great wheel of the universe turns. Now the center u Heaven. That is the capital of the universe. That is the great metropolis of immensity. Does not our common sense teach ua . that, in matters of study, it is better , for us to move out from the center toward the circumference, rather than ’ to be on the circumference, where our I world now is? We are like those who study the American continent while standing on the Atlantic beach. The way to study the continent is to cross I it, or to go to the heart of it. Our j standpoint in this world is defective. We are at the wrong end of the tele* j scope. The best way to study a piece of machinery is. not to staud on j the door step and try to look in, but f to go in with the engineer j and take our place right amid ; the* saws and the cylinders. We ; J wear our eyes out and our j braio out, from the fact that we are ; studying under such great disadvan* j tage. Millions of dollars for observa-j j tories to study things about the moon, j | about the sun, about the rings of Sat- j i urn, about transits and occultations j j and eclipses, simply because our stu- j clio. our observatory is poorly situated, j We arc down in the cellar trying to | study the palace of the universe, while [ our departed Christian friends have [ gone upstairs amid the skylights to j | study. Now, when one can soouer get I | to the center of things, is he not to be j i congratulated? Who wants to be always iu the freshman class? We :

»vn m mv vuc cal photograph of Him; but we all ! know we cau. iu live iumutes of interview with a friend, get more accurate | idea of him than we cau bv studying ► him years through pictures or words. The little child that died last night knows more of God than all Andover ami all Princeton, and all New liruuswiok. and ail Edinburgh, and all tlie theological institutes iu Christen- | dou». Is it'uot better to go up to the very headquarters of knowledge? Does not our common sense teach us I that it is better to lie at the eeuter than to be clear out on the rim of the wheel, holdiug nervously fast to the tire, lest we be suddenly hurled into i light and eternal felicity? Through all kinds of optical instruments trying to peer iu through the cracks and the keyholes of ileaven --i^aid t:iat both iio,>rs of the celestial mansion will be ! sw ung wide open before our entranced vision — rushiug about among the apothecary shops of this world, wondering if this is good for rheumatism, and that is good for neuralgia, and something else is good fora bud cough, lest we be suddenly ushered into a laud of everlasting health, where the mhabitaut never says: *T am sick.” One Christmas day 1 witnessed something very thrilling. We had just distributed the family presents Cnristmaa morning, when 1 heard a great cry of distress iu the hallway. A child from a neighbor's house came in to say her father was dead. It was only three doorsoff, and I thiuk iu two minutes we were there. There lay the old Christian sea captain, his face upturned toward the the window, as though he had suddenly seen the headlands, and with an illuminated countenance, as though he were just goiug iuto harbor. The fact was- he had already go* through the “Narrows.” la the adjoimug room were the Christmas presents waiting for his distribution. Long ago, one night wheu he had narrowly escaped with his ship from being run down by a great ocean steamer, he had made his peace w ith God. and a kinder neighbor or a better man than Capt. Pendleton you would uot iind this side of Heaven. Without a momeut’s warning, the Pilot of the heavenly harbor had met him just oil tiie lightship.

lie had ofteu talked to rue of the goodness of God, and especially of a time when he was about to cuter New York harbor, with his ship from Liv- \ erpool, and he was suddenly impressed that he ought to put back to sea. I'u* der the protest of the crew and uudei their very threat he put buck to sea, fearing at the same time he was losing his mind, for it did seem so unreasonable that when they could get into bar- i bor that night they should put back to sea. l»ut they put baek to seu.audCapt* i Pendleton said to his mate: “You call me at ten o’clock at night.” At IS o’clock at night the captain was aroused j and said: “What does this mean? 1 thought 1 told you to eail me at ten ‘ o’clock, and here it is 13.” “Why;* said the mate, “1 did call you at ten o’clbek, and you got up looked arouud and told me to keep right on the same course for two hours, and then to call you at 13 o’clock.” Said the captain: “Is it possible? 1 have no remembrance of that.” At 13 o'clock the captain went on deck, and throngh the rift of a cloud the moonlight fell upon the sea. and j showed him a shipwreck with 1(X struggling passengers. lie helped them off. Had he been any earlier ot any later at that point of the sea he would have beeu of no service to those drowning people. On board the captain's vessel they began to band together ai to what they should pay for the rescue and what they should pay fot the provisions. “Ah,” says the captain, “my lads. 3ou can't pay me anything: ail 1 have on board is jours; I feel too greatly honored of Uod in having saved you to take any pay.” Just like him. lie never got any pay except that of his own applauding conscicuc. Ob. that the old sea captain’s God might be my Got! and yours! Amid the stormy seas of this life we havealwayi some oue as tenderly to take care of Ua as the captain took care of the drown* ing crew and the passengers. And may we come into the harbor with as little physical pain and with as bright a hope as he had. and if it should happen to be a Christmas morning, when the presents are being distributed and we are celebrating the birth of Him who came to save our ship* wrecked world, all the better, for what grander, brighter Christmas present could we have then Heaven?

HENRY GEORGE DEAR The Great Single-Tax Advocate is No More. H* $«wnmb«d to t>rcbr»l Apoplexy M the Result or Over •Exertion lu Hie Af Sreeetve Campaign for the Mujrorxltjr or Orvoter New York. New York, Oct 23.—ITenry George, the candidate of the Jeffersonian democracy for mayor of Greater New York, died in the Union Square hotel a 4:45 a. m. Death was due to cerebral apoplexy. In the midst of the strife and bitterness of a political campaign the specter of death has come, aud has touched with its ruthless hand the leader of one of the hosts. On the very eve of a climax of human passions and ambitious and party prejudices, the grim reaper has provided an

V V \ V \ u I' HENRY GEORGE. anti-climax so much greater than the one which is still to eotue, that men of all parties have forgotten their anger in grief at the blow which has fallen with such suddenness. Thursday night noisy, shouting throngs crushed in halls and streets to hear the speeches that, in great part, was tilled with personalities and bitterness, rockets tiered and tires burned; men argued and argued, and ail signs bora witness that the campaign was at its height. l>ut when day dawned ail was changed. Men were loath to believe that oue who had been so much in the public eye in the last few weeks was no more, aud for the time being the complexion of the political situation was forgotten in genuine grief. Those who last night bitterly denounced the man who said: "‘1 stand for real democracy. the democracy of Thomas Jefferson.” uow recall many touching kindly acts in the life of the dead man. which showed his nature and joined in the words which came naturally to the lips of all: “An honest man is dead.” HIS LAST HOURS. Mr. George arrived at the hotel about 1 a. m. lie had just come from several large mass meetings in the borough of Queens and Brooklyn. The work of the night seemed to have told on him. He complained of being tired, but his friends and relatives who awaited him thought it ouly the natural fatigue that follows such hard campaigning work as Mr. George had been doing. Not long after teaching the hotel he retired. Mrs. George awaited him in room 22 of the hotel. It was about3:30 o'clock when Mrs. George was awakened. She found Mr. George sitting in an arm chair. “1 am not feeling quite comfortable.” said Mr. George to his wife. “Won't you go back to bed?" inquired Mrs. George, anxiously. “1 will sit here awhile,” was the respouse. Mrs. George at once grew anxious as to her husband's condition. Mr. George gradually grew incoherent aud lapsed into semi-consciousness, from which he never rallied. Mrs. George* was prostrated, and was cared for by the friends of the family at the hotel.

Obituary. > j [Henry George' bora on Septembers, j 1*39,, He received a common school education; | and then went into a counting; room. He was j also a sailor, and afterward learned the printer's trade.! In. 1Kb he reached California, where | he worked at the printer’s case until l-Ob. w hen j he became a reporter and afterwards editor. | working at different times on the San Francisco ; Times, and Post. lie returned to New York in 1380. an 1 went to j England and Ireland the follow ins; year, where he was twice arrested as a suspect, but after- ; wards released when his identity became estab- j lished. Mr. George was best known to the world at large through his writings upon eco» nomic questions. notably his work entitled i “Progress and Poverty," published in »8W. ! llis other works are “Our Land and Land i Policy. ' ’1>71; “Irish Question.'’ 1881; ] "Social Problems.” 1-83; “Property | in Land." a controversy with the duke of Ar- ■ gvle. ISM “The Condition of Labor." an open letter to Pope Leo X11I-. lt»l; and "A Per- j piexed Philosopher" (Herbert Spencer*. 13*1 In l«e Mr. George was nominated by the united tabor party for mayor of Sew York, polling 88.00) votes, against SW.OuO for Abram S. Hewitt, the democratic nominee and 80.000 for Theodore Roosevelt, now assistant secretary of the navy, republican. After his nomination for mayor by the Jeffersonian democrats a month ago. Mr. George made an extremely active canvass, speaking several times every evening and working fi'om early to late at his headquarters. He gave to the campaign its most*sensational incidents, its stta ks on Richard Croker and Senate ; Platt, whom he threatened to prosecute for various crimes, such as levying blackmail upon city contractors and aspirants tor office. should he be elected mayor. His candidacy gave to the coming election its greatest element of uncertainty, for. according to expert politicians, it was practically impossible to estimate how much of Bryan's vote of last year would go to George instead of Vaa Ajck.] THE NEWS ABROAD. . It was Received with Profound Iuterest Is lw (mb Francisco. Sax Fhaxcisco. Oct. SO.—The news of the death of lieary George created profound interest here, where he was well kuown. Mr. George, as editor of the Evening Pont of this city, which paper he founded, was a prominent factor in California affairs many years ago. and his career since he left this city has been watched with interest. He had a large number of followers in this state who believed in him and advocated his single-tax theory.

THE GEORGE FUNERAL. i Th« Body of the l>«od Candidate li« ta State—It U Viewed by Great MuUUnilet, After Which U U Taken to Grtwuwood Cemetery, with a Meager Following, for lit ter ment—Signs of Mouruiug B*ery« where. Nfw York. Not. i.—The body of Henry George lay in state yesterday in the Grand Central palace, and SO,COO people passed the casket and looked upon the face of the dead philosopher. From nine o'clock in the morning until three iu the afternoon a stream of meu, women and children poured into the hall. The immeuse throug was composed of representatives of ali clashes of all shades of life, and all religious opiuion. Ou every face was stamped the unmistakable signs of sincere regret.

r or me nrst naif nour the throng filing up the hall in twos passed at the rate of 1,500 an hour, but shortly the numbers swelled and grew uutii at one time SO passed each minute. At this rate 5.000 au hour, the crowd passed until the churches emptied their audiences iuto tit* vast eoueourse which was wending its way from Forty-sixth street to the palace, and which filled Forty-sixth street aud Third avenue for muuy blocks. For the last two hours the crowd came at the rate ot 6.000 au hour. This is the highest rate attaiuabie under such circumstances* Greater celerity would have meaut au undignified, irreverential rush. August Lewis, a promiueut singletaxer, wept bitterly as he passed by and tenderly laid a bunch of violets on the glass. A woman who followed it the line about au hour later, placed a modest bunch of pinks beside the violets. Aiittle before three, o'clock the line was stopped,- aud those \ no could uot get iu were compelled to turn back uue get out of the police lines. A careful estimate of the uumbei who could not get iu is 60.C00. Tun number is equal to the number o! those who passed the casket. Then another throng came—thus*, who wished to hear the eminent clergymen praise Henry George. During tne last hour au orchestra playec Chopin's "Funeral March,'' Handel's "Largo" aud "The Lost Chord." The floral decorations were profuse. A mass of wreathed flowers was scut by tlm,Chicago Siuglo Tax club. Uu a card accompanying the wreath wm the following verse: •Oh ye whose check the tear or pity stains, l»raw near with pious reve.vhre an,l attend; Here lie the loving nusbnud > near remains. The n uier lather aim tae generous friend; The pitying heart that tell for human woe. The dauntless heart that feared no uumar pride; The friend of man. to vice atone a foe. For his feeling, leaned to virtue's side. The casket itself was devoid of any ornament, save the heavy silver handles aud the plate, which read;

HENRY GEORGE, l>itxl Oct, 1SMT. Chief McCullagh, was iu personal command of the police urraugeineuts. There were boo police men on duty in the neighborhood and in the palace. By the geutlemauly conduct of every patrolman it was possible to handle the great crowd without any disagreeable circumstances. The crowd came down the avenue five deep and was passed through the hall iu twos. Those going to the right passed through the hall iu twos; those who went to the left proceeded down a short flight of stairs into Depew place. In the guard of honor were Arthur McEweu, Louts F. Fast, Dan Beard, Martin Williams, Cecil R. Atktusou, \V. J. Atkiusuu and Jos. Dana Miller. Of the ushers and. guard of honor Philadelphia sent: W. ii. McKee van. Edward Boss; W. i. Boss, ii. W. Albright, Dr. S. Solis Chopcu. G. Frank btepheus, W. ii. Tawressy, Herman VV. iielsel, \V. V. ileisel. Frank McNulty, Win. D. Kelly, Arthur 11. Stepheusou, Wm. Brice, Samuel Millikeu, Rev. J. ii. Amies, Wi 1). Calltugham. Carson Davenport, Henry C. Lippiucott aud Isaac Feruberg. Jersey City: Theodore Werner, T. II. Hunter aud James McGregor. Chicago: John S. hi White. Delaware: Albert Brothers, Joseph Brothers. George Carpeuter aud Haro.d Sude 11. The procession which accompanied the remains to Brooklyn was in many respects the uto^t remarkable ever witnessed. The catafalque was a maguificcut crcatiou of black broadcloth, aud at the base was Id feet Wide. There were five steps leading to the top. The horses, of jet black, were covered with black silk netting, aud were led by 16 grooms. The only emblem on the top of the casket was a small white w reath. The organizations that paid honor to Mr. George by following the funeral car fell iu to line from the aide streets off Madison avenue aud below Fortysecoud street. There was some disappointment in the small namber of followers and it was conservatively estimated that when the party passed Thirty-fourth street on Madison avenue there were less than 3,500 men in line. There were marks of respect all along the line. Bared heads were the rula on both sides of the street and many men and women were noticed to be weeping. The remains were enterred in Greenwood cemetery. CAMP DESERTED. Cusp FooUlni'bltau, at Ocean Springs, Mia*., Broken l> - Ockax SpRi-Noa, Miss.. Nov. 1.—Camp Fontainebleau is deserted. It is a thing of the pash The last of the refugees left yesterday. Twelve hundred and seventy-four persons have availed themselves of its hospitality since the l$th of September. The d«teution train made its last trip for the Marine hospital service yesterday, taking guard% cooks, fumigators, etc., to Camp Hatton. La. Weather cool; raining nearlv ail dar. v

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i: Try Grain=0! :: Try Grain=0! J | Ask you Grocer to-day to show you * * a package of GRAIN-0, the new food <» drink that takes the place of coffee. J J The children may drink it without < ► injury as well as the adult. All who < I try it, like it. GRAIN-0 has that J | rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, < > but it is made from pure grains, and i k the most delicate stomach receives it * J without distress. ^ the price of coffee. < > 15 cents and 25 cents per package, k k Sold by all grocers. J l Tastes like Coffee * * Looks like Coffee 4 k Insist that your grocer gives you GRAIN-0 * * Accept no imitation.

SUCKER WILL KEEP YOU DRY.

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