Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 6 March 1891 — Page 3

PLAGUES OF THE CITIES. the second sermon in dr. TALMAGE’S SERIES. Drunkenness Is the Topic and This la the Text, “Noah Planted a Vineyard, and He Drank ot the W ino and Was Drunken.” Dr. Talmage continued the series of sermons oh the “Ten Plagues of New York, and the Adjacent Cities.” The plague which he places second on the list is Intemperance, and on that subject ho discoursed. The text of the doctor’s sermon was taken from Genesis lx, 20, 21: “Noah planted a vineyard, and he drank of the wine and was drunken.” This Noah did the best and the worst thing for the world. He built an ark against the deluge of water, but introduced a deluge against which the human race has ever since been trying to build an ark —the deluge of drunkenness. In my text we hear his steps. Shein and Japhet tried to cover ifp the disgrace, but there ho is, drunk on wine at a time in the history of the world, when, to say the least, there was no lack of water. Inebriation, having entered the world, has not retreated. Abigail, the fair and heoric wife, who saved the flocks of Nabal, her husband, from confiscation by invaders, goes home and finds him so intoxicated she cannot tell him the story of his narrow escape. Uriah eame to see David, and David got him drunk and paved the way for the despoliation of a household. Even the church bishops needed to be charged to be sober and not given to too much wine, ana so familiar were people of Bible times with the staggering and falling motion of the inebriate that Isaiah, when he comes to describe the final dislocation of worlds, says: “The earth shall reel two and fro like a drffhkard.” Ever since apples and grapes and wheat grew the world has been tempted to unhealthful stimulants. But the intoxicants of the olden time were an innocent beverage, a harmless orangeade, a quiet sirup, apeaceful soda water as compared with the fluids of modern inebriation, into which a madness, and a fury, and a gloom, and a tire, and a suicide, and a retribution have mixed and mingled. Fermentation was always known, but it was not until a thousand years after Christ that distilation was Invented. While we must confess that some of the-ancient arts have been lost, ■the Christian era is superior to all others in the bad eminence of whisky and rum and gin . The modern drunk is a hundred fold worse than the ancient drunk. Noah in his intoxication.became imbecile, but the victims of nrodern aleholism have to struggle with whole menageries of wild beasts, and jungles of hissing serpents, and perditions of blaspheming demons. An arch fiend arrived in dur world, and he built an invisible caldron of temptation. He built that caldron strong ancLstout <or all ages and all nations. First he squeezed into'-the caldron the juice of the forbidden fruit of Parad.ise. Then he gathered for it a distilation from the harvest fields and the orchards of the hemisphere. Then he poured into this caldron capsicum and copperas and logwood ahd deadly nightshade and assault and battery and vitriol and opium and rum and murder and sulphuric acid and theft and potash and cochiijead and red ca'rrots and poverty and death and hops. But it was a dry compound and it; must moistened, and it must be liquefied, and so the arch fiend poured into that caldrbn the tears of centuries of orphanage and widowhood, and he poured in the bioocTof twenty thousand assassinations. And then the arch fiend took- a, shovel • that ho had brought up from the furnaces beneath, and he put that-shovel into this groat caldron and began to stir, and the caldron began to heave and rock and boil and sputter ami hiss and ”smoke, and the nations gathered around it with cups and tankards and demijohns and kegs, and there was enough for all, and the arch fiend cried: “Aha! champion fiend am I! Who has done more than I Ifave for collins and graveyards and prisons and insane asylums, A and the populating of the. lost world’? \ Drunkenness is the greatest evil of —* this nation, and it takes no logical'process to prove to this audience that a drunken nation cannot long.be a free nation. I call your attention to the fact that drunkenness is not subsiding, certainly that it is not ata standstill, but that it is on an onward march, and it is a double quick. There; is more rum swallowed in this country, and of a worse kind, than was ever swallowed since the first distillery began its work of cfeath. Whore there was one drunken' home tAere arc ten drunken homes. Where there was one drunkard’s grave there are twenty drunkard's graves. It is on the increase. Talk about crooked I whisky—by which meh mean the whisky ! that does not pay the tax’to government —I tell you all strong drink is crooked, i Crooked Otard, crooked Cognac, crooked i schnapps, crooked beer, crooked wine, I crooked whisky—because it makes a j man’s oath crooked, and his life crooked, I and his death crooked, and his. eternity. I crooked. ' . ' | If I could gather all the armies of.the j dead drunkards ami have them come to i ■resurrection, and then add to that host i »11 the armies of rhe living drunkards, ■ live and ten alneast. and then if I could ! have you mount a horse and ride along I that line for review, you would ride that I horse until he. dropped from exhaustion, ' and you would mount another horse and I ride until he fell from exhaustion, and I you would take another and another, ; and yon would ride along hour after hour I and day after day. Great host, in regiments, in brigades. Great armies of | thcih. And then if you had voice" sten- | toriau enough to make them all hear, j and you could give the command;* “For- j ward, man'll'.’’ their first tramp would . make the earth"tremble. I do not care [ which way you look in the community I 9 10-day the evil is increasing. ’ ! I wall attention to the fact that there' I ', are thousands of people born with a I thirst for strong drink—a fact too often ! ignored. Along some ancestral lines ; tliere runs the river of temptation. > There are children whose swaddling ! clothes are torn off the shroud of death, I Many a father Inis made a will of this J sort: “In the name of God, amen. I bequeath to my children my houses and i lands and estates; share and share shall j they alike. Hereto 1 affix my hand and „ seal in the* presence of witnesses.” And yet perhaps that 5 very man has made another will that the people have never read, and that lias not been proved in the courts. That will put in writing would read something like this: “In the name of disease and appetite and "death, amen. I bequeath to my children my evil habits, my tankards shall be theirs, my wine cuu shall be theirs, my destroyed reputation shall he theirs. Share and share alike shall they in the infamy. -Hereto I affix my hand and seal in tjie presence of all the applauding harpies of hell.” From the multitude of those who have the evil habit born with them "this army is being augmented. And lam sorry to say that a great many ’of the drug stores are abetting this evil, and alcohol is sold under the name of bitters. ? It seems to me it is about time for the \ seventeen million professors of religion in America to take sides. It is going to be an out an out battle with drunkenness and sobriety, between Heaven an<J hell, between God and the devil. Take sides before there is any further national p

decadence; take sides before your sons are sacrificed and the new home of your daughter goes down under the alcoholism of an imbruted husband. Take sides while your voice, your pen, your prayer, your vote may have any influence in arresting the despoliation of this nation. If the seventeen million professors of religion should take sides on this subject It would not be very long before the destiny of this nation would be decided in the right direction. Is drunkenness a state or national evil? Does it belong to the North oAloes it belong to the South?,, Does it belong to the East, or does It belong, ta the West? Ah' there is not an American river into which its tears have not fallen and into which its suicides have not plunged. What ruined that southern plantation? —every field a fortune, the proprietor and his family once the most aflluent supporters of summer watering places. What threw that New England farm into decay and turned the roseate cheeks that bloomed at the foot of the Green Mountains into the palor of despair? What has smitten every street of every Village, town and city of this continent with a moral pestilence? Strong drink. To prove that this is a National evil I call up two States in opposite directions —Maine and Georgia, Let* them testify in regard to this. State olJJaigfe says, “It is so great an evil up Tfrfim have anathematized it as a State.’* State of Georgia says, “It is so great an evil down here that ninety counties of this State have made the sale of intoxicating drink a criminality.” So the woid comes up from all parts of the land. Either drunkenness will be destroyed in t®> country or the American Government will be destroyed. ' Drunkenness and free institutions are coming into a death grapple. Gather up the money that the working classes have spent for rum during the last thirty years, and I will build for every w’orkingman a house, and lay out for him a garden, and clothe his sons in broadcloth and his daughters in silks, and stand at his front door a prancing span of sorrels or bays, and secure him a policy of life insurance so that the present home may be well maintained after he is dead. The most persistent, most overpowering enemy of the working classes is intoxicating liquor. It is the anarchist of the centuries, and has boycotted and is now boycotting the body and mind and soul of American labor. It annually swindles industry out of a large percentage of its earnings. It holds out its blasting solicitations to the mechanic or operative on his_way to work, and at the noon spell, and on his way home at evening. On Saturday, when the wages are paid, it snatches a large part of the money that might come to the family and sacrifices it among the saloon keepers. Stand the saloons of this country side by side, and it\is carefully estimated that they would reach from New York to Chicago. Tills evil is pouring its vitriolic and damnable liquors down the throats of hundreds of, thousands of laborer's, and while the ordinary strikes are ruinous both to employers and employes, I proclaim a universal strike against strong drink, which strike, if kept up, will be the relief of the working classes and the salvation of the nation. I will undertake to say that there is not a healthy laborer in the United States who, within the next twenty years, if he will refuse all intoxicating beverages and be saving, may not become a capitalist on a small scale. Oh, how many are waiting to see if something cannot be done for the stopping of intemperance! Thousands of drunkards waiting who cannot go ten minutes in any direction without having the temptation glaring before their eyes or appealing to their nostrils, they fighting against it with enfeebled will and diseased appetite, conquering, then surrendering?, conquering again and surrendering again, and crying, “How long, O Lord! how long before these solicitations shall be gone!” And how many mothers are waiting to see if this national curse cannot lift? Oh, is that the boy who had the honest breath who conies home with breath vitiated or disguised? What a change! How quickly those habits of early coming home have j been exchanged for the rattling of the I night key in the door long after the last’ watchman has gone by and tried to see that everything was closed up for the night! Oh! what a change for that young man, who we had hoped would do something in merchandise or in artisanship or in a profession that would do honor to the family name, long alter mother’s wrinkled hands are folded from the last toil! All that exchanged for startled looked when the door-bell rings, lest something has happened; and the wish that the scarlet fever twenty years ago had been fatal, for then he would have gone directly to the bosom of his Saviour. But alas! poor old soul, she j has lived to experience what Solomon I said, “A foolish son is a heaviness to his ■ mother.” * j Oh! what a funeral it will be when I that boy is brought home dead! And I how mother will s'it there and say: “Is I this my boy that 1 used to fondle, and 1 that 1 walked the floor with in tl.ie night ’ when lie was sick? Is this the boy that I 1 held to the baptismal font for baptism? . Is This the boy for whom I toiled until , the blood burst from the tips of my i lingers, tiiat he might have a good start and a good home? Lord, why hast thou j I Jet me live to see this? Can it be that i I these swollen hands are the ones that i I used to wander over my face when rock- I ' ing him to sleep? Can it be that this I I swollen brow is that I once so raptur- I I ously kissed? Poor boy! how tirrfd he ; does look. 1 wonder who struck him j I that blow across ihe I wonder | lif he uttered a dying prayer? Wake up, I my son; don’t you hear me? wake up! I Oh! he can’t hear me! Dead! dead! dead! I ‘Oh, Absalom, my son, my son, would j God that I had died for thee, oh, Absalom, my soiiy.son!’ ” I lam not much of a mathematician, and | I cannot estimate it, but is there any one i here quick enough at figures to estimate ■ how many mothers there are waiting for i something to be done? Ay, there are : many wives waiting for domestic rescue. ; He promised something different from i that s»ben, after the long acquaintance ! and the careful scrutiny of character, i the hand and the heart ''were offered and I accepted. What a hell on earth a wo-| man lives ip who has a drunken bus-! j band! O death, how lovely thou art' to ; her. and how soft and warm thy skeleton hand! The sepulcher at midnigfttin winter is a king’s drawing-room compared with that woman’s home. It is i not so much the blow on tfie head that | hurts as the blow on the heart. The rum fiend comes to the door of that beautiful home, and ouened the door and stood there and said: “I curso this dwelling with an unrelenting curse. I -curse that father into a maniac, I curse that mother into a pauper. I curse those sons into vagabonds. I curse those daughters into profligacy; bread tray and cradle. Cursed be couch and chair, and family Bible with records of marriages and births and deaths. Curse upon cdrseV” Oh, how many wives are there waiting to see if something cannot be done to shake these frosts of the Second death off the orange blossoms! Yea, God is waiting, the God who works through human instrumentalities, waiting to see whether this nation is going to overthrow this evil, and if it refuse to do so God will wipe out the nation as he did Phoenicia, as he did Rome, as he did Thebes, as he did Babylon. Put on your spectacles and take a candle and examine the platforms of the

two leading political parties of this country, and see what they are doing for the arrest of this evil and for the overthrow of this abomination. Resolutions—oh! yes, resolutions about Mormonism! It is safe to attack that organized nastiness 2,000 miles away. But not one resolution against drunkenness, which would turn the entire nation into one bestial Salt Lake City. Resolutions against political corruption, but not one word against drunkenness, which would rot this nation frpm scalp to heel. Resolutions about protection against competition with foreign industries, but not one word about protection of family and church and nation against the scalding, blasting, all consuming, damning tariff of strong drink put upon every financial, Individual, spiritual, moral, national interest. I look in another direction. The Church of God is the grandest and most glorious institution on earth. What has it in solid phalanx accomplished for the overthrow of drunkenness? Have its forces ever been marshaled? No, not in this direction. Not long ago a great ecclesiastical court assembled in New York, and resolutions arraigning strong drink were offered, and clergymen with strong drink on their tables and strong drink in their cellars defeated the resolutions by threatening speeches. They could not bear to give up their own lusts. I tell this audience what many of you may have never thought of, that to-day —not in the millenium, but to-day—the church holds the balance of power in America; and if Christian people—the men and the women who profess to love the Lord Jesus Christ and to love purity and to be the sworn enemies of all uncleanness and debauchery and sin—if all such would march side by side and shoulder to" shoulder, this evil would soon be overthrown. Think of three hundred thousand churches and Sunday-schools in Christendom marching shoulder to shoulder! How very short a time it would take them to put down this evil, :if all the church of God, transatlantic and cisatlantic were armed on this subject? In the. front door of our church in Brooklyn, a few summers ago, this scene occurred: Sabbath morning a young man was entering for divine worship. A friend passing along the street said, “Joe. come along with me: I am going to Coney Island and we’ll have a gay Sunday.” “No,” replied Joe, “I nave started to go here to church, and I am going to attend service here,” “Oh, Joe,” his friend said, “you can go to church any time! The day is bright, we’ll go to Coney Island, and we’ll have a'splendid time.” The temptation was too strong, and the twain went to the beach, spent the day in drunkenness and riot. The evening train started up from Brighton. The young men were on it. Joe, in his intoxication, when the train was in full speed, tried to pass around from one seat to another and fell and was crushed. > Under the lanterh, as Joe lay bleeding his life away on the grass, he said to his comrade: “John, that was a bad business, your taking me away from church; it was; a very bad business. You ought not to have done that, John. a I want you to tell the boys to-morrow when you see them that rum and Sabbath breaking did this for me. And John, while you are telling them I will be in hell, and it will be your fault.”. Is it not time for me to pull from the great organ of God’s word, with its many banks of keys, the tremolo stop? “Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it moveth itself aright In the cup, tor at last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.” But this evil will be arrested. Blucher came up just before night and saved the day at Waterloo. At 4 o’clock in the afternoon it looked very badly for the English. Generals Ponsonby.and Pickton fallen. Sabers broken, flags surrendered, Scots Grays annihilated. Only forty-two men left out of the German brigade. The English army falling back and falling back. Napoleon rubbed his hands together and said: “Aha! aha! we’ll teach that* little Englishman a lesi son. Ninety chancds out of a hundred are ! in our favor. Magnificent! magnificent!” j He even sent messages to saris to say he bad won the day. But before sundown Blucher cgime up, and he who had been the conqueror of Austerlitz became the victim of Waterloo. The name which had shaken all Europe and filled even America with apprehension, that name went down, and Napoleon, muddy and Qiatless, and crazed with his was found feeling for the stirrup of a Horse, that he might mount and resume theTonflict. Well, my friends, alcoholism is imperial,and it is a conqueror, and there are good people who say the night of national overthrow is coming, and that it is almost night. But before sundown the Conqueror of earth and Heaven will ride in on the white horse, and alcoholism, which has had its Austerlitz of triumph, shall have its Waterloo.of defeat. Alcoholism having lost its crown, the grizzly and cruel breaker of human hearts, crazed with the disaster, will bo found feeling in vain for the stirrup on which to remount its foaming charger. “So, O Lord, let thine enemies, perish!” The King of Asps. A new snake, called the echis carI inata, which is the first specimen of its I race seeu in England, and of whibh wo have no specimen here, is attracting j crowds to the Regent’s Park, Eondon. | It is about a foot and a half long, and I the color is dingy gray. It is the dead- : liest of created things, for it carries in I its tiny head the secret of destroying j life with the sudden rapidity of lightning and the concentrated agony of all poisons. This king of the asps is more dangerous than the cobra or the korait, for it does not turn and run like the one, or flash into concealment like the other, but with fearless pluck gives fight, and pitches its eighteen inches of length against any comer. A stroke of a stick wil| break it in two, or a stone will smash it, but such is its venomous malignity that it will challenge attack by every device in its power, staking its own life on the mere chance of its adversary coming within the little circle of its reach. The radius of that | Circle is twelve inches, but within it at , any point lies certain death, and in the I bare hope of hand or foot trespassing within its reach the echis throw s its, body into a figure-of-eight coil, and, attracting attention by rubbing its loops | together, which, from the roughness of the scales (hence the epithet carinata), makes a rustling sound, erects its head in the center and awaits attack. No one having once encountered this terrible little creature can ever forget its truculent aspect when aroused; its eagerly aggressive air; its restless coils, •which, in constant motion one over another and rustling ominously all the ' time, bring it nearer and nearer to the object of its fury; its eye, fealignant even beyond those of other vipers, and then the inconceivable rapidity of its stroke. The echis does not wait to strike until it is within striking distance, but vents its malice in repeatedly darting at nothing, hoping to aggravate its antagonist into coming to closer quarters, or more probably as a mere expression of its own Uncontrollable viciousness. Truth" is the highest thing that man may keep.— Chaucer.

DOINGS OT CONGRESS. MEASURES CONSIDERED AND ACTED UPON. ? At the Nation’s Capital—What Is Being Done by the Senate and House—Old Matters Disposed Os and New Ones Considered. When, in considering the sundry civil bill on the 24th. the Senate reached the World’s Fair paragraphs, Senator Farwell moved to so the bill as it came from the Senate Committee on Appropriations as to Increase the whole amount appropriated for salaries and expenses from $40,000 to $120,000. The motion was lost, however and the appropriation remains at $40,000. ’ The Senate confirmed ex-Governor Foster as Secretary of the Treasury. The direct tax bill was passed by the House, after Considerable discussion. The bill has already passed the Senate, and now needs th© President’s signature to become law. The shipping subsidy bill got another backset, and it is now exceedingly doubtful if its advocates will be able to get It before the House ■ again this session. The immigration bill was taken up on the 25th. The bill as passed directs the Secretary of the Treasury to provide rules for inspection along the Canadian frontier so as not to impede travel between the two countries, and provides that nothing in the act shall be deemed to exclude persons convicted of political offenses, notwithstanding such offenses shallbe denominated as felonious, infamous crlny?s. a turpitude of the laws of the land from which the immigrants come or by the court convicting them. The clauses relating to the admission of other classes of convicts and of paupers and incurables are even more stringent than in the existing law. Senator Gorman announced the death of his colleague, in the Senate as soon as the Journal was read and offered resolutions expressing the great sorrow with which the Senate had heard of the death of Mr. Wilson. The Senate, out of respect, adjourned until the following day. In the Senate, on the 25thrthe House amendment to fie direct tax-bill was presented and was laid on the tablm.for the present. Among the papers pressed and referred were numerous protests from the northwest portion of Nebraska against the neglect of the Government in the matter of disarming the hostile Sioux and asking protection from Indian depredations. Tht* sundry civil bill was then taken up and Its Consideration resumed. All the amendments were agreed to, and the bill was then passed. The legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill was taken up. In the House''there were less than twenty-five members in attendance. The Senate bill authorizing the construction of a railroad bridge at Little Rock, Ark., was passed; also the Senate bill for the relief of the assignees of the late John Roach. The House then proceeded in committee of the whole (Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, in the cliaiiT to general debate on the shipping bilk i The Vice-President, on the 27th. laid be fore the Senate a message from the President returning without his approval the bill to establish the record and pension office of the War Department. The President states his objection to the bill at some length, to the effect, generally, that it is hot competent for Congress to nominate a particular person to fill an office created by law. The message was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. In the House the Senate • bill was passed amendatory of the law providing for the selection of school lands. A bill was passed authorizing the Fort Gibson. Tahlequah and Northeastern Railrpad .Company to construct a road through the Indian Territory. The House, then In committee of the whole, resumed the consideration of the shipping bill. The House substitute for the Senate bill was read by paragraphs for amendment. T'he Senate on the 28th agreed to the conference reports on the bills to establish a United States land court, and to define and regulate the jurisdiction of courts of the United States. The House substitute for the Senate tonnage bill was laid before the Senate, and Mr. Frye moved for the appointment of a conference committee. This motion was resisted on both sides of the chamber. In the House Mr. Caswell, of Wisconsin. supported the conference report on the bill tp define and regulate the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, and after a short debate it was adopted. The conference on the bill establishing a private land (•laimtourt was aljso agreed to. Conference held between Republicans and Democrats resulted in a tacit agreement that none of tlie contested election eases should be called up. and that the Democrats should Hot place any obstruction in the way of the appropriation bills. In pursuance of this agreement the sundry civil and legislative appropriation bills were sent to eonfreneee without objection. Took Her or Bric-a-Brac. At a reception- recently given by a well-khown citizen a young society blood was earnestly engaged in a conversation, and, with his hands behind him, was playing with what he supposed was a piece of bric-a-brac or the arm of a chair. But instead of that it suddenly moved, and he turned to find that he had been rubbing the gloved arm of a lady, and moved up as far as the elbow. He is a nervous fellow, and in the explanation that followed he said: “Pardon me, madam, but I thought it was a piece of bric-a-brac.” The explanation amused her so greatly that she fell into a convulsion of laughter, and the young man, continuing, and presumably referring to her funny-bone, said: “Your sense of the humorous has relieved me of my extreme embarrassment.” Perhaps it has, but it hasn’t relieved him of the torture of his friends, who are now asking him the price of gloves, and how he is succeeding with his collection of bric-a-brac.— Buffalo Courier. l>o Not Worry. About the hardest achievement is to Jjve without fret and worry in the midst of uncertainty. A business man doesn’t know how the vital venture is going to turn out. A housewife is placed in such circumstances that her position to-morrow is utterly unforseeable. What shall be done? Let tomorrow alone. Attend to the nearest duties. Above all, don’t chafe. You will need all your vitality, .perhaps, and all your courage, to mqet those dreadful contingencies. But s nothing ‘ wastes vitality, nothing depletes cour--1 age- like apprehension. Provide, if you can. If you can’t, go on calmly in the round pf present occupation. . Taekle to-morrow when it becomes today. Don’t cross the bridge before you come to it. . —•. The Laziest Man on Eieeord. Even the preachers are not averse to i joke that lies in the line of the professional funny man. One of them i told the following in an East-Side i church lately when he was invited to speak: A traveler discovered a man lying on the ground one warm day i within a foot or two of the shade of a ‘ tree. “Why don’t you lie in the shade ?" > he inquired. “I did,” replied the man, “but it has moved away from me and I i can’t afford to follow it.” “Well, if i you are not the best specimen of a ■ lazy man I have ever seen yet! Make me anqther remark on a par with that and I’ll give you a quarter.” The man ' said, “Put the quarter into my pocket.” i He got it.— Buffalo Express. i Proverbs About Thunder. Thunder In the north indicates dry l weather. Two cubrents In summer indicate thunder.

Advice to Young Men. A correspondent writes to inquire if there is room in this city for a young man to dig in his toes and clamber for success. He says the avenues of employment and the great high roads to success in the quiet little town where he lives are closed, and that a young man might wander about all summer and never find anything to do that will eventually make him a great man, and place laurels of fame within his reach, so he will only have to reach up with a pole and knock off chunks of fame enough to last him through life. Yes, sir, there is plenty of room in this city for young men. There is plenty of room in any city, villagiF or town for a young man who wants to climb up the ladder of fame. But there is no room in this city for more young men who expect to knock laurels off a tree with a pole. Laurels don’t grow on trees in this city any more than they do in country places, even where trees are more plentiful, and laurels couldn’t grow on them if they wanted to. But there is still room in the most crowded city on the globe for young men of energy and push, and who rather spend their leisure time in hustling for bread than smoking cigarettes, wearing tight pants, and posing as a masher, at nothing per day, and beat- • ing some boarding house out of their sustenance. All this talk about the avenues of employment being closed to young men is gammon, and any young man need not move into the city from jome country town, in the hope of getting on better than he could in the country. The young man who don’t catch on in a small town, where competition in labor and capital is less, does not possess the ingredients to give him a very startling lead in the city. If the correspondent can extract any consolation out of this information he is welcome to it at the usual rates. The Ladies Delighted. The pleasant effect and the perfect safety With which ladies may use the liquid n uit laxative, Syrup of Figs, under all caaditiona make it their favorite remedy. It is pleasing to the eye and to the taste, gentle, yet effectual in acting on the kidneys, liver and bowels. Another Electrical Wonder. “The most wonderful electrical invention that I have heard of this winter.” said a well-known patent lawyer recently, is by Mr. Samuel D. Mott, who was for years Edison’s confidential man, and who says that he has, which I believe, devised a scheme by which a single operator on a race-course or base-ball field may automatically display the whole progress of the race or game on a series of dials not unlike clock faces hundreds of miles from the scene of the contest. In the same .way he claims to be able to show in the city of New York, on dials which would present a fac-shnile diagram of the floor of the United States Senate, for example, exactly how each Senator is voting or speaking on any important question under consideration contemporaneously with the actual vote or sneech in the Senate.”— New York World. THE WAISASH ElftE. 11-andsome equipment. E- legant day coaches;- and W-agner palace sleeping cars A-re in daily service B-etween the city of St. Louis A-nd New York and Boston. S-pacious reclining chair cars II -ave no equal E-ike those run by the I-ncomparable and only Wabash. N-ew trains and fast time E-very day in the year. From East to West the sun’s bright ray. Smiles on th© line that leads the way. MAGNIFICENT VESTIBULE EXPRESS TRAINS, running free reclining chair cars I and palace sleepers to St. Louis. Kansas I City, and Council Bluffs. The direct route [ to all points in Missouri. Kansas, Nebraska. ’ lowa. Texas, Indian Territory. Arkansas, I Colorado. Utah, Wyoming, Washington, i Montana, and California. For rates, routes, I maps, etc., apply to any ticket agent or address F. Chandleb. i Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent. St. Louis. Mo. Where to Fnd Contentment. “The most contented people in this State,” said a State functionary, "‘are the public paupers. The average length of life of paupers after entering the poorhouse is nearly twenty years, ’ as is _shown by official statistics; and when you consider that most of them at the time of admission are beyond their prime you will see that they must live under conditions favorable to longevity. When once safely lodged in the poorhouse they not only lay aside that ambition which disturbs the peace of ordinary mortals, but are perfectly contented to ktay there through life. Twenty years of content, no botheration about money or provender or rent or clothes or taxes or doctors’ bills, and no fear of failure of business. It is not always so.bad to be a pauper in a poorhouse after all!”—A’cic York Sun. “Now good digestion wait on appetite and health on both.” This natural and happy condition of the mind and body is brought about by the timely use of Prickly Asli Bitters. While not a beverage in any sense, it possesses the wonderful facility of renewing to the debilitated system all the elements required to rebuild and make strong. If you are troubled with a, headache; diseased Liver, kjtlneys or bowels, give it a trial; it will not fail you. A. Slight Mistake. Boarding-house Keeper—Why, I didn’t know you kept chickens here. How much a pound is this rooster? Jeweler —That fowl is for ornament, not for use, madam. It is made of bronze.”—Nlrcct A Smith's Good News. Couples court before they are married, and they must, also, go to court before they are divorced. Tooters of brass horns are not necessarily musical tutors. BTTSAII Fits stopped free by Dr .Kline’s Great Nerve Kesterer. No i'its after first day’s use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and *2.00 trial bottle free to Fit cases. Send to Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St., Plilla.. Pa. A man of many parts—The book canvasser. Kenmatism v -Sciatica ' TEECHAimMLW cure SICK HEADACHE. 25 Cents a Box. OF AT.r. DRUGGISTS. Tutt’s Pills The dyspeptic, the debilitated, whether from excess of work of mind or body, drink or exposure in J MALARIAL REGIONS, will find Tutt’s Pills the most genial ra» ■taMUv* arar aflterad tha suffering tavallda

‘ Let’s reason together. Here’s a firm, one of the largest the country over, the world over; it has grown, step by step, through the years to greatness —and it sells patent medicines ! —ugh! “That’s enough!”— Wait a little — . This firm pays the newspapers good money (expensive work, this advertising!) to tell the people that they have faith in what they sell, so much faith that if they can’t benefit or cure they don’t want your money. Their guarantee is not indefinite and relative, but definite and absolute— if the medicine doesn’t help, your money is “on call. ” Suppose every sick man and every feeble woman tried these medicines and found them worthless, who would be the loser, you or they ? The medicines are Doctor Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery,” for blood diseases, and his “ Favorite Prescription,” for woman’s peculiar ills. If they help toward health, they cost SI.OO a bottle each! If they don’t, they cost nothing ! Origin of Mermaid Stories. The dugong, a Species of whale found abundantly in the waters of both the great oceans, but especially off the coast of Australia in the Pacific, is believed to have furnished the slender basis upon which all mermaids and all mermen stories have been founded. Its average length is from eight to twenty feet. It has a hand much resembling that of the human species, and breaths by means of lungs. It feeds upon submarine seaweeds, and when wounded inakes a noise like a mad bull. “The flesh of this species of whale is used for food, and is said to have the flavor of bacon, mutton or beef, according to the part of the body from which the meat is taken.” Beecham’s Pills act like magic on a weak stomach. Men's Tastes. Mr. Grubbs—l don’t see why you should spend such a pile for clothes. Mrs.-Grubbs —I always suppose men like to see a woman well dressed. Mr. Grubbs—They do—when some other man pays the bills. —New York Weekly. SHILOH’S CONSUMPTION CURE. The success of this Great Cough Cure is without a parallel in the history of medicine. All druggists are authorized to sell it on a positive guarantee, a test that no other cure can successfully stand. That it may become known, I the Proprietors, at an enormous expense, are i placing a Sample Bottle Free into every home ‘ in the United States and Canada. If you have I s a Cough, Sore Throat, or Bronchitis, use it, for I it will cure you. If your child has the Croup, ■ or Whooping Cough, use it promptly, and relief -j is sure. If you dread that insidious disease i Consumption, use it. Ask your Druggist for ; SHILOH’S CURE, Price io cts., 50 cts. and 1 $1 00. If your Lungs are sore or Back lame, i use Shiloh’s Porous Plaster, Price 25 cts. PURITY YOUR BLOOD. But do not use the dangerous alkaline and mercurial preparations which destroy your nervous system and ruin the digestive power of the stomach. The vegetable kingj dom gives us the best and safest remedial agents. Dr. Sherman devoted the greater pari of his life to the discovery of this relia* bleand safe remedy, and all its ingredients are vegetable; He gave it the name of Prickly Ash Bitters! a name every one can remember, and to the present day nothing has been discovered that is so beneficial for ihe BLOOD, for the LIVER, for the KIDNEYS and for the STOMACH, This remedy is now so well and favorably known by all who have used it that arguments as to its merits are use- ! less, and if others who require a correctI ive to the system would but give it a trial I the health of this country would be vastly improved. Remember the name—PRICKLY ASH BITTERS. Ask your druggist for it. PRICKLY ASH BITTERS CO., ST. LOUIS. MO. A GTMM A DR - taft-s asthmalenb I "Ivl ><—ABmCllnever fails; send us your address, we will mail trial V WilEU bottle f" mOfi-TAH UOS.M.CO..RBCHESTU.N.Y.I' Kt t

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“August Flower” How does he feel ?—He feels cranky, and is constantly experimenting, dieting himself, adopting strange notions, and changing the cooking, the dishes, the hours, and manner of his eating— August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel ?—He feels at times a gnawing, voracious, insatiable appetite,wholly unaccountable, unnatural and unhealthy.— August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel ?—He feels no desire to go to the table and a grumbling, fault-finding, over-nice-ty about what is set before him when he is there— August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel ?—He feels after a spell of this abnormal appetite an utter abhorrence, loathing, and detestation of food; as if a mouthful would kill him— August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel ?— He has irregular bowels and peculiar stools— August Flower the Remedy. ® eTmi universal saver ao corded Tilling hast ’a Pug«T Sound Cabbage Sexds leads me to offer a P. S. Gaomi Oaion, Jinesi GleU intxtsixnee. To introduce itand show its capabilities 1 will pay SIOO for the best yield obtained from 1 ounce of seed whitA I will mail for 80 cts. Cata» loffae free. Isaac F. TllHnghast, La Plume, Pa* ® • . The Soap that Cleans Most is Lenox. GRATEFUL—COMFORTING, EPPS S COCOA BREAKFAST. “By a thorough knowledge of the natural lawi which govern the operations of digestion and nutrl. tlon, and by a careful appllc atlon of the fine proper* ties of weli-selected Cocoa, Mr. Epos has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many aeavy doctor.’ bilk. It is by the judicious use ot such articles ot diet that aoonstitutlon may be gr dually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease Hundreds ot subtle maladies are floating around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point We mav escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood a-d a pioperly nourished frame.” — “CirU Service Gaaette. ” Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold onlv In half-pound tins, > y Grocers, labelled thus: JAMES EPPS JkCO., Homoeopathic Chemists, London. KsonaND ™jif FOR A ONE-DOLLAR BILL sent us by maß we will deliver, free of all charges, to any person in the United States, all ot the following articles, carw tuliy packed: One two-ounce bott’e of Pure Vaseline..*Meta. One two-ounce bottle ot Vaseline Pomade.... 15 * One jar ot Vaseli- e Cold Cream._.j.s..ls * One cake of Vaseline Camphor Ice. 10 * One cake of Vaseline Boap, unecented 10 • Onecakeof VaselineSoap.exqinsitelysceTited 25 * • One two-ounce bottle ot White Vaseline....... 25 Sl.lO Or, for pottage stamps, any single article at the price named. On no account be persuaded to accept from your druggist anu Vaseline or preparation therefrom unless labeled tcith our name, because you will certaiPe ll receive an imit-.uion which has little or no value. ChasebrouKh Mik. Co- 24 State St, N. T. ■ A ■ ■ KITrn Secretaries and Or- ■ Ass 11 nj I !■ I Igariizers by an AsWW fill I LUsessment Order pay- ■ ■ ing SIOO.OO in six months at an " * estimated cost of $44. Reputable men and women can compensation. Address M. McIixTYRE, Supreme Manager, No. 1028 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. “O FiTWARMED to 25 lbs. per month by harmless herbal f \ X\ / / jremedies. No starving, no inconranienca • - • - *** * -’and no bad effects.JStrictlyconfidential. Send 6c. for circulars and testimonials. A-idreaaDli O.W.F. SNYDER, 243 Statestreet. Chicago. JIL PEDINE FEET. Smaller Shoes may be worn with comfort. Price, co cult Drug Stores, or by mail. Trial Package and illustrated ■amph let for a dime. THE 11. DINE CO., Wobld Building. New Yob».__ TDCr An elegant and correctly tuned Silver, Tongue I KLL Harnion'ca mailed free for 15 cents. Address, Novkltx atid Specialtx Co.. P. O, Box _io?4. New York. tioot. Sl.noo <»n-runy lurMteS her. fAftA I All Um A brine AXNtILLV fro. TWENTY toIUU? Te.tus. TTININA INVESTMENT CO- TACOXX. "ASM. Al I lANPr and F. M. B. A.men.Grangers.LaborALLIAIiUL Reformers. Greeubackers. and Anti- - Monopolists, send tor sample copy Joliet (111.) Newa. N. U„ F. WNo. 10-91. When Writing to Advertisers, please say you saw the Advertisement in this paper.