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A MONSTER JUBILEE.
LN INTERESTING PROPOSITION FROM
DR. TALMAGE.
tee Suggests on International Jubilee to
Celebrate the Nineteen Hundredth Birth
day of Christ—A Banquet For the Hun-
BTy—An Interesting; Sermon.
Brooklyn, Sept. 24.—At the Brooklyn
tTabernncle this forenoon Rev. Dr. Tnl-
jniage preached a sermon of unusual bi
tterest to a vast audience, the subject
feeing “The Nineteen Hundredth Anni
versary. A Proposition Concerning It.”
‘The text was taken from Isaiah ix, 6,
"“To us a child is horn.”
That is a tremendous hour in tlio his
tory of any family when an immortal
(spirit is incarnated. Out of a very dark
cloud there descends a very bright morn
ing. One life spared and another given.
.(All the bells of gladness ring over the
cradle. I know not why any one should
.doubt that of old a star pointed down to
he Saviour’s birthplace, for a star of joy
ipoints down to every honorable nativity,
A- new eternity dates from that hour,
tihat minute.
Beautiful and appropriate is the cus
tom of celebrating the anniversary of
into the
»such an event, and clear on = f
eighties and the nineties the recurrence of ‘ 01 . the science of theological fisticuffs,
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done afterward. And how can it so well
bo done as by a celebration of many
weeks of the birth and character and
achievements of the wondrous and un
precedented Christ? To such an exposi
tion the kings and queens of the earth
would not send their representatives—
they would come themselves.
The story of a Saviour’s advent could
not bo told without tolling the story of
his mission. All the world would say,
“Why this ado, this universal demon
stration?” What a vivid presentation it
would be, when at such a convocation
the physicians of the world should tell
what Christ had done for hospitals and
the assuagement of human pain, and
when Christian lawyers declare what
Christ has done for the establishment of
good laws, and Christian conquerors
should tell what Christ had done in the
conquest of nations, and Christian rulers
of the earth would tell what Christ had
done in the government of earthly do
minions!
Thirty days of such celebration would
do more to tell the world who Christ is
than any 30 years. Not a land on earth
but would hear of it and discuss it. Not
an eye so dimmed by the superstition of
ages but would see the illumination.
The difference of Christ’s religion from
all others is that its one way of dissemi
nation is by a simple “telling,” not ar
gument, not skillful exegetists, polemics
■that day of the year in an old man’s life
causes recognition and more or less con
gratulation. So also nations are ac
customed to celebrate the anniversary
«of their birth and the anniversary of
<tfhe birth of their great heroes or de
liverers or benefactors. The 22d of Fcb-
'.xuary and the 4th of July aro never
sallowed to pass in our land without
'.banquet and oration and bell ringing
.and cannonade. But all other birthday
iiflnniversaries are tame compared with
sthe Christmas festivity, which celebrates
*the birthday described in my text.
Protestant and Catholic and Greek
churches, with all the power of music
sand garland and procession and doxol-
Cgy, put the words of 1113’ text into na
tional and continental and hemispheric
chorus, “To us a child is born.” On
the 25th of December each year that is
the theme in St. Paul's and St. Peter’s
,and St. Mark's and St. Isaac’s and all
the dedicated cathedrals, chapels, meet-
ring houses and churches clear round tire
-world.
We shall soon reach the nineteen
Ihundreth anniversary of that happiest
event of all time. This century is dy
ing. Only seven more pulsations, and
“its heart will ceaso to beat. The fingers
«of many of you will write it at the head
cf your letters and the foot of your im
portant documents, “1900.” It will be
Si physical and moral sensation unlike
janything else you have before experi
enced. Not one hand that wrote “1801”
@t the induction of this century will
ilhave cunning left to write “1901” at the
induction of another.
The death of one century and the birth
of another century will be sublime and
(Suggestive and stupendous beyond all
■estimate. To stand by the grave of one
eentury and by the cradle of another
■will be an opportunity such as whole
generations of the world’s inhabitants
mever experienced. I pray God that there
anay be no sickness or casualty to hinder
“your arrival at that goal or to hinder
wour taking part in the veledictory of
^tho departing century and the salutation
gnf the new.
£But as that season will bo the nine
teen hundredth anniversary of a Sav- j
Sour’s birth, I now nominate that a great |
international jubilee or exposition bo |
.opened in this cluster of cities by the j
Sfseacoast on Christmas day, the 25tli of
[December, 1900, to be continued for at
jleast one month into the year 1901. This
..century closing Dec. 31, 1900, and the
saew century beginning Jan. 1, 1901,
lifvill .it not be time for all nations to
jfcurn aside for a few weeks or months
jfrom everything else and emphasize the
h of the greatest being who ever
^touched our planet, and could there be
more appropriate time for such com-
smemoration than this culmination of
sithe centuries which are dated from his
(Nativity? You know that all history
plates either from before Christ or after
^Christ, from B. C. or A. D. It will bo
;the year of our Lord 1900 passing into
jjthe year 1901.
■ We have had the Centennial at Phila
delphia, celebrative of the one hundredth
(anniversary of our nation’s birth. We
feave had the magnificent expositions at
5lew Orleans and Atlanta and Augusta
#md St. Louis. We have the present
‘World’s exposition at Chicago,celebrative
eof the four hundredth anniversary of this
scontinent’s emergence, and there are
,-at least two other great celebrations
promised for this country, and oth-
isr countries will have their historic
rsvents to commemorate, but the one
■event that has most to do with the wel
fare of all nations is the arrival of Jesus
(Christ on this planet, and all the enthu
siasm ever witnessed at London or Vien
na or Paris or any of our American cities
“would ho eclipsed by the enthusiam that
■Would celebrate the ransom of all na
tions, the first step toward the accom-
who spolco or wrought or suffered by
headsman’s ax or lire. Where is my fa-
vorite of all arts, this art of sculpture,
that it is not busier for Christ or that
its work is not better appreciated? Let
it come fortli at tluit world’s jubilee of
the nativity. We want a second Phidias
to do for that now temple what the first
Phidias did for the Parthenon. Let the
marble of Carrara come to resurrection
to celebrate our Lord’s resurrection. Let
sculptors set up in that auditorium of
Christ’s celebration bas-relief and intaglio
inscriptive of the battles won for our
ioly religion. Where are the Canovas
of the nineteenth century? Where are
the American Thorwaldsens and Clian-
treys? Hidden somewhere, I warrant
you.
but “telling.” “Toll ye the daughter of
Zion, Behold, thy King cometh.” “Go
quickly and tell his disciples that ho has
risen from the dead.” “Go home to thy
friends and toll them how great things
the Lord hath done for thee.” “When
he is come, he Will toll us all things.” A
religion of “telling.”
And in what way could all nations so
well be told that Christ had come as by
such an international emphasizing of his
nativity? All India would cry out about
such an affair, for you know they have
their railroads and telegraphs. “What
is going on in America?” All China
would cry out, “What is that great ex
citement in America?” All the islands
of the sea would come down to the gang
planks of tlio arriving ships and ask,
“What i3 that they are celebrating in
America?” . It would bo the mightiest
missionary movement the world has ever
seen. It would ho the turning point in
the world’s destiny. It would waken
the slumbering nations with one touch.
Question the Second—Ho3v would you
have such an international jubilee con
ducted? Answer—All arts should he
marshaled, and art in its most attract
ive and impressive shape. First, archi
tecture. While all academies of music,
and all churches, and all great halls
would be needed, there should be one
great auditorium erected to hold such
an audience as has never been seen on
any sacred occasion in America.
If Seribonius Curio, at the cost of a
kingdom, could build the first two vast
amphitheaters, placing them back to
hack, holding great audiences for dra
matic representation, and then by won
derful machinery could turn them
round with all their audiences in them,
making the two auditoriums one amphi
theater, to witness a gladitorial contest,
and Vespasian could construct the Col
iseum with its 80 columns, and its tri
umphs in throe orders of Greek archi
tecture, and a capacity to hold 87,000
people seated and 15,000 standing, and
all for purposes of cruelty and sin, can
not our glorious Christianity rear in
honor of our glorious Christ a structure
large enough to hold 50,000 of its wor
shipers?
If wo go groping now among tlj.
mined amphitheaters of Verona anu
Pompeii -*md Capua and Puzzuoli and
Tarraco, and then stand transfixed witl.
amazement at their immense sweep thr 1
held from 50,000 to 100,000 spectator
gathered for carousal aud moral degra
dation, could not Christianity afford
one architectural achievement that
would hold and enthrall its 50,000
Christian disciples? Do you say no
human voice could be heard throughout
such a building? Ah! then you were
not present when at the Boston peace
jubilee Parepa easily with her voice en
chanted 50,000 auditors.
And the time is near at hand when in
theological seminaries, where our young
men are being trained for the ministry,
the voice will he developed, and instead
of the mumbling ministers, who speak
with so low a tone you cannot hear unless
you lean forward and hold your hand
behind your ear, and then are able to
guess the general drift of the subject and
decide quite well whether it is about
Moses or Paul or some one else—instead
of that you will have coming from the
theological seminaries all over the land
young ministers with voice enough to
command the attention of an audience
of 50,000 people. That is the reason that
the Lord gives us two lungs instead of
one. It is the Divine way of saying
physiologically, “Be heard!”
That is the reason that the New Tes
tament in beginning the account of
Christ’s sermon on the mount describes
our Lord’s plain articulation and re
sound of utterance by saying, “He open
ed his mouth.” In that mighty concert
hall and preaching place which I sug-
jjplishing of it being taken by an infan
tile foot one winter’s night about five
Let sculpture turn that place into an
other Acropolis, but more glorious by as
much ns our Christ is stronger than their
Hercules, aud has more to do with tlio
Bea than their Neptune, and raisesgreat-
er harvests than their Ceres, and rouses
more music in the heart of the world
than their Apollo. “The gods of the
heathen aro nothing hut dumb idols, but
our Lord made the heavens.” In marble
pure ns snow celebrate him who came
to make ns "whiter than snow.” Lot
the chisel as well as pencil and pen be
put down at the feet of Jesus.
Yea, let painting do its best. The for
eign galleries will loan for such a jubilee
their Madonnas, their Angelos, their
Rubens, their Raphaels, their “Christ
at the Jordan,” or “Christ at the Last
Supper,” or “Christ Coming to Judg
ment,” or “Christ on the Throne of Uni
versal Dominion,” and our own Morans
will put their pencils into the nineteen
hundredth anniversary, and our Bier-
stadts from sketching “The Domes of the
Yosemite” will come to present the
domes of the world conquered for Im
manuel.
Added to all this I would have a floral
decoration on a scalo never equaled. The
fields aud open gardens could not fur
nish it, for it will be winter, and that
season appropriately chosen, for it was
into the frosts and desolations of winter
that Christ immigrated when he came
to our world. But while the fields will,
bo bare, the conservatories and hot
houses within 200 miles would gladly
keep the sacred coliseum radiant and
aromatic during all the convocations.
Added to all let there be banquets,
not like the drunken bout at the Metro
politan Opera House, New York, cele
brating the centennial of Washington’s
inauguration, where the rivers of wine
drowned the sobriety of so many sen
ators and governors and generals, but a
banquet for the poor, the feeding of
scores of thousands of people of a world
in which the majority of the inhabitants
have never yet had' enough to eat, not
a banquet at which a few favored men
and women of social or political fortune
shall sit, but such a banquet as Christ
ordered when he told his servants to “go
out into the highways and hedges and
compel them to come in.” Let the may
ors of cities and the governors of states
and the president of the United States
proclaim a whole week of legal holiday—
at least from Christmas day to New
Year’s day.
Added to this let there bo at that in
ternational moral and religious exposi
tion a mammoth distribution of sacred
literature. Let the leading ministers of
religion from England, Scotland, Ire
land, France, Germany and the world
take the pulpits of all these cities and
tell what they know of him whose birth
we celebrate. At those convocations let
vast sums of money be raised for
churches, for asylums, for schools, for
colleges, all of which institutions were
born in the heart of Christ. On that
day and in that season when Christ gave
himself to the world let the world give
itself to him.
Why do I propose America as the coun
try for this convocation? Because most
other lands have a state religion, and
while all forms of religion may he toler
ated in many lands America is the only
country on earth where all evangelical
denominations stand on an even footing,
and all would have equal hearing in such
an international exposition. Why do I
select this cluster of seacoast cities?
Answer—By that time—Dec. 25, 1900—
these four citif3 of New York, Brook
lyn, Jersey City and Hoboken, by
bridges and tunnels, will ho practically
one and with an aggregate population
of about 6,000,000. Consequently no
other part of America will have such
immensity of population.
Why do I now make this nomination
of time and place? Answer—Because
such a stupendous movement cannot he
extemporized. It will take seven years
to get ready for such an overtowering
celebration, and the work ought to begin
speedily in churches, in colleges, in leg
islatures, in congresses, in parliaments,
in all styles of national assemblages, and
we have no time to lose. It would take
three years to make a programme wor
thy of such a coming together.
Why do I take it upon myself to make
such a nomination of time and place?
Answer—Because it so happens that in
the mysterious providence of God, horn
in a farmhouse and of no royal or prince
ly descent, the doors of communicatioii
gest for this nineteen hundredth anni- are open to me every week by the sqc-
jfcniles from Jerusalem, when the clouds
■dropped the angelic cantata, “Glory to
■God in the highest, and on earth peace,
[good will to men.”
The three or four questions that would
fee asked me concerning this nomination
■pf time and place 1 proceed to answer.
'What practical use would come of such
I nternational celebration? Answer—The
ffggest stride the world ever took to-
Jtvard the evangelization of all nations,
fjhat is a grand and wonderful convoca
tion, the religious congress at Chicago.
3t will put intelligently before the world
tithe nature of false religions which have
toeen brutalizing tho nation?, 'tramping
.“ivertrc.nL’O'od into i>hs dust, enacting the
' horrors of infanticide, kindling funeral
tpyres for shrieking victims, and rolling
•juggernauts across the mangled bodies
■of their worshipers.
1 But.no one supposes that any one will
fee converted to Christ by hearing Con
fucianism or Buddhism or any form of
heathenism eulogized. That is to be
versary let music crown our Lord.
Bring all the orchestras, all tho orato
rios, all tho Philharmonic and Handel
and Haydn societies.
Then give us Haydn’s oratorio of the
“Creation,” for our Lord took part in
universe building and “without him,’
says John, “was not anything made that
was made,” and Handel’s ’’Messiah” and
Beethoven’s “Symphonies” and Mendels
sohn’s “Elijah,” the prophet that typi
fied our Christ and the grandest compo
sitions of German and English and
American masters, living or dead. All
instruments that can hum or roll or
whisper or harp or flute or clap - or
.trumpet or thunder the praises of tho
Lord joined to all voices that can chant
or warble or precentor multitudinous
worshipers. What an arousing when
50,000 join in “.Antioch” or “Coronation”
or “Ariel,” rising into halleluiah or sub
siding into an almost supernatural amen!
Yea, let sculpture stand on pedestals
all around that building—the forms of
apostle3 and martyrs, men and women,
ular and religious printing/presses and
have been open to im.-every week for
many years, with, All the cities and
towns and neighborhoods of Christen
dom, and' indeed in lands outside of
Christendom, where printing presses
have been established, and I feel that if
there is anything worthy in this proposi
tion it will he heeded and adopted. On
the other hand, if it be too sanguine, or
too hopeful, or too impractical, I am sure
it will do no harm that I have expressed
my wish for such an international jubi
lee, celebrative of the birth of our Im
manuel,
My friends, such a birthday celebra
tion at the closo of one century and
reaching into a new century would ho
something in which heaven and earth
could join. It would not only he inter
national, but interplanetary, interstel
lar, interconstellation. If yon remem
ber what occurred on the first Christmas
night, you know that it was not a joy
confined to our world. Tho choir above
Bethlehem was imported from another
world, and when tlio star left its usual
sphere to designate tlio birthplace all
astronomy felt the thrill. If tlioro he
anything true about our religion, it is
that other worlds aro sympathetic with
this world and in communication with
it. Tho glorified of heaven would join
in such a celobvation. The generations
that toiled to have the world for Christ
would take part in such jubilation and
prolonged assemblage.
The upper galleries of God’s universe
would applaud the scono, whether wo
heard the clap of their wings aud the
shout of their voices or did not hear
them. Prophets who predicted the Mes
siah, and apostles who talked with him,
and martyrs who died for him would
take part in the scone, though to our
poor eyesight they might bo invisible.
Tho old missionaries who died in the
malarial swamps of Africa, or wero
struck down by Egyptian typhus, or
wero butchered at Lucknow, or wero
slain by Bornesian cannibals would come
down from their thrones to rejoice that
at last Christ had been heard of, and so
speedily in all nations. At tlio first roll
of tho first overture of tho first day of
that meeting all heaven would cry:
“Hear! Hear!”
Ayol Aye! I think myself such a vast
procedure as that might hasten our
Lord’s coming, and that tho expectation
of many millions of Christians who be-
lieve in the second advent might he
realized then at that conjunction of tho
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I
do not say it would be, yet who knows
but that our blessed and adored Master,
pleased with such a plan of world-wide
observance, might say concerning this
wandering and rebellious planet, “That
world at last shows a disposition to ap
preciate what I have done for it, aud
witli one wave of my scarred hand I will
bless and reclaim and save it.”
That such a celebration of our Lord’s
birth, kept up for days and months,
would please all the good of earth and
mightily speed on tho gospel chariot
and pl&ase all the heavens, saintly,
cherubic, seraphic, archangelio and^.di
vine, is beyond question. Oh. got ready
for tho world’s greatest festivity! Tune
your voices for tho world’s greatest an
them. Lift the arches for the world’s
mightiest procession. Let the advancing
standard of the army of years, which
has inscribed on one sido of it ”1900'’
and on tho other side “1901,” have also
inscribed on it the most charming name
of all the universe—the name of Jesus.
Whether this suggestion of a world’s
celebration of the nativity be taken or
not, it lias allowed mo an opportunity in
a somewhat unusual way of expressing
my love for tho great central character
of all time and all eternity. He is the
infinite nonesuch. The armies of heaven
drop on their knees before him. After
Bourdaloue, before overwhelmed au
diences, has preached him, and Milton
in immortal blank verse has sung him,
and Michael Angelo has glorified tho ceil
ing of the Vatican with his second com-
irlg, and martyrs while girdled and
canopied with the flames of the stako
have with burning lips kissed his mem
ory, and in the “hundred and forty and
four thousand” of heaven with feet on
seas of glass intersliot with sunrise, have
with uplifted and downswung baton,
aud sounding cornets, and waving ban
ners, and heaven capturing doxologies
celebrated him, the story of his loveli
ness, and his might, and his beauty, and
his grandeur, and his grace, and his in
tercession, and his sacrifice, and of his
birth, and his death will remain untold.
Be his name on our lips while we live,
and when we die after we have spoken
farewell to father and mother and wife,
and child let u§ speak that name which
is the lullaby of earth and the transport
of heaven.
Before the crossing of time on tho
midnight between Dec. 31, 1900, and tho
1st of January, 1001, many of us will ho
gone. Some of you will hear the clock
strike 13 of one century and an hour
after it hear it strike 1 of another cen
tury, but many of you will not that
midnight hear either the stroke of tho
old city clock or of the old timepiece in
tho hallway of the homestead. Seven
years cut a wide swath through the
churches and communities and nations.
But those who cross from world to
world before Old Time in this world
crosses that midnight from century to
century will talk among the thrones of
the coming earthly jubilee, and on the
river hank and in the house of many
mansions, until all heaven will know of
the coming of that celebration, that will
fill the earthly nations with joy and
help augment the nations of heaven.
But whether here or there we will take
part in the music and the banqueting if
wo have made the Lord our portion.
Oh, how I would like to stand at my
front door some morning or noon or
night and see the sky part and the blessed
Lord descend in person, not as he will
come in the last judgment, with fire and
hail and earthquake, but in sweet ten
derness to pardon all sin, and heal all
wounds, and wipe away all tears, and
feed all hunger, and right all wrongs,
and illumine all darkness, and break all
bondage, and harmonize all discords.
Some think he will thus come, hut about
that coming I make no prophecy, for I
am not enough learned in the Scriptures,
as some of my friends are, to announce
a very positive opinion.
But this I do know, that it would be
well for us to have an international and
an interworld celebration of the anni
versary of his birthday about the time of
the birth of the new century, and that it
will he wise beyond all others’ wisdom
for us to take him as our present and
everlasting coadjutor, and if that dar
ling of earth and heaven will only accept
yon and me after all our lifetime of nn-
worthiness and sin we can never pay
him what we owe, though through all
the eternity to come we had every hour
a new song and every moment a new
ascription of homage and praise, for you
see we wero far out apiong tho lo3t sheep
that tho gospel hymn so pathetically de
scribes:
Out in tho (Insert ho heard its cry.
Sick and helpless and ready to die.
But all through tho mountains, thunder
riven,
And up from the rocky steep.
There rises a cry to tho dale of heaven,
“Rejoice, 1 iiavc found my sheepl”
Aud the ao jiffs coho round tho throne,
“Rejoice, for tho Lord brings back his own!”
ODDS AND ENDS
Nervous Prostration
Only one person in 1,000 dic3 of old age.
Uncle Sam pnys $90,001,000 a year in
salaries.
Tho largest cave is the Mammoth cave
of Kentucky.
The shark cannot seize his prey with
out turning on his back.
Showers of fish have repeatedly fallen
in various quarters of the world.
England lias lost 15 ships and 2,352 offi
cers and men in tho last 30 years.
Carpets should he shaken on a clear,
sunny day when there is no wind.
Tho greatest heroes are not known,
for their heroism is in being silent.
Tho average duration of the reigns of
English sovereigns has been 23} years.
A thermometer has been invented in
London for giving tho warning of a fire.
Roger Ascliam, tho author of famous
educational works, was tho sou of a foot-*
man.
In Borneo thero grows an insect eat
ing flower which has tho smell of car
rion.
The pulsation of an infant is from 130
to 140 beats a minute; of an old man, 75
to 80.
A single polypus has been cut into 124
parts, aud each in time became a perfect
animal.
Matches for striking a light were in
vented in 1839 —the other kind by Adam
and Eve.
The character of a bravo and resolute
mau is not to be ruffled with adversity.
—Cicero.
A speck of gold weighing the millionth
part of a grain may he easily seen by the
naked eye.
Both Scotch and Irish linens aro in
high vogue. The former are somewhat
coarser in texture.
The oldest railroad in Franco runs be
tween Paris and Havre. It was built
more than half a century ago.
The earlier you definitely settle what
you intend to be, the sooner you will
reach the goal of your ambition.
At the equator v, ator is always a liq
uid; in the polar regions much of it is
continually solid—difference of temper
ature.
The Wyoming house of representa
tives has declared that under woman’s
suffrage the jails of the state are almost
empty.
Concentrate your full efforts upon
making for yourself a noble record
which you may look back to with pride
later on in life.
A shingle was removed last October
from the roof of the Congregational
church at Farmington, Conn,, where it
had been since 1771.
During an attack of measles or scarlet
fever ear complications should bo guard
ed against by cleanliness of the nose and
throat. If the ears discharge, they
should receive treatment aiming at clean
liness of the aural canal.
Years of Suffering Ended
” I broke down In health, lost my appetite,
had a bad cough, and sullored from n«rv«n»
proatrntion. I read of Hood’s Sarsaparilla and
sent for a bottle of tho medicine. After using It
three days my nerves became quieted and 1
HoodVy>Cures
regained an appetite. In a short time I was
able to walk, and boforo taking two bottlos was
attending to my household duties. I am now
In better health than for years.” Mas. Emma
IHjbs, Itoepsvillo, N. C. Get HOOD’S
Hood’s Pills act oaslly, yet promptly and
efficiently, on the liver and bowels. 25o, 1
iusldo, outside, and all the way through,
by drinking ,
IRES’ W
Tills greatTomporance drink;
Is as healthful, as it is pleasant. Try it
LADIES
Needing a tonic, or children who want build,
ing up, should take
BROWN’S IRON BITTERS.
It is pleasant; cures Malaria, Indigestion,
Biliousness, Liver Complaints aud Neuralgia.
A Beautiful Stylish Shoe
for Ladies.
Longing For Royalty*
First Freeman (laying down a news
paper)—It has been said that every
American is a king by birthright;
hut, after all, there’s nothing like be
ing horn to a genuine throne.
Second Freeman—What have y T ou
discovered?
First Freeman—The paper says
that Emperor William has ordered
the court chaplains to cut down their
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If Women Proposed.
Charles—What would be the re
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to propose instead of men?
Laura—There would be fewer en
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it retains its stylish shape when other shoes give
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A LONG TRAIN
—of diseases follows
bad blood and inac
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liver sluggish; pim
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headed.
We want to teach
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Begin in time. Plenty
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enriches and purifies
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the liver active. - As
the germs of disease
enter the circulatory
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blood. In those scrof
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is a town in Uruanay, South Amorlc-ion the
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ri
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