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IN TOE OLD .WAV. IB. C1!APMAVSTTU^DAY SERMON. Era.ncnt Pastor-Evangelist Prove: By 0!<3 Testament Reference Wha i . Our Duty is. IKnr Yokk Crrr.?The following rc:- j son is one of a scries prepared some time [ mni'o by the Kev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, the distinguished evangelist. It is entitled "*Tbe Upper and the Nether Springs." and ana preached from the text "And he gave her the upper springs and the nether I spmm*." Joshua xv.: 19. fi*lf sray between Hebron and BcersheV? there once stood the ancient city of - Orbir It was the city of brains and books aul the cent-re of intellectual culture of the -olden day*. At the same point now may he ?een a rude assemblage of stone hovels, any of which are half standing, but the others are entirely broken down. Oar of the names given to this city, Iwing traasl&tcd, means the City of Brooks, w?r o< "taming?what Atheus was to Greece J tfcp r-jtv of Debir \raj to Southern Vale*- ( tine, it *v.*w supposed that all the records t atf antiquity ol the nation wore stored there. It'was. indeed, a famous place. CStleb, the son of Hezron, 01* the tribe or was rwr anxious to secure nosses- | ol il:c city. It is this fact which gives i lis." la the text. His name is very familiar to ts. He was one of the twelve spies rnt by Moses over into Canaan, and he -sad Joshua were the only two born in ?CXI* vfcs were given the privilege of on-* 1 '* ? fKo p*fplition Wtrnj \aiu.?ii, > <> > v..v , ? , . Ote Invites. and that. not only bereave titer had brought a truthful report of inr land Ibey had explored, but were n!*o trilling to take God at His word, and put all *kor trust in Him. Sorty-five years after, when ilie wandering* were. over. Caleb applied to Joshua far tlx? thare of toe laud which Lad lven Traniftil him. and among other portions j there Was granted to htm Debit-, the city 01 learning, ft*was still, however, the strong- j koU of the giants of Canaan, and must be ! en Marred to ce possessed. Cblrb then raade the proposition that ho aranld. give his daugiiter Achsah in marziige to any one who was able to take the ?itar, and one Othniei. who had been much ?f a eratrrioF, for he had delivered the ohilAeaof Israel from the King of Mesopota- j ?is marched against LVbir. After a great fcraflgle the gates were broken down, the jwat? %rtre raptured ov driven away, and fte Oty of Books lay at the feet of the . anosraeror,. When the victory was won (Men wis as ?ood as his vrord, an 1 his slaughter was given in marriage to the sol1 " ka? lio nloA ero-'is no 1 ri in Itorif. mi ?vi?n uct iiv oii?y ^utv w <tt. a peculiar piece of property. known ma *The South Land," valuable for some HMeas, but it teas mountainous and slooed with a >rd toward the deserts of Arabia. j the hot winds of which a<am and again OTtft across it. Before Ar-hsah left her fcftVi Wusc she besought him for his Hewrag. The south land was not enough, he ?nld alee have springs of water, and <wh .rwponded at once, and gave her ara than she had asked, for wc read in ' the fat: "lie gave her the upper springs J atari the wether snrings." From an excceuaatpy fertile territory the land wac chosen. Vt eootarard no less than fourteen springs. The was beautiful, for look which I ray you would you could see them gushing fartfc/ Their presence in the field meant mei only a blessing for the field in which they were found, but for all the country I IM in this beautiful story a good illustration ?f aB that we receive from our A1J thai has been bestowed upou us is ns ncfagd with victory, and that was won by flam whose name was called in the proafccU the Con qoeror. It was for llim a fcne sbnggje. out He came off more than ?MMrrar. men, atcer tnat. tie was caueu the Bridegroom of the church, which is to < he fit* bpde, end with Him we have reeuwji net only the gift of salvation, but in Him we cm aJto blessed with all spiritual MmfcimgzL Paul gives us this when he writes ho the Epnesians, ''Blessed be the Cad and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, vfc* hath blessed us with all spiritual hWwings ia heavenly places in Christ i i JMflfc.- i f. Cod starts His children in this world aw Caleb started his daughter, with an inheritraoe. No one is so poor but Cod has given bin something. Seme have taken the inheritance and hatted Has the man with the five talents, they have gained other five also; others 1 Hke the man with one talent, have wrapped < it is a napkin, and so they leave the world as poor as when they entered it. God has < heew very good to us. He has given us this < world with all its beauty, its green pas- ( lam. its still waters, its rivers and its seas, its starry canopy stretching out above. Tbfc morliS is filled with forces of all kinds, i hot nan has seemed to gain control over ; Ana, until to-day he stands himself like a eoaquerer ia the midst of them all. flat the inheritance is better than that, i He has given us all the faculties of mind I awfl all the powers of body. The mind, the t the hands, the feet?no one is Kent \ iinto the world a pauper. God has thus , pVued a fortune in the grasp of every I 4U3 of His. It is such a great thing to i Ine a mind, for with it man is aWc to ?rth the deep things of God and rcallv i tMC hold of the thought of the Eternal. . Tie seimwe of geometry was worked ont < from a few simple principles by Euclid ] wad Archimedes, by pure reasoning out of ; their minds, and on the sands of the floor i ml Che room where they were studying Archimedes traced the curves in which, acsxvnliBg to science, the heavenly bodies i md move. And long after, when the t$V ] mCqpe eras invented, the Galileos and the < lw 1 ona beheld with reverent wonder that ] the heavenly bodies were sweeping along i in the dame curves described so long ago by 1 -the treat Mathematician. It is, indeed, a < ishifnl thing to hare a mind. i ^ Bet if these things which I have men- i tfinned as our natural inheritance are all ' what we possess, then, with the success Hat wmr he gained by means of them we any afin he of all men the most miserable, i Ibr they are Tike the south land of Ach- < anh- fhry stretch off toward the deserts of i wmtjmm and care and darkness, and the hot i winds of despair come sweeping past us anise and again. The most miserable peo -jfltwt the world, sooner or later, are those whs have just the world and nothing eUe. Mrt are horn onto trouble as the sparks fjr woward. and this south land of the is a poor portion. It is beautiful; it ia the handiwork of (Jod. i But we must fare more than that if the soul be satis?rL "The stars are beautiful, but they -boot no light into the midnight of a " -tumbled soul. The flowers are sweet, but they t>eur no balm into the wounded fwwt" There are times when the hungry, I -thirsty, fevpred soul must hare what the "vatetral inheritance can not give, and Co J "mad.? rrovision for that. 51an sighs with groaning* which can not > Ik ?tt.*rcjd for the infinite. Tf you put a < to your ear you will find in it i -rrtriawrenc^s of it* original home, the roar i ?f the *??. "the wai! of the wind. Um groan of the dying wave, all discernible therein. K Has thy witness in itself that it belongs < to the mighty .deep. And if you listen at- j tratiw'y to your own heart you will find I <09astant proofs of its destined abode. The the yearnings, the dreams, the tears, 4ms sadness, the music, all testify that wc an made for God, and that only God can wtfkry our wants. And God knew this, and iso; as well as giving as the south land He has also given us the springs of water flngn which we may drink and he satisfied. (Sad pitv the man who has failed to accept ftftR^proffered gift. W; The springs of water were given to because of her marriage with Oth iFT. and thc.v arc a perfect illustration of which comes to us because of our wiuon with the Sen of God. The springs ti:' were a frc? ,s '',f" ?P"'ns of the 'las <*OBie to us. "For bv grate are ;\jsated through faith, and rhar not of you?t~''vcs: >t is the gift ot God." Ant! never a spring bursting from the plains of Gerar. or fr\n ',"* mountain- of Lebanon, or front theVal.eys of Canaan, |H?rfo"tn .sa-. l- a mis do^s ,as. this net her spring of the gospel whhN?iS tiie gilt of out- (.Sod. We have seen the Jields in ti!r time of a liroiiglit looking parched ami ap8a'"ently dead and wortli'ess. and then sailtler'y, almost in the night, the meadows were elothed wii.li given, and the grain lit1/(<X up its head rejoicing, nil because the rain 1...I f*ll?n Vi..f m tiii? net hep sorioe of i tilt* go.*Del there i* a more marvelous ! power than that?he who comes to drink | of its waters goes away with new lite, and his whole nature is change !. The ancients believed in the existence of a spring in which, if a person bathed, he would renew his youth and live forever. We have found that spring to-day in the text, for "The gift of (Jod is eternal life." ' The Bible is all a-snarkle with wells and springs, rivers and seas. They toss up their brightness from almost every chapter. And water is many times the type or figure oi that whi<*h enlivens, beautifies aaa gives r.cvr life." Solomon, refreshed by the story of hraven. exclaims. "As eold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country." Tsaiah. speaking of the blessedness of the children of (lod, writes, "They shall spring as willows from the watercourses." The prophet, glowing with the thought of the millcnium. savs. "Streams sfnli break forth from the desert." The mission of water in this world is to b'ess and satisfy, refresh and help. "But all the waters that ever leaped in the torrents. or foamed in the cascade, or fell in the summer shower, or hung in the mornin* dew. have given no such comfort to the troubled heart, no such rest and refreshment to the sin-sick son!, as thai whicn may be drawn by you and by u.c from the nether spring of the gospel." It is a good tvpe of illustration^ of the gospel because of its brightness. Yet here if fails of giving us perfect description or idea, for where can you find such brightness as gleams in this nether spring? fYjvhf unnbV to uut it into words. plays it nn his harp. Christopher Wren, unable to nut it into language, springs it in the arches of St. Pant's. Banyan. failing ia present it in ordinary story, put it in the form of allegory, which lives on today with constantly increasing power. Handel, with ordinary music unable to reach the height and .sound the depth of 'he iiic-nie. thrills us with his oraforo." O, the gladness. the brightness, the ioy nnnttei-ab'e in that li'*e which is hid with Christ in God. And this I may drink in as I come to the nether springs. There is no life on earth so happy as the Christian's. Take the humblest child of God v..a know, and whv shouldn't he be happy? Ac-cording to the Bible he is all the time under the shadow of God's wings. If he walks the angels bear him ud; if he sleeps they let down ladders from the skie.<. up aud down which the angels go to and fro. bringing down blessing* of God. and bearing awav his heavy burdens. Why. to get within the door of the kingdo n. to have a place, not the nearest, tut on the very outer circle, to bear the lowest title of all the redeemed, to be the weakest hiid of all the family of God. to be the dimmest jewel in His crown of rejoicing, to l>c the least, yea, less than least of all the saints is a hone which sets the heart a-sinpinp. All this I find and more. a thousand times more, as I stoop and drink at the nether springs. Water is also like the gospel in its power to refresh. I remember the River Jordan the day when Naaman came to its hanks with his leprosjjr. I see him poing down into its waters, 'once, twice, three times, and then on until he had. according to the instructions of the servant of God bathed seven times, and then, marvelous chanpe! his flesh Iwcame as it were the flesh of a little child. But here is a greater change for the sin ful soul who will come to the nether spring. Here came Newton, and left be-hind him his sins which were as scarlet. Here came Bunyau, cursing with every step until lewd people rebuked him, and he went away, so changed that he pave to the world the book that stands in the estimation of some next to the Bible for sweetness and power. Here came Magdalen and the Philippian jailor. Zaccbaeus, and the poor trembling thief on the cross, and they drank ot tlic waters ana stana to-aay in the company of the redeemed. I stand by the side of the waters to-day, and with all the tenderness of a saved sinner. with all the assurance of a pardoned child of God. with all the alarm ot a friend who sees his friends and neighbors going down to death, away from the living wntsrs. I bid vou come, come, come; "Whotosver will, let him come." It ia a marvelous spring of which I speak. [ recall the fact that when the Master met the man who was blind from his birth He anointed his eyes with clav and spittle and then told him to go wash in the pool of Siloam; and when he had washed be came seeing. I imagine that firtft of all he saw the face of the Master Himself. This is the power of the uether spring of the gosl>el. The touch of its waters will cause the scales to drop from our eyes, and we shall tw^Wble to see the wondrous things written ih the book of God, and not only so. but we shall have given unto us tho vision of the face of the Master Himself. It is not strange that we are unable, in our sinfnl roudition, to see things as thev are in the kingdom of God, for we are blind. But if you will only come with vour blindness to the nether spring you shall go away rejoicing. It is like the pool of Bethesda. It has healing power, and we are not only Mved from the ruilt of sin. but we may likewise be saved from its power. The only difference is that in the pool the sick people must wait until the waters are troubled before they may step in and be healed, while in this nether spring the wat?rs are always ready. This is no new idea so to represent the gospel of Christ, for I read in the gospel of John these words: "But whosoverer shall drink of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst. But the water I shall give him shall be in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting life.' And in the Apocalypse these words are found: "I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is sthirst, of the fountain of the water of life freely." 0 thirsty souls, come and drink! I know what springs of water have done for the world. Found in Gerar by Isaac, they make the field fruitful in abundance. Bursting forth in Lebanon, they tend their waters down the mountain side, and as thev go through the valley they make it of (nitffn1? oaa HWIv 1 akin to that is what the nether spring of the gospel does for us. No one knows the fulness of his own being until he is filled with the influence and power of the gospel. You walk, in the month of January, over the most fertile place in a field or through the forest, and you will see the illustration of what man is in his natural state. The earth is full of roots and the trees are full of buds, all of which are closely bandaged so that they can not expand, but when the spring time comes the roots in the earth commence to push forward and the buds Dn the trees begin to unfold, and in a very oil nnlnpo ic rointplnfT WKnfc .1 marvelous change, simply because the roots have been warmed by the sun and kissed by the light! and yet it is not worthy to be compared with a change which might be wrought in you. if you will but come to the nether spring and drink of its life-giving waters, for there you will meet Him who has said: "I am come that you might have life, and that you might have it more abundantly." HI. I wish I might be able to make plain to you all that there is so much more to the Christian life than simply being saved. That is only the beginning. The whole experience stretches away from that point, and gets brighter and brighter . ./ as liio days go (,?. Yl itii ttic hope that we might- learn tlv lesson together to-day I have brought liefore you these two springs. Whether the strict exegesis of the text will allow the interpretation or not, 1 am very sure that all will agree that it is a perfect illustration. To drink at the nether spring is salvation, but to drink at the upper spring is a high privilege that is offered to every chiid of Clod. I could bring so many passages *>f Scripture to you which would serve as an illustration of what I mean. Take Kphesians i: 3: '"IMrssed be the God and Father of our T ~~.l T.a,*. PU.Uf tflirt Klfll hloVBP/j HQ with all spiritual hlessings in Christ Jesus." Or. Co!, ii: 12: '"Buried with Him in baptism. wherein a'so ye are risen with Him, through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised Him from the dead." Or, take Col. in: 1-3: "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." Or, take Phil, iii: 20: "For our conversation is in heaven, from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.** I would that we might all drink at the upper spring. What peace would then fill our hearts! When we drink at the lower spring wc come to be at peace with God, but when we learn to drink also at the upper spring we have the peace of God, and there is a great difference between the two. It is something like the difference between a microscope and a telescope. With the first we can see things near, and in a bulk not larger than a grain of sand I can find a thousand million animalculae, h"t with (he latter I can ?ee things afar off. I can actually study the Milky Way. which is removed from me thousands and thousands of miles. .At the nether spring, first of all. T see myself and a'l my sinful- j ncs.*; then I see Christ in all His righteous- j ness: then I hear Him say that though ] niv bins he like scar'rt they shall be as ' white a? snow, and there at the nether spring T atn made whole, but. with the up- , per spring it is different. Like the tele- i seopc it is all about the things whieh are j above, and as T dnnk at its waters 1 find j myself being lifted above this world, and | wr conversation, not or'v. but my very | life, may be in the henvenlies. And the way to this upper spring is j nointed out very nlainlv to ns. I reinem- j l.cr the dream of Jacob as he was going j from Beersheba to llaran. It was of the i ladder which was sec ttnon earth, the top . of which reached up to heaven. Th is ladder is set for us. It reaches to . the very brink of the upper spring. The iauder is Christ; His feet rest unou the j earlh. His brow is bound with the glory of heaven. The events of His earthly life J are the earthward end of the ladder; Hi? 1 divinity. His finished Messishship, His j pa-actual priesthood the topmast end. In . a distant city n fire was raging. It was thought that all the inmates had been ! saved, when to the horror of the hystand- | crs two children were seen standing at a ! third-storv window. It was before the days of the almost perfect appliances for ' the saving nf lives. Two ladders were ; hurriedly snliced tocpther and liftgd to j the side of the building. There was n I shout of terror nl-cn it was found that the ladder lacked six feet of reaching the children. In a moment a brave fireman was mounting the ladder; he reached the topmost round, and then stood for a moment balancing himself until he had caught the window sill with his hand, and then over his bodv. which supplied the trap between the ladder and window the children came slowly down until outstretched hands reached them in safety. And this is what the Lord Jesus Christ did for you and for me! There was no way for us back to heaven. Wc were estranged from God. And then He came in His incarnation, nnd on the platform erected by the patriarchal, legal and prophetic dispensation. He stood, as it were, in His own bodv. reaching up His hands, He took hold of God. and the wzY was made complete. And so it has come to pass that not onlv in Chrst we are , saved, but it is also true that we mount by J Tlim into the very secret place of the Most High. And this is drinking at the upper spring. Thus the secret of this crest blessing is to he found by abiding in Christ. Dr. Gordon used to tell a little circumstance which came beneath his eyes in New England, which presents to us a figure of it all. Two little saplings grew side by side. ( Through the action of the wind thev I crossed each other. Jw and bv the bark of each became wounded and the sap began to mingle. until in some still dav they became united to each other. This process went on more and more nntil they were firmly compacted. Then the stronger began to absorb the life from the weaker: it grew stronger while the other grew weaker and weaker, until finally it dropped i away and then disappeared. And now there are two trunks at the bottom and only one at the top. Death has taken awav the one, life has triumphed in the j other. Slaaslllnn'a Secret of Power, It is said that after Massillon, the great court preacher of France, had finished one of his sermons, Louis XIV. summoned him to his side and said. "Massillon, how i? it I you impress me as you do? I have heard many great orators preach. They nearly ] always please me. But when you preach, instead of being pleased with vou, I am al- ] wavs discontented with myself. I always feel that I want to be a better man. as well , as a better king." "Well," answered the great preacher.^ "the only way I can account for it. Your Majesty, is because I 1 am always preaching against myself. When I am about to make up a sermon I sav to myself, 'Massillon, what is the gin which you have hardest work to battle to-day?' , And when I preach against my own sins I generally find that there are similar sin* in other hearts which I am alao preachinc against." Ptre Ideal Hoae. If from being tossed about in the foga and storms which surround and overtake us we can come into the home as into a beautiful land-locked harbor; if husbands ' can come from their offices and business ' perplexities into a peaceful, sunny atmoe- 1 phere, bringing with them the spirit which shall exercise care and make home s ( refuge to them, and if wives and mother* j welcome them into such homes where the very air as the doors are opened seems fragrant with love and restful sympathy, and pure and refreshing with cheerfulness, such a home is ideal and a refuge for all its ' inmates. It is such homes that keen the church alive and develop the same ola rev- ] crence and faith and hope and love which j have blessed the world ever since Abraham built the first altar to Almighty God in the long ago.?Dr. Lyman Abbott. ^ Credi and Doctrine*. Creeds and doctrines are the attempts to t explain existing facts. Creeds do not produce the life. The creeds and opinions may change, but the realities remain and j are unchangeable. They an. the phenomena J J to be explained. The creeds and doctrines | arc the varying explanations. The everts j and active forces are the evidences of the | , life force. It is an intelligent personal j , TT.. tv,. i;?? n," Wia I 1 11c ii? to. iiv ?nv v. ** ? | cause. By Him any man may roine into a new lite. Through Him millions have , brought their lives "into tune with the uni- 1 verse." If we are wise we shall pay more j regard to Him, to His teaching, to His , work and His personal fellowship. ? A. Wheaton. , Luxury. . 1 Wc do not need to go to ancient times for examples of luxury. Luxuries are a prominent part of American lite to-day. 1 There are some things that may be said | , with certainty abouv it. First, it is the i pride of living and ostentation arid exalts i inordinate self-satisfaction. Second, a life of luxury contradicts Christ and Chria- | tianitv.?The Rev. T E. Cramblett, Pittsburg, Pa. / HEAL Praise Fe-ru-na as a Cu 1 Mrs JBrink ^ FIRST STAGE OF CATARRH. A Serious Mistake Which Thou- n sands Are Making. Jo. c< ? t] The first stage of catarrh is what is n commonly known as "catching cold." It b may be in the head, nose, throat or lungs, h Its beginning is sometimes so severe as to \ cause a chill and considerable fever, or it h may be so slight as to not binder a person ir from his usual business. In perhaps a t< majority of canes little or no attention rr is paid to the first stage of catarrh, and hence it is that nearly one-half of the people have chronic catarrh in some t'omi. ii To neglect a cold is to invite chronic g catarrh. As soon as any one discover* w the first symptoms of catching cold he ll should at once l?egin the use of Peruna I d aecordinz to direction? on the bottle, bn Odds .and Ends. I (Chicago Tribune.) "I wa3 told the young lady's father ; laid violent banda on you. Is it true?" 8 "No; he only turned me back when P [ tried to enter the house. He said we ? woult^ consider it a pacific blockade fcrr t the present." a ! R (Philadelphia Press.) j t "And what did he have to say about ! that?" j "He didn't have to say anything, * stberwise he wouldn't have talked for ; r Lwo hours as he did." : ? 11" (Philadelphia Press.) "I was thinking," said the old-fasb- r joned young mtn. "of asking her t lather if I might pay my addressee to . her." "H'm," mused the wise girl, "in this s case I'd advise you to pay in advance." * (From Judge.) i "Say, pa?" fc "Well, what?" "If the shortest days of the years are in December, how can February be the shortest month in ttw year?" NOT SURE. "And what," asked the doctor, "did rou eat for lunch?" I "I don't know!" answered the sick t man weakly. "You don't know!" roared the doc- ! , :?r. j , "No. sir. I ordered turkey hash and : ninee Die.?Kansas City Journal. I OH! THE FAMOUS! j. "What would you do if you were to jrake up tomorrow morning and find pourself famous V ? "Lie down again s.fcd sleep till I feel ike getting up, fo-- once."?Chicago Record-Herald. f< SCHEME THAT FAILED. \ "My dear," raid Enpeck, as be laid r) lowc the evenig paper, "do you think I'm too old to take up the study of asronomy?" "John," replied the other half of the 1< * ' " A VI 1? vAII SPA on Aid m rpmoinauou. i iumn ;uU mV ?? [ool if you imagine that will serve as in excuso for remaining out all night." Church?What is your opinion of The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table?' Gotham?Never tried it. but I guess I've sampled every other kind of breakfast food.?Editor's Sheet. Pawnbr<5ker? Fifty cents. Struggling Artist?Why, my dear sir, ibe canva3 aloes cost me $2. Pawnbroker?Yes, but you have spoiled it by daubing paint all over it. Young Miss Wilgus?Where are you ;oing, papa? Rev. Mr. Wilgus?To the temperance ; ""otinc We intend to inaugurate a ; movement to save th*. ycung men of J the country. j Once upon a time a young woman. I who was an exception to her sex, went Ashing for compliments and succeeded In hooking and landing, a great many of them. She was told of her amiability, Intelligence, beauty and extreme modesty, all of which delighted her exceedingly. When she was told how earnestly the young men courted her good opinion, and how very jealous all the young ladies were of her attractiveness, her pleasure was beyond bounds. Moral: Kisning always encourages lying. f^^wc ire for Golds and a 5! and the cold is sure to pass away without leaving any had cilicts. Unless this is 'lone the cold is al- 5 most sure to end in the second stage o: catarrh, which is making so many live.-? miserable. If l'eruna was taken evert time one has a cold or cough. chron:< catarrh would be practically an unknown disease. Miss Elizabeth Uber. No. 57 Bassctt .. i ah xr v t Mr?.-rfc, .'iJUtiuy, y*. A.. wiur*. ** "I hare always dreaded unsettled V weather because of my extreme liubil i ity to catch cold, when a catarrhal trouble would quickly develop through my entire system, which it would take weeks to drive away. I am thankful to say that since I have taken PEElINA I do not have any reason to dread this any more. If I have been at all exposed to the damp,wet or void weather, I take a dose or two of PE- , RUNA, and it throws out any hint of sickness from my system."?Mi?s Elisabeth Uber. j Mrs. M. J. JJrink. No. 820 Michigan avc- j , ue^ St. Joseph, Mich., writes: "This past winter during the wet and | old weather I caught a sudden and severe I old, which developed a catarrhal condition 1 tirough my entire system, and so affected j ly general health that I was completely j roken down, and became nervous and ysterical and unfit to supervise my home, i ly physician prescribed for me, but some- i ow his medicine did me no good. Read- I lg of PER UNA I decided to try it. Afcr I had taken but three bottles I found lyself in fine health."?Mrs. M. J. Brink. Sibyl A. Hadley. 2ti Main street. Huntlgton, Ind., writes: "Last winter after ctting ray feet wet I began to cough, hich gradually grew worse until ray (iroat was sore and raw. Ordinary rcme- | ies did not heln me and cough remedies auseated me. Reading an avcitiseroont ' He Kept Cool. J i Ore of the pluckiest things T hare : vor witnessed. says a traveler, hapeued when I was staying for the night t a country inn. I was on a cycling our at the time, and I had just put up [ ay machine when a man on horseback j Sloped up to the inn door. Thfe , lorse was a splendid auimal, young j nd spirited, but Its rider managed It j rith the most perfect case. On dfs- J nounting he asked that his steed j DIgnt ne turn en out w pasiurr?a i equest which was granted. In the morning as I was about to j ecommence my journey I overheard | he horseman inform the landlord that 1 le could go and catch his horse himelf, as it was difficult for a stranger o approach him. "No. no," said the landlord, pointng to the meadow. "D'ye see that tull?" We both turned and saw a red-eyed, avage-looking bull regarding us from iver the hedge. Not far away from ilm the horse was placidly feeding. "He looks nasty," said the stranger. Nevertheless. I'm going to fetch my torse. I should also advise your hull o keep his distance." We both looked at him. There was j omethlng in his' cool assurance that j vas very taking. Reflections of a Bachelor. "Has Air. wasningiun any ungiu<u , leas?" "One," answered Miss Cay- { nne; 'the Idea that his views are orllnal is exclusively his own."?Washlgton Star. "Reckon we'll have good weather i &r Chrlst'mus?" Gladys?He said he would die If I >fused him. Ethel?And still yon refused him Gladys?Oh, yes! I think he will live | >ng enough to propose again.?Puek. Mother "My mother was troubled with consumption for many years. At last she was given up to die. Then she tried Ayeris Cherry Pectoral, and was speedily cured." 3 D. P. Jolly, Avoca, N. Y. wtT ?l A I i>0 Iliauci liuw naiu I your cough or how long g I you have had it, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is the best thing you can take. It's too risky to wait until you have consumption. If you are coughing today, get a bottle of Cherry Pectoral at once. Kt aw- .i!. All drurtlUl. | j Conault roar doctor. If he ?ay? take 't, then do as ho say*. If he telle you not B to take It, then don't take It. He knowi. M Lear* It with bins. We are willing. ? J. C. AYEB CO.. Lowell, Mass. | >MEN v*. Preventive of Catarrh. Miss 5*RA Mcr.AflAN/ ^ ot wiiiir. PEni'NA co?i<i do, I decided ta try n bott'c, and you cau imagine how glad I felt uhen it began ta Believe bm in a very short time. In lean than two weeks I was completely cured/*?Sibyl A. Hadley. Mis.- 5*;tyah McGahan. No> MT 3d street, Albany. N. Y., writes: "A few months ago 1 suffered -with a severe ctracl. of influenza, which nothing seemed Jo relieve. My tearing became bad, tut eyes became irritated a ad feverish. Nothing seemed right and nothing I ate * tasted good. I took PER UN A aad within two weeks I was perfectly well."--Sarah Si lialian. if you do not derive prompt and ?3t?factory results from the use ef Pctuna wr tc ut once to Dr. Hartnmn, giving a Jul statement of your ease, and he will be g:ad to give you his valuable advice gratia. Address l)r. Kertmun. President of The Hart man Sanitarinm. -C'olumbua. O. _ Origin of "The Finnan H?dd1e/* Many years ago at a seaport towm on the North Sea,. Port Lethcu. a fir* occurred in one of the flah-cuttJnf houses, and partially burned the end of the structure, which was piled full of lightly salted, freshly eangfat haddock, which were lying on beds of dry kelp.' After the flames were extinguished _ and the charred top and side of ono of the piles of fish were removed, tho Maistcr pulled out one of the slightly smoked haddock, still warm from the . " hfat He smelt it. while the curious group of men around him watrtjed his mnwa Ita fnrii ntt ? nicer Of the fish, aud, and tasting ft, took another bit. sagely nodded hfa heed, and passed it over to the foreman, Sandy, saying: "Taste you it. Candy! It is nae so nasty." This proved to be a great day in Port Lethen, for every fisherman In the town had a haddie given him free of cost that had been cured by the smoke from the burning tolp; and from that time until the present no one in Port Lethen or the greater fishing village a mile away, Flndon, ever cured a had&ock except byjspaokiag them over the burning seaweed. The cleverness of the Flndon fishdealers in being the first to put this new cured haddie on the market won for them the glory of the trade named "Flndon Haddie." which was abbreviated later on into "Finnan Haddie.**. Fish Act as Surgeons. "Along the Caribbean 8ea." said an artist who bas recently returned from those parts, "it is a common thing to see men and women and children sitting on the banks of streams, with their bare legs soaking ia the water. "They h*?e a strange reason for this Rtrangfc conduct They are much troubled by a little lns^cta kind of huHM Itself in Hisfr flesh. Utn WMIVU W??.vv -WW . and is very hard to dislodge; and so. when the ticks have gotten ht them, they go to the water bory the Infected parts beneath the sxirfaee and keep quite still. The fish have a fondness for ticks, and they hasten to the gleaming human flesh they see, and -* pulling the ticks out, devonr them. "In that manner the Carlbs fish are called upon to act as surgeons. Efficient and painless surgeons they maka too."?Philadelphia Record. . ' x _____ "Don't care ef we don't. Wo wos inginrtilly so full den dat ail weather look alike ter us!" ^DROPSY fe ^ 8f 10 OATS' TRIATMEMT FUEL O jfl Ear# made Drapsy and its co*? EWV s plications a specialty for twestr ?pr*ja? t to an with tae most wonderffl x , i success. Esto cored many tncaa* -StiwJT /J^ and cues. jwgfoSftdBIS. SK. 2. E. C2ZX3T8 83XSL * Box B Atlanta, Ga. So. 3. SfialWSl^F# Rest Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. U)w 15 In time. Sold by druggists. gf