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^Bthe pulpit. P[BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY I REV. DR. NEHEMIAH BOYNTON. nbject: The Meaning of Christian Service Brooklyn, N. \\?A large audience greeieu me uev. i_>r. .\euennau d?\h9^kr ton. the pastor-elect of the Clinton A vein nue Congregationalist Church. Sunday morning, to hear his first sermon in 09 his new* pulpit. The subject of the sermon was: "Christian Service." The text was from Mark x:43-44: "Whosoever would become great among you. shall be your minister: and whosoever would be first among you, shall be ser, . % rant of all." Dr. Boynton said: Jesus never questioned the proposition flint it rcnc n fiim thine to he great. He had no small jealousies to . nurse. But He continually emphasized the declaration that it was a finer thing to be first, and. to His thinking, greatness and primacy were not synonymous terms. In our clumsy English it is not easy to indicate the distinction in the text betweeu the "minister," who aspires to be great, and the "servant of all," who becomes first: it is the difference between the mere waiter, who serves with one eye on your need. Ihe other on your tip. and the bodyguard, who has committed himself unreservedly to .tuiil iuifie>is mill ivuu uu 11(1,1 uubc | in life or death if only, like the Japanese, he can have the honor of serving the Emperor. So Christian service is the first thing in the world: it is greater than the great thing. The outstanding characteristic of our age has been and is the realization j that the universe is one: it is Cod's world, it is Christ's world: that the | spirit is one: it is Cod's spirit, it is ' *l?n f tUft Plivic Knn e/\v_ i V/UliOi.a npilll. 11KU lur vun^ nuu ova " i vice means uotbing less or more than ! taking Christ's spirit out to Christ's j world and installing it. All that is involved in this mighty conception we do not yet comprehend, for "the new age stands, as yet, half built against the sky." but it is easy enough to see v r that the struggle of the day in pres ence of the mighty and impressive ! changes which are transforming mod- : ern life is to match the growing world j and the widening uuiverse. wiih a gen- 1 uine. circumferential Christian spirit j putting the noblest Christian science , in play "far as the course is found." I Beyond this, it is equally evident that the supreme challenge to the church is to accept and to appropriate, faithful ly and fearlessly, all revelat ons and revisions, which the many sided truth of the unity of Clod's universe illu > mines and installs, for the church will have lost her mission and her influence when she is content to be a camp follower trailing a Ions in the rear of the : advancing lesions of the Lord of Hosts. The perii of small conceptions of the superiority of Christian service is mauy times most imminent where His presence is least suspected. A brave _ and aspiring: spirit will pray most ear.'iiestly for deliverance from this pesti~ lence that walketh in darkness and ' destruction that wasteth at uoonday. Dfle's spiritual ability js founded by j his horizon aud his service is inti- j mately related to his sight, "he soul which has settled into the con fortable ; conceit that the faith has ontc for all ! been delivered to the saints, that spiritual ministry for to-day is but a repro- j Uuctjon of the tvpe and method of yesterday, may indeed he contented with its conclusion, but its ability to min ister effectively to the present day kingdom of God is shorn of adequacy. Little conceptions make little Chris- J tians; large conceptions make large' Christians. Dr. Feabody is voicing a i ringing truth when he declares that a great heresy of modern Christendom is in residence in the belief that life is a ship composed of watertight compartments, in one of which we work, in another study, in another piny and in another worship. The great in- i elusion of iife, the permeating power of the divine spirit, the wideness of , God's mercy, the depth of His love, the breadth of His interest, the inevitableness of His will, the absoluteness His law, these furnish a perspce- j five for an attentive spirit, in the vis- | > ibn of which the meager and petty are overlooked and the promised '"wondrous things of Thy law'' gieain and glisten like the tlash of the harbor light against the blackness of the . night! Christian service needs the snap and stimulus of the great idea of tae unity of God's world to get it in possession of its comprehensive chance, so that while we feel a kindling sympathy i > with the wide visioned martyr, praying as the flames licked his feet, "Lord, open Thou the King of England's ^yes," it is in order for us to pray for ourselves the heroic petition, "Con sider and hear me. 0 Lord, my God; lighten mine eyes." If, however, the time of Christian service is related to small conceptions, % the prerogative of Christian service is certainly to introduce the same to N great and masterful ones, and to teach it to find its choicer fellowship as it does its mightier inspirations here. Pilate's question. "What is truth?" i? . pertinent to-day. Is it a mere cunning assembling and formulation of facts? There it is a cold, inert, useless thing. Is it a glowiug faith, a vital, personal, obsolute experience? There it is warm with a divine fire and instinct with a glowing anticipation. Heury Drummond marked that day with a red letter when he eeased to <trnth ? mipo nmnntlfiitnfil \vi?. dom and began to realize it as per-! ceptive wisdom. He declares that he had almost finished his college course before he had any other conception of Christ than that He was a theological' conscience in the interests of the Trin , ity. But the day came when the eyes' of his understanding were opened, and j he came to know Christ. Not as al>i stract but as concrete truth. Not ai related to life philosophically by a I series of dreary propositions, but as i implanted in his own life vitality by a ' personal friendship, which deepened j with every trial, widened wirh every i experience and heightened with every ; aspiration. Then he was recognizing i truth as a spirit that Drummcnd begar ! those tireless, fearless, splendid ser- i foces which made more than one dis i criminating observer declare him the j towering and outstanding Christian ol | his generation. Nor will the Christian service which 1 Incarnates the truth be long beyond tbe ! quickening influences of sympathy. Nc man Hveth unto himself and wbeu the man tries to he always makes a sorry Job of his life. "I want to have soiuetbiM to do with the material world." excUinied Hawthorne, when by the long and brilliant cultivation of his imagination he began to feel his isolation from humanity. "There is nothing so horrible," he wrote to Longfellow, "in this world as tq have no share in its Joys and sorrows." The reason why the fingers of much that is called Christian service are all thumbs is because while much is given, little is shared! Sympathy always has something to divide, not merely something to do. 4 JThe boy Fichte had a straggle in conscience between his school books ninl his fairy stories. It was a great day for him! Any boy's first straggle is! But the man in the boy won the fight and in order to establish himself beyond the possibility of a lapse, lie J threw liis book of fairy stories into the brook. His father, a precise, unimaginative. dutiful soul, saw the beautiful book floating away and proceeded to thrash his conquering boy for his wanton destruction. That is about all many fathers apj>onr to know how to do effectively! What a wonder he did not spoil his boy! What a boon a bit of appreciation, of sympathy would have been to the suffering but victorious lad. He needed bread and liis obtuse father gave him a stone! The father could do what he thought was his duty, but he had nothing to share with hie h/\i- TTo woe o mnnnmontnl parental failure! Large Christian service Is always in quest of the joint of sympathy: it makes its alliance with what is. helping it to what it ought to he. and avoids the folly of inverting the divine order! This type of helpfulness may he meager in its ability to do. hut is forever finding to its unspeakable joy that it has a boundless store to divide! Sharing sympathy is an infinitely more royal privilege than donating cast off clothing, or stale food, for "if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, but hath not love it profiteth me nothing!" Sympathy as an elective cf Christian service forever pushes a soul on toward democracy. Surely one may confess with Lowell that while his tastes are with the aristocrats, his convictions are with the people and yet. like Lowell. he forever more and more pushed into the very heart of humanity au4 glory in the push, too! The preacher who confessed to a friend that he loved to preach and who was met by the stinging, searching question. "Do you love the men to whom you preach as well as you love to preach?" felt the thrust of the sword between the joints of his harness, which sent him to his study to tall upon his knees and pafrionately pray that he might be delivered from bis temptation to Jove l)is sermons notter than he did souls, preaching better than persons. The appeal of humanity must outstrip that of homileties. Christian service to-day must be im- i mersed in the democratic spirit: its ; mission is to humanity?humanity as i represented by Ellis Island, also by Clinton avenue by Greater New York, also by the lumber camps of Michigan. Every man is a son of God. Every woman is a daughter of God. Go. tind jour man. and bv the shining truth in your soul, by the sympathy in yo.ir heart, by the humanity in your outstretched hand, make him believe, that you seek not his, but him. This?this alone?is Christian service! Christian service after this fashion becomes at once an interpreter. It makes a Gibraltar out of a disadvantageous ! position: it transforms an ordinary. ] commonplace ability into a shining j angel of privilege and achievement. Everything counts: all things work together. Because the world is one and j the kingdom one . nothing is lost, nothing trivial, nothing inconsequential! It ! makes a man grow tall and strong and j confident to really believe the constant assurance of Christian service, that All men ignored in me"*'*"*1 This was I worth to God \\ hose wheel the pitcher shapca. It is to snch service, broad, true, sympathetic, humanitarian. Christian, that we commit ourselves to-dar; it is in such service that we expect to liiul our privilege and joy. and from such service that we hope t4 demonstrate j the reasonableness of our united endeavor. "' * I __ . ^ Mute Testimonies. A little daughter of the tenements, : whose mother was done at last with J the work and worry that had killed her. was left at fourteen years of ago j with four younger ones to motliev and nurse. And. faithful to he" trust, she ; scrubbed and washed and cooked and ! mended, until the slender shoulders bent and the thin face grew white, and almost before anyone noticed much the little broken life lay waiting tor release. "I haven't been able to do any- ! thing." she whispered to her favorite | girl friend, who lived just around the ; corner. "I couldn't go to school be- j cause of the work, or to Sunday-school , because it took all father could spare to keep the others in clothes. When ! the minister came to see me, he said j I'd soon see Jesus, but I'm afraid I haven't done anything good, and I don't know anything to say to Him." "And you needn't try to say anything." j said the other, "not a singie word." . kissing the pitiful little face. "When you see Ilim look at you, you just show ! Him your hands." Ja*t iis We Arc. We have read of an artist who saw In the streets of Rome a beggar so ur- j terly abject and forlorn that he hired j him to sit for his picture, as a typical , beggar. The next day lie came to him. quite transformed. He had hired the | clothes of a companion, in which to j have his portrait taken. The artist ! did not recognize him: and on learning that he was the beggar he had hired. ; he said: "No! I hired a beggar, and 1 him just as he was. or not at all." : Christ, for a different reason, founded ! on the very constitution of our nature, j wants us just as we are. without any j effort at self-transformation, that the ; new creation may be "to the praise of 1 the glory of His grace." Xlie XROnarn r.ssemini. At n service held by the department of religion at the World's Fair on a Sunday in September a Chicago Jewish rabbi made this statement: "The Sabbath is, and has been, the workingman's salvation. We may differ on the manner of its observance, but its ex- j sential importance and its Divine mis- j sion iu the universal scheme of things i cannot be ignored." SAVED BY NARROW MARGIN. Railroad Official Ov.ec Life to Presence of Mind. Mr. J. Floyd, ihc stationmaster at iho Kent House station or. the SouthEastern and Chatham railway, had j the narrowest of escapes from a ter- ! rib'.e death :iuite recently. He was | crossing tho metals, when the Dover, express came rushing through. There J was no time to turn back, and with great, presence of mind he dashed lor the down platform and llung liimsell headlong on it. He cleared the express all but the heels of his boots which were struck by the engine and ripped away, the boots themselves being torn in two and pulled off and carried some yards by the train, being eventually found on the nastals. The stationmaster himself was practically unhurt, though stunned by his I fall on the platform, and with his feel bruised and swollen and cut by the bootlaces as the boots came away.? London Tit-Bits. Nature may make some fools, hot all the fops make themselves. TZHT INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR MAY 28. Subject: The Cruciflxion, John xtx., 17-30 ?Golden Text, 1 '"or. xv., 3?Memory Verx??, 23?37 ? Commentary on tho Day's Lesson. I. The journey to Calvary (v. 17). 17. "Bearing His cross." All the preparations having been made the sad procession started. On the way to the place x>f the crucifixion it is evident that Jesus became exhausted, because of what He had undergone during the night. and sank under the weight of His cross which He was earring. The soldiers then compelled a man from Africa, Simon, of Cyrene, who was coining into the city, to assist Jesus. J "Went forth," He now goes "even un! to death" (Phil. 2:S). "A skull." A bold, round, skull-like hillock; probably the ordinary spot for executions. "Golgotha." Golgotha is the Hebrew word [ and Calvary the Latin word. II. The crucifixion (v. 18). 18. "They crucified Him." It was 'J o'clock in the morning, the hour of the usual morning sacrifice 01 which Jesus, the Lamb of God, was the great Antitype. Jesus was probably nailed to the cross before it was raised. The feet of the sufferer were only a foot or two above the ground?a fact of some weight, as showing that Jesus suffered in tin midst <?f His persecutors. It was at this time that they offered ChnsF"wine mingled with myrrh" with a view to producing stupefaction. He tasted it, but refused to drink, as it would obscure the clearness of His faculties (Matt. 27:34). "Two others with Him." The two thieves crucified with Him may have belonged to the band with Barabbas. They evidently knew something about1 Christ. One mocked, the other prayed. TT 4.t4l^v orAce (rc 10-OO* ill. AiltT IIIAIT VI U1V VIVOO V?C iV mmmmf 10. "Pilate wrote a title." It was the common custom to athx a label to tbe cross giving a statement of the crime for which the person suffered. In this case Filate Himself attended to the title. "King of the Jews." Although written by a wicked Roman ruler, probably as an expression of contempt for the Jews if not tor Jesus, yet it told the exact truth?Jesus was "the King of kings." 20. "Written in Hebrew." For the Jews. "Greek." For the foreigners and visitors. "Latin." For the Romans. Power, culture and piety in their noblest forms pay homage at the feet of Jesus. 21. "Then said." The chief priests felt that they and their nation were being insulted by the Roman governor. 22. "What I have written." The Roman laws forbade the sentence to be altered when once pronounced. IV. "Christ's garments divided (vs. 23. 24). 23. "The soldiers." They were Romans, four in number. They probably knew nothing about Jesus, and were acting merely as executioners. "Took His garments." The clothes of executed criminals were the perquisites of the soldiers on duty. 24. "Rend." . Which would, of course, ruin the garment. "Cast lots." Gambling was a favorite pastime of Roman 6oldiers. "The Scripture." The Scripture referred to is Psa. 22:18. This is one of the seven Messianic Psalms. "Fulfilled." What the soldiers did was ot their own free will, but in doing what they did they unconsciously fulfilled the Scriptures. God does not control free will, but He uses it. There were seven sayings of Christ spoken from the cross. His first saying was a prayer for His enemies (Luke 23:34). His second saying was spoken lo the dying malefa^or. V. Jesus provides for His mother (vs. 23-27). 25. "His mother." It is "generally supposed that she was a iW'KlOW ax XU1S ULUC. isiie ?il& UJVIC watching her Son and suffering with Him. "Mother's sister," etc. It is uncertain whether there are three or four .women referred to here. "Wife of Cleophas." Called also Alphaeus. 'Mary Magdalene." She was the first to see Jesus after His resurrection. 2G. "Saw His mother." He saw and recognized His mother and arranged for her future. "Disciple?He loved." This was John, the author of this gospel. "Woman." This was a customary form of address and was not spoken with any lack of love. "Thy Son." Accept from Him the care and protection that a mother would expect from a son. 27. "Thy mother." Establishing a sympathetic bond. This was Christ's third saying from the cross. VI. The closing scene (vs. 28-30). 2S. "After this." From the sixth hour (110011.) there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour (3 o'clock). Toward the close of the darkness Jesus uttered His fourth saying from the cross: "My Cod. My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" (Matt. 27:4G). "All things?accomplished.". He had the full consciousness that His work was completed, that the prophetic words : were fulfilled, and that He had now j only to surrender His spirit to God the Father. "Fulfilled." "Connect this clause, not with 'I thirst,' but with the first part of the verse." All that the F-criptures had foretold had been accomplished. "I thirst." His fifth utterance from the cross. Another evidence of His humanity. 20. "Vinegar." Sour wine which we are told was the common drink of the Itoman soldiers. "Hyssop." The sponge was fastened on a hyssop stalk. 30. "Received the vinegar." The first drink of vinegar and gall Jesus refused, but this, unmixed with any drug was accepted. "It is finished." The sixth saying from the cross. This is one word in the Greek and has been referred to as the greatest single word ever uttered. The work which Christ had come to do was now complete. Immoi'intolv nfi-nru-.nrd came the seventh '< and last utterance, "Father, into Thy J hands I commend My spirit!'* "Gave i up the ghost." "He dismissed Ilis spirit." lie gave up His own life. Fishing From Horseback. The novel experience of fishing from "aboard" a horse was one of the pleasurable incidents of the trip that fell to the lot of Mrs. Miller, says the Salt Lake Herald. Not any ordi nary cob was this, but one which hac been trained to go into the watei without stirring up a whirlpool; tc stop and stand perfectly still at a sign from the rider, and to edge steg by step to the hank when he hearc the reel buzz and the rod spring back with a jerk. The advantage of having such s trained companion on a fishing trip is apparent when one thinks of the king ! doms he has sighed away for lack ol a horse, as, standing on the bank, he was told that "right out there are fish to be caught, but it's pretty deep.' This particular horse had the business down to a science. He had been trained, his rider was told, for s "fisher." When fishing on such anl mals, the sportsman must, of course be clad In waist-boots, since often the horse takes a depth of nearly four feet i J" Achievement. A man once railed at this world of sin. But nobody seemed to care. He raised his voice with a mighty dir O'er the hardships we have to bear. He wanted to revolutionize The world on a basis vast and wise So that everybody could have a prize, But nobody seemed to care. So he sought the distress that was neai his door. Then somebody seemed to care. And he eased the burden that smartet sore For the neighbor with griefs to bear. And ho spoke kind words in a humbh way *...j i.nohwi with the children In theh play And did life's duty from day to day. And somebody seemed to care. ?Washington Star. Mr. Cleveland's Musical Criticism. Once, during his second term, Grover Cleveland was asked to speak at a function in a certain town and whpn he arrived at the depot, the wind was blowing a gale, sleet was driving and hailstones nearly as large as marbles were fiercely falling. Of course, the inevitable brass band was there, and at the sight of the president, the performers struck up with all the strenuosity at their command. "That is the most realistic music I ever heard," remarked Cleveland. "What are they trying to play?' asked Secretary Olney, who accompanied him. "Hail to the Chief!" re plied the president with a cheerful smile. i "Waste" Brings Much Money. Those who are tond of curious statistics will be pleased to learn- that the slot machines containing cum in use on o?e of the Western ralroads harvested $11,500 last year, worn what is known as the "scrap he^p" the company realized $1,250,000. This . % 1-1 -11 iU- ? ~ J , inciuaea an cue wumuui kuu msvai tied things, from a rail to a locomotive. Over $5,000 was realized from the sale of paper alone. FITRnermnnentlr enred. or n*rvon?? nassafter first day's use o' Dr. Kline's Great Nervoltestorer,$s2tr!alboitle and treatise freo Dr. R.H.Kline,Ltd.,931 ArchSt..Phila., Ph. In India threshing is clone by hand or by the treading of bullocks. Tour Dealer For Allen'* Foof.Tt???. A powder. It rests the feet. Cures Corn', Bunions. Swollen, Soro, Hot. Cal Ions,Achln ; Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. At all Druggists and Shoo stores, 25 cents. Accent no substitute. Sample mailed Frke, Address, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. The Hygienic Institute of Breslau is making war or. mosquitoes. Mrs. WInslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething,soften the gums, reduces inflammatioD.allayspain.curos wind eolic,25c,abottle. Scuttled Ship Saved Dam. Mr. Fosdyke, engineer in charge ol the Asaka dam on the Nile, scuttlec a ship to save his cherished earth v.crks from ruin. The dam partlj burst, and the great rush of watei was forcing the hanks from below. Something had to be done to stoi the flow, for a terrible disaster wa^ imminent. Mr. Fosdyke boarded ? cargo steamer tied to the bank somt distance away, and, getting up steam steered her down the rapid stream. When she was broadside on th< trembling dam the engineer had hei scuttled, and as she sank in the rushing waters Mr. Fosdyke and his met cheered themselves hoarse. The scut tied cargo steamer had saved the dam! This remarkable makeshift foi a breakwater cost nearly $35,000. i Famishing Crows Kill Pigs. Hungry crows, unable to find food ; elsewhere, killed and partly devoured ! eighteen pigs belonging to Julius ! Daubmann, a farmer near Orston, I Camden county. The birds had hung around the j place for sev<yal days and become [ such a nuisance Daubmann found it j necessary to use bis gun. Yesterday j one of Daubmann's assistants was | awakened by the din of the crows and I saw the barnyard full of them. He : aroused Daubmann and the other men, and after firing into the crows | eighteen of the pigs were found to have been killed, ail having their eyes pecked out.?Philadelphia Record. Even a lazy man will get a move on himself when invited to face the bartender. CREAT CHANGE From Chance in Fooit; The brain depends much more or. the j stomach than we .t:e apt to suppose until we take thought in the matter. Feed the stomach on proper food easy to digest and containing the proper amount of phosphates and the healthy brain will respond to all demands. A notable housewife in Buffalo writes: "The (l9ctor diagnosed my trouble as n 'nervous affection of the stomach.' I was actually so nervous that I could not sit still for five minutes to read the newspaper, and to attend to my household duties was simply impossible. I j doctored all the time with remedies, but medicine did no good. 9 "My physician put ire on all sorts of diet, and I tried many kinds of cereal foods, but none of them agreed with me. I was almost discouraged, and when I tried Grape-Nuts I did so witli many misgivings?I had no faith that it would succeed where everything else had failed. "P?nt it did succeed, and you don't know how glad I am tint I tried it. l feel like a new person. I have gained in weight and I don't have that terrible burning sensation .n :ny stomach any more. I feel so strong again that 1 am surprised at myself. The street noises that used to irritate me so, I never notice now. and my mind is so clear that my household duties are a real pleasure." Name given by I'ostuin Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Now why was this great change made In this woman? The stomach and the brain had not been supplied with the right kind of food to rebuild and strergthen the nerve centres in these organs. It is absolute folly to try to do this with medicine. There is but one sure way, and that is to quit the old food that has failed and take ou Grape-Nuts food, | which is more than half digested in the process of manufacture and is rich in the phosphate of potash contained in the natural grain, which unites with albumen and water?the only three substances that will make up the?soft gray filling in the thonsends of delicate nerve centres in the brain am} body. Grape-Nuts food is a t ure road back to health in all such cases. ItalTrnad* nod FrflfWl. _ In his testimony before the Senntfe I Committee on Interstate Commerce at Washington on Mry 4. Professor Hugo It. Meyer, of Chicago University, an expert on railroad management, made this statement: "Let us look at what might have happened if we had heeded the protests of the farmers of New York and Ohio and Pennsylvania fin the seventies when grain from tli" West began pour- v ins to the Atlantic soabor.ril) and acted e upon the doctrine which the Interstate Commerce Commission lias enunciated time and a pa in, that 110 man may be deprived of the advantages accruing to him by virtue of his geographical position. We could not Lav-e west of the Mississippi a population of millions of people who are prosperous and are great consumers. We never should have seen the years when we built 10,000 and 12.000 miles of railway, for tbcre would have been no farmers west of the Mississippi River who could have used the land that would have been opened up by tlie building of those railways. And. if we bad not seen the years when we COitid build 10.000 and VJ.000 miles of railway a year, we should not nave to-day, east gl of the Mississippi, a steel and iron f( producing centre which is at once the 0 marvel and the despair of Europe, because we could not have built up a h steel and iron industry if there bad ^ bocu no market for its product. ^ "We could not have in New Eng- ? land a great boot and shoe industry; ^ we could not have in New England a a great cotton milling industry; we could M not have spread throughout New York and Pennsylvania and Ohio manuf.-.e-^' s turing Industries of the most diversltied kinds, because 'hose industries e would have no market among the farm- _ ers west of the Mississippi River. "And, while the progress of this la country, wliiie tiie development of the j* agricultural West of this country, did ' moan the impairment of the ngrieul- hi tural value east of the Mississippi w Itiver that ran up into hundreds of a A] millions of dollars, it meant, incidentally, the building up of great man- n ufacturiug industries that added to ~ the value of this laud by thousands of millions of dollars. And, gentlemen, these things were not foreseen in tlic ^ seventies. The statesmen and the pub- t lie men of this country did not see " wbat part tbe agricultural develop- I. ment of tbe West was goiug to play in p tbe industrial development of the East. ? Aud, you may read the decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission, j| from the first to the last, aud what is one of the greatest characteristics of those decisions? The continued iu- 1 j ability to see the question iu this large way. j "The Intcrsta;e Commerce Com mis- > sion never can see anything more than that the farm land of some farmer j is decreasing in value, or, that some j man, who has a tlour mil! with a pro- , duclion of fifty barrels a day, is being 1 crowded out. it never can see that 1 the destruction or impairment of farm I values in this place means the building up of farm values in that place, and that that snifting of values is a uccessary incident to the industrial and manufacturing development of this country. And, if we shall give to the Interstate Commerce Commission power to regulate rates, we shad nc longer hav? our rates regulated on the statesmanlike basis on which ihoy have been regulated in the past by the railway men, who really have reeu great statesmen; who really have t een great build- j ers of empires; who have had an imagination that rivals the imagination j of the greatest poet and of the great- I /.cf ; <* fii-.il-who have on era ted i will: ;i counts'-' and d firing that rivals the cor.raso and <1:-.: -i.:c of the greatest military g-v. rai. litu w.' shall have our rates regulated by a baaj of civil servants, bureaucrats, whose besotting sin the world over, is that tliey can never grasp a situation in a large way and w'.ih tile grasp of the statesman; that they r.evcr cm see the fact that they are confronted with a small 0 evil; ttint that ivil is relatively small, 8 and that it cannot be corrected except B by tbe creation of evils aud abuses- I which arc infinitely gi\::t"r than the ' one that is to be corrected." ocri's con?:,?er the wool on the back . - :t.;> - ? unfailing barometer. Tlie Ltttte Huckleberry that grows alongside our hills and mountains contains an active principle that has a happy effect on the bowels. It enters largely in Dr. Diggers' Huckleberry Cordial, the great stomach and bowel remedy, for ' Dysentery and Diarrhoea. Sold by all Druggists, 25 and 50c. bottle. The present population of Persia is estimated to be about 12,000,000. e,ir?: FVTPinil. Humors. Fspeeiallv for o!il, chronic cases take Botanic Blood Baim. It gives a healthy blood supply 10 the aTectcu parts, heals all the sores, eruption scabs, scales; stops the awful itching and burning of eczema, swellrag t, suppurating, wa'ery sores, etc. Druggists $1 per large bottle, 3 bottles $2.50, 6 bottles 55.00, express prepaid, sample free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Oa. Describe trouble and free medical advice S' nt in sealed letter. Austria-Hungary has 1S.000 medical men. U CAN Addrevy^Hy^ 0? the Isbel of gjljr -J -r "" -.'iW *iir '" - .IVING TOO HASTILY] kMERICANWOMENBREAKDOWN ^regularities and Female Derange* mente Result ? Cured by Lydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Owing to our mode and manner of iving, and the nervous haste of every roman to accomplish just so much ach day, it is said that there is not ne woman in twenty-five but what uffers with some derangement of the ?male organism, and this is the secret f so many unhappy homes. No woman can be amiable, lightearted and happy, a joy to her husand and children, and perform the j uties incumbent upon her, when she is , uffering with backache, headache, I ervousncss. sleeplessness, bearing, own pains, displacement of the womb, inal weakness or ovarian troubles. Irritability and snappy retorts take he place of pleasantness, and all sunhine is driven out of the home, and ves are wrecked by woman's gTeat nemy?womb trouble. Read this letter: ear Mrs. Pinkham 441 was troubled for eight years with irreguirities which broke down my health and rought on extreme nervousness and desponanev. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Comound proved to be the only mmicine which Biped me. Day by day! improved in health hile taking it until I was entirely cured. I in attend to my social and household duties ad thoroughly enjoy life once more, as Lvdia !. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has made le a well woman, without an ache or a pain." -Mrs. Chester Curry, 42 Saratoga Street, last Boston, Mass. At the first indication of ill health, ainful or irregular menstruation, ain in the side, headache, backache, earing-down pains, nervousness or the blues." i^cure at once a bottle of f Pml/li o tr?*c VnrratdllilA ound and begin its use. " U Best Couah Syrup. Taste* Jood. t'*e "1 !'fl la time. Sold by druitet<u. M jp i nninrrsCT f Conviction F( When buying loose coffee or to have in his bin, hOW do y getting ? Some queer stories ? could be told, if the people wh< speak out. Could any amount of mere housekeepers to use Lion ( the leader of all packas of a century, if they had not found Purity, Strength, Fla\ This popular success of LION CO f*n be due only to inherent merit. 1 is no stronger proof ol merit than tinned and increasing popularity. If the verdict of MELLIGNS HOUSEKEEPERS does not conv yon of the merits of LION COF tt eft-sfc von bat a trifle to hi package. It Is the easiest wa convince yourscll, and to xx you a PERMANENT PURCHASE LION COFFEE is sold only la 1 lb. scaledpac and reaches you as pure and clean as when it 1( factory. , Lion-head on every package. Save these Lion-heads for valuable premiums. SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE ^ WOOLSON SPICE CO., Toiedo, blood, wind on the stomach, bloated bowels, fo pains after ea^ng, liver trouble, aallow skin aci regularly you are sick. Constipation kills more starts chronic ailments and long years of auflTeri C ASCARET9 today, for you wtll never get we right, Take our advice, start with Cascarets money refunded. The genuine tablet stamped booklet free. Address Sterling Remedy Compa Good Luck Premiums every can of Good Luck Baking Pou nd a coupon. Cut them out and save, luable. In every can there is a Drem is how to get useful articles free. :er is made to more thoroughly intro< GOOD LI Baking Pov ugh it already enjoys the largest sale of any I -Id. Good Luck Baking Powder is positivel passed leavening qualities. It makes deli< ps them longer and better. Its unexcelled m< remendous demand for it?carloads and ti iped to all sections of the country. This mal ffer so good an article at the moderate price nd can. Ask your dealer for " Good Luck " f he can't supply you. THE SOUTHERN MFG. CO. Rf cfcm?i. Vm. ^ =*=?=' n Potash is necessary for cotton to produce high yields and good fibre. E Write for our valuable books on I fertilization; they contain informs* I tion that means dollars to the I farmers. Sent free on reauest. I You want only the best Cotton Gin Machinery Ask any experienced Ginner about Pratt, Eagle,Smith Winship, Munger We would like to show you what thousands of life lon<? customers say. Write for catalog and testimonial booklet. I Continental Gin Co I Charlotte, N. C., Atlanta. Ga. | Blrmlnftham, Ala. * MempliW, Tenn., Dallas, Ter. | W1 hi T I" Addreas of (1) reraona of RN | l? I part Indian blood wbvaro Mil I tU not liTinK with any tr'bo, 'Jlofn.en who were drafted In Kenttn-ky, (S) of <1 others of soldier* who haro t*e? denied pension ou ?cconnt of their rwinsrriape. <4) of men who (-erred in theFedernl army, or (&) th* neatest kin of snca soldiers or sailors, now deceased. NATHAN BIC'KFORD, Attorney* Washluaton, I), t. So. 21. ritows Trill anything your grocer happens ou know what you ara ibout coffee that is sold>in bulk, j handle it (grocers), cared to talk have persuaded millions of Coffee* \e coffees for over a quarter it superior to all other brands in ror and Uniformity? FFEE fhere HiE BOWELS ^ CANDY j/ . CATHARTIC i. appendicitis, biliousness, bad breathTfcadJ u1 mouth, headache, indigeatios, pimple*, K i dixsiness. When your bowels don't move E s people than all other disease* together. It r.g. No matter what ails you, start taking V ll and ftay well until you get your bowels today under absolute guarantee to cure or I I CCC. Never sold in bulk. Sample aod I nv, Chicago or SllBllS^ iium book that to This premium JCK 1 yder m faking powder in the KB \y pure and has un:ious bakings and "amioaas wing kes it possible ? or write1* ^^fll |jJ * 1*1 I ^^SHroaJ erH VJ , V> ,Vi