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REV. DR. TALMA GE.
THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY DISCOURSE.
Story o! G>. Three Tnvernu—The Kuln
Wroiij-ht by Liquor— Crimson Wave of
Dissipation Has Destroyed More Sail-
«rs Than tlie Ocean—Mankind's Curse.
Text: “They came to moot 11 s ns far ns
Appli Forum and the Three Taverns.”—
Acts xxvlil., 15.
Seventeen miles south of Rome, Italy,
thovo was a village of unfortunate name
ami bibulous suggestion. A tavern is a
plane of entertainment, and. in our time,
part of tho ontertainmont is a provision
of intoxicants. One such place you would
think- would have been enough for that
Italian village. No! There were three of
them, with doors open for entertainment
and obfuscation* The world has never
lacked stimulating drinks. You remember
the conr.ltIon of Noah on one occasion,
and of Abigail’s husband, Nabnl, and the
story of Belshazzar’s feast, and Iienlindnd,
and tlie new wine In old bottles, and wholo
paragraphs on prohibition enactment
thousands of years before Noai Dow was
born; and no doubt there were whole
shelves of inflammatory liquid in these ho¬
tels which gave tho name to tho village
whore Paul’s friends came to meet him;
search namely, tlie Three Taverns. In vain I
ancient geography for some satis¬
fying account of that village. Two roads
came from the sea coast to that place: the
onefrom Actium and the other from Pute-
oli, the last road being tho ono which Paul
traveled. There were, no doubt, in that
village houses of merchandise and me¬
chanics’ shops and professional-'offlces, but
that nothing is known of them. All wo know of
inns—the village is that it had a profusion of
Three Taverns. Pam did not
choose any one of these taverns as the
place to meet his friends. He certainly
selection. was very abstemious, but they made the
He had enlarged about keeping
the for body under, though once he prescribed
lating a young cordial theological student a stimu¬
for a stomachic disorder;
but he told him to take only a small dose—
“a little wine for thy stomach’s sake.”
One of the worst things about these
Three Taverns was that they had especial
temptation for those who had just come
ashore. People who had just landed at
Actium or Puteoli were soon tempted by
these three hotels, which wore only a little
way up from tho beach. Those who are
disordered of the sea (for it is a physical
disorganizer), gradual instead of waiting for tho
return of physical equipoise, are
apt to take artificial means to brace up.
Of the one million sailors now on the sea,
how few of them coming ashore will escape
the Three Taverns! After surviving hurri¬
canes, cyclones, icebergs, collisions, many
of them are wrecked in harbor. I warrant
that if a calculation were made of the com-
parntive number of sailors lost at sea and
lost ashore, those drowned by the crimson
wave of dissipation would far outnumber
those drowned by the salt water.
Alas! that thelargemajorityof those who
go down to the sea ill ships should have
twioe to pass the Three Taverns, namely:
Before they go out and after they come in.
That fact was what aroused Father Taylor,
-the great sailors’ preacher, at the Sailors’
Bethel, Charlestown Boston, and at a public meeting at
he said, “All the machinery of
business the drunkard-making, soul-destroying
is in perfect running order, from
the low grog holes on the docks, kept oppn
to ruin my poor sailor boys, to the great
establishments in Still House Square, and
when we ask men what is to be done about
it, they say ‘you can’t help it,’ and yet
thereis Bunker Hill, and you say vou can’t
stop it; and up there are Lexington and
Concord.” We might answer Father Tay-
lor’s remark by saying, “The trouble is not
that we can’t stop it, but that we won’t
stop it.” We must have more generations
slain before tlie world will fully wake up to
the evil. That which tempted the travel-
ers of old who came up from tho seaports
of Actium and Puteoli is now the ruin of
seafariug men as they come up from the
eoasts of all the continents, namely, the
Three Taverns.
There are streets in some of our cities
where There are three or four taverns on
every block; aye, wherg every other house
is a tavern. You can take the Arabic num-
eral of mv text, the three, and put on the
right hand side of it one cipher, and two
ciphers, and four ciphers, and that re-in-
forcement of numerals will not express the
statistics of American rummeries. Even if
it were a good, healthy business, supplying
a necessity, an article superbly nutritious,
it is a business mightily overdone, and
there are three taverns where there ought
to he only one.
The fact is, there are, in another sense,
Three Taverns now; tho gorgeous tavern
for the affluent, the medium tavern for tho
working classes, and the tavern of tho
slums, and they stand in line, and many
people, through beginning the with the and lirst, come
down, second, come out
at the third. At the first of tho threo tav-
erns, the wines are of celebrated vintage,
and tho whiskies are said to be pure, and
they are quaffed from cut glass, at marble
side-tables, under pictures approaching
master-pieces. Tho patrons pull off their
kid gloves, and hand their silk hats to the
waiter, and push back their hair with a
hand on one finger of which is a cameo.
But those patrons are apt to stop visiting
that place. It is not tho money that a man
pays for drinks, for what are a few hundred
or a few thousand dollars to a man of largo j
income; but their brain gets touched, and j
that unbalances their judgment, and they
can see fortunes in enterprises surcharged
witli disaster. In longer or shorter time
they change taverns, and they come down
to tavern the second, where tho pictures and arc
not quite so scrupulous of suggestion
the small table is rougher and the castor
standing on it is of German silver and the
air has been kept over from the night be¬
fore and that which they sip from tho
pewter mug has a larger percentage of ben*
zine, ambergris, creosote, henbane, strych.
nine, prussic acid, coculus nightshade. indicus, plaster
of paris, copperas, and The
patron may be seen almost the every day,
and perhaps many times same day
at this tavern the second, but he is pre^
paring to graduate. Brain, liver, heart,
nerves, are rapidly giving way. ' That
tavern the second has its dismal echo in his
business destroyed and family vocabulary. scattered
and woes that choke one’s
Time passes on, and he enters tavern the
third; a red light outside, a hiccoughing
and besotted group insido. Ho will be
dragged out of doors about 2 o’clock in the
morning and left on tho shut sidewalk, The because
the bartender wants to up. poor
victim lias taken the regular course in the
college of degradation. He has his diploma
written on hisswollen, bruised,and blotched
physiognomy. Ho is a regular graduate of
the Throe Taverns. As the police take wheels him
up and put him in tlie ambulance tho
seem to rumble with two rolls of thunder,
one of which says, “Look not upon the
wine when it is red, when it movoth itself
aright in the cup, for at tho last it biteth
liko a serpent and stlngetli like an adder.”
The other thunder roll says, “All drunkards
shall have tboir place in the lake that
burnetii with fire and witli brimstone.”
I am glad to find in this soeno of the
text that there is such a thing as doclining
successfully great Tavernian temptations. and did
I can seo from what Paul said
aftor ho had traveled the following seven¬
teen miles of his journey, that ho had re¬
ceived no damage at the Three Taverns.
How much he was tempted I know not.
Do Dot suppose that ho was superior temptation to
temptation. That particular tho grandest,
has destroyed many of
mightiest, noblest statesmen, philosophers and
heroes, clergymen, apostles of law
medicine and government and religion.
Paul was not physically well under any cir¬
cumstances; it was not in mock deprecia¬
tion that lie said he was “in bodily presence
weak.” It seems that his eyesight through was so
poor that he did his writing an
amanuensis, for he mentions ft Is some¬
thing remarkable that his shortest Epistle,
the one to Philemon, was in bis own. pen¬
manship, saying: “I, Paul, have written it
with my own hand.” He had been thrown
from his horse, ho had been stoned, lie
had been endungeoned, he baa bad bis
nerves pulled on by preach ibg at
Athens to tho most scholarly au¬
dience of all the earth, and at Cor¬
inth to the most brilliantly profligate
assemblage, and been howled upon by tho
Ephesian life worshipers of Diana, tried for
his before Felix, charged by Festus
with being insane, and crawled up on the
beach, drenched in the shipwreck, and
mu ch of the time had an iron handcuff on.
ills wrist, andjif any man needed stimulus.
Paul needed it, but with all his physical
exhaustion, lie got past tho Three Taverns
undamaged, and stepped into Rome all
ready for the tremendous ordeal to which
he Wfi* subjected. Oh! How many mighty
men, feeling that they must brace up after
extraordinary service, and prepare them¬
selves for other service, have calked on tho
spirit of wino for inspiration, and In a few
years have been sacrifled on the altar of a
Moloch, who sits on a throne of human
carcasses. Shall I call the names of fifty
of tho victims, all of them illustrious in
American history? No! It would not bo
wise, or kind, or Christian to call their
names in public, but you how call them out of
your own memory. Oh, many splendid
men could not got past the Three Taverns.
Long ago ail arch fiend arrived in our
world, and he built an invisible cauldron
of temptation. Ho built that cauldron
strong and stout for all ages and all nations.
First lie squeezed into tho cauldron the
juices of the forbidden fruit of paradise;
then he gathered for it a distillation from
the harvest fields and the orchards of the
hemispheres; then he poured into this caul¬
dron capsicum and logwood and assault and
battery and vitriol and opium and rum and
murder and sulphuric acid and theft and
potash and cochineal and red carrots and
poverty and death and hops. But it was a
dry compound, and it must be moistened
and it must be liquefied, and so the arch
fiend poured into the cauldron the blood of
twenty thousand assassinations. And then
the arch fiend took a shovel that he had
brought up from the furnaces beneath, and
he put the shovel into this great cauldron
and began to stir, and the cauldron began
to heave and rock and boil and sputtor and
hiss and smoke, and the nations gathered
around it with cups and tankards and
demijohns and kegs, and there was enough
for all. and the arch fiend cried: “Aha!
Champion fiend am I! Who has done more
than I have for coffins and graveyards and
prisons and tho populating of the lost
world? And when this cauldron is emptied
I’ll fill it again, and I’ll stir it again, and it
will smoke again, and that smoke will join
another smoke—the smoke of a torment—
that aseendeth for ever and ever. I drove
flftv ships on tho rocks of Newfoundland
and the Skerries and the Goodwins. I
have ruined more Senators than will gather
next winter in the national councils. I
have ruined more Lords than will bo
gathered in the House of Peers. The cup
out of which I ordinarily drink is a
bleached human skull, and the upholstery
of my palace is so rieh a crimson because
it is dyed in human gora, and the mosaic of
my floors is made up of the bones of chii-
dren dashed to death by drunken parents,
and my favorite music, sweeter than To
Deum or triumphal march—my favorite
music is the cry of daughters turned out at
midnight on tho street because father has
come home from a carousal, and the soven-
hundred-voiced shriek of the sinking
steamer because the captain was not him-
se lf when he put the ship on the wrong
course. Champion fiend am I! I have
kindled more fires, I have wrung out more
agonies. I have stretched out more m i fl¬
night shadows, I have opened more Gol-
gotiias, I have rolled mors Juggernauts, I
have damned more souls, than any other
emissary of diabolism. Champion liend am
I- Haiha! ha! ha!”
But what a glad time when the world
comes to its last Three Taverns .‘for the
sale of intoxicants. Now there are so many
ot them that statistics are only a more or
b‘ss accurate guess as to their number,
We sit with half-closed eyes and undis-
turbed nerves and hear that in 1872 in tho
United States there wore 1961 breweries,
4340 distilleries, and 171,669 retail dealers,
and that possibly by this time these figures
may bo truthfully doubled. The fact is
that these establishments are innumerable,
and tho discussion is always dishearten-
* n g. and tho impression is abroad that the
plague is so mighty and universal it can
never be cured, and the most of sermons
ou tins subject close with the Book of
Lamentations, and not with tlie Book of
Revelations. Excuse mo from adopting
an Y such infidel theory. The Bible reiter-
ates it until thero is no more power
' n inspiration to make it plainer
that the earth is to be, not half,
or deemed. three-quarters, but wholly re-
On that rock I take my
triumphant stand and join in the cho-
rus °f Hosannahs.
0no of the most advantageous move-
merits in . the right direction is taking this
whole subject into tlie education of tho
young. On tho same school-desk with tho
grammar, the geography, tho arithmetic
are hooks telling the lads and lasses of ten
and twelve and fifteen years of ago what
ar e tho physiological effects of strong
drink, what it does with the tissue of tho
liver and the ventricles of the brain: and
whereas other generations did not realize
the evil until tlieir own bodies were blasted,
we are to have a generation taught what
Gm viper is before it stings thorn, wluit the
the hyena is before it rends them, how deep is
abyss before it jswallows them. Oh!
boards of education, teachers in sohools,
professors in colleges, Legislatures, and
Congresses, widen and augment that work,
and you hasten tho complete overthrow of
this evil.
It will go down. I have the word of Al¬
mighty God for that in the assured extirpa¬
tion of all sin. But shall we have a share in
the universal victory? The liquor saloons
will drop from the hundreds of thousands
into tho score of thousands, and then from
the thousands into the hundreds, and then
from the hundreds into the tens, and from
the tens to Three. The first of these lust
threo taverns will he where the educated
and philosophic and the high-up will take
their dram, but that class, awaro of the
power of the example they have been set¬
ting, will turn their back upon tho evil cus¬
tom and be satisfied with two natural bev¬
erages that God intended for the stimulus
of the race—tho Java coffee plantations
furnishing tho best of tho one und the Chin¬
ese tea Helds the best of tho other. And
some day tho barroom will be crowded with
people at the vendue and tho auctioneer’s
mallet will pound at tho sale of the appur¬
tenances.
The second of these last throe taverns
will take down its flaming and sign and ex¬
tinguish its red light close its doors,for
tho working class will have concluded to
buy tlieir own horses and furnish their own
beautiful homes and replenish finely the
wardrobe of their own wives and daugh¬
ters,instead of providing the distillers, wardrobes the
brewers, and liquor sellers with
and mirrors und carriages. And the next
time that second tavern is opened it will be
a establishment, drug store, or a bakery, or a dry goods
or a school. Then there will
be only one more of tho Three dissipating
Taverns left. I don’t know in what coun¬
try, or city, or neighborhood it will be, but
look at it, for it is the very last. The last
inebriate will have staggered his up to its
counter and put down pennies for liis
dram. Its last horrible adulteration will
be mixed anil quaffed to The eat last out tho drunkard vitals
and inflame tho brain.
will have stumbled down its front steps.
The last spasms of delirium tremens caused
by it will be struggled down, through. The old
rookery will be torn and with its
demolition will close the earth’s abomina¬
tions. The last of tho dissipating Three
Taverns of all tho world will be as thor¬
oughly blotted out as were the Three
Taverusof my text.
In this battle the visible troops aro not
so mighty as the invisible. The Gospel
campaign began with the supernatural— I
the midnight chant that woke the shep¬
herds, the hushed sea, the eyesight given
whore the patient had been born without
the optlo nerve, the sun obliterated from
the noonday heavens, the law of gravita¬
tion and loosing the Gospel its grip campaign as Christ ascended; with
supernatural, as will close began
the it with the
supernatural; the and the winds and the and the
waves and lightnings earth¬
quakes will come in on the right side and
against the wrong side; and our whether as-
cendod champions will return,
the world sees them or does not see them.
I do not think that those groat souls de¬
parted are going to do nothing hereafter
but sing psalms, and play harps, and
breathe frankincense and walk seas of
glass inlngied with lire, The mission
they fulfilled while in the body will be
eclipsed by their post-mortem mission,
with faculties quickened and velocities
multiplied; and it may have been to that
our dying reformer referred when he said;
“I long to be free;” There may no bigger
worlds than this to be redeemed, and more
gigantic abominations to be overthrown
than this world ever saw; and the discip¬
line gotten here may only bo preliminary
drill for a campaign in some other world,
and perhaps some other constellation. But
the crowned heroes and heroines, because
of their grander uehievoments in greater
spheres, will not forget thi3 old world
where they prayed and suffered and tri¬
umphed. Church militant aiul* Church
triumphant, but two divisions of the same
army—right wing and left wing.
One army of the living God,
At His command we bow.
Part of the host have crossed the flood
And part are crossing now.
DRIED VEGETABLES.
A Nev» Industry Which Has Started Up in
« California.
A new and important industry has
come into existence in Santa Clara
County which bids fair in time to rival
the fruit drying. This is the prepar¬
ation of dried vegetables for the mar¬
ket, which at present is generally con-
lined to the short seasons at the driers
between the ripening of the different
fruits. Just lately the vegetables have
been usurping the place of apricots, but
they have now already begun to give
way in turn to the prunes.
On approaching a drier it does not
take one long to decide whether fruit
or vegetables are being prepared, for
in the latter case a pungent odor
rushes out to sting one’s eyes and
crawl uncomfortably up one’s nostrils
—for the trail of onions is over the
land. Within a lively scene is pre¬
sented. Men are hurrying to and fro
bearing trays and boxes, while long
rows of women and children sit busily
peeling potatoes and carrots, which,
together v ith the onions, form at pres¬
ent the stable product. When boxes
of potatoes and carrots are filled they
are poured into a large hopper, and
from there fed to a machine with ro¬
tating knifeblades, which cuts them
up into small slices a quarter of an
inch thick. The further process which
the potatoes undergo is simple, and
for carrots and the other minor vega-
tables it is practically the same.
After being sliced the tubers are
slightly sulphured in a chamber built
ol’ wood. Here great
must be used, for, if they are sulphured
too much, the potatoes 'will taste of
the fumes; if too little, they will not
contain enough antiseptic property,
and bacteria attracted by the starch
will develop. Moreover, a little sul-
phuring is necessary to preserve the
color of the vegetables as far as pos-
sible and to prevent decay.
After this process the potatoes are
not spread out in the sun, but put in-
to an evaporator. The latter looks
like a small Ferris wheel and is in-
closed in a sort of brick oven with
glass windows. Within this it re-
volves close to hot air pipes for a few
hours. When the moisture is suffi-
ciently evaporated the cars of the
wheel are emptied through the win-
dows and their contents are now ready
for shipment in sacks.
When this stage is reached the sliced
potatoes resemble dry chips, and it
takes six or seven pounds of the fresh
to make one pound of the dried.
By their pungency onions possess the
power of warding off bacteria, and are,
therefore, only slightly sulphured to
preserve their color. They are next
evaporated until one-third of the mois-
ture is expelled, and then placed in
trays in the sun, just as is done with
fruit. The drying process shrivels the
onions so much "that it takes twenty
parts of the fresh to make one of the
dried. While the onions are being cut
up the moisture■ coming from them is
disagreeable and hard on the eyes of
the employees.
When carrots are evaporated it
takes about nine parts of them to
make one dried part. Perhaps tho
drying process used in the case of
both carrots and potatoes might be
improved upon were steam employed.
By using the latter the starch in the
potatoes would be partly cooked and
sterilized, and after this the tubes
could he evaporated in a chamber
similar to the one above described. In
this way the potatoes could be rid of
sulphur, well dried and yet capable
of being quickly soaked, and there
would be no chance for bacteria to de-
velop.
Other vegetables than those men¬
tioned are at present in process of
development; but so far the industry
has proved very profitable, as evinced
by the Increased demand for dried
vegetables all over the country, but
especially in the mining regions.—San
Francisco Chronicle.
To Restore Montezuma’s Castfj.
Montezuma’s impregnable castle in
the cliffs near Camp Verde, Arizona, is
to be restored to Its original shape by
the Arizona Antiquarian Association.
The castle is located three miles from
the abandoned military post known
formerly as Camp Verde, and is
perched in a high niche, which towers
far above the left bank of Beaver
creek. It is the finest and largest cliff
dwelling in the United States. From
the foot of the perpendicular cliff to
the entrance is exactly forty feet, while
above it rises the precipice, another
hundred feet.
SUMMER AND WINTER IN ALASKA.
Swift Change of Seasons In the Northern
Clime—Trial* of the Hot Weather.
Professor William Healey Dali writ¬
ing about life in Alaska, in tho Forum,
says: Ordinary
woolen clothing for the
body and leather boots for the feet are,
of course, utterly unsuitable, and cau
be worn only at serious risk when
traveling. Indian suowshoeB are es¬
sential; the Norwegian variety proved
worthless.
As the season advances the snow
settles, and at night a firm crust forms.
The most favorable months for travel¬
ing are March and April. The mid¬
winter days are short, with sunlight
in some latitudes from 10 in the morn¬
ing to 3 in the afternoon. When neces¬
sary, one can travel fairly well by
starlight and moonlight over the snowy
tundra, but not in the woods. In May
the snow is wet and heavy and travel
difficult. Pools of water and tho first
mosquitoes then begin to appear. By
May 20 the river bursts its bonds of
ice and floods the lowlands; ice, debris
and broken timber pouring, with a
grinding noise, heading toward the sea.
For at least a rveek navigation is im¬
possible.
Summer, swift-footed, trips upon
the heels of winter. The sun pours
down with a violence not soon forgot¬
ten, though in the shade it is always
cool. The cry of the brant., northward
bound, is continually beard, and my¬
riads of smaller water-fowl appear on
every hand. All the minor forms of
life, native to the region or migrants
from the South, with startling sudden¬
ness people copses and pervade the air.
Vegetation springs into leaf and flower
at a bound, and, with hardly a hint of
spring, summer is upon us.
Mosquitoes, the pest of tho North,
appear in clouds. Except in midstream,
or where a brisk breeze is blowing,
life without a net and leather gloves is
misery. The Indians smear their
faces with a mixture of grease and
charcoal, and paddle with a smudge
on a square of turf in the bows of
their birch canoes. The caribou,
moose and bear, driven from the
tickets, plunge into the river for a
temporary respite. Curiously enough,
during three summers, black flies and
midges, so plentiful to the eastward,
were encountered only once on the
Yukon; possibly, near its headw'aters,
our luck would have been worse.
The records show that the lower
Yukon valley has a summer tempera¬
ture much in excess of that normal to
the latitude. As the days are long,
the traveler will prudently sleep at
noon and utilize for his work the cooler
hours when the sun sweeps low along
the northern horizon and the mos-
quitoes are less active,
Frosts appear in mid-September,
Early in October the Yukon begins
to be covered with ice; though it is
no t fully ice-bound until late in No-
vember. So the round is completed,
Fate < >f olli Bicycles.
The question “What becomes of old
bicycles?” has often been asked, but
no satisfactory answer baa been given.
It is said by Cycling Life that they
are made into new machines and sold
to persons who cannot afford to give
more than $20 or (525 for a wheel. The
process by which this is accomplished
includes raising thejframe, enameling
it, bending the handle bars, plating
them, a new saddle, new tires, black-
ing the chain and gears and nickel-
plating cranks, seat posts and fork
ends. Besides, broken spokes are re-
placed with new, set screws attended
to and parts cleaned. Five or even
three years ago this could not be done
for half what it costs for a $100 ma
chine, and would not have paid. Ac-
counts of stock and labor in making
these operations tell a different story,
and show that it does pay, and pay
well, to rejuvenate wheels, providing
that the work is done methodically
and economically, and that modem ap-
pliances are used. The work should
be done with not less than six wheels
at one time. They may be valued at
less than $6 each. The tires are worn
out completely, the nickel parts are
scratched and rusty, spokes bent, iron
rims broken and twisted, bars mis-
shappen, saddle seat ripped or gone al-
together, the chain gummed and
wheels hard to turn. But the tubing
in the frame is good and strong, the
bearings all right if cleaned, oiled and
trued, the frame joints firm, and much
else is serviceable for years to come.
The cost of making the bicycles
over need not exceed §7 each, and
this leaves a margin of §7 when the
altered wheel is sold for $20.
Senses Sharpened in the Wilds.
1 made bold to say to Dr. Nansen,
writes Walter Wellman, that thousands
upon thousands of men who were not
specially interested in arctic work had
read his book with delight, and that
to me the marvel was not that he could
do what he did in the field, but that
he could write such a book about bis
experiences. thing in notion,”
“The best it, to my
I said, “is your description of your
dramatic meeting with Jackson on
Franz Josef Land, and the best part
of that was your reference to the man¬
ner in which the wild man’s sharpened
senses discovered the fragment of the
soap which the civilized European had
used in his morning ablutions.”
“It is really true,” replied Dr. Nan¬
sen, “that I could smell that soap as
plainly as if it had been a strong per¬
fume. Johansen noted the same thing
when he came up. In fact, for several
days our sense of smell was wonder¬
fully acute. As I approached Jack¬
son’s hut I thought I could smell
everything it contained and give a sort
of inventory of its stores without en¬
tering. In a day or two this acuteness
wore off and we became quite normal
in that as well as other respects. But
I wonder if a man were to live wild for
a few years if his sense of smell would
not become quite as keen as that of an
animal.”—Chicago Times-IIerald.
A TALK WITH MRS. PINKHAM
About tho Cause of Anemia.
wm Everybody comes into this world with a pre¬
1 disposition to disease of sovho particular tissuui
1 in other words, everybody has a weak spot.
1 In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred tho
weak spot in women is somewhere in the uter¬
My ine system. disease The uterine the organs vital organs; have less that re* a
* sistance to than
why they give out the soonest.
Not more than one woman in a hundred
nay., in five hundred—has perfectly healthy organs of generation. This points
to the stern necessity of helping one's self just as soon as the life powers seem
to be on the wane. and want of , tone
Excessive menstruation is a sign of physical weakness produces (blood
in the uterine organs. It saps the strength away and anemia
turns to water). knowing what will happen. If your gums
If you become anemic, there Is no color,
and the inside of your lips and inside your eyelids look pale in you are
in a dangerous way and must stop that drain on your powers. VY hy not build
up on a generous, uplifting tonic, like Lydia E. Pinkhams
Vegetable Compound? St., Bethlehem, Pa.,
Mbs. Edwin- Ehrig, 413 Church
says: “ I feel it my duty to write and tell you that
I am better than I have been for four years.
I used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com¬
pound, one package of Sanative Wash, one box of
Liver Pills, and can say that I am perfectly cured.
‘Doctors did not help me any. I should have been
in my grave by this time if it had not been for your
medicine. It was a godsend to me. I was troubled with
excessive menstruation, which caused womb trouble,
and I was obliged to remain in bed for six weeks. Mrs.
Pinkham's medicine was recommended to me, and,
after using it a short time, was troubled no more with flooding. I also had severe
pain in my kidneys. This, also. I have no more. I shall always recommend the
Compound, for it has cured me, and it will cure others. I would like to have you
publish this letter.” (In such cases the dry form of Compound should be used.)
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Agricultural statistics, according to |
the New York Tribune, show some in¬
teresting industrial movements in the
United Kingdom, which are mostly
uniform in Great Britain and Ireland.
In both the present year shows an in-
crease over last year in wheat acreage
and a decrease in barley,’ oats and po¬
tatoes. The increase in wheat is more
than 200,000 acres. That still leaves
the total far less, however, than It was
a few years ago. Tlie total in the
whole United Kingdom is now 1,93(5,-
041 acres, while in 1892 in England
alone it was 2,102,909 acres. The in-
crease at present recorded is promis-
j ng jt j s greater than the decrease
j n a n other grains put together, indi-
eating that some potato-land, grass-
land or other is being devoted to
wheat. There is reported a consider-
able decrease, in both parts of the
Kingdom, in permanent grass-land,
while the acreage of clover and rota-
tion-grass has increased in Great Brit-
a i n an( j diminished in Ireland. Turn-
ing to live stock, an increase in the
number of cattle is seen, but it is
vastly greater in Ireland than in
Great Britain. In fact, Ireland is
getting ahead of Great Britain as a
cattle country; is far ahead now, pro¬
portionately. She has fully 40 per
cent, of all the cattle in the United
Kingdom. In sheep a decrease is
noted in Great Britain and an increase
in Ireland; which is strange, for the
former is certainly better adapted to
sheep culture than the latter. The re¬
vival of Irish woolen manufactures
has, no doubt, much to do with it. In
swine a considrable decrease is re¬
ported all around, and it is to be ob-
served that Great Britain is mere
given to hog-raising than Ireland, she
having 64 per cent, of the whole num-
her to Ireland’s 30 per cent, Tho
general showing seems to indicate that
Ireland is making better agricultural
progress than Great Britain. She is
making her products more varied than
they used to be, and of a more profita-
hie and trustworthy charaotei. The
shortage of crops from which the isl-
and is said to be suffering this year
is probably not serious, and at worst
will prove only temporary. The clear¬
est indications are that a good meas-
ure of permanent prosperity is return¬
ing to the Emerald Isle.
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Leucorrhtsa—“Whi't39. # *
This is a disorder from which few womfiSt is
escape at some period of their lives. It
in the nature of nasal catarrh. In a healthy
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The function is as
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