Newspaper Page Text
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
T1IU IIUOOIU.YN DIVINE*.*! SUNDAY
8KU.1ION.
Subject! “The Flnsti.i of IJnd Hooks.”
Text: ’‘And the frogs came up and cov¬
ered the land of their Egypt. enchantments, And the magicians and
did so with
brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt."
—Ex. viii., 6, 7.
There is almost a universal aversion to
frogs, and yet with the Egyptian they wore
honored, they worship were sacred, and they were
objects of while alive, and after
death they were embalmed, and to-day their
remains may be found among the sepulchres
of Thebes. These creatures, so attractive
once to obnoxious the Egyptians, at loathsome, divine behest they be¬
came and and
went croaking and hopping and and leaping bread into
the palace of the king, into the
trays and the couches of the people, and even
the ovens, which now are chimneys, uplifted above the
earth and on the side of but then
were small holes in the earth, with sunken
pottery, were filled with frogs when the
housekeepers came frog to look alighted at them. his If a man
sat If down attempted to eat a shoe on it plate.
he to put on a was pre¬
occupied by a frog. If he attempted to put
his head upon by a pillow it had been taken pos¬
session of a frog.
Frogs high slimy and low frogs, and besieging every where; frogs, loath¬ in¬
some lrogs,
What numerable frogs, great plague of frogs.
made the matter worse the magicians
said there was no miracle in this, and they
could thing, by sleight of seemed hand produce succeed, the same
sleight ami they to for by
of hand wonders may be wrought.
After Moses had thrown down his staff and
by miracle it became a serpent, and then he
took bold of it and by miracle it again be¬
came a staff, the serpent charmers imitated
the same thing, and knowing that there were
serpents in Egypt which by a peculiar pres¬
sure on the neck would become as rigid as a
stick of wood, they seemed to change the ser¬
pent into the staff, and then, throwing it
down, the staff became the serpent.
So likewise these magicians tried to imi¬
tate the plague of frogs, and perhaps by of
smell of food attracting a great number
them to a certain point, or by shaking them
out from a hidden place, the magicians some¬
times seemed to accomplish the same mira¬
cle. While these magicians made the plague
worse, none of them tried to make it better.
Egypt, “Frogs came the up magicians and covered did the with land their of
and so
enchantment, aud brought up frogs upon the
land of Egypt.”
Now that plague of frogs has come back
upon the earth. It is abroad to-day. It is
emitting this nation. It comes in the shape
of corrupt literature. These frogs hop into
the store, the shop, the office, the banking
house, cellar, the factory—into the the the home, into the
into garret, on drawing room
lad table, on the shelf the bad of the book library. the teacher’s While the
is reading face
is turned the other way. One of these frogs
hops upon the page. v\ hue the young woman
ls reading the forbidden novelette after re
tiring at night, reading by gaslight, one of
S5‘ha ! ;x 1 pp‘s Sfjsups
shake out in the letter trough hundreds of
them. The plague has taken at different
times possession of this country. It is one of
the most loathsome, one of the mast fright
ful, one of the most ghastly of the ten plagues
of our modern cities.
There is avast number of books and news
papers printed and published which ouo-ht
never to see the light. They are filled with a
pestilence that makes the land swelter with a
moral epidemic. The greatest blessing that
ever came to this nation is that of an ele
vated literature, and the greatest scourge
has been that of unclean literature. This
last has its victims in all occupations and
departments. It has helped to fill insane
asylums and of shame. penitentiaries The bodies and of almshouses this infec
and dens
tion lie in the hospitals aud in the graves,
while their souls are being tossed horror over into
a lost eternity, an avalanche of and
despair. nothing it.
The London plague was by thousands, to but
That counted its victims
this modern pest has already shoveled morally its
millions into tho charnel house of the
dead. The longest rail tram that ever ran
over the Erie or Hudson tracks was not long
enough nor large enough to carry the beast
liness and the putrefaction which have been
gathered up in bad books aud newspapers of
this land in the last twenty years. The
literature of a nation decides the fate of a
nation. Good books, good morals. Bad
books, bad morals.
I'begin with the lowest of .... all the litera
ture, tuat which does not even pretend to
be respectable—from cover to cover a blotch
of leprosy. There are many whose entire
business it is to dispose of that kind of lit
erature. They display it before the school
boy on his way home. They get the cata
logues of schools and colleges, take send the
names and postofice addresses, and
their advertisements, aud their circulars,
and their pamphlets, and their books to every
one of them.
In the possession of these dealers in bad
literature were found nine hundred thou
sand names and postoifice might addresses, be profitable to
whom it was thought it things. In the
to send these corrupt year
1873 there were one hundred and sixty-five
establishments engaged in publishing cheap,
corrupt literature. From one publishing styles
house there went out Although twenty different thirty
of corrupt books. over
tons of vile literature have been destroyed Vice,
by the Society for the Suppression of
still there is enough of it left in this country
to bring down upon us the just anger of ah
aroused God.
In the year 1868 the evil had become so
great in this country that the Congress of
the United States passed a law forbidding
the transmission of bad literature through
the United States mails, but there were
large loops in that law through which
criminals might crawl out, and the law was
a dead failure—that law of 1868. But in
1873 another law was passed by the Congress
of the United States against the transmission
of corrupt literature through the mailt.—a
grand law, a potent law, a Christian law—
and under that law multitudes of these
scoundrels have been arrested, their property
confiscated aud they themselves thrown into
the penitentiaries, where they belonged.
Now, my friends, how are we to war
against this corrupt literature, and how are
the from; of this Egyptian plague to be
slain? First of all by the prompt and inex
orable execution of the law. Let district all good at
postmasters, and United States
torneys, and detectives, and reformers con
■cert in their action to stop this plague,
When Sir Rowland Bill spent his life in try
ing to secure cheap postage not only for
England, but for all the world, and to open
the blessing of the postoifice to all honest
business, and to ail messages of charity,
and kindness, and affection, for all health
ful intercommunication, he did not mean to
make vice easy or to fill the mail bags of the
UDited States with the scabs of such a
leprosy. It ought not to be in the power of every
bad man who can raise a one-cent stamp for
■a circular or a two-ceot stamp for a letter to
blast a man or destroy a home. The poslal
service of this country must be c.enn, must
l»o kept clean, and we must ail understand
that the swift retributions of the Unite I
States Government hover over every viola¬
tion of the letter box.
There are thousands of men and women in
this country, some for personal gain, through some
through innate depravity, wish to some this great a
spirit of revenge, who use
avenue of convenience and intelligence for
purposes revengeful, salacious and diabolic.
Wake up the law. Wake up the penalties. be
Bet every court room on this subject Let the a
Sinai thunderous and aflame. con¬
victed offenders be sertt for the full term to
Sing Sing or Harrisburg. about what cannot ba
I am not talking talking about what is being
doDe. I am now the printing
done. A great many of presses
that gave themselves entirely to the publica¬
tion of vile literature have been stopped obnoxious. or
have gone into business less
What has thrown off, what has kept off the
rail trains of this country for some time
Those back nearly who all have the been leprous periodicals? rail trains
of us on the
have noticed a great change in the last few
months and the last year or two. Why have toff
nearly all those vile periodicals been kep
the rail trains for some time back? Wn oef
fected it? These societies for the purification
of railroad literature gave warning to the
publishers and warning to railroad and compan¬
ies, and warning to conductors, the infernal warn¬ stuff
ing to newsboys, to keep
off the trains.
hibited Many of the cities have successfully pro¬
the most of that literature even from
going on the news stands. Terror dealers has seized
upon the publishers and the in impure
literature, sand from have the been fact made, that and over the a thou¬
arrests aggre¬
gate time for which the convicted have been
sentenced and to the prison and is over one hundred
about ninety years, their from the fact have that
two millions of circulars
been destroyed, and the business is not as
profitable as it used to be.
How have so many of the news stands of
our great cities been purified? How has so
much of this iniquity been balked? By
moral suasion? Oh, no. You might as well
go into the jungle of the East Indies and pat
a cobra on the neck, and with profound ar¬
gument try to perstlade it that it is morally poison
wrong; to bite and to sting and to
anything. The only answer to your argu¬
ment would be an uplifted head and a hiss
and a sharp, reeking tooth struck into your
arteries. The only argument for a cobra is
a shotgun, and the only argument for these
dealers in impure literature is the clutch of
the police aud the bean soup in a peniten¬
tiary. The law! The law! I invoke to con¬
summate the work so grandly begun!
Another way in which we are to drive
back this plague of of Egyptian frogs people is by
filling healthful the minds our I young do to with
a literature. not mean say
that all the books and newspapers in our
families ought to be religious books and
newspapers, or that every "Hundred.” song ought to be
sung to the tune of “Old I have
no sympathy with the attempt to make the
young old. I would rather join in a crusade
3 noTbe > XbrlViated h00 But' d there'
hood must
are good books, good histories, good biogra
phies, good works of fiction, good books of
all styles with which we are to fill the minds
«»/»»»»«»« *■=«-«. ■»».
which is 18 alreadv a l dy filled HUe<1 with WIt “ -“Uchigan Michigan
” hy are fifty per cent, of the criminals in
the jails and penitentiaries of the United
States to-day under twenty-one years of
a £ e? Many of them under seventeen, under
sixteen, under fifteen, under foui teen, under
thirteen. Walk along one of the corridors
Tombs prison in New York and look
f or .yourselves. Bad books, bad newspapers
bewitched them Beware as soon as all they those got out stories of
the cradle. of
which end wrou°;. Beware of all those
books which make the road that ends in
perdition seem to end in Paradise. Do not
glorify the dirk and the pistol. Do not call
the desperado brave or the libertine gallant,
Teach our young and people marshes that if they watch go down the
6 swamps to
jack-o’-lanterns , , dance on the decay and
rottenness they will catch the malaria and
death.
“Ob,” says I have some one, time “I to am examine a business what
man, and no
m y children read. I have no time to inspect
the books that come into my household.” If
yoU r children were threatened with typhoid the
fever, would you have time to go for doc
tor? Would you have time to watch the
progress of the disease? Would you have
time for the funeral? In the presence of my
God I warn you of the fact that your chii
dren are threatened with moral and spirit
ual typhoid, and that unless the thing be
stopped it will be to them funeral of body,
funeral of mind, funeral of soul. Three
funerals in one day. multitude of
My word is to this vast do borrow, young do
people: Do not touch, book not picture,
not book buy will a corrupt decide man’s or a destiny corrupt for good
a a
or for evil. The book you read yesterday
may have decided you for time and for etsr
nity, or it may be a book that may come
into A your good possessions book—who to-morrow, exaggerate its
can
power? Benjamin Franklin said that his
reading of Cotton Mather’s “Essays to Do
Good” in childhood gave him holy aspira
tions for all the rest of his life. George Law
declared that a biography he read in child
hood gave him all his subsequent prosperi- passing
ties. A clergyman, many years ago,
to the far west, stopped at a hotel. He saw
ft woman copying something from Dodd
ridge’s “Rise and Progress.” It seemed that
she had borrowed the book, and there were
some things she wanted especially to re¬
member.
The clergyman had in his sachel a copy of
Doddridge’s “Rise and Progress,” and so he
made her a present of it. Thirty years
passed on. The clergyman came that way,
and he asked where the woman was whom
he had seen so long ago. “She lives yonder
in that beautiful house.” He went there and
sa id to her, “Do you remember me?” She
sa id, “No, I do not.” He said, “Do you re
member a man gave you Doddridge’s ‘Rise
an d Progress’ thirty years ago?” “Oh, yes;
I remember That book saved my soul. I
loaned the book to all were"converted my neighbors, and
they read it and they to God,
and we had a revival of religion which built swept
through the whole community. You We that a
church and called a pastor. see
gpire yonder, don’t you? That church
was built as the result of that bookyou gave
m e thirty years ago.” Oh, the power of a
good book 1 But, alas! for the influence of a
bad book,
John Angel James, than whom England pul
nsver had a holier minister, stood in his
pit at Birmingham and said: “Twenty-five
years ago a lad loaned to me an infamous
book. He would loan it only fifteen min¬
u tes, and then I had to give it back, but that
book has haunted me Tike a specter ever
B mce. I have in agony of soul, on my knees
before God, prayed that he would obliterate
from my soul the memory of it, but I shall
carry the damage of it until the day of Rus- my
death.” The assassin of Sir William
se n declared that he got the inspi iration for
his crime by reading what was then a new
all d popular novel, “Jack Sheppard.” the
Homer’s “Iliad” made Alexander war
r i or Alexander said so. The story of
.
Alexander made Julius Cossar and Charles
Xtl. both mea of blood. Have you iu yout
poecet, or in your truuk-, or in your desk ar
business a bad book, a bad picture, a bad
pamphlet? in God’s name I warn you to de¬
stroy it.
Another way in which wa shall fight back
this corrupt literature and kill the frogs of
Egypt is by rolling over them the Christian
printing press, which shall give plenty ot
healthful reading to all adults. All these
men and women are reading men and wo¬
men. What are you reading? Abstain from
ali tboso books which, while they had admix¬ some
good things about them, had also an
ture of evil. You have read books that had
two elements in them—the good and the bad.
Which stuck to you? The had! The heart
of most people is like a sieve, which lets th9
small particles of gold fall through, while but
keeps the great cinders. Once in a
there is a mind like a loadstone, which,
plunged amid steel and brass filings, But gathers it is
up the steel and repels the brass.
generally the opposite. If you attempt to
plunge through a fence of burrs to get one
blackberry, you will get more burrs than
blackberries. book,
You cannot afford to read a bad
however good you are. You say, “The in¬
fluence is insignificant.” I tell you that the
scratch of a pin has sometimes produced lock¬ do,
jaw. Alas, if through curiosity, as curiosity many is
you pry into an evil book, your who would
as dangerous as that of the man
take a torch into a gunpowder mill merely
to see whether it would really blow up or
not. In a menagerie a man put his arm
through animal’s the bars hide of looked a black sleek leopard’s and bright cage.
The so it The
and beautiful. He just stroked once.
monster seized him, and he drew forth a hand
tom and mangled and bleeding.
Oh, touch not the evil even with the faint¬
est stroke! Though it may be glossy and
beautiful, touch it not lest you pull forth
your soul torn and bleeding under the clutch
of the black leopard. “But,” you say, “how
can I find out whether a book is good or bad
without reading it?” There is always some
thing suspicious about a bad book. I never
knew an exception—something suspicious in
t’he index or style of illustration. This ven¬
omous ing^ rattle. reptile almost always carries a warn¬
The clock strikes midnight. A fair form
bends over a romance. The eyes flash
fire. The breath is quick and irregular.
Occasionally the color dashes to the cheek,
and then dies out. The hands tremble as
though a guardian spirit were trying to
shake the deadly book out of the grasp. Hot
tears fall. She laughs with a shrill voice
that drops dead at its own sound. Tho
sweat on her brow is the spray dashed up
from the river of death, The clock strikes
four, and the rosy dawn soon after begins to
look through the lattice upon the pale form
that looks like a detained specter of the
night. ringlets Soon in a madhouse she will mistake
her for curling serpeants, and thrust
her white hand through the bars of the
prison, and smite her head, rubbing it back
as shrieking: though to push the scalp from the skull,
“My brain I my brain!” Oh,
stand off from that! Why wifi you go
sounding your way amid the reefs and warn¬
ing which buoys, when there is such a vast ocean
in you may voyage, all sail set?
We see so many books we do not under¬
stand what a book is. Stand it on end.
Measure it—the height of it, the depth of it,
the length of it, the breadth of it. You can¬
not do it. Examine the paper and estimate
the progress made from the time of the im¬
pressions and on clay, and bark then of on the bark of
trees, from the trees to papyrus,
and from papyrus to the hide of wild beasts,
and from the hide of wild beasts on down
until the miracles of our modern paper man¬
ufactories, and then see the paper, white aud
pure as an infant’s soul, waiting for God’s in¬
scription.
A book ! Examine the type of it. Examine
the printing of it, and see the progress from
the time when Solon’s laws were written on
oak planks, and Hesiod’s poems were written
on tables of lead,and the Siniatic commands
were written on tables of stone, on down to
Hoe’s perfecting printing press.
A book! It took all the universities of the
past, all the martyr fires, ali the civilizations,
all the battles, all the victories, all the de¬
feats, all the glooms, all the brightness, all
the centuries to make it possible.
A book! It is the chorus of all ages; it is
the and drawing room in which and kings historians and queens
orators and poets come
out to greet you.' If I worshiped anything
on earth I would worship would that. If I burned
incense to any idol I build an altar to
that. Thank God for good books, healthful
books books, of inspiring books, Christian Book books, God.
men, books of women, of
It is with these good books that we are to
overcome corrupt literature. Upon the frogs
swoop with these eagles. I depend much for
the overthrow of iniquitous literature upen
the mortality of books. Even good books
have a hard struggle to live.
Polybius wrote forty books; only five of
them left. Thirty books c? Tacitus have
perished. Twenty books of Pliny have per¬
ished. Livy wrote one hundred and forty
books; ASseliylus only thirty-five of them remain.
wrote one hundred dramas; only
dred; seven remain. Euripides wrote over a hun¬
the biographies only nineteen remain. Vatro wrote
of over 'even hundred great
Romans. All that wealth of biography has
perished. such If good and valuable books have
fate of a those struggle to live, diseased what must be the
that are and corrupt
and blasted at the very start! They will die
as tho frogs when tho Lord turned back the
plague. The work of Christianization will
go on until there will be nothing left but
good books, and they will ‘ake the supremacy
of the world. May you aid I live to see the
illustrious day!
Against every bad pamphlet send a good
pamphlet; innocent against every agtiiist unclean picture send
an rilous picture; Christ every scur¬
song send a an song; against
every bad book send a goid book; and then
it will be as it was in ancient Toledo, where
the Toletum missals were kipt by the saints
in six churches, and the sacrilegious Romans
demanded that those nussais be destroyed,
and that the Roman missals be substituted;
and the war came on, and I am glad to sav
that the whole matter having been referred
to champions, the champion of the Toletum
missals with one blow brought down the
champion of the Roman missa s.
So it will bo in our day. Tne good litera¬
ture, pionship the Christian literature, the in its cham¬
for God, aud trut.i, will bring
down the evil literature ill its i hampionship
for the devil. through I feel tingling to the tios of of
my fingers and all the nerves my
body, and all the triumph. depths of Cl i:iy soul, the
certainty of pur eer up, oh,
men and women who are toi ing for th9
purification of society! Toil wit.a your faces
m the sunlight. “If God be for us, who,
who can be against us?”
of Lady the third Hester Stanhope Stanhope, was the and daughter her
Earl of after
nearest friends had died she went to the far
east, took possession of a deserted convent,
threw up fortresses amid the mountains of
Lebanon, opened the castle to the poor, and
the wretched, and the sick who would come
in. She made her castle a home for the un¬
fortunate. She was a devout Christian
woman. She was waiting for thfe comir of
the descend Lord. in She expected and she that thought the Lord y i
person, uf 1
until it was too much for her reason,
magnificent stables of bridled her palace she b
horses groomed and and sadd'
caparisoned and all ready for the
■
which her Lord should descend, and be on
one of them aa.l she on the other should start
for Jerusalem, the city of the Great Kiug.
It was a fanaticism an! a delusion; but there and
was romance, and expectation there was splendor, iu the dream I
there was thrilling need earthly pal¬
Ah, my friends, we saddled and no bridled and
freys groomed and He shall
caparisoned for our Lord when
come. The horse is ready in the equerry of
heaven, and the imperial rider is ready to
mount. “Aud I saw, and behold a white
horse, and he that sat on him had a bow;
aud a crown was given unto him; and he
went forth conquering und to conquer. And
the armies which were ill heaven followed
Him on white horses ar.d on His vesture and
on His thigh were written, King of kings,
and Lord of lords.” Horse men of Heaven,
mount! Cavalry ot God, ride on! Charge I
charge! until they shall be hurled back on
their haunches—the black horse of famine,
and the red horse of carnage, and the pale
horseof death. Jesus forever!
TH.E UNEMPLOYED.
More than 100,000 New Yorkers
Crying For Work.
The sun rises every day above this
great and wealthy city, his beams fall
upon the hapless faees of more than one
hundred and fifty thousand people who
begin each twenty-four hours of their
pilgrimage ing through life with be the haunt
fear that hunger will their portion
for the day. Every night that wraps in
its mantle of darkness this busy hive of
humanity finds thousands children upon thousands
of men, women and struggling
with desperation for the means to pro¬
cure a place whereon to lay their wearied
heads and dream away a few of the
moments that mean naught but despair
to them in their waking hours. It is a
sad story this chronicle of the woes of a
great city’s unfortunates; but its grim
reality cannot bo avoided. Nor can it
be distorted into figures that might
please. The facts are there. They
speak with crushing force. They show
that in this city of New York, with its
gigantic fortunes, its wonderful business
interests, its evidences of growing pros
perity on every side, there is stili to be
solved the mightv problem of the poor.
To tolint the nersnn person who who lias lies not not smnrht sought full lull
information on this particular subject
the startling facts presented below will
dawn with peculiar force. To the
workers in the wide arena of charity the
the vista of misfortune spread out before
them will appeal with stronger vehem
encc for renewed efforts in the field of
human sympathy The World, as the
iriend of the working classes, has taken
the most trustworthy method of finding
the extent of the poverty that exists in
the city, and the figures and facts that
follow are as nearly correct as thev J can
l,„ ul m,me.
At period in . the city’s , history have
no
30 many people been without employ
ment Seasons a3 of during this business present winter.
remarkable depres
sion have come aud gone; panics have
staggered timej many lines of industry from
to time; waves of unaccountable
slackness in the manufacturing world
have been experienced during the past
live decades, but their consequences were
not results as far-reaching for evil or their
so painfully apparent as the un¬
known causes that to-day oblige nearly
one-ninth of New York’s population to
be without occupation or work of any
description the that might aid them to keep
wolf from the door without assist¬
ance from some other source.
Iu the skilled trades this remarkable
condition of affairs is more than usually
striking. thousand There are over one hundred
mechanics and artisans of every
description There vainly seeking employment. have
are 50,001) people who no
trades, but who have the desire
thing for and ability to work at any
that might enable them
yearning to fight for the something battle do. of life also of
to Many
those are women, and a very large pro¬
portion of these, mothers of helpless
families, day who the despairingly help seek from day
to for means to them put
honestly their children. earned bread in the mouths of
Almost ten thousand
more are made up of that driftwood of
society—the wreck and the outcast—who
cave not for work or the sweets of life as
and purchased by the toil of hand or brain,
whose existence on earth seems to
be at best only a hard struggle with a
condition of tilings in which they have
no choice, and, having none, have list¬
lessly allowed themselves to float along
the ide of misfortune until hope has
long ' been blotted from their minds.
There are thousands of boys and girls
who, while not altogether dependent on
their own efforts for a living, are just as
mxiously waiting for an opportunity to
help •hat along the struggle against poverty
daily made is in their homes. Many
Hundreds of these children earned a
;ouple of dollars a week as cash boys or
girls during the holidays, but now they
ire again without employment.—[N. Y.
World.
Mexicans and Postage.
J. M. BeDnett, of Texas, State, representing
a Sherman Chicago house firm in yesterday. that “The was at Mexi¬ the
cans on the border,’’said he, “have an in¬
genious plan for cheating In their Mexico govern
ment out of postage. the
rates are high. For instance, it costs
ten cents to send a letter from any of the
river towns to the city of Mexico, or
provinces south of here, and five cents to
all nearer lacking points. in trickery. The greasers Instead are of paying not at
the high rates of their own government,
they simply paddle across the river, buy
a two-cent American stamp and mail
their letters to any point in Mexico they
please. They take a dollar’s worth of
trouble to save a few cents; but then the
government is cheated, and there is some
satisfaction in that. The officials have
tried to stop the business, but let me tell
you, they couldn’t do it. For genuine
kin-game tricks, the ordinary greaser
s over any Tribune. class of people I ever met.”
Mcago
Never put the handles of your knives in
water, ivory cracks and discolors if
as powdered Bristol brick is
wet. Finely for steel knives, andean
the best polisher with large cork. Have a
be rubbed on a brick and cork to¬
knife board and keep rubbed wash
gether in place. When in
hot suds and wipe very dry.
To make waterproof writing ink, an
ink which will not blur if the writing is
exposed to rain, dissolve two ounces
shellac in one pint alcohol (95 per cent.),
filter through chalk and mix with bes
lampblack.
Progress.
It is very important in this ag© of vast ma
terial progress that a remedy be pleasing to
,, t te j t0 tho eyei ca8 ii y taken, accept
uWe to the stomach and Uealthy , n its nature
and effects. Possessing these qualities, Syrup
of Figs is the one perfect laxative and most
gentle diuretic known.
If it wasn’t for its light nobody would cvcr
find out that the sun has spots on it.
indigestion. Biliousness and Liver Complaints,
makes the Blood rich and pure.
a good many people would say more if they
didn’t talk so much,
Ilia Inducement for Druggists.
The druggists throughout the country are
making a specialty of handling Hawkes make Crys¬
tallized Lenses. They write that thev
more money, in proportion, out ot this line
than anything else they carry in stock. These
fine glasses have been advertised extensively
for many years, and have received the en¬
dorsement and approval of thousands of the
best citizens of the United States. They are
eagerly sought after by druggists spectacle-wearers and
everywhere, aud it will pay gen¬
eral merchants to put in a stock of these goods.
Exclusive saleisgiven toone firm in each town.
Tho trade can be built up, and the entire
spectacle business of a large section can be
monopolized with these goods. Factory, De¬
catur St., and salesroom, Whitehall bt„ At¬
lanta, Ga. For terms and prices address A.
Hawkes, 13 Whitehall St., Atlanta.
A Girl Worth Having,
After having Mr. Gray’s experience in the
u\c t 'tS.,X 1 gTe^ood? e W arbiter, and
ili. for
cleared S21 in a week. Isn’t this pretty jewelry good
for n * girl? There is tableware and to
plate t every house; then, whv should anv
person opportunity be poororontofemploymeutwith at hand. A subscribed such
an
i^TVo.. Ever 8„ec,inie? and ad
Any person sending us their name lead
cress will receive information that will
7
—----
SHS
s«nt prepaid on receipt of $1 per bottle
Adeler&Co..622Wyandotte st.,KansasCity,Mo
Lndies,
if troubled with any Female Complaint,
write me, describing case. Home treatment
Cure certain and quick at small expense.
Particulars by mail sealed. 100 page book on
Female Diseases ten cents. Mrs. Dr. Mary A.
Brannon, 15 Washington St., Atlant a. Ga.
FITS stopped free by Dr. Kline’s Great
Nerve Restorer. No Fits after UPhSa., first day’s
uttl^ire^Dr^Kfine^fiaArch” Pa.
----
, _
gn & Co., Kansas City.Mo.
lought and sold. Tyler
----
Prepare
For Spring
By Building up
Your System
So as to Prevent
That Tired Feeling
Or Other Illness.
Now Take
Hood’s
Sarsaparilla
It TEH P001S
i SIff
WEEKS
a Flesh Producer there can be
no question but that
scorn
EHULSBO!
Of Pure Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites
Of Limo and Soda
is .without a rival. Many have
ffjUned ot it. It a cures pound a day by tho uso
CONSUMPTION,
SCROFULA, COLDS, BRONCHITIS, COUGHS AND
AND ALL FORMS OF WASTING DIS¬
EASES. AS PALATABLE AS MILK.
Be „ sure you get tlic genuine as there
are
poor imitations.
BEECHAM'S PILLS
act like magic
01A WEAK STOMACH.
25 Cents a Box.
OF ALL DRUCCI8TS.
_
ELY’S cream bvlm
Heals tee sores and Cures
CATARRH.
Restores Taste and Dr^ts. Smell, q ulck
so£‘£ ft. and
ELY b kos., k warren st, y .
iSsI
/ m