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I THE PULPIT. [ BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY ; | DR. M. W. STRYKER. PRESIDENT OF HAMILTON COLLEGE Sabject: Service. Brooklyn, N. Y.?Dr. M. W. Stryker, resident of Hamilton College. Clinton, . Y., occupied the pulpit of the Han n Place M. E. Church in the absence ' Dr. i-ocke, the pastor. He preached ie following sermon on "Service:" My test is that verse in the twelfth lapter of the epistle to the Romans in hich the apostle says that there are me things hard to be understood hich the unlearned and the unstable +r\ +haii? ntvn r?f>striir>tinn Tt is ICOl IV/ Ui\.u v.. - ?X KV. ,ue that Satan often hides in the dark issages of God's word. It is also true lat the hardest things to understand e not those that the intellect has to iravel and explain, but the things i,at concern the deeds. For my part, jhoever else may have found it hard, have not found the ninth chapter of omans as hard as the twelfth. Even I did not do it very well it was easier think straight than it is to be good, is a wonderful thing that, after all lese mighty, reverberating words, that arch the very heights and depths of ie plan of God that make this letter compact up to this point, it all broadis out in the most natural fashion to administrative matters. I notice lat the thing about the twelfth chapr is that it does not say anything jout what we must not do. It is ways true that if you get light in trkness will go out. The way to keep ir hearts empty of evil is to fill them if to the brim with good. We do not t the darkness out of this room with broom, but with a match or a spark, r. Thomas Chalmers used to speak >out the "expulsive power of the new fection." To many a man who never counted to anything the honest, pure ve of a true woman has been an in tntive to him to make something of mself for her sake; au<l -whenever the ve of God comes into the human iart it drives out evil and seeks to othe itself with living and loyal ac)ji; and if there is aDy one who thinks e deed is easy and the doctrine hard, at is not my experience. I(Tvant to speak to-night upon this leicial admonition to service -which jlul says is reasonable. God does >t ask anything that is not rational, ijristianity and Christian living can i e account of themselves. There is >! thing so silly as to be a sinner. It t Ikes angels weep and devils laugh see a man trying to serve God and nself. That man is -walking north ) d south; it is a straddle. Now Paul , rs it is a reasonable service. He id, try it, put it to the proof, and he s an expert -who had tried it for Brty years. I am going to take one iocial line of analogy. You have |\en heard it said of a mac of intense ktivity that he -was a "perfect steam gine," and that would be said more Iieu 11. uit*rc ?vritr ixivxc uicu ?? ?re what they ought to be, "a perfect jam engine." I think there is a serjn in that, and I am going "to try get at it. You will help. You will ink a great many things which I rn't and preach a sermon to yourIves about being perfect steam enies. For our present purposes we 11 talk about that particular style of >am engine, the railway locomotive, nerica is doing a great business in iking these, and wherever they are Qt?Africa or South America or Asia, ery one of them is a kind of missions' force, a living testimony of that rce and skill which are resident in ?e mankind. The call now is loud d clear for Americans who shall be )re committed to teach the world mbood. The tide of time is rising d sinew and muscle are called into e service of God. This is no time for aping or loitering. Look out upon this world and see w God is compressing and packing together. If we won't take our >spel in the missionary ship, it shall in the warship. Somehow men are ing to be brought together. We are conceited lot, we Americans, but we not like to be told so. We have a od thing, and like te keep it. We v of the Chinese, "shut them out: t them aside/' And perhaps of some Iiers, also, "Don t let tnose gooci-rorthing Russians, Poles and Italians ne." Bless your heart! Your great mdfather or grandmother was noth; but an emigrant?mine was a itchman, at that. We are all the ildren of immigrants; we are all iniders on this continent. The only aericans are not now citizens, out e on pensions. We have stolen evrthing they had that was in sight, u had better not talk about that, d's plan is to keep the races of this rid marching and uloving. .Yet, nehow, some cannot get it through ?ir thick heads, their gold-plated ads, their noddles, hard with cruel ibitions and paltry pride, that when Scripture says, "He made of one od all nations," it means what it vs. If you won't learn it by peace p will learn it by war; if you won't tn it in Bibles, you will learn it by ?f I'/MI TT*lAnt?n if nn ^.1*Ail I VU ?? Vil I 1 vTClI 11 li, 111 [JUV.IVCU rope and Asia and go there. God will ng those people here. Let them ne. I laugh at all this talk about poking immigration. King Canute ;ht just as well have tried to throw ik the waves with his mandate. In ertain sense it is proper to say that d is a mighty utilitarian. It is a at time for service; we need to wake it was nearly daylight, it is dawn, jat things are corning. Therefore, I bk that our churches, colleges, lools and homes ought to engage in manufacture of locomotives, hat wonderful, intricate engine? ? made it? Did a baby locomotive w up into that great machine? You [ i'c is evolution. Evolution deSbes the way a thing is made, but [er made anything. The process of king is evolution. If you ask me [ believe God made tills world by fcess, I say yes. That is the way He kes everything. When He makes [thing that can groTv He gives it pance to grow. His plans are made I I don't care where He began! I |e more for where He ends. You I it took a long while. Yes, the ker the pattern, the larger the plan, r steam engine is a fine instance of Ilution. It is mac's creation and it resents his Creator's idea and intion. It is a wonderful epitome of id working for an intended end; of urpose perfected by thought. And r bodies? They just happened? ; steam eDgine had to be made and are an accident? A master menic and designer, he is a mere nee?. Do not think it. Where is i reason? God is back of this adapon, this mighty thing that we call | Our purposes are the service, t is first. pd, second, your perfect steam en> is made with a purpose. TJte pad company owns it. They emr an engineer to run it. Now in a U it is his; it is his to use and ctfn[ but it is not his to sell. It is his pke care of and to get as much as Ian out of, but in no other way. But [e takes a notion that he can run the whole road and ignore schedule and orders then very soon from him will be taken even that which he seemed to have. Now, -we do not own our bodies?these engines. We are the ?gineers, but not the owners. My !y is mine only in a relative sense, am to give account for it. You say, "May not a man do what he will with his own?" Certainly, if you own anything. What is the engine for? To look at? No. for use. Is it made to be- destroyed? If so it might just as well be made of wood and paint or a cliromo engine. Some men are such they look like the real thing, but they do not act like it. You have seen a model engine under a glass case; that you wind up. The wheels go. but the ensine does not. The wheels work easily because they don't touch the track. I have seen some men and I suppose there are some women, who are wound up with keys. The wheels buzz, but there is nothing done. There are people who sit in a theatre, and the tears run down their cheeks, and they think they are good because *tbey can i m,>? fA*? nrivJlftorft QTV. 1 Uf%V IUI iuc of weeping. We all know Low we smooth ourselves when a tear comes. We feel penitent and say, "We are not so bad as we thought." It is a toy engine, the wheels go, but it does not advance. A perfect engine is meaut to do something in the world, and so are we if coupled to the task that God gives us. Some people don't want to pull, they want to be pulled. You always see a dead engine in the middle of a train. Which end of the train do you like, the front or somewhere in the middle? God give us the front, with all its dangers and perils and joys. Perfect engines get hold of the track. Orders come with lightning rapidity to the engineer, and they must be obeyed without question. The responsibility for the orders is not with him, his responsibility is^to execute them. God can run this world, but He has put It into your hands to run yourself. When you stop at the end of the road you can be perfectly certain that if the passengers are too busy to take notice of you, you will not be forgotten by the manager. Well, I have mixed it. The engineer and the engine together?that is the way ^ve are. We are the engines? Yes. We are engi-; neers? Yes. I said at the outset, "You preach the sermon." I think there is a great analogy in it. I think there is a living parable for those who have eyes and ears. Respoisibility? Yes, lot's of it. But, then, who will shirk that? Dancer? Plenty, out you are a man. Work? Yes, but that is all you are for. We are not made for nothing. Covet the place. Ride with hand on the throttle, making the best time, within safety, that a man can make. Ride right over the driving wheel. There is where the best men have always sat. Then, by and by, when this engine is worn out, you will get a better one. Morbng Sabbatlcm. Morbus Sabbaticus, or Sunday sickness, a disease peculiar to church members. The attack comes on suddenly on every Sunday; no symptoms are felt on Saturday night; the patient sleeps well and wakes feeling well; eats a hearty breakfast, but about church time the attack comes on and continues until services are over for the morning. Then the patient feels easy and eats a hearty dinner. In the afternoon he feels much better, and is able to take a walk, talk about politics, and read the Sunday papers; he eats a hearty supper, but about church time he has another attack and stays at home. He retires early, sleeps well and wakes up Monday morning refreshed and able to go to work, and does not have any symptoms of the disease until the following Sunday. The peculiar features are as follows: 1. It always attacks members of the church. 2 T<- npvnr m.ikes it nrmearanee ex cept on the Sabbath. 3. The symptoms vary, but it never interferes with the sleep or appetite. 4. It never lasts more than twentyfour hours. 5. It geueraly attacks the head of the family. C. No physician is ever called. 7. It always proves fatal in the endto the soul. 8. No remedy is known for it except prayer. 9. Religion is the only antidote. 10. It is becoming fearfully prevalent and is sweeping thousands every year prematurely to destruction. Humanity's Burden Bearer. A Christian lady had a heavy temporal burden. It took away her sleep and her appetite, and there was danger of her health breaking down under it. One day when it seemed especially heavy, she noticed lying on the table near ber a little tract called "Hannah's Faith." Attracted by the title, she picked It up and began to read it, little knowing that it was to create a revolution in her whole experience. The story was of a poor woman who had been carried triumphantly through a life of unusual sorrow. She was giving the history of her life to a kind visitor on one occasion, and at the close the visitor said: "O. Hannah. I do not see how you could bear so much sorrow!" "I did not bear it," was the quick reply; "the Lord bore it for me." A Hard Lesson. Of all the lessons that humanity has to learn in life's school, tbe hardest is to learn to wait. Not to wait with folded hands, that claim life's prizes without previous effort, but, having struggled and crowded the slow years with trial, seeing no result such as effort seemed to warrant?nay, perhaps disaster instead?to stand firm at such a crisis of existence, to preserve one's poise and self-respect, not to lose hold or relax effort, is greatness, whether achieved by man or woman.?Reformed Church Record. The Past a Guarantee For the Future,"? If we would reassure our restless hearts that our future is iu the hands of God we have but to scan our past. Can any man that is not altogether blind look over the way he has traversed without surprise and awe as he sees it marked everywhere by mysterious footprints of the living God? ^ UlUUjiUl " U elUU? a ?> UJ our own, and all the time we have been on the King's highway,?J. E. McFadyen. Onr Can and Our Will. Men differ even more in their amounts of will than their amounts of can. and one's individual success or failure is established more by his own amount of will than his amount of can. The practical and great consideration is not, how much can I do, but how much will I do of what I can??William C. Gannett. ^ Looking For the Saviour, Some people live looking within at their failures. Some live looking around at their hindrances. Some live looking for the Saviour?they face the sunny South.?Mark Guy Pearse. Many would rather be in sin than out of style. Nexv York City?Such charming and attractive waists as this one are greatly in vogue both for costumes and for separate blouses made from almost any of the fashionable materials. In this instance sage green messaiine satin is combined with cream lace over chiffon, hnt the design would be equally satisfactory executed in any combination of color that might be preferred and in such pretty, soft wools as voile, chiffon, etamine and the like. The wide chemisette makes a special and characteristic feature, which combines with the deep fitted girdle most effectively, and the elbow sleeves with their wide frills are most graceful and attractive. The waist is made with fronts and back that can be either tucked or shirred at the shoulders to form points and are arranged over a fitted lining, the front edges being finished with box pleats and (he closing of the waist being made invisibly, that of the lining at the centre front. The sleeves are finished with frills of race, but they can be made longer, forming three puffs with deep cuffs, whenever preferred. The quantity of material required for A LATE DESIGN ] : il mm the medium size ;s four and five-eighth yards twenty-one, three and threequarter yards twenty-seven or two and a quarter yards forty-four inches wide with one and one-eighth of allover silk lace and two and a half yards of lace for frills, and three-quarter j-ards of silk for belt. Broderle Aiigluifte the Vogue. Broderie Anglaise, or eyelet em- j broidery, is still very much the thing, and most of the al.1 over embroideries and flouncings are of this order. The robe patterns, too. both in linen and batiste, are in eyelet designs. The heavy raised embroideries are also popular, and there is a high dot design which is much sought for, ap parently. How it is to be successfully laundered is a mystery. Organdie Lined. Anp of thp loveliest eveninsr coats is I of sage green oriental satin, tbe softest and richest of weaves. It is built with Empire tendencies, and is finished off with cord braiding made of gold tissue. But the beautiful part of it is the lining. It is interesting, too, being of sheerest, softest white organdie, strewn with buff posies and a wee bit of foliage. It looks both dainty and cool. Painted Shoes. The great fad for more or less fancy shoes is observable in many directions. Not only are these colored shoes! One white shoe (a suede oxford) has cornflowers daintily painted on the toes. One cannot but wonder if they will not wash off. Certainly they have not been fired! V Linen Sailor Hats. Linen sailor hats will be popular t? wear with linen gowns, and when the gowns are embroidered it is the thing to have a matching embroidery on tire hat. Several shops make a specialty of these exacting little requirements and their charges are so moderate that, unless one is an expert embroiderer, II is better not to attempt tliem at home. Millinery Hint*. Elack and white millinery Is modish, as it almost always is. A finei straw hat in a round shape bad for trimming a crush band of black velvet and a pompom of pure white ostrich tips with a large aigrette. The polo turbans are simple enough, but they are so undeniably bizarre that they do not look simple. Brassells Nets Lovely. The flowered Brussels nets are exoml ninnntwl ovpr Kllk I I'tTCUJ J J 1U t Vi,? , ? slips, or even fine white Swiss linings, make charming, semi-formal gowns. Some are being made up as dinnei gowns. Those having linings of white Swiss muslin?which launders well? cnn be wonderfully "freshened" throughout the season. Tnok Shirred Yoke Walnt. There is a peculiar charm found ir the simple blouse shirred to form s yoke that renders it a deserved ant1 !^*rtain favorite. This one is graceful in the extreme and can be made high at the neck with long sleeves or Iom with sleeves of elbow length, so becom. ing practically two models. All really fashionable materials are soft and well adapted to the shirrings and consequently the opportunity for making a satisfactory choice is ample. Dotted crepe de Chine with lace over chiffon is the combination illustrated, and very charming it is, but there are many j other silks equally aesiraoie, aua iuc pretty voiles and eoliennes are always attractive so treated while for evening wear flowered organdies and nets, chiffon and the like are in the height of style. The waist Is made over a fitted foun? dation, which serves to keep the shirBY MAY MANTON. s3 ^ . rings firmly in place, and. when made of transparent material requires an interlining of chiffon cut exactly like the outside below the shlrrings, this interlining giving a peculiarly soft and delightful effect. The sleeves are shirred to form three puffs when long, I two puffs and the frill when in elbow length, and the waist is finished with a becoming shirred belt. The quantity of material required for the medium size is six yards twenty one, Ave yards twenty-seven or three and a quarter yards forty-four inches wide "with three-quarter yards Cf allover lace for collar and cuffs. - m GAS AND WATER. IS ONE AS NECESSARY AS THE OTHER? Citizens of Large cities Say It Is? New York, June 13.?In the recent agitation here about the price of gas, the demand for lower rates was supported by the argument that every resident is as dependent upon a suppiy of gas as upon a supply of good water. It has come to pass that the day laborer uses gas as his only fuel for cooking, because of economy, and the rich man uses gas on account of its f2ne fr\r lirr1ifinn? rrifh VUii ? UUC iVi. "il" modern Improvements in burners, is cheaper, better and more satisfactory than any other kind of light. Gas sells at $1.00 per thousand cubic feet in large cities, and from that to as high as $3.00 in smaller towns. The consumer of gas in the country uses Acetylene (pronounced a-set-alene), and each user makes his own gas and is independent of Gas and Electric Companies. Acetylene is a more perfect illuminant than the gas sold by the big gas companies in the cities, and the cost to the smallest user is about the equivalent of city gas at So cents per thousand. Acetylene is the modern artificial light, the latest addition to the many inventions that have become daily necessities. The light from an acetylene flame is soft, steady and brilliant, and in qual iiy umj nvuieu uj uitr ?uus iajs. If water and a solid material known is Calcium Carbide are brought into contact, the immediate result is the making of this wonderful gas. The generation of acetylebe is so simple that experience or even apparatus is not necessary to make it. If it is desired to make it for practical lighting, and to keep it for immediate use, then a small machine called an "Acetylene Generator" is employed. There are many responsible concerns making acetylene generators. In practice this gas is distributed in small pipes throughout buildings, grounds or entire cities and towns in the same manner as ordinary city gas. Acetylene is the only satisfactory means of lighting isolated buildings located in the country or suburbs at a distance from city gas or electric plants. An Ugly Customer. j.ne giant 01 me wnoie spiaer iuimiy is tlie "hound" or "dog" spider of Madagascar. Its body weighs almost a pound, and each of its eight legs is longer and larger in diameter than the common cedar pencil. Each of its mandibles is three-fourths of an inch in length and very strong. The dog spider does not spread a net and lie in wait for its prey, as do the gigantic bird spiders of Ceylon, but "follows the trail" in exact imitation of a bound. It wnll follow a faint scent to and fro through the weeds and underbrush until the course is ascertained, and then suddenly dart off in a bee line and quickly overtnke the lizard, rat, mole or other animal of which it is in pursuit. It has been known to capture and kill lizards a foot or more in length, and Prof. Barnaby tell us of one which pounced upon and killed a full-grown rat. The dog spider is said to be the only variety among the larger species of spiders which is absolutely non-venomous, there being no more ganger in its bite than there is that of a squirrel or a rabbit.?Boston Transcript. Noon and High Noon, Some explanation for the confusion in people's minds as to the right definition of afternoon may be found in the old confusion between noon and midday. Noon, of course, was originally ot 9 in tho nff-arnnrm?if the "bull" be permitted?the liour when tlie monks said their "Nones" or noon song. The reason that it was put back to 12 o'clock may lie in the fact that the monks w>ere not allowed to eat their dinner until after they had said Nones; for in time they anticipated the service, and "their dinner, by saying Nones immediately after the midday service, and that is probably how midday came to be called noon. In the old almanacs noon is generally marked at midday and high noon as at 3.?London Chronicle. The Vampire Bat. The vampire bat is a small, winged animal, that lives on blood sucked from large animals. It has a large, sharp tooth in each jaw, with which its wounds are made, usually in Bleeping victims. Its internal organs are adapted to an exclusively liquid diet, Its repeated visits may weaken dangerously the man or other creature attacked, and places it^frequents certainly would be unwholesome spots to sleep in, yet the vampire Isn't to be dreaded as hedonists would have it Fortanes In Cat'# Meat. The cat's-meat man is almost exclusively a London institution. Certain rounds have been sold for as much as $1500 as going concerns, and many such rounds change hands at a price for the good-will of from $100 to $500. Several London cats'-meat men have made considerable fortunes.?Chicago Journal. Liberia exports about 50,(XK),000 gallons of palm oil a year. N.Y.?24 FITSpermancnt ly cured. Noflts or nervous, nessafter first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great NerveHestorer,-*2trialbottlo and treatise free Dr. It. H.Kline. Ltd..'.i31 Arch St., Phila.,Pa. The latest Paris edict is that women must be thin. Ladles Can Wear Shoe* One size smaller after using AIleD's Foot- | Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new shoes : easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweating, aching feet, Ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. At all druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Don't accept any substitute. Trial package Fbee by mail. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N.Y. Tokio is about fourteen hours ahead oJ New York. Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething,soften the gums, reduces inflammation, allayspain,cures wind colic,25c.abottle. The bayonet's importance is recognizee all over the world to-day. J do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumptionhas anequal for coughs and colds.?johh F.Bo tee, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15,1900. The microbe now flourishes mightily in the attention of the world. < ??? Tit For Tat. A 3ritisli officer, in his expense list on Government service, put down, "Porter, twopence." The War Office, In a verbose letter, pointed out that refreshments, while in the execution of public duty, were not chargeable to the nation. The officer replied that the Item did not represent refreshments, but a fee to a carrier. The Office replied: "You should have said 'porterage.' " The officer treasured the hint. Next time he had occasion to take a hackney coach lie put down in his accounts, "Cabbage, 2 shillings." Kail way Kate Regulation. At the biennial convention of the Ordtr of Railway Conductors, recently held at Portland, Oregon, resolutions were unanimously a-iopted voicing tneir sentiments as to tr e enecr 01 proposed railway rate legislation on the 1,300,000 railroad employes, whom they In part represented. These resolutions "indorse the attitude of President Roosevelt in condemning secret rebates and other illegalities, and commend the attitude of the heads of American railways, who, with practical unanimity, have joined with the President on this question." They then respectfully point out to Congress the "Inadvisability of legislation vesting in the hands of a commission power over railway rates, now lower by far in the United States than in any other country," because such regulation would "result in litigation and confusion and inevitably tend to an enforced reduction in rates, irrespective of the quescion of the ability of the railroads to stand the reduction, especially in view of the increased cost of their supplies and materials." They further protested against such power being given to the present Intere+o+A r'rttrm-iiceirm hofniicn "tlio nrrv. posed legislation is not in harmony -with our idea of American jurisprudence, inasmuch as It contemplates, that a single body shall have the right to investigate, indict, try*, condemn and then enforce fts decisions at the cost of the carriers, pending appeal, -which is manifestly inequitable." The conductors base their demand for only such legislation, if any, as would "secure and insure justice and equity and preserve equal rights to all parties concerned" on the ground that the low cost of transportation "is the result of the efficiency of American railway, management and operation which have built up the couutry through constant improvement and development of territory, while at the same time recognition has been given to the value of intelligence among employes in contrast to foreign methods, where high freight rates and lowest wages to employes obtain." In pressing their claim against legis1 a +t/%n (iilvflrca +n tlioir inlArasts thpv point out the fact that "the freight rates of this country average only two per cent, of the cost of articles tc the consumer, thus making the freight rate so insignificant a factor in the selling price that numerous standard artieies are sold at the same price in all parts of the country." Origin of Jack and Jill. A writer on Norway says: "Our familiar nursery friends Jack and Jill are descendants of Hjuki and Bil, the ebbing and flowing tides, the tumbling crests of which, breaking one over another as the waves wash the shore, are rather aptly described in the nursery rhyme." The styles which will prevail in furs the coming season are the various grades of muskrat, natural, blended and black, only the backs, and not the bellies, being used. THREE YEARS 'AFTER. Eugene E. Lario, of 751 Twentieth avenue, ticket seller in the Union sattion, Denver, Col., says: "You are at liberty to repeat what I a first stated through our Denver papers about Doan's Kidney Pills in the summer of 1S99, for I have had no reason in the interim to change my opinion of the remedy. I was subject to severe attacks of backache, always aggravated if I sat long at Hff a desk. Doan's Kidney gaBg Pills absolutely stopped my backache. I have never had a pain or a twinge since." *^5? Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists. Price 50 cents per box. The Current Vogue. Just at present children are all the fashion and no self-respecting young matron goes anywhere without her olive branches in full view. Those who have no children to parade buy a toy dog or a marmoset, and are pr&ruruably just as happy. We live in an age which wants to be thought affectionate.?London Madame. [ Let Common k Do jou honestly believe, that c 1 This h?? made LION COFIIE )J Millions of American Homei S There is no stronger proof of e g ing popularity. "Quality s-orvi H (Sold only in 1 lb. packagen. I (Save your Lion-headi I SOLD BY GROCE 4 Blacksmith's Science, The editor mentioned last week a? wanting somebody who could give absent treatment to bis ailing gasoline engine now announces that he failed to find help in that direction, but that the village blacksmith, by the laying on of hands and the use of a few words usually printed ?, has effected a cure.?Forest Grove (Ore.) Times. The fashion of blacking out the betting news in the newspapers bn file in , the public libraries is spreading in England. MILK CRUST ON BABY Lost All Ills Hair?Scratched Till Blood Kan?Gratelul Mother Tells of His Cure by Catlcura For 75c. "When our baby boy was three months old he had the milk crust very badly on his head, so that all the hair came out, and it itched so bad he would scratch until the blood ran. I got a cake of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment. I applied the Cuticura and put a thin cap on his' head, and before I had used half of tht box it was entirely cured, his hair com* menced to grow out nicely again, and he ha* had no return of the trouble. (Signed) Mrs. H. P. Holmes, Ashland, Or." John Rigley Carter succeeds Henry White as first secretary of the Ameiw ican Embassy in London. TWO OPENJ.ETTERS IMPORTANT TO MARRIED WOMEfl Mrs. Mary Dimmlck of Washington tolla How Lydla B. Pinkl'am's Vegetable Compound Mads Hur Well. It lsrwith great pleasure we publish the following letters, as they convincingly prove the claim we have so many times made in our columns that Mrs. < Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass., is fnlly qualk fled to give helpful advice to sick women* Bead Mrs. Dimmick's letters. Her first letter: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:? " I have been a sufferer for the past eight years with a trouble which first originated from painful menstruation?the pains wen excruciating, with inflammation and ulcera* tion of the womb. The doctor says I must have an operation or I cannot live. I do not want to submit to an operation if I can possibly avoid it Please nelp mo."?Mrs. MaryDfmmick, Washington, D. C. Her second letter; Dear Mrs. Pinkham :? "You will remember my condition"when 1 Last wrote you, and that the doctor said I must have an operation or I could not live I received your kind letter and followed your advice very carefully and con now entirely well. As my case was so serious it seems a miracle that I am cured. I know that I owe not only mv health but my life to Lydia E, > Pink-ham's Vegetable Compound and to you* advioe. I can walk miles without an acne or a pain, and I wish every suffering woman would read this letter and realize what you can do for them."?Mrs. Mary Dimpiick.feth and East Capitol Streets, Washington, D. C. How easy it was for Mrs. Dimmick to write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass., ?'. v and how little it cost her?a two-cent stamp. Yet how valuable was the reply t As Mrs. Dimmick says?it saved her life. Mrs. Pinkham has on file thousands of just such letters as the above, and offers ailing women helpful advice. HEADACHE "Myfatherhad been ? sufferer from sick headache (or the iMt twenty-flve years and never fonnd any relief nntil he began taking yonr Caacoreti. Sines he hat begun taking Cascarets he hu oersr had the headache. They have entirely cured him. Cascarets do what you recommend them to do. I will give yon the privilege of using all name." S.M. 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