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A bJfiuALUiN tfUK SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY DR
CHARLES H- PARKHURST.
Subject of the Distinguished New York
Clergyman's Sermon, What Think
Ye of Christ ? "?Why So Many People
Get Tired of Being Christians.
New York City.?Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst,
pastor of the Madison Square Pres*
byterian Church, preached Sunday morning
on ''What Think Ye of Christ?" from the
words found in Mark viii:29: "Whom say
ye that I am?" Dr. Parkhurst said among
other things:
Christ means to you sometb:"V; wh^f is
it?
r-u-u* tj:?-,>u *1.:- ~c -n- j:.. -?i?_
vuunt xxti&iocii a das iui3 v/i All> uiai'ijnrs.
It is the first Christian catechism. Brief,
but nevertheless it is catechism, and is
God's warrant for our asking doctrinal
questions, and His warrant, *.co, for our
being prepared to frame some sort of an
answer to them.
Christ's inquiry here means that He expects
His disciples to have convictionsconvictions
in regard to Himself at any
rate?and definite enough for them to be
able to state them. Such convictions may
be more correct, may be less so, but an imperfect
opinion is better than none, and no
opinion ends in being perfect that did not
begin by being imperfect, and sound conviction
is blunder convicted and converted.
Everything human begins in a mistake.
Error is tne loamy soil outjif which truth
vegetates and blossoms. Ihe history ot
philosophy, science and theology illustrates
this principle with a distinct cogency that
is unanswerable. So that we need not be
too much afraid of being in error provided
<mly we cling to our error with a tenacity
that is not simply tenacious, but that is
also honest and intelligent.
What think ye of Christ? His appeal
here is to man considered as an animal who
thinks, who has ideas, ideas of his own,'
takes impressions from what is shown him,
told to him, acted out before him. and imEressions
that so groove themselves into
is substance as to take defined shape and
snape that is fairly permanent. ' Just as
objects make an image of themselves in the
eye, so facts, events, truths, make an image
of themselves in the mind?that is,
they do if the mind is an alert mind, sensitive,
responsive. A man can, of course,
look without seeing anything; so he can
hear without learning anything; live in the
presence of great realities ana come away
irom them without carrying upon his soul
any of their imprint. An ox can look toward
the west at 6 o'clock in the afternoon
without observing any sunset; there is a
good deal of the bovine still in most of us
that call ourselves human, and that is why
we behold so little of what is resllv visible
and whv we garner so little of the fruit
that falls into our laps. A duck can go
through the water ana still come out dry.
A boy can go through college without any
^ of the college going through him. Judas
walked three years with Jesus and finished
by being a devil. {<
What think ye of Christ? He wants to 1
find out from His disciples, then, what im- i
pression of Himself He has left with them, i
what stamp He has put upon them. What <
they think of Him will be only another I
name for the record of Himself that His :
teachings and demeanor have left printed I
upon tneir intelligences. I am trying to I
have vou realize that their opinion of Him t
that He was trying to get hold of was <
something definitely traceable to the t
working influence upon them of His own c
presence and activity. He is not interest- 1
ed to know what thev imagine Him to be, 1
nor what they logically infer He may be, 1
nor what some one has told them that He t
is. He has been for some time demonstrat- r
ing Himself to them by word, act and I
spirit, and if they are not altogether like o
the duck in the water or the ox before the q
.-sunset, as presumably they are not. this s
'demonstration ol Himself to them has in n
. aome way told upon them, it hag lodged g
-something within them, and He wants b
them to give a name to it. Their opinion *
*ot Him was something that He had Ilim- t
self been the means 01 making to grow up p
in them without their consciously haviug ii
any part in the matter themselves. It was e
mot something they had borrowed from S
WHnewhere nor something that they had p
personally striven to acquire. C
- Opinion, then, if it is anvlliing more t<
than mere quotation, copy of what some J
roae else has thought, is one of the things n
that grows. The influence that starts the i;
. conviction will, if it continues to operate, it
;-go on adding to that conviction's strength w
. and Intensity. As illustrative of this compare
the feebleness and timorousness of t;
the convictions of the disciples when they 6(
. .-began to believe in Jesus with what those g,
. coivicticns were when at the end of their jt
-o^Uvse they laid down their lives in mar- t<
Tyrclom. That is the natural course of tl
tmngs. It is natural for a flower to con- x
tinue to grow if it stands iu the same sun- n
shine and rain as that which first made it t.
begin to grow. If a flower comes up out
of the ground, grows for a day and then 0)
uud^eDiy steps growing and remains as it n
.ia. you'know sdmethfllg is the matter? r,
either there is a worm at the root or the tj
ait too cold or the soil too dry. It is not j.
natural for it not to go on improving upon t(
r ^ itself, adding to itself. d
it is a si^rry condition, then, that a man j.j
> ij ia that a Christian believer is in, when
he .pays that be has the same opinion of ^
^Christ that he had a year ago. It tells a a
t3N story of the way the year has been Vi
passing with him. If the vine that is twin- tj
ing itself around your trellis clothes itself
?"r* mo more leaves and puts forth no more c
{blossom* this summer than it did last sum- t
mer, the season must have been an infelioi'tons
one for plant life or there is some- c
-.thing serious the matter with the vine. ,
I nave in this been speaking broadly of n
-conviction in general, out of course the v
ireference specifically intended is to relic- (.
ious conviction, and more specifically still e
to the conviction contemplated when the jj
Sestion was asked. "What think ye of
irist?" We doubtless all of u* have .t
aome conviction respecting Him; that is. {
we all of tis possess among our other com- j
I odities and belongings?either out on the a
table or tucked away in sonic drawer or ?
closet or stored in the garret among other "
disused furniture or obsolete bric-a-brac? ?
something which wc called (and properly
-call) a belief in Christ, a:i opinion about j
\ Him, a conviction concerning Him. We '
nre willing to assume, too, that it may be (
a verv valid conviction, sound, yea. tlior- (
oughl.v in the terms of Scripture. Yes. but
granting all that, is there any of to-d iy*s i \
sap in it or is it an antiquity?
_ It means a great deal to say of a mail's i
Christian conviction mat u is a living :onmiction,
that it is going on to day Win- ,
taining a continuous life, freshly ministered 1
to and daily supplied by communications 1
from the same divine source that first ini- |
liatcd it. A dead conviction we have to
lug around?a. conviction that is alive takes
us around. It means a continuous sense
of the reality of that to which our conviction
fastens. It brings everything down
to date and sets it out in front of us.
Memory docs not have to be appealed to
to recall it. no*- books, manr.ec^ols. ratn
ehisins rummaged through in order to authenticate
it. It is an imbedded impulsr
that keeps pushing and that goes on pushin*
with an ever accelerated pace and a
widening energy while we stand near
enough to Him whom we Delieve in to have
Hi* presence made ever more immediate
to us, His realitv more real to us. It is
for that reason that some believers can bpIveve
very nicely and vet behave very badly.
There is not the slightest incompatibility
between being orthodox and being villainous,
only in order that that may be
possible the orthodoxy in question must be
m. dead orthodoxy. last year's leaf though
still glued to this year's tree.
When Chriat taugnt us to pray "Give us
this day our daily bread" He probably
meant us to understand that in the spiritual
life as well as in the stomach continu
pus health means consecutive supply. Ther?
is no incompatibility between your parlor
being brilliantly luminous at noon and
black with Egyptian darkness at midnight.
Light is not laid on in fast colors; neither
is the light of God, and the heavenly radiance
that was upon us in 190*2 is no guarantee
against devilish blackness being upon
us in 1903. Even Christ's power over us is
valid only for the time that it is over us,
so that the liveliest kind of orthodoxy,
provided it is merely a mummified residuum
from an extinct experience, is no
kind of an embarrassment to the very
liveliest kind of depravity. It :s all right
to believe in the doctrine of perseverance
of the saints that persevere, but that doctrine.
annlied in cold literalism, has done
as much a? any one thing perhaps to prevent
their persevering. If the money a
man has in his pocket to-day is thought by
him to be sufficient to pay all his debts,
defray all his expenses and secure all desired
comforts and luxuries for an indefinite
time to come he will feel no incentive
to going out and earning a couple of dollars
to-morrow, and so his confidence in the
absolute and everlasting sufficiency of his
present pocket containings may easily issue
in his turning pauoer. Those illustrations
only serve to indicate what I mean
by saying that a man may be as orthodox
as Caivin and as wicked as he knows hovv.
The principle we have been discussing
also explains why it is that so many people
who show a good deal of Christian zest at
the start so soon get tired of being Christians.
To have earnest views of Christ and
to be intensely interested in them and eontrolled
by them cannot, unfortunately, be
taken as a certain sign of the continuance
of that interest. The falling off, the cooling
down of Christian enthusiasm is common
experience. Even the disciples, at
Jesus' temporary withdrawal from them
at crucifixion, threw up the whole matter,
resumed their old life and went hack to
their fishing. Interest is not self-sustaining.
Enthusiasm, like a burning candle,
consumes itself in its own heat. The sun.
so astronomer* tell us. would burn itself
out and our systems fall back into original
darkness were not special provision made
for keeping up the sun's temperature.
At the same time there are lines of effort
and employment where interest, on
the contrary, never does seem to flag.
where heat is not only maintained. Dut
with a mercury that is'rather steadily on
the rise. Setting aside the familiar and
rather Bhop worn instance of the money
getter, who. the more he gets, the intenser.
as a rule, becomes his ambition to get.
that is only one of the many pursuits
where the like enhancement of interest,
mounting up in many cases to the height
of a steadily' growing passion, is seen to
evince itself. Examples of this are, I
should say, especially frequent among
scholars devoted to the scientific investigation
of nature and nature's beauties and
marvels. But in the instances of such advancing
and steadily intensifying interest
the particular fact 1 would beg you to notice
is that what keeps the investigator's
heart glowing with a warmer and warmer
fervor is not the array of facts that have
been brought distinctly within the range
(it his knowledge, that he has been able
definitely to tabulate, and of which in
some time past he has issued a complete
ind finished catalogue. It is the constant
stepping forward on to new ground that
ceeps his thoughts alert and his heart i
iglow. Whatever it be, the old is alwavs
tiresome, only the new is interesting. To
:hc naturalist the world retains its fasoina:ion.
although an old world, because of the
leeper entrance he day by day gains into
hat world and the ever fresh disclosures
>f newly discovered wonderfulness and *
>eautv that she thereby makes over to '
lim. In the same way there are certain 1
woks that we read and re-read. In a way (
hey are old books, but it is not their old- t
less that fascinates us but a certain ever- ,
asting newness that lay beyond the reacn ,
f our previous perusals, as eyes that look
luietly and intensely into the night-sky see
tars that are sunk" too deep in the firmaiient
to be caught by a first and easy
lance. And that suggests the old holy
look, the Bible, which is always new and
rhich the church always loves, because
here is that in it always which our last
eading was only on the edge of diseoverag.
If the church should ever come to the
nd of the Bible it would throw it away,
ome people have thrown it away aleady;
some who seem to themselves to be
'hristians have thrown it away; it seems
a them they have come to the end of it.
'o them there is nothing new in it any
lore. so. of course, by the principle we are
lustrating they can do nothing but throw
; away. The ox knows enough to feel
'hen it is dark, but never sees a 6tmset. E
All of this leads up easily to an explanaon
of the fact stated a moment ago that
> many who have begun to be Christians
et tired of being Christians after a while;
lias irjscu i? oner uicm auv wmjg :icn ?
) which interest can attach ana by which 1
tierefore enjoyment can be kept alive, c
hev reached a little conviction as to the I
?al import of Christ, entered into a cer- t
lin amount of relation with Him. kad a .
egre of experience of Him, learned a little i
E what He could do to strengthen in weak- '
ess, brighten in darkness, comfort ih aor- I
jw and disappointment, and then every- g
ling stopped. Instead of ''going on to ?
now the Xord," drawing closer and closer ^
> Him, and pressing forward into the
eeper and deeper meanings involved iu
lis Spirit, presence and companionship,
boy urew up all that part of the matter, a
iiminated only upon such little prospect (
s had opened to them, till they became t
eary of it, drank the old cup of eonsola- ?
ion till it6 waters became stale, munched
lie drying cruinbs of light, strength and
oinfort till they were moldy, strained
hemselves to keep warm by a fire that
ad gone out, and ended, of course, by conluding
that whatever might be the theo- '
etical value of personal religion it was 1
othing if not uninteresting, and people
rill not, if they can help it. permanently '
oniniit themselves to a course of drudgery, i
veil if that drudgery be baptized by so j
tonorable a name as Christianity. (
Closing this morning with the prayer (
hat we may all of us feel ourselves moved
iy a reverent and holy ambition to break ]
ree from the burden and entanglement ot '
,11 the petty and now w.thered experiences >
;arnered long ago, entering into ever new
irospects, into larger discernments, into an
ver wider world of knowledge, comfort
irul anilCipBUUU. 1U UIIS cuu uiaj nt
iave with us in our closets and in our j
anctuary gatherings the abounding Sj>irit
if tlod the Fatler and of His Son ,I*esus !
Christ, to whom with the Blessed Spirit be j
iiven our obedience, adoration and love
,'orever and ever. Amen. _ 1
A Duty to Be Pleasant.
\Yc are ap' to think that our being
happy or unhappy is something that at- (
fects only ourselves. On the contrary, ]
^either condition is ever absolutely conlined
to the person who experiences it, 1
ind, unfortunately, the "black edge" >
of one's unhappy moods laps over ,
on the lives of others. The girl who
comes down to breakfast "feeling blue'*
is apt to impart a tinge of the same melancholy
to every one else before the meal
is ever, and the man or woman who is absorbed
in the contemplation of h.s or her
own troubles, real or fancied, is doing
something to add to the gloom of a worm
that is more lacking in sunshine than it
need be. Xo matter what one's private
feeling may lie. one can always make an
effort to be pleasant for the sake of other
people's happiness. While the opportunity
of doing some great and noble thing
may not often occur, the simple but beautiful
opportunity of being pleasant is always
present.
Others First.
If, in addition to the desire to live day
bv day aright, we wish to add some
pledge, can it not be. that self shall sink
into significance, and that the good, the
happiness, the welfare of others, shall
come first? M
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I
A FUR10UR BATTLE
drilling Experience With a Band of
Armed Bank Robbers
TREY DESTROYED MUCH MONEY
Demolished Safety Vault of the Bank
With Dynamite and Escaped?Men
in Mot Pursuit.
Fort Worth, Texas, Special.?A
special from South McAlester, I. T.,
to The Record, says:
"A bold bank robbery, attended by
a desperate battle between a posse of
citizens and robbers, occurred at Kiowa,
a small town 16 miles south of
this city Sunday, the robbers securing
and destroying about $28,000
which was in the bank.
"The men gained entrance to the
bank building through a rear window.
The first charge of nitro-glycerine
made no impression on the safe '
but the noise aroused residents of the
town and soon a posse, composed of
50 men, wa3 congregated in the stockyards
at the rear of the bank.
"A volley of shots was fired at the
building and it was at once returned
by the sentinels of the robbers secreted
on the outside of the structure.
An almost incessant fire was kept up
for half an hour, during which time
the robbers continued their effort to 1
open the safe. ,
"It required three discharges to
fnrre the door. The third exDlosion
was terrific and almost completely
demolished the safe as well as the inner
part of the bank building. The
paper money was blown to shreds, J
large quantities of mutilated bills being
left by the bandits. After loot- <
lng the safe the robbers left the bank i
by the front and backed off into the
darkness, keeping up a fire on the ?
posse. . |
"The men went in a southerly di- (
rectlon and were followed quite a dis- ,
tance. It is said that one of the rob- ,
bers was injured.
"The bank officers place their mon- '
etary loss at $28,000. It is believed 1
that the bandits made away with only '
a small part of this sum, the paper
money being almost altogether destroyed
by explosion.
"A posse of United States marshals ]
is in pursuit of the robbers." (
1
Ominous Sign of War. I
London Cable.?The Daily Mail's <
Kobe correspondent asserts that the J
Japanese army authorities have re. >
juested the newspapers to refrain pubishing
news concerning the movement ^
)f troops or other war-like preparations.
In an editorial, the Daily Mail j
says it regards this as a practical cen- 1
lorship and an ominous sign. Editor- I
al articles in other morning papers i
?xprcss concern over the movement of t
'oreitm war-shins toward the far East i
md particularly over the statement
hat the United States marines have
jeen ordered to Corea, fearing some
inforeseen Incident may precipitate
fvents.
On the other hand, the speech deliv>ird
by M. Delcasse, the French For;ign
Minister, in the Senate Saturday,
saying that nothing had occurred to
nafce him place faith in the reports
hat were being published daily), is
ooked upon as reassuring and it is beieved
that efforts of the powers may
itill be successful in preserving peace.
Exploit of Safe Blowers.
Philadelphia?Special?Two white
nen with revolvers blew open a safe,
ielr! no several persons and otherwise I
:aused considerable excitement last t
light In the subirrbban towns along ?
he main line of the Pennaylvania c
tailroad. Two men were held up at f
daverford. Several hours later the r
nen appeared at Straford, covered ,
in aged watchman with revolvers
ind blindfolded him. The men then r
>lew open the safe in the railroad 1
itation, which also- fs used as a post- I
ifflce. and took about $1,000 hi money 1:
tnd stamps. The police have a good fl
lescriptfon of the Burglars but up to t
today they have been unable to find
iay trace of them.
Marines Oo to Panama.
Colon By Cable.?The marines from c
he converted cruiser Prairie, who e
lave been stationed at Yaviza, have c
jone to Panama and are now located f
it Ras Obispo, station on the Pan- t
ima Railroad, occupying the houses I
if the canal company. The election \
if delegates to the constitutional conrention
took place Sunday. The United
States gunboat Castlne has ar- 1
rived here. ?
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Church Choir on a Strike. f
Montreal, Special.?Melville church, '
the leading Presbyterian place of wor- j
;hip in West Mount, the fashionable
esidential suburb of Montreal, was
without the services of a choir Sun- j
Jay. In his sermon on Christmas
morning Rev. T. W. Winfield, pastor j
af the church, severely criticised the t
momhdR of the rhoir for eatinst candy 1
luring the service. As a result oi the <
criticism, a deputation from the *2oir *
waited upon the reverend gentioman
on Saturday and requested a retrac- 1
tion. This he refused to make and as '
a result the choir, without an excep- 1
tion, went out on strike.
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For Constitutional Convention.
Ptaama, By Cable.?Elections for
members of the constitutional convention
took place in every part of
the republic. The results are not yet i
known, but telegrams from the interior
report the apparent triumph of
the candidates proposed by the popular
junta, composed of Liberals and
Conservatives. For the first time in
the history of the isthmus the elections
In the Isthmus of Panama have
been conducted without any attempt
at bribery or otherwise Illegal action.
;i HOUSEHOLD * , *1
|! 9 9 9 9 MATTERS i
5W.WA*VAVlVbVWNW>
To Mend China.
A homo made cement that will mom
broken crockery is worth knowinj
about. Here are several formulas. Un
slaked lime or plaster of parls mixei
with the white of an egg till the con
sistency of cream is excellent. Plali
wnue leau win do also, and moreovei
this is one of the few cements tha
will resist water and heat. One othe
that is waterproof is made by dia
solving ordinary white glue in warn
milk,
New In Spoona.
Despite the many styles of Individ
ual spoons now in use, inventors ar
continually on the alert to supply somi
particular need or convenience. /
novel housewife's assistant is th
measuring spoon, like the ordinary tea
Spoon in slse, but marked In the bot
torn of the bowl with lines and flgura
to guide her in proportioning ingfe
dients for cooking mixtures, aays thi
New York Sun. The warning labels
one-half, one-quarter, one-eighth spoon
ful, are affixed just as on a measurlot
glass. The spoon is of sterling use It
the making of gravies, of puddings
cakes, salads or any dishes of a natur<
requiring exactness in the seasoning.
The measuring spoon Is to be ha<!
In grades to suit all purposes. Thh
is the case, too, with the newly de
vised baby's spoon, which Is a verj
practical Improvement on the original
rne dowi or the baby's spoon is shaped
as usual, but the handle is curved
backward and welded to the end oi
the bowl, forming a loop like the looj
in the handle of a ring. The looped
handle is Just big enough for five smal
fingers to grasp, and a little felloe
making first attempts to feed hlmeell
:an get along much better with a spoor
of this sort than one of ordinary pat
tern. Then there is a new model mus
tache spoon, a special ice cream spoor
and au egg spoon for lifting poached
or fried eggs from the dish. They fill
the manifest need, showing the posst
bilities for additions to the spoon fam
lly, notwithstanding the enormous va
riety of styles and shapes already is
use.
The Broom Means Buotf,
If she only knew it, that little woman
who grumbles so at having hei
own housework to do, has an opportunity
for which her wealthy neigh
5or, who drives under the window In
i victoria. Is paying a fortune. Notbng
but pure unadulterated mlsmantgement
has brought her to the glngjam
apron and the tired back. Any
ivoman wbo owns a sunny apartment
ind a broom can be as healthy, as
Itbe of figure and ruddy of cheek, as
?ay of heart and light of step as the
voman who pays the health cnrlst and
he beauty doctor $5 treatment
rbere is no tonic like a dust cloth and
to stimulant like a broom. There is
10 air better than the early morning
ilr filled with sunshine that pours
nto a seventh fioor apartment. In a
vord. If housework Is rtgbtly done,
here is nothing more Invigorating,
lothing which will' produce curves
md a good complexion so- rapidly.
Every housewife who wishes to bs
harming should begin her day with
l good, cold sponge bath and a careful
olJette. They are more necessary to
ter than to the ballroom beauty. A
old sponge bath Is better than a cold
ilunge. It is the standby of tbe athete
and the constant subject of
treadling on tbe part of the health
eachera. Take it quickly and vlgbrmsly,
rubbing afterward with a hard,
oarse towel until every part of the
ace and body Is glowing. Tcm will
ob away the cobwebs and the horrible
[read of entering the Kitchen that
eats upon most women Hke the rafen
on the bust of Pallat. New vitalty
will aeerp to have entered Into your
imbs. You will have the energy to
Inish your toilette carefully. ? Pitts>urg
Dispatch.
. RECIPES . .
Tripe with Bacon?Cut slices of ba on
in shreds lengthwise and toss la
i hot blazer until crisp; remove ba:on;
wipe pickled tripe and cut In uniorm
pieces; sprinkle with salt and
>epper, roll in corn meal, and saute in
>acon fat until a rich brown; serve
vith the crisp bacon.
Salmon Loaf?Butter a bread pan;
ine It with warm steamed rice sea
ioned with suit; fill the centre with
old cooked salmon, flaked, and seasoned
with salt and pepper, a little
emon Juice and a grating of nutmeg;
rover with rice and steam one hour;
serve with egg sauce.
Tartar Sauce?One teaspoon vinegar,
>ne teaspoon lemon Jnlce, three-quar:er
tablespoon Worcestershire sauce,
>ne-thlrd cup butter. Mix vinegar,
emon Juice, salt and Worcestershire
sauce in a small bowl and heat over
dot water. Brown the butter in an
>melet pall and strain Into first mixLure.
Spiced Gems-Beat the whites ol
four eggs to a stiff froth, then alfl
aver gradually half a cup of granulated
sugar; mix and sift over half a
cup of flour, half a teaspoonful ol
cream of tartar, one teaspoonful ol
cinnamon; fill small greased gem pans
babe In a quick oven fifteen minutes
when cold Ice the top.
Bearnaise Sauce?Beat yolks of thret
eggs until thick; add three tablespoon
fuls of oil, three tablespoonfuls of her
water, and a pinch of salt; put tin
bowl in a pan of boiling water anc
stir over the fire until the eggs thick
en; remove; add one teaspoonful o
tarragon vinegar and a dash of pep
per; stand aside until cold, and aerv<
with broiled moats and chops.
r Mrs. Weisslitz, pr<
i man Womans' Club c
t doctoring- for two vc
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i of her kidney troi
| Lydia E. Pinkham's
Of all the diseases known with t
1 kidney disease is the most fatal. In fa
la applied, the weary patient seldom si
Being fully aware of this, Mra Pit
i study to the subject, and in produein
L Lydia E, Pink ham's Vegetable
I talned the correct combination of h<
dreaded disease, woman's kidney tr
in harmony with the laws that gorei
there are many so called remedies f
barn's Vegetable Compound is
1 for women.
Read What Mr*
"Deab Mas. Pinkham:?Fox
den, I suffered so with female troi
loins. The doctor told me that I
for me. For three months I too
worse. My husband then advised
Vegetable Compound, and broug
blessing ever brought to our hon
changed woman. My pain had d
clear, my eyes bright, and my entire
Wkisslitz, 176 Seneca St, Buffalo,
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"Pear Mrs. Ptniham:?I fee
your medicine has done me. I hod
growing worse. I had trouble wit
me I had Brights disease : also ha<
walk a block at a time. My back tu
so nervous I could not sleep; had t
all the time, had toch a pain in m;
at tones without putting my foot oi
I doe to red witJi several rood
I took, in &1L twelve bottles of Ly?
pound, five boxes of Liver Pills, f
Wash, and feel like ? new woman. <
work, and can walk two miles with
tell me that my kidneys are all rig
and I feel that I owe k all to yo
Dal ton, Mass.
Mrs. Pink ham invites all sic]
She bam guided thousands to he*
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iuUlilr ^*MUB0^vUtlkTlj^
If & flower pot is laid cm; its aide the
talk of the- plant growing in it will gradual!
v curve upward until it assumes a verti al
poaitiorr.
Kliranatium'i Klll.nir P?l?.
JWt in ou'ck order after t*Icing 10 d<wes
?f Dr. 5lfir?t"n's Rheumatic-Cure, in tablet
form. T> for 2">. po?tp?id. Dr.
Skirrin Co.. 1jl Croese. Will. [A.C.L.]
A spankm*- is in sucressfol operation
in rF?e State Training School at
Redwing. Hhtn.
\ lfi? Wiaslow'sflooihlnTSvrriofo-children
teething, soften th* cams. reduces fnflaromatlon.allay*
oein.riire* winilcolK 23". a bottle
No artist has rvr aeon a nrnnting from
hie hand on the walla of the Louvre, Paris.
Perfect'? simple aud simply perfect is
dyeing witfr Puthau Fadeless Dyes.
The etrmrgest manNin?the ITnited States
Senate is Senator Reams, o* Idaho.
Piso's Cftre cannot l>c too highlysooken o!
as a cough cure.?J. W. O'UniKX. 322 Third
Avenne, N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6.1900.
All piano playing iir Fort Scott, KAnsasv
must cease at 9 o'clock p. m. *
Better an honest Laza. i? th.in a su>
ees8ful Dives. So. 1?
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Uar 1 fri \]| digestion, boils,
BSy / f / \JH and the germs th;
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greatest blood p
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remedy docs?
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isident of the Ger-4
>f Buffalo, N. Y., after
:ars, was finally cured
ible by the use ; of
Vegetable Compound.
rhich the female organism is afflicted,
ct, unless prompt ana correct treatment
arrives.
nkham, early in her career, fare careful
if her great remedy for woman's ills?
Compound ? made sore that it eo>irbs
which was certain to control that
oublea. The Vegetable Compound acts
rn the entire female system, and while
or kidney troubles, Lydia E. Pink*
the only one especially prepared
t? Weisslitz Says. ^
two years my life was simply a burtihles.
and naina across mv back and I
had kidney troubles and prescribed
k his medicines, but grew steadily
L me to trr Lrdia E. Pink ham's
ht home a bottle. It is the greatest
te. Within three months I was a
isappeared, my complexion became
system in good shape."?Mb*,
Ff Lffia E. Phdfcari YegefaMe Gapai
>1 very thankful to you for the good
i doctored for years and was steadily '
h my kidneys, and two doctors told
L falling of the womb, and could not ?
ad head aohed all the time, and I was
Lyvteria and fainting spells, waa tired
j left side that 1 could hardly stand
n something. \ J
doctors, but they did not help many. \T
Lla E. PlnfrhanVS Vegetable Cent* V
ind used three packages of Sanatira
can eat and sleep wslL do all my own m
Aiii: fp*>lin?r nTAf tired. The doctttH
hfc now.-Tam a? happy to be "wall,
ur medicine.*?Mil Opal Si-Beats,
k eemen to write her for adrtae.
dthk Address Lynn, Mass.
vHk yMoM Om origin*] l??in and aigMtarwef
3t? their abaolnte gtmlnin?.
at m rinktuun k?Uda? Oe* IfH, w tl
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0ver 10,000,000 piecea of mail matter,
covering $48,043 in money and $1,408,
000 in checks and drafts, reached, the
dead-letter office- during the year.
The United States imported daring
the fiscal year $>217,077,065 pounds of
sugar, about one-fourth of it being beet
sugar, and produced G,000;000 pounds.
inui
We offer One Hundred Dollars Rewardfor
aarj ease of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hail's Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Cknit. t Co.. Toledo, 0.
We, the undersigned, hare known?. T.Cheney
for the last 13 years, and believe him perfectly
honorable ln all business transactions
and financially able to carry out any obligations
made by their Arm.
West k Tboas, Wholesale Druggists,Toledo,
: Ohio.
W ai.mxo, Ki wtaxAMartix, WholesaleDruggists,
Toledo, Ohio.
Hell'sCatarrhCureis taken Internally,act- ,
lug directly upon the blood and mucoussarisces
of the system. Testimonials 6ent free.
Price, 75c. per bottlo. Sold by all Druggists
Hail's Family Pills are the best.
The peninsula of India, which In
area is half the size of the United
States, has a population of 300,000,000,
of wbooi 200,000,000 are farmers.
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ch better condition every way, for V
ilood of poisonous lactic and uric B
rheumatism, kidney troubles, inchronic
constipation and cttarra,
it leave one an easy prey to malaria
blood poison. It is not only the BH
urifier, but hundreds of relieved Vr
tat it does one thing that no other B
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