TAL MAGE'S SEBMON
"THE SHEEP ASTRAY" CHOSEN
FOR SUNDAY'S SUBJECT.
Ool.tt-u Text: "Ware He Turned Krery
to 111 Owa Way, and the Lord
Utu Laid on Him th Iniquity of U
Alt" Iulih, till. a.
NCE3 more I ring
the old Gospel bell.
I) The first half of my
general; that;
sweeps too wide a J
Soma man rises in the audi- !
circle.
ence and he looks over on the opposite
side of the house and says: "There
is a blasphemer; and I understand how
Le has gone astray. And there in an-
other part of the house is a defaulter,
and be has gone aatray. And there is
an impure person, and he has gone
mrT.- sit down mr brother, and
look at home. My next text takes us
all In. It starts behind the pulpit,
sweeps the circuit of the room, and
comes back to the point where it start
ed, when it says. All we, like sheep,
hare gone astray. I can very easily
n ki. hand- ftpr h had found the
Bible and cried out, "Oh! my sins, my
w KH.aTi .nrHinr
jr . s 1 1 wi n u J ts va
to the custom to this day in the east,
wr. hv nv erpat erief. bem I
to tf-at himself and cry, as he smote
uroc his breast, "God be merciful to
me. & sinner." I was, like many of
yon, brought up in the country, and I
kr.ow some of the habits of sheep, and
how they get astray, and what my text
rrears when it says: "All we, like
sheep, have gone astray." Sheep get
a;tray In two ways: either by trying to
get into other pasture, or from being
s.ared by the dogs. In the former way
some of us get astray. We thought the
religion of Jesus Christ put us on short
commons. We thought there was bet
ter pasturage somewhere else. We
thought if we could only He down on
the tanks of a distant stream, or under
great oaks on the other side of some
hill, we might be better fed. We want
ed other pasturage than that which
God. through Jesus Christ, gave our
soul, and we wandered on, and we wan
dered on, and we were lost. We wanted
brad, and we found garbage. The
farther we wandered, instead of find
In? rich pasturage, we found blasted
heath and sharper rocks and more
stinging nettles. No pasture. How
was it In the club house when you lost
your child? Did they come around and
heir you very much? Did your worldly
ar-ciates console you very much?
Did not the plain Christian man who
can. into your house and sat up with
your darling child give you more com
fort than all worldly associates? Did
all the convivial songs you ever heard
comfort you in that day of bereave
ment so much as the song they sang
to ycu perhaps the very song that was
s ing by your little child the last Sab
bath afternoon of her life.
There la a fcappy land
Fr. far away.
WJiere saints Immortal reign,
bright, tiight u day.
DiC your business associates in tnat
5 ay rf darkness and trouble give you
a ay especial condolence? Business ex
flp rated you, business wore you out,
business left you Wrap as a rag, busi
ness made you ma3. You got dollars,
bu you got no peace. God have mercy
on the man who has nothing but busi
ngs to comfort him! The world afford
e 1 you no luxuriant pasturage. A fa
mous English actor stood on the stage
Impersonating, and thunders of ap-;ia-.;Fe
came down from the galleries,
ani many thought it was the proudest
moment of all his life; but there was
i rcan asleep just in front of him, and
'h lact that that man was indifferent
nn: somnolent spoiled all the occasion !
for 1 and he tried: "Wake up. wake i
vp!" So one little annoyance in life ;
I.-.."- l-f:en more pervading to your mind :
thar. all the brilliant congratulations i
an:; nieces?. Poor pasturage for your 1
you find in the world. The world j
cheated you, the world has belied '
vt-u. the world his misinterpreted you. '
f '.'.f- world has i rseuted you. It never
.cs;frirted you. Oh: this world is a
ctx.a rack froai which a horse may
ju 'n his food; it is a good trough from
which the swine may crunch their mess;
I h: it gives but little fcod to a soul
1 U r r-bo-jght and Immortal. What is a
It is a hop- high as the throne
o.' God. What is a man? You sav "it
I.- r-rJy a man." It is only a man gone
mrboard in sin. It Is only a man gor.?
fvrrbeard In business life. What is -i
i. .ir.? The battle ground of three
-a rlrle, v;.t!i his hnr.ds taking holi of
Inieu of light or darkness. A man!
.v r lir:- can measure him. No limit can
1 -r.jid hln,. The archangel before the
tV.-T.e cannot outlive him. The stars
s"r.-.:i die, but he will watch their ex-
;r.2mi?hriieTit. The world will burn,
biit Y.f will e?7- -it the conflagration,
irpd'ess ges will march on; he will
watch the procession. A man! The
ri&sterfjiece of God Almighty. Yet you
.-ay, "It it only a man." Can a nature
like that b fed on husks of the wilder
ness? s-.t.:&r.tii f-omfort will not grow
On Nature's barren soil:
KM can boast till Christ we know,
! vanity nd toil.
Fome of you got astray by looking
for better pasturage; others by being
scared of the dogs. The hounds get over
Into the pasture-Held. The poor things
fly m erery direction. In a few moment,
they are torn of the hedge, and Uiey !
ylke4 f the ditch, and he lost
I sheep never etfl nome unle8s tne far-
uier 6 eta aiier iu mere is noimug bo
thoroughly lost as a lost sheep. It
may have been In 1857, during the
financial panic, or during the financial
stress in the fall of 1873, when you
got astray. You almost became an athe-
I 1st. You said, "Where is God that hon
. est men go down and thieves prosper?'
You were cogged of creditors, you were
dogged of the banks, you were dogged
of worldly disaster, and some of you
went into misanthropy, and some of
you took to strong drink, and others
of you fled out of Christian association.
next text is an in- ! and you got astray. Oh! man, that was
dictment: All we, ! the last time when you ought to have
like sheep, have forsaken God. Standing amid the floun
gone aatray. Some ' derlng of your earthly failures, how
one says: "Can't could you get along without a God to
you drop that first ' comfort you, and a God to deliver you,
word? that is too ; and a God to help you, and a God to
save you? You tell me you have been
through enough business trouble almost
to kill you. I know it. I cannot un-
' derstand how the boat could live one
J hour in that chopped sea. But I do not
j know by what process you got astray;
j some in one way and some in another,
J and if you could really see the position
J some or you occupy berore toa your
! soul would burst into an agony of tears
you would pelt tne neavens wun
the cry, "God have mercy!" Sinai's
batteries have been unlimbered above
your soul, and at times you have heard
it thunder "The wages of sin is death
"All have sinned and come short of
the glory of God." "By one man sin
entered into the world, and death by
sin; and so death passed upon all men.
j 'or that all have sinned." "The soul
that slnneth. it shall die." When Se-
j bastopol was being bombarded, two
Kussian frigates burned all nlgnt in
the harbor, throwing a glare upon the
trembling fortress; and some of you.
from what you have told me yourselves,
some of you are standing In the night
of your soul's trouble, the cannonade,
and the conflagration, and the multi
plication, and the multitude of your
sorrows androubles I think must make
the wings of God's hovering angels
shiver to the tip.
But the last part of my text opens a
door wide enough to let us all out and
to let all heaven in. Sound it on the
organ with all the stops out. Thrum it
on the harps with all the strings atune.
With all the melody possible let the
heavens sound it to the earth and let
the earth tell It to the heavens. "The
Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of
us all." I am glad that the prophet did
not stop to explain whom he meant by
"him." Him of the manger, him of the
bloody sweat, him of the resurrection
throne, him of the crucifixion agony.
"On him the Lord hath laid the iniquity
of us all." "Oh!" says some man, "that
Isn't generous, that isn't, fair; let every
man carry his own burden and'pay his
own debts." That sounds reasonable.
If I have an obligation and I have the
means to meet it and I come to you and
ask you to settle that obligation, you
rightly say, "Pay your own debts." If
you and I, walking down the street
both hale, hearty and well I ask you
to carry me, you say rightly, "Walk
on your own feet!" But suppose you
and I were in a regiment, and l waj
wounded in thp battle and I fell uocon
clous at your feet with gunshot frac
tures' and dislocations, what would you
do? You would call to your com
rades, saying, "Come and help, this
man is helpless; bring the ambulance:
let us take him to the hospital," and
I would be a dead lift in your arms,
and you would lift me from the ground
where I had fallen, and put me in the
ambulance and take me to the hospital
and have all kindness shown me. Would 1
there be anything bemeaning in my
accepting that kindness? Oh! no. You
would be mean not to do it. That is
what Christ does. If we could pay our
debts, then it would be better to go up
and pay them, saying, "Here, Lord,
here is my obligation; here are the
means with which I mean, to settle that
obligation; now give me a receipt, cross
it all out." The debt ls paid. But the
fact is we have fallen in the battle,
wc have gone down under the hot fire
of our transgressions, we have been
wounded by the sabres of sin, we are
helpless, we are undone. Christ comes.
The leud clang heard in the sky on that
Christmas night was only the bell, the
resounding bell of the ambulance.
Clear the way for the Son of God. He
ccmes down to bind up the wounds, and
to scatter the darkness, and to save the
lost. Clear the way for the Son of Qod.
Christ conies down to us, and we are
a dead lift, lie does not lift us with
the tips of his fingers. He does not lift
us with one arm. He comes down upon
his knee, and then with a dead lift he
rr.i?es us to honor and glory and im
mc rtality. ' The Lord hath laid on him
th iniquity of us all." Why, then,
will a man carry his sins? You cannot
cciry successfully the smallest sin you
'vr committed. You might as well put
tin Appennlnes on one shoulder and the
AId.s on the other. Flow much less can
you carry all the pins of your lifetime?
Christ conies and looks down in your
faie and says: "I have come through
all the lacerations of these days, and
through all the tempests of these
nights; I have come to b?ar your bur
dens, and to pardon your sins, and to
pay your debts; put them on my shoul
der, put them on my heart." "On him
the Iord hath laid the iniquity of us
?H." Sin has almost pestered the life
out of some of you. At times It has
made you cross and unreasonable, and
it has spoiled the brightness' of your
days and the peace, of your nights.
There are men who have been riddled
of sin. The world gives them po so
lace. Gossamery and volatile the
world, while eternity, as they look for
ward to it. Is as black as midnight.
iney writhe under the stings of a
con
science Which nrnnAa Li.. i.
here no reat h;reafter.
do not repent th dJ'iw they do
Q.t Hey d. no?rUnu Ju.t
the position they occupy is the position THE SUNDAY SCHOOL,
occupied by scores, hundreds and thou
sands of men who never found any
hope.
Some one comes here to-day and I
stand aside. He comes up three steps, j
He comes to this place. I must stand
aside. Taking that place he spreads .
abroad his hands, and they were nailed. !
You see his feet; they were bruised.
He pulls aside the robe and shows you ,
his wounded heart. I Bay: "Art thou
weary?" "Yes," he says, "weary with j
the world's woe." I say: "Whence j
comest thou?" He says: "I came from
Calvary." I say: "Who comes with j
thee?' He says: "No one: I have trod- j
den the wine-press alone." I say: "Why j
comest thou- here?" "Oh!" he says. "I i
came here to carry all the sins and sor
rows of the people." And he kneels.
He says: "Put on my shoulders all the
sorrows and all the sins." And. con
scious of my own sins first, I take them
and put them on the shoulders of the
Son of God. I say: "Canst thou bear
any more, O Christ?" He says: "Yes,
more." And I gather up the sins of all
those who serve at these altars, the offi
cers of the church of Jesus Christ I
gather up all their sins and I put them
on Christ's shoulders, and I say: "Canst
thou bear any more?" He says: "Yes,
more." Then I gather up all the sins
of a hundred people in this house and I
put them on the shoulders of Christ,
and I say: "Canst thou bear more?"
He says: "Yea, more." And I rather
up all the sins of this assembly, and
put them on the shoulders of the Son
of God. and I say: "Canst thou bear
more?" "Yea." he says, "more." But"
he is departing. Clear the way for him,
the Son of God. Open the door and let
him pass out. He is carrying our sins
and bearing them away. We shall
never see them again. He throws them
down Into the abysm, and you hear the
long reverberating echo of their fall.
"On him the Lord hath laid the iniquity
of us all." Will you let him take your
sins to-day? or, do you say, "I will take
charge of them myself, I will fight my
own battles, I will risk eternity on my
own account"? I know not how near
some of you have come to crossing the
line. A clergyman said in his pulpit
one Sabbath: "Before next Saturday
nleht one of his audience will have
passed out of life." A gentleman said
to another seated next to him: "I don t
believe it; I mean to watch, and if it
doesn't come true by next Saturday
night, I shall tell that clergyman his
falsehood." The man seated next to
him said: "Perhaps it will be your
self." "Oh! no." the other replied: "I
shall live to be an old man." That
night he breathed his last. To-day the
Savior calls. All may come. God
never nushes a man off. God never
destroys anybody.
ThA man lumDR off
ine man jumps on, ,
he Jumps off. It Is suicide soul sui
cide If the man perishes, ior tne in
vitation is, "whosoever will, let him
come:" whosoever, whosoever, whoso
ever! While God lnvltei. how blest the day.
How swee; the Oospel'e charming sound;
Come, sinner, haste, O! haste away
While yet a pardoning God is found.
A Grand King'
V.. m :
Rev. Dr. Ferguson, at a gathering Of
the
Scottish' Temperance league, in
rHn.ntlv Raid! "Thp visit
' , A! 77 7"' Zfa v,Qa w i
of the three African chiefs has been a
great blessing and a great help to the !
temperance cause. They have been j
going through our land giving object
f 6 . .r . ,t. . QT,
lessons in this, that the gospel is the
power 01 Uoa unto saivauon to every
one that belleveth,' whether he be black j
or white. I could use of them the words
n cnn. of Solomon: 'Thev are black
V k IU'-
but comely," comely with meekneas.with
humility. Christian comeliness, and
also temperance flriaiess. What better
can I call it than temperance mission
ary zeal? for they have come to us to
teach us, and to teach the queen and
Mr. Chamberlain a great lesson in pro
hibition. I think that the lesson has
gone to the heart of the country with
this Impression, that if we prohibit
drink In King Khama's territory should
it not be prohib&ied at home?"
CHIPS FOR CAPITALISTS.
The shipment of frozen salmon from
British Columbia is found to be a com
mercial success.
Fifteen coal companies In Iowa have
'organized to keep up prices and reduce
the cost of production.
A charcoal Iron furnace which is said
to be the largest In the world. Is now
being built at Gladstone, Mich.
Within four years New York has
spent $3,000,000 for asphalt pavements at
prices per square yard ranging from
52.99 to $3.14.
South Africa produced 6,960,114 of
gold last year, an Increase of nearly 2,
000,000 over 1S93, and of over 2,500,000
over 1&92.
Negotiations are reported in progress
for the organization of "an excelsior
trust, comprising thirty manufacturers,
operating chiefly in Wisconsin, Iowa, Il
linois. Indiana. Ohio and Michigan."
In its industrial items Bradstreefs re
ports that a Louisville dispatch says
that a firm In that city has succeeded In
forming a "trust" of all the cotton mills ,
in Alabama proaucing usuauuisa, .
staple In the dry goods trade much re- j
embling duck.
It Is said that "the recent settlement j
of the wage question by the Southern
Railway has caused so much dissatis
faction that there Is possibility of an
extended strike on th part of the Amer
ican Union, which In the Tennessee dls- j
trict has had a large Increase in mem- j
t,rhln
ABOUT WOMEN.
Twenty-one neighboring farmhouses
in North Paris, Me., have sent out
twenty-four schoolma'ams.
New black lace butterfly evening bon
nets are studded with tiny rhlnestones.
with very brilliant effect.
There are said to be over 1,000 women
In New York, who, In one way or an
other, make their living by their pens.
It is said that the ex-Queen sabella
of Spain is the godmother of m're chil
dren than any other woman In tht
world.
LESSON XI, MARCH 15 TEACH
ING PRAYER LUKE 11:1-13.
tfolden Text: "Auk and It Shall B
Ciiven Unto Ye; Seek and Ye Shall
l-'ind; Kno4-k and It Shall Be Open
Unto You."
EVIEW and keep in
view clearly the
place in the life of
Christ where this be
longs. Use the bible
freely Jn comparison
of parallel accounts,
examples of prayer,
promises of answers
to prayer: and let
these facts and
promises come with
cumulative force, so
as to make a deep
and lasting Impres
sion. Learn by
Heart. The scholar should learn some of
these verses by heart. Christ's Prayers.
It will be interesting to many to make a
study of Christ's prayers, as to kind, form,
spirit, public, private, as a means by
which he may teach us to pray. See refer
ences below. Time. November, A. D. 29.
Place. Somewhere in Perea, the country
on the other side of Jordan. Jesus, almost
33 years old.
The full lesson for to-day is as follows:
3. Give us dav bv dav our dailv bread.
4. And forgive us our sins; for we also
forgive every one that is indebted to us.
And lead us not Into temptation: but de
liver us from evil.
5. And he said unto them. Which of you
shall have a friend, and shall go unto him
at midnight, and say unto him. Friend,
lend me three loaves;
6. For a friend of mine in his Journey
is come to me, and I have nothing to set
before him?
7. And he from within shall answer and
sy. Trouble me not: the door is now shut,
and my children are with me In bed; I
cannot rise and give thee.
8. I say unto you. Though he will not
rise and give him, because he Is his friend,
yet because of his importunity he will rise
and give him as many as ne needeth.
9. And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall
be given you; seek, and ye shall find:
knock, and It shall be opened unto you.
10. For every one that asketh receiveth;
and he that seeketh lindeth; and to him
that knocketh it shall be opened.
11. If a son shall ask bread of any of you
that Is a father, will he give him a stone?
or if he ask a llsh, will he for a llsh give
mm a serpent?
j ofr m VscoTpion? m
13. If ye then, being evil, know how ta
give good gifts unto your children; how
much more shall your heavenly Father
give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
Some explanations to to-day's lesson
are as follows:
"Our Father which art In heaven."
"Our." not "my." "Father." to whom we
owe all we have and are, in whose image
we are made; whom we love, and trust,
and obey; to whom we can pour out our
inmost souls. "In heaven," and therefore
infinite, omnipresent, whose very nature
makes heaven what it 1!. and able to reach
every person, and help in every need- His
greatness will not put a gulf between him
and us ,f we realize that his love is as
jrflnl(. . . ri. , . ,
cies as great as his being.
A Duty. This invocation Is In accord
ance with the First and Second Com
mandments. A Doctrine. The true nature of God
(Father in heaven).
i A lesson. The brotherhood of man.
! Our Father.
j A Warning. Against selfishness.
j A Spirit of worship, love, trust, obe-
, dience, communion.
I "T Jn 11t.'.1 l.A ,1... ft t.TV... - '
iiBuuntu III imiur. 1 llj Utlllltr
stands for his character, for whatever he
is. as when a man signs his name to a
promissory note, it expresses his char-
acter- hi9 ability, his possessions, all he
haa and ls May the name of our' Fatner
be hallowed, held in reverence, treated as
ho'y and sacred, by ourselves and by all,
lnAh!f rf- in thouht. n . in deed
A Duty, corresponding to the Third and
Fourth commandments, one the guard-
against Irreverence, the other a means of
hallowing our Father's name.
A Truth. The uplifting power of rever-
Tnc or inai wn,cn !s "n aDove us-
Carlyle's Heroes and Hero Worship.)
A Warning against irreverence, of every
form, as degrading the soirt.
An Inspiration to seek that all the world
may hallow our Father's name.
An Order. Note that our first petition is
toward God, the second for his kingdom,
and the third for our fellow men; before
we ask a single thing for ourselves. True
prayer is large-hearted, ennobling, not
seltlsh.
"Thy kingdom come." The kingdom or
reign of God in Christ over the whole
world, when the rule of Satan and his
principles shall be overthrown, and God
and the principles of his heavenly right
eousness shall prevail among all men.
This is the most magnificent blessing the
world can receive. "Thy will be done, as
in heaven so in (on) earth." The petition
implies (1) that we ourselves desire so to
do God's will. (2) That we wish God's will
to be done in us and for us by his provi
dence and by his Spirit. This is much
more than mere submission to God's will.
(3 That all the world may obey God as
perfectly as the angels oDey him. What
a prayer this is! What changes, what
overturnings it implies. What changes in
business, in dally life, in politics. What
new homes there would De. What activi
ties in church, what renovations of so
ciety, what changes of fortune.
6. "For a friend of mine." Giving the
reason for his inopportune but urgent re
uuest. The friend, arriving at that late
hour, was doubtless suffering from hunger.
There were almost no hotels in the east
to which he could go. The host was en
tirely out of food, but hoped that his friend
might have some left over, though usually
they prepared bread enough only for a
single day. Perhaps he did not even have
mpl to make bread of. I
meal to make bread of.
7. "Trouble me not." "The phrase im
plies Irritation." "My children are with
me in bed." In the same apartment, but
not In the same bed. Kach had a bed. or
mattress. "Is is usual for a whole family
(of the poor) to sleep in the same room."
I cannot rise ana sive tnee. It is alto
gether too much trouble.
8. "Not . . . because he is his
friend." Though the higher motives will
not avail, for the friendship is so weak.
"Yet because of his importunity, he will
rise and give him." It was less trouble to
grant his wishes than to endure the un
wearied importunity.
SEEDS THAT WILL CROW.
Nobody has ever found true happi
ness who did not first find Christ.
The man who would be strong in
mind, must feed on facts.
No tears are shed when the man dies
who has lived only for himself.
The only way to keep free from sin.,
is to keep close to Christ.
No man can be truly brave who is not
trying to be truly good.
Every sermon ought to have some
thing in it that the devil would try to
answer.
EPITAPHS OX GLASS.
A Nen Kind of Tombstone Adopted
by Pennsylvanlane.
A glass tombstone Is certainly some
thing unique. Such a grave marker
stands in but one place in the United
States, and that ls in the cemetery
overlooking the city of Kittannlng. It
has but recently been set up there
over the grave of Mrs. Elizabeth Pep
per of Ford City by her son, Matthias
Pepper. The Kittannlng cemetery pos
sesses many natural and artificial
beauties. It has been handsomely laid
out, with winding walks, stately trees
and ornamental shrubbery, and In it
are many, pretentious monuments. Not
one of the piles of marble and granite
attracts so much attention as the piece
of polished glass, with its clear Inscrip
tion, which stands on a gentle slope
falling slowly from the hilltop. A de
scription of this tomb glass was given
by Judge Joseph Uuilington, who Is a
resident of Kittannlng. Before his ap
pointment to the bench of the United
States district court he was counsel
for the Pittsburg Plate Glass company,
which made the glas nt its Ford City
works.
Mat bias Pepper, who had the glass
sot up, is assistant superintendedt at
the Ford City factory. The piece used
as a grave memorial is a part of a
Luge plale which was made of un
usual thickness for the const met ion of
circular panes to cover the iortholes
of ocean steamships. The practical In
destructibility of ulass was the qual
ity which suggested to Mr. Pepper its
use In the cemetery. Marble and gran
ite seem to many to 1k almost eternal
In their hardness, but they are far
from it. and not at all to be compared
with glass. Wind and rain, heat and
cold have their effects on stone of any
kind, and finally wear away the hard
est granite and cause it to crumble.
Go into any old graveyard, where
stones were erected more than 100
years ago, and it will be found to be
the exception where ail the lettering
on the monuments van 1h made out.
The stone has crumbled and the out
lines have leen obliterated. No effect
is produced by the weather on glass.
The Pepper monument is of plate glass
one inch thick, a foot and a half wide,
and four feet high. It stands in a mor
tise cut into a cube of sandstone. The 1
top of the glass is arched. The letter-
ins on it is made by the "saud blast"
process, and is distinct. The monu
ment bears the inscription:
"In Memory of Elizabeth Pepper, of
Ford City. Died February 4, 1802.
Aged 77 Years.
"Also William Pepper. Husband of
the Above. Died . Age
From this inscription it may be In
ferred truly that William Pepper is
still living. The Peppers are of Eng
lish birth, and came to Ford City years
ago directly from the Creat Bilting
hain glass works In London. Pitts
burg Dispatch.
A Colon! ul Ludy't Wardrobe.
Mistress Jane, widow of Cuthbert
Fenwick, of Fenwiek -Manor, legislator.
councilor, commissioner, died in 1060, j
leaving a will through which we catch'
.. ... . , . .. . .
glimpses of the wardrobe and toilet of;
a colonial ladv of thf DtTiod. To her 1
step-daughter, Teresa, she leaves the'
little bed, the mohair ruir and the yel-
low curtains, besides her taffeta suit
and her serge coat, all her line linen, j
her hoods and scarfs "except the great ;
one." nnd her throe iettico:its the .
tufted Holland one, the new serge nnd ' A new era is dawnin? in medicine,
the spangled one. To her own three ' and the strongest evidence of it is thj
bovs she gives that "great scarf" and f:ict tnat cancer can be cured without
all her jewels, plate nnd rins. except the use of the knife without dread
her wedding ring, which jres to Teresa, j of an painful operation,
and to each a bed and a pair of coiton i Mrs- Oliver Chapman was relieved of
sheets. To her step-sons. Cuthbert and a hujre cancel of two years prowtli and
Ignatius an ell of taffeta; to her negro j ls now rejoicing in good health and ex
maid, Dorothy, her red cotton coatj : fell en t spirits. The scar left on her
and to Esther, the new maid, all ths . breast from removal of tne cancer is
linen of the coarser sort. To Thomas, j not larger than a silver dollar. Mr. A.
the Indian, two pairs of shoes and a u Jnes, one of the first settlers of
match coat, and to Thomas' mother ,)maha- has been entirely cured by the
three yards of cotton. To the Her. I new treatment. Mrs. Harrell of bouth
Francis Fitzherbert. a hogshead of to-! aha' Mr- Martin ot Council Muffs,
baceo annuallv for five vears; and to ?nd man3' others in .these towns have
her slave. William, his freedom, pro- i been relieved from cancer, and are en-
vided he iay a hogshead every year to !
the church; and to the church, the same!
William, -to be a slave forever if ha
ci.oil ,. ,,,, ;... vf
OllUll 1 J Al. L ' 'lllllllllllni f A. V 9 j
had not her beloved brother, William j
friends, "died by the bloody fangs of
Puritan wolves ?"-Century. !
II envy Seed! ne of Oat.
Lodging of oats is due to the imper
fect development of the tissues of ths
stem, and this Is the result of an In
sufficient exposure to sunlight in conse- j
quence of the plants being too close to- j
gether. The greatest exposure will ;
doubtless be secured by moderately ; 0
... -W . 9 11 " "
thin sowing, it is usuany eonsiuereu i
that the quantity of seed per acre J
should vary with the condition of the
lauu uuu itie lime ui wniuj,, bum. j .
quantity being sown when the land is j V
In poor condition and when the season-; ft
is late. A greater quantity of seed is
required on poor land, as- the oats do! V
not "stool out" so well, and In a late ! ft
oAisnn It 1 n APoRSii rv To Increase th !
amount in order to hasten thV harvest, y
as, where the land is thinly sown, tne
"stooline" process is liable to be car
ried on for too long a time, making th y
harvest late. In England, as high as ft
eight bushels per acre of oats are often j J
sown, in other-year tests that quantity j y
of seed yielding an average of forty-! r
three bushels per acre; six bushels fifty-
three, and four bushels seeding fifty-six .
i . -r. ttiiiims lininir '
bushels "per acre, other things being
equal. In America, four bushels per
acre is usually considered heavy seed- J
ing for oats, and one and one-hair to ,
two bushels is the amount usually j
sown. Orange Judd Farmer. j
One thing parents should never do Is ;
to discuss the failings of their children j
before the little one. The next worst j
thing Is for one parent to attempt to
punish the child and the other pirent '
protest against it. Kither action will '
damage the respect of the child for :
one or the other of its parents, and if ,
there is one thing mote than another
that parents want to preserve, it is
their dignity before their children. A
child who gets the' Idea that one pa
rent is at variance with the other on
the question of discipline will make
both unhappy and render itself decid
edly objectionable by playing off one
parent against the other. If you want
to have any harmony in the family,
get together on the question of disci
plining the children, at least in their
presence and then, if you want to
quarrel on methods., do it in the pri
vacy of your own apartments, where
you can have It out without lowering
vourselvas in the eyes of the children.
la)
RyTedocD&ne
Vour blood in Spring is almost certain to
be full of impurities the accumula
tion of the winter months. Bad ven
tilation ot sleeping rooms, impure air
j in dwellings, factories and shops, over
I eatincr. heavv. improper foods, failure
LViU uuu
of the kidneys and liver properly to do
extra work thus thrust upon them, ars
the prime causes of this condition. It m
is of the utmost importance that yo t
Yoyo GBBaod
Now, as when warmer weather comes and
the tonic effect of cold bracing air is
gone, your weak, thin, impure blood
will not furnish necessary strength.
That tired feeling, loss of appetite, will
open the way for serious disease, ruined
health, or breaking out of humors and
impurities. To make pure, rich, red
blood Hood's Sarsaparilla stands un
equalled. Thousands testify to its
merits. Millions take it as their
Spring Medicine. Get Hood's. becauM
run n
LnJ(Q)(Q)(fl
Sarsaparilla
Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druKftisU. $ 1.
Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mast.
mm . m nf f r ,,e on'T pills to tmk
nOOQ S flllS with Hood ' Saraaparlll.
ASK YOUR DEALER FOR
W. L. Douglas
3. SHOE BESvJotftD!HE
If you pay 94 to S6 for shoes, ex-
amine the W. L. Douglas Shoe, and 5J
see what a good shoe you can buy for
OVER IOO STYLES AND WIDTHS,
CONGRESS, BUTTON,
nd LACK, made In all
It I nd a of the best selected
leather by skilled Work
men. TVe
make and
ell more
$3 Klioen
rK than
any
' other
manufacturer in the -world.
None genuine unless name and
price is stamped on the bottom.
Ask your dealer for our 85,
84, 83.SU, S2.AO, 83.23 .Shoes ;
S3JSOr3 and 81.75 for boys.
TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. If your dealer
cannot supply you, send to tac-
tory, enclosing price and 36 cents
?pfy.ctrg; SLa& H'li8
or toe (cap or plain), sue and
width. Our Custom Dept. uili till
your order. Send for new Ilhis-
S . Jj?,!oBoi!
w- L- DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass.
DANGER CURED!
thusiastic over results
he mode of treatment is not pain
fnl an(1 in nearly every instance pa-
nenus can aiieuu xo meir
while under medical care.
The Omaha Cancer Cure Sanitarium
isMbrltablishe.d ...Vu
al -f;3 P03 sTe9t:. WIth 5 " h
btree
eel-
er, M. I)., as attending physician and
George W. Iloberts as manager. A cure
i guaranteed in every case, and mem
bers of the institution will be glad to
L'ive visitors any information desired as
to terra and testimonials. All consul-
tat ions are free,
UMLflSH
SMOKING TOBACCO,
2 oz. for 5 Cents.
CHEROOTS 3 for 5 Cents.
Give a Good, Mellow, Healthy,
Pleasant Smoke. Try Them.
LYON & CO. TOBACCO WORKS, Durbn, 1 C
l-IZWF" NO AGENTS
W la I I W bhn( soil iHmtfutii....
but sell direct to the con
sumer at whotenale price,
ship anywhere for examin
ation lx-fore rale. Erery.
thin? warranted. 100 ft y lea
of Carrlaera, 90 styles of
Haneu, 41 Hly lea KMtag 84.
alra. Write for catalogue.
ELKHART CABBJAGK Hal.
hkss are. co., "ht.
IHD.
W. B. Pbatt, Secy.
WELL MACHINERY U
a. lain l JUAtitliWKKX, etc.
Sknt Tmmm. Have been tested and
u ranawNt
Hoax City Engine and Iron Works,
Suocessors to Pech Mtg. Co.
Slonx 'ity. law.
rn rowhl a Chase Machinrrt ct..
West Eleventh Street. Kansas City
PARKEU'S
HAIR BALSAM
Clean and beaotirtaa the hale.
Promotes a luxuriant growth.
Tfr rHB Bor Oray
Hair to lis Youthful ColorT
Cums scalp dtaraaos Aabair falliM.
c, and 1 m at fEngirlrts
1a
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Oil
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