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BOHsmhmm?MB?m ? ??a?c??m~J CONGRESS SALUTED. REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A SERMON UPON* A TIMELY THEME. He Shows How We Have Been Blessed by God In tho Past?Earthly Comfort and the Best That Shall Come to Those That Believe. Washington, Dec. 1.?As tomorrow the CGKgressof the United States assembles and many of the members were present at the delivery of this sermon, Dr. Talmago took a most appropriate w theme, showing that in all their work they might realize that God has always been on the side of this nation. Text, II Kings vi, IT, "And tho Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots and chariots of fire round about Elisha." The American congress is assembling. Arrivimr cr already arrived are the rep cesentatives of all sections of this beloved land. Let ns welcome them with prayers and benedictions. A nobler group of men never entered Washington than those who will tomorrow take their places in the senate chamber and the house of representatives. Whether they come alone or leave their families at the homestead far away, may the blessing of the Eternal God be upon them ! We invite them to our churches, and together they in political spheres and we in religious circles will give the coming months to co ^deration of the be3t interests of this country which God has blessed so much in the past that I propose to show you and show them, so far as I may now reach their ear or tomorrow their eyo through the printing press, that God will be with them to help them as in the text he filled the mountains with help for Elisha. The Upper Forces. As it cost England many regiments and $2,000,000 a year to keep safely a ^ -i- TT,1 tronoiesoruecapuvoat-ci. xaujoua, oumo king of Syria sends out a whole army to capture one minister of religion?perhaps 50,000 men to take Elisba. Dur- j ing the night the army of Syrians came I around the village of Dotlian, where the prophet was staying. At early daybreak the manservant of Elisha rushed in and said: "What shall we do? There is a whole army come to destroy you! We must die! Wo must die!" But Elisha was net scared a bit, for he looked up and saw the mountains all around full of supernatural forces, and he knew that if there were 50,000 Syrians against him there were 100,000 angels for him, and in answer to the prophet's prayer in behalf of his affrighted manservant the young man saw it too. Horses of fire harnessed to chariots of fire, and drivers of fire pulling reins of fire on bits of fire, and warriors of fire with brandished swords of fire, and the brilliance of that morning sunrise was eclipsed by the galloping splendors of the celestial cavalcade. "And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha." I speak of the upper forces of the text that are to fight on cur side as a nation. If all the low levels are filled with arm!ed threats, I have to tell you that the mountains cf our hope and courage and faith are full of the horses and chariots of divino rescue. Yen will notico that the divine equipage is always represented as a chariot ! of fire. Ezckiel anu Isaiah and John, ; when they come to describe the divine 1 equipage, always represent it as a j wheeled, a harnessed, an upholstered ^ conflagration. It is not a chariot like j K kings and conquerors cf earth mount, j but an organized and compressed fire. That means purity, justice, chastisement, deliverance through burning escapes. Chariot of rescue? Yes, but'a chariot of fire. All our national disiifthraliments have been through scorching agonies and red disasters. Through trib ulatiou the individual rises. Through ! tribulation nations rise. Chariots cf : rescue, bur chariots cf lire. But liow do I know that this divino equipage is on , the side of our institutions? I know it by tho history of the last 110 years. The American Revolution started from the pen of John Hancock in Independence hall in 1770. The colonies, without ships, without ammunition, without guns, without trained warriors, without money, without prestige. On the ether side, the mightiest nation of tho earth, the largest armies, the grandest navies and the most distinguished commanders, and resources inexbaustble, and nearly ail nations ready to back them up in the Cght. Nothing, as against immensity. A liivice Iutcrp?>sitioa. The cause cf the American colonics, which started at zero,dropped still lower through the quarreling cf the generals, and through the jealousies at small successes, and through tho winters which surpassed all predecessors in depth of snow and horrors of congeahnent. Elisha surrounded by the whole Syrian army did not seem to bo worse off than did the thirteen colonies encompassed aud overshadowed by foreign assault. What decided the contest in cur favor: The upper forces, the upper armies. The Green and White mountains of New England, the Highlands along the Hudson, rhe mountains of Virginia, all the Appalachian ranges were full cf re-enforcements which the young man Washington saw by faith, and his men endured the frozen feet, and the gangrened wounds, and the exhausting hunger, and the long march because "the Lord I opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and, behold, the mountain was - ? ~l_ -r ^ a i! lull 01 ncrses 1*120 cnivriuib v?. u.t?j iuuuu about Elisha." Washington himself was a'miracle. What Joshua was in sacred history the first American president was in secular history. A t. ousand ether men excelled him in different things, but he excelled them all in roundness and completeness of character. The world never saw his like, and probably never will see his like again, because there probably never will be another such exigency. He was let down a divine : interposition. He was from God direct. j Beware cf Ointment for Catarrh that ! Contain Kttrcury, As mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely deraDge the whole system when enter- j ing it through the rnucons surfaces. Such articles shonld never be used ; except on prescriptions from reputable pbysicars. as the damage they j will do is ten fold tc the good you can possibly derive from them. Hill's Citarrh C ire, manufactured by F. J j Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0, contaiLs j no mercury, and is taken internally, j acting directly upon the blood and j EDU'ous surface's cf the system. In ] buy icg Hill's Caarrh Cure bo sure! you gtt the genuine. It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Oiio, by F. J Cheney k C). Testimonials free. SgrSold by druggists, price 7oc.^ PT?frr?'r;j'mTTraaBB5a3?Bai6flaBHBKfflMBWM?aaga I do not know how many can read the history of thoso times without admitting tho contest was decidod by tho upper forces. Then in 1801, when our civil war opened, many at tho north and at the south pronounced it national snicido. It was not courage against cowardice, it was not wealth against poverty, i' was not large states against small states. It was heroism against heroism, it wrs the resources of many generations against tho resources of generations, it was the prayer cf tho north against the prayer of the south, it was one-half of the nation in armed wrath meeting the other half of tho nation in armed indignation. What could ccme but extermination? At tho opening of the war the commander in chief of the United States forces was a man who had been great in battle, but old ago had come, with many infirmities, and he had a right to quietude. Ho could not mount a horse, and ho rode cn the battlefield m a carriage, asking the driver not to jolt it too much. During the most of tho four years of the contest,on tho southern side, was a man in midlife, who had in his veins the blood of many generations of warriors, himself one of the heroes of Churubusco and Cerro Gordo, Contreras and Chapultepec. As the years passed on and tbe scroll of carnage unrolled there came out from both sides a heroism, and a strength, and" a determination that the world had never seen marshaled. And what but extermination could come when Philip Sheridau and Stonewall Jackson met, and Nathaniel Lyon and Sidney Johnston rodo in from north and south, and Grant and Lee, tho two thunderbolts of battle, clashed? Yet, we are a nation, and yet wo are at peace. Earthly courage did not decide the conflict. Tho upper forces of the text?they tell us there was a battle fought abovo the clouds on Lookout mountain, but there was something higher than that. A Friend of the Nation. Again, the horses and chariots of God came to the rescue of this nation in 1876, at the close of a presidential election famous for ferocity. A darker cloud j yet settled down upon this nation. Tho J result of the election was in dispute, and | revoiuncn, not Detween iwu ui. uuvo j sections, but revolution in every town and village and city of the United States seemed imminent. Tho prospect was i that New York would throttle New York, and Now Orleans would grip New Orleans, and Boston, Boston, and Savanuah, Savannah, and Washington, Washington. Some said Mr. Tilden was elected, others said Mr. Hayes was ! elected, and how near we came to universal massacre some of us guessed, but j God only knew. I ascribe our escapo j not to the honesty and righteousness cf infuriated politicians, but I ascribe it | to the upper forces of the test. Chariots of mercy rolled in, and thongh the wheels were not heard and the flash was I not seen, yet all through the mountains of the north, and the south, and the j east, and the west, though the hoofs did [ not clatter, the cavalry of God galloped by. I tell you God is tho friend of this nation. In the awful excitement at the massacre of Lincoln, when there was a prospect that greater slaughter would open npon this nation, God hushed tho tempest. In the awful excitement at the time of Garfield's assassination God put his foot on tho neck of the cyclone. To prove God is on the side cf this nation I argue from the last eight or nine great national harvests, and from the i national health of tho last quarter cf a - century, epidemics very exceptional, and from tho great revivals of rel'gion, and from the spreading of the church of God, and from tho continent blossoming with asylums and reformatory institutions, and from an Indenization which promises that this whole land is to bo a paradise, where God shall walk. I am encouraged more than I can tell you as I see tho regiments wheeling down the sky, and my jeremiads turn into doxologies, and that which was the Good Friday of the nation's crucifixion ... . , -f vaemrnn. UfUl'iiil'ft UiU XJU.^ltL JAAV/i. 1S \jx ild iVCUi^vv {ion. Of course God works through human instrumentalities, and this national betterment is to come among oilier things through a scrutinized ballot box. By the law of registration it is almost impossible now to have illegal voting. Thero was a time?you and I remember it very well?when droves of vagabonds wandered up and down on election day, and from poll to poll, and voted here, and voted there, and voted everywhere, and there was 110 challenge, or if thero were, it amounted to nothing, because nothing could so suddenly be proved upon llie vagabonds. Now, in every well organized neighborhood, every voter is watched with severest scrutiny. If I am in a region where I am allowed a vote, I must tell the registrar my name, and how old I am, and how long I have resided in the state, and how long I have resided in the ward or the township, and if I misrepresent, oO witnesses will rise and shut me out from the ballot box. Is not that a great advance? And then notice the law that prohibits a man voting if he has bet on the election. A step farther needs to be taken and that man forbidden a vote who has offered cr taken a bribe, whether it be in the shape of a free drink, or cash paid down, the suspicious cases obliged to put their hand on the Bible and swear their vote in if they vote at all. So, through the sacred chest of our nation's suffrage, redemption will come. God will save this nation through an aroused moral sentiment. There has never been so much discussion of morals j and immorals. Men, whether cr not I they acknowledge what is right, have to j think what is right. We have men wno i have had their hands in the public treas- j ury the most of their lifetime, stealing i all they could lay their hands on, dis coursing eloquently about dishonesty in ; public servants, and men with two or j three families of their own preaching eloquently about the beauties of the seventh commandment. The question of sobriety and drunkenness is thrust in the face of this nation as never before and takes a part- in our political contests. The question of national sobriety is go Jug to be respectfully and deferentially j heard at the bar of every legislature, and every house of representatives, and every state senate, and an omnipotent voice will ring down the sky and across this land and back again, saying to those j rising tides of drunkenness which threat- j en to whelm homo and church and na- ! i.: clwi "t t- r-r,yi*n Viiif. Tin ! liViJ, XiJIO Aili Oiii.il li.iill iviiii, ~..v ? ~ , further, and hero shall thy proud \va7C8 bo staid." Antigonus' Army. 1 have not in my mind a shadow of disheartment as large as the shadow of ; a house fly's wing. My faith is in the j upper forces, the upper armies of the text. God is uct dead. The chariots are not unwheekd. If you would only pray more and wash your eyes in the cool, i bright water fresh from the well of Christian reform, it would bo said of j you, as cf this one of the text, '"The j Lord opened the eyes cf the young man, | I and ho saw, and, behold, the mountain J ! was full of horses and chariots of lire { round about Elisha." When the army of Antigonus went ! J into battle, his soldiers were very much j I discouraged, and they rushed up to the j I general and said to Lim, "Don't you j I see we have a few forces and they have ; ; so many more?" And the soldiers were ; affrighted at the siuallness of their num| bcr and the greatness of the enemy, j Saved His Life ' ?by a fortunate dis^_ covery in the nick of From consumption r>siiialfllis gress of the disease been brought back to Sn^ health ^>y.t^ie Pierce. Years ago Dr. R. V. Pierce, now chief consulting physician to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute of Buffalo, N. Y., recognizing the fact that consumption was essentially a germ disease, and that a remedy which would drive the germs and their poisons from the blood would cure consumption, at last found a medicine which cured 98 per cent, of all cases, if taken in the earlier stages of the disease. The tissues of the lungs being irritated by the germs and poisons in the blood circulating through them, the germs find lodgment there, and the lungs begin to break down. Soon the general health begins to fail, and the person feels languid, weak, faint, drowsy and confused. This is the time to take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery; it drives the germs and poisons from the blood, and has a soothing effect upon the dry cough. In cases of bronchitis the "Discovery" is invaluable. "Golden Medical Discovery" increases the amount and quality of the blood, thus invigorating and fortifying the system against disease and builds up wholesome flesh and strength after wasting diseases^ as fevers pneumonia, grip and ether debilitating affections. Jno. M. ITite, of Att- dmSpfiSfeSra dubon, Audubon Co., Ia., >5 says: "I took a severe w8 ? cold which settled on my K B lungs and chest, and I S BK& S suflered intensely with CT ra it. I tried several of Vl J- \ ft our best physicians here \i n and they gave up all [ r hones of my recovers. W / and thought 1 would / have to die. I would yfl! yiK, cough and spit blood / IliHffcf for hours, and I was pale \\v\ jV and weak. I was greatly discouraged when I be- \<oy//\ gan the use of the Dis- j M HiTB E3Q> covery, but I soon got better. It has been five years since I took it and have had no return of that trouble since." Antigonus, their commander, straightened himself up and said, with indignation and vehemence, "How many do you reckon me to be?" And when we see tho vast armies arrayed against the cause of sobriety it may sometimes be very discouraging, but I ask you in . making up your estimate of the forces of righteousness?I ask you how many do ycu reckon the Lord God Almighty to bo? He is onr commander. The Lord of Hosts is his name. I have tho best authority for saying that tho chariots of God are 20,000, and the mountains are full of them. Have ycu any donbt about the need of the Christian religion to purify and mako decent American politics? At every yearly or quadrennial election we havo in this country great manufactories ? n ?' V rt rtl /I'll /\.*1 1 1 Af ^ll AW O I'O ??man uia^iuiica v/x ncc?-anu IUCJ run day and night, and they turn out half a- dozen a day, all equipped and ready for full sailing. Largo lies and small lies. Lies private and lies publio and lies prurient. Lies cut bias and lies cut diagonal. Long limbed lies and lies with double back action. Lies complimentary and lies defamatory. Lies that some people believe and lies that all the people believe, and lies that nobody believes. Lies with humps like camels, and scales like crocodiles, and necks as long as storks, and feet as swift as an antelope's, and stings like adders. Lies raw and scalloped and panned and stewed. Crawling lies and jumping lies and soaring lies. Lies with attachment screws and rufilers and braiders and ready wound bobbins. Lies by Christian people who never lie except during elections, and lies by people who always lie, but beat themselves in a presidential campaign. A Potent Force. I confess I am ashamed to have a foreigner visit this country in such times. I should think he would stand dazed, his hand on his pocket book, and daro not go out nights. What will the hundreds of thousands of foreigners who come hero to live think of us': What a disgust they must have for the land of their adoption. Tito only good thing about it is many of them cannot understand the English language. But I suppose the German and Italian and Swedish and French papers translate it all and peddle cut the infernal stuff to the subscribers. Nothing but Christianity will ever step such a flood of indecency. Tho Christian religion will speak after awhile. The billingsgate and low scandal -*t-h>vrv nvovv rnor Ai* every four years roust bo rebuked by I that religion which speaks from its two great mountains?from tho one mountain intoning the command, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor," and from the other mount making plea for kindness and blessing rather than cursing. Yes, we are going to have a national religion. Thero are two kinds of national religion. Tho one is supported by tho state, and is a matter of human politics, and it has great patronage, and under it men will strngglo for prominence without reference to qualifications, and its archbishop is supported by a salary of &7f),000 a year, and thero are great cathedrals, with all the machinery of music and canonicals, and room for a thousand people, yet an audience of fifty people, or twenty people, or ten or two. WewanJ no such religion as that, uo such national religion, but wo want this kind of national religion ?the vast majority of the people converted and evangelized?and then they will manage the secular as well as the religious. Do you say that this is impracticable? No. Tho timo is coming just as certainly as there is a God, and that this is his book, and that he has the strength and the honesty to fulfill his promises. One of the ancient emperors used to pride himself on performing that which his counselors said was impossible, and I have to tell you today that man's impossibles are God's easies. "Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Hath he commanded, and will he not bring it to pass?" The Christian religion is coming to take possession of every ballot box, of every schoolhonse, of evey home, of every valley, of every mountain, of every aeie of our national domain. This nation, notwithstanding all the evil influences that are trying to destroy it, is going to live. Never since, according to John Milton. when "satan was hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal skies in hideous ruin and combustion down," have the powers of darkness been so determined to win this continent as now. What a jewel it is?a jewel carved in relief, the cameo of this planet! On jno side of us the Atlantic ocean, dividing us from the wcrnout governments of Europe. On the other side the Pacific ocean, dividing us from the superstitions of Asia. On the north of us th? arctic sea, which is the gymnasium in which the explorers and navigators develop their courage. A continent 10,500 miles long, 17,000,000 square miles, and all of it but about one-seventh capable C'f rich cultivation. One hundred millions of population on this continent of North and fc'outh America?100,000,000, and room for many hundred millions more. All flora and all fauna, all metals and all precious woods, and all grains and all fruits. The Appalachian rango the backbone, and the rivers the ganglia carrying life all through and nre-, to tljo extremities, isthmus of Darien, the narrow waist of ;i giant coutinenr, oil to be under one government, and ail free, and all Christian, and the ife scene ot Christ's personal reign on earth if, according to the expectant n of many good people, ho shall at last sot r.p his throne in this world. Who shall have this hemisphere, Christ or satnn ? Who shall have the shore of licr inland seas, the silver of her Nevadas, the gold of her Colorado?, the telescopes of her observatories, tho brain of her universities, tho wheat of her prairies, the rice of her savannas, the two great ocean beaches? tho one reaching from Bafihrs bay to Tierra del Fnego, and tho other from Bering strait to Capo Horn?and all tho moral and temporal and spiritual and everlasting interests of a population vast beyond all human computation? Who shall ha^o tho hemisphere? Yon and I will decide that, or help to decide it, by conscientious vote, by earnest prayer, by maintenance of Christian institutions, by support of great philanthropies, by putting body, mind and soul on tho right si do of all moral, religious and national movements. Tho Final Needs. Ah, it will not make any difference to yea or to mo what becomes of this continent, so far as earthly comfort is concerned. All wo will want of it will bo 7 feet by 53, and that will take in tho largest, and thoro will be room and to sparo. That is all of this country wo will need very soon?tho youngest of us all. But wo have an anxiety about the welfare and tho happiness of the generations that arc coming on, and it will bo a grand thing if, when the archangel's trumpet sounds, wo find that our sepulchre, liko tho one Joseph of Arimathea provided for Christ, is in the midst of a garden. Ono of tho seven wonders of tho world was tho white marble watch tower of pharos of Egypt. Scstratus, iho architect and sculptor, after building that watch tower, cut his name cn ir. Then ho covered it with plaster, and to please the king he put the monarch's name on tho outsido of tho plastering, and tho storms beat and the seas dashed in their fury, and they washed off tho plaster-' inrr onrl tVirtrr tvfislxvl it. CiTlt. Jlllfl tllPV washed it down, but the name of Sostratus was deep cut in the imperishable rock. So across the face of this nation there have been a great many names written, across our finances, across our religions,names worthy of remembrance, names written on the architecture of our churches, and our schools, and our asylums, and our homes of mercy, but God is the architect of this continent, and he was the sculptor of all its grandeurs, and long after?through the wash of the ages and the tempests of centuries?all other names shall bo obliterated the divine signature and divine name will be brighter and brighter as the millenniums go by, and the world shall see that the God who made this continent has redeemed it by his grace from all its sorrows and from all its crimes. The Mightiest Agency. Have you faith in such a thing as that? After all the chariots have been unwheeled, and after all the war chargers have been crippled, the chariots which Elisha saw on tho morning of his peril will roll on in triumph, followed by all the armies of heaven on white horses. God could do it without us, hut he will not. The weakest of us, the faintest cf us, the smallest brained of us, shall have a part iu the triumph. Wo may not have our name, like the name of Scstratus, cut in imperishable rock and conspicuous for centuries, bat wo shall be remembered in a better place than that, even in the heart of him who came to redeem us and redeem the woild, and our names will be seen close to the signature of his wound, for, as today ho throws out his arms to us, ho says, "Behold, I have graven tlieo on tho nalms of my hand." By tho mightic.st cf all agencies, tlie potency of prayer, I beg you seek our national welfare. Some time ago there wcro 4,000,000 letters in the dead letter po.-'tofiiee in this city?letters that lest their way? but not one prayer ever directed to the heart of God miscarried. The way is till clear for the ascent of your supplications heavenward in behalf of this nation. Before the postal communication was so easy, and long ago on a rock 100 feet high on the coast of England there was a barrel fastened to a post, and in great letters on tho side cf the rock, so it could be seen fur out at sea, were the words " Postofiico," and when ships cam? by a boat put out to take and fetch letters. And so sacred were tbeso deposits of affection in that barrel that no lock was ever put upon that barrel, although it contained messages for America and Europe and Asia and Africa and all the islands of the sea. Many a storm tossed sailor, homesick, got messages of kindness by that rock, and many a homestead heard good news from a boy long gone. Would that all tho heights of our national prosperity were in interchange or sympathies? prayers going up meeting blessingscomtng down, postal celestial, not by a Rtorin struck rock on a wintry coast, but by the Keck of Ages. Language. 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The Leading Conservatory of America^-?"Zo Carl Fa.kl.tes, Founded i n 1SS3 by * ]J p\V & SentJ frr Prospectus giving full information. Frank W. Ha i.e. General Manager. P Chichester'* Enellwh Diamond Brand. ENNY30YAL FILLS Original and Only Genuine. A /"r/ iK.\\ safe, always r?!iable. laoics asi f-S\ w>AV Drucglst for'CM'fteafer* Kngtisk ?'ia-*J^\ Brand In Kcd and O'otd metallic yXJSy sealed with bine ribbon. Take VS* *t5^ Vi'Jno othpr. Be/use dangerous substitu- v I'J ~ fjf lions and imitations. At Druygist*. or send 4e. I Cm- JJf in rLamps for particulars, testimonials and \ iB "liellef for I.adlem" in letter, by return _k [T Mail. 10.OOO Testimonials. Same Paper. ^??7 Chiche?t?rCl?cmicalCo.,SladlAonSquare, Sold by all Local li.-uggista. Pfcllcdu., Pa. FOB mu^PEOPLE. ABE YOTJ THIN? Flesh made with Thinacura Tablets by a scientific process. They create perfect assimilation of every form of lood, secreting the valnable parts and discarding the worthless. They make thin faces plump and round cut the figure. They are the STANDARD REMEDY for leanness, containing no arsenic, aDdabsclutelv harmless. Price, prepaid. Si p-T box. f> for So. PampMft. -IIOW TO GET FAT." free. The THIXACURA Co., 'Ji'J Uroadway, New York. PORTEx'Zi ANTISEPTIC HEALING OIL I ^ ? r-. 1 * J&%3&Wit::. For Barb Y";rc Cuts, Scratches,, Sadd-cand Collar Galls, Cracked Jlcel Burns, Old Bores, Cuts, Bolls, Bruise--,, Piles and all kinds of inflammation. on man or beast. Cures Itch and Mange. Tis C::s, Cst c: 2:ia viil cotc: matter titer tie c:l his b;-:a applied. Ds prepared for accidents by keeping it inyerr houseoretubie. AllOrusgic'sgoJlttenagaaraaicc. Ho Curs. No Pay. Price 25 cts. and $i.eo. Itratr Druggist does net keep it scud us at cts. in postage stamps and we will send it to ycu by rnaii, Paris. Tien..Jan. SJth. JSt'f. Hear Sir: I hare ttscd l'oitor's Aot,a<>p>-re ticellr" CI! far Harness ami Saddle Gail*. Scratches and Uarb Wire Cr.<: with perfect satisfaction, and 1 heartily rcconttnend it to all X.ivery and Stockmen. C. 2. IltVIN'C. Livery and Feed Stable. BABYBURNED. Gentlemen .?I am pieajed to s-.vae a wr.rd far Portcr'r Antiseptic itoallan oil. JJy h.Voy was bnncd a few months go, and after trying alt otr.er remedies I applied your Oil" end the first application gave relief, and in a few days tlis sore was well. I r.! +<> used the oil on snv stock ar.d find that it is the best remedy for this purpose that I have t-v-r u?eu. " Yours, C. *. LEWIS. Paris, Tenn.. January ? ?, 1WI aAXiricrrniio zi PARIS MEDICINE CO., CT. LCCLS, 310 For s.tle by G 31. Harman, Lexington C. II G Frank Keisier, Priceville, December 2G?ly 11 gig JIIP Jgp \ Ifiamos ! ? S5 tVfonthb ,) i !ORGlMi 2 ^ C-2 fsSontMly^ ^THliW pl?r..-nre ami bene-\ I 1 1II > iV. gj ;l fjj.,. pi;tna or l**rl-->r O: V* will be to yonr wife and children, and uowlongw \ they have "wanted and waited. ^ % DON'T WAIT TOO LOXG\ \ 'I"hev wont bo with yon for > j ? ever, make* them happy wliile^ you can. K I \Tf-ffWK '!0;v vcr-v otl~:,nv yr'" can noivT $ 1 1 i J1>*V buy a superb instrument on otjr# ^installment j.U::-. and pay for it almost without A \ missing the money. ^ | -* ACT QUICK 4- | ! r Write for Midsummer Sals Bargain Sheets 03 0 O Superb instruments on easiest^ pterins ever offered; YOl'It own priced \for CASH. Write for particulars. >T I liut 1JE OCICK. Itargains rolling out# I ^ daily. Strain a point and bay >OW.i $ LOOSEN a BATES, % $ SAVANNAH, Ca. i ! NO MORE EtE-GLSSSES, j ' jjjj MITCHELL'S EYE-SAL VI-! A Certain Safe and Effective Remedy for SORE, WEAK and INFLAMED EYES, Producing Long-Sightedness. and Restoring the Sight of the. old. Cures Tear Drops, Granulation, S\ys Tumors, lied Eyes, Mai ted Eye Lasies,. and producing quick rklief AND PERMANENT CURE. Also, cqnnlly cfficacions uhen li% other R:ala<!irs, Mid* as ti<crs, 3'evrr Sores, Tiuaors, Walt ttliotjtu, iturnN, Files, or wderever in:!nni>r>.-i:(oit PsUt" MITCHELL'S SALVE iiiuy Ix; ?scd k? tiUtaiilaKe. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS P.T 25 CENTS. Iff i S Boilers. j ?3*Get our prices. Atlas and Erie Engines. Tanks, Stacks, Stand Pipes and Sheet-Iron Work; Shafting, Pulleys, Gearing, Boxes, Hangers, etc. Complete Cotton, Saw, Grist, Oil and Fertilizer Mill outfits; also Gin, Press, Cane Mill and Shingle outfits. Buiiding, Bridge, Factory, Furnace and Xji Railroad Castings; Railroad, Mill, Machinists' and Factory Supplies. _ Belting, Packing, Injectors, Pipe Sittings, 3 Saws, Files, Oilers, etc. fttj~ Cast every day; work 150 hands. Lombard Iron Works j and Supply Co., 1 Passenger Depot. AUGUSTA, CA. January 1?ly 4 ??????_____________ CHILDREN ? WILL NEVER REFUSE TO TAKE Dr. Thacher's Worm Syrup c p8BL'&.'^ WK0 have TAKENIT 0NCE* s J&ZM-i Positively Removes Worms and their Causes. Reoulatet * the L,*er #n<1 Bowel<" Re#torMthe Appetite. Mrs. Sarah Harvey, of Wp.rrensburg, Tenn- says: C "T happened to get hold of one bottle of Dr. H. SBJK-y^y S. Thacher's Worm Syrup and gave it to my chil. drcn by the directions. U is the best worm destroyer ?EICE, 25 CENTa ^ ' Dr. H. S. Thacher Medicine COi V^i^? CHATTANOOGA, TENN. September 14?ly. ____^_____ -ir *\ H? H/nTrr *> T Aim 1 ITflll * iiUlill ft iV LIPW Kit AI fi 9 T 1 M COLUMBIA HOTEL BLOCK, COLUMBIA, S. C., . f HEADQUARTERS FOR CAM HILLS, EVAPORATORS, SBIIT COPPER, ZPIEXjTD -A-ISTID SEEDS COTTON GINS, FEEDEERS, CONDENSERS, TRESSES AND BELTING, <] * PLAIN AND DECORATED GLASS, MARBLEIZED MANTLES, GLAZED TILES :f : GRATES, FENDERS, ETC., HARDWARE and GROCERIES Come and see us or write to us when in need of anything in our line. Jan. 1.?ly. Wards off Malaria. Is a pleasant aDd invigorating medicine. Particularly effective in the cnre of Dyspepsia, Indigestion. Nausea, Sick Headache, Sour Stomach, etc. A valuable liver regulator. Corrects S58 aasMt all disorders of the kidneys. Wonderfully J 2; pi beneficial in female complaints. Taken M along with quinine, is an effectual cnre 1 or 9 SEggq H |2 Hgg Chills. A great appetizer when taken De- r fore meals. After meals aids digestion. In FOR THE large 25c., ?0e. and $1 bottles. ' Sold at the Bazaar and by W. P. Roof, LIVER AND KIDNEYS ??*- moIesJy THE MURRY DRUG CO., COLUMBIA, S. C. March 14?ly. j j BARMAN'S BAZAAR, I i \ ii J S C0KFECTI0NBR1S, FRUITS, CAKES, CRACKERS, f G-EOCEEIES, | H CIGARS, CHEWING and S3IOKING TOBACCO j Toys, Fancy Goods, Notions, f i / j IDIEBTTQ-S and IkiEEIDXCIIfcTES, ; PEBFLHERy, STATMEilf, SCHOOL BOOKS, ALBUMS, ETC, I < i I | I I I I 5 JfaT A fteII saOct'ed stock'rfuc above Goods constantly on band and j always at the verj lowest prices. '.These Goods are all fresh and reliable. LEXIN Ci T ON C, II . , S . O.