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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-12-30, Page 3,V11, ,4 'r„igiro;e1V,.? THE INFANT'S ESCAPE. Rev. Dr. Talmage Enumerates the Dangers That Beset the Holy Babe. Christ's Cradle Had No Rockers—The Character of Herod—But One irreproachable! Man—What Christianity Has Pone for the World, Washlueton, Deo, 25, -ale A meet we, centuries it eteppetl across the sea aud pronouneed its benetlictiop on our shores. 'Why, we paver get over our childhood Christmases. Father and mother joined In them, They forgot their theumatisras and sbortnese of breath, and for awhile threw off the sorrows of a lifetime, while they struggled with us as to wbo should usual wey aMae connected with the naMvity le emphasizeti by Dr. Talmage In this Clarietmas discourse: text. Matthew ii, 13. "Berea will smelt the young della to destroy lane" Tile cradle st the infaut Jesus bad Jae rockers, tor it was riot, to be soothed by oscillating motion, as are the cradles ot tirst In the morning shout the "Merry other princes. It bed no canopy for it Christi:neer Then there were all Sbe was not to be hovered over by anything innocent alltirements as to who brought so exquisite. It had no embroidered the presents, and the wonderment as to pillow, for the young head was ubtt buw sleighs drawn by reindeer could hath such luxurious comfortbough a come clown the p rpendioular, and after - meteor —ordinarily the most erred() and ward the disappointment as some older eeeneuel, uneanvername at eit sere, an_ brother or sister, wieh all the pride of ytent inindeenehed teen set" neeigtmde ode discovery, tried to persuade aft that tbe place where ehat credit) stood mad a choir chimney WI not been the channel of bid been Beet tram the heevenly tamale genereue °see" (lb, ImbaS im.s tlier serentele its illustrious oceupent with Were, the (3114°11143es or our boThood an spio, yet that cradle was the target teld girlheed days i We •still feel in our for all oerthly and diabolIcel hoties, pulses some at the exuberance which we eudeed 1 give you ne my opinion that is then unwittingly noted up for future was the owest and meet wonderful times, wima the eye might IOSe some of tat luithr and the foot soille of Ike spring tempo Of the twee thet the child was not elein toroth be hua taken bis first step or a" She bears "lee et ISe rebuuml• Bew spoke„ his first word. Herod could no belly and reselnary and ivy and udealetoe *and to have bleu barn, The Caasare lee"cl luSesweveu I Tho 1/urisaue ruilY could not afford to have him born. Tee not bath Mad the day, and Join: Oalviu gigentio oppressions and abominations or mae bave pronounced it superstitioue the world ould not afford to eave him and feared it would bring into religions e born, Was there over I/leaned a more obeervance the saturnalia of tee beathei, the decorations of ivy inappropriate systematized or appalljng bombardment 'because ivy bad been dedicated M in all the world than the bonabardment Becalms aud mistletoe inappropriate of that cradle? The Herod who led the omen wae because rutatietee had been associated with Druidical rites, hilt TVR testify that treachery, vengeance and sensuality ire- pereonated, As a port or paetime lie slew OtilvistUles uevtt did us any harm. and lierciants the grandfather of his wife. dee only objection we twat ealwetseti was Tnen he ;low alarlantne, his wife. Thee that it WAS so long a time from Christ- i:4e butt:tiered. her ewo eons, Alexander mas to Christmas. aim Atestobulus Than he slew Antlaater, Can he angel which St. John saw las Oldest son. Then he ordered burned with tneasuring rod nameuring heaven alive 40 people who had pulled down the or bate .aay seraphio intelligence faculty eagle at his Authority. Be ordered the eue0gb Se calculate the ruaguilieens nobles who had attended upon Ms dying effeot welch Ltliie Christmas mornings bed to be slain, ea that there might be and 1,S90 Cbristmee mons And 1,9eti univeesai mourning atter his deceaee. ahristenta Piglets have, nail on our poor From that Mute deathbed ha ortlered the old Planes? Let us Sb;suir. (iea that we slaughter of MI the children in Bethlehem live to me this Chrittinits, the bells of unted d year, ot no, feeling „re that if WhiGh ring out so clear, so inspixing, so ubliant—bells of family reunion. bolls be massacred the entire infantile papule- J tion that would Mende the destruction of church jubilee, hells of national of the child whose birthplace estronoula viotory. But hal either Malohlor or had peinted out with its Mager of Beet, Balthasar or Caspar, the three wise men What wore the slaughtered babes to him, of the east, wbo had pet down the maks and as malty &muted and bereft mothers? of aromatic frankincense or bags of clink - If be had been well enough to leave his ing gold by the bare feet of the infant bed be would bave enjoyed seeing the Lord, reported to Hertel's peace the mothers wildly struggling to keep their place where they toned the ohild the babes, and bolding them he tightly that swift home ot exeoutioners would haVe they could not be separated until the parried death to that babe in liary's arm. sword took both their lives at one stroke, and others, mother and child, hurled 'the oleo Pars Man. from roofs of hound into the street until Still further rem:irking upon the nate that village of horseshoe shame on the row escape. which you and I had and all hillside became one great butaber shop. the world had in that babe's escape, let To have larch a man, with assooiates me Say that had that anodic plot been uet as cruel, and an army at his comt succoaeful the one instance of absolutely :nand, attempting the life of the Infant perfect character woula never have been Jesus, does there seem any chance for big unfolded. The world had enjoyed the escape? Then that ilight southward for lives d'l maul 0131"ei6 Then bele"Christ came, It had admired its Plato aniong so many nalles, aoross deserts and amid bandits and wild beasts (my friend, the philosophers, its MI thridates among late rnIseionary and scientist Dr. Lane- beroes, its Herodotut among historians, Ing, who took the same journey, said tt its Phidias amoug sculptors, its Homer was ()Lough to kill both the Madonna among poets, its Aesop among fabulists, and the Child), and poor residence in its Aeschylus among dramatists, its Cairo, Itgypt. You know how difficult it Deniosthenes among orators, its Amsuula- is to take 4113 ordinary child euocessfully plus among physicians, yet among the through the disorders that aro sure to contemporaries of those Mei] there were assail it even in comfortable homes and two opinions, as now there are two with all delicate ministries, and then opinions concerning every remarkable think of the exposure of that fatuous babe man. There were plenty in those days in villages and lands where all sanitary who said of then,, "He cannot speak," or "He cannot sing," or "He cannot plan laws were nut at defiance, bis first hours on earth spent in a aoom withane any osophize," or "His military achievement doors, end ofttimes swept by chilled was a mere accident," or "His chisel. night winds; ot„ afterwards ridina Ids pun, his medical prescription, never many days under hot tropical sun, and deserved the applause given." But con - earning this full grown Christ, whose part of many nights, lest the avenger overtake the fugitive before be could life was launched three decades before Pe hidden in another landthat, first Christmas, the moau of camels and the bleat of sheet) and the low of The ltabybood of Christ. (tattle mingled with the babe's first ory, The sanhedrip also were affronted at -tattle clouds that night were resonaut the report of this mysterious arrival of a with music, and star pointing down child that might ripset all oonventionali- whispered to star, "Look, there he le!" ties and threaten the throne of the nation. That Christafter the detectives of "Shut the door and bolt 15 and double Herod and Pilate, and sanhedrin had bar ie against him," cried all political watched him by day and watched him by and ecclesiastical power. Christ on a night year after year, was reported inno- retreat when only a few days of age, with Gent. It was found out that when ha all the privations and hardships and talked to the vagrant woman in the tem - sufferings of retreat! When the glad pie it was to tell her to "Go and sin no news mune that Herod was dead, and the more," and that if he spoke with the Madonna was packing up and taking her penitent thief it was to promise him Child home, bad news also came, that paradise within 24 hours, and that as he Arobelans, the son, bad taken the throne moved about he dropped ease of pain —another crowned infamy. What chance upon the invalid's pillow, or light upon for the babe's life? Will not some short the eye that lacked optio nerve, or put grave hold the wondrous infant?" bread into the hands of the hungry, or "Put him to death!" was the order ell took from the oriental hearse the dead up and down Palestine, and all up and young man and vitalized him and said down the desert between Bethlehem and to the widowed mother, "Here he is, Cairo. The ory was: "Here comes an alive and well!" and she cried, "My boy, iconoclast of all established order! Here my boy!" and he responded, "Mother, onmes an aspirant for the orown of mottled" And the sea, tossing too Augustus' If found on the streets of roughly some of his friends by a word Bethlehem, dash him to death on the easier than a nurse's word to a petulant pavement! If found on a hill, burl him child, he made it keep still. The very down the rooks! Away with him!" But judge who for other reasons allowed him the babe got houte in safety and passed to be put to death declared, "I find no a up• front infancy to youth and from youth fault in him!" Was there ever a life so to manhood and from carpenter shop to thoroughly ransacked and hypereritieised Messiahship and from Messiahship to that turned out to be so perfect a life? enthronement, until the mightiest name :tow, cum you imagine what would have on eartb is Jesus, and there is no beeu the calamity to earth and heaven, mightier name in heaven. what a bereavement to all history, whas What I want to call your attention to swindling not only of the human race, is your narrow escape and mine and the but of cherubim and seraphim and wozld's narrow esoape. Suppose that archangel, if because of infernal incursion attempt on the young child's life had upon tbe bed of that Bethlehem babe this • been successful! Suppose that delegation life of divine and glorious manhood bad of wise men, who were to report to never been lived? 'file Christie parables Herod immediately after they discovered would never have been uttered, the ger- the hard bed in the Bethlehem caravan- mon on the mount, all adrin with bone- sary. had obeyed ceders and reportedl dietions, never preached, the golden rule, Suppose the beast carrying the Madonna in picture frame of everlasting love, and the Child in the flight had stumbled would never have been bung up for the and flung to death its riders! Suppose universe to gaze *mop and admire. Archeiaus had got bis hands on the babe A 4.41.aVeyard Pnace. that his father had tailed to find Sup- Still further remarking upon the nar- pose that among the thildren dashed row escape which you and I and the from the Bethlehem house tops or separ- world had in the diverslou of the persecu- ated by sword of the enreged oonstabul- tors from tbe place of netivityelet me erg Jesus had perished! say that had, that Herodio raid upon the The neauty of Christmas. swaddling clothes been successful the Then, to begin OD the outermost rim world would never liave known tbe value, ot my subject, Christmas festivities of a righteous peace. Much has been would never have been observed, Cbrist- made of the fact that the world was at ems carols never sung, Christmas gifts peace when Obrist oame. YOB, BLit what never beetowocl, Christmas games never kind of a peace was it? It was a peace pleyed, Christ:nits belle never rune, worse than war. It was the mine of a 'What an awful subtraction from die graveyard. The Roman eagles bad World's Itrightness would bath been the plucked out the world's eyesight and wish us a merry timeCome all the 'll making of Deo. 25 like other days of the plunged their beaks througb the heaministers of Christ whoave in rt of , year! Glorious day I After brightening dead nations. It was a peace bk. that pulpit. or many a year been telling the story of England and Holland ana Gerennay for spoken of by a dying indien ebleftale when a Christian home missionary said to bins, "You have been a warrior and I suppose have been in many feuds, bet you must be at peace with all your enemies in order to die aright." The dying chieftain replied: "Ten's easy enough. I am at peace with all ray one mtes, for I have killed all of them." That was the style of peace on °erne when Chien came, but the taivit o arbi" tretion, which is to garland the tomb of this century and coronet the, brow of the coming century, is consequent upon the reetnIght anthem above Bethlehem. two bars tasoription, and the seoond of earthly' o. that the iirst of (Heine pacification. "Glory to God and peace to men." In is 'untamed Christ pronounced the sante doctrine—s‘Blessed are the inercifid." The 'Peweeof Chriat. I take another step Tamara in showing the narrow escape you and I had and the world had in the secretion of Cerne's birthplace from the Heralic deteetives and the dubs with which they would bave (lathed, the babe's life one %thee I say thee without the life that began that nigh; in Bethlehem the worai wetted have had no ilialtlihated deathbeds. Before the thee of Christ geed. people (*tied their eartnly lives in peace while depending upon the Christ to come, aaa there were autedeuviee odors, anti Assyrian saint', teed Egyptian saints, arid Grecian salute, and JernS4lain salnia tong hetcre the 0101144 4beee Bothiebem bOORMO a ha/pony fil!Ad with the best enigma of a world where elm all sing, hut I °mot reaa that ttoe was anything more than uquiewpg gages Met came to Owe before °brie; tleetb beds, Job bald something bordering an the goefidept, itut it was mixed up "With a story of "Ann worms" that Watild ..lestroy bis body. Abrebern end Jacob ima a little liebt on tee dying pillow, taut, compared with the after Christ deathbed, 15 was like the dint taliaw candle of Mel Weide the modern cluster of llghts electrim I know halath went up in memorable manner, but it was a ter- rible way to go—a whirlwind of fire that Must have been splendid to look at by those who stood ou the banks of the Jordan, bat it wee a nate of anent that required more mirth than you and I ever had, to be a pinta eimupant of a chariot drawn by such a wild team, The trim*. phent deathbed% as far as I know. were the etter Chriet deatitheas What a ON" ceesiou of het:lune-. have inarohe through the dyine room of the Sating 01 the last 19 tomalleys! What cava,cade 111011a tea tedaluiehe has entlloetal t biough the dying visions of the lass a Ogit year' save 1001 Pan:reel tleathialle in the Satire B.C.! Triumph:am de:keno:la for the most pars, reserved for the yeaie .1..1), Behold the deatbbeds of the Weeleys, of the Doddridges'of the Leah Richmonds, of the Edward Pays :us of Vara, the eon- vorted beechen chieftain. erying ia his last moments; "tlhe eanoe is in the sea Tee sails are weed. She is ready for rhe gala. 1 have a good pilot to guide me My outside man and my inside Titan differ. lett the 000 rot till the trumpeo thall sound, but let my soul wing her way to the throne of Jesus." Of dying John Fletcher, who entered his pulpit to preaeb, though his dootors forbade him, and than dee,canded to the communion table, saying. "I am going to throw my- telf under the wino; of the cherubim beton the mercy seat," thoneands of peo- ple a few days after following him to the grave, singing: With heavenly weapons be has fought The battles of the Lord, Finished Ills course and kept the faith And gained the greet reward. rim weeettity of Christ. Are you ready DOW for -a thought that overtowers all other thoughts in import- ance and grandeur? Pray that you may be ready. It as far exceeds anything I have said as all the geld mines of Cali- fornia'developed :tail undeveloped, exceed the thimbleful of gold dust which in 1848 a Calton -111u miner brought from a naill race and put upon the deslc of a surprised capitalist. In remarking upon the narrow tempo which you and I and She world made let me say that had the Herodio raid on that room of the Bethle- hem ehan been ta successful mid or had some cold taken by the child in that flight toward Cairo been fatal heaven would have been to us an eternal imposel- hility. With our Innen nature unchanged, unregeuerated, unreconstructed through Jams Christ, the human i•ace would be no more fit for heaven than a noisotue weed Is fit for a queen's garland, no more than a shattered bass viol is flt to sound in a Dusseldorf musleal jubilee. If et one time Garibaldi seemed to hold in his rigbt hand tbe freedom of Italy, and Washington seemed at OM, time to bold in his riehe hand _American independ- ence, and Martie Lather SeeMOCI to hold in bis right hand the emancipation of the churoh of God for all nations, so in grander and better sense the infant born in that Bethlehem stall held in one hand the ransom of earth and in the other the rapture of heaven. Be started that night for three places which he must reach, or we never could reach heaven, Getheemane and Calvary and Olivet, the first for agonizing prayer,- the second for excruci- ating suffering; the third for &orient ascension as the law of gravitation relaxed for once to let him up out of his exile. Had his life been only one day or one year of duration instead of 33 years, had he died in Bethlehem or in Cairo or in the desert between, not a church would ethe have been built, not a hospital ever opened, not a itation over freed, not a civilization ever inaugerated, not a soul saved. Oh, what a crisis that was in the world's history! What a crisis in the eternities I A Time for Toy. Now let the Christmas table be spread. Let it be an exteaslon table made up of the tables of your honseholds; and added to them the tables of celestial festivity, all together making a table long enough to rowel across a hennsphere—yea, long enough to roaoh from earth to heaven. Send out the invitations to all the guests whom we would Ince to have come and dine. Conn all the ransomed of earth end all the crowned of heaven. As at ancient banquets the king who was to preside oanae in after all the guests had taken their places at the table, so perhaps it may be now. Let the old folks who sat at either end of your Christmas table ten or 20 or 40 years ago be eeated, thole aches and pains all gone. Behold, they sit down in the exhilaration ot everlast- ing youth! Come brothers and sisters who used to retire with us early OD C,bristinat eve so that the mysteries of bestowed gifts might be kept seeret and who rose with us early on Christmas morn to see what was ta be revealed. Come all the old neighborstof our boy- hood and girlhood data who used to hap- pen itt toward the close of this day to mea tbe eter thet pointed to the world'strot Obtistioss gift and at the same time wakened Hermes apprehensions. Omuta in! Room at this Christmas table tor all those who bave bowed at the manger in whatever world you now live: Pert of the hmt have owned the tiocti, And part are croseing now. Yea, come and eit at this Christeette table, all heaven. Archangel at that end of the table, and ab the angels under Min AdjOildng. Coma dawn e Come in! And, take your places at this Christmas ba in nq givls u et , pt3r4elees issir Wade; to enttebre la . Lie comae—hint of Bethlebein, him of Calvary, him of Olivet, idea of the throe! Rise and greet hem Fill ail yout obelices with tbe wine pressed from the heavenly Esehol mad drink at this Christ. malt bauquet to the memory of the babe's rescue front Heroeic pursuit, and the memory at them astronouters of rho east who defeated the malice and sarcasm end irony tine Infernal strathgeux of the monster's manifesto, "Go and search diligently tor the young chilli, anti when ye have found bun, bring me word agate, that I may come arid worship him also. Given at the pelace.Heroa the greet." - -• — The bete:laity ewoorm. There was no light in the house. Out. side the rays of the electric lamp etruok the wall Aud cast Wog, weird shadows at the trees. Upstairs in the front roam a weenie las- asleep. An atom (leek stood AU the mantel at the 100 Of ehe 4°1. Mork seimiethere down the arse* had just struck two. A man turned the corner aud tottered toward the steps leading to the frOAt door of tne Meuse, He mounted them, lie made -three or leer frentio Wee witb las inch key at the look. Fleally he auatmeded 1 Opeenig the door. Upstairs the WOMAA 'Slept on. The man sat down on the lower nap of the flight for a few moments, lie leaked UP elm; then began the amnia clutehing the biinuleter to made eh:it- self. He bed taken four steps. A yell, as ot keenest pain, cue the nigna The Wo - mu started anti eat up In bed. She glanced toward She dock, berdiy distiug- uishable in elle dimly lighted moue ansI saw that it was a gunner pest two Then a settle of hard eatanie delight curved her mouth. Another trell from the stairway anu another and another. The women Kink Wyk on bar pIllew and dosed her eyes. And when the man had fallen sound asleep the woman arose quietly, and lighting the hall jet, crept down the etitirs on her hands anti :knees picking up, es she wont, the carpo; woks see had placed there, point up, before she bail gone to best Anil when she raeutered her room she mutterea to herself, "Now 111 just see 1! Nen heve rho nerve to tell ine in the moraing that he got In at a gunner to 11. For a long time I've snspeutea him of taking, MT his AIM doweetairei now I know it," 14t,-.4 etc .led," ,vitz a44 -h -ch,. P14,14. AttLi, 44/. A Pals. Alarm. "Obs Zahn* dew," staid Mrs. Neer srus, "I'm so glad yonave come liame. I want you to get right out 0=4 have that new Aeighbor of ours arrested. He Ilae been beating bis wife and family all the morning, and the way they Mean Za too horrible for anything:It has thrown roe hate hysterics arid a, nervoue bead - ache and—there! therel do you hear that? Ten% it awful?' Belt jean) dear loolted Pet et the wdle- dow ansI o1y availed. "Why, what do you Mean?" screamed his wife. ",Are As heartless as bee Will you, too, leek an mei hear a pant' woman and her inateceut ebildren beat- en to--" "There, there, my dear, calm your- self. It's only the pulley On the new building that's going up on the next corner. It needs a little oil,' Their leen meet -hen He Wel a big, uncouth looking ohap, who perhaps labored in a foundry. This wheel was on the onter of a locomotive. At least, it was awktvarcl-looking and heavy, like himself, He waste:Vag along, puthing the pedals down with the hen lows of his feet. This added to his aWit- waal appearance She was a delicate youttet girl, perhaps a stenographer, with a refined face and chestnut hair drawn straight back from a well -formed brow, Her wheel Rutted her, for it had the appearance of liget- ness and grace and quickness. Tbe girl wore glasses. How fate sbould decree that these two ehoul3 come together, it is hard to say. They were wept; in opposite directions, near the middle of one of the tuott crowd- ed streets. He hesitated, wobbled. and they met. There was a orash, and the was on the ground. The front wheel at her machine was turned back upon itself and was a useless mass of twisted spokes. Her glasses had fallen to the pavement and broken. His wheel was unhurt. He looked as if tie meant it when he stam- mered: "Pin sorry, miss. I thought you were goiu' the other way." She looked angry fora moment, then a look of determination cau:e over her face and she mulled 21$ she said in the pleas- antest mauner imaginable: "Oh, never mind, I'm glad nobody's hurt." The Christi..o's Hope. The hope of the unbeliever is like a spider's web—the broom of God's judg- ment will speedily brush it from its moorings and bring it to naught. It is like the dew of morning—the sun dries it up, and leaves the parched plant dry and withered as before. It is like the leicles of winter, that adorn the trees and make them glisten with transient beauty —the sun shines upon thom and they melt. The Chrisaan's hope Is like the rook against which the waves of the sea dash in their fury, but it stands un- moved. It is like the anchor of a vessel, which, though driven and tossed, still holds its position, because it is tied fast to its safety and salvation. It is like a house built upon a rook—the rains may descend and the floods may come and beat upon the house, but it falls not, be- cause it is founded upon a rock. Comedy Travels tilt!). Tragedy. Theodore Hook, travelling by coach, once met a man of such a despondent behavior that after two honrs of his com- pany he was impelled to inquire why he W55 so miserable. "Sir," said the inan, "I had bought a lottery ackee, and my wife took is away fron, me, saying that I should not gamble our livelihood away, and she sold it, and it has now turned out a prize of £10,000." "Well, upon my life," said Hook, "I don't wonder at your woeful looks; if I had been in your place, I should have out my throat." "Just what I did," said the mare pulling down his neekeloth and showing the Meanie. Boa to Care Fla' GUMS. Coral xnay be washed with soap and water. Jet must be repaired by means of jew• elm s' 00111012t. Turquoises must not be whetted, and are liable to change color. Pearls should never be dampened. They should be exposed to air as muela as pos- sible. Ivory may be washed and exposed to air and eunlight to keep it a good white color. Opals =let be kepi; from Bre and beat, as a high temperature renders theni Ile. bleto split and fall front their setting. Wing 'Strokes Of a CalltiVe Bee. A captive bee, striving, to esoape, has made to reoora as :natty as 15,540 There art casee ot consuutplion SQ fan advenced that Hick:eat Anti -Consumptive Syrup will not cure, but none 40 bati that it will not give relief. For coughs, colds and all affections of the throat, lunge and chest, it is a specific wbich has never been known to fail. It pronestee a free arid ewe. expeetoration, therehy reineviug she phlegm, and gives the diseased parts 4/twice to lieel. Itrammel. Tbe splendid spendthrift, known in the latter pant or bis lite an "Beau" lirtaarael, was at one time a mats ot wealth wile dressed in exquisite taste and became a. recognized leader of Eng- lish tashions. IIIs real name was Clearge Bryan Brurrunel, and be was born in 3778. He became the intimsn,te companion ot the rrince of Wales, who was himself a noted ependthrift mid dandy. Brummel kept up a magnifi- cent establishment in Loudon until his fortune was gone, when all his Meads deserted him. He gthiluelly fell into distress, and finally dieel In great wret- chedness in lareee nin a hospital for mendicants, in 1$49. Ask for Millard's Lini.T.ent and take no other• A self -teatime Mow. The German electric roads hale a neat ingenious deviee in the shape of the self -folding plows which can, if oc- casion arises, be foreed up and out through the slot, -narrow as it is, or low- ered again into it, sa that thorough service can be given the same cars on lines with overhead and us.derground conductors. The narrow contact plates, which thus fold up, of eourse give a u meh smaller area of contact on the conductor rails than do the substantial flat cast iron shoes used in this coun- try, but it is probale that they give a contact of sufficiently bow tresistance for all practical purposes in street trac- tion. STATS OF :WO, CITY OP TOLEDO, 1.55. LIMAS C(RINTY. Fenn, J. Cante.-y makes oath that be is the senior partner of the Arm of F. J. CRICSIEY St Co., doing business in the City ei Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said tirm will pay the stun of ONE HUNDRED DILLARS for each arid every ease of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the WA Of BALMS CATARRH ODER. ' ME ANJ. CHENEY. Swornto before me and subscribed in my presence,this sat (ley of December, A. D., Use ne-m {SEAL} A. W. GLEASON, Notary Public Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blond and mucous surfaces of tbe system. Send for testimonials free F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. serSold by Druggists, 75c. Neer Year nesehetieet. "To be perfeetly frank, I haee very little ftlith in New Year's resolutions which are made at the begin,ning of a year," writes Edward Bok, in The Lee dies' Home Journal. "At the same time, there are people who fancy the idea of maldng resolutions at some arbitrary dielsion of time, such as the first day of a new year. But the characters of those reselves should emanate from one's own heart, and not be suggested by another. Yet an excellent resolution for a young man to naalte is this tri- angular one: Be industrious, shun all intoxicating liquors a.nd gut into a good savings ,b,ank at least -fifteen. mats 'of every dollar earned during the year." When children are pale, peevish an,d restless at night they require a dose or: two of Miller's Worm Powdels. They are pleasant to tette; no physic re- quired. Glue From Seaweed. A fresh use for seaweed is claimed to have been discovered by a Norwegian engineer, who exhibited tin nevenlion at the Stockholm Exhibitien, for pro - diming paper glue, dressieg gum and soap from seaweed. The first ettab- lishment foe this braneh nI morn fac- ture is to be erected in the district of Stavanger. TO CURE A col.” iN ONE DAY Take Laxative Brom() Quinine Tablets. All Druggists rotund the mousy 11 it ral s to care, s5e Earth's Hattest Tbe hottest region on the earth is on She southwestern coast of Persia, where Persia borders the gelf 01the same mane. For 40 eOnseentiye days in July and Augnst the thermometer hes not fallen lower than 100 degrees, night or day, and often, naounted as high as 129 Salt rheinn and all eczematous con- ditiens of tb,e skin are clued by the use of Miller's Compound Iron Pills. Womierroily l'.,'.,' Nests. boor The pho wing strokes per minute in a recent test. withlhe thueielsatveerser obl S bee faoinweeshernest rs .ly ainneys choosing such as have very brigbt col- ors. They are invariably cut in vireles so exact that AO coinpas.s eould make them more erue. A. new hack tor .7,0 vents. Miller's Eidavy "Must you tear yeurself awayr elm ; asked- "Yes," he anwered, struggling to leave his chair,' it begins to look am. if1 niusta lie had been sitting on hes chewing -gum. wnrefir.F.,1141M*12,1••••,,,P, Oho of eta', greetest blessings to parent* Is.aiother Graeae Worm Exterminator. It effectually expels worms anti gives health 1511 ittatV011011S =Whet to tbs tie IMO. Lonaoute imports Of grain amount to &boot 25,000,000 buthele per eneetn. 8.000*000 a 10101 COE-slat o5 arneet. atinetearle ulee Woe Ditehtherla, Pineapple juice Is the latest remedy for . diphtheria. The pineapples are oomprees- ed and the jeice used tut a drink. It is mid that tbe aegroes of Georgia and other southern states have used this reniody for • years. Tbe jnice cuts or berm out the membrane of diphtberie rapidiy, Conettle ' tutiortal medicines are always necessarl, The klieg iS A local remedy only and taken in teaspoonful doses every two hours un- diluted. l'he local journals assert that pineapple juice acts SO promptly that law • it any cases of diphtheria, perish. It is harmless and agreeable and eftleaciona Pineapple juice (by aualysis) container Sugar, wooer, elbtimen, citric acid, raMto acid, tenni% cellulose. Citric, aoid, is Sound in lemons, oranges and plums and has been Weil in malignaatthwettdisenses for many years. Any nulsl acid acts well in alphtheritt, especially when found com- bined, ea in the pineapple.—Excliariga ; lettrainine Diplomacy. Ile—Wity is it, Nellie, that I never bear you ask 1107000 15 your hat is on straight. es I so often hoer other women do? She—Why. dear, it's I Vent* I love you so much. He—But I fell to oleo wItat that bas got to do with itt She—Just think how disgraceful and humiliating it would be to you were Ito call anyone's attention San bat I've wars two years, N. .B.—The following Sunday the apt peered in the -eery latest creation of the milliner's art. Only tbote who have bad experience cani tell the torture corns cause. Pain with; your boots 00, path with there off—paint night and day; but relief is sure to'those wbo use Holloway's Corn Cure. Forcing Rules in *Winter. Forcing bulbs for winter flowerlig ; may be hastened or retarded by the amount of warmth used. Me burry 1 them along use more heat; to keep them": back keep them in, a cool place. Those forced by excessive warmth are inferi- or to those allowed a longer time to de-' velop, and their flewers will not last • as long.—December Ladies Home Jou& nal. Minard's Liniment the Lumberman's Friend. Trouble. in the ,19,111,14 "There seemed to be a rather acri- monious discussion going on as I went • by headquarters." "Yes" said the Salvation Army cse- tain, sadly. "Brother Jones, who beata the drum, happened to late- to Brother Smith, who does most of the preaching, that actions spoke louder than 'words." A dose of Miller's Worm, Powders occasionally will keep the &llama healthy. thifortanate Heroine. One of the eccentricities of the English language was lately brought to the notice of a New England woman by her Swedieb maid. The girl had attended is night school for some weeks, and was much de- lighted with her attainments in English. She expressed her wish to try her knowl- edge of the language by reading as story, and her mistress recommended for ber perusal one called "A Modern Cinderella" in a magazine. It was short, simply worded and appeared not to present any linguistic: pitfalls. "Did you like it, Borthar asked the mistress when the magazine was returned to bor. "Yale ma'am," replied the girl slowly, "but I am sorry she had so much trouble and dose glass eyes, too. My brudder, he had one glass eye, and it was thee hard for him." "Why, I didn't remember about her having glass eyes," said the mistress. Bertha unfolded the.magazine, and point- ed with a respeotful finger to the follow- ing undeniable proofs; "As Polly moved about the kitchen do- ing her work her eyes suddenly fell OD the letter wbich lay unopeued in her eunt's 'Weep your eyes where they belong,' said that lady sharply, and poor Polly col- ored with shame."—Youth's Contpanion. Trylt.—It \could he a gross injustice to confound that standard • healing agent— Dr. 'Thomas' Eelectric 011 with the ordin- ary unguents, lotion,: and salves. They are oftentimes inflammatory and astring. en t. The Oil is, on the contrary, emin- ently cooling and soothing when applied externally to relieve Irvin, and powerfully remedia.1 when swal lo‘red. •Am, Inzieal ken. ' seams fanny 1 Inc to think of a let I Indians phrvins.r i;,(; ImIL'' 42f the :Pillage, showed teal, Volt Injan is a prett,y • kicker wiltel he gets lit earnest. 'a -India' apolis Journal. •