Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 February 1888 — Page 2

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Pi:. 1'u.vsris L. Vattos tau# boon oloctoil Pivsi.ieiit of rrinooUm College su.'ct'"'! Of M'l"o^h who lias resign­

Tliu r, ,'t n:as' Hrvitu. the soldiers paper, lit liulmiiapolis. has ehunijeil its name to'.hat of the Amirirun Tribune. Tho paper lias been enlarged ami greatly impiovc.l.

Swrn nrs atlopts a protective tariiT. In ISS:i Swollen minlo more noise against our iron larifl' tlian any other country in Europe. Her tariff s-eonis to bo leveled again: AneTiean breadstuff?..

If. F. .losr.s. Chairman of tlio National Kepublioan Coiumlltee. has received a lot tor from Hon. James G. Hlaino. deoliniiii,- to allow his namo to bo presented to tl'.i" National liepubluan oonvontion ,%s a candidate for tlio Presidential

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liOCiNE comity has '.Ml miles of f'r gravel road already constnteU'ii. au'to.in-

tracts have iicon let for the Vji'. i.ni: of twenty milos more. liv her drains and free gravel roads Boone county is pushing to tin front and will soon rank among the liiuire I among the counties ol the State. ~—:—r- "r

Tiir. New York Tribune publishes a caiefiiliv prepared estimate of the probable population of the United States at the present time, and puts it at 597 persons. This figure is arrived at by allowing the ratio of deaths and birthwliich past experience lias revealed, and adding the excess of births and inllux by immigration during each year to the population given i»y the census of 1 .•(),which was 50.1."5.7.S3.

The disti il.utioii of underground waters through tile roek-strata of the eartli is discussed in "Tlw Po/mlur .SViYnrc Monthly" for March, in an article of great interest and ability, by M. Daubroe. the distinguished French geologist. The article takes into iiceouiit the agencies by which the distribution is accomplished. the influences by which it is ilireeled.and its results upon the life and welfare of the inhabitants of different, regions, and in the giouping of populations.-

"We believe." savs the liirmingham, Alabama. Au "that r.iosL of the folks of the South ate op| osod to Free Trade. There are not a few who would' unit Hie party if the Cleveland message is made! the platform." The Anniston. Alabama, Hot lllast condenses the magnificent .stutistics as to the rapid development of the iron, interests of that State, and adds important facts showing how the iron manufacturer creates all sorts of new nusiness. It adds that "millionsof do!lars will be paid out in wages to thousands or men who will thus become consumers instead of producers of agrieul-| tural product.-. Fanners will Hurl a home market for everything they can raise, iud instead ol growing cotton alone, or

WIFELY AMBITION,

DR. TALMAGE'S SIXTH SERMON TO THE WOMEN OF AMERICA.

AVivrs »f Vmcrloii I'sc Your lnlluoiKr lor God and Home— Uemember ilic Story of tlfr.fhfl ami Atiuh and «ivc ot Hud

Advieo to Your Huolmmls.

Brooklyn, Feb. r,\—In tho tahenmclo thi morning tho Uev. T. Do Witt Tulmaj^e, D. 1)., pivached the sixth of his series of "Serino::* to Women of America with Ituportent Hints for Men." Tho subject wjus: "Wifely Ambition, Good and Bad." ami tlie U'xt w:is fi\in I Kings, xxi, 7: "Arix\ utul «Mt lnviul, an»l let thine heart be merry: I will ive thee tlu^vinevard of NuIhjiu." I)r. Tulma^e sai-l:

OnetiayKinK Ahub, lookini out of the wiminw of his palace at Jeziw). saiil to his wife .JezeU'i: "Wo ought to have these royal gardens enlarged. If we could only get that fellow Naiioth. who owns that vineyard out there, to trade or sell we could make it a kitchen garden for our |alaoo." ••Ketch in Nuboth," »id the king to one of liis servants.

The plain gardener, wondering why he should be called into the presence of his majesty. cm»s in, a little dmvnca.it in lus modesty and with very obsequious manner bows to the king.

The king says: "Naloth, I want to trade vineyards with you. I want your vineyard f"r a kitchen garden, and I will give a great deal better vineyard in place of it, ort if you prefer money for it, I will give you cash." "Oh, po." says Nabotli, "l cannot tradeoff xny little place, m»r can 1 sell it. It is the old homestead. I got it of my father and he of his father, and I cannot let the old place go out of my hands.'1

In a great state of potulanry King Ahftb went int» the house and flung him.-elf on the l»ed, ami turned his face to the wall ina great ixnit.

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His wife Jezebel conies in and she says: "What is the matter with you? Are von sick!" "Oh," ho says, "I feel very blue. I havo set my h»\irt on getting that kitchen garden and Naboth will neither trade or sell, and to bo defeated by a common gardener is moro than I can stand." "Oh. pshaw,'1 says Jezebel, "don't go on that way. Get up and eat your dinner and stop moping. I wiil get for you that kitchen garden."

Then Jezebel lorrowed her husband's signet ring or seal, for then, as now, in those lands kingr never signed their names, but had a ring with the royal namo engraved on it, and that impressed on a royal letter or document was the signature. She stamjKHl her husUind's name on a proclamation which resulted in getting Naboih tried fur treason against the king, and twojxirjured witnesses* swore their souls away with the life of Jsaboth, and ho was stoned to death, and his pro|K»rty came to the crown, and so Juztibel got for her husband und herself the kitchen garden.

But while the wild street dogs were rending the dead body of poor Naboth, Elijah, the prophet, tells them of other canines that will after a while have a free banquet, saying: "Where dogs lick the blood of Xaboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.''

Anil, sure enough, three years after, Ahab, wounded in battle, his chariot dripping with the carnage, dogs st«Kd under it lapping his life's blood. And a little afterward his wife, Jezebel, who had been his chief adviser in crime, stamls at her palace window and sees Jehu, the enemy, approaching to take possession of the palace. And to make h**r.vlf look as attractive as |ossiblo and queenly to tho very last, she decorated her person and, according to Oriental custom, close*I her eves and ran a brush dipped in a black powder along the long eyelashes, and then from the window she glared her indignation upon Jehu. As he rode to the gates in his chariot he shouted to the slaves in her room: "Throw her down!" Jiut no doubt tho slaves halted a moment from such work of assassination, yet knowing Queen Jezelel could bo no more to them and the conqueror Jehu would be everything, ils he shouted again, "Throw her down!" they seized her and bore her struggling and cursing to thu window casement and hurled her forth till she came tumbling to the earth, striking it just in time to let Jehu's horses trample her and tiie chariot wheels roll over her. While J-hu is insi'le at the table refreshing himself after the excitwuerit ho orders his servants to go out and bury the dead queen. But the wild street dogs had for the third time appeared on the s'.-ene, and they removed all her •body except those parts which in all ages dogs are by a strange instinct or brutal sujK'i"stilion kept from touching after death— the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet.

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mainly., can turn their attention to the most profitable of all kinds of fanning, the raising of market produce, and to dairying, poultry raising etc."

Tun March i'. ioiry will contain the story of "Colonel Uose's Tunnel at I.ibby Prison," told bv icic of the one hundred and nine I'nion oflleers who escaped on the night of February 1m i. The ,-ue.ceBsful const met ion of this tunnel, dug from a dark coinet of the cellar of the prison, through fifty feet of solid earth— the only toois being two broken chisels and a wooden spittoon, in which to carry out the dirt—was one of the most remarkable incidents of the war. Colonel liose, to whose indomitable will and perseverance the success of the scheme was due, is now a Captain in the liltli I'nited

States Infantry, and of the fourteen men •who assisted him in digging the tunnel, eleven are still living. The narrative in the March Century. which is illustrated, forms one of t::e unlechnica! papers supplementing the War Series, and it is said to lie one of the most romantic records that Tlte Century lias evej- printed.

Si'.nhay, February U, was the anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. IJneoli,memory is the dearest and most cherished possession of epublicans. His fame belongs to humanity and all .Americans unite in levering his greatness and his achievements ami unique sagacity.patier.cc,faith and charity. But, though all American* can /4ciaim him. Ins memory is best, celebrated by those who have been educated in the fullest sympathy with his politics, ao ho was a Republican ol Republicans, making no concessions of principles to gain Deuioera' ic favor and holding all his political convictions with as much eonricientiousiiess and tenacity as though his soul's salvation depended tin icon.

The intelligent.well-trained. nobly ambitious young Americans who have come to manhood since Lincoln became the greatest and best of all Freedom's martyrs, can find in the career and leaching of no other American so much that will lend to make him a better and truer American,and so much more earnest, brave and steadfast a Republican."

All this appalling s*ene of ancient history wa the result of wife's l»ad advice to a husband, of a wife's struggle to advance her husband's interests by unlawful means. Ahab and Jezebel got the kitchen garden of Nabotli. but the dogs got them. The trouble all began when this mi*taken wife aroused her husband out, of his melancholy by the words of the text: "Arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart bo merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth."

Th influence suggested by this subject is an in'.'.u.-no- you never before heard discoursed .m and may never hear again, but a most jHjtenl and semi-omnipotent influence, anddecil.-s the course of individuals, families, nations, centuries and eternities. I speak of wifely ambition, good and Iwt. How imjHjrtant that evory wife have her ambition, an elevated, righteous and divinely approved ambition.

And here let nie say, that what I am most anxious for is that woman, not waiting for the rights denied her or postjMnu^l. promptly and d'f.MMVcly employ the right* she already has iu pfpssession. Some say ,he will be in a fair way to get all right* when she gets tho right to the ballot box. I wish that the experiment might le tried and settled. I Would like to see all women vote, and then watch the result. I do not know that it would change anything for the Ivetter. Most wives and daughters and sifters would vnto as their husbands and lathers and brothers

In th® fntorost of their husbands1 business, or have a time tho inverse of felicitous. Besides that, millions of respoctnblo and ro11 tied women in America would probably not vote at all, ixjcaiL-o they do not want to go to the polls, and, on tho other hand, womanly roughs would all go to the polls, and that might mako make woman's vote on the wrong side. There is not, iu my mind, much prosjvet of the expulsion of drunkenness by female suffrage.

As to woman's wages to be rected by woman's vote, I have not much faith in that. Women are harder on women than men are. Mascuiiuo employers are mean enough in treatment of omen, but if you want to hear beating down of prices and wages in perfection, listen how some women treat washerwomen and dressmakors and female servants. Mi*s. Shylock is moro merciless than Mr. iShylock. Women, 1 fear, will never get righteous wages through woman's vote, and as to unfortunate womanhood, woman arc far morovTiiel and unforgiving than men are. After a woman has niado thipwreckof her character men generally drop her, but women do not so much drop her as hurl her with the force of a catapult clear out and off aud down and under. 1 have not much faith that women will ever get merciful consideration ami justice through woman suffrage, yet I like ex|x»riments, ami some of my friends in whoso judgment I have confidence are so certain that alleviation would come by such pnxrrss that I would if 1 had tho power, put in everv woman's hand ths vote. I cannot see what right you have to mako a woman to pay taxes on her property to help support city, state and national government, and yet deny her the opportunity of helping to decide who shall be mayor, governor or president. But let every wife, not waiting for the rote sbo may never get, or, getting it. And it outbab anced by some other vote not fit to be cast, arise now in the might of the eternal God and wield the jxjwer of a sanctified wifely ambition for a gi»od approximating tho infinite.

No one can so inspire a man to noble purposes us a noble woman, amino one so thoroughly degrade a man as a wife of unworthy tendencies. While in my text we have illustration of wifely ambition employed in tho wrong direction, society and history aro full of instances of wifely ambition gloriously triumphant in right directions. All that was worth admiration iu the character of Henry VI was a retlectiou of the ueroics of his wife Margaret. William, Prince of Orange, was restored to the right path by tho grand qualities of his wifo Mary. Justinian, the Roman emperor, confesses that his wise laws were the suggestion of his wife Theodora. AndtVw Jackson, the warrior and president, had his mightest re-enforcement in his plain wife, whose inartistic attire was the amusement of the elegant circles in which she was invited. Washington, who broke tho chain that held America in foreign vassalage, wore for forty years a chain around his own neck, that chain holding tho iniuiaturc likeness of her who had been his greatest inspiration, whether among the snows at Valley Forgo or amid the honors of the presidential chair. Pliny's jn?n was driven through all its joetic and historical dominions by his wifo Calpurnia, who sang his stanzas to tho sound of flute and sat among audiences enraptured at her husband's genius, herself tho most enraptured. Pericles said he got all his eloquence and statesmanship from his wife. When the wife of Grotius rescued him from long imprisonment at Lovcstein by means of a bookcase that went in and out, carryiug his btoks to and fro, he one day trasported, hidden amid the folios, and the women of besieged Weinsberg, getting permission from the victorious army to tako with them so much of their valuables as they could carry, under cover of the promise shouldered and took with them as the most imfxirtant valuables their husbands—both achievements in a literal way illustrated what thousands of times has been done in a figurative way, that, wifely ambition has been the salvation of men.

De To:queviUe, whose writings will bo potential and quoted while the world lasts, ascribes his success to his wife, and says: "Of all the blessings which God has given to me, tho greatest of all in my ey«-s is to have lighted on Maria Motley." Martin Luther says of his wife: "I would not exchange my poverty with her for all the riches of (.'rousus without her." Isabella of Spain, by her su!erior faith in Columbus, put into the hand of Ferdinand, her husband, America. John Adams, president of the I'nited States, said of his wife: "Sho never, by word or look, discouraged mo from running all hazards for the salvation of my country's liliertios." Thomas C'arlyle spent the last twenty years of his life iu trying by his pen to atono for the fact that during his wife's life he never appreciated her influence on his career and destiny. Alas, that having taken her from a beautiful home and a brilliant career, he should have buried her in the home of a recluse and scolded her in such language as only a dys|*»ptie genius could manage, until one day. while in her invalidism riding in Hyde Park, her pet dog got run over and under the excitement the coachman found her dead. Then the literary giant woke from his conjugal injustice and wrote the lamentations of Craigen-Put-tock and Cheyne Row. The elegant and fulsome epitaphs that husbands put upon their wives' tombstones are often an attempt to make up for lack of appreciative words that should

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Nearly all the lamilies that 1 know are

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idly Republican or Democratic or Prohibition. Th-so families all voting would make inor-' votes, but no difference in the result. Iiesiil»*s that, as now at the jn»les men are bought up by the thousands, women would bo bought up by the thousands. The more voters, the more opportunity for j/olitical corruption. Wo have several million moro voters now than are for public good.

We are told that female sufVrage would correct two evils—tho rum business and the insufficiency of woman's wages. About the rum business have to say that multitudes of women drink, and it is no unusual thing to see them in tho restaurants so overpowered with wiuo and boor that they can hardly sit up, whilo there are many so called respectable restaurants where they can go and take their champagne and hot toddy all alone. Mighty temperance voters those women would make! Besides that, th»» wives of the rum sellers would have to voto

U-en uttered in the ears of tho

living A whole Greenwood of monumental inscriptions will not do a wife so much good after she has quit the world, as one plain sentence like that which Tom Hood wrote to his living wife when hi* said:

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thing till I knew you.'? Oh, woman, what is your wifely ambition, noble or ignoble' Is it high social position? That will then probably direct your hi .d,-.ud and he will climb and scramble and slip and fall and rise and tumble, and on what level or in what depth or on what height he will after awhile U. found 1 cannot even guess. The contest for social josition is the most unsatisfactory contest in all the world, because it is so uncertain about your getting it, and so insecure a |ossession after you have obtained it, and so unsatisfactory even if you keep it. The whisk of a lady's fan may blow it out. The grow I of one lx»ar or the bellowing of one bull on Wall street may scatter it.

Is the wile's ambition tho (political preferment of her husband? Then that will probibly direct him What a Ofd forsaken realm is American politics those best know ivho have dabbled in them. After they have assessed a man who is a candidate for ofllco which he does not get, or assessed him for some office attained, and he has »oen whirled round and round and round and round among the drinking, smoking, swearing crowd who often get control of public affairs, all that is left of his self-resjeet or moral stamina would find plenty of room on a geometrical point, which is said to have neither length, breadth or thickness. Many a wife has not ljeen satisfied till her husband went, into polities but would afterward have given all ahe possessed to get him out. 1 knew a highly moral man. useful in the church and possessor of a bright, home. Ha hail a useful and prosperous business, but his wife did not think it genteel enotp h. There were odors about the business and sometimes thoy would adhero to his garments when he returned at night. She insisted on his doing something moro elegant, although he w«s qualified for uo busiuua* except iLat in which

he was engaged. To please her he changed his busincsvs, und in order to get on faster abandoned church attendance, saying that after he had made a certain number of hundreds of thousands of dollars ho would return to the church aud its services. Where is that family today? Obliteritod. Although succeeding in business for which ho was qualified, he undertook a stylo of merchandisc for w-hich ho had no qualification and soon went luto bankruptcy. His new style of business put him into evil association. Ho lot his morals as well as his money. He broke up not only his own home, but broko up another man's home, and from lieing a kind, pure, generous, moral man as any of you who sit here today, has become a homeless, penniless libertine. His wife's ambition for a moro genteel business destroyed him and disgraced her and blighted their only child.

But supposo now there bo iu our homes, as thank God there are in hundreds of homes hero represented, on tho wifely throno ono who says not only by her worils but moro powerfully by her actions: "My husband, our destinies aro united let us seo where industry, honesty, common sense and faith iu God will put its. I am with you in all your enterprises. I cannot bo with you in person as you go to your daily business, but 1 will bo with you in my prayers. l^»t us seo what wo can aehiovo by having God in our hearts, and God in our lives, and

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on the side of everything good. Go ahead and do your best, and though everything should turn out different from what wo have calculated, you may always count on two who are going to help you, and God is one and I am the other." That man may hnvo feeble health, and may meet with many obstaclos and business trials, but ho is coming gloriously through, for ho is roenforced, and inspired, and spurred on by a woman's voice, as much as was Barak by Deborah, when Sisera,with 000 iron chariots, came on to crush him and his army, and Deborah shouted in the ear of Barak: "Up! for this is tho day in which tho Lord hath delivered Siscra into thine hauds." And tho enemy fell back, and Sisera's chariot not getting along fast enough in tho retreat, tho general jumped out and took it afoot, and ran till ho came to a placo whero a woman first gave him a drink of milk, aud then sent a spiko through his skull, nailing him to the floor.

Somo of us could tell of what influenco upon us has been a wifely ambition consccratcd to righteousness. As my wife is out of town and will not shake her head because I say it in public, I will state that in my own professional life I have often been called of God, as I thought, to run into the very teeth of public opinion, and all outsiders with whom I advised told mo I had better not, it would ruin me aud ruin my church, and at the same timo I was receiving nice little letters threatening me with dirk and pistol and poisou if I jx»rsisted in attacking certain evils of tho day, until tho commissioner of jxlico considered it his duty to take his place in our Sabbath services, with forty officers scattered through tho house for the preservation of order but in my home there has always been one voice to say: "Go ahead aud diverge not an inch from the straight line. Who cares if only God is on our sidef And though sometimes it seemed as if I was going out against 900 iron chariots, I went ahead cheered by the domestic voice: "Up! for this is the day in which the Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine hands."

A man is uo bettor than his wife will lot him be. Oh, wives of America, swing your scepters of wifely infiuence for God and good homes! Bo not urge your husbands to annex Naboth's vineyard to your palace of success, whether right or wrong, lest the dogs that come out to destroy Naboth come out also to devour you. Righteousness will pay best in life, will pay best in death, will pay best in the judgment, will pay best through all eternity.

In our effort to have the mother of every household appreciate her infiuence over her children we are apt to forget tho wife's influence over the husband. In many households the influence upon the husband is the only home influence. In a great multitude of the best and most important and most talented families of the earth there have been no descendants. There is not a child or a grandchild or any remote descendant of Washington or Charles Sumner or Shakesjx*are or Edmund Burko or Pitt or Lord Nelson or Cov.-per or Pope or Addison or Johnson or I*ord Chatham or Grat tan or Isaac Newton or Goldsmith or Swift or Locke or Gibbon or Walpule or Canning or Dryden or More or Chaucer or Lord Byron or Walter Scott or Oliver Cromwell or Garrick or Hogarth or Joshua Reynolds or Spencer or Lord Bacon or Macauley. Multitudes of the finest families of the earth are extinct. As though they had done enough for tho world by their genius or wit or patriotism or invention or consecration, God withdrew them. In multitudes of cases all woman's opportunity for usefulness is with her contemporaries. How important that it bo an improved oj »j rtuni ty!

While the French warriors on their way to Rheim.i hail about concluded to give up attacking tho castle at Troyes beeauso it was so heavily garrisoned, Joan of Arc entered tho room and lold them they would bo inside the castle in three days. "We would willinglv wait six days,1' said one of tho leaders. "Six!" she cried out, "you shall be in it to-morrow," aud under her leadership on the morrow they entered. On a smaller scale every man has garrisons to subdue ami obstacles to level, and every wife may be an inspired Joan of Arc to her husband.

What a noble, wifely ambition, the deter mination, God helping, to accompany her companion across the stormy sea of this life, ami together gain the wharf of the celestial city! Coa.x him aiong with you! You cannot drive him there. You cannot nag him there, but you can coax him there. That is God's plan. lie coaxes us oil the waycoaxes us out ol our sins, coaxes us accept pardon, coaxes us to heaven. If we reach that blesMNl place it will Uj through a prolonged and divine coaxing. By the same process take your companion, and then you will get there as well, ami all your house* hold. .I)o just the opjMsitu to your neighbor. Her wifely ambition is all for this world, aud a disappointed ami vexed and uhnnppy creature she will be all the way. Her resilience may be better than yours for tho few years of earthly stay, but she will move out of it us to her body into a house about iivo and a half feet hng and about three feet wide and two feet high, and concerning her soul's destiny you can make your own prognostication. Her husband, and her sons ami daughters, who all, likelier, live for this world, will havo about the same destiny for the lK»dy and soul. You having had a sanctified and divinely ennobled wifely ambition, will pass up into palaces, and what becoincs of your body is of no importance, for it is only a scaffolding, pulled down now that your templo is done. You will stand in the everlasting rest ami see your husband come in, and seo your children come in, if they have not preceded you. Glorified Christian wife! Pick up any crown }ou choose from off the king's footstool and wear it it: was promised you long ago, and with it cover up all the scars of your earthly conflict.

SixUtMi miles from Petersburg, Russia, was oie of the royal palaces, and there ono night Catherine, tho empress, cntcrtaiuod Pr»ii.-e Henry. It was severe wim«r aud

deep snow, and the empress and the prineo rode in a magnificence of sleigh and robe and canopy never surpassed, follows! by 2,000 sleighs laden with the first people of Russia, the whole length of the distance illumined by lamps and dazzling temples built, for that one night, and imitations of mosque* and Egyptian pyramids and pcoplo sZ all nations, in all styles of costume, standing on platforms along tho way, and watching the blaze of tho pyrotechnics. At the palace th* luxuries of kingdoms wore gathered and spread, and at the table the guests had but to touch the center of a plate, and by magical mnchinerj* it dropped, ami another plate came up loaded with still richer viands. But all that sceno of the long ago shall bo eclipscd by tho greater splendors that will be gathered at the bouquet made by tho heavenly king for those consecrated women who come in out of the wintry und snowy chill of their earthly existence iuto tin? warm and illumined palaces of heaven. With the king himself ami ail the potentate**, yourself robed and crowned, you will sit at a table conqwired wi!h which all the feasts at Kenilworth and St. Cloud and tho Alhaiubra were a l»eggar's crust. And the platter of ono royal satisfaction touched at the center shall disappear only to make room for a beggar's crust, and tho golden plato of one royal satisfaction, touched at the ccnter. shall dlsap]our only to make room for tho coming up of some richer and grander regalement.

Rheumatism Is cured by Hibburd's Rheumatic Syrup striking at the seat of the disease and restoring the kidneys and Itver to healthy action. If taken a sufficient time thoroughly eradicate such poison, it never

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A Democratic Opinion.

Terre Haute Argo: "Do you believe the Republicans will again nominate Jim Johnston," asked a Republican. "N'n. Jim docs in itwant. a third term race. He sensible enough to know that tho opposition to the third term principle is so bitter Hint he couid not be elected even he wanted th" race. In my opinion the Republican nominee will be Mike White."

is a Curious Fact

That the body Is mow more suseeptlbie to benefit from medicine than at any other season. Hence tlie importance of taking Hood's Sarsaparilla now when it will do you the most good, it is really wonderful for purifying aud enriching the blood, creating an appetite,and giving a healthy tone to the whole system. Be sure to get Hood's Sarsaparilla, which i.s peculiar to ite»f. 0)

'l'he Corn Crop.

The State Board of Statistics has enlculated that the total corn crop in Indiana la?t year was 70,U17,()UT bushels, a dwerease of •1UJUUU.IHH) bushels from the greatest crop, .hich was iu ls.Sn. The average' per acre was 21.(10 bushels.

Consumption Can lie Cured,

Not by any secret remedy, but by proper healthful exercise, add the judicious useol Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil and llypophospbitcs, which contains the healing and strength-giving virtues of these two valuable speciticn in their fullest forms. Prescribed bv Physicians. Take no other.

To allay pains, subdue inflammation, bra foul sores and ulcers, the most prompt and satisfactory results are obtained by using that old reliable remedy, 1 »r J. H. McLean's Volcanic Oil I.iniment. sold by Nvet Co*

Bucklen's Arnica Salve.

Tlie best salve in the world for cuts bruises sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fev-er *ores, tetter chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price Jo cents per box. For sale at Nye & Co's drugstore.

Ballard's Horenound Syrup.

Messrs. Barber Bros., Lawrenee Kansas, writes: We always recommend Ballard's Horeiiound Syrup to our customers because it gives better satisfaction than any other cough syrun we ever sold. Mallard's Moretiouud Kyrup, for cousump'ion, coughs and colds, will preserve the health and add long years to life. Ballard's Hourhouml Hyrup uot only cures consumption, but coughs, colds. Bronchitis, Asthma, hoarseness and all afleciionsof the throat, chest and iuues yield at once to it* wonderful curative power*. 1( vou doubt It get a free trial tot« tie at T. t. Brown son's drug storo. 1

Honesty pays. So say I'oit A Co., who advertise in this paper pure and honest house paints. Read their advertisement on page .r and try their paints. Vou run no risk Huv through your dealer, who gets a guarau ee from them, ami he wili warrant to you tertainly this is fair. Honest goods and square dealing their motto.

Worth Knowing.

Mr. W. II. Morgan, merchant. Lake City, Fla., was taken with a severe cold, attendoil with a distressing c-'iigh and running into consumption in Its tir«-t stages. tie trj»d many so-called popular eough icrm-dies and steadily grew worse. Was rcdu^-d in flesh, had tiitlleuby in breathing and wsls tiuahle tosb'ep. Finally tried lr. King's New I»iscovcry for consumption and found immediate relief, audattt uring about a half dozen bottles found himself well and has had no re lurnofthe disease, No other remedy can show so grand a record of cures, a.s |)r. king's New Discovery for Consumption guaranteed to doJu-t what »s claimed f'U'lt. Trinl buttle freeat Nye tt Co's.drugstore. I

IiEtK&I*

L-tal.'nf M. rv 1. Porter, deceased. OTU'K OF APl'OIN I'M KNT. ,.\

Notireis luTi.-by given, that the undersigned has hucn appointed an-i dulv qualified as administratrix of thu estate of Marv II. Porter, lale of Montgomery county, Indiana, deceased. Said state is supposed to l»c solvent.

JA.MKs A. POItTKR.

Dated, heb. le&i. Administrator.

ilKllil-'l 'h S,M,K.

By virtue of a certified copy of a decree to me directed from the Clerked the Montgomery C:rcnit Court, in a cause wherein Ha/d 1 racv is Plaintiff, and Abraham Vork et al are defend «nls, requiring me to make the sum of -une hundred aud lifty-eight dollars and sixty-two cents, with inter* st on said decree and costs, I will expose at public sale to the highest bidder on

SATL'KDAV, MAItril 3rd, A. 1). ISMft. between the hours of lOoYlock a. in. and *1 o'clock p. in. «f said day, at the door of the Court House in the cityof (JrawforiUviile, Montgomery County Indian ), the rents and profits for a term not exceeding hiven years, the following real estate In the tnunty of Montgomery and State of Indiana to-wii:

Lot number eleven (11) as known and described on the original plat of the town of Middlctown, now Wavnetown.

If such rents and profits will not sell for a sufil fieient sum 1o satisfy said decree, interest aim co stsl will, at the same lime and place,expose te puhlir sale the fee simple of said real estator so much thereof as may be sufficient to discharge sanl decree, interest and costs. Said sale will ie made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws.

KliKNkXEK McCLASKKV, Sheriff Montgomery county,

liv .1. (J. W. Wli.itlT! Deputy. Mallard Ar Ballard Attorneys for Plaintiff. Feb. 11, l.SHH. Pf. tiHoO.

jow Rates to Pacific Coast.

The new agreement between the transcontinental line* uuihnri/eH «, lower rate to Pacific coast points via tho Manitoha-Pneiiic route linn is made via any ot b- line. Frequent exeursions. Accommodations lirst-coi.ss. For rali'S. intips, and other STIPAUL A particulars, applv to V. A

l'lLUl. .Minn.

ffl AM iTQB EL

MEDICAL.

Is the best remedy for

all complaints peculiar

to women

li. 1). VisiiKu—ITciiltH officer at jiiilinnupnlis. I ml..—in a letter to 1.1m /. 'i-I'liora Medieine Company, under of .lime ^'.l. \si. says: "1 have learned from reliable sources tint your lnedirine is 'kin^' anions the women and I know that niv own wife is very inm-li stronger when slin uses it: she cannot ijct along without, it sho cannot say too much in its praise. If agreeable to her, I will send you her letter of recommendation."

Two day* later received Mrs. Ki^her's letter* lNiiA.\Aror.is, lNn..ni(i X. Xew) .lersey St., .July 1, ISSIS. Ztwi-l'hnrit Mrd. ('•., Kultnnit:i«\ ^fU•h. (Jkxti.kmk.n 1 have given Zoal'hora but a limited trial, and am so rejoiced at the result I liesilated no longer to recommend it to others. I have been a sufferer from nervous: headache for twenty years and owing to a general enfeebied condition of my nervous system I was continually tired, worn out. and able to accomplish but little each day. My husband sent me away from home, and domestic cares to my mother's house to rest. It was there I tirst. learned of and tried Zoal'ltora. I have used two bottles and? as a result I am no longer atllicteiij \\:'h that terrible nervous lieadacho, :'ud now when am the least bit weary a few doses of Zoa-I'hora takes it all away and refreshes me. My sleep is usually sound and my genera] health better than for years previous to its use. It has proven a great relief to nin in eradicating the liearing down pains ami backache so general and peculiar to my sex. I shall continue to reeon mend it to my neighbors and acquaintances, and hope to always have it in my house. Any lady wishing to test the authenticity of this letter can do so by writing me.

Very truly

yom s.

Mies. JI. I',

risiiim.

Sold bv Every rugg.si in wn.

PROFESSIONAL.

W.l'.BIilTTllN. H-.S.MUFFKTI'.

BRITTON & MOFFETT AT rORNEYS-AT-LAW,

CHAVVFORlJSV11.I.E. 1N 1)1 AN A. Ofllce over Mofl'ett, Morgan A CoN. drug tore.

WM. M. REEVES, NOTARY PUBLIC AND LAWYER.

()flic» over Kline .V (iraham's.

Will en^aifc in all kirn's ot law practice and aho ac. as trustee, receiver or :tssi«!iee when dered. No charges made for consultation.

J. II. Ht'KFOltl). \V.

I'.S. KKNNKDY, U. S. Commissioner.

T. WllITriNCJTON,

Burford & Whittington, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,

C11A W KOIUS V11.LK, I XIIA N A. Practice In Mnmgmm-ry and Ddjoininu coimtirftand In the Supreme and Federal court Are members of tin* lurs*eM and most reliable law associations and make collect ions throughout the wond. Mottuaues foreclosed Kstates properly settled. l'hnr«es reasonable. OlHee over liMi-J Hast Malt) street.

F. D. ABRAHAM,

Attorru'Y-at-Law and Notary Public, CKA \V KOItOSV IJ jI.K, INDIANA. Oflicc in room N'n. 'J. I "t :nvford I {lock, on Main Sti

ni s.M

Notary Public.^

Kennedy & Kennedy, ge ATTURNEYS-AT-LAW,

CUAWKOItaSYIU.K, INIMANA. Dtlice in ftnbatui Uloirk, North WaM.in^t'm St

M. I». WI11TI J. K. lirv.I'lIltlKS

White & Humphries,

ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,

IliA WI'OUDSVI I.I,K, INDIANA,

PENSIONS.

CAI'T. S. A STII.WKI.I,,

PENSION AND CLAIM AGENT

Special attention tilveu to pensions, increase and all kinds ol ^overnmeiit claims. Oflice No. 1 Joel Rlock, Crawfortlsville, Ind.

DR. A. F. Henry,

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, fit A Wl'OK] S V11. U-:t IN 1 1A N A. Oflleo over Cohoon Fisher's h.irdware store, Kobb's block. Ottlce hours from 7 to 11 HO a m.. and I lo.rijiml7 to p. residenceDu" West Main St. Diseases of the Heoturn a specialty, such as Fissure, Fistula itchinn of the Annis.etc. I'ilcsofull Kinds per* maiiently cured without the kulle ligature, hot Iron, clamp or pain. Treatment does not detain a person from their usual business or require any changes In diet. Can treat piles us well or better by lump lli»lit as dnylluht. Patients wishing to use the hours ol lamp light, should mako appointment a dav or two before.

M. II. (JAI.KV H. V. ALKY

GALEY BROTHERS, DENTISTS,

CUAWFOIIDHVILLK, JNDIANA. Office. Fisher Bloc!t, Main St.

THEO. McMECHAN, DENTIST.

CnAWKOUUSVlLLE, INDIANA. Tenders his service to tho public. Motto: "Good work and moderate prices Otllco over Mason's l-ailor shop.