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-1. 2 I. IS JT"M Jl I w i 3 j ; i TALMAGES SERMON. "THE POWEROF EXAMPLE" LAST SUNDAY'S THEME. 'And Abimelech Took An Hand and Cat Down m the Tret and Laid It on Axe in 111 Bun:h from BU Shoulders" Jud. Ir, 48. BIMELECH is a name maladorous in Bible history, and yet full of prof itable suggestion. Buoys are black and uncomely, but they tell where the rocks are. The snake's rattle is hideous, but it gives timely warn- la; hi. From the piazza of my sum home, nignt by night, I saw a. lighthouse fifteen miles away, ni placed there for adornment, btt to tell mariners to stand off from thit dangerous point. So all the iron bvind cca?t of moral danger is marked with Saul, and Herod, and Itehoboam, an I Jezebel, and Abimelech. Thse bad p-M.nle are mentioned in the Bible not only as warnings, but because there v-r-i sometimes flashes of good conduct In 'iteir lives worthy of imitation. God s m-?tizn?s drives a very straight nail wt'h a very poor hammer. The city of Shcchera had to be taken, in i Abimelech and his men were to do I. I see the dust rolling up from their ?c -ivd march. I hear the shouting of tli captains and the yell of the beseig- . crs. The swords clack sharply on the t js irrying shields, and the vociferation of ' vo armies in death grapple is hor tVh to hear. The battle goes on all d-ty: and as the sun is setting Abime-I- li and his army cry: "Surrender!" . t the beaten foe. And. unable longer , 1 1 resist, the city of Shechem falls; and i tu-T? are pools of blood and dissevered j limb?, and glazed eyes looking up beg- I gin sly for mercy that war never shows, I aai dying soldiers with their head on ' th lap of. mother, or wife, or sister, j who have come out for the last offices t kindness and affection; and a groan I rlls across the city, stopping not, be- J c-i ise there is no spot for it to rest, so ; f'lll is the place of other groans. A j city wounded! A city dying! A city d-34l! Wail for Shechem. all ye who Jcnjw the horrors of a sacked town. As I look over the city, I can find only oa building standing, and that is the tmple of the god Eerith. Some sol diers outside of the city In a tower, finding that they can no longer defend Shechem, now begin to look out for their own personal safety, and they fly to this temple of Berlth. They go with in the door, shut it, and they say: "Now are safe. Abimelech has taken the wh)!e city, but he cannot take this tem p'.e of Berith. Here we shall be under the protection of the gods." O Berith, the god! do your best now for these ref ugees. If you have eyes, pity them. If you have hands, help them. If you have thunderbolts, strike for them. But how shall Abimelech and his army take this temple rf Berith and the men who are here fortified? Will they do it -arith sword? Nay. Will they do it Tlth spear? Nay. With battering rm, rolled up by hundred-armed strength crashing against the walls? Nay. Abimelech marches his men to a wood In Zalmon. With his axe he hi3 off a limb of a tree, and puts that Iloib upon his own shoulder, and then he says to his men: "You do the same." They are obedient to their commander. "There Is a struggle as to who shall have axes. The whole wood is full of bend lag boughs, and the crackling and the hacking, and the cutting, until every oue of the host has the limb of a tree cue down, and not only that, but has j . put it on his shoulder just as Abimelech bowed him how. Are these men all i - armed with the tree branch? The re- I ply comes "All armed." And they j march on. Oh. what a strange army, ; with that strange equipment! They j come up to the foot of the temple at : Berith, and Abimelech takes his limb of i ;a tree and throws it down; and the first j platoon of soldiers come up and they throw down their branches; and the j a?cond platoon, and the third, until all ! around about the temple of Berith there : Is a pile of tree branches. The Shech-e-mites look out from the window of the temple upon what seems to them child- iah play on the part of their enemies. ; But soon the flints are struck, and the ; sparks begin to kindle the brush, and ; the flame comes up all through the pile, an 1 the red elements leap to the case ment, and the woodwork begins to blaze, and one arm of flame is thrown ti; on the rigLt side of the temple, and aujther arm of flame is thrown up on tli-;- left side of the temple, until they :Ujp their lurid palms under the wild iMht sky, .and the cry of "Fire!" with in, and "Fire!" without, announces the terror, and the strangulation, and the doom of the Shechemites, and the com plete overthrow of the temple of the goi Berith. Then there went up a shout, long and loud, from the stout lungs and swarthy chests of Abimelech and hU men, as they stood amid the aohes and the dust crying: "Victory! victory!" Now I learn first trom thi3 subject, the folly of depending upon any one form of tact'c3 in anything we have to Io for this world or for God. Look over the weaponry of olden times jave lins, battle-axes, habergeons, and show me a single weapon with which Abim elech and his men could have gained anch complete triumph. It is no easy thing to take a temple thus armed- I have seen a house where, during revo lutionary times, a man and bos wife kept back a whole regiment hour after hour, because they were inside the house, and the assaulting soldiers were outalde the house. ; Yet here Abimelech .and kia army come up, they surround this temple, and they capture It with out the loss of a single man on the part )f Abimelech, although I suppose some of the old Israelitish heroes told Abim elech: "You are only going up there to be cut to pieces." Yet you are willing to testify to-day that by no other mode certainly not by ordinary modes could that temple so easlly.so thoroughly have been taken. Fathers and moth ers, brethren and sisters in Jesus Christ, what the Church most wants to learn, this day. Is that any plan Is right. is lawful, is best, which helps to over- throw the temple of sin, and capture this world for God. We are very apt to stick to the old modes of attack. We put on the old-style coat of mail. We come up with the sharp, keen, glit tering spear of argument, expecting in that way to take the castle; but they have a thousand spears where we have ten. And so the castle of sin stands. Oh, my friends, we will never capture this world for God by any keen sabre of sarcasm, by any glittering lances of rhetoric, by any sapping and mining of profound disquisition, by any gun powdery explosions of indignation, by sharpshootlngs of wit. by howitzers of mental strength made to swing shell five miles, by cavalry horses gorgeously caparisoned pawing the air. In vain all the attempts on the part of these ecclesiastical foot soldiers, light horse men and grenadiers. My friends, I propose a different style of tactics. Let each one go to the for- est of God's promise and invitation, and hew down a branch and put it on his shoulder, and let us all come around these obstinate iniquities, and then with this pile, kindled by the fires of holy zeal and the flames of a conse crated life, we will burn them out. What steel cannot do, fire may. And I announce myself In favor of any plan of religious attack that succeeds any plan of religious attack, however radi cal, however odd, however unpopular, however hostile to all the convention alities of Church and State. If one style of prayer does not do the work, let us try another. If the Church music of to-day does notget the vlc- tory, then let us make the assault with i a backwoods chorus. If a prayer-meet-j ing at half past seven In the evening I does not succeed, let us have one as ! early In the morning as when the angel t found wrestling Jacob too much for 1 him. If a sermon with the three au- ! thorized heads does not do the work I then let us have a sermon with twenty I heads, or no heads at all. We want more heart in our song, more heart in our almsgiving, more heart in our j prayers, more heart in our preaching, Still further, I learn from this sub ject the power of example. If Abim elech had sat down on the grass, and told his men to go and get the boughs and go out to the battle, they would never have gone at all, or if they had it would have been without any spirit or effective result; but when Abimelech goes with his own axe and hews down a branch, and with Abimelech's arms puts it on Abimelech's shoulder, and marches on, then, my text says, all the people did the same. How natural that was. What made Garibaldi and Stonewall Jackson the most magnetic commanders of the century? They al ways rode ahead. Oh, the overwhelm ing power of example! Here is a father on the wrong road; all his boys go on the wrong road. Here is a father who enlist for Christ; his children enlist. I saw in some of the picture galleries of Europe, that before many of the great works of the masters the old masters there would be sometimes four or five artists taking copies of the pictures. These copies they are going to carry with them, perhaps to distant lands; and I have thought that your life and character are a masterpiece, and it is being copied, and long after you are gone it will bloom or blast in the homes of those who knew you, and be a Gorgon or a Madonna. Look out what you say. Look out what you do. Eternity will hear the echo. The best sermon ever preached is a holy life. The best music ever chanted is a consistent walk. If you want others to serve God, serve him yourself. If you want others to shoulder their duty, shoulder yours. Where Abimelech goes his troops go. Oh, start out for heaven to-day, and your family will come after you, and your business as sociates will come after you, and your social friends will join you. With one branch of the tree of life for a baton, marshal just as many as you can to gether. Oh, the Infinite, the semi-omnipotent power of a good or bad exam ple! Still further, I learn from this sub ject the advantage of concerted action. If Abimelech had merely gone out with a tree-branch the work would not have been accomplished; or ir ten, twenty, or thirty men had gone; but when all the axes arc lifted and all the sharp edges fall, and all these men carry each his tree-branch down and throw It about the temple, the victory 13 gained the temple falls. My friends, where there is one man in the Church of God at this day shouldering his whole duty, there are a great many who never lift an axe or swing a bough. It seems to me as if there were ten drones in every hive to one busy bee; as though there were twenty sailors sound asleep in the ship's hammocks to four men on the Btormy deck. It seems as if there were fifty thousand men belonging to the re serve corps, and only one thousand active combatants. Oh, we all want our boats to get over to the golden sands; but the most of us are seated either In the prow or in the stern, wrapped in our striped shawl, holding a big-handled sunshade, while others are blistered in the heat, and pull until the oar-locks- groan, and the blades bend till they snap. Oh, you religious sleepy-heads, wake up! You have lain so long- in one place that the ants and caterpillars have begun to crawl over you! What do you know, my brother, about a living Gospel made to storm the world? Now, my idea of a Christian la a man on Are with zeal for God; and j If your pulse ordinarily beats sixty times a minute when you think of othe;-- themes, and talk about other themes, it your pulse does not go up to seventy five or eighty when you come to talk about Christ and heaven, it is because you do not know the one, and have a poor chance of getting to the other. In a former ch.arge.one Sunday, I took Into the pulpit the church records, and I laid them on the pulpit and opened J them, and said: "Brethren, here are ' the church records. I find a great , many of you whose names are down here are off duty." Some were afraid ; i would read the names, for at that time some of them were deep in the worst kind of oil stocks, and were Idle as to Christian work. But if ministers of Christ to-day should bring the church records into the pulpit and rend, oh, what a flutter there would be! There would not be fans enough In church to keep the cheeks cool. I do not know but it would be a good thing if the min ister once in a while should bring the church records in the pulpit and call the roll, for that Is what I consldor every church record to be morel y a muster-roll of the Lord's army; and the reading of it should reveal where every soldier Is and what he Is doing. Still further. I learn from this sub ject the danger of false refuges. As soon as these Shechemites got into the temple, they thought they were eafo. j They said: "Berith will take care of us. Abimelech may batter down everything else: he can not batter down this temple where we are now hid." But very soon they heard the timbers Mon11!ni i -1 tVmvr ii'nro cm ViarA1 uaiMiufi. m with smoke, and they miserably died. I suppose everv person in this audience this moment is stepping into some kind of refuge. Here you step in the tower ks. You say: "I shall be of good wor safe in this refuge." The battlements ! are adorned; the steps are varnished; on the wall are pictures of all the suf- ; fering you have alleviated, and all the i schools you have established, and all J the fine things you have done. Up In i that tower you feci you are safe. But. hear you not the tramp of your unpar- 1 doned sins all around the tower? They , each have a match. You are kindling the combustible material. You feel the heat and the suffocation. Oh, may you leap in time, the Gospel declaring: "By the deeds of the law shall no flesh living be justified." "Well." you say, "I have been driven out of that tower; where shall I go?" Step into this tower of indifference. You say: "If this tower is attacked, it will be a great while before it is taken." You feel at ease. But there is an Abim elech. with ruthless assault, coming on. Death and his forces are gathering around, and they demand that you sur render everything, and they clamor for your overthrow, and they throw their skeleton arms in the window, and with their iron fits they beat against the i door, and while you are trying to keep them out you see the torches of judg ment kindling, and every forest Is a torch, and every mountain a torch, and every sea a torch, and while the Alps, and Pyrenees, and Himalayas tirn into a live coal, blown redder a(lfl redder by the whirlwind breath of a God omnipo tent, what will become of your refuge of lies? "But," says some one, "you are en gaged in a very mean business, driving us from tower to tower." Oh, no! I want to tell you of a Gibraltar that never has been and never will be taken; of a wall that no Satanic assault can scale: of a bulwark that the judgment earth-.! quakes cannot budge. The Bible re fers to It when it says: "In God Is thy refuge, and underneath thee are the everlasting arms." Oh! fling your self into it. Tread down unceremon iously everything that intercepts you. Wedge your way there. There are enough hounds of death and peril after you to make you hurry. Many a man has perished just outside the tower. with his foot on the step, with his hand on the latch. Oh! get inside. Not one surplus second have you to spare. Quick! quick! quick! WELL KNOWNS. Dr. Felix Vulplus. who died In Wei mar the other day, was the nephew of the wife of Goethe, the poet. He was 73 years old. Ex-Speaker Crisp was not born in this country, which explains his temerity in wandering to considerable distances from his cyclone cellar. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and oth ers are preparing to write a volume of comments on texts of the Bible usually considered as hostile to woman In her latter day aspirations. John Rogers' statue of Abraham Lin coln, which has been set up in the Man chester (N. H.) public library, repre sents the president as studying: a war map. The figure is one-third larger than life size. Old "Jules Simon is quoted as saylns that the young German emperor speaks French like a Parisian, whereas the first Napoleon spoke It all his days with an Italian accent, and the third Napoleon with a strong German accent. Lady Florence Dixie is the president of the British Ladies' Football club. which was founded last year by its pres ent secretary and captain. Miss Nettie Iloneyball. The members wear divided skirts of blue serge resembling knick erbockers, and the teams are distin guished by wearing blouses of pale blue or of cardinal red. Charles G. Delmonico, the present proprietor of the famous dining places, was not born a Delmonico. His mo'ther was a sister of the famous Lorenzo Del monico and married a man named Crist, by whom she had two sons, Charles and Louis. So the present representa tive of the great Delmonlcos was Charles Crist until, for commercial rea sons, he assumed the better known name. Sixty-seven years ago the first restaurant bearing the name of Del monico was opened. The defunct Sherz bank at Meta- mora, in., owes ius.ow. ana me sets may realize $00,000. ! THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. J LESSON VI., FEB. 9 SERMON ON THE MOUNT LUKE 6:4-1-4-0. Golden Text: "Why Call Ye Me Lord Lord and Do Not Thing Which I Say Luke 0:40 The Night or Prayer Kingdom of Heaven. E TODAY TAKE up that part of Christ's life In which the Apostles are In troduced. Leaving his disciples for needed rest, Jesus went alone up Into the silences of the llattln hill, and spent the whole niKht in prayer. That he should spend so much time. time needed for sleep, that he iniKlit And opportunity away from the "niaddenlnjr crowd" for secret prayer, shows how greatly he felt the importance of the crisis to which he had come, the value of secret prayer for meet ing it. It was the habit of Jesus to spend j lout? seasons in prayer at each great crisis or marked change) In the progress or his mission, at his baptism, at his trans llifiirat Ion, the Institution of his supper, in (lot hsemane (Ileb. 5: 7). We now corn to the bi'Kluning- of the orKanized church, the inatiKurutlon of a system of trained workers. The harvest of souls was plente ous, the work was very great, the op position bitter. Moreover Jesus must look forward to the time when he should leave the work in their hands. They were to be the twelve foundation stones of the New i Jerusalem (Itev. 21: 12, 11). The full text j of today's lesson is as follows: 41. And why beholdcst thou the mote j that Is in thy brother's eye, . but per j eelvest not tlio beam that is in thine own eye? 42. Kilher how canst thou say to thy brother, brother, let me pull out the mote . that Is in thine eye. when thou thyself ! beholdest not the beam that Is in thine ! n ye? T,hmJ ;i--ite. cast out nrst tne nram rnf nf llilm. ri-n pvp nnl then j shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote , that Is in thy brother's eye. 43. For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 41. For every tree Is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gathei figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. 45. A good man out of the good treas ure of his heart bringeth forth that which Is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which Is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. 46. And why call ye me. Lord. Lord. i and do not the things which I say? i 4 1. Whosoever eometh fo me. and heareth . my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew ' you to, whom he is like. 4S. He Is like a man which built a house, and digged deep, and laid the founda tion on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake It, for It was founded upon a rock. 49. But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built a house upon the earth: against which the stream did beat vehemently, and Immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great. The explanations for today's lessons are as follows: 42. "Or how wilt thon say to thy brother," etc. How can you have the face to say, how be guilty of such hypocrisy. such absurdity. "And behold, a beam is in tnine own eye. mis is an evu uisease ; that I have seen under the sun, that men, 1 and those of the better sort sometimes. ' hear nothing, and talk of nothing so will ingly as they do of other men's faults." Trapp. Tliou hypocrite," an actor, one i who professes one thing, but is another. ! "He disguises his want of charity for his I brother under the garb of compassionate ' zeal." Henry. "First cast out the beam t out of thine own eye." ' The man with a great beam in his own eye, who there I fore can see nothing accurately, purposes to remove a little splinter from his broth ! er's eye. a delicate operation, requiring ! clear sight." M. It. Vincent. No one can rightfully or successfully help others to i escape from sin, who does not at least, with earnest sincerity, try to overcome I his own faults and sins. "Then shalt thou see clearly." With eye purllied by sincerity with true, undistorted vision I of the fault, but the difficulty of getting I rid of it, and the greatness of tempta i tion. (2) He will approach the faulty ! person in a gentle and sympathetic spirit, j (3) He knows the way of victory, and I therefore, can help others. "To cast out ! the mote out of thy brother's eye." Here ! is a higher motive for overcoming our ! own faults, because thus we may success J fully aid In the reformation of the world. I For in the very condemnation of the false j way of helping others to get rid of their faults it is implied that we should use ! the right way. "The Sermon on the Mount." Jesus, ', having begun the organization of the j working forces of his kingdom, comes i down to a level place below the summit. ; but still upon the hill, and speaks to his : disciples, and the multitudes who had ! come up to hear him. Here he lays down j the principles according to which all who are the members of the new kingdom must live. If every one lived according . to these principles, the millennium would I have come, paradise would be regained, heaven would be on arth. Many of these beautiful precepts had been on earth a great while. Doubtless God had revealed . them to Adam when he walked with him in Eden. Philosophers have uttered some of them, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Con- , fucius. Every great religion has embodied more or less of them. Itwould be sad to ' think of all the past world as utterly ig- : norant of all this needed instruction. J 4S. "A man which built a house." The j house is the general fabric of his out wardly religious life. Ellicott. His hopes, . his expectations of a happy Jife. "Founda tion on a rock," sure and safe. His reli gion is real and true. His hopes will never , be disappointed. "The rock is Jesus Christ (Psa. 28: I: Isa. 26: 4; 1 Cor. 1H 4). He founds his house on a rock who, hear ing the words of Christ, brings his heart and life into accordance with his ex pressed will, and is thu3, by faith, in union with him, founded on him." Al ford. "The Hood . . . the stream." The heavy rains, falling on the rock hills of Pales tine, without forests to retain the water, cause sudden floods to 1111 the valleys with almost resistless torrents. These streams represent temptations, persecutions, worldly influences. All these "could not shake" the house of the man good at heart, truly devoted to the Saviour. This is true of the church and of the individual Christian. WOMAN. Ellen Terry is passionately fond of children, and delights in telling them fairy stories. Elise Stanley Hall, an Australian girl, has received the Mendelssohn scholar ship at the Leipzig conservatory. Friends of Mrs. Agassiz have founded a $6,000 scholarship at Radcliffe college, to be called the Elizabeth Carey Agassiz scholarship. Mme. Marches! has taken charge of the education of a granddaughter of Jenny Lind, whose voice she pronounces the most promising she has ever heard. mm Till-: HOU.YDAItY DISPUTE. The CIninis of Great Britain and the Concession of Venezuela. ( The controversy over the Venezuela ' boundary Is an old one. In 1G'.)1 a ; treaty was signed between Spain and : the Dutch which stipulated that the Orinoco colonies should belong to the ! Spanish and the Ksqulbo colonies to j the Dutch. In the adjustment of j boundaries at a later date Venezuela I Insisted that what was meant by the Ksequibo colonies was the Dutch set- tlements on the river of that name, and It has always Insisted that the : proposed boundary was the east bank of that river. Map No. 1 shows this i original boundary line between Venez uela and the possessions of Ilolhnd t Map No. 1 Original Doaiulary Line Detvreen Venezuela and (in inn it. as understood and agreed to by Ven ezuela. The British government, acquiring what is known as British (Juiana, claimed that the reference in the treaty of 1GJH was not to the Kwoquibo itself, but to the entire water shed draining into It. Assuming this posi tion. Great Britain pushed her possessions-far to the westward. In dis cussing the question it was contended that even if this provision was ad mitted the water shed of Ksequibo river could not extend beyond the Moroco (or Maroni) river, which also flows northward and into the Atlantic ocean fifty miles to the west of the TCsequibo. Map No. 2 Territory Taken From Venezuela toy the Scliomburgk Line in 1841, Marked In White. In 1S41 the Schomburgk line was run, the tract included as shown by the white portion of map No. J. The territory claimed by this boundary, if It is allowed to stand, Includes the laTger part of the valleys of the Mazaruni and Cuyunl rivers and ex tends far outside the water shed of the Ksequibo and to the great mouth of the Orinoco. The object of this change in boundary was to establish a K)st at the mouth of the Orinoco and to dominate its commerce. The opposition of Venezuela to this bound ary was vigorous, and finally, In 1844, Lord Aberdeen proposed a compro mise line, alandoning the mouth of the Orinoco, but Including the larger Map !Vo. 3 Territory Conceded by Venezuela to Great Ilrltaln Marked In White. part of the water shed of the Cuyuni. Venezuela In the meantime had indi cated her willingness to concede the boundary as beginuing at the mouth of the Moroco river, granting England In this wa3 full sovereignty over the white portion, as shown in map No. 3. The controversy remained unsettled and in 1SS1 Lord Granville proposed a new line, claiming still more territory than was claimed under the Aberdeen j line. So the matter rested uutil the i discovery of gold fields westward of J tho Scliomburgk line. Then England , began to push her pretensions to the west and gradually extended the J sphere of her activity and influence until she had laid claim to an cnor- 1 Map No. 4 Venevnelan Territory Now Claimed ly Great Ilrltaln Marked in AVIiIte. mous tract not contemplated in the conferences of 1841, IS 44 or 1SS1. The gold mines have been largely opened bv the British West Indian miners, who have taken with them their own methods of government, and if Eng land's present claims be allowed she will be able to keep her grip on the mouth of the Orinoco river and vir tually control its commerce. Against all this Venezuela protests. To recapitulate: The original bound ary line, including all the territory marked in black in Map No. 1; the Schomburgk line gave to Great Brit ain the Venezuelan territory as mark ed In white in map No. 2; Venezuela conceded to Great Britain the terri torv mnrked in white in man No. 3. Great Britain's encroachment upon j Venezuelan territory to the west of the Schomburgk line and to the west of the line conceded by Venezuela is Indicated in map No. 4. ; The Basis of Trouble. "What was the trouble with Barker and his wife?" "Well, the beginning of it was when she used a Camembert cheese to bait the rat trap. Then she made a plaster for a sick servant out of his imported mustard, and capped the climax by smoking Insects out of her rose bushes with a box of his best Perfectos." Harper's Bazar. ! re, .--v.-' Li m&i- S-fevfe-ii tyTgLajb. Li !.. I f LAMM ! I j I 1 la what gives Hood's barsaparilla its great pop ularity, increasing sales and wonderful cures. The combination, proportion and process In preparing Hood's Sarsaparilla are uuknowu to other medicines, and make it peculiar to itself. 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Factories r nd General Offices, Hartford, Conn. Branch Stores and Agencies in almost every city and town. If Columbias are not properly represented in your vicinity let us know. The Greatest Hedical Discovery of the Age. MEDICAL DISCOVERY, DONALD KEKf::0Y. CF ROXBURY, MASS., Has discovered in ne oi our common pasture weeds a rciue.1v tkit cures every kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofuli down to a common Pimple. He Jus tried it in over eleven hundred cases, and newr fai':d except in two cases (both thunder humor). He lus now in his possession over two hundred lertificates of its value, all within twenty miles of Boston. S-jnJ posul cird for took. A beneiit is alvv.tvs experienced from the first bottli. and a perfect cure is war ranted when the ri?ht quantity is taken. When the lung's are affected it causes shooting pains." like needles passing through them; the s.ime with the Liver or Bowels. This is c.;use.1 by the ducts beins stopped, and always disappears in a week after uki.i it. Kead the label. If Ihi s-.oiv.w.i is f-nil or bilious it will cause squeamish feelings at lirst. No change ut diet ever necessary. Eat the best you ca.i get. and enough of it Dose, one tablespoonful in water af bed time. Sold by all Druggists. C.J ii . -WSffm FOR jt'.i.-'il4i:ui.' . DO YOU KNOW That the finest veRetables In the world are grown from omlzer'a seeds? Why? Be cause they are Northern-grown, bred to earliness.and sprout quickly, grow rapidly and produce enormously! 35 Packages Earliest Vegetable Seeds, $ l . POTATOES IN 28 DAYS! Just think of thatl You can have them by plant ing Salzer's seed. Try it this year I LOOK AT THESE YIELDS IN IOWA. Silver Mine Oats, ..... 197 bu. per acre. Silver King Barley, 05 bu. per acre. Prolific Spritier Rve GO bu. per acre. Marvel Spring Wheat ... 40 bu. per acre. Giant Spurry, ....... 8 tons per acre. Giant Incarnat Clover, . . 4 tons hay per acre. Potatoes GOO to l.luO bu. per acre. Now, above yields Iowa farmers have had. A full list of farmers from your and adjoining states, doing equally well, is published in our catalogue. CliOVim SEED. Enormous stocks of clover, timothy and grass -seeds, grown especially for seed. Ah, it's fine! Highest quality, lowest prices! IF YOU WILL CUT THIS OUT AND SEND IT With 12c. in stamps, you will gst our big catalogue and a sample 01 Pumpkin Yellow Watermelon sensation. Catalogue alone, 5c., tells how to get that potato. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO., LA CROSSE. WIS. V IM HOW to become Lawful Phylclanai eourae by maO. Writ 111. Health 17aleraltr, Ckle. Columbia Bicycles i (!cfete IN THS ilsiliiiwQRLfl ; c 1 T r
