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KEY. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN-
DAY SERMON.
Text: ’’And the Lord saifl unto rl/o.vrp.
Take unto thee sweet spines, stacte and
onyeha.’’— Exodus xxx.. 31.
You may not have notice 1 tho shells of
the Bible, although in this early part of the
Bacred book God calls you to consider and
nil 'Ploy them as He e - lied Moses to consider
ana shell employ them. The onyeha of my text
is a found on tho banks of tho Roil Ken.
and Moses aud his armv must have crushe l
many of them under foot as they crossed
the bisected waters, onyeha on the beach
and onyeha in the unfolded bed of tho deep.
I shall speak of this shell as a beautiful and
practical revelation of God, and as true as
the first chapter of Genesis and the last
chapter of Revelation or everything be¬
tween.
this shell, the onyeha, found
at the Red Sea, but in the waters of India.
It not only delectates the eye with its convo¬
lutions of beauty, white and lustrous aud
serrated, but blesses the nostril with a pun¬
gent aroma. This shellfish, accustomed to
feed on spikenard, is redolent with that
oaorous plant—redolent when alive and re¬
dolent when dead. Its shells when burned
bewitch the air with fragrance.
In my text God commands Moses to mix
this onchya with the perfumes of the altar
m the ancient tabernacle, and I propose to
mix some of its perfumes at the altar of
Brooklyn Tabernacle, for, having spoken to
you on the “Astronomy of the Bible- or
God Among the Stars;” the “Chronology of
the Bible; or, God Among the Centuries ”
the “Ornithology of the Bible; or, God
Among the Birds;” the “Mineralogy of tho
Bible; or, God Among the Amethysts;”
the “Ichthyology of the Bible; or, God
Among the Fishes,” I now como to speak of
the “Conchology of the Bible; or, Go l
Among It the Shells.”
is a secret tjiat you may keap for me,
for I have never before told it to any one,
that in all the realms of the natural world
there is nothing to mo so fascinating, so
completely absorbing, so full of suggestive-
ness, as a shell. What? More entertaining
than a bird, which can sing, when a shell
cannot sing? Well, there yon have made a
great mistake. Pick up the onyeha from
the banks of the Red Sea or pick up a bivalve
from the beach of the Atlantic Ocean and
listen, and you hear a whole choir of marine
voices—bass, alto, soprano—in au unknown
tongue, but seeming to chant, as I put them
to my ear, ‘The sea is His and He made it;’’
others singing, “Thy way, O God, is in tae
seaothers hymning, “He ruleth the raging
of the sea.”
“What,” says some ono else, “does the
shell impress you more than the star?" In
shell some respects, closely yes, because I can handle the
and study the shell, while I
cannot handle the star, and if 1 study it
must study it at a distance of millions and
millions of miles.
“What,” says some one else, “are vou
more flower?” ’ impressed \ by the shell than the
es, for it has far greater varie¬
ties and far greater richness of color, as I
could show you in thousands of specimens,
and because the shell does not fade, as does
the rose leaf, but maintains its beauty een-
tury after century, so that the onyeha
Which the hoof of Pharaoh’s horse knocked
aside in the chase of the Israelites across the
Red Sea may have kept its luster to this
hour. Yes, they are so particolored ani
many colored that you might pile them uo
until you would have a wall with all the
colors of the wall of heaven, from the jasper
a; the bottom to the amethyst at the
the The foam of the
sea. Ob, the shells! The hardened bubbles
of the deep. Ob, the shells, vt hich are the
diadems thrown by the ocean to the feet of
the continents. How the shells are ribbed,
They grooved, cylindered, mottied, iridescent!
were used as coin by some of the Na¬
tions. They were fastened in belts by
others, aud made in handles of wooden im¬
plements by still others. Moliusks not only
of the sea, but moliusks of the land. Do you
know how much they have had to do with
the world’s history? They saved the church
.of God from extinguishment.
The Israelites marched out of E rypt
3,COO,000 Bible strong, besides flbeks and herds,
The says “the people took their dough
before it was leavened, their kneading
troughs being bound up in the clothes on
their shoulders. They were thrust forth out
of Egypt and could not tarry; neither had
they Just prepared for thsmseves any victuals.”
think of it? Forty years in the wilder¬
ness could they Infidelity live triumphantly asks. How
without food? forty years in the wilderness
You say manna fell. Oh,
that was al ter a long while. They would
have starved fifty times before the manna
fell. The fact is, they were chiefly kept
alive by the Mr. moliusks of tho land or shelled
creatures. Fronton and Mr. SicarJ
took the same route from Egypt toward
Canaan that the Israelites toon, aud they
give this as their testimony.
have “Although tho children of Israel must
consisted of about 2,000,000 souls, with
baggage they aud innumerable flacks and herds,
were not likely to experience any in¬
convenience in their march. Several thou¬
sand persons might walk abreast with the
greatest ease in tae very narrowest part of
the valley in which they first began to file
off. It soon afterward expands to above
three leagues in width. With respect to
ground forage they would be at no loss. Tho
is covered with tamarisk, broom,
clover and saint foil), of which latte i-
especially camels are passionately too i, ba -
sides almost every variety of odoriferous
plant and herb proper for pasturage.
“The whole sides of the valiey through
which the children of Israel marched are
still tufted with brushwood, which doubt¬
less afforded toad for their beasts, together
with many drier sorts for lighting fire, ’ ii
which the Israelites could with the greatest
ease bake thedough they brought with them
on small iron plates, which form a constant
appendage to the baggage of an oriental
traveler. these trees Lastly, and shrubs the is Herbage completely underneath
covered
with snails of a prodigious size and of the
best sort, and, however uninviting sued a
repast ought appear to us, they are here es¬
teemed a great delicacy. They p.re so plenti¬
ful in this valjey that it may be literally said
that it is difficult to take one step without
treading So on shelled them.”
the creatures save ! the host of
Israelites on the march to the promised
land, and the attack of infidelity at this
point is defeated by the facts, as infidelity is
always defeated by facts, since it is founded
on iguorance. In writing and printing our
interrogation point has at the bottom a mark
like a period and over it a flourish like the
swing of a teamster’s whip, and we put this
interrogation Spauish poiDt at the end of a question,
but in the language the interroga¬
tion point is twice U59d for each question.
At the beginning point of presented the questio i the inter¬
rogation the close is of the question upside right down,
and at side
up. When infidelity puts a question about
the Scriptures, as it always indicates igno¬
rance, interrogation the question ought to be printed with
two points, one at the begin-
ning and one at the close, but both upsi le
down.
Thank God for the wealth of moliusks all
lipanddowu the earth, whether feeiiiv?
the Israelites ou their way to the Jan 1 fl sw¬
ing with milk and honey, or, as we are bet¬
ter acquainted with the mollusk--, when
flung to th8 beach of lake or sea. There are
three great families of them. If 1 should
ask you to name three of the great r.ival
families of the earth, perhaps you won d re¬
spond, the house of .Stewart, the house of
Hapsburg, the house of Bourbon, but the
three royal families of moliusks are the uni¬
valve, or shell in one part, the bivalve, or
shell of two parts, and I muitivalve, or shell
in many parts, aud see Go 1 in their ever.;
hinge, i« thair every tooth, in the.! ■
every cartilage, iu their every ligament, in
their every spiral ridge, and in their ever/
color, prism on prism, and their adaptation
of thin shells for still ponds and thick coat¬
ing the for boisterous thought seas. providential They all dash upon
me of tho care oi
God.
VV hat is the use of all this architecture of
the shel 1 , and why is it pictured from the
outside lip clear down into its labvrinths of
construction? radiance shell? Why the inflnitv of skill and
in a What is the use of the
color and exquisite curve of a thing so in¬
significant ai a shellfish? IVhy, when the
conchologist by dredge or rake fetches the
crustaceous find his feet specimens to tho shore, does ho
at whole alliatnbras and coli-
stums and pnrthenons and crystal palaces of
only beauty in miniature, and these bring tolight
an infinitesmal part of the opulence in
the greet, subaqueous world. Liennann
counted SaOOspecies of shells, but conchology
had then only begun its achievements.
While exploring tho bed of the Atlantic.
Ocean in preparation for laving the cable
shelled animals were brought up from
depths of 100!) fathoms. When lifting the
telegraph Re wire from the Mediterranean and
I Sens, shelled creatures were brought
up from depths of 3000 fathoms. The Eng¬
lish admiralty, exploring in behalf of
fathoms, science, found inollusks at a depth of 240
awful or X 4,210 feetdeep. What a realm
for vastness!
As the shell is only the house and the
wardrobe of insignificant animals of the
deep, wbv all that wonder and beauty of
construction. God’s care for them is the
only reason. And if God provide so munifi¬
cently have for them, will He not see that you
wardrobe and shelter? Wardrobe and
shelter for a periwinkle! Shall there not be
wardrobe and shelter for a man? Would
God give a coat of mail for tlie defense of a
nautilus and leave you no defense against
(he storm? Does Ho build a stone house for
a creature that lasts a season and leave with¬
out home a soul that takes hold on centuries
and eons?
Hugh Miller found “the Footprints of and the
Creator in the old red sandstone,” I
hear the harmonies of God in the tinkle of
the sea shells when tho tides come in. The
tial same Christ who drew a lesson of clothes providen¬ with
care from the fact that God
grass the field instructs me to draw the same
lesson from the shells.
In almost every man’s life, however well
born and prosperous for years, and in al¬
most every woman’s life, there comes a very
dark time, at least once. A conjunction of
circumstances willthreateu bankruptcy and
homelessness and starvation. It may be that
these words will meet the ear or will meet
the eye of those who are in such a state of
foreboding. gives Come, then, and see how God
an ivory palace to a water animal that
you could cover with a ten-cent piece and
clothes in armor against all attack a coral
no that bigger thin a snowflake. I do not think
God will take better c ire of a bivalve
than of one of His own children.
I rake to your feet with the gospel rake
the most thorough evidences of God’s care
lor His creatures. 1 pile aroun 1 you great
mounds of shells that they may teach you
a faith, most walk comforting theology. Oe, ye of little
among these arbors of coraline
and look at these bouquets of shell, fit to be
banded a queen on her coronation day, and
see these fallen rainbows of color, and ex¬
amine these lilies in stone, these primroses
in stone, these holiotropes in stone, these
cowslips in stone, these geraniums in stone,
these in stone.
O ye who have yourtelescopes ready look¬
ing out o.i ciear nights, trying to see woat
is transpiringin Mars, Jupiter and Mercury,
know that wit-iin a few hours’ walk or ride
of where you nosv are there are whole
worlds t'uatyou might explore, but of which
vou beautiful are unconscious, an i among the most
and suggestive of these worlds is
theeonehological world. Take this ies 3 on of
a providential care. How does that old
hymn go?
We may, like ships, by tempests be toisel
Da perilous deep,, out cannot be lost.
rtiougk Satan enrages the wind and the tide,
Xho promise assures us the Lord wul provide.
But while you get this pointed lesson of
providential care from the shelled creatures
of the God deep, help; notice in their construction
that them to help themselves. This
house of stone in which they live is not
dropped The on them and is not built around
them. material for it exu les from then-
own bodies and is adorned with a colored
fluid from the pores of their own neck. It
is a most interesting thing to se j these crus¬
tacean animals fashion their own homes out
of carbonate of lime and membrane.
An 1 all of this is a mighty lesson to those
who are waiting for otuers to build their
fortunes When tney ought to go to worn
and, like the moliusks, build their own
fortunes out of tneir own brain, out of their
ow,i sweat, out of their own industries.
Not a moilusk on all the beaches of all the
seas would have a nouse of shell if it had
not itself built one. Do cot wait for others
to shelter you or prosper you. AU the
crustaceous creatures of the earth from
every flake of their covering and from every
ridge of their tiny castles ou Atlantic and
Pacific an l Mediterranean coasts say,
• Help yoursel”, while God helps you to help
yourself.” Tnose people who waitiu;
rieli are for then-
father or old uncle to die an i leave them
a fortune for are as siliy other as a mollusk would be
to wait some mollusk to drop on
it a shell equipment. It would kill the mol-
lusk as in most cases it destroys a man. Not
one person out of a hundred ever was strong
enough to staud a large estate by inherit¬
ance dropped ou him in a chunk. Have
great expectations yourself. from only two persons—
God and Let the onyeha of my
text become your preceptor.
But the more I examine the shells the
more 1 am impressed that Go i is a God of
emotion. Many G scoff at emotion and seem
to thins that jd is a God of cold geometry
anil iron laws and eternal apathy and en¬
throned stoicism. No! No! The shells with
overpowering emphasis deny it. While law
and order-reign in the universe, you have
but to see the luvisbuess of color on the
Crustacea, ail shades of crimson from faint¬
est blush to blood of battlefield, ali shades
of green, all shades of all colors from deepest
black to whitest light just callei oat ou the
shells with no more order than a mother
premeditates or calculates how mauy kisses
au 1 hugs she shall give her baba waking up
in the morning sunlight.
Yes, my God is au emotional God, and He
say i--, "We must have colors andiet the sun
paint all ot them on the scroll ot' that sael‘,
and we must have music, aui here is aeiroi
tor the robiD, and a psalm tor man, ani a
doxolo^y for the seraphim, an I a resurrec¬
tion call for the archangel.” Aye, Ho
showed Himself a Gel of sublime emotion
when He flung Himself on this world in the
personality of Christ to save it, without re¬
gard to the to irs it would take, or the blood
it would exhaust, or the agonies it would
eru-h cur.
When I see the Louvres and the Luxem-
fcourgs and the Vaticans of Divine painting
strewn along th; 8'XK) mile3 of coast, and I
hear in a forest on a summer morning mus¬
ical academies and Handel societies of fait
orchestras, I say God is a God of emotion,
and if He observes mathematics it is mathe¬
matics set to music.and His figures are writ¬
ten not. in white chalk on blacuboards, but
written by a Unger of sunlight on wads o:
jasmine and study trumpet the conchology creeper. of the Bi ble
In my of
this onyeha of the text also in presses me
with the fact that religion is perfumed.
What else coul I God have meant when He
said to Moses, onyebny” “fake unto Moses thee took sweet tint spices, shall
stacte an 1
of the onyeha, put it over th e fir?, an I as it
crumbled into a^bes it exhale t au oior that
bung in every curtain an 1 filled the ancient
tabfrnnc e, ami its sweet smoka tstuet
from the sacred precincts anl saturate l the
outside air.
Perfume! That is what religion is. But
instead ot that some mike it a m tlodor.
They serve God in a rou'h and actr i way.
They box their child's Sunday ears instead becausi of ho making does
not properly attractive keep Id could
Sunday so the oh not
help but difficult keep it. chapter 'fuey make mm learn Exo¬ by
heart a in the book of
dus, with all the hai-J names, because he has
been people naughty. How many disagreeab.e
good tuera are! No one dou its their
piety, and they will reach heaven, but they
will have to get fixed up before they calling go
there or thev will make trouble by
out to us: “Keep off that grass!” that flower?" •What
do you mean by plucking
“Show your tickets!”
Oh, how many Christian people need to
obey my text and take into their worship
and their behavior and their consociations
and presbyteries and general assemblies and
conferences more onyeha! I have some¬
times gone in a very gala of spirit into the
preseneo of some disagreeable Christians
and in five minutes felt wretched, and at
some other time I have gone depressed souls, into and
the company of suave 1 and genial What
in a few moments felt exbilarant.
was the difference? It was the difference in
what they burned on their censers. The one
burned onyeha; the other burned asafetida.
In this eoncbological study of the Bible I
also notice that the moiusks or shelled ani¬
mals furnish the purple that you see richly
darkening so many Scripture chapters.
The purple stuff in the ancient tabernacle,
the purple girdle of tho priests, the purple
mantle of Homan Emperors, the apparel of
Dives in purple and fine linen—aye, the
purple Christ—were robe which in mockery was thrown
upon colored by the purple of
the shells on the shores of the Mediterra¬
nean. It was discovered by a shepherd's
dog having stained his mouth by breaking
one of the shells, and the purple aroused ad¬
miration.
Costly purple! Six pounds of the purple
liquor extracted from the shellfishes were
used to prepare one pound of wool. Purple
was also used on the pages of books. Bibles
and prayer books appeared in purple vellum,
which may still be found in some of the na¬
tional libraries of Europe. Plutarch speaks
of the purple which kept his beauty for 19'J
years. But after awhile the purple became
easier to get, and that which had been a
sign of imperial authority when worn in
robe3 was adopted by many people, and so
an the omperor, purple, jealous of this appropriation of
made a law that any one except
royalty wearing purple should be put to
death.
Then, as if to punish the world for that
outrage the of exclusiveness, God obliterated
color from the earth, as much as to say,
“If all cannot have it, none shall have it."
But though God has deprived the race of
that shellfish whisk afforded the purple
there are shells enough left to make us glad
and hue and worshipful. stilt Oh, left tho entrancement of
beaches of shape all the all up and down the
continents! These creatures
of the sea have what roofs of enameled por¬
celain! They dwell under what pavilions
blue as the sky and fiery as a sunset and
mysterious as an aurora! And am I not
right in leading you for a few moments
through lected this mighty realm of God so neg¬
It by human eye and human footstep?
is said that the harp and lute were in¬
vented from the fact that in Egypt the Nile
overflowed its banks, and when the waters
retreated tortoises were left by the million
on all the lands, and these tortoises died,
and soon nothing was left, but the cartilages
and gristle of these creatures, which tight¬
ened under the heat into musical strings
that when touched by the wind or foot of
man the world vibrated, making sweet sounds, and so
took the hint and fashioned the
harp, and am I not right in trying to make
music out of the shells and lifting them as a
harp, from which to thrum the jubilant
praises of the Lord and the pathetic strains
of human condolence?
But I find the climax of this conchology ot
the Bible in the pearl, which has this distinc¬
tion above all other gem^-that it requires
no human hand to bring out its beauties.
J ob speaks of it, and its sheen is in Christ’s
sermon, and the Bible, closes which opens with the
onyeha Of of my text, with the pearl.
such value is this crustaceous product I
do not wonder that for the exclusive right
of fishing for it on the shores of C3ylon a
man-paid to the English Government $900,-
000 for one season.
So exquisive is the pearl Ido not wonder
that Piiny thought it was made out of a
drop of dew, the creature rising to the sur¬
face to take it and the chemistry of nature
turning the liquid into a solid. You will
see why the Bible makes so much of the
pearl ill its similitudes if you know how
much it costs to get it. Boats with divers
sail out from the island of Ceylon, ten
divers to each boat, Thirteen men
guide and manage the boat, Do vn
into tile dangerous depths, amid
sharks that whirl around them, plunge the
diver.-, while 04,010 people anxiously gaze
on. After three or four minutes' absence
from the air the diver ascends, nine-tenths
strangulated and blood rushing from ears
and nostrils, and flinging his pearly treasure
on the sand falls into unconsciousness.
Ob, it is an awful exposure and strain and
peril 10 fish for pearls, and yet they do so,
and is it not a wonder that to get that which
the Bible calls the pearl of groat price, worth
more than all other pearls put together,
there should be so little anxiety, so little
struggle, so little enthusiasm? Would God
that we were all as wise as the merchantman
Christ commended, “who, when he ha l
found one pearl had of great price, it.” went and
sold all that he and bought
But what thrills me with suggestiveness
is the material out oi: which all pearls are
made. They are The fashioned from the woun 1
of the shellfish, exudation from thafc
wound is fixed and hardened and enlarged
into a pearl. The ruptured vessels of the
water animals fashioned the gem that now
adorns finger or earring or sword hilt or
king’s crown.
Bo out of the wounds of earth will come
the pearls of heaven. the pearl Out of the wound Out of
bereavement of solace. of the
wound of loss the pearl of gain. Out of the
deep wound of the grave the nearl of resur¬
rection joy. Out of the wounds of a
Saviour's life and a Saviour’s death the rich,
the ly radiant, the everlasting pearl of heaven¬
gladness.
“And the Id gat es were 13 pearls.” Take
the consolation, ail ye who nave been hurt,
whether hurt in body, or hurt in mind, or
hurt in soul. Get your troubles sanctified.
If you suffer with Christ ou earth, you will
reign with Him in glory. The tears of earth
are the crystals of of pearl.” heaven. “Every several
gate was one
Gave Maria a Lcssou.
Evidently there is no Servant Girls’
Protective Union in London, or if there
is the yonng womau mentioned below
did not belong to it. Trunk of such a
thing happening to one of our own top¬
lofty servant girls! A German merchant
in London has a servant who at first was
very forgetful. This fault was especially
annoying at meal times, when something
esential was sure to be lacking from the
table. Oae day the family were seated
at the table, and the bell was rung as
usual. Tae girl hurried to the dining
room.
“Maria,” said Herr B--, “just run
and fetch the big step ladder down from
the attic and bring it here.”
Maria who had been disturbed at her
dinner, gave a grunt of dissatisfaction,
but rau up three flights of stairs to fetch
the ladder. In about five minutes she
returned to the room, panting with her
exertion.
"Now,” said Herr B-“put it up at
the other end of the room and climb to
the top."
Maria did as she was told, and when
she wa3 at tho top Herr B --quietly
observed:
“Maria, you have now a better view
than we have; just look around and tell
us if you can see any salt ou the table.
My wife and I could not find it.”
This settled the business. Maria has
never forgotten the lesson.—EpwortU
Herald.
A tax on street organ grinders is pro¬
posed by two London vestries.
OUR BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SAYINGS AND DO¬
INGS HERE AND THERE.
Jokna and Jolreleta that Arm Soppoaed to
Have Been Recently Born-Saying* and
Doing* that Are Odd, Curious and
Laughable.__
Selssorcil Smiles.
The more liquid a man puts down
his throat the less chance there seems
to be of drowning his voice.—Yonkers
Statesman.
Some men are born wealthy;
homo men are born great;
But all men are kicking
Forever at Cato.
No man can stand a drain upon
his resources so well as the farmer,
provided the drain is on wet land.—
Lowell Courier.
It is running to extremes when
prediction that the comet was going
to make it hot for us is followed by a
6now storm.—Washington Star.
Literary Aunt— Are you fond of
Crabbe’s tales, Edna? Edna—I don’t
know, aunty. I’ve never eaten them,
but I love the meat in lobsters’ legs.
Physician —“The best thing we
can do is to find a healthier location
for our hospital.” Hospital Manager
—“If all your colleagues were like you
the best thing we could do would be
to shut up our hospital altogether.”
Physician—“Oh, you compliment
me.” Hospital Manager—“Yes, for
then we could start a second ceme¬
tery. ’’—Exchange.
Teacher — “1 have told you of
Louis Kossuth and what he did. I
have also just said that he recently
received a congratulatory address
from the Hungarian diet. Now, who
can tell me what the Hungarian diet
is?” Little Boy (formerly of Hazle¬
ton, Pa.)—“Most lay anything that they
can their hands on.”—Street &
Smith’s Good News.
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Laceyvilie, O.
Catarrh, Heart Failure, Pa¬
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I had a very had spell of paralysis of the throat
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to
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me of Mr. Joseph C. Smith, who had been
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Fresh Air anil Exercise.
Getallthat’s
possible of
both, if in
need of flesh ii '
strength ' fH
and nerve
force. There's need,too, of plenty
of fat-food.
Scott’s Emulsion
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Scott’s Emulsion is constantly ef-
feeling Cure of Consumption,
Bronchitis and kindred-diseases
where other methods fail.
Prepared by Scott A Bowne, N. Y. All druggists.
1
PISO’S CURE FOR
Consumptives and people
who have weaK lungs or Asth¬
ma, should use Piso’s Cure for
i Consumption. It has cured
thousand*, it ha »a not injur-
ed one. 1 fc Is not bad to take.
It Is the best cough syrup.
Bold everywhere. 25c.
CONSUMPTION
SM r i' 8 tjaa’Jiii a! il » tuiy. This shrub grows 10 to 15 feet high,
2 E P.’S iUNEBEI covering itself iu early spring with beautiful
flowers which are succeeded by great quan¬
tities of luscious fruit, ft. is hardy, as beauti¬
ful as a picture, whiie the fruit is incomparable.
It will grow any and everywhere and forms a
grand addition to our lawn and garden shrubs.
Bach, 30c.; 10 for St .25, postpaid.
(2) JUNEBERRY.
A shrub of wondrous beauty; covers itself
with a great mass of pure white,deliciously
large, ragrant blossoms. These are followed by
dark colored berries, excellent for pies,
eauce, etc. Each, 25c.; 10 for SI.25.
EGRfATBUFFALO BERRY. 5ALZERS TREECRAN8ERRY (3) TREE CRANBERRY.
4 Q m k planted leaves our No Buffalo dw.rf boom this Berry, sooson to «hrok unfold J fruits Moore imebenry they e.cr and or* and bfirodifcod hear a source Tree th* fruU^novelties, n Cranberry. of «rt created constant year. such Hardy From beauty. a .ensatlon thotiimo as oat. Shrubs (ho as Onr _ mammoth zi catalogue * , digiously nave The Everybody above is a shrub mailed i n 3 every rare w, {hat is * upon h fond Novelties, catalogue, section will receipt of flourish of cranberries, postpaid, America. 68c. of Se. and for bear only Each, and posiago 50C-: pro¬ 85c. we
you I lio.tr ’’dV r will^o 'Sh^JL- ma.il e<i JOHN A. SALZER SEED fiO., La Cr 0*30. W
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Money In Doll'a Half.
The tresses attached to the heads
of dolls are the hair of the Angora
goat. Its product, which is con¬
trolled by au English syndicate, is
said to be worth $40,000,000 a year
N elllfl AVa* Precocious.
Ellen Terry made her first appear
ance on the stage when she was only
10 years old.
What I)o You Drink?
About 6,000 intoxicants of different
kinds are known to custom house
officials.
“Miranda, when my hoy first went
to college they called him a moss-
back, and now I see by this paper
they’re callin’ him a full-back.”
“Can our boy he drinkin’, Cyrus?” “I
don’t know, but I’ll pack my grip
and go right on, and if lie is he’ll be
a called .back quicker than greased
light n i n 5 !"—Pi ttsburg Di spateb.
The Royal Raking Powder is in¬
dispensable to progress in cookery
and to the comfort and conve¬
nience of modern housekeeping.
Royal is undoubtedly the purest and most reliable baking
powder offered to the public.— U. S. Gov't Chemist's Report.
For finest food I can use none but Royal.—A. Fortin,
Chef, While House, for Presidents Cleveland and Arthur.
The Maiden—“Then yon find mar-
ried life hapDy?” The Wife—“Yes;
but then I seldom see my husband,
you know.”—Smith, Gray & Co.’s
Monthly.
An Important Difference.
To make it apparent to thousands,wLo think
themselves ill, that they arc not affected with
any disease, but that the system simply needs
cleansing, is to bring comfort home to their
hearts, as a costive condition is easily cured by
using Syrup of Figs. Manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co.
Satan —Where does this arrival
hail from? Charon—New York.
Satan—Boil him in oil. We can’t
afford to catch the cholera.
STATE OF DITTO. UITT OF TOLEDO, !
Lucas County. ..
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that (“• he — rsthc
senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney &
Co. doing business in the City of Toledo.
County will and State aforesaid, and that said firm
nay the sum of f-liXi for each and every
case of catarrh that cannot be cured by tne
use of Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
Sivorn before FilANK J. CHKJfBT.
to me and subscribed in my
presence, this tsth day of December, A, 11., 1886.
j | A. W. Gleason.
SEAL
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Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken Notary Internally Public. and
acts of the directly on Send the bipod and mucous surfaces
system. for testimonials, free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
_____ Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Brown’S Bronchial Troches’ c are excel¬
lent for the relief of Hoarseness or Sore Throat.
They World, are London exceedingly effective.”— Christian
, Eng.
Ifaffiictedwith sore eyes use i)r. isaacThomn-
fcon’s Eye water, Druggists sell a bottle
w ■■
i I %
Bo Not Be Deceived
with Pastes, Enamels ami Paints which stain tho
hands, The Rising injure Sun the iron and burn red.
Stove Polish is Brilliant, Odor¬
less, Durable, ami the consumer pays for no tin
or glass package with every purchase.
fffiD0SES25j “W«—
SHILOH’S
iyOUGHCU Rr) CURE.
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Cures Consumption, Coughs, Croup, Soro
Throat* ^ Sold by all Druggists on a Guarantee,
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IDEAL FAMILY MEDICINE!
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1 layer and Bowels,
ripans tabules
feet
Bold
L..... Oil., New York. r.
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BUY DU I A COUNTRY HOME! !=:
llplpliSiilliigSiirt Wo also haven method known as “Rent Coatraot, with Option to Pnrohw ” biw hlei
those have option nnablo to to purchase pay any cash, substantially become tenants in the untiniie of purchase? rents odd am sunt udefn to a elv-i sum' dio- whs i TieJ Jili;
as case wto p P 5 ys VaUDAh/ s 8%l°,ul ov
CA l..DWKL L Ison
John the Baptist with his raiment'
of skins would have been of little in¬
terest on Fifth avenue Thursday af¬
ternoon compared with a promeuader New
clad in Persian lamb, says the
York Evening Bun. Her garment
consisted of a bell skirt of tender
young astrakhan, missing nothing of
a fashionable cut, and a Spanish
jacket. This was short over a skirt
of shaded green velvet of a lettuce¬
like tint, so light it was, a girdle fas¬
tening with large flaps in the back,
and large velvet sleeves. This cos¬
tume was crowned by a black hat in
velvet and violets. There was no
man or boy on the street so ignorant
of feminine gear that this costume
did not catch his eye. To look at it
women almost brought the procession
to a halt^_
A pool-room, exclusively for the
use of “ladies” is to be opened in Cov¬
ington, Ky. No liquors will be sold
on the premises.
££ German
Boschee’s Syrup” German .Syrup is more!
successful in the treatment of Con¬
sumption than any other remedy
prescribed. It has been tried under
every variety of climate. In the
bleak, bitter North, in damp New
England, in the fickle MiddleStates,
in the hot, moist South—every¬
where. It has been in demand by
every nationality. It has been em¬
ployed in every stage of Consump¬
tion. In brief it has been used
by millions and its the only true and
reliable Consumption Remedy. (D
fOUR Hi May depend upon HEALTH f lie way you treat the
™ warnings which nature gives. A few
bottles of S. S. S. taken at the proper time
may insure good health for a year or two.
Therefore act at once, for it
«• SS IMPORTANT• •
That nature be assisted at the riglifc time.
■gwgBgBB Sever fails to relieve the system
BJRJSiE &*&***^ of tonic impurities, also. and is an excellent
HE WANTS TO ADD HIS NAME.
“ Permit me to add my name to your many other certif-
feates in commendation of the great curative propel rties
contained in Sv/ift’s Specific (S. S. S.) It is certainly one
of the be6t tonics I ever used."
JOHN V/. DANIEL, Anderson. S.C.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free.
iWlFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga.
A Woman Has
entirely very little desire to enjoy the pleasures of life, and la
unfitted for the cares of housekeeping or
any ordinary duties,if afflicted with S l ( K II FA !)-
ACHE l)AV AFTER DAY and yet there are
few diseases that yield more promptly. to proper
medical treat reatment. It is therefore of the utmost im-
port a nee that a reliable remedy should always beat
band. D urJng a period of more than <50 YEARS
there has boon no Instance reported wlicr« such
eases have not been permanently and I* RO M FT I. V
CU ii Ef> by the use of a single box of the genuine
end lastly celebrated l)r.(!. die LANE'S LIVER
PI LLS, which may be procured at any Drug Store,
or In postage will he mailed to Purchasers any address of on those the receipt should of 25c.
be stamps. Fills
careful to procure the genuine article. There are
se vend count erf cits, on the market, well calculated
to dery eive. The genuine Dr. O. McLane’s Celebrated
Liver Pills are manufactured only by
FLEMING BROTHERS CO., Pittsburgh, Pa.
MEND YOUR OWN DURNESS
WITH
THOMSON’S-:T|
SLOTTED
CLINCH RIVETS.
I,®n,tely smooth. ILqiih iiig no hole lo i/ randc In
< rntfiii, uniform or assorted, put up in bo: xes.
sstifssi uy 40c. in
JUDSON L. THOMSON MFG. CO.
WAI,TlFA!tiT, MASS.
net Photos, 25c. ca., 5 for $ 1 . Address Washing¬
ton PnoTO Aht Co.. Box 40«. Washington, u, c.
AV l VIS . T f 5L* irmission. ai ?f *d BHHii nrs'afitlresg vromcir,
tlion; literal c< For panicu 1 less
•kA’.Piitdat tt,Secret ary,Law Building, Bal.fci more, ,Md |
Am N L" No S 1893
