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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
VUn HOTKD DIVINE'S I UVD AT
DISCOURSE.
Subject: “A Farmer’s Counsel.*»
Text- “Beck Him that maketh the seven
stars and Orion.”—Amos v., 8.
A country farmer wrote this text, Amos of
Tekoa. He plowed the earth and threshed
the gram by a new threshing machine just
invented, grain. as formerly the cattle trod out the
He gathered the fruit of the syca¬
more tree and scan fled It with an iron comb
Just before it was getting ripe, as it was nec¬
essary and customary in that way to take
from it the bitterness. He was the son of a
poor shepherd and stuttered, but before the
stammering rustic tho Philistines and Syrians
and Phoenicians and Moabites and Ammoa-
,tes aQ d Edomites and Israelites trembled.
Moses was a law giver, Daniel was a
prince, Isaiah a courtier and David a king,
but Amos, and, the author of my text, was a peas¬
ant, as might be supposed, nearly all
bis parallelisms are pastoral, his prophecy
full of the odor of new mown hay, and the
rattle of locusts, and the rumble of carts
with sheaves, and the roar of wild beasts de¬
vouring the Hock while the shepherd came
out in their defence. He watched the herds
by day, and by night inhabited a booth made
out of bushes, so that through these branches
he could see the stars all night long, and
wa» more familiar with them than we who
hare tight roofs to our houses and hardly
over see the stars except among the tall
brick chimneys of the great towns. But at
seasons of the year when the herds were in
special danger he would stay out in the
open field all through the darkness, his only
shelter the curtain of the night heaven, with
tho stellar embroideries and silvered tassels
of lunar light.
What a life of solitude, all alone with his
herds! Poor Amos! And at 12 o’clock at
night hark to the wolf’s bark, and the lion’s
roar, and the bear’s growl, and the owl’s te-
whit, te-who, nnd the serpent’s hiss as he
unwittingly steps too near while moving
through the thickets! So Amos, like other
herdsmen, got the habit Qf studying the map
of the heavens because it was so much of the
time spread out before him. He noticed
some Ho stars advancing and others receding.
associated their dawn and setting with
certain seasons of the year. He had a poetio
nature, and he r ad night by night, and
month by month, and year by year, the poem
of But tho constellations", divinity rhythmic.
two rosettes of stars especially attracted
his attention while seated on the ground or
lying on his back under the open scroll of
the mid-night heavens—the Ploiados. or
seven stars, and Orton. The former group ■
this rustic prophet associated with spring,
as it rises about the 1st of May. The latter
he associated with the winter, as it comes to
tho meridian in January. Tho Pleiades, or
seven stars, connected "with all sweetness
nnd joy; Orion, the herald of tho tempest.
The ancients were the more apt to study the
physiognomy heavenly bodies and because juxtaposition they thought of they the
had a special influence upon the eatth, and
perhaps they were right. If tho moon every
tow hours lifts and Jots down the tides of
the Atlantic ocean and the electric storms In
tho sun. by all scientific admission, affect
the earth, why not the stars have propor¬
tionate effect?
And there are some things whioh make me
think that it may not have been all super-
stitution which connected the movements
and appearance of the heavenly bodies with
great moral events on earth. Did not a
meteor run on evangelistic errand on tho
first Christmas night and designate the
rough cradle of our Lord? Did not the stars
in th<*ir course fight against Sisera? Was it
merely coincidental that before the destruc¬
tion of Jerusalem tho moon was hidden for
twelve consecutive nights? Did it merely
happen so that a new star appeared in corn,
steliation Cassiopeia, and then disappeared
just before Charles IX of France, who was
responsible for the St. Bartholomew mas¬
sacre died? Was it without significance
that in the days of the Raman Emperor
Justinian war and famine were preceded by
the dimness of the sun, which for nearly a,
year gave no more light than the moon, al¬
though there were no clouds to obscure it?
thing Astrology, after all, may have been some..,
more than a brilliant heathenism. No>
wonder that Amos of the text, having beard
these two anthems of the stars, put down
the stout, rough staff of the herdsman and
took into his brown hand and cut and
knotted fingers the pen of a prophet and ad¬
vised the recreant people of his time to re¬
turn to God. saying, “Seek him that raaketh
the seven stars and Orion.” This command,,
which Amos gave 785 years B. C., is just as
appropriate for us, 1897 A. D.
In the flret place Amos saw, as we must,
see, that the God who made the Pleiades and
Orion must be the God of order. It was not
so much a star here and a star there that im¬
pressed the inspired herdsman, but seven in
one group and sevea in another group. He
saw that night after night and season after
season, and decade after decade, they had
kept step of light, each one in its own place, a
sisterhood never clashing and never contest¬
ing precedeqce. From the time Hesiod called
the Pleiades the “seven daughters of Atlas,”
and Virgil wrote in his “iEueid" of “stormy
Orion,” until now, they have observed the
order established for their coming and go¬
ing; order written, not in manuscript that
they may be pigeon-holed, but with the h^nd
of tho Almighty on the dome of the sky. so
that all Nations may read it—order, persist¬
ent order, sublime order, omnipotent order.
What a sedative to you and me. to whom
communities and Nations sometimes seem
going pellmell, and the world ruled by some
fiend at haphazard, and in all directions mal¬
administration! The God who keeps seven
worlds in right circuit for 6000 years can
certainly keep all the affairs of individuals
and Nations and continents in adjustment.
We had not better fret much, for the peas¬
ant’s argument of the text was right. If God
can take care of the seven worlds of the
Pleiades and the four chief worlds of Orion.
He inhabit. can probably take care of the one world
we
So I feel very much as my father felt on*
day when we were going to the country mill
to get a grist ground, and I, a boy of seven
years, sat in the back part of the wagon, and
our yoke of oxen ran away with us, and
along a labyrinthine road through the
woods, so that I thought every moment we
would be dashed to pieces, and I made a
terrible outcry of fright, and my father
turned to me with a face perfectly calm and
said: “De Witt, what are you crying about?
I guess we can ride as fast as the oxen can
run.” And, my hearers, why should we be
affrighted aud lose our equilibrium in the
swift movement of worldly events, especially
when we are assured that it is not a yoke of
unbroken steers that are drawing us on, but
that order and wise government are in the
yoke? occupation, mission,
In your your your
sphere, do the best you can and then trust
to God, and if things are all mixed and dis¬
quieting and your brain is hot and your
heart sick get some one to go out with you
into the starlight and point out to you the
Pleiades, or, better than that, get into some
observatory, and through the telescope see
farther than Amos with the naked eye could
_namely, 200 stars in the Pleiades, and that
in what is called the sword of Orion there is
a nebula computed to be two trillion two
hundred thousand billion of times larger
than the sun. Oh, be at peace with the God
who made that and controls all that, the
wheel of the constellations turning in the
wheel of galaxies for thousands of years
without the breaking of a cog, or the slipping
of a band, or tbe snap of an axle. For your
placidity and comfort through the Lord
Jesus Christ I charge you, “Seek Him that
maketh the seven stars and Orion.”
Again, Amos saw. as we must see, that the
God who made these two groups of the text
was the God of Light. Amos saw that God
was not satisfied with making one star or
two or toree stars, but He makes seven, and,
having finished that group of worlds, makes
another group— group after group. To the
Pleiades He adds Orion. It seems that God
iik^s light so well that He keeps making it.
Only one being in the universe knows the
s'atisticsof solar, lunar, stellar, meteorio
And creations, they have and that is the Creator Himself.
each all been lovingly christened, of
one a name as distinct as the names
your children. “He telleth the number of
the stars, He ealleth them all by their
names.” The seven Pleiades had names
given to them, and they are Alcyone, Merope,
Ce5a*no, Electra, Sterope, Taygete and Maia.
But think of the billions and trillions of
daughters of starry light that God calls by
name as they sweep by Him with beaming
brow and lustrous robe! So fond is God of
light—natural light, moral light, spiritual
light! Again and again is light harnessed
for symbolization—Christ, the bright and
morning the star; evangelization, the daybreak;
redemption of Nations, sun of righteous¬
ness rJ3lDg with healing tn His wings. Oh,
men and women, with so many sorrows and
sins and perplexities, if you want light of
comfort, in light of pardon, light of goodness,
earnest prayer through Christ, “Seek Him
that raaketh the seven stars and Orion.”
God Again, who Amos saw, as we must see. that the
made these two archipelagoes of
stars must be an unchanging God. There
had been no change in the stellar appearance
in this herdsman’s lifetime, and his father, a
shepherd, been reported to him that there had
no ebange in his lifetime. And these two
•lusters hang over the celestial arbor now
just as they were the first night that they
shone on the E ienic bowers; the same as
when the Egyptians built the pyramids from
the top of which to watch them; the same
as when the Chaldeans calculated the
eclipses; the book the same as when Etihu, according
to o f Job. went out to study the
aurora borealis; the same under Ptolemaic
system from Calisthenes and Copernican system; the same
Pythagoras to to Pythagoras and from
Herschel. Surely a change¬
less God must have fashioned the Pleiades
and Orion! Oh, what an anodyne amid the
ups and downs of life and the flux and reflux
of the tides of prosperity to know that we
have a changeless God, “the same yesterday,
to-day and forever!”
Xerxes of his garlanded boat in the and morning knighted and the hanged steers¬
man
him in the evening of the same day. Fifty
thousand people stood around the columns
of the National Capitol shouting themselves
hoarse at the Presidential inaugural, and in
four months so great were the antipathies
that a rufflan’s pistol in a Washington depot
expressed the sentiment of many a disap¬
pointed office seeker. The world sits in its
chariot an l drives tandem, and the horse
ahead is Huzza, and the horse behind is Ana¬
thema. Lord Cob ham, in King James's time,
was applauded and had $35,000 a year, but
was afterward execrated and lived on scraps
stolen from the royal kitchen. Alexander
the Great after death remained unburiod for
thirty days b 'Cause no one would do tho
honor of shoveling him under. The Duke
of Wellington refused to have his iron fence
mended because it had been broken by an in¬
furiated populace in some hour of political
excitement, nnd he left it in ruins that men
might learn what a fickle thing is human
favor. “But the mercy of the Lord is from
everlasting to evorlasting to them that fear
Him, and His righteousness unto the chil¬
dren’s children of such as keep His coven¬
ant, and to those who remember His com¬
mandments to do them.” This moment
“seek Him that maketh the seven stars and
Orion.”
God Again, Amos saw, as wo must see, that the
who made these two beacons of the ori-
emalI night sky must be a God of lovo and
kindly warning. Tho Pleiades rising in mid-
skv said to all the herdsmen and shepherds
and husbandmen, “Come oat and enjoy the
mild weather and cultivate your gardens and
fields.” Orion, coming in winter, warned
them to prepare for tempest. AU navigation
was regulated by these two constellations.
The one said to shipmaster and crew,
“Hoist sail for the sea and gather merchan¬
dise from other lands.” But Orion was the
storm signal and said, “Reef sail, make
things snug or put into harbor, for the hurri¬
canes are getting their wings out." As the
P.eiados were the sweet evangels of tbe spring,
Orion was the warning prophet of tbe winter.
Oh, now I get the best view of God 1 ever
had! There are two sermons I never want
to preach—the one that presents God so
kind, so indulgent, so lenient, so imbecile
that men may do what they will against
Him, and fracture His every law, and put
the pry of their impertinence and rebellion
under His throne, and while they are spitting
in His face and stabb ng at His heart He takes
them up in His arms and kisses their infuri¬
ated brow and cheek, saying, “Of such is the
kingdom of heaven.’* The other kind of
sermon I never want to preach is the one
that reDresents God as all fire and torture
and thundercloud, and with redhot pitchfork
tossing the human race into paroxysms of
infinite agony. The sermon, that I am now
preaching believes in a God of loving, kindiy
warning, the God of spring and winter, the
God of the Pleiades and Orion.
You must remember that the winter is
just as important as the spring. Let one
winter pass without frost to kill vegetation
and ice to bind the rivers aud snow to enrich
our fields, and then you will have to enlarge
your hospitals and your cemeteries. “A
green Christmas makes a fat graveyard,”
was the old proverb. Storms to purify the
air. Thermometer at three degrees below
zero to tone up the system. December and
Jauuarv just as important as May and June,
I tell you we need the storms of life as much
as we do the sunshine. There are more men
ruined by prosperity than by adversity. It
we had our own way in life, before this we
would have been impersonations of selfish¬
ness aud worldliuess and disgusting sin and
puffed up until we would have been 11 se Julius
CaBsar, who was made by sycophants to be¬
lieve that he was divine, and the freckles on
his face were said to be as the stars of the
Armament.
One of the swiftest transatlantics voyages
made one summer by the Etruria was be¬
cause she had a stormy wind abaft, chasing
her from New York to Liverpool. But to
those going in the opposite direction the
storm was a buffeting and a hindrance. It
is a bad thing to have a storm ahead, push¬
ing us back, but if we be God’s children and
aiming toward heaven the storms of life will
only oha.se us the sooner into the harbor. I
am so glad to believe that the monsoons,
typhoons and mistrals and siroccos of the
land and sea are not unchained maniacs let
loose upon the earth, but are under Divine
supervision! I am so glad that the God of
the seven stars is also the God of Orion! It
was out of Dante’s suffering came the sub¬
lime “Divina Commedia,” and out of John
Milton’s blindness came “Paradise Lost,”
and out of miserable infidel attack came the
“Bridgewater Treatise” in favor of Christi¬
anity, and out of David’s exile came thesongs
cf consolation, and out of the sufferings of
Christ came the possibility of the world’s re¬
demption, and out of your bereavement,
your persecution, your poverties, your mis¬
fortunes, may yet come an eternal heaven.
Oh, what a mercy it is that in the text and
all up and down the Bible God induces us
to look out toward other worlds! Bible as¬
tronomy in Genesis, in Joshua, in Job, in
the Psalms, in the prophets, major and
minor; In 9t. John’s Apocalypse, practically
saying: “Worlds! Worlds! Worlds! Get
ready for them!” We have a nice little
world here that we stick to, as though losing
that we lose all. We are afraid of falling
off this little raft of a world. We are afraid
that some meteoric iconoclast will some
night smash it. and we want everything to
revolve around it and are disappointed when
f we find that it revolves around the sun in¬
stead of the sun revolving around it. What
a fuss we make about this little bit of a
world, its existence only a short time be¬
tween two spasms, the paroxysm by which
it was hurled from choas into order and the
paroxysm of its demolition.
And I am glad that so many texts call us
to look off to other worlds, many of them
larger and grander and more resplendent.
“Look there,” says Job. “at Mazaroth and
Arcturus and his sons!” “Look there,”
says St, John, “at the moon under
Christ’s feet!” “Look there,” says
Joshua, “at the sun standing still above
Qibeon!” “Look there,” sa>*3 Moses, “at
the sparkling firmament!” “Look there,”
says Amos, the herdsman, “at the seven
stars and Orion!” Do not let us be so sad
about those who shove off from this world
under Christly pilotage. Do not let us be so
agitated about our own going off this little
barge or sloop or canal boat of a world to
get on some Great Eastern of the heavens.
Do not let ns persist in wanting to stay in
this barn, this shed, this outhouse of a world,
when all the King’s palaces already occupied
by many of our best friends are swinging
wi le open their gate*to let us in.
When I read. “In My Father’s house are
many mansions,” I do"not know but that
each world is a room, and as many rooms as
there are worlds, stellar stairs, stellar gal¬
leries, stellar hallways, stellar windows,
stellar domes. How our departed friends
must pity us shut up in these cramped apart¬
ments tired if we walk fifteen miles, when
they some morning, by one stroke pf wing,
can make circuit of the whole stellar system
and be back in time for matins! Perhaps
yonder twinkling constellation Is the resi¬
dence of the martyrs; that group of twelve
luminaries may be the celestial home of the
apostles. Perhaps that steep of light is the
dwelling place of angles cherubic, seraphic,
archangelic. A mansion with as many rooms
as worlds, and all their windows illuminated
for festivity!
lates Oh, how this widens and lifts and stimu¬
the our expectation! How little it makes
the future! present, and how stupendous it makes
How it consoles us about our
pious dead, that, instead of being boxed up
and under the ground, have the range of as
many rooms as there are worlds and wel¬
come everywhere, for it is the Father’s
house, in which there are many mansions!
O Lord God of the seven stars and Orion,
how can I endure the transport, the ecstasy,
of such a vision? I must obey my text and
seek Him. I will seek Him. I seek Him
now, for I call to mind that it is not the ma¬
terial universe that is most valuable, but the
spiritual, and that each of tfs has a soul
worth more than all the worlds which the
inspired herdsman saw from his booth on
the hills of Tekoa.
I had studied it before, but the cathedral
of Cologne, Germany, never impressed me
as it did one summer. It is admittedly the
grandest Gothic structure in the world, its
foundation laid in 1248, only a few years ago
completed. ing!" More than 600 years in build¬
Its AH Europe taxed for its construction.
chapel of the Magi, with pracious stones
enough to purchase a kingdom. Its chapel
of St. Agnes, with masterpieces ot painting.
Its spire springing 511 feet into the heavens.
Its stained glas^ the chorus of all rich colors.
Statues encircling the pillars and encircling
all. Statues above statues, until sculpture
can do no more, but faints and falls back
against carved stalls and down on pavements
over which the kings anrl queens of the earth
have walked to confessional. Nave and aisles
and transept and portals combining tho
splendors of sunrise and sunset. Interlaced,
interfoliated, intercolumned grandeur. As
I stood outside, looking at the double range
of flying but tresses and theforestof pinuacles,
higher and higher and higher, until I almost
reeled from dizzness. I exclaimed: “Great
doxotogy in stone! Frozen prayer of many
Nations!”
But while standing there I saw a poor man
enter and put down his pack and knee, be¬
side his burden on the hard floor of that
cathedral. And tears of deep emotion came
into my eyes a a I said to myself, “There is a
soul worth more than all the material sur-
roundings. That man will live after the last
pinnacle has fallen, and not one stone of all
that cathedral glory shall remain un-
crumbled. He is now a Lazarus in rags and
poverty of" and weariness, but immortal, and a
son the Lord God Almighty. And the
prayer he now offers, though amid many
superstitions, I believe God will hear, and
amon g the apostles whose sculptured fo rms
stand in the surrounding niches he will at
last be lifted and into the presence of that
Christ whose sufferings are represented by
the crucifix before which he bows and be
raised in due time out of all his poverties
into the glorious home built for him and
built for us by ‘Him who maketh the seven
stars and Orion.’ ”
VIEWS OF BIMETALLISTS.
France ancl Germany Said to Be Supporters
of the Movement.
The February number of a prominent
English magazine will contain an important
review of the bimetallic situation in Europe
by the leaders of the movement in England,
France and Germany, and arranged specially
in vie w of the vi3it to Europe of Senator Ed¬
ward O. Wolcott, of Colorado, who is now in
Paris.
M. Edmond d’Artois, Secretary of the
French Bimetallic League, contributes a
careful article on the situation and the steady
growth of the movement in Frauce. In it he
declares there is no doubt that the French
Government and a great majority of the
French Parliament are in favor of bimetallism.
Dr. Otto Arendt, a member of the Reichstag
and of the Prussian Diet, Honorary Secre¬
tary of the German Bimetallic League, de¬
clares that only England blocks the way.
Germany, he adds, will participate in a con¬
ference called by any other Power.
Should a conference be summoned, says
Dr. Arendt, the German Parliament can be
relied upon to be its strong supporter.
Lord Aldenham, who is a Director of the
Bank of England, says: “There is no doubt
tbat France and the United States by ag ree-
ing together could themselves maintain a bi¬
metallic law, but, for the greater certainty
and confidence, it would be reasonable that
they’ should ask for England and Germany’s
oo-operation.”
PHOTOGRAPHIC TELESCOPE.
Map Being Made by Means ot the Bruce
Instrument at Asequipa, Peru.
Word has just been received from Profes
sor Bailey at the Harvard Observatory, in
Arequipa, Feru, of the entire success of the
work done there with the Bruce photo¬
graphic telescope. This telescope, designed
by Professor Pickering, has an aperture of
sixty centimetres and a focal length of 843.8
centimetres. It was constructed by Alvah
Clark & Sons, and then sent to Peru, where
it was mounted and used by Professor Bailey.
With this telescope the Harvard Observatory
was preparing to issue a map of the entire
sky, has but as the Astro-photographic Congress
undertaken the same task, the Harvard
Observatory will confine its work to smaller
parts of the sky, such as the Magellanio
clouds.
A number of the completed plates have
just arrived iu Cambridge and are being ex¬
amined with much interest by the local
astronomers. The images are formed of
black dots on a white background. Plates
have also arrived of the spectra of very faint
stare photographed with prisms placed over
the object-glass of the instrument.
UNITED STATES CATTLE LEAD.
Interesting Figure* of Importations Into
England During 1896.
The Chief of the Bureau of Auimal Indus¬
try of the Agricultural Department, Wash¬
ington, is in receipt of a circular from a
commission agent of London, giving the
total number of cattle and sheep received at
Deptford, England, during the year 1896,
and the average prioes, besides the prices on
each market day for cattle from the United
States, South America and Canada, respec¬
tively. The total oattle received from tbe
three sections were as follows, with the aver¬
age United prices in pennies per pound:
States, cattle, 146.965, 5.13 per
pound; sheep, 19,597, 5.21 per pound.
South America, cattle, 42,792, 4 26 per
pound; sheep, 234,028, 5.36 per pouitfj.
Canada, cattle, 26,873, 4.74 per pound;
sheep, 39,255, 5.20 per pound.
The details present a condition most grati¬
fying to the United States cattle growers.
Continuously throughout the year United
States cattle have commanded the highest
prices.
Long Walt for an Eclipse.
The only total eclipse visible in England
225 years to come will be in 1999.
Violent Deaths in 1896.
There were 6520 deaths by suicide tn the
United States last year.
TROPIC LIGHT AND HEAT.
They Were the First Things that lm*
pressed a Visitor to Jamaica.
The light and the heat are the two.
things that most impress one on first
coming to this land. The light is the
more impressive of the two; from sun-
rise to sunset it is omnipresent and con¬
stant; the very shadows are luminous,
dark though they appear by contrast.
I should say that latitude seventeen
was about forty-five million miles
nearer the sun than latitude forty,
Yet it is a tender, soft, suffused light,
not fierce „ and ... hard The
a one. atinos-
phere is not so rarefied as that ot our
own west; one can read here bv moon-
light, but- one cannot read fine print
easily. The remote distances of The
landscape are melted in an aerial haze
instead of being defined with the ie-
lantiess clearness of a steel engraving.
Nevertheless, the light of the tropics .s
superlative; it seems to belong to a
planet more recently evolved from the
parental luminary than ours. So in¬
tense and pervasive is it, one would
almost say irradiates the mind as well
as the body; it appears to possess a
spiritual quality. I had read of blaz¬
ing tropic suns, of scorching, blister¬
ing tropic heats, but I find nothing of
the sort. However great the ultimate
effect may be, the manner is always
gentle, sweet, subtle, soothing; Har¬
bour street in Kingston never shows so
savage a temperature as Broadway in
New York. But for all that, it will
not do to take undue liberties with this
soft-spoken climate.
After walking a few miles along the
white, undulating roads, or panting up
a steep hillside, nothing could be more
delicious than the touch of the north¬
ern breeze fanning you as you sit un¬
der the shadow of a broad-spreading
silk cotton, nor could anything be
more dangerous. You are being fanned
by the wings of death. Evaporation is
wonderfully rapid; you come in from
exercise drenched with perspiration,
and before you can make ready for a
“rub down” your skin is already dry.
In the north a slight chill may be fol¬
lowed by a slight cold, aud that be
the end of it; here your chill may turn
out the end of everything for you.
Moreover, the soil when dampened by
rains probably exhales a miasma pro¬
ductive of what we call malarial fever;
in Jamaica it occasionally develops in¬
to an appalling, ugly and brief disease
known as black vomit.
On the other hand, if you are ration¬
ally cautious, and let liquor of every
kind alone, you may walk or climb, or
play tennis, or ride horseback all
through the hottest parts of the cloud¬
less day, and feel only the better for
it at night; in fact, you must take
plenty of exercise in order to be ai
your best. The way to get ill is to
avoid exertion and perspiration, and
sit at ease in the shade absorbing cool¬
ing drinks. Such people sometimes
last two years. Those who pursue the
alternative regimen are not surprised
to find themselves alive and alert at
ninety and upward. Of course it is
more difficult to get ill on the higher
levels than on the lower ones; but tak¬
ing the island by long and large, it is
one of the healthiest places on the
globe.—Julian Hawthorne, in the Cen¬
tury.
“Pat,” said Tommy to the gardener,
what is nothing?”
“There ain’t any such thing as noth¬
in’,” replied Pat, “beca’se whin ye
find nothin’ and come to look at it,
there ain’t nothin’ there.”—Harper’s
Round Table.
A Fifty-two Years’ Case.
“Tetterine Is the only remedy I ever sold
that would make a permanent cure of tetter. I
sold It to a person who had tetter oil his hand for
fifty-two years, and two boxes cured him.”
B. H. Tanner,
McDonald’s Mill, Ga.
1 box by mail for 50c. In stamps.
J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga.
Be silent or say something that Is better than
silence.
No-To-Bac for Fifty Cent*.
Over 400,000 cured. Why not let No-To-Bac
regulate or remove your desire for tobacco?
Saves money, makes health and manhood.
Cure guaranteed. 50 cents and $ 1 . 00 , at all
druggists.
Always find time to say some earnest word
between the idle talk.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma¬
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle.
PtsO’s Cure Is the medicine to break u S clill-
dren’s Coughs Wash., and Colds.—Mrs. M. G. LUNT,
Spraguo, March 8 , ’91.
St. Vitus’ Dance. One bottle Dr. Fenner's
Specific cures. Circular, Fredonla, N. Y.
Just try a 10c. box of Cascarets, candy cathar¬
tic, finest liver and bowel regulator made.
BUSINESS COURSE
to one person In every
county. Please apply
promptly to GEORGIA
BUSINESS COLLEGE
Macon, Georgia.
“Blight”
costs cotton planters more
than five million dollars an¬
nually. This is an enormous
'waste, and can be prevented.
Practical experiments at Ala¬
bama Experiment Station show
conclusively that the use of
“Kainit”
will prevent that dreaded plant
disease.
All About Potash—the results of Its use by actual ex¬
periment on tbe best farms in the United States—is
told in a little book which we publish and will gladly
nail free to any farmer in America who wiil write for it.
GERMAN KALI WORKS,
93 Nassau St., New York,
AAAa lOO for NEW SUBSCRIBERS.
Send lOc.
British Postal Savings.
One of the greatest bankers In the
world Is the British Government. Aa
a bank it holds nearly $500,000,000 in
post office deposits payable practically
on call, and pays interest at the rate of
2 1-2 per cent, per annum to its deposi-
tons. Last year the deposits increas-
ed $50,000,000.—San Francisco News-
Letter.
SHOO Reward. SIOO.
.The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease
thAt science has been able to cure In all Its
* ( ' Htarr ?- HaU ‘ 8 ^rhCure
ls the only positive eure known to the medical
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on the blood and mucous surfaces of the svstem,
thereby destroying the foundation of the dis-
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and Iiatur « »“
doing Its work. The proprietor* have *0 much
H^l i red slnrt t Don rattT JTf f .“"f, Ca9 that ? } they ' offer falls One to
cure J.‘ W u Toled^Ohlo. 59
F. Cheney & Co '
Sold by Druggtsta. Y 5 c.
Hall's Family Pilfsare the best.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp¬
son's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 35c. per bottle. |
When bilious or costive, eat a Cascaret,
candy cathartic; cure guaranteed; 10 c., 25c.
BUCKINGHAM’S
DYE
For the Whiskers,
Mustache, and Eyebrows.
In one preparation. Easy to
apply at home. Colors brown
or black. The Gentlemen’s
favorite, because satisfactory.
It. P. IlAI.L.% Co., Proprietors, Nashua. N II.
Sold by all Druggists.
DON’T BE CUT KIMIFE. WITH A
We can cure you without It. If you have the
FILES use PLANTER’S PILE OINTMENT.
We guarantee to give instant and
permanent relief. Hend five two-
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we will mail FREE package. Ad-J
dress Dept. A., N EW SPENCER m
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Best on Earth. ^ ir»i Every farm-
>«»er should have
3r Gantt’s lm-
r proved Guano
Distributer a n d
Cotton Planter.
Opens and dlstrlb-
mm i utes any quantity For at
the same time.
i prices write to
i J. T. GANTT,
Macon, Georgia.
La Erie .IS WHAT IT?
Doctors disagree, but prevention Is better
than cure.
Salvation Blood Purifier
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Walter Baker & Co.’s
Breakfast Cocoa.
1. Because it is absolutely pure.
2. Because it is not made by the so-called Dutch Process in
which chemicals are used.
i 3. Because beans of the finest quality are used.
; j 4. Because it is made by a method which preserves unimpaired
& the exquisite natural flavor and odor of the beans.
! 5. Because it is the most economical, costing less than one cent
m a cup.
Be sure that you get the genuine article made by WALTER
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indigestion and biliousness. He tried every getting known remedy,
consulted many physicia c s with the hope of cured <: or
even relief, but nothing w eemed to relieve him. After meals
he would feel as if a ball of lead was lodged in his stomach,
tired and listless, as though life was scarcely 'worth living.
Finally he was attracted to the ad of
RIPANS TADULE5
and concluded to try them. After taking the first two or three
he was surprised to find the relief they gave and soon he felt
like a new man. He has never been without Ripans Tabules
since, nor has he suffered since.
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57 S. Forsyth St., AOanta, Ga.
General Agent* for Erie Cify Iron Worl
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