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Be*r*ty 1 ** li CStan wit| hi- No beat fly tic clean ySI_ rtimng up thTWISKegm Duntics from ta.day to a^S'tha? 1 ^^ t Li e \a >l[s ’ blackheads, b ,‘ lO U0 coraplewon bv taking Cgflcarets,—beauty 8»U, satisfaction k guaranteed, / for ten cents. 10c, All SOcT drujt- 25c, jg-SSJSrsLSl STS sssg To Cure A Cold In One Day. «^S8JK&?s^wiaigsata A Belfast shipbuilding firm‘has ordered tcel ahlpplates of an Illinois steel com pany. Digestion Good Waits on appetite, or it should do so, but this can be only when the stomach is in neaithy a condition. Hood's Harsaparilla so tones and strengthens the stomach that it digests food easily and naturally and then all dyspeptic troubles vanish. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is America’s Greatest Medicine. Price $1. Hood’s Pills cure Liver Ilia. % cents. A Dreadful Assault. Mr. Justice Ball, an Irish judge, was noted for his amusing manifestations of ignorance, but whether they were real or pretended has never been clear-, ly established. He tried a case in which a man was indicted for robbery at the house of a poor widow'. The first witness was the young daughter of the widow, who identified the pris¬ oner as the man who had entered the house and smashed her mother’s chest. “Do you say that the prisoner at the bar broke your mother’s chest?” said the judge in astonishment. “He did. my lord,” answered the girl; “he Jumped on it till he smashed it entire- 1/.” The judge turned to the crown counsel and said: “How is this? Why is not the prisoner indicted for mur¬ der? If he smashed this poor woman’s chest in the way the witness has de-> scribed, he must surely have killed her.” “But. my lord,” said the coun¬ sel. “it was a wooden chest.” RELIEF FROM PAIN. Women Everywhere Express their Gratitude to Mrs. Pinkham. Hu. T. A. WALDEN, Gibson, Qa., writes: “Df.ar Mrs. Pinkham: —Before tak¬ ing your medicine, life was a burden to me. I never saw a well day. At my monthly period 1 suffered untold misery, and a great deal of the time I was troubled with a severe pain in my side. Before finishing the first bottle of your Vegetable Compound I could tell it was doing me good. I continued its use, also used the Liver Pills and Sanative Wash, and have been greatly helped. I would like to have you use my letter for the benefit of others.” Hrs. FLORENCE A. WOLFE, 515 /Inlberry St., Lancaster, Ohio, writes: “Dear Mrs. Pinkitam:—F or two years 1 was troubled with what the local physicians told me was inflamma¬ tion of the womb. Every month I suf¬ fered terribly. I had taken enough medicine from the doctors to cure any¬ one, but obtained relief for a short time only. A t last I concluded to write to you in regard to my case, and can say that by following your advice I am now pefectly well.” rtrs. W. R. BATES, JTansfleld, La., writes: “ Before writing to you I suffered dreadfully from painful menstrua¬ tion, leucorrhoea and sore feeling in tho lower part of the bowels. Now my friends want to know what makes me look so well. I do not hesitate one min¬ ute in telling them wliat has brought about this great change. I cannot praise Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound enough. It is tha greatest remedy of the age.” DYSPEPSIA “ For aix years I was a victim of dys¬ ■Cut pepsia In its worst form. 1 coukl eat nothing milk toast, and at times my stomach would not retain and digest even that. Last March 1 began taking CASCARETS and since then I have steadily iny Improved, until I am as well as I ever was in life.” David II. Mitkpht, Newark. O. flood. Pleasant, Palatable. Potent, Taste Good. Do Never Sicken. Weakeu. or Gripe. 10c, 25c. 50c. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... fct.rilat R«»*4y Caapui, Chicago. Moatrcal, S«« York. Sll NO-TO-BAC SS4 The Potash Question. A thorough study of the sub¬ ject has proyen that crop fail¬ ures can be prevented by using fertilizers containing a large percentage of Potash ; no plant can grow without Potash. We have a little book on the subject of Potash, written by authorities, that we would like ff> send to every- farmer, free of cost, if he will only write and ask for it. GERflAN KALI AVORKS, 93 Nassau St., New 1 ork. DROFITABIE be EMPLOYMENT ■' can sccnml ax agents tor popu.ar n:a a line, securing subscriptions. Position per ffiauent. Good wages to ladies of tact and btisj lifcflyrualifieations. tigff^SlODDAIiD, Send for letter of infonna £50 Pearl St.. New York City TTTANTED D —Oa«« of bad health that R I-P-A-N S Co., will not benefit Send cts. to Ripan* Chemical NetrYork, for to samples and 1000 testimonials. 25313.. Ml! Bast CUikS WHtRE ALL ELSE FAILS. if. Tastes Good. Uae tiinz. field by drusgistg. — P TION S$QQZ; F1IIK FIRESIDE PREPARED ESPECIALLY FOR AND OLD. 6ub>ct: "Light in lterkne<W”>A coarse That Will Be Comforting to the Sick and Helpless—Shot iu Koran All- " Wise .se Pnrnose Purpose. Tv’.xt: “The Lord shut him in.”—Genesis vil., 16. chanter Cosmogony has no more interesting than the one which speaks ot that catastrophe of the ages, the submersion of our world in time of Noah, the first ship carpenter. Many of the nations who never saw a Bible have a flood story—Egyptian flood story, Grecian flood story, of which Ducalioa was the Noah: Hawaiian flood story, flood New Zealand flood story. Chinese all story, Amerioan Indian.flood 9tory— of which account* agree In the limner- sion of the continent.* under universal rains, and that there was a ship floating, wlth a select few of the human family and with specimens of zoological and ornitho- logical and reptilian worlds, although I could have wished that these last had been »h« 0 Ut of the 3rk uffmmL shf, -SMr th^s Sit HughUtller^la'bis^'Test* a»° flnL!w e «™Ed D on « raony of the Locks” thinks that all these mSSe^HSoHSr^dTbSiie^i rial frosh'et 01 worst thing about that g was abovef am d° beneath 9 Thfseas* broket chain of shells and crvrial hSven? androlledove the land and the onened the! °Jt th V°.° f °j the Them nnrft a tha** SllI a »!Y* P’ \ but 0I \. J ^? b y9 f r< ‘ wen-three ^orinu^ tn 6 Ti° r, pih? part *°l P‘ioli of thrpfi r.Rrt^nf ^h^Hnnr 0 ’} 11 S avs nothincr about £ lonuins no^know to two whfoh^r of N^h*? V t SSErSs m£S’ on n hu Sd W , -fheWd?ta 1 t < w , ‘ i"'” r ?‘ som» surrounded by deluges of mlsfor- SKKJSSKt recstfve SJWbSf PSK hope messages, do good and thkaepoipn. otheriU Whiohl pecially may tQ nioM os- fntandnd f«y them. To-day I ad. dress the shut in. ‘‘The Lord stmt him In/ Tho world has no statistios os to ttu number of invalids. The physicians knon something and about it. and tha apothecarlei the pastors, bat who can tell us th« number of blind ayes, and deaf ears, and diseased lungs, and congested livers and jangled nerves, and neuralgic temples, and rheumatic feet, or how many took no food this morniuj? because they had no appetite to eat, or digestive organs to assimilate, oi have lungs so delicate they cannot gc forth when the wind Is in the east, or tber« is a dampness on the ground or pavemenl because of the frost coming hut? It would be easy to count the people who every day go through a street, or the number oi passengers in carried by a railroad companj a year, or tbe number of those who cross the ocean In ships, but who can give us tbe statistics of the great multitudes who ar* shut in? I call tbe attention of all such tc their superior opportunities of doing good, Those of us who are well and can se« clearly, and hear distinctly, and partake of food of all sorts, and questions of diges- tion never occur to us, and we can wad« the snowbanks and take an equinox in oui faces, and endure the thermometer at zero. und every breath of air is a tonic and a stimulus, and sound sleep meets us within five minutes after our head touches the pil- low, do not make so much of an impression when wo talk about the consolations of reli< gion. Tbe world says right away:‘‘I guesj that man mistakes buoyancy of natural spirits for religion. What does he know about it? He has never been tried.” Bu| when one goes out and reports to the world that that morning on his way to business ho called to seo you and found you, aftei being kept in your room for two months, no! cheerful and hopeful, and that you had one word of complaint, aud asked all aboul everybody, of and rejoiced in the success your business friends, although youi own still business had almost come to a stand- office through your absence from store oi or shop, and that you sent your lovs to all your old friends, and told them that if you did not meet them again in thia world you hoped to meet them in dominiona seraphic, with a quiet word of advice from you to the man who carried the message about the Importance of his not neglecting his own soul, but through Christ seeking something better than this world could give him—why, all the business men in tha oounting room say: ‘‘Good! Now, that is religion!” Aud the clerks get hold of the etoryand talk it over, so that the weigher and cooper and liaokman standing on the that doorstep what say: “That religibn!” is splendidl Now, is I oall No doubt while on that voyage Noah and his three sons and all the four ladiee of the antediluvian world often thought oi the bright hillsides and the green fields where they had walked and of the homes where they had.lived. They had had many years of experiences. Noah was 600 years old at the time of this convulsion of nature, He had seen 600 springtimes, 600 summers, 600 ahtumns, 600 winters. We are not told how old his wife was at this wreck of earth and sky. Tbe Bible tells the age of a great maa.y men, kdt only once gives a womnn's age. A'2 bnellmelt gives Adam’s age as 130 years and Jared’s age as 163 years and Enoch’s age as 365 years, and all up ami dojvn the Bible it gives the age oi men, bu' aoes not give the age of woman, Why? Because, I suppose, a woman’s aga is none of our business. But all the men and women that tossed in that oriental craft had lived long enough to remem- her a great many of the mercies and kindnesses of God, and they could not blot out, and I think they had no disposl* tion to blot out, tho memory of those bright- nesses, Neither though now they were shut in. should the shut in of our time for- get the blessings of the past. Have yog been blind for ten years? Thank God for the time when you saw as clearly as any of us can see and let the pageant of all tha radiant landscapes and illumined skiea which you ever looked upon kindle your rapturous gratitude. I do not see Raphael’s “Madonna di San Sisco” in the picture gal- lery From of Dresden, nor .Rubens’ “Descent the Cross” at Antwerp, nor Michael Angelo’s “Last Judgment” on the celling ol tbe Vatican nor St. Sophia at tinople, nor the Parthenon on ttui Acropolis, nor the Taj Mahal of but shall I not thank God that I have seen them? Is It possible that such midnight darkness shall ever blast vision tnat I cannot call them ap again? Again, notice that during that forty days of storm which rooked that ship on that universal ocean of Noah’s time the door which shut the captain of the ship in¬ side the craft kept him from many out¬ side perils. How those wrathful seas would like to have got their wet hands on Noah and nulled him out and sunk him J And do all of yon of the great army of~the shut in realize that, though you have special temptations where you are now, how much of the outside style of tempta¬ tion incarcerated you escape? in the Do you,'the merchant sick room, realize that every hour of the day you spend looking out of tbe window, or gazing at the par¬ ticular figure on the wall, or listening to the clock’s ticks men are being wrecked by the allurements and uncertainties of business life? How many forgeries are committed, how many trust funds are how many public moneys are be¬ misappropriated, how many bankrupt¬ suffered! It may be, it is,very uueom- for Noah inside the ark, for tbe is crowded and the air is vitiated the breathing of so much human and animat life, but it is not half as bad for him as though he were outside the ark. There not an inside ex. or a camel, or badly an antelope, or sheep the ark as off as the king outside. Whiie you are on pillow or lounge will you will make no bad you rush into no rash in- you will avoid the mistakes thousands of men as good as you ar8 day also ^making. Notice that there was a limit to the in experience of those aneient marin¬ I suppose the forty days of the de¬ and uprising floods* and the 150 days before the passengers could go ashore must have seemed to those eight in the big boat like a small eternity. “Rain, it rain, rain!” said the wife of Noah. “Will never stop?” For forty mornings looked ort aud saw not one Batch of blue sky. Floating around amid the peaks of mountains Shorn and Ham and Japhet had to hush the fears oi their wives lest they should dash against the project¬ ing rocks. But arter awhile it cleared off. Sunshine, glorious sunshine! The as- cending clouds, mists were folded - - - up into which instead of darken- ihff the sky only ornamented it. ^ tbe X looked Out Of the windows these rejoiced V7< ? r ? P**8engers that the clapped "storm their hands and think U God eould wag over, and I that He stop smA A storm 36 coukl stop any storm in your life- time experience. If He can control a vul- that ^ flies midsky, in at your He can window. stop a At summer the right bat He will put the rainbow on the cloud an * * be deluge of vour misfortunes will dry up. I preaoh the doctrine of limita* tion, relief and disenthrallment. At jU 3 t the right time the pain will cease the bondage will drop, the Imprisoned will be liberated, the fire* will go free.’ out ths body and mind and soul will be Patteaee! Notioe also that on the eessarion of th* dotage the shut ins came cultured'their out and they built their houses and jrar- dens and started a new world on the ruins of the old world' that had been drowned out. this Though Noah lived 350 years after worldwide accident and no cowries doubt his follow „««. survived I >"rrant they never got over touring about entrance into the ark, two aud two of the i Intothat^fn’ worlS-anUdiltTviAn^'world fT’ ^ reation ( ^ 1 T*' ar \°. f thelr eoming out^ X et tneir em- ?, ar kat J? , n T as more important than , , ness the steamer Portland, a few days ago, with 100 souls on board, going do vn with atl lt3 crew and passengers. Witness tb0 line of su uken ships, reaching like a submarine cable of anguish across the ocean depths from America to Europe. If any shi P mlffht complete wreckage, sssr rw-si’ssi ■ss^ks o°X art lo tSlt ArmeSaS had 5 the lfS one the inVaHdi £&& r °° k tha ° tb 0°t- h9 t- «j2kitruents of tAs •“> op«n*fl. and sunk a daeU ei bird o**®r flihMf tha mlt as When the entlaa OI, ° heeCra of robin redbreast, and morniag- L h0O8e ark > aQd e ,b a fflaoh, took and Wing mooking into ft* bird, Uight and eby > whU ® the cattle ****** *o low and tha * aaB P to bl0at »*»<1 horses to a^ak for the pasture, which from tha awful sub- “ e J , 8 0 d<5e had now begun to grow green and aromatic. I tell you plainly nothing * nt0re8ts me more ln that tragedy from thd , act than the “exit” and the 11 1 ‘®x®unt,’ i s became than the “got the fact outs.” that And the ‘‘shut- I 1 wlth now ca0er th i a stor 7 al1 tbe inmates of the sickrooms and hospitals, and those prisons w here men and women are unjustly endun- bobQded K e ° n< ^iu ° au< n J», tbe a North i t and ^ 1 ^ u South S an ?K and w ^i 0 East ^ aro and West by floods, tw deluges of misfor- bune an A disaster. The ark of your trou- b .* ^ ^ and on 9ome 0ai ’ tb i y height of vindication and rescue, will land °n the heights celestial, ? strange providence, for which I . * b0 81 ^ a tb which r ? I V Jl think r - grateful, you are circumstanoos all familiar, I bav0 admission through the newspaper b re s®'veek by week to tens of thousands of 3 dea ^. ob d ?F ea wb P, cannot enter °huroh , on the babbath . . and hear their ex- cebent pastors because of tue age of the sufferers, °* or or tbe their ‘ r incapacity illness, or to the stay lameness in one P os ?, n an b ? u F aQ d a half, or their poverties, will or their troubles of some sort not let them go oat of doors, and to them as much a3 to those wao hear me I preach this sermon, as I preach many °? my 9er m°ns, ! than the the invisible visible audience Pk !iPPP\APPPPi° ay ^. va3 er n w | ider sea9 than some those of that tossed the eight . members of Noah s and f ana i|y> five and xnontps instead of being of forty shut days in, of as storm they wer0 > ^been with these invalids five 7 1D ear30 or J ( W01 sbat ^ y in, or ten years 3 hut of “shut Oh, ’ in. conuorting . Godl Help> to comfort them! me Oive me two hands fu.l of salve for their wounds. When we were 300 miles out at ? ea v a hurricane struck us, and the life- da fhed from the davits and all the lights in themabin were put out by the rolling of the ship and the water which through the broken skylights had poured In. And as I now find many in hurricanes of trouble, though I cannot qnfet the storm, I can strike a match to light up the dark- ness, and I strike a match. “Whom tha Lord loveth He chasteneth.” I strike an- other night, match. but joy ‘‘Weeping may endure for a cometh in the morning.” I strike another match. ‘‘We have a High Priest who can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, and He was in all points tempted One breath like as we are.” Are you old? of heaven will make you evor- lastingly young again. Haye you aches and pains? They insure Christ’s presence ands sympathy through the darkest De- cember nights, which are the longest nights of the year. Are you bereft? Here is a resurrected Christ whose voice is full of resurreetionary power, But do not think that heaven is made up of any indiscriminate population. Some of my friends are so generous in their theol- °sy tbat tb ®y would let everybody in with- out reference to condition or character, not think that libertines or blasphem- ers and rejecters of God and His gospel have “letters of credit” that will draw any- thing from the bank of heaven. Pirate crafts will not be permitted to go up that harbor. If there are those wbo as to heaven are to be “shut ins,” there are those who will belong to the “shut outs.” Heaven has twelve gates, and while those twelve gates who imply wide open entrance for those are properly that prepared to enter them they lmpl> there are at a least twelve possibilities that many will be shat out, because a gate is of no use unless it can sometimes be closed. Heaven is not aa unwashed mob. Show your tiokets or you will not get in—tickets that you may get ets with without money and ana without price, tick- Let the a cross a crown upon them, unrepentant and the vile and the offscourings of earth enter heaven as they now are, and they would depreciate and demoralize it so that no one of us would want to enter, and those who are there would want to move out. The Bible speaks of the “withouts” as well as the “withins.” Revelation xxii., 15, “Without are dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers and idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.” Through the converting, pardoning, sanctifying grace of God may we at last be found among the shut in9 and not among the shut out'll - m —— Crusade Against Cradles. “The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world” was a very pretty sentiment in its day. Even now orators who are not quite up-to-date on the ethics of “child cul¬ ture” do a little soaring along this line. They don't know that well-regu¬ lated mothers have started a crusade against cradle rocking, and that there is a stigma on the hand which per¬ sists in jogging the baby. Apparently the electricians did not know' this, either, for they have invented a cradle which can be rocked by electricity. AH the fond mother has to do is to * . .. Plus- , . lbe svriteliboaid, __...... - and . P u „ ,n _ Hie cradle will rock until the baby grows up and pulls the plug out him- self, if some one doesn’t do it before that. Consequently, „ , the prospects are that if the cradles of the world do go on swinging, the hand that rocks them will be that of the electrician. In that case, may be the hand that rocks the cradle will continue to be tbe one that rules the world, but there will scarcely be so much sentiment about it—New York Sun. __-_L. The first theatre in the United States was built at )Yilliai0g§Ki§»^ Vll»» in the year 1752. - ______ THE SABBATH SCHOOL -— INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENT*! * FOR DECEMBER 25. Christmas Lesson-Text: Hebrews J, l- 0 _ by the Rev. Hebrews "i^i-gilcommc^ry ». m. Stearns. Instead of a quarterly review we are given the'ehoiceiof a Christmas lesson, ’ which probably many will prefer. ■c*rU s, J nd / y times and la ^- fathers vers manners by spake in times past unto the lessons been prophets.” NYehave in previous prophets entreated considering bow God by the the people to turn again to Him that He might bless them, and since the time when in the garden of Eden He sought Adam with the question "Where art thou?” He has been ever seeking to wltt man back to Himself. He does this in different ways, as it is written in Hob. xii., 10, “I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions and U3cd similitudes by the ministry of the propb- ets previousVart ” Job xxxiii ^9 30 in the Iteht nfthe iTSaSy of the chanter ’ tells creZ how H. does thte. The whatever thing to be remembered 1, that ZSXEZ2S& dafs 5'noken 2 ”Hath in these last unto us by His son, whom He bath appointed thte^inMsS.S.f^S’K’SSbiJ to *»‘“1^ Son H “ °f° of the vineyard, He speaks of the Father as last of all sending to them His son, saying, stead of reverencing Him they took Him and slew Him. He came umo His own, and His own received Him not. His own people would uot-have Him and His own possessions found no room for Him, just as at His b.rth there was no room for Him iu tbe inn, and when they crucified Him He was numbered with transgressors, and they made His grave with the wicked. 3. “Who, being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged ouraio3 Majesty f sat dQWb 9A thflright Uaad of tho on high.” God was in Christ. He was God manifest in the flesh (II Cor. v., 19; I Tim. ill., 16), but the glory that was In Him was generally concealed. It was veiled by His mortal body (K?b, x., 20), yet on the 9* TransfiguraSfcon It shone |forth ABd fraa witnessed by the .favored tbre» fll '"express Pet. L, 17; John i., 14). The phrase image* is just the word “charac¬ ter” in the Greek and is, I think, used no¬ where else. In Jesus Christ we see the obarAoter of God, and there is no character in us that amounts to a.lything apart from Christ In U9. He, by the sacrifice of Him¬ self, put Him. away forever the sins of all who xeoejve He has made provision for the salvation of all, but those only who Come receive the benefit, How can they come 4. “Being unless made they hear? so much better than the angels, as He hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent Iname than they.” Tho angels are ministering the heirs spirits sent forth to minister unto of salvation, hut to any of Land them Go<\ I never said, “Sit on 3Iy right until make thine enemies thy footstool” (verses IS, 14). He made Him¬ self for a llttlejwblle inferior to the angels, taking due upon Him our nature that He might in time lift us up to His position (chapter 5. “For ii., unto 5-18). which of the angels said He at any time. Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten Thee?” And, again, “I will be to Him a Father and He shall be to Mo a Son.” The first quotation here re¬ fers to His resurrection from the dead (Fs. ii., 7; Acts the xiii., 33); tbe second to His being heir to throne of David (II Sam-, v^f., 14). No angel can ever sit on David’s throne, nor can an angel ever possess a mortal body made immortal. The word “better” is one of the key words of this epistle, and in chapters i. and ii. the central thought seems to be “better than angels,” while in the following chapters it is better than Moses or Aaron ortho taber¬ nacle, and we are to run with patience the race that is set before us,” “looking unto Jesus” and waiting for Him to come back from heaven. Ho was with power declared to be the Son of God by the resurrection from the dead, and we shall he fully mani¬ fest as sons of God in the resurrection. 6. “And again when He bringeth in the first begotten into the world He saith, And let all the angels of God worship Him.” The margin says, “When He bringeth again,” and evidently refers to His second coming in power ana glory, and this is the sense of Ps. xlvii., from which the quota¬ tion is made, for it speaks of His reign and His judgment of His enemies and His kingdom. It is written in Dan. vii., 10, in connection with the judgment, that thou¬ sand ministered unto Him and ten thou¬ sand times ten thousand stood before Him. T. “And of the angels He saith, Who maketh His angels spirits and His minis¬ ters a flame of fire.” This is from Ps. civ., 4, which is full of God’s care of His crea¬ tures and ends with the first halleluiah iD Scripture. In Ps. ciii.. 20, we read, “Bless the Lord, ye His angels, that excel in strength, that do HiS commandments, hearken unto the voice of His word,” and in the last verse of our lesson chapter we learn that they all minister unto the heirs of salvation. They mirftstered unto our Lord, who for a little while made Himself lower than they. They minister unto us, who are for the present inferior to them, but when He shall appear we shall be like Him, in immortal resurrection bodies. 8. “But unto the Son He saith, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever; a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Thy kingdom.” the This verse and the next are from forty-fifth psalm, which tells of the King and His marriage, and is also told in Math. xxv. and Rev. xix. as preced¬ ing the kingdom. Notice that the Son is called God, confirming what we have al¬ ready said in this lesson. He is now on the Father’s throne at His right hand, btat He will come to His own threne in dos time, and then it shall be seen that God has given Him a name above every n%me (Rev. ill., 21; Math, xxv., 31; PhiL, hi fl., 9). The whom despised and rejected Son God, ol the world takes no wgnizanoe and who seems to be very litlie known even by those who bear His name, yet in whose hand is the breath of every living thing, shall yet be acknowledged as King of Kings amd Lord of Lords.—Lesson Helper. NO CONSOLATION. “There’s no use in being diseour aged, Victor,” said his young wife. “Remember that when William Cul¬ len Bryant began to write he got only $2 apiece for his poems.” “Only $2 !” exclaimed the strug¬ gling young literary genius,with bittel emphasis on vhe “only.” “If I could get $2 apiece for my poems, Arabella, I could make 8J0 a dav!” SCIENTIFICALLY EXPLAINER. “There is one thing in the compli¬ cated philosophy of our existence that I have solved and confirmed by long observation. People who are quick to anger are just as quick to get over it. How do you account for it, pro- '^ssor ?” ‘I have concluded that they get so AOt that their wraih melts suddenly away in fe rvid.heat.” UNNECESSARY QUESTION. “Have you been getting your hair cut?’’ asked the observant boarder, as he rubbed his hand over the cross¬ eyed boarder’s head in that peculiarly exasperating way some men have. “No,” replied the cross-eyed board¬ er, savagely. “I’ve been having my shoes blacked.” fft w. La Creole Will Restore those Gray Hairs • 1 >\i A “Health Shake." A California man has Invented a “health shake,” or Invigorating rai which is warranted t provide in ten minutes all the exercis a man needs in a day. The candidat for a general shake-up stands on a °*clllat!ug platform, and, when all i, ready, the current Is turned on from a d T namo - The intenmty of the me- t5 °R Js under control, and varies from a gentle thrill to dancing a jig. Un- der a strong current, every muscle is employed , . in . piostrving .he perpeudi<‘- ular. The legs are rapidly developed, , and the effect on the liver is said to be ' ettet than that of , horseback _____ . . , riding, ... Whether the machine ever throws the patient or gets into a bucking humor is a p^jnt no t covered in the descrip Don. . Spider In Her Ear. An . elderly , m.n Philadelphia e i i * woman. Sa- I»«- roeently went to St. V.nry's Hospital anil asked to be relieved of »"<*« ^ Aperts who were £ hen char se of the case ; found a living spider that had made a ne8t ° f hor ear ' This was successfully wsmo as well J.f i as aUCl ever, I he ° Id laUy D0W hearB "9 & m * 1 4 m |% . THE EXCELLENCE OF SYSUP OF FlfiS is due not only to the orig-inality and simplicity of the combination, but also to the care and skill with which it is manufactured by scientific processes known to the California Fig Syrup Co. only, and we wish to impress upon all the importance of purchasing - the true and original remedy. As the genuine Syrup of Fig-s is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, a knowledge of that fact will assist one in avoiding the worthless imitations manufactured by other par¬ ties. The high standing of the Cali¬ fornia Fig Syrup Co. with the medi¬ cal profession, and the satisfaction which the genuine Syrup of Figs has given to millions of families, makes the name of the Company a guaranty of the excellence of its remedy. It is far in advance of all other laxatives, as it acts on the kidneys, liver and bowels without irritating or weaken¬ ing them, and it does not gripe nor nauseate. In order to get its beneficial effects, please remember the name of the Company — CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. LOUISVILLE. Ry. NEW YORK, N.Y. It is a singular fact that there are no colored operatives in any of the North Carolina mills and very few in the mills of South Carolina and Geor¬ gia. which is attributed by the man¬ agers to their unwilling aess to con¬ form to the regulations and the ex¬ actions as to hours of labor, punctual¬ ity and regularity of attendance and care of machinery. _ Don’t Tobacco Spit and Smoke Tour Life Away, To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag¬ netic. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To- Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, 50c or fl. Cure guaran¬ teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New Yorfc In New Orleans molasses is being put up in 3-pound cans similarly to those used for syrups.__ lean recommend Piso’9 Cure for Consump¬ tion to sufferers from Asthma.—E. D. Town¬ send, Ft. Howard, Wis.. > arch 4, 1694. In the United Kingdom in 1870 there were 8,859,177 telegrams dispatched. Last year there were 89,029,9)9. Xdncat* Tour Bowels With CMcante, aoc, Candy 25c. If Cathartic, C. CJ. cure oonstipation forever, C. fail, druggists refund money. In the bank of England 60 folio volumns or keeping ledgers the are filled daily in writing with accounts. No-To-Bsc for Fifty Cento. Ga**anteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak ■bob strong, blood pure. We, SL All drugglst& The trusts now in existence in America have an aggregate capitalization of $2,788,- 773,900, To Cure Constipation Vonvqt Tahe Caseorets Candy Cathartic. Me <* 35*. ** Q* v# v. fan to ctro, dlugglsto roftid 1 SKMM 9 L A hosiery knitting mill may be built at Merry Hill, N.C., by J. H. White. ' Mrs. WinBlow’e Soothing Syrup for children teeting, softens the gums, reducing inflama- tion, allays pain.cures wind colic 25o a bottle. Fits permanently cured. No fits ornervous- ness after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free Dr. R. H. Kline, Ltd,. 901 A rch St. Phila. Pa, $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased ot learn that there is at least one dreaded dis¬ ease that science hu been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall’s Ca¬ tarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease requires a constitu¬ tional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is tak¬ en interna \ acting directly on th# blood and mucous -urfaces of the system, the reb destroying tae foundation of the disease, an giving the patient strength by building up the constitut on and assisting nature in do¬ ing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it falls to cere. Send for liet of testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75o. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. ANNUAL BANQUET AT PINEY WOODS INN Manager St- John Arranging for the Joyous Occasion. Piney Woods Inn, at Southern Pines, N. C., has opened for annual the winter banquet season and an¬ nounces the in honor of the Commercial Travelers, to be held at the ho¬ tel, Monday evening, January 9th. During the past two years these banquets have been a pronounced success, and it is the aim of the commercial traveler to so arrange | his route that he may be present on that oc- j easion. traveler Manager the giad hand St. John of welcome, always gives and the tbe j j spread which he prepares for the boys is a i most bounteous one, and we doubt not but j that the annual reunion this year, like those of former occasions, will be one of pleasure lrrngto be remembered.—Exchange. ♦ t Prof* factory to Fireside. 4 {a Would we spend million dollars ♦ ^ yearly OUR Catalogues advertising j ♦if 4 T they were T 9 " DI „ _a-l_ XXI Ilcih f, 1U^ ~ 9 • 9 Our _ general , Catalogue contains Furni- W X ▼ A ture. Crockery, Stoves Clocks, Sewing ▼ A v Mirrors. Machines. Lamps. Silverware. Upholstery Gnodi; i X $ Carriages, Refrigerators, Pictures Betiding, Baby at that have surprised Tinware, the etc., v prices entire v civilized world. 4 A We publish a 16-oolor Lithographed Cat- A alogue of Carpers. Kurs, Portieres and T Lace Curtains showing the ac:ua. pat-4 terns in hand-painted colors. We pre- ▲ pay tree freight aud on these goods, sew Carpets ▼ J furnish (tree) Carpet Lining. Here you can buy at the same prices ▼ that dealers pay. A million and a half 4 others have written for our Free Cata- X ot,ues. 9 Do you want them? Address this way: v # Miss Hiiies&Sonj $ 4 $ Dept 310 BALTIMORE, MD. ♦ ’ A w ADO tt 9 <D b O ♦ <f O'*? A i'ouuj. Writer. Six-year-old Paul Harper is the youngest historian yet heard from on the war with Spain. He expresses him- self in the Evanston Index: Tills war is prty eirius, and this is why it is; at first the Spanish used bad words about Mr. Rinerly; and the next sirius thing was the Main, and I wisht I culd a seen that explotion. And then tho st-arve- ing Cubins are prty sirius to. And now we have begun the war and many oom- rads will be dead. Prhaps ther wont be a man left in town, and many a aiuther will morn for her husband. They will lay dead on tho batlfield, and there stand ther mothers weplng for their hunbans. They take the wended to the hospitls and the dead to ther graves, and many Spanish ship* wiU sink and few American ships will sink and wa will fite on land and on sea and our flag waves over the Filupeen* ilends this day. Notre Dame’s Towers Uneven. Most of the thousands of visitors who annually throng Paris-ward would be incredulous were they told that the towers of Notre Dame were unequaled. But the statement is true. nevertheless, and a series of learned papers upon the subject have just been served, for the first time, to bring the circumstance before even the French public. To that obnoxious person, “the cas ual observer,” the towers, of course, appear exactly equal iu size. The “cas¬ ual observer” seems to have been made for no other purpose than to play the scapegoat for the five senses of humanity. In spite of him, how¬ ever, there is a difference in the size of the bays, and tlie reason for this is that originally the cathedral of a suffragan was not entitled, by canoni- eal law, to two towers of equal size. For centuries Paris was suffragan to the Archbishop of Sens. u Does vour ► ii Hems ; Ache ? ► < Are your nerves weak? ► y\ Can’t in you sleep well? Pain ► i your back? Lack energy? Appetite poor? Digestion ► k 4 bad? Boils or pimples? 4 These are sure signs of > K poisoning, from what 4 From poisons? ► > found poisons that are al¬ ► h ways in constipated bowels. ► If the contents of the 4 N bowels are not removed from ► t the body each day, as nature intended, these poisonous ► U absorbed substances into are the sure blood, to al¬ be * 4 u frequently ways causing causing suffering severe and 5 disease. < 4 There is a common sense U cure. ► V PILLS They daily insure an easy 4 ^ 4 . the and bowels. natural movement of N ► You will find thatthe of ► use 4 ► Ayer’s ► q 4 ► 4 4 darsaparilia ► 4 ◄ with the pills will hasten 4 i ► ► recovery. It cleanses the 4 4 blood from all impurities and ► is a great tonic to the nerves. 4 ► < Write Our Medical thm Boot or. K 4 of the most Department physicians has on* in ► United eminent 4 the States. Tell the doctor 4 Ju»t will how yeu the ore suffering. medical advice You ► without receive Address best ◄ cost. J7( d. DR. 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The buildings are n.-t lmDosing. but arc sulBiautiai and coin - • With bunted means the institution ,. . ....... , , 1 m the most e.onomaal ,„i and ' I ®P“ rsu .« wa J'- 11 13 unpretentious in Us work. j Its obje. t is to give the children uncommon i 8t ’Ui~ fflA’ai >o1 education, an industrial training, and ! a and religious culture, and thus pre- ' ! iM * rl:, ‘ n! 50 m,tbH a r;> t H ‘ <Mable aml , or ihem-elves. and fit them for living In Christian society. During the few year* * of its -:;;-lence Uio^ Home has been caring for r.nd r mng children who would otherwise hnx. - i neglected. The Home is now sore- L v l" need of money and supplies. If during the Xmas season, when all hearts are open to generous deeds, anyone is moved t*- help on this oble work, it will be gratefully received and God will bless the eheertul ,-:vor. All money and gifts mav be sent to the Superin- ‘ * - v« 14-5*. The Seaboard Vo- i.iueiia> issued this sea- bo;-, three handsome illustrate ! booklets, “Winter Excursions " “Aoutheru Pines” and “SportsmanV Guide.” These are uow • ready r<>r distribution and will be sent free of cost so any address. Their “Winter Excur- I / ns" gives full information in regard to i - and Routes to the best Winter Resorts v»iutry. The “Sportsman’s Guido is ft he handsomest and most complete - s of its kind ever seen by us. Its make- Ui s artistic from cover to cover and it con- til not only information in regard to hunt- irt: iounds. guide#, dogs. Hotel rates. <fco., ! n.. a digest of the Game Laws of tho States covered by it and some actual experieac*viof Hunters along the line of the Seaboard Air Line. The “Southern Pines” booklet is also tion very artistically gotten up. and the informa¬ contained covers every point. Any or ail of these will be mailed upon application to Mr. T. J. 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