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REV. DR. TAUI.VGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN
UAY s>fc " u '
Snbject: •The Phillipiun Earth
quake.” (Preached at London, Lug.)
T _ “ T: TlX:™ ,. T t nhri%t
arul thou shall he saveil. Acts, x ., 31 .
.Tails are dark. ilull, damp, loathsome
places even now; but they were worse in the
apostolic times. I imagine, to-day, we are
standing in the Philippian dunjseon. l>o you
not feel the chill? I><» you not hear the groan
of those incarcerated ones who for ten years
have not seen the sunlight, and the deep sigh
of women who remember their father’s house,
and mourn over their wasted estates? Listen
again. It is the cough of a consumptive, or
the struggle of one in a nightmare of a great
horror. You listen again, and hear a culprit,
his chaios rattling as he rolls over in his
dreams, and you say: “<*od pity the pris
oner.” Hut there is another sound in that
orison. It is a soug of joy and gladness.
What * place to sing in! The music comes
winding through the corridors of the prison,
and in all the dark ward* the whisper is
heard: “What’s that! What's that!” It is
tho song of Paul mid Silas. whipped, They can
» ot sleep. They The li ve lung been gashes the ver.
badly whipped. They flat on the r
bacluiare Weedin' yet. lie on
cold groun \ their feet fast m wooden sock
et^, and of t ourse th y cannot sleep. But
they can sing. Jailer, what are you doing
in witu here? these 0, people? they have \X by been have trying they b to en make put
the pit world'better, for Joseph. is lion that all? lha*'is lor Daniel. all.
A A s rave
A blazin ' furnace for Hhadrach. ( Jibs for
John Wesby. An anathema for Paul for I and hiup Sila~. Mei
a’cthon. A dungeon
But while wo are sta d.ng in the gloom the or
that Philippian du- geou and we hear
mingling voices of sob, and groan, and bias
phemy, and hallelujah, suddeuiy the an earth twist,
quake! The iron bar* of prison
the pillars crack off, the solid masonry begins
to heave and rock till al 1 the doors s-nog
open* and the walls fall with at rrific crash.
The jailer, feeling himself respons ble
lor the&o prisoners, and feeling suicide to be
honorable—since Brutus killed himself, and
Cato killed himself, and Cassius killed him
self—puts his sword to his own heart, pro*
posing with one strong, keen thrust to put an
cud to his exoiteyient and agitation. But
Paul cries out: “Stop! stop! Do thyself no
harm. We are all here.’ Then 1 see the
the jailer running through tlio dust ami
*niid the ruin himself of tliat down prison, tho ami feet 1 of see these him
throwing at “VVliat shall I do?
prisoners, What shall crying out: do. ’ Did Paul
i. an
swer: “(let out of this place before
there is another earthquake; put
cuffs and hopples on these other prisoners,
lest they get away?” No word of that kind.
Compact, thrilling, tremendous answer; an
«wer memorable all through earth and
heaven: “Believe on tho Lord Jeans Christ,
aud thou shalt be saved. ’
Well, we have all read of the earthquakes
in LIsIkui, in Lima, iu Aleppo and in ( arac
cas; but we live in a latitude where in all
our memory there has not been one severe
volcanic disturbance. And yet wo have seen
fifty earthquakes. Hero is a man who His has bid
bwu btuliling lip ft large tortiiiK*
on the money market was felt mail the cities.
He thinks he has got beyond all annoying
r ivalries in trade, and lie says to lmiisel :
Aotv 1 am free and safe Irom all possible
perturbation.” Hut a national pame strikes
the foundations of the eomiiiorcial woild,
and crash!goes all that maguilicciit who has business built
establishment. He is a man
up a very beautiful home. His daughters
have jnsl came home from the seim
nary vvilli diploma* of graduation.
His sons have started in life, honest, temper
ate tod pure. When the evening lights are
struck, tiiere is a happy and tin unbroken
family circle. But there has been an am
dent down at the beach. lho young lirin
ventured too far out in tho surf. The tele
graph hurled the terror up to the eily. An
•earthquake beautiful at rack home. under 1 he the foundations closed; the ot
that piano
curtains dropped; tho laughter hushed.
Crash! go all those domestic hopes, and pros
fleets, and expectations. So, my friends, we
have all felt the shaking down of some gieat
trouble, mid there was a time when wo wero
us much excited as tins Ulan of the text
and we cried out as ho clld: '*,ha,t
>liall 1 do' *Y>iat shall I do.
The same .'-ejiiy *bat tlio apo-Ho
mode to him is appropriate to us: “believe
on tho laird Jesus Christ, and thou siiult ho
ytjSd.” There are some documents of so little
importance that you do not care to put any
more than your last name under them, or even
your initials; but there are some documents
•>t so great importance that you write out
your full name. So the Saviour ui some
I’-‘its of the Bible is called ‘ivord,’ and in
other parts of the Bible He is called ‘Jesus
und in other parts of the Bible He is called
“Christ;” hut that there might he no mistake
about tb s passage all three names-come in 1 o
getiler—"the this Being that Lord Jestts want Christ. to ’ Now, trust who in
is you me
and believe in? Men sometimes come to
, H* > with credentials and certificates of good
character; hut J cannot trust them, ihere
is some dishonesty 1 shall in cheated their looks if I that confide makes in
me know be
them.' You cannot put your hearts conh
deuce in a man until you know wliat stuff lie
is made oi, and am i unreasonable this
morning, when l stop to ask you who this is
that you want me to trust m? No man would
think of venturing his life on a vessel going
•out to sea have that had certificate never-been hung inspected. amidships, No,
you must the
tolling how many toms it carries, undhow
Jong ago it was built, and who built it, and
all about it. And you cannot expect me to
risk the cargo of my immortal interests on
board any craft till you tell me what it is
made of, and where it was made, and what
it is. A\ lien, then, I ask you who this is you
want me to trust in, you tell me he was a
very attractive person. You tell mo that
the contemporary writers describe him, and
thev give the color of his eyes, and the color
of his hail-, and they describe his whole np
pea ranee ns being resplendent. Christ did
not tell the children to come to Him. “Suf
ter little children to come unto Me,” was
not spoken to the children; it. was spoken to
The Pharisees. The children had eonio with
out any invitation. No sooner did Jesus ap
pear tuau the little ones pitched from their
mothers’arms, an avaWmeho of beauty and
love, into His lap. “Suffer little children to
come unto Me.” That was addressed to the
Pharisees; not to the children. Christ did
not ask John to put bis Head down on His
lawoni; John eouhl not help but put hts head
there. Such eves, such cheeks,, such a chin,
such hair, such physical condition and up
Clearance—why, it must have been com
pletely captivating and winsome. I sup
lose u look at Him was just to love
litii. <>. how attractive His manner!
Why, when they they saw into Christ coming along
the street, ran their houses, ami
they could, wrapped up brought t-heir invalids us quick us
they and thorn out. that Ho
might look at them. O! there was something
so pieicsant. lie did, so iuviting, so cheering iri every¬
thing in 11 is very look. When those
sick ones were brought out did Ho nhv;
“Tako away these sores; do not trouble Me
, wil h these leprosies?” No, jio; there was u
kind l<x>k. there was a gentle word, there was
a healing touch. They could not keep away
from Him
in addition to this softness of character,
there was a fiery momentum. How the old
hypocrites of the trembled before Him. How the
plain Kings with earth turned pale. Hero is a
man a few sailors at His back,
coming off the sea of Galilee, going up to the
palace of tho CVesnrs, making that pal ace
quake to tho foundations, and uttering a
word of mercy and kindness which throbs
through all tho earth, and through all the
heavens, and through all the ages. Oh! He
was a loving Christ. But it was not effem«
inaev, ’accompanied or insipidity with majesty, of character; it
was infinite and
omnipotent. Lest the world should not
fe&iue Uis earnestue.rk this Christ mounts
tiip liu-'. ‘•You sav: “If Christ lias to die,
why not lot Him take sont. deadly |>otion
and luruntifu) lie ou a couch If He in some bright let and
home? must die, Him
«pirc »“?
of the spikes. Tim world must listen to the
death rattle of the sufferer. The world
must feel His warm blood dropping ou each
cheek, while it looks up into the face of His
anguish. And so the cross must be lifted,
and the be hole dug is three dug on feet the top of Calvary.
It must deep, and thou the
cross is lain ou me ground, and tho sufferer
is stretched upon it, and the nails an
pounded through nerve, ami muscle, and
l„me, baud, through the right hand, through the
left and then they shake His right
hand to see if it L fast, and they shake His
loft foot to see if it is fast, and then they
U eaw up the eight, wo#d, half a dozen shoulders
under the w raid they put the end of
Uio cross t o the mouth of the hole, and they
plunge it in, for all the first weight of His body com
Ul nr down the time on the spikes;
and while some hold the cross upright,
other’s throw iu the dirt and trample it
down, and trample it hard. 0 , plant that
tree well and thorough y, for it is to bear
fruit such as no other tree ever bore. Why
did Chr st endure it? He could hsve taken
xnoge rock ,aud with them crushed His cruci
f, e rs. He co Id have reached up and grasped
|h 0 s word of the omnipotent Uod and with
ouo c i e au cat have tumbled them into perdi
tiou. But no, He was to di . He must de.
His life for my life, H s life for you ' 1 life,
in ou ■ of the European cities a young man
died j on tin scaffold or ihe crime of mur
( cr Homo time after, the mother of this
'j yoifog roa i i she was made dying, and the priest came
n< an( con esslon to the
pp.est that she was tho murdero , an >
not uer son; n a moment of anger she
had struck her husband a blow that slew
him. The son came suddenly iuto the room,
aud was resuscitate washing away tho wounds and try- oiie
j n g to his father, when some
looked through the window and saw him,and
supposed him to bo the criminal. That
young man died for his own mother. You
say: ’‘It was wonderful that he never ex
pos ecl her.” But I tell you of a grander
t i, ing Christ, tho Bon His of Oo4, died not for
His mother, not for lather, but for His
sworn enemies. O, such a Christ as that—so
loving, so self sacrificing—can you not trust
Him? tiiink
j there are many under the spirit of
God who are saying: ‘T will trust Him if you
-will only tell me bow ” and the great ques
tlon asked hv thousands in this assemblage
“How? how?” And while I answer your
question I look up and utter the prayer which
ft ow i an d Hill so often uttered in the midst
()t - ^j S sermons; “Master, Just help!” How are
you to trust in Christ? as you trust
anyone. You trust your partner in busi
noss Wlih important things. If a com*
mercial house give you a note the* payable
three months that hence, you the expect end of three pay
inellt ( ,f note at
months. You have perfect confidence
in their word and in their ability. You go
t lolue to-ilay. You expect there will be food
cm the table. You have confidence in that,
f ask you to have tho same confidence
| n the L a i'Jesus Christ. He says: “You
| ); ni«*vo ; I tain-a wav your sins;” and they are
a n taken away. “VVhat!” you say, “before I
pruy any more? Before 1 read my Bible any
movo? Before 1 erv irvenny sins any more?”
Vos, this moment. Believe with all your
heart ‘| and you ore saved. Why. Christ is
1)n v waitiii ,r to‘'el from you wiiat vou give
1( , scores of pern de ever v jay. What is that?
roulJaeilC( *. if these people wltom you trust
,iav ? by day are more worthy-Ilian Christ, if
lU v ;u . ( , moro Hum Christ, if they
have done more than Christ ever did, then
..j,.,. the ................ hut if you really
think that Christ is as trustworthV as they
U|cn v . iU) Him as f. lir)v .
says some one in a light wav, “I believe that
, V a.,bnrn in Bethlehem, and l believe
that He died on tho cross." u„ vtw believe
jt w ith your head or your heaiV!
, wi n iiiustralo the difTeronoo. Y -n
arc in your own house. In the morning you
‘ and hcivCap
, >pe „ a newspaper, tho vmi read
taiuBraveiica.it on sea risked his lire
fol . ,| 10 salvation of his passengers. You
say . -‘VVliat a grand follow he must have
j 1 11 family deserves very well of tho
l .,„, ut ,r v . : ’ You told tho newspaper and sit
,i (lW n lit the tabic, and perhaps do not think
,, L , lml | n «.|,| t .ut again. That is historical
laitl ,_ jjiit now you .ire on the soa, and
j t j 8 ‘ „tght. - i.ivuUeneil ’ and by you tlie are shriek asleep,
“Kire'.'’ ( j a ,. u of
You rush out on the deck.
You hear and’ amid the wringing . 11 .e
bauds tho fainting, the cries; Tho sail
Jl 0 pe! we are lost! we are lost!”
puts out its wings of tire, the ropes litakr a
burning ladder in the night tho lieuveusfAho
H nirit of wreck hisses in waves, an 1 on
tho hurricaue deck shakes out its banner ot
Klllo jj e darkness. "Down with the life
boats!” cries tho Captain. “Down with the
Jifo boats!” about People full. rush Room into only them. The
boa ts are for one
more man. You are standing shall on the deck
beside the Captain. Who it be? You
or the Captain? l’he saved. Captain He says; “You.”
You jump and Now, are believe stands there
anil ,]j es . you that Captain
liraveheart sacrificed himself for his passeu
„ ers but you believe it with love, with tears,
with hot and long continued exclamations,
grief at That hislossandwithjoyatyour is saving faith, In other
deliverance.
words, wliat you believe with nil the heart,
<m(I believe in regard to yourself. the salvation On this
hinge turns immortal my sermon; aye,
u [ soul,
You often go across a bridge you know
nothing about. You do not know who built
-bridge, you do not imow wbat material
it is made of; but you come to it, and walk
ovei . j ti and ask no questions. And here is
a n arched bridge blasted from the “Rock of
.Ages,” and built l.y the architect of tho
whole uniVerse, spanning tho dark gulflie
tW een sin and righteousness, and all (Jo .1
asks you j s t0 walk across it; and you
start, and you come little to it? and you
stop, and you go a way on and
y ou stop, and you full back and you
experiment. You say: “How do I kuow
that bridge will hold me?” instead of man-h¬
nig on with firm step, asking no the questions,
hut feeliug that, the strength ot eternal
Hod is under you. O, was there ever a prize
offered so cheap For as how pardon and heaven million are
offered to you? much? A
dollars? But It cheaper, is certainly thaiu that worth more have than
that. you can
ji Ten thousand dollars? Lass than that,
Five thousand dollars? Less than that. One
dollar? Less than that. One farthing? Less
than that. “Without money and without
price.” No money to pay. No journey to
take, No penance to sulfor. Only just one
decisive action of the soul: “Believe on tho
Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shall be saved.”
shall I try to toll you what it is to be saved?
} canuot tell you. No man, no angel
( . au tell you. But 1 can hint at it. For
„,y text brings mo up to thin point: “Thou
s h a lt lie saved.” It means a happy life here,
and a peaceful death and a blissful eternity.
Jt, is a grand thing to go to sleep at
night, and to get up in the morning, and
to do business all day feeling that all
j s right No between accident, my heart and
Hod. no sickness, no
persecution, no peril, no sword can do me
child any permanent God, damage. He I am a forgiven
of and is bound to sec mo
through. He has sworn Ho will see me
through. The mountains may depart, the
earth may burn, the light of the stars may
be blown out by tlio blast of tho judgment
hurricano; things but life and death, things Yon, present
and to come, are mine. farther
than that—it means a peaceful death.
and Mrs almost Homans, all Mrs. Sigourney, said Dr. Younj
tuo-poets have handsomi
thing- about, death. There is nothing beau
tifnl about it. When wo stand by the white
and rigid features of those whom we lava
and they give no answering pressure of th«
hand, and no returning kiss of the lip,
we do not want anybody poetizing around
about us. Death is loathsomeness, and mid¬
night, and the wringing of the heart until the
tendrils snap and curl in tlio torture un¬
less Christ be with Us. I confess to you tc
an infinite fear, a consuming horror, ol
death unless Christ shall be with mo.
I would rather go down into a cave of wild
beasts or a jungle of reptiles than into the
grave, unless Christ goes with me. Will you
tell me that l aiu to be carried out from my
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gm to live. What power is there iu anything
to chill mo in the last hour if Christ wraps
around me the skirt of of His
own garment? What darkness can
fall upon my eyelids then, amid
tho heavenly daybreak? O death, 1 will not
fear thee then! Back to thy cavern of dark¬
ness, thou robber of all the earth. Fly, thou
despoiler hew of families. With this battlo ax 1
thee in twain from hemlet to samlal, tho
voice of Christ sounding all over the earth,
and through the heavens; “O death, I will
ba thy plague. 0 grave, I will be thy de
struction."
To be saved is to wake up in the presence
of Christ! You know when Jesus was upon
earth how happy He made every houso He
went house into, and when He brings us up to His
how great our glee. His voice has
more music in it than is to be heard in all the
oratories of eternity. Talk not about banks
dashed with efflorescence. Jesus is the chief
bloom of heaven. We shall see the very face
that beamed sympathy in Bethany, and take
the very hand that dropped its blood from
the short beam of the cross. O, I want to
stand in eternity with Hiui. Toward that
harbor I steer. Toward that goal
I run. I shall bo satisfied when I
awake iu His likeness. Oh, broken
hearted men aud women, how sweet
it will be in that good land to pour all your
hardships, and bereavements, and losses into
the loving ear of Christ, and then have Him
explain why it was bast for you to be sick,
ana why it was best for you to bo widowed,
and why it was best for you to be persecuted,
’'and whv it was best for you to bo tided, and
have Him point to an elevation proportion
ate suffered to your with disquietude Me here, saying: “You
be glorified with Mein on earth, heaven.” come up uow and
Some one went into a houso where there
had been a good deal of trouble and said to
the woman (here: “You seam to lie lonely.”
“Yes,” shesaid, “1 am lonely.” “Howmany
had mtneramilyr children?" "Duly “I myself.” “Have you
any had seven children.’’
“Where are they?" “Gone." “All gone?”
“All." “All dead?” “All." Then she
breathed a long sigli into the loneliness, and
said: “O, sir, 1 have been a good mother to
the grave." And s i there are hearts here that
are utterly broken down by tho bereavements
of life. I point you to-day to the eternal balm
. . Are . there .. , boro that I
m iieaven. any am
uussing this morning? O, you poor waiting
your heart’s sorrow poured in no hu
ear, lonely and sad! how glad you will
L 0 ' v ben Christ shall disband all your sor*
'''"i .in'1 «rowi» you queen unto God and
* b ® f' a ‘S!? f ? rovo ‘ • V’ nK0<1 women,
by His love and " armed by His grace
f ®' Hn-oe-s-joro-yoars-aud-ten! will not yout
decropitudo when change for tlm leap of a hart
A , , , -
JjTn! , , loveTo
Him "W having vou
that, will bo t lio Good Bhep
herd, not out in tho night and watch
jug lambs to rechuing keep off on the the sun wolves, lit lull. but That with will the
be tlio Captain of our salvation, not amid the
roar, and crash, and-boom of battlo, but
n mid His disbanded troops Icoeping victorious !
festivity. Church coming That will from bo the Bridegroom bride of tho
afar, tho leaning
upon ills arm while He looks down into her
face love! and Behold, says; thou “Behold, tliou art fair, my
art fail-.”
Feline Facts and Fancies.
book Mr. Weir, an English jooojilo to author beware of of a
on cats, wains j
white eats with blue ears. Such are
almost always do.if, and not knowing
when they make .. 1 , >iso, no matter how
tremendous a one, they are proportion¬
ately disagreeable. He had one who
almost drove him frantic uutil lie gave
it to a friend, who in turn transfcried it
to an old lady who was as deaf as the
cat, and consequently made, couldn’t ho ir the
rumpus tho cat
Among the chief diseases of cats Mr.
Weir naturally mentions catarrh as the
chief.
To show the oat’s love of light as well
as of sweetness, Mr. Weir tells this
story;
“It is related of d a les James Fox
that, walking up St. Jam s street from
one of the club lions s with the Prince
of Wales, lie laid a wag. r Ihat h would
see more cats thud t o Prime in the
walk. When they had reached the top
it was found that Mr. Fox had teen
thirteen o its and the Prince not one.
Tho royal personage asked for an ex¬
planation of tins apparent in hade. Mr.
Fox said: ‘Your Royal Highness took,of
course, the shady side of tie way ns the
more agreeable. I knew the sui ny side
would be loft for me, and cats always
prefer the sunshine/”
There are pit uty. of ea's in the New
York Post Office, but they are chi -fly
fed with what is left over from the metis
of the employees, and thus cist the Gov¬
ernment nothing; at any rate, there is
no special appropriation for their ra¬
tions. Ho with nit-,in other large build¬
ings. There is nut to milch nci d of ex¬
penditure of money for cat;’ meat in
this country as in England, for owing
to meat being more generally eaten 1 ere
eats can be sustained on wliat is left
over without calling on outside sup¬
plies.
A Tea tor Drunkards.
Lot mo tell a “Drunkard's Wife” how
t.) make a tea for her husband, says a
■writ* r in an exchange. Take two
pounds of bayberry bark, one pound of
ginger-root, clover and and two oimets Pulverize each of
(avenue pepper.
all finely and mix them well. Now put
one-half t mpoonfnl of this powder arid
at c s ;o .nf.ij of sugar into a teacup
and pour it l a’f full of boiling water; let
it. stand ii few moments and fill the cup
w.tli milk; iiol water will do if milk can
tiot be ob ivin d. Part of this is to be
- taken immediately on arising in the
.morning und who the rest just b if ore meal
time. Phos - have been accustomed
to tho hxceasivu use of ardent spirits
will find flat a warm, healthy'glow
spie d- from the stomach over the whole
-y-t-iii. ii<cimpanied liv a desire for
foot i nst, -ml of liquor. Take this two
or t’nve times a day, or eveu ofteaer,
a first, if t!:c < raring for strong drink
.s intense, t.s.ug it less often a- scon as
possible. With this help a drunkard
may reform if tie really cares to do so.
A 11-year-old son of Lawyer Flint, of
San Francisco, shot himself because he
thought he was going to get a whipping,
The Hays of Old.
It is man's prerogative to be interest possessed him¬
of the gift of history and to
in ancient things. He “considers the
of old.” The instinct which lies at
bottom of every historic study is a
feeling which we ami the world of to-day
have developed out of the old time that
was before us. The due understanding of
the past is but a deeper way of looking
tho life that now is. Every part of our
modem appliances is the outcome of an
succession of things that led
up to it. The genius who startles the
world with a “new” discovery, simply
avails himself of materials which previous
hands have prepared for his use, anil
passes them on iu a more highly devel¬
form. “Looking back” is not only
a necessity in the promotion of man’s
material progress, but belongs at the same
timo to the finer, the surprising poetic instincts it did of
life; and it would be if
not possess a profound fascination for
many thoughtful minds. The historian,
the antiquary, and in another way the
scientific student of nature, all find their
varied interest in that past world from
which we have grown to be what we are.
It is not a dead past. Its voices are not
mere echoes from the tombs. If “a
primrose by the river’s brim” is to the
poet something more, so to the instructed
and thoughtful student of antiquity is
eveu a fossil, something more than a fos¬
sil, There is in the past a perennial grand, silent rev¬
elation. It is part of the
procession of a life which has no begin¬ the
ning and no end, which “remakes
blood aud clianges the frame,” and which
for the moment is ours. (
Wrinkles.
A wrinkle cure is advertised in a daily
uqier, and no doubt finds many patrons.
Nevertheless, there is one sovereign is rem- I
dy or preventive for wrinkles that at
.lie command of every one, though it is
not advertised in the shape of a patent
medicine. This is, to set your face
against wrinkles from the start. Good
humor and contentment keep the face
smooth. Crow's feet come from care;
from a bilious and melancholy habit of
life, and from the habitual indulgence of
ill temper, whose badge is the scowl and
the frown. There is a period of the hu¬
man life when wrinkles come in the due
course of nature. In nearly every they case
where they arrive before that date,
will bo found to have been invited by
(heir victim, and all the nostrums in the
world will not banish or charm them
away.
One Way to Make Coffee.
Some one says that this is the best way
to make coffee: Buy the best coffee and
grind it to the consistency of ordinary
corn meal. Into a French teapot put an
ounce of coffee for every person. One
pound of coffee will make sixteen cups,
and 110 more. Have everything clean,
ilnJ ’ !,s soon as ,h ? W!lter in the tea kettle
begins to boil, . moisten the coffee gently,
and leave it to soak and swell for three
minutes; then add a little more water;
<km , - t 1 ho K i m « h„,. B'trry, r , T . continue continue In to auu mid vi¬ u
hr uutil you have obtained not more than
ii large c offciwmpfiil of the virtue extract. of the II
carefully clone, the entire
co tf ee wi n ] )e in the cupful 1 of liquor 1 at
tl the end , of tlVe minutes, i or four ,• persons ,
use a quart of pure milk, and have it
piping hot; heat the large cups divide by pour¬ the
coffee ing into them hot water; now which
into the four cups, each of
will be onc-quartor full; fill with the
boiling milk,
Table and Bed Linens.
Don’t permit table or bed linen to lie
from year to year without being occasional used. It
will last the longer for an
washing. If it white is already very into yellow, four cut
up a pound of soap quarts
of milk. Put it over the stove in a wash
kettle, and when the soap has dissolved,
put it in the linen and boil fifteen min¬
utes ; then wash in soap suds and rinse in
two clean waters, bluing the last water
slightly. The possessor of a grass simply plot
can whiten her choice linen by
rinsing in soap suds and laying it on the
grass for two or three days. Rinse in
clear water and dry upon the line, and it
will be sweet and fresh and white.
Charming Widow—“And what are you
doing nowadays?” He—“Oh, amusiug
mvsclf; looking out for number one.
And you!” Charming Widow—“Look¬
ing out for number two.”
Kissed Another Ulan’s Wife.
“You scoundrel,” yelled young Jacob Green,
At his kissed good neighbor wife Brown,— the street,—
“ You my upon down 11 [replifcu,
1 outfht to knock you .
“ That’s where you’r wrong,” meek: good Brown
in accents mild and
“ 1 kissed her, that I’ve not cheek— denied, .
But kissed her on the
and 1 did it because she looked so handsome—
the verv picture of beauty and health. What,
is the secret of it?” “Well,” replied Green, Dr.
“since you ask it, 1 will tell you: she uses
Fierce’s Favorite Prescription. 1 accept your
apology. Good night.” “Favorite Prescrip¬
tion” is tiie only remedy for the delicatedc
l uugcments and weaknesses of females, sold by
druggists, under a positive guarantee of
giving returned. satisfaction in every case, or money paid
for it .
For biliousness, sick headache, Pierce’s indigestion, Pellets.
aud constipation, take Dr.
One embrace, says a cautions suitor, is worth
a dozen love-letters, because it. cannot be intro¬
duced in a brcach-of-promise suit.
Krie It ail way.
Tiffs popular Eastern Line is running solid
vestiliulcii trains, consisting of beautiful <lay
coaches, Pullman Bleeping Chicago, and New dining York cars; and
between Cincinnati, trains via Luke Chautauqua
Boston. All run holding
during the season, and passengers
through tickets are privileged to stop off at this
world-famed resort. Be sure your tickets read
via N. Y., L. K. W. B. It.
Oregon, (he Paradise of Farmer..
Mild, equable elirnnte, eertniu and abundant,
crops. Best. I J-uit, grain, qrass and stock coun¬
try in the world. tMIl information free. Ad¬
dress Oreg. Iin’igra’tn Board, Portland, Ore.
Beware of imitations—'“TansiU's Punch.”
The Standard
t regard Hood’s Sarsaparilla as haviag
passed above the grade of what are commonly
called patent or proprietory medicine*, said a
well-known physician recently. “It is fully entitled
to be considered a standard medicine, and has won
this position by its undoubted merit and by the
many remarkable cures it has effected. Tor an
alterative aud tonic it has never been equaled, and
physicians are glad to have their patients take se
rellableand trustworthy a medicine.”
N. If you decide to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla
do not be induced to buy any other.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggliU. $1; six for (A Preoaradoatjr
by 0. i. HOOD k CO„ Apothecaries, Liwoll* Mam.
too Doses One Dollar
Old Wrought Iron.
Th* oldest pieces of wrought iron now
are probably the sickle blade
by Belr.oni undi or the base of the
in Karnac, near Thebes; the blade
by Colonel Vvse, embedded in the
of the great pyramid; the por¬
of a cross-cut saw exhumed at Nim¬
by Mr. Layard—all of which are
in the British Museum. A wrought
of Damascus steel was presented by
Porus to Alexander the Great. The
steel of China for many centuries
all European steel in temper and
have made of edge. The iron Hindoos appear
without wrought directly from
ore, passing it through the
from time immemorial, and elab¬
wrought masses are still found in
which date from the early centuries
the Christian era.
An old man of our acquaintance says
was born at the wrong time. “When
was young,” he says, “yonng men were
no account; and now that I am old,
old men are of 110 account.”
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THE HEAVY END OF A MATCH.
“ Mary,” said Farmer Flint, at the breakfast-table, as lie asked for a second
cup of coffee, “ I’ve made a discovery.” the last I’d
“AVell, Cyrus, you’re about one suspect of such a thing; but
what is it?”
“ I’ve found that the heavy end of a match is its light end,” responded
Cyrus; Mary with looked a grin disgusted, that would but have with adorned air of a triumph skull. quickly retorted,’ “
an I’ve
got a discovery, too, Cyrus. It was made by Dr. R. V. Pierce, aud is called
‘Golden Medical Discovery.’ It drives away blotches and pimples, purifies the
blood, tones up tho system, and makes one feel brand-new. Why, it cured
Cousin Ben, who had consumption, and was almost reduced to a skeleton.
Before his wife began healthy, to use it, Weighs she was a pale, hundred sickly thing, but look at her : she’s
rosy-cheeked Cyrus, is discovery and that’s and worth mentioning.” one and sixty-five pounds. That,
a
The farmer’s wif8 was right, lor the “Golden Medical Discovery” is in fact
the only medicine for purifying the blood and curing all manner of pimples,.,
blotches, eruptions, and other Skin and Scalp diseases. Scrofulous Soros and
Swellings, ami kindred ailments, possessed of such positive curative properties
as to warrant its manufacturers in selling it, as they are doing, through (bug
gists, under a positive guarantee that it will either benefit or cure in every
case, or money paid for it will be refunded. It also cures Bronchial, Throat
and its marvelous Lung diseases. curative Even properties, Consumption if taken in (which time and is Lung-scrofula) given trial. yields to
a fair
For Weak Severe Lungs, Coughs, Spitting kindred of Blood, Shortness it of efficient Breath, Bronchitis,
Asthma, and affections, i3 an remedy.
the Don’t dealer be fooled make into larger taking profit. something There’s else, nothing said to be all “ just like as ttie good.” Discov¬ that
may a at “
ery.” It contains no alcohol to inebriate ; no syrup or sugar to derange diges¬
tion ; -s peculiar in its curative effects as in its composition. It’s a concentrated
vegetable extract. Dose small and pleasant to the taste. Equally good for
adults or children. World's Dispensary Medical Association, No. 663
Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
CATARRH IDT THE HEAD
no matter of how. long standing, is
manently cured by DR. SAGE’8 CATARRH REMEDY. 50 cents, by druggist*.
Ely’s Cream Balm fe||
WILL CURE
Q flTARRU
I Pr|f«- 60 OlllN.
Applv Balm into each nostril.
K LY BKOH..M Wtrr.r St .N.Y.
Farquhar’B Improved Cotton Planter
Vcj simple and FerfecUn lte^Jgenttiop^Dro^i
ADT
60 i J* H -^ -PLANTER In nMww-r.
BUM, VOK IATIUUU *.
Addrau, A. K. FAKQUIJ Alt, York. (>a.
AFTER ALL OTHERS FAIL CONSULT
DR. LORB
the 3^9 North Fifteenth of St,, Poisons, Philadelphia, irruption*, Pa., for
treatment Blood Skin
Nervous Complaints, Bright’s diseases, Disease, Strictures,
lmpotency »nd kindred no matter of how
prTen long standing or from what cause originating.
days medicines furnished by mail CBCC Istts
Bend for Book on S1'£C1 AJL Diseases, r
DETECTIVES
WaaUd In every County. Shrewd men W ut sudo- }»»treetl*DJ
tuour S«cr*t Service. Experience not ueoeuary. PoxtlcuUkre tree.
Gr&nnan Detective Bureau Co. Al Arcadi,C ii iciagft t! > OL
sgjlgS iHUMII II M a IKfl RMS® and ITS WHISKEY cured si liomc HA.B- wuh
£4f M W S IwMlI H S Hgw| oiu palo. Iioos EREE of imr
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Qa- Offic* 65j^ Whitehall St.
Fd ^
12% GUARAKTEED. AB WZ%r. AND IN
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J>avgo, N.
PILES I ^wn T ^ K » B oV^«;
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BRYANT & STRATTON Business College!
XSSiaSl- LOUISVILLE. KY.
zzscfs;
Touiiata,
Whether on pleasure 1 ent or busiueei! -l oc.M
take on every trip a bottle of Syrup of Fhss_
as It nets most pleasantly and effectually on
the kidneys, liver and Vowels, preventing fe¬
vers, headaches and other forms of sickness. For
sale in Stks and 51.01 lot ties by all leading drug¬
gists.
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The more an idea is developed, the more con¬
cise becomes its expressions; the i-iore a tree is
pruned, the b -Uej- is the fruit.
A man who has practiced nit-in ine for 40 yeaesi
might to know salt from -11 ; read what li«
says:
Messrs. F. ,T. Tot.'-uo, O., Jan. 10,1SS7.
have been in tho Cheney A Co.--Gentlemen:—X
for 40 general practice of medicine
most years, nni would -ev that in all my
practico paration and that experience, 1 could have never m en a pre¬
confidence of prescribe with as much
success as lean Hail's Catarrh
Cure, it manufact ured times by aud you. Have prescribed
a great many its effect t« wonder¬
ful, aud would say in conclusion that! have
yet to find a case of Catarrh that it would not
cure, if they would Yours take it according to direct¬
ions. truly,
L. L. GORSUCH, Office, 215 M. D„ St.
$100 Summit
AVe will give for any case of Catarrh
that can not be cured with Hall's Catarrh
Cure. K. J. Taken CHENEY internally. * CO., Props., Toledo,
old Druggists, 0.
res by 75c.
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tehitlemlf. fattory prices,/K bj
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Pndte. *ti»mp for oO-pagf Ct-Ulof uo ona tore S5 por M.l,
IRIFF1TH & SEMPLE, 512 V/. Main, Louisville Kjk
BJ BsIIIbh Crimpers, Woven Covers, a useful, oorvw
▼enienfe and durable article, only IU centd
■ IHIII a doz. postpaid. Bor G51, Oberlln, Ohio.'
OPIUM "K c s?£&MSL£i
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Best Cougli Medicine. Recommended by Physicians.
Cures where all elso fails. Pleasant and agreeable to tho
taste. Children take it without objection. By druggists.
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