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TEMPERANCE.
HOW riCTIMS ABE MADE.
The way iu which persons often become
the unconscious victims of alcohol is stated
by the "Feuille de Hygiene et de Police
Sanitaire," of Neafchatel, Switzerland, as
follows: "The small doses frequently repeated,
small glas3es of liquor regularlj
taken every day, are whatmaseof an hones!
citizen a victim of alcoholism without his
having ever, perhaps, passed throuzh a stau
of complete intoxication, and without hi.1
having suspected the danger to which h<
was exposed."
RUM'S BURDEN IS BELGIUM.
The managers of a Brussels workingmen's
union have printed a circular giving a sum norv
nf the increase in the consumption of
spirituous liquors and the simultaneous in*
:rease of crime and poverty. Belgium,
especially in the two western provinces, appears
to be swarming with vagrants, and
the taxes for the support of the poor have
become an almost intolerable burden, yet
that country permits 83,000 rum shops tc
filch the wages of labor and multiply the
sum of misery and disease.
A WARNING.
Look! See your boy as he turns intc
these death-dealing places?the liquor sa
loins on his way from work. Bee him as hi
turn*- in again at night. See him as he turn'
out at midnight, stupified, dazed, maddened
ready for any crime, eager for violence,anc
perhaps, before the sua rise?, bearing th<
mark of Cain on bis brow. You stand with
in the shadow of the gallows, and you sbud
derasyou hear his last word?, "Liquo
brought me here." What matters your or;
of anguish, "My son! My son Would t
God 1 could have died for you!"" You helpei
to bring him there. You voted to keep th
places open where he could bring his fearfu
doom upon himself. You are a consentinj
party. You were one of the signers of hi
death-warrant. Christian patriots, fathers
mothers, can't you see it? Won't you se
how this applies to you.?Demorest's Famil
Magazine.
WOULD FRUHJBITIUJI rnuoiojir
The Summary, a weekly published at th
New York State Reformatory at Elmirc
the work of the inmate?, asks in a recer
issue editorially: "Would Prohibition Pr<
hibit^' Prom its answer we quote the to
lowing:
j "Legislate against the Bale of liquor. VI
know, or take it for granted, that law wi
not prohibit. No prohibitory law ever die
, It will not even do much good, at least a]
[parently. to begin with. But we withdra
from civilization the temptation continual 1
: placed before them, at every corner of th
streets of our American cities, of liquc
saloons open for young men, not there ir
duiging them in a taste already acquired
but developing this taste within him. Hoi
many of those not addicted to drink do yo
suppose would trouble themselves seekin
for some hidden saloon were public salooi
abolished by law? Very few, indeed. Ar
lyet we hear it said, 'Prohibition does n<
; prohibit.' Of coarse it does not, if you d
not give it time to, if you do not make
sufficiently general to testify its action."
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS RETARDED.
The industrial progress of many European
ffatkw is materially retarded by tae drink
ug habits of wage-earners. In England,
Scotland and Ireland alone Professor Leone
Levi has estimated that the wage-earning
:iasses are spending $425,000,000 a year ii
intoxicating drink. There has recently
been a stron; temperance movement in Bel
gium, where the working population cai
bardly be regarded as models of sobriety
As the opponents of the movement insistec
that the evil had been greatly exaggerated
a manufacturer made a curious and practi
cai experiment by way of settling the ques
tion so far as his own employes were eon
cerned. He marked 700 five-franc coin
with a punch and distributed them In equa
numbers among his workmen when he pai
them their wages. At the sam9 time Qert
quested the keepers of the saloons adjicaa
to his works to band over to him all th
coins so marked that came into their possec
aion- Two days after mora than three hun
dred of his 6ilver pieces were returned t
him by the saloon-keepers. Subsequea
calculation showed that in less than tw
days each workman had spent more tha
half his salary at the saloon.?Chicago New
Record.
ALCOHOL IN SURGERT.
Mr. Frederick Treves, the well-know
surgeon of the London Hospital, in h
! "Manual of Operative Surgery," has sou
, striking remarks -on the risks attendic
; operations on the bodies of drunkards. ?
says: "A 6carcel 7 worse tubject for an op
eration can be found than is provided by tb
habitual drunkard. The coalition contri
indicates any but the most necessary an
urgent procedure?, such a; amputation fc
severe crush, herniotomy aud the like. Tb
mortality of these operations among alci
holies is. it is needless to say, enormous
Many individuals woo state that they'd
not, Hrinlr ' inri nhn olthnncrh T>?rhnT>cnevp
drunk, are jet always taking a little stirm
lant in the form of 'nips' ana an 'occasions
glass,' are often as baa subjects for surgica
treatment as are the acknowledged drunk
ards. Of the secret drinkers.continues Mr
Treves, "the surgeon has to be indeed aware
In his account of 'Calamities of Surgery,
Sir James Paget mentions the case of a per
eon who was a drunkard oa tne sly, and yo
not so much on the sly but that it was we]
known to his most intimate friends. Hi
habits were not asked after, and one of hi
fingers were removed because joint diseas
had spoiled it He diei in a week or tei
days with spreading cellular inflammation,
such as was far from unlikely to occur in ai
habitual drunkard. Even abstinsnce fron
alcohol for a weat or two before an operation
does not seem to greatly modify th
result." Dwelling on the immense import
ance to ^n operator of cultivating "a sur
gicul hand," the same writer points out tnai
"a shaky hand" may ba develops! by irregular
modes of liviu/, by the mo Jerace use ol
ilcohol, and by s:uo<un.j.?Journal of ineb
riety.
TEHVUKANCK NEWS AJTD NOTK8.
The devil's masterpiece is a drunkard's
home.
Don't attempt to drown your sorrow it
irink;you will find that sorrow can swim
In Victoria one out of every sixty o
the population is arrested for drunkenness
Mr. Moody secured 4 30 subscribers to thi
pledge in one meeting recently in Dublin.
Tho number of ail kinds oC (Jistillerie
opened last year in the United States wa
3106.
Lady Henry Somerset has just opened ?
lodging bouse for men at one o? tbe Londoi
docks.
The consumption of beer in Bavarii
reaches the enormous quantity of 230 quart
a year for each inhabitaot.
On Guard, the organ of the Army Temper
anca Association, says that there are 13,02!
abstainers in the British army in India.
"No member will be permitted to drinl
tbe white man's grog," is the pertinent regu
lation of the newly formed Zulu caurch li
Africa.
At Lintorf, Dusseldorf, Germany, is th(
oldest inebriate asylum in Europe, fouadet
in 1851 for the retention and protection o
released prisoners whose intemperance lei
to their imprisonment.
A leading chemist, Professor Gilber
Wbeeler, of Chicago, is authority for th
statement that beer has almost no nutritivi
fiHolifiaa tnnpa f rAnnanflTT Inf.PAflnAa
^UCM1II1C9| UUV iUU* W 41 b^usuuij *uvk wtauvw
into the system disease-producing elements
In the last five years the saloons In Chi
cago have increased eighty-Ave per cent.,
while the population has increased fifty pei
cent. Th ire is now in Chicago one salooi
lor every 178 people, including men, womei
and children. And this under hign license
Did you ever hear a saloon-keeper saying
to a would-be customer in the shape of i
poor, wretched tot: "No, I cannot tak<
your money. You have too much liquoi
now. TaKe your money an J go buy soon
bread with it lor your starving wife an<
children:''
Out of 2747 ministers whose names wer
on the official year-boolc of the Congrega
tional Union of EJngland and Wales then
are 2034 abstainers. Of the 336 stu Jents be
Ing trained for t&e ministry, or as missionaries
in the theological colleges, 35S are tota
abstainers.
If the workingmen of this country should
suddenly say: "The money we have hithsrto
spent for intoxicating liquors shall
Qencerorth be expended for useful articles,'
ind if. for a single week, they should turn
it loose upon cotton goods, bow much monej
Jo you suppose would be directed into the
cotton trade in one week? Net less thai
three million dollars.
RELIGIOUS READING.
| resignation.
I I cannot think but God must know
) About tbe tbe things I long for bo;
j I know he is so good, so kind.
I cannot think but he will find
r Some way to help, some way to show
; Me to the thing I long for so.
j I stretch my hand?it lies so near;
3 It looks so sweet, it looks so dear.
j "Dear Lord." I pray, ''oh, let rae know
II"it is wrong to want it so!"
He only smiles?he does not speak;
Mv heart grows weaker and more weak
V/ith looking at the thing so dear
"Which lies eo far, and yet so near.
Now, Lord, I leave at tbv loved feet
This thing which looks so near, so sweet*
1 will not seek, I will not long?
I almost fear I have been wrong.
I I'll go and work the harder, Lord,
? And wait till by some loud, clear word
' Tbou callest me to thy loved feet
J To take this thing so dear, so sweet.
} ? [Saxe Holm.
CONQl'ER SELF.
' Did you ever think of this, that there is
a danger in simple indulgence; that there is
a risk in saying to myself, "I want this gratification.
and therefore I will have it?"
j Very bad spiritual logic, by the way! Did
| you ever read that singular story tipon
wnich Balzac has founded one of his tales,
that story of the raa;<ic skin that invested
'' its wearer with a certain power to obtain
? whatever be wished, but which with every
' new gratification shrank in dimensions un?
til by and by it crushed him to death? That
" magic skin is selfishness. You get your
?. wealth, but you shrivel: you gratifyyoui
" desires, but there is an atrophy takes place
> id your moral and spiritual faculties. Your
eye gets blind to the vision of anything be
yono your material interests, and your hand
"l gets paralyzed as to reaching out blessings to
' other souls, and your heart gets too narrow
to understand or sympathize or love. What
selfishness is in the church of God! Just
think of our houses and lands and
ie equipages, our libraries and works of
i, art, our personal decorations, our
it ornaments and jewelry, the furniture and
> garniture of our homes, and then think that
1- one thousand millions of the human race are
yet without even the knowledge of God, and
e eight hundred and fiftv millions ihat never
II heardthat Jesus Christ died for men.?[Dr.
[. A. T. Pierson.
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w COME TO T1IE LIGHT.
' Skepticism is simply not believing. It is
denial, negation, darkness. There is only
. one cure for darkness, an. 1 thac is coming to
l" the light. If you will persist in putting your
^ eyes out, or in barring God's daylight out,
' tnere is no help for you; you must die in the
dark. Sin has made your soul nick, and if
? you will not even try some of Christ's medi[Cj
cine, then the blood-poisoning of infidelity
)t will run its fatal course. If you will produce
lo a better rule of life than my Bible (perhaps
your mother's Bible also); if you will find
a holier pattern of living than Jesus Christ
and a surer Saviour than he is. I will forswear
my religion for yours. But what is
your "I do not believe" in comparsion with
1 my positive "I know whom I have believed?"
What is your denial in comparison with my
' personal experience with Christ? Skepti'
ci6in never won a victory, never slew a sin,
[ never healed a heartache, never produced
J a ray of sunshine, never saved an immortal
soul. It is foredoomed defeat. Do not'risk
" vour eternity on that spider's web'?[Rev.
T. L. Cuyier, D. D.
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i god's sight mt safety,
p That delightful passage in Exodus came
flashing up to my mind just now, when the
s Israelite sprinkled the blood on the lintel
1 and the two side-posts. Then he shut the
i door. He was inside; he did'not see the
). blood any more. The blood was outside upon
the post, and he could not see it himself,
e but was he safe? Yes, because it is written,
K "When I see the blood I will pass over you."
! it ? lioa'a sight or tne djoou 01 nis aear son
o that is tbe everlasting safeguard of all who
t are in Christ. Though it fs most precious
o and sweet to me to look at that "blood once
a shed for many for the remission of sins," and
a I do look at it, yet if ever there should come
a dark night to me in which I cannot see
it still God will see it and I am safe. I am
saved because it is written not "when you
rD see it," but "when I see the blood I will pass
is over vou." It is not your perfection of sight
ie which is your safeguard. It is not the abig
sence of blemish from your faith that mnkes
[e you to be "accepted in the beloved."?
>- [Word and Work.
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,d LOOKING BACK.
>r A life devoted to the service of God is the
'e only life worth living and the only life af>
fording a pleasing prospect, when, as itini.
evitably will, in old age it comes up for reo
view. When Walter Scott, the "Wizard of
!r tbe North," w?b lyiug on what proved hib
i- deathbed, he called for his son-in-law.
il When he ^tood by his bedside, ''Lockhart,"
d said be, "I may have but a minute to sneak
to you. My dear, be a good man; be virtuous,
be religious, be a good man. Nothing
else will give you any comfort when you
come to lie here." And Paul, looking hack
upon his life, found s priceless joy in being
t able to say : "I fought a good tight. I have
!l finished my course, I have kept the faith."
s Sooner or later our lives will come before
s us for self-inspection and then it will not be
0 bow cunning, or shrewd, or far-6eeing, or
a overreaching we have been, but how near,
1 through the operation of his grace, wq have
J jived to God, that will comfort us.
I give under my handwriting a testimony
. of Christ and bis Cross, that they are a
; sweet couple and that Christ has never yet
[ been set in his due choir of honor among us
j all. Ob, I know not where to set Him!
Oh for a high seat to that royal, princely
one! Ob that my poor soul hadoncea running-over
flood of that love, to put sap into
my dry root, and that that flood would spring
I out to the tongue and the pen, to utter great
things to thehigh and due commendation of
such a fair one! Oh holy, holy, holy One!
Alas! there are too many dumb tongues in
1 the world and dry heart*, seeiug there is emc
ployment in Christ for all, end ten thousand
* worlds ot angels and men more to set on hiirh
e and exalt the greatest Princc of the kings of
the earth.?[8. Itutherford.
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BJHOr LA TROSE
i tells a touching scene he saw in the
? leper hospital at the Cape of Good Jlope,
which is under the charge of the Moravian
a brethern: "On one conch lies a leper whose
I hands are gone and before him an open Bible;
he has reached the bottom of the page, but
cannot turn it over; be looks around and
j one who can walk, but is also without hands,
takes another who has lost hit* feet on his
back and carries him to the first to turn over
theltaf.? [Apostolic Guide.
There was a grand thought in that saying
| of a believer of the primitive stamp:
t "I do not want to possess a faith; I want a
i faith that possesses me." The safest strength
of the heart is the feeliug of complete det
pendente.?[Huntington.
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3 "For Jesus Christ's sake
Do all the good you can,
In all the wav9 you can,
At all the times you can,
J. To all the people you ean,
As lonir as ever you can."
A ?
I
. Be such a man, live such a life, thnt if
j every man were such as you. and every
, life like yours, the earth would be God's
r paradise.? fI'llillips Brook*.
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AN ENORMOUS WASTE.
3 The Rockford Monitor says that to get an
. Intelligent idea of the vastness of the drink
. bill of the United (States for 1892, tl.SOO,I
000,000, we must make a few comparisons:
The net earnings of all the railroads of the
i United States amount to less than
one.third of our drink bill. The loss of
property by fire in 1891 was only one-ninth
, of the liquor bill. The entire expenses of
the United States Government are only
r about one-half what we pay for intoxicant".
The aggregate capital of all our National
' banks is about $70(5.000,000, or but little more
than one-half the amount squandered on |
drink each year.
SABBATH SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR.
MARCH 12.
Lespon Text: "Esther Bcfire the
King," tether iv., 10-17 v.,
1 >3?Golden Text: Proberb
xxxi., 9 ? Commentary.
One lesson only has been assigned to n?
from this most marvelous book of the nrovidence
of God, a book in which, in the English
text, the name cf God is not found, but
which nevertheless is full of God from beginning
to end. "Oh, blessed is he to whom
is given the instinct that can tell that God
is on the field when He is most invisible"
(Faber)
The whole book tells how the people of
uoa were aejiverea irom aeatn Dy "a mediator
of the highest rank, who undertakes
the greatest danger for them and is mysteriously
one of them. It is thought by
some that Abasuerus is suggestive of the
great king, Vashtiof Israel. Esther of the
church, Mordecai of Jesus, and Haman of
sataD, and that the whole book is a historical
and prophetic picture of the kingdom of
God, illustrating tne grace of God.
10,11. "There isonelaw of histoput him to
death, except such to whom the king shall
hold out tlie golden scepter that he may
live." Because of Haman's hatred of Mordecai
be had cause i a decree to go forth
the whole empire that on a certain day all
the people of Mordecai?that is. all the Jews
?should be slain. Because of this decree
Mordecai went through the city, and even
to the king's gate, clothed in sickclotb, crying
with a loud and bitter cry. Esther's
maids told her of it. Then she was grieved,
for Mcrdecai was her own cousiD, who had
cared for her, her own father and mother
being dead (chapter ii., 7), and aent Hatach
to find out wh<st it was and why it was (iv.,
5). Mordecai then told Hatach the whole
matter, and sent a request on behalf of har
people. Esther senas word back to her
cousin, who had been a father to her, that
she could not approach the king uncalled,
except at the risk of her life.
12, IS. "Think not with thyself that thou
shalt escape in the king's house, more than
all the Jews." The decree included all Jews,
both young and old, 1ittle children and
women, and the comiusnd was to destroy,
to kill and to cause to per?> (lii., 13) so that
there was no hope for Queen Esther any
more than for the poorest Jew or Jewess in
the kingdom. In the nlan of salvation wa
are reminded of the fact that, as to being
sinners and needing a Saviour, "There is no
difference, for all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God" (Rom. iii,, 28).
This is illustrated in those who perished in
the deluge; outside of the ark not one wai
saved; some were rich and some poor, some
learned and some ignorant, some lived in the
highlands and some in the lowlands, but
there wa6 no difference.
14. "Enlargement and deliverance shall
arise, and who knoweth whether thou art
come to the kingdom for such a time as
this?" Mordecai was sure that deliverauco
would come. How he was so sure we are not
told, but he suggests to Esther that possibly
the providence of God had put her in this
high position for this very emergency. As
believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore
saved by His precious blood, we know
that tbe church will be completed and the
kingdom will come. Israel sball be saved
and the earth filled with the glory of God.
15,16. "So will I go in unto the king,
which is not according to the law, and if I
perish, I perish." Inreply to Mordecai's seoond
message Esther returned answer that
they should fast three days for her, and
that she and her maidens would do likewise,
and then she would go to the king waether
she lived or died. She being one of them
-would take her life in her hand and lay it
, down if need be on their behalf. The Lord
Jerus knew that He would lay down His life
for us, and became one oi us that He might
do so. But if Esther is suggestive of the
church, where does the laying down of the
life corne in? Is it not fouud in I John iii.,
16? "Hereby perceive we the love of God,
because He laid down His lite for us, and we
ought to lay down our lives for the brethren."
17. "So Mordecai went his way and did
according to all that Esther had commanded
him. It would no doubt be fasting to
6ome purpose, for it was a matter or life or
death. When David's little child was sic*
he lasted and prcyeJ. How much mora
should these people last wheu tbe lives of a
whole people were at stake! Daniel ate no
pleasant bread lor three whoie weeks, be
cause tie was earnestly seeking to Know tne
mind of God (Dan. x., 2, 3). Je*us said
concerning certain evu spirits, 'This kind
goetn not out but by prayer and lasting"
(Math, xvii., 21) And it it not written in
Jer. xxix., lis, "Ye shall seek Me and tiad
Mewnen ye shall searca lor Me witn ail*
your hearts?'
V. 1. I\ow it came to pass on the third
day tnat Esther put on her royal apparel
and Btood in tne inner court on the King's
house." It is easy lor us to read it, but how
mucn it must have meant to Estnerl We
read that on the third day Abranaoi lilted
up his eyes and saw the place alar off, but
who stops to think bow mucb that ihira day
meant to Abraham/' It meant the taKing of
his very life, lor was not Isaac the son in
whom all the promises centered, and this
was the day of tne sacrifice? So with Esther
it meant, il need be, tne laying down ot
her lue.
2, "6tie obtained favor in his sight, and
the king held out to Estner the golden scepter
that was in nis bana." Ul?r, then, was
hers, and not death, or was it not as hie
froth the dead ? So it was with Abraham,
for on that day he received Isaac bac t from
the dead in a figure (Heb. xi.,19.) An1 this is
the meaning of the third day in the Scripture?,
it is resurrection, or life from the
dead. "After two dayR will He revive us; in
the third day He will raise us up 8nd we
shall Jive in His sight.'' iHos. vi., 2). Think
also of Jonah and his third day, but especially
of our Lord Jesus Christ and His third
day, with all its glorious results yet to be
fully seen.
3 "What wilt thou, Queen Esther, an:l
what'is thy request? It shill be even given
thee to the halt of the kingdom." How exceeding
abundantly abova all she cDuld have
expected! This will be the glory of the
church's third day, the marriage of the
Lamb, foreshadowed by John il, 1, and it
will not ba half the kingdom, but the whole.
for He has given us tbe glory which the I
Pfcther gave unto Him (John xvif., 22).
Then shall tbe Jews' enemy and the church's
enemy he destroyed, and true Mordecai will
be great among the Jew?, seeking the
wealth of His people and speaking peace to
all His seed A). The Jews will have
light and gladness and joy and ho aor, a feast,
and a good day, and men of all languages
shall say to the Jew?, we will go with you
for God is with you (chapter viii., 18, 17;
Zecb. viii., 23). May we even now know
Him and the power of His resurrection.?
Lesson Helper.
The wheat crop of the United
Kingdom is 18,000,000 bushels less
than the 74,730,000 bushels harvested
last year. This will entail the necessity
of importing 160,000,000 bushels
of wheat or flour from without.
Agriculture everywhere in the United
Kingdom is decaying, at least so far
as the production of cereal crops ie
concerned. "It would seem," says
TJT7 ni(n TV% fnriA Viof fTVCk A 11 O 11 T7 tVllo
VVlillttUl tuut ^iUUUUtlJ VMUAU
country Is being converted into a
huge workshop, and that Its agricultural
pursuits are being gradually extinguished.
The cry has long been
for cheap bread, aDd we have got it;
but may it not be possible to buy
cheap bread at too dear a price?"
"You were out again playing poker
last night," said the father. "No,
father," replied the truthful youn#
man, "1 was in just $17."?Washington
Star.
Reggie?"Van Harding ha9 been
expelled from the club." Ferdie?
"Why?" Reggie?"He was getting
too beastly bwainy."?New York
Herald.
If Ton Were 0:1 the Moo t.
If lunar conditions are favorable to
human existence, atel it is not certain
tbat they are not, and you could be trans- i
ported to the top of Pico or some other
tall peak or rock on the surface of our
"silvery sister world," how do you suppose
things would look from such vantage
ground? You would piobablv first
turn your eyes in the direction of our
earth, the world you had just quitted,
but to you it would be a stranger. In
place of the somber elobe you would
naturally expect to behold your eyes
would be greeted with a most wonderful
sight. The earth would appear to you
to be sixty-four times larger than thesun
appears to the residents of this mundane
sphere; this because the earth has eight
times the diameter of the moon, therefore
she must necessarily show the
raoonites sixty-four times as much surface
as the moon shows us. The sun,
on the other hand, would appear no
larger to you from your observatory on
the moon than it does from our globe.
The earth's atmosphere being blue it has
been dccided that the earth must appear
as a blue ball to all outside onlookers.
What a glorious sight it must be to our
JuDarian neighbors tc look upon a bright
blue, swift revolving ball sixty-four
times larger than the soul.?St. Louis
Republic.
Among all the great men of ihe period,
Gladstone is the earliest riser. Halfpast
five sees him "up and about" every
morning of the year.
TVO BETT1
wagon, sust;
nil iili A HELP
YOUR HEALTH
9 May depend upoe the way you treat the warnm
ings which nature gives. A few bottles of
S. S. S. taken at the proper time may insure pood
health for a year or two. Therefore act at once, for it
IS IMPORTANT
that nature be assisted at the right tin>e.V3QKB]
never fails to relieve the system of im-?W*Tggr
purities, and is an excellent tonic also.^^^ "
He Wants to Add His Name.
u ma /* naiw to vnur manv other
certificates in commendation of the great curative
properties contained in Swift's Specific (S. S. S.) It
is certainly one of the best tonics I ever used.
"John W. Daniel, Anderson, S. C."
Treatise on blood and skin diseases mailed free.
SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta. Ga.
BTnSTiTne?? - "
SWAMP-ROOT
MRS. G ERMAN MILLEB^
Springport, Mich.
A HAtkar I ifo f
QQT^9 niivniva mhv
DTOIGESTION AND HEART TROUBLE
CURED:
Suffered for Eight Long Tears I
MRS. MILLER SATS"I had been troubled
for eight years with stomach and heart difficulties."
I lived mostly on milk, as everything
hurt me bo. My kidneys and liver were
in a terrible state. Co n Id neither Bleep nor
eat. I had been treated by the best Chicago
doctors and elsewhere without any benefit
whatever. As a last resort I tried your
Swamp-Root, and have only used three
bottles. Can now cat anything, nc matter
what. Nothing hurts me, and can go to bed
and get a good nights sleep. SwampHoot
cured me. Anyone doubting this
statement can write, and I will gladly answer."
Guarantee ? Cm content* of One
( WAMDBottl?, if you are not benefited, Drug*ft
" r*gl*t will refund to you the price paid.
V Ia V "Invalid*' Guide to Health" free
' and thousands of Testimonials.
1, Co limitation free.
Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bingham ton, W. T.
At BmcfUti, 60c. and $1.00 81m?
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No dwarf ibrobfreJUerer
J onr Buffalo Berry, Jantberry
// A learei begin to nnfold they art
rMmu..g plantod tEii ?ea?oa bloom and 1
one plant of each o/tfS ?h^
jrog portpaidforbutgQc : 5eoll
OI1ITDC 91 Thick Neck Cure. By Mail $1. i
MUi I Kt J. K. HI,KIN, Belleville, M. J.
"German'
i Syrup"
Boschee's German Jjyrup is more I
successful in the treatment of Consumption
than any other remedy
prescribed. It has been tried under I
every variety of climate. In the
bleak, bitter North, 'n damp New <
England, in the fickle Middle States, !
in the hot, moist South?every- j
where. It has been in demand by <
every nationality. Ithasbeenem- j
ployed in every stage of Consumption.
In brief it has been used j
by millions and its the only true and
reliable Consumption Remedy. cD
<7sws?sg5?f<
Car#* Conramptl on, Coughs, Croup, Sore
Throat* Sold by all Druggists on a Guarantee.
Fairs of Worth China.
Northern China is the country of fairs
In any given district there is a constan
succession of large gatherings at whicl
it is not uncommon for as many as 10,
000 persons to be congregated. The fair
are sometimes called the "poor man'
market" for the great display of secom
hand clothing which the owners wish t
dispose of.
At Techou and at another point on th
Grand Canal there are annual fairs helt
from the beginning of the twelfth mont
to the fifteenth day of the same montt
at which there is a great display of foi
eign goods, especially woolens, sold t
rvtro 1 Rot
JL llVs ivuj ai jjufl
dispensable top:
and to the cor
nience of mode
Royal is undoubtedly th<
powder offered to the public.
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r or nnest ioou x ism v
Chef, White House,for Pr
5R PROOF.
Milroy. Mifflin Co.. Penka.
r of 1kf Ncm York World;
John Gemmill, of this place, was thrown from a
doing a most serious injury to her spine, and was
LESS CRIPPLE FOR 19 YEARS,
alk. Her daughter providentially procured twi
JACOBS OIL,
Gemraill used. Before the second bott!e wu
ihe was able to walk about, and has been
4PLBTELY CURED."
Very truly,
M. THOMPSON, PostmasterJustice
1
It is now apparent to the
Exposition that millions of people
the possessors of
World's
$ouv<
1
The extraordinary and grov
are on the part of the Directors th;
their purchase, have made it necessj
To relieve themselves of some r<
THE M
Throughout the Nation to umt^ wii
Dollars on cale. Tuis is done th;
living at remote points, may be aJ
obtain the Coins.
THE FORTUNE
of SOUVENIR COINS will be th
new advantages.
$10,000 Was Paid
They are all alike, the issu<
value. The price is One Dollar e
HOW TO Q1
Go to your nearest merchai
them. If you cannot procure them
not kss than Five Coins, and remit
Send instructions how to si
of expense. Remit by registered let
order, or bank draft to
Treasurer World's Colum
In a World Where" Cleanli
Praiee ie'
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ntrodoced created inch a sensation u ^Ca9T~3[
nd Tree Cranberry. From the time tha
scarce of ooastant beanty. 8brnb?
)ear the next year. Hardy at oak. _
R TO-DAY. Our Dimoi
se rare froit noTelties, will be nailed iflUM A 1
eotioni^orW;25j_jO?oll?eUoM^rJ^>i__J*??'^"_?J^J
Do Not Br Deceived tBMHMHHBMBI
with Paste*, Enamel* and Painu which stain the
hands, Injure the Iron and burn red.
The Rising 8un Stove Polish U Brilliant, Odorleas.
Durable, and the consumer pays for no tin
or glass package with every purchase.
CCHTCI DtllT mUtil
HULIIIU; IILI1I I HILIIU i
BORROWERS ! ! !
If you want to own a home, if you want to pay o
a mortgage. If you want to luvest your money at th
highest rate of Interest consistent with safety: If yo
want a permanent, lucrative agency for a bulldln
iind loan association, with $1.UW.UUU assets and $l(JU
DUO deposited with Banking Department; If any o
above want* are yours then write the Granite Stat
Provident Association, Pulitzer Building, XewYorl
WA N TEI)?Local and traveling agents and promt
tersfor the Maryland Building and Loan AssocU
tion; liberal commission. For particulars address H
l". Prltchett, secretary, Law Building, Baltimore, Mt1
nnip AN OPTICAL ILLUSION
L L L amusing and instructive. Sen
r r. name, address and one cent stam
to PEEK A SON. COHSEi
17th STREET ASP URUAPWAY, SEW iURJi
I If) BOYS ! Mere's a snap. Sen
B B 1 I Lll, lucts. with name and address o
PV I ' o boys who read stories and ge
I L the Boys' World regularly for 6 moi
Seven complete stories in Feb. No
Sample copy for stamp. Bore' World, Lynn, Ma?
TO WORLD'S FAIR FREE
SENOWW IO CBNT8 131 LVEB.I MOW TO
IMAKCW V QUICK MONCV |HONOM(U|*MO (A?V.
THE WHALE OIL CO. WEST SUPERIOR, WIS
cheaper rates than at other cimes. This
is called the fair of the grain fleet, tad
[ is one of the products of the vicious ?j?
i tem of grain taxes. About 400 vessels
are annually employed for transporting;
3 the Shantung grain tax to Tungchow,
s near Peking, and upon their return these
3 vessels bring large quantities of goods
0 from Tientsin, which are sold at the
fairs. While some of the fairs are held
e at times rigidly fixed and never varied,
j most of them are wholly uucertain as to
^ time.?North China Herald.
I,
r- A Salisbury (N. C.) woman is reported
it to be cuttins her third set of teeth.
ing Powder is in-*
rugrcss in luuaci y
nfort and conve"
" ''''MM
:rn housekeeping.
s purest and most reliable baking
? U. S. Gov't Chemists Report.
[so none but RoyaL?A. Fortin,
esidents Cleveland and Arthur.
| MEND YOUR OWN HARNESS J
J THOMSON'S ^
SLOTTED
CLINCH RIVET6.
Ho tool* retired. Only a hammer needed to Mm
and clinch them eaally and quicker, tearing the >lf
sbeolntely smooth. Squiring no ho to be mad*
the leather nor barr for the Blvatt. They are (tr?ML
loach and 4nrakle. Millions now In nae. XI
lengths, uniform or assorted, pat np In boxes.
Ask rtrar draJer for then, or send Ca. to
stamp* tar a bo* of 100, assorted slaea. Man'tdbr
JUDSON L THOMSON MFC. CO,
WALTIIAJI, KAML #
to All.
i Directors of the World's Columbian
will be denied the pleasure of beaxntaf
? %' ' ? "?
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Fair
jnir Qoins
The Official Souvenir
of the Great Expositionr?
i
ring demand for these Coins, and the dart
equal opportunities may be afforded far
try to enlarge the channels of distribution,
jsponsibility, the Directors have invited
ERCHANTS
th ti e Banks in placing Columbian Halfit
th- masses of the people; and those
forded the best possible opportunity *0
imn r*/\ r? r
\IC fU30C33UK3
ose who are earliest in seizing upon these
I For The First Coin
; is limited, and time must enhance their
acli
ST THE COINS:
it or banker, as they are likely to have
i in this way, send direct to us, ordering
ting One Dollar for each Coin ordered,
flip the Coins and they will be sent free
ter,or send express or post-office money
bian Exposition, Chicago, PL
nest is Next to Godliness" ae
roo Great for
OLIO
SfTR <1) THE GREAT BUFFALO BERRY.
If ij This is truly the greateat novelty of the oaatury.
Thla shrub grows 10 to IS feet high,
covering itself In early spring with beautiful
t flowers which are succeeded by great qaantities
of luscious fruit. It la hardy, as beautiful
as a picture, while the fruit la Incomparable.
It will grow any and everywhere and forms a
jrrand addition to our lawn and garden ahruba.
Each, 30c.; 10 for fl.25, poet paid?
(2) JUNEBERRY.
A ghrnb of wondrous beautr: covers Itself
BBB with a great man of pare white, delldopaly
fragrant blossoms. These are followed:; by
H large, dark colored berries, excellent for plea,
sauce, etc. Each, 25c.; 10 for 81.25.
MB O) TREE CRANBERRY.
IBr Ererybodr la fond of cranberries, and we
^3 ' hare a shrub that will flourish and bear pro|0
dlgioualylneteryiectlonof America. Eacb.iWc.
B The aJiove 3 rar? Nov?ftle?. postpaid, only 50c.;
W with catalogue, 68c.
ith catalogue is mailed upon receipt of 8c. for postage.
SAIZEB SEED CO.. La Crowe, Wig.
WORN WIGHT AND PAY
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k Idaho, Wuhington and Oregon, tk?
FRH OOVERMHIIIT
and low friccl ft alvftvji
!jm LANDS
?Th? bcrt Apleoltnfti, Grating tad Timber ^(6
l,and? nowojwn to Mttlert. Mailed FREE. Addrett
u UU8. II. laSBOKX, Lund Cm. R. 1'. H. L. BU Pe?1, Mil*.
Garfield Tea s
Cure* Sick Headache,Restore* Complexion.Saves DoctoS
y. Bills. 8amolefr?pe. GiRnixr> Tul Co.. SH W. i&th 8t, N. T.
fc Cures Constipation
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H Coninmptlvei and people H
i H who have weak tanas or Astbf
Hmft ahnnlri n?A Pllin'll f!nr*l for
* Consumption. It has eared H
thoauuidi. tt has not Injur
ed one. It is not bad to take. H
' H it is the best cough syrup. S
H gold everywhere. SOe. H
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