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    THE SCRIPTURES CONFIRMED
Dr.’ Talmajre Preaches on His Sail
Up the Nile.
Murh W h\h Convince* film of the
Trulli of tho Script urr*~ A Sermon
llcplfto With Facta mid Con.
Tlnclng l’roof*.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 25.—The
rendering of the first sonata m I).
minor, liy Guilmant, on tlic great or
gan of the Brooklyn Tabernacle this
morning by I’rofcssor Henry Eyre
Browne, tho organist, held the vast
congregation spell-bound with pro
found emotion. Dr. Talninge preached
on "Sailing Up the Nile," the second
sermon of the senes, entitled "From
the Pyramids to the Acropolis, or What
I Saw in Egypt and Greece, Comflrma
tory of the Scriptures” His text was
Ezekiel 20:0: "The river is mine and I
have made it.’’
Ahul This is the river Nile. A
brown, or yellow, or silver cord on
which ure hung more jewels of thrill
ing interest than on any river that was
ever twisted in the sunshine. It rip
ples through the Hook of Ezekiel, and
flashes in the Hooks of Deuteronomy,
and Isaiah, and Zecliariah, and Nulium,
and on its hunks stood the mightics of
mnnv ages It was the crystnl cruille
of Moses, and on its tanks Mary, the
refugee, carried the infant Jesus. To
find the birthplace of this river wus
tho fascination and defeut of expedi
tions without number. Not many years
ago Hnynrd Taylor, our great Ameri
can traveler, wrote: "Since Columbus
first looked upon Sun Salvador the
earth has but one emotion of triumph
left for her bestowal, and that she re
serves for him who shall first drink
from tho fountains of tho White Nile
under the snow fields of Kilimanjaro.”
But the discovery of tho sources of the
Nile by most people was considered an
impossibility. The malarias, the wild
beasts, the savages, the unclimable
steeps, tha vast distances stopped nil
tho expeditions for ages. An intelli
gent native said to Sir bamuel W. linker
and wife as they were on their way to
accomplish that in which others had
failed: "Give up the mud scheme of
the Nile source. How would it tie pos
sible for a lady young and delicate to
endure what would kill the strongest
man? Give it up.” But the
work went on until Speke, and
Grant, and Baker found the two
lakes which are the source of what was
called the White Nile, and baptised
these two lakes with the names of Vic
toria and Albert. These two lakes,
filled by great rainfalls and by accu
mulated snows from the mountains
pour their waters, laden with agricul
tural wealth such as blesses no other
river, on down over the cataracts, on
between frowning mountains, on be
tween cities living and cities dead, on
for 4,000 miles and through a continent
But the White Nile would do little for
Egypt if this were all. It would keep
its bunkB and Egypt would remain a
desert Hut from Abyssinia there
comes what is called tho Blue Nile,
which, though dry or nearly dry half
the year, under tremendous ruins about
the middle of June rises to great mo
mentum, and this Blue Nile dashes
with sudden Influx into the White
Nile, which in consequence rises thirty
feet, and their combined waters inun
date Egypt with a rich soil which
drops on all the fields and gardens as
it is conducted by ditches, and sluices,
and canals every whither. Ihe great
est damage that ever came to Egypt
came by the drying up of the river
Nile, and the greatest blessing by its
healthful and abundant flow. The
famine in Joseph's time came from the
lack of sufficient inundation from the
Nile. Not enough Nile is drouth, too
much Nile is freshet aud plague. The
rivers of the earth are the mothers of
its prosperity. If by some convulsion
of nature the Mississippi should be
trhen frem North A merit n, or the
Amazon fvgm South America, or the
Danube from Europe, or the Yenesei
from Asia—what hemispheric calamity!
otiu mure lire oilier rivers mat couid
fertilize and save these countries. Our
own continent is gulched, is ribboned,
is glorified by innumerable water-cour
ses Hut Egypt has only one great river,
and that is harnessed to draw all the
prosperities of reals in acreage semi
infinite. What happens to the Kite,
happens to Egypt The nilometer was
ro me very suggestive as wo went up
and down its damp stone steps and
saw the pillar marked with notches
telling just how high or low aro the
waters of the Nile. When the Nile is
rising, four criers every morning run
through the city announcing how
many fret the river has risen—ten feet,
fifteen feet, twenty feet, twenty-four
feet—and when the right height of
water is reached the gates of the canals
are flung open and the liquid and re
freshing benediction is pronounced on
all the land.
As we start where the Nile empties
into the Meditcrranncan sea we be
hold a wonderful fulfillment of the
prophecy. The Nile in very ancient
times used to have seven mouths. As
the great river approached the sea it
entered the sea at seven different pla
ces Isaiah prophesied: “The Lord
shall utterly destroy the tongue of the
Egyptian sea and shall smite it in the
seven streams.” The faet is they are
all destroyed but two and Herodotus
said these two remaining are artificial.
Up the Nile we shall go; part of the
way by Egyptian rail train anj* then
by boat, and we shall understand why
the lliblo gives such prominence to
this river which is the largest river
of all th<> earth with one exception.
But before we board the train we must
take a look at Alexandria. It wa~
founded by Alexander the Great and
Was once the New York, the Paris, the
London of the world. Temples, pala
ces, fountains, gardens, pillared ami
efflorescent with all architectural and
Edenic grandeur and sweetness. A pol
ios. the eloquent, whom in New Testa
ment times some people tried to make
a rival to I*nul, lived here. Here Mark,
the author of the second book
of the New Testament, expired
under Nero's anathema. From
here the ship sailed that left Paul and ,
the crew struggling In the breakers of
Mellta. I’ompey's Hllur is here, about
100 feet high, its base surrounded by
so much tilth and squalor I wasglad to
escape into an uir that was breatha
ble. This tower was built in honor
of Diooletiun for sparing the rebel
lious citizens. After having declared
that ho would make the blood run
to Ills horse's knees, and his horse fell
with hitn into the blood and his knees
reddened, the tyrant took it for
granted that was a sign he should stop
the massacre and hence this commem
orative pillur to his mercy. This is the
city so wiiich Omar came after build
ing 1,400 mosques, and destroying4,000
temples and 35,000 villages and castles,
yet riding in on a camel with a sack of
corn, a sack of tigs and a wooden plate,
all that he had kept for himself, and
the diet to which he had limitciL him
self for most of the time was oread
and water. Was there ever in any
man a commingling ol elements so
strange, so weird, so generous,so cruel,
so mighty, so weak, so religious, so
fanulical? In this city was the great
est female lecturer the world ever saw
—Hvpulia. liut the lesson of virtue
that she taught were obnoxious and so
they dragged her through the streets
and scruped her flesh from her hones
with sharp oyster shells and then
burned the fragment of the massacred
body. And here dwelt Cleopatra, pro
nounced to be the beauty of all time
alt hough if her pictures are correct I
have seen a thousand women in Brook
lyn more attractive—and she was ns
bad as she was said to bo handsome.
Queen, conqueress, and spoke s^ven
languages, although it would have
been better for the world if she had
not been able to speak any. Julius
t'aisar conquered the world yet she
conquered Julius ( to-nr.
liut Alexandria, fascinating for this
or that thing, according to the taste
of the visitor, was to mo most enter
taining because it had been the site of
the greatest library the world ewer
saw, considering the fact that the art
of printing had not been invented.
Seven hundred thousand volumes and
all the work of a slow pen. liut down
it all went under the torch of besiegers.
Built ugain and destroyed agafti.
liuilt again but the Aruba came along
for its final demolition nud the 4,0u0
baths of the city were heated with
those volumes, the fuel lasting six
months, and were ever fires kindled at
such fearful cost? What holocausts of
the wor.d's literaturel What martyr
dom of bocks!
liut all aboard the Egyptian rail
train going up the banks of the Nile!
Look out of the window and see those
camels kneeling for the imposition of
their load. And 1 think we might take
from them a lesson, and instead of try
ing to stand upright in our own
strength, become conscious of our
weakness and need of divine help be
fore we take upon us the heavy duties
of the year or the week or the day, and
so kneel for the burden. Wo meet pro
cessions of men and beasts on the way
from their days work, but alas, for the
homes to which the poor inhabitants
are going. For the most part hovels of
mud. but there is something in the
! scene that thoroughly enlists us. It is
{the novelty of wretchedness, aqd a
scene of picturesque rags. For thou
sands of years this land has been un
der a very damnation of taxes. Noth
ing but Christian civilization will roll
buck the influences which are “spoiling
the Egyptians.” There are gardens
and palaces, but they belong to the
rulers.
About here, under the valiant Murad
Bey the Mamelukes, who are the finest
i horsemen in all the world, came like a
hurricane upon Napoleon's army, but
they were beaten back bv the French
in one of the fiercest battles of all
time. Then the Mamelukes turned
their horses’ heads the other way, and in
desperation backed them against the
French troops, hoping the horses would
kick the life ont of the French regi
ments. The Mameiukes. failing again,
plunged into this Nile and were
drowned, the French for davs fishing
out the deud bodies of the Mamelukes
to get the valuables upon their bodies.
Napoleon, at the daring of these
Mamelukes, cxclaraed: “Could I have
united the Mameluke horse to the
French infantry, 1 would have reck
oned m.vseif master of the world.”
According to the lead pencil mark la
in my iiib.o it was Thanksgiving Day
morning, November 28tli, 1881), thut
with ray family and friends we step
ped aboard the steamer on the Nile.
The Mohnnunedun call to prayers had
been sounded by the priests of that re
ligion, the Muezzins, from the
400 mosques of Cairo as the cry
went out, “God is great. I bear wit
ness that there is no God but God j
bear witness that Mohammed is the
apostle of God. Come to prayera Come
to salvation. God is great. There is
no other but God. Prayers are better
than sleep ” Tlio sky and city and
palm groves and river shipping were
bathed in the light It was not much
of a craft that we boarded. It would
not be hailed on any of our rivers with
any rapture of admiration. It fortun
ately had but little speed for twice we
ran aground and the sailors jumped
into the water and on their shoulders
pushed her out Hut what yacht of
gayest sportsmen, what deck of swift
est ocean queen could give such thrill
of rapture as a sail on the Nile? The
Pyram ds in sight, the remains of cities
that are now only a name, the vil
lages thronged with population. Both
banks crowded with historical deeds of
forty or sixty centuries. Oh, what a
book the Bible is when read on the
Nile!
As we slowly move up tho majestic
river I see on each bank the wheels,
the pumps, the buckets for irrigation,
and see a man with his foot on the
treadle of a wheel that fetches up the
water for a garden, and then for the
first time 1 understand that passage in
Deuteronomy which says of the Israel
ites after they had got back from
Egypt: “The land whither thou goest
in to possess it is not as the land of
Egypt, from whence ye came out.
where thou 60west thy seed.and water
edst it with thy foot.'” Then 1 under
stood. how the land could be watered
with the foot.
While sailing on this river or stop
ping at one of the villages, we see peo
pie on the banks who verify the Bible
description for they are now as they
were in Bible times. Shoes are now
taken off in reverence to sacred places.
Children carried astride the mother's
'boulder as in Hagar's time. Women
with profusion of jewelry as when Re
■>ecca was affianced. Lentils shelled
into the pottage, as when Esau sold
his birthright to get such a dish
The sae* habits of salutation as
—,
whin Joseph and hla brethren fell on
each others' necks. Courts of law held
under big trees as in olden times. 1’eo
plo making bricks without straw, com
pelled by circumstances to use stubble
instead of straw. Flying over or stand
i%T on the banks as in scripture days
tire flamingoes, ospreys, eagles, pell
| cans, herons, cuckoos and bullfinches,
tin alt sides of this river sepulchres.
| Villages of sepulchres. Cities of sep
I ulchres. Nations of sepulchres. And
one is tempted to cnli it an empire of
tombs. 1 never saw such a place as
Kgypt is for graves. And now we un
derstand the complaining sarcasm of
the Israelites when they were on the
way from Kgypt to Cunaan: "because
there ore no graves in Kgypt hast thou
taken ns away to die in the wilder
ness?" Down the river bank come the
buffalo and the cattle or kine to drink.
And it was the ancestors of these cattle
that inspired l’haraoh's dream of the
lean kine and the fat kine.
liere we disembark a little while for
Memphis, off from the Nile to the right.
Memphis founded by the first king1 of
Egypt and for a long while the caoi
tal, A eity of marble und gold. Home
of the Pharaohs. City nineteen miles
in circumference. Vast colonnades,
through which Imposing processions
marched. Here stood the Temple of
the .Sun, itself in brilliancy a sun shone !
on by another sun. Memphis in power
over a thousand one hundred years, or
nearly ten times as long as the United
States have existed. Here is a recum
bent statue seventy-five feet long,
lironzed gateways. A necropolis called
“the haven of the blest.” Here Joseph
was prime minister. Here l’haraoh
received Jacob, llosea, Ezekiel, Jere
miah and Isaiah speak of it as some
thing wonderful. Never did I visit a
city with sttch exalted anticipations,
and never did my anticipations drop so
flat., Not a pillar stands. Not a wall
is unbroken. Not a fountain tosses in
the sun. Even the ruins have been ru
ined, and all that remains arc chips of
marble, small pieces of fractured sculp
ture and splintered human bones. Here
and there a letter of some elaborate
inscription, a toe or ear of a statue
that once stood in niche of palace
wall. Ezekiel prophesied its blot
ting out and the prophesy has been
fulfilled. “Hide on,” 1 said to our
party, “and don't wait for me.” And
as 1 stood there alone, the city of Mem
phis in the glory of past centuries re
turned. And I heard lllc rush of her
chariots and the dash of her fountains
and the conviviality of her places and
saw the drunken nobles roll on the
floors of mosaic, while in startling con
trast amid all the regalities of the
place I saw Phuroah look up into the
face of aged rustic Jacob, the shep
herd, saying: “How old art thou?”
ltut back to the Nile and on and up
till you reach Thebes, in scripture
called the City o"f No. Hundred-gatod
Thebes. A quadrangular city four
miles from limit to limit. Four great
temples, two of them Karnac and
Luxor, once mountains of exquisite
sculpture and gorgeous dreams solidi
fied in stone, statue of Rameses II, eight
hundred and eighty-seven tons in
weight and seventy-five feet high, but
now fallen and scattered. Walls
abloom with the battlefields of cen
turies. The surrounding hills of rock
hollowed into sepulchres on the wall
of which are chiselled in picture and
hieroglyphics the confirmation of Uiblo
story in regard to the treatment of
Israelites in Egypt so that, as explora
tions go on with the work, the walls of
these sepulchres become commentaries
of the Bible, the scriptures originally
written upon parchment heio cut into
everlasting stone.
Two great nations, Egypt and Greece,
diplomatized and almost came to bat
tle for one book, a copy of AOschylus.
• l’tolemy, the Egyptian king, discov
j ered that in the great library at Alex
andria there was no copy of yEscliylus.
The Egyptian king sent up to Athens,
Greece, to borrow the book and make
; a copy of it. Athens demanded a de
posit of #17,700 as security. The Egypt
| ian king received the book, but re
| fused to return that which he had bor
i rowed and so forfeited the #17,700.
The two nations rose in contention
concerning that one book. Beautiful
und mighty book indeed! Hut it
is a book of horrors, the
dominant idea that we are the
victims of hereditary influences from
which there is no escape, and ttiat fate
'rules the world, and although the
[ author does tell of Prometheus who
was crucified on the rocks for sym
pathy for mankind, a powerful sug
gestion of the sacrifice of Christ in
later years, it is a very poor book com
pared with that Hook which we hug
to our hearts because it contains our
only guide in life, our on y comfort in
death, and our only hope for a blissful
immortality. If two nations could
afford to struggle for one copy of
[ .Eschylus, how much more can all
nations afford to struggle for the
possession and triumph of the Holy
Scriptures?
Hut the (lead cities strung along the
Nile not only demolish infidelity, but
thunder down the absurdity of the
modern doctrine of evolution which
says the world started with nothing
nnd then rose, and human .nature be
gan with nothing but evolved into
splendid manhood and womanhood of
itself. Nay; the sculpture of the
world was more wonderful in the days
of Memphis and Thebes and Carthage
than in the days of ltoston and New
York. Those blocks of stone weigh
ing 300 tons high up in the wall of
Karnac imply machinery equal to, if
not surpassing, the machinery of the
nineteenth century. How was that
statue of Rnmeses, weighing 887 tons
transported from the qarriesUOO miles
away and how was it lifted? Tell us,
modern machinist. How ivcro thoso
galleries of rock, still standing at
Thebes, filled with paintings sur
passed by no artist's pencil of the pres
ientday? Tell us, artists of the nine
teenth century. The dead cities of
Egypt so far as they have left enough
piilars or statues or sepulchres or
temple ruins to tell the storv—Mem
phis, Migdol, liierapolis, Zoan'Thebes,
lioshca, Carthage—all of them develop
mg downward instead of upward.
They have evoluted from magnificence
into destruction. The gospel of
lesus Christ is the only eleva
tor of individual Bnd social national
character. Let all the living cities
know that pomp and opulence and tem
poral prosperity are no security. Those
incicnt cities lacked nothing but good
morals. Dissipation and sin slew them,
tnd unless dissipation and sin are
lalted, they will some day slay our
modern cities and leave our pal.ves of
merchandise and our galleries of art
and our city halls as flat in the dnst as
we found Memphis on the afternoon ol
that Thanksgiving day. And if ths
cities, go down the nation will gc
down.
1 notice that the voice of those ancient
cities is hoarse from the exposure o:
forty centuries, and they accentuaU
slowly with lips that wefe palsied foi
ages, but all together those citiei
along the Nile intone these words
“Hear us for we are very old, and it ii
hard for us to speak. We were wise
long before Athens learned her firs’
lesson. . We sailed our ships while ye’,
navigation was unborn. These obe
lisks, these pyramids, these fuller
pillars, these wrecked temples, thesr
colossi of black granite, these wrecked
sarcophagi under the brow of th<
hills, tell you of what I wai
in grandenr, and of what I am coming
down to be. We sinned and we fell.
Our learning could not save us: Set
those half-obliterated hieroglyphics os
yonder wall. Our architecture could
not save us: See the painted column)
of Philos, and the shattered temple ol
Ksneh. Our heroes could not salve us'
Witness Menes, Diodorus Kamescs, and
Ptolemy. Our gods Ammon and Osiris
could not save us: See their fuller
temples all along the four thousand
miles of Nile. Oh, ye modern cities gel
some other God; a God who can help, a
God who can pardon, a God who can
save: Called up as we are for a little
while to give testimony, again ths
sands of the deserts will hury us.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust!” And as
these voices of porphyry and granite
ceased, all the sarcophagi under tho
hills responded, “Ashes to ashes!” and
and tlie capital of a lofty column fell
grinding itself to powder among the
rocks, and responding, “Dust to dust!”
An umiun'a (irutitudo.
Col. Broaden, lute Attornev-Genera!
of Now Mexico. was mien retained t»
defend# Mexican and a Navajo Indian
enurged wiili the murder of a soldier
oil a street in Santa Fu one night.
Two Mexiran women testiliod iliai
they witnossed tiie imtrderaml thought
they could identify the prisoners as
the persons who committed it. Bn
oilier evidence favored the licensed and
the court and jury thought the women
were mistaken. Some lime after the
acquittal the Navajo turned up, in the
seventh heaven of intoxication, ami
sought out Brcodeu. In his expansive
gratitude he told the attorney that,
although moneyless, as usual, lie
wanted to perform some groat service
in part payment of the debt lie owed
him for securing his acquittal.
‘'Come to my house,1' said the attor
ney. "anil try your hand on my gar
den.”
“But,” said the Navajo, "give mo
something bardur than that to do
some groat thing for a brave. Don't
you want somebody killed? If you
do I'll serve hiui as we did tiie
soldier!”
“Did you kill the soldier?”
“Of course we did. I thought you
knew that.”
Society in Cincinnati and St. Louis.
A good story, like a motion to ad
journ. is always iu order, so I pause
just here to tell one. It introduces the
‘-•hup from St. Louis. Thu oilier dav,
as half a dozen Americans were sitting
in the smoking-room of a Swiss bote”
one of them remarked, “I saw in a
recent number of the Palis -New York
Herald' a letter from a man who wrote
to inquire if the United States’ cele
brated Society of Cincinnati was still
iu existence. Do any of von g-ntle
men Happen to know whether it’s alive
or nol?’ The chap from Si. Louis
puffed vigorously at his cigar for a few
ninmeiits aud theu said: • Well. sir. I
kuo.v Cincinnati pretty well, and while
it contains a good many nice people
(my wife lias a cousin living there), it
ain't got no society to speak of. No,
sir, if yon want to see real tip-top so
ciety in tiie West, you’ve got ter come
to St. Louis. I’ve half a mind to
write to the Herald and (ell ’em that
while Cincinnati may have somethin’
which she Hallers herself is society, a
til-omen's picnic, or an afternoon lea.
tiie real genuine arliclc, what you
might call tliu Four Hundred, is run
mil West by St. Louis.”—Sisw York
Tribune.
Little Curious Things*
Thu manufacture of false teeth for
horses is a now industry just opened
in Paris with a capila'l of 2,1100.1)110
fra ucs.
A Liverpool, England, man was re
ceutly sentenced to live years' penal
servitude for obtaining a snilling under
the pretext that it was to be used for a
charitable purpose.
There is a mountain of coal in Wild
Horse Valley, Wyo., which lias been
burning for more than thirty years.
It scuds up dense volumes of smoke,
and ut times tne gas from it is almost
suffocating, even at a distance of fifty
to seventy-live miles from the buruiug
coalbed. “
Probably tho most remarkable rail
road iu the world is that running from
Gloggintz to Louneriog, near Vieuna.
It is only twenty-live miles in length,
but cost $9.000 000. It begins at nil
elevation of 1 400 feet uml has its ter
minus at 13 000 feet. * It has tifteon
double viaducts, seventeen tunnels,uml
crosses itself mine times.—M. Louis
liepubuc.
Pins.
.A curious fact in tlic early history of
pius is tlmt when they were first sold
in “open shop” there was such a great
demand for them that a code was
passed permitting their sale only on
two days iu tho year—the 1st and 2d
of January.
Mr. Romanes, of I.ondnti, has an
ape that he has taught lo count—not
very far up. indeed, hut as far as live,
lie knows the numbers and the words
that indicate them, llis method is to
take straws one by one into his mouth
until one less than the required num
ber havo been collected; then. taking
up an additional straw, lie hands it
over, together with those in his mouth.
In eastern Now Mexico nearly COO -
000 acres of fruit and farm lands havo
bm*u reclaimed by the construction of
storage reservoirs and irrijruUusr cuuais
during the last two years.
MISSING LINKS.
A Wichita (Km.) woman straps hrn
bahy on her back wlieu she goes on he'
bicycle.
A New York man Inis attended i
swimming bath regularly every daj
for twenty-eight years.
Third-class passengers are incroas
log in England at tne expense of tin
lirst and seeond class.
They arc beginning to talk nboir
permitting English clergymen to g<
about in ordinary citizens’ 'dress.
John Penn, who has jmt beet
elected to the British Parliament, is i
descendant of the great William Penn,
it lias been estimated recently by a
shoo tnan that the people of tne Unitei
Status spend $160.000,01)0 annually foi
■nucs.
A Georgia melon grower, after pay
ing freight ami oilier charges on three
carloads of mcluus, iiuij just 11 ccul!
for himself.
Ellison lias a notion that the aver
ago dwelling of llmt future ivill lie
lighted and heated at a coat of leas that
a dollar a year.
Jnles Verne has a son. Michel, wlic
Is developing a talent for writing sto
ries very iiincli iu his fatlier's higliljl
imtiginalive style.
Tlte New Jersey man who secured a
patent on his idea of |ii:icing runner oc
dm tips of imiicils is said to have real
ized $2d0.0U0 from it.
A new invention for carrying the
baby, in tlm form of n net suspended
from the neck, is tlm latest novelty al
lite fashionable resorts.
_ Tito chair of oratory in the Univcr
*i ty of Hoindiilii. Sand when Islands,
lias lieeii offered to Miss Norma 0.
Crawford, of Minersvilie, Penn.
Annie Ilesant makes Iter namr
rhyme with ••peasant." Imt Wallet
Besant pronounces his name, accord*
iug to Into information, as Bessanf.
Tlm census men fouml in tlm United
Stsites 14 066 750 horses. 2 2!K> 532
.. lG.Ul'J AU1 emvs. 30 873 648 oxen
anti cattle. 43.431.136 slteep. S0.6J5.1U6
swine.
Itinerant musicians are not allowed
to sojourn in 81. Petersburg, anil those
who are of foreign nationality are not
permitted to pass the froulier of the
empire.
The old Duke of Nassau, who, nt
seventv-live, is halo and netiro. has a
fortune of $25,000,000, and is conse
quently set dow n us the richest Prince
iu Europe.
A German has invented an incan
descent lamp with two lilnments. an
automatic switch bringing the second
filament into uctiou ou Lite failure of
tiie lirst.
Instantaneous photography has heeti
used to r< coni the movements of the
lips iu speaking, and liy putting tlm
photographs in a zoetropo a deaf mute
can easily read the words.
Nellie Arthur, dantrliter of the ex
President, has u well-rounded figure,
sparkling brown eyes. dark, sleek
hair tolled back from a low brow, a
sweet smile uud a pretty girlish man
ner.
Vermont is boasting about her innrai
status. Since 1880 tin- population of
the State lias decreased 2 per cent, but
membership iu the churches mis in
the meautime increased nearly & Der
cent.
Regarding female mode’s for artists
the clitics say that the French are un
dersized and have bad shouldey.; the
Germans have not classic faces and loo
broad hips; the Iia inns are not well
rounded; tlm English are loo tall; and
the Spaniards are anatomically de
licto tit.
'1 wo remarkable old ladies are Mrs.
Hannah Kustis and Miss Sarah Barr,
of \\ akeliuld. Mass. They are tw'in
sisters, horn in 1800. auii are still
bright and iu active health. So great
is their resemblance iu figure. Voice
and manner, that ono is frequeutly
mistaken for the otner.
By placing two iron bars at seven ot
eight yards distance from each other
nud putting them in communication on
one side by an insulated copticr wire
and on the other side with a telephone
it is said that a storm can lie predicted
twelve hours ahead, through a certain
l„...l *,>>,•>.I Ii.-iiiI in il|.. r?.,.,
Health
rs that state when u 1 the organs of the body
per orm vlieir functions in regular and effl
nent manner; and to remove any obstruct! n
to such action is the proper duty of medicine
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
3ives health by purifying the hood, toning
the stomach and bowels, and invigorating Un
Kidneys and liver. Therefore, if you are in
poor health take Hood s Sarsaparilla.
HOOD'S PILLS —Best liver invigorator and
cathartic. Reliable, effective, and gentle
Price 25c.
A Dog Without a Tail
I* not half a; absurd as a Farmer with no So*R
Jhl'",1'.™1 U" b'iliriplfs—t(„y and
fcnlt’whl*\L|11' t'"1 Wh?n >'.'U “ Sca*e buy til*
bent, which i* hIwhvh the chrupeKt.
lor Circular* free address only
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Bingham ton, N. V.
Common
Soap
Rots Clothes and
Chaps Hands.
IVORY
SOAP
DOES NOT,
It is an oW-fashiorTnotiJ
that medicine has to taste
bad to do any good.
Scott’s Emulsion is Cod
liver oil with its fish-fat tas*
lost—nothing is lost but the
taste.
This is more than a mat
ter of comfort. Agreeable
taste is always a help to di
gestion. A sickening taste
is always a hindrance.
There is only harm in taking
cod-liver oil unless you digest
it. Avoid the taste.
Nfi°vro?kBOWK!I,ChemUU' ,3,Sou"'SthAWBIS
Your druggist keeps Sean's Emulsion of codJi_
Oil—all druggi«»s everywhere do, f».
) THE SMALLEST PILL IN THE WORLD!®
9 -- 0
TUTT’S
•tiny liver pills•
■k >>»▼« all the virtues of the larger oiipI.
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DR. C. GEE WO,
Tie Great Clese Panaceist
who has performed so many wonderful cares Id
ana around Omaha for the past three vears, am)
has rescued the sick mid afflicted from the jaws
of death and restored to health and happiness
hundreds of others le't to die by other physiclniis,
has concluded to extend bis practice to the ureal
northwest, and for that purpose h" has eatab*
llshed a system of treating patients at a distance
by milli and curing them without obliging them
to leave their homes and come long is'anres to
consult him at his office. He offers a rare oppor
tunity for the relief of their troubles and desires
to say that ny one requiring his treat nientoi
remedies can correspond with him nt his office la
Omaha with the greatest confidence and satis*
factlou.
It is a well-known fact that China has abont
half the population of ihe globe. They huv*
ieen practicing and perfecting medicine over 4.000
* EARS. Chung Nung (see Kncy. lirit.) disco?*
•red seventy-two poisons and their antidote*
i,4b3 years before Christ, and Marco Pola, who
orought. tlie com*pass.
Campl'd, one of the first Europeans who en
ten d Chinn, says. “Their physicians have *
thorough knowledge of the natu.e of herbs and
an admirable skill in diagnosing by the pulse.’'
(See Willard's Middle Empire.)
It is well known that gunpowder, steam and
electricity are old in China, and tlmt the chines*
were printing their delicate books IKK) years beiort
Gu; ten berg was born.
Rut it was to medicine the Chinese gave their
Attention, and when the emporor Chin Wonm»r
jered all the books to be burned lie excepted th*
medical works, and It wiis only by the merest a<*
cident that the great works of Confucius himself
were saved, he having placed a set of bis work*
in the corner-stone of his residence, which was
found 2.( 00 years nrter.
The celebrated Dr. Hobson states that one of
the Chinese dispensatories gives 14-12 HKitHAL
REMEDIES alone. Can you wonder then at th*
doctor's success?
The Caucasian physicians all ose the v-*rv same
Remedies and wbcu you eh«•»»•**» don-or-. in tour
disappoiui/itient nnd disgust, .,ou merely onauite
‘aces and assertions but not medicines. When an
American doctor discovers n new remedy all the
other doctors know about- It mmediatel.v. Now,
you know the Chinese Doctor comes from :m al
most unknown country, containing nearly half
of the people of the world, where oil the medicine*
tre entirely different, and Dr C. Gee Wo offer*
s reward of $50) 00 to any on* who can duplicate
any one of his Chinese At'dn ines. Do you not
:ompn*hend that after giving up all hope of being
3ur«d by y*»nr doctors, that in taking the Chines
Doctor's Remedies, 4.000 in number and absolute
ly unknown outside of China, that be lias » won
derful advantage over nil other physicians, lb*
flew i*-medics have nevor before eirered ynut
blood and act on it as 11 by magic, curing thedis*
tase and rendering th* complexion clear a> *
child’*
Among the thousands of testimonials onfll*
ta.hi* office the foil wing, which are true copies
will serve to show that his efforts are attended
With success and that a cure follows his treat
ment In all cases.
Michael Cane who has worked for the Union
Pacific Railroad for over twenty-tiv years, says:
“I had an immense growth on my chest, wine*
had been developing for thirteen years, and fitdiy
confined me to my lied The doctors, after ex
peri men t log and ’using their instruments, pro*
non nee I it dropsy and heart di-ease I come
kept telling me to try the Chinese doctor, aiiui
was carried up to his office. In three days urn*
I win able to go to work. If any one wishes u>
find out the particular* of my case, call auu se?
me at auv time.”
MICHAEL C.\NK. c< .
UOr, Chicago Street.
I wu troubled with Heart Disva-e an * Con
sumption; was told nothing more could be done
for me. Finally last spring was in the las*
My heart lumped terribly. Acknowledged 10 *“>*
•eif that I must die; tofd my mother so. A»i«*y
family had congregated around my beu to
the end. My brother-in-law said that Atg An
derson had been cured of Consumption •»> V*
Chinese physician after the doctors uad irivm
ap. My wife went after medicine and in twenty
Minutes after taking I was fitting up eating. *
now weigh 1S5 pounds and am the P"*tl*r®.;
health. I know l owe my life to Dr. <'. *
and feel as though I must not be ashamed to
it. I will gladly make nffldavit if it be neceseur).
JOHN lt.\ILK\, .
472-1 Elm Street. Omaha
I wai troubled with Heart Disease and
Weakness. Could get no relief here, owned •
nable property near postoflice. Sold ami w**”
Europe. Returned wltii Consumption ”,' h<tS.
the dst of troubles. Called on one of the
doctors in the eitv. Rapidly sinking. *‘;UJ ,
slept without the aid of opiates for two mm •
Had not spoken or turned in bed un.inh
same length of time. Called in consul'nt'-I. >
siciau, who sent for my brother. He «*ai j.
most prominent doctors in town. who. <*a •
B. said the lady would not live till »n> ..j
for Dr. C. Gee’ Wo. who. after examing. san •,
will have heron her feet In a week.* H,,“ Jj
his promise nobly. I have gained o'-[ 1
pounds, and am entirely cured. 7IS >. tJlu w
Yours Truly. ,
Mrs. Nicholson.
In order to convince the public that Dr- •
Wo can cure any case he undertakes, ne ■ tj|e
the following olt«*r: A guarantee to n- AUy
money, if after a fair trisil the patient is
way dissatisfied with tre atment.
’fhe Doctor has always on hand the »
remedies which are his own pn-oarit
which are the result of years ef study a ;,>
tifle research. uud which be wiirrun-* * p>
every Instance:—Rheumatism, 0ii
male Weakness. Lo-t Manhood, ^‘v1'
Catarrh and Kidney and Liver Mfdntn j (Ur
91.00. Cadi or write for question blanks,
ther particulars, nr repre
N D. Dr. C. Gee Wo has an a cm** or^ F||1
sent stives and all correspondence »n‘-1 tffe»
direct to his main office at 519 N°rtJ *’doat*^
Omaha, Neb., as he is the only fag»W *n
Chinese physician in Iht wot.
follow! nC
ration ‘,,1“
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