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Optical* Ta g H^HH^^^Rrluks^^Pr York In 1805 home with terrible 3 acute |HH^Hr ?-s^ lion. sharp paiu in V the back, headaches jV ^MHra^'mul attacks of d:z ^^S^S'aSS^i ziu?ss* My eyes HsfM^lilT^ gave out, and with P ^^K9y the languor and sleeplessness of the disease upou me 1 wasted from 194 to 122 pounds. At the Itae I started using Doan's Kidney ^pis an abscess was forming on my right kidney. The trouble was quickly -Checked, however, and the treatment *4 cured me, so that I have been well since 1896 and weigh 1SS pounds." Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo. N. Y. For sale by all druggists. Price, 30 vcuia uw.\. Prejudice is the basest counterfeit of principle. So. 34. A Frame House 100 Year* Old. A frame house can be kept in good order for a hundred years, it painted with the Longman & Murtinez L. & M. Paint. It won t need to be painted more than once in ten to fifteen years because the L. &. M. Zinc hardens the L. 4 M. White Lead, and gives it enormous lite. Four gallons Longman <fc Ma.tinez L. 4 M. Paint mixed with three gallons linseed oil will paint a house. W. B. Parr. Charleston. W. Va.. writes: "Painted Fran ken burg Block with L. <k 11.: stands out as though varnished." Wears and covers like gold. Sold everywhere and by Longman & Martinez. New York. Paint Makers for ^ Fifty Years. A serum for hav lever is u<cu by physicians in the Island o; Heligoland. FITSpermanentlyurei. Sont?ornervon?. ness after tirst lav's use of Dr. Kline's Great NerveRestorer,$2trial bottleand treatise free Dr.R. H. Klixe. Ltd..?K>l Arch St.. Phi la.. Pa. wi In U'i!n -rhieh hears the name of Nowhere. Mrs. Winslow'sSoothin;; Syrup for Children teethiae,soften the mims.reduees inflammation,allays pain.eurcswind colic, 25c.a bottle The Japanese "Hello!" at the telephone is "Moshi Moshi!'" or "Ano ne!" .'do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumotionhaeaneqnal for coughs and colds.?Jons F.BoTER.frinttv Springs. Ind.. 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To talk with the wild brook of all the long ago; To whisper the wood wind of things we used to know When we were old companions, before my heart knew woe. To walk with the morning and watch Its rose unfold: To drowse with the noontide, lulled on its heart of gold: To He with the night-time and dream the dreams of old. To tell to the old trees, and to each 11stening leaf. The longing, the yearning, as In my boyhood brief. The old hope, the old love, would ease my heart of grief. The old lane, the old gate, the old house by the tree. The wild wood, the wild brook?they will r.ol let me be; In boyhooa 1 K:ie\v mem, ana sun iney call to me. ?Madison Cawoin. In the Criterion. Marriage and Divorce in Japan. They marry early and often in Japan. A man aged forty, living in the province of Bizen, has married and divorced thirty-five wives, and is now married to a thirty-sixth. The reason he assigns for his extraordinary fickleness is that he has a younger sister el extremely rancorous and jealous disposition. who. from the moment a new bride enters the house, institutes a system of persecution which soon drives the unhappy woman to ask her husband for a divorce, which is an easy tfnd inexpensive process in the land of the Rising Sun.?London T A. T. WRONG SORT Pfrhsp* Plain Old Meat, Potatoes and ISread Slay He Againtt Von For a Time. A change to the right kind of food can lift one from a sick bed. A lady iu Welden. 111., says: "Last spring I became bedfast with severe stomach trouble accompanied by ick headache. I got worse and worse until I became so low l couia scarcely retain any food at all. although 1 tried every kind. I had become complete, ly discouraged, had given up nil hope and thought I was doomed to starve to death, till one day my hu6baud trying to find something I could retain brought home .some Grape-Nuts. "To my surprise the food agreed with me. digested perfectly and without distress. I begau to gain strength at once, my flesh (which had been flabby) ''grew firmer, my health improved In every way aud every day. and in a very few week3 I gaiucd 20 pounds in weight. I liked Grape-Nuts so well that for 4 months I ate no other food, and always felt as well satisfied after eating as if I had sat down to a fine I banquet. "I had no return of the miserable ?ick stomach uor of the headaches that I used to have when I ate other food. I am now a well woman, doiug nil my own work again, and feel that life is .worth living. "Grape-Nuts food has been a godsend to my family: It surely saved my life and my two little boys bare thriven ca it wonderfully." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Gat the ljttla book. "The Road to JfcUtillo," in each pkg. - OUR REGULAR SUNDAY SERMOK . A Rrilliaiit Discourse By the Rev. A H. C. Morris.^ Brooklyn. N. Y.?Sunday morning. in Strum; Place Baptist Church. the pastor. the ltev. A. II. (J. Morse, had as his subject, "Powerful Promises." The I text was from II Peter i:4: "Whereby I are given unto us exceeding great and | precious promises: that by these we might be partakers of tl,ii divine nature. having escaped the corruption which is in the world through lust." Mr. Morse said: At any rate the Bible is frank. It ' says the plainest things about man's sin. But it also holds before him a wnntlprfnl Imno Tn.ilnr lir* 1 o corruption. To-morrow lie may have ! escaped from this and become like God. The whole gospel is found in 1 these few words. We have here a statement of the fact of sin and its origin. The fact is "cor| ruption" and the origin "through lust." 1 know that there are or idly-wise men who sneer at the third chapter of 1 Genesis. But this 1 have noticed, that i they are uniformly unable to give us a I simpler solution of the mystery of evil. Somewhere and at some time^the race i must have sinned. The stream of life has been poisoned, and this must have taken place at its fountain head, for we cannot find any divisions which do not have the entire characteristics of the whole. The Bible says the event took place in the first man. before a single son was born, and lie lusted after something which was forbidden to : nii? nn.l l - !.:? j Ainu, turn iiiiii m> vusuumivuvc ur j fell l'rom a primal innoce'ncy. and 1 lurched the race, and entailed a condition of corruption. And that we have 1 aggravated this calamity hy repeating j sin and deepening the ruin, i But 1 am not so much concerned tod:fv about the origin of the condition. We can leave that witfl a single word. But there are certain facts that cannot be brushed aside. A man may question the story as it is written in Scripture. but he cannot deny it. for it does not come within the region of denial. Neither can he deny the story as it is ! reproduced in life to-day. Have you never plucked forbidden fruit? Have you never lusted for pleasure which j has been distinctly forbidden? And as a consequence of transgression, have ' you never experienced a repulsive sick; ness and an intolerable loathing, so | that you have known what is the ' meaning of this phrase, "the eorrnpI tion which is in the world through ! lust?" Do you not know anything at i all of the lashings of remorse? Let nte ask you another question. How does it happen that the heart is so constantly "running down?" Why must it he repeatedly wound up and fastened with ratchets? Why do we have to make and renew resolves, and lash the will to the "sticking place?" Why is it that a man never backslides into holiness? Why cannot we take off the brakes aud find ourselves gliding into the highest moral living? Everything. we are told, tends to move in the line of least resistance. Do we find flint wo ;iro tmvnrrl ctinr. ity and holiness and benevolence and virtue? Nay. but to all of us these graces are the fruit of serious toil. They an1 magnificent possessions, more precious than gold and sparkling gems, but they are gotten only by struggle and privation and self-denial. And that word "self-denial" contains a fossil history of primal sin. It tells us of an evi! self that must be constantly denied, because its desires are wrong. But whence this evil self, and whence thjse wrong desires? But let us come a little closer to this subject. Let me hint at the things that | we cannot spread before the public, our secret thoughts and faults which are hidden. The thoughts that creep into the heart and nestle there. Can you tell me whence they come? Tell me. for instance, whence c^me the envy and jealousy and malice and evil desire, and the lust for gold that makes the thief, and the thirst for blood which crimsons the hand of murder? Do you not think these things arise in human life as malaria and pestilence i from a death-dealing: bog? Do they not bespeak what this Scripture calls a "corruption which is in the world through lust?" I suppose that the angels before the throne of God would shirk from having their thoughts proclaimed with the trumpet of Gabriel. 1 know that Jesus has torn open His heart and flung out a challenge which no man can accept. "Which of you I convinceth Me of sin?" said He. Hut : we cannot do that. We hide our thoughts and cover our faults with a crimson blush, and walk among our nearest friends with a coward's step. But what has befallen man? If God made him innocent?and nobody quos- ! tions this?something must have hap- ' pened to corrupt his thoughts and make them so black that he stands in dread of the day for which all other days were made, when this hidden his- j tory shall be revealed. There is something pathetic in man's attempts to assert his worth. We speak, for instance, of the "Majesty of conscience" ar.d the "Dignity of human nature," and of the "Fatherhood of God." and the "Brotherhood of man" as if these terms were true and meaningful. Take the first of these and see what comfort there is in it. "The majesty of conscience!" But do you nor know that conscience almost always speaks in judgment? It seems to have lost its authority to command if it ever possessed that authority. It cannot iusist upon obedience, but can only raise its voice in remonstrance. It can be easily overruled, and voted down, and then it can only record a minority vote, and lapse into silence. But there is more in this scripture than a statement of the fact of sin. Ilerc are also "tiiese great and precious promises whereby we may hecoin* partakers of the divine nature." That is men may become as God. And the warrant for tills promise is found in the fact of correspondence between the divine ami the human. The natural man cannot discern spiritual things, and it is 110 use to talk to him about them, for there is 110 correspondence. no basis of affinity. 110 ground of fellowship. But man was made in the image of God. ami it was possible for God to take upon Himself man's nature: and it is within the power of every man. by the gral-e of God. to take 011 also the divine nature, to be made like God. That is what is said in the word before us. And this is done by a single act. Man fell, we are told, by reaching after the divine attributes. "Ye shall be as God" was tbe lying promise of the tempter, and by listening to that we were cast to the level of beasts. But now God returns to us with the promise that after all we shall be as Himself, sharers in His nature and conformed to His image. It seems strange to you that for a single sin so serious consequences should be eutaiied. This could only be because the stream was poisoned at its source, and the race sinned in its first man. ButB here is something which is quite as 1 great. The Lord God Is makJng to ? vm Himself a new creation. He has begun it in one new Man, who kept His life without spot or blemish. And in His life and federal headship we share by a single act of faith. The consequences of faith are quite as great as the consequences of disobedience. "He that believeth on Him hath everlasting life."' And that does not mean that his life is prolonged in endless time, but that it is endowed with an immortal nature. It Is received the instant he believes, as by a new birth, and has passed from death unto life. He hath been already delivered from the bondage and corruption of the kingdom of darkness and has been colonized in the kingdom of His Son. He is born of Clod, a son of the Most High, a citizen of heaven. A single sin has stained the race. We laid hold on death and spite of tears and cries and struggle, we have not been able to loose the hand. One single act of faith takes hold on eternal life, and in spite of sins nnd fnlls end failure that nrize can never be wrested from our grasp. And this is all by faith. Men have said to me that the scheme of salvation is arbitrary. It is vain, they say. to shut the world up to faith. But, my friend, do you not know that this entire universe isarbitrary? There is nothing more arbitrary than the laws of mathematics, or of health or of gravitation. It is not strange that every son of Adam is shut up to the multiplication table? Is it not strange that if a man wants to compute numbers in China lie must use the identical system mat we use.* mui turi-c mm two make five there us they ilo here? No, there is but one law for light or heat or electricity or numbers, or gravitation in all the earth. And there is but one way of salvation for all the earth. Here it is said "through these promises," which only means that a man believes in Christ. A promise is nothing except for the value of the person who makes it. Some men may make their promises, and no man gives them heed. But if one promises whose character you know, then you count on them as you count upon the shining of the sun. We hear a good deal in these days about education into the kingdom of Cod. about the natural development of righteousness. But development is only unfolding, and that the race has been doing in all the centuries, and each age surpasses the last in the enormity of sin. Education is drawing out. but how can you draw holiness from a heart that is "deceitful above all things and desperately wicked?" Education can never do the work. It is like putting a new handle on the pump and leaving the dog in the well. You may wonder at the fancy of bringing in a new and supernatural life by belief in precious promises. But all questions are answered by the experiences of history. Great men have been regenerated by single words of Scripture. This was true of Augustine and Luther and Spurgeon and scores of others whom time fails me to mention. They were not only new men. but mighty sons of God. Wonderful was this? As great as the wonder of all forms of life. Look into the acorn and tear its halves apart, and tell me if you can see therein the stalwart oak. Analyze the seed of wheat and tell me if you can see therein the waving fields of grain. "Well," said Jesus, "the words which I speak unto you they are spirit and they are life." You cannot see the spirit, you cannot see the life, but can you say they are not there? I hold up to you these great and precious promises, and there are saints and missionaries and noble lives and giant charities and mighty revolutions there. There are heaven and an eternal weight of glory wrapped up in that. And our growth in grace and the likeness of God is not a process of mending and improvement. But it is a new creation by which we become like God. And now I have finished. I know I have borne down hard on sin. I wish I did not have to do so. I wish with you that the word were not in the language because it was not in the heart. If one of those phantom friends of the astronomers should come to this earth and say to me "I understand this is a beautiful place, but for one thing. I understand it is filled with sin and rebellion against the rule of God." I wish I could say to him, "My friend, you have been misinformed. There is no sin." But I tell you frankly, I could not say that to him. I would have to say to him: "Alas' 'tis true, us pny, ami pity 'tis, 'tis true." But I could also say to him that sin cannot hold us in its cruel grasp. I would point him yonder, and say, "Do you see that golden splendor? That is the gospel of Jesus. It is filled with sweetness, and by that we are restored and have become partakers of the divine nature." And isn't that more than the fact of sin? God'* Wnjr. God's promises are ever on the ascending scale. One leads up to another fuller and more blessed than itself. In Mesopotamia God said: "I will show thee the land." In Canaan: "I will give thee all the land, and children innumerable as the grains of sand." It is thus that God allures us to saintliness. Not giving us anything till we have dared to act. that lie may test us. Not giving everything at first, that He may overwhelm us. and always keeping in hand an infinite reserve of blessing. Oh, the unexplored remainders of God! Who ever saw His last star??Itev. P. B. Meyer. Wlmt Clirintlanlty 1*. Christianity is that historic religion founded by Jesus of Nazareth, and having its bond of union in the redemption mediated by Him, in which the true relation between God and man lias lor tlie first time found complete ami adequate expression. and which throughout all the changes of intellectual :iii(l social environment which the centuries have brought, still continues to maintain itself as the religion best worthy of the allegiance of thoughtful and worthy tueu ?Schleier timelier. Alway. Little pink feet That have trotted all day, Wee dimpled hands That are tired of play. And teeth white as pearls, And tousled gold curls. You're dad's queen of girls To-night and alway. Now, and alway. Just dad's queen of girls! Weary of play Your tousled gold curls Lie spread on my breast; And sweetly to rest As day reddens the west Drafts dad's best of girls. Dear, for all time, Kor all time and alway, When weary, come climb As you climb, dear, to-day l'p in your dad's lap A\ hen wanting a nap Or to ward off mishap. Or when weary of play. Always to me. All your life to jour dad Laughing with glee Or sorry and sad; Pring all to me, dear. Your bright days and drear, Your joy and your fear. And make your dad glad. ?Houston Post. An Austrian army officer cut himself under the chin in shaving, the green collar of his tunic rubbed against the cut and he died of blood poisoning. H international^^^H^^HFs FOR Subject: Jeremiah in t^rDnngeon, Je*? xxxvlil., 1-13? Golden Text, Matt, t.# 10? Memory Verse*, 8-10?Commentary on the Day's Lenon. I. Jeremiah's enemies (vs. 1-4). L "Then." After the events referred to | in chapter 37, where Jeremiah was dej livered from the dungeon. "ShephaI tiah," etc. Some of Jeremiah's enemies who were seeking his life. "All the people." They'had free access to him in the court of the prison. 2. "Life for a prey." A proverbial expression. To make one's escape with life like a valuable spoil or prey that one carries off; the narrowness of the escape, and the joy felt at it are include^ in the idea. He shall carry off his life as his gain, saved by his going over to the Chaldeans. Had Jeremiah not had a divine commission he might Justly have been accused of treason, but haying one which made the result~o? the siege certain he acted humanely as interpreter of God's will under the theocracy in advising surrender. 3. "Surely be | given." This was a testimony that he j constantly bore; ne naa toe auinonty of God for it. He knew it was true and lie never wavered or equivocated. 4. "The-prinees said." Their reasons were pjain enough, but the proof was wanting. "Seeketh . . . the hurt." An unjust insinuation, for no man had done more for this people than had Jeremiah. His preaching was calculated to arouse them to a senseof their sins and cause them to turn'to God. One of the commonest ways of injuring others is to misunderstand and|misinterpret their motives, as JerAiah's motives were maligned because l^vas possible for him to have done whOT he did with bad motives. When there are two possible motives for the conduct of another, it is not only a more charitable, but probably a more truthful judgment to impute the better motives. "Judge not that ye be not judged," should be written in capital letters, yea, in flaming letters, before us all. II. Jeremiah in the dungeon (vs. 5, 01. 5. "King is not he." Zedekiah was a weak king. He had a conviction that Jeremiah was a phophet of the Lord, and yet he dared not oppose his statesmen, but yielded to their will without n miestinn. An innocent man was thus sacrificed to their malice. These princes were wroth with Jeremiah (chapter 37: 15); "he had compared them to rotten figs" (chapter 24). But for him they would have had affairs | all their own way, they were anxious to be rid of him. *>. "Then took they Jeremiah." Jeremiah was the butt of ridicule and scorn. He was put in the stocks, was publicly whipped, was misrepresented as an enemy, was imprisoned several times, but he kept right on. "The dungeon." Literally "the cistern." It was not a subterranean prison as that in Jonathan's house (chapter 37: 15), but a pit or cistern, which had been full of water, but was emptied of it during the siege so that only mire remained. Such-empty cisters were often used as prisons. (Zach. 9: 11); the depth forbade hope of escape. "Sunk in the mire." They evidently expected that he wojldt die in that place. III." Jeremiah's friend (vs. 7-9). 7. "Ebedmelecli." The servant of the king. He probably was keeper of the royal harem, and so had private access to the king. Already even at this early time, God wished to show what good reason there ^as for calling the Gentiles to salvation. An Ethiopian stranger saves the prophet wjioin Ids own countrymen, the Jews, tried to destroy. So the Geutiles bQlieved in Christ whom the jews crucified, and Ethiopians were among the earliest converts (Acts 2: 10: 8: 27-39). "Sitting in the gate." The gates of cities were the places where justice was administered. 8 "Went forth." The servant tn tiio kinp. There I V>t-ilL JllilUCUiUlWiJ VV 0. was no time to lose, for if he delayed I the prophet might perish. What a told, courageous act this was. It ought to put many of us to shame. 9. "These men," etc. He must have been In the king's confidence or he would not have dared raise his voice against the action of the princes. The Lord can raise up friends for His people where they are least expected. "Xo more bread." That is, no more bread left of the public store in the city (chapter 37: 31); or, all but no bread left anywhere. This shows to what straits the city was reduced. IV. Jeremiah rescued (vs. 10-13). 10. "Kirig commanded." Zedekiuh's better nature was stirred. "Thirty men." Not merely to draw up Jeremiah, but to guard Ebed-melech if the princes should oppose him. The king was determined that he should be rescued by force if necessary. Ebed-melech was rewarded for his faith, love and courage. exhibited at a time when he might well fear the wrath of the princes. - ' ' - -1- */,?! Minn OB 11-1& n,ueu-mviuiu iuc ~ . the king had commanded and rescued | Jeremiah. He let down into the pit j some torn clothes and worn out gar- ! ments and instructed Jeremiah to roll them around the ropes and place them under his ayrapits, so as not to suffer injury from the ropes when he was drawn up. Although Jeremiah was thu9 rescued from a terrible death, he was not set at liberty, but remained in the court of the prison. He was still in prison when the armies of Babylon took Jerusalem. He was found in chains and carried with othen|baptives on the way to Babylon, but was released at Ramah, six miles from Jerusalem. Thus ended the prison life of the prophet. How long he was in prison it is difficult to determine, probably for years. The Lamentations which he wrote after the destruction of Jerusalem must have been his frequent meditation while in confinement. Fad for Optimism. One of the most wholesome fads that has been prevalent among society at large Is the newest of all? optimism. For it is no longer the fashion to go jbout looking as though you bore the burdens of the world upon your devoted shoulders. But, instead, you're expected to look blithely upon the old world and its troubles?and your own troubles, too, says the Philadelphia North American. Perhaps it is our free outdoor life that has developed the quality. Perhaps it is only a new pose?for public opinion must have its poses, like every individual. Surely it sholud make happier, healthier communities out of cities and states. Good cheer is more or less of a habit?pretend to have it, J and you suddenly wake up to find you've really got it, and, too, have created a more joyous atmosphere for yourself, that gradually grows necessary to you. The happy habit is a good one? much tetter than the tragic-faced, world-weary type that precede! it. #ay the new fad stay in fashion I \ fit.* i, ' -a*". _ -V ^ J AUGUST TWENTY-GEVENTH. Mission Work Among Women.?Acts 16: 13-18; Tit. 2: 3-5. (Home and Foreign Fields.) Some Bible Hintc. The chief difficulty of missionaries in the Orient is to reach the women, secluded as they are in harems; and this seclusion dwarfs their minds as much as it confines their bodies. The winning of the women means the winning of the children, the servants, and often of the men. so that work for women is especially important. In pagan superstition the women are the soul of conservatism, and often bitterly oppose any change on the part of the men. They must be won first. Women have shone everywhere on the mission fields, and especially in the schools, where they have been indeed "teachers of good things." Mission Notes Concerning Women. A Christian woman went to work in a negro settlement in the Indian Territory annronriatelv named Sodom, so vile was it. In less than a year the men had built a school house and church, and now the place is called appropriately, "Pleasant Grove." In heathen lands the suffering caused women by the ignorance and superstition of the native doctors is unequalled among the world's tortures, and the woman medical missionary winds the endless gratitude oM the women whom she frees from they agonies. Dr. Clara Swain was the first woman medical missionary. She went to Xorth India in January. 1870. When the medical missionary attended in her severe illness the wife of the Chins prime minister, Li Hung Chans:, the great man's influence was won for missions. A mission school-teacher in a Mormon village was tormented by a rabble of boys, who stoned the schoolhouse and tried to drive her out of town; but one day she called In the leader and got him to help her to put up a fallen stove pipe, so winning him that he became one of the most successful pastors in Utah. A mission teacher in Xew Mexico was thwarted at every turn by a Ca^K/\1Sa rvnl Aof Kmf oV?n t A j;t icoi, uut ouc tinuiokvi vu w the sick during a terrible scourge of diphtheria and smallpox, and afterwards all doors were open to her. EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS AUGUST TWENTY-SEVENTH. Womens ^ork for Missions.?Mark 14. 2-9; Acts 9. CG; Rom. 1G. 1, 2. The woman who anointed Jesus; the patron saint of all Ladies' Aid Societies, Dorcas; and Phebe, the "succorer of many," furnish us our lesson basis. These all were nobie women who poured forth their love to Christ in help to' others. They are wortht types of those noble bands of Christian women who in our day have banded themselves together to carry the gospel to the neglected and secluded women of heathen lands. It has crystallized itself into the Woman's Foreign, and the Woman's Home Missionary Societies. Ninety days after the organization of our Parent Missionary Society in 1819 a "Woman's Auxiliary" was organized in New York by Dr. Nathan tsangs ana omers. au auuic^o r?cio issued to the "Female Members of the Methodist Episcopal Church." But in time the society became almost inactive and crowded out by the organization of other societies. It has been estimated, however, that they contributed at least $20,000 to the Parent Society. Wnen the China .Mission was planted in 1S47 a society of women in Baltimore was organized as the "Ladies' China Missionary Society." For some twenty years this did a noble work. It granted $5,000 for a "Female Academy" in Feoehow, and gave for ten years $300 per year to the Parent Society. The Union Woman's Missionary Society was organized in New York in 1SC0, and many of our church women were active in it until the organization of our own Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. The organization of this society was effected in Boston in 18G9 by a few elect ladies, some of whom are still living. They rapidly grew in numbers and in favor with the church. The j present work of the society is important and growing rapidly. Their income is about $500,000 a year. They support missionaries in all our foreign flekii?. About 250 are now at work under their direction. Some G,000 auxiliaries at home with nearly 150.000 members insure a still larger advance in the future. Twenty-five 1 - ? ~r ' v. - vi;o_ muusauu cujiihs i>i uic nuuiaus sionary Friend go into the nomes of our people. In common with other church boards of Woman's Societies they are taking a systematic study of missions from text-hooks prepared for the purpose. This society is only one of many other church societie.3 of women who are sending the gospel to the heathen women who are inaccesible sav? through Christian women. South American Letter Press. "Cigarettes and conversation, and ragtime dancing on ledgers," said Captain Robert Quinton, of the lightship Blunt's Reef, which recently completed a unique voyage of fifteen thousand miles from New York to San Francisco, "constitute the chief reasons why the races of South America are behind those of North America in all important particulars. As to the cigarettes and conversation, I will arrive in a minute. But first of all I will speak of the ragtime danc *? offlno in San mg. 1U UUI U UOJliCOO viuvv - ? Francisco when the clerks wish to take a copy of a letter or any other business document, why, of course, they take a copy in a proper and ordinary copying machine. But down in these South American countries, when they wish to do that trick, why, the letter or other document is put between the carbon sheets in a big book, which is put <? the floor, and then the clerks do a ^ance upon the book to take the copy. jBay, it is the funniest sight in the ^^ld to see all those clerkt., every o4re of them with a cigarette in his Hps, dancing upon the books."?San Francisco Chronicle, Information from Ottawa states that the Dominion astronomical observatory has been practically completed. i ? jGas Light for i; Country Homes. I; !| Small country Domes. as well as !> . !?!arge ones, may he lighted by the)! I |best light known? 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CO., I |[ 1ST Michigan A vera:, CHICAGO, ILL. 5 So. 34. gUrS Thompson's Eye Water Pointed Paragraphs. Tint tlie rank outsider in a race often has the inside track . One can often measure a man's debts by the cut of his clothes. So many of us are anxious to do away with vices?in our neighbors. Wise farmers never attempt to raise their crops in the political field. On the day a man discovers that he is a fool he begins to acquire wisdom. Culture enables one to dodge the pronunciation of depot by calling it station. Most people are opposed to every thing of doubtful propriety that cannot be concealed. Women do not take kidly to the telephone; when using it they have to listen half of the time. With a tombstone epitaft the trouble is that it comes too late in the game to enable a man to borrow money on the strength of it. If the ministers preached how wrong it was to go to church 011 Sunday there would be millions of men who would insist on sroing. THE TURF A Time When Women j Dread Diseases?Inte for It. Two Relate tl The "change of life*'is the most critical period of a woman's existence, ft r* and the anxiety felt by i SY< women as it draws near I ? f /? is not without reason. 9 1 ff /? Every woman who 91 M neglect's the care of her 31 ff /o > health nt this time in- fj tj /o V ^ vites disease and pain. | t/ C When her systyn is in B / m : a deranged condition. jl/* or she is predisposed to I l/g v- apoplexy, or congestion I |/ 9 of any organ, the ten- bl II ft # dency is at this period |1 !j ? likely to become active Bi g ?and with a host of ner- Mjj * vous irritations, make mS ? ,T life a burden. At this HAa j y? time, also, cancers and |[|\q tumors are more liable to form and betrin tbeir Ills?. t destructive work. I / Such warning1 symp- I f' toms as sense of suffo- I l\ V cation, hot flashes, head- B aches backaches, dread 6 \ \ o|l of impending evil, timid- 9 ity, sounds in the ears, ^ palpitation of the heart, 11 sparks before the eyes, 1/ irregularities, const-'pa- [|/lj|iOiaQ| tion, variable appetite, weakness and inquie- J J tude, and dizziness, are o Stars promptly heeded by in- ^ telligent women who are ^QBQQOBfl approaching the period in life when woman's great change may be expected. These symptoms are all just so many . calls from nature for help. The nerves , are crying out for assistance and the cry should be heeded in time. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- 1 pound was prepared to meet the needs ' of woman's system at this trying period of her life. It invigorates and strengthens the female organism and builds up the weakened nervous sj'stem. It has carried thousands of women < safely through this crisis. For special advice regarding this important period women are invited to | write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn. Mass., j and it will be furnished absolutely free of charge. i Read what Lydia E. Pinkham's Com- ' pound did for Mrs. Ilyland and Mrs. Hinkle: ( Dear Mra. Pinlcbam:? ] "I had been suffering with falling cf the j womb for vears and was passing through the Change of "Life. My womb was badly swollen; my stomach was sore; I had dizzy spells, 1 tick headaches, and was very nervous. 11 Lydia E Piakhan's Vegetable Coup CONSTIPATION 'Tor over nine years 1 ?offered with chronlo eos? 9 stipatton and during thU time I had to take as fl Injection of warm water once every M honra beferf ' *B I could hare an action on my bow&la. Happily 1 E tried Caacarets, and today I am a well XDMfe During the nine year* before I uled CaacareuT auffered untold mitery with internal pile*. Thanks to yon 1 am free from all that this moraine. TaS Mo use ton iu he^'aif of offering humanity." 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Man*. vs or SO* Mi HOLD SOMIIU, US SrSslb ir?.,?Br.ol[j <i ft AosoamasndHi M COM WKItt AU US^FAUi.^ (g Wf Be?t Coogn ojrup. iui? j-w?. w? PJ1 in tlrao. Sold by drwaUU. MBEJjjaaaG5iEn^(i THERE IS MONEYthp. CORN STALK. j Write for free catalog. I. A. Madden.Atlanta.Oa. m ?????* j Modern Schools Criticized. Prof. H. C. Annsling, in a recent address in London, said that school and college education wpre mostly de- ? structlve of common sens3. The classical school was not a school of thought, but of prejudice, and under the present unfortunate system of education it was chiefly the games which promoted alertness, individuality and common sense. ? Reflections of a Bachelor. If a woman is afraid of a man it is a sign she isn't married to him. Half the enjoyment of being married is thinking what a lot of enjoyment you had before you were married. Drove Into Swarm of Bees. Joshua WJ1IIU?, mail carrier between Wrightstown and Bordentown, one afternoon, near Chesterfield, drove into a swarm of bees. The horse, wagon and the driver wore literally covered with bees, and WiHltts thinks it was nothing short of a miracle that himself and horse were not stung to death?Bordentown coi* respondence Philadelphia Telegraph. J OF LIFE J \re Susceptible to many iiigent Women Prepare leir Experience. 3 ^0&boo8^ I 8 RiOOII BOCT??lOBQ9Da?aQiOB>\# J AEGMyland g csaocrcsQs:2oa?Mo>oaoQ?^ " I wrote you for advice and commenced treatment with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as you directed, and I am bnppy to say that nil* those distressing symptoms left mo and I have passed safely through the Chance of Life, a well woman. I am recommending vour medicine to all my friends."?Mrs. Annie E. G. Hyland, Chestertown, Md. Another Woman's Case. "Dunns 'bans'* of lifo words cannot express what I suffered. If * physician said I bad a rancorous condition of the womb. One day I read seme of the testimonials of women who had been cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and I decided to try ifc and to write you for advice. Your medicine tnade me a v eil woman, and all m tbad symptoms soon disappeared. ' I advise every woman at this ^riod of lifo to take voar medicine and write you for udi ice."?Mrs. I.izzio Hinkle, iSalem, Ind. What Lydia E. Pinlcham's Vegetable Tomponnd did for Mrs. Hyland and Mrs. Hinkle it will do for*any woman it this time of life. It has conquered pain, restored lealth. and prolonged life in cases that itterly baffled physicians. ?n&d Succeeds Where Others F*i&