Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 3 February 1893 — Page 2

©he pcntocvcit dkcatuk, inu. M. PI.XCKFIURN, - • - Pcnmenim That man confesses ho likes turkey who makes a clean breast of it. Bachelors are very coy nowadays. Breach of promise verdicts for sums all the way from $25,000 to $50,000 make them so. In Chicago the Juries out for consideration of verdicts demand whisky and cigars, and bother tlio Judge nntil they got both. Chicago has 2,000 acres of parks and she needs them all when she wants to sweel out with ionest pride about the grandeur of her wind-blown citjr. ■ A new paper has liecn started In Philadelphia and should succeed jf it will print the news, leaving the old papers to continue printing the headlines. ________ Because a conductor on a German train playfully kissed one of the female passengers, he was discharged in disgrace and sent to jail for four week’s. Pugilism and poverty go hand in | hand, and all great lighters die poor, ; says a New York paper. That ought to discourage the business but it t-, Spain has 5,000,000 illiterate people, but this does not affect the quality of the wine they produce. It is the educated merchant who does the The changes in the French Cabinet remind us of the erratum once put in the front page of a dialect novel: •‘Page 225, seventh line from top—for bamboozle read dumwizzle.” Farmers can at least take comfort in zero weather, for it will annihilate a multitude of the insect pests of the fields and orchards. Cold j •winters are usually followed by good crops. 1 The frost of disapproval should hang in clusters upon the budding affectation shown in applying to any ( young lady who honors the Golden ( State with her gracious presence the ' term of Californienne. R. Henry Taylor, the man who ( invented baby carriages, has been j picked up by the Waltham, ’Mass., j police, in a deranged and starving 5 condition. A mau’3 sins are sure to j find him out sooner or later. c Signor Giolelli, the Italian poll- , ticianjs a man of prodigious strength and can bend a horseshoe with one •hand. Most people prefer statesmen who have more strength in the brain and a little less in the grip. It took a wise man like Professor j 1 Huxley twenty years to find out that; the pleasures of smoking were more 1 than counterbalanced by its penalties. He commenced the use of . tobacco at 40 and gave it up at 60, . Garza has already cost this country 1 <200,000. Without intent to dis- ! 1 parage an ambitious young man it: ’ may be affirmed that he is not worth :; the money. Mexico would be glad to ; • knock him down for much less. _ I 1 French anarchists are still howl- * 1 ing. One of them named Rayachol i ’ used to do the same thing until his ! ’ bead dropped into a backed that the I authorities had thoughtfully provided. The basket is there yet, and developing a hungry look. 1 If the twenty-seven State Legislatures and the Congress now in session ■would introduce a rule similar to that ■of a tribe in Central Africa they, would accomplish more business ■Over there all speakers are required | to “stand on one leg while speaking.” i =*-■-- - _.== i 'The cruiser Adams will go to Ber-. ing sea no more. The Navy Department has concluded that while the | .Adams does not amount to much, it ; is too respectable a c. aft to lie subjected to the humiliation of defeat by ever/fishing smack that chooses to run away from it. * ’ .It is announced that Professor Ilcrrnian has succeeded in photo-1 graphing the sound of vowels. What is more needed is something that will I .photograph upon the bouse servant’s I car the -sounde which her mistress is 1 o ' making when she calls her to get up; and prepare breakfast. In tlie' best informed flnaacfal ■ circles Confederate scrip is not regarded as legal tender., This fact has been published often, but there is a speculator iiitting from sucker to sucker ahmg.t’ie :;-• coa-t 1 resuming successfully upon the possibility of some p op'.e have overlooked it A novel suit .has been brought against tne New York Central Bailroad. It is by a lady who sues for $50,000. The lady plaintiff alleges that her lover was killed by negligence of the railroad,. and had he lived be would have married her. It Is a preity good price for a prospective bridegroom. Two Chicago sneak thieves stole a skeleton from a wagon engaged In tnoving a doctor’s office the other dnv. If the identity of the thieves could fee learned they might find abundant

tand remunerative employment in society circles—only they’d be required to purloin the osseous specimens from cloascts Instead of wagons. J - Jav Gould died before lie was I sixty Commodore Vanderbilt made .. ; most of his money after he was sixty. The logic of the comparison appears to be that if .lav had l>een allowed , twenty years more the financial probs [ lems of this country would have bo- ) come greatly simplified and unified. Chicago’s most prominent society - woman is shocked to find her own ■■. portrait smiling in colors from the • ■ advertising calendar of a brewery. It I is related in inner circles that the | brewer had not authority to do this, i j-and did not even send a case or two • i around to her house. T)ie four hundred will probably declare a boycott. 1 The preacher who deals with the great t ruths of holy character must ■ impersonate those truths. There is : power inherent In truth; but it is j often like electricity in a Leyden jar, needing a conductor to develop it. The preacher who best commends the truth of the gospel to his hearers is he who has translated that truth into ; his own life, until his life is full of it and redolent of it. | — —- I The finest varieties of Japanese I teas are said to be ruined by a long i sea voyage. Experiments are now being made in Florida with flue varieties and there is some encouragement to believe that the growing will prove a success. The climate and soil of Florida seems to be equal to anything. The cocoanut groves were only an accident and yet they are proving a great success. THERE-is a rich field of study for some one in the investigation of the influence of the weather upon the feelings of people. A crowd on a bright, clear day is always a bouyant and merry one. Every one is an optimist The mental conditions are practically the same in a heavy storm, be it rain or snow. But when, it is ( half between rain and fair weather, when it iartlull and damp and muggy, every person one meets seems to be a ] follower of Schopenhauer. , New Yorkers are growing serf- ’ ously alarmed over losing the place 1 of “first city” of the United States. 1 The Sun clamors for an act of the 1 Legislature to allow a vote taken to ( annex the towns of Yonkers, East Chester, Pelham, the county of Kings, including Brooklyn; Long Island City, Newton, Flushing, Jamaica, Hem- , stead, the county of Richmond, or * Staten Island.” These counties and * cities have a population of over 3,- ( 000,000. The Sun’s scheme would 1 make a city not as large in popula- c tion as London by 1,300,000, but the New Yorkers might annex Rochester, f Albany, The success of the clipper lines 1 around the Horn has shaken the overland railroai combinations. • The a clippers are carrying large amounts of y freight at low rates, and the most of J the freight for which time of delivery ~ is not a matter of importance is be- a ing turned to them. The inroads of d t the clippers have now forced the roads to .make a substantial cut on s wine, beans, and wool, and it is proliable that further cuts will be made. * It is not likely that the sea traffic q can be much affected by the railroads’ ■' move. The cut is not enough to take ' the business away from them, though it will encourage shipments by rail t where quick dispatch is needed. 1 — ! Coiwatcrmanding Orders. f j During the years of the R? vol 11- » tionary \£ar, thr Rev. Samuel Buell n was pastor of the Easthampton : 11 Church on Long Island. He had been l! pastor there a great many years, and t had gained wide influence. t : While the English occupied the is- ] land. Sir William Erskine was in com- u in and. Between the parson and the s military authorities a good understanding was kept up in spite of the political hostility. a There is yet told a story of the ; y ; worthy parson to the effect that Sir r i William once ordered a number of 0 ; the farmers of Easthampton to go f over to Southampton to do a certain . ■ piece of work on the Satbath. Be- - foie the day came around, however, : the commander happened to meet ! f ; the par-on,and told him frankly that u he had ordered out his parishoners on c Sunday. t, J “I know if., I know it,” said th? | parson, ‘dint, as it haptens,! am my- s I self commander-in chief on that dav, , and 1 have countermanded the or- , tier.” 1 I Sir 'William yielded the point with 1 ' iteeood-natured laugh.—Youth's Cum- , 1 ' panion. j I Arnioiifri't (JuteiMusM. Ii . p A st range idea had got abroad in the i t that any one having while'' ; feathered lewis "of any kind in his L 1 p issession won.d inf.diiiily io-e his ;' 1 Hfe: that a spade would iss e forth I‘ 1 Irom the t filial, of each such idrd, !, 1 and inflict a fatal bite on its owner. ■! This notion to k ■-jich a' Imlil-upoR -h the people- that long lieforc the day I , named ducks, gee-e, ami other birds i ,1 qLthe.fat al plumage had disappeared.' ' They could p 6 bought for the most ' trilling sums. I afterward heard it uncharitably ■ whispered at Teheran that the noi tion had i ecu set on foot by Armc- . nian contractors, who were charged , with the furnishing of a new regula.jtion plume, fir some o(_the Shah’s troops, which it was neuessa.cy .sbquld •j be composed of wh.te feathers,: aid that these gentle.nen had adopted j this plan for receiving a plentiful a and cheap supply. JU i Men are so certain that-good ad- • vice would benefit other p< ople. that 1 we wonder they do not take Aome of t it themselves. •O' . .'■ ••,

DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. 1 1 ANOTHER DISCOURSE ON l4<E LESSONS OF NATURE. ’ riuire la » Nunnlilno of the Soul Which Cnt 5 Bo Found Only in the Koli*lon ol Chrial —Thorn Aro Wit, Humor, and Endurlnj I Vlvuolly Ainoiiff GtHl’B I‘oopla. | . 'At tlio Tabornaolo. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached on “The Sunshine of Religion,” the text chosen being Proverbs ill, 17, “Her ways are wavs of pleasantness.” ’ You have all heard of God’s onlv be--1 cotton Son. Have you hoard of God’s , daughter? She was born In Heaven. She camo down over- tho bills of our 1 world. She had queenly stop. On her I brow was celostial radiance. Her voice was music. Her name Is Roligion. My text introduces her. “Her ways aro ways of pleasantness, and all ber paths are peace.” But what is religion? Tho fact Is that theological study has had a different effect upon mo from tho effect sometimes □reduced. Every year I tear out another leaf from my theology until I have only three or four leaves loft—in other words, a very brief and plain statemontof Christian belief. An aged Christian minister said: •’When I was a young man 1 knew everything; when 1 got to bo 35 years of ago In my ministry 1 had only a hundred doctrines of religion; when I got to 40 years of aca I had only fifty doctrines of religion; when I got to bo 60 years of age I had only ton doctrines of religion, and now 1 am dying at 75 years of ago, and there is only one thing I know, and that is that Christ Jesuscamo Into the world to save sinners.” And so I have noticed in tho study of God’s word, and In my contemplation of tho character of God and of tho eternal world, that it is necessary for me to drop this part of my belief and that part of my oelief as being nonossentlal. while I cling to the one great doctrine that man is a sinner and Christ is his Almighty and Divine Saviour. God's Own Daughter. Now I take these three or four leaves of my theology, and 1 find that, in the first place, and dominant above all others, is the sunshine of religion. When II go into a room I have a passion for throwing open all the shutters. That is what I want to do this morning. We are apt to throw so much of the sepulchral into our religion, and to close the shutters, and to pull down tho blinds, that It Is only through here and there a crevice that the light streams. The religion of the Lord Jesus Christ is a religion of joy indiscribable and unutterable. Whereever I can find a bell I mean to ring it. If there aro any in this house* this morning who are disposed to bold on to their melancholy and gloom, lot them now depart this service before the fajr- , est and the brightest and the most radi- 1 ant being of all tho universe comes in. I God’s Son has left our world, but God’s daughter is here. Give her room! Hail! j Princess of Heaven. Hail! daughter of the Lord God Almighty. Coma in and ■ make this house thy throne-room. In setting forth this idea tho dbmlnent I theory of religion is one of sunshine. I ' hardly know where to begin, for there are so many thoughts that rusn upon , my soul. A mother saw her littlb i child seated 011 the floor in the sunshine, j and with a spoon in her hand. She said, | “My darling, what are you doing there?” “Oh,” replied the child, “I’m getting a spoonful of sunshise.” Would God that to-day I might present you with a gleaming chalice of this glorious, everlasting Gospel sunshine! Sorrows of tlio Humorists. Ido not know of anything more doleful than the companlouship of the mere fun-makers of the world—the Thomas i Hoods, the Charles Lambs, the Charles ; Matthews of the world —the men whose ■ entire business is to make sport They j make others laugh, but if you will ex- ' amine their autobiography,or biography, j you will find that down in their soul ■ there was a terrific disquietude. Laughter is no sign of happiness. The manlad , laughs. The hyena laughs. Tho loon j among the Adirondacks laughs. The ; drunkard dashing his "decanter against ■ the wall laughs. There is a terrible reaction from ail sinful amusement and sinful merriment. , Such men are cross the next day. They j snap at you on exchange, or they pass j you, not recognizing you. Loug ago I ■ quit mere worldly society for the reason ' it was so dull, so Inane and so stupid. 1 .My nature is voracious of joy. I must’ have it. I always walk on the sunning side of i the street, and for that reason I have crossed over into Christian society. Ij like their mode of repartee better. I i like their stylo of amusement better. ! They live longer. Christian people, I sometime notice, live on when by ail natural law they ought to have died. I have known persons who have continued in their existence when the doctor said they ought to have been dead ten years. Every day of their existence was a defiance of the laws of anatomy A n d physiology, but they had this supernatural vivacity of the Gospel in their soul, and that kept them alive. Christian Intellect and Repartee. Put ten or twelve Christian people in a • room for Christian conversation, and ; yon will from Bto 10 o’clock hear more resounding glee, see more bright strokes of wit and find more thought and profound satisfaction than in any merely worldly party. Now when I say a “worldly party” I mean that to which you are invited because under all the circumstances of the case it is the best for you to be invited, and to which you go because under all the circumstances 0! the case it is better that you go, and leaving the shawls on the second floor you go to the parlor to give formal salutation to tho host and the hostess, and 1 lien move around, spending the wlioh! evening in the discussion of the weather, and in apology for treading on long trails, and in effort to keep the cor-ni-rs of the mouth up to the sign of pleasure, ami going around with an lie he about nothing, until tlio collation is served, and thou, after the collation js served, going back again iiitd the parlor to resume the weather, and then at the close going at, a very lato hour to tho host a id uostess and assuring them that .you, have had a most delightful evening, and then pasingdown off tho front Steps, t lie slam of the door the only satisfaction Os t he evening. Oil. young man, cotne from the connstrv to-'-irmnl your days in <4l-y life, where are you going to spend your evenings. 1 Let nut toll ypu. while them are many 1 places of ,innocent worldly amusement, it is most. Wi-c foe you to throw your i.odv, mind, and soul Jnto Christian so„eii't v. Come to me at the close of five years amt tell inn what has been the ro-“ suit of tiiis advice. Bring with you tho young man wlio refused to take the advice and who went Into sinful amusement. Ho will come dissipated, shabby in apparel, indisposed to look any one in the eyes,, moral character 85 per cent, off. You will come with principle settled, countenance frank, habits good, sotrl saved, and all tho Inhabitants of Heaven from the lowest angel up to the archangel, and (dear past him to tho Lord God Almighty, your coadjustorA Tlih BrlKliliieaa ot Lire. This is not the advice of a misanthrope. There la no man In the house to whom the world is brighter than It is to me.

I It fs not the advice of a dyspeptic— my * digestion is perfect; it is not. tho advice of a wornout man, but Ihe advice of a E man who can too this world its all Its brightness, *nd, considering mjrsell competuntlnjudglng what Is good cheer, I tell tho multitudes ot young mon In n this house this morning that thorn is tl nothing in worldly association so grand and so beautiful and so ox hl I orati t as in * Christian society. 1 know there is a groat deal of talk about tho self denials of tho Christian. I have to toll you that where the Chrlso tian has one self denial tho man of tho n world has a thousand self denials. Tho u Christian is not commanded to surrender anything that is worth keeping. But , what doos a mtn deny himself who de--8 nios himself tho religion of Christ Ho ( denies himself pardon of sin; he denies j. himself peace of conscience; ho denies r himself the Joy of tho Holy Ghosf, ho 0 denies himself a comfortable death pitlow; he denies himself tho glories of * Heaven. Do not talk tome about the s denials of tho Christian life! Whore j there is ono in tho Christian Ufa there t ■ are a thousand in tho life of tho world. t “Her ways are ways of pleasantness.” g Again, I find a great deal of religious r sunhhineln Christian and Divine explanation. To a great many people life is an ' inexplicable tangle. Things turn out * differently from what was supposed. There is a useless woman in perfect , health. There Is an Industrious and conj soeratod woman a complete invalid. Explain that There is a bad man with $30.0(X) of income. • There is a good man of ’ j 5800 income. Why Is that? There is a ( ■ foe of society who lives or., doing all tho j ’ damage he can, to 75 years of ago. and j hero Is a Christian lather, faithful in ’ 1 every department of life at 35 years of ago I taken away by death, his family left help(l less. Explain that Ob.the.ro is no sentence ( that oftener drops from your lips than . this: “I cannot understand IL I cannot understand it.” I No Real Life Without KellElon. > There are hundreds of people in this ! house who are walking day by day in I tho sublime satisfaction that all is for 1 the best, all things working together for ’ good for their soul. How a man can get along through this life without the explanation is to mo a mystery. What! is that child gone forever? Are you never ’ to get it back? Is your property gone 1 forever? Is your soul to bo bruised and tried forever? Have you no explanation. . no Christian explanation, and yet not a maniac? But when you have tho religion ot Jesus Christ in your sou) it explains everything so far as it is best for ’ you to understand. You look off in life, and your soul is full ot thanksgiving to J i God that you aro much bettor off than you might be. | A man passed down the street without . any shoos and said: “I have no shoos. ; Isn't it a hardship that I have no shoes? I ! Other people have shoes. No shoes, no j shoes,” until he saw a man with no foot [ Then he learned a lesson. You ought ty . I thank God for what He does, instead of [ I grumbling for what He does not God 1 | arranges all the woatlier in this world— i the spiritual weather, the moral weather, , as well ns tho natural weather. “What ’ kind of weather will it bo to-day?” said : some one to a farmer. ’Hie farmer replied, "It will be such weather as I like.” I “What do you mean by that?” asked tho j other. “Well,” said the farmer, “it will * be such weather as pleases the Lord, and what pleases the Lord pleases me.” Oh, the sunshine, the sunshine of I Christian explanation! Here is some one ; bending over the grave of tho dead. ! ' What is going to bo the consolation? The 1 flowers you strew upon the tomb? Oh, no. The services read at the grave? Oh, no. The chief consolation on that gravels what falls from the throne of God. Sunshine —glorious sunshine. Resurrection sunshine. Our Joy Here But a Foretaste. Again, I find a great deal of the suni shine of this Bible and of our religion in ' the climacteric joys that are to come. A I j man who gets up and goes out from a ■ i concert right after thoopeuing voluntary 1 has teen played and before the prima J ■ donna sings, or before the orchestra be- I : gins, has a better idea of that concert I 1 than the man has who supposes that tho I chief joys of religion are in this world. | We here have only the first note of tho ! eternal orchestra. We shall in that world have the joy of discovery. We ■ will in five miqutes catch up with the astronomers, the geologists, tho scien1 lists, tho philosophers of ail ages whoso ' far surpassed us in this world. Wo can ' afford to adjourn astronomy and geology ■ and many of the sciences to the next 1 1 world, because we shall there have better 1 apparatus and bettor opportunity. I must study these scieiicesso far as to j 1 help me In my work, but beyond that I 1 ! must give myself to Saving my own soul I and saving the souls of others, knowing 1 that in one flash of eternity we will! 1 catch it all. Oh, what an observatory I in which to study astrofiomy Heaven will I be, not by power o-f telescope, but by ! supernatural vision, and If there be; something doubtful 10,000,000 miles away , by one stroke ot the wing you are there, by another stroke of the wing you are I back again, ana in less time than I tell you catching it all in one flash of eternity. : And geology! What a place that will be to study geology, when the world is being picked to pieces as easily as a schoolgirl in botanical lessons polls the from the corolla! What a place to i study architecture, amid the thrones, and the palaces, and the cathedrals —SL Mark's and SL Paul s rookerios in comparison. Go.l r B Own Science. Sometimes you wish yo|i could make the tour ot the whole earth, going around as others have gone, but you have not tho time; you have not the means. You will make tliat tour yet during one musical pause in tlio eternal anthem. I say these things for the comfort of those people who are abridged in their opportunities —those people to whom life is a humdrum,, who toil and work, and toil and work, and aspire after knowledge, but have no time to get it, and say, “If I had the opportunities which other people have, how I would fill mV mind and soul with grand thoughts!” Bo not discouraged, my friends. You are going to the University yet * Death will only matriculate you into tjte royal college of the universe. What a sublime thing it was that Dr. Thnrnwell of South Carolina, tittered in his last dying rnonibnts! As he looked up be said, "J t opens; it expands; it expands.” Or as Mr. Toplady, the author of “Rock of Ages,” in his last mon.ent.or during his last hours, looked up and said, as though he saw somethingt su- . l»-"rnatnral. “Light!” and then as ho 1 came on nearer the dying moment, his countenance more luminous, he cried, I “Light!” and at the very moment oPliis , departure lifted both hands, something ! supernatural In bis countenance as lie j cried, “Light!" Only another name for I Bunsbliic. A Selected Society Indeed. Besides that, wo shall have alt tho pleasures of association. We will go i right up iii trbnt ot God without any fright. All our sins gone, there will bo I nothing to be frightened atxJUt. There our old Christian friends will o troop i around us. Just as now ono of your j sick friends goes away to Florida, the , i lafiff of flowers,or to the south of Franco, and you do not see him , lor a ' long while, and after awhile you meet 1 him. and the hollows under the eyes aru all filled, and tho appetite has come uack, add tho crutch has * een thrown away, sr.d ho is so changed you hardly 1 know him. You sav. “Why, I never saw you look so well.” Ha says*. “Icouldat ■

y help but be well. I have boon sslllnf :o these rivers and cllmlilng those mount a alns, and that's how 1 got this elasticity. ;s I never was so well.” If t)l>, my your departed loves! r, ones aro only awa'y for their health In 11 n bettor climate, and when you moot thorn s they will bn so changed you will hardl) d know them; they will bo so very mucli u changed, and after awhlio, when you nrr assured that they are your friends, voui k departed friends, you will say: “Why, 1. where Is cough? Where is thal 1- paralysis? Where Is that 0 Whore Is that consumption?" And he 0 will say: ••Oh, lam entirely well; thorn r uro no sick ones in this country. I have t been ranging these hills, end hence piia i- elasticity. I have been here now twenty 0 years, end not one sick ono have I seen s —wo aro all well in this climate." s And then I stand at tho gate of the 0 celestial city to sec the processions come out, and I see a loug procession of lit tie f children with their arms full of flowers, 0 and then I see a procession of kings hud a priests moving in celostial pageantry—a 9 long procession, but no black tassoled . i vehicle, no mourning group—and I say: “How strange it Isi Whore Is your 1 Greenwood? Where Is your Laurel hill? Where is your Westminster abbey?” 1 And they shall cry, “There are no t graves hero.” And then listen to tho . lolling of tho old belfries of Heavon, tho t old belfries of eternity. I listen to hear - them toll for the dead. But they toll - not for the dead. They only strike up a ■ silvery chime, lower to tower, east gate t to west gate, as they ring out, “They 1 shall hunger no more, neither thirst any j more, neither shall tho sun light on I thorn, nor any heat, for tho Lamb which 1 Is in Dio midst of tho throne shall lead j them to living fountains of water, and ■ God shall wipe away all tears from their i eyes. ” 1 Oh, unglove your hand and give it tp ■ mo in congratulation on that scene. I feel as it I would shout 1 will shout halleluiah! Dear Lord, forgive mo that I ever complained about anything. If 1 all this Is before us, who cares for anything but God end Heaven and eternal brotherhood? Take the crape off tho doorbell. Your loved ones are only ' away for their health in a land ambrosial. x Como, Lowell Mason; come, Isaac Watts, and give us your best hymn about joy celestial. A Heaven on Earth. What is the use of postponing our heaven any looser? Let it begin now, and whosoever hath a harp, let ber thrum it; and whosoever hath a trumpet, let him blow it; and whosoever hath trumphet, let-him blow it: and who--lan organ, let him give us a full diapason. They crowd down tho air, spirits blessed, moving in a cavalcade of triumph. Their chariot wheels whirl in the Sabbath sunlight They come! Halt armies ot Godl Halt! until we are ready to join t'ue battalion of I pleasures that never die. Oh, my friends, it would take a seri mon as long as eternity to tell the joys I that aro coming to us. 1 just set open . the sunshiny door. Come In, all ye dls- ' clples of tho world who have found tho I world a mockery. Come iq, ail ye dis- | ciples of the dance and see the bounding feet of this heavenly gladness. Como in. ye disciples of worldly amusement and see the stage where kings are tho actors, and burning worlds the footlights, and thrones tho spectacular. Arise ye dead in sin, for this is the morning of the resurrection. Tire joys of Heaven submerge our soul. I pull out the I trumpet stop. In thy presence there is ' a fullness of joy; at thy rivlit hand there are pleasures forevermore. Oh, the sunshine, tho glorious sunshine. tho everlasting sunshine! A Reminiscence. I remember so well the first time I ever solemnly and forever left the platform. It was on the 11th or 12th of I May, at Antwerp. Ohio. The weather ! was warm. The hard-backed bugs and i the big blundering beetles that fly by I night were abundant and offensive. The i open windows of the hall gave the boys I on the street, as they patrolled their ; noisy beats, abundant opportunity to chaff the lecturer, whose gigantic form they could plainly see, but whose eloquent remarks they coulU but dimly hear, and illy comprehend. As a general thing I have observed that when the lecturer on the platform, and the boys in the street are addressing one audience at the same time, the ! audience appears to be most profound!ly interested in the remarks of the 1 boys. I thought, and I still think, it i is very foolish for an audience to pay ■SO cents a head to hear me, anil . then sit and listen to the boys, whom ! they mightjhave heard for nothing. But i that is the way an audience has, any-« how. So, that night, I did not care for ; the boys. I would not permit the ; tithing man to go out and entreat tho ■ boys roughly and coinpelthem to “shut ! up their heads,” as he wished to do, not i even when they mocked me, and in ; shrill falsetto entreated me to “give ; them a rest.” assurirg mo they “heard i enough of that,’’andbesought me, with illy dissembled concern, not to “bite off more than I could chaw.” I only smiled pleasantly and said, “Nay. hinder them not. Let them shout. I was once a boy myself.” And I smiled again and the tears stood in my eyes. Bait inwardly I was a ravening wolf, with a brass collar and two rows of spikes. On my way to the hotel I overtook a boy who was still yelling and howling at me, for he wot not that the lecture was over. And my anger got fierce and I got hold upon him, and smote him sore, and encompassed him round with a piece of barrel-hoop, and necked him, insomuch that he wept bitterly, and was sore astonished, and swore that ho would make full report of the.,* l things unto the mother that bore him, yea, even unto his big brother, and to tho father of his loins. But I heeded him not, neither was I movfed with compassion nor yet stricken xvith fear, for I wist that his mother lived away on the other side of the river, and his big brother was not and never had been, and bis father was a i Hight watchman, and therefore, at that I timo of night sound asleep in some , 1 secluded doorway. “Moreover, I was going away on the 4a. m. train. Where- . fore, I smote him once again, and said: , “If it l e that another lecturer cometh i this way, will it worn titlin’ unto thee to sit on the curbstone and make merry i with thy Aieuds, even while he speaketh : words unto the multitude ?” 1 And he lifted up his voice, and wept ' i bitterly, and swore unto me, saying: i “As my sole liveth, hope I may (lie if I : do.” 1 And I let up on him. And it was so > that when he was gone away, as it ’ 1 niight be a bow shot, that he called | aloud, and wagged his tongue against '■ ! me, and mocked mo atidcalled “Smarty” ’ and cast stones after me, and followed me even unto the inn, and dared me 1 half way, and reviled me because I ' would not, saying: “Hol Fraid catl Fraidoatl” And I sought to slay hun, but could j not, for he was marvelous swift of foot, 1 and he was like unto the children of r Benjamin, and “could sling stones at a r | hair breadth, and not t J BwrdtUt.

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Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad T rains run on Central Standard Time, Mtnltkuto» slower than Ooltimbus or former tima. Took effect Sunday, Deo. 1A ISSB. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 8 No. 8 No. T Cincinnati .Ive sOtam ntOpm Richmond ..... 8 SOptn 10 Ml.. 1148.. ........ Winchester.... 3 17 .. 11IW 1243 am Portland 404 .. !2.Wpm >33 Deoutur SlO . Illi .. 220 .. ( Ft.Wayno...nrr 000,. 215.. HOO “ •' ...Ive 235.. 320.. B(*am Kendallville 3.41.. 4 25. 9 10.. Rome City 3 60.. 4 40.. 0 20.. Wolcottville 401 9 31.. Valentine 411.. ... .... 9 48.. LaGrange 4 19.. 606.. 961.. Lima 428 1008 .. Sturgis 440 . 5 20.. 10 JO.. Vicksburg 8 30.. 0 50.. 11 00.. Kalamazoo, urr 005 11 40 .. ..Ive 4Sonm (128.. 900 .. iXHAptn Gr. Rapids, arr 045.. 810 220... " ” ..Ive "20 . 10 10.. llopm 418.. D..G.H,&M.or 1045.. 727 Howard City 11 60 . H4l Illg Rapids 12 30am 945 Recti City 1 KI ...1... Cadillac urr 1130 2 06.. 610 • “ Ive 230 V 10 .. Traverse TK.'pm Kalkaska 348 ........ Petoskey 035 .. 915 MaoklnaeClty. .... .. Ht<o . 10 35 GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 0 No. « No. 8 Mackinac City. 715 pm 746 am 200pm Petoskey...... 910.. 9 20.. 3 46. Kalkaska 1880 .. 11 30 .. 602 Traverse City 11 10 .. 460 Cadillac... arr 22t>am 115 pm 7 00.. 8 06am “ ... Ive 215. 135.. 060 pm 810.. Reed City 888.. 230 .. 7 60.. IHIO.. Illg Rapids 41».. 8 68. '8 25.. 9 45.. Howard City.. 4AA>. 343 . 9 20.. 10 32.. D.. 41. H.&M.er 005.. 606.. 10 25.. 11 35.. Gr. Rapids arr 0 3’1.. 616.. 1100.. 160.. " “ ..IVC 7 00.. 0 00.. 1120.. 200pm Kalamazoo.urr 860.. 8 00.. j256ami340.. " ..Ive 856 .. 805 . 346 .. Vicksburg 924.. 833 4 12.. Sturgis.. 1019 . 028 5 06.. Lima 1032 .. I*4o 517 .. LaGrange .... 11)41 .. 052 629.. Valentine 1058.. 10 02 637.. Wolcottville... 1104 .. 10 14 541.. Rome City 11 011.. 1019 52 . Kendallville... 11 25 . 10 39 008 .. Ft. Wayue..urr 1240 pm 1150 .. 7 16 .. “ " ..Ive 100.. Izsßau> 6 46am Decatur 1 48.. 12 58.. 830 Portia nd 2 40 .. 1 55 .. 7 at Winchester.... 3 17.. 2 38.. 809 Richmond 4 20.. 8 40.. 915 Cincinnati TOO.. 8 65., ItHliMn • Trains 5 and 8 run daily between Gt and Rapids and Cincinnati. C. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent JEFF. BRYSON. Agent. Decatur, Ind First Class Night and Day Berrios bstweea Toledo, Ohio, )AND( St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS DAY TRAINS—MODERN EQUIPMENT THROUGHOUT. vestibuJiFsleeping cars ON NIQHT trains! n-MUL3 B[RV£D EM KOUTE, <w» *««r, F4V Off HIOHT, at modttau cost. Ail; for flcHlt iii Taledo, St Ltuli 4 linui City L B. Clovek Leaf Route. For further particulars, call on nsarsrt Agent of ths Company, or address O. O. JENKINS. •sasral Fiawesw Afwt. TOLEDO. OHIOW. L. DOUGLAS S 3 SHOE And other specialties for Mar Gentlemen, Ladles, Boys and. Misses are the Best * n the World - Sco descriptive advertise, WK \ | meat which will appear in xg; 1 this paper. Take no Substitute, jEWKkI,. . .vk but Insist on having W. L. DOUGLAS’SHOES,with a name aud price stamped on bottom. Sold by For Sale by Henry Winnea, Second door Wost of Adams County Bank, Monroe St.