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DEATH OF DR. TALMAGE
MUm Appropriate Reprinting
HIS FAMOUS SERMON
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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
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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
'