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f EEY.DE.. TALMAGE. _THE_BP00KIjYN DIVINE'S SUM- DAT SERMON. • Subject: \Ih e Plague of Bad Books.\ TEXT: ''And tha frogs came up and con- ' ered the land of Egypt. And the magicians i did so with their enchantments, and Drought up frogs upon the land of Egypt,\ —Ex. viii., 6, 7. I There is almost a universal aversion to \ frogs, and yet Tvith tho Egyptian they were .honored, thoy wore sacred, aud they \were objects of •worship while alive, and after death they were embalmed, and to-day their remains may be found among the sepulchres of Thebes. These creatures, so attractive once to tha Egyptians, at divine behest be- camo obnoxious and loathsome, and they went woairing and hopping and leaping into the palace o£ the king* and into tho bread trays and the couches of the people, and even the ovens, which now are uplifted above the eart h and on the side of chimneys, but then •were small holes ia the earth, with sunken pottery, were filled with frogs when the housekeepers came to look at them. If a man sat down to eat a frog alightei on his plate. If he attempted to put on a shoe it was pre- occupied by a frog. If he attempted to put his head upon a pillow it had been taken pos- session of by a frog. Progs high and low and everywhere; loath- some irogs, slimy frogs, besieging frogs, in- numerable frogs, great plague o£ fi-ogs. \What made the matter worse tha magicians said there was no miracle in this, and they could by sleight of hand produce the same thing, and they seemed to succeed, for by sleight of hand wonders may b3 wrought. After Moses had thrown down his staff and by miracle it became a serpent, and then hs took hold o£ it and by miracle it again be- came a staff, the serpent charmers imitated the same thing, aud knowing that there were serpents in Egypt which by a peculiar pres- sure on the neck would become as rigii as a stick of wood, they seemed to change the ser- pent into tho staff, and then, throwing ifc down, the staff became the serpent. ** So likewise these magicians tried to imi- tate the plague of frogs, and perhaps by smell of food attracting a great number of them tc a certain point, orl>y shaking them out from a hidden place, the magicians some- times seemed to accomplish the same mira- cle . 'While theso magicians made the plague worse, none of them tried to make it better. \Frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt, an 1 the magicians did so with their enchantment, and brought UD frogs upon the land o£ Egypt.\ Now that plague of frogs has come back upon the earth. It is abroad to-day. It is strutting this nation. It comes in the shapa of corrupt literature. These frogs hop into the stora, the shop, the office, the banking house, the factory*—into the home, into the cellar, into the garret, on the drawing room table, on the shelf of the library; While the lad is reading the bad book the teacher's face is turned the other way. One of these frogs hops upon the page. AV bile the young woman is reading the forbidden novelette, after re- tiring at night, reading by gaslight, one of these frogs leaps upon the page. Indeed they have hopped upon the news stands ol the country and the mails at the postoffice shake out in the letter trough, hundreds oi them. The plagu6 has taken at diffsreni times possession of this country. It is one oi the most loathsome, one of the m ast fright ful,one of the most ghastly o£ the ten plague! of our modern cities. There is avast number of books and news papers printed and published which ought never to see the'light. They are filled with a pestilence that makes the land swelter with a moral epidemic. The greatest blessing that ever csmo to this nation is that of an ele- vated literature, and the greatest scourge has been that of unclean literature. This last has its victims in all occupations and departments. It has helped to fill insane asylums and penitentiaries and almshousss and dens of shame. The bodies of this infec- tion lie in the hospitals and in the graves, •while their souls are being tosse J over into a lost eternity, an avalanche of horror and despair. The London plague was nothing to it. - That counted its victims by thousands, but this modern pest has already shoveled its millions into the charnel house of tha morally dead. The longest rail train that ever raD over the Brie or Hudson tracks was not long enough nor ]ai-ge enough to carry the beast liness and the putrefaction which have been gathered up iu bad boots and newspapers of this land in the last twenty years. Tha literature of a nation decides the fate of a nation. Good hooks, good morals. Bad books, bad morals. I begin with the lowest of all the litera- ture, that which does not even pretend to be respectable—from cover to cover a bloteii of leprosy. There are many whose entire business it is to dispose of that land of lit erature. They display it before the school- boy on his way home. They get the cata- logues of schools and colleges, take the names and postoSice addresses, and semi their advertisements, aud their circulars, and their pamphlets, and their books to every ..one of them. In the possession of thsse dealers in bad literature were found nine hundred thou- sand names and postoiSca addresses, to whom it was thought it might be profitable to send these corrupt things: In the year 1S73 there were o-.se hundred and sixty-five establishments engaged in publishing cheap, corrupt- literature. From one publishing house tkere went out twenty different styles of corrupt books. Although over thirty tons of vile literature have been destroyed by the Society for the Suppression o£ Vice, still there is enough of it left in this country to bring down upon us the just anger of an aroused God. In the year 186S the evil had become so ' great in this country that tha Congress o£ *he United States passed a law forbidding the transmission of bad literature through the United States mails, but thera were large loops in that law through which criminals might crawl out, and the law was a dead failure—that law of 1863. But hi 1873 another law was passed by the Congress of the United States against the transmission of corrupt literature through the mails—a grand law, a, potent law, a Christian law— and under that 3aw multitudes of these scoundrels have been arrested, their-property confiscated and they themselves thrown into the penitentiaries, where they belonged. Now, my friends, how are wa to war against this corrupt literature, and how \are the frogs of this Egyptian plague to be slainf First of all b y ths prompt and inex- orable execution oC the law. .Let all good postmasters, and United States 'district at- torneys, and detectives, and reformers con- cert in their action to—stop this plague. When Sir Rowland Hill spent his life in try- ing to- secure cheap postage not only for England, but for all the world, and t o open 'the blessing of the postoffice to all honest business, and t o all messages of charity, and kindness, and affection, for all health- ful intercommunication, he did not mean to make vice easy or to fill the mail bags of the • United States with the scabs of such a leprosy. It ought hoi) to be in the power of every bad man who can raise a one-cent stamp for a circular or a two-cent stamp for a letter to blast a man or destroy a home. The postal service of this country must be clean, must ibe kept clean, and we must all understand that the swift retributions of the United States Government hover over, every viola- tion of the letter box. There are thousands of men and women in this country, some for personal gam, some through innate depravity, some through a spirit of revenge, who wish to use this great avenue of coavenience and intelligence for purposesrevengeEuLsalaciousand diabolic. • Wake up the law. Wake up the penalties. ' Let every court room on this subject ba a Sinai thunderous and aflame. L';t the con- victed offenders be sent for the full term to Sing Sing or Harrisburg. I a m not talking about what cannot be done. I am talking now about what is being ' done. A great many ot the printing presses that gave themselves entirely to the publica- tion of vile literature have been stopped <4 have gone into business lass obnoxious \What has thrown off, what has kept off th« rail trains of this eountry for some tim< back nearly all tha leprous periodicals! These of us who have been on the rail train! have noticed a great change in the last few months and the last year or two. Why hav« nearly all those vile periodicals been ke^t ofl tUe rail trains for some time back? Who ef- fected it? These societies for the purlficatioE oc railroad literature gave warning to ths | publishers and warning to railroad compan- j it's, and warni>o conductors, an<i warn- j ing to newsboys, to keep the infernal stufl j o£f the trains. - \ • j .-,• -Hnsraot the'cities have successfully proA going on the news stands. Terror has seized upon the publishers and the dealers in impure literature, from the fact that over a thou- sand arrests have been made, and the aggre- gate time for which the convicted have been sentenced to the prison is over one hundred and ninety years, and from the fact that about two millions of their circulars hava been destroyed, aud the business is not as profitable cs if. used to be. How have so many of the news stands of our great cities been purified? How has so much of this iniquity bean balked? By moral suasion? Oh, no. You might as well go into the jungle of the East Indies and pat a cobra on the neck, and with profound ar- gument try to persuade it that it is morally wrong to bite and to sting and to poison anything. The only answer to your argu- ment would be an uplifted head and a hiss and a sharp, recking tooth struck into your i:.rteries. The only argument for a cobra is a shotgun, and the only argument for those dealers in impure literature is the clutch of the police and the beau soup in a peniten- tiary. The law! The law! I invoke to con- summate tha work so grandly begun! Another way in which we are to drive back this plague of Egyptian frogs is by filling the minds of our young people with a healthful literature. I do not mean to say that all the books and newspapers in our \ families ought to be religious books and newspapers, or that every song ought to ba sung to the tune of \Old Hundred.\ I have no sympathy with the attempt to make the young old. I would rather join in a crusade to keep the young young. Boyhood aud girl- hood must not be abbreviated. But there are good books, good histories, good biogra- phies, good works of fiction, good books of all styles with which we are to fill the minds of the young, so that there will be no more room for the useless and tha vicious than there is rqoin for chaff in a bushel measure which is already filled with Michigan wheat. Why are fifty per cent, of ths criminals in the jails and penitentiaries of the United States to-day uuder twenty-one years of age? Many of them uuder seventeen, under sixteen, under fifteen, under fourteen, under thirteen. Walk along one of the corridors of the Tombs prison in New York and loot Jor yourselves. Bad books, bad newspaper; bewitched them as soon as they got out oi the cradle. Beware of all those stories which end wrong. Beware of all thosa books which make the road that ends in perdition seem to end in Paradise. Do not glorify the dirk and the pistol. Do not ca'l the desperado brave or tha libartine gallant. Teach our young people that if they go down into the swamps aud marshes to watch the iack-o'-!antenis dance on the decay and ; rocceuusss liuay wm caron Tins m-iiaria ana 1 death. \Oh says some one, \I am a business man, and I have no time to examine what my children read. I have no time to inspect the books that come into my household.\* If vour children were threatened with typhoid fever, would you have tima to go for the doc- tor? Would y»u have time to watch tha progress of the disease? Would you have fcima for the f nueral? In the presence of my Scd I warn you of the fact that your chil- jren are threatened with moral and spirits ial typhoid, and that unless tha thing b3 stopped it will be to them funeral of body, funeral of mind, funeral of soul. Three funerals in one day. My word is to this vast multitude of young people: Do not touch, do not borrow, do iot buy a corrupt book or a corrupt picture. &. boofi will decide a man's destiny for good x for evil. The book you read \yesterday iiay have decided you for time and for etef- aity, or it may be a book that may come aito your possessions to-morrow. A good book—who can exaggerate its power? Benjamin Franklin said that his reading of Cotton Mather's \Essays to Do \food\ in childhood gave him holy asplra- :ions for all the rest of his life. George Law ieclared that a biography ho read in ehild- iood gave him all his subsequent prosperL- iies. A clergyman, many years ago, passing K> the far west, stopped at a hotel. He saw i woman copying something from Doid- ridge's \Rise and Progress.\ It sesmed that ihe had borrowed the book, and there were iotne things shs wanted especially to re* nembsr. The clergyman had in his saehol a copy of Ooddridge's \Rise and Progress,\ and so ha nadeher a present of it. Thirty ysai-s jassad on. The clergyman eama that way, ind he asked where the woman was' whom ae had seen so long ago. \Sho lives yonder n that beautiful house.\ He went there and aid to her, \Do you remember me?\ She aid, \No I do not.\ He said, \Do you rs- nember a man gave you Doddridge's 'Rise rod Progress 1 thirty years ago? 1 ' \Oh yes; [remember. That book sa.ved my soul. I .oaned the book to all my neighbors, and ihey read it and they were converted to God, md we had a revival of religion which swept ihrough the whole community -. ,We built a ;hurch and called a pastor. You see that ipire yonder, don't you? That church vas built as the result oi that book you gave ne thirty years ago.\ Oh, the power of a ;ood book! But, alas! for the influence of a Dad book. John Angel James, than whom England lever had a holier minister, stood in his pul- pit at Birmingham ani said: \Twenty-five fears ago a lad loaned to me an infamous Dook. He would loan it only fifteen min- ltes, and then I had to give it back, but that book has haunted me like a spsoter ever since. I have in agony of soul, on my knees oefore God, prayed that ha would obliterate :rom my soul tha memory o£ it, but I shall ;arry the damage of ifc until the day of-my Jeath.\ The assassin of Sir William Bus-, sell declared that he got the inspiration for bis crime by reading what was then a new md popular novel, \Jack Sheppard.\ Hotner's \Iliad\ made Alexander the war- rior. Alexander said so. The story of Alexander niade Julius Gsesar and Charles XII. both man of blood. Have you in yoiit pocket, or in your trunk, or in your desk\ af business a bad book, a bad picture, a bad pamphlet? In God's name I warn you to de* stroy it: Another way in which we shall fight back this corrupt literature and kill the frogs of Egypt is by rolling over theni the Ghfistian pi-inting press, which shall give plenty o£ healthful reading to all adults. All these men and women are reading men and wo- men. What are you reading? Abstain from alt those books which, while they had some good tilings about them, had also an admix- ture of evil. You have read books that had two elements in them—the eood and the bad. Which stuck to you? The bad! The heart of most people is like a sieve, which lets the small particles of gold fall through, but keeps the great cinders. Once in a while there is a mind like a loadstone, which, plunged amid steel and brass filings, gathers up the steel and repels the brass. But it is generally the opposite. If you attempt to plunga through a fence of burrs to get one blackberry, you will get more burrs than blackberries. You cannot afford to read a bad book, however good you are. You say, \The in- fluence is insignificant.\ I tell you that the scratch of a pin has sometimes produced lock- jaw. Alas, if through curiosity, as many do, you pry into an evil book, your curiosity is as dangerous as that of the man who would take a torch into\ a gunpowder mill merely to see whether it would really blow lip of not. In a menagerie a man put his arm through the bars of a black leopard's cage. The animal's hide looked so sleek and bright and beautjfn\. He just stroked it once. The montSer selzeu him, a^d he drew forth a hand torn and mangled and bleeding. Oh, touch not the evil even with the faint- est stroke! Though it may be glossy and beautiful, touch it not lest you pull forth your soul torn and bleeding under the clutch .of the black leopard. \But you say, \how can I find out whether a book is good or bad without reading it?\ There is always some- thing suspicious about a bad book. I never knew an exception—something suspicions in the index or style of illustration. This -ven- omous reptile almost always carries a warn- ing rattle. The clock strikes midnight. A fair form bends over a romance. The eyes flash fire. The breath is quick and irregular. Occasionally the color dashes to the cheek, and then dies out. The hands tremble as though a guardian spirit were tryins to shake the deadly book out of the grasp. Hot tears fall. She laughs with a shrill voice that drops dead at its own sound. The sweat on her brow is the spray dastsd up from tha river of death. The clock strikes four, ani the rosy dawn soon after begins to look through the lattice upon the pale form ihat looks like a detained spaoter of the night. Soon in a madhouse she will mistake her ringlets for curling serpeants, and thrust her white hand through the bars of the prison, and smite her head, rubbing it back as though to push the scalp from the skull, shrieking: \My brainl_my brain!\ Oh, stand ofl! from that! Wiiy will you go sounding your way amj4i;he-r.eefsknd*?apflt : ing buoys, wherethere iasueh a vas6; oceaa We see so many books we do not under- stand what a book is. Stand it on end. Measure it—the height of it, the depth of it, the length of it, the breadth of it You can- not dolt. Examine the paper and estimate the progress made from the time of the im- pressions on cloy, and than on the bark of trees, and from the bark of trees to papyrus, and from papyrus to the hide of wild beasts, and from the hide of. wild beasts on down' until the miracles of our modern paper man- ufactories, and then see the paper, white and pure as an infant's soul, waiting for God's in- scription. ' A book! Examine the type of it. Examine the printing of it, and see the progress from the time when Solon's laws were written on oak planks, and Hesiod's poems Were written on tables of lead, and the Siniatio commands were written on tables of stone, oil down to Hoe's perfectine printing press. A book 1 It took all the universities of the past, all the martyr fires, all the civilizations, all the battles, all the victories, all the de- feats, all the glooms, all the brightness, all the centuries to make it possible. A book! It is the chorus of all ages; it is the drawing room in which kings and queens and orators and poets and historians come out to greet you. If I worshiped anything on earth I would worship that. I£ I burned incanse to any idol I would build an altar to that. Thank God for good books, healthful books, inspiring books, Christian books, books ot inen, books of women, Book of God. It is with these good books that we are to overcome corrupt literature. Upon the frogs Swoop with these eagles. I depend much for the overthrow of iniquitous literature upon the mortality of books. Even goodbobks have a hard struggle to live. Pblybius wrote forty books; only five of them left. Thirty books of Tacitus have perished. Twenty books of Pliny have per- ished. Iiivy wrote one hundred and forty books; only thirty-five of them remain. JSschylus wrote one hundred dranlas; only seven remain. .Euripides wrote_ over a hun- dred; only nineteen remain. Vatro wrote the biographies of over seven hundred great Romans. All that wealth of biography has perished. If good and valuable books hdve such a struggle to live, what must be the fate of those that are diseased and corrupt and blasted at the very start! They will die as the frogs' when the Lord turned back the • plague. The work of Christianization will go on until thera will be nothing left but good books, and they will take the supremacy of the world. May you and I live to see the illustrious dayl Against every bad pamphlet send a good pamphlet; against every unclean picture send an innocent pictui'e; against every scur- rilous song: send a Christian song; against avery bad book send a good book; and then It wijl be as it was in ancient Toledo, where the Toletutn missals were kept by the saints in six churches, aud the sacrilegious Romans demanded that those missals be destroyed, •md that the Roman missals be substituted; md the war came on, and I ani glad to say jhat the whole matter having bean re'errea so champions, the champion of the Toletum aiissals with one blow brought dowa the Aarnpion of the Roman missals. So it will be n> our day. The good litam- 5ure, the Christian literature, in its cham- pionship for God, aiid the truth, will bring lown the evil literature in its championship for tha devil. I feel tingling to the tips of toy fingers and through all the nerves of my oody, and all tha depths of niy soul, the rertainty of our tfiurnah. Ghear UD; ph. nen and wornsn who ara toiling for the purification of society! Toil with your faces in the sunlight. \If Goi be for us, who, ivho can ba against us?\ Lady Hester Stanhope was the daughter )f the third Earl of Stanhope, aud after her •learast friends had died she went to the far :ast, took possession of a deserted convent, shrew up fortresses amid the mountains of Lebanon, opened the castle to the poor, and ;he wretched, and the sick who would come •n. She made her castle a home for the uji- iortunate. She was a devout Chfistfeia troman. She was waiting for the coming of Jhe Lord. She expested that the Lord would lescsnd in person, and she thought upon it mtil it was too.niuch for her reason. In th$ inagiiificent stables of her palace she had t#6 iorses grooaied and bridled and saddled and japarisonsd and s.11 ready for the day in which her Lord should descend, and be on ana of-them, and sha on the other should start tor Jerusalem, the city of the Great King. \t was a fanaticism and a delusion; but there was romance, and thai*e was splendor^ and ;hefe was thrilling eSpeofcationfe the dream! Ah, my friends, we\ nead no earthly paU frays groomed and saddled and bridled jind saparisoned f6r our Lord when Ha shall some. Tha horse is ready in the equerry o£ iieaven, and the imperial rider is .ready to mount. \And I saw, and behold a white horse, and ha that sat on him had a how; and a crown was given linto him; and he went forth conquering and to conquer. And the armies which were in heaven, followed Him on white horses aud on His vesture and on His thigh were written, King of kings, and Lord of lords.\ Horse men of Heaven, mount! Cavalry of God, ride on! Charge! ehai-ge! until they shall be hurled back on bheir hauncb.es—the black hofss of famine, Bud the rad horsa o£ carriage, and the pale tioi-se of death. Jesus forever! A MAN takes a dynamite sliell •weigh- ing four and a half pounds and pre- pares to light the fiiae and throw it in- to the Warrior Eiver, Ont., to kill fish. Thirteen persons huddle around Mm to see how it is done, and eleven are more or iess mangled as the explosion takes place. Goinmdn sense sometimes stays at home when some inen walk out. IT CURES PERMANENTLY 8CIATICA. LUMBAGO. 410 Kearney St,- £an Francisco, Cal.. April 28,189& May 17,1890. \My brother-Be*. iSamuel Porter, wae cured by Bt Jacobs •OH of excruciating iKlatic pains in his •thigh.\ J, M. L. POBTXB. 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The capital stock of the company is $500,T IOOO, and is supposed to be held mainly iby Chicago parties. The casualties from fast driving: ig London, England, last year were 250 '\persons killed and 5000 injured. invested Ihotioice oa» nundred dol- lar buildinK lots in suburbsot Ivansa* City will pay from five hundred to one thous&n I par cent, the next few years under our plan. $45 cash and %% per \month without Interact con- trolBaiiaairablelot. Particulars oa ippliaitlaa. J. U.Baiierloin jfeOo... Kaasa,s_O;ty. •>!>• Guaranteed live yeir eitt'-x per cent. PWrit Mortgages oil Kansas City droD3rty, interest payableaveryslxmonttis; principal and intor- eBtcdllected when due and remitted without expense to lender, for sale by J. H. Bauerleia & U6 M Kansas City, Mo. Write for particular i 1)6 You Erer Spocalato. 1 Anyperaoii sailing us thsic iiin^Mt ad- dresswlll receive mtor.na.tioa that will lead to a fortune. Beaj. iiewU * Co., Security Building, Kansas City. Mo. 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Syf up of j?igs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro diicedj pleasing to the taafe ana atv ceptabie to the stomach, prompt ia its action and truly beneficial in its effects^ pjepaied only from the most fieaithy and agreeable substances, its inany excellent qualities coav mend it to all and llaye made it the most popular remedy kno-wn, Syrup of Figs is for sale in 506 and $1 bottles by all leading drug* gists. Any reliable druggist vrho &ay not have it on hand mil pro> cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, 0X1, tmisviiii, kr. HEW YORK *r . PROF. LOISETTE'3 NEW MEMORY BOOKS. Criticisms on two recciit Memory Systems. Beady about April 1st. IM1 Tables of Contents forwarded only to those who send stamped directed envelope. Also Prospectus POST FREE of tiie LolsettianArt of Never Forgetting:. Addr'ess Prof. LOKETTE, jgrgiftll Ave.,, Kew Yorfe. How's This ? We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any ease of catarrh that cannot be cured by takihgHall'sCatarrh Cure. F. J.'CHENEY & Co., Props., Toledo.O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transac- tions, and financially able to carry out any ob^ ligations made by their firm. WEST & TatfAi, Wholesale Drnggists, Tola* .do,O. . - -- _ -- - WALDINO, KXNNAN ^& MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally* act* ing directly upon the biOnd and mucous sur* ; faces of the System. Testimonials sent free* Price 76c. faer tojtle^j-old by_all driiggista. COTTON spinning in Japan is very depressed at toe present time. Timber, Mineral, Farm Lands and Ranches Jn Missouri, Kansas, Texas an d Arkansas, bouKhtandsold. Tyler & Go.. Kansas City. Mo. For Sprin By Building up Your System So as to Prevent That Tired Feeling Or Other Illness, How Take Hood's Sarsapanlla * LADIES! • ^T7e win present you a Gold WatcK. a. Sil k Dress , or your choice from 10 0 other articles. Full Instructions and sample worth one dollar sent you for 2-ceut stamp to pay return Dostoga. Si L. PAINE & CO., Boxg652. 98.CourtSt., Boston, Mart, How . tnaiiy people there are who regard the coming of winter as a con- stant state of siege. It seems as if the elements sat down outside the walls of health and now and again, led by the north wind and his attendant blasts^ broke over the. ramparts, spreading colds, pneumonia and death. Who knows when the next storm may come and what its effects upon your constitution may be ? The fortifica- tions of health must be made strong. SCOTT'S EMULSION of pure Norwegian Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda will aid you to hold out against Couglis, Colds, Cotisumptidni Scrofula* General Debility^ and all Atlantic and Wasting Diseases, until the siege is raised. // prevents wasting in children. Palatable as Taken away —sick headache, bilious headache, dizzineca, constipation, indigestion, bilious attacks, and all derange^ ments of the liver, stomach and bowels. It's a large contract, but the smallest things in the world do the business—J)r. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They're the smallest, but the most effective. They go to work in the right way. They cleanse and renovate the system thoroughly—but they do it mildly and gently. You feel the good they do ^-but you don't feel them doing it. As a Liver Pill, they're unequaled. Sugar - coated, easy to take, and put up in vials, and hermetically sealed, and thus always fresh and reliable.- A per- fect vest-pocket remedy, in small vials, and only one necessaiy for a laxative or three for a cathartic They're the cheapest pill you can buy* because they'ro guaranteed to give satisfaction, or your money is returned. You only pay for the good you get That's the peculiar plan all Dr. Pierce'a medicines are sold on, through druggists. \August Flower\ How does he feel ?—He feds cranky, and is constantly experi- menting, dieting himself, adopting gtrange notions, and changing the cooking,' the dishes, the hours, and manner of his eating—August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel?—He feels at times a gnawing, voracious, insati- able appetite,wholly unaccountable, unnatural and unhealthy.—August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel ?—He feels no desire to go to the table and a grumbling, fault-finding, over-nice- ty about what is set before him when he is there—August Flower tho Remedy. How does he feel ?—He feels after a spell of tliis abnormal appe- tite an titter\ abhorrence, loathing, and detestation of food; as if a mouthful would kill him—August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel?—He has \x L regular bowels and peculiar stools— August Flower the Remedy. ® SAW FAG UFA! The Indian Herb Remedy. Nature's great cure for Indigestion, Sick Heartache, Constipation, Bilious Attacks and all Troubles of the Stomach, Liver and Bowels. For years this herb has been the only rem- edy used by the celebrated Mescalero Indians, noted throughout the country for their remarkable strength, vigor and length ot life. Thousands of testimonials on file. Only 25 cents for a box of this great househeld remedy. For sale by all druggists, or sent oh receipt of price by the SALAPAGLEFA HERS CO., Eddy, New Mexico. (No postage stamps accepted.) Reference, First National Bank. \By using the K-WRBN Remedies I have cured all the colds. In iny family, and in the vicinity for mUel arouna, including babies threnf- er.ed with croup.'\—K. G. BOBEI.3* Vergennes, Vt. EAVKEN Cough Balsam sal Troches cure hoarseness In a few minutes, bad coughs and colds overnight Balsam,50c.; Troche^ 10 and 25c. By mail or druggist!. M.B.KEEP*CO.,«3E.13thSt.,lf.7. Ntr—10 TBS unlver«al f»Tor to- corded TiLrJSGUAST*s VvtstSB BonsD Ca!)baco SEFDS leads ine to offer a P. S. GEOTVX Onion, <A« J!»e«* Yellow Gtuii insistence. Tointroduceitand show its cipibilltieslTriUpay $100 for the best yield obtain- ed froml ounce ol seed whica I mil mail lor SOcts. Cata- logue free. Isaac F. TIIHnghart, La Plume, Pa» \GREEN MOUafJP\ GRAPE. ..'one so cairly; pone more delicions. Vine a healthy strong grower and an early and, prof aw bearer. For a circular giving further Information address Stephen Koyt's Sons. New Canaan, Ct. KNEES rOSITlVELT REMEDIED. itiiu^u Greely rant Stretcher. AuupKu uj stadestts at flflrv&rti, Amhcrat. and otb.tr Colleges, also, bv professional and business men evenW w&ere. If not for sale In vmir town r>end 35e. to B. J-OBEELY. 715 Washington Street. Boston. BfrtUC ST( J 1)Y > Book-keepin?, BusinessForm^ •aVnCPenmauship, Arithmetic, Short-hand, et&. 11 thoroughly truglit by MAIL. Circulars free. Bryant's College, 4,37 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y. B EAD \A. Little Chat With Farmers.\ Fine book; bound; paper. 50c.; cloto, 75c Geo. A, Williams, 108S Chamber of Commerce, Chicago, 111. 3 .OU Genuine Hand-seTred, an elegaac uud stylish dress Shoe which commends itself. .00 Hantl-scvrcil Welt . A line calf Shoe nn- equalled for style and durability. .50 Goodyea r Welt is the standard dress Shoe at a popular price. 50 rll' S h W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE *5 *4 *3 ,___„ 94.50 rollccinan'if Shoes is especially odapted w for railroad man, farmers, etc. All made in Congress Button and Lace. $4.00 for Ladies Is the only hand-sewed Shoe w sold at this popular price. 80.50 Donsroln. Shoe for Xiailies 1» anew de- it parture and promises to become very popular. SO.00 Shoe for Ladies, and si .73 for Misie* * still retain their exeellence for style, etc All goods warranted and stamped with name on bottom. If advertised local agent cannot supply you, send direct to factory, enclosing advertised price or a postal for order blanks. W.t.DOUiJlAS, Brockton, Class. WASTED—Shoe dealer In every city and town not occupied to take exclusive agency* AH agents advertised in local paper. Send for illustrated catalogue. ED. LHUNTIEY'S i ED. LHUI fuP TSF oW^ giro universal satisfaction. Why should you pay mid- alemen*3 profits when, you can buy direct from us, tho manufacturers! SendusSlO and tho following measure* and *we will guarantee to fit and please you or refund your money. Hulesior measurement: breast measure, over vest, close up under arms, waist measure over peats at waist, and inside lej? measure from crotch to iicel. Sen d Six Cents for 13 samples ol our $10.Hen 1 ! Suits, fashion plate andtapemeasure. Boys* Suits, $5.S0] Children's Suits, $3. ED. I*. HUNXLE Y & CO. Wholesale TaHoM, 164 liast Madison Street, Chicago, HL ! |ENS8Ota WasMn£ton, ».\L 'Successfully Prosecutes Claims. I^atoiTiiicipal Examiner U.S. Pension Bureau. SyrsinlastTTar, 15adjndleattagclaims, attysince HI iGHEST Cash Price paid for Sa w Furs, Hide^ .Skins, Tallow, by Geo. M. Emmans,Newton, S. J. IF YOU WANT A IVERS & POND PIANO Write us. We will SEND our 100-PAGE CATALOGUE FREE, giving valuable information. We make It easy to deal with us WHEREVER YOU UVE. Our prices are MOST REASONABLE for strictly FIRST-CLASS PIANOS. WE SELL ON EASY PAYMENTS. We take OLD PiAKOS in Exchange, EVEN THOUGH YOU LIVE TWO THOUSAND N58LES AWAY. We guar- antee satisfaction, or Piano to be returned to u s AT OUR EXPENSE for RAILWAY FREIGHTS BOTH WAYS. Tremont St., grow faar in Vhe light\of ,H*ieir works, especially i 'bhey use 5\A PQ LI It i H ll*is a.solid ca^ke ofscourinj| so&p used f-oraJI cfe&nin purposes. All grocers keep! / AOflD'Q I A)OT\ b y man y a woma n wh0 strives LnOUn O LUO I to please hsr household and works herself to death in the effort. If the house does not IOOK as bright as a pin, she gets ihe blame—if things are upturned while house-cleaning goes on—why blame her again. One remedy is within her reach. II she uses SAPOLIO everything will look clean, and the reign of house-cleaning disorder will be quickiy over. P ISO'S BKnTKDY FOB OATAEEH.-Best. Easiest to usa Cheapest. Belief is Immediate. A cote is certain. For Cold in the Bead it has no equal. 0ATA Rii It is an Ointment, of which a small particle is applied to tue nostrils. Price, 50c. Sola by druggists or sent by mail. Address, E. I . HAZKLTUTE, 'Warren, Pa. SPECIAL.^—Scott's Bmiilsten la non-secret, and is prescribed by the Medical Pro* fession all over the world, because its ingredients ate scientifically combined in suca a manner as to greatly increase their remedial value. CAUTION.^Scott's Emulsion is put up in salmott-colored wrappers. Be sura an& get the genuine. Prepared only by Scott &;Bowiie, Manufacturing Che Bold by all Druggists. ALLIA CffiCHESTER-S EHBUoll, RED CROSS MEN! Owing to the he»rty support «ndthelarge teide we have received from members of the Farmers' Alliance, we wili herearter allow 5 PEE CENT. rJiSCOTJNT Onauortew received froin members of ttoStanertf/AHimee. To secure tins discount in leaflini M ordaai always have tha Secretsrr at Pnniasn* of your Lodge certify to yoar momberajUr). \ . °=<-rcva-j ur jrresiaoa^ « i . ._ cured by \Nature'i Eemedy for Catarrh.\ Large Iffb. —'package, $1 prepaid; trial package. 40c. write fin • Important teatlmoiilate. GRAY & CO., Konfaose, Pa, W«id« can not express the known snoceea fc»t our. World Renowned ' f Jg» 055.O5 Bitgates have met with. h»Tortoodtheteatof roigli roads, hard nuite and tongh driving, ana now STAND AT THE HEAD Without a known competitor. Beware of Imitators Of oar Murray Da>'gies aoa Harness. S«e that your Buggy has our namo plats ana guarantee on it, and A BANJD'OS' tKtJSSKS* 'i ii oured. Drt Hiding JcPJiiiay, Without a doubt the excellent dnaUtr of our Celebrated ''Murray\ f/i.95 Bar- tiess has caused more conmentand reicrivd more praise than anything that has been placed on the market tor years. Our plan of Selling Direct to the Consumer And declaring ourselves o hoard against all Fools has also made «s many frientto. penly and above ls and Trusts to at »»»«« tor our free mHSfK\>S e f l Vaialoaue, containing f nil ascription find net cash prices of our <3r . CIMC8NNATI, OHIO. -VASELINE- FOE A ONK-DULliAlt BILL wi«iu by m*U we will deliver, tree or all charges, to any paraou l» tie United states, all ot tiie loUowlni aSaloi oara* Jtaiy packed: ~>~* Oae two-ounce bottla of Pore Vaaaluu, . One twooUBce bottle of Vaseline Pomsda. • 15 '* One }u of Vaseline Cold Cream. . T1r7 . » •• One Cake of Vaseline Camphor Ics, - - - • 10 \ Q»e Cake of Vaseline Soap, unscented, - • 19 \ OH Cake of Vaseline Soap, eiauliitolysoented.aj OM>nre*>unce bottle of Whlta Vaseline, - -5' gg «tamp» any stngls artUti ait the prfet On no amount mi persuaded to aooep tfrom ggUt an Vli ti thtfl On no amount mi persuaded to aooep tfrom VoytriruggUt any Vaseline or preparation thtnfl-cm vtueu labelled vrttli our name, (xaaiut you toftf o»r- taihiyreccive an imitation which luulttUe or novaliu Chbh 31k C 24 S S N V Voyri y vtueu labelled vrttli our taihiyreccive an imitation which luulttUe or novaliu Chatebraush 311k. Co., 24. State St., N. V. FRilZERAXLE rnM * c \GREASE BEST IK THE WO&LO -=< jy (3flt too Genuine. S:<Klor SilOUO C bi issoAi lUlr lareM^kera himin u d CO IMOBA
