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Hood’s Cures
Son of John L. Me Murray
Of Havonswood, W. Va.
Impels Him to Tell How His
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mi tiering. Ho could not walk and I considered
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A Confirmed Cripple.
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CURES
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Text: "And the Lord taid unts Mote*
Take unto thee tweet tpfoet, s tacts and
onyeha.”—Exodti* xxx., 84.
have noticed IJio shells of
the Bible, although In this early part of tbe
■acred book God call* you to conalder ami
employ them as Ho o tiled Moses to consider
and employ them. The onycha of my text
* j ft eU foUDd on th ® bank" of tbe Red Rea,
and Moms and his army must have crushed
many of them under foot as they crossed
the bisected waters, onycha on the beach
and onycha in the unfolded Imd of the deep.
I shall speak of this shell ns a beautiful and
practical revelation of God, nnd as true as
the first chapter of Genesis and the last
diopter of Kovelation or everything be
tween.
Not only is this shell, the onycha, found
at tho lied Ren, hut In the waters of India.
It not only delectates the eye with Its convo
lutions of beauty, white and lustrous and
serrated, but blesses the nostril with a pun
gent aroma. This shellfish, accustomed to
feed on spikenard, is redolent with that
odorous plant—redolent when alive and re
dolent when dead. Its shells when burned
bewitch the air with fragrance.
In my text God commands Moses to mix
this onchya with the perfumes of the altar
in the ancient tabernacle, and I propose to
mlx somo of its perfumes at tho altar of
Brooklyn Tabernacle, tor, having spokon to
y°u on tho “Astronomy of the Bible; or,
G°d Among the HUtri-;” tho “Chronology of
™ or » God Among the (Jentunes,”
the “Ornithology of the Bible; or, God
Among the Birds;” tho “Mineralogy of tho
Bible; or. God Among tho Amethysts;”
the “Ichthyology of the Bible; or, God
Among tho Fishes,” I now como to speak of
the “Conchology of tho Bible; or, God
Among the Abells.”
It is a secret that you may keep for me.
for I have never b«roro told ft to any one,
that in all tho realms of the natural world
there Is nothing to me so fascinating, so
completely absorbing, so full of suggestive*
ness, ns a shell. Whatf More entortaining
than a bird, which can sing, when a shell
cannot sing? Well, there you have made a
great mistake. Pick up tho onycha from
the banka of tho Rod Sea or pick up a bivalve
from the beach of the Atlantic Ocean and
liston, and you hear a whole choir of marine
voices—boss, alto, soprano—in an Unknown
tongue, but seeming to chant, as I put them
to my oar, “Tho sea is His anil He made it;”
others singing, “Thy way, O God, is in the
seaothers hymning, “Ho ruloth the raging
of the sen.”
“What,” says some one else, “does the
shell impress you more than the star?” In
some respects, yes, because I can handle the
fhell and closely study the shell, while I
cannot handle tho star, mid If 1 study it
must study it ut a distance of millions and
millions of miles.
“What,” says some one else, “are vou
moro impressed by the shell than 'the
flower?” Yes, for it has far greator varie
ties and far groatcr richness of color, ns I
could show you in thousands of specimens,
and because the shell does not fade, as does
the rose leaf, but maintains its beauty cen
tury after century, so that the onycha
which the hoof of Pharaoh’s horse knockol
aside in the chase of the Israelites across the
Red Rea may have kept its luster to this
hour. Yes, they nro so particolored and
many colored that you might pile them up
until you would have a wall with nil the
oolors of the wall of heaven, from the jasper
at tho bottom to the amethyst at the top.
Oh, tho shells! The petrified foam or the
■en. Oh, the shells! Tho har*lotted bubbles
of the deep. Oh, the shells, which are the
diadems thrown by the ocean to the loot of
tho continents. How the shells are ribbed,
grooved, cylindercd, mottled, iridescsutl
They wore used as coin by some of the Na
tions. They were fastened in belts by
others, and made in handies of wooden im
plements by still others. Mollusks not only
of tho sen, but mollusks ol the land. Do you
know how much they have had to do with
the world’a history? They Raved tho church
of God from extinguishment.
The Israelites marched out of Egypt
2.000.000 strong, besides flocks and herds,
Tho Biblo says “the people took their dough
beforo it was leavened, their kneading
troughs being bound up in the clothes on
their shoulders. They were thrust forth out
of Egypt and could not tarry; neither had
they prepared for themsoves any victuals.”
Just think of it? Forty years in tho wilder
ness, Infidelity triumphantly asks. How
could they live forty years In the wilderness
without food? You say manna fell. Oh,
that was aftor a long while. They would
have starved fifty times before the nmnutt
fell. The foot is, they were chiefly kept
alivo by tho mollusks of the land or shelled
creatures. Mr. Froutou and Mr. Bioard
took thesAine route from Egypt toward
Canaan that tho Israelites took, and they
give this ns tlioir testimony.
“Although the children of iirael must
have consisted of about 2,000,000 souls, with
and innumerable flocks and Lords,
they were not likely to experience any in
convenience in their march. Hevsral thou
sand persons might walk abreast with the
g reatest ease in tho very narrowest part of
ie valley iu which they first began to file
off. It soon afterward expands to above
three leagues in width. With respect to
forage they would bo nt no loss. Tho
ground is covered with tamarisk, broom,
clover nnd 6aiut foin, of which latter
•specially camels Are passionately food, be
side* almost every variety of odoriferous
plnut and herb proper for pasturage.
“The whole sides of the valley through
which the children of Israel marched are
still tufted with brushwood, which doubt
less afforded food for their beasts, together
with many drier sorts for lighting lire, on
which the Israelites could with the greatest
ease bake tho dough they brought with them
ou small iron plAtos, which form a constant
appendage to the luggage of an oriental
traveler. Lastly, tho norongo underneath
these trees ami surubs is completely covere l
with snails of a prodigious siso aud of the
best sort, and, however uninviting such a
repast ought appear to us, they are here es
teemed a great delicacy. They are so plenti
ful in this valley that it may be literally said
that it is difficult to take one step without
treading on them.”
So the shelled creatures saved the host of
Israelites ou tho march to tho promised
land, and the attack of infidelity at this
point is defeated by the facts, as infidelity is
always defeated by facts, since it is founded
on ignorance. In writing aud printing our
interrogation point has at the bottom a mark
like a period and over it a flourish like tbe
swing of a teamster's whip, and we put this
interrogation point, at the end of a question,
but in the Spanish language the interroga
tion point is twice use t for each question.
At the beginning of the question the inter
rogation point is presented upside down,
and at tho close of tho question right side
up. When infidelity nuts a question about
the Scriptures, as it always indicates igno
rance, the question ought to he printed with
two interrogation points, one at the begiu-
ning and one at tho close, but both upside
down.
Thank God for the wealth of mollusks all
up and down tin* earth, whether feeding
tho Israelites on their way to tho land flow
ing with milk aud honey, or, os wa are bat
ter acquainted with the mollusks, when
flung to the beach of lake or sea. There are
three great families of them. If I should
ask yon to immo throe of the great royal
families of the earth, perhaps you would re
spond, the house of Stewart, tho house of
Hapsburg, the bouse of Bourbon, but t-h«
three royal families of mollusks are the uni
valve, or shell in one part, the bivalve, oi
shell of two parte, and multivalve, or shell
in many pans, and I see God in their every
hinge, iu their every tooth, in their
every cartilage, in their every ligame
their every spiral ridge, and in their every
color, prism on prism, and their adaptation
of thin shells for still ponds and thick (Mat
ing for boisterous seas. They all dash upon
me tho thought of tho providential care ol
God.
YV hat is the uw of all this architect .. _
the shel'. and why is it pictured from the
outside lip clear down into its labvrinths of
construction? Why the infinity of skill and
radiance in a shell? What is the use of the
color and exquisite curve of a ghing so in-
Bignlficaut a* a shellfish? Why. when the
conohologist by fire Ige or rake fetches the
crustAceouaspeolmens to the shore, does he
find at his feet whole alhambras nnd coli
seums and pnrtheuons and crystal palaces of
beauty m miniature, nnd these bring tolight
only no infinite-mini part of the opulence in
the great subaqueous world. Lieunmus
tmunted‘J'xjOspecies of shells, but conchology
La l then only begun its achievement*.
While exploring the bed of the Atlantic
Ocean In preparation for laying the cable
shelled animals were brought up from
depths of 1000 fathoms. Whon lifting the
telegraph wire from the Mediterranean and
rto I Reas, shelled creatures were brought
up from depths of 2000 fathoms. Tbe Eng
lish admiralty, exploring in behalf of
science, found mollusks at a depth of 2485
fathoms, or 14,210 feet deep. What a realm
awful for vastnessi
As the shell is only tbe house and the
wardrol>e of insignificant animals of the
deep, why ail that wonder and beauty of
construction. God’s care for them is the
only reason. And if God provide so munifi
cently for them, will He not see that you
have wardrobe and shelter? Wardrobe and
shelter for a perl winkle I Rhall thoro not be
wardrobe and shelter for a man? Would
uoci give a ooat of mall for tbe defense of a
nautilus and leave you no defense against
the storm? Does He build a stone house for
a creature that lasts a season and leave with
out home a soul that takes hold on oenturies
and eons?
Hugh Miller found “the Footprints of the
Creator in the old red sandstone,” nnd I
hear the harmonies of God in the tinkle of
the sea shells when tho tides come in. The
same Christ who drew a lesson of providen
tial care from the fact that God clothes with
f ;rais the field instructs me to draw the same
esson from the shell?.
In almost every man’s life, however well
born and prosperous for years, and in al
most every woman’s life, there comes a very
dark time, at least once. A conjunction of
circumstances will threaten bankruptcy and
homelessness and starvation. It may bo that
these words will meet the ear or will meet
mo eye or those who are In such a state of
foreboding. Come, then, and see how God
gives an ivory palace to a water animal that
you could cover with a ten-cunt piece and
clothes in armor against all attack a coral
no bigger than a snowflake. I do not think
that God will take better c»re of u bivalve
than of one of His own children.
I rake to your feet with the goipel rake
the most thorough evidences of God's care
for His creatures. 1 pile aroun l you groat
mounds of shells that they may teach you
a most comforting theology. Oh, ye of little
faith, walk among these arbors of coraline
and look at these bouquets of shell, fit to be
handed a queen on hor coronation day, and
•eo these fallen rainbows of color, and ex
amine theso lilies in stone, those primroses
in stone, these heliotropes in stone, these
cowslips in stone, theso geraniums in stone,
these japonicas in stone.
O yo who have your t dospopss ready look-
rrrg one on clear nrgTits, trying to see what
s transpiring in Mars, Jupltorand Mercury,
know that within a few liourV walk or ride
of where you now are there are whole
worlds that you might explore, but of which
you are unconscious, ani among the most
beautiful and suggestive of these worlds Is
theoonchologlcai world. Take this lesson of
a providential care. How does that old
□yum go?
We may, like ships, by tempests ha toiled
(in potlloas (loops oat cannot bo lost.
I bmigh iBtan enrages tbe wind and tbo tide,
lbe promise assures us tbo Lord will provide.
But while you get this pointed lesson of
providential care from the shelled creatures
of the desp, notlco in their construction
that God helps them to help themselves. This
house of stone lu which they live is not
dropped on thorn and is not built around
them. The material for It exudes from their
own bodies and is adornel with a colored
fluid from the pores of tlioir own neck. It
is a most interesting thing to boo these crus
tacean animals fashion their own homes out j
of carbonate of lime and membrane.
And all of this is a mighty lesson to thoM
who are waiting for others to build their :
fortunes when they ought to go to work
aud, like tbe mollusks, build their own
fortunes out of their own brain, out of their
own gwont, out of tlioir own industries.
Not a mollusk on all the heachei of all tho
seas would have a house of shell if it had
not itself built one. Do not wait for others
to sheltor you or prosper you. All tho
crustaceous creatures of the earth from
every flake of their covering aud from every
ridge of their tiny castles on Atlantic and
Bacillo and Mediterranean coasts nny,
' Help yourself, while God helps you to help
yourself.”
Those people who are waiting for their
father or rich old undo to die and leave thorn
a fortune are as silly a» a mollusk would be
to wait for some other mollusk to drop on
it a shell equipment. It would kill the mol
lusk as in most cases it dentroys a man. Not
one person out of a hundred over was strong
enough to stand a large estate by Inherit
ance dropped on him in a chunk. Have
S wat expectations from only two persons —
lod and yourself. Let the onycha of my
text become your preceptor.
But the more 1 examine the Bhells the
more I am impressed that Go l is a God of
emotion. Many scoff at emotion and seem
to think that God is a God of cold geometry
and iron laws and eternal apathy aud en
throned stoicism. No l No I The shells with
overpowering emphasis deny it. While law
aud order reign in the universe, you have
but to see the lavlshnoss of color on the
Crustacea, all shades of crimson from faint
est blush to blood of battlefield, all shades
of green, all shades of all colors from deepest
black to whitest light just called out on tho
shells with no more order than a mother
premeditates or calculates how many kisses
and hugs she shall give her babe wakiug up
in the morning sunlight.
Yes, mr God is an emotional God, and He
•ays, “We must have oolors aud let the sun
paint all of them on tho scroll of that shol>,
nnd wo must have music, and here is a carol
for the robin, and a psalm for man, and a
doxology for the seraphim, and a resurrec
tion call for the archnugol.” Aye, He
showed Himself a God of sublime emotion
when Ho flung Himself on this world in the
personality of Christ to save it, without re
gard to tho tears It would take, or the blood
it would exhaust, or thi agonies it would
crush out.
Wheu i see tho Louvres aud the Luxem-
bourga and the VaticAns of Divine painting
strewn along the 8000 miles of coaBt, and I
hear in a forest ou a summer morning mus
ical academies and Handel societies of full
orchestras, I say God is a God of emotion,
Ojsd if He observes mathematic* it is mathe-
nmtics set to music.and His Azures are writ
ten uot in white chalk on blackboards, but
written by a Auger of sunlight on walls of
jasmine and trumpet creeper.
In my study of the conchology of the Bible
this onycha of the text also impresses me
with the (act that religion is perfumed.
What else could God have meant wheu He
said to Moses, “Take unto thee sweet spices,
stacte and onycha?’ Moses took that shell
of the onycha, put it over the lire, and as it
crumbled into ashes it exhaled nn odor that
hung in every curtain and filled the ancient
tabernacle, and its sweet smoko escaped
from the sacred precincts und saturated the
outeide air.
Perfume! That is what religion is. But
instead of that some make it a malodor.
They serve God iu a rough and acerb way.
They box their child's oars because he does
not properly keop Sunday instead of ni&kiug
Sunday so ’attractive the child could not
help but keep it. They make hiiu learn by
heart a difficult chapter in tho book of Exo
dus, with nil the hard names, because he lias
been naughty. How mauy disagreeable
good people there are l No one doubts their
piety, and they will reach heaven, but they
will have to get fixed up before thev m
there or thev will make trouble by o*lfiiuf
out to us: “Keep off thit grass'.” “Want
do you mean by clucking that flower?”
“Show your tickets!”
Oh, how many Christian people need to
obey my text and take into their worship
nnd their behavior nnd their consociations
and presbyteries aud general assemblies and
conferences more onycha! I have some
times goua in a very gala of spirit into tho
presence of some disagreeable Christians
and in five minutes felt wretched, nn l at
some other time I have goue depressed into
the company of suave and genial souls, and
in a few moments l felt exnilarant. What
was the difference? It. was the difference lu
what they burned on their censers. The one
buoied onvclm; the other burned asafetida.
In this conchological study of the Bible I
also notice that the niolusks or shelled ani
mals furnish the purple that you see richly
darkening so many Scripture chapters.
Tho purple stuff in the ancient tabernacle,
the purple girdle of the priests, the purple
mantle of Roman Emperors, the apparel of
Dive.* in purple nnd lino lineu—aye, the
purple robe which in mockery was thrown
upon Christ—were colored by the purple of
the shells on the shores of the Mediterra
nean. It was discovered by a shepherd’s
dog having stained his mouth by breaking
one of the shells, and the purple aroused ad
miration.
Costly purple! Six pounds of the purple
liquor extracted from the shellfishes were
used to prepare oue pound of wool. Furple
was also used on the pages of book?. Bibles
and prayer books appeared in purple vellum,
which may still be fouad in some of the na-
■ tionol libraries of Eur ope. Plutarch speaks
of that
i purple .which kept bis beauty for 190
years. But after awhile the purple became
easier to g«fjj?fchd that which had been a
sign of imperial authority when worn in
robes wan adopted by many people, and so
an etuptror, jealous of this appropriation of
the purple, made a law that any one except
royalty wearing purple should be put to
death.
Then, as If to punisty the world for that
outrage of oxoluaivenes^ God obliterated
the color from the earth, as much as to say.
“If all cannot have it, none shall have it.”
But though God has deprived the race of
that shellfish which afforded the purple
there are shells enough loft to make us gla l
and worshipful. Oh, the enhancement of
hue and shape still left all up and down tho
beaches of all the continents 1 These creatures
of the sea have what roofs of enameled por
celain 1 They dwell under what pavilions
blue as the fly and fiery as a sunset and
mysteriousan auroral And am I not
right in leadug you for a few moments
through ttifflmghty realm of God so neg
lected by human eye and human footstep?
It is said that the harp and lute were in
vented from the fact that in Egypt the Nile
overflowed its banks, and when the waters
retreated tortoises were left by the million
on all the lands, and theso tortoises died,
and soon nothing was lofb but the cartilages
and grlstlo of these creatures, which tight
ened under tho heat into musical strings
that when touched by the wind or foot cf
man vibrated, making sweet sounds, and sc
the world took tbe hint and fashioned the
harp, and am I not right in trying to make
music out of the shells and lifting them as a
harp, from which to thrum the jubilant
praises of the Lord and the pathetic strains
r >f human condolence?
But I And the climax of this conchology of
the Biblo in the pearl, which has this distinc
tion above all other gems—that it require*
no human hand to bring out its beauties.
Job speaks of it, and its sheen is in Christ’s
sermon, and the Biblo, which opens with the
onycha of my toxfc, closes with the pearl.
Of such value is this crustaceous product I
do not wender that for the exclusive right
of fishing for it on the shores of Ceylon a
man paid to the English Government Ifl'j:),-
000 for one season.
So exqutsive is tho pearl I do not wonder
that Fiiny thought it was made out of a
drop of dew, the creature rising to the sur
face to take it and the chemistry of nature
turning the liquid into a solid. You wifi
see why the Bible makes so tnuca of the
pearl iu its similitudes if you know how
much it costs to got if. Boats with (livers
sail out from the island of Ceylon, ten
divers to each boat. Thirteen men
guide aud manage the boat. Down ,
into tho dangerous deptns, amid
sharks that whirl around thorn, plunge the
diver*, while 60,0JO people anxioudy gaz»
on. After three or four minutes? absence
from the air the divor ascends, mne-tontha
strangulated aud blood rushing rrom ear*
and nostrils, und flinging his pearl}' treasure
on the sand falls int-j unconsciousness.'
Oh, it is au awful exposure aud strain and
peril to fish for pearls, and yet they do ho,
and Is it not a wonder that to get that which
the Bible calls tbe pearl of groat price, worth
more than all other pearls put together,
there should bo so little anxiety, so little
struggle, so little enthusiasm? Would God
that wo were all as wise as the merchantman
Christ coamiendod, "who, wnon ho had
■ found one pearl of great price, went nnd
j sold all that he UaI an 1 bought, it.”
, But what thrills mo with suggest!veness
| is the material out of which all pearls are
! inode. They are fashioned from the wouu l
| of tbe shellfish. Tho exu lation from that
; wound is fixed and hardened and enlarged
| into a pearl. The rupture 1 vessels of the
1 wator animals fashioned the gem that uow
adorns finger or earring, or sword hilt or
! king’s crown.
i Ho out of ttie wounds of earth will come
! tho pearls of heaven. Out of the wouud of
i bereavement tho pearl of solace. Out of the
; wound of loss the pearl of gain. Uut of tho
j deep wound of tho grave tho nearl of resur-
: rection joy. Out of the wounds of a
i Haviour’s life and a .Saviour’sdeath the rich,
; the radiant, the everlasting pearl of heaven-
i gladness.
I “And the 12 gates wer ’ -tearls.” Tak«
the consolation, all ye who have been hurt,
whether hurt in body, or hurt in mind, or
hurt iu soul. Get your troubles sanctified.
If you suffer with Christ on earth, you will
reign with Him in glory. The tears of earth
are the crystals of heaven. “Every several
gate war of one pearl.”
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
The Caar of Russia dlsiioses of 42,000,000
annually.
SKPfATon Colquitt, of Georgia, is seventy
years of age.
The King of Wurtomberg, it isstatel, is
the ouly crowned head tuat wears the mono
cle.
Gladstone has cut down a trea nearly
every day during a large period of hi * adult
life.
BtNATOn Watuif.pt, of Wyoming, com
menced life as a farmer boy in Mas*aohu-
setts.
Skptator Stockbuidoe, Chairman of the
Fisheries Commission, lean enthudastic an
gler himself.
Chile is goiug to sell the Government
nitrate rights, which will put a quietus u.>oa
Colonel North’s nitrate ki ngshlp*
Hjckry ViLLARD'a uame, it is stated, was
originally Hilgar.l, an l he took his nrescut
on$ from an intimate friend of Llncolu.
Fqaxcib G. Nkwi.axds, of Nevada, will
be th£ only member of the next House of
Representatives who was elected on the
straight-out silver issue.
Of those who served in tho Unite i 8tat?s
Bcnute with Blaine seven remain to-day—
Rena tors Allison, Cockrell, Dawes, Gordon,
Mitchell, Morrill and Ransom.
Judge Gresham is sixty years of age. H«
is not iu very rugged health and is iu mod
erate pecuniary circumstances. His place
en the beach was a life position.
A cast of Bishop Phillips Brooks’s faos
was obtained by the sculptor Bartlett im
mediately affcr his death, and it is sa» l that
its resemblance to the original is excellent.
John D. Rookkfxllkk, the many-time
millionaire, is a deacon in tho Fifth Avenus
Baptist Church, of N*w York City, atu
passes the contribution box every Sunday.
Blaine s will, which his boon filed for
probate, gives the whole property unreserv
edly to Airs. Blaine, who is thi sole oxjcu-
trix. The tola! valuo is estimated at about
$1,000,000.
Kino Huxbkrt. of Italy, has made Verdi,
the composer. Marquess of Busseto, in re
cognition of the success ant merit* of his
last opera, “Falstalf,” first producsd the
other evening at Milan.
JOHN L. Stuvens, our minister to Hawaii,
is a cittssn of Augusta, Me., and the con
troller of tho Kennebec Journal, th* n *ws-
paper which was conducted by Blaine before
he first went to Congress.
M. Eiffel wore the rosette of the Legion
of Honor as he appears l ou the witness
stand in the Panama soau lal trial the other
day. Ho is described as a small, wiry look
ing man, who from tune to time pulled or
stroked his short gray moustache and lizard.
The Rev. Frauc.s Wolle, the most cul
tured and famous of the Moraviau* in this
i couutry. died at Bethlehem, Penn., the other
day at tlio age of aev nty-flve. F >r twenty
years he was the principal of the M >ravian
feomiuory for Young Ladies at Bethlehem,
during which time he wrote a series of works
ou entomology and botany that are standard
authorities.
Worn Out Every Day
With hard work, business anxiety, mental
application, exposure, clo-e confinement at the
desk or tho loom, thonsande who fad to recu
perate their waning strength “give in” before
their time. Ilostettor’sStomach Bitters isthe
finest, most thorough recuperator of failing
vlt?or. the surest protector ag dn*t the host of
ailments which travel in the wake of dec lin
ing strength. Indigestion, malaria, rheu
matic, nervous, liver and bowel trouble give In
to the Bitters,
Only eight men nro now living of the $8,000
who lougnt under Napoleon at Waterloo.
A True Lady.
Wildnees is a thing which girls cannot
nfiord. Delicacy is a thing which cannot
be lost or found, No art can restore the
grape its bloom. Familiarity without
confidence, without regard, is destruc
tive to all that makes women exalting
and ennobling. It is the first duty of a
woman to be a lady. Good breeding is
good sense. Bid manners in a woman
are immorality. Awknrdness may be
ineradicable. Bashfuluess is constitu
tional. Ignorauce of etiquette is the
result of circumstances. All can be con
doled, aud not banish men and women
from the amenities of their kind.
But self-possessed, uushrinking ani
aggressive coarsness of demeanor
may be reckoned as a state prison of
fense, and certainly merits that mild
form of restraint called imprisonment for
li'e. It is a shame for women to bo lec
tured ou their manners. It is a bitter
t-lmme that they need it. Do not he re
strained—cirry yours If so lofty that men
will look up to you for reward,not at you
in rebuke. The natural sentiment of man
toward woman is reverence. He loses a
large means of grace when he is obliged
to account her a being to be trained in
propriety. A man’s ideal is not wounded
when woman fails in wordly wisdom;
but if iu grace, in tact, in sentiment, in
dclicecy, in kiodnes*, she should be
found wanting, lie receives on inward
hurt.—Gail Hamilton.
A Favorite Breed,
First Boy—“Is that a good watch
dog?”
Second Boy—“No.”
“Good bird-dog?”
“Nope.”
“Good for rabbits?”
“Nope.”
“Knows some tricks, maybe?”
“Nixie.’’
“What is he good for?”
“Nawthin, only to take prizes at dog
shows.—S’reet & Smith’s Good News.
CJy^uHRgs
Help In the House.
In families where there arc many indi
viduals who do not aid in the house
work, and in all families where there are
many little children, the wife nnd moth
er should have “help” if it can bo hud.
If the expense can be saved from dress,
drees more plainly by all means. “I*
the life more than meat, and the body
than raiment?” If it can be saved from
cigars, tobacco or the “occasional g'ass,”
cr from clubs, secret societies nnd the
atres, let the man by all means tave it
there, and scorn to feed needless indu'-
gences wilh his wife’s flesh and blocd.
And if it can be saved out of a bink ac
count, save it from that, and instead of
treasure locked up in a vault, have a
beaming, smiling, hopeful treasure of
womanhood at the fireside—all of which
a wife “tirid to death” cannot b'*,
though she have the nff« c ion of a Ruth
and the devotion of a Hannah.
America Good Enough.
Father (looking up from his paper},
“In the public schools of Austria the
now teach chess.”
Boy—“I’d rather stay hern and 6tudjr
footb ill.”— Street & Smith’s Good News. V
Six Hundred Fine Horses nt Auction.
At Nashville, Tent)., March 18th to 18th, stal
lions, mares, fine harness horses, saddlers and
matched teams, all at auction. Write W. O.
Parmer, Nashville, Tenn., for catalogue.
If y u have no employment, or are being
poorly paid for the work you are doing, then
write to B. F. Johnson & Co., of Richmond,
Va., and they will show you how to transform
Miss-fortunp into Madame-fortune. Try it.
Sudden Weather Changes cause Throat
Diseases. There is no more effectual remedy
for Coughs, Colds, etc., than Brown’s Bron
chial Troches. Sold only in b'xes. Price 2f> cts.
Priceflflc. John n. Dlckev Drug Co., Bristol, Va.
A Word
To American Housewives.
tfy- 44 frstos
Author of “Common Scnsr iu the Household."
J Ttie Heat Cough Syrup.
Tnxtes Good. Use In time.
Sold by Druggists.
EfclMUaaEEl
ONU ENJOYS
Both tbo method aud results ■when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, nnd arts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses tho Bys
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers find cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action nnd truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and ngreeablo substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all nnd lmvo made it tho most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 60o
and 81 bottles by all leading drug- j
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept auy :
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
DeucateWomb !
Or Debilitated Women, should uso
BRADFiELD’S FEMALE REGULATOR !
Every ingredient possesses superb Toni
properties and exerts a wonderful influ
cnce in toning up and strengthening In •
system, by driving through the propet
channels all impurities. Health and
strength guaranteed to result from its use.
“ My wlfti, who ivaa l»« »lrldtlpn for olglk-
tsen monthu, after Uhtng ltradfield f o
Female Jlcgulator for two month* lu
getting well.**
J M Johnson. Malvern, Ark.
BR*nvtrr.o Rkoulator Co.. Atlanta, Ga.
Bold by Druggist* nt $1.00 per buttle.
Unlike the Dutch Process
No Alkalies
— or —
Other Chemicals
W. BAKER & CO.’S
Wc offer
I you a ready
made medicine for Coughs,
Bronchitis and other dis
eases of the Throat and
Lungs. Like other so called
Patent Medicines, it is well
advertised, and having merit
it has attained a wide sale
under .the name of l’iso’s
Cure for Consumption.
It is now a “Nostrum,’’
though at first it was com-
pounded after a prescription
by a regular physician, with
no idea that it would ever
go on the market as a proprie
tary medicine. But after
compounding that prescrip
tion over a thousand times in
one year, we named It “Piso’s
Cure for Consumption,” and
b*'gnn advertising It in a
small way. A medicine
known all over the world Is
tbe result.
Why Is It not Just as good
as though costing fifty cents
to a dollar for a prescription
and an equal sum to have It
put up at. a drug store?
HALLS
City of Toledo, i
Lucas Co., |S. S.
State of Ohio.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner
ot the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the
City of Toledo, Countv and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and
every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of
HALL’S CATARRH CURE.
Sworn to before me, and subscribed in my presence,
this 6th day of December, A. D. 1889.
A. W. GLEASON, Notary Public.
o
HALL’S
CATARRH CURE
IS TAKEN
INTERNALLY,
and acts directly
upon the Blood and
mucous surfaces.
CATARRH
TBBTIMONXajCiB :
Hors fl'sh For Fooil.
Iu Europe, where the horso is every
year more used as humau loud, tho ani
mals are uot allowed to become a mass of
skin and jagged bones, as old horses of
ten do here. They are fattened, and
| even an old horse can be made quite fat
I if given tuocuient food mixed with
I ground graiu. It is no more difficult to
j fatten au old horse than it ia to (atten an
! old cow.—Boston Cultivatoi.
The Ileaillj Cancer.
The hope is entertained that science
a ay yet be able to subdue the “ flaming
and deadly cancer." lteceut study ot
cancer may not only indicate that it is
nn organic growth, hut almost certainly
proves that it is liable to the stuck of
another parasite. Better acquaintance
with tho relations of these parasites may
possibly bring the long sought method
ol arresting cancer.—Detroit Free Press.
BreakfastCocoa
md soluble.
j lihta more than three timet
! (he strength of Cocoa mixed
■ with Starch, Arrowroot or
9 Sugar, and is far more eco
nomical, costing less than one cent a cup.
It is delicious, nourishing, and easily
BIGOTED.
Sold by Grocer* oerywliere.
W. BAKER & CO, Dorchester, Hass.
E. D. WALTHALI, A CO., Druggist*, Horae I HEV. II P. CARSON, Scotlanri. Dak . sat,,
-ate. K.V.. say; “Hall's Catarrh Cure cures •' Two botilen of Haifa Catarrh Cure comnlete
jveryono thnl lakes it." ly cureil mvlluicgtrl.''
CONDUCTOR E. D. LOOMIS,Detroit. Mich.. ('. SIMPSON. Marques,, W. Va . says:
lays; “The effect of Hair, Catarrh Cure la “Hall'a Catarrh Cure cureit me of a very bad
wonderful.’’ Write him about It. J case of catarrh. ’
Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is Sold by all Dealers in Patent Medicines
PRICE 75 CENTS A BOTTLE.
CURE
Testimonials sent free
THE ONLY GENUINE HALL S CATARRH CURE IS
MANUFACTURED BY
Ft J. CHENEY & CO.,
TOLEDO, O.
• * * BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
If any one doubts tbat
0 tho a
tob-
I stinate
dajs. let him wr.tefor
ftmnclaJ bsckini? is
• -'00,000. When meicury.
Iodide potassium, utrsapirilU or Hot Spring* fall, w*
guirar.tc* a cure—nnd
is the ouly
_ Maclctyph!
thtnff tL»t will care pcrmaneatly. P. sltlTe proof
seeled, free, look Hekkst Co., Chicago, 111.
W. L DOUGLAS $3.°° SHOE.
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A seY/ed shoe that will not rip; Calf, *eamlcsn, smooth inside,
more comfortable, stylish and durable than any other shoe ever sold ut the
price. Every style. Equals custom-made shoes costing from $4 to $5.
Other Specialties as follows:
*4.00s $ 5.00 *2.004*1.75
Fine Sewed Shore.
$q rfi Ponce,
UlUwFn niter*, etc.
*2.50, *2.25,
*2.00 -a
It not fo
J.
. Dougl
For Working M
BEWARE OF FRAUD.
Aek for and turtlet upon liav-
Ing.W. 1*. DOUGLAS SHOES.
None uenuine without. W.
pinniped on bottom,
it wheu you buy.
TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE.
denlern.nnd genern!
For Boys and Yc
Hand-
Sewed.
*3.00
' $ 2.50& $ 2.00
$ l.75
Jlisses.
IS A DUTY you owe your-
to get the beat vnlue for
money. Economize lu your
.Fear by pt>rclia»ing W . 1*. ___
L. 1 Douglnt* Shor», which repre-
he best value at the prtcen T
tify.
lllOUSBUdt
ale iu
DO YOU WEAR Til EM t
nerchnui* where no agents. Writeforcata-
a *•> Factory, -anting kind, size aud width
. BKA UTI FU I* »Ot i ENIlt Free to nay one promlsiur to buy W.
I A BOYS! Here’s a snap.
LUi 1(1 cts. with name and addrt
7 6 boys who read stories aud get
, thu Boys’ World r^^\:larly for 6 mos.
complete stories In Feb. No.
bamplv copy for stamp. Bor*’ World, Lyon. Ma«s.
Boahlock (Pat. *92) free by 1
2c. Stamp. Immense. Uurivalled. Only good
enteil. Boats weights. Sales unparalleled
■, M'rtfc tfuick. Broha&p, PhiJa.. Pa.
$75.00 working for IL F. JohnsonSCo^
be made monthly
F. Johnfeon £ Co..
3South !lth SL,Richmond,V*