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LtJBCBG ■AKtTICTCllIXG CO., «14St4M Xe. 9Ch St., Pklla., Pa, leaiT pouaw m the world.] 00 ROT BE DECEIVED' - with Pastes, Enamels, and Paints which iUIbtinliindi,injure llie iron, and burn *»• RWngBum Slope Polish iallrfl. IlMt, Odorless, Durable, and tha con anmer pays for no tin or glass package with STcry purchase. lam * H IttEflf 3.000 TMt i.L: C Mui THE TABERNACLE PULPIT Seek Him That Maketh the Seven Stars and Orion. The Million ortho Rustic, Amoi, of Tekoa*. Dr. TAlinage Traverse* Wide Realms of Thought to Teash Useful Kvery Day Lessons, Brookmn, N. Y., March 20.—In hi* ser mon Dr. Talmage traverse* wide realm* of thought to tench every-day lesions, based on the text, Amos v:8: "Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion.” A country farmer wrote this text— Amos of Tekoa. Ho plowed the earth and threshed the grain by a new threshing machine just invented, as formerly the cattle trod out the grain. He gathered the fruit of the sycamore tree, and sacrlfied it with an iron comb just before it was getting ripe, as it was necessary and customary in that way to take from it the bitter ness He was the son of a poor shep herd, and stuttered; but before the stammering rustle the Philistines, and Syrians, and Phoenicians, and Moab ites, and Ammonites, and Edonltes, and Israelites trembled. Moses was a law-giver, Daniel was a prince, Isaiah a courtier, and David a king; but Amos, the author of my text, was a peasant, and, os might be supposed, nearly all his parallelisms are pastoral, his prophecy full of* the odor of new mown hay, and the rattle of locusts, and the rumble of carts with sheaves, and tho roar of wild beasts devouring the flock while the shepherd came out in tlielr defense. He watched the herd by day, and by night inhabited a booth made out of bushes, so that through these branches he could see the stars all night long, and was more familiar with them than we who have tight roofs to our Iioubcs, and hardly ever see the stars except among the tall brick oltlmney* of the great towns. juut ai seasons ot tno year when the i herds were in special danger, he would stay out in the open field all through the darkness, his only shelter the cur tain of the night-heaven, with the stellar embroideries and silvered tas sels of lunar light What a life of solitude, all alone with his herdsl Poor Amos! And at 12 o'clock at night, hark to the wolf’s bark, and the lion’s roar, and the bear’s growl, (and the owl’s te-whit te-who, and the serpent’s hiss, as he unwittingly steps too near while mov ing through the thickets! So Amos, like other herdsmen, got the habit of studying the map of the heavens, be cause it was so much of the time spread out before him. lie noticed some stars advancing and others reced ing, He associated their dawn and setting with certain seasins of the year. He had a poetic nature, and lie read night by night, and month by month, and year by year, the poem of the constellations, divinely rhythmic. But two rosettes of stars especially at tracted his attention while seated on the ground, or lying on his back under the open scroll of the midnight heav ens—tho pleiades, ot seven stars, and Orion. The former group this rustic prophet associated with the spring, as it rises about the 1st of May. The lat ter he associated with the winter, os it comes to the meridian in January. The pleiades, of seven stars, con nected with all sweetness and joy; Orion, the herald of the tempest The ancients were the most apt to study the physiognomy and juxtaposition of the heavenly bodies, because they thought they had a special influence upon the earth; and perhaps they were right If the moon every few hours lifts and lets down the tides of the At lantic ocean, and the electric storms of the sun, in all scientific admission, af fect the earth, why not the stars have proportionate effect? And there are some things which make me think that it may not have been all superstition which connected the movements and appearance of the heavenly bodies witii great moral events on earth. Did not a meteor run on evangelistic errand on tiie first Christmas night, and designate the rough cradle of our Lord? Did not the stars in their courses fight against Slsera? Was it merely incidental that I before the destruction of Jerusalem i tlm mnrm wab paI incoH f wnl ..a secutive nights? Did it merely happen so that a new star appeared in the con stellation Cassiopeia, and then disap peared just before King Charles IX, of France, who was responsible for St. Bartholomew massacre, died? Was it without significance that in the days of the Roman Emperor Justinian war and famine were preceded by the dim ness of the sun, which for nearly a year gave no more light than the moon, although there were no clouds to obscure it? Astrology, after all, may have been something more than a brilliant heathenism. No wonder that Amos.of the text, having heard these two an thems of the stars, put down the stout, rough staff of the herdsman and took into his brown hand, and cut and knot ted fingers the pen of a prophet, aud advised the recreant people of his time to return to Qod, saying: “Seek Him that maketh the Seven Stars and Orion. ” This command, which Amos ;ave 785 years H. C, is just as appro priate for us, 1893, A. D. In the first place, Amos saw, as we oust see, that the God who made the plelades and Orion must be the God of trder. It was not so much a star here and a star there that impressed the in spired herdsman,but seven in one group and seven in the other group lie •aw that night after night and season I | after season and decade after decade, | they had kept step of light, each one in its own place, a sisterhood never slashing and never contesting prece- j fence. From the time Hesiod called j the pleiades the "seven daughters of i Atlas," and Virgil wrote to his ACneid if "Stormy Orion” until now, they have observed the order established for their coming and going; order written not in manuscript that may be pigeon-holed, but with the hand of the Almighty on the dome of the sky, so that all nations may road it Order Persistent order. Sublime order. I Omnipotent order. I What a sedative to yon and me, to whom communities and nations some times seem going pell-mell, and world ruled by some fiend athap-hazard, and in all directions maladministration! The God who keeps seven worlds in right circuit for 6,000 years can cer tainly keep all the affairs of individuals and nations and continents in adjust ment. VVe had not better fret much, for the peasant's argument of the text was right If God can take care of the seven worlds of the pleiades and the four chief worlds of Orton, he can propably take care of the one world we I inhabit So, I foel very much as my father felt one day when we were going to the country mill to get a grist ground, and I, a boy of 7 years, sat in the back part of the wagon, and our yoke of oxen ran away with us and along a labyrin thine road through the woods, so that I thought every moment we would be dashed to pieces, and I made a terrible outcry of fright, and my father turned to me with a face perfectly calm, and said: ‘‘DeWitt, what are you crying about? I guess we can ride as fast as the oxen can run,” And, mj’ hearers, why should we be affrighted and lose our equilibrium in the swift mwement of worldly events, especially when we are assured that it is not a yoke of un broken steers that are drawing us on, but that order and wise government are in the yoke? In your occupation, your mission, your sphere, do the best you can, and then trust to God; and if things are all mixed and disquieting, and your brain is hot and your heart sick, get some one to go out with you in the starlight and point out to you the Pleiades, or, better than that, get into some observ atory, and through the telescope see further than Amos with the naked eye could—namely, 200 stars in the Pleiades, and that in what is called the sword of Orion there is a nebula com puted to be two trillion two hundred thousand billions times larger than the sun. Oh, be at peace with the God who made all that and controls all that—the wheels of the constellations turning in the wheel of galaxies for thousands of years without the break ing of a cog or the slipping of a band or the snap of an axle. For your plac idity and comfort through the Lord Jesus Christ 1 charge you, "Seek him that maketh the Seven Stars and Orion. ” Again, aihos saw, as we must see, that the God who made these two groups of the text was the God of light. Amos saw that God was not satisfied with making one star, or two or three stars, but he makes seven; and having finished that group of worlds, makes another group—group after group. To the Pleiades he adds Orion. It seems that God likes light so well that he keeps making it. Only one being in the universe knows the statistics of the solar, lunar stellar, meteoric creations, and that is the Creator himself. And thoy have all been lovingly christened, each one a name as distinct as the names of your children, “lie telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. ” The seven Pleiades had names given to them, and they are Alcyone, Merope. Colaeno, Electra, Sterope, Taygete, and Maia. Hut think of the billions and trillions of daughters of starry light that God calls by name as they sweep by him with beaming brow and lustrous robo! So fond is God of light, natural light, moral light, spiritual light. Again and again is light harnessed for symboliza tion—Christ, the bright and morning star; evangelization, the daybreak: the redemption of nations, sun of righteousness rising with healing in his wings. Oh, men and women, with so many sorrows and sins and perplex ities, if you want light of comfort, light of pardon, light of goodness, in earnest prayer through Christ, “Seek him that inaketh the seven stars and Orion.” Again Amos saw, os we taust see, that the God who mnde these two archipelagoes of stars must be' an un changing God. There had been no change in the stellar appearance in this herdsman’s life-time. And these two clusters hang over the celestial arbor now just as they were the first night that they shone on the edenic bowers, the same as when the Egyptians built the pyramids from the top of which to watch them, the same as when the Chaldeans calculated the eclipses, tho same as when Elihu, ac cording to tho Book of Job, went out to study the aurora borealis, the same under Ptolemaic sys tem and Copcrnican system, the same from Calisthenes to Pythagoras, and from Pythagoras to Herschel. Surely, a changeless God must have fashioned the Pleiades and Orion! Oh, wnaian anodyne amid the ups and downs of life, and the flux and reflux of the tides of prosperity, to know that we hare a changeless God. the same yesterdar, today and forever.” Xerxes garlanded and knightccfthe steersman of his boat in the morning, and hanged him in the evening of the same day. The world sits in its char iot and drives tandem, and the horse ahead is Huzza, -and the horse behind is Anathema. Lord Cobham, in King James' time, was applauded, and had $35,000 a year, but was afterward execrated, and lived on scraps stolen from the royal kitchen. Alexander the Great after death remained un buried for thirty days, because no one would do the honor of shoveling him under. The duke of Wellington re fused to have his iron fence mended, because it had been broken by an in furiated populace in some hour of po litical excitement, and he left it in ruins that men might learn what a fickle thing is human favor. “Hut the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting to them that fear him, and his righteousness unto the chil dren's children of such as keep his covenant, and to those who remember his commandments to do them.” This moment “seek him that maketh the Seven Stars and Orion.” Again, Amos saw, as we must see, that the God who made these two bea cons of the oriental night sky must be a God of love and kindly warning. The Pleiades rising in midsky said to all the herdsmen and shepherds and husbandmen: “Come out and enjoy the mild weather, and cultivate your gardens and fields ” Orion, coming in winter, warned them to prepare for tempest All navigation was regulated bv these two constellations. The one said to shipmaster and crew: “Hoist sail for the sea, and gather merchandise from other lands” Hut Orion was the storm signal, and aaid- “Reef aail, make things sang, or pat into harbor, for the hurricanes are getting tbeir wingi! >ut.” As the Pleiades were the sweet svangels of the spring, Orion was th« warning prophet of the winter. Oh, now 1 get the best view of God r ever had! There are two kinds ol sermons I never want to preach—the )ne that presents God so kind, so in lulgent, so lenient, so imbecile that men may do what they will against him, and fracture his every law, anu put the pry of their impertinence anti rebellion under his throne, and while they are spitting in his face and stab bing at his heart, he takes them up in his arms and kisses their infuriated brow and cheek, saying: “Of such is the kingdom of heaven. ” The othei hind of sermon I never want to preach is the one that represents God as all lire and torture and thundercloud, and with red-hot pitchfork tossing the hu man race into paroxysms of infinite vgony. The sermon that I am now preaching believes in a God of Idving, kindly warning, the God of spring and winter, the God of the Pleiades and Orion. You must remember that the winter is just as important as the spring. Let ane winter pass without frost to kill vegetation and ice to bind the rivers and snow to enrich our fields, and then you will have to enlarge your hospitals and your cemeteries "A green Christ mas makes a fat grave-yard,’’ was the aid proverb. Storms to purify the air. Thermometer at ten degreee abovo zero to tone up the system. December and January just as important as May and June. 1 tell you we need the storms of life as much as we do the tunshine. There are more men ruined by prosperity than by adversity. If we had our own way in life, before this we would have been impersona tions of selfishness and worldliness and disgusting sin, and puffed up until we would have been like Julius C'tnsar, who was made by sycophants tb be lieve that he was divine, and the freckles on his face weye as the stars af the firmament. One of the swiftest transatlantic voyages made last summer by our swiftest steamer was because she had iv stormy wind abaft, chasing her from New York to Liverpool Hut to those going in the opposite direction the storm was a buffeting and a hindrance, it is a bad thing totiiuve a storm ahead, [-B —~ -‘•''■•I • »* ** V. WW VJ UU n children and aiming toward heaven, the storms'of life will only chase us the sooner into the harbor. I am so flad to believe that the moonsoons, md typhoons, and mistrals, and sir sccos of the land and sea are not unchained maniacs let loose upon the sarth, but are under divine super vision? I am so glad that the God of the Seven Stars is also the God of Or ion! It was out of Dante’s suffering :ame the Divina Commedia, and out of lohn Milton’s blindness came Paradise Lost, and out of miserable infidel at tack came the Bridgewater Treatise in favor of Christianity, and out of David's exile cam! the songs of conso lation, and out of the sufferings of Christ came the possibility of the world’s redemption, and out of your bereavement, your persecution, jrfiir poverties, your misfortunes, may yet lome an eternal heaven Oh, what a mercy it is that in the text and all up and down the Bible «od induces us to look toward other worlds! Bible astronomy in Genesis, n Joshua’ in Job, in the Psalms, in the prophets, major and minor, in St. iohn’s Apocalypse, practically saying, ‘Worlds! worlds! worlds! Get ready for them!” We have a nice little world lere that we stick to, as though losing lhat we lose all. We are afraid of fati ng off this little raft of a world. We ire afraid that some meteoric iconoiast will some night smash it. and we wp.nt sverything to revolve around it, and »ro ^disappointed when we find that t revolves around the sun instead of the sun revolving around it What a fuss we make about this little bit of a world, its existence only a short time pe tween two spasms, the paroxysm by which it was hurled from chaos into irder, and the paroxysm of its demoli ;ion. And I am glad that so many texts :all us to look off to other worlds, nany of them larger and grander and nore resplendent “Look there,” says lob, “at Mnzaroth and Arcturus and lis sons!” Look there.” says St. John, it the moon under Christ’s feet!” "Look there,” says Joshua, “at the inn standing still above Gibeon!” ‘Look there,” says Moses, “at the iparkling firmament!” “Look there,” lays Amos,” the herdsman, “at the seven Stars and Orion!” Don’t let ns >e so sad about those who shove off from this world under Christly pilot ige. Don’t let us be so agitated about •m w nil'« .Tninrv rtf tt.ix 1 l I * 1 ~ t__ iloop or canal-bout of n world to get an some “Urea Eastern” of the heav ens. Don’t lot us persist in wanting o stay in this barn, this shed, this aut-house of a world, when ail the King's palaces already occupied by nany of our best friends are swinging wide open their gates to let us in. Didn't Wait to Be Discharged. “There wag a mistake in that last arder that Sellers sent in from the road,” said the proprietor, scowling at »ne of the clerks. , ° “Was there?” asked the clerk care lessly. “Yes, sir, there was, and it wasn’t corrected. ” “No?” said the clerk pleasantly. “No. You shipped the goods accor iing to that blamed fool order.” “Why, of course. I supposed that Sellers-” “You've no right to suppose any thing of the sort!” exclaimed the pro prietor. “Ho makes morn mistakes than any man on the road.” “He does?” asked the clerk. “Certainly he does. He’s one of the most careless men I ever knew." “And I’m supposed to correct them?" Inquired the clerk. “Of course you are.” “I’m supposed to be absolutely accu rate?" The clerk was getting excited. “Certainly.” “And know all about his business?” “You should detect his errors.” “Well, why don’t you pay me for it?” “What?” The clerk dropped his pen in his ex citement. "Look here!" he said. “You hold me responsible for his errors, and you pay liim more for making them than you io me for correcting them. Good dav!" He left without waiting to be , charged.—Chicago Tribune. NEWS OF THE MARKETS The Condition of Trade Rapidly Growing Better. New* of the Cattle Ranges. Movements of Stock of All Kinds, and What Is Occurring In the World of Commerce, A fact which breeders of cattle and live stock in general should never forget is what Aggasiz once stated. He said that no offspring is simply the offspring of its father. It is at the same time the off spring of its grandfather and grand mother on both sides; in fact this de pendance of offspring or liability to re produce family characteristics extends much further up the ancestral line. An Irritable man is never a good shep herd. Do not expect a sheep to have as much sense as you have. The foolish farmer drive* his flock through a frog pond and says, “I have washed my wool.” The tramp fell into a ditch and said, “I have taken a Turkish bath.” The wise shepherd prevents disease rather than cures it; the foolish flockmaster loses his sheep through neglect and says they had grub in the head. There was a time in Texas when cattle men and sheepmen were on anything but the best of term*. The cowmen were dis posed to bully the sheepmen to some ex lent and the latter was disposed to retali ate whenever the chances presented them selves. This state of things is happily a thing of tho past, though now and then we hear a cropping out of the old time ill feeling. A few days since in northwest Texas there come near being war between half a dozen cowboys and half as many sheep herders who were ordered to “move sn” farm land owned and leased by their employes and refused to obey orders. Such happenings are much to be deplored. Fort Worth Daily Gazette: During the big convention many cattle sales were consummated. Probably the largest tran saction made was that of A. H. Pierce, of Pierce station, conceded to be one of the most extensive cattlemen of southern lexas, who disposed of 5.000 head of steers to George Miller, of Winfield, Kan. The delivery will probably be made about the middle of May. Tho price paid was lit per head, or an aggregate of 570,000. The Nave-McCord Cattle company, one of niTj induing muis ui sue uoioruao uiiy country, sold to Mr. Franklyn. of Mon tana, 2,000 steers for fit.00 per head. The steers were 2-year-olds and said to be a line bunch of cattle. A sale of 2,000 2 year-old steers, the property of Gus □'Keefe, of Colorado City, was consum mated yesterday, the purchaser being a Mr. Kichardsou, of Montana The amount paid was $14, for May delivery. Iowa Homestead: A. C. Holm, of Thor, la., who has had large experience in de horning cattle, writes that among all the hundreds that he has dehorned he uever knew a single case of lump jaw, and that where this disease has followed, it is be cause of defective methods of securing the animal by which the jaw has been bruised. He says that he has successfully treated several cases of lump jaw by the following method: Take a sharp knife and cut through the lump as deep as pos sible. Be sure to cut as de9j> as the cord by which it is fastened to the bone. Make the cut as small as possible at the top so the vitriol will not fall out Now take a piece of vitriol and put it in tho opening, push it to the bottom with your linger, and then put a piece of rag or pa per in to keep it from falling out This is all there is to do. 1 have not known of a case where it has failed. Fort Worth Dally Gazette: An idea still prevails in some parts of the country Lhat Texas produaes nothing but “scrubs” or “canning” cattle and that she can not or does not raise fine stock. If these doubters had visited the Fort Worth pack cry yesterday afternoon they would bave had these notions removed. The packing house kills many fine cattle every day, but a shipment received there yesterday was without doubt the best ever slaughtered there. Their weight averaged between 1.45J and .,5 >0 pounds, and they dressed sixty-one tnd a half pounds. They were raised by i. B. Burnett o i his Wichita county ranch, tnd were sold by him to W. K. Moore, who 'attened them on his ranch near Paris on cotton seed hulls, etc., and sold them to die paeke-y, where they were refrigerated tnd shipped to New York. It it safe to lay that city never received a consign nent of better beef. Eega ding tho supply of cattle in the United States, tho Kansas City Drovers Telegram says: It has been evident dur ■ng _ the first two months of the year, by ibe increased volume of cattle received at ihe western markets, that the supply on feed in the western states is considerably arger than a year ago. The increase at ihe four western markets, alone, during •hese two months was nearly 100,1K)J lead over the same time last year. The returns of the department of agriculture for January, ls«i, have jeen giveu, relative to the number of all rinds of cattle in the United States, and •hey sustain the impression made by the arge receipts at the market centers. By lucse returns wua 111036 of I8yi we find that, of the thirteen principal western cattle-producing states, all but ihree are better supplied with cattle thau »hey were a year ago. Illinois, the Dako ;as and New Mexico show a combined ihortage of 18.U11 head, but the other ten itates come up with an aggregate increase >f 814,68.. The Texas . Lire Stock Journal Is itrongly in favor of “baby beef” where it is possible to make it. There is no money in keeping a steer until he is 4 years old f by a reasonable expenditure he can be nnde into good beef at a years old. The >ld-fashioned idea is of course all against ;his “baby beef” business, but if those who cling to the old way are doing lb at a oss, or at best with pecuniary risk, and the feeders of fine calves are making it pay, the rising generation, facing market sonditions most radically different from 'hose under which our older feeders nolded their practice, wilt pay little heed k> their protests. The logic of dollars and tents may be cold, but it is sometimes ir resistible. The feeding of all choice roung steers by their breeders may not rive entile satisfaction to the middlemei >f the professional feeding and stock cab lie trades, but if it will create a better de nned for good improved bulls and net nore money to the general farmer it ihould be encouraged in every way. *ay*:, The growing season of lowJ comes to the northwest and southwest practically under these conditions: The winter months Just closed have not peen marked by any great degree of se verity, bad storms, or sudden falls of tem perature. The rainfall has been abundant tnd on the other band there has been a icarcity of snow. Hence under these sur roundings the month of March opens fa rorably and with every prospect of the ipeedy resumption of spring work and un ler more favorable conditions than we >ave enjoyed for the last three previous ■easons. With the exception of some ol he more northern portions of the spring wheat belt there is no snow on the ground “day, the frost is all out of the ground, md the country is generally in a position o commence to a limited extent on high ands at a very early data the seeding of mts, and we are likely to hear at any time >f a similar situation laths spring wheat labor Notes, Bottles are made by machinery. Taper is made from cotton see* France sends the best false hate Alaska claims inexhaustible coal Chicago gas-users hare organized. Malden schools teach boys to sew At Saline City an engine ran away Camphor trees are now raised her* Gold exports last year: S76,22i,oo0 Electric fans blow smoke from pma Arizona smuggles opium from ieo. Atwood, Kan., hasn’t a recant house. JJtf— leads in butter consump. South Africa leads in ostrich farm ing. Hartford, Ind., is enjoying cut rate gaa Bessemer steel is driving king iron out Our gold production in’91 was*3o. 000,000. A Cleveland coal bucket holds 8,250 pounds. Pennsylvania has 270,000 acres of an thraclte. Australia has a banyan tree covering six acres The German tent can be used as an overcoat . Austrian women hod carriers get 23 cents a day. Grenoble, France, makes 24,000,000 gloves a year. Chicago's mayor wants grade cross ings abolished. President McLeod, of the Beading, was a rodman. Newark has the costliest plate glass window, 810,000. London is two and a half times as wealthy as Paris. A forge and gun company at San i rancisco will employ 4,000. Japan’s population of 41,000,000 souls lives on 18,0OO,C00 acrea Over 300.000 orange trees were planted in Mexico last year by planter* from California. The manufacture of wines has in creased about 1,000 per cent in Cali fornia during the past ten years. Swiss authorities are arranging for experiments with carrier pigeons in connection with the pt atal service, \ . Thomas A. Edison was 45 years o( age Thursday, February 11. He soya that he feels little older than when ha became of age. By a recent appliance to kitchen ranges the refuse from the kitchen is thoroughly dried, converted into char coal and used. In China all wines are drunk hot. The thrifty Chinaman believe that heated wine intoxicates more ex peditiously than cold wine. Recent improvements in wire-draw ing have made it possible to draw platinum and silver into wire that is finer than human hair. It is proposed to employ aluminium for the manufacture of the metal parts of photographic cameras and plate holders, owing to its extreme light ness. The Midland railway in England has now running between St Pancras and Bradford, trial trains fitted with a hot water apparatus, supplied from the en gine, for heating the carriages fiev. Janies P. Stone of Lover Cabot, Vt., formerly of Dalton, N. H. A Faithful Pastor Is held in high esteem by his people, and his opinion upon temporal as well as spiritual matters is valued greatly. The following is from a clergyman long influential in New England, now spending well earned rest at Cabot, vt **C. I. Hood * Co, Lowell, Ilia: We have need llood'l Stneparilla In our for many yeara pant, with |r»t beaeSt. w e n» with confidence, recommended It to other* for varlona allmenu, almoat all of whom have tCr to great benefit by Ita uae. We can Honestly and Cheerfully recommend It as the beat blood pwrlHerwe * ever tried. We have used other*, but non® the beneficial effects of Hood *. Also.'J® ^ Hood’s Pills and Olive Ointment lavaia*®1** Stone says she cannot do without^them- p j,T01fa Better Than Colc^ Mr. Geo. T. Clapp, of Kastondale. Mats., ■«£ . •m 83 year* of age, and for 30 years h*v® ■ ^ with running tore* on one of my legs. A ft" * I •go 1 had two toe* amputnt* d, physician* J wa* suffering from gang ene, and lisd but A Short Time to Live Eight months ago as • neighbor or red me* pgr* taking Aood's Sarsaparilla. The whole lo ^ of my leg and foot wss a running sore. hf‘ $>J almost completely healed and I can Iwm 1 am la better health than 1 have b,,;°dT0oon,ld«» years. I hare taken no otuer medicln* that I owe all my improvement to Hood’s Sarsaparilla^ It la better th*n gold.” MI eheerfhllf * D|Tf the above statement of Mr. tW;* 1 prugtf*** known for m years.” J. M. Howaao. v Kastondale, Maas. ~_—■ HOOD’S FILM are purel/J^!^^: PILES „ "W&S Sul NSW