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CAPITAL CI1Y COURIER, SATURDAY MAY 9, 1S91.
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SERMON PREACHED SUNDAY, MAY 3,
DY REV. T. DC WITT TALMAQE,
A Stirring Kttinrlnlliiii In Olirlnllnii
In
MuknTliHrllrllgliin l.hrl.v, Itnapil l'mn
llif YMl f ttw yurrn of Mirlm to Sol
(iiiuin, Hi (Irrnt King.
IlUOOKl.YN, Mny.V-Tlio nipnclly of tlio
New TAbernnrlc vrni fully ImIiM tlila tuorti
Inn liy tlio vmt nuillotico nIiIcIi nMiuuhltil
to lionr Dr. TuliiiiiKo In liln Imnilmiinu mill
nclouii chiirrh. J In N now pivncliliiK
there mornltiK nml i'VpiiIiik, nuil Tim
GhrlMlnn Hornlil service In Now York
bnvoltocn ilUcfliitltiuuil. Till 1m cmimmI
much regret to innny peoplo Inthntrlty.
A memorial wn prcpirol ami hIkiici! liy
Influential cltlr.ciiukliitt l)r, TiilnmKo to
contluuo tlio service. Ho could not mo
hi wny to comply nt t ho Hint', but, in lio
wn evidently lmprewl liy tlio wnrmth of
the welcome. Klvon lilin In tlio metropolis,
nml deeply moved liy tlio nood tlmt wn
done, It I lint Improlmlilo tlmt In tlio near
futura lio will nKidn Iw found duplicating
hlii UMsfulncK liy inlulHterltiK to two con
KrcKAtloiiH, ,w I'o lini ItcciMlnltiKiltirltiKtlio
piutsovoii months. Illssiilijeclthlsmorii.
liiK wu "Huimlrum AlmlMied," ami hi
text II Chronicle tx, 0: "Of spice urcnt
nliumlMico; neither wiim thero any niicIi
splco n tlio Qiiooii of Hliob.i gnvo KIiik Sol'
Dinun."
I A WONIlKttKtJI, IIUII.DINO.
Wlintl tlmt liutldltiK out yomlur Kilt
terhiK In tlio sunf llao you not liounlf
It I tlin liouxo of tlio forest of Lebanon.
Kim? Solomon Imi Jnnt taken to It bis
brlile, tlio princess of Ktfypt. You nco tlio
pllhirs of tlio portion, and n Krent tower,
ndnrnvd with oun tboimand shield of tfold,
liuiHt on tlio outsldo of tlio tower live
hundred of tlio shlulds of Kold manufact
ured at Solomon' ortlor, live hundred
were captured by Duvld, IiIh father. In bat
tle. Sco how thoy hla.u In tho noonday
mini
Solomon kwh up tlio Ivory atalra of hi
throno hetween twelve lion in stntunry,
nnd sits down on tho buck of tlio golden
bull, tho head of tho bronr.o Ixwit turned
toward tho people. Tho family nnd t
tendnntsof tho kliiKaro no many that the
caterers of tho place havo to provldo every
day one liumltvd sheep and thirteen oxen,
besides tho lilrd nnd tho venison. I hear
tho stnmpltiK and pawing of four thousand
flno horses In tho royal stable. Then)
were. Important ofllclals who had charKo of
tho work of gathering the straw and tho
barley for these horses, King Solomon
was an early riser, tradition Hays, and used
to tnko'n ride, out at daybreak; nnd when
in his whlto nppnrel, behind tho swiftest
horses of nil tho realm, and followed by
mounted hrchora In purplo, an tho caval
cade dashed through tho streets of Jerusa
lem I suppose. It was something worth gut
tlnu Up nttlvo o'clock in tho moriilug to
JqokaL
Solomon was not llko some of tho kings
of the present dsy crowned Imbecility,
All tho splendor of his palnoo nnd retinue
was eclipsed by his Intellectual power.
Why, ho seemed to know everything, Ho
was the first great naturalist tho world
ever saw, Peacocks from Iudla strutted
the basaltlo walk, nnd apes chattered In
tho trees and deer stalked the parks, and
there were anunriuras with foreign flab
and aviaries with foreign birds, and tradi
tion says these birds wore so well tamed
that Solomon might walk clear across the
city under tho shadow of their wings aa
they hovered and flitted about him.
I SOLOMON AND HIS WDDLKS.
More than this, ho had n great reputa
tion for the conundrums and riddles that
ho made and guessed. lie and King Ill
ram, bis neighbor, used to sit by the hour
and ask riddles, each one paying in money
if ho coald not answer or guess tho riddle.
The Solomonic navy visited all tho world,
and the sailors, of course, talked nbout the
wealth of their king, nnd nbout tho riddle
and eulguias that ho made nnd solved', and
the news spread until Queen lialkls, nway
off south, heard of It, nnd sent messengers
with a few riddles that she would llko to
havo Solomou solve, nnd a few pussies
which she would llko to have him find out.
She sent among other things to King Sol
omon a diamond with n hole so small that
a needle could not penetrato it, asking him
to thread that diamond. And Solomou
took a worm and put it at the opening In
the diamond, and tho worm crawled
through, leaving the thread In the dia
mond. The queen also sent a goblet to Solomon,
asking htm to ill It with water that did
not pour Iron the sky, and that did not
rush out from the earth, and Immediately
Solomou put a slave on the back of a awlft
horse and galloped him around and around
the park until the horse was nigh exhaust
ed, and from the perspiration of the horse
the goblet was filled. She also sent King
Solomon tve hundred boys in girls1 dress,
and (Ire hundred girls In boys' dress, won
dering it he would be acute enough to find
out the deception. Immediately Solomon,
when he saw them wash their faces, knew
from the wny they applied tho water that
it was all a cheat.
TIIK VISIT OF THE QUKKN.
Queen Ualkls was so pleased with the
acuteness of Solomon that she said, "I'll
just go and see, him for myself." Yonder
It comes tho cavalcade horses nnd drom
edaries, chariots nnd charioteers, jingling
harness nnd clattering hoofs, and blazing
shields, and flying ensigns, and clapping
cymbals. Tho plnco is saturated with tho
perfume, bho brings cinnamon nnd saf
fron and calamus nnd fraukicense nnd
all manner of sweet spices. As tho reti
nue sweeps through tho gate tho armed
guard luhnlo tho aroma. "Haiti" cry tho
charioteers, ns tho wheels grind tho gravel
in front of tho pillared portico of the king.
Queen lialkls alights In an atmosphere bo
witched with perfume. Astho drome
daries nro driven up to tholclng's store
houses, and the bundles of camphor are
unloaded, and the sacks of cinnamon, nnd
the boxes of spices are opened, the purvey
ors of the1 palace discover what my text
announces, "Of spices, great abundance;
neither was there nny such spices as tho
Queen of Shebn gave to King Solomou."
Well, my friends, you know that nil the
ologians agree iu making Solomon a type
of Christ, and making the Queen of Shebu
a type of every truth seeker, and 1 shall
take tho responsibility of saying that nil
the spikenard and cassia aud frankincense
which the Queeu of Shebn brought to King
Solomon are mightily suggestive of the
sweet spices of our holy religion. Chris
tianity U not a collection of sharp techni
calities and angular facts and chronolog
ical tables and dry statistics. Our religion
is compared to frankincense aud to cassia,
but never to nightshade. It Is a buudle of
myrrh. It is a dash of holy light. It is a
sparkle of cool fountains. It U an opening
of opaline gates. It is a collection of spices.
Would God that we were as wise In taking
spices to our Divine King as Queen Balkls
was wise in taking the spices to the earthly
letomonl What many of us most ueed is
to have ths husadrum driven out of our
life nnd tho humdrum out of our religion.
The American nnd KuglMi and Scottish
church lll dloof humdrum unless there
Ihi a change.
An editor from San Francisco n few weeks
ago wrote inn saying ho was getting up
for his paper n syinpo-dum from many
clergymen, discussing among other things
"Why do not people go to church?"
and ho wanted my opinion, and I gave It
In one sentence, "lYoplndonntgo tuchurch
iH'causo they cannot stand tint humdrum,"
The fact Is that most people have mo much
humdrum In their worldly calling that they
do not want to have added the humdrum
of religion. Wo need in nil our sonnou
nnd exhortations ami songs and prayer
more of what Queeu lialkls brought to
Solomon namely, more splco.
1,1 KK IH IIUMIIItttM.
The fact Is that tho duties nnd cares oi
this life, coming to us from time to time,
are stupid often nnd Inane nml InUder
nble. Ilere are men who have lteen barter
Ing nnd negotiating, climbing, pounding,
hammering for twenty years, forty years,
llftyjears. One great long drudgery ha
their life been, Their face anxious, theli
feelings bomiiiihcd, thelrdnys monotonous.
Whnt Is necessary to brighten up that
mini's life, nml to sweeten that acid dlspo
sltlon, and to put sparkle Into tho man's
spirits? Tho splcery of our holy religion,
Why, If between tho losses of life then
dashed n gleam of an eternal gain; if bo
tween tho betrayals of life there came tht
gleam of the undying friendship of Christ
If In dull times In business we found mlii
Istering spirits Hying to and fro iu out
olllce and stout and shop, over) day life,
Instead of bulug a stupid monotone, would
Ihi a glorious Inspiration, pemluluinlug lw
twecu calm satisfaction nml high rapture.
How any woman keeps house without
tho religion of Christ to help her is a niys
tcry to me. To hnve to spend tho greatet
part of one's life, na many women do, in
planning for tho meals, iu stitching gar
incuts that will soon lie rent again, and de
ploring breakage nnd supervising tardy
subordinates and driving off dust that
soon again will settle, and doing the saint;
thing day In nml day out, nml year iu nnd
year out, until their hair silvers, aud tht
back stoops, mid the spectacles crawl to the
eyes, and tho grave breaks open under the
thin solo of the shoo oh, it Is n long inon
otonyl Hut when Christ comes to the
drawing room, aud comes to the kitchen,
nnd comes to tho nursery, and comes in
the dwelling, then how cheery becomes nil
womanly duties. Sho is never nlono now;
Martha gets through fretting nnd joins
Mary at tho feet of Jesus.
All dny long Deborah Is happy becnuso
sho can help Iaptdoth; Hannah, because
sho can make a coat for young Samuel;
Miriam, lecauso she can watch her Infant
brother; Ilachel, because, sho can help her
father water tho stock; tho widow of Sn
rcptn, becnuso the cruso of oil is being, ry
pleulshed. O womanl having In your
pnntry u nest of lxixcs containing nil kinds
of coudimunU, why havo you not tried in
your heart and Iffe Hie splcery of our holy
religion f "Marthal Martha! thou nrt care
ful nnd troubled nbout many things; but
one thing is needful, and Mnry hnth chosen
that good part which shall not be taken
awAy from lior."
60MK llRLtatoN 18 INSIPID. ,
I must confess that n great ileal of tht
religion of this dny Is utterly Insipid.
Thero is nothing piquant or elevating
about It, Men nnd women go around
humming psalms In n minor key, nnd
culturlng melancholy, nnd their worship
has in it more sighs than rapture. Wo do
noi uouoi incir pioiy. un, no. uut inoy
aro sitting ntn feast whero the cook has
forgotten to season tho food. Everything
is lint iu their experience and in their con
versation. Emancipated from sin nnd
death nnd hell, nnd on their way to a mag
nificent heaven, they act aa though they
were trudging on toward an everlasting
Botany bay. Religion does not seem to
agree with thorn. It seems to catch In tho
windpipe nnd become n tight strangulation
instead of nn exhilaration.
All tho Intldel books that havo been writ
ten, from Voltaire down to Herbert Silen
cer, have not done so much damage to
our Christianity ns lugubrious Christians.
Who wants a religion woven out of tho
shadows of the ntghtf Why go growling
on your way to celestial outuronemeutr
Come out of that envo and sit down In tho
warm light of the Sun of Righteousness.
Away with your odes to melancholy nnd
Hervey's "Meditations Among the Tombs."
Then let our songs abound.
And every tear be dry;
We're marching through Emmanuel's
ground
To fairer worlds on high.
I have to say, also, that we need to put
more spice and enllvenment in our relig
ious teaching, whether it be in the prnyer
meeting, or in the Sabbath school, or in
the church. We ministers need more fresh
air nnd sunshine in our lungs and our
heart and our head. Do you wonder that
tho world is so far from being converted
when you find so little vivacity in the pul
pit and luthepewr We want, like Che Lord,
to plant In our sermons and exhortations
more lilies of the Held. We want fewer
rhetorical elaborations and fewer sesqui
pedalian words; nnd when we talk nbout
shadows, wo do not want to say adumbra
tion; aud when we mean queerness, we do
not want to talk nbout idiosyncracles; or if
n stitch in tho back, wo do not want to
talk of lumbago, but in the plain vernacu
lar preach that gospel which proposes to
mako all men happy, honest, victorious
and free.
Iu other words, we want more cinnamon
and less gristle. Let this 1x3 so in nil the
different depart menu of work to which tho
Lord calls us. Iet us be plain. Let us bo
earnest. Let us lie common senslcitl.
When wo talk to tho people in a vernacu
lar they can understand they will be very
glad to como nnd recelvo tho truth wo pre
sent. Would to God that Quoen Balkls
would drlvo her spice laden dromedaries
into nil our sermons and prayer meeting
exhortations.
UFE AND BriCE IN CHRISTIAN WORK.
More than that, we want more life and
splco In our Christian work. Tho poor do
not want so much to lie groaned over as
sung to. With tho, bread and medicines
and tho garments you give them, let there
be an accompaniment ot smiles nnd brisk
encouragement. Do not stand and talk to
them about tho wretchedness of their
abode, aud the hunger of their looks, and
tho hardness of their lqt, Aht they know
it better than you can tell them. Show
them tho bright side of the thing, if there
be any bright side. Tell them good times
will come. Tell them that for the children
of God there is immortal rescue. Wake
them up out of their stolidity by an in
spiring laui'b, and while you send In help,
like the Queen ot Sheba also send in the
spices.
There are two ways of meeting the poor.
One is to come into their house with a nose
elevated in disgust, as much as to say: "1
don't see how you live here la this neigh
borhood. It actually makes me sick.
There is that bundle; take it, you poor,
miserable wretch, aud make the most of
It." Another way is to go into the abode
of the poor in a manner which seeinr to
sayi "The Blessed Lord sent me. He was
poor lilmself, It Is not more for the good
1 am going to try to do you than It is for
the good j cm can do niu," Coming In that
spirit the gift will boas aiomatlu as the
spikenard on the feet of Christ, and all the
hovels In that alley will Ihi fragrant with
the spice,
Wo need morn splco nnd enllvenment In
our church music. Churches sit discussing
whether they shall have choirs, or precen
tors, or organs, or bass viols, or cornets. I
say, take that which will bring out tho
most Inspiring music, If we had half ns
much r.eal and spirit In our churches as we
hnve In the songs of our Sabbath schools
It would not be long iM'forethe whole earth
would quake with the coming (lud. Why,
in most churches nine-tenths of tho ptsi
pie do not slug, or they slug so feebly that
the people nt their elbows do not know they
nro singing. People mouth and mumble
the praises of God; but there Is not morn
than one out of a hundred who makes "a
Joyful noise" unto tho Hock of Our Salva
tion. Sometimes, when tlio congregation
forgets Itself, nnd is all nhsorlicd in the
goodness of God or the glories of heaven,
I get nu intimation of what church music
will Ihi n hundred years from now, when
the coining generation shall waku up to Its
duty.
WAKK UP.
I promise a high spirit unl blessing tonny
one who will slug in church, aud who will
slug so heartily that the people all around
cannot help but slug. Wake upl all the
churches from Hnugnr-to San Francisco
and across Christendom. It Is not a matter
of preference, It Is n matter of religious
duty. Oh, for fifty times more volume of
sound. German chorals iu German ca
thedrals surpass us, and yet Germany has
received nothing at thu hands of God com
pared with America; ami ought thu
acclaim Iu Horlln lie louder than that In
Brooklyn!1 Soft, long drawn out music Is
appropriate for the drawing loom nml ap
propriate for the concert, but St. John
gives an idea of the sonorous and resonant
congregational singing appioprlate for
churches when, In listening to the temple
scrvlconf heaven, he says: "I heard a great
voice, as tho voice of n great multitude, and
as the volcu of many waters, aud as the
voice of mighty thunderlngs. Hallelujah,
for the Lord Goil omnipotent relgueth."
Join with mo iu a crusade, giving me not
only your hearU but the mighty uplifting
of your voices, ami I iwliovu we can,
through Christ's grace, sing llfty thousand
souls into thu kingdom of Christ. An ar
gument they can laugh at, u sermon they
may talk down, but a vast audience join
ing In oiio anthem Is irresistible. Would
that Queeu lialkls would drlvo all her
splco laden dromedaries Into our church
music. "Neither was thero any such uplco
nn tho Queeu of Shebn gavu King Solo
mon." Now, I want to impress this audience
with tho fact that religion Is sweetness and
perfume mid spikenard and saffron and
cinnamon nnd cassia and frankincense,
aud nil sweet spices together. "OIh" you
say, "I hnve not looked nt It ns such. I
thought It was n nuisance; it had for me n
repulsion; I held my breath as though It
were malodor; I have been appalled nt Its
ndvanco; I havo said, If I have any religion
nt nil, I wnnt to have just 'us llttlo of it ns
Is posslblo to get through with." Oh, what
a mlstnko you havo made, my brother. Tlio
rellglou ot Christ is a present and everlast
ing redolence. It counteracts nil trouble.
Just put It on tho stand beside thu pillow
of sickness. It catches in tho curtains and
perfumes tho stifling air. It sweetens thu
cup of bitter medicine, nnd throws a glow
on tho gloom of the turned lattice. It is n
balm for tho aching side, nnd n soft ban
dage for tho templo stung with pain.
It lifted Samuel Rutherford into n rev
elry of spiritual delight while he nw In
physical agonies. It helped Hichnrd'Bax
ter until, in tho midst of such n complica
tion of diseases ns perhaps no other man
ever suffered, ho wrote "Jho Saint's Ever
lasting Rest." And it ptfuml light upon
John Bunynn's dungeon the light ot the
shining gate of tho shining city. Aud it is
good for rheumatism, ami lor neuralgia,
and for low spirits, nnd for consumption;
It Is tho cathollcon for all disorders. Yes,
It will heal nil your sorrows.
ALL HAVE HAD BOItltOW.
Why did you look so sad today when
you came Inf Abut for the loneliness and
tho heartbreak, and the load that Is never
lifted from your soul. Soma of you go
atxnit feeling like Mncaulay when ho wrote,
"Jf I had' another month of such days as
I have been spending, I would bo Impa
tient to get down into my llttlo narrow
crib In the ground like n weary factory
child." And thero havo been times In
your life when you wished you could got
out of this life. You have said, "Oh, how
sweet to my lips would lie tho dust of tho
valley," nnd wished you could pull over
you in your Inst similiter tho coverlet of
Kreen urnss and daisies. You havo said:
"Oh, how beautifully quiet It must lie In
the tomb. I wish I was there." I see nil
around alwut mo widowhood nnd orphan
age nnd childlessness; sadness, disappoint
ment, perplexity. U 1 coum iisk nu tnuso
to riso in this audlenco who have felt no
sorrow nnd been buffeted by no disap
pointment If I could ask all such to rise,
how many would rise? Not one.
A widowed mother with her llttlo child
went west, hoping to get better wages
there, nnd she was taken sick nnd died.
The overseer of tho poor got her body aud
put It in a box, aud put it in a wagon, and
started down tho street toward tho ceme
tery at full trot, Tho llttlo child tho ouly
child ran after It through tho streets,
bnro headed, crying, "Bring me back my
mother! bring me back my mother!" Aud
It was said that us tho people looked on
and saw her crying after that which lay In
tho box In tho wagon all sho loved on
earth It Is said thu whole village was iu
tears. And that is what n great many of
you are doing chasing the dead. Dear
Lord, is there iionppeasement for all thlssor
row that I see nbout mef Yes, the thought
of resurrection nnd reunion far beyond
this scene ot struggle nml tears. "They
shall hunger no more, neither thirst any
more, neither shall thu sun light on them,
nor nny heat; for tho Lamb which is iu thu
midst ot tho throne shall lead them to liv
ing fountains of water, nnd God shall wipe
away nil tenrs iroin tneir eyes."
Across the couches ot your sick nml
across the graves ot your dead I tllug this
Bhowcr ot sweet spices. Queen Balkls,
driving up to the pillared portico of the
house of cellar, carried no such pungency
of perfume ns exhales today from the
Lord's garden. It Is pence. It Is sweet
ness. It Is comfort. It Is lutlulto satisfac
tion, this Gospel I commend to you. Some
one could not understand why an old Ger
man Christian scholar used to be always so
calm and happy and hopeful when he
bad so many trials and sicknesses aud ail
ments. A man secreted himself Iu thu
house. Ho said, "I mean to watch this old
scholar aud Chrlstlau;" and ho saw the old
Christian man go to his room and sit down
on the chair "beside the stand nnd open thu
Bible and begin to read. He read on nnd
on, chapter after chapter, hour after hour,
until bis face una all aglow with the tid
ings from' heaven, and when the clock
struck twelve ho arose and shut his Bible,
nnd saldi "Blessed Ixird, we-nrti on tho
smiio old terms yet. Good night. Good
night."
Oh, yon slu parched nnd oii trouble
pounded, hero Is com fort, hero Is satisfac
tion, Will you come and get Itf 1 cannot
tell you what t he 1ird offers you hereafter
so well as I can tell you now. "It doth not
yet appear what wu shall Ik." Hiivu you
read of the Taj Mahal In India, In some
respects thu most inajestio building on
earthf Twenty thousand men were twenty
years In building it. It cost about sixteen
millions of dollars. The walls are of mar
ble, Inlaid with carnellan from Bagdad,
and turquols from Thibet, nnd Jasper
from tho I'unjaub, and amethyst from
Persia, and all manner of pieclous stones.
A traveler says that It seems to him like
the shining of an enchanted castle of bur
nished silver. Thu walls are two hundred
nnd forty-live feet high, nnd from the top
of these springs n domu thirty nss-e feet
high, that dome containing tho molt won
derfiil echo tho world has ever known, so
that ever and anon travelers standing be
low with flutes and drums and harps are
testing that echo, nml the sounds from be
low strike up, and then come down, as It
were, tho voices of angels all around nbout
thu building. There Is around It a garden
of tamarind and banyan and palm aud all
the Moral glories of tho ransacked earth.
But that Is ouly a tomb of a dead em
press, nnd It Is tamo compared with tho
grandeurs which God has bullded for your
living nnd Immortal spirit. Oh, homo of
thu blessed! Foundations of gold! Arches
of victory! Capstones of praise! And a
domu In which there nro echoing and re
echoing the hallelujahs of the ages. Ami
iirouml nliout that mansion is a garden
the garden of God and all thu springing
fountains are the bottled tears of thu church
Iu the wilderness, and all the crimson of
Honors Is thu deep hue that was caught up
from thu carnagu of earthly martyrdoms,
and tho fragrance is the prayer ot all tho
saints, and thu aroma puts into utter for
getfuluess thu cassia, and thu spikenard,
and thu frankincense, and thu world re
nowned spices which the Queen Balkls, of
Abyssinia, Hung at the feet of King Solo
mon. When shall these oyesthy heaven built walla
And pearly gates behold,
Thy bulwarks, with salvation strong,
And streets ot shining gold?
Through olsluracy on our part, aud
through the rejection of that Christ who
makes heaven possible, I wonder if any ot
us will miss that spectacle? I fearl I fearl
Thu queeu of thu south will rlsu up in judg
ment against this generation and condemn
It, localise she camu from the uttermost
parts ot thu earth to hear the wisdom of
Solomon, aud behold, a greater than Solo
mon Is here! May God grant that through
your own practical e.vticrlcucuyouiuuyiind
that religion's ways are ways of pleasant
ness, and that all her paths are paths of
pence Unit It Is perfume now and jierfumu
forever. Aud there was an abundance of
splco; "neither was thero any such splco as
tho queen of Shebn gave to King Solomou."
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This is the Season of theyear when
COAL is KING
when Competition is Close and Everybody has the
best. Then is the time to go direct to Headquarters
BETTS, WEAVER & CO.
and see their line and get prices. There you can get
the pure article direct from America's greatest mines
noted for their purity and excellent quality.
Call up Phone 440.
SIDEWALK AND BUILDING
J.' A.
H. W. BROWN
DRUGGSH WBOOKSELLER
The Choicest line of Perfumes. D. M. Ferry 'f Finest
Flower and Garden Seeds.
127
South Eleventh Street.
100 Engraved Calling Cards
And Copper Plate, for $2.50i
If you have a Plate, we will furnish 100 Cards from..
same, at $.150. ,
WESSEL PRINTING COMPANY..
to Lincoln.
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Sanderson,
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NOW
Office, 118 south nth st.
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