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' DK. TALMAGE’S SERMON.
SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS
T t . “Net sWhfnl fn business, fervent in
? t> serving the Lord.”—Romans xii. 5.
ind ’strv devoutnew and Christian service
•1 reioniniended in that short text. What,
t'vou really think they can ba conjoined ?
»h res. There is no war betwe *n religion
1 n I badness, between bibles and le Igers, be
*» n churches and count.ng houses. On
contrary, religion accelerates bus
lo\. sharpens men’s wita, sweetens
lD L|’ity of disposition, fillips the slow blood
* nhleg and throws more velocity
'ntoalUho wheels of hard work. It gives
I alaiMiQfi U> the judgment, it gives
,'njrth to the wealth, ft gives muscle to in
7 .*• it gives consecrated fire to enthu
4l.\nf an lin all the world and in all th?ages
cannot show ine a man whose honest
£ iness has been despoiled or hurt by his re
i’lan Anvthinr that religion will
help vou do ought never to
?, done- The industrial classes are
h i led into throe groups—producers, manu
facturers. Producers, such as far
mars and miners. Manufacturers, such as
•hos? "ho take the corn and turn it into
i ,1 or the silk or the flax and turn it into
•lothing. Traders, those who profit by the
L'ansfe?- or exchange of that which is pro
duced or manufactured. Now, a business
man may belong to any one of these classes,
or to all of Uiem. Whatever be your
a m ation—if you have to plan and
ealc date and bargain—if into your life there
t-oine annoyances, vexations, exasperations,
disappointrnente. as well a; gains, pereent
•tres and dividends—if you are harassed with
multiplicity of occupation ; in other words,
i from Monday morning until Saturday
ni ht. aud from January to January you
are driven by relentless duty and obliga
tion. then you are a business man or a
bjsness wotnal and my subject this
morning is especially appropriated to your
case. There is anJd a abroad that business
life is a sort of pfilon in which a man is in
carcerated. or it is a strife into which ho goes
sometimes half armed. But I shall sho w you
tlua morning, it <’Od will help me, that busi
ness life is a glorious education, and if I shall
Im? divinely aided I will rub some of the
wrinkles from your brow and unstrap some
of the burdens from your back.
Do you know that the time is coming
when the religion of Jesus Christ is going to
take entire possession of the business world?
Two rivals iu busines did each other as much
i arm as they could for many years. They
were in the .‘•ame'line of busines and on the
same street. Aft r a while one of them was
converted to God. and he immediately asked
himself: ‘Now, how shall I treat my rival?
Well,’’ ho said to himself, “I will
treat him in this way: When a man comes to
niy store aud wants a style of goods that I
have not, 111 send him over to my rival.” A
very hard thing to do. But the gra o of
(lod will help a man do anvthing that is
right, go the plan was carried out, and this
rival in business found customers coming
from the other store and aske 1 about it, ami
found that they were recommended by his
obi rival »So he called on him, and
said: “How's this? We warred against
inch other for many years, and now I hoar
vo i are sending me customers. Those who
cannot get certain styles of goods in your
store yeti are sending to mine.” Then the
rival told him how he had been converted by
the gra eof God, and ho had lea- ned the
law <>f kindnessand love and generosity, and
then they shook hands, and it was not many
w e .s before the other man came into the
Kingdom of God, and for many years
they di 1 business m quietude and
prosperity and Christian kindness on
the tame. street. And that principle is going
to submerge the whole earth, pernaps not in
your day nor m ine,but it will come as certain
ly as there is a God in Heaven, and the Gos
pel of Jesus Christ is to triumph over all
nations. If we do not see it perhaps our
children will see it. But, taking things as they
are, I want to show you, in the first
place, that business life is a school
for Christian energy. Gcd starts us in the
world with a certain amount of raw mate
rial out of which we are to hew our charac
ter.” Every faculty needs to be reset,
rounded, sharpened up. After our young
folks have graduated from s bools aud col
lege-; an 1 universities thev hove to have a
higher education, which they can only get
by the collisions and the raspings of every day
life. Energy of character is wrought out only
in the fire. After business m“n have been in
the-e adversities ten. twenty or thirty years,
they have an energy which cannot be meas
ured by weight; or ladders or plummets. It
can scale any height. It can plummet any
depth. It can thrash any obstacle. Now’, oh
business man, you have in this school of
active life gained a great deal of energy.
Why has God put you in that school, and
why has this development gone on?
Merely that you may gain more dol
lars and build large fortunes and spend
your days higgling and chaffing?
Ah, no. God intended yon to bring atl that
energy into his service. What would occur
in these cities if all the business talent were
brought into the Kingdom of God? Do you
not know that in many of our churches the
vast majority of work is being done by those
who have not had any especially opportunity,
while in all our churches there is a vast amount
of energy settling into comparative idleness.
The deepest streams do notseem to be turning
the mill wheel or hauling on factory bands.
Do vou not know that God demands" tho best
lamb out of every flock: the richest sheaf
out of every harvest the Lest men of every
generation, and surely, in a cause in which
Locke and Mansfield and Newt >n were proud
to be engaged.you and I need not be ashamed
to invest our interest. Oh. for fewer idlers
and for more workers. Oh, that the im
mense, the almost infinite business energy o f
tcese cities might be consecrated to God.
I remark furthsr that business life is a
school for Christian patience. During one
day's engagement how many things to per
turb and auuoy and perplex. Bargains will
nib. Men will break their engagements.
Collecting agents will come back empty
handed. Tricksters in business will take ad
vantage of the hard times when they do not
pay in good times. Goods put on the
JTong shelf. Cash book an I money
drawer in a quarrel. People intending no
harm going shopping, having no id*-a of
making purchases, or after a while trying to
break the dozen. Goods ordered for an espe
cial emergen y and not coming, or coming
damaged in the transportation. More
counterfeit bills in the drawer. Another
ridiculous panic. Other men’s notes
pay. Annoyance after annoyance,
and under the pro-sure hundreds
and thou-ands of men go down. They be
come cross and cranky and pugnacious, and
after a while people lea -e their store and
their nam<* becomes a positive detestation.
Ou the other hand, f could mention the
name of a score of merchants, business men
m all d -partrnents,who have been brightened
U P by the process. They can look back
to the time when they gave retort for
f®tort, sarcasm for sarcasm, wrong for
jrooz, but not now. They remember when
they hail to bite their lip. They remember
when they thought of the stinging answer
they would like to have sent. They remem
ber just how they could have overthrown
their antagonists in business. But they have
conquered th -mselves and when a man has
couriered himself he has conquered the
obsta les in human life. He
has suppressed all this. It has been a
ynoo] of patience to him. Christ came
through all the annoyances of his life and
Itohi n: “Let patiencq have her perfe t
work; in j atience possess your soul.” There
* r men h- re to-day who under all this per
a - ion and annoyance of life have been
jneil >wed. have been rinened for more use
lu.ne-is and n eaed to- Heaven. It has t>een
a- for patience all rears. Archi
ua. j si ane was one of the chief business m*n
< hdadelf hia. When I res! led in that citv,
he Lad b*r-n gon? many years, the
■r .of integity and of his kindness and
his nobility of character w in the air.
. e ha 1 lost all his propertv. He had been
J® a firm who had not done right, and to
rn ‘ c their wrong Archibald Sloane bad wv?-
n -d the la<t dollar of his private fortune,
everything that they owed. In
Phladelnhia he rose in nrospe-lty, and tna
i story of his goodness, of his in egrity. of his
kindness, was everywhere told. Once he
went to collect a debt, and he came back
without the money. Soma one said: “Did
vo i 'et the money?" He replied: “No, I
didn’t get it. I went to the man’s house and
I saw thev were ju«t packing up their goods,
and they were juat about to move to Tex as,and
, were going t> start anew in 1 fe; and I saw
the wife, and i saw the children, and I ma le
up my mind if 1 Miaed their property I would
kike the bread out tho children’s mouths,
and I could not do it, aa I I came away
without saying one worl about it. “Ah,"
save some one. “that isn’t business,” and
I have heard it before that “business is
business.’’ After a while you and I will
come up before the throne of God in
judgment. How if Christ should say
to us: “Right is and wrong is wrong.
You did a thousand wrong things in your
life; you neglected a thousand duties. De
part, ye cursed! Business is business!”
There is an old book that says something
like this; “With what judgment ye mete it
shall be measured to you again.” I would
rather take the opportunitv, the chan e of
Archibald Sloane in the judgment.
My subjec t al<o impresses metwith the fact
1 that business life is a school for the obtaining
of very important knowledge. Business men
for the most part do n H rea 1 books. The
business men of America do not average one
book apiece a year. Yet they are all intel
i ligent if they have succeeded—intelligent on
•questions of finance an I jurisprudence and
; geography and ethics and morals. Th«y are
compelled to intelligence bv the activities of
business life. Often some of those who have
large labraries know nothing about them.
Their libraries are established in tho same
way as when in England a library was to be
established and a Secretary wrote to a book
, seller: “Send my master six feet of theology
and about as much metaphysics and some
thing like a yard of old civil law." And 3 r et,
though they as a class do not read many
i books, they are compelled by their style
.of life to intelligence. Misfortune is’ a
harsh schoolmistress, and when a pupil
will not learn she strikes him with irrevoca
ble loss. You put $5,1)0 )in business and it is
gone. You say “these $5,00 • are all wasted."
No, they were the tuition—expensive school
ing—but it is worth it Traders in grains
are compelled to bo intelligent in regard to
foreign harvests. Traders in fruits
are compelled to be intelligent in
regard to the prospe ts of tropical
fruits. Manufacturers of American goods
are compelled to be intelligent in regard to
tho tariff on importe 1 artTHos. Tho question
that I want to pre ent to you this morning
i is. have you applied your intelligence in the
Christian direction? Trading with foreign
lands, are you nut interested in foreign mis
sions? Understanding how in business there
is so much fraud and chicanery
and double dealing, are you advo
| eating the Gospel or Jesus Christ to eradi
cate all wrong and irradiate all
darkness and correct all mistakes and up
lift all wretchedness! Understanding as you
, do all the intricacies of business, do you un
derstand that there is something for the soul
I which will last after all bills of exchange
and invoices and rent rolls shall have crum
bled up and Ijeen i onsumed in tho fires of a
I judgment day. Wise for time, are you
wise, my brother, for eternity? “What
shall it profit a man if he gain the whole
world and then lose his soul.'"’
I go further and remark to you that busi
ness life is a school for integrity. It requires
more business grace n w than it did in the
time when there were uo stock gamblers and
woolen was woolen and silk was silk and
i men wore men. There n ver was a time
i when there were so many temptations to
s ‘oundrelism as there are t -day. There
• are so many men doing business on a wrong
scale in all departments that if a
man startscut and stakes a straight path for
himself it is called verdancy, it is as
cribed to lack of tact, business ta *t. You
know better than I do how true all this is,
and how you, tho Christian man, trying to
live faithful to God an I do justice to your
soul and the s mis of others, you know how
many obstacles you have to run against. In
the city of New York a young man
was selling goods and after hs had
sold a silk dress to a lady he
said; “Madame, I feel bound to tell vou
' that there is a fracture in that silk” “Why,”
' she said, “then I don't want it.'’ She de
l parted without tho goods. The head man
of the firm came and said: “What was that
customer wanting?” “Well,” the other re
plie 1. “she bought this dross, but I felt bound
to tell her there was a fracture in the silk,
so she went off without it.” The
business man then went into his
counting room and wrote a letter to the
young man’s father in the country: “Come to
town quickly and take vonr boy.” Tho old
farmer came down to the city in great agita
tion, wondering what his boy had been
doing, and he went into the st ire, and the
head man of the firm recited all the circum
stances aud said: “Your son will
never make a merchant.” Tho old farmer
said: “Is that all? Is that all my
b >y has been doing, pointing out the imper
fections in the goods? Well, I always was
proud of John aud 1 am prouder now than
ever. John get your hat and come homo.”
And I tell young men it is always safe to do
right and it is never safe to do wrong. God
will never lot a young man like that suffer.
Oh, how hard sometimes it is to take the
straight path when so many are divergent.
And yet there are those. I beli ;ve they
are in the majority. I believe there is a
higher stylo of commercial ethic; than ever
before, and I believe they are in the ma
jority, the men who •an say: “I never mis
state the value o'' good;, I never covere 1 up
the imperfection in a fabric. In all of my
money there is not a dishone t faith, ng. Go 1
help me.” If you do not know such men I
am sorry for your acquaintances. I know
many such. They are as lion st as th , day
they sold their first yard of cloth, or
their fii>t firkin of butter. So it will Ikj all
the way thr< ugh. The school of life has do
velopea them. They can ay their prayers
without being haunted by the chink of dis
honest dollars. They can read their bible
without thinking of t he time when with a lie
on their soul they kissed the book in the Cus
tom House. They <an think of death wiih
cut having their teeth hatter at Ihe thought
of a judgtuentjwhere defrauders and jockeys
and tricksters and charlatans '•hail be doubly
damned. They car. n*ad without flinching:
“As a partridge sotteth on eggs and hat heth
them not, so ri hes g< t by fraud, a man shall
leave them in the midst of his days, and at
the end he shall be a fool.” Are you being
developed upward by the school of
business life, or are you being
developed downward; I was reading
vesterday in an old book < f a scene that oc
, < urred in New York City. Mr. N was
in a group of gentlemen, and he said: “If 1
had fcyOOd I could double the money in a
short time in business, but 1 don t know
where I shall get the $5,0)0.’ There was a
Georgia planter standing by, and be
“You want. $5,000 do you?” “ Yes.” ’ ‘ Whit
security, can you give for it?” “Well, he
said, “the word of an honest man.
“I’ll take that as se urity,” said
the Georgia planter. So he gave
him ache k for $5,0 h). Time passed on and
the Georgia planter was in business troub e.
H s fortune, had failed and he must raise
and he said to himself: “Now, J will
go to that man iu New York whom 1 helped
and I think he will help me.” He ca ne to
New York. He told th? man his perplex
ity. He said: “1 loaned you $5.0/)
aud upw I wish you w >uld loan
me “Well,” said th, otuer
' '-what se urity will you give me;’ He re
r.li; 1: “The word oan hon-st man. “leant
, !-r v. u have it on that ground.' He did not
i-t him nave it. Busin ss life, how it de
velops some men up and bow it develop!
i oth r> down. What vast multitudes are
ground to powder, when God intended all
Le hardships, al the annoy men,, all th;
vexations and all the a divitiei an opp >r
tunlty for developing the soul for use! ulnoss
and for Heaven.
No.v, if tnese things be so, it s ens to me
that we ought to enlarge our sympatiiiee to
ward business men. It ts a shame tha in our
pulpits we do not oftener s -oak of their
tr als, their mis'ortuoes aud their bar iships.
Tue fa t is, the men who Uni with the
hand are not always sym >achetic
those who toil with the brain. Ine
man who raises the corn and the
wheat h apt to think that the gram mer
chant get, his nioujy eadly. Does he? lam
sorry to see that the fl«c is often Jealous of
the brain. ’ Plato and Aristotle were so op
l>o el to commerce that they pronounced it
thecureeof the nations and they advised
that no city ever tie built nearer thesoaboard
than ten miles. But you and I have learned
that there are no mon* faithful or
more con*’ratel men than thos? to bo
found in business life, and that they lift a
burden heavier than the carrying of a hot!
up the ladder oa the wall, and that t.i<‘\ get
out into exposures sharper than t he northeast
wind aud tliat they climb heights greater
than tho Alp* or the Himalaya, and God is
going to meet them at the last an I say to
them: “Well done, good and faithful ser
vants; you have been faithful over
a few things. I will make thee ruler
over many things; enter into the
joy of the Lord. ’ If what lam saying is
true, then I enjoin upon you to ouit all fret
fulness about business matters, is there not
somet ring iu your house that you would
rather have than all tha worl Uy success of
som? men you know? Betid ‘ that, if business
life be a s bool, ought you not be thankful to
God forth * whip of discipline' The more
notes you have to pay, the larger the obliga
tions yon have to meet; the greater the un
certainties of b isiness life, the i>etter for you
if by the gra *e of God you con pier. Il »w do
1 know’ it? 1 know it by the principle tho
hotter the fire the better the relining. Who
are they’ be .'ore tho throne? There is a
vast multitude of business men who were
in perplexities just like yours. We are
wry apt to put a hal» around the departed,
but I tell you there are men in glory now
who had the same battles to in business
life that you arj fighting, and they
triumphed in the grac> of God. They were
cheated out of everything but their coflins.
They Were sued. They were ejected from
the premises. 'They were throttled by c in
stables, with whole i a ks of writs. They
had to confess judgment. Upon the most sa
cred family relic the auctioneer’s mallet came
down—going, going, gone! And yet they
are triumphant before the throne of Goa.
An I do vou think the Lord ha; no regard for
you? He knows every item of your worldly
business better than you know it yourself,
‘and having delivered them. He will deliver
you. I had a very good friend in busi
ness who wa; always unfortunate. He
s ‘©mod to have fine business faculty.
He was of excellent character, an I one of
the noblest man I ever knew. But just as
you sometimes observe in life in regard to
some one else; everything he put his hand to
was a failure. After a while, under tho
stress and burden he died, w nen i ne ird oi
his death tho first won Is 1 uttered were:
“Good! he has got rid of tho sheriff.”
And then* are those multitude; before tha
throne. When the question comes up in
regard to tho u tho angels standing on the
sea oi glass answer: “Tiies? are they who
ame o a of geeat tribulation and had their
robes washed and made white in the blood
of the Lamb.”
If what 1 have been saying is true, then
you ought tj cultivate busmess gra e. You
want t j offer such a prayer a; Mr. Ashley
offered jiif;‘ ba bro the great charge nt the
ba! tie oi Edgehill. In tho presence of his
troops lie knelt down and sud: “Lord God,
Thon kno vot h>w busy I am roing to ba
to-day. If I forgot thee, do not Thou forget
mo.” What a prayer that would bo for you
to start out with every •norningof year busi
n-si life: “Lord I will be very busy t><hiy,
If I forg ,‘t Thee, forget not Thou
me.'’ C mimer ial ethics, business honor,
law; of tra le an* good enou ;h in their place,
but there will c nue a time when tho world
wll slip away from you. It will bj a time
when it will semi as if all thodevils of dark
nesj were after your soul. Under that
ri ’uciice how many have gone down?
Soin ■ forged, some maltreated their friends,
some cursed thoir enemies, some ha 1 their
namo born amid scandals aud thoir
name was pro lounood with detesta
tion. Tney were ruino 1 by business
life. You co.ild count up a groat many
of them. Others have gouo through
all uascithol. Mm camo out from their
store. They said: “Well, if there ever was
a C’hristiau trader that is one.” Integrity
Kept tho books. Into ;rity waited on tho cus
tomers. A light from the throne of God
flashed Into his show window. Wrath never
stamped that floor, nor did sly dishonesty
ever cover up the imperfec i >ns of goods.
Love to God,love t >men were tho controlling
principles of that man. After a while, one
morning the shutters ar j not let down from
the store window The bolt; are not removed
from the door. People passing say: “What
is the matter!” B.isnnoss acquaintances
stop and say: “Why is this store closed?”
They come up closer ami they
read a card on th • door saying: “Close 1 on
account of th* death of one of tho firm.”
That day it is talked all through budnesscir
cle* how that a good man is gone. Boards
of trade pass resolution; of sympathv, and
churches pr <y: “Help Jx>rd, for the G<Hlly
man ceaset’.i.” He his made his list
bargain. Ho lias suffered his last loss. He
has ached with his last fatigue. His
Christian industries will ble;s his children
now that ho is gone; ami be piests to tha
Kingdom of (rod will gather many sons into
glory. Everlasting rewird-i for earthly
discipline. “Th’re th? wi-dro I cease from
troubling and the weary aro at rest. ”
Taking Big Chances.
“You asked me to marry yon,George,’’
she said slowly. “Do you know that I
am rich?”
“Yes.”
“In my own right?"
“Yes.”
“And that you will have to come to
me for money?”
“Yes.”
“Even for car fare?”
“Yes.”
“And that you may have to walk in
pleasant weather:”
“Yes.”
“And you are willing to marry me and
take the chances?”
“Yes.”
“Then I am yours, George, and 1 hope
you may be happy.”—Aev; York Sun.
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over this road. I can get one any day )
want it.”
Pres dent of the lloadlunrecognized)
[ —“Will you allow me to see it?”
“Certainly. Here it is.”
“This is a regular ticket. You paid
. for it.”
“Why, of course I did. You didn't
supp >se I stole it, eh? I buy one every
day. I didn't say it was a free pass.”-.
fldladelphii Call.
—
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Proprietor of hotel.-“ You call yourself
a French cook! A fine specimen of a
French cook you are. Consider your
self di-charged.”
Cook. “But, sare, vot has J done?”
Proprietor. “Where are those chicken
croquettes we were to have for dinner?”
Cook. “-ate. ere. ees no chicken.”
Pro irietor. “ Who sad anything abont
chickens? Make them out of codfish ay
our last cook did.”— Ham ler."
An Advantageous Transaction.
Sharplcy—“Gid fellow, you’ve b en
taken in Do you know why skinner
j borrowed all that money of you?”
Green—“ No.”
Sharplcy—“Be ause he was so hard up
that he had to borrow in order to p,.y
creditors who ve wait d for years.”
Green—“Oh, that’s a 1 right then. I’m
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all kinds of Job and (took work in K i aL-
Bljia. pro pt y and at LUa
ibui>U Bnuab
WEDDING CARDS,
VISITING CARDS,
BUSINESS CARDS,
BALL CARDS,
No Rubbing! No Bafhclie! No Fort Fiigtrs!
Warm nt nt not to Itifirre the Clothrs,
A«k your Grocer for It. If be emmo! >np. |
ply you, 0110 cako will bo inntH riu.r. on riTfpl
of aix two cent atampM for pt A beau’Hui .
nine-colored “Chromo” with three bare. Deal
cr« audGrocers should write for particulars.
Q. A. SHODDY & SON,
ROCHFOim.
L~ -THE-*
AWRENCE
PURE LINSEED OIL
E MIXED
M'NTC
lai IU I «
READY FOR USE.
W The Itest r»alnl Macle.
Guaranteed to contain no wnter,
benzine, barytea, cIi<»mic}ils, rubber,
• abeslOß, rosin, (jloee oil, or other
similar adulterntione.
A full qiinranteo on every package
•nd diroctionM J. ?r bo that any
one not n pea. pointer can uho it.
Handsome enmnle »• »r<lM, showing
88 beautiful shaclew, mailed tree on
application. If not kept by your
dealer, write to uh
Bo careful to ask for •THE LAWRENCE PAINIS.”
snd do not take any other said io be '* as good ei
Lawrence's.”
W. W. LfIWREKCE & CO.,
PITTSUintOH. I*A.
YOU
PAINT
examine
VSrxTOKk • \ VW WETHERILL’S
\CWxvv* v Portfolio of
Artistic Designs
s Okl Fashioncd
Honson,QueenAnne
J iSfiC Cottages, Buburbari .
Residences, etc. ,coU 1
/ ored to mat ch
' /f shades of
%
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latest and most cf
cjßF ** fectivecombination
of colors in house
painting.
■omenta BCoIf your deal or has not
of oeery f VV?' OUT portfolio, IMlk hi Hl
package k to scud to us for one. Yoii
® f ® ur . e ,t 1 cun then see exactly how 1
‘ATLAS 1 Vs your house will appear
READY- \ ] whim finished.
MIXED \ • fl\ 5 Do this and use “Atlas”
paint 11 Ready-Mixed Paint and in-
rAmi I* guro youncif aatisfactiou.
: our Guarantee,
faction, and £ k ■_ I
E’H? I Jbl Geo.D. Wetherill & Co. i
.nd \ f 'f / WHITE LEAD and PAINT
xg." IL'/’ > manufacturers.
/Jb Gs s6 North Front 8t -
PHILAD’A, PA.
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LOlf PUICESI ICASV TltltMSl
AUGUSTUS BAUS& CO.'Mfss.
Warerooms, 58 W. 23d St. New York.
IThta Wash
Board la made
of o>k SOLID
allk k r o F
nt av v < obiuj.
<urn> zinc,
which produces
■ double faced
board of the
brat quality and
durability. The
fluting In very
deep, holdlna
more water, nnd
<■< uat ijuently
dfoit'i: bettnt
wiu hlng than
any " .wh board
Iu the market.
The Ira mv I ■
imulo of hard
wood, ami held
toft! t):f I U ill) on
iron !«>lt rum
nine thr. uih a
of the ziiiC, thill!
bl n.li nil tha
i(1 tin. mot 11 i.b
«t«nUalm.wntA
ind producing a
washboard which for oeunoiny.cxoellrm c m.«l dur
ability in unqnoHtlonablv tln» boat In tho world.
We And ho many dealern that object to our board
on account of Hi PI IHIII I.l*l Y, raying “It will
last too lom’. wo can never arif a euntoincr but
one.” take till* means to adviao consumers to
INSIST upon having the
NORTH STAR WASH BOARD.
Tim urvr ih urn cuKAi.r:ar.
Muuf.cture<i by PFANSCHMIDT, DODGE & CO.,
>4B & 290 West Polk St., Clllonao, til.
Are the Finest in tie Worli.
Thesa Extracts never vary.
BUPEBIOR FOR STRENGTH, QUALITY,
K PURITY, ECONOMY, ETO.
Made from Selected Fruita nod Bpioea,
Insist cn having Baitlne’o Flavora
AND TAKE NO OTHERS.
SOLD BY ALL GROCERS.
41 Warren St., New York.
theORRVILLE
CHAMPION COMBINED
Grain ItaherMta Hullei,
Acknowledged by Thrcahcnnon to bo
\ ■ /
£ • ,/r-
TUo iS-in®!
Remember we rnako tho only*••»<* w
CAruin AlirralM r mid < l«»v< r lliilhr that
will do tho work of two nep.irate lum hlnci ■
Clover IB 11 Iler Ih notn simple utvmhmcnl but
aacpmntc Imlllim'cylinder construe d m-d opera
ted upon timin'. pt wpproved aclmrilflc principles.
Hns tho widest »■' pm ding capacity of any machine
in the market. I.* liaflif, coinpitci, «l omble,
tiM-N but oil« buH mid requiron lean
power xtnd has r working par
Himimiy ofhor inncliltir. »ie
ln<’onsirm lion tliat It UeawllV
■food. W. I th"’h p-ih cfly all kln;Dof grain,
perns timothy, 11. x. < 'over, etc. K< r.d for'
price IM. «♦' , of Th retd. <r»4, Eng n<", H«w
and Grain H( ;;I>*lcns nml be sure to mention Inin
paper. iitw wanted* Addrcaa
THE KOPPES MACHINE CO.
OROVILLE, O.