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I DEATH OF DR. TALMAGE MUm Appropriate Reprinting HIS FAMOUS SERMON ?? Considered by Many the Masterpiece of the Great Pulpit Orator i "Onihe Choice of a Wife." urUn Hot For lH-XoltltodM XTho L Xiftr Win Marry, Who Art Not Fit I ' to Xarry?Some Enlwat BliadertnArald XatckB?k?r*-EuMtlal Qaall?lw laaaty a Benediction. t Washtxotoiv, D. C?Tbe following discourse is one of a series of scrmoDS on domestic life delivered several years ago by tbe late Ksr. Dr. T. De Witt Talmage, and by many admirers is considered bis pulpit masterpiece. In commemoration if nit deatb it is now republished. It was | founded on tbe test. Judges xiv, 3: "Is I tbere never a woman among tbe dangbters of tby brethren, or among all my people, that thoa zoeft to take a wife of tbe uncircumcised Philistines?" Samson, tbe riant, is here asking content of bis father and mother to marriage with one whom tbey thought unfit , for him. He was wise in asking their . Mima*), bnt not wise in rejecting it. Capj /tinted with bkr looks, the big too wanted to marry a daughter of one of the hostile families, a deceitful, hypocritical, whining and saturnine creature, who afterward made for him a world of trouble till the I cuit him fororer. In my text his parents forbade tbe banns, practically saying: "When there are so many honest and beautiful maidens of yoar own country, are you so hard put to for a lifetime partner that you propose conjugality with this foreign flirt* Is there such a dearth of I lilies in our Israelitish gardens that vou miut wear on your mart a rminuw I thistle? Do you take a trabapple because there are no pomegranates? l? there never > a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife ot the uncircumCtted Philistines?" Excuseless was be for such a choice in a land and amid a race celebrated for fe-1 male loveliness and moral worth, a land and a race of which self-denying Abigail and heroic Deborah, and dazzling Miriam, and pious Esther, and glorious Ruth, and llarjr, who hugged to her heart the blessed Lord," were only magnificent specimens. The midnight folded in their aair, the lakes of liquid beauty io their eye, the gracefulness of spring moraine in their * posture and fait, were only typical of the Kter brilliance and glory of their soul, (wise excuseless is any man in our time who makes lifelong alliance with any ooe who, because of her disposition, or heredity, or habits, or intellectual vanity, or moral twistification, may be said to be ?f the Philistines. The world never owned such opulence of womanly character or such splendor of womanly manners or multitudinous instance* of wifely, motherly, daughterly, sterly devotion, as it owns to-day. I bare not words to expres* my admiration for good womanhood. Woman is not only man's equal, but in affectional and religious nature, which is the best part of ? i" ?twr rmt Bll cu tlV, ?U5 M MV. l Mnor. Yea, during the last twenty year*, through the increased opportunity opened for female edacation. the women of the country are better educated than the majority of men; and if they continue to advance mentally at the present ratio, beI fore long the majority of men will bare difficulty in finding in the opposite sex nough ignorance to make appropriate consort. If I am under a delusion at to the abundance of good womanhood abroad, consequent upon my surroundings since the hour I entered this life until now. 1 hope the delusion will last until I embark from this planet. So you will understand, if I say in this course of sermons something that seems severe, I am neither tynical nor disgruntled. There are in almost every farmhouse in the country, in almost every home of the pent town, conscientious women, worshipful women, sclf-sacrificinc women, holy women, innumerable Mans, sitting at the innnmwsW* mntlu>n. hplfV Sto feed Christ in the person of Hi? erine disciple*; ? thousand capped and pectacled grandmothers Lois, bending over Bibles whose precepts they have followed from early girlhood; and tena of thooacnda of young women that are dawning upon us from school and seminary, that are going to bless the world with good and happy homes, that shall eclipse 1 all their predecessor*, a fact that will be acknowledged by all men except those who . art struck through with morel decay from tee to cranium; and more inexcusable than the Samson of the text is that man who, amid all this unparalleled munificence of womanhood, marries a fool. But Kraie of you are abroad suffering from och disaster, and to halt others of you from going over the same precipice, I cry at in the words of my text: "Is there fcever a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?" That marriage is the destination of the ' human race is a mistake that I want to correct before I go further. There sre multitudes who never will marry, and still gre&der multitudes who are not fit to any. In Great Britain to-day there are L mm hundred and fortv-eirht thousand i More women than men. and that. I underwUnd, it about the ratio in America. By Biathematical and inexorable law. you Me, million* of women will never marry. The supply for matrimony greater than ' fcbtr demand, the first lenon of which is that every woman ought to t?*pare to take care of herself if need be. Iben there are thousands of men who have no right to marry, because they have become ao corrupt of character that their offer of marriage is an insult to any good woman. Society will have to be toned up and corrected on this subject. so that it shall realise that if a woman who has sacrificed W? honor is unfitted for marriage, ao is any man who has ever sacrificed his purity. What right have you. 0 masculine beast? whose life has been loose, to take oder your care the spotlessness of a virK' i reared in the sanctity of a respectable me? Will a buzzard dare to court a dove* But the majority of you will marry, and have a right to marry, and a? your religious teacher I wish to uv to these men. in the choice of a wife first of all seek divine direction About thirtv-five year* axo. when Martin Farouhar Tupper. the English poet, urged men to prayer before they decided upon matrimonial uaaociation. people laughed. And tome of them hare > imd to laugh on the other tide of their Booth. The need of dirine direction I argue from the fact that ao manv men, and aome of them atrong and viae, have wrecked their livea at thia juncture. Witneaa Samaon and thia woman of Timnath! Witneaa Socrates, p*.ked of the hiatorical Xanlippe! Witneaa Job. whoae wife had nothing to prescribe for hia carbuncles bat allopathic dose* of profanity! Witneaa Anania*. a liar, trho might perhaps have been cured by a truthful spo'ine. yet marrying aa great a liar as himself?Sapphira! Witneaa John Wesley^ one of the beat ten that ever lived, united to one of the most outrageous ?uu Kauuaiuui ui numcu, who ut in City Road Chapel making mouth* at him while be preached! Witnew the once connubial wretchedness of John Ruskin, the great art essayist, and Frederick W. Robertson, the neat preachk er. Witness a thousand bells on earth kindled by unworthy wives, termagants *u-? ?u i:l. . u?l r. mule spendthrifts, that put their hutbands into fraudulent schemes to get money enough to meet the lavishment of domestic expenditure; opium-using women?shout four thousand of them in the United State*?who will hare the drug, though should cause the eternal damnation of the whole household; hearties* and overbearing, and namby-pamby and unmsoatbk women, ret married?married I perhaps to good men! The* are the women who build the low club-houses, where the husbands and sons go because they can't stand it at home. On this sea of mathmony, where so many fcave wrecked, am I not right in advising divine pilotage? Especially is devout supplication needed, becaure of the fact that society is so full of artificialities that men are deceived as to whom they arc marrying, and no one but the Lord knows. After the dressmaker. and the milliner, and the jeweler, and the hair-adjuster, and the dancingmaster, and the cosmetic art have completed their work, how is an un*onhi?tiratrd man to decipher the physiological hieroglyphics, and 'make accurate ludgment of who it is to whom he offers hand and heart? That ia what makes so many rrcreant husbands. Thev make an honorable marriage contract, but the goods delivered are so different from the sample by which they bargained. They were swindled, and they backed out. They mistook Jezebel for Longfellow's Evangeline. and Lucretia Borgia for Martna Washington. .Aye, ac the Indian chief boasta of the calps he has taken, ao there are in society to-day many coquettes who boast of the masculine hearts they have captured. And thene women, though they may live amid n<<hMt unholsterv. are not so honorable as the cyprians of the street for these advertise their infamy, while the former | profess heaven while they mean hell, j There is so much counterfeit womanhood abroad it is no wonder that some I cannot tell the genuine coin from the base. : Do you not realize you need divine guid' ance when I remind you that mistake is possible in this important affair, and, if made, is irrevocable: The worst predicament possible is to be unhappily yoked together. You see it is impossible to break the yoke. The more you pull apart, thj more galling the yoke. The minister might bring you up again, and and in your presence read the marriage ceremony backward, might put you on the opposite sides of the altar from ?*-?- wlim vou were united. ;v? ? . might take the ring off of the finger, might rend the wedding veil asunder, might tear out the marriage leaf from the family Bible record, but that would fail to unmarry you. It ia better not to make the mistake than to attempt its correction. But men and women do not reveal all their characteristics till after marriage, and how are you to avoid committing the fatal blunder? There is only one Being in tie universe who can tell you whom to choose, and that is the Lord of Paradise. He ? -J" P... <-> A /la m Mlli Alium for Eve. luauv ?ltv IVl MWMui f wmmm-mm ? f nd both for etch other. Adaoi had not a large group of women from whom to select hut wile, but it iii fortunate, judging from some mistakes which ahe afterward made, that it was Eve or nothiug. There is in all the world aome one who was made for you, as certainly as Eve waa made for Adam. All aorta of miatakes occur because Eve waa made out of a rib from Adam's side. Nobody knowa which of his twenty-four ribs was taken for the nucleus. If you depend entirely upon youraeif in the selection of a wife, there are twenty-three possibilities to one that " -* ?i :L t>. you Will select U?? wrung riu. w; UK ?> of Ahab, whose wife induced him to steal: by the fate of Macbeth, whose wife pushed him into massacre; by the fate of James Ferguson, ihe philosopher, whose wife entered tne room while he was lecturing and willfully upset his astronomical apparatus, so that he turned to the audience and said. "Ladies and gentlemen, 1 have the mixfortune to be married to this woman;" by the fate of Bulwer, the novelist, whose wife's temper was so incompatible that he furnished her a beautiful house near London and withdrew * ?? i with th. lrum ucr vuui^au/, iu*?iu| mv* ? ? ? dozen dogs whom the entertained aa pets: by the fate of John Milton, who married a termagant after he wis blind, and when tome one called her a rose, the poet said: "1 am no iudge of flowers, bat it may be so, for 1 leel the thorns daily;" by the fate of an Englishman whose wife was so determined to dance on his grave that he was buried in the sea; by the fate of a village minister whom I knew, whose wife threw a cup of hot tea across the table because they differed in sentiment?by all these scenes of disquietude and domestic calamity, we implore you to be cautious ntnl nruv?rfiil )u*fr>n> vou rntfr tllton the connubial state, which decide* whether a man ahall have two heavens or two hell*, a heaven here and heaven forever, or a hell now and a hell hereafter. By the bliss of Pliny, whose wife, when her husband was pleading in court, bad messengers coming and going to inform her what impreasion he was making; by the joy of Grotius, whose wife delivered him from prison under the pretence of having books carried oift lest they be ini*urious to his health, she sending out her tusband unobserved in one of the bookcases; by the good fortune of Roland, in Louts' time, whose wife translated and composed for her husband while Secretary of the Interior?talented, heroic, wonttnlanr)* Kv thinniviMi of many a man who hat made intelligent choice of one capable being prime counselor and companion in brightness and in grief?pray to Almighty God. morning, noon, and night, that at the right time and in the right way He will tend you a good, honeit, loving, sympathetic wile; or if she is not sent to you, that you may be sent to her. At this noint let me warn you not to let a question of thi* importance be settled by the celebrated matchmakers flourishing in almout every community. Depend upon your own judgment divinely illumined. These brokers in matrimony are ever planning bow they can unite impecunious innocencc to an heiress, or celibate woman to millionaire or marquis, and that in many cases makes life an unhappiness. How can any human being, who knows neither of the two parties aa (Jod knows tbvm, and who is ignorant of the future, give such directions as you require at such a crisis? Take the advice of the earthly matchmaker instead of the divine guidance, and you may some day be led to use the words of Solomon, whose experience in home life was aa melancholy aa it was multitudinous. One day his palace, with its great wide rooms and great wide doors and great wide hall, was too small for him ana the loud tongue of a woman belaboring him about some of his neglects, and ne retreated to the housetop to get relief from the fungal bombardment. And while there he saw a poor man on one corner of the roof with a mattress for his only furniture, and the open akv his only covering. And Solomon envies aim and cries out: "It is beter to dwell in the corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house." And one dav during the rainy season the water leaked through the roof of the i*!ace and began to drop m a pail or>pan set there to catch it. And at one aide of bim all day long the water went drop! drop! drop! while on the other side a female companion quarreling about this, and quarreling about that; the acrimonious ana peiuiani worus tailing on his ear in cea*efe?w pelting?drop! drop! drop! and be seized Inn pen and wrote: "A continual dropping in a very rainv day and a contentious woman are alike.*' If Solomon bed been as prayerful at the beginning of bin life as he was at his close. how much domestic infelicity he would have avoided? But prayer about this will amount to nothing unless vou prav soon enough. ._ i j Ti ???ii unm >ou arc iKBcinainj and tnc equilibriirn of your soul is disturbed by a magnetic and exquisite presence. and tnen you will i.nwer your own prayer*, and you will mistake your own infatuation for the voice of God. If you have this prayerful spirit you will rarely avoid all female scoffers at the Christian religion; and there are quite a number of them in all communities It must be told that, though the oniv influence that keeps woman from being esiunaieu ana ireaiea as a siave?nve. n? a brute and beaut of burden?is Christianity. since where it is not dominant ahe is so treated: yet there are women who will so far forget themselves and forget their God that they will go and hear lecturers malign Christianity and scoff at the most sacred things of the soul. A good woman, over-persuaded by her husbsnd. may eo once to hear such a tirade against the Christian religion, not fully knowing what she is going to hear; but ahe will not go twice. A woman, not a Christian, bnt a respecter of religion, said to me: "I wan persuaded by my husband to go and hear an infidel lecture once, but going home I said to him: "My dear liusband. 1 would not go again though ray declination should mult in our divorcement forever." A&d (he woman was right. If alter all that Christ and Christianity bar* dona for a woman, nhe can go again and again ? ?f.,1 to near sucn in?auu*. mc ? < ? ^? tare, and vou had better not come near rich a reeking lepress. She ue?ls to be washed, and for tnree week* to be soaked in carbolic acid, and for a whole year fumigated, before she is fit for decent society. While it is not demanded that a woman be a Christian before marriage, she must have regard for the Christian religion or she is a bad woman and unworthy of being your companion in a life charged with such stupendous solemnity and vicissitudes. What you want. 0 man! in a wife, is not a butterfly of the sunshine, not a ??nnn>nt!?r not a Minted doll. IS'**""* t , , not a gossiping gadabout. not a mixture of artificialities which leave you in doubt as to where the humbug ends and the woman begins, but an earnest soul, one that cannot only laugh when you laugh, but weep when you weep. There will be wide, deep graves in your path of life, and you will both want steadying when you come to the verge of them, I tell you. When your fortune fails you will want some one to talk of treasures in heaven, and not charge upon you with a bitter, "I told you so." As far an 1 can analyze it. sincerity and earne?tnes? are the foundation of all worthv wile noon, wt mat. ana tuu all. Fail to get that, and you get nothing but what you will wiah yon never bad got. Don't make the miatake that the man of thr text made in letting hia eye nettle the question in which coolest judgment directed bv divine wisdom are all-important. He who has no reason for hia wifely choice except a pretty face ia like a man who ahould buy a farm becauae of the dahlias in the front doorvard. Beauty is a talent, and when God gives it He in* tends it as a benediction upon a woman's face. When the good Princeai of Walea dismounted from the rail train last summer. and I saw her radiant face, I could understand what they told me the aay before, that, when at the great military hsianifal ar? nnw the wounded and the ?ick from the Egyptian and other wan, the Princes* passed through, all the nick were checred at her coming. and those who could be roused neither by doctor nor nurse from their stupor, would get up on their elbows to look at her. and wan and wnrted lips prayed an audible prayer: "God bless the Princess of Wales. Doesn't ahe look beautiful?" But how uncertain ia the tarrying of brautv in a human countenance! .Explosion of a kerosene lamp turns it into ancrification. and a scoundrel with one dash of vitriol may dispel it, or Time will drive hi? chariot wheels across that bright face, cutting it up in deep rut* and gullies. But there ia an eternal beauty on the face of some women, whom a rough and ungal> lant world may criticise as homelv; and though their features mav contradict all the lawa of Lavater on physiognomy, yet they have gracea of soul that will keep them attractive for time and glorloua j through ai' eternity. There are two or three circumatanee* I in wuicn me plainest wut ? tjucvu u> beauty to her husband, whatever her stature or profile. By financial panic or betrayal of business partner, the man com down, and returning to his home that evening. he ?ays: "I am ruined: I am in disgrace forever: I care not whether I lire or die.' It ia an agitated ?torr he is telling in the household that winter night. He says: "The furniture meat go, the bonne must go, the social position must go." and from being sought for obsequiouslv they moat be cold-shouldered everywhere. After he ceases talking, and the wife has heard all in silence, she says: "la that all? Why. you had nothing when I married yon. anl you have onlv come bark to where yon atr.rted. If von think that my happiness and that of the children depend on these trapping*, you do not know me. though we bave lived together thirty year*. God ia not dead, and the National Bank of Heaven ha* not suspended payment, and if you don't mind. I don't care a cent. What little we need of food and raiment the rest of our live* we can get. and I don't pronose to *it down and mope and groan. Mary, hand m?* that darningneedle. I declare! I have forcotten to set the rising for thote cakes! And while ?he is busy at it he hears her humming nlH hrmn. ''To-morrow." The husband looks up in amazement, and says- "Well. well, you are the greatest woman I ever saw. I thought you would faint dead away when I told vou." And na he looks at her all the glories of physiognomy >n the Court of Louis XV. on the modern fashion plates, are tame as compared with the superhuman splendors of that woman's face. Joan of Arc. Mary Antoinette, and La Belle Hamilton, the enchantment of the Court of Charles II, are nowhere. There is another time when the plainest wife is a queen of beauty to her husband. i Wa n*nrl* aP ltf* SKf> hll reared her children for God and heaven, and though ?ome of them may be a little wild thev will yet pome back, for (iod ha* promised. She ia drinc, and her huaband standii by. They think over all the year* of their companioniihip. the weddinjr* and the burials. the up* and the down, th* successea and the failure*. They talk over the jtoodne** of God and Hi* faithfulnewi to children'* children. She ha* no fear about jroinfr. The Lord ha* *u*taincd her *o many year* ?he would not dare to diatru*t Him now. The lips of both of them tremble as thev say good-by and en rouraRC rotu uuirr o??"uv mi cnu? uiwvmpt in a better world. The breath is feebler and feebler, and stop*. Are yon Mire of it? Just hold that mirror at the mouth, and see if there is any vapor (fathering on the surface. Gone! As one of the neighbor* takes the old man by the arm gently and says: "Come, you had better go into the next room and rest." be says: "Wait a moment; I must take one more look at that face and at those bands!" Beautiful! Beautiful! Mv friends I hope you do not call that death. That ia an autumnal sunset. That is a crystalline river pouring into a crystal sea. That is the solo of humnn life overpowered by hallelujah chorus. That it a queen's coronation. That ia heaven. That is the wav my father stood at eightytwo. weinc my mother depart at seventy nine. Perhap* no vour father and mother went. I wonder if we will die u well. A Prsrer. Teach me, God, to walk gentlv amid th? many cares and distractions of my daily life. Let me be filled with the spirit of calm that quiet* the fever of desire and the ache of disappointment. Let me believe that Thou who ha?t given to Tby children their longing for life and love and beauty, wilt not leave them unratisfied in their loneliness. Thy purposes are greater than our purposes. even a* Thou art strength where we find ourselves only in weakness. Then let me trout myself with serenity to the leading* of that purpose which I cannot understand. anu, wnue i wait and work ami suffer in my mortal blindne**, may my heart so pn out in ?vmpathv to those who al*o wait and work around me that I may help in none real, even if small. way to hasten the coming of Thy kingdom on the earth. Oar Dotlea. We often make our duties harder b) thinking them hard. \W dwell on thing* we do not like until they grow before our eye*, at last, perhaps, shut out heaven itaelf Hut this is not following our Moater. and He, we may be sure, will value little the obedience of a discontented heart The moment we see that anything in to be done is a plain duty, we must resolutely trample out every rising impulse of dia content. We must not merely prevent our discontent ircm interfering with the duty ibidi; we must not merely prevent it from breaking out into murmuring, we muat get rid of the discontent itself. Cheerfulness in the nervice of Christ is one of the first requisites to make that service Christian ? Frederick Temple. The Method of Jesus. The method of Jesus in saving sou's a by the gentle, powerful influences of God, not by mere force and strength. It is no*, the things that are most noisy and demr.r. strative that accomplish tbe most in thij world. In nature it is not the roar of the storm that accomplishes tbe most tor tits growth of vegetation, hut the gentle lain drop* that cause the seeds to spring up. These are the mighty, silent forcts in nature. So it is in receiving graec. H** would not force the will of man, but rather fcake them willing.?The Rev. Or. W. ?!. Noble. Preibvteriau. Etdlrmdi. Cat. "IfIII*" Clark lUr* tM, Mr. Bellamy?'"Mr. Chairman. I do not rise for tbe purpose of making a speech; but 1 am not at all versed In postoflice dialect or postoflice law. and I should like to ask tbe chairman of tbe committee what Is tbe meaning of 'nixie clerk?' I see it in several places In the bill." Mr. Loud?"If the gentleman will consult tbe dictionary be will find out what 'nixie' means. 'Nixie' as applied to a clerk, is a clerk who is designated to decipher substantially illegible ad/lrMioa "?rVinpTf'Rslnnfll Rppnrd. Condemned In MlMonri Mid Confiscated In New York. Judge Clarke, of St. Louis, has convicted and fined heavily a number of grocers for selling baking powders containing alum. Tbe week before the Health Department of New York seized a quantity of stuff being sold for baking powder which they found wan made from alum mixer* with ground rock, and dumped It into the river. Tbe health authorities are thus taking effective means to prevent the in* ? *1? 1-4- MM. WA*<! A# liuuuluuu iuiu vui uiaikcts ut jujmilous substitutes in place of wholesome baking powders. As alum costs only two cents a pound, there Is a great temptation for those manufacturers who make substltutes and imitation goods, to use It. Alum baking powders can be detected by the health authorities by chemical analysis, but the ordinary housekeeper, whose assistance in protecting tbe | neann or loe people is ini[tunnui, ntunot make a chemical examination. She may easily know the alum powders, however, from the fact that they are sold at from ton to twenty cents for a pound can. or that some prize?like a spoon, or glass, or piece of crockery, or wooden ware?is given with tbe powder as an Inducement. As the people continue to realize tbe Importance of this subject and consumers Insist on having baking powder of established name and character, and as the health authorities continue their vigorous crusades, the alum danger will, it Is hoped, fiually be driven from our homes. 8b* Wu Quite Another Pearl. Just because they made a practice of dining in a Chestnut street restaurant tbey believed they owned tbe establishment and everybody connected with it. There were three of them, just past tbe maturity age of manhood, and as they tilted their bats on one side tbey Imagined themselves bound to draw to their feet any woman upon whom hey cast their eyes. One day they took their seats as usual and were agreeably surprised to see a new waitress wbo?- looks entitled her to more than . .ssing glance. After lookiug at each other for a minute they determined to add ber to their lists of conquests. The waitress, bowever, was not apparently impressed with tbe tbree. and completely ignored tbem. Just tlien another waitress addressed the new girl as "Pearl." Quick as a flash^onc of tbe tbree re Iliurkfu. cu juu rt* iur jn.uii ui ^icui price." No sooner wns the quotation made than she replied: "No. I'm tbe pearl that was cast before swine."?Philadelphia Telej-Taph. The Fruit Car*. The curative value of fruit is becoming more and more insisted upon by those who made a study of dietetics. iinAnJ.ul /ni? tko /lira. Ultt|IVS UIC ICVUUIUJVUUVU tvi ?U\. WJO peptic, the consumptive, the anemic, and for those with a tendency to gout and liver troubles. Plums also are said to be a cure for gouty and rheumatic tendencies. The acid fruits, especially lemons and oranges, are particularly good for stomach troubles and rheumatism. It is not sufficient, say the advocate* of the fruit cure, to eat a small quan< tity at breakfast or dinner. One should eat from two to eight pounds of grapes a day, or, if oranges are the curative agency, the number to be eaten in a day may vury from three to liz. The healthy condition of the body j depends upon a perfect balance of j roods tab'en. inere are many iuciors | entering Into tLe question, but tills feature must not be forgotten. Few , people there are who can keep healthy without fruit.?The Syracuse Clinic. A Knowing Little Girl. One more remarkable child bag been 'heard from, whom her friends credit with a number of conversational hits. Being asked her age. she replied: "I'm live on the cars, but seven at home;" which doesn't reflect creditably on the railroad ethics of her parents. She is perfectly competent in putting down the impertinent stranger. She wao " u*xiiu|, uci IUIUUI uiuiuci IUC other day down the avenue, when an elderly man, passing by, looked at the baby with kindly Interest, saying, "Hello, little girl." This was too much for tbe loyal sister, wbo retorted: " 'Tain't a girl. It's tbe same as you be."?New York Tribune. Putting to T??t. If tbose people wbo deny tbe exist* ence of everything they can't see would manifest no hesitancy about thrusting their arms through the H]>uk< space of a high-speed fly-wheel, their unbelief would be somewhat more logical and convincing.?New York Com merciul Advertiser. Ask Yoar Dealer For Allen's Foot-Rase. A powder. It rests the feet. Cures Corns Bunion*,.Swollen, Bore, Hot, Callous, Aching Sweating Foet and Ingrowing Nail*. Allen i Foot-Ease make* new or tight shoes easy. A' aU Druggists and Shoe stores. 25 cent*. Ac eept suif?t ltut?*. t*ainpie maueu mec. Addret>.s Allen H. Olmsted. Leltoy, X. Y. Berlin's richest inhabitant has paid I tax of &3.JU0 uu bis last year's incoinc oi $5S3,T50. FITS permanently cured* Nofltsornerwiv new#after lint day's use of Dr. Kline's XervelUt>torer.t2irial bjUleuud troati'Mtrtti Dr. K.H. Kline, Ltd., Xil ArchSt., Phila., Pa. Tlie man who is willing to lend you money to morrow alwuys wants to borrow to-day. Sweat and fruit aciils will not dlscolot goods dyed with Pctsa* Fadeless Dim. Sold by Ml druggihts. Some blonde* are blue-eyed, but more are peroxide. I am wire Plso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three yean ago.?Mm. Thomas RobbixB, Maple St., Norwich. N. Y., Feb. 17,1'JOO. Lifeboats were invented by Lionel Lakin. a London coach builder. thing* not m tbcj 9mm. A youth with a cmtcb leaned np npainst the end of the car. "Poor fel- d low." murmured a sympathetic woo- f an: "why doesn't some one give him a e wat?" Finally she got up and gave ii him her own place. The boy looked t. surprised, but tock it. standing bis n cratch up before bim. "He ain't n lame," grinned a man; "he's just takin' V that crutch to a lame man from the c place where he works!" The woman f glared, but the boy nonchalantly held r on to bis crutch and the seat it bad a won for bim.?New York Press. s] Mrs. Sophie Binns Peoples Christian Fruitvale, Bal., Cured Inflammation of the C Pinkham's Vegetable ( " Dear Mrs. Pinkham : ?Eighi sick woman. I had felt for some weaker, but finally I had such seve I had taken cold during menstruatioi tion of the ovaries and inflammation, stand on my feet. The doctor reco would not hear of. One of my frier Pinkhom's Vegetable Compoi you imagine my feeling when withir better, my general health was impr disappeared. I kept taking it six x the best of health, thanks to you. Y $5000 FORFEIT IF THE ABOVI When women are troubled with menstruation, weakness, leucorrhoea, womb, that bearing-down feeling, inflr bloating (or flatulence), general debili tratioa, or are beset with such symptoi excitability, irritability, nervousness (rone" ana wwant-to-be-left-alone" : they should remember there is one t riuuiun a ? cf cmumc vvtupviuiu Refuac to buy any other medicine, foi Can a Man Salv* Bis Own Ship. j A problem in shipping law bas been j rained at Yarmouth, where the owner i of a trawler has presented a claim to j an insurance club for salving his own , vessel. Four hands went ashore, leav- ' ing only two young bands abourd. When they tried to return th-> ebb tide prevented them reaching the vessel, and they had to land at the beach. The owner going down to her, and finding her in what he considered a position of risk, got a mau to assist him, and together th:*j brought the trawler Lack into the harbor. He holds that the insurers shoulu compensate bim for saving his own trawler.? London Globe. She Would Not be Without It Now. Neither would thousands of others. We refer to Vogeler's Curative Compound ; it does so much good and seems to reach every form of stomach trouble, that people have found that it is the one true specific. And what are stomach troubles ? The easiest answer is that three-quarters of all the dis cases ana ailments wnicn anect us proceed from one form or another of stomach trouble. Indigestion is one of the worst and most prevalent forms, but Vogeler's Curative Compound cures indigestion. Here is one instance: Mr. W. Bowel], of 54, Priory Street, Winchester, Col., writes : " I wish to state that rny wife has been taking Vogeler's Curative Compound for a long time, and it is the only thing that has done her any real good for indigestion, in fact nothing would induce her to be without a bottle now.". When we stop to seriously consider the fact, that this great remedy is made from the formula of one of the most eminent living l^indon nhvsicians. it is no wnnripr that people who have happily experienced the benefit to be derived from its use, will not now be without it at any cost. St. Jacob's Oil, Ltd.. Baltimore, Md., will send yoa a free sample bottle. Write them. ' |n|| | 'B Sold by 6j LktugUi Stores in , tV^llH American cities, and the best H retail thoe dealers everywhere. V a.; ff futloa! The genuine have M 1" I K>u;!a?' name and Xoiletinerrau e/ tale* (a talU Mm ~ lW9=^UMPllrfc inoo? 1, J .j ; 34 Pain. Bus!atst Jtore Than Doubled In four Yeaii. W.fiw5R?i?i'ii and #e!U niorr- nw.V? fs.oo &r?l$J..V?:?* ? than an* oilirr tmunirnalsrtiima. W.I_lK)U>'la*$r. i\>a'iil |3.:o?4ii>r? iilai n1 aidr l.j idr will (iui.tmt |e.i*i !><? ? of of fir: inakr* are found to 1m- iuM a* kimmI. Tl.r* will ontwrai H?? inuri of ordinary $4.m ami $3.U) Had* of the brit leather*. Including Patent Corona Kid. Corona Colt and national Kangaroo. (M Cater lr>Mi mm* Ihup Hark (Mb Cm4. wj>tent>? m "HI* I4|t LIm" naM W ><hIM. ?bow by mall. t!i rta. extra. Citalor * - *" ? 'MtllCtHI HmtH,. Mmmm IJr * ? ckup litis trr1s-nirKr" r' ?;W-'S TK AN?-l!ONTIKKNT A<. KKEH-JIT <J?.f ?VSl?rhc? "uVuicm*., *? ?% . *??> M., X.? ?- m Tallow Candle* Have Gone On'* Fully eighty-five per cent, of canlies burnt In Great Britain are made rom paraffin wax. more or less stiffned by varying admixtures of stearae. Then come stearine candles bemselves. and Anally beeswax, sperlaeetl and other candles composed of lixtures of more or less rare waxes. Ve have said "good-by" 10 the tallow andle?It is a smoky, smelly, wasteul light?but the beeswax candle still emains with us. the most expensive nd luxurious, but quite the most resectable and venerable of all.?Idler. President Young r emperance U nion, of Congestion and Ovaries by Lydia E. Compound. teen months ago I was a pretty months that I gradually grew re pains I could hardly stand it. n and this developed into congesand I could not bear to walk or mmended an operation which I ids advised me to try Lydia E. lnd, so I gave it a trial. Can i two months I felt considerably oved, and my pains had entirely treeks more and am now enjoying ours truly, Mrs. Sophie Binns." G LETTER IS NOT GENUINE, irregular, suppressed or painful displacement or ulceration of the immation of the ovaries, backache, ity, indigestion, and nervous pros ns as dizziness, faintness, lassitude, j , sleeplessness, melancholy, "allfeelings, blues, and hopelessness, ried and true .remedy. Ljdis E. at once removes such troubles. ' you need the best. EVERY BOY of SrALniso'* Jr^0 Urn Bill nraif Plcttirw of orrr *u t'lnyrr?: X/** u?w rnl<* for I#"3: - - Ji-J_ > Vh utber rtadlnirinatier. "V>> m Hrlr*. lop, or from any dm 1 t. Kr ke - f ; iU ham!Mm* ralalotrur of ba?? ball am! athletic [ ort?. A.G. Staldiso k Bar,*., Ntw Vom.t'mcaoo, I>k?ykk. HUH fnmnl^P F VUUIJ/IVIV JU Internal' ?tit Ill I lAIIO nor miLLiuno uoc i Assisted by Cuticura Oixtment, for ing the skio. for cleansing the scalp oi stopping of falling hair, Jor softening, and sore hand?, for baby rashes, itcl purposes of the toilet, bath, and nnrser Soap in the form of bafhs for annoyi conations, for too free or offensive pe ulcerative weakness*, and for many readily suggest themselves to wornei oap is to be compared with CUTIC - ? I X- i V. Deauuiying me skiu, scaip, nan, ?uu > toilet soap, however expensive, if to be of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Thu Price, the best akin aud complexion soap in the world. COMPLETE EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL Jf - ---- - CooaiatinfofCuTiruu liTipiira c*sr*- *nd ?'uo <i tUIIVIUil to iMtaou? kjur itcbi and bval; and Ccrricr*. THE SET SI. ?hebJood. AHIN0I.E8 diaflguring, Itching, bar raabee, Iteblnpa, and Irritations, with Iom of hair, world. Britiah Itepot* 27-2*. Cfcarterbouac E^., I'aria. POTTKB DbCO AMD CM*. CORT tk)l? Fl trm. Crnmu Keioltskt Pilli (Chocolate Coat* rabetltute for ibr oetebrau-d liquid Ctrricca* Kci and humour cure*. Excb {Mil la equivalent to one acrrw-cap pocket Tiaia. containing the aamr nc OLVBXT, prici' 26c. Cmcl'li IlLU are alu-rati queeiton the pureet. aweeteat, moat ruccaaaful aoc c&raa, aad took digMtlvc* jet cctcpoaadad. Cblckm Raising KitnonHurr* Time was when an egg with tW yelks was k rarity, but nowadays iponv hum nro ponnnmlzloir on ffhfllil notwithstanding the cheapness of Ume. The quantity of double eggs in the market to attracting attention froa amateur poultry breeders, who pt9- * poso a scientific investigation. Om voting woman in Long Island bas seta ben on a dozen of them with tbe expectation of batching out twenty-fear chicks. "Either two dozen chicks," she say*, "or twelve twins.** ? New York Press. in 1 boon enangn for anybody! ^ll Havana Filler 'fLORODORA BANDS are of same value as tags from 'STANDARD HA V/"JOLLY TAfC v. r;;spearhead.r 'mar - AnH'ST&R'Tnhxrrn IB#'HT-1* ROIOiBllmSSSS i tmfi* vn lit? it. ????> ??! ( ill if*tmm P~ il MU( lUkrr Uiitmrnt? n?.li R||^: //A mb, wiu hm M?l? tilniw Mt Brsc*t trial .1 fitmb4 Mm f lf fp4t <A?.O.HM. I i 1 Jtkimn mum, nxni. L 4 J xiemai anu rreatment snra THE SET $1. Consisting of CUTICURA SOAP jo cleanse the skin of crusts and wales, and soften the thickened ruticle; CUTICURA OINTMENT to instantly allay itching, irrita* Jon, and inflammation, and , (ootheand heal; and CUTICURA RESOLVENT PILLS, to cool and til* Kl<uw4 ll<4 ?T(I(1 IWaiUV ?nw?f ? mm mm m mmy lumour germs. A 5IN0LE SET s often sufficient to cure the nost torturing, disfiguring skin, calp, and blood humour*, catenas, rashes, itchirgs, and Irrita* ions, with loss of hair, whea he best physicians, aod *11 ther remedies fail. CUTICURA SOAP preserving, purifying, and beautify ' crusts, scales, and dandruff, and tht whitening, and toothing red, rough, hings, and chaflngs, and for all th? y. Millions of Women use Ccriccaa ug irritations, Inflammations, and exrspiration, in the form of washes for lanative, antiseptic purposes which d and mothers. No other medicated UK a for preserving, purifying, and ands. No other foreign or domestie compared with it for all the purposes is it combines in One Soap at Ora soap, and the best toilet and baby IKtAIWItJll rUK tVtKT nUMUUIL Boar (24c ), to deans* the skin of crusts and ilckened cuticle; Ccnctnu Otimuirr (SOc-V og, inflammation, and Irritation, and sooth* t Kbiolvkmt Tills (3>c.), to cool ud eleaaM rr Uoflensufflrtentto car* the most torturing, nlng, and scaly akin, *calp, and blood humour^ , when all else fall*. Sold throughout Um London. French Depot: & Hue da la Palx, op*., Bocton, U. 8. A. " All about lb* Skin," d) are n?w, Uuleleea, odogrteM, eonomlort <iltkj?t. m well u for all other blood purlfSeia trupuonfal of liquid Resolvent. Put op ia irober of doac* a &uc. bottle of liaald Rare, antiseptic, tonic,and digestive, and bejroa4 I acODOtalcal blood ud ?kia porlfltra, >inw '