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A Meal Grant £i>joyed. ▲d unpublished stoiy of General Grant was told yesterday at the Grand Pacific by Paul Gores: “I was steward at the Palmer House,” he said, “when the ex*President stopped there on his return from the tour of the world. One noon I was all but stupefied at seeing General Grant creep into tbe kitchen door, as though escaped from some one. ‘I am sorry to trouble you,’ he said, as though asking a great favor, 'but may I have a little corned beef and cabbage?’ ‘Why, certainly,’ I replied. ‘But shall I not send it to you out in the diningroom?’ ‘No,’be answered, ‘I’ll eat it right here, if you let me sit down at this table.’ So I cleared away a place on the rough board table, w r here the cook had been fixing the meat, drew up a stool and the way he got away with that corned beef and cabbage made my eyes bulge. When h' had finished he laid down his knife and fork and with a funny sigh of satisli ctioj, put one hand on my shoulder and said, ‘Young man, I suppose you don’t c^re for that at all, but if you had had to eat what I have for the past few months it would taste like a dinner for the gods.* The poor old fellow had dined with everybody from the Queen down, and that cabbage in my kitchen did him more good than all the rest together.”—Chicago News. Gruesome Souvenirs. “A remarkable tribe of Indians are the Napos, who live in the northern part of Chile. Instead of wearing scalps at their belts as tropies, like the American sav ages, the heads of their enemies dangle at their girdles. By a mysterious pro cess known only to themselves, they re move all the facial and cranium bones without cutting the skin or destroying the interior. Then the head is then re duced, without maiming any of the features, to the size of a man’s fist.”— Pittsburg Dispatch. As a Drowning Man Clutches at a Straw So Mr. Powell Took Hood’s Sarsaparilla And It Rescued Him From Danger “A year ago I was in very bad condition. I run down to 125 lbs. Tbe trouble was dys pepsia in its worst form, accompanied by Nervous Prostration I could not eat, I could not sleep, and at times 1 could scarcely move my bands. I felt that un less 1 could get relief soon that I should surely die. I at length concluded to try Hood's Sarsaparilla, for Like a Drowning Man I could catch at a straw. When 1 began taking it iny face and hands were covered with sores, which arc all gone. After 1 had been taking it a couple of weeks I could not deny that I felt better. I have now taken 3 bottles and as a re sult I weigh 150 lbs., am able to work again and feel a thousand times better. I am certain that in a short time by continuing the medicine i shall be completely cured as F am now so near it. My friends all express surprise to see such a change. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is indeed a wonderful medicine, and its are fully justified in my experi ence.” B. C. Powell, Bigelow, N. Y. Hood’s Pills are the best after-dinner Pills, assist digestion, cure headache. Should Rave It in The House. Dropped on Huqar. Children Dove totake Johxsos’s Anodyne Liniment tor Croup,Colds, Sore Throat, Tonallttl*. Colic, Cramps and Pains. Re lieve* all Summer Coin plaints. Cuts and Bruises like magic. Sold everywhere. Price 85c. hy mail; 6 bottles KxDress ttaid. S3. 1. S. JOHNSON & CO.. Boston, Mass. ‘August Flower” “ For two years I suffered terribly with stomach trouble, and was for all that time under treatment by a physician. He finally, after trying everything, said my stomach was worn out, and that I would have to cease eating solid food. On the rec ommendation of a friend I procured a bottle of August Flower. It seem ed to do me good at once. I gained strength and flesh rapidly. I feel now like a new man, and consider that August Flower has cured me.” Jas. E. Dederick, Saugerties, N. Y.® Kennedy’s MedicalDiscovery Takes hold in this orders Bowels. Liver, Kidneys, Inside Skin, Outside Skin, Driving everything before It that ought to he o«E You know whether you need it or not. fcoid by every druggist, and manufactured by DONALD KENNEDY, ROXBPRV, MASS. R. R. R. DADWAY’S II RUDY RELIEF. CURES AND PREVENT* Colds, Coughs, Sore Throat, Hoarseness, Stiff Neck, • Bronchitis, Catarrh. Headache, Toothache, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Asthma, Bruises, Sprains, Quicker Than Any Known Remedy. No matterhow violent or excruclatlug the pain the Rheumatic, BedrIUdeu, lutirm, Crippled. Nervous, Neuralgic, or prostrated wit a diseases may suffer, RADWAY’S READY RELIEF Will Afford Instant Ease. INTERNALLY—A half to a teaspoonful In half a turn bier of water will In a few minutes cure Cramps, Spasms, Sour Stomach, Nausea, Vomiting, Heartburn, Nervousness. Sleeplessness, Sick Head ache, Diarrhoea, Colic, Flatulency and all internal pains. Hal aria In Its various forms cured and prevented. There la not a remedial agent In the world that will cure Fever and Ague and all other fevers (aided hy RADWAY’S PILLS) so quickly as RAD WAY’S READY RELIEF. Bold *r all drcooists. Price 50 cents. A ET MTC WA NTED on LARUE COM- Ei Iw I O MISSION to sell a lemonod* crystal ; does not contain tartaric acid; territory given. Dttvls di Haleb, New Bedford, Mass. REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject: “Selah." Text: “Selah." -Psalms Ixi., 4. The majority of Bible readers look npon this word of my text as of no importance. They consider it a superfluity, a mere filling in, a meaningless interjection, a useless re frain, an undefined echo. Selah! But I have to teli you that it is no Scriptural ac cident. It occurs seventy-four times in the Bock of Psalms and three times in the Book of Habakkuk. You must not charge this perfect book with seventy-seven trivialities. Selah! It is an enthroned word. If, accord ing to an old writer, some words are battles, then this word is a Marathon, a Thermopy lae, a Sedan, a Waterloo. It is a word de cisive, sometimes for poetic beauty, some times for grandeur, and sometimes for eternal import. Through it roll the thun dering chariots of the Omnipotent God. 1 take this word for my text because 1 am so often asked what is its meaning, or whether it has any meaning at all. Ft has an ocean of meaning, from which I shall this morning dip up only four or five buck etfuls. 1 will speak to you, so'far as I have time, of the Selah of poetic significance, the Selah of intermission, tbe Selah of emphasis and the Selah of perpetuity. Are vou surprised that I speak of the Selah of poetic significance? Surely the God who sapphired the heavens and made the earth a rosebud of beauty, with oceans hanging to it like drops of morning dew, would not make a Bible without rhythm, without redolence, without blank verse. God knew that eventualljr the Bible would be read by a great majority of young peo ple, for in this world of malaria and casualty an octogenarian is exceptional, and as thirty years is more than the average of human life, if the Bible is to be a successful book it must be adapted to the young. Hence the prosody of the Bible—the drama of Job, the pastoral of Ruth, the epic of Judges, the dithyrambic of Habakkuk, the threnody of Jeremiah, the lyric of Solomon’s Song, the oratorio of the Apocalypse, the idyl, the strophe and antistrophe, and the Selah of the Psalms. Wherever you find this word Selah it means that you are to rouse up to great stanza, that you are to open your soul to great analogies, that you are to spread the wing of your imagination for great flight. “I answered thee iu the secret place of thun der; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.” ‘The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved; I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.” “Who is the King of Glory? The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of Glory. Selah.” “Thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.” “Though the waters th3reof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swell ing thereof. Selah.” “The Lord of Hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.” “Thou hast given a banner to them that fear Thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.” “I will hide under the covert of Thy wings. Selah.” “Oh, God, when Thou wentest forth before Thy people, when Thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah.'’ Whoever you find this word it is a signal of warning hung out to tell yoii to stand off the track while the rushing train goes by with its imperial passengers, Poetic word, charged with sunrise and 3unset,and tempest and earthquake, and resurrections aud millenniums^ Next I come tc speak of the Selah of in termission Gesenius, Tholuck, Hengsteu- berg and other writers agree in saying that this word Selah means a rest in music; what the Greeks call a diapsalma, a pause, a halt in the solemn march of cantillation. Every musician knows the importance of it. If you ever saw Jullien, the great musical leader, stand before five thousand singers and players upon instruments, and with one stroke of his baton smite the multi tudinous hallelujah into silence, and then, soon after that, with another stroke of his baton rose up the full orchestra to a great outburst of harmony, then you know tbe mighty effect of a musical pause. It gives more power to what went before; it gives more power to what is to come after. So God thrusts the Selah into His Bible and into our lives, compelling us to stop and think, stop and consider, stop and admire^ stop and pray, stop and repent, stop and be sick, stop and die. It is not the great num ber of times that we read the Bible through that makes us intelligent in the Scriptures. We must pause. What though it take an hour for one word? What though it take a week for one verse? What though it take a year for one chapter? We must pause and measure the height, the depth, the length, the breadth, the universe, the eternity of meaning in one verse. 1 should like to see some one sail around one little adverb in the Bible, a little adverb' of two letters, during one lifetime—the word “so” in the New Testament passage, “God so loved tbe world.” Augustine made a long pause after the verse, “Tut ye on the Lord Jesus Christ,” and it converted him. Mat thew Henry made a long pause after the verse. “Open Thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Thy praise,” and it convert ed him. William Cowper made a long pause after the verse, “Being freely justified by His grace,” and it converted him. When God tells us seventy-seven times meditatively to pause in reading two books of the Bible, He leaves to our common sense to decide bow often we should pause in reading the other sixty-four books of the Bible. We must pause and ask for more light. We must pause and weep over our sins. We must pause and absorb the strength of one promise. I sometimes hear people boasting about how many times they have read tbe Bible through, when they seem to know no more about it than a passenger would know about the State of Pennsylvania who should go through it in a St. Louis lightning ex press train and in a Pullman ‘.sleeper,” the two characteristics of the journey, velocity and somnolence. It is not tbe number of of times you go through the Bible, hut the number of times the Bible goes through you. Pause, reflect. Selah! So also ou the scroll of your life and mind. We go rushing on iu the song of our pros perity from note of joy to note of joy, aud it is a long drawn out legato, and we become indifferent and unappreciative when sud denly we come upon a blank in the music. There is nothing between those bars. A pause. God will fill it up with a sick bed, or a commercial disaster, or a grave But, thank God, it is not a breaking down. It if only a pause. It helps us to appreciate the blessings that are gone. It gives us higher appreciation of the blessings that are to come. The Selah of Habakkuk and David is a dividing line between two anthems. David begins his book with the words, “Blessed is the man,” and after seventy-four Selahs he closes his book with the words, “Praise ye the Lord.” So there are mercies behind us, and there are going to be mercies before us. It is good for us that God halts us in our fo r- tunes, and halts us with physical distress, and halts us at the graves of our dead. More than once you and I have been naited by such a Selah. You wrung your hands and said: “l can’t see any sense in this Provi dence; 1 can’t see why God gave me that child, if He is so soon going to cake it away. Ob, my desolate home! Oh, my broken heart!” You could not understand it. But it was not a Selah of overthrow. It gave you greater appreciation of the blessings that have gone; it will yet give you greater appreciation of the blessings that will comer When the Huguenots were being very much persecuted in France a father and mother were obliged to fly from the country, leaving their child in the possession of a comparative stranger. They did not know whether they would ever return, or return ing, if they would be able to recognize their child, for by that time she might be grown. The mother was almost frenzied at the thought of leaving the child, and then, even »C oominp back again, not being able to know W. Before they left the father drew his sworn ana he marked the wrist of that child with a deep cut. It must have been a great exigenev to make a father do that. Years of absence passed on and after awhile the parents returned, and their first anxiety was to find their lost child. They looked up and down the land, examining the wrists of the young people, when lo! after awhile the father found a maiden with a scar upon her wrist. She knew him not, but he knew her. And oh, the joy of the reunion! So it is now. “Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.” He cuttetb. He marketh and whan He comes to claim His own the Lord will know them that are His; know them by the scar of their trouble, know them by the stroke of their desolation. Oh, it is good that the Lord sometimes halts u*. David says, “It is goo I that I have been afflicted. Before I was affliatei 1 went astray, but now have I kept Thy word.” In deed, we must all soon stop. Scientists have imoroved human longevity, bnt none of them baveprooosed to make terrene life perpetual. But tne Gospel makes death a Selah between two beatitudes—between dying triumph on the one side of the grave and celestial es cort on the other side of the grave. Going out of this life to the unprepared is a great horror. “Give me more laudanum,” said dying Mirabeau; “give me more laudanum that I may not think of eternity and what is to come.” And dying Hobbes said, “I leave my body to the grave and my soul to the ereat perhaps.” It was the discord of an in fidel’s life breaking down into the jargon of despair; but the Gospel makes the death of the Chrlstain a Selah between redemption and enthronement. “Almost well,” said dy ing Richard Baxter, “almost well.” “Play those notes over again—those notes which nave been so great a delight ana solace to me,” said the dying Christian Mozart. “None hut Christ, none but Christ,” exclaimed dy ing Lambert. Richard Cameron, the Scotch covenanter, went into the battle three times praying: “Lord, spare the green and take the rip j. This is the day I have longed for. This is the day I shall get my crown. Come, let us fight it to the last. Forward!” So you see there is only a short pause, a Selah of inter mission, between dying consolations on the one side and overstopping raptures ou the other. My flesh shall slumber in the eronod Till the last trumpet’s joyful sound; Then bnrst the chains with sweet surprise. And in my Saviour's Image rise. I next speak of the Selah of emphasis. Ewald, the German orientalist and theolo gian, says that this word means to ascend; and wherever you find it, he says, you must look after the modulation of the voice and vou must put more force into your utterance. It is a Selah of emphasis. Ah! my friends, you and I need to correct our emphasis. We put too much emphasis on the world and not enough on God and the next world. People think these things around us are so Import ant, the things of the next are not worthy of our consideration. The first need for some of ns is to change •ur emphasis. Look at wretchedness on a throne. Napoleon, while yet emperor of France, sat down dejected, his hands over his face. A lad came in with a tray of food and said, "Eat, it will do you good.” The emperor looked up and said, “You are from the country?” The lad replied, “Yes.” “Your father has a cottage and a few acres of ground?"’ “Yes.” “There is happiness,” said the dejected emperor. Ahl Napoleon never put the emphasis in the right place until he was expiring at St. Helena. On the other hand, look at Satisfaction amid the worst earthly disadvantage. “I never saw until I was blind,” said a Chris tian man. “I never knew what content ment was while I had my eyesight as I know what content is now that I have lost my eyesight. I affirm, though few would credit it, that I would not exchange my present position and circumstances for my circum stances before I lost my eyesight.” That man put the emphasis in the right place. We want to nut less stress upon this world aud more stress upon our God as our ever lasting portion. Davia had found out the nothingness of this world and the all-sufficiency of God. Notice how he interjects the .Selahs. “Trust in the Lord at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before Him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.” “Blessed be the Lord who daily loads us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selab.” “The Lord shall count, when He writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.” Let the world have its honors, and its riches, and its pomp. Let me have the Lord for my light, my peace, my fortres?, my pardon, my hop?, my heaven. What sinners value I resign; Lord! ’tls enough that Thou art mine. Ishail behold Tny blissful ince. And stand complete in righteousness. This world is all an empty show. But the bright world to which I go Hath joys substantial and sincere; When snail 1 wake and find me there? O glorious hour! O blest abode! 1 shall be near and like my God, And sin and sense no mare contro’. The endless pleasures of my soul. But when I speak of the Selah of emphasis I must notice it is a startling, a dramatic emphasis. It has in it the Hark, the Hist of the drama. That wakening and arousing emphasis we who preach or instruct need to use more frequently. The sleepiest audiences in the world are religious audiences. You Sabbath-school teachers ought to have more of the dramatic element in your instructions. By graphic Scripture scene, by anecdote, by descriptive gesture, by im personation urge your classes to right action. We want in all our schools and colleges an 1 prayer meatiugs, and in all our attempts at reform, and in all our churches to have less of the style didactic and more of the style dramatic. Fifty essays about the sorrows of the poor could not affect me as a little drama of acci dent and suffering I saw one slippery morn ing in the streets of Philadelphia. Just ahead of me was a lad, wretched in apparel, his limb amputated at the knee; from the pallor of the boy’s cheek the amoutatiou not long before. He had a package of broken food under his arm—food he had begge 1, I supposed, at the doors. As he passed on over the slippery pavement cautiously and carefully, I steadied him until his crutch slipped and he fell. I helped him up as well as I could, gathered up the fragments of taa package as well as I could, put them under one arm and the crutch under the other arm; but when I saw the blood run down his pale cheek I was completely overcoat?. Fifty essays about the suffering of the poor could not touch one like that little drama of accident and suffering. Oh, we want in all our different depart ments of usefulness—and I address hundreds of people who are trying to do good—we want more of the dramatic element and less of the didactic. The tendency in this way is to drone religion, to moan religion, to croak religion, to sepulchriz? religion, when we ought to present it in animated and spec tacular manner. Sabbath morning by Sabbath morning I address many theological students who are preparing tor the ministry. They come in here from the different institutions. I say to them this morning: If you will go home and look over the history of the church you wili find that those men have brought most souls to Christ who have been dramatic—Rowland Hill, dramatic; Thomas Chalmers, dramatic; Thomas Guthrie, dramatic; John Knox, dramatic* Robert McCneyne, dramatic; Christmas Evans, dramatic- George White- field, dramatic: Robert Hall, dramatic; Robert South, dramatic; Fenelon, dramatic; John Mason, dramatic: Dr. Nott, dramatic. When you get into the ministry, if you at tempt to culture that element and try to wield it for God you will meet with mighty rebuff and caricature, and ecclesiastical counsel will take your case in charge, and they will try to put you down, but the God who starts you will help you through, and great will be tbe eternal rewards for the as siduous and the plucky. What we want, ministers and laymen, is to get our sermons, and our exhortations, and our prayers out of the old rut. I see a great deal of discussion in the religoua pa pers aoout wny people do not come to church. They do not come because they are not interested. The old hackneyed religious phrases that come moving do wn through the centuries will "never arrest the masses. bat we want to-day, you in your sphere and I in my sphere, is to freshen up. Peo ple do not want in their sermons the sharn flowers bought at the millinery shop, but tbe japonicas wet with the morning dew; nor the heavy bones of extinct megatherium of past ages, but the living reindeer caught last August at the edge of Scbroon lake. We want to drive out the drowsy, and tbe prosaic, and the tedious, and the humdrum, and introduce the brightness and vivacity, and the holy sarcasm, and the sanctified wit, and the epigrammatic power, and the blood red earnestness, and the fire of relig ious zeal and I do not know of any way of doing it as well as through the dramatic. Attention! Behold' Hark: Saiah! Next I speak of the Selah of perpetuity The Targum, which is the Bible in Chaldee! renders this word of my text “forever.” Many writers agree in believintt and statin— that one meaning of this word is “forever ” In this very verse from which I take mv text teetah means not only poetic significance and intermission and emphasis, but it means eternal reverberation — forever! God’s government forever, God’s goodness for ever, tbe gladness of tbe righteous for ever. Of course you and I have not surveyor’s chain with enough links to measure that domain of meaning. In this world we must build everytning on a small scale. A hundred years are a great while. A tower five hundred feet is a great height A journey oflour thousand miles is very long. But Avaity 1 If tbe archangel has not strength of wing to fly across it, but flutters and drops like a wounded seagull, there is no need of our trying in the small shallow of human thought to voyage across it. A skeptic, desiring to show his contempt for the passing years and to show that he could build enduringly, hal his own sepulcher made of the finest and the hardest marble, and then he had put on the door the words, “For time and for eternity,” but it so happened that the seed of a tree somehow f ot into an unseen crevice of the marble. hat seed grew and enlarged until it became a tree and split the marble to pieces. There can be no eternalization of anything earthly. But forever 1 Will you and I live as long as that? We are apt to think of the grave as the terminus. We are apt to think of the hearse as our last vehicle. We tire apt to think of seventy or eighty or ninety years, and then a cessation. Instead of that we find the marble slab of the tomb is only a milestone, marking the first mile, and that the great journey is be yond. We have only time enough in this world to put on the sandals and to clasp our girdle and to pick up our staff. We take our first step from cradle to grave, and then we open the door and start—great God, whither? The clock strikes the passing away of time, but not the passing away of eternity. Meas ureless, measureless! This Selah of perpet uity makes earthly inequalities so insignifi cant, the difference between scepter and needle, between Alhambra aud hut, between chariot and cart, between throne and curb stone, between Axminster and bare floor, between satin and sackcloth, very trivial. This Selah of perpetuity makes our getting ready so important. For such prolongation of travel what outfit of guidebooks, of pass ports and of escort? Are we putting out on a desert, simoom swept and ghoul hunted, or into regions of sun lighted and spray sprinkled gardens? Will it be Elysium or Gehenna? Once started in that world, we cannot stop. The current is so swift that once in no oar can resist it, no helm can steer out of it, no herculean or titanic arm can baffle it. Hark to the long resounding echo, “forever!” Oh, wake up to the inter est of your deathless spirit! Strike out for heaven. Rouse ye, men and women for whom Jesus died. Selah! Selah! Forever! Forever! TEMPERANCE. THE GOLD OF RIGHT HABITS. This kl-chloride treatment of gold, my dear boy. Of which in the papers we read, Will doubtless bring joy into homes full of woe. And balm to some hearts which now bleed; For many a man. who is traveling down The hill, that most surely will lead ‘ To death and destruction, will grasp at this gdd, As drowning men grasp at a reed. But gold can be taken in childhood, my boy. Which works in a far surer way: The gold of right habits, pure thoughts and desires, Bright bands, growing brighter each day; The gold whicn is sent from the Father above. To shield from the tempter’s hard sway. Each boy, who will take up his stand for the right. And not lor one moment delay. So seek for this gold in your spring time, dear boy. This wisdom and strength from on high. Then safely you’ll walk through the years that will come. Though many a pitfall be nigh, For God sends His angel to camp round that boy, Who dares to stand firm, though he die. And leads him through all of the dangers of youth Up, up to that home in the sky. —Jessie F. Houser, in tho Voice. DR. STALKER ON TEMPERANCE. Speaking on a recent Sabbath evening Dr. Stalker, of St. Matthew’s Church, Glasgow, delivered in St. Andrew’s Hall, to an audience of over 3000, the first of a series of lectures promoted by the Glasgow Ab stainers’ Union. If legislation, Dr. Stalker said, went much in advance of public senti ment it was very apt to be a dead letter, but when it was the affirmation of the public sentiment and conviction it was a very different matter. When it was the regis tration of public opinion there were lew things more powerful than a good law. One of the greatest steps could only be taken when they got an act for a very thorough curtailment of the drink traffic- He per suaded that they were on the eve of a measure proceeding from tbe national conviction in regard to this point, which would fulfil in a day what teetotallers had labored and prayed for for fitty years. KING ALCOHOL IN GERMANY. In a survey of the imperial statistics of the consumption of alcoholic drinks in Germany, Dr. William Bode says that the production of the raw material manufactured into wine, beer or spirits occupies about one-fifteenth of the cultivated land of the Empire. On this area of farming land enough rye might be grown to supply 3300 millious of pounds of bread, which would make sixty-six pounds of bread more a year to every one of the 50,000,000 of people inhabiting Germany, or 330 pounds to an average family of five persons, which is the entire food needed by the family for nearly fifty days, or about one-eighth more of fooi than they can enjoy at present. One-fourteenth of all the pro ductive forces of Germany is engaged in this pernicious industry. The amount of money spent on drink has been estimated at about $120,000,000 a year, or $2.49 to each inhabi tant. or $12 to each average family of five. Professor Schmoller, the economist, says. “Among our working paople the conditions of domestic life, of education, of prosperity, of progress or degradation, are all dependent on the proportion of income which flows down the father’s throat. The whole con dition of our lower and middle classes—one may, even without exaggeration, say the future of the Nation—depends on this que* tion. If it is true that half our paupers be come so through drink, it gives us some estimate of the costly burden we tolerate. No other of our vices bears comparison with this.”—Chicago Herald. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. Des Moines and Sioux City, the largest cities in Iowa, both now have strong prohi bition municipal governments. A German wine merchant has bean fined $6000 and sentenced to six months imprison ment for adulterating wine with cider. The breweries of Munich, Germany, pos sess 800 railway cars, equipped with refrig erating apparatus, for tne transportation oi beer. Auburn, Me., a city of ten thousand in habitants, employs three policemen, one for day service and two at night. Prohibition prohibits in Auburn. There are said to be twenty-eight total ab stainers on the London County Council. Out of the 117 Councilors, eighty six are in favor of a temperance policy, and out of seventeen aldermen eleven are cn the same side. These added make ninety-seven out of a total of 137. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Bloomington, III., has decided to build a white ribbon inn, at an expense of S15,00d. The new building will bj of brick, three stories high and of modern style, and will coutain a cnape! seating 6JJ. A Swiss daily paper states that too little account is taken of the ravages caused by alcoholism in Switzerland airi the nu merous deaths resulting therefiom. Dr. Foret, the director of a large luna.ie asylum at Zurich, adds to these statistics that twenty-seven per cent, of the ma e patients in that asyiu n are there as the' result of alcoholism. By tbe coxrtesy of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad iu PniiRdelpaia, the VV Oman’s Christian Temperance Union iu that city recently entertained tae “railroae boys” all day. The large dining rooms of the com pany were gayly decorated, a choice lunch eon was served and a number of speakers were present to take part in theineetings. The attendance was large and de-Jply inter ested . ( Miss Mary Allen West, one.of he ablest experts in white-ribbon work, Jor years President of Illinois Woman’s ’Christian Temperance Union, and editor of -he Union ■Signal, was recently chosen Superintendent of the World’s Woman’s Christan Tem perance Union School of Methods, and is go ing to the Sandwich Islands and Japan to teach and train workers in. the catse. This trio has long been contemplated afd signal izes a notable advance. Silk as a Germ Destroyer. Unexpected results have been obtained in experiments by Dr. Freudenreirh. The cholera bactllus died in an hour when put into fresh cow's milk, and iu five hours in fresh goats milk; the bac illus of typhoid fever, however, surviv ing twenty-four hours in cow's milk, but only five "hours in goat’s milk. Other microbes were destroyed in varying periods. Instead of being purified by boiling, the milk had lost its power to kill microbes. The bactericidal proper ties also weakened with age, disappear ing completely in four or five day*.— Trenton (N. J.) American. There is more cararrn in this section of th* country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors J renounced it a local disease, and prescribed oeal remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it »n- curable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is tbe only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly upon tne blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They ofleTl'TUO for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address IT. J. Cheney <fc Co., Toledo, O. jag” Sold by Druggists. 75c. To Cleanse the System Effectually yet gently, when costive or billons or when the blood is impure or sluggish, to permanently cure habitual constipation, to awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity, without irritating or weakening them, to dispel headaches, co'ds or fevers, use Syrup of Figs. “A word to the wise is sufficient," hut it is not always wise to say that word to one who is suffering the tortures of a headache. However, always risk it and recommend Bradycrotine. All druggists, fifty cents. Beecham's Pills are a painlessand effectual remedy for all bilious and nervous disorders. For sale by all druggists. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr.Isaac Thomn son VEvp-ws»pr.r)ru<r7i«t.« sell a’ Cic.ner bottle ANOTHER LIFE SAVED. Given Up to Die—Restored to Health by Swamp-Root. The above is a good likeness of Mr. Geo. C. Cradick engraved from a photo, taken a short time ago and sent to Dr. Kilmer & Co., with his letter and package of gravel ho sp aks about, which was dissolved and expelled alter using a few bottles of Swamp-Root. The following is Mr, Cradick’s unsolicited account of his distress ing and painful case. Gosport, Ind.. Jan. 18, 1892. Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghampton, N. Y. —I do not know how to express my hearts felt thanks to you for the benefit 1 have re ceived from using your Swamp Root Kidney Liver aud Bladder Cure. I am now 63 years old, and have suffered almost death for about three years. I had given up to die, but as I profess to be a Christian man and a great believer in the prayer of the righteous, I prayed that God wou’d send something that would prolong my life, and I feel thankful to him and you for the means that was sent. May God spare your life many years yet that you may hear the great good that your medicine is doing. On the 20th day of August. 1891, Mr. Frank Lawson your druggist at Spencer persuaded me to take a bottle on trial. I have taken a few bottles and it has brought out of my blad der lime or gravel, which I have saved in quantity the size of a goose egg and I now feel like a new man. May God bless you and your medicine. 1 remain your humble servant, Box 273. George C. Cradick SECOND LETTriK. Dear Doctor—I take great pleasure in answering your letter which I received to day. You say “you would like to publish my testimonal in your Guide to Health for a while.” I have no objections at all,for I want to do all in my power tor attiicted human ity. 1 send by this mail a lot of the Gravel (about one-balf ot which I saved) that the Swamp-Root dissolved and expelled. Two years ago last September I was taken with pain almost all over me, my head aud back, my legs and feet became cold, would get sick at my stomach and vomit often, suf fering a great deal from chills, an 1 at times these were so severe that I thought 1 would freeze to dettb. My whole constitution was run down and I feit bad all over. The con dition of my urine was not so bad through the day, but during the night, at times, 1 had to get up every hour, and often every halt hour. I suffered terribly from buruing and scald ing sensation. Would urinate sometimes a gallon a night; then it seemed my kidneys and ba-k would kill me. 1 had been troubled with constipation for many years, but since using your Swamp-Root have been better than for a long time. The me licine has helped my appetite wonderfully and it seems as though I could not eat enough. I live about six miles in the country from Gosport. 1 was born and raised here, and have been a member of the M. E. Church for forty-two years. Pardon me for writing so much for I feel that I would never get through praising your great remedy for Kidney, Liver aud Bladder troubles. Your true friend, .Those who try Swamp-Root have gener ally first employed the family physician, or used all the prescriptions within reach with out benefit. As a last resort, when their case has become chronic, tbe symptoms com plicated an i their con.-ritutiou run down, then they take this remedy, and it is just such case> and cures as tbe one above that have made S-vainp-Root lamous and given it a world-wide reputation. Book containing hundreds of other testi monials and va.uable information sent free upon application. At druccists ">Oet size, $1.00,size, or of Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. Ely’s Cream Bairn WI LI. C l ItE |lrSp r ARf l Vo CATARRHF^ Apply Balm Into eaca nostril. ELY BROS., V \\ .irren St.. N. Y. Tlilt's Hair Dye tlray hair or whiskers changed to a glossy black by asingle application of this Dye. It imparts a natural color, acts instantaneous ly and contains nothing injurious to the hair. Sold by druggists, or will be sent on receipt of price, Stl.oO. Otlice, ;{<> l*ark Place, N. Y. COPYRIGHT 1891 In the place of a woman who’s weak, ailing, and miserable, why not be a woman who’s healthy, happy, and strong? You can he. You needn’t experiment. The change is made, safely and surely, with Dr. Pierce’s favorite Pre scription. It’s a matter that rests with you. Here is the medicine — the only one for woman’s peculiar weaknesses and diseases that’s guaranteed to help you. It must give satisfac tion, in every case, or the money is promptly returned. Take it, and you’re a new woman. You can af ford to make the trial, for you’ve nothing to lose. But do you need to be urged? They all Testify To tho Efficacy of tho World-Re nownad Swift’s Specific. The old-time simple I remedy from the Georxta swamps and fields hs» I gone forth to the antipodes. ’ astonishing the skeptical and | confounding the theories of ' these who depend solely on the [ physician’s skill. There Is no blood ' taint which It does not Immediately eradicate. Poisons outwardly absorbed or the result of vile diseases from within all yield to thia potent but simple remedy. It is sn unequaled tonic, builds up the old and feeble, cures all diseases arising from impure blocd or weakened vitality. Bend for a treatise. Examine the proof. Books on *' Blood and Skin Diseases ” mailed free. Druggists Sell It. SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Qa. • — RIPANS TAUULES regulate* , the Ktcumch. aver and bowclr,? purity the Mood, are TUtte and ef • feetuai- The Bert genera! 1 amity, , /fS' / medicine known for Biliousness. * • /" Constipation Dyspepsia. Foul# • Vj/ Breath Headache. Heartburn. Lor.-1 0^ of Appetite. Mental Deort^eion.4 • Painful Digestion. Pimples. 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