A PATH THAT-SHINES.
REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES UPON
THE LIGHTNING OF THE SEA.
An TJnusnally Attractive and Eloquent Ser
mon The Pathway or the Almighty An
Irradiated Wave of Gladness Tlie Glow
of Good Deeds.
Brooklyn, Feb. 18. In the Brooklyn
Jabernaclo this forenoon Rev. Dr. Tal
teflee preached an unusually attractive
end eloquent gospel sermon to a crowd
id audience, who listened with rapt in
terest. The subject was "The Lightning
of the Sen," the text selected being Job
xll, 82, "Ho mftketh a path to shine after
him."
If for the next thousand years minis
ters of religion should preach from this
Bible, there will yet be texts unexpound
ed and unexplained and unappreciated.
What little has been said concerning this
chapter in Job from which my text is
taken bears on the controversy as to
what was really tho leviathan described
as disturbing the sea. What creature it
was I know not. Some say it was n whale.
Some say it was a crocodile. My own
opinion is it was n sea monster now ex
tinct. No creature now floating in Med
iterranean or Atlantic waters corre
sponds to Job's description.
LIOIITNINQ OF THE 8EA.
What most interests me is that ns it
moved on through the deep it left tho
waters flashing and rosplendent. In the
words of tho text, "Ho maketh a path
to shino aftor him." What was that il
lumined path? It was phosphorescence.
You find it in tho wake of a ship in the
night, especially after rough weather.
Phosphorescence is the lightning of the
sea. That this figure of speech is cor
rect in describing its appearance I am
certified by an incident. After crossing
the Atlantic the first time and writing
from Basle, Switzerland, to an Ameri
can magazino an account of my voyage,
in wnicn nothing more fascinated mo
than tho phosphorescenco in the ship's
wake, I called it the lightning of the sea.
Returning to my hotel, I found a book
of John Ruskin, and tho first sentence
my eyes fell upon was his description of
phosphorescence, in which he called it
"the lightning of tho sea."
Down to tho postoffice I hastened to
get the manuscript, and with great labor
and some expense got possession of the
magazino article and put quotation
marks around that " one sentence, al
though it was as original with me as
with John RuBkin. I supposo that nino
tenths of you living so near the sea
coast have watched this marine appear
ance called phosphorescenco, and I hope
that the other one-tenth may some day
be so happy as to witness it. It is tho
waves of the sea diamonded; it is the in
florescence of the billows; tho waves of
tho sea crimsoned as was the deep after
the sea fight of Lepanto; tho waves of
the sea on firo.
There aro times when from horizon to
horizon the entire ocean seems in con
flagration with this strange splendor as
it changes every moment to tamer or
moro dazzling color on all sides of you.
You sit looking over tho taffrail of the
yacht or ocean steamer, watching and
waiting to seo what new thing the God
of beauty will do with the Atlantic. It
is the ocean in transfiguration; it is tho
marine world casting its garments of
glory in the pathway of the Almighty as
ho walks tho deep; it is an inverted firma
ment with all its stars gone down with
it. No picture can present it, for pho
tographer's camera cannot be success
fully trained to catch it, and before it
the hand of tho painter drops its pencil,
overawed and powerless.
This phosphorescence is tho appear
ance of myriads of tho animal kingdom
rising, falling, playing, flashing, living,
dying. These luminous animalcules for
nearly 150 years have been the study of
naturalists and the fascination and sol
emnization of all who have brain enough
to think. Now, Qod, who puts in his
Bible nothing trivial or useless, calls the
attention of Job, tho greatest scientist
of his day, to this phosphorescence, and
as tho leviathan of the deep swoops past
points out tho fact that "ho maketh a
path to shino after him."
WAKE MADE BY A BAD MAN.
Is that truo of us now, and will it bo
true of us when wo havogone? Will
there be subsequent light or darkness?
Will there bo a trail of gloom or good
cheer? Can any one between now and
the next 100 years say of us truthfully
as the text says of tho leviathan of the
deep, "Ho maketh a path to shine after
him?" For wo aro moving on. While
we livo in the saino house, and transact
business in the same store, and write on
tho saroo table, and chisel in the same
studio, and thrash in the samo barn, and
worship in tho same church, we aro in
motion and aro in many respects mov
ing on, and wo aro not where we wero
10 years ago, nor where we will be 10
years henco. Moving onl
Look at tho family record, or tho al
manac, or into tho mirror, and see if any
one of you is where you were. All in
motion. Other feet may trip and stum
ble and halt, but the feet of not ope mo
ment for the last CO centuries has tripped
or stumbled or halted. Moving onl So
ciety moving onl The world moving onl
Heaven moving onl The universe mov
ing onl Time moving onl Eternity mov
ing onl Therefore it is absurd to think
that we ourselves can stop, as we must
movo with all the rest. Aro wo like the
creature of the text, making our path to
shine after us? It may bo a peculiar
question, but my text suggests it.
What influence will wo leave in this
world after we have gono through it?
"None," answer hundreds of voices; "we
ro not one of tho immortals. Fifty
years after we are" out of the world it
will bo as though we never inhabited it."
ion are wrong in saying that. I pass
down through this audience and up
through these galleries, and I am look
ing for some one whom I cannot find.
I am looking for one who will have no
Influence in this world 100 years from
uow. But I have found tho man who
w the loaat Influence, and I inquire
Wo hU hUtory, taxi j find that by a jre
or a no he decided some one's eternity.
xu ume oi remptaiion no gave an affirm
ntivo or a negative to some temptation
which another, hearing of, was induced
to decide in the samo way.
Clear on the other side of tho next
million years may be tho first you hear
of the long reaching influenco of that
yes or no, but hear of It you will. Will
that father make a path to shino after
hinir Will that mother make a path to
shine ufter her? You will bo walking
along these streets or along that country
road 200 years from now in tho character
of your descendants. They will bo affect
ed by your courage or your cowardice,
your punty oryourdopravity, your holi
ness or your sin. You will mnko tho path
to shine after you or blacken after you.
Why should they point out to us on
some mountain two rivulets, one of
which passes down into tho rivers which
pour out into tho Pacific ocean, and tho
other rivulet flowing down into tho rivers
which pass out into the Atlantic ocean?
Every man, every woman, stands at a
point whero words uttered, or deeds
dono, or prayers offered, decide opposite
destinies and opposite eternities. Wo see
a man planting a tree, and treading sod
firmly on either side of it, and watering
it in dry weather, and taking a great
care in its culture, and he never nlucks
auy fruits from its bough. But his chil
dren will. We are all planting trees
that will yield fruit hundreds of years
after wo are dead orchards of golden
frnit or groves of deadly upas.
I am so fascinated with tho phosphor
escence in tho track of a ship that I havo
sometimes watched for a long while and
have seen nothing on the face of tho deep
but blackness. Tho mouth of watery
chasms that looked like gaping jaws of
hell. Not a spark as big as tho firefly;
not a white scroll of surf; not a taper to
illuminate tho mighty sepulchers of dead
ships; darkness 3,000 feet deep, and more
thousands of feet long and wide. That
is tho kind of wako that a bad man leaves
behind him ns ho plows through the
ocean of this life toward the vaster ocean
of the great future.
HIE GROWTH OP SIN.
Now, suppose a man seated in a cor
ner grocery or business office among
clerks gives himself to jolly skepticism.
He laughs at tho Bible, makes sport of
the miracles, speaks of perdition in
jokes and laughs at revivals as a frolic,
and at the passage of a funeral proces
sion, which always solemnizes sensible
people, says, "Boys, let's take a drink."
Thero is in that group a young man who
is making a great struggle ag.iiust temp
tation and prays night and morning and
reads his Bible and is asking God for
help day by day. But that guffaw
against Christianity makes him lose his
grip of sacred things, and ho gives up
Sabbath and church and morals and
goes from bad to worse, till ho falls un
der dissipations, dies in a lazar house
and is buried in the potter's field.
Another young man who heard that
jolly skepticism mado up his mind that
"it makes no difference what wo do or
say, for wo will all come out at last at the
right place," and began as a consequence
to purloin. Some money that camo into
his hands for others ho applied to his
own uses, thinking perhaps he would
make it straight some other time, and
all would be well even if ho did not
make it straight. Ho ends in tho peni
tentiary. That scoffer who uttered the
jokes against Christianity never realized
what bad work he was doing, and he
passed on through lifo and out of it and
into a future that I am not now going to
depict.
I do not propose with a searchlight to
show the breakers of the awful coast on
which that ship is wrecked, for my busi
ness now is to watch the sea after the
keel has plowed it. No phosphorescence
in the wako of that ship, but behind it
two souls struggling in tho wave two
young men destroyed by reckless skep
ticism, an unillumined ocean beneath
and on all sides of them. Blapkness of
darkness.
You know what a gloriously good man
Rev. John Newton was tho most of his
life, but before his conversion he was a
very wicked sailor, aud on board the ship
Harwich instilled inhdelity and vice m
the mind of a young man principles
which destroyed him. Afterward the
two met, and Newton tried to undo his
bad work, but in vain. The young man
became worso and worse and died a prof
ligate, horrifying with his profanities
those who stood by him in his last mo
ments. Better look out what bad influence
you start, for you may not bo ablo to
stop it. It does not require very great
forco to ruin others. Why was it that
many years ngo n gTeat flood nearly de
stroyed Now Orleans? A crawfihh had
burrowed into tho banks of tho river uu
til the ground was saturated and the
banks weakened until tho flood burst.
THE SHINING PATH.
But I find hero a man who starts ont
in lifo with tho determination that he will
never see suffering but he will try to al
leviate it, and never 6ee discouragempnt
but ho will try to cheer it, and never
meet with anybody but ho will try to do
him good. Getting his strength from
God, he starts from homo with high pur
pose of doing nil the good he can jiosgibly
do in one day.
Whether standing behind the counter,
or talkingin thebugineasofHcowitha pen
behind his ear, or making a bargain with a
fellow trader, or out in tho fields discuss
ing with his noxt neighbor the vriMfct ro
tation of the ciops, orm the shoemaker's
shop pounding sole leather, tlwre is some
thing in lib face, aud in his plirase
olotrv. and in his manner, that demon
strates the grace of God in his heart. Ho
can talk on religion without awkwardly
dragging it in by the ears. He loves God
and loves the eouls of nil whom he meets
And 1 interested in their present and
eternal destiny,
For 50 or 00 years he lives that kind of
life and then gets through with it and
goes into heaven a ransomed soul. Dut
I am not going to dcribe the port into
whloh that ship has entered.
I am not going to uWnU the Pilot
who met bun ouuide at the li.'UteWit'
I am not going to say any thintc about the
crowds of friends who met him on tho
crystalline wbarve up which he goes on
jmnmra- cajpitai, jottitkaIi, winsfSBAT?., for-ctait 21,
steps of chrysoprases. For God in hia
words to Job calls me to look at tho path
of foam in tho wako of that ship, and 1
tell you it is all a-gleam with splendors
of kindness done, nnd rolling with il
lumined tears that wero wiped away,
and a-dash with congratulations, and
clear out to the horizon in all directions
is tho sparkling, flashing, billowing phos
phorescence of a Christian life. "Ho
maketh a path to shine after him."
And here I correct one of tho mean no
tions which at some time takes posses
sion of all of us, and that is as to the
brevity of human life. When I bury
some very useful man, clerical or lay, in
his thirtieth or fortieth year, I say;
"What a wasto of energies! It was
hardly worth whilo for him to get ready
for Christian work, for ho had so soon
to quit it." But tho fact is that I may
insure any man or woman who docs any
good on a largo or small scale for a life
on earth as longns the world lasts. Sick
ness, trolley car accidents, death itself,
can no more destroy his life than they
can tear down one of the rings of Sat
urn. Yon can Btart ono good word, one
kind act, one cheerful smile, on a mis
sion that will last until tho world be
comes a bonfire, and out of that blazo it
will pass into tho heavens, never to halt
as long as God lives.
WHAT ORDINARY PERSONS CAN DO.
There wero in tho sevententh century
men aud women whose names you never
heard of who aro today influencing
schools, colleges, churches, nations. You
can no moro measure the gracious re
sults of their lifetime than you could
measure tho length and breadth and
depth of the phosphorescence last night
following tho ship of tho White Star line
1,500 miles out at sea. How tho courage
and consecration of others inspire us to
follow, as a general in the American
army, cool amid tho flying bullets, in
spired a trembling soldier, who said aft
erward, "I was nearly scared to death,
but I saw tho old man's 'white mustache
over his shoulder and went on." Aye,
we are all following somobody either in
right or wrong directions.
A few days ngo I stood beside the gar
landed casket of a gospel minister, and
in my remarks had occasion to recall a
snowy night in a farmhouse when I was
a boy aud an evangelist spending a
night nt my father's house, who said
something so tender and beautiful and
impressive that it led me into the king
dom of God nnd decided my destiny for
this world and tho next. You will, be
fore 2-1 hours go by, meet some man or
woman with a big pack of care and trou
ble, and you may say something to him
or her that will endure until this world
shall have been so far lost in the past
that nothing but tho stretch of angelio
memory will be able to realize that it
ever existed at all.
I am not talking of remarkable men
nnd women, but of what ordinary folks
can do. I am not speaking of the phos
phorescence in the wake of a Campania,
but of tho phosphorescenco in the track
of a Newfoundland fishing smack. God
makes thunderbolts out of sparks, and
out of the small words and deeds of a
small life he can launch a power that
will flash and burn nnd thunder through
tho eternities.
How do you like this prolongation of
your earthly lifo by deathless influencoi
Many a babe that died at 0 months of
ago by the anxioty created in the parent's
heart to meet that child in realms se
raphic is liviug yet in tho transformed
heart and lifo of those parents and will
live on forever in tho history of that
family. If this be tho opportunity of or
dinary souls, what is the opportunity of
those who havo especial intellectual or
social or monetary equipment?
Have you any arithmetio capable of es
timating tho influence of our good and
gracious friend who a few days ago went
up to rest George W. Childs of Phila
delphia? From a newspaper that was
printed for 30 years without one word of
defamation or scurrility or scandal, and
putting chief emphasis on virtue and
charity and clean intelligence, he reaped
a fortune for himself and then distrib
uted a vast amount of it among tho poor
and struggling, putting nis invalid and
aged reporters on pensions, until his
name stands everywhere for large hoart
edness and sympathy and help and high
est style of Christian gentleman.
In an era which had in the chairs of
its journalism a Horace Greeley, and a
Henry J. Rnymond, and a James Gordon
Bennett, aud an Erastus lirooks, and a
George William Curtis, and an Irenaeus
Prime, none of them will be longer re
membered than George W. Childs. Stay
ing away from tho unveillngof the mon
ument he had reared at largo expense in
our Greenwood in memory of Professor
Proctor, tho astronomer, lest I should
6ay something in praise of tho man who
had paid for the monument. By all ac
knowledged a representative of tho high
est American journalism.
If you would calculato his influence
for good, you must count how many
sheets of his newspapers havo been pub
lished in the last quarter of a century,
and how many people havo read them,
and the effect, not only upon those read
ers, but upon all whom they shall influ
enco for all time, while yon add to all
that the work of tho churches he helped
bnild and of the institutions of mercy he
helped found. Better give up before you
start the measuring of tho phosphores
cence in tho wako of that ship of the Ce
lestial line. Who can tell tho post mor
tem influence of a Savonarola, a Win
kelned, a Gutenberg, a Marlborough, a
Decatur, a TouBsaint, a Bolivar, a Clark
son, a Robert Raikes, a Harlan Page,
who had 125 Sabbath scholars, 84 of
whom became Christiana, and six of them
ministers of the gospel.
THE BRIGHT PATH.
With gratitude and penitenco nnd wor
ship I mention the grandest life that was
ever lived. That ship of light wa
launched from the heavens nearly 1,000
years ago, angelio hosts chanting, and
from the celestial wharves the ship
sprang into the roughest sea that ever
tossed. Its billows were made up of tho
wrath of men and devils, HerodJo and
sanhedrinio persecutions Bttrring the
deep with red wrath, and all the hurri
canes of woe smote it until on the rocka
of Golgotha that life struck with a r-
sound of agony that appalled the earth
and tho heavens. But in the wako of
that life what a phosphorescenco oi
smiles on tho cheeks of souls pardoned,
and lives reformed, and nations re
deemed. Tho millennium itself is only
onerollof thatirradlated.wttvoof glad.j.one wa9 Bout by a wonmn for
ness i and benediction. In the Bubltoest j whom ho bought a ton of coal and ono
of all senseo it may bo said of him, "Ha wa8 hv n wnif of tho sfrpot vom ,, rp.
maketh a path to shine aftor him."
But I cannot look upon that luminosi
ty that follows ships without realizing
how fond the Lord is of lifo. That fin
of tho deep is life, myriads of creature!
alla-swim nnd a-play and a-romp in
parks of marino beauty laid out and par
terred and roseated and blossomed by
Omnipotence. Wiiut Is tho use of those
creatures called by tho naturalists "crus
taceans" and "copepods," not moro than
ono out of hundreds of billions of which
ore ever seon by human eye? God cre
ated them for the samo reason that ha
creates flowers in places where no hu
man foot ever makes them tremble, and
no human nostril ever inhales their redo
lence, and no human eyo ever sees their
charm. In tho botanical world they
prove that God loves flowers, as in the
marino world tho phosphor! prove that
ho loves life, and ho loves lifo in play,
life in brilliancy of gladness, life in ex-uberance.-
And so I am Iod to bclievo that he
loves our life if we fulfill our mission ns
fully as the phosphori fulfill theirs. The
Son of God came "that we might have
lifo and have it more abundantly." But
I am glad to tell you that our God is noi
tho God sometimes described as a harsh
critic at tho head of tho universe, or an
infinite scold, or n God that loves funer
als better than weddings, or a God that
prefers tears to laughter, an omnipotent
Nero, a ferocious Nana Sahib, but the
loveliest Being in the universe, loving
flowers and lifo and play, whether oi
phosphori in tho wako of tho Majestic oi
of tho human raco keeping a holiday.
LET YOUR LIGHT SniNE.
But mark you that the phosphorescence
has a glow that the night monopolizes,
and I ask you not only what kind of in
fluence you aro going to lcavo in the
world as you pass through it, but what
light aro you going to throw across the
world's night of sin nnd sorrow? People
who aro sailing on smooth sea aud at noon
do not need much sympathy, but what
are you going to do for peoplo in the
night of misfortune? Will you drop on
them shadow, or will you kindle foi
them phosphorescence?
At this moment thero aro moro people
crying than laughing, moro peoplo on
the round world this moment hungry
than well fed, moro households bereft
than homes unbroken. What aro you
going to do about it? "Well," says yon
der soul, "I would like to do something
toward illumining the great ocean of
human wretchedness, but I cannot do
much."
Can you do as much as ono of the
phosphori in tho middle of the Atlantic
ocean, creatures smaller than tho point
of a sharp pin? "Oh, yes," you say.
Then do that. Shinel Stand before the
looking glass and experiment to see ii
you cannot get that scowl off your fore
head, that peevish look out of your lips.
Havo at least one bright ribbon in your
bonnet. Embroider nt least one white
cord somewhere in the midnight of your
apparel. Do not nny longer impersonate
a funeral, bhinel vo say something
cheerful about society and about the
world. Put a few drops of heaven into
your' disposition. Once in awhilo sub
stitute a swoet orango for a sour lemon.
Remember that pessimism is blasphe
my and that optimism is Christianity.
Throw some light on tho night ocean.
If you cannot bo a lantern swinging in
the rigging, bo one of the tiny phosphori
back of tho keel. Shinel "Let your
light so shino before men that others see
ing your good works may glbrify your
Father which is in heaven."
Make one person happy every day, and
do that for 20 years, and you will have
mado 7,800 happy. You know a man
who has lost all his property by an un
fortunate investment or by putting his
name on the back of a f riond's note. Aft
er you have taken a brief nap, which every
man and woman is entitled to on a Sun
day afternoon, go and cheer up that man.
You can, if God helps you, say somo
thing that will do him good after both
of you havo been dead a thousand years.
Shinel You know of a family with a bad
boy who has run away from home. Go
before night and tell that father and
mother tho parable of tho prodigal son,
and that some of tho illustrious and use
ful men now in church and state had a
silly passago in their lives and ran away
from home. Shluel You know of a fam
ily that has lost a child, and tho silence
of tho nursery glooms tho wholo house
from cellar to garret. Go before night
and tell them how much that child has
happily escaped, since tho most prosper
ous life on earth is a strugglo.
Shinel You know of some invalid who
is dying for lack of an appetite. Sho
cannot get well because sho cannot cat.
Broil a chicken and take it to her before
night and cheat her poor appetite into
keen relish. Shinel Yon know of some
ono who likes you, nnd you liko him, and
ho ought to bo a Christian. Go tell him
what religion has done for you, and ask
him if you can pray for him.
THE FAILURE OIT EULOGY.
Shinel Oh, for a disposition so charged
with sweetness and light that we cannot
help but shine! Remember if you cannot
be a leviathan lashing the ocean into
fury you can be ono of the phosphori,
doing your part toward making a path of
phosphorescence. Then I will tell you
what impression you will leave as you
pass through this life and after you are
gone. I will tell you to your faco and
not leave it for the minister who offici
ates at your obsequies.
The failure in all eulogium of the de
parted is that they cannot bear it All
bear it except the one most interested.
This, in substance, is what I or some one
else will say of you on soch an occasien:
"We gather for offices of respect to this
departed one. It is impossible to tell
how many tears he wiped away, how
many burdens be lifted, or how many
souls he was, under God, instrumental in
saving. His influence will never cease.
We are all better for baring known him.
t
"That pillow of flowers on tho casket
was presented by his Sabbath school
class, all of whom ho brought to Christ.
That cross of flowers at tho head was pre
sented by tho orphan asylum which he
befriended. Those three singlo flowers
i by
cued through the midnight mission, and
the other was from a prison coll which
ho had often visited to encourage re
pentance in a young man who had done
wrong.
"Those three loose flowers mean quite
&s much as the costly garlands now
breathing their aroma through this sad
dened homo crowded with sympathizers.
'Blessed aro tho dead who die in the
Lord. They rest from their labors, and
their works do follow them.' "
Or if it should bo tho moro solemn bur
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gono down, nnd tho captain has read the
appropriate liturgy, and tho ship's bell
has tolled, nnd you aro lot down from
tho stern of tho vessel into tho rosplend
ent phosphorescenco at the wako of the
Tsliip. Then let some ono say, in the
words of my text, "Ho maketh a path
to shino after him."
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SAKU UK IL.L.UBTKATION.
1. The Roveries of n Bacholor, or a
Book of tho Ileart. by Ik. Marvel.
2. Lays of Ancient Home, by Lord
Macaulay. Beautifully illustrated.
3. A Tilly loss Beandal, J. M.Barrio
4. Tho House of the Seven Gables,
by Nntliaulel Hawthorne.
5. Cranford, by Mrs. Gankell.
0.
7.
8.
Tho Coming Itace, Lord Lytton.
Dream Life, by Ik. Marvel,
Frankenstein; or, Tho Modem
Prometheus, by Mrn. Hhelley,
0. A Book of Golden Deeds, by C.
M. Youufr.
10. Mofeen from an Old Munso. by
NuthunluJ Hawthorn.
11. TheHcarlet Letter. -by Nathan,
iel Hawthorn.
.. Jucunuys on
Lamb.
13. Tho Vicar
Oliver Goldsmith.
11. Twice-Told
Iel Hawthorn,
Klla.-by (Jharles
of Wakefield, by
Tales,-rby Nathan-
15. Paul aud Virginia, by Boruar
din De Kalnt Pierre.
10 Htory of an African Furni, by
(Ralph Iron) Olive Bchrelner.
17. Lays of tho Bcottlsh Cavaliers,
by Win. Kdmonstnune Aytoun.
18. Lucllo, by Oweu Moredltb,
(Robert Lod Lytton.)
10. Dreams, by Olive Bchrelner.
20. Black Beauty, by Anna Be
well. 21. One of tho Profession, a charm
ing theatrical novel.
22. Bartor RtBartus. By Tuoraaa
Curlyle.
23. The Idylls of the Klug.-By tho
late Lord Teunysou.
24. Tho Pleanurea of Life. By Sir
John Lubbock, lit.
25. Tho Lady of the Lake. By BIr
Walter Scott.
20. Mornlnf hi Florence, By John
Rukln,L.L.D,
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Iiarsh, brittle? Does It sjlit at ihe ends? Has It a g
iiicicss nppcaraiicc r uocs it ran our. wucti cortiDca or '
brushed ? Is It full of dandruff? ' Docs your scalp Itch ? J
Is It dry or in a heated condition ? If these are some of i
yoursymptcmsbo
Skookum
U Tvhntcni nerd. IU production Is not an nccldeot, but thn result of seientlflo
rpenr?h Knowledge of tho diseases of tt8 hair nnil icalD led td thatiurov.
erjrotliowtntri'ntuiem. "Skookum "contnttu neither mlnernlsnorblli. It i
IsnotaDvp. but a delightfully cooling and retmsltfns Tonic .lir stimulating
tno rouicics, it ttoif falling hair, cum dimUrMiT and orotrj I hair on bald -3s.
hraas. - vy
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5 j SJ'P )m
tho ik of blookum bktn Soap. ItCctUors.-parattiia.infKa.u'hiA jW.cn I
and fe.froi tlie hair. -- . ' ,r
If rourdniKRlitcaanotsupplyrousend direct to cs, and wo will forward i
prepaid, on receipt of price, OrowerirJBp)rMi)Uo.,rorUXX ,Bop,fOu.
THE SKOOKUrt
TKMjr: -iiamk. 67 Hou,
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East and South
-VIA-
THE SHASTA ROUTE
of thr
Southern Pacific Company.
OAurouMiA ltxpniras tiiain nuN dailt uk-
TWKKN rORTl.AND AND 8. V,
Mouth.
Nortli.
6:15 p. in.
',9:C p.m.
10:15 a.m.
l.v. l'orlliuid Ar.
I.V. Balom IjV.
Ar. Situ r-'mn. Uv.
&) n. oi
6:39 a. ru
I 7.-00 p. m
Above trains stop at all Btntlons from
Portland tu Albany Inclusive; nlso ntTangeut
HUcdd, Ilnlnoy, llarrifcbiiru. Junction City,
IrvliiK, Kuircno unit all Htatlons from UoHeburu
to Ashlnud Inclusive
ltOMKIIUUOMAlI. UAtl.Y,
KJU a. m.
11:17 a. m
":50 p. m.
I.V.
I.v.
Ar.
Portland
Hulem
Roue-burs
Ar. J 4:.0 p, m.
Lv. I 1:40 p. m.
I.v. 7.-00 a. m
Dining Cars on Ogden ltoutu
PULLMAN BDFFET SLBBPERS
AND
Second Class Sloeping Cars-
Attached to nil through triuun.
Vcst Side Division, Between Portland
anil Gervallis:
PAIT.Y--(KXCKPT BUNDAT).
7:30 It. 111. I.V.
laili p. m. Ar.
i'ortland
(Jorvullls
Ar.
I..V.
6-;i6 p. ni.
l.-OU p. m.
At Albany mid CorvulllH connect
trains of OrcL'Oii I'unlflo Itatlrond.
wit!)
KXPItKM rKAIN (IMII.l KXCK1THUNI1AY
4:40 p. in. I I.v. l'ortluud Ar.
7:iS p. m. I Ar. WcMltinvllle IjV.
i'llltOUUH TIUIittT.S
To all polntfl In the Knstera Ntntoa, Canada
and liuropo can bo obtained at lowest rates
rrom W. W. HKINNKll, Agont, Balem.
K.P. UOGF.lt."), AhsU O. JK. and Pass. Aj'!
U. KOKIII-Klt. Maniuinr
OREGON PACIFIC RAILROAD CO
CHAH. CLARK, Receiver.
SHORT LINK to CALIFORNIA
OCEAN STEAMER SAILINGS.
B. B. DEL NOKT15
Leaves 8nn Francisco, Jan. 6th.
Leaves Ynqulua, Jan. 7th.
'
HPKOIAL KATKd 'JO MUMVINTKU KAIH.
i
For freight and poMioniror rates nnnly tunny
acei t orpurner of this company. '
J.Ii. Mll'OtllClil,, & CO., AKMIitS.
oniro new Jiounuu mocii waiein.
From Terminal or Interior Points tho
Is tho Hue to tako
To all Points East and South,
It Is thedlnlni: car rout. Itruns through
vestibule trains, every day In theyonr td"
ST. PADL AND CHICAGO
'(No change of cars.)
Uompttied ofdlnlngcnrs unsurpassed,
rjuic riMiiu nitwiierH
Of latent equipment
TOURIST
Sleeping Cars.
llest that can be constructed and In whloh
accommodations are both tree and fur
nished for holders of first und socond-chtsi
ttckeU,and
ELEGANT DAY COACHES.
Acontlnnots line oonaejUng with all
lines. allorUlii'ii dlroct a-.d uninterrupted
service.
Pulluiau hU -Mi rewwTat Ion scan be so.
cured tn advL tiiro3ga any agent of
the road.
Through tickets to and from nil points
In America, tfngland and Kurope cun be
purchased ut any tluket otltco of this coin
puny. Full Information concerning rates, Urn
of Iralns.rnuloMandnlher details furnished
on AptilleuUou to any agent or
A. D. CHARLTON.
Assistant General Puiuumger Agent, No,
Ul First street, cor. Washington; Port-
land,Oregnn
Hiiaw & Downing, Anonta.
WISCONSIN CENTRAL LINES
(Nsrthsrn Piclftc R. R, Co., Unit)
LATEST TIME CARD.
Dairy Through Trains.
m'tpm
ISiym
A-Wpmil . Minn... tt H-.Wam 4:20pm
7: Up ml ,ntruulji fcuuuii) fttOptii
401pm I lhiluth-a ll.lOam
7ltuiiil . Ashland- ul g.lSum
lOO'a'U-.Ciileiigo.-l I 0.MJpiu 10.40pm
7.isro
Tim WImmuIu UvuTral ITm-i run two fii"-4
tralnadallv titwenHt l'mil. llluuiolls Utttl
Chleago U lw.uke and all point lit Wlbu
sin; nttKiug oouneeuou in uuicngo wun an
lines running cast aud south.
Tickets sold aud bsggag checks through
to all poluu In the United HUtes aud Cajiud.
CuMecouueetluii mud lu WilCiigo Willi all
trains going Bt and Hon lb. T'"
For lull Information apply to ynur nearest
ticket agent or .J A. V. 'Otli.
uea.rttta. suiq ai, Agu. Muwauaw, n.
ws
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HMMaVrVk
rnsnaMi
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warned in timo oryou will become bald.
Root Hair Grower !
ROOT HAItf ftUftWB?. "CO..
Ffih AYenne, New York, N. Y.
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TO
SALT LAKE DENVER.
OMAHA, KANSAS CITY,
CHICAGO, ST., LOUIS
'ANDAUCtl
. EASTERN CITIES!' .
1 DAYS' to! ' '
'2 CHICAGO
ADS
jlnntio tho Quickest to -Chicago and
tno uQSt-
HoiirS u'c'er to Onnaha and Kan-
J
Through Pullman and Tourist Sleepers, Free
Reclining Chair Cars, Dining Cars,
H II. II. ULiAUK, I l),n.;..
uLivmiw.MiNir, J- UCCClVCrS. .
K.KI.L.KHY ANDEilSON.J '
tor rates and ceneral information anil am
or addrosii, .
W. 11. HUlltiBUnT. Asst, O. P. A
XH Washington Bl., CorJd
t'ORTt.Awn. Ormm,
The CHICAGO,
MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL
RAILWAY.
.Travelers "mnko a note on.t."
This Great Railway System Connects
ST. PAUL, and OMAHA
With nil transcontinental lines, giving;
direct nud swift communion-
' ' tlon to all
KABTKUN Una EOUTJIKUN I'dlNTS.
AND IS TIIK
. . :::0NIArLINK:::
running
i:i'utrla I.l);lii'il nnd Hiram Heated
Vrstlbuled trains oi elegant Bleeping,
1'arlor, Dining nnd Duffel
Cars, with
jf'Vee Jtcvllnhif; Chairs,
Mailing lis servko second to none In the
Tiorld.' .
Tickets are on sale at all promlntnt railroad
ticket olllcos.
Kor further Information ask the nearest rail
road agent, or address
C, J, EDDY, General Agt.
J. W. CASEY, Trav. Pass Agt,
PORTLAND, Ore on.
Geo. Fondricli, Proprietor,
CASH MARKET.
UestmcatauA Iruo delivery.
136 State Street.
JrKr-MUJlMlY,-
BRICK.-:-AND-:-TILE
ffOKTIt HAbKM, ,
5Mltfl BROS.,
CONTRACTORS A PLASTfeltERB
Ieaveordent nt OoUIe-l'arfchurst block.room
8, palem, Oregon,
HOWARD,
The House Mover.
Jftl Jllarlon Street. .
Has the best facilities lor roorlog anh rat.
Ing houses, btuive orders at Urajr Ilros., or
address Malein, Orvou.
Thonjujrhbrod PouHrjr-for !
I ha?eJUiefuUdisir nrtsl)rbveiritrC
poultry 0xWa txo slated; cratedjremtfjr
chars-rat. Tdflrei, oaroof JOuftNAb mp,
I'lMlnttlra bl. ek ha'tm Dr. .
Meveial WIiUh Whom oockreu, very AM.
(ooimileUfiran.,)fJtj.,
Iilatk Hnanlsu (xwkrols, i to 6 months old.
Drown leghorn HI. Bptnlsb. lad, Oamea,
U lirauintt rgg, ;ftQu vt sitting, 'istod Kf
catalog, is. iloJ.r,
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