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A .Hatter ol Health.
Housekeepers faintly realize the
danger nf an indiscriminate use of th«
mi tiierotiH linking powders nowadays
found upon i very hand, and which aro
urged upon consumers with aiicli pi r
aiatency by peddlers and many grocers
on account of the Dig profit a made in
their aale. Most of these powders are
made from aharp and canatic acids and
alkalies which burn and inflame the
alimentary organa and can an indigna
tion, heartburn, diarrhoea! diseases,
etc. Sulphuric acid, canatic potash,
burnt alum, all are used as gaa-produc
ing agents in anch baking powdera.
Moat houHekiepcra are aware of the
painful efTeeta jiroduced when thoae
chenaicala aie applied to the external
flesh. Flow much more acute innat ho
their action upon the delicate internal
tneinbrarica I Vet unaeriipnloua man
nfaeturera do not heaitaieto uae them,
because they make a very low cost pow
der, nor to urge the use of their pow
deraaoniaile, by all kinda of alluring ad
vert momenta and falae representations.
All t.h* low prieed or ao-enllcd i-lienji
Fmking powdera, anil u]l powdera add
with a gift or prize, belong to this
clans.
linking powders made from chem
ically pure cream of tartar nnd bi-car
bonate of mala are among the moat
useful of modern eulinary devices.
They not only make the preparation
of finer and more delicious cookery
possible, but they have milled to the
digestibility and wholesomeness of
our food. Itut baking powders must
in composed of sueb pure ami whole
some ingredients or they must be ta
booed entirely.
Dr. Edson, Commissioner of Health
ol New York, in an article in the
"Doctor of Hygiene,” indicates that
fin advantages of a good baking pow
der and the exemption from the dan
gers of bad ones in which the liarali
mid caustic chemicals are uacd, are to
be seeurod by the use of ftoynl linking
Powder exclusively, and he recom
mends this to all consumers. ‘‘The
Royal,” he says, ‘‘contains nothing
but cream of tartar and soda
refined to a chemical purity, which
when combined under the influence of
heat and moisture produce pure car
bonic, or leavening, gin*. The iwo
materials used, cream of tartar and
Hilda, are perfect ly harmless even when
eaten, lull in this preparation they are
combined in exact compensating
weights, so that w hen elieluieal action
licgiue between them in the dough they
praet leiilly disappear, tin- substance of
both having been taken to form car
bonic acid gas.” Hence it is, lie says,
that the Royal linking Powder ia the
most perfect of all conceivable agents
sot leavening purposes.
It seems almost iueredible that any
manufacturer or dualor should urge the
aale of baking powdera containing in
jurious oboiuieals in place of those of
a well-known, pnre and wholesome
character simply for the aakc of a few
cents a pound greati r profit; but since
they do, a few words of warning seem
to lie necessary
Unlucky lii'iiin in America.
Opals have proved a bonanza down
In New Mexico, where, two localities
are worked, one near Los Cerrlllos
and the other In Grant County. Tim
former has been worked for many
centuries probably, as hundreds of
stone hammers are foiiud scattered
about the place. The mining Ims
been done by means of a shaft sunk
seventy-five feet, at the bottom of
which Is a lode running nearly east
and west. Thousands of stones wer*
obtained during the last two years,
according to Mr. Kunz, many of them
tine blue color, quits’ equal to the
best Persian. A single stone has
been sold for about *4,000. The dis
coveries have proved specially valua
ble at a time when the Persian mines
have almost ceased to yield. The
stones from the Grant County mines
ure not an Ideal turquoise blue, but
are often slightly tinted with green.
A heap of debris, fifty feet In height,
and quantities of small fragments of
weathered turquoise snttw that this
locality, like the other, was exten
sively worked by the' utioriglnes.
The use made of these stones by the
natives is said to be partly religious.
Opal mining has proved profitable at
Whelan, Wash., where this gem wa*
first found by a Yonkers Jeweler In »
heap of rock thrown out during the
excavation for a well. These tine
opals vary In size from half a pea to a
hen's egg, the smaller ones being fre
quently of very rich colors. The lo
cality where they are found is known
as Gem City now. possibly from tin
fact that a settlement of twenty
miners has been formed at the mine.
Her Difficulty;
An exchange relates that an old
lady travelling on the London under
ground road aud finding that the
train was approaching a station, said
to a man who sat at the farther end
of the compartment and was her only
follow-passenger:
“Would you kindly tell tue, sir,
shat is the next station?”
"Ravsvvater, madam,” was the
jourteous reply.
"Then would you mind, sir, when
we arrive, opening the door and help
ing me to get out?”
•With pleasure,” was the cordial
assent.
"You see,” the old lady wc nt on to
explain. "1 am well on lu years, and
1 have to get out slowly and l sick
ward, and when the porter sees me
getting out he shouts, ‘Look alive,
ma'am'.' and gives me a push in from
ts'hind and I’ve been round the
circle twice already."
This country needs tiuanshul ooufi
louse liioro’n it needs cold cash.
It don’t hurt a President to go
flailin' every now and then.
The godess uv Lihlverty is a ex
pensiv female.
A Congressman to be a representa
tive man ha- got to know somethin'
else ls*sldes stales a inC's'
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S BUN-
I)AV SERMON.
Subject: “A Proposition In C elebrate
tlie Nineteen Hundredth Birth
• day of Christ by an Inter
national Jubilee.”
Text “Tou* n chfhi i* horn,' Isaiah ix.,
6.
That Is a tremendous hour in the history
•f any larnlly when an Immortal spirit Is in
carnated. Out of a very dark cloud there
fles'-eiids a very bright morning. One life
snared and another given. All the bells of
glnduess ring over the <-radle. I know not
why any one should doubt that of old a star
pointed down to the Saviour's birthplace, for
a star of joy points down to every honorable
nativity. A new eternity dates from that
hour, that minute.
beautiful nnd appropriate is the custom of
celebrating the anniversary of such an event,
and elear on Into tbo eighties and nineties
the re- urrerieo of that day of the year in an
old man’s life causes recognition and more or
)e-- mu,-rntillation. So ah• Nations are ae
eustorned to eelebrate Hie anniversary of
their birth and the anniversary of the birth
of their great heroes or deliverers or benetao
tors. The 22d of February and the 4th of
July are never allowed to pass in our land
without baliquet and oration and bell ring
ing and eiuinoiride. Hut nil other birthday
anniversaries are fame compared witli the
Christmas festivity, which eelebrutes the
birth-lay deserilied in my text.
Protestant and Catholic and Greek
ohurehes, with all the power of iriusle and
garland and procession and -loxotogy, put
the words of my text into National nnd con
tinental and hemispheric chorus, "To us a
child is horn." On the 215th of December
each year that is the theme in Rt. Paul's and
Ht. Peter’s and St, Mark’s nnd Bt. Isaac’s ami
all ttie dedicated cathedrals, chapels, meet
ing houses and churches clear round the
World.
We shall soon reach the nineteen hun
dredth anniversary of that happi-st event of
all time. This century is dying. Only seven
more pulsations, and its heart will cease to
tieat. Tfie lingers of many of you will write
it at the head of your letters and the foot of
your Important documents, "1900.” It will
be a physical nnd moral sensation unlike
nnytnlng else you have before experienced.
Not one hand that wrote that “1801" at the
Induction of this century will have cunning
left to write "1001” at the induction of all
ot her.
The dentil of one century and the birth of
another century will he sublime nnd sug
gestive ami stupendous beyond nil estimate.
To Stand by the gra've of one century nnd hy
the era-lie i»f another will lie an opportunity
such ns whole generations of the world’s In
habitant* never experienced. I pray God
that there may hr no sickness or casualty to
hinder your arrival at that goal or to hinder
your taking part in the valedictory of the de
parting eentury and the salutation of the
new.
Hut as that season will he I lie nineteen
hundredth anniversary of a Saviour's birtlp
] now nominate that a great international
jubilee or exposition be opened in this clus
ter of cities by the seimoast on Christmas
day, the 26tli of Ihicoinlior, 1900, to he con
tinued for at least one month into tin' year
1901. This century closing December 31st,
1900, and the new century beginning Janu
ary Ist, 1901. will it not he time for all Na
tions to turn aside for a few weeks or mouths
from everything else and emphasize tlie birth
of the greatest being wiio ever touched our
planet, and could there lie a more appropri
atetlino for such commemoration than ttiis
Culmination of the centuries which are dated
from Ills nativity? You know that all his
tory dates either from before Christ or after
Christ, from 11. 0. or A. I). It will he the
year of our Lord 1900 passing Into the year
1901.
We have had tho Centennial at Philadel
phia, oelnbrutive of the one hundredth an
niversary of our Nation’s birth. Wo have
had the magnificent expositions at Now Or
leans nnd Atlanta and Augusta and Rf.
Louis. Wo have the present World's exposi
tion at Chicago, colebratlvo of this conti
nent’s emergence, and tiler • arc at least two
other grent celebrations promised for this
country, and other countries will have their
historic events to commemorate, but the one
event t lint has most to do with the welfare
of all Nations is th» arrival of Jesus
Christ on this planet, and all the enthusiasm
ever witnessed at London or Vienna or Paris
or auy of our American cities would bo
eclipsed by the enthusiasm that would cele
brate tho ransom of all nations, the first step
toward the accomplishing of it being taken
hy nu Infantile font on- winter's night about
five mill’s from Jerusalem, when the clouds
dropped the angelic enntantu, "Gloryto God
in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill
to men.”
The three or four questions that would bo
naked me concerning this nomination of lime
and place 1 proceed to answer. What prac
tical use would come of such international
celebration? Answer -The biggest stride
the world ever took toward the evangeliza
tion of ail Nations. That is a grand nnd
wonderful convocation, the religious con
gress nt Chicago. It will put intelligently be
fore the world the nature of false religions
which have been brutalizing the Nations,
tramping womanhood into the dust, enact
ing the horrors of infanticide, kindling
funeral pyres for shrieking victims, and
rolling juggernauts across the mangled bod
ies of their worshiper-.
Hut no one supposes that any one will bo
converted to Christ by hearing Confucianism
or Huddhlsm or any form of heathenism
eulogized. That is to bo done afterwards.
And how can it so well be -lone ,-is by a cele
bration of many weeks of the birth and char
acter and achievements of tie* wondrous and
unprecedented Christ? To such an exposi
tion the kings and queens of the earth would
not semi their representatives —they would
come themselv-'s.
The story of a Saviour s advent could not
l*e told without telling the story of ills mis
sion. All the world say, "Why this ado,
this universal demonstration.'' What a vivid
presentation it would t*e, when at such a con
vocation the physicians of the world should
tell what Christ has dona for hospitals and
the assuagement ol human pain, and when
Christian lawyers declare what Christ has
done for the establishment of good laws, and
Christian oouquerors should toll what Christ
had -lone in the conquest of Nations, and
Christian rulers of the • irth would tell what
Christ had done in the Government of earthly
dominions!
Thirty days of such celebration would do
more to tell the world who Christ is than
any thirty years V’t a land on earth but
would hoar of it and discuss it. Not an eye
so dimmed by the superstition of ages but
would see the illumination. The difference
of Christ's religion from all others is that its
one way of dissemination is hy a simple
••tolling," net argument, not skilful exeget
ists, polemics or the science es theological
tistcuffs. Gut ••telling. ' "Tell ve the
daughter ol Zion. Behold, thy King oometh."
“Go quickly and tell IDs disciples that H*
has risen from thedead. " "Go home to thy
friends and tell them how great things the
Lord hath done ior ih-s’." "When lie is
come, He will toil us all things.” A religion
Os ••telling."
And in what way could aii Nations so well
be told that Christ had come as by such an
International emphasizing of His nativity?
All India would cry out about such an affair,
for vou know they have their railroads and
telegraphs. What is going on in America':'*
All China would cry out. “What is that great
excitement in An.erica " Ail the lslan Is of
the sea would come down the gangplanks ot
the arriving ship* and ask. "What ts that
tbev are celebrating in America: it would
lie the mightiest missionary movement tho
world bos ever seen. It would be the turn
ing p-mt in the world's destiny. It would
wakl. the slumbering Notion* with ©no
touch
Question the Second -JTow would yon havs
such an international jubilee conducted? An
swer-All arts should lie marshaled, and art
in its most attractive and impressive shape.
First, architecture. While all academies of
music, and all churches, and all great halls
would lie needed, there should be one great
auditorium erected to hold such an audlenc*
as has never been seen on any sacred occa
sion in America.
If Kcrii.ouius Curio, at the cost of a king
dom, could build the first two vast amphi
theatres, placing them back to back, hold
ing great audiences for dramatic representa
tion, and then by wonderful machinery
could turn them round with all their
audiences in them, making the two
auditoriums otte amphitheatre, to witness a
gladftorial content, and Vespasian could con
struct the Coliseum with its oightv columns
nnd its triumphs In three orders 'Of Greek
architecture, and a capacity to hold 87,000
people seated and 15,000 standing, and all
for purposes of eruelty and sin, eannot our
glorious Christianity rear in honor of our
glorious Christ a structure Inrge enough to
bold 50,000 of its worshipers?
If we go groping now among the ruined
amphitheaters of Verona and Pompeii and
Canua and Puzzuoll and Tarraco, and firm
stand transfixed with amazement at their im
mense Sweep that held from 50,000 to 100,000
spectators gathered for carousal and moral
degradation, could not Christianity afford
one architectural achievement that would
hold and enthrall its 50,000 Christian disci
ples’ Do you say no humnn voice could lie
heard throughout such a building? Ah!
then you were not present when at the Bos
ton peace jubilee Parepa easily with her voice
enchanted 50.000 auditors.
And the time is near at band wnen in tneo
logicnl seminaries, where our young men are
being trained for the ministry, the voice will
be developed, and instead of the mumbling
ministers, who speak with so low a tone you
cannot hear unless you lean forward and
hold your hand behind your ear, and then
are able to guess tbo general drift of thnsute
ject and decide quite well whetlieE it is about
Moses or Paul or some one else- instead df
that you will have coming from the theologi
cal seminaries all over the land young min
isters with voice enough to command the at
tention of an audience of 50,000 people. That
is the reason that the Lord gives us two
lungs instead of one. It is the Divine way
of saying physiologically, “Be heard!”
That is the reason that, tho New Testament
in beginning the account of Christ’s sermon
on the mount describes our Lord’s plain
articulation and resound of utterance by say
ing, “He opened his mouth.” In that
mighty concert hall and preaching place
which 1 suggest for this nineteen hundredth
anniversary let music crown our Lord. Bring
all tho orchestras, ull the oratorios, all the
Philharmonic and If indoi and Hayiln so
cieties.
Then give us Haydn’s oratorio of tho
“Creation." for our Lord took part in uni
verso building and “without him,” says
John, “was not anything made that was
made,” and Handel’s ".Messiah” and
Beethoven's “Symphonies” ami Mendels
sohn's "Elijah,” tho prophet that-typified
our Christ and the grandest eonqiositions of
Gerinnn and English and American masters,
living or dead. All instruments that can
hum or roll or whisper or harp or flute or
Hap or trumpet orthunder the praises of the
Lord joined to ail voices that can chant or
warble or precentor multitudinous wor
shipers. What an arousing when 50,009
join in “Antioch” or "Coronation” or
• Ariel,’, rising into halleluiah or subsid
ing into an almost supernatural amen!
Yea, let sculpture stand on pedestals all
around that building- the forms of apostles
and martyrs, men and women, who spoke or
wrought or suffered Iry headsman’s ax or fire.
Where is my favorite ol all arts, this art of
sculpture, that it is not busier lor Christ or
that its work is not better appreciated? Let
it come forth at that world’s jubilee of the
nativity. We want a second Phidias to do
for that new temple what the first Phidias
did for the Parthenon. Let the marble of
( arrara come to resurrection to celebrate
our Lord’s resurrection. Let sculptors set
up in that auditorium of Christ’s eelebration
bas-relief and intaglio descriptive of the bat
tles won for our holy religion. Where are
the Cnnovas of the Nineteenth Century?
Where are the American Thorwaldsehs and
Clmntreys? Hidden somewhere, I warrant
you.
Lot sculpture turn that plaeo into another
Acropolis, but more glorious by ns much as
our Christ is stronger than their Hercules,
and has more to do with the sea than their
Neptune, and raises greater harvests than
I heir Ceres, and raises more musio ill the
heart of the world thau thoir Apollo. “The
gods of the hefthen are nothing but dumb
idols, but our Lord made the heavens.” In
•r.arblo pure as snow celebrate Him who
camo to make us "whiter than snow.” Lot
tiie ehisei ns well as pencil nnd pen be put
down at the feet of Jesus.
Yen. let painting do its best. Tho foreign
galleries will loan for such a jubilee their
Madonnas, their Angelos, their Rubens,their
Raphaels, their "Christ at the Jordan.” or
“Christ at the Last Supper,” or “Christ Com
ing to Judgment.” or "Christ on the Throne
of Universal Dominion, and our own Morans
will put their pencils into the nineteen hun
dredth anniversary, and our Bierstadts from
sketching "Tho Domes of tho Yosemite’’ will
come to present the domes of the world con
quered tor Immanuel.
Added to all this 1 would have a floral
decoration on a scale never equaled. The
fields and open gardens could not furnish it,
for it will lie winter, and that season appro
priately chosen, for it was into the frostsand
in solations of winter that Christ immigrated
when he came to our world. But while the
fields will tie hare, ttie conservatories and
hot-liou.es within 200 miles would gladly
keep the sacred coliseum radiant and aro
matic during all the convocations.
Added to all let there be banquets, not
like the drunken bout at the Metropolitan
Open House, New York, eelebrating the
centennial of Washington’s inauguration,
where the rivers ol wine drowned the so
briety of so many senators and governors
and generals, but u banquet for the poor, tho
feeding oi seores of thousands of people of a
world in which the majority of the inhabi
tants have never yet had enough to eat. not
a banquet at which a few favored men and
women of social or political fortune shall
sit, but such a banquet as Christ ordered
when He told lits servants to “go out into
the highways anil hedges and compel them
to come in.” 1 -ct tho mayors of cities and
tli* governors of States and the President of
the United States proclaim a whole week of
legal holiday— at least from Christmas day
to New Year's day.
Added to ttiis let there be at that interna
tional moral and religious exposition a
mammoth distribution of sacred literature.
Let the leading ministers from England,
Scotland, Ireland, France. Germany and lhe
world take the pulpits of all these eitiet and
tell what they know of Him whose bE-th we
celebrate. At those convocations let vast
sums of money tie raised for churches, lor
asylums, tor schools, for colleges, ail ot
wuichinstitutions were bom in the heart of
Christ. On that day and in that season
when Christ gave Himself to the world let
the world give itself to Him.
Why do I propose America as the Country
for this convocation? Because most other
lands have a Stale religion, and while all
forms of religion may be tolerate.! in many
lauds America is the'only country on earth
where all evangelical denominations stand
on an even footing, and all would have vqual
hearing in such an international exposition.
Why do i select this cluster of sep.-oast cit
ies? Answer By that time December 20,
l.iip tic . - four cities of New York. Brook
lyn, Jersey City and Hoboken, by bridges
ami tunnels, will be practically oae aud with
an aggregate population of about 6.000.000.
Consequently no other port of America will
have such an immensity of population.
Why do I now make this nomination of
time and place? Answer -Because sued a
stupendous movement eannot be extempor
ized. It will take seven years to get ready
tor such an overt iweruig celebration, and
the work ought to t>egin speedily in churches,
in colleges, in legislatures, in congresses, in
parliaments, u. all styles of National MM
.»gtw, and we have'no tun* to lo*e. it
would tafio three yean; to make a programme
worthy of eiK-h a eomiog together.
Why do 11 ike it upon myself to makesueh
a noir.in-.tion of time and plaea? Answer —
Beeaij .- it so happened that in the mysteri
ous providenee of God, horn in a farmhouse
and of no royal or princely descent, the doors
of communication ar<‘ open to me every week
by the secular and religious printing presses
and have been open to me every week for
many years, with all the cities and towns ami
neighborhoods of Christendom, and indeed
in lands outside of Christendom, where
printing presses have been established, and I
fee! that if there is anything worthy in this
proposition it will In' heeded and adopted.
On the other hand, if it be too sanguine, or
too hopeful, or tod impractical, I a-.i sure it
will do no harm that I have expressed my
wish for such an international jubilee, cele
brative of the birth of our Immanuel.
My friends, such a birthday celeb ration at
the dose of one century and reaching into a
new century would be something in which
heaves and earth could join. It would not i
only bn international, but interplanetary, |
interstellar, interconstellation. If you re
member what occurred on the first Christ
mas night, you know that it was not a joy
confined to our World. The choir above
Bethlehem was imported from another
world, and when the star left its usual
sphere to designate the birthplace all
astronomy felt tbs thrill. If there be any
thing true about our religion, it is that other
worlds are sympathetic with this world and
In communication with it. The glorified of
heaven would join in such a celebration.
Tlie generations that toiled to have the
world for Christ would take part in such
jubilation and prolonged assemblage.
The upper galleries of God’s universe
would applaud the scene, whether we heard
the clap of their wings and the shout of their
voices or did not hear them. Prophets who
predicted the Messiah, and apostles who
talked with Him, and martyrs who died for
Him would take part in the seene, though to
our poor eyesight they might be invisible.
The old missionaries who died in the malarial
swamps Os Alrica, or V.’ere struck down by
Egyptian typhus, hr were butchered at Lucks
now. or were slain by Borncsian cannibals
would come down from their thrones to re
joice that at last Christ had been heard of,
and so speedily in all nations. At the first
roll of the first overture of the first day of
that meeting all heaven would cry : “Hear !
Hear!”
Aye! Aye ! I think myself such a vast pro
cedure as that might hasten our Lor i s com
ing, and that the expectation of many mil
lions of Christians who believe in the second
advent might be realized then at that con
junction of the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries. Ido not say it would be, yet whet
knows but that our blessed and adored Mas
ter, pleased with such a plan of worldwide
observance, might say concerning this wan
dering and rebellious plauet, “That world at
last shows a disposition to appreciate what I
have done for it. an.NviUi one wave of my
scarred hand Twill bless aii l reclaim and
save it.”
That such a celebration of our Lord’s birth,
kept up for days and months, would please
all the good of earth and mightily speed on
the gospel chariot and please all tile heavens,
saintly, cherubic, seraphic, arehangolic and
divine, is beyond question. Oh. get ready
for the world’s greatest Testivilvl Tiumvour
voices for the world’s greatest antjiem. Lift
the arches for the world's mightiest proces
sion. Let the advancing standard of the
army of years, which has ins-ribod on one
side of it “1900" au l on theotherside “1901,”
have also inscribed on it the most charming
name of all the universe -the name ot Jesus.
AVhether this suggestion of a world’s cele
bration of tho nativity be taken or not, it
has allowed me an opportunity in a some
what unusual way of expressing my love for
the great central character of all time and
nil eternity. He is the infinite nonesuch.
The armies of heaven drop on their knees
before him. After Bourdaloue, before over
whelmed audiences, lias preached Him, and
Milton in immortal blank verse has sung
Him, and Michael Angelo has glorified the
ceiling of the Vatican with His second com
ing, and martyrs while girdled and cano
pied with the flames of the stake
have Tritli burning lips kissed his mem
ory, and in the “hundred and forty and four
thousand”,of heaven with feet on seas of
glass iutorshot with sunrise, have with up
lifted and downswung baton, and sounding
cornets, and waving banners, and heaven
capturing doxologios celebrated Him. the
story of His loveliness, and Hismightand His
beauty, and His grandeur, and His grace, and
His intercession, and His sacrifice, ami vs His
birth, and His death will remain untold. Be
His name on our lips while we live, and when
we die after we have spoken farewell to father
and another and wife, and child lot us speak
that name which is the lullaby of earth and
the transport of heaven.
Before the crossing of time on the mid
night between December 31. 1900, and the
Ist of January, 1901, many of us will be
gone. Some of you will hear the clock strike
twelve of one eentury and an Hour after it
hear it strike one of another century, but
many of you will not that midnight hear
either the stroke of old the city clock or of
the old timepiece in the halfway of the home
stead. Seven years cut a wide swath through
the churches and communities and Nations.
But those who cross from world to world
before Old Time in this world crosses that
midnight from century to century will talk
among tho thrones of the coming earthly
jubilee, and on the river bank and in the
house of many mansions, until ail heaven
will know of the coming of that celebration,
that will till the earthly Nations with joy and
help augment the Nations of heaven. But
whether here or there we will lake part in
the music and the banqueting it wo have
made the Lord our portion.
Oh, how 1 would like to stand at my front
door some morning or noon or night and see
the sky part and the bh—s-M I. ir 1 descend in
person, not as he will come in the last judg
ment, with tire and hail and earthquake, but
in sweet tenderness to pardon ail sin, and
heal all wounds, and wipe away all tears,
and feed all hunger, and right all wrougs.
and illumine all darkness, and break all
bondage, and harmonize ail discords. Homo
think ho will thus come, but about that
eomfng I make no prophecy, for I am not
enough learned iu the Scriptures, as some of
my friends are, to announce a very positive
opinion.
Bu: this Ido know, that it would bo well
for us to have an international and an inter
wori I eel" .ration of the anniversary ot His
birthday about the time of the birth of tho
new century, and that it will be w.se beyond
all others' wisdom for us to take Him as our
present au I everlasting coadjutor, and if
that Darling of earth and heaven will only
h. eep: you an I me ait t all our liietitno of
unwortnin-—. ali i sia we.•an never pay Hun
what w ■ or ..though through aii the eternity
to come we iia.l every hour a new song and
overv moment a new ascription of homage
ant praise, tor you s.-o we were far out
among the lost sheep that the gospel hymn
so patuetleaily describes :
. at in the .1.- -rt i.c bearti its cry,
s . a .aid elpil'-s an 1 tea iy to Ute,
~..it all t 'rouva the mountain thunder riven,
An l up ir.en the nx'fcy sleep,
l here r(... a erv to the Kate of heaven,
R. ) re. 1 have t.uiiid my sheep’"
And the angel* echo round the throne,
“Rej >kv, for the Lord hring* l.aek His ow»P
m'-nf.y ci?.rrt nip r.v prink.
Driuler* say. "The money spent for In
toxicants is thus put in active circulation,
and so prevents, instead of creates, hard
liu.es.' The pi. : po. net takes *lot> from the
It night : that mo ivy, a No, is put in "rcu t-
UOU. But it iaifireulating in oeu-of shy ;■»
and crime. Tin- next day it would have be u
cir.'uluting among workingmen for tb- <.*
w,ig» s. or the merehot t for dry goo .sins: l
o’ - wet good*.' it 1- trt’ 'ivrre i .
healthy to unhealthy circulate, i». aad iiar -
instead of heit s tne tru- inter sts ot I.c >c
, capital. Consequently it would lik - *
been better tor labor au t eapit il n t in: -i J
had been sunk “wh-re the sea is deejsst.
Siarto 181 J the world's production
of meat has increased lifty»seven i i
oeut.; that of Kiaia 130 per cent.
Sir William Outwitted Him.
Mrs. Kipling, Rudyard Kipling’s
mother, once hit off a very clever
but extremely garrulous and per
sistently talkative official by saying
that he was essentially a clever man,
but he ought never be allowed to
talk: he should be used as a diction
ary, and consulted when required.
This man was once a guest at a
dinner in company with Sir W. W.
Hunter. The conversation began by
being general, but the Lahore talker
and Sir W. W. soon monopolized it.
A duel or a duologue suited neither,
and at last Sir William said down the
tabic: “Excuse me one moment, Mr.
*■——, and allow me to finish my re
mark.” And Mr. did so: but the
temark lasted unnil the company rose
Trom the table, and Mr. - —never
had a chance of getting in another
Word edgeways.
J& IOH Reward.
The readers of this paper will bo pleased to
.earn t hat there is at Toast one dreaded disease
hat science has been able to pnro in all its
•dages, and that is catarrh. Hail s Gatarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being rteofi-
Btitutional disease, requires a constitutional*
treatm*ut. Hall’s ( alarrh ( ure is taken in
ternally, acting dire, tiy upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system, thereby' de
stroying the foundation of the disease, and
giving t he patient strenxth by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors ha. e m much faith in
its curative powers that- they offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any case that rt fails to cure.
Send tor list of testimonials. Addr\ ss
F. J. ( n i n ky & (*<>., 1 vdedo, O*
&T jrrold by Druggists. ?r.c
Tho tail of the beaver gave the hint for the
trowel of the mason.
Brown’s Iron Uitr-rs cure- Dy*rv psi?, Mala
ria, Biliousness and General Debilit . (lives
strength, aid- I)i e-Don, tone* tie n * ves—
creates appetite. The best tonic fm- _.urging
Mothers, weak women and children.
Audiences ore not permitted to applaud in
ItU'Sian theaters.
when Nature
Needs assistance it may be best to render it
promptly,but one should remember touse even
the most perfect remedies only when needed.
The best and most simple and gentle remedy is
the Sytup of Figs manufactured by the Cali
fonnia Fig Svrun Co
Machines for setting typo were invented
by Mitchell in 1854.
Malaria cured and eradicated from the sys
tem by Brown’s Iron Bitters, which enriches
the blood, tones the nerves, aids digest*on.
Acts lik” a charm on persons in general ill
health, giving new energy and strength.
“God Save the Queen” is sung in nearly
20 languages.
In every community there are a number of
men whose whole time is not occupied, such as
teat’lag's, ministers, fanners’ sons and others.
To t hese Cla-se* csp< ially we wonlrl say, if you
wish to make several hundred dollars during
the next lew months, write at unite t». B. i*.
Johnson Co., of Richmond, Va M and they
will show you how to do if.
Impaired digestion cured by Beech irn’c
Pills. Bcccham’s—no others. 25 cents a box.
If afflicted with sore eyes us:’ I>r. Isaac Thontp •
» Hi’s Kye Water. Druggists sell at Th\ a Iwdtle*
Neuralgia Cured
“Formerly F suffered with neuralgia, but it
has not troubled me since 1 have taken Hood’s
Sarsaparilla, I r• v«»
Hood’s to my little gii Uf
for throat trouble, and it i
gave her immediate re- J s&saii
lief. My brother has also i*y
taken it and it has cured | zyr
him of asthma. Frt*- ~ s
viously, he could not I
eat. much< and got only
a little sleep. Now In
has a good appetite, can
breathe easily and sleep
soundly at night. He lins regained hi 9
former strength and weight. We are all in*
Hood’s^Cures
debted to Hood’s Sarsaparilla and will use no
other medicine.” Mug. Rebecca West, Orrs
town, Pa. N. P. Get only Hood’s*
IIOOD’S PI LIjS are purely vegetable, careful
ly prepared from the best Ingredients. 2T» cents.
CANCER
CURED WITHOUT THE KNIFE
Or use of painful, burning, poisonous plas
ters. Cancers exclusively trea’ed. Dr.
P. B. Green's Sanatorium, Fort Payne, Ala.
o
Ingleside 3E&etreat.
For Discuses of Women. Scientific treatment ami
cures guaranteed. Elegant npartmeuts for ladies be
fore ami during confinement. Address The Resi
dent Phyrii lap, il-72 Baxter ( ourt, Nashville, Tenn.
A AA I • e.-ii!: »M ill lie monthly
Jlk / _ I Bfl I workiug f«»r R. 1 .t<*;mson& ‘
“ B , Bd,Vi
MEND YOUR OWN HARNESS
fWITH
THOMSON'S
SLOTTED
CLINCH RIVETS.
No tools required. Only a hammer needed to drive
an i ( inch Hum easily and quickly, leaving the clinch
at. 3. ut*iy smooth. IL-quiring n<» he e to be made in
h leather nor tiurr tor the Rivets. They are Mtrouts,
tougli ami durot'lo. Millions now in use. Aii
icn-tIH, uniform or assorted, put up in boxes.
Ask Tour dealer for (licmi, or send 40c. in
stamps for awx ot lOu, assorted sizes. Man id by ,
JUDSON L. THOMSON MFG. CO..
WALTHA.’I, .HASS.
“a H i’oea" FAMILY MEDICINE;
■ For Indigestion, B !lousne®«.
IlcadkU'iie, t'ou«tlpali<'n. Itnd
■ Complexion, Otfiiwhe Breath, ■
■ and all disorders u* tb© Stouiacb,
Lii.crand B.wels, /o
I RIPANS TABULES JIJ I
r net gently yet promt tiy. nsrfert MHjjToUw/ -
■ digestion follows th«.-ir us«*. b<wd |
|(6 vlaJ-< ~ V. JPack&K-• ♦ boXA»j, sl. |
I For free santplee audreae ■
s Klt’AN* « IIKMICAUCO., New York. J
MOCKING Jb
/A Uj anirfi d- mestie snunals <-sn tain 3
An xalnnblf' t-eok*. on tl.r r »;1-
nJk Q C th * “”* ry 1 " 9
Fa If nCL/ B O their health, with free mi - I
■ I re CCC 4 FK.'-xrri ELD'S < suJr P; * der,
SkUEvJbO FREE b* mfii'. by Dr. Domuiip.
POCS&COWS.j
CANCER ( }
NO KNIFK. NO POISON. NO PL.VsTEK
JNO. B. HARRIS, Fort P»ynr. Ala..
with Pa«te*. Knamels
bands, injure taa ln>n and burn ngL * j
less Duniwo. :ai<l tb© consumer pave for no tin I
or gimm package with every purchase. J
“German
Syrup”
William McKce'kan, Druggist at
Blooming;dale, Mi,eh. “ I have had
the Asthma badly ever since I came
out of the army ana though I have
been in the drug business for fifteen
years, and have tried nearly every
thing on the market, nothing has
given me the slightest .relief until a
few months ago, when J used Bo
schee’s German Syrup. I now
glad to acknowledge the gi'ent good
it has done me. lam greatly r reliev
ed during the day and at nigi'tgo to
sleep without the least troublA •’* 9
Locking Better
feeling better—
better in every- i
way. There’s kHa’-'f
more consolation
in that than well Cf / f
people stop to
ponder. To get
back flesh and /’
spirits is every- IpfelS
thing. »
Scoffs EmulsioK v
of pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypo*
pliosphites is prescribed by lead-1
ing physicians everywhere for ail-'
ments that are causing rapid lossi
of flesh and vital strength.
Scott’s Emulsion will do more than
to stop a limcering Cough- it fortifies
the system AGAINST coughs and colds.
Prepared by Scott & Bowne. N. Y. AH druggists.
im—' 1 u rmwiTUTi
sio A Day Free!
wmmm —■—
Enclose in a letter containing
your full name and address, the
outside wupper of a bottle of
Smith's Bile Beans (either size).
If your letter is*he first one opened
in the first rooming mail of any
dav except St>. day $5 w ]“
sent vou at h the 2d, 3d,
4ih, s;th or 6th, si~ Ask for the
SMALL size. Fu» list mailed to
all who send- pottage /or it (acts.).
Address J. F. Smith & Co.
No. 2x5 Greenwich St,, New York.
—’ “ Not a S r ‘P®
M&ASp in a bsVrel of
Unlike the Dutch Process
r% No Alkalies
W j —OR— 1
Other Chemicals
‘ arG <»sed in tho
preparation of
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JreakfastCccoa
which if* absolutely
pure and soluble.
It has more than three timet
the strength of Cocoa mixed
with Starch, Arrowroot or
Sugar, and is far uvire eco
nomical, costing less than one cent a cup
It is delicious, nourishing, and easily
DIGESTED.
Sold by Gropers everywhere.
W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass.
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