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LOST 72 POUNDS. Was Fast Drifting Into the Fatal Stages 01 Edney Sickness. Dr. Melvin M. Page, Page Optical i Co., Erie, Pa.. writes: "Taking too many Iced drinks In New York in 1803 sent me home with a terrible attack of kidney trouble. I bad acute conges e / tion, sharp pain In the back, headaches . and attacks of dI;z ziness. My eyes gave out, and with fle languor and sleeplessness of the disease upon me I wasted from 104 to 122 pounds. At the time I started using Doan's Kidney Pills an abscess was forming on my right kidney. The trouble was quickly checked, however, and the treatment cured me, so that I have been well since 189 e nd weigh 188 pounds." Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists. Ptice, 50 cents per box. Prejudice is the basest counterfeit of principle. So. 34. A Frame House 100 Years Old. A frame house can be kept in goo(! order for a hundred years, if painted with the Longman & Martinez L. & M. Paint. It won t need to be painted more than once in ten to fifteen ycars because the L. & M. Zinc hardens the L. - M. White Lead, and gives it er.ormous life. Four gallons Liongnan & Maitincz L. & M. Paint mixed witi three gallons linsred cii will paint a house. W. B. Barr, Chareston. W. Va.. writes: "Painted Frankenburg Block with L & M.: stands out as though varnished." Wears and covers like gold. Sold evervwihere and by Lon-man & .Martincz. Ncw Yerk. Paint Ma,-ers for Fifty Years. A serum for bay fever is u-ed by physi clans in the Is.lad of eiligoland. FITSpermanentlyicured. No ttornervrou ness after fIrst day's use of Dr. Klire's Great NerveRestorer,$2trial bottleand treatisefrea 3Dr. R. H. KLINE. Ltd..9'31 Arch Sr.. Phila., a. There is a viiazec in Walcs -;hich bears the name of Nowhere. Mrs.WinsloW's Soothin-, Syrup for Children teething,soften the gumnis.reduces infamm-t tion,allays paiun,cureswind colic, 25c.:a bottle The Japane c "-ello!" at the telephone is "Mos'hi Moshi!" or "Ano nt!" .'do no: batieva Piso's Cure for Consu'nn ticnhasaneqai for coaghs and colds.--JoHs F.Bomra.Trinitv Soriacs. Ind.. Feb. 15. 190). Janancse chopsticks are delivered to the guest in a decorated envelope. Tellow Fever aiml .ialar;a Germe Are instantl kiiled by :he use of ;:: tiro?. of Sloan's ininert o:i a teaspoofi.. or sugar. It is a,:o an excellent antisep:. Prisoners of war are never spared in Morocco, they are beheaded. RAW ITCHING ECZEMA Etotches on Hands. Ears and Ankles For Three Years - Instant Belief and Speedy Core by Cuticura. "Thanks to Cuticura I am now rid of that feariui pest. weeping eczema. for the first time in three years. It first appeared on my hand, a little pimple, growing into several blotches, and then on my ears and ankles. They were exceedingly painful. itching, and alwiays raw. After the first day's treatment with Cuticura Soap, O(r.: meut and Pills, there was very little of the burning and itching, and the cure now seems to be complete. (Signed; S. B. liege. Passenger Agent B. & 0. .1. Rt.. Washington, D. C." Verse. 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; the dreams of old. To tell to the old trees, and to each lst ening leaf. The longing, the yearning, as in my boy hood brief. The old hop~e. the old loare. 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 not let me be; In boyhood I knew them, and still they call to me. -Madison Cawein, in the Criterion. Marriage and Divorce in Japan. They marry early and often in Ja pan. 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 fickle ness is that he has a younger sister of extremely rancorous and jealous dis position, who, from the moment a new bride enters the house, institutes n system of persecution which soon drives the unhappy woman to ask her husband for a divorce, which is an easy 2nd inexpcnsive process in the land of the Rising Sun.-London T A. T. __ _ _ WRONG SORT Perhaps Plain Olt Meat. Potatoca and Bread May Be Against You For a Timne.I A change to the right kind of food can lift one from a sick bed. A lady inI Welden. Ill.. says: "Last spring I became bedfast with severe stoume'.h trouble accompanied by sick hecadache. I got worse and worse until I becamer so low I could scarcely retain any food at all, although I tr'ed every kind. I had become complete ly discourag~ed. had given up all hope and thought I was doomed to starve toI death, till one~ day my husband trying to find something I could retain brought home some Grape-Nuts. 'To my surprise the food agreed with me. digested perfectly-and without dis tress. I began to gain strength at once, my desh (which had been flabby) grew firmer, my health improved In every way and every day, and In a very few weceks I gained 20 pounds in .weight. I lk ed 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 banquet. "I had no return of the miserable sick stomach nor of the headaches that I used to havte when I ate other food. I am now a well woman, doing all my own work again, and feel that life is .worthi living. "Grape-Nuts food has been a godsend to my family; it surely saved my life and my two little boys have thriven cn it wonderfully." Name given by Pos tupn Co., Battle Creek, Mich. ~Iere's a reason. ' de the little book. "The Road to PO0WERFUL PROM1ISE OUR REGULAR SUNDAY SERMOI1 A Brilliant Discourse By the Rev. A. H. C. Morris. Brookilyn, N. Y.-Sundayh nior;nin:g. in Stromt- Place Baptist ChLch. the pas tor. the Rev. A. H1. C. Morse, had :s his snbject. "Powerful Promises." The text was from II Peter 1:4: "Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises; that by these we might be partakers of the divine na ture. having escaped the corruption which is inl 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 wonderful hope. To-day he is mired in corruption. To-morrow lie may have escaped from this and become like God. The whole gol is fcr-nd in 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." I know that there are woridly-wisc men who sneer at the third chapter of Genesis. But this I have noticed. that they are uniformly unable to give us a simpler solution of the mystery of evil. Somewhere and at some time the race must have sinnled. The stream of life has been poisoned. and this must have taken place at its fountain head. fot we cannot tind any divisions which do not have the entire characteristics of tI' whole. The Bible says the event took place ill the first man, before a siingle son was born. and he lusted af ter somethiig which was forbidden to him, and that by his disobedience he fel! from a primal innocency. and lurched the race, aid entailed a condi tion of corruption. And that we have aggravated this calamity by repeating sin and deepening the ruin. But I am not so much concerned to day about the origin of the condition. We can leave that with a single word. But there are certain facts that cannot be brushed aside. A mai may ques tion the story as it is written in Scrip ture, but lie cannot deny.' it. for it does not come within the region of' denial. Neither can lie deny the story as it is reproduced in life to-day. Have you never plucked forbiddeni fruit? Have you never lusted for pleasure which has been distinctly forbidden? And as a consequence of transgression, have you never experienced a repulsive sick ness and an intolerabie loathing, so that you have known what is the ineaning of this phrase,. "the corrup tion which is in the world through lust'" Do you not know anythin; at all of the lashings of remorse? Let me ask you another question. How does it happen tlat the heart is so constantly "running down?" Why must it be 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 ofT the brakes and find ourselves gliding into the highest moral living? Every thing, we are told. tends to move in the line of least resistance. Do we find that we are drifting toward char ity and holiness and benevolence and virtue? Nay, but to all of us these graces are the fruit of serious toil. I'hey are magnificent possessions, more )lrecious than gold and sparkling gems-, but they are gotten only by struggle ind privation and self-denial. And that word "'self-denial" contains a fos sil history of primal sin. It tells us of in evf: s'elf that must he constantly de aied, because its desires are wrong. But whence this evii self, and whence these 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 ne. for instance, whence cerme the envy mud jealousy and malice and evil de sire, and the lust for gold that nmakes the thief, and the thirst for llood which crimsons the hand of murder? Do you not think these things arise in buman life as malaria and pestilence from a death-dealing bog? Do they aot bespeak what this Scripture calls a "corruption which is in the world throuah lust?' I suppose that the an ~els before the throne of God would shirk from hiav.ing their thoughts pro elaimied with the trumpet of Gabriel. [ know that Jesus has torn open His heart and flung out a challenge which 10 man can accept. "Which of you :onvinceth Me of sin?" said IHe. But we cannot do that. We hide our thoughts and cover' our faults with a crimson blush. antd walk amng our nearest friends wvith a coward's step. But what has befallen man? If God madle him innocent-and nobody ques tions this-something must have hap pened~ to corrupt his thougihts atnd make them so black that he stands in 'read of the day for w-hich till other lays wecre made, when this hidden his tory shall be revealed. There is something pathetic in mnan's attenmpts to assert his worth. We speak. for instance, of the ".Majesty of -onscmiece" and the "Dignmity of hu man nature," and ot the "FIathierhood >f God." and the "Brotherhood of mian" as if these terms were true and meaningful. Take the first of these ind see what comfort there is in it. 'The majiesty of conscience'" But do rou not know that conscience alost lways speaks in judgment? It seems o have lost its authority to command I it ev-er possessed that authority. It annot insist upon obedience, but enn >nly ra ise its voice in remonstrance. t canl he eiisiiy ov'erriul ed. antd voted .lown, antd then it enin only record a :ni1ority vot e. and( lapse into silence. But there is more in this scripture h~an a1: s taitemenit of the fact of sin. Ier'e are also "these great and pre ions proises 1i~ wherecby we muy~ be om -rtatkers of the divine n~atture." itat is taen nl:ay becom~i.Ie as (Co:1. And theC w'arat for this prom1.ise is found 11 thle faict of' corrtesplondenice betw'ieen the diin aniCtid the liuiman. Th'ie 11r tingms, and it is no use to talk to him iout them. for' thier'e is nio corr1espoulld ?!tce. no basis of a tinitry, no0 ;rround of' tellowship. But manll was muade in thle imag ~e of Gtod. anid it wats lmusible for' G od to rake upon Him nsel f man's unt ure: and it is within the power'm of everyv man.il by th~e ::ace of God, to take on also the divine nature, to be made like God. That is what is said in the word be tore us. And this is done by a single act. Man fell, we are told, by reach ig after the divine attributes. "Ye shall be as God" was the lying promise >f the tempter, and by listening te that wve were cast to the level of heasts. But now God returns to us with the promise that after all we shall he its Eimself. sharers in His nature and :onformed to His image. It senms srange to you that for a single sin so serious consequences should b~e en tailed. This could only be because the sream was poisoned at its source, and :he race sinned in its first man. But bere is something which is quite as ,-at The Tu-rd Gord is mnk'ng to Himself a new creation. He ha- he gun it in one new Man, wl) kept his life without spot or blemish. And1 in His life and federal headship w! by a single act of faith. Tho c~on5e quences of faith are quite as :rrent as the consequences of disobedience. "H e that believeth on Him h.ath everlasting life." And that does r.ot mean that his life is prolonged in endless time. but that it is endowed with an immor tal nature. It is receiveLd the instant he believes. as by a new birth, and has passed from death unto life. He hath been already delivered from the bond age and corruption of the kingdom of darkness and has been colonized in tie kingdom of His Son. He is born of God, a son of the Most High. a citizen of heaven. A single sin has stained the race. We laid hold oii 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 and falls and failure tLat prize 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 strrnge that if a man wants to compute num bers in China he must use the identical system that we use? That three and two make five there as they do here? No. there is but one law for light or heat or electricity or numbers. or grav itation in all the earth. And there is I 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 promi-e is nothing except for the value of the person who makes it. Some men may make their promises, and no man grives 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 God. 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 wickedf" 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 men tion. They were not only new men, but mighty sons of God. Wonderful was this? As great as the wcnder of all forms of life. Look into tte acorn and tear its halves apart, and tell iLe 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 mis sionaries 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 like ness of God is not a process of mend ing 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 havd 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 earh 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, "M1y 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 sayr to him: "Alas' 'tis true. 'tis pity. nn pity 'tis. 'tis true." But I could also say to him that sin cannot bold usI in :ts cruel grasp. I would point him onder, and say, "Do you see that gol den snlendlor? That is the gospel of .esus.' It is filled with sweetness, and by that we are restored and have be come partakers of the divine nature." And isn't that more than the fact of sin? God's Way. God's promises are ever on the as cending scale. One leads up to anoth er fuller and more blessed than itself. In Mesopotamia God said: "I will show thee the land.'' In Canaan: "I will gi'e thee all the land, and children in numerable 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 He maiy test us. Not giving everything at first, tt H le may overwhelm us. and al ways ke'eping in hand an infinite re serve of blessingr. Oh, the unexplored rmaiders of Ghod: Who ever saw HIs Iast star?-Rev. F. B. Meyer. what Christianity Is. Christia nity is that listorie religion founded by .Tesus of Nazareth. aund lm vinug its bond of 1:n ion in the re dempt ion mni:.ted by Him, in whlmich the true relation beiween God and man has for the first timet found1( cromplete a ;d ad e'~inte expression. and1: whichb throglout :mil the elhanges of intellect un iuud soiaml enir ioiimen('t wihich the eturha l::ave br'ougi: t. still conmtinues to mainhta in i tsal f as the nel igionm best worthy l or the alIlegiml .' e of: thughtful an worthiy meun-Schleiermnacher. Atway. Little rink feet That'have trotted all day, Wee dimtpled hands That are tired of play. And teeth white as pearls, And tousled gold curis. You're dad's queen of girls To-night and. alway. Ntow. and alway. Just dad's queen of girls! WVrr of play You'r touasled gold curls .ir- spreadc on my breast; And sweetly to rest As day reddtens the west Drifts (dad's bes'. of girls. .Dent. for nll time. m6,r all time and aiway, Whea weary. come climb As you elimb. dear, to-day 1'p in your _dad's lap When wanltmgl a nan Or to ward off mishap, Or when weary of play. Always to me. All your life to your dad Laughing with glee Or sorry and sael: P.ring nll to me. dlear. Tour bright days and drear, Your jo y and your fear. And make your dad glari. ..-liuston Post. An Austrian army officer cut him self under the chin in shaving, the green collar of his tunic rubbed against the cut and he ,died gt blood poisoning. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL iNTERNATONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR AUCUST 27. Subject: Jeremiah in the Dungeon. Jer. .xxvill., 1-13-Golden Text, MIatt. v.,P 10-Memory Verses, 8-10-Commen tary on the Day's Lesson. I. Jeremiah's enemies (vs. 14). 1. "Then." After the events referred to in chapter 37. where Jeremiah was de livered from the dungeon. "Shepha 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 valu able spoil or prey that one carries off; the narrowness of the escape, and the joy felt at it are included in the idea. He shall car- off his life as his gain, saved by hi. going over to the Chal deans. Had Jeremiah not had a divine commission he might justly have been accused of treason, but having one which made the result of the siege cer tain he acted humanely as interpreter of God's will under the theocracy in. advising surrerder. 3. "Surely be given." This was a testimony that he constantly bore; he had the authority of God for it. He knew it was true and he never wf.vered or equivocated. 4. "The princes said." Their reasons were plain 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 wes calcu lated to arouse them to a sense of their sins and cause them to tu'rn to God-. One of the commonest *ays of injuring others is -:o misunderstand and misin terpret their motives, as Jeremiah's motives were maligned because It was possible for him to have done what he did with bad mdtives. When there are two possible motives for the conduct of another. it is not only a more char itable, but probably a moi'e 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, 6). 5. "King is iot 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 states men, but yielded to their will without a question. All 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. 6. "Then took they Jeremiah." Jere miah 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 dun geon." Literally "the cistern." It was not a subterranean prison as that in Jonathan's house (chapter 37: 151, 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 egpected that he would die in that place. 'III. ~ .eremiah's friend (vs. T-9). 7. "Ebedmelech." The servant of the king. He probably was keeper of the royal harem, and so had private ac cess to the king. Already even at this early time, God wished to show what good reason there 4as for calling the Gentiles to salvation. An Ethiopian stanger saves the prophet whom his own countrymen, the Jewvs, tried to destroy. So the Gentiles believed in Christ whom the Jews crucified, and Ethiopians were among the earliest converts (Acts 2: 10; S: 27-39). "Sitting in the gate." y'he gates of cities were the places where justice was admin istered. S "Went forth." The servant went immediately to the kdng. There was no time to lose, for if he delayed the prophet might perish. What a beld, courageous act this was. It ought to put many ou us to shame. 9. "These ien," 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 peo ple where they are least expected. "No more bread." That is, no more bread1 left of the public store in the city (chapter 37: 21); or, all but no bread left anywhere. This shows to what straits the city was reduced. IV. Jeremiiah rescued (vs. 10-13). 10. "Kimg commanded." Zedekiah'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 de te'mined that he should be rescued by force if necessary. Ebed-melech was rewarded for his faith, love and cour age, exhibited at a time when he might well fear the wrath of the princes. 1113. Ebed-melechl took the men as the king had conmmiande d and rescued Jeremiah. Hie let down into the pit sonc torn clothes and worn out gar ments and instructed Jeremiah to roll them around the ropes and place them under his armpits. so as not to suffer injury from the ropes when he was dlaw'n up. Although Jeremiah was thus rescued from a terrible death. be was not set at libe'rty, but remined fu the court of tihe prison. He was still in prison when the armies of Babylon took Jerusalem. He was found in c'hains and carried with other captives on the way to Babylon. but was re lesed at Ramah, six miles from Jeru salem. Thus ended the prison life of the prophet. How long he was in prison it is difficult to determine, prob ably for ycars. The Lamentations which he wrote after the destruction of Jerusalm must have been his frequent meditation while in confinement Fad for Optimism. One of the most wholesome fads that has been prevalent among so ciety at large is the newest of all optimism. For it is no longer the fashion to go bout looking as though you bore the burdens of the world upon your devot ed shoulders. But, instead, you're ex pected 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 'hat has developed the quality. Per haps it is only a newv pose-for pub ic opinion must have its poses, lik~e every individual. ISurely it sholud make happier, healthier communities out of cities and states. Goo' cheer is more or less of a habit-pretend to have it, and you suddenly wake up to find you've really got it, and, too, have reated a more joyous atmosphere for ou'self, that gradually grows neces sary to you. The ha.ppy habit is a good one much bhater than the tragic-faced, world-weary type that precede I it. ~ma ene fad stavX in fashion! AUGUST TWENTY-SEVENTH. Missicn Werk Arrong Women.-Acts 16: 13-18; Tit. 2: 3-5. (Hom% and Foreign Fields.) Some Bible Hints. 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 ser vants, and often of the men, so that work for women is especially import ant. 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 in deed "teachers of good things." Mission Notes Concerning Women. A Christian woman went to work in a negro settlement in the Indian Ter ritory appropriately 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 tor tures, and the woman medical mis sionary winds the endless gratitude of the women whom she frees from these agonies. Dr. Clara Swain was the first wo man medical missionary. She went to North India in January. 1S70. When the medical missionary at tended in her severe illness the wife of the Chins prime minister, Li Hung Chanz. the great man's influence was won for missions. A mission school-teacher in a Mor mon village was tormented by a rab ble of boys, who stoned the school house 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 suc cessful pastors in Utah. A mission teacher in New Mexico was thwarted at every turn by a Ca tholic priest, but she ministered to the sick during a terrible scourge of diphtheria and smallpox, and after wards all doors were open to her. FP'ORTH IF[8llF I rRUN6 ~ h. _, -. . a .- - L :.* 0 1 AUGUST TWENTY-SEVENTH. Womens Work for M;ssions.-Marl: 14. :-9; Acts 9. 0G; Rom. 16. 1, 2. The woman who anointed Jesus; the patron saint of all Ladies' Aid So3ieties, 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 o'hers. They arC worthy types cf those noble bands of Christian women who in our day have' banded th'emselv'es together to carry the gnspel to the neglectedi and se 'luded women of heathen lands. It has crystallized itself into the Wo man's Foreign and the Woman's Home Missionary Societies. Ninety days after the organization of our Parent Missionary Society in 119 a "'Woman's Auxiliary" was or ganized in New York by Dr. Nathan Bangs and others. An address was issued to the "Female Members of the Methodist Episcopal Chuirch." But in time the society bec'ame almost inac tive an'i crowded out by the organi zation of other societies. it has been estimated, however, that they con tributed at least $20,000 to the Parent Soiety. Wnen the China Mission was p~lantecl in 1S47 a society of women in Ealtimore was organized as the "La-I dies' China 31issionary Society." For1 some twenty years this did a noble work. It grented $5,000' for a "Female Academy" in Foochow, and gave for ten years $300 per year to the ParentI Socity. The Union Woman's Mis sionary Society was or;;anized in New York in 1SG0, and many of our chureal women were active in it until the or' ganization ot' our own Woman's Fo reign 31issionary Society. The organization of this society wvas effecte'd in Boston in 1lG9 by a few elect ladies, some of whom are still living. They rapidlly grew in numbers and in favor with the church. TheI present work of the society is import ant and growing rapidly. Their in-I coec is about $5i0.000 a year. Th'ey supprt m-issionarics in all our foreignI iehi. A bout 2.~) are now at work under their direction. Some 6,000J auxiliaries at home vwith nearly 150. (000 members insure a still larger ad vance in the future. Twventy-five thousand copies of the Woman's Mis sionary Friend go into the nomes of our people. In common with other, chur'.h boards of Woman's Societies they are taking a systematic study of missions from text-books prepared for the purpose. This society is only one of many ether church societie3 of womn who are sending the gospel to the heathen women who are inac cesibecs sa0 Christian womnc'. South American Letter Press. "Cigarettes and conversation, and ragtime dancing on ledgers," said Captain Robert Quinton, of the light ship 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 Amer ea are behind those of North Amer ica 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 In-g. In our business office in San 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 ordi nary copying machine. But down in these South American countries, when they wish to do that trick, why, th-e letter or other document is put 'etween the carbon sheets In a big book, which is put on the floor, andI then the clerks do a dance upon the book to take the copy. 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I Every w o. 34o. 5 nfeglectse cr o e weath aet' Thi~s ime En- Wa vitsitend pain.ahs Wu he hran systid in arac ot shs treisose track ofbr anyog the ten-hsclth Soency of atths aeniousto -aad with aics-i ofr nihos ie a rdernever athis t ntime, a cacr man dcerthte to fool and begin toheire %vsdm Cutrcie enblork toddg h Such In waringsm- / tosassn of sufpot-ycligi notib ono iah eal d-3 oflepmoed h uing itileyimid ty, lstend nl o the ars, palithatomsofe eat tetru blerks tefor ith comestolteih ton tarae stretfite, weaknesan minerspe- e o tudron i zies.tot crchoeSn promptlyeheeuld by mins fe telogen wodent won areing. in iee Wmangra Women mayhe expected. lf&i Thes ostymptomal aereilojstsd mn far woyins ouefrsistnce adh ard shoul abxet elte intie womenias it Pinka's n etab Cm ipount witou preaseome tened ofwmn' system a this trin perd ofhecre fer ivgraen itesndiheaste ndan. orais n Whend u hewaee evu system. 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The horse, wagon and the driver were literally covered with bees, and Willitts thinks !! was nothing short'of a miracle that himself and horse were not stung to death.-Bordentown cor. respondence Philadelphia Telegraph. 4 OF liFE re Susceptible to Many ligent Women Prepare eir Experience. }A ~AE6Jyand : " I wrote vou. for advice and commnencea reatment with Lydia E~. Pinkam's Tege able Compound as you directed, and I am app to sy that all those distressing symnp ors~!eft me and I have passed safely through the Change of Life, a well woman. I am commecnding~ vooer medicine to all my riends.-Mrs. Annie E. G. Hyland, Chester own, Md. Another Woman's Case. "During change of lif'e w.ords cannot er press what I suiteredl. '.i- 'vsiian da I Lad a cancerous condition of the womb. One ay I read some of the testimonials of women ho had been cured by Lydia E. Pinkham&' eeable Compournd, and' I decided to try it, mcf to write yo for advice. 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