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TALMAGE'S SERMON
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: Influences Once Hostile Now
Friendly to Christ?Weapon# Formerly
Used Against tlie Lord's Annies
. Captured and Fut to His Service.
[Copyright 1901.1
waphington. U. (J.?In this discourse
Dr. Talmage calls the roll of influences
once antagonistic but now friendly to the
gospel and encourages Christian workers;
text, I Samuel xxi, 9, "There is none like
that; give it me."
David fled from his pursuers. The world
runs very fast when it is chasing a good
man. The country is trying to catch David
and to slay him. David goes into the
house of a priest and asks him for a sword
or spear with which to defend himself.
The priest, not being accustomed to use
deadly weapons, tells David that he cannot
supply him, but suddenly the priest
thinks of an old sword that had been carefully
wrapped up and laid away?the very
6word that Goliath formerly used?and
he takes down that sword, and while he is
unwrapping the sharp, glittering, memorable
blade it flashes upon David's mind
that this is the very sword that was used
against himself when he was in the fight
with Goliath, and David can hardly keep
his hand off it until the priest has unwound
it. David stretches^ out his Jiand
toward that old 6\vord ana savs, "mere
is none like that; give it me'*?in other
words, "I want in my own hand the
Bword wuich has been used aeainst me and
against the cause of God. So it was
given him. Well, my friends, that is not
the first or the last sword once used by
giant and Philistine iniquity which is to
come into the possession of Jesus Christ
and of His glorious church. I want, as well
as God may help me. to show you that
many a weapon which has been used
against the armies of God is yet to be captared
and used on our side, and I only imitate
David when I stretch out my band
toward that blade of the Philistine and
cry, "There is none like that; give it me!"
I remark, first, that this is tiue in regard
to all scientific exploration. You know
that the first discoveries in astronomy and
geology and chronology were used to battle
Christianity. Worldly philosopbv came out
of its laboratory and out of its observatory
and said, "Now we will prove, by the very
structure of the earth and by the movement
of the heavenly bodies, that the
Bible is a lie, and that Christianity, as we
have it among men, is a positive imposi
tion." Uood men tremoiea. ine teiescope,
the Leyden jars, the electric batteries, all
in the "hands of the Philistines. But one
day Christianity, looking about for some
weapon with wnich to defend itself, happened
to see the verv old sword that these
atheistic Philistines had been using against
the truth and cried out, "There is none
like that; give it me!" And Copernicus
and Galilei and Kepler and Isaac Newton
and Herschel and 0. M. Mitchell came
forth and told the world that in their
ransacking of the earth and heavens they
found overwhelming presence of the God
wiiom we worship, and this old Bible began
to shake itself from the Koran and
Shaster and Zendavesta; with which it had
been covered up, and lav on the desk of
the scholar and in the laboratory of the
chemist and in the lap of the Christian unharmed
and unanswered, while the tower
of the midnight heavens struck a silvery
chime in its praise.
Worldly philosophy Baid: "Matter is
eternal. The world always was. God did
maU if " PViriefinn nViilnsfmhx- nlucea
its crowbar into rocks and finds that the
world was gradually made, and, if gradually
made, there must have been some
point at which the process started. Then
who started it? And so that objection was
overcome, and in the first three words of
the Bible we find that Moses stated a
magnificent truth when he 6aid, "In the
beginning."
Worldly philosophy said: "Your Bible
is a most inaccurate book. All that story
in the Old Testament again and again
told about the army of the locusts?it is
preposterous. There is nothing in the
coming of the locusts like an army. An
army walks; locusts fly. An army goes in
order and procession; locusts without order."
"Wait," said Christian philosophy,
and in 1868, in the southwestern part of
this country, Christian men went out to
examine the march of the locusts. There
are men right before me who must have
noticed in that very part of the country
the coming up of the locusts like an army,
ana it was louna tnai an me ucwa^apcio
unwittingly spoke of them as an army.
Why? They seem to have a commander.
They march like a host; they halt like a
host.
No arrow ever went in straighter flight
than the locusts come?not even turning
aside for the wind. If the wind rises the
locusts drop and then rise again after it.
has gone down, taking the same line of
march, not varying a foot. The old Bible
is right every time when it speaks of locusts
coming like an army; worldly philosophy
wrong.
Worldly philosophy said, "All that story
about the light 'turned as clay to the seal
is simply an absurdity." Old time worldly
philosophy said, "The light comes straight."
Christian philosophy says, "Wait a little
while." And it goe9 on and makes discoveries
and finds that the atmosphere curves
and bends the rays of light around the
earth literally "as the clay to the seal."
The Bible right again; worldly philosophy
wrong again. "An," eaya worldly philosof?hy,
"ail that allusion to Job about the
oundations of the earth is simply an absurdity.
'Where wast thou,' says God.
'when I set the foundations of the earth?'
The earth has no foundation." Christian
philosophy comes and finds that the word
as translated "foundations" may be better
translated "sockets." So now we see howit
will read if it is translated right.
"Where wa6t thou when I set the sockets
of the earth?" Where is the socket? It
is the hollow of God's hand?a socket large
enough for any world to turn in.
Worldly philosophy said: "What an absurd
story about Joshua making the sun
and moon stand still. If the world had
stopped an instant, the whole universe
would have been out of gear." '"Stop,"
said Christian philosophy, "r.ot quite so
quick!" The world has two motions?one
on its own axis and the other around the
sun. It was not necessary, in making them
stand still, that both motions should be
stopped?only the one turning the world
on its own axis. There was no reason why
the halting of the earth should have jarred
and disarranged the whole universe.
Joshua right and God right; infidelity
wrong every time. I knew it would be
wrong.
I thank God that the time has come
when Christians need not be scared at any
scientific exploration. The fact is that religion
and science have struck hands in
eternal friendship, and the deeper down
geolopv can dig the higher up astronomy
can soar all the better for us.
The armies of the Lord Jesus Christ
have stormed the observatories of the
world'ts science, and from the highest towers
have flung out the banner of the cross
ani^Christiamty now. from the observatories
at Albany and Washington, stretches
out its hand toward the opposing scientific
weapon, crying, "There is none like
that; give it me!"
I was reading of Herschel, who was
looking at a meteor through a telescope,
and when it came over the face of the telescope
it was so powerful he had to avert
his eyes. And it has been just so that
many an astronomer has gone into an ob
servatory and looked up into trie nnumgm,
heavens, and the Lord God has. through
some swinging world, flamed upon his
vision, and the learned man cried out:
"Who am I? Undone! Unclean! Have
mercy, Lord God!"
Again, I remark, that the traveling disposition
of the world, which was adverse
to morals and religion, is to be brought on
our 6ide. The man that went down to
Jericho and fell amid thieves was a type
of a great many travelers. There is many
a man who is very honest at home who
when he is abroad has his honor filchcd
and his good habits stolen. There are but
very few men who can stand the stress of
an expedition. Six weeks at a watering
place have ruined many a man. In the
olden times God forbade the traveling of
men for the purposes of trade because of
the corrupting influences attending it. A
good many men now cannot stand the
transition from one place to another.
Some men who seem to be very consistent
here in the way of keeping the Sabbath
when they get into Spain on the Lord's
day always ?o to see the bullfights. Plato
said that no city ought to be built nearer
to the sea than ten miles lest it be tempted
to commerce. But this traveling disposition
of the world, which was adverse to
that which is good, is to be brought on
our side. These mail trains?why, they
take our Bibles; these steamers, they
transport our missionaries; these sailors,
rushiirg from city to city all around the
world, are to be converted into Christian
heralds and go out and preach Christ
among the heathen nations. The gospels
infinitely multiplied in beauty and power
since Robinson and Thompson and Burckhardt
have cc .e back and talked to us
about Siloam and Capernaum and Jerusa*
? -..4. a- ? 1.1.-. m: _i i.
lern. pointing uut iu ua me iiuetj ttuuuu i
which .Tesus preached, the beach upon
which Paul was shipwrecked, the fords at
which Jordan was passed, the Red Sea
bank on which were tossed the carcasses
of the drowned Egyptians. A man said:
"I went to the Holy Land an infidel. I
rame back a Christian. I could not help
it."
I am not shocked, as some have been, at
the building of railroads in the Holy Land.
I wish that all the world might go and eee
Golzotha and Bethlehem. How many who
could not afford muleteers now easily buy
tickets from Constantinople to Joppa.
Then let Christians travel! God speed
the rail trains and guide the steamships
this night panting across the deep in tne
phosphorescent wake of the shining feet
of Him who from wave cliff to wave cliff
bestormed Tiberius. The Japanese come
across the water and see our civilization
and examine our Christianity and go back
and tell the story and keep that empire
rocking till Jesus shall reign
"Where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run."
And the firearms with which the infidel
traveler brought down the Arab horseman
an<4 fVio i.ipfcnla of the desert have been
surrendered to the church, and we reach
forth our hand, crying, "There is none like
that; give it me!"
So it has also been with the learning and
eloquence of the world. People say, "Religion
is very good for aged women, it is
very good for children, but not for men."
But we have in the roll of Christ's host
Mozart and Handel in music; Canova and
Aneelo in sculpture; Raphael and Reynolds
in painting; Harvey and Boerhaave
in medicine; Cowper and Scott in poetry;
Grotius and Burke in statesmanship;
Boyle and Leibnitz in philosophy; Thomas
Chalmers and John Mason in theology.
The most brilliant writings of a worldly
nature are all aglow with Scriptural allusions.
Through senatorial speech and
through essayist's discourse Sinai thunders
and Calvary sneaks and Siloam sparkles.
Samuel L. Southard was mighty in the
courtroom and in the senate chamber, but
he reserved his strongest eloauence for
that day when he stood before the literary
societies at Princeton commencement and
pleaded for the grandeur of our Bible.
Daniel Webster won not his chief garlands
while responding to Havne nor when
he opened the batteries of nis eloquence
on Bunker Hill, that rocking Sinai of the
American Revolution, but on that day
when, in the famous Girard will case, he
nffnnfinn fVlO OViriofifln rpll
gion and eulogized the Bible. The eloquence
and the learning that have been on
the other side come over to our side. Captured
for God! "There is none like that;
give it me!"
So, also, has it been with the picture
making of the world. We are very anxious
on this day to have the printing press
and the platform on the side of Christianity.
but we overlook the engraver's knife
and the painter's pencil. The antiquarian
goes and looks at pictured ruins or examines
the chiseled pillars of Thebes and
Nineveh and Pompeii, and then comes
back to tell us of the beastliness of ancient
art, and it is a fact now that many of the
finest specimens, merely artistically considered,
01 sculpture and painting that are to
be found amid those ruins are not fit to
be looked at, and they are locked up.
How Paul must have felt, when, standing
amid these impurities that stared on
him from the walls and the pavements and
the bazaars of Corinth, he preached of the
pure and holy Jesus! The art of the
world on the side of obscenity and crime
and death.
Much of the art of the world has been 1
in the possession of the vicious. What to
unclean Henry VIII. was a beautiful pie- |
ture of the Madonna? What to Lord Jeffreys,
the unjust judge, the picture of the
"Last Judgment?" What to Nero, the
unwashed, a picture of the baptism in the
Jordan? The art of the world on the
wrong side. But that is being changed <
now. The Christian artist goes over to <
Pome, looks at the pictures and bringB
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IU ill."5 .-imciivau ouuuiu iuuv.w V* W..W
power of these old masters. The Chris- i
tian minister goes over to Venice, looks
at the "Crucifixion of Christ," and comes
back to the American pulpit to talk as
never before of the sufferings of the Saviour.
The private tourist goes to Rome i
and looks at Raphael's picture of the
l'Last Judgment." The tears start, and '
he goes back to his room in the hotel and ]
prays God for preparation for that day
when i
"Shriveling like a parched scroll,
The flaming heavens together roll."
So, I remark, it is with business acumen
and tact. When Christ was upon earth
the people that followed Him for the most 1
part had no social position. There was <
out one man naturally brilliant in all the 1
apostleship. Joseph, of Arimathea. the i
rich man, risked nothing when he offered 1
a hole in the rock for the dead Christ. '
How many of the merchants in Asia Minor 1
befriended Jesus? I think of only one?
Lydia. How many of the ca&tles on the i
beach at Galilee entertained Christ? Not
one. When Peter came to Joppa he "
stopped with one Simon, a tanner. What
power had Christ's name on the Roman
exchange or in the bazaars of Corinth?
None. The prominent men of the day did i
not want to risk their reputation for sanitv
hv nrpfpriHinn? tn hp nnp nf Mia fnllnw
ers. Now that is all changed. Among
the mightiest men in our great cities today
are the Christian merchants and the
Christian bankers, and if to-morrow, at
the Board of Trade, any man should get
up and malign the name of Jesus, he
would be quickly silenced or put out. In
the front rank of all our Christian workers
to-day are the Christian merchants,
and the enterprises of the world are coming
on the right side. There was a farm
willed away some years ago, all the proceeds
of that farm to go for spreading infidel
books. Somehow matters nave
changed, and now all the proceeds of that
farm go toward the missionary cause. One j
of the finest printing presses ever built (
was built for the express purpose of publishing
infidel- tracts and books. Now it
does nothing but print holy Bibles.
I believe that tne time will come when
in commercial circles the voice of Christ 1
will be the mightiest of all voices and the
ships of Tarshish will bring presents and
the queen of Sheba her glory and the wise
men of the East their myrrh and frankincense.
j
I look off upon the business men of this
land and rejoice at the prospect, that their
tact and ingenuity and ta ent are being
brought into the service of Christ. It is
one of the mightiest of weapons. "There
is none like that: give it me!"
Now. if what I have suid be true, away
with all downheartedness! If science is to
be on the ri^ht side and the traveling disposition
of tne world on the right side and
the learning of the world on the right
side and the picture making on the right
side and the business acumen and tact of
the world on *.he right side, Thine, 0 Lord,
.k? i.: ,i? i m. f?n i;?o ?n
tuc i\i!i?Uism . v/ii, ???w iiuc, cm jvj
peojile! 'it is a grand thing to be in such
an army and led by such a commander
and on the v,rav to such a victory. If what
I have said is true, then Christ is poi:'.g to
gather up for Himself out of this world
everything that i? worth anything, and
tnere will be nothing but the scum left.
We have been rebels, but a proclamation
of amnesty goes forth now from the throne
of God, saying. "Whosoever will, let him
come." However long you may have wandered,
however great your crimes may
have been, "whosoever will, let him come."
Oh, that this hour I could marshal all the
world on the side of Christ! He is the
best friend a man ever had. He is so kind,
He so loving, r.o sympathetic. I cannot see
how you can stay away from Him. Come
now and accept His mercy. Behold Him
as He stretches out the arms of His salvation.
saying, "Look unto Me. all ye ends
of tlie earth, and be ye saved, for I am
Cod." Make final choice now. You will
either be willows planted by the water
courses or the chaff which the wind drivcth
away.
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" ''K
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
Greatest [Robber on Earth?The Liquoi
Traffic Arraigned and Found to Be
Greatest Foe to Mankind ? Filches a
Billion Dollars a Tear From Americans.
The greatest robber on earth is that
which deprives us of the most precious
possession that a man or woman can
nave. And what is that? Is it a wellfilled
pocketbook, or a good bank account?
No, for some of the poorest, mo6t miserable
souls on earth have fat pocketbooks
and healthy bank accounts. Is it a luxurious
home with all the modern adornments?
No, for a gilded cage cannot make
a haoov bird, and in the most sumptuous
home may dwell the most wretched of
slaves?the slaves of vice and passion. Is
it fame, reputation, power, glory? No,
for the next wind of popular favor may
dash these baubles to the around ana
leave us reciting the lament which Shakes?eare
puts into the mouth of Cardinal
Polsey.
The most precious possession which any
man can have is his own true, independent,
self-respecting manhood, and the
greatest robber on earth is that which
robs a man of that.
The most precious possession which any
woman can nave is her own true, tender,
virtuous womanhood, and the greatest specific
evil on earth is that which deprives
women of that.
Monopolies are an evil which American
people must grapple with, but even if all
that the most eloquent "calamity howler"
in the world has said be true, what is it
that the monopolies rob us of? Money,
goods, chattels, but not manhood. All the
monopolies of all time can't rob one man
of his manhood or one woman of her womanhood.
Wall street can't do it. "A
man's a man for a' that." They may rob
him of his home, rob him of his fairweather
friends, robs him of money and
turn him out a beggar and a tramp, but
still "a man's a man for a' that," and if he
stands by his own manhood it will stand
by him.
There is, however, a robber that takes
not only men's homes, their farms, their
bank accounts, their reputation and their
friends, but their manhood as well; which
robs women not only of all the beauties
and comforts of life, but of their womanhood
as well, and which robs innocent little
children of their childhood before they
are out of their swaddling clothes. Who
is that robber? There is hardly any reason
to name him. Describe him, and the
civilized world recognizes him at once as
the liquor traffic?the greatest robber on
earth.
There isn't a woe that all the other robbers
can inflict that this chiefest of robbers
is not inflicting to-day upon unnumbered
thousands, and, in addition, he is
inflicting far worse woes than any of the
other robbers can inflict. He not only robs
the people of this land of over one billion
dollars a year?equal to $77 for every family?but
there are two and a half millions
of men and women in this land who have
been robbed of their manhood and womanhood,
robbed of their liberty, robbed
of their self-respect, robbed of much of
their ability as producers, and who are in
a slavery worse than African slavery ever
was, and the greatest robber on earth is
responsible for it.?The Rev. John F. Hill,
D. D., in Presbyterian Banner.
Novel Drunkards' Legislation.
An Habitual Drunkard's bill introduced
in Parliament recently by the Bishop of
Winchester proposes novel methods of
protecting the "wife and children of the
habitual drunkard by punishing saloonkeepers
who sell drinks to the habitual
drunkard. The bill proposes the establishment
of a black-list of persons declared to
be habitual drunkards, whose names are
to be notified to the keepers of licensed
houses within a specified area, with a direction
not to serve them, and also makes
the offence of being drunk when in charge
of a child punishable by a special penalty.
The status of an habitual drunkard is ac- |
quired by a man being within twelve
months three times convicted of certain
offences found by the court to be due to or
helped along by drink. In such cases a
man is to be declared an habitual drunk
ard. The order so declaring him is then I
to be sent to all license-holders within a j
certain area, and also to the chief police
officer for the district. Serving such a
drunkard with intoxicating drink renders
the license-holder liable to a fine of $50 for
the first offence and to a fine of $100 for
subsequent offences, the drunkard also I
being liable to a fine of not more than $5.
An alternative penalty is that instead of
fining the saloon-keeper $100, his license
be suspended for three months. The license
of any saloon-keeper so convicted
is to be indorsed accordingly. From the
favorable consideration which this proposed
bill has received, it is considered
reasonably certain that some of its features
will become law.
Sad Indeed.
A pathetic stoi7 from real life is related
by an esteemed friend, who recently visited
a distant city and looked up the home of
two former schoolmates whom he had not
seen for thirty-five years; they were brothers,
and he found the older one at home
with the gray-haired, widowed mother.
The first glance into this home, the inmates
of which he remembered with joy
and gladness, convinced him that the demon
of strong drink had wrought havoc
within its walk. They talked over bygone
days, which Beemed to caused the sadhearted
motner to consider them the happiest
of her life; her son was under the
influence of liquor, and this being apparent
caused the poor mother to be uneasy in
the presence of the visitor; just as he was
leaving the younger son came in, reeling
drunk. Victims of the traffic we license,
that is all. Thousands upon thousands of
just such homes are all over our land, and
our licensed liquor business is producing
them, in increased numbers every year.?
The Index.
The Drunkard's Friends.
Who makes the drunkard? His enemies?
No. The drunkard is made by his
friends.
When it is known that he is inclined to
drink no enemy is so vicious as to lead him
on. No enemy slaps him on the back and
begs him to take "just another drink." No
enemy laughs down his poor, feeble attempts
at reform. No enemy tells him that
it will not hurt him "just this time," and
that he really must not refuse to be a
good fellow "just for once." '
The drunkard is made a drunkard, is
pushed into the last depths of drunkenness,
by his friends.
And it is his friends who kick him and i
leave him and despise him when he has
sunk into the mire.
Did ever the drunkard's enemy hurt him
as much as the friend has hurt him??New
York Journal.
The Crusade In Uriel".
The young developing individual is always
advised to abstain from alcohol.
I can no more accept aicohol as food
than I can chloroform or ether.?James
Edmunds, M. D.
The City Council of Trenton, 111., has
passed an ordinance requiring all saloons
to close promptly at 10 p. m.
4 rpt pnt order of the Belgium Govern
ment prohibits either the sale or the
drinking of intoxicants in the vicinity of
the chambers during the sittings of the
Legislature, and hereafter the members
will have to content themselves with tea,
coffee and the like.
Not war, not pestilence, not famine, bat
the trade in "strong drink" was the curse
of curscs at the beginning and at the end
of the last century, and is now the curse
of curses at the beginning of the new century,
ipoi.
The village Board of Trustee? of Prairie
City, 111., has passed an ordinance which
declares that neither freight nor express
company shall without violating the law
introduce any kind of spirituous liquors
within the corporate limits of the town.
Mrs. M. Ilcckard, of Elnora, Ind., whe
objected to having her husband conduct a
saloon, visited his nlace of business armed
with a hatchet, ana completely demolished
it. Shs has served notice on all that other
saloon men of Elnora to quit the business
or suffer the consequences
#'
Railroading In Ireland.
The latest from Ireland. A somewhat
nervous English jurist vouches
tVin fyonninoCC nf tll?> fnllnTPlnrr inri
dent of Irish traveling: The train arrived
some twenty minutes fcite at a
small station, and the engine-driver inquired
of the station-master, "Did the
express go by yet. Tim?" "It did not,"
was the answer. Indecision on the
part of the engine-driver for a moment
when he cheerfully exclaimed, "Ah.
well, we must chance it," as he blew
the whistle and started off on the single
line.?London Outlook.
How Parks Promote Education.
Parks and boulevards, streets lined
with trees and green lawn spaces are
not only a necessity, but are ornaments?a
part of the city's dress .suit
that no prosperous and well-built city
can be without. They are wealth producing.
which is proved by the higher
value in boulevard frontage and lands
bordering on parks. Confining us to
parks, their educational value is great.
Here we meet the artist sketching or
painting, the entomologist in search
for new discoveries, the amateur gardener
in pursuit of more knowledge.
Spring and fall classes from our public
schools invade the pastoral plantations
for botanical studies or to obtain
practical lessons in ornithology. Thus
the parks become a veritable outdoor
college open to all, the playgrounds of
the millions; rich and poor alike are
welcome to their balmy, health-producing
atmosphere.?Chicago Tribune.
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The difference between curves and angles
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pitcher and fisherman.
A friend in need is not always a friend
in deed; he may want to borrow money.
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it by chewing a bar of Adams' Pepsin Tutti
Frutti after each meal.
The exchange editor goes through life at
a pretty rapid clip.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, soften the gums, reduces inflammation,
allays pain, cures wind colic. 25cabottb
The number of Prussians who have an
income of over $25,000 is only 2053.
I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved
my life three years ago.?Mrs. Thomas Robbins,
Maple St., Norwich, N.Y., Feb. 17, 1909.
Ten blind physicians are practicing medicine
in the United States.
I COME AND GO |
V In many forms A
I Rheumatism I:
| Neuralgia |
X Lumbago |
t Sciatica ?
%'
% make up a large part of human y
suffering. They come suddenly, ?
> but they go promptly by the
use of
| St. Jacobs Oil f
which is a certain sure cure. V
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I Did you ever have
stomach, keeping you a1
that make the cold persj
ates suffer with it night;
I cause of this fearful ailrr
give the sufferer sweet,
if TOTT>iDr rr
rr" 11 ILL I fUDl^JZ, I
OUABAXTF.ED TO CUBE a
bad breath, bad blood, wind on
headuchti ladlireaflou. plimilei, p<
plrxion nod dtxilscii. When yc
(e(t)ng lick. CanMlputio* kills na
It la starter for the chronic alii
aflerwitrdi. So matter whnl alia
>Ay you will never get well and be i
C> rlcht. Take oar udvlcei atart wl
33 guar?? U cure or moamy rcTan
- - './>! A~r?
Poor Target Practice.
A General was hard pressed in bat
tie and on the point of giving way
when suddenly a spirit soldier came t(
his rescue and enabled him to win i
prreat victory. Prostrating himself 01
the ground he aslied the spirit's name
"I am the God of the Target." repliet
the spirit. "And how have I merite<
your godship's kind assistance?" In
quired the General. "I am grateful t<
you,", answered the spirit, "because ii
your days of practice you never onc<
hit me."?From "A Century of Chi
nese Literature."
Sugar cane grows in size accordini
to the chance given. Its height rangei
six to twenty feet
Eight in every 1000 wounded soldieri
get lockjaw, and seventy per cent, o
lockjaw cases are fatal.
friiin
M IIIk7 ?>
! WlCKLl
HuJJmz
Mide tLso
in foot
larger sizes. J
I Sold j
everywhere.
pi
A LUXUf
Roasting r([)d\ I
Establish- J \ YJS\Jp^i
ments we ]I Jf /|)|k?^
do not allow /j?| Jr*,
the use of * i|j| Jq
Egg Mixtures,
Glue,
memicais, ^%
or similar
substances.
LION
COFFEE
is an watch
absolutely
Pure Coffee. Just try a pac
and you will"
popularity.
LION COI
lions of hom<
I In every package of LION COF
fact, no woman, man, boy or girl i
comfort and convenience, and whi
the wrappers of our one pound sea
lo?O* o* o* o# rH? o*!
^qm'41
v u a b
that feeling of oppression, like ;
wake nights with a horrible sen
miration break out all over you
after night, until their reason is
lent is in the stomach and bow<
refreshing sleep. Always in;
A ? JP- for oter
Stem B - as- Case a rets
jm j lagall
BEST FOR EC
til bowel trouble*, appendicitis, bllioutne*?t
the atunncb, hlontttd bowel*, fonl mouth,
ulna after cullnz. liver trouble, sallow com r
bowels don't ibiiti recnliirly you are
ore people than nil oUirr diseases together,
ments and Ionic years of suffering thut come
i vou, start taking CASCA1SETH today, for
veil ull the time until yon put your bowel*
Kb CA8CABETS today, under bb absolute
ded. US
"... .. . "... *> ; ? ;:
Time Save<l on the farm.
-1 When the work was done by nand
, it required thirty-five nours of human
3 labor to mow, turn, rake, cock and bale
i a ton of hay. Now it requires only
i eleven hours. The economy is princi!.
! pally In the mowing and curing. The
I hay crop is one of the most important
1 on the farm, and one of the most
. profitable.
% 1 ?
j j Glucose Is now manufactured largely
a l from corn starch. Its commercial
. value lies In Its use as an adulterant
of cane and beet sugar.
t In Germany 24,792 books were published
g in 1900, an increase over 1899 of 1071.
M. L. Thompson A Co., Druggists, Coudersport,
Pa., say Hall's Catarrh Cure is the best
and only sure cure for catarrh they ever sold.
S Druggists sell it, 75c.
p
Hamlet was played seventy times in
, Germany during the year 1899.
5 ine
e^^Oii
3y within the reach
5" ~2
The t
our next advertisement. ^
kage of lion coffee H.ffc
understand the reason of its While
" Ye i
As sti
PPEE is now used in mil- "I ho
rr 'Tis fc
iS.
TEE you will find a fully illustrated and d<
will fail to find in the list some article whicl
ch they may have by simply cutting out a c
,led packages (which is the only form in whi
Sleep?
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a weight on your chest, or a load
sation of anxiety, or tossing resth
? That's insomnia, or sleeplessni
in danger and they are on the ec
sis, and a Cascaret taken at night
5ist on getting CASCARETS
i hobo-mobo troocks!?Iruv-lc. w
]y
ksen niloe CASCABGTS the
nia, with which I have been afillctod nnv0
iwonty years, and I cun ?ay that covr
h*ve Riven me more relief than uj "S
edy I have ever tried. I chall corammend
them to my friends as be- Buer
j are represented." spec
Thos. Gillard, El?la- 111. Btap
The Coldest. thr 1
-r~r^a.t w* b)'
>WELS AND LIVER.
OrARASTEED TO CUBE: Five y<
CARETS wns sold. Sow It It over six nallllo
similar medicine Id the world. This Is ab
our Ixtt testimonial- We have faith* und i
guiirunfeed to cure or money reAmded. Go
tliom a fair, honest trial, iui per simple direct
after ntlnc one .?Oc box, return the untuei
us by nmll, or the drwrvlst from whom you
back for both boxes. Take our advice?uo a
Health will quickly follow and yoa will bloti
of CASCABET8. Book (We by null. Addi
' .
Kind-Hearted Editors. jja
A subscriber to a certain paper died
and left fourteen years of subscriptions
unpaid. Tbe editor appeared at
the grave as the lid was being screwed
down for the last time and put in a
linen duster, a thermometer, a palm
leaf fan and a recipe for making ice.
Editors, as a rule, are not prosperous,
but they are kindhearted and considerate.?Galveston
(Texas) News.
All awaw vat*4-viatin CIKahIa orn ono
All UTC1 IUUA.U iU Uft V HVWtr
tered men who make a business of
raising Eskimo dogs for the market
A Month's Test Free.
If you have Dyspepsia, write Dr. Shoop,
Racine, Wis., Box 148, for six bottles of Dr.
Bhoop's Restorative. Exp. paid. Send so
money. Pay $5.50 if cured. , ^
Some people never speak ill of their
neighbors for fear that their neighbor!
know just as much about them.
tlleafc 1 j
Stove
' 1
If yoxtf icilef
f doc* flot hive
tiem?write to
- ... -- Ae ntifest
agency of 2
STANDARD S
OF ALL! ;||
LAYING DOWN THE LAW." - J
! poet writes his simple lay,
'he builder lays bricks by the day,
arpet man lays carpets too,
are "laymen," good and true.
en lays eggs for all mankind,
I daily in their nests we find.
le funniest sight we ever saw,
?addy " laying down the law."
aasted to a friendly 44 Cop,"
often visited his shop,
he'd a lion tamer been?
ercest lions ever seen?
laimed in manner rather fresh,
he'd oft eaten lion's flesh.
fficer joined in to say 2||
he "drank" Lion every day. ?|J
it's that ye say ?" then Paddy cried,
palpeen; shure Oi think ye lied."
op said "you're too fresh I think,
ION COFFEE that I drink?
:re and strong, and healthy too,
lelps a man his work to do.
i a cup or two to meet
rials of my weary beat!"
ist word just seemed to suggest
tight to Pat; he did the rest.
;t flew out, the cop fell down,
: Paddy's face assumed a frown.
"ooled me, did yez!" he exclaimed
II another blow he aimed.
pe yez will excuse me paw?
>nd.ot "layingdown tnelawi ~ ;
I
sscriptive list. No housekeeper, in M
i will contribute to their happiness, 9
ertain nurtjber of Lion Heads from. I ^
ch this excellent coffee is sold).
rVOOLSON SPICE CO., TOLEDO, OHIO. ?
of cobblestones In your g!
issly Si terrible dreanis, 3 I
ess, and some unfortun- 11!
Ige- of going mad. The
will soon bring relief and ! s |
I I
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^50c. I;
NEVER SOLD IN BULK. \ *'
npnaarsTS ?;
mn nro the flr?t box of GAS* ?
4> boxes a year, greater than any . Zj,
tolutr proof of jrrenf merit, ana I X '
rill ?ell CASPaSETS absolutely 2
i buy toduy. two &Oc boxci. (Ire T I
ttona, nod If yoa are not autlifled 8
i SOv box aod the empty box to S .
pnrehiKd It, and get your money A> t
>utt?r what alia yaa?start today, t?
?tt?e day you flrat started tl?e n?? I f .
UTlRLISffRlllUI CO., S?w TiriffCUtHfc , fij [
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