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THE LEDGER: GAFFKEY, S. C., MAY 26, 1898.
TANTALIZING TALK.
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JOB'S COMFORTERS THE SUBJECT OF
DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON.
On tlie Other Side We Shull J.carn Why
U<id Let Sin Ct:me Into the World.
Thn.e Who Have Not Known Trouble
La* k Sympathy—Preparation For Glory.
[Copyright. IS'.ts, by American I'nts Assc- !
elation.]
Washington, May US.—The awk
ward and irritating mode of trying to
comfort people in trouble is here sot
forth by Dr. Talmage, and a better
way of dealing with broken hearts i*
recommended; text, Job r.vi, 2, "Mis
erable comforters are ye all. ”
The man of Uz had a great many
trials—the loss of his family, tholo; s
of his property, the loss of hi.s health—
but the most exasperating thing that
eame upon him was the tantali/ing talk
of thoM* who ought to have rympathized
with him. And, looking around upon
them and weighing what they had said,
he utters the words of my text.
Why did God let sin come into the
world? It is a question I often hear dis
cussed, but never satisfactorily answer
ed. God made the world fair and beau
tiful at the start, if our lirst parents
had not sinned in Eden, they might
have gone out of that gar leu and found
60 paradises all around the earth—Eu
rope, Asia, Africa, North and South
America—so many flower gardens or
orchards of fruit, redolent and luscious.
I suppose that whe n God poured c>ut
the Gikon and the Hiddekel he poun d
out at the same time the Hudson and
the* Susquehanna. The whole eartli was
very fair and beautiful to look upon.
Why did it not stay so? God had the
power to keep back sin and woes. Why
did he not keep them bae k? Why not
every cloud roseate^ and t excry step v
joy, and every sound music, and rll the
agej* a long jubilee of sinless men and
sinless women? God can make a rose* as
easily as he can make a thorn. Why,
then, the predominance of thorns? i.e
can make good, fair, ripe frv.it as well as
gnarled and sour fruit. Why so much,
then, that is gnarled and sour? Ho can
make men robu.t i .health. Why, then,
are there so navy invalids? Why not
have for our whole race i»erpetnul lei
sure instead of this tug and toil and
tussle for a livelihood? 1 will tell you
why God lot sin come into the world—
when I got on the other side of the riv
er of death. That is the place where
such questions will he am wi red and
such mycteiics solved. He who this side
that river attempts to answer the ques
tion only illustrates Inn own igm tancc
and iucompetcney. All I know is ore
gnat fact, and that is that n herd of
woes has << me in upon us, tram] ling
down evgry.Liujf fair and beautnul. A
sword at’t ho gate of Euen am 1 a sword
at every gate.
Cumfortli’iJ t.J** Troubled.
More people und* r the ground than
?n it. The graveyards in vnt majority.
The 0,000 winters have made more scars
than the 0,C j0 summers can cover up.
front!; has taken t!.'* tender heart < f
this world in its two rough hands and
Vinebcd it F.l.til the nations wai! wbii
the agony. If all llio monuds of grave
yards that have been rah-ed were put
side by side, you might step on them
and nothing else, going all around the
iund
again and
mud
t
worl 1 and ur
again. These are the facts. And now 1
have to say that, iu n world lik tins,
the grandest occupation is that of giv
ing condolence. The holy science of im
parting comfort to the troubled we ought
all of lift to study. There are many of
vou who could look around upon s me
• T
of your v ry best IVu iuls, who wfrsh you
well, and arcs very intelligent, and yet
be able truthfully to say to them in
your days of trouble, "Miserallj com
forters are yo* all."
1 remark, in the first place, that very
voluble people are incompetent for the
work of giving comfort. Bildud and
Eliphaz had the gift of language, and
with their words almost bothered Job’s
life out. Alas for these voluble people
that go among the houses of the alliict-
cd, and talk and tall; and talk and talk!
They rehearse their own sorrows, and
then they tell the poor Hiifferers that
they feel badly now, but they will feci
worse after awhile. Filenee! Do you ex-
jiect with a thin court plaster of words
to heal a wound deep as the sx>ul? Step
very gently around about u broken heart.
Talk very softly around those whom
God has bereft. Then go your way.
Deep sympathy has not much to say. A
firm grasp of the hand, a compassionate
look, just one word that means us much
aa a whole dictionary, and you have
given, perbapa, all the comfort that a
soul needs. A man haa a terrible wound
in his arm. The Burgeon comes and
biuda it up. "Now." he says, "carry
that arm in a aling and be very careful
of it. Let no one touch it." but the
neighbors have heard of tho accident,
and they come in and they say, "Let ua
nee it" And the bandage is pulled off,
and this one and that one must fuel it
and nee how much it ia swollen, and
there are irritation and inflammation and
exasperation where there ought to be
healing and cooling. The surgeon comes
in and aMfs: "What does all this mean?
You havw\po buaineas to touch those
bandages. That wound will never heal
unless you let it alone." Ho there are
souls broken down In sorrow. What
they most want is rest, or very careful
and,gentle treatment, but the neighbors
have heard of the bereavement or of
the loss, and they ootne in to sympa
thise, and they say: "Show us now the
wemnd. What wore his last words? Be-
hcurse now the whole scene. How did
you feel when you found you were an
orphan?" Tearing off the bondages here
end pulling them off there, leaving a
ghostly wound that the balm of God*a
grace had already begun to heal. Oh,
let no loquacious people, with over rat
tling tongue* go into the homes of the
distressed!
Weefcaess ef rtUlMoyty,
1 Again, I remark that all those per
sons are Incompetent to girt any kind
have come. Oh, no! Do yon not remem
ber that passage of Scripture, "Whom
the Lord lovcth hechasteneth?" A child
come s in with a very ba 1 Bp!inter in its
hand, and you try to extract it. It i.s a
very painful operation. The child draws
back from you, but you j^r.-i.-t. You
are going to take that splinter out, so
you take tho child with u gentle but
firm grasp, for, although thure may lx*
pain in it, the splinter must come out.
And it is love that dictates it and male ;
you persist. My friends, I really think
that nearly all our sorrows in this world
are only the hand cf our Father ex
tracting some thorn. If all these s* r-
rows were sent by enemies, I would
say, Ann yourselves again, t them, and
as in tropical climes when a tiger comes
down from tho mountains and Cannes
off a child from the village the neigh
bors band together and go into the for
est and liuut the monster so I would
have you, if I thought these misfortunes
were sent by an enemy, go out and bat-
tlo against them. But, no, they come
from a Father eo kind, so loving, so
gentle, that tho prophet, speaking of hi.s
tenderness and mercy, drops tho idea of
a father and says, "As one v.Lcm his
mother comforteth so will I comfort
! you.”
Again, I remark there is comfort in
! the thought that God by all this process
is going to make you useful. Do you
know that tbo.se v. ho accomplish the
most for God and heaven have all been
under the harrow? Show mo a man thul
has done anything for Chrirt in this
day in a public or private place who
has had no trouble and whose path has
been smooth. Ah, no.
1 once went through en ax factory,
and I raw thorn take the Kars of iron
and thrust them into the terrible fur
naces. Tucn besweated workmen with
long tongs stirred the blr.xo. Then they
brought out a bar of iron and put it iu |
a crushing machine, and then they put ;
it between jaws that bit it in twain, j
Then they put it <u an anvil, and dure :
were great hammers swung by muckiu- >
cry—each one half a ton in weight—
that went thump, thump, thump! if ,
that iron could have spoken, it would
have said: "Why all this beating? Why
must I be pounded any more than any 1
other iron?" The workmen would have
said: "We want to make axes out of |
you, keen, sharp axes—axes with which I
to hew down the forest, and build the |
ship, and erect houoeH, und carrv on a
thousand enterprises cf civilization, i
That is the reason we pound you." !
Now, God puts a soul into the furnace j
of trial, and then it i.' brought out m l ;
run through the crusiung machine, and |
then it comes down on the anvil, and ;
upon it, blow after LIjv.’, blow : t er [
blow, until the soul cries out, "uu, |
Lord, what does all this mean?" God
says: "1 want to make something very
useful out of you. You shall be some- !
thing to hew with and something to i
build with. It is a practical pnxess i
through wdiich I tun putting you." Yes, I
my Christian friends, we want mo.e
tools iu the* church of God, not more j
wedges to split with. We have enough |
of these. Not mere bores w.;h which to
drill. We have too many !>cr:;s. What i
we really want is keen, slu rp, we ll tein- i
pored axes, and if there bo any other |
way of making them than iu the hot .
furnace, and on the hard anvil, and un- j
de*r the heavy hammer, 1 do not know !
what it is. Remember that if Gcd i
brings any kind of cluu.themeut upon |
you it is only to make yea ust ful. Do 1
not sit down discouraged and say: "I
have* no more reason for living. I wish
1 were dead.” Ch, there never was so
much reason for your living r.s now.
Hy this ordeal you have been ccnnccrat-
ed a priest ef the* moet high God. Go
out and do your whole work for the
Master.
The ItebelliouN Urart.
Again, there is comfort in the thought
that all our troubles are a revelation.
Have you ever thought cf it in that con
nection? The man who has ne*ver been
through chastisement is ignorant ab ut
a thousand things in his soul he ought
to know. For instance, here is a nun
who prides himself on his cheerfulness
of character. Hu has no patience wi.!i
anybody who is depressed in spirit.:.
Oh, it is easy for him to be ckotrful,
with hi., line house, his filled wardrobe
and well strung instruments of music
und tapestried parlor and plenty of
money iu the bank waiting for some
permanent investment! It is easy for
him to be cheerful But suppose his
fortune goes to pieces, and his house
goes down under the sheriff’s hammer,
and the banks will not have anything
to do with his paper. Suppose those
jx-oplo who were once elegantly enter-
tuiuod at his table get so shortsighted
that they cannot recognize him upon
the street. How then? Is it so easy to
be chocrfnl? It is easy to be cheerful in
the homo, after the day’s work is done,
and the gss is tamed on, and the house
is full of rouping little ones. But sup
pose the piano is shut because the fin
gers that played ou it will no more
touch the keys, and the childish voice
that asked so many questions will ask
no more. Then is it so easy? When a
man wakes up and finds that his re-
purees are all gone, be begins to rebel,
and he says: "God is hard; God is out
rageous. He had no business to do this
tome." My friends, those of as who
have been throngh trouble know what a
sinful and rebellions heart we have and
how much God lias to put up with and
bow much we need pardon. It is only
iu the light of a flaming furnace that
we can learn our own weakness and our
own lack of moral resource.
Ksmlljr Msstlags.
There is also a great deal of comfort
in the fact (hat there will be a family
nooustrnction in a better place. From
Scotland or England or Ireland a child
emigrates to America. It is very hard
parting, bat he comes, after awhile
writing home as to what a good land it
ia Another brother comes, a sister
comes, and another, and after awhile
the mother comes, and after awhile the
father oomea, and now they are all here,
and they have a time of great congrat
ulation and a very pleasant reunion.
of comfort who act merely as worldly
philosophers. They come in and say: i
"Why, this is what you ought to have
expected. The lawsof nature must have
their way." And then they get eloquent
over something they have seen in i>OEt *
mortem examinations. Now, away with
nil human philo. ophy at such a time!
What difference does it im.kot > that fa
ther and mother what dn ease their son
died of? He is dead, and it makes no
difference whether tho trouble was in
tho epigastric or hypogastric region. If
the philosopher be of the stoical school,
he will come and say: "You ought to
control your feelin;You must not cry
so. You must cultivate a cooler temper
ament. You must have self reliance,
self government, self control"—an ice- ;
berg reproving a hyacinth for having a
drop of dew in its eye. A violinist has |
his instrument, and he sweeps his lin
gers across the strings, now evoking
strains of joy and now strains of sad- j
ness. He cannot play all the tunes on
one string. Tho human soul is an in
strument of a thousand strings, and all
sorts of emotions were made to play on
it; now an anthem, now a dirge. It is
no evidence of weakness when cnc is
overcome of sorrow. Edmund Burke ■
was found in the pasture field with his
arms around a horse’s u«!ck. caressing
him, and seme one said, "Why, the
great man has lost his mind." No, the
horse belonged to his son who had re
cently die d, and his great heart broke
over the grief. It in no sign of weakness
that men are overcome of their sorrow*.
Thank God for the relief of tears! Have
you never Itoeu in trouble when you
could not weep and you would have
given anything for a cry? David did
well when kc mourned for Absalom,
Abraham did well when he bemoaned
Farah, Christ wept for Lazarus, and the
last man that I want to see come any
where near mo when I have any kind
of trouble is a worldly philosopher.
Again, *1 remark that those persons
are iucompe; -nt for the work of comfort
bearing who have nothing but cant to
offer. There are those who have tho*
idea that you must groan over the dis
tressed and afflicted. There are times in
grief when cue cheerful face, dawning
upon a man's soul, is worth $1,000 to
him. Do net whine over the afflicted.
Take the promises of the gospel and ut
ter them iu a manly tone. Do not be
afraid to smile if you feel lite it. Do
not drive any more hearses through that
poor soul. Do not toll him the trouble
was foreordained. It will not be any
comfort to know it was 1,000,000 years
coming. If you want to find splints for
a broken Lone, do not take cast iron.
Do not tell them it is God’s justice that
weighs out grit f. They want to hear ef
God’s tender mercy. In other words, do
not give them aquafortis when they
need valerian.
God's Minister*.
Again, I remark that those perrons are
poor comforters who have never had any
, trouble themselves. A larkspur cannot
lecture on the nature cf a snowflake. It
neve.* saw a snowflake, and these peo
ple who have always lived in tiio* rum
mer sf prosperity cannot talk to those
who rrc frozen in disaster. Cod keeps
i aged people in the world, I think, for
thix iery wc -k of sympathy. They have
been through all these trials. They
know all that which irritates and all
| that which soothes. If there are men
i nnd women here who have old people
; in th*i house or near at hand so that
they can easily reach them, I congratu-
! late you.
life, and
friends around about us wo have wish
ed that father and mother were still
alive that we might go and tell them.
Perhaps they could not say much, but
it would have been such a comfort to
have them around. These aged ones
who have been all through the trials of
life know how to give condolence. Cher
ish them, let them lean on your arm,
. these aged people. If when you speal:
: to them they cannot hear just what you
sj.y the first time and you have to say
i it a second time, when you say it a sec-
^ end time do not say it sharply. If you
do, you will be sorry lor it on the day
when you take the last look and brush
back the si 1 . cry locks from the wriukiod
brow just before they screw*Ike lid on.
■Blessed be God for the cld people! They
may not have much strength to go
around, but they are God’s appointed
ministers of comfort to a broken heart.
People who have not had trial them
selves cannot give comfort to otlvcrs.
They may talk very beautifully and they
may give you a great deal of poetic sen
timent, but while poetry is perfume
that smells sweet, it makes a very poor
salve. If yon have a grave in a pathway
and somebody comes and covers it all
over with flowers it is a grave yet.
Those who have not had grief them
selves know not the mystery of a broken
heart. They know not the meaning cf
childlessness, and tho having no one to
put to bed at night or the standing in u
room where every book and picture and
door ore full of memories—the doormat
where she sat, the cup oat of which she
drunk, the place where she stood at the
door and chipped her bauds, the odd
figures that she scribbled, the blocks
she built into a house. Ah, no, yon
must have trouble yourself before you
can comfort trouble in others. But come
all ye who have been bereft, and ye who
have been comforted in your sorrows,
and stand around these afflicted souls
and say to them, "I had that very sor
row myself; God comforted me and he
will comfort yon,
right to the apot
comfort others we must have faith iu
God, practical experience and good,
sound common sense.
for the Sorrowful.
But there are three or four considera
tions that 1 will bring to those who are
sorrowful and distressed and that we
can always bring to them, knowing that
they will effect a cure. And the first
consideration ia that God sends our
troubles In love. I often hear people in
their troubles say, "Why, I wonder
what God has against me?" They seem
to think God has some grudge against
them because trouble and misfortune
Well, it is just so with our families.
They an; emigrating toward a la tter
land. Now one goes out. Oh, how hard
it is to part with him. Anotln r goes.
Oh, how hard it is to part with her.
And arr Aier and another, and we our-
solves will aft.r awhile go ov< \ and ‘
then wo will l e t-/,v;!ier. Oh, v. hr.t a
reunion! Do yon believ«* that? "Yes. ’
you say. Oh, you do not. Yon do i:ot
believe it as you believe other things.
If you do, r.i.d with the same emphasis,
why it would take nine-te: ths of your
trouble off your heart. The fact is
heaven tr many of us i.s a jrreat log. It
is away ou' somewhere, filled with an
uncertain and indefinite population.
That is the kind of heaven that many
of us dream about, hut it is tho most
tremendous fact in all this universe—
this heaven of tho gospel. Our departed
Had Uoth Kind*.
A brisk looking young man. with his
bat tilted well bark on his head and a
email satrlu l in hi* hand, st> pped inside
a lawyer’s office and said:
"I hope I am not intruding, sir. Yon
are a man of bminess, and so am I, and
1 can ti ll you in one minute what I m
hero for. My observation is that livo
out of every six prof* ssional men iu tho
lajge cities are addict* d to the tobacco
habit in some form or other. A habit,
once formed, becomes second uatuff*.
"There are thousands of men who
speud their substance and drain their
vitality by incessant smoking who
would bo glad to be released from tho
slavery whose chains they have fasten* d
upon themselves, and to Koch men I
bring tbo means of deliverance. I guar
antee that this preparation”—here he
Chronic Dyspepsia Core!*.
friends are not afloat. The residence i.: t0(J k a sma ii package from his valise—
gome of ns have had trials in
although we have had many
which yon live is not eo real as tho res
idenco in w hich they stay. You aro
afloat—yon who do not know iu tho '
morning what will happen before night.
They aro housed ami safe forever. Do
not, therefore, pity your departed
friends who have died in Christ. They
do not need any of your pity. Yon
might as well send a letter of condo
lence to C^ucen Victoria on her obscurity
or to the Rothschilds on their poverty
as to pity those who have won the palm.
Do not say of thoro who arc* departed:
"Poor child!" "Poor father!’’ "Poor
mother!" They arc not poor. You aro
poor—you whose homes have been shat
tered, not they. You do not dwell much
with your families in this world. All
day long yon are off to business. Will
it not be pleasant when you can be to
gether all the while? If you have had
four children and one is gone, and any
body asks how many children you have,
do not be so infidel as to say three. Say
four—one in heaven. Do not think tlait
the grave i» unfriendly. You go into
your room and dress for some grand en
tertainment, and you come forth beau
tifully appareled, and the grave* i.s only
the piaee where we go to dress for the
glorious resurrection, and we will come
out radiant, mortality having become
immortality. Oh, how much condolence
there is in this thought. I expect to see
my kindred in heaven. I expect to see
them just as certainly as 1 expect to go
home today. Aye, 1 thall more certain
ly see them. Eight or ten will come up
from the graveyard back cf Somerville,
and one will come from the mountains
back cf Amcy, China, and another will
come up from the son off Cape Ilatteras,
raid ”0 will come up from Greenwood,
and 1 shall linow them better than I ev
er knew them here.
MoruiDg of the Resurrection.
And ye ur friends—they may be across
the sea, but the trumpet that sounds
hero will sound there. Yon will come
up oa just thcsKmeday. Pome morning
yon have overslept yourself and you
open your eyes and see that the sun is
high in the heavens and you say, "I
have overslept and 1 must be up and
away." So you wTl open your eyes ou
tho morning of tho resurrection, in the
full blaze of God's light, and you will
Kay, “I must be up and away.” Ob,
yes, yon will come up, and there will
be a reunion, a reconstruction cf your
family! I like what Haliburton (I
think it wan)—good old Mr. Haliburton
—said in his last moments: "I thank
God that I ever lived und that I have a
father in heaven and a mother in heaven
and brothers in heaven and sister.: iu
Leaven, end I am now going up to see
them. ’ ’
1 remark oimo more, our troubles in
this world are preparative for glory
What a transition it was f« r Paul—
from the slippery dock of a foundering
ship to the calm presence of Jesus!
What a transition it was for Latimer—
from the stake to a throne! What a
transition it was for Robert Hall—from
insanity to glory! What a transition it
was for Richard Baxter—from tho
dropsy to tho "Saint’s Everlasting
Rest!" And what a transition it will
be for you—from a world of sorrow to
a world of joy! John Holland, when ho
was dying, said: "What means this
brightness in the room? Have you light
ed the candles?" "No," they replied,
"we have not lighted any candles."
Then said he, "Welcome, heaven!” tho
light already beaming upon his pillow.
Oh, ye who are persecuted iu this world,
your enemies will get off the track after
awhile and all will speak well of you
among the thrones! Ho, ye who are si< k
now! No medicines to take there. One
breath of the eternal hills will thrill
you with immortal vigor. And ye who
ore lonesome now, there will be a million
spirits to welcome you into their com
panionship ! Oh, yc bereft souls, there
will he no gravedigger's spade that will
deuvo the side of tiiat hill, and there
will be no dirge wailing from that tem
ple ! The river of God, deep us the joy
of heaven, will roll on between banks
odorous with balm and over depths
bright with jewels and under skies
roseate with gladness, argosies of light
going down the stream to the stroke of
glittering oar and the song of angels!
Not one sigh iu the wind; not one tear
mingling with the waters.
"which is called ‘Smokebane,’ will
cere the craving for tobacco in every
form, absolutely, in one mouth, or
money refunded”—
“Yonng man,"saidthe lawyer, "yon
aro wasting your time on me. I am not
a slave to the talacco habit. I have no
craving whatever for tobacco, though
once iu awhile I finoke a cigar, if it is
a good one"—
"Yes, sir,” interrupted the other, iu
turn, quickly replacing the package iu
bis valise and producing another one.
"Let me sell yo*ua box of the celebrated
‘John Quincy Adams Perfectos, ’ $2.50,
25 in a box, couldn’t sell them any
cheaper if you were to take 1,000, and
warranted to be the best 10 cent smoke
in tbe market."
Before the lawyer fully recover'd
from bis surprise be had bought the
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lan; discoveries in me licine,
nt none fiat have nceoniplisl cd more for
uni :nit/ than mat tcriing ‘'Id household
cuedy. Browns’iron Bitters. It seems to
mtuiu iii'* \c.-v elements cf good health,
rid neither man, woman or child can take
; vrithoi t deriving the prvttcut lienc-St.
Browns’Iron Bittern is soli by ;.ll dealers.
FOR
Up-to-Date Job Print
ing, call at the
LEDGER Office.
Gaffney, S. C.
yrUp
'he People’s Friend. In use for fifty yei
Cures Cough, Cold, Croup, Whooping*Co?
Grippe, Bronchitis, Asthma and Lung AffectL
DR. BULL’S COUGH SYRUP is sold everywfc
for only 25 cents. Refuse cheap substitutes.
Chew LANGE’S PLUGS. The Great Tobacco An'.iJois.lOc. Dealers or n i
".ver . Co.. Ball .'14
CANDY
CATHARTIC
CATHARTIC ^
tabca)iMb
CURE CONSTIPATION
ALL
DRUGGISTS
IF YOU WANT TO BUY
" and that will go
In other words, to
How to Lock Good.
Good looks are rea ly more than
-ill deep, depei ding <*ntir It on A
!i**Hltby condition of nil the vital or-
"no*. If the liver it inactive, you
have a bilious look ; if your nt'msch
is disordered, you have a dyspeptic
look; if your kidneys are affected,
you have a pinched look. Secure
good health, and you will surely have
good looks. "Electric Bitters" is a
good Alterative and Tonic. Acts di
rectly on the stomach, liter and kid
neys. purifies the blood, cures pim
ples, blotches and boil*, and gives a
good complexion. Every bottle guar
anteed. Hold by Dul're Drug Co. £J0
cents per bottle.
Dm'} Tobacco Spit sad thsobo Yoor lift Away.
To quit tobacco easily and forovor, bo mag
notio. full of tifo, norvo and vigor, take No-To-
Boe, the wonder-worker, that make* week mea
strong. All drugglsu, Me or 11. Cure guaran
teed. Booklet end temple free. Addrete
Sterling Remedy Co, Cbioago or New York.
Lillies, "Waggons,
Onano and fiVc'id
IFMio&pliates
Clie?
CALL ON —;—
J. I.
N. B.—Oak wood delivered at 75c per load.
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Gold
To be given away to our subscribers.
We will give to the subscribers answering the largest niim-i.
her of advertisements of Gaffney merchants between June 1 and
Oct. 1, $10 in gold, viz:
V M
We will furnish each merchant who advertises in this paper
with a register for the purpose of registering the name* of tlioso
who come in answer to their advertisements and at the end of tho*
time specified above we will go around and get all these registers,
and the person who has registered the greatest number of times
will receive $5 in gold ; the one who has registered the next great
est number of times will receive $3; and the third, $2.
Every purchase, no matter how small, just so it is in answer
to a Lkdukk ad, will count. All you have to do is to tell tho
merchant or dealer you saw his ad in The LKnoEit. Endeavor
to win one of these prizes. It will cost you nothing. Just toB(
them that you saw their ad, and they will do the rest.