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OPEN AGAIN. f Dr. Taltnage Discourses In His Now Tabernacle. the Story or the Croaslng of the Jordan lason TanRht Uy the Destruction and Rebuilding or the Churclu TJpou the dedication of Lis new taber nacle at Brooklyn Dr.Talmago preached to a great union meeting- from the text: "What mean ye by these stones?" Joshua, iv. 0. The pastor said: The Jordan, like the Mississippi, has bluffs on the one side and flats on the other. Here and there a sycamore shadows it. Here and there a willow dips into it. It was only a little over waist deep in December when I waded through it, but in the months of April and May the snows on Mount Lebanon thaw and ilow down into the valley, and then the Jordan overflows its banks. Then it is wide, deep, raging and im petuous. At this season of the year I hear the tramp of 40,000 armed men coining down to cross the river. You bay, why do they not go up nearer the rise of the river at the old camel ford? Ah, my friends, it is because it is not safe to go around when the Lord tells us to o ahead. The Israelites had been going around for forty years, and they jiuu iwiuiigu 01 iu i no not know how it is with you, my brethren, but I have always got into trouble when I went around, but always got into safety when I went ahead. There spreads out the Jordan, a rag ing torrent, much of it snow water just come down from the mountain top; and I see some i the Israelites shivering at the idea of plunging in, and one old soldier says to his comrade, "Joseph, can you swim?" And another says: "If w get across this stream we will get there with wet clothes and with dam aged armor, and the Canaanites will hi ash us to pieces with their swords be fore we get up the other bank." But it is no time to halt The great host marches on. The priests carrying the ark go ahead, the people follow. I hear the tramp of the great multitude. The priests have now come within a stone's throw of the water. Yet still there is no abatement of the flood. Now they have come within four or five feet of the stream, but there is no abatement of the flood. Bad prospects! It Hems as if these Israelites that crossed the desert are now going to be drowned in sight of Canaan. But "for ward" is the cry. The command ring all along tho lino of the host "For ward!" Now the priests have come within one slop of the river. This time they lift their feet from the solid ground and put them down into the raging stream. No sooner are their feet there than the Jordnn flies. On the right hand (Jod piles up a great moun tain of floods; on tho left the waters flow off toward the sea. The great river, for hours, halts and rears. The back waters, not being able to flow over the passing Israelites, pile wave on wave until perhaps a sea bird would find some difficulty in sealing the water cliff. Now the priests and all the peo ple have gone over on dry land. The water on the left hand side by this time had reached the sea; and now that the miraculous passage has been made, stand back and see ttiis stupendous pilo of waters leap. (Jod takes the hand from that wall of floods and like a hun dred eatarrcts they plunge and roar in thunderous triumph to the sea. How are they to celebrate this pas sage? Shall it be with music? I sup jMjse the trumpet and cymbals were all worn out before this. Shall it be with banners waving? O, no; tlny are all faded and torn. Joshua cries out: "I will tell you how to celebrate this: Build a monument here to commem orate the event;" and every priest puts a heavy stone on his shoulder and marches out and drops that stone in the divinely appointed place. I see the pile growing in height in breadth, in sig nificance, and in after years men went by that sjHit and saw the monument and cried ono to another, in fulfillment of the prophecy of tho text: "What mean ye by these stones?" Blessed be Hod, he did not leave our church in the wilderness! We have Wen wandering about for a year and a half worshiping in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, and the Academy of Music, New York. And some thought we. would never reach the promised laud. Some s:iid we had letter take this route, and others that. Some said we had better go back, and some said there were sons of Annie in the way that would eat us up: and before the smoke had cleared away from the sky after our tabernacle had been con sumed, people, stood on the very site of the place and said: "This church will never again Ihj built " We came down to the bank of Jordan: we looked off upon the waters. Some of the sympa thy that was expressed turned out to besnow water melted from the top of Lebanon. Some said: "You had better not go in;- you will get your feet wet" But we waded in, pastor and people, further and further, and in some way, the Lord only knows how, we" got through; and to-night I go all around about this great house, erected by your prayers, and sympathies, and sacrifices, and cry out in the words of mv text: "What mean ye by these stones?" It is an outrage to build a house like this, so vast and so magnifi cent unless there be some tremendous reason for doing it; and so, my friends, 1 pursue yon to-night with the question of my text, and I demand of these trustees and of these elders and of all who have contributed in the building of this structure, "What mean ye by these stones?" But before I get your answer to my question you point to the memorial wall at the side of this pulpit and say to me, "Explain that unusual group of memorials. What mean you by those stones?" By permission of the people of ray Imloved charge I recently visited the lloly lands, and having in mind by day and night during my ab sence this rising house of prayer, I le thought myself. "What can I do to make that place significant and glorious?" On the morning of December 3 we were at the foot of the most sacred mountain of all the earth. Mount Cal varv. There is no more donbt of the locality than of Mount Washington or Mount Blane On the bluff tf this mountain which is the exact shape of the human skull, and so called in the Bible "the place of a skull," there is room for three crosses. There 1 saw a stone so suggestive that I rolled it down the hill and transported it It is at the top of this wall, a white stone with crimson veins running through it, the white typical of purity, the crimson suggestive of the blood that paid the price of our redemption. We place it at the top of the memorial walL for above all in this church for all time, in sermon and song and prayer shall be the sacrifice of Mount Calvary. Look at it That stone was one of the rocks rent at the crucifixion. That heard the cry, "It is finished." Was any church on earth honored with such a memorial? Beneath it are two tables of stone which I had brought from Mount Sinai where the law -was given. Three camels were tliree weeks crossing the desert to fetch them. When at Cairo, Egypt, I proposed to the Christian Arab that ho bring one stone from Mount Sinai, he said, "we can easier bring two ruj&s than one. for we must balance tUem on tfce back of tiie caweV ao I did not think until tho day of their ar rival how much more suggestive would be the two because the law was written on two tables of stones. Those two stones marked with tho words "Mount Sinai," felt the earthquake that shook the mountains when the law was given. The lower stone of the wall is from Mars bill, the place where Paul stood when he preached that famous jermon on the brotherhood of the human race, declaring, "God hath made of one blood all nations." Since Lord Elgin took the famous statuary from the Acropolis, the hill adjoining Mars hill, the Greek government makes it impossible to transport to other lands any Egyptian antiquities and armed soldiery guard not only the Acropolis, but Mars hill. That stone I obtained by special per mission from the queen of Greece, a most gracious and brilliant woman, who received us as though we had been old acquaintances. That suggestive tablet was sawed from the pulpit of rock on which Paul preached. Now you understand why we have marked it "The Gospel." Long after my lips shall utter in this church their last message, these lips of stone will tell of the law, and the sacrifice and the gospel. This day I present them to this church and to all who shall gaze upon them. Thus you have my answer to the question, "What mean you by these stones?" But you must not divert mc from the question of the text as I first put it I have interpreted these four memorials on my right hand, but there arc hun dreds of stones in these surrounding and underneath us in the foundations and rising above us in the towers. The quarries of this and transatlantic countries at the call of crowbar and chisel have contributed toward this structure "What mean ye by these stones?" You mean among other things that they shall be an earthly residence for Christ Christ did not have much of a home when He Was here Who and where is that child crying? Jt is Jesus, born in an outhouse "Where is that hard breathing? It is Jesus, asleep o;t a rock. Who is that in the back part of the fishing smack with a sailor's rough overcoat over him? It is Jesus, tho worn out voyager. O, Jesus, is it not time that Thou hadst a house? We give Thee this. Thou didst give it to us first but we give it back to Thee It is too good for us, but not good enough for Thee Is it not time that ne who was born in a stranger's house and buried in a stranger's grave should have an earthly house? Come in, O Jesus! not the corpse of a buried Christ, but a radiant and triumphant Jesus, conqueror of earth, and Heaven, and hell. Mo live, all K'ory to III nttno, He livi-D, my Jewu. till tho same, U. ilio nwvet Joy tliltt suntence glvci I know that my Hodoomcr liven. Blessed be His glorious name foreverl Again, if any one asks the question of the text: "What mean ye by these stones?" the reply is, wo mean the communion of saints. Do you know that there is not a single denomination of Christians in Brooklyn that has not contributed something toward the building of this house? And if ever, standing in this place, there shall be a man who shall try by anything he says to stir up bitterness between the different denominations of Christians, may his tongue falter and his cheek blanch, and his heart stop! My friends, if there is any church on earth where there is a mingling of all denominations it is our church. I just wish Hint John Calvin and Armin ius, if they were not too busy, would come out on the battlements and see us. Sometimes in our prayer meetings I have heard brethren use the phrases of a beautiful liturgy, and we know where they came from; and in the same prayer meetings I have heard brethren make audible ejaculation, "Amen!" "Praise ye the Lord!" and we did not have to guess twice where they came from. When a man knocks at our church door, if he comes from a sect where they will not give him a certifi cate, we say: "Come in by confession of faith." While Adonirnm Judson, the Baptist and John Wesley, the Method ist and John Knox, the glorious old Scotch Presbyterian, are shaking hands in Heaven, all churches on earth can afford to come into close communica tion: "One Lord, one faith, one bap tism." I saw a little child once, in its dying hour, put one arm around its father's neck, and the other arm around its mother's neck, and bring them close down to its dying lips and give a last kivs. O, I said, those two persons will stand very near to ench other always after such an interlocking. The dying Christ puts one arm around this denomi nation of Christians and the other arm around thatdenominationof Christians and He brings them down to His dying lips while He gives them His parting kiss: "My peace I leave with you. My peace I give unto you." How s ift tho heavenly course they run, Whoo hearts, and faith und hopes are ono. I heard a Baptist preacher once say that he thought in the millennium it would lie all one great Baptist church; and I heard a Methodist minister say that he thought in the great millennial day it would be all one great Method ist church; and I have known a Presby terian minister who thought that in the millennial day it would be all one great lresbyterian church. Now, I think they are all mistaken. I think the millennial church will be a composite church; and just as you may take the best parts of five or six tunes, and un der the skillful hands of a Handel, Mo zart or Beethoven, entwine them into one grand and overpowering symphony, so, I suppose, in the latter days of the world, God will take the best part of all denominations of Christians and weave them into one great ecclesiastic al harmony, broad as the earth and high as the heavens and that will be the church of the future. Still f urther,you mean by these stones the salvation of the people "We did not build this church for mere worldly re forms or for an educational institution, or as a platform on which to read essays and philosophical disquisitions but a place for the tremendous work of soul saving. O, I had rather be the means in this church of having one soul prepared for a joyful eternity than 5,000 souls prepared for mere worldly success. All churches are in two classes all communities in two classes all the race in two classes be lievers and unbelievers. To augment the number of the one and subtract from the number of the other we built this church; and toward that supreme and eternal idea we dedicate all our sermons all our songs all our prayers, all our Sabbath hand-shakings. We want to throw defection into the enemy's ranks. Wo want to make them either surrender unconditionally to Christ or else fly in rout, scattering the way with canteens blankets and knap sacks. We want to popularize Christ. "We would like to tcU the story of his love here until men would feel that they had rather die than live another hour without his sympathy and lore and mercy. O, that this day of dedication might be the day of emancipation of all im prisoned souls. My friends, do not make the blunder of the ship carpen ters in Noah's time who helped to build the ark, but did not get into it God forbid that you who have been so gen erous in building this church should not get under its saving influence. "Come thro tudiU tii? tmm Uto Us srVJ Do you think a man k safe oat of Christ? Not one day, not one hoar, not one minute, not one second. Tliree or four year ago, you remem ber, a train broke down a bridge on the way to Albany, -and after the catas trophe they were looking around the timbers of the crushed bridge and the fallen train and found the conductor, lie was dying and had only strength to aay one thing, and that was: "IXoist the flag for the next train." So there come to us to-night, from the eternal word, voices of God, voices of angels voices of departed spirits, crying: "Lift the warning; blow the trumpet; give the alarm; hoist the flag for the next train-" Oh, that to-night my Lord Jesus would sweep His arm around this great audi ence and take you all to His holy heart You will never see so good a time tar personal consecation as now. "Wh mean ye by these stones?" We meai yonr redemption from sin, and death and hell, by the power of an omnipo tent gospel. Well, tho Brooklyn tabernacle is erected again. We came here to-night not to dedicate it That was done this morning. To-night wo dedicate our selves. In the Episcopal and Methodist churches they have a railingaround the altar and the people come and kneel down at that railing and get the sacra mental blessing. Well, my friends it would take more than a night to gather you in circles around this altar. Then just bow where you are for the bless ing. Aged men, this Ls the last church that you will ever dedicate. May the God who comforted Jacob the patriarch, and Paul the aged, make this house to you the gate of Heaven; and when in your old days you put on your spectacles to read the hymn or the Scripture lesson may you get prepara tion for that land where you shall no more sec through a glass darkly. May the warm sunshine of Heaven thaw the snow off your foreheads! Men in the midlife, do you know that this is the place where you are going to get your fatigues rested, and your sorrows ap peased, and your souls saved? Do you know that at this altar your sons and daughters will take npon themselves the .vows of the Christian, and from this place will you carry out some of you, your precious dead? Between this baptismal font and this communion table, j'ou will have some of the tendercst of life's experiences. God bless you, old and young, and middle aged. The money 3ou have given to this church to-day will be, I hope, the best financial In vestment you have ever made. Your worldly investments may depend upon tho whims of the money market, or the honesty of business associates; but the money you have given to the house of tho Lord shall yield you large per centage, and declare eternal dividends long after the noon-day sun shall havo gone out like a spark from a smitten anvil and all the stars are dead. OLD-WORLD FOREST LAWS. stringent ItefuUtlon For the 1'rntectloa or Tree. In early times when houses were built of wood and all the ships were made of wood, and when wood formed the fuel for cooking and warmth, the cultivation of timber and the preven tion of its waste were the subjects of very severe laws. From the time of Ed "ward IV. there were enacted many statutes for the planting, securing, cut ting and ordering of woods copses and underwoods. By act of Queen Eliza beth timber of twenty-two years' growth was exempted for a longer period from the payment of tithe, "to render it complete and more effectual to their improvement" In the seventeenth century no farmer was permitted in the Duchy of Luxem bourg to fell a timber tree without his being able to show that he hnd planted another, and a custom existed at that time around Frankfort spoken of as inviolable, under which the young farmer, before he had leave to marry, was obliged to produce a certificate of his having set a number of walnut trees. Under the law of Edward IV., wood in parks form the subject of special legislation. Cattle and colts were not allowed" to graze the woods until four years after a fall; and to prevent tho destructive razing and converting of woods into pasture, no wood of two acres and nlovc two furlongs from tho mnnsion house, could be interfered with. In parts of Germany, where a single tree was observed to be extraor dinarily fertile "a constant and plenti ful mast Iwarer" thcro were laws to prohibit its being felled without spe cial leave; and in England owners of woods within chases were forbidden, to use the phraseology of the time, to cut down timber "without view of officers.' The iron industry, dependent then as it is now upon the neighborhood of fuel for its manufacture, flourished in the Weald of Sussex on account of the ex tent anil amount of oak timber. In order to protect the timber from tho exorbitance and increase of devouring iron mills there a statute made by Queen Elizabeth which prohibited tho converting of timber trees into fuel for the use of iron mills if the tree were of one foot square and growing within fourteen miles of the sea or the great rivers. The king of Spain took similar precaution in the royal woods near Bilbao. It is mentioned that he had sixteen times as many acres of coppice wood as were fit to be cut for fuel for the iron works in one year, and that when any particular portion of coppice wood was going to be felled an officer would first mark for ship timber cer tain trees to be spared. In Biscay, again, every proprietor, under a law which was severely enforced, planted three trees for every one which was cut down. Nineteenth Century. "SPITING" A NEIGHBOR. Aa Old-Tim Method or Getting SqaarV With aa Enemy. Workmen employed at a chair-making works were cutting up a large cherry tree at the circular-saw bench when something squirted in the sawyer's face and ran over the bench in all directions. The engine was stopped, and an exam ination showed that the saw had struck a cavity in the tree and liberated a con siderable quantity of quicksilver, after estimated as half a gilL The log was carefully examined, and it was found (that many years previously a hole had been boreu m a slanting downward di rection through the heart of the tree, the quicksilver poured in and the hole carefully plugged. The rings of the tree showed that it was ninety years old, and that after the hole had been plugged the growth had covered the head of the plug with several inches of solid wood. As it was known the tree came ont of an old cherry orchard at Allerton, Yorkshire, where yearly a cherry feast" used to be held, it wsr, thought the quicksilver had been put in the tree in connection with some old ceremony, but later it was found that up to thirty or forty years ago quick silver was thus employed to kill fruit or .other trees by those who had grudges" against their neighbors. It was usual to do this its the dead of night. A piece of bark was first care fully takes off, tie bole bored, quick silver poured is, the hole plugged, and last "the bit of bark was carefully re placed. The tree from the next rising of the sap began to wither. In the present case the attemnt was a fnllnn foe except rfhere the quicksilver had 11x1 tit cad penetrated som inrhs K. yoad the end of the boriaf ) tk taff wiimiftfM AGRICULTURAL HINTS. MEASURING LAND. ' H-TM Devices WhUh Kabl Every raras- er to H lib Ova mrjor. Atodd times In the last few mouths 1 hsve been amusing myself in accurate ly measuring different fields and plan tations on my place, previously esti mated by pacing. I can on nearly level ground pace quite accurately five paces to the rod. as for example a rhombus shaped piece which I paced and made to contain 140 rods measured whea tested with a rod pole 137 rods. I im agine that a good many berry growers as well as farmers have only a vague idea of just exactly how large any par ticular field Is and therefore in stating yields either wrong themselves or the publie Not many months ago I saw a statement by a widely-known newspa per writer that a field that he had been calling twelve acres proved on accurate I FIG. 1. JIKASUKIXC. LAND. measurement to have less than eleven and therefore his large yields had Wen still larger. To the unthinking reader this doubtless reflected additional glory to that writer. "Here is a man." they would say, "who has been getting nearly forty four bushels of wheat to the acre and he has contented himself with stating that he got thirty-eight; he surely does not overstate things." To the think ing, careful reader, however, this dif ference of more than an acre in the esti mate of a twelve-acre field will bring distrust und doubt A man who has for years been teaching carefulness and ac curacy, making them the cornerstones of successful fanning, has no business to make such an error. He should know to the very last square 3anl how much the area of n certain field is, and knowing, he will have no occasion or excuse for making erroneous state ments by estimates. It is not difficult to rapidly und uccurateby measure a field and know exuvtly how much it cunt-iips. The most rapid but not most accurate is illustrated in Fig. l;ab represents a half rod in distance on the ground, a' no. 2. woontx cumpaspi-s. b' represents a pole just long enough to measure this distance by touching either end to the ground. This polo is just as long as from a to e added to the distances from e to b. Tin KIr is first touched to the ground at a, then tilted over without moving the position of the hand until he touches the ground, thus measuring the half rod of course. The length of the measure will vary as the person Is tall or short Used In this way. a person does not have to stop at every measure Fig. 'i is simply a pair of wooden companies with legs eight or ten feet long, con nected with a stay rod so that the points are eight feet tliree inches apart measuring half a rod at a time The stay rod should be detachable nt one end and there may be other holes so as to set the points at six or seven feet for laying out raspberry rows. When not in use it may lc folded up and laet in the corner of the barn or fruit house It is put together with light car riage lnlts. Fig. ; represents the m o s t accurate and convenient FlO. 3. half-rod measure for nearly level land, there lieing no chance for error. It can lie used among growing crops as well as bare ground. It should be strong and light, and so tecurely framed and braced as to make the points unyielding. When not in use it may be hung on two pegs on the side of a building. Money and time is often saved in knefwiug just how large a field is, es pecially where the seeds are lmught to sow it or plants to plant it. Nothing is quite so annoying as to have a shortage of a trifle especially when a little fore thought and exact knowledge would have prevented it Popular Hardening. CHEAP SHEEP SHELTER. Protection from Wind Th.it In Sure tft Ilrnrllt Kxery Klck. Sheep ought not to le shut up tight They need plenty of pure air and will stand severe cold, but a gxnl roof and protection from wind will lnclit every flock. The beginner In farming may not have capital to put up barns, and in sheep husbandry they are not need ed. This cross section of a shed illus trates what can be built by any man at small cost for time and lumlier. It may be of any length to accommodate the size of the flock. The eaves are only 8 feet from the ground and the roof crown (i feet The caves must project and under them the siding is built out to form a rack for feeding. The stacks may be built near the sheds so that the work of feeding will not take much time Rough stakes three inches apart keep the hayfrom falling into the shed, and through them the sheep feed- At the bottom a small box runs the length of the rack. It is ten inches from the ground and made tight, so it will catch all the broken hay and clover leaves. Here also the grain may be fed. The most expensive part of many structures is their roof. This one has no stone underpinning and the roof has such a steep pitch that boards may take the place of shingles. Such a roof may be made warmer by nailing battens over the cracks, and more durable by soak ing it with crude petroleum. HoUister Sage, in N. E. Homestead. Saad m the Garde. Twenty-four years ago. says John J. Thomas, we had three or four inches of sand carted on part of a garden, the soil of which was too clayey for the successful or convenient raising of gar den vegetables. When this sand was well worked in the whole became an excellent sandy loam, just the soil for agreeable working. The labor or draw ing on the sand was considerable; but it was done in winter when there was little else for the man and team to 60, and the fine condition of the soil re mains as good as at first, and probably will for a century to come, as the sand does not evaporate, wash away or be ccae ccostiracd la tho growth of plaats ,! ,1 .... I - T a fj I -TtTTfTTgl A J7 Oa tW Mltir Dollar. There Is a popular Idea prevalent that the miBatc letter "M" lo be ecn at the Iam of the Wad of LIU-rtV on the face of the present iue of silver dollars stands for "Mint," and i an cvi- deoce of the genalnenes of the coin bearing it. This is a mistake. The ', "it" stands for Morgan, George- T. Morgaa. wbo is the originator of the ? design. Upon the same side thrre another "M." abo tho initial of the de signer. This U to be found in the wav ing locks of the fair pddrvs, and U so cleverly concealed in the lines of the design that It can only lie mvn after a long scrutiny. A prominent mint of flcial, ia iqieaking of this other initial, f said that he had it shown to him scores ' of times, but could never find it unas sisted. Philadelphia Uecord. IyVAL appUcstfotiH will never cure bIN, eartraiirlcs, ors pitnile. rtHiiniatiui. ching joint. t-i. 111! iintiritr 1 tLe caue of tlt4) ajltniit, and a reBie!r mjt betaken that will roMoru the Liulloa liradthy tndiUuu Such a rcicolv 1 Ir ' John Hull' H.ipoari!l4. Ue it atnl you will have -er lee health, iou wruug jvur self if you lad to try it. Asioxr. wbo has listened to tbc pn4nlny of the bltf Ilildlu in tbo orcLi-Mru kuow what "viola of wrath" tuciia.-LJtiiKtianuon Itepublican. 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Office President and General Manager, Cincinnati, Ohio "My foot ruiMenly turm-il ami pro mo a ery fcvrrcly aprnlriril ankle Ilio appllcitionof tt. Jacob Oil rculu-t at m? In aicllcf from pain" W.W. rr.Aoinr, Prct. A (Irn'I Man'cr BRUISES. 7JG Dolphin Ftrcet, Baltimore. Mil.. Jan'ylMW. "I was linilcd lawl- ly In hip am! aMo by a fall and r nffm-l ? u-rvly. St. Jacol-iOll complitcly mred nic.-WM.C Hakhc, Member of FtHtc Legislatum TM CHARLES A. V06CLER C0..tWtr. Ms. $&S Both the method and results hen Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the ta&tc, and nets Esntly yet promptly on tho Kidneys, iver aud JJowcl.-s cleanse the pt& tem effectually, dispels coldf, head aches and fevers mid cured habitual constipation. Svmp of Fig la tho only remedy of itn kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable, to the stomach, prompt in ita action and truly beneficial in its effect, prepared only from the mot healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it tho most popular remedy ksoTm. Syrup of Figs b for tale in 50c and'tl bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggirt -who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any obstitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. mam ruacuco. cl lomrnts. kt. Mem romt. b.j. OUR SPRING AMD SUMMER CATALOGUE Win t Tt la yo f re at c&arre U j 51 ai a jocr basic aad vJ4rr- aaau lf jr. Maw Dry Goii. Spiajr Ts. MSiaery, Etc riini irirtxi BUY A BABY Carriage r e- W trafr'x- u! f.i dtrvrt la UtaXOt U Tmm- KUYEKEI FIEKOT FUEL Write rw CaJf of tiH c MMwOsKSaiO Elc7e.To 3S GSkirrs lu. 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Hcixms writ known rraUlrnl of St. Loai, r - I hate fiel vnrral twt Ue of VnckJy Ash UIUt fr Mlwwic and malarial troubles o proraJoot to dimatr. atwl heartily rvniiiswml ItWitU afilicU-U In lUo manner. It Is tLc Lot reaioJy 1 ever uol" It U n Tfry Ujd tjjr that ikt't Vnow hl line wtws tw lrut MXiva arrive. tu HoW (IV) fawner K11 E"cnt ijvnl on mmjs firUtlter Wt on rU"il rttt4'. h tW4 rtvHtmjT TWw not 5 cMttt iliffrTvo twtvi tb cvt of a Ur ' t" -rc"t w ihI" ami t txl, hlcli i a-s .01 kuoM-. lWblt.' I3vtrc -. ' Wtr. 3ki tt raHo riHMu'U lo a frwsf to l l-okt'MmuHn a txb tkut a ta-o ?!$n vt a;trin. - HuCalo niprr-- IV-'t let rHT rlIWr Wa: afc as.1 (ukiv mk t kj lM"ri ,'-" i it ffHMlaiatMs; rCr"i lm wkW Uj mxwinH alijr liH tiMttt iku Uantjr cumiii, lr. Hull a Wurtu LS9troicr. Ooijt in too rtrtJ l Wvkl, anJ wWn It ia uuuSc into rhinVy it I oUtHiLtu. - Uuf Itatuton 1Ui14mum i! r fru-iMl. lk kcr! yu koor U-xv weak nail nrvo jrr irlf !, ami ytm Wion Ut 4JUrtT Inn lilKil ! Ur Now i U uot be Mr nljut It and Uijr t.r a box I , 1 AicTiiri5K bavo ifcnlr rotar n-Wia- r; but they al dej-rnil prwU.T ao tbo ' buylaoJcr ut u ok. N- O 11cu)Uih. Srrrmrn rituw (H-!i, S-m: Tiiiwht, tt" , liiuM try "ISnttrn IrA4 Vw-,' a Miupli" but "iro ruttuM. SJ y u UiJt. 1'rtcw tii ck. Tur. rat Is a n.oul animal, twit 1m baa a vi I ro liko a lint alarm H4iigbMili K oubUeasi. Kirixiof Cirltinr ar Uipil br Hili" lliitn of llrvb4uil uU Tur llke'a Toothache lro) CurvlaoiH uiiUUU" A I'Errcrn r. a ala 1kuM bo all o a lawycr'a uro rruUil to bo a; hts - iicU.ii luricr 1 BEECHAM'S W PAINLESS. PILLS EfFECTUAlI PILLS WORTH A GUINEA A For BILIOUS & NERVOUS DISORDERS lllH Sick Headache. Weak Stomach, Impaired Digestion, Constipation, Disordered Liver, otc ACTINQ LIKE MAQICoh tho vital organs, strengthening tho muscular system, and arousing with tho rosebud of health ti... vm ,i- llr.inl TtitT.'r of the Human Frzmc Beecham's Pills, taken as FEMALES to completo health. SOLD BY ALL DRUCCtSTS. 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If "it dor, youl! want to a?k for nothing more, It's the clafxt medicine yoa can u, , because you only oy for th yotx you get! It improve digctioa, enriches the blool, invigorate tlie -ystem, aad prodmoe rttrsaS ing Bleep. PMBistU.S. BUITII6 FLACS -ARK . Ml SIMMMS A CI , afKTni yivt j - saaraai ia OTMIVK, rf 1 MIL TAUT dOOOB. ac-aiaatiua riiUMiirai directed, mill quickly MiSTME 8u Hrl? c, Lwllr. r.r;iai. I .. THE KANSAS CITY MEDICALS SURGICAL SANITARIUM Far th Traatit ! all CHrtmic mm4 Syr4cal Dfa4iaa. . . ..j.i .j.Mi.lfcMi .t4 Ufc .lii.W Mfc. fl. m mA E..u ' .h.Mia II MM' 4 ' !" aJI4 -. fc.r4 M - U. (MM .KvC.j nitratrt nc tut Mravnil BVITEM. c3 , j,.wW.. n UH WrWtt;l. . It. f-f . VMt, i" . " " rr-v -- - - - ob n aa r.ot. 9ratl(lfnf. Ilth Sl Brondway. KANSAS CITY, MO. I WILL MAIL A COPY OF dies Home Journal From Now to January, 1892 (Balance of this Year) To Any Address on Receipt of Only FIFTT CENTS, I will give One To tlic Kwm sending mc tivr bgrwl nymlr of wj1 Jntm to July it, at 50 rent each, for lir al2ucc of thu vrar Five Hundred To live non irndin mc the vrf utnl laxgot nmt-rr r of wlAcrilcn up to Julj ut, it 50 cents cah, Ujx llr. y balance of tht jrar One Hundred Dollars each Tc tbc fire jorJc sending mc p to Jalr t, thr ont fire latrjca numtr of Hilrbcr, at 50 ccaU each, for the tabnee of thn jcar. Fifty Dollars WUCt The Soap that Cleans Most is Lenox. If niuiiiin "THE BOMANXA or the ruTum." SWtf -Rilsitt District OK TIHC tNIriCl wTATKH. M1HJ Wk --'" 1 ial 4 .- JIOarULJl 4k -jaT.JUI RjlUSOAtL ato vrt.air . wa fc'iif C r I Of.fU 0w aj-AJtWSJL VA. raai raai nJH - LIVE STOCK CUTS. W (Q j- "un STOCI CITS l ! tt ! I aa J !ia'a A ivia. V vr Wk Mo4t y r I a ta m aa ! mmj aaara Cfi . f m m fca.w wmmwimr k,tk V. . 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Ecrr Cbb-raiicr Wall har a lilral Cah t CcmmivMAi. or uxhytcmxac&aidciijetitUiietT &L txiUcnba fceeuxed, but the fj Utgn. agcau VU be rcwardad ith tie 5oo dmdd aawcg tfeem ! at tcicaed abvrt. jZ ia. ffi$ctJ& Tkz Laixts' Hcmx Jocajx fe. ccmssiXSA the tot work of the y at cajoaez: mz wntexj zzd y actMn. aad pectenu the ate; od &L aad elcjpot famodieal oa bward f. for bdxs aad tie hmtly, Its cir- U raWica k iu is traces of asf j frriodjcal maficne tic vcr!d fjr cm 7jo,cc cepka eaca awe aad m awaag eaaext pecOae to jaSfra 6crmsc4 efcft so pub m arcadadba ta tie a aeac pomi- Nesoaua I4e) lferr Jaljr we mr .-maiii. w t IV ? h