Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 31 October 1890 — Page 7

f&he Qemvcvat 1 JKCATUR?IND, X. B&ACKBVII'N, •, • • Pnni.wnxn. A woman in New York lurniahes loveletters at apiece. Mit. Sullivan, who is filled with noble purposes regarding the stage, is more likely to elevate the dram than the drama. • It takes about three seconds for a message to go from one end of the Atlantic cable to the other—about 700 miles a second. / The pastor of a Denver church offers a trip to Europe for twenty-,five cents a chance. How his people would 1 smile if he should happen to preach a sermon , aganst the Louisiana lottery. Os the old States Nebraska seems most likely to get the prize for rapid growth in population during the past teu'years. It will be hard to beat an increase of 135 per cent, m that period of time. Duiu.no the six years comprised in the period 1883 to 1888 no less than 280 pupils of the public school/ in Prussia have committed suicide. A large number of the*e suicides was inspired by the fear of not passing examinations. Du. Ghanofesky recently saw in Russia a Jewish boy who had stolen a ‘ 4 pear have the word "thief” deeply branded into the bone of his forehead in three places with nitrate of silver, while his body was otherwise systematically mutilated. Russian despotism, like alt. cowardly brutality, loves to vent its worst atrocities upon women and children. Italy hast complained to Spain that the ultramontane speakers of the Saragossa Catholic Congress used violent language against her and hsr King. If his enemies do not fire off anything more dangerous than their mouths at him Humbert ought to be able to eat his maecaroni and cheese with a placid and contented mind. A mouth is only dangerous to the man who uses it. Stkno-teleukapuy is a new system of communication that is attracting some attention in France. The inventor, M. Cassagnes, claims tube able to direct by a single wire manifold reports of speeches, either in short or long hand. The instrument resembles a type-writer, but is more difficult of manipujatioh. ; With it the inventor says he can transmit 175 words in a minute. ________ A man in-Indiana, who weighed 400 pounds,'correctly predicted his death a tew days in advance, and the right-sized coffin and everything he had ordered for the intefment were in readiness at his decease. If anybody should be endowed with the prophetic power to forecast his death it should be the man who weighs 400 pounds, whose sudden and unexpected demise produces no end of confusion at the undertaker’s. -? - ‘ Fkei>. Eldek, cf Detroit, was a prize college graduate. His friends predicted great things for him. His memory was phenomenal and he could recall the words, paragraph and line of a quotation from Kent or Blackstone, but, like the average college prodigy, he didn’t wear well in practical life. Then, too, he learned to play chess. Let a • a mam become firmly addicted to chess and it requires a strong constitution to shake it off. Mr. Elder played chess too much, lost all interest in work and has just been committed for vagrancy. The stockholdm-s of the Eiffel Tower, enterprise are fwding blue just now in consequence of the steady diminution of their receipts. In the season now closing 665,000 francs were taken in. \ The cost of keeping the tower open was 050,000 francs, and 300,000 francs more were spent for repairs. Next season the small profit of this year will be wiped out, it is expected, and a considerable deficit will appear in place of it. In view of this probability 168,000 francs were reserved for future us® from the profits of the exhibition year. "A big thing in companies” says an English company, “is the Gordon Hotels, limited, with £1,601,000 share capital and £BOQ,OOO debentures, to take over the Grand Hotel, Hotel Metropole. First Avenue Hotel, (all in London); the Hotel Metropole, Monte Carlo; the Hotel Metropole, Cannes; the Burlington Hotel, Eastbourne; the Royal Pier Hotel, Ryde, Isle of Wight, and the Hotel Metropole, Brighton. As heretofore, I believe, all Mr. Gordon’s ventures (and they havq been many) have been mighty profitable, because well managed, this new amalgamation will , be a good thing. Some sharpers have been working a shrewd scheme in. towns in Pennsylvania. They were supplied with bottles which they said with a significant wink contained cold teu, and they sold them off rapidly at 50 cents apiece. That wink, however, was a guile and a snare. Instead of the fine old whisky which every purchaser believed he was buying the bottles bad contained just what the sharpers had said they contained—cold tea. There was some tall swearing when the fraud was discovered, and the victims declare they shall never buy “cold tea” again unless it bears a certificate of character signed by a member of the United States ate. The value of character, in theory at least, is recognized even by those who are lacking in it. Everybody understands that without some degree of conk fidence in the integrity of our fellowmen society would be an impossibility. In certain of the relations of life we can men under bonds and compel them ■rive security for their honesty; but - B far tlie neater number of those Mons we are forced to rely on the

man himself, and on our belief in his integrity. - The entire credit system of the country, with all its infinitely varied ramifications, depends on the confidence which man reposes in his fellows; and throughout the business world there is a sharp line of distinction drawn between the men who have always shown themselves trustworthy and those whose reputation for honesty and integrity has been smirched. The former,even when their names are limited, can always command credit and confidence. The latter cannot, though their means and ultimate resposibility are boundless. In an age when nothing seems impossible to inventive genius it is not improbable that we shall see such a steamship as was pictured by one of the English delegates to the Internationa] Iron and Steel Conference in a speech at Pittsburgh/ He described a behemoth of the Jseas 1,000 feet in length and 300 reEt in breadth, impelled by 60,000 horse-power engines and rushing through the waters of the vasty deep at the rate of fifteen knots per hour. It was not merely a dream of the imagination either, for he asserted that he had been consulted with reference to the building of a ship of such dimensions and propulsive power. Recent discoveries as to the production of that featherweight, but immensly strong metal, aluminium, commend this semi-predic-tion of the English shipbuilder as not merely possible, but altogether probable. If aluminium can be produced in large quantities at moderate cost, as now appears probable, the steamships of the future will exceed in size and power even this seemingly fanciful picture. It has often been stated and never denied that Americans have the poorest teeth of any people in the entire world. They commence to decay early, and unless strict attention be paid to them the work of destruction goes on till there is nothing left We have as many dentists as doctors and most of them are kept steadily employed at high wages. A leading scientist asserts that American dentists insert each year over 2,000 pounds of gold in the teeth of their patients, which is worthat least $500,000. From this it seems evident that our present graveyards will be the future gold mines of the country. Bodysnatching would be profitable business now if earned on in fashionable cemeteries, even if the forms of the dear departed were carefully reconsigned to earth. Scientific men have long been seeking to discover the cause of the decay of teeth iu this country, especially among the more wealthy and fashionable classes. Some have thought that it was due to climatic influnces, others to the general use of ice water and ice cream and still others to drinking so much hot tea and coffee. It appears that dentists are no more likely to agree than doctors, for some of them make light of all these theories, and declare that teeth decay for the reason that they are not used enough. They state that the teeth of the very poor people, who eat corn bread and tongh meat, are as sound as those of negroes and Indians. People, however, who do not give their teeth proper exercise, as those who eat little except custards, puddings, canned fruit and escolloped oysters, soon have their teeth eaten up by a kind of dry rot. The cavities in them must be filled with gold or artificial teeth must be substituted for those of natural production. 91,000,000 for a Gun. , According to news just received by Way of London, the Messrs. Colt, our famous American gun makers, have bought the American rights to the Giffard gun patents for £200,01)0. Experts who have seen the gun in practice are enthusiastic in its praise. The French Government is said to be experimenting on its application to cannon of the largest size, says the Philadelphia Record. What is the Gigard gun? A few days ago it was exhibited at the headquarters of the Scottish rifle volunteers in London. M. Giffard himself was present. To Outward appearance it was a simple thing enough, consisting of a small tube of toughest steel, only nine inches in length, containing nothing that, when opened,theeyecan see, the ear hear, the nose smell or the fingers touch. Yet that small tube may yet be destined to destroy empires. The tough steel tube, nine inches long, is charged with liquefied carbonic acid gas, the same gas that we breathe from our lungs after every respiration, but converted by liquefaction into one of the most powerful propulsives knoAvn. It is fixed to the barrel of the rifle in such away that when the trigger is pulled a drop of the liquefied gas is forced into the breech of the gun behind the bullet, where, instantaneously resuming a gaseous condition, it develops a force equal to 500 pounds pressure on the square inch. The bullet is then expelled at any degree of velocity desired, for the power can be increased or diminished by a simple turn of the screw. The pressure is equally distributed and continuously increased until the bullet leaves the barrel. There is no sudden explosion such as that which constitutes the constant puzzle of the artillerist to overcome. There is no smoke, no noise, no recoil, no smell, no heat. A slight fizz, like the escape of gas from a soda water bottle, is the only sound which announces the dispatch of a bullet that flattens itself against the target at a distance of 1,200 yards. There is no danger from leakage. The new propellant is indifferent to heat or damp. It will not burst under the impact of a heavy blow, and it is so cheap that 250 bullets can be fired at the cost of a penny. Keeping Up Appearances. Husband (suddenly waking up at dead of night)—What in the world was that noise? Wife (calmly)—lt’s all right, dear. The guests of the Astor ball are just coming home, and I slipped down and gave our front door a slam, so the neighbors would think we were there.— New York Weekly. "Watts—Do you believe everything your wife tells you? Potts—Everything— except when she tells me I am an idiot. I can’t quite go that, »ou know.

DEAD SEA AND JORDAN. SERMON DELIVERED BY DR. T. DEWITT TALMAGE. The Eminent Divine Continues His Narrative ot Hla Interesting Journey Through the Holy Land. Dr. Talmage announced his text as Psalm civ, 32: “He toucheth the hills and they smoke.” He said: David the poet here pictures a volcano, and what Church's Cotopaxi does on painter’s canvas this author does in words. You see a hill, calm and still and for ages immovable, but the Lord out Os the heavens put his fingers on the top of it and from it rise thick vapors, undershot with fire. “He toucheth the hills and they smoke.” God is the only being who can manage a volcano, and again and again has he employed volcanic action. The pictures on the walls of Pompeii, the exhumed Italian city, as we saw them last November, demonstrate that the city was not fit to live. In the year 79, on the 4th of August, a black column rose above the adjoining mountain and spread out, Pliny says, as he saw it, like a great pine tree, wider and wider, until it began to rain upon the city, first thin ashes and then pumice stone, and sulphurjoua fumes scooped, and streams of mud poured through the streetstill few people escaped and the city was buried, and some of the inhabitants 1,800 years after were found embalmed in the scoria? of thataAvful doom. The Lord called upon volcanic forces to obliterate that profligate city. He touched the hills and they smoked. Nothing but volcanic action can explain what I shall show you at the Dead Sea upon which I looked last December, and of whose waters I took a bitter and stinging taste. Concerning all that region there has been controversy enough to fill libraries, science saying one thing, revelation saying another thing. But admit voteanic action divinely employed and both testimonies are one and the same. Geology, chemistry, geography, astronomy, ichthyology, ornithology and zoology are coming one by one to confirm the Scriptures. Two leaves of one book are Revelation and Creation, and the penmanship is by the same divine hand. Our horseback ride will not be so steep to-day, and you can stay on without clinging to the pummel of the saddle, but the scenes amid which we ride shall, if possible, be more thrilling, and by the time the horses snuff the sulphurous atmosphere of Lake Asphaltites or the Dead Sea we will be ready to dismount and read from our Bibles about Avhat was done that day by the Lord when He touched the hills and they smoked. Take a detour and pass along by the rocky fortress of Masada, where occurred something more wonderful in the Avay of desperation than you have ever heard of, unless you have heard ofHhat. Herod built a palace amid these heaps of black and awful rocks, which look like a tumbled midnight. A great band of > robbers—about one thousand, including their families—afterward held the fortress. When the Roman army stormed that steep, and the bandits could no longer hold the place, their chieftain, Eleazar, made a powerful speech, which persuaded them to die before they were captured. First the men kissed their families a loving and tearful good-bye and then put a dagger into their hearts, and the women and the children were slain. Then ten men Avere chosen by lot to slay all the other men. and each man lay down by the dead wife and children and waited for these executioners to do their work. This done, one man of the ten killed the other nine. Then the survivor committed suicide. .Two women and five children had hid themselves and, after all was over, came forth to tell of the nine hundred and sixty slaughtered. Great and rugged natural scenery makes the most tremendous natures for good or evil. Great statesmen and great robbers, great orators and great butchers were nearly all born or reared among mountain precipices. Strong natures are hardly ever born upon the plain. When men have anything greatly good or greatly evil to do they come down off the rocks. Pass on from under the shadow of Masada, the spene of concentrated diabolism, 'and come along where the salt crystals crackle under the horses’ hoofs. You are near the most Godforsaken region of all the earth. You to whom the word lake has heretofore suggested those bewitchments of beauty Luzerne or Cayuga, some great pearl set by a loving God in the bosom of the luxuriant valley, change all your ideas about a lake, and see this sheet of water which the Bible calls the Salt Sea, or Sea of the Plain, and Josephus calls Lake Asphaltites. The muleteers will take care of the horses while we go down to the brink and dip up the liquid mixture in the palm of the hand. The waters are a commingling of brimstone and pitch, and have six times larger percentage of salt than those of the Atlantic Ocean, the ocean having four per cent, of salt and this lake twenty-six and a quarter per cent. Lake Sir-i-kol of India is the highest lake in the world. This lake, on the banks of which we kneel, is the lowest lake. It empties into no sea, among other things for the simple reason that water cannot run up hill. It sivallows up the River Jordan and makes no response of thanks, and never reports what it does with the tAventy million cubic feet of water annually received from that sacred river. It takes the tree branches and logs floated into it by the Jordan and pitches them on the banks of bitumen to decay there. In these regions once stood four great cities of Assyria; Sodom. Gomorrah, Adma, and Zeboim. The Bible says they were destroyed by a tempest of fire and brimstome.after these cities had filled up i of wickedness. “No, that is absurd,” cries some one, “It is evident that this was a region of salt -and brimstone and pitch long before that.” And so it was. The Bible says it was a region of sulphur long before the great catastrophe. “Well, now,” says some one, Avanting to raise a quarrel between science and Revelation. "you have no right to say the cities of the plain were destroyed by a« tempest Os lire and sulphur and brim- ■ stone, because? this region had these characteristics long before these cities Avere destroyed.” Volcanic action, is my reply. These cities had been built out of very combustible materials. The mortar was of bitumen easily ignited, and the Aval* dripped with pitch most inflammable. They sat, I think, oh a ridge of hills. They stood high up and conspicuous, radiant in their sins, ostentatious in their debaucheries, four hells on earth. One day there was a rumbling in the eai th, and a quaking. “What’s that?”’ cry the affrighted inhabitants. “What’s that?” The foundations of the earth' were giving way. A volcano, whose fires had been burning for ages, at God’s , command burst forthC easily setting ‘ everything aflame, and first lifting these , cities high in air, and then dashing them ; down in chasms fathomless. The tires i of that eruption intershot the dense . smoke, and rolled unto the heavens,only I to descend again. And al! the configure- I lion of that country was changed, and ■ where there was a hill there came a | valley, and where there had been the pomp of uiicleanness came widespread . desolation. The red hot spade of vol-I canic action had shoveled under the j

cities pf the plain. Before the catastrophe the cities stood on the top ot the salt and sulpher. After the catastrophe they were under the salt and sulphur. Science right; Revelation right. “He toucheth the hills and they smoke.” My text implies that God controls volcanoes not with the full force of His hand, but with the tip of His finger. Etna, Stromboli and Vesuvius fawn at His feet like hounds before the hunter. These eruptions of the hills do not belong to Pluto’s realm, as the ancients thought, but to the divine dominions. Humboldt counted two hundred of them, but since then the Indian Archipelago has been found to have nine hundred of these great mouthpieces. They are on every continent and in all latitudes. That earthquake which shook all America about six or seven summers ago was’ only the raving around of volcanoes rushing against the sides of their rocky caverns trying to break out. They must come to the surface, but it will be at the divine call. They seem reserved for the punishment of one kind of sin. The seven cities they have obliterated were celebrated for one kind of transgression. Profligacy was the chief characteristic of the seven cities over which they put their smothering wing—Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabise, Adma, Zeboim, Sodom, and Qomorrah. If our American cities do not quit their profligacy, if in high life and low life dissoluteness does liot cease to be a joke and become a crime, if wealthy libertinism continues to find so many doors of domestic life open to its faintest touch, if Russian and French and American literature steeped in pruriency does not get banished from the news stands and ladies’ parlors, God will let loose some of these suppressed monsters of the earth. And I tell these American cities that it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, whether that day of judgment be in this present century or in the closing century of the earth's continuance. The volcanic forces are already in existence, but in the mercy of God they are chained in the kennels of subterraneous fire. Yet let profligacy, whether it stagger into a lazaretto or sit on a commercial throne, whether it laugh in a faded shawl under the street gas light or be wrapped in the finest array that foreign loom ever wrought or lapidary ever impearled, know right well that there is a volcano waiting for it, whether in domestic life, or social life, or political life,, or in the foundations of the barth from which sprang out the devastations that swallowed the cities of the plain. “He toucheth the hills and they smoke.” But the dragoman was rejoiced when avc had seen enough of this volcanic region of Palestine, and he gladly lightens the girths for another march around the horses, which are prancing and neighing for departure. We are off for the Jordan, only two hours away. Now Ave come through regions where there are hills cut into the shape of cathedrals, with altar and column and arch and chancel and pulpit and dome and ,architecture of the rocks, that I think can hardly just happen so. Perhaps it it because God loves the church so well he builds in the solitudes of Yellowstone Park and Yosemite and Switzerland and Palestine these ecclesiastical piles. And who knows but that unseeirspirits may sometimes worship there? “Dragoman, when shall we see the Jordan?" I ask. All the time we were on the alert, and looking through tamarisk and willows for the greatest river of all the earth. The Mississippi is wider, the Ohio is deeper, the Amazon is longer, the Hudson rolls amid regions more picturesque, the Thames has more splendor on its banks, the Tiber suggests more imperial procession, the Ilyssus has more classic memories, and the Nile feeds greater populations by its irrigation; but the Jordan is the queen of rivers and runs through. all the Bible, a silver thread strung like beads with heroics, and before night Ave shall meet on its banks Elijah and Elisha and David and Jacob and Joshua and John and Jesus. At last between two trees I got a glimpse of a river, and said, “What is that?” “The Jordan,” was the quickreply. And all along the line which had been lengthened by other pilgrims, some from America and some from Europe and some from Asia, the cry was sounded, “The Jordan! The Jordan!” Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have chanted on its banks and bathed in its waters. Only one boat, that of Lieut. Lynch, ever lived to sail the whole length of it. At the .season when the snows on Lebanon melt the rage of this stream is like the Connemaugh when Johnstown perished, and the wild beasts that may be near run for the hills, explaining what Jeremiah says, “Behold he shall go up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan,” No river so often changesits mind, for it turns and twists, traveling 200 miles to do that which in a straight line might be done in sixty miles. Among banks now low, now high, now of rocks, now of mud and notv of sand, laving the feet of the terebinths and oleanders and acacias and reeds and pistachios and silver poplars. This river marries the Dead Sea to Lake Galilee, and did ever so rough a groom take the hand of so fair a bride? This is the river which parted to let an army of two million Israelites across. Here the skilled major general of the Syrian host at the seventh plunge dropped his leprosy, not only by miraculous cure, but suggesting to all ages that water, and plenty of it, has much to do with the sanitary improvement of the world. Here is where some theological students of Elisha's time were cutting trees with which to build a theological seminary, and an ax head not sufficiently Avedged to the handle flew off into the river and sank, and the young man deplored not so much the loss of the ax head as the fact that it Avas not his dwn,' and cried, “Alas! it wasborroAved,” i and the prophet threw a stick into the river, and in defiance of the law of gravitation the iron ax head came to the surface and floated like a cork upon the water, and kept floating till the young man caught it. A miracle performed to give one an opportunity to return that which was borrowed, and a rebuke in all ages for those who borrow and never return, ; their bad habit in this respect so estat>lished that it would be a miracle if they did return it. Yea, from the bank of this river Elijah took a team of fire, showing that the most raging element is a servant of the good, and that there is no need that a child of God fear anything; for if the most destructive of all elements was that day fashioned into a vehicle for a departing saint, nothing can ever hurt you who love and trust in the Lord. I am so glad that that chariot of Elijah was not made out of wood or crystal or anything ordinarily pleasant, but out i of fire, and yet he went up Avithout hav- . ing so much as to fan himself. When, ‘ stepping from amid the foliage of these oleanders and tamarisks on the banks of the Jordan, he put his foot on the red ‘ step of the red equipage, and took the , red reins of vapor in his hands and ’ stirred the galloping steeds to the wide lopen gate of heaven, it was a scene forever memorable. So the hottest afflictions of your life I may roll you heavenward. So the most ■ burning persecutions, the most fiery [ troubles, may become uplifting. Only < be sure that when you pull on the bits of fire you drive up toward God, and not I down toward the Dead Sea. When Lati imer and Ridley died at th® stake they

went up in a chariot of fire. When my friend P. P. Biiss, the gospel singer, was consumed with the rail train that broke through Ashtabula bridse and then took flame, I said, ‘‘Another Elijah cone up in a chariot of fire!” But this river is a river of baptisms. Christ was here baptized and John baptized many thousands. Whether On these occasions the candidate for baptism and the officer of religion went into this river, and then, while both were standing the Avatcr was dipped in the hand of one and sprinkled upon the forehead of the other, or whether the entire form of the one baptized disappeared for a moment beneath the surface of the flood, Ido not now declare. While I can not think Avithout deep emotion of the fact that my parents held me in infancy to the baptismal font in the old meeting house at Somerville, and assumed vows on my behalf, I must tell you now of another mode of baptism observed in the river Jordan on that afternoon in last December, the particulars of which I noAv for the first time relate. It was a scene of unimaginable solemnity. A comrade in our Holy Land journey rode up by my side that day and told me that a young man who Avas studying for the gospel ministry would like to be baptized by me in the river Jordan. I got all the facts I could concerning his earnestness and faith, and through personal examination made myself confident he was a Avorthy candidate. There were among our Arab attendants two robes not those used for American baptistries, and these were obtained. As we were to have a large group of different nationalities present I dictated to my daughter a few verses, and had copies enough made to allow all to sing. Our dragoman had a man familiar Avith the river wade through and across to show th 3 depth and the swiftness of the stream, and the most appropriate place forithe ceremony. Then I read from the Bible the accounts of baptisms in that sacred stream, and implored the presence of the Christ on whose head the doA’e descended at the Jordan. Then, as the candidate and myself stepped into the Avater, the people on the banks sang in full and resounding voice: On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand. And cast a wishful eye To Canaan’s fair and happy land, 'Where my j>ossessions lie. Oh, the transporting, rapturous scene That rises to my sight: Sweet fields arrayed in living green And rivers of delight. By this time avc had reached the middle of the river. As the candidate sank under the floods, and rose again under a baptism in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, there rushed through our souls a tide Os holy emotion .such as we shall not probably feel again until we step into the Jordan that divides earth from heaven. Will those Avaters be deep? Will the tide he strong? No matter if Jesus stays in with us. Friends on this shore to help us off. Friends on tin? other shore to see us land. See! They are coming doAvn the hills on the other side to greet us. How well Ave knoAv their step!- How easily we distinguish their voices! From bank to bank we hail them with tears and they hail us Avith palm branches. They say to us, “Is that you, father?’’ “Is that you, mother?” and we answer by asking, “Is that you, my darling?” How near they seem and how narroAV the stream that divides us! Could wo but stand where Moses stood And view the landscape o'er. Not Jordan’s stream nor death’s cold flood Could fright us from the shore. Damaged. Some years ago, when railroads were still a novelty in the West, a wagonload of country people came ten miles to look at a railroad engine and a train of cars. None of them had ever seen such a sight, with the exception of one old and loquacious man. He had not only seen an “injine” before, but had “rid behind one.” He was naturally the great man of the hour, and perhaps was to be pardoned for putting on some rather comical airs of self-importance. With his friends following close at his heels he walked all around the engine enlightning them in regard to its workings and tue value of steam in general. “Now, this is the steam chist, and this is the cow-ketcher, and these are the drive wheels,” he said, touching everything he named Avith the end of a queer old cane of twisted wood, until an old lady, evidently his wife, said: “Don’t tech things, pa, don’t. There’s no telling what harm you might do.” The old gentleman paid no heed to this admonition, but went on touching the various parts of the engine. “This is the driving shaft, and this, of course, is the b’iler, and this—” At that moment the engineer, in a spirit of mischief, blew the whistle, with a loud, unearthly screech, which caused the examining party to fly precipitately with shrieks of affright. Shaking her finger reprovingly at her husband, the old lady said, in a tone of dismay: “There, now, pa! I told you you’d do some mischief with that meddlin’ cane. I s’pect we’ll have it to pay for. Somethin’s bu’st sure. I ain’t" goin’ nigh the thing again 1” — Youth’s Companion. Peculiar Chicken lUes. I “During the campaign in Mississippi,” said an old soldier, “we were short on rations, and one of the boys and myself were out foraging. We had only gone a short distance, when we met a couple of young boys coming tc ward camp with some pies. They were chicken pies, the boys said, and we purchased them without hesitation. We paid the boys and sat right down and commenced eating, for we were as hungry as wolves. Just as we had about consumed the pies we heard th® boys quarreling over in the woods about the division of the money. Listening, we heard one of the boys in a whining voice, say: “Now, Bill, gol darned you, you’ve got to give me half that money, for you know them puppies was half mine!” “Well, in about half a second we were the sickest confederates you ever saw, and from that day to this I have never been able to eat any kind of meat pie.” A Valuable Wooden Leg. A certain Martuoff died recently in St, Petersburg. He owned a house in the Liteinoja and was very rich, but he lived like a beggar and almost starved his son to death. He used to strap a wooden leg under his right one and go out begging. At night he put the wooden leg under his pillow and fastened it about his neck by a long strap. 0 At the time of his death not a pfennig of money could be found in the house. In anger the son took the wooden leg and threw it with all his might on the floor, so that it broke in two. To his surprise he saw that the leg was hollow and that it had been used by the deceased as a hiding-place for his money. The wooden leg contained 3003)00 roubles. “I am glad to see you coining tc church again regularly,” remarked Dr. Choker. “Yes, I had to,” replied MoWatty. “The chap who lives next dooi to me has got to practicing on the cornet on Sunday morning and I can’t gef • wink of sleep if I stay at home.”

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