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DR. TALHAGES’ sermon.
the empty place.
.. .. t . ‘Thau slia't 1.0 mUscd, beaaaas tav
iiU be empty. —1 Samuel, xx. H.
Set ou the table th* cutlery, and ibased
jiverware of the palace, for Kin,; Haul will
Zjve a Slate dinner to-day. Adi tingu she l
SL-e i' kept at tbe table or his sou-in-m w, a
£ebraU*d war. ior. Dav.d by name. Tuo
ruests. ewele 1 and i lumed. come in ami
Ske their p aces. Übn | e >ple are invited
, fl King’s banquet they ar* very a«.t to go.
But before the covers are lit to 1 from the
fast Saul looks around ami finds a va ant
at t.e table. He says within hinwlf,. r
Serbap' audibly: ’What does this mean?
\Vbereis my son-in-law ? Where is David,
the gnat warrior f I invite ! him. I ex
pectel him. What l A vacant chair at a
King 8 banquet!”
The fact was that David the warrior had
been seated for the last time at his father in
law's table. The day before Jonathan had
I avid to go and occupy that place at
the table, saying to David in the words of
m y text: “Thou shalt be missed, because
thy seat will be empty.’’
she prediction was fulfilled. David was
missed. His seat was empty. That one va
cant chair sn< ke louder than all the occupied
chairs at the banquet. In al uost every
house the articles of furniture take a living
personality- That pi< ture—a stranger would
not see anything rema: kable either in its de
sign or ex cutioit but it is more t) you than
all the pictures or the Louvre and the Lux
embourg. You remember who bought it and
who admired it. And that hymn-book—you
remember who sang out of it. And that
cradle— you remember who rocked it. And
that Bible—you remember who rea 1 out of
it And that bed —you remember who slept
i n it. And that room—you remember who
died in it But there is nothing in all your
ho.iseso eloquent and so mighty-voiced as
the vacant chair. 1 suppose that before Saul
ami his guests got up from this banquet there
was a gre it clatter of wine-pit ±ers. but all
that ra ket was drowned out by the voi( e
that came up from the vacant chair at the
table. Many have gazed and wept at John
Quincy Adam’s va ant chair in the House of
Representatives?, and at Mr. Wilson s vacant
chair in the ice-Presidency, and at Henry
Clay’s vacant chair in the American Senate,
and at Prince Alb *rt‘s vacant < hair in Wind
sor Cadle, and at Thiers's vacant chair in the
councils of the French nation; but all these
chairs are unimportant to you as compared
with the vacant chairs in your own house
hold. Have these chairs any lesson for you
to learn i Are we any I etter men and women
than when they first addressed us?
I. First: I point out to you the father’s
va ant chair. Old men always like to sit iu
the same place and in the same chair. They
somehow feel more at home, and sometimes
when you are in their place and they come
into the room, you jump up suddenly and
say: “Here, father, here’s your chair.” The
probability is it is an arm-chair, for he is
not so strong as he once was, and he needs
a little upholding. His hair is a little frosty,
his gums a little depressed, for in his early
days there was not much dentistry. Perhaps
a cane chair and old-fashioned apparel, for
though you may have suggested some im
provement, father dees not want any of your
nousens *. Grandfather never had much ad
miration for new-fangled notions. I sat at
the table of one of my parishioners in a
former congregation; an aged man was at
the table and his son was pre iding, and the
father somewhat abruptly addressed the
son aud said: “My son, don’t now try to
show off because the minister is here!” Your
father never liked any new customs or man
ners; he preferred the (Id way of doing
things,and he never looked so happy as when
with his eyes closed he sat in the arm hair in
the corner. From wrinkled brow to the tip
of the slippers, what placidity! The wave
of the past years of his life broke at the foot
<f that chair. Perhaps, sometimes, he was a
little impatient, and sometimes told the same
story twi e; but over that old chair how
many blessed memories hover! I hope you
did not crowd that old chair, and that it did
not get very much in the way. Sometimes
the old man s chair gets very much in the
wav, especially if he has been so unwise as to
make overall his property to his children
with the understanding that they are to take
care of him. I have seen in such cases children
crowd the old man’s chair to the door, and
then crowd it clear into the street, and then
crowd it into the poorhouse, and keep on
crowding it until the old man fell out of it
into his grave.
But your father s chair was a sacred place.
Tne children us d to climb up on the rungs
of it for a good-night kiss. The longer he
sta ed the better you liked it. But that chair
bas been vacant now for some time. The
furniture dealer would not give you fifty
cents for it, but it is a throne of influence in
your domestic circle. 1 saw in the French
palace and in the throne room the chair that
Na; oleon used to o cupy. It was a beauti
ful chair, but the most significant part of it
was the letter “N,” embroidered into the
ba kof the chair in purple and gold. And
your father’s old chair sits in the throne
room of your heart, and your a factions have
embroidere 1 into the i ack of that chair in
purple and gold the letter “F.” Have all
the prayers of that old chair been answered?
Have all the counsels of that old ( hair been
practiced? Speak out, old arm-chair' His
tory tells us of an old man whose three sons
were victors in the Olympic games, and when
they came I ack, these three sons, with their
garlands, and put them on their father’s
brow, the old man was so *eioiced at the vic
tories of his three children that he fell (bad
in their arms. And are you, O man, going
to bring a wreath of joy and Christian use
fulness and put it on to your father s brow,
or on tl e vacant chair, or on the memory of
the one departed? Speak out, old arm chair!
With reference to your father, the words of
my text have been fulfilled. “Thou shalt be
missed, be ause thy seat will be empty.”
11. Igo a little further on in your house
and I find the mother's chair. It is very apt
to be a rocking-chair. She had so many
< ares and troubles to soothe that it must
nave ro kers. I remember it well. It was
an old chair, and the rockers were almost
•yorn out, lor I was the youngest, and the
( hair had rocked the whole family. It made
a creaking noise as it moved: but there was
mudc in the sound. It was just high enough
to all >w us children to put our heads into
her lap. That was the l>ank where we de
posited all our hurts and worries. Oh. what
a chair that was! It was different from tho
father's chair; it was entirely different. You
aske me how? I cannot tell; but we all felt
it was different. Perhaps ihere was about
this chair more gentleness, more tender
ness, more grief when we had done
wrong. When we were wayward father
scolded, but mother cried. It was
wakeful chair. In the sick days of
children other cha rs could not keep awake;
that chair always kept awake, kept easily
awake. That ( hair knew all the old lulla
bies and all those wordle-s songs which
sick children—songs in
all pity and compassion and sympa
thetic influences are combined. That Id
chair has stopp *d rocking for a good many
years, it may be set up in the loft or the
holds a queenly power yet.
hen at midnight you went into that grog-
s boi» to get the intoxicating draught, did you
not hear a voice that sad: “My son, why go
in there?” And lou !er than the boisterous
encore of the pla e of wicked amusement, a
V!? ® s *Yinz: “Mv son. what do vou h.re?”
nu when you w nt into the house of sin a
if 01 ? ‘'What would your mother do
®he knew y< u were here?”
And you were provoked with yourself, and
you charged yourself with s ioerstitioa and
anatici>m, and your head got hot with your
Wn thoughts, and you went borne and you
,. ent 1 a °d no sooner ha 1 you touched
ne ted than a voice said: “Wn t a praver
bs® pillow! Man. what is the matter?” This:
ou are too near your mother's rocking
**Gh. pshaw!” you reply: “there’s
lining in that I’m five hundred miles jff
irorn where I was born. I’m three thousand
c'V s from the church who-e bell was the
nrst music I ever heard.” I cannot h Ip
nat: you are too near your mother s ro< k
»rSi? a r • *’ you sav. “there can‘> be
ytrung m that; that chair has been vacant
a great while,” 1 <aunot help that; it :s all
' the mightier for that: it is omni that
I va ant n.utUer’a • 1 air. It whi yers it
i s eul.s; it we ps; it carols; it mourns; it
, piays; it wims; it thin der« A voungmau
i went o I and i roke his mother's heart, and
while he wns away from home his mother
died, and the telegiaoh brought tl e s- n and
he came into ibo ro »m where she lav and
looked upon her fa e, and he cried out “Oh
mother, mother! what your life could not do
your death >hall eiTe t." This moment I give
my heart to God.’’ And be kept his pro:nise.
A• ’ ■ti.er victory for the va am chair. With
reference to your mother the wor is of mv
text were fulfilled: “Thou shalt be missed,
because thy seat will be empty. "
Some one said to a Gre ian General:
hat was tho proudest moment in your
life.” He thought a moment and said: “The
proudest moment in my life was wheu 1 sent
*uiti nomc tj my parents that 1 j.a i game«l
J* 1 ® y ie tory. Ami the prou le t and mt st
brilliant moment in your lif • will be the mo
ment when you can send word to your parents
that you have t on juered your evil habits by
the grace of God, and become eternal victor.
Oh, despise not parental anxiety! The time
will come when you will have neither father
nor mother,and you will go around the place
▼here they used to watch you,aud find them
gone from the house,aud gone from the field,
and gone from the ueignliorhood. Cry as
loud for forgiveness as you may over” the
mound in the churchyard, they will not
answer. Deal! Dead! And the i you will
take out the white lock of hair that
was cut from your mother's brow
before they buried her, and you will
take the cane with which your father
used to walk, and you will think and
thiuk and wish that you had done just as
they wante I you to, and would give the
woild if y< u had never thrust a pang
through their dear old hearts. God pity the
young man who has brought disgrace on his
lather’s name! God pity the young man
who has broken his mother's heart! Better
if he had never been born: better if in the
first hour of his life, instead of being laid
against the warm bosom of maternal tender
ness, he had been coffined and sepulchred.
There is no balm powerful enough to heal
the heart of one who bas Drought parents to
a sorrowful grave, and who wanders about
through the dismal cemetery, rending the
hair and wring ng the bauds and crying:
“Moth'r! Mother!” Oh, that to-day by ail
the memories of the past and by ail the hopes
of the future, you would yield your heart to
God! May your father's God aud your
mother’s God be your God forever!
111. Igo on a little further; I come to the
invalid’s chair. What? How long have you
been sick? “Oh, I have been sick ten,
twenty, thirty years.” Is it possible? What
a story of endurance! There are in many
families of my congregation these invalid
chairs. The occupants of them think they
are doing no good in th * world; but that in
valid s chair is the mighty pulpit from which
they have been preaching, all these years,
trust in God. One day, ou an island just off
from Sandusky. Ohio, I preached, aud there
was a great throng of people there; but the
throng did not impress me so much as the
spectacle of just one face—the face of an in
valid who was wheeled in on her chair. I
said to her afterward: “Madam, how long
have you been prostrated?” for she was lying
Hat in the <ha!r. “Oh,” she replied,
“I have been this way fifteen years?’
I said: “Do you suffer very much?” “Oh,
yes ’ she said; “I suffer very much. 1 suffer
all the time; part of the time 1 was blind. I
always sutler.” “Well,” 1 said, “can you
keep your courage up?” Oh, yes,” .she said,
*1 am happy, very happy indeed.” Her face
showed it. She looked the happiest of any
one on the ground. Oh, what a means of
grace to the world, these invalid chairs!
On that field of human suffering the gra e
of God gets its victory. Edward Payson, the
invalid, and Richard Baxter, the invalid,
and Robert Hall, tho invalid, aad the teu
thousand of whom the world hasnexer heard,
but of whom all heaven is cognizant. The
most conspicuous thing on earth for God’s
eye and tho eye of angels to rest on is
not a throne of earthly power, but it is
the invalid’s chiir. Oh, these men
and women who are always suffering but
never complaining-these victims of sjiinal
disease, and neuralgic torture, and rheu
matic excruciation, will answer to the r Il
eal 1 of the martyrs, and rise to the martyr s
throne, and will wave the mar yr’s palm!
But when one of these invalid chairs be
come \ a-ant, how suggestive it is! No more
bolstering up of the weary hea l. No more
changing from side to side to got an easy
position. No more use of the bandage, and
the cataplasm and the prescription. That
invalid’s chair may bo folded up or taken
apart, or set away, but it will never lose its
queenly power; it will always preach of trust
in God and cheei ful submission. Suffering
all ended now. With respect to that invalid
the words of my text have been fulfilled:
“Thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will
be empty.”
IV. I pass on and I find one more vacant
chair. It is a high chair. li is Iho child’s
chair. If that chair be occupied, I think it
is the mo-t potent ( hair in all the household.
All the chairs wait on it; all the chairs are
turned toward it. It means more than David’s
chair at Saul s banquet. At any rate.it makes
more racket That is a strange bouse that
can be dull with a child in it. How that child
breaks up the hard worldliness of the place,
aud keeps you young to sixty, seventy and
eighty years of age! If you ha. eno chil lof
your own, adopt one; it will open heaven to
your soul. It will jay its way. Its crowing
in the morning will give the day a cheei ful
starting, and its glee at night will give the
day a cheerful close. You do not like children?
Then you had better stay out of heaven, for
there are so many there they would fairly
make youcia .y! Only about five hundred
million of them! The old crusty disciples told
the mothers to keep the hi Id ten away from
Christ. “You bother Him,” they said: “you
trouble the Master.” Trouble him! He has
filled heaven with that kind of trouble.
A pioneer in California says that for the
first year or two after his residence in
Sierra Nevada County, there was not a
single child in all the reach of a hundred
miles. Butihe ’th of July came, and the
miners were gathered together, and they
were celebrating the 4th with oration and
poem, and a boisterous brass band; and
while the ba d was playing, an infant’s
voice was h ard crying, an I all the miners
were startled, and the swarthy men began to
think of their homes on lhe Eastern coast,
an lof their wives and children far away,
and their hearts were filled with homesick
ness as they heard the babe cry. But the
mu4c went on, and the child * ried louder
and louder, and the brass band pl iyed louder
and louder, trying to d own out the in
fantile interruj ti n, when a swarthy miner,
the tears ro ling down his fa e. got up and
shook his fist, and said: “»>top t ;at noisy
bend, and give the baby a chance.” Ch,
there was pathos as well as good cheer
in it! There is nothing to ar<>us.*, and melt,
and subdue the soul like a child’s voice.
But when it goes away from you the high
chair becomes a higher chair, and there is
desolation all about you. In three-fourths
of the homes of my cong e-ation there is a
vacant high cnair. Somehow you never get
over it. There is no one to put to bed at
night: no one to ask strange que tion about
God and heaven. Oh, what is the use of
t at high chair? It is to call you higher.
What a drawing upward it .s to have chil
dren in heaven! And then it is s i h a in
ventive Against s.n. If a fa her is going
away into sin he Ita* es his living ch.ldren
w th their moth r; but if a father is go ng
aw iv into sin wnat is he o n to do with Ids
dead (h l Iren floating abou- him and hover
ing over his every way war 1 >tep? Oh. speak
out, va ant high chair and say: “lather,
come back from sin; mo her. cone back from
worl Hiuess. I am wat hm r you. lamwa t
in for you.” With respe t toyo ir (hld the
wor-lso my text have ueen fulfilled: “Thou
shalt be miss d. because thy seat will be
• emnty,”
Mz hearers, I have gathered up the vo es
I ('i your departs! friends an 1 tried to int ne
them i to one invitation upward. 1 set in
array ad the vacant - hans of your ho es,
aud of v ur so ial cir le. an 1 i bid them < ry
out: *‘Time is short. Eternity near. Ta..e
' mv Sav.o ;r. Be at peace with my > <od.
Come up where I am. We live 1 together on
earth; c .me let us live t -getiier in Heaven ’
We answer that invitation. Wo* comp, bk’-ep
a seat for us, a- Saul Ke t & va. tor David;
but that sea shill n tbe eim t/. AV aen we
are all through with tu.s wu. 1 *. and we have
shaken hr*:i b all aro.ind for the last time,
an 1 all o ire lairs in t e home circ e. and in
t iv out i iv wvrl i. >mil bv «aunt, may we
l>e worshiping <»' d in t nr i>;n e from which
we sum g> out n • m> »» f never. 1 tiioiK
Gud there .v.!l • v n » va aut chairs iu heaven.
How to Pnnisli ('liiblrcn.
“How to nunis.lt children." said Prof.
Adler, in n loAure recently, "is one of the
burning questio :s of the day. Upon it
dep nds in a greater degree than | eople
imagine the welfare of the state, the
family, societt and the ethical develop
ment of humanity itself. We would b 3
the physicians onr enemies; we would
profit by their hostility and lend them to
n bett r mind by gentleness and firmness
combined, and even chastise them when
their own good and social advancement
re uire it. How many parents know how
to punish children?
"A child will grow up, in nine cases
out of ten, tho embodiment of the in
fluences that sui round him. Neverchastiso
a child in anger. Socrates, the great
Pagan philosopher, refrained from pun
ishing a slave until his passion had
cooled. An angry father sets a perilous
example to his offspring. He exhibits his
we ku. ss when he should be firm and
contained. The child drinks in the les
son.and his moral nature is lacerated and
warped.
"How many children arc spoiled by
discouragement? Parents grumble and
chide the livelong day, and never praise.
It js wrong. Nothing will so effectually
crush a child's ambition to be good and
noble. The sweet approbation of a good
mother is enough to make a young man
face fire and deatli in a worthy cause.”
Sound From a Kay of Light.
A ray of light will produce sound. In
order to prove this a sunbeam is thrown
through a lens on a glass that contains
lampblack, colored silk, worsted or other
substances. A disk h iving slits or open
ings cut in it is made to revolve swiftly
in this beam of light, so as to cut it up,
thus making alternate flashes of light
and shadow'. On putting the ear to the
glass vessel strange sounds arc heard so
long as the flashing beam is falling on
the vessel. Recently a more wonderful
discovery has been made. The beam of
sunlight is made to pass through a prism
so as to produce what is called the solar
spectrum or rainbow. The disk is turned
and the colored light of the rainbow is
made to break through it. N< w place
the ear to the vessel containing the silk,
wool or other material. As the colored
lights of the spectrum fall upon it sounds
will be given by different parts of the
spectrum, and there will be silence in
other parts. For instance, if the vessel
contains red worsted and the green light
flashes upon it, loud sounds will be given.
Only feeble sounds will be heard when
the red and blue parts of the rainbow
fall upon the vessel, and other colors
make no sounds at all. Green silk gives
sound best in red light. Every kind of
material gives more or less sound in dif
ferent colors and utters no sound in
others. Cultivator.
Chemical Nomenclature.
Persons who undertake to gain through
chemical literature a knowledge of what
chemists are doing in and for the world
encounter a discouraging nomenclature
which repels them by its apparent in
tricacy and its polysyllabic character.
Their opinion of the terminology of an
exact science is not enhanced when they
learn that "black-lead” contains no lead,
"copperas” contains no cop| er, “mosaic
gold” no gold, aud “German silver” no
silver; that "carbolic acid” is not an
acid, "oil of vitriol” is not an oil; that
olive oil is a “salt,” but “rock oil” is
neither an oil or sat; that some sugars
are alcohols, and some kinds of wax are
ethers; that “cream of tartar” has noth
ing in common with cream, “miik of
lime” with milk, “butter of antimony”
with butter, "sugar of lead” with sugar,
nor ‘ liver of sulphur” with the animal
organ from which it was named. Read
ers of chemical writings sometimes fail
to appreciate t ie advantages of styling
borax "di-meta-borax of sodium,” or of
calling common alcohol "methyl carbi
nol,” and they ignore the euphony in
such words as pentamethyldiamidothi
odiphcnylamindiiodomethylate (a sub
stance begotten and baptized by Dr.
Albert Maasen. — Popular Science Monthly.
A Chinese Barber.
Allen Furman hai been visiting a Chi
nese barber in New York, and gives his
experience as follows:
The barber is an artist in his line, and
uses an assortment of razors which
would puzzle the American tonsor. He
first lathers the face with a tooth brush,
and then attacks the beard with a broad,
short-bladed razor, set solidly in its
handle like an ax. He scrapes away
with this for awhile, and changes it for
a narrower and lighter blade, until he
finally shaves the nose and inside the ears
with a thin, flexible bit of fin ly tern
peied steel alrout ns broad as a match.
He wiggled this thing around in one of
my ears, and I sat in blissful unconscious
ness, supposing it to be a bit of bamboo.
I caught sight of the bit of steel and
asked if it was sharp. In answer he
pin k d a hair from my head and cut it
with a single stroke. Then I sat in tor
ture whil h ■ manipulated the other car,
expecting every n.oment to sec that use
ful portion of my anatomy fall to the
floor liced off by a slip of t e keen st el,
but the-e Chinamen are wond<Tfdly dex
terous in the use of their tools, and I
roe from the chair without a scratch,
but ba lly friglitencd.
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Apropos of the expulsion of French
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to an untimely or ignominious end. Ac
cording to this authority the world has
1 ad 2, >‘O Kings or Emperors, who have
reigned over 74 peoples. Os these 300
were overthrown. > w re forced to abdi
cate, 28 committed suicide. '3 became
mad or imb cile, 101 were killed in bat
ik,. 123 were captured by the enemy, 28
we e tortured to death, 151 wore assas
sinated and 108 were executed.
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The Most Perfect Instrument & World.
Used Exclusively at the
“Grand Conservatory of music,”
OF NEW YORK.
Endorsed by all Eminent Artists.
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AUGUSTUS BAUS&CO,,M'm.
Warerooms. 58 W. 23d St. New Your.
■ This Wash
Board li m»di
•f ONB SOLIB
BHBET OB
HEAVY CORBU.
HATED ZINC,
which produces
a double-faced
board of the
beat quality and
durability. The
fluting ie very
deep, bolding
more water. And
consequently
dicing better
wnwhing than
any wiMih board
in tho market.
Tho frame is
made of hard
wood, and hold
together with an
iron lw»lt run-
the lower edge
oftbo zinc,thus
binding the
wbolo tognthM
In tho most sub
■ten Ual manner,
and producing a
washboard which for economy,excellence and dur
ability is unquestionably the beat In the world.
We find ho many dealera that object to our board
ess account of its DOBABILITY, saying **lt will
laet too long, we can never sell a customer but
am’’ We take this means to advise consumers to
IWSIS'I' upon having the
NORTH STAR WASH BOARD.
TSSSC BEST ■■ TBB CIMOSST.
■-.Urtnr.d by PFANSCHMIDT, DODGE & 00.,
MS & 250 West Polk St., Chicago, til.
Are the Finest in the Worli.
i Tlieao Extracts never vary.
EffPEKIOa FOR STRENGTH, QUALITY,
b PURITY, ECONOMY, ETO.
Made from Selected Fruita and Sploesi
Insist cn having Bastina’a Flavors
AND TAKE NO OTHERS.
SOLD BY ALL GROCERS.
EASTIITE & CO.,
41 Warren St., New York.
theORRVILLE
CHAMPION COMBINED
Grain ClorerHuller.
Ackssawledßcd by Tbre.bersnen to be
’V-i'-
The King!
Rernemberwe make lhe onlyTwss-Cviiiidw
Crain Tlireaher and Clover Hnllwr that
will do the work of two separate nio' ldnet I Ise
Clover Iluller is not a simple attachment hot
a separate bulling cylinder constructed and ooerar
ted upon the moat approved scientific principles.
Han the widest separating capacity of any machine
In the market. In lig Ist, compact, durable,
uses but one belt and reatilros leae
power and haw ftrwer working parts
thaaany other machine. No al in pie
In constr action that it la east IV under
stood. Will thresh perfectly all kinds of grain,
pens, timothy, fl«x, clover, etc. Send for ' freedar,
price list, etc., of Threshers, Engines, Raw Mills
and Grain XegfMera. and be sure to mention thia
paper. Agents wanted* Address
THE KOPPES MACHINE CO.
ORRVILLE, O.
JQHNS'JfDANODyNE
■T-OmiES —Diphtheria, Croup, Asthma, BromthiUs. Veuralria, BhentnaliMn, Bleeding at thw
Hoaraeneao, li.fiaenaa, Kaokinf Cough. Whooping Cough.Catarrh.Cbolovk MorF*ui. Dysentery. Chrorto
Karrbrea. Kidney Tmablam, aod Bydnal Diaeaaes. PanyhlM tr—. brTL B. Johnson St Co.<po«Um, Maw.
PARSONS’ “i PILLS
Thene pills were a wonderful diaccvory. Vo others Ifkr-1' in tu, world. Win poeltirM, «». ar
rnltove .11 meaner of dIMMe. Th. nAmr .’ a around moo i.ux U "“'‘h ““ Ums. Ui. OOM of • bos of
|s£giii|/r iiruo I K
I L<tfKFO/taj |
L ILL. O-*
L» - ihe-.z”’
N« Robbing! No Barkuflie! No Serf Fingers!
D’arnmfrd nut to Ctolhrs,
Awk your tiroerr for It. If hr cannot rup*
ply you, one cak« will be mnbed fukkoii r ’ ,< ' ,, ’P'
of six two cent, stamp” for postage. A bcantlful
nine-colnrcd ‘Chromo” with three burr. Deal
ers aud Grocers should write fur particulars.
C. A SHOUDY & SON,
RGCKF ORD. ijll..
Lawrence
PURE LINSEED OIL
n MIXED
Faints
READY FOR USE.
w Tbe Beat Baint Made.
Ou«rant«od to contain no watar,
benzine, bm-ytea, chemical., rubbee,
aebeetos, roein, oloa. oil, or oibOT
aimil.r i«duiternuona.
A full flunrantee on .very package
and directions for use, so that any
one not n practical palnter ckn ua. IL
Handsome sampl. cards, showtaflf
M beautiful shades, mailed tree 06
application. If not hept by yo«a
dealer, writ, to us.
Becarehltoiikfor “THE LAWRENCE PAINTV*
Mid 4o not take an, otharoald to bo “ a. f.M
Laarroaco’o."
IW. W. LAWRENCE t 00.,’
rs.
BEFORE ‘
YOU
PAINT
xxvv' 5' 1 W cx a |n lno
>1 fl WETHERILL’R
\QbvSv >< i' \ \ml Portfolloof
xSSv.'s V<LZ , ' X >.' * r, l’ , l c D«sl|l n *
-V <>!<! I'lishlonrtl
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'■"haK'''’. Suburban
Boslilenwn, oto. ,col
/ ' A urtMl to match
/ WjF ka ! <A ohudcaof
~ *“*-/ ' CtfF and allowing tlio
latest and must (<-
fecllvo combination
Waaler (>r colors in house
painting,
eontenta If yoUF OCftlcr hM not
or ovary f got our portfolio, uak him
pukago | to xciid to us for one. You
TltFacm . • can then sec exactly how
AiLAb i - w «‘i your house will appear
READY- \ . w when flnjahed.
MIXED \ •W\ Do this and use “Atlas”
FAINT Ready-Mixed Paint and In-
* I'lWI \ hnr<j youTMoi fliitiNfactlon.
aurSeooiirtliiarantoe.
SHH |lniGeo.D.Wetlierlll4Co.
I I WHITE LEAD and PAIor
j \ J i J MANUFACTURERS,
/ ® Ub 56 North Front Bt.
PHILAD’A, PA.
DURKEE’S
(jESICCATEtj
& ‘’ CELERY 7
® I POSSESSING THE
COMPLETE
FLAVOR OF THE PLANT
6AUN TL E BRAN’p
OSPICES
w MUSTARD
SALAD DRESSING ti
..FLAVORING fST
EXTRACTS ' 1!
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