Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 3 April 1891 — Page 7

BASTEK SUNDAY SERMON “COME, SEE THE PLACE WHERE THE LORD LAY.” Text of the Eloquent Discourse Delivered by the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage—Title of the “The Split Mausoleum.” The text of Dr. Talmage’s discourse was Matthew xxviii, 6, "Come, see the place where the Lord lay.” Visiting any great city, we are not satisfied until we have also looked at its cemetery. We examine all,the styles of cenotaph, mausoleum, sarcophagus. crypt, and sculpture. Here lies bnried a statesman, yonder an orator, here a poet, Out there an inventor, in some other place a great philanthropist. But with how much greater interest and with more depth of emotion we look upon our family plot in the cemetery. In the one case it is a matter of public interest, in tne other it is a matter of private and heartfelt affection. -But around the grave at which we halt thio morning there are gathered all kinds of stupendous interest. At this sepulcher, I have to toll you—in this sepulcher there was buried a king, a conqueror, an emancipator, a friend, a brother, a Christ. Monarch of the universe, but bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh, and sorrow of our sorrow, and heart of our heart. “Come, see the place where the Lord lay.”' It has for surroundings the manor in the suburbs of .Jerusalem, a manor owned by a wealthy gentleman by the name of Joseph. He was one of the court of seventy who had condemned Christ, but I think he had voted in the negative, or being a timid man, had been I absent at the time of the casting of the vote. He had laid out the parterre at great expense. It was a hot climate, and I suppose there were broad blanched trees and winding paths .underneath them, while here the waters rippled over the rock into a fishpool, and yonder the vines and the flowers clambered over the wall, and all around there were the beauties of kiosk and arboriculture. After the fatigues of the Jerusalem court-room, how refreshing to come out in these, suburbs botanical and pomological! I walk a little further on in the parterre and I coinc across a cluster of rocks, and I see on them the marks of a sculptor’s chisel. I come still closer and I find that there is a subterranean recess, and .1 walk down the marble stairs and come to a portico over the doorway —an architecture of fruits and flowers chiseled by the hand of the sculptor. I go into the portico, and on either side there are rooms, two or four or six rooms of rock*, in the walls niches, each niche large enough to hold a dead body. One of these rooms of rock is especially wealthy with sculpture. It was a beautiful and charming spot. Why all this? | The fact was that .Joseph, the owner of : the parterre of that wealthy manor, had recognized the fact that he could not always walk those gardens, and he sought this as his own last resting place. What a beautiful plot in which to wait for the resurrection! Mark well the mausoleum in the rock. It is to be the most celebrated tomb in all the ages; of Egypt, tomb ] of Napoleon, Mahal Taj of India, nothing compared with it. Christ had just been murdered, and his body must hb I thrown out to the doge and ravens, as was customary with crucified bodies, unless there be prompt and effective hindrance. Joseph, the owner of the mausoleum, begs for the body of Christ, and ho takes and washes the poor and mutilated frame from the blood and the dust, and shrouds it and perfumes it. I think embalmment was • omitted. When in oldefi times they wished to embalm a dead body, the priest with some pretension of medical skill, would show the point between the ribs where, the incessi-m was to be made. Then the operator would come and make the Incision, an j then run for his life else he a, would be slain for violating the dead Then the other priests would C come with salt of niter, and cassia, and wine of palm tree, and complete the embalmment. But I think in this case embalmment was omitted lest there be .more excitement and another riot. The funeral advances. Present, Joseph, the owner of the mausoleum, Nicodemus, who brought the flowers, and the two Marys, Heavy burden on the shoulders /of two men as they carry the body of down the i marble stairs and into the portico, and lift the dead weight to the level of the niche in the rock, and push the body of Christ into the only pheasant resting place it ever had. These men coming forth close the door of rock against the recess. The government, afraid that the disciples would steal the body of Christ and play resurrection, pnt upon the door the Seal of the Sanhedrim, the violation of that seal, like the violation of the seal of the i United States government or o'f£the j British government, . always followed I with severe penalties. A regiment of soldiers from the tower of Antoinio is detailed to guard that mausoleum. At the door of that tomb a fight took place which decided the question for all graveyards and cemeteries. Sword of lightning against sword of steel. Angel of God against the military. The body in the crypt begins to move in its shroud of fine linen and slides down upon the pavement, moves through the portico, appears in the doorway, comes up’ the marble steps. Christ, having left his mortuary attire behind him, comes forth in the carb,of a workman as I take it, from the fact that the women mistook him for the gardener. Then and there was shattered the tomb so that it can never be rebuilt. All the trowels of earthly masonry cannot mend it. Forever and forever it is a broken tomb., Death that day taking the side of the military received a horrible cut under the angel’s spear of flame, } and must himself go down at the last—the King of Terrors disappearing before the King of Grace. “The Lord is risen.” Hosanna! Hosanna! O weep no more, your comforts slain, The Lord ib risen ; he lives again. When one of the old Christians was dying he said he saw on the sky the letter ! “V” and hesaid, “I cannot understand | wlmt that is I see against the sky; it is the letter -V.’ ” A Christian standing I beside him said, “I know what it means; that letter ‘V’ stands for ‘victory.’ ” I I gather up all these flowers to-day and l | strew them over the graves of your Chris- j tian dead in the letter *»V” for “victory,” i “II” for “resurrection,” “T” for “triumph,'” “II” for “heaven.” The Lord is risen.” Hosanna! While standing around the place where the Lord lay I am impressed with the fact that mortuary honors cannot atone for wrongs to the living. If they could have afforded Christ such a costly sepulcher they could have afforded Him a decent earthly residence. Will they give apiece of marble to the dead Christ when k they might have given a soft pillow to ’ the living Christ? If they had put half \the expense of that mausoleum in the tnaking of Christ’s life on earth comfortable the story would not have been so sad. He wanted bread; they gave Him a, stone. Christ, like every other benefactor of the world, was better appreciated a»fter He was dead. Westminister Abbey monumental Greenwood are to a certain extent the world’s attempts by mortoary honors to atone for neglects to the living. Poe.ts’ Corner in Westminister Abbey is an attempt to pay for the sufferings of Gyub street. Igo into that Poetsf Corner of Westminster Abbey

and there I find the grave of Handel, the musician from whose music we hear today as it goes down reverberating thrbngh the ages. While I stand at the costly tomb of Handel I cannot forget the fact that his fellow musicians tried to destroy him with their discords. I go a little i farther in the Poets’ Corner of Westl minster Abbey and I find the grave of I John Dryden, the great poet Costly | monument, great mortuary honors, but i I cannot forget the facLthat at seventy j years of age he wrote about the oppres- • sions of misfortune, and |hat he made a contract for a thousand verses at sixpence a line. Igo a little farther in the j Poets’ Corner and I find the grave of Samuel Butler, the author of “Hudibras.r Wonderful monument, costly honors. Where did he die? In a garret I move farther on in. the Potkg/Corner and I find the grave of a poet of whom Waller wjrote: “An old schoolmaster by the name of John Milton has written a tedious volume on the fall of man. If its length be no virtue it has none.” Igo a little farther on in the Poets’ Corner and I find the grave of Sheridan. Alas! for Sheridan. Poor Sheridan. Magnificent mortuary honors. What a pity it was lie could not have discounted that monument for a mouthful of something to eat! Oh! uniilial children, give your old parents less tombstones and more blankets, less funeral and more bedroom! Five per cent, of the money now expended at Burns’ banquets would have made the great Scotch poet comfortable and kept him from being almost harried to death by the drudgery of an excise man. Horace Greeley—outrageously abused while he lived —going out to his tomb was followed by the President of the United States and the leading men of the army and the navy. Some people could not say bitter enough things about-him while he lived; all the world rose up to do him honor when ho died. Massachusetts at the tomb of Charles Sumner tried to atone for the ignominious resolutions with which her Legislature denounced the living Senator. It was too late. The costly monument at Springfield, 111., cannot pray for Booth’s bullet. Costly mortuary honors on the banks of Lake Erie—honors,that cost between §200,000 and §400,000— cannot pay for the assassination of James A. Garfield. Do justice to the living. All the justice you do you will have to do this side the gates of the necropolis. The dead cannot wakeup to count the number of carriages in the procession or see the polish on the Aberdeeih granite or to read the: words of epitaphal opmmemoration. Costly mausoleum of the gentleman in the suburbs of Jerusalem cannot atone for Bethlehem’s manger and Calvarean cross and Pilate’s ruffian judiciary. Again! Standing in this place where the Lord lay lam impressed with the fact that floral and scriptural ornamentation are appropriate for the. places of the dead. We are all glad that in the short time of the Saviour's inhumation he lay amid flowers and sculpture. I cannot qui|e understand what I see in the newspapers where, amid the an-' .nouncements and obsequies, the friends request “Send no flowers.” Why, there is no place so appropriate for flowers as the casket of the departed. If your means allow—l .repeat, if your means allow—let there be flowers on the casket, flowers on the hearse, flowers on the grave. Put them on the brow; it means coronation. Put them in the hand; it means victory. Christ was buried in a parterre. Christ was buried in a garden. Flowers are types of resurrection. Death is sad enough anyhow. Let conservatory and arbortum do all they can in the way of alleviation. Your little girl loved flowers while she was alive. Put them in her hands, now that she cannot go forth and pluck flowers for herself. On sunshiny days twist a garland for her still heart Brooklyn has no grander glory than her Greenwood, nor Boston than her Mount Auburn, nor Philadelphia than her Laurel Hill, nor Cincinnati than her Spring Grove, nor San Francisco than her Lone Mountain. What shall I say of those country graveyards where the vines have fallen down and the slab is aslant and the mound is caved in and the grass is the pasture ground for the sexton’s cattle. Are your father and mother of so little account you have no more respect than that for their bones? Some day gather together and straighten up the fence and lift the slab and bank up tne mound and tear out the weeds and plant the shrubs. After a while you yourself will want to lie down to the last slumber. If you have no regard for the bones of your ancestors, your children will have no deference for you bones. Do you say these relics are of no importance? You will see of how much importance they are when the archangel takes out his trumpet. Turn all your grave yards into gardens. Standing in this place where the Lord lay I am also impressed with the dignity of unpretending obsequies. Joseph that day was mourner, sexton, liverymanhad the entire charge of all the occasion. Four people only at the burial ol the King of the Universe. Let this be consolatory to those who, through small means or lack of large acquaintance, have but little demonstration of grief at the grave of their dead, it is not neccessary. Long line of glittering equipages, two rows of silver handles, casket of costly wood, pall bearers scarfed and gloved are not neccessary.

Christ looks down from hqaven at a burial where there are six in attendance, and remembers there are two more than he had at his obsequise. Not recognizing this idea, how many small properties are scattered in the fufferal rites, and widowhood and orphanage go out to the cold charity of the world. The departed left enough property to have kept the family together until they could take care of themselves, but it is sorbed In the funeral rites. That went for crape which Ought to have gone for bread. A man of small means can hardly afford to die in one of our large cities. Funeral pageantry ‘is not neccessary. 4 No one was ever more lovingly and tenderly put into the grave than Christ, but there were only four in the procession. Again, standing in this place where the Lord lay, I am impressed with the fact that you cannot keep the dead down. The seal of the Sanhedrim a regiment of soldiers from the tower of Antonio to stand guard, floor of rock, roof of rock, wall of rock, nich of rock cannot keep Christ in the crypt. Come out and come up he must. Came out and came up he did. Prefiguration. I'hc fii&t fruits of them that sleep. Just aS detain as you and I go.down into the grave, just so certain we will come up.again. Though You pile up on the top of us all the bowlders of the mountains you cannot keep us down. Though we be burled under the eoral of the deepest cavern of the Atlantic ocean we will rise to the surface. \ Ab! my friends, death and the grave are not what they used to be to us, for now, walking around the spot where the Lord lay. we find vines and flowers covering the tomb, and that which we called a place, of skulls has become a beautiful garden. Yea, now there are four gardens instead of one—Garden of Eden, Garden of the World’s Sepulcher, Garden of Earth’s Regeneration, Garden of Heaven. Various scriptural accounts say that the work of grave breaking will begin with the blast of trumpets and shoutings; whence I take it that the first intimation of the day will be a sound from Heaven such as has never before been heard. It may not be so very load, bat it will be penetrating. There are mau-

| soleutns so deep that undisturbed sftenct has slept there ever since the day when the sleepers were left in them. The great noise shall strike through them. Among the eorals of the sea, miles deep, where the shipwrecked rest, the sound will strike. No one will mistake it for thunder or the blast of earthly minstrelI sy. There will be heard the voice of the uncounted millions of the dead, whs come rushing but of the gates of eternity, flying toward the tomb crying: “Make way! Oh, grave, give us back our body! Wo gave it to you In corruption; surrender it now in incorruption I” Thousands of spirits arising from the field of Sedan, and from the rocks of Gettysburg, and from among the passee of South Mountain. A huadred thousand are crowding Greenwood On this grave three spirits meet, for there were three bodies in that tomb! • Over that family vault twenty spirits hover, for there were twenty bodies. From New York to Liverpool, at every few miles of the sea route, a group of hundreds of spirits coming down to the water to meet their bodies. Seo that multitude! That is where the Central America sank. And yonder multitude! That is where the Pacific went down. Found at lastr That is where the City of Boston sank. And yonder the President went down. A solitary spirit alights on yonder prairie. That is where a traveler perished in the snow. The whole air is full of spirits—spirits flying north, spirits flying south, spirits flying east, spirits flying west Crash! goes Westminister abbey as all its dead kings and orators and poets get up. Strange commingling of spirits searching among the ruins. William Wilberforce the good, and Queen Elizabeth, the bad. Crash! go the pyramids, and the monarchs of Egypt rise out of the heart of the desert. Snap! go the iron , gates of the modern vaults. The country graveyard will look like a rough plowed field as the mounds break open. All the kings of the earth; all the senators; all the great men; all the beggars; all the armies—victors and vanquished; all the ages—barbaric and civilized; all those who were chopped by guillotine or simmered in the fire or rotted in dungeons; all the infants of a day; all the octogenarians—all! all!. Not one straggler left behind. All! all! And now the air is darkened with the fragments of bodies that are coming together from the opposite corners of the earth. Lost limbs finding their mate—bone to bone, sinew to sinew—until every joint is reconstructed, and every arm finds its socket, and the amputated limb of the surgeon’s table shall be set again at the point from which it was severed. A snrgeon told me that’after the battle of Bull Run he amputated limbs, throwing them out of the window until the pile reached up to the window sill. All those fragments will have to take their places. .Those who were born blind shall have eyes divinely kindled; those who were lame shall have a limb substituted. In all the hosts of the resurrected not one eye missing, not one foot clogged, not one arm palsied, not one tongue dumb, not one ear deaf. Wake up, my friends, this day, this glorious Easter morning, with all these congratulations. If I understand this day, it means peace toward Heaven and peace toward earth. Great wealth of flowers! Bring more flowers. Wreath them around the brazen throat of the cannon, plant them in the deserts until it shall blossom like the rose, brade them into the mane qf the war charger as he ■ comes back. No more red dahlias of human blood. Give us white lilies of peace. Strew all the earth with Easter garlands, for the resurrection we celebrate this morning implies all kinds of resurrection, a score of resurrections. Resurrection from death and sin to the life of the gospel. Resurrection of apostolic faith.* Resurrection of commercial integrity. Resurrection of national honor. Resurrection of international goodwill. Resurrection of art Resurrection of literature. Resurrection of everything that is good and kind and generous and just and holy and beautiful. Nothing to stay down, to stay buried, but sin and darkness and pain and disease and revenge and death. Let those tarry in the grave forever “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men.”

Christ, the Lord, is risen to-day. Sons of men and angels say. Raise our songs and triumphs high, Sing, ye heavens, and earth’s reply. Ixjve’s redeeming work is done, Fought the fight, the battle won. Ix>! the sun’s eclipse is o’er; Lo I He sets in blood no more. The West in 1819. When I reflect upon the progress of ouv country since I first entered the army in 1819, it is scarcely possible to realize the experience (of a single lifetime. \ I was stationed at Detroit when its population was only 2,000, it is now upward of 150,000.. I was stationed at St. Louis when its population was 25,000; it now exceeds 350,000. I was stationed at Chicago ten years before the first house was erected, and its present population exceeds 600,000. Whan I first passed through Buffalo, in 1815, it contained some fifty houses, and it now boasts a of nearly 300,000. At that time the shipping of Lakes Erie, Huron and Michigan consisted of one steamer, the , Walk-in-the-Water, lying high and dry on the shore near Buffalo; three small schooners, the Decatur, the Jackson and the , undone hermaphrodite brig belonging to Canada. Who shall enumerate the craft of the lakes now? Then, as commissary of subsistence at Detroit, I received my pork and flour for our command from Buffalo, and contracted for my beef with the late Gen. Vaneer, of Ohio, who drove his animals through the black swamp to Detroit, at cents per pound. Then all the region west of the lakes was a howling wilderness, and when, as Adjutant of the Third regiment, I accompanied the regiment up the Fox river and down the Wisconsin (Ouisconsin the French had named it) the Indians alone occupied the country, and the Winnebagoes forbade our passing through Winnebago lake. I, as Adjutant, was sent by my Colonel (Leavenworth) to have a talk with them, it being beneath his dignity to meet them. We held a council on the banks of the lake, and I was gravely told that the gates of the lake were closed and we could not pass through them. I demanded the keys, and received the answer that' they were at the bottom of the lake and could not be furnished. To which I replied that it was of no consequence, as my Che-o-ge-ma had a key of his own, consisting of 500 bayonets in the hands of 500 che-mo-ka-men (soldiers); that at 6 o’clock on the following morning -we should open the gates of the lake and pass through, and that we should shoot any Indian who approached either the river or lake. We had similar annoyances from the Indians at the portage from the Fox to the Wisconsin river, but they were onlyidle threats. Now all Wisconsin and the west bank of the Mississippi are well-settled, flourishing States. And all this during the active period of a single life. Then all the region of which I write was a solitary wilderness, occupied by the Indian only and the game upon which he lived. Now it boasts a population of 20,000,000 of intelligent, enterprising and prosperous freemen.—Col. J. Watson Webb.

SLAVE TRADING TIMES. Bmur tfe® Business was J umt I* Paw. “I was a stockholder in the last cargo of Africans brought into New Orleans,’ Baid a well-known Creole business man in that city in a conversation over “the good old times.’ The gentleman, who was a “slave broker,” continued: “It was just at the beginning of the war that our vessel arrived from Africa with about seven hundred savage African negroes, poorly clothed, half starved, and many of them bearing the marks of brutal treatment from the officers of vessel. Being savages, captured in the wilds of Africa, it was difficult to control them, especially as they were more desperate in the belief that their captivity meant death. “Well, the slave trade was managed by a stock company. We bought a vessel, manned and equipped her, and, of course, a portion of the capital stock was used in the purchase of these captives. Those savage African tribes were generally warring against each other and generally put to death all captives which they could not utilize among themselves as slaves or concubines. But they became more civilized when we opened up a trade with them,” said this Christian gentleman in the most matter-of-fact way. “We paid from sls to $25 for each captive and we sold them at from $l5O to $250 each. You must remember that these Africans were wild and savage. They could not speak any known language—only the dialect of their tribe —and were very dangerous. First, we had to tame them—make them believe by signs and extra good treatment that we intended no harm to them. Being only accustomed to roam in their native jungles, they knew not how to work, and, after being tamed of their savagery, we had to teach them to work on the plantations. It was more difficult than teaching a child to talk or walk. It was taming a savage and teaching where there was little or no intelligence. “They were worked in gangs, under guard, as are felons in the State prisons. At night they were chained in their cabins. Gradually they learned enough of what to this day is called ‘lingo’ to make themselves understood, and that is as far as the African ever progressed in this section. The stockholders in these enterprises were mainly planters. We would bring over about two cargoes a year—seven hundred or eight hundred in a vessel. I recollect -at one time we lost about half of our aargo by disease. Those who died before reaching port were buried at sea—there were abent 300 of them. Whenever the market became overstocked, or rather when the planters needed no more ‘hands’ on their plantations, we sold the savages at- auction. The rotunda of the old St. Louis hotel, in the French quarter, was the theater of these sales, which now seem so strange and barbarous. '* “The African savages were brought into the rotunda Os this human chattel mart in chains, as if they were animals, and the cries, or rather moans for mercy and roars of agony of these frightened savages were pitiful and heart-sick-ening. They did not Understand that they were to'be transferred from one master to another, but believed that they were to be beheaded on the auction block Ido not see how I ever could have been engaged in such a trafic. But then we did not see as we do now, and then—it was the custom of the country,” said the Creole, dismissing the unpleasant subject. Resuming, the gentleman related some of the still earlier history, as handed down from sire to son through several generations, and reaching back to the earliest settlement or colonization of this city, more than a century and a half ago. “The first cargo of slaves landed on Louisiana soil was brought from Africa by an English vessel. The English at that time had ‘colonized’ South Carolina with African slaves, and then turned their speculative heads to this sparcely settled section. "There were about 2,000 white persons here and only a few hundred trifling soldiers, and the landing of 500 savage Africans was rather dangerous. These negroes were sold at SIOO and $l5O each; a cask of brandy was sold at 500 f.—about $125. “These negroes,” cantinued the speaker, “were governed by a special set of laws known as ‘the black code’, some of which were in force until the close of the late civil war. The slave who struck his master or any of his master’s family, causing blood to flow from the wound, was hanged. Slaves who carried large sticks were subject to a beating by the first person who met them on the highway. For stealing a horse or a cow the offender was punished by the brand of the fleur de Us on the shoulder; for a second offense the offender was branded on both shoulders, and for the third offense he was hanged. A negro invariably filled the office of executioner—perhaps to add additional disgrace to the punishment. For the smallest act of disobedience the master could place upon the slave the iron collar, which he was compelled to wear at the mercy of the angered master.” Sam Brown's Superstition. Capt. Sam Brown, the Pittsburgh coal man is the founder of the superstitions set who believed that a horse first out of the paddock on the way to the post cannot win. “Wouldn’t bet a dollar on a horse that’s first out,” he said to a New York Press reporter last fall at Sheepshead. “Got no reason- in the world for it, but I make it a rule in the stable that no horse of mine goes first to the post Why, I’m so strong on that that if it ever happened I had a walkover I would not let my horse go faster than a canter for fear he would break down Or die before he finished. “I’ve always noticed that horses first out don’t win. You needn’t tell me Salvator was first out in the match race, I’ve looked up that matter, and I find Tenny, who was saddled on the track, had Garrison up before Murphy brought Salvator out of the padclock. Is it superstition ? I don't know aud don’t care, but Ido know that r it would be bankruptcy, and madness to buck against it.” To Clean Piano Keys. Rub them with fine glass paper until the stain disappears, then polish with putty and water. This is the advice of Decorator and Furnisher, which says also that piano-forte keys cannot be properly bleached unless they are removed from the instrument. One way is to rub the ivory with powdered pumice stone and water, and place it while moist under a glass shade and expose it to sunshine. A new method, i discovered by a Frenchman, is to susIpend the bone or ivory in oil of turpentine, and expose it the light for threeor (lour days. The substancejo be bleached inuat not rest on the bottom of the vestal, as a thin acrid matter is deposited during the operation.

Paper of Iron. Tn the great exhibition of 1841 an American specimen of iron paper was exhibited. Immediately a lively competition ensued among British iron manufacturers as to the thinness to which cold iron could be rolled. Mr. Gillett rolled sheets. the average thickness of which was the cighteen-hundredth part -of an inch. In other words, 1,800 sheets of this iron piled one upon the other would only measure one inch in thickness. The wonderful fineness of this work may be more readily understood when the reader is informed that 1.200 sheets of the thinnest tissue paper measures a fraction over an inch. These wonderful iron sheets were perfectly smooth and easy to write upon, notwithstanding the fact that they were porous when held up to a strong light. Those Trusts. Cjty -Man—What’s the matter, my friend? Mr. Hayseed—l’m mad as a hornet, •bout the way the things is goin’—trusts and combines an’ monopolies everywhere. I just had to pay a cent more for a ball of string, and they told me it was on account of the twine trust. City Man—Well, it is a shame the way these combines force things up, raising the price of everything—wheat, corn, potatoes butter apples-—-Mr. Hayseed—Eh? Do trusts raise the prices of farm produce? Oh, well, mebby they ain’t such bad things arter all.— New York Weekly. ‘Man th® Life Boat! Ere your wave-battered, dismasted balk is dashed to pieces ui>on that cruel reef by the resistless waves. Save, too, a shattered physique, fast yielding to the attacks of disease with that imperial renovator of health and strength, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. The range of its powers is wide, its action prompt and thorough, its use always safe. Chronic indigestion, debility and nervousness, malarial complaints, rheumatism. neuralgia, inactivity of the kidneys and bladder, and that physical decay without apparent cause, which is often premature, are speedily checked and ultimately cured by this medicine of many uses and sure results. Sleep, appetite and vigor are improved by this helpful tonic and regulator, the use of which likewise tends to remedy undue leanness.

Humanity and Hypnotism. Mr. Upton—l don’t believe that story about a Philadelphia father hypnotizing his baby so that it would sleep while he and his wife went to the theater Mrs. Upton—Nor I. No father would be brute enough to think of such a thing. Mr. Upton—No-o, of course not. Downton (the next day)—Say Upton did you hear that story about a Philadelphia father hypnotizing his baby? Upton—Yes. It isn’t so. Down ton —How do you know? Upton—l tried it on mine and it wouldn’towpWk.-— Street and Smith’s Good News. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, I Lucas County. j Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County sand State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every ease of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cube, FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, tins Cth day of December, A. D. 188 b. * —’ — , A. W. GLEASON, ■j seal. - Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, a «srSold by Druggists, 75 cents. THE WAE4MI 1.1X1“ H-andsome equipment. E-legant day coaches, and W-agner palace sleeping cars A-re in daily service tt-etween the city of St. ]<ouis 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. M -ew trains and fast time E-very day in the year. From East to West the sun’s bright rav. Smiles on the line that leads the way.' MAGNIFICENT VESTIBULE EXPRESS TRAINS, running free reclining chair cars and palace sleepers to St. Louis, Kansas City, and Council Bluffs. The direct route to all points in Missouri. Kansas, Nebraska, lowa, 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. They Reached a Verdict. A coroner’s jury in Vermont was given thfee days in which to reach a’ verdict on a boiler explosion, and they finally decided: “Bill Stevens was a pretty careful man, but we find that he jet the water in his boiler get too low while playing a game of cards.” “Blkmishes are unseen by night.” but, when daylight comes, every one will know whether you use SAPOLIO. Buy a cuke and clean your house. It takes only about two seconds to get up a duel. FITS.— AII Fits stopped free by Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. No Fite after first day’s use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and $2.00 trial bottle free to Fit cases. Send to Dr. Kline. SSI Arab St. Phils.. Pa. A man of many parts—The book canvasser.

SHILOH’S CONSUMPTION CURE. The success of this Great Cough Cure ia 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, the Proprietors, at an enormous expense, are placing a Sample Bottle Free into every home m the United States and Canada. If you have a Cough, Sore Throat, or Bronchitis, use it, for it will cure you. If your child has the Croup, or Whooping Cough, use it promptly, and relief is sure. If you dread that insidious disease Consumption, use it. Ask your Druggist for SHILOH’S CURE, Price io cts., 50 cts. and *I.OO. If your Lungs are sore or Back lame, use Shiloh’s Porous Plaster, Price 25 cts. Us l I I ■K 8* ■ ■ failtosendlOcforßamplesof ■W AA ■ ■ spring patterns. 1 guarantee ■ ■ ■■ ■■ —to save you money. White blanks to 6c per roll. EE RB* Gilts 8c per roll. Km- MB JM 11 JET M bossedGiltsfuc per roll. BV HM EV ■■ Theflnest parlor papers ■ AAR ■ .■ ■ with 18 inch friexe to B ■ AA 88l f \ [ jremediM. Jfogtairvina s .. ,v ■* ; ? ... .A-I,'.‘a - ' -».k.y. .'■i®

Patent medicines differ— One has reasonableness, another has not. One has reputation—another has not One has confidence, bom of success — another has only “ hopes.” Don’t take it for granted that all patent medicines are alike. They are not 5 Let the years of uninterrupted success and the tens of thousands of cured and happy men and women, place Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription s on the side of the comparison they belong. And there isn’t a state or territory, no — nor hardly acountry in the world, whether its people realize it or not, but have men and women in them that’re happier because of their discovery and their effects. Think of this in health. Think of it in sickness. And then think whether you can afford to make the trial if the makers can afford to take the risk to give your money back as they do if they do not benefit or cure you.

Jay Gould’s Story. Jay Gould always has something witty or humorus to.say. A rich and exacting man had a Colored servant boy employed named Jim. This Jim was expected to be on hand all the time. One fine morning Jim was absent and his employer went to his old father’s house and asked for the boy. The father said: “ ‘Boss, you can’t have Jim any more.’ “ ‘Why, what is the matter? 1 will have him.’ “ 'Oh, no, boss; you kain’t hev Jim.’ ‘“Well, why can’t I?’ “ 'Kase he's dead.’ ” “The normal life, well being, and happiness of mankind depend upon the physical health and perfection of Woman.” These are the words of Lydia E. Pinkham, and they are true. A Humane Janitor. Janitor's wife (in basement flat) — Whew! It’s killin’ hot here. Open the windy. Janitor (meditatively)—lt’s thoughtless you are to open the windy when ye know the people iu the flats above has been complainin’ of cold all winter. Turn th’ heat up stairs.— Street and Sinith's Good News. - V. Dobbins’ Electric Soap is cheaper for you to use than any other soaps would be if gwen to you, for by its use clothes are saved. Clothes cost more than soap. Ask for Dobbins’. Take no other. Diamonds. Twenty-nine thirtieths of all the diamond mines in the world are controlled by one company, whose capitalization is §18,000,000. In the mines at Kimberly, South Africa, eight-tenths of one carat is found in every 1,600 pounds of dirt taken out. To ItghV these mines, ten electric circuits, burning lights of 64.000candle power, are employed. Gus. A. Dubois, a well-known resident of St. Louis, says:'“l have used several bottles of Prickly Ash Bitters for biliousness ' and malarial troubles, so prevalent in this climate, and heartily recommend it to all afflicted in a like manner. It is the best remedy 1 ever used.” Indian Corn. The amount of nutritive matter afforded by Indian corn is inferior only to that of wheat and rice. In the quantity raised and used for food it is inferior to rice alone. FOE THROAT DISEASES. COUGHS, COLDS, etc., effectual relief is found in the use of * Brown’s Bronchial Troches." Price 25 cts. Sold only in boxes. Queer Noises. First Guest (at grand ball) —Hark, isn’t that the champagne popping in the supper room? Second Guest —No; I guess it's the young cbuples in the conservatory.— New York Weekly. That bright and lively boy used to be sickly and delicate before his mother gave him Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers. He calls them “good candies.” By mail. 25 cents. John D. Park, Cincinnati. Ohio. Submarine Telegraph Cables. With one or two trifling exceptions, the submarine cables of the world, which stretch over 120,000 nautical miles, and have cost §200,000,000, are of British construction. Bekcham’s Pills act like magic on a WEAK STOMACH. “Esperante.” The new “universal” language, “Esperanto,” has made great progress. Esperanto text-books have been printed in fourteen No Opium In Plso’s Cur® for Consumption. Cures where other remedies fail. 25e. Sweet are the uses of adversity, but most people prefer sugar.

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“August Flower” For two years I suffered terribly with stomach trouble, and was te all that time under treatment by a physician. He finally, after trying everything, said stomach was about worn out, aud that I would have to cease eating solid food for a time at least. I was so weak that I could not work. Finally on the recommendation of a friend who had used your preparations A worn-out with beneficial results, I procured a Stomach. bottle of August Flower, and commenced using it. It seemed to do me good at once. I gained in strength and flesh rapidly; my appetite became good, and I suffered no bad effects from what I ate. I feel now like a new man, and consider that August Flower has entirely cured me of Dyspepsia in its worst form. James E. Dederick., Saugerties, New York. W. B. Utsey, St. George’s, S. C.» writes: I have used your August Flower for Dyspepsia and find it an excellent remedy. • -VASELINEFOR A ONB-DOLLAR BILL Mat us by mMI we will deliver, free of All charges, to any person 1M the United States, all of the following articles, car®tally packed: One two-onnee bott’e of Pure Vaaailae........ Mota. One two-ounce bottle ot Vaseline Pomade.... 15 • One jar of Vaseline Cold Cream 15 * One cake of Vaseline Camphor lee 10 - One cake of Vaseline Soap, unscented 10 * One cake of Vaseline Soap.exqu>aitelv scented 21* One two-ounce bottle of white Vageline ...... 25 ” »L» Or, far postage stamps, any Ungtt arttets at tits pries aaned. On no account be persuaded to accept.from your druggist anu Vbscfine or preparation tHervTom unless labeled teiii bur name. orcau.se you will certain ly receive an. imit-Mion tchieA ka» little or no value. ' Chesebrougb Mik. C<x. 34 State SL. N. V. The Soap that Cleans Most is Lenox. PRICKLY ASH BITTERS On® of Um most inportant organs of the human body is th® UVER. When It fails to property perform its functions the entire system becomes deranged. The BRAIN, KIDNEYS, STOMACH, BOWELS, all refuse to perform their work. DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, RHEUMATISM, KIDNEY DISEASE, etc., are the results, unless something is done to assist Nature in throwing off the impurities caused by the inaction ot a TORPID LIVER. This assistance so necessary will be found in Prickly Psh Bitters! it acts directly on the LIVER, STOMACH and KIDNEYS, and by Itsmild and cathartic effect and general tonic qualities restores these organs to a sound, healthy condittoa, and cures all diseases arising from these causes. It PURIFIES THE BLOOD, tones up the system, and restores perfect health. If your druggist does not keep it ask him to order it for you. Send 2c stamp for copy ol “THE HORSE TRAINER,” published by us. PRICKLY ASIf BITTERS CO., ffeleProorioton. ST. LOUIS, MO. Tutt’s Hair Dye \ Gr®y hair or whisker, changed to a gloaap black by a single application of this Dye. It imparts a natural color, acts instantaneously and contains nothing injurious to the z hair. Sold by all druggists, or seat tey express on receipt of price, SI.OO. Offlce,a9 Adi Park Place. New York. » BEECHAM’S PILLS E ACT IJtKXJ MAGIC ONI WEAK STOUGH. 25 Cents a Box. OF ALL QRUCCIBTS. K. O. Ft, W.... f ? 14-9 L When Writing to Advertisers, please saF you saw the advertisement la this papers