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THE --PULPIT. | AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY StRMON BV DS, OTHO F. BARTHOLG W. Kubject: The Limitations of Llf*. ? Brooklyn. N. Y?Dr. Otl;o F. Barth . olow, pa-tor of tin- .lanes M. E. Church, preached Sunday on "The Limitations wt Life." Tilt* ext was choscn from Colossiaus iv:lS: "lit number my bond?." Dr. Bartholow said: It is hard to conceive bow the glowing and compivhensiv * wtements of the Srst three chapters of Paid'a Epistle o tbe Cor Jans could be reinforced. Each sentence is so full of dvvine truth, it fairly overflows witli lis .Miriiuy abvdan >. Yet with the words of our text Paul id most positively and b -utifill; reinforce every other sentence of this intensely spiritual epistle. He did it in that charmingly inferential way that added the warmth of the heart to the purely logical statements of the mind. In writing to the Colessiaus of Christ's divinity and of the complete and joyous loyalty every soul-should render to Him. Paul in the few words of our text delicately refers to the example "found in his own experience. "Remember auy bonds." This was an infusion of experience to all the preceding precepts that developed rn incalculable force in that, unlimited element of sympathy which were at once operative. Paul had no intention of glorifying himself or his sufferings, neither did he sentimentally long for human com fort. This very brief allusion to him I5CJI in our xexi was ui i iu sucugmru I f and confirm that feelirg which would exalt and glorify Christ Jesus the Lord. What Christian in Coiosse could have . read or heard Paul's letter and not % have felt when he came to the words, * "Remember my bonds," this man writes out of life's experience and of what he knows?not like so many of the religionists :iud philosophers of that time oat of his imaginations and dreams. Yet another inference is contained in out text. It is that which emphasizes the fact of life's limitation. In wilting his advices and directions to the ColossianBvFaul did the very best his nncitiAii fillnTO- liim fn <1f>- Hi? wished and prayed to do move. That more was to be with them iu person, to give them all that he felt was in personal effort for Christ and His kingdom. 0<rer against this wish, this desire, this prayer, was his physical imprisonment?a limitation. Pani was chained. The things he would do be could not do. The fact of life's limitation, its recognition and resolution are suggestively presented in these words of the heart. The fact of limitation ia apparent everywhere, in everything and everyperson. CJo to the uttermost boundaries of space?to the sun and stars, limitations are there, their boundaries are fixed that they cannot pass. Gravitation. chemical affinity and other agents of law bind them with invisible chains to tlieir limits. As with these mighty spheres, so with the tiniest r.tom; the plane of activity and expression is fixed. The reign of law marks insuperable barriers. In persons as well as in things the fact of limitation is strikingly manifest. The body in which we live is clearly confined in bonds. Each body has an amount of nervous and muscular energy which limits all that may be received or given. The bonds of place and heredity bind each man to a very narrow zone of physical and mental activity. That a man is what lie eats and where he lives is a certain degree manifestly true. The spiritual in man is limited in all its expression and life by the presence of the carnal. Paul's pathetic cry: '*0, wretched man that I am: who shall deliver uo from the body of this death?" is applicable to all the ' children of Adam's race. These distinctions are the marks of a general limitation, the bonds that all men in their investigations and experience must remember because they are of themselves. Within the general limitations there are special and personal Jimitations. Mental endowments, disposition, health and grace are largely determinative in establishing the individual bonds that cannot be passed. This fact is so around us, within ?ns and above us, it is indeed strange that we should be i-aJIed upon '.o remember it. Yet when wc consider Josses and pains in other lives and in our own life, also the misfits in positions and office because men will persie-t in trying to do things to which they are forbidden because of bonds (limitations), we are sure that wo need give to this injunction a careful and continuous attention. The nervouj prostrations, the brain fag, the strokes of apoplexy, the creep ing lassitudes that seize so many of our bright arid energetic people ate in a great majorh" of instances but evidences of faiiure to know or remrmber the physical and mental limitations to which life is conditioned. The cause of the failure of tho religion of Christ in many lives may be discovered hero. The world is so much A\jtli the people, all energies are so completely exhausted by its business, its society, its ambitions and its pleasxires that the purely spiritual exercise has but little to draw upon. The spirit may be never willing and favorably inclined, it matters not. when the limitations are readied there can be but little or no response to the high calls and privileges of Christ. "The spirit is willing, but the flesh Js weak." was the loving explanation of Christ for the sad future of the disciples to watch with Him in that daflc hour of Geth^mane. But why was the flesh weak? Was it not because all its energies had been exhausted in other 4linn in Mia n-i'a'i f /\ii a fnr v net uiicrio mail m mc vnv ivi ;which they should have been conserved? Failure to record and recognize personal limitations and to be affected by them causes not only lapse and disaster in our service to Christ, but ofttimes the essential breaking of the moral law. Our fathers were accustomed to keep the commandments, to worship Cod and reverence His day by preparing hours in advance for that most solemn and imperative duty. Saturday preparation of body and spir- | it was. in the thought of our Puritan ancestors, essential to the real keeping of those commandments that enforce our duty to Cod. They had a fine recognition of the limitations inherent in the body. Their preparation for the Lord's day was a "remembrance of bonds." It is only the fashion in these progressive days to ridicule the religious practices of these fathers of our country. With nil of which ridicule we have no sympathy, continuing SP believe that our grip on God. for Royalty to Christ and His law tliey ^ntinue to be the most inspiring and examples. They certainly shed % helpful light concerning the meeting limitations in the keeping of those "SoavmandmeatSj that refer to God and day. They made religion n life and found Ifligbt in It. largely k&c:\use they re* monibered their limitations. They re- r fusotl to nil) (.\>d by the world ami its activities to so rush in upon them during six days that there was nothing for the Sabbath hut physi- "J oal weariness ami dullness. In yet another relation it is imperative that wo remember our own and others' limitations. In relation to others wo should be quick to ask: Are we understood and do we understand V Hclieving fuliy that -very man is more than auytJiing lie does or says, we are led to heJieve that all avenues 1 of expression and reception are to a J degree limited and incomplete?"are < ' in bonds." Every man has in him a ! best and a worst, neither of which 1 fairly represents him. Many, however, i are to them final fi :u their experi- 1 enee of one or the other phase of life. o When l read Cardinal Newman's t "Lead, Kindly Light," I think ol: a ? highly intellectual, devout ami enantable character. On the other hand, t when I read his bigoted and narrow estimate of ?rius, especially his state- r ment "that a publisher of heresy e (meaning, of course, anything contrary t to Lis religious denomination), should li be treated as if he were embodied n evil." I think naturally of a narrow, n unsympathetic and bigoted man. It is v very evident that any fair estimate of v the cardinal as a character cannot be ? obtained from either or both of these t writings. He had his limitations. They } must be remembered. Not until they s are estimated can there be a substan- t tin I understanding of i..e ptrson back ,n of the utter.'noes. n Bui: are we understood? We. too, 11 commonly a>sume thr. we are. Think- t ing we fully understand wnat we say f and mean, we naturally infer that ti others do. But do i.iey? "Oh, the trouble, the heartaches, the disasters s and the deaths to happiness and peace j that have come to this old world sim- e ply because people have not understood n one another," exclaims the writer of 11 an hundred years ago. Human na- b ture has naturallychanged since that t day. An appeul to experience must o convince even the most ruperticial ob- ii server that this is deeply true, even C iu the everyday experience of life. Ac- s knowledging .he fact or i.aiitaiion and realizing its force iu life, we fiud the I only sure approach to its resolutiou h is ill the Christ of Paul. v Our Saviour entered our limitations, a He took upou Himself the form of u ti servant; He became obedient to death, o even the death of the cross; He emp- o tied Himself; He was in all points v tempted as art? we. He remembered tl our bonds. Limitation itself brought d trophies to His feet. Christ made it r minister to His eternal glory by living: (1) The simply life?a life of fore- c thought and order. In Him there was & no trespassing of body upon mind, or n mind upon spirit. Each was kept to1 ti its sphere. There was in His soul no conflict in the duties owed God, man and self. p The temptation in the wilderness is a y perfect presentation of His clear and s simple recognition of these duties that ti Irtmrcc- no nnnfnciiin in tho miml nf tlll> V disciple. In Christ was 110 haste, no d confusion whatever. He had for each k and everything the full measure of its a claim. In His speech I-Ie gave line upo>. line, precept upon precept. He ii did nothing in secret. (2) The chari- v table life. Christ ever made allow- 11 anco in ail human equations for the v elements of ignornnce. inheritance and y condition. He remembered the bonds d of men, their limitations. Thus we s Slid Him dealing with the -individual n as the wise and loving parent does a with the child, as the teacher with the e pupil. lie built on that best possible a interpretation of each man's nature, h which required ever and always a com- y plete knowledge of limitations. b He healed some in public because t< their bonds would stand it; others He y withdrew to the quiet place alone. He k recognized conditions best for the in- y dividual. When two of His favored tl disciples desired to burn those men o whom they judged heretics; when Pet- p er followed afar off and at last alto- ? Aether denied Him, with what divine d consideration He remembered their y limitations and forgave them! With n Christ there was neither Greek nor Jew. circumcision or uncircumcision. fi R-ii'lini-ion .Vnvtlii-iTi hnml nm* frpp hp- n cause His charity understood and c eliminated all differences that such distinctions implied. a I'd) The triumphant life. Christ saw ti the crown above the cross, life beyond g death, and lived in them. Hope, with g all its expectancies, was His. He saw the morning when it was midnight. He knew the Father knew. The triumphant life of Christ was lived for us. .. and so i^vjame vicarious. We could not live it ourselves, bccause of an an- a natural bondage?the awful bondage J* of sin. hrist, how. ver, .ives it for I"1 us, and Fhares it with us. making it ji possible for us to lutv-? His simple, loving and triumphant life. "I live, ei yet not I but Christ liveth in mc." C1 Oh, what comfort there is to the poor, wounded heart that is struggling *? to do its best against sin and trial in 11 uie narrow suaus me iu uuu , realize, "He remembers my bonds." He j took them upon Himself. Simple faith in this truth brings relief and ultimate triumpl This gracious truth sugests another limitation that we speali of with profouudest reverence, the limit- . ation of Uod Himself in the matter of _ bestowing pardon, peace and love upon 1 the heart of man. God has, according to the revelation He has given us, limits that He cannot pass in the salva- 01 tiou of man. The salvation in Christ marks the boundaries of God's ab^.ily w to save the human soul. o God cannot force the soul's will to n accept of His Son Tor salvation. lie presents Him with all love and power, for He will have all men to be saved and to ^orae unto the knowledge of the trutb. Beyond this lie cannot go. j, God is bound oy His gift of free will. n Christ the God cried: "I would but ye f( would not." ;1 May Cod help all of us to rceog- j, nize and act vpon the limitations to 0 which Cod has committed us. Mroncui ror io-uay. a God promises strength to enable us ti to do our present duty. If wo believe ci that, and act accordingly, w shall ii ue7er, never fail. "As thy days, so a shall thy strength bo." That is the promise?a promise that never fails, q Yestevd. r has gone, not to return. To- v morrow Jias not come to us. and it may ti never come. To-day is our day. and it tl is the oniy portion of time that is. '.Men who regret that they did not do their work of yesterday, lose their pros- r' eut time because they are not giving * their whole strength to it. Men who J? fear that they will not be able to do J to-morrow's work are losing to-day, and ure not getting ready for to-nior h row. (.iod does not promise strength \ for yesterday which is gone, nor for s; to-morrow which may never come, but j h for to-day, which is here. Let us s therefore, trust, and use, while we < have It, >d's promised strength for a to-day. ,:Sutticieut uuvo the day is the evil (and the good) thereof."? Sunday School Times. ? V Like Teter, when a disciple is warm- tl ing himself, he is often in danger of 1< denying his Lord.?Edward White. tl The infidel howls at the Bible uiiracles, but he aims at its morale. CUE GREAT DESTKOYEI 10ME STARTLINC FACTS ABOU' THE ViCE Of INTEM??RANCE. cii;e Fei*ran?l*H Imprpxtivr 1Vor<Js VTlie sentencing si Youth So Thirty 5 eavi Iinnriminniriit lror ji Murder Com initio I While Intoxicated. There wits an i]iij)io?si-o scene in th 'ircuit Court at Ottawa. Hi., who iu!ge Farm lid sentenced Thomas Rut y to thirty .years' imprisonment iu tli oiiet penitentiary, Jiuntly. wlio i iut twenty-one years of age, had bee mlicted for ti'e murder of Adolphu took, of Stivatov. TJie eriine was tli utcome of a drunken row. Bund.v or ereil a plea of guilty and threw bin elf on the mercy of the conrt. After briefly reviewing the evidene he judge said: "Last January, at Dixon, a youn uan of your age stood before me to r< eive his sentence on a plea of guilty t lie crime of murder. What 1 said t lim then 1 want to. in part, say to yo iow; be was intoxicated when he con tiitted the crime, as I believe you wer irben you committed the offense t vhieh you have entered-tbe plea o niltv Intoxiention is no defense i his case. The young man who, a our age, has become a frequenter o aloons, and a habitual drinker of ir oxicating liquors, is almost certain o noral death before he reaches matur nanhood. Could I speak to the youn nen of the nation, 1 would beg of thei: o shun the saloon; let not its shadow all upon you; they will blight an nally destroy your young manhood. "There are two great lights wliic! hould always control the court. Firsi ustice; second, humanity. I have gi\ n much thought in my effort to detei nine what justice demands, what hu aanity asks, in this case. We canno ring back the dead. A life has bee; aken by you, and the lifeless body o ne has been laid in the grave, and i t comes again it must be ouly whe: Jod commands that the earth aud th eas give up their dead. "We are to deal alone with the living hiring the progress of this trial ther as been a picture constantly before u t'liich has caused the court to thin eeply of the mystery of life and th tagedy and sorrow of death. Upo: ne side the father and mother of th ne Tyho sleeps; upon the other, thos trim 1 AV/\ ?on oil L<ni*nAirin<y> cnmA fA lie dead, others for tlie living, and it i ifficult to determine which of the soi owing ones suffer the greater grief. "All this 1ms come because of you ruel net, but through and beyond th orrow and tears of grief, the cour uist look alone to the evidence an< tiere search for .the light which lead a the right. "You are a young man, having jus assed your tweuty-lirst year. In la\ ou have recently stepped from th cenes of childhood to the more digni ed and responsible one ol' manhood et with mental powers sufficient t iscern and follow the right and t now the consequence of such a crim s you have committed. "Under the sentence I am about t npose you shall have ample tim fhile in prison to think of the past aui leditate on the future. Day by daj reek by week, month by month, ani ear by year, uutil the sands in tlv ial of your life have run low, yo: linll a /if 4 1* Litiu nrru tut* ^(Ui; ui ?l }HiCUiiCl , iu arrow walls of the coll shall lie you biding place. When the iron gate lose behind you, the beauties of lif nd the grandeur of nature shall b iddon from you, and home and jnothe ill be only memories. But let then e sweet memories. Remember tb ?achiDgs and virtues of that mothei ,iiose heart you have broken. He >ve will follow you and bless you ii our darkest hours. I sometimes fee tint a mother's love has in it the spar! f divinity. I know not the time o lace when or where the love of a pur lother will not enfold ber child. Ur er the intluence of that love prepar et to live according to her prayers ani er teachings. "There is a God in heaven whose in nite power and tender mercy can an* rill penetrate the gloom of a prisoi pll. "His power enables Him to spare] nd know the human heart. You linv *!1 nROTpftfcufl 1-Tic 151 XT*t T-Tt? olr.no r.o: ive you solace in the coming years o rief." Canada Less Temperate. The consumption of in toxica tin; (luovs in Canada is increasing. Tlx mount oil beer, wine and .spirits used er head of the population in 1004. wa venty-three per cent, greater than thi verage for the live years preceding 'h increase in convictions for drunk uncss in 1003 (the last year for whici rirninal statistics are yet available as thirty-six per cent, over the aver ge for the preceding tive years. Thii icrease is shown in every proving 'itli the exception ol Prince Edwar< Bland and Quebec, which show i ight decrease. In Ontario ibe ir. ease is sixty per cent. Tempcranco Notes. The total production of distilled soir s in th^ United States for the las seal year was 353,250,379 gallons. Sir I-Ienry Campbell-Bannerman says We desire to keep the public lian< ii the liquor traffic." Some one lias figured that the eco <mic loss through the non-product ivit: 1' 20,000 drunkards for ten years ii una! to one Chicago fire, involving 200.000,000. Tlr. Kreiver. of lhe SI. Viiicont Tnsli ttioi), in St. Louis, says: "It can In sserted with great errlninty that tIii oy who commenced to use cigarette! t ton will drink beer and whisky a jurteen, t:ike morphia at twenty-five ml spend the rest of liis lifetime alter ating between eccain, spirits aiw piuiu." The leading business men of Stephen illo. Texas, have signed a statemen "> the effect: that under prohibition onditions in the town have great!: nproved. Tliev say business is bette: ml more satisfactory. It is illegal to ship Jiqucr into Iowj '. (). D., and the purchasers can alter ard recover the money they paid fo lie liquor, according to a decision o lie Iowa Supreme Court. A well-known solicitor, moved by tin i'vival in Wales, it is said, has decide* ;> give up taking cast's on behalf o roweries. By this decision lie sacri cod ?2000 a year. Kmperor William Las ordered tliat fll is chauffeurs must be total abstainers Vlien automobiling ho insists ori i peed of not loss than forty miles ai our. If the Emperor should attcmp uch speed as a regular thing in tlii; ountry he would experience consider bio trouble with the police. The distilleries of Peoria County. I! nois, pay the Federal (Jovcrnmen 3,000,000 revenue per month. One o lie six distilleries produces C>ij,0<X> ?al r.s of alcohol per day. Japan an* lio United States consume a grea uantity of this product iTj Uie mauu ticture of gunpowder. j rroin a NcbrnftUa ]? pi cure. * The bosom of .a mallard duck. stowed <lo>vit until there are uo juices going r. :<> waste, a baked potato about the size of a goo*e egg, two slices of Boston brown bread riglit out of tlie oven and spread with butter that has no ? athletic reputation, a spoonful of rasp*' berry jelly, a cup of Young Hyson of ' moderate strength, a piece of pumpkin pie. man's size, and you have a dinner e that ought to keep you in a good liu? mor until curfew rings.?Nebraska e State Journal. ! ? o 0 u . . Ie Your J 905 Sales. j The total distributive sales for 3005 n exceeded t f 8200,000,000. ,f This tola] is realized from the sale e of fresh meats (beef, mutton and ? pork), provisions, produce (poultry, a butter and eggs), soaps, glues, oils, d bones, fertilizers, feathers, casings, t hides, wools, pelts and other by-prodr, ucts derived from cattle, sheep, hogs '' and poultry. ^ Margin ofl'roGt. j The industry is operated on a marf gin of less than 2 cents to each dolu lar of sales. Swift & Co. do not sell e at retail. Their entire output is sold r> at wholesale to many thousands of e dealers in various parts of the world. ? There are hundreds of local slaughtere ers throughout the United States, who n buy their live stock in competition ? with the packer doing an interstate r and international business. Likewise 8 the packer must sell in competition with the local slaughterers. There are r no secret processes in the industry, no ? complicated and expensive factories, ^ | and as live stock can De purcnasea jji i s almost every hamlet and city, and tlie preparation of meats^is simple In tlie v extreme, local slaughtering will long q remain a factor in the production of |* fresh meats and provisions. Economic AdvantAge;. e The large packing houses will, however, always have these advantages: p Locations at the chief live stock ceni ters, with the opportunity to buy the j best live stock; manufacturing in large e quantities, at the minimum of ex11 pense; utilization of all waste matet rial;' refrigeration; mechanical appli1 a ances; highly efficient business management. These advantages are re? fleeted in ihe quality of the packer's j 1 I ii j output, a quality that lias reached its j e highest development in the products: * bearing the name and brand of n I "Swift." 1 I; I'nrchanir.g Live Stock. * The principal live stock centers are i- Chicago, Kansas City. Omaha, .St.! e 1 ^ The sale of typewriters has been forbidden by tlie police in Russia. 1 STOPS BELCHINC BY ABSORPTION , -NO DRUCS-A NEW METHOD' 1 Box of 'Wafers free?Have You Acute e Indigestion, Stomach Trouble. Ir- i 1 rccnlar Heart, Dizzy Spells, I f Short Breatli, Goa on the Stomach? Bitter Taste?Bad Breath?Impaired Ap petite?A feeling of fullness, weight and ? pain over the stomach ami heart, some- } * times nausea and vomiting, also fever and B eick headache? > What causes it? Any one or all of these: s Excessive eating and drinking?abuse of < e spirits?anxiety and depression?mental effort?mental worry and physical fatigue? * bad air?insufficient fooA?sedentary habits ?absence of teeth? bolting ol looci. * If you suffer from this slow death and ) miserable existence, let us send you a sample box of Mull's Anti-Belch Wafers absob lutely free. No drugs. Drugs injure the ? stomach. j It stops belching and cures a diseased stomach by absorbing the foul odors from 1 undigested food and by imparting activity to the lining of the stomach, enabling it ; to thoroughly mix the food with the gastric juices, which promos* digestion and cures the disease.. This offer may not appear again. , I f 1 23G r;OCD FOR 2.V. 345 i J j Send this coupon with your name 1 and address and your druggist's name ] and 10c. in stamps or silver, and we will .supply you a sample free if you ' r, have never used Mull's Ami-Belch ? s Wafers, and will also send you a cer? tificate good for 25c. toward the pur- j chase of more Belch Wafers. You will find them invaluable ?or stomach trouble; cures by absorption. Address . * Muli/s Hkape Toxic Co., 328 3d 1 t .\ve? Rock Island, 111. c H t | Give Full Address and Write Plainly. | * M . 1 1 i , All dsuggists. 50c. ppr box, or by mail > 1 upon receipt of price. Stamps accepted. I Invitations to weddings in Wales are f very business-like. r FITS permanently cured. NoDt*ornervou?ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer,$2trial bottle andtreatisefree Dr. R.H.Kline, Ltd., 'j31 Arch St., Thila., Pa. I In London about 4000 persons regularly P | make a living by begging. f A Guaranteed Cure For Pile?. Itching, Blind, Bleedin?, Protruding Pil<??. p Druggists are authorized to refund money I' 1 Pazo Ointment fuils to cure in C to 14 davs.50c. f The annual coal bill of the i'ennsylva- i nia Kailroad system is J18,000,000. 1 Kobberi in Church. j Just think what ao outrage it is to be i robbed ->t all the benefits ot the services 1 by continuous coughing throughout the t congregation, when Anti-Gripine ts guarans teed to cure. Sold everywhere. 25 cts. !. K W. Diemer, 1A. D., manufacturer, Springfield. Alo. There has been a great demand for pure * bred cattle in Argentina recently. ^ Plso's Cure letho best medicine we ever used, " for a.11 affections of throat and lungs.?Wm 1 1 O. Endblet, Vnnburcn, Iud., Feb. 10, 19 (D I ? ~ Each season Dundee sends her whaling C fleet to the Arctic, ~^d \ n . , Coeducation. A well-known university professor lms a dilemma in which he is wont to entrap advocates *of coeducation. "If you lecture to twenty boys and twenty girls in tlie same room," he asks, "will the boys attend to tie lecture or to llie girls V" Of course ihe coeducationist. to lie consistent, must say that they will listen to tlie lecture. "Well, if tbey do." replies tlie dean, "they are not worth lecturing to."? Harper's Weekly. v i It & ( T nnic C+ C?4- T>o ill nr.A Fort I A-zvujo, oi, u-wzjjuf QI. J. u I?I ??" Worth. The same methods of purchasing cattle, sheep and hogs prevail at fill cities. At Chicago, which is the largest market, there are about two hundred and fifty buyers, representing packers, local slaughterers in various cities, and exporters. Of this number, less than a score are employed by Swift & Company. The farmer ships bis live stock to Chicago, consigns them to a commission firm at the Union Stock Yards, who sees that they are unloaded and put in pens. Tlien the buyers inspect them, make their offers to the commission dealer, who abcepts or rejects as his judgment dictates. All buying must be finished at 3 o'clock each day, and the buyer must pay spot cash. If the commission man has no satisfactory offers, he can hold his stock orer to the next day. He gets bis commission from the farmer, and naturally strives to o-pt tlip Uiehest Dossible nriec for Lis client Wholesale Distributing Rouses. A wholesale distributing bouse Is a giant refrigerator, but instead of shelves there are trolley rails, from which are suspended books to bang the carcasses. Some of the bouses cost as much as a hundred thousand dollars to build and equip. As a rule they are of pressed brick, the inside6 being linedfloor, walls and ceiling?with bigbly polished hardwood. The floors are covered daily with fresh sawdust and all are kept spotlessly clean. There are over three hundred of these wholesale bouses in various cities of the United State?, and the public is always welcome to visit them. Fucking n.ir.tK. All tie Swift & Company plants are located at the great live stock markets,' in the heart of the" great agricultural sections, where can be purchased the finest grades of cattle, sheep and hogs. We have seven packing plants, employing at each from two to eight thousand persons. The following gives the locations and sizes of the different plants: J Germs Hxto Sen Water. Disease germs on the deck of a ship soon die. This fact has been scientifically demonstrated by an Italian physician. He found by bacteriological investigation that even the most hardy germs were removed and destroyed by simply washing the decks with sea water. a despairing woman. IVeak, Nervons and Wretched From Wasting Kidney Trouble*. Mrs. Henry A. Reamer, Main and | Glarst Sts., South Bend, Ind., savs: A "When I began i'nfflr using Doan's Kid-1 ney Pills I was so | weak I could J e hardly drag my-1 Cjy |Sj|* self across thej | Lr room. I was j wretched and ner-1 vous, and had i bncknchc, bear-! ing-d?v\'n pair. lieadnclJP, dizzi-1 j jSjr.ciW/' noss and weak j i *'*'/ eyes. Dropsy sett! n and bloating of tlie chest choked 1 ne and threatened the heart.. I had ! I ittle hope, but to my untold surprise j. loan's Kidney Tills brought me relief' ir.d saved ray life. I shall never for- L fet it."' I j Sold by all dealers. ."0 cents a box. j 'oster-Milbnrn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y. Because of the growing scarcity of imber. matchcs are now being made i e 1 ?f paper. To Cure n (.'old in One Pay j I rake Laxative l'roino Quinine Tnblets. i \ )ruKRists refund money if it fails to cure. 1?. * iV.Grove'ssitjniiture on each box. 25c. |. Jiancer In Pur? Water. j it is not ouen mat cujuiuujui a* lu.hu: >f wator being too pure. Rut {lie Bir- i ningham correspondent of the Medical Record says: "I hear that the -water brought nt ra6t expense from the Welsh hills is- so ;oft that it has a serious effect on ga! anized cooking vessels, in conseliicnce of which the Health Corr.mil:ee has decided to ask manufacturers o recall any such utensils which they lave sent out for sale in that city." out ar; Lumbago ani Nothing reaches the quickiy a PUTNAM .'olor more poods brighter find faster co!or? tliar. any nt ye any tfaruieut without riytuur uvui t. Write for free i \ A!r For Firemen. A Oalifornian, Ciiiirlea E. Ciiai has invented a breathing apparatus i firemen. It is composed of a h< lined with oiled siik. and an air cy! ck-r, strapped to The back, and earryi an hour's supply of air. A rubl tube brings the air to the Lead-pie The exhaled air goes out by a va in front of the mouth. The wh thing weighs twenty-three poun The wearer can get ouly air enoi to till his lungs reasonably. He e not use it all up in a little time. Jompa Packing FJants. TuiFTPIT' Floor ' i . ! : Buildings, Spate, Lar Acres. Acres. Acr Chicago 44% 87% 47 Kansas Ci1y 7% 30 3? Omaha G 2G 2J St Louis 7% 39% 31 St Joseph <ivi 25Vi 1* St raul 5 32 K Fort Worth 3 35 22 Employco. The total Dumber of persons ei ployed in all the Swift packing plan and brauch houses aggregate o\ 2G,000 persons. Conditions for ei ployes in the various manufacture and operating departments is contin ally improving with the construct of new buildings and the insta!lati< of new and up-to-date equipment. Sanitation and Hygiene. The housewife makes no greater < fort to keep her kitchen clean than do to keep in sanitary and hygiei condition our abattoirs. They a thoroughly scrubbed at the close each day's operations, and automa appliances are used wherever possit in order to eliminate the personal har ling of meats. Rigid rules governi tbese points are strictly enforced; Is ity means dismissal. Visitors Always TTelcomc. No other industry in the world giv such a cordial rreicome to visitors Swift & Co. We keep open house t year around, and maintain a corps specially trained guides, with spec elevators and rest rooms. In one ye we have entertained over a quarter a million of men and women; in o day?Grand Army Day, 3901?we < tertained 23.000. Among our visitc have been ambassadors from forei governments, princes, noblemen a distinguished citizens from all Ian and eminent folks from every State the Union. We wish to familiarize t public with our methods, and the b< way to do that is to lot the public s for itself. We have 110 secret process or methods in any department. TTnrn ? and Bacon. n*v in o * - v ? Swift's Premium Hams and Bac The collection of postals is more ol craze in England :Lan anywhere els< State of Ohio, City of Toledo, ) Lijcas County. j * Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheneti Co., doing business in the City of Tolet County and State aforesaid, and that sj firm w'iil pay the sum of one hundred dc lars for eaeh and every case of catab that cannot be cured by the use of Hali Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney Sworn to before me and subscribed in r . , presence, this 6th day of Decei \ seal, f ber, A.D., 188G. A.W.Gleason ' ?' Notary Publ Hail's Catarrh Cure is taken internally,a; acts directly on the blood and mucous sn faces of the system. Send for testimonia free. F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, 0, Sold by all Drugcists. 75c. Take hall's Family Fills for constipatic Glass batli tubs are now coming in general use. N.Y.?5. Wanted. Vld defaulted or tmflftleuble stocks and bow Remainders of estates bought. All unquoted or n lifted securities dealt in. No rharire tor vain ins,' c securities Valuable hook on old securities pi =ented to holder of any extinct stock uot mention iherum. It. ,il. S.il V'THL'. iCootu 452, Pr iluec Kxrlmn?o, i\cw l ork. | ftp lor ot < worth of leadiDtr novelties 111''hoi 11 |u eat Garden Srec.s. J1'8 worth ol I'rJvnn] Pi IU inlum Coui i us free with c\ery order b< >1 .< ? IA XO'S SEED STOKE, BALTIMORE That Baby of Yours S'eeos Hoxsle's Croup Cure for Couvlis,Colds, Croi t Pneumonia. It prevent* Membranous Croup ai Diphtheria. 60 cents, at Drujfgists or mail. A. 1\ HOXMI&. BIIllalo, X. V. I PAY SPOT CASH For IWfl!tar.v Bounty LrikI M nrrniit* i?sn< oscld-er" v! any war. write aitiaf oli':e b'KANJ ii. ki:<;rk. atf xthi s .. i>k\vi-:k,<:?ii ^ NEW DISCOVERY gives quirk relief aad cur rnrtt cn?e?. Hook of testimonial* and iOOuvn'trritiifi Tree. Dr. H. II. CREEVH bOBox B, Atlanta tii SldldziadLLdaidil# CURES WHERE ALL USE FAILS.. PTT Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use 6^ In time. Sold by druggets. PRICE,^,25 Cts m ?| fin fKlNONEDAY g% iWRIPINE || "si HAS MO EQUjAL F0R"H'D^G)E forD> ? id disables like i Sciatica . t trouble as F A D E L E her dye. One It. *l:R<re color* all fiber*. Thej' booklet?How to Dw .cli *nd Dolors. U San Francisco man put tills apparitor ''n> on, worked for an Lour in n room filled,?':? for with the fumes of burning sulphur, >1 j >0(1 aud was all might in lungs and throat;^! !?"- when he came out. If it does what it >3 i"g is described as doing, it is a necessity ,;|8 ')(ir for every tlreman.?"With the Vroces^Ji ce- sicn." Everybody's Magazine. I ?^e The cattle of Somaliland, eays a lls- cent official report, are fattened On |3 'S1' date stones, and milch animals fed pny-;~f| an' such a diet are said to produce better ;-J? A J and more copious milk thrn others. J| * rly are more widely and favorably known S?| i(1 than any other brand. Their popularee! ity is due to the uniform quality and 7-1 flavor of the meat, ana to'their fine | % appearance when received from the,yM ? dealer. Each piece is branded on the T % rind, "Swift's Premium U. S. Inspect% ed," and wrapped in cheesecloth and. ypB > white parchment paper. \ ! Look for the brand, "Swift's Premium," when buying han,s and bacon. Q- Swift's Silver Leaf Lard its Is a strictly pure lard, kettle rendered, ,'^g er and put up in 3, G, and 10-pound pealetl .; |j m- pails. It is America's Standard i.ard, ^ ng and enjoys a lHgh reputation and ai? f u- j enormous sale.' '> Swift's Soap*. , An interesting feature fit a tr?p ;v^| through the Chicago plant is a visit to . the soap factory, one of the largestiJaB and most complete in this country.' \-}*j Tliere we manufacture numerous toilet . lie and laundry soaps, and washing powof Among which are: tic Wool Soap, widely and favorably yj|lj >le known; for toilet and bath, and was&-v^| id- ing fine fabrics. ng Crown Princess Toilet Soap, highly ^ ix- perfumed. Swift's Pride Soap, for laundry and household use. Swift's Pride Washing Powder, es surpassed for all cleaning purposes. as Swift's Specialties. 110 Swift's Premium Ham , t of Swift's Premium Bacon ia: Swift's Premium Sliced Bacon '^j ar Swift's Premium Lsrd 9 of Swift's Winchester Ilam ue Swift's Winchester Bacon ?n" Brookfleld Farm Sausage ,rs Swift's Silver Leaf Lard ^ Jewel Lard Compound Swift's Cotosuet '?s Swift's Jersey Butterine in Swift's Eeef Extract ., be Swift's Beef.Fluid Swift's Premium Milk-Fed Chickcn? Swift's Soaps. 5<?s Wool Soap Scented Toilet Soaps Swift's Pride Soap on Swift's Pride Washing Powder. . !ld Good Teeth Good Temper .Jj eLh Are characteristic of the I L'a Atfyins Saws always. | ay That is because they are ; ,^8 m~ made of the best steel in the ^ world ? Silver Steel ? by ; .'ji ;r- men that know how. Atkins Saws, Corn Knives, Perfection Floor Scr?pei?, etc., ate told by ail good hardware "v-Js ,jj_ dealers. Catalogue t a request, ' JggjjH t0 E. C. AT11INS <ZL CO. inc. j [' Largest Saw Manufacturers in the World 1 ! ?? lkI M Factory and Executive Offices, Indianapolis t Kkanchus?New York, Chicago, Minneapolis I Portland (Oregon), Seattli, San Francisco , -,'IS Memphis, Atlantaaad Toronto (Canada) ' T Accept no substitute? Insist oMhe Atkins Brand F '' Jj if; I -J *&? >M f| SOLD DY GOOD DEALERS H rt* UviWUMVAIV.H1VMAMVU,AA''V1?.V>i^MW**m^'m MfiMJtm ?M 1" That Delightful Aid to Health 1 ; JDaxtwe I Toilet Antiseptic Whitens the teeth?purifies mouth and breath ? cures nasal catarrh, sore throat, sore eyes, and by direct application cures .-ill inflnmpH. ulrpratfri anri- ? i j H catarrhal conditions caused byla M feminine ills. 1 Paxtine possesses extraordinary 9 cleansing, healing and germi. 9 cidal qualities unlike anything 1 else. At all druggists. 50 cents g LARGE TRIAL PACKAGF FREE The R, Paxtoa Co., Boston. Mass. ITI-GRIPlNl 5 GUARANTEED TO CURE ID QOLD, HEADACHE AND NEURALGIA. Antl-tirlplne to h dt-aJer-who won't OuMrnntec 1% ur MONEY BACK. IF IT DCENN'T CUBE. I enter, Manufacturer, Springfield, 31a OIL |il PRICE. 2Sc. AND 50c. JB j : S S DYES I dye in cold water better than any other d>-8. You c*o tUNuUL UUUli CO.. Lfuionvitte. Missouri*. ;s /;-3