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DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. 4W ISLAND VISION. Pr Talmaff® pteacueu oeioro an overflow Ing audience at the Thousand Islands, the peopb flocking from all the surrounding country. Fully 7,050 persons w.re present <nd listened with rapt attention to the rever and gentleman. Texts: “I, John, was in the Isle that is called Patmos.—Rev. i., I'. -‘And the twelve gau-s were twelve pearls. Rev. xxi., 2L •‘Sabbath finds us among tho Th msand Jslanis ot the St. Lawren-e,” began the preacher. ‘‘Amid the enchantment ot the scenery some ot us are like Paul when ho sa d -Whether in the body or outof the body I cannot tell ’ Not having road the geologist e account ot how this legiou was formed] I may surmise that after tliu St. Lawi once be gan its majestic roll these is ands wore dropjied into it out of the heavenly land -1 ape. Islands above us, islands below us, islands all aroun 1 us. lam reminded how rail h the islands of the woi 11 have ha Ito do with sacre.l and pofane h story. Llba. from which Napokon started for his last struggle; and St. He era, where be ended it; Island of Guernsey, where the great soul of \ ictor Hugo dialed in exile until republicanism in France drove ba k despotism; Isle of Borneo, where A'ioniram Jud on stood, a flaming evangel; the island of Cc* Ira. where Garibaldi rested after th > emancipation of Italy; island of Cypres>. where Barnabas preached:island otMe.ita, on whi< h Paul was shipwrecked, and. last of all, but mightier than all aud more impressive than all, the island of Patm s, of which my text speaks, and trom which St. Johu. the exiled Epheeian Gosiiel fcer. saw the twelve pea line gates. If God will help us we can, from the e Thousand Isles on this Sabi ath morning, see the same glittering porta s. “Our subject speaks of a great metropolis, the existence of which many have doubted. There has been a vast emigration into that citv, but no emigration from it. so far as our natural vision can descry. -There is no such city.’ says the undercut astronomer. ‘I have etood iu'higb towers w.th a mighty telescope and have swept the heavens, and I have eeen spots on the sun and caverns in the moon, but no towers bare ever risen on my vision, no palaces, no temples, no shining streets, no massive wall. There is no such city.’ Even very goal people tell me that Heaven is not a matjrial organ ism, but a grand spiritual fa -t, and that the Bible descriptions of it are in all cases to be taken figuratively. I bring in reply to this what Christ said, and Ho ought to know: ‘I go to prepare,’not a theory, not a principle, not a sentiment, but ‘1 go to prepare a place for you.’ The resurrected body implies this. If my toot is to be reformed from the dust it must have something to tread on. If my hand is to be reconstructed it mast have something to handle. If my eye. having gone out in death, is to be rekindled. 1 must have something to gaze on. Your adverse theory seems to imply that the resurrected body is to be hung on nothing, or to work in air, or to float amid the intangibles. You may say: If there be material organisms, then a soul in heaven will be cramped aud hindered in its enjoyments; but I answer: Did not Adam and Ev e have plenty of room in the garden of Eden? Although only a few miles would have described the circum ference of that place, they had ample room. And do you not suppose that God in the im mensities can build a pla e large enough to give the whole race room, even though there be material organisms? “As a conquering army, marching on to take a city, comes at nightfall to the crest of a mountain from which in the midst of the landscape they see the castles they are to capture, and rein in their war chargers and halt and take a good look before they pitch their tents for the night; so now, coming as we do on this mountain top of prospect, I command this regiment of God to rein in their thoughts and halt,and before they pitch their tents for the night take one good, long look at the gates of the great city. I want you to examine the architecture of those gates. Proprietors of large estates are very apt to have an ornamented gateway. Some times they spring an arch of masonry; the posts of Ihe gate flanked with lions in statuary; the bronze gate a representation of intertwining foliage, bird-haunted, until the hand of ar. hitectural genius drops exhausted, all its life frozen into the stone. Babylon had a hundred gates, so had Thebes. Gates of wood and iron and stone guarded nearly all the old cities. Moslems nave inscribed upon their gateways inscriptions from the Koran. There h ive been a great many fine gateways, but Christ set his hand to the work, and for the upper city swung a gate such as no eyes ever gazed on untouched of inspira tion. With the nail of his own cross he cut into its wonderful traceries stories of past suf fering and of gladness to come. There is no wood or stone or bronze in that gate, but from top to base and from side to side it is all of pearl. Not one piece picked up from Ceylon banks and another piece from the Persian Gulf and another from the island ot Margarette; but one solid pearl picked up from the Leach of everlasting light by heav enly bauds, and hoisted and swung amid the shouting of angels. The glories of a'abaster vn-e and porphyry pillar fade out before this gateway. It puts out the spark of feldspar and Bohemian diamond. You know how one little precious stone on your flnger will flash under the gaslight. But. oh, the brightness when the great gate of heaven swings, struck tlii ' ugh and dripping with the light of eter nal noonday. -‘Julius Coesar paid 125,000 crowns for one pearl. The government: of Portugal boasted ot having a pan ia ge t :an ai>.. . Vivo patra and Philip .I. ria.zL-.l the world’s vision with precious stones B ir. gather all : these to.;eth!r an 1 lift them and add to them all the wealth of the pearl li-hi-rics and set thru iu the panel of one do r and it does u >t equal this magnificent gateway. Au Al mighty baud bowed this, string this, polish 1 . this. Against ths gateway on the one side dash all the splendirs of earthly b auty. : Against this gate on the other sdo beat the surges of eternal glory. Oh. the gate! the gate! It str.kes an inlinito charm through every one that passes it. On- step this side of that gate and wo are ] a ipers. One step the other side of that gnte and we ■re kings. The pilgrim of earth, go ng through, sees in the one huge pearl all hit I earthly tears in crystal. O gate of light, gate of peail, gate of Heaven, for our weary souls at last swing open. When shell these eyes thy heaven-built walls An 1 pearly gates behold. Thy bulwarks with sal cation strong And streets of shining gold? ‘T want you to count the number of those Rates. Imperial parks and lordly manors nre apt to have one expensive gateway an 1 the othe;-s a:e ordinary; but lookaroun i at these entrance! to heaven and count them. One, two, three, four. five. six. seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. Hear it a’l the earth an 1 *ll the heavens: Twice gale.-! I admit this g rather hard on sharp sectarianisms. Ic a Presbyterian is bigoted be brings his West teins er Assembly • ath chism and be mak, s • gateway out of that, and he says to the world: “You go .h ough there or stay •?t If a Methodist minister is bigoied he Plants two posts and says: ‘Now you must crowd in between those two posts or s'a? J«t' Or perhaps an Epis-opalian may say: Here is liturgy out ot wh: h I mean to make • gate; go through it or stay out.' Or a Bap test may say; ‘Here is a water-gate; you go through that or you must stay out.' And so u> all our churches and denominations there •re men who make one gate for themselves •nd then demand that the whole world go through it. I abhor this contra' -ted ties- in jel'Kious '’tews. Oh. small-souled mm. When •id God give yon the contract for making Rates? I tell you plainly I will uot go to-hat gate. I will go iu at any one of the twelve gates I choo.se. Here is a man who *®ys: ‘lean more easil/ and more closely approach God through a prayor-lsook. I sac: My blotter, then use t'ie pra.er-book.’ Here i> a man who says: *1 believe there is only one mode of baptism, and that ts im mersion.’ Then I sav: ‘Let m.» plunge you ' Anyhow I »ay: Away with the gate ..f rough panel and rotten ]iostsand rusted !at< h when there are twelve gates and they are twelve jiearls. “A great many of the churches in this day •re being doctrine! to death. Tn-v hive been trying to find out nil al.out G.-l s do crees, and they want to know who a e elected to be saved and who are reprobated tn be damned, and they are keeping on tlis ussing that subject when there aro milliousni s..uls who ueou t> na • e luj crum n.i .c r.u_n: at them. They sit counting the ni: über of teeth in the" awbone wu.i wu-a , -n slew the ITiili t m-s. Th y sit mi the iaacd and toe a vessel going to piei-es in the Otting, aud instead of getting into a Io it and pulling (or the wreck they sit dis u«iu j the di ferent styles of oarlocks. God in tern led us to know s-'iue tlwngs ami intended us not to know others. 1 have heard scores of sermons e : puinat .ry of Go I’.s decrees but came away m ,re - •rplevcil then 1 went. The only result of such d.s Mission is a gr. a - fog. Here are two truth, whi h uro to conquer the world: man, a sinner; Christ, a savior. A :y man who adopts these two theories in his religious belief shall have my right baud in warm grip of Christian brotherhood. A man comes down to a river in ti ne of freshet. He wants to get across. He has to swim. What does he do? ’ The first thing is to put off his h«avy apparel and drop every thing he ha; iu hands. Ho mast uo empty handed If he is going to the other bank. And I tell you, when we hare come down to the river ot death a-id find it swi t aud ra Ing wo will have to put olf all our se t .riaunr. aud lay down our cumber-o ne cree i. and e upty banded put out tor the other shore. HVlmt,’ sa . you, ‘would you resolve all the Christian Chun h into onokiuil ofcliurchi Would you make all Christendom worshin in the sane way. by ths same forms?’ Ob, no! You might ai well deiide that nil people -hall eat the same kmd of foo.l without ref .‘l ence to api et.te, or wear the same kind of a qairel «ithout reference to the shape of their bo ly. Your ancestry, yo ir te np rament, your sur roundings, wid decide whether you go to this or that church aud adopt this or that policy. “Notice the points of the compass toward whi h these gate i look. They are nit on on.s side or on two sides or on three si les, but on four sides. This is nolaaiyof mine, but a dis-tinct announ ement. Un the north three gates, on the south threo gates, on tae east three states, on the west three gates. What does that mean? Why, It means that an nationalit.es are included and it doos not make any ditteren e fro n what quarter of the earth a man co nes up; if his heart is right there is a gate o-en before him. On the north three gates. That means mercy for Laplau.l and Siberia and Norway and Sweden. On the south three gates. That moans pardon for Hin lostan and Algiers and Ethiopia. On the east three gates. That means salvation tor China and Japan and Borneo. Cu the west three gates. That means redemption for America. It does not make any difference how dark-skinned or how pale fa ed men may be, th y will find a gate right before them. These plucked bananas under a tropical sun. These shot across Ru san snows behind reindeers. From Mexican plateaus, from Roman < am pana, from Chinese tea-fields, from Holland dike, from Sc. tell Highlands, they come, they come. Heaven is not a monopoly for a few precious souls. It is not a Windsor Cas tle for royal families. It is not a small town with small population, but John saw it and ho noticed that an angel was measuring it, aud he measured it in this way and then he measured that, and whichever way he meas ured it was I,5<W miles, so that Babylon and Thel.es, and Tyre and Nineveh, and St. Petersburg and‘Canton, and Pekin and Paris, and London aud New York, and all the dead < ities of th.i past and nil the living cities of the present added together, would not equal the census of that great metrop olis. “While I speak an ever-increasing throng is passing through the gates. They are going up from Senegambia, from Patagonia, from Madras, from Hong Koug. ‘What!’ you say, ‘do you intro luce all the heathen into glory?’ I tell you, the la t is that the majority of the people in those climes die in infancy and the infants all go straight into eternal life, and •o the vast majority of those who die in China an I In iiiv the majority of those who die in Africa, go straight into the •kies-they die in infancy. One hun dred and sixty generations have been Lorn since the world was treated, an Iso I estimate that there must be 15,000,000,001) children in glory. If at a con tent 2,000 children sing, your soul is raptured within you. Oh, the transport when 15,000,- 0)0,0)0 little one. stan 1 up in white before the throne of Go 1, their chanting drawing out all the s upendous harmonies of Dussel dorf and Leipsic and Boston! Pour in through th i twelve gates, O ye redeems 1, banner-lifted, rank after rank, saved battalion after saved batalion, until all the city of God shall hear the tramp, tramp! Crowd all the twelve gates. Room yet. Room on the thrones, room in the mansions, room on the river bank. Let the trumpet of Invitation lie •ounded until all earth’s mountains hear the ahi-ill blast and the glens e-ho it Let mis •ionaries tell it in pagoda, and colporteurs Bound it aero s the Western prairies. Shout it to the Laplander on his swift sled, halloo it to the Bedouin careering across the de -ert. News! news! a glorious heaven and twelve gates to get into it! Hear it, O you thin bloodel nations of eternal winter!—on the north three gates. Hear it, O you bronzed Inhabitants panting under equatorial heats— •n t he south three gates. “Anil heaven being male up, of course the gates will be shut. Austria in and the first gate shut; Russ.a iu and these -ond gate shut; Italy in and the third gate shut; Egypt in a-id the fourth gate shut; Spain in aud tile filth gate shut; France iu and the sixth gate shut; England in and the seventh gate shut: Nor way in and the eighth gale shut: Switzerland (n aud the ninth gate shut: H.n lostan in tn I the tenth gate shut; Siberia in and the eleventh gate shut. All the gates ate cloved but one. Now let America go in, with all the islands of the sea and all the other na tions that have caile lon God. The caolives all freed; the harvests all gathered; the na tions a 1 saved—the flashing splendor ot tnis last pearl Legins to move on its hinges. Let the mighty angels put thoir shoulders to the gate aud heave it to with silvery dang. ’Tis done! Itthumiers! The t well th gate shut! “I want to show y..u tho gnte-Lee >er. There is one angel at each one ol these gates. You say that is right. Os course it is. You know that no earthly palace oriat’e or fortress would be sate witlio.it a sentry ; a“- ing up and clown l.ynizhtan l by nay, n i l if there were no dek uses before In a en an I the doors set wide open with no one to guard them, a’l the vicious of earth would go up after awhile and all the abandoned oi bell would go up after awhile, and heaven instead ot being a world of light and joy and peace aud blessedness would be a world of darkness and horror. So lam glad to tell you that while these twelve gates stand open to let a great multitude in th re are twelve angels to keep some people out. Robespierre cannot go through there, nor Nero, nor any of the debauched of earth wiio have not rejiented of their wickedness. If one of thete nefarious men who despised God should come to the gate, one of the keepers w uld put his hand on his shoulder and push him into outer darkness. There is uo place in that land for thieves and lia‘‘S, a- d de frauders, and nil those who disgraced their race and fought against their God. If a miser should get in there he would pull up the golden pavement. If a house burner should get in there he would set fire to the man-ion. If a libertine shoidd get in there, be would whisper his abominations standing on the white c <ral of the sea-b -ach. (Inly those who are blood-washed and prayer lipp dw 11 get through. O lay brother, if you should at last come up to one of the gates aid try to get through, and you had not a pass written by the crushed hand of the Son of God, the gate-keeper would, with one glance, wither you forever. ‘ There will be a pas .word at the gate of | heavem Do you know what that password I is? Here comes a crowd ot souls up to the i gate and they say: ‘Let me in; let me in.. I j was vety useiul on earth. I endowed col- I leges, I built char, has and was famous for my chanties, aud, having done so many w n lorful things for the world, now I coma up to get my reward. A voice from w thin says: ‘I never knew yoa’ An other great crowd comes up and they try to get through. They say; were highly honorable on earth and taeeorth bowe l very lowly lietorous. Wo were hon ored on aarth, and now we come to get our honors in h aven.' And a voice from with in aivs: ‘I never knew you.’ Another erow 1 advances au 1 says; 'We were very moral people ou earth -very moral indeed, aud we ornne up to get appropriate recogni tion.' A voice answers: ‘I never knew you.’ “After a while I see another throngap proa, n the gate and om seems to l.e »;xikes mauforali ihe rest, a’thoiuh their voices •ver aud anon cry ameu! am-aI This one stands at the gate aud says: ‘!wt me in. 1 was a wanderer from God. I deserve to ''ie. I have come up to this place not liecause 1 de serve it, but bivause 1 hav* heard that there Is a saving power in the blood of Je-ua' Tim Jatekeeper says: ‘That isthe imssword, Jesus' mus!’ and they pass in and they surround the throne and the cry Is: ‘ Worthy Is me Lamb that was slain to receive power mi l riches aud wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing.’ Ob, when hca en Is all done and the trooi»of Got! shout: The castle is taken!’ how grand it "ill lie if von and I are am ng them! B’eised are all they who enter in through the gates into the city.’’ The Imagination. The imagination is in no wise the neg ative to, or, in a sense, the opposite to the practical in man, as has been fre quently i s-uined. On the contrary, man has no other mental power which has per formed n tithe of the service that has been rendered for him by his imagination. He has no more practical sense than this. Every first labor had first to bo outlined cd, planned, drawn, and understood by the imagination. Calculation is simply an adjunct to the imagination. Be it hut or palace, its dimension, plan, purpose, and material has first to be considered by the imagination. The proudest ship that ever plowed the ocean first existed in the mind of its pro jector. The engine that mocked the wind and the waves and moved that ship against all the combined powers of nature was evolved in man’s imagination. So with monumental pile, city, street, work of art. railroad bridge, or fortress for defense—each was imagined and de veloped, and planned by the imagina tion. The home, the proudest work of man— the best result of his labor, is also the work of his imagination. He thought it all out beforehand, and there it stands, proud or humble, a grand triumph of his imagination. *.ot only are these ponderous, river spanning, world-encircling works of man the product of his imagination, but the multitudinous tributes to human knowl edge termed books, the calculations of mathematics, the demonstrations of ge ometry, astronomy, and navigation arc understood and mastered only through the imagination. The imagination is so nearly the human understanding that the understanding, stripped of imagina tion, becomes very feeble. Since writing the above we cam ■ upon the following lines, written forth ■ jVsm) England Journal of Education, and they are so fully in accord with our own views that we copy them: “General Grant attributed his success in battles largely to his power of pictur ing a scene. He was thoroughly posted on the topography of the country, and had the whole field of battle from Vir ginia to Mississippi so clearly before his mind that he could picture to himself the whole scene, ponder in fancy over stru tegic points, and so hold the field in mind that it gave him a thorough and exact knowledge of the forces with which he had to deal. Teachers can hardly appre ciate this picturing power too highly.” Chicago Ledger. The Newspaper in the Cars. Sometimes a man throws his newspa per down on the seat and leaves the car. Each man tbit has r.o paper wants it, and each man would grab it if alone and unobserved. The m.-fti who appears to be looking out of the window in the op posite direction is the man who sees that pap r more di-tinctly than any one else; and he being the man who seems Iss interested in it,is ieally the man who warns it most. As soon ns that paper is thrown down it I c oms an object of in terest. The m.ui who never buys or read a newspaper wants it, and wants it badly. The man sitting next to it looks slraight and doesn’t seem to know any thing alout it. But he is just quivering with excitement. He is wrought up to the h'gh'st pitch, and is prepared to grab tor that paper just as soon as the man on the other side of it makes a single at tempt. Just at this period a man s t ing op, osit“ ti.e paper gives it a sharp, ex cited loo'., uist as though he had scan his n unc | rioted wrong. Then he gives another sharper look, and his eyes snap with c . < it “in nt, and he readies over and | i< l;s up the piper to see if helis ri“ht. You can tell by the way he handles it that he never paid for it; aid he gradually gets it up ir. front of kis face and turns it at intervals, and is as much at home with it as if it were his own, and th- other men look at him as being largely porcine in his nature. Dreaming of Thee. “Well, Bob >y,’’ said young Fiathedy as th former ent Ted the store, “what can Ido lor you this morning? And how is everyth rig up at the house:” “All right. I guess. I heard si-ter Clara ted ma that ihe dreamed about you last night.” “Is that so?” whispered I'eath ulv, bending over the counter. “And what did your ma say ?” “She sai 1 that Clara mnst have ea rn something what didn't agree with her 1 want to get a spool of No. GO cotton ind a do en bone collar buttons.”—A'ew iork Sun. A Case of Downright Cruelty. Amanda “Reginald, I understind you have been circ.d iting the report that we are engaL'ed, around loa n.” Reginald— “Ai d so we are my dcir.” Amanda —“5 ea, I know , but it actins as though a n an who cared for my ful ire happiness ought n >t to say anything tint will prevent m ■ marrying sotae geed r?‘in.” — 7 id-Eits. “Hello, Mr. President, there’s a man here says you promised to make him Con sul to Chimborazo.” “Tell him to grt married and he won’t want to go abroad” CHILDREN’S tOLLMN. Ihqulur >*€?■• Some years ago 1 owned a horse, ( writes a correspondent of the St. Louis tiWx-Dcmccrat), with which I undertook to drive to a neighboring town over tho hills in the winter. A spot of hidden ice suddenly tripped her, and for u time it I was impossible for her to get up. But, I by ellorts that entirely exhausted me, 1 I finally got her on foot again. She never I forgot it. My approach to the stable | was invariable welcomed by cordial | neighs; and, that not sutlicing, she would put her head affectionately on my I shoulder or under my arm. On one i ccasion my pet Morgan called I me, while I was engaged fifty rods from the barn, with loud and persistent calls that 1 instantly understood meant trou ble. Going hastily to the stables, 1 found the cows had broken down a door, ami were capable of doing mischief. As soon ns I approached the horse gave a satisfied whinny, followed by a long sigh of relief, and went to eating very I quietly. A Youiitf Nobiemnn. In an elegant palace-car entered a weary-faced, poorly-dressed woman,with three little children—one n babe in her arms. A look of joy crept into her face as she settled down in one of the luxu rious chairs, but it was quickly dispelled as she was told by the conductor to go into the forward car. A smile of amusement was seen on sev eral faces ns the frightened group hurried out to enter one of the common cars. Upon one young face, however, there was a different look. “Auntie,” said the boy to the lady be ; side him, “I am going to carry my basket I of fruit and this box of sandwiches to i that poor woman in the next car. You ; are willing, aren’t you?” He spoke eagerly; but she answered: “Don’t be foolish, dear; you may need them yourself. And perhaps the woman would not want them." “No, I do not need them,” he answered, decidedly. “You know 1 had a hearty breakfast. The woman looked hungry, auntie, and so tired, too, with those three little children. I’ll be buck in a minute. I know mother wouldn’t like it j if I didn't try to be kind to those who i are in trouble.” Auntie brushed a tear from her eye aftar the boy left her, and said, audibly’, I “Just like his dear mother.” And a minute later, as the conductor i passed the mother and three children, he saw the family feasting as perhaps as they had never before. “God bless his dear little heart,” said the poor mother, and so say we. I A Wonderful Kcmcdy. Any young folks who are suffering from the same complaint as the little prince in the accompanying anecdote, are recommended to try the same medicine. It costs very little, and is sure to effect a cure. Once on a time there was a king who ■ had a little boy whom he loved very much. So lie took a great deal of pains to make him happy. He gave him beautiful rooms to live in, and pictures and toys, and books without number. He gave him a grace ful, gentle pony, that lie might ride when he pleased, and a row-bout on a lovely lake, and servants to wait upon him wherever he went. He also provided teachers who were to give him the knowl edge of things that would make him good and great. But for all this the young prince was not happy. He wore a frown wherever lie went, and was always wishing for something that lie did not have. At length one day a magician came to the court. He saw the scowl on the boy’s face, and said to the king: “I can make your son happy and turn his frown into smiles. But you must pay me a good price for telling him the se cret,” “All right,” said the king; “whatever you ask I will give.” So the price was agreed upon and paid, and then the magician took the boy into a private room. He wrote some thing with a white substance upon a piece of white paper. Next he gave the boy a candle and told him to light it and hold it under the paper, and then see what he could read. Then he, went away. The boy did as he had been told, and the white letters on the paper turned into a beautiful blue. They formed these words: “Do a kindness to some one every day.” A Surprising Occurrence. Smith: I never was more surprised in my life than I was last night. Jones; Indeed! What was the cause? Smith: As I was passing along the treet two ladies came to the door of a house, one evidently tin- hostess, as she had only a shawl wrapped around her head, the other a visitor. Ah they ri arhed the bottom of the steps the visi tor said: “Well, I’ve had a very pleas ■int time. Good-night, Mary,” and the other said: “Good night, Mehitable,” and so they parted. Jones; What, without another word? Smith: Without another word. Jones: H’in! I •guess they were men m women’s clothes.— liotton Courier. gMW] The Most Perfect Instrnment t 1 ". Worli. Used Exclusively at tho Grand Conservatory of music,” OF NEW YORK. Endorsed by all Eminent Artists. LOW VKICKS! 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Will thresh petiectiy all kjnda of grain, news timothy, flax, Clover, etc. Send for wcular* price list, etc., of Threahesa, Elgin ea, Baw Milla and Grain Registers, and be lure to mention thia paper. Aleuts wanted. Addreas THE KOPPES MACHINE CO. ORRVILLE, O. JOHNSON S ANODYNE IhphtheriA, Croup,.Asthma, Bronchitis, Neuralgia. Bheumatfsm, Blooding n.t the lwwi, PAR S ONS’Z PILLS wero diMOovery. No others llko t!i am In Mio world. Will relieve all manner of dlaeaae. Tho informat; ,n around ea<oh Lox w, worth ten Umaa ttoecoat nf u torn of Dills. -Find out about them and you will aiwaya be thankful. Our. pill a dnee. IliuMrabed r iunx.hb L free. Sold everywhere, or Bent by mall forabc. tn stamps. Dr. I. B. JOHN BON 4kOO C Ths t fi»MAKE HENS UVM I No Ribbing! No Fiarksflis! No Sore Fisgtrs! IFa>*r<uifc<f nut tn hij.iie the Clotheg, Ask your l.rocvr for It, Hhe cannot sup ply von, one cake will be nmi rd TRIEon receipt of six two cent stamp* for p -stnge. A beautiful nin»*-co!orod ’‘Chromo” with three bare. Deal •r« and Grocers should write for particulars. C A. SHOUDY & SON, ROCKFORD. XX.L. DURKEE’S & u ILL K I v-j*. !■ I POSSESSING THEvA COMPLETE FLAVOR J HBj PLANT G AU NT LET BRAND ® SPICES IRmustard SALAD DRESSING ; FLAVORING jEi - EXTRACTS ■ 11 BAKING POWDER Jk challenge sauce ® "MEATS. FISH& GENUINE INDIA WS; ‘CURRY POWDER t-THE; AVRENGE PURE LINSEED OIL f) MIXED FAINTS READY FOR USE. W The Beat Paint Made. Guaranteed to contain no water, benzine, barytes, chemicals, rubber, asbestos, noein, gloss oil, or other similar adulterations. A full guarantee on every packege and directions for use, so that any one not a practical painter qan use Lt. Handsome sample cards, showing •8 beautiful shades, mailed free en application. If not kept by your dealer, write to .us. Be careful to aak for “T|iE LAWRENCE PAINTS,” end do not take any other said to be at gtoo M Lawrence’e.” tW. W. LAWRENCE A CO.? PITTbIHRGH, PA. YOtJ PAINT Il V yfMl Hhou ld WETHERILL’t Portfolio of xJvX Artistic Designs k >''v l Pft ®Woned HowwsSiQueeiLAnne Cottages, Suburban SrV WcCTk- Reskl<■ nccs. etc . col - j vk ored to match ~ ZrjLdr and showing tho latest and rn<M es- AJK.’ p-. combination W> am er • *>* COIOFM in 1101116 ar.ia. khe F\ P** n U n K- . eoutents FvC If yOUF deSJCF has not gntour portfolio, ssk him fri!?** B to send to us Ibr one. You *ati a«m Or i3| < :an Mien seeeiactly haw ail« 3 I w y our house will appear READY- \ yJf ! 1 when finished. MIXED \ I f\ -J Do this and use “Allas” PAINT J Ready-Mtasd Paint and irv- ('J® LZM ■’ ,rC Satisfaction. fZou«n, atKi rvk oar(; autee. IlfjGeo.D.WethertlllCo. Lr'.A'iA I ? fa*|WHITE LEAP and PAINT •') ij'fy manufacturers, /JBi IJf 66 North Front St. PHILAD’A, PA.