Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 20 March 1891 — Page 3

PLAGUES OF THE CITIES. STRONG DISCOURSE PREACHED BY REV. TAItyIAGE. Baleful Amusement* the Subject A Great Coneonrse Present—The Speaker Specifies Amusements That Are Harmful and Those That Are Not. The aeries of sermons Dr. Talmage Is preaching on ‘’The Plagues of the Cities” is attracting general attention. This sermon, which is the fourth of the series, ison “Baleful Amusements.” The text was 11. Samuel, ii, 14: “Let the young men now arise and play before us.” There are two armies encamped by the pool of Gibeon. The time hangs heavily on their hands. One army proposes a game of sword fencing. Nothing could be more healthful and innocent. The other army accepts the challenge. Twelve men against twelve men, the sport opens.. But something went adversely. Perhaps one of the swordsmen got an unlucky clip, or in some way had his ire aroused, and that which opened in sportfulness ended in violence, each one taking his contestant by the hair, and then with the sword thrusting him in the side, so that that which opened in innocent fun ended In the massacre of all the twenty-four sportmen. Was there ever a better illustration of what was true then, and is true now, that that which is innocent may be made destructive? What of a worldly nature is more important and strengthening and innocent than amusement, and yet what has counted more victims? I have no sympathy with a straitjacket religion. This is a very bright world to me, and I propose to do all I can to make it bright for others. I never could keep step to a dead march. A book years ago-issued says that a Christian man has a right to some amusements. For instance, if he comes home at night weary from Ins work, and feeling in need of recreation, puts on his slippers, and goes into his garret and walks lively round the floor several * ‘times.there can be no harm in it. i believe the church of God has made a tremendous mistake in trying to suppress the sportfulness of youth and drive oit from men their love of amusement. If God ever implanted anything in us he implanted this But instead of providing for this demand of our nature, the church of God has, for the main part, ignored it. As In a riot, the mayor plants a battery at the end of the street, and has it tired otT so that everything is cut down that happened to stand in the range, the good as well as the bad, so there are men in the church who plant their batteries of condemnation and tire away indiscriminately. Everything is condemned. But my Bible commends those who use the world without abusing it. and in the natural world. God has done everything to please and amuse us. In poetic figure we sometimes speak .of natural objects, as being in pain, but it is mere fancy. Poets say the clouds weep, but they never yet shed a tear; and the winds sigh, but ther never did have any trouble; and that the storm howls, but it never lost its temper. The world is a rose and the universe a garland. " Arid I am glad to know that in all our cities there are plenty of places whdre we may find elevated, moral entertaiment. But all honest men and good women will agree with me in the statement that one of t.hd worst plagues of these cities is corrupt amusement. Multitudes have gone down under the blasting influence . never to rise. If we may judge of what is going •on in many of the places of amusement by the Sodomic picture on board fences and in many of the shovV windows there is not a much lower depth of proflgacy to reach. At Naples, Italy, they keep such pictures locked up from indiscriminate inspection. Those pictures were exhumed from Pompeii and are not fit for public gaze. If the effrontery of bad olaces of timusenu nt in hanging out improper advertisements of what they are doing night by night groU’s worswin the same proportion, in fifty years New York and Brooklyn will beat not only Pompeii, but Sodom. To help stay the plhgiie now raging I project certain principles by whiclj you jnay judge in regard to any amusement or rimreation, finding out for yourself .whether it is right; or whether it is wrong. I remark in the iir.-t pjpee that you can judge of the moral character oi any amusement by its healthful result or by its baleful reaction - There are people Who seem made up of hard facts. They are a combination ot multiplication tables and statistics'. If von show them an exquisite picture they will begin to discuss the pigments involved in the coloring. If you show them a beautiful rose they will submit it to a botanical analysis, which is only the post-mortem examination of a flower. They have no rebound in their nature. They never do anything more than smile.' There are fio great tides of fueling surging tip from the depthsdt their soul in billow after billow of reverberating laughter. They seem as if nature had built them by contract and-made a bungling job of it. But, bles-cd be God, there are people in the world who have bright faces;/and whose life is a song, an anthem; a p:ean .of victory. Even their troubles- are like the vinos that crawl up the,side of a great, tower, on the top of which the sun--light sits, and the soft airs of summer hold perpetual carnival. They an* the people you like to have come to your house; they ate the people I like to have come to my house. If you but touch the hem of their garments you are healed.. Now It is these exhilerant and sym,pathetic and i»arm hearted people that art; most tempted to pernie ons amusements. In proportion as a ship is swift jt wants a strong helmsman.; in proportion as a horse is gay it’wants a stout driver; and these peoph?of exuberant nature will do well to look at the reaction of all their amusemfflits,’ If an amusement sends y<iu home at night nervous so that you cannot sleep, and yon rise, up in tins morning, not because you are - slept out, but because your duties drag you from your slumber, you have been where you ought not to have been. There are • amusements that send i man next (lay to his work bloodshot, yawning, stupid, nauseated; and they are wrong kinds of amusement. They are entertainments that give, a man disgust with the drudgery of life, with tools beavause they are not. swords, with working aprons because they are not robes, with cattle because they are not infuriated bulls of the arena. If any amusement sends you home longing for a life of romance and thrilling adventure, love that takes poison and shootsitself, moonlight adventures and hair-breadth escapes, you may depend upon it that ybu are the sacrificed victim of unsanciitied pleasure. Our recreations are intended to build up, and if they pull usdown a< to our nibral or as to our physical strength yon may come to the conclusion that they are obnoxious. There is nothing more depraving than attendance' upon amusements that are full of innuendo and low suggestion. The young man enters. At first he sits far back, with his hat on and his coat collar up, fearful that somebody there may know him. Several nights pass on. He takes off his hat earlier and puts his coat collar down. The blush that first came into his cheek when anything indecent was enacted eomes no more to his

cheek. Farewell, young man! You probably started on the long road which ends in consummate destruction. The stars of hope will go out one by one, until you will be .left in utter darkness. Hear you pot the rush of the maelstrom, in whose outer circle your boat now dances, making merry with the whirling waters? But you are being drawn in, and the gentle motion will become terrific agitation. You cry for help. In vain! Ycu pull at the oar to put back but the struggle will not avail! You will be tossed and dashed and shipwrecked and swallowed in the whirlpool that has already crushed in its wrath ten thousand hulks. i Young men who have just come from country residence to city residence will do well to be on their guard and let no one induce you to places of improper amusement. It is mightily alluring when a young man long a citizen, offers to show a new comer all around, I saw a beautiful home, where the bell rang violently late at night. The son had been off in sinful indulgences. His comrades were bringing him home. They carried him to the door. They rang the bell at 1 o'clock in the morning. Father and mother came down. They were waiting for the wandering son, and then the comrades, as soon as the door was opened, the prodigal headlong into the doorway, crying: “There he is, drunk as a fool! Ha, ha!” When men go into amusements they cannot afford they first borrow what they cannot earn, and then they steal what they cannot borrow. First they go into embarrassment, and then into lying, and then into theft; and when a man gets as far on as that he does not stop short of the penitentiary. There is not a prison in the land where there are not victims of unsanctified amusements. Merchant of Brooklyn or New York, is there a disarrangement in your accounts? Is there a leakage in your money drawer? Did not the cash account come out right last night? I will tell you. There is a young man in your store wandering off into bad amusements. The salary you give him may meet lawful expenditures, but not the sinful- indulgences in which he has entered, and he takes by f theft that which you do not give him in lawful salary. , How brightly the path of unrestrained amusement opens. The young man says: “Now lam off for a good time. Never mind economy. I'll get money somehow. What a beautiful day for a ride! Crack the whip, and over the turnpipe! Come, boys, fill nigh your glasses. Drink! Long life, health, plenty of rides just like this!” Hard working men hear the clatter of the hoofs and look up and say: “Why. I wonder Where those fellows get their money from! We have to toil and drudge. They do nothing.” To these gay men life is a thrill and an excitement. They stare-at other people, and in turn are stared at. The watch chain jingles. The cup foams. The cheeks flush. The eyes flash. The midnight hears their guffaw. They swagger. They jostle decent men off the sidewalk. They take the name of God in vain. They parody the hymn they learned at their mother's knee: and to all pictures of coming disaster they cry out, “Who can's!” and to the counsel of some Christian friend, “Who are you?” . _ Passing along the street some night you hear a shriek in a grog shop, the rattleof the watchman's club, the rush of the police. What is the matter no'w? Oh, this reckless young man has been killed in a grog shop fight. Carry him home to his father's, house. Parents will come down and wash his wounds i and close his eyes in death. They forj give him all he ever did. although he cannot in his silence ask it. The prodigal has gone home at last. Mother will go to her little garden and get the sweetest flowers, and twist them into a chaplet for the silent heart of the wayward boy, and push back from the bloated brow the long locks that were once her pride. And the air will be rent with the agonv. The great dramatist says, “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child.” Igo further, and say those are unchristian amusements which become the chief business of a man's life. Life is an earnest thing. Whether we were born in a palace or hovel, whether we are affluent or pinched, we have to work. If you do not sweat with will sweat with disease. You have a soul I that is to be transfigured amid the pomp of a judgment day: and after the sea has sung its last chant and the mountain shall have comedown in an avalanche of a rock, you will live and think and act high on a throne where seraphs sing, or deep in a dungeon where demons howl. ’ In a world where there is so much to do for yourselves, and so much to do for others, God pity that man who has nothing to do. ' • , 1 go further, and say that all those : amusements are wrong which lead into | bad company. If you go to any place 1 where you have to associate with the ini temperate, with the unclean, with the * abandoned, however well they may be ; dressed, in the name of God quit it. j They will despoil your nature. They i will undermine your moral character. They will drop you when you are destroyed. They will give not one cent.to I support your children when you are I dead. They will weep not one tear at ' your burial. They will chuckle over your damnation. ■ 1 had a friend at the West’—a rare ; friend. He was one. of the first to wel- ! come me tp my new home. To line per- ; sonat appearance he added a generosity, ' frankness and ardor of nature that made Ime love him like a brother. But I saw evil people gathering around him. „They ’ came up from the saloons, from thegami bliiig hells. They plied him with a thoui sand arts. They seized upon his social nature, and he could not stand the charm. ; They drove him on the rocks. like a ship full winged, shivering on the breakers. ’ 1 used to admonish him. I would say,. “Now I wish you would quit these bad i habits and become a Christian.” “Oh.” he would reply. “1 would like to, I would : like to, bit 1 have gone so far I don't think there is any way back.” In his ; moments of repentance he would go home , and take his little girl of 8 years, and embrace her convulsively, and cover her '.with adornments, and strew around her I pictures and toys and everything that ' could make her happyf and then, as though hounded by an evil spirit, he would go out to the flaming cup and the house of shame, like a fool to the correej tion of the stocks. • ■ 1 was summoned to his deathbed. I hastened. 1 entered the room. I found ' him, to my surprise, lying in full every- . day dress on top of the couch. I put out 'my hand. He grasped t excitedly and I said, “Sit down, Mr. Talmage, right I there,” 1 sat down. He said: “Last night I saw my mother, who has been l dead for twenty years, and she sat just | where you sit now. It was nodream. I I was wide awake. There was nodelusion iii the matter. I saw her just as plainly as 1 see you. Wife, I wish you would ■ take these strings off of me. There are I strings spun all around my body. I wish you would take them off of me.” I saw I it was delirium. “Oh,” replied his wife, “my dear.there is nothing there, there is nothing there.” He went on, and said; “Just where you sit, Mr. Talmage, my mother sat. She said to me, ‘Henry, I do wish you .would do better.’ I got out of bed, put my arms around her, and said: ‘Mother, I want to do better. I have been trying to do better. Won’t you help me to do better? You used to help me.’ No mistake about

it, no delusion. I taw her— the cap, and the apron, and the spectacles, just as she used to look twenty years ago; but I do wish you would take these strings away. They annoy me so. I can hardly talk. Won’t you take them away?” I knelt down and prayed, conscious of the fact that he did not realize what I was saying. I got up. I said, “Good-by; I hope you will be better soon.” He said, “Good-by, good-by.” That night his soul went to the God who gave it. Arrangements were made for the obsequies. Some said, “Don’t bring him in the church; he was too dissolute.” “Oh,” I said, “bring him. He was a good friend of mine while he was alive, and I shall stand by him now that he is dead. Bring him to the church.” As I satin the pulpit and saw his body coming up through the aisle I felt as if I could weep tears of blood. I told the people that day: “This man had his virtues, and a good many of them. He had his faults, and a good many of them, but if there is any man in this audience who is without sin let him cast the first stone at this coffin lid.” On one side the pulpit sat that little child, rosy, sweetfaced, as beautiful as any little child that sat at your table thjs morning, I warrant you. She looked up wistfully, not knowing the full sorrows of an orphan child. Oh, her countenance haunts me to-day like some sweet face looking upon us through a horrid dream. On the other side of the pulpit were the men who had destroyed him. There they sat, hard visaged, some of them pale from exhausting disease, some of them flushed until it seemed as if the fires of iniquity flamed through the cheeks and crackled the lips. They were the men who had done the work. They were the men who had bound him hand and foot. They had kindled the fires. They had poured the wormwood and gall into that orphan’s cup. Did tfiey weep? No. Did they sigh repentingly? No. Did they say, “What a pity that such a brave man should be slain?” No, no; not one bloated hand was lifted to wipe a tear from a bloated cheek. They sat and looked at the coffin like vultures gazing at the carcass of a lamb whose heart they had ripped out! I cried in their ears as plainly as I could, “There is a God and a judgment day!” Did they tremble? Oh, no, no! They went back from the house of God, and that night, though their victim lay in Oakwood cemetery, I was told that they blasphemed, and they drank, and they gambled, and there was not one less customer in all the houses of iniquity. This destroyed man was a Samson in physical strength, but Delilah sheared him, and the Philistines of his companionship dug his eyes out and threw him into the prison of evil habits. But in the hour of his death he rose up and took hold of the two pillard curses of God against drunkenness and uncleanness, and threw himself forward, until down upon him and his companions there came the thunders of an eternal catastrophe. Again, any amusement that gives you a distaste for domestic life is bad. How many bright domestic circles have been broken up by sinful amusements! The father went off, the mother went off, the child went off. There are to-day the fragments before me of blasted households. Oh, if you have wandered away, I would like to charm you back by the sound of that one word, “home.” Do you not know that you have bqt little more time to give to domestic welfare? Do you not see,father, that your children are soon.to go out into the world, and all the influence for good you are to have over them you must have now? Death will break in on your conjugal relations, and alas! if you have to stand over the grave of one who perished from your neglect! I saw a wayward husband standing at the deathbed of his Christian wife, and I saw her point to a ring on her finger and heard her say to her husband. “Do you see that ring?” He replied, “Yes, I see it.” “Well,” said she, “do you remember who put it there?” “Yes,” said he, “I put it there.” and all the past seemed to rush upon him. By the memory of that day when, in the presence of men and angels, you promised to be faithful in joy and sorrow, and in sickness and in health; by the memory of those pleasant hours when you sat together in your new home talking of a bright future; by the cradle and tin 1 joyful hour when one life was spared and another given: by that sick bed, when the little one lifted up the hands and called for help, and you knew he must tile, and he put one arm around each Os your necks and brought you very;, near together in that dying kiss; by little grave in Greenwood that you never think of without a rush of tears; by the Bible, where, amidst stories of heavenly love, is the brief but expressive record of births and deaths; by the neglects of the past, and by the agonies of the future; by a judgment day, when husbands and wives, parents and children, in immortal groups, will stand to be eaugjit up in shining array or to sink down into darkness; by all that. I beg you give'lo home your best affections. Ah, my friends, there is an hour coming when our past life will probably pass before us in review. It will be our last hour. If from our death pillow; we have to look back and sec a life spent in sinful amusement there will be a dart that will strike through our soul sharper than the dagger with which Virginias slew his child. The memory of the past will make us quake like Macbeth. The iniquities and rioting through which we have passed will come upon us, weird and skeleton as Meg Merrilies. Death, the old Shyloek, will demand and take the remaining pound of flesh, and the remaining drop of blood, and upon our Last opportunity for repentance and our last chance for Heaven the curtain will forever drop. A had two promissory notes, secured by bank stock as collateral, discounted by a bank, and, on his failure to pay, the bank sent the stock certificate to the cashier of the other bank for transfer. The cashier acknowledged the receipt of the certificate, and said that, as a new Board of Directors had been elected the day before, he could not send the certificate for a week, as the President would not be elected until then. A few days later the cashier wrote to the discounting bank that he would sell the stock at par, and he was authorized to hold the certificate which had been sent to him and sell the shares. He sold a part of them, but before he had sold any more the former owner of the stock failed in debt to the bank. By its charter a lien was given to it ( ( its stock for any indebtedness of the stockholder and the officers refused to make any further transfer before the bank was secured for the stockholders’ indebtedness. A bill in equity was, then filed in the United States Circuit Court, at Pittsburgh, Civil National Bank vs. Watsontown Bank, to compel the transfer of the remaining shares, but the plaintiff was defeated. An appeal was taken to the Supreme Court of the United States, which in May reversed the decree and ordered the transfer to be made. Judge Matthews, in the opinion, said that any right the bank had to hold the stock for the debt due it was waived by the cashier, who y by the charter, was authorized to make transfers. , When Is a man out of data! When he’s a weak (week) back.

PALMER IS VICTORIOUS. ELECTED SENATOR ON THE 154TH BALLOT. Tne Farmer Votes Briny About His Election—The Result Ends One of the Longest Senatorial Fights in the History of the Country. General John M. Palmer is a United States Senator The contest in the Illinois joint assembly continued through seven weeks to a day. and took 154 ballots. It was known early in the morning by everybody that Palmer would be elected unless some accident interfered, and all Springfield went to the Capitol to try to secure admittance to the House floor and galleries. Those who could not get inside remained in the rotunda and satisfied their curiosity with echoing the cheers inside. The Republicans knew they were beaten, and accepted their defeat with complacency. No attempt was made in either house to do any business. The members sat about in groups, telling stories, singing songs, and exchanging experiences. There was good feeling everywhere, Republicans and Democrats mingling on both sides. Two hours before the joint assembly met, the galleries and the floor of the House began to fill. An hour before the battle there was a dense crowd packed in every space sot apart for visitors. The Republicans who were in their seats began to sing. “We Are Going Home. ” They then switched off to “Marching Through Georgia ” The Democrats substituted a campaign song to the same tune. The singing continued until almost time for the joint assembly. The Palmer banner was carried into the hall and planted on the Democratic side. It was greeted with cheers from that side. At the same moment the procession came slowly moving down the center aisle hke a funeral train. Doorkeeper Brown and several assistants opened the way, while four men carried in a stretcher on which lay Senator Wells, so ill that his friends had protested against his leaving his bed. The doorkeeper announced the and shortly after that body was admitted

few I GEN. JOHN M. PALMER.

the vote was taken- The Speaker announced the result a< follows: “On this, the one bundled and fiftyfourth joint ballot, the whole number of votes cast is 20-L. Necessary to a choice, 103, of which John M. Palmer has received a total of 103, C. J. Lindley, 100, Streeter, 1.” The Speaker then formally declared General John M. Palmer elected Senator to represent the State of Illinois in the United States Senate for six years from March 4, 1.891. Senator-elect Palmer was then introduced, and delivered a short speech. John M, Palmer was born in Sco,tt County, Kentucky, Sept. 13. 1817. lie cast his first vote in Illinois for Stephen A. Douglas for Congress, but he was always an anti-slavery man in feeling, and left the Democrats when the Missouri cotapronii e was repealed. Then he became a Republican. In 1856 he was Chairman of the Republican Stat • Convention at Bloomington. He ran for Congress in 1859, but was defeated. In 1860 he was a Republican Presidential Elector for the State at large. In 1861. he was appointed one ob the live delegates (all Republicans) s< pt by Illinois to the peace congress at Washington. When the civil conflict broke out he offered his services to his country, and was elected .Colonel of the Fourteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. .and participated in the «ngagcftients at Island No. 10: at Farmington, where he skillfully extricated his command from a dangerous position: at Stone River, where his division for several hours, Dec. 31, 1862, held an advanced position and stood like a rock, and for his gallantry there he was made Major General; at Chickamauga, where his and Van Clece's divisions for two hours maintained their position when they were cut off by overpowering numbers. Under Gen. Sherman he was assigned to the Fourteenth Army Corps, and participated in the Atlanta campaign up to a date in August, when he asked jo be relieved because Gen. Siu rman ordered him to report to Gen. Schofield. In February. 1865, Gen. Palmer was assigned to the military administration of Kentucky, which was a delicate post. General Palmer was nominate I for Governor of Illinois by the Republican State Convention which met at Peoria May 6. 1868. and his nomination would probably have been made by acclamation had he not persistently declared that he could not accept’a candidature for the office. The result of the ensuinsr election gave Mr Palmer a majority of 44,707 over John R- Eden, the Democratic nominee. Since the ex-piration of Governor Palmer s term, while he has been somewhat prominent in Illinois politics, he has devoted the most of his time to the practice of his profession. In 1887 ami 1888 he was th” candidfit>‘ of his j arty for the United States Senatorship, but was defeated. the first time by Chas. B. Farwell, and the second time by Shelby M. Cullom. The Democratic State Convention held in 1888 nominated him again for the office of Governor. He carefully canvassed the whole State, and was defeated by Joseph W. Fifer, the present incumbent. He received the indorsement of the Democratic State Convention held in June last for the office of United States Senator, and the instructions which every Democratic Senator and Represeiitativs elected in November last received were considered as obligating him to vote for no one for United States Senator but John M. Palmer. Gen Palmer has been twice married. In 1842 he was united in marriage to Malinda Neely, who died in 1883. He was married to his present wife iu the spring of 1888. Some instructive data concerning the comparative cost of incandescent lighting have been published. The average cost of maintaining a Ifi-candle power lamp for twenty-four hours was shown to be (5.82 cents. A careful study of these data should be made by the owner of every office building, as it will unquestionably be to his Interest to have an electric light plant installed with a view to giving his patronsAhe additional inducement of the electric light. The total yearly average cost per lamp in a modern office building should not exceed $4. including every possible expense, aside from electric .or combination fixture*.

The CynicOne of the most disagreeable human beings is the cynic who does not believe in good or disinterested motives. He distrusts every one. He is skeptical as to the sincerity of all men, and he believes that self-interest prompts all their actions. Whenever you see one of these men, you see one who is so filled with selfishness that there is not room enough inside him for it and for all the egotism he tries to carry, and you will see it oozing out of him at eveiy pore. These two attributes crowd his soul into a small compass, press on his heart until there is not room for it to develop a generous impulse, and take possession of his mind until liberal or noble thoughts cease to exist there. He is liberal enough in one way—liberal in unbeliefs—but a narrowminded bigot in his beliefs. When he hears of some apparently unselfish act, he begins hunting for a selfish motive, and | should he fail to find it, he says: “Well, I cannot understand what he does it for, but he must expect to benefit by it somehow. ” Certainly, he cannot understand a disinterested act of kindness, because all his own motives ar« prompted by self-interest. He knows of no higher motives. The cynic is simply what he believes all other men, who are not fools, to be. His heart is not large enough to conceive a chivalrous act, his brain not of sufficient dimensions to beget or be delivered of a noble or generous thought, and his little soul so shriveled that if it were possible that it could ever get to heaven, and if Peter should smile a welcome as h 4 let it in, it would immediately suspect the saintly gentleman of having some interested motive of being so friendly. Whenever you meet a man of this kind, who suspects that everybody in the world is trying to take advantage of him, you may be sure that that man would beat everybody in the world if he could. Whenever you see a man attributing mean or sordid motives to others, you have found a man who himself is mean at heart, and you have discovered a man who may have many acquaintances, but very few friends. Snakes, even the most venomous, are supposed to have been created for some useful purpose, and so the cynic has, doubtless, a place in the economy of nature that is necessary he should fill, but he is a very disagreeable necessity. —Texas Siftinas. Thackeray, in his original and piquant way, very truly says: “Gentleman is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in this circle —men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated, who can look the world honestly and truly in the face with equal, manly sympathy for great and small? All know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners, but of gentlemen, how many? Let us each take a scrap of paper and make his list.” Eminently Qualified. Judge—Cun you.remember nothing of what took place? , Try to recall some of the circumstances. Witness—l have tried, Your Honor, but I can't. My mind is a perfect blank. ‘You may step aside, but don't leave the court-room. We may need you for a juror. — Chieago Tribune. Sure to Please* “No doubt the = principal objection to my house.” said the owner to the real estate agent, “will be that it has no bath-room.” “That will not make the slightest difference,” said the real estate agent: “the customer is an anarchist.” —Chieuyo News. The Ladies Delighted. The pleasant effect and the perfect sa'ety With which iadies may use the liquid iu.t laxative, Sy tup of Figs, under all conditions 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. A Lucky Speculator. Mrs. Spruce — Whew! The thermometer is below zero again. Mr. Spruce—lt is, eh? Well, I’m mighty lucky. Last summer I came very near trading my Keeley motor stock fol' an ice machine. — direct & Smith’s News. ‘■No w good digestion wait on appetite and health on both.” This natural and happy condition of the ruiud and body is brought about by the timely use of Prickly Asli Bitters. While not a beverage in any sense, it possesses the wonderful faculty of renewing to the debilitated system all the elements icquired to rebuild and make strong. If you are troubled with a headache, diseased liver, kidneys or bowels, give it a trial; it wi>i not fail you. Alter the I'anic, V Miss Neverpay—Why does paw Iqok so glum, maw? Did the bank he ketq>< his money in fail? Mrs. Neverpay—Worse. The bank he is supposed to keep his money in didn’t fail.—Street A Smifh’s Gisnl News. FITS.— AiI Fits Stopped tre«> by I>r.Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. No Fite after first day’s u>e. Marvellous cures. Treatise and i'.’.UO trial bottle free to Fit cases. Send to Dr. Kline. 931 Arch St., Phils. Mabry in haste and repent at—your fatherinlawa

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