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DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON.
“TWO YOUNG MEN WHO CAME
TO LIVE IN THE CITY?’
Text: “Fonder the )*athof thy feet."—Frov
erbsiv.» 9l>.
It was Monday, Hept ?mber i'O, ata country
depot. Two young men are to take the cars
to tbecity. Father brought them in a
with two’trunks. The evening bes >ro at the
old homo was r ather a >ad time. The ue.crh
bor* ha l gathered in to say good bye. In
deed, all the Sunday afternoon there had
l<en a strolling that way from adjoining
farms for it was generally known that the
two boys the next m >rniDg were going to the
city to live and the whole neighborhood was
interested, some hoping they would do well
and others, without saying anything, hoping
lor them a city failure. Sitting on the fence
talking over the matter, the ne-ghbors woul 1
interlani their conversation about the wheat
crop of last summer and the apple crop yet to
I>. gath *ie 1 with remarks about the city pros
pects of Edward ami Nicholas, for these
were the names of the two young men: Ed
ward, seventeen, and Nicho as, nineteen, but
Edward, although two years younger, being
nui- ker to learn, knew as much as Nicholas.
They were both brow n faced and hearty and
l a 1 gone through all the curriculum of coun
try sports by which muscle is developed and
the chest filled out
Father and mother on Monday morning
had both resolved to go to 1 he tiepot with the
boys, but the mother at the last moment
backed out, and she said that somehow’ she
ft-1 quite weak that morning, and had no
n latite for a day or two, and so concluded
to ? ay good-bye at tlp* front door of the old
place. Where she went an 1 what she did
utter the wagon left 1 leave other mothers to
guess. The breakfast things stood almost
till noon before they were cleared away. But
little was said on the way to the railroad sta
tion. As the locomotive whistle was heard
coining around the curve the father put out
hi- hand, somewhat knotted at the knuckles
aud one of the joints stiffened years ago by
a ’round from a scythe, and said: “Good-bye
Edward, good-bye, Nicholas! Take good
care or yourselves and write as soon as you
get there and let us know’ how they treat you.
Your mother will be anxious to hear."
landed in the city they sought out with
<\ us:deiable inquiry of policemen on street
corners and questioning of car-drivers the
two commer ial establishments to which they
were destined, so far apart that thereafter
they seldom saw each other, for it is aston
ishing how far apart two persons can bo in
a large city, especially if their habits are
different Practically a hundred miles from
Bowling Green to Canal street or from At
lantic avenue to Fulton.
Edward, being the youngest, we must look
after him first. Ho never was in so large a
stere in all his life. Fu h interminable
shelves, such skillful imitation of real men
and women to display goods on, such agility
< f cash boys, such immense st >ck of goods
and a whole community of employe-. His
head is confused as h? se. ms dropped like a
pebble in the gnat ocean of business life.
“Have you seen that greenhorn from the
country?’ whispers young man to young
man. “He is in such and a department. \\ e
will have to break him in some night. " Ed
ward stands at his new place all day so ho ne
sick that any moment he could have cried
aloud if his pride had not suppressed every
thing. Here and there a tear he carelessly
dashed off as though it were from influenza
or a cold in the head. But some of you know
how a young man feels when set down in a
city of strangel’s thereafter to fight his ow n
battles and no one near by seeming to care
whether he lives or dies. The centre of a
d?sert, a month’s journey to the first settle
ment, is not mu h more solitary.
But that evening as the hour for closing
lia- come, there are two or three young men
who sidle up to Edward.and ask him how he
likes the city.and where ha expects to go that
night, and if he would like them to show him
the sight-’. He thanks them, and says he shall
have to take some evenings for unpacking
and making arrangements, a- he has just ar
rived, but says that alter a while he will bo
glad to accept their company. After spend
ing two or three evenings in his boarding
house room, walking up and down, looking
at th? bare wall or anol I chromo hung there
at the time that religious new spapers,by such
pri es advanced their subs■•riptiou lists, and
a.t r toying an hour with the match box,and
ever and anon examining his wat h to s e if
it is time to retire, and it seems that ten
o’clock at night, or even nine o’clock, will
never come, be resolves thereafter to accept
the chaperoning of his new friends at the
st< re.
Soon the night comes when they are all
out together. Although his salary is not
large he is ciuito flush with pocket money
which the old folk - gave him after saving up
for so i e time. He cannot be mean and these
frien Is are doing all this for his pleasure and
so be pays the bills. zYt the door of places
of amusement bis companions cannot find the
change, or they accidentally fall behind just
as the ticket office is approached, or thev say
they will make it all right and will them
selves jay the next time. Edward, accus
tomed to farm life or village life, is dazed
and en banted with the glitter of spectacular
sin. Plain and blunt iniquity Edward would
have immediately repulsed, but sin accom
panied bv bewitching orchestra, sin amid
gilded pill* - ind gorgeous upholstery, sin
arrayed ii [be attractions that the powers
ofdarkne ;in comb nation can arrange to
magnetize a young man, is very different
from sin in its loathsome and disgusting
share.
But after a few nights, being very late out,
be says : “I must stop, my purse won’t stand
this. My health won t stand this. My repu
tation won’t stand this ” Indeed one of the
business firm one night from his private box,
in whi h he applauded a play in which atti
tudes and phraseology occurred which, if
taken or uttered in h s own narlor, would
have caused bim to shoot or stab the actor on
thespot,—from this hizh-priced box see-in
a cheaper pla e the new clerk of his store,
and is led to ask questions about his habits
and wonders how, on the salary the house
pays him, he can do a- he d m*s. Edward, to
recover his ' hysical vigor an 1 his finances,
stops a while and spends a few more even
ings examining the chromoson the w all and
counting the mat hes in the match box, or
goes d »wn in the boarding-house parlor to
bear the gossip ab >ut th i other b carders or a
dis-our.se on the insufficiency of the table
fare cons dering the pri epa d—the criti
cism severe in pro} orti n as the fault-finder
pay- little oris resolved to leave unceremoni
ously and pay nothing at all.
“C< nfound it?” cries the young man. “I
cannot stand this life anv longer, and I mast
go out and see the world." The same young
men and others of a now larger a quaintance
are ready to es ’ort him. There is never any
lack ol such guidance. If a man wants to
go the whble round of sin he can fin 1 plenty
to ta e him, a who e regiment who know the
way. But after awhile Edward’s money is
all gone. He has re -eived his salary again
and again, but it was spent before he got it,
borrowing a little here and a little there.
What shall he do now? Why. he has seen in
his rounds of the ambling tables men who
put down a dollar and took up ten. put down
a hundred and took up a thousand. Why
not he I To re onstructhis finances he takes
a hand und wins: is so pleased be takes an
other hand and win-, is in phrenzy of delight
and takes another hand and loses all.
When he first f ame to this city Edward
w a* disposed to keep Sunday In quietness,
n-a ling a little und going occasionally to
hear a sermon. Now, Sunday is a day of
carousal. He ts so full of intoxicants by 11
© clock in the day he staggers on the street
bom** morning, Edwa d, his breath stench
ful with rum, take his place in the store. He
fe not fit to be there. He is listb-ss or silly
or impertinent or in some way incompet nt
and & messenger comes to him and says:
“The firm desires to see you in the private
office.”
The gentleman in the private office says:
“r dward. we will not need you any more.
We owe you a litt e money for services since
we ’ a d you last an i here it is.”
“What is the matter V says the voung
man. “I <annot understand this. Havel
dnua anvthuxar/”
x?. - reply is "We do not wi h unv w<.ris
wi.h vou (ur engage...eat with ea .h otuer
u »-n ietb
“•hit of em loyment!” What does th*r
mean to ag» d y »ung man? It m*an< a,
opportunity to g?t another and pe hips a
letter place. It means opportunity for men
tal improvement and preparation for hi Ii t
work “Out of employment!” What does
that mean to a dissipated young man' It
means a lightning express tram on a down
grade on the Grand Trunk to Perdition. Al
Dorak was a winged horse on which Ma
li >.net pre ton do I t> have ridden by night
tro:n Mec a to Jerusalem, and froni.lcrusi
le nto the seventh heaven with s.i-h sneed
Giat each step was as :ar as the ey • could
rea *h. A young man out of employment
through bi< di *ipations is suited on an Al
Borak, ri*!i ig a • fast in th * upimsite dire.**
tion.
It is now on!v five since Edward
< ame to town. He us *l to write home once
a week at the longest. H»’ bis not written
home tor three mouths. “What cm be the
matter.'” say tn<>Jd peonle nr home. One
Saturday morning the fath »r puts on theb st
anparel of his wardrobe and go<s to the city
to find out.
“< )h. be has not b. ei here for a long
while,” say ide gentleman of the firm.
“Your son, 1 am sorry to say, is on the
wrong tra k.”
The old father goes hunting him from place
to place and comes suddenly upon him t hat
night in a place of abandonment The father
bavs: “My son. come with me. Your mother
Las sent me to bring you home. 1 hear you
are out of money and e>iod clothes and you
know as long as we 1 ve you can have a
home." “Come right away!" he says, put
ting ins hand on the young m in’s shoulder.
In angry tone Edwanl replies: “Take
your hands off me! You mind your own
business. I will do as I please. Take your
h inds off of me or 1 will strike you down!
You go your way and 1 will go mine.”
That {Saturday night or rather Sunday
morning—for it is by this time two o’clock in
the morning, the father goes to the citv home
of his son. .Nicholas, and rings the bell and
rings again and again, and it seems as if no
answer would L»e given, but after a while a
window is hoist “I and a voice cri js:
“Who's there ?”
“It is me," says the old man.
“Why, father, is that you f'
In a minute the door is opened and the son
says:
“What in the world has brought you to
the city this hour of the night ?”
“Oh. Edward has brought me here. I feared
your mother would go star* cra’.y not hear
ing from him, and I find out that it is worse
with him than I suspected.”
“Yes” says Nicholas, “I ha 1 not the heart
to write you anything about it, I have tri *d
my best with him and all in vain. But it is
after two o’clock.” says Nicholas to bis
father, “and 1 will take you to a bed. ’
< )n a comfortable couch in that house the
old father lies down, coaxing sleep for a few
hours, but no sleep comes. Whose house is
it! One rente! by his sou, Nicholas. The
fact is that Nicholas soon after coming to
the city became indispensable in the com
mercial establishment where ho was pla -ed.
He knew, what few persons know, that while
in all departments of business and mechan
ism and art there is a surplus of people of
ordinary application and ordinary diligence,
there is a great scarcity and always has been
a great scarcity of people who excel. Plenty
of people to do things poorly or tolerably
well, but very few clerks or business men or
mechanics who can do splendidly well. Ad
preciating this, Nicholas had resolved to do
so grandly that the business firm could not
do without him. Always at his place before
the time he was required to come. Always
at his place a little after everybody had gone.
As extremely polite to those who declined
purchasing as to those who made largo pur
chases. He drank no wine, for he saw it
was the empoisonment of multitudes, and
when any one asked him to take something
he said “No,” with the peculiar intonation
that meant no. His conversation was always
as pure as if his sister had been listening.
He went to no place of amusement where he
would be ashamed to die. He never bet or
gambled, even at a church fair. When he
was at the boarding house after ho got all
the artistic development he could possibly
receive from the chromoson the wall he be
gan to study that which would help him to
promotion: study penmanship, study biog
raphies of successful men, or went forth to
places of innocent amusement ami to Young
Men’s Christian Associations, and was not
ashamed to be found at a church prayer
meeting. He rose from position to position
and from one salary to an »ther salarf.
Only five years in town and yet he ha
rented his own house or a suit of rooms, not
very large, but a home large enough in its
hap in?s.s to be a type of heaven. In the
m riling as the old father with handkerchief
in hand comes crying down stairs to the table,
there are four persons, one for each side; the
young man. and opposite to him the best
blessing that a God of infinite goodnesi can
bestow, namely, a good wit \ and on another
side the high chair tilled with dimpled and
rollicking glee that ma\cs the grandfather
opposite smile out-ide while he has a brokeu
heart within.
Well, as I said, it was Sabbath an 1 Nich
olas and his father knowing that there is no
pla z o so appropriate for a troubled soul as
the house of God, fin 1 their way to church.
It is c ommunion day, and what is the old
man's surprise to see his son pass down the
aisle with one of the silver chali -es, showing
him to be a church ofii ial. Tne fact was
that Nicholas from the start in city life hon
ored God and God had honored him. When
the first wave of city temptation struck him
he had felt the me 1 of Divine guidance and
Divine protection and in prayer ha 1 a night
a regenerated heart, ami had obtained that
michtiest of all armor, that mightiest of all
protection, that mightiest of all reinforce
ments, the multipotentand omnipot mt grace
of God, and you might as well throw t histle
down against Gibraltar, expecting to destr >y
it, as with all the combined temptations of
earth and hell try to overthrow a young man
who can truthfully say: “God is my refuge
and strength.”
Come, let us measure Nicholas around the
bead. As many inches of brain as any other
intelligent man. Let us measure him
around the heart.. It is so large it takes in
all the earth and all the heavens. Measure
him around the purse. He has more re
sources than nine-tenths of any of those who,
on that Monday, September 20, came in on
any of the railroads from North, or South,
or East, or West.
But that Sabbath afternoon, while in the
ba k room. Nicholas and bis father are talk
in r over a new plan for the reclamation of
Edward, there is a ringing of the door b l.
and a man with a uniform of a policeman
stands there, and with some embarrassment
and some halting, and in a roundabout way
says that in a fight in some low haunt of t it
< ity Edward has been hurt. He savs to
Ni holas: “I lv*ard that he was some rela
tion of yours and thought you ought to know
it.”
“Hurt? Ls he badly hurt?
“Yes, very badly hurt?”
“Is the wound mortal?”
“Yes: it is mortal. I'o toll yon the whole
truth, sir,” says the policeman, “although I
can hardly bear to toll you, he is dead.”
“Deal!" cries Nicholas. And by this tim r *
the whole family are in the hallway. The
father says: “Just as I fearei. It will kil
his mother when she hears of it. Oh, my son,
mv son! Would to God I had died for th?e
Oh, my son, mv son.”
“Wash off the wounds,” says Nicholas,
“and bring him right here to my housa and
let there he all respect and gentleness suovrn
him. It Ls the last we can do fnr him.”
()h, what obsequies ! r l he next door neigh
bors hardly > new what was going on, but
Nicholas and the father and mother knew
Out of the Christian and beautiiul home of
the one brother is carried the dissolute
bro’her No word of blame uttered. No
harsh thing sa d. On the bank of camellias
is spelled out t e wor 1 “Brother.’ Had
the prodigal been true and pure and noble m
lie and honorable in death, he could not
have been c-arned forth with more tender
u nS. or slept 111 a more .1. ai ga 1 u ot
the dead. Amid tne loose led t irf the brothers
who left the country for < ity life five years
before now part forever. The last scene of
the fifth act of an awful tragely of human
life ii endxL ,
What made the difference between these
two young m-n ' Re’igton. The one de
pended o i him elf, ths other depended ou
’Jo I. They Hta’ tod fr mi the sam • h \h id
the sum t unportu’uties of e iu a’ion. arrived
in th'* citv o.i tne same dav and if thuv wa<
any di tore Edward ha i the advantage,
for he was brighter and nui/Rer aud ail the
n >ighb rs nron icsio.l greener success for him
than for Ni’holas. But eecol I and wonder
al ll.e trouiend >us iss ie. Voi’e. c >ma up
out of this an lien *o and say : Did you know
th *se brothe-s ? Yes, knew thrni wall. l)id
you know their parents ’ Ye<, intimat *lv.
Wnat was the city, what the street, what the
last names ot t he-♦» young men. You have
ex ute 1 our curiosity, now tell us all.
1 will. Nothing iu tht*sa <*hara -tors is firtl
t-ons except the names. They are in every
city and in every street of every city and in
every cemetery. Not two of them but ton
thousand. Aye, aye! Right before me to
day an 1 on eith »r side of me and above ma
thev sit an 1 stand, the invulnerable through
religious defence and the blasted of city al
lurements. Those who shall have longevity
in b 'dutiful homes and others who shall have
< arly graves of infamy. And lam here to
day in the name of Almighty God to give
you the choice of two characters, th? two
hist tries, the two experiences, th» two desti
ni >s, the two worlds, the two eternities.
Standing with you at the forks of the road
something makes me think that if to-day 1
s*t Ixsfore the noople the termini of the two
roads they will all of them take the right one.
There are before me in this house ami in the
invisible audienc? back of this—for journal
i<m has generously given me every wook full
opportunity to address the people in all the
townsand cities of Christendom—! say, in
the visible and invisible audience there are
many who have not fully made up their
minds which road to take. “Coni' with usl”
cry all the voices of righteousness. “Come
with us!’ cry all the voices of sin.
Now the trouble is that many make
disgraceful surrender. As we all know,
there is honorable and dignified sur
render. as w hen a small h>4 yields
to superior numliers. It is no hu
miliation for a thousand men to yield to
tea thousand. It is better than to keen on
when there can be no result except
that of massacre. But th >se who surrender
to sin make a surrender when on their side
they have enough reserve forces to rout all
the armies of perdition whether led on by
what a Alemonographer calls Belial or Beel
zebub or Apollyon or Abaddon or Ariel. The
disgraceful thing about the surrender nt
8 dan was that the French handed over 4V>
field guns and mitrailleuses, six thousand
horsesand eighty-throe thousand armed men.
And it is base for that man to surrender to
sin when all tho armaments of Almighti
ne;s would have wheeled to the front to fight
his battle if he ha 1 waved one earnest signal.
But no! he surrendered body, mind, soul,
reputation, home, pedigree, time and eter
nity, while yet all the prayers of his Christian
an -cstors were on his side and all the prof
erod aid, supernal, cherubic, seraphic, arch
angelic, deinc.
We have talked so much the last few weeks
about the abdication of Alexander, of Bul
garia, but what n paltry throne was that
which the unhappy King descended coni >ared
with the abdication of that young man or
middle-aged man or old man who iiuit- the
throne of his opportunity and turns nis b:i“k
upon a heavenly throne and tramp< off into
ignominy and everlasting exile. That is an
abdication enough to shock a universe. In
Persia they will not have a blind man o.i tne
t;irone, and when a reigning monarch is jeal
ous of some ambitious relative he has his
eyes extinguished so that he cannot possibly
ever come to crowning. And that suggests
the difference between tho way sin am! di
vine grace take* hold of a man. Tho former
blinds him so he may never reach a throne,
while the latter illumines the blind that he
mav take coronation.
Why this sermon? I have made up my
mind that our city life is destroying too many
young men. There comes in, every {Septem
ber and October, a largo influx of those l>e
tween sixteen and twenty-four veal’s of ago.
anil New York and Brooklyn damn at least
a thousand of them every year. They are
shoveled off and down with no more com
punction than that with which a coal heaver
scoops the anthracite into a dark cellar.
What with tho wine-cup and the gambler’s
dice and the scarlet enchantress, no young
man without tho grace of God is safe ton
minutes.
There is much discus uon about which is
the worst city of the continent. Some
say New York, so ne say New Orleans,
some say Chicago, gome say St. Louis. What
1 have to say is you cannot make much com*
1 ar son between tho infinities and in all our
cities the temptation seem > infinite. We keep
a great many mills running day an 1 night.
Not r.ce mills nor cotton m 11*. Nos mills of
corn or wheat, b it mills for grin ling up
men. Such are all the grog-shops, lice ns* 1
or unlicensed. Such are all the gambling
saloons. Such are all the houses of infamy,
and we do the work a ‘cording to law an I wo
turn out a new grist every h »ur, and grind
up warm hearts and clear heads, and the
earth about a eider mill is not more satu
rated with the beverage than the ground
about all the*e soul destroying institutions is
saturate I with the blood of victims. We say to
Long Island neighborhoo Is and villages:
“Send us more su >’»ly,” and to Westchester
and Ulster and all the other counties of '’ew
York: “Send us more men and women to put
under the wheels. Give us full chance and
we con’d grind up in the municipal mill five
hundred a dav. We have enough machinery;
we have enough men who can run them.
Give us more homes to crush! Give us more
oarental hearts to pulverize! Put into the
hopper the war 1 robes and the family Bibles
and the livelihood of wives and children.
< live us more material for these mighty mills
whi h are wet with tears and sill hurous
with woe and trembling with the earthquakes
of an incensed God who will, unless our cities
r**p'*nt, cover us up as quick an 1 as deep as
in August of the year 79 Vesuvius avalanched
Herculaneum.
? )h, man or woman, ponder the path of thy
feet' See whi h way you are going. Will
you have thedistmy of Edward or Nicho
as? On this sacramental dav when the
burnished chali es stand in the presence of
the people, start from the foot of the cross
for usefulness and heaven. Plutarch tells us
that after Cesar was slain and his twenty
three wounds had Ijeen disn’ayed to the im.*q
pie, arousing an uncontrollable excitement,
and the body of the dead conqueror, accord
ing to ancient custom, had been p it upon the
funeral pile and the flames arose, people rushed
up. took from the blaming mass torches with
which they ran through tht> city, crying
the glory of the assassinated and tho
shame of his assassinators. On this
sa ramenta! day when the five bleeding
woun is of Christ, your King, are shown to
you and fie fires of his earthly suffering
blaze before your imagination, each one of
von take u tor h and start heaven word, a
tor li with light for yourself ami light for
others, for the iace that starts at the cr *ss
ends nt the throne. While the twenty-throe
wounds of Cf-sar wrought nothing but the
consternation of tho people, from the five
wounds of our Conqueror there flows a
transforming power to make all the un
counted millions who will accept it forever
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twenty feet above down to the tie isers,
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circular and prices.
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PITTSTON, PA.
Jffiß
PMNTS
For Houses, Barns, Fences, Roofs, Inside
Painting, Wagons, Implements, etc.
Hummar’s Guaranteed Pure Paint.
Warranted to Give Satibtaction.
Economical, Beautiful, Durable, Excellent.
Send for free Illustrated and Oescriptl.e Catalogue to
F. HAMMAR PAINT COMPANY,
CINCINNATI—ST. LOUIS.
A,k jour merchant for IL
OTTR
I JOB PRlfflC
DEPARTMENT
wuppltad with all the raqulaitea for dUog
all kindi of Job and Book work in F-rsV-
Clata Style. Pro i.nt y and al H**-
•onabU I'riGM,
WXDnnrQ CARDS,
VISITING CARDS,
business cards,
BALL CARDS
POSTERS,
No Ribbing! No Bafkatlie ! No Sorr Fingers!
IFa»i*<m/<’d nut to Injure the Clot hrs.
Ask your Grocer for it. If !«• rnnnot sup
ply you, one cake will he mailed FHER on r» > • pt
of six two cent stHinpsfor p st’im*. A lienutful
nine-colored “Chromo” with three biui*. Deal
•m und Grocers should write for particulars.
C. A. SHOUOY & sm,
KOCKI OSI3. xx.x...
I” -THE-
[ffIRENCE
PURE LINSEED OIL
n MIXED
ffINTS
READY FOR USE.
Btr Tlie IlcHt I'utut Made.
Guarnnleetl to contain no wuter,
benzine, barytes, chemic»»la, rubber,
asbcHtou, rosin, glow® ull, or other
sin> iI a r ti du 1 t<?r;« tions.
A full qunrantee on every
Sind directions for liho, so that «ny
one not a prn< tical painter can use it.
Handsonns aarnpie cards, showing
8» beautiful ahadew, mailed tree on
• pplication. If not kept by your
dealer, write to us.
Bo card’ll to nsk for “THE IAWRENCF PAINI&."
■nd do not lake any olhor said to bo “ as yood «•
Lawrence's.”
W. W. LAWRENCE & CO.,
S»lT''VtaßlTlt<dW. nA.
YOU
PAINT
1 li/ examine
WETHER,LL ’ S
ArtisticOcsiQps
Old F nsh 1 oned
Honses,Queen Anno
Cottages, Suburlmn
//CtSR Residences, etc. .col-
/ ** orc, i
.r W l '** / Shades of
showing the
iifin latest and most rs-
Ca\ r 5 *** fcctlve combination
. , of colors iu house
piilntln K .
•oDianta IqJv-SSIf your denier has not
•r«very K°t our portfolio, ask him
pickßge L to send to us for one. You
• rour «e»t canthcn see exactly how
‘ATLAS i 'Aj t;, your house will appear
READY-\ when finished.
miyfd \ J J\‘ Do this ami use “Atlas”
MINT \ *«aJ \ Ready-Mixed Paint and in-
L wH * sure yourßen fiatisfactiou.
toßi vßMtii \ «-Seo our Guarantee,
faction. an<l I .
J flGeo.D.Wetlierill&Co.
u 4 \ f / /i .- white LEAD and PAINT
"/.'.‘.o. 1, |L' r d MANUFACTURERS,
/ M 56 North Front Bt.
PHILAD’A, PA.
DURKEE’S
*
!■»' I POSSESSING THE s
COMPLETE ;
■ FLAVOR OF THE PLANT
SSI GAUNTLET-BRAND
H SPICES
® MUSTARD
SALAD DRESSING i
FLAVORING .gj
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BAKING POWDER
CH^ LL^ f ?r Saij Ce ||i
Heats.fishß<
GENUINE INDIA
•CURRYPOWDER
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PARSONS’ S PILLS
These pllle were a wonderful discovery. Fo others like them in the world. WiD poeittvelv cure or
menne" of diaMM. Tho inforaatXn around eanh lox fa worth ton timaa tke ooot of a boa of
urr iirun ■ iirsv-ii-sS
sMB-HEOIis
I IMNCWWUMBLE
Bgi
The Most Perfect Instrnment & World.
Used Exclusively nt the
“Grand Conservatory of music,”
OF NEW YORK.
Endorsed by all Eminent Artists.
LOW FHICKS! KASYTKHMSt
AUGUSTUS BJUS4CO.,»w
Warerodms. 58W. 23d St. New Tori.
■ This Wash
Board Is to art •
of ONIC SOLID
AHEKff or
IIVATY COBRU.
GATED ZINf,
which producM
a <1 ou bla* faced
board of the
beat quality and
durability. The
flutlutf is very
daap, holding
more water, nnd
consequently
dfoh'g buttes
waaliing than
any wash board
in tho market.
The Ira in e is
made of hard
wood, and hold
together witli an
iron t<»lt run-
U. I.'«.r
of the zinc, thus
binding the
wholo together
in l he mint sub-
Stan tial manner,
and producing a
waub board which for cconom v.exrailenro and dur
ability ih unquestionably the heat iu the world.
We And ho niiinv dc.nlnra that object to our board
on account of its DUKAHII.ITY, aaying “It will
last too long, wo cun never sell a customer but
one.” We take thia means to advise consumers to
IIS HI Hl' upon having the
NORTH STAR WASH BOARD.
TUB DEMT IS TMD CMKAHKST.
I ■aad*ztur*d Uy PFANSCHMIDT, DODGE & CO,,
I S«8 A 280 Went Polk St., Chloago, 111.
I Are the Finest ii the World. I
Thea# Extracts sorer vary. I
BUPERIOR FOB BTBENGTH.QtJALITT, I
PURITY, ECONOMY, ETC. I
Made from SeleoUd Fruit, and BploM. I
Insist on having Battine's Flavora I
and take no others. ■
SOLD BY ALL GROCERS. I
BASTIUE & CO-,!
41 Warren St., Naw York. [
tsEORRVILLE
CHAMPION COMBINED
Grain TtaheijKloier Huh.
Acknowl<’<lK«d by ’Fbrc.hermeti to b.
TtLO King!
JBrtaaSffi '.SS'StKs
will do the work of two septate machines ■»•
Clover Unitor In nota simple att.M< hment bul
a separate hulling cylinder constructed and OP"*"
ted upon the mont approved sclentijc pi
If ks the widest separating capacity of an▼ macMue
in tho market. Ie compact diimblw,
ueee bill «n« belt and re< l••
power nnd l.nn F'W'r worUlnN
tlmnmiy otlser machine* Mo uliupy
in< »n«trnrllon Ibnttt l« •’"J* 1 Y
•(»»<!. Will thumb p -ltoclly .11
pe»e, timothy, n.i», clorer, etc. £.l Mini
prlco Hot. etc., of Tbreohere, Keirin"., - 1 *•
Jm<i (train Kepi.t. re. and b« .urn to mention Ibis
paper Aifetßla wanted. Addrc
THE KOPPES MACHINE CO.
ORRVILLE. O.
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