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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUNDAY
SERMON.
Text: Every wise woman buildeth her
house— Proverbs, xiv., 1.
Woman, a mere ad junct to man, an appen
dix to the masculine volume, something
tnrown in to make things even —that is the I
heresy entertained and implied by some men.
This is evident to them: Woman's insignifi
cance, as compared to man, is evident to
them, because Adam was first created and 1
then Eve. They don’t read the whole story
or they would find that the porpoise and the
bear and the ark were created before Adam,
so that this argument drawn from priority
of creation might prove that the sheep and
the dog were greater than man. No! ’Voir.an
was an independent creation, and vas in
tended, if she chose, to dive alone, to walk
t one, act alone, think alone and fight her
battles alone. The Bible says it is not good
for man to be alone, but never says it is not
?;ood for woman to be alone; and the simple
act is that women who are harnessed tor
life in the marriage relation would be a
thousandfold better off if they were alone,
(rod makes no mistake, and the fact that
there is such a large majority of women in
this land, proves that he intended that multi
tudes of them should go alone.
Who are these men who year after year
• hang around hotels and engine houses and
theatre doors and come in and out to bother
busy clerks and merchants and mechanics,
doing nothing even when there is plenty to ,
do? They are men supported by their wives
and mothers. If the statistics of any of our
cities could be taken on this subject you
would find that a vast multitude of women
not only support themselves but masculines.
A great legion of men amount to nothing,
and a woman by marriage manacled to one
of these nonentities needs condolence. A
woman stancing outside the marriage rela- ;
tion is several hundred thousand times better
off than a woman badly married. Many a
bride instead of a wreath of orange blossoms
might more properly wear a bunch of nettles
and nightshade, and instead of thq Wedding
March a more appropriate tune would be the
Dead March in Saul, and instead of a ban
quet of confectionery and ices there might
be more appropriately spread a table covered
with apples of Sodom, which are outside fair
and inside ashes.
Many an attractive woman of good sound
sense in other things has married one of these
men to reform him. What was the result?
Like when a dove noticing that a vulture was
rapacious and cruel set about to reform it
and said: “ i have a mild disposition, and I
like peace, and was brought up in the quiet
of a dove cot, and 1 will bring the vultnre
to the same liking by marrying him.” So
one day after the vuituie had declared he
would give up his carnivorous habits and
cease longing for blood of flock and herd, at
an altar of rock covered with moss and
lichen.the twain were married, a bald headed
eagle officiating, the vulture saying: “ With
all my dominion of earth and sky I thee en-
• daw, and promise to love and cherish tdi
death do us part.” But one day the dove, in
hfer flight, saw the vulture busy at a carcass
and cried: “Stop that! did you not promise
me that you would quit your carnivorous
and filthy habits if I married you?” “Yes,”
su'd the vulture, “but if you don’t like my
way yr-,i can leave,” and with one angry
stroke of beak and another tierce clutch of
claw the vulture left the dove eyeless and
wingless and lifeless. And a flock of robins
flying past cried to each other and said: “See
there! that conies from a dove’s marrying a
vulture to reform him.”
Many a woman who has had the hand of a
young inebriate offered, but declined it, or
who was asked to chain her life to a man
selfish or of bad temper, and refused the
shackles, will bless Goa throughout all
eternity that she escaped that earthly pande
monium.
Besides all this, in our country about
1,000,001) men were sacrificed in our civil
war, and that decreed a million women to
celibacy. Besides that, since the war, several
armies of men as large as the Federal and
Confederate armies put together have fallen
under malt liquors and distilled spirits so full
of poisoned ingredients that the work was
done more rapidly, and the victims fell while
yet young. And if 50,0:10 men are destroyed
every year by strong drink before marriage,
that makes in the twenty-three years since
the war 1,150,000 men slain, and decrees
1,150,000 women to celibacy. Taking then the
fact that so many women are unhappy in
their marriage, and the fact that the
slaughter of 2,150,000 men by war and rum
combined decides that at least that number
of women shall be unaffianced for life, my
text comes in with a cheer and a potency and
appropriateness that I never saw in it before
when it says: “Every wise woman buildeth
her house,” that is, let woman be her own
architect, lay out her own plan, be her own
supervisor, achieve her own destiny.
In addressing these women who will have
to tight the battle of life alone, I congratulate
you on your happy escape. Rejoice forever
that you will not have to navigate the faults
■of the other sex, when you have faults
enough of your own. Think of the bereave
ments you avoid, of the risk of unassimilated
temper which you will not have t * run, of
the cares you will never have to carry, t. id
of the opportunity of outside usefulness from
which marital life would have partially de
barred you, and that you are free to go and
come as one who has the responsibilities of a
household can seldom be. God has not given
you a hard lot as compared with your sisters.
When young women shall make up their
minds at the stai t that masculine companion
ship is not a necessity in order to happiness,
and that there is a strong probability that
they will have to fight the battle of life
alone, they will be getting the t imber ready
for their own fortune, and their saw and ax
and plane sharpened for its construction,
since “every wise woman buildeth her
house.”
As no boy ought to be brought up without
learning some business at which he could
earn a livelihood, so no girl ought to be
brought up without learning the science of
self support. The difficulty is that many a
family goes sailing on the high tides of suc
cess, and the husband and father depends on
Vis own health and acumen for the welfare
of his household, but one day he gets his feet
wet, and in three days pneumonia hits closed
his life, and the daughters are turned out on
a cold world to earn bread, and there is
nothing practical that they can do. The
friends of the family come in and hold con
sultation.
“Give music lessons,” says an outsider.
Yes, that is a useful calling; and if you have
great genius for it go on in that direction,
iut there are enough music teachers now
starving to death in all our towns and cities
to occupy all the piano stools and sofas and
chairs and front doorsteps of the city, be
side that, the daughter has been playing only
for amusement and is only at the foot of the
ladder, to the top of which a great multitude
of masters on piano and harp and flute and
organ have climbed.
“Put the bereft daughters as saleswomen
in store-.,” says another adviser. But there
they must compete with salesmen of long ex
perience or with men who have served an ap
prenticeship in commerce, and who began as
shop boys at 10 years of age. Some kind
hearted dry goods man having known the
’ fatbei, now gone, says: “We are not in need
of any more help just now, but send your
daughters to my store and I will do as well
,by them as possible.” Very soon the ques
tion comes up: Why do not the female em
ployes of that establishmen get. as much
wages as the male employes? For the simple
reason in many cases the females were sud
denly flung by misfortune behind that
counter, while the males have from the day
they left the public school been learning the
business.
How is this evil to be cured? Start clear
back in the homestead and teach your daugh
ters that life L an earnest thing, and th;vfc
there is a possibility, if not a strong prob
ability, that they will have to right the battle
of life alone. Let every father and mother
say to their daughters: “Now. what would
you do for a livelihood if what I now own
were swept away by financial disaster, or old |
\age or death should end my career.”
“Well, I could paint on pottery and do
such decorative work.” Yes, that is beauti
ful, and if you have genius for it go on in
that direction. But there are enough busy at
that now to make a line of hardware from
here to the East River and across the bridge.
“Well, I could make recitations in public
and earn my living as a dramatist. 1 could
render ‘King Lear’or ‘Macbeth’till your hair
would rise on end, or give you ‘Sheridan’s
Ride' oi- Dickens's ‘Pickwick? ” Yes, that is
beautiful art, but ever and anon, as uow. i
there is an epidemic of dramatization that
makes hundreds of households nervous with :
the cries and shrieks and groans of young
tragedians dying in the fifth act, and the
trouble is that while your triends would like
to hear yon, and really think that you could
surpass Risjori and Charlotte Cushman a i I
Fannie Kemble of the past, to say noth ng of
the present, you could not, in 'he way of riv
ing, in ten years earn ten cents.
Aly advice to all girls and all unmarried
women, whether in affluent homes or in
homos where most stringent economies are
grinding, to learn to do some k nd of work
that the world must have while the world
stands. lam glad to see a marvelous change
for the better, and that women have found
out that there are hundreds of practical
things, that a woman can do for a living if
she begin soon enough, and that men have
admit it. You and 1 can
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patriotic absence,women were demanded by
the tens of thousands to take the vacant
places, and multitudes of women who had
been hitherto supported by fathers and
brothers and sons, were compelled from that
time to take care of themselves. From that
time a mighty change took place, favorable
to female employment.
Among the occupations appropriate fcr
women I place the following, into many of
which she has already entered, anil all the
others she will enter:
Stenography, and you may find her at
nearly all the reportorial stands in oureduca
: tional, political and religious meetings.
Savings banks, ths work clean and honor
: able, and who so great a right to roil there,
for a woman founded the first savings bank,
1 Mrs. Priscilla Wake field!
■ Copyists, and there is hardly a professional
man that does not need the service of her
I penmanship, and, as amanuensis, many of
. the greatest books of our day haveb -en die
' tated for her writing.
There they are as florists and confectioners
I and music teachers and stationers and book
keepers for which they are specially qualified
by patience and accuracy: and woo -ngrav
ing, in which the Cooper Institut ..as turned
out so many qualified; and tzLgraphy, for
which she is speciality prepa r a, as thous .nds
of the telegraphic offic . would testify.
Photography, and inner y all our establish
; ments they may be found there rt cheerful
work. As workers in ivory and gutt i percha
I and gum elastic and tortoise shell and gild
ing and in chemicals, in porcelain, in terra
I cotta, in embroidery.
As postmistresses, and the President isgiv
i ing them appointments all over the land.
As keepers of lighthouses, many of them,
I if they had the chance, ready to do as brave
a thing with oar and boat as did Ida Lewis
and Grace Darling.
As proofreaders, as translators, as model
j ers, as designers, as draughtswomen, as litho
i graphers, as teachers in schools and semi
! navies for which they are especially endowed,
I the first teacher of every ch.ld, by divine ar
rangement, being a woman.
: As physicians, having gra lusted after a
■ regular course of study from the female col
leges of our large cities, where they get as
' sei -ntilic and thorough preparation as any
lectors ever had, and go forth to a work
which none but women could so appropri
i etely or delicately do.
On the lecturing platform, for you know
I the brilliant success of Mrs. Livermore and
Mrs. Hallowell, and Mrs. Willard and Airs.
Lathrop.
As physiological lecturers to their own sex,
j for which service thereJs a demand appalling
i and terrible.
As preachers of the Gospel, and all the
protests of ecclesiastical courts cannot hinder
I them, for they.have a pathos and a power in
their religious utterances that men can never
I rea h. Witness all those who have heard
: their mother pray.
O, young women of America! as many of
I you will have to fight your own battles alone,
j do not wait until you are flung of disaster,and
• your father is dead, and all the resources of
i your family have been scattered, but now,
i while in a good house, and environed by all
j prosperities, learn how to do some kind of
I work that the world must have as long as the
! world stands. Turn your attention from the
I embroidery of fine slippers, of which there
is a surplus, and make a useful shoe. Expend
the time in which you adorn a cigar case in
learning how to make a good, honest loaf of
brenrl. Turn your attention from the making
of flimsy nothings to the manufacturing of
important somethings.
Much of the time spent in young ladies’
seminaries in studying what are called the
“higher branches” might better be expended
in teaching them something by which they
could support themselves. If you are going
to b.? teachers, or if you have so much as
sured wealth that you can always dwell in
those high regions, trigonometry, of course;
metaphysics, of course; Latin and Greek
and German and French and Italian, of
course; and 100 other things, of course; but
if jmu are not expecting to tea'h, and your
wealth is not established beyond misfortune,
after you have learned the ordinary branches,
take hold of that kind of study that will pay
in dollars and cents in case you are thrown
on your own resources. Learn to do some
thing better than anybody else. Buy Vir
ginia Penny’s book entitled “The Employ
ments of Women,” and learn there are 500
ways in which a woman may earn a living.
“No, no!” says some young woman, “1 will
not undertake anything so unromantic and
commonplace as that.” An excellent author
writes that after he had, in a book, argued
for efficiency in womanly work in order to
success, and positive apprenticeship byway
of preparation, a prminent chemist adver
tised that ho would teach a class of women
to become druggists and apothecaries if they
would go through an apprenticeship as men
do, and a printer advertised that he would
take a class of women to learn the printer’s
trade if they would go through an appren
ticeship as men do, and how many according
to the account of the authoress do y n sup
pose applied to become skilled in the druggist
business and printing business? Not one!
Gne young woman said she would be willing
to try the pointing business for six months,
But by that time her older sister would bo
married, and then her mother would want
her at home. Aly sisters, it will be skilled
womanly labor that will finally triumph.
“But,” you ask, “what would my father
add mother say if they saw I was douigsuch
unfashionable work?” Throw the whole re
sponsibility on the pastor of the Brooklyn
Tabernacle, who is constantly hearing of
young women in all these cities who, unqual
ified by their previous luxurious surround
ings for the awful struggle of life into which
they have been suddenly hurled, seemed to
have nothing left them but a choice between
starvation and damnation. There they go
along the street at 7 o'clock in the wintry
mornings through the slush and storm to the
piace where they shall ea rn only half enough
for subsistence, the daughters of once
prosperous merchants, lawyers, clergymen,
artists, bankers an I capitalists who brought
up their children under the infernal delusion
that it was not high-toned for women to learn
a profitable calling. Young women, take
this affair in your own hand and let there be
an insurrection in all prosperous families of
Brooklyn and New York and Christendom
on the part of the daughters of this day, de
manding kno.viedgein occupations and sty les
of business by which they may be their own
defense and their own support if all fatherly
and husbandly and brotherly hands forever
fail them.
I have seen two sad sights—the one a wo
man in all the glory of her young life stricken
by disease, and in a week lifeless in a home of
which she had been the pride. As her hands
were folded over the still heart and her eyes
closed for the last slumber, anil she was taken
out amid the lamentations of kindred and
friends, I thought that was a sadness im
measurable. But I have seen something com
pared with which that scene was bright and
songful. It was a young woman who had
been all her days amid wealthy surroundings,
by the visit of death and bankruptcy to the
household turned out on a cold world without
one lesson about how to get food or shelter,
and into the awful whirlpool of city life
where strong ships have gone down, and for
twenty years not one word has been heard
from her. Vessels last week went out on the
Atlantic Ocean looking for a shipwrecked
craft that was left atone and forsaken on the
sea a few weeks ago, with the idea of bring
ing it into port. But who shall ever bring
again into the harbor of peace and hope and
heaven that lost womanly immortal, driven
in what tempest, aflame in what conflagra
tion, sinking into what abvss? O God. help!
O Clirist. rescue!
Aly sisters, give not your time to learning
fancy work which the world may dispense
with v. hen hard times cone, but connect
your skill with the Indispensables of life.
The world will always want something to
wear and something to eat, and shelter and
fu -1 for the body, and knowledge for the
mind, and religion for the soul. And all
these Ihintrs will continue to be the neces
saries, and if you fasten your energies upon
occupations and professions thus related the
world will be unable to do without you.
I Remember that in proportion as you aie
skillful in anything your rivalries' become
less. For unskilled toil, women bv the mill
ion. But you may rise to where there are
only a thousand': anl still higher till there
ire only a hundred: and still higher f 1
there are only ten; an-1 still higher in some
particular department till there is only a
muc, and that yoursMf. For a while you
I may keep wages and a place through the
i kindly smvpatlr.es of an employer, but you
I will eventually not yet more compensation
than you can make yourself worth.
Let me say to ail women who have already
entered upon the battle of llfe th.it the time
is nearing when woman shall not only get as
much salary and wages as men get, blit for
certain styles of employment w'-m -n will
have higher salary a-hl more wag j s f>r the
reason that f >r some style* of work tl >v have
more adaptation. But th s just: • • will. ome
to woman, not through any szntimeiit of gal
lantry, not because" woman is physically
w ikcrthnn man an.l therefore on.'’ to
I have more consideration shown her. l.u! l-o.
i cause through her finer natural t.st'mid
more grace of manner and qn'el; r percep
tion and more delicate touch "and mor.' ed.i
cated adroitness,she will, in certain callings,
be to her employer worth 10 per cent, man*
or 20 per c nt. more than the o’her s >x. She
will not get it by asking for it, but l>v earn
ing it, and it shall be hers by lawful con
quest.
Now, men of America, be fair and give the
women a chance! Are you afraid that they
will do some of yonr work and’nenee harm
your prosperities? Remember that there are
scores of thousands of men doing women's
work. Do not be afraid! God knows the
end from the beginning and he knows how
many people this world can feed and shelter,
and when it gets too full ho will end the
world and if need be start another. God will
halt the inventive faculty which, by pro
„ p,-. -hine thgt will" do the work of
’ ’ 4 and women.
anotner sewing machine or reaping machine
or corn thresher or any other new machine
for the next 503 years. We want no more
wooden hands and iron hands and steel
hands and electric hands substituted for men
and women who woula otherwise do the
work and get the pay and earn the liveli
hood.
But God will arrange all, and all we have
to do is to do our best and trust Him for the
rest. Let me cheer all women fighting the
battle of life alone, with the fact that thou
sands of women have in that way won the
day. Mary Lyon, founder of Mount Holy
oake female seminary, fought the battle
alone; Adelaide Newton, the tract distrib
utor, alone; Fidelia Fisk, the consecrated
missionary, alone; Dorothea Dix, the angel
of the lunatic asylums, alone; Caroline Her
schel, the indispensable re-enforcement of her
brother,alone; Maida Te.krzewska.the heroine
of the Berlin hospital, alone: Helen Chal
mers . patron of sewing schools for the poor of
Edinburgh., alone. And thousands and tens
of thousands of women whose bravery and
self-sacrifice and glory of character the world
lias made no record, but whose deeds are in
the heavenly archives of martyrs who fought
the battle alone, and, though unrecognized
for the short, thirty or fifty or eighty years
of their earthly existence, shall, through the
quintillion ages of the higher -orld. be
pointed out with the admiring cry: “These
are they who came out of great tribulation
and had their robes washed and made white
by the bloo I of the LamT).”
1 ,ct me also say for the encouragement of
all women fish ting the battle of lite alone,
tl it their conflict will soon end. There is
one word written over the faces of many of
them, and that word is Despair. My sister,
you no d appeal to that Christ who com
forted the siste-s of Bethany in their do
mestic trouble, and who in his last hours for
got all the pangs of his own hands and fp*t
and Heart as he looked into the face of mater
nal anguish and called a friend’s attentic i to
it. in substance, saying: “John, I cannot
take care of her any longer. Do for her as I
would have done if I had lived. Behold
thy mother!” If under the pressure of
unrewarded and unappreciated work your
hair is whitening and the wrinkles come,
rejoice that you are nearing the hour of es
cape from your very last fatigue, and may
vour departure be' as pleasant as that of
Isabella Graham, who closed her life with a
smile and the word “peace.” The daughter
of a regiment in any army is all surrounded
by bayonets of defense, and in the battle,
whoever fails, she is kept safe. And you are
the daughter of the regiment commanded by
the Lord of Hosts. After all, you are not
fighting the battle of life alone. AH heaven
is on yonr side. Yon will be wise to appro
priate to yourself the words of sacred
rhythm:
One who has known in storms to sail
I have on board:
Above the roaring of the gale
I hear my fiord.
He holds me: when the billows smite
I shall not falb
If short, Tis sharp; if long, ’tis light;
He temueri* all.
SCIExMII’IC AND INDUSTRIAL.
An English engineer has a process b;
which he thinks he can condense th
solid part of smoke by electrical means
and return it to the lire for consumption
Amalgams present many peculiarities
Thus iron, antimony, sodium, silver am
gold, will dissolve in mercury; but i
antimony amalgam bo mixed wit]
sodium amalgam, the antimony is throw)
out—iron also.
Dr. Kost’s explorations of the Ichetuc
knee River in Florida have brought ti
light the remains of another mastodon
'J he bones were discovered near thi
spot at which he had previously dug u]
the remains of three other species o
prehistoric animals—the megatherium
niylodon and paleotherium.
Gne of the largest and most valuable
trees in the South was recently cut ii
Woodruff Connty, Ark. It was a cypress
and made a log nine feet four inches ii
diameter at the butt, seven feet ii
diameter at the lop and forty-six fee'
long. It measured 18,400 feet in lum
her, 200,000 in shingles, and was wortl
SBOO.
By means of improved appliances thi
Germans are now able to extract 11.31
j) r cent, of beet sugar and 0.G5 per cent
of molasses, or a total of 11.96 pounds
p w 100 pounds of beets. The cost o;
ihis sugar is only two cents per pound.
'The sugar is produced in enormoui
quantities, sufficient for the home supplj
and a large export trade.
Il is announced that paper bottles an
to be manufactured on a very extensivi
scale; their weight is less than those o;
glass or stone ware, and they arc less
liable to breakage. Taper being also ai
excellent non-conductor, fluids stored it
air-tight paper bottles will withstand i
more intense degree of heat or cold that
when putin ordinary bottles.
Saccharine, the product from tar
which is said to be three hundred timei
sweeter than sugar, has been of wonder
ful benefit to the ( rown Prince of Ger
'many. It is said to have great curative
qualities for diabetic poisons and some
forms of gout. In cases of obesity anc
the manifold complications where or
dinary sugar food is objectionable
saccharine is invaluable.
A flying machine invented by two Neu
York electricians is to be exhibited at
the Paris exposition. As no storage sys
tern or primary battery has yet been de
vised light enough to be carried by the
machine itself the latter must be operated
from a dynamo by which it is to be con
m cted by wires. If it could only be sup
plied with a motor to operate it directly
it would fill the hearts of those interested
in it with joy. Another machine which
lias its local habitation in this city has
been in the same fix for the past ten oi
twelve years.
In the year 1181 a Portugese traveler,
Don Deigo Cam, was the first of his
nation to reach the rushing waters of the
Congo. He erected there and then a
marble column, or jalro, at the river's
mout’. in record of the event. There has
it stood undisturbed and undiscovered
all these decades, until word has come
that Dr. Schwerin, the Swedish agent ol
the Scandinavian Government, sent tc
e amine the location for a Swedish
colony on the Congo, came upon Senoi
Cam’s pillar, just as it Ifad been left, ex
cept for cracking and discoloration.
Dniing the burning of a mill at Carl
ton, Mich., recently, according to the
Ante i'an Miler, the big engine which
drove the ma -hinery continued to run
all through the blaze, and by that means
was saved from’dc-truction, though there
w.-is not- a wall standing on any side of it
when the fire was finished. The pumps
were also running, and kept the boilei
tupplied, so there could be no explosion,
ft was a peculiar spectacle to see the en
[ ine driving away at a slashing speed in
Iho midst of the flames, but the motion
somehow saved it from tire. All the rest
of the machinery was a total loss.
A Wonder Bird.
I had not been many minutes on the
key before I discovered a Htrge snow
white bird nestling on the ground under
a spray of lihacichallis. Its wings were
barred with jet black; its bill was
bright yellow, and tapered to a spear
like point, which forbade too close
mmiiiarity. This proved to be the
yellow-billed tropic bird (Phaeton flavi
rostris), and we afterward caught several
in our hand, taking them from the nest.
When held up by the wings they strike
lustily with their bills and utter a pecu
liarly shrill cry. The tropic bird lays a
s.nglc egg on the ground beneath rocks
or bushes. It is about the size and make
oi the hen’s, and is finely sprinkled
with reddish-brown, so as to appear of
an almost uniform tint. One of these
birds, which my companion shot and
slightly svounded, flew a short distance
; i 1 then alighted on the water. As we
snied toward it, first one and then an-
came and hovered over it as
ii urging it to take flight, ■which it pres
ently did, and with its attendants soon
pas.-'cd out of sight. These birds resem
b.e the gulls in many points, but are
distinguished from other sen fowl by
two long streamers in the tail, which
wave behind them as they fly.— Popular
Ariinee Montldy.
Every beautiful, jnirc and good thought
vGA-h the he irt entertains is an angel of
BOWSER AND A BURGLAR
THEYR MIDNIGHT MEEETING DE
SCBIBED BY MBS. BOWSES.
The Appearance of an Intruder Sad
denly Takes the Courage Out ot
Her Boastful Husband.
For some weeks past I have been ner
vous about burglars, but every time I havi
suggested that we ought to have a bur
glar alarm he has replied:
“Bosh! Burglars know what houses tc
enter.”
“But we have something to steal.”
“Certainly we have, but no burglar it
going to enter a house when he knows
that the owner stands ready to shoot
the top of his head off. Don’t you
worry about burglars. They all knou
me, and know enough to keep awaj
from me.”
Then Air. Bowser crossed his hands
under his coat tails and walked up and
down in such a self-satisfied way that 1
took courage. Next day he brought
home the gun and the club, and as he
deposited them at the head of the bed
he exclaimed:
“It’s simply to give you more confi
dence; understand? For my part I’d
give SSOO to find a burglar in my house.”
That night, soon after midnight, 1
heard something fall in the house, and 1
nudged Air. Bowser into wakefulness and
told him of it.
“It’s that infernal old cat!” he
growled in reply. “You’ve got burg
lars on the brain, and I hope one wil!
come! ”
Ten minutes passed, and I was sure 1
heard some one creeping up stairs. J
nudged Air. Bowser again and told hi;n
so, but he replied:
“Airs. Bowser, if you wake me up
again I’ll go down town to sleep the re
mainder of the night. You can be a
lunatic on shorter notice than anybody I
ever heard of. Now go to sleep and 1”
The reason he stopped there was be
cause a lantern was flashed in our faces,
and a stern voice exclaimed:
“ If either one of you make a move to
get up I’ll blow your brains out! ”
The burglar had come. The victim,
whose blood Air. Bowser was hungering
for, stood over us. The midnight
marauder, on whose lifeless clay tha
Coroner was to sit, was ready to be “sot”
on. I confess I was badly frightened,
but I did not lose my senses. 1 knew ho
was there to rob, and that he had all the
advantage, and I did not move a finger.
“Come, old chap,” continued the
burglar after a moment, “ I want your
services. Get out of that!”
“Take all we have, but spare our
lives? ” pleaded Air. Bowser.
“That’s what I’m going to do, old
duffer! Climb out o’that and hunt me
up your wealth!”
With that he lighted the gas, sat down
on the edge of the bed, and Air. Bowser
brought him both our watches, our jew
elry, and the S2OO hidden in the dresser.
I never saw Air. Bowser so obliging and
thoughtful. lie even rummaged the
dresser to find my last rhinestone pin,
and he said “Yes, sir!” and “No, sir!”
to that burglar with the greatest respect.
When everything of value up stairs had
been collected, the old man said:
“Now, old double shins, wrap that
swag in a towel and bring it down stairs
for me?”
“You won’t kill him!” I gasped.
“No, inarm; I haven’t the time to
spare for that. What’s that gun and club
for?”
“To defend ourselves from burglars. I
wish I knew how to shoot.”
“Exactly ma’ain, and I admire your
spunk. Here’s your watch and jewelry
back, and I hope you’ll pardon this in
trusion. Sorry you've got such an old
funk for a husband. Come along, old
shingles!”
Air. Bowser meekly followed him down
stairs, got out all our choice silver from
the safe, found him a basket to carry off
his plunder, and was then driven up
stairs while the burglar made off. Air.
Bowser got into bed without a word,
and 1 sat up and listened until I heard
the rascal go. Then I said:
“Well, Air. Bowser, you wanted burg
lars. We’ve had a real, live one, and the
house is cleaned out.”
“And who’s to blame for it? Airs. Bow
ser, I didn’t believe you would ever dare
to speak to me again!”
“ Who’s to blame ? Am I?”
“Who else can be? Here for forty
consecutive nights you’ve kicked me
awake from two to ten times to whisper
‘Burglars 1’ into my ear! You got me
off my guard!”
“ But I told you I heard a burglar in
the house!”
“But I knew better I It was your
business to have been awake sooner and
have given me a chance to get the gun.
Ah! if I could have got that gun!”
“But you never even protested.”
“Protested! Do you think a, man of
my standing is going to bandy words
with a burglar ? Aly action was taken
with a view to save your life.”
“Well, let’s go down and see what’s
left.”
Not an inch would he move until day
light, and before we got up he promised
me a silk dress not to mention the affair.
No sooner had he swallowed his break
fast, however, than he posted off to Po
lice Headquarters and the newspapers,
and the result was a column article, with
the heads: —
“Terrific Fight for Life —A Burglar
Catches a Tartar—A Alidnight Visitor
Flung Through the Window —A Faint
ing Wife and a Cool Husband.”
“Air. Bowser, did you tell ’em any
such yarn as that ?” I asked him, after
reading the account.
“Yarn! Airs. Bowser, do you know
who you are talking to ?”
“ But you never offered the least re
sistance, and you even suffered him to
call you names.”
“I did, eh! Y'ou, lying there in a
dead faint, knew all that went on. eh ?
Very well, Airs. Browser; I'll send the
doctor up to examine into your mental
condition. The strain has probably been
too much on you. Poor woman! Poor
woman '."-—Detroit Free Press.
A Dog with Spectacles.
Here, from the Re ord, of Nelson
County, Ky., is a dog story that ought
to pass muster: “An aged hound, be
longing to Charles Roby, had for several
months been almost totally blind. He
<io longer heeded the huntsman’s bugle,
but roamed about the yard in a dejected
manner. A few days since some children,
while playing with him, placed on his
nose a pair of spectacles which contained
i powerful lens. He at once began to
romp around as he did in the days of his
puppyhood. They were securely fastened
before his eyes and on the following day,
when the other dogs were called for the
chase, he joined, aud was in the lead
when his glasses were pulled off by the
briers, lie immediately carried them to
his master and evinced clearly that he
wanted them replaced. AV hen they are
removed he whines and growls, but
when replaced he shows his joy by the
wagging of his tail.”
They Were Married.
It seems to make very little difference
where you arc when the marriage cere
mony is performed. A young runaway
couple in Kansas were driving to th<
church, but the horses took freight and
the sleigh stuck in a snowbank. They
were tied right there and then.
The next thing will be a marriage or
a toboggan slide, with minister, bride
and groom traveling at the rate of s
mile a minute. There is nothing like
novelty in this world, and if an attack
of rheumatism is thrown in, why, th<
interest of the occasion is vastly in
creased.—Ajs.c York Herald.
IN THE SPRING
Almost everybody wants a “Spring Tonic.’
Here is a simple testimonial, which shows hovi
B.'B. B. is regarded. It will knock your malaria
out and restore your appetite:
SPLENDID FOR A SPRING TONIC.
Arlington, Ga., June 30, 1887.
I suffered with malarial blood poison more
or less, all the time, and the only medicine that
done me any good is B. B. B. It is undoubtedly
the best blood medicine made, and for this
malarial country should be used by every one
in the spring of the year, and as good in sum
mer, fall and winter as a tonic and blood puri
fier. * * * *
GIVES BETTER SATISFACTION-
Cadiz, Ky., Julj- Gth, 1887.
' lease send me one box Blood Balm Catarrh
Snuff by return mail, as one of my customers
is taking B. B. B. for catarrh and wants a box
of the snuff. B. B. B. gives better satisfaction
than any medicine I ever sold. I have sold 10
dozen in the past 10 weeks, and it gives good
satisfaction. If 1 don’t remit all right for snuff
write me. Yours,
W. N. Brandon.
IT REMOVED THE PIMPLES.
Bound Mountain, Tex., March 29, 1887.
A lady friend of mine has for several years
been troubled with bumps and pimples on her
face and neck, for which she used various cos
metics in order to remove them and beautify
and improve her complexion ; but these local
applications were only temporary and left her
skin in a worse condition.
I recommended an internal preparation
known as Botanic Blood Balm—which I have
been using and selling about two years; she
used three bottles and nearly all pimples have
disappeared, her skin is soft and smooth, and
her general health much improved. She ex
presses herself much gratified, and can recom
mend it to all who are thus affected.
Mrs. S. M. Wilson.
The Shah’s Great Wealth.
What he terms his museum is a curious
place. It contains a profusion of costly
articles and objects of ai t such as exist
nowhere else at the present day, it being
the opinion of well-informed Europeans,
who have viewed these treasures, that
their money value is perhaps twenty-fold
that of the contents of the so-called green
vaults at Dresden. It is impossible to
give exact figures, for they could only be
obtained after a long and minute inspec
tion and valuation by experts; but
roughly estimated, it is probable that
there is more Ilian $100,000,000 worth of
jewelry, precious stones, coined and un
coined gold, costly objits de rertu, fine
porcelain and glassware, old weapons
and armor, tableware and ornaments of
exquisite Persian and Hindu workman
ship, etc. The so called peacock throne
(a part of the plunder Nadia Shah car
ried off from Delhi 150 years ago) is alone
valued at many millions, even after a
number of the large, rough and uncut
jewels have been broken out and stolen.
It is an incongruous place, this museum.
There you will see vases of agate or gold
and lapis lazuli, said to be worth millions;
and alongside of them empty perfume
bottles of European make, with gaudy
labels, that can be had at wholesale for
about five cents apiece. You will see
priceless mosaics and exquisitely painted
cups and cans and vases, which were
presented by some European potentate;
and side by side with them you will
notice horrible daubs, veritable 10-cent
chromes, picked up the Lord knows how
and where. You will perceive glass
cases filled with huge heaps of rubies,
diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, turquoises,
garnets, topazes, beryls, of all sizes and
kinds, cut and uncut; and cheek by jowl
with these your eyes will see cheap music
boxes, Jew’s harps and squeaky hand
organs. •
The Shah must also be in a condition to
“ bull ” the market on pearls, for here is,
for instance, a big glass case, twenty
four inches long by eighteen inches wide
and high, that is more than half filled
with beautiful pearls (mostly from the
Persian Gulf fisheries) of all sizes and
degrees of loveliness. In a separate long
case the orders and decorations of the
Shah, coming from nearly every country
in the world, are kept on exhibition; but
the crown jewels are in a little box that
is always locked and for which the Shah
himself forever, waking or sleeping,
carries the keys. The contents of this box
and of the several vaults where he keep'
his piles on piles of bright, shining, un
used money, he never allows others to
view, although the museum may be
visited once a year by the European
diplomatists and the friends that they
vouch for.— Cosmopolitan.
The Armies of Europe.
“The bloated armaments of the great
military powers of Europe” display their
proportions in a very striking manner in
Colonel Vogt’s work on “The European
Armies of the Present.” The mobilized
strength of France is set down at 2,051,-
458 troops, exclusive of the territorial
army, which is equally large; that of
Eussia at 1,922,405; Germany, 1,493,690;
and Austro-llungary, 1,035,955. The
military strength of Italy has now at
tained proportions that would have been
deemed incredible ten years ago. 1 nclud
ing militia, it is said to amount to 2,387,-
332 men. If, however, a similar inclu
sion be made in the case of Russia, the
military strength of that power will
probably be found to exceed even that of
the French republic. Compared with
these figures the numerical proportions
of the Briti-h army ought almost to sat
isfy the members of the Peace Society.
Including our militia and volunteers, as
well as the Indian army, we can just
muster 781,677 troops. And these have
to serve for the defence of territory dis
tributed over a very much wider area than
that ruled by any of the other powers.—
London Court Journal.
Portraits on American Currency.
One dollar, Washington; $2, Jeffer
ion; $5, Jackson; $lO, Webster; S2O,
Hamilton; SSO, Franklin; SIOO, Lin
coln; SISOO, General Mansfield; SI,OOO,
De Witt Clinton; $5,000, Madison; $lO,-
)00, Jackson. On silver certificates—
sl, Martha Washington; $2, General
llancock; $lO, Robert Morris, Thomas
A., Hendricks; S2O, Commodore Deca
tur; SSO, Edward Everett; SIOO, James
Monroe; SSOO, Charles Sumner, and
fl,ooo, W. L. Marcy. On gold notes—
F2O, Garfield; SSO. Silas Wright; SIOO,
Thomas 11. Benton; SSOO, A. Lincoln;
fl,ooo, Alexander Hamilton; $5,000,
lames Madison SIO,OOO, Andrew Jack
ion. _
Unique Way of Tipping a Waiter.
An old traveler has discovered a
unique method of feeing the hotel
waiter so as to secure the best results.
He says: “At the beginning of the first
week at the hotel, should the attention
of the waiter prove satisfactory, I quietly
takO a $5 bill froifi my pocket, crease it
across the center, and with a penknife
cut it in two pieces. At the end of the
meal I present the waiter with one half,
placing the other in my pocketbook,
with the remark that if his attentions
continue satisfactory I will at the end of
the week present him with the other
half. This scheme works like a cb*rn>-’”
—Hotel Gazette.
A Hard Day’s Work For Clerks.
Omaha Dame—“Oh dear, I’m tired to
death.”
Husband —“What doing?”
“I have been shopping all day; did
not even stop for lunch.”
“What did you buy?”
“Nothing.”— Umtlia World..
Cincinnati policemen get dip'orm. for
acts of heroism.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Good GrueL
There are times when gruel ig about
the only fare allowed the invalid by the
physician. When things come to this
strait, it is fortunate for the patient if
some one in the house happens to know
how to make it. Indian meal gruel may
be made palatable in this manner: Wet
two tablespoonfuls of the meal to a
smooth paste with cold water, and stir it
into one pint of boiling water. Stir
occasionally while over the fire, and let
it boil half an hour. Be very careful not
to let it scorch. If it becomes too thick,
add more water. Season with salt,
sugar, lemon juice and grated nutmeg.
A tiny piece of butter is an improvement,
if it is not forbidden.
How To Hang Pictures.
When there are to be many pictures
hung in a room, the walls should be quiet
in color and not elaborate in decoration.
A wall with surface of the sligthly
roughened stucco coating, or of paper of
a single tone of terracotta, dull green,
blue or gray, undoubtedly shows pictures
to the best advantage, but if the pictures
are not many nor very choice, then the
general effect of the room should'be the
main object in view. A beautiful and
effective wall decoration is not by any
means always an expensive one, and very
harmonious results are often obtained
from using the large sheets of cartridge
paper which come in good tones of dull
blue and terracotta, and arranging a
wide freize of some harmonizing or con
trasting color, in which a conventional
design has been stenciled. Or if the
owner of the room lacks the time and
ingenuity for such work, paper for this
purpose with a graceful, flowing pattern
in chrysanthemums, or other large snowy
flowers, in subdued colors can now be
obtained at very small cost from any
paperhanger. A narrow molding of
cherry, mahogany or gilt is a pretty finish
to be tacked on where the freize joins the
wall covering, and upon this should be
placed the books for hanging pictures.
If some of the money which is spent
in overloading rooms with trumpery
ornaments that give them a cheap, tawdry
appearance, was put into the wall deco
rations, the whole effect would be much
more satisfactory and artistic.
Cretonne cut into two widths has been
used for a frieze with very good effect.
It is to be put up with small brass tacks.
One ingenious lady took cheap Notting
ham lace and painted the pattern in har
monizing tones, making a charming
frieze for her drawing-room.— Detroit
Tribune.
Recipes.
Plain Light Pudding.—One pint ol
boiling milk and nine tablespoonsful ol
flour—mix first with a little cold milk.
When cold add a little salt and four
well-beaten eggs and bake in a buttered
dish. Serve as soon as it is done.
Plain Lemon Pie.—Add to boiling
water enough of the pulp and juice of
lemons to render it quite acid; then
sweeten to taste, and thicken just enough
with corn starch to make it like a thin
jelly. Fill the baked crusts, and bake
about fifteen minutes, then frost them if
desired.
Meat Croquettes.—Two cups ol
chopped meat, two cups of bread crumbs,
two cups of hot milk. Season the meat
with salt and pepper. Beat the yolk of
one egg, add the milk, a teaspoonful ol
melted butter, bread crumbs and meat.
Form into small flat cakes and fry in
butter.
Minced Beef.—Three pounds of raw
beef, lean, chopped fine, five soda crack
ers rolled fine, two eggs well beaten, one
and one-half teaspoonfuls of pepper,
three slices of pork chopped, one-half
cup of milk, and salt to taste. Mix al)
thoroughly, make into a loaf. Bake two
hours. This should be sliced cold foi
tea or luncheon.
Orange Pudding. Grate three
sponge biscuits in enough milk to make
a paste; beat three eggs and stir them in
with the juice of a lemon and half the
peel grated. Put a teacupful of orange
juice and one of sugar, with half a cup
of melted butter in the mixture; stir it
■well, put in a dish with puff paste
around it, and bake slow one hour.
To Warm Over Cold Mutton. —An
excellent and simple way is to cut it, if
loin, into chops, or if leg, into thick
scallops, and dip each into egg well
beaten with a teaspoonfid of milk, then
in fine bread crumbs, and fry in plenty ol
.very hot fat. If your crumbs are nol
very fine and even, the larger crumbs wil!
fall off, and the appearance be spoiled.
Joy and Sorrow.
How sweet it is in foreign lands
To meet a friend who knows you,
Who rushes up with outstretched hands,
And almost overthrows you.
But oh, how sad, when that same friend,
Whose joyous greetings thrill you,
Exclaims, as you Loth hands extend:
“Lend me ten dollars, will you?”
—Journal of Education.
S-500 Reward
is offered, in good faith, by the manufactur
ers of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy for a case
of catarrh which they cannot cure. It is
mild, soothinsrand healing in its effects, and
cures “cold in head,” catarrhal deafness,
throat ailments, and m-ny other coinplica
tionsof this distressing disease, 50 cents, by
druggists
The land devoted to wine grapes would
supply France with corn ail I wheat, for
which she now sends to other countries from
120 to 150 millions of dollars in coin each
year.
If, after a ten days trial of Taylor’s Hospi
tai Cure for Catarrh, the remedy fails to
meet the requirements of the case the price
will be refunded. Address, City Hall Phar
macy, 264 Broadway, New York, for free
pamphlet.
Purity and Strength
The former in the blood-and the latter throughout
the system, are necessary to the eifloyment of per
fect health. The best way to secure both Is to take
Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which expels all impurities
from the blood, rouses the kidneys and liver, over
comes that tired feeling, and imparts that freshness
to the body, which makes one feel perfectly well.
"I have taken not quite a bottle of Hood’s Sarsa
parilla, and must say it is one of the best medicines
for giving an appetite, purifying the blood and regu
lating the digestive organs, that I ever heard of. It
did ine a great deal of good.”— Mrs. N. A. Stanley,
Canastota, N. Y.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold b»- all druggists. $1 ; six for ss.' Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD ,t CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
IOO Doses One Dollar
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The Liimbermau needs It In case of accident.
The Housewife needs It tor general family use.
The Mechanic needs it always on his work
1 bench.
The Miner needs it in case of emergency.
The Pioneer needs it— can't get along with,
out it.
The Farmer needs it in his house, his stable,
and his stock yard.
The Steamboat man or the Boatman needs
it in liberal supply afloat and ashore.
The Iloree-fnucier needs It—lt Is hts best
friend and safest reliance.
The Stock-grower needs It—lt will save him
thousands of dollars and a world of trouble.
The Correct Time.
There are very few men who do not pride
themselves on al ways having the correct t imc;
and wonderful and delicate mechanisms ere
devised to enable them to do sc, But the
more delicate a chronometer is made, the
more subject it liecomes to derangement, and
unless it be kept always perfectly clean, it
soon looses its usefulness. What wonder,
then, that the human machine —so much
more delicate and intricate than any work of
Man—should require to be kept thoroughly
cleansed. The liver is the main spring of this
complex structure, and on the impurities
left in the blood by a disordered liver, de
pend most of the ills that flesh is heir t">.
Even consumption (which is lung-scrofula',
is traceable to the imperfect action of this or
gan, Kidney diseases, skin diseases, sick
headache, heart disease, drojxsy, and a long
catalogue of grave maladies have t heir origin
in a torpid, or sluggish liver. Dr. Pierce s
Golden Medical Discovery, by establishing a
healthy, normal action of the liver, acts as a
cure and preventive of these diseases.
It is said the sale of liquors in the House
restaurant, Washington, D. is cat ri-J on
in the most open manner,and in direct, viola
tion ot a joint rule which strictly forbids such
sale under penalty of forfeiture of privilege.
A Memory of Early Days.
Bane of childhood’s tender years.
Swallowed oft with groansand t/ars,
How it made the flesh recoil,
Loathsome, greasy castor oil!
Search your early memory close,
Till you find another dose:
All the shuddering (Tame r« volts
At thought of Epsoms salts!
Undermath the pill box lid
Wasagreaterhorror hid.
Climax of all inward il's.
Huge and griping old blue pills.
What a contrast to the mil I and gentle ac
tion of Dr. Pierces Pleasant Purgoive Pel
lets, sugar coated, easy to take, cleansing, re
cuperating. renova'iiig the system without
wrenching it with agony. Sold by druggists.
A total abstinence organization, called the
Swedish Blue Ribbon Society, having fifty
two memliers, was recently formed at Man
Chester, Mass.
A Thing of llenuly.
Hood’s Household Calendar for 18SS, as us
ual leads all others in beauty and style. The
most taking feature about it., because it is
unique in Calendars, is that it is < ut out, as if
by hand, and the bright, healthy face of a
handsome young girl, with a wealth of brown
hair, contrasts beautifully with her blue lion
net and strings. The head is a marvel of color
printing, the flesh tints being as natural
as life, The pad is also printed in colors,
with a special design for every month, and
there is condensed upon it a large amount of
valuable information; indeed, it has s > main
points of excellence that it must be seen to
be appreciated.
Copies may be obtained at the drug stores,
or by sending six cents in stamps to C. I,
Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
CoiiHamption Surely Cured.
To the Editor:—Please inform your readers
that I have a positive-remedy for the above
named disease. By its timely use thousands
of hopeless cases have been permanently
cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of
my remedy free to any of your readers who
have consumption if they will send me their
Express and P. O. address. Respectful iv,
T. A. SLOCUM. M. D.. 181 Pearl St., N. Y.
“ Consumption can be Cured. ”
Dr. J. S. Combs, Owensville, Ohio, says: “1
have given SCOTT’S EMULSION of Cod
Liver Oil with Hypophosphites to four pa
tients with better results than seemed possi
ble with any remedy’. All were hereditary
cases of Lung disease, and advanced to that
stage when Coughs, pain in the chest, fro
quent breathing, frequent pulse, fever and
Emaciation. All the <e cases have increased
in weight from 16 to 28 lbs., and are not now
needing any medicimj.”
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Genuine DIAMOND a s,lf
To era dig
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The man who has invested from three BA. " e oiler the man v ;•> Vi , . ‘ ,
to five dollars in a Rubber Coat, and OU (not st; !■■) a garmi n , , ” x-,
at his first half hour's experience in 51 -Q BBM IBTJHS him dry in th» hard ■>: ’ . ■ l,< ’
a storm finds to his sorrow that it is nUs g called ’ TOWEIt s ll> i arr
hardly a better protection than a mos- W 'gj g~L g “ >LICKEIt,” a i :.mr■>.■
quito netting, not only feels chagrined ” “ *°"~° ” Cow-b y all over I!?- id. tJin
at being so badly taken in, but also ■ BMBC& B the only perfect W: I ami 1
feels if he does not look exactly like ■■■ ■■ Coatis ' 1 lower'- lire
Ask tor the “ FISH BRAND” Slicker B B£»E %! and take no otl, r~ Ifv. > r
does not have the fish brand, send for descriptive catalogue. A. J. T«>v ni;-?r.:--.. .1; &rC
lumbago.
Carriage.— mny
<*r ic<‘‘’it cprri*U’O mfl v Im* n* C’.’dL»t
gr.tniut c. rrm • , r .;-liapci> beings.
manv ways as tiic.e .ii> •••■ >
Ml SCULAK WEAKNESS.
Lame Beck — Th l ’spinM r ’’imm >' l* c mam-
stniiixht m. n <<
TV. IsTI I> Os T <H ' -’-' l> *,
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many bemiing down.
SY MI TOMS.
most insidious <>r j r( > m a sit
times without v.armn-. . -n.nleJ Ot
tingjM.sii.ret- im<l tVerin" ll
Strained as to eau. - “
C«re. Rnb « I,e 'f '.’ /.i ‘‘.G■-:ou-hy
in hot water ami v rung out-
! .’va’cis L'l-erinehcrc.
HIE CHAr.LES A. VOGLER CO.. Baltimore. W-
RINGJAiLErSrWRfEi
The greatest thing out. It ls . n n-iin a
laughs in 180 minutes. No t'oubk to — u •
crowd it you have one of these. It s . button
buster. It will make the girls squeal ex ry t me.
For old men. old women. b, Y; h ?. . t ll n re< <im
boys ami girls, and children. Unlj sentou reei tpl
MA<’li A l OSTESI. Mft’rs. OTTAWA- <>
1 CURE FITS !
WtmiMjer.' I •'.l tAn
for s time and then hav>< tl;« «•> •••« ; " •* Li’-rsEPILr
s s'me h-ng study. 1
EF>Y or Because
warrant iny renu-dy to c’i - , : \ v ‘receiving •
oxb?rs have i> r.n .»>■ ‘ Fr •»» Hettle
cure. . Send at once i r r,
of nay infallible reiuet.k. » Vori
CURE"kPIAE g
f Perfectly Restore the
Hearing. wh '‘ heTthc ‘ ieaf ' ie ? U ' a
lW» in c w v e k
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Pu.h St New Artier
y \ illustrated book ®f prou.., 11U-K.
culaittCree. -1 ‘ ' ‘ •” “'- •/ ‘
Cream
rwfel V ! .m,es i h..headof
rhal virus
mY-EEVER®S J Illavs ti.Jh.mma.O."-
*<£/fi|HEALS the SOKES,
’Mid • ich.
Apply I’alm into each nest r:l
U4A.!EIy Bros., JS3 Greenwich s-.. N.Y
Bfeßj
F!HL’ADELPHIA’ : - SFMrj sump for Cmi nnttg.
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J tient. furnished. Lite SshcDjgalr ftAO. Wnte. .
SA A •*“ KT “i” Si obtained by E. It. <<EL-
O A S fc.IV! fi STON i l>., A ash- .
2 ingtoti, 11. U. Send for our book of instructions.
San to SS r dav. Samples •vortti »i. 50. FRKB ’
Lines not mi !rr the •.•■■■se's feet. Write
Brew.iLer Sa.',-;.. IL- - .- '<•.. L"■ -a
PAINTS )'
CHAS. L COOKE. H3S F ft., Wasliinetmi, l’.< -
w aste
Au>train, Reaiijug, Penna.
By rewra mail. Fa!!
Mead?'• New Taller Sjsqsm .t
Y SB.&S Ottttla®. XCOOY & CO., Cmamsatt. 6.
GOLD is worth saw per lb. ' ettit’s Eye 3*lV.
worth SI,OOO, but is sold 25c s box by dealers.
SQLDIERSBS
relieved; 22 years praer J • ' '' f ' '
Laws seut free. A. W. McCormick & Son, u- -
HERB’AHD FIFTH WHEEL and C&rriaS
Improvement. HER BRA Nil CO.» Fremont. O
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W. L. DOUGLAS ■’
S 3 SHOE. c-vVVVin-.
Theonly fin ■ calf $3 Re tinlco - s ;• e In t ew.-rkl
n>a.l<-without tacke or nasi-. t und mrl
dura!.!.- as those ..Log .- . ■ ■ ■li -• no '‘ nu
tai ks • nails to w< ar the -r. . . ; -et *
makes them as c< in: >rtab:;- .. - ■ ■“
ban I sewed shoe. Ihiv ihe b' -i N ■' im i
less S amped i-n b It.utu ’W. L. " Shoe Ul * 1
warranted." too . (
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celled for heavy wear.
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Bo j and is the best sch ><» h
All the a!x>vegoo Is are ma ! • ■ z - B’ittc
aid Lace, and if n.-t li < rii
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