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The Many SitleJness of the Bible? Wonderful Ancient Learning and Sublime Poetry, but More Thau All the Power of God Unto Salvation. Brooklyn, Sept. ?Dr. Talmage was greeted with a most generous I and-effusive welcome today by a vast I congregation, which assembled to hear him preach his first sermon after his return from his European preachiDg tour. He announced that !? ? ? Cun^oT- n-r ftwi lie vvnnl(1 rrivft a ; 1U (A UUXiUUJ VX wnv MV II V?^v ? ? sermon concerning his stewardship in delivering in Russia, in behalf of the Christian Herald, the $35,000 worth of flour for the starving. The subject today was "All in All." Text Colossians iii, 11: "Christ is all and in all." Keturned after the most eventful summer of my life, I must shortly and as soon as I recover from the sea voyage, give you an account of our mission of bread to famine struck Russia and of my preaching tour through Germany, England, Scotland and Ireland. But my first sermon on reaching here must be a hosanna of gratitude to Christ, and from the tPYf T harp chosen I have found that the greatest E;ime in the ocean shipping and from Liverpool to Moscow, and from Moscow London and Edinburgh and Dublin, is Jesus. ALWAYS A MAN FOR AX EMERGENCY. Every age of the world has hadits historians, its philosophers, its thinkers and its teachers. Were there histories to be written there has always been a Moses, or a Herodotus, or a Xenophon, or a Josephus to write them. Were there poems to be constructed there has always beeji a Job or a Homer to construct tbem. Were there thrones lustrous and powerful to be lifted there has always been a David or a Ccesar to raise them. Were there teachers demanded for ti^mtellect and the hearts there has ; 'a Marcus^fSjnmus'' forth on the grand ana glorious mission. Every age of the world has had its triumphs of reason and morality. There has not been a single age of the world which has not had some decided system of religion. The Platonism, orientalism, stoicism. Brahminism and Buddhism, considering the ages in which they were established, were not lacking in ingenuity and force. Now, in this Hne of beneficent institutions and of noble men there appeared a personage more wonderful than any predecessor. He came from a family without any royal or aristocratic pretension. He became a Galilean ine chanic. He had no advantage from the schools. There were people beside him day after day who had no idea that he was going to be any*V?innr r art V! e nr rln anvthirio' re ""' "o ? ?j O - markable. Yet notwithstanding all this, ami without any title or schoarly profession or flaming rhetoric, he startled the world with the strangest nnouncements, ran in collision with jlenm priest and proud ruler, and with a voice that ran through temple and palace, and over ship's deck and mountain top exclaimed. "I am the light of the world!" Men were taken all aback at the idea that that hand, yet hard from the use of the ax, the saw, the adz and hatchf t, should wave the scepter of authority, and that upon that brow, from which they had so often seen him wipe the sweat of toil, there would yet come the crown of unpar I alleled splendor and of universal J w o m.11 tnnw hr?w difficult, I it is to think that anybody who was j ! at school with us in boyhood has got ] to be anything great or famous, and no wonder that those who had been bovs with Christ in the streets of | Nazaieth and seen him in after years ; in the days of his complete obscurity j should have been very slow to acj knowledge Christ's wonderful mis| sion. From this humble point the stream I of life flowed out. At first it was I just a faint nil, hardly able to find its way down the rock, but the tears of a weeping Christ added to its volume, and it flowed on until by the beauty and greenness of the banks you might know the path the crystal I stream was taking. On and on, un til the lepers, were brought clown and washed of their leprosy, and the dead were lifted into the water that | they might have life, and pearls of | joy and promise gathered from the i j brink, and innumerable churches | gathered on either bank, and the tide Sows on deeper and stronger and wider, until it rolls into the river from under the throne of God, mingling billow with billow, and bright ! liess with brightness, and joy with ! joy, and hosanna with hosanna. HE IS ALL IN ALL. I was looking at some of the paintings of the artist, Mr. Kensett. I saw some pictures that were just faint outlines: in some place you would see only the branches of a tree and no trunk; and in another case trunk and no branches. He had not finished the work. It would have taken him days and months perhaps to have completed it. Well, my friends, in this world we get only the faintest outline of what Christ is. It | will take all eternity to fill up the ' picture?so loving, so kind, so merciful, so great! Paul docs not in this nliontar eor of flhriat. IS frond. Of -x v. ... Q ? he is loving, or he is patient, or he is kind; but iu his exclamation of the text he embraces everything when he says, "Christ is all and in all." I remark in the first place, Christ is everything in the Bible. I do not care where I open the Bible?I find Jesus. Iu whatever path I start I come after awhile to the Bethlehem manger. I go back to the old dispensation and see a iamb on the altar and say, "Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world!" Then I go and see the manna provided for the Israelites in the wilderness, and say, "Jesus, the bread of life." Then I look at the rock which was smitten by the prophet's rotl, and as the water gushes out I say, "It is Jesus, the fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness."' I go back and look at the writings of Job, and hear him exclaim, "I know that my Redeemer liveth.'' Then I go to Ezekiel, and I find Christ, presented there as "a nlant of renown," and then I turn over to Isaiah, and Christ is spoken of tkas a sheep before her shearers.'' It is Jesus all the way between Genesis and Malachi. Then I turn over to the New Testament, and it is Christ in the parable; it is Christ in the miracle; it is Christ in the evangelist's story; it is Christ in the apostle's epistles, and it is Christ in the trumpet peal of the Apocalypse. I know there- are a great many people whq do Act. find Ckrisi in tHfeible. t b^re is a mCiT Bible as a historian. Well, if you come as a historian, you will find in this book how the world was made; how the seas fled to their places; how empires were established; how nation fought with nation, javelin ringing against harbegeon, until the earth was ghastly with the dead. You will see the coronation of princes, the triumph of conquerors, and the world turned upside down and back again and down again, cleft and scarred with great agonies of earthquake and tempest and battle. It is a wonderful history, putting to the blush all others in the accuracy of its recital and in the stupendous events it records. Homer and Thucydides and Gibbon could make great stories out of little events, but it took a Moses to tell bow the heavens and the earth were made in one chapter, and to give the history of thousands of years upon two leaves. TIIE ANTIGUARIAN BIBLE STUDENT. There are others who come to the Bible nerely as antiquarians. If you come as an antiquarian, you will find a great many odd things in the Bible ?peculiarities of manner and custom, marriage and burial; peculiarities of dress, tunics, sandals; crisping pins, amulets and girdles and tinkling ornaments. If you come to look at military arrangements, you will find coats of mail and javelins and engiues of war and circumvellation and encampments. If you look for peculiar musical instruments, you will find psalteries and shigionoths and rams' horns, The antiquarian will find in the Bible curiosities in agriculture, and itf commerce, and in art, and in religion that will keep him absorbed a great while. There are those who come to this Bible as you would to a cabinet of curiosities, and you pick up this and say. "What a strange sword that is!" and "What a peculiar hat this is!" and "What an unlooked for lamp that is!" and the Bible to such becomes a British museum. Then there are others who find nothing in the Bible but the poetry. Well, if you come as a poet, you will find in this book faultless rhythm, and bold imagery, and startling antithesis, and rapturous lyric, and sweet pastoral and instructive narrative, and devotional psalm; thoughts expressed in a style more solemn than that of Montgomery, more bold than that of Milton, more terrible than that of Dante, more natural than that of Wordsworth, more impassioned than that of Pollock, more A 1 41 LCTJL1UC1 man mat ui ujwiv weird than that of Spenser. This great poem brings all the gems of the earth into its coronet, and it weaves the flames of judgment in its l garland and pours eternal harmonies fin< in its rhymth. clix Everything this book touches it sta makes beautiful from the plain stones pre of the summer thrashing floor, and mi] the daughters of Nahor filling the eve trough for the camels, and the fish 0f pools of Heslibon, up to the psalmist Y0[ praising God with diapason of storm woand whirlwind, and Job leading forth tw< Orion, Arcturus and the Pleiades. ^ It is a wonderful poem, and a great wa many people read it as they do aD(; Thomas Moore's "Lalla Rookh," and Walter Scott's "Lady of the Lake,'' the and Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Con Brigade." They sit down and are the so absorbed in looking at the shells atti on the shore that they forget to look the off on the great ocean of God's the mercy and salvation. Fo] BLIND UNBELIEF IS 8UBE TO ERR. "Op Then there are others who oome aiu to this book as sceptics. They mar- C0E , . M A ' shal passage against passage, and try to get Matthew and Luke into a quarrel, and would have a decrepancy be- ] tween what Paul and James say thi about faith and works, and they try tioj the account of Moses concerning the live creation by modern decisions in thi science, and resolve that in all ques- tioi tions between the scientific explorer hui and the inspired writer, they will give of preference to the geologist. These Ch: - men?these spiders, I will say?suck ing poison out of the sweetest flowers, son They fatten their infidelity upon the tro truths which have led thousands to "It heaven, and in their distorted vision dai prophet seems to war with prophet, brij and evangelist with evangelist, and sic] anostle with aDostle, and if they can We T 1 ' ? find some bad trait of character in a &nc man of God mentioned in that Bible cri< these carrior crows caw and flap their life wings oyer the carcass. Because they he cannot understand how the whale" wai swallowed Jonah they attempt the by more wonderful feat of swallowing thr the monster whale of modern skepti- wa: cism. They do not believe it possi the ble that the Bible story should be be true which says that the*dumb ass dei spake, while they themselves prove the the thing possible by their own ut- w? terances. . * - * ' 111 &r WeT^Pth^' men i.a^m!^^tout ^ ^ a future life. Just ask a man who 2e rejects that Bible what heaven is, and ?f hear him befog your soul. He will the tell you that heaven is merely the de- I velopment of the internal resources phi of a man; it is an efflorescence of the mil ? ' X _ _ *A_A - .Al dynamic rorces into a state 01 etnereaj v>cj and transcendental lucubration, in fro] juxtaposition to the ever present gat "was," and the great "to be," and the the everlasting "no," Considering them- dov selves wise, they are fools for time, "A1 fools for eternity. woi VAIN AND FOOLISH DISPUTES. mC' Then there is another class of per sons who come to the Bible as controversialists. They are enormous Presbyterians or fierce Baptist or violent Methodists. They cut the * A Bible to suit their creed instead of cutting their creed to suit the Bible.- & If the Scriptures think as they do, well; if not, so much the worse for re(* the Scriptures. The Bible is merely the whetstone on which they sharpen cou the dissecting inife of controversy. ^er They come to it as a government in j.: c ? a- ,flpp uxxia ux ?tti wuius tu axxxxuxxco ux ai- j senals for weapons and munitions. They have declared everlasting war this against all other sects, and they want so many broadswords, so many un* muskets, so many howitzers, so many an(^ columbiads, so much grape and canis- eve ter, so many field pieces with which to no^ rake the field of dispute, foi^thsy car mean to get the victory through the heavens be darkened with the smoke &ch and the earth rent with the thunder. gr^ What do they, care about the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ? I have seen some such meu come ^ back from an ecclesiastical massacre ?e nrnml of f.hpir n.x?hipvpnipnfs ftssrt -nr Indian wamor boasting of the num- ouj. ber of scalps be has taken. I have no more admiration for a man who goes con forth with his fists to get the championship than I have for these theo- Up( logical pugilists who make our theological magazines ring with their war cry.' There are men who seem to think the only use of the sword of truth is to stick somebody. There is eve one passage of the Scriptures that gna the like better than ail others, and that is this: "Blessed be the Lord which teacheth my hands to w&r apd my fingers to fight!"' Woe to us if we come to God's word as controyer allC sialists, or skeptics, or as connois- ror seurs, or as fault finders, or merely as ^ poets! tb Those only get into (h? heprt of q ; God's truth who come seeking Christ, a p Welcome all such! They will lind j^t i i him coming out from behind the cur- i8 r tain of prophecy until he stands in oui the full light of New Testament dis- cha closure, Jesus, the Son of God, the ant Saviour of the world. They will in i i hha in genealogical table and in j 'onological calculation, in poetic j nza imd in historical narrative, in >{ouv4, parable and in starling : raclo. They will seo his foot on ; sry eea, and his tears ia the drdps dew on Hermon, and hear his j ce ip the wind and behold his j rds all abloom in the valley be- 1 ?en Alt. Olivet and Jerusalem. ["here are some men who come and lk abound the Temple of Truth 1 merely see the outside. There are ers who walk into the porch and n go away. There are others who ae in and look at the pictures, but y know nothing about the chief j racjtions of the Bible. It is only j ' man who comes and knocks at j i gate, saying, "I would see Jesus." j r him the trlories of that book ! m, and he goes in and finds Christ, I with him peace, pardon, life, nfort and heaven. II in all is Jesus" in the Bible. HIS ALL SUFFICIENCY. * remark again that Christ is every, nginthe great plan of redempa. We are slaves; Christ gives deirance to the captive. We are rsty; Christ is the river of salvai to slake our thirst. We are agryp Jesus says, "I am the bread life.; W e are condemned to die; | rist says, "Save that man from godovfn to the pit; I am the rana." , We are tossed on a sea of ubles; 'Joaus comes over it, saying, is I be not afraid." We are in kness; Jesus says, "I am the ght and morning star." Wc are k; Jesus is the balm of Gilead. > are,dead; hear the shrouds rend 1 the grave hillocks heave as he ss, "I am the resurrection and the ; hfcihat believeth in me, though wer8 dead, yet shall he live." We cit justification; "Being justified faith, we have peace with God ough our Lord Jesus Christ." We at- to exercise faith; "Believe in Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt saved." I want to get from un condemnation; "There is now, refore, no condemnation to them ^.are in Christ Jesus." The cross ** carried it. The flames of hell? Rafted then. The ^?^^e?he 1 [ui^R ivi - -T i ,?*? ighp of heaven sing it, and worlds lig&fc to worlds of light all round heavens cry, "Glory, glory." jet us go forth and gather the troes for Jesus. From Goleonda - xt a. .1: ies we gamer me ujuluuuu.i, num don banks we gather the pearls, u all lands and kindoms we her precious stones, and we bring glittering burdens and put thein vn at tho feet of Jesus and soy: 1 these are thine. Thou art thy." We go forth again for re trophies, and into one sheaf we her all the scepters of the earth, all royalties and dominions, and n we bring the sheaf of scepters I put it down'at the feet of Jesus t say, "Thou art King of kings, [ these thou hast conquered." ijid then we go forth again to her more trophies, and we bid the eemed of all ages, the sons and /-?V.fn-r-a /vf TA 1 mi<rV>ff trt l^UV^XO V/i tuv * vy le.^We ask them to come and oftkeir thanksgivings, and the hosts heaven bring crown and palm and pter, and here by these bleeding k, and by this riven side, and by j wounded heart cry, "Blessing, [ honor and glory and power be 0 him that sitteth upon the throne 1 unto the Lamb forever and forr!" Tell me of a tear that he did weep, of a burden he did not ry, of a battle that he did not. it, of a victory that he did not ieve. "All in all is Jesus" in the at plan of redemption. A VERY PRESENT HELP. remark again, Christ is every, ig to the Christian in time of uble. Who has escaped trouble? i must all stoop down and drink of- the bitter lake. The moss has time to grow on the buckets that le up out of the heart's well, pping with tears. Great trials are m our track as certain as greymd pack on the scent of deer. )m'our hearts in every direction re are a thousand chords reaching bikding us to loved ones, and r apd anon some of these tendrils ,p. i The winds that cross this sea life are not all abaft. The clouds ,t cross our sky are not feathery 1 afar, straying like flocks of sheep heavenly pastures, but wrathful 1 somber, and gleaming with ter, they wrap the mountains in fire 1 come down baying with their Lpcfors through every gorge, [he richest fruits of blessiug have. richly shell. Life here is not lying ^nchor; it is weathering a gale. It lot sleeping in a soldier tent with arms stacked; it is a bayonet irgk. We stumble over gravestones, i we drive on with our-wheel deep the old rut of graves. Trouble I 1 I has wrinkled your brow, and it Las frosted your head. Falling in this battle of life, is their no angel to bind our wounds? Has God made j this world with so many things to | hurt and none to heal? For this snakebite of sorrow, is there no herb growing bv all the brooks to heal the poison? Blessed be God that in the Gospel we find the antidote! Christ has bottle an ocean of tears. How many thorns he hath plucked out of human agony! Oh, he knows too well what it is to carry a cross, not to help us carry ours! He knows too well what it is to climb the mountain, not to help us up the the steep. He knows too well what it is to be persecuted, not to help those who are imposed upon. He knows too well what it is to be sick, not to help those who suffer. Aye, he knows too well what it is to rlio nnf lipln 118 in O'.ir last 6X ' ? r ? ? ? treraity. Blessed Jesus thou knowest it all. Seeing thy wounded side, and thy wounded hand, and thy wounded feet, and thy wounded brow, we are sure thou knowest it all. Oh, when those into whose bosom we used to breathe our sorrows are snatched from us, blessed be God, the heart of Jesus still beats, and when all other lights go out and the world gets dark, then we see coming out from behiud a cloud something so bright and cheering, we know it to be the morning star of the souls deliverance! The hand of care may make yon stagger, or the hand of persecution may beat you down, or the hand of disappointment may beat you back; but there is a hand, and it is so kind, and it so gentle that it wipeth all tears from all faces. Don't!?If a dealer offers you a bottle of Salvation Oil without wrapper or labels, or in a mutilated condition, don't touch it?don't buy it at any price, there is something wrong?it may be a -dangerous or worthless counterfeit. Insist upon getting a perfect, unbroken, genuine package. Be on your guard! Poisoned by'a Girl's Teethmnpf.ha fttm burcll, a dentist at PateB^WiWE|| ten by a twelve year-old girl wj^ extracting a tooth. The incidenHias given him an experience which has made him a mere shadow Of his former self and almost resulted in his death.. The bite was on the end of the right forefinger, and it was so slight that it just brought the blood. He paid no attention to it until he had extracted the tooth. Then, realizing the possible danger to even a slight bite, he gave, it attention aDd subseAi 1;_.3 _ ?.1 ? quenuy appntu a juua ?trcu jwumw. Four days later he felt a peculiar pain in the damaged finger and could only get relief by holding it straight up. On the fifth day after the bite was given the finger was badly swollen. The inflammation extended to the other fingers on the right hand, then the wrist, the shoulder and neck, and finally to one of his, ears his nose and his throat. For seven days he ate nothing and was in great agony. He had given up hope of ever recovering when the swelling began to abate, and it is believed now that all danger is over. He is able to attend his office but is a very weak condition.' Savannah, Ga., April 26, 1889 Having used three bottles of P. P. P., for impure blood and general weakness, and having derived great benefits from the same, having gained 11 pounds in weight in four weeks, I take great pleasure in recommending it to all unfortunates like. Yours truly, JOHN MORRIS. Office of J. N. McElboy, Druggist. ) Orlando, Fla., April 20, 1891 j* Messrs. Lippman Bros., Savannah Ga. Dear Sirs?I sold three bottles of P. P. P., large size yesterday, and one bottle small size today. The P. P. P. cured my wife of rheumatism winter before last. It came back on her the past winter and a half bottle, $1,00 size, relieved liov onroiri onil slip lifts Tinf. llfld ft I symptom since. I sold a bottle of P. P. P. to a friend of mine, one of his turkeys, a small one took sick, and his wife gave it a teaspoonful, that was in the evening, and the little fellow turned over like he was dead, but next morning was up hollowing an$ well. Yours respectfully, J. N. McELROY. Savannah, Ga., March 17, 1891. Dear Sirs?I have suffered from i J* e - I 1:1 I rueumausni 101 a long nine, uuu uiu not iincl a cure until I found P. P. which completely cured me. Yours truly, ELIZA F. JONES, 1G Orange St., Savannah, Ga. Try BLA?K^RAjJGHT tea for Dyspepsia. f A $10,000,000 Mansion. The Yanderbilt Palace in North Carolina. Chattanooga T.iuos. Two miles out from Asheville, N. C., is a little station, Biltmore. It is the headquarters of a water tank.and the gate of Kenilworth Inn. It is something more. The Salisbury and Spartanburg divisions of the Western North Carolina Railroad come together here, while a little branch road deflects to the right and is lost among the hills. If you happen to see one cf the little cars on this road you will notice the letters "G. W. N. V. C." on it. Tht- car is loaded with stone or coal, may be iron, and you uiav be sure it is bound for Vander bilt's famous building two miles away. "Biltmore is called for Vanderbilt aud a resident of tbe name of Moore, who has a prettey cottage 011 the road, just above the station. It is a smooth combination, and likely to become famous. Following the branch road, which runs up and down hill with equal facility, and winds around the mountains, you reach, in the course of half an hour, the summit of the Long Pine. This is the busiest spot in North Carolina. You pass Yauderbilt's stone quarry, where much of the material for rougher work has been secured: you view his brick yards where'millions of tubes are pressing and baking; you stop at his blacksmith shop, where the tools arc mended and snne castings made, you ride near the shady home which he has purchased for his chief engineer, always following up his rails and telegraph lines, which lead to the spot where lies the site of the house Vanderbilt. Several vears a?o Vanderbilt wan y o dered down to Buncombe county, X. C., and was attracted by the beauty of the place. He rode over the mountains, and while at the summit of Long Pine, two nilles from Asheville, concluded he would buy a tract and put up a shooting lodge. This led to the^pnrehase of a large lot gjri^^Fp and down the mountain |g&BQg the French Broad, with venting settlers from obsfrtrcm!g the view or coming too close. Visions of deer parks, quail covers, sheep farms, and" other schemes enlarged his demesne until his acres began to be numbered by . thousands. White and black settlers surrendered their lodgings at good prices, and now there are only two or three black dwellers within the f lirwifo V?orc. vnfno/i^ Y U1U IXUilbO) If uu liUIV AWVtkJWVA to sell out, and hold their places at $1,000 per acre, Vanderbilt may buy them out or he may freeze them out. When Vanderbilt had finished, his purchase of 5,000 acres his ideas broadened. Instead of a shooting lodge he decided to put up a residence, and such a residence as would make Chauncey Depew's eyes glisten at Peekskill. So he set about him and leveled off the cone of the mountain thirty feet. Some time over a year ago he began to lay his foundations, and his stone masonry now begins to rise sheer over the side of the mountain, like a walled precipice. This is just what Vanderbilt wanted, for he determined that his castle would have the view and command the heights unobstructed. He concluded to spend from his income ftKnnf SI ftftfTflftO a vear for ten vears. I ?7 ? J 7. and he is pretty well assured, at the end of that time, of having the finest private residence in America, possibly in the world. The architects are very clever, but will not show the designs of the house. Perhaps they fear somebody will duplicate them before the dwelling is completed. The building will be 400 feet long and 300 feet wide. It has a tennis court in the left which is a marvel of < masonry and filling, and which alone < cost $10,000: The banquet hall of ! the mansion is to be 70 feet long, i and will have a pitch of 30 feet. Un j der the main entrance of the hall will j be a swimming pool, while a fine gymnasium, wine cellar, and art gal-. lery are to be connected with the es tablishment. Three miles back of the dwelling is a cold spring on the top of Busby 1 Mountain. He has purchased this spring and carries the water in six iron pipes all the way to the Long Pine. This will give him volume and pressure enough for every part of his premises, enable him to throw ! a stream 100 feet high from any point on his place. It will insure a < dozen or move fountains in his parks < and drives; 500 hands are at work on ' the grounds and buildings. Superb carriage ways arc graded and macadamized up the mountain, commanding an approach to house, and these will be continued beyond the residence and down the yalley to the I French Broad, where Vanderbilt will throw an iron bridge over this picturesque stream. Mr. Yanderbilt is thirty eight and unmarried. He has selected ^ spot for his home! diisJidCTgarden steps light off into space and secures a view ior miles of rich valleys and liigli-walled mountains in the distance. Pisgah and the trains of hills seem to grow opaline in the sunset and to be transparent. At the base is the French Broad, and two miles away are the spires and smoke of Asheville. To the right are the red gables of Keniiworth Inn., while directly in front, a mile or more away, are chimmeys of Oakland Sanitarium and Connelly residence. There is nothing in Virginia, nothing in England, I am told, nolhiugf finer than this view in western North Carolina. This palace of marble and iron is built for all time, and tho picture will be kept perfect, so far as nature and art can make is so. $100 Bew&rd $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitulional disease, re quires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Cutarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they jBftl offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.. Send for list of testimonials. ^ Address, F. J. CHENfiY & Co., Toledo, 0. fi@TSoid by Druggists, 75c. 50. ? A Deferred Kiss. Betuit Free Tress. Any4*edy-that knoWBrdosiah Smith, ?iir. ?-J J duju w 'Uiu ouaiau oumu, una ^ vuson of old John Smith, and otherwise related to the Smith family, can5B(^^Ip>wlio looks upon all sides of a Question before committing himself to an opinion. When Mr. Smith courted his wife it took him several years to make up his mind before he asked the important question. Everybody around the house waited and wondered why he didn't pop and if he ever would, but Josiah kept on the even tenor of his way, getting well acquainted with Mary and the family before taking the decisive step. There was a parrot in the house, a wicked, evil minded bird, who hated Mr. Smith on principle, and never said a word in his presence, or at least never did until?but thereby hangs this tale. Josiah had reached the point in his courtship where he thought it advisable to take a kiss?not a hurried smack of affection or an all devouring osculatory effect, but the prim, proper moderate kind of a kiss that goes with a declaration of love, like grace before meat. Taking Mary's hand he asked her to stand up, as the occasion was a solemn one. "JVe will now indulge in our first kiss,v he said in a formal but convicing tone. "Not much!" croaked a voice that seemed to come from the air above their heads. "Mary," said Josiah solemnly, "if you can indulge in such unseemly levity at such a moment we /ire suited to one another." Poor Mary was struggling with tears of disappointment, but before she could explain matters to her an- . -? gry suitor he had taken his hat and left the house. * However the spinster aunt who owned the parrot saw him the next dftv find eTttlained matters, find Pnllv had her ears boxed and was shut up, so that the next time Josiah undertook to kiss Mary no ghostly voice prohibited the rite. Specimen Cases. S. H. Clifford, New Cassel, "Wis. was troubled with Neuralgia and Rheumatism Lis Stomach was disorered, his Liver was affected to an alarming degree, appetite fell away and terribly reduced in flesh and strength. Three bottles of Electric Bitters cured him. Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg 111., had a running sore on his leg of eight years' standing. Used three bottles of Electric Bitters and seven boxes of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and bis Iocs were sound and well. John CD Speaker, Catawba, 0., bad five large Fever sores on bis leg, doctors said be was incurable. One bottle of Elec trie Bitters and one box Bucklen's Amic Salve cured birn entirely. Sold at the Bazaar. 1