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REV. Dll. TALMAGE.
the BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN
DAY SERMON.
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(|'rrrh<-il ut th- Hwplo.
Long Inland.)
Text: “/n my Fathers house art many
rootn*."—' John nv., 2.
Uer‘ i of m Vwinc tUat U a cun*
all. Th# <hw*ipl* w©r **<l and < hrwt or
frnl bMvw as an all native, n stimulant
and a tonic. He *bow rhein that thair am*-
row. are "lily a dark U kim-ond of bright
pictur*' of coming felicity. He lew
them kn*w that tli JRh now they live
on the lowland* tin juaN yat , a
houM' on the upland*. Nearly all I In* Hi Me
dret notions of heave i may be figurative.
1 am not pohtire that in all heaven there in
a literal crown or harp or iearly irate or
throne or chariot. They may beonlyu**!
to illustrate the glories of the place, but how
well thev do it! The favorite svnibol by
which the Hible presents celwtial oappineM
Is a house. Paul, who never owned a house,
although he hired one for two years in Italy,
speaks of heaven a*a“hou*c not made with
hands. nd Christ in our text. the transla
tion of which is a little changed so an to give
the nure accurate meaning, save: ‘'in my
Father's house are many rooms.
This divinely authorised comparison of
heavon to a great honie*t4*al of largo accom
modations I propose to carry out. In some
healthy neightor-hood a man builds a
very commodious habitation. He must
have room for all his children. The
rooms come to be called after tho
different members of the family. That is
mother’s room. That is George’s room.
That is Henry's room. That is Flora's
room. That is "Mary's room. And the house
is all occupied. Hut lime goes by and the
sous go out into the world and build
their own homes and daughters are married
or have talents enough singly to go out and
do a goxl work in tho work!. Afu*ra while
the father and mother are almost alone in
the big house and. seated by the evening
stand, they say: Well, our family is no
larger now than when we started together
!
by and some of the children are unfortunate
and return to the old homestead to live,
and the grand-children come with them, and
perhaps greatgrandchildren, and again
tiie house is full. Many millennia ago
God built on the hills of heav
en a great homestead for a family innumer
able. yet to la*. At first He lived alone in
that great house, but after a while it was
occupied by a very large family, cherubic,
seraphic, angelic. The eternities passed on
and manv of the inhabitants became way
ward and left never to return. And many
of the apiurtmetthq were vacated. I refer to
the fallen angels. \ Now these apartments
are filling up again.\ There are arrivals at
the old homestead or\ God’s children every
day. and tho day will coiire when there will
be no ymoccupied room in all the house.
and I exj>ect to enter it and make
'there eternal residence. I thought you would
like to get some more i>articulars about that
many-roomed hoinebtead “In my l ather's
house are many rooms/’ You see the place
is to be apportioned off into apartments. We
shall love all who are in heaven, but there
are some very good people whom we would
not want to live with in tne same room. They
may be better than we arc, but they are
of a divergent temperament. We would
like to meet with them oil the goldeu
streets and worship with them in
the temple and walk with them on the river
banks, but I am glad to say that we shall
live in different apartments. “In my Father's
house are many rooms.’’ You sec heaven will
be so large that if one want an entire room to
himself or herself, it can be afforded. An in
genious statistician taking the statement
made in Revelation, twenty-first chapter,that
the heavenly Jerusalem was measured and
found to be twelve thousand furlongs and
that the length and height and breadth
of it aro equal, says that would make
heaven in size I*4B sextillion 088
quintillion cubic feet, and then reserving a
certain portion for the court of heaven and
tho streets, and estimating that tho world
may last a hundred t housand years, he ciphers
out that there are over five trillion rooms,
each room seventeen feet long, sixteen feet
wide, fifteen feet high. But I nave no faith
in the accuracy of that calculation. He makes
the rooms two small. From all I can read, the
rooms will be palatial, and those who have
not had enough room in this world will
have plenty of room at the last. The fact is
that most people in this world are crowded,
and though out on a vast prairie or in a
mountain district people may nave more room
than they want, in most cases it is house built
close to house, and the streets are crowded
and the cradle is crowded by other cradles,
and the graves crowded in the cemetery by
other graves, and one of the richest
luxuries of many people in getting
out of this world will be the
gaining of unhindered and uncramped room.
And I should not wonder if instead of the
room that the statistician ciphered out as
only seventeen feet by sixteen, it should be
larger than any of the imperial rooms at Ber
lin, St. James or Winter Palace. “In my
Father’s house are many rooms.’’ Carrying
out still further the symbolism of the text lot
us join hands and go up to this majestic
homestead and see for ourselves.
As we ascend the goldeu steps, an invisible
guardsman swings open the front door and
we are ushered to the right into the recep
tion room of the old homestead. That is the
place where we first meet the welcome of
neaven. There must be a place where the
departed spirit enters and a place in which it
confronts the inhabitants celestial. The re
ception room of the newly arrived from this
world—what scenes it must have witnessed
since the first guest arrived, the victim of
the first fratricide,pious Abel. In that room
Christ lovingly greeted all new com
ers. Ho redeemed them and He has the
right to the first embrace on their arrival.
IV hat a minute when the ascended spirit first
sees the Lord. Better than all we ever read
about Him or talked about Him or sang
about Him in all the churches and through
all our earthly lifetime, will it be, just for
one second to see Him. The most rapturous
idea we ever had of Him on sacramental
dAys or at the height of some great revival
or under the uplifted baton oi au oratorio
area bankruptcy of thought compared with
the first flash or His appearance in that
reception room. At that moment when you
confront each other, Christ looking upon you
and you looking upon Christ., there will bean
ecstatic thrill and surging of emotion that
beggars all description. Cook! They need
no introduction. Long ago Christ chose that
repentant sinuor aud that repentant sinner
cho6e Christ. Mightiest moineut of an im
mortal history—the first kiss of heaven!
Jesus and the soul. The soul and Jesus.
But now into that reception room pour
the glorified kinsfolk. Enough of
earthly retention to let you know them,
but without their Wounds or their sick
nesses or their See what heaven
has d<*ne for Hk , So radiant, so
gleeful, so transportingly lovely. They call
you by name. They greet you with an
ardor proportioned to the anguish of
your parting and tho length of your separa
tion. Father! Mother! There is your child.
Sisters! Brothers! Friends! I wish you joy.
For years apart, together again in the recep
tion room of the old homestead. You see
they will know you are coming. There are
so many immortals filling all the spaces be
tween here and heaven that news like that flies
like lightning. They will be there in au in
stant; though they were in some other world
on errand from God a signal would be
thrown that would f-dch them. Though you
might at first feel Hazed and overawed at
their supernal splendor, all that feeling
will be gone at their first touch of heavenly
salutation, and we will say: “O my lost boy,”
“O my lost companion, ”“0 my lost friend.ura
we here together?” What aeenes have been
witnessed in the reception room of the old
homestead! There met Joseph aud Jacob,
finding it a brighter room than anything they
saw in Pharaoh’s palace; David aud the little
child for whom he -nee fasted and wept-
Mary and Lazarus after the heartbreak of
Bethany; Timothy and grandmother Lois;
IfabeUa Graham aud her sailor son,
Alfred and George Cookman, the
mystery of the sea ut last made manifest;
-Luther and Magdalono, the daughter he be
moaned; John Howard and tlie prisoners
whom he gospelizod; and multitudes without
number who, ouco so weary and so .sad,
parted on earth but gloriouslv met in heaven
Amon- all tho rooms of that house there is
vio one that more enraptures my soul than
that receptiou-room. “In my Father’s house
are many rooms.” '
Another room in our Father’s house is the
throne room. We belong to the royal fam
ily. The blood of King Jesus flow's in our
veins, so we have a right to enter the throne
room. It is no easy thine on earth to ret
through even the outside door of a King’s
residence. During the Franco-German war.
one eventide in the summer of 1870, I stood
studying the exquisite sculpturing of the
gate of the Tuilenes, Paris. Lost in admira
tion of the .wonderful art of that gate I knew
,pot thatl was exciting suspicion. Lower
ing my eyes to tko crowds of people I
found myself being closely inspected by
governmental officials, who from my com
plexion judged me to be a German, and that
for some belligerent purposed might be ex
amining the gates of the palace. My ex
planations in very poor French did not
satisfy them and they followed me long dis
tances until 1 reached my hotel, and were
not satisfied until from my landlord they
found that J, was only an inoffensive Aineri
can. The gates of earthly palaces are care
iully guarded, and, if so, how much more
severely the throne room. A dazzling place
is it for mirrors and all costly art No
one who ever mw the tl.roue of the first and
only Napoleon will ever forget the letter N
tonbroidcred in purple and gold ou the U£
lidwterv of chair and window, the letter N
gilded on the wall, the letter N chased on the
cholic*.*, the letter N flaming from the ceil
ing. What a conflagration of brilliance the
throne room of Charles Immanuel of Bardina,
of Ferdinand of Hpaln of Elisabeth of Eng
land, of Boniface of Italy, But tho throne
room of our Fathers house hath a
glory eclipsing all the throne rooms that ever
saw scop ter wave or crown glitter or forcigu
AinlasMador bow, for our Father's throne is
a throne of grace, a throne of mercy, a
t hrone of holinnei, s throne of justice,a throne
of universal dominion. We need not stand
shivering ami cowering before it, for our
Father soys we mavyet one day come upend
sit ou it hcsirie Hun- “To him that overcom*
eth will I grant t>sit with Mein Mv throne ”
You sw wo are Princes ami Princesses.
Perhaps now we move about incognito, as
j *, tet the Great in the garb of a ship carpen
ter at Amsterdam, or as Queen Tirsah In the
dram of a poaaant woman seeking the prophet
for her child’s cure; but it will lie found out
after awhile who we are when we get into
the throne room. Aye! we need not wait
until then. Wo may by prayer and
song and spiritual uplifting this mo
ment enter tho thron* room. O King,
live forever! We touch tho forgiving
scepter and prostrate ourselves at Thy feet!
The crowns of the royal families of this
world are tossed about from generation to
feneration and from family to family.
here aro children four years old iu Berlin
who have seen the crown on three Emperors.
But wherever the coronets of this world rise
or fall, they are destined to meet in one place.
Am! I look and see them coming from north
and south and east and west, the Spanish
crown, the Italian crown,the English f*rown,
the Turkish crown, the Russian crown, tho
Persian crown, aye, all the crowns from un
der the great arcnivolt of heaven; and while
1 w atch ami wonder tlioy are all flung in rain
of diamonds around the pierced feet.
Jesus shall rclsti whcr'or the sun
p.-t-s his suecessive Journeys ruu.
His kin*<l<-iji stretsh from shore to shors
'I 111 sun shall rise and set no more.
Ob, that throne room of Christ! “In my
Father's house arc many rooms.”
Another room in our Father’s house is tho
music room. St. John and other Bible
writers talk so much about the music of
heaven that there must be music there,
]>erhapß not such as on earth was thrummed
from trembling string or evoked by
touch of ivory Key, but if not that, then
something better. There are so many
Christian harpists and Christian com
posers and Christian organists aud Christian
choristers and Christian hymnologists that
have gone up from earth, there must be for
them some place of especial delectation.
Shall wo have music in this world of discords
and no music iu the land of complete har
mony!' I cannot give you the* notes of tho
first bar of the new song that is sung in
heaven. I cannot imagine either the solo or
the doxology. Hut heaven means music, aud
can mean nothing else. Occasionally that
music has escaped the gate. Dr. Fuller
dying at Beaufort, 8. C\, said: “Do you
not hear?*’ “Hear what?” exclaimed
the bystanders. “The music! Lift me
up! Open the windows!” In that music-room
of our Father’s house, you will some day
meet the old Christian masters, Mozart and
Handel and Mendelssohn and Beethoven and
Doddridge, whose sacred poetry wos as re
markable as his sacred prose, and James
Montgomery and William Cowper. at last
cot rid of his spiritual melancholy, and
Bishop Heber, who sang of “Greenland’s icy
mountains and India’s coral strand;” and
I)r. Raffles, who wrote of “High in yonder
realms of light.” and Isaac Watts,
who went to visit Bir Thomas Abney
and wife for a week but proved himself so
agreeable a guest that they made him stay
thirty-six years; and side by side, Augustus
Topladv, who has got over his dislike for
Methodists, and Charles Wesley freed from
his dislike for Calvinists; and George W.
Bcthune, as sweet as a song maker as lie was
groat as a preacher and the author of “The
Village Hymns;” and many who wrote in
verse or song, in church or by eventide
cradle, and many who were passionately
fond of music but could make noue them
selves. The poorest singer there more than
auy earthly prinia donna, aud the
poorest players there more than
any earthly Gottsclialk. Oh that music
room, the headquarters of cadence and
rhythm, symphony and chant, nsalin and
antiphon! May we be there some hour when
Haydn sits at the keys of one of iiis own or
atorios, and David the psalmist fingers the
harp, aud Miriam of the Red sea banks claps
the cymbals, and Gabriel puts his lips to the
trumpet and the four-and-twenty soldiers
chant, and Lind and Farepa render match
less duet in the music loom of the old heav
enly homestead. “In my Father’s house are
many rooms.”
Another room in our Father’s house will be
the family room. It may correspond some
what. with the family room on earth. At
morning and evening you know, that is the
place we now meet. Though every member
of the household have a separate room
iu tho family room they all gath
er aud joys and sorrows and experi
ences of all styles are there rehearsed. Sa
cred room in all our dwellings! Whether it
be luxurious with ottomans and divans and
books in Russian lids standing in mahogany
case, or there be only a few plain chairs
mid a cradle. So the family room on high
will be the place where the kiusfolk assem
ble and talk over the family experiences of
earth, the weddings, the births, tho burials,
the festal days of Christmas and Thanksgiv
ing reunion. Will the children depajted re-
main children there? Will the aged remain
aged there? Oh, no; everything is perfect
there. The child will go ahead to glorified
maturity and the aged will go back to glo
rified maturity. The rising sun of the one
will rise to meridian and the descending sun
of the other will return to meridian. How
ever much we love our children on earth wo
would consider it a domestic disaster if thev
stayed children and so we rejoice at their
growth here. And when we meet iu the
family room of our Father’s house, wo will
be glad that they have grandly and glorious
ly matured; while our parents who were
aged and infirm here, we shall be glad to find
restored to tho most agile and vigorous im
mortality there. If forty or forty-five or fif
ty years bo the apex of physical and mental
life on tho earth, then the heavenly child
hood will advance to that and the heavenly
old age will retreat to that.
When we join them iu that family room
we shall have much to tell them. We shall
want to know of them right away such
things as these; Did you see us in this or that
or the other struggle ? Did you know when
we lost our property and sympathize with us?
Did you know we had that awful sickness?
Were you hovering anywhere around when
we plunged into that memorable accident?
Did you know of our backsliding? Did
you know of that moral victory? Were
you pleased when wo started for heaven? Did
you celebrate the hour of our conversion?
And then, whether they know it or not, we
will tell them all. But they will have more
to tell us than we to tell them. Ten years on
earth may be very eventful, but what must
be the biography of ten years in heaven?
1 hey will have to tell us the story
of coronations, story of news from ail
immensity, story of conquerors and
hierarchs story of wrecked or ran
somed planets, story of angelic victory
over diabolic revolts, of extinguished suns, of
obliterated constellations, of new galaxies
kindled and swung, of stranded comets, of
worlds on lire, ami story of Jehovah’s ma
jestic reign. If in that family room of our
Father's house we have so much to toll them
or what wo have passed through since we
parted, how much more thrilling and arous
ing that which thov have to tell us of what
they have passed through since we parted.
Surely that family room null be one of tho most
favored rooms in all our Father’s house.
What loug lingering there, for we
shall never again be in a hurry.
“Let mo open a window,” said an
humble Christian servant to Lady Raffles,
who, because of the death of her child,
had shut herself up in a dark room
and refused to see any one; “you have
been many days in this dark room.
Are you not ashamod to grieve iu this
manner, when you ought to be thanking
i 1 , f S r , “ avm & 6 1V you the most beauti
ful oilil(l that ever was soon, and instead of
leaving him iu this world till he should be
worn with trouble, has not God taken him to
heaven in ail his beauty? Leave off weeping
and let me o]**n a window,” So to-day lam
trying to open upon the darkness of earthly
separation the windows and doors and rooms
of the heavenly homestead. “In my Father’s
house arc many rooms.”
How would it do for my sermon to leave
you in that family room to-day? lam sure
there is no room in which you would rather
stay than in the enraptured circle of \*our as
cended aud glorified kinsfolk. We might
visit other rooms in our Father’s house. There
may be picture galleries penciled not with
earthly art but by some process
unknown in this world, preserv
ing for tho next worl i tho bright
est and most stupendous scenes of human nis
torv. And there may be lines and forms of
earthly beauty preserved for heavenly in
spection in something whiter and chaster and
richer than Venetian sculpture ever wrought,
ltooms beside rooms, liooma over rooms.
Large rooms. Majestic rooms, opalescent
rooms, amethystine rooms. “In my Father’s
house aro many rooms.”
I hoj>e none of us will be disappointed
about getting there. There is a room for us
lT we win go aud take it, but In order to reach
it it is absolutely necessary that we take the
right way; and Christ is the way: and w’e
must enter at the right door, and Christ is
the door; and we must start- in time, and the
only hour you are sure of is the hour the clock
now strikes and the only second the one your
watch is now ticking. I hold in
my hand a roll of letUm inviting you all
to make that your home forever, The New
Testament is only a roll of letters inviting
y*u, as the spirit- of them practically says;
My dying yet immortal child in earthly
neighlsirbood, I have built for you a groat
residence. It is full of rooms. I have
furnished them as no |alaco was ever fur
uifthad. Tear Is are nothing, emeralds are
nothing, chrvNophrasuH i nothing; illu
mined panels of MiuriftA and sunset,
nothing; tho aurora of the northern
heavens, not lung—compared with tlie splen
dor with which I have garniture*! them.
But you must be clean before you con enter
there, and so I have oix*nrd a fountain
where you may wash all your sins away.
Come now I But your weary but cleanaed
foot oil the upward pathway, Do you not
sec amid tho thick foliage on tho heavenly
hill-tops the old family homestead?” “In
my Father's house aro many rooms. ”
A TROPIC FRUIT.
Something About tho Cultivation of
the Banana.
Tlio bunches of bananas are cut as
soon us the fruit is fully grown, but still
green. Each bunch is wrapped in the
large dried leaves of the plant itself ami
shipped exclusively by steamer, as the
fmit will not bear more than a six days’
voyage without decaying. None but the
largest and finest bunches are shipped,
and, therefore, thdusands of pounds of
the fruit are thrown away each y ar be
cause, growing in small bunches, though
each banana is as tine as any Rent
abroad. The experiment of drying this
fruit for c\]>oit is pow being tried,
The cultivation of the banana requires
special care, and has been reduced to an
exact science. The land is plowed up
aud tho sprouts are put in about eight
feet apart in line. It takes from ten tc
twelve mouths before the fruit is suffi
ciently grown to le cut from the trees,
which reach from twenty to twenty-fivs
feet in height. An expert goes over the
field every other day. When he sees o
tree whose fruit is well grown aud ready
for the market he tnk* s a sharp knife
about two feet long and cuts the bunch
half way through. As it drops ovoi
slowly and I tends down he catches it by
tho stem and gives another swift cut, sc
that the bunch is borne to tho ground
without damage to the fruit, which ii
then perfectly green. It is taken from
the field to a storage place located neat
by, thenc • carried carefully in carts tc
the wharf, where the s; earner is iu wait
ing to receive its cargo.
Like the oyster the banana is best
eaten raw, but those who prefer to em
ploy the art of the cook will find till
fruit available for treatment in a variety
of wavs. It fhay be cooked either greer
or r.p*, fried alone or iu batter, baked
with the skins on like a po ato or mad*
into puddings, pies or cakes. In Cen
tral America, where bananas form the
staple food of the population, they art
cut into strips and dried or pounded intc
a paste. In the green state they con
tain a considerable quantity of starch,
which is converted into grape sugar iu
the process of ripening. In 100 pounds
of bananas there are 74 pounds of water,
20 of sugar and 2 of gluten or flesh
fonning substance. The deficiency of
the latter requires that a small quantity
of meat or other nitrogenous food be
added to constitute a full dietary for hu
man consumption; but there is probably
no single article of food supplied by na
ture so nearly filling all the require
ments as the banana. Humlnfidt says
that the land which, when planted w ith
wheat, will feed one man, will feed
twenty five when planted with bananas.
The Spaniards who saw religous em
blems iu every natural object discerned
in the transverse sections of the banana
a resemblance to a cross, and hence sup
posed it to be the forbidden fruit oi
Genesis, in which Adam saw the mys
tery of redemption by the cross.
There is a common notion that the
plantain and banana are the same fruit,
but this is not so. They are varieties of
the same soecies. Tho planta n is larg
er, coarser and less lus -ious than the
banana. It is common in Central Amer
ica, and is always cooked before being
eaten. The two fruits are easily dis
tinguislied when bunches of each are
laid side by side. The plantain fruit i
longer, larger and much more sharply
curved, so that the bunches have t
straggling appearance. There is also i
dec*]) purple stain on the banana, which
is wanting in the plantain, and the
sheaths of the latter are angular at tli€
extremities instead of being rounded, at
in the banana.
Notwithstanding the development of
the banana trade in California it is in
significant in comparison with that of
Mu ssacliusotts and the Atlantic States.
Over 1(10,000,000 of bananas wen
brought into Boston last year, nnd from
31,000 to 3,5000 is often cleared from the
cargo of a single steamer. The capital
invested by New England firms in their
West India banana plantations amounts
to many millions of dollars, yet they
can hardly supply tlie demand.—[tar
Francisco Chronicle.
Twenty Million Dogs.
It is the everlasting regret of man
that human friendship passes away.
Out of the difficulty of seeming a com
panion who will forgive and forget all
faults, and also bear gifts, man turns to
the dog, thus proving that the gifts
need not be gifts of money. The dog
will look his master in the face, will
flatter that despot with a silence which
can only delight the eloquent—for e o v
man is eloquent—and will never forsake
the human friend who lias honored the
poor servant and adulator above all
other dogs. On this account it is found
that one out of every three inhabitants
owns a dog. Prodigious testimony of
the hunger of humanity for service and
flattery!
There links behind this not unpleas
ant picture the horrid presence of hy
drophobia. The tongue licking its mas
ter’s hand also laps fangs that carry the
deadliest of poisons. The noble favorite
of the householder goes out on the street
and bites small boys. The father of a
bitten boy presents himself before the
owner of the dog as a person grievously
wronged, and society must, through its
courts, debate and adjust a matter that
has two sides to a couple of litigants.
The rich man will naturally hold his
pet dog’s life at a high price. The poor
father will hold the bite inflicted on lu3
son to be a matter of more than damages.
The dog must be killed. The law says
so, and the law is just. The owner be
holds the killing of the dog with feelings
of reliellion against the State, and forth
with believes he is the victim of remorse
less and diabolical persecution. .Should
a case of hydrophobia supervene, we
have a scene too vivid for description,
and all who behold it become converts
to the theory that dogs as well as tigers
should be totally exterminated.
That there should be twice as many
dogs as horses, twice as many dogs as
cows, and half as many dogs ns sheep or
swine, will convince any student that
the question of hydrophobia is but just
entered upon. Alan loves his dog, and
forgives his one besetting sin. Albeit,
does not the dog promise to his master
a certain degree of hostility toward
other men f—[Chicago Herald.
Dust-Counting Apparatus.
A singular device has been submitted
to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scot
land. It consists of a dust-counting ap
paratus by which its inventor is able to
count 88,346,000 dust particles in a cubic
inch of space near the ceiling of a room,
and 489,000,000 in the same space of the
gas from a Bunsen flame. There are,
therefore, as many dust particles in a
cubic inch of the air of a room at night
when the gas is burning, as there are in
habitants in Great Britain, and in three
cubic inches of the gases from a Bunsen
flame there are as many particles as there
inhabitants in the world.
WOMAN’S WORLD.
PIiEAHANT I.ITEItATI'BE KOR
FKMIMNK It l:A DKItS.
LONG-IIANDT.KD KYKGLAMM.
Do you know the reason long-handled
■—-glasses spring into favor with the ultra
•Auliionuble? Well, you know ladies
lace, don't you? Yes, everybody knows
that, and those who know it from expert,
once know it to their very great discom
fort; for, with the sleeves made es tight
a* the skin, and the eutire dress waist as
close-fitting as compressed fiesh and bones
will )>ermit, to lift the hund up to the
level of the eyes, if it is a possibility (and
lomctimes it isn’t), is certainly a danger
ous thiug to attempt —dangerous liecause
tlie tightly strained silk of the dress may
Iplit. Besides it is a painful exertiou.
The expansion of certain muscles in an
elevated position of the aim and shoulder
beyoud the narrow limits of the dress is
positive torture. Hence the long handle
to eyeglass and opera glass was a perfect
boon. You will always see the slim
waist, tight sleeves and long-handled eye
glass together.
THE ARTIST tjfKEJf.
Carmen Sylva, the beautiful white
haired, taleuted Quccu of ltoumauia,
possesses the rare charm of a musical
voice, so sympathetic and melodious that
u celebrated French author who heard her
read aloud from one of his works declared
that she had revealed him to himself.
She is a most picturesque figure, always
delicately and artistically dressed, and
with eternal youth in her smile. Elizabeth
of Roumania was educated as befitted
her rank and, naturally gifted, she
mastered many languages in her girlhood,
and now paints her graceful word pictures
with equal ease in almost any tongue.
She is known in Europe as the Artist
queen when she is not spoken of as
Scheherezade—a name which has clung
to her since the season she passed at
Westerland, by the North Sea,and every
day gathered the children about her on
the sauds to listen to her tales of fairies,
goblins, elves and gnomes. The children
were devoted to her and used to throw
up a fortification of sand about her camp
chair, plant their toy flags on the summit
and defy even the sea himself to lay a
finger on their beloved Marehentante
tfairy-tale aunt). Carmen Sylva's writ
ings command almost any price from the
European magazines and she is besieged
with offers from editors, entreating her
to name her own terms. In only one
known instance did she comply with such
a request, aud this was in the case of a
Stynan editor and her terms for the arti
cle were that he should plant a bed of
Alpine flowers in one of the royal gardens
it Bucharest.
“tight-i.acing” diseases.
The Medical Annual, a scientific record
of the medical progress of the year, de
votes a good deal of space to those dis
eases of women which arc generally be
lieved to originate from tight lacing.
“During the last few years,” says the
Annual, “several affections which are
found in women with much greater
frequency than in men .have been claimed
by independent writers in different parts
of the world as the result of compression.
The most important are anaemia, ulcer
of the stomach, gall-stones, movable
kidney.” This is a formidable array,
and it must be noted that it is not a
catalogue of all the diseases said to be
produced by tight lacing, but only a list
of a few which have been recently added
to a very much longer series. ‘ ‘Anaemia”
itself, in its “pernicious” form is, as a
rule, rapidly and hopelessly fatal. But
even when it is not “pernicious” it is the
prolific parent of manifold diseases,
some of which are fatal, while almost all
are extremely disabling and distressing.
“Ulcer of the stomach” has an alarming
sound even to the “lay” ear; but the
sound is not nearly so alarming as the
reality. When a doctor is convinced
that he has met with a case of undoubted
ulcer of the stomach he anticipates weeks
or months of misery for the patient aud
of harrassing care for himself. He
knows that recovery is possible; but he
knows also that in many instances the
chances are largely in favor of death.
Treatment in many cases is quite power
less. One day the patient may be walk
ing about, filling the air with complaint
of her troubles. The next day she may
be dead, with a small perforation in the
w-all of the stomach as the result of the
ulcerative process. “Gall-stones” ft is
unnecessary to dwell upon. The pain
and danger of these are known almost
universally.
“Movable kidney,” though less im
mediately painful and dangerous, is a
condition which no woman who wishes
to be well should for a moment run the
risk of becoming acquainted with. This
is the barest summary of facts, which
might be so set forth as to appear truly
appalling. Will any woman reader be
frightened into reason? The answer, un
happily, is not even doubtful. She will
not. But in case such a phenomenon
should occur, the following suggestions
of the Annual are worthy of her considera
tion: “The one thing that is most ob
jectionable is the formation of an arti
ficial waist. To simply order the removal
of stays will he found altogether in
sufficient for stays are undoubtedly a pro
tection against the tight ligature of skirts
which accompanies their use. The only
satisfactory way is to abolish both. Every
article of clothing, whether of upper or
under garments, is to be made in com
bination, or without division at the waist.
The weight of each garment is then borne
mainly by the shoulders and bust, and no
constriction of the waist is necessary.”
It is useless to appeal to the wearers of
ladies’ clothing, the case must he carried
to the makers. Will Worth do anything?
If he will not, will those educated and
titled ladies who are said to have devoted
their talents to the art of dressing their
sisters come to the rescue? There is a
splendid field for enterprise and original
ity of mind.— The Hospital.
.FASHION NOTES.
Coral is said to be a coming rage.
Let accordion-plaited skirts have their
day, by all means. It won’t be a long
one.
Twenty-one is the orthodox age for a
girl to resume the responsibilities of a
bonnet.
Ten breadths of ordinary dress material
are required to construct an accordion
plaited skirt.
Bedroom furniture of white wood has
beeu lavishly indulged in for summer
houses this season.
Flower brooches are the daintiest and
prettiest of anything in jewelry to be
worn at the throat.
Milliners declare that it takes much
less time to suit a pretty woman with a
hat than a plain one.
Fashion’s decree this season allows
ladies more comfort than they have had
for many a long year.
Many of the “art” tea gowns have Di
rectoire sleeves which reach to the hem of
the skirt at eacli side.
The Eiffel brooch, the Eiffel hairpin,
the Eiffel bracelet and the Eiffel bonnet
are ready for importation.
A thing of beauty, which ' requires
care to make it a joy forever, is, a tulle
parasol with & coral handle.
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
RESTORING STORK STAIRS
To restore stone staircases, of which
the steps have become worn, the worn
parts should he moistened with a solution
of silicate of potash (soluble glass), anil
then that the atp be given its original
form by means of a paste competed of hy
draulic lime and silicate of (tolaslt, to
which fifty (ter cent, of fine silicious sund
is then added. The durability of the
steps thus restored, it is claimed, is com
|tarahlc to that which would be obtained
with the best stones, and the adhesion ol
the added (tart is perfect.— Brooklyn Citi
zen
TO CLEAR CAKE-SEAT CHAIRS.
To clean cane-seat chairs, turn them
upside down, and with hot water ands
sponge wash the cane-work, soaking it
thoroughly; if very dirty use a little soap.
Let it dry in the air and it will be as
bright and firm as when new, if the caue
is not broken.
If the cane is brokeu so that it looks
unsightly cut it entirely away with a sharp
knife. Thread a long, stout darning
needle with thick twine of any color de
sired, knot the ends, loop it through the
holes backward and forward, crossing
from side to side, right and left, every
hole being filled; Work them back again,
weaving ns you would in darniug stock
ings,being careful not to draw the threads
very tight the first time over,as it is more
difficult to weave. —Detroit Free Brest.
COVERINGS FOR PARLOR FLOORS.
The latqst thing in floor decorations foi
parlors is a variety of matting with check
ered figures. It has become very popular,
and promises to supersede all the material
this summer as a floor covering. Many
of the designs are striking and attractive,
and the stuff is quite durable. In pur
chasing it, however, care must be taken
to select only that which is closely woven.
Loosely woven straw matting, like loose
ly woven ingrain carpets, w ear out very
rapidly, and the trifling amount addi
tional which will be paid for matting
closely woven will be made up by its
durability.
Handsome rugs are almost indispensa
ble adjuncts to the straw matting. Also
wicker chairs and settees, tastefully deco
rated with chair scarfs, while the piano
cover must be of heavy material of light
colors.— St. Louis Star-Sayings.
THE FAMILY WASHING.
This seems to be the bugbear of al.
houskeeping, and in fact there is nothing
that seems to upset the whole household
machinery as w ash day. It always seemed
to me that Monday, of all days, was the
worst possible day to select for this.
Many ladies have stepped out and down
from the old custom; some have selected
Saturday and others Tuesday.
The advantage of Saturday is that it is
next after sweeping day, when the bed
linen is changed, and then, too, it is a
day that so many housekeepers take tc
scrub their kitchen; if the washing is done
the same day one scrubbing day is en
tirely done away with. Then, too, Sun
day following it gives one day of rest be
tween the washing and ironing. If the
washing is done on Monday, no matter
how much is provided on Saturday in the
way of baking and cooking, it is all gone
by Monday, and finds you on that day
with only “pickups’’ for dinner.
The advantage of Tuesday is that you
have all day Monday to prepare for your
washing. To repair any serious rents,
w’hich are much better done before the
starch is in; any patching, which, after
it is ironed, is scarcely noticeable.
In many families too much preparation
for Monday is done upon the Sabbath
evening, a time I never like anything to
encroach upon.
To all young housekeepers I would say
—order your own houshold to suit your
self, and do not act entirely to please
your neighbors.
For a family of six put on the boiler
two-thirds full of soft water, two table
spoonfuls of coal oil, two-thirds of a bar
of soap, let it come to a boil.
Wet your clothes in clear water, wring
out, putting the cleanest clothes in first,
let boil for thirty minutes, put your
wringer ou the boiler and wring out, and
so on, until all the white clothes are
boiled, putting in more oil and soap each
time. Be sure and have the water boil
ing hot before putting in the clothes.
Rinse thoroughly, blue, starch, and
hang out. Should there be any very soiled
places, rub op a little soap and put upon
the board.— Sunshine.
TESTED RECIPES.
Vegetable Soup—One pint of vegeta
bles, including turnip, carrot, onion and
celery; cut into small pieces and boil one
hour in water enough to cover. Add one
quart of clear stock, a little more salt;
boil a few minutes and serve.
Shad Baked iu Milk—Fix the shad
ready to bake, open, lay flat in pan. Sea
-6011 pepper, salt and butter. Beady tc
bake, cover with milk. Bake slow. II
a large, thick fish, bake one hour and a
half. It will be brown and delicious.
Butter gravy.
Almond Jumbles—.One pound of sugar,
one-half pound of butter, one pound of
almonds blanched aud chopped line, two
eggs, flour enough to mix stiff. Roll thin;
moisten the top of each one with the
white of egg, and sprinke with sugar;
bake quickly.
Corn Gems—One-half pint of finely
bolted corn meal, one-half pint of flour,
oue tablespoonful white sugar, half a tea
spoonful of salt and two heaping tea
spoonfuls of baking powder; mix together
thoroughly while dry ; then add two well
beaten eggs and cold sweet milk, or milk
and water to make a moderately thin bat
ter; bake in gem pans or muffin rings.
Caramel Cream—Have on the fire in a
pan one pound of maple sugar; let it boil
two or three times, sufficient to brown
but not to burn It. Beat six eggs and
one pound of white sugar very light; stir
this into two quarts of boiling milk, and
stir constantly until it comes to a boil;
then pour in the boiling sugar, and mix
thoroughly. When perfectly cold, add
one quart of cream, sweetened with a
cupful of white sugar. Put it in a
freezer and freeze the same as ico cream.
Egg Snow—Put into a saucepan a pint
of milk, adding two dessertspoonfuls of
orange water and two ounces of sugar
and let it boil. Take six eggs, separate
the yolks from the whites, beat the latter
to a froth or snow (hence the name), and
put into the boiling milk by spoonfuls:
stir the whole about with a skimmer.
When done take the eggs out and dress
them on the dish for serving. Thicken
the milk over the tire with the beaten
volks, and pour this over the frothed
eggs; let the whole cool before serving it.
—American Rural Home.
Kabyle Huts at the Paris Exhibition.
The Kabyle huts at the Paris Exposi
tion are curious. Inside each one is a
strange loom, where the women work
incessantly, weaving coarse cloth for
haiks and burnouses, young girls perched
on shelves spinning, children crawling
about in the corners; and the womer
weave from morning until night, neves
lifting up their eyes, and seeing nothing
of Paris or its fetes, or even of the visitors
to the Exhibition, for the Kabyle men do
not allow the vulgar to contemplate their
women. — London World . _ . j
ft OKI* OF WISDOM.
A lie is black even if it i * white be.
The post of honot is the |>o*t of duty.
"I can’t," is a humbug and a nuisance.
Wishes at least are the easy pleasures
f tho poor.
You believe that easily which you hope
for earnestly.
When you assist the needy don’t do it
ostentatiously.
Don’t say “I am a gentleman;” it i*
never necessary.
Be loyal to death to those who have
befriended you.
Tho only disadvantage of au honest
heart is credulity.
When there is room iu the hesrt there
Is room in the house.
People who are disposed to complain
never find a lack of subjects.
Charity and personal force are the only
investments worth anything.
If you should escape the censure of
others, hope not to escape your own.
It is right to be contented with what
we have, but never with what we arc.
Without content, we shall find it al
most as difficult to please others as our
lelves.
The covetous man pines in plenty, like
Tantalus up to the chin in to water, nnd
yet thirsty.
Violent zeal for truth has a hundred to
one odds to be either petulancy, ambi
tion or pride.
The denial of man’s immortality in
volves a violation of the general normal
consciousness.
Most people would succeed in small
things if they were not troubled with
great ambitions.
In matters of conscience first thought'
are best; in matters of prudence las)
thoughts are best.
He who receives a good turn should
never forget it; he who does one should
never remember it.
Beauty is always precious, but after all
it is light in the balauce when opposed
to gracious manners.
We do love beauty at first sight; and
we do cease to love it. if it is not accom
panied by amiable qualities.
A child that stayetli at one stature,
ind never groweth bigger, is a monster.
Unless we go forward, we slip back.
Candor is the seal of a noble mind, thf
arnament and pride of man, the sweetest
charm of woman, the scorn of rascals and
the rarest virtue of sociability.
Evolution of the Shoe.
Various forms of footgear have beer
devised by different people under differ
ent conditions. The oldest form of shot
r sandal seems to have been merely £
fiat sole secured to the foot by thongs.
This form can be seen represented iu
Homan and Greek sculpture.
The Egyptians had similar soles 01
landals, made ordinarily of leather, but
sometimes of palm leaves or papyrus.
In the ninth and tenth centuries tht
common form of shoe iu Europe was t
wooden shoe. Even the nobles anc
the princes wore clumsy wooden shoes
such as are now found among the peas
ants.
The fourteenth century produced tht
grotesque long-pointed shoe. The points
had been extended by fashion so fai
that in the days of Richard 11. they were
secured to the knee by little chains.
The church thundered against this ab
surd and useless fashion,but almost with
out avail, for it held sway for 200 years
or more.
In 1463, however, so much headway
had been gained against the mode that a
decree of the English Parliament was ob
tained to oppose the decree of fashion.
An act was passed prohibiting shoemak
ers from making points more than two
inches long for the unprivileged classes.
Henceforth the long point became a
badge of the criminal class. But a reac
tion came, the long point went out of
fashion, and people went to the opposite
extreme. The toes of shoes were made of
grotesque width.
This absurdity was carried so far that
Queen Mary felt called upon to issue a
proclamation restricting the width of toes
to six inches. If there were any of hei
subjects who had a natural spread of the
toes greater than six inches they had to
go barefooted.
In the sixteenth century boots were
generally worn in England and France,
and the boots of the cavaliers were made
with enormously wide tops that were
rolled or folded over. After the Restora
tion the tops of the boots were orna
mented, at least by the fops of the day,
with lace.
The simple form of shoe which has
held its own among Europeans and Amer
icans to the present day made its appear
ance in the seventeenth century. This
shoe has undergone several modifications.
Washington Star.
Tlie Cork Tree.
The cork tree, which is a species ol
oak, grows about the Mediterranean
under climatic conditions such as Cali
fornia specially offers. It needs a dry
climate, which we have, and does not
flourish in regions where the winters are
severe. It is reproduced either from tin
acorns or from plants raised in nurseries,
and after once started requires little at
tention till the time comes for it to yield
its bark to commerce. Its bark begins to
be valuable when it is twelve years of
age, so that it does not require that the
capital invested in it should long lie idle.
Thereafter it yields its product every
three years till it is 150 years of uge,
after which the tree is useless except for
fuel. The tendency of our trees to pro
duce a thick and heavy bark is a pecu
liarity that scientists have already noted.
It is possible then that the cork oak,
transferred to this State, would not only
be productive at an earlier age, but Would
produce cork of finer quality than that
found in Europe and Africa. At a time
when the afforestation of this coast is be
ing discussed, and in the introduction of
the most useful trees seems desirable,
persons who have spare capital, and are
at the same time interested in the welfare
of California, would do well to consider
the claims of this valuable and interesting
tree to consideration. —San Francisco
Chronicle.
Angling for Wild Cat.
As Mr. H. Montreuil was paddling hit
pirogue to the mouth of Clief Menteui
and Lake Borgne, La., where he was fishing
for green trout, a few days ago, he saw
what he took to be a young deer swim
ming, not far away, in the water, lie
immediately gave chase, hut on nearing
the animal he found it to be a large wild
cat. The bold fisherman took his rod
and made a cast at the wild cat. His
first casts were unsuccessful, but at last
he hooked him under the thigh, when
making fast his pole he began paddling
as hard as he could in order to pull the
wild cat under water and drown him.
Finding himself hooked the wild cat
turned to attack the pirogue and its oc
cupant, but the latte:, by paddling vig
orously, kept pulling him tail foremost,
and in this way, after a protracted strug
gle, in which he was nearly worn out.
Mr. Montreuil succeeded in drowning
the wild cat, and he subsequently landed
him safely. His spoils for the day con
sisted of fourteen green trout anj one
wild cat.— Times-Democrat,
Not the Neck lure
A young mnn lu New York City
preuted bit U.ly love with a neck toe,
ind soon after look her to a ball, on
which occasion oho was ornaiumited with
bis present. Aft.r the first dance there
was a commotion in one corner of the
rouiu, and tho rivals ot thu girl were tit
tering among themselves and wliispcrmg
about her. The young lady lookod in iha
glass and almost fainted at the tight.
Her beautiful neck was almost I>1“lk
from the friction of the necklace., She
changed her mind about fainting, reh
turned home wlih her brother, and eon
the necklace back to her young man wltt
a nolo saying she did not like his brass
Mad with rage,the mortified lover rushed
to the man who sold him the bauble, do,
nouncing him as u swindler. 1 lie jew
eler tested the necklace in his l>r*seuoe
und proved to Idm that it wus full four
teen karats. About that time a young
physician called to purchase a scarf pin.
He had overheatd part of the story ind
asked to hear the balance, us he believed
ho could throw some light on the subject
Pretty soon he laughed outright nnd
said: “Why, sir, tl.e tronDlo is with
your girl and not the necklace. Hue has
too much sulphur, iron, mercury, *altor
acid iu her blood, and ns any of these
substunces Ims an affinity for gold the
explanation is clear. I have patients for
whom mercurial medicines have been
prescribed, and the result is that their
fingers upon which rings are worn dis
color ut once.— Waierly.
Wonders of u Mirage.
A wonderful photogrnph of nn nretic
mirnge has just been received at Sun
Francisco from ’’Professor Richard I).
Willoughby, the pioneer miner scientist
of Alaska. It was taken ut Glacier Bay,
and represented a mysterious aerial city.
The view is apparently taken from some
spot on a hill. In the foreground is a J
gravel walk, a slone fence, a mstic scat j
and a child at play. Beyond the Stone j
wall tire the roofs of houses w ith clumps |
of trees at the sides. Iu the distance are (
the half completed towers of a cathedral
and several tall public buildings, while
far away, enveloped in what appears to
be a cloud-like atmosphere, are tall
smokestacks and towers of churches.
Tlie style of architecture is decidedly
modern. Mote than a hundred people
were shown tlie photograph. Some re- |
gatded it as a fraud, while others believed |
it the general photographic result of a
mirage. The mystei ious town has been
named the Silent City. The best in
formed people in San Francisco say the
picture may be that of oither Victoria,
B. C., Halifax or Montreal—most likely
the latter, as there is a cathedral there
resembling the one in the view. Some
photographic experts think that tbe
picture was produced by a trick similar
to the so-called spirit photographs. This,
however, is stoutly denied by those who
know Fiofessor Willoughby. He was
the first Amsrican who ioutid gold in
Alaska, and for fifteen years has a
prominent resident of .liuiterriioty.
A Tailless Vermilion Monkey With
Red Hair.
Naturalists will be interested to learn
that there is at present in ibis city an
excellent specimen of the South Ameri
can saki, or red monkey. It is thought
to be the first of its species ever seen
iij the United States. The animal is
fifteen inches in height, with a non-pro
hensible tail resembling a ball of lmir.
Its fur is of a reddish color, the face u
deep vermilion. Tke.'enturcs are a per
fect copy of the human face, while the
top of the head is l aid. The specimen
was bought by Donald Borne, importer
of rare birds and beasts, from a party of
Indians from the Upper Amazon on
their way to the Paris Exposition.
The red monkeys are described ns
gentle in disposition, intelligent,slender
of form and partially nocturnal in their
habits. They live in couples or small
families. The males share with the fe
males the task of raising the young. The
latter, however,when tlioy have attained
maturity, are ruthlessly driven out to
shift for themselves! The species was
discovered by the natuiaist Paul Cor
jelio, but his report was discredited by
his colleagues.—[Now York World.
Catfish Are Good Mothers.
Dr. Abbott, of Trenton, N. J., is a
warm admirer of the catfish, not so
much on account of its culinary excel
lence as because the females of the tribe
are good mothers. He has studied
the habits of the fish long and
carefully, and he knows this to be a fact,
lie says that on one occasion ho captur
ed an entire brood of little catfish in a
hand-net, letting their mother, who
was swimming with them, escape. She
would not leave the spot where she had
been bereaved, and when the doctor put
the fry into a glass jar and placed it in
the river where she could see it she
dashed herself furiously against the ob
stacle that separated her from her young
ones. When the jar was drawn slowly
from the water she followed it to the
surface, and then absolutely left the
river and wriggled twelve inches up the
sloping beach in her frantic efforts to re
oover her progeny.
Not Bad as a Phecedent. —An En
glish court has rendered a decision which
would not boa bad precedent here.
It seems that the engineer of a dummy
engine, which ran by the side of a public
highway, caused the steam to he blown
off suddenly, thereby frightening a horse
and causing a runaway and smash-up.
The owner of the horse sued the riulroad
company and recovered full damages.
The judge held that the right to run the
engine along tho highway did not carry
with it the right to Cause runaways by
means which could he prevented.
Mns. Livehmohe humorously tells this
about herself: She went to a town in
Maine to deliver a lecture. A young min
ister, who felt greatly his importance in
having to introduce so large a light, an
nounced her in these words: “Ladies and
gentlemen, you have all heard of the il
lustrious man across the water, so belov
ed by his people, and who is known by
the sobriquet of the ‘grand old man.’ I
have now tho honor of intr. duciug to
you a ludy beloved in Boston, and known
there as tne ‘grand old woman I”
A neat bit of proverbial philosophy,
said to be of Japanese origin, is, “Be
like the tree which covers with flowers
the hand that shakes it.”
Ladles, from all the diseases from which you
especially Buffer, from all the weakness -phys
leal and mental, which tortures you, from
your nervous prostration and bodily pains,
there Is relief in brown’s Iron Ritters. Many
ladies now living healthy, happy lives, having
been freed from chronic difficulties peculiar
to their sex. who bear cheerful testimony to
the value of this sovereign remedy for mental
and physical suffering; tnis sure cure for nerv
ous depression and bodily weakness known as
Female Complaints.
W bona strong brain is weighed with a true
heart.it seems like balancing a bubble against
a wedge of gold.
Climate for Consumpriveu.
The several c'imatcs of Florida, Colorado
and < California bare eocb been much preecr bed
for sufferers from lung disease, yet thousands
of the natives in those States die of this fatal
malady. A far more reliable remedy is to bo
had in every drug store ill the land, and one
can bo used at home; a remedy which is sold
by druggists, under the manufacturers’ tntri
tive guarantee that, if taken in time and given
a lair trial, it will effect a cure, or money paid
for It will be promptly returned. We refer to
i bat world-famed remedy for consumption (or
lung-scrofula) known a* Dr. Pierce’s Golden
VedlcalDiscovcry.lt is the only remedy for this
' orrible disease possessed of such supe dor cur
ative properties as to warrant its manufactur
ers in selling It under a guarantee.
Don’t hawk, and blow, a.nd snif, but use Dr.
Cairo’s Catarrh Remedy. Of druggists.
Wo judse ourselves by what we feel capable
of dome, while others judge us by whut we
nave already don'.’.
TtlS H1n.,,1 ll.,„ ( . #
Tlie Blood Balm Cos., of AlUou 0
modest set if men. You ney, r % ( ’ *J*
liiiK advertisement of their junti,
Botanic Blood Helm -b. tier know* ,/uT*
The public learn or Iha euit| Vo vim<i *
compound by wlmt other, ,y , lf |t " J 4 *
truthful elßtement. are sometime, J, ,**
onnci*e form, Rial whal the r.-iiicsl, i. ,l
Ins lor others it wiii tiu’f, r
ueverrwJof u person curwl ~f h v ,i’ r ° u L
or a horso curt a of pink-eye. I.Vii
although wo hAVo it Htatoii t£,' ‘
otlior blood up*Milo would do it 'r,
priuuiri of U. a U. |e>
people into taking their remedy fur
plaint imaginable, memlv fir t),„ J*a
erea-ing Ibeir sales. They know itwittlS *
from the system every vestige of nluod 7**
end to iH-rwona so suffering li. It. p , '
less loon. Try every other reni ',| v ' r,’,.*, |ln
blood, weakness and declining | M Vio, ."“P'"*
B. 11. H. a trial. When yo3 #*(,'.•,>
dies inert and worthless, yon will tin,i n T*'
powerful, stimulating ami heahni- 1, 4
B'ood Balm Cos., Atlanta, t!., fur 'thelr ,n “
tratod book. It is sent free. “ -a-
Sound at the Core. -A P r„ff „u
physician In a Colorado mlDlngtovnli j
a poor, aged minister us l,ic
When tho preacher had sulli im\,
covered to dispense with farther
attention he usked for his bill, u
hi.lf Hero it is,” tsid the doctor, Z
ing Iris pockctbook nnd handing thetim
inter's wife a ten dollar bill.
What do von chew ?
“LUCY HINTON!"
\\ hv ?
Became tt is the best I can find.
Who makes it?
T. 0. Williams Cos., Richmond, Vs.
Who sells it ?
AII dculers.
How can I recognize it?
'llieusme Lucy Hinton is on every ping
Every man. however huinhle his station or
feeble Ids powers, eternise- some liiflueneeou
those who are about him tor good or evil.
A Hamburg Fig.
There Is no longer need to force children to
take castor oil for constipation. A Hamburg
Fig. which is like preserved fruit.will be imj
by them with relish. ISS cents. Dose one i ■
Mack Drug Cos.. N. Y.
We recommend “TansiU’s Punch”oicnr,
A Fair Trial
Of Hood’s Sarsaparilla will oonvluc* auy ressonshl*
Prsou that It tloos poasoss great medicinal merit
We do hot claim that every bottlo will accompiuhi
miracle, but we do know that nearly every u.ttl*,
taken aoeordiug to directions, doe* prodace poitiv
benoflt. Iu peculiar curative power Is shown bj
many remarkable cores.
“I was run dowu from close application to work,
but was told I had malaria aud wa* dosed wit&
quinine, etc., which wa uaeless. I decided to up
Hood’s Sarsaparilla aud atn now feellug strong aad
cheerful. I feel satined it will benefit any who
give it a fair trial.”—W. B. Beamish, 261 -Springs*
New York City.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. $1; six fur $\ Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Maw.
100 Doses One Dollar
DROPSY
TREATED FREE.
Positively Cured with Vegetable Hrmeiia
Have cured thousands of cast's. Cure patlenttpi
nouneed hopeless by best physicians. From firitdos
svmptoms disappear; in tea days at least two-thlrg
all symptoms removed. Send for free book testlma
nlals of miraculous cures. Ton days’ trrisinirttf
free by mall. If you order trial, send 10c. lu sum*
to pay postage. Do. U. 11. Ghees A Sons, Atlanta, Ga
l / BUTCHER'S
FLY KILLER
Makes a clean sweep. Every
\ sheet will kill a quart of CW.
r Stops buzElug around
f % diving at eyes, tickling yo
/; , Vae \ nose, skips Lard words and*
\ cures peace at triflingoxpea*
(1 1 / \V I | .Send ‘i-l couth for 5 sheewk
F. DUTCIIEIt, St. Albanian
Mm Plantation Engines
W,,h elf-Contalned
RETURN FLUE BOILERS,
j a COTTON GIN'S and KiLLi
111 us* .GdfM
AMES LEFFELiCO.
aPKiMinni-n, ouw,
'--y l y^Ke < ik?3Br,r 110 Liberty St.. New Y*
. m m ■ After ALL oil's!
B II fail, consult
Or. Lobi), 3 x“
Twenty v ears' continuous practice In the tnj
ment and cure of the nvtlul rfiecta °f e*W
vice, destroying both mind and body.
ami treatment for one month, live
securely sealed from observation to any aaorew.
Rnnk on Special Diseases free.
auk YOl Till.MvlNli
OK BUYING
W'-’fl' * Cotton or Hay Press!
v J'i 1 # pSs|s %
\ 3 / Wi! ?• and Circulars and “f*
V
/ ItlhMlHt: IKON AN#
E ■'■Ain'-- Ibd A wool* WORKS
i -'■'•Sb J CHATTANOOGA, TENS,
' P. O. Bx2tt-
MIL.LEBSBURG
pHinale QciUegß,
Locate 1 in t e heart of the baaufcbul lDne
region of K- ducky. Hea th uQeaoellea. a
instruction, lhe host school for f our .jf* *i phmj-
South. Art. Liters'y. Scientific
craphy departments, l-.rst-class board. ‘
terms. Apply oar yto i/y
F*ev. C. POPE, MillersbußGJ^
IST. O. Y- I*
Nashville, Tenn. College tor Young Ufc
Is the leading schorl of this section.
with s*i pupils, w thout grounds or Luildt J i
own. how Las 3 buiidiD?:*, 1* rooms, M
pupils from IS States. Full *“ le 7builll'il*
Science, Ai t. Music, privileges in V ai nmdtn
V' rsity, fully ©quipped Gymnasimn, aj, 1 j(le||L
conyaniem ea. For catalogue address *
Rev. Geo. W. F. Fate*, D. D., isaslanie. *
CHICHESTER’S ENa 1 .* 11
PENNYROYAL Pg;
Red Oro*s Diamond arau
VSV# The on’.r reliable pIU iSt I?
ure. Ladles, ask
•A mond iirund, '"red mel .
V ith bine ribbon. Take •** ® l W; Ur f W
f/ (.tamps) for particular* an! *• ~/w
WASHINGTON INFORMATION BUREAU
“ COI.E A DKUUI.K. l’roi'ri. ' r *'
032 I Htri-m NT. W.. Washing'"• u
°* D “ r * l intimation far gff r^ond , n e.jM^.
MU S I C-A RT-E LO9 Uj, 1 &!!,;.
General Culture. Resira ... inter*****
open to progressive studcnU. e(|
will receive valuable yS[u n, M*
by addressing E- TOURJJbE*
tic TO SA.iU A MONTUcau b'
*sl for us. Ageutn preferred who &f s
a horse and give their whole time to ta® ,
Spire moments may be profitably ewP'x joof*
A few vacancies in towns nnd dues. ' y 5/
SON A CO., 10V/S Main St., Richmond,
Flense stiite ag• and businrrt expert* ■ j
mind about tending ttamp/Or rep-u-
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REV n e "A^ebstera.
S2B All HOUR !f,l?
taSsVt MEDICAL CO.. KtclnßO* 11 '^
i —• — _ , . - I'rf* 1
Sp loSSnilnr- Sarapl", wort!, grjJ
*kSh Linos not umier home's , o. j,
WU.IH Hni.-iv Itvin
IS YOUR FARM FOR SALESfcJrf
| Jf ho address OtTBTIS A WbIQHT, 833
PAIJI'a Bl M. COLLKOEj WjgjtM
X Scholarship and positiona, j6U.
Agents wanted. 81 an hour. 60 n^* rt ßuffalo.
and sample free. O. E.
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