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DISCOURSE.
Subject: “The Song oC the Drunk¬
ards."
Tf.xt: “I was the soug of the drunkards”
“-Psalms Ixix., 12.
Who said that? Was it David or was it
Christ? It was both. These Messianic
Psalms are like a telescope. Pull the instru¬
ment to n certain range, and It shows you an
object near by. Pull it ’to another rangeTand
It will show you objects faraway. Dtvil
aud Christ were both, each iu his own time,
the song of the drunkards. Holiuoss of doc¬
trine au l life al wavs did excite wieked merri¬
ment and Although David had fully reformed
written a psalmody in which all subse¬
quent ages h ive sobbed out their penitence,
his enemies preferred to letch up his old
jareer an 1 put into metric measuros sins
long before forgiven. Christ who commit¬
ted no sin, was still more the subject of un¬
holy song, because the better one is the more
iniquity hates him. Of tho best being whose
voico ever moved the air or whose foot over
touched the earth it might be said:
The bywordof the passing throng,
The rul r’s scoff,the drunkard’s song.
The earth fitted up for the human race, in
congratulation the morning stars sang a
sons. The Israelitish army safe on the bank
of the Bed Sea and the Egyptians clear un¬
der the returned water, Moses sang a song.
One of the most important parts of this great
old book is Solomon’s song. At the birth of
our Lord the Virgin Mary and oi l Simeon
an I angelic priraa donnas in hovering clouds
sang a sotig. What enrichment has been
given to the world’s literature and enjoy¬
ment by tho ballads, tho canticles, the dis¬
cams, the ditties, tho roundelays, the epics,
the lyrics, tho dithyrambs! But my text
calls attention to a style of song that I think
has never been discoursed upon. You some¬
times hear this style of music when passing
a saloon, or a residence in which dissipation
Is ascendant, or after you have retired at
night you hear it coming out of the street
from those who, having tarrio 1 long at their
cups, are on their way home—the ballad of
the inebriate, the serenade of the alcohol¬
ized, or what my text calls the song of the
drunkards.
For practical and saving and warning and
Christian purposes I will announce to you
the -har.-icteri-tics of that well-known
cadence mentioned in my text, First I
remark that the song of the drunkards
is an old soug. Much of the music of the
world and of the church is old music,
First came the music of percussion, the
clapping cymbal, wb oh was suggested by
a hammer on an anvil, and then the sigh
ing of the wind across the roe,Is suggested
the flute, and then the strained sinews of
the tortoise across its shell suggested tho
harp. But far back of that, and nearly
back as far as the moral collapse of our
first parentage i“ tto song of tho drunk
ards. That tune was sung at least 4213
years age, when, the deluge past, Noah
came out of the ark, and, ns if disgusted
With too much prevalence of water, he took
to strong drink and staggered forih, for all
ages the first known drunkard. Ho sound
ed the first note of the old music of inebri
acy. An Arab author of A. D. 1310 wrote:
“Noah, being come out of the ark, ordered
each of his sons to build a house. After
ward ihey were occupied in sowing and in
planting trees, the pippins anil fruits of
which they found in the ark. The vine alone
was wanting, and they could not discover it.
Gabriel then informed them that the devil
had desired it, and, indeed, h id some right
to it. Hereupon Noah summoned him to
appear in the field and said to him: ‘Oh, ac
cursed! Why hast thou carried away the
vine from me?’ ’Because,’replied the devil,
‘it belonged to me.’ ‘Shall I part it foryou?’
said Gabriel. ‘I consent,’ said Noah, ‘and
■rill Kent leave him a fourth.’ ‘That is not suffl
Re halt,’replied for him,’ said Noah,’and Gabriel. ‘Well, 1 will
Blether.’ he shall take
^Khed ‘That is not sufficient yet,’re
(fffthouona, Gabriel. ‘He must have two-thirds
and when thy wiue shall have
boiled on the fire until two-thirds are gone
the remaindorshall beassigned forthy use.’”
A fable that illustrates howthe vine has been
misappropriated. this of the
Again, song drunkards Is an
exp nsive song. The Honutags and the
Pirepa Rosas and Nilssons, and the other
Tenderers of elevated and divine solos re
ceived their thousands of dollars per night
in coliseums and academies of music. Some
of the people of smail they means almost sit pauper
Ized themselves that might a few
evenings under the enchantmentoftho.se
angels of sweet sounds. I paid #7 to hear
Jenny afford Lind sing when it was not very easy to
the $7. Very expensive is such music,
but tho costliest song on earth is the drunk
art’s song. It costs ru n of body. It costs
ruin of mind. It costs ruin of soul. Go
right down among the residential streets of
any city and you can find once beautifuland
luxurious homesteads that were expended P in
this destructive music.
The lights have gone out in the drawing
room, the pianos have ceased the pulsation
Of their keys, the wardrobe has lost its last
article of appropriate attire. The Bel
sbazzarean feast has left nothing but the
broken pieces of ths crushed chalices. There
it stands, the ghastliest thing on earth, the
remnant of a drunkard’s home. The cost
liest thing on earth is sin. The most expen
sive of all music is the song of the drunk
ards. It is the highest tariff of Nations—not
a protective tariff, but a tariff of doom, a
tariff of woe, a tariff of death. Thi9 evil
whets the knives of the assassins, cuts the
most of the wounds of the hospital, makes
necessary most of the of almshouses, causes asylum, the
most of the ravings the insane
and puts up most of the iron bars of the
penitentiaries. It has its hand to-day on the
throat of the American republlo. It is the
taskmaster of Nations, and the human race
crouches under Us anathema. The song of
the drunkards has for its accompaniment
the clank of chains, the chattering teeth of
poverly, the rattle of executioner’s scaffold,
the creaking door of tho deserted home, tho
crash of shipwrecks and the groans of era
jpires. The two billion twenty million dol
lars which rum costs of this, country in a year, and
in the destruction grain and sugar,
the supporting of the paupers, and the
invalids and the criminals which strong
drink causes, is ouly a small part of what
is paid for this expensive song of the drunk
ards.
Again, this song of the drunkards is a
multitudinous song—not a solo, not a duet,
not a quartet, not a sextet, but millions on
millions are this hour singing it. Do not
think that alcoholism has this field all to it
self. It has powerful rivals in tho intoxicants and
of other Nattons—hasheesh and arrack,
pulque and opium, and quavo and mastic
and wedro. Every Nation, barbaric as well
a 9 civilized, has its pet intoxicant. This
song of the drunkards is rendered in Chinese,
Hindoo, Arabian, Assyrian, Persian, All Mexi
can —yea, all the languages. zones join
it. No continent would be large enough for
the choir gallery if all those who have this
libretto in their hands should stand side by
side to cuant tho international chorus. Other
throngs are just learning the eight notes of
this deathfut music, which is already mas
tered bv the orchestras in full voice under
the batons in full swing. All the musicians
assembled at Dusseldorf, or Berlin, or Boston
peace jubilee, rendering symphonies, Mendelssohn re
quiems or grand marches of or
Wagner, niffeant or Chopin or Handel, were insig
in numbers as compared with the
innumerable throngs, hosts besides hosts,
gallery above gallery, who are now pouring
forth the song of the drunkards.
Years ago standing before a bulletin
board iu New York on the night of a Presi
dentia! election day, as the news came In
ant the choice of the American people people
was finally nunouncecl there were in
th? streets who sang roistering and frivolous
songs. But in the street one man, in deep,
strong’, resonant voice, started, to tho tune
o: “OldHundred,” “Praise God, from all whom
all blessings flow,” and soon up and
down th« street the voicas J ioiuel in tbs dox
ology of Mfty 0od 8paed salvation t lla day shall when drown the
song rescue and
with an overwhelming surge this mighty
: song of the drunkards!
Notice that the second noun of my text
is “drunkards." in the plural. Not “drunkard," but
" It would bo dull work to sing
that song solitary and alone. It is generally
a chorus. They are in group*. On that
downward way there must he companion¬
ship. Here and there is a man so mean as
always to drink alone, but generous in men,
big hearted men, drinking at bar or res¬
taurant or in clubhouse, feel mortified to
take the beverage unaccompanied. click There
must be some one with whom to the
rim of the glasses, some one’s health to pro¬
pose, soma sentiment to toast. There must
be two, an lstill hotter it four, and still bet¬
ter if six, to give zast to the song of tho
drunkards. Those who have gone down
could mention the name of at least one
who helped them down. Generally it is
some one who was a little higher up
in social life or in llnvuclal resources.
Our friend felt flattered to have au
invitation from one of superior ho felt name.
Each one drank not only when like
it, but when the other felt like it. Neither
wanted to seorn lacking iu sociality when
he was invited. Ho 100,000 men every year
are treated into hell. Together are they
manacled of evil habit, together they travel
toward their doom, together they make mnr
ry over tho cowardice and Puritanical senti¬
ment of those who never Indulge, together
they join their voioes In the s)ng of the
drunkards. If the one proposes to stop, tho
ot ier will not let him stop. Wiiou men are
getting down themselves, they do not want
their associates to turn Back. Those who
turu back will be the scoff and caricature of
those who keep on, and there will bo con¬
spiracy to bring them back to the old places
and the r old environment, anil so have them
renew the song of the drunkards.
Agiin, the song of the drunkards is easily
learned. Through what long an l difficult
drill one must go to su -ceod as an elevated
and inspiring singer! E nma Abbott, among
the most eminent cantatrioas that ever en¬
chanted academies of music, to’d me oa
ocean ship’s deck, in answer to my question. going
“Whither are you boun I?” “C am to
Berlin and Paris to study music.” What!"
I said, “Aft'*rall your worl 1 renowned SU3
cesses in music, going to stu ly?” hardships,
Then she told me through what
through what self denials, through had what
almost kiiliug fatigues, she gone in
or Ier to be a singer, an l that when in her
earlier days a great teacher of music had
told her there were certain notes she
could never reach, she S lid, “I will reach
them,” arid through doing nothing else
but practice for five years she did reach
tnem. Oh, how many heroes an 1 heroines
of musical achievement! There are songs
which which are are easy easy to to hear, hear, but but most most difficult difficult to to
render. render. When When Handel, Handel, w w th th a a new new oratorio, oratorio,
entered entered a a room room where where a a group group of of musicians musicians
had had assembled assembled and and sai sai I, I, “Gentlemen, “Gentlemen, you you
all church.” read music?” They They well,” well,” said, said, Slid Slid “Yes, “Yes, the the we we play play
in “Very “Very great great
composer. composer. “Play “Play this. this. But But the the perform- psrform
anoe aaoe was was so so poorly poorly done done Handel Handel stoppod stoppod his his
ears ears and and said: said: “You “You play play in in church! church! Very Very
well, well, for for we we rea rea 1 1 the the Lord Lord is Is lorg lorg suffering, suffering,
of of great great kindness kindness and and forgiving forgiving of of iniquity, iniquity,
transgression transgression and and sin. sin. But But you you shall shall not not
play play for for me.” me." Pure Pure music, music, whether whether fingered fingered
on on instrument instrument or or trilled trilled from from human Human lips, lips, is is
most most difficult. difficult. But But one one of of the tho easiest easiest
songs songs to to learn learn is is the the song song of
the the drunkards. drunkards. Anybody Anybody can can learn learn
it. In a little while you can touch the
highest note of conviviality or the low st
note of besottedness. Begin moderately, a
sip here and a sip there. Begin with claret,
feo on with ale and wind up with cognac,
First take the stimulant at a wee-ting, then
take it at meals, then take it between meals,
then all the time keep your pulse under its
stealthy touch. In six mouths the dullest
scholar in this Apollyouic music may become
an expert. First it will besoundod in a hic
cough. After awhile it will be heard iu a
silly ha, ha! Further on it will become a
wild whoop. Then it wi 1 enable you to run
up and down the five lines of the musical
scale infernal. Then you will have mastered
it-the song of the drunkards.
The most skilful way is to the ,
modern theory and give the intoxicant to ,
your children, saying to yourself, “They
will in after ltfe meet the intoxicants
everywhere, au 1 they must get used to see
ing them and tasting them and controlling
their appetites." That is trie best way of
teaching them the song of the drunkards,
Keep up that mode of education, and it
you have four boys at least three of them
will learn the druukards’ song and lie
down iu a drunkard’s grave, and if I ever
a wager I would lay a wager that the
fourth will lie down with the other three.
Of if the education of the children in this
music should be neglected, it is not too
late to begin at twenty-one years of age.
The young man will find plenty of young
men who drink. They are in every circle to
be found. Surely, my boy, you are not a
coward and afraid of it? Surely you are not
going to be hindered by sumptuary laws or
the prejudices of your old father and mother?
They are behind ttie times. Take some
thing. Take it often. Some of the great
est poets and orators have been noto
rious imbibers. If you are to enter a parlor,
it makes you more vivacious and Ches
terlleldian. It you are to transact
business, your customer is apt to buy more
if you havo taken with him a sherry cobbler,
If you are to make a speech, it will give
you a glibber tongue. Gluck could compose
his best music by having his and piano bottle taken of
into the midst of a meadow, a
champagne placed on each side of him. The
earlier you begin to learn the song of tho
drunkards tho easier it is, but none of you
are to old to learn. You can begin at fifty
or sixty, under prescription of a doctor for
aids to digestion or breaking up of infirm
Hies, and close life by rendering the song of
the drunkards so well that all pandemonium it
will encore the performance and want
again and again.
Furthermore, the last characteristic of the
drunkard's song is so tremendous that lean
hardly bring myself to mention it. Once The
druukards’song i3 a continuous song.
start that tune, and you keep it up. You
have known a hundred men destroyed of
strong drink. You cannot mention five who
got fully started on that road and stopped,
The grace of God can do anything, but it
does not do everything. Religion saves somo.
Temperance societies save some. TheBowery
mission saves some. The Central mission
saves some. But 109,000 who are annually
slain by strong drink are not saved at all.
I have been at a concert which went on
for two hours and a half, and many people
got up and left because it was too long. But
ninoty-ftve percent, of those who are singing
the drunkards’ song will to the last breath of
their lungs and the last beat of their hearts
keep on rendering it, and the galleries of
earth and heaven and hell will stay filled with
the astounded spectators. It issuchaoon
tinnous and prolonged song that one feels
like making the prayer which a reformed
inebriate once made: "Almighty God! If
it be ’Phy will that man should suffer.what
ever seemeth good in Thy sight im
pose upon me. Let the bre id of af
flietion be given me to eat. Take from
mo the friends of my confidence. Let the
cold hut of poverty bo my dwelling place
and the wasting hand of disease inflict its
painful torments. Let me sow in the whirl
wind and reap in the storm. Let those have
me in derision who are younger than L Let
the passing away of my welfare be like the
fleeting of a cloud, and tho shouts of my
enemies like tho rushing of waters. When I
anticipate good, let evil annoy me. When I
look for light, let darkness come upon me.
Let the terrors of death be ever before me.
Do all this, but save me, merciful God! save
me from the fate of a drunkard. Amen!”
You seo this sermon is not so much for
cure as for prevention. Stop before you
start, ii you will forgive the solecism. The
olock of St. Paul’s cathedral struck thirteen
one midnight, anl so saved the life of a sen
tinel. The soldier was arrested and trie t
for falling asleep at his post one midnight.
But ho declared that ho was awake nt raid
night, and he in had proof heard that the ho was awake he
said that unusual occur
rcnce of the clock striking 13 instead
of 12. He was laughed to scorn and
sentenced to death. But three or lour per*
sous, hearing of the ease, came un in time
to swear that they, too, hoard tno olock
strike 13 that snme midnight, and so the
man’s life was spared. My hearer, if you go
on and thoroughly learn the drunkards
song, perhaps In the deep midnight of your
soul there may sovm 1 something that will
yet effect your moral and eternal rescue.
But It is a risky “perhaps." It is excep¬
tional. G > ahead on that wrong road, and
the dock will more probably strike the 12
that closes your day of opportunity than
that it will strike 13, the sound of your de¬
liverance. this
A few Sabbaths ago on tho steps of
church a man whom I had known In other
years confronted me. At the first glnnce I
saw that he was lit the fifth uud last act of
the tragedy his" of intemperance. Splendid
even in ruin. The same brilliant oye,
and tho same courtly manners, an l tho re¬
mains of the same intellectual endow¬
ments. but a wreck. I had seen that craft
when it plowed the waters, all sails set and
running by true compass; wife and chil¬
dren and friends on board, himself com¬
manding ltt a voyage that he expected
would be glorious, putting into prosperous
harbors of earth nu t at last putting into the
harbor o" heaven. But now a wreck, towed
along bv low appetites, that over an t auon
run him into the breakers—t wreck of body,
a wreck of mind, a wreck of soul. “Where
is your wife?” “I do not know." “Where
are your children?” “I do not know."
“Whore is your (Jot?” T do not know.
That man is coming to the last verso of that
long cantata, that protracted threnody, that
terrirte song of tho drunkards.
But It these words should com"—'or yon
know the largest au lienee I roach I never
sec at at!—I s:iy if these words should come,
though at the ends of the earth, to any fal¬
len man, let me say to him: Be the excep¬
tion to the general rule and turn and live,
while I recall to yiu a scene iu England,
where some one said to an inebriate as he
was goin g out of church where there was a
great nwak ming, “Why don’t you sign the
pledge?" lie answered, “I have signed it
twenty times an I will never sign it again.”
“Why, then,” said the gentleman talking to
him, “don’t you go upand kneel atthaaltar,
amid those other penitents?” Ho
took the advice and went and knelt.
After awhile a little girl, looke in in rags the
and soaked with the rain 1
church door, anl some one said: "What are
you you doing here, little girl?” S to said:
“Please, sir. I heard as my rather is here.
Why. that is mv father up there kneeling
now. She went up au 1 put her arms
around her father’s neck and said: “Father,
what are you doing here?” An l he said:
“I am asking God to forgive me.” Said
she: “If He forgives you, will wo be happy
again?” ,v^n.. u , “Yes, “Yes, my my dear,” dear “Will w« have
enough to eat again?” “Yes, my dear.”
“And will you never strike ns again?"
“No, my child.” “A’ait here,” said she,
“till I go an l call mother.” And soon the
child camo with the mother, and the mother,
kneeling beside the husbaui. said: “Save
me too! Save me too!"
And the Lord heard the prayer at that
attar, an-1 one of the happiest ho nos in Eng
land is the home over which that father and
mother now lovingly pres de. So, if in this
sermon I have warned others against a dis
sipated life, with the fact that so few return
after they have once goad astray, for the en
eouragement of those who would like to ro
turn I toll you God wants you to come
back, every one of you. an 1 to come back
now, now, an 1 "more tenderly and lovingly than
lin y motherever lifte l a sick child out of a
cr h lie, and folded it in her arms, and crooned
over it a lullaby and rocked it to and fro,
the Lord will take you un and fold you in
the arms of his pardoning love,
There’s a wideness in G >d’s mercy,
Like the wideness of the sea;
There’s a kindness in his justice,
Which is more than liberty.
BICYCLE IS GRAVELY ACCUSED.
Judge Yerkes Declares th? Silent Steed U
a Worker of-Eril.
Jmlge prkM, of n r BucUCoun.v Pnek-a r nnn tv sitting to in
declared solemnly■thattheibt--y. ^ t- is * Pf®"
moter of crig'e. He said ton it -
I?* 111 ?*? the amount of - ri c> - * Ja ’
third i >I0 of f 'Tj}® the JU-,’ business of the Criminal ; n - 1 ' rv, Cjqit „
was made up by persons who are .1 a=tray
by some connection witri thewhMl.
The case that that evok of Wi 'd the_ ilam H. _ Freeman, _n-.hing
sta ements was
who had just plea led hUilt> to _rs ? tb
name ol his employer. J. H. a =. i ,
Rrocer, to a check for vo6. io w ....
Set cash to huy a t)l( ycie. , ,
incided with the views ‘"L of t-mi the Judge. Tmto-o “’Hint" Hmk
son said, dolefully that he cou
it™* riding merrily past -f wh! who InBifhim ow ^ f’Urv “
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A dealer was next __ < f'. 7’
"wore hat Freeman ,
^L.75, L 56 ^ 5 ^icned sipnea bv Dy Mr M . Hinkson m so , tSa os firarpav- ? p
«‘ndasl^‘hat eneein cash. At tbiste he J* m y P ■
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Court
^ sentence of nine mont - w imnosed p
DOG KILLED AND ATE HIM.
Watchman the Victim of a Fierce .Animal
He Had Almost Starved.
A grewsome tragedy occurred in Sehloss
strusse, Charlotenburg, Germany, where
Pumpmaker Shauch, with his two sous, is
making an artesian well. The sons relieved
each other in the night watch in a little
lodge where materials and tools were kept.
The elder brother, Wilhelm, was on watch,
and went into the lodge after 10 o’clock p.
m. intoxicated. Later on a cry was heard, paid
but afterward, all being quiet, nobody
any attention to it.
Early next morning the younger brother
found Wilhelm dead and awfully mutilated.
It is conjectured that he undresse t and went
to sleep, and that his insufficiently fed
watchdog, loosed at night, failed sight to of recog¬ naked
nize him, and, excited by the
flesh, bit through the throat and devoured
nearly all tho lower party of his body. The
animal was found iu the morning, all dab¬
bled with blood.
THE FIRE LOSS.
Total For the Year In the United States
and Canada.
The Journal of Commerce and Commercial
Bulletin of New York City, says: The fire
loss of the United States and Canada, as
compiled from our daily records, amounts
for the month of December to $11,362,000. #115,665,
This makes the total for the year
500 as against $129,839,700 in 1895. Daring
the year 1896 tnere were 2175 fires where the
estimated toss in each case amouate 1 to not
less than $10,00 1, an I the largest loss by any
one tire was 82,000,000, at Cripple Creek,
Col., in April. The reduction of over $14,
000,000 in the fire loss account of 1896 as
compared with 1895 has been very decidedly
felt by the fire underwriters. They had in
the past year a happy combination of high
rates and light losses and their gains have
been very handsome. In fact, veteran un¬
derwriters feel that the effect of prosperity
will soon be to develop rate wars in various
sections.
North Carolina Speaks Up for Cuba.
Tho North Carolina Legislature unani¬
mously adopted a resolution favoring tho
recognition of the independence of the
patriots ot Cuba, “who for so long a time
have been struggling for life and liberty, the
God-given heritage oi all men.”
Burning Corn lor Fuel,
As a resud , of continued wet weather
throughout Nebraska, farmers have begun
to use corn for luel for tear it may spoil.
The market-price for corn is only nine cents
a CMShel, atid it is worth more than that for
fuel
■ TALE OF FRONTIER LIFE,
l i ^
KKCOIX1CCTIONS HKCALI.ED BY IN¬
MAN INOUKSIONS.
Wlmt a I.owelt Iteporter Discovered Ip
the Historic Town of Dunstable—
M i rat'll ions Kscnpe From a Misera¬
ble Kxlstenoe of a Descendant
*>l One ot the Pioneer War.
viors »f Colonial Times
•—The Talk of the
Neighborhood.
From the News, Lowell, Mots.
Mr. Hiram Spaulding, who was for many
years the proprietor ot tho Massapong
House, a Boston summer resort, is undoubt¬
edly as well known ins auy man in Middlesex
County. Mr. Spaulding, besides having been
a popular hotel man, boasts of being a lineal
descendant of John Spaulding, a well known
soldier wno was killed in action with the
Indians while serving In the command of
the famous Captain John Tyng In 1804. lie
also is well known as tho first leader of the
celebrated Dunstable Cornet Band, of Dun¬
stable, Mass., familiarly known as the
“mounted band ” Altogether Bandmaster
Spaulding is perhaps the best known citizen
in town, and respected everywhere for his
uprightness Mrs. Nellie and Spaulding sterling character.
A. is the wife or this
gentleman, husband. and almost ns well known as her
popular A recent severe illness
from overwork and malaria caused grave
fears among her numerous acquaintances,
and the local physicians seemed powerless
to aid her. Chills and fever, impaired
action of heart and liver, and general wretch¬
edness were her portion, until her attention
was called to Dr. Williams’Pink Pills for
Pate People, and she began io use them. On
Labor Day. Monday, Sept. 7, 1H96, Mrs.
Spaulding finished the first boxof Pink Pills,
and she informed the Aews reporter that on
that day she performed one of tho hurdest
day’s work ever accomplished by her. She
Is still taking Pink Pill* according to direc¬
tions, and ail traces of malarial coison seem
to have vanished.
“No one was more astonished at myreeov
ery than my husband and my neighbors,
and ihey are not surprised.” said she, “to
find iu mo such a champion of what is des¬
tined to become a household medicine, tho
precious Pink Pills.”
At the request of Mrs. Spaulding, the
News reporter ca led on several persons in
the town of Dunstable, all highly respectable
ladies of prominence in the community; he
found them using “Pink Pills” with good
resul s, ami after a fair trial will fso they
thought) l.e ready to add their testimonials
to that of Mrs. Spaulding as to their medici¬
nal tind curative worth, especially in chronic
cases of nervousness.
Dr. Williams’Pink Fills eontain, in a con¬
densed form, all the elements necessary to
give nt w life and richness to the blood and
restore shattered nerves. They are an un¬
failing specific for such diseases as locomo¬
tor ataxia, partial paralysis, Ht.Vitus’dance,
scuitipa, end ache, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous
the after effects of la grippe, pal¬
pitation of the heart, pale and sa low com
pb xions, all forms of weakness either in
mate or fetKnle. Pink Pills are sold by all
dealers-, or will be sent post paid on receipt
of price, 5) ceuts a box or six boxes for
: 2 50, (they addressing are never sold in bulk or by tho
10(1), by Dr. Williams’ Medicine
Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
ttt OCEAN’S BED.
YVhat Becomes of the Vessels That Sink
to the Bottom of the Sea.
What becomes of a ship that sinks
in mid-ocean? If it is of wood, it takes
in the first place considerable time for
it to reach the bottom. In one hun¬
dred or mor • fathoms of water a quar¬
ter of an’te.ur will elapse before the
ship reaches the bottom. It sinks
slowly, and when the bottom is reach¬
ed it falls gently into the soft, oozy
lied, with no crash or breaking.
Of course, if it is laden with pig
iron or corresponding substances, or if
it is an iron ship, it sinks rapidly, and
sometimes strikes the bottom with
such foree as to sma-sh in pieces. Once
sunken, a s hip becomes the prey of
# inhabitants of
the countless the ocean.
They swarm over and through the
great boat and make it their home.
Besides this/they cover every inch of
the boat with a thick layer of lime.
This takes time of course; and when
one generation dies another continues
the work, until finally the ship is so
laden with incrustations, corals,
sponges and barnacles, that if wood,
the creaking timbers fall apart and
slowly but surely are absorbed in the
waste at the sea bottom.
Iron vessels are demolished more
quickly than those of wood, which
may last for centuries. The only metals
that withstand the chemical action of
the waves are gold and platinum,
and glass also seems unaffected.
Now matter how long gold
may be hidden in the ocean, it will al¬
ways be gold when recovered, and this
fact explains the many romantic and
adventurous searches after hidden sub¬
marine treasures lost iu shipwrecks.—
Bangor Commercial.
Calendars and Coupon*.
So many beautiful calendars and entertain¬
ing novelties have been issued by the pro¬
prietors of Hood’s Sarsaparilla, that we are
hardly surprised to receive this season not
only one of the very prettiest designs in cal¬
endars, but with it coupons which entitle the
recipient to attractive novelties. Every one
who gets a Hood’s Sarsaparilla calendar for
1897 secures something that will prove inter¬
esting and valuable as well as a beautiful
specimen oi the lithographer’s art. The cal¬
endar is accompanied this season byan amus¬
ing little book on “The Weather.” Ask your
druggist for Hood’s Coupon Calendar, or I.
send 6 cents in stamps for one to C.
Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Tube charity never feeds the poor
on promises.
His Explanation.
“Ht? made ducks and drakes of his
money. ”
“Yes? And those promissory notes
of his?”
“Decoys!”—Chicago Record.
State Frank op Lucas J. Ohio, Ciikney County, City makes op Toledo,| ss.
oath that ho is tho
senior partner of the Arm of F. J. Cheney &
Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County
and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sum of one hundred dollars for each and
every case of catarrh that cannot bo cured by
the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure.
Frank J. Cheney.
Sworn to beforo me and subscribed in my
f/ —>—a !• presence, this 0th day of December, A.
< l SEAL f D. 1886. . A. W. GLEASON.
notary J'nblic.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Sond for testimonials, free.
F. ,J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Fills are the best.
Plso’s Cure for Consumption has saved me
many a doctor’s bill.—8. F. Hardy, Hopkins
Flace, Baltimore, Md., Dec. ii, ’94.
When bilious or costive, eat a Cascaret,
candy cathartic; cure guaranteed; 10c., 25c.
Tlio OYfgfnal Verdles.
Naetlles warn first made of bone or
ivory, and specimens of these articles
have been found in ninny parts of the
world, says the St. Louis Globe-Dem¬
ocrat. Bronze,, ivory and bone needles
have been discovered in the tombs- of
Egypt, and on the monuments are rep
resentations of Indies engaged in sew _
iug, and, it is possible also,,in chatting
at the same time. It is known that
Chinese, Hindoos and Hebrews used
needles from n great antiquity. Steel
needles were known to the Homans,,
luit none have been discovered, the
metal not being able to resist the cor¬
roding influence of the atmosphere.
The making of line needles was intro¬
duced into Spain by the Moors, and
from that country was brought to En¬
gland in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
The foreigners who made the needles,
however, refused to teach their trade
to the natives, and, not until 1650,.did
the manufacture obtain a footing on
English soil. The needle-making ma¬
chines of the present have been
brought to such u state of perfection
that the work of managing a machine
is largely entrusted to hoys and girls,
and the machines turn out thousands
of needles per hour.
Southern Cotton Mills.
The total number of southern cotton
mills in 1895 was 435. Of these fif¬
teen have been “crossed out” and
merged into other concerns, and three
were burned, reducing the number to
420. To this number, however, lifty
iive new mills were added during the
year 1896, making the total now 475.
“Put mo down as a warm friend of Tetter
INE. I have a child three years old who has
been afflicted from its birth with the worst ease
of eczema I ever saw, it being one mass of sores
from its feet to its crown. K has been treated
by nine of the most eminent physicians In this
and acPolulng States without the slightest bene¬
fit. Si vo at months ago wo commenced the use
of Tkti krink on the child, and to-day, thank
God and the manufacturers of Tetterink, the
child is cured. My wife and 1 will ever feel
grati-ful Yours to you for sending us this blessing.
truly. A.
(.'HAS. Cambell, Druggist,
Dallas, N. C.
1 box by mail for 50c. In stamps.
J. T. Shcptkink, Savannah, Ga.
No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents.
Over 400,000 cured. Why not let No-To-Dac
regulate or remove your desire for tobacco?
Saves money, makes health and manhood.
Cure guaranteed. 50 cents and $1.00, at all
druggists.
Cotton.
With careful rotation of
crops and liberal fertilizations,
cotton lands will improve. The
application of a proper ferti¬
lizer containing sufficient Pot¬
ash often makes the difference
between a profitable crop and
failure. Use fertilizers contain¬
ing not less than 3 to 4 %
Actual Potash.
Kainit is a complete specific
against “ Rust.”
o
AH about Potash—the results of its use by actual ex
periment on the best farms in the Uniteu States—is
told in a little book which we publish and will gladly
mail free to any farmer in America who will write for it.
GERMAN KALI WORKS,
93 Nassau St., New York.
Soutliorn. Sood Co-,
Glencoe, Garden Ala., growers Flower and dealers In tested
Farm, and Heeds for Southern
climate. Catalogue free.
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In Brooklyn. N. Y.. one of the few wood engravers who continue
to do commercial work relates: “Three or four years ago I was pre¬
sented with, a box of
Ripans Tabules
These I took home and ever since that day have been a regular cus¬
tomer.” His wife’s mother is pronounced in the opinion that for gastric
troubles, or for any irregularity proceeding which from a disordered stomach,
the Tabules are the best medicine to her attention has ever
been directed during all her long experience. His wife at one time
astonished him by asserting that for a sore throat the Tabules were a
remedy of amazing effectiveness. He understands this better now
since ho has learned from his physician that sore throat—like many
other apparently local troubles, notably headache—is often a direct re¬
sult of a disordered stomach; and for this thousands of people well (
know Ripans Tabules are a specific.
HOW TO FIND OUT.
Fill a bottle or common water glass witli
urine and let It stand twenty-four hours; a
sediment or settling indicates a diseased eon
ditlon of the kidneys. When urine stains
linen it is positive evidence of kidney trouble.
Too frequent desire to urinate or pain in the
bftok is “Iso convincing proof that the kid
noys and bladder are out of order.
WHAT TO DO.
There is comfort in the knowledge so often
«P«“ ed . ; thftt , Dr - Kilmer's Hwarnp-Iloot,
tno great kidney remedy, fulfills every wish
in relieving pain in the back, kidneys, liver,
bladder and every part of the urinary pas¬
sages. It corrects inability to hold urine
and scalding pain in passing it, or bud effects
following use of liquor, wine or beer, and
overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being
com pelled to get up many times during the
night to.urinate. The mild and the extraor¬
dinary effect of Swamp-Hoot Is soon realized.
It stands the highest for Its wonderful cures
of the most distressing cases . Sold by drug¬
gists, price iifty cents and one dollar. For
sample bottle and pamphlet, both sent free
by mail, mention this paper and send your
full postofflee address to>Dr. Kilmer A Go.,
Binghamton, N. Y. The proprietors of this
paper guarantee the genuineness of this offer.
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Opens and For distributes any quantity at the
same time. prices write to
J. T. GANTT, Maeon, Ga.
DON’T BE CUT knife.
Wo can cure you without It. If you hare
the PILES use Planter’s Pile Ointment.
We guarantee to give Instant and -gggajK
permanent relief. Send live two- tsEiilpW
cent stamps to cover postage and Ait-JHMs^.
we will mall FllEE package.
dress Dept. A,. .jjflKrjKw
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