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■ --V ' X ■ . ■ ' • | n tl- t»- -Hi IS m£4 m FORERUNNER OF (SO M SUMPTION. f^ct all the organs—°Wi e tt teril A g tlle circulation poison the entire system. The stomach, kidneys—in is rapid and destructive and ° f ^ lis . catarrhal poison, and when the lungs are reached its progress the Jos^teninto'aJdT 5 . lhat the ^““s hearing and smell are m part or entirely lost, the soft bones of washes and ^lves m^ ^ SL ™- Ved . causing intense suffering and greatly disfiguring the face. While sprays, washes ana saKes may give temporary relief, no permanent benefit can be expected from such treatment.’ CATARRH IS A CONSTITUTIONAL 6P MOOD DISEASE, and far beyond the reach of mere local remedies. Those who relv upon them for a cure lose valuable time, meet with disap pointment and allow the disease to take firmer hold. Onl v a real blood remedy can reach this troublesome and dangerous disease. S. b. S cures Catarrh because it first cleanses and builds up the blood purifies it, makes it rich and healthy, stimulates and puts new life into the sluggish worn-out organs, and thus relieves the system of all poisonous accumulations. Mrs Tosephine Polhill, of Due West,.S. C., writes: “I had raton-i, _** . . „ 1 ■' ' ■ - cure for all blood troubles Seud for our bonk on Blood and Skin Diseases, and at the same time write our physicians about your case. They will cheerfully rive you any information or advice wanted. We make no charge for this. fin.. ATLANTA, GA. A\co. Tues., 1 2 JL ROBERT HARDT51 If SEVEN DATS. A DREAM A2TD ITS CONSEQUENCES. BY REV, CHARLES M. SHELDON, Author of “In His Steps” “The Crucifixion of Philip Strong,”-Jlalcaa JBric,” Etc. [Copyright, 1000, by Advance Publishing do.] Tijurs. CHAPTER XI. | ana cncing oou mmseii rue nest pos- TSlhle answer to them all. Those words of Clara, "i. shall go I Rpjjert Hardy was finding this out ilii you then, filled the farnily. with / lalcly. am] it was the one thing tliat with dismay. and groaned. Mrs. Hardy, almost be side herself with grief and terror, flew to the side of the girl and, with be seeching erics and caresses, tried to bring back to consciousness the mind that for a moment or two bad gleamed -with reason and then had gone back into the obscurity and oblivion of that mysterious condition in which it bad been lying for three days, but all In vain. The eyes were closed; the form was rigid. The others, George and Will ami Bess, grew pale, and Bess cried, almost for the first time since the strange week began. Robert was the first to break ilie grief with a quiet word. He raised bis bead, saying: “1 do mil believe Clara is going to die when I do," ‘•Why. father, what makes you think that?" cried A Heel “I don't know. 1 can't give any ex act reason I only know that l don’t believe it will happen.” “God grant that she may he spared to us!" said .Mis. Hardy. “Oh, Rob ert, it is more Ilian I can bear! Only today and tomorrow left! It can’t be real. 1 have battled against your dream all the week. It was a dream only. 1 will not believe it to be any thing else. You are not 111. There Is no indication that you are going to die. I will not, I cannot, believe it! God is too good. And we need you now, Robert. Let us pray God for mercy.” Robert shook his head sadly, but firmly. “No, Mary; I cannot resist an im pression so strong that I cannot call It anything but a conviction of reality; that somehow, in some way, I shull be called away from you Sunday night I have struggled against It,'but it grows upon me even more firmly. God Is merciful. I do not question bis good ness. How much did 1 deserve even this week of preparation after, the life I have lived? And-the time will not be long before we shall all meet there. God grant that it may be an unbroken company!” Mr. Hardy spoke as any one in bis condition could. The children drew about him lovingly. Bess climbed into his lap. She laid her face against her father’s face, and the strong man' sob bed as he thought of all the years of neglected affection in that family cir cle. The rest of the evening was spent in talking over the probable future. George, who seemed thoroughly hum bled now. listened respectfully and even tearfully to his father’s counsel concerning the direction of business and family matters. The boy was going through a strug gle with himself which was apparent to all in the house. Ever since his mother had seen him kneeling down in the night watch he had shown a differ ent spirit'' It remained to be seen Whether he had really changed or Whether he had been for the" time be ing frightened into a little goodness. ! Saturday morning found the Hardys weary with the agitation of the'week, hut bearing about a strange excite ment which only the prospect of the father's approaching death or removal could have produced. ; Robert rould not realize that his week was almost at an end. Why. it seemed hut yesterday that lie had dreamed after the Sunday" evening service! As on every other day, he asked him self the question, “What shall 1 do?” Only until he had prayed could he answer the question. Then the light came. Who says prayer is merely a form? It is going to God for wisdom and getting it- It is crying out for light, and, lo! the darkness flees. It is spreading out our troubles and onr Joys and our perplexities and our needs' Mr. Hardy bowed his head made possible.to him the calmness of the last two days allotted hint. The day was spent in much the same way that the other days had been spent. He went down to his office ibout 10 o'clock and after coming home to lunch went down again with the intention of getting through all the business and returning home to spend the'rest of the time with the family. Along toward 3 o'clock, when the rou tine work of the shops was disposed of, the manager felt an irresistible de sire to speak to the men in his employ. They numbered about S00 in his de partment, and he knew how impossible it would be for him to speak to them individually. lie thought a minute and then called Burns in and gave an order that made the foreman stare in the most undisguised wonder. - “Shut down the works for a little while and ask the men to got together in the big machine shop. I want to speak to them.” Burns had been astonished so often this week that, although he opened his month to say something, he did not seem able to pronounce the words, and after staring blankly at his employer a minute he turned and went out to execute the order. The great engine was stopped. The men from the easting rooms and the carpenter shops and the storerooms and the repairing departments came trooping into the big machine shop and sat or leaned on the great, grim pieces of machinery, and as the shop filled the place began to take on a strange aspect never seen there before. Mr. Hardy crossed the yard from the office, followed by the clerks and as sistant officers of tliejroaU, all curious to hear what was coming. Mr. Hardy mounted one of the planers and looked about him. The air was still full of gas’ anil smoke and that mixture of fine iron filings and oil which is char acteristic of such places. The men were quiet and respectful enough. Many of them had heard the man ager's speech of Thursday night at the town hall. Most of them were aware that some change had taken place in the man. It had been whispered about that he had arranged matters for the men injured in the Sunday accident so that they would not come to want in any way. And now that grimy, hard muscled, hard featured crowd ot S00 men all turned their eyes upon the figure standing very erect and pale faced on the great planer, and he in turn looked out through the blue, murky atmos phere at them with an Intensity of ex pression which none in that audience understood. As Mr. Hardy went on with his speech they began to under stand what that look meant. “My brothers.” began the jnanager, with a slight trembling of the sylla bles so new to him, “as this may be the last time I shall ever speak to you I want to say what is true to me and what I feel I owe to you. For 23 years l have ‘carried on the work in this place without any thought of the S00 men at work in these shops except as their names were on the pay roll of the company. '.'It never made any difference to me when your wives and children grew sick and died. 1. never knew what sort of houses you lived in except to know that iu comparison with mine they must have been very crowded and uncomfortable. For all these 23 years 1 have been as indifferent to you as one man possibly could be to men who work for him. It has not occurred to me during this time that*I could be anything else. 1 have been too selfish to see my relation to you and act up on it. “Now. 1 do not call you in here today to apologize for 25 years of selfishness —not that alone. But I do want you to know that I have been touched by the band of God in sueh-a way that before it is too late I want to say to yon all, ‘Brothers.’ and say to yon that when you think of me hereafter it may be as 1 am now today, not as I have been in all the years past. - It is not for me to say how far or in F.C. CORSETS MAKE American Beauties* F. S. Latest Models* On Each Box. KALAMAZOO CORSET CO. SOLE MANUFACTURERS. SOLD BY -A_. C. COBB. brotherhood of the race. I have called myself a Christian. I have been a^-JW man's father. He spoke to member of a cbureli. Yet I will con fess here today that under the author ity granted me by the. company I have more than once dismissed good, honest, faithful workmen in large bodies and cut down wages unnecessarily, to. in crease dividends- and iu general 1 have thought of the human flesh and blood in these shops as I have thought of tlie iron and steel here. I confess nil that and more. Whatever has been nn-Cbristian I hope will be forgiven. “There are many things we do to our fellow men in this world which abide-r tlie sting of them, 1 mean, Tlie im press of my selfishness is stamped on this place. It will take" years to re move it. 1 misbehave been far more t° you. i JZ&NFinve raised my voice as a Christian an-J an infiy.eutial di rector of this Toad again;: The Sunday work and traffic; I never did. I might have relieved unnecessary discomfort •in different departments: I refused to do it. I njjgbt have helped the cause of temperance iu this town by; trying to banish the saloon; instead of that 1 voted to license la crime and poverty and disease establishment. “I might have used my influence and my wealth to build healthy, comforta ble homes for the men who work on this road: I never raised my finger in the matter. I might have helped to make life a happier, sweeter tiling to the nearly 1.000 souls iu this estab lishment. and I went my selfish way, content with my own luxurious home and the ambition for self culture and the pride of self accomplishments. And yet there is not a man here today who isn’t happier than 1 am. “1 wish yon all. in the name of the good God. who forgives our sins for Jesus’ sake, the wish of a man who looks into the other world and sees things as they really are. I do not wisli you to think of my life as a.Chris tian-life. It lias not been such, but as you hope to be forgiven at last forgive all wrongs at my hands. “Y’on are living in the dawn of a hap- oier day for labor. There are Christian nen in business in_thi,s town and some few connected with railroads who are “Ihavchecn touched bythchartd of Ood.” trying to apply the principles of Chris tianity to tlie business and traffic of the world. My probable successor iu these shops is such a man in spirit. "Coil is love. I have forgotten that myself. 1 have walked through life forgetful of him. But 1 know today that lie is drawing the nations and the world together iu true sympathy. The natio'-s that stand defiant and disobe dient Ti Coil shall perish. The rulers who haughtily take God's place and oppress the people shall be destroyed. The men of power and intelligence and' money who use these three great ad vantages merely to bless themselves and add to their own selfish pleasure and ease shall very soon be dethroned. I would giv<? all 1 possess to be able to live and see a part of it come to pass. Men, brothers, some "of you younger ones will live to see that day. “Love God and obey him. Envy not the rich. They are more miserable than you sometimes dream. True hap piness consists in a conscience at peace with God and a heart free from selfish desires and habits. I thank you for your attention. Yon will know better why I have said all this to you when. you come in here to work again next Monday. My brothers, God bless you! God bless us all!" -When Robert stepped down from the planer and started toward the door, more than one black hand was thrust into his with the words, “God bless you, sir!” He felt a strange desire to weep. Never before had he felt that thrill shoot through him at the grasp of the hand of his brother man. His speech had made a profound impres sion on the men. Many of them did not understand the meaning of certain sentences, but the spirit of the man was unmistakable, and the men re sponded in a manner that touched Air. Hartly very strongly. He finally went into his office. The big engine started up again, and the whir and dust and clangor of the shops went on. But men bent over their work there in the gathering dusk of the winter day who felt a new heart throb at the recollection of the pale face and sincere word of the man who had broken a selfish silence of a quar ter of a century to call them brothers. Oh. Robert Hardy, what glorious op portunities you missed to love and he loved! With all your wealth you have been a very poor man all your life un til now, on the next to the last day of it! There is little need to describe the rest of this day. Robert went home. Every one greeted him tenderly. His first inquiry was for Clara, Still in that traneelike sleep. Would she nev er wake?" The wife shuddered with fear. Airs! Hardy had spent much of the time in prayer and tears. The evening sped by without special inci dent. - _ . James Caxton came and joined the what manner I have trampled on the Jamily circle." His presence reminded Mr. Hardy of the old quarrel wltb-the James and said if anything should pre vent his seeing his father the next- day James might tell his father how completely and sincerely he wished the foolish quarrel forgotten and his own share in it forgiven. So that'day came to a close in fami ly conference. In tears, in fear and hope and anxiety and prayer. But Mrs. Hardy would not lose all hope. It did not seem to her possible that her husband could be called away the next night. CHAPTER XII. Alice, with the quickness of thought that always characterized her, planned that all the *&st should go to church while she remained with Clara._ Will was auie to go out now. so, ror Tlie first time in months. Robert and his wife and Bess and the two boys sat to gether in the same scat. George had not been to church for a year, and Will -was very irregular in his attendance; The opening services seemed espe cially impressive-and beautiful to Mr. Hardy. He wondered how he had ever dared sit and criticise Mr. Jones and the way he had.of reading the hymns. To be sure, he was not a perfect speak er, but bis love for his pedple and his great love for men and his rare good life every day were so well known that they ought to have counted for more than, they 'ever did. It is astonishing how many good deeds and gr.od nu n pass through this world unnoticed and unappreciated, but every evil deed is caught up and magnified and criticised by press and people until it seems as if the world must be a very wicked place indeed and the good people very scarce indeed. Mr. Hardy joined in the service with a joy unknown to him for years. He had come to it from the reading of his Bible instead of the reading of the morning paper and from prayer in stead of from tliQUghts of his business or a yawning stroll through bis library. .His mind was receptive of the best vhings.in the service. He entered Into it with the solemn feeling that it-was his last. And when the minister gave out the text. “For we must all appear before the judgment seat or ChristT that ev ery man may receive the things done in his body, whether they be good or bad.” he started and leaned forward intently, feeling that the message of the preacher was for him and him alone and strangely appropriate for his own peculiar condition. The first statement of the sermon arrested his attention and held him to the argu ment i^sistibly to the end: “The judgment seat of Christ will not be a dreadful place .to a man whose sins have been forgiven in this world, but if lie comes up to it seamed and scarred and stained with sins unre- pented of anti unforgiven because he has not asked God to forgive him it will be a place of awful fear to his soul. There are men here in this au dience who are as ready to die now as they ever will be. They have made tlieir peace with God. They have no quarrel with their neighbors. Their accounts are all square in business. They ;ire living in loving relations with the home circle. They^have no great burdens of remorse or regret weighing them down, and if God should call them this minute to step up to the judgment seat they would be ready. “But there are other men here who are not at all ready for such a tremen dous event. They may think they are, but they are mistaken. How can they stand before the greatest being in all the universe and have no fear when they are unprepared to answer his ques tions: *Wliy did you not confess me be fore men? Why did you not do as 1 commanded and bear the burdens of the work instead of pleasing yourself?’ What will.the.man say then? “It is true tliat Christ is all merciful, all loving. But will it make no differ ence with a soul whether it comes up to liis judgment scat out of a life of selfish ease and indulgence or out of a life of self sacrifice and restraint? When every possible offer of mercy Is held out to men on earth and they will not accept it. will it be all the same as if they had when they come before the judgment seat of Christ? Why, that would be to mock at the meaning of the incarnation and the atonement. It would be to cast scorn and contempt on the agony in the garden and the crucifixion. It would make unnecessa ry all the prayer and preaching. What possible need is there that men preach a gospel of salvation unless there is danger of the opposite? “If we are all going to be saved any way, no matter whether we accept God’s love in Christ pr not, what use is the church? And why should we be anxious any more about our children? And what difference does it make whether they go to the bad here in this world if in the world to come they will all be saved? For eternity will be, so much grander and sweeter and endur ing than time that we might as well take it easy here and not pay much at tention to the message, ‘God so loved the world’—that is, if we are going to be saved anyway. “Why should we care very much if it does say in the revelation of God’s word that the wicked shall go away into everlasting punishment if we don’t believe it? Why, the wicked will stand just as good a chance of eternal glory as tlv good if the judgment seat of Christ does not mean a separation of the good from the bad. Let us close our churches and go home. Let U3 eat and drink and dance and be merry, for tomorrow we may die; and after death the judgment, and after the judgment glory and joy and power and peace and life eternal in the presence of God. “It is true we scorned him on earth, but that won’t make any difference; lie will receive us just the same. It is true we refused to believe in his onl,> begotten Son after all he suffered of shame and agony for us. but that makes no difference; be will say, ‘Enter into the joy of thy Lord.’ It is'true we made fun of Christians and mocked at praj’er and sneered at faith, but that is not much to be afraid of. It Is true we hated our neighbor and would not for- give-au insult, but that is a little thing. It is true when the Holy Spirit pleaded with us a yvar or six months ago to confess Christ in public we told him to leave us; we were ashamed to do it in the presence of men. to confess him who spread out bis arms on a cross of KHt....ranr Fcv*. «»o hnl fV^r* «1J Consumption is robbed of its terrors by the fact that the best med ical authorities state that it is a curable disease; and one of the happy things about it is, that its victims rarely ever lose hope. You know there are all sorts of secret nostrums advertised to cure consumption. Some make absurd claims. We only say that if taken in time and the laws of health are properly observed, SCOTT’S EMULSION will heal the inflammation of the throat and lungs and nourish and strengthen the body so that it can throw off the disease. We have thousands of testi monials where people claim they have been permanently cured of this malady. we feel sure that when we march up ti the judgment seat of' Christ he will treat us just the same, as he treats thi disciples who have laid down their lives for the Master. “Then let us tear out of the Bible every line that speaks of retribution or punishment or judgment—lor we don’t like those passages; they hurt our feel- it^s—and let us leave only those words that speak of love and mercy and for giveness, for those words are the only ones that can be true, for those words don’t make us feel uncomfortable. “Away with .everything that hurts our feelings, that makes us anxious, that sends us to our knees in prayer, that makes us confess Christ and live a life of self denial and service, for when the judgment seat is prepared and Christ sits down there and we ap pear before him lie will receive us" as we come before him—the pure and the impure, the selfish and the proud and the humble and the believer and the disbeliever anil infidels and scoffers and cowards and despisers of God’s love on the earth, all the class of men who fell back on weak and imperfect Christians as an excuse for their own weak lives, and the drunkards and the liars and tlie oppressors of the poor, and everybody who heard a thousand sermons full of gospel and despised them because of some imperfection in the delivery or .elocution, and all those men who went through the earth be trayers of the home, and the selfish politicians who betrayed their country, ind all the men who read the Bible and believe only the parts that didn’t hurt their sensitive feelings, and the young smen who lived fast lives and sowed wild oats because a wicked and false public sentiment made them think it was excusable and perhaps necessary, and ail the other men-and women who lived as they pleased, re gardless of God and eternity. When all these shall appear before the judg ment seat of Christ, he will behold them all as one soul and with a smile of gracious pardon will reach out his almighty arm aud sweep them all alike Into a heaven of eternal bliss, there to reign with him in glory and power, world without end! “But is this what Christ taught the world? Suppose what we have said is true. It turns his whole life into a splendid mockery. Foolishness and absurdity could go no further than to create a life like his and to put into his mouth sueii teachings as we have re ceived if at the judgment seat all'souls, regardless of their acts in this world, are received on an equal footing and all received into eternal life. And where is there any room in the teachings of Christ for a purgatory? Do we believe that? Is it not the plain teaching that after the judgment the destiny of souls Is fixed forever? “But what could man wish more? Will he not have opportunity enough to accept the mercy of God before that time? Does he not have opportunity? If any soul appears at last and at the judgment complains that he did not have a fair chance, will that gracious Judge condemn him if his complaint be true? We know he will not. But the facts of the judgment are these: At that time, whenever It is, the souls of men will be passed for their acts in the earthly life, a verdict that will deter mine their everlasting destiny, and that verdict will be just and It will be merciful. For the crucified one could not -do otherwise. But tlie men who have despised am[ neglected and disbe lieved and confessed shall be separated from him forever, and the men who have confessed and believed and tried to live like him shall IrtTra his presence continually. “There will be a division of souls. It will not be based on wealth or position or birth or education or genius, but on Ghristlikcness—on that divine and eter nal thing we call character. Every thing else shall go away into destruc tion, into death, into punishment, into banishment from God. And banish ment from God will be hell, nnd it will be a hell not made by God, but by man himself, who had an opportunity—nay, a thousand opportunities—every day of his life to accept the bliss of heaven and of his own selfish choice rejected every one of them and went to ids own place. “But some soul starts up and says: ‘You are not preaching the gospel; you are preaching fear. hell, torments. Is this your boasted love of God?’ Yes; for what am I preaching if not the love of God when I say. ‘God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, hut have everlasting life?’ is there no danger of perishing? Why did Christ come then? \> T hy did he say tlie things be did? Why did he speak of the condemnation of the wick ed and unbelieving if that were not a part of the gospel? “The gospel is glad tidings, but what makes it glad tidings? Because of the danger we are in. What is salvation? It is the opposite of being lost We eannot have one without tilt other. So 1 am preaching the gospel here today when I say, ‘We must all appear be fore the judgment seat of Christ!’ There will be no fear to us then if we believe in him, if we have lived his life here, if the things done in the body are good. And. more than that as long as this earth life continues God’s mercy is with us every moment “It is possible some soul is here who for years lias lived selfishly within his own little toys of pleasure. He looks back on a life of uselessness, of neglect of. all that Christ did for him. -He this day hears the voice of God. He listens, he repents, he cries out. smiting on his breast, ‘God be merciful to me, a sin ner!’ Then what will God do? Will he reject him because be is old in sin, be cause he has wasted beautiful years? When he appears before the judgment Beat, will Christ say: 'You repented too late on earth. You cannot be saved now?’ “No! Even if after. 100 years of shame and sin a soul with its outgoing breath in genuine repentance and faith in the Son of God cries ont for mercy that cry would he answered, and he would be saved. What less of glory and pow er such a soul may experience in the realms of glory we may not be able to tell. But lie himself will be saved. “Is not God merciful, then? Let no man depart from this house of God fearful or despairing. The earthly life is full from begiimiug to close with the love cf an Almighty Father. Shall men compiaiu because they ~ cannot have all of this life and all of the oth er, too, in which to repent and be for given? 'Now is the accepted time; now is the day of-salvatiou.’ 'Today if ye will hear his voice harden not. your hearts.' “Alen of Barton, you have heard the word of God proclaimed from this desk today. Young men, will you wait un til you are old iu sin aud shame before you will repent and be saved? How do you know you will live to be old men? Aud what a life to live, even if you were sure of a hundred years, to pour out tlie dregs at last as an offer ing to Christ just to escape hell! Oh, all men, hear ye this day the message of Christ!- He is a Saviour of sinners. It is not necessary lhat any man-go JA. C. COBB. , I “““ * =4TR ness oo it: licneve on trie Lord" .lesus Christ and iiiou shalt.be saved.k Then go home and pray, rejoicing “And if the Almighty call you out aud away from this prison of clay into bis resplendent presence this very night what will you have to fear? Not one thing. A'ou have put your trust in him. Your sins are all forgiven. You can appear before his judgment seat and await your verdict with a calm and joyful soul, for you kribw as you gaze iuio the loving countenance of your. Redeemer and Judge that when he turns and speaks to you he will say, ‘Come, ye beloved of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.’ Truly God is love!” The prayer tliat followed the sermon seemed to bring all the souls in the church very close to God. The events of the past week had stirred the town deeply. The awful disaster so near them, the speech of Mr. Hardy in the town hall, rumors of tlie experience he was having—ail these had prepared the audience for just such a sermon on Sunday morning. And men bowed their heads and prayed in that house who had noi done sueii a thing sincerely in many years. Robert had many inquiries concern ing himself and Clara to answer at the close of the service. He finally went up and thanked the minister for what he had said and spoke as lie never had spoken before in encouragement of his pastor’s work. But it seemed to him that he must he getting home. The time was growing short. He must have the rest of it with the dear ones in the home. What need to describe the details of the afternoon? Robert Hardy had the joy of knowing that all his children were with him, and at dark James came over and asked if he might join the circle. He did not know all thai Mr. Hardy had gone through, but the children had told him enougli to make him want to be with the family. “Why, come right in and join the cir cle, Jim. You’re one of us,” cried Mr. Hardy cheerfully. So Jim drew up his chair, aud the conversation went on. 'ey# “Did you not hear some one calllnu? ’ They were sitting in the up stairs room where Clara lay and facing an open fire. The doctor had called In the mid dle of the afternoon aud brought two other skilled surgeons and physicians at Mr. Hardy’s request. It was a sin gular ease, and nothing special could be done. This was the unanimous opinion after deep consultation, and after remaining some time the doctors had withdrawn. When it grew dark, Alice started to turn on the lights, but her father said, “Let us sit iu the firelight.” So they drew close together and in awe looked upon him who seemed so sure that God would call him away at midnight. Who shall recount the words that were uttered, tlie exact sentences spo.ke.'i, the fears and hopes and petitions and tears of the wife, the commands of the fa ther to his boys to grow up into tlie perfect manhood in Jesus Christ, the sweet words of love and courage that passed between him and his wife and daughters? These things cannot be de scribed; they can only be imagined. So the night passed. It was after 11 o’clock, when the conversation had al most ceased and all were sitting hush ed in a growing silence, that Clara spoke again, so suddenly and clearly that they were ail startled and awed by it: “Father! Mother! Where have I been? I have had such a dream! Where are you? Where am I?” Mrs. Hardy arose and, with tears streaming down her face, kneeled be side the bed and in a few words recall ed Clara to her surroundings. The girl had come out of her strange uncon sciousness with all her faculties intact. Gradually she recalled the past, the ac cident, the dream of her father. She smiled happily on them alL and they for awhile forgot the approach of mid night and its possible meaning to Air. Hardy—all hut himself. He kneeled by the bed, at the side of his wife, and thanked God that his dear one was re stored. Suddenly he rose to his feet and spoke aloud, quietly, but clearly: “Did you not hear some one calling?” His face was pale, hut peaceful. He bent down and kissed Clara, embraced his sons, drew his wife to him and placed his hand on Bessie’s her.d; then, as if in answer to a command, he gen tly kneeled down again by his chair, and as his lips moved iu prayer tlie clock struck once more tlie hour of 12. He continued kneeling there, ami lie was nearer God than he had ever been in ail his life before. Thus Robert Hardy's seven days came to au end. tiie t:xt>. An Epidemic of Whooping Cough. Last winter during an epidemic of whooping cough my children contracted the disease, having severe coughing spells We had used Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy very successfully for cronp and naturally turned to it at that time and fonnd it relieved the eongh and effected a complete cure.- Johh E. Clifford, Proprii tor Norwood Honse, Norwood, N. Y. This remedy is for sale by E. Bradford. Some people who never e-ven had a wart allow had habits to grow on them. ‘After suffering from severr dyspepsia over twelve years and using many rem edies without permanent good I finally took Ivodol Dysdepsia Cure. It did me so much good I recommended it to every one,” writes J. E. Watkins, Clerk and Recorder,Cbil licotbe, Mo. It digests what yon eat. E. Bradford. IU use lot over ov y The gHH Ton Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has home the signature of , auR lias been made under his per sonal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive yon in this. Ail Counterfeits, Imitations and Substitutes are hut Ex periments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and CLildrea-Expcrience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops •'and Soothing Syrups. It is Harmless and Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving health! and natural sleep. The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend, CASTORIA ALWAYS ’Bears the Signature cf The Kii In Use For Over 30 Years. VANDIVER WHISKEY CO., JOHN M. VANDIVER. Mgr No. 13 Broad St. (BAKEY’S Gl STABLE) ROME, GA, FIRE WHISKIES, BMHMES, WINES, ETC. JUG OBDEKS PROMPTLY’ FILLED. — — TELEPHONE NO. I A BOON TO MANKIND! 4 D R TABLER’S BUCKEYE M > cn m >—< jg w 1 *>inr 12 ^ J— SesfA L, oinmiMpi fj oa 2 < XJ PILE CURE A New Discovery for the Certain Cure of INTERNAL and EXTERNAL PILES, WITHOUT PAIN. CURES WHERE ALL OTHERS HAVE FAiLED- Tubes, by Mail, 75 Cents; Bottles, 50 Cents. JAMES F. BALLARD, Sols Proprietor, - - 310 firiS Mala Street, ST, LOUIS. HO. WHITE’S CREAM > THE NEWS is what you want, and vou get it in The Standard. Perfume of flaM.Hian Leather. The original Russia leather per fume" is difficult to imitate exactly. The-dominatit flavor or the extract is due to tin* oil of birch, ill) essential in gredient. 'rile substance used for this purpose is tile enipyretunaiie oil. some times railed birch t:::\ and should not he confounded with the oil or white birch, which is used very largely as a substitute for oil of wintergreen aud. in fact, forms tlie bulk or tlie so called "natural oil of wintergreen" of tlie market. Following is a recent formula for Peau de Rttsse: Extract or rose, 10 fluid ounces; extract of violet. 10 tlnfd ounces: extract or jasmine. 10 fluid ounces: extract of musk; one-half ounce: extract of orris. In fluid ounces: oil of neroli. 30 nuns.: oil of bergamot! 1 dr.: oil of amber, rectified. 1 dr.: oil of birch (oleum rnseii. 1 dr.: vonillin. 30 grs.; eoumarin. 30 grs.: einnamein. 1 dr.: oil of hitter orange. 20 nous Mix. —American Druggist aud Pharmaceu tical Record. Nothing has ever been produced to equal or compare with Tablet’s Buck eye Pile < intment as a curative and healing application for Piles, Fissures, blind aud bleeding, external or internal and Itching and Bit. dim.’ of the Rec tnm. The relief is immediate and enre infallible. Price 50 cts. iu bottles, tnbes 75 cts. T. F. Burbank. McJigger—“You ssy he lost all tli. money he had. Bow?” Thingnmlmb- “By his speculations.” MeJiggi r - “So? Well, in the first place, how did lie get any money to lose that way?” Tiling, nmbob—“By his peen’ati .ns.” J. C. Kennedy, It arioke, TV mg, says, “I cannot say too much for De- Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve One b x of it cun d a hat the doctor’s eatied ‘an iu- cnrable n'cer on lay jaw.” Cures piles and all skm diseases. Look ont for worthless imitations E Bradford. It wouldn't be polite to refer to a man as a lobster jnst because lie suffers from boils. Actress—“Sir! My room lias been entered and fifteen, thousand dollars worth ol diamonds stolen!” Hotel Clerk —“Ah! We will pnt the ease in the hands of the reporters at once!” “What, do the Beer farmers raise?” asked the phsorvnut Boarder. “They have raised a few seiges lately,” replied the Cross-Eyed Boarder. Prevention better than cure. Tutt’s Liver Pills will not only cure, but if taken in time will prevent Sick Ijeadache, d/spepsjaJjfliousiiess, malaria, constipation, jaundice, torpid b'js.lr -and kindred diseases. UTT’S Liver PILLS ABSOLUTELY CURE. | It set ms funny that the man who has money to barn never sets the worhl on ' fire. The Owe that Cures Soughs, Golds, Grippe, Whooping: Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis and Incipient Consumption, fs olio’s f The (Arman f^emedY" ' Cures LVvo*-aw4 diseases. d\ Avut^ys'is., 25fi^50rts/ Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, Digests what you eat. Itaitificiallydigeststhefood and aids Nature in strengthening and recon structing the exhausted digestive or gans. ltisthelatestdiscovereddigest- antand tonic. No other preparation can approach it in efficiency. It in stantly relieves aqd permanently cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn, Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea, SickHeadache.Gastralgia,Cramps, and all other results of imperfect digestion. Prepared by E. C. DeWItt A Co. cijicaqo. E. BRADFORD. 3 liis is the Presidential election year, anil you can't aBbril to be without a good, reliable, newspaper. Try the Chattanooga Weekly Times. Only 50 cents a year—less th: It gives the latest political oing- to press. Has all th. c ,.., local and neighborhood news of t. e w densed into one issue. Just;lie paper y for yourself and family. Give it a trial. If you will send us four yearly suhsci 50 cents each, we will send you the Times FREE. This won’t cost vou a c< We want good live agent represent us. 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