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E TALIAGE'S SERMON. the life axd death of hexri xv. vuady. Iho Brooklyn l'renrhor r-?t* an E oqiiPitl Tribute to the Gifted Author aiul Journalist. Text: "Take the a great roll, and write i? it with n man's pen."? Isaiah viii., 1. To Isaiah, with roval blood in his veins and a habitant of palaces, does this divine order come. He is to take a roll, a large roll, and write on it with a pen, not an angel's pen, but a man's pen. So God honored the pen an 1 so H- honored manuscript. In our day the mightiest roll is the religious and secular newspaper, and the mightiest pen is the editor's pan. whether for good or evil. And God says now to every literary man. and especially to every journalist*: "Take thee a great roll, aud write in it with a man's pen." Within a few weeks one of the strongest, most vivid and most brilliant of those pens was laid down on the editorial desk in AtWAfiimarJ T TVOC for JfX: Iki, tiv* ci a^nui iu ur icouiucu. a. ??u.> ivw away at the time. We had been sailing up from the Mediterranean Sea, through the Dardanelles, which region is unlike anything I ever saw for beauty. There is not anr other water scenery on earth where God has done s<> many picturesque things with islands. They are somewhat like the Thousand Islands of our American St. Lawrence, but more like heav n. Indeed, we had just passed Patmos. the place from which John hay his apocalyptic vision. Constantinople had seemed to come out. to greet us, for your approach to that city is different from any other city. Other cities as you approach them seem to retire, but this city, with its glittering minarets and pinnacles,-seem, almost to step into the water to g?eet you. But my landing there, that would have beeu to me an exhilaration, was suddenly stunned with i.ie tidings of the death of my intimate friend, Henry W. Grady. I could hardly believe the tidings, for I had left on my study table at home letters and telegrams froin him, those letters and telegrams having a warmth and geniality and a wit such as ho only could express. The departure of no public man for many years has so affected me. For days I walked about as in a dream, and I resolved that, getting home. I would, for the sake of his bereave! household, and for the sake of his bereaved profession, and for the sake of what he had been to me and shall continue to be as long as memory lasts, I would speak a word in appreciation of him. the most promising of Americans, and learn some of the salient lessons of his departure. I have no doubt that he had enemies. for no man can live such an active life as he lived or be so far in advance of his time without traking enemies, some because be defeated their projects and some because he eutshoae them. Owls and bats never did like the rising sun. But I shall tell you how a i? ? - ?'1 T ntvk svlosi flllf T n> nppeareo to mr, nuu i am 51m. tcld him while he was in full health what I thought of him. Memorial orations and gravestone epitaphs are often mean enough. For they say of a man after he is dead that which ought to have been said of him while living. One garland for a living brow is worth more than a mountain of japonicas and calla lilies heaped on a funeral casket. By a little black volume of fifty pages containing the eulofium*. and poems uttered and written at the emisi of C!ay and Webster and Calhoun and Lincoln and Sumner, the world tried to . pay for the forty years of obloquy it heaps! upon those living giants. If I say nothing in praise cf a man while he lives I will keep silent when he is dead. Myrtle and weeping willow can never do what ought to have been done by amaranth and palm branch. No amount of "Dead March in Saul" rumbling from big organs at the obsequies can atone for non-appreciation of the man before he fell oh sleep. The hearse cannot do what ought to have been done by chariot. But there are important things that need to be said about our friend, who was a prophet in American journalism and who only a few years ago oeard the command of my text: "Take thee ft great roll, and write in it witn a man s pen." Hi3 father dead, Henry W. Grady, a boy Tonrtwn years of age, tod* np the battle or life. It would require a long chapter to rero. J*hejaamesof orphans who have coine to the top. "When God takes away the head of the household He very often gives to some lad in that household a soecial qualificatjcuT. Christ remembers bow that His own died early, leaving Him to s lpport Himself md His mother and His brothers in the carpenter's shop at Nazareth, mi He is in sympathy with ill boys and all young men in the struggle. You say: "Oh, if my father had only lived I would have had a better education and I would have had a more pr omising start, and there are some wrinkles on my brow that would not have been there." But I have noticed that God makes a special way for or- I phans. You would not have been half the j man you are if you had not been obliged j from your earjy days to fight your own bat- ; ties. What other boys got out of Yale or Harvard you got in the University of Hard Knocks. Go among successful merchants, lawyers, physicians and meu of all occupa- | tions and professions, and there are many of j tberu who will tell you: "Atten. or twelve, or fifteen years of 'age I started for myself: j father was sick, or father was dead.'' j But somehow they got through and j got ; p. I account for it by the fact that I T'> is a special dispensation of God for o-.'hans. All hail, the fatherless and the motherless! The Lord Almighty will see you through. Early obstacles for Mr. Grady were only the means for development of his intellect and heart. And lo! when at thirtynine years of age he put down his pen acid closed his lips for the perpetual silence, he oaa none a worn wmcn many a man ?w> i lives on to sixty and seventy and eighty j years never accomplishes. There is a great 'leal of senseless preuse of longevity, as though it were a wonderful achievement to live a good while. Ab, my friends, it is not how long we live, but how well we live and ! how usefully we live. A mat who lives to eighty vears accomplishes nothing for God or humanity might better have never lived at ail.^-Methusaleh lived nine hundred and si^ty nine years, and what did it In tail those more than nine be did not accomplish anything worth record! Paul lived more than sixtv, but how many would it take to make oue Paul? not ra*her have Paul's sixty W^^OT^BgR^^wppWctausaieb's nine hundred and Robert McCheyne died at thirty years of age and John Rummerfield at twenty-seven years of age, but neither earth nor heaven will ever hear the end of their usefulness. Longevity: Why, an elephant can beat you at that,"for it lives a hundred and fifty and two hundred years. Gray hairs are the blossoms of the tree of life if found in the way of righteousness, but the frosts of the second death if found in the way of sin. One of our ablo New York journals last spring printed a question and sent it to many people and among others to myself -. "Can the editor of a secular journal be a Christain?" Some of tin newspapers answered: No. I answered: Yes; and lest you may not understand me I say: Yes, again. Rummer before last, riding with .Mr. Grady rrom a religious meeting in Georgia ou Sunday nighthe said to me some things which I now reveal for the first time because it is appropriate now that I reveal them. Ke expressed nis complete faith in the Gospel and expressed his astonishment and his rrrief that in our day so many young men were rejecting Christianity. From the earnestness and the tenderness and the confidence with which he spoke on these things I concluded that when Henry W. Grady made public profession of his faith in Christ and took bis place at the holy com- , raunion in the Methodist Church, he was honest and truly Christian. That conversation that Sunday night, first in the carriage and then resumed in the hotel, impressed tn? in such a way that when I simply heard of 'tis departure witnout any of the particulars. 1 concluded that he was ready to go. I warrant there was no fright in the last exigency, but that he found what is commonly called "the last enemy" a good friend, and xrom his home on earth he went to a home in heaven. Yes, Mr. Grady not only demonstrated that an editor may be a Christian, but that a very great intellect may be gespeiized. His mental capacity was so wonderful it was almost startling. T have been with him in active conversation while at tte same time he was dictating to a stenographer his editorial-, for the Atlanta Constitution. But that intellect was not ashamed to bow to Christ. Among his last dying utterances was a request for the praters of the churches in his behalf. Tnere was that particular ouality in him that you do not find in more than one person tHJfcof hundreds of thousands?namely, per sonal magnetism. People have tried to define that quality, and always failed, yet we have all felt its p:>wet\ There are some per sons who have only to enter a room or step upon a platform or into a pulpit and you are thrilled by -their presence, and when they speak your nature responds and you cannot help it. "What is the peculiar influence with which such a magnetic person takes hold of social grouos and audiences? "Without attempting to define this, which is indefinable, I will say it seems to correspond to the waves of air set in motion by the voice or the movements of the body. Just like that atmospheric vibration is the moral or spiritual vibration which rolls out from the soul of what we call a magnetic person. As there may be a cord or rope bindiug bodies together. there may bo an invisible cord binding souls. A magnetic man throws it over others as a hunter throws a lasso. Mr Urady was surcharged with this influence, and it was employed for patriotism and Christianity and elevated pi:''poses. You may not know why, in the conversation which I had with Mr. Gladstone a few weeks ego, he uttered these memorable words about Christianity, some of which were cabled to America. " He was speaking in reply to this remark: I said. "Mr. Gladstone. we are told in America by some people that Christianity does very well for weakminded men and children in the infant class. but it is not fit for stronger miuded men; but wheD we mention you, of such large intellectuality, as being a pronounced friend of religion, we silence their batteries." Tli9n Mr. Gladstone stopped on the hillside where we were exercising and said; "The older I grow, the more confirmed I am in my faith in religion." "Sir," said he, with flashing eye and uplifted hand, "talk about tho questions of the day. there is but one question, and that is the Gospel. That can and will c irrect everything. Do you have any of that dreadful agnosti cism in America?" Having told him we had, he went on to say; "I am profoundly thankful that oone of my children or kindred have been blasted by it. I am glad to say that about all the men at the top in Great Britain are Christians. Why, sir," he said, "I have been in public "position fift?--eight years, and forty-seven years in the Cabinet of the British Government, and during those fortyseven years I have beeu associated with sixty of the master minds of the century, md all but five of the sixty were Christians." He tlien named the four leading physicians md surgeons of his country, calling them by aame and remarking upon the high qualities of each of them and added: "They are all thoroughly Christian." My friends, I think it will b? quite respectable for a little longer to be the friends of religion. William E. Gladstone, a Christian; Henry W. Grady, a Christian. What the groitest. of Englishmen said of England is true of America and of all Christendom The men at the ton are the friends of God and believers in the sanctities of religion, the most eminent of tho lawyers, the most eminent of the doctors, the most eminent of the merchants, and there are no better men in all our land than some of those wuo sit in editorial chairs. And if that does not correspond with your acquaintanceship. I am sorry that you have fallen into bad company. In answer to the question put last spring, "Can. a secular journalist be a Chris tian." Jl noil DO! V ttllanci III ur au>iiu?iM>, but I assert that so great are the responsibilities'of that profession, so inflnits and eternal the consequences of their obedience or disobedience of the words of my text, "Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man'spen." and so many are the surrounding temptations that the men of no other profession more deeply need the defenses and the re-enforcements of the grace of God. And then look at the opportunities of journalism. I praise the pulpit and magnify my office, but i state a fact which you all know when I say that where the pulpit touches one person the press touches five hundred. The vast majprity of people do not go to church, but all intelligent people read the newspapers. While, therefore, the responsibility of the ministers is great, the responsibility of editors and reporters is greater. Come, brother journalists, and get your ordination, not by the laying on of human hands, but by the laying on of the handsof the Almighty. To you is committed the precious reputation of men and the more precious reputation of women. Spread before our children an elevated literature. Make sin appear disgusting and virtue admirable. Believe good father than evil. While you show up the hypocrisies of the church, show up the stupendous hypocrisies outside the church. Be not, as some of you are, the mere echoes of public opinion; make public opinion. Let the great roll on which you write with a man's pen be a message of light and liberty ^nd kindness and an awakening of moral pb*woBu.t,vyho is sufficient foi these things? Not one of you without divine help. But get that influence and the editors ana reporters can go lip and take tnis world tor Itoq ana the truth. The mightest opoortunity in all the world for usefulness to-3ay is open before editors and reporters and publishers, whether of knowledge on foot, as in the book, or knowledge on the wing, as in the newspaper. I pray God, men of the newspaper press, whether you hear or read this sermon, that you may ris9 up to your full opportunity and that you may be divinely helped aad rescued and blessed. Some one might say to me: "How can you talk thus of the newspaper press, when you yourself have sometimes been unfairly treated and misrepresented'''' I answer that in the opportunity the newspaper press of this country and other countries have given me week by week to preach the Gospel to the nations", I am put under so much obiigation that I defy all editors and reporters the world over to write anything that shall call forth from me one word of bitter retort from now till the day of my death. My opinion is, that all reformers and religious teachers, instead of spending so much time and energy in denouncing the press, had better spend more time in thanking theni for what-they have done for the world's intelligence and declaring their magnificent opportunity and urging their employment of it all for beneficent. and righteous purposes. Again, I remark tnat Henry TV. Grady stood for Christiau patriotism irrespective of political spoils. He declined all official reward. He could have been Governor of Georgia, but refused it. He could have been 7 n fjfofoc V\llt l'tlft'l 1 f He remained plain Mr. Grady. Nearly ali the other orators of the political arena, as soon as the elections are oyer, go to Washington, or Albany, or Harrisburg. or Atlanta, to get in city or State or National ollce reward for their services, and not getTisT what they want spend the rest o? the time oi." that administration in pouting about the management of public affairs or cursing Harrison or Cleveland. Wheu the great political campaigns were over Mr. Grady went home to his newspaper. Ho demonstrafed that it is possible to toil for principles waich he thought to be right, simply beceuse they were right. Christian patriotism is too rare a commodity in this country. Surely the joy of living under such free institutions as those established here ought to be enough reward for j political fidelity. Among all the great writers that stood at the last Presidential election <>n Democratic and Republican platforms, you cannot recall in your mind ten who vt ,-re not themselves looking for remunerate . appointments. Aye, you can count them all on ".'?a fingers of one hand. The most illustrious specimen of that style c man for the last ten years was Henry W. Grady. Again, Mr. Grady stood for the new south and was just what we want to meet three other men. one to speak for the new north. another for the new east and another for the new west. The bravest speech made for the last quarter of a century was that made by Mr. Grady at the New England dinner in New York about two or three years ago. I sat with him that evening and know some- i thing of his anxieties, for he was to tread on dangerous ground and might by one misspoken word have antagonized forever both sections. His speech was a victory that j thrilled all of us who heard hiin and all who read hin>. That speech, great for wisdom, great for kindness, great for pacification, great for bravery, will go down to the gene- I rations with Webster's speech at Bunker I Hill. William Wirt's speccn at the arraignment of Aaron Burr, Edmund Burke's speech on Warren Hastings, Robert Emmet's I speech for his own vindication. Who will in conspicuous action represent the new north as he'did the new south? Who shall come forth for the new east and who for the new west? Let old political issues ha buried, let old grudges die. Let new theories i be launched. With t ie coming in of a new nation at tli? gates of Castle Garden every ! year, and the wheat bin and corn crib of our j land enlarged with every harvest, and avast multitude of our population still plunged in I illiteracy to be educated, and moral ques- j tions abroad involving the very existence of I our Republic, let the old political platforms ! that are worm-eaten be dropped and plat- I forms that shall be made of two planks, the one the Ten Commandments and tne other the ! Sermon on the Mount, lifted for all of us to stand on . But there is a loF of old politfcians grumbling allaround the sky who don't want a new south, a new north, a new east or a new west. They have some old war. sp?eehes that they prepared in 1S61, that in all our autumnal elections they feel called upon to inflict upon the country. They growl louder and louder in proportion as they are pushed back further and further and the Henry W. Gradys come to the front. But the mandate, I think, has gone forth from the throne of God that a new American nation shall take the place of the old, and the new has been baptized for God and liberty and justice nnd peace and morality and re ligion. And now our much lamented friend has gone to give account. Suddenly the facile and potent pen is laid down and the eloquent tongue is silent. What? Is there no safeguard against fatal disease? The impersonation of stout health was -Mr. Grady. What omp&cluess of muscle! What ruidy complexion! What flashing eye! .Standing with jini in a group of twenty or thirty persons at J'iedmont, he looked the healthiest as his spirits were the blithest. Shall we never feel again the hearty grasp of his hand or be magnetized with his eloquence? Men of the great roll, men of the pen, men of wit, men of power, if our friena lmd to go when the call came, so must you when your call comes. When God asks you what have you done with your pen or your eloquence or your | wealth or your social position, will you be able | to give satisfactory answer? What have we I been writing all these years? If mirth, has it been innocent mirth, or that which tears and stings and lacerates? From our pen have there come forth productions healthy or poisonous? In the last great day when the warrior must give account of what he has done with his sword, and the merchant what he has done with his yard 6tick. and the mason what he has done with his trowel, and the artist what he has done with his pencil, we shall have to give account of what we have done with our pen. There are gold pens and diamond pens and pens of exquisite manufacture, and every few weeks I see some new kind of pen, each said to be better than the other; but in the great day of our arraign in ens.before the Judge of quick and dead that will."be the most beautiful pen, whether gold or steel or quill, which never wrote a profane or unclean or cruel word, or which from the day it was carved, or split at the nib, dropped from its point kindness and encouragement and help and gratitude to God and benediction for man. May God comfort that torn un Southern home and all the homes of this country and of all the world which have been swept by this plaguo o. . influenza, wh.cn has deepened sometimes! into pneumonia, and sometimes into typhus, and the victims of which are counted by" the ten thousand! Satan, who is the "Prince of the Power of the Air." has been poisonirc the atmosphere in all nations. Though it is Oiefirst time in our remembrance. he has done the same thing before. In 1690 the unwholesome air of Cairo, Egypt, destroyed the life of ten thousand in one day, and in Constantinople in 1714 three hundred thousand people riea or it. I am glad that by the better sanitat.cn of our cities and wider understanding of hygienic laws and the greater skill oil physicia ns these Apollyonic assaults upon t.he human race are being resisted, but pestilential atmosphere is still abroad. Hardly a family here but has felt its lighter or heavier touch. Some of the best of ray flock fell under its power, and many homes here represented have been crushed. The fact is me biggest failure in the universe Is this world if there be no heaven beyond. But there is, and the friends who have gone there are many and very dear. 0 tearful eyes, look up to the hills crimsoning with eternal morn! That reunion kiss wfll more than make up for the parting kiss, and the welcome will obliterate the good-bye. "The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." Till then, 0 departed loved ones, promise us that you will remsiuber us, as we promise to remember you. And some of you gone up from this city by the sea and othei-s from under southern skies, and others from the homes of the more rigorous north and some from the cabins on the great western farms, we shall meet again when our pen.has written its las word and our arm has , done its last day's work and our lips have spoken the last adieu. Aud now, thou great and magnificent soui of editor and orator! under brighter skies we shall meet again. From God tbou earnest, and to God thou hast returned. 27ot broken down, but ascended. Not collapsed, but irra diated. Enthroned one! Coroneted one' Sceptered onel Emparadised one! Hai aud fareu ell 1 A TOWN BUILT ON A ROCK. It Can Only Be Entered Across a Chasm Through a Hole. The town of Yezd-i-khast, in Persia, is built on the top of a long, lofty rock, rising up in the centre of a narrow ravine ?a truly historical ravine?which in bygone ages was a portion of the boundary line between the two kingdoms of the Modes and Persians, and which now divides the two provinces of Persia of Far? and Irak Adjcmi, the scene of many a bloody conflict, even within the memory of man. There is a gradual ascent in a southerly direction from the post-house, which is situated at the northerly end of the rock; we passed-by enclosures for tho cattle of the community and deep caves, where the newly-born of goats and sheep were skipping and bleating, until at the south end of the rock a spot is reached where the ground is so high that by a rickety bridge you can cross a chasm, nnd enter the town through a hole in the wall; in former years there was a drawbridge, now there is only a frail thing made of trees, which requires a good head and firm step to cross. This is the only approach to the town. Just before you step on to the bridge there is a small square enclosure for pub lie prayers; it is the great meeting place of the town, and toward sunset on the first day of the year it was so crowded by worshippers that there was not nearly room for them all, and they had to make their prostrations in their turn. Everybody appeared to be dressed in new clothes, for no Persian, however poor, would enter on a new year without some new garment, and they all looked particularly clean, for it is the custom on the day before the feast for every one to go to the bath, to have his hair dyed black, and his nails dyed yellow with henna. I never saw a more dismal spot in my <ife than the interior of Yczd-i-khast, writes a correspondent. One long street like a tunnel, with occasional glimpses of the upper air, rune from one end of the rock to the other. As you enter the gateway the chilly atmosphere of a vault strikes upon you. The gatekeeper was in his hole to the right, behind the door, which he shuts at night?a hole not large enough to lie down in. lie was crouching over a char coal brazier, on which simmered a coffee pot; he is a blear-eyed, ragged old man, who looks as if lie was in a perpetual shiver and as if he was immured alive in a tomb which any respectable corpse would reject with scorn. As we stumbled along in the dark wt nearly fell over an old woman selling dried grapes and other luxuries, using as weights round stones and shells in a pail of scales which any inspector would condemn at lb'st sight. How They Increase Their Incomes. The ticket agents on the New York elevated i ail ways occasionally turn a snug little penny by keeping a sharp lookout for the old and rare coins which they may receive and selling these to the old coin collectors. Many of the coin collectors have certain agents whom they regularly visit and inquire eagerly fct ' any finds." Most of the money passed in to the ticket agents, of course, is small change, and some very rare coins have been picked up in this way. \ His Daughter Worked Harder. A gaunt, haggard-looking man, whose business keeps him rushing from . the opening until the close of every work day, was sympathized with a few days ago by a friend. "I tell you, old man," said the friend, "you work too hard. Why don't you take things easy ? You've got money enough to let things wag their own way now." "We are a hard-working family," was the reply, "and when I get home I shall find the whole lot of us just as tired as I am, and nobody in the house feeling bright except the servants. My daughter used to be rosy and freshlooking until she began going into society, and how she ever stands it now is more than I can tell. I don't know a man down town that works as hard as she does, and she keeps pegging away ' at it when I'jn sleeping." "What does she do, for heaven's cake?" "Well, I don't know everything she ; does, because I haven't reached that point of interest in her mode of enjoying herself to keep notes. She's in society. Don't yon understand that? Well, I don't either, but that explanaj lion seems to be all that is necessary I from her when I advise her to let up ! and take a rest. I suppose she's got | an end to keep up, and she's struggling hard to keep it elevated, I tell yon. Yesterday she was up at 8 o'clock, because she had to go out shopping. She came in at luncheon pretty well fa gged out. Then she had a dozen calls to make, arid when she came in to dinner she looked so poorly I felt tired for her. There was a reception somewhere at night, ard just before I retired a dude camo around and carried her off to it. She came in along toward midnight, but this didn't prevent her from getting up this morniogat8 o'clock again. So far, she belongs to a literary club that meets on Tuesday, a Dorcas circle that meets on Wednesday, a debating club thai; meets on Thursday, a dancing class that meets on Friday, and a missionary club that meets on Saturday. Then her nights are taken up with a bowling club, a progressive euchre club, a theater club, receptions, balls, parties, arid the aforementioned dude. "Sandwiched between all these are innumerable social calls, luncheons, and such things. Sundays are roaring days with her, too. She is a teacher in a Sunday school, and she never misses evening service. Of course she has a good many other things to look after, hut I can't recollect what they are just now. I lead a lazy life as compared with the life she leads. Being in business isn't half as hard as being in sooiptv " A Fresh, Gory Arm. Writes an old-timer: "The night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated I witnessed a curious incident, which I shall never forget. I was one of a party of young men playing billiards about a square from Ford's Theater, where Lincoln was shot. The fatal shot had not more than died away in the reverberatior s in the theater than word flew like wildfire along the street that Lincoln was assassinated. A young medical student who knew our party haiipened to be returning home from the dissecting room when he heard the news. He was carrying the forearm of a man, and had it wrapped in a newspaper. When he heard the awful news he threw away the nowspaper and. swinging the ghastly human bone above his head, rus!.:-! into our billiard loom and shouted in an exciied manner: 'Lincoln is killed !' We thought he was insane, and it was some time before we could be made to believe the news. All of us, together with the medical student, joined the surging mass of humanity that collected around the theater. An hour after, when the excitement had cooled down somewhat and we were walking tway, one of our party asked the medical student what he was carrying in his hand. It was the human bone. The bleeding, ghastly thing was taken from a 'stiff' that night, and he had clung to it during all the excitement in the crowd." With Heads to the North. The superstitious belief that human beings should sleep with their heads toward the north is now believed to be based upon a scientific principle. The French Academy of Bcier ces has made experiments upon, the body of a guillotined man which go to prove that oarh human bodv is in itself an eleo trie battery, one electrode beiDg represented by the head and the other by the feet. The body of the subject upon which experiments were made was I taken immediately after death and placed upon a pivot free to move in any direction. After some vascillation the head portion turned toward the north, the pivot-board then remaining stationary. One of the professors turned it half way around, but it eoon regained a position with the head-piece to the north, and the samo results were repeatedly obfained until organic movement ceased. Axles, carriages, twisted wire cableB, the ends of boilers, wagon iires, and hoops for barrels, are among the articles for which electric-welding is already employed. Bars of metal may be joined at angles, finger rings made, steel joined to iron in tools, rods of bars lengthened or shortened, and cast-iron pieces for machinery united, by the new method. TJio process is very rapid, and so effective that chain links made by it, unlike those welded in the old way, never break at the weld. 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At last, knowing that Hood's Sarsaparilla had cured my mother of rheumatism, aud believing It must be good I for the blood, I concluded to have my daughter try j It, and It has entirely cured her." Cornelius Yeaqer, I 412 East Main Street, Marshalltown, Iowa. Purifies the Blood "Hood's Sarsaparilla has cured mo of salt rheum, which I have had for years. I do think it is a splendid medicine. I an < ) years of age and my skin la just as smooth and fair as a piece of glass." Mrs. I.ii.i. t Clark, South Nor walk, Conn. Hood's Sarsaparilla., Sol i by all druggists. ?1; six for J". Prepared only by C. I. HOOD k CO., Lowell, Mass. i 100 Pcses One Dollar i 0 Tier Resolutions. In looking over a woman's list of good resolutions for the new year, we fail to find the following: 1. Never to stop a horse-car on o curve or on an inclination. 2. Always to signify to the driver or conductor in some way save by an up lifted eyebrow lhat she wants the car to stop. 3. Never to get into deep conversa tion with a friend, and forgetting her street till she is a block farther, blame tlio conductor for not stopping more quickly. 4. Never to lay her wet umbrella down on the silk goods counter in a store. ?r>. To carry the same umbrella up aud down and not in and out. C>. To buy more than two postage stamps at a time. 7. To mend her old clothes before she gives them to the poor. 8. To refrain from joining any more committees. 9. To refrain from telling every one she meets what her grippe symptoms were and what she did for them. 10. To refrain from writing 1889 any farther than into March, 1890.?Eosion Satunlav Evenina Gazette. ' Morsels of Gastronomy. Since the prodigal banquet to the Kaiser "Wilhelm economy is believed to have reigned in the Sultan's household. It is more and more the fashionable affectation to profess- not to like icecream ; possibly this is owing to the parngraphers' pun. So much talk about horseflesh in eausftges has in some fastidious localities affected the sale of the breakfast articles. There i3 not a Queen all over Europe who will acknowledge that she knows anything about the "queon flitters" enumerated on the hotel bill of fare.? New York Mail and Express. The Pride of Ills -J I ass. He was a brig it, hand omo boy of slxtoon. sonny-: omperea, brilliant and engaging, the I delight of his parents, the joy of his homo, and ! the pride of his class. Bit a shadow fell ' across hLs bright pro-ipects. It began with a , trifling coagii; soon came prenioniti n3 of con: sumptiou, his strongtli failed, his cheeks grew | hollow, and he sootned doomed to an early grave, men a incuu auvizseu i#r. i iviuca &<>lien Medical Discovery. He tried it and was saved. Hoalth and strength returned, his cheerful voice rang out aga n across the school rlnyground, his cneoks agalu grew rosy, his eyes bright. He is still' the pride of his class" and ho graduates this year with highest honors. Chronic Nasal Catarrh positively cured by Dr. Sago's Catarrh Remedy. CO cents, by druggists. An exchange says that oyst?rs are going lip. They are going in the opposite direction at our tahlc. Thorn is more Catarrh in this section of tin country than a.) other diseases put together, and until the Inst few years was supposed to ho incurab o. For a great many years l)?r. tors pronounced it a local disease, and preI scribed local remedies, at d by oonstHntij failing to euro with !o at treatment, pr.c rtoiineed it. incut.able. Science has provei ' ifiturrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore rei)aire*constitutional treatment I Hull's Catarrh Cut*, manufactured by F.J . Cheney <V Co.. Toledo. Ohio, is the on y con1 slitu:ional cure on the market: It is tnken I Internally in doses from 10 dtops to a teuspoonlul. It acts directly upon the blood nnd mucus surface of the system- They off i one hundred dollars for any case it fails t< cure. Semi for circulars and testimonin s. Address. F.J. CHENEY & cO., To edo, 0 EB^SoId by Druggists, 75c i A Chicago barber is worth S125.000. Thb shows thai s lenco is not always go;den. | A soap that is so't is full <\f water, half or two-thirds its we ght probably, thus y, u pay I seven or eight cents par innnd for water. Dobbins's Electric Soap is all soap and n >adult-ration, therefore tho cheaput and but. Try Doblnru't. When a man is under a c oud the silvei lining is generally on the other side. Watch for "Murray" Buggy adv. next weeV Tho pig who gels into c'over thinks tin swatd mightier than the pen. Old smokers prefer "Tiinsili's I'unch." The chief symptoms ot a co d in tho hem. j is a handkerchief. Both the method and results when Sym p of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acta gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste and acceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50o and $1 bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for auy one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. UVtMtlLE, Ki. NEW YORK, N.t. Wt PPA Wool Ornfle?Everything! No D It So iaripr stock In U.S. Xulirr1 Bb Id. B__ ILH no ciienper. I'IKECO. IliiBfiBW NURSERIES, Louisiana, Mo. FREEMAN ?fc MONEY, Washington, D. c Patent, Pension, Claim and Land attorneys, H. D. Money, 10 years Member of Congress, A. A. Prceman, 8 years Ass't U. S. Att'y-Gen Anillld HABIT. Only Certain aui easy CI'U E In the World. Da jJ .T IIIIYI J. L. BTEP11EN8, Lab**a*,< I pre?rrlbe and fa'ty en dorse 151 g (i ns Ih onli AEt^r Cora. In specific for the certoi curt I ^B8r 1 TO & DATB.^B of this disease. I S'OtarsotMd not t?? G. H.INGBAHAM.M. D., t J osbmBtrloturt. Amsterdam, N. Y. El? Mrd only by the We have sold Big G let iRila? ?? rv.wtYol O many years, and It ba: ' uUrau Citalal (,jvpn tnc be.t of aatit\mEa CinclnnaJ.WftnS faction. jol- D-B-DYCH B & ?0.. Tra?^^^^?^i?riiSl.OO. Sold by Druggists. CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL PILLS Reo CROSS DIAMOND BRAND. j-f /*>JS Safe anil alwaj* reliable. Ladle*, A f> k\ LU^ii a*k Dru*riaL for Diamond Brand. In j&\ ^"Vi^^C^rcd, rnrtalllc boxes, traled with blue * % ribbon. Take no other. All pills a pMttbotr<l bciM, pink wrapper., ire Vfir "/ ? (Jf dnngtromi counterfeits. Send 4c. V L. Jr ctimp,) far ptrticuliri. tetdmoniils an-" lee B "Relief for Lndlca," fit letter, by return , if snail. ,V?m? Paper. ^V^-r IhlchttKr Chet?'| Co., Sidltu Bib. Phlla.,1*. "f "MY WIFE IS A TERROR!" said a mild-tempered man in our hearing. "She snaps and snarls and spanks her children, and finds fault continually. I can't bear it any longer." Don't bo too severe on her, my friend; you little reali/,0 her sufferings. She has "lost her former sweet disposition, and ill health is the cause of it all. Dr. Tierce's Favorite Prescription will make her wclL As a powerful, invigorating tonic, it imparts strength to the whole system, and to the womb and its appendages in particular. For overworked, " worn - out," " run-down," debilitated teachers, milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses, " shop - girls." housekeepers, nursing mothers, and feeble women generally, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is tho greatest earthly Iwon, being unequaled as an apprizing cordial and rostorativo tonic. As a soothing and strengthening nervine, "-Favorite "Prescription" is unequaled and is invaluable in allaying and subduing nervous excitability, irritability, exhaustion, prostration, hysteria, spasms and other distressing, nervous symptoms, commonly attendant upon functional and organic disease of tho womb. It induces refreshing sleep and relieves mental anxiety and despondency. CATARRF manently cured by DR. 8AGC8 QATARRH To cure Biliousness. Sick Headache, Constipation, Malaria. Llvor Complaints, take the safe and certain remedy. SMITH'S BILE BEANS Ose the SMALL SIZE (40 little beans to the bottle). They are the most convenient; suit all agea Price of either size, 25 cents per bottle. If ICCIVJO at 7. 17. 70; Photo-gravure. * vd panel site of thla picture for 4 cents (coppers or stamps). J. F. SMITH A CO.. Makers of ' 'Bile Beans.'' St. Louis, Mo. tly's Cream Balm^OLY's^ WILL CURE JATARRnfel|M I Price oOlVnf. | Apply Balm into each nostril LtDROS..ioW?rrea it..N. *. i^vv^' "**Ir you wish a r> -t?% ~ __qooi? mnwEssM ItF.VOLVER 4 purchase one of the cele- \enfci_JVo <?\\ bra ted SMITH ft WESSON anna. Tho f.neet small arms /( vY~\f ?w\ ever manufactured and tho iVy )) *331 first cholco of all experts. WH Manufactured In calibres 32,38 and ?-loa Sin- Mug gle or double action. Safety Hammerleea and \SS/ Tsrgetmodela. Constructed entirely or beat quality wrought steel, carefully inspected for workmanship and stock, they are unrivaled for finish, durability and nccnrncy. Do not be deceived bs cheap ninllenble cast-iron Imitations wblcc are often sold for tbe genuine article and are nol onlv unreliable, but dangerous. The SMITH A WESSON Revolvers are all stamiwd upon the bar rela with firm's name, addrcaa and dates of patent* and are guaranteed perfect In every detail. Insist npon having the genuine artlclo, and If yout dealer cannot supply yon an order sent to addreas below will reoeivo prompt and careful attention. Deecrptivecatalotme and prices furnished upon app Ilea ton SMITH & WESSON, this paocr. Hnrlngfield. Mm /*j| JONES ifP ziszlSIre ?? %// Iron Derars. Steel Bearings, Brag JSFJBjggA. Tars Besin^an^Bcam Box for SjJnfvs^SKV Every das Scale. For fi-ee pries 1M JlX&rmi. mention this paper and oddrsM RW^nJONES OF BINQHAMTON. ' _ BINGDAMTO.V. Jfj.yJ. FRAZEK^I BEST IN THE. WORLD UllLMOt [T Qot ths Genuine. Sold Everywhere. Iinur STUDY. Book-krerlnjr.DuslneiaForma, UUmE Penmanship, Arlihmrtlc, Short-hand,eta., 81 thoroughly taught by MAIL. Circulars irac. Bryant's College, 437 Mala St. Buffalo. N. T SOLID SILVER TINS wan odd antique face?; oxt (I I zed. For gentlemen or ladle?. Different de signs. Sent by mail on receipt of 20 cents In stamp? H. LEONARD. 1S2 Sixth Avenue, New Vork Box V hi!!!!, sa * ^CllilPPn STANDARD FOR 0V StlkfStCU Cure Indigestion, q^ttiira KB aeaHtei* burn, Flatulency,C. thoStomach; C'osti I'iarrhiea, Files, and mariica congestion, imiiouhi SB? Headache, Giddinci 8 UbbSI^ daring Tains, Main , and all Diseased arb Sluggish Liver. Tl ^ Ii a Pofitivo Curo for coats, reduce gorge , tions, break up stul) DYSPEPSIA store free, healthy n< give the system a c And nil Disorders of the Dl- and strong'tli. The; gestivo Organs. Jtislilcowise _.,DC., v ue a Corroborativo or Strength- PU H c. LY V L enlng Medicine, and may be ctRITTI v taken with benefit In all cases 3 of Debility. For bale by all andABSOL Druggists. Trice, $1.0(1 per bottle. Dr. Schenck's New Book For Sale by all Dr oil Lungs, Liverand Stomach per box; 3 boxes fi mailed free. Addr'ss, mail, postage free, Dr. J.H.Schsnck & San, Phlla. Dr. J. 11. Schenck ? jc? Best Cough Medicine. 1 Cures where all else fails, taste. Children take it wit] 4 Dr. Pierco'3 Pavorito Prescription is'a legitimate medicine, carefully compounded by on experienced and sldllful physician, and adapted to woman's delicate organisv tioru Jt is purely vegetable in its composition and perfectly harmless in any condition of tbo system. " Favorite Prescription" fa a positive euro for tbo most complicated ana obstinate cases of leucorrhed, excessive flowing, painful menstruation, unnatural suppr^^^^v sions, prolapsus, or falling "bC, tho waxab, ^ weak back, "female weakness,""anteversion, retroversion, bearing-down sensations, chronic congestion, inflammation and ulceration of tho womb, inflammation, pain and tenderness in ovaries, accompanied with M internal heat." It fa the only medicine for woman's peculiar weaknesses and ailments, sold by druggists, under a positive guarantee from the manufacturers, to give satisfaction in every case, or money paid for it will be promptly refunded. See guarantee printed on bottfa wrapper and faithfully carried out for many years. For an Illustrated Treatise on Diseases I of Women, 1G0 pages, (sent scaled in plain I1 envelope,) ercloso ten cents, in stamps, to World's Di.spkwsar.y Mkdicai, Association, No. GG3 Main Street, Buffalo, .jf; Y. J IHT THE HEAP, ? no matter of how long standing, Is perREMEDY. 50 cents, by druggicta. $3 SHOE GENTLEMEN. j BEST IN THE WORLD/ I OTHER 8PECI<IES for GEHTLEHE5, | LADIES, MISSES and BOYS. Hone fennino unless name and orice art stamped on bottom. Sold everywhere, t*~S?nd address on postal for valuable in* formation. W, l? Uon;lM, RroeLtou, illaas. ZlfflfHKB xmLuTC?1 TJLWS?CHILp: 1 AFTER ALL OTHERS FAIL I CONSULT Dlt. I.OUR, 3ii<> North Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia. Twenty years' experience In special diseases; cures the worst eases of Nervous Complaints, Blood Poisoning, lilotohcs, Eruptions, Piles, Catarrh, Ulcers, Sores, Impaired Memory, Despondency, Dimness of Vision, I.ung, Liver, I Stomach, Kidney (Drlght's Disease); confidential. ' HTCall or write for question list and book. ? ; I ADll IM isss ' fl Brlllm out pain. Book of UH ucuiars rem rncc, " u. M. WOOLLBY, H. D.; TTTCTTT. ft*. Office 66* Whitduli St I U N ?I IU J - _._J ffil J IHENCK'S ^POSJll,. 'ER HALF A CENTURY g Sour Stomach, Heart- ?j |_R/||BhvIa a die, and all Diseased of pi wfall! will v vpiioss, Inflammation, ? Diseusrioftlie Iiowcls; 3C5S, Jaundice, Nausea, id, Nervousness, Wan- 6 VkBID nia, Liver Complaint, ^ I llVU ilug from a Gorged and , liey clean tlio mucous d or congested condi- Will Curo SSffiSSSWiCOUCHS- COLDS, liance to recover tone ^n(' Diseases of tho raro THROAT AND LUNGS. r>TA die- It !' pleasant to tho taste, uLTAoLb, and diics not contain a particle ri tflpi r of opium or anything injurintWHDLL' mis. It is tho Deal Cough MedUTELY SAFE. tcino in tho World. For Sale by all Druggist*. Price f 1.00 uggists. Prico 25 et*. porbottlo. Dr.Schenck'sDoolc 3i" 05 cts.; or sent by on Consumption and its Cure, on reeelnt of nriee. mailed free. Address ' Son, Philadelphia, P?. Dr. J.H.Schenck A Son, Phlt*. Recommended by Physicians. Bffil Pleasant and agroeablc to tho gg| tiout objection. By druggists. Cj