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AGL1i1 S SERMON.
"THE CHIEFTAIN" SUEJECT OF
DISCOURSE.
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I The Golden Text : "Tito Chlcfest Among
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Verge 10-Jesus Cttrlet Is Chief of
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splcuous character
of history steps out
upon the platform.
The finger which ,
diamonded w i t h
light , pointed down
to him from the
Bethlehem sky , was
only a ratification
of the finger of
t prophecy , the finger -
ger of genealogy , the finger of chronology -
elegy , the finger of events-all five fingers -
gers pointing in one direction. Christ
is the overtopping figure of all time.
He is the "vox humana" in all music ,
( the gracefulest line in all sculpture , the
most eiulsite mingling of lights and
shades In all painting , the acme of all
climaxes , the dome of all cathedral
grandeur , and the peroration of all lan-
guage.
The , Greek alphabet is made up of
twenty-four letters , and when Christ
compared himself to the first letter
and the last letter , th Alpha and the
Omega , he appropriated to 'himself' all
the splendors that you can spell out
either with those two letters or all the
letters between them : "I am the Alpha
and the Omega , the beginning and the
end. "
What does that Scripture mean which
t says of Christ , "He that cometh from
above is above all ? " It means after
you have piled up all Alpine and Himalayan -
alayan altitudes , the glory of Christ
' would have to spread its wings and
descend a thousand leagues to touch
those summits. Pelion , a high mountain -
tain of Thessaly ; Ossa , a high mountain -
tain , and Olympus , a high mountain ;
but mythology tells us when the giants
warred against the gods they piled up
these three mountains , and from the
top of them proposed to scale the heavens -
ens ; but the height was not great
enough , and there was a complete fail-
ure. And after all the giants-Isaiah
and Paul , prophetic and apostolic
giants ; Raphael and Michael Angelo ,
artistic giants ; cherubim and seraphim
and archangel , celestial giants-have
failed to climb to the top of Christ's ,
glory they might all unite in the words
of Paul , and cry out , "Above all ! Above
all ! " But Solomon in his text prefers to
call Christ "The Chieftain , " and so today -
day I hail him.
First , Christ must be chief in our
preaching. There are so many books
on homiletics scattered through the
country that all laymen , as well as all
clergymen , have made up their minds
what sermons ought to be. That sermon -
mon is the most effectual which most
pointedly puts forth Christ as the pardon -
don of all sin and the correction of all
evil-individual , social , political , na-
tional. There is no reason why we
should ring the endless changes on a
few phrases. There are those who think
that if an exhortation or a discourse
have frequent mention of justification ,
sanctification , covenant of works and
covenant of grace , therefore it must be
profoundly evangelical , w.lr.e ' they are
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suspicious of a discourse which presents -
sents the same truth , but under different -
ent phraseology. Now , I say there is
nothing in all the opulent realm of
Anglo-Saxonism , of all the word treasures -
ures that we inherited from the Latin
and the Greek and the Indo-European ,
but we have a right to marshal it in
religious discussion. Christ sets the
trample. His illustrations were from
the grass , the flowers , the barn-yard
fowl , the crystals of salt , as well as
from the seas and the stars ; and we do
not propose in our Sunday-school
teaching and in our pulpit address to
be put on the lim s.
I know that there is a great deal said
in our day against words , as though
they were nothing. They may be misused -
used , but they have an imperial power.
They are the bridge between soul and
soul , between Almighty God and the
t human race. What did God write upon
t the tables of stone ? Words. What
did Christ utter on Mount Olivet ?
Words. Out of what did Christ strike
the spark for the illumination of the
universe ? Out of words. "Let there
be light , " and light was. Of course ,
thought is the cargo , : nd words are
only the ship ; but how fast would your
cargo get on without the ship ? What
you need , my friends , in all your work
in the Sabbath-school class , in your
reformatory institutions , and what we
all need , is to enlarge our vocabulary
when we come to speak about God and
Christ and heaven. We ride a few old
words to death , when there is such
illimitable source. Shakespeare employed -
ployed 15,00 different words for dramatic -
matic purposes , Milton employed 5,000
different words for poetic purposes ,
Rufus Choate .employed over 11,000 different -
ferent words for legal purposes , but the
' most of us have less than 1,000 words
that we can manage , and that makes
14 Us SO stupid.
When we come to set forth the love
d t of Christ u-0 are going to take the ten-
derest phraseology wherever we find it ,
and if it bas never been used in that
direction before all the more shall we
use it. When we come to . .peak of the
glory of Christ the Conqueror , we are
going to draw our similes from triumphal -
phal arch and oratorio and everything
grand and stupendous. The French
c : navy have-eighteen flags by which they
give signal , but those eighteen flags
they can put into sixty-six different
Combinations. And I have to tell you
7 that these standards of the cross may
be lifted into combinations infinite and
varieties everlasting. And let me say
to these young men who come frcm the
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theological seminaries into our services -
ices , and are , after awhile , going to
preach Jesus Christ : You will have the
largest liberty and unlimited resource.
You only have to present Christ in your
own way.
Brighter than the light , fresher than
the fountains , deeper than the seas ,
are all these gospel themes. Song has
no melody , flowers no sweetness , sunset
sky no' color , compared with these glorious -
rious themes. These harvests of grace
spring up quicker than we can sickle
them. Kindling pulpits with their fire
and producing revolutions with their
power , lighting up dying beds with
their glory , they are the sweetest
thought for the poet , and they are the
most thrilling illustration for the orator -
tor , and they offer the most intense
scene for the artist , and they are to
the embassador of the sky all enthusiasm -
asm ; complete pardon for direst guilt ;
sweetest comfort for ghastliest agony ;
brightest hope for grimmest death ;
grandest resurrection for darkest
sepulchre. Oh , what a gospel to preach !
Christ the Chief ! His birth , his suffering -
ing , His miracles , His sweat , His tears ,
His blood , His atonement , His interces-
sion-what glorious themes ! Do we exercise -
ercise faith ? Christ is' its object Do
we have love ? It fastens on Jesus.
Have we a fondness for the church ?
It is because Christ died for it. Have
we a hope of heaven ? It is because
Jesus went there , the herald and the
forerunner. The royal robe of Deme-
trius was so costly , so beautiful , that
after he had put it off no one ever dared
to put it on. But this robe of Christ ,
richer than that , the poorest and the
weakest and the worst may wear.
Where sin abounded , grace may much
more abound. "
"Oh , my sins , my sins ! " said Martin
Luther to Staupiz , "my sins , my sins ! "
The fact is that the brawny German
student had found a Latin bible that
made him quake , and nothing else ever
did make him quake ; and when be
found how , through Christ , he was pardoned -
doned and saved he wrote to a friend ,
saying : "Come over and join us great
and awful sinners , saved by the grace
of God. You seem to be only a slender
sinner , and you don't much extol the
mercy of God ; but we that have been
such very awful sinners praise His
grace the more now that we have been
redeemed. " Can 'it be that you are so
desperately egotistical that you feel
yourself in first-rate spiritual trim , and
that from the root of the hair to the
tip of the toe you are scar-
less and Immaculate ? What you need
is a looking-glass , and here it is in the
Bible. Poor and wretched , and miserable -
able and blind and naked from the
crown of the head to the sole of the
foot , full of wounds and putrifying
sores. No health in us. And then
take the fact that Christ gathered up
all the notes against us and paid them ,
and then offered us the receipt ! And
how much we need him in our sorrows -
rows ! We are independent of circumstances -
stances if we have His grace. Why ,
lie made Paul sing in the dungeon ,
and under that grace St. John from
desolate Patmos heard the blast of the
apocalyptic trumpets. After all other
candles have been rjtuffed out , this is
the light that gets brighter and brighter -
er unto the perfect day ; and after , under -
der the hard hoofs of calamity , all the
pools of worldly enjoyment have been
trampled into deep mire , at the foot
of the eternal rock , the Christian , from
the cups of granite , lily-rimmed , puts
out the thirst of his soul.
Again I remark that Christ is chief
in dying alleviations. I have not any
sympathy with the morbidity abroad
about our demise. The Emperor of
Constantinople arranged that on the
day of his coronation the stone mason
should come and consult him about the
tombstone that after awhile he would
need. And there are men who are monomaniacal -
omaniacal on the subject of departure
from this life by death , and the more
they think of it the less they are pro.
pared to go. This is an unmanliness
not worthy of you , not worthy of me.
Saladin , the greatest conqueror of
his day , while dying , ordered that the
tunic he had on him be carried after
his death on his spear at the head of
his army , and then the soldier , ever
and anon , should stop and say : "Be-
hold all that is left of Saladin , the emperor -
peror and conqueror ! Of all the states
he conquered , of all the wealth he
accumulated , nothing did he retain but
this shroud. " I have no sympathy with
such behavior , or such absurd demonstration -
stration , or with much that we hear
uttered in regard to departure from
this life to the next. There is a commonsensical -
monsensical idea on this subject that
you need to consider-there are only
two styles of departure. A thousand
feet underground , by light of torch ,
toiling i'i a miner's shaft , a ledge of
rock may fall upon us , and we may die
a miner's death. Far out at sea , failing -
ing from the slippery ratlines and
broken on the hilliards , we may die a
sailor's death. On mission of mercy in
hospital , amid broken bones and reeking -
ing leprosies and raging feverswe may
die a philanthropist's death. On the
field of battle , serving God and our
country , slugs through the heart , the
gun carriage may roll over us , and we
may die a patriot's death. But , after
all , there are only two styles of depart-
ure-the death of the righteous and the
death of the wicked-and we all want
to die the former.
God grant that when that hour comes
you may be at home. You want the
hand of your kindred in your hand.
You want your children to , surround
you. You want the light on your ph-
-low from eyes that have long reflected
your lore. You want your room still
You do not want any curious strangers
standing around watching you. You
want your kindred from afar to hear
your last prayer. I think that is the
wish of all of us. But is that all ? Can
earthly friends hold us up when the
billows of death come up to the girdle ? I
Can b.uman voice charm open heaven's
gate ? Can human hand pilot us
through the narrows of death into
heaven's harbor ? Can any earthly
friendship shield us from the arrows
of death , and in the hour when Satan
shall practice upon us his infet nal archery -
ery ? No , no , no , no ! Alas ! poor soul ,
if that is all. Better die in the wilderness -
ness , far from tree shadow and from
fountain , alone , vultures circling
through the air waiting for our body ,
unknown to men , and to have no burial -
ial , if only Christ could say through
the solitudes , "I will never leave thee ,
I will never forsake thee. " From that
pillow of stone a ladder would soar
_ heavenward , angels coming and going ;
and across the solitude and the barrenness -
ness would come the sweet notes of
heavenly minstrelsy.
Gordon Hall , far from home , dying
in door of a heathen temple , said : "Glo-
ry to thee , 0 God ! " What did dying
Wilberforce say to his wife ? "Come
and sit beside me , , and let us talk of
heaven. I never knew what happiness
was until I found Christ. " What did
dying Hannah More say ? "To go to
heaven , think what that Is ! To go to
Christ , who died that I might live !
Oh , the love of Christ , the love of
Christ ! " What did Toplady , the great
hymn-maker , say in his last hour ?
"Who can measure the depths of the
third heaven ? Oh , the sunshine that
fills my soul ! I shall soon be gone , for
surely no one can live in this world
after such glories as God has manifested -
ed to my soul. "
So , alno , Christ is chief in heaven.
The Bible distinctly says that Christ
is the chief theme of the celestial
ascription , all the thrones facing His
throne , all the palms waved before His
face , all the crowns down at His feet.
Cherubim to cherubim , seraphim to
seraphim , redeemed spirit to redeemed
spirit , shall recite the Savior's earthly
sacrifice.
Stand on some high hill of heaven ,
and in all the radiant sweep the most
glorious object will be Jesus. Myriads
gazing on the scars of His suffering , in
silence first , ditarward breaking forth
into acclamation. The martyrs , all the
purer for the flames through which
they passed , will say , "This is the Jesus -
sus for whom we died. " The apostles ,
all the happier for the shipwreck and
the scourging through which they
went , will say , "This Is the Jesus whom
we preached at Corinth , and at Cappa-
docia , and at Antioch , and at Jerusa-
lem. " Little children clad in white will
say , "This is the Jesus who took us in
His arms and blessed us , and , when
the storms of the world were too cold
and loud , brought us into this beautiful -
ful place. " The multitude of the bereft
will say , "This Is the Jesus who comforted -
forted us when our heart broke. " Many
who wandered clear off from God and
plunged into vagabondism , but were
saved by grace , will say , "This is the
Jesus who pardoned us. We were lost
on the mountains , and He brought
us home. We were guilty , and He
made us white as snow. " Mercy boundless -
less , grace unparalleled. And then , after -
er each one has recited his peculiar
deliverances and peculiar mercies , recited -
cited them as by solo , all the voices
will come together in a great chorus ,
which will make the arches echo and
re-echo with the eternal reverberation
of triumph.
Edward I. was so anxious to go to the
Holy Land that when he was about to
expire he bequeathed $160,000 to have
his heart , after his decease , taken to
the Holy Land , in Asia Minor , and his
request was complied with. But there
are hundreds to-day whose hearts are
already in the Holy Land of heaven.
Where your treasures are , there are
your hearts also. Quaint John Bunyan
caught a glimpse of that place , and in
his quaint way said : "And I heard in
my dream , and lo ! the bells of the city
rang again for joy ; and as they opened
the gates to let in the men I looked In
after them , and lo ! the city shone like
the sun , and there were streets of gold ,
and the men walked on them , harps
in their hands , to ring praises withal ;
and after that they shut up the gates.
which when I had seen I wished my.
self among them ! "
PHILOSOPHY.
Fame Is an undertaker that pays but
little attention to the living , but bedizens -
dizens the dead , furnishes out their
funerals and follows them to the grave.
-Colton.
Quick is the succession of human
events : the cares of to-cay are seldom
the cares of to-morrow ; and when we
lie down at night we may safely say to
most of our troubles , Ye have done your
worst , and we shall meet no more.-
Cowper.
Believe me , sir , those who attempt to
level never equalize. In all societies
consisting of various descriptions of citizens -
izens , some description must be upper-
most. The levelers , therefore , only
change and pervert the natural order
of things ; they load the edifice of society -
ety by setting up in the air what the
solidity of the structure requires to been
on the ground.-Burke.
It is a good plan , with a young person
of a character to be much affected by
ludicrous and absurd representations ,
to show him plainly , by examples , that
there is nothing which may not be so
represented. He will hardly need to be
told that everything is not a mere joke ,
and he may thus be secured from falling -
ing into a contempt of those particular
things which he may at any time happen -
pen to find so treated.-Whately.
Cicero says that "to study philosophy
Is nothing but to prepare a man's self
to die. " The reason of which is , because
study and contemplation do in some
sort withdraw from us and deprive us of
our souls , and employ it separately from
the body , which is a kind of learning to
die , and a resemblance of death ; or else
because all the wisdom and reasoing
in the world does in.the end conclude in
this point , to teach us not to fear to die.
When the prodhal started back to hie
father's house he didn't have to go all
the way alone.
God's help is all the weakest man
needs , and what the worst may have if
he will repent.
NOT ALL KILLED BY SHOT.
6pilntcrs Were Iirore Destructlve Than
Mlesiles in the Eaalcrn War.
The recent war between Japan and
China has taught the officers of the
American navy at least one new thing
in the construction of vessels. There
will be scarcely any woodwork In the
Oregon , that Is ra Idly nearing completion -
tion at the Uni .Iron works. This is
due to the fac .at there were more
people killed ainjured : In the naval
battles in the , sit by flying wooden
splinters than be bullets or exploding -
ing shells. 1 . .c of the cruisers and
battle ships that took part In the war
were constructed with steel hulls , and
all of them were more or less protected
with heavy armor plates. The interior
fittings and furnishings of the quarters
and the deck coverings , however , were
of wood. When a shot pierced the hull
of a vessel and tore through the wood
in the interior of the ship splinters were
sent flying in all directions. In most
cases the shot passed through the vessel
without injuring any of the crew , but
the shower of wooden splinters filled
the sick bay and kept the sailmaker
sewing up the dead in canvas sacks for
burial. On the battleship Oregon practically -
tically no wood will be used. All the
bulkheads and partitions dividing the
rooms in the officers' quarters are to beef
of iron. No wood will be used on the
decks , but instead linoleum will be
cemented to the iron deck to prevent
slipping. All the doors will be of iron ,
and all those leading to the decks will
be made watertight.
What rakes a Man Di , This' .
What makes a man of 30 or 40 take
a sailboat when he can't sail it , put in
his friends or family for ballast , and go
right out to capsizing and tragedy ? You
can't answer that any more than you
can explain how such a fool has made
out to survive to his present age. Why
didn't he reach his deserved fate long
before ? No one can say. Enough that
it does overtake him and he gets from
ten lines to a column in the paper , according -
cording to how big a fool he was. At
the shore we see sailboats run away out
into the wound , until they can hardly
be seen , and when the clouds come up
and it begins to thunder the venturesome -
some amateur who is away out there is
the last to start for shelter. He doesn't
know enough to know his danger. So
it goes each summer , and each summer
has its long string of drowning tragedies -
dies for a part of its history. But , as
we said before , no one summer does it
up completely , so as to give civilization
a fresh chance. A lot of people are
drowned for their folly this year who
lived through last year , which was just
as good a year for drowning , and a lot
will live through this year and go out
and drown in 1896 as readily as if they
were led.-Ex.
Ventilate at Nifiht.
though contrary to the usual practice -
tice , night air will ventilate a cellat
more thoroughly and cause less humidity -
ity than the hot air of midday. Open
the cellar windows at sunset and
leave them open until 6 in the morning ,
and the air will be cooler and drier
than if the cellar is closed at night
and open during the day. The screens
or gratings should be so arranged that
the windows can be opened and closed
without moving them.-New York
Evening Post.
A Mutual Service. '
He-I am very unfortunate ; it seems
I can please nobody.
She-Come , cheer up ; I have no one
to admire me , either.
He-Tell you what-let's found a society -
ciety for mutual admiration ; I , for instance -
stance , admire your beautiful eyes ; and
what do you admire in me ?
She - Your good taste.- Brooklyn
Life.
NEWSY MORSELS.
Emily Soldene has been appearing
with success in "La Fille de Mme.
Angot" at Sydney , Australia.
The latest information from the
moon is that 132,856 craters have been
counted on its surface , all dead.
Oregon has just passed a law against
fishing in the Columbia river on Sun-
day. It is intended to give the salmon
a rest.
There is a warm controversy in Utah
over the right of women to vote in that
territory next November , when the
constitution will be presented for rati-
fication.
After an existence of twenty-two
years the English Palaeographical society -
ciety has come to an end. During its
existence it published 550 fac similies
of manuscripts and inscriptions.
The butchers of Bridgeport , Conn. ,
have decided to revive an old custom
among members of their trade. They
will , this year , hold a barbecue and
roast a lot of oxen and sheep.
A thief in New York set himself to
chase and catch a thief. He succeeded
and made off with the booty , while the
victimized pilferer of the first part was
arrested and locked up.
On the day of the feast of St. Theodore -
dore , observed annually at Helmagen ,
Roumania , all the young married women -
men go about the town kissing the men
and offering them a drink of wine.
Japanese postmen whose routes carry
them into the country use bicycles.
Their wheels are made by local manufacturers -
facturers , who have appropriated improvements -
provements from both British and
American patents.
In the Danish budget a curious tax
entitled the "rank tax" is calculated to
produce 3,261. Social rank is highly
prized in Denmark , and everyone of any
consideration has his clearly defined position -
sition in the social hierarchy.
A valuable Greek inscription has recently -
cently been added to the Louvre. It
comes from the neighborhood of
Djerach , in Syria , and contains portions
of an ancient law concerning the maintenance -
tenance of vineyards and their protection -
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Wise Old Sing Ceerops.
Did I say that the people who lived
there ( Athens ) at that time were
simple-minded ? Rather childlike they
were in some ways , and not so worldly-
wise as they might have been had they
lived some thousand years later ; but
they were neither simpletons nor
altogether savages 't'hey were the
foremost people in Greece. It was all
owing to their king , wise old Cecrops ,
that they had risen to a condition supe
rior to that of the half barbarous tribes
around them. lie had shown them
how to sow barley and wheat and plant
vineyards ; and lie had taught them to
depend upon these and their flocks and
herds for food , rather than the wild
beasts of the chase. tie had persuaded
them. to lay aside many of their old
cruel customs , had set them in families
with each its own home , and had instructed -
structed them in the worship of the
gods On the top of the Acropolis they
had built a little city , and protected it
with walls and fortifications against
any attact front their warlike neighbors -
bors ; and from this point as a center
they bad , little by little , extended their
influence to the sea on one side and to
the mountains on the other. But ,
strange to say , they had not yet given
a name to their city , nor had they decided -
cided which of the gods should be its
protector.
Piso's Cure is the medicine to l.reac ! up
children's Coughs and Cods.-3r ! $ . M. G.
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An Antoinette Wrp.
If there is no new dress under the
sun , Aaron's linen coat being worn today -
day by women and pantaloons having
been found from the stone epoch , there
are at least designs that reappear like
comets at such long intervals that they
are new to some consecutive generations -
tions 't'hus it is with a certain Marie
Antoinette cloak , that has appeared
and seems destined to a career. Not
so very old in its design it is so extremely -
tremely odd and its carcer.was so short
in its day that it comes with all the
effect of surprise. This hood is exceedingly -
ceedingly wide and ishooped round the
opening , and when on the head stands
out like an inflated half balloon somewhat -
what flattened on top and leaving a
wide space on each side of the face ,
that may be filled with hair or shadows -
ows The width of this hood reaches
out to that of the widest sleeves ever
made. Attached to a long cloak it is
bound to figure in evening wraps next
winter , but forstalling the time , they
are occasionally seen on hotel piazzas
at night. and made of taffeta beruched
or of satin lined with cloth ; one or two
travelers have worn them coming fromn
Paris to the beech. The effect is truly
marvelous
The Nickel I'late road has authorized
its agents to sell tickets at greatly reduced -
duced rates to Albany , N. V. , on occasion -
sion of the meeting of the German
Catholic Societies of the United States
in that city , Sept. 15th to lath. For
particulars address J. Y. Calahan , Gen'l
Agent , 111 Adams St. , Chicago.
Stock in ohi < , .
The auditor of the state of Ohio has
completed his annual tabulation of time
returns of animals made by the various
counties.
It shows a notab'e decrease in the
number of sheep in the state , there being -
ing only 3,005,40 ; this year , against
3,555,1S2 in ISO-I. A decided reduction
in the number of horses is also shown.
In 1SJ4 there were S24,540 , and this year
there are but ; J.SJ5 , a decrease of 2w-
945. There are 1,2 : 2,901 cattle in the
state , decrease . of 13.204 from last
year. An increase is shown in the
number of hogs , there being L4 3i9 :
this year , against 1,331,1GJ in 1bii4 , an
increase of 100,234.
" $ anEOn's Magic Cori Su1ve. "
Warranted to cute or money refunded. Asa you
iruggist for it. Price 15 cents.
The First horse that Ever Lived.
There is a Greek legend tellling how
Athens came by its name , and there is
a noble horse who plays a prominent
part in the legend. If we are to believe -
lieve the story , he was the first real
flesh-and-blood horse of which we have
any account. Some men say that he
was the firstanimal of the kind that
ever lived , but this is doubtful. Snowy
white , without spot orblcniish from the
tips of his ears to the tips of his amber
hoofs , how he must have astonished
the simple-minded follc of Cecropin
when he leaped right out of the earth
at their feet ! If you should evergo to
Athens and climb to the top of that
wonderful hilicalled the Acropolis look
arouud you. You may see the very
spot where it all is said to have happened -
pened
Horeseekers' Excursions.
On Aug. 2ath. Sept. 10th and 24th , IS ! ' : , ,
the onion Pacific System will sell tic et
from louncii Bluffs and Omaha to point
south and west in Netraska and Kansas
also to Colorado. Wvomin _ , Uhh and
Idaho. east of Weiser and south of Beaver
Canon , at exceedingly low rates. For ful :
information , as to rates and limit , apply
to A. C.1Jt'ss.
City Ticket Agent , 1302 Farnam tit. ,
Omaha , Neb.
GREAT BOOK FREEG
When Dr. R. V. Pierce , of Buffalo , N. 'V. ,
published time first edition of his work , The
People's Common Sense Medical Adviser ,
he announced that after GSooco , copies had
been sold at the regular price , $ m. o per
copy , the profit on which would repay him
for the great amount of labor and money
expended in producing it , he would distribute -
tribute the next half million free. As this
number of copies has already been sold , he
is now distributing , absolutely free , $ ooooo
copies of this ' . most complete -
plete , interest- COUPON ing and valuable -
uable common . No.111 sense med-
icalwork ever : rpublished-
the recipient only being required to mail
to him , at the above address , this little
Courov with twenty-one (2I ( ) cents in one-
cent stamps to pay for postage and packing -
ing only , and the book will be sent by mail.
It is a veritable medical library , complete
in one volume. It contains over Iooo pages
and more than See illustrations. The Free
Edition is precisely the same as those sold
at I.5o except only that the books are
bound in strong manilla paper covers instead -
stead of cloth. Send row before all are
given away. They are going off rapidly.
The Largest Elk on Iecord. ,
The largest elk of which I have an t 1
authentic record was formerly owned j I
by Mr. G. IL McKenzie , of Sullivan ' li
county , New York , and kept in his j
park until it had to be killed for j 1
viciousness It measured as follows : I
Length of head and body , 7 feet 8
inches ; tail , 64 inches ; height at the
shoulders , 5 feet 4 inches I am glad
to be able to add that its skin is now iii
the possession of the American Muse-
urn of Natural History , and will soon
be mounted by Mr. Rowley-which
guarantees the quality of the finished
specimen. The weight of that animal
could scarcely have been less thau 1,000
pounds , but the weight of a full-grown 1
cow elk sometimes is as little of 400
pounds.-St Nicholas.
' ' ' " ' '
0l'1"arker'sGinger 'ronlo
't'he revlvlna powers t
fender It inois ensabo ! In every home. toraaeh ,
troubits , colds and every form of , : lstressileld toll.
1.
One consequence of the battle of the
Yalu is the proposal made in Europe
of establishing a naval Red Cross society -
ciety , whose vessels , painted in some
I
distinctive color , shall accompany hos- f
the fleets and pick up the crews of yes-
eels sunk in action.
Get Illndorcorn. . and ; * .e it If
If you Want to realiz. the comfort of lelux without
corns. It takes them out m , rattly. l5c , at drugds.s
I
A mustard plaster made according to
the following directions will notblister
'the ' most sensitive skin : 't'wo teaspoon-
full mustard , two teaspoonfuls flour ,
two teaspoonfuls ground ginger. Do /
not mix too dre. place between two
pieces of old muslin and apply. If it '
burns too inuch at first lay an extra
piece of muslin between it and the
skin : as the skin becomes accustomed
to the heat take the extra piece of mus-
tin away.
THE NEBRASKA STATE FAIR.
t
Special Bates nud Trains via the Ilnr-
1Inmton Routc.
Round trip tickets to Omaha at the one
way rate , plus 50 cents ( for admission cou-
Ion : to the State Fair ) , will ho on sale Sop-
teinher 13th to 20th , at Burlington Route
stations , in Nobrashit , in Kansas on the
Concordia , Oberlin and St. Francis lines
and in Iowa and Missouri within 1C0 miles
of Omaha.
Nebraskans are assured that tho'95 State
Fair will ho a vast improvement on its
predecessors Larger-more brilliant-bet-
ter worth seeing. Every one who can dose
so should spend State Fair week , the whole
of it , in Omaha.
'i'he outdoor celebrations will ho particularly -
larly attractive , surpassizi anythingef the
hind ever before undertaken by any western -
ern city. Every oveuiri , Omaha will be
Minnie with electricc lights and glittering
I ageants will parade the streets. 'rho program -
gram for the ovoninti ceremonies is :
Monday , Sept. 10th-Grand Bicycle Car-
nival. I
Tuesday , Sept. 1Tth-Nebraska's parade.
Wednesday , Sept. ISth-Military and
civic parade.
1 hursdav , Sept. lath-Knights of Ak-Sar-
1 en Parade , to be followed by the "Feast
of Mondamin" Ball.
Round trip tirkcts to Omaha at the re-
dnced rates above mentioned , as well as
lull information al out the Burlington l
lOates : train service at the time of the
State Fair , can be hind oft application to
the nearest P. & M. It. It. agent.
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I
ED -E
Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many , who live better -
ter than others and enjoy life more , with
less expenditure , by more promptly
adapting the world's best products to
the needs of physical being , will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy , Syrup of Figs.
! Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas-
I ant to the taste , the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect laxative -
ative effechiall } cleansing a time system ,
dispelling colts , headaches and fevers
an permanently curing constipation.
It has riven satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
1 profession , because it acts on the Kid-
net's , Liver anti Bowels without weakening -
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs i , for sale by all dre'
! gists in 50c and Si bottles , but it is maan-
ummfactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only , whose name is printed on every
A package , also the name , Syrup of Figs ,
! and being well informed , you will not
accept any substitute if ofiered.
WELL iAcHIwERY
ES'
mustrated catalorno showing WELL
AUGERS. ROCK DRILLS , IIYDI4AALIO
AND JETTING MACHINERY , etc ,
i
SENT PBES. Have been tested and
am warranted ,
Stout City Engine and iron works ,
Successors to Pech 31g. Co.
Sioux : City. Iowa. - s ? i
Tan nowrtt.t CIIASE MACIIISERY CO. ,
lull west Eleventh Street , Kaa'ar Clty v"-
Omaha ors
Stove repair. for 40,000 .
and ran re. . 1200 Dou lax St. , Omaha , Seb
.A : .T IFIC I.AL
FreeCatalogur. Geo.E.r 'uiler ,
Box 2146 , Rochester , N. Y.
13. 1. Ili. , Ontaha--37.
When answering advertisements kindly
mention this paper.
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Best CottYh t3yrup. Tastes Good. IIse
in time. Sold by drnemtist' .
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