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- : - J '?.vv v - ? : / \. > ?- r THE LOST CHILDREN. ; REV. DR TALMAGE'S CONSOLING SERMON FOR BEREAVED PARENTS Tie Shorter the Voyage the JL.~bs Chare? For ft Cyclone?Temptatloif In O d Ags What the &ad Dj iag at Sixteen Is Spared. G ;nero?!'y of Bereavement. / From an unusual standpoint Dr. Talmage offers comfort at the loss of children, and this sermon must be a balsam for many Brnrmds. His text is Isaiah Ivii, 1. '-The righteous is taken away from the evil to come." We all spend much time in panegyric of longevity. We consider it a great thing to live to be an octogenarian If a ay one dies in youth, we say, "What a.pity'" Dr. Muhlenberg, in old age, said that the hymn written in early life by his own hand no more expressed his sentiment when it said: I would not live alway. If one be pleasantly circumstsnced, he never wants to go. William Cullen Bryant, the great poet, at 82 years of age, standing in my house in a festel group, reading <;Thanatopsis" "without spectacles, was just as anxious to live as when at 18 years of age he wrote that immortal threnody. Cato feared at 80 years of age that he would not live,to learn Greek. Monaldesco, at 115 years, writing the history of his time, feared a collapse. Theophrastus, writing a book at 90 years of age, was anxious to live to complete it Thurlow Weed, at about 86 years of age, found life as great a desirability as when he snuffed out his first politician. Al1 4 wait Tworia-nAf? ffiT t hp Tl I LKSTb JLKUHTC, ov nvu ? world at 70, 8aid he would rather stay here. So it is all the way down. I suppose that the last time that Methusalah was out of doors in a storm he was afraid of getting hi3 feet wet less it shorten his days. Indeed I some time ago preached a sermon on the blessings of longevity, but I now propose to preach you about the blessings of an abbreviated earthly existence. If I were an agnostic, I would say a man is blessed in proportion to the number of years he can stay on terra firma, because after that he fills off the docks, and if he is ever picked out of the depths it is only to be setup in some morgue "n/v iA OftA will 91 UZC Ulll> Cl'SC WJ otc JUk ouj WVVAJ nuii vicuui him. If I thought God made man only to last 40 or 50 or 100 years and then he was to go into annihilation, I would say his chief business ought to be to keep alive aad even in good weather to be very cautious and to carry an umbrella and take overshoes and life preservers and bronze armor and weapons of defense lest he fall off into nothingness and obliteration. But, my friends, you are not agnostics. Yor believe in immortality and the eternal residence of the righteous in heaven, and therefore I first remark that an abbreviated earthly existence is to be desired and is a blessing because it makes one's life work very compact. Some men go to business at 7 o'clock in the morning and return at 7 in the evening. Others go at 8 o'clock and return at 12. Others go at 10 and return at 4. I have Mends who are ten hours a day in business, others who are five hours, others who are one hour. They all do thejr work well. They do their entire work and then they return. Which position do you think the most desirable? You say, other things being equal, the man who is the shortest time de JUi jjunui^OO OUA tt uv vau tviuin 4WJLUV the quickest is the most blessed. Now, my friends, "why not cany that good sense into the subject of transference from this world? If a person die in childhood, he gets through his work at 9 o'clock in the morning. If he die at 45 years of age he gets through his work at 12 o'clock noon. If he die at 70 years of age he gets through his work at 5 o' clock in the afternoon. If he die at 90, he has to toil all the way on up to 11 o'clock at night. The sooner we get through our work the better. The harvest all in barrack or barn the farmer does not sit down in the stubble field; but, shouldering his scythe and taking his pitcher from under the tree, he makes a straight line for the old homestead. All we want to be anx ions a&out is to get our worK aone ana wen done, and the quicker the better. Again, there is a blessing in an abbreviated earthly existence in the fact that moral disaster might come upon the man if ne tarried longar. Recently a man who had been prominent in churches, and who had been admired for his generosity and kindness everywnere, ior iorgery was seat, to staie j prison for 15 years. Twenty years ago there was no more probability of that man's committing a " commercial dishonesty than that you "will commit commercial dishonesty. The number of men who fall into ruin.between 50 and 70 years of age is simply appalling. If they had died 30 years before, it would have been better for them and better for their families. The shorter the voyage the less chance for a cyclone. There is a wrong theory abroad that if one's youth be right his old age will be right. You might as well say there is nothing wanting for a ship's safety except to get it fully launched on the Atlantic ocean, i nave sometimes as&ea tnose who were schoolmates or college mates of some great defaulter; ""What kind of a boy -was he? What kind of a young man -was he?" And they have said: "Why, he wa3 a splendid fellow. I had no idea he could ever go into such an outrage." The fact is the great , temptation of life sometimes comes far on in ' midlife or in old age, The first time I crossed the Atlantic ocean it was as smooth as a mill pond, and I thought the sea captains and the voyagers .-I_ J J IVa -1 J J T uau. siauuexeu uie uiu wean, &.uu x wrote home an essay for a magazine on ?,The Smile of the Sea," but I never afterward could have written that thing, for before we got home we got a terrible shaking up. The first voyage of life may be very smooth. The last may be a euroclydon. Many who start' life in great prosperity do not end it in prosperity. Tho great pressure of temptation comes sometimes in this direction. At about 45 years of age a man's nervous system changes, and some one tells him he must take stimulants to keep himself up, and he takes stimulants to keep himself up until the stimulants keep him down, or a man has been going along for 30 or 40 years in unsuccessful business, ani here is an opening where by one dishonorable action he can lift himself and nit 1113 lamuy irom an nnanciai emoarrassment. He attempts to leap the chasm, and he falls into it Then it is in after life that the great temptation of SHecess comes. If a man make a "fortune before 30 years of age, he generally loses it before 40. The solid and the permanent fortunes for the most part do not come to their climax until in midlife or in old age. The most of the bank pretidents have white hair. Many of those who ha^e been largely successful have been Sung of arrogance or wordliness or dissipation in old age. They may not have lost their integrity, but they have become so "worldly, and so selfish under the influence of their successes that it is evident to everybody that their success has been a temporal calamity and an eternal damage. Concerning many people it may be said it seems as if it would have been better if they could have embarked from this life at 20 or 30 years of age. Do you know the reason why the vast majority of people die before 30/ It is because they have not the moral endurance for that which is beyond the 30 and a merciful God will not allow them to be put to the fearful strain. Again, there is a blessing in an abbreviated earthly existence in the fact that one is the sooner taken off the defensive. As soon as one is old enough to take care of himself he is put on his guard. Bolts on the doors to keep out the robbers. Fireproof safes to keep off the flames. Life and fire insurance against accident, receipts lest you have to pay a debt twice. Lifeboat against shipwreck. Westinghouse airbrake against railroad collision and hundreds of hands ready to overreach you and take all you have. Defense against cold, defense against heat, defense against sickness, defense against the world's abuse, defense all the way down to the grave, and even the tombstone sometimes is not a sufficient barricade. If a soldier who has been on guard, shivering and stung with the cold, pacing up and down the parapet with shouldered musket, is glad when some one comes to relieve guard and he can go inside the fortress, ought not that man to shout for joy who can put down his weapon of earthly defense and go into the king's castle? >Yho is the more fortunO % 1 - ite, the soldier who has to stand guard 12 11 hours or the man who has to stand guard sir : hours? We have common sense about everything but religion, common sense about every- i thing but transference from this world. >t Again, there is a blessing in an abbre- 1 viated eart'ily existence in the fact that one 3 escapes so nany bereavements. The longer t we live the more attachments and the more < kindred, the irore chords to be wunded or i rasped or sundered. If a man live on to 1 70 or 80 years of age, how many graves are < cleft at his feet! in that long reach of time ] faiherand mother go, brothers and sisters < go, children go, grandchiidren go, personal ; friends outside the family circle whom they : had loved with a love like that of David and j Jonathan. Besides that, some men have a natural trepidation about dissolution and 1 ever and anon du>ing 40 or 50 or 69 jears, : this horror of their dissolution shudders ] through soul and body. Now, suppose the . lad goes at 10 years of age? He escapes 50 i iunerais, OKt cashew, t;v/ uysc^uiw, w oniui, wrenchings of the heart. It is hard enough for us to hear their departure, but is it not i easier for us to bear their departure than for < them to stty and bear 50 departures? Shall ! we net b;- thegrace of God rouse ourselve3 into a generosity of bereavement which will practically say, "It is hard enough for me to go through this bereavement, but how glad I am that he will never have to go through it." So I reason with myself, and so you will find it helpful to reason with yourselves. David lost his son. Though David was king, he lay on the eaTth mourning and inconsolable for some time. At this d stance of time, which do you really think was the one to be congratulated, the shortlived child or the long lived fathei? Had David died as early a* lha- child dieu he would, in the first place, have escaped that particular bereavement, then he would escaped the worse bereavement of * bsolom, his recreant son, and the pursuit of tho Philistines, and the fatigues jk his military campaign, and the jealousy" of Saul, and the perfidy of Ahithophel, and the curse of Shimei, and the destruction of his family at Ziklag, o?>/3 oil ><o -wnjilil Viws f>sftar)ed auuj avv?v w*?j *?w .? _ the' two great calamities of his life, the great sins of uncleanliness md murder. David lived to be of vast use to the church and the -world, but so far as his own happi| neHS was concerned, dees it not seem to you that it would have been better for him to have gone early'' Now, this, my friends, explains some thing? that to yoa have been inexplicable. This sho ts you why -when God takes little children from a household he is very apt to take the brightest, the most genia!, the most sympathetic, the most talented. Why? It is because that kind of nature suffers the most -when it does suffer and is most liable to temptation. God saw the tempest sweeping up from the Caribbean and he put the delicate c raft into the first harbor. "Taken away from the evil to come." Again, my friends, there is a blessing in an abbreviated earthly enxistence in the fact that it puts one sooner in the center of things. All astronomers, infidel as well as Christian, agree in believing that the universe swings around some great center. Any one who has studied the e&rth and studied the heavens knows that God's favorite figure in geometry is a circle. Whea God put forth his hand to create the universe, he did not strike that hand r.t right angle?, but he waved it in a circle, and kept on waving in a circle until systems and constellations and galaxies and all worlds took that motion. Oar planet swinging around the sun, other planets swinging around other suss,but somewhere a great hub,around which the great wheel or the universe turns, Now the center is heaven. Tnat is the capital of the universe; that is the great metropolis of immensitiy. Does not our common sense teach us that in matters of study it is better for us to move out from the center toward the circumference rather than to be on the circumference. where our world now is? We are alike those who study the American continent while standing on the Atlantic beach. The way to study the constituent is to cross it or go to the heart oflt. Our standpoint in this world is defective. We are at the wrong end of the telescope. The best way to stuujr a v? iiitnju.xjj.ci j 10 uut w oiauu on the doorstep and try to look in, but to go in with the engineer and take our place right amid the saws and cylinders. We wear our eyes out and our brain out from the fact that we are studying under such great disadvantage. Millions of dollars for observatories to study about the moon, about the sun, about the rings of Saturn, about transits and occulations and eclipses, simply because our studio, our observatory is poorly situated. We are down in the cellar trying to study the palace of the universe while our departed Christian friends have gone up stairs amid the sky-lights to study. Now, when on i can sooner get to the center of things, is Jie not to be ccngratuIUIia rrn?* 4 a + r\ Ka aWottQ in J&vCU. IIUV Tiauio fcV V* <Jli. TI <-? AM ?"V freshman class? We study God in this wond bj the Biblical photograph of him, but we all ki.ow we can in five minutes of interview with a friend get more accurate idea of him than we can by studying him 50 years through pictures or words. The little child that died last night know3 more of God than all Andover, and all Princeton, and all New Brunswick, and all Edinburgh, and all the thologier.l institutes in Christendom. Is it not better to go up to the very headquarters of knowledge? TWs not our common sense teaches U3 that it is better to be at the center than to be clear out on the rim of the wheel, holding nervously fast to the tire lest we be suddenly hurled int light and eternal felicity? Through all kinds of optical instruments trying to peer in through the cracks and the keyholes of heaven, afraid that both doors of the celestial mansion will be s*ung wide open before our entrancid vision, rushing about among the apothecary shops of this world, wondering if this is good for rheumatism, and that is good for neuralgia, and something else is good for a bad cough, lest we be suddenly ushered into a land of everlasting health, where the inhabitant never says, "I am sick." What fools we all are to preier tne circumference to the center! What a dreadful thing it would be if we should be suddenly ushered from this "wintry world into the May time orchards of heaven, and if cur pauperism of sin and sorrow should be suddenly broken up by a nresentation of an emperor's castle surrounded by parks, with springing fountains and paths up and down which angels of Gcd walK two and two. We are like persons standing on the cold e^or\o Af r-rn 17A*?TT ^ OLVyj ?'i ^aibiv/uv?i y^vvuig ^ikuvij xu. London, under umbrella in the rain, afraid to go in amid the Turners and the Titans and the Raphaels. I come to them and say, "Why don't you go inside the gallery?" "Oh," they say, "we don't know whether we can get in.5' I say, "don't you see the door is open?" "Yes," they say, "but we have been so long on these cold steps we are so attached to them we don't like to leave " "Bat," I say, "it is so much brighter and more beautiful in the gallery; you had better go in," "Xo," they say, "we know exactly hew it is out here, but we don't know exactly how it is inside." So w<; stick to this world 33 though we preferred cold drizzle to warm habitation, discord to cantata, sackcloth to royal purple, as though we preferred a piano with four or Eve of the keys out of tune to an instrument fully attuned, as though earth and heaven had exchanged apparel, and earth had taken on bridal array and heaven had gone into deep mourning, all its waters stagnant, a*! its harps broken, all chalices crackDt. flip rlrv XTpIIq the la-err: a clrtninrr in J ? vivfuug w, the river plowed with graves, with dead angels under the furrow. Oh, l want to break up my own infatuation and I want to break up your infatuation with this world.' I tell you if ve are ready and if our work is done the sooner we go the better, and if there are blessings in longevity I want you to know right well there are blesiiLgs in aa abbreviated earthly existence. If the spirit of this sermon is true, how consoled you ought to feel about members of your fa:uily that went early. "Taken from the evil to come," this book says. "What a fortunate escape they had. How glad we ought to feel that they will never have to go througa the 'struggles winch, we have had to . go through. They had just time enough to ; get out of the cradle and run up on the ' springtime hills of this world and see how : it looked, and then they started for a better stopping place. They were like ships that put in at St. Helena, staying there long 1 enough to let passengers go up and s ee the barrack of Napoleon's captivity, and then . heist sail for ihe port of their own native . land. Ehey only took this world in transi- < HI i?inn MIII ggingBB im. It is hard for us, but it is blessed for ] :hem. j And if the spirit of this sermon is true, j ;hen we ought not to go around sighing and j groaning -when another year is going, but! i>e ought to go down on one knee bj the j nilestone and see the letters and thank God iat we are 365 miles nearer home. We )ught not to go around with morbid feelings ; ibout our health or about anticipated demise. | tVe ought to be living not according to that )ld maxim which I used to hear in roy'boylood that you must live as though every j lay were t&e last; jcu must li^e as though pou were to live forever, for you will. Do nnt ho nprmiis lest voir have to move out of i shanty into an Aihambra. One Christmas day I -witnessed something rery thrilling We bad just distributed the family presents Christmas morning, when 1 heard a great cry of distress in the hallway. A child from a neighbor's house came in to say her father was dead. It -was ouly three doors off, and I think in two minutes we were there. There lay the old Christian sea captain, his face upturned toward the window, as though he had suddenly seen the headlands and with an illuminated countenance, as though he were just gomg into harbor. The fact was he had already got through the Narrows. In the adjoining room were the Christmas presents waiting lor bis distribution. Long ago, one night when he had narrowly escaped with his ship from beicg run down by a great ocean steamer, he had made his peace with God, and a kinder neighbor or a better man than Captain Pendleton you would not find this side of heaven. "Without a moment's warning, the pilot of the heavenly harbor had met him iust off the lightship. He had often talked to ue of the goodness of God, and especially of a time when he was about tD enter New York harbor with his ship from Liverpool, and he was suddenly impressed that he ought to put back to sea. Under the protest of the crew and under their very threat ha put back to sea, fearing at the same time he was losing his mind, for it did seem so unreasonable that when they could get into harbor that night they should put back to sea. But they put back to sea, and Captain Pendleton said to his mate, "You call me at 10 o'clock at night." At 12 o'clock at night the captain was aroused and said: "What does this mean? I thought I told you to call me at 10 o'clock, and here it is 12." '-Why," said the mate, "I did call you at 10 o'olock, and you got up, looked around and told me to keep right on the same course for two hours, and then to call jou at 12 o'clock." Said the captain: "Is it possible? I hare no remembrance of that." At 12 o'clock the captain went on deck, and through the rift of a cloud the moonlight fell upon the sea and showed him a shipwreck with 100 struggling passengers. He helped them off. Had he been any earlier or any later at that point of the eea he would have been of no service to those drowning people. On board the captain's vessel they began to band together as to what they should pay for the J ?1- ? 4. 14 ^ ilA | rescue ana wniu. mey snuuiu iui mc provisions. "Ah," says the captain, "my lads, you can't pay me anything. All I have on board is yours. I feel too greatly honored of God in having saved you to take any pay." Just like him. He never got any pay except that of his own applauding conscience. Oh, that the old sea captain's God might be my God and yoars! Amid the stormy seas of this life may we have always some one as tenderly to take care of us as the captain took care of the drowning crew and the passengers. And may we come into the harbor with as,little physical pain and with as bright a hope as he had, and if it shou Id happen to be a Christmas morning, when iuS presents are beiDg distributed and we are celebrating the birth of him wbo came to save our shipwrecked world, all the better, for what grander, brighter Christmas present could we have than heaven. Something Wrocg. When we reflect that a few thousand persons possess more than half of all the wealth of a migbty nation of 70,000,000 of reDple, inhabiting a vast territory of wondrous resources, it need not be argued tbat something is wrong. The founders of our republic never planned a government of a few dangerously rich and many dingerously poor. Well they knew that, in the inevitable clash of these two dangerous classes, the republics of other days were destroyed m the early days of the republic corporations were few; now they are numbered by hundreds of thousands There has been a recklessness injtheir creation that is almost astounding; and every one of ihem, no matter how insignificant, nas in it some eiemenis 01 soverigmy, derived, from the governmental store ?the people's property. While many have fceen created fcr high purposes of greatest importance, many others have been brought into beicg with purposes purely selfish orpcsitively bad. With the creation of each something of power departed from the many and centered in the few. Worse still, corporation combir.es with -corpcration; leviathan is harceised with leviathan ! mnns'er trusts roll the Ju^reer naut of monopoly over thousands of men, women and children. Corporations long have had the footing of individual men in the law and before the courts. Communities have been despoiled and before the courts. Communities have been despoiled and uq born millions cruelly burdened through the wrongful application of the law concerning 4 'commercial pa1* 3 - 1 it..' ^ per ana me rjgms> ui luuwcut holders of avalanches of swindling roailroad and bonds and other like devices for safe public plundering. It would be difficult, perhaps, to find in the plans or teachings of the fathers any support fcr such mammoth and far-reaching wrongs.?Hon. David A. de Armoz-d in The Illustrated American. 8 UDg by Cactus Plan's The Philadelphia Record says several men employed about Horticultural hall, iu Fairmount park, are nursing: very sore hands, and one^f them is just sure that he is out of danger from blood poisoning from stings received in handling prickly cactus plants. All summer the tail, slender cacti have stood with soldierly erectncss in a bed at the east end of the hall. When frost threatened the head gardener gave orders for their removal into winter quarters, and the men iVlQ IAK tVOwf oUAIlf if TTltVimif J-id VliJfc jsnguwawuuK TTIIUVUI the usual precaution of wearing buckskin gloves. They were stung ia many places by the needles that bris tied from the staiks, but as the pain at the time was not great, they kept at work until all the cacti had been housed. A few hours later their hands began to puff up, and soon swelled to ungainly proportions, as the poison of the stings took effect. They suffered intensely for several days, and fxre-rt r.rsx after a week his elacspd. have to use their hands in a very gingerly manner indeed, TTaya of a Country Editor. An editor died, sajs an anonymous writer, and slowly wended his way down to where he supposed a warmer reception awaited him. The devil met him and said: s'For maoy jear.s thou has borne the blame of the bad speiliag that printers have gotten off in fhp rscT,hf> n5r!"r has crrxra fnr cne dollar a:;d also the dollars have failed to come in. The printer has bedelved thee for wages when thou hadstnota farthing to thy name. People have taken thy paper without paving for it and cursed thee for not setting out a better sheet. Thou hast been called a dead beat by the railroad conductors when thou hast shown thy pass to their envious gazs. All these thou hast borne in silence. : Thou shalt not enter here." And as the editor turns and walks away, Satin muttered: "Heaven is his i borne, and besides,' if I had let him in < here, he would have been dunning < his delinquent subscribers, and thus i created discord in my kingdom." | HIS BMR WAS WHITE. j THE THRILLING STORY OF HOW IT i TURNED j : ih-Ti Vfas ? GTror.b a S ?gaa at G?t- ! i tjsba<*s aad Eld* as 7?s i 2?r-w!y B*.ad? j Gravo o* a Bivs'. A big black cloud that seemed to pull out at the bottom until r. bad the shap9cfa balloon spilled its fbcd upon the vre-it slop* of Marshall Pass. The flood rushed c'o~zj a narrow pjlch acd tore s^av about 50 fte'c o- tna raiirosd track. 1 he New Eogi&nd excursion trsio had to be bsc?d down ^ fijvniMi-e .it <hv? fr\r\+ r.f 1K0 Kill nn. til the road could fce r pa:red. There was absolutely no amusement for ihe excursionists save what they could make for themselves, arid yet ore beard no complaint. Nobody threatened to sue the compar-y or send ia a bill for the ex era meal of mountain trout thit they were compelled to take becau". of the washout. 'Taese Yankee tou'ists," said the old engineer, *\hav moh patience an' less pocket mon?y than any class of people undeh th' sua." A couple of gentlemen cam-; over to tie lit;le roundhouse, walking with their hands behiad them, looking at the locomotives that stood steaming in *rcnt cf the bQuse waiting for orders. Upon the pilot of one of these engines a white haired man in overalls sat smoking a cigar. "Gx>d evening," said or?e of the tourists. 1 Good evening," responded the engineer. "I suppose," said the Ne^Esglander, pulling a cleaa tan boot upon the ncsa of the pilot,41 that you hava been ' a!ap A OAma 4i rtrtA ' ill d Vi.L/CC? j.'iCiU'S IKJL OVJJLAW CHJLlw "Well, I can't say that I have," said the m2n la overalls. ''I see that your hair is vchite, and yet you are a yc-urger man than I am.-' 4 Ob!'' said the engineer, a little <?mbarrrassed,_"I got that is. the 69's. Ion? before I commenced railroadin." ' I see, I see," said the excursionist, showing still greater interest. "At Gettysburg, perhaps?" ' It vas going home from Gettys burg," siid the engine driver, glancing at his right hand, that had a deep dimple in the thick of the thumb. "I went heme, also, after Gettysburg," said the Yankee, ard the two men looked at e2eh other for a mo ment in silence. The fireman brought a cushion from the cab, threw it upon the pilot, and the engineer motioned the men to a seat. "Well, there was a gccd many went heme from Gettysburg," said the en gineer, with the hard pedal on 4,hom?." The Yankee nodded in silence. Of course each knew by the other's accent that they had fought there face to face and net side by side. "One cf your felloes did me a mesn little trick down there," said the excursionist. ' Well, if it comes to that, a damned Yankee poked his bayonet through my hand," said the engineer, for he had to swear when he talked. ''And, seeiDgthat you were unarmed, made you a prisoner, when he might have killed you." "Yes, I had been hit on the head with a spent piece of shell or something heavy enough to knock me out. When I csine to and staggered to my feet this Yankee made a run at me an' I had to give up." "Well, sab, I watched my chances an'hit him a crack: under tne can, grabbed his gun an' when lie started to get up, I laid the barrel across his head and left him there, when I might have killed him." "And here," said the excursionist, removirghis travelling cap, "is the I suiir )uu gave ''An' here'sthe ma'k of yo bayonet," said the engineer, wiggrliDg his thumb. The two men shook hands. The j tourist returned to his sleeper, but j came back again presently with a half | dczen friends. The Yankee produced a well-filled cigar case, planted him self at tha side of ths engineer, and asked fcim to tell now his hair hap pened to be white. "Weil, sah,:' said the engine man, "it's that damn silly that I have nevah told it." "But jou must?you could not re fure an old comrade," said the Yankee, laughing heartily. "After the scrap," said the Virginian. whoss accent must now be imagined, "I went home to rest until my hand could heal. Our placa was a long way from the railroad, and when I left the train I hired a saddle horse and started out to the plantation. It was a dark, rainy Bight. The result of the battle of Gettysburg had sad dened ma, but now the thoughts of seeing the folks asd friends at home gave me pleasure that could not be marred even by the sad news of the death of one of our neighbors. "This man?this dead man?and I bad been playmates and fast friends in bojhoc-d days; but, as we grew olcer, wefell or rather 'erew' in love with the same girl. I can't say that I 1 1n?MA -C /-\ M f? vs TT VM A V* T?fi U UlaLucu. J-iliii jlui. LUCkf?auv xjj.au. tvi.ia eyes would do it?but when I went away to war and saw bim standing by fcer side upon the station platform, it didn't seem quite an even break He was to stay there and listen to the music of her voice, while I heard the roar of cannon. He would sit by her side in the summer twilight, while I slept out in the rain and helped make history, and the thought of it put a hardness in my heart that had softened only at the news of his death. It was pleasant, however, to reflect thai I had faced the enemy?had walked 'in the shadow of the shell,'and lived to come home to her, while he, poor devil, had been kicked by a mule and died. ''Tomorrow he would be planted, and I should be thereto see how she took it and console her as he had done when I answered my country's call. "It must have been nearly midnight when I entered a lonely lane led past the principal bur?inf? ground in the uci^uuviuuvu. jluvci buc high fence, I saw a new grave, and doubted not that it was for my neighbor. "Tne raia had csased. The moon shone dimly behind the clouds- Suddenly my horse stopped with his head grazing over the graveyard. I spurred him and he started forward, bat stopped again, raised his head and snorted. "I listened, but heard nothing; locked and saw nothing but the white slabs gleaming ghost like in the night. I sparred and whippsd my'horse, but ; with another wild snort he whirled round and desded tne otne? way. Fat- i ting him about, I looked over the law wall and saw something white rise < and fall. The scared horse trembled under me, but I ur^ed him on to where he had stopped first. Now the white object rose again. My God lit was ; from the open grave?his grave, too. : I made no doubt. For the first time in my x.ie my blood ran cold. I sat ' like one paralyzed^ in. the saddle and 1 coT?T tfca whitA tVnncf vieo on/1 -foil ( Again I urged my frightened horse, ( but as often as I brought him up to. I the scratch he whirled, snorted, and 1 dashed away down the muddy lane. I } could not go round, and he vrould not j zo past the frightful obj ?ct. In this ?. way we worked forward and back, t 9 cuurui-g tae mud, out gelling no nearer home. At last, discouraged and disgusted, I determined to puli down the high fence on my right and pass through the field. "As I reined my horse toward the fence he refused to go, or to take his eyes from the grave. "With a wild, unearthly cry, sach as I had never heard from a horse, the poor animal sank ti enabling to the earth. I him cut with my riding whip, brought him to his feet, and swung into the saddle s^ain. Looking over the wall I saw tins tnirtgcorce ngci up cut ox tee grave. There could be no mistake now, for the moon was shining almost (all. I saw it put out its hands upon either sice, as though it were trying to lift itself up. The white arms seemed to beckon to me in the moonlight and then it sank back into the grave again. "I was never superstitious. I had r ever seen, uo to this time, a thing on . ? iu T 1 J x L. t> ? 4. e&rtn rcas i wouia jioi appru>icu. jdu-. j this was too ir.uch for r^e. It was r>ot J of this earth?it >vas unearthly, and I was sick at heart. No* I be^an to vrocder bov this stcrj would sound wi-ec I should gro heme and tell it. "I, who had fac-d death upon the battlefield, chy atid night, for -eeeks and !T:oi/tbs, must say that I bad seea a {rh'.-st in a graveyard. The very thought o' it made me aegry. sad I s^ore that I eould solve this mjatery n jA 'Life at best, was r.ot a grand, sweet song to the people of the south at that time, and that thought, perhaps, helped ice to be a little mile reckless. Taking firm hold of what was left of my once ample stock of courage. I dismounted and made my horse fast to the high fence. Crossing the road, I looked over the wall, but nothicg could be seen. "I hsdneyer been afraid of this man in the flesh, then why should I fear his gbest. or whatever or whoever was doing duty at ills open grave. 1 was now aware that I was shaking with cold. "I took a drink. A friend had given me ft bottla of brandy in the town, but I had forgotten it until now. Presssntly I felt warmer and waited for the ghost. I began to hope that the thing had taken water at my display of courage. I could see my horse over against the fence resting quietly. A graveyard rabbit darted past, rolling the leaves and causing me to start. "I took another drink. <lPnt.tincr ttit? hands unon the rouffh stone, I leaped lightly to the other side. I felt another chill, but when my ghost remained out of sight I took courage and started for the grave. From mere force o? habit I took out my pistol and held it in my hand as I we'tt forward. "Unfortunately for me. a big cloud swept betvrsen me and the moon, and I paused, a hundred feet from the grave, to let it pass. Now up came the ghost again, and right there is where I got this hair. B if ore nor since I have known a moment like that. I was not warm, and yet I was perspiring freely. "I took another drink, but this time I could not taste it, I could feel the three dritks now getting together and giving me new courage."Suddenly all sense of fear left me. 'Hi, there!' I yelled. "Ccma out and show jourcelf!' and instantly up came the ghost, but instead of frightening mo it Tirnrift mp laiiah. and I laughed loud, therein the lonely place, arid heard the echo come back from the hill across the run. I had a vague feeling that I was insane, and jet I was not, but I could not understand why I was not afraid. 4,I wanted to get hold of that ghost and have it out with the thing, and dared it to come out and make a fight. I fired my pistol to show that I was brave. There was a sound from the lane of breaking rails, the snap of a hitching strap snd I saw my poor horss galloping awaj. "I was in for it now, sure enough, and determined to give a good' account of myself. Right there I took another.drink, aEd to my surprise the bottle was empty, I also took a shot at the grave, for it occurred to me now for the first time that some one might be having fun with me. As the smoke of the pistol cleared away I saw the white thing lift itseif to ttie edge of the open grave. It had wings. I could hecr them and sae theai beating wildly against the sides of the sepul chre. 44 'Come cut of that,' I cried. You've got a pair of v?irgs; why don't you get up acd fij V "Tiiere was no reply from the ghost and it seemed io me that I must end the suspense or go mad. Rushing up tothegrare I laid hold of the thing, dragged it forth, rais?d it high above my head, and siaamed it upon the earth. It gave a Vquisk "What was it?'5 gasped the New Englande?. "It was an oi' white gandab.s&h."? TT 1_ r\ i>dW iCTitDUa. Bojus Titles. The grasd camp of Confederate veterans has declared war upon bogus military titles, and noae too soon. All around us are generals, colonels, majors and captains, merely by grace of a mistaken courtesy and au unneccesry forbearance. Supposedly, these men hold their military titles by vir tue of bravery and skill displayed on the battlefield." As a matter of fact, however, many men known as gener als or majors never witnessed a battle, but manifested their bravery and ability as soldiers in some bomb proof position- Nearly every ignoramus who has gathered together a few dollars by extortion, oftimes by dishonesty, is paraded before the country as a I general, colonel, major or captain. A Candidate f jr tile G?Uowj. Archie Lockley, a negro, who is wanted by the authorities of King and Qieen county, Ya., for a triple murder committed in the county .last month, wascanfcured in Philadelphia on Wednesday night. H9 was given a hearing today and committed to await requisition papers from Virginia. Early last month Lcckley called at .the house of Martha E. Chapman of Ply mouth, Ya. A quarrel arose, and, when attacked, Lockly shot her dead, her son Eidie Chapman, and George Lee all colored. A iiold Tr?ia Kobbeiy. W^HnasHaxr nitrhf: thfi train nn ihft Wabash dueatiiituchfield, Illinois, at ten o'clock pulled out, two men without masks boarded the chair car and at the point of cocked revolvers demanded the passengers to give up their vauable3. After going through \ the car, which was done at a lively i rate, the robbevs pulled the bell cord and the. train stopped ana the robbers got cff, luaning ease on Third street and disappearing as theirain < moved oa i'ne robbers got bfct?;een ; |70 and $S0 and a gold watch. I Shoots a Jadge. John Davis, colored, was carried to jail in Cincinnati by officers from Brown county to eicaps lynching His crime was shooting and fatally i wounding Judge John M. Mark'ey of i Brown county common pleas court in J Georgetown Wednesday. Divis talk- i id to Mariey about a case for burglary, or which he was tried but not con- 3 rictd. Judge Markley walked away. 5 Davis called him and fired when the I judge turned facing him, then fled. I fnricrfl Martian's wound is in the cen- ] re of tue forehead. He is still living.! i An exchange says it is all a mistaken idea to think that b?cau?e a newspaper publisher only collects a little at a time that it doesn't do him much good. Every dollar counts in the newspaper business, whether it is paid in for advertising or subscription. We are aware that some people think that a dollar is a small amount and that the publisher is not necessarily compelled to have it in order to run his business, but we hasten to say that sues, is not the case. Wh9n a publish-, er has several hundred dollars due him for subscription, aod he only gets the pitiful sum of a'dollar at a time it helus him to meet his expenses. And right here we would like to deeply impress it on the minds of tao=e wh ) a?* indebted to us for subscription or ad veniMug wiiut vvc aiw^s waui iuiu actually stand in seed of it whenevsr it is due. It is a mjsiery to some people ho =7 a newspaper is made to pay anyway, but it is no rujstery to ibe publisher when he can promptly set what honestly belongs to him. Tee trouble is that in some instances he ? uds it a very hard matter to set i . Z Iton'c Gst Disc jurag'd. The Carolina Spirtan s*ys :short crops prevail throughout this section cf iue Stata. but t^e farmer must not get discouraged He must set hia wits lo work As the Spartan sUitrf a few creeks 9go. fail oars sill r.ve on gccd liiid mil supplement me hhot-i corn crop. Three acr^s O? good 1 and for i each horse, so-vi in wh<?a% will stop the dr&ia for fljur. A good garden beeua now ??ilJ shorten the grocery bills. T ro or three dozen hens well managed will supply the family with sugar, and a good co?ror*two will make surplus butter enough to buy shoes. Let fo one be discouraged. All should bigin at oacs to plan to meet the short crops and low prices The wis?, brave man and womxn should rise superior to circumstances. Nfxc year may be a good all-around crop fear. A "little wiso planning and steady licks will help lo surmcunt all obstacles that mw seem to block the way. Po-wtr Xaxtto Tii?t of the President More than 50,000 persons will directly or indirectly draw pay from the city in the first administration of the mayor of Greater Ne?7 York. The. salary of 33,000 of those whose names - 11 1- - _ 11 4.1.^ ^24 ? win ?e acsuaiiy 011 me a ivu will aggregate $33,000,000. Paits of this amouDt represents the salaries and patronage of tne aldermen and other officers elected on Tuesday, but this is comparatively small mosl, of the total representing the patronage of Greater New York's first mayor, Robert A. Van Wyck. A conservative estimate of those wno will draw pay directly irorn trie city, tarougn cuy contracts and the like, is 22,000 Mayor Strong, at the Ii3i3 the great city charter was passed, ref srred to this force as equal to, if not exceeding the actual number of ail officeholders. A Mytterions Shipwreck. Captain Robinson ol t-Efe steamer George W. Clyde, from Jacksonville and Charleston, S. C, reports tbat last Tuesday, when off Bady Island, N. C., he saw an. immense amouit of drifting wreckage, includiog pieces of '& i UUUOO, tLCk^ la^gg jjx.VWJ of timber and other material, such as would have come from a large coasting vessel if btoken up. He also passed an impro7ised life raft, evidently but recently used. It is thought that the raft was constructed by tfcecfew of some vessel on the verge of foundering, but it is not certain whether the men were rescued from the raft cr drowns d. From Cape Hatteras to Frying Pan Shoal lightship an immense quantity of hard pine lumber of various dimensions w*s passed. DeatUy Work o! an Assassin " A disoatch from Rio Jaaero says: "At 1 o'clock Fr.'diy afternoon, a soldier of the Tenth battallion, which constitutes part of the local garrison, attempted to shoot President Moraes "with a pistol. The president was just landing at the marine arsenal, after visitisg the steamer on which General Barbasa, minister o' marine, had returned from Bahia, The bystanders frustrated ihe atiemnt, but Uoi. Mo raes, the p resident's nephe.7, was slightly wounded in disarming the soldier, General Biitancour minister of war. then intered ar.d was himself stabbed. The wound was so serious that he died scoi afterwaid. The at-?l f?ck has caused th;j j?rc-at*st ^gi'ation j throughout tie city." A J ick y Killed Al the Ecglesile tracs near Sin Francisco Thursday while Bert Outran- j der was exercising E, M. MeCbrmick's horse, Thjme, Nick Hall's colt, Uorii- j elite, WllU i-JL LLI iUA. U)1U \*JJ, v>b?u.uv~. j into him and both animals and jockeja were thrown down, McLain j eicaped injury, 0 Grander, however,; fell upon tij.es track upon bis bead, sustaining coccassion of the brain, i His death is momentarily expected. Thyme was badly shaken up, but Cor- j riente ran eight miles a'ler the accident and dropped in his tracks from s'cetr exhaustion. Eow to Keep Eggs ?The bast way io keep eggs in Summer time is to pack tbsm inJiaiewater, and they will keep in good condition for three months Pnur one gallon of boiline ^ater oyer a pound of lime, when settled and cold pour it carefully over the eggs which you have picked, small ends down, in a stone jar, and stand m a cdoI, dark place, i?ggs may also be packed in salt; anything that will closa the pores of the shell and prevent evaporasion will preserve eggs." Train Qata Over Embankment A mixed passenger and freight train j relied down a 40 foot embankment on ! the Missouri Sedalia, Warsaw and Southwestern load at noon Tuesday three miles north of Warsaw. Ea gineer John Minnier was instantly killed. Fireman Charles McCon also bad a broken ami and Bcakeman Price, Conductor W. JL hSass and .b'red Schweetaaan, a passenger, was badly hurt. Too Hach. for Him Wo, J. Lehigh, manager of the Portland, Ore., fierchaata1 Exchange association, commixed- suxi'de Thursday on the floor of t*e exchange by shooting Liiiiseic in the h?ad. Business reveis;s cau eu him to Uks his life. A New* Game Law?Tne Columbia Register sa^s bjwU 5?g^ct$ w&y be I killed from Ojtoosr 1 to September 1; Spring pcets from Hareh 1 to June 1; scandal inoagers Aprii 1 tc February 1; umoreiia borrowers August 1 to Noven;b3r 1; and from February lto May 1, while ev ry mari who accepts a paper six months but Thna tbs bill is presented sdjs, "leaver ordertdit," may be k:lled on si^ht without reserve or relief from valuation or appraisement laws, aad buried face do inward, without beueatj of clergy. Hilton's Life for ize Livao aad Kid cieys is tie most comply re>ulauog aideicine. it is mud in. its operatioa!.s agreeable and pleasant to the stom>ch. It will csrtain'y balld up a weakened and brosea d j ya digestioa. Eas none of the harsh action of pills lad other drastic pargiiivis. Is the -woct- /-if all ftina1'? tp) O iir?!r irs ?Ji? aeaeficial effdji uu thi iridaeyj. Is purely Vfgiiabie. Can betaken at any ;iaae. 25s, 5'Jc and $L.00 battles. - - / * r- "*v # \ Attractive Women. Why is one "woman attractive and another not? The most admirable and attractive thing about an attractive woman is her womanliness Erery* body admires a wooaaniy woman. She must have health* of course, because without it .she would lose the brghtness of her'eyes, the fullness of "her checks and her vivacity. Real health must mean that a woman is really a woman, rhatsheis strong and perfect Jn a sexual way, as well as in every other.' 'That she is capable of performing perfectly the duties of maternity. Some are born with what is called ""constitutional weakness " Those who do not enjov perfect health 1 . 1 i ^ ' 1 neea oniy tage ine .proper precautions atd the proper remedy to become per fectly weii aiid strong. Dr. PieiCo'-s Favorite Prescription wiJi cure any derangement of the distinctly feminine organism. Send21 cents.in, one-cent otn ?vj*\o tA T^MJnanoowrr 1 abALupa iv T; t/iiu .a J iixvuivor* Association, Buffalo, N. Y., and rs ceive Dr. Pierce's 1008 pasre ^Commoijt Sense Medical Adviser," illustrated. Without a Hippie. A member of the Union Pacific sjn: dicate, speaking Thursday of th* arrangements for deoositing in the New York banks the $58,000,000 which is to be paid the government fo^' the re l>?ase of it lien upon the Union P.scilic main line, purchased last wtek at Omaha, said: "The transactions Trill be carried through without a ripple to disturb th* financial situation. The money will be deposiied ia eight or nine banks, and more i ihey c*ra to qualify as such depository. One is readj with bonds io take $15,000,000 of the money and it can arrange to take ?30.000,000 if necessary.'5 Htlcon's T X fMI ?MAMf U V, ? /\ ft 1m Aa-KJI U1 XJ'viliLUUUb 13 LL1C lilt yiU. ultra" of all such preparations ia reiriOTing soreness, and quickly healing fresh cats at>d wounds, no matter howcsd. Is will promptly heal old sores of 3ong standing. Will kill the pcis on from *'Poison Ivy" or ''Poison Oak" and cure "Dew Poison." "Will counteract the poison from bites of snakes and stings of insects. It is a sure cure for sore thioat. Will cure any case cf sore mouth, and is a superior remedy for all pains and aches. Sold by druggists and dealers 25 cents a bottle. A Valuable Oat. Howard Reed, of Milfcrd, Pa,, starred out hunting for partridge and woodcock, and was fo.lowed by the house cat All efforts on the part of the young hunter to drive the cat back heme Tsrere futile; it was bound to go with him, and it illustrated its ability as a hunter by its "pointing" a woodcock. which young Reed shot Tnen it "flashed" a partridge, which was also bagged by the hunter. Reed says he would not part with the cat fcr the VM?st. drto in rhp ??nnntrT7 ~? ?? A Padiockea Heart, ' "*^|jijli? women lock Erap?^|lll' fiiiP and sufferings jffil *n t^ie^r ^ow? misery and rJi Pai? which s V^S would cause j strong men to Wlligs ox wvuica than half unknown and tin-, appreciated.' The. refined sensitiveness of their organism lays them liable to a thousand exquisite tortures whidi a coarser nature can never experience or comprehend, r The least derangement or disorder of the delicate special organism of their sex overwhelms the whole pkvsicalar.c mental bein? with weakness and wretchedness. }>.* it ii ?. mistake to suffer'these troubles in sLIir.e^. They may be cured hi the perfect privacy of hcnie, without the repugnant ordeal of examinations and "local treatment," which the family doctor is sure to No physician in thetrcrld aas hsdnwicer or more "successful experience in the treatment cf \v. -.aan'< closes titan Dr. R. V. Pierce, chi ? consulting pnysician to the Invalid* Hotel ?.::d Sur^ricrd Institute, of Buffalo. N: Y. .K:< "Favorite Prescription " is a positive cure for the most oljstinate and complicated i'cDif.iiu^diSicidties. ; It is the only medicine of its kind prepared by an educated, skilled physician. Mr. J. F. Sneed, of.Omen, Texas, writes: "My wife was badly afflicted with female weakness. We tried three of the best physicians in the country without benefit, but at great expense. My -wife grew worse, and we gave up in despair. She could not get in and out of doors without help: was not able to stand on her feet loner at a time, complained of dragging down pains in abdomen. "Nothing but an untimely death seemed awaiting her. when ? happy thought! ? t!ie name of Dr. Pierce came to my mind. I wrote to Dr. Pierce received his advice, followed it, my wife improved perceptibly from the first two week's treatment, continued the treatment six months, and pronounced the cure complete, at a cost of less than one month's treatment by the last physician, we employed before consulting Dr. Pierce. She used Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and the lotions recommended j by fcia. It has been two years since, and the i good e-Teci is permanent." 1 i tiix ??T^th?ir;s I ? - ta"<e plssnrs to .?*U.?cg ynz: stM San I; a x&zzZj *o U>n$r i^vlsS in -iarry Irr c?ii!drsn caf alv through fee critics si-*? ?i v**Skinir. It is ia incalenlab!? l\:y?~? to rott-T ?r<3 child, It yea at' 5:^?cr^?? :&?b* *rith a sick, trattui ! tee'thiag sJilIi, uM Pitts' Cararfcativc, li I v'?I g?r* ? **tanS relirf. tad. regulate ifcf | brwt]a rxst&f t^tbi.ns ?ri strf R Trtll cot? Dywaterr ssi VHvr^i~?t | SRtts CarmlBitire Is aa Jnstesfc -slUjf 'o \ 03lic c* "nfMJte. It irCl prcniove algesics giT9 tenfc sr3 'r.^ruy 5t fb> rrsxpz-'A a?d j fcCTrelt, Tt-" cici. -jaigr, sur?-n^s ?]LiM *111 wan b^Gomit fee fit ssd trv^ki: s i :oj 0? C?S Tt '5 ve~7 nl?>-a? >' V I5dtw5? ta.i sr-1? *vA2?- ?*? ?5 'l -cJd by enrt *jr the hurray drow ou, ' Columbia., s; c. B II7E FOR TEE LIVSfi ANDI mS KID5EYS, as Us ran imparts, jfa| is a stioiilator an<l r* it" r->r .to9> |?i th^seor^aos. Is tte btat. a'ter^H K?g mas Is medi:ine to aid dig st fn fl I BUliocsne^s' Acts cn tbeK.-| ncys within Thirty minutes afui I taking, relieving rc'aes in titfea 3 back iromdiscrder (f thes'e^r-H B gans. lit ves a'] &!?iu?rh0S B troub.es. la eatiiely vegecacie, Kg 25c, .'03 and fl 0) a bottle. Sold flf I hy cealeis generally, and by TbeH B idtrrsy ?rug t'o, Caiuiubia. S. H HH Dr. fi Bear, Cnaiie son, B O*' V Sold by dealers generally and by THE MURRAY DRUG CO., COLUMBIA, S C. Isillll Adnata* O*. AjJMI hrtiiw. KoHM W >116 HttrttfM. <&H)bwi S**ke?Msl?e* r BARUQHS * IN . PIANOS, SPE IAL ' ; ":M Announcement. Piano and Organ Exhibit at 1509 Main st: ^ Columbia, S. C. BF>T GOODS At Fair Prices, T> 1? s xwmeiuuer I Exhibit at My store, see my bargains. M. A. MALONE, f \ 1509 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, 8. C., PIANOS ANDOBGANSTTnTTon vr V/ * f .;-|g OPIUM AND ; . m/AT* A lUx>A!UUU HABIT . . . ' ' . .v. 1 THOHOU6BLT CUEEO. - . REkoTED FROM COLUMBIA. THE KEELEY INSTITUTE &EEB5 VII.T-T!, 8. C. flSSSB88B?i80KiSB5SBSB6B6SSB8SHE 4^J| ? From Udcf Direct to Pmhaur. ^ ? H IjrOOQ. | Piano | ;^jj gM eadJesf en- ? IItIRBBBI I A Poor Piano jlf ffwrBI?rrtn Ingtft-fOTT ll > -2&S .'JSC' years and zgs vj? s " T21& wtwrttoiu S Matbusbek S. s Is always <3?o<I, always Reliable, IS .^Jp fiSK ^ways sat) slactory. -always Last- ffij. , - '/;S~ s&a Injr. You tike no chances in bay- SW. &fS in? 1L " fiK - m nrt costs somewhat a^ore than a 538T figfi cheap, poor piano, but Is mnch tbff J0R ?? cheapest in. the end. as? JS? No other High Grade Piano sold so ffiS. Sgfl reasonable Factory prices to retail aeS' buyers. Kaay payments. Wri:?u. JgS- j g? U3S0EH & BATES, g- >d Ijfjg -, acd Sew York CJty. Address: D. A. PSE33LEY, A^ent*. Columbia, a a ElEffi \ * U the raast complote o? <? 'a&ndling, cleaning and pac l?v satfcwr -.:-M Improves staple, sayes labor, aa*ke-s yw> money Write for eataiogaea - n<* "tt^r ^ eqa&Ia it. I handle the most Improves _ COTTOKT &1NS, PBKSSX8, '-g ELEVATORS, XSdZNSS ivn ftnTT-Kiiw ,;il 3o De foind on the market My Sorgeant hog Beam -"Sa*- ?Ctt? a da&pilcity and efiicteocy. a ^>a.iir ? COHM M1LM, PLANEBS, GANG iEil all woud working machinery. j uii>DELL AK? TALBOTT ENSlVJSii are fee beet. Wrft*"to ice before buytay. Y. G, Badbamr^l ^ OXiI' MBIA* ,S. 0. MCMILLAN'S GRIPPE coxraHcrRE. | WILL RELIEVE THAT COUGH AN1) - J GIVE rou HEALTHFUL BEST. M GOOD FOB &p!m<- 1 GOOD FOR Sbas'DMY Waltebbobo. 8, C. Feby. 27,1897. Dear ms:?Having suffered several days wini "La Grippe" and getttn? no relief -' liom many ottier coogb medicine, I-tried ' ^i McMillan's Grippe Cougt Gore, I <au ; * J truthfoUy say 1 foacd it the best remedy L > bave ever tried, before fialabia* the boct e ij| was .cared. Kespeetfally. . COL. B. STCKES. || I 25 cents for large bottle. For s*Ie by a Druggistj. It yoar druggist doesn't ; it, send us 25 cents and we will send It bj ^Oct q "S