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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “Stinging Annoyances.”
Text : “ The Lord thy God unil send the
hornet." — Deuteronomy vii., 26.
Ft seems .as if the insect world were deter
minofl to war against the human race It is
every year attacking the grain fields and the
orchards and the vineyards. The Colorado
beetle, the Nehrasca grasshopper, the New
Jersey locust, the universal potato destroyer
seem to carry on the work which was begun
ages ago when the ins cts buzzed out of Noahs
ark as the door was opened.
In mv text the hornet fli'es out on its mis- 1
sion. Jt is a pocios of wasp, swift in its 1
motion an 1 violent in its sting. Its touch is
torture to man or beast. We have all
seen the cattle nn bellowing from the cut of
its lancet. In boyhood we used to stand
cautiously looking at the globular nest
hung from the tree branch, and while we
were looking at the wonderful paste-board
covering we were struck with something tliat i
sent us shrieking away. The hornet goes in
swarms. It has captains ove r hundreds, and
twenty of them attacking one man will ■
produce certain death. The Persians
attempted to conquer a Christian
city, but the elephants and the beasts on
which the Persians rode were assaulted by the
hornet, so that the whole army was broken
up and the Ix-sieged city was rescued. This :
burning and noxious insect stung out the
I Unites and Cnnaanites from their country. !
What the gleaming sword and chariot of war
could not accomplish was done by the punc
ture of an in sect. The Lord sent the hornet. 1
My friends, when we are assaulted by be- :
hemoths of trouhle—great behemoths of
trouble —we become chivalric, and we assault !
them; we get on the high-mettled steed of j
our courage, and make a cavalry charge at i
them, and, if God lie with us, we come out
stronger and better than when we went in.
Hut, alas for these insect ile annoyances of I
life—these foes too small to shoot—these
things without any avoirdupois weight—the !
gnats, and the midges, and the Hies, and the !
wasps, and the hornets! Inother words, it is J
the small stinging annoyances of our life 1
which drive us out and use us up. Into the !
liest conditioned life, lor some grand and
glorious purpose, God sends the hornet.
1 remark in the first place, that theso small |
stinging annoyances may come in the shape !
of a sensitive nervous organization. People
who are prostrated under typhoid fevers or
with broken bones get plenty of sympathy,
but who pities anybo ly that is nervous ? The
doctors say, and the family says, and every
body says: ‘-Oh! she’s only a little nervous;
that’s all.” The sound of a heavy foot, the
harsh clearing of a tin oat, a discord in music.
a want of harmony between the shawl and
the glove on the same person, a curt answer, J
a passing slight, the wind from the east, any' i
one of ten thousand annoyances, opens tha
door for the horm t. The fact is, !
that the vast majority of the people in !
this country are overworked, and their I
nerves are the first to give out. A great rind- i
titude are under the strain of Leyden, who, j
when he was told by his physician that if he
did nob stop working while he was in such !
poor physical health he would die, responded: |
“Doctor, whether 1 live or die the wheel must !
keep going around.” These persons of whom
1 sjteak have a bleeding sensitiveness. The
flies lovo to light on anything raw, and theso
people are like the Cnnaanites spoken of in
the text or in the context—they' have a very
thin covering and are vulnerable at all points.
And the Lord sent the hornet.
Again, these small insect annoyances may
come to us in the slitqto of friends and ac
quaintances who are always saying disagree
able things. '1 here are soma people you can
not be with for half an hour but you feel
cheered and comforted. Then there are
other people you cannot bo with for five
minuter before you feel miserable. They do
not moan to disturb you, but they' sting you
to the bone. They gather up all the y arn
which the gossips spin, and peddle it. They
gather up all the adverse criticisms about
your person, about your business, about your
home, about your church, and t hey make your
ear the funnel intojvhich they pour it. They
laugh heartily when they tell you, as though it
were a good joke, and you laugh too —outside.
These people are brought to our attention in
the Bible, in the Book of Ruth: Naomi went
forth beautiful and with the finest of worldly
prospects into another land, but after awhile
she came back widowed, and sick, and poor.
What did her friends do when she came back
to tlio city ? They all went out, and, instead
of giving her common-sense consolation, what
did they do? Bead the book of Ruth and find
out. They threw up their hands and said,
“Is this Naomi?” as much as to say, “How
very bad you look!” When I entered the
Ministry I looked very pale for years,
and every year, for four or livo years, a
hundred times a year, I was asked if I was
not in a consumption. And passing through
the room I would sometimes hear jieople sigh
and cry: “A-ah! not long for this world!”
1 resolved in those times that L never, in any
conversation, would say anything depressing,
and by the help of God I have kept the reso
lution. Those people of whom I speak reap
and hind in the great harvest field of dis
couragement. Some days yon greet them
with a hilarious “good morning,'’ and they
come buzzing at you with some depress g
information. The Lord sent the hor
net. It. is astonishing how some peop’e
prefer to write and to say disagreeable
things. That was the case when, years ago,
Henry M. Stanl *y retinae 1 after liis magnifi
cent exputof finding Doctor David Living
ston, nn 1 wh at -Mr. Ftonley stood bo ore the
savants of Europe, an 1 mmy of t le s i all
critics of tV day, under pretense of get in.g
geographical information, put to him most
insolent quo it ions, ho fold 'd his arms and re
fused to answer. At the very time when you
would have supposed all decent men would
have applauded the heroism of tho man,there
were those to hiss. The Lord sent the hornet.
When that man sat down on the western i
coast of Africa, sick and worn, perhaps,in the ;
grandest achievement of the ago in the way of
geograpical discovery .there were small critics
all over the world to buzz and buzz, and
caricature tuid deride him: and when a few
w>vks after that In got the Loudon [>apers, as
lie opened them, out flew the hornet. When
1 see that there arc so many people in the
world \\ ho like to siy disagreeable t hings,and
write disagreeable things. 1 come almost in
my weaker moments to believe what a man
said to me in Philadelphia one Monday morn
ing. I went t > get the horse that was at the
livery, and the hostler, a plain man. said to
me: "Mr. Talmago, 1 saw that you preached
to the young men yesterday.” I said: "Yes."
He said: "So list 1 , no use: man’s a failure.’’
The small insect annoyances of life some- !
times come in the shape of a local physical
trouble, which docs not amount to a positive \
prostration, but which bothers you when
you want io feel the best Perhaps it is a
sick headache which has been the plague of
your life, and you appoint some occasion of 1
mirth, or sociality, or usefulness, and when
the clock strikes the hour you cannot make j
your appearance. Perhaps the trouble is be- 1
tween the ear and the torches*!, in the shape
of a neuralgic twinge. Nobody can see it or
sympathize with you; but just, at the time
when you want your intellect clearest, aud
vour disposition brightest, y>u feel a sharp,
keen, disconcerting thrust. The Lord sent
the hornet. ;
Perhaps these small insect annoyances will
come m the shape ot a domestic irritation.
The parlor and the kitchen do not always
harmonize. To get good service and to keep
it is one of the great questions of the country.
Sometimes it may lie the arrogancy and m
cousiderateness of employers; but whatever
l>e the fact, we will admit there are these in
sect annoyances winging their way
out from ihe culinary uepartmeut. D
the grace of God be not m the heart
of the housekeeper, sue cannot niaiuta.n
her equilibrium. Tue men come home at
night and hear the story of these annoyances,
and say: "O! th se home troubles are very
little* things.” They are small, small as
wasps, but they sting. Martha’s nerves t
all oust rang w hen she rushed in asking L hnst
to reprove Mary, and there are tens ot thou
sands of women who are dying, stung to death
by these pestiferous domestic annoyances.
The Lord sent the hornet.
These small insect disturbances may atso
come in the shape of business irritations.
There are men here who went through lbo<
and Sept. 24, 1869, without losing their bal
ance. who are every day unhorsed by little
annoyances—a clerk's ill' manners, or a blot
of mu on a bill of lading, or the extravagance
of a partner who overdraws his account, or
the underselling by a business rival, or
the w hispering ot' businesss confidences in
the street, or the making ot some lit
tle bad debt which was against your
judgment, just to pause somebody else, it is
not the panics that kill the merchants. Panics
come only once in ten or twenty years. It is
the constant din of these every-day annoy
ances which is sending so many of our best
merchants into nervous dyspepsia and paraly
sis and the grave. When our national com-
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‘y bdl fiat on its race, these men stood up I
• eit almost detiant: but their life is giving
•a . now under the swarm of these pestifer
annoj'ances. The Lord sent the hornet,
i nave noticed in the h.story of some of my
rongr.-gat.on tliat their annoyances are mul-
Uj >b and Tliat they have a hundred where
Vi U T J to have ten - The naturalist tells
m that a wasp sometimes has a family of
wenty thousand wasps, and it does seem as
it every annoyance of your life bred a
mill.on. By the help of God to-day I want
io show you toe other side. The hornet is of
no use? U, yes! The naturalists tell us
they are very important in the world's
economy; they kill spiders and they clear
the atmosphere; and I really believe God
Sends, the annoyances of our life upon
us to kid the spiders of the soul and to clear
to: atmosphere of our skies. These annoy
ances are sent on as, I think, to wake as up
from our lethargy. There is nothing that
makes a man so lively as a nest of "yellow
jacket', and I t:iink that these annovances
are intend and to persuade as of the fact that
this is not a worid for as to stop in. If we
bed a bed of everything that was attractive
and soft mid easy, what would we want ol
tnaycn? \ou think that the hollow tree
s< nds the hornet, or you think the devil sends
the hornet. I want to correct your opinion
I lie Lord sent tiie hornet
i hen I also think these annoyances come
upon us to culture our patience. In the
gvnnia-ium you find uprigfit parallel bars
u: ■’ with holes over each other forpegs to be
I> n in. Then the gymnast takes a peg in
e ic.i hand and lie begins to climb, one inch at
a line-, or two inrfi-x. and, getting hisstrengtb
a'VV I ''V' ■c' 1:1 lii- ewliny-
Ani it seems to me that these annoy
ances in life are a moral gymnasium, each
v ’ 1 ' ort 7 a peg by which we are to
cliinli higher and higher in Christian
attainments. We all love to see patience, ,
but it. cannot lie cultured in fair weather. It
is a cliild of the storm. If you had everything
d‘-suable and there was nothing more to get,
u 'jnt would you want with patience? The
only time to culture it is when you are slan
'l -i '-d and cheated, and sick and half dead.
< *1) you say, “if J only had tho circum
stances of some well-to-do man I would be
patient too.” You might as well say: “If it
were not for this water I would swim;” or,
'* ccul-l shoot this gun if it were not for the
e.ios. W hen you stand chin deep in annoy- 1
ances is !ii time for you to swim out toward j
the great headlands of Christian attainment, i
and when your life is loaded to the muzzlt I
with repulsive annoyances—that is the time;
to draw the trigger. Nothing but the furnace i
w'!l ever burn out <-f us the clinker and tho
slag. I have formed this theory in regard to j
small annoyances and vexations. It takes i
ju-: ■ > mu -h trouble to fit us for usefulness j
and for heaven. Tho only question is, -
whether wo shall take it in the bulk, or pul
verized and granulated. Here is one man
who takes it in tho bulk. His back is
broken, or his eyesight put out, or some
other awful calamity befalls him; while
the vast majority of people take the thing
piecemeal. Which way would you rather
have it? Of course in piecemeal. Better have
live aching teeth than one broken jaw. Better
ten fly-blisters than an amputation. Better
twenty squalls than ono cyclone. There may
boa difference of opinion as to allopathy and
homoeopathy; but in this matter of trouble
I like homoeopathic doses—small pellets of
annoyance rather than some knock-down dose
of calamity. Instead of the thunderbolt give
us the hornet. If you have a bank you would
a groat deal rather that fifty men should come
in with chocks less than a hundred dollars
than to have tw'o depositors come in the same
day each wanting his ten thousand dollars.
In this latter case, you cough and look down
at the floor and up at the ceiling before you
look into tho safe. Now, my friends,
would you not rather have these small
drafts of annoyance on your bank of faith
i ban some all-staggering demand upon your
endurance? I want to make you so strong,
that you will not surrender to small annoy
ances. In the village of Hamelin, tradition
says, there was an invasion of rats, and these |
small creatures almost devoured the town i
and threatened the lives of the population, j
and the story is that a piper came out one j
day and played a very sweet tune, and all
tho vermin followed him—followed him to
the banks of the Weser, and then he blew a
blast aud they dropped in and disappeared I
forever. Of course this is a fable, but I wish j
I could, on the swoet flute of the Gospel, draw
forth all the nibbling and burrowing annoy
ance of your life, and play them down into
depths forever. How many touches did the
artist give to his picture of “Cotopaxi,” or his
“Heart of the Andes?” 1 suppose about 50,-
090 touches. I hear the canvas saying:
“Why do you keep me trembling'with
that pencil so long? Why don’t you putit on
in one dash?” “No,” says the artist’ ‘‘l know
how to make a painting; it will take fifty
thousand of these touches.” And I want you,
my friends, to understand that it is these ten
thousand- annoyances which, under God, are
making up the picture of your life, to bo hung
at last in the galleries of heaven, fit for angels
to look at. God knows how to make a picture.
T go into a sculptor’s studio, and see him
shaping a statue. He has a chisel in one
liar; 1 and a mallet in the other, and he gives
a very gentle stroke—click, click, click! I
my: “Why don’t you strike harder?” “Oh!”
h replies, "that would shatter the statue. I
can’t do it that way: I must do it this way.”
So he works on, and after awhile the feat
ures come out, and everybody that en
t s the studio is charmed and fascinated.
Well, Go 1 has your soul under process of de
vt lopment, audit is tho little annoyances and
vexations of life that are chiseling out your
immortal nature. It is click, click, click! I
wonder why some great providence does not
come, and with one stroke prepare you for
heaven. Ah, no; God says that is not the
way. An Iso ho keeps on by strokes of little
vexations, until at last you shall be a glad
sp vtaeie for angels and for men. You know
tin' a large fortune may b3 spent iu
small change, and a vast amount of moral
character may go away m small depletion.
It is the little troubles of life that are having
more effect upon you than great ones. A
s- arm of locusts wifi kill a grain field sooner
than the incursion of three or four cattle, j
You say: “Since I lost my child, since I lost ’
my property, I have been a different man.”
But you do not recognize the architec- !
Uu oof little annoyances that are hewing,dig
ging. cutting, shaping, splitting and in
trejoining your moral qualities. One lucifer
mat ,*h may send destruction through a block
of storehouses. Catharine de Medicis got her
death from smelling a poisonous rose. Colum
bus. by stopping and asking for a piece of
bread and a ariuk of water at a Franciscan
convent, was led to tho discovery of anew
w ■ rid. And there is an intimate connection
between trifles and immensities, between
nothings and evervthings.
Now. be careful to let none of those annoy
ances g > through your soul uuarraigneii.
Compel them to administer to your spiritual
wealth. The s watch of a sixpenny-nail some
tini -s profit! vs lock-jaw, and the clip of a
m ist infinitesimal annoyance may damage you
forever. Do uot let any annoyance or per
pi Cry come across your soul without its
in iking you better.
Our National Government does not think
it belittling to put a tax on pins, and a tax on
buckles, and a tax on shoes. The individual
tax- s do not amount to much, but in the ag
gregate t-> millions and millions of dollars.
And l would have you. Oh Ohristian man,
put a high tariff on every annoyance and
vexation that conies through your soul. This
mi . :t nor amount to much in -ingle eases.but
would be a great revenue of
>pi tn - strength and satisfaction. A bee
car. suck Honey even out of a nettle; and if
you have the grace of God iu your heart you
em ret sweetness out of that which would
otic wis* irritate and annoy. A returned
missionarv told me that a company of ad
w: - turers" rowing up the Ganges were stung
to death by flies that infest that region at
c.-rrain seasons. I have seen the earth strewed
with the carcasses of men slain by insect an
ti- veauees. The only way to get prepared for
the great troubles of life is to conquer these
s i all troubles. What would you say of a
soldier who refused to load his gun. or to go
into the conflict, because it was only a skir
mish. saying: “I am not going to ex
pend my ammunition on a skirmish;
wait until there conies a general
engagement, and then you will see
how courageous I am. and what battling I
will do." The General would say to such a
man: “If vou are not faithful in a skirmish,
von would" lx* nothing in a general engage
ment.” And I have to tell yon. O Christian
men. if vou cannot apply the principles of
Christ's religion on a small scale, you will
never be able to apply them on a large
scale.
If I had mv way with vou I would halt
you uossess all possible worldly pro-perity. 1
would have vou each one a garden—a rivei
flowing through it. geraniums and shrubs on
the sides, and the grass and flowers as beauti
ful as though the rainbow ha-1 fallen. I would
have you a house, a splendid mansion, an l the
bed should be covered with upholstery dipped
iu the setting sun. I would have every
hall in vour house set with statue- and
statuettes, and then I would have the four
quarters of the globe pour in all their luxuries
I on vour tsbt-e, and you should have forks of
1 diver and knives' of gold, inlaid with
diamonds and amethysts. T.ien von should
each one of you have the finr-d: horses, and
your pick of the equipages ot the world.
Then I would have you live a hundred
and fifty years, anl yoi should not
have a pain or ache until the last breath.
“Not each one of u-f' vot. say. Yes
each one of you. “Not to ytur enemiesf
Yes: the only difference I would make with
them would Re that I would put a little extra
gilt on their walls, and a little extra embroid
ery on their slipjiers. But you say: “Why
does not-Go 1 give us all these things?” Ah!
I bethink myself. He is wiser. It would
make fools an-1 sluggards of us if we had our
way. No man puts his best picture in the
portico or vestibule of his house. God meant
this world to be only the vestibule of heaven,
that great gallery of the universe toward
which we are aspiring. We mast not have
it too good in t his world, or we would want
no heaven.
Polycarp was condemned to be burnt to
death. The stake was planted. He was fast
ened to it. The faggots were placed around
him. tho fires kindled, but history tells us that
the flames bent outward like the canvas of a
ship in a stout breeze, so that the flames, in
stead of destroying Polycarp, were onlv a
wall l>etween him and his enemies. They had
actually to destroy him with the poniard; the
flames would not touch him. Well, my hearer.
I want you to understand that by God's
grace the flames of trial, instead of consum
ing your soul, are only going to be a wall of
defense, and a canopy of blessing. God is
going to fulfill to you the blessing and the
promise, a- Ho did to Polycarp. ' * When thou
walkest through the fire thou shalt not be
burned.” Now you do not understand; you
-hall know hereafter. In heaven you will
bless God even for the hornet.
A Noted Ruler of Central Africa.
Emin Bey is the man to whose rescue
Stanley has gone with a large outfit. It
is a curious fact, says the Chicago Tribithe,
that so little is known of the former life
of a man who has really accomplished so
much. Former accounts speak of Emin
Bey as a German soldier, hut he was an
Austrian doctor. Beyond this —and even
this seems still in doubt—nothing is
known concerning the man’s life until
Gordon discovered him in 1878 and made
him Governor-General of the Egyptian
equatorial provinces. In three years Emin
Bey had swept the slave trade out of
these provinces, and had so manipulated
the revenues that from an annual deficit
of £BB,OOO he mounted them to an aggre
gate annual surplus of £B,OOO. He taught
the natives the cultivation of cotton, rice,
indigo, coffee and numerous other arti
cles, and instructed them in the art of
weaving and how to make shoes, etc.
He manufactured soap, established hos
pitals, and introduced vaccination. In
short, he was revolutionizing and
gradually civilizing the provinces when
the war of the Soudan broke out. Emin
Bey entered the Egyptian army and led
part of the Khedive’s troops in the war
with El Malidi. His particular province
was just north of the Albert Nyanza, a
tract of about 200 miles in length and
150 in width, containing between one
and two millions of inhabitants. These
have been loyal and true to him. Emin
Bey gradually extended liis authority
more and more to the west, to the upper
waters of the Makua, in the Congo Basin,
and from 1878 to 1888, at least, he had
maintained perfect order throughout the
country. Iu the reverses which befell
the Egyptian troops in the battles of the
desert Emin was with his soldiers driven
southward, and at the time when Gordon
went to the relief of Khartoum Emin Bey
was intrenched amid the hostile tribes
south of Egypt. He could not escape
northward or southward, his only way
being toward the south, which way he
pursued until he encountered the hostile
tribes of that district,, which compelled
him to retreat somewhat and remain with
more friendly negroes near the vicinity of
Albert Nyanza. Emin Bey had accom
panying him two explorers, Casati and
Dr. Junker, and to the latter, who made
his way to the coast, is due the knowl
edge of Emin Bey’s need of assistance.
For three years nothing whatever has
been heard of him. as he had been abso
lutely lost sight of when the English
abandoned the Soudan. What has hap
pened since Dr. Junker left him will be
known when Stanley -ends word to the
world that he has found Emin Bey or his
remains.
A Good Dog.
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Ph. Ferdinand Pell Alell was duck
shooting l ist week, and informed the
man from whom he hired the dog that
the animal was no good.
“What’- the matter with him?” in
quired the owner.
"I fimi seven times at a duck,’’ex
plained Young Mr. Pell Mell. "before I
discovered that it was a wooden decoy.
Then the dog howled, put his tail be
tween hi- legs, and ran home. What
kind of a dog do you < ail that?”
"A good dog.” he replied, patting th
intelligent animal's head. -Ptuk.
A loquaciou- little fellow who resides
in this city rather unceremoniously re
moved the veil from the secrecy that
surrounds the missives of St. Yalentine
The young gentleman who is credited
with a regard for that little fellow j
sister, and whose regard is not unrecip
rocated, called the other evening, and,
meeting the little boy. very naturallj
I inquired:
"Johnny, did you get a valentine ?”
“No, I didn’t, and you wouldn'l
j either if Sa:ah hadu t stofacl the money
out o’ my bank to buy one for you! ’ —
Boston Budyt t.
SHERIDAN’S tOl RTSHIP.
an Incident In (be Hero's Wooing Not
Recorded In Biographies.
Not long since at a dinner, given in
New York, Gen. Sheridan related an
incident that befel him while calling
an the young lady who is the present
Mrs. Sherman. During the war General
Sheridan was too much occupied defend
ing his country to fall in love. When
the malady finally overtook him in
Chicago, after the war. Sheridan had
passed what is generally called the
romantic stage and was settling down
into a well seasoned old bachelorhood.
Gld bachelors make the most enthusi
astic of lovers, and the General admitted
that he was no exception to the rule.
“It was a warm summer evening ’’
Sheridan began, “and upon my arrival
at the house the young lady and myself
retired to the back parlor. The front i
parlor opened into the hail, and as the 1
night was warm, you know, we did not
think it necessary to light the gas in the
back room. Now this young lady’s
father had a great fear of burglars, lie
had burglar alarms all over the house,
and had recently put anew alarm on
the front door Neither the young lady
nor myself knew anything about the
alarm on the front door After a time
the old gentleman came down stairs,
set his alarm on the door, and see
ing the dim light in the front parlor,
supposed that I had gone and turned
out the light in the hail. We were
busily engaged in talking, you know,
and somehow did not hear him Finally
when I got up to leave the young lady
accompanied me to the door. We were
surprised to find the light turned and in
tumbling around for the door-knob I I
set off the burglar alarm. It seemed to
me that I never knew a burglar-alarm to
work so well before. It sounded like
the explosion of a keg of dynamite. A
moment later the father of the young
lady appeared at the head of the stairs
in his night-dress, holding a light in ono
hand and a large pistol in the other.
At this apparition the young lady de- j
serted me and fled into the darkness.
.My position was positively dangerous. I
suppose I had been in dangerous places ;
before without thinking of it, hut I con
fess for the moment I trembled all over j
with fear and scarcely mustered up ;
voice enough to say, ‘Don’t shoot; it's
me,’ Fortunately he recognized my
voice and came down and let me oat.
“Now, you know gentlemen,”he con- j
eluded, “if the young lady had stood '
by me there would have been no danger, 1
i ut she didu’t, you know, and my posi
tion was rather awkward before I was
recognized. One might die on the field
of battle without regret, but I should j
hate to be shot as a midnight marauder. !
I only tell the story because is actually
took place as 1 have said, and to show
that there are times when we may all
lose our courage.
From Shayeogo.
•‘Does this street lead to the day-po?”
asked a very stylish young man of a
drayman on Jefferson avenue.
“It does, sir.”
“Ah! thanks.”
“Did you hear him call it day-po?”
asked the drayman of one of his craft
after the stranger had passed on.
“Indade I did.”
“Wasn’t it strange?”
“Not a bit. He was evidently going
to Shayeogo.”—Detroit Free Press.
‘November, 18S0,” wrote Jos. P. Murphy,
Springfield, Tenn.,‘‘my wife suffered eighteen
months with r.e ralgii and paralysis. By use
of St. Jacobs Ol!, she could walk.” October
TTh, 1886, he writes. “My wife recovered en
t rely.” Price filty cents.
A min who edited an agricultural journal
for fifteen years, and devoted many hours
to telling farmers how to cultivate their crops
and grow rich, purchased a farm and tried
it iiimseif a year ago, and last week lie w.’.s
gold out by the sheriff.—Norristown Herald.
Charles Tiel, Philadelphia, Pa., was in a
hopeless condition from throat trouble and
asthma. Bed Star Cough Cure cured him.
Price twenty-five cents. At druggists.
Mrs. Jenness Miller, of dress reform renown,
will confer a great favor on humanity if she
will invent a pocket for a woman’s skirt
which can be found by the average husband
when the dress is hanging in the closet, with
out turning his hair gray.—Puck.
“Nip’t in the Bud!”
Sad to say, many a good thing attains to
nothing more than a fair beginning. On the
other hand it is a matter for congratulation
that the growth of some evil things may bo
also promptly frustrate 1. A large proportion
of the cases of tlxe most wide-spread and fatal
of diseases—. onsumption—have their incep
tion in nasal catarrh. Dr. Sag ’s Cata.rh
Remedy is plea-ant, soothing and effectual.
Try it. It has cured thousands. All drug
gists-
God is knowable but unfathomable.—Jo
seph Cook.
Chronic Coughs and Colds,
And all diseases of the Tm-oat and Lungs, can
be cured by the use of Scott’s Emulsion, as it
contains the healing virtues of Cod Liver Oil
and Hypophosphites in 1 heir fullest form. Is a
beautiful creamy Emulsion, palatable as milk,
easily digested, and can be taken by the most
delicate. Please read: “I consider Scott’s
Emulsion the remedy par excellence in Tu
berculous and Strumous Affections, to say
nothing of ordinary coids and throat troubles.”
—W. R. S. Connell, M. D., Manchester. O.
Lard is tin.* best poMsh to put into starch.
A i-rinrer'9 Error.
Sweet are t tie uses of adversity , the printer’s
copy said, but he set it up, sweet are the uses
of advertising. Sweet, indeed, to those who
in sickness aud suffei ing have seen the adver
tisement of some Sovereign remedy, which up
on trial has brought thera from death’s door.
“The best thiag I ever saw in my paper was
the advertisement of Dr. Pierce's ‘Go’den
Medical Eiseovtry,' ” is again and again the
testimony of these who have b -en healed by
it of lung disease, bronchial affections, tumors,
ulcers, liver complaints and the ills to which
flesh is he r,
A wise night key—One that knows its own
keyhole.
Nervous debility, in either sex however in
duced, speedily, thoroughly and permanently
cured. Address, with 10 tents in stamps for
reply and book of i articuiai s. World’s Dispen
sary Medical Association, 003 Main stret, Buf
falo. N. Y.
Universal history is, at bottom, but the his'
tory of great men.— Corlyle.
Farmers,
Send 10 cents to th-* Prickly Ash Bitters
Cos.. St. Louis, Mo., and g-t a copy of "The
Horse Trainer.” A t implete system, teach
ing how to break .-.nd train horses in a m id
and gentle way, requiring no elaborate appar
atus. nothing more than can be found in an .
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Every one handling horses shou and have a
copy."
Deep Bes Wonders
Exist in thousands of forms, but are surpassed
by the marve sof invention. Those who are
ill need of profitable work tha can b* done
white at home should a' once sen 1 , their ad
dre-Bto Hailett & Cos., Portland. Maine, and
receive free, full information how either sex.
of all ag -s, can earn from %:> to si"> per day
whe ever thev live. You ate started free-
Capita! not required. Some Lave made over
SSO in a sing e day at this work. All succeed.
An Expensive Delay,
is failing to provide the proper means to ex
Pel from tae system those disease germs
which cause se-ofu a, indigestion, debilitv.
rheumatism anl sick headache. The only
reliable meas *s Dr. Harter's Iron Tonic.
If you are suffering from Chronic Cough.
BroncliitK Asthma, or Loss of Voice, Dr.
Kilmer'- Indian Cough Cure (Consumption Oil
will relieve quickly—remove the cause and
cure. Price 2be., 50. and 1.00.
Daughters. Wives and Mothers.
Send for Pamphlet on Female Diseases, free,
securely sealed. Dr. J. B. Marchisi, Utica, N.Y
Relief is immediate, and a cure sure. Piso’
Remedy for Catarrh. 50 cents.
SIGNIFICANT!
Some of the I.ast Public Opinions of ■
Great Alan.
Xexe York Correspondence Cleveland leader
One has a most excellent opportunity to
studv “man" a< represented bv the average
New Yorkers. Among the wealthy classes,
very many of them have the waxy skin,
dropsical flesh, and “puffed eyes" that are
indicative of serious kidney affection.
“Bright’s disease" is plainly written on their
faces. Since General Logau's death the sub
ject of rheumatism is being discussed by ihe
medical profession.
Every intelligent person, with any knowl
e Ige of the human system, is well aware that
if the kidneys are iu good condition all un
necessary material is regularly carried off
by thenu If not, various a ids, such as uric
acid, one of the chief causes of rheumatism,
are ioft in excess,creating deposits that cause
all sorts of chronic organic diseases. It '
would seem, therefore, that rheumatism, like
dropsy, is not a diseas *, but the result of a :
disease, and it is safe to >ay that if tho
stomach aud kidneys are kept iu h althful
condition, there will be no deaths from rhea- !
matism.
General Logan was well aware that his
disease was of the kidneys, aud once ex
pressed hitnself in indignant terms at the
folly of doctors treating him for rheumatism,
when it was the kidneys that caused his
attacks. The high living and the excesses u
all things prevalent among wealthy men iu
iarge cities, especially in New York, is the
chief cause for Bright’s disease, and the aris
tocratic trouble known as rheumatism, even
as insufficient and improper food bring about
the same results among the very poor
The above article, which we reproduce be- :
cause of its general interest, is very signifi
cant. The public believes that rheumatism
is an effect of diseased blood, this disease be
ing caused by uric acid or kidney p >isou. \
Enough of this is developed daily to kill sev- j
eral men, aud if if is not removed by the kid
nevs as fast as formed, it gradually ruins the
health.
This fact is a scientific demonstration
If doctors do not admit it, it is probably 1
because they do not wish to attract atten
tion to the mena e deranged kidneys offers
to the geueral health, since they Rave no
authorized specific lor these organs.
General Logan knew what his real trouble
was, aud ho recognized the nonsense of treat
ing the effects—the real seat of the disease
was the kidneys. Senator Sittig, of Illinois. :
whose vote elected Logan Senator after four ;
months of balloting, tells us that Logan often
complained to him of great distress iu his ;
kidneys. Disease of the kidneys always
produces rheumatism, and besides that, it i
causes paralysis, apoplexy, impotency,
stomach and blood disorders, brain troubles,
female complaints and countless other dis- 1
eases which would almost never develop if |
tii 9 blood was kept free of uric acid or kidney
poison.
These facts the public recognizes eveu
though medical gentlemen, for very evident >
reasons, will not publicly acknowledge them
lest, perchance,some proprietary medicine like
Warner's safe curt*, now admitted to be the
only scientific specific, will get the benefit.
Fie on such bigotry! It lias been authori
tatively stated time and again that there can
be no real sound health if there is any false
action of the kidneys, insurance companies \
refuse millions of risks on this ground alone, I
hence it is that there is such universal popu- j
lurity given to the great preparation named
—a popularity that is based upon intrinsic
merit.
Too much dependence upon professional
advice, especially in matters over which i
medical men admit they have no power, too I
often results very disastrously, but of what
use to the victim is experience gained by fa- I
tal disaster?
How much better it is to be guided by an
unprejudiced public opinion in such matters.
Had Logan been so guided, he might have
been spared many years.
Vinegar and salt will clean copper and
brass, tobe thoroughly removed afterward.
Tha! Tired Feeling
Is so general at this season that every one knows
what is meant by the expression. A change of sea
ton, climate, or of life, has such a depres-hig effect
upon the body that one feels all tired out, almost
completely prostrated, the appetite is lost, and thera
Is no ambition to do anything, The whole tendency
of the system is downward. Iu this condition
Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is just the medicine needed. It
purifies the blood, sharpens the appetite, overcomes
the tired feeling, and Invigorates every function of
the body. Try It.
“We all like Hood’s Sarsaparilla, it Is so strength
ening.”—Lizzie Balfour, Auburn, P. Q.
The Weak Made Strong
“I never took any medicine that did ms so much
good In so short a time as Hood’s Sarsaparilla. 1
was very much run down, had no strength, no en
ergy, and felt very tired all the time. I commenced
taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and before I had used
one bottle felt like a different person. That ex
treme tired feeiing has gone, my appetite return-d,
ana it toned me up generally. My brother and sis
ter have also received great benefit from it.”—
Clara W. Phelps, Shirley, Ma s.
N. B.—Be sure to get the peculiar medicine,
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $!5. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD & CO.. Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
£OO Doses One Dollar
OR KILMER’S St°l that ('old, Ooujrh.h
and I hroatj j
Srihi t- i=
and lHorphlne Habit cured in 19
g® a| g to3o days. Refer to 1000 patients cured
a i s#nl lnali part •. Da.Mxbsh.Qulb y, ilieh.
ifAFFIR CORN&M
5% s*ed mailed for 10c silver. 1 pound by ex Dress Me, V,
p.nmds sl, to-day. Address M. A. REED, Dalton, Ga.
•a FACTION. Wherever USED.
AN INBISPENSIBLE
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$m
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Medicine has gained for itself more
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And as its name implies, is an absolutely
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Mighty Sensible Talk.
The correspondence between Major
Young, of Charleston, aud John Brown.
Ir., about that famous five dollar bill. G
af national importance.
The son of Harper's Ferry Brown
hopes that "the bloody chasm” of other
days will be filled up with “fraternity”
enough to make the ground even. And
he add' that the politicians who “fought
tacir battle*' seated on dry goods boxes
it the street corners” will pass away in
good time, and then we shall have no
more sectional prejudice. As for the
men who "looked into each other's eyes
across sabres and bayonets,” they shook
hands long ago. and are now so busy
trading with each other that the dead
past, which lias buried its dead, is—well,
it's the dead past.
The Brown family seem to have a good
deal of common sense.—New York
Herald.
Snob — “I have come to allow you to
paint my portrait.’’ Disgusted artist —
"You have made a mistake. The animal
painter has his studio the next flight
above.”
Disorders Which Affect the Kidneys
Are among the most formidable known. Dia
betes, Bright's disease, gravel and other com
plaints of the urinary organs, are not ordina
rily cured in severe cases, but they may be
averted by timely medication. A useful stim
ulant for the urinary glands has ever been
found in Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, a medi
cine which not only affords the requisite
stimulus when they become inactive, but in’
eases their vigor and secretive power. By
increasing the activity of the kidneys and
bladder, this modi ine his Die additional ef
fect of expelling from the blood impurities
which it is the peculiar office of those organs
to eliminate and pass off. Tho Bitt *rs is also
a puritie and st: eugthener of the bowels, an
invigorate o the stomach, and a matchless
remedy for biliousness, and fever and ague. It
counteracts a tendency t > premature decay and
sustains and comforts the aged and infirm.
The character of a uation is not to be learnt
from its fine folks.
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and all aches and pains Endorsed by 5,000 Physi
cian, aud Druggists of the highest repute. Benson's
Plasters promptly relieve and cure where other
plasters and greasy salves, liniments and lotions,
are absolutely useless. Beware of imitations under
din lar sounding names, such as ‘’Capsicum.” -‘Cap
ucln.” “Capslclne,” as they are utterly worthless
end Intended to deceive. Ask for Bknsom’s and
take no others. All druggists.
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io five to each p r oc. You will pleas.- ship s,'Art
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"Seven Springs” Ir .n-A :m '.less, wii! give you an
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aud an Headache,, purify the blood, act on the Kid
neya, relieve . alarm and ward off malaria Price ioc
and sl. p.r L - >.
Oleksy’s Fainkss Eyewater edtje^Tt
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fvTii p w”-’’ ‘ Dll' KEY &
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LJ Best Cough Syrup. ■ H
Haines ville, N. J. t )
October 15, 1886. ||
E. T. Ha/.ei.tine,
Warren, l’a. Y
Dear Sir:
1 was taken with a very ■
severe cold last Spring,
and tried every cure wo I
had in the steire. and could ■
get no help.
I had our village doctor 9
prescribe for me, but kept &|
getting worse. 1 saw au- 9
other physician from Port I
Jervis, N. Y., and he told B
me he used I’iso’s Cure for 9
Consumption iu his prnc- ■
tice.
I bought a bottle, aud g
before I had taken all of it S
there was a change for the H
better. Then I got my era- ||
Iployer to order a quantity sj
of the medicine and keep jgj
it in stock. I took one jp
more bottle, and my Cough 9
was cured.
Respectfully. *
Frank McKelvy. ||
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gyiRON
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