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REV. \
DR. TALMAGE.
THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject: “The Church Garden.”
Uke a wat * 6d
Bib ’ e *3 a Rreat poem. We have it in
■ySteraa pastoral and instructive
votional psaim narrative and de
thoughts expressed in style
that of Pollock, more tender than that of
V0 JP er ’ more weird than that of Spenser.
earth into its Poem brings all the gems ol the
names of judgment coronet, and it weaves the
into its garlands, and
£° nr Lu tenl ? i harnl °ntes in its rhythm.
Everything 1 this . book touches it makes beau
tuui, from the plain stone 3 of the summer
thrashing floor to the daughters of Nahor
filling the trough for the camels, from the
fish pools of Heshbon up to the psalmist
God with the diapason of storm and
turus whirlwind, and and Job’s imagery of Orion Arc
the Pleiades.
My text leads us into a scene of summer
redolence. The world has had agreat many
beautiful gardens. Charlemagne added to
the glory of his reign by decreeing that they
be established all through the realm, decid¬
ing even the names of the flowers to be
P*Jfited tablished there. gardens Henry of bewitching IV. at Montpellier es¬
luxuriance, gathering into them beauty Alpine, and
Pyrenean and French plants. One of the
sweetest spots on earth was the garden of
Shenstone, the poet. His writings have
made but little impression on the world, but
his garden, “The Leasowers,” will be im¬
mortal. To the natural advantage of that
place wa3 brought the perfection of art. Ar¬
bor and terrace and slope and rustic temple
and reservoir and urn and fountain here had
their crowning. Oak and yew and hazel put
forth their richest foliage. There was no
life more diligent, no soul more ingenious,
than that of Shenstone, and all that dili¬
gence and genius he brought to the adorn¬
ment of that one treasured spot. He gave
.£300 for it. He ‘sold it for .£17,000.
And yet I am [to tell you to-day
of a richor garden than any I have
mentioned. It is the garden spoken of in
belongs my text, tho garden ot the ohuroh, whioh
to Christ. He bought it, He planted
it. He owns it, and He shall have it Walter
Scott, in his outlay at Abbotsford, ruined
Ills fortune, and now, in the crimson flowers
of those gardens, yon can almost think or
old Imagine that you can see the blood of that
man’s broken heart. The payment of
the last £100,000 sacrificed him. But I have
to tell you that Christ’s life and Christ’s
death were the outlay of this beautiful gar¬
den of the church of which my text speaks.
Oh, how many sighs and tears and pangs
and agonies! Tell me, ye women who saw
Him hang! Tell me, ye executioners who
lifted Him and let Him down! Tell me, thou
sun that didst hide! Ye rooks that fell!
Christ loved the church and gave Himself
for it. If the garden of the ohurch belongs
to Christ, certainly He has a right to walk
in it. Come, then, O blessed Jesus, to-day,
walk up and down these aisles and pluck
what Thou wilt of sweetness for Thyself.
The churoh In my text Is appropriately
of compared choice to flowers, a garden of because select fruits it is the and place of
thorough irrigation. That would be a strange
garden In whioh there were no flowers. If
nowhere else, they would be along the
borders or at the gateway. The homeliest
taste will dictate something, if It be oulvrthe
old fashioned hollyhock or dahlia or daffo¬
dil, will but find if there be larger means then you
the Mexican cactus, and blazing
azalea, and clustering oleander. Well, now,
Christ oomes to His garden, and He plants
there some of the brightest spirits that ever
flowed upoD the world. Some of them are
You violets, inconspicuous, but sweet as heaven.
have to search and find them. You do
not see them very, often perhaps, but you
find where they have been by the brightened
face of the invalid, and the sprig ot geranium
on the stand, and the new window curtains
keeping perhaps out the glare of the the sunlight They
are more like aanuneulus, creep¬
ing sweetly along amid the thorns and briars
of life, giving kiss for sting, and many a man
who has had in his way some great black
rock of trouble has found that they have
covered it all over with flowery jasmine,
running in and out amid the crevices. These
flowers in Christ's garden are not, like the
sunflower, gaudy in the light, but wherever
darkness hovers over a soul that needs to be
comforted there they stand, night blooming
cere uses.
But in Christ's garden there are plants that
may be better without, compared loveliness to the Mexican oao
tus—thorns within, men
with sharp points of obaracter. They wound
almost every one that touohos them. They
are hard to handle. Men pronounoe them
nothing but thorns, but Christ loves them
notwithstanding ail their sharpnesses. Many
a man has had a very hard ground to culti¬
vate, and it has only been through severe
trial he has raised even the smallest crop of
grace. A very harsh minister was talking
to a very placid elder, and the placid [elder
said to the harsh minister, “Doctor, I do
wish you would control your temper."
“Ah," said the minister to the elder, “I con¬
trol more temper in five minutes than you
do in five years.” do
It is harder for do some right men to The right than
for other men to grace that
would elevate you to the seventh heaven
might not keep your brother from knocking
a man down. I had s friend who earns to
me and said, “I “Oh," dare not he join said, the “I have churoh.”
I said, “Why?” such
a violent temper. Yesterday morning I was
crossing very early at the Jersey City ferry,
and I saw a milkman pour a large quantity
of water into the milk can, and I said to
him, <i think that will do,’ and he insulted
me, and I knocked him down. Do yon think
I ought to join the churoh?" Nevertheless
that verv same man w hn VMS 0 Jssrsh in hi*
behavior, loved Christ and could not speak
of sacred things without tears of emotion
and affection. Thorns without, sweetness
within—the best specimen of the Mexican
eaetas I oversaw. Christ’s garden
There are always others radiants, planted always in impressive,
who are deep hue than
more like the roses of we oo
eastoaaUy find, called “Giants of Battle,”
the Martin Luthers, St. Pauls, Chrysostoms, Butherfords.
Wyclifs, Latimers and Samuel
What In other men is a spark in them is a
conflagration. When they sweat, they sweat their
Sayers great drops of blood. When they they pray, it is
take fire. When light, it preach, 1s Thermo- a
Pentecost. When they is martyrdom. a
pvfae. When they die, it a
Yon And a great many rosss in the Men gardens,
bat only a few “Giants of Battle." say,
“Why don’t you have more of them in the
church?” I say, “Why don't-You have in
the world more Humboldts and Wellingtons?
God gives to some tan talents; to another,
one. of the church - which • Christ -
In this garden I also find the snowdrops, beau¬
planted cold-looking, seemingly another
tiful .12, but I those Christians
~i ^ne ol winter. mean unim
precise in their tastes,
presioasL pure gs snowdrops and os sold.
Key never they shed any say tears; anything they never rashly; get
emitted; do anythlag^reelpi^J never Their
they never
twihrti; °t heir indignation never people, bolte but over. their
They ltve longer than moet
Ilfetais a minor xey. In They their never music run of life np
to C above the staff.
TkO stMQliO pUBS^V, COIbI
planted them in the church, and they rsu* be
fieot gome s er vice or they would not
there—enowdrep*, always snowdrop*. Jrc
But I have act told ywu of the most
tUal flower of aU this garden spoka
1 * text If yo« * dsutury Why, this
oootioas are startled. You say.
has IflB ream nmh s ri a g up tor
bloom, and it will be too jrea
fore other petals will come oat” Bat I
have to tell you of a plant that was (father¬
ing up put from all Its eternity, bloom and that wither. 1900 years It
ago forth never to
is the passion, plant of the cross! Prophets
foretold It. Bethlehem rocksshook shepherds looked up¬
on it in the bud, the at its burst¬
ing and the dead got up in It its winding
sheets to see its full bloom. is a crimson
flower—blood at the roots, blood on the
branches, blood on all the leaves. Its per¬
fume is to fill all the Nations. Its breath is
heaven. Come O winds from the north, and
winds from the south, and winds from the
east, and winds from the west, and bear to
all the earth the sweet-smelling savor of
Christ, my Lord!
His worth if all the Nations knew.
Sure the whole earth would love Him too.
Again, the church may appropriately be of
compared fruits. That to would a garden be because it isa place garden
a strange
wnich had in it no berries, no plums or
peaches or apricots. The coarser fruits are
planted in the orchard, or they are set out
on the sunny hillside, but the on oioast fruits
are kept in the garden. So in the world out¬
side the church Christ has planted a great
many beautiful things—patienoe, oharity,
generosity, integrity—but He Intends the
choicest they fruits to be in the shame garden, and the if
are not there, then on
churoh!
Bellgion is not a mere sentimentality. It
is a practical, life giving, healthful fruit—
not body. posies, “I but apples. “Oh,*' garden says some¬ the
church has dpn’t yielded.” see what I your reply I ask of where
did your asylums eome from, and your hos¬
pitals, and your institutions of mercy?
Christ planted every one of them. He plant¬
ed them in His garden. When Christ gave
sight to Bartlmeus, He laid the cornerstone
to every blind asylum that has ever bean
built. When Christ soothed the demoniAo
of lunatic Galilee, He laid the cornerstone of every
asylum that has ever been estab¬
lished. When Christ said to the sick man:
‘•Take up thy of bed and hospital walk,” the He world laid has the
cornerstone every
ever seen. When Christ said: “I was In
prison and ye visited Me," He laid the cor¬
nerstone of every prison reform assoolatlon
that has ever been organized. The ehuvch
of 0hri9t is a glourious garden, and it is full
of fruit.
I kpow there is some poor fruit in it. I
know there are some weeds that ought to be
thrown over the fence. I know there are
some crab apple trees that ought to bo out
down. I know there are some wild grap es
that ought to be uprooted, but are you going
to destroy the whole garden because of a
little gnarled fruit? You will find worm
eaten leaves in Fontainebleau ana insects
that sting In the fairy groves of the Champs
Elysees. You do not tear down and destroy
the whole garden because there are a few
specimens of gnarled fruit. I admit there
are men and women in the church who
ought not to be there, but let us be just as
frank and admit the fact that there are hun¬
dreds and thousands and tens of thousands
of glorious Christian men and women—holy,
blessed, useful, conseorated and triumphant.
There is no grander, nobler collection in all
the earth than the collection of Christians.
There are Christian men in this house
whose religion is not a matter of psalm sing¬
ing and churoh going. To-morrow morning
that religion will keep them just as consis¬
tent and conseorated In their worldly the ocou
patidn as table. it ever There kept them at here com¬
munion are women to¬
day of a higher type of char loter than Mary
of Bethany. They not only sit at the feet of
Christ, but they go out into the kitchen to
help Martha in her work that she may sit
there too. There is a woman who has a
drunkard husband who has exhibited more
faith and patienoe and courage that Btdtey
in the fire. He was consumed in twenty
minutes. Hers has been a twenty years’
martyrdom. Yonder is a man who has been
fifteen years on his back, unableto feed him¬
self, yet calm and peaeeful as though he lay
on one of the green banks of heaven, watch¬
ing the oarsmen dip theirpaddle this in the crys¬
tal river! Why, it seems to me moment
as if Bt. Paul threw to growing us a in pomologlst’s this
catalogue of the fruits great
garden of Christ—love, Joy, peace, gentleness, patience,
charity, brotherly kindness, enough fill all the
mercy, glorious fruit, to
baskets of earth and heaven.
Again, the ohuroh in my text is ap¬
propriately called a garden because It is
thoroughly irrigated. No garden could
prosper long without plenty of water. I
have seen a garden in the midst of a desert,
yet blooming and luxuriant All around us
were dearth and barrenness, but there
were pipes, aqueducts, reaching from this
garden up to the mountains, and through
those aqueducts tossing the water into came beautiful streaming foun¬
down and up
tains, until every root and leaf and flower
was saturated. That is like the ohuroh.
The churoh Is a garden in the midst of a
great desert of sin and suffering, but it Is
well irrigated, for “our eya3 are unto the
hills from whence oometh strength our help.” From flow
the mountains of God’s there
down rivers of gladness. “There is a river
the stream whereof shall make glad
the oity of our God.” Preaohlng the
gospel is one of the aqueducts. The
Bible is another. Baptism and the Lord’s
supper are aqueducts. Water to slake the
thirst, water to wash the unclean, water
tossed high op in the light of the Bon of
Bighteous, showing us the rainbow aronnd
the tftrone. Oh. was there ever a garden so
thoroughly irrigated! You know that the
beauty of Versailles andChatsworth depends
very much upon the great supply of water.
I came to the latter plaoe, aol Charewortb, be admitted, one
day when strangers are to
but by an inducement which always seamed
ss potent with an Englishman os an Ameri¬ far
can I got in, and then the gardener went
up above the stairs oi stone and turned on
the water. I saw It gleaming on the dry
pavement coming down from step to step un¬
til it came so near I could hear the musical
rush and all over the high, broad stairs it
came foaming, flashing, roaring down, wrestle un¬
til sunlight and wave in gieeeome
tumbled at my feet. ‘.Bo it is with the ohuroh
ol God. Everything comes from above—
pardon from above, joy from above, adoption
from above, tan till cation from above.
Hark? I bear the latch of the garden gate,
and I look to see-Who Is coming. 1 bear the
voice of Christ. “I am come into My gar¬
den." I say. “Come ln,0 Walk Jesus! We have
been waiting tor Thee. all through the
paths. Look at the flowers, look at the
fruit: pluck that whioh Thou wilt for Thy¬
self. ’’ Jesus oomes into the garden and up
to that old man and touches aim, and says:
“Almost home, father; not many more aches
tor thee. I will never leave thee. Take
courage a little longer, and I will steady thy
tottering steps, and I will soothe thy trou¬
bles and give thee rest Courage, old man. ”
Then Christ goes up another garden path,
and He eomes to a soul in trouble and says:
“Peace! All is well. I have seen thy teats.
I have heard thy prayer. The sun shall not
smite thee by day nor the moon by night.
The Lord shall preserve thee from ail evlL
He will preserve thy souL Courage, O trou¬
bled spirit!” I Jeans going another garden
Then see np
path, and I see great excitement among the
leaves, and I hasten is doing up that there, garden and lo! path He to ia
see what Jeans
breaking off flowers sharp and dean from
the stem, and I any, flowers." “Stop, Jeans; don't kill
those beautiful He turns to —
and says: “I have eome into My these garden to
gather lilies, and I mean to take up to
a higher terrace, lor the gardec plant around and My
palace, and there I will then;, in
better soil and In better air they snail put
forth brighter leaves and sweeter redolence,
and no frost shall touch them forever." And
I looked up into His face and said: “Well, what It
is Hta garden, and He ha* a right to do
He will wtth it. Thy will be doner the
hardest prayer ever man made.
fit seemed he if Jesus Christ took the
beat; from many of your households the
beat one is gone. You know that
too good for this world; she the 3K
Licet in her ways, the dee p est in her
riona, and when at last the ateknem ease
you had no faith In mmOeia em. You knew
that the hear of parting bad .and
£jddT’<'££d'JreZTtofceM**U^bTthe
we have; take.lt. Thou ait worthy!” have been The of
others "in the household may
grosser mold. 8he was of the finest
The heaven of your little ones will not be
fairly begun until you get there. All the
kindness shown them ter immortals will not
make them forget you. ' There they are, the
radiant throngs that went imt from your
homes. I throw a kiss to the sweet darlings.
They are all well now in the palace. The
crippled child has a sound foot now. A lit¬
tle lama child says, “Ma, will I be lame in
heaven?” “No, my darling, you won’t be
lame in heaven.” A little slek child says,
“Ma, will I be sick In heaven?” “No, my
dear, you won't be sick In heaven.” h little
blind child says, “Ma, will I be blind in
heaven?” “No, my dear, you won’t be blind
in heaven. They are all well there.”
I notice that the fine gardens sometimes
have high fences around them and you can¬
not get In. It Is so with a king’s garden.
The only glimpse you ever get ot such a
garden is when the king rides out in his
splendid carriage. It is not so with this
garden, this King’s garden. I throw wide
open the gafe and tell you all to come in.
No monopoly In religion. Whosoever will,
may. Choose now between a desert and a
garden. Many oi yon have tried the garden
of this world’s delight. You have found it
has been a chagrin. So it was wit h Theodore
Hook. He made all the world laugh. He
makes us laugh now when we read his
poems, but he could not make his own heart
laugh. While in the midst of his festivities
ho confronted a looking glass, and he saw
himself and said: “There, that is true. I
look just as I am—done up in body, mind
and purse." So it was of Shenstone, beginning of of
whose garden I told you at the
my sermon. He sat down amid those blowers
and said: “I have lost my road and to frantic, happiness.
I am angry and envious and
despise everything around me, just as it be¬
comes a madman to do.”
0 ye weary souls, eome Into Christ’s gar¬
den to-day and pluck a little hearts ease.
Christ is the only rest and the only pardon think
fora perturbed spirit. Bo yon not
your ohance has almost come? You men and
women who have been waiting year after
year for some good opportunity In which to
aooept Christ, but have postponed it live, ten.
twenty, thirty years—do you not feel as if
now your hour of deliverance and pardon what
and salvation had eome? O man,
grudge hast thou agniust thy poor soul that
thou wilt not let it be saved? I feel as if sal¬
vation must oome to-day in some of your
hearts.
Some years ago a vessel struck on the
rooks. They had only one lifeboat. In that
lifeboat the passengers and crew were get¬
ting ashore. The vessel had foundered and
was sinking deepor and deeper, and that one
boat could not take the passengers very
swiftly. A little girl stood on the deck
waiting for her turn to get into the boat.
The boat came and went, came and went,
but her turn did not seem to oome. After
awhile she could watt no longer, and she
leaped on the taffrail and then sprang into
the sea. crying to the boatman: “Save me
nextl. Save me next!" Oh, how many have
gone ashore into God’s meroy. sin! and Others yet have you
are olinglng to the wreck of
accepted the pardon of Christ, but you are
In peril. Why not this moment make a rush
for your immortal rescue, crying until Jesus
shall hear you and heaven and earth ring
with the ory: “Save me noxt! Save me
next!” Now is the day ol solvation! Now!
Now! last for of
This Sabbath is the some you.
It is about to sail away forever. Her bell
tolls. The planks thunaer book In tho
gangway. She shoves off. She floats out
toward the great ooean of eternity. Wave
farewell to your last chance for heaven.
“Oh. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often
would I have gathered thee as a hen gath
ereth her brood under her wings, left and ye
would notl Behold your house Is unto
you desolate." Invited to revel in a gol¬
den, you die in a desert! MsvGod infatuation. Almighty,
before it Is too late, break that
EARL Y ELECT IONS.
Seven State* Cast Their Votes Previous to
November. ,
Elections will be held in seven States of
the Onion prior to the general election of
November. In five of the States the elections
will be for State, mnntolpal and oounty offi¬
cials only, but in the two other States will
include also the election of members of the
National Vermont House will hold of Bepresentatives. general election' Sep¬
a
tember 1 for the election of Governor, State
officials, Legislature and oounty officials
and the members of the National House of
Bepresentatives. Maine will bold an election
September Legislature 14, and will ohooee a Governor, Legia
a and oounty officers, the
latnre selecting the higher State officers. At
this election the members of the National
House oi Bepresentatives will also be chosen.
Arkansas will bold an election all 8tate, September
7, at whioh will be obosen oounty
and municipal offloers, from constable to
Governor, with Chl8f Justice of the Supreme
Court, Associate Justioe and Legislature.
The contest is mainly between the Demo¬
crats and Bepubltcans, bat the Democrats
ore confident of carrying the State.
In Alabama, August 8 has been set aside
for the election of Governor, other State
officials, the Legislature and some of the
oounty officers. Tho oontast will be princi¬
pally between the Populists and the Demo¬
crats, unless the make Populists combination. and the Bapubil
oans should a held
In Florida an-electlon will be October
6 to choose a Governor, c ther State officials, a
majority of the county officials, all half of the ot
Lower House of the Legislature and
the State Senate. and The oampalgn for the has nomi¬ not
fairly opened, the contest
nations nas not begun. It is said there is
little doubt that the Demoonts will oarrv tho
State, and the Democratic State Convention
has been called for Jone 10.
Georgia will hold an election October 7.
at which will be chosen It everything said that except
the Federal officials. is the
Governor and the other State officer* will
doubtless be renominated. The Democrats
are confident of carrying the State, and will
bold their State convention June 25.
Louisiana held an election April 31 for
Governor and State offloers, a Legislature The
and district, parish and local officer*,
Legislature chosen will elect a Senator to
suoeeed Mr. Blauohard.
SHAKESP EARE’S B IRTHDAY.
.
Dedication st Stnstfovd-oa-Avoa of n Wto
dew Breeted br VUitore.
Ambassador and Mrs. Bayard visited Strat¬
ford-on-Avon, England, held and took the part t ia
the several ceremonies on ce re s o n
of Shakespeare’s birthday. of Trinity (tho
At twelve o'clock the vicar
Bev. George Arbuthnot), wboee put Mr.
Bayard was, dedicated a window, received erected at
a eoet of *400, with money from
American visitors to Shakespeare's tomb and
from others, whom the vicar interested in
the project during a reoeat vtait to th# Dotted
States. ofthe day
The most interesting oeremooy Memorial
took piaee in the o’clock Shakespeare In the afternoon,
Theatre st four presented
when United States Consul Parker of
to the theatre and asaseam behalf a pwtreit of the
Edwin Booth ss Hamlet oa en¬
Players’ Club of Nrw York, founded sad
dowed by Mr. Booth.
Minister Denby, at Pekin, has notified tha
Deportment of Rate, Preach at Minister Washington, China, that
M. Gerard, the the Yeung LI Taman, to by
procured of the French from treaty of 1888, order
virtue throughout an all
the local aatbormas
the the previneea various editions of the Empire and compilation* to expunge of from the
Chinese code ail restrictions upon the propa¬
gation of the Ch ris ti a n retigtoa. “It gives
-- ->--” — 1 — Denby, “to add
that the of Frnnoe is entitled to the
gratitude ofthe entireCk tor
his action in this Important M
A
to Maehiea, Xa, to the opening ot the town
meeting with prayer.
NOTES ABOUT ANIMALS.
When terrified the oatrieh travels at
the Tate of about twenty-five miles an
hour. *
Fourteen sea ducks were brought
down at a single shot by a hunter near
Bar Harbor recently.
Butterflies are great egg layers, ave¬
raging 65,000 to 100,000 darings* sin¬
gle season lasting bat a few days.
Some workmen in a Gorham (N. H.)
carpenter shop have a queer pet. It
is a handsome butterfly, whioh haa
stayed in the shop all winter and is
very tame.
The owner of an ostrioh farm at
Anaheim, Cal., is trying to break
ostriches to drive in single, doable and
tandem harness. His efforts are not
meeting .with a great measure of suo
oess.
The dragon flies are the ohampionB
on fast flying. M. Moray, the French
soientiflo photographer, fonnd that in
order to photograph one of the orea
tures on the wing he had to make the
exposure only l-5200th part of a
second.
Throe fish were caught on one hook
by a fisherman at Ellsworth, Me., the
other day. The apparent oatoh was an
onusnally large pickerel, bat in dress¬
ing it another piokerel was fonnd in
the stomach, and in the second pick¬
erel was a five-inch smelt.
The shark, whioh is the most vora¬
cious of all fishes, will, if opportunity
offers, readily snap up a bird. Bat as
sea birds are far too wary to be often
oaught napping, the shark’s diet in
this form is practioally oonfined to
birds that have been wounded, or
which have fallen into the sea from ex¬
haustion, snob as migratory and other
birds.
The pike is the best known fish that
eats birds, Digestion in this fish goes
on very rapidly. rfnd It swallows smal)
fish voraciously, in default of
these, moorhens, duoks, and even ani¬
mals of small size, whether alive 6r
dead. A carious inst&noe of a pike’s
gluttony took plaoe in the canal at
Trentham. While a swan waa feeding
under water a pike seized ite head and
gorged so mnoh of it as to result in
the death of both the bird and the fish.
James Stirling says: "A valuable
ally of the field geologist is to be
found in the land orab. The work
performed by this diminutive excava¬
tor in bringing np pieeee of the rook
forming the snbeoil helped the miner
to find ooal seams in Sonth Gippsland, had
jnst as the burrowing wombat dis¬
closed a stanniferous lode in the Aus¬
tralian Alps. From similar evidence
offioels of geologioal surveys have
traced ont-orop# in plaoe* where the
rock waa mashed by allavinm.”
Andrew Stafford haa probably Harbor. the
most intelligent dog in Bar
Flossie is a black-haired spaniel. A
day or two ago Mr. Stafford found,
upon driving to the wharf, that he had
taken a broom from, the barn. He
called Flossie, and in the presence of
the crowd, told her to carry the
broom back to the stable, a quarter of
a mile away. A broom is an awkward
thing for a dog to oarry in its month,
bat she trotted back to the stable carry¬
ing the broom between her jaws,
avoiding pedestrians and poles.
Value ot Shoep Decreasing.
The deorease in valne of sheep and
wool the past three years has been
greater in the United States than the
entire valne of all the sheep in the
oonntry three years.
Win Tnwmtagt
Whether on plsasnr* bent, or aks
on every trip a bottle of Syrup at Figs, as it
sots most pleasantly and effeotuaDy on the
kidneys, llrer and bowels, pswvuntiag f evers,
hea d aches and other forma at sickness. For
sale in SO oent and ft bottles by nil leading
druggists. Manufactured tag the California
Fig Syrup C ompa n y anlx.
The traffic in slaves wa« suppressed in the
District of Columbia in 1867.
Just Hew it Does it Is Net the Qwesttou.
It is enough to know t hat Hindercorn* takes
outcorns,and e treat relief it is. tSo. druggists.
To make marking ink, take one dram of ni¬
trate of silver.cne of gum arable, until on# dissolved. ouiioe
of rain or distilled water, mix
§M
Will cure the worst form* of
oomplainta, all ovarian troubles, in¬
flammation and ulceration, falling and
displacements of the womb, and conse¬
quent spinal weakness, and is pecu¬
liarly adapted to the change of life.
Every time it will cure Bsefcaefa*.
It haa cured more of leucor
rhosa by removing the eaoee, than any
remedy the world has ever known j it
ia almost infallible in sueh it
dimolvea and expels turnon from the
in # early stage of develop¬
uterus an
ment, and ehecka any tendency to can
humors. Lydia E. Ptnkham’s
Urn work in unison with the
Compound, and are a sure cure for
constipation and sick he ada ch e . Mm
Pink ham’s Sanative Waab ia of greet
value tor local application.
rt : H’
pew*! tWrt.vtc. tesrlfS MAISE MRD J sat OO. twe Bo*». stamp* Tor^
OPIUM HSS flu re
Development of Oratory,
The Southern Oratorical Association
will hold ite meeting this year in Dan¬
ville, Ky., on the 20th of May. The
following institutions will probably
send representatives to the meeting
this year: University of Virginia,
Vanderbilt, Washington and Lee, Uni
fersity of the Sonth (Sewanee), (Washington, the
Colombian university
D. C., Gentrb college) and the univer¬
sity of Texas. If the purposes of this
association are carried out it will'ac¬
complish a great deal in south. the develop¬
ment of oratoryin the
If afflicted wit h sore eyes use Br. Isaac Thomp
»on'*IEv*-wftt*T\Drmrsrl*t* *r T*»rnotn».
W ■ If
“I am \
/ / only too glad to te»-\
tify to the great valuo I
I lot Ayer’s Sarsaparilla!
which has been a bouse-1
/family / hold companion In take! our!
f for years. I every!
from 3 to 5 bottles of it
/ I Spring, generally beginning! After!
/that about the first of April. old,!
I I feel like a two year gives!
for it tones up my system, l!
r / I me an excellent appetite and ;j
sleep like a top. A* a blood medl-l f
I I is cine my it opinion has no of superior, It—H. at B. least WtLDKT,! that! V
/ Philadelphia, Pa.. March 30,1896. \ } \
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WEIGHTY WORDS
FOR
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla.
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IS m± m ALABASTINE
For Male by Faint Dealer* Everywhere. 1
A Tint Card tf dMbabie hots etas Atahi
•^S33tsss«
:: Breakfast Cocoa
Kf
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Made by Walter Baker 8c Co., Ltd.,
Dorchester, Mass., is “a perfect
type of the highest order of excel
\ l lence in manufacture.” It costs less
. < f than one cent a cup.
P oor soil
and exhausted fields which
were once productive can fertile again
be made profitably of
by a proper rotation, crops
and by the intelligent use of
fertilizers containing high per¬
centages of
Potash.
Strikingly profitable results
have been obtained by follow¬
ing this plan.
Owr pamphlet* ere nor advertteiog circulars boom
tag special f*rtMien,but tbs are subject practical of fertlllratios, work*, contain¬ sod
ing latest researches oo They tree lor
are tbs really asking. helpful to farmers. are sent
GERMAN KALI WORKS, New York
9J Nassau St.,
$25.00
STOVE
FOB
$12.00.
freight to your depot. Money refunded
If not as represented. Send cash with
orders. Rarer to any bank or marekaat
In Augusts. Address
Xj. p. ©tt,
846 Broad Street, AUflOSflQL
Have you apeak ,
“hundreds” oa exp mU
its? Bead 80
lor our*.
1 tea by men for Ms. In stamps.
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B^^Real
a victim of disease is told that his iUnem ,
not real but imaginary. Nevertheless the
is real to the sufferer, and he needs a rnU
o,,c - BM '"“ w
nrn —cures of Dyspepsia, Ni
Female Infirmities, Lirer and
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A delicious pudding ia made froo
half a cupful of rice, three eggs, two
cupfuls of milk, half-cnpfql of sugar Boi
and a pisj of whipped cream. it 6
the rice until tender, putting add on
cook in a pint of cold water, i
pinch of salt, and when cooked double nearlj boil*
dry, pnt the rice in your
with two cupfuls of milk. Cook unti :
all the milk is absorbed, and then put
through a sieve. Return the rice tU
the boiler, add the three eggs
until light, and the sugar. When
cold flavor, mix thoroughly with the
whipped cream, beating it into the
rice, and freeze.
r ripan -3
Si T/hBULES
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Mr. John J. Barry lives at 104Oo»
oord st, Breoriyn, S. is oft yean
old. He used to be a f (eight clerk,
but for eleven ywu* has done no
work, mainly oa asoount of rtunma*
tism. He has always beso troubled
a good deal wtth constipation, but a
few months stnee, hls attention
haring keen directed to Bipans
Tabulae, he com mence d a of
treatment with them, using them
according to directions. Asereealt
the trouble from c o ns ti pati on is
overcome and there Is n positive Si'
improvement to he notod ia the coo
dirt on of his rheumatic Joints. His
daaghtsv, who lives with him aaA
has suffered a good deal from dye
popela, also Ctk# Tjhtl W
haa found ia thaa the greatest F®*
slbte benefit
SCI! OIL
For Yourself and your Stock.
It is ■ good for ■potV.
Fined Hem aii Bus Unmeet Lie.
aaas gfreae
PRICK, as and HO--
• Manufactured only by the
NEW SPENCER TBNN. M CO..
CHATTANOOGA,
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