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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN, ESI VBUSHCD IN 1554, Bv CHAS, W. HANCOCK. ( VOL. 18. Ml!By Moonlight A LONE! y jßy \ Don’t ToTDo It f Much pleasanter looking people will he found at JOHN H SHAW’S, Who will assist you in making yonrselec tions front one of the IMSTAMSffIiffIOSMB To be found in the city, OF Spring and Summer Dry Goods NOTIONS, FANCY GOODS, PARASOLS, VJtl MSUI L I.il *, Ladies’ Hats, PERFUMERY, Toilet Soaps, TRTTIsriKZS, CLOTHING, HINTS’ FURNISHISO GOODS, Boots and Shoes, I Straw, Wool and Fur Hats, ■ At prices Loner thn tie Lowest. I Our infallible rule for success in business is I Honest Goods, I COURTEOUS TREATMENT, Reliable Statements, leor* prices: ■ I Call early and often, and oblige, I Tours truly, IIOHN R. SHAW. DARBYS PROPHYLACTIC FLUID. A Household Article for Universal Family Use. For Scarlet and 1 Eradicates l Ty P hold rever8 > B Araaicaies gj Diphtheria, Sall *FAT A*DTA - S vation Ulcerated J| JttA.UAICIA, Jj Sore Tbroat> SmaU ISBBHBBH Fox, Measles, and nil Contagious Diseases. Persons waiting on the Sick should use it freely. Scarlet Fever has never been known to spread where the Fluid was used. Yellow Fever has been cured with it after black vomit had taken place. The worst cases of Diphtheria yield to it. Fevered and Sick Ter- SMALL-POX nous refreshed and and Bod Sores prevent- PITTING of Small ed by bathing with p o x PREVENTED Darbys Fluid. . , r t Impure Air made A member of my fam harmless and purified, P ta . kcn W h For Sore Throat it is a 1 ! ,s ' and tht sure cure. Fluld ,: ~t l! e Patient was Contagion destroyed. "?* ' ' iln “' s . was not For ftosted Feet, P‘"? a - nd ako,lt Chilblains, Piles, ‘he house again m three Chafings, etc. ,' ve j 1;s . and no others Rheumatism cured. i' Soft White Complex ions secured by its use. fIBRBBBESHHHRB Ship Fever prevented. fl T J. p e!i r n i s f rt h he 1 Diphtheria I it can't be surpassed. fl , • fl Catarrh relieved and.fl t TGVGHtGu. fl Erysipelas cured. flQHHflflflflflflflflfl Burn, relieved instantly. The physicilns h „ c Scars prevented. use Darbys Fluid vcry Dysentery cured. successfully in the treat- Wounds healed rapidly. ment of Diphtheria. Scurvy cured. A. Stollknwekck, An Antidote for-Animal Greensboro, Ala. or vegetable Poisons, Stings, etc. Tetter dried up. I used the Fluid during Cholera prevented, our present affliction with | Ulcers purified and SGarlet Fever with de- I healed, cided advantage. It is !In cases of Death it indispensable to the sick- should be used about room. Wm. F. Sand- the corpse —it will ford, Eyrie Ala. prevent^ any unpicas* The eminentPhy- IScarletFsverg SSSS'&’KK W • H York, says: “I am I CnrSfl fl i convinced Prof. Darbys B I Prophylactic Fluid is a 1 1 valuable disinfectant.” Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tcnn. I testify to the most excellent qualities of Prof. Darbys Prophylactic Fluid. Asa disinfectant and detergent it is both theoretically and practically superior to any preparation with which 1 am ac quainted.—N. T. Lupton, Prof. Chemistry. Darbys Fluid is Recommended by Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia • Rev. Chas. F. Deems, D.D., Church of the Strangers, N. Y.; ios. LeContb,Columbia, Prof.,University,S.C. .ev. A. J. Rattle, Prof., Mercer University; Rev. Geo. F. Piercb, Bishop M. E. Church. INDISPENSABLE TO EVERY HOME. Perfectly harmless. Used internally or externally for Man or Beast. The Fluid has been thoroughly tested, and we have abundant evidence that it has done everything here claimed. F:r fuller information get of your Druggist a pamphlet or send to the proprietors, tl. IF ZEILIN & CO.. Manufacturing < .'hemists, PHI LADELPHI A. TO TIPS PILLS A DISORDERED LIVER IS THE BANE of the present generation. It is for tho Cure of This disease and its attendants, SICK-HEADACHE, BILIOUSNESS, DYS PEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, PILES, etc., that fUTT’S PILLS have gained a world-wide reputation. No Remedy haa ever been discovered that acta so ghntly on the digestive organs, Riving them vigor to ~aa •imilate food. As a natural result, the Kervous System is Braced, the Muscles ore Developed, and the Body Robust. Cb.i7.ls and. Foxror, E. RIVAL, a Planter at Bayou Sara, La., says> My plantation is In a malarial district. For several years I could not make hall'a crop on account of bilious diseases and chills. I was nearly discouraged v/hen X began the use of TUTT’S PILLS. The result was marvelous: my laborers soon became hearty and robust, and I have had no further trouble. They relieve the engorged Liver, eleanso the Blood from poisonous li Minoru, and eauee the bowels to act naturally, with out which no one can feel well. Try this remedy fairly, and you will gala a healthy Digestion, Vigorous Body. Pure Blood, String Nerves, and a Sound Liver. Price, 25 Cents. Office, 35 Murray St, N. Y. TUTT’S HAIR DYE. Gray Hair or Whiskers changed to a Glossy Black by a single application of this Dye. It Imparts a natural color, and acts instantaneously. Sold by Druggists, or sent by express on receipt of One Dollar. Office, 38 Murray Street, New York, (Dr. TWITT'S MANUAL of Valuable 'V Information and Umeful Receipt* I mill be mailed FREE on application, J flOSlffitlfc IhfTERS There has never been an instance in which this sterling invlgorant and anti-febrile medicine lias failed to ward off the com plaint, when taken duly as a protection against malaria. Hundreds of physicians have abandoned all the officinal specifies, and now prescribe tills harmless vegetable tonic for chills and fever, as well as dpspep sia and nervous affections. Hostetter’s Bit ters is the specific you need. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally. POUTZ’S HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS No no§* will die of Cotic. Bor. orlrxo Fit m*. if Foutz's Powders are used In time. Foutz'g Powders will core and prevent Hoo Cholera . Foote’s Powders will prevent Gates in Fowls. route’s l owners will increase the quantity of milk and cream twenty per cent, and make the butter firm and sweet. Foutz's Powders will care or prevent almost evert Disk ask to which Horses and Cattle arc subject. FOUTZ 8 1 OWDEBB WILL GIVE SATISFACTION. Sold everywhere. DAVID E. FOUTZ, Proprietor. BALTIMORE. HD. INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MAY 19, 1883. YOVVB.Y. TRIBUTE TO LITTLE NORA. INSCRIBED TO HER PATIENTS, Jill. AND MBS. N. E. H. Macon Telegraph and Messenger.] ( Republished by request. ) When wandering thro’ life’s checker'd way, With feet more weary, day by day, I passed thro’ sweet Arcadian bow’rs In which were lovely flow’rets fair, That shed their perfume in the air, As swiftly sped the golden hours; But one was fairer than the rest, And fondly too was she caressed— A queen among the op’ning flow’rs. ’Twas on a chilling winter day, That I again did pass that way, And paused within that self-same bow' r That lovely little flower gem Was drooping on the parent stem, And sadder grew each passing hour; For what had been so fresh and fair And was so fondly cherished there Was soon tc be a wither’d flow’r. Again l chanced to pass that way— ’Twas near at the close of day, When vesper hymns are sung at ev'n - But ’mid those leaves of living green, . No vestige of that flow’r was seen: Where chilling winds had oft beendriv’n; The essence of its petals fair. Had risen on tho morning air, Into Elysian fields of Heaven. S. S. A. TABERNACLE SERMONS. BY REV. T. DeW'ITT TALMAGE [The Sermons of Dr. Talmage are publish ed in pamphlet form by Geo. A. Sparks, 48 Bible House, New York. A number containing 26 Sermons is issued every three months. Price 30 cents, §1 per an num]. SHAMS IN RELIGION. “Faith without works is dead.”—James, iff, 20. The Roman Catholic Church has been charged with putting too much stress upon good works and not enough upon faith. I charge Protestantism with putting not enough stress upon good works as connected with salva tion. Good works will never save a man, but if a man have not good works he lias no real faith and no gen uine religion. There are those who de pend upon the fact that they are all right inside while their eonductis wrongout side. Their religion, for the most part, is made up of talk—vigorous talk, flu ent talk, boasttul talk, perpetual talk. They will entertain you by the hour in telling yon how good they are. They come up to such a higher life that they have no patience with ordinary Chris tians in the plain discharge of their du ty. As near as I can tell this ocean craft is mostly sail and very little ton nage. Foretopmast staysail, foretop mast studding sail, maintopsail, miz zentopsail—everything from Hying jib to mizzen spanker, but making no use ful voyage. Now, tho world has got tired of this, and it wants a religion that will work into all the circumstan ces of life. Wo don’t want anew relig ion, but the old religion applied in all possible directions. Yonder is a river with steep and rocky banks, it roars like a young Niagara as it rolls all over its rough bod. It does nothing but talk about itself all the way from its source in the mountain to the place where it empties into the sea. The banks are so steep, the cattle cannot come down to drink. It does not run one fertiliz ing rill into the adjoining field. It has not one grist mill or factory on eitliei side. It sulks in wet weather with chilling fogs. No one cares when that river is born among the rocks, and no one cares when it dies into the sea. But yonder is another river, and it mos ses its hanks with the warm tides, and it rocks with floral lullaby the water lillies asleep on its bosom. It invites herds of cattle and flocks of sheep and coveys of birds to come there and drink. It has three grist mills on one side and six cotton factories on the other. It is the wealth of two hundred miles a lnxu riant farms. The birds of heaven chanted when it was born in the moun tains, and the ocean shipping will press in from the sea to hail it as it comes down to the Atlantic coast. The one river is a man who lives for himself. The other river is a man who livet for others. Do vou know how the site of the ancient city of Jerusalem was chos en? There were two brothers who had adjoining farms. The one brother had a large family, tho other had no fami ly. . The brother with a large family said: '‘There is my brother with no family; he must be lonely, and I will try to cheer him up, and I will take some of the sheaves from my fiald in the night time and set them over on his farm, and say nothing about it.” The other brother said: “My brother has a largelfamily and it is very difficult for him to support them, and I will help him along, and I will take some of the sheaves from my farm in the night time and set them over on his farm, and say nothing about it.” So the work of transference went on night after night, and night after night; but every morn ing things seemed to he just as they were, for though sheaves had been sub tracted from each farm, sheaves had also been added, and the brothers were perplexed and could not understand. But one night the brothers happened to meet while making this generous trans ference, and the spot where they met was so sacred that it was cliisen as the site of the city of Jerusalem. If that tradition should prove unfounded, it will nevertheless stand as a beauti- ful allegory, setting forth the idea that wherever a kindly and generous and loving act is performed, that is the spot lit for some temple of commemoration. I have olten spoken to you about faith, but this morn ; ng I speak to you about works, for “faith without works is dead.” I think you will agree with me in the statement that the great want of this world is more practical re ligion. We want practical religion to go into all merchandise. It will super vise the labeling of goods. It will not allow a man to say that a thing was made in ono ( factory when it was made in another. It will not allow the merchant to say that that watch was manufac tured in Geneva, Switzerland, when it was manufactured in Massachusetts. It will not allow the merchant to say that wine came from Madeira when it came from California. Practical re ligion will walk along by the store shelves and tear off ail the tags that make misrepresentation. It will not allow the merchant to say that is pure coffee when dandelion root and chicory and other ingredients go into it. It will not allow him to say that is pure sugar when there are in it sand and ground glass. When practical relig ion gets its full swing in tho world it will go down the street, and it will come to that shoe store and rip oft’ the fictitious soles of many a fine-looking pair of shoes, and show that it is paste board sandwitched between the sound leather, and this practical religion will go right into a grocery store, and it will pull out the plugs of all the adul terated syrups, and it will dump into the ash barrel in front of the store the cassia bark that is sold for cinnamon and the brick dust that is sold for ca yenne paper, and it will shake out the Prussian blue from the tea leaves, and it will sift from the flour plaster of Paris and bone dust and soapstone, and it will by chemical analysis separate the one quart of Ridgewood water from the few honest drops of cow’s milk, and it will throw out the live animalcula? from the brown sugar. There has been so much adulteration of articles of food that it is an amazement to me that there is a healthy man or woman in America. Heaven only knows what they put into the spices, and into the sugars, and into the butter, and into the apothecary drugs. But chemical analysis and the microscope have made wonderful revelations. The Board of Health in Massachusetts ana lyzed a great amount of what was call ed pure coffee and found in it not one particle of coffee. In England there is a law that forbids the putting of alum in bread. The public authorities ex amined fifty-one packages of bread and found them all guilty. The honest physician, writing a prescription, does not know that it may bring death in stead of health to his patient, because there may be one of the drugs weaken ed by a cheaper article, and another drug may be in full force, and so the prescription may have just the opposite effect intended. Oil of wormwood war ranted pure from Boston was found to have 41 per cent, of resin and alcohol and chloroform. Scammony is one of the most valuable medical drugs. It is very rare, very precious. It is the sap or the gum of a tree or a bush in Syria. The root of the tree is exposed, an incision is made into the root, and then shells are placed at this incision to catch the sap or the gum as it exudes. It is very precious, this scammony. But tho peasant mixes it with a cheaper material; then it is taken to Aleppo, and the merchant there mixes it with a cheaper material; then it comes to the retail druggist, and he mixes it with a cheaper material, and by the time the poor, sick man gets it into his bottle it is ashes and chalk and sand, and some of what has been cal led pure scammony after analysis has been found to be no scammony at all. Now, religion will yet rectify all this. It will go to those hypocritical professors of religion who got a “corner” in corn and wheat in Chicago an 1 New York, sending pri ces up and up until they were beyond the reach of the poor, keeping these breadstuff’s in their own hands or con rolling them until, the prices going up and up and up, they were after a while ready to sell, and they sold out, mak ing themselves millionaros in one or two years; trying to fix the matter up with the Lord by building a church or a university or a hospital, deluding themseives with the idea that the Lord would be so pleased with the gift He would forget the swindle. Now, as such a man may not. have any liturgy in which to say his prayers, I will compose for him one which he practi cally is makiug: “OLord, we, by getting acorner in breadstuff's, swindled the people of the United States out of ten million dol lars, and made suffering all up and down the land, and we would like to compromise this matter with Thee. Thou knowest it was a scaly job, but then it was smart. Now, here we com promise it. Take one per cent, of the profits, and with that one percent, you can build an asylum for these poor, miserable ragmuffins of the street, and 1 will take a yacht and go to Europe, forever and ever. Amen.” Ah! my friends, it a man hath got ten his estate wrongfully he can build a line of hospitals and universities from here to Alaska, and he cannot atone for it. After awhile this man who has been getting a “corner” in wheat dies, and then Satan gets a “corner” in him. He goes into a great long Black Friday. There is a “break” in the market. Ac cording to Wall street parlance, he wi ped others out, and now he is himself wiped out. No collaterals on which to make a spiritual loan. Eternal defal cation, But this practical religion will not only rectify all merchandise; it will also rectify all mechanism and all toil. A time will come when a man will work as faithfully by the job as he does by the day. You say when a thing is slightly done, “Oh, that was done by the job.” You can tell by the swift ness or slowness with which a hack man drives whether he is hired by the hour or by the excursion. If he is hired by the hour he drives very slowly so as to make as many hours as possible. If he is hired by the excursion he whips up the horses so as to get around and get another customer. All styless of work have to be inspected. Ships in spected, hawsers inspected, machinery inspected. Boss to watch the journey man. Capitalist coming down unex pectedly to watch the boss. Conduc tor of city car sounding the punch bell to prove his honesty as a passenger hands to him a clipped nickel. All things must be watched and inspected. Imperfections in the wood covered with putty. Garments warranted to last until you put them on third time. Shoddy in all kinds of clothing. Chromos. Pinchbeck. Diamonds for a dollar and a half. Bookbindery that holds on until you near the third chap ter. Spavined horses by skillful dose of jockeys for several days made to look spry. Wagon tires poorly put on. Horses poorly shod. Plastering that cracks without any provocation and falls oft'. Plumbing that needs to be plumbed. Imperfect car-wheel that halts the whole train with a hot box. So little practical religion in the mech anism of the world. I tell you my friends, the law of man will never rec tify those things. It will be the all pervading influence of the practical re ligion of Jesus Christ that will make the change for the better. Yes, this practical religion will also go into agriculture, which is proverb ially honest but needs to be rectified, and it will keep the farmer from send ing to the New York market veal that is too young to kill, and when the far mer farms on shares it will keep the man who does the work from making his half three-fourths, and it will keep the farmer from building his post and rail fence on his neighbor’s premises, and it will make him shelter his cat tle in the winter storm, and it will keep the old elder from working on Sunday afternoon in the new ground where nobody sees him. And this practical religion will hover over the house, and over the barn, and over the field, and over the orchard. Yes, this practical religion of which I speak will come into the learned pro fessions. The lawyer will feel his re sponsibility in defending innocence and arraigning evil and expounding the law, and it will keep him from charg ing for briefs he never wrote, and for pleas he never made, and for percent age he never earned, and from robbing widow and orphan because they are de fenceless. Yes, this practical religion will come into the physicians life, and he will feel his responsibility as the conservator of the public health, a pro fession honored by the fact that Christ himself was a physician. And it will make him honest, and when he does not understand a case he will say so, not trying to cover up lack of diagnosis with ponderous technicalities, or send the patient to a reckless drug store be cause the apothecary happens to pay a percentage on the prescription sent. And this practical religion will come to the school teacher, making her feel her responsibility in preparing our youth for usefulness and for happiness and for honor, and will keep her from giving a sly box to a dull head, chas tising him for what he cannot help, and sending discouragement all through the after years of a lifetime. This prac tical religion will also come to the newspaper men, and it will help them in the gathering of the news, and it will help them in setting forth the best interests of society, and it will keep them from putting the sins of the world in larger type than its virtues, and its mistakes than its achievements, and it will keep them from misrepresenting interviews with public men, and from starting suspicions that, never can be allayed, and will make them staunch friends of the oppressed instead of the oppressor. Yes, this religion, this practical religion, will come and put its hand on what is called good society, elevated society, successful society, so that people will have their expenditures within their income, and they will ex change the hypocritical “not at home” for the honest explanation “too tired” or “too busy to see yon,” and will keep innocent reception from becoming in toxicated conviviality, and it will by frank manners and Christian sentiment drive out that creature with sharp.toed shoe and tightly-bandaged limb, and elbows drawn back, and idiotic talk, and infinitesimal cane, and sickening swagger, born in America but a poor copy of a foppish Englishman, the mix vomica of modern society, commonly called the “Dude!” Yes, there is great opportunity for missionary work in what are called the successful classes of society. It is no rare thing now to see a fashionable woman intoxicated in the street, or the railcar, or the restau rant. The number of fine ladies who drink too much is increasing. Per haps you may find her at the reception in most exalted company, but she has made too many visits to the wine-room, and now her eye is glassy, and after a while her cheek is unnaturally flush ed, and then she falls into fits of excru ciating laughter about nothing, and then she offers sickening flattering, tell ing some homely man how well he looks, and then she is helped into the carriage, and by the time the carriage gets to her home it takes the husband and the coachman to get her np.the stairs. The report is, she was taken suddenly ill at a german. Ah! no. She took too much champagne,and mix ed liquors, and got drunk. That was all. \ es, this practical religion will have to come in and fix up the marriage re lation in America. There are members of churches who have too many wives and too many husbands. Society needs to be expurgated and washed and fumi gated and Christianized. We have missionary societies to reform the Five Points in New York, and Bedford street, Philadelphia, and Shoreditch, London, and the Brooklyn docks; but there is need of an organization to re form much that is going on in Beacon street and Madison Square and Ritten house Square and West End and Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn Hill. We want this practical religion not only to take hold of what are called the lower classes, but to take hold of what are call the higher clases. The trouble is that people have an idea they can do all their religion Sunday with hymn book and prayer book and lit urgy, and some of them sit in church rolling up their eyes as though they were ready for translation, when their Sabbath is bounded on all sides by an inconsistent life, and while you are ex pecting to come out from under their arras the wings of an angel, there come out from their forehead the horns of a beast. There lias got to be anew de parture in religion. I do not say anew religion. Oh, no; but the old religion brought to new appliances. In our time we have had the daguerreotype and the ambrotype and the photograph; but it is the same old sun, and these arts are only new appliance to the old sunlight. So this glorious Gospel is just what we want to photograph the imago of God on one sonl, and dag uerreotype it on another soul. Not a new Gospel, but the old Gospel put to new work. In our time we have had the telegraphic invention and the tele phonic invention and the electric light invention; but they are all the children of old electricity, an element that the philosophers have understood a long while and know much .about. So this electrc Gospel needs to flash its light on the eyes and ears and souls of men, and become a telephonic medium to make the deaf hear; a telegraphic medium to give invitations and warn ing to all nations; an electric light to illuminate the eastern and western hemispheres. Not anew Gospel, but the old Gospel doing anew work. Now you say, “That is a very beauti ful theory, but is it possible to take one’s religion into all the avocations and business of life?” Yes, and I will give you some specimens. Medical doctors who took their religion into every day life: Dr. John Abercrombie, of Aberdeen, the greatest Scottish physician of his day, his, book on Dis eases of the Brain and Spinal Cord no more wonderful than his book on The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings; and often kneeling at the bedside of his patients to commend them to God in prayer. Dr. John Brown, of Edin burgh, immortal as an author, dying recently under the benediction of the sick of Edinburgh; myself remembering him as he sat in his study in Edin burgh talking to me about Christ and his hope of heaven. And a score of Christian family physicians in Brook ly just as good as they were. Lawyers who carried their religion into their profession: Lord Cairn, the Queen’s adviser for many years, the highest legal authority in Great Britain—Lord Cairn every summer in his vacation preached as an evangelist among the poor of his country. And John McLean, Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States and President of the American Sunday School Union, feeling more satisfaction in the latter office than in the former. And scores of Christian lawyers as eminent in the Church of God as they are eminent at the bar. Merchants who took their religion into every day life: Arthur Tappan, derided in his day because he established that system by which we come to find out the commercial stand ing that entire system, derided for it then—himself, as I knew him well, in moral character Al. Monday morn ings inviting to a room in the top of his storehouse the clerks of his estab lishment, asking them about their worldly interests and their spiritnal in terests, then giving out a hymn, lead ing in prayer, giving them a few words of good advice, asking them what church they attended on the Sabbath, what the text was, whether they had any especial troubles of their own. Arthur Tappan. I never heard his eulogy pronounced. I pronounce it now. And other merchants just as good. William E. Dodge in the iron business; Moses H. Grinnell, in the shipping business; Peter Cooper in the glue business. Scores of men just as good as they were. Farmers who take their religion into their occupation. Why, this minute their horses and wagons stand around all the meeting houses in America. They began this day by a prayer to God, and when they get home at noon, after they pat their horses np, they will offer a prayer to God at the table, seeking a bless ing, and this summer there will be in their fields not one dishonest head of rye not one dishonest ear of corn, not one dishonest apple. Worshipping God to-day up among the Berkshire Hills,or down among the lagoons of Florida, or away ont amid the mines of Colorado, | FOUR. DOLLARS PER ANNUM. or along the banks of the Passaic and the Raritan, where I knew them better, because I went to school with them. Mechanics who took their religion into their occupations: James Brindley, the famous millwright; Nathaniel Bow ditch the famous shipchaudler; Elihn Burritt, the famous black-smith, and hundreds and thousand of strong arms which have made the hammer and the saw and the adge and the drill and the axe sound in the grand march of onr na tional industries. Give your heart to God and then fill your life with good works. Consecrate to Him your store, your shop, yonr banking honse, your factory and your home. They say no one will hear it. God will hear it. That is enough. Yon hardly know of anyone else than Wellingtonasconnec ted with the victory at Waterloo; but he did not do the hard fighting. The hard fighting was done by the Somer set Cavalry and the Kempt’s Infantry and the Ryland regiments and the Scotch Grays and the Life Guards. Who cares if only the day was won? In the latter part of the last century a girl in England became a kitchen maid in a farmhouse. She had many styles of work and much hard work. Time rolled on, and she married the son of a weaver of Halifax. They were indus trious. They saved money enough af ter awhile to build them a home. On the morning of the day when they were to enter that home the yonng wife arose at 4 o’clock, entered the front dooryard, knelt down, consecrated the place to God, and there made this solemn vow: “Oh Lord, if Thou will bless me in this place, the poor shall have a share of it.” Time rolled on and a fortune rolled in. Children grew up around them and they all became affluent; one, a member of Parliament, in a public place declared that his success came from that prayer of his mother in the dooryard. All of them were affluent. Four thousand hands in their factories. They built dwelling houses for laborers at cheap rents, and where they were invalid and could not pay they had the houses for nothing. One of these sons came to this country, admired our parks went back, bought land, opened a great public park, and made it a present to the city of Halifax, England. They endowed an orphanage, they endowed to almshouses. All England has heard of the generosity and the good works of the Crossleys. Moral: Con secrate to God your small means and yonr humble surroundings, and you will have larger means and grander surroundings. “Godliness is profita ble unto all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.” Have faith in God by all means, but remember that faith without works is dead. Given Up by Doctors. “Is it possible that Mr. Godfrey is up aud at work, and cured by so sim ple a remedy ?” “I assure you it is true that he is entirely cured, and with nothing but Hop Bitters; and only ten days ago his doctors gave him up and said he must die!” “VVell-a-day! That’s remarkable! I will go this day and get some for my poor George—l know hops are good.” HAXjIj’S Vegetable Sicilian HAIR RENEWER was the first preparation perfectly adapted to cure diseases of the scalp, and the first suc cessful restorer of faded or gray hair to Its natural color, growth, and youthful beauty. It has had many imitators, but none haTe so fully met all tho requirements needful for tho proper treatment of the hair and scalp. Hall’s Hair Renewer bos steadily grown in favor, anti spread its fame and usefulness to every quarter of the globe. Its unparal leled success can be attributed to but ono cause: the entire fulfilment of its promisee, Tho proprietors have often been surprised at tho receipt of orders from remote coun tries, where they had never made an effort for its introduction. Tlio use for a short time of Hall’s Hair Renewer wonderfully improves the per sonal appearance. It cleanses the scalp from all impurities, cures all humors, fever, and dryness, and thus prevents baldness. It stimulates the weakened glands, and enable them to push forward anew and vigorous growth. The effects of this article are not transient, like those of alcoholic prepara tions, but remain a long time, which makes its use a matter of economy. 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