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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN
DAY SERMON
Subject: "Wontlor* f HI-u-U is ami
llle.nnir-" l'roiii'lll'll Ht Ennsni
City, Missouri.
T*it will thou' wonders in th*
tMm amt in tfit earth."— Joel U., SO
Dr. CummliiK—Krwit and flood m<mr
would have told ua Iho cxuct timo of thy ful
flllmeut of thl. prophecy. A* I steppso into
hi. study in London on my arrival from 1 aria
iuit after tlio Freuob find .urrooderod nt
Sedan, tho good doctor *aid to mo: "It is Jut
os I told youabout Krai people laughed at
mo beoaune I talked about the seven
horn, and the vials, but I forsaw all this from
th. Book of Daniel and the Hook of Kevelu
ttoo." Not taking any such responsibility In
the Interpretation of tlio passage. I simply
assort that then- is in it suggestions of many
things in our time.
Our eyes dilate and our heart quickens its
pulsations us we read of events in the Third
century, the Sixth century, the Eighth cen
tury, the Fourteenth century, but there ore
more far reaching events crowded into the
Nineteenth century than into any ether,
and the last quarter bids fair to
eclipse the preceding three quarters.
We read in the daily newsp Frs of
event** announced in ono paragraph and
without any Hjjecial event*
which a Herodotus, a Joaephux, a Xenophon,
a GHbbon would have taken whole chapters
or whole volumes to elal>orate. out
upon our time, we must cry out iu the words
of the text: “Wonders in the heavens and in
the earth.”
I propose to show you that the time in
which we live is wonderful for disaster and
wonderful for blessing, for there must be
lights and shades in this picture as in all
others. Need I argue this day that our time
is wonderful for disaster?’ Our world has
had a rough time since by the hand of God it
was bowled out into spare. It is an epileptic
earth; convulsion after convulsion; frosts
pounding it with sledge hammer of
iceberg, and fires melting it with
furnaces seven hundred times heated. It is a
wonder to me it has lasted so long. Meteors
shooting by on this side and grazing it, and
meteors shooting by on the other side and
grazing it, none of them slowing up for
safety. Whole fleets and navies and argosies
and flotillas of worlds sweeping all about us.
Our earth like a fishing smack off the banks
of Newfoundland, while the Etruria and
Germanic and the Arizona and the City o!
New York rush by. Besides that, our
world has by sin been damaged in its inter
nal machinery, and ever and anon the fur
naces have burst, and the walking beams of
the mountain have broken, and the islands
have shipped a sea, and the great hulk 01 the
world has been jarred with accidents that
ever and anon threatened immediate demoli
tion. But it seems to us as if our century
were especially characterized by disaster,
volcanic, cyclonic, oceanic, epidemic. 1 say
volcanic, because an earthquake is only a
volcano hushed up. When Strom noli
and Cotopaxi and Vesuvius stop breath
ing, let tho foundations of the earth
beware. Seven thousand earthquakes in
two centuries recorded in the catalogue of
the British association. Trajan, the
Emperor, goes to ancient Antioch, and amid
the splendors of his reception is met by an
earthquake that nearly destroys the Emper
or’s life. Lisbon, fair and beautiful at one
o’clock on the Ist of November, 1756, in six
minutes 60,000 have perished, and Voltaire
writes of them: “For that region it was the
last judgment, nothing wanting but a
trumpet! ’ Europe and America feeling the
throb* 1500 chimneys in Boston partly or
fully destroyed.
But the disasters of other centuries have
had their counterpart iu our own. In 1812
Caraccas was caugut in the grip of the earth
quake; in 1822, in Chili, 100,000 square miles
of land by volcanic force upheaved to four
and seven feet of permanent elevation; in
1854 Japan felt the geological agony;
Naples shaken in 1857; Mexico in 1858;
Medosa, the capital of the Argentine
Republic, in 1861; Manilla terrorized in 1863;
the Hawaiian islands by such force uplifted
and let down in 1871; Nevada shaken in 1871;
Antioch in 1872; California in 1872; San
Salvador in 1873; while in 1883 what
subterranean excitement! Ischia, an isl
and of the Mediterranean, a beautiful
Italian watering-place, vineyard clad, sur
rounded by all natural charm and historical
reminiscence; yonder, Capri, the summer re
sort of the Roman Emperors; yonder,
Naples, the paradise of art —this beautiful
island suddenly toppled into the trough of
the earth, 8000 merry-makers perishing, and
some of them so far down beneath the reach
of human obsequies that it may be said of
many a one of them as it was said of Moses:
“The Lord buried him.” Italy weeping, all
Europe weeping, all Christendom weeping
where there were hearts to sympathize and
Christians to pray. But while the nations
were measuring that magnitude of disaster,
measuring it not with golden rod like that
with which the angel measured heaven,
but with the bla#k rule of death, Java,
of the Indian archipelago, the most fertile
island of all the earth, is caught in the grip
of the earthquake, and mountain after
mountain goes down, and city after city,
until that island, which produces the health
iest beverage oi all the world, has produced
the ghastliest accident of the country. One
hundred thousand people dying, dying, dead,
dead.
But look at the disasters cvclonie. At the
mouth of the Ganges are tfiree islands—the
Hattiali, the Sundeep and the Dakin Shabaz
pore. Iri the midnight of October, 1877, on
nil those three islands the cry was: “The
the waves. Ail tae lights out . Crash! went
all the life boats. Waters rushing through
the skylights down into the cabin anti down
on the furnaces imtil they hissed and smoked
in the deluge. Seven hundred people pray
blaspheming, shrieking. Our great ship
poised a moment on the top of a mount
ain of phosphorescent fire, anti
then plunged down, down, down,
until it seemed as if she would never again
be righted. Ah! you never want to see a
cyclone at sea. But I was iu Minnesota,
where there was one of those cyclones on
land that swept the city of Rochester from
its foundations, and took dwelling houses,
liarns, men, women, children, horses, cat
tle and tossed them into indiscriminate
ruin, and lifted a rail train and dashed it
down, a mightier hand than that of tho en
gineer on tne air brake. Cyclone in Kan
sas, cycloue in Missouri, cyclone in Wiscon
sin. cyclone in Illinois, cyclone in lowa.
Satan, prince of the power of the air, never
made such cyclonic disturbances as ho has in
our day. And am I not right in saying that
waters, the waters!” A cyclone arose and
rolled the sea over those three islands,
and of a population of 340,000, 215,00*
were drowned. Only those saved who
tiad climbed to the top of the highest trees.
Did you ever see a cyclone? No? Then 1
pray God you may never see one. I saw one
on the ocean, and it swept us eight hundred
miles back from our course, and for thirty
six hours during the cyclone and after
it we expected every moment to go
to the bottom. They told ns l>e
fore we retired at It o’clock that the
barometer had fallen, but at 11 o'clock
at night we wer with the *t>ook of
one of the characteristics of the time 1*
which we live is disaster cyclonic?
But look at the disasters oceanic. Shall I
call the roll of the dead shipping ? Ye mon
sters of the deep, answer when I call your
names. Ville de Havre, the Schiller. City of
Boston, the Melville, the President, tne Cim
bria. But why should Igo on calling
the roll when noue of them answer,
and the roll is as long as the white
scroll of tho Atlantic surf at Cape Hatter as
breakers? If the oceanic cables could report
all the scattered life and all the bleached
bones that they rub against in the depths of
the ocean what a message of pathos and
tragedy for both beaches! In one storm
eighty fishermen perished off the coast of
Newfoundland, and whole fleets of
them off the coast of England. God. help
the poor fellows at sea, and give high seats
In heaven to the Grace Darlings and the Ida
Lewises and the lifeboat men hovering around
Goodwin’s Sands and the Sherries. The sea,
owning three-fourths of the earth, proposes
•to capture the other fourth, and is bombard
ing the land all around the earth.
The moving of our hotels at
Brighton Beach backward one hundred
yards from where they once stood, a type of
what is going on all around the w'orld and on
every coast. The Dead Sea rolls to-day
wnere ancient cities stood, nilarsor tem
ples that stood on hills geologists now find
three-quarters under the water or altogether
submerged. The sea, having wrecked so
many merchantmen and flotillas, wants to
wreck the continents, and hence disasters
oceanic.
Look at the disasters epidemic, i speak
not of the plague in the Fourth century that
ravaged Europe, and in Moscow arid the
Neapolitan dominions and Marseilles wrought
such terror in the Eighteenth century, but I
look at the yellow fevers, and the choleras,
and the diphtherias and the scarlet fevers,
and the typhoids of our own time. Hear the
wailing of Memphis, and Shreveport, and New
Orleans and Jacksonville of the last few de
cades. From Hurd war, India, where every
t wen Ul year three mini on aevotees congre
gate, the caravans brought the cholera, and
that one disease slew eighteen thousand in
eighteen days in Bossorab. Twelve thousand
in one summer slain by it in India and twen
ty-five thousand in Egypt. Disasters epi
demic. Some of the finest monuments in
Greenwood and Laurel Hill and Mount Au
burn are to doctors who lost their life bat
tling with Southern epidemic.
Hut now I turn Ibv loaf in my .iiblcot, aud
I plant tho white Ultasand thvmlm free
nniid thr night *hadand tlin myrth'. liu
uo morn characterised hy wondrreor m*
■urtrr Ili.ii hy wonder* of blcwing.
f longevity; the average of human life rap
idly Increasing. Forty J 'ar** now wort* four
Imiidred years once. Now I run trev"tfro®
Manitoba!to Now ork in three day and
threenights. In ottier time, it would tmx
titki-ii three month*. In other word* the* ■
day. owl throe night* now are w orth three
month, or otbar iUy. Tho arerogeof human
lit’,. i.ruutlouUv greater now than when Nm
jived hi. lI.VO vmr r.nd Methu*(d*h llvwl liii
WW years. Blessing* of intelUgenoo: The
Salmon I’. Cluuu'H mill tb. Abraham Unwin*
Hint tin* Hi.iry Wilsona of oming time
w ill not lie required to Inara to road by pine
knot lijjlit*, or eeated- on ehoemalteri
bomb, nor will tho Fergurone hsve
to .tody astronomy while watehiug tho cat
,l,. knowledge rolls it. tides alone every
poor man's door, mid his children may go
down and bathe in them. If the philosophers
of the loot century were called up to recite
in a class with our boys at the Polytechnic,
or our girls ot tho Kackor, those obi plilloso
nhers would be sent down to the fuot of the
vi lss-niie they failed to answer the quit.
,lons' Pro. libraries in all the Important
towns and cities of the luml. Historical aloovei
ami poetical .helve, imd magazine tobies for all
that desire to walk tlirougb them or sit down
at them. Blessings "f quick information:
.Newspapers felling oil around us thick as
leaves In a September equinoctial. New*
three days old, rancid anil stale. \\ e *ee the
whole world twice a day—through the news
paper at the breakfast table, and through
tin* newspaper at the tea table, with an “ex
tra” here and there between. .
] Uessing of Gospel proclamation: “Do you
not know that nearly all the missionary
societies iigve been born in this century*
and nearly all th? Bible societies, and nearly
all tho groat philanthropic movements?
A secretary of one of the denominations
said to me the other day in Dakota:
“You were wrong when you said our
denomination averaged anew church every
day of the year; they established nine in
one week, so you are far within tho truth.”
A clergyman of our own denomination said:
“I have just been out establishing five mis
sion stations.” I toll you Christianity is on
the march while infidelity is dwindling into
imbecility. While infidelity is thus dwin
dling and drooping down into im
ikeoilifcy and indecency, the wheel of
( hristianity is making about a thou
sand revolutions in a minute. All the
copies of Shakespeare and Tennyson and Dis
raeli and of any ten of the most popular writ
•rs of the day, less in number than the copies
of the Bible going out from our printing
presses. A few years in six weeks, more
than two million copies of the New Testa
ment purchased- not given away, but pur
chased because the world will have it.
More Christian men in high official posi
tion to-day in Great Britain and in the United
States than ever before. Stop that falsehood
going through the newspapers —I have seen it
in twenty—that the Judges of the Supreme
Court of the United States are all infidels ex
cept one. By personal acquaintance I
mow three of them to lx? old-fashioned
evangelical Christians, sitting at the
Holy Sacrament of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and I suppose that the majority of
them are stanch believers in our Christian
religion. And then hear the dying words of
Judge Black, a man who had been Attorney
General of the United States, and who had
been Secretary of the United States, no
stronger lawyer of the century than
Judge Black—dying, his aged wife kneel
ing by his side, and he uttering
that sublime and tender prayer: “O
Lord God, from whom I derived my existence,
in whom 1 have always trusted, take my spirit
to Thyself and let Thv richest blessing come
:lown upon my Mary.” The most popular
book today is the Bible, and the mightiest
institution is the church, and the greatest
name among the nations, and more honored
than any other, is the name of Jesus.
Wonders of self sacrifice: A clergyman
told ine in the Northwest that for six years
he was a missionary at the extreme North,
living 400 miles from a jxistofllce, and some
times he slept out of doors iu the winter, the
thermometer sixty and sixty-five degrees
l>elow zero, wramied in rabbit skins
woven together. I said: “Is it possi
ble? You do not mean sixty and sixty-five
degrees below zero?” He said: “I do, and I
was happy.” All for Christ. Where is there
any other lieing that will rally such enthus
iasm? Mothers sewing their fingers off to
educate their boys for the Gospel ministry.
For nine years no luxury on the table until
the course through grammar school and col
doge and theological seminary be com
pleted. Tool* widow putting her mite into
Ihe Lord’s treasurv, the face of Emperor or
i‘resident impressed upon the coin not so con
spicuous ns the blood with which ffiie earned
it. Millions of good men and women, but
more women than men, to whom Christ is
everything. Christ first and Christ last and
Christ forever.
Why, this age is not so characterized by
invention and scientific exploration as it
is by Gospel proclamation. You can get
irla f ft unless you can ring nl
the church bells in one chime, and
sound all the organs in one diapason, and
Sather all the congregations of Christen
om in one Gloria in Excelsis.
Mighty camp meetings. Might Ocean
Groves. Mighty Chautauquas. Mighty con
ventions of Christian works. Mignty genr
era! assemblies of the Presbyterian church.
Mighty conferences of the Methodist church.
Mighty associations of the Baptist church.
Mighty conventions of the Episcopal church.
I think before long the best investments will
not be in railroad stock or Western Union,
but in trumpets and cymbals and
festal decorations, for we are on
the eve of victories wide and world
uplifting. There may be many years
of hard work yet before the consummation,
but the signs are to me so encouraging that
1 would not be uubelieving if I saw the wing
of the apocalyptic angel spread for its last
triumphal flight in this clay’s sunset; or if
tomorrow morning the ocean cables should
thrill us with the news that Christ, the Lord
had alighted on Mount Olivet or Mount Cal
vary to proclaim universal dominion.
Oil, you dead churches, wake up! Tlirow
back tne shutters of stiff ecclesiasticism and
let the light of the spring morning come in.
Morning for the laud. Morning for the sea.
Morning of emancipation. Morning of light
and love and peace. Morning of a day in
which there shall be no chains to break, no
sorrows to assuage, no despotism to shatter,
no woes to compassionate. O Christ, descend!
Scarred temple, take the crown! Bruised
hand, take tue scepter! Wouuded foot, step
the throne! “Thine is the kingdom.”
These tilings I say because I want you to
tie alert. I want you to be watching all these
wonders unrolling from the heavens and the
earth. God has classified them, whether
calamitous or pleasing. The divine purposes
are harnessed in traces that cannot
break, and in girths that cannot slip,
and in buckles that cannot loosen, and
arc driven by reins they must answer. 1
preach no fatalism. A swarthy engineer at
one of the depots in Dakota said: “When will
you get on the locomotive and take a ride
with us?” “Well,” I said, “now, if that
suits you?” So I got on one side the loco
motive, and a Methodist minister,
who was also invited, got on the other side,
and between us wero tho engineer ami the
stoker. The train started. The engineer had
his hand on the agitated pulse of the great
engine. The stoker shoveled iu the coal and
shut the door with a loud clang. A vast plain
slipped under us and the hills swept by,
and that great monster on which we
rode trembled and bounded and snorted
and raged ns it hurled us on. 1
said to the Methodist minister on the other
side the locomotive: “My brother, why
should Presbyterians and Methodists quarrel
about the decrees and free agency? Aou see
that track, that firm track, that iron track;
that is the decree. You see this engineer’s
arm? That is free agency. How beautifully
they work together They are go
ing to take us through. We could
not do without the track, and we could not
do without the engineer. So I rejoice day by
day. Work for us all to do, and we may turn
the crank of the Christian machinery this w ay
or that, for we are free agents; but there is
the track laid so long ago no one remembers
it, laid by the hand of Almighty God in sock
ets that no terrestrial or satanic pressure can
ever affect. And along that track the car of the
world’s redemption will roll and roll to the
Grand Central Depot of the Millennium. I
have no anxiety about the track. lam only
afraid that for our indolence God will dis
charge us and get some other stoker and soma
other engineer. The train is going through
with us or without us. So, my brethren
watch all the events that are going by. If
things seem to turn out right, give wings to
your joy. If things seem to turn out wrong,
throw out the anchor of faith and hold fast.
There is a house in London where Peter
the Great of Russia lived awhile when he
was moving through the land incognito
and in workman’s dress, that he might
learn the wants of the people. A stranger
was visiting at that house recently, and
saw in a dark attic an old box, and he said
to the owner of the house; “What’s in
that box?” The owner said, “I don’t
know; that box was there when 1 got the
house and it was there when my father got
it. We haven't, had any curiosity to look at
it; 1 guess there’s nothing in it.” “Wall,”
said the stranger, “I’ll give you two pounds
for it.” “Well, done.” The two pounds are
paid, and recently the contents of t hat box
were sold to the Czar of Russia for fifty thou
sand dollars. In it the lathing machine of
Peter the Great, his private letters and docu
ments of value beyond all momentary con
sideration. And here are the events that
seem very insignificant and unimportant, but
they increase treasures of Divine Providence
and eternities of meaning which after a while
God will demonstrate before the ages as being
of stupendous value. As near as I can tell
from what T sec, there must In' a God some
win re about.
When Titans play uuoits they pitch mount
ain"*; but who owns these gigantic forces you
have lieen reading about the last two months?
\Vlic*m hand is on the throttle valve of tho
' • iddenly plant* and on
the footstool makes the continents quiver?
God! God! lie I*hk tli upon the mountain*
and they tremble. Hotouchet h th** hills und
they smoke. God! Uo*|! 1 must Im* ut
) "*e with Him. Through the Lord Jesus
Christ this God is mine and lit* is yours I
put the earthquake that shook Palestine at
the crucifixion against all the down rooking*
of the centuries. This God on our side, we
may challenge all tho centuries of time and
all the cycles of eternity.
Th' se of us who are in mid-life may well
t hank God that we havo seen so many won
drous things; but there are |x*ople here to
• lay who will set th** Twentieth century.
Things obscure to us w ill b** plain to you yet.
The Twentieth century will Im> ns far ahead
of th ■Nineteenth as the Nineteenth is ahead
of the Eighteenth, and as you cari
cature the habits und customs and ig
norance of the put, others will <*ari
cature this ago. Some of you may live to see
the shimmering veil belwei ii the material
ahd the spiritual world lifted. Magnetism, u
1 . !'I with which wo cover up our ign •rniD , e,
will vet be an explored realm. Electricity,
the fiery courser of the sky, that Beniamin
Franklin lassoed and Mom* and Dell and
Edison have tried to control. will ls*-
come completely manageable, anil
locomotion will is* swiftened, and
a world of practical know bilge thrown in
upon the ruce. Whether wo jdepart in this
' uturj. or whether w-<•<• the open ates 1 t
a more w onderful century, we will see these*
things. It • lo#*m not matce much difference
where we stand, but the higher the stand
j>oint the larger the prospect. Wo will see
them from heaven it we do not see
them from earth. I was at Fire Island,
Long Island, and I went up in the cupola
from which they telegraph to Now York the
approach of vessel! hours before they come
into iKrt. There is an opening in the wall,
and fee operator puts his telescope through
that o]>ening und ls*ks out and sees vessels
far out at sea. While I was talking with
him ho went up and looked out. He said:
"We are expecting the Arizona to-night.”
1 said: “Is it possible you know nil
those vessels? Do you know them as you
know a man’s face ? f ’ He said: “Yes, I never
make a mistake; before I see the hulks, I
often know them hy the masts; I know them
all, I have watched them so long.” Oh, what
n grand thing it is to Jia\e ships tele
graphed und neralded long before they
- >me to port, that friends may come
down to the wharf anti welcome their long
absent loved ones. So to-day w e take our
stnnd in the watch tow r and we look off
ana inrougu tlie glass of inspiration or
Providence we look off and see a whole fleet
of ships coming in. That is the ship of
Peace, flag with one star of Bethlehem
floating above the top gallants. That is the
ship of the church, mark of salt wave
high up on the smoko stack, showing
she has had rough weather, but the Captain
of salvation commands her and all is well
with her. Tho ship of heaven, mightiest
craft ever launched, millions of passengers
waiting for millions more, prophets and
apostles and martyrs in the cabin, con
juerei’w at the foot of tho mast, while
from tho rigging hands are waving this
way as they knew us, and we wave
! :u*k again, for they are ours; they went out
from our own households. Ours! Hail! Hail!
Put off the black and put on the white. Stop
lolling the funeral bell and ring the wedding
anthem. Shut up tho hearse and take the
chariot. Now-, the ship comes around the
•rrcat headland. Soon she will strike the
wharf and we will go aboard her. Tear? for
ships going out. Laughter for ships coming
In. Now she touches tho wharf. Throw on the
planks. Block not up that gangway with
embracing long lost friends, for you will
have eternity of reunion. Stand back and
give wav until other millions come on. Fare
well to sin. Farewell to struggle. Farewell
to sickness. Farewell to death. All aboard
for heaven!
A Romance of Tennessee.
A Nashville (Tenn.) dispatch say..:
A suit to recover a fourth interest in an
estate, reckoned at $300,000, filed in the
Davidson county courts, recalls a rom
ance of unusual interest. Isaac Frank
lin was once the richest man in the
South, owning four big plantations. At
his princely home he kept a visitors’
register, and one day a party of young
Nashville people on a frolic, called and
inscribed their names. Adecilia Hayes,
the then belle of the South, was one of
these, and, careless of consequences,
wrote opposite her name her intention
of “setting her cap” for old man Frank
lin. The rich widower was caught in
the trap, and married Miss Hayes.
Franklin soon died, leaving a vonng and
lovely widow worth $4,000,000. Some
time later Joseph Action, a young law
yer of Huntsville, Ala., proposed to a
party of friends that if they would give
him SI,OOO for expenses he would en
snare the wealthy widow. Acklen was
smart and handsome, and his friends
provided him with the requisite cash.
With a show of wealth Acklen laid siege
to the heart of Mrs. Franklin, and soon
they were married. They built a coun
try home called “Belmont,” a superb
place, surrounded by seventy-five acres
of ornamented grounds, with conserva
tories, music hall, billiard pagoda, and
zoological garden, and entertained
regally. Acklen died during the war,
leaving four children, one of whom,
Hon. Joseph H. Acklen, formerly a
member of Congress from Louisiana, is
plaintiff in the suit spoken of. Mrs.
Acklen, some time later, married Dr.
W. B. Cheatham, of this city. Fifteen
liuudren invitations were issued, and
many guests from Europe were present
at the nuptials. After the war Mrs.
Cheatham sued the government for
$1,000,000 for damages to a cotton crop,
and won her case. Her attorney was
the Confederate general, Gideon J.
Pillow, who was to receive SIOO,OOO as
his fee, lmt the widow demurred and
the demurer was sustained. Since their
the estate lias wasted away until, when
Mrs. Cheatham recently died at the
sth Avenue Hotel, in New York, it was
not estimated to he worth more than
$300,000, for a fourth interest in which
young Acklen bring suit.
Feats of a Noted Steeplechaser.
One of the most enthusiastic of the
German steeplechasers was Liontemnnt-
Gencra 1 Rosenberg. He is now fifty-five
years old, but, up to ten years ago, he
lmil no superior as a rider on the Con
tinent. Nearly every bone in his body
has been broken at one time or another,
and last year lie rode in a race, came a
cropper and broke bis arm. Among the
friends of his younger days was Count
Fritz Metternieli of Austria, with whom
he bad many a hot contest over fence
and wall and ditch. Ono day, in 1866,
General Rosenberg, then captain, was
out ou patrol with three or four men,
when he mot an Austrian patrol, and
recognized its leader as his old friend
Metternieli. The latter wheeled about,
and, putting spurs to his horse, galloped
off at racing speed. Rosenberg followed,
and after a hot chase overtook tho fugi
tive, but instead of taking him prisoner
or putting him down, he increased the
speed of tho Austrian’s horse by prod
ding him iu the flank with tho point of
his sword until lie got tired, when lie
turned and rode bock to his regiment.
The incident created a laugh among tho
hieing men in both armies, and is still
told in tho clubs of Germany for the ed
ification of the rising generation. In
1865 the General was at Breslau, in Si
lesia, and made a bet one night that lie
would leave that city on horseback at
the same time that the express train left
and arrive in Berlin, 400 miles away,
before it. Relays of horses were station
ed along the rente, and he won tho bet,
arriving some time ahead of the train.
That evening he attended the circus,
where lie was recognized by tho people
and received with a cyclone of cheers.
The geographers are all at sea regard
ing the geographical centre of the United
States. Taking Quoddy Head, Maine, as
the most eastern points, Alton Islands
the most western, Point Barrow, Alaska,
the most northern and Key West, Flor
ida, tlie most southern, and forming a
parallelogram, it appears that the geo
graphical centre of the oountry is 270
miles west of San Francisco in the
Pacific Ocean.
THE PRESIDENTS.
From ororor Washington
toiiknjamin iiakiuson
Companion, of tire Nation'* Chief
Kteciii l.ei—Their Appearanoc
“nil Private I'arei'rn— A Ma
Jorlty Military Mon.
Genoial Harrison, on the day he he
fnmo President, was ll!ty-)ie year*,
•even month* and fourteen day* old,
shout a year less than the average age ol
bis predecessor, when inaugurated. The
grandfather of .Mr. Harrison was the old
s.t of tho Presidents, buying entered
upon the duties of tho ollice in his sixty
eighth year. General Jackson, when he
Ircgau his second term, lacked eleven
days of being sixty-six years old, and
Buchanan was only live days younger
than this when inaugurated. Tire firat
six Presidents, also Taylor and iohn.on,
wero all older than Hen.amiu Harrison
when inaugurated. General Grant was
the youngest president inaugurated,
being under forty-sevou; Mr. Cleveland
Dext, not quite forty-eight; Pierce forty
eight, Kilmore forty-nine, Polk and
Garfield each fifty, Tyler and Arthur each
Dfty-one, Lincoln fifty-two, Van Huron
and Hayes each tlfty-four.
Twelve Presidents were lawyers only.
Gartield had the most varied occupation;
he was a teacher, preacher, lawyer nnd
soldier before becoming a statesman.
John Adams was professor of
rhetoric in Harvard College, I asides hav
ing been a lawyer and a statesman,
Jackson was taught the alphabet in a
log achoolhouse, and was a lawyer,
planter and soldier. Arthur was a
teacher aud lawyer before he presided
over tho United States Sena'.e. of the
other soldier Presidents, Hayes, Pierce,
Monroe and Benjamin Harrison were
lawyers, Grant a tanner, AVillinm Henry
Harrison a physician and Wa-hingtou a
surveyor. Taylor was a soldier und a
soldier only, by profession aud occupa
tion.
If we include Presideut Lincoln, who
was a militia captain for a short time in
the Black Hawk War under General
Taylor, we shall liud that a majority <d
our Presidents have been military men.
Of these General Grtnt doubtless has had
the most extensive lighting experience
and received the greatest number ot pro
motions. He rose from I.ieuteuant to
General. Monroe had risen from cadet
to Colonel when he was wounded iu tho
Bhoulder at Trenton. Washington,
Jackson, William Henry Harrison and
Taylor were Major-Generals; Gariield
was a Major-General aud Hayes a Briga
dier-General of Volunteers; Pierce was
a Brigadier-General, and the President
elect Grigadier-Geueral of Volunteers hy
brevet. Arthur was Quartermaster-
General on the staff of the Governor of
New York.
Hayes was wounded four times in bit
tie, Jackson also received four wounds,
though uone of them in battle. When
captu.ed by the British, while a mere
boy, he received two severe sabre cuts,
one on the hand and the other on the
head, for refusing to black an officer’s
boots. In his second duel he was
slightly wounded in the breast aud then
deliberately killed his antagonist, Dick
enson. His fourth wound, which was
the most severe, when two balls and a
slug were planttd in his shoulder, was
received in a row with Colonel Benton,
at Nashville. General W.H. Harrison was
slightly wounded in the thigh at the
battle of Tippecanoe. General Pier o
was accidentally injured in battle by be
ing thrown from hrs horse in the ad
vance on the City of Mexico.
A majority of the Presidents rose step
by step, almost continuously, to thathigh
office. Some met with serious reverses,
however. Lincoln wa9 defeated for
United States Senator by Douglas, pre
vious to being nominated lor the Presi
dency. Polk was defeated twice for
Governor of Tennessee before he became
President, and the President-elect had
been previously defeated for Gov
ernor of Indiana. No candidate ever
met with a more surprising defeat than
did Andrew Jackson, when, after re
ceiving the highest number of electoral
votes for the Presidency, he was defeated
in the House of Kepresentatives by John
Quincy Adams; and no man, perhaps,
ever exhibited more of that determina
tion which achieves success than did
Jackson afterward.
The highest per cent, of the electoral
vote received by any President was that
of Monroe in his second candidacy,
09.29; and Washington for his second
term ranks next, having received 97.77
per cent. The lowest per cent, of the
electoral vote received by any succcess
ful candidate was that of John Quincy
Adams, 32.18, while Jackson, the de
feated candidate, received 38.19 per
cent, of the electoral vote.
The taliest President was Washington,
whose stature was six feet four inches,
and the shortest, James Madison, who
was not above fire and one-half feet in
height. Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson,
Tyler, Lincoln, Garfield and Arthur
were all six feet or over. John Adams,
bis son John Quincy, and General
Taylor, are each said to have been five
feet eight inches, the same height as
Benjamin Harrison. As regards weight,
Jackson, though six feet and one inch
in height, was probably the lightest in
avoirdupois, as he only turned the scale
at 145 pounds. Cleveland, when in
augurated, is said to have weighed 240
pounds, but has probably increased
somewhat since.
All of the Presidents, with two excep
tions, from Washington to Lincoln, had
customarily smooth shaven faces. The
exceptions were John QuiDcy Adams
and Van Buren, who wore high side
whiskers. President Johnson was usu
ally smooth shaven also. Mr. Lincoln
wore chin and side whiskers. President
Harrison follows the example of General
Grant, Hayes and Garfield in wearing a
mustache and full beard. President
Arthur’s mustache and whiskers will be
remembered, and Mr. Cleveland is the
only President who has worn a mustache
simply.
Mr. Harrison’s eyes are blue, agree
ing in this respect with a majority of
the Executive eyes. Mr. Cleveland’s
are brown, as were also Arthur’s, and
among the dark eves were those of Mr.
Harrison’s grandfather. The darkest
eyes were those of President Pierce
which were intensely black, as was also
bis hair. A number of other Presi
dents, it will he remembered, have had
dark hair, though in a large majority of
cases it was cither gray or became gray
while in the Executive chair. Jefferson
had red hair, which changed to silver
white in color.
The Presidents, as a rule, have dressed
with uniform propriety. General Tay
lor may be regarded as an exception, as
be preferred a “fatigue” suit or a dreS3
suit very much too large for him in
order to bo “comfortable.”
All of the Presidents have been mar
ried men except Buchanan. William
Henry Harrison had the largest family,
ten children, nine of whom reached
adult age.
None of the Presidents were rich as
wealth is now rated—none of them mil
lionaires. President Harrison is said to
be worth about $25,000. Garfield,
Grant, Lincoln, Johnson, Pierce, Taylor,
Polk, the senior President Harrisou,
Jackson and Monroe were none of them
probably wealthier than this when they
entered upon the duties of the Execu
tive Washington, Jefferson, John
Quincy Adams, Van Buren, Tyler and
Puchanan were severally worth $200,-
9 : J. Hayes and Cleveland are said to
be in comfortable if not aiiiuent circum
stances. Mr. Arthur left an estate worth
$150,000. —Neic York Tribune.
A peculiarity of the Chinese tea
growers and dealers is that they make
no progress in tea culture or in prepar -
intf the leaf for ruaxicef
OVER THE CATARACT.
Wluui the brave Mtarilcy ami hi. tirelcae fol
lower* were pushing their way iritu Central Afri
ca, they caum one day to tie- bank of a mighty
liver. I'ootaorn anti weary, they quickly launch
limit boats, ami flml rest ami change hi floating
tqmn tin- smooth surface of the stream
Hooti, however, tiro watchful eye of th* great
explorer seea uiimislakuble sighs of the near
presence of a cataract. The current grows swift,
ttnv bubbles float by. Tim signal Is given to
Hint, and the party seek safely ou the low,
shelving bank.
One daring spirit, however, pushes his littlo
canoe into tho nmldln of tho stream and goes
resolutely forward, with the seeming luteutiuu
of flmling whether tho river is navigable.
In vain h s oomradiw shout and gestioulalo,
nulling wildly along tlm river I unk In puiauit.
Not tun it tlm loud thunder of failing w ater
hieaks upon his ear does lie attempt to turn.
Alas, it is too lato,
Tlm ears are wri nched from his hands, tire
boat is tossed wildly shout, a mare atom in the
soi tiling waters, sml in a brief moment, winch
seems all age to tho looker* ou, it is da-le and to
pieces against a huge bowlder on the very brink
uf a frightful preoipioe.
In va ii uur eomrsdus sre kindly warning ns
of our danger, Uur columns have often por
tray, and the fearful scourge that surrounds ns.
U leu we hear tlio expression "Is this fearful
11 urge more prevalent than in olden times?"
Wo say "No."
In Hi utils slid Julius dsMsrki true', iu the
dolt ages, we read of poacrful men being
stricken down, Tho same nbs'oelre nro met.
The Victim succumbs to the dimasa Ihe re
cent discoveries if the m'oroeoopo havo (levels
oped the real cause of so many terrible fatali
ties and brought nut the laot that many of the
symptoms which sre eilKsl disease* are l>at
symptoms of kidney dtsoider.
lVt pie do nut die because of the kidneys ul
cerating an 1 destroying their spinal column,
but bre a use tlm pis .nous waste matter is not
oxtraeted lr 111 tlie* blood as it pu-aca thiough
ihekidn ys, tho only blood purifying organs,
eutremnus, forcing its way through tho sys
tem, attacking the weakest organ.
Th doctors call this udiseaso, when in real
ity it is but a symptom.
Understanding this, tho reason why Warner’s
Sul’o l ure cures so many common diseases is
plain. It removes the causes of disease by pitt
lieg tho kidneys in a healthy condition ; enables
ilrom to perform their functions and remove
tlie poisonous acids from the blood j purifies the
blood and prevents tho poisonous matter cours
ing through the system ami attacking the weak
er organs and producing a malady which the
unsuspecting victim fears is, and tho heartless
piactitinner pronounc a, a disease, because of
uis inability to remove the cause.
lie avoids tho leal cause ami keeps his patient
in ignorance because of his inability to cope
with an advanced ki iney difficulty.
Any honest practitioner will admit that there
is nothing laid down in the old or in the modem
medical works that is a specific for advanced
kidney disorder, llis bigotry and code prevent
him irom publicly adopting any preparation
not di-cover, and by his kind, nnd uot recommend
ed by his instructors 25 or 30 years b fore. He
forgets that this Is a progressive world, and that
most of the great scientific and medical discov
eries of too present day have been mado outside
of tho medical profession.
The publio, knowing theso facts, should heed
the warning and seek safety from t he great dan
ger tiiat surrounds them, and look for help out
side the profession too bigoted and too self
reliant, lo icarn or oonccde that science is out
s ripping their materia medica and leaving them
and their obsolete methods far be.hind.
A Russian Belle.
“I went down and found my host,
who, iu Paris was, I have said, the most
correct and proper of men,sitting at the
breakfast table in a dressing gown that
was absolutely the dirtiest and most re
pulsive tliingT had ever seen. His wife
was presiding over a tea urn, and we had
got about half through the breakfast
when his daughter, a girl of about nine
teen years, came bouncing in. She stop
ped when she was about half way across
the room —and what do you think she
did ? There is no good telling you for
you would not believe it and you would
certainly be very muoh shooked."
“I think very likely I can stand it.”
“Well, it is a nice thing to say, and
certainly it is an unpleasant thing to
repeat, but the incident goes to illufr
trato what I have just said, that if novel
ists and writers would tell the exact facts
about people they pretended to desoribe
they could convey a real idea of the ex
isting condition of things. Yet no
writer would tell the incident that lam
about to relate to you, and I doubt
whether either you or I would dare to
put it in a book.”
I asked him what he referred to, and
he said slowly :
“Well, you must remember in the
first place that this was a young lady
that moved in respectable, middle class
sooiety in St. Petersburg, whoso father
was an official in the czar’s palace ami a
man of position and learniug, and who
was herself a young person of many
attractions. She was pretty, spoke
French, German and a little English,
beside her nati e tongue, was an admir
able musician, and a jolly sort of girl
generally. She walked half-way across
the floor that morni g at breakfast, and
then stopped and deliberately spat on
the carpet.
“Her mother reproved her by asking
her why she did not go to the hearth,
and the young lady replied that it was
too far off. Then 1 wa3 presented to
her and she sat down to breakfast.
Imagine such a thing in the house of an
English, American, Frenoh or German
gentleman! That little incident will
give you a better idea of Russian life
than any other. Ido not mean to say,
of course, that all Russian women are
like this. A few of the upper classes,
Russian princesses, countesses and so
on, are tremendously clever persons, but
they Rre not all so. There is a lack of
breeding among the women that is
amazing.” —Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Favorable Side.
It is a strange fact that the ugly girl
is rather a favorite than otherwise.
When we look at her, we lament the
shape of her nose, we sigh over the cast
in her eye, we deplore the dullness of
her complexion, we can find nothing to
praise; but perhaps she smiles, or she has
a witching manner. She knows the spell
which quits every one at his ease; she
owns the charm which makes others
pleased with themselves; and then we
are wont to say that there is no such
person as tho ugly girl. Tim plain face
which is alive with intelligence, which
beams with an expression of refinement
and good nature, which culturq and
high-mindedness animate, becomes
sometimes finer and more effective than
mere prettiness, mere pink and white
loveliness, mere shapeliness and symme
try of feature. The ugly girl has tho
advantage over her pretty sister; she
does not fade so early, or at least her
fading is not so palpable, and she is
usually a better looking matron than a
Sirl.
We Aro Ahead.
The success of the warships Vesuvius
and Yorktown in achieving more than
the contract requirements as to speed and
horse power, is made more conspicuous
by the failure of the British gunboat, the
Spider, to do cither. She was expected
to show a Speed of 20 knots per hour,
hut did not quite reach it. But this is
not so important as the failure of her en
gines to devilop the required horse-pow
er. Our Yorktown has exceeded the
hor9e-power guaranteed, and will earn a
premium for her contractors. The Ve
suvius has greatly exceeded the speed
stipulated, and has become famous
throughout the world.
A. J. I)Rexel, of Philadelphia, Pa.,
has put his project for an industrial
school for girls into shape, by purchasing
for it the Louella mansion, at Wayne,
Delaware county, securing a charter, and
appointing a board of trustees. The
entire value of buildings and endowment
will reach $1,500,000.
Tiie movement in Rhode Island to re
submit the prohibitory amendment to
the people, which lias resulted in the
passage of a bill to that end by the
present Legislature, has also given birth
io a fourth party, “Anti-Submission
Mugwumps,” they are called.
Zitnzlb&r.
Th*destiny of tho Island of Zitnv.iUr,
off the Hast Coast of Africa, aud oom
nmudiug maritime aocoss to tho G'm*
District of tho interior of tho Dark t on
tinont, is at this time a oousidoration *>J
high political importance, with regard
to tho division of Herman nnd British
colonizing enterpfi** on tho niatu land,
the combined naval blockade for the
suppression of tlio slave trade, aud tho
insurrection of the Huliod coast tribe*
uguiust the German settlement*, /an
mliar is mi island forty-eight mile* long
and eighteen miles brood, formed by u
reef of madrepore, with hill* not above
400 feet high, and oovorod with luxur
iant the soil being in most
part* extrehvdy fertile. Tint popula
tion, altogether numbering 300,(Mk1, in
cludes abont 14,000 Banyan* of the Hin
doo trading class from India, many of
whom are British subjects; Arabs, chief
ly from Oman or from .Muscat; l’arsee
merchants; free and slave block* from
different parts of Africa, from tho Com
oro Islands nnd Madagascar; and tho
native raeo, who live iu hut* of wattle
aud olay. The part of Zanzibar wliero
tlm lato'Saltan Said Hurglmsh resided,
is a tine bay or harbor on tho west ooast,
fronting Africa, nnd tho town has at
least (10,000 inhabitant*. The connec
tion between Southern Arabia and Zan
zibar is of a very ancient ditto, but was
long interrupted bv the Portuguese
dominion, which on this part of the Mast
African coast huß boon nbaudonod,
though it is still a reality iu tho Mozam
bique Channel nnd far to the south. Zan
zibar, however, did not exercise any
fnnotions of actual government on the
main-land, while claiming a titular sov
ereignty along its sea-coast. — b'rank
Leslie's.
Athletic Sports of tho Samonns.
The men of Samoa are a fine athletio
race, aud it did not take them long to
find interest in many of the spurts in
dulged in by their visitors. They soon
learned to wrestle and to box, and a
number of the natives will nut only put
on the gloves with you, but give you a
lively tussle afterwards. They wore
apt pupils in cricket also, and can make
a very interesting gamo with the En
glish residents or tho officers and sailors
from the British meu of-war and mer
chantmen that sometimes visit their
shores. They soivn learn athletio sports
but take little interest in manual labor
of any kind. Iu fact until about teu or
twelve years ago they used to import
laborers from the Solomon Islands, who
were held to service for a term of years,
as were the Chinese coolies at one time
in other parts of the world. There are
yet in the Samoa and in the Fiji
Islands many of these imported labor
ers, though the traffic has been sup
pressed for several years.
The Kamoans are religious, but while
professing Christianity and attending to
the duties imposed upon them by the
faith taught them by the missionaries,
still, wheu in dire ne ed of more than
human aid, they also appeal to the
wooden images which, they do not
doubt, have brought their forefathers
through so many dangers. They pro
pose to leave no stone unturned, or
no prayer unsaid, that might possibly
bring them benefit iu their hour of
trouble. —Ntw Yurk Journal.
To protect ourselves against the
storms of passion, marriage with a good
woman is a harbor in the tempest; but
with a bad woman it is a tempest in the
harbor.
If Shakes
You Hungry
< I have used Paine’s Celery Compound and It
has had a salutary
jTtMa effect. Itlnvtgorat-
A ed the system and I
In teel 11!:e anew
sil r ft Improves
fy'gi fSri lll6 a PPcttte ar, 4
i facilitates Alges
ia* < d \tion.” J. T. Cope
land, Primus, 8. C.
Spring medicine meansmorcnow-a-daysthanlt
did ten years ago. The wlnterof isss-ss haslett
the nerves all fagged out. The nerves must be
strengthened, tho Wood purified, liver and
ho vels regulated. Paine’s Celery compound—
tfie Spring medicine of to-day —does all this,
as nothing else can. Prescribed by Physicians,
Recommended b* Druggists, Endorsed by Ministers,
Guaranteed by the Manufacturers to be
The Best
Spring Medicine.
“In the spring of 18871 was all run down. I
would get up In the morning with so tired a
feeling, and was so weak that I could hardly get
around. I bought a bottle of Paine’s Celery Com
pound, and before I had taken It a week I felt
very much better. I can cheefully recommend
It to all who need a building up and strengthen
ing medicine.” Mrs. B. A. Dow, Burlington. Vt.
Paine’s
Celery Compound
13 a ualque tonic and appetizer. Pleasant to
the taste, quick In its action, and without any
Injurious effect. It gives that rugged health
which makes everything taste good. It cures
dyspepsia and kindred disorders. Physicians
prescribe It. fl.oo. tsix tor *3.00. Druggists.
Wells, Richardson & Cos.. Burlington, Vt
DIAMOND DYES Never Fail! Always sure!
m lAviypn JN ourishesbabicaperfedly.
LALt, A!Lu t JUJ 2'lte Ikyefcians' favorite.
TUTTS
B!BH—
PILLS
25 YEARS IN USE.
The Greatest Modical_Trinmjh of th* Ago’.
SYMPTOMS OF A
TORPID LIVER.
Jt.oM of nppetite, Unwell costive, Pain iu
tlie head, with a dull .ens.tian In tho
tacit part, Pnin under the ehoulder
hlade, Fullnc.e after ratine, with adla
im'linutioD to exertion of body or mind,
IrritHliiliiy of temper, Low epirlte, with
a feeling of bavins neclected tone doty,
Wearine.s, Dixzincoe, Flntterlnr at tho
Heart, Dote before the eyee, Headache
over tho riaht eye, Beetleeeneee, with
fitful dreams, Highly colored Urine, and
CONSTIPATION.
TUTT’S I’IHI.S are especially adapted
to such cases, one dose effects such a
chance of feeling as to astonish the sufferer.
They Increase the Appete.ml cause the
body to Take on Flesh, thus the system Is
nourished,nnd by their Tonic Action on
tne ItißestiveOrßans.Jtecular Stools are
TUTTS HAIR DYE.
Gray Hair or Whiskers changed to a
Glossy Black by a single application of
this Die. D imparts a natural color, acts
Instantaneously. Sold by Druggists, or
cent by express on receipt o #l.
OfTico, 44 Murray St., Now York.
DIAMOND VERA-CURA
FOR DYSPEPSIA.
A POSITIVE CURE F( R iNDIGESTION AND ALL
Stomach Trouble* Alining Therefrom.
Your Druggist or General Dealer will grt Vera
Cv i for 1,0111/ not a'icndy in stock, or it will he
Bent by mail on receipt of 25 eta. (5 boxes $1.00) in
stomps. Sample tent o receipt o/2-cent stump.
Tre Charles A. Vogeler Cos., Baltimore. Md.
HI suffered from catarrh 12
years. The droppings into
(he throat were nauseating
Mg nose Wed almost daily,
Since tire first day's use of
Ely's Cream Balm hare had
no bleeding, the soreness is
ent,rely gone. D. a. David,
snn.u-lththe Boston Budget.
PEERLESS RTES Solo by Dmuuiirr*
An Übl Ojll.Vdjr.
Just one hundred yema before Colum
bus discov red America, generations be
fore Hhalu-sp are was bum, tnori* than
two hundred years bof. io Luther stirred
up < ernmuy with hi* preaching, a hun
dri and yiiiis before the first Bible was
print 'd, when ali England wu* sleeping
ou straw, sml when pins had vet to be
known, th* pro cut dynasty of Corea sat
upon is imperial throne aud governad
it* cream faced, almond-eyed subjects.
The blood that ilowa in the veiu* of
Li Hi, the present King of Corea, is the
same continuous royal stream which has
flowed over the Cor. an throne sine*
131 b!. During that time twenty nine
kings have reigned and the power of eaoh
has been morn despotic than that of the
Czar of Russia. The royal blood has
not weakened iu its (lowing, and, his
Majesly of to-duy lihb the best uiialities
of bis ancestors and is one of the most
progressive of Asiatic rulers.— Portland
Oregonian*
Perfect health depend* upon a i>erfect con
dition of tit** blood. I’nre blood conquer*every
di-MUHe and give* new Ufeioevery decayed or
effected part, .strong nerve* uml perfect di-
KeNt ten enable* tiie *>Mcm tom und the *l>ck
of smbt* n climatic chan gen. An occauionul
ut*e of Drown’* Iron Dilter* will keep you In a
perfect mate of health. Den t be deceived toy
other iron prei arat lon* mid to be Jut a* rood.
The counine i** inndo only by Drown C’lieinicnl
Company, Daltimore, Md. bold by ell dealer?
in uicdiciues.
A Rad oml C ure tor KlleKle File.
To f/ic JCfltter—Pleaae Inform your reader*
that 1 have a positive remedy for the above
iamte "iaSiowhb'h I worrMt toer* th.
worst case*. Ho strong i ni> faith in it* >ir
hies that 1 will send rieea sample bottle and
valuable treatise to any mifferer who will give
(uehlsP O and Ezpreas addrese. Heepy,
H.U. HOOT. M. C . Pearl Ht.. New lork.
Rost, * asicst to t|*o and cheapest, Piso’s
Remedy for C’atarrh. By Druggist, 60c.
If n m i(• tC(I vvi l l sore eyes use I >r. Isaac Thomp
jon’s Eye- water. Druggists sell matte.per bottle
Spring Sickness
May be avoided bv taking the popular spring medi
cine. Hood’s Sarsaparilla, im season. If you have
not felt well duiiag the wtnter, if you have been
overworked, or c ow y confined In badly ventilated
rooms or ah P3, you nee 1 s goo \ tonic and blood
purifier like Hood’s Saraaparilla. Take it early an 1
y.u will ward off attacks of dis-ase or escags the
effects of impure blood and that tire l feeling so
oommon in the spring. Do not delay. Take Hood’s
Sarnapaiilla now.
**l wish to ftate th benefit I derived from Hood’s
Sar-aparilla. I have used it In he spring for three
years for debility and esn asy that 1 gained in ftesh
and strength after u*ing one bottle. It also cured
me of sick headache ’-Maa V. H. Axcmaws. South
Woodstock, Conn
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists $1; six for $5. Pr**pired only
by C. L HOOD Jt CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
AN HONEST DRUGGIST,
when asked for the best blood-purifier, always recommends Dr. Pierce’6 GoM
Medical Discovery, because ho knows it has by far the largest sale and giver'-';
best satisfaction to his customers. Golden Medical Discovery cures all hu® 9
from a oomnton Blotch, or Eruption to the worst Scrofula. Salt-rheum. Sato;
Rough Skin, in short, all diseases caused by bad blood are conquered by *
powerful, purifying, and invigorating medicine. Great Eating Ulcers npii
heal under Its benign influence. Especially lias it manifested its potearc
curing Tetter, Eczema, Erysipelas, Boils, Carbuncles, Sore Eyes, Scrofnl*;
Sores and Swellings, Hip-joint Disease, “White Swellings,” “Fever So*
Goitre, or Thick Neck, and Enlarged Glands.
Consumption, which is Scrofula of the Lungs, is arrested and cured bj
remedy, if taken in the earlier stages of the disease.
■ ■ ■ ■ - .11,1,,,, Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Disco'?
Wf aRRANI laUi is the only medicine of its class tbai
1 guaranteed to benefit or cure, is <
cases of diseases for which it is recommended, or the money paid to
will be promptly refunded.
For Weak Lungs, Spitting of Blood, Shortness of Breath, Bronchi
Asthma, Severe Coughs, and kindred affections, it is an efficient remt
Sold by Druggists, at SI.OO, or six Bottles for $5.00.
Copyright, 1888, by World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Proprietors.
■ ' ■ --H
CATARRH ™ ’ r ?T,
la conquered by tho eleansingj
septic, soothing and healing properties of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. 00 oents, by iirufl>
JONES
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ILj PAYS THE FREICHT.
$J . " gon denies,
•AJKfttriw r * ron Severs. Steel IJeariurh, lirass
vIPWiKwSIeW Taro Beam anti beam liux lor
BGO.
rtMmjL V V Every size ft-ale. F< >r free price ILst
nfciou this pftjvr and Rtltlress
f JONES OF BINGHAMTON,
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SOUTHERN DYE HOUSE
All kinds of Silk, Cotton or Woolen Goods
handsomely dyed or cleaned.
t?TSuits a Spocialty.JSl
EXPRESS PAID ONE WAY.
24 Walton St., ATLANTA, GA.
CONSUMPTION
I hare a positive remedy for the shore disease ; br It* use
thousands of cams of tho worst kind nnd of Iona; sUndlmr
have boon cured. So t*troni? I* my faith In Its efficacy that
I will Hond two bottle* free, together with valuable
treatise on this disease to any suireror. Olre Express and
P. O. address. T. A. SLOCUM, M. 0„ 181 Pssrl Bt., N. Y
■asthma CMBEei
■ Ormun AsthinuCurenevcr/atfstofrivetowH
in the worst caei*,irtHureecomfort-®
■ able sleep ; effects cores where a! 1 others fail
H trial convinces the m'ist tkeplieal. Price 6Qc. >ttd3
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For mep. State bulletin, pamphlet and Sample
Weekly, “South Florida Progress* send 6c. posters.
"Florldm Foote" 144 po*es, .76c | 240 p.. ciotk.B 1 . !■-
valuable. O. M CROSEY. 99 t unkliu SL. N X.
BSIICV UAI/r AKentft AT ONCE. Sample Hash
mild I nftVk lock free by mail for 20. nlamp.
Immense. I’nrlvnlcd. Only good one ever in vent
ed, Boats weights. Sale* unparalelled. !Rl2n dny.
Wkite QUICK. ILrohai and & Uo., Clarksburg, W. Va.
DECT nil CADTU for Farm and Household.
DtLd I Ull can 11l Words of Praise and Terms
to Agents Irce. Guaranteed to please. J W. liil
liiiKtoii, 468>tf Dryades St.. New OrlcmiM. I>n.
PROOF, OR OHIO
Hoea. sino vosoiaoeieTion aesioi'^S
l prescribe and fully en
■>r*e Big <1 m the only
wolfle for the certain cure
[ this disease.
.H.INGRAHAM,M. D.,
Amsterdam , N. Y.
We hare sold Big O for
tany years, and It haa
slven the best ef aaus
fectlon.
D. R. DYCHE A CO., j
1.00. Bold by Druggists.
Bold by Druggists. A. N. , T*
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—A. J. Hoi,man ,t Cos., „f p,
phiit, liuvotuooivod itruutjjl
number of Indmnapolia < ity..|, i
uf nature tlm finest ]Jii,i o M ,* , <J
mado for proHoutntiau t,,
Harrison. It will 1 K) 1 ■ *
ltoom of tho White llouao 'i'j
will ho an imperial quarto J
great; primer tyimoutlm llnn.jTl
and bound with heavily |, ni |,|„;t|
in a null brown almdo of 1 “i
akin, ornamented w ith liinvv .ii. Ut, l
A silver plate will boar th,', j.
"l’roselitud to tlonoml lk.uG, ,*?!
son by tho oitzous of Inaiu Uttl^'||
Tub New York I'm, j„f on _
ers that the TlmoMopl l i l . u | l? 11 ’**
Philadelphia has diH| ) at < | 1 ~| ' 1
gull's to Hindustan to *"J
gmve of Buddha. If |
should attempt to enter tU
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they will probably find u
sort boforo tho eiul of ]\f„ v
A criH>ratlon At, Buffalo, y
ing Niagara Falls Into a giant
Children Hiurvlug to
On account of their Inability to (L
will And a most marvellous food *
in Scott’s Emulsion of l'u rtt ( 0,1 '\m
with Hv|KpboHphlteH. Very
casl.y digMicd. Dr. s. \V. rolien
Texas, says: ”1 have used y o r
Infantile wasting with good
only restore >l wasted tissues, l>utgives
ami increases the appetite. lam
such a reliable article.” Kl4a 1(1 and
A I’lritelug I.Ruiite,
Whoever has taken Hamburg Figs will*
take any other kind of laxativemMiclst'S
arc pleasant t< the taste, and are surshts!
action, a few dost** curing the most obatS
case of constipation or torpidity of the lire
cent?. Dose one Fig. Mack Drug Cos.. K.y
AM* disorders peculiar to woman aria
rected and much suffering avoided by n v
Brad field's Female Regulator. BydruS
Hood’s Sarsaparilla is praiard from BAmar
Dandslloa. Mandrake, Dock, Jnn per hrr ~
other well known vegetable remedies, n
peculiar msaner as to derive the fuil
value of each It will cure, wi eu in tha pevt
medicine, ?cr -fula. salt i hinra, eorea. boa*, a
plee, all humors, dyspevwia, b lioueneM. del j,
ache, indigestion, veneral debility, catarrh,
tism, kidney and liver comj laiuts. it o?w.
that extreme tired feeling canned by chaoy* 0
ntate, ecsaoo, or life, and Imparts life and >trw
to the whole system.
• For fire years I wan aiok every eprl ig.bw,
year began In February to i ake Hood's Banker.
I used Ave bottles end have not seen s its
since.*’—G. W. Sloah, Milton, Mas
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Bold by all druggists. $1; six tor |5 Prepare :
by C. I. HOOD h CO., Apothecaries. LowU, b
100 Doses Ono Dollar
IF YOU WISH Al~ mn ■ i >&
GOOD (SMITH &MSSON f 5 * IP% 1
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bra ted SMITH & WESSON
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mannh p and stock, t hey are unrivaled for
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cheap malleable cail-lrsn li?M nt |?*iHM
a • often sold for the genuine article M
only unreliable, but dangerous. The
WESSON Revolvers are all stamped
rels with firm's name, address and dates H
and are guaranteed perfect in every***
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dealer cannot supply you an order
below will receive prompt and csreni* •
Descriptive catalogue and prices f'jrnt*"^..-
plication. SMITH & WKSSO> |
gy Mention this paper. Bprlnlw*
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