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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUNDAY DIS-
COUItSE.
Subject: “llooz and Ruth.’*
Text:, “And slie went and eamo and
gleaned in the field after the reapers, and
her hap was to H(tht on a part of the field
belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kin¬
dred of Eiimelech."—Ruth 11., 8.
The time that Ruth and Naomi nrrive nt
Bethlehem is harvest time. It was the cus¬
tom when a slienf foil from a load in the
harvest field for the reapers to refuse to
gather it up. That was to be left for the
poor who might happen to come along that
way. If there were handfuls ot grain scat¬
tered across the field after the main harvesi
had been reaped, iustead of raking it, as
fanners land, do left now. it place was, by tho custom ol
the in its so that the poor,
coming that wav, might glem it and get
their bread. But you say. “What is the
use of all these harvest fields to Ruth and
Naomi? Naomi is too old and feeble to go
out nnd toil in the sun, and can you expect
that should Ruth, the cheeks young and the beautitul.
tan her and blister her hands
iD the harvest field?”
Boaz owns a large farm, and ho goes out
to seethe reapers gather In the grain. Com¬
ing there, right behind the swarthy, (em¬
browned reapers, ho beholds a beautiful
woman gleaning—a woman more fit to bend
to a harp or sit upon a throne than to stoop
among the sheaves. Ah, that was an event¬
ful day!
It was love at first sight. Boaz forms an
attachment for the womanly gleaner—au
attachment full of undying interest to tho
church of God in all ages, while Bnlh, with
an ophah. or nearly a bushel of barley, goes
home to Naomi to telt bor the successes and
adventures of the day. That Ituth, who left
her native land of Moab in darkness, and
traveled through an undying affection for
her mother-in-inw, is in the harvest field of
Boaz, is affianced to one of the best families
in Judah, aud becomes in after time the an¬
cestress of Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
Out of so dark a night did there ever dawn
so bright a morning?
I learn in the first place from this subject
how trouble develops character. It was be¬
reavement,poverty and exile that developed,
illustrated and announced to all ages the
sublimity of Ruth’s ehuraeter. That is n very
unfortunate man who has no trouble. It was
sorrow that made John Bunyau the belter
dreamer, and Dr. Young the better poet, and
O’Connell the better orator, and Bishop Halt
j soldier, he better preacher, aud Havelock the betier
and Kitto the better encyclopaedist,
hud Ruth tho better daughter-in-law.
I once asked an aged man in regard to his
pastor, who was a very brilliant man, “IVhy
is it that your pastor, so very brilliant, seems
to have so little heart and tenderness In his
sermons?” “Well,” he replied, -“the reason
is our pnstor has never had any trouble.
When misfortune comes upon him, his style
will be different.” After awhile the Lord
took a child out of that pastor’s house, aud
though the preacher was just as brilliant as
he was before^ oh, the warmth, the tender¬
ness of his discourses'. The fact is that
trouble is a great educator. You see some¬
times a musician sit down nt an instrument
and his execution is cold and formal anu un¬
feeling. The reason is that all his life he
has been prospered. But let misfortune or
bereavement come to that man, and ho sits
down at the instrument, and yon discover
the pathos in the first sweep of the keys.
Misfortune and trials are great educators.
A young doctorcomes into a sickroom where
there is a dying child. Perhaps he Is very
rough in his prescription and very rough in
his manner and rough in the-feeling of the
pulse nnd rough in his answer to the mother’s
anxious has question. But years roll on, and
there been one dead in his own hoqse.
and now he comes into the sickroom, and
with tearful eyes he looks at the dying chilli,
and he says, “Ob, bow this reminds me of
my Charlie!” Trouble, the great educator.
Sorrow—I see its toil eh jn the grandest
painting, I h'-ar its tremor in the sweetest
song, I feel its power in the Aightiest argu-
me nt.
Grecian mythology said that the fountain
of Hippoerene was struck* out by the foot o[
the winged horse Pegasus. 1 have often
noticeii in life that the brightest and most
beautiful fonntainsof Christian comfort and
spiritual life h ave been struck out by the i ron
shod hoof of disaster and calamity. I see
Daniel’s courage best by the flash of Nebu¬
chadnezzar's ftirnaee. I see Paul's prowess
best when I find him on the foundering ship
under the glare of the lightning in the
breakers of Melita. God crowns his chil¬
dren amid the howling of wild beasts and
the chopping of blood splashed guillotine
and the crackling tires of martyrdom. It
took the persecutions of Marcus Aurelius to
develop all Polycarp and Justin Martyr, "Scotch It
took the hostilities against the
Covenanters and the fury of Lord Claver-
house to develop James Renwiek and Au-
drew Melville and Hugh McKail, the glori¬
ous martyrs of Seotoh history. It took the
stormy soa and the December blast and tho
desolate New England coast and the wnr
wnoop of savages to show torth the prowess
of the pilgrim fathers.
When amid the storms they sang.
And the slurs heard, aud the sea,
And the sounding aisles of the dim wood
Rang to the anthems of the free.
It took all our past national distresses, and
it takes all our present national sorrows to
lift up our nation on that high career where
it will march long after the foreign aristoc¬
racies have mocked and tyrannies that have
jeered, shall be swept down under the om¬
nipotent wrath of God, who hates despotism
and who, by tho strength of his own red
right arm, will make all men free. And so
it is church individually , and in tho family, and in
the and in the world, that through
darkness and storm and trouble men,
women, churches, nations, are developed.
faltering Again, I see in my text ihe beauty of un¬
plenty of friendship. friends I suppose there were
for Naomi white she was in
prosperity, but of all her acquaintances how
many Judah, were willing to trudge off with her to¬
ward when she had to make that
lonely journey? One—the heroine of mv
Naomi’s text. One—absolutely husband one. I suppose when
plenty of and was all living, and they had
they had money, things went well,
that lifter n her great many callers, but I supposo
husband died, and her prop¬
erty went, aud she got old and poor, she was
not troubled very much with callers. All (he
birds that sung in the bower while the sun
shone have gone to their nests now the night
has fallen.
Oh, these beautiful sunflowers that spread
out thoir color in the morning hour! But
they are always asleep when the sun is
going down. Job hud plenty of friends
when lie was the richest man in Uz, hut
when his property wont and the trials came
then there were none so much that pestered
as Elipliaz the Temanite, and Bildad the
Shuhite, and Zophar tho Naamathite.
Life often seems to be a mere game,
where the successful player pulls down all
the other men into his own jap. Let sus-
picions arise about a man’s character, and
ho becomes like a bank in a panic, and all
the imputations rush on him and break down
in a day that character which in due time
would have had strength to defend itself.
There are reputations that have been half a
century in building which go down under
the one push, a3 of a vast temple is consumed by
touch a sulphurous match. A hog
can In uproot this world, a century full plant. of heartlessness
so and
hypocrisy, friend how thrilling it of ie adversity to find some
as faithful in days as in
days of prosperity? David had such a friend
in Hushai; the Jews had such a friend in
Mordecni, Paul who never forgot their cause;
visited had such a friend in Onesiphorus, who
him in jail; Christ had such in the
Marys, who adhered to Him on the cross;
Naomi had such none in Ruth, who cried
out: “Entreat me not to leave thee, or to re¬
turn from following after thee, for whither
thou goest I will go, and whither thou
lodgest I will lodge. Thy people shall be
tnv people, and thv God mv Go.'. Where
ttloii dicst 'will I die, and thero will I be
burled. The Lard do «o to me, and mow
also.it aught but death pact vou and me.”
Attain. I learn from this aubjeot that paths
whleh open In hardship and darkness often
come out in places of joy. When Ruth started
from Moab toward Jerusalem to go alone
with her mother-in-law, “Oh, I supoose the peo¬
ple said: what a foolish creature to
go away from her father’s house: to go off
with a poor old woman toward the land of
Judah! Thuy won’t live to (ret across the
despft. They will be drowned in the sea, or
the jackals of the wilderness will destroy
them.” It was a very dark, morning when
Ruth started off with Naomi. But behold her
In my text In the harvest field of Boaz, to be
affianced to one of the lords of the land and
become ore of tho (trandmothers of Jesus
Christ, the Lord of glory. And so it often
Is that a path which ottea starts very darkly
ends very br’ghtly.
When you started out for heaven, oh, how
dark was the hour of conviction; how Sinai
thundered and the devils tormented and the
darkness thickened! All tho sins of your life
pounced upon yon and it was tho darkest
hour you ever saw when you first found out
your sins. After awhile you went Into the
harvest field of God’s mercy. You bevan to
glean in the fields of divine promise anil you
had more sheaves than you oould carry ns
the voice of God addressed you saying.
“Blessed is the man whose transgressions are
forgiven nnrt whoso sins are covered.” A
very dark starting in conviction, a very
bright ending in the pardon and the hops
and the triumph of the gospel:
So, very olten in our worldly business or
in our spiritual career we start The off on a very
dark path. We must go. flesh may
shrink hack, hut there is a voles within, or a
voice from above, saving. “Yon must go.”
And we have to drink the gall, and wo have
to carry tho cross, and we have to traverse
the desert, and we are pounded and flailed
of misrepresentation and abuse, and we have
to urge our way through 10.000 obstacles
that have been slain tw our own right arm.
We have to ford the river, we have to climb
the mountain, we have to storm the castle,
hut, blessed be God, the day of rest and re¬
ward will come. On the tin top of the cap¬
tured battlements we will shout tho victory;
if not in this world, then in that world where
there is no gall to drink, no burdens to carry,
no battles to fight. How do I know it? Know
it! I know it bocauso God says so: “They
shall hunger no more, neither thirst anv
more, neither shall the sun light on them,
nor any heat, for the Lamb which is in the
midst of the throne shall lead them to living
fountains of water, and God shall wipe all
tears from their eyes ”
It was very hard for Noah to endure the
scoffing ot the people in his day, while he
was trying to build the ark and was everv
morning quizzed about his old boat that
would never he of any practical use; but
when the deluge came and the tons of tho
mountains disappeared like the backs of sea-
monsters, and tho elements, lashed up in
furv, clapped their hands over a drowned
world then Noah in the ark rejoiced in his
own safety and lu tlm safety of his family
and looked out on the wreck of a ruined
earth.
Christ, hounded of persecutors, denied a
pillow, worse maltreated than the thieves on
either side of the cross, human hate smack¬
ing tts lips in satisfaction after it had been
draining its last drop of htood. the sheeted
dend bursting from the sooulohers at His
crucifixion! Tell me, O Getbsemane and
Golgotha, were these ever darker times than
those? Like the booming of the midnight
sea against the rock, the surges of Christ’s
anguish beat against the gates of eternity, to
be echoed back by all the thrones of heaven
and all the dungeons of hell. But the day
of reward comes for Christ. All the pomp
and dominion of this world are to bo hung
on His throne, crowned heads are to bowbo-
foro Him on whose head are many crowns,.
and all the celestial worship is to come up at
HiS feet, like the humming of tha forest, like
the rushing of the waters, like the thunder¬
ing of the sens, while ail heaven, rising on
their thrones, beat time with their couplers,
reigneth “Halleluiah, ” for the Lord God omnipotent
That song of love, now low and far.
Ere long shall swell from star to star;
That tight, tho breaking day which tips
The goldou spired Apocalypse.
Again, I lenrn from my subject ttnt events
which seem to be most insignificant may be
momentous. Can you imagine anything
more unimportant Moab than thecoming of a poor
woman from to Jndali? Can you
imagine anything more trivial than the faol
that this Ruth just happened to alight—as
to
field of Boaz? Yet all eges, all generations,
have an interest in the fact that she was to
become an ancestress of the Lord Jesus
Christ, look and all nations and kingdoms must
at that one little incident with a thrill
of unspeakable and eternal satisfaction. So
it is in your history and in mine. Events
that you thought of no importance at all
have been of very great moment. That
casual conversation, that accidental meet¬
ing—vou did not think of it again for a long
while, hut how it changed all the phases of
your life.
It seemed to be of no importance that
Jubal invented rude instruments of music,
calling them harp and organs, but they were
the introduction of alt the world's minstrelsy,
and as you hear the vibration of a stringed
instrument, taken even after the fingers have been
away from it, so all music now of lute
and drum and cornet is only the long con¬
tinued strains of Jubal’s harp and Jubal’s
organ. It seemed to be a matter of very lit¬
tle importance that Tubal Cain learned the
uses of copper and iron, but that rude foun¬
dry of ancient days has its echo in the rattle
of Birmingham machinery and the roar and
bang of factories on the Merrimac,
It seemed to be a matter of no importance
that Luther found a Bible in a monastery,
but as he opened that Bible and the brass-
bouud ltds fell back they jarred everything,
and the rustling of the wormed leaves was
tho sound of tho wings of the angel of the
reformation. It soemed to be a matter ot no
importance that a woman whose name has
been forgotten bad dropped a tract in the way of
a very man of the name of Bichard Bax¬
ter. Ho picked up tha tract and read it, and
it was the means ot his salvation. In after
days that man wrote a book called “The
Call of to the Unconverted,” that was the means
bringing a multitudo to God, among
others Phillip Doddridge. Philip Doddridge
wrote a book called “The Rise and Pro¬
gress of Religion,” which has brought
thousands and tens of thousands
Into the kingdom of God and among others
the great Wilberforce. Wilberforeo wrote a
book called “A Practical View of Christian¬
ity,” which multitude was the means of bringing a
Legh great Richmond. to Christ, among others
.Legh Richmond wrote a
tract called “The-’Dairyman’s Daughter,’'
which has been the means of the salvation of
unconverted multitudes. And that tide of
influence started from the fact that one
Christian woman dropped a Christian tract
in tho way ot lUahard Baxter, the tide of in¬
fluence rolling on through Richard Baxter,
through the great. Wilberforce, through
Legh Richmond, on. on, on, forever, for¬
ever. So the insignificant events of this
world, seem, after all, to De tho most mo¬
mentous.
Again, I see in my subject an illustration
of ihe beauty of female industry.
Behold Ruth toiling in the harvest field
under the hot sun or at noon taking plain
bread with the reapers or eating the parched
com which Boas handed to her. The cus¬
toms of society, of course, have changed,
and without the hardships and exposure to
which Ruth was subjected every intelligent
woman —Hi find something to do.
I know there is a sickly sentimentality on
this subject. In some families there are
persons of no practical service to the house¬
hold or community, alt and, though there are so
many woes around about them in tho
world,they spend their time languishing over
a new pattern or bursting into tears at mid¬
night oyer the story of soma lover who shot
himself. They would not deign to look at
Ruth currying back the barley on her wav
home to her mother-in-law, Naomi. All
this fastidiousness may seem to do very well
while they are under the shelter of their
iaihsr’s\tiouse, hut when the sharp winter ot
\
misfortune comes, what of these butterflies?
Persons under indulgent parentage may got
upon themselves habtts ot Indolence, but
when they come out into practical life their
soul will recoil with disgust and chagrin.
They will feel lu their hearts what the poet
so severely satirized when he said:
Polks are so awkward, things morning so impolite, until
They're night. elegantly pained Irom
Through that gate of indolenoe how many
men and women have marohed, useless on
earth, to a destroyed eternity! Splnola said
to Sir Horace Vere, “Of what did your
brother die?” “Of Imving nothing to do,"
was the answer. “Ah,” said Splnola, "that’s
enough to kill any general of us!” Oh, can
it be possible in this world, where there is so
muoh suffering to be alleviated, so much
darkness to be enlightened and so many bur¬
dens to be carried, that there is any porson
whs cannot find nnything to do?
Mme. de Stael did a world of work In her
time, and one day, while all she was seated
amid instruments of music, of which she
had mastered, and amid manuscript books
which she had wrdton, some one said to ner,
"How do yon find time to nttend to nil these
things?" things “Oh,” proud she replied, My “these chief are not
tho I am of. hoost is
in the fact that I have seventeen trades, by
any one of which I oould make a livelihood if
necessary.” And, if in secular spheres there
is so much to be done, in spiritual dying all work how
vast the (told! How many around
about us without one word of comfort! Wo
want more Abigails, more Hannahs, more
Rebeccas, more Marys, more Deborahs, con¬
secrated, body, mind, soul, to tho Lord who
bought thorn.
Once more I lenrn from my subject the
value of gleaning.
Ruth going into that harvest field might
have said: “There is a straw, and there is a
straw, but what is a straw? I can’t get any
barley for myself or my mother-in-law out
of these separate straws.” Not so said
beautiful Ruth. She gathered two straws,
and she put them together, and more straws,
until she got enough to make a sheaf. Rut¬
ting that down, she went and gathered more
straws, until she had another sheaf, and
nnothar. and another, and another, and then
she brought them together, and she threshed
them out, and she had an ephah of barley,
nigh a bushel. Oh, that wo might all bo
gleaners!
Elihu Burritt learned many things while
toiling in a blacksmith shop. Abercrombie,
the world renowned philosopher, was a
philosopher in Scotland, and ho got Ids phil¬
osophy, or the chief part of it, while as a.
physician ho was waiting for the door ot tho
sickroom to opon, Yet how many there are
in this day who say they are so busy they
have no time for mental or spiritual ltfo im¬
provement. The great duties of cross
the Held like strong reapers and carry off all
the hours, and there is only here and there
a fragment left that is not worth gleaning.
Ah, my friends, you could go into the busiest
day aud busiest week of your life and find
golden opportunities, which, gathered,
might at lust make a whole sheaf for the
Lord’s garner. It is the stray opportunities
and the stray privileges which, taken up nnd/
hound together aud beaten out, will at last
till yon with muoh joy.
There are a few moments left wortli tho
gleaning. Now, Ruth, to the field! May each
one have a mq^sure full and running over!
Oh, you gleaners, to the field! And if there
be in your household an aged one or a sick
relative that is not strong enough to come
forth and toil in this field, thon let Ruth take
borne to feeble Naomi this sheaf of gleaning.
“He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing
precious seed, shall doubtless come again
with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with
him.” May the Lord God of Ruth and
Naomi be our portion forever!
Food of the Eskimos of Alaska.
The Eskimos of Alaska have profited
by their contract with civilized people,
noj only, to obtain many of. the utensils
and appliances of life, ana to preserve
food and supplies for the long northern
winters. The Sportsman's Review gives
an interesting recital of their progress:
“From time immemorial the Eskimos
have taken eggs and fowls duping the
short season they were available. There
is no system of canning eggs to deter¬
mine their grade among the natives. Ad
egg is an egg to them at any period of
incubation, and as long as the season
lasts they live in riotous plenty. For¬
merly they were contented with what
they could eat during the season, hut
since they have come in contact with
white people they have learned more
thorough methods, and now they pro¬
vide eggs and birds to last the whole
year through. They dry or pickle the
flesh and the eggs are preserved in bar¬
rels of muckaluck—walrus oil. An ad¬
dled goose egg kept a year in rancid
oil appeals to an Eskimo’s peculiarly
cultivated taste.
“To an Eskimo an egg taken at any
time in the season is eatable; but to be
salable to the whites it must be fresh,
so the Eskimos divide the territory
among themselves, and make a system¬
atic round of the nests each day, taking
the fresh eggs, and finally pickling the
mother when she refuses to lay any
more, capturing her with a noose of
wire.
“Now a part of the regular fare of the
Yukon steamboat is wild goose. At the
first meal the tourist is apt to regard
the bird with great good favor, but as
meal after meal passes wild goose
ceases to be a joy.
“This continual depredation of the
nests, combined with the Pacific coast
market and record hunting, has already
depleted the flocks of web-foot birds
that at fine time were to be seen in
myriad^ during the migrating season.”
Many Words on a Postal.
Charles Monnier, of Detroit, Mich.,
has just completed a task which he
thinks is a record-breaker. He chal¬
lenges the entire world to equal it, but
it must be said right here that unless
one has time to waste, nerves to spare
and doesn’t suffer from headaches he
has no need to enter the lists against
Monnier.
The champion put the 17,85Sth word
an a postal card, thereby breaking the
best previous record by 11,000 words.
He used a fine steel pen. It was held
between the thumb and index finger.
The holder was held against the nose
and the letters were made by moving
the head from side to aide or up and
down as the case might be. Under a
reading glass the words are distinct.
The card contains forty-eight pages
of “Portia,” by the Duchess. To the
aaked eye the postal looks like stipple
work.
OAHHTI.NO THINGS TOO FAR.
Willie—Yulis; that Broadway Cable
Car Company is an outwage on every
decent New Yorker. They wun every¬
thing in a high handed manner. Why,
the other day they actually carwied Bobby
aud I two blocks beyond where we wished
to get out.
Miss Levelliead—Yes; they do carry
things too far sometimes.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
No sin is so little that it may not
becomo tho soul’s master.
Looking a difficulty squaro in tho
face will often kill it dead.
No prayer meeting was over killed
by the prayers being too short.
To close our hearts against a brother
is to shut heaven against onrselves.
The world has learned more from
its poor than it has from its kings.
The man who robs another of his
right loses most by the transaction.
Beware of the sin whose only de¬
fense is that it is highly respectable.
A poor man with a sunny spirit will
get more out of life than a wealthy
grumbler.
When love gives it enriches itself,
but what covetousness keeps it taken
from itself.
Boil down many a man’s religion
and it will be found to have been noth¬
ing but froth.
Love is dead when the husband be¬
gins to grudge the money it takes to
support his wife.
It is not what we have, but what wo
do with what we have, that proves our
fitness for promotion.
There must be a constant dying to
a lower life if we would know what it
means to enjoy a higher one.
The man who spends his time in
counting hypocrites generally makes
a miscount by not patting himself at
the head of tho list.
There is some blessing in being
rich and strong and gifted, but there
is more in being none of these, and
yet doing better than they.
When the preaching is against sins
that are not known this side of China,
and no other, the devil will help tho
preacher to get a congregation.
Go forth with a smile on your face,
and you will return believing that
most people are good natured. Wear
a frown and you will find plenty of
quarrelsome people.—Ram’s Horn.
Diseases of Gems.
Precious stones are subject to vari¬
ous maladies muck the same as ordi¬
nary human beings. Many of the
maladieB of gems are incurable and
often prove fatal as far as the beauty
of the stone is concerned. One of the
commonest infirmities of precious
stones is their disposition to change
color. The emerald, the sapphire and
the ruby are commonly supposed to
have absolutely permanent colors,
and yet it has been found by recent
experiment in Paris that long expos¬
ure to light causes them to fade per¬
ceptibly.
In the garnet and tho topaz tho
change is often comparatively rapid.
This fading is accompanied in rubies
and garnets bv a cloudy, dull appear¬
ance. Tho habit which some gems
have cf cracking unexpectedly and
\Jitkcmt, any apparent cause seems to
be incurable. Opa.fr me eousuTef-«i ~
the most “unlucky” of all gems. They
often become so sensitive that the
heat encountered by the wearer sitting
close to a tire will destroy them.
The lustre of an opal is due to myr¬
iads of minute cracks in the body of
the stone, the edges of which reflect
the light at different angles, produc¬
ing its characteristic prismatic colors.
Any one of i-hese myriad of cracks
to
The misfortunes of pearls are almost
too numerous to be classified. Since
the pearls consist entirely of carbon¬
ate of lime, they are exceedingly sen¬
sitive to all sorts of reactions. Thrown
into a fire at an ordinary red heat
they are instantly converted into a
mere pinch ot lime dust, and if acci¬
dently touched with any corroding
acid are ruined, They are easily
cracked or broken, and often lose
their lustre merely by being handled.
The acid contained in the perspiration
of the skin has also been known to
destroy them.—New York World.
Him to Sign a Deed.
The employment of the farmer is
such 1hat ho must necessarily have to
do with real estate or land. Its pos¬
session or control is the first requisite
of him who would turn his attention
to the time-honored calling of tilling
the soil. It will undoubtedly, then,
be readily admitted that it is of prime
importance that he should bo conver¬
sant with the usual and customary
methods of signing the deed, the in¬
strument by which this sine qua non
of his vocation is to be convoyed to or
from him. “How shall I sign my
name to this instrument?” This is
invariably the question which more
than any other is asked of the lawyer
who is ongaged in drafting deeds and
leases. vVomen, strange to say, in
spite of their natural sense of intui¬
tion nnd quick perception, are most
liable to err in affixing the signature,
probably, however, because, especially
in tho case of married women, the
problem becomes a more difficult one
with theni. Thus, married women
almost without exception sign their
names with the prefix “.Mrs.” and the
Christian name of the husband, as,
“Mrs. John Suith.”
Tho proper method of signing tha
deed, however, is as follows. If tha
grantor’s full name should be John
Carver Smith, he should sign as John
O. Smith; any loss would be error,
anything more is commonly regarded
as Jones, redundancy. So Mary Scott
upon becoming tho wife of
John Carver Smith, should sign as
Mary S. Smith. By keeping these
few suggestions in mind, one will
avoid the nnpleasant uncertainty at¬
tendant upon signing the deed, and
avoid all probability of error which
might result in tho disagreeable neces¬
sity of redrafting tho conveyance
anew.—New York Observerv.
The five wealthiest persons in Prus¬
sia are worth rescectively $1-1.0110,01)0,
$15,000,000, $21,000,000, $30,000,-
000 and $51,000,000.
THE “GROWN-UP” DAUGHTER’S DUTY TO HER
MOTHER.
You can only have one mother; therefore, when her step Is growing slow
and her mind gloomy with forebodings, and you can sec that licr whole
--nervous system is upset, it is your filial
duty and privilege to attend to her in
9 time ! Mother is approaching the most
\ ; - critical period of her life.
t The change of life, that is what mother
i is dreading, and no wonder, for it is full
* of peril to all but the strongest
\ women.
mm-- m g flBl \ Eraj&Rw wearing There are symptoms some special from and whleh very
IK, B 1 PJqp 1 her for herself out; speak mother she 1 of doesn’t suffers, them to know but any she one. what will to Help not do
,N> flf I 7
/ / Shall I advise you ? First, send to
\. the nearest drug store and get a bottle
of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com-
pound, and see that mother takes it
regularly, then write to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., giving all the symp¬
toms aud you will receive a prompt reply telling mother what to do for her¬
self. In the meantime the Vegetable Compound will make life much easier
for her. It tones up the nervous system, invigorates
the body, and the “ blues ” vanish before it as dark¬
ness flees from the sunlight. You can get it at any
reliable druggist’s.
Mrs. LouisStbong, HarrisHill, Erie Co., N.Y., says: “I
have been troubled with falling of the womb for years,
was advised to take Lydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable
Compound. I took thirteen bottles and received great gas £
benefit.' When the time for change of life came I suf¬
fered a great deal with faintness and palpitation of
the heart. I got one. bottle of the Vegetable Com¬
pound and one of Blood Purifier and was relieved again. I was thereby
enabled to pass through that serious period very comfortably.”
ANDY CATHARTIC
’okcMb
CURE CONSTIPATION
10 * S' ALL
25*50* DRUGGISTS &
ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED
pie and bookle t fr e e. Id. STKBUINfl BKWKPY COj.jrh t <:.g o. Mo atrral. Cm. nr Xcw Tnr U ji n .4
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REASONS FOR USING
Walter Baker & Co.’s}
i Breakfast Cocoa. 4
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* ♦
I 2 1. . Because Because it it is is absolutely not made pure. by the so-called Dutch Process in |
which chemicals are used.
I 4. 3. Because Because it beans is made of the by finest a method quality Which are used. preserves unimpaired
•f® !S\v t il 1 the exquisite natural flavor and odor of the beans. I:
5. Because it is the most economical, costing less than one cent *
a cup. f i
BAKER Be sure th wt'yovk I^d., fi get the genuine Mass. Established article made 1780. by WALTER \
&CO. Dorchester, ❖ i
nt
W. "wke& ?'->< m xoS-mr- TS
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FIRE PROOF—Proof Improvements against paten 11890 in theU.S.. Ca«a< [a ai Europe,
STRONG—A heavy sparks, inders, burning brands,
LIGHT-Weighs canvas foundation
but 86 lbs. per 100 sq. ft. when laid complete.
FLEXIBLE—Contains no coal tar, and retains indefinitely its leather-like pliability and toughness*
EASILY APPLIED—Requires no kettle or other expensive apparatus. Can be laid by any Intel*
ligent workman.
SEND FOR SAMPLES AND DESCRIPTIVE PAMPHLET.
H. W. JOHNS MFC. CO.. I OO WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK.
CHICAGO: 2*0 & 242 Randolph St. PHILADELPHIA: 170 k 172 North 4th St. BOSTON: 77 k 79 Pearl
a Blight
costs cotton planters more
than five million dollars an¬
nually. This is an enormous
waste, and can be prevented.
Practical experiments at Ala¬
bama Experiment Station show
conclusively that the use of
“Kainit
will prevent that dreaded plant |
disease.
All about Potash—the results of its use by act ual ex-
periment on the best farms in the United States—is !
told in little book which publish arid will gladly j
a we t
mail free to any farmer in America who will write for it. j
GERMAN KALI WORKS,
93 Nassau St., New York, j
j i
FRICK COMPANY
ECLIPSE ENGINES!
i
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is 138
|i:i -. Mai*
Boilers, Saw Mills, Cotton Bins, Cotton
Presses, Crain Separators.
Chisel Tooth and Solid Saws, Saw Teeth. In¬
spirators, Injectors, of Engine Brass Goods, Repairs and
a full line
r wr send for Catalogue and Prices.
Avery & McMillan
* SOUTHERN MANAGERS.
Nos. 51 & 53 S. Forsyth St., ATLANTA, GA.
Manufacturer PURCHASE Illustrated 31
to weare r. catalogue free.
Underwear de ipartmen fc. Address
CONSUME RS* SUPPLIES CO., Troy, N. Y.
ill a a Ibg. Beat fijraouiatgu auad.r
Shipped to anybody. Send no
■* ■ money, but enclose stump to
CAiuolldmted WI»ole*al« 8. Co.,216 H. Clinton 2N(:hif.i K o
m We want one ayent in^this (.Vimty
P" article on earth. We pnv all < x pen to. -Andress
GLYZA CHISM. CO., \V»Mmi*uou, D. C.
MORPHINE. Go.,Rew -V..BASY, tsu.
Monarch Home Can
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TASTELESS
CHILL
I UPfiL |M| fk | g IF!
tS JU3T AS GOOD FOE5 A0ULTS.
WARRANTED. PRICE 50 cts.
Paris Galatia, St. Mo. Ills., Nov. 16,1893.
Medicine Co., St. Louis, Louis, Mo.
Gentlemen:—Wo ntlomcn:—We sold sold last last year. 600 bottles of
GROVE'S iVE’S TASTUiLiass TASTELESS CliILL* CIIILL TONIC TUJNit; and nnu hnvo anvo
bought DOUR! three gross already this year. In all o«r ex¬
perience perienco of ot 14 14 years, years, in in the mo clruK drug business; business, have have
never never sold sold an an article article tl that gave such universal satis*
faction as your Tonic. Yours truly,
AHNEV.CAUR &CQ.
Hazard’s Spit® Tablets
Quiet the nerves, equalize tho circulation, vital¬
ize the secretions, impart vigor and give tone
to all the functions of the system. O ver-workecl
and run-down men and weak and nervous-
women are speedily restored by their use. 1
bos $1.00; 3 boxes $2.50, by mail. Address,
HAGGARD SPECIFIC CO., MO Nor cross
i; ij i id i n qf, Atl anta, Ga. LA IVIA R & RAN KIN
DRUG CO., Wholesale Agents.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WANTED
to sell tho
famous German Skin Cure. Removes Freckles,
Pimples and Tan of the face and cures all Skin
Diseases. Exclusive territory and outfit.. DE,
J.. BLOCK, 44 Walton St., Atlanta, Ga.
OSBORNE’S ^e/feae
udmedd
Auicum’n, <Jn. Actual bu«inftSM. No text
book:- Short time. Cheap board. Semi ior catalogue.
MENTION THIS PAPERK^^t
Oliltts hr,tilt AU USE Hits- Use
Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good.
'in time. Sold by druggists.____
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