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THE NORTHWESTERN. BENM'IIOTBR * GII1SOI*. K<l» and Paba. LOUP CITY, - - . NEB. i_ __ — _%,-Ti Thin bamboo tubes are fastened to carrier pigeons in China to protect th*m from birds of prey. When the bird is in motion the action of the air through the tubes causes a whistling sound, which alarms predaceous birds, find keeps them at a respectable dis tance. Competent authorities assert that South America has greater undevel oped resources than any other portion of the world. Any crop grown else where can be duplicated there and the country abounds In mines of coal, sil ver and gold, most of which have been only slightly developed. Lord Curzon has just sanctioned a . considerable outlay on an experi mental indlarubber plantation near the Tenasserim coast. No fewer than 10. 0( 0 acres are to be thus cultivated, and carefully framed estimates show that when the trees reach maturity the plantation should yield handsome profits. A Mauser bullet entered the brain of Jeremiah O'Leary, a British soldier, at the battle of Colenso. An exp rt sur geon removed the bullet, and with It a small portion of the man's brain. Since then his memory Is slightly impaired, and he detests the taste cf beer, al though he had been very fond of it previous to receiving the wound. The growth of electric railway rtrcet systems In the principal countries of Europe during the Inst four years Is Bhown In a table in a recent Issue of L’ElectrlcIen. Germany leads with 250 miles in 1896, which had increased In 1899 to 2,l<i0. Austria-Hungary is next with 45 miles In 1896 and 600 in 1899. The United Kingdom 1b third with 67 mlle3 in 1896 and 600 In 1899, and the other countries follow in this order: Italy, France, Switzerland, Russia, Belgium, etc. . - ■■■ ■ - Order and method ore the conjur ers by whose aid a man of very aver age abilities tnay, If he chooses, se cure to himself the blessing of never being hurried. Only arrange properly the quantum of work which Is to be got through In a day or week, or in any fixed period, and a small margin over and above the bare space abso lutely needed for each part of it, and that margin will be available for the chance distractions for which people complain that they have no time. Not long ago a young man in Port land. Me., bought an old army mus ket to celebrate. A little later he was giving the weapon an overhauling, when he noticed some scratches on the stock that looked like writing. After giving the stock a good cleaning, it was found that the scratches formed the name "Samuel H. Gammon.” As "Sam" Gammon is one of the Port land G. A. R. veterans whom every body knows, the yoking man was nat urally very much surprised at iinding his name on the old gun. When the musket was shown Mr. Gammon he at 6nce recognized it as the one he had returned to the government when he was mustered out of service thirty P.ve years or more ago. In speaking of the possibility of an alliance between Peru, Bolivia and tho Argentine Republic, with a view to war with Chile, an American, who has lived in Chile for a number of years, says: "Peru and Bolivia know very well that they cannot whip Chile, an 1 the outcome of a war, in the event of the alliance 1 have named, would be the same. The Chileans can and will fight. We can put 375,000 men in the fkid, for 10 per cent of the population can be counted upon in the event of war. We have ample modern arms, and I have no fear as to the outcome. Pbould the Queen of England decide against Peru in the boundary arbitra tion. a war may result, though I am of the . pinion that it can be avoided." The bicycle, according to a recent decision of the full bench of tho Mas sachusetts supreme court, is not a "carriage." within the meaning of th.it term as used in the statutes. Cities and towns are consequently not bound by law to keep their roads in such a state of repair and smoothness that a bicycle-rider can go over them In tafety. This decision was called forth by an action brought against a certain Massachusetts town, because of p-r sonal injuries Incurred by the plain tifl while riding her bicycle on one of the roads. The court held that a bi cycle Is more properly a machine than a "carriage," a* legally defined, an I that bicycle-riders. Injured from u . 1 dents arising front defects in the high way* of cHIm and towns, have not i valid claim for damages, The dec slon will not prevent them tram con tinning the agitation for gout amt »af. roads. One of the mo*t f.i***lnv ng exhibits at the Parts Exhibition |* that ioqtr b uted by the Pasteur Institute. In lit Pavilion of Hygiene are many neatly, labeled bottles, #«>Urely curbed, '.tc hope*, containing an army of ha. tin and parasites. Tint ravtg.s of th ■ • rubes are further demonstrated (a Hi attacks on th* raw tuitnixi* of tit . of beer, and of wln«, whilst bird l<> another ease Illustrates th* expert, r ent* whereby the great res* m h r exploded h i own belief I* IT- lb ot of (pollIsa* Ats genet*t two TALM AGE'S SERMON. HE TALKS OF THE GOOD DONE BY CITIES. They Arc the Birthplace of Civilization and Are Not Neccd.artly Evil — The Farmer aa Dishonest as tho Merchant. (Copyright. 1900, by Louie Klopsch.l From St. Petersburg, the Russian capital, where he was cordially re ceived by the emperor and empress and the empress dowager, Hr. Talmage sends this discourse,in which lie shows the mighty good that may be done by the cities, and also the vaot evil they may do by their allurements to the un suspecting and tha unguarded. Tho text is Zechariab i. 17, "My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad." The city is no worse than the coun try. The vires of the metropolis are more evident than the vices of the rural districts because there are more to be bad if they wish to be. The merchant is as good as the farmer. There is no more cheating in town than out of town—no worse cheating; it is only on a larger scale. The coun tryman sometimes prevaricates about the age of the horse that he sells, about the sizp of the bushel with which he measures the grain, about the peaches at the bottom of the basket as being as large as those at the top, about the quarter of beef a;i being tender when it is tough, and to ns bad an extent as the citizen, the merchant, prevari cates about calicoes or silks or hard ware. And ns to villages, I think that in some respects they are worse than the cltlps hecause they copy the vices of the cities in the meanest shape, and as to gossip its heaven is a country village. Everybody knows everybody's business better than he knows it him self. The grocery store or the black smith shop by day and night is the grand depot for masculine tittle tattle, and there are always In the village a half dozen women who have their sunbonnets hanging near, so that at the first item of derogatory news they can fly out and cackle it all over the town. Countrymen must not be too hard in their criticism of the citizen, nor must the plow run too sharply against the yardstick. Cain was the founder of the first c*ty, and I suppose it took after him in morals. It takes a city a long while prisons are the shallow of those foun der. Where the founders of a city are criminal exiles, the filth, the vice, the prisons are the shadow of their foun ders. It will take centuries for New York to get over the good influence of the pious founders of that city—the founders whose prayers went up in the streets where now banks discount and brokers bargain and companies de clare dividends and smugglers swear custom house lies, and above the roar of the wheels and the crack of the auc tioneer's mallet ascends the ascrip tion, "We worship thee, O thou al mighty dollar.” The old church that used to stand on Wall street is to this day throwing Its blessing on the scene of traffic, and on all the ships folding their white wings in the harbor. In other days people gathered in cities for defense—none but the poor, who had nothing to be stolen, lived in the country, but in these times, when [ through civilization and Christianity it ; is safe to live anywhere, people gather I in the cities for purposes of rapid ! gain. Highway of Prosperity. Cities are not evli necessarily, as some have argued. They have been the birthplace of civilization. In them popular liberty has lifted its voice. Witness Genoa and I’isa and Venice. After the death of Alexander the Great among his papers were found extensive plans of t itles? some to he built in Eu rope, some to be built in Asia. The 'ities in Europe were to be occupied ! by Asiatics; the cities in Asia were to ; be occupied, according to his plan, by j Europeans, and so there should be a | commingling ard a fraternity and a klndm.'K and a good will between (ho continents and between the cities. So there always ought to be. The strang i est tiling in my comprehension is that ] there should be bickerings und rivil i ri«s among our American cities. New j York must stop caricaturing Phlladel 1 phla. and Philadelphia must stop pick ing ut New York, an I certainly the 1 continent is targe enough for St. Paul md Minneapolis. What is good for i one city is good f ir all the cities Hero { is the great highway of our national i prosperity. On that highway of na tional prosperity walk the cl*lea. A city with large f-< • head and great j brain that is lloston. a city with dr ; hbecite flop and i aim manner that i is Phil id* Iphta, a city with its po ket full of ihuige that Is New York, two i titles ruing with a rush that astound* I (he con uncut they are Ht l,o>us and ] Chicago. s city that t ikes Its W ife and | children along with It that m brook* i Ivn t'lticlwnnll, I.oitlstllle, Pittsburg, all the . it of tit, notik so t ii| i; I cities of the »c th s .»»•• t sting t<h i I for on* thir.<< . far an* 'her, i n* , for pr«.f. loi it r,,uv, another f ir : sflaert . allot he i< f. h. n k u Rot ' one to he spar* I \t ha* I* iRta * Of" I lllttotafrl all Whit U I {.• • It *al, 'ti i Common t an <o< t. IVuhlsiins sonar* J.UU-. t l* >' * \ . I,.-... j w#*p over the <m* gt f. Th# sta’t* j of Heftiaimu Prank(>h ia v»w \ ( greeting ifc» t< • • • i* of Kdwati : Everwlt in ft st ut All th1* cute* i i nsifnierilir I mnot understas i 1' h..w th»re shwoM t > «»n up keying* ao*( rival'!**. I plead for a htghsr style of brotherhood or si3terhood among the cities. Important tnnonn. Hut while there are great differences in some respects I have to tell you that all cities impress upon me and ought to impress upon you three or four very important lessons, all of them agree ing in the same thing. It does not make any difference in what part of the country we walk the streets of a great city there is one lesson I think which ought to strike every intelligent Christian man, and that is that the world is a scene of toil and struggle. Here and there you find a man In the street who has his arni3 folded and who seems to have no particular er rand, but If you will stand at the cor ner of the street and watch the coun tenances of those who go by you v\ll see in most instances there is an in timation that they are on an errand which must be executed at the earliest moment possible, so you are jostled hither and thither by business mep. up this ladder with n hod of bricks, out of this bank with a roll of bills, dig ging a cellar, shingiing a roof, binding a book, mending a watch. Work,with Its thousand eyes and thousand feet and thousand arms, goes on singing its song, “Work, work, work!’’ while the drums of the mill beat It and the steam whistles fife it. in t’ae carpeted aisles of the forest, in the woods from which the eternal shadow i3 never lift ed, ou the shore of the sea over whose iron coast tosses tho tangled loam, sprinkling tho cracked cliffs w;*a a baptism of whirlwind and tempo*, is the best place to study (lod, but in the rushing, swarming, waving street is the best place to study man. Going down to your place of busi ness and coming home again I charge you look about; see these signs of pov erty, of wretchedness, of hunger, of sin, of bereavement, and as you go through the streets, and come back through the streets, gather up In the arms of your prayer all the sorrow, all the losses, all the sufferings, all the bereavements of those whom you pass and present them In prayer before an al! sympathetic God. In the great day of eternity there will be thousands of persons with whom you in this world never exchanged one word will rise up and call you blessed; and there will be a thousand fingers pointed at you In heaven, saying: "That is the man, that is the woman who helped me when I was hungry and sick and wandering and lost and heart-broken. That is the man, that is the woman;" and the blessing will come down upon you as Christ shall say: "I was hun gry and ye fed me, I was naked and ye clothed me. I was sick and in prison and ye visited me; inasmuch as ye did It to these poor waifs of the streets ye did it unto me." Wicked KiclmlcenM*. Again, in all cities I ain impressed with the fact that all classes and con ditions of society must commingle. We sometimes cultivate a wicked exclu siveness. Intellect despises ignorance. Refinement will have nothing to do with boorishness. Gloves hate the sun burned hand, and the high forehead despises the fiat head, and the trim hedgerow will have nothing to do with the wild copsewood, and Athens hates Nazareth. This ought not so to be. I like the democratic principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ which recog nizes the fact that we stand before God on one and the same platform. Do not take on any airs. Whatever position you have gained In society, you are nothing but a man, born of the same parent, regenerated by the same spirit,cleansed in the same blood, to He down in the same dust, to get up in the same resurrection. It is high time that we all acknowledged not only the fatherhood of God, but the brotherhood of man. Again, in all cities I am impressed with the fact that it is a very hard thing for a man to keep his heart right and to get to heaven. Infinite temp tations spring upon us from places of public concourse. Amid so much afflu ence, how much temptation to covet ousness and to be discontented with our humble lot! Amid so many op | portunitles for overreaching, what j temptation to extortion! Amid so j much display, what temptation to van | ity! Amid so many saloons of strong ! drink, what allurement to dissipation! In the maelstroms and hell gates of the street, how many make quick and •ternal shipwreck! If a man-of-war comes back from a battle nnd is towed into the navy yard, we go down to look it the splintered spare a.id count the i bullet holps an<l look with patriotic j tdmlratian on the flag that floated In vh tory from the masthead But that man is more of a curiosity who has gone through 30 years of the sharp shooting of business life an l yet sails I on. victor over the temptations of the | street. Oh. how many have gone down under the pressure, leaving n it so much as a pat h of canvas to tell when- they perished! They never had i any |>ea, e Their dishonesties kept I t»||:ug in their ears. It I had an ax , and maid -|*l11 open the te ams of that ftne house perhaps I would And In the I very h* trl of It a skeleton In his very le st wine th* re is a sni it'k of i pie r II I ', ■ »c ,t Oh, IS it • trait .re bat whe n a msii had devoured widow s i i'lnia, he In d writed With t|» its- t i. ,ic' All the to • « « of natnr- ,ir> it duet h in The floods ar# ready to lfiiR'8 ) 1 4*1*1 th* * ilfi.'lti it-.* to HhkW kit. a*i* th# fas *| \ f If. - 4fi| . f! «<**«! ,u |«n |I4 ( f t h«. 4 if* .5 I o ' f I » i|*4 I , . . * ffc. I itr« fiiittUI to «# 4 4 1*1 I i) tu Ih# tu iti «l ylli#t8 i|v j u. ;i* af bmlMtl, the heroes of the street. Mighty were their temptations, mighty was their deliverance, and mighty tskall be their triumph. Hollonnm of Society. Again, in all these cities I am Im pressed with the fact that life is full of pretension and sham. What sub terfuge, what double dealing, what two faeedness! Do all people who wish you good morning really hope for you a happy day? Do all the people who shake hands love each other? Arc all those anxious about your health who inquire concerning it? Do all want to sec you who ask you to call? Does all the world know half as much as It pretends to know? Is there not many a wretched stock of goods with a bril liant store window? Passing up and down the streets to your business and your work, are you not impressed with the fact that society is hollow and that I there are subterfuges nnd pretensions? Oh, how many there are who swagger and strut and how few people who are natural and walk? While fops simper and fools snicker and simple ! tons giggle, how few people are nat ural and laugh! I say these tilings I not to create in you Incredulity or mis | anthrophy, nor do I forget there are thousands o? people a great deal bet ter than they seem, but 1 do not think | any man is prepared for the ronflht of this life until he knows this par ticular peril. Ehtid comes pretending to pay his tax to King Egion and, while he stands in front of the king, stalls him through with a dagger un til the haft went in after the blade. I Judas Iscariot kissed Christ. • • * j IMshoncNty Never rr*#*j»er«. I want to tell you that the church of God is not a shop for receiving stolen goods and that U you have taken anything from your fellows yo i had better return it to the men to whom it belongs. In a drug store in Philadelphia a young man was told that he must sell blacking on the Lord's day. He said to the head man of the firm: "I can’t possibly do that. I nm willing to sell medicines on the Lord’s day. for I think that is right and necessary, but I can't sell this pat ent blacking.” He was discharged from the place. A Christian man hear ing of it took him Into his employ, and he went on from one success to another until he was known nil over the land for his faith In God and his good works as for his worldly success. When a man has sacrificed any tem poral. financial good for the sake o. his spiritual Interests the Lord is on his side, and one with God Is a ma jority. But If you have been much among the cities you have also noticed that they are full of temptations of a po litical character. It Is not so more in one city than in all the cities. Hun dreds of men going down in our cities every year through the pressure of politics. Once in awhile a man will come out In a sort of missionary spirit and say: “I am going Into politics now to reform them, and I am going to reform the ballot box, and 1 am going to reform all the people I come in contact with.” That man in the fear and love of God goes into politics with that idea and with the resolution that he will come out un contaminated and as good as when he went in. But generally the case Is when a man steps into politics many of the newspapers try *o blacken his charai'ter and to distort all his past history, and after a little while has gone by Instead of considering him self an honorable citizen he is lost in contemplation and in admiration of the fact that he has so long been kept out of jail! If a man shall go into politics to reform politics and with the right spirit, he will come out with the right spirit and unhurt. That was Theodore Frelinhuysen of New Jer sey. That was George Briggs of Massachusetts. That was Judge Mc Lean of Ohio. Then look around and see the ai- i lurements to dissipated life. Bad J books, unknown to father and mother, | vile as the reptiles of Egypt, crawling into some of the best families of the community; and boys read them while the teacher is looking th" other way, or at recess, or oa. the corner of the street when the j groups are gathered. These hooks are I read late at night. Satan finds them a J smooth plank on which he can slide down into perdition some of your sons j and daughters. Reading bad books one never gets over it. The books may | be burned, but there is not enough jxiwt r iu all the apothecary s prepara tions to wash out the stum from th soul. Fathers' bands, mothers' hauls, sisters’ hands will not wash It out; none but the hand of the laud can wash It cut. • • • I stood one day at Niagara Falls, and I saw what you may have seen there sis rainbows bending over that tremendous plunge I never saw any thing like It before or since. Sis Uau tlful rutubows arching that griat cataract! And m over the rapids and I angry precipices of sin, where so num have been dashed down, liial's beau j tlful admonition* hover, a warning I arching each peri! sis of them, §9 of them. 1,900 of them. IU»»K, beware, beware! Yuung men. while you have time I to refbcl upit*) these thing* SH-I bvftJMa j the duties of the etc* and the it«»v 1 UR I Ibf ilitip rflffe# llpGlt ) 1 • •**. Mu, i look over till* whole *it.j<Ht and aft"' the dav h^t p**scd and you hanr in | the nightfall the voltes an i j d| !t|p t |fjf f MHIf 94ft 4*4 It K^t* ttl ii«nt IN it |»r* t 4H krtf 4u lift' til ti Uil Iff pl’lf |»«lk*# j n«.4HK *||v || Itv k. t**i* 4H‘»# ! v-|k* id is 4 |4»u*k WUt 4|KH» Ihf ilifli^M ! and saw two ptiiirs uf ItgHi, um h<*rl I Mental tin Other |>, pe title iilaf, but i i hanging their dire ttea wutl that | ui.,* together, and your earaplafad : v tatua behold* II th% hum. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON IX. AUGUST 2G—JOHN lO:1-16. Golden Text—The Good Shepherd Glvetli 111* Life for the Sheep—.John IO: 11 deeui the Uoo<l Shepherd and Ills Cluck. 1. “Verily, verily, I say unto you. He that entereth not by the door Into tho sheepfoltl, hut cllmbeth up some other way, the game Is a thief and a robber." These were those who claimed to be the Messiah, but without the authorization of God, without the works and character of the true Messiah, hut with some stilish purpose of aggrandisement at the expense of the cheep they ought to feed. They robbed Instead of feeding. The people could easily see the application. 2. "Ho that entereth In by the door," The door represents the right of way of entering upon the duties of a shepherd, ai d fulfilling the necessary conditions of a good shepherd. Jesus, ar the good shep herd, canto as the Messiah foretold by God In the prophets; his churacter was that of a divinely appointed shepherd; his purposes, Ills teat 111 rigs, his works, his miracles, hts methods of work, all were those which must belong to it good shep herd of God's | eople. The door keeps out the wrong ones, and admits those who have ,i right to enter. 3. "To him the porter openeth." The porter semis to be "part of the Incidental imagery of the parable.” The way is opened for thi- true shepherd. In the ease cf Jesus, the door was opened by the prophets who prepared the way, by the divine preparation of the world for his coming, by tho divine power working In him, by the Holy Hpirlt at h!s baptism, and all through Ills ministry. "And he callelh Ids own sim p (who are mingled with other (locks in the fold) by name. "And In- Icadeth them out,” To pasture, showing th'm w here are the Im st feeding places, and "tho waters of rest atul re freshment." 4. "I'uttetli forth." Tliin stronger ox presslon denotes tin? solicitudo of the shepherd to see that every one of his sheep is In I he (lock he leads. "He goetli before them." The Oriental shepherd never drives his flock as we do. but goes before them. “And the sheep follow him.' This Is one test that they are Ids sheep; they so trust their shepherd that they follow wherever he leads, know that In will lead them aright, although they themselves cannot see the green pastures or still waters, or know which Is the way to them. "They know his voice,” There arc characteristics to each one's voice by which he can be recognized. 5. “And a stranger will they not fol low." If a stranger call they stop short, lift up their heads In alarm, and If It is repeated they turn nml flee, liecnust they know not the voice of a stranger. This Is not the fanciful costume of a parable; It Is simple fad. I have made tills experi ment repeatedly.—VV. M. Thompson. For examples s-e Suggestive Illustrations ort John. "For they know not the voice." The true disciples recognize a different spirit and tone and purpose and so will not follow. H. "This parable." Not the word usu ally translated "parable" In the other Gospels, but rather a metaphor, an alle gory. "They understood not." They did not sec the point They did not realize how It applied to them. 7. “Then said Jesus.” Since they did not understand his Illustration, Jesus pro ceeds to Interpret and apply It. The scene Is the same as before. "1 am the door of the sheep." Through him the sheep enter the fold and the flock, to re ceive the shelter, the care, the food which are found there, and the holy character which (its them for heaven, a. "Uy me If any man enter In." To the fold, to the kingdom of God, the state of reconctlllation and salvation offered by the Messiah. "He shall be saved." Shall be safe from the robbers and wolves thut seek to destroy, safe from false teachers. “And shall go In and out.” Once belong ing to the flock and the fold, he can go in and out under the care of the shepherd and everywhere be safe, and hnve free dom of activity fur all his powers. "And find pasture." t'ompare the green fields and still waters of the 23d Psalm, and the bread of life In Lesson II. of this quarter. All the best fruits of earth and of heaven are for the sustenance of the disciple of Christ. There is something to satisfy every want and longing of the soul. 10. “I am come that they might hnve life . . . abundantly." Jesus does for his disciples what the shepherd cannot do tor his sheep. He gives life, eternal life, to them. He feeds and Inspires this life more and more. It Is not mere living, a sickly existence, hut abundant life, the freshness and overflowing vitality of youth, when mgre living Is a joy, when activity Is a delight, like the song of u I'UU UI III' *U it VIIIMJ. "All that overcame before- me." Not all teachers or prophets, but all who came professing to be the Messiah. "The thieves and robbers. The teachers op posed to Christ were robbing the people of salvation, of true life, of the Messiah, and ail the blessings he brings, of con tinued national existence. "Hut the sheep did not hear th# m ' The true people of God did not go after these fals« M* -Minim, nor oh v the false teachings of the Phari sees "The thief cornetii not, but for to steal, and to kill, are! t * destroy." Such were the Pbarisy , vho were robbing and destroying both ln»d> and soul 11. "1 i.m the good shepherd." This is a further application of ill* first illustra tion. Jesus fulfils to men th* id* a) shep herd. "The good shepherd glv* th t"!ay ♦ th down.'* ft eiv, of his own will) his Ilf** for the *h*-*-p." This is the test of any good shepherd, that he is faithful * a* n unto de;-.* h, 14. "And kie>tv rny sheep." Connect this v*-rs«- with v. la. putting between them, not a peril.d. 1»11f a comma only, as ir. the It. V V 15 tell** how much he knows his sheep. 15. 'A^ the Father know* th me," i *• , perfectly, completely, through and through. i4 "And uni known of mine." They are his friend* and are acquainted with him intimately. U*. "Hut he lhit is an hireling * Not • Very ope that re. elves pay Is a hireling, tut tine w h*» serves only f**r pay without hive for the work or utre f«#r the em l*'d er !•» "And other sheep I have w hleh are nut of this fold." The Gentile*. who were not In th kingdom *»f God but w..ul*l t»« brought III rt» to* sabef* of th# i liurt b he h.is main to found ' t'M v shall tour my wla ' Th* y will listen to the it,d to the Vtd» e **f (1«mI in th if «onls, and , lofsl his Invitations and I** « .rm th* | ih*ep of III* lb** k * \hii there shall I« iu fold, ‘ tatter one fb* k , "f*o **ftf U* I )u*ive rDl'KauM’ t tit i.'ifts ir#( » bur* h, ,nr ‘ k. til k- ’W*ng the * <»• »lu |( i b«rd* and k «>twn «f t.»m Alf d ItiiiUri ao*t I ?h» . *'fk* you iMtik l* * i> wilt l« vtin h Merest In tM* p^ttkil * nt« i ris* *“ * Iklrp’d!'* i* p#aVe » -■ a-4It* rki gh IIH * |t || Is more km inter* *! |« |l k* H<* liatt iitig*.ON i'ahf 4 ibJipk pm r* %■ ■ * • »%ht in* * go bUi4 »*f U I tl*at| belli ¥ fie * **u v»« *** *«* i . i* '0« « ik* mi I ik* tii ii Ml ' ikl IR*. I— A . I'iIt * !*•— *i» >. 1.1 V j . I'htU-H !!•*. 14 “MY OWN SELr AUAIN" Mr*. Gate* Write* to Mr*. Plnkham, Follow * tier Advice and 1* Made Well. " Pkar Mfts. Fiskham For nearly two and one-half years I have been in feeble health. After ray little child came it seemed 1 could not. ^ get my strength WjL again. I have chills and the T'Vsfi severest pains in ■wlji my limbs and top 'eEK of head and am yjr almost insensi* V hie at times. I also have a pain a just to the right of if breast bone, it is 1 so severe at times that 1 cannot lie on myrightside. Please write me what you think of my case."— l M iw.Ci.a ha Gates, I Johns P.O., Miss., a April "5, lb'JS. V “ Dear Mbs. I’inkiiav:— I have taken Lydia K. l'inkham's Vege table Compound ns advised and now send you ft letter for publication. For several years I was in such wretched health that life was almost a burden. I could hardly walk across the floor, was so feeble. Several of our best physicians attended me, but failed to help. I concluded to write to you for advice. In a few days I received such a kind, motherly letter. 1 followed your \ instructions and arn my ‘old self’ again. Was greatly benefited before I had used one bottle. May God bless you for what you are doing for suffer ing women."—Mbs. Ci.aha Gates, Johns P. (>., Mis*.., Oct. 0, l»'jy. 3 wmmwmm ri 'i- V.00UG1 SHOfc gl 11^. .jT.TT.-.v.rvr *»n I A«fc THe LARGEST MAKERS: I t of Men's t>:t anil: ■ 9 t ~ l.hOphoes in tin-: ■ g, it A'i I’M. Wn Sell | H • mnrii 83.00 ami u A 53.60 slnwjs than 1 my other two B^\ manufacturers in jH ? llinL'.H. jn?. s The reason meri'Y* 4 { \V I. I> mgl ,a S.'I.OoYwY . ’ainl i* J.60 rimes areV\ • " Hold than any other VI p make is because they aro^\ •the best in tho world. Vk A 91.00 Shoe for 93.00. \\ 95 Shoe for 93.50. 'ver 1,000,000 tl t[2J 1 iAMV - 1 The Real Worth of Our $3 and $3.50 Shoe* U ] compared with other makea la $4 to $5. // t Having thfl lnrui'af ari't »S.M«hne l>.ip| LJ I fir*i»i4 in thf '.T(>rl<l, and a pc*rf**»#f sy*f#Mu of M 4 in.'1'iiif-f l m hi/. ii* to |#tih1iir* W ftlljrtwr CTi't'* % t.fiiand |3.*i »hf**« than /f ^mit iw* had el'MMvlirr’’. 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