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Newspaper Page TextAGL0K10US GftOWTH REV dr. talmage shows how CHRISTIANITY MOVES FORWARD. Coine Stunly ni" nt Infidelity Religion GiK"l to Llvo by ,,ml CoimolliiB to Die ,. vii KncoiirnBlnB Discourse by tho Eloquent Pnstor. Brooklyn, March. 18. In tho Tabcr uaclo today Rev. Dr. Taluiago preached , most eloquent and characteristically timorous Eorincn in refutation of tho oft r,.npvccl assertion of tho enemies of reli pmi that Christianity is retrograding miilt'v Dihlc losing its hold upon tho ho-irts ami consciences of men. Thesub- irt of t no discourse m announced was "From Conquest to Conquest," tho text bring taken from Amos ix, 18, "Behold thp days cmno, saith tho Lord, that tho plowman shall overtake tho reaper." Picture of n tropical clime, with n sea son so prosperous that tho harvest readi es clear over to tho planting time, and tho swarthy husbandman swinging tho sicklo in the thick grain almost feels tho breath of the Imrses on his shonldcrs, the horses hid luil to tho plow preparing for a new crop. "Behold the days come, saith tho Lord, that tho plowman shall overtake the reaper." When is that? That is now. That is this day, when hardly have you (lime reaping ono harvest beforo the plow wan is getting ready for another. I know tliat many declare that Chris tianity has collapsed; that theBiblo is an olwilete book; that tho Christian church U on the retreat. I will hero nnd now blmw that tho opposite of that is true. An Arab guide was leading a French infidel across a desert, and ever and anon the Arab guide would get down in tho sand and pray to the Lord. It disgusted the French infidel, and after awhile as the Arab got up from one of his prayers the infidel said, "How do you know there is any God?" and tho Arab guide said; "How do I know that a man and a camel passed along our tent last night? I know it by the footprints in the sand. And you waiit to know how I know whether thero is any God? Look at that sunset. Is that the footstep of a man?" And by the sumo process you and I have como to under stand that this book is tho footstep of a God. A HEALTHY OltOWTH. But now let us see whether tho Bible is a last year's almanac. Let us see whether tho church of God is in a Bull Run retreat, muskets, canteens and hav ersacks strewing all tho way. Tho great English historian, Sharon Turner, a man of vast learning and of great accuracy, not a clergyman, but an attorney as well as a historian, gives this overwhelm ing statistic in regard to Christianity and in regard to the number of Christians in tho different centuries: In the first cen tury, 500,000 Christians; in tho second century, 2.000,000 Christians; in tho third century, 5,000,000 Christians; in the fourth century, 10,000,000 Christians; in tho fifth century, 15,000,000 Christians; in the sixth century, 20,000,000 Chris tians; in tho seventh century, 24,000, 000 Christians; in the eighth cen tury, 80,000,000 Christians; in the ninth century, 40,000,000 Christians; in tho tenth century, 50,000,000 Chris tians; in tho eleventh century, 70,000,000 Christians; in the twelfth century, 80,- 000,000 Christians; in tho thirteenth cen tury, 75,000,000 Christians; in the four teenth century, 80,000,000 Christians; in tho fifteenth century, 100,000,000 Chris tians; in the sixteenth century, 125,000, 0U0 Christians; in the seventeenth cen tury, 155,000,000 Christians; in the eight eenth century, 200,000,000 Christians a decadence, as you observe, in only one century and moro than made up in the following centuries, while it is the usual computation that there will bo, when tho record of tho nineteenth century is made up, at least 300,000,000 Christians. Poor Christianity I What a pity it has no friends! How lonesome it must Del Who will take it out of tho poorhouse? Poor Christianity! Three hundred mil lions in ono century. In a few weeks of the year 1881 2,500,000 copies of the New Testament distributed. Why, the earth is like an old castlo with 20 gates and a park of artillery ready to thunder down every gate. Lay aside all Christendom ami sen how heathendom is being sur rounded and honeycombed and attacked by this all conqueriug gospel. At the beginning .of this century there were only 150 missionaries; now there aro 25, Ouo missionaries and native helpers and .. .... . ! -ff il.ia evangelists. At tue uegiunuiK "' " century there wero only 00,000 heathen converts; now thero are 1,750,000 con verts from heathendom. There is not a seacoasfc on the planet but tho battery of the gospel is planted and rrady to march on north, south, east, west. You all know that the chief work of an army is to plant the batteries. It may take many days to plant the bat teries, and they may do all their work in lOmiuutes. These batteries are being nlanted all nlontr tho seacoasts and in all nations. It may take a good while to , plant them, and they may do all their work in one day. They will. Nations , are to be born in ono day. But just come back to Christendom and recognize I the fact that during tho last 10 years ns many people have connected themselves wuli evangelical churches as connected themselves with the churches in the first 60 years of this century. A GLORIOUS BOOK. So Christianity is falling back, and the Bible, they say, is becoming an obsolete book. I go into a court, and wherever I find a judge's bench or a clerk's desk I fiud a Bible. Upon what book could there be uttered the Bolyinity of an oath? What book is apt to be put in the trunk of the young man as he leaves for city life? The Bible. What shall I find in nine out of every ten homos in Brook lyn? TheBiblo. In nine out of every ten homes in Christendom? The Bible. Voltaire wrote the prophecy that the Bible in the nineteenth century would become extiuct. The century is nearly goue, and as there have been wore Bibles published in the latter part of the eeu tury than in the former part of the cen tury do yon think the Bible will become, Mtinct in the next eix y eara? i In-mum in which Voltaire wrote that prophecy not 1 have to tell yu Unit long ago was crowded iroin floor to ceil-' igm of life? If they should come up in sol ing with Dibles from Switzerland. Sup- id phalanx, all agreeing upon onosenti poso tho congress of tho United States nicnt and one theory, perhaps Christiani should pass a law that there should be ty might be damaged, but there are not no moro Bibles printed in America and bo many differences of opinion insido tho no moro Bibles road. If there are -JO.- church as outsido tho church. OCO.0UO grown people in tho United States, thtro would bo -lO.OCO.O'O pro pie in an army to put down such a law and defend their right to read the Bible, But suppose tho congress of the United i States should mrtko a law ncniiist should mrtko a law against the reading or tho publication of any other book, how many people would go out in such a crusade? Could you get 40,000.000 peoplo to go out and risk their lives in defense ot Shakespeare's tragedies or Gladstone's tracts or Macaulay's "History of Eng land?" You know that there aro 1,000 men who would die in defense of this book where thero is not moro than ono man who would dio in defense of any other book. You try to insult my common sense by telling me tho Bible is fading out from tho world. It is tho most popular book of the cen tury. How do I know it? I know it just as I know in regard to other books. How many volumes of that book aro publish ed? Well, you say, 5,000. How many copies of that book aro published? A hundred thousand. Which is tho more popular? Why, of course the ono that has 100,000 circulation. And if this book has moro copies abroad in tho world, if thero are five times as many Bibles abroad as any other book, does not that show you that the most popular book on the planet today is the word of God? "Oh," say people, "the church is a col lection of hypocrites, and it is losing its power, and it is fading out from the world." Is it? A bishop of the Metho dist church told mo that that denomina tion averages two new churches every day of theVear. Thero are at least 1,500 new Christian churches built in America every year. Does that look as though tho church were fading out, as though it wero a defunct institution? Which in stitution stands nearest tho hearts of the people of America today? I do not care m what village, or in what city, or what neighborhood you go. Which institution is it? Is it tho postofflce? Is it the ho tel? Is it tho lecturing hall? Ah, you know it is not. You know that the in stitution which stands nearest to the hearts of tho American people is the Christian church. If you have ever seen a church bum down, you have seen thousands of people standing and look ing at it people who never go into a church the tears raining down their cheeks. Tho whole story is told. AN UNPOPULAR BULIEF. You may taik about tho church being a collection of hypocrites, but when the diphtheria sweeps your children off whom do you send for? Tho postmaster, tho attorney general, tho hotel keeper, alderman? No, you send for a minister of this Biblo religion. And if you have not a room in your house for the obse-1 quies, what building do you solicit? Do you say, "Givo mo the finest room in the hotel?" Do you say, "Give me that theater?" Do you say: "Give me a placo in that public building, whero 1 can lay my dead for a little while until wo say a prayer over it?" No. You say, "Give us the houso of God." And if thero is a song to bo sung at tno obsequies, what do you want? What does anybody want? "Tho Marseillaise' hymn. "God Savo tho Queen?" Our own grand national air? No. They want tho hymn with which they sang their old Christian mother into her last sleep, or they want bung the Sabbath school hymn which their little girl sang tho last Sab bath afternoon she was out beforo she got that awful sickness which broke your heart. I appeal to your common sense. You know tho most endearing institu tion on earth, tho most popular institu tion on earth today, is tho church of the T.nr.l Jesus Christ. ' The infidels say, "Infidelity bIiows its successes from tho fact that it is every, whero accepted, and it can say what it will." Why. my friends, infidelity is not half so blatant in our days as it was in tho days of our fathers. Do you know that in tho days of our fathers thero wero pronounced infidels in public authority and they could get any political position? I Let a man today declare himself antag onistic to tho Christian religion, and what city wants him for mayor, what state wants bun for governor, what na ,tion wants him for president or forking? Let a man openly proclaim himself the enemy of our glorious Christianity, and ho cannot get a majority of votes in any state, in any city, iu any county, m any ward of America. REUaiO.N' IS 6C1CNCE. Do you think that such a sceno could he enacted now as was enacted m the days of Robespierre, when a bhumeless woman was elevated as a goddew and was carried in a golden chair to a rathe ,ini wi,r incense was burned to her and people bowed down before her as a divmo beiug. she taking tno nmw o w , Biblo and God Almighty. while m the, corridor of that cathedra 1 wer B enacted suctiscenes oi uruu- ----- eryand obscenity .1 nlispnnitv as nave iuei uvv.i dfDo you believe such a thing possibly occur in Christendom to- No, sir! The police, whether of witnessed could UUW W - - ..,, nn it Paris or rew iuir, u. r -- - I know infidelity makes a good deal or talk in our day. It is on the principle that if a man jump overboard from a Cunard steamer he make moro excite uieut than all the 500 people that stay on SideckB. But the fact that he jumps overboard-doesthatstopthe8h,p Do that wreck the BOO passenger? It make Lreat excitement when a man jum from the lecturing Informer Irow .the i;s. it " mi T.yr, tto ,tat, """if" PmA ble that thia uh , .m wmuumj.v . -L.iii2LSST SK bd overthrown by iuhdol fcoientists who Imve 60 different theories tibout tho or Tlh: FITTEST SLT.VIVES. Peopleused to bay, "There are so many different denominations of Christians that shows there is nothing in religion." I have to toll you that all denominations agree on tho two or three or four radical doctrines of the Christian religion. They are unanimous in regard to Jesus Christ, luid they are unanimous in regard to the diviuity of tho Scriptures. How is it on the other sale? All split up you cannot find two of them alike. Oh, it makes mo sick to see these literary fops going along with a copy of Darwin under one arm and a case of transfixed grasshoppers and butterflies uiirtir the other arm, telling about tho "survival of tho fittest," and Huxley's protoplasm, and tho nebular hypothesis. The fact is that some naturalists just as soon as they find out the difference between tho feelers of a wasp nnd the horns of a beetle begin to patronize tho Almighty, while Agassiz, glorious Agas siz, who never made any pretension to being a Christian, puts both his feet on tho doctrine of evolution and says, "I seo that many of the naturalists of our day are adopting facts which do not bear observation or have not passed under ob servation." These men warring against each other Darwin warring ngainst La niarche, Wallace warring against Cope, even Herschel denouncing Ferguson. They do not agree about anything. They do not agree on embryology, do not agree on tho gradation of the spe- . inc Wltnt iln thpv nt'rpo nn? Herschel 1 writes a whole chapter on the errors of ' astronomy. La Placo declares that tho , moon was not put in the right place. He says that if it had been put four times , 1 farther from the earth than it is now there would be more harmony in tho universe, but Lionvillo comes up just in time to prove that the moon was put in tho right place. How many colors woven into the light? Seven, says Isaac Newton. Three, says David Brewster. How high is the au rora borealis? Two and a half miles, says Lias. One hundred and sixty-eight miles, says Twining. How far is the sun from the earth? Seventy-six million miles, says Lacalle. Eighty-two million miles, says Humboldt. Ninety million miles, says Henderson. One hundred and four million miles, says Mayer only a little difference of 23,000,000 miles! All split up among thomselves not agreeing on anything. They come and say that tho churches of JesuB Christ aro divided on the great doctrines. All united they aro, in Jesus Christ, in the diviuity of tho Scriptures. While they come up and propose to render their ver dict, no two of them agree on that ver dict. "Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed on a verdict?" asks tho court or tho clerk of the jury as they come in aft er having spent the whole night in de liberating. If tho jury say, "Xes, wo havo agreed," the verdict is recorded, but suppose one of tho jurymen says, "I think the man was guilty of murder," and another says, "I think he was guilty of manslaughter in tho second degree," and another man says, "I-think he was guilty of assault and battery, with in tent to kill," the judge would say: "Go back to your room and bring in a ver dict. Agree on something. That is no verdict." INFIDELITY AT A STANDSTILL. Hero these iufidel scientists havo im paneled themselves as a jury to decido this trial between infidelity, tho plain tiff, and Christianity, the defendant, and after beiug out for centuries they como in to render their verdict. Gentlemen of tho jury, havo you agreed on a ver dict? No, no. Then go back for another 500 years and deliberate and agree on something. There is not a poor, miser able wretch in tho Tombs court tomor row that could bo condemned by a jury that did not agree on the verdict, and yet you expect us to givo up our glorious Christianity to please these men who cannot agreo on auything. i Ah, my friends, tho church of Jesus Christ, instead of falling back, is on tho advance! I am certain it is on tno au . vance. O Lord God, tako thy sword ' from thy thigh and ride forth to the vic- J I am mightily encouraged because I fiud among other things that whilo this Christianity has been bombarded for centuries lnttueniy uas not. uesirujeu ouo churcji, or crippled one minister, or uprooted ono verse of ouo chapter of all tho Bible. The church all the time get ting the victory and the shot and shell of its enemies nearly exhausted. I have been examining their ammuni tion lately. 1 have looked all through their cartridge boxes. They have not in tue -. . eslmugted thfeir am the last 20 years advanced one new ltiea. m Ul(J bllttlo agltluBt thechurch Scriptures, while the Lwd A mighty is as keen ns it ovel Was. We are just getting our ,.,,... m .,.,.,..( t.ln uo . - --3n b Wanes, at u b , "Btil raake the earth quake und the heavens ring with "Alleluia!" It will be this, "Forward, me wnoio iinoi And theu I find another most encour ... i,t,ii in tliofactthat theeecular nrintingTress and pulpit teem liarnessed Ko same team frte proclamation of n. L'fMiiel. Every wan street uanKenu- b"' "-" -,., .. . .. moiKw ta New York, every State street he was inaugurated. I deny that his in inorrovs in ne . .mmral address was delivered. You banker tomorrow . ""' - - ....t imnliM- tomorrow iu Philadelphia, . i 41. TT.tlt.1 Utntfea nrul """, ui !." i w !' ItoSuiS?th.n- d ItaouBlxmt to Whw. . . . ,.n R i u. i. tract eocitflw are doing a wand and glorioaii work, bnt I tell yoa there it no power on earth today equal 73J . n...i...lini i 1 .. to the fact that tUc American printing press is taking up I ho trmoiis which aro preached to a few hundred or a few thousand people, and on Monday morn ing and Monday evening, in the morning and evening papers, scattering that truth to the millions. What a thought it is! What an encouragement for every Chris tian man! A GLORIOUS FACT. Besides that, have you noticed that during the past few years every one of the doctrines of the Biblo came under dis cussion in tho secular press? Do yon not remember a few years ago, when every paper in the United States had an edi torial on the subject, "Is Thero Such a Thing as Future Punishment?" It was tho strangest thlug that thero should bo a discussion in tho secular papers on that subject, but every paper in tho United States and in Christendom discussed, "Is Thero Such a Thing ns Retribution?" I know thero were small wits who made sport of tho discussion, but there was not an intelligent man on earth who, ns the result of that discussion, did not ask himself tho question, "What is going to bo inv eternal destiny?" So it was in re gard to Tyndall's prayer gauge. About 12 years ago, you remember, tho secular papers discussed that, and with just as much earnestness as tho re ligious papers, and thero was not a man in Christendom who did not ask himself the questiens: "Is thero anything in pray er? May the creaturo impress tho Cre ator?" Oh, what a .mighty fact, what a glorious fact tho secular printing press and tho pulpit of tho church of Jesus Christ harnessed in the same team! Then look at the international series of Sunday school lessons. Do you know that every Sabbath, between 8 and 5 o'clock, there are 5,000,000 children study ing tho same lesson a lesson prepared by the leading mmds of tho country and printed in tho papers-aud then these subjects are discussed and given oyer to the teachers, who give them over to the children? So, whereas, once, and within our memory, tno ciniuren niuuieu nere and thero at a story in the Bible, now they aro taken through from Genesis to Revelation, and wo shall havo 5,000,000 children forestalled for Christianity. My soul is full of exultation. I feel as if I. could shout I will shout, "Alleluia, tho Lord God omnipotent reigneth!" SCIENTIFIC CONSOLATION. Then you notice a more significant fact, if you havo talked with people on tho subject, that they are getting dissat isfied with philosophy and science as a matter of comfort. They say it does not amount to anything when you have a dead child in the house. They will tell you, when they wero Bick and the door of the future seemed opening, the only com fort they could find was in the gospel. People aro having demonstrated all over the laud that science and philosophy can not solace the trouble and woes of the world, und they want some other reli gion, and they are taking Christianity, the only sympathetic religion that ever came into the world. You just take your scientific coneola tion iuto that room where a mother has lost her child. Try m that case your splendid doctrine oftho "survival of the fittest." Tell her that child died becauso it was not worth as much as tho other children. That is your "survival of tho fittest." Go to that dying mall and tell him to pluck up courago for the future. Use your transcendental phiC.eology uj on him. Tell him ho ought to be confi dent in "tho great to be." and tho "ever lasting now," and tho "eternal what is it." Just try your transcendentalism and your philosophy and your scienco on him. Go to that widowed soul and toll her it was a geological necessity that her companion should bo taken away from her, just as in tho course of the world's history the megatherium had to pass out of existence, and then you go on in your scientific consolation until you get to tho sublime fact that 50,000,000 years' from now wo ourselves may be scientific spec imens on a geological shelf, petrified specimens of an extiuct human race. And after you havo got all through with your consolatiou, if tho poor afflict ed soul is not crazed by it, I will send forth from this church tho plainest Christian wo have, and with ono half hour of prayer and reading of Scripture nromises tho tears will be willed away, und the house from floor to cupola will be flooded with tho calmness of an In dian summer sunset. Thero is where I seo the triumph of Christianity. Peo ple are dissatisfied with everything elbe. Thev want God. They want Jesus Christ. Talk about the exact sciences. Thero is only one exact scienco. It is not math ematics. Taylor's logarithms havo many imperfections. Tho French metric sys tem has many imperfections. The only exact science is Christianity tho only thing under which you can appropriately write, "Quod erat demonstrandum." You tell uie that two and two make four. I do not dispute it, but it is not bo plain that two and two make four as that the Lord God Almighty made this world and for man, tho sinner, ho sent his only begotten Sou to die. I put on the witness stand to testify in behalf of Christianity tho church on earth and all the church in heaven. , Not 50, nc of . the redeem 50, not a thousand, not a million, the church on turtli and all redeemed In heaven. A QUESTION OF TESTIMONY. You tell me James A. Garfield was in augurated prebideutof the United States on the 4th of March, 1881. How do 1 know it? You tell me there were 20,000 , who du uncUyheard hU inau. "h9 , (11(i not . it: I did not hear HBJh J - " ---, it- But you tay mat mere were zv,vw ", "? " r1 ""v sr '." " , " "" ,","" "P" . ti..t i, as rtiur common kuw dic tates. Vow. here are tomo men vrno tay tcey , . .-v -- i i i . 55SS2 .i.jWiXi.tp.lBHWliW .,! have never Men Christ crowned in the hearti and they do not believe It la ever done. There is n grouj) of men who say they have never heard tho voico of Christ; they havo never heard the voice of God. They do not believe it ever transpired or was ever heard that any thing like it ever occurred. I point to 20, 100,000 or 1,000,000 pcoplo who eny, "Christ was crowued in our hearts' af fections; wo have seen him nnd felt him in our soul, and wo havo heard his voice; wo have heard it in storm and darkness; wo have heard it again and agnin. Whoso testimony will you take? Theso men, who say they havo not heard tho voico of Christ, havo not seen tho corona tion, or will you tako tho thousands nnd millions of Christians who testify of what they saw with their own oyes and heard with their own ears? Yonder is an aged Christian after CO years' oxperienco of tho power of godli ness in his soul. Ask this man whether, -when he buried his dead, tho religion of Jesus Christ was not a consolation. Ask him if through tho long years of his pil grimage tho Lord over forsook him. Ask him, when ho looks forward to tho fu ture, if ho has not a peace, and a joy, and a consolation the world cannot take away. Put his testimony of what he has seen and what he has folt opposito to tho testimony of n man who says ho has not seen anything on the subject or felt anything on tho subject. Will you tako tho testimony of people who have not seen or people who havo seeu? A BIT OF ADVICE. You say morphia puts ono to sleop. You say in timo of sickness it is very useful. I deny it. Morphia nover puts anybody to sleep; it never alleviates pain. You ask mo why I say that. I have never tried it; I never took it. 1 deny that morphia is nny soothing to tho nerves or any quiet in times of 6ickuess. I deny that morphia ever put anybody to sleep, but hero are 20 persons who say they havo all felt the soothing effects of a physician's prescribing morphine. Whoso testimony will you take? Those who took the medicine or my testimony, I nover having taken tho medicine? Hero is the gospel ,of Jesus Christ, an anodyno for all trouble, tho mightiest medicine that ever camo down to earth. Hero is a man who says: "I dou't beliovo iu it. Thero is no power in it." Hero aro other people who say: "Wo havo found out its power and know its soothing influence. It hns cured us." Whoso testimony will you take in regard to this healing medi cine? I feel that I havo convinced every man in this houso that it is utter folly to tako the testimony of thoso who Jiavo never tried the gospel of Jesus Christ iu their own heart and life. Wo havo tens of thousands of witnesses. I beliovo you aro ready to take, their testimony. Young man, do not bo ashamed to bo a friend of the Biblo. Do not put your thumb in your vest, as young men sometimes do, and swaggor about talking of tho glori ous light of tho nineteenth century und of thero being no need of a Biblo. They havo the light of nature in India and China and in all the dark places on earth. Did yon ever hear that tho light of na turo gave them comfort for their trou ble? They have lancets to cut and jug gernauts to crush, but no comfort. Ah, my friends, you had better stop your skepticism. Suppose you aro put in this crisis: Oh, fathor, your child is dying. What aro you going to say to her? Colonel Ethan Allen was a famous in fidel in his day. His wife was a very cousecratcd woman, Tho mother in structed tho daughter in tho truths of Christianity. Tho daughter sickoned and was about to dio, and sho said to her father: "Father, shall I tako your in struction, or shall I tako mother's in struction? I am going to dio now. 1 must have this matter decided." That man, who had been loud in his infidelity, said to his dying daughter, "My dear, you had better take your mother' ro ligion." My advico is tho same to you oh, young man, you had better tako your mother's religion. You know how it comforted her. You know what sho Baid to -yon when sho was dying. You had better tako yonr mother's religion. Easlljr, Quickly, Ptrminintlylhitsred. WEAKNES8, NERVOUSNESS, DEBILITY, nil all tho train of fvlli (rum mrlj trruri or later cxci'Mei. tbe remit t lit overwoik, tlukueii, worrv.eto. FullttreDglli, dcTCiopintDt and lime glvrn tu etery organ and portion of tlm body, hlint'l. nturnliTetlo'l IrnmPllstMniiiriivtniriit wtn. Vulture lmpMIl 7fW refrem-ra. Ifcmlf, explanation and proofa mailed (aaaled) free. ERIE MEDICAL CO, BUFFALO, N. " NOTICE, Notice is hereby given that the com mon council of the city of Halem, Ore gon, propose to Improve Liberty street, from the south line of (Jherueketa street to the center of Trade street, by estab liauluga grade and bringing the street to that grade, by gravelling the road way eight inches deep, and by con structing the necessary crosswalks and drains: Prom the south Hue of Che- meketa street to tbe south line of Ferry street the improvement shall extend &r).d feet on each side of the center line of the street: and from the south line of Ferry street to the Center of Trade street the top of the embankment shall extend ten feet on each side of the cen ter line of the street, the sided of the embankment with a natural slope. Done by order of the common conn- nil of the city of Balem, this ISih day or March, 180i. KD. N. EDKH, Recorder of the City of Halem, Oregon, 9 14 10 d ZvntmsKfFii .V-VVYVVWNAVWVVVgvV. BALD HEADS! What Is tho condition of yours? Is your liafr dry, " harsh, brittle? Doc it spilt at tho ends? Has It a a lifeless appearance? Docs It fall out when combed or J brushed? Is It full of dandruff? Does your scalp Itch? Is It dry or in a heated condition ? If these are some of g yoursymptomsbe warned in time oryou will become bald. JS, SkookumRootHair Growers; l whatyou new!. Its production 1 not an accident, lint the reinttof Brlentlflo J, reiearei Knowledge of the dlscaacaot tliounlrarutiicalp led to theillsgojr- err oflioir to treat them. "Skooknm "contain! neither minerals nor olli. It tg the follicles, it $top falling hair, cure dumlrnlT and groat hair on bald jl r&of 1 mm im mwm n DerjariJfortlM. THE SKOOKUI1 TnAnr.MMtE YVWWWVrtrVVWWV Slock Finer Get tho Best Lock Box Ed. C; .jpi c v.vggycgs TI1K NEW WTTXAMETTE STABLES rnmnleterl nnd ready to wait on customere. Horses boarded by day or weerc meet all Uemauus. aibo Keen mo u Bum and resilience 2 tilocR bouui oi S. W. THOMPSON & Co., Always Keep on hand a largo stock of loose and unmountod Diamonds, Rubies, Sapphires and imported Opalsr 221 Commercial Street. WISCONSIN CENTRAL LINES (Northern Pacific R. R. Co., L.iieo.) LATEST TIME1 CARD, Daily Through Trains. 12:4.rpm fi:'.!5pi!i 7:15im 1 Minn u HMOutn H;0Oltm ll.iouin 4:)pm 8:40pm I Htruul.8 1 Dulutli n 1 . Aahlund. a l:Upm 7 15)lll s.i&am 7.15am IUU:U' aClllCMgol 6.00pinl0.40pm I..J Ik l..i.iMuhi .' Antral " htlBH run tWO TlMI tralusdally butweenbt. I'uul. Minneapolis und L'uIcuko Milwaukee asd all polliU In WUoon mn; iiiuktiitf connection In CUlcaijo wltu all linen runnluireiut und south. Tickets Bold and tmKKuue checked throueh to all polnm In luo United HUUjh and Canada. Close connection made In Chicago with ull tralUH uolnt' Kaal and Houtb. Korlull Information apply to your neareat llAlrU( .(..., 1 llAH. (J. l'tlNII. " uinTPii. nd Tkt. A.rt..:Mllwaukee, WU. East and South -VIA- THE SHASTA ROUTE th Southern Pacificj Company, t'AMrOKNIA KXritEHM TKAIM ItUK DAILY ll TWKKN 1'OllTI.AHI) ANHH. K, Houlu. 0.16 p. in. IMUp. in. 10:4) H.in. Norlli. i'orllnud Halem Han Krun. Ar. I.v. b:'JJ u. iu 6::,U a. ID 7.-OU p. in l.V. Ar. Above truliw U)p at all .nUtton from Portland to Albany Inclusive; also utTunt-eul rthedd, llaUey, llurrtsburg. Junction tJlty, Irvlnit, KiiKtne una all HtaUomi from llotteuuris to Aklilund Inclusive. HOHKllUHliM a! DAILY, " An IMpTTiu l.v. ( 1:40 p. in. Lv. 7:00 a, in sM a. m, 11:17 a. m .:&0 p. in. l.v. cv. Ar. i'orlluuft Halem ItoMeburK IHniiiK C'ui-h on Ogdcu Route PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS AKI - Second Class Sleeping Cars- Attached to all through trains. rVestSide Division. Between Portland and CervallLs: PAII.Y(MCKT BUMDAY). 7J a. in. Ittlfi p. III. I l.V. Ar. Portland (InrvallU Ar. l.Y. " & p. in. IM) y. tn. At Albauy and OirvallU connect trains of Orwcon I'arlflo llallroad. Willi r.XfHHin fllAIN- U1AII.Y KXUKITSUWHAY 4;W p. in. 7:2ft p. m. IU. Ar. Portland Ar. b.-i5 a. hi fciOa. m McMlnnvllle LY. lllltOUUll TlOkETM To all point In tli KasUrn HtaUs. Canada and Kuioiw can be obtained at loweat rat Iron. W. W. BKINNKlt, Ajent. Halem. O.V. IUKJKIW, Aaat.U. V, and i'aaa.Afc" IV KOKIIIjKK, Manaaar HOUSE Painting, Decorating, n Hard Wood Finishing, Can give guodreforeae'M Ktlmtn furnish d. AddrtsM, Uo. JOchstrulli. haletn. Ileal deaee on rtalsia Motor lull way. North BaUiil my ordrmat)UliirUlor, U-4 i ROOT HAIR GROWER CO., k at Hanih Fifth ATeone, Now lorn, n. . W Forest Grove Poultry lards. Established In 1877. EGGS FOR HATCHING FROM THE VERY BEST VARIETIES. than Ever, but Prices Same Usual Send and thon you will lie satisfied. for Catalogue. Address J. M. GARRISON, 335, Forest Grove, Or. Cross, ts. Wholesale .mil Itctuil Dealer in Fresh, Suit nntl Smoked .11 outs of a 1 Kinds OS Court und 110 State Streets. Ul""'""" - v s Ytj rr RYAN & CO. iwbhuiicq. Through PICTO TO SALT LAKE . DENVER. OMAHA, KANSAS CITY, CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS AND ALT. EASTERN CITIES 3 1 DAYS to 2 CHICAGO Hours ,0 r)u'c'oft t0 ci'is0 apd flflUH Qu'c'wr t0 0m?iia anc' Kan" Through Pullman and Tourist Sleepers, Freo Reclining Chair Cars, Dining Cars, K II. II. CliAHIC, illnnnitM K.hl,UKUYANJKlt ON,J',vvv orraitn and general Information call on or addresa, W, 1C IIUHLMiriT, Asst, 0. 1, A 3M WasalUk-tcii Mi., Cr.3d I'OKTI.ANI). IJKKUOn, WANTED AGENTS -to sell- BROWN'S NEW FOUNTAIN WASHER. Heat B tea in Washer known. Hainplo Washer with lull Instruction sent to A Kent, express eluirgea prepaid on reeelpt tit -lM Address J, li, Drown, Iiox 'M, Halem, Or, l-ao-tr- Steamer fllfona FOR PORTLAND. Uavea Ilolsa'a dook Monday, Wednesday and Fridays 7: a.m. HETUItNINU, leavei 1'ortUnd Tuesday, Thursday and Haturduy at ti:IS a. iu, Fast tune for ivuwmk'er servleo; no way .andlng freight handled, HOUND TUIP (uulliulied) tf.00. On way, lirii. MUAL8 38 OICNTB. for rrela-ht raU and tickets i ptor to V.Ay HLKIOUT, Agfut.at thUei foot ofHtota lreU. u u Ma JMU' Tickets