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Talrnage's Sermon.
Washington , D. C. , Nov. 29 , 189G.
Considering the time and place of Its
delivery , this sermon of Dr. Talmago
is of absorbing and startling inter
est. It is not only national , but interna
tional in its significance. His subject
• was "TJio Dying Century , " and the
text , 2. Kings 20:1 : "Thus snith the
Lord , Set thine house in order ; for
thou si ' die , and not live. . "
No alarm bell do I ring In the ut
terance of this text , for in the healthy
glow of your countenances I find
cause only for cheerful prophecy ; but
I shall apply the text as spoken in
the ear of Hezekiah , down with a bad
carbuncle , to the nincteeth century ,
now closing. It will take only four
more long breaths , each year a breath ,
and the century will expire. My theme
is The Dying Century.
Eternity is too big a subject for us
to understand. Some one has said it
is a great clock , that" says "Tick" in
one century , and "Tack" in another.
But wo can better understand Old
Time , who has many children , and they
< tre the centuries , and many grand
children , and they are the years. With
the dying-Nineteenth Century we shall
this morning have a plain talk , telling
him some of the good things he has
done , and then telling him some of the
things he ought to adjust before he
quits this sphere and passes out to
join the eternities. We generally wait
until people are dead before we say
much in praise of them. Funeral eu-
logium is generally very pathetic and
eloquent with things that ought to
liave been said years before. We put
• on cold tombstones what we ought to
have put in the warm ears of the liv
ing. We curse Charles Sumner while
he is living , and cudgel him into spinal
meningitis , and wait until , in the
rooms where I have been living the
last year , he puts his hand on his heart
and cries "Oh ! " and is gone , and then
Ave make long procession in his honor ,
Doctor Sunderland , chaplain of the
American senate , accompanying ;
stopping long enough to allow the dead
senator to lie in state in Independence
Hall , Philadelphia , and halting at Bos
ton State Hcuse , where not long be
fore , damnatory resolutions had been ,
passed in regard to him , and then
move on , amid the tolling bells and
the boom of minute-guns , until we
bury him at J.Iount Auburn and cover
him with flowers five feet deep. What
a. pity he could not have been awake
nt his own funeral , to hear the grati
tude of the nation ! Vx'hat a pity that
one green leaf could not have been
taken from each one of the mortuary
gariands and put upon his table while
he was yet alive at the Arlington !
What a pity that out of the great choirs
who chanted at his obsequies one little
girl , drensed in white , might not have
* sung to his living ear a complimentary
solo ! The post-mortem expression con
tradicted the ante-mortem. The nation
could not have spoken the truth both
times about Charles Sumner. Was it
Lefore or after his decease it lied ? No
such injustice shall be inflicted upon
this venerable Nineteenth Century. Be
fore lie goes we recite in his hearing
some of the good things he has ac
complished. What an addition to the
world's intelligence he has made ! Look
at the old school-house , with the snow
sifting through the rcof and the filthy
-iin cup hanging over the water-pail
3n the earner , and the little .victims
on the long benches without backs , and '
the illiterate schoolmaster with his j
hickory gad , and then look at our (
modern palaces of free schcols , under
men and women cultured and refined
to the highest excellence , so that , ,
whereas in our childhood we had to he i
whippeu to go to school , children now
cry weu they cannot go. Thank you , '
venerable Century , while at the same
time ve .thank God. What an addi
tion to the world's inventions ! Within
our centnr > the cotton gin. The agri
cultural machines , for planting , reap
ing and threshing. The telcg. aph. The
phonograph , capable of preserving a
human voice from generation to gen
eration. The typewriter , that rescues
the world from wcrsc and woreo pen
manship. And stenography , capturing
frcm the lips of the swiftest sneaker
more than two hundred words a min
ute. Never was I so amar.Fcl at .the
facilities of our time as when , a few
days ago , 1 telegraphed from Washing
ton to New York a long and elaborate
manuscript , and a few minutes after ,
to show its accuracy , it was read to
me through the long-distance tele
phone , and it was esact down to the
last semicolon and comma. What hath
God wrought ! Oh , I am so glad I was
cot born sooner. For the tailor. can
dle the electric light. For the writh
ing of th surgeon's table God-given
anaesthetJcj and the whele physical
organism explored by sharpest instru
ment , and giving not so much pain as
the taking ci a splinter Iron : under
a child's finger-nail. For the lumber
ing stage-coach the limited express
train. And there is the spectro3cope
of Fraunhofer , by which our modern
scientist feels the pulse of other worlds
throbbing with light. Jenncr's arrest
by inoculation of one of the world's
worst plagues. Doctor Keeley's cman-
riroMon for inebriety. Intimation that
the virus of maddened canine , and can
cer , and consumption are yet to be
balked by magnificent medical treat
ment The eyesight of the doctor
sharpened until he can look through
thick flesh and find the hiding place
of the bullet. What advancement in
seology , or the catechism of the moun
tains ; chemistry , or the catechism of
the elements ; astronomy , or the cate-
• ehisni of the stars ; electrology , or the
catechism of the lightnings. What ad
vancement in music. At the beginning
• of this century , confining itself , so far
as the great masses of the .people were
concerned , to a few airs drawn out on '
accordion or massacred on church bass
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viol ; now enchantingly dropping from
thousands of fingers in Handel's Con
certo In B flat , or Gullmant's Sonata In
D minor. Thanks to you , 0 Century !
before you die , for the asylums of mer
cy that you have founded the blfnd
seeing with their fingers , the deaf hear
ing by the motion of your lips , the born
imbecile by skillful object-lesson lifted
to tolerate intelligence. Thanks to
this century for the Improved condition
of most nations. The reason that Na
poleon made such a successful Bweep
across Europe at the beginning of the
century was that most of the thrones
of Europe -were occupied either by im
beciles or profligates. But the most
of the thrones of Europe are to-day
occupied by kings and qupens compe
tent France a republic , Switzerland
a republic , and about fifty free consti
tutions , I am told , in Europe. Twenty
million serfs of Russia manumitted. On
this western continent I can call the
roll of many republics. Mexico , Gua
temala , San Salvador.Costa Rica , Para
guay , Uruguay , Honduras , New Gran
ada , Venezuela , Peru , Ecuador , Bolivia ,
Chili , Argentine Republic , Brazil. The
once straggling village of Washington
to which the United States government
moved , its entire baggage and equip
ment packed up in seven boxes "which
got lost in the woods near this place ,
now the architectural glory of the
continent , and admiration of the world.
The money power , so much denounc
ed and often justly criticised , has cov
ered this continent with universities ,
and free libraries , and asylums of mer
cy. The newspaper press which , at the
beginning of the century was an ink-
roller , by hand moved over one sheet
of paper at a time , has become the
miraculous manufacturer of four or
five , or six hundred thousand sheets
for one daily newspaper's issue. With
in your memory , 0 Dying Century ! has
been the genesis of nearly all the great
institutions evangelistic. At London
Tavern , March 7 , 1802 , British and
Foreign Bible Society was born. In
1S1G American Bible Society was born.
In 1S24 American Sunday School Union
was born. In 1810 American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions ,
which has put its saving hand on every
nation of the round earth , was born
at a haystack in Massachusetts. The
National Temperance Society. The
Woman's Temperance Society , and all
the other temperance movements born
in this century. Africa , hidden to
other centuries , by exploration in this
century has been put at the feet of
civilization , to be "occupied by com
merce and Christianity. The Chinese
wall , once an impassible barrier , nox
is a useless pile of stone and brick.
Our American nation at the opening of
this century only a slice of land along
the Atlantic coast , now the whole con
tinent in possession of our schools and
churches and missionary stations. Ser
mons and religious intelligence which
in other times , if noticed at all by the
newspaper press , were allowed only a
paragraph of three or four lines , now
find the columns of the secular press
in all the cities , thrown wide open , and
every week for twenty-six years with
out the omission of a single week , I
have been permitted to preach one en
tire Gospel sermon through the news
paper press. I thank God for this great
opportunity. Glorious Old Century !
You shall not be entombed until we
have , face to face , extolled you. You
were rocked in a rough cradle , and
the inheritance you received was for
the most part poverty , and struggle ,
and hardship , and poorly covered
graves of heroes and heroines of whom
the world had not been worthy , and
atheism , and military despotism , and
the wreck of the French revolution.
Ycu inherited the influences that re
sulted in Aaron Burr's treason , and
another war with England , and Battle
of Lake Erie , and Indian savagery , and
Lunuy's Lane , and Dartmoor massa
cre , and dissension , bitter and vr. 'ii
beyond measurement , and African
slavery , which was yet to cost a na
tional hemorrhage of four awful ypj-73
and a million precious lives. Yes , dear
Old Century , ycu had an awful start ,
and you have done mere than well ,
considering your parentage and your
early environment. It is a wonder you
did not turn out to be the vagabond
century of all time. You had a bad
mother and a bad grandmother. Some
of the preceding centuries were not
fit to live in their morals were so
bad , their fashions were so outrageous ,
their ignorance was so dense , their in
humanity so terrific. O Dying Nine
teenth Century ! before you go we take
this opportunity of telling you that
you are the best and nightie t of all
the cntur ' cs of the Christian Era , ex
cept ihe first , which gave us the Christ ,
and ycu rival that century in the fact
that you , mere than all the other cen
turies put together are giving the
Christ to all the world. One hizzdrsd
and twelve thousand dollars at one
meeting a few days ago contributed for
the world's evangelisation. Lcok at
what you have dene , 0 thou abured and
depreciated Century ! All the Pacific
isles , barred and bolted against the
Gcspel when you began to reign , now
all open , and some of them more
Christianized than America. No more
as once written over the church doors
in Cape Coiony , "Dogs and Hottentots
not admitted. " The late Mr. Darwin
contributing twenty-five dollars to the
Southern Missionary Society. Canni
balism driven of ? the face of the earth.
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Tell us , 0 Nineteenth Century ! be
fore you go , in a score of sentences ,
some of the things you have heard and
seen. The veteran turns upon us and
says : "I saw Thomas Jefferson riding
in unattended from Monticello , only
a few steps from where you stand ,
dismount from his horse and hitch the
bridle to a post , and on yonder hill
take the oath of the presidential office.
I saw yonder capital ablaze with war's
incendiarism. I saw the puff of the
first steam engine in America. I
heard the thunders of Waterloo , of Se-
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bastopol , and Sedan , and Gettysburg.
I was present at all the coronations of
the kings and queens , and emperors
and empresses now in the world's pal
aces. I have seen two billows roll
across this continent and from ocean
to ocean ; a billow of revival joy in
1857 , and a billow of blood In 18G4. I
havfio seen four generations of the hu
man ra.3 march across this world and
disappear , f saw their cradles rocked
and their graves dug. I have heard the
wedding bells arid the death bells of
near a hundred years. I have clapped
my hands for millions of joys and
wrung them in millions of agonie3. I
saw Macready and Edwin Forrest act ,
and Edward Payson pray. I heard the
first chime of Longfellow's rhythms ,
and before anyone else saw them I
read the first line of Bancroft's His
tory , and the first verso of Bryant's
'Thanatopsis , ' and the first word of
Victor Hugo's almost supernatural ro
mance. I heard the music of all the
grand marches and the lament of all
the requiems that for nigh ten decades
made the cathedral windows shake. I
have seen more moral and spiritual
victories than all of my predecessors
put together. For all you who hear or
lead this valedictory I have kindled all
the domestic firesides by which you
ever sat , and roused all the halloos
and roundelays and merriments you
have ever heard , and unrolled all the
pictured sunsets and starry banners of
the midnight heavens that you have
ever gazed at. But ere I go , take this
admonition and benediction of a Dying
Century. The longest life , like mine ,
must close : Opportunities gone never
come back , as I could prove from nigh
a hundred years of observation : The
eternity that will soon take me will
soon take you : The wicked live not out
half their days , as I have seen in ten
thousand instances : The only influ
ence for making the world happy is
an influence that I , the Nineteenth
Century , inherited from the first cen
tury of the Christian era the Christ
of all the centuries. Be not deceived
by the fact that I have lived "so long ,
for a century is a ? arge wheel that
turns a hundred smaller wheels , which
are the years and each one of those
years turns three hundred and sixty-
five smaller wheels , which are the
days ; and each ono of the three hun
dred and sixty-five days turns twenty-
four smaller wheels , which are the
hours ; and eaclt one of those
twenty-four hours turns sixty smaller
wheels , which are the minutes ; and
those sixty minutes turn still smaller
wheels , which are the seconds. And
all of this vast machinery is in per
petual motion , and pushes us on and
on toward the great eternity whose
doors will , at 12 o'clock of the winter
night between the year nineteen hun
dred , and the year nineteen hundred
and one , open before me , the Dying
Century. I quote from the three in
scriptions over the three doors of the
Cathedral of Milan. Over one door ,
amid a wreath of sculptured roses , I
read : 'All that which pleases us is but
for a moment. ' Over another door ,
around a sculptured cross , I read : 'All
that which troubles us is but for a
moment. ' But over the central door I
read : 'That only is important which
is eternal. ' O eternity ! eternity !
eternity ! " -
3Iy hearers , as the Nineteenth Cen
tury was born while the face of this
n alien was yet wet with tsars because
of the fatal horseback ride that Washington - ,
ington took , out here at Mt. Vernon ,
through a December snowstorm , I wish
the next century might be born at a
time when the face of this nation shall
be wet with the tears of the literal or
spiritual arrival of the great deliverer
of nations , of whom St. John wrote
with apocalyptic pen : "And I saw ,
and behold a white horse ; and he that
sat on him had a bow ; and a crown
was given unto him ; and he went
' forth conquering , and to conquer. "
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A. Turkey's 'i'osmm.
A resident of Friendship , Ga. , owns
a turkey hen that not only keeps his
family well supplied with young
turkeys , but sometimes surprises the
family by the presentation of a mixed
brood. On the last occasion , after
setting on twelve eg'gs for her usual
term of incubation , she was found the
other morning1 hovering' ovei : ten
young turkeys and one younrr oppos-
sum , it havinjr required two turkey
eggs to produce one 'possum. The
young 'possum in question was about
the size of a half-grown rat , and was
nestling under the turkey ai content-
o ily as any one of the legitimate
brood.
Count Wn3.
One of the cur ' ous superstitions
which ha * come down from the mid
dle ages is that wine grown in "comet
-years , " or years wh2h wera
signalized by thoapp2ara. of comets
of nnusual size , possessed a more ex
quisite bouquet than wines of other
.years. There is no good reason that
the idea has a more substantial basis
than popular 5up2rUition , bat it is
certain that the belief is suSirjiently
potent to influence the market. The
wines of 1811 , 1SJ , 1339 , IS in , ] S : < 3 ,
13G1 and 1832 , which ' .vera all comet
3-ears , arc said " ay a competent au
thority to command a higher price
than the vintage of other j-ears.
Speaking V/ith the rilouth Shut.
'When the Portuguese first explored
Brazil , they made great fun of the na
tives of that country , because they
had in their alphabet no f , r , or 1 ; a
people , the invaders declared , withoul
fe , ley , or rev without faith , law ort
king. The Mohawks , again , have nc
labials , and vowed it was absurd when
the missionai'ies tried to teach them tc
pronounce p and b ; "for who , " said .
they , "can speak with his mouth"
shut ? "
John Gordon has written a life of '
Christ for the young , entitled "Three .
Children of Galilee. " |
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HINDOO DOCTORS.
And Their Peculiar Method of Treating
the Kick.
The doctor in India , or the "bald , "
as he Is called , is not like the physician
of any other country , says an exchange.
He is a peculiar genius who acto in a
peculiar way. If a well-to-do Hindoo
merchant becomes ill with fever he
usually fasts three or four days , scarce
ly even touching water otanding by his
bed. Hia relatives become alarmed ,
but the merchant refuses to have the
baid called , in the hope that two or
three more days of fasting will euro
him. A gray-haired neighbor counsels
the sick man not to take any drugs at
this stage. Let the fever run as high
as it can is the advice given , and fur
ther fasting should be indulged in. The
fasting does not seem to do the pa
tient any good , so the doctor is'finally
called. The bald has a reputation as a
first-class physician. The family be
lieves that if any man can snatch a
Gick man from the grasp of death it is
the bald. This man of medicine is con
vinced that all European doctors are
but a farce. He will admit their su
periority in surgery ; but then , in his
belief , surgery is not the function of
a learned doctor. The brothers of a
sick man , after a great deal of entreaty ,
manage tc get the bald to accompany
them. Arriving at the patient's house
he enters the sick man's room and
sits beside him with a great deal of
dignity and composure. The servant
offers him the "hookah" ( a smoking
apparatus similar to that used by the
Turks. ) About ten minutes spent in
smoking , he feels the patient's pulse
and finds he has a very high fever. The
bald then takes a piece of paper , writes
on it a few mysterious words , orders a
simple diet of . lentil Goup , gives the
sick man two small black pills to
swallow , takes another pull of about
five minutes at the hookah , leaves the
mysterious prescription behind him
and departs without giving any further
instruction. The patient may get bet
ter or possibly he may die , most likely
the latter. The Indian doctor finds his
profession a sorry one. The highest
fee for the complete cure of a rich man
is about $10. Some of the balds , how
ever , have been known to effect won
derful cures , where the best Euroroan
doctors have completely failed. A case
is recorded of a European afflicted with
asthma , who derived but little benefit
from the treatment of his own coun
trymen. When his case had been pro
nounced hopeless by the best English
physicians a Hindoo doctor gave him
a few black pills , which brought about
a complete cure in a very Ghort time.
The European offered a fabulous price
for the secret remedy , but the old bald
refused all offers. The bald will never
reveal the secret of his remedies , for it
would cost him his caste , and caste
in India is all in all.
GATEWAYS FOR STREETS.
Noble and Stately Structures That Add to
the Ucauty of St. Louli.
A new idea is being exploited in St.
Louis. It is nothing less than the
marking of a street at one or both of
its extremities by a formal gateway of
stone or brick , suggesting to some ex
tent the gate lodge of a great estate.
It is known in Paris , where the stately
Ruc Monceau is entered through an
iron gateway of some pretensions to
monumental character. London can
claim to have used the motive also in
Kensington Palace Gardens , and any
traveler who has driven through these
French or English portals will recall .
the sense of dignity and privacy which
they conveyed , the distinction which
they imparted to the entire neighbor
hood. Here in America , says the New
York Tribune , that distinction has
seemed beyond us , chiefly because of
lack of space. It requires a wide thor
oughfare to begin with. . To shut up
the ends of a narrow street would be
absurd , spoiling the horizon and creat
ing a cramped look , where one of
breadth is to be desired. j '
For , given a wide street , nothing
more monumental than a big gateway
at the end can be imagined. It joins
the two sides ; it gives them unity ; it
ma > es a whole that has an archilectur- •
al importance and even grandeur which
nothing else will secure. I
What is especially interesting in the
St. Louis experiment is that it creates
at points where ordinarily we would
look for no art whatever little centers
of artistic attractiveness. That is a •
most refined and stalely screen of base ,
columns and copings which the archi
tects have erected at the west entrance ,
to Vandeventer place , asd the gate
ways built for the entrance to West
moreland place , equally effective ; 'n
equally good taste.
Ate Crackers in Bed.
The many and absurd reasons for
divorce that are offered in court have
frequently been the subject of amuse
ment to outsiders , but the most laugh
able that has ever been reported was in
troduced by a Maine man last week. Un
der the head of cruel and abusive treat
ment he testified that he was on the
verge of nervous prostration on ac
count of loss of sleep caused by his wife
"persisting in eating dry crackers in
bed. "
Couldn't * * cll Monkeys from Children.
A Turkish family landed at Ellis
Island the other day with three chil
dren and three performing monkeys ,
in jackets and trousers , and it was
some time before the officers in charge
of the port could separate the animals
from the children.
Equivalent Expression.
Puck Well , did you hear anything
about that Jones-Brown affair ?
She Oh , yes ! I can't begin to tell
you all I heard.
He 1 suppose that means you won't
be able to stop. '
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The December Atlantic Monthly.
The December number of the Atlan
tic Monthly opens with a very clear
study of the most important social
problem that * confronts us "Social
Classes in the IJepublic , " by Mr. E. I *
Godkui , of New York , who points ou.t
the necessary existence of the different
clashes , and the unnecessary distinc
tions that are based upon such differ
ences. He discusses the proposed reme
dies for inequalities. Prof. B. L Gil-
dersleevc , of the John Hopkins Univer
sity , writes an article , partly reminis
cent and partly prophetic , on "Classi
cal studies in the United S' .ates , " in
which he shows the difference in the
spirit and method between studies of
a half ointury ago and today , both
in Germany and American universities.
Hottest Plaee in the World.
The hottest place on the earth's sur
face is on the southwestern coast of
Persia , on the border of the Persian
gulf. For forty consecutive days in
July and August the mercury has been
known to stand above 100 degrees in
the shade , night and day , and to run
up as high as 130 in the middle of the
afternoon. At Bahrein , in the center
of the most torrid belt , as though it
was nature's intention to make the
place as unbearable as possible , water
from wells is something unknown ,
great shafts have been sunk to a depth
of from 100 to S00 feet , but always with
the same result no water.
An Appeal for Assistance.
The man whols charitable to himself wiP
listen to tlio mute appeal for a sKtancu
madu by his stoma'li.orhK Itvcr.iii tlio' hiijit.
of clivers dyspeptic iuilii)4 | and uneasy sen
sations in the regions of the gland * , that fee-
eroies his bile , liostetter's Stomach Bitter * ,
my dear sir , or madam-as thoease may bc-
ls ' vrlisitynii'ccmiru. Hasten to ttse if you
are troubled Willi heartburn , wind in the
stomach , or note that your skin or tl.
whites of your eyes aio taking a sallow hue.
Constantinople' * Great Fire.
In 1801 a large part of Constantinople
was destroyed by lire , 12.000 dwellings
besides warehouses and other struc
tures , going down before the flames.
The value of all property destroyed on
this occasion could not be estimated ,
but was not so great as would have
been by a lire of like proportions in
other cities , the greater part of the
dwellings and shops in that city being
ilimsj' wooden structures.
In the Christmas Century there will
be hitherto unpublished pictures by
Meissonier , Detaille , Geronie , Jinn-
kacsy , Menzel , Seymour Iladen , Do
mingo , Madrazo , the Leloirs , Ilieo ,
Dagnan-Bouveret , Iiosa Bonheur , and
other great artists. These were drawn
or painted in the album of Samuel I * .
Averry , and accompanying an article
by Win. A. Coffin , entitled ' "Souvenirs
of a Veteran Collector. " ,
To Strengthen Your I yes.
A simple and excellent plan to
strengthen and preserve j'our eyes is to
follow this rule : Every morning pour
some cold water into a bowl , at the
bottom of the bowl place a silver coiner
or some other bright object and then
put your face in the water with your
eyes , open and move your head gently
from side to side. This will make the
eyes brighter and stronger.
"Where Mie Should ll.tsc Ucen.
"Yes , " said Jor.es , after an argu
ment with his wife , ' "I've always said
a woman ' s sphere is her home. Now ,
if you had been at home today , instead
of gadding about tiie streets , you
would not have seen me coming from
the matinee , and you would therefore
have been very much happier at the
present moment" Harper ' s Bazar.
riano in Darkest Africa. .
An African tribe has an instrument
something like cur piano. It has a key
board and when the keys are pressed
down and released they cause thin
pieces of wood to vibrate and give forth
sounds. The xylophone exists in en
tirety in some parts of Africa , hollow
gourds placed under each strip of wood
accentuating the sounds.
IMucli in a ? > : ime.
What's in a name ? Everything' . Ycu
can 't begin to think how much better
Snawley feels , who used to be otily
"night watchman" at a swimming
school , since somebody called him
"night commander of the bath. " '
Gladness Comes
With a better understanding- the
transient nature of the many pivys-
ioal ills , which \ anisli before proper ei-
forts ffT ee-Torts pleasant efforts
rightly directed. There is comfort : n j
the knowledge , that so many forms of
sickness are not due to any actual dis
ease , but simply to a constipated condi
tion of the system , which the pleasant
family laxative , Syrup of Figs , prompt
ly removes. That is why it is the only
remedy with millions of families , and is
everywiiei'e esteemed so highly by all
who value good health. Its beneficial
effects arc due to the fact , that it is the
one remedy which promotes internal
cleanliness without debilitating the
organs on which it acts. It is therefore
all important , in order to get its bene
ficial " effects , to note when you pur
chase , that ycu have the genuine arti
cle , which is manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by
all reputable druggists.
If in the enjoyment of good health ,
and the system is regular , laxatives or
other remedies are then not needed. If
afflicted with any actual disease , one
may be commended to the most skillful
plrysicians. but if in need of a laxative ,
one should have the best , and with the
well-informed everywhere , Syrup of
Figs stands highest and is most larprely
used and gives moss general satisfaction.
Same Old Scheme. l HI
Holcn So ho has proposed at last ! tf fl
How did it happen ? H H
Maude I told him I was going to bo Wj M
married. v V' H
Helen Why , Maude ! . ' Vl
Maude Yes , and it aroused him in- „ H
stantly. He actually raved. And so r ij H
I took pity on him and wo are an- ' m M
Helen But vou told him a fib. tf H
Maude Xot ' at all. When I said I H
was going to be married 1 meant him. Iv H
Boston Transcript. Jfl H
Merchants Hotel , Onialia. li l
COKXRK KIFTKKX ni AND FAR.VAM ST3. f H
Street cars pass the door to and from ' 4 l
both depots ; in business center of city. / |
Headquarters for statu and local trade i M
Kates S2 and S. 'i per ( lav. ' H
PAXTON & DAVENPORT , Prop's. \ B
The Killing I'nuslon. H
The choir was schrccching out the < H
"We choose the better part , " and H
lengthened it out in this way. H
' • We choose the bct-bet-bet " when ' 1
suddenly a sleepy campuign enthusiast H
startled the congregation by crying- ' H
"Bryan or McKinley ? Put up or M
up. |
to ccicr : a c-oi.d in one day. * < H
Take Laxative ; Brome Qainino Tablet ! ) . All l H
Druggists refund the money if iifuIU to cure. i5o ! 1
Another l
" "He "I wonder what the meaning-of m r I
that picture is ? The youth and the f H
maiden are in a tender attitude. " H
She "Oh , don't you see ? He has H
just asked her to marry him. and she is M
accepting him. " xl l
lie Ah ! iiow appropriate the title. " l
v
She "Why , that card at the bottom 'j H
says 'Sold. ' " Tid Hits. H
Dr. Kay's Lung Balm is the safestsur- > |
est and pleasantest cure for all coughs. H
McClure's Magazine for December ' H
will contain an account of Hansen ' s H
hard adventures in getting 10. > miles H
nearer the 2s orth Pole than any other H
man. It will be written by Cyrus C. H
Adams of the New York Sun , one of H
the best geographical * authorities in | H
'
the country ; and it will be illustrated H
with portraits of Nansen and his associates - H
ciates , views of his ship within and M
without , and other pictures. |
Is Hood's Snrsaparilla. because it cures the H
severest cases of scrofula , taifc rheum , dyspep- H
Eia and rheumatism. If ycu arc a sufferer try H
Sarsaparllla M
Tlio Best in fact the Ono True Blood Purifier. j | |
HrkO 'c PJSSc euro Liver His ; easy to H
: ;
, tli ? ii S > J iaSia
take , easy to operate. 25c . H
Comfort to jH
California. H
Hvcry Thursday morninfr.a |
tourist sleepln ? ear for lia- M
ver.balt l.c.laCity , > an Fran- 1
ci co.i.Rd Los Angeles leaves H
Oniana aim Lincoln via the „ - , H l
liurlington Koute. / ' > / , * ? H
It is carpeted , upholstered i J 1 > v l
In raitan. hrs spring seats \v _ l l
and backs and is provided H
. " Willi curtains , redoing , tow- H
iijSpB 2l&Sjj els'-oap.etc. Ane\peroiiced H
WlHIill'SfUili excursion conuurtor and a. _ H
f /Mv ii&i uniformed ullmai : porter . H
& ! ! riffs p H aeimpany it through to the ' H
Effrj - i H
While neither as expen-
suely iii.isiicit nor as iii.e to H
look at a . a palace sleeper.it H
is ju.st asp < .c i u ride in. fcec- H
end class tickets are honored a H
and the price of a nerth.wido , * H
enoiiL'li and big enough for H
tv.o , koiiIvS- . M
For a folder giving full M
particulars write to J H
J. Fhaxcis , Ccn 'l I'ass'r Agent , Omalia.Ncb. H
wist MlddUUnli
The best fruit section iu the West. No H
drouths A failure of crops never known. |
idild climate. Productive soil. Abundance of H
rjond pure water. 1
For Maps and Circulars giving full descrip- H
tic-n of the liahMineral Fruit and Agticultu- ' H
ral Lands in South We < .t Missouri , writ's to H
.JOHN ill. 1-CIMiy. Mannccr of the Missouri M
Land and Luc Mock Company , Neosho , New- J H
tea Co. , Missouri. j H
ZC O ? . tO 3. kb. C7oM. literal-Cnrrrnr ? buys tlio HOn
( f . _ I J l "l * < ralr lnvl t linr.l price * . 1
On ATnnnnrn L'"n1 ' " • . * > = " 5 = -i • . . a u * M
-V' . , OiaiSUHlU arrusl.Kaji.ftli Sinufr.ttnrtra. iHHHI
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Hc.re.l3 of f5PKial .i-s t } iz % than wholeiale prices , viz- HUHfl
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l.ar , ilotk. KlfTAtar. lUllrwi * . f .Vtrorai and Coanlrr &IAU& H
_ _ k'rittortrrrtAtiinsnrsf .tfhnw lo Sate JIuu-t. M
IS1 E. J-g 33 EJ , CHICAC' : 3CAL5 CO. , C5SliEoIU. 1
liOBT PURVIS na'n ; en , n c produce < l
VvT , . U "Xl ° bl"ln - " 2G yrjiM , am well ac- ' H
Commission - letfltialctPUTltli the wantsorthc H
. ai 2. ? iia - ' " "Vr o nti'-ntlycanobtaln M
Buttrr Krijs , 1'pulIn mafcl , < „ - returns , and rcspon- , M
tr7 , - , ? , > > cdI8K' | , - Inferences : Any bank . / HHHHH
Hides htc in taistate. . _ f H H
OlMHOTEnEMInWOBJB V
Sote Urpilra fcr sot Und of n'oie arie. . M
1237DOBGIJ.S ST. , Om < iS2A , KEB. / I H
PEWS0 ? 3PATHrJT8CLAivis7 ! ' H
nxhS. OYSTERS ' '
. cylikSi ? " " " 1
DfB KaVJS LliHO' Sasm ? or cpuhs. coids , ' 1
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l b i\uj o L.uilg UwliM and throat disease M
RPn-WFTTIJR CUREDOR m PAY. Mrs. B. t H
W. N. U „ O rAHA 49 1890 H
When writing to advertisers , kindly H
mention this paper. j |
bjg Bart Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Vzzv M
_ g j fa time. Soidbydrercpjts. SSg M
' hL $ § 1 L I 1P % I | I I $ / i T M
% Don't idle | Mgj/
landask , > | | f | gift f | | | | iffl f W t t H
g and you'll find out hov/ quickly and surely it SOOTHES and CURES. S" H