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TALMAGE'S SERMON
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: Datj of the One With a Single
Talent ?Try to Make an Accurate Estimate
of Yourself ? The Value of
; Sympathy.
[Copyright 1901.1
Washington, D. C.?This is a discourse
by Dr. Talmage for those given to depreciate
themselves and who nave an idea
that their best attempts amount to little
or nothing; text, Matthew xxv, 15,
"To another one."
Expel first from this parable of the
talents the word "usury. It ought to
have been translated "interest." "Usury"
is finding a man in a tight place and compelling
him to pay an unreasonable sum
to get out. "Interest" is a righteous payment
for the use of money. When the
capitalist of this parable went off home,
he gave to his stewards certain sums of
money, wishing to have thera profitably
invested. Change also your idea as to
tllp VaIho r?f Ana folonf V
the capitalist gave to one of his men for
business purposes five talents, to another
two, to another one. What a small amount
to last, you think, and how could he be
expected to do anything with only one
talent? I have to tell vou that one talent
was about $7200, 60 that when my text
says, "To another one," it implies that
those who have the least have much.
We bother ourselves a great deal about
those who are highly gifted or have large
financial resources or exalted official position
or wide reaching opportunity. We
are anxious that their wealth, their eloquence,
their wit, be employed on the
right side. One of them makes a mistake.
and we 6ay, "What an awful disaster.
When one of them devotes all his
peat ability to useful purposes, we cele
uiauc it, wc euiarge upon it, wc epeaK ui
it as something for gratitude to God.
Meanwhile we give no time at all to consider
what people are doing with their
one talent, not realizing that ten people
of one talent each are quite as important
as one man with ten talents. In the one
case the advantage or opportunity is concentrated
in a single personality, while
in another it is divided among ten individuals.
Now, what we want to do in
this sermon is to waken people of only
one talent to appreciation of their duty.
Only a few people have five talents or ten
talents, while millions have one. My short
text is like a galvanic shock, "To another
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one.
The most difficult thing in the world is
to make an accurate estimate of ourselves.
Our friends value us too high, our enemies
too low. To find out what we arc
worth morally and mentally is almost
impossible. We are apt to measure ourselves
by those around us, but this is
not fair, as they may be very brilliant
or verv dull, very good or very bad. Indeed
there are no human scales that can
tell our exact moral and mental weight,
nor is there a standard by which we can
measure our exact intellectual height, so
the hardest thine to do is to calculate our
real stature or neft. But it will be no
evidence of egotism in any of us if we
6&y that we have at least one talent.
What is it and, finding what it is, what
use shall we make of it? The most of
the people, finding that they have only
one talent, do as the man spoken of in
the parable, they hide it. But if all of
the people who have one talent brought it
out for use before this century is halt past
and correspondents begin to write at the
head of their letters 1950, the earth would
be one of the outskirts of heaven. I ask
you again, What is your one talent?
Is it a cheerful look? Carry that look
wherever you go. It must come from a
cheerful heart. It is not that inane smile
which we sometimes 6ee which is an irritation.
In other words, it must be a
light within us so bright that it illumines
eye, cheek, nostril and mouth. Let ten
men who are accustomed to walking a
certain street every day resolve upon a
cheerful countenance as a result of a
cheerful heart, and the influence of such
a facial irradiation would be felt not only
in that street, but throughout the town.
Cheerfulness is catching. But a cheerful
look is exceptional. Examine the first
twenty faces that you meet going through
Pennsylvania avenue or Chestnut street
or Broadway or State street or La Salle
etreet or Euclid avenue, and nineteen out
of the twenty faces have either an anxious
look or a severe look or a depressing look
or an avaricious look or a sneering look
or a vacant look. Here is a missionary
work for those who have trouble. Arm
yourself with gospel comfort. Let the God
who comforted Mary and Martha at the
loss of their brother, the God who soothed
Abraham at the loss of Sarah and the God
of David, who consoled his bereft spirit
at the loss of his boy by 6aying, "I shall
go to him;" the God who filled St. John
with doxology when an exile on barren
Patmos and the God who has given happiness
to thousands of the bankrupted
and persecuted, filling them with heavenly
riches which were more than the earth!y
advantages that are wiped out?let that
God help them. If He takes full possession
of your nature, then you will go
down the street a benediction to all who
see you, and those who are in the tough
pj-.ces of life and are run upon and belied
and had their homes destroyed, will say:
"If that man can be happy, I can be happy.
He has been througn troubles as big
as mine, and he goes down the street with
a face in every lineament of which there
are joy and peace and heaven. What am
I groaning about? From the same place
that man got his cheerfulness I can get
mine. "Why are thou cast down, 0 my
soul, and way art thou disquieted within
me? Hope tnou in God, for I shall yet
praise Him who is the health of my countenance
and my God.' "
Again, is your talent that of wit or
humor? Use it for God. Much of the
world's wit is damaging. Most of satire
has a sting in it. Mucii 01 caricature is
vitriolic. In order to say smart things
how many will sacrifice the feelings of
others! ll.e sword they carry is keen, and
it is employed to thrust and lacerate. But
few men in all the world and in all the
churches realize that if wit is bestowed it
is given them for useful, for improving, for
healthful nurna^ps. If we all had more of
it and knew how to use it aright, how
much it would improve our Christian conversation
and prayer meeting talk and sermon!
Robert South and Kowland Hill
and Jeremy Taylor and Dean Swilt and
Lorenzo Dow and George Whitefield used
their wit and their humor to gather great
audiences and then lead them into tne
kingdom of God. Frivolity is repulsive in
religious discussion, lut 1 l.ke the humor
ox job when he said to his msojern critics,
"No doubt but ve are the people, and
wisdom shall die with vou," and I like the
humor of the prophet tl.jah, who told the
Baalites to pray louder, as their god was
out hunting or on an excursion or in
such loud conversation that he couici not
hear them. I like the sarcasm of Christ
when He to'.d the self-righteous Pharisees
that they were so good they needed
no help. "Tne who'.e need r.ot a physician,
but they that are sick." or wueu iu
mirthful hyperbole He arra gns the hypocritical
teacners of His day who were so
particular about little things and careless
about big things, saying, "\e blind
guides that strain at a gnat and swallow
a camel," and the Bible is all ablaze \vil/i
epigram, words surprisingly j ut and
nhrncpft'nrv that, must have made the au
diences ox Paul and Christ nudge each I
other and exchange glances and smile aud J
then appropriate the tremendous truths of
the gosoe!. There are some evils you can
laugh down easier than you can preach
down. The question is always being asked,
Why do not more people go to church,
prayer meeting and other religious meetings?
1 will tell you. We of the pnipit
anci the pew are so dull t?ey cannot stand
it. But when we ask why people do not
go to church we ask a misleading question.
More peopte go now to church than
e\er in the world's history, and the reason
is in all our denominations there is a
new race of ministers stepping into the
pulpits which are not the apostles of humdrum.
Sure enough, we want in the
Lord's army the-heavy artillery, but we
want also more men who, like Burns, n
farmer at Gettysburg, took a musket and
went out on his own account to do a little
shooting different from the other noldiers.
The church of God is dying of the
proprieties.
Or is your talent an opportunity to set
a good example? One person doing right
under adverse circumstances "will accom
plisb more than many treatises about
what is right. The census has never been
taken of lovely old folks. Most of us, li
we have not such a one in our own house
now, have in our memory such a saint. We
went to those old people" with all our troubles.
They were perpetual evangelists, by
their soothing words, by their hopefulness
of spirit, an inexpressible help. 1
cannot see how heaven could make them
any lovelier than they are or were. But
there are exceptions. There is a daughter
in that family whose father is impa^
tient and the mother querulous. The passage
of many years does not always improve
the disposition, and there are a
great many disagreeable folks. Some cI
them forget that they were ever young
themselves, and they become untidy in
their habits and wonder how, when their
asthma or rheumatism is so bad, other
people can laugh or sing and go on as they
ao. The daughter in that family bears
all the peevishness and unreasonable behavior
of senility without answering back
or making any kind of complaint. If you
should ask her what her five talents are
or her one talent is, she would answer
that she has no talent at all. Greatly
mistaken is she. Her one talent is to
forbear and treat the childishness of the
old as well as she treats the childishness
of rnnnff filio io no mncrir-i*m nnrl
sides there may not be a piano in the
house. She cannot skillfully swing a croquet
mallet or golf stick. Indeed, she
seems shut ud to see what she can da
with a ladle and a broom and a brush and
other household implements. She is the
personification of patience, and her reward
will be as long as heaven. Indeed,
much of her reward may be given on earth.
She is in a rough college. from which she
may after awhile graduate into brightest
domesticity. She is a heroine, though at
present she may receive nothing but
scolding and depreciation. Her one talent
of patience under trial will do more good
than many morocco covered sermons on
patience preached to-day from the tasseled
cushion of the pulpit.
Is your talent that of persuasion? Make
good use of it. We all have it to some
extent, vet none of us think of it as a
tahnt. But it is the mightiest of talents.
Do you know that this one talent will
fetch the world back to God? Do you know
it is the mightiest talent of the high
heavens? Do you know that it is the one
talent chiefly employed bv all the aneela
of God when they descend to our world?
the talent of persuasion?
Do you realize that the rough lumber
lifted into a cross on the hill back of
Jerusalem was in persuasion a3 well as
sacrifice? That is the only, absolutely the
only, persuasion that will ever induce the
human race to stop its march toward the
city of destruction and wheel around and
start for the city of light. Now may the
Lord this moment show each one of us
that to a greater or less extent we have
one talent of persuasion and impel us to
the_ right use of it.
You say you cannot preach a sermon,
but cannot you persuade some one to go
and hear a sermon? You say you cannot
sing, but cannot you persuade some one
to go and hear the choir chant on Christmas
or Easter moraine? Send a bunch of
flowers to that invalid in the hospital,
with a message about the land where the
inhabitants never say. "I am sick."
There is a child of the street. Invite
him into the mission school. There is a
man who has lost his fortune in speculation.
Instead of jeering at his fall go and
tell him of riches that never take wings
and fly away. Buckle on that one talent I
oL persuasion, 0 man, 0 woman, and
you will do a work that heaven will celebrate
10,000 vears.
Among the 114.000 words of Noah Webster's
vocabulary and the thousands of
words since then added to our English
vocabulary there is one outmastering
word the power of which cannot be estimated,
and it reaches so far up and so
far down, and that is the word "come."
It has drawn more people away from the
wrong and toward the right than any
word I now think of. It has at times
crowded all the twelve gates of heaven
with fresh arrivals. It will yet rob the
path of death of the last pedestrians. It
will yet chime so loudly and gladly that
all the toiling bells of sorrow will be
drowned with the music. It is piled up in
the Bible's climax and peroration, "And
the spirit and the bride say come, and
let him that heareth say come, and let
him that is athirst come." Have it on the
point of your pen, have it on the tip of
your tongue. Monosyllables are mightier
than polysyllables, and that word "come"
is the mightiest of monosyllables. Shakespeare
says of one of his characters. "She
sneaks poniards, and every word stabs."
We may say of others, they speak words
which are of balm and music, are light and
life. Master one of those words, harness
one of those words, project one of those
words, prove the full plentitude and power
of one of those words.
If you cannot do anything else, go
around and feel sorry tor somebody. When
some one asked, "What is the secret of
William Wilberforce's Dower?" the answer
was, "His power of sympathy." And
there are 10,000,000 people who have the
same qualification if they cnly knew it.
Sympathy! If you cannot restore the
child to that bereft parent or the fortune
to that bankrupt financier or health ">
that confirmed invalid or an honorable
name to that wrecked character, vou can
at least feel sorry for the misfortune or
the bereavement or the sufferine.
Svmpathv! If vou have not the means
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to ao anycning eise. go ana sit uown auu
ctj with them. That is the wav Christ
did when He went out to the desolated
home in Bethanv and the sisters told
their sad story, fie cried with them. Oh,
cultivate that one talent of sympathy!
After the resurrection day ana all heaven
is made up. resurrected bodies joined to I
ransomed souls, and the gates which were
so long open are shut, there may be some
day when all the redeemed may pass in I
review before the great white throne. If
so. I think the hosts passing before the
King will move in different divisions, j
With the first division will pass the nighty
ones of earth who were as good and useful
as they were great. In this division
will pass before the throne all the Martin
Luthers. the John Knoxes, the Weslevs,
tlie Richard Cecils, the Miltons, the
Chrysostora8, the Herschells, the Lenoxes,
the George Peabodys, the Abbott Lawrences
and all the consecrated Christian I
men and women who were great in literature,
in law, in medicine, in philosophy,
in commerce. Their genius never spoiled
them. They were as humble as they
were gifted or opulent. They were gr#at
on earth, and now they are great in heaven.
Their surpassing and magnificent talents
were all used for the world's betterment.
As they pass in review before the
An fVio <Tfonf tVirnnp to hiffher
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and higher rewards it makes me think of
the parable of the talents. '*To another
ten.' I stand and watch the other divisions
as they go by, division after division,
until the largest of all the divisions
comes in sight. It is a hundred to one, a
thousand to one, ten thousand to one,
larger than the other divisions. It is
made up of men who never did anything
but support their families and give whatever
of their limited means they could
spare for the relief of poverty and sickness
and the balvation of the world, mothers
who took good care of children by
example and precept starting them on the
j road to heaven, millions of Sabbath-school
teachers who sacrificed an afternoon's
siesta for the listening class of young immortals.
women v.-ho declined the making
of homes for themselves that they might
take care of father and mother in the
weaknesses of old age, ministers of the
cospel who on niggardly stipend preached
in the backwood meeting houses, souls
who for long years did nothing but suffer.
yet suffered with so mucii_ cheerful patience
that it became a helpful lesson to
all who heard of it; those who served
God faithfully all their lives and whose
name never but once anpeared in print,
and that time in the three lines of the
death column which some survivor paid
for. sailors who perished in tne siorm
while trying to get life line out to the
drowning, persecuted and tried souls who
endured without complaint malignity and
abuse, those who had only ordinary equipment
for body and ordinary endowment
of intellect, yet devoted all they had to
ho!y purposes and spiritual achievement.
Aa I se-j this, the largest of all the divisions,
from all lands and from all ages,
pass in review before the King on the
great white throne I am reminded of the
wonderful parable of the talents and
more especially of my test, "'To another
1 one."
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THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLINC FACT? ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
Hereditary Alcoholism?Careful, Scientific }
Study Shows That It i? Present In
Over Eighty Per Cent, of All Inebrl*
ates?Associated With Criminality.
A careful studj* of many cases by various
observers shows that heredity is the
most prominent cause and is present in
over eighty per cent, of all inebriates. Another
active factor, more apparent and
controllable in the problem of inebriety,
is that of marriage. At present the indiscriminate
marriages are largely influeni
tial in intensifying and continuing the alcoholic
stream. Criminals, paupers, inebriates
and others notoriously far down
on the road to dissolution are permitted
to marry and raise children freighted with
a truly frightful legacy of degeneration.
It is this defective heredity increased and
intensified by marriages with equally bad
6tock that is the great fountain spring
from which inebriety comes. Alcohol, ox
all other drugs, seems to intensify and
provoke disease and the most favorable
conditions for the destruction of cell and
nerve force.
Heredity leaves a feebleness of these
centres, with often a strong predisposition
for alcohol, which may remain dormant,
only to come into great activity upon taking
the first glass of spirits. Injury and
disease may be followed by the derangement
of these higher brain centres, and
the narcotic action of alcohol anoras a
grateful and seductive relief.
The studv of alcoholic causes shows that
oyer two-thirds of all inebriates have a
history of previous degeneration both of
the brain and nervous 6vstem before spirits
were first used. The largest proportion
of these cases come from alcoholic, insane,
consumptive and other neurotic ancestors.
The remainder have a marked history of
disease, injury, brain strains, shocks and
states of profound exhaustion, from which
they have apparently recovered, although
followed by the use of spirits.
Persons with 6uch a nistpry show great
susceptibility to the action of alcohol. The
effects are grateful and as pronounced as
opium when it quiets the painful nerve.
The first action of alcohol quickening the
brain circulation, then slowing it, numbing
and paralyzing the sensory centres, giving
the impression of comfort and approach
to health that the victim is unable to correct.
The use of alcohol is quickly followed
by a train of degeneration that is
always concealed in the early stages, and is
unrecognized by the victim and often by
his friends.
The disease of inebriety is clearly associated
with criminality. In both a progressive
defeneration of the higher moral
centres of the brain goes on with a steady
decline of all brain vigor and health. No
other drug is known to science which has
so prominent an influence over the highest
anH Inst fnrmpH elements of brain force
and structure. No other part of the brain I
is so quickly damaged ana diseased by al- |
cohol and concealed by delusions of the
senses.?Dr. T. D. Crothers, in Union Signal.
He is Drunk?100 Timet.
To the Editor of the Sun:
Sir?He is drunk, intoxicated, inebriated,
tipsy, full, loaded, jaeged, fuadled, tight,
topheavy, slewed, half-shot, half gqne,
overcome, overtaken, primed, afflicted, elevated,
exhilarated, genial, happy, mellow,
corned, beerv, winy, groggy, boozy, loaked,
chock-a-block, lushy, muggy, cockeyed,
boryeyed, muddled, jiggered, foggy, hazy,
dizzy, dazed, stunned, moory, dopy, ossified,
petrified, paralyzed.
He has a (glorious or elegant) jag on, a
load on, a skate on, a bun on, a brannigan
on, a shine on, a still on, an edge on, &
skin full; he has got a cup too much, he
has looked on the wine when it was red,
he has a bee in his bonnet, he has an applajack
gait, he has been taking a little
of Paddy's eye water or of red eye, he has
been crooking his elbow, he has more sail
than ballast, be has his main-brace well
spliced, he has the sun in his eve, he can't
see a hole in the ladder, and he can't lie
down without holding on.
He is half-seas over, three sheets in the
wind, on his beam ends, under the influence
of the weather, over the bay, in the
clouds, in his cups, in his pots, off his trolley,
off his nut, on a drunlc, on a spree, on
a bender, on a racket, on a tear, on the
ran-tan, or the ree-raw, he is feeling his
oats, he is full of mountain dew, full of
dope, full of forty-rod booze, full of Jersey
lightning, full of tangle-foot, full of bugjuice,
he is as full as a tick, full &a a goat,
full as a bedbug, he is as drunk as a lord,
drunk as a boiled owl. drunk as a fiddle,
drunk as David's 60W, he is weak (wabbly)
on his pins, all mops and brooms, ana
about to cast up his accounts. J). S,
Alcohol's Known Character.
The Minneapolis Times (independent)
takes notice ot tne periodical recurrences
of the agitation to establish a recognized
"food value" for alcohol and with an exhibition
of a commendable degree of common
sense, says:
"The practical effects of alcohol are so
I well known that this constant threshing
I of old and useless straw in the way of enlightenment
as to its nature is worse than
wasted words. It seeks, perhaps unconsciously,
to present alcohol as a factor of
value in the working power of man. The
testimony of the ages is entirely against
such an assumption. It is of no use to say
a man who abstracts our best possessions
isn't a thief, simply because he generously
allows us to handle them between times.
The lesson of intemperance is one which
has the same translation no matter by
what tongue it is retold. The status of alcohol
is so definitely settled by it that all
other ethical arguments are as nothing beside
the ruin of one good man. If our physicians
will put their intelligence to finding
a substitute for alcohol which shall
cive its mental stimulus without its de;
grading physical results they will De ot
much more benefit to the generations to
come than in profitless controversies over
the specific kind of euergv which alcohol
gives to humanity. It is from the pathological
and not the physiological standpoint
that alcohol should be discussed.'"
Began as a Schoolboy.
Dr. John Henry Barrows says: "In Lawrence,
Mass., I well knew a man of splendid
endowments, handsome ae Apollo,
strong as Hercules, generous as a prince,
who had made fortunes and wasted them
in dissipation, who had brought great misery
on his lovely family, and when I knew
him was fighting a brave fight with the
bondage of the drinking habit. It was in
vain. When 1 stood by nis coffin it seemed
that all I could do was to ask God to bless
the wife and children to whom he left a
legacy of bitter memories. I once asked
him where his fearful slavery began, and
he confessed that it was when he was a
boy at school."
A Steady Increase.
Ballington Booth says: "There is a
steady increase in the number of places
expressly licensed for the sale of intoxicating
drinks. In the comparatively cjuiet
town and village, the traffic of the saloon
is confessedly bringing in its train disturbance
to domestic peace, injury to local
business interests, and poverty to once
thrifty and prosperous homes. But in no
place is the injurious influence of the saloon
a more potent factor than in the city,
?.1 oniann wliir.li uwpIIr the
MIX VI It 19 mc titj e>mwii ??
annual expenditure for liquor to $1,220,000.000.
It is for our governments, civil
and ecclesiastic, to say how long a premium
shali be placed upon t lie city saloon."
The Crusade in Brief.
The savage races which have never
known alcohol are soonest destroyed by it.
If the saloon is half as bad as the canteen's
advocates say it is it ought to "go"
at once.
In a given number of drunkards but a
very few become such through inborn appetite.
If any have the idea that the saloon
power Avill be put down in this country in
s? quiet, orderly way, they have not made
tue subject a careful study.
Considering the influence of alcohol
alone, unchecked by an educated conscicnce,
we must admit that it is the
fctrong and vigorous, not the weak and
perverted, that are destroyed by it.
V
Victoria Refjjniid 23,223 Day*.
Somebody with the bump of statistics
abnormally developed has taken
the trouble to calculate the exact
length of the Victorian era In days,
hours, minutes and even seconds.
As the reign of Queen Victoria began
at 2.20 on the morning of June 20,
1837, and closed at G.30 on the evening
of January 22, 1901, it follows that the
total length was 23,223 days, 557,3SC
full hours, 33,443,170 minutes, or 2,000,590,200
seconds. All but 546^
hours of it were in the nineteenth century.?Tit-Bits.
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Possibilities ot Wytopltlor.k,
If there is one Indian name among
the thousands in use in Maine which
has been misspelled more than another
It Is that by which the village of Wytopitlock
is called. The name has been
cut In pieces, abridged, hacked down
and quartered, and although It is
spelled exactly as it is pronounced the
name has come to be a terror for people
not proficient in Indian lore.
The postmaster there has been interested
to notice tbe different ways of
spelling, and although the amount of
mail received there is not great he has
already made a formidable collection.
Here are a few choice ones from the
lot:
Whltplock, Winter Pitloek, Widow
Pa jlock, Witter Petlock, Witter Felog,
Whytlock, Wytlock, Witter Plotlock,
Wylapittock, Wyptiolock, Witeopltelock,
Wittipelock, Paytolock, Pwytopetlock,
Anytopetlock, Flytopitlock.
Wytopilis, Wyte Pedlock, White Oak
Padlock, Wytoporetock, Wltipidlock,
Westapitiock, Whetlock, Wytopillock.
Mitaplock, Wadopitlocs, Peadloock,
Weetopedloock.?New York Sun.
"The Country Paper."
A "country paper" is defined by tbe
Clinton Herald as a paper published
in a town smaller than that in which
the paper using the term Is published.
Whatever the exact definition may be,
the country paper, collectively considered,
is a mighty power for good or
evil. There is not a great and greedy
in+oroct cHchinff to use the eovern
ment as an agency for the promotion
of its private end that does not take
special pains to enlist its influence.?
Dubuque (Iowa) Telegraph.
Belfast, it is said, is the greatest
tea-drinking city in the United King1
dom.
Thirty minutes is all the time required to
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One of the peculiarities of the Boers is
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F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0.
The first Lombardy poplar in America
was planted in 1785.
I
Gray Hair
"I hive used Ayer'? HairVigor
for over thirty years. It has kept
my scalp free from dandruff and
has prevented my hair from turning
gray."?Mrs. F. A. Soule,
Billings, Mont.
There is this peculiar
thing about Ayer's Hair
Vigor?it is a hair food,
not a dye. Your hair does
not suddenly turn black,
look dead and lifeless.
Butgradually the old color
comes back,?all the rich,
dark color it used to have.
The hair stops falling, too. _
Sl.M 1 bottle. All franbUIX
your druggist cannot supply yon,
send us one dollar and we will express
you a bottle. Be sure and rive the name
it your nearest express office. Address,
J. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass.
"Tbe.Sm.nee that made West Point famous."
MclLH?NNY'S TABA&CU.
_FTt In time. Sold by oroggiiu. IH
Undigested, decayin
of that awful breath, s
y Nobody can stand its ov
y* ones. There is only one
C* clean, let CASCARETS
C properly. Nothing but C
I Starlet
_ OUAKASTKED TO CUKE a
V b?4 breath, bad blood, wlad on
* beadacke. Indirection, plmplea, pa
f# pinion and dlsclaeaa. Wktn ya
\ tettlns ilck. Constipation bill* <
/ It Is a atarter for the chronic alia
V afterwards. Wo Matter what alia
/. yoq will aerer ret well and be n
right. Take oar advlcei start wli
\ namlM to care or Money refuse
vi*.-l":: . ir -^sosaam
-t
HI* Freqnent Experience.
"Did you ever jump from your balloon?"
asked one of the curious by- n
standers. t:
"Often, ma'am," replied the daring e
aeronaut, outwardly calm, although c
this was the thirty-seventh time the h
question had been asked him. that \
day. I
"Dear me! How high up?" (
"Sometimes as high as G000 feet." j
"Why, didn't it hurt you awfully?" c
"Hurt me, madam?" he said, scowl- t
ing ferociously. "It killed me dead c
every time."?New York World. r
Exploded Beliefs.
Oar large dealer^ In raw furs do not
think enough of mole skins to give
them a place on their price lists, yet
farmers continue to send them to market.
The strange little burrowers are
plentiful in many parts of the country,
but a pelt fetches only about as much
as that of a rabbit, which Is well sold
at a cent and a half. Probably threefourths
of the inhabitants of the world
cling to the belief that the mole has
no eyes. We all grow up with that notion.
But it has two of the smallest,
cutest, blackest little beads of optics
that ever were, which can be retracted
and exerted at will. Blind worms are
no more blind than moles are. They
have very quick and brilliant eyes. I
am told that there are no eyeless fishes
in the Mammoth Cave.?Victor Smith,
in New York Press.
The little Grand Duchess Olga of
Dnonln ie +ho hflhv iT? thp Wfirld.
The -week she was byrn $5,000,000 was
invested for her. ]
Speedy, Pr<
Acts quicker, nev<
/A than any laxative kno?
Its action is marvel
RI^HraK^HF No remedy will ci
quick.y and with abaol
Ww Huny
Average Dose: One-half gl
Every druggist and general
1 QI# for the full name,
IV AwII "Hunyadi J&nos.
1?^^ Sole Importers Firm of ANDRE
11 I All
uun
A LUXURY
Lion I A
Coffee
isnot tfirwlE
glazed, tgjr \?\ yt
coated,
or otherwise
treated with
ego
mixtures,
chemicals, *
glue,
etc*t etc.
Lion
Coffee
is a Watch ou
Pure Coffee. Just txT a Packa
and yon will un
??? popularity.
LION COFI
lions of homes.
In every package of LION COFFE
fact, no woman, man, boy or girl will
comfort and convenience, and wh'ich
f A
IJadl
ig food remnants, in the mouth ar
o repulsive as to cause a halt
erpowering stench, and it is a c
; way to cure it?disinfect the dif
stimulate the lining of mouth a
ASCARETS will bring about the des
iter 1 ens.?Detroit
,m" I and m a mlid i
HflMt it to limply wonder
, bothered with
^pcd vu Tery bK?.
?-ce CMcsrets we
^ ^ They are * fro
<1 at 1137 Ritt
^d "Well, I'm ?
11 bowel trcablM, appendicitis, blllsawfii,
the itoascki bloiM bowels, fool mouth.
.Ins after eatlair. llvtr trouble* wlisw connr
bowels don't bot* regularly yum are
>re people than all other diseases together,
enu aad loot reari ofioferlal that coate
yon, start taking CAICABETS toduy, for
'ell all the time aatll yo? pat your bowe*ita
CAICAJUTI today, ander aa ?k**lv
led. M
%
Engliah M. P.'b "Who Preach.
Horace R. Mansfield, the .Radical
icmber for Spalding, vrbo preached
bree times in his constituency on a recti*
Sunday, is not the only member ?
f the present House of Commons who
las occupied the pulpit. George Har- v
rood, M. A., the Liberal member of
iolton, and one of the founders of the 1
'hurch Reform Union, was for three *
ears curate of St. Ann's Church, Man- J
hester; while Cumming Macdona was
he holder of three or four livings in ?
lays gone by, one of which was the
ectorship of Cheville Cheslin. \
A ek Tonr Dealer for Allen's Foot-Eat#, \
i powder to shake into your shoes; rests the
eet. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Sore, I
lot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet and InTowing
Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new
t tight shoes easy. At all druggists and
hoe Btores, 25 cts. Sample mailed FREE. ,
Lddress Allen 8. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y.
Italians call locusts "little horses," and (
hp fjprmnn term -frvr these nests is "hav
lorses." *" " <
FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous- 1
less after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
Jerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free
)r. B. H. Kline, Ltd., 981 ArchSt.,Phila.,Pa.
The largest sponge ever found came j
rom the Mediterranean. It was over three (
;eet across and ten feet in circumference.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
eething, soften the gums, reduces infiammaion,
allays pain, curcs wind colic. 25c a bottle.
In the Republic of Mexico there are
spoken the languages of eleven Indian
;ribes.
I do not believe Piso's Cure for ConBumpion
has an equal for coughs and colds.?John
?. Boteb, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15,1900.
The entire Hebrew Bible was printed in
.488.
i
)mpt and Sure.
r
;r gripes and obtains better results
en. I
Lous, its effect Immediate. [l
are constipation and biliousness so 1
ntelv no discomfort as ,
adiJinos !
assful on arising In the morning.
wholesale grocer In tne world sella It
] HI NT Label with
| DLUl Red Centre Panel.
A5 SAXLEHNER. 130 Fatten St., N. V.
icoi
r WITHIN THE REACH
"IT P
r next advertisement. T^erea
ge Of LION COFFEE From'l
Aarcfor<^ f Vi& *r#>a cnn n*f its So it
Tb-re a
. j .. And Pi
"EE 1S now USe<l m ml^- So to la
Since
E you will find a fully illustrated and de
1 fail to find in the Hst some article which
they may have by simply cutting out a ce
L packages (which is the only form in whic
v
Ireath
id stomach, giving off pestiferoi
in friendship, affection, love,?
ause of terrible misery to those
festive canal with CASCARETS
md stomach, and put it in shap
;ired result * BE SURE YOU GET
: Free Pi..*. a i
0r It
keen ariiif CAfCARKTS <hrn
uid effective laxative they are
ful. My daughter aad I were lev
sick stomach and our breath nrr.
After taking a few doses of
have improved wonderfully, see ?
at help is the family." uaK
1LHEUHNA NAGEL,
eahouao St., Cincinnati, Ohio. I age,
'lad to kno" -Hon* ;t." !
i/ELS AND LIVER.
?. eFAKAJiTEED TO ClTRKi R*c T?i
C1KETI wuwld. Jfow It la oter alz atlllfoc
lallar medicine In thr warld. This I* kb?
ear beat testimonial- We hare faith, and w
S mm a Lend to rare or aaoaey refanded. Go
eat a fair, honeat trial, aa per alaiple direct!
alter ailnr oae 5#c b?x, retara the aaaacd
ui by Biair or the drnnlat fron wham yea p
hack far batb baxea. Take oar advice? no aai
11 ealth will quickly fallow aad yon will Meoa
ofCABCAJUTS. Book free by at a 11. Add: t
He Will Uh Kite*. 1 'M
Among the adventurous explorers .
tow planning an expedition in searck
f the hard-to-reach North Pole is Capain
Bernler, of Quebec, who will take
rith him strong kites fitted with cam* ,
ras, by which, eyen If he fails to get
tear the pole, ne purposes to take
>hotograpbs of such points as he canlot
reach. The success that has at- i
ended the use of the camera by the
tld of kites at great heights leads him
o believe that the method may be
>racticable In the Arctic regions.
?T??????
Summer Complaints 1
DYSENTERY, DIARRHEA,
CHOLERA MORBUS.
Taking the Radway's Ready Relief
In water will In a few moments core
Cramps, Spasms, Sour Stomach, Nansea,
Heartburn, Malarial Fevers, Sick
Headache, Colic, Flatulency and att
Internal Pains.
Externally for Rheumatism, Neuralgia^
Sciatica, Sprains, Bruises, MotQuito
Bites. Stinea of Insects. Sun
burns, Surns, Toothache, Headaches.
Pains in the Back, the application of
m
to the part or parts affected will Instantly
relieve and soon cure the sufferer
of these complaints. Sold by all ;<
druggists. .:M
RADWAT fe CO.. Wow Tort
My neighbor's child was
/ . \ up, the family concluded 3 - ,j
f \ wonldbeuseleMtomakefurther
1 efforts to saTe It, bat on belof ii
i. * v I persuaded, they administer*!
r ?*1 frey's vermifuge,
'v \and over 100 worms were?- I
iQ fX IpeUed. The ohlld recovered.?
V / ?1 /Caleb Hitchcock,Near Zanee^
/ vllle, Ohio. 25 cents at Dra*^
y* (flits, country stores or by mafl.
r i ^ i A perfect tonic for children. .
E. A: g.VnKY, Baltlmrc, .'Id.
advertising rigg/??
nDHDCY KEWDHCOVMT; tfrm
quick relief andearn* worrt
case*. Book of testimonials and 10 days' treatment
Free. Sr. &- H. aUU ItOH. Im I, AUUU, fc.
lvfeaa"! eyThompson^ Eyi Wlllf 'i
TEE]
OP ALL! . ^
AYS YOU TO BUY UON COFFEE"
ce to give housewives a few reasons why
s them to buy LION COFFEE,
rand upon which they can always rely,
t pays them to buy LION COFFEE.
purest and the cheapest, the wholeiomest,
satisfaction the whole country through,
DT glazed or colored, has natural hue?
t pay* you to buy LION COFFEE, >a
your quantity full, and your quality right,
pays you to buy LION COFFEE.
&150 BOZQC OU2CT lUUUCCUiCUll IU ?igu?
pay you to buy LION COFFEE.
head cn every wrapper you'll find,
ickage is with a big Premium Lift lined*
joints out nice presents of every kindpays
you to buy LION COFFEE.
i get Silver Spoons, Thimbles, Scissora or
ns,
pays yon to buy LION COFFEE, ,
ing or Gold Watch that your praises well
n8' ral
pays you to buy LION COFFEE,
las or Pictures, or Cutlery fine, ,
Handkerchiefs, Belts?things in every line,
h use and ornament often combine,
pays rou to buy LION COFFEE.
re toys for the b^by.the girl or the boy,
pays you to buy LION COFFEE,
)olls up to Kites?each a suitable toy,
pays you to buy LION COFFEE
re Household Utensils for everyday use,
ctures as pretty as Art can produce,
ck all such goods you have no excuse,
it pays you to buy LION COFFEE.
scriptiv* list No housekeeper, in
will contribute to their happiness, ,
:rtain number of Lion Heads from I
h this ^cellent coffee is sold"). I
W0L50N 5PICB CO., TOLEDO, OHIO. 5
is gases, are the cause A
any form of intimacy. <5
afflicted and their dear <5
5! Clean it out, keep it <5
e to work naturally and
THEM! <5
1. I
iOc. j
NEVER SOLD IN BULK, 4}
nnr r/^^? rrT^ #1
UJKUUKJIOIO ?S
in ?(t (he flrat Vox of OAS* X
i boxM a year, (rcattr tkaa ur WM
slate proof of mat nerlt, and C
iii nI( CAtOASKTI absolutely A]
boy today, two SOe b?zM, flw V
Mil and if yoa are set satisfied V\
&?r box aad the eapty box U W
arehand It, aad set your Money \
ittcr what alia you?etart today. 41
the day too ant atarted the aoe #
rin.ua ttaicT oo., ??? i-? m amn.
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