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DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON Th? Bmlnen* DiTinn'n Sunday ! DiaoooiM. j < MlNt: "BrlWait WH>wwi"-attll? th* l?a VNd M ? HorrtblA Bxampln?I* H? m Typ# of th* Worm wood Men- * tiMMd ta BmlMJMf Tun: "Tbopa (ell a trreat star from < heaven, burning aa It were a lamp, and It i fell npon the third part of the rivers, and npon the fountains of waters, and the name i -of the star Is oalled Wormwood."?Revelation x., 11. : Patrick and Lowth, Thomas ficott, Mat- 1 tnew Henry, Albert Barnes and some other < commentators say that the star Wormwood < of my text was a type of Atttla. king of the Buns. He was so called because be was brilliant as a star, and, like wormwood, he tmbittered everything he touched. We have studied the 8tar of Bethlehem, and the Morning Star of Revelation and the Star of Peaoe, but my subject oalls us to gase at the star Wormwood. and my theme might be called "Brilliant Bitterness." A more extraordinary oharaoter history sloes not furnish than this man Atttla. the ktpg of the Huns, The story goes that one day a wounded heifer came limping along through the fields, and a herdsman followed its bloody traok on the grass to see where the heifer was wounded, and went on back, farther and farther, until he came to a sword fast, in the earth, the point down win, us tnouRD it nan dropped rrom the heavens, and against the edges of thla word the heifer had been cut. The herdsman palled up that sword and presented it 1 to Atttla. Attila said that sword must have dropped from the hAavens from tbfe grasp of the god Mars, and its being given to btm meant thnt Attila should conquer and govern the whole earth. Other mighty men have been delighted at being called , liberators or the Merciful or the Oood, but Attila called himself and demanded that others call him "the Hoourgeof God." At the head of 700,000 troops, mounted on Oappadoolan horses, he swept everything, from the Adrlntic to the Black Sea. He put his Iron bee' on Macedonia and Greeoe aud Thrace. He made Milan and Pavla and Padua and Verona beg for merey, which he bestowed not. The Byzantine castles, to meet his ruiooua levy, put uo at auction massive silver tables and vases of solid gold. When a city was captured by him, the inhabitants were brought out nnd put Into throe classes. The first class, those who oould bear arms, must immediately enlist under Attila or be butchered; the seoond olnss, the beautiful women, were made captives to the Huns; the third olass, the nged men and women, were robbed of everything and let go back to the city to pay a heavy tax. It was a common saying thnt the grass never grew where the hoof of Attlla's horse had trod. His armies reddened the waters of the Seine and the Moselle and the Rhine with carnage and fought on the Catalonlan ? plains the fiercest battle since the world 1 a?nn^ OAO AAA . I.1 l.lt ?!.. /l-l.l nL ' nvvv/u UWU.'AIU '?XJt+\Jk lUlb UU IUO 11 OKI. t/ II nnd on until nil those who oould not op* pose him with arms lay prostrate on their faoes In prayer, theri a cloud or dust was , seen in the distance, nnd a bishop cried, "It Is the aid of God." and nil the people took up the cry. "It Is the aid of God." As the cloud of dust was blown nside the banners of ro-onjorclng armies marched in to help against Attila. "The Scourge of God." The most unimportant occurrences he used as nsupernatural resource. After three months of failure to capture the city of Aquileln. when his army had Riven up the siege, the flight of a stork and her vouhr from the tower of tho city was taken bv him as a sIru that he was to canture the ofty, and bis army, insnired with the same ocourence, resumed the siege and took the walls at a point from whloh the stork had emerged. So brilliant was the conqueror in attire that his enemies could not look at him, but ahnded their eves or turned their heads. Hlnln on the evening of his marriage by his bride, Ildleo, who was hired for the assassination. his followers bewailed hlra, not with tears, but with blood, cutting themselves with knives and lances. He was put Into three oofBns. tho flrst of Iron, the second of sliver and the third of gold, lie was burled by night, and into his grave was poured the most valuable cotns and precious stones, amounting to the wealth of a kingdom. The gravodlggers nnd all those who assisted at the burial were mnssacred, so that It would never be known where so much wealth was entombed. The Roman empire conquered the world, but Attila conquered the Roman empire. He was right In calling himself a scourge, but instead of being "the scourge of God" he was the scourge of hell. Because of his brilliancy and bitterness, the commentators might well have supposed him to be the star Wormwood of the text. As the regions he devastated were ports most opulent with fountains and streams and rivers, yon see how graphic my text is: "There fell a great star front heaven, burning as it were a lamp, nnd it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon tho fountains of waters, and the name of tho star is called Wormwood." Have you ever thought how many embittered lives there are all about us, mtsnn rnropic, raoroiu, norm, saturnine? The European plant from which wormwood is extracted, Artemisia absinthium, Is a perennial plant, and all the year round It is ready to exude Its oil. And In many human lives there is a perennial distillation of acrid experiences. Yea, there are some whose whole work Is to shed a baleful Influence over others. There are Attilas of the home, Attilas of the soolal circle, Attilas of the church, Attilas of thoHtate, and one-third of the watersof nil the world are poisoned hy the falling of the star Wormwood. It is not complimentary to human nature that most men, as soon as they set great power, become overhearing. The more power men have the better, If their power be used for good. The less power men have the better, If they use it for evil. But are any of you the star Wormwood? Do you scold and growl from the thrones paternal or maternal? Are your cbildr.en everlastingly pecked at? Are you always crying "Hush!" to the merry voices and swift feet, and to the laughter, whloh occasionally triokles through at wrong times, and Is suppressed by them until tbey can hold it no longer, and all the barriers burst into unlimited guffaw and cachinnation, as In high weather the water nas irioKieo inrougn a sugnt opening in the railtdara, but afterward makes < wider and wider breach until It carries all < before It with irresistible freshet? Do not < be too much offended at the noise your I children now make. It will be still enough when one of them is dead. Then you would give your right hand to hear one shout from the silent voice, or one step from the still foot. You will not any of you have to wait very long before your house Is stiller than you want it. Alas that there are so many homes not known to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, where children are whacked and cuffed aud ear pulled, and senselessly called to order, and answered sharply and suppressed, until it Is a wonder that under such processes * they do not all turn out Nana Hahibs! |r < But I will change this and suppose you I are a star of worldly prosperity. Then you I* have large opportunity. You can encourI , age that artist by buying his picture. You v can Improve the fields, the stables, the I highway, by introducing higher style of I t fowl and horse and cow and shoeij. You I <can bless the world with poinologlcal L 'achievement in the orohard. You can adI vance arboriculture and arrest the death ful destruction of the American forests, H You can put a piece of sculpture luto the M4\|ehe of that public academy. You can P^^eedow a college. You can stooklng 1000 bare feet from the winter frost. You can I , build a church. You can put a missionary I of Christ on that foreign shore. Yowenu I nelp ransom a world. A rich man wjffi his l| heart right?can you tell me how much BA good a James Lenox or a George Peabody witu iwiuo no uinuy uiy, iruricBB ?yw, iw :bere are porsone occupying them. You irlll be In toe world but a few mlnutee. As sompared with eternity, the stay of the longest life on earth Is not more than a minute. What are we doing with that minute? What is true of individuals is true of nations. Ood sets them up to revolve as stars, but they may fall wormwood Tyre? the atmosphere of the desert, fragrant spiees coming in caravans to her fairs: ail seas oleft into foam by the keels of her laden merchantmen; her markets rleh with horses and camels from Togarmah; the basaar filled with upholstery from Dedan, with emerald and coral and agato from Byria, with mines from Helbon. with embroidered work from Ashur and Ohllmad. Where now the gleam of her towers, where the roar of her chariots, where the masts of her ships? Let the fishermen who dry their nets where once she stood, let :he sea that rushes npon the barrenness where once she challenged the admiration >f all nations, let the barbarians who set let their rude tents where onoe her palaces (littered, answer the questions. She was i star, but by her own sin turned to wormwood and has fallen. Hundred gated Tbobes?for all time to be :hestudyof antiquarian and hieroglyphist. Ser stupendous ruins spread over twentyleven miles, her sculptures presenting in lgure of warrior and chariot the vlotories with whtoh the now forgotten kings of Sgvpt shook the nations; her obelisks and ; 'olumns: Knruak and T.nxnr. the ntnnnnd. I >us temple* of her pride! Who can imagine he greatness ot Thebes in those days, when ;he hippodrome rang with her sports and < 'oreign royalty bowed at her shrines, and ler avenues roared with the wheels of pro- | session* in the wake of returning conqurors? .Vhat spirit of destruotlon spread the lair ! >f wild beats in her royal sepulchers and aught the miserable cottagers of to-day :o build huts In the courts of ber temples " ind sent dosolntion and ruin skulking beilnd the obelisks, and dodging among the iaroophagi, and leaning against the oolimns, nwd stooping among the arches, and veeplng in the waters which go mournully by, as though they were carrying the ears of all the ages? Let the mummies )reak their long silence and come up to ihiver in the desolation and point to fallen gates and shattered statues and defaoed iculpture, responding: "Thebes built not >ne temple to Ood. Thebes hatod righteousness and loved sin. Thebes was a itar, but she turned to wormwood and has ! alien." Babylon, with her 250 towers and her i >razen gates and her embattled walls, the iplendor of the earth gathered within her jates, her hanging gardens built by Netuchudnezzar to please his bride. Amytis, , vuu u?u uttou ucuukui up hi u mouncnin>us country and could not endure the flat >ountry around Babylon. Theae hunting gardens built terrace above terrace, till at be height of 400 feet there were woods ! vnvlng and fountains nlaylug, t he verdure, 1 he foliage, the glory, looking as if a moun- j atn were on the wing. On the tiptop a ting walking with bis queen among the itatues, snowy white, looking up at birds >rought from distant lands and drinking >ut of tankards of solid gold or looking off >ver rivers and lakes upon nations subdued ind tributary, crying, "Is not this great 3abylon whioh I have built?" What battering ram smote the walls? iVhat plowshare upturned the gardens? What army shattered the brazen gates? What long, fierce blast of storm put out his light which illuminated the world? j What orash o( diseord drove down the mu- 1 do that poured from palace window and garden grove and called tho banqueters to :helr revel and the dancer to their feet? I valk upon the scene of desolation to find in answer and pick up pieces of bitumen uid brick and broken pottery, the remains >f Babylon. I hear the wild waves saying: i 'Babyion was p^oud. Babylon was im- j mire. Babylon was a star, but by sin she :urned to wormwood and has fallen." From the persecutions of the pilgrim i fathers and the Huguenots in other lands ! 3od set upon these shores a nation. The ;ouncll (Ires of the aborigines went out In the greater light of a free government. The sound of the warwhoop was exchanged for the thousand wheels of enterprise and progress. The mild winters, the fruitful sum- ; mors, the healthful skies, charmed from j Bther lands a race of hardy men, who ! loved Qod and wanted to be free. Before | the woodman's ax forests fell and rose again into ships' masts and ohurobes' pillars. Cities on the banks of lakes began to rival cities by the sea. The land j quakes with the rush of the rail car, and i the waters are churned white with the iteamer's wheel. Fabulous bushels of Western wheat meet on the way fabulous j bushels of Eastern coal. Furs from the North pass on the rivers fruits from tho 3outh. And trading in the same market ; ire Maine lumbermen and South Carolina | rice merchant and Ohio farmer and Alaska fur dealer. And churches and schools and isylums scatter light and love and mercy and salvation upon 70,000,000 of people. I pray that our nation may not copy the irimes of nations that have perished; that LFU* uup Vi ISIVJaaiUB llVb IU WUUIiWUUU and we go down. I am by nature and by grace an optimist, and I expect that this country will continue to advanoe until the world ahall reach the miilenlal era. Our only safety la In righteousness toward Qod and justice toward man. If we forget the goodness of the Lord to this land and break his Sabbaths, and improve 1 not by the dire disasters that have again and again come to us as a people, and we learn saving lesson neither from civil war nor raging epidemlo. nor drought, nor mildew, nor scourge of locust and grasshopper; It the polltloal corruption which has poisoned the foundations of public virtue and besllmed the high places of authority, making free government at times a hissing and a byword In all the earth; if the drunkenness and licentiousness that stagger and blaspheme lu the streets of our great cities, as though they were reaching after the fame of a Corinth and a Sodom, are not repented of, we will yet see the smoke of our nation's ruin. The pillars of our national and State capltols will fall more disastrously than when Sampson pulled down the Dragon, and future historians will record upon the page bedewed with generous tears the story that the free nation of the west arose in splendor whloh made the world stare. It had mugniflaent possibilities; It forgot God; it hated justice; It hugged Its orlmes, It halted on its high march; it I reeled under the blow of calamity; it fell, and as it was going down all the despotisms of earth from the top of uloody thrones began to shout: "Ahat So would we have It!" while struggling and oppressed peoples looked out from dungeon bars, with tears and groans and cries of untold agony, the scorn of those and the woe of these, uniting in the ex- ! olnmation: "Look yonder! 'There fell a grent star from heaven burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers end upon the fountains of waters, and the name ol the star Is called Wormwood!'" or * Peter Cooper or a William S. Dodge did while llring or la doiag bow that bo la doad. Thar* la not a olty, towa or neighborhood that haa not glorious apootaoaa of ooaaooratod wealth. Bat auppooe yon grtad the faoo of the poor.- Suppose, when a man's wages are due. yoa make him wait for them because be eaaaot help btmaelf. Suppose that, besaoae hta family la atek aad he haa had extra expeases, ha should politely aak too to raise bis wage* for this year, aad yoa roughly tell htm If he waats a better plaee to go aad get It. Bappoee, by your meaner, act as though he were aothlug aad fon vin ererythlng. Suppose yob are lelflsb and overbMtlng and arrogant, four first name ought to bo Attlla and roar last aamo AtttU, boeaoso yon are the iter Wormwood and yon bare lmblttered sne-third, If not three-thirds of the waters that roll past your employes and operatires and dependents and associates, and the long line of carriages which the undertaker orders for yonr funeral in order to make the occasion respectable will be filled Wwihli PfMB the Shops. Fliuri matliMW lavishly trimmed with cntffl ItM and ribbon. ? Mow muslins with dainty rooobuda b scattered closely oror tho surface. h Yokes and high collars made of s white satin covered with cream lace. g Cameo brooch pins surrounded on b the outer edge by mosaic enamelling. p Linen and duck suits showing strap* c pod seams and lnsertings of embrold- q ery. ti Lace bows of point d'Alencon at- s tacbed to a stock collar of shirred chiffon. Light pink and blue muslins with b large rose designs Interspersed with t black polka dots. ? Pearl-gray cloth costumes trimmed | with white satin and endless rows of B machine stitching. C Many new stock collars finished 6 with square or circular tabs in the back, variously trimmed. * White ribbons In various widths ? showing designs of cherries an<2, their t leaves in natural shades. Bodices of cream guipure having the principal portion of the pattern out- ] lined with gray chenille. Dark-red cloth walking jackets f piped on the edge with black velvet Jj outlined with gold and black braid.? Dry Goods Economist 1 Some latelilfeat Orders. Here are some orders recently re- t celved by a druggist in a neighboring city: "This child is my little girl. I send ? you five cents to buy two sitless powders for a groan up adult who is slke." J "Dear Dochter, pies glf bearer five sense worse of Auntie Toxyn for to \ gargle baby's throat and oblenge." "You will pleas give the lettle bol ^ five cents worth of epecac for to throw up in a five months' old babe. } N.. B.?The babe has a sore stum- i mlck." "I have a cute pain In my child's diagram. Please give my son something ? to release it." j "My little babey has eat up Its father's parish plasther. Send an antedote ? quick as possible by the enclosed girl." "I haf a hot time In my lnsides and wlch 1 wood like It to be extinguished. What Is good for to extinguish It. The j enclosed money is for the price of the s extinguisher. Hurry pleas." The Toed Twins. The highest-priced freaks ever r shown In this country were the Toeei twins, who received a salary of $900 a week for n four weeks' engagement. They wer two boys with but one pair ^ of legs between them, the bodies connecting at the waist, both bodies and legs being perfect and well-formed. They were constantly worrying about c the high price of living in ibis country, and in spite of their inrge salary spent as little as they could possibly get nloug with. They now have a ^ large and beautiful place near their native town in Italy, nud are persons t of great distinetion there. i THE SCHOOLS < Of Greater New York, Boston, and [ many other places use Carter's Ink \ exclusively and won't use any other, t That ?peafc? well for CARTER'S INK \ and girt* you food for thought. A Laag Bsai ef Hair* TIm woman who pmmhm tho longst hood of hair in-the world Is said to e Mercedes Lopes, a Mexican. Her eight la flee feet, and when she tande erect her hair trails on the round four feet eight Inches. The air la so thick that she can comletely hide herself In It She has It ut rerj frequently, as It grows so ntckly, enabling her to sell large resses to hair dealers every month, be Is the wire of a poor sheep herder. Chen blood asm a clean skin. No eauty without it. Cascareta, Candy CatharU anil lrnnn 4# fiasn Kv tTrring *up*the la^ivTr^d im uritissfrom the body. Begin to-day to anish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, nd that sickly bilious complexion by taking Jsscsrets,?beauty for ten cents, ill drugists, satisfaction guaranteed. 108,8^,800. In several of the eonntries Is Europe 11 of the pictures In many of the firstlass photograph galleries are dusted sod pt free from dirt by means of sir syringes, hereby retaining an attractiveness. To fare a Cold In One Day. Take Laxative Brotno' Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund money If It falls to cure. 25c. As a result of dairy progress In Orsat Irltaln the Import of Canadian cheese few set year to the extent of about two million ollare. fo Care , Coma tl pat lea Tosaeesw Take Cascaretg Gaud* Cathartic. lOo or Me. ICO.CX tall-to cure, druggists refund money. Before 1840 men almost universally bad heir fafes oleafr shaven.* How's ThUT We off or One Huudred Dollars Reward for my case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by fall's Catarrh Cure. P. J. Cmmr A Co.. Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F.J.Chetoy for the last 16 years, and believe him pereotly honorable in all business transactions md hnanclall.v able to carry out any obUgslon made by their firm. Vsat a Tbuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Valdikq, Kuwait A Mahvin. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure la taken Internally, actus directly upon the blood and mucous suracea of the system. Testimonials sent free, 'rice, 75c. per bottle. Bold by all Druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. I Fits permanently cured. No flta or nerrotialess a* tor first day's use of Dr. Kline's Urent sorts Restorer. W trial bottle and treat lee free. >R. It. U. Kliki, Ltd., 931 ArcU St., Phlla., Pa. Condolence is the unbiased head and heart P( ,P1>roving or condemning the will. e<] Doa't Tobacco Spit and Rooks Tear life Away* C? To quit tobacco easily and forever, be rang w istlc, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To- y< lac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men trong. All druggists, 80c or tl. Cureguaran- . eed. Booklet and sample free. Address 111 Sterling Remedy Ca, Chicago or New York, al All animals whose habitat is the Arctic egions turn white in winter. l>< Boardin'. tll Weary Billy?Hello, there, old hasst d< IVhear you bin keepin yourself? p< Beery Willy?Bin boardin'. hi Weary Billy?Boardin'1 How's dat? ftl Beery Willy?,Why, boardin' freight o' ars, of course.?Harper's Weekly. st The Only Hope. "Noodleshot never buys his cigars, le begs them all from me." at "Famish him the oheapest stogies, S( hen. Give him rope enough and naybe he'll amoke himself to death." w &AB . 1 b( \ 1 7ITH a batter understo.nflln?r nf t1 w efforts?gentle efforts?pleasant el forms of Illness axe not due to any act the pleasant family laxative, Syrup of of families, and is everywhere esteemed the fact that It Is the only remedy whl It acts. It Is, therefore, all-Important, have the genuine article, which Is m&m 1 Of the art of advertising Is to correctly always prove most effective In time. T the California Fig Syrup Co. by reasoi laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs, whlcl ment, which the company freely mak< should be used when needed by the hu' of salts and pills the more constipated other hand one enjoys both the metl Figs Is taken; It Is pleasant and refr< yet promptly on the kidneys, liver an tually, dispels colds, headaches and fev ?itlon permanently; also biliousness and he great trouble with all other purgi fall to act when a single dose is tak Invariably tend to produce a habit of 1 doses. Children enjoy the pleasant U Figs, the ladles And It delightful and b< Is needed, and business men pronounce without Interfering with business and d< THE EXCELLENCE C Is due not only to the originality and sin to the care and skill with whiok It Is n known to the California Fig Syrup Co. ? press on all the importance of purohai when buying note the name, California I every package. CALIFORNIA FIC San FrancL Ixjulsvltle. Ky. SALESMEN WANTED New K*r I Tj ,% pension Edition of the Reversible Wall I k/Map of the United States and World, with I naet maps of tbe Philippines, Cuba, Porto Ilea, Hawaii nnd Alaska. This map la going rf o be the greatest seller on the market as It Is <ui he best. On receipt of 91.28 we will send earn- ^ ile oopr br prepaid express and Inform you d ow to obtain excluslre territory. IAN Dt MoNALLY A COMPANY, 164-170 Adams St., Chicago, III. * " 2 ? A SONG < 2 The summer day b over, vr And weary with honest toil, 2 Home, through the fields of clover That brings from the fertile soil, 2 Pbds now the sturdy farmer $ Vith grimy hsnds, and though 2 Soiled too, indeed, is his suit of tweed, <3 But little cares he, I trow. 2 A WORD OF WARNING ?There are m. ? as food as the Ivorythey ARE NOT, bi <3 remarkable qualities of the genuine. Ask f< ?)> C^jr^hl, l?M, k, Tk? Tncl. Vitality ol Snails. The snnil is blessed with groat >wera of vitality. A case is record 1 of an Egyptian desert snail which Line to life upon being Immersed In arm water after bavlng passed four ?ars glued to a card iu the English uscum. Some species, in the collecon of a certain naturalist, revived 'tei they had apparently been dead >r fifteen years; and snails, having ?cn frozen for weeks in solid blocks ! Ice, have recovered upon being tawed out. The eggs are as hard to ;stroy as the snail itself. They seem srfectly indifferent to freezing, and ive been known to prove productive 'ter having been shriveled up in an ven to the semblance of grains of ind. The World's Farms. The world's agriculture occupies the ttentlon of 280,000,000 men, repre>nts a capital of $24,000,000,000, and is an anuual product of $20,000,000,K>. INE?! COM lie transient nature of the many phyi Torte?rightly directed. There la comi ual disease, but simply to a constlpa Figs, promptly removes. That Is why i so highly by all who value good hea ch promises internal cleanliness wltho In order to get Its beneficial effects, t ifaotured by the California Fig Syrup Hfc HIUHfcSl OBJfcCI / Inform the public of the merits of i he valuable reputation acquired by i of the excellence of the pleasant 1 It manufactures, oonflrmi the statebs, that the beet of remedies only man system. The more one takes the system becomes, while on the nod and the results when Syrup of ashing to the taste, and acts gently d bowels, cleanses the system effeoers and overcomes habitual constlthe many Ills resulting therefrom, stives and aperients is not that they n, but that they act too violently and >oay requiring constantly augmented iste and gentle action of Syrup of ?neflo!al whenever a laxative remedy ) It invaluable, as It may be taken >es not gripe nor nauseate. )F SYRUP OF FIGS iplicity of the oomblnatlon, but also lanufactured. by scientific processes only, and therefore we wish to Imilng the true and original remedy, rig Syrup Co., printed on the front of 3 SYRUP CO., mv C?L N#w Yortr, N. Y. "it i ^ 11D Cfor INDIGESTION IlHMJiil ?nd DYSPEPSIA' "Dyspepsia bu been the bane of my life for ity years, and of all the hundreds of remeee, 1 have reoetred more benefit from Tlsaure than from any other."?John J. Futoi, D., Cincinnati, O. A cure for a try. #5c- a bo*. Ask your drug?t or write for free sample to IZAKUBK CO., Tarpon Springs, Fin. m? uyvinr u k/i A iVlVAM Jk In the housewife'* hand awaiting J \ b a cake of Ivory Sotfy < > And we hear her say:44 Hie dirt a wayf A Tb this that gives us hope." & So he takes the shining treasure, $ And laughing with delight, S Criest "See it float, the magic boat jjr That makes my home so bright," A my white soaps, each represented to be "Just Wc ut Ilka all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and K or " Ivory " Soap and Insist upon getting It. S IT a Oaakl* C, CIKIhUL A A Proposal at Dlaaer. Dr. Packcnlinm Walsh, who recently resigned the bishopric of Ossory, pr? posed to his wife in nn unusual mam uer. He was at a dinner party and was seated beside the woman of hi# choice. In the course of the dinned he found that he had beou helped tp the "wishing bone," and he pulled M* the wish with his neighbor. The little Y-shaped bone was broken, and thp bishop, having secured the "wish,'* whispered to his fair companion, aa be laid down his part of the bone: "WiU you lay your bones with my boneel"She blushlngly whispered an assent, and after dinner tho engagement wdii announced.?San Francisco Argonaut A Vessel's Ice Protection. Vessels which cruise in winter calf be fitted with a new device to cleat the ice In their track, consisting of a .sharp steel nose, with a shield to cover the front end of the boat, so It can cut its way through ice fields. Is ileal Ills whlob vanish before proper 'ort in the knowledge that so many, ted condition of the system, whlsH ' It Is the only remedy with million# .1th. Its beneflolal effeots are due t# ut debilitating the organs on whlojf o note when yen purchase that yatt* Co. only. any article, and truthful statements SEND FIVE CENTS for our oat*logos of INCTTBAe TORS, and book on HoULTKY. A Mt of plana ror Poultry Housm, Brooders, eto., 3So. 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