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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 ^ REASONS FOR USING Walter Baker & Co.’s} i Breakfast Cocoa. 4 X t * ♦ 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. 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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 - >- 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 GROVES % Hi :;g /pttiDRE T>\^ in | Pi I i. Jvl 111 fiSSiisii WBfejgS ■\ i 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.____ TtQ.lS