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TALMAGEVS SERMON. WASHINGTON FOR GOD" LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. Ooldro Trxt: "Heglnnlnff at Jtromlem" Lk xxiv, 4? The Spread of Christian Orc Should ltefflo. at th Xatloa's HERE It is." said the driver, and wo all instantly and excitedly rose in the carriage to catch the 11 r s t glimpse of Jerusa lem, so long the joy of the whole earth. That olty. eoronetted with temple and palace tnd radiant, whether looked ud at from thv valley of Jehoshaphat or gazed at j crtm adjoining hills, was the capital j of la great nation. Clouds of incense j fcrad hovered over it. Chariots of kings I '5tid rolfcjhrough it. Battering-rams enemies had There Isaiah prophesied, and Jeremiah lamented, and David reigned, and Paul preached, and Christ was martyred. Most Interesting city ever built since masonry rung its first trowel, or plumb- ,.. , .,i ow mcaoui cu lid ui ai nan. vi x uj .j iung its first scepter. What Jerusa leni was to the Jewish kingdom, Wash ington is to our own country the capi tal, the place to which all the tribes rome up, the great national heart whose throb sends life or death through the body politic, clear out to the geographi cal extremities. What the 'resurrected Christ said in my text to his disciples, when he or dered them to start on the work of gos pelization, "beginning at Jerusalem," it eems to me God says now, in his Prov- idence, to tens of thousands of Chris- iians in this city. Start for the evaja - g'Mization of America, "beginnin. at Washington." 'America Is gqfcng to be ta!cn for God. If you ji& not believe It. take your hat nowand leave, and give room to some nvan or woman who does believe it. As'surely as God lives, nd he is able to do as he says he will, thi coujitry willbe evangelized from the mouth of the.potomac to the mouth of the Oregon, from the Highlands of the NeversinkAo the Golden Horn, from Baffin's Bay to the Gulf of Mex ico, and ChrLfet will walk every lake, whether besjrmed or placid, and be transflguftQ on every mountain, and the nightskies, whether they hover -over grcfres of magnolia or over Alas ,gtacier, shall be filled with angelic 'Xerture of "Glory to God and good-will to men." Again and again does the old Book announce that all the earth shall see the salvation of God, and as the greater in cludes the lesser, that takes America gloriously in. Can you not see that if America is not taken for God by 'his consecrated people, it will be taken for Apollyon! The forces engaged on both sides are so tremendous that it cannot be a drawn battle. It is com ing, the Armageddon! Either the American Sabbath will perish and this cation be handed over to Herod s, and Hildebrand3. and Diocletlans, and . Neros of baleful power, and alcoholism will reign, seated upon piled-up throne of beer barrels, his mouth foaming with domestic and national curse, and crime -vill lift its unhindered knife of assas sination, and rattle keys of worst bur . glary, and wave torch of widest confla gration, and our cities be turned into Sodoms, waiting for Almighty tempests of fire and brimstone, and one tidal wave of abomination will surge across the continent, or our Sabbaths will take -on more sanctity, and the newspapers will become apocalyptic wings of bene diction, and penitentiaries will be aban doned! for lack of occupants, and holi ness and happiness.twin son and daugh ter af heaven, shall walk through the laid, and Christ reign over this na--tion either In person or by agency so .glorious that the whole country will be one clear, resounding echo of heaven. It will be one or the other. By the throne of him who liveth forever and ever, I declare it will be the latter. If the Lord will help me, as he always does blessed be his glorious name! I will show you how a mighty work of grace begun at Washington would have a tendency to bring the whole continent to God, and before this century closes. Why would it be especially advan tageous if a mighty work of grace started here, "beginning at Washing ton?" First, because this city is on the border between the north and south. It is neither northern nor southern, it commingles the two climates. It brings together the two styles of popu lation. It is not only right, but beauti ful, that people should have especial love for the latitude where they were born and brought up. With what lov ing accentuation the Alabamian speaks of his orange groves! And the man iron Massachusetts la sure to let you know that he comes from the land of '-the Adamses Samuel, and John, and John Quincy. Did you ever know a 'Virginian or Ohiolan whose face did not brighten when he announced him self from the Southern or Northern tat of Presidents? If a man does not tike his native clime, it Is because while he lived there, he did not behave wen. This canital stands where.by its locality end its political Influence, It stretches forth one hand toward the north and -the other toward the south, and a 'miehtv work of grace starting here would probably be a national awaken- in. Georgia would clasp the hand or New Hampshire, and Maine the hand of Louisiana, and California the hand of New York' and say, "Come, let us go up and worship the God of Nations, the Christ of -Golgotha, the Holy Ghost of the pentacostal three thousands." It has often been said that the only way the north and the south will be brought Into complete accord, Is to hv wa with pome foreign nation, in which both sections, marching side by side, would forget everything but the foe to be over come. Well, if you wait for such a foreign conflict, you will wait until all this generation is dead, and perhaps wsit forever. The war that will make the sections forget past controversies is a war against unrighteousness, such as a universal religious awakening would declare. What we want is a battle for souls, in which about forty million northerners and southerners shall be on the same side, and shoulder to shoulder. In no other city on the continent can such a war be declared so appropri ately, for all the other great cities are either northern or southern. This is neither, or, rather, it is both. Again, it would be especially advan tageous if a mighty work of grace started here, because more representa tive men are in Washington than in any other city between the oceans. Of course there are accidents in politics, and occasionally there are men who get in to the senate and house of represen tatives and other important places who are fitted for the position in neither ; head nor heart; but this Is exceptional i nd more exceptional now than in other ' dats There is not a drunkard in the national legislature although there ; were times when Kentucky. irginia, Delaware. Illinois, New York and Mas- : sachusetts had men in senate or house Of representatives who went mau,dlin i and staggering drunk across those high ; places. Never nobler group of men sat ' in senate or house of representatives than sat there yesterday and will sit there to-morrow, while the hi.gh.fcst ' Judiciary, without exception, -has now I upon its bench men beyond criticism for good morals an$ l&ental endowment. ; The soul of a.Taan who can bring a thousand .or 'ten thousand other souls Into tils' kingdom of God is worth a ; thousand times or ten thousand times i6re than the soul of a man who can , bring no one into the kingdom. A great outpouring of the Holy Spirit in this capital, reaching the chief men of America, would be of more value to earth and heaven than in any other part of the nation, because it would reach all the states, cities, towns, and neighbor hoods of the continent. Oh, for the outstretched right arm of God Almighty in the salvation of this capital. Some of us remember 1857. when, at the close of the worst monetary dis tress this country has ever felt, com pared with which the hard times of the last three years were a boom of pros perity, right on the heels of that com plete prostration came an awakening in which five hundred thousand people were converted in different states of the Union. Do you know where one of its chief powers was demonstrated? In Washington. Do you know on what street? This street Do you know in what church? This church. I picked up an old book a few days ago, and was startled, and thrilled, and enchanted to read these words, written at that time by the Washington correspondent of a New York paper. He wrote: "The First Presbyterian church can scarce contain the people. Requests are daily preferred for an interest in the prayers offered, and the reading of these forms one of the tenderest and most effective features of the meetings. Particular pains are taken to disclaim and exclude everything like sectarian feeling. Gen eral astonishment is felt at the unex pected rapidity with which the work has thus far proceeded, and we are be ginning to anticipate the necessity of opening another church." Why, my hearers, not have that again, and more than that? There are many thousands more of inhabitants now than then. Be side that, since then the telephone, with its semi-omnipresence, and the swift cable car, for assembling the people. I believe that the mightiest revival of re ligion that this city has ever seen is yet to come, and the earth will tremble from Capitoline Hill to the boundaries on all sides with the footsteps of God as he comes to awaken and pardon and save these great populations. People of Washington, meet us next Thursday night, at half past seven o'clock, to pray for this coming of the Holy Ghost not for a pentecostal three thousand, that I have referred to, but thirty thousand. Such a fire as that would kindle a light that would be seen from the sledges crunching through the snows of Labra dor to the Carribean sea, where the whirlwinds are born. Let our cry be that of Hebakkuk, the blank verse poet of the Bible: "O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years made known: in wrath re member mercy." Let the battle-cry be. Washington for God! the United States for God! America for God! the world for God! We are all tire'd of skirmish ing. Let us bring on a general engage ment. We are tired of fishing with hook and line. With one sweep of the Gospel net let us take in many thou sands. This vast work must begin somewhere. Why not here? Some one must give the rallying cry, why .may not I, one of the Lord's servants? By providential arrangement, I am every week in sermonic communication with every city, town, and neighbor hood of this country, and now I give the watchword to north and south, and east and west. Hear and see it. all people this call to a forward movement, this call to repentance and faith, this call to a continental awakening! From where the seaweed is tossed on i the beach by the stormy Atlantic, to the j sands laved by the quiet Pacific, this j country will be Emanuel's land, the j worn Deginnlng at Washington, if we have the faith and holy push, and the consecration requisite. First of all, we ministers must get right. That was a startling utterance of Mr. Swinuock's, when he said. "It is a doleful thing to fall Into hell from under the pulpit. but. oh! how dreadful a thing to drop thither out of the pulpit." That was an all-suggestive thing that Paul wrote ; to the Corinthians: "Lest that by any meaw, when I have preached to others. I myself should be a castaway." That was an inspiring motto with which Whitefield sealed all his letters: "We seek the stars." Lord God! Wake up all our pulpits, and then it will be a3 when Venn preached and it was said that men fell before the Word like slacked lime. Let us all, laymen and clergymen, do the work. What Wash ington wants most of all is an old-fashioned revival of religion, but on a vaster scale, so that the world will be compelled to say, as of old, "We never saw it on this fashion!" But remem ber there is a human side as well as a Divine side to a revival. Those of us brought up In the country know what Is called "a raising," the neighbors gathered together to lift the heavy frame for a new house, after the tim bers are ready to be put into their places. It is dangerous work, and there are many accidents. The neigh bors had gathered for such a raising. and the beams had all been fitted to their places except one, and that verj heavy. That one, on the long pikes , of the men, had almost reached its ; place, when something went wrong, and ' the men could hoist it no higher. But j If it did not go in its place it would fall back upon the men who were lifting it.--It had already began to settle - back. ; The boss carpenter shouted, "Lift, men, ; or ale: ah ipgexneri yo neave: . With mightief'push they tried to send ! the beam to it J place, but failed. Still ! they held on, all the time their strength ' lessening. The wives, and mothers, and daughters stood in horror looking on. t Then the boss-carpenter shouted to th women. "Come and help!" They came. ' and womanly arms became the arms of j giants, for they were lifting to save the j lives of husbands, and fathers and sons, a6 well as their own. Then the boss- carpenter mounted one of the beams ; and shouted, "Now! Altogether! Lift ; or die! Yo heave!" And with a united effort that almost burst the ; blood-vessels, the great beam went to its place, and a wild huzza was heard. That is the way it sometimes seems in the churches. Temples of righteous- j ness are to be reared, but there is a halt, ' a stop, a catch somewhere. A few are lifting all they can, but we want moro ' hands at this raising, and more hearts. More Christian men to help, aye, more . Christian women to re-enforce. If the . work fail, it means the death of many 1 souls. All together! Men and women of God! Lift or die! The topstone must come to its place "with shoutings of grace, grace unto It." God is ready to do his part; are we ready to do our part There Is work not only for the knee of j nvr hnt for the shoulder of up- ' ' heaval. And now I would like to see this hour that which I have never seen, but hope to see a whole audience saved under one flash of the Eternal Spirit. Before you go out of any of these doors, enter the door of Mercy. Father and mother, come in and bring your children with you. Newly-married folks, consecrate your lifetime to God. and be marrievi for eternity as well as time. Young man, you will want God before you ge: through this world, and you want him now. Young woman, without God this is a hard world for women. One and all. wherever you sit or stand, I lift my voice so that you can hear it, out in the corridors and on the street, and say, in the words of the Mediterranean ship captain, "Call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not." I'.eil Help. "I will strengthen thee," says God: "yea, I will help thee; yea, I will up hold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." Can there be a morp i gracious promise? Can there be one more absolutely suited to the needs of j human nature? Long centuries since it was found out that it is not in man : who walketh "to direct his steps," and the intervening ages have only fur nished additional proof that it is human weakness and human perversity which stand in th way of human happiness. FASHION NOTES. What are called "French zephyrs" are fine soft ginghams made on Scotch looms. Pique dresses for small girls are made with the plain round waist and skirt with a wide hem, and worn over a white gimp. Collars and revers of cream-white-open-work embroidered batiste over white satin are a novel and showy trimming for black satin capes. Feathery horse-chestnut blossoms look very pretty on pale yellow straw hats trimmed with bronze-brown velvet ribbon rosettes and yellow lace. New beautiful creamy French batistes are used by many dressmakers in the fashioning of poetic-looking toilets for summer, in preference to the less dura ble chiffon textiles. The more you make people believe your advertising, the more your adver tising will make them believe in you, and the more you will believe In adver tising. If people exercised as much care and shrewdness when investing in adver tising as they do when Investing in banks, mining stocks and real estate, there would be more believers In the value of printers' ink. In hard times the advertisements of sharp merchants contain many great bargains. The failures of vrnsuccssful firms give stronger ones chances to buy goods cheap and sell them under the usual prlcer Some people's misfortunes are other people's opportunities. In our own daj' the name of feicny as a kingdom has for the first time been wiped from the map of Europe by its Incorporation with Italy a country in Which the vicissitudes of rule have been scarcely less checkered. To "pile5 on agony" Is popularly sup posed to be an Americanism. It Is. however, found in one of the letters of Charlotte Bronte, and was u-d In English popular literature before th beginning of the present century. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON VIII., FEB. 23 FAITH IS ENCOURAGED LUKE 8:4-3-55. Golden Taxt: "Thy Faith lias Made Whole : Go In Peace" Luke 8:40 The Scoffers Kepulsed by the Great Redeemer. OR TO-DAY'S L.ES son we have two more of Jesus mira cles. Time, Autumn 28 ,A. D. Places, Capernaum, the Sea of Galilee and vicin ity. Jesus was now closing the sec ond year of his pub lic ministry. The raising of Jairus daughter took place while Jesus was on his way to the house of Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue, one of the leading laymen, something like our trustees, who had general charge of the synagogue, its services, and its schools. His daughter was very sick, nigh at otti unto death. Knowing that Jesus was a feast in the house of Matthew, whom Jesus had lately called to. be a disciple, Jarius went-te him, and besought Jesus to come to his house and restore his slaughter. He had not quite the faith of the Roman centurion in our last lesson, but even If Jesus could heal his daughter without coming to his house, it would be feomforting to have Jesus in the family Ind in the presence of the dying girl. Moreover, he knew that in most cases fesus came into personal contact with Lhose he healed. The full text of today's lesson is: 43. And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, 44. Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched. 45. And Jesus said. "Wlio touched m? When all denied, I'eter and they that were with him said. Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou. Who touched me? f. And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is tone out of me. 47. And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and fall ing down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately. 4S. And he said unto her. Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made the whole: go in peace. 49. While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue's house, saying unto him. Thy daughter Is dead; trouble not the Master. r0. Rut when Jesus heard it, he an swered him, saying. Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole. SI. And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden. And nil wml snit hpwailpil hr Trmt he said. Weep not; she is not dead, but sieepeth. ,Vl A nH they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead. 54. And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying. Maid arise. 55. And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat, j Explanatory notes for some of the above verses are as follows: 45. "And Jesus (turning around. Matt.) ' said, Who touched me'."" Jesus asked the question probably to draw, the woman to " a higher and spiritual healing. This alone would give the highest value to what he had done. Rut this question astonished the disciples, who knew that people were touching him all the time. ''Press thee." The crowd was fo great that he was being crushed, like grapes in a wine press, as the original word means. Rut Jesus knew that there was another kind of a touch than that of the crowd. "Flesh presses, faith touches." ; 4J. "For I perceive that virtue is gone out of me." R. V.. power had gone forth. ' It drew on his strength to heal; it was exhausting. "It was not by any magical virtue in his garments, or his body itself; , but from the center of his spiritual be- i ing. and in answer to faith in him as th 1 ! Phvsician. that the power had Kone forth." Bliss. lie knew, for the healing act. Yet it was "a work i was his own act It seemo like a miracle spilt over from the I fulness of his divine life rather than a j uilLUllstluuai aiiu uiiciu Laoj; Ilia k i miracle put forth. Itev. A. t . uordon, D. D. 49. "While he yet snake." to the woman he had cured. Jairus was walking with I Jesus toward his own home when a mes senger from his house met them, "saying. Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master." They did not dream that Jesus j could do anything under these clrcum- stances, not probably having heard of the i raising of the young man in the distant village of Nain. Jote how Jairus' faith was tried: First, by the delay to heal a woman who could as well as not have waited a little longer; how could Jesus linger, when Jairus heart was hot with haste and a life hung in the balance? Secondly, by the results of this delay, since his daughter had died in the mean time. It required much more faith to be lieve that Jesus could help now than when she was living and only very sick. 50. "When Jesus heard." The words, though not spoken to him, were spoken In his presence. "Believe only, and she shall be made whole," saved, and restored to life. There was no limit to Christ's power; the only danger was that Jairus faith should fail, and he not be worthy to receive the earthly blessing, because he had not accepted the spiritual blessing. In all this Jesus was increasing and de veloping the ruler's faith. 51. "He suffered no man to go in, save," etc. It was no place for idle curiosity. The crowds, without faith, could gain nothing, and hinder much. Jesus never did anything for show. "And the father and the mother," as the most interested, the best witnesses, and the ones best pre pared to receive spiritual blessing. 52. "Went and bewailed." The weeping consisted of dolorous cries, and the wail ing, of beating the breast, rending the gar ments, tearing the hair, with outcries. There were minstrels (Matthew), and all together made a great noise and tumult (Mark). "toiie is not dead, but sieepeth." "Christ uses exactly the same language concern ing Lazarus, Our friend Lazarus sieepeth. The reality of the death is not denied, but only the fact implicitly assumed that death will be followed by a resurrection, as sleep is by an awakening." Trench. The expression was especially fitting, in view of the fact that she was soon to ba alive again. LATEST PROVERBS. Justice never weeps. True love often uses shocking gram mar. An imaginary blessing is only part of a blessing. There is hope for anybody who is will ing to unlearn. All things come to him who knows when not to wait. To many men do their dreaming in heir waking hours. Cupid promises more than his vio tims are able to perform. ( OJfK OK SfATlRE'S OODITIBS. The Bos that Watts Seventeen Yean for Ita Tranaforniatlon. The late I.. I... I.angstroth when a boy was a close observer of insect life. Once he was whipied for wearing holes In his trousers by too much kneeling on the ground to observe ants. Between the ages of eight and twelve he made a thorough study of cicadas, including the "seventeen-year-locusts," as they appeared in Center Square, Philadelphia.' This is his ac count of them: "The larvae of these insects come out of the ground late In the afternoon, and I noticed that the holes out of which they crept were almost as smoothly bored as though made with an augur. As soon as an insect emerged it made for a tree or some other object. If suddenly approached while in the act of mounting, it would often drop to the ground as if dead. After fastening its sharp claws into some chosen surface, it remains mo tionless for n short time. When first leaving its hole the body of the larvae - tePte-fliiite hard but soon becomes soft as clough. Then it can no longer crawl. and if prevented, before becoming helpless, from getting a iirm hold on some object, it could not emerge from its shell; but, fastened firmly by the claws. It soon begins alternately to contract and expand its body, until what at first resembles a little crack on its back opens wider and wider, dis closing moro of the emergitijr insect. At last it raises its head and the lower part of its lunly from the shell, then the legs, and rests no while until its claws become strong enough to enable it to climb out altogether and cling to the rough surface of the tree. Its wings, which are narrow and thick, now thin out gradually, like a piece of dough over which a roller is continu ally passing. Ileaching their full ex pansion, they remain flattened until quite dry. when suddenly they assume . the position for flight. "As the transition from hard to soft , conditions is very short, it is obvious that the holes in 1 he ground from which they emerge, often bored through hard ground, must be made a considerable time before they are re quired, to enable the Insert to push quickly through the little space that is needed to let it out when its instiwts teach it that the time is at hand for its coming changes. "The locust lives only a short time as a flying Insect, when the female loreR holes into the extremities of small twigs In which she inserts her eggs. The larvae, when hatched, feed upon the twigs until the latter wither and fall to the ground. When the young cicadas penetrate the earth to "roach the roots of trees, by sucking the juices of which, with their sharp, hollow pro boscis as was discovered not many years ago by a distinguished lady) the Rpecies live for seventeen years." ! Returning to Thiladelphfa in his for tieth year. Mr. Lanes troth. It being lo cust year, collect ed larvae from trees in Independence Square and sat un until midnlerht with his daughter and some school companions to show them uihmix en;tns just uescniK'n; lUT -from loyish recollection he could have dcscrilKMl them almost as vividly and accurately before as after the later oK servatiens. Country Gentleman. . thivks sin: was oxen a cat. Slla Wlieeler W ilrov Ilolieven In Iie Reincarnation Tlieorjr. Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox believes In reincarnation. She thinks, possibly, she was a cat once. This is due. prol ably, to the fact that she bestows much of her surplus affection, her iu- terest and the unanswered wondering Of her heart upon Banjo. Iianjo js her cat Ht, , f (,ourso . 1 . lenuiiKuuit? specimen or iih feline nice that ever scampered after m.,.. , , ., a. iiuinriiup iiuinm ui ineu 10 einse lis own tail. Banjo is an aristocrat and he is intelligent. One characteristic that Mrs. Wilcox points to with pride i is Banjo's love of mice. Other cats j may be afraid of mice, but Banjo is i j composed In their presence. At night he slumbers on a downy pillow in n warm room, furnished exclusively for his comfort. Mi's. Wilcox declares that Banjo was not always a cat. She lias an idea that In some former existence she and Banjo were friends. It is her theory that the soul goes into the veg etable and mineral state from time to time, and that occasionally it passes into animal life human beings, for In stance. By centering our forces at a given point. Mrs. Wilcox thinks, we can tell in advance the next stopping place of our souls. "Over three-fourths of the inhabi tants of the globe." she says, "believe In reincarnation. I do not call myself a theosophist, because theosophv is only a branch of a mighty tree of truth under which my soul finds shelter and satisfaction. There are too many doc trines in the world and not enough be liefs. I am satisfied with my name less religion the reincarnation theory. I believe there is n possible Christ in each of us. and the more unselfislilv we live the more quickly we attain to it by lessening the future incarna tions and hurrying on to the goal." New York Letter, in Philadelphia Press. Rest and Itecrrnllon. Busy women continually resolve to "take things more easily;" "to rest on their oars for a season," and drift on the River of Indolence, if only for one hour a day. We embark on the dally voyage fully intending to do this, but before nightfall ralize that we have been shipwrecked on the Seylla of du ties, real or Imaginary, or engulfed In the Chary bdis of social hurry. Why not really make up onr minds that one hour daily shall be devoted to iecreation or resting in some man ner? Either we will walk an hour, lie down an hour, sew, knit, do fancy work .visit or chat with n congenial friend for an hour. In short, we will overturn our common methods for ono brief space daily. The result of a month's fair trial of this plan will en courage to further effort In the sanv. direction, and In faithful observance of some such system we shall renew our "youth like the eagles." while many of the worn and toilsome places will take on new beauties "and blos som as the rose." Jenness-MIHer Magazine. 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Prolific Spring Rye, 60 bo. per acre. Marvel Spring Wheat, . . . 40 bu, per acr.e. Giant Spurry, S tons per acre. Giant Incarnat Cover, . . 4 tons hay per acre. Potatoes, 500 to 1 ,100 bu. per acre. Now.above yields Iowa farmers have bad. A ful 1 list of farmers from your and adjoining states, doing; equally well, is published in our catalogue. CIiOVKIl SHED. 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 ret our big catalogue ana a sample oi rumpnui icuow nunnKiuu sensation. Catalogue alone, 5c., tells howto get that potato. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO., I . - T IA CROSSE. WIS. 1M So One is to Blame but yourself, if your ticket to St. Joseph, Kansas. Qity, Denver, Deadwood, Helena, or Butte does not read via the Buriine-ton Route. The local ticket acreat ban tickets via the Burlington to these and all other southern and western cities. He will furnish you with one if you ask for it. But yon must asK lor it. Letters of inquiry address ed to the undersigned will receive prompt attention. J. Fhaxcis, Gen'l Pass'r Agt, Omaha, Neb. i j. Pine Army Duck, with side gp.ln. N S1.4IO. Good Heavy Duck, with Buckle. 65e. t-ent pvenald on receipt of price. Send Me of boe and measure of alx of leg. L. C. HUXTIXGTON A.BOJ. Omaha. II A YD Ell BR0S.,0D,-,ia' b WIIUWI BCTTKRICKS PA1 Agents for KITTTERira-l PlTTtMl Write for catalogue of Sprlns Faahloaa, free. opiuli Morphine Habit Cored In 10 to20)T. No par till cored. OR. J. STEPHENS. Lebanon.Ohio. If afflicted with 'nWif, Thompson's Eyo Water. ore W. N. U., OMAHA 8-1896. When writing to advertisers, kindly mention this paper. nin&r FAILsf' t Good. Uset Tastes by drnyylnta. f (QNQNQ litany u - lit W ' w I I aess txmca bjtop. J to Mane. Soi l E ' ' 'T J 4 v n i r V, if v,- t v