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* REV.DR.TALMAGE. the BROOKLYN DIVINE’S St’MUY 8EKM0N Text. —’‘Ood Blrtsed Lhe Seven'K Day. n — Gt iJcsis iJ.. S5i Tli • mathrmat ca of the Bible i* noticeabV the g-omotiy ami the arithmetic; the s t uare in E/ckiel; the circle epiken of in laaiah; the curve alluded to in Job; the rule of fractions mentioned in Daniel; the l*ule of loss and min in Mark, where Christ asks the people to cipher out by that rule what it waul 1 ‘•profit a man if he gain the whole world and lo«e his own soul ’ But there is one mathematical figure that is crowned above all others in the Bible, it is the numeral seven, which the Arabians got from India, and all follow, ing ages have taken from the Arabians. It stands between thn figure s x and the figure eight In the Bible, all the other numerals tow to it Over three hundred times Is it tnehtioned In the Scriptures, eitlier alone or comi>ounded with other woMa In Genesis the Week is rounded into erven days, and I Use my text because there this numeral is for the tirst introduced in a journey whl h halts not un- til in the close Of the Book of Hevelations its monument is built into the wall of heaven in cryKOlite, which in the strata of precious stones is the seventh, in the Bible we find that Jacob bad to serve seven years to get Rachael, but she was well worth it; and foretelling the yuan of prosperity and fam inein Pharaohs timn the seven fat oxen were eaten up of the. seven lean oxen. and ■wisdom is said to be built on s-ren pillars; end the ark was left with tho PbilTistines ■even years; and Naaman for the cur j of his leprosy plunged in the Jordan seven times; the dead child, when Elisha breathed into its mouth, signaled its arrival back into couscionsnees by sneezing seven times; to th > house that E*dti> 1 saw in vision there were •even steps; the walls of Jericho tx fore they fell down were compass*! seven days; Zacharlah describes a stone w.th seven eyes; to c eanse a leprous house the door must lie sprinkled with pigeon's blood seven times; in Canaan wera overthrown seven nations; on one occasion Christ cast out seven devils; on a mountain be fed a multitude of people with coven loaves, the fragments left filling seven baskets; and the closing passages of tl e B.blo are magnificent and overwhidrning with the imagery rua le up of seven churches, seven stars, seven candlesticks, seven seals, ■even ange s, and seven heads, and crowus, and siven horns, and s >veu seven HJHHI sprits, and seven vials, and seven plagues, and seven thunders. Yea, this numeral seven seems a favor ite with the Divine mind outside as well as inside the Bible, for are there not seven pris matic colors! And when God with the rain bow wrote the comforting thought that th« world would never have another deluge, he wrote it oa the scroll of the sky in ink of seven colon. He grouped into tha Pleiades seven stars. Home, the capital of the world, sat on seven hills. Whin God would make the most Intelligent thing on earth, the human count nance. He fash ions it with seven features—tho two ears, tho two ev«s, the two naetiils and the mouth. Y*. our body lasts only seven years, and we gradually sh'-tl it for another body after another seven years, and so on, for we are, as to our bodies, septennial animals, h'o the numeral seven ranges through nature and through revelation. It is the iiurai er of B rfeetfon, and so I use It While I speak of » Seven candlesticks, the seven stars, the seven seals and the seven thunders. The seven go den candlest cks were and are the cherchea Mark you, the churches never were, and never can be, candles. They are only candlesticks. They are not the light, but they are to hold the light. A room in the night might have in it five hundred can- nd y«t ymt Could your of a SS dlosticIts, and yet you could not seo hand before your face. The only use _ candlestick, and tho only use of a church, is 40 i J 1 * l ^ e dg^t- T on see it is a dark world, (he night of s'n, the night of trouble, tiia night of euiierstitian, the night of p^rse ciition, the night of poverty, the n ght of night of diath; aye. about fifty have interlocked tlieir shadows. The whoi^ni'o goes stumbling over prostraW be-Is.Oh bow much w « have uso for all the •even candlest cks, With lights blazing from the top of enrh on > of ih-'m! Light of par- "t** 1 fur all sin! Light of comfort for all ■BouWel Light of encouragement for all despondency! Light of eternal riches for all poverty! Light of rescue for all p;rsecu- Btght Of reunion for all the bereft’ Jfjteaveg for all the dying! And that »ls CErist, who is the’the Light that J*t, irradiate the hemispheres, But mark you, when I say churches aro not can dles, but candlesticks, I cast no slur on can- dlwticks. I bu.leve ih beautiful candlesti-ks. The Candlesticks that God ordered for the ancient t ibemanle wore something ex-|uisite. 'I hey were a dream of beauty carved out of loveli- .They were male of hammered gold, stood in a foot of gold and had six branches O* (told blooming a 1 along in six lilies of gold and lips of gold from which the candles thdif holy fire. And the best houses in any city ought to be the churches - the best built, the i-est ventillnted, the best swept, the best windowed ami lhe best chande'iered. Log cabins may do in neighborhoods wliere most of the people live in log cabins; but let there be pda'ial church-s for regions where manv of the peo ple live In polar- s. Do not have a hett-T pjace for yours. If than f--r your Lord and King. Do not live in a parlor and put your Christ In a kitchen. These seven candlesticks of which I speak were not mule out of pew ter or iron; they were golden candlestcks, and gold is not only a valuable but a bright metal. Have everything about your church bright—your ushers with smiling faces, your must- jubilant, your hand shakirg cordial, your entire service attractive. Many p op!e feel that in church they must look dull in order to be reverential, and many whose faces in other kinds of assemblage show a 1 the different phase* of emotion, have in church no more expression than tbs back wheel of a hearse. Brighten up and be responsive, If you feel like weeping, weep. If you feel like smiling, smile. If you feel indignant at some wrong assailed from the pulpit, frown. Do not leave your naturalness and resiliency home because it is bunduy morning. If us officers of a church you meet people at the church door with a clack look, and have the music black, and the minister in black preach a black sermon, and from invocation to benediction have the impressicn black, few will < ome, and those who do come wilt wish they had not come at all. Golden candlesticks! Scour up the six lilies on each branch,and know that the more lovely and bright, they are, the more fit they art to hold the Ikht But a ('bristles* church is a dnnifige to the world rattier than a good. Cromwell stabled his cavalry horses in St Paul's Cathedral, and many now uso the church as a place in which to stable their vanities and worldlinesg. A worldly church is a candlestick without the candle, and it bad ils prototv|<e in St. Sophia, in Con stantinople, built to the glory of God by Con stantine. but tiansformed to base uses by Mohammed the He ond. Built out of colored marble; a cupo'a with twenty-four win dows soaring to the height of ISO feet: the ceiling one great bewilderment of mosaic; galleries support*! by eight coin in ni of porphyry and sixty-seven couiuns of green jasp-T; nine bronze doors with alto- relievo-work fascinating to the eye of any artist; vase* and vestments encrusted with all manner of precious stones. Four walls on fire with indescribable splendor. Though labor was cheap the budding co>t one million five hundred thousand dollars. Fee esi- ostiral structure almost supernatural in pompnnd majesty. But Mohammedanism tore down from the walls of that building all the saintly Christian images.and high up in the d,-me the figure of the cross was rubbed out that the ere-cent of the bar barous. Turk might be substitute*!. A great church but no Christ! A gorgeous candle- si ick tut no candle! Ten thousand such churches would not give the world as much light as one home-made tal'ow candle by which last night some grandmother in the eighties put on her spectacles and read the Psalms of DavM in large type. Up with the churches, by all means! Hundreds of them, thousands of them, and the more the better. But let •«ch one bo a blaze of heavenly light making the world brighter and brighter till tho last, shadow ha* disappeared, and the ls\t of the suffering children of God shall have reached the land where they have no n-'ed of candlestick or “of candle, neither fight of the sua, for the Lord God givetb th-ui light and they shall reign forever and ever.” Seven candlesticks. Ih< comnl-to oi-m' -r o light*! “Let your light so shine lx fore i that they seeing your good work* fy your Father which is iu heaven." Sh!m> . •»<Me to the seven star*. "lev are the min- tnav v T- •tars, some of them small star*.some of them •weep a wide circuit and some of them a sma l circuit, but so far a* they ere genuine they get their fight from the great central •un around whom they ttiaks devolution. I*t each bni keep hit own sphere. Th« Mar system would s on be wrecked If tbs stars instead of keeping their own orbit should go to bunting down other stars. Ministers of religion should never clash. But in ell the centuries of the Christian Church some of thesa stars have been hunt ing an Edward Irving or a Horace Bush- nell or an Albert Barnes; and the stars that were In pursuit of the other stars lust their own orbit and snm > of them could never again find it A1 ts for the heresy hunters! The best way to de stroy error is to preach the triith. The best way to scatter darkness U to strike a light There Ik in immensity room enough for all the stars, and in the church room enough for ill the ministers. The ministers who give up righteousness and the truth will get punishment enough anyhow, for they are ‘the wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.' 1 But I ihould like as a minister when I am dying to tie able truthfully to sav what a captain of th > En.disli arm v.fallen at the head of his col umn. and dying on the Egyptian battlefield, laid to Gen. Wo|e*!ey, who rame to cop dole with hini: “t u.t '* * ..*.»*•» vu»m? vu V'on<io: with hitti; 4l t 1*1 them straight; didn't Ilea ; them straight, Ganorair God has put, u ministers as captains in this battlefield tr uth against error. Great at last chagrin if we fall u. mm i »* ill he our leading the penp'ethe wrong way; but great will bo our gladness if when the tiattle is over we can hand our sword back to our groat Commander saying; ‘Lord Jesus! IVe led the p-ople straight; didn’t we lea-1 them straight^’ I hose ministers who go off at a tangent and preach some other gospel are not Mars but comets, and they flash Across the heavens a little whi-eand make people stare,and throw r *''’h* 1 l. ew meteoric stones, and then go out of sight if not outofexistence.Oh,brethren in tho ministry, let us remember that God calls us stars, and our business is to shine and to keep our own sphere, and then when wo get dona trying to light up the darkness of this world, we will wheel into higher spheres, •JJ* * n hs shall be fulfilled the promise they that turn many to righteousness Shull shine as the stars forever and ever. Ah! the ministers are not all Peck sniffs and canting hynocrities, as some Would have you think! Forgive me if, hav ing in your presence at other times glorified the medical profess on and the legal profes sion and the literary profession—1 glorify my own. 1 have seen them in their homes and heard them itt their pulpits, and a grander array of men n-ver breathed, and the Bible figure is not strained when it calls them stars; and whole constellations of glorious ministers have already taken iheir p’aces on high where they shine even brighter than they shone <>n earth; Ed waul N. Kirk, of the Congregational Church; Stephen H. Tyng, of the Episcopal Church; Matthew Simpsou, of the Methodist Church; John Dowling, of the Baptist Church: Samuel K. Talmage, of the Presbyterian Church: Dr. DeVVitt, of the Reformed Church; John Chambers, of the Independent Church; and there I stop, for it so happens that I have mentioned tho seven stars of the seven churches. I pass on to another mighty Bible seven,and they are the seven seals, at. John in vision saw a s-roll with seven seals, and lie beard an angel cry: “Who is worthy to loose the seals thereof'” Take eight or ten sheets of foolscap paper, pakte them together and mil them into a si roll, ami have the scroll at seven different places sealed with scaling wax. You unroll the scroll till you come to one of these seals, and then you can go no further until you break that seal; then unroll again until you come to another seal and you can go no'further until you break that seal; then vou go on until all tho seven seals are broken, and the contents of the entire scroll are revealed. Now. that Scroll with seven seals held by the an;el w as the prophecy of what was to come on the earth; it meant that the knowledge of •bo future was with God. and no man and no angel was worthy to open it; but the Bible says Christ opened it an 1 broke all the seven seals. He broke the first seal and un rolled the scroll, and there was a painting of a white horse, an-1 that meiiit prosperity and triumph for the Roman empire, and so it really came to pass that for ninety years virtuous emperors succeeded each other, Nerva, Trajan and Antoninus. Christ in the vision broke the second seal and uret I id fowl nnrtt fcfawte %*>*•« a painting of A red horse, and that meant bloodshed, and so it really c&me to pass, and the next ninety years were red with assassinations and wars. Then Christ broke the third sea! and un rolled it and there was a painting of a black horse, which in all literature means fam ine, oppression and taxation an-1 so it really came to pass. Christ went on until He broke all lhe seven seals and opened all the scroll. Well, the future of all of us isa sealed scroll, and I am glad that no one but Christ can open it. Do not let us join that class of Chris!iaus in our day who are trying to break the >even seals of the future. They are trying to peep into things they have no business with. They try to foretell what is going to come to them and what is going to come on the earth. They know nothing about it. Christ is the only one who can break the seal of the future. Bible prophecy w as not written to help us to tell things in the future, but to have us, when the things actually do come to pass, compare them with prophecy and so learn God’s foreknowledge and the in spiration of the Scriptures. But you go Into the study of the prophecies in order to find out what is going to happen a year from now, or twenty years from now, or one thousand yeirs from now, and I will make a prophecy of my own, and that is tt^ut you will have your brain addled, if you do not positively get into a public or private insane tsylum, where the greatest of expounders ind preachers of prophecy ended his life a (ewr years since,and where you may regnlethe risitors of the institution by incoherent mum blings over something from Daniel or Revela tions about the leopard which means Greece, and the bear which means Medo-Persia, and the image with the great toes. What a mental wreck did the persistent attempt to forestall events make of that miracle of preachers Edward Irving, of London. It would take several mad houses to hold the demented victims of the improper use of the Trophecles of Daniel and Revelation. What ' are not those books to b* studied 1 Yes. No part of the Bible is more important Neither is there any more import int shelf in that apothecar. s store thnn the shelf on which are the bel a- donna and tho morphine, but be more care ful in using them than in tho use of pepper mint and ginger. Keep your hands off of the seven seals. Christ will break them soon enough. Don’t go to some necromancer or spiritualr t or soothsayer or fortune-teller to fin-1 out what is going to happen to yourself, or your family, or vour friends, V\ ait till Christ breaks tho seal to find out whether in rour own penon.il life or the fi-e of the na: ion or the life of tho world, it is going to be tho white horse of prosperity or the re I horse of war or the block horse of famine. You will soon enough see him paw and hear him neigh. Take care of the present and the future will take core of itself. If n man live seventy years, his biography is in a scroll hayingat least seven seals; and let bins not during the first ten years of life try to look into the twenties, nor the twenties into the thirties, nor the thirties into the forties, nor the forties into the fifties, ror the fifties into the sixties, nor the sixt es into the seventies. From the way the years have got the habit of racing along, I guess yr , 1 not to wait a great whi Hllizlp *11 Gie seals of the future would not give two cent- ’ to know ho* long I am going to live, or in what day of what year the world is going to be d* molished. I would rather give a thousand dollars not to know. Huppoee some one could break the next sral in the scroll of your per sonal history, and shou’< JflJl you that on the •ttb of July, IH’.io, you wt »o d‘*. tlic sum- mer after the next: how n—*> wou.d you be good for between this aud i*tf It would from now until then be a prolonged funeral. You would be counting the months and tue days, and your family ami friends would be counting them; and next «h of . J “ w ould rub your hands together andwhine— “Oneyear from to-day I amto go. Itairme. i wish no one had told me so long before. 1 wish that necromancer had not broken toe seal of the future.” And meeting some undertaker you wouid say: “I hopO^you will keep yourself free for an engagement the Fourth of July, 1890. Tb»» day y° u wl !* nee 1*1 at my house. To save time you might as well take my measure now,five feet,eleven Inches.” I a.n glad that Christ dropped a thick veil over tlie hour of our demise and the hour of the world’s d-Omction wh« he said: “Of that day and hour knowsthiio ys„“iK!a.‘3r"a.'Sis 7i u Jz sar “f»» thunders mean we are ^ “^thev has been much * F* without them. 1 bunder is the speech of lightning. 'Ihere are evils in our world winch must be thundered down, an-1 which w ill rs juire at least seven volleys U> pros trail-them VVsareuildoingn.ee, deli ate, soft banded work in churched amt reforma tory .‘ustitutions against the evils of the world, and much of it amounts to a teaspoon dipping out the Atlantic Ocean, or a clam shell digging away at a mountain, or a tack hammer smiting lhe Gibraltar. What is needed is thunderbolts, and at least seven of them. There is tiie long line of frau iulent commercial cstablisluiu nts; every stone iu the fouud.it,on, and every brick m the wall, and every nail in the rafter made out of dishonesty; skeletons of poorly paid sewing girls' i-rins in every beam of that establish ment; human neive* worked into every Uzuie of that embroidery; blood in the deep di* of that proffered upholster.} billions of dollars of accumulated fraud entrenched iu massive storehouses and stock companies manipulated by un scrupulous men until the monopoly isdetiaut of ail earth and all heavm How shall the evil lx> overcome! By treatises ou the m ixim: Honesty is the l est policy! Or by soft repetition of the golden rule that we must “do to others as we would have them do to o*r No, it will not be done that way. What is needed, and what will come, is the seven thuu lers. There is drunkenness backed up by a capital mightier than in any other lusiness. In toxicating liquors enough in this country to float a navy. Good gram to the amount of OT.WO.OOU hu-hels annually destioy-d to make the deadly liquid. Breweries, distilleries, gin shops, rum palace*, liquor associations, our nation »irending nnnually seven hundred and forty millions of dollars for rum. result ing in bankruptcy, disease, pauperism, fi th, assassination, death, inimitable woe. What w-!!l stop them; High license! No. Thunder bolts will do it; nothing else will. Bevcu thunders I Yonder are intrench*! infidelity and athe ism with the r maga/iaes of liter iture scoff ing at our Ch’“stiiiiiity; their Hoe print ing pi esses tusy lay and night. There are their blaspheming upoatles, their drunken Tom Raines aud libertine Voltaires of the present as well as of the past, reinforced oy all the powirs of darkness from highe.->t demon tp lowest imp. What will extirpate those monsters of infidelity and atheism! John Brown's shorter catechism about “Who made youf” or Westminster catechism about “What is tho chief end of inanf’ No, Thunderliolts! The seven thunders! For the impurities of the world empalaced as well as cellared, epauletted as well as rag ged, enthroned as well as ditched: for cor rupt legislation which at times makes our Btate aud National capitals a h mispheric stench: for superstitious that keep whole na tions in squalor, century after century, their Juggernauts crashing, their knives lacerat ing, their waters drowning, their funeral pyres buining, the seven thunders! Ob, men and women, disheartened at the bad way things often go, hear you not a rumbling down the sky of heavy artillery, coming in on our side, the seven thundere of tho Almighty.' Don't let us try to wield them ourselves, they are too heavy and to fiery for us to handle; but God can and God will; and when a 1 mercy has failed aud all milder n-ean--are exhausted, then judgment widlegin. Thunderbolts! Depend upon it, that what is not done under the flash of the sevm candlesticks will be done by the tramp ling of the seven thunders. but I leave this imperial and multlpotent numeral seven, where the Bible leaves it, imbedded in the finest wall that was ever built, or ever will be constructe I, the wall of heaven. It is the seventh strata of precious stones that make up that wall. After nam ing six of the precious stones in that wall, the Bible cries out—“the sev enth chrysolite!” The chrysolite is an exquisite green, and in that seventh layer of the heavenly w all shall Ire preserved forever the dominant color of the earth we once inhabited. ! have sometimes been sad dened at the thought that this world, according to science and revelation. Is to be blotted out of existence, for it is such a beautiful world. But here in this layer of the heavenly wall, where the numeral seven is to lie embedded. tbL strata of green is to be photographed, and embalmed, and perpetuated, the color of the grass that covers the earth, the co or of the foliage that fills tho forest, the color of the deep sco. One glance at that green clirysol- ite. a million years aft. r this planet has been extinguished, will brin ? to ihind jun how t looked in summer an! spring, and we will Bay to those who were boru blind on and never saw at all in this world, after they have obtained full eyesight in heaven: “If you w-mblkiiowhowthe earth appeared in June and August, look at that seventh layer of the heavenly wall the green of the chrysolite. And while we stand there and talk, spirit with that old color of the earth winch had more sway than all the other colors put together, will bring back to us our earthly-experience, wsa noticing that this green chrysolite is th* seventh layer of crystalizwl magnificence we may bethink ourselves of the domination of that numeral seven over all other and thank God that in the dark earthweleft behind us we so long enjoyed the light of the seven golden candlesticks, and were all of ns permitted to shine among the seven stars of more or less magnitude, and that au the seven seals of the mysterious future have been broken wide open foru* by » lo ng Christ, and that the seven thunders ^ done their work have- easeil reverberatioii. and that the numeral seven, which did snch tremendous work in the b^torv of n” 110 on earth, has been given such a high P ,n that Niagara of colors, the wall of “the first foundation of which is j«*J*r. tb« second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony, tbe fourth, an emerald; the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite. “When shall these eyes tliy hosven-baUt walls And pearly gsles behold. Thy bulwarks with salvaiion strong, And ztrects of shining gold - : ’ An Expensive Rnnqnct. Pome very interesting incidents oc curred at the performance of “aad y, given in New York in aid of the yellow lever sufferers. The flower booth was located on the floor over the ticket olhee, and for an hour preceding the beginning of the performance it was surrounded by a bevy of beautiful lad.es and elegantly dressed gentlemen. < >nc of the latter was nn ardent admirer of one of the ladies, and taking advantage of the fact, she im- uresaed upon him th: necessity of his wearing a ro-c and geranium in the but tonhole of his coat. He acquiesced only too readily, aud in an instant the deft fingers had fastened the flowers together with w ire and tinfoil. Then pawing the ends through the buttonhole, she fast ened them to the lapel with an ordinary * "‘How much?” ho queried, rcaihing for his pocketbook and bending a pas sionate glance on tho upturned face of the young lady. , ‘•Twenty-live dollars, she replied, without a tremor of hesitancy in her lie was stunned for an instant, but be was too shrewd to manifest it visibly. Having deposited the criap bills in her outstretched palm, he said; “Excuse me, but may I ask what is the itemized tariff for bouquets? I merely b qube through curiosity. fve dollars for the rose, five for the geranium, five for the tinfoil, five for the din and five for fastening it to the i mi-1 of your coat,’’ was the quiet reply. A moment later, when the young man had joined h-s male friends, one of them, who had heard the conversation, rC “Bhc didn’t charge you for the wire, old boy.” . . . “That's so; let’* get away before *he thinks of it"—JV*® Tor* San. WISE WORDS. The rose grows among the tho-na. Where content is, there is a feast. Steal tha goose and give the giblets in alms. When the head is sick the whole body is sick. The envious man’s and his eyes big. face grows sharp Necea*ity istbe argument of tyrants, 1 it is the cited of slaves. By the very constitution of our nature, moral evil is its own curse. I He who throws himself under the bench will be left to lie there. He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own. The place honors not the man; ’tit the man who gives honor to the place. The doctor who prescribes gratui tously gives a worthless precription. Nothing tires a smart man so quickly as seeing a la y man resting himself. The thief who finds no opportunity to steal considers himself an honest man. Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend’s friend has a friend ; he discreet. Man secs the mote in his neighbor's eye, but know- not the beam in his own. If a word spoken in its time is worth one piece of money, silence in its tima is worth two When thou art the only purchaser, then buy; when other buyers are present be thou nobody. For people to live happy together the great secret is that they should not live too mi.ch together. As the old man grows more aud more blundering, if he w ill grow more careful, it wdl go far to counterbalance that in firmity. Repent the day before thy death. (Consider every day as possibly your last, aud be ever prepared thr penitence). It is worth while to expose eur ignor ance to others, that we may learn it our selves. This is many times the only way we shall ever learn it. A good name when deserved gives a strength and mild courage, quiet bold ness and modest assurance, which are worth all that they cost. It is not very strange that a man should mistake in point of duty; short sighted, crook-sighted, blurred and de fective, wrhat. else could be expected? It is no great matter to live lovingly with good natured, humble and meek l.ersons; but he who can do so with the Howard, wilful, ignorant, peevish and perverse hath true charity. ough The United States la not the only land where the opportunity to serve one’s country ia a luxury that politicians are willing to )>ay for. The Comte de Paris announces that he will spend $4,000,000 at the next general election in France. A Cnrpeittcr'si Way of Jobbing. While it is o:d narily the custom of ' car) enters, masons and | ainters to con tra-1 for their work by the day or by the job, there are occasional deviations from j it. One expert carpenter in Philadcl- | phia makes his contracts by the job, specifying that ho shall receive u bonus The greatest shooting ever done in a single day was by I ord Waltningham on hi* moor recently. He killed 1,058 grouse in thirteen hours, there being forty drivers. ;r he finishes before a certain time. As he is a rapid workman he] contrives to earn considerably more than ho would if contracting in the customary way.-» Qkicago Hera LI. Not Ire* than eighteen bills relating to in toxicating liquors were before the British House of Commons during its late session. The Later the Better. Passenger -“Is this train on tima,con ductor!” - Conductor—-“One hour late.” Passenger—“W< 11, that’s outrageous. I’m in a hurry to get to East St. Louia." Conductor—“Have you ever been ia Ea>t St Lou's.” Passenger—“No.” Conductor—“When yen get there you will be sorry the train wasn’t later. — Ejmch. During the last year and a natt tho cotton manufacturing power of Japan 1ms increased more than 150 per coat. fonnuntpiten, Waatlnt Dlurwsr*, And General Debility. Doctors disagree as to th* relative value of Cod Liver Oil an l Hvpophosphitee: the one supplying strength an-1 fleeh, the other giving nerve p >wer, an-1 acting as a tonic to the digestive ami entire system. But In Scott's EmuM-uiof Cod Liv e'r Oil with H* pophos|ihite«th« two are com bine.1 and tho effect is w-nierful. Thou sands have derived no permanent liem-flt from other preparations have been cure-1 by this. Scott’s Emu Is on is perfectly palata ble an-1 is easily digested by those who can not tolerate plain Cod Liver oil. Fiist broker- small eater." ■“They say Old Hutch is a ranvcnllonnl “Vlonsn” Kesulultnne. Whereas, The Monon Route (L. N. A & C. R.V. Co.) desires to make it known to the world at large that it forms the double con necting link of Pullman tourist travel ba tween the winter cities of Florida and the summer resorts of tho Northwest; and Whereas. Its “rapid transit” t-v-tein is un surpassed, it’s elegant Pullman Buffet Hl*ep er and Chair car service between Chicago and Louisville, Indianapolis and Cincinnati unequalled; and Whereas. Its rates are as low as the low est: then l-e it Resulted, That in the event of starting on a tripit is good policy to consult with E O. McCormick, GenT Pass. Agent Monon Route, 1*5 Dearborn St., Chicago, for full j-articu- lars. (In any event send for a Tourist Guide, enclose 4c. postage ) The author of “Old Oaken Bucket’ - fvi dently did not believe in letting uell e- oup-h alone. A Peser! Why will you s-uffer with indigestion, cen- stipatinn, piles, torpid liver and sick h“sd- aohe, when u few rents w.ll buy HAMBURG FIGS enm gh to relieve y- ur distress at on a>'d .ffe-t a cure in a few days! 25 cents, Dose one F-g. Mack Drug Co., N. \\ THE ONLY Brilliant Durable Economical Are Diamond Dyes. They excel all others in Strength, Ihirity and Fastness. None others are just as good. Beware of imitations—they are made of cheap and inferior materials and give poor, weak, crocky colors. 36 colors; 10 cents each. Send postal for Dye Book, Sample Card, directiona tor coloring Photos., making the finest Ink or Bluing (10 cts. a quart), etc. Sold by Druggists or by HELLS, RICHARDSON & CO., Burlington, Vt. For Gilding or Bronsing Fancy Articles, USE DIAMOND PAINTS. Gold, Silver, Bronze, Copper. Only 10 Cents. Insist tinon fating <h« “ riiamp!** * j If yn*ir^ (IrsW hssn f it, m-ihI t u«. Herezlrt.-. tti »!a»|Mfor Hi— 1G0* Pat* Ualftlftf—nf Gun«. Kevutvrra, Polio* Goo—, A*. JOHN r. 1*0? H I. AMMO. M»a«rr«. Bsreion. Mm* COMPLETE NOVELS W« bare Joftt pnSil«h«d, In on* UrgotM h*ndMa« — • «*tl jr bound In c-dored co*«rft, *n I Dw»utlfully ilhutratod. T—i < omplet* by c*l*>>riled authors, m follow* : /oepf Danr* 5«eref. by Ml** M F.. Brsddnn, G*bri«t$ Jfarri—e, by Wilkl# CoMne; J Tragedy, by Unlock; Tha Esc lor e D lughur, by Mr*. Ann h. 8Uphen* t I'nder Ktm, by Mery Uncll II v - The Ueirett a/ EamtcUfa, by StU W. floe—, r%« Dauble Hotue. by Ml** Muloek; The GtH at tha 9mU, by VTHklo Oollipt ; Tha Rightful Beir, by M. T. Cwldor ; fWfeo Savai. by Mm. Msry A. Denlion S per I wl Offer* W# —II »*n-l Tbe People's Hone Journals our Urge \+f+f,U column UliutrateJ Llternry end Parody—r. Three Htelbt on trUI np“U receipt of only Twelve Ceatf tn poauc* and Jo mcH •ubarnber wr* wdl alao aeod^ Free poatacaal*—. i and p—>fU, >acr!pHoea wWh ►a* offer U tl.* Ten i'oaiplete Novela »• abo?e;JJ*v aubacrfi th* t*n itorola frr* »o e*rh f.»r M r#nta. Tbla grael •—r (Mkeffa t* Ini rod tic* onr paper Into new home*. 8U*fT**' r#*4 #r money Addraa*: ff. Me Ll-PTO!?, llahert 65 Murrey Street* New York. MARVELOUS 1 lie water glass is constructed of lou- board-, about fifteen inches long, nailed together in the form of a frustrum of a hollow pyramid. Tho small end is closed with a piece of ordinary window glass. This, placed a few inches below the surface of water, enables the observer to see ob.ects for*a considerable distance ur-der water. It is much used by oearl diver*. A “Put and Call.” This is a funny phrase to tbe uninitiaUd, but all the broker.-i under-tan I it. They use it wlr n a person gives a certain per cent, for the option of having or selling stock on a fixed day, at a price state 1 on theday the op tion is given ft is often a serious op«ratinn to the dealer, but there is a more serious “put and call” than this: when you are “put’’ to bed with c severe cold and your friends “oaH” a physician Avoid all this bv keeping in the house Dr. P.erce’s G ilden Medical Dis covery. The great cure for pulmonary and blood diseases. Its action is marvelous. It cures the worst cough, whether aoute linger ing < r chronic. For weak Lungs, Spitting of Blood, Short Breath, Unnsump’ion, Night sweats, and kindred affections, it f-urpansts all other medicines. Chief Electrician Preece, of the Brit ish Telegraph Department, thinks New York's act of capita! punishment by electricity will be a failure. Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, is known a-s the “T ill Sycamore of the VVabssh.” “A Word In the Wine lo Hofllrlenl" Catarrh is not -imply an inconvenience, un- plea-ant to the Milferer and disgusting to j others -it is an advanced outpost of approach ing di*“flse of worse type. Do not neglect its warning; it brings dea-ily evils in it* train. B -fore it is too late use Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. It rea- hes the seat of the ailment, j ond is the only thing that will. You may dose yourself with quack medicines till it is t?o late—till the streamlet becomrs a re.-ist- loss torrent It is tbenmtnnd Invention of a scientific physician. “A word to tbe wisj is sufficient. ” fl • . f CELEffr r a ' ne s ) compound CURES PROOFS Neuralgia “Paine's Celery Com pound cured my nerv ous sick headaches." Mrs. L. A. Uni NINFK, ban Jacinto, Cal. Nervous Prostration “After using six bot tles of Paine”* Celery Compound, I am cured oi rheumatism." Samupi. Hutchinson, South Cornish, N. H. Rheumatism Kidney Diseases "It has done me more good for kidney disease than any other medi cine." Gro. Abbott, Sioux City, Iowa. AND All Liver Disorders "Paine’s Celery Com pound has been of great benefit for torpid liver, indigestion, and bilious ness." Elizabeth C. Udali., Quechee, V:. DISCOVERY. Aar book learned la < Mind wanderlaa Reeaklns without note* Wholly unlike ai-tlBctal ■yatouiu. Piracy condemned bv ^supreme Con inducrinenta to oor on# reading, eared. Great (peciabst In M . . , „ „ - - .!■»•«>«•• oeist, J. M. B .ion Advoeate. snd others, soot post free bv paor. L LOIBETTE. gf Fifth At*. Hew T*»>L tbe worM-fsinrsl Specialist In Mind IG i eenlearThempsen, tbs ms' . M. Buckley, l>. D.,EditoroTt teoso/c. Richard Procter tbs I CAUTION Bewsre of Fraud, m oit n»me snd the pries are •tamped on tlie bottom of *11 my ad-re abort before leaving the factory, which protect high prices and lulcrlor w- d*. L. Douglaa allocs at a re- my uaa idov the wearers agatutt If a dealer offer. W duced pi lc«. or uvs lie Ima them w Itbout my _ and price stamped oa tlie bottom, put him down i strand. rsrif Al UFBC Doable Action. Self cocking ntvULvtno.b i ii i'’i' $ |:<> cutaioKu-- Free, Percy'* ucs House. Oshkosh, WU. MUBTEfl ro iti v A I-Allllin thlaiocaiitT ! IVHIII CU Curtin A Wrisbt.-A.'ij broad way, N. Y. ^geuta wanted, (i an It-mr./idnew article*. Catl’gue 1 an t sample, fre- . K. Marshall. Lockport, If. Y. 1,1 v I ns on lhe Kepatatlon -if Olhrra. “Take everything that I have but my giK>l name; leave me that and I am content” Ho said the philosopher. So say all nianu- fa -Hirers of genuine articles to that horde of imitators which thrives up-ui the reputation of others. The good name of Allcock’s Po- kofs Plasters has induced many adventure civ to put in the mark t imitations that are »ot only lacking in the best elements of the g ‘inline article, but are often harmful in their effects. The public should been their guard against these frauds, and, when an external remedy is nee le I. lie s ire to insist upon having All- cock’s Ponoca Plasters. $5 to h •liiy. HmiopIc-. worib HI .of* Free Ltneanot under tlie horse’, feet. Write to Brewster Safety P.cln Holder Co. Holly, Mich Harvey himself coul- n’t discover thecircu latlou of some newspapers. Many men of many minds. Many pills of various kinds. But for a mild, effective, vegetable purga- _ live, you ha-1 better get Dr. Pierce’s Pl-is- | ant Purgative Pellets. Toey cure sick head- achp,bilious headache, dizziness, c mstination, indigestion, and bilious attacks; 2.5 cents a vi al, by druggists. Experts at picking locks—wig maker* If afflicted with sore cyen ase Dr. Thomp- son's Eve-water. Druggist sell at 25c. per bottle H Second broker—“Maybe so, but he is a big gobbler.” Oval Una, J I ■ Rheumatic Remstfjr. round, 14 Pllla. tv IJ- 45 CATARRH | ELK CHEM BiU | COLD IN HEAD ELY BROS., 66 Warren 8t. N. Y. IRE YOU MARRIED? 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