Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 9 January 1891 — Page 7

A A NEW YEARS SERMON. preached by the great F* BROOKLYN DIVINE. T~ He Describes a Forward Movement—Tile Conflict Between Kight and 'V.'V'jg. < Christians Should Not Lose Courage, but J Should Pass on to Victory. A 1 Dr. Talmage’s sermon of last Sunday is a ringing battle cry to ministers and Christians everywhere, calling upon them to join in a combined charge on the inp trenchments of sin an Satan. ' ■ ‘ The eminent preacher spoke as follows from the text Luke xxiv, 47, “Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until ye be endued with power from on high:” • For a few months, in the providence of God, I have two pulpits, one in Brooklyn and the other in New York, and through the kindness of the printing press an ever widening opportunity. To all such hearers and readers I come wyth an especial messa„e. The time has arrived for a forward movement such as the church and the world have never seen. That these is a need for such a religious movement is evident from the fact that never since our world was swung out among the planets has there been such an organized and determined effort to overthrow -righteousness and makefthe ten commandments obsolete and the whole Bible a derision. Meanwhile alcoholism is taking down its victims by the hundreds of thousands, and the political parties get down on their knees, practically saying: “Oh, though almighty rum jug! we bow .down before thee. Give us the offices, city, State and National. Oh, give us the offices and we will worship thee for ever and ever, ‘ Amen.” The Christian Sabbath meanwhile, appointed for physical, mental, and spiritual rest, is being secularized and abolished. <■ As if the bad publishing houses di our own country had exhausted their literary tilth, the French and Russian sewers have been invited to pour j. their scurrility and moral slush into the » trough where our American swine are now Swallowing. Meanwhile there are enough houses of infamy in all our cities, open and unmolested of the law, to invoke the omnipotent wrath which buried Sodom under a deluge of brimstone. . The pandenloniac world. 1 think, has “ massed its troops, and they are this moment plying their batteries upon family circles, church circles, social circles, political circles, and national circles. Apollyon is in the saddle, and, riding at the head of his myrmidons, would capture this world for darkness and Woe. That is the side-of the conflict mow raging. On the other side we have the most magnificent gospel machinery that the world ever saw or Heaven ever invented. In the first place, there are in this country more than 80.000 ministers of religion, and, take them .as a class, more consecrated, holier, more consistent, more self-denying, more faithful men never Jived. I know them by the ‘ thousands. A have met them in every city. I am told, not by them, but by people outside our profession, people engaged in Christian and reformatory work, that the clergy of America are at t he head » of all enterprises, and whoever else fail they may be depended on. The truth of ' this is demonstrated bv the fact th:pt ■ when a minister of religion does fail, it j is so exceptional that the newspap.ets report it as something startiing, while a hundred men in other callings 'may go down without the matter being considered as especially worth mentioning. V In addition to their equipment in moral character the clergy of this country have all that the schools can give. All archteologieal, rhetorical, scientific, scholastic, literary attainment. So much •* for the Christian ministry of all dehomiI* nations-. In the •next place, on our side ” of the conflict we have the grandestchurches of all time, and higher style of I membership and more of them, and a] host without number ot splendid men ; ■ and women who are doing-their best to have this world purified, elevated, gos-j peHzed. But we all feel that something I is -wairtinj?. Enough hearty songs have j been sung and enough earnest sermoqs I preached within the last six months to save ali'the cities.of 'America; and say- ■ ing tlie cities yon have the world, for ‘ they overflow all tlie laiitF either with : their r.< ligion or their infamy. . j But look' at some of the?' startling i ‘facts. It is nearly nineteen hundred j years since Jesus Christ came tfy the j way of Bethlehem caravansary to save j •" this ■ World, yet the most of J the world been no more touched by' this most stupendous fact of all ) eternity than if on the first Christmas night the beasts of the stall, amid ,the j bleetiEg <if tlieir. own young, had not | hoard the bleating of the Lamb i that was to - be slain. Out ; of the eighteen hundred mil- 1 lion.of the human race, fourteen him-; drqd million.are without God and with- ; out hope.in the world, the catirel driver * Os Arabia, Mahomet, with his nine wives, as many disciples as our blessed Chi ist, and more people are worshiping chunks of painted wood and - carved stone tlign are worshiping the ' living ami eternal God: Meanwhile, the most of us who are engaged in Christian work—l speak for myself as well as others—are toiling up to our full capacity of body, mind and son], harnessed up to the last buckle; not able to draw a pound more than we are dra.wing, or lift an ouncr- more tlutn we are lifting. What is tlie matter? My text lets T>ut the secret. We all need -more of the power from on high. Not -muscular power, not logical power, not scientific I power, not social [tower, not financial I power, nos brain power, but power from on high. AN ith it we could accomplish i more iir one week than without if in a hundred years. And I am going to get it. if in answer to prayer, „ earnest and long continued, God will grant it me, his unworthy servant. Several times in the history of the church and the, world has this power from on high been demonstrated. In the Seventeenth century, after a great season of moral depression, this power from on high came down upon John Tillotson ► and Owen and Flavel and Baxter and Bunyan, and there was a deluge of mercy higher than the tops of the highest i * mountains of sin. In the Eighteenth century, in England and America, religion was at a low water mark. k The infidel writings of Shaftesbury and Hobbes and Chubb had done their W work. But power from on high came upon both the Wesleys and Lady Huntington on the other side the Atlantic, and upon William Tennant and Gilbert Tehnant apd David Brainerd on this side the Atlantic, and both hemispheres felt the tread of a pardoning God. Coming *• to later date there may be here and there In this audience an aged man or woman who can remember New York in 1831, when this power from on high descended most wondrously. It came upon pastors and congregations and theaters and com- ’ mcrcial establishments. Chatham Street Theater, New York, was the scene of a most tremendous religious awakening. A committee of Christian gentlemen called upon the lessee of the theater and said they’ would like to buy the lease of the theater. He said, “What do you' want it for?” They replied, -“For a church.” “Ebr wh-a-a-t?” said the owner; NFora church,” was the reply. The owner said, “You may have it, and I will give you a thousand dollars io help you on with your work.” Arthur

Tappan, * man mightily persecuted in his time, but a man, as I saw him in his last days, as honest and pure and good as any man I ever knew, stepped on the stage of oldjChatham Theater as the actors were closing their morning rehearsal, and said, “There will be preaching here to-night on this stage,” and tlpfn gave out and sang with such people as were there the old hymn: The voice of free grace cries, escape to the mountain. For all that believe Christ has opened a fountain. The bar-room of the theater was turned into a prayer room, and eight hundred persons were present at the first meeting. For seventy successive nights religious services were held in that theater, and such scenes of mercy and salvation as will be subjects of conversation and congratulation among the ransomed in glory as long as heaven lasts. But I come to a later time—lßs7 —remembered by many who are here. I remember it especially as I had just entered the office of the ministry. It was a year of hard times. A great • panic had flung of thousands of people penniless. Starvation entered habitations that had never before known a want. Domestic lif.v, in many cases, became a tragedy. Suicide, garroting, burglary, assassination were rampant. What an awful day that was when the banks went down! There has been nothing like it in thirty years, and I pray God there may not be anything like it in the next .thirty centuries! Talk about your Black Fridays! li was Black Saturday, Black Sunday, Black Monday, Black Tuesday, Black Wednesday, Black Thursday as well as Black Friday. This nation in its extremity fell helpless before the Lord and cried for pardon and peace, and upon ministers and laymen the power from on high descended. Engine houses, warerooms, hotel parlors, museums, factories from 12 to 1 o’clock while the operatives were resting, were opened for prayers and sermons and inquiry rooms, and Burton’s old theater on Chambers street, where our ancestors used to assemble to laugh at the comedies, and all up and down the streets, and out on the* docks and on the deck of ships lying at the wharf, people sang, “All hail tlie power of Jesus’ name,” while others cried for mercy. A great mass meeting of Christians on a week day. in Jayne’s hall, Philadelphia, telegraphed to Fulton street prayer meeting in New York, saying. "What hath God wrought?” and a telegram went back saving, “Two hundred souls saved at our meeting to-day.” . The ship came through the Narrows intc'our harbor, th,e captain reporting that himself and all the crew had been converted to God between New Orleans and New York. In the busiest marts of our busiest American cities. where the worshippers of Mammon had been counting their golden beads, men began to calculate, ‘iWhat shall it profit a man if lie gain the whole world and lose his soul? The. waiter* in restaurants after the closing of thefrday's work knelt amoqgf the tables where} they had served. Policemen asked consent of the commissioners of police to be permitted to attend religious meetings. At Aibtfny members of the New York legislature assembled in the room of the Court of Appeals at half past 8 o’clock in the morning for prayer and praise. Printed invitations were sent, out to the firemen of New York saying, "Come as suits vottr convenience best, whether in fire or citizens’ dross, but come! come!” Quarrymen. knelt among the rocks. Fishermen knelt in their boats. Weavers knelt among the looms. Sailors knelt among their hammocks. Schoolmasters knelt among their classes. A gentleman traveling said there was a line of prayer meetings from Omaha to Washington City, and he mighf have added a line of prayer meetings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, coast,- and from the St. Lawrence to theGulfof ?.lexieo. As the power from on high in 1857 was more remarkable in academies of • music and Lyceum halls and theaters than ip churches', why not this winter of 1891 in these two academies of music, places of secular entertainment where we are during the rebuilding ot our Brooklyn Tabernacle, so grandly and graciously treated by the owners and lessors and lessees; why not expect and why not have the power from on high, comforting power, arousing power, convicting power, converting power, saving power, omnipotent power? My opinion is that in this cluster of cities by the Atlantic cost there I are 500,000 people now* ready to accept’ I the gospel call, if, fri,'ed from ali the conventionalities of the church, it were earnestly and with strong faith presented to them. In these brilliant assemblies there are hundreds who are not frequenters of churches, and who do not believe much if at all in ministers of religion or ecclesiastical But God knbws you have struggles in which you need 1 help and bereavements in which you ■ want solace, and persecutions in whicdi I you ought to have defense.-and perplex- i ties in which you need guidance, and with a profound thoughtfulness you stand by the gravy of the old year, and the cradle of the young yextr, wondering where you will be and what you will be when "rolling years shall cease to move,” Power from on high descend upon them! Men of New York and Brooklyn I oiler you God and heaven’. From the day you came to these-cities what a struggle you have had! lean tell from your careworn countenances, ami the tears iiPqour eyes, and the deep sigh you have just breathed that you want re-enforcement, ami here it is, greater than Blucher when he re-enforced Wei- i lington; greater than the Bank of, England when last month it re-enforced the Barings—namely, the Hod who, through Jesus Christ, is ready to pardon all your sin, comfort all your sorrows, scatter all ! your doubts, and swing all the shining gates of heaven wide open before your redeemed spirits j. Come into the kingdom of God! Without a half second of delay come in.! Many of my hearers to-day are what the work! calls and what I would call splendid fellows, and they seem happy enough, and are jolly and obliging, and if I were in trouble I would go to them with as much confidence as I would to my father if he were yet alive. But when they go to their rooms at night, or when the excitement of social .and business life ara'otf, they are not content, and they something better than this world can offer. I understand them so well I would, without any fear of being thought rough, put my right hand on their one shoulder and my left hand on their other shoulder, and push them into the kingdom of God. But I cannot. Power from on high, lay hold of them!

At tlie first communion after the dedication of our former church, three hundred and twenty-eight souls stood up in the ailes and publicly espoused the cause of Christ. At another time four hundred souls, at another time five hundred. And our four thousand five hundred membership were but a small part of those who' within those sacred walls took upon themselves the vows of the Christian. What turned them? What saved them? Power from the level? No; power from on high. But greater things are to be seen if ever these cities and ever this world is to be taken for God. There is one class of men and women in all these assemblages in whom I have especial interest, and that is those who had good fathers and mothers once, but they are dead. What multitudes of us are orphans! We may be 40, 50. 80 years old, but wa osver get

used to having father and mother gone. Oh, how often we have had troubles that we would like to have told them, and we always felt as long as father and mother were alive we had some one to whom we could go. Now, I would Hl<® to ask if y*ou think that all their prayers in your behalf had been answered. "‘No,” yob say, “but it is too late,Abe old folks are gone now.” * g" I must courteously contradictSfou. It is not too late. I have a friend in the ministry who was attending/'the last hours of an aged Christian, and my friend said to the old Christian, “Is there no trouble on your mind?” The old man turned his face to the wall for a few moments, and then said: “Only one thing. I hope for the salvation of my ten children, but one of them is yet saved; yet lam sure they will be. God means to wait until I am gone.” So he died. YA hen my friend told the circumstances eight of the ten had found the Lord, and I have no doubt the other two before this have found Him. Oh, that the long postponed answers to prayer for you. my brother, for you, my sister, might this hour descend in power, from on high. The history of these unanswered prayfers for you God only knows. They may been offered, in the solemn birth hour. They may have been offered when you were down with scarlet fever or diphtheria or membranous croup. They may have been offered some night when you were sound asleep in the trundle bed, and your mother came in to see if you were rightly covered in the cold winter night. They may have been offered at that time which comes at least once in almost every one’s life, when your father and mother had hard work to make a lining, and they feared that want would come to them and you. They may have been offered when the lips could no longer move and the eyes were closed for the long sleep. Oh, unanswered prayers of father and mother, where are you? In what room of the old homestead have they hidden? Oh, unanswered prayers, rise in a mist of many tears into a cloud, and then break in a shower which shall soften the heart of that man who is so hard he cannot cry, or that woman who is ashamed to pray! Oh, armchair of the age, now empty and in the garret among the rubbish, speak out! Oh, staff of the pilgrim who has ended his weary journey, tell of the parental anxieties that bent over thee. Oh, family Bible, with story of births and deaths, rustle some of thy time-worn, leaves, and let us of the wrinkled hands that once turned thy pages, and explain that spot where a tear fell upon the passage: “Oh, Absalom, my son, my son, would God I had died for thee?” Good and gracious God! what will become of us, if after having such a devout and praying parentage, we never pray for ourselves. AVe will pray. AVe will begin now. Oh, for the power on high, power to move this assemblage, power to save Brooklyn and New York, power of evangelism that shall sweep across this continent like am ocean surge, power to girdle the round earth with a red girdle dipped in the blood of the cross! If this forward movement is to begin at all, there must be some place for it to begin and why not this place? And there must be some time for it to begin, and why not this time? - : = Invention of Cxlass, The popular belief credits the Inven tion of glass to the Pheenicians, and our readers will recall, no doubt, the story of its fortuitous discovery by, Phoenician merchants who rested their cooking pots on blocks of natron (sub-carbonate of soda), anti found glass produced by the union of the alkali and the sand of the sea shore under the action of the heat. It is unquestionable, however, that the art of glass- making and glass working has been known from very remote times. The earliest example of glass of which the date has been preserved by“an inscription is of Egyptian origin. It is a small lion’s head of opaque blue glass, but changed externally to an olive green. It was found at Thebes by Signor Drovetti, and is now in the British Museum. The under side of this relic contains hieroglyphics which bear the name of an Egyptian monarch who lived aboui 2,41)0 B. C. Other relics of glass bearing inscriptionsahave been found among the ruins and tombs of the ancient nation, audio the tombs of Beni Hasin, which are at least as early as 2,000 B. C., the art of giass-blowing is represented in an unmistakable" manner. Fashions. A Merry Andrew wore a laced hat in 1714. ■ In 1793-4, pantaloons,* cropped hair and shoestrings, the total abolition of hair powder; buckles and rutiles characterized the men, while ladies exhibited heads rounded a la Victinie, a la Guillotine. The fashion of ladies of quality taking Brazil snuff in church is mentioned in a publication of this date. In 1692 gentlemen wore a neckcloth called Steenkirk,' so called from being first noticed at that battle. ' For a similar reason a famous wig in 1706 was called llainilies. AA hiskers were not worn in 1712. Ladies rode in hat and feathers, coats and periwigs. They beat drunis under a bridegroom’s window at the same period. Colors in dress marked the politics of the wearer. “The spirit of party did not blend with the color of Burke’s apparel ; he rarely or never came to the House in blue or buff. Fox used to attend the House of Parliament when a young man in a hat and feather; but in 1781 usually Wore a frock coat and buff waistcoat, the uniform of our immortal AVashington. The noted English lord, Rigby, was dressed in a dress suit of purple, without lace or embroidery, close buttoned, with his sword thrust through the pocket. Chinese Humor. People sometimes wonder whether Chinamen have any wit, satire or humor in theif make-up. The following experience may throw a little light on the subject: A couple of strangers in city thought it would be interesting to see an opium “joint.” They were told that a certain Chinaman, who was standing before his door in Mott street, kept one. Approaching him, they made known their wish. A smile more spacious than pretty lit up the Mongolian’s face as he replied: “Policestlanger and deflective pay me one dolla to smoke pipe, and then charge me two dolla for keep still. Now, I sell ‘keep-still’ myself to Melican man, and opium to my fiends. York Tinies. The Value of Electricity. One of the beneficent results of the various experiments which have been made during the last two years, with a view to determine the value of electricity for killing purposes, is the establishment bf the fact that not only can cattle be despatched- by the electric current without the least pain, but that the meat of the animal is actually improved by the passage of the current, and will keep longer than by any other method.

CARL DUNDEE’S LUCK. “Nobody Vhas Two Tinies Alike in This Country.” “Well, where have you been for the last three months?” queried Sergeant Bendall yesterday, as Carl Dunder softly opened the door of the Wood-' bridge Street Station about a foot and squeezed through the aperture. “Oh, I vhas keeping quiet. I like to shpeak to vou a few words to-dav ” “Ail right.” “Der odder day a man conies py my place und drinks a glass of beer und plays me a game of dominoes und says his name vhas Shon White. Dot makes no deeference to me if he vhas Sheorge Washington. He must pay me shust so queek or I knock him out.” “Os course.” “A bell, he pays me und seems like a decent fellow, und putty soon he says he has a chock on der bank und likes me to go und say he vhas Shon White.” “And youowent?” “A’hell, 1 like to oblige.” “And you identified him?” “A’hell, vhen<T knows he vhas Sh n White how could I help it? Dot vhas a bogus check for fifteen dollar, und I has to pay it. I doan’ see how it vhas.” “Um! Anything more?” “Somepody doan’ play me dot vhav again. My eye teeth vhas cut ICwful queek. In two days a fellow comes along mit a subscription paper. He says he likes me to put down a dollar for der poor. I asked him his name, und he says it vhas Peter Davis. Sergeant, you should see me knock him oafer der middle of last Shnly.” “Yes, and you’ll have to pay for it. He was at the police court this morning to get a warrant for you.” “A warrant for me! But he vhas a schwindler!” “Oh, no, he wasn’t; he was all right.” “A’hell, I might ash veil shump into der rifer. How vhas Ito tell aboudt ■ things? Nothings vhas two times alike.” “Anything else?” “A’hell, you see, a man domes into my place mit a package und says vhas I Carl Dunder. I vhas. Here vhas some oxpress from Chicago, und he has to collect $2. A’has dot ail right, Sergeant ?” s “Looks that way.” “Os course she does, but after he goes avhay und I open dat package I find some brickbats in it. He vhas an awful schwindler.” “But you ought to have spotted him.” “Oh, yes! Spots vhas all right! In two days she? In shust two davs vhas vou believe ?” “Well?”“ “A’hell, some onder man’s come in mit a package und says vhas -iny name Carl Dunder. Y’ps. He has some package for me from Noo York, und I has to pay sl. Sergeant, I sliumps on dot man und knocks him so cold dot his own ; uncle doan’ know him und beliefs he i vhos a young man from Troy.” “Then you spotted him.’” “Spots! Spots! Yes, I see some i spots! He belongs by der regular ex- I press company, und he vhas going to ■ sue me for fife tousand dollars! Can! you see how she vhas? One time it vhas all wrong, und der next time it vhas all right. Nobody vhas two times in dis countrv, and now T bid you goodby.” “Going away?” • ■ “No matter. I vhas sixteen years in ; dis countrv und ail der time I vhas in | some mistakes. ,1 vas now played out. If you doan’see me some more times remember dot I doan’ mean to do it, but der country vhas to blame.” — Detroit Free Press. Mean for a Nickel. ' A man will do a great many “little” things to save a very few cents. I know a well-to-do man who makes a habit of “working” someone for his car fare. This is the way a friend of his tells the storv: ' “AA’hen he came to live in the same ; house I did somebody told me to watch’; out for him, but he was such a pleasant i kind of a fellow that I didn't think any- ; thing of it. AA'e rode down town together frequently, and though at first 4 paid little attention to the matter, I found that I was paying the fare all the time. I noticed when the conductor I came around that one time he would have his glasses bn; another time his coat would be buttoned up tight; again he would be reading very intently. / AA’hen both of us dived down so change I always, beat him out with it. And when lie dicl beat me he would i have a dollar, and didn’t want nickelu in change. For three whole weeks i paid that man’s car fare twice a day, and he could have bought and sold nrn out under the hammer. Finally I greV; very tired of Lis plan, and when th® conductor came around one day I handed him a quarter and said one. My friend quit riding up and down with me then. and I notice him working the samft game on another man.”—Kansas City Star. XVliy It .Did Not Dry. The following incident was authoritatively told of a New York merchant Although a gentleman of comfortable means, the »merchant has frequent economical fits. Desiring to surprise his wife upon her return from the country, he concluded t° undertake the task of varnishing hiSlining room,which had lost some of its lustre. After devoting some little time to {[searching so? a pot of varnish which had been used on previous occasions, the merchant, coatless and with rolled up sleeves, began hk job, which, after a labor of eight hours, he finished to his entire ‘satisfiaction. The following piorning he rose early and his mission was to examine his work Greatly to his surprise he found upot entering the room that the varnish had not dried a particle, although both doors and windows had been left open, A closer examination disclosed the fact that unfortunately he had not found th« pot of varnish, and had actually vanr* ished his entire dining room with maple syrup. Food From Iron. In a new treatise on manures, Mr. A. B: Griffiths states that the process of converting iron into Bessemer steel results in the elimination of a basic slag, containing from 14 to 20 per cent, of phosphoric acid. Reduced to an impalpable powder, this slag is a valuable |plant food; and as manure the 350,000 tons of the stag obtained yearly, in England should produce at least 4,000,000 tons of hay, or sufficient for feeding 750,000 head of cattle. Intense Kivalry. Little Barbara has a brother, who is her rivxl as well. The Other day she said to her mother “Mother, is Max older than I am?” Her mother said he was. “AVell,” she responded in a tone of eminent displeasure and disappointment, “Well, that boy beats me in everything, and he has beated me in hornin’, too.” — Washington Star.

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Remarkable Echoes* There are several very remarkable echoes in the world—at AVoodstock and at the Sicilian cathrdral of Gargenti, where the confessions poured forth near the door to priestly ears were heard by a man concealed behind the high altar at the opposite end. It is curious - that such a spot should have been accidentally chosen for the confessional. The whispering gallery in St. Paul’s is another instance of the echo. Echoes are produced by the reflection of sound waves from a plane or even surface. A wall, or even a cloud, will produce echoes. The thunder is echoed from the clouds. The hills of Killarney contain an echo, and the bugle sounds are beautifully repeated. In cases of ordinary echo, when the speaker waits for the answer, he must place himself opposite the rock. If he stand at the side the echo will reply to another person in a corresponding place on the farther side, for the voice then strikes the rock at an angle, and the angle of reflection is the same, in the case of light But if it should happen there are a number of reflecting surfaces the echo will be repeated over and over again, as at the lakes of Killamey. The Woodstock echo, already referred to, and mentioned by several writers, repeats seventeen syllables by day and twenty by night. In Shipley there is even a greater repetition. Whispering galleries carry sound by means of the curved surface. Sir John Herschel mentions an echo in the Menai suspension bridge. The blow of, a hammer on one of the main piers will produce the sound from each of the crossbeams supporting the roadway and from the opposite pier, 576 feet distant, as well as many other repetitions.. Lillian Kussell’s New I‘et. Lillian Russell is now the owner of the most perfect Japanese dog ever seen in this country, says Truth. It is a little three-months old, and Miss Russell paid Mrs. Eugene Clark one of those fabulous amounts for the dog that only princes and prima donnas can afford. Koko, for that is the name that Miss Russell has given her expensive pet, is so very small, and yet so very bright and intelligent, that even at this remarkably youthful age it has made a budding reputation that promises to compete with that of its beautiful mistress. It is said quietly that Miss Russell flew to Koko for consolation after her boisterous Thanksgiving night reception at the Casino. TUe Autumnal Boy. ■ AA’hen you see a boy with the pockets of his pantaloons bulging out until he looks like a grfeat bumble bee laden for the hive; while lie walks along trying to look as thin as a split lath, and wearing a profound expression of supernatural innocence, you know without referring to this code of signals that boy has been lingering in soiqebody’s orchard and doesn't care to have undue publicity given to facts that only concern him personally. State or Ohio, City of Toledo, I Lucas County. j ss - Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is tho senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in tho City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cuke. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this Cth day of December, A. D. 1886. , — > A. W. GLEASON, ■j seal. - Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of ttie system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. <u*Sold by Druggists, 75 cents. Bound to Catcli the Thief. Some of Miles Standish’s old chums organized a horSe thief detecting society in Rhode Island, the first society of the kind in the country. The ninety-fourth annual supper of the organization was recently given. The children and grandchildren of the original officers are running the society to-day. In its career of ninety-four years it has lost but one horse, and for the detection of tlie thief who stole this animal two years ago over $2,000 has been expended. The hunt is still going on, as the old farmers who comprise the society would rather .divide and squander all they have than admit they are beaten. THE WAEAMI LIAE. Tl-andsome equipment, E-legan6*day coaches, an«i W-agher palace sleeping cars A-re in daily service B-etxvcen the city of St. l.ouis A-nd New York and Boston. S-pacious reclining chair ears 11 -ave no equal , 1.-ike those run by the I-ncomparable and only Wabash. M-ew trains and fast time lx- very day in the year. From East to West the sun’s bright ray, Smiles on the-line that leads the way. MAGNIFICENT VESTIBULE EXPRESS TRAINS, running free reclining ehair ears and palaee sleepers to St. Louis, Kansas City, and Council Bluffs. Tho direct route to„all points in Missouri, Kansas. Nebraska, lo\va. Texas, Indian Territory. Arkansas, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Washington. Montana’, and California. For rates, routes, maps, etc., apply to. any ticket agent or address ~ F. Chandler, Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent, St. Louis. Mo. A Multi-MilAonaire’s First Money. George M. Pullman, the palace-car multi-millionaire, made his first money in Chicago by lifting old horses with jack screws. He would take contracts for this sort of work and was not above handling the bars himself. Alexander Lloyd, a friend of Pullman at that time, and also a mechanic, afterwards became mayor of Chicago, but died in destitution. Mediocrity always copies superiority. Dobbins’ Electric Soap has been imitated more than any soap. Ask your grocer for Dobbins' Electric Soap; all other Electrics, Electricity, Magnetics, etc., are imitations. A Western “Limited.” Disgruntled Passenger—l thought this was the limited express. Conductor (Oklahoma R. R.) —That's what it’s called, sir. Passenger—Huh! AVhat is there limited about it? Conductor (after reflection) —The time for meals.— New York Weekly. A COUGH, COLD OR SORE THROAT should not be neglected. Brown’s Bronchial Troches are a simple remedy, and give prompt relief. 25 cts. a box. On Shares.. Wilkins—How about that bill you undertook to collect on shares? Lawyer—You said I could have half of it, didn’t you. “Certainly.” “Well, I’ve collected my half. Can’t get yours.”— New York Weekly. It is cruel to neglect symptoms of worms in a child. Many cases of epileptic Sts can be traced to this source. You do your duty When you give it Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers. It will save the child. Texas Siftings believes Shapira, the Deuteronomy man, to be the real, long-lost author of the Morey letter. « A leading actress remarked to a reporter, “The last time I was here, I was worn out, but Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has since made a new woman of me/ The barrel, although not generally known as a musical instrument, is nearly all staves and shimea

I’ Tourists, Whether on pleasure bent or business. ! should take on every trip a bottle of Syrup ; of Figs, as it aets most pleasantly and efi fectually on the kidneys, liver, and bowels, i preventing fevers, headaches, and other ■ forms ot sickness. For sale in 50e and $1 bottles by all leading druggists. In the Editor’s Room. “I am a Holocaust!” shrieked a hideous fiery-tongued Object in the city editor’s ears. , “And I am a Dull Thud,” an Object of gloom. Tho city editor made two grabs at the reporter’s copy and hurried to the elevator shaft. “What was that?” inquired the managing editor. | “I dropped a Holocaust down the eleI vator shaft with a Dull Thud,” responded the city editor, and a silence which might have been Quay fell upon the editor’s desk without making a sound. Those of you who are weary and heavy ladened with sickness and care, weighed down with the infirmities that beset the human system, can find the one thing necessary to restore you to bright, buoyant health in Sherman’s Prickly Ash Bitters. It invigorates and strengthens the debilitated organs, aids digestion, and dispels the clouds arising from a diseased liver. Her Mistake. “How do you tell when there is any gold inlhis funny-looking stone?” asked the dear girl who was being shown around/tho mint by an official. vWhy, we smelt it,” he replied. Holding it to her pretty little nose, she remarked 'very Innocently: “Why, 1 smelt it, too, but I don't see anything about it to Why, what are you laughing at?”— Boston Traveler. An Extraortliirnry Opportunity. Send your address on a postal card and receive, free of charge,' sample copies of the New York Mercury, in ffs fifty-third year, together with an unprecedented pretnium list, comprising a thousand articles which are given to new subscribers. Address, New York Mercury. 3 Park row. New York • city. *■ 3* Wasn’t She a Wise Child. Visitor—l suppose your daughter is buisily preparing for her wedding? Mother—Yes; she is up in her room, now, destroying all her old letters.— HouseholdSfonihly. “When slovens get. tidy they polish the bottoms of the pans." When servants are given SAPOLIO they are never tired of cleaning up! First Student (entering companion’s room) —“Ah, I sCo you have been burning midnight oil.” Second Student—“No; that’s a couple of old shoes I threw into the stove.” No Opium in Piso’s Cure for Consumption. Cures where other remedies fail. 25e. The locks on tho door are worn perfectly plain. It is tho door that is banged Beecham’s Pills act like magic on a WEAK STOMACH. During the deluge Noah was in the habit of calling his wife an ark angel Rheumatism Is of two kinds, acute and chronic. The former is accompanied by high fever, and in the swollen joints there is intense pain, which often suddenly changes from one part of the body to another. Chronic rheumatism is without fever and not so severe, but more continuous, and liable to come on at every storm or after slight Rheumatism is known to be a disease of tire; blood and Hood’s Sarsaparilla has had great success In curing it. This medicine possesses qualifies which neu’ralize acidity, and purify, enrich, and vitalize the blood. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only by C. 1. HOOD & CO.. Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar j IB BEECHAM’S PILLS | For Bilious rlerrcss Bisorders. H ■ “Worth a Guinea a Box” but sold H for 25 Cents, @ EY ALL EBRUSGISTS. | IfIIWRY Mind wandering cured. Books learned in cnsroaiG’ng. Testimonials from all the globe. Prospectus post Sb iw application to Prof. K-ja V Loisetie, 237 Fifth Ave. New York* STEREOPTiGONS “ST MAGIC LANTERNS. PEDINE FFFT ■ Swollen or perspirinj* I LL B | Smaller Shoes may be worn with comfort. Price, co cts.. at Drug Stores, or by mail. Package and illustrated pamphlet for a dime. THE PEDINE CO., World Building. New York, v

RS» ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren St, New York. Price 50 rf° every WATERPROOF COLLAR or CUFF “ ° THAT CAN BE RELIED ON B TO P I^Tc> ' t to THE MARK J>JOt to DlSCOlOr! “ BEARS THIS MARK. 20’ TRADE ._ rafe FLLuIoIO mark. MEEDS NO LAUNDERING. CAN BE WIPED CLEAN IN A MOMENT. THE ONLY LINEN-LINED WATERPROOF COLLAR IN THE MARKET, Eg] Best Cough Medicine. Recommended by Physicians. Sa>A Cures where all else fails. Pleasant and agreeable to the |l|l taste. Children take it without Objection. By druggists. El Chichester’s English, Red Cross Diamond Brand A PtHHNRONMi * P\hUS <£> ■ THE ORIGINAL AMD GENUINE. The only Safe, Sure, xnd rrl.uii. Pill for rale. Wf/ I—l “30 Ladle*. rah Druggist for CMc*««<er . BnglWt Diamond Brand in Red end Gold metellio \y I / MJ boxes seeled with blue ribbon. Take no other kind. Rifat’ SubotUntiono and Imitation*. * I MK . AU pills in prateboerd boxes, pink wrappers, are dangerous counterfeit*. At Druggists, or send «■ I *©*■ US' 4e. ln BU,m P 3 for particulars, testimonials, and “Kcllef for Indies.” tn letter, hr return Mail AT IO.OGO Testimonials. Name Paper. CHICHESTER CHEMICAL CO., Madison Sonar*. — r Sold by all Local Druggists. I'UILAIiELPHIA, HOMESWANTED. PENSIONS! We want to secure permanent homes for a number of “ W “ Orphan Babes and Children. Responsible parties who The Disability Bill is a law. Soldiers diaablgd slncj want to adopt a bright, healthy and weU-grown child *Vd?»n U •re invited to correspond with ns. service are included. If you wish yourclaim speedDesu’lwrn^’itreet 8 Chicago’ HL JAMES TANNER. CHI WKEK. bT IhoMrai&f *of f> AT*eAl T C w iMlUs»=ry PATENTS IlwjftlllU R&& Mti&r dSra ta X- Ct. y- W 8-91. b^Ris g e“sS>d , . ld 3sten?»uS When Writing to AclvcrjAera, please aay W Druggist*, WOOUUCU a OOra Pate°r-M*«ra you saw the, Aclvertiseiueht lu thia paper.

You’ve tried Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription have you and you’re disappointed. The results are not immediate. And did you expect the disease of years to disappear in a week? Put a pinch of time in every dose. You would not call the milk poor because the cream doesn’t rise in an hour? If there’s no water in it the crearti is sure to rise. If there’s a possible cure, Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is sure to effect it, if given a fair trial. You get your one dollar it costs back again if it don’t benefit or cure you. We wish we could give you the makers' confidence. They show it by giving the money back again, in all cases not benefited, and it’d surprise you to know how few dollars are needed to keep up the refund. e e ■ ■ —-— Mild, gentle, soothing and healing is Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. Cures the worst cases permanently. No experimenting. It’s “ Old Reliable.” Twenty-five years of 'success. Os druggists. -VASELINEFOR A OXE-DOLLAR BILL sent us by mail we will deliver, tree of all charges, to any person in the United States, all ot the folloving articles, car*-, tul.y packed: One two-ounce bott’e of Pure Vaseline Wcta. One two-ounce bottle ot A’aseliue Pomade.... 15 • One jar of Vaselr e Cold Cream 15 • One cake of Vaseline Camphor Ice 10 * One cake of Vaseline Soap, unscented 10 • Oneeakeof Vaseline Soap, exquisitely scented 25 * One two-ounce bottle of White Vaseline.. ..... 25 • 21.10 Or, for pontage starnne. any xin'/le article at the price named. On no account be pc euai'ea to accept from your druggiti any Vaseline or pre paralion thirefrom unless labeled cith our name, because you wilt certainly receive an tmii ttion ichich has little or no value. L’liesebromrit Mt’-r. IXv --1 stjiie -st.. X. YGRATEFUL— CO wirOKTINQ. EPPS SCOCOA BREAKFAST. “By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws wh.ch govern the opcrati >ns ofdige-tlon and nutritl >n, aud by a careful applic etlon of the fine properties of web-selected Cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured’fteverage which may save us many neavy doctors’bill*. It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gr dually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floatln,g around us rea<ly to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves weti fortified with pure blood a->d a properly 2 nourished frame.”—“Civil Service Gajutte. ” Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only iu liaif-pound tins, oy Grocers, labelled thus: JAMES EPPS &CO., Homoeopathic Chemist*, London'. Enulano. JF YOU WISH hr-' . purchase one of the cele- e brated SMITH * WESSON ’ arms. The finest small arms ever jnanufactur. d and the W, )J I) WWI first choice of all experts. 'Egl Manufactured in calibres 32,3? and 4-i-100. Sin- WMH gleordouble action Safety Hamtnerless and Target models. Constructed entirely of beat Quality wrought steel, carefully ia.--pe.tud for workmanship and stock, they are unrivalid for fini-h, durability and accuracy. Do not be deceived by Cheap malleable cast-iron imitations which are often sold for the genuine article an t are not onlv unreliable, ibut dangerous. The SMITH A WESSON Revolve-s are all stamped upon the barrels with firm's name, address and dates of patents and are guaranteed perfect tn every detail. Insist upon having the g-snuina article, and if yqur dealer cannot supply you an order sent to address bdow will receive prompt and careful attention. Descriptive catalogue and prices furnished upon applicafion. & WESSON, hlention this paper. Sprinsrfield» Maas* YOOOOYWANTS «Our Illustrated CATALOGUE of Scroll Saws, Designs, Magic Lanterns. Skates, Boxin.i; Gloves, etc. jjacSeini stamp lor our No. 200 Catalogue. THE JOHN WILKINSON CO., 269 & 271 Stale St.. Chicago. 111. Prosecutes Clakns. Late Principal Examiner U.S. Pension Bureau. 3yrs*in last war, 15 adj udicatisgclaims, atty sinca. SIOO to SI,OOO r«rern!!y Invested here iQftQ. lAvUtnAbrlQr ANNUALLY from TWENTY tolUv? Test THOMA INVESTMENT < 0.. TACOMA. WASH.