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REV. DR. TALMAGF,
THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY DISCOURSE.
Duties of Men Toward Their Suffering
Brethren of the Pronent Generation—
Clothing of the Soul Should Keep Pace
With That of tho Physical Wants of Man
Text: “David after he had served h1°
own sleep," generation bvthe will W ' of 01 God U ° a ’ fell 1011 on ou
Acts ' xlii ' ’’ 26 *
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.y w 1 has for a . long time
* » a " nln i J through my mind. Sermons
t m ® t° he born, as well as a time to
■li / ls wo1 1 RS " Kr,lve David
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1 , s t° n e-slinger, . and fighter and
2r^ 0phet t r , an d }"t dhisbe9t 'ft an(i blank for the verse people writer, of
l then went and lay down on
ino southern lull of Jerusalem in that sound
smmher which nothing but an arehangelio
can, startle. Thero are about four
generations to a century, now; but in olden-
time life was longer, and there was, per-
naps, only one generation to a contury.
raking these facts into the calculation, I
ake a rough guess and say that there
nave been at least 180 generations of the
utnan family. "With reference to them wo
\ave no responsibility. We cannot teach
tnom, we cannot correct their mistakes, we
cnimoc soothe their sorrows, we cannot heal
tneir wounds.
i n j i ITllt * Kl ^ * am * _ n sympathy with the
enthi whose father had suddenly died, and
who, in her little evening prayer, wanted
to continue to pray forherfather, although
lie had gone into heaveii and no more
needed her prayers, and looking up into
her mother s face, said: ‘Oil, mother, I
? a P not laa v« him all out. Let me say,
innnk , God that I had a good father once,
so I can keep him in my prayers.” ’ But
the 180 generations have passed off. Passed
up. Passed down. Gone forever. Then
there are generations to come after our
earthly existence has ceased; we shall not
see them; we shall n6t hoar any of thoir
voices; we will take no part in their convo-
cations, their elections, their revolutions,
their catastrophes, their triumphs, ffe
will in nowise affect tho 180 generations
gone or the 180 generations to come. But
our business is, like David, to servo our
those own generation; the people now living,
whose lungs now breathe and whose
hearts now beat. And, mark you, it is not
a silent procession, but moving. It is a
forced march,’ at twenty-four miles a day,
each hour being a mile. Going with that
colenty. it has got to bo a quick service on
our part or no service at all.
“Well, now let us look around earnest-
ly, prayerfully, in a common-sense way,
and see what we can do for ourgenerailon,
First of all, let us seo to it that, as far as
we can they have enough to eat The
human body is so constituted that three
times a day a body needs food as ranch as
a lamp needs oil, as much as a locomotive
needs fuel. To meet this want God has
girdled the earth with apple orchards,
otange groves, wheat fields, and oceans full
of fish, and prairies full of cattle. And
notwithstanding this. I will undertake to
say that the vast majority of the human
family are suffering either for lack of food
or the right kind of food. Our civiliza-
tlon is all askew, and God only can sot it
right. Many of the greatest estates of to-
duy have been built out of the blood and
bones of uniequited toil.
Don t sit down at your table wits five or
six courses of abundant supply and think
nothing of that family in the next street
who would take any one of those five
courses between soup and almond nuts and
feel they were in heaven. Tno lack of the
right kind of food is tlie cause of much of
the drunkenness. After drinking what
many of onr grocers call coffee, sweetened
with what many call sugar, and eating
what; , many of , our ... butchers call ,, meat, and
cliew-ng wnat many of our bakers call
bread, many of the laboring classes into feel so
miserable they are tempted tobacconist to put calls their
nasty pipes vrliat the to-
bacco, or go into the drinking saloons for
what the rumsellers call beer. Good coffee
would do much in driving out rum.
How can wo servo our generation with
enough to eat?” By sitting down in era-
broidered slippers aud lounging baok .n an
arm chair, our mouth puckered brand, and up through around
a Havana of the best
clouds of luxur. ant smoke reading about
political economy and the philosophy of
strikes. No! No. By finding out who in
this city bas been living on gristle, and
sending them a tenderloin beefsteak. Seek
out some family who, through sickness or
conjunction of misfortune have not enough
to eat, and do for them what Christ did for
the hungry multitudes of Asia Minor, inul-
tiplyiug tho loaves aud tho fishes. Let us
quit the surfeiting of ourselves until we
cannot choke down another crumb of cake,
and begin the supply of others’ neoessi-
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“It is an awful thing to ba hungry,” said
the preacher. “It is an easy thing for us.
to be iu good humor with all the world
when we have no lack. But let hunger
take full possession of us, and we would all
turn into barbarians and cannibals and
fiends. Suppose that some of the energy
we are expending in useless and unavailing
talk about tho bread question should beex-
pended in mereiful alleviations. I have
read that the battlefield on whieh more
troops met than on any other in the
world’s history was the battlefield of Leip-
sie—160,000 men under Napoleon; No! Noi 250,009
men under Schwarzeberg. The
greatest and most terrific battle is now be¬
ing fought all the world over. It is the
struggle for food. The ground tone of the
finest passage ijj oneof the great musical
masterpieces, the artist says, was suggest¬
ed to him by the cry of tho hungry popu¬
lace of Vienna, as.the King rode through
and they shouted: ‘Bread! Give ns bread!’
And all through the great harmonies of
musical academy and cathedral I hoar the
the pathos, the ground tone, tho tragedy
of uncounted multitudes, who, with stream¬
ing eyes and wan checks aud broken families, hearts,
in behalf of themselves .and their
are pleading for bread.
“Let us take another look around to see
how we may serveour generation. Lotus
see, as far as possible, that they have
enongii to wear.”
The preacher dilated upon the curse of
drunkenness and idleness, oausing the
maelstrom that has swallowed down the
livelihood of those who are in rage. But
things will change, and by generosity ou
the part of the crowded wardrobes, and in¬
dustry and sobriety on the party of the
empty wardrobes, there will be enough for
all to wear. part toward the dress¬
“God has done His
ing of tho human race. He grows a sur¬
plus of woolonthe sheep’s baok, andflooks
roam the mountains and valleys witii a
burden of warmth, intended for transfer¬
ence to human comfort when tho shuttles
of the factories reaching ail the way from
Chattahoochee to the Merrimac,.shall letters have
spun and woven it. In white of
snowy Ileeco God lias been writing for a
thousand years His wish that there might
be warmth for all nations. While others
are discussing the effect of high or low tariff,
or no thrill at all on wool, yoa and I had
better see if in our wardrobe we have noth¬
ing that we can spare for the shivering, Sr
pick out some poor lad of the street and
take him down to a clothing store and fit
him out for the winter. around and how
“Again, let us look see
we may serve our generation. What short¬
sighted mortals wo would be if we were
anxious to clothe and feed only the, most
insignificant part of a man, namely, his
body, while we put forth no effort to
clothe and feed and save his soul.
“We put a halo about the people demanded of the
past hut I think if the times
them it would be found we have now living
in this year, 1897, fifty Martin Luthers,
ilftv George Washingtons, fifty Lady Hun-
tlngdons, fifty Elizabeth Frys. During our
niv7l War more splendid warriors in North
*nd South were developed in four years
than the whoto world developed in tho pre-
vious twenty year.-. I challenge the four
thousand years before the flood and the
eighteen centuries after the flood to show
me the equal of charity, on a large scale,
of George Peabody. ''■This generation of
men and women is more worth saving l/ian
any one of the one hundred and eighty
generations that have passed willing Off. to
“How to get then saved? Be Him instantane¬ accept
Christ, and accept
ously and forever. Get on the rock first,
and then you will be able to help other-:
up on the same rock.
‘I confess to you that my, one wish is to
serve this generation, not to antagonize It,
Ilot *<> damage it, not to rule it. but to serve
it. I would like to do something toward
helping unstrap its load, to stop Its tears,
tohalsnm Its wounds, and to induce It to
put foot on the upward road that has at its
terminus acclamation rapturous, and gates
pearly, and garlands amaranthine, and
fountains rniabowed, and dominions en-
throned and ooronetod. for I cannot forget
that lullaby in the closing words of mv
text: ‘David, after he had served bis own
generation by the will of God. fell on sleep.’
What a lovely sleep it was! Unftlial Absn-
)om did not trouble it. Ambitious Adonijah
,i (d not worry it. Persecuting Saul did not
harrow it. Exile did not fill it with night-
mare , Since a red-lieaded boy, amid his
father’s flocks at night, he had not had
such a good sleep. At seventy had years had of age
he lav down to it. He many a
troubled sleep, as in his caverns of Adul-
lam, or in the palace at the time his enemies
were attempting his capture. But this was
n , peaceful sleep, a calm sleep, a he restful had
sleep, a glorious sleep. ‘After will God,
served his generation by the of he
f e [| on sleep.’ sleep after
"Oh. what a good thing is a
hard day’s work! It takes ail the aching
out: of the head, and all the weariness out
of the limbs, and all the smarting out of the
eyes. From it wo rise in the morning, and
it Is a new world. And if we, like David,
serve our generation, we will at life's close
have most desirable and refreshing sleep,
In it will vanish our last fatigue of body,
onr last worriment of mind, ourlast sorrow
of soul. To the Christian’s body that was
hot with raging fevers, so that the attend-
ants must iiy slieer force keep on the blank-
ets, it will be the cool sleep. To those who
are thin-blooded and shivering with agues,
it will be the warm sleep. To those who,
becauso of physical disorders, were terrified
with night visions, it will be to the dream-
less sleep. To nurses and doctors and
mothers who were wakened almost every
hour of the nigiit by those to whom they
ministered, or over whom they watched it
w m be the undisturbed sloop. To those
wh o could not get to bed till late at night
and must rise eariv in tho morning, and be-
f ore getting rested, it will be tho long
sleep.
“Away witii all your gloomy talk about
departing from this world I If we have
served our generation it will not be put-
ting- out into the breakers; it will not bit
the fight with the King of Terrors; it will
be Koin „ t o sleep. A friend, writing mo
{rom Illinois, says that Bev. Dr. Wingate, North'
President of Wake Forest College,
Carolina, after a most useful life, found
his last day on earth his happiest seemed' day, and
that in his last moments he to bo
personally talking with Christ, as friend
with friend, saving: ‘Oh, how delightful
lt is! I knew you would be with me when
tlle time came, and I knew it would be
sweet, but I did not know it woull be ns
SW oet ns it is.’ The fact was, he had
served his generation in tho gospel min-
istry, and by the will of God ho fell asleep,
When in Africa, Majwara, tho servant,
] 00 ked into the tent of David Livingstone,
an q f 0U ud ],j m 0 n his knees, he stepped
back, not wishing to disturb him and in prayer,
and some timo after wont in found
bj m ; n the same posture, and stepped back
again; but after awhile, went in and
touched him, and, lo! the. great traveler
bad finished his last journey, and he had
died in the grandest and mightiest posture
a man ever takes—on his knees. He had
served his generation by unrolling the
scroll of a continent, and by the will of
God fell on sleep. In tho museum of
Greenwich, England, there is a fragment
0 f a book that was found on the arctic
r egions,amidtherelicsofSlrJohnFrank- amid the
lin, who bad perished snow and
j e0) and the leaf of that piece of a book
was turnod down at tho words: “When
thou passest through the waters I will be
ryith thee.’ Having served his generation
; n the cause of science and discovery, by
the will of God he fell on sleep, all
“Why will you keep us so nervous
talking about that which is only a dormi-
tory and a pillowed slumber, canopied by
a ngeis’ wings? Sleep. Transporting
sleep! And what a glorious awakening?
You and I have sometimes been thoroughly
bowildered after a long and fatiguing
journey; we- have stopped at a friend’s
] l0u g e f or the night, and after hours of
complete uneonsciousaess w» have opened
our eyes, the high-rison sun full iu our
f a c 0g and beforo we could fully collect our
tacult ies, have said: ‘Where am I; whose
house is this, and whose are these gar¬
dens?’ And, then, it has flashed upon us
in glad reality.
“And I should not wonder if, after we
have served our generation, and, by deep the
will of God, have fallen on sleep, the
sleep, the restful sleep, we should awaken
in blissful bewilderment, and for a little
while say: ‘Where am I? What palace It is
this? Why, this looks like heaven! is;
it is. Why, there is a building grander than
all the castles of earth heaved into a moun¬
tain of splendor—that must be the palace
of Jesus. And look there; at those walls
lined with foliage more beautiful than any¬
thing I over saw before, aud see those who
are walking down those aisles of verdure.
From what I have heard of them those two
walking arm in arm must be Mos is and
Joshua, him of Mount Sinai and he of the
halting sun over G-ibeon. And those two
walking arm in arm must be John aud
Paul, the one so gentle and the other so
mighty. . longer at
“ ‘But I must not look any
those gardens of beauty, but examine this
building in which I have just awakened.
I look out of the window this way and
that, and up and down, and I find it is a
mansion of immense size in which I am
stopping. All its windows of agate and
its colonnades of porphyry and alabaster.
Why, I wonder if this is not the “House of
many Mansions” of which I used to read?
It is; it is. There must be many of my
kindred and friends in this very mansion.
Hark! Whose are those voices? Whose are
those bounding feet? I open tho door and
seo, and lo! they are coming through all
the corridors and up and down all tho
stairs, our long-absent kindred. Why,
there i9 father, there is mother, there nr#
the children. All well again. All young
again. All of us together again. And as we
embrace each other with tho cry, “Ntfver
more to part; never more to part,” echo 'the and
arches, the alcoves, the hallways,
re-eoho the words, “Never more to part;
never more to part!” Then our glorified and
friends say: “Come out with us see
heaven.” And, some of them bounding
ahead of us and some of them skipping be¬
side us, we start down the ivory stairway.
And wo meet, coming up, one of the Kings
of ancient Israel, somewhat small of
stature, but having a countenance radiant
with a thousand victories. And as all are
making obeisance to this great one of
heaven, I cry out, “Who is he?” and the
answer comes: "This is the greatest of all
the Kings; it is David, who, after he had
served his generation by the will of God,
fell on sleep.” ’ ”
Electrocuted by a Telephone Wire.
A rope with a loop in tho free end left
dangling over the street from a telephone
wire in Easton, Md., caught a button on a
carriage which was being driven up the
street and, wrenching the top from the
vehicle, threw out a woman who was riding
in it. She was severely injured and died in
the house to which she was taken.
Horse Market Improving:.
The horse market is improving by expor-
tations to Europe at the rate of 2000 horses
a month. England and Frame take most
of them.
GOOD ROADS NOTES.
Convicts on Roads.
The -withdrawal from private con¬
trol of a large number of convicts
opens the way to the Commissioners
of many Georgia counties to begin the
much needed and long neglected work
of improving the ‘public roads. Em¬
ployed judiciously and systematically
in this way, the conviots can be made
to pay a far greater revenue in the
long run than has been derived from
them by the old leases and the bene¬
fits to the State in general will bo in¬
calculable. —Atlanta Journnl.
Steel Trackways on Wagon Roads.
The Washington Star says: “In
accordance with the desire of the Secre¬
tary of Agriculture to promote more
extended experiments in the use of
steel traokways on wagon roads, the
offioe of road inquiry has made ar¬
rangements with tho Cambria Iron
Works, of Johnstown, Penn., for roll¬
ing special rails for this purpose, these
arrangements to go into effect as soon
as definite orders from responsible
parties amounting to one mile of track
are received. The first order for track
has been given by the New York State
Agricultural Experiment Station.”
Don’t Blame the Weather.
Don’t blame the wet season for the
condition of many of your roads. See
that your candidates for local offices
favor good roads, and then supply
them with the information that will
enable them to know how to get and
keep them. Most people are all at sea
on these subjects. The heavy rains
of tho summer have given startling ob¬
ject-lessons to road-builders and Super¬
intendents in some sections of the
country. Hoads that were nearly fiat
and which lacked proper drainage were
swept over by the water. In some
spots the surface was torn away; in
others it was covered with stones and
earth. This did not happen where
roads were suitably crowned and
drained.—L. A. W. Bulletin.
Who Ar© Benefited?
Transportation over the common
roads is the only method of moving
persons and commodities that has not
advanced with the times. Steam rail-
way service has been vastly improved
by bettor road-beds, rolling stock and
management; electricity has super-
seded horse-power in the streets;
vehicles of all kinds have become
lighter and better, but the common
roads, which really feed all the others
and are the basis of all transportation,
have been overlooked and neglected,
Since we have begun to emulate our
cousins across the pond in their in¬
terest in out-of-door sports, during
the last few years, attention has been
called to the condition of our high¬
ways, and measures for their improve¬
ment have been inaugurated in many
sections. Until now few persons have
realized how deeply the condition of
the highways affected the whole com-
munity; but the farmer sees that good
roads reduce the cost of producing and
marketing his crops; the merchant re-
ceives the produce more regularly,
more quickly, and in better condition;
the truckman can haul twice as big a
load with less wear and tear and pro¬
fanity; the commercial mau saves time
and money in his across-country trips;
the railroads receive more stuff to
carry when it is easy and cheap to
bring it to them; the consumer gets
his goods at reduced cost, which
means lessened living expenses; tho
tourist, whether pedestrian, horseman,
driver or cyclist, has his field broad¬
ened and the possibilities for pleasur¬
able recreation indefinitely increased,
and tho valuo of all property on them
is materially advanced.—L. A. W.
Bulletin.
Good Ilonds in Prussia.
There is in Prussia and in the other
States a corps of educated, highly-
trained State employees who have mado
roads their profession, and they know
their business. Constant repair is one
main reason for the condition of the
German roads. Comprehensive and
minute regulations are strictly en¬
forced. In some provinces the village
mayor is held strictly responsible for
the good condition of all the roads in
his district except the State roads.
The work of repair iB constant and tho
labor is constantly supervised.
Another main reason why the build¬
ing of roads is carried out honestly is
the virtual absence of temptation to do
otherwise. The laws are very strict
and violations are severely punished
by fine and imprisonment.
There are three kinds of highways—
the provincial, tho Kries and the Ge-
mein do Wege. The former two are
those whose building and maintenance
rests on the shoulders of the provincial
or district representative bodies. All
the rest are communal or private roads,
and the same strict regulations apply
to them as to the provincial roads.
In Prussia alono $11,000,000 per
annum is paid out of the public funds
for the maintenance of roads, and this
does not inolude the moneys expend¬
ed by individual communes and by
private companies and individuals.
On the highest grade of public roads
it is forbidden to use them for vehi¬
cles with protruding wheel nails,
screws, spokes or otherwise objection¬
able gear. The horseshoes must be of
a particular kind. Heavy loads may
not pass over the roads without spe-
oial permission.
The tolls exacted on the German
roads, though at one time generally
imposed, are now small and infre¬
quent. As the maintenance of the
roads is fixed by specifio laws and
regulations, so too are the conditions
of constructing new roads.—New York
Post.
A Finnish Fish Story.
Finland appears to be a paradise
for fishermen. One skillful native
fisherman caught in five days 674
pounds of salmon and grayling. He
is said onee to have caught with tho
rod 1600 pounds of fish in ts,v« e
weeks.
ANNUAL LOSS BY FIRE,
(t Has Been Very Much Reduced by Im¬
proved Methods of Fighting Fire.
Mr. Charles T. Hill, the artist, who
has been writing a scries of papers for
St. Nicholas on the New York Fire
Department, has a final paper on "The
Fire Patrol.” Mr. Hill says;
The annual loss by fire in the United
States amounts to one hundred mil¬
lions of dollars, and fully one-half of
this loss Is caused by the water used
in extinguishing the fires. Before the
introduction, in 1872, of controlling or
shut-off nozzles used on the fire-hose,
the percentage of loss by water was
even greater—at least two-thirds of the
total loss. Previous to the intrudue-
tion of this much-needed device, there
was used what was known as an‘‘open
pipe,” a plain open nozzle, with no
contrivance for shutting oft the waat.er.
When it was necessary to shut off, the
order had to be pased to the engineer,
sometimes a long distance from the
fire; and unless the nozzles could be
thrust from a convenient window, the
water would go pouring out, spread¬
ing destruction in all directions. In
small fires, especially In “up stairs”
fires in private dwellings, or in busi-
ness houses stocked with perishable
goods, such as feathers, silks, etc., the
unnecessary destruction of property
was very great.
To-day, fires are fought much more
scientifically, and with a great deal
more system, than were -those of ten
or twenty years ago; and officers in
command of engine companies are usu¬
ally very careful not to use any more
water than is absolutely necessary.
Nearly every hose-wagon In the New
York Fire Department to-day carries
three sizes of hose—the regulation size,
1 % inch, used at all ordinary fires;3-
inch (known as“third-alarm hose,”
and only used at fires of considerable
magnitude), and a small hose carried
on a reel under the wagon. This hose
is l 1 /? inches in diameter, and very
easy to handle, and on account of the
ease with which any number of lengths
of it can be carried about, it Is that
oftenest used at small fires In dweil-
jng-houses, office-buildings, and flats,
Wilh a controlling nozzle on the end,
the fireman can das li up several flights
0 f jgairs and into a bedroom or closet,
an( i extinguish a small fire before it
has time t0 g p re ad, using the water
on iy where it is absolutely needed,
rp Q dra g (be regulation size (it weighs
about eighty pounds to the length) up
aU( j around winding stairways, etc.,
would take much longer, and perhaps
g; ve a g re tj mG to get just beyond the
point of easy control; besides, when
the water is finally started, a great
deal more is used by this hose than is
necessary, especially in the case of a '
small fire. It has been practically
demonstrated that a considerable
amount of fire can be extinguished
with a small amount of water applied
effectlve i yj and the use of the small
hoge ha s done much to reduce the
damage by water at fires in dwellings
an( j flats
A Wooden State.
Recent surveys show that over onc-
:ixth of the State of Oregon, some¬
thing over 10,000,COO acres, is covered
with dens e forests.
_
Chinchilla fur is the finest and most
delicate of all furs, and is generally of
a pearly French gray tone. The ani¬
mal, one of the rodent family, is only
nine inches long, making the skin, size
considered, very valuable.
A Virtue and a Vice.
Vanity and a proper regard for the feelings
cash m-Stamps from J. T. Shuptrine, Savan-
---
Jean and Edouard de Re^zke, the distin¬
guished opera singers, have been made nobles
by the Czar.
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WHAT MAN DOES NOT LOVE BEAUTY?
Mrs. Pinkham Counsels Young Wives to Keeop Their Attractiveness.
A Letter From a Young Wife.
Seven-eighths of the men /•
in this world marry a woman \ 'J
because she is beautiful \<r
in their eyes. V
What a disappoint¬
ment then to see the ,. p
fair young wife’s beauty
fading away before a year \ ■
passes over her head I %
1 feel as if I would like mm Hi
to say to every young woman £ 'It
who vance, “Strengthen is about so that to yourself be you married— will in not ad- i ft J (. ivi
II ■ v V
break down under the new • J
strain on your powers.” Keep your beauty, r-
it is a precious possession ! Your husband loves
your beauty, he is proud to be seen in public \;
with you; try to keep it for his sake, and your j/
own. I
The pale cheeks, the dark shadows under [ j
the eyes, the general drooping of the young -
form, what do they mean ? They mean 41
wife’s is going and that something
that her nerves are failing, that her strength
must be done to help her through the coming trials of maternity.
Build her up at onee by a course of some tonic with specific powers. Such as
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. You can get it at any druggist’s.
Following we publish by request a letter from a young wife—of her own ac¬
cord she addresses it to her “suffering sisters,” and while from modesty she
asks to withhold her name, she gives her initials and street number in
Chambersburg, Pa., so she can easily be found personally or by letter:
To my Suffering Sisters:—Let me write this for your benefit, telling ybu
what Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has done for me. I am but
nineteen and suffered with painful menstruation, leucorrhoea, dizziness, burn¬
ing sensation back of ears and on top of my head, nervousness, pain and
soreness of muscles, bearing-down pains, could not sleep well, was unable
to stand without pain, and cli! how I longed to be well!
One day I wrote to Mrs. Pinkham telling her all, knowing I could do so
in perfect confidence. exactly what to do..
She wrote me a lovely letter in reply, telling me using
After taking nine bottles of the Compound, one box of Liver pills, and
one-half package of Sanative wash, I can say I am cured. I am so happy,
and owe my happiness to none other than Mrs. Pinkham.
Why will women suffer when help is near? Let me, as one who has had
some experience, urge all suffering women, especially young wives, to seek
Mrs. Pinkham’s advice—Mrs. K. S. K., 113 E. Catherine St., Chambersburg, Pa.
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MENTION THIS PAPER Users. .&?
TENNESSEE’S BEAUTY
SPEAKS FOR HER SEX.
Boyle’s Station, Tonn,»
writes: Dr. 31, A. Sim-
raons Diver Medicine need .3
1? no commendation. It speaks
for itself. It cures Diver
U V/ (L) & Disorders and breaks up
Biliousness and Bilious
Colic. I think it is far bet-
ter than “Thedford’s Black
Menstrual Suppression. womanhood,
Sally This when occurs tho in constitution early is not strong. espac-
It may result from sudden oxpo3ure to cola,
immersion of the hands and feet in cola
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ular hours and forcing the development of
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once a day by small doses of Dr. hi. A. Sim¬
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eflects of Dr. Simmons Squaw Vine Wino
dose should three be socured day by for taking several regularly weeks. a
times a
..v; '' Celina, Tenn., writes: Hava
used I>r. M. A. Simmonn
Liver Medieino 10 lyearslor years for
mm Siclr Stomach -J-* AaC'liS Of
also Flesh, Bow Spirits. Disease, It
cures JLivor
Biliousness, Bowels. does Constipated
>"v It not gripe,
and takes less to operate on
IHU than either ‘‘‘Black
( jljjpj Fraught” or “Zeilin’s” and
it has a more thorough p,nd
Mw gentle effect, and leaves my
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“Black Draught” or “Zeilin’e.”
Seneca! Lassitude.
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kidneys, tho pure; liver, tho are lungs and tho
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fiStaSatXo'rbe^^^eTS^! ing ernptidna, fevers, lassitndc and langour.
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