The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, July 16, 1890, Image 4
HARD WORKERS
ARE THE WOMEN OP THE CTtvr.m
FRENCH CITP.
Almost All Atoqucs of Employment
Open to Thcm-Ncwspapcrs Chiefly
Sold by Women—Merchants
of the Four Seasons, Etc,
Women in France, says a Paris letter
to the San Francisco Chronicle, cannot
justly complain that an insufficient num
ber of the avenues of labor are not open
to them. The Government gives them
occupation in many ways—in the mint,
as telegraphists, in the postoffice, in the
telephone offices and in other ways too
numerous to mention. As physicians
they conquered their place long ago. The
bar is almost the only profession or trade
that they have not invaded. Every Paris
shop, almost without exception, hag its
woman cashier. A cook starts a res
taurant and reigns supreme in the kitchen
while his wife superintends the service,
perhaps with the assistance of a matre
d'hotel. A shirtmaker opens a shop for
the sale of articles connected with his
trade and does the cutting, while his
wife presides at the counter. The tailor
has usually his wife as cashier. French
women are editors of newspapers and re
views, compositor*, saleswomen, nurses,
THE STAFF OF LIFE.
porters, hewers of wood and drawers of
water, everything in fact they want to be
«r are obliged to be, and their rights and
wrongs,are, in general, justly recognized
by the unwritten social code and the
legal tribunals of their country.
Newspapers are sold in Paris at kiosks
situated on the principal streets, boule
vards and public places by venders, who
have a coigh of vantage at the door of a
wineshop or other entrance, and by news
men or news women in the street. Boys
rarely engage in the occupation. The
dress of the men so engaged usually beg
gars description. The news women pro
sent ordinarily a more decent appear
ance. The kiosks are small, picturesque
structures constructed by a company an
thorized by the city and leased at from
6 francs to 12 or 15 francs a month, ac
cording to eligibility. It is not always
those in the most crowded localities that
pay best, and at. none of them are for
tunes made in a day. It is not a life
that an American woman, even of the
most necessitous class, would not wil
lingly follow—up in the morning at.
dawn and on the boulevards; never in
bed before one o'clock in the morning.
Most of the kiosks are kept by aged
women, who, summer and winter alike,
pass from twelve to eighteen hours a
day at their task. When the weather is
cold their sufferings must be great,
though they are warmly dressed and
have under their skirts a footstove of
the kind which our ancestors used in the
old New England churches when the
sermons were three hours long and the
temperature 10 degrees below zero. At
midnight the more weary begin to nod,
and you have to shout to wake them.
At one o’clock they have all folded their
tents and stolen away to take a few hours
of repose before recommencing the dull
round of labor.
A NEWSDEALER.
both banks of the Seine from its en
trance into Paris at Charenton till it
quits its envirous at Asnicres. The boss
washerwoman has her place of business
in a small room on the ground floor in
no matter what street, where the clothing
is received to be sent to the washhouses
and where it is ironed and prepared to
be sent home. The ironer is a neatly
attired young woman, intelligent for her
station, ready with a repartee for the
young male patrons of the establishment
and highly skilled in knocking the but
tons off your linen, plunging the nose of
the flatiron into your shirt-fronts and
leaving abrasions in your collars and
cuffs. The ironer wields the heavy flat
iron from an early hour in the morning
till a late hour at night during the week.
On Sunday afternoon she goes to the
suburbs with her young man—an article
she is pretty sure to have—perhaps to
St. Cloud or Suresncs, or even as far as
Bougival The damsel who collects the
linen and delivers it, carries her immense
burdens with exemplary patience. If the
lanndry is in the suburbs the delivery is
effected by means of an Old-fashioned
; vehicle, driven by an elderly woman—
the business woman of the establishment
—who makes this her only occupation.
Some bakers are born to wagons,
others achieve them, etc. If they do
1 not have them in any of the specified
ways they have a handcart which consists
of a basket set on low wheels, which
NOCNOCS OF AUVERGNE,
«
A notable class of the women work
ers of Paris arc those called “merchants
of the four seasons '’ They are provided
with a handcart commonly filled with
vegetables or other products of the land
and water peculiar to the different sea
sons, but the name is sufficiently elastic
to include those who deal the year round
in meat, oranges cr other things which
the appellation would faiutly suggest.
The privilege of following this arduous
occupation is only granted to persons
who arc aged and decrepit, and who, if
the laws of health were observed, really
should not be engaged in it. In the
morning they go at daylight to the cen
tral market to lay in their stock of fruit,
meat, vegetables, etc., and thence for
ward till dark, and sometimes until a
certain hour in the evening they maybe
seen pushing their carts about the city,
haggling with customers, retailing their
misfortunes with one another, or having
n row with a policeman, who threatens
to take them in if they do not forthwith
evacuate a particular locality which is
highly desirable for their business, but
where they are very much in the way.
The existence of a class of small dealers
of this kind implies conflicting interests.
The shopkeepers object. They pay hi, j
reals, and here are dealers at their
doors who undersell them and
who pay no rent. On the
other hand, the .merchants of the
four seasons aie a great accommodation
to small consumers, since they sell at. a
reasonable price and their goods are usu
ally fresh, because they renew their stock
every morning. There are the interests
of the city to be considered, for the
streets are crowded at the very hours
when the business of the merchants of the
four seasons is most prosperous, that is
iust before the breakfast time (noon)and
just before the hour for dinner. Finally,
the sluggard who is constantly saying to
himself: “A little more sleep-a little
more slumber,” objects to thoir cries in
his street during the forenoon. Still,
they continue to exist, though often
threatened with extermination, and to re
tain the privilege of certain streets at
certain hours, and even to station them
selves in a long line along the sidewalk in
certa’n quarters, like the market wagons
in an American city. What was origi-
tslly granted to them as a privilege they
begin to claim as a right. They have a
corporation and lawyers to look after
their interests. They have their meetings
and their own orators, and though they
belong to the invalid corps, and the in
fluenza sadly decimated their ranks this
winter, they tight their, battle manfully.
It is a hard life ge'ting up at daylight in
the morning and pushing a handcart
from morning to night in the muddy
itreeta in rain, sleet, wind and snow, and
it is only brave souls that esn persevere
in it.
The cleansing of the foul linen of
Paris is a highly characteristic handi
craft which gives employment to some
thousands of women, old and young.
The washing is usually dona in the im
mense boat* that one sees anchored to
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CLEANEST CtTT IT THE WORLD,
they put in charge of their more musculai
handmaiden to be trundled about the
city. Bread is the staff of life in France
to an extent hardly conceivable in
America. A great part of the present
population makes its repasts the greater
part of the time on bread and wine or on
I bread and cider. If bread is dear thi
! entire population of Pans gives a cry of
! agony. The commerce in bread is neces-
j sarily immense, and employ a host ol
women, who sell at the counter or are en-
i gaged in the delivery. Men are nevei
seen about the establishment. Theii
presence is required at the kneading
trough and oven, where they may b<
seen, in a costume exceedingly primitive,
through the basement window at night
I doing their part in the serious labor of
filling what Victor Hugo calls le ventre
de Paris. The bakeresses present few
salient points of character. They are
generally neat and good-humored,
whether at the counter or in the street,
and the same may be said of those in the
pastry shops, which constitute, usually,
a separate and entirely distinct branch of
the trade. The bread deliverer has,
usually, her head covered with a handker
chief, and when she leaves her basket,
carries a portion of her burden, like
sticks of wood, suspended in front of
her in a cloth knotted at the shoulders.
It is the headgear of the porteresses, that
is if they wear head covering at all, for it
is not uncommon to see in Paris in win
ter a woman braving a glacial wind or a
tempest of snow with her head un
adorned except by its luxuriant tresses.
Women divide with men the work of
street cleaning and collecting offal. It is
oftenest a woman, and a woman advanced
in years, her gray, uncombed locks strag
gling from under a handkerchief, that is
seen yielding a broom made of twigs,
and washing the streets with a liberal
supply, of hydrant water, for the bitumin
is as thoroughly scrubbed os a house floor
every morning. It is women, women,
everywhere. One may travel from one end
MERCHANT OF THE FOUR SEASON*,
o.ie aroqj 1 aunts aqj si ji sjaniBrn aqj jy
p|oe am itsam jo sauaaojfi oiaqsi asoq;
tdaaxa ‘sdoqs aqj jo Ana m nsm a aat
A'laajBas pun laqtoua oq taaj)g suaj a ;o
only men at the butchers' stalls. At the
fish markets, especially at that of the
Central Market, which is immense and
admirably supplied and kept, there is not
a man to be seen. There is no doubt
these fish women have, like Shakespeare's
shrew, “a tongue with a tang,” but un
less there is some extraordinary cause for
excitement everything is as calm as a
summer's morning. It ia only women
that keep those convenient chalets seen
dong the quays in all the public places
of the city. Half the restaurants of
Paris are served by bonnes in pretty caps,
who, no matter how assiduously
they perform their dut’ea, always
have an eye open for eligible
conquest among the male patrons. In
Paris, nurses, though they come more or
less from all parts of the country, are
principally supplied by Brittany and
Auvergne. It was for the nouncea or
nurses of Auvergne that the melody was
written which afterwsrd became so cele-
ornted in the Boulangist campaign under
•be name of the “Pionoions of A«-
vergne.” One who sees the nurses with
heir tender charges in the Champs Ely-
ccs or the Luxembourg jardin on a fine
qiring day would hardly suspect what is
i solemn fact, that the population of
France is at a standstill.—San Francitc*
Chronicle.
Illinois has the most thoroughly
equipped State normal university, proba
bly, in this country. It was established
February 18, 1857. The Legislature has
appropriated $350,0Q0 for buildings and
equipmants.
Spain’s Baby King.
The youngest and smallest King in the
world is Alfonso XIII., of Spain, of
whom Golden Days presents the follow*
ing picture to youthful readers: “Merrily
the joy bells announced his advent to tho
good people of Madrid, and sent minis
ters, foreign representatives, lords and
ladies in waiting and a hundred other
magnifleos scurrying into their court
clothes and dashing off to the grand
ante-chamber in the palace, where they
waited With more or less patience and
Impatience Until the doors were thrown
open and the Prime Minister appeared;
carefully carrying on a velvet cushion,
covered with a lace veil, his very little
Royal Highness, King Alfonso XIII.
iCttNtmo AND iNDUSTRlAt.
ALPHONSO XIII. OF SPAIN.
“Gravely, and with true Castilian
decorum, was the baby monarch pre
sented to the noble assemblage, and then
the Duchess Medina de las Torres took
him in her arms and bore him to his
mother, bidding her ‘Kiss his Majesty,
the King 1’ Five days later there came
the christening, when the ceremonies
were of regal magnificence, and all the
grandees flocked to do honor to the baby
Bourbon. Indeed, this tiny King seems
to have been born to ceremony, and in
his four years of life has assisted at many
public affairs.
“But, little Alfonso is not a strong
child, and the past winter he has been so
ill that great fears were entertained for
his life. His high forehead, however,
bespeaks intelligence, and he is well
guarded and tended, while each summer
he goes with his mother and young
sisters to the beautiful palace of ‘La
Granja,’ amoug the mountains, where he
can inhale the fragrant, spby odors of
the pine forests and lead a free country
life. Should he live he will remain in
the hands of nurses and governesses
until he is seven, at which age he will be
turned over to a tutor aud masters, to re
ceive a thorough education, while at
sixteen he is to be presented to the
Cortes, the Queen Regent will retire and
he become ruler in fact as well as in
name.”
A Pot Worth $30,000
There is no temple in the world con-
aining greater treasures than the edifice
•h Ceylon, where Buddha’s tooth is pre-
ierved for the awe and encouragement of
he faithful. One of the most curious
itensils used by the priests is the great
golden watering-pot, which plays an im-
jertaut part in the sacred rites.
Tiiis great vessel is known to be over
four centuries old, and it is one of tho
most valuable jars in the world, being
worth much more in the open market
than even the celebrated peachblow vase,
of which so much was said a few years
ago
The metal and the gems in the “Ken-
diya” are appraised at 826,000.—Louis-
title Co'iricr-Journal.
Remarkable Coincidences.
The remarkable story told by ex-Dis-
trict Attorney John VV. Johnston, of
Lancaster County, Penn., in the Phila
delphia Inquirer, is not likely to have
many parallels. About three years be
fore the war, acting on the great
Greeley's advice, young Johnson got as
far west as Illinois. His cousins, Frank
Price and Kersey H. Fell, had preceded
him there from Chester County and were
well established. They put some legal
matters in his hands that needed atten
tion, and on April 30, 1857, he found
himself at Decatur, then enough of a
railroad centre to be the intersecting
point of two Illinois roads. Connections
were faulty here, and Johnson found that
he would have to lay over the greater
part of the day until the next train came
along. Presently he met another young
man who, it afterward transpired, was in
a precisely similar condition. They fell
to talking and walking together. As a
pair of scales stood near by they jumped
on and were weighed. Each tipped the
beam at 145 pounds. This excited some
surprise, ns the one seemed taller than the
other. They then measured their height!.
Each stood five feet nine inches. Still
more remarkable, however, was the
coincidence that now came out, that the
one was born on the same day of the
identical year on which the other wae
ushered into the world.
“Well, now,” said thesurprieed young
lawyer, “what's yournamel”
“John W. Johnson,” came the reply,
“and what's yours?”
“John W. Johnson.”
So it was that these two young
strangers, accidentally thrown together,
found that their respective weights, age*
and names were identical. Both were
also Pennsylvanians. The Lancaiter
John W. Johnson vouches for the truth of
thi* remarkable series of coincidencee.
He has never seen the other John W.
Johnson from that day to this.
Origin of Term ‘‘Masher.”
The word masher is sometimes said te
be a corruption of the French ma cherie.
But thia ii one of the many instances of
an ingenlwos etymology whose surface
plausibility imposes ou the unscholarly.
Far more likely is the derivation from
the Gypey word mashava, to fascinate by
the eye. Charles G. Leland k m “The
Gypsies," credits this etymology. ‘‘And
thus it was,” he say* (page 108), “that
these black-eyed beauties, by mashing
men for many generations, with shafts
shot sideways and most wantonly, at last
sealed their soul* into the corner of their
eyes, as you have heard before.” And
in afoot-note, he explains: “Mashing, a
word of Gypey origin (mashava), mean
Ing fascination by the eye, or taking in.
—Chicago Poet.
The British Museum received one day
recently a Chinese bank note issuei from
Abe Imperial mint 300 years before thi
fint use of paper money in England.
Tho climate of China is said to b<
growing not only colder but drier.
In tho Atlantic Ocean there arc about
eighty-three pounds of salt to every ton
of water.
A revolution in coal mining ia ex
pected from the use of a machine oper
ated by electricity.
There is o great demand for metal
furniture of all kinds in Australia on ac
count of the ravages of the white ant.
Galvanized wire netting is being large
ly sold for lawn, garden and shrubbery
purposes, for which it is admirably
adapted.
The coldest spot on earth is Verko-
yansk, in Siberia, where the mean win
ter temperature is 48.6 degrees below
zero, Centigrade.
As a rule it seems that lepers do not
suffer severe pain, and the average length
of life at Molokai, Hawaian Islands, it
about four years.
Cable messages are received by an in
strument known as the syphon recorder,
which equirts a small jet of ink on a paper
ribbon as the current is made or broken.
There are said to be at least a hun
dred thousaiid acres of phosphate rock
Scattered through the western part ol
Florida. The deposits average ten feet
la depth, and are rich in phosphate of
lime.
Experts claim that if steel ships are
kept properly painted with good paint;
and the plates properly “pickled,” they
would last as long as iron, otherwise
they would deteriorate more rapidly than
Iron ships.
Electric traction is said to be fairly
booming in London. In a few weeks a
line of omnibusses run by electricity is to
be started. They will be driven by
storage batteries, and will have a seating
capacity for twenty-six passengers.
The thistle at the antipodes seems te
attain a most vigorous growth. Its root
penetrates to a depth of from twelve te
twenty feet; and this root, even when
cut into small pieces, retains vitality,
each piece producing a new plant.
A weak galvanic current, which will
sometimes cure a toothache, may be gen
erated bv placing a silver coin on one
side of the gum and a piece of zinc on
the other. Rinsing the mouth with
acidulated water will increase the effect.
The greatest, electric railroad which
has been planned is the one proposed in
Russia, between St. Petersburg and
Archangel, a distance of 600 miles. The
plan is to erect stations along the route
for the generation of electricity. The
estimated cost is only about $15,000 a
mile.
The projected railroad to the summit
of Jungfrau, in Switzerland, contem
plates the boldest mountain engineering
yet ventured upon. The line, which is
to consist of a continuous series of tun
nels, is intended to rise in a distance ol
a little over four miles from an altitude
of 2800 feet above the sea to the lofty
heighth of 13,600 feet, with grades ol
from thirty-three per cent, to ninety-
eight per cent.—or practically perpen
dicular.
A neat application of electricity to do
mestic uses is a miniature pumping plant.
With the use of no more current than
suffices for a couple of incandescent
lamps, it will pump one hundred gallons
an hour or so, and keep the house tank
full without a particle of attention. These
little electrical devices to lighten labor
in the household are particularly com
mendable, and as the electrical light and
power becomes more widely available,
will doubtless increase in number ltd
utility.
Sham Antiquities.
The great demand for all kinds of an
tique articles has given birth to a vast
number of sham antiquities. According
to the Jewelers' Weekly, an army of handi
craftsmen are busily engaged In the
manufacture of these wares, which are
pal-ned off on confiding people as being
200 or 300 years old, and dated from
any desired landmark in history. Old
chairs, old tables, old silver, old jewelry
and any old thing, even if made last
week, have great value in the eye* of
many persons satisfied with antiquity in
appearance. Worm-eaten furniture is
now one of the rages. This stuff ii
easily produced with the aid of bird-shot,
which is fired into it. Old houses, torn
down, furnish worm eaten timber, which
is turned to good account in fabricating
old sets of furniture. Old door-keys,
mediaval bellows, gilt flambeaux in
Louis XIV. style, warming-pans and
brass fenders of the fourteenth century,
candelabra, and even old snuffers, find
purchasers as fast as these antique wares
can be made by skilful artisaus in out-of-
the-way places of the gay capital. Old
coins and Regency clocks are cast by the
ton every day in Paris, but they are
very scarce and bring fabulous prices.
Dreams.
The subject of dreams seems to de
mand more thorough study than it has
yet received from science. Dr. Julius
Nelson, of New York, has lately pub
lished the results of an examination he
made of some 4000 of his dreams. He
finds that the dreams of evening gener
ally follow great physical or mental fa
tigue, and are associated with the events
of the day. The same applies to night
dreams, which, however, have more of a
terrifying element in them. The most,
remarkable and pleasant are the morning
dreams, occurring after complete rest of
the brain. Fancy then appears to have
its widest range and activity, working
marvelous trausformations, and giving
clear vision of the past and the future.
Dr. Nelson further finds that the vivid
ness of his dreams is subject to regular
fluctuations of twenty-eight days, and
that they also vary with the seasons, so
that they are vt ry vivid in December,
and least vivid in March and April. An
old popular superstition attaches special
importance to dreams in the twelve
nights from Christmas to January 6, and
it is suggested that this is, perhaps, be
cause dreams at (oat time have been
found very vivid and distinct.
The Oldest Inhabitant.
Census Taker Belbune, of Milledge-
ville, Ga., in discharging hie duties, tan
across the oldest inhabitant, aud was puz
zled for awhile as to what entry to make
of her age. Jane Moore, polored, living
in the northern part of the city, gave her
age as one hundred and twenty-one years.
Mr. Bethune questioned her for some
time and discovered that the old woman
was a regular encyclopedia of the early
days of American Independence. She
knew all about it—was there and saw it.
She remembered Washington and all of
the fathers. She remembered their
habits and eccentricities, and said that
the was married and had children when
Washington dird. Her oldest living
child is eighty-eight years old, and since
its birth she has been blessed with twenty-
seven others She is evidently not leu
than one hundred and ten years and may
be one hundred and twenty-one, a* she
lay*—Nets York Mercury.
Two youth* of Napoleon, Jfieh., won
a wager by each eating five pouuds of
honey at one lining.
REV. DR. TALMAGE
THE BBOOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: -Pow-er of Testimony.”
Text; "We are witnesses.”—Actsiii., 15.
In tho days of George Stephenson, tho
porfoctor of tho locomotive engine, the sci
entists proved conclusively that a railway
train could never be driven by steam power
successfully and without peril; but the
rushing express trains from Liverpool to
Edinburgh and from Edinburgh to London,
have made all the nations witnessea of the
splendid achievement. Machinists and
navigators proved conclusively that a
steamer could never cross the Atlantic
Ocean; but no sooner had they successfully
proved tho impossibility of such an under
taking than the work was done, and the pas
sengers on tho CUndrd and the Inman and
the National and tho White Star lines are
witnesses. There went up a guffaw of wise
laughter at Professor Morse’s proposition to
make tho lightning of heaven his errand
boy, and it was proved conclusively that the
thing could never be done; but now all the
news of tho wide world, by Associated Press
put in your hands every morning and night,
has made all nations witnesses.
So in the time of Christ it was proved
conclusively that it was impossible for Him tc
rise from the dead. It was shown logically
that when a man was dead he was dead, and
the heart and the liver and the lungs having
ceased to perform their offices the limbs
would be rigid beyond all power of friction
or arousal. They showed it to be an absolute
absurdity that the dead Christ should over
get up alive; but no sooner had they proved
tills than the dead Christ arose, and the dis
ciples beheld Him, beard His voice and
talked with Him, and they took the witness
stand to prove that to do true which the
wiseacres of the day had proved to be im
possible; the record of the experience andot
the testimony is in the text: “Him hath God
raised from the dead, whereof we are wit
nesses."
Now lot me play the skeptic for a moment.
“There is no God,’' says the skeptic “for
I have never seen Him with my physical
eyesight. Your Bible is a pack of contra
dictions, There never was a miracle. Laz
arus was not raise l from the dead, and wa
ter was never turned into wine. Your re
ligion is an imposition on the credulity of the
nges." There is an aged man moving over
yonder as though he would like to respond.
Ilere are hundreds of people with faoee a
little flushed at these announcement*, and
all through this assembly there is a sup
pressed feeling which would like to speak
out in behalf of the truth of our glorloas
Christianity, as in the days of the text, cry
ing out, “Vveare witnesses!”
Tho fact is that it this world Is ever
brought to God it will not he through argu-
meut, but through testimony. You might
cover tho whole earth with apologies for
Christianity and learno l treatises in defense
of religion—you would not convert a soul.
Lectures on the harmony between science
and religion are beautiful mental discipline,
but have never saved a soul and never will
save a soul. Put a man of the world and a
of tho church against each other and the
man of the world will in all probability get
the triumph. There ore a thousand
things in our religion that seem illogi
cal to the world and always will
seem illogical. Our weapon in this conflict
is faith, not logic; faith, not metaphysics,
faith, not profundity; faith, not scholastic
exploration. But then in order to have faith
we must have testimony, and if five hundred
men, or one thousand men, or five hundred
thousand men, or five million men get up and
tell me that they have felt the religion of
Jesus Christ a joy. a comfort, a help, an as
piration, I am bound os c fair minded man to
accept their testimony. I want just now to
put hefore you three propositions, the truth
of which I think this audience will attest
with overwhelming unanimity.
The first proposition is: We are witnesses
that the r-ligion of Christ is able to con
vert a soul. The Gospel may have had a
hard time to conquer us, we may hqve
fought it back, hut we were vanquished.
You say conversion is only an imaginary
thing. We know bettor. “We are wit
nesses.'’ There never was so great a change
in our heart and life on any other subject
as on this. People laughed at the mission
aries in Madagascar because they preached
ten years without one convert; but there
are 33,000 converts in Madagascar to-day.
People laughed at Ur. Adomram Judson,
the Baptist missionary, because he kept on
preaching in Bunnali ttve years without a
single convert. but there are 20,000 Baptists
in Burmah tc-day. People laughed at Dr.
Morrison, in China, for preaching there
seven years without a single conversion; but
there ore 25,000 Christians in China to-day.
People laughed (it the missionaries for
preaching at Tahiti fifteen years without a
single conversion, nn 1 c.t tho missionaries for
preaching in Bengal seventeen years without
a single conversion; yet in all those lands
there are multitudes of Christians to-day.
But why go so far to find evidence of the
Gospel’s power to save a soul? “We are
witnesses.’ We were so proud that no
man could have humbled us; we were so
hard that no earthly power could have
melted us. angels of God were all around
about us; they could not overcome us. But
0'*e day. perhaps at a Methodist anxious
seat, or at a Preshy lerian catechetical lec
ture, or nt a burial, or on horseback, a
power seized us, and ma le us get down, and
made us tremble, and made us kneel, and
made us cry for mercy, and we tried to
wrench ourselves away from the grasp, but
we could not It flung us flat, and when we
arose we were as much changed as Gourgis,
the heathen, who went Intoa prayer meeting
with a dagger and a gun to disturb tho meet
ing and destroy it, but the next day was
found crying: "Oh, my great sinsl Ob, my
great Saviour T' and for eleven years
preached the Gospel of Christ to his fellow
mountaineers, tho last words on his dying
lips beiug “Free Grace!” Oh, it was free
grace!
There is a man who for ten years was a
hard drinker. The dreadful appetite had
sent down its Toots around the palate and
the tongue, and on down until they were
interlinked with the vitals of tho body,
miud and soul; but he has not taken any
stimulants for ten years. What did that*
Not temperance societies. Not prohibition
laws. Not moral suasion. Conversion did
it. “Why.’’ said one upon whom the great
change had come, “sir, I feel just as
though I were somebody else!" There is a
sea captain who swore all the way from New
York to Havana, and from Havana to 8au
Francisco, and when ho was iu port he was
corse than when he was on tho sea. AVhat
power was it that washed his tongue clean of
pi o: am ties aud made him a psalm singer*
Conversion by the Holy Spirit. There are
thousands of people in this assemblage to-day
who are no more what they once were than
ii waterlily is a nightshade, or a morning
lark is a vulture, or day is night.
Now, if I should demand that all those
people hero present who have felt the con
verting power of religion should rise, so far
iroui being ashamed th y would spring to
their feet with more alacrity than they ever
sprang to the dance, the tears mingling with
their exhilaration as they cried, “We are
witnesses!” And if they tried to sing the
old Gospel hymn they would break down
with emotion by the time they got to the
second line.
Ashamed of Jesus, that dear Friend
On whom my hopes of heaven depend?
No! When 1 blush, bo this my shame;
That I no more revere His name.
Again I remark that we are witnesses of
fhe Gospel’s power to comfort. There are
Christian parents here who are willing to
testify to tno power of the Gospel to com
fort. Your son had just graduated from
■school or college and was going into business,
and the Lord took him. Or your daughter
had just graduated frorn the young ladles’
seminary! and you thougnt sue was going to
ho a uselul woman and of long life; nut the
Lord took her, aud you were tempted to say,
“All this culture of twoirty years for noth
ing 1” Or the little child came home from
school with the hot fever that stopped not
for the agonized prayer or for the ekiUfnl
physician, and the little child was taken. Or
tho babe was lifted out of your arms by tome
quick epidemic, and you stood wondering
why God ever gave you that child at all, if
so soon He was to take it away. And yet
you aro not repining, you are not fretful, you
are not fighting against God.
What has enabled you to stand all the
trial* “Ob,” you say, “1 took the medicine
that God gave my sick soul. In my die-
tress 1 threw myself at the feet of a sym
pathizing God; and when I was too weak
to pray, or to look up, He breathed into me
a peace that I think must be the foretaste
of that heaven where there is neither a tear,
nor a farewell, nor a grave.” Coma, all ye
who have been out to the grave to weep
there—come, all ye comforted souls, get up
off your knees. Is there no power in this
Gospel to soothe the heart? Is there no
power in this religion to quiet the worst
paroxysm of grief? ’There eo nee up an an
swer from comforted widowhood, and
orphanage, and childlessness, saying: “Ay,
ay, we are witm-v
When a man has trouble the world comes
in and says: “Now get your mind off this;
go out and breathe the fresh air; plunge
deeper into business.” What poor advice 1
Get yoiir mind Off it! When everything is
upturned with the bereavement lind every
thing reminds you of what you have lost.
Get your mind off it! They might as well
advise you to stop thinking. You cannot
stop thinking, and von cannot stop thinking
in that direction. Take a walk iu the fresh
air! Why, along that very street or that
very road she onco accompanied you.
Out of that grass plat she plucked flowers,
of into that show window she looked, fas
cinated, saying: “Come, see tho pictures. ’
Go deeper into business? Why. she was
associated with all your business ambition.
nn.i since she has gone you have do ambition
left.
Ob, this is a clumsy world when it tries to
comfort a broken heart. 1 can build a Cor-
leaf’s engine, I can paint a Raphael's “Ma
donna,” I can play a Beethoven’s “Eroica
Symphony” as oasily as this world can com
fort a broken heart. And yet you have boon
comforted. How was it done? Did Christ
come to you and say “Get your mint off
this; go out and breathe fresh air; plunge
deeffer into business**' No. There was a
minute when He came to you—perhaps in
the watch of tho night, jierliaps in your
place of business, perhaps along tho street
—aqd He breathed something Into your soul
that gave peace, rest, infinite quiet, so that
you could take out the photograph of tha
departed one and look mto the eyes and face
of the dear one and say “It is all right;
she is better off; I would not call her back.
Lord, I thank Thee that Thou hast cooiforted
my poor heart.”
Again, I remark that we are witnesses ol
the fact that religion has the power to give
eomiiosure in the last moment. 1 never shall
'orget the first time I confronted death We
went across the eorufields in the country. 1
was led by my father's hand, and we came to
the farm bouse where the bereavement had
come, and we saw the crowd of wagons and
carriages but there w is one carriage that es
pecially attracted my boyish attention,
and It bad black plumes. I said:
• What’s that? What’s that* Why
those black tassels on the top?”
and after it was explained to me I was lifted
up to look upon tho bright face of an aged
Christian woman who three days before had
departed in triumph; the whole scene made
an Impression I never forgot.
In our sermons and in oiir lay exhortations
we are very apt, n hen we want to bring il
lustrations of dying triumph, to go back to
some distinguished personage—to a John
Knox or a Harriet Newell. But I want you
for witnesses. 1 want to know if you have
ever seen anything to make you believe that
the religion of Christ can give composure in
the final hour. Now in the courts attorney,
jury and judge will never admit mere hear
say. They demand that the witness must
have seen with his own eyes or heard with
his own ears, and so I am critical in my ex
amination of you now, and I want tokuow
whether you have seen or heard anything
that makes you believe that the religion of
Christ gives composure in the final hour.
“Oh. yes,” you say, "I saw my father and
mother depart. There was a great difference
in their deathbeds. Btandlng by the one we
felt more veneration. By the other, there
was more tenderness.” Before the one you
bowed perhaps in a we. In the other case you
felt as if you would like to go along with her.
How did they feel iu that last hour? How
ditl they seem to act? Were they very much
frightened? Did they take hold of this world
with both hands ns though they did not want
to give it up? “Oh. no,” you say, “no, t
remember as though it were yesterday, she
had a kind word for us all, and there were
a few mementoes distributed among the
children, and then she told us how kind we
must be to our father in his lonliness. and
then she kissed us good-by and went asleep
as calmly as a child in a cradle ”
What made her so composed? Natural
courage? “No,” you say, “mother was very
nervous; when the carriage inclined to the
side of the road she would cry out; she was
always rather weakly.” What, then, gave
her composure? Was it because she did not
care much for you. and the pang of parting
was not great? "Oh,” you say, “she show
ered upon us a wealth of affection; no mother
ever loved her children more than mother
loved us; she showed it by the way she
nursed us when we were sick, and she toiled
for us until her strength gave out.” What,
then, was it that gave her composure in the
last hour? Do not hide it. Be frank aud let
me know. “Oh,” you say, “it was because
she was so good, she made the Lord her por
tion and she had faith that she would go
straight to glory and that we should all meet
her at last at the foot of the throne.”
Here are people who say, “I saw a Chris
tian brother die and he triumphed,” And
some one else, “I saw a Christian sister die
and she triumphed.” borne one else will
say, “I saw a Christian daughter die and she
triumphed.” Come, all ye who have seen
the last moments of a Christian, and give
testimony in this cause on trial. Uncover
your beads, put your hand on the old family
Bible from which they used to read the prom
ises. and promise in the presence of high
heaven that you will tell the truth, the
whole truth aud nothing but the truth.
With what you have seen with your own
eyes, and from what you have heard with
your own ears, is there power in this Gospel
to give calmness and triumph iu the last exi
gency? Tho resnonse coaxes Xz-ns all sides,
from young and’ old and middle and aged.
“We are witnesses!"
You see, my friends, I have not put before
you to-day an abstraction, or chimera, or
anything like guess work. I present you
affidavits of the best men and women, living
and dead. Two witnesses in court will e -
tahlish a fact. Here are not two witnes es,
but thousands of witnesses—on earth mill
ions of witnesses, and in heaven a great
multitude of witnesses that no man can nuuv
her, testifying that there is power in this re
ligion to convert the soul, to give comfort iu
trouble and to afford composure in the Iasi
hour. If ten men should come to you when
you are sick with appalling sickness, and
say they had the same sickness, anil took a
certain medicine and it cured them, you
would probably take it.
Now, suppose ten other men should come
up aud say, “We don’t believe there is any
thing in that medicine.” “Well,” I say.
“have you ever tried it?” “No. I never
tried it, but 1 don’t believe there is any
thing in it,” Of course you discredit thei:
testimony. The skeptic may come and say,
“There is no power iu your religion."
“Have you ever tried it?” “No, no.”
“Then, avaunt!” Let me take the testimony
of the millions of souls that have been con
verted to God, and comforted in trial and
solaced in the last hour. We will take
their testimony as they cry, “We are wit
nesses I"
Some time ago Frofessor Henry, of Wash
ington, discovered a new star,and the tidings
sped by submarine telegraph, ami all tho ob
servatories of Europe were watching for that
new star. Oh, hearer, looking out through
the darkness of thy soul to- lay, canst thou
see a bright star beaming on thee? “Where?”
you :ay, “where? How can I Audit?” Look
along uj the line of the cross of the Son ol
God. Do you not see it trembling with all
tenderness and 1'earning with all hope? It is
the Star of Bethlehem.
Deep horror then my vitals froze.
Death struck, 1 ceaied the lideto stem.
When suddenly a star arose-
It was the - tar of Bethlehem.
Oh, hearer, get your eye on it. It is easier
now for you to Become a Christiam than it
is to stay away from Christ and heaven
When Madame Sontag began hcrmusica
career she was hissed off the stage at Vienna
by the friends of her rival, Amelia Steiuin
ger, who had already begun to declint
through her dissipation Years passe 1 on,
and one day Madame bontag, in her glory,
was riding through the streets of Berlin,
when she saw a little child leading n blind
woman, and she said, “Come here, my little
child, come here. Who is that you are lead-
. ing by the hand?” And the little child ro-
g lied. “That's my mother; that's Amelia
teininger. bhe used to be a great singer,
but she lost her voice, and she cried so much
about it that she lost her eyesight.” “Give
my love to her," said Madame Sontag. “and
tell her an old acquaintance will call on her
this afternoon.” .
The next week in Berlin a vast assemblage
gathered at a benefit for that poor womin,
mid it was said that Madams bontag sang
that night a* she had never sung before.
And she took a skilled oculist, who tried in
vain to give eyesight to the poor blind wo
man. Until the day of Amelia Stoininger’s
death Madame Sontag took care of her and
her daughter after her That was what the
queen of song did for her enemy. But. oh,
hear a more thrilling story still. Blind im
mortal, poor and lost, thou who, when the
world and Christ were rivals for thy heart.
didst hiss thy Lord away—Christ comes now
to give thee sight, to give thee a home, to
give thee heaven With more than a Son-
tag.-generosity He comes to meet your need.
With more than a Sontag’s musio He comes
to plead for thy deliverance.
A New Delicacy
The armadillo of South America, k
little animal about a foot long, or leu,
with a shell-like hide, is being intro-
luced a* an article of food into thia
iountry. It is found in immense num
ber* on the pampas of the Argentine Re-
R ublic, where it has for year* been a
ivorite object of sport. The meat ia
canned, and exported to Europe and
America, being something like the opoe-
mm, only tenderer.—Chicago Youth'
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Cxorclalng Evil Spirits In Scotland.
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A curious incident is reported from
Scotland. In Wigtonshire a mother had
a child eighteen months of age so deli
cate in appearance that it was supposed
to be under the influence of the evil eye.
The mother determined to make a heroic
effort to wrest her babe from the power
of the devil, and she called a council of
the crones in the village. These worthy
dames recommended that the ancient
process of exorcising the evil spirit be
resorted to, and to this extraordinary
proposition the mother consented. Ac
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with them, repaired to a lonesome spot
outside the village and formally exor
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hoop twenty-four inches in diameter,
they twisted the straw around it, and,
saturating the straw with oil, set fire to
it. Then two of the women lay hold
upon the naked infant and passed it ver
tically through this ring of fire eighteen
times (once for every month of its age),
meanwhile commanding the devil begone
and remain forever therefrom.
This brutal office having been per
formed, the blistered babe was taken
home and put to bed, and a bunch of
bog-myrtle was hung up over its cradle.
Strangely enough, the tortured child did
not die, but the injuries it sustained will
make ita cripple for life. A movement was
begun by certain persons in the neigh
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punishment of the perpetrator* of this
cruel torture, but the movement had to
be abandoned, for the reason that the
other folk of the village rose en masse,
clamoring that the old women had acted
wisely and religiously^ and that any at
tempt to punish them for their religious
deed would be heretical and an abom
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If Dr. Parke, the plucky young sur
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to Stanley, but conceived a great affec
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signs, insisted upon sleeping at his tent
door while the explorers were in the for
est, and when they left she wanted him
to go with her to her people.—Londol'
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Mumps, Ulcerated Sore
"j IIN G8—-Consumption,
| Spitting Blood, Stitch tn Side, Ac. Twelve pages on II EA RT—Palpitation. Enlargement, Dropi
i of, Ac. Forty-four pages on ABDOMINAL Cavity—Cholera Morbns, Colic, Costtveness, Cramps
Squinting, Stye, Ac. Ten
ness. Fat ache, Running of,
Bodies, Ac. Eight pages on
tarrh. Ulcerated, Tumor. Ac.
LI P8, M O U TIf. J A W9,
Canker Mouth, Toothache;
on Til KOA T and WIN D*
rla, Hoarseness, Influensa* Z
Throat* Ac. Eighteen pagoq q
Asthma, Cough, Pleuiisyj •
ailon, Knr ~
™ w ¥o tP toxu P*ms on —
Diarrhoea, Dysentery,«Byspepsla, Heartburn, Gall Stouea, Jaundice, Piles, Ac. Twenty>*lx pages
the verv Important Urinary and Genital Organe—Gravel, Diabetes, Private Diseases, Inflauu
.o* Bladder. Ac. Fifty pages on JMn«nhcs at General 8yMem-Abscess, Cancer, Dro|
Debility, Fevers of all kinds, Malaria, Gout. Rheumatism, Ac. Everything treated In detail.
Part II relates to DUeaaes at Weiiien—Menstruation, Womb, Pregnancy, Confinement, Ac.
Part III 1sdevoted to (’blldren and Their Diseases, from birth, and Is filled with just
HLTormation mothers constantly need. This part alone Is worth many times the price of the work.
Part IV covers Accidents i — and Emergencies, inclndl
Household Surgery, Poisons and I __ — _ __ _ ___ _ _ _ their Antidotes, Ac. Invalua!
Part V—General II v- *
and Guide to I/>ng, Healthy Life,
tlens Answered| valuable
all topic* relating to Health
Part Vli—For the perusal
telatUm* of Man and Wife; for the Newly M m
Part VIII—Unokery and Dainties In-
Part IX—Indications of Disease hv A i»'»eai anee . _ .
Fart X—Medictnes—Their Preparation m » Dives; Prescriptions, Receipts, Ac.
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glcne—Preservation of Healt
Part VI—Common Qnes-1
miscellaneous information o J
and Disease. Filled with Hint
of thinking young people; tlL_
i Useful knowledge for all contemplating nuuTlage.l
i lie 81c. ; 4 Doom—An invaluable section for housewives."
Temperaments, Ac. Worthy close study.
“ - - - . Extremely useful. J
Fart XI—Botanical Medical i*rn« i Instructions for preparing and using Common Herbs. 1
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ranged alphabetically. A most valuable work, which should be In every household. Bent postpaid
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