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REV. DR
THR NOTED DIVINE’S
DISCOURSE.
Subject; “Armageddon.”
J’XXT •And he gathered them together in
a place called in the Hebrew toQgue, Arma-
geddon.’—Rev. xvi., 1G.
-Megiddo is the name of a mountain that
looks down upon Esdrnelon, the greatest
battlefield that the world kas ever seen,
There Barak fought the Canaanites: there
Gideon fought the Midianiteg; there Josiah
fought the invading Egyptians. The whole
region stands for battle, and the Armaged-
don of mv text borrows its name from il.
u. ' \ i* here used, not geographically, but
figuratively, that while setting forth the idea
there is to be a world ’3 closing battle,
•he greatest of all battles, compared with
which the conflicts of this century and all
*ther -enturies were insigniflcent. because
of the greater number of combatants e D -
itaged, the greater victory and the greater
defeat. The exact date of that battle we do
rr»t know, and the exact locality is uncer-
\;un. I may be In Asia, Europe, Africa, or
America; but th« fact that such a battle will
take place is as certain as God’s eternal
truth. When I use the superlative degree in
regard to that coming conflict, I do not forget
that there have been wars all aloDg on
stupendous scale. As when at Marathon Mil-
fiadc- brought on his men, not in ordinary
mnreb. but in full run, upon ttie horse-
nie 1( of Persia and the black archers of
Etbiopin. and scattered them, and crying,
■“Bring fire! Bring fire!” .set into flame the
ships of the invaders As when Pizarro over
carne Peru. As wnen Philip the Second
triumphcd over Tortuga'. As when the Huns
met the Goths. As when three hundre 1
Sparfans sacrificed themselves at Thermo-
pylne. As when the Carthaginians took Ag-
rigentum. As when Alexander headed the
Macedonian phalanx. As when Hannibal in-
varied Italy. Battle of Hastings! Battle of
Valmy! Battle of Arbela! Battle of Tours!
Battleuf Borodino! Battle of Lucknow! Bat-
tie of Solferlno! Battle of Fontenoy where
100.000 were slain! Battle of Chalons where
MOO.OOO were massacred! Battle of Herat
where Genghis Khan destroyed 1,600,000
l j vef ’ Battle of Neishar where 1,747,000
went d mwu to death! 1.B1C,000 slain at Troy!
Ami American battles, too near us now to
allow us to appreciate their awful grandeur
and significance, except you who wore there,
faejug the North or facing the South! But
all the battles I have named put together
will not equal In numbers enlisted, or fierce-
ness, or grandeur, or triumph, or rout, the
coming Armageddon contest. Whether it
Khali tie fought with printers’ type or keen
steel, whether by brain or muscle, whether
b\ pen or carbine, whether by booming can-
rum or thunders of Christian eloquence, I do
not know, and you may take what l say as
figurative or literal, but take as certain what
St. John, in his vision on the rocks of the
Grecian archipelago, is pleased to call “Ar-
inaged lon.’
My sermon will first mentionthe regiments
that will he engaged in the conflict; then
will sav something of the commanders on
hath sides, and then speak of the battle
ib-elf and the tremendous issues. Begin-
ning with those who will tight on the wrong
side, I first mention the Regiments Dia-
*>olie. In this very chapter from which my
text is taken we are told that the spirits of
devils will be there. How many millions
or them no one can tell, for the statistics of
the satanic dominions have never been re-
ported and the roll of that host has never
on *>arth been called; but from the direful,
aud continental, and planetary work they
have already done, and the fact that every
man and woman and child on earth has a
tempter, there must beat least sixteen hun¬
dred millions of evil spirits familiar with
on? world. Perhaps as many more are en¬
gaged on especial enterprises or abomina¬
tion among the Nations and empires of the
earth. Beside that there must be an incon¬
ceivable number of Inhabitants in realms
paudemoniac, staying there to keep the
great capitals of sin going from age to age.
Many of them once lived in heaven, but
engaging in conspiracy to put Satan on the
throne, they were hurled out and down, ana
they are now among the worst thugs of the
universe. Having been in three worlds,—
Heaven, earth and hell,—they have all the
Advantages of great experience. Their power,
their speed, their cunniug, their hostility
wonderful beyond ail statement! In the Ar¬
mageddon they will, I doubt not, be present
in full array. They will have no reserve
corps, but all will be at the frout. There will
not only be soldiers in that battle who can
be seen and aimed at, but troeps intangible
nnd without corporeity, aud weapons may
strike elear through them without giving them
hurt. With what shout of defiance will they
climb up the ladders of fire aud leap from
the battlements of asbestos into the last cam¬
paign ot hell! Paul, the bravest of all men,
was impressed with their might for evil when
he said. “We wrestle not against flesh and
blood, but against principalities,and against
powers, aud against the rulers of the dark¬
ness in this world, against spiritual wicked¬
ness in high places.” Oh, what an agitating
moment, when the ranks diabolic move up
and take their places for conflicts in the Ar¬
mageddon!
Other regiments who w«)l march into the
fight will be the F.egiment Alcoholic. They
will be made of the brewers’ companies, dis¬
tillery owners and liquor dealers’ associa¬
tions, aud the hundreds of millions of their
patrons. These millions of victims of alco¬
hol joined by the millions of the victims of
arrack, the spirituous liquor of China and
India, and Arabia, aud Egypt, aud Ceylon,
and Siam.
Other regiments on that wrong side will
be made up of offenders of all sorts—the
fmuders, the libert.nes, the dynamiters, the
Anarchists, the oppressors and the foes of
society, the criminals of all Nations, by
whatever name they are now called, or
Khali then be called. They may not before
thut have openly taken sides, but then they
will be compelled to take side.-. With what
venom, with what violence, with what des-
peration they will fall into line at the great
Armageddon! Is it not appalling, these
uncounted regiments of the earth, to be
joined by the uncounted regiments from
perdition? Can any power cope with them?
Especially when I tell you who their com-
mauder is, for so much in all wars depends
«pou the chieftain. Their leader will not
be a political accident or a military “hap-
pen so.” By talent, and adroitness and
courage, aud unceasing industry he has
come to the bad eminence. He disputed the
throne of heaven with the Almighty, but
no one has ever disputed the throne of eter-
&&i night with this monarch who wilt in the
last battle take the field in person. Milton
calls him Lucifer. Goethe calls him Mephts-
topheles. th« Hebrew call.; him Abaddon, xhe
Greek calls him Apollyou. He is the imper-
donation of all malevolence, of all oppres-
siou.of all cruelly. The summing up of all
falsehood. In his makeup nothing bad was
left out and nothing good was put in, an 1
tie is to be the General, the Commander-in-
Chief of all the forces on the wrong side of
the great Armageddon. He has been in
more battles than you have ever read about,
and he has gained more victories than have
ever been celebrated in this world. But I
guess this old warrior of Pandemonium
will not have an undisputed field. I guess
there will be an army to dispute with his
forces. I have mentioned the supremacy of
this world. I guess our troops will not
have to run wheD. on the day mentioned
in my text, all the infqrnal butteries shall be
uulimbered. We have been reviewing the
troops diabolic. We have been measuring
the calibres of their guns. We have been ex-
amtntng tbeir ammunition wagons. Now
let us look at the forces to be marshalled in
the Armageddon on the right side.
First of all. 1 mention the Regiments
Augchc. Alas! that the subject of demon-
©logy seems better understood than the
subject of aDgelologv. But the glorious
spirits around the throne and all the bright
immortals that fill the galleries and levels
©f the universe ar© to take part in that last
great fight,' aud the Regiments Angelic
th* only regiments capable of meeting the
Regiments Phitoni*. To show you some¬
thing of an angel's power, I ask you to
consider that just one of them slew one
hundred and eighty-five thousand of Sen¬
nacherib’s hosts in a night, and it is not a
tough arithmetical question to solve, if one
angel can slay one hundred and eighty-five
thousand troops in a night, how many can
five hundred millions of them slay?" The
old Book says that ‘*Tbev excel in
strength.” It is not a celestial mob, but a
| I i Cherablm. disclpled host, seraphim, and they thrones, know their rank,
| ties and powers! And the leader principali-
regiments in Michael of those
the Archangel. David
saw just one group of angels sweep past,
and Paul, they who were in the twenty G^malian thousand charioted*.
faculties wonderfully college bad hts
so developed, con-
(eases his incapacity to count them by say-
j Q g. "Ye are come to Mount Zion and an
innumerable company of angels.” If each
soul on earth has a guardian angel, then
there must be sixteen hundred million
angels on earth to-day. Beside that,
heaven must be full of angels, those who
stay there; not only the twelve angels who,
we are told, guard the twelve gates, but
those angels who help in the worship, and go
on mission from mansion to mansion, and
help to build the hosannas and enthrone the
hallelujahs and roll the doxologies of the
service that never ends. But they all. if re-
quired, will be in the last fight between
holiness and sin. Heaven could afford to
adjourn, just one dav. and empty all its
temples, boulevards and mansions, and palaces, and
into that one battle,
The next regiments that I see marching
into the fight will be the Regiments Ecclesl-
astic. According to the last accounts, and
practically only in the beginning of the gos-
pel movement which proposes to tako the
whole earth for God, there are four million
six hundred thousand Methodists,- three
million seven hundred and twentv-flvethou-
sand Baptists, one million two hundred and
eighty thousand three hundred and thirty-
three Presbyterians, one million two hundred
and thirty thousand Lutherans, and six
hundred and forty thousand Episcopalians.
But the present statistics of churches will be
utterly swamped when, after all the great
denominations have done their best work
the slowest of all the sects will have more
numbers than the present enrollment of all
denominations throughout Christendom. I
see them moving into the ranks, carrying a
standard striped and starred; striped as sug-
gesting Him by whose stripes we are healed,
and starred as with the promise that those
the whoturnmany to righteousness shall shine as
stars, forever and ever. Into that battle
on our side will roll those mighty engines of
power, the printing presses of Christendom,
Into that battle will also move the mightest
telescopes, that shall bring the stars in their
courses fo fight for our God.
Again, the Regiments Elemental will come
into that battle on the right side. The
winds! God showed what He could do with
them when the splintered timbers of the
ships of the Spanish Armada were strewn
on the rocks of Scotland. Norwav and the
Hebrides. The waters! He showed what He
could do with them when He put the whole
earth under them, leaving it subaqueous one
hundred and fifty days. The earthquakes!
He showed what He oould do with them
when He let Caracas drop into the open
mouth of horror and the islands of the sea
went into entombment. The lightnings! He
showed what He could do with them when
He wrapped Mount Sinai in flame, and we
have all seen their flashing lanterns moving
with the chariots of th# midnight hurricane,
All the Regiments Elemental will come In our
side in the great Armageddon. Come and let
us mount and ride along the line, and review
the troops of Emanuel, and find rhat the
Regiments Terrestrial and Celestial that come
into that battle on the right side are, as com¬
pared with those on the wrong side, two to
one. a hundred to one, a thousand to one.
But who is the Commander-in-Chief on
this side? Splendid armies haye been
ruined, caught iu traps, flung over precipices,
and annihilated through the incompetence
or mands treachery of their general. Who com¬
on our side? Jehovah-Jireh! so-
called in one place. ‘‘Captain of Salvation,"
so-called in auother place. King of kings.
Lord of lords. Conqueror of conquerors.
His eye omniscient. His arm omnipotent.
He will take the lead. He will draw the
sword. He will give the command. And
when He plants His foot for the combat, the
foundations of the earth will quake, and
when He shall give the battle shout, all th a
gates of hell will tremble.
But do not let us shout until after we have
seen the two armies clash in the last strug¬
gle. Oh, my soul! The battle of all time and
all eternity opens. “Forward!” “For¬
ward!” is the command on both sides given.
The long lines of both armies wavor, ru d
swing to and fro. Swords of truth against
engines infernal. Black horse cavalry of per¬
dition against white horse cavalry of heaven.
The redemption of this world aud the honor
of tbe throne of God to vindicate, how tre¬
mendous is the battle! The army of right¬
eousness only seems giving away; but no! It is
a part of the manoeuvre of the infinite
fight. It is a deploy of the host celestial.
What a meeting in this field of splendor
and wrath, of the angels, and of the
diabolic, of hosanna and blasphemy, of
song and curse, of the divine and the satanic.
The thunderbolts of the Almighty burst
and blaze upon the foe. Boom! Boom!
By the torches of lightning that illuminated
the scene I see that the crisis of the Arma¬
geddon has come. It is the turning point
of this iast battle. The next moment will
decide all. Aye! the forces of Apollyon
are breaking ranks. See! See! They fly!
Some on foot, some on wing; they fly.
Back over the battlements of perdition they
go down with infinite crash, all the Regi¬
ments Diabolic! Back to the mountains
and caves the armed hosts of earth, crying
as they "on retreat to the rocks and mountains,
‘Tali us and hide us from the face of Him
that sitteth upon the throne, and from
the wra*h of the Lamb, for the great day
of His wrath has come, and who shall be
able to stand.” And while Apollyon, the
prisoner of war, is being dragged in chains
to his dungeon, and our Conqueror is re-
mounting Bis throne, I look off upon the
battlefield, and among the slain I find the
oarcasses of Mohammedanism, and Papan-
ism, and Atheism, and Infidelity, and Dis-
sipation, and Fraud, aud multitudinous
Wrong, strewing the plain, and I hear the
angel that standeth in the sun crying in the
words of Revelation, to all the fowls that
fly in the midst of heaven—the eagles, and
the vultures, mid the hawks, and the alba-
trosses—••Come and gather yourselves to-
gether unto the supper of the great God,
that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the
flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty
men. and the flesh of horses, and of them
that sit on them.”
The prophesied Armageddon o l the text
has been fought, and Christ and His follow-
^rs have won the day. The kingdoms of
this world have become the kingdoms of
our Lord and His Christ. All the Christian
workers of our time, you, my hearers, and
you. ray readers, and all the Christian work-
ers of all the ages, have helped on the
magnificent result, and the victory is ours
as much as theirs. This moment inviting
all outsiders, through the ransomed blood of
the everlasting Covenant, to get into the
ranks of the conquerors, aud under the ban-
ner of our Leader, I shall not close the
service with prayer, as we usually do. but
immediately give out the Moravian Hymn,
by James Montgomery, appropriate when
written in 1S19, but more appropriate in
1896. and ask you. with ful. voices, as well
as with grateful hearts, to chant it.
See Jehovah's banner furl’d,
Sheathed His sword; He speaks—’cisdone
And the kingdoms of this world
Are the kingdoms of His Son.
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Our Corn at Vera Crux.
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Enormous quantities of American corn are
i reported to have arrived at 3 era Cruz, Mex-
ico, and to ce now in storage there.
BILL ARP’S LETTER.
PHILOSOPHER MAKES EARNEST
PLEA FOR FATHERLESS ONES.
As a Result of a Visit to the Decatur
Orphans* Home.
Why don’t some rich man give an
endowment to the orphans’ home at
Decatur—why don’t somebody leave
it a good lot of money in his will, and
then die soon after? And there is the
orphanage at Clinton, S. C., that right
now is on a strain to provide food and
clothing for the winter. I am satisfied
that if our good people could visit
these institutions and see the children
and realize their condition,they would
help them. It is all right, of course,
for the millionaires to give millions to
the universities and colleges, and so
provide cheap education for the poor;
but there is a class of helpless, friend¬
less children scattered over the land
who will never get to college, and who
would be grateful for bread and
clothes and shelter. The scriptures
make no mention of schools or col¬
leges, but the fatherless are mentioned
over and over again, and woe aud
curses are threatened those who neg¬
lect or oppress them.
I have long believed that good peo¬
ple would give more to charity if they
were face to face with those who suffer.
It is not a pleasant business to huut up
the poor aud look upon want and rags
and pale faces, but it ought to be done
sometimes even by the rich and busy
people. The good St. James said that
true religion was to visit the widow
and the fatherless—yep, to visit them.
It will not do to sit in the parlor or
counting room and wait till somebodv
calls for charity. Little orphans can’t
come; they don’t know the way. Their
father is dead or their mother, or both,
or perhaps one or the other is in the
asylum or down with chronic sickness.
It is a pitiful story, and every case is
diff rent, but all pitiful. They are ail
children of misery baptized in tears.
I have been ruminatiug about this,and
must write about it, though to most
people it is an unwelcome subject.
A few days ago I rode out to
the orphans home near De¬
catur just to see how the children
were getting on. My good friend,
Robert Hemphill, went with me. He
is the business man of that busy pa¬
per, The Constitution, but next to his
family his heart’s affections are ab¬
sorbed in the orphans’ home. He is
the president of the board, and ought
to be. He goes there every few days,
and the children smile when he comes.
On the way we never talked politics—
not a word—it was all orphans and the
home. The farm wagon met ns at.
Decatur and took 11 s out a mile in the
couutry. I didn’t mind the rough
riding, for it did me good to have my
corporositv tumbled up a little; but I
did mind getting in and out of that
high-swung wagon that bad no steps.
1 tried to ‘■how my activity, but I
couldn’t, and almost fell down before
I got up. For aged orphans like me
they ought to have a comfortable car¬
ryall, but Mr. Hemphill gays they
haven’t got the money to buy it.
Where is the carriage man that he don’t
send one right away? Mr. Brumby, of
Marietta sent six dozen good, strong
chairs for the boys building, that has
just been completed. Now, where is
the big-hearted carriage man? It is a
beautiful building, and will be dedica¬
ted soon ; and I’ve a notion of taking
my wife down with me if the carryall
is there; she can’t ride in a road wag¬
on any more. But that building and
the girls’ building need water—plenty
of water. There is a little lake of clear
spring water not far away, and Mr.
Hemphill says there is fall enough for
a water ram, but it will cost about $500
to fix everything and put water in the
upper stories—but the money is all
out. It has taken all to complete the
new building. #
“Where are you going to get the
$500 ?” I asked/
“ I have no idea,” he said, and he
looked distressed; “but I reckon it
will come, ’Three men have given us
$500 each with the last twelve months,
and I reckon there is one more some,
where. I know that there are several,
if they knew how badly we needed it.”
Then he told me about wbat George
Muse, Mr. Er Lawshe and Mr. G. V.
Gress and others had done for the
home.
For about three hours I went about
the premises and mingled with the or¬
phans. Some of the boys were digging
and whee’ing dirt to stop a leak in the
dam at the loke. Two bad to go after
the cows. Half a dozen came trotting
down to the barn with their milk
buckets. The milch cows marched to
their stalls and the stanchions closed
upon them, while the boys sat upon
their stools and talked merrily as they
drew down the milk from their ud¬
ders. The eldest of these milkers was
not more than 12 and the youngest
about eight. Near the house, in the
back yard, there were two boys swing¬
ing at the ends of a large rocking
churn, and in 20 minutes th°y had
gathered several pounds of nice yellow
batter. I saw the girls washing and
ironing iu the laundry, and others
preparing the evening meal, of which
1 was invited to partake. There were
no idle hands, save, perhaps, the two
youngest, one of whom was an infant
in arms and one only three years old.
All had some duty to perform, and
were doing it willingly, and all were
comfortably clothed.
But there were two master spirits
about the place—Mr. Taylor and his
wife had plenty to do. The outdoors
and fjirm work and the eatde and get¬
ting wood and keeping the boys em-
ployed in their working hours took all
his time. But Mrs. Taylor has the
greater responsibility, and sbe meets
it. She looks after the needs of all,
both boys and girU ; their food and
clothes and health and conduct. She
has one of those Urge, benevolent faces
that a child could not help loving.
Her tender care of the little ones and
their affection for her was plainly visi¬
ble. The little boy of sixteen months
was in her arms as she walked around
with us and called up the turkeys aud
chickens. “I don’t believe I can ever
give up this one,” she said. “These
orphans are coming and going all the
time. As fast as they get old enough
the Lord seems to tind places for them,
and it always grieves me fo se«* them
go, but I am going to keep this one
aud adopt it as my own. We have no
children, and this one will be a com¬
fort to ma when I get old and have to
leave the home.” He was a pretty boy
—the youngest of four that came there
from one family. Their mother was
dead and the father the same as dead;
but they are better off now, aud all of
them seem contented and happy. Ev¬
ery one there has a sad history, but
they do not realize it now. Several
hundred have come and gone within
twenty-five years, and nearly all of
them have done well. Many revisit
the spot in after years; many write af¬
fectionate, grateful letters, and some
send tokens of their kind remem¬
brance. One young man who has
prospered and receives good wages
sends $0 monthly out of his earnings to
help maiutain seme other orphan. That
is about what it takes—$250 to $300 a
month for the sixty who are there. At
twilight there was a curfew bell, and
the children gathered in the parlor
and we had music. The girls and boys
sang some t weet songs to the lead of
the piano, a gift from Mr. M. R.
Berry, aud then the supper bell rang.
The eider persons and the visitors were
seated at one table and the children at
three others, and at a signal from
•Mrs. Taylor there was silence, land
there was reverence, too, for she made
one of the sweetest and most motherly
prayers I ever heard. It was brief,
1 but it was beautiful. Then came the
feast—not a display of good things,
but good bread, good butter, good
coffee, and at onr table a good, fat,
well roasted turkey, that the girls had
cooked for Mr. Hemphill and ho let
me have some—yes, I got a plenty.
That was the second turkey, Mrs. Tay¬
lor said, and she had many n\ore that
she had raised—about one apiece for
each child. Good gracious! Feeding
orphans on turkey! Well, why not
once in a while? I never saw an or¬
phan who didn’t like turkey. There
are lots of good things about there.
While down in the field I found some
ripe maypops, and I have not passed
liking them yet, and black haws and
red haws were in sight, and these bovs
knew every tree, aud where the chest¬
nuts and chinquapins grow.
But the home needs money, and its
wants must be kept before the public.
It is a blessed charity to give it, a
charity that is full of promises in scrip¬
tures. It should be enlarged and more
orphans sent there, for I believe that
it is the best training school in the
state, and its inmates will all make
good citizens. Old Father Jesse Bor¬
ing founded it, and if there is a heaven
he is in it. He was a pioneer in good
works. That’s the kind of paternalism
I believe in—being a father to the
fatherless. My good mother lost her
parents when she was a little child.
The pestilence swept them into one
grave and she was sent to an orphanage
in Savannah. They were good to her
there and she used to tell us the sad
story, and we would stand by her side
and listeu, and our hearts get full and
our eyes oveifiow. But one day a lady
carna and chose her from among the
children aud took her away. It is the
same way at this orphanage now. They
come and they go, and are scattered
from Georgia to Texas.
Good people, this is the noblest and
sweetest kind of charity. Let us help
it. —Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitu¬
tion.
THE CLERKS REINSTATED.
Crawford Regrets His Hasty Action
in Discharging Them.
Ths twelve clerks who were dis¬
charged by Crawford 3c Co., St. Louis
merchants, last Saturday because they
favored free coinage of silver, were
csked to return to their positions in
the dry goods establishment of the
firm, without prejudice and with full
salary. Several of the clerks have ac
cepted the invitation. In a published
statement Mr. Crawford regrets his
hasty action in discharging them.
MURDERED BY GRANDSON.
Confronted With the Charge the
Youthful Assassin Confesses.
Mrs. F. Y. Glover wa3 murdered by
her grandson, St. Clair Glover, at her
home about four miles from Clarks¬
ville, Ga., some time iast Thursday
night.
Mrs. Glover, who belonged to one of
the most respectable families of South
Carolina, was living on a farm near
Clarksville with one unmarried daugh¬
ter and two grandsons, St. Clair and
his brother, who is a mute.
Hanna Suggests a “Flag Day.”
Chairman Hanna, of the republican
national committee, has buggested a
“flag day” in the campaign. He sug¬
gests that on Saturday, October 31st,
all who intend to vote on November
3d for the single standard display the
national eolors at their homes, their
places of business and whenever they
may be seen.
Went Down With All the Crew.
The officers cf the eteamer St. Jos¬
eph report a small tug, Dame unknown,
sunk Tuesday night near Dent’s land¬
ing. on tbe Mississippi, and all on
board were drowned. The water ie
seventy feet deep where the tag sank
and it cannot be raised. None of the
bodies of the erfw have yet been re¬
covered.
FULLY RESTORED.
A TRAVELING WAN MADS WILL AND
■ APPT.
Attacked by the Two Pleads, Rbonma-
t am aad Kidney Trouble, bat the
Plots of Both are Polled by
the Pick Pills.
From the .Republican, Caribou, Me,
If the term miracle e*n be applied to any
cures in the nineteenth century, surely the
list ot suoh cures must contain that of Mr. O.
A. Shepard, of Caribou, Me., who was so af¬
flicted with kidney trouble and rheumatism
that he was on the verge of giving himself
up as Incurable and was plunged to the dark¬
est depths of despair. But let him tell the
story in his own words.
"Early in the fall of 1894 I had fastened on
to me, as I supposed, that blight of blights,
thnt heretofore sure destroyer, kidney
trouble, and it was slowly and surely making
headway In undermining my health fori was
fast becoming unable to attend to my duties
as a traveling salesman, my back seeming
about ready to break after riding any dis¬
tance in buggy or sleigh. The bad feeling
had been growing in aiy back for a period of
five or six years, but I had not given it much
attention, not supposing it to be anything
but what would wear off. But in the fall
above mentioned I was compelled to give
my attention to it, Tor I had to stop traveling
and go to doctoring myself. My efforts
seemed fruitless. I grew worse and worse.
My weight was decreasing. My blood was
apparently tity. growing poor and leas in quan¬
••Picture my anxiety when vainly trying to
beat off one disease auoiher should make its
appearance and successfully gain a foothold
in my already weakened constitution. Tne
last disease is one that most physicians con¬
sider enough to do battle with and a foeman
worthy their mixtures. It was consumption.
From bad to worse I continued until I be¬
came unable to be around and at last I was
utterly helpless. I only looked forward to
the time when I might be released from my
sufferings by the one deliverer from all ills.
•‘Many were the remedies I tried and
faithfully, but to no purpose. All the stuff
for internal use I tried had no effect what-
ever on the slow and steady progress of the
diseases. The external appliances and de¬
coctions dfd me no benefit at all. My suf¬
ferings were fast becoming unbearable. My
hope was ebbing ax-ay.
‘•Just at this time, a friend, and he was a
friend indeed, advised me to procure some
of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills and with little
faith that they would do me any good, but
out of respect for my friend’s advice, (I
thought it would do no barm at least) I or¬
dered six boxes. I took them. My blood at
once began to increase and I for the first
time in many weeks had a good night's sleep!
My improvement w»9 noticeable from the
start! My weight begau to increase! My
appetite grew! Happy? Well I think I was!
i at last had found just what my system
needed to defeat the robbers preying on my
health and I thought it the time to be merry.
“I purchased another half dozen boxes
and when they were gone, two more, which
etiectually cured me. I increased in weight
until from what was almost nothing for me,
I tipped the scales at 1% pounds, my present
weight, and I owe it all to the Pink Pills.
May the knowledge of them be brought tc
all suffering ns I did, for I know they will be
benefited and cured, and 1 deem it a pleas¬
ure to recommend them.
•‘I have traveled for thirty years and have
heard of many strange things, miracles, etc.,
but I think my own experience stranger than
them all.
‘•Now I can drive hard all day, from early
morning lo late at night and not feel it. I
am just as well as I ever was. No sir, I never
felt any bad effects from their use at all. It
was a gradual but sore fight and the Pink
Pills were victorious. Long may they wave!”
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain, in a con¬
densed form, all the elements necessary to
give new life aud richness to the blood aud
restore shattered nerves. They are an un¬
failing specific for sueh diseases as iooo-
motor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’
dance.sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nerv¬
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palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow
complexions, all forms of weakness either in
male or female. Pink Pills are sold by all
dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt
of price, 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50
(fhey are never sold in bulk or by the 100)
by addressing Dr. Willi 1 ms’ Medicine Com¬
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cured by the use Hall’s Catarrh Curb.
Sworn to before Frank J. Cheney.
me and subscribed iu my
{ , presence, this 6tU day of December,
SEAL f A. D. 1886. A. W. Gleason,
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