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INDIA'S CHIEF IDOLS.
Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserv¬
er, and Siva the Destroyer.
Great is the number of Idols In India,
for popular report puts the number
<iown as 338,000,Odd. Every Indian vil¬
lage has its especial idol, sometimes
more than one. None of these idols
of clay, wood or stone is supposed to
be fit for worship till the consecrating
words have been spoken over It by a
priest.
Brahma is the supreme god of India
and appears In Uireeforms- Brahma the
creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Siva
the destroyer. Each of the three is
supposed to be married, and Thus at
once we have six deities which are su¬
preme in India.
Vishnu, the preserver, the most pop¬
ular and most worshipped, is shown
black and likewise with four arms, and
as in a struggle of the gods with the
demons he killed a woman he was con¬
demned to be born twenty-two times
as a fish, a tortoise, a hear and a lion
among other animals. His many man¬
ifestations in animal form are likewise
Popular. His wife, Lakshml, is the
goddess of prosperity and good luck.
She is represented as a lovely woman
with a gold-colored face—gold being
the Hindoo’s ideal tint.
Very different are Siva and his wife.
He is the destroyer and is represented
as a man unclothed, but powdered over
with ashes and having a tiger skin
swathed about him. He has a third
eye in the middle of his forehead. A
necklace of human skulls decorates his
throat, while he carries a club or tri¬
dent surmounted by human heads and
bones. He is also armed with a bow
and an ax. His wife has several forms.
At first as Sati, the faithful one, her
name is given to widows who are
burned alive on their husband’s funeral
pyres. Secondly she is Durga, the
mother of the world, and is seated on
a lion and dressed in red. Again, as
Kali, the goddess of cruelty, she is one
of the most horrible of Hindoo deities,
represented as black, adorned 'With
human skulls and hands and dancing
on the body of her husband. This is
not because she hates him, but be¬
cause, when, according to tradition,
she had finished destroying her ene¬
mies, she danced so violently the
earth seemed about to be shaken to
pieces, and to stop her Siva lay down
among the dead, and she, not seeing
him under her feet, became ashamed,
and put out her tongue, which is the
Bengali manner of blushing, These
are the principal gods of India, select¬
ed from the reputed 333,000,000.
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Waiter—“Oh, yes, sir; so wild, in
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Ruralville Citizen: “Did you enjoy
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. SKLP-HEROISM.
SERMON BY II. ALLEN TI PPER, 01
MONTCLAIR, N. J.
‘Self-Heroism” in tho Title of the Fifth of
the New York Herald’s Competitive
Sermong—By a New Jersey Minister—
Taimage on “God Among tho Fishes/’
“Be strong,and quit yourselves like men.”
—I. Samuel, iv., 9.
Roputation is what a person seems to be;
character is wbat he is. A man’s real self
is within, not without; and any permanent
progress must proceed from the life. centre What
toward tho circumference of his
is on him or around him cannot determine
his value. The nrlstocraey of character
includes the members of the real nobility
of earth. Huch are they who fight the
bravest battles and win the most valiant
victories.
Real glory
Springs from the silent conquest of our¬
selves. the is naught
And without that conqueror
But the first slave.
and’ My sermon is dedicated to these victors,
my subjeot Is their namesake, “Self-
Heroism”—the heroism of self-examina¬
tion, the heroism self-concentration, of self-preparation, tho heroism the
heroism of
of I. self-perpetuation. Heroism of Self-Examination.
—The
Nothing is insignificant. There is a
divine meaning in the existence of every¬
thing. No life cau infringe upon another’s
right of way in living; for the legitimate
property of no two lives lies along exactly
the same track. Each life is a monopoly the
in itself; for to each has been given exclu¬
sole permission to exereise certain
sive powers. The author of my being has
made a mistake or my life is of tremendous
significance. Introspection self-knowledge purtakes of
the heroic. Ignorance of
is the reef upon which many of the con¬
querors of the world have been wrecked.
They knew others, but did not know them¬
selves. They guided others; but failed to
guide themselves. They mastered others,
but could not master themselves. Tbe
fields upon which they were victors lay
beyond themselves; the fields upon which
they were victims lay within themselves.
If self-examination were au applied who science,
I venture the opinion would that be some behind are the
now in the pulpit
plough; some who are at the bar would be
in the blacksmith shop; some who are in
Congress would be in the cornfield; some
who sit in faculties would lie In fossil beds,
and others would awake to their native
right and riches and put honor upon lives
divinely gifted. Whoever you are, wher¬
ever you are, be brave enough, be honest
enough to get intimately and accurately
acquainted with yourself, and with Jean
Paul Richter be enabled to say: “I have
made as much out of myself as could be
made of the stuff, and no one can require
more.”
II. —The Heroism of Self-Preparation. lias two
Gibbon tells us that every one
educations—one which he receives from
others and one which he gives to himself.
The popular idea of education seems to be
the art of allowing others to do as much-
for us as we have the capacity of receiv¬
ing. “He is not capable of receiving an
education” is a suggestive expression,
’True education is self-preparation. It must
find something within you, or it brings
nothing out of you. It converts your
possibilities into practical powers. The
richer a nature the hardor and slower Its
self-preparation and development, To¬
day the noblest figure in Europe stands
erect under the snows of more than four¬
score winters, and because of his rigid,
righteous self-preparation through all
these . years the, ‘-‘Grand Old Man” is the
freshest in thought and maturest in wis¬
dom ol all who meet in the councils of men.
Patient preparation is permanent power.
In an age that lacks composure men are
apt to mature too quickly and decay too
soon. Reserve power should be greater
than spent powor. By self-preparation de¬
posit each day forfuture drafts, and then
you are not apt to overcheck your ac¬
count.
III. —The Heroism of Seif-Concentration.
A life often fails to make a lasting im¬
pression because of its diffusion. What we
call genius is frequently only tbe child of
application. To attempt any thing and to
accomplish nothing is a fatal folly. While
we are striving to know something about know
everything wo must zealously try to
everything about something. The higher
and more unselfish the end toward which
wo direct our lives the greater is the de¬
mand for intense and ceaseless concen¬
tration of our noblest powers. Focus your
best powers upou the details of your life
work. These may seem to be trifles; but
remember the wise words of the pains¬
taking artist: “Trifles make perfection, the
and perfection is no trifle.” Like
fabled bird in the Oriental legend in which
slept on the wing, learn to rest your
labor, but never rest from your labor.
Contemplate! Concentrate! Consecratel
IV. —The Heroism of Self-Perpetuation. half living
Great and good men are not and truest
when they are alivel Their best
life on earth comes after they walk no
longer on earth. In their day Moses and
Paul were not near so influential as they
are to-day. Truth, like a seed, does not the
bear its fruit in a day, and the rioher
truth and'moro precious the seed the long¬
er the full fruition is delayed. Great prin¬
ciples and great lives, like great bodies,
move slowly. A man’s seif becomes wedded,and a part
of the truth to which his life Is
as this truth passes beyond the limit of his
visible existence and takes its endless
course through the ages the best part of
the man is perpetuated. Each life is a
contribution to history; hut few lives have
their historians. Heroic lives are often¬
times written anonymously upon tho tab¬
lets of timo, and coming ages never recall
by name their greatest benefactors. Some
men are dead while they are living; others
are living while they are dead. Think
much of your post-mortem life among men.
Maintain an uncompromising enmity to¬
ward the false, an invincible friendship to¬
ward the true. God. Cultivate a practical Christ faith
in the living Accept as your
ideal and Redeemer. This is the hidden
spring of self-heroism. It crowns man’s
life with the truest success; and when the
veil is lifted lie shall stand erect in the
light of a glorified manhood.
H. Allex TurpEB, Jn., D. D.,
Pastor First Baptist Church, Montclair,
N. J.
FINDS COD IN THE FISHES.
Rev. Dr. Talmage Discourses on the
Ichthyology of the Ulble.
Text: “And God said, Let tbe waters bring
forth abundantly the moving creatures that
hath life.”—Genesis i., 20.
Is it not strange that the Bible Imagery is
so inwrought from the fisheries, when the
Holy Land is, for the most part, an inland
region? ohanged.
The world’s geography has deeper and
Lake Galilee was larger and doubt,
better stocked than now, and, no
the rivers were deeper and the fisheries
were of far more importance then than
now. Besides that, there was the Mediter¬
ranean Sea only thirty-five miles aud away,and brought
the fish were salted or dried
inland, and so much of that article of food
was'sold in Jerusalem that a fish market
gave tho name to one of the gates ot Jeru¬
salem nearby, and it was called the Fish
Gate.
So important was the fish that the God
Dagon, worshipped by the Philistines, was
made half fish and half man, and that ls
the moaning of the Lord’s indignation
when in 1st Samuel we read that this
Dagon, the fish god, stood beside the ark
of the Lord, and Dagon was by invisible
hands dashed to pieces, because the Phil¬
istines had dared to make the fish a god.
Layard and Wilkinson found the fish
an object of idolatry all through Assyria
»nd Egypt. explains The Nile was tull ot flab, and
that the horrors of the plague
that slaughtered the finny tribe all up and
down thut river, which haa been and Is
now tho main artery of Egypt’s life, The
flsli has priority of residence over every
living quadruped, thing. It preoeded the bird, the
the human race. The next
thing world done the after golden God chandelier had kindled for our
of the sun,
and the silver chandelier of the moon,
was to make the fish. Tho first motion of
the principle of life, a principle that ull
the thousands of years since hnvo not been
able to define or analyze, the very first
stir of life was In the fish to confound the
scientists. It does not take tho universe to
prove a God. A. fish docs it. No wonder
that Linnaeus and Cuvier and Agassiz and
the greatest minds of all the centuries sat
enraptured and before the Its anatomy. Oh, its
beanty, The Lord, by placing adaptedness. the fish In the
seo-
ond course of the menu In paradise, mak¬
ing it world precede beast and bird, indicated to
the the importance of the fish as
an article ot human food. We mix up a
fantastlo food that kills tho most of us be¬
fore thirty years of ago. Custards and
chicken whipped salads sillabubs and midnight Roman punches gauntlet and
at are a
that few have strength to run. We put on
many a tombstone epitaphs saying that
the one beneath died of patriotic religious service,
or from exhaustion in work,
when nothing killed the poor fellow but
lobster eating at a party four hours after
he ought to have been sound asleep in bed.
No man or woman ever amounted to any¬
thing who was brought up on floating
island or angel cake. The world must turn
back to paradisaic diet if it is health. to get para¬
disaic morals and paradisaic The
human race to-day needs more phosphorus, surcharged
and the fish is charged and
with phosphorus. Phosphorus that which
shines iu tho dark without burning! What
made the twelve Apostles such stalwart
men that they could endure anything and
achieve everything? because Next they to divine nearly inspir¬ all
ation, It was and lived fish and were few plain
flshermon on a
condiments. Paul, though not brought up
to swlug the net and throw the lash, must
of necessity have adopted the diet of the
population among whom he lived, and you
see the phosphorus and phosphorus In his daring in his plea bold¬ be¬
fore Felix, the
est of all utterances beforo the wiseacres
on Mars Hill, and the phosphorus as he
went without fright to his beheading, and
the phosphorus you see in the lives of all
the apostles,who moved right on undaunted
to certain martyrdom, whether to be de¬
capitated or flung off precipices or hung the in
crucifixion. without Phosphorus, No shining in
dark burning! man or woman
that ever lived .was independent of ques¬ his
tions of diet. Napoleon lost one of
great battles through an attack of indiges¬
tion. The cook in kitchen, or encamp¬
ment, has decided many of the great bat¬
tles.
The fools who become Infidels because
they cannot understand the engulfment of
the recreant Jonah in a sea monster might
have saved their souls by studying a little
natural history. “Oh,” says some one,
“that story of Jonah was only a fable.”
Say others, “It was interpolated by some
writer of later times.” Others say, “It was
a reproduction of the story of Hercules de¬
voured and then restored from the mon¬
ster.” But my reply Is that history tells
us that there were monsters large enough
to whelm ships. The extinct iohthyosaurus
of other ages was talrty feet long, and as
late as tho sixth century of the Christian
era, up and down the Mediteranean, there
floated monsters compared with which a
modern whalo was a sardine or been a herring, found
The shark has again and again
to have swallowed a man entire. A fisher¬
man on the ooast of Turkey found a sea
monster which contained a woman and a
purse of gold. I have seen in museums sea
monsters large enough to take down a
prophet. But I have a better reason for
believing tho Old Testament account, and
that Is that Christ said It was true and a
type of His own resurrection, and I sup¬
pose He ought to know. In Matthew xii.,
40, Jesus Christ says: “For as Jonas was
three days so’shall and three nights in the whale’s
belly, the Son of Man be three days
and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
And that settles it for mo and for any man
who does not believe Christ a dupe and an
imposter. Gospel Fisheries,
God help us amid the hook net, for the
whether we when employ shall or how much
day cometh we see
depended on our fidelity. Christ himself
declared: “The kingdom of heaven is like
unto a net that was cast into the sea and
gathered of every kind, which, when it was
full, they drew to shore, and sat down and
gathered the good in the vessels, but cast of
the bad away; so shall it be at the end
the world, the angeis shall come forth and
separate tho wicked from the just.” Yes,
the fishermen think it best haul to keep the use¬
ful and worthless of the in the same
net until it is drawn upon the beach, and
then the division takes place, moss-hunkers and If it is on
Long Island coast, the are
thrown out and the blueilsh and shad pre¬
served; or, lfit is on the shore of Galilee,
the flsli classified as siluroids arc hurled
back into the water or thrown up the bank
as unclean, while the perch and the carp
and the barbel are put In palls the to church be car¬
ried homo for use. So iu on
earth, and the saints and the hypoerits, the
generous and the mean, the chaste and the
unclean, are kept in the same membership, and
but at death the division will be made,
the good will be gathered Into heaven and
the bad, however many holy communions
they may have celebrated, and how many
rhetorical prayers they may have offered,
and however many years their names may
have been on the church rolls, will should be cast be
away. God forbid that any of us
among tbe “cast away.” But may we do
our work, whether small or great, as thor¬
oughly as did that renowned fisherman,
Rev. Dr. George AV. Betliune, who spent his
summer rest angling in tho waters around
the Thousand Islands, and beating at their
own craft those who plied It all the year,
and who, the rest of his people time, of gloriously Philadel¬
preached Christ to the
phia or Brooklyn, and ordering for his own
obsequies: “Lay me out in my pocket pulpit
gowns and bands, with my own
Bible in my right hand. Bury me with my
mother, my father and my grandmother, the hymn I
Isabella Graham. Sing also
composed years ago:
Jesus, Thou Prince of Life,
Thy chosen cannot die.
Like Thee they conquer in the strife,
To reign with Thee on high.”
CHEAP TYPEWRITERS IN SIGHT.
The l’atenta on Easontlul Improvements
Have Expired.
The Typewriter Trust is ln danger. As
tho patents on all of the essential improve-
me nts in the typewriter ran out long ago,
it is now possible to duplicate almost any
machine ln the market.
The matter having thus been reduced to
a question of factory cost, which is alleged by
to be about $15, the time is regarded stroke
many as having arrived for a bold
to gain the supremacy in the market. It
ls believed ttmt the $100 machine will go
now, as the high price muintaiued by the
Trust permits rival oonoorns to live, and
the opposition companies aro making a
larger allowance for a seoond hand machine
of trust make than would bo allowed for it
by tho combination itself. This amounts
to a cut ln the price.
increase m Postal Receipts.
A statement prepared at the Postoffloe
Department shows that the gross oflloes postal for
receipts at fifty of the largest
N .°IoS b 0 r limouat
of corresponding $882,533, . o o or 12 9-12 per cent, over the
month of last year. These
receipts are greater than for anyNovember Postmaster
in the history of the servioe.
mrhgUufle y dat P thT 6 showrngmade. V anJ
said he regarded it as an accurate barome- of
ter of the improved business oondition
the country.
GEORGIA AMI ALA 11 AM A III VERS.
Appropriations For This Improvement
Will lie Diligently Sought.
A Washington special says: The
Georgia and Alabama congressmen
who have in their districts navigable
streams or who are on the gulf or At¬
lantic coast are preparing to make a
greater effort than has ever been made
before in behalf of increased appro-
priations for these public works.
Witli Captain Lester, of Georgia,
and Colonel Bankhead, of Alabama,
on the rivers and harbors committee,
and with the representatives of these
two states working hand in hand, it is
believed that excellent results can be
achieved, despite the fact that the re-
publicans are crying out for economy,
The southerners have planted them-
selves squarely on the proposition thut
of whatever is appropriated these states
should get their share, and if hard
work will get, they will succeed.
There seems to be more general in-
terest iu this matter of appropriations
for river improvements than in the
past. In Alabama a convention of
those interested in the Warrior river
is to be held on the 29th, and Con-
gressman Bankhead and Taylor, who
hnve been taking the initiative in the
movement, have secured the promises
of other congressmen, as well as all
the members of the Alabama delega-
tion to be present.
FLORIDA FISHERY CONGRESS
Awakens National Interest—Will Be Held
In Tampa.
Grea national interest is awaken-
ing in the forthcoming fishery con-
gress to be held at Tampa, Fla., on
the 19th of January. The fish com-
missioner a'; Washington will attend,
also commissioners from each state.
As an evidence of this interest the
application for rooms at the leading
hotels at Tampa is growing larger
each day by duly accredited delegates
and those interested in fiscicultnre.
Many valuable, papers are being pre¬
pared to be read at the congress.
The following special days have been
set apart in honor of various exposi¬
tion commissions:
January 19—For the commission of
the World’s Fair Columbian exposition
of Chicago.
January 20—For the commission of
the Atlanta exposition.
January 21—For the commission of
the Nashville Centennial exposition.
January 22—For the commission of
the Omaha Trans-Mississippi exposi-
tj on
January 24—For the commission of
the Pan-American exposition of New
York.
Especially prepared programmes wil
tfe’ rendered on these days and the
members of the commissions have
signified their intention of being pres-
ent at the congress.
.
GOMPEItS RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT
American Federation of Tabor Names
Officers In Nasliville.
At Saturday’s session of the Ameri-
c&n Federation of Labor, assembled at
Nashville, Tenn., Samuel Gompers
and Ernest Kreft, of Philadelphia,
were ominated for president. The
vote resulted: Gompers, 1,845; Kreft,
407. The announcement was greeted
With applause.
P. J. McGuire and James Duncan
were placed in nomination for first
vice president and second vice presi-
dent, and unanimously elected; Rob-
ert Askew was elected third vice M. presi-
dent without opposition, aud M.
Girland became fourth vice president
by unanimous vote. George B. Len-
non was chosen treasurer and Frank
Morrison secretary, without opposi-
tion,
For legislative committeeman, An-
drew Furuseth, of San Francisco, was
chosen.
The choice of the next place of
meeting was a contest between Detroit
and Kansas City, Mo., the vote result¬
ing, Kansas City 1,806J. Detroit 8064.
SPANISH BOATS SEIZED.
Our Revenue Cutters In Florida Waters
Doing Good Service.
A special to tlie Times-Union anil
Citizen, of Jacksonville, says:
» . What may prove another bone of
contention between the United States
and Spain has just happened iu the
vicinity of Punta Gorda, the revenue
cutter McLaue having seized seven
Spanish fishing smacks charged with'
smuggling rum or aguadiente to the
fisher folks living along the gulf.
“The smacks were inclined to run
for it, hut the McLane’s brass how-
chaser spoke out and brought them to
a round turn.
TO DEDICATE MONUMENT.
Fifteen Hundred Pennsylvania Troopt
Will Go to Chattanooga.
Adjutant General Stewart, of Penn¬
sylvania, will issue orders to fifteen
hundred Pennsylvania soldiers for
free transportation to Chattanooga and
return, to attend the dedication on
November 15th of the Pennsylvania
monuments on the Chickainauga bat¬
tlefield.
Governor Hastings and staff will
participate in the ceremonies, along
with representatives of the national
government and the Feunsylvania
battlefield commission.
SOUTHERN EFFECTS PURCHASE.
Memphis and Charleston Railway Will
B© Transferred Next Month.
A Cincinnati dispatch states that the
Southern Railway Company will ac-
<1™° Memphis anil Charleston
road January 1st. During the past
week, details of the transaction have
been consummated, and there is noth-
mg . pending to further delay the sale, ,
The attorneys representing the liti-
g an ts in three suits for foreclosure
and the general creditors’ bill have
asked Judge Lurtou to agree to the
consolidation of the four cases,
THE USE OF CORAL.
By No Means as General as K Was
Formerly.
“The beautiful coral necklaces and
brooches that were once so fashionable
are seldom worn now by women In this
country,” said a New York dealer In
rare and curions ornaments to a Star
reporter recently. Thirty years ago
the material was in great demand for
a j. sor t g of articles of personal adorn-
ment. At. the present day coral is
used largely only in such countries as
Abyssinia, the Congo, the Cape, India
and Ceylon, Siberia, China and Japan,
The choicest pieces are used fbr the
buttons of the Chinese mandarins, or
f or ornamenting the turbans of rich
Mussulmans, while the inferior quali-
u e s are sent to less civilized countries,
where they are employed for various
purposes.
"Coral has been often used as money
In Oriental countries, but that use of
it is now declining, Barbarous and
semi-civilized peoples employ It large-
ly for ornamenting arrows, lances and
pikes, and also for decorating corpses
before interment. Prices have varied
much of late years, a rapid decline in
value having taken place, owing prin-
cipally to the scarcity of good and the
comparative abundance of inferior
qualities,
“Besides the loss accruing to the
fishermen, the present scarcity of coral
is very seriously affecting the large
number of people employed in prepar¬
ing the material for market. There
has been a great decline in the number
°* women thus employed at Leghorn,
and the same 8tate of a ' ffairs ls evident
at Naples and Genoa, the other prin-
clpal towns of the lndustr - v - Nowadays
the proportion of inferior quality is so
much larger that fewer persons are re-
qu)l ? d t0 manipu!ata th e q uantlty ' N ,°
machinery or mechanical , 1 process is
employed. The workman simply takes
pleces ° f coral Into his or her hands,
° ne after an0ther ' and ' accordlng to
their thickness, qualitv and defects,
works them into certain forms. Their
wages run from 15 cents to 35 tents
per day.”—Washington Star.
the Bishop’s Tactful Lesson,
This story is told of an "Eastern
woman” who used to be notorious
among her friends for the long time it
took her to dress. As tho newspaper
puts it: "There was ho case on record
°f a sues* who had been greeted under
her roof with any degree of prompti-
tude.” Now she has reformed, and
this is how the reform came about:
One evening, at a private entertain¬
ment of some kind, she encountered a
certain bishop, an old friend of the
ta mily.
mar Ah ked ’ my the dear , ® ccle8laatlc , Sm ,^’ „ are re *
’
*>“’ , 1 P aa fed your house yesterday a
and thought ot dropping tn to Bee
you.”
"And you didn’t do it? That was
very unkind of you.”
"Well, no. You see, I said to myself,
‘I have just one hour to call upon Mrs.
Smith. She-will take fifty-seven mln-
utes to dress. That will leave just
three for our talk. It is hardly worth
while.’ ’’—St. Louis Globe,
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JIUHBAJWA’S SBflUTY
TALKS SENSE.
Jenifer, Ala., ua ye: T
have nsed Dr. 3U A*
Simmons Liver Medi¬
ci i n e 15 years, and
know it cures Sick
Headache and Consti¬
W pated Bowels. I think
it has more strength
then either
“Black Draught’ 1 or
u Zeiliu’B V egutator. ’*
Parturition.
Childbirth, when natural, should be easft
and it is always easy when the right prepara¬
tions are made. Nature never intended that
woman should be tortured her wholly when womanly. doing the
one thing that makes
To fear or shrink from childbirth is a crime
—not by the laws of society, bnt by the lawa
of hereditary—for the mother’s condition
reacts inalienable upon her right offspring. be Every born child has
an to on pur¬
pose, and the right to be tbe product of the
best manhood and best womanhood of its
parents and the consummation condition, of their life’s
joys. tonic that To secure can be this need is Dr. Simmons the beBfc
Squaw harmless Vino Wine; all it is times perfectly and under safe and all
to use at
circumstances in softening, the doses prescribed. and It
assists nature in relaxing involved, ex¬
thereby panding decreasing the muscles labor and ligaments pains and shortens
labor. less delivery Bapid, follow safe and its continuous comparatively use. pain¬
Hatchett Creek, Ala., writes:
I have known Dr. M. A.
Simmons Liver Medicine
all my life, and have need It
15 years. Think it far Su¬
W perior to “Zeilln’s** medi¬
cine, and ihat it excels
“Black Draught” to a largo
extent. It cures Sick Head¬
ache and Wind Colic.
Too Frequent Menstruation.
When the monthly flow occurs at tho
roper period and is otherwise strictly nat-
ral, the patient suffers little or no pain,
ntif it occur too often, continue feeble too pn’so, long
or bo too profuse, it induoes a
cold extremities, weak respiration ana
general debility. In treating this disease,
moderate exercise and frosh air aro most
essential: the digestive organs should bo
regulated with Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver
Mcdicino, and the happiest results will
follow the use of Dr. Simmons Squaw
Vino Wino in strengthening tho system so
that too frequent will be menstruation corrected. resulting
from debility
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