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It.TALM AGE’S SERMON
*t> Eminent Divine’s
Discourse.
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^Welcome For tlio I>r»< 1 ljt»l—Klniluea.
Would Iteolfklxn Many UnhirtaimteH
IVho Have Dropped by the Way.
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D. C.—Infills discourse Dr.
■ those ploutls for u heurty reception to
who lutvo done wrong mid want
■(,'et buck, while tho unsympathetic and
■h-rlRhteoue are excoriated; text, Lake
K'j fi° was HU^ry and would not
■ 1 Many times have I been asked to preach
sermon about the eider brother of the
■trable. I received a letter from Canada
■yiuff, “Is the elder son of the parable so
■isympathetlc and so cold that he Is not
worthy of recognition?” The fact Is that
we ministers pursue tile yonuser sou. You
can hear the Shippings of bts rags in many
a sermonlc breeze anti the crunching of
the pods for which he was an uustiocess-
■ful contestant. I confess that it lias been
■aJfflcuU for me to train the camera ob-
■icura upon the older son of tho parable. I
■•cosId not p;et a negative for a photograph,
r There was not enouEth llcht in the gallery,
1 or tho chemicals were poor, or the sitter
I moved have him; in the picture. But now I think I
not ft side faoe or a three-quar¬
ters or the mere bust, but a full lensth
portrait as he appears to me. The father
In the parable of the prodigal had nothing
to brag of in his two ebns. The one was a
rake and the other a churl. I find nothing
admirable in tho dissoluteness of the one,
I und I find nothing attractive In the acrid
1 sobriety of tho other. The one goes down
over the larboard side, aud tho other goes
• down over the starboard side, but they
both go dowu.
From all the windows of the old home¬
stead bursts the minstrelsy. The floor
quakes with the feet of the rustics, whose
dance is always vigorous and resounding.
The neighbors have heard of the return of
the younger son from his wanderings, and
they have gathered together. The house
is full 0 / congrntulators. I suppose the
tables are loaded with luxuries; not only
the one kind of moat mentioned, but its
concomitants. “Clap!” go the cymbals,
“Thruml” go tho harps. "Click!” go tho
! chalices, up and down go the foet Inside,
k while outside is a most sorry spectacle.
If F Tbeseniorsou stands at the oorner of tho
bouse, a frigid phlegmatic. He had just
. come in from tho fields in very substantial
. I apparel. Seeing some wild exhilarations
around tho old mansion, he asks of a ser-
K vam passing by with agoatskin of wine on
■ his shoulder what all tho fuss is about.
I One would have thought that, on hearing
I that his younger brother had got back, he
r would have gone into the house and re-
^ joiced and, if he were not conscientiously
1 opposed to dancing, that he would havo
|» joined in the oriental sehottish. No. Thero
lie stands. His brow lowers; bis faoe dark-
l f ens; his lip curls with contempt; he stamps
the ground with indignation; he sees noth-
I lug at ail to attract. The odors of the feast
coming out on the air do not sharpen his
appetite; the livoly music does not put any
spring into his step. He is a terrible pout;
I he criticises the expense, the injustice aud
the morals of the entertainment. Tho father
rushes out bareheaded and coaxes him to
come in. Hu will not go in; he scolds the
father; he goes into a pasquinade against
the younger brother, and he make tho
most uncomely scene; he says,“Father, you
put a premium on vagabondism. I staid
at home aud worked oa tho farm. You
never made a party for me; you didn’t so
much as kill a kid. That wouldn't have
cost half us much ns a calf. Bat this scape¬
grace went off In fine clothes, and he comes
back not fit to be seen, and what a time
you make overhiml He breaks your heart,
and you pay him for it. That calf, to which
we have been giving extra feed during all
these weeks, wouldn’t be so fat and sleek
if I had known to what uso you were going
to put it! Thut vagabond deserves to be
cowbidod instead of hunqueted. Veal is
too good for himl” That evening, while
the younger son sat telling his father about
his adventures and asking about wliat had
occurred on the place since his departure,
the senior brother goes to bed disgusted
and slams the door after him. That senior
brother still lives. You eau see him any
day of the week. At a meeting of minis¬
ters in Germany some one asked the ques¬
tion. “Who Is that elder son?” and Krum-
macher answered: “I know him; I saw him
yesterday.” And when they insisted upon
knowing whom he meant he said: “Myself.
When I saw the account of the conversion
of a most obnoxious man, I was irritated.”
First, this senior brother of tho text
stands for tho self congratulatory, self sat¬
isfied, self worshipful man. With tho same
breath in whiob he vituperates aguinst his
younger brother he utters a panegyric for
himself. The self righteous man of my
text, like every other self righteous man,
was full of faults. He was an lngrate, for
ho did uot appreciate the home blessings
which he had all those years. He was dis¬
obedient, for when the father told him t j
come in he staid out. He was a liar, for
he said that tho recreant son had devoured
his father’s reduced living when the father, hnd so far
from being to penury, a home¬
stead left, aud instruments of music, had
jewels,had a mansion and instead of being a
pauper was a prince. This senior brother,
with so many faults of his own, was
merciless in his criticism of the younger
brother. The only perfect people that I
have ever known were utterly obnoxious.
I was never so badly cheated in my life as
by u perfect man. He got so far up in his
devotions that he was clear up above all
the rules of common honesty. These men
that go ubout prowling places of business, among prayer telling
meetings and in
how good they are—look out for them;
keep your hand on your pocketbook! I
have noticed that just in proportion as a
man gets good he gets humble. The deep
Mississippi does not make as much noise
as the brawling mountain rivulet. There
has been many a store that had more goods
in the show window than inside on the
shelves. stood
This self-righteous man of the text
at the corner of the house hugging Wmself
in admiration. We hear a great deal in
our day about the higher life. Now, there
are two kinds of higher-ilfo men. The one
is admirable, and the other is repulsive.
The one kind of higher-life man is very
lenient in his oriticlsm of others, does not
bore prayer meetings to death with long
harangues, does not talk a great deal
about himself, but much about Christ and
heaven, gets kindlier and more gentle and
more useful until one day his soul spreads
a-wing, aud he flies away to eternal rest,
and everybody mourns his departure. with The
other higher-life man goes around a
Bible conspicuously under ills arm, goes
from church to church, n sort of general
evangelist, is u nuisance to bis own pastor
when he is at home and a nuisance to other
pastors when he Is away from home, runs
up to some inau who is counting out a roll
of bank bills or running asks him up how a difficult his soul line Is,
of figures and
makes religion a dose of ipecacuanha;
standing in a religious meeting making an
address, he bus a patronizing way, cleur as
though ordiuary Christians were
away down below him, so lie had to talk at
the top of his voice in order to make them
» hear but at the same time encouraging
them to hope on that by climbing many
years they may aftera while come up with¬
in sight of the place where he now stands.
I tell you plainly that a roaring, roister¬
ing, bouncing sinner is not so repulsive to
me as that higher life malformation, ihe
former may repent; the latter never gets
over his Pharisaism. Thu younger brottior
of the parable came hack, but the senior
brother stands outside entirely oblivious
to bis own delinquencies and deficits, pro¬
nouncing his own eulogiuiu. Ob, iiow
much easier it is 10 Adam blame blamed others Eve, tban^to Eve
blame eursolvee. senior brother
blamed the serpent, the
blamed the younger brother, and none
them Mamed themselves.
Again, the senior brother of my text
stands for all those who are faithless
about the reformation of tho dissipated
and tho dissolute. In the very tones of his
voice you can hear the fact that he has no
faith that the reformation of tho younger
son is genuine, His ontira miknnflr somns
to say: “That boy has ootno back for more
money. He got a third of the property.
Now he has come back for another third.
He will never be contented to stay on the
farm. He will fall away. I would go In,
too, and rojoloe with the Others If I thought
this tiling was genuine, but It Is a sham.
That boy Is a confirmed Inebriate artel de¬
bauchee.” Alas, ray friends, for tho in¬
credulity In the church of Christ in regard
to the reclamation of the recreant! You
say a man has been a strong drinker. C
say, “Yes, but he has reformed.” “Oh,
you say, with a lugubrious face, “I
hope you are not mistaken; I hope you
are not mistaken." You say, “Don’t re¬
joice too much over Ills conversion, for
soon he will bo unconverted, I fear.
Don’t make too big a party for that re¬
turned prodigal or strike the timbrel too
loud, and if you kill a calf kill tho ono that
Is on the commons and not the one that
has been luxuriating in the paddock.” do
That is the reason why more prodigals
not come home to their father’s house. It
is the rank infidelity In the church of God
on this subject.
Thero is not a house on thd streets of
heaven that has not in it a prodigal that
returned and staid home. Thero could be
unrolled before you a scroll of 100,000
names—the names of prodigals who came
back forever reformed. Who was John
Banyan? A returned prodigal. Who was
Richard Baxter? A returned prodigal.
Who was George Whltefleld, the thunderer?
A returned prodigal. In all the aisles of
And I could go out
this church to-day and And on either side
those who, once far astray for many years,
have been faithful, and their eternal salva¬
tion is as sure as though they hud been ten
yours in heaven. And yet some of you
have not enough faith In their return!
You do not know how to shake hands
with a prodigal; yon ilo not know how to
pray for him; you do not kuow how to
greet him. He wants to sail Into tho warm
gulf stream of Christian sympathy. You
are the iceberg against which he strikes
and shivers. You say he has been a prod¬
igal. I know it, but you are tho sour, un¬
responsive, censorious, saturnine, cranky
older brother, and if you are going to
heaven one would think some people
would be tempted to go to perdition to get
away from you.
Plenty of room for elegant sinners, for
sinners in velvet or satin and lace, for sin¬
ners high salarlod, for kid gloved aud fixed pat¬
ent leathered sinners, for sinners up
by hairdresser, pomatumed aud laveudered
and oologiied and frizzled and crimped and
“banged” sinners—plenty of room!
Such we meet olegautlv at the door of
our churches, and we invito them into the
best seats with Chesterfieidian gallantries;
weuslier them into the house of God and
put soft ottomans under their r eet and put
a gild edged prayer book in their hands
an l pass the contribution box before them
with an air of apology, while they, the
generous souls,take out the equlsite porte-
raouQaia and open it aud with diamonded
finger push down beyond the $10 gold-
pieces and delicately pick out as aa ex¬
pression of gratitude their offering to the
Lord—of one cent! For such sinners plenty
of room, plenty of room!
Again I remark that the senior brother of
my text stands for the spirit of envy and
jealousy. The senior brother thought that
all the honor they did to the returned
brother was a wrong to him. Ha said, “1
have staid at home, and I ought to tiave
had the ring, and I ought to have had the
banquet, and I ought to have had the gar-
lands.”
Alas, for this spirit of envy and jealousy
coming dowu through the agas! Cain anil
Abel, Esau nnd Jacob, Saul and David,
Human and Hordeaai, Orthello and Iago,
Orlando and Angelica, Caligula and Tor-
quatus, Cmsar aud Pompey, Columbus and
the Spanish courtiers, Cambyses nnd the
brother he slew because he was a better
marksman, Dionysius aad Pliiloxenius,
whom he slew because he was a better
singer. Jealousy among painters—Clos-
terraan and Geoffrey Kueller, Hudson and
Reynolds, Francia, anxious to see a picture
of Raphael, Raphael sends him a picture.
Fraucia, seeing it, fulls ia a fit of jealousy
from whioh ha dies.
Jealousy among authors. How seldom
contemporariesspeakof each other. Xeno¬
phon and Plato living at the same time,
but from their writings you never would
suppose they hoard of eabh other.
Religious jealousies. The Mohammedans
praying for rain during a drought; no rain
oomihg. Thon the Christians begin to pray
for ralu, and the rain como3. Then the
Mohammedans met together to account for
this, and they resolved that God was so
well pleased with their prayers he kept the
drought ou so as to keep them praying,but
that the Christians began to pray aud tht
Lord was so disgusted with their prayers
that He sent rain right away so He would
not hear any more of their supplications.
Oh. this accursed spirit of envy and all jeal¬
ousy! Let us stamp It out from our
hearts.
A wrestler was so envious of Theognnes,
the prinoe of wrestlers, that he could not
be consoled in anyway, aud after Theog-
enes died and a statue was lifted to him in
a public place his envious antagonist went
out every night and wrestled with the
statue until one night he threw it, and it
fell on him and crushed him to death. So
jealousy is not only absurd, but it is
killing to the body, aud it is killing to the
soul.
How seldom it is you And one merchant
speaking well of a merchant in the same
line of business. How seldom itis you hear
a physician speaking well of a physician on
the same blook.
Oh, my friends, the world is large enough
for all of us! Let us rejoice at the success
of others. The next best thing to owning
a garden ourselves is to look over the fence
and admire the flowers.
The next best thing to riding in fine
equipage is to stand on the streets and ad¬
mire the prancing span. The next best
thing to having a banquet given to our¬
selves is having a banquet given to our
prodigal brother that has oome home to
his father’s house.
Ah. the face of thi3 pouting elder son is
put before us in order that we might
better see the radiant aud forgiving faoe
ot the Father. Contrasts ore mighty. The
artist in sketching the field of Waterloo
years after the battle put a dove ia the
mouth of the cannon. Raphael in wretch one of
his cartoons beside the face of a
put the faoe of a happy and innocent child.
Aud so the sour (ace ot this irascible
and disgusted elder brother is brought
out In order that in tho contrast wo
might better understand the forgiving
and radiant face of God. That is the
meaning of it—that God is ready to take
back anybody that is sorry, to take him
cleur back, to take him back forever and
forever and forever, to take him back with
a loving hug, to put a kiss ou ills parched
lip, a ring on Ills bloated hand, an easy
shoe on his chafed foot, a garland on his
bleeding temples and heaven in his soul.
Oh, 1 fall flat on that meroyi Come, my
brother, and let us get down into the dust,
resolved uover to rise until the Father’s
forgiving baud shall lift us.
Oh, what a God wo have! Bring your
doxologies. Come, earth and heaven, and
join in tho worship. Cry aloud. Lift the
palm branches. Ds you not feel the
Father’s arm around your neck? Do you
not feel the warm breath of your Father
against your cheek? Surrender, younger
son! Surrender, elder son! Surrender,
all! Go in to-day and sit down at tho ban¬
quet. Take a slice of the fatted calf, and
afterward, wheu you are seated, with one
hand in the hand of the returned brother
and the other hand in the hand of the re¬
joicing father, let your heart beat time to
the clapping of the cymbal and the mellow
voice of the flute. It is meet that we should
make merry and be glad, for this, thy
brother, was dead aud is alive again. He
was lost and is found.
A BLOOD
TROUBLE
I* that tired feeling—blood laoks vitality
and richness, and henoa you feel like a lag¬
gard all day and nan’t gat rested at night.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla will cure you because
it will restore to the blood the qualities it
needs to nourish, strengthen and sustain
the muscles, nerves and organs of the body.
It gives sweet, refreshing sleep and imparts
new life and vigor to every function.
Tlrod Feellm*—“I hnd that tired feel¬
ing and headaohes. Was more tired in
tile morning than when I went to bed, and
my lines pained me. Hood’s Sarsaparilla
and Hood’s Pills have cured me and made
me feel ten years younger.” JJ. Soueulkis,
274 Bushwlck Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Is the rid dlolue Money Can Bay. Pre-
Hood Sc Co., Lowell, Mass.
Abundant Proof at Hand
"Julia, dear,” said young Mr, Gilley,
timidly, to his charmer, “do you think
that a married couple could live on a
salary of $730 a year?’
*"0, Diet," replied Julia, earnestly,
"I saw la the Ladies’ and Gents’ Home
Journal an account of how a man sup¬
ported hlmsolf, his wife and two chil¬
dren on $350 a year. I’ll run and get
the paper.”
Invitations were Issued the following
week.—Detroit Free Press,
Tetter and Eczema.
‘‘What will you charge me for 1
dozen boxes Tetterine? I know it to
be a splendid remedy for the onre of
Tetter and Eezernu. I would like to
keep it for sale. Mrs. Emma Plum¬
mer, Waynesboro, Miss.” If your
druggist don’t keep it, send 50c. to J.
T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga.,for a box.
A Fish-Hawk Story.
Henry Seymour, a veteran fisher¬
man. and ono of the most practical
men in Tnlbot County, fishes on the
Choptank Itiver, and was bothered the
other day by fish hawks robbing bis
nets of early roe herring. He was los¬
ing at" least n dollar a day by the de¬
predations of these birds. His prae-
HcaT sense came to his aid and he
trapped Tho hawks in a very ingenious
manner. He had stakes driven down
about the nets and shaped out from
shingles wooden decoy fia7Ti?h, which
he fastened tTb tho ehds of the stakes
with barbed steel spears, so that the
imitation fish showed just under the
water. The fisherman watched the art¬
ful fish hawks until four, diving from
aloft for Tub wooden fish, were pierced
through and killed by the barbed
spear.—Baltimore Bun.
I>o Your Feet Ache and Burn ?
Shake into yourshoes Allen s Foot-Base, a
powder for tho feet. It makes tight Bunions, or now
shoes feed easy. Cures Corns,
Swollen, Hot, Smarting and Sweating Foet
and Ingrowing Kails. Sold by all druggists
and shoo stores, 25 ots. Sample sent FREE.
Address A len S. Olmsted, Leltoy, N. Y.
Her Approval.
‘‘What do yon 'think of my new
hat?” said Willie Washington, as he
exhibited a low-crowned 'affair with a
twist of gaudy material around It.
“I like it very much,”
Miss Cayenne. “The wearing of ft is
another glad assurance that this is a
free country, where people may do
anything they choose so long as it’s
harmless.—Washington Star.
Carter’s Ink Is the Best Ink
made, but no dearer than the poorest. Has
the largest sale of any ink in the world.
Girlish Playfulness.
“1 wrot® that girl three letters asking her to
return my diamond ring.”
• Did you get It?”
•’Finally she *ent me a ‘don’t-worry’ button.
—Chicago Record.
To Cure a Cold in One Day.
Take Luitivd Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund the money if it fails to cure.
K. W. Grove’s signature is on each box. 25c.
All That Was Necessary.
“Were your amateur theatricals a success?”
“Oh, yes; every one In them had friends
enough to convince him that he was the best
one of the lot.”
Mrs. Winslow’9 Soothing Syrup for-children
teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflamma¬
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle.
I do not believe Piso’s Cure for Consumption
has an equal for coughs and colds.— John F.
Boyer, 'i rinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15,1900.
.T. C. Simpson, Marquess, W. Va., says:
"Hall’s Catarrh Cure cured me of a very bad
case of catarrh.” Druggists sell it, 75c.
Cock of the Walk.
Mamma—I’m glad to see you playing with
good little boys now.
Tommy—Yes’rn. They ain’t like the other
kind, l kin lick any one of these kids if I
want ter.—Philadelphia Press.
If we must be afflicted with sore,
weak and inflamed eyes, it is
consoling to know
Mitchell s Eye Salve
Is always
within reach and ready to
cure us if we follow the
directions implicitly.
Price 25 cents. All druggists.
HALL & RUCKEL,
New York. 1848. London.
FOR SALE Thoroughbred Eggs at $1.00 Cata¬ per
setting If ordered at once.
logue free. W. S. NORRIS, Cincinnati, O.
Plantation Chi Cur e is Guara nteed
To Cu of Money Refunded bY Your Mferc Hant, soV/h? Not TfV It. Ptice-jOc .
Even Seoaleri Do It
A well-dressed gentleman, whose
bearing Indicated standing, refinement
and wealth, clung to a strap In a
Pennsylvania avenue ear a few days
ago. The car was crowded. When he
was approached by the conductor and
his fare requested he ran his tiugerB
In the little change pocket of his over¬
coat.
His hand sought his right trousers'
pocket, the left and those of his vest,
at last, going through every pocket in
his clothes.
A blank look of amazement over¬
spread the gentleman’s face, followed
by a smile, In which the passengers
near him joined.
"lteally,” he exclaimed to the con¬
ductor, whose smile had not yet ap¬
peared, “really, I am much em¬
barrassed. 1 find to my chagrin that I
haven’t any money whatever upon
me, not even a car ticket. I will have
to ask you to pass me on my face.’’
“I can’t do that,” answered the con¬
ductor. “X don’t know you. Could
not, anyway.’’
“Can’t you make an exception this
time? 1 am Senator and will
certainly send the fare to the company
immediately upon reaching the cap-
itol.”
The conductor Joined In the laugh,
which by this time hsd become gen¬
eral, and walked to the front end of
the car. A pasenger handed the Sen¬
ator a car ticket, which the latter ac¬
cepted with appropriate thanks and
paid his fare with It.—Washington
Evening Star.
The Part She Didn’t Like.
The other day a wee little woman
who lives In a suburb saw and heard a
donkey for the first time, says the Cin¬
cinnati Enquirer. She talked about it
continually after getting home.
It was a “good donkey,” it was also
a "beautiful donkey.” In fact, the
child went completely < through her
small store of adjectives. And when
her father came home at night he
heard the adjectives all over again.
“And so you liked the donkey, dar¬
ling, did you?” he asked, taking the
tiny lass on his knee.
“Oh, yes, papa, I liked him. That Is,
I liked him pretty well, but 1 didn't
like to bear him donk.”
Proposed Alliance with England.
If tho United States and England snould
form an alliance, the combined strength
would he so great that there would he little
chanerfor enemies to overcome us. In a like
munner, when men and women keep up their
bodily strength with Hostetter’s Stomach
Bitters, there Is little chance of attacks from
disease. The old time remedy enriches the
blood, builds up the muscles, steadies the
nerves and iucreases the appetite. Try It.
Would Not Sugareoat the Pill.
Mrs. Young—Don’t you believe in managing
one’s husband by letting him think he Is having
his own way? Man should be
Mrs. Strong—Decidedly Inferiority.”—Pack, not.
maJa t o feel his
THE HEALTH OF YOURG WOMEN
Two of Them Helped by Mrs. Pinkliam
—Head thoir Letters.
“ Dear Mrs. Pinkham :—I am sixteen
years old and am troubled with my
j monthly sickness. It is very irregular,
occurring only once in two or three
months, and also very painful. I also
suffer with cramps and once in a while
pain strikes me in the heart and I have
drowsy headaches. If there is anything
you can do for me, I will gladly follow
your advice.”
— Miss Mary
Gomes, Aptos, f ’x'fi a
Cal., July 31,
1898. 1
Pivkuas “ Dear Mrs. j | la ij s
: — far
After reeeiv-
ing your letter
J began the -'jj /!,
use of your reme-
dies, taking both /' __ .
ham’s Lydia Vegetable E. Pink- Com- ___ —^2/
pound and Blood Purifier. I am now
regular every month and suffer no pain.
Your medicine is the best that any suf¬
fering girl ‘can take.”—Miss Mary
Gomes, Aptos, Cal., July 6, 1899.
Nervous and Dizzy
“ Dear Mbs. Pi.vkham I wish to
express my thanks to you for the great
benefit I have received from the use of
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com¬
pound. I suffered constantly from ter¬
rible sideache, had chills, was nervous
and dizzy. I had tried different kinds
of medicine but they all failed entirely.
After taking three bottles of Vegetable
Compound and three of Blood Purifier I
am all right. I cannot thank you enough
for what your remedies have done for
me.”—Miss Matilda Jensen, Box 18,
Ogdensburg, Wis., June 10, 1899.
Blowing Him Down.
Dr. Isaac Barrow was an eminent
divine, great at long sermons; three
hours were nothing to him. On one
occasion he was preaching in the
Abbey, and had got well on in his
"tenthly, my brethren,” without any
Indication of the stream's running dry.
Now the Abbey is a show-place as
well as a church; and the showmen—
to wit, the vergers—became restive un¬
der the eloquence of Dr. Barrow. Ac¬
cordingly, aa the veracious chronicler
records, they “caused the organs to
play, until they had blowed him
down.” "Here again, you see, the or¬
gans blew. Whether the organist was
asleep —not unlikely, for organists, pre¬
fer a sleep to a long sermon any day—
and one of the vergers officiated at the
keys, I do not know, but I confess
I should like to have heard the “volun¬
tary”—fit name!—that "blowed” Isaac
Barrow down.—Longman’s.
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~‘/r Complaining » good deal
a ache, can’t study as well as usual,
etsily fall asleep, and ire tired
N. ill the time? And how is it
/ with slipping yourself? ? Is Do youf
strength easily, iwiy you ill
tremble ire your nerves
unstrung, do you feel dull ind sleepy,
ind hive you lost ill imbition ?
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Spring Poisoning
Nearly every one needs a good spring medicine; i medicine
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| ROCKHILL
Courtesy on a Street Car.
A big, fine-looking man sat In the
corner of a South Side car reading his
newspaper. Next to him sat a little
woman in an up-to-date frock. She
had a box of candy in one band and
an opera libretto In the other. She
tried to get a newspaper from a boy
who came through the car, but the
conductor broke up the transaction,
and seizing the small newspaper deal¬
er, put him off. Then the pretty
man in the up-to-date frock paid
fare In pennies and smiled.
The big man's newspaper was spread
out before her eyes, and she glanced
at the head lines. Then she read half
a column about a thrilling rescue of a
typewriter girl by a gallant fireman.
She glanced sideways at the big man.
Apparently he was taking no notice.
She began on a story of burglars in a
South Side flat, how they bounS and
gagged a woman, stole her sealskin
sack, and-
“Oh, oh! the horrid things!” she ex¬
claimed excitedly.
The big man looked around Inquir¬
ingly, and then, quite as a matter of
course, he said;
“Have you finished this page,
madam? If so, let us turn to the stock
reports and the society news.”—Chica¬
go News.___
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Bulletin.
The Best Prescription for Chills
and Fever is a bottle of GROVK’s Tasteless
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Explanation of Her Pencfiant.
“I notice that she has her portrait taken.” painted,
but never has her photograph ta exact.”
“Yes. You see, the camera so
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