i'LATTSAIOUTll WEKkL iicia., uitiJiSUJI 1', JULY liO, LSbS.
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USES OF STRATAGEM.
DR. TALMAGE ADDRESSES HIS COM
RADES OF THE THIRTEENTH.
Victorious lletrt-at The Triumph of the
AVIeLotl I Short Thentr-n and Drink
ing Saloons to ISo Turned Into Asylsm.
Art Gullet-lea and Churches.
Peekskiij N. Y., July 22. Chapl.iin
T. Do Witt Tnlmngc preached today to tho
Tliirtoentli regiment of tho New York
Ktato National Guards, now encumiK-d
hero. Tho regiment nssctnliled at 15 p.
m., when people from tho neiglitxring
country, town.? and cities wero pm;ent
in immense numbers. A military hand
conducted tho musical part of tho crr
vico. Chaplain Talmnge'd sermon, which
was on "Uses of Stratagem," was based
on Joshua viii, 7: "Then yo bhall ri.so up
from tho amhuwh, and beizo upon tho
city." Ho said:
Men o tho Thirteenth regiment and
their friend3 here gathered, of all occu
pations and professions, men of tho city
and men of tho fit-Ids, here is a themo tit
for all of us.
Ono Sahhalh evening, with my family
around mc, wo wero talking over tho
6ceno of tho text. In tho wido open eyes
and tho quick interrogations and the
blanched cheeks I realized what a thrill
ing drama it was. Thero is tho old city,
- shorter by name than any other city in
tho ages,' epelled with two letters A, I
Ai. Joshua and his men want to take
it. How to do it is the question. On a
former occasion, in a straightforward,
face to face fight, they had been defeated ;
but now they aro going to tako it by am
buscade. General Joshua has two divis
ions in his army tho ono division tho
battle worn commander will lead him
Kelf, tho other division he sends oil to
encamp in an ambush on tho west hide
of tho city of Ai. No torches, no lan
terns, no sound of heavy battalions, but
oO.OOO 6warthy warriors moving in
silence, speaking only in a whisper;
no clicking of swords against shields.
Jest tho watchmen of Ai discover it and
the stratagem bo a failure. If a royster
ing soldier in tho Israelitish army for
gets himself, all along the line the word is
"Ilushl" Joshua takes the other di
vision, the ono with which lie is to
march, and puts it on the north side of
the city of Ai, and then mends the night
in icconnoitering in the valley. There
ho is, thinking over the fortunes of tho
coining day, with something of the feel
ings of Wellington the night before
Waterloo, or of Meade and Leo the night
before Gettysburg. Thero he stands in
the night, and says to himself : '"Yon
der is the division in ambush on the west
eido of Ai. Hero is the division I have
under my especial command on the north
side of Ai. There is the old city slum
bering in its 6in. To-morrow will bo the
battle. Look! the morning already be
gins to tip the hills. The military officers
of Ai look out in the morning very early,
and while they do not see tho division in
ambush, they behold tho other division
of Joshua, and tlia cry, "To arms! to
arms!" rings through all tho streets of
me oiu town, ana every swora, wnetner
hacked and bent or newly welded, is
brought out, and all tho inhabitants of
tho city of Ai pour through the gates, an
infuriated torrent, and their cry is:
''Come, we'll make quick work with
Joshua and his troops. ' ' No sooner had
these people of Ai come out against tho
troops of Joshua, than Joshua gave such
a command aa he seldom gave: "Fall
back I" Why, they could not believe
their own ears. Is Joshua's courage fail
ing him?
The retreat is beaten, and the Israelites
are flying, throwing blankets and can
teens on every side under this worse than
Bull Eun defeat. And you ought to hear
the soldiers of Ai cheer and cheer and
cheer. But they huzza too soon. The
men lying in ambush are straining their
vision to get some signal from Joshua
that they may know what time to drop
upon the city. Joshua takes his bur
nished spear, glittering in tho sun like a
shaft of doom, and points it toward the
city; and when the men up yonder in
the ambush see it, with hawklike swoop
they-drop upon Ai, and without stroke
of swdrd or stab of ppear take the city
and putltvto the torch. So much for
the division' that was in ambush. How
about the division under Joshua's com
mand? No sooner docs Joshua stop in
tho flight than all his men stop with him,
and as he wheels they wheel, for in a
voice of thunder he cried "Halt!" One
strong arm driving back a torrent of fly
ing troops. And then, as ho points his
spear through tho golden light toward
that fated city, his troops know that they
are to start for it. "What a scene it was
when the division in ambush which had
taken the city marched down against the
men of Ai on the one side, and the troops
under Joshua doubled up their enemies
from the other side, and the men of A
.-were caught between these two hurri
canes of Israelitish courage, thrust before
and behind, stabbed in breast and back,
ground between the upper and the nether
millstones of God's indignation. Woe to
the city of Ai! Cheer for the triumphs of
Israel!
Lesson the first: There is such a thing
as victorious retreat. Joshua's falling
back was the first chapter in his success
ful besiegement. And there aro times in
your life when the best tldng you can da
is to run. You were were once the vic
tim of strong drink. The demijohn and
tho decanter were your fierce foes. They
came down upon you with greater fury
than the men of Ai upon the men of
Joshua. Your only safety is to get
away from them. Your dissipating com
panions will come around you for your
overthrow. Eun for your life! Fall
back from tho drinking saloon. Fall
back from the wine party. Your flight
is your advance. Your retreat is your
victory. There is a saloon down on tho
next street that has almost been the
ruin of your soul. Then why do
you go along that 6treet? Why
do you not pass through some
other etreet rather than by the place
of your calamity? A spoonful of brandy
taken for medicinal purposes by a man
who twenty years beforo had Deen re- i
formed froin drunkenness, hurled into '
inebriety and tho grave one of tho best
t riend3 I ever had. Your retreat is your ;
victory. Here is a converted infidel.
IIo is so Btroug now in his faith in the
Go?pel be says be can read anything. s
What are you reading? Bolingbrokel
Andrew Jackson Davis trr.cts? Tyn
dalr Glasgow University address?
Prop than ntid run. You will lc an in
fidel before you die unless you quit
that. Theso men of Ai will bo t-ro much
for you. Turn your back on tho rank
and lilo of unlx-lief. Fly ljefoio they cut
you with their swords and transfix you
with their javelins.
Thero are p-opI who have leen well
nih ruined localise they risked a fool
hardy exi-dition in tho presence of
mighty and overwhelming temptations,
and the men of Ai made a morning meal
of them. So also there is such a thing
as victorious retreat in the religious
world. Thousands of times tho kingdom
of Christ has seemed to fall back. When
tho blood of the Scotch Covenanters gavo
a deejer dye to tho heather of tho high
lands, when the Vaudois ot' Franco choso
extermination rather than make an un
christian surrender, when on St. Bar
tholomew's day mounted assassins rodo
through the streets of Paris crying: "Kill!
Blood letting is good in August! Kill!
Death to the Huguenots! Kill 1" when
Lady Jane Grey's head rolled from the
executioner's block; when Calvin was
imprisoned in tho castle; when John
Knox did for the truth; when John
Bunyau lay rotting in Bedford jail, sav
ing: "If God will help me and my phys
ical life continues I will stay here until the
moss grows on my eyebrows rather than
give up my faith," tho days of retreat
for the church were days of victory.
Tho Pilgrim fathers fell back from the
other side of the sea to Plymouth Rock,
1 ut now are marshaling a continent for the
Christianizationof the world. The church
of Christ falling back from Piedmont,
falling back from Rue St. Jacques, fall
ing back from St. Denis, falling back
form Wurtemburg castles, falling back
from tho Brussels market place, yet all
tlio timo triumphing. Notwithstanding
all tho bhocking reverses which the
church of Christ suffers, what do we see
today? Three thousand missionaries of
the cross on heathen ground; sixty thou
sand ministers of Jesus Christ in this
land ; at least two hundred millions of
Christians on the earth. All nations to
day kindling in a blaze of revival. Fall
ing back, yet advancing until the old
Wesleyan hymn will prove true:
The Lion of Judah shall breuk tho chain.
And give us tho victory again and aaiu)
But there is a more marked illustration
of victorious retreat in tho life of our
Joshua, the Jesus of the ages. First fall
ing back from an appalling height to an
appalling depth, falling from celestial
hills to terrestrial valleys, from throne to
manger; yet that did not seem to suffice
him as a retreat. Falling back still
further from Bethlehem to Nazareth,
from Nazareth to Jerusalem, back
from Jerusalem to Golerotha, back
from
tho
Golgotha to the mausoleum in
rock, back down over the
precipices of perdition tintil he
walked amid the caverns of the eternal
captives, and drank of the wine of the
wrath of Almighty God amid the Ahabs
and the Jezebels and the Belshazzars. O,
men of the pulpit and men of the pew,
Christ's descent from heaven to earth
does not measure half tho distance. It
was from glory to perdition. He de
scended into hell. All the records of
earthly retreat are as nothing compared
with tins falling back. Santa Anna,
with tho fragments of his army flying
over tho plateaux of Mcrico, and Na
poleon and his army retreating from
Moscow into the awful snows of Russia,
are not worthy to be mentioned with
this retreat, when all the powers of
darkness seem to, be pursuing Christ
as he fell back, until the body of him who
came to do such wonderful things lay
pulseless and stripped. Mclliink3 that
the city of Ai was not so emptied of it
inhabitants when they went to pursue
Joshua, as perdition was emptied of
devils when they started for the pursuit
of Christ and he fell back and back down
lower, down lower, chasm below chasm,
pit below pit, until ho seemed to strike
the bottom of objurgation and scorn and
torture. Oh, the long, loud, jubilant shout
of hell at tho defeat of the Lord God
Almighty!
But let not the power of darkness re
joicfl cpiitQ so soon. Do you hear that
disturbance in th tpmb of Arimathea?
I hear the sheet rending: What means
that stone hurled down the side of illZ
hill.' ho is this coming out? rush
him back! the dead must not stalk in
this
Let
and
open sunlight. O, it is our Joshua,
liim come out. He comes forth
starts for the citv. IIo takes th
spear of the Roman guard and points that
way. Church militant marches up on
ono side and the church triumphant
marches down on the other side. And
the powers of darkness being caught be
tween these ranks of celestial and ter
restrial valor, nothing is left of them
save just enough to illustrate the direful
overthrow of hell and our Joshua's
eternal victory. On his head bo all the
crowns. In his hand be all the scepters.
At his feet be all the liuman hearts; and
here, Lord, is one of them.
Lesson the second: The triumph of the
wicseii is snort, uia you ever see an
army in a panic;? There is nothing so
uncontrollable. If you had stood at
Long bridge, Washington, during the
opening of our sad civil war, you would
know what it is to see an army run.
And when those men of Ai looked out
and saw those men of Joshua in a stam
pede, they expected easy work. They
would scatter them as the equinox the
leaves. Oh, the gleeful and jubilant de
scent of th men of Ai upon the men of
Joshua! But their exhilaration was
brief, for the tide of battle turned and
these quondam cocquerers left their mis
erable carcases iu the wilderness of Beth
aven. So it always is. The triumph of the
wicked is short. You make $20,000 at
the gaming table. Do you expect to
keep it? You will die in the poorhouse.
You made a fortune by iniquitous traffic.
Do you expect to keep it? Your money
will scatter, or it will 6tay long enough
to curse your children after you are
dead. Call over the roll of bad men who
prospered and see how 6hort was their
prosperity. For a while, like the men of
Ai, they went from conquest to con
quest, but after a while disaster rolled
back upon them, and they wero divided
into three parts; misfortune took their 1
property, the grave took their body, and
tho lost world took their soul. I am al
ways interested in the building of the
atres and the building of dis
sipating saloons. I like to have them
built of the best granite and havo the
rectus mads large and to have the pillars
made very firm. God is going to conquer
them, and they will be turned into asy
lums and ait galleries and churches. Tha.
stores in which fraudulent men do busi
ness, tho splendid banking institution!
where tho president and cashier put all
tln-ir projx ity in their wives' hands and
then fail for two hundred thousand dol
lars all these institutions aro to become
the places where hont-st Christian men
do business.
I low long will it take your boys to get
through your ill gotten gains? The
wicked do not live out half their days.
For a while they swagger and strut and
make a great t plash in tho newspapers,
Uit after awhile it all dwindles down
into a brief paragraph: "Died sud li nlv,
July 22, 18Sy. at ;5.j years of age. Rel
atives and friends of the family are in
vited to attend the funeral on Wednes
day, at 2 o'clock, from his lato resi
dence on Madison square. Interment at
Greenwood." Some of them jumped ofT
tho docks. Some them took prussic acid.
Some of them fell under tho snap of a
Derringer pistol. Somo of them spent
their hist days in a lunatic asylum.
Where aro William Tweed and
his associates? Where are Ketcham and
Swartwout, absconding swindlers? Where
is James Fisk, the libertine? Where is
John Wilkes Booth, the assassin? and all
tho other misdemeanants? Tho wicked
do not live out half their days. Disem
logue. O world of darkness! Come up,
Ilildebrand and Henry II and Robes
pierre, .and with blistering and blasphem
ing and ashen lips, hiss out: "The tri
umph of tho wicked is short." Alas for
tho men of Ai when Joshua stretches
out his spear toward the city!
Lesson the third: How much may be
accomplished by lying in ambush for op
portunities. Are you hypercritical of
Joshua's maneuver? Do you say that
it was cheating for him to take that city
by ambuscade? Was it wrong for Wash
ington to kindle camp fires on New Jer
sey Heights, giving the impression to the
opposing force that a great army was
encamped there when there was none at
all? I answer, if the war was right then
Joshua was right in his stratagem. He
violated no flag of truce. lie broke 110
treaty, but by a lawful ambuscade cap
tured the city of Ai. Oh, that we all knew
how to lie in ambush for opportunities to
serve God. The best of our opportuni
ties do not lie on the surface, but are se
creted ; by tact, by stratagem, by Chris
tian ambuscade, you may take almost
any castlo of sin for Christ. Come up
toward men with a regular besiegement
of argument and you will be defeated;
but just wait until tho door of their
hearts is set ajar, or they are off their
guard, or their severe caution is away
from home, and then drop in on them
from a Christian ambuscade. Thero has
been many a man up to his chin in scien
tific portfolios which proved there was no
Christ and no divine revelation, his pen a
scimetar flung into the heart of theologi
cal opponents, who, nevertheless, lias
leen discomfited and captured for God
by some littlo three-year-old child who
has got up and put her snowy arms
around his sinewy neck, and asked some
simple question about God and heaven.
Oh, make a flank movement; steal a
ruarch on the devil; cheat that man into
heaven. A $5 treatise that will stand all
tho laws of homilctics may fail to do that
which a penny tract Christian entreaty
may accomplish. Oh, for more Chris
tians in ambuscade, not lying in idleness,
but waiting for a quick spring, wailing
until just tfae right time comes. Do not
talk to a man about the vanity of this
world on the day when he has bought
something at "twelve" and is going to
sell jt at "fifteen." But talk to
him about the vanity of tho world
one the day when ho has bought some
thing at "fifteen" and is compelled to
sell at "twelve." Do not rub a man's
disposition ihe wrong way. Do not take
the imperative mood when the subjunc
tive mood will do just as well. Do not
talk in perfervid style to a phlegmatic, nor
try to tickle a torrid temperament with an
icicle. You can take any man for Christ
if you know how to get at him. Do not
send word to him that to-morrow at 10
o'clock you propose to open your batter
ies upon him, but come on him by a
skillf ui, pet-severing, God directed ambus
cade. Lesson the fourth: The importance of
taki'J good aim. There is Joshua, but
how are those jrCC1 in ambush up yon
der to know when they TC to droP on
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nits tiLj', ctuu now are tnese men arouin.
Joshua to know when they are to stop
their flight and advance? There must
be some signal a signal to stop the one
division and to start the other. Joshua,
with a spear on which were ordinarily
hung the colors of battle, points toward
the city. Ho stands in such a conspicu
ous position, and there is so much of the
morning light dripping from that spear
tip, that all around the horizon they see
it. It was as much as to say: "There is
tho city. Take it. Take it now. Roll
down from the west. Surge up from
the north. It is ours, the city of
Ai." God knows and we know that a
great deal of Christian attack amounts to
nothing simply because we do not take
good aim. Nobody knows and we do
not know ourselves which point we want
to take, when we ought to make up our
minds what God will have us to do, and
point our spear in that direction and
then hurl our body, mind, soul, time,
eternity at that one target. In our pul
pits and pews and Sunday schools and
prayer meetings we want to get a repu
tation for saying pretty things, and so
we point our spear toward the flowers;
or we want a reputation for saying
sublime things, and we point our spear
toward the stars; or we want to get
a reputation for historical knowledge,
and we point our spear toward the past;
or we want to get a reputation for great
liberality, so we swing our epear all
around; and it strikes all points of the
horizon, and you can make out of it
whatever you please; while thero is the
old world, proud, rebellious, and armed
against all righteousness; and instead of
riuming any farther away from its pur
suit, we ought to ruin around, plant our
foot in the strength of the eternal God,
lift the old cross and point it in the di
rection of tho world's conquest till the
redeemed of earth, marching up from
ono side, aild the glorified of 'heaven
marching down from the other side, the
last battlement of Bin is compelled to
swing cut the streamers of EmrnueL
Oh, church of God, take aim and con
quer. I have heard it said: "Look out for a ,
man who lias only ono idea; ho :s irro
bistiblc.' I say: IjooIc for the man who
has ono idea, and that a determination
for soul saving. I believe God would
strike me dead if I dared to ioint tho
spear in any other direction. Oh, for
some of tin; courage and enthusiasm of
Joshua! Ho flung two armies from the
tip of that spear. Jt is hinful for us to
rest, unless it is to get stronger muscle
and fresher brain and purer heart for
uki s woik. i red on my nea i tiie
hands of Christ i:i a new ordination. Do
vou not feel the same omnipotent pre ss-
urc? There is a work for all of us. Oh,
tliat we might stand up side by tide and
point the spear toward t'ae citv! It ought
to le takn. It will bo taken. Our
cities are diifting off toward loose reli
gion or wnai is caned literal Uiiristian-
uy, wnicn is so utierai that it gives up
all the cardinal doctrines of the Bible,
liberal that it surrenders th'j rectitude of
the throne of
tho Almighty
a vengeance.
Th:.t is
liberality with
IiCt
tide upon the work which we, as Chris
tian men, have to do, and, in the strength
of God, go to work and do it.
11 is comparatively easv to keep on a
parade amid a shower of bouquets and
hand clapping, .and tho whole street full
01 emnusiastio nuzzas; but it is not so
easy to stand up in tho day of battle, the
face blackened with smoke, the uniform
covered with the earth plowed up bv
whizzing bullets and bursting shells, half
tho regiment cut tw pieces, and vet the
commander crying, "Forward, inarch!"
Then it requires ol fashioned valor. My
friends, the great trouble of the kingdom
of God in this day is the cowards. They
do splendidly on a parade day, and at
the communion, when they have on their
best clothes of Christian profession; but
put them out in the great battle
of life, at the first sharpshoot-
mg ot skepticism they dodge
they fall back, they break ranks. We
confront the enemy, we open the battle
against fraud, and lo! wo find on our
side a great many peoj ile that do not try
10 yny inuir ueois. Anu we open :ne
battlo against intemperance, and we find
on our own blue a great many people
who drink too much. And we open the
battle against profanity, and wo find on
our own side a great many men who
make hard speeches. And we open the
battle against infidelity, and lo! we find
on our own side a great many men who
are not quite sure about the Book of
Jonah. And while we ought to bo mass
ing our troops, and bringing forth more
than the united courage of Austerlitz, and
vv aterioo, ana Uettysburg, we have to
bo spending our time in bunt-
! i mi
mg up amouscaues. mere are a
great many in the Lord's army
who would like to go out 011 a camnaitm
with satin slippers and holding umbrellas
over their heads to keep off the heavy
dew, and having rations of canvas back
ducks and lemon custards. If they
cannot nave tnem tney want to go liome.
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iney mime it is unneannv among so
many bullets!
1 believe that the next twelve months
will be the most stupendous year that
heaven ever saw. The nations are quak
ing now with the coming of God. It
will be a year of successes for the men of
Joshua, but of doom for the men of Ai
lou put your ear to the rail track mid
you can boar the train coming miles
away. So I put my ear to the ground
and 1 Jiear the thundering on of the
lightning train of God's mercies and
judgments. The mercy of God is first to
be tried upon this nation. It will be
preached in the pulpits, in theatres,
on the streets, everywhere. People
win be invited to accept the
mercy of the Gospel and the story and
uie song anu tiie praver will be "mercv.
But sujpose they do not accept the of
fer of mercy what then? Then God
will come with his judgments, and the
grasshoppers will eat the crops, and the
freshets will devastate tho valleys, and
the defalcations will swallow the" money
markets, and the fires will burn the
cities, and the earth will quake from pole
to pole. Year of mercies and of judg
ments, i ear ot Invitation and of warn
ing. ear of jubilee and of woe. "Which
side are you going to be on? With the
ixieii ui 1.1 01 iuu men 01 josnuaj x ass
over this Sabbath .into tho ranks of
Israel. I would clap my hands at the
joy of your coming. You will have a
poor chance for this world and the world
to come without Jesus. You cannot stand
what is to como upon you and upon the
world unless you have the pardon and
the c-uILIl'rt and the help of Christ.
Come over. On thL; Side is your happi
ness and safetv, on the other side u ui
quietude and despair. Eternal defeat to
the men of Ai ! Eternal victory to tha
men of Joshua !
"Booking" for the Season.
This is the time of year when the man
agers of country opera houses coma into
the city to go through a process which
they importantly call "booking." Trans
lated, tnat means tno engaging ci com
panies to visit their houses during the
approaching season. The smaller places,
or "one night stands," are represented
by "managers," who generally pursue
ctlier occupations, varying from black
smith to lawver. Their knowledge of
theatricals is brief, but they can argue on
sharing terms with great plausibility, and
they sign contracts with the utmost caro
for their own interests. To well known
stars they gladly yield 73, 80, S3, and
sometimes CO per cent, of the entire re
ceipts. The smaller companies have to
be content with 53, CO, and C3 per cent.
ti r 1 mi . . ...
juosi 01 tne minstrel snows, winch ar
big cards in the minor cities, get 80 or 8-5
ver cent. iNew iork Sun.
"rromling Churches."
At the Lmtaiian festival in Boston a
minister from St. Louis remarked that
when ministers came to the "unfenced
pasture" in tho west he was always
tempted to warm them of the privations
that awaited them in "promising
cnurcnes tnat is, cnurches that prom
ise to pay $700 a year or more and do
not keep their promise. Some ministers
have found such "promising churches"
without taking 6uch a long trip. Chri
tian Inquirer.
According to a London paper, the New
lestament m Arabic is in demand in tho
land of Moab. In one day a colporteur
sold fifty-four copies flour being the
purchasing power. When night came
every receptacle in the colporteur's hous;
was filled with flour, and' not a copy cf
1 ne oenprares remamea unsold.
I3rs. Dart's Triplets-
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piven tu thi-fc! triplets, Mollio, Mil, ami Hay, cluMivn of Mrs. A. K. liart, llHinlnirKh, N. V.
she writes: " I.iu-t AuiiNt the littlo ones Ixcame verv sick, ami uk I eoulil tret tn oilier fmxl
that Wdu'id aree with then), I eotimielieeil the use of I.ae(ute! K001I. it helpeil them imme
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that they aro now so well." Luetateil Kool U the hewl Kmm1 for ltth-li l haMex. it keepw
them well, ami L-i U tter than meijii ino when they are slek. Three 1;om : 'J-r.;., fide., (fl.iw.
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-FOll ALL
FIN
-YOU MIOl'I.D CALL ON
Where
magnificent
J Vices
UNDERTAKING AND Eft"
COKNER MAIN AND SIXTH
Set lie jt
Will call ycur attention to the
they are headquarters for all kinds
and Vegetables.
We are receiving
day.
Oranges, Lemons and
hand
Just received, a variety
We have Fure X'aple Sugar
1 mmi m w vMWiwi
lWf- mm T" ana mwimv gn -r.
Jonathan Hatt.
p pais tp gk aa
PORK PACKERS anu i.-kam:i:s in EUTTEll AND EGG!
BEEF, FORE,
IS
XL
TIIE BEST THE MARKET AFFORDS ALWAYS ON HAND.
Suaar Cured Treats, Hams, Bacon, Lard. &c, c
ci our ow n make.
The hef-t l-rniid:
"WHOLESALE
STB
es.
U L M p u CM
Carriaaes for Pleasure and Short
Always
Cor. 4th and Vino
is
ricuitu
In Cass
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li e Vt fi a b w w tuM u sf a a a a
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To suit all sejiSuns of the year.
He keeps the Buckeye, AlinnrapoIiB and AfcConnic Binders. tJ.e
Nichols and She-tar d Th re.-hi no; Machines. Peter Shelter and all tl e
leading U r.gons and Bnpgies kept
Weepiucr Water
Be sure and call
Plattsmouth or "Weeping Water.
V.J
lI:itt'smoiiih and Weeping WsteT
CLASSICS OF
FUBNITUSS
stock of Goods inul Fair
abound.
BALM I KG A SPECIALTY
BOECK,
VI. A'l TSI Ol'TlI, M : 1 . 1 : A K A
"I'm
fact that
of Fruita
Fresh Strawberries every
Eananas constantly cn
of Csr.r.ed Scuri
r. d r. o n: i t k e
BITS'
J. W. AIautius
T
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srf t& fir t
3
tih.
kJ JLA.JX 11 11 kJ t Alii
; of OYSTERS, in emis it ml hulk, at
AND RETAIL.
If
CITY,
Drives
opt 21c a dy.
- -rlattsmontli.
rrui - Ei
8
er
County.
A FULL LINE OF
3
iS a s a
a ess :
constantly on hand. Bianch House
on Fred before you buy, either at
bea
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if I si
