Plattsmouth weekly journal. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1881-1901, June 13, 1895, Image 2
FHETALMAGE SERMON DNB HEROIC CHARACTER JEWISH HISTORY. IN "After Him Waa gbtmttr, Whlcb Slew tli Fhlllstlnes six Bandred Hen wltb m OfGoad" Jodgea Chapter 8, Terse NE DAT TVTIIL15 L n tx a I-ftPVnjhJ farmer, waa plow KM?ifV 1 with a yoke of " "iftl Cr oxen, his command was changed to the shout of battls. 'Philistines, always ready to make trou ble, march up with sword and spear. Shamgar, the plow man, had no sword, and would not prob ably have known how to wield It If he had possessed one. But fight he must, r go down under the stroke of the Phil istines. He had an ox-goad a weapon osed to urgre on the lazy team; a weap on about eight feet lone, with a sharp Iron at one end to puncture the beast, and a wide Iron chisel, or shovel, at the other end with which to scrape the elumps of soil from the plowshare. Vet. with the Iron prong at one end of the ex-goad and the iron scraper at the other. It was not such a weapon as one would desire to use In battle with anrved Philistines. But God helped the farmer, and leaving the oxen to look after themselves, he charged upon the In raders of his homestead. Some of the lommentarles, to make it easier for fehamgar. suggest that perhaps he led a regiment of farmers Into the combat. ex-goad up and down, and this way and But the Lord does not need any of you to help In making the Scriptures, and Bhamgar. with the Lord on his side, was mightier than six hundred Philistines with the Lord against them. The battle opened. Shamgar, with muscle strength sned by open air, and plowman's, and reaper's, and thresher's toll, uses the only weapon at hand, and he swings the ox-goad upand down, and this way and that; now stabbing with the iron prong at one end of It. and now thrusting with the iron scraper at the other, and now bringing down the whole weight of the Instrument upon the heads of the enemy. The Philistines are In a panic, and the supernatnural forces come In. and a blow that would not under other circumstances have prostrated or slain, left Its victim lifeless; until when Sham gar walked over the field, he counted ene hundred dead, two hundred dead, three hundred dead, four hundred dead. Eve hundred dead, elx hundred dead all the work done by an ex-goad with an Iron prong at one end and an Iron shovel at the other. The fame of this achievement by this farmer with an awkward weapon of war. spread abroad, and lion!xel him. until he was hoisted Into ths highest place of power, and became the third of the mighty Judges of Israel. So you see that Clncinnatus was not the orJy man lifted from plow to throne. For what reason was this unprece dented and unparalleled victory of a farmer's ox-goad put Into this Bible, where there was no spare room for the unimportant and the trivial? It was, first of all, to teach you, and to teach me, and to teach all past ages since then, and to teach all ages to come, that In the war for God. and against sin, we ought to put to the bst use the weapon we happen to have on hand. "Why did not Shamgar wait until he could get a war charger, with neck arched and . back caparisoned, and nostrils snlfSng the battle afar off, or Until he could get war' equipment, or could drill a regiment, and wheeling them Into line, command them forward to the charge? To wait for that -would have been defeat and annihilation. So be takes the best weapon he could lay hold of, and that is an ox-goad. "We are called Into the battle for the right, and against wrong, and many of us have not ust the kind of weapon we would pre fer. It may not be a sword of argument. It may not be the spear of sharp.thrust Ing wit. It may not be the battering ram of denunciation. But there Is some thing we can do, and some forces we can wield. Do not wait for what you have not, but use what you have. Per haps you have not eloquence, but you have a smile. "Well, a smile of encour agement has changed the behavior of tens of thousands of wanderers, and brought them back to God. and en throned them in heaven. You cannot make a persuasive appeal, but you can set an example, and a good example has saved more souls than you coull count in a year, if you counted all the time. Tou cannot give ten thousand dol lars, but you can give as much as the I widow of the Gospel, whose two mites, j the smallest coins of the Hebrews, were j bestowed in such a spirit as to make her more famous than all the contribu- i lions that ever endowed all the hospilil j and universities of all Christendom, of j all time. You have very limited vowab- j ulary, but you can say "yes" or "no." and a firm "yes" or an emphatic no," I has traversed the centuries, and will j traverse all eternity, with good influ- j ence. You may not have the courage to 1 confront a large assemblage but you can tell a Sunday school class of two a boy and a girl how to find Christ, and one of them may become a Wil liam Carey, to start Influences that will redeem India, and the other a Florence Nightingale, who will Illumine battle fields covered with the dying and the d?ad. Again my subject springs upon us the thought that in calculating the pros pects of religious attempt, we must tike emnlpotence, and omniscience, and omniprenence, and all the other attri butes of God into the calculation. Whom flc you see on that plowed field of my text? Ont hearer says: "I see ' Rham- rar." Another hearer says: 'T see six hundred Philistines." My hearer, you have missed the chief personage on that battlefield of plowed ground. I alsa se Bhamgar, and six hundred Philistines, but more than all and mightier than all, and more overwhelming than all, I see God. Shamgar with his unaided arm, however muscular, and with that hum ble instrument made for agricultural purposes, and never constructed for combat, could not have wrought such Victory. It was omnipotence above and beneath.and back f and at the point of ihe ox-gcad. Before that battle was over the plowman realized this, and all Ihe six hundred Philistines realized it. and all who visited the battlefield after ward appreciated It. I want in heaven J 1 A-O to hear the story, for it can never be fully told on earth perhaps some day may be set apart for the rehearsal. while all heaven listens the story of how God blessed awkward and humble instrumentalities. Many an evangelist has come into a town given up to worldllness. The pastors say to the evan gelist: "We are glad you have come, but It Is a hard field and we feel sorry for you. The members of our churches play progressive euchre, and go to the theater, and bet at the horse races, and gaiety and fashion have taken posses sion of the town. We have advertised your meetings, but are not very hope ful. God bless you." This evangelist takes his place on platform or pulpit. He never graduated at college, and there are before him twenty graduates of the best universities. He never took one lesson in elocution, and there are before him twenty trained orators.Many of the ladies present are graduates of the highest female seminaries, and one slip in grammar or one mispronuncia tion will result In suppressed giggle. Amid the general chill that pervades the house, the unpretending evangelist opens his Bible and takes for his text: "Lord, that my eyes may be opened." Opera glasses In the gallery curiously scrutinize the speaker. He tells in a plain way the story of the blind man, tells two or three touching anecdotes and the general chill gives way before a strange warmth. A classical hearer who took the first honor at Yale, and who is a prince of proprieties, finds his spectacles becoming dim with a moist ure suggestive of tears. A worldly mother who has been bringing up her sons and daughters in utter godless ness. puts her handkerchief to her eyes and begins to weep. Highly educated men who came to criticize and pick to pieces, and find fault, bow on their gold headed canes. What Is that sound from under the gal lery? It Is a sob, and sobs are catching; and al along the wall, and all up and down the audience there Is deep emotion, so that when at the close of the service anxious souls are Invited to especial seats, or the Inquiry room, they come up by scores, and kneel and re pent, and rise up pardoned: the whole town is shaken, and places of evil amusement are sparsely attended, and rum holes lose their patrons, and the churches are thronged, and the whole community is cleansed, and elevated, and rejoiced. What power did the evan gelist bring to bear to capture that town for righteousness? Not one bril liant epigram did he utter. Not one graceful gesture did he make. Not one rhetorical climax did he pile up. But there was something about him that people had not taken in the estimate when they prophesied the failure of that work. They had not taken into calculation the omnipotence of the Holy Ghost. It was not the flash of a Damascus blade. It was God. be fore and behind, and all around the ox-goad. When people say that crime will triumph, and the world will never be converted because of the seeming In sufficiency of the means employed, they count the six hundred armed Philis tines on one tide, and Shamgar. the farmer, awkwardly equipped, on the other side; not realizing that the cha riots of God are twenty thousand, and that all heaven, cherubic, seraphic, archangellc. Delfic. Is on what otherwise would be the weak side. Napoleon, the author of the saying. "God Is on the side of the heaviest artillery." lived to find out his mistake: for at Waterloo the one hundred and sixty guns of the English overcame the two hundred and fifty guns of the French. God is on the side of the right, and one man In the right will eventually be found stronger than six hundred men In the wrong. In all estimates of any kind of Christian work, do not make the mis take every day made of leaving out the Head of the Universe. Again, my subject springs upon us the thought that In God's service It Is best to use weapons that are particu larly suited to us. Shamgar had. like many of us, been brought up on a farm. He knew nothing about Javelins, and bucklers, and helmets, and breastplates and greaves of brass and catapults, and balllstae, and Iron scythes fastened to the axles of chariots. But he was fa miliar with the flail of the threshing floor, and knew how to pound with that; and the ax of the woods, and knew how to hew with that; and the oxgoad of the plowman, and knew how to thrust with that. And you and I will do best to use those means that we can best handle; those weapons with which we can make the most execution. Some in God'a service will do best with the pen; some with the voice; some by extem poraneous speech for they have the whole vocabulary of the English language half way between their brain and tongue; and others will do best with manuscript spread out befor them. Some will serve God by the plow, raising wheat and corn and giv ing liberally of what they sell to church es and missions; some as merchants, and out of their profits will dedicate a tenth to the Lord; some as physicians. prescribing for the world's ailments; i and some as attorneys, defending in nocence, and obtaining rights that oth erwise would not be recognized; and some as sailors, helping bridge the seas; and some as teachers and pastors. The kingdom of God Is dreadfully retarded by co many of us attempting to do that which we cannot do; reaching up for broadsword or falchion, or bayonet, or j sclmeter, or Enfield rifle or Paixhan's gun, while we ought to be content with an ox-goad. I thank God that there are tens of thousands of Christians whom you never heard of, and never will hear of until you see them in the high places of heaven, who are now In a quiet way in homes, and schoolhouses. and In praying circles, and by sick beds, and up dark alleys saying the saving word, and doing the saving deed; the aggre gation of their work overpowering the most ambitious statistics. In the grand review of heaven, when the regiments pass the Lord of Hosts, there will be whole regiments of nurses, and Sabbath school teachers, and tract distributors, and unpretending workers, before j whom, as they pass, the kings and . queens of God and the Lamb will lift flashing coronet, and bow down in re cognition and reverence. The most of the Christian work for the world's re clamation and salvation will be done by people of one talent and two talents, while the ten-talent people are up In the astronomical observatories study ing other worlds, though they do lit tle or nothing for the redemption of this world: or are up In the rarlfied realms of "Higher Criticism." trying to find out that Moses did not write the Pen tateuch, or to prove that the throat of the whale was not large enough to swallow the minister who declined to call to Nineveh, and apologizing for the Almighty for certain Inexplicable things they have found in the scrip tures. It will be found out at the last that the Krupp guns have not dene so much to capture this world for God as the ox-goads. Go out against the Philistines. We must admit the odds are against us six hundred to one. In the matter of dollars, those devoted to worldllness and sin, and dissipation, when com pared with the dollars devoted to holi ness and virtue six hundred to one. The houses set apart for vice, and de spoliation and ruin, as compared with those dedicated to good, six hundred to one. Of printed newsnarxr sheets scat tered abroad from day to day, those depraving as compared with those ele vating, are six hundred to one. The agencies for making the world worse compared with the arenclea for making the world better, six hundred to one. But Moses In his song, chants, "How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight?" and In my text one ox-goad conquers six hundred uplifted battleaxes; and the day of uni versal victory Is coming, unless the Bi ble be a fabrication, and eternity a myth, and the chariots of God are un wheeled on the golden streets, and the last regiment of the celestial hosts lies dead on the plains of heaven. With us. or without us, the work will be done. Oh. get into the ranks somewhere, armed somehow; you with a needle. you with a pen. you with a good book; you with a loaf of bread for the hun gry; you with a vial of medicine for the? sick; you with a pair of shoes for the barefooted: you with word of encour agement for the young man trying to get back from evil ways; you with somo story of the Christ who came to heal the worst wounds and pardon the blackest guilt, and call the farthest wanderer home. I say to you as the watchman of London used to say at night to the householders before the tkne of street lamps came: "Hang out your light!" "Hang out your light!" A SNAKE THIEF. Bow a Reptile Stole the 3111k from a Fine Jen y Cow. W. La. Hewey. living up In the Cross Lake country, has a fine Jersey cow, which usually keeps the family sup plied with nn' abundance of milk, says a Shreveport (La.) paper. On Monday last Hewey noticed a falling off in the milk supply and for every day there after there has been a steady diminu tion. Thinking that perhaps the pas turage did not furnish sufficient nour ishment for the cow, Hewey began to give her an extra quantity of food at night, but la vain. Every evening she returned to the pen with an empty bag. At last Hewey came to the conclusion that some negro In the neighborhood must be in the habit of milking the cow before she left the pasture; so he set about discovering the guilty party. Yesterday his investigations were re warded, the thief proving to be a singu lar one. Indeed. In the middle of the afternoon Hewey went Into the pas ture, taking his stand behind a big oak tree whence he could keep an eye on the cow without being himself ob served. For a long time there seemed no chance of solving the mystery, as no one appeared In the pasture. Finally Hewey was about to give up the search as a bad job. and drive the cow to the pen. when he saw a big black-and-whlte-pied snake glide out from the thicket behind him and make its way across the pasture to the Jersey. Fol lowing after as rapidly as he could, what was his astonishment to behold the snake wrap itself around the Jer sey's hind legs, holding them hard and fast, and then grasp hold of the bag, sucking away at the teats like a hun gry calf. Hewey Is a new man to this section, and this singular conduct on the part of a reptile surprised him be yond measure. Since consulting with his neighbors, however, he has ascer tained that the snake, called a "cow sucker," Is a very common variety, causing much loss among cattle-raisers and milk men in this section. MISSING LINKS. Lord Kelvin maintains that the earth is 100.000.000 years old. Th skeleton alone of an average whale weighs twenty-five tons. At a Japanese banquet It Is a compli ment to ask to exchange cups with a friend. A Dundee, Scotland, man Is working on a flying machine that is built on the bicycle plan The total public debt of the sclf-gov-erninK lirltish colonies amounts to something like 300.000.000. Out of every 100 hotels In England, eighteen are "White Harts." ten "King Arms." and eleht "Crowns." Men attending the pans In salt works are never known to have cholera, small pox, scarlet fever or Influenza. A recent report shows that T1.530 con victs last year parsed through the for warding prison at Truman. Russia. The wings of an owl are lined with a soft down that enables the bird to fly without r.aklng the slightest sound. It cost Kentucky $114 to secure the ex tradition from Ohio of Napoleon Bona parte Shackleford, who stole a $2 hog. The mud baths of Dax. In France, have existed and been more or less cel ebrated since the time of the Romans. A carp taken out of the water may be kept alive for twelve hours by a piece of bread soaked In brandy placed In Its mouth. The total amount of gold In circula tion at the present time Is estimated at about 1,070.000,000, weighing altogethei 875 tons. POINTERS. A great many girls say "No." at first, but, like the photographer, they know how to retouch their negative. Justice will not ask, "What Is the least you will work for?" but rather, "What Is the most I can pay?" Keep your troubles to yourself. When you tell them you are taking up the time of the roan who is waiting to tell his. It Is not work that kills men; It Is i worry. Work Is healthy; you can hard ly put more upon a man than he can bear. THE HONEST DOLLAR. IT CONTAINS 4-12 1-2 GRAINS OF STANDARD SILVER. The Gold IolUr Is the DlihonMt Dol lar Itecause Its Purchasing Power Is Inrreafl by the Manipulations of Hankers and Their Allies. In the Chicago Dally Record of May 10 Edward Atkinson repeats the deflni tion of honest money given in his ar tide of April 26: "Coins which," being melted down, retain the entire value for which they were legal tender be fore they were melted." With this defi nitlon as a foundation he builds up an argument against the free coinage of silver, calling It a "dishonest money,' and as such to be rejected as a coin metal. In another paragraph of the same ar ticle he admits or states a fact which upsets his own conclusions by verifying a principle which he ignores in his ar gument. He states that the silver coinage o India possessed a bullion value equiva lent to the value of the coins them selves until the closing of the mints After the closing of the mints the rupee while not redeemable In gold as is our silver money, yet as bearing the stamp of government and made a legal tender for the payment of debts had a greater value than the equivalent weight of un coined silver. On the same principle closing the inlnta of the world to goli would cause the coined gold mads legal tender for the payment of obligations to have a greater value than an equiva lent weight of gold bullion. His deflni tion of unsoundness applies to all coin money, for all money metals depend for a part of their value on their use for coinage purposes, and while of in trinsic value for use in the arts lose a part of their value as compared with other products when made the object of unfavorable legislation which limits or stops their coinage. A sound dollar should represent certain amount of labor and be capable of ready transformation into any prod uct of labor. The rule Is the world over that what costs little labor to get Is worth little. Dlue sky may be quite desirable, but as a product entirely of natural conditions and not of labor it is not counted as having material value. When a promoter by artful persuasion succeeds in getting money for some thing which has no value except In the mind of the credulous purchaser he is said to have been selling "blue sky." The value of any commodity when car ried to its final analysis Is the value of the labor expended to secure the por tion of the required supply which is produced under the least favorable con ditions. Disregarding the speculative element In mining, which Justifies greater ex penditures in prospecting and develop ment than are sure to be realized In profits, the average value of silver or gold Is measured by the labor expended in working the least productive deposits and reducing the poorest grade of ores necessary to supply the world's de mand. Coined money has an intrinsic value which makes it universally acceptable. because when melted up and used in the arts it releases to other occupa tlons labor which must otherwise be expended in mining an equivalent amount of metal for such use. If the labor cost of producing the metals remained the same, whatever the demand for them. If, In other words, the precious metals were merely a prod uct of labor, and not a natural product, occurring in small and isolated quan tities, an increased demand for any one metal would bring about such an In creased production as would in a short time restore the equilibrium of values. A corner In monej would be like a cor ner In wheat only maintainable for a short time. An increased demand for any precious metal causes the deposits of that metal to be worked more closely and a greater amount of labor expended In proportion to the product, so that the labor cost of the most expensive por tion is greater and the value of the en tire product correspondingly Increased. Whon the amount of actual or re demption money in the channels of trade fail3 to Increase as rapidly as the commodities to be exchanged the result must be a fall in prices unless the short age in actual money is made good by an extension of credit. It is not suf ficient that the amount per capita be maintained, for the tendency In an in dustrial nation where property rights are secure is toward a per capita in crease in all forms of wealth. What Is called general overproduction of goods is more properly underproduction of money. We can never have too much of everything, the consuming classes being in a position to buy, but so long as our financial system is based on the use of gold and silver only as the money of final redemption every period of in dustrial activity such as we call "good times" will be accompanied by an ex tension of credit and is likely to be fol lowed by a period during which credit is curtailed and a general fall takes place, first In the money value of com modities and second. In the price of labor. This recurrence of hard times Will continue until some means is found of effecting exchanges in which the metals will have no greater part than other commodities. The panic of 18911 and 1894 is a direct result of the demonetization of silver in 1873, the abandonment of silver and the substitution of a gold currency by several leading nations of Europe and the half-way character of the remedial legislation adopted by our government. The downward tendency of prices was well defined from 1873 to 1878. From 1878 the coinage of silver andl later the issue of treasury notes in pay ment of silver purchases offset in a measure the downward tendency and brought about an era cf good times last ing uninterruptedly till 1SS5. when the fall In the price of silver resulting la a fall In the gold value of Argentine se curities caused the Baring failure. From thi3 time the issue of treasury notes nominally secured by silver bul lion but actually redeemable In gold began to pass the point of safety. What would have been far removed from in flation with silver and gold at a par ity became dangerous because resting only upon a narrow foundation of gold. The structure of paper money was built higher at a time when half the foundation (silver) had crumbled away and the other half was being dug Into to supply the Increasing needs of European nations. Coexistent with this was great Industrial activity and a re sulting Increase In actual wealth. With the volume of actual money constantly diminishing and the volume of wealth increasing a disturbance in the ratio was Inevitable. In every market in, which the natural tendency of prices Is downward the fall In prices is resisted by an accumula tion of stocks. The classes who buy to sell at a profit will hold property once bought as long as possible before sell ing at a loss. They will strain their credit to the utmost limit before aban doning the effort to sustain prices, mortgaging their property, borrowing on collateral, exchanging accommoda tion paper and delaying the payment of their bills. It is the misfortune of sliver that it has been "hanged first and condemned afterward," Irevious to its demone tization in 1873 It was worth most of the time more as bullion than when coined at the ratio of 10 to 1. It is proposed by its friends to re store to it the rights as a money metal which It enjoyed prior to 1S73, and which were taken away quietly, almost secretly, without any public demand and without any of the reasons which are now so clamorously urged against its restoration. That a re-establishment of the parity between gold and silver would benefit this country no fair-minded man will deny. Whether the commercial Influence of the United States is sufficient to stem the tide and offset the influence of the European na tions who have adopted a gold standard can hardly be ascertained without an actual test, but when we face the con tingency of gold going to a premium, nothing Is seen which will affect unfa vorably the prosperity of the country or make such a change In values as would work a hardship to the creditor class. It has been argued that silver money cannot be coined with sufficient rapid ity to replace the gold displaced. It Is not necessary that it be coined at all. There are in the treasury of the govern ment 3G9.0O0.0O0 silver dollars in addi tion to those now in circulation. With this immense reserve sliver cer tificates calling for silver dollars and made legal tender In the payment of debts could be Issued on the deposit of bullion, and since there would be no question of the ability of the govern ment to redeem its promise would cir culate as the very safest form of paper money, preferred for the settlement o all large balances to the coin Itself. The United States produced in 1890 nearly one-third of the world's produc tion of gold. It will always as a nation have gold to sell as a commodity in the best market It can find. It mined In 1S90 three-fifths of the world's produc tion of silver, and so far from being flooded in the event of free coinage with silver from India. China and Japan will always have silver to dispose of at Its market price in exchange for the products of other nations and In pay ing principal and Interest of its securi ties held abroad. The United States, as a nation. Is a debtor nation. The greater part of its debts were contract ed on a bimetallic basis when the dollar measured In wheat was worth a bushel. The Measurement of Value. Money Is the universal yardstick. Now an honest yardstick must always be thlrtj'-slx Inches long. Whatever length was laid off and called a yard at the beginning must always be a yard. If a merchant uses a yardstick only thirty-two inches long he Is dishonest and his yardstick is a dishonest yard stick. If on the other hand the cus tomcr after contracting for cloth brings a forty Inch rod and Insists on its be ing used as a yardstick he will be sus pected of dishonesty. hen we com pare the value (money length) of all staple commodities we find that the yardstick of value has been made long er so that each dollar will purchase more of almost everything than it once could. The single standard dollar Is a dishonest dollar. Legislation which will Increase val ues by making our monetary unit a bi metallic unit, raising the price of sil ver and all other staple products and releasing our gold to the settlement of foreign indebtedness has not the slightest element of dishonesty. It is Just because it will restore to the prod ucts of American labor the debt-pay ing power which has been taken away by class legislation. It is patriotic because it will promote the prosperity of the whole country. and do more than anything else to se cure for it financial independence. For the United States to Join with the money powers of Europe in the adop tion of a single gold standard Is to dou ble its debts and to fasten around its neck forever the chain of financial servitude. It is as mad an act as that of self-destruction, and. If I may be per mitted an Illustration in dealing with so serious a question, as unreasonable and uncalled for a proceeding as that of the man who sat on the limb of a tree and sawed it off between where he sat and the trunk. It is time the com mon sense and patriotism of the coun try should prevail. It is time that a majority expressed in law their deter mination to see Justice done between the debtor and creditor classes and the producing classes relieved from the machinations of a grasping, wealth- absolving, but not wealth-producing combination. WILLIAM R WALES. 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NTAMKLLik Cl., Kooiii It. Trnilrrn' Kldx.. Beeman's Pepsin Gum, THE PERFECTION OF CHEWING CUM. A Delicious Remedy For all Form of INDIGESTION. (MFTIOX ee that the B;imo Hcrmau is ou each wrappt r. h " h tablet contains one 1 Krala iur t ei sin. If the i- Kam cannot bo oMaimM l'.mnl (nl o T- w . . n 1 .i n I j La stamps for sample p-.c!taire t i lll.l.HA niEMIC.lLCO., . , 2 Itimk St.. C leveland, O. Crlglnatoi-s of Peputn Chewing Gum. S E17IS 98 LYE 2i IPATrXTEIll and purttt Lye ler L.ye. it Deing parkod in ran id. the contents r for use. ill make the bttt perfumed Hard Knn In '.D minutes itthut bailing. It Is the beat tor cleansing waste pipes, disinfect lr j sinks, closets, wastiiuy bottles, paint, trees, etc 1 PEN NA, SALT M'F'G CO, Gen. Asents, Thila Fa. PAY FOR rLRASAVT WOIIK easily secured thronrt a an early application lor Local AReucy lo sell the, DAVIS CREAM SEPARATORS to farmers and lairynien. One style was shown la last number of this journal. Aaother win asw k pictured out. Meanwhile, n-rita for Handsome. Illus trated Book Praa. Davis Rikvii ci rni wri lUTtt. CO., Sola Manufacturers, M0 W. Lake St., Chioaffo. . parkeiPg hair balsam Cieankes and beautifies the hair. Promotes a luxuriant (rrowth. Merer Taila to Bent ore Gray II air tf Ita Tiunh 1 fir j viuv. my uivnw, amir raiunf, ? V. and 1 1W at P-nrrtu wm ir it w i ii y M J V V fx 1 I The ttivmarst l I . ai niaue. uniiae oil t ri A Hne powder and J A 4jw"u remoyable 1: J are aiwam rva.' im-H, 's ,- -v v-'i I I rwat t'oimh Syrup, 1. Sunns Good. Use I 1 Lsl Ultimo. Sold br dmcvlits. 'f a Li