TALMAGE'S SERMON.
A PLEA TO CONGRESS BEFORE
IT ADJOURNS.
Lt the Nam of God B Written la
the Constitution' He Says God Will
Settl tb Silver Question In His Own
XI a aad Way.
EXATORS la this
text stand for law
makers. Joseph was
the Lord Treasurer
of the Egyptian
government, and
among other great
things which he
did, according to
my text, was to
teach his senators
wisdom; and if any
men cn earth ought to be endowed with
wisdom, it is senators, whether they
stand in congresses, parliaments, or
reichstag3, or assemblies, or legisla
tures. By their decisions nations go
up or down. Law-makers are some
times so tempted by prejudices, by ec
tional preferences, by opportunity of
personal advancement, and sometimes
what is best to do Is so doubtful that
they ought to be prayed for and en
couraged in every possible way, Instead
of severely criticised and blamed and
excoriated, as is much of the time the
case. Our public men are so often the
target to be shot at, merely because
they obtain eminence which other men
wanted but could not reach, that more
Injustices are hurled at our national
legislature than the people of the
United States can possibly Imagine.
The wholesale belying of our public
men is simply damnable. By resi
dence In "Washington I have come to
find out that many of our public men
are persistently misrepresented, and
some of the best of them, the purest
In their lives and most faithful in the
discharge of their duties, are the worst
defamed. Some day I want to preach
Bermon from the text in II. Peter:
"They are not afraid to speak evil of
dignities. Whereas angels, which are
greater In power and might, bring not
railing accusation against them before
the Lord. But these, as natural brute
beasts, made to be taken and destr6yed,
speak evil of the things that they un
derstand not." So constant and malig
nant is this depreciation and scandallza
tion in regard to our public men that all
over the land there are those who sup
pose that the city of Washington is the
center of all corruption, while, what
with its parks and its equestrian statu
ary, and its wide streets, and its archi
tectural symmetries, and its lovely
homes, it is not only the most beautiful
city under the sun, but has the highest
style of citizenship. I have seen but
one intoxicated man in the more than
six months of my residence, and I do
not think any man can give similar
testimony of any other city on the
American continent.
The gavels of our two houses of na
tional legislature will soon fall, and ad
journment of two bodies of men as tal
ented, as upright and as patriotic as
ever graced the capitol, will take place.
The two or three unfortunate out
breaks which you have noticed onl
make more conspicuous the dignity, the
fraterLity, the eloquence, the fidslity
which have characterized those two
bodies during all the long months of
Important and anxious deliberation.
We put a halo around great men of the
past tecause they were so rare in their
time. Our senate and house of repre
sentatives have five such men where
once they had one. But It will not be
until after they are dead that they will
get appreciated. The world finds it
safer to praise the dead than the living,
becau5fc the departed, having a heavy
pile of marble above them, may not rise
to bfcome rivals. But, before the
gavels of adjournment drop and the
doors of Capitol Hill shut, there are
one or two things that ought to be
-done, and let us pray God that they may
be accomplished. More forcibly than
ever before, congress has been im
plored to acknowledge God in our con
stitution. The Methodist church, a
church that is always doing glorious
things, has in its recent Wilmington
conference requested our congress to
amend the immortal document, which
ha3 been the foundation and wall and
dome of our United States government,
by inserting the words, "Trusting in
Almighty God." If that amendment is
made, it will not only please al! the
good people of the country, but will
please the heavens. It was only n
oversight or a mental accident that the
fathers- who made the constitution did
not insert a divinely worshipful sen
tence. They all, so far as they
amounted to anything, believed in
"God, the Father Almighty, the Maker
of heaven and earth, and in Jesus
Christ, his only begotten Son."The con
stitution would have been a failure iiad
ft not been for the Divine interference.
The members of the convention could
agree on nothing until, in response to
Benjamin Franklin's request that the
meetings be opened by prayer, the Lord
Gcd was called on to interefere and
help, and then the way was cleared,
and the states signed a document; a
historical fact that all the rat-terriers
of modern infidelity cannot bark out of
existence! I know that there was an
xception to the fact that the promi
nent men of those good times were good
men. Tom Paine, a libertine and a sot,
did not believe in any thing good antil
he was dying, and then he shrieked out
for God's mercy. And Ethan Allen,
from on of whose descendants I have
received within a few days a confirma
tion of the incident I mentioned in a
recent sermon, as saying to his dying
daughter that she had better take her
mother's christian religion than his
own Infidelity. The article sent me
ays "The story has been denied by
ome of the Allen famllj. but the Broa-
son family, some of whom were with
the dying girl, affirm that it is substan
tially true. In such a matter one con
firmation Is worth more than many de
nials." So says the article sent me.
There is no doubt that Ethan Allen was
the vulgarest 6ort of an infidel, for, sit
ting in a Presbyterian church, his ad
mirers say he struck the pew In front of
him and swore out loud, so as to disturb
the meeting, and no gentleman would
do that. I do not wonder that, some of
his descendants are ashamed of him;
but of course they could not help it,
and are not to blame. But of all the
decent men of the revolution believed
in God, and our American congress,
now assembled, will only echo the sen
timents of the fathers when they en
throne the name of God in the consti
tution. We have now more reason for
inserting that acknowledgement of di
vinity than our fathers had. Since
then the continent ha3 been peopled
and great cities from the Atlantic to
the Pacific built, and all in peace, show
ing that there must have been super
nal supervisal. Since then the war of
1812, and our3 the victory! Slncethen
great financial prostrations, out of
which we came to greater prosperity
than anything that preceded. Since
then sanguinary 1862. 1863, 1864 and
1S65, and notwithstanding the fact that
all the foreign despotisms were plan
ning for our demolition, we are a
united people and tomorrow you will
find in both houses of congress the men
who fought for the north and the south,
now sitting side by side, armed with no
weapon except the pen, with which they
write home to their constituents who
want to be appointed postmasters. The
man who cannot see God in our Amer
ican history is as blind of soul as he
would be blind of body if he could not
at 12 o'clock of an unclouded noon see
the sun in the heavens. As a matter
of gratitude to Almighty God, gentle
men of the American congress, be
pleased to insert the four words sug
gested by the Methodist conference!
Not only because of the kindness of
God to this nation in the past should
such a reverential insertion be made,
but because of the fact that we are go
ing to want Divine interposition still
further In our national history. This
gold and silver question will never be
settled until God settles it. This ques
tion of tariff and free trade will never
be settled until God settles it. This
question between the east and west,
which is getting hotter and hotter and
looks toward a republic of the Pacific,
will not be settled until God settles it.
We needed God In the one hundred and
twenty years of our past national life,
and we will need Him still more in the
next one hundred and twenty years.
Lift up your heads ye everlasting gates
of our glorious constitution, and let the
King of Glory come in! Make one line
of that immortal document radiant
with Omnipotence! Spell at least one
word with. Thrones! At the beginning,
or at the close, or in the center, recog
nize him from whom as a nation we
have received all the blessing of -the
past and upon whom we are dependent
for the future. Print that word "God,"
or "Lord," or "Eternal Father," or
"Ruler of Nations'somewhere between
the first word and the last. The Great
Expounder of the constitution sleeps at
Marshfield, Massachusetts, the Atlantic
ocean still humming near his pillow of
dust Its prolonged lullaby but is there
not some one now living, who, in the
white marble palace of the nation on
yonder hill, not ten minutes away, -vv ill
become the irradiator of the constitu
tion by causing to be added the most
tremendous word of our English vocab
ulary; the name of that being before
whom ail nations must bow or go into
defeat and annihilation "God?"
Again before the approaching ad
journment of our American congress,
it ought to be decided and forever sett led
that no appropriations be made to sec
tarian schools, and that courtship be
tween church and state in this country
be forever broken up. That question al
ready seems temporarily settleJ. I
wish it might be completely and for
ever settled. All schools and all in
stitutions, a3 well as all denominations,
should stand on the same level before
American law. Emperor Alexander of
Russia, at his Peierhoff Palace, asked
me how many denominations of relig
ion there were in America, and I recited
their names as well as I could. TI er
ne asked me the difference between
them, and there I broke down. But
when I told him that no religious de
nomination in America had any privi
leges above the others, he could hardly
understand it. The Greek church first
in Russia. The Lutheran church first
in Germany. The Episcopal church
first in England. The Catholic church
first In Rome. Mohammedanism first
In Constantinople. The emperor won
dered how it was possible that all the
denominations in America could stand
on the same platform. But so it i3,
and so let it ever be. Let there be no
preference, no partiality, no attempt to
'elp one sect an inch higher than an
other. Washington and Jelferson and
all the early presidents, and all the
great statesmen cf the past, have lifted
their voice against any such tendency.
If a school or institution cannot stand
without the prop of national appropria
tion, then let that school or that in
stitution go down. On the other side
of the sea the world has had plenty of
illustration of church and state united.
Let us have none of the hypocrisy and
demoralization bcrn of that relation on
this side of the.Atlantic. Let that de
nomination come out ahead that does
the most for the cause of God and hu
manity. Men, institutions, and relig
ions getting what they achieve by
their own right arm of usefullness, and
not by the favoritism of government.
As you regard the welfare and perpetu
ity of our institutions, keep politics out
of religion.
But now, that I am speaking of na
tional affairs from a religious stand
point, I bethink myself of the fact that
two other gavels will oon lift and fall,'
the one at St. Louis and the other at
Chicago, and before these national con
ventions adjourn, I ask that they ac
knowledge God in the platforms. The
men who construct those platforms are
here this morning or will read these
words. Let no political party think it
can do its duty unless it acknowledges
that God who built this continent, and
revealed it at the right time to the dis
coverer, and who has reared here a
prosperity which has been given to no
other people. "Oh!" says some one,
"there are people in this country who
do not believe in a God, and it would be
an insult to them." Well, there are
people in this country who do not be
lieve in common decency, or common
honesty, or any kind of government,
preferring anarchy. Your veiy plat
form is an insult to them. You ought
not to regard a man who does not be
lieve In God any more than you should
regard a man who refuses to believe in
common decency. Your pocket-book is
not safe a moment in the presence of an
atheist. God is the only source of good
government. Why not, then, say so,
and let the chairman of the committee
on resolutions in your national conven
tions take a pen full of ink
and with bold hand head the
document with one significant "Where
as:" acknowledgingthegoodness of God
in the past, and begging his kindness
and protection for the future. Why, my
friends, this country belongs to God,
and we ought in every possible way to
acknowledge it. From the moment that,
on an October morning in 1492, Colum
bus looked over the side of the ship and
saw the carved staff which made him
think he was near an inhabited coun
try, and saw also a thorn and a cluster
of berries (type of our history ever
since, piercing sorrows and cluster of
national Joys), until this hour our coun
try has been bounded on the north,
south, east and west by the goodness
of God. The Huguenots took posses
sion of the Carolinas, in the name of
God. William Penn settled Philadel
phia, in the name of God. The Hol
landers took possession of New York,
in the name of God. The Pilgrim
Fathers settled New England, in the
name of God. Preceding the first gun
of Bunker Hill, at the voice of prayer
all heads uncovered. In the war of
1S12, an officer came to Gen. Andrew
Jackson and said: "There is an un
usual noise in the camp; it ought to be
stopped." General Jackson said, "What
is the noise?" The officer said, "It is
the voice of prayer and praise." Then
the General said. "God forbid that
prayer and praise should be an un
usual noise in the encampment. You
had better go and join them." Prayer
at Valley Forge. Prayer at Monmouth.
Prayer at Atlanta. Prayer at South
Mountain. Prayer at Gettysburg. "Oh!"
says some infidel, "the northern people
prayed on one side and the Southern
people p yed on the other side, and so
it did not amount to anything." And
I have heard good Christian people con
founded with the infidel statement,
when it is as plain to me as my right
hand. Yes; the Northern people prayed
in one way, and the Southern peopU
prayed in another way, and God an
swered in his own way, giving to the
North the re-establishment of the gov
ernment, and giving to the South larger
opportunities, larger than she had ever
anticipated, the harnessing of her
rivers in great manufacturing interests,
until the Mobile and the Tallapoosa
and the Chattahoochee are Southern
Merrimacs, and the unrolling of great
Southern mines of coal and iron, of
which the world knew nothing, and
opening before her opportunities of
wealth which will give ninety-nine per
cent more of affluence than she ever
possessed; and instead of the black
hands of American slaves, there are the
more industrious black hands of the
coal and iron mines of the South which
are arhievins for her fabulous and un
imagined wealth.
And there are domes of white blossoms where
spread the white tents.
And there are ploughs in the track where the
war wagons went.
And there are sonjss where they lifted up
Rachel's lament.
LABOR NOTES.
Eight hundred Boston brewery work
ers have left the K. of L. and joined
the A. F. of L.
The trades unionists of Los Angeles,
Cal.. are boyecttingg the Chinese and
Japanese restaurants.
Switzerland, a pure democratic form
of government, has had but 305 strikes
in thirty-five years, and of these ten
were lockouts.
The bindery girls employed at the
Roller printing effice. Canton, O., went
on a strike the past week for eight
hours, and after much arbitration the
girl", won.
When they affiliated with the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, last August,
the American Agents' association had
a membership of 800; now they have
12,030.
The American Federation of Labor
was organized in 1881, and now has a
membership of nearly 700,000, which
is far above the high water mark of
the K. of L.
The Central Labor union of Fort
Wayne. Ind., declared in favor of a
municipal electric plant, and the effect
was that the lighting firm which now
has the contract compelled its machin
ists to withdraw from the union.
The Upholsters' union, Indianapolis,
is only one month old and has 125
members, a majority of the trade in
the city. The barbers, waiters, and
harnessmakers are organizing, and the
union movement is making rapid pro
gress in that city.
For the twelve nights beginning Dec.
25 and ending on Jan. 6 (the English
Twelfthnight and the French Fete des
Rois, or Feast of the Kings), the an
cestors of the Siegfrieds and the Lohen
grins held their Yule festival in honor
of the fiery wheel of the sun god. For
the root of our word "wheel" and of the
ScandlnaTlan "yule" are one and the
same. " '
U ISUixUAi SCJiuOL.
LESSON VIII., MAY 24 JESUS
IN THE TEMPLE.
Golden Text: "The Stone Which the
Itallders Kejected, the Same lias Be
come the Head of the Corner"
Lnje SO: 17.
AKE NOTE THAT WE
r-X are now entering up
K J , A.
on me luurui aim iiui
division of the public
ministry of Jesus. We
have been with him in
Judea, in Galilee, in
Perea, and now we
study the wonderful
scenes of the last
eventful week.
Its importance can
be seen from the fact
that more room is
given to the story of
this one week in the
Gospels than to any whole year of Jesus' min
istry. This week occupies seven chapters of
Matthew, five of Mark, five of Luke, and
eight of John; in all, twenty-flve chapters.
against three for the first year, twenty for the
second, and twenty-three for the third.
The events of this week should be learned
by heart, and by drill and by blackboard they
should be Impressed on the memory in vivid
pictures.
Their bearing on the work of Christ should
be clearly pointed out. The first three days.
which are included in to-day's lesson, were
emDloyed in one great and powerful effort.
exerted in every possible way, to induce the
Jewish nation to accept Jesus as their Mes
siah. and thus become that glorious nation,
blessing the whole world, for which they had
been set aDart. Jesus rode into Jerusalem as
the Prince of Peace. The populace hailed
him as Messiah. He entered the temple as Its
Lord and drove out the money-changers from
his Father's house. He presented the truth
in parables.
To-day's lesson includes Luke, 20: 9-19.
9. "A certain man." representing God him
self, the ewner of all things. "Planted a vine
yard." Palestine was a country of vineyards.
and Jesus took his illustration from a most
familiar occurrence. Isaiah uses a similar il
lustration. "And let it forth to husbandmen
It is customary in the East, as in Ireland and
in other parts of Europe, for the owner to
let out his estate to husbandmen, i. e., to
tenants. "And went into a far country
rather, as in the R. V., another country. He
went abroad. He left his tenants in charge
with everything needful for their work, and
thus by his absence tested their faithfulness,
and gave them opportunity to develop their
characters and fulfil their duties, lnis as
"for a long time."
10. "And at the season," not any definite
time, but every occasion when God had rea
son to expect the results. "He sent a serv
ant." The prophets and all faithful priests
and teachers. "The husbandmen beat him,
The next one they not only beat, but entreat
ed him shamefully. The fruit the Lord had
a right to expect, the people did not give him.
The nation as a whole were very disappoint
ing. 13. "My beloved": dear to him as his
own self. This is said to show the greatness
of God's love to man (John 3: 16).
14. "This is the heir." Christ is the heir
of all things (Heb. 1: 2). The Jewish nation
should have been his to rule, while they
obeyed him. the Messiah, in love. "Let us
kill him. that tne lnneriiance maj u uum.
"This alludes to the Eastern custom, that,
if an owner was not to be found, and the
occupier pays the taxes for six years, he can
claim the property. The owner, in this case,
was in a far country, and had sent servant
after servant, but had not enforced his rights.
When the legal heir appeared they were
alarmed for their tenure, and hoped that by
killing him, unless his father came in per
son, the estate would become absolutely their
own." Canon Tristram.
It?. "He shall come and destroy these hus
bandmen." Since every possible method of
saving them had been rejected. The tree that
no culture will enable to bring forth fruit
must be cut down. The wicked man whom
nothing can make better must perish. In
the summer of A. D. 70, forty years after
this parable was spoken, Jerusalem was de
stroyed and the temple was burned and laid
in ruins by the Roman army under Titus, aft
er the most terrible siege on record; 97,000
were taken prisoners, and 1.100,000 perished.
Yet these Jews, if they had been faithful,
might have been the leading nation in the
world, walking as kings and princes among
men. the joy of the whole earth, shedding
the light of God's truth and righteousness over
the nations. But they would not: they re
jected the Messiah and perished. "And shall
give the vineyard to others." "The others"
were the Christian church, the new kingdom
of heaven, which took the place of the Jew
ish nation after the destruction of Jerusalem.
17. "This then that Is written," in Psalm
11$: 22, 23 a psalm which the Jews applied
to the Messiah. Peter twice applied it to
him (Acts 4: 11; 1 Pet. 2; 7). "The stone
which the builders rejected." "In the primary
meaning of the psalm the illustration seems
to have been drawn from one of the stones,
quarried, hewn and marked, away from the
site of the temple, which the builders, ignor
ant of the head architect's plans, or finding
on it no mark (such as recent explorations V1
Jerusalem have shown to have been placed
on the stones of Solomon's temple in the
place where they were quarried, to indicate
their position in the ruture structure or tne
fabric), had put on one side as having no
place in the building, but which was found
afterwards to be that on which the complete
ness of the structure depended on which, as
the chief corner-stone, the two walls met
and were bonded together." Plumptre. The
stone rejected was Jesus the Messiah, and the
kingdom and Its blessings which would come
with him. "Is become the head of the cor
ner." The corner-stone on which the super
structure rests. The most important stone in
tbe building. The Messiah is to succeed and
reign, his kingdom is to come, no matter who
opposes.
18. "Whosoever shall fall upon that stone,"
stumbles at the humiliation of Jesus, and
so does not accept his claims. "Shall be
broken," shall suffer great Injury, but may
yet be saved by repentance and faith. "But
on whomsoever It shall fall," in final Judg
ment and punishment, "it will grind him to
powder," in complete and irremediable de
struction. This was fulfilled In the destruc
tion of Jerusalem, a type of the ruin of those
who reject Christ's principles, atoning love
and guidance.
19. "And the chief priests," seeing that the
parable applied to them, thought to defeat the
prophecy, and make the words to be Impossi
ble to be fulfilled, by destroying Jesus. But
it was his death that wrought victory for
him.
Keeping Cut Flowers Fresh.
Cut flowers will keep very fresh if a
small pinch of common saltpeter is put
in the water in which they stand. The
ends of the stem should be cut off a
little every day to keep open the ah
sorbing pores.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR.
Chicago now contains sixteen
Mothers' Societies of Christian En
deavor.
Two reading rooms for sailors are
supported at Port Richmond and Point
Breeze by Philadelphia Christian En-
deavorers.
The largest gathering of Christians
ever held in Canada is prophesied for
the inter-provincial Christian En
deavor convention, which meets in Ot
tawa next October.
Clever Toanp French Woman.
All France is talking of Mile. Jeanne
uenaben s extraordinary attainments.
i i .
a iiis exceedingly scnoiariy young
woman received the college degree of
oacneior of arts two years ago, when
she was 16. She then became professor
of philosophy in a woman's college at
Lyons, and this year was a candidate
at the Sorbonne for the important de
gree of licentiate in philosophy. The
examiners, though prepared for a
prodigy, were amazed at the extent of
her erudition and her serene composure
in dealing with the vexed problems of
Descartes, Kant and Comte. She was
third on the list of 200 candidates, all
of them older than herself, and is now
a lecturer on the science of the mind
in the college of Rouen.
Cost of Destroying a Slum.
London is spending nearly 32,500,000
in cleansing and rebuilding one slum.
American cities are just beginning to
learn how serious is the cumulative
evil of slum construction. They may
with profit also learn how cost
ly is the necessity of slum destruc
tion. The object lesson offered by
London may be studied with
interest in our large cities, and espec
ially in New York, where, through the
efforts of the state tenament house
commission, legislation has with much
difficulty been secured which, if en
forced, perpetuated and added to, will
tend to prevent the growth of such
conditions as London is now compelled
to combat. Century.
Two Sides to the Question.
Maternal Ancestor (profoundly
shocked) Arabella, I accidentally saw
you kiss young Mr. Peduncle in the
hallway last night. Don't you know
such a thing is highly reprehensible?
Miss Arabella (flaring up) No, I
don't, mamma. I don't thing it's half
as bad as it is for you to kiss that de
ceitful Mrs. Dookins when you know
you don't like to kiss her at all.
Chicago Tribune.
The Hare and the Tortoise.
A hare was one day galloping across
a field, when he met a tortois-e who
was a new candidate for office. The
hare could not help smiling at the
short feet and slow pace of the tor
toise, who, being touchy on this point,
promptly challenged him to a trial of
speed.
On the day appointed the beasts as
sembled. The hare, however, trusting
to his natural swiftness, had not train
ed had continued to smoke cigarettes,
and on the night before the race sat
up with a sick friend. He arrived at
the course, accordingly, very late and
with heavy, everhanging breath.
Seeing that the plodding tortoise was
about to cross the finish line, the hare
firomptly opened bottles for the crowd,
ought up the umpire, and the flag
went to him on a foul.
Moral. The race is not always to
the slow.
The l'aris
museum contains more than
iiplements, all of which were
20,000 stone im
eathered in France
Great Britain iiavs the continent
up
and wards of $70,000,000 a year for sugar
makes not an ounce.
There are 13,000 school masters in Ger
many whose sa anea fall below f-JOO per
annum.
EiDiard tab!e, second-hand, for sale
cheap. Apply to or address, II. C Akiv,
11 S. 12th St.. Omaha, 'eb.
Gladness Comes
With a better understandings of the
rnndpnt nature of the manv phys
ical ills, which vanish before proper ef
forts crentle efforts pleasant efforts
rio-htlv directed. There is comfort in
the knowledge, mat so many iorms oi
sickness are not due to any actual dis
nnco Vnit. simnlv to a constipated condi
tion of the system, which the pleasant
family laxative, jyrup ui v igs. prompt
ly removes. That is why it is the only
umnl ir TO-ifh mill ions nf families, and is
4. lUVrvi V T
everywhere esteemed so highly by all
who value good health. Its beneficial
effects are due to the fact, that it is the
one remedy which promotes internal
cleanliness without debilitating the
organs on which it acts. It is therefore
all important, in order to get its bene
firini flWt- to not when vou pur
chase, that you have the genuine arti
cle, which is manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by
all reputable druggists.
If in the enjoyment of good health,
ami Rrstini 'is reoTilar. laxatives or
other remedies are then not needed. If
afflicted with any actual disease, one
may be commended to the most skillful
nkminionc vrit. if in nppd of a laxative.
one should have the best, and with the
well-informed everywhere, yrup oi
Figs stands highest and is most largely
used and gives most general satisfaction.
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but cannot thrive
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pie their blood is impure, until dread
ful carbuncles, abscesses, boils, scrof
ula or salt rheum, are painful proof of
the fact. It ia wisdom now, or whea
ever there is any indication of
blood, to take Hood's Sarsaparilla, and
prevent 6uch eruptions and suffering'.
"I had a dreadful carbuncle abscess,
red, fiery, fierce and sore. The doctor at
tended me over seven weeks. When the
abscess broke, the pains were terrible, and
I thought I should not live through it. 1
heard and read so much about Hood's
Sarsaparilla, that I decided to take it, and
my husband, who was suffering with
boils, took it also. It soon purified ouz
built me up and restored my health si
that, although the doctor said I would
not be able to work hard, I have sine
done the work for 20 people. Hood's Sar
saparilla cured my husband of the boils,
and we regard it a wonderful medicine.'1
Mrs. Anna. Peterson, Latimer, Kansas.
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w i r:il cure liver ills, easy to tak
llOOU S HI US easy to operate. 25 cent
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VELVETEEN
SKIRT BINDINQS
we will.
Write us for free samples showings
labels and materials.
" Home Dressmaklngf," a new book by Ml
Emma M. Hooper, of the Ladies' Home Journal,
, telling how to put on Bias Velveteen
Ing-s sent for 25c, postage paid.
Skirt B'ji-
3. H. & M. Co., P. O. Bo 609. N. Y. City,
You are bound to succeed in
making HIRES Rootbeer if you
follow the simple directions. Easy
to make, delightful to take.
if a4e on It by Tbe Obarle E. Hire Co.. PhiUdelphla.
A lie. package nuke S gallons. Sold erery wber.
! CUMLASH
9 SMOKING TOBACCO,
9 2 oz. for 5 Cents.
i CUT SLASH
9 CHEROOTS 3 for 5 Cents.
V Give a vJood, Mellow, Healthy,
Q Pleasant Smoke. Try Them.
ft LYO.f ft CO. TOBACCO WORKS, Dirhaa, X. C.
WE HAVE NO agents.
1 W w but Bell direct to the con-
lumer at wholesale prices,
ship anywhere for examin
ation before Bale. Erery.
thinir warrants!. 100 styles
of Csrriaim, 90 styles of
lliraeu, il styles Elalaf Sad
Idlrs. Write for catalogue.
ELkHIRT CARRIAGE A nAR.
SES3 Kf-fl. CO., ELEUaRT,
W. B. Pratt, Secy. 1SD.
WELL MACHINERY J!
Illustrated catalogue showing WKIX
AUGERS. BOCK DRILLS, HYDKATJLIO
AND JETTING MACH1SXBY, etc
Sknt Fru. Have been toted and
ail warranted.
Sioux City Engine and Iron Works,
Successors to Fech Mfg. Co.
Sionx City. Iowa.
Til n Raw? t .fe r"o a am Mipuiuvbt fn
lilt West Eleventh Street, Kansas City M.
OPIUM sajH
hablta rarwd. Bk sal
KOOIXaY, ATLAJTa, fia.
W. N. U., OMAHA 21 1896
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