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■ UNTING PRESS AND PULPIT.
I ILMAGE TELES OF THE I’l HI.H l-
TION OF HIS SERMONS.
B ory of How the Cuatoni of Giving
I Thom Out Had Its Or’Kin—The i
■ sew«p«p<'t Dedared the Great
Hpd'dueator of the Nineteenth Cen-
<ory —Venice the Birthplace of the
L N*w*jM*J>er-The Etlv Str >»«le
Asainet Superatition anti Tyranny.
gEMVkshington, Feb. 20.—For the first time,
Hp. Talmage in this discourse, tells in
Jwh.it way his sermons have come to a
I multiplicity of publication such as has
I never in »riy other case been known since
I, tie art of printing was invented. Text:
[ Nahum 2:4: They shall seem like torches;
■they shall run like the lightnings.
Express, rail train and telegraphic com
| muni cation are suggested if not foretold
■ In this text, and from It I start to preach
Bhaermon in gratitude to God and the news-
Lp er press for the fact that I have had
Je opportunity of delivering through the
c«3wspaper press two thousand sermons or
Sffßllglous addresses, so that I have for
years been allowed the privilege of
the Gospel every week to every
|B ,t ®hf> o ’’hood in Christendom, and in many
lands outside of Christendom. Many have
wondered at the process by which it has
come to pass, and for the first time In pub
lic place I state the three causes. Many
.years ago. a young man who has since
become eminent in his profession, was
then Btudying law in a distant city. He
came to me, and said that for lack of funds
he must *top his studying, unless through
stenography I would give him sketches of
«ef-mon«, that he might by the sale of
them secure means for the completion of
hia education. I positively declined, be
cause. It seemed to me nn impossibility,
hut after some months had passed, and I
had reflected upon the great sadness for
such a brilliant young man to be defeated
in his ambition for the legal profession, I
undertook to serve him; of course, free of
charge. Within three weeks there came
a request for those stenographic reports
from many parts of the continent. Time
pasoM on, and name gentlemen of my own
profession evidently thinking that there
was hardly room for them and for myself
in this continent began to assail me, and
became so violent in their assault that the
chief newspapers of America put special
correspondents in my church Sabbath by
| Sabbath to take down such reply as I
flight make. I never made reply, ex
cept once for about three minutes, but
those correspondents could not waste their
time and so they telegraphed the sermons
to their particular papers. After a while,
Or. Louis Klopach of New York, systema
rtized the work into a syndicate until
through that and other syndicates he has
put the discourses week by week before
more than twenty million people on both
sides the sea. There have been so many
I guesses on this subject, many of them in
k accurate that, I now tell the true story. I
H have not Improved the opportunity as I
J ought, hut I feel the time has come when
J as «, matter of common justice to the news
paper press, I should make this statement
In a sermon commemorative of the two
thousandth full publication of sermons,
and religious addresses, saying nothing of
*he fragmentary reports, which would run
hito many thousands more.
ML There wau one Incident that 1 might
in this conned ion, showing how
an insignificant event might Influence us
for a Hf. time. Many years ago on a Sab
bath morning on my way to church In
Brooklyn, a representative of a prominent
newspaper met me and said: "Are you
, going to give us any points to-day?" I said,
‘What do you mean by ‘points?’ " He re
plied, "Anything we can remember.’ I
aald to myself, "We ought to be making
’Pont*’ all the time in our pulpits and not
deal in platitudes and inanities." That
r one interrogation put to me that morning
started In me the desire of making points
• H the time and nothing but points.
And now. how oan I more appropriately
cornntemorate the two thousandth publi
cation than by speaking of the newspaper
***** as an ally of the pulpit, and men
t lon Ing some of the trials of newspaper
wien.
Thw newspaper is the great educator of
nineteenth century. There la no force
compared with it. It is book, pulpit, plat
'“Mtn. forum, all In And there Im not
• n Interest-religious. literary, commercial
scientific, agricultural, or mechanical
that is not within its grasp All our
ehurches, and schools, and colleges, and
asylums, and art galleries feel the quak
ing of the printing-press.
The institution of newspapers arose in
Italy. In Venice the first newspaper was
published, nnd monthly, during the time
Venice wuh warring against Holyman the
Heeond tn Dalmatia, it wuh printed for the
purpose of giving military and comm, r
•aß’** 1 Information to the Venetians. The
neWspaiM»r published in England was
"'.dP. 'Bl. and called the English-Mercury
MVho can estimate the poll fl a |. scientific’
gJgWWgfiSlnl and religious revolutions rous-
up in England for many >v<ni* |M st by
prt'H"-
rtMn ft,t< ' rnpt at this institution In
W ’" * n ” i ' tl by “ l' !, .vsiciai>, who
the News, for the amus.-nv nt
health'of bls patients. The French
fully how to appreciate
■ his power. H<> early as In Ix3o thete were
■ J Parte journals. But in the 1 nttd
the newspaper has <->>ni<' to unllm
away. Though in 177r> there w. r. bat
■alrty-aeven in the whole country, the
of pubiishe.l Jouttinis is non count
by thousands; and to-d.»y—we m.tv us
MltlK--- * cnowl * 11 H“ It as not—the religious
S ■■ ••Mllar newspapers arc the grent > l
u>»* of the country.
W But, ala*! through what struggle tin
* n«:u »i»si>er has come to its present dovel-
I Just ns soon mt it began to dera-
te dteHt*te Its power, auperatltion and tyr
■ M ’V>' •haokled It. There is nothing that
ao much fears and hates is tic
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Naples had made it unsafe for am to
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we come to write or speak about an "un
bridled printing-press.” Our new book
ground up in unjust criticism, we come to
write or speak about the "unfair printing
press.” 'Perhaps through our own indis
tinctness of utterance we are reported as
saying just the opposite of what we did
say, and there is a small riot of semicol
ons and hyphens and commas, and we
come (o write or talk about the "blunder
ing printing-pre§s,” or we take up a news
paper full of social scandal and of cases
of divorce, and we write or talk about a
"filthy, scurrillous printing-press.” 13ut,
this morning, I ask you to consider the
immeasurable and everlasting blessing of
a good newspaper.
I find no difficulty in accounting for the
world’s advance. What has made the
change? “Books,” you say. No, sir! Ti e
vast majority of citizens do not read
books. Take this audience, or any other
promiscuous assemblage, and how many
histories have they read? How many
treatises on constitutional law, or political
economy, or works of science? How many,
elaborate poems or books of travel? Not
many. In the United States the people
would not average one such book a year
for each individual! Whence, then, this
intelligence, this capacity to talk about
all themes, secular and religious; this ac
quaintance with science and art; this
power to appreciate the beautiful and
grand? Next to the Bible, the newspa
per, swift-winged and everywhere present,
flying over the fence, shoved under the
door, tossed into the counting-house, laid
on the work-bench, hawked through the
cars! All read it; white and black, Ger
man, Irishman, Swiss, Spaniard, Ameri
can, old and young, good and bad, sick and
well, before breakfast and after tea, Mon
day morning, Saturday night, Sunday and
week day. I now declare that I consider
the newspaper to be the grand agency by
which the gospel is to be preached, igno
rance cast out, oppression dethroned,
crime extirpated, the world raised, heaven
rejoiced, and God glorified. In the clank
ing of the printing-press, as the sheets
fly out, I hear the voice of the Lord Al
mighty proclaiming to all the dead na
tions of the earth, “Lazarus, come forth!”
and to the retreating surges of darkness:
“Let there be light!” In many of our city
newspapers, professing no more than sec
ular information, there have appeared
during the past thirty years some of the
grandest appeals in behalf of religion, and
some of the most effective interpretations
of God’s government among the nations.
There are only two kinds of newspapers
—the one good, very good, the other bad,
very bad. A newspaper may be started
with an undecided character, but after it
has been going on for years everybody
finds out just what it is; and it is very
good or it is very bad. The one paper is
the embodiment of news, the ally of vir
tue, the foe of crime, the delectation of
elevated taste, the mightiest agency on
earth for making the world better. The
other paper is a brigand among moral
forces; it is a beslim?r of reputation, it
is the right arm of death and hell, it is
the mightiest agencj in the universe for
making the world worse and battling
against the cause of God. The one an
angel of intelligence and mercy, the other
a fiend of darkness. Between this Arch
angel and this Fury is to be fought the
great battle which is to decide the fate of
the world. If you have any doubt as to
which is to be victor, ask the prophecies,
ask God; the chief batteries with which
he would vindicate the right and thunder
down the wrong are now unlimbered. Th©
great Armageddon of the nations is not to
be fought with swords, but with steel
pens; not with bullAs, but with tvpe;
not with cannon, but with lightning per
fecting presses; and the Sumters, and the
Moultrie<s, and the Pulaskis, and the Gib
raltar of that conflict will be the edi
torial and reportorial rooms of our great
newspaper establishment. Men of the
press, God has put a more stupendous
responsibility upon you than upon any
other class of persons. What long strides
your profession nas made in influence and
power since the day when Peter Sheffer
invented cast-metal type, and because two
books were found just alike they were
ascribed to the work of the devil; and
books were printed on strips of bamboo;
and Rev. Jesse Glover originated the first
American printing press; and the Common
Council of New York, in solemn resolu
tion, offered two hundred dollars to any
printer who would come there and live’
and when the Speaker of the House of
Parliament in England announced with
indignation that the public prints had
recognized some of their doings, until in
this day. when we have in this country
many thousands of skilled stenographers
and newspapers sending out copies bv the
billion. The press and the telegraph have
gone down into the same great harvest
field to reap, and the telegraph says to
the newspiper: “I’ll rake, while you
bind;” and the iron teeth of the telegraph
are set down at one end of the harvest
field and drawn clean across, and the
; newspaper gathers up the sheaves, setting
down one sheaf on the breakfast table In
the shape of a morning newspaper, and
putting down another sheaf on the tea ta
ble in the shape of an evening newspaper*
nnd that man who neither reads nor
takes a newspaper would be a curiosity
What vast progress since the days when
Cardinal Wolsey declared that either the
printing press must go down or the
church of God must go down, to this time
when the printing press and the pulpit
are in glorious combination and alliance
One of the great trials of this newspaper
profession Is the fact that they nte com
pelled to see more of the shams of the
world than any other profession. Through
every newspaper office, day by day. go the
weakness of the world, the vanities that
want to be puffed, the revenges that want
to be wivaked. all the mistakes that want
to be corrccitd. all the dull speakers who
want to be thought eloquent, all the mean
ness that wants to get its wares noticed
gratis in the editorial columns in order to
save the tax of the advertising column,
all the m. n who want to be set right who
never were right, al) the crack-brained
philosophers, with story as long as their
hair ami as gloomy as their finger-nails,
all the itinerant bores who come to stay
five minutes and stop an hour. From the
editorial and reportorial rooms al] the fol
lies and shorn 1* of the world are seen day
by day, and the temptation is to believe
neither In God. man. nor woman. It is no
surprise to me that In your profession
! there are some sceptical men. I only won
der that you believe anything. Unless an
editor or a reporter has in his present or
in his early home a model of earnest char
acter. or he throw himself upon the up
holding grace of God. he may make tem
poral and eternal shipwreck.
Another great trial of the newspaper
profession is Inadequate compensation.
Since the days of Haalitt. and Sheridan,
and John Milton, and the wailings of
Grub street, London, literary toil, with
very few exceptions, has not been properly
requited. When Oliver Goldsmith receiv
ed a friend in his house, he (the author),
had to sit on the window, because there
eras only one chair. Linnaeus sold his
I splendid work for a ducat. De Foe, the
j author of so many volumes, died pennl-
I less. The learned Johnson dined bfbind a
screen because his clothes were too shab
| by to allow him <0 dine with the gentle
-1 men who. on the other aide of the screen,
were applauding his works. And so on
down to the present time literary toil is a
great struggle for broad. The world seems
I to have a grudge against a man who. as
I they say. gets his living by his wits; and
I the day laborer says to the man of llier-
I ray toll; "'Yod eome down here and shove
I plane, and hammer a shoe-last, and
1 break cobble atone*, and earn an honest
living as I do. Instead of sitting there In
übencsa acribbu.g!” But there are co
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harder-worked men in all the earth than
the newspaper people of this country. It
is not a matter of hard times; it is char
acteristicAat all times; Men have a bet
ter appreciation for that which appeals to
the stomach than for that which appeals
to the brain. They have no idea of the
immense financial and intellectual exhaus
tion of the newspaper press. Oh, men of
the press, It will be a great help to you,
if when you get home late at night, fagged
out and nervous with your work, you
would just kneel down and commend your
case to God, who has watched all the fa
tigues of the day and the night, and who
has promised to be your God and the God
of your children forever!
Another great trial of the newspaper pro
fession is the diseased appetite for un
healthy intelligence. You blame the news
paper press for giving such prominence to
murders and scandals. Do you suppose
that so many papers would give promi
nence to these things if the people did not
demand them? If I go into the meat mar
ket of a foreign city, and I find that the
butchers hang up on the most conspicuous
hooks meat that is tainted, while the
meat that is fresh and savory is put away
without any special care, I come to the
conclusion that the people of that city
love tainted meat. You know very well
that if the great mass of people in this
country get hold of a newspaper, and there
are in it no runaway matches, no broken
up families, no defamation of men in high
position, they pronounce the paper insipid.
They say, “It is shockingly dull to-night.”
I believe it is one of the trials of the news
paper press, that the people of this coun
try demand moral slush instead of healthy
; and intellectual food. Now, you are a re
| spectable man, an intelligent man, and a
I paper comes into your hand. Y'ou open
it, and, there are three columns of splen
didly written editorial, recommending
some moral sentiment, 6r evolving some
scientific theory. In the next column there
is a miserable, contemptible divorce case.
Which do you read first? You djp into the
editorial long enough to say, “Well, that’s
very ably written,” and you read the di
vorce case from the “long printer” type at
the top to the “nonpareil” type at the
bottom, and then you ask your wife if she
has read -it! Oh, it is only a case of sup
ply and demand! Newspaper men are not
fools. They know what you want, and
they give It to you. I believe that if the
church and the world bought nothing but
pure, honest, healthful newspapers, noth
ing but pure, honest and healthful news
papers would be published. If you should
gather all the editors and the reporters of
this country in one great convention, and
ask of tham what kind of a paper they
would prefer to publish, I believe they
would unanimously say, “We would pre
fer to publish an elevating paper.” So
.long as there is an iniquitous demand,
there will be an iniquitous supply. I make
no apology for a debauched newspaper,
but I am saying these things in order to
divide the responsibility between those who
print and those who read.
Another temptation of the newspaper
profession is the great allurment that sur
rounds them. Every occupation and pro
fession has temptations peculiar to itself,
and the newspaper profession is not an
exception. The great demand, as you
know, Is on the nervous force, and the
1 brain is racked. The blundering political
I speech must read well for the sake of the
: party, ar»rt so the reporter, or the editor,
has lo make it read well, although every
sentence were a catastrophe to the English
language. The reporter must hear ail
that an Inaudible speaker, who thinks It
Is vulgar to speak out, says; and it must
be right the next morning or the next
night In the papers, though the night be
fore the whole audience sat with its hand
behind its ear, In vain trying to catch it.
This man must go through killing night
work. He must go into heated assem
blages iMjd into Unventilated audience
rooms that are enough to take the life
out of him. He must visit court rooms.
Which are almost always disgusting with
rum and tobacco. He must expose him
self at the Are. He must write in foetid
alleyways. Added to all that, he must have
hasty mastication and irregular habits.
To bear up under this tremendous nervous
strain, they are tempted to artificial
stimulus, and how many thousands have
gone down under their pressure God only
knows. They must have something to
counteract the wet, they must have some
thing to keep out the chill, and after a
scant night’s sleep they must have some
thing to revive them for the morning’s
work. This is what made Horace Greeley
such a stout temperance man. I said to
him: "Mr. Greeley, why are you more
eloquent on the subject of temperance
than any other subject?” H* replied: "I
have seen so many of my best friends in
journalism go down under intemperance.”
Oh, my dear brother of the newspaper
profession, what you cannot do without
artificial stimulus, God does not want
you to do? There is no half-way ground
for our literary people between teetotalism
and dissipation. Your professional suc
cess, yot*r domestic peace, your eternal
salvation, will depend upon your theories
tn regard to artificial stimulus. I have
had so many friends go down under the
temptation. their brilliancy quenched,
their homes blasted, that I cry out this
morning in the words of another: "Look
not upon the wine when it is red, when St
giveth Its color in the cup. when it moveth
Itself aright; for at the last it bfteth like
a serpent, and it stingeth like an adder.”
Another trial of this profession is the
fact, no one seems to care for their souls
They feel bitterly about It, though they
laugh. People sometimes lauga the loud
est when they feel the worst. They are
expected to gather up religious proceed
ings. and to discuss religious doctrines in
the editorial columns, but who expects
them to he saved by the sermons they
stenograph, or by the doctrines they dis
cuss in the editorial columns? The
world looks upon them as professional.
Who preaches to reporters and editors?
Some of them came from religious homes,
and when they left the parental roof, who
ever regarded or disregarded, they came
off with a father’s benediction and a
mother'* prayer. They never think of
those good old times but tears come into
their eyes, and they move through these
great cities homesick. Oh. if they only
knew wltat a helpful thing it is for a man
to put his weary head down on the bosom
of a sympathetic Christ! He knows how
' nervous and tired you are. He has a
I heart large enough to take in ail your in
terests fbr this world and the next. Oh.
men of the newspaper press, you some
times get sick of this world, it seems so
hollow and unsatisfying. If there are
any people in all the earth that need God.
you are the men. and you shall have him.
if only this day* you implore his mercy.
A mun was found at the foot of Canal
. street. New York. As they picked him
. up from the water and brought him to .he
morgue. Uiey saw. by the contour of his
.forehead, that he had great mental canac
icy. He had entered the newspaper pro
fess, on. He had gone down tn health. He
took to artificial stimulus. He went down
further and further, until one tummer
day. hot and hungry , and sick, and In de
spair, he flung Nimself off the dock. They
found in his pocket a reporter s pad a
lead pencil, a photograph of some one
who had loved him long ago. Death, as
sometimes it will, smoothed out all the
wrinkles that had gathered prematureiv
on his brow, and as he lay there his face
was as fair as when, seven years before
he left his country- home, and they SMtte
him goodby forever. The world loo’.ed
through the window of the morgue, rrd
| said: "It s nothing but an outcast;" but
God said it was a gigantic soul that per-
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An Awful Punishment.
Os all the horrors that have shocked
mankind throughout history, one of
the most terrible was the punishment
meted out by the British government in
1857 to the leaders, of the famous Sepoy
Mutiny. They were tied to the mouths
of loaded cannon and blown in mutilated
fragments into eternity, while a thrill of
horror went through the civilized world.
Mankind is slow to realize the full
meaning of punishment and penalty. It
all looks so cruel, vindictive and unnat
ural. But whenever a law is broken there
is in the very nature of things, without
cruelty or hatred, an awful necessity for
punishment which is sometimes deadly.
When the Emperor Maximillian was
executed; and when :the brave Marshall
Ney went out to death, no doubt the
firing squad had pity in their hearts and
tears in their eyes for the man they were
shooting down. The crime of these
men was that they , had made a mistake.
When our own glorious patriot, Nathan
Hale, stood with the rope about his
neck, sad and dreadful as his punish
ment was, he paiA only the penalty of the
laws of war.
Mistakes and broken laws Involve an
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awful penalty, and the most vindictive
men are not more cruel than Nature
herself can be whether laws are vio
lated. Every day we see then and w*o
men suffering almost the torments of the
condemned as «C penalty for breaking
Nature’s simplest laws. Mistakes and
carelessness count as crimes before Na
ture's stern tribunal. Nature never for
gives a mistake. Irregular; habits, wrong
food, over-work, worry, late hours, neg
lect of little precautions, are punished
by the pangs of dyspepsia, shattered
nerves and a wrecked and wasted consti
tution.
But this misery and ‘hopelessness are
not forever fastened off ’ those who are
willing to come back and obey the law’s
which Nature 'Has laid d'own. Her pen
alties are severe and inevitable, but her
rewards are generous. She seldom pro
nounces a death Thousands of
broken down men and wimen, who could
not find either encouragement or cure in
the medicaments of ordinary doctors
have obtained a perfect restoration to
health and strength by the use of. Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, simply
because it put thhir entire physical be
ing into perfect- accords with Nature’s
law and brought them her rewards.
This extraordinary “Discovery” begins
its restorative and building up process
in the human system at the same point
that Nature begins her own work, that
is, with the digestive and blood-making
organs. It gives the entire nutritive or
ganism power to appropriate the essential
life-creating elements of the food that is
eaten, and convert, them into healthy nu
triment, firm muscplar flesh and active
vital force.
A resident of Shiloh Church, Sevier
county, Tennessee, Mr. A. W. McMillan,
writes: "l am
year ago I was prostrated, and from that
date until the 15th of the following Janu
ary, I was treated, by two as good physi
cians as there are; in the country. They
pronounced my disease thickening of the
walls of the stomach, a sloughing off of
the mucous lining of the stomach, en
largement of the liver, neuralgia of the
stomach, and ulceration of the bowels.
I had frequent attacks of biliousness and
was badly constipated. Thus matters
stood until January, 1895. The doctors
were doing me no good. Prepared chalk,
Dover's, pbw’ders, calomel, would not
reach my case. My wife now got me a
bottle of Dr. Pierce s Golden Medical Dis
covery and a vial of his ’Pleasant Pel
lets.’
“The medicine taken, my wife said I
was better, or at least was holding my
own. She went back and got another
supply: I took the medtctne then
could see for myself that I was gaining.
I have used in all twelve bottles of ‘Gold
en Medical Discovery' and also some of
the ‘Pellets.’ My biliousness has left me,
constipation is gone and I am as regular
in my bowels as I ever was. I was al
most a skeleton. I lived for months on
boiled milk, but now I can eat a little of
anything I want, sleep well, go anywhere
I want to. visit my children and friends,
and look after my business. In fact,
‘Richard is (nearly) himself again.’ In
May after I was ab’e to sit up a little I
weighed 116 pounds, in August 122. in Oc
tober 132."
Many little warnings are usually given
by Nature long before her most terrible
punishment are visited upon those who
disregard her regulations. When a man
feels that something in his way of living
has put him “out of sorts,” even though
not seriously ill. he must know that he
Is to some extent a trespasser. If he
has headaches or bilious turns and pe
riods when he doesn’t feel like lifting a
hand or foot about his business, some
thing is certainly wrong. It ought to,
and can be set right immediately by the
“Golden Medical Discovery's” wonder
ful tonic and alterative properties.
It clarifies and enriches the blood,
arouses the lethargic liver to rid the cir
culation of excessive bile; purges the
system of the scrofulous and muddy im
purities which render the skin unwhole
some and unsightly; makes every nerve
and muscle tingle with vivacity and life.
Mrs. John Crozier. Box 52, Morristown.
Belmont county. Ohio, says: "I wrote you
May 3d stating to you my condition. My
face was in a solid mass of pimples or
red spots and very sore. I commenced
using Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery about the 3d of April; I also used
his ‘Pellets.' I was just nearly crazy
when I wrote to you. Then I received
your letter telling me to uK? a strong
suds of wa-m water and Castile soap on
retiring at night, and behold, in from ten
to twelve days my face was well. Dr.
Pierce’s medicines are worth more than
their weight in gold, to me. My entire
system is built up by them. My face got
well so fast that people came to ask what
I did. I do believe that the dure df this
case has sold a great deal of your medi
cines in the surrounding country. I am
daily telling people how Dt. Pierce cured
my face. I believe in Dr. Pierce and I
firmly believe that if more of his medi
cines were used people would be health
ier.”/
The permanent strength-making qual
ities of the “Golden Medical Discovery”
are vastly superior to the temporary
stimulus of malt extracts. It is far pre
ferable to nhuseous emulsions. It does
not aid the accretion 01 flabby fat; but
eliminates inert useless tissue from the
system, making the flesh firm and whole
some bringing the weight Up the
normal standard of perfect health.
Any one is welcome and invited to con
sult Dr. Pierce by mail. He has an as
sociate staff of eighteen eminent special
ists in the different branches of medical
practice, and careful professional advice
will be given free of charge.
Isidore Gross of Bayfield, DeKalb coun
ty, Missouri, writes: “I was out of health
more or less for many years, my ailments
consisting mostly in heart disease, rheu r
matism, palpitation of the heart, neural
gia, constipation, etc., yet with ail these
complaints I could be on my feet and do
some work. About two years ago anoth
er scourge came upon me in the shape
of neuralgia of the stomach, and gall
stones, which proved more than a match
for my broken down constitution. Our
home physician said he could not help me
and could only give me morphine when the
pa’.n came, to ease it. I did not know
what to do. The pain in my stomach in
creased, and it generally lasted from two
to ten hours, and the modt excruciating
pa.ns at that. I became alarmed, not
knowing what to do. Finally I thought
it would not cost anything to write to Dr.
Pierce. He advised me to take his ‘Gold
en Medical Discovery,’ and ‘Pellets.’ I
used his medicines according to directions
for five months, and to-day I, can say
with truth, that I am as well and hardy
as any man of 58 years can wish to be.”
Mrs. R. T. Webb, Box 58, Romney, Tip
pecanoe County, Indiana, writes; ‘-‘.After
using a large number of bottles of Dr.
Pierce s Go.den Medical Discovery, Fa
vorite Prescription,’ and ‘Pellets,’ ! am
convinced that I am thoroughly cured of
torpid liver, kidney and heart disease. I
had been a great sufferer for sixty years,
and given up all hopes of ever getting well’
as my physician said I could not be cured.
A friend of mine advised me to take Dr.
Pierce’s medicine, and I thank God that,
through Him. I found relief. I took the
medicines a long time before I could see
that they were doing any good. I am now
81 years old, weigh one hundred and forty
pounds, do my own work and can walk
a mile without getting tired. I wish you
abundant success, and hope that Almighty
God will continue His blessing toward voii
in your noble work.”
There is no better home counselor ard
guide to the proper care of the health of
all the family than that grand book, ‘The
People’s Comm oh Sense Medical Adviser,”
by R. V. Pierce, M. D.. This thousand
page illustrated volume is the outgrowth
of his thirty years’ experience as chief
consulting physician to the Invalids’ Ho
tel and Surgical Institute of Buffalo, N.
Y. A paper-bound copy will be sent ab
solutely free for the mere cost of mail
ing twenty-one (21) one-cent stamps. Ad
dress World's Dispensary Medical Asso
ciation of Buffalo. If a heavier cloth
bound copy is preferred, send ten stamps
extra—3l in all.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE
NEW HIGH ARM
News '9B Sewing Machine.
THp NEWS ’9B (a cut of which is printed above) is a strictly high grade sewing
machine, finished throughout in the best manner possible. It possesses all modern
Improvements, and its mechanical construction is such that in it are combined sim
plicity with great strength; thus insuring ease of running, durability, and making it
almost impossible for the machine to be gotten out of order.
It makes what is known as the double lock stitch and uses two threads, which
are locked together in the center of the goods, forming a stitch which appears the
same on both sides. The upper thread is drawn into position directly from the spool
without passing through any holes ’till the eye of the needle is reached. A detailed
description of the machine is as follows:
THE HEAD is handsome and pleasing in appearance, being beautifully decorated
in an elaborate design worked out in gold and bright colors. All of the working
parts (screws, plates, etc.,) are highly polished and nickel plated. The bed plate is
let into the wooden table so that the surfaces of both are flush, thus greatly improv
ing the looks of the machine as well as facilitating the handling of the work when
sewing.
THE ARM is large, very strong and well proportioned, and the clear sjjace under
neath it is 5‘4 hy 9 Inches, thus allowing the bulkiest work to be stitched and hand
led with ease.
THE NEEDLE Is straight, has a large shank, and It is Impossible to set It wrong
ly or for it to become fast in the bar so that it cannot be readily removed, as it is
held with the latest style patent needle clamp.
THE NEEDLE BAR is round, made of hardened steel and finely finished. It runs
in hardened steel bushings, packed above and below with felt, which absorbs oil
enough to lubr’cate the part without any danger of its running down and soiling the
work.
THE TAKE UP is absolutely automatic in its action at all times and on all kinda
of work.
THE AUTOMATIC BOBBIN WINDER attached to this machine is a great
Improvement, and with it the bobbin can be wound almost as evenly as a spool of
thread, and with no care on the part of the operator except to keep the threadie ,
TIES TENSION LIP-ERA TOR is of a new design and enables the operator to
remove the work from the machine without danger of breaking or bending the
THE BEARINGS AND WORKING PARTS are all hardened, carefully ground
and fitted, and when kept clean and properly oiled will Inst a - life-time.
THE HAND WHEEL is of the latest pattern and is also adjustable so that it
can be made tight or loose at will, thus enabling the operator to wind the bobbin
without running the machine.
THE FEED is double, extending on both sides of the needle, is positive in its
action and handies the heaviest work easily. The term ’’positive feed” is often
used in describing other machines, but in nearly all of them it will be found that
a spring is required to hold the feed bar to its bearing. The NEWS ’9B feed mo
tion (patented Oct. 30, 1891,) is free from this defect. It is so constructed that it
can be raised or lowered by a simple adjustment without interfering with the
feed dog. This advantage will be appreciated by all sewing machine users, as the
old way of adjusting by set screws holding the feed dog on the feed bar has always
made trouble, because, unless it was accurately done, the feed dog would either
strike the front or back of the needle plate or the feed would be out of level. By
the improved construction, as made by us, there is no danger of meeting with
any of these difficulties. By unloosening the set screw which connects the feed
push rod with the cam, and slid'ng it to the right or left, the feed can be adjusted
as to bight without displacing any of the other parts, and the feed itself will al
way* remain perfectly level.
THE SHUTTLE is positively self-threading, of large size, cylindrical in shape,
and made of the finest steel carefully hardened and beautifully polished.
THE SHUTTLE CARRIER is of a new design and is fitted with a spring lin
ing which balances the shuttle and does away with the noisy clicking so noticea
b’e in other machines.
THE CABINET WORK Is of the highest grade and best workmanship through
out and is the popular “Extra” finish. Our "Extra” finish is as fine as can be
made, is hand rubbed and what is termed “piano finish” and cannot be improved
upon.’ Our customers will apprecite the “Extra” finish, as it is the finest finish
possible.
THE STAND is light and graceful, yet so proportioned as to give it great
strength. It is easily kept clean and free from dust, and is furnished with oil
cups to prevent soiling the floor on which it rests. The treadle and drive wheel are
hung on adjustable steel centers.
THE ATTACHMENTS supplied without extra charge are of the latest design,
interchangeable, and constructed to slip on the presser bar. They are made
throughout of the best steel, polished and nickel plated, and there is not a particle
of brass or other soft metal or a single soldered joint about them. They consist of
Ruffler, Tucker. Binder, Braider Foot, Under Braider Slide Plate, Shirring Side
Plate, Four Kemmers of assorted widths. Quilter, Thread Cutter, Foot Kemmer
and Feller.
THE ACCESSORIES include twelve Needles, six Bobbins, Oil Can filled with
oil. large and small Screw Drivers, Sewing Guide, Guide Screw, Certificate of War
ranty good for five years, and elaborately illustrated Instruction Book. Those who
are now subcribers to the Weekly News can get the News '9B Sewing Machine by
remitting Twenty Dollars.
ADDRESS ALL ORDERS TO . ,
THE WEEKLY NEWS,
SAVANNAH, GA.
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