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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1892)
THE SUN DHL OF AHAZ Hezekiab, the Kin?, Lay Dying in His Palace. Praying: for Rwovcry, Ho It Told That Ho Will Get Well—At a Sign the Shadow Movea lliu kwtird on the Dial—The Lonon. Dr. Tahnage's text was: n King's *0:11, “And Isaiah, the prophet cried unto tho lvord: und he brought the shadow ten degrees backward by which it had gone down in tho dinl of Ahaz." Here Is the first clock or watch or chronometer or time-piece of which the world has any knowledge. Hut it was a watch that did not tick and a clock that did not strike. It was a sun-dial. Ahaz, the king, invented it. Uetween the hours given to state-craft and the cares of oftlce he invented something by which he could tell the time of day. This sun-dial may have been a great column, and when the shadow of that column reached one point it was 0 o'clock a. m., and when It reached an other point it was 3 o'clock p. m , and all the hours and half-hours were so measured. Or it may have been a flight of stairs such as may now be found in Hindustan and other old countries, and when tho shadow reached one step it was 10 o'clock a. m., or another step it was 4 o’clock p. m.. and likewise other hours may have been indicated. Tho clepsydra or water-clock fol lowed the sun-dial, nnd the sand-glass followed the clepsydra. Then rami' the candlo-clock of Alfred the (treat and the cundle was marked into three j parts, nnd while the first part was j burning' ho gave himself to religion I and while tho second part wus • burning he gave himself to politics and while the third part was burning he gave himself to rest. After a while came the wheel and weight dock nnd Pope Sylvester II was its most important inventor. And the skill of centuries of exquisite mechan ism toiled ut tho tipie-pieccs until tho world hud Vick's clock of the four teenth century and iluyghens, tho in ventor, swung the first pendulum, and Dr. Hooke contrived tho recoil escape ment. And the “endless chain” fol lowed, and the “ratchet and pinion lever” took its place; and the compen sation balance and the stem winder followed, and now wo have the buzz and clang of the great clock and watch factories of Switzerland and Germany and England and America, turning out what seems to be the perfection of time-pieces. It took the world 0,000 years to make the present chronom eter. So with the measurement of longer spaces than minutes and hours. Time was calculated from new moon to new moon: then from harvest to harvest. Then the year was pro nounced to be 314 days and 300 days, and, not a long while after, 305 days. Then events were calculated from the foundation of Home, afterward from the Olympic games. Then the llabylo nians had their measurement of the year and the ltornans theirs and the Armenians theirs and the Hindoos! theirs. _ Chronology was busy for I centuries studying monuments, inscriptions, coins, mummies and j astronomy, trying to lay a' plan by which all question of'dates might be settled and events put in their right place in tho procession of ' the ages. Hut the Chrouologists only heaped up a mountaiu of confusion and bewilderment until in the sixth century Dionysius Exiguus, a Homan abbot, said: “bet everything date from tho birth at ltethlehcm of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour of tho world." Tho Abbot proposed to have things dated backward nnd forward from that great event. What a splen did thought for the world! What a mighty thing for Christianity! It would have been most natural to date everything from the creation of the world. Hut I am glad the chronolo gists could not too easily guess how old the world was in order to got the nations in the habit of dating from that occurence in its documents and. histories. Forever fixed is it that all history is to be dated with reference to the birth of Christ, and, this matter settled. Hales the chief cHronologist, declared that the world was made 5,411 years before Christ, and the del uge came 3,155 years before Christ and all the illustrious events of the last nineteen centuries and all the great events of all time to come have been or shall be dated from the birth of Christ. Theso things I say that you may know what a watch is, what a clock is, what an almanac is, and learn to appreciate through what toils and hardships and perplexities the world came to its pres ent conveniences and comforts, and to • help you to more respectful consideration of that sun-dial of Ahaz planted in my text. We are told that lle/.ekiah, the king, was dying of a boil. It must hare been one of the worst kind of carbuncles, a boil witout any central core and some times deathful. A fig was put upon it as » poultice. Hezekiah did not want to die then. His son who was to take the kingdom had not yet been born and HczcUiah's death would have been the death of the nation. So he prays •or recovery and is told he will get well. Hut ho wants some miraculous sign to make him sure of it. He has the choice of having the shadow on the sun dial of Ahaz advance or re treat He replied it would not be so wonderful to have the sun go down, for It always goes down sooner or later. He asks that It go backward. In other words, let the day instead of going on toward sundown, turn and go toward sunrise. I see the invulid king • bolstered up and wrapped in blankets looking out of the window upon the sun dial in the courtyard. While he watches the shadow on the dial the shadow begins to retreat Instead of going on toward 0 o'clock in the even ing it goes hack toward <i o'clock in the morning. Tin; tig poultice had been drawing for some time and, sure enough, the boil broke and Hezekiah got well. Now I expect you will come on with your higher criticism and try to explain this away and say it was an optical dulusion of Hezekiah, and the shadow only seemed to go back, or a cloud came over and it was uncertain which way the shadow did go and as I Ilezckiah expected it to go back he took the uction of his own mind for the retrograde movement. No; the shadow went bnck on all the dials of that land and other lands. Turn to II Chronicles, xxxii: 31, and find that away oil in liubylon the mighty men of the palace noticed the sumo phenomenon. And if you do not like llihle authority, turn over your copy of Herodotus and And that away off in Kgypt the people noticed that there wus something the matter with tlie sun. The fact is that the whole universe waits upon God and suns and moons and stars are not very big things to him, and he can with his little Un ger turn back an entire world as eas ily as you could set back the hour hand or minute hand of your clock or watch. At the opening of a new year people are moralizing on the flight of time. You all feel that you are moving on toward sundown and many of you are under a consequent depression. 1 pro pose tliis morning to set the hands on your watches and clocks to going the other wny. I piopose to show you how you may make the shadow of your dial like the shadow on the dial of Ahaz to stop going forward and make it go backward. You think I have a big undertaking on hand, but it can be done if the same Lord who reversed the shadow in liezekiah’s courtyard moves upon us. While looking at the sun-dial of Hezekiah and we find the shadow retreating, we ought to learn that God controls the shadows. We are all ready to acknowledge his man agement of the sunshine. We stand in the glow of a bright morning and we say in our feelings if not with so many words, "This life is from God, this warmth is from God. ” Or. we hnve il rush of prosperity and wo say, “These successes aro from God. What a prov-1 idential thing' it was I bought that lot just before tlio rise of real estate! How grateful to Uod 1 am that I made that investment! Why, they have declared 10 per cent, dividend! What a mercy it was that 1 sold out my shares before that collapse!” Oh, yes; wo acknowl edge Uod in the sunshine of a bright day or the sunshine of a great prosper ity. llut suppose the day is dark? You have to light the gas at noon. The sun does not show itself all day . long. There is nothing but shadow. Ilow slow we are to realize that the | storm is from Uod and the darkness 1 from Uod and the chill from God. Or, | we buy tlio day before tfie market's | retreat; or we make an investment j that never pays; or we purchase goods j that cannot be disposed of; or a crop , of grain we sowed is ruined by drouth | or lreshet; or when we took account of j stock on the 1st of .1 ami ary we found | ourselves thousands of dollars worse j 011 than we expected. Who under, such circumstances says, “This loss is ' from God; I must have been allowed j to go into that unfortunate enterprise ! for some good reason; Ged controls! the east wind as well as the west wind?” j My friends, I cannot look for one moment on that retrograde shadow on Ahuz's dial without learning that God controls the shadows and that lesson wo need all to learn. That he con trols the sunshine is not so necessary a lesson, for everybody can be happy when things go right. When you sleep eight hours a night and rise with an appetite that cannot easily wait for breakfast and you go over to the store and open your mail to read more or ders than you can fill, and in the next letter you find a dividend far larger than you have been promised, and your neighbor comes in to tell you some flattering thing he lias just heard said about you, and you find that all the style* of goods in which you deal have advanced 15 per cent, in value, nnd on your way homo you meet your children in full romp and there are roses on the center of the tea table and roses of health in cheeks all around the table, what moro do you want of consolation? I don't pity you a bit. You feel as if you could boss the world. Hut for those in just opposite circumstances my text comes in with an omnipotence of meaning. The shadow! Oh, the shadow! Shadow of bereavement! Shadow of sickness! Shadow of bankruptcy! Shadow of mental depression! Shadow of perse cution! Shadow of death! Speak out. Oh, sun-dial of Ahaz, and tell all the people that God manages the shadow! As tlezekiah sat in his palace window wrapped in invalidism and surrounded by anodynesjand cataplasms and looked out upon the black hand of the only clock known a‘; that time and saw it move back ten degrees, he learned a lesson that a majority of the human race need this hour to learn—that the best friend a man ever had controls the shadow. The set-backs are some times the best things that can happen. The great German author Schiller could not work unless he had in his room the scent of rotten apples, and the decay of the fruits of earthly pros perity may become an inspiration in stead of a depression. Bobert Cham bers' lame feet shut him up from other work, and he became the world-re nowned publisher, and helped fashion the best literature of the ages. The painful disorder like that of llezekiah called a carbuncle is Bpelled exactly the same as the precious stone called the carbuncle, and the pang of suffer ing may become the jewel of immortal value. Your set-back like that of Ahaz s sun-dial may be recovery and triumph. I never had a set-back but it turned out to be a set forward. Y'ou never would have be come a Christian if you had not had a set-back. The highest thrones in heaven are for the set-backa In 1861 the shadow of the sun-dial of this na tion was set back, and all things seemed going to ruin; and it was set back further in 1862, and further in 1863, and still further in 1865, but there is not an intelligent and well-balanced man, north or south, east or west, but feels it was set ba.k toward the sun-' rise. nut I promised to show you how the shudows might be turned back. First, by going much among the young peo ple. In most family circles there arc grandchildren. By this divine arrange ment most of the people who have passed the meridian of life can com- i pass themselves by juvenility. It is a bad thing for an old man or old woman to sit looking at the vivacity of their grandchildren shouting, "Stop that racket!” Better join in the fun. Let the 80-years-old grandfather join the 8-years-old grandson or granddaughter. My father lived to see over eighty children and grandchildren and great grandchildren and a more boisterous crew were never turned out on this sublunary sphere, and they all seemed [ to cry to the old folks, "Keep young,” i and they did keep young. Don’t walk i with a cane unless you have to, or only as a defense in a city afflicted with too | many canines. Don't wear glasses stronger than necessary, putting on number tens when cighteens will do as well. Don't go into the company ot those who are always talking about rheumatism and lumbago and short ness of breath and the brevity of hu niun life. It is too much for my grav ity to hear an octogenarian talking about the shortness of human life. From all I cun find out he has always been here and from present prospects ho is always going to stay. Remain young. Hang up your stockings in Christmas time. Help the boys lly the kite. Teach the girls how to dress their dolls, lietter than arnica for your stiff joints and cutnip tea for your sleepless nights will be a large dose of youthful companionship. Set back the clock of human life. Make the shadows of the sun-dial of Ahaz retreat 10 degrees. People make themselves old by always talking about being old and wishing for the good old days, which were never as good as these days. From all I can hear the grandchildren are not half as bad as the grandparents were. Matters have been hushed up. Hut if you have ever been in a room adjoining a room where some very old people a little deaf were talking over old times you will find that this age does not mo nopolize all the young rascals. It may now be hard to get young people up early in the morning but their grandparents always had to be pulled out of bed. It is wrong now to play mischievous tricks on the unsuspect ing, but eighty years ago at school that now venerable man sat down on a crooaea pin not accidently placed there, and purposely drove the sleigh riding party too near the edge of the embankment that he might see how they would look when tumbled into the snow. And that man who has so little patience with childish exuber ance was in olden times up to pranks one-half of which if practiced by the 8-year-old of today, would set grand father and grandmother crazy. Ile vive your remembrance of what you were between 5 and 10 years of age, and with patience capable of every thing join with the young. Put back the shadow of the dial not 10 degrees but 50 and 00 and 70 degrees. Set back your clocks also by enter ing on new and absorbing Christian work. In our desire to inspire the young we have in our essays had much to say about what has been accom plished by the young; of Romulus who founded Rome when he was 20 years of age; of Cortes, who had conquered Mexico at 30 years; of l’itt, who was prime minister of England at 24 years: of Raphael, who died at 37 years; of Calvin, who wrote his institute at ?0;of Melancthon, who took a learned pro fessor’s chair at 21 years; of Luther, who had conquered Germany for the reformation by the time ho was 3,*> years. And it is all very well for us to show how early in life one can do very great things for God and the welfare of the world, but somo of the might iest work for God has been done by septuagenarians and octogenarians and nonagenarians. Indeed, there is work which none but such can do. They preserve the equipoise of senates, of religious denominations, of reform atory movements. Young men for ac tion, old men for counsel. Instead of any of you beginning to fold up your energies, arouse anew your energy.’ With the experience you have obtained and the opportunities of observation you have had during a long life, you ought to be able to do in one year now' more than you did in ten years right after you had passed out . of your teens. Physical power less, your spiritual power ought to be more. Up to the last hour of their lives what power for good old Dr. Archibald Alex ander, old Dr. Woods, old Dr. Hawes, old Dr. Milnor, old Dr. Mcllvaine, old Dr. King, old Dr. Candlish, old Dr. Chalmers! What have been Rismarck to Germany, and Gladstone to Eng land, and Oliver Wendell Holmes to America in the time of an advanced age? Let me say to those in the after noon of life: Don’t be putting off the harness; when God wants it off he will take it off. Don’t be frightened out of life by the grip as many are. At the first sneeze of an influenza many give up all as lost. No new terror has come on the earth. The microbes as tire cause of disease were described in the Talmud 1,700 years ago as “invisible legions of dangerous ones. ” Don’t be scared out of life by all this talk about heart failure. That trouble has always been in the world. That is what all the people that ever passed out of this life have died of—heart failure. Adam had it and all of his descendants have had it or will have it. Do not be watching for symptoms, or you will have symptoms of everything. Some of you will yet die of symptoms. Symptoms are often only what we sometimes see in the country, a dead owl nailed on the barn door to scare living owls. Put your trust in God, gc to bed at 10 o’clock, have the window open six inches to let in the fresh air, sleep on your right side, and fear noth ing. The old maxim was right: “Get thy spindle and distaff ready, and God will send thee.flax." A Sympathetic Jury. First Female Juror (some years hence)—There seems to be no doubt that the prisoner, Mr. Handlecash, stole a hundred thousand from the company that employed him. Was he indulgent to his wife? Second Female Juror—Yes, indeed. He gave her everything she wanted. Third Female Juror—She had just a lovely timel Trips to Europe, Worth’s dresses, opera box, everything ******* Verdict—AVe, the jury in the case of Mr. Handlecash, find that the prisonei was an over indulgent husband, who should be reprimanded by the court, the company to pay the costa Nothing Remarkable. Mra Grumpps (looking up from the paper)—A brother and sister who had not seen each other for sixteen years met accidentally the other day. Mr. Grumpps—Huh! A brother and sister seldom meet any other way. Rather Tired of It. St. Peter—Let—me—see, miss, where are you from? New Arrival—I am from Boston. St Peter (playfully)—Ah, yea I have heard of Boston New Arrival—Now, see here. If you say one word about beans, t won't go in. AS SHE IS SPOKE IN PENNSYLVANIA. rugllah It la Tmight bjr a Pratf Berks County School Teaclior. She wns a buxom, rudely cheeked, clear-eyed Berks county mr.idon of 20. neatly dressed, snug, and tidy, a teacher of a country school iu Heidel berg township; probably as bright a yonug schoolniarm as could be found anywhere hereabout; one from whose red lips the mongrel Euglisii dialect of tlie region fell more softly and with less uhcouthness than usually charac terizes the speech of the Pennsylvania Dutch. It was on an afternoon this week', and she stood at the blackboard before a mixed class of little girls and boys, elucidating some mysteries in reading and writing. She soerned a trifle embarrassed by the presence of half a dozen picnickers who had fled to the log schoolhouse for refuge from a sudden shower, but this embarrassment only served to heighten the brightness of her cheek nnd eye, and to increase the earnestness which she threw into her demonstration. With a piece of chalk sho traced on the blackboard the letters: “P—i—g.” Then, addressing her pupils, she asked. ‘ Vos is dosP” The class responded instantly, in loud chorus. "Pick!” _ "Yes,” said the teacher proudly, "I gif you rcighdt. How many kiudts of pickP” There was a pause, and then it little blackhoaded urchin spoke up. "Three kindts!” ah yes, 1 gif you rcighdt again once,” responded the fair school mis tress, smiling with erideut satisfaction at her pupils’ creditable showing. “Fii'stP”-—and she waited with wooden pointer in air for au answer. "Von wot grunts,” suggested several of the children at once. . VYe?-" n°dded the teacher, with a rising inflection denoting her pleasure; ‘aud second P" "Von pick to dick (dig) with.” answered a yellow-haired little fellow. "Yes. and the thirdt kindt?” Another pause, and then the auswer canie from n thin-faced littlesirl, wear ing glasses, -Von to pick up!” “Ah, yes.” cried the teacher, tri umpnantly,glancing at the visitors.and proceeded to writedown the definitions in order on tho blackboard. The picnickers withdrew, silently convlilscd with merriment, afraid to trust themselves longer in the school room to hear more i(i tho same vein. They are well-known Reading folks, sud they vouch for the correctness of the recitation as above reported. If surprise should be expressed at the state of Euglisli culture revealed both by the teacher and her pupils let it be stated that slio is about as far in ad vance of her clientage as teachers in more favored communities are of theirs. A similar picture could no rloubt be drawn of common schools iu many other back townships of Berks, and of Lehigh, Lancaster, and Lebanon tis well. Tho truth is that the chief disadvantage of those worthy people is their lack of booklcaruing. "in natural intelligence, sturdy honestv, and thrift they are considerably above tho aver age, but they cling tenaciouslv to old customs and eutertniu au inherited dis regard for culture. Advice to a Voting Man. Young men, in your youth either split mils or work on a canal-boat, says M unset/s Weekly. Then when you grow older, tho Presidential chair may bo yours. Do not dream of organ izing a youthful band of faithful young followers to go west and slaughter In dians. for the red men, with tho as sistance of bad whisky and Govern ment ammunition, are killing thern lelves as fast as possible. Always speak kindly to your sick ancle. He may make a will some day, snd perchance ho might leave you one )f the family spoons, or, oven better, you might become the envied possessor jf bis antique oak bootjack. Wnen your parents disngree on mine slight subject preserve u discreet dleuce, and, if possible, leave the room, for when your father comes out lecond best, as he invariably will, lie may take revenge on your youthful aide. Do not cry when you have to stay Jidoors and play with the little girls. As you grow oldor you will find that a ittlo girl is a great comfort, even ■.hough she consents to be only a sister :o you. In sharing candy with your younger arother always bear in mind that too much would make. the little fellow dck. Remembering this, you will al ways be justified lu taking tho largest •Imre for yourself. * The New Military Balloon. Some one has discovered that a new military’ balloon bus been invented which is so small that when collapsed it can be carrihd in the knapsack, and that this remarkable balloon is hence forth to form part of the equipment of the French soldier. How it is to be used we are not told, but can easily imagine. When the army is on the march each soldier will carry his bal loon iittnched to his shoulders aud purtiiilly inflated, so as nearly to coun terbalance bis weight. This will en able him to advauce by a series of enormous bounds, much after the fash ion of tho kangaroo, and will make it quite possible for him to attain a speed of. say, tiveuty mil -s an hour. On meeting the enemy tho balloons will be completely inflated, and the wholo army will soar into the air. aud from an elevation of 1.000 or 2.000 feet will drop dynamite on its foes. Of course tho new balloon will not have suflicient power to support horses or canuons, and hence their use will be confined to the infantry, but nothing is more obvious than that infantry capable of aerial evolutions will bo immeasurably superior to iufautry compelled by want of balloons to coniine their operations to the surface of the earth. —N. Y. Herald. Mr. Stinter (examining some ac counts on desk)--I think I prefer the courting to the weddiug days. Then there was alternate billing aud cooing, BOW it seems to be about all 'billing."* —Boston Courier. * ANlAFRICAN pumpkin. fkt Gamhsn, • Plant that Grow* on the Inland of Socotra. Through their many biological pe culiarities the family of the pompfon has become known to everybody. Cucumbers, melons and pumpkins be long to the heaviest fruits and yet they grow on a very slender stalk. But as a protection against being torn by the weight of the fruit the truuk of the plant either creeps along the ground or winds aronnd other plants or props that happen in its way. Bearing this fact in mind, it is all the more surpris ing to know that among this genus of plants a specimen is found that deviates from the rule of being a creeper and grows like a tree. The home of the Dendrosiccyos is the Dark Continent, and this is un doubtedly the reason why we have not been mado acquainted with it earlier. It grows on the Island of Socotra, where the plant is known by the name of gamheu. Wellstedt, who visited the island in 1834. was the tirst to men tion it in his “Memoirs ou the Island of Socotra." In 1880 Socotra *as tra versed by Bailey Balfour, the well known botanist,'and he describes two kinds of gamhen. Iu tho following year Prof. Schweinfurth made a trip from Cairo to Socotra, and to him we are indebted for the tirst pictorial view of this plant.. The trunk is knoll-shaped and grows about 14 feet high, with a diameter of from 3 to 6 feet. The rind is white as chalk and perfectly smooth, and the clumsy’ trunks among the green shrubbery look more like marble columns than anything else. Near Tumarid, the largest village on the northern coast of Socotra, tiieso plants grow in asuch large numbers that one's imagination need not stretch very greatly in com paring ‘‘the forest hills of Socotra with a gravoyard full of marble monu ments.” These plants attain a venerable age; Wellstedt reports having found at Kadhub, not far from Tamarid. in the bark of a gam hen trunk an Arabian inscription bearing the date of 1640. The fact that this'inscription has re mained intactso long also demonstrates that gamhcn docs not shed its bark like our trees by the formation oi scabs. Tho wood is not solid and compact like that of the trees we know, but full of sap and cuts like a turnip. A pen knife is sufficient to cut a stairway into tho trunk of a gnmhen, over which tho flowers on the top can be reached. Aside from Its tree-shape tho gamhon resembles the pompion in every detail, so far ns the formation of flowers, leaves and roots is concerned.—h. Y. Recorder. The Brilliant Student's Dilemma. A Harvard studeut told me an amus ing story about himself the other dav, says tho Boston Herald. It seems that recently his mother had a young lady guest at their home on the Back bav and when he came from college in the afternoon he was introduced to her. At dinner, also, she sat opposite to him .at the table. He paid little at tention to the fair visitor, as his mind was engrossed with a problem in his lessons. However, his brothers were as assiduous as possiblo in entertain ing her. As it happened, the latter had engagements out thnt evening, and. as Mrs. A. had promised Miss B. to have one of her sons to take her to tho theater, it fell to the lot of mv friend George, the Harvard man. He accepted the situation gracefully and iu due time the young couple set off for tho theater. Arriviug, George left his companion at one side of the lobby while he stepped ud to the box-office and purchased the tickets; then, turn ing about he looked toward the place where he had parted from the vounw lady, and was surprised to see half a i?zrn t*lere’ a,,d. ye gods! is it possi ble?—he could not tell which was his precious charge! Here wa3 a dilemma. George said he immediate ly decided that rather than risk speak ing to the wrong person he would stand still till the young lady spoke to him. So he gazed at his tickets for what seemed to him an age, but was probably only a minute, when Miss B. came up and said: “I fear vou do not recognize me." ••Oh, yes— yes.” stam piered George, equivocating; “ves I •lid; I thought they had uot given me the seats I asked for and was consid ering what was best to do in the mat- • ter. And this was one of the gallant Ha.ward men! The Profits of Beggars. Robert W. Hebburd of tho Charitv Organization society, who has had many years’ experience with the beg gars of New York and has. known nearly all the famous ones personally, says that an industrious beggar will frequently make as much as $10 and $15 a day. He has known men who had been begging for some time to have fortunes of $10,000 and $15,000. “What is the best game you know of?" I asked him. “Well, I think blind men make the most money as a rule, P^ticulariy if they are old men.” •‘What is the best location for bejr^ai's in the city?” "Wherever there °are women. It is quite the fnd for Fifth avenue ladies to step up daintilv and drop a few pennies in the hund' of a beggar. People have no idea of the amount of money that is squandered every voar in perpctnnting these paup ers. If we had the money that is given each year in maintaining this race of parasites we could rid New York of professional beggars.”—N. Y. World. A Small Philosopher. He wns six years old, short of his age and barefooted and dirty. His eyes wero sharp and watchful aud his face was iiued and old. He ran uway from school for weoks at a time and scoured alleys and instinctively aroided all the conventional and decorous paths of childhood. When be listened to ad monitions and promised to amend, his inner ear was deaf and his words were from the lips outward, but be voiced his genuine experience and reflection with the brevity of a maxiip: “i think I’d rather be a girl; thee don t git so many kicks."—Detroit Frr. Like Magic tie relief irtv«m In m.H._ I« the relief siren in mens eerere . troubloe by Hood-» Saraapartlla p rt4n“Wle •«est known stomach tonics as well ,D fl8R€g,ln* tfc ilivn MmnilUe Iki. -_•• *8 the best.u . '-- ionics as well as thlik* AUve remedies. this exceUont median ******* atomach theatreng.h required toreuir' nourishing food, createe ”u,n “4 'Hen* A Good Appetite •nd gently but effectively assist* to the whole machinery of the body. 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You will seeth©excelle .t©fleetafter I iT , TOW uaiuiiu Iiouecilinw taking the first dose. Sold by dealers® very wiieri. Large bolties, so oents and tiJJfk ^Mshilohs CONSUMPTION Sg§& CURE. This GREAT COUGH CURE, this success ful CONSUMPTION CURE is sold by drug, cists on a positive guarantee, a test that no other Curt can stand successfully. If you have a COUGH, HOARSENESS or LA GRIPPE, it will cure you promptly. If your child has the CROUP or WHOOPING COUGH, use it quickly and relief is sure. If you fear CON. SUMPTION, don’t wait until your case is hope, less, but talv; this Cure at once and receivt immediate help. Price 50c and $1.00 Ask your druggist for SHILOH'S CURE If your lungs are sore or back lame, ust Shiloh’s Porous Plasters. THE SMALLEST PILL IK THE WORLD 1 Z TUTT’S •tiny liver pills • have all the TlrtuM of the larger ones; equally effective) purely vegetable. Exact aize ahovrn In this border. PILES ANAKESIS Hires in sUnl reliet, »nd is an lNtALU’ BLE CUKE for PILES. 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