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It to noticeable that most of the dis-
of Russia's actions take place
Franc la Interested in Spain Juat aa
I im to anxloua that the dollar be haa
K to boarding should not be pronounc-
strtct trade at fbe porta which they
hare occupied. China. In connection
with the loan negotiations, haa piom
laed to open a treaty port In the im
portant and populous proving of Uu
man within two years; and haa agreed
that after next June all her Inland
waters may be navigated by foreign
aa well aa by native steamers. Sim
baa also promised Great Britain not to
mortgage, lease or cede any part of the
valley of the Yangtze-kiang. This
river la navigable for more than a thou
sand mllea, and the valley through
which It flowa la of great commercial
Importance.
While It la all right t keep the Area
M patriotism burning It Isn't necessary
to nan any olive branches that may be
wared lor fuel.
There are people getting rich over the
Klondike excitement, but the lndlca
con are that as a role the minora foi
fold are aesdom hi tale
A Ubic&go paper trlea to give a war
i-ivor to the fact that sixty boys were
rorn there la one day last week. Nat
u-aJiy they were eoon np In arms.
me uroouya Kagie, referring to
China and Japan, remarks that num
bers do net always count. That's whj
tne moaqtutoes do not govern New Jer
sey. -
iTOiugiug ner aoooj tne tare em
press of Russia accumulated S35,0u0
worth of perfumery bottles. It must
fee admitted that It was a sweet-scented
fad, anyway.
Wallace Hopper wants a di
vorce because her big huxband refusea
to support her. But who ever heard of
a comic opera star supporting a sou-
rette, anyway?
we were getting well acquainted
with the bacillus and bacterium aa the
tret causes of various diseases, but now
a scientist Introduces to us the amoeba
aa the germ of yellow fever.
The English language, a reeeot writer
contains forty-one distinct
It la truly remarkable bow
more sounds some people are
able to die out of those forty-one.
It la announced that a way has been
covered by which to freeze air to a
tonqterature 330 degrees below aero.
Wo don't know bow H waa done, but It
to a safe bat that seme Boston girl
OMR.
There la a good deal of talk lately
about big guns, rapid-firing guns, rifles
of various bore, mortars and the Lite,
but few people know much about these
war appliances or bow much It costs to
Are them or the size of the projectiles
they throw or the range of the gun.
Among the largest, tf It fa not the very
largest of our coast-defense guns Is the
16-1 bc monster, so named from the
diaaneter of its bore. It throws a proj
ectile wedKhiog 2,3.50 pounds for a dis
tance of sixteen miles with a velocity
so great that at a distance of two miles
It will pierce the bent teel armor twenty-seven
and a half Inches thick. It
requires 1.0.V) pounds of powder for a
charge and the roust of each discharge
la about StiV). On tlie wai-Rhtiia rh
bigh-powemi guns are uwuaUy the 8-
iaeh, 10-inch, 12-inch and 13-inch rifles.
The first-named throws a shot weigh
ing 300 pounds and the powder charre
is 125 pounds. Kttch shot coots the gov
ernment about $175. The other guns
are proportionately more effective and
expensive. The breech-loading mor
tars, used in coast-dwfense, a. usually
of the 12-inch variety and throw a
shell with a time fuse Into the air. so
that It may fall upon the deck of a
vessel and explode. The shells weigh
from 800 to 1,000 pounds and are
charged with from eighty to 105 poutKJi
of powder. The charge of the gun com
plete cents about $475. The rapid filing
guns on Che war vessels are bmx h
loading cannon and throw sboU vary
ing In weight from one pound to 125
pounds, and the powder charge Is about
one-third the weight of the projectile.
T
' A railroad lawyer In New England
eJatms that there la no difference be
tween a wheI!Tow and a bicycle.
when It comes to a question of personal
baggage. He evidently never tried to
aide wheel-barrow.
The Boston Globe objects because
Che New York Tribune refers to Ed
ward Atkinson aa "the distinguished
statistician and author of Boston."
The point la well token; it la manifestly
unfair to make Mr. Atkinson father
such a responsibility.
TOeee guns also throw shells made of
brass, copper or steel and can be fired
at the rate of Cram ten to twenty tffmes
a minute, according to their size. The
smallest shots cost 50 cents and the
large $8. The larger guns with ten
discharges a minute would therefore
use up $80 In that time, or $4,800 an
hour. For a vessel armed 11 ke the Mas
sachusetts an hour's engagement would
cost a good deal over half a million of
dollars for her guns alone, to say Both
ing of any damage she might sustain
The lMnch gun can be fired once each
two minutes, and in an engagement, it
ft were fired twenty times, the cost
would be $13,000. The Ufe of this gun
Is supposed to end with Its hundredth
shot. Modern guns consume an enor
mous amount of money when in use.
f The unanimity with which Congress
voted President Cleveland the money
far the Veneiuelan boundary commis
sion waa a great surprise to Europe.
In (act, Europe was impressed to a de
ars that It didn't care to own. That
Instructive object-lesson haa recently
bean repeated.
It is reported that to Iceland there
have been but two cases of theft In a
thousand years, and that all forma of
crime are so nearly unknown that the
I has no soldiers, no poHcemen, no
no poor houses, no prisons.
; on this blissful innocence.
Western edKor calls out, "Just think
af It, bays, and then go kfek yourselves!
la fact, nearly everybody la this coun
try had bettor kick himself a Httle
art"
Qeal all waa first Introduced Into Ohi
aa la 187X Last year the Celestials
me enormous total sf 07,000,000
a, mostly Imported from the Uni
ted States. Now that Shanghai has
adapted the electric light and the na
vss are bscominc expert ta tta pro
awettou, it to surmised that this form
f fflnartaadoa win spread as rapidly
aa dM tb us of coal oft-affordrng a
i tor a poem aa Ta light of
ItoloantlBgatonaf erdtnary fratoat
railroads charge from three-
i af a cent to 1 cent far seek mile.
a ton of man matter Mm
charge tb goveninent
aaate amtl. to art tbte aa aatraga-
ssst kt Why ahould the govarament
nay tram $9 te $80 for tb service which
J malar 1 1 to privet gamins far $1
at to trn that mall matter la a apodal
Mad af freight which ought te pay
rdlnary freight Bat, to
i how much nwref
In ssssrlran to not aatraacad with
he idea of ssi during. H baa bean
istoHhiil aa wmr-slka, bat not military.
Oa win ago an aceaatoa, bat a never
i f war aa a coaditioa r oecu pe
er the army aa a prof ton. EI
a soldier whan b deems it a
and quite when he Is no
The "pease and ct renin-
of war" to sot attractive to
Americans, and especially when It is
tt?l an hi dm of peace. They are
M aanatrtoOc nor cowardly nor haav
vgnfns wans ranselantion sexnpisn.
Cf simply do not car abent baariag
itCltl
tj . saass
; ; tzxUm af trad with Obtaa antaui 1
,'0,t tTsBtod ratmw flaM aMdcad
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:rr. 4i irt rr a aat
A number of newspapers In differ
ent parts of the West are noting among
the most important of the changes la
conditions during the past few weeka
the rise In the value of farm lands, and
some of them are going so far as to es
timate that in a very wide area the In
crease in the market value of farm
property has been no less than 20 per
cent. This sdded value has been espe
cially noticeable in the Mississippi Val
ley, and one of the newspapere of
Cleveland, Ohio, asserts that In the
neighborhood of that city the change Is
very marked, and that men with mon
ey at command are looking upon such
property, either for loans or Invest
ments, far more favorably than they
did last spring. All of this is gratify
ing both from aa economic and from a
social point of view. The pushing of
electric railroads through parts of the
country that were not hitherto known,
except to pedestrians bent on exercise,
by artists or botanista, or by those wh
caught glimpses of forests and fields
from a car window, a well as the
knowledge which haa come through
the almost universal use of the bicycle,
haa made possible the retora of the
"Wayside Inn," aa Immortal) ted by
Longfellow, and haa aiwueed a love
for country homes, such as Is so deeply
felt by the comfortably situated por
tiena af the people of England. There
are. It la true, dwellers In the ctty wuo
establish their hemes for a part of the
year la the country, careless whether
tb investment be a paying one or not
from the standpoint of dollars and
cento; hot there are hundreds of others
Who, whfto tongtag for the pleasures of
rural Ufe, are handicapped by tb
thought that they cannot afford to In
dulge la a luxury, and have, therefore,
to content themselves with continuous
Ufe la the dry, save during their short
summer vacattoas. During the pat
few years, tb country and toe towu
have bean drawing closer to each other.
The part which cbeatistry and inven
tion are playing la developtaf the re
sources of the soil has raised the voca
tion of ta farmer t a higher stand
ard. Agricultural colleges have alo
dan much te suggest to young men,
who might otherwise be compelled, af
ter stndytng for one of the learned pro
feaatoaa, to waste years la the strug
gle te sacur recognition, that there
ar tber fcMs in which they may gain
success, aad now that conditions ar
Improving In ecry (lepHitmeat of hu
man activity, there Is au opportunity
both for them aad the retired business
man f the city to peep out at the
wsrld thrsnah tb loopholes of re
treat, and at the same time keep In
tench with modern thought and ad
vancement, and know that their Invent
meat la a paying one. - Tb Increase I
country horns will beoeat maay indus
tries by providing increased work for
those who ar engaged to them; new
aad improved agricultural method
wfl also com tot na. and the result
h
at win be wM
II IS eruion of Dr. Tilmage will
have a tendency to take the gloom
out of many lives and stir ui
spirit of healthful snticipation; text. Job
ixitH., 21. "And now men see not the
bright lisht which is in the clouds.'
Windeaat. Barometer falling. Sturm
signals out Ship reefing maintopsail.
Awnings taken in. Prophecies of foul
weather everywhere. The clouds congre
gate around the aun, proposing to abolish
Inni. But after awhile be awiaiU the
flanks of the clouds with flvinc artillery
of light, and here and there ia a aign of
clearing weather. Many do not observe
It. Many do not reallre it. "And now
men see not the bright light which is in
the clouds." In other words, there are
100 men looking for storm where there
is one man looking for sunshine. My ob
ject will be to get yon and myself into
the delightful habit of making the beat
of everything.
Too may have wondered at the statis
tic that in India in the yesr 1875 there
were over 19.000 people slain by wild
l-Mt.N. ami that in the year 1876 there
were in India over 20.000 people destroy
ed by wild animals. But there ia a mon
ster in our own land which is year by
year destroying more than that. It Is the
old bear of meluacholy, and with gospel
weapons I propose to chaae it back to its
i-averns. i mean to do two
sums a snm in subtraction and a sum in
addition a subtraction from your days of
a-prwiion and an addition to your days
i joy. it ;oi will help me, I will com
pel yon to see the bright light that there
is in the clonds and compel you to make
the best of everything.
In the first place, you ought to make
the very best of all your financial misfor
tunes. TMiring the panic a few years sgo
you all lost money. Some of you lost it
in most nnaccountable ways. For the
question. "How many thousands of dol
lars shall I put aside this year?" yon aub
stitnted the niiestion. "How shall I pay
my butcher and baker and clothier and
landlord?" You bad the sensation of
rowing hard with two oars and yet all the
time going down stream.
Vou did not say much about it because
It waa not politic to speak much of finan
cial embarrassment, but your wife knew.
Less variety of wardrobe, more eceuomy
at the table, self-denial in art and tapes
try. Compression, retrenchment. Who
did not feel the necessity of it? My
friend, did you make the best of this? Are
yoa aware of how narrow an escape you
made? Suppose you bad reached the for
tune toward which you were rapidly go
ing? What then? You would have been
aa proud as Lucifer.
What Is Success T
How few men have succeeded laraeiv
In a financial sense and ret maintained
their simplicity and religious consecra
tion! Not one man of 100. There are
glorious exceptions, but the general rule
is that in proportion as a man gets well
off for this world he gets poorly off for the
next. He loses his sense of dependence
on God. He gets a distaste for oraver
meetings. With plenty of bank stocks
and plenty of Government securities,
what does that man know of the prsyer,
"Give me this day my daily bread?" How
few men largely successful in this world
sre bringing souls to Christ or showing
self-denial for others or are eminent for
piety? Yoa can count them all noon your
eight fingers and two thumbs.
One of the old covetous souls, when he
was sick and sick onto death, used to
have a basin brought in. a basin filled
with gold, and his only amusement and
the only relief be got for bis inflamed
bands wss running them down through
the gold and turning it no la the basin.
Oh, what infatuation and what destroying
power money has for many a man I Now,
yon were sailing at 30 knots the boor to
ward these vortices of worldliness wbat
mercy it waa, that honest defalcation!
The same divine hand that crushed your
storenouse, yonr Dank, yonr office, your
insurance company, lifted yon oat of de
struction. The dsy yon honestly sus
penddH in business stsd yonr fortune for
eternity.
Oh," yoa ssy, "I could get along very !
well myself, bat I am so disappointed that
I cannot leave a competence for my chil
dren r My brother, the same financial
misfortune that is going to save your soul
ill save your children. With the antici
pation of large fortune, how much indus
try would yonr children hsve, without
which habit of industry there Is no safe
ty? The young man would ssy. "Well.
there's no need of my working. My fath
er will soon step out, snd then I'll have
just wbat I want" You cannot hide
from him bow much yoa are worth. Yon
think you ars biding it. He knows all
about it. He can tell you almost to a
dollar. Perhaps he has been to the coun
ty office snd searched the records of deeds
and mortgages aad he has added it all no.
and he has made aa estimate of how losg
yoa will probably stay In this world, and
is uot as omen worried shout yonr rheu
matism and shottaess f breath ss you
sre. Tbe only fortune worth anything
that ysu can give your child is tbe fortune
yon put in bis head aad heart Of all the
young men who a'arted life with $40,000
capital, how many turned on well? I
do sot know half a dozen.
lasotrlaa Inheritance.
The best inherits see a youna man can
have is tbe feeling that hs haa to fight kla
own battle, and that lit is a straggle
is to which he must threw body, sUnd sad
soul or he dlsgrsaafuliy worsted. Where
sre the burial places of the maa who
stsrted life with a fortua? tew of
them in the potter's field, eem la the
suicide's grave. Bat few of these men
reached $6 years of ag. They draaX
they smsksd, they gambled. Ia taem thv
beast destroyed the mas. Seas tf tbew
tved long eaeaga te get their tortaaes
and went through them. The vast ms
jority of them did not live to get their
inheritance. From the giiiKlmp or house
of infamv thev were hroucbt home to
their father's house and in delirium be
gan to pick off loatiiMiu.e reptiles froin
the embroidered pillow- and M titsbt ha
Imaginary devils. And then they were
laid ont in hielilv miholstered parlor, the
casket covered with Dowers b- indulgent
parents, flowers snggeHtive of a resurrec
tion with no hope.
As you sat thia morning at your break
fast table and looked into the faces of
your children perhaps you said within
yourself: "Poor things! How I wifh I
could start them in life with a compe
tence! How I have been disappointed in
all my expectations of what I would do
for them!" Upon that scene of pathos I
break with a paean of congratulation
that by your financial louses jour own
proapects for heaven and the pro"pecta of
your cDildren for heaven are mightily
improved. You mav have lost a tor, but
you have won a palace.
"How hardly shall they that have riches
enter into the kincdom of God!" "It is
easier for a camel to go through a needle's
eye than for a rich man to enter tbe king
dom of heaven." What does that mean?
It means that tbe grandest bleKsing God
ever bestowed upon you was to take your
money away from yon. Iet me here say,
in passing, do not put much sirens on the
t res mi res of this world. You cannot take
them along with you. At any rate, you
cannot take them more than two or three
miles. Yon will have to leave them at
the cemetery.
Profit by Bereavements.
Again, I remark you ought to make tbe
very best of your bereavements, lnc
whole tendency is to brood over these seji
a rat ions, and to rive much time to the
handling of mementos of the departed
and to make long visitations to the ceme
tery, and to say: "Oh, I can never look
up again! My hope is gone. My courage
gone. My religion is gone. My faith
in God is gone. Oh, the wear and tear
and exhauation of this loneliness!" The
most frequent bereavement is the loss of
children. If your departed child bad lived
as long ss you have lived, do you not
suppose that he would hsve had about tbe
same amount of trouble and trial that you
have bad? If you could make a choice
for yonr child between 40 years of an
noyance, loss, vexation, exasperation and
bereavements and 40 years la heaven,
would you take the responsibility of choos
ing the former? Would you snatch away
the cup of eternal bliss and put into that
child's hands the cup of many bereave
ments? Instead of the complete safety
into which that child has been lifted,
would you like to hold it down to the risks
of this mortal state? Would you like to
keep it out ou a ca in which there have
been more shipwrecks than safe voyages?
Is it not a comfort to jou to know that
that child, instead of being besoiled and
flung Into the mire of siu, is swung clear
into tbe skies? Are not those children
to be congratulated that the point of ce
lestial bliss which yon expect to reach by
a pilgrimage of 50 or GO or 70 years they
reached at a flash? If the last 10,000
children who had entered heaven bad
gone through tbe average of human life
on earth, sre you sure all thone 10,000
children would have finally reached tbe
blissful terminus? Besides that, my
friends, jmi are to look at this matter as
a M-lf-di-ni.-i! on j mir part for their bene
fit If your chililn-n want to go off in a
May day party, if your children want to
go on a flowery and musical excursion,
you consent You might prefer to have
them with yon, but their jubilant absence
satisfies yon. Well, your departed chil- i
dren have only gone out in a May day
party, amid flowery snd musical enter
tainment, amid joys and hilarities for
ever. That ought to quell some of your
grief, the thought of their glee.
Glorious Welcome.
8o It ought to be that you could make
the best of all bereavements. The fact
that yon have so many friends In heaven
will make your own departure very cheer
ful. When yon are going on a voyage,
everytning depends upon wnere your
friends are it they are on the wharf that
yon leave or on the wharf toward which
you sre going to sail. In other words, tbe
more friends yon have in heaven the
easier It will be to get sway from tbi,
world. The more friends here the more
bitter good by s. The more friends there
the more glorious welcomes. Some of you
hsve so msny brothers, sisters, children,
friends, in heaven that I do not know
hardly bow yoa are going to crowd
through. When the vessel came from
foreign lands and brought a prince to our
harbor, tbe ships were covered with bunt
ing, and yon remember bow tbe men-of-
war thundered broadsides, but there was
no joy there compared with tbe joy which
snau oe aemonsiraico wnen you sail up
tbe broad bay or heavenly salutation. The
more friends you bsve there the easier
your own transit. What ia death to a
mother whose children sre In beeves?
Why, there is no more grief in it thsn
there is ia ber going Into a nursery amid
tbe romp and laughter of her household.
Though all around may be dark, sen you
sot tbe bright light In tbe clonds, that
light the irradiated faces of your glori
fied kindred?
Ko More Psia.
Frost my observstion, I judge that In
valids have s more rapturous view of tbe
next world than well people snd will hsve
higher renown in heaven. The best view
of the delectable mountains ia through the
lattice of tbe sick room. There sre traiae
running every hour between pillow aad
throne, between hospital and 'mansion,
between bandages and robes, between
crutch and palm branch. Oh, I wish some
of yoa people who sre eompelled to cry:
"My head, my bead! My foot, my foot!
My back, my hack!" would try soate of
the Lord's medicine. Yoa sre going to be
well anyhow before long Heaven ! an
old city, but baa never yet reported one
esse sf sickness or one bill of mortality.
No ophthalmia for the eye. No pneu
monia for tbe Inngs. No pleurisy for the
side. Xo nenralgta for the nerves. No
rheumatism for the muscles. The In
hahitanta shall never say, I am sick."
"There shsll be no more pain."
Again, you ought to make the heat of
life's finality. Now, yoa think I hsve a
very tongh sibject Ton do not see bow
I am to strike a spark af light out of tb
lint of-the tombstone. There are mane
people who bav an Ides that death is the
C every! ag pieasaal by
everything doleful. If my subject eenld
close in tbe Uisertfug of all such precoo-
ceivt-d notions, it would close well. Who
ran judge best of the features of a man
those w ho sre close by him or those who
are afar off? "Oh," you ssy, "those can
judge best of the features of s man who
sre close by him!"
Now, my friends, who shall judge of
tne features of death whether they are
lovely or whether they are repulsive?
You? You are too far off. If I want to
get a judgment as to what really tbe fea
tures of death sre, I will not ask you. I
will ask those who have been within a
month of death, or a week of death, or an
hour of death, or a minute of death. They
stand so near the features, they can tell,
Tbey give unanimous testimony, If they
are Christian people, that death, Instead
of being demoniac. Is cherubic. Of all the
thousands of Christiana who have been
carried through tbe gates of tbe ceme
tery, gather up their dyins ex eriences,
and you w ill find they nearly all bordered
on a jubilate.
Reason of Blossoms.
One week of the year Is called blossom
week called ao all through the land be
cause mere are more blossoms in that
week than In any other week of the year
Blossom week! And that is whnt tbe fu
ture world Is to which the Christian ia in
vited blossom week forever. It is as fa
ahead of this world aa tiBradise is ahead
of Dry Tortucas. and Tct here we Btand
shivering and fearing to go out, and we
want to stay on the dry sand and amid
tbe stormy petrels when we are invited to
arbors of jasmine and birds of paradise
One season I had two springtimes. 1
went to New Orleans In April, and I
marked the difference between going to
ward -New Orleans snd then coming back
As I went on down toward New Orleans
the verdure, the foliage, became thicker
and more beautiful. When I came back
the farther I came toward home the less
the foliage and less and leu it became nn
til there was hardly any. Now, It all de
j-iiu upon me direction in which von
travel. If a spirit from heaven should
come toward our world, he is traveling
from Jane toward December, from radi
ance toward darkness, from banging gar
dens toward icebergs. And one would not
be very much surprised if a spirit of God
sent forth from heaven toward onr world
should I slow to come. But bow strange
it is that we dread going out toward that
world when going is from December to
ward June, from the snow of earthly
storm to the glow of Edenic blossom,
from the arctics of tronble toward the
tropics of eternal joy! ,
Oh, what an ado about dying! We get
so attached to the malarial marsh in
which we live that we sre afraid to go up
and live on the hilltop. We are alarmed
because vacation ia coming. Eternal aun
light and best program of celestial min
strels and halleluiah, no inducement. I-t
us stay here and keep cold and ignorant
and weak. Do not introduce us to Klijah
and John Milton and Uourdalour. Keep
our feet on the sharp cobblestones of
earth instead of Diamine them on the
bank of amaranth iu heaven. Give us
this small island of a leprous world in
stead of the immensities f splendor and
delight Keep our hands full of nettles
and our shoulder under tbe burden and
our neck in the yoke and hopples on onr
ankles and handcuffs on our wrists.
"Dear Lord," we aeem to say, "keep us
down here where we have to suffer In
stead of lting us np where we might
live and reign snd rejoice."
Amazing Infatuation.
I am amazed at myself and at yourself
for this lufatnation under which we all
rt. Meu you would suppose would get
frightened at haviug to stay in this world
instesd of getting frightened at having to
go toward heaven. I congratulate any
body who has a right to die. liy that I
mean through sickness you cannot avert
or through accident you cannot avoid
your work consummated. "Where did
they bury Lily r said one little child to
another. "Oh,' abe replied, "they buried
her in the ground." "What! In the cold
ground" "Ob, uo, no; nut in the cold
ground, but in tbe warm ground, where
ugly seeds become beautiful flowers!"
"But," saya some one, "it pains me so
much to think that I must lose the body
with which my soul has so long compan
ioned." You do not lose it Yon no more
lose yonr body by death than you lose
your watch when you send It to have it
repaired, or your jewel wheu you send it
to have it reset, or the faded picture w hen
you send it to have it touched up, or the
photograph of a friend when you have it
put in a new locket. You do not loee
your body. Paul will go to Borne to get
his, Payson will go to Portland to get his,
President Edwsrds will go to Princeton
to get his, George Cookuian will go to the
bottom of the Atlantic to get ha, and we
will go to the village churchyards and the
city cemeteries to get ours, and when we
have our perfect spirit rejoined to oar
perfect body then we will be the kind of
men and women that the resnrrectioa
morning will make possible.
So you see yon bsve not made out any
doleful story yet. Wbat have you proved
about death? What is the case you have
made out? Too have made out just this
that death allows oe to have a perfect
body, free of all aches, nnlted forever
with s perfect soul, free from all sin. Oor'
rect your theology. What does It all
mean? Why, H means that moving day
Is coming and that you are going to quit
cramped apartments and be mansloned
forever. The horse that stand at the
gate will set be the on lathered aad be
spattered, oajryteg bad news, but It will
be tbe horse that St John saw la Apoca
lyptic vision tb white horse a which
tbe King com to tb be as, set The
ground areuad to palace will qnake with
tbe tire aad hoof of celestial equipage,
aad those Christiana who la that worM
lost their friends sad lost their property
aad tost their health aad lost their IU1
will find oat that God was always kiad,
aad that all thiag worked together far
their good, and that those were the wisest
people on earth whs mad the test ef ev
erything. See yoa sot bow the bright
light In the r loads?
Oseyrlgst ISM.
To facilitate tb handling of nh!aa
rods tbe butt la fitted with a curved
arm rest wth a band trip set at right'
angle" at tb proper distance ta bring
ute arm rest ia front or eh si bow whan
the grip to la th hand. .
Tops ar being maaafacrorad which
are spun by a current of air directed'
by a blowpipe Into tbe curved ehaa
aels st ending outward from a antral
opening In lb top.
la aowta Afrka than I a area! da-
ma ad Car donkaya, as they aa nanaf
anajaet an mat, niagw,
Dad Eruptions
lore Broke Out nnd Dlechargod,
but Hood' Cured.
"My son hsd eruptions and sore oa ha
fact which continued to grow worse is
spite of medicines. The sores discharged
a great deal. A friend whose child bad
been cured of a similar trouble by Hood's
Sarsaparilla advised me to try it I began
g:ving the bey this medicine and he was
soon getting better. He kept on taking
it Until he was entirely cured and be has
never been bothered w ith eruptions since."
MHS. EVA DOLBEARE, Uortoo, III.
HOOd'S parll..
It Amarlua'i Graatut Modicins. II; sit for Sa
Prepared only bv a I. H.xvl A ('.. tnwell. M..
Hood'5 Pills
ir lb' t-l Mf'iT-tiiuuT
At 11 years ol ae Alley U n bad 4S
performers. At a like age Ax tell sad
Gam bet ta Wilkes each lad SO, Baron
Wilkes 24 and Sphinx Itf.
Hall's Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price 76 osnls.
At 14 years ol age Gambetto Wilkee
had fit performers. At a like ag Sid
cy had 60, Sphinx 63, Baron Wilkee
snd St Bel each 47.
Shake Into Toar Shoee
Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for tb
feet It cures painful, swollen, smart
lug feet and Instantly takes the sting
out of corns and bunions. It's tbe great
est comfort discovery of tbe age. Al
len's Foot-Ease makes tlgbt-flttlng of
new shoes feel easy. It Is a cerUio
cure for sweating, callous nnd hot
tired, nervous, aching feet. Try It to
day. Hold by all druggists and shoe
stores. By mall for 25c in stamps. Trisi
package FREE. Address Allen 8. Olio-
sted, Le Roy, N. Y.
Tbe manufacture of jewelry in Birm
ingham gives constant employment U
14,000 persona
Munster, in Westphalia, has a public-
school which has just celebrated the
l,lf 0th anniversary of it foundation
It is tbe fit Paul Gymnasium and wa
originally a convent echoo).
Europe called last year for 200,000,0JO
boshel of American maixe, an increase
ol 66,000,000 bushels over 1898. Ttm
merits of this great cereil are dawning
on the Old World.
THE EXCELLENCE OF STKUP OF FES
is due not ouly to the originality and
simplicity of the combination, but also
to the care snd skill with which H hv
manufactured by scientific processes
known to the CaxiroajriA Fie 8rtrr
Co. only, and we wish to impress upon
all the importance of purchasing th
true aul original remedy. Aa the
genuine Syrup of Figs ia manufactured
by the CaLiroHaia Fie Sratrr 0a.
only, a knowledge of that fact will
assist one in avoiding the worthless
Imitations manufactured by other par-
iies. ine nign standing of the OaU
FoaniA Fio Stkitf Co. with tbe medi
cal profession, and the satisfaction
which the genuine Syrup of Figs haa
given to millions of '"t'l'as. mean
the name of the Company a fuaraato
of the excellence of Its remedy. It to
far iu advance of all other Laxatives,
aa it acta on the kidneys, liver and
bowels without irritating or bra
ing them, and It does not grip nar
nanseate. In order to get ita beaeaetal
i fleets, please remember the name of
lb Company
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
an raaaciaoo, est
mottili., a. new Town, a. r.
LADIES READ!
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