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TALMAGE’S SERMON.
Thirteenth Discourse of the Series
on “The Marriage Ring.”
Tha Trials of Modern Housekeeping— The
Weight of Rosposibility At*en<li»t{
Forced Economy and the Fangs
of Non-Appreciatiou.
Re«, T- DeWifct Talmage, having re
turned to*otn his Western trip, occupied
the pulpit of the Brooklyn Tabernacle for
the delivery of his thirteenth discourse of
the “Marriage Ring” series, the subject of
which was “The Tr'lals of Housekeeping,”
and the text:
Lord, dost Thou ’not cave that my sister
hath left me to serve alone? Bid her, there
fore, that she help me.—Lutae x, 40.
Yonder is a beautiful village homestead.
The man of the house is dead, and his
widow is taking care of the premises.
This is the widow Martha of Bethany.
Yes. I will show you also the pet of the
household. This is Mary, the younger sis
ter, with a book under her arm, and her
face having no appearance of anxiety and
perturbation. Company has come. Christ
stands, outside the door, and, of course,
there is a good deal of excitement inside
the door. The disarranged furniture is
hastily put aside, and the hair is brushed
back, and the dresses are adjusted as well
as in so short a time Mary and Martha can
attend to these matters. They did not
keep Christ standing at the door until they
were newly appareled or until they had
elaborately arranged their tresses, then
coming out with their affected surprise
as though they had not heard the
two or three previous knock
ings, sayiug: “Why, is that you?”
No. They were ladies, and were always
presentable, although they may not have
always had on their best, for none of us
always have on our best; if we did, our
best would not be worth having on. They
throw open the door and greet Christ.
They say: “Good-morning. Master; come
in, and be seated.” Christ did not come
alone; He had a group of friends with
Him, and such an influx of city visitors
would throw any country home into
perturbation. I suppose also the walk from
the city had been a good appetizer. The
kitchen department that day was a very
important department, and I suppose
that Martha had no sooner greeted the
guests than she fled to that room. Mary
had no anxiety about household affairs.
She had full confidence that Martha could
get up the best dinner in Bethany. She
seßmed to say: “Now let us have a di
vision of labor. Martha, you cook, and I’ll
sit down and be good.” So you have often
seen a great difference between two sisters.
There is Martha, hard-working, painstak
ing, a good manager, ever inventive of
some new pastry, or discovering some
thing in the art of cooking and housekeep
ing. There is Mary, also, foud of conver
sation, literary, so engaged in deep ques-
tions of ethics she has no time to attend to
the questions ot' household welfare. It is
noon. Mary is in the parlor with Christ.
Martha is in the kitchen. It would have
been better if they had divided the work,
and then they could have divided the op
portunity of listening to Jesus; but Mary
monopolizes Christ while Martha swelters
at the fire. It was a very important thing
that they should have a good dinner that
day. Christ was hungry, and he did not
often have a luxurious entertainment.
Alas, me! if the duty had devolved upon
Mary, what a repast that would have
been. But something went wrong in the
kitchen. Perhaps the fire would not burn,
or the bread would not bake, or Martha
scalded her hand, or something was burned
black that ought to have been made brown;
and Martha lost her patience, and for
getting the proprieties of the occasion,
with besweated brow, and, perhaps, with
pitcher in one hand and tongs in
the other, she rushes out of the
kitchen into the presence of Christ,
saying “Lord, dost thou not care
that ray sister hath left me to serve
alone?” Christ scolded not a word. If it
were scolding, I should rather have his
■ scolding than anybody else’s blessing.
There was nothing acerb. He knew Martha
hud almost worked herself to death to get
him something to eat, and so he throws a
world of tenderness into his intonation as
he seems to say: “My dear woman, do not
worry; let the dinner go; sit down on this
ottoman beside Mary, your younger sister.
Martha, Martha, thou art careful and trou
bled about many things, but one thing is
needful.” As Martha throws open that
kitchen door, I look iu and see a great
many household perplexities and anxie
ties.
First, there is the trial of non-apprecia
tion. That is what made Martha so mad
with Mary. The younger sister had no
estimate of her older sifter’s fatigues. As
now, men bothered with the anxieties of
the store, and office, and shop, or coming
from the Stock Exchange, they say when
they get home: “Oh, yon ought to be in
our factory a little while; you ought to
have to manage eight, or ten, or twenty
subordinates, and then you would know
what trouble and anxiety are!” Oh, sir!
the wife and the mother has to conduct at
the same time a university, a clothing es
tablishment, a restaurant, a laundry, a
library, while she is health officer, police
and president of her realm. She
must do a thousand things, and do
them well, in order to keep things
going smoothly; and so her brain
and her nerves are taxed to the utmost.
I know there are housekeepers who
are so fortunate that they can sit in an
arm-chair in the library, or lie on the be
lated pillow, and throw off all the care
upon subordinates who, having large
wages and great experience, can attend to
aii of the affairs of the household. Those
are the exception. lam speaking this
morning of the great mass of housekeep
ers—the womeu to whom life is a struggle,
and who, at thirty years of age, look as
though they were forty, and at forty look
as though they were fifty, and at fifty look
as though they were sixty. The fallen at
Chalons, and Austerlitz, and Gettysburg,
and Waterloo, are a small number com
pared with the slain in the great Arma
geddon of the kitchen. You go out to the
cemetery, and you will see that the tomb
stones aii read bea' tifully poetic: but if
those tombstones would speak the truths,
thousands of them would say: “Here lies
a woman killed by too much mending,
and sewing, and baking, and scrubbing,
and scouring: the weapon with which she
was slain was a broom, or a sewing ma
chine, or a ladle.” You think, oh! man
of the world, that you have &U the cares
and anxieties. If the cares and anxieties
of the household should come upou you for
one week, you would be a fit can
didate for Bloorningdale—l mean insane
asylum. The half-rested housekeeper
arises in the morning. She must have the
morning repast prepared at an irrevoca
ble hour. What if the fire will not light;
what if the marketing did not come; what
if the clock has stopped—no matter; she
must have the morning repast at an ir
revocable hour. Then the children must
be got off to school. What if their gar
ments are torn; what if they do not know
their lessons; what if they have lost a hat
or sash —they must be rea iy. Then you
have all the diet of the day, and perhaps
of several days, to plan; but what if the
butcher has sent meat unmasticable, or
the grocer has sent articles of food adul
terated, aud what if some piece of silver
be gone, or some favorite chalice be
cracked, or the roof leak, or the plumbing
fail, or any one of a thousand things oc
cur—you must be ready. Spring weather
comes, aud there must be a revolution in
the family wardrobe; or autumn comes,
and you must shut out the northern blast;
but what if the moth has preceded you to
the chest; what if, during the year, the
children have outgrown the apparel of
last year; what if the fashions have
changed. Your house must be an apothe
cary’s shop; it must be a dispensary;
there must be medicines for all sorts of
ailments —something to loosen the croup—
something to cool the burn—something to
poultice the inflammation—something
to silence the jumping tooth—some
thing to soothe the earache.
You must be in half a dozen places at the
same time, or you must attempt to be. If,
under all the wear and tear of life, Martha
makes an impatient rush upon the library
or drawing room, be patient, be lenient.
O! woman, though I may fail to stir up
an appreciation in the souls of others in
regard to your household toils, let me as
sure you, from the kindness with which
Jesus Christ met Martha, that he appreci
ates all your work from garret to cellar;
and that the God of Deborah, and Han
nah, and Abigail, and grandmother Lois,
and Elizabeth Lois, and Elizabeth Frey,
and Hannah More is the God of the house
keeper. Jesus was never married that he
might be the especial friend and confidante
of a whole world of troubled womanhood.
I blunder; Christ was married. The Bible
says that the Church is the Lamb’s wife,
aud that makes me know that all Christian
women have a right to go to Christ and
tell him of their annoyances and troubles,
since by his oath of conjugal fidelity he is
sworn to sympathize. George Herbert,
the Christian poet, wrote two or three
verses on this subject:
The servant by this clause
Makes drudgery divine
Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws
Makes tills and the action fine.
Again, there is the trial of severe econ
omy. Nine hundred and ninety-nino
households out of the thousand are sub
jected to it—some under more and some
under less stress of circumstances. Es
pecially if a man smoke very expensive
cigars, and takes very costly dinners at
the restaurants, he will be severe in de
manding domestic economies. This is
what kills tens of thousands of women —
attempting to make live do the work of
seven dollars. How the bills .come in?
The woman is the barter of the household,
she is the president, the cashier, the teller,
the discount clerk: and there is a panic
every few weeks ! This thirty years’ war
against high prices, this perpetual study
of economies, this life-long attempt to
keep the outgoes less than the income, ex
hausts millions of housekeepers. O', my
sister, this is a part of the divine disci
pline. If it were best for you, all you
would have to do would be to open the
front windows and the ravens would fly in
with food ; and after you had baked fifty
times from the barrel in the pantry, the
barrel, like the one of Zarepath, would be
full; and the shoes of the children would
last as long as the shoes of the Israelites
in the wilderness—forty years Beside
that, this is going to make heaven the
more attractive in the contrast. They
never hunger there, and consequently
there will be none of the nuisances
of catering for appetites. And in the
land of the white robe they never have to
mend anything, and the air in that
hill country makes everybody well. There
are no rents to pay: everybody owns his
own house, and a mansion at that. It will
not be so great a change for you to have a
chariot in heaven if you have been in the
habit of riding in this world. It will not
be so great a change for you to sit down on
the bank of the river of life, if in this world
yon had a country seat; but if you have
walked with tired feet in this world, what
a glorious change to mount celestial
equipage; and if your lit' on earth was
domestic martyrdom, O! the joy of on
eternity in which you shall have nothing
to do except what you choose to do. Mar
tha has had no drudgery for eighteen
centuries! I quarrel with the theologians
who want to distribute all the thrones of
heaven among the John Knoxes, and the
Hugh Latimers, and the Theban Legion.
Some of the brightest thrones of heaven
will be kept for Christianahousekeoper s.
O! what a change from Vvp to there—
from the time when t.hev WOfbim the
rolling-pin to when they take up the
scepter. If Chatsworth Park and the
Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth avenue were
to be lifted into the Celestial City, they
would be considered uninhabitable rook
eries, and glorified Lazarus would be
ashamed to be going in and out of either
of them.
There are many housekeepers who could
get along with their toils if it were not for
sickness and trouble. The fact is one-half
of the women of the laud are more or less
invalids. The mountain la*s, who has
never had an ache or pain, may consider
household toil inconsiderable, and toward
evening she may skip away miles to the
fields and drive home the cattle, and she
may until ten o’clock at nigh' till the house
with laughing racket; but O! to do the
work of life with worn-out constitution,
when whoooing-cotigh has been raging
for six weeks in the household, making the
night as sleeple-s as the day—mat is not
so easy. Perhaps tdxis comes after the
nerves have been shattered by soTue be
reavement that has left desolation iu every
room of the bouse, and set the crib in the
garret, because the occupant has been
bushed into a slumbe which needs no
mother’s lullaby. Ob ! she could provide
for the whole group a great deal better
than she can for a part of the group, now
the rest are gone. Though you may tel]
her God is taking care of those who are
gone, it is mothei Jike to orood both flocks;
and one wing sh*s puts over the flock in the
house, and the otSio wing she puts over
the flock in the gijs ve.
There is nothing hot the old-fashioned
religion of Jesus £hrigt that w]li take a
woman through the trials of home life. At
first there may be a romance or a novelty
that will do for a substitute. The mar
riage hour has just pa sed, and the per
plexities of the household are more than
atoned by the joy of being together, and
by the fact that when it is late they do not
have to discuss the question as to whether
it is time to go. The mishaps of the house
hold, instead of being a matter of anxiety
and reprehension, are a matter of merri
ment —the loaf of bread turned into a geo
logical specimen; the slushy custards; the
jaundiced or measly biscuits. It is a very
bright sunlight that falls on the cutlery
and the mantel ornaments of a new home.
But after awhile the romance is nil gone,
and then there is something to be prepared
for the table that the book called “Cookery
Taught in Twelve Lessons” will not teach.
The receipt for making it is not a handful
of this, a cup of that, aud a spoonful of
something else. It is not something
sweetened with ordinary condiments,
or flavored with ordinary flavors,
or baked in ordinary ovens.
It is the loaf of domestic happiness; and
all the ingredients come down from Heav
en, and the fruits are plucked from the
tree of life, and it is sweetened with the
new wine of the kingdom, and it is baked
in the oven of home trial. Solomon wrote
out of his own experience. He bad a
wretched home. A man can not be .happy
with two wives, much less six hundred;
and he says, writing out of his own expe
rience: “Better is a dinner of herbs w here
love is, than a stalled ox and hatred there
with.”
How great are the responsibilities of
housekeepers. Sometimes an indigestible
article of food, by its effect upon a com
mander or king, has defeated an army or
overthroAvn an empire. Houskeepers, by
the food they provide, by the couches they
spread, by the books they introduce, by
the influences they bring around their
home, are deciding the physical, intellect
ual, moral, eternal destiny of the race.
You say your life is one of sacrifice. I
know it. But, my sisters, that Is the onlv
life worth living. That was Florence
Nightingale’s life; that >vas Payson’a
life; that was Christ’s life. We admire it
in others, but how very hard it is for us to
cultivate ourselves. When'in this city
young Doctor Hutchinson, having spent a
whole night in a diphtheritic room for the
relief of a patient, became saturated with
the poison and died, we all felt’as if we
would like to put garlands on his grave;
everybody appreciates that. When in the
burning hotel at St. Louis, a young man
on the fifth story broke open the door of
the room where his mother was sleeping,
and plunged in amid smoke and fire, cry
ing: “Mother! where are you?” and never
came out, our hearts applauded that young
man. But how few of us have the Christ
like spirit—a willingness to suffer for
others. A rough teacher in a school called
upon a poor, half starved lad, who had of
fended against the laws of the school, and
said:
“Tnke off your coat directly, sir.” -
The hoy refused to take it off. lehere
upon the teacher said again:
“Take oft your coat, sir,” as he swung
the whip through the air. The boy re
fused. It was not because he was afraid
of the lash—he was used to that, at home—
but. it was from shame; he had no under
garment, and as at the third command he
pulled slowiy off his coat, there went, a
sob through the school. They saw then
why be did not want to remove his coat,
and they saw the shoulder blades had
almost cut through the skin, and a stout,
healthy boy rose up and went, to the
teacher of the school and, said:
“Oh. sir, please don’t hurt this poor fel
low; whip me; see, lit*: nothing hut a poor
chap; hurt he’s poor; whip
me.'^
“Well,” said the teacher, “it’s going to
he a severe whipping; I am willing to take
you as a substitute.”
“Well,” said the hoy, “I don’t careernu
whip me, if you will let this poor fellow
go.”
The stout., bealty hoy took the scourging
without an outcry.
“Bravo!” says every nian^fßravo!”
How many of us are willinpffj take the
scourging, ami the suffering, and the |.ll,
and the anxiety for other people? Bepfiti
ful thing to admire, but how little we jßiv<
of that spirit. God gave us that self-ricur
ing spirit, so that whether we are in hum
ble spheres or in conspicuous spheres, we
may perform our whole duly—for tlii3
struggle will soon be over.
One of the most effecting reminiscences
of my mother is luv remembrance of her
as a Christian housekeeper. She worked
very hard, and when we would
come in from summer play and sit
down at the table at noon, I re
member how she would come in with
beads of perspiration along the line of
gray hair, and how some times she would
sit down at the table a.id put her head
against her wrinkled hand and say:
“Well, the fact is. I’m too tired to eat ”
Long after she might have delegated ting
duty to others, she would not be satisfied
unless she attended to the matter herself.
In fact, we all preferred to have her do so,
for somehow things tasted hotter when she
prepared them. Sometime ago, in an ex
press train, T shot past that old home
stead I looked out of the window and
tried to peer through the darkness.
While I was doing so one of my old
schoolmates, whom I had not seen r or
many years, tapped me on the shoulder
and said:
“DeWitt, I see you are looking out at the
scenes of your boyhood.”
“O. yes,” I replied, “I was looking out at
the old place where my mother lived and
died,”
That night, in the cars, the whole scene
came back to me. There was the country
home. There was the noon-day table.
There were the children on either side of
the table, most of them gone never to
come back. At one end of the table my
father, with a smile that never left his
countenance even when he lay in his
coffin. His was an eighty-six-years
smile—not the smile of inanimation, but
of Christian courage and of Christian
hope. At the other end of the table was a
beautiful, benignant, hard-work ng, aged
Christian housekeeper, niy mother. She
was very tired. I am glad she has so good
a place to rest in.
Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord,
they rest from their labors, and their won,a
do follow them.
- ,
The I .title Klue.Ryed Church
[Savannah News.)
The little blue-eyed chu„cb was sold
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fering from Indigestion, poor appetite, and constant
headache. She tried every thing we could haar of,
but found no relief till she tried Hood’s Sarsaparilla.'
She is now taking the third bottle, and never felt bet
ter In her life. AVc feel It onr duty to recommen llt
to every one we know.” Geo. Somebvillb, More
land, Cook Co., 111.
“I took Hood’s Sarsaparilla for general debility and
was wonderfully benefited by it,” J. P. Johnson,
Martin’s Ferry, O.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. 41: six for 45. Prepared by
C. I. HOOI) & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
THE NEW DEPARTURE DRUMS
double acting rods and
folding knee rest. Light,
substantial and handsome.
Used In the best Bands and.
Orchestras. Unequaled for
tone, surpass all other In
finish and appearance. If
nearest Music dealcrMocs
not keep them, write to jus
for Illustrated catalogue.'
it HEALY, Ohlcago, IIL
CONSUMPTION
1 lidve a positive remedy for tue above c.lieii*; by in uae
thouaauds of raiea of the worst kind and o r long stAndlflg
have been cured. Indeed, eo strong is my ’n its efficacy,
that I will send TWO BOTTLES FREE, together with a VAL
UABLE TREATISE on this disease, to any saffarer. Give Ex
press and P. O. address. DR. T. A. SLOCUM. 191 pearl Bt., N.Y.
ARTISTS’ materials,
■ l%ar ■ Colors. Kepoussr Work. Wax
Flower Supplies. Semi for our various catalogues.
Mail orders solicited. HOFFMAXN BKfK,
103 Main Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Rl A 181 Wips,Bangs and Wares sent 0.0. T>. any.
M M Ilf where. Wholes.ileand retail priee-lisf//Yd
Bln aSI 13. C. Strehids C0..173 Wabash-av.,Chicago.
$4.00 WORTH a NEWJUTFIT
for only J&jman KEISBGTMWOtt
Ml I A A /JK'&FSk-’ .& fiY:' contains 200 Few and Original
JK I I 1! I /Z>»'aLv,'K* ;Zv' K'V ■I f ’ MYtA Perforated ampin. Pat t erna
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I nner H'orU
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fit » ]%/ V * i.\ ' 'Util The patterns in this outfit are made hy
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f'lj* \ r ork *Q
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t I 11.., WUd Roses 3I S in., Daiiies * 1-j In., Calls Lilies 4 in., Pond Lily 4 id., Tulip 4 in., a <>“ B°f“> a Vp A in., /nJkt H. 4
,nd Forget-me-not borders S in., Scollops for sliirts4 1-2 in. (new designs!, Sprigs of Ferns 8 in* IP .osorhd Crystal L l% ( )
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Cover Corners, Love-in-the-mist, Asalias, Cyprus Vines, Table Mat designs, Frnit designs ,. A’ la-ssirir
Elaborate Fancy Alphabet, and a new Sieletnn Alphabet, both de»i»rned erprewly T<\ Ihi# outht. lilr- k C 1 M
MAN UAL is a new book by a well-snown authority on Kenßincton aad fancy work, contalut full ln»tr lcUoni an _
• 11 kind., of Kensington Stamping, Embroidery and Fainting, Metallic Flitter, irridcscenUnd Lustre Painting, Ribbon Euibrow^,
W ork, Ac., and is the best and m>*st complete book of itj kind ever published. Thlsonffti* not made np of •piall T.'.j- 6 ?*.;
i* meritorious and reliable, aud we willcheerfully refund the monev paid fo-it, if any lady on receiving It u aiaMUsftsa.
Each Outfit U pacf«d In a nice Satchel, with bannle, as shown io this
illustration, which *rve# to carry the patterns in when dteug stamping
for V«.nr neigh or *• » receptacle tor the outfit at home. -At re«U
™J luffpg.ii Drl««*athe putterna ulone would amount to at
ih »t Ladle# can moke tbelr own llvlor with thM
/ t! outfit doing work for their neighbors, besides beautifying the
-IT i and omanenting their own and children’s clothing. The reaeoa
c we can sell t»i» outt.t for #-) little money is that we manufacture them
I :Q z 1= Vt- : "7-- all ourselve* and ray no tecond profits to anyone. Many ladies ara
F/r. l^fT-"/support !nr tbem«eb e# to-day doing stamping, and the “crate” is becom
\ ; ; -V M --jq ~ ing more prevalent every day. Out immense factory fronts over 300
feet on tb* line of the New York, New Haven and Hertford Railroad, ind is the moßt eitenrive of iu kind in the world. Tbi! Fort
master General having recently located a pogtoflire in our building ©rpre#* l '’ for our mail business, we have now complete tmculttes ror
filling ail orders promptly and to the entire satisfaction of our customer#. shall be pleased to see any of our customer# in person, or
(elf you of our absolute reliability, THE R. L. SPENCER CO., Wallingford, Conn,
8m MARCH, APRIL, MAY
Are the three arches of a bridge which hind the season of Ice to that of roses. BPRIKO
IS V TRimO TIME for Invalids. Attlils time you should seek to cleanse and
purify your system from humors. If von are vexed with Indigestion, headache,
want of appetite, disordered liver and kidneys, constipation, or feverish skin, take UR.
I». KENNEAI’B FAVORITE REMEDY to
PURIFY THE BLOOD
Without an honr’s delay. It Is mild, quick and positive In action. Keep It In the house
w hen you are at home, for the blood, and take It with you on journeys. You will find It
cheaper titan and as pleasant to take as the hand of a friend. To women who
suffer from any of the ills peculiar to the sex, FAVORITE REMEDY proves a real blessing.
DR. DAVID fi CAIf ft BITE BEIACfW H sold by all druggists.
KENNEDY’S lltVUmlE ViEßfiEUla $1 per Bottle; 6 for $5.00.
MADE BY DTI. DAVID KE3YIYEDY, HOJVDOTT'r. TV- V.
LIST OF MPKAPES
ALWAYS CURABLE BY USIN9
MEXICAN
MUSTANG
LINIMENT.
OF HTMAY FLESH,
Rheumatism,
Sums aud Sralda,
Stings aud Bites,
Cuts and Bruises,
Sprains &- Stitch -'s.
Contracted Muscles,
Stiff Joints,
Backache.
Eruptions.
Frost Bites,
. 25^TSi
and all external diseases, and every hurt or accident.
For general use in family, stable and stock-yard. It is
THE BEST OF ALL
LINIMENTS
OF ANIMALS*
Scratches,
Sores and Galls*
Spavin, Cracks,
screw Worm, Grub*
Hot, Hoof Ail*
Lameness,
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Sprains, Strains,
Sore Feet,
Stiffness,
OH! MY BACK
Eyery strain or cold stuck* that weak Uck
and nearly prostrate* you. __
B 1 I if
® BEST TONIC
Ktrengtbeos tbe Muscles,
Steadies tbe Nerves.
Enriches the Blood, Gives New Vigor.
Mr. A. PILLSnfTRY, Cleveland, Ohio, gay. ; I was
troubled with terrible pains in iny bark and I conld
not stoop over. I tried many different remedies
without relief. Two bottles of Brown’s Iron Bitters
entirely cured me.”
Mr. Daniel Hodges, Seventh St. Louis
ville. Ky . aays: “ I was troubled with Nearalgia and
pains in my back. I have been greatly benefited bf
using two bottles of Brown’s Iron Bitters.”
Genuine baa above Trade Mark and crossed red lines
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BROWN CHEMICAL CO.. BALTIMORE, Mf».
M. EHRET, JR. & GO.
MANUFACTURERS OF
mum mtntiitmimi hiutih l
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GUARANTEED — —
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FREE FARMS in sah^s.
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( heap mil road rates. Every attcntfonshownsettlers.
For maps, pamphlets, etc . address Colorado I.anp &
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ga |kl||B| llabit, (inirkiy and I'aPdFM
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“We know a gentleman In this county who, all
months ago, was almost a hopelees cripple from an
attack of rheumatism. He could scarcely hobbls
across the room, used crutches, and said himself that
he had little if any hope of ever recovering. We saw
him In our town last week, walking about as lively ai
any other man, and In the finest health and splrlta
Upon our Inquiry as to what had worked such a won
derful change In his condition, he replied that S. 6.8,
bad cured him. After using a dozen and a half boo
tics, be has been transformed from a miserable crlppld
to a happv. healthy man He Is none other than Mt
B. B. Lambert.”—ApironuJ Telephone.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free.
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