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TALMAGE’B SEBMON.
Eleventh Discourse of the Serlea
On the “Marriage Ring.”
The taw of Heredity—Traite of Character
That Itiiii In Families—The Itespnnsl
bliit.v of Ancestry—Bequeathing
a Moral Tendency.
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage delivered the
eleventh sermon of the “Marriage Ring”
series at Fayette, Mo., before an audience
that packed every available portion of the
building in which it was delivered. The
subject was “Heredity,” Mr. Talmage tak
ing for bis text:
Whose son art thou, thou young man.—l.
Samuel, xvii., 58.
Never was there a more unequal fight
that that between David and Goliath.
David five feet high; Goliath ten. David
a shepherd boy, brought up amid rural
scenes: Goliath a warrior hy profession.
Goliath a mountain of braggadocio; David
a marvel of humility. Goliath armed with
an iron spear; David armed with a sling,
with smooth stones from the brook. But
you are not to despise these latter weap
ons. There was a regiment of slingers in
the Assy rial, army and a regiment of
slingers in the Egyptian army, and they
made terrible execution, and they could
cast a stone with as much precision and
force as now can he hurled shot or shell.
The Greeks in their army had slingers who
would throw leaden plummets inscribed
with the irritating words, “Take this!”
So it was a mighty weapon David em
ployed in that famous combat.
A Jewish rabbi says that the probability
is that Goliath was in such contempt for
David that in a paroxysm of laughter he
threw his head back, and his helmet fell
off. and David saw the uncovered forehead,
and his opportunity had come, and taking
this siing and swinging it around hit head
two or three times, and aiming at that un
covered forehead he crushed it like an egg
shell. The battle over, behold a tableau:
King Saul sitting, little David standing,
his fingers clutched into the hair of the
• decapitated Goliath. As Saul sees David
standing there holding in his hand the
ghastly, reeking, staring trophy, evidence
of the complete victory over God’s ene
mies, the King wonders what parentage
■was honored by such heroism, and in my
text he asks David his pedigree:
Whose son art thou, thou young man?
The king saw what you and I see, that
this question of heredity is a mighty ques
tion. The longer I live the more I believe
in blood—good blood, bad blood, proud
blood, humble blood, honest blood, thiev
ing blood, heroic blood, cowardly blood.
The tendency may skip a generation
or two, but it is sure to come out,
as in a little child you sometimes
see a similarity to a great-grandfather
whose picture hangs on the wall. That the
physical and mental and moral qualities
are inheritable is patent to any one who
keeps his eyes open. The similarity is so
striking sometimes as to be amusing.
Great families, legal or literary, are apt to
have the characteristics all down through
the generations, and what is more per
ceptible in such families may be seen on
a smaller scale in all families. A thou
sand years have no power to obliterate the
difference.
The large lip of the house of Austria is
seen in all the generations, and is called
the Hapsburg lip. The House of Stuart
always means in all generations cruelty
and bigotry and sensuality. Witness
Queen of Scots. Witness Charles I. and
Charles 11. Witness James I. and James
11. and all the other scoundrels of that im
perial line. Scottish blood means per
sistence, English blood means reverence
for the ancient, Welsh blood means
religiosity, Danish blood means fondness
of the sea, Indian blood means roaming
disposition, Celtic blood means fervidity,
Roman blood means conquest.
The Jewish facility for accumulation
you may trace clear back to Abraham, of
whom the Bible says, “He was rich in sil
ver and gold and cattle,” and to Isaac and
Jacob, who had the same characteristics.
Some families are characterized by
longevity, and they have a tenacity of 'ife
k positively Methuselish. Others are eta, «• -
" aeterized by Goliathian stature, and y :u
can see it for one generation, two genera
tions, five generations, in all gen
erations. Vigorous theology runs
on in the line of the Alexanders. Tragedy
runs on in the families of the Kembles.
Literature runs on in the line of the Trol
lopes. Philanthropy runs on in the line of
the Wilberforces. Statesmanship runs on
in the line of the Adamses. Henry and
Catherine of Navarre religious, all their
families religious. The celebrated family
of the Casini, all mathematicians. The
celebrated family of Medici—grandfather,
sou and Catherine—all remarkable for
keen intellect. The celebrated family of
Gustavus, all warriors.
This law of heredity asserts itself with
out reference to social or political con
dition, for you sometimes find the ignoble
in hig’i place. A descendant of Edward
1. a toll gatherer. A descendant of Ed
ward 111. a doorkeeper. A descendant of
the Duke of Northumberland a trunk
maker. Rome of the mightiest families of
England are extinct, while some of those
most honored ill the peerage go back to an
ancestry of bard knuckles and rough ex
terior. This law’of heredity is entirely in
dependent of social and political condition.
Then you find avarice, and jealousy, and
sensuality, aud fraud having full swing
in some families. The violent temper of
Frederick William is the inheritance of
Frederi k the Great. It is not a theory to
be set forth by worldly philosophy only,
hut by divine authority. Do you not re
member how the Bible speaks of “a chosen
generation,’’ of “the generation of the
righteous,” of “the generation of vipers,”
of an “untoward generation,” of “a stub
born generation,” of “iniquity of the past
visited upon the children unto the third
and foflrth generation?” So that the text
man to-day with the force of a projectile
hui led from the mightiest catapult.
Whose son art thou, thou young man:
“Well,” says some one, “that theory dis
charges me from all responsibility. Born
of sanctified parents, we are bound to be
good, and we can not help ourselves. Born
of unrighteous parentage, we are bound to
be evil and we can not help ourselves.”
As much as if you should say, "the cen
tripetal force in nature ha- a tendency to
bring everything to the center, and there
fore all things come to the center. The
centrifugal force in nature has a tendency
to throw out everything to the periphery,
and therefore every thing will go out to 1
the periphery.” You know as well as I
snot? that ycan make the centripetal
overcome the centrifugal, and yon can
make the centrifugal overcome the cen
tripetal. As when there is a mighty tide
of good in a family that may be overcome
by determination to evil, as in the case of
Aaron Burr, the libertine, who had for
father President Burr, the consecrated; as
in the case of Fierrepont Edwards, the
scourge of New York society seventy years
ago, who had a Christian ancestry; while,
on the other hand, some of the best men
and women of this day are those who have
come of an ancestry of which it would not
be courteous to speak in their presence.
The practical and useful object of this
sermon is to show to you that if you have
come of a Christian ancestry, then you are
solemnly bound to preserve and develop
the glorious inheritance; or, if you
have come of a depraved ancestry,
then it is your duty to brace your
self against the evil tendency by all
prayer and Christian determination, and
you are to find out what, are the family
frailties, and in arming the castle put the
strongest guard at the weakest gate.
With these smooth stones from the brook I
hope to strike you, not where David struck
Goliath, in the head, but where Nathan
struck David in the heart.
Whose son art thou, thou young man?
Rome time, in the w inter holiday, when
we are accustomed to gather our families
together, old times have come back again,
and our thoughts have been set to the tune
of “Auld Lang Syne.” The old folks w’ere
so busy at such times in making us happy,
and perhaps on less resource made their
sons and daughters happier than you on
larger resource are able to make your sons
and daughters happy. The snow’ lay two
feet above their graves, but they shook off
the white blankets and mingled in the
holiday festivities—the same wrinkles, the
same stoop of shoulder under the W’eight
of age, the same old style of dress or coat,
the same smile, the same tones of voice. I
hope you remember them before they went
away. If not, I hope there are those who
have recited to you what they w’ere, and
that there may be in your house some arti
ticle of dress or furniture with which you
associate their memories. I want to arouse
the most sacred memorie-t of your heart
while I make the impassioned interroga
tory in regard to your pedigree—
Whose son art thou, thou young man?
First, I accost all those w’ho are de
scended of a Christian ancestry. I do
not ask if your parents were perfect.
Perhaps there was sometimes too much
blood in their eye when they chastised
you. But from what I know of you,'you
got no more than you deserved, and per
haps a little less than you deserved,
and perhaps a little more chastisement
would have been salutary. But you are
willing to acknowledge, I think, that they
wanted to do right. From what you
overheard in conversations and from what
you saw at the family altar and at neigh
borhood obsequies, you know that they
had invited God into their heart and life.
There was something that sustained those
old people supernaturally. You have no
doubt about their destiny. You expect if
you ever get to heaven to meet them as
certainly as you expect to meet the Lord
Jesus Christ.
That early association has been a charm
Sir you. There was a tiiSe when you got
ght up from a house of iniquity and
walked out into the fresh air because
you thought your mother was looking at.
you. You have never been very happy
in sin because of a sw’oet old face that
would present itself. Tremulous voices
from the past accosted you until they
were seemingly audible, and you looked
around to see who spoke. There was
estate not mentioned in the last will and
testament, a vast estate of prayer and holy
example and Christian entreaty and glori
ous memory. The survivors of the fam
ily gathered to hear the will read, and
this was to be kept, and that was to be
sold, and it was share and share alike.
But there w’as au unwritten will that read
something like this:
In the name of God, amen,T.beingof sound
mind, bequeath to my children all my pray
ers for their salvation; I bequeath to them
the Chrstian religion which has been so
much comfort to me. and 1 hope may be
solace for them,; I bequeath to them a hope
of reunion when the partings of life are over;
share and share at ke may they Imve in eter
nal riches. I bequeath to thorn the wish that
they may avoid my errors and copy any
thing that may have been worthy. In the
name of the God who made me, and the
Christ who redeemed me, and the Holy Ghost
who santities me. I make this my last will
and testament. Witness, all ye hosts of
Heaven; witness, time; witness, eternity.
Signed, sealed and delivered In this our dy
ing hour. Father and Mother.
Vou did not get that will proved at the
Surrogate’s office; but I take it out to-day
and I read it to you; I take it out of the
alcoves of your heart; 1 shake the dust off
of it, I ask you, Will you accept that in
heritance, or will, you break the will? O
ye of Christian ancestry, you have a re
sponsibility vast beyond all measurement!
God will not let you off’ with just being ns
good as ordinary people when you had
extraordinary advantage, tfcg-ht not a
flower planted in the more
thrifty than a flower planted
storm? Ought not a factory turned by the
Housatonic do more work than a factory
turned by a thin and shallow mountain
stream? Ought not you of great early op
portunity be better than those w’ho had a
cradle unblessed?
A father sets his son up in business. He
keeps an account of all the expenditures.
So much for store fixtures, so much for
rent, so much for this, so much for that,
and all the items aggregated, and the
father expects the son to give an account.
Your Hew’enlv Father charges against
you all the advantages of a pious ancestry
—so many prayers, so much Christian ex
ample, so many kind entreaties—all these
gracious influences one tremendous aggre
gate, and he asks you for an account of it.
Ought not you to be better than those who
had no such advantages? Better have
been a foundling picked up off the city
commons than with such magnificent in
herit ince of consecration to turn out in
differently.
Ought not you, my brother, to be better,
having had Christian nurture, than that
man who'can truly sa>’ this morning:
“The first word I remember my father
speaking to. me was an oath; the first
time I remember my father taking hold of
me was in wrath: I never saw a Bible till
I was ten years of age, and then I was
told it was a pack of lies. The first twenty
years of my life I was associated with the
vicious. I seemed to he walled in by sin
and death.”
Now, my brother, oughtyounot—Heave
it as a matter of fairness with you—ought
you not be far better than th„se who
had no early Christian influence? Stand
ing as you do between the generation that
is past and the generation that is to come;
are you going to pass the blessing on,
or are you going to have your life th«
gulf in which that tide of blessing
shall drop out of sight forever? You
are the trustees of piety in that ancestral
line, and are you going to augment cr
squander that solemn trust fund? Are you
going to disinherit your sons and daugh
ters of the heirloom which your parents
left you? Ah! that can not be possible,
that can not be possible that you are going
to take such a position as that. You are
very careful about the life insurances, and
careful about the deeds, and careful about
the mortgages, and careful about the title
of your property, because when you step
off the stage you want your children to
get it all. Are you making no provision
that they shall get grandfather and grand
mother’s religion? Ob, what a last will
and testament you are making, my broth
er!
In the name of God, amen. I, being of
sound mind, make tills my last will and tes
tament. I bequeath to my children all the
money I ever made and all the houses I
own ; but I disinherit them, I rob them of the
ancestral grace and the Christian Influence
that I inherited. I have squandered that on
my own worldliness. Share and share alike
must they in the misfortune and the ever
lasting outrage. Signed, sealed and deliv
ered in the presence of God, and men, and
angels, and devils, and all the generations
of earth, and heaven, and hell. March, issti.
O, ye highly-favored ancestry, wake up
this morning to a sense of your opportuni
ty and and your responsibility. I think
there must be an oHfcradle or a fragment
of a cradle somewhere that could tell a
story of midnight supplication in your be
half. Where is the old rocking-chair in
which you were sung to sleep with the
holy nursery rhyme? Where is the old
clock that ticked away the moments of
that sickness on that awful night when
there were but three of you awake—you
and God aud mother? Is there not an old
staff in some closet? Is there not an old
family Bible on some shelf that seems to
addreess you, saying:
“Mv son, my daughter, how can you re
ject that God who so kindly dealt with us
all our lives and to whom %ve commended
you in our prayers, living and dying? By
the memory of the old homestead, by the
family altar, by our dying pillow, by the
graves in which our bodies sleep while our
spirits hover, we beg you to turn over a
new leaf, and that now.”
2. But I turn for a moment to those who
had evil parentage, and I want to tell
you that the highest thrones in Heaven,
and the mightiest triumphs and the
brightest crowns will be for those who
had evil parentage, but who, by the
grace of God, conquered. As useful, as
splendid a gentleman as I know of to
day, had for father a man who died blas
pheming God until the neighbors had to
put their fingers in their ears to shut out
the horror. One of the most consecrated
and useful Christian ministers of to-day
was born of a drunken horse jockey. Tide
of evil tremendous in some families. It is
like Niagara rapids, and yet men have
clung to a rock and been rescued.
There is a family* in New York whose
wealth has rolled up into many millions
that was founded by a man who, after
he had vast estate, sent back a paper of
tacks because they were two cents
more than he expected. Grip and grind
and gouge in the fourth generation—l sap
pose it will be grip and grind and
gouge in the twentieth genera
tion. The thirst for intoxicants
has burned down through the
arteries of a hundred and fifty
years. Pugnacity or combativeness char
acterizes other families a Sometimes one
form of evil,®rnMitimes (father form of
evil. it may be resisted, it has been
resisted. If the family frailty be avarice,
cultivate unselfishness and charity, and
teach your children never to eat an apple
without offering somebody else half of
Is the family frailty combativeness, keep
out of the company of quick-tempered
people, and never answer an impertinent
question until you have counted a hundred
both ways, and after you have wriNcen a
letter keep it a week before it, j
and then burn it up! Is the family frailtyJ
timidity and cowardice, cultivate back*
bone, read the biography of brave nietw
like Joshua and Paul, and see if you can
not get a little iron in your blood. Find
out what the family frailty is, and set
body, mind and soul in battle array.
I think the genealogical table was put
in the first chapter of the New Testament
not only to show our Lord’s pedigree, but
to show that a man may rise up in an an
cestral line and beat back successfully all
the influences of bad heredity. See in that
genealogical table that good King Asa
came of vile King Abia. See in that
genealogical table that Joseph and Mary
and the most illustrious Being that ever
touched our world, or ever will touch i„,
had in their ancestral line scandalous Re
hoboarn and Themar and Bathsbeba. If
this world is ever to be Edenized—and if
will be—all the infected families of the
earth are to be regenerated, and there will
some arise in each family line and open
a new genealogical table. There will
be some Joseph in the line to re
verse the evil influence of Rehoboam, and
there will be some Mary in the line to re
verse the evil influence of Batbsheba. Per
haps the star of hope may point down to
your manger. Perhaps you are to be the
hero or the heroine that is to put down the
brakes and stop that long train of genea
logical tendencies, aud switch it off on an
other track from that on which it has been
running for a century. You do that, aud 1
will promise you as fine a palace as the
architects of heaven can build, the arch
way inscribed with the words: “More than
conqueror.”
But whatever your heredity, let ine say,
you may be sons and daughters of the Lord
God Almighty. Estranged children from
the homestead come home through the
open gate of adoption. There ig
royal blood in our veins. There are
crowns on our escutcheon. Our Father
is king. Our Brother is king. We
may be kings and queens unto God for
ever. Come and sit down on the ivory
bench of the palace. Come and wash in
the fountains that fall into the basins of
crystal and alabaster. Come and look out
of the upholstered window upon the gar
dens of azalea and amaranth. Hear the
full burst of the orchestra while you ban
quet with potentates and victors. Oh,
when the text sweeps backward, let it not
stop at the cradle that rocked your in
fancy, but at the cradle that rocked the first
world; and when the text sweeps forward,
let it not stop at your grave, but at the
throne on which you may reign forever
and ever.
Whose son art thou, thou young man?
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Thompson's Ey e Water. Druggists sell it. 25e»
The lawyer’s advertisement—Give me a
trial.
Red Star
, trade' MARK.
Free from Ojpiatcs, Emetics and Poison.
SAFE. **%,*&„
SURE.
PROMPT.
At Druggists and Dcai •".rs.
THE CHARLES A. YWiKMitt (()■■ BALTIMORE. MD.
GErm*S^
_ ! Cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia,
LAK EJft I n Backariip, Hcadarlxs Toolhariie,
Hill r 8I I - Sprain*, etc»rtr.
I Ul I Dill pkice. fifty cents*
■ V 3 ■ UIBI at druggists AND OKA I bits.
THE CHARLES A. VOt.KLIK < 0., HALT IHOUE, 31U.
LIVESTOCK jK
CUTS.
Wg will furnish duplicates
of LIVE) STOCK.
CUTS prany other
Cut shown in any Spec- S
imer. Book, at or below Jk lp l
quoted prices for same. jtm4 gLJ
177 & 179 Elnißtrwt.p^
BEST ORGANS
aa ON the EASY PAYMENT PLAN, m m
Mason & hamliN
Now sell their unrivaled Organs on the t»a*y hire
system, payments at the rate of s:t.£s|><r month,
UP* I**) styles 922 to 9900. Send for Catalogue with
full particulars, mailed free.
Also th ‘ Mugon «lr Hamlin Improved l r p«
r lfcht Piano**, new method of stringing.
MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN AND PIANO C 0. f
BOSTON, NEW YORK, CHJCACO.
GEN. LOGAN’S
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p*. If Forgood Agents.
8 m £ A mm write at oxie for
spins? ‘ terri ' , ' r >'-
isjigbim A. K. H IHT A CO.,
II II H I Publishers, 111 Murray
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No Rope to Cut Off Horses' Manes. Mv
Celebrated “ECMPSE” HALT- jjrpdt*,
IK ami KKIDI.E Combined, /jV
can not lie slipped by any horse. Sam- / ■gyi j J h
pie Halter to any part or the U.S. /T/ &•,
free, on receipt of 8> 1. Sold by all yS,yL- o vja
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Trade. XV' Send for Priee-I.lst.'if&jJv j V V
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W-vW FINE Blooded Cattle, Sheep, Hogs,
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enslaving-free. N. P. Boyer & Co.. Coatesville, Pa
MARCH, APRIL, MAY
•"9/7 re f * lc tliree arctics of a bridge which hind the seasouof Ice to that of roses. SI'HI.VG
-A TRYIX6 TIME for invalids. At this lime you should seek to cleanse sud
j? purify your system from humors. If you are vexed with Indigestion. hrn«l:>eh«,
TriJ® mlf wrintof appetite, disordered liver and kldncvs, constipation, or feverish skin, take ItR.
ctiWKe || i»- kexxeiivs eayouite remedy to
Bmpurify THE BLOOD
.SSafc- Wlthoutan hour's delay. IMs mild, quick and posture to action. Keep It in the house
viiMtiJ''-'SB 1 :: w 'n'’u Son are at home, for the blood, aud take it with vott on journeys. Y'ou will find it
* , cheaper than sickness, and as pleasant to lake os th. hand of a friend. To women who
suffer from arty of the ills peculiar to the sex, FAVORITE REMEDY proves a real blessing'.
DR. DAVID ii CAVfIBITET DCIfICnV » solo by all druggists.
KENNEDY'S ■ AvUllltk I# So in *■ UI I $1 per Bottle; 6 for $5.00.
MADE BY DU. DAVID K.EJTNEDY, TtOIVDOTTT. TV Y-
wfMionr Catalogue. Our
prices DEFV CQSPETITION, and Weeds
are NEW, RELIABLE.
c«falogme, Invaluable to all,
r I* KSa ay 136 pages, 1 Winding Plants,
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tions. Lp<us hear from you. Respectfully,
THTSTORRS & HARRimCO.
PAINESVILLE, LAKE CO., OHIO.
I M f Ift northern
LMfii WISCONSIN
Choice Hardwood
CLONES 8 ’ °fl r i1 d iHtf , tPeu? R A U a H KM«SS:
Jars, with good Map. FREE. Is ■ KJP O
rAnmo
Ra, MILWAUKEE Win. MUmuLSmShmii
CONSUMPTION
I u**e * positive remedy for me abOTe .liNeMp; by itj Q "
tbooMDd* l)f rAße * of wont kind anti of long itandinc
have been eun-d. Indeed, so strong is rry faith i n it* efflcßry.
Uab[?TRKAT. R T K W o 0 ?? TT J;SL PH * KB ’ t0 * erh ' writh a VAL-
L AbLb TRE4TIKK on th.« dl*eap« *o anyeufTerer. Give Fx
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jfecxlsj
? fSQ.’S, CURE ePOR •
CP®ES WHERE AU CLSE fTiIS,
Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good. Use
in time, sold hy druggists.
? emsrs cm
DYSPEPSIA
is a dangerous aa ws» M dlstrwsin* eoinpl*int. It
neglected, it tend., by impairing ■'Utntlom and da
crewing the tone ot tU® to prepar#
for Rapid Decline. _ gsa*
r s ß ffgs ||
Quickly afid completely C'nree DyepepffUl In all
Hfl forms, Henrtb.irn, Bclrhinf,Ta»tWtfiW
food, etc. It enriches APT jDurifles the
lates the appetite, and aids the sreimilation.of w o*<-
Mr. Wm. M. Plastf.r, 1114 St., Louis
ville. Ky . says: “I was troubled with Dyspepsia for
several years. Was not relieved until I Used Brown’*
Iron Bitters. , It cured me.”
Mr. Cyrttp W. Shaff, Justice of the Peace
.Areola, Ind . says; “I was so sorely afflicted with
indigestion that I could eat nothing without (Letreea.
Brown’s Iron Bitters has completely cured me,"
Genuine has above Trade Mark and crossed red line#
on wrapper. 'Tabf* tin other. Made only by
liltOWN CHEMICAL CO.» BALTIMORE, MII-
ZS.^SKTJSIISrG-TCOKr
STAMPING 0M!I FBMI
HBdnff fully aware of Ike
jreat iaterrst th*» t»diw ire
usking iu KcnfnngioO Work*
wre ham a Com
plete Outfit coolaloiof
Perforated * lamping;
Patterns on b«*t govern
ment bond parchment Paper,
xll different, including Spray*
>f Golden Rod, Pansies, Wild*
Forget-me-nots. This
l|Bf otTKwbervist, Outlines of
Boy,Girl, bwo.Spiden,Stork*
scollops lor Bkirts, Crar.y
Stitch Crystal Etc li
ngs, Borders, Lilies.
Tulips, Ac.. Ac., 69 in
•arcmg in she from 1 l4ja. t®
I (nchea,aUo 1 Box
rite Stomping Powder*’
1 Ratent reversible Ponset* and full and completadircctioa*
for Kensington Stamping and Embroidery, Kensington Painting.
Lustre, Metallic Flitter and Imdescent Painting, Colors nsed saA
mixing of Colors, BibboO Embroidery, Chenille and Ararece Work*
Correct Colors of all the different Cowerr, Description of every stitch
used i& ftnbroidiry. Ac., iraking a Complete Outfit that cannot b*
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HOUSEHOLD, the page illustrated magazine devotee t®
the interests of tbe country home ami household, we will send on#
of these Outfits complete, free and fMmtpaid, to »nr lady whw
»ill send 25c. for 3 nios. subscription to tbs Magazine, riveter 91-
Money cheerfully refunded if not more than satisfactory. We are
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of the N. Y., N. H. A H. R. R., and the government having locate
a postoffice in our factory, we arc now prepared to till Ml order*
promptly to the entire satisfaction of.onr subscribers. Addre**
Farm and Household. Hartford, Cyirg.
IF PAGE’S
CLUES Ml
Used hvthebestmamilaclurers AbS&j !
nml mechanics in lhe world. 0'../Y'klffSri
Ptillmiin B*laoe Car Co., Mason Mr* NO
A Hamlin Origin & I'ianoCo.,S' /flf-in
Ac., ftr cdllrii.iL of fineicork. --jgl
At the Xew Ori-em BxiiO.-i M
tlon, joint* made with it en JYJJW?Wn|I
dured a testing strain of over l—jgJjULLWEJjfj]
i6OO Pounds
TO A SQUARE INCH.
TWO GOLD MEDALS.
London. 1883. hetp Orleans, 1835.
I fyour dealer does not keep it #
send hi* curd and IDc. postage fc»r rumple can, FREE,
RUSSIA CEMENT CO., (Uoucester* Mms-
FORCOUCHS,CROUP ANiS
CONSUMPTION USE
TOfti?
sWV
OF SWEET GUM AND MULLEIN.
The Sweet Gum from a tree of the same name
? rowing in the South. Combined with a tea made
roin the Mullein plant of the old fletde. Forsale
bv all druggists at 25cents and SI.OO per bottle.
WALTEH A. TAY I.olt. Atlanta, fim.
CONTAGIOUS!
i am a native of England, and while I was in that
country I contracted a terrible blood poison, and for
two years was undertreatment as an out-door patten*
at Nottingham Hospital, England, but was not cureo
I suffered tlio most agonizing pains in tny bones, ami
was covered with sores all over my body and limbs.
Finally I completely lost all hope In that country, and
sailed for America, and was treated at Roosevelt ta
this city, as well as by a prominent physician In New
York having no connect ion with the hospitals.
I saw the adverti*ement of Swift’s Specific, and 1
determined loglveii a trial. I took six bottles and I
can say with great joy that they have cured me en
tirely, lam us sound and well as I ever was in my
life. L. FRED HALFORD.
Xew York City, June 12.1885.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free.
The Swift Specific Co., Drawer S, Atlanta, G*
X. i., IST \V. 23d Street.
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SALES LARGER THAN EVER. |
'hrTn e t Mex,Cfl r Mnsfan s Liniment has|
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-Man and Beast. Its salt s to-dav an!
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rttYSteiftfcS ANt> DRUGGISTS RECOMMEND IT.