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dr. TALMAGE'S SERMON. MEASURED by your own yard STICKS. [Preached at Asheville, N. C.) _. x. “With what measure yo mete, it measured to you again?’ Matthew T . t |j o greatest sermon ever preached—a !?ion about fifteen minutes’long, according * tha ordinary rate of speech—a sarmou on X. Mount of Olives, the Preacher, sitting b > He spoke, according to the ancient da of oratory, the people were given to ’Serstand that the same yard stick that Siv employed upon others would be em- Sved upon themselves. Measure others by rarsh rule, and you will be measured by a { r\bnile. Measure others by a charitable le ami you will be measured by a charita j? rule. Give no mercy to others, and no ,S.*v will be given to you. “With what Measure ye mete, it shall bo measured to you 4 T‘iere is great deal of unfairness in the r ism of human condu t. It wa to smite tbht unfairness t .at Christ uttered the words of the text, and my sermon will be a re-e< ho W the Divine sentiment. In estimating the mbb havior of others we must take into con- Sderation the pressure of cireumstan es. It is never right to do wrong, but there are de rrees of culpability. When men misbehave or commit some atrocious wickedness we are disposed indis?riminat?ly to tumble them all ver the bank of condemnation. Suffer they ou lit and suffer they must; but in difference of degree. In the first place, in estimating the mis doi’ii of others we must take into calculation the hereditary tendency. There is such a tb 4as good blood and there is such a thing g ;td blood. There a e families that have ha l a moral twist in th mi for a hundred v arsba' k. They have not be n careful to k the family re *ord in that regard. There have been escapades and maraudings and 5, jiiudrelisms and moral deficits all the way ia <. whether you call it kleptomania or pyromania or dipsomania, or whether it be iii a milder form and amount to no mania at a ;- The strong probab li! v is, that the pres, fnt criminal stated life with nerve, m is.de ajdbone contain nate 1. As t-ome start life with a natural te deucy to nobility an I gen erosity, and kindness an 1 truthfulness, there are others who s art life with just th? oppo s:te tendency, and they are born liars, or born malcontents, or born outlaws, or born gwindl rs. There is in England a school that is called th- Princess Mary School. All the children in that school are the children of convicts. Tbes hool is supported by high patronage. I had the pleasure of being present at one of th ir anniversa ies in I*7’.?, pren led over by the Earl o' Kin tore. By a wise law in Eng land. after pare its have committed a certain number of crimes and thereby shown them &:v sincompetent rightly to bring up their children, the little ones are taken from under pruicious influences and put in reformat >ry sch*ol.«, where all grariou. and kindly influ en es shall I e brought upon them. Os course the experiment is young and it h is got to bo dem nitrated how large a p?r. engage of the children < f convicts may he brought up to nspei tability and usefulness. But we all kn w that it is more difficult for ch Idren of ba Ipa entage to do right than for children of goo 1 parentag *. In this country we are taught by the De clara: ion of American Independence that all people are born equal. There never was a greater m’sre presentation put in <<ne sen* twice than in that sentence which implies that we arc all born equal. You may as well say that flowers are born equal, or trees are brn equal. or animals are born equal. Why does one hor.-e <-ost *10.) and anotherhor.se cost* 0.0)0? Whvdois <>n ? sheep cost *lO an 1 another sheep *5 >0? Difference in blood. We are wise enough to recognize the di if er en e of blood in hor.-es, in cattie, in sheep, but we are not wise enough to make allow ance for the difference in the human blood. Now I dunand, by th? law of eternal fair nrss, that you bo more lenient in your criti cism of those who were born wrong, in Kinse ancestral line there was a hangman’s ,kn t. or who came from a tree the fruit of ▼hi h for centuries has been gnarled and worm-eaten. Dr. Harris, a reformer, gave some marvelous statistics in his story of what he called “Margaret, the mother of criminals.’’ Ninety years ago she lived in a village in Upper New* York State. She was n t only poor, but she was vicious. She was not well provided for. There were no alins h uses there. The public, however, some what looked after her. but chiefly scoffed at and derided her, pushed her further down in her crimes. That was ninety years ago, There have been 623 persons in that an cestral line. 20 ) of tlnm criminals. In one bunch of that family there were twenty, and nine of them have been in State Prison, and nearly all of the others have turned out badly. It is esti mated that that family cost the County and State §100,0.10, to say nothing of the prop ear they destroyed. Are you not willing, S'sensible people, to acknowledge that it is a fearful disaster to b ? born iu such an ances tral line? Does it not make a great differ ent whether one descends from-Margaret, the moth r of criminals, or from some mother in Israel? Wh *ther you are the son of Ahab or the son of Joshua? It is a very different thing to swim with the current from what it is to swim against the current, assune of you have no doubt found in your summer recreation. If a man find him in an ancestral current where there is good blood flowing smoothly from generation to generation it is not a very great credit to him if «turns good and honest and pure and noble. He could hardly help it. But sup- P he is born in an ancestral line--in a he?fc iitary line—where the influences have oeeu bad an I there has been a coming down over a moral declivity, if the man surrender Jo tae influences he will go down under the overmastering gravitation unless some wpjrnatural aid be afford d him. Now, a person deserves not your excoriation, put your pity. Do not sit with the lip curled ® s -‘orn, an 1 with an assumed air of angelic inno •en -e. looking down upon such moral pre'nutation. You had better get down ou y ur knees and first pray Almighty God for ®eir rescue, and next thank the Lord that you have not been thrown under the wheels ot that Juggernaut. In Great Britain and in the United States, “ ever y generation, there are tens of thou wis of persons who are fully developed mnnnalsand incarcerated. 1 say, in every generation. Then, I suppose, there are tens . ta °usands of persons not found out in neir criminality. In addition to these there tens of thousands of persons who, not positively be oming criminals, nevertheless a criminal tendency. Any one of all thousands by the grace of God may JW’ome Christian, and resist the ancestral in k.u^, °pen a new chapter of behavior: it i e Vast rua j° rit y of them will not, and co ? les . a II meu professional, unpro- ministers of religion, judges of u -' ts < phila ithropists and Christian work . , ' r . e ' °gnize the fa't that there are these .•antic and Pacific surges of hereditary evil voiiing on thi ough the centuries. d f Cou rse. a man can resist this ten in »k V ’ as ’ n t * ie ancestral line mentioned first chapter of Matthew. Y u see ine same line in which there was a wicked am and a desperate Manasses, there onßrl camo a pious Joseph and a glori n tk 1 # ’ y° u mud r<‘?og- f a rq that these influences go on from a ? n to generation. I am glad to d i OW )' k° w ® vei h that a river which has pro miasma for a hundred fa*/ ’ a,ter awhile, turn th? wheels of t n s and help support industrious and I J* populations: and there are family h were poisoned that are a bene t.ou now. At the Last Day it will be that there are men who have gone th er forms of iniquity aid utter abandonment, who, be - mey to the first temptation, re Inore ev *l th in many a man who has -n moral and upright all his life. But PPosirg now that in this age when there are so many good peo[ le that I co ue down I int >ths au lienee and -ele t th? very b»»st man in it. I d » uo l m a i the man who’ wo i 1 ! sTvlehimse) th •I et, so- probably he is a hvp crite; but 1 mean the man who itjforj G»dis r -ally the bst I will take you out irom all you • Christ an surroundi igs. I will t ike vo iba to bo rhoo!. I will put you in a lepravo I hum?. 1w 11 put you in a- ra die f in qu tv. Who is that bmlin; that era ll?? An intoxicated u.oth r. Wuo is that swearing in the no t room! Your fa*her. The neighbors come in to talk, and their jokes are un dean. There is n -t n th? house a Bible or amo al t e i so. ; but only a few scraps of an old pictorial. | Afte • a wh:l • you are old enough to get out of the cradle, an 1 you are struck across , the head for naughtiness, but never in anv kind y manner repriinan le I. After a while ; you are old enough to go abroad, and j you are s?nt out with a basket to steal. I If you come hom ? without any spoil, you are whipped until the blood comes. At i fifteen years of age. you go out to fight your I own battles in this world, which seems to i care no more for you than the dog that has die lof a fit under the fence. You are kicked and cuffed an I buffeted. Some day, rallying your courage, you resen: some . wrong. A man says: “Who are you? I know I who you are. Your father had free at Sing Sing. Your mother, she was up for drunkenness at the Criminal Court. Get out ;of my way, you low-live I wrot h'’ 1 My brother, suppose that had been the history of i your advent, and the history of your early I surroundings, would you have been the Christian man you are to-day, seated in this i Christian assembly. I tell you nay. You would have been a vagabond, an outlaw, a murderer on the scaffold atoning for your crime. All the<e emsid nations ought to ■ nia<e us merciful in our dealings with th? ; wandering and the lost. Again, I have to remark that in our estl | mat * of the misdoings of p ople who have fallen from h ; gh tability and useful ness we mu'ttake int) consideration the con i jun lion of circumstances. In nine cases ' out of ten a man who goes astray does not intend any positive wrong. He has trust funds. He risks a part of those funds in in vestment. H ’says; “Now, if I should lose that investment 1 have of my own property live times as much, and if this investment | should go wrong 1 could easily make it up: I ! could five times make it up.” With that wrong reasoning he goes on and makes the I investment, and it does not turn out quite so ' well as he expect *d, and he makes another I investment, and, strange to say, at the same j time all his other affairs get entangled, and all his other resources fail, and his hands are 1 tied. Now he wants to extricate himself. He ! goes a little further on in the wrong invest- J inent. He takes a plunge furtlur ahead, for he wants to save his wife and children, he wants to save his h >me, he wants to save his memb?rship in the church. He takes one more plunge an I all is lost. Some morning at 10 o’clock the bunk door is not opened, and there is a card on the door signe 1 by an offi cer of the bank, indicating that there is trouble, the nam • of the defaulter or the de frauder hea Is the newspaper column, and hundreds of men say: “Good for him;’’ hundreds of other men say: “I’m glad he’s found out at l ist;” hundreds of other men say: “Just as I told you;’ hundreds of other men sav: “We couldn’t possibly have been tempt *d to do that—no conjunction of cir cu ustan es could ever have overthrown me;” and there is a superabun lance of indigna tion but no pity. The heavens full of light ning. but not one drop of dew. If God treated us as society treats that man we would all have been iu hell long ago I Wait for the alleviating circumstances. Perhaps he mav have been the dupe of others. Be fore you let all the hounds out from their kennel to maul an 1 tear that man, find out if he has not been brought up in a commercial establishment where there was a wrong system of ethics taught: find out whether that man has not an extravagant wife, who is not satislie I with his honest earnings, and in the tempta tion to p ease her he has gone into that ruin into which enough men have fallen, and by the same temptation, to make a procession of many miles. Perhaps some sudden sickness may have touched h s brain, and his judg ment may be unbalanced. He is wrong—he is awfully wrong,and h? must be condemned, but there may be mitigating circumstances. Perhaps under the same temptation y>»u might have fallen. The reason some men d > not steal §2 M >,OOO is because they do not get a chance! Have righteous indignation you must about that man’s conduct, but tenijier it with mercy. But you say: “I am so sorry that the inno ent should suffer.’ Ye 5, lam too—sorry for ths widows and or phans who lost their all by that defalcation. I am sorry, also, forth * business men, the honest busines* men, who have had their affairs all crippled by that defalcation. I am sorry for the venerable bank President to whom the credit of that bank was a matter of pri le. Yes, lam sorry, also, for that, man who brought all the distress—sorry that he sxrificed body, mind. soul, reputation. Heaven, an I went into th? blackness Qf dark ness forever. You d fiantly sav: “I could not be tempted in tha way.” Perhaps you may be tested after awhile. God has a very good me mory, and he sometimes seems to say: “Th? man feels so strong in his innate power and good ,ness h ■ shall be tested: he is so full of bitter inve dive against that, unfortunate,it shall be shown now whether he has the power to stand.” Fifteen years go by. The wheel of fortune turns several times, and you are in a crisis that you never coul I have anticipated. : Now.all the powers of darkness come around, and they chuckle, and they chatter, and they say: “Aha! hero is the el l fellow who was so proud of his integrity, and who bragged he couldn’t be overthrown by tern, tation. and was so uproarious in his demonstrations of indignation at tho defalca ago. Let us see. (led lets the man go. Go 1, who had kept that man un<ler His protecting care, lets the man go and ti-y for himself the majesty of his int jgrity. God let ing the man go, the powers of dark n°ss pounce upon him. I sea you some day in your office in great ex itement. One of two things you can do. Be honest, and be pauper ized, and have your children brought home from school, your family dethroned in social influence. The other thing is, you can t p a little aside from that whi h is right, you can only just go ha fan inch out of the proj >er path, you can only take a little ri-k. and then you have all your finances fair and right. You have a large property. You can leave a for tune for your children and endow a college and build a public library in y ur native town. Y r ou halt and wait, and halt and wait until your lips get white. You decide to risk it. Only a few strokes of the pen now. But oh. how your hand trembles, how dreadfully it trembles! The die is cast. By the strangest and most awful conjunction of circumstances any one couhl have imagined, you are pro-rated. Bankruptcy, commercial annihilation, ex posure, cri ne. Good men mourn and devils hold carnival, and you see your own name at the head of the newspaper column in a whole congress of exclamation points: and while you are reading the anathema in the repor torial and editorial paragraph, it occurs to you how much this story is like that of the defalcation fiftei n years ago. and a dap of thundershakes the window-sill,saying: itb what m asure ye mete, it shall be measured to vou again!” _ You look in another direction. There is nothing like an ebullition of temper to pu a man to disadvantage. .You, a man with calm pulses and a fine digestion and perfect ‘ health, -an not understand how anybody should l>e < apsized in temper by an infinitesi mal annoyance. You say: “I cou dn’t 1 unbalanced in that way.” Perhaps you smile at a provo ation that makes a noth r man swea’t You pride your elf on your imp?r turbability. You say with your man i-r though you have too much good ta te to say > with vour words: “I have a . r r at deal in r ? sense than that man has: 1 have a great cal more e [uipoise of temper than that man ha -; ; I never could make such a i uerile exhibition of myself as that man has made. 1 My'brother, you do not realize that that man was born with a keen nervous orgam: a tion: that for forty years he has been under I a deph ting process: that si- kness an 1 trouble have been helping undo what was led 1 of original healthfulness; that much of his I tim? it has been with him like filing saus: that his nerves have come to be merely > tan?:© of disorders, ftn-l that he is the most piLaols obje -t on earth, who, though ho is very sick, do's not look sick, and nobody syiiipathize-. lx»t me s?e. Did you not say that you could not be tern (tod t> an ebulbtiou of temper? Since September you come h » ne fro n your summer watering place. a id you ha»e inside, away liack in yo.ir liver or sphe i. what we call in our dav m daria, but wuat the ol I folks calle I chills an 1 fever. You take quinine until your ears are first buz ing lM*ehives and then roaring Nia raras. You take roots and herl s. you take everything. You get well. But the next dav you Teel uncomfortable, and you yawn, an 1 you stretch, and you shiver, au I you con sum?, an I you suffer. Vexe I more than you can tell, you can not sleep, you can not eat, you can not bear to see anvthing that looks happy, you go out to kick the cat that is a>l ep in the sun. Your children’s mirth wa< once musi ■t) you: now it is deafening. Y’ou say: “Boys, stop that racket!” You turn ba k from Juneta March. In the family and in the neighborhood your popubrity i< 85 per cent off. The world says: “What is the matter with that disagreeable man) What a woe-begone countenance! I can’t bear the sight of him.” Y’ou have got your pay at last got your pay. Y’ou feel just as the man felt —that man for whom you had no mercy, and my text comes in with mar velous appositeness: “With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” In the study of society I have come to this conclusion—that the most of the people want to be good, but they do not exactly know how t » make it outs They make enough good res >lutions to lift them into angelhood. The vast majority of people who fall are the vic tims of cireumstan es; they are captured by ambuscade. If their temptation should come out in a regiment and tight them in a fair field they would go out in the strength, and the triumph of David against Goliah. But they do not see the giantsand they do not sei the regiment. Sunnose temptat’on should come up to a man and say: “Here is alcohol: t ike three tablespoonfuls of it a day, untij you get dependent upon it; th n after that take half a glass three times a day, until you get dependent upon that amount : th m go on increasing the amount unt 1 you are saturate-1 from morning until night and from night until morning.” Do you supnoso any man would become a drunkard in that wav? Oh, no' Temptation comes and savs- “Take these bitters, take this nervine, take this aid to digestion, take this night-cap.” The vast majority of men and women who are de stroyed by opium and by rum first take them as medicines. In making up your dish of criticism in regard to thorn, take from the caster the cruet of sweet oil and not the cruet of cayenne pepper. Be easy on them. Do you know how that physician, that lawyer, that journalist became The victim of dissipa tion? Why, the phjjsician was kept up night by night on professional duty. Life aud death hovered in the balance. His nerv ous system was exhausted. There camo a time of enidemic. and whole families were prostrated, and his nervous strength was gone. He was all worn out in the service of the public. Now he must bra ’o himself up. Now he stimulates. The life of this mother, the life of this child, the life iff this father, the life of this whole family must b * saved, and the lives of all these families must be saved, and he stimulates, and he does it again and again. You may criticise his judgment, but remember the pro *ess. It was not a sel fish process by which he wont down. It was a magnificent generosity through which he fell. That attorney at the bar for weeks has been standing in a poorly ventilated court room, listening to the testimonv ami contest ing in the dry technicalities of the law. and now the time has come for him to wind up, and he must plead for the life of his client, anti his nervous system is all gone. If he fails in that speech then his client perishes. If he can have eloquence enough in that hour his client is save I. Ho stimulates. He must keep up. He says; “I must keep up.” Ha viuga large practi e you see how he is inthralled. You may criticise his judgment, but remember the process. Do not be hard. That journalist his had ex hausting mi l night work. He has had to report speeches and orations that keep him up till n very late hour. He has gone with much exposure working up some case of crime in company with a dete ‘five. Ho sits down at midnight to write out his notes from a memorandum scrawled on a pad under unfavorable circum stances. His st ength is gone. Fidelity to the public intelligence, fidelity to his own livelihood, demands that ho keep up. Ho must keen up. Ho stimulates. Again and a:an he does th it, and he goes down. You may criticise his judgment in the matter, but have mercy. Remember the process. Do not be hard My friends, this text will come to fulfill ment in seine cases in this world. The huntsman in Farmstoen was shot by some unknown pers m. Twenty years after the son of the huntsman was in the same forest, and he a- ideuta’lv shot a man, and the man in dying said: “God is just. I shot your fath r just here twenty years ago.” A bishop sai-1 to Louis XI. of France: “Make an iron cage for all those who do not think as wo do—an iron cazj in which the captive can neither lie down nor stand straight up.” It was fashioned—the awful instrument of pun ishment. After awhile the Bishop offended Louis XI., and f >r fourteen years ho was in that same cage, aud could neither lie down nor stand up. It is a noor rule that will not work both ways. “With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” “Oh, my friends, let us be resolved toscold loss and pray more! That which in the Bible is used as the symbol of all gra ious influ en es is the dove, not the por upine. Wo may so unskillfullv manage the life-o >at that wo shall ru i down those whom we want to res cue. The first preparation for Christian use fulu *ss is warm-h carted com non sense, prac tical syn oath v for thos* whom we want to save. What headway will we make in tho Judgment if in this world we have been hard on those who have gone astray* What head way will you and I make in the last Great Judgment, when wo must have mercy or per ish? The Bible says: “Th y shall hive judg ment wit lout mer- y thatshoweth no mercy.” I soe the scribes of Heaven looking up into the face of such a man, saying: “What! you plead for mercy, you, who in all your life n iver had any mercy on your fellows? Don t you remo nber how hard you w ro in your opinions of th >:so who were as tray? Dent yon rem ember when you ought to have given a helping hand you employed a hard heel? Mercy! You must misspeak yourself when yon plea-1 for merry here. Mercy for others but no mer y for you. Look,” savs the scribes of heaven, “look at that ins Tintion over tho Throne of Ju ig ment. the Throne of God’s Judgment.” Soo it coming out letter by letter, word by word, sentence by sentence, until your startled vis ion rea Is it an 1 your remorseful spirit ap propriates it: “With what measureyo mote, it shall be measured to you again. Depart, ye cursod!” Her Dilemma. f wSI >■ “How unhappy would I be with either, were the other bore away.”— Texa» Sift ing?.. CHILDKKN’S COLUMN. A l.itllnby. r.'himl tho mountains in tha west The busy sun is slowly creeping; Tho big round moon is iu the sky, Th ■ little stars an' brightly ix'oping; The flow ers that opened with the day Have shut their eyes —ns w ell as they Must little folks be sleeping. Youth's Companion. The I.ltlte Milkmaid. Bessie lived on a large farm in tho denutiful country. The house was very old and the trees around it wore old too. But such cherries and pears and ipplcs Bessie thought never grew any where else. There were n great many chickens and rows in the farm yard. Bessie used to play with them all, for they seemed to know that the dear little girl would not do them any harm. But her pets were the big dog, Hero, and the little cut Jet. Every morning and every evening when the maids were going out to milk the cows you might have seen Bessie walking behind them. She had a big dog on one side anil a little black cat on the other. In one hand she carried a lit tle pail and in the other a milking stool- Old Boss, the gentlest cow, who knew that a very little milkmaid was coming to her, anil two little hands would soon be working to till the tiny pail. The cow would stand still, not even kicking the flics away, for fear of hurting the lit tle dairymaid. The pail would be full of foaming, creamy milk. Then it would be poured into a deep dish for Hero and Jet to drink. Papa hail changed the name of the dog to Hero. Once, when Bessie was a tiny little girl, she was playing in the grass with the dog, then quite small and called Fido. A big, wicked-looking dog had come running right toward Bessie. But Fido would not let his little mistress be hurt if ho could help it. lie put himself right in front of her and barked as loud as he could. As the big dog tried to go past him ho caught him by the tail and held on tight. The dog got many a bump and some pretty hard bites before Bessie's mamma could reach them and drive the intruder away. Then they all petted Fido, and papa changed his name to Hero, because ho had been so brave. Ever since that time Bessie loved him more than ever. She never forgot that he liked his breakfast and supper of nice new milk served by Bessie’s own hands. One day Hero found tho little black kitten away down the road somewhere, and he brought it home. He laid it in Bessie’s lap, while he looked in her face, as much as to s ly: “Please, take care of him, for my sake.” From that time they were always together.— Our Little Ones. Teaching to Memorize; A prominent man, who professes to be a teacher of memory, says: “In a few lessons I enable one to memorize the most difficult things without an effort.” “How can that be done?” asked a re ; porter for the New York Mail and Ex press. ‘ ‘Oh,it’s a matter of association, accord ing to a system I have worked upon for twenty-five years. It is based upon the alphabet and numbers. I take a person, and in a few hours can get him to repeat or reproduce a long poem which I have rend to him twice, or at the most, three times. He can repeat it backward or forward, and give you any line you may call for by number. I had a boy once only twelve years old, who, after learn ing the system, went to hear Beecher preach, and afterwards repeated the ser mon to an audience without having taken a single note. Os course,he did not give every word Mr. Beecher used, but he < covered every point in its regular order, 1 ju t as the preacher had done, curtailing 1 it to be able to deliver it in half the ' time it originally took.” “Do many come to you to have their ! faculties cultivated?” “Yes a great many or all classes, some I students, reporters, lawyers and preach j ers preachers and lawyers particularly. The former to acquire an aptness in metn i orizing sermons, and the latter to mem- I op ze authorities and dates. Orators also, i who memorize their speeches. Then, persons who are going in for an examina | tion come to me so as to 'earn to memorize dates and cventq location and rivers, historical, statistical and practical facts, etc. I had a navy officer here not long ago who was preparing for an examina tion for promotion and he pci footed him self in the system so that he could with out difficulty remember anything he de sired. There is an old lady between 70 and 80 years of age who, with her daugh ter has taken instructions, and she says she finds no difllcul'y in remembering and repeating what she reads. She says she can take ten poems she has read and repeat them alternately, a line from each.” A Sadden Change of Opinions Smith—l heard Brown speaking very highly of your neighbor Black yesterday. Jones —Brown is a fulsom flatterer. S—He also said that he thought you were one of the most estimable of men, a kind husband and father and a loyal friend. , J. —Oh!—er—Brown said so—h’m, I thought you meant White. Brown is an excellent fellow, honest and reliable.— Boston. Courier. 15‘INCOMPAIttBLE Tlie Most Perfect Instrument t l ’. World. Used Exclusively at the “Grind Conservatory of music,” OF NEW YORK. Endorsed by all Eminent Artists. Loir rniCKH! kasytkhms! AUGUSTUS BAUS & CO., rras. Warerooms, 58 W. 23d St. New York. I This Wash Board la made of ONE SOLID SHEET OV HEAVY COREL. 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I Are the Finest in tiie M. gi Thaao Extracts never vary. 3 BUPEEIOR FOR STRENGTH, QUALITY, h PURITY, ECONOMY, ETC. ■ Mndo from Selected Fruita and Splcea, ■ Insist cn having Bastlno’s Flavors AND TAKE NO OTHERS. R SOLD BY ALL CROCERS. 41 Warren St., New York. jhIORRVILLE CHAMPION COMBINED Acknowledged by ’l'hrc»li«;rni<-n to bo Tlic idling;! Rememberwe make the only Two-<’yih»<l*f (jriLiii Thr<**h<yr and Clover Hollar that do tho work of two Mepnrabi machinei Tho Clover Iflulh r in nota simple attnehrnant but a separate tnflllitf cylinder conwtrucUd and opera ted upon thomoMt approved scjentlflc principles. Hns ll* wblrst separating r.njwictty <rt any machine fothemarket. Im hffht, compact, durable, iifrew trot bolt nnd r«<iiairoa S«»wer find htt-s r working pnrja liMiiimy oth«-r tnttchisiOe aimplo frn construction th»it it i* ensily under* Blood. Win thresh perfectly all kinds of grain, pm", thnotby, fi*x, clover, etc. Rend for • ircular, price Met. etc., of T!irc«rmrH, KBgtneß, Haw Mills End Grain and be sure to mention this paper. Agents wanted. Address THE KOPPES MACHINE CO. ORRVILLE, O. JOBNSUTi-BNODYNE yaIINIMENT-:*:' sw-rrrßßn —Dlphtherli. Croup, Aa’nms, Bronchitis, Neuralgia, BheumatLa™, tn« KararnMß. D.flu<»nr.a. Jf i' zing Cough. CajArrh^cra Mo piarrbrr.a. Sidney Trouble*, andSpJruMjjteoaaea. Pamphlet free. for. J. H. JohiuMm S* Co., Boeeon, Maati. PARSONS 5 -S’ PILLS Th*-ae pills were r. wonderful discovery. others llk tt . rn In the world. /71D posltivsiv relieve all manner of diserato. The Informal n around <nx- . Lux U v/ortn t* l * rdlla Find out about them and you will always be thankful. pill u cior-n. Diustrated pawpMAt frei or r.snt by mail for 260. ioatumps, >r. I. g. JO AmROM ; CIT Bt_ ■ME HENS Lfilt No Rubbing! Xo Ihfkatlio! No bn i ingtrs! IFrt »*r<» h tf‘<l not to Jujitt'o the C'lothfn, Ask your Grocer for it* Uhe cannot sup ply vou, one cake will be mabed vhkk on receipt of six two cent stamp* for p<.st»;!e. A bcimtifuJ nine-colored ‘Chromo” with three half. Deal era and Groccri should write for particulars. C. A. SHOUDY & SON, ROCKFOnO. ill. r-THEj*’ Eawrenge PURE LINSEED OIL n MIXED HUNTS READY FOR USE. Trite nest Palut Made. Guaranteed to contain no water, ben z.ino, barytes, chemicals, rubber, asbestos, rosin, gloss oil, or othwr similar adulterations. A full guaranies on every paakwe and directions fyr upe, sq any one not a practical painter can UHl* Handsome Haiuule cards, ahcrwlKig •8 benutiCul eFtedCe, majlsd application. If not kept by yrAar dealer, write to ,Us. Be careful to ask for ‘'THE LAWRENCE PAINU,'* ■nd do not taAe any bther Bald to ba “ as (food WB Lawrence’s.” LW. W. UWRENCE & 60.,' PITTSBURGH, PA. paint It IU Tv ■ you tihould "I oxnuiJuo 7 wetherill's A I’ ort f°U° ■ .Ay Artistic Designs r (, l‘l I‘'i-'hloncd /V’ fToiWH.Quu'eijAnno CoUngcH, Hui.urban ''•/’ftA'-r ■’K Iteßltlrlircs, etc. ,col- / ' ord to match r shades of vIL T 27 -**♦’*'w ' and showing tho ~ z infest ami most of- fret Ivo combination w -n.r <)f colors in house painting. eonlenta V? y° ur flCAlor IlfMI not of»» er y pot our portfolio, njik him >. to wm! to us for one. You •tVac* ca’itliru see exactly how •ATLAS ■ 'o* your houao will appear READY- S’ ; when finished. MIXED \ ><\ Do this ami use “Atlas” paint \ \ Ready-Mixed Paint and In- , 'Jal ' J sure youreeii satisfiirtlon. < '1 *tf-Seoour<luaruitcO. rlGeo.D.Wetberill&Co. 1 l --JWHITE LEAD and PAINT | L 1 riJ MANUFACTURERS, / li. Lu 56 North Front Bt. PHILAD'A, PA. DURKEE’S £ pESIGCATtjj j “ CELERY " I POSSESSING THt CdMPUTE • OF THE PLANT (SapAU NTLET-B RAN D ■ SPICES SALAD DRESSING flavoring .•/ EXTRACTS ' ■! 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