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DR. TALM AGE’S SERMON The 'Eminent Divine’s Sunday Discourse. f je Subject! "Seir-SUughler"—A Terrible Denunciation of Sulelde— Aaaan.lnatlon of Other* a Mild Crime Compared With A**a**lnatlon of Yourself. Tixt: "Do thyself nc harm.”—Aota 10: 28. Here Is a would-be suicide arrested In his dendly attempt. He was a sheriff, and according to the Roman law, a bailiff him self must suffer the punishment due an es caped prisoner; and If tho prisoner break ing jail was sentenced to be endungeoued for three or four years, then the sheriff must be endungeousd for three or four years, and If the prisoner breaktngjall was to hnve suffered oapttal punishment, then the sheriff must suffer capital punishment. The sheriff had received espeolal ehnrgo to keep a sharp lookout for Paul and Silas The government had not much oonfldence In bolts and bars to keep safe these two clergymen, about whom there soemod to be something strange and supernatural. Sure enough, by miraculous power, they are free, and the sheriff, waking out of a sound sleep, and supposing these ministers have run away, and knowing that they were to die for preaching Christ, and real izing thnt he must therefore die, rather than go under the executioner’s axe on the morrow and suffer publlo disgrace, resolves to preclpltnto hlsown decease. But before the sharp, keen, glittering dagger of the sheriff could strike his hon/t, ono of tho un loosened prisoners arrests tho blade by the command, "Do thyself no harm ” In olden times, and where Christianity had not Interfered with It, suicide was considered honoruble and a sign of cour age. Demosthenes poisoned himself when told that Alexander's ambassador had de manded tho surrender of tho Athenian orator. Isocrates killed himself rathor thnn surrender to Philip of Macedon. Cato, rnther thnn submit to Julius Cmsnr, took his own life, and throe times after his wounds had been dressed, torn thorn opon and porlshod. Mlthridates killed hlmsglf, rather than submit to Pompoy, tho con queror. Hannibal destroyed his life by poison from his ring, considering life un bearable. Lyourgus a suicide, Brutus a suicide. After the disaster of Moscow Napoleon always carried with him a prep aration of poison, and ono night his servant heard the ex-emperor arise, put something in a glass and drink it, and soon after tho groans aroused all the at tendants, and It wus only through utmost medical skill that ho was resuscitated. Times have changed, yet the American conscience needs to be toned up on the subject of suicide. Have you seen apnper In the last month thnt did not announce the B sssago out of life by ono's own behest? efaulters, alarmed nt the Idea of exposure, quit life preclpltntely. Men losing large fortunes go out of the world becauso they cannot endure oarthly existence. Frus trated affection, domestic infollolty, dys peptic Impntlonoe, nnger, remorse, envy, jealousy, destitution, misanthropy, are considered sufficient causes for abscond ing from this life by Purls groen, by luudn- num, by belladonna, by Othello's dagger, by halter, by leap from the abutment of a bridge, by tlrearms. More cases of felo de se In the last two years than In any two years of the world’s existence, and more in tho last month thnn In any twelve months. Tho evil Is more aud more spread ing. A pulpit not long ago expressed some doubt as to whether there was really any thing wrong about quitting this life when It became disagreeable, and there are found In respectable circles people apolo getic for the crime whioh Paul in the text arrested. I shall show you before I get through that sulolde Is the worst of nil crimes, and I shall lift n warning unmls taknble. But in the early purt of this, ser mon I wish to admit that some of tho best Christians that have ever lived have com mitted self-destruetion, but alwuya in de mentia, and not responsible. I have no more doubt about their eternal fellotty than I have of the Christian who dies in his bod in the delirium of typhoid fever. While the shock of the catastrophe is very great. I charge ail those who have had Christian friends uoder cerebral aberrntlbn step off the boundaries of this life, to hnvo no doubt about their happlnoss, The dear Ldrd took them right out of their dazed and frenzied state Into perfect safety. How Christ feels towards the Insane you may know from the way He treated tho de- roonlno of Qadara and tho ohlld lunatic, and the potenoy with which He husked tempests either of sen or brain. Scotland, the land prolific of intellectual S lants, badnonegranderthan Hugh Miller. rest for sclenoe and grant for God. He was an elder tg St, John’s Presbyterian Church. He came of the best Highland blood, and was a descendant of Donald Boy, a man eminent for piety and the rare gift of second sight. His attainments, ollmblng up ns he did from the quarry and the wall of the stone mason, drew forth the astonished admiration of Bucklnndnnd Murchison, the scientists, and Dr. Chal mers, the theologian, and held universities spellbound while he told them the story of what he had seen of God in “Tho Old Bed Sandstone.” That, man did more than any other being that ever lived to show thnt the God of the hills is the God of the Bible, and he stuck his tuning-fork on the rocks of Cromarty until ho brought geology and theology accordant In dlvlno worship. His two books, entitled "Footprints of the Creator” nnd “The Testimony of the Rocks,” proclaimed the banns of nn ever lasting marriage between genuine solence and revelation. On this latter book he tolled day and night,through love of nature and love of God, until ho could not sleep and his brain gave way, nnd he was found dead with n revolver by his side, the cruel Instrument haring had two bullets—one for him and the other for the gunsmith who at the coroner’s inquest was .examin ing it nnd fell dead. Hnve you any doubt of the beatification of Hugh Miller after his hot brain had ceasod throbbing that winter night in his study at Portobello? Among the mightiest of earth, among the mightiest of heaven. No one doubted the piety of William Cow per, the author of tnosethree great hymns “Oh, For a Closer Walk With God,’ “What Various Hindrances We Meet,' "There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood’’— Wllllnm Cowper, who shares with Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley the chief honors of Christian kymnology. In hypochon dria he resolved to take his own life, and rode to the River Thnmes, but found a man seated on some goods at that very point from which he expected to spring, and rode back to bis home, and thnt night threw himself upon his own knife, but the blade broke; nnd then he hanged himself to the celling, but the rope broke. While we make this merciful and right eous allownnceln regard to those who were plunged into mental Incoherence, I declare that the man wqo, in the use of his roason, by his own act, inaps the bond betw&n his body and bis soul, goes straight Into perdi tlon. Shall I prove It? Itevelatlon'21,8— "Murderers sbgll have their part In the lake which burneth with fire and brim stone.” Revelation QJ, 18—“Without are dogs nnd sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers.” You do not believe the New Testament? Then, perhaps, you be lieve the Ten Commandments: "Thou shalt not kill.” - Do you say that all these passages refer to the taking of the life of 'TV 1 W __t. .. ° . . _ i. - com It Is trea.tmry to an especial trust; It Is the surrendlr of a eastle you were es pecially appol.led to keep; It ts treason to a natural law, tad It Is treason to God add" ed to ordinary murder. To show how God of the Bible looked upon this crime, I point you to the rogues’ picture gallery In some parts of the Bible, the pictures of the people who have com mitted this unnatural crime. Here Is the headless trunk of Saul on the walls of Bath- shan. Here Is the man who chased little David—ten feet an stature chasing four. Here Is the man Who consulted a olnlrvoy- ant, Witch of Endkr. Here la a man who, whippod la bnttlellnstcnd of surrendering his sword with dignity, ns many a man has done, asks his servant to slay him, and when that servant |ocllned, then the giant plants the hilt of he sword In the earth, the sharp point sulking upward, and he throws his body onlt and expires—the cow ard, the suicide! (Here Is Ahitophel, tho MachlaveNI of olden tlmos, betraying his best fitend, David, in orderthat he may be come prime mlnlstiv of Absalom, and Join ing thnt fellow In-his attempt nt parricide. Not getting what he wanted by change of politics, ho takes a short cut out of a dis graceful life Into the suicide’s eternity. Thera be Is, the lngratol Here Is Ablmolecu, prntlcnlly a sulolde. He is with on army, bombarding a tower, when a woman in tho tower takes a grind stone from Its place and drops It upon his bond, and with what life he lias left In his crooked skull he commands his armor- bearer: “Draw thy sword and slny me, lost men sny a woman slew me." There Is his post-mortem photograph In the Book of Bnmuel. But the hero of this group Is Judas Iscariot. Dr. Donne says ho was n mar tyr, and we have in our day apologists for him. And what wonder, In this day when wo hnve a book revealing Anron Burr as a pnttern of vtrtuo, nnd In this day when we unoover a statue of George Sand ns the benefactress of literature, and In this day when there are betrayals of Christ on the partofsomoof His pretendod apostles—a botrnyal so black It makes the Infamy of Judas Iscariot whitol Yet this man by his band hung up for the execration of all agos, Judas Iscariot. All tho good men nnd women of the Bible left to God the decision of the earth! terminus, and they could have said wit Job, who had a right to commit suicide If any man over had, what with bis destroyed property and his body all aflame with In, sufferable oarbunoles, and everything goire from his homo except ths chief curse of It, a pestiferous wife and four garrulous poo ls petting him with oomlortless talk while e sits on a heap of ashes scratching his scabs with a piece of broken pottery, yet crying out In trliBnph: "All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my ohangc oomos.” —>■ Notwithstanding the Bible Is against this evil, and the aversion which It oroates by the’ loathsome and ghnstly spectacle of those who have hurled themselves out of life, nnd notwithstanding Christianity Is against it and the arguments and the use ful lives and the Illustrious deaths of Its disciples, It Is n fact alarmingly patent that suicide is on the Increase. What Is the cause? I charge upon Infidelity nnd ugnostlclsm this whole thing. If there be no hereafter, or If that hereafter be bliss ful without reference to how we live and how we die, why not move back the fold ing doors between this world and the next? And when our existence here be comes troublesome why not pass right over Into Elysium? Put this down among your most solemn reflections. Thoro has never been n case of suicide where the operator was not either demented, and therefore Irresponsible, or an InQ^pl. I challenge all the ages and I ehallonge the universe. There never Ijas been a case of self-destruction while In full appreciation of his immortality and of the faot that that Immortality would be glori ous or wretched according as he accepted Jesus Christ or rejected Him. You sny It 18 n business trouble, or you say It Is eleotrlcnl currents, ordt Is this, or It Is that, or It Is tho other thing. Why not go olonr baok, my friend, and acknowledge that In every case It Is the abdication of reason pr tho teaohlng of lnffdollty, which practically says: "If you don’t like this life get out of It, and you will land either In annihilation, where there are no noteB to pay, no persecutions to suffer, no gout to torment, or you will land where there will be everything glorious and nothlngsto pay for It." Infidelity has always been apologetic forsolf-lmmolation. After Tom Palno’s “Age of Reason” was published and widely read there-was a murked In crease of self-slaughter. A man In London heard Hr. Owen de liver his Infidel lecture on socialism, and went home, sat down, and wrote these Words: "Jesus Christ Is one of the weakest characters In history, and the Bible Is the greatest possible deception,” and then shot himself. David Hume wrote these Words: "It would be no crime tor mo to divert the Nile or the Danube from Its natural bed. Where, then, oAn be tbecrlme In my divert ing a few drops of blood from their ordin ary channel?" And having written the essay he loaned It to a friend, the friend read It, wrote a letter of thanks and admlr- atlon, and shot himself. Appendix to the same book. Rousseau, Volt alre, Gibbon, Montaigne, were apologetla for self-immolation. Infi delity puts up no bar to people rushing out from this world Into tho next. They teach us It does not make any difference bow you live here or go out of this world; you will land either In nn oblivious nowhere or a glorious somewhere. And Infidelity holds the upper end of the rope for the suicide, and alms the pistol with which a man blows his brains out, and mixes the stryoh- nlno for the last swnllow. If Infidelity could enrry the day and persundo the ma jority of people in this country that It does not make any difference how you go out of this world you will land safely, the Potomao would be ,so full of corpses tha boats would be Impeded In their progress, and the crack of the suicide’s pistol would be no more alarming thnn the rumble of a street car. I have sometimes heard It /discussed wHether the grent dramatist whs a Chrl^ ttan or not. Ha was n Christian. In his last will and testament he commends hi* soul to God through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Would God that the coroners would be brave In rendering the right verdict, nnd when In a case of irresponsibility they say: “While this man was demented he took his life;” In tho other case say: “Having read Infidel books and attended Infidel lectures, which obliterated from this man’s mind all appreciation of future retribution, ho com mltted self-Blaughter!” Have nothing to do with an infidelity so cruel, so debasing. Come out of that bad company Into the company of those who believe the Bible. Benjamin Franklin wrote: “Of this Jesus of Nazareth I have to say that the system of morals He left, and the religion He has given us are the best things the world bns ever seen or Is likely to see.” Patrick Henry, the electric champion of liberty, says: “The book worth all other books put together Is tho Bible.” Benjamin Rush, the leading phys iologist and anatomist of his day, the great medical scientist—what did he say? “The only true and perfect religion is Christiani ty.” Isaac Newton, the leading philoso pher of his time—what did he say? "The subllmest philosophy on earth Is the philos ophy of the Gospel.’’- David Brewster, at the pronunciation of whose name every scientist the world over bows his head— David Brewster, saying: “Oh, this religion has been a great light to me, u very great light all my days.” President Thiers, the great Frenoh statesman, acknowledging others? Then! ask you if you are not as .. „ responsible for your own life as for the life that he prayed when he said: “I Invoke of others? God gave you a special trust In the Lord God, in whom I am glad to bo- life, and made you the custodian of your | lleve.” David Livingstone, able to oon- llfe, and He made you the custodian of no quer tho lion, able to conquer the panther, other life. He gave you as weapons with nblo to conquer the savage, yet oonquerod which to defend it two arms to strike down , by this religion, so when they find him assailants, two eyes to watoh for Invasion, and a natural love of life which ought ever to be on the alkrt v Assassination of others is a mild crime compared with the assas sination of yourself, because In the latter dead they find him on hts knees. Salmon P, Chase, Chief Justice of the Su preme Court of the United States, appoint ed by President Lincoln, will take the wit ness stand. “Chief Jostloe Chase, please to state what you have to say about the book commonly called the Bible.” The witness replies: ‘‘There came a time In my life when I doubted the divinity of the Script ures, and I resolved as a lawyer and judge I would try the book as I would try every thing else in the eourt-room, taking evi dence (qr and against. It was a long and >us and profound study, and using tho I principles of evidence In this religious matter as I always do In eeoulnr matters, I have come to the decision thai the Bible Is pornatural book, that Ithatcomefrdm God, and that the only safety tor the human race Is to follow Its teachings.” "Judge, that will do. Go out baok again to your Allow of dust on the bsnks of the Ohio." loxt I put upon the witness stand a Presi dent of the United States—John Quincy Adams. "President AdnmB, what have you to sky about tho Bible nnd Chris tianity?" The President replies: "I have tor many years made It a practice to read through the Bible onoe n year. My cus tom is to read four or live ohaptors every morning immediately aftor rising from my bed. It employs about an hour of my time, and seems to me tho most suttnble nmnner of beginning tho day. In wlmt light so ever we regard tho Bible, whether with roferonee to revelation, to history or to morality, It Is an Invaluable and Inex haustible mine of knowledge nnd virtue.” "Chancellor Kent, what do you think of tho Bible?" Answer: "No other hook ever addressed Itself so authoritatively and so pathetically to the judgment and moral sense of mankind." "Edmund Burke, what do you think of the Bible?” Answer: "I have read the Bible morning, noon and night, and hnve ever since been the happier and the better man for such roadlng. 1 Young men of America, come out of the clrole of lnfldels—mostly made up of cranks and Inbeellee—Intfi the company of Intellectual giants, and turn your baok on nn Infidelity whioh destroys body and soul. Ah! Infidelity, stand up nnd take thy sentence) In the presence of God, angels and men, stand up, thou monstort Thy lip blnstedwlth blasphemy, theyahoek soarrml with uneleaunoss, thy brenth foul with the oorruptlon of the agesl Stand up. Satyr, filthy goat, buzzard of the nations, Inner of the centuries! Stand up, thou mouster, Infidelity. Part man, part panther, part reptile, part dragon, stand up nnd take thy sentence! Thy hands red with the blood In whioh thou hast washed, thy feet crimson with the human gore through whioh thou hast waded, stand up and take thy sentence! Down with thee to the pit, and sup on the sobs nnd groans ot those thou hast destroyed, and let thy muslo be the everlasting miserere of those whom thou hast damned! I hraud the forehead all the crlmos of solt-lm- t century on tho part ielr reason. My friends, if ever your life, through Its abrasions and Its molestations, should seem to be unbearable, and you are tempt ed to quit It by your own behest, do not oonstder yourself as worse than others. Christ Himself was tempted to oast Him self from the root of the Temple, but as He resisted, so resist yo. Christ came to modlolne all wounds. In your trouble I E resoribe life lnstoad ot death. ’ People who ave had It worse than you will ever hnve It, havogono songfully on their way. Re member that God keeps the ohronology of your life with as much precision as Ho keeps the ohronology ot nations, your grave as well as your cradle. Why was It that at midnight, Just at midnight, tho de stroying nngel struck the blow that sot the Israelites free from boudage? The four hundred nnd thirty years were up at twelve p’ojQCk tljftt night. The foijr hundred aud thirty years were not up at olbvbB, and one c’olook would have been tardy and too late. The four hundred and thirty years were jip nt twelve o’olook, and the de stroying nngel struck the blow, and Israel was tree. And God knows just the Hour when It 1} time to lead you up from earthly Dondnge. fly His grate make not tho worst of things, but best of thorn. If you must tnko the pills, do not chew them. Your everlasting reward will aooord with your earthly perturbnttonB, just ss. Calus gave to Agrlppa a chain of gold ns heavy as had been a chain of Iron. For the ask ing you may have the same grace that was glveu tho Italian martyr, Algerlus, who, down In the darkest of dungeons, dntod bis letters from "the delectable orolmrd of the Leonlno prison." And romembor that this brlof life Is surrounded by a rim, a very thin, but very Important rim, nnd close uf> to that rim is a grent oternity, and you had better keep out of It until God breaks that rim and sepnrates this from that. To got rid of the sorrows of onrth, do not rush Into greater sorrows. To get rid of a swnrm of summer lnsocts, leap not Into a jungle of Bengal tlgors. There Is n sorrowless world, nnd it Is so radiant thnt tho noonday sun Is only the lowest doorstep, and tho aurora that lights up our northern Heavens, confounding nstronomers ns to wlint It enu bo, ts tb6 waving of the banners of tho procossion come to take the conquerors home from churoh militant to enuroh triumphant, and you nnd I have ten thousand reasons for wanting to go there, but we will never got there either by self-immointlon or Impeni- tenoy. All our sins slnln by Christ who came to do thnt thing, we want to go in at Just the time divinely arranged, and from a couch divinely spread, and then the clang of tho sepulchral gntes behind us will be ovorpowered by tho clang of the opening of the solid pearl before us. O GodI Whatever others may choose, give me a Christian’s life, n Christian’s death, a Christian's burial, a Christian's Immor tality! TO RENEW THE LOBSTER SUPPLY. The Government’s Effort 4o Propagate Tills Kind of Sliellflsli. The United States Government Is making groat efforts, by scientific propagation, to restock tho coast waters ol Maine with lob sters. Tho United States Fish Commis sioners’ schooner Grampus, which has been ut work along the coast for several months, has collected 1750 seed lobsters from which 18,000,000 eggs have been obtained and hatched out nt Gloucester, Mass. Of these fry about 5,000,000 hnve been released In Casco liny ami the others aro to be dis tributed ut various plaacs from Portland eastward. The fry are very small, but through the thin and transparent shell can bo soon the perfectly formed lobster, with the eyes es pecially prominent. Constant chunges of wnter are necessary to keep them nlive. It Is likely that a lobster batebery will soon be established on the Maine coast, nnd be fore many yonrs these shellflsh will be us plentiful and cheap as ever they were. ANTISEPTIC SURCERY RESULTS. Gratifying Reports From the Burgeons of the Navy. Surgeon-General Van Reypen, of the United States, Navy has received a report from the Surgeons with the fleet, showing that in the many eases ot wounded, some of them serious, not a rise ot temperature or an accumulation of pus has appeared In any case. From a medical standpoint this Is said to be a marked advance from the conditions during the Civil War, and Is attributed to the Introduction of antlseptlo treatment ot wounds. It shows that no fever follows the wounds, and that with the absence ot pus the wounds heat rapidly without com plications. Considering the groat number of wounds to be trer;ed, now and hereafter, this U regarded as a most satisfactory showing not only In medical science, but In the alle viation of suffering. Brothers In Arms. In Battery L First Heavy Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteers, now at Fort Warren, Boston, from the shoe town ot Brockton, there arc live pairs of brothers, the Allens, Churchills, Foyes, Holmes and Uanhalls. The of the B. lnsvllle, i live n life . ease baffled® Is alive and w reoovery ns foi "About six "I weighed health began to fall food did not agree wu ' stone In my stomach. I bt. over until I thought I had "I hud pains and soreness . which extended elenr across also Into the region of my 1 these spoils a hard ridge wt the left side ot my stomai. IS <& HE physicians without receiving any he] Aaklt. fall or A sudden (ften tha causa of that ig of tha fibrous tissue •wn as sprain. Ths .an ils, ths vlctlmlxsd msm- 7 are the tedious hours [he careless dispenser of can be held accountable, several methods of treating <1 ankle, one of which ts I the leg from ankle to knee heelve plaster. The plaster is strips about an inch In width sufficient length to encircle the within half an Inch, the space left to Insure circulation. This ment can only be applied before leg begins to swell, therefore wlth- . .... , . very short time of the accident, ed. All last summer I wss so ner Till I 111) flV . . . the children laughing and playluF^** IIg^covery by means of the ordinary drove me wild. I suffered also Irom /eatment, that ot elevating the toot troubles and doctored with ten dip,. • ’Jnd having resource to hot applications “v$,mny tie greatly accelerated by scientific massage. By proper manipulation the swelling can bo reduced aud the pain lessoned In a very short time. If. how ever, the service of ono who thorough ly understands giving the treatment cannot be obtalnol, simple rubbing will often give relief. The rubbing must nlways be up, not down, and the hands of the operator as well as the wounded limb ehould be mado thor oughly antiseptic before any friction la applied, less tho socretlons of tho skin being rubbed Into the pores should bo reabsorbed and Inflammation Increased In the strained tissues.—New York Ledger. New Zealand Mutton. The story ot a Now Zealand sheep designed tor the 1-ondon market may be very briefly told. It is takon from the run of the slaughter house, killed, dressed and transferred to the cooling room. The skin and superfluous fat are retained; after ten hour's cooling the carcass goes Into tho refrigerating room for thirty-six hours. Thonce It goes to the storing room and when It has boon enveloped In |^s cotton "shirt” and lalilcd Is ready for Its Journey over sea. The steamers which bring the meat to us though the tropics have, of course, to be fitted with refrigerating appliances, and oyr sheep takes Its place among thousands of others, some of the boats being fit ted to carry as many as 70,000 carcass es at one time.—Good Words. «ll lief until I had tnkeu six boxen/ I am now taking the eleventh box nndr hnvo been greatly benefited. / "I was also troubled with nervous pros tration and numbness,ot my right nrm nnd baud so that at tiynus I oould hardly en dure the pnlq, but that has all passed away. I now, have a good appetite and am Have dot able to do m.’y own Work. < done more tills sumitier thnn In the past four years put togethor. Dr. Williams' Fink Fills for Pale People cured mo nnd I think It my duty tc let othor sufferers know It." Hundreds ot eqnnlly remarkable eases have been cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Cklasse. Officers. la the lost ten years, In which ths government has had to fight a great deal agalnBt the scarcity of money, It has decided to sell ti e offices to rich people, even If ^hey have not taken the slate examinations, if thty only pay the required amount. It le to be un derstood that these people will get back the money they pay for the office by usury Interest. And officers of this kind are unfavorable to all Innova tions, because they know that their offlceo and the. prospects of buying higher and more lucrative onR an gone os soon aa China Is opened to cul ture, as soon as relations are establish ed which resemble the European, If only In a slight measure. But ths other mandarins also know well that if another system Is established, peo ple will not have to depend for promo tion upon what is known about the old classics. They fear that tHen only people who have a modern' culture will be employed, and that those who are now in the olllcee will lose them. On this account the mandarine, es pecially in the provinces, are the de cided opponents of all Inventions and the deadly enemies of all foreigners. If the Emperor and his assistants should try to open up China to Euro pean culture, these mandarins would offer active resistance, for they would fear for the future of their children and relatives, and they would Incite the people against the foreigners—Ths Chautauquan. , <m , Amhltlo* tf as llllaois Tsr. Before Assistant Paymaster W. H. Doherty, U. 8. N., started for K8y West to Join his ship, he told the following Incident, which occurred at the Nor folk Navy Yard: A member of the IlllnolB naval militia passed an exam ination successfully and was appointed Assistant Paymaster in the volunteer service, a rank which in the regular service pays about |1,700 a year. The next day the Illinois man walked up to the commander of the ship to which he had been assigned and said: "8ay, what do I do?” The commander, overlooking the in formality of his address, said: “Why you make out tho pay rolls and pay oft the men." “Well, don’t I fight?” "Oh, no, you don’t fight." “Well, to thunder wlt-i this Job,” said ths Illinois man. ’I want to fight.” He was thereupon made a petty of ficer at about $30 a month with a chance of unlimited fighting, and he accepted the change Joyfully.—Now York Sun. l _ ■leant? la blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. I’asearcts, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im purities from the body. Begin to-duy to luuiish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarcts,—beauty for ten cents. All drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c,SOc. Lv«n * Co’s “Pick Leaf” Hniuklns Tobarcu stands at the top for Its delicious aroma. Good as can te made. Try it. Albert Burch, West Toledo, Ohio, says: “Hall’s Catarrh Cure waved my life." Write him for particulars. Hold by Druggists, *5o. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces liiflammu- tion, allays pain.cures wind colic. IHo. a bottle. Kdncate Your Rowels With Casrarets. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c, 25c. ifC.C. C. fall, drugglste refund money. The Honeysuckle. “The clover,” said the hummingbird, “Was fashioned for the bee; But ne’er a flower, as I have heard, Was ever made for me.” DID YOU KNOW THIS? At Rock Hill, 8. C., there Is • baggy factory covering riV* ACKK8 of groand, aul making more buggies than any three factories la tho South. “A Mltle Bigher la Price, But ” not too high—JUST A FRACTION AHOVK THE WESTERN TRASH-co that goo4 whaali. good paint good leather, Sc. can be uoad. See our ageoi In rear town or write oa. We’ll see that you get the beet at ilriog prtcee. ROCK HILL BUCCY CO., Rock HIII.S.C. \ Users. And 08-29 I ..Our mammoth seiieraP'eataL 10, the great Household < ‘ 1*. buys this M Desk, made “ of quarter- sawed cek or finished In ■ mahcguuy, fft piano- polished. It measurca 83 ■ In. high. 29 Jl In.wide,Pin. M beveied mlr- ^ Retail * . Jotue, educator Is rasll- rouueet. Our Clothing cata- nd Cloth samples Is llso mall- Cipreteaio paid on til Clothln|. K - -—frost tree on r lotue am m ed free. 1 I? . Owing to an ovorpro- t’AaPKTZ S dilution at our Baltl- SkUtlltD - more mills, wo are of- ferine many specials this month. Our Car pet oatulogun in hand- M " iialntod colors It youre tor tho asking, This month we sow Carpets, 9K furnish waddod lining ^ free, and par freight . S on all |9 Carpet pur- /r f chases and over. Ad• F ,if 3| dross (oxaoily as bolow) 'kJtJIariJff H ^JuliusHineg&Son I ^ Dept. SOI. BALTIMORE, Hit. I ************* DmI TobMM ftpu III 8a*k* Yo«r lift 1 n*j,~ To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mac* netlo. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To* Dae, the wonder* worker, that makes weak men ■troog. All druggists, 50o or 91. Cure guaran teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Bterlln* Remedy Ca, Chioego or New York It's bad form to drink too much win© nt dinner add it's bud taste In thn morning. Piso's Cur© is the medicine to break nn children's Coughs and Colds.—Mrs. M. G. Blunt, Hprague, Wash., March 9, 180|. Fits nermsnently cured. No (Its or nervous, ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. %‘J trial- bottle and treatise free. Dh. R. H. Kmnk, Ltd., Ml Arch St., Phila.. Pa. THE EXCELLENCE OF SYEUP OF FIGS is duo not only to tho originality and simplicity of tho combination, but also to the care and skill with whioh it Is manufactured by acleutiflc processes known to tho California Eio Syrup Co. only, and wo wish to impress upon all the importance of purchasing the true and original remedy. As the genuine Syrup of 1’lgs is manufactured by the California Fio Svnur Co. only, a knowledge of that fact will assist one in avoiding tho worthless imitations manufactured by other par ties. Tho high standing of the Cali fornia Fio Syrup Co. with the medi cal profession, and the satisfaction which the genuine Syrup of Figs has given to millions of families, makes the name of the Company a guaranty of tho excellence of its remedy. It is far in advanoe of all other laxatives, as it acts on tho kidneys, liver and bowels without irritating or weaken ing them, and it docs not gripe nor nauseate. In order to get its beneficial effects, please remember the name of the Company — CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FKANOISUO, CnL r.oriSVILl.F. K». NEW YORK. N. r. TAPE WORMS **A taps worm eighteen (Set long at leant osino on the scene after my taking two CASCAIH2TS. This I nn sure has caused my bid hoelth (or the put three years. I am still taking Cascarcts, the only oathartle worthy of noiloo by senslblo people." a so. IV. Bowles, Baird, Mass. CANDY I CATHARTIC ^ lyvvvwwvf nUOlMAMN M9HT1MP Pleasant, Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Da Good. Never tjlckon. Weaken, or Grip*, 10c. Ko.fiUw ... CURI CONSTIPATION. ... •I.'IIH SmmS, IWsh, lllw, SMnS, In Twt. Ml H0-T0-M0 sacttFBlKsaSS,TjU YELLOW FEVER PREVENTED TAKING ^ “Our Native Herbs” THE GREAT Bliii Piriflir, Kidisy ud Livsr Rsgilstsr. BOO DAYS' TREATMENT, SI .00. Oontntnlng a Registered Guarantee. By mall, postage paid, KX-nage Book' an4 Testimonials, FltEK. Hold only by Agent* for TIE ALONZO I. BLISS 00.,Wllhii(toi.D.O. Bevel-beer Chain less Bicycles MAKE HILL CLIMBING EASY. Columbia Chain Wheels, *78 Hartfords, . . 80 Vedettca, *40 A, CIN Repairs wfl ■ Mm siws. ribs. SAWS, RIBS, BKI8TLE TWINE, BABBIT, &o., FOR ANY MAKK OF GIN. ENGINES, BOILERS AND PRESSES And Repairs for same. Bhaftin*;, Pulleys, Belting, Injectors, Pipes, Valves and Fittings. LOMBARD IRON WORKS & SUPPLY CO., AUGDSTAs ga. NOT LIKE OTHERS. ST. ANDREW’S Gold Tea For the Liver Regulates tho Mvor. For si got free sample package ‘“UBKWH MrO. CO., e hydoalers. To end ritamp to Bristol, Term, To Women! After you have tried Doctors and all other preparations, and they have failed to relieve you, then use GERSTLE’S FEMALE PANACEA. (O. B>. F.I-— IT WILL CURE YOU. FOR 5ALE BY ALL DEALERS IN MEDICINES. L. GERSTLE & CO., Chattanooga, Tenn. Sole Manufacturer* and Proprietor*.