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KKV. m. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINES RUN
DAY RERMON
Knlijfrt: “The >ln h Ifomemml”
Text: ,% JStrnur; for thou nhatt surrly
ovrrtak* them, anil without fait rerovrr
alL u — I Kamuel, xxx.,
There it n?*tn* excitement In the Tiling*
of Ziklttg, I'avul nn I hi*, men are bUtilug
goofi-bye to i In* r fanuluK. and an* off for
the *nrK In that little* village of /iking the
defeiuiel< hi* ontw will l* naß* until tie war*
riot's. Humlhhl With victory, come home Hit
will the do emtelcsH on*** I** nafe? Tb# toft
anntnf children are around the neck* of the
bronxed wnrnoiH until they nlmka them
solves free an 1 start, and hand kerchief it
and flags an* waved and kisses thrown
until the armed 111 n \nnt*h teyoiid the
hilla David and his men *<>•> get
through with their campaign and start home
ward. K very night on their wav home, no
sooner does the soldier i*ut his bend on the
knapsack than in bit* dream he hsam the
welcome of the wife and the shout of the
child. Ob, what long atones they will have
to tell their families, ol how they dodged the
Imttle-fti and then will roll up their sleevo
and show the half healed wound. With glad,
quick fttep they march on. David and hit
men. for they are marching home. Now
they come up to the Inst hill
which overlooks Ziklag, and they expect
in a moment to a- the dwelling places of
thejr loved ones. They look, an ins they
look their cheeks turn pale, and their lip
quivers, and their hand in voluntarily comet
down on thr hilt of the sword. “Where is
Ziklag ? Where are our homes?” they cry.
Alas' the curling smoke at ove the ruin tells
the tragedy. The Amalekites have come
down and consumed the village, and carried
the mothers and the wives and the children
of David ami hit men into captivity. The
swarthy warriors stand for a lew moments
transfixed w ith horror. Then their eyes glance
at each other, and they hurst into uncon*
trolahle weeping: for when a strong war
rior weeps, the gr of is appalling- It seems
as if the emotion might tear him to pieces.
They “wept nntil they had no more power to
weep.*’ Hut soon their sorrow turns into
rage, and David, swinging his sword high in
the air, cries: “1 ursue, for thou shalt over
take them, and without fail recover
all.” Nov.- the march becomes a
“double-quick.'’ Two hundred of
Davids men stop by the brook
Besor, faint with fatigue and grief. They
cannot go a f-tep farther. They are left
there. Hut. the other four hundred men un
der David, with n sort of pani her step,march
on in sorrow and in rage. Th“y find by the
side of the road a half-dead Egyptian, ami
they resuscitate him, and compel him to tell
the whole story. He says: “Yonder they
•went, the captors and the captives,” pointing
in the dire tion. Forward, ye four hun
dred brave men <f lire! Very soon
David and his enraged company
come upon the Amalekitish host. Yonder
they see their own wives and children and
mothers, and under Araalekitish guard. Here
are the officers of the Amalekitish army ho d
ing a banquet. The cups are full, the music
is roused, the dance begins. The Amalekitish
host cheer and cheer and cheer over
their victory. But, without, note of Fugle
or warning of trumpet, 1 avid and his four
hundred men burst upon the scene, suddenly
as Robert Bruce hur ed his Scotchmen upon
the revelers at Bannockburn. David and
his men look up,and one glance at their loved
ones in captivity and under Amalekitish
guard throws them into a very fury of de
termination; for you know how men
wid fight when they fight for their
wives and children. Ah, there are
lightuings in their eye, and every fin er
is a spear, and their voice is like tho hout of
the whirlwind. Amidst tho upset tankards
and the costly viands crushed underfoot, the
wounded Amalekites lie (their blood ming
ling with their wine) shr eking for mercy.
No sooner do David and his men win the vic
tory than they throw their swords down
into the dust—what do they want with
■words now'—and the broken families
come together amidst a great shout of
joy that makes the parting scene in
Ziklag seem very insipid m the com
parison. The rough old warrior has to two
some persuasion before he can get his child
to come to him now after so long an absence;
but soon the little finger traces the familiar
wrinkle across the scarred face. And then
the empty tankards are set up. and they are
filled with the best wine from the hills, and
David and his men, the husbands, the wives,
the brothers, the sisters, drink to the over
throw of the Amalekites and to the rebuilding
of Ziklag. So,o Lord, let thine enemies per >li?
Now they are coming h me, David and bis
men and their families—a long procession.
Men, women and children, loaded with
jewels and robes and with all kinds of
trophies that the Amalekites had gathered
up in years of conquest —everything now in
the hands of Davi 1 and his rmn. When
they come by the brook Besor, the pla<-e
where staid the men sick and incompetent
to travel, the jewels and the robes
and all kinds of tieasures are divided
among the sick as well as among the well.
Kurely, the lame and exhau-ted ought to
have some of the tieasures. Here is a robe
for this pale laced warrior. Here is a pillow
for tms dying man. lien* is a handful of
gold for the wa-ted trumpeter. 1 redly
think that these men who fainted by the
brook Besor may have endured as much as
those men who went into l attle. Some mean
fellows objected to the sick ones having any
of the spoils. The objectors said: “These
men did no: fight ” David, with a magnani
mous heart, replies: “As his part s that
goeth down to the t attle, so shall his part be
that, tarrieth by the stuff.”
This subject is practically suggestive to
me. T hank God. in these tunes a man can
go off on a journey, and l>o gone weeks and
months, and come back and sec bis house un
touched of incendiary, and have his family j
on the step to greet him, if 4>y telegram he j
has foretold the moment of his coming. Hut j
there arc Amalekitish disasters, and there
are Amalekitish diseases, that sometimes
come down upon one's home, making as de- ;
vas tat in 4 work as the day when Ziklag took j
fire. There are families in my congregation j
whose homes have oeen broken up. No bat
tering-ram smote in the door, no iconoclast
crumbled the statues, no flame leaped amidst
the curtains; but so far as all the joy and
merriment that once belonged to that house i
are concerned, tho home has departed.
Armoa diseases came down upon the quiet- |
ness of the scene—scarlet fevers, or pleurisies, j
or consumptions, or undefined disorders '
came and seized upon some members of that
family, and carried them awuv. Ziklag in
ashes ! And you go about, s mietimes weep
ing and sometimes enraged, wanting to get
back your loved ones as much as David
and his men wanted to reconstruct their !
despoiled households. Ziklag in ashes! Koine
of you went off from home. You counted
the days of your absence. Every day seined
as long as a week. Oh, how glad you were
when the time came for you to go aboard the
steamboat or rail car and start for home!
You arrived. You went up the street where
your dwelling was, and in the night you put
your hand on the door bell, and, behold! it
was wrapped with the signal of bereavement,
and you found t!it Amalekitish Death,
which has devastated a thousand other
households, had"blasted yours. You go about
weeping amidst tho desolation of your once
happy home, thinking of the bright eyes
closed, and the noble hearts stopped, and the
gentle hands folded, and you weep until you
have no more power to weep. Ziklag in
ashes!
A gentleman went to a friend of mine In
the city of Washington, and asked that |
through him he might get a consulship to
some foreign port. My friend said to bun:
“What do you want to go away from your
beautiful home for, into a foreign port/”
“Ob,” he replied, “my home is gone! My six
children are dead! I must get away, sir.
1 can’t stand it in this country any longer.”
Ziklag in ashes!
Why these long shadows of bereavement
across this audience? Why is it that in al
most every assemblage black is the predomi
nant color of tho apparel? Is it liecause you do
not like saffron or brown or violet? Oh, no!
You say: “The world is not so bright to us
as it once wasand there is a story of silent
voices, and of still feet, and of loved ones
gone, and when you ook over the hills, ex
pecting only beauty and loveliness, you find
only devastation and woe. Ziklag iu ashes!
In Ulster County, New York, the village
church was decorated until the fragrance of
the llowers was almost bewildering. The
maidens of the village had emptied the
place of flowers upon one marriage
altar. One of their own number was
affianced to a minister of Christ, who had
come to take her to his home. With hands
joined, amidst a congratulatory audience,
the vows were taken. In three days from
that time one of those who stood at the altar
exchanged earth lor heaven. The wedding
march broke down into the funeral duge.
There were not enough flowers now for the
coffin lid, because they had all been taken for
the bridal hour. The dead minister of
Christ is brought to another village. He
had gone out from them less tuan a
week before in his strength; now he
comes home lifeless. The whole church
bewailed him. The solemn procession
moved around to look upon the still lace that
once had beamed with messages of salvation.
Little children were lifted up to look at him.
And some of those whom he had comforted
in days of sorrow, when they passed that
silent form, made the place dreadful with
their weeping. Another village emptied of
its flowers—some of them put in the sh tpo of
a cross to symbolize his hope, others put in
the shape of a crown to symbolize Ins tri
umph. A hundred lights blown out in one
strong gust from the open door of a sepul
cher. Ziklag in ashes!
1 preach this sermon to-day, because I '
want to rally you. as David rallied his men, ,
L for the recovery of the loved and the lost. I I
[ want not only to wiu heaven, but 1 want a’l
tin* congregation to go along wf'h uw. 1
I ft* 1 th and somehow 1 haw* a responsibility in
your arriving at that great city. 1 have on
{ oilier MihhatiiN used other induneqtonta I
me.ui, to day, tor th* Hike of variety, hoping
Pt n a li your heart, to try another
kindi I indin inent, Do you ready wain to
, join the comp titionship or your loved ones
* fcn ha\ e gone? Are you a* suxiou* to join
them as David and li* men were to join
their families Then lam here, in thHimme
<t Go I, to ‘aj r that you may, and to tall you
I how.
1 remark, in the first pla<*a. if yon want to
join your l<vl one*, in glory, you must, travel
the Name wav I her went. No sooner had the
hall - dead Egypt nn been resuscitated than lie
pointed the way Gift captors and the cantivos
! had gone, and David an I bin meu followed
altar. Bo our Christian frlandf
v into simmer country, and
if we wont to reach their companion
•lilp we must take the name road. They re
lent'd; we mu t rejient. They prayod; we
mint pray. Tm*v trusted in Christ we imint
trust m Christ They live Ia leligiotm life;
inixt l<ve a relig otift life They were in
oei.c t inga Ilka * urselven. I know now that
ihey are gone, there I* a halo around their
names; hut they had their faults. They said
and did thing • they ought never to have said
*r done. They were ftometimea reMlious,
sometimes cast down. 1 hey were far from
: Mug perfect. Ho 1 suppose that when wa
are gone, some things iri us that are now
[ only tolerable may le almost resplen lent.
Hut ns they were like us in deficiencies, we
ought, to le like them in taking a sut*ernal
Christ to make lip for the deficits. Had it
not l"Kill for Jesus, they would have all
perished; but Christ co-ifronted them, and
said: “I am the way,’ and they took it.
I have also to sav to you that the path that
tlc se oapt vos trod was u troubled path, and
that David and his men hod to go over the
same difficult way. While these captives
were b *ing taken off they said: “Oh. we are
l*o tired; we are no sick; we are so hungry!”
But the men who had charge of them said:
“Stop this crying. Goon ” David enl his
tnen also found it a hard way. They had to
travel it. (>ur friends have gone into glory,
and it is through much tribulation that we
are to enter into the kingdom. How our
loved ones used to have to struggle! how their
old hearts ached! how sometimes they had a
tussle for bread! In our childhood we
wondered why there were so many wrinkles
on their fa s. We did not know that what
wtre called “crow s feet” on their faces were
tho marks of the black raven of trouble.
Did you never hear the old people,
seated by tho e ening sand, talk
over their early trials, their hardship,
the accidents, the burials, the ilisap
pointm nts, the empty flour barrel when
there were so many hungry on s to feed, the
sickness almost unto death, where the next
dose of morphitio decided between ghastly
bereavement and an unbroken home circle?
Ob, yes ; it was trouble that whitened their
hair. It was trouble that shook the
cup in their hands. It was trouble
th it washed the lustre from thir eyes
with the rain of tears until they
needed sjiectades. It was trouble that
made the cane a necessity for their ioumev
Do vou never remember seeing your old
mother sitting, on some ra ny day, looking
out of the window, her elbow on the window
sill, her hand to h-*r brow—ookmg out, not
seeing the falling shower at ad (you well
knew that she was looking into the distant
past, until the apron came up to her eyes,
because the memory was too much for her#
“Oft the big, unbidden tear.
Mealin'/ down the furrowed cheek,
To and In eloquence sincere.
Tales of woe they could not apeak.
“But this scene of weeping o’er
I as; th s scene of toll and pain,
They shall feel distress no more,
Never, never weep ntrain."
“Who are these under the altar.”’ the ques
tion was asked; and the response came:
“These are they which came out of great
tribulation, and have washed their robes,
and made them white in the blood of the
I jamb.” Our friends went by a path of tears
into glory. Be not surprised if we have to
travel the same ; athwny.
1 remark, again, if we want to win the so
ciety <>! our triends in beaven, we will not
only have to tra el a path of faith and a
path of tribulation, but we will also have to
positively batt e for their companionship.
David and his men never wanted sharp swords
and invulnerable shields and thick breast
plates so much as they wanted t hem on the day
when they came down upon the Amalekites.
If they had lost tnat battle, they never
would have got their families l>ack. I sup
pose that one glince at their loved ones in
captivity hurled them into the battle with
ten-fold courage and energy. They said:
“We must win it. Every thing depends upon
it, l>et each one take a man ou point of s(-ear
or sword. We must win it.” And I have to
tell you tliat tietween us and coming into the
companionship of our loved ones who are
departed there is an Austerlitz, there is a
Gettysburg, there is a Waterloo. War with
the world, war with the flesh, war with the
devil. We have cither to conquer our troub
les, or our troubles will conquer us. Davi \
will either slav the Amalekites, or the
Amalekites will hlay David. And yet is not
the fort to lo taken worth ail the pain,
all the peril, all the besiegementf
Look! who are they on the bright
hills of heaven yonder? There they
are, those who sat at your own table, the
chair now vacant. There they ar*. those
w hom you ro ked in infancy in the cradle,
or hu-hed to sleep in your arms There they
are, those in whose life your life was hound
up. There they are, their brow more radiant
than ever before you saw It, their lips
waiting for the kiss of heavenly greeting,
their cheek roseate with the health of eternal
summer, their hands beckoning you up the
steep, their feet hounding with the mirth of
heaven. The pallor of their last sickness
gone out of their face, never more to lie sick,
never more to cough, never more to limp,
never more to lie old, never more to weep.
They are watching from those heights to see
if through Christ you can take that fort, and
whether you will rush in upon their.—victors.
They know that upon this battle depends
w bother you will ever join their society. Upi
strike hard r! Charge more bravely! Re
member that every inch you gain puts you
6o much further on toward that heavenly re
union.
“H this morning while I speak you could
near the cannonade of a foreign navy coming
through the Narrows, which was to despoil
our city, and if they really shoul I succeed in
carrying our families away from us, how
long would we take lefore we re olved to go
after them? Every weapon, whether fresh
troin Springfield or old ami rusty in the gar
iwt would te brought out: and we would
urge on, and, coming in front of the foe, we
would look at them, and then look at our
families, and the cry would be: “Yictory or
death 1” and when the amunition was
gone, we would take the captors on
the point of the bayonet or under the breech
of the gun. If you would make such a
struggle for the getting back of your earthly
friends, will you not make as much struggle
for the gaining of the eternal companionship
of your heavenly friends? Oh, yesl we must
join them. We must sit in their holy society.
We must sing with them the song. We
must celebrate with them the triumph. Ij©t
it never he told on earth or in heaven that
David and his men pushed out with braver
hearts for the getting back of their earthly
friends for a few years on earth than we to
get our departed!
You say that all this implies that our de
parted Christian friends are alive. Why .had
you any idea they were dead? They have
only mo vet!. If you should go on the Ud of
May to a house w here one of your friends
Jive 1, and fouud him gone, you would not
think that ho was dead. You would
inquire next door where he had moved
to. Our departed Christian friends
have only taken another house. The secret
is that they are richer now than they
once were, and can afford a I letter residence.
They once drank out of earthenware ; they
now drink from the King's chalice. “Joseph
is yet alive,” and Jacob will go up and see
him. Living, are they ? Why, if a man can
live in this damp, dark dungeon of earthly
captivity, can he not live where he breathes
the bracing atmosphere of the mountains of
heaven ? Oh, yes, they are living I
Do you think that Haul is so nsar dead
now as he was when he was living in the
Roman dungeon? Do you think that l*Yed
eri k Robertson, ot Brighton, is as near dead
now as he was when, year alter year, he
slept s* atod on the floor, his head on the
bottom of a chair, l*ecause he could find
ease in no other position? Do you think
that Robert Hall is as near dead now as
wnen, on his couch, he tossed in physical tor
tures? No. Death gave them the few black
drojis that cured them. That is all death
does to u Christian— cures him. 1 know that
what J have said implies that they are living.
There is no question about that. The only
question this morning is whether you will
ever join them.
But I must not forget those two hundred
men who fainted by the brook Besor. They
could not take another step farther. Their
feet were sore; their head uched; their en
tire nature was exhausted. Besides that,
they were broken-hearted liecause their
homes were gone. Ziklag in ashes! And yet
David, when he comes up to them, divides
the spoils among them. He says they shall
have some of the jewels, some of the robes,
some of the treasures. I look over this
audience this morning, and I find at least
two hundred who have faiuted by the brook
Besor—the brook of tears. You feel as
if you could not take another step farther,
as though you could never look up again.
But I am going to imitate David, and divide
among you some glorious trophies. Here is
a robe: "All things work together for good,
to those who love God.” V\ rup yourself in
that glorious promise. Here is for your neck
a string of pearls, made out of orystalized
tears: “Weeping may endure for a night,
but joy cometh in the morning.” Here is a
coronet: “Be thou faithful unto death, and
I will give thee a crown of life.” Oye faint
ing ones by the brook Besor, dip your blis
tered feet In the running stream of God s
1 mercy. Bathe your brow *t the wall* f na'
I vat ion ho >1 bo your wound)* with Dim bal*
'tn that exudui Trom treat uf life. Hod will
I n<>t utterly ca*t you oir ,0 broken-hearted
men, <> broken hearted women, fainting by
j th brook Iteeor
A eheplienl tin'te Hint Inn munioal |d|te in
( lirnlnoil. "Hu navn: "1 cen't ttut any morn
! mnam out of tlnn inetrumuiil: no 1 will Jnnt
| i,ruek It, amt I will throw Ihie ro*l uwuy.
! Thun I w ill tint another rued, en I 1 will piny
munio on that tint tbel nnyt Ho will not
rant you otr teM'Hune nil th mu*iu line
j (tone ’out of your no ill. "Tlr. I ruleed
[ rowl Hu will not break." An fer an
' t can toll thu iliniiuoaln of your dm-ii>o, you
wnnt Divine nurebiK.imil it I, prom -.,1 you
j "An one whom Ills motli'T (Oiiiforti'tll, no
will I comfort von." (lot will noe toil ell
the way through, O troubled noul, an I when
: you coffin down to tho Jordun of death, you
will Hud it to In. nt lliln n brook a Ik.-or for
I Dr. Koliinnon naynthat, In April lbor drive
up, nnd them in no brook el. ell. Anil iu
your lent moment you will be ns pin Id ne
the Kentucky mluintur who went up to
Uod, Keying, m the dying hour: "Write to
my nietor Kab\ end tell her not to I*> wor
ried and frightened about the atorv ot tho
horrorn around ttie death Imd. T- II hur
there la not a wont of truth in It, for 1 am
there now. and Jenun in with mo, Air! I llnd
it A very happy way; not buuauae I mil a
good man, for 1 am not; I am nothing hut a
floor, mineral)]# ninnor; hut i have en Al
mighty Saviour, and both of li e urine are
around me."
May Hint Almighty, through tho l.iood of
tho everlnnting covenant, bring un Into tha
eompan unship ot our love-1 onca who Imvo
a!readv entered the heavenly land, un<t m
tered the preoeuce of Chriat, whom, not hav
ing neon, wo love, and no David shall roeovur
a I, "and as hie pnrt is that goeth down to
the twttle. e i shall his part be that tarrieth
by the stuff. ”
Indian Languages.
Eacli group of Indian tribes lind a
languugo of ita own, varying iu dialoot
aoisirding ns the revernl tribes were scat
tered over a territory. In this respect
it resembled the iangimr'o of Great
lirituin and Germany in the time when
there was little communication betweeu
persons living at some distance from
each other. Tho language in no Indian
tribe was a jargon, as it has often been
represented to be. It was rich in verbs
and grammatical forms. It was very ex
pressive, dear and comprehensive. It
was readily learned and easily under
stood, The language of the Algonquin
group was the prevailing one and was
understood on most parts of the conti
nent. As spoken by the Ojigw. ys it
contained about 10,000 words. It has
been called the coast language of the
Indians lor the reason that some of the
most advanced of nearly every tribe
could speak it. In some boys were
sent to a tribe that spoke this language
in order to learn it. It was like the
French tongue in F.urope, the language
of diplomacy. The Sioux language was
more complex and more difficult to ac
quire, but stronger and mote copious.
One language was understood ou every
portion of the continent. It impressed
the organ of vision and not that of hear
ing. It was not expressed by sounds.
It was the language of signs. It was
very expressije. IJy means of ; t ideas
could lie communicated as far as the
eye could reach. One skilled in its use
could tell much in a very short time.
He could call a person to him who was
far beyond the sound of bis voioe. If
he could catch the eye of the person he
wanted, he oould communicate secrets
to him, while those aroun-1 him wo i! 1
be in entire ignorance of them. He
could give warning to a friend without
attracting the notice of others. A con
versation could be carried on in the s tra
language between two persons so f.r
apart that their voices could not be
beard. The sign language could be
used in love or war. It was not confin&l
to gestures or motions of trie person.
Every patt of the body touched or
pointed to had a signiti ante, ho did
the earth, wat r, sun, moon, stars and
sky. Actions, passions, emotions, love,
bate, as well as tangible things, were
expressed by the sign language. A
blanket, stick, hatchet, or string of
wampum o uld also be employed in the
language of sigDS. One or more fiivs
were employed fer conveying ir.te.li
gence long distances. An Indian ride r
could guide his pony so that all who
saw him could understan 1 whether he
had been successful in the chase or in
battle. No race of men laoking in in
tellect or deficient in inv n‘i'>ns co Id
Lave originated and improved the
language of signs and symbols as it was
employed by the aborigines of tins
country when they were discovered by
the Europeans. The construction of
this language was as great a monument
to human greatness as the formation of
an alphabet.—-From Elijah M. Haines’
•‘The American Indian.’’
GLIMPSES OF MECCA.
The City to Which Mahomet’s Fol
lowers Make Pilgrimages.
The town lies in a basin among steep
hills of from five hundred to seven hun
dred feet in height, and probably not
more than one thousand two hundred to
one thousand five hundred above the
sea. The whole of this valley—about
one mile and a half long by one third of
a mile across—is packed and crammed
with bui dings of al! shapes and sizi s,
placed in no kind of order, climbing far
up the steep sides of the surrounding
hills, with here and there an outlying
house on the summit of some rock,
looking as though crowded out and
wniting for a chance to squeeze into the
confusion below; a curious gray mass,
flat-topped, to a European eye roofless,
half plastered, for plaster in this climate
is always either being put on or well ad
vanced in coming off, but never to be
seen in its entirety. The walls of the
houses are composed of uncut stone
and rubble from three to six feet thick,
in very high buildings even thicker.
Cut stone is used on'y for the sils of
windows or jams and arches of door
ways, and very little brick is
employed anywhere. Notwithstand
ing the substantial thickness of
the walls, tottering ruins may be
found by the side of the most thronged
thoroughfares in every part of the city.
Many of the houses are of great height,
large and factory like, full of little win
dows. Seldom do two adjacent houses
face the same way or are the same
height. Nothing resembling a row or
street could by any stretch of imagina
tion he extricated trom such a chaos of
masonry. It is impossible, even from
an elevated point of view, to trace a
hundred yards of open space between
houses in any direction (many of the
passages are boarded over, which to a
certain extent conceals them), except on
the outskirts of the town, wlie.'e two or
three suburbs strangle off upon the less
inclined outlets from the valley, and
where the ground is not so thickly built
over, though with the Bume systematic
irregularity'. The rule seems to be that
no two things must be alike, nn Eastern
characteristic developed into a fixed law
of non-uniformity in everything about
Mecca, a town which, built as it is of
tho crumbling rock about, made to ad
here with thirty per cent, of coarse lime
together with the dusky crowds creep
ing in swarms about its dark lanes and
streets, if such mere tort,turns intricacies
can be called so, suggests the simile of
the giant and hill most strikingly, and
indeed it applies better than any other
description. There is a great sameness
about all this dotailed dissimilarity,
from the midst of which tho mosque
stands out most prominently, at once
fixing the attention, and indeed it Is tho
main feature of Mecca.
A New York Professor claims that
beauty is manufactured in the kitchen.
A good cook and plenty of good food
will make almost anybody handsome.
The constant chewing of hard food
strengthens the jaws and tho muscles of
the face. When people eat very little
they should exeroise their jaws by ehow
ing gum for half an hour aftUr each
meal.
AGRICULTURAL*
Tripirsor iNTFnKAT nn.itivf.
TO 1 A It.VI AND tj Alt lift A
To Muke a Cow Mother Two Fallen.
First put a blanket <an old gunny
nsi k will dot on her own calf for a
couple of days; then tnke her call away
at night nut of her bearing if convenient
nnd keep it away tint I morning: then
take tho tilankot off tho calf, mul while
waim put it on thu strange calf nnd give
the strange blanketed calf to tho cow;
after a night of liellow ing she will own it
lit noon as she tees the Idanket nnd gets one
until; the is satisfied that the has found
her own. After tho cow has had her
new enlf n few hours trot out her own
calf with no hlniiket on, ami it is sport
to see her smell litst one enlf then the
other. The old row Ims now marched
off proudly with her "twinn," taking
both without any regard to age, sire,
color or previous condition. - Asm IVi
Herald
Points fn Hotter Making.
In every 100 pounds of milk, besides
eighty six or e ghty seven pounds of
water, there are lour pounds of HUgar
and four pounds ot i tcesy matter in
which there are nn enormous number of
■mull round globule* which contain the
butter fat. buch n fluid is particiilariv
liable to lerment and decompose. Conse
quently the whole system of butter
making must be directed to keeping the
globules iu a state of the utmost p nty,
otherwise the butter will not be pure or
likely to keep. Cleanliness and pure
sir in the stales arc ind sncnsable, also
pure water and proper food.
Neither roots, linseed cake, cotton
cako or gran should bo given in too
large quantities to cows whose milk is to
be made into butter. The l unntity of
food supplied should be leguluted sonic
wlint by tlie quantity of milk received.
In other words, the cow that gave the
smallest quantity should not be fed as
liberally as the one that produced
cons derably more. The dai-y room
should be free ir- m the slightest smell.
Thu cows should I e kept comfortable
and not be annoyed by dogs or driven
rapidly, or forced to wa k long distances.
The utmost cleanliness in milking should
be ob erved. .-hallow pans were the
most common for setting, but in winter
deep setting was better. For large
quantities the mechanical aeparator pro
duced the best results. The process of
ripening the cream should stop short of
louring. Huttcr colored with carrots
could not lie expc ted to keep. From
forty to fifty revolutions per minute in
the churn aie enough. The buttermilk
should be run through a strainer, and
pure col l water poured into the churn.
The utter should he taken out with a
wooden scoop and not witlt the hands.
In working and salting the grain of the
butter should not be broken. — Seie Tvrk
World.
Beauties of Buck wheat.
There aie several arguments in favor
of buckwheat as a farm crop. The time
of tilling the ground and sowing, in late
June, ust between the hurry of p anting
and haying, is an interval of compara
tive leisure. Insects do not trouble
buckwheat, and so on land full of wire
worms or grubs this i- an excellent plant
n t on’.y to escape the ravages of these
de-trnctive tut to rid the soil of
them preiara ory to the raising of other
crop. In - .me parts of Michigan wire
worms are very destructive. I lost not
a little from itteir attack of my corn on
a low p;e< e. which I hai dra.ned. Upon
examination cf a similar piece intended
for corn next year I found it also full of
th-sr g:ubs of the elatc-r beetles 1 have
raised a goed crop of buckwheat on it,
which I expect wi 1 secure againstiujury
of my crop another year. Vany bee
keepers ob ect to planting especially for
bees, but a 1 favor -uch crops as alsike
clover ard buckwheat, for there are
valuable for other purpo-es. 'lhis sea
son has been the poo-est for honey ever
known in the i nited States, Canada
and urope. The early honey crop was
a failure. How fortunate the beekeeper
who se tired from buckwheat or other
fall honey plants enough honey at least
to winter his bees. Fast summer I
planted the Japanese buckwheat—half
the field early in June; the remainder
July 1. Both parts did equally well. I
had to pay * J a bushel for seed, but am
not sorry I did so. The size of berry
and prolificness of this variety are sur
prising. The bees also worked on the
dowers all day; usually they do not
work on buckwheat after noon; the
flowers do not seem to secrete nectar ex
cept early in the day. I expect the
buckwheat cakes from this variety will
be, at least, up to the standard. — Pro
feetor A. J. Cool', in .Vie York Tribune.
A Novel Implement.
It occurred to me last spring that a
steel rail would be an efficient implement
to spread manure, and I borrowed one
from the Canada Atlantic liailroad Com
pany with which to make the experi
ment. The manure, a large portion of it
night soil, had been deposited ou a four
acre field. I hitched two heavy teams to
the rail, about four feet from each end,
and started them, taking a sweep of
thirty feet each time. It worked admira
bly. The field was level, and after go
ing over it four times with the rail,
which was done more quickly than once
with a harrow, 1 had the satisfaction of
seeing the manure not ouiy evenly
Bpread, but well incorporated with the
surface.soil. In half a clay, with two
men and two teams, I had spread as
much manure as twenty men could have
done in the same time with forks and
shovels.
In the adjoining field I had dug a drain
several handled yards long and filled it
twenty inches deep with stone After
having coveied the stone with coarse lit
ter, it occurred to me that I could make
the horses fill in tho earth with the steel
rail. I placed a team on each side of the
ditch and had the rail drawn on an angle.
The clay was thrown in by the rad as
fast as the horses could walk, and iu an
hour I had covered as much drain as
would have have taken my whole force
a full day to do with shovels.
After harvesting my corn last fall (it
had been cultivated on the ridge system)
I decided that 1 would try to level the
ridges and root out the corn stubble be
fore plowing. The corn had grown so
strong that the stalks had to be cut with
a brush scythe, and the stubble was as
thick as stakes. A three horse team on
each end of the steel rail leveled the
ridges nicely and uprooted and scattered
the corn stubble so thoroughly that the
soil (a stiff, black clay loann plowed as
easily ns a summer fallow.
I tried the rail as a levclcr on a rough
field plowed out of grass, 1 found it too
heavy a job for four horses and worked
it with two three horse teams, drawing
the rail lengthwise with the furrows. I
hardly expected it to work well, but 1
was surprised at tho result. After
going over the ground twice with the
furrow and twice on an angle with the
furrow, the rail left the field as level as
a bill nt and table, and packed the sod so
firmly that it is now, three weeks after,
well rotted and will cross plow as easily
as stubble.
I kept a summer fallow free from
weeds, destroying a heavy crop of
thistles and couch grass during that
season with one plowing in June and
one in September. before I could turn
the plows into it in the spring the weeds
and grass had formed a heavy crop at
least fifteen inches high. They were
turned under by fastening a chain to the
plow beam. I harrowed the field with
an Acme harrow and then allowed it to
stand until the second crop of weeks be
gan to show up. It was then worked
with the steel rail two or three times
during the summer, and the young
weeds, tom up by the roots, fell back
over the rail and withered in a short
ffmo iu the hot sun. The result is*
thoroughly dean field with thi) least
possible ontliiy of time and labor.-*
R ural Nr* Yorker,
I arm and Gnnten Note*.
Add ground melt scraps to the poul
j tty feed.
The tint desideratum in winter is
warmth.
Warm feed promote* laying during
odd weiithcr.
The chicken pnrk should he under the
direction of the wife.
The "bronze” is tho favorite turkey
witli many who ruisc for market.
Cream not stirred enough is sometimes
the cause of white specks in butter.
Professor Cook tk nks it desirable to
roiuhiuo bee-keeping with some oilier
business.
Keep the pig out of the wet nnd give
it a chance to keep clenu by having a
board tloor in at least a part of the pen.
A hen of the largo breed should not
lay less than from 110 to 120 eggs, the
small breeds from ISO to 175; any that
lay less eggs than that should not be
kept.
If you are a breeder of thoroughbred
stock cull the fowls very closely. It
will not pay to winter disqualified birds.
There i more money with fewer birds
und higher prices.
Pro'- do a leathern bit for cold weather
or cover the iron bit smoothly with
common bridle leather and protect the
check pieces with the sa nc. It is cruel
to force a horse to take tho iron bit in
hard freezing weather.
The best butter cloth is parchment
paper. It is practically air, water and
grease proof nnd does not stick to the
butter. dVhen you wrap your butter in
parchment paper consumers cannot
speculate whether the butter cloths be
gan life as part of shirts or sheets.
No permanently successful attempts
nt poultry raising are recorded where
tho crowding of the fowls was practiced.
One hundred fowls to the acre seems tc
be the limit of safety with experience!)
poultry men. A wide range is absolutely
essential to the health and vigor of fowls
Discovered Russia's (ireat Seerel.
In one of the stores on Rroadwaj
lately I noticed some tine 1 ussia loathei
goods of various kinds, and was tempted
through curiosity to take a closer look at
them.
••Whyis it," 1 asked the proprietor,
“that the-e goods cannot be manufac
tured in this country as well as in Rus
sia f”
“Pleas your heart,” he said, “these
goods are made right here, in this coun
try, and neither r,ussia nor any other
place can make them any better. You
see, for a long while Russia enjoyed a
monopoly at this sort of work until a
Connecticut Yankee happened on the
scene and caught on, so to speak, to the
secret of its manufacture. This leather
was manufactured in a large factory situ
ated in one of the towns of Northern
Russia. The owners possessed some secret
about curing the leather which they
jealou-ly guarded. Kngland and other
countries sent operatives to this factory
to learn the seciet, but when a man once
entered the factory it was a life job with
h in. He ha<l to stay there. Other men
were sent there disguised, but so care
fu ly was the place wat hed that nothing
couid be learned, and finally all attempts
at discovering the secret were aban
doned and the Russians were allowed to
continue their ‘monopoly’ undisturbed,
although many imitations of it were
manufactured.
“About this time the late Marshall P.
•Tewell was Minister to Russia from this
country. Mr. ewell had been brought
up in the leather business and was then
the owner of several tanneries in Con
necticut. Of course he had heard of this
now famous factory, and, more from cu
riosity than from any desire to learn the
secret of the business, be expressed a
wisb to inspect the works. 'I he Russian
authorities never suspected that Mr.
Jewell was interested in the leather
business himself, and the factory own
ers, who were aided by the Government
in maintaining their secret, felt rather
complimented that Mr. .'ewell should
have expressed such a desire, and ac
cordingly Mr. Jewell, as it were, was
given the ‘freedom of the factory.’ For
three days the United States Minister re
mained in the Russian town and visited
the factory many times. He was quick
to ‘catch on,’and he did 'catch on’ so
much so that on his return to the United
States he determined to put the knowl
edge he had thus acquired to a practical
test. The result was that Mr. Jewell wat
soon manufacturing ‘Russia leather’ on
his own account. His first experiment
was a perfect success, and now, as a con
i sequence, this sort of leather, as you will
perceive, is manufactured in this country
! equal in every respect to the best thal
I Russia can turn out.” —New York Herald,
Flower Farming.
Wc are told that the flower trade ol
London is es imated at the value ol
$35,0U0 a day, and to anyone in any way
acquainted with this gigantic branch thil
fact is not to be wondered at.
Between Nice and Cannes to Loudon,
especially during the winter and spring,
there is a special railway and postal ser
vice by which the flower cultivators ol
France are enabled to pour into the
Kng ish markets flowers and ferns by
the thousand dozen bunches at a time
in fact, these consignments are pro
digious.
The principal kinds of flowers im
ported to our markets, especially Covenl
Garden, from the continent, etc., con
sist of lilac and syringa, violet, both
parma and the czar, and mignonette and
l ent lilies, in enormous ouantities,
mimosa or acacia in two or three kinds,
narcissus in several varieties, including
paper white, double roman, grand mon
arque, soleii d’or. and the white roman
hyacinth; all the above, if English
grown, realize a better price in the
market, but they are not grown in
suflic ent quantity in this country; and
the Anglo-French salesmen in Covent
Garden are now during winter, I might
state, without hesitation, the most im
portant venders in the market, and they
are fully aware of their importance.
It is raid the ottar of roses, manu
factured in the Valley of Kcsanlik,
Koumelia, is exported to the value of
$320,000; and someone has made a cal
culation to show that 10,104,000,000
of blossoms arc used each year at this
one place alone. In connection with
flower culture on the continent, and now
iu the l nitcd States of America, the
manufacture of pertumes from flowers
forms a very profitable industry,
and one which certainly might bo
adopted by the 1- nglish grower. The
town of Grasse,near Cannes, the capital ol
tho department of the Alpes Maratimes,
is the centre of a flower-growing district,
and the principal seat of the manufacture
of perfumes iu France.
America's Greatest Crop.
Corn is America’s greatest crop. It is
grown in every State and Territory in
the Union. The prospective harvest ol
the current year is 2,000,000,000 bushels.
IX'inoty-six per cent, of our corn is con
sumed at home. Only four per cent, is
exported as corn. It is an important
factor in beef, pork, and dairy products
for export. There is in this country
twice as many acres in corn as in w heat,
and four times as many as in cotton. An
abundant corn crop means wide-spread
prosperity to all classes, and we shall
have it, and the distribution of money
will be as general as the dew. Men who
love their fellow-men, and have posi
tion and a little time, should start
savings banks wliero they have any
chance of paying expenses and four pet
cent, interest, to encourage saving and
gather up the money crumbs 6o that
nothing may be wasted for want of a
place to put it for safe keeping and in
crease.—Banker't Monthly,
WOMAN'S WOULD.
PLKAHANT MTKItATPItFi TOR
II.MIM.M: Itl.Alll.ltS.
All Kmp*emi AVltli Simple Tania*.
The Empress of Austria, to the evident
disgust or the lively, pleasure-hunting
citizens of Vienna, bus an unconquer
able dislike for court bulla ami banquets,
and it is very seldom that she honors
such fetes with her presence. On the
occasion of the visit of the German Em
peror to Vienna, alio was obliged, how -
ever, to welcome the imperial guest, and
as she has alao a disgust for kick sliaws
and French dishes, slio ordered, to the
dismay of the chefs do cuisine a plain
steak with Saratoga potaloes for her
special use. The matter was reported to
theC’ourt Chamberlain, ami after a long
debate with the State o ficiais, the I im
press was informed that beefsteak, cither
with onions or potatoes, could not pos
sibly be served on that occasion. The
Empress quietly acquiesced, nnd asked
for a jug of milk instead, which request
was readily granted, with the proviso
that the jug and drinking cup should
be of gold. The Empress seemingly en
joyed her simple repast, but a thrill of
horror spread throughout the royal and
imperial halls when it was perceived
that the august, handsome, brilliant
lady took n pinch of -alt from her knife
after each glass of milk. As tho Em
peror of Germany can only use his right
hand in eating, the Emperor of Austria,
through courtesy, followed liis example,
and it is believed that, despite the in
dignation of Airs. Gruudy, the court
ladies will in future eat with their
knives in imitation of one of the ex
centric ways ol their beautiful sov
ereign.—Awn Francitco Chronicle.
Mrs. Harrison ami Ihe Gypsy.
The Misses El Tarts, daughters of Sena
tor Evarts, tell of a prophecy that has
come to pass regarding the next mistress
of the White House. It was several
winters ago, in Washington, when they
and the Harrisons were living theic. A
party of English gypsies wandered into
the capital, and, as the weather was too
cold for tent life, they established them
selves in a suburban stable. The com
pany had a gvpsy queen, of course, and
the told fortunes. She looked like a
witch, and carefully cultivated what
may be supposed to be the maimers of
one. Ebe let her long black hair fall
down her back and dangle arouud her
swarthy face. She wore a dingy, non
descript robe. She spoke in mystic
Shrases, although her enunciation was
istiactly cockney. She was a shrewd
creature, and many of her prophecies
were startling because they indicated a
knowledge of the person under considera
tion. The Misses Evarts were with a
bevy of girls who visited the gypsy queen,
with Airs. Harrison as a chaperon. It
was all fora lark, and the surmise is that
one of the jocose maidens found oppor
tunity to give po.nts to the witch. Any
how, she knew things about some of them
and used her information quite weirdly.
When it came Airs. Harrison’s turn the
gvpsy took her hand, examined its lines,
gazed into her face, and said:
“In the third generation it shall come
to you.”
Being asked what she mount, shelalked
vaguely, but reiterated a prediction that
something fortunate was going to hap
pen to the lady—something that wou-d
be a repetition of events that had oc
curred in the family two generations
previous, The Alisses Evarts are not
supernaturalists, however, and they sup
pose that somebody, recalling the (’resi
dency of the first General llarrison,
prompted the fortune teller to make the
point w hich she did. It must stand his
torically, however, as a sort of prophecy
that will be fulfilled when Airs. Harrison
gets into the AVhite House as its mis
tress. — Chicago Herald.
Mrs. Langtry's Toilet Set.
Trobably the most unique set of silver
,n this country belongs to Mrs. Langtry,
the actress; it numbers over two hun
dred pieces, not one of which is modern,
except the beautiful \ cnetian mirror,
which is framed in silver lilies, and shows
the monogram of the Lily herself just on
top. Silver brushes that the Venetian
ladies of old used for their golden locks
are now in the possession of this latter
day beauty. Then there are curious
boxes in which the old Hollanders kept
their finest tobacco, and that now hold
hairpins, or any of the knick-kna ks of
a woman’s toilet. Mi-rors carved by
famous silversmiths of long ago, and
that reflected the faces of other happy
and beautiful women, and jars in
which they kept the powder that made
their hair white, or the rouge that made
their cheeks pink. Silver flasks that
held the veritable aqua-tot*ana now
bottle very innocent diugs, and great
perfume jugs that once knew mysterious
Oriental sweets are now overflowing with
wood violet. The silver tops to the cut
glass bottles were in the long ago the
cases of watches; in those days the
covering was elaborately carved iu scenes
of the chase, and the watch was a source
of great pride to its owner. The candle
sticks once lighted the way to a bridal
in Ireland, or stood at the head of a
coffin, and the great silver holder, so
slaborateiy carved, and in which rests a
big blue pincushion, was once brought
on the tablejwith a wooden bowl in it, in
w hich were smoking hot those strange
new vegetables imported ftom \ ir&inia
to Ireland and known as potatoes. It
has taken Mrs. J angtry eleven years to
collect this silver, and after all, when
s a silver set complete? —New York
Graphic,
Fashion Notes.
Crepe is very popular.
Gloves for evening wear extend but a
ihort distance above the elbow.
Girdles, odalisque sashes, and antique
brocades are among the fashionable nov
elties.
Long-haired, black monkey-skin muffs
*nd Vandyke collars are again rn high
favor.
Long cloaks, bordered with fur, are
cut diagonally open, instead of straight
ip and down.
Judging from recent importations by
the jewelers, pink coral will be fashion
ible ere long.
There is a revival of old Chantilly
aces and many handsome patterns are
ceing imported.
Small toques and turbans are still
popular and become some faces better
than large bats.
Dainty tics of fine white bolting cloth,
smbroidered at the ends and tied loosely
it the throat, are very chic.
The passion for green has brought the
demand for emeralds up with a rush.
Jewelers find the green stone is remark
bly popular.
Black astrakhan gloves with leather
pa'ms and fingers are warm and not at
all unbecoming to the hand. They are
also economical, as one pair will outlast
a winter.
Greece Is Still Pastoral.
There are only seven cities in Greece
that can boast of more than 10,OUO in
habitants. Athens leads the list at 84,-
10:1; Patras comes next with 25,494;
then follow I Trails with 21,005, Her
tnoupolis with 21,245, Corfu with 10,-
515, /ante with 10,280, and Larissa with
12,169. Argos, Pyrgos, Argostoli, Cala
mata, Chalcis, Spetsai, Hydra, and
Mesolounghi follow in order ranging
from 1)801 inhabitants to 952-1. These
fifteen cities together contain only about
250,000 people, or about one-ninth of
the whole population of Greece. Count
ing in evory town that approaches the
dignity of a city in the Kingdom, we
should find that full seven-eights of the
people of the land must be classed as
rural.—AVte York Pos\
A Swindler Itctraycd hy Ills Parrot.
I)tutivas obtain tlicir hint* and clues
from many sources, but it ia not often
(tho Paris correspondent of tho London
Telegraph remarks) that they reoeivo
them through the instrumentality of
parrot*; yet thia ia just whst lion hap
pened during the recearohu* of At.
(loron, the head >f ihe Paris Criminal
Department. This ollloer hue lieu lately
looking for the ohief accountant of the
“Cafusae Ruud/' a fellow named Viotor
Chevalier, and, going the other day into
the rooms of a notorious reeeiver of
stolen goods in l’ana, bo heard bimaelf
addressed in hareh tone* ■>* "Good old
Victor ! there you ero!” This was enough
for tho detective, who having silently
satisfied himself that tho loquacious
bird wit* tho property of tho man for
whom lie wus looking, proceeded to
search the receiver’s den for indication*
of a more substantial character. After a
long and minute investigation of the
premise*, ho found a letter from Viotor
to the reo-'iver, in which epistle the
robber announced that bo ws* in Anger*
under the name of l olix Crozer. M.
Gorou immediately *et out for that town
and arrested the owner of tho too valu
able parrot iu the railway station,
DUciuka of n exhaustive nature thnt have a
tendency to create an unnatuia) feeling Hurh
um fatigue, luxhitmln and great wcnkm-M*
throughout tho syAtem owe their origin to a
lack of iron in tho blood. Drown’* Iron Hitter*
will restore the blood to ita natural healthful
condition, Gut the hlood mini hy using this
remedy and diaeasa will t>e quickly van
quis ed.
Minister to England I‘helps has been select
ed as president of alumina College in N. V.
A Wonderful I oml und Medicine,
Known and used by Physicians all over the
world. Scott’h Emulsion not only give* fle*h
and strength by virtue of it* own nutritiou*
properties, but creates an appetite for food
that build* up the wasted body. “1 have been
u-ing Scott’s Emulsion for several year*,
and am pleased witu it* action. My patients
say it 1* pleasant and palatable, ad all grow
stronger and gain flesh from tho use of it. I
use it In all cases of Wasting Diseases, and it
isape tally u*efulfor children when nutrient
medication Is need and, as in Marasmus.”—T.
W. PikiicK, M.l>, Knoxville, Ala,
The grand total of tUeeipensesof New York
city for 1889 will amount to $33,034,330.
Conventional " Motion *’ Resolutions.
Whereat, The M non linute (L. N. A. & <\
Ry Co.)< es re* to make It known to the world
st large that it form* the double connecting
link or Pullman tourist travel between tlie
winter cities of Florida ad the summer re
sorts of the Northwest; and
surp.a sed, its elegant Pullman Buffet Sleeper
and Chair car service between C hicago and
Louisville, Indianapolis and Cincinnati un
equal ed; and
Whereas, Its rates are as low ns tbs lowest;
then be it
Resolved, That in ths event of starting on a
trip it is good policy to con ult wit i K. O. Mc-
Cormick, Gen'l Pass. Agent Mcnon Route, 185
Dearbor'l St.. Chicago, for full particulars. (In
any event send for u Tourist Guido, enclose 4c.
postage. l
The term* of thirteen Republican and thir
teen Democratic senators expire March 4.
A Rad cal Cure for Epileptic Fits.
To the Editor- Phase inform your leaders
that 1 have a positive remedy for the above
earned disease which I warrant to cure the
worst case*. So strong s my taith in Ra vir
Lues that I will send Lee a sample bottle and
valuable treatise to any sufferer who w ill give
me his P O. and Express address. Respv,
U.U. ROOT, M. C , ISO Pearl St.. New York.
lion' Nice!
A child who has once taken Hamburg Figs as
a cathartic will never again look on them as
medicine, but will be likely to ask for them,
under the impression that they arc *itnplv ore
served fruit. 25cents. Dose one big. Mack
Drug Cos., N. Y.
Catarrh Cured.
A clergyman, after year* of suffering from
that loathsome disease. Catarrh, and vainly
trying every known remedy, at last found a
prescription which completely cured and saved
him from death. Any sufferer from this dread
ful disease sending a self-addressed stamped
envelope to Prof. J. A. Lawrence, 88 War en
fit.. N.V.* will receive the recipe free of charge
Safety to mother and child and less un
pleasantness after confinement. re*ult from
use of Mother’s Friend. Sold by druggist*.
Last Winter
I was troubled so badly witli rheumatism in my
right shoulder and joints of my leg as not to be able
to walk. I took Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and now I don't
feel any ache* or pains anywhere, and it not only
■topped ths soreness in my shoulders an 1 Joints, but
make* me feel a* lively ts a ten year-old boy. I sell
nswapaj erg right in
THE MIDDI E OF TITS STREET,
and standi gon the cold stones ain’t no picnic, I can
tell you. An ilf Hood's Sarsaparilla cured me itcer
tamly ought to be good for those people who don';
stand on the cld st nea. I can be seen every day in
the year at corner Tompkins and Dt-Kalb Avenues.
W. W. Howabd, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Hood’s Sarsaoarilla
Bold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD k CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Maas.
100 D ses One Dollar
IFOR THE BLOOD.
18 !'■ ifichaa curtd me of a malic*
, nant breaking out ou my log. which caused
; intolerable pain Jt vas called Remain- by
thedoctorn—four of whom treated me with
’no relief. I candidly confess ihat I owe my
'present good health to S. S. S which in iny
l estimation is invaluable as a blood remedy.
Wins JruA DkWitt,
2227 N. 10th St., St. Louis, Mo.
Our baby when two months old, was at
tacked w tn Scrofula, which for a long time
destroyed lier eyesight entirely and ca s* and
,u-to despair of her life. The doctors failed
to r. lb-vo her, and we gave Swift's Specific,
which soon cured her entirely, and she is
now hale and hearty. K. V. Delk,
I Will’s Point, Texas.
| Scrofula developed on my daughter—swell
ing and lumps on her nock. We gave her
Swift's Specific, and the result wa* wonder*
ful and the cure prompt.
| S. A. Dearmckd, Cleveland, Tenn.
j fF“Send for book giving history of Blood
.Diseases and advice to surf. r<-rs, maile ’ free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFI CO.,
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dine>p, Constipation. Fullness after eating. Food
R.h ng in the Mouth and disagreeable taste after
eating. . ervousnesß and Low Spirits.
At Drvygiatt vd Dealert or tent by mad on re
ceipt of 7b eft (5 boxes $1.00) in stamps. Sample tent
on receipt o/2-ccnt stamp.
The Charles A. Vcgelcr Cos., Baltimore, Md
The Only Printing Ink Works
In the South.
HODGE & EVANS,
Manufacturers of all kinds of
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IF USED BEFORE CONFINEMENT.
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All made In Congress, Button and •
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fl a IrminiT It an? dealrr soys he ha, the W. L. nOCGT.AS SHW , f not
CAUTION S3f&
A Triilblci Crime
It Ist tumble crime for uitut to cl* m that a
decoct iuu of cheap *wt poisonous vegetable
.RUT i* . certain remedy fur syphilis, scrofula
.lid other hurriblo pha.es < jf bloud disease, when
tiny know it is uuirus! The pruprlcton of Bo
t.iiw Blood Hahn, Gk 11. It ), arc rani of con
sciences, Thidr rvnuaiy m mit a poionn, and
ultliunßim ,siwrrfiil bloodcleillsiT, ia absolutely
from iin ivury and all vcgatablo or mineral
poison, It, naowiU not li.rin tho moat delicate,
und a cure begin* with tim first bottle nmol. Jt
is made according u> ihr proscription of an ura
im-nt Atlanta physician olio baa, for forty years,
inadii blood diocaiMxi u study. Bcw.ni of fraud-
U tout specifics. If. B. If. loot o(Tootl'd Inoro
min* of Mood dinooatti than any other remedy
in Hu. wind, world.
tl.oro" W. I'hlUla. of tho Philadelphia Ltd.
0"' suic fto.imo in 1.1w.-iiiiil.yi- w ai ( hrlstinns.
Rheumatism
and Neuralgia
Thaw twin dlieais* cauo untold suffering.
Doctors admit that they are dimcnlt to cure—
r oodo their patients, i'idnal
Vt CBlcry AOmpouud has per-
Vf I Jj mnnently cured the worst
\y/ I cases of rheumatism um
(/vV U neuralgia—so say those who
Ad U have used It.
IMI "Having heea troubled
If J/S. wvtt n rheumatism at the knee
sll/A\ x ftl “' ,oot f" r five years, Iwn
r _ 1 alrnoat unable to get around.
I run .all . i amt was very often confined
INO USE TO I 10 ,U E bed lor weeks at a
| | time 1 us'of only one bote
I owner ■ | tie of I’Hlno'B Celery Com-
U n n [h.un 1 and wua per'e- tly
// \\ \\ cured. 1 can now Jump
// \\ \\ around, and feci a* lively aa
m l\ a boy.” Fb.ns Caaot.i,
Eureka, Nevada.
•' Paine’s Ceterv Compound ha* tieen a God
send to me. For the post two years I bnve Buf
fered with neuralgia of the heart, doctor after
doctor falling to cure me. I have now taken
nearly four bottles of the Compound, anil am
free from the complaint. 1 feel very grateful
to you.” cn*. U. haw is, central village, Ct.
Paine’s
Celery Compound
••I have been greatly afflicted with acuta
rheumatism, and could find do relief until I
used Paine’s Celery Compound. After using
hi x bottles of this medicine I am now cured of
rheumatic troubles.” . . _
.aamukl Hutchinson, So. Cornish, N. H.
Effects Lasting Cures.
Paine’s Celery Compound ha* performed many
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letters sent to any address. Pleasant to take
does not disturb, but aids digestion, and entire
ly vegetable; a child can take It. What's the
use of suffering longer with rheumatism or
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Mammoth testimonial paper free.
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o A Dire Living upon Lariated Food are Healthy ,
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tend in silver or stamps, ten cents
for an eighth of a pound sample
package of HE-NO Tea.
Address Martin Giliet & Cos.,
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