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TALMAGE'S SESSION ! ON THE SUBJECT : "MASTER OF THE SITUATION. " J ? An Arotulng and Practical Discourse from the I'ollowlng JUibla Text : Zecharlah Jl. , 4 : "Itun , SpcnU to Tula Young Mail. " There was no snow on the beard of the prophet of my text , and no crows'- feet had left their mark near his eyes. Zcchariah was a young man , and in a day-dream he saw and heard two an gels talking about the rebuilding of the city of Jerusalem. One of these angels desires that young Zecharlah should be well Informed aoout the rebuilding of that city , its circumference and the height of Its walls , and he says to the other angels , "Hun , speak to this young man. " Do not walk , but run , for the message is urgent and imminent. So every young man needs to have imme diate advice about the dimensions , the height , and the circumference of that which , under God , he Is to build , name ly , his own character and destiny. No slow or laggard pace will do. A little farther on , and counsel will be of no advantage. Swift-footed must be the practical and Important suggestions , or they might as well never bo made at all. Run at the pace of five miles the hour , and speak to that young man. Run , before this year of 1898 is ended. Run before this century is closed. Run , before his character Is inexorably de cided for two worlds , this world and the next. How many of us have found out by long and bitter experience things that we ought to have been told before we were twenty-five years of age. Now , I propose to tell you some things , which , If you will seriously and prayerfully observe , will make you master of the situation in which you are now placed , and master of every situation in which you ever will be placed. And in order that my subject may be climacteric , I begin on the out side edge of that advice , which will be more and more important as the sub ject unfolds. Now , if you would be master of the situation , do not expend money before you get it. How many young men Ir retrievably mortgage their future be cause of resources that are quite sure to be theirs. Have the money either in your hand , or in a safety deposit , or in a bank , or in a United States bond be fore you make purchases , or go into expensive enterprises , or hitch a spanking team to a glittering turnout , or contract for the building of a man sion on the Potomac or the Hudson. Do not depend on an inheritance from your father or uncle. The old man may live on a good deal longer than you expect , and the day of your enforced payment may come before the day of his decease. You cannot depend upon rheumatism or heart failure or senility to do Its work. Longevity Is so won derfully improved that you cannot de pend upon people dying when you think they ought to. They live to be septuagenarians , or octogenarians , and meanwhile their heirs go into bank ruptcy , or , tempted to forgery , or mis appropriation of trust funds , or water ing of railroad or mining stock , go in to the penitentiary. Neither had you better spread yourself out because of the fifteen or twenty per cent you ex pect from an investment Most of the fifteen or twenty per cent investments are apt to pay nothing save the privi lege of being assessed to meet the ob ligations of the company in the affairs of which you get involved. Better get three and a half per cent from a gov ernment bond than be promised fifteen per cent from a dividend which will never be declared , or paid only once or twice , so ac to tempt you deeper in be fore the grand smash-up , and you re ceive , instead of a payment of divi dends , a letter from the president and secretary of the company saying they are very sorry. * * * Do not say you have no chance ; but remember Isaac Newton , the greatest astronomer of his day , once peddling cabbages in the street ; and Martin Luther , singing on the public square for any pennies that he might pick up ; and John Bunyan , mending kettles ; and the late Judge Bradley , of the United States Supreme court , who was the son of a charcoal-burner ; and Tur ner , the painter , who was the son of a barber ; and Lord Clive , who saved India to England , shipped by his father to Madras as a useless boy whom he wanted to get rid of ; and Prideaux , the world renowned scholar and theologian , scouring pots and pans to work his way through college ; and the mother of the Jate William F. Dodge , the philanthro pist and magnificent man , keeping a thread and needle store ; and Peter Cooper , who worked on small wages In a glue factory , living to give five hundred thousand dollars for the founding of an institute that has al ready educated thousands of the poor sons and daughters of America ; and Bowditch , the scientist , beginning his useful learning and affluent career by reading the books that had been driven ashore from a shipwreck at Salem. There is , young man , a great financial or literary or moral or religious suc cess awaiting you if you only know how to go up and take it * * * Again : If you would master the sit uation ; when angry do not utter a word or write a letter , but before you speak a word or write a word , sing a verse of some hymn , In a tune arrang ed in minor key and having no stac cato passages. If very angry , sing two verses. If in a positive rage , sing three verses. First of all , the unhealth- lest thing on earth is to get mad. It ngles the nerves , enlarges the spleen , Eets the heart Into a wild thump- ing.V Many a man and many a woman in time of such mental and phys ical agitation dropped dead. Not only that , but it makes enemies out of friends , and makes enemies more viru lent , and anger Is partial or consum mate suicide. Great attorneys , under standing this , have often won their cause by wilfully throwing the oppos ing counsel Into a rage. There is one man you must manage , or one woman you must control , In order to please God and make life a success , and that is yourself. There are drawbridges to every castle by which you may keep out of your nature foreign foes , but no man has a defense against himself un less It be a divine defense. Out of the millions of the human race there Is only one person who can do you per manent and everlasting harm , and that is the being that walks un < Jer your own hat and in your own shoes. The hard est realm that you will ever have to govern Is the realm between your scalp and heel. The most dangerous cargo a ship can carry is dynamite , and the most perilous thing in one's nature Is an explosive temper. If your nature is hopelessly irascible and tempestuous , then dramatize placidity. If the ship is on fire and you cannot extinguish the flames , at any rate keep down the hatches. When at some injustice In flicted upon you , or some insult offer ed , or some wrong done , the best thing for you to say is to say nothing , and the best thing for you to write is to write nothing. If the meanness done you Is unbearable , or you must express yourself or die , then I commend a plan that I have once or twice successfully adopted. Take a sheet of paper. Date it at your home or office. Then put the wrong-doer's name at the head of the letter-page , without any prefix of "Colonel" or suffix of "D. D. , " and be gin with no term of courtesy , but a bold and abrupt "Sir. " Then follow It with a statement of the wrong he has done you , and of the Indignation you have felt. Put into it the strongest terms of execration you/can employ without being profane. Sign your name to the red-hot epistle. Fold it. Envelope it. Direct it plainly to the man who has done you wrong. Carry the letter a week , or two weeks , if need be , and then destroy it. In God's name , destroy it ! * * * Let me- know how you meet that first great offense and I will tell you whether your life is to be a triumph era a failure. You see , equipoise at such a time means so many things : It means self-control. It means a capacity to foresee results. It means a confidence in your own integrity. It means a faith in the Lord God that he will see you through. Again : If you would be master of the situation , put the best interpreta tion on the character and behavior of others. Do not be looking for hypo crites In churches , or thieving among domestic servants , or swindlers among business men , or malfeasance in office. There is much in life to make men sus picious of others , and- when that char acteristic of suspicion becomes domi nant , a man has secured his own unhappiness - piness , and he has become an offense in all circles , religious , commercial and. political. The man who moves for a committee of investigation is generally a moral derelict The man who goes with his nostrils inflated , trying to dis cover something malodorous , is not a man , but a sleuth-hound ! The world is full of nice people , generous people , people who are doing their best good husbands , good wives , good fathers , good mothers , good governors , good state and national legislators , good rul ers. Does some man growl out , "That has not been my experience , and I think just the opposite ? " Well , my brother , I am sorry for your afflictive circumstances , and that you had an un fortunate ancestry , and that you have kept such bad company , and had such discouraging environment I notice that after a man has been making a violent tirade against his fellow-men , he is on his way down , and if he live long enough he will be asking you for a quarter of a dollar to get a drink or a night's lodging. Behave yourself well , oh , young man , and you will find life a pleasant thing to live , and the world full of friends , and God's benediction everywhere about you. Again : If you would be master of the situation , expect nothing from good luck , or haphazard , or gaming ad ventures. In this time , when it is esti mated that gambling exchanges money to the amount of about eighty million dollars a day , this remark may be use ful. There come times in many a man's life when he hopes to get some thing for which he does not give an equivalent , and there are fifty kinds of gambling. Stand aloof from all of them. Understand that the gambling spirit is a disease , and the more suc cessful you are , the more certain you are to go right on to your own ruin. * * Again : If you would be master of the situation , never adjourn until to morrow what you can do today. The difference between happy and inspir ing work and wearying and exhausting and dispiriting work is the difference between work behind you and work be fore you. But always wait until you feel like it , wait until circumstances are more propitious , wait till next week , or wait till next year , and the probability is the work will be only half done , or never done at all. Post ponement is the curse of a vast popu lation. After awhile all the things that ought to have been done previously will rush in upon you , and it being too much for your brain and nerves , you will be a fit subject for paralysis or nervous prostration. * * * A'gain : If you would be master of the situation , and I name it last , be cause it is the most important , for you know that which Is last mentioned is apt to be best remembered , I charge you get Into your heart and life , your conversation and your manners , your body , mind and soul , the near six thousand-year-old religion of the Bi ble. Why so ? Because the large ma jority of people quit this life before twenty-five years of age , and the possi bility Is that If you do not take posses sion of this religion , and religion does not take possession of you while you are young , you will never come Into alliance. Mrs. McKInley , the mother of our presfdent , said to me at the1 White House : "I am living on bor rowed time , for I am over eighty years of age. " My reply to her was the re ply I make to you : "All those who are over fifteen years of age are living on borrowed time , since the majority of people go out of the world before fifteen years of age. " * * More young men would take this ad vantage which I speak of if they did not have the notion that religion puts one into depressing process. They have heard , for instance , the absurd preachment : "You ought to live every day as though it were your last. " Such a lachrymose man I would not want anywhere around me. On the contrary , you ought to live as though you were going to live a great while in this world , and to live forever In the next world. There is no smell of var nish of coffin-lids in our genuine re ligion. Get in right relation with God through Jesus Christ , and you need not bother yourself the rest of your life for two minutes about your death or about your funeral. Here is a manly religion , one that will extirpate from your nature all that ought to bo ex tirpated , and irradiate it with every virtue , and make it glow with every anticipation. Do not postpone to the fifties or even the forties of your life that which you can be and do in the twenties or thir ties. If you do not amount to much be fore forty years of age , you will never amount to much. Young man , start right , and the only way to start right is to put yourself into companionship with the best friend a young man ever had Christ the Lord. He will give you equipoise amid the rocking of life's uncertain ties. He will support you in a day of loss. He will direct you when you come to the forks of the road and know not which road to take. He will guide you in your home life , if you are wise enough to have a home of your own. If you live on to great prosperity He will show you how to manage a fortune. If your earthly projects fail , and you are put in financial straits , He will see to it that that is the best con dition for your soul , and the discipline and the hardship will make you more and more of a man. If you live on to old age , He will make the evening twilight as bright as , and perhaps brighter than , was the morning twi light , and when your work on earth is done , the gates of a better world will open on expansions and enthrone ments and felicities which St. John de scribes , sometimes as orchards , some times as shaded streets , and sometimes as a crystaline river , and sometimes as an orchestra with mighty instruments , blown on by lips cherubic , or thrummed by fingers seraphic , and in habitants always tearless , and songful , and respondent , so that the mightiest calamity of the universe is the portion of that one who fails to enter it Young man , seek only elevating and improving companionship. Do not let the last scion of a noble family , a fel low with a big name but bad habits , for he drinks and swears and is disso lute , take your arm to walk down the street , or spend an evening with you , either at your room or his room. Re member that sin is the most expensive thing in God's universe. I have read that Sir Brasil , the Knight , tired out with the chase , had a falcon on his wrist , as they did in days of falconry , when with hawks or falcons they went forth to bring down * partridges , or grouse , or pigeons , and being very thirsty , came to a stream struggling from a rock , and releasing the falcon from his wrist , he took the bu le which he carried , and stopping the mouth-piece of his bugle with a tuft of moss , he put this extemporized cup under the water which came down , drop by drop , from the rock until the cup was full , and then lifted it to drink , when the falcon he had re leased , with sudden swoop , dashed the cup from his hand. By the same pro cess he filled the cup again , and was about to drink when the falcon by an other swoop dashed down the cup. En raged at this insolence and violence of the bird , he cried. "I will wring thy neck if thou doest that again. " But having filled the cup a third time the falcon dashed it down. Then Sir Brasil with his fist struck the bird , which fluttered and looked lovingly and re proachfully at him and dropped dead. Then Sir Brasil , looking up to the top of the rock whence dripped the water , saw a great green serpent , coiled fold above fold , the venom from his mouth dropping into that from which Sir Brasil had filled his cup. Then ex claimed the knight , "What a kind thing it was for the falcon to dash down that poisoned cup , and what a sad thing that I killed him , and what a narrow escape I had ! " So now there are no more certainly waters that re fresh than waters that poison. This moment there are thousands of young men , unwittingly and not knowing what they do , taking into their bugle- cup of earthly joy that which Is deadly because it drips from tne jaws of that old serpent , the devil , and the dove of God's Spirit in kindly warning dashes down the cup ; but again it Is filled and again dashed down , and again filled and again dashed down. Why not turn away and slake your thirst at the clear , bright , perennial fountain that breaks from the Rock of Ages , a foun tain so wide and so deep that all the Inhabitants of earth , and all the armies of heaven , may stoop down and fill their chalices ? FOE BOYS AND MELS. SOME GOOD STORIES' FOR OUR JUNIOR READERS. 'A. Great y * bis Week' * Story Sketch of a Boy Who Took Editor Greeley'a Advice Stealing a Bird's t loving' Service. A Uttlo Boy's Trouble. I thought when I'd learned my letters. That all my troubles were done ; But I , flnd myself mistaken They 'have only just begun. Learning to read was awful. But nothing like learning to write , I'd be sorry to have to tell It. But my copy-book Is a sight. " . 2 The Ink gets over my fingers , 8 The pen cuts all sorts of shines ; And won't do at all as I bid It , The letters won't stay on the lines , But go up and down and all over , As though they were dancing a Jiff They are there In all shapes and sizes , Medium , little and big. There'd be some comfort In learning If one could get through ; instead " Of that , there arc books awaiting , [ Quite enough to craze my head , ' , There's the multiplication table , . * And grammar , and oh. dear me ! ? There's no good place for stopping. J "When one has begun , I see. i > " : { V My teacher says , little by little- | ' " To the mountain top we climb , ( j It Isn't done in a minute. 1 $ < p But only a step at a time ; "V" " She says that all the scholars. And all the wise and learned men , Had each to begin as I do ; If that's so whore's my penl , A Great Day. "Children , " asked Miss Mary , the teacher , "do you know what day this is ? " "Yes , ma'am ! " cried Bobby Wilkins , looking up with sparkling eyes. "Does any one else know ? " asked Miss Mary. No one spoke. The boy John knew very well what day it was , but he was off in the clou'ds thinking of William the Conqueror , and did not hear a word Miss Mary said. Billy Green knew , too , but he had been reproved for chewing gum in class , and was in the sulks , and would not speak. Of course Joe didn't know , for he never knew anything of that kind ; and none of the girls were going to answer when the boys were reciting. So Bobby Wilkins was the only one who spoke. "It is a day , " said Miss Mary , look ing round rather severely , "which ought to awaken joy in the heart of every American , young or old. " Bob by felt his cheeks glow , and his heart swell. He thought Miss Mary was very kind. "It is a day , " she went on , "to be celebrated with feelings of pride and delight. " Bobby felt of the bright new half dollar in his pocket , and thought of the splendid kite at home , and of the cake that mother was making when he came away. He had not wanted to come to school today , and now he was glad he had come. He had no idea Miss Mary would feel this way about it. He looked round to see how the others took it , and they all looked blank , except the boy John , who was standing on the field of Hast ings , and whose countenance was il lumined with the joy of victory. "It is a day , " said Miss Mary , with kindling eyes for the children were really very trying today "which will be remembered in America as long as freedom and patriotism shall endure. " Bobby felt as if he were growing taller. He saw himself in the presi dent's chair , or mounted on a great horse , like the statues of Washington , holding out a truncheon. "One hundred and twenty years ago today , " continued Miss Mary. "Oh oh , my ! it ain't ! " cried Bobby Wilkins , springing it. "It's only seven. " "Bobby , what do you mean ? " asked Miss Mary , looking at him severely. "You are very rude to interrupt me. What do you mean by 'seven' ? " "My birthday , " faltered Bobby. "I ain't a hundred and anything , I'm on ly seven ! " "Come here , dear , " said Miss Mary. holding out her hand very kindly. "Come here , my little boy. I wish you very happy returns , Bobby , dear. But but I was speaking of the battle or Bunker Hill. " A Boy \Vho "Went West. A number of years ago , before any railway came into Chicago , they used to bring in the grain from the western prairies in wagons for hundreds or miles , so as to have it shipped off by the lakes. There was a father who had a large farm out there , and who used to preach the gospel as well as to attend to his farm. One day , when church business engaged him , he sent his son to Chicago with grain. He waited and waited for his boy to re turn , but he did not come home. At last he could wait no longer , 'so he saddled his horse and rode to the place where his son had sold the grain. He found that he had been there and got the money for his grain ; then he be gan to fear that his boy had been murdered and robbed. At last , with the aid of a detective , they tracked him to a gambling den , where they found that he had gambled away the whole of his money. He had fallen among thieves , and like the man who was go ing to Jericho , they stripped him , and then they cared no more about him. What could he do ? He was ashamed to go home to meet his father , and he fled. The father knew what it all meant. He knew the boy thought he would be very angry with him. He was grieved to think that his boy should have so little confidence in him. That is just exactly like the sinner. He thinks because he has sinned God will have nothing to do with him. But what did the father do ? Did he say , 'Let the boy go ? " No ; he Trent from town o town , from city to city. He would get the ministers to let him preach , and at the close he would tell his story. "I have got a boy who is a wanderer on the face of the earth somewhere. " Ho would describe his boy and say : "If you ever hear of him or see him , will you not write to me ? " At last he found that he had gone to California , thousands of miles away. Did the father say , "Let him go ? " No ; off he went to the Pacific coast , seek ing the boy. He went to San Fran cisco , and advertised in the newspa pers that he would preach at such a church on such a day. When he had preached he told his story , in hopes that the boy might have seen the ad vertisement and come to the church. When he had done , away under the gallery , there was a young man who waited until the audience had gone out ; then he came toward the pulpit. The father looked and saw it was his own boy , and he ran to him , and press ed him to his bosom. The boy want ed to confess , but not a word would the father hear. He forgave him free ly , and took him home once more. I tell you , Christ will welcome you this minute if you will come. Say , "I will arise and go to my Father. " May God incline you to take this step. There is not one whom Jesus has not sought far longer than that fattier. There has not been a day since you left him but he has followed you. Stealing a Bird's Nest. Nobody wants to hear about the van dals who go bird's-nesting , unless we may be told that they have , in some fashion , come to grief ; but a new and innocent form of that occupation has come into being , whereby one may car ry off a nest and eggs without break ing the mother bird's heart. A writer in Forest and Stream tells how he goes on this quest. I was out on a little expedition the other day , along the banks of the No- roton river , near Stamford , Conn. The neck of land I sought is composed or rich , soft ground , and covered with a heavy growth of bushes. Beneath them Is a carpet of skunk cabbage and hellebore , and along the margin , in the early spring , there are brilliant patches of marsh marigold. Near by is a tall tree , and on the topmost twig a red-winged blackbird swung in the wind. At short intervals he uttered a joyous "Kong-querree ! " which was doubtless a signal to his mate , and has been humanly trans lated as "All's well ! " As I approached his confident announcement was changed to a suspicious "chut ! chuck ! " and then he launched himself into the air with a shrill and pro longed cry of alarm. I pushed my way through the under growth and had not gone far when there was a flutter of bird's wings on my left , and the hen blackbird hung poised in air above me. There in a wild rosebush , perhaps four feet from the ground , was the nest , and in it were four beautiful blue eggs , curious ly streaked and spotted with black. I cut two straight poles and slung them up horizontally , a few inches apart , almost directly over the nest. I made them as firm as I could by tying them to the bushes with cords , and by bracing them with stakes be low. I then placed my camera on the poles , with the nozzle pointing down between them at the nest , and climb ing a tree stump , close to the bush , I was in a position to focus the camera. I had a slow plate ; so I gave it a short time exposure , with full sunlight , and obtained a beautifully clear picture of nest and eggs. I < ovlnc Service. A lady was walking homeward from a shopping excursion , carrying two or three packages in her hand , while by her side walked her little boy. The child was weary ; the little feet began to lag and soon a wailing cry arose. "I'm too tired ! I want somebody to let me wide home ! " The mother looked about her , but there was no street car going in her direction. She took one of the parcels and gave it to the child. "Mamma is tired , too , and Willie must help her to get home. She is glad she has such a brave little man to take care of her and help her to carry the bundles. " Instantly the little fellow straight ened , his step quickened and he reached for the offered parcel , saying stoutly : "I'll tarry 'em all , mamma. " ' It was only the old , old lesson that our Father is always teaching us : "Is the homeward way weary ? Try to lighten another's burden and the lov ing service shall smooth thine own path. " "Can't God Count ? " Two children were carrying a basket of cakes to their grandmother. As often happens with children and with grown people , too they were curious to know what was in the basket , and so they carefully raised the corner and looked in. When their greedy eyes saw the tempting cakes their mouths fairly watered to take them. After counting them over several times they almost made up their minds to eat just one or them. Nobody would know it and it would taste so good ! While they were gazing at the cakes and just ready to take one , the little girl looked up into her brother's face and thoughtfully asked the matter-of- fact question , "Can't God count ? " This settled the matter immediately and all the cakes were carried to their grandmother. A woman may drive her husband to drink and be unable to drive a nail for the same reason both heads being soft. Genojral John W. Foster , who served as LlfHung Chang's adviser during the Japanese-Chinese peace negotiations , has received a letter from the Oriental statesman , In which he says that "all recent changes In China are for the better. " Among the papers of President Mc- ley's .mother was found the other day a copy of her answer to a letter which asked "how she brought up her child ren. " "I had six of th'em , " was her answer , "and I 'had my own work to do , but I did simply the best I could. " The Bookman has heard of a Scotch professor who had been advocating the advantages of athletic exercise- "The Roman ! youths , " he cried , "used to swim three times across the Tiber before breakfast. " The Scotch professor ser exclaimed , "Mr. McAllister , why do you smile ? We shall lie glad to share your amusement. " The canny Scot replied , "I was just thinking , sir , that the Roman youths must have left their clothes on the wrong side at the end of their swim. " There is a Class of People Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called GRAIN-0 , made of pure grains , that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress , and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over one-fourth as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cents and 25 cents per package. Try It. Ask for GRAIN-0. Nothing emits a worse odor than a tainted reputation. 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