Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 10 February 1893 — Page 2

®he ffenwrrnt DECATUR, IND. M. MM.CKBURX, - • - PrwutnitH I f-. t. -==© Ow&l 'f* '| =No Sane =Man i =Need be I I ’ =Told that ! 1 —Fact Given, then, that yoo wins to do business, the'only remaining question ! is how to dtf it best. There an be but one general answer to that, and that is the use of the advertising columns of the newspapers. © © Mk. Clevelald has returned to the sender a frank over the lines of an express company,. Mr. Cleveland has prospects of a fairly remunerative situation, and believes that by economy he can pay his own bills. The Idaho “diamonds” prove to be only rock crystals, and the crowds of men who hastened to the San Juan “gold fields” got nothing on the trip but blistered feet. It is evident to old ’49ers that the ’93ers are getting badly left. Mrs. M. P. Kimball succeeds her deceased husband in the Presidency of the Pennsboro and Harrisville Railroad, and West Virginians have so much faith in her executive ability that they are in no fear of the road suffering by the change. Sam Small has given up evangelical work, and will go back to his old desk in the Atlanta Constitution office. It is hard work to make a thorough newspaper man understand that there is any place where he can be nearer heaven than the one he occupies when he is within easy range of the copy-hook The enormity of the Panama corruption isn’t lessened in appearance to Americans because it is measured in francs instead of dollars. The sum of 1,400.000,000 francs impresses an American a good deal more than •280,000,000 would, and to an Englishman it must seem immensely larger than £56,000,000. Tascott is now ascertained to be in Alaska. Possibly this is true. However, there is a growing belief that Tascott is a phantom. He must put his manly form in evidence before there will be many to accept him as reality. History is full of myths. A practical age that abolishes William Tell is not going to be imposed upon by any cheap modern ghost. A gentleman who a few months ago tried to squeeze the financial stuffing out of his associates by cornering the corn missed it by $1,000,000. He has paid the debt with interest, and encomiums upon his honesty are falling In showers. It seems to be forgotten that some people who never tried to gamble in corn may have in them the crude elements of honesty. English newspapers declare that Mrs. Maybrick is only feigning illness. She is credited by them with swallowing needles and thus producing symptoms indicative of a physical system out of repair. How long this rigorous style of sham can continue without merging into something almost genuine is a question that the kindly intelligence of the newspapers above cited should hasten to throw light upon. -' ====== ''Ten of Kentucky’s residents, all quoted as “first citizens,” met and settled a dispute on principles not laid down by the Peace Congress. •Only five of them are citizens of any class now, The coronor tucked the other five away. has plenty of “first citizens” left. Every time adrunaen man gets agun L; and a grudge down there the comvbination, while perhaps disastrous to the neighborhood, gives him a social position concerning which it is not safe to argue.

The gentleman who it is sometimes suspected had the misfortune to turn to stone has been dug up again, this time in Nebraska. His first exhumation was on the coast.. It was soon found that he was hand-made, and not even a good freak. Then the stone matF started East. He has sought grave after grave and been dragged to light times without number, but people have re'eognized his true character. He has failed to fool even Nebraskans, a fact that absolutely dashes his hopes. A contemporary is responsible for • the statement that at a recent plucking at the Coronado ostrich farm one bird yielded nearly 3,000 feathers, adding that when curled and dressed,

these feathers will be worth 165. ’ There is something wrong somewhere, for at 50 cents apiece, which would certainly be a low average il the feathers possessed any merit at • all, they would amount to 11,500. One can hardly believe that even in • the first market, real ostrich feathers are sold as low as 2 1-6 cents apiece. Here’s a chance for the female emancipators of women to get up and assert , themselves. The galleries of the English House of Commons, from time immemorial open to the fall sex, have been barred against them on the specious plea that the ladies have been misconducting themselves while occuplhg its vantage ground. This means the loss of a valuable position, ladies; if you can’t get into the galleries you certainly can never hope to occupy the seats on the floor. Contest the point tooth and toe nail; it is your only hope and worth the fighting for.

The home built at Atlanta, Ga., principally through the efforts of the late Henry W. Grady, for the homeless Confederate veterans, will be sold under the auctioneer's hammer. The directors of the home resolved upon this course because the Legislature refused to make any provisions for its support Georgia is a great, rich State, and her best people will doubtless be heartly ashamed of the parsimonius littleness of her statesmen. If Georgia has any love, or even respect, for her now poor and crippled and once courageous veteran soldiers, she has a mighty poor way of show ing it to the world. It is reported that a number of Philadelphia young women havt banded themselves together as protectors of the opposite sex. They have organized for the purpose ol darning the stockings of bachelors. The report does not say whether each young dame selects the particulai bachelor whose stockings she is t< dain. It seems a pity we should be left in the dark upon this very important point. The number of members is limited to thirty (deponent saith not whether this same figure limits their age), and as no new member can be added until one has been dropped out, there is a long list ol applicants waiting to be taken in turn. Only unmarried women are eligible to membership. Affairs in Mexico appear to be in a condition that promises serious trouble there at no distant time. There is now every indication that a widespread feeling favoring revoli prevails throughout the republic, and is on the Increase. It is not the re suit of any recent act or acts on th( part of the administration. According to a secret revolutionary pronunciamiento, it is the growth of a period of time, during which President Diaz is charged with bavins usurped the role of dictator. Catarino Garza is named as the leader and supreme chief in the revolutionary movement, and a call is made to the people to take up arms under hie standard. It is proposed to overthrow Diaz and hold an election foui months after the captur’e of the Mexican capital to revise the national constitution so as to give true political freedom to the people. All who oppose in any way the schemes of the revolutionists will be treated as trait ors by them. Two hundred prominent Mexicans are said to have caused the promulgation of this incendiary document Its premature publication is almost certain to lead to ar early collision between the powers that be and those that desire to be, and a determined, bitter and sanguinary civil war would seem to b< inevitable. Advlee to Teachers. Learn to think. The way you get knowledge is more important than the knowledge you get The mental activity is the important thing. The teacher, of all the people in the world, should be a good thinker. By this is not a logician, nor a metaphysician, but a genuine thinker, clear, discriminating, keen, vigorous. Learn how to teach. This is a special art. No training for anything else is the best training for teaching. The principles are of greatest importance. Select a few, or have them selected for you, and study them until they are to you what the a, b, c’s are, i. e., the perfectly familiar material for the building up of all wisdom and wit needed for teaching, as the letters form all the hundreds of thousands of words in the language. Establish a method for the doing of everything that is to be, or that is liable to be, repeatedly done. Your methods should only change with the necessities of occasions. Invent devices continually. Train your-,elf to tie a genius in the art of illustrating what you wish to make plain. Let your/aim be to teach every

child to know, to think, to do and be all that is possible for him under existing conditions. Train yourself in the art of self-control under varying conditions and in emergencies. Cultivate patieflfceperpetually, especially wittiZhildreth—-'Train yourself to bear and forbear with children of alb ages in their relation to you and to each other. Acquire a habit of prompt, cheerful obedience in yourself, since whoever best obeys best secures obedience. Make the best of everything, since many of the failures in teaching come from inabil-; ity to adapt one’s self to the varying conditions of school administration or social peculiarities.—Journal of Education. The recently convicted of here-y will not be burned at the stake.- Goodness as well as worldliness has its fashions, and this fashion has gone. Happily, the saintly persons-who advocated it have also gone, apd those who so desire have liberty to believe they did ndt go where fire is st’.ll in vogue.

DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. A DISCOURSE ON THE BIBLE AND NATURE. < •> ’ ' The Bible Abound* tn Reference to Flab, and They Are Indirectly Recommended for Food—Why Fl*hennon Were Choeen I lor Apostles. God Is Everywhere. I Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage last Sunday preached to a great audience in the Tabernacle a remarkably interesting and eloquent sermon on “The Ichthyology of the Bible; or, God Among tho Fishes,” being a continuation of his series of discourses on God everywhere. The text chosen was Genesis I. 20, “And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly I the moling creature that hath life." What a new book tho Bible is! After | thirty-six years’ preaching from It and I discussing over 3,000 different subjects founded on the word of God, the book is as fresh to me as when I learned, with a stretch of infantile memory, the shortest verse In the Bible, "Jesus wept," and 1 opened a few weeks ago a new realm of Biblical Interest that neither mv pulpit nor any one else’s had ever explored, and having spoken to you in this course of sermons on God everywhere coucern- ! ing the “Astronomy of the Bible; or, I God Among the Stars;’’ the “Chronology of the Bible; or, God Among the Centuries;” the “Ornithology of the Bible; or, God Among the Birds;” the “Mineralogy of the Bible; or, God Among tho Amethysts,” this morning, as I may bo divinely helped, I will speak to you about the “Ichthyology of tho Bible; or, God Among the Fishes,” .

The Apostolic Fishermen. Our horses were lathered and tired out, and their fetlocks were red with the blood cut out by the rocks, and I could hardly get my foot out of the stirrups as on Saturday night we dismounted on tho beach of Lake Galilee. The rather liberal supply of food with which wo had started from Jerusalem was nigh exhausted, and the articles of diet remaining had by oft repetition three times a day for three weeks ceased to appetize. I never want to see a fig again, and dates with me are all out of date. „ For several days the Arab caterer, who could speak but half a dozen English words, would answer our requests for some of the styles of food with which we bad been delectated the first few days by crying out, “Finished.” The most piquant appetizer is abstinence, and the demand of all the party was, “Let us breakfast on Sunday morning on fresh fish from Lake Gennesareth,” for you must know that lake has four names,and it is worth a profusion of nomenclature, and it is in the Bible called Chinnereth, Tiberias, Gennesareth, and Galilee. To our extemporized table on Sabbath morning camo broiled perch, only a few hours before lifted out of the sacred waters. B was natural that 'our minds should revert to the only breakfast that Christ ever prepared, and it was on those very shores where we breakfasted. Christ had in those olden times struck two flints together and set on fire some shavings or light brushwood and then put on larger wood, and a pile of glowing bright coals was the consequence. Meanwhile the disciples fishing on the lake had awfully "poor luck,” and every time they drew up the net it hung dripping without a fluttering fin or squirming scale. But Christ from the shore shouted to them and told them where to drop the net, and 153 big fish rewarded them. Simon and Nathaniel, having cleaned some of those large fish, brought them to the coals which Christ had kin-. died, and the group who had been out all night and were chill and wet and hungry sat down and began mastication. All that scene came back to us when on Sabbath morning, December. 1889, just outside the ruin of ancient Tiberias and within sound of rippling Galilee, we breakfasted. Bible Ichthyology. Now. Is it not strange thp Bible imagery is so Inwrought from the fisheries when the Holy Land is, for the most part, an inland region? Only three lakes—two besides the one already mentioned, namely, the Dead Sea, where fish cannot live at all, and as soon as they touch it they die, and the birds swoop on their tiny carcasses, and the third, the Pools of Heshbon, which are alternately full and dry. Only three rivers of the Holy Land —Jabbok, Kishon and Jordan. About all the fiph now in the waters of the Holy Land are the perch, the carp.the bream, the minnow, theblenny, the barbel (so called because of the barb at its mouth), the chub, the dogfish,none es them worth a Delaware scad or an Adirondack trout Well, thp world’s geography has changed, and the world’s bill of fare has changed. Lake Galilee was larger and deeper and better stocked than now, and no doubt the rivers were deeper and the fisheries were of far more importance then than now. Besides that there was the Mediterranean Sea only thirty-five miles away, and fish were salted or dried and brought inland, and so much of that article of food was sold in Jerusalem that a fish market gave the name to one of the gates of Jerusalem near by, and it was called the fish gate. The cities had great reservoirs in which fish were kept alive and bred. The pool of Glbeon was a fishpool. Isaiah and Solomon refer to fishpools. Large fish were kept alive and tied fast by ropes to a stake in tnese reservoirs, a ring having been run through their gills, and that is the meaning of the Scripture passage which Says, “Canst thou put a book into his nose gr bore his Jaw through with a thorn?” So important was the fish that the god Dagon, worshiped by the Philistines, was made half fish and half man, and that is the meaning of the Lord’s indignation when In L Samuel we read that this Dagon. the fish god, stood beside the ark of the Lord, and Dagon was by invisible hands dashed to pieces because the Philistines had dared to make the fish a god. That explains the Scripture passage, “The head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.” Now, the stump of Dagon was the fish part. The ton part, which was the figure of a man, was dashed to pieces, and the Lord, by demolishing everything but the stump or fish part of the idol, practically said, “You may keep your fish, but know from the way 1 have demolished the rest of the Idol that it is nothing divine.”

The Fluhlike Idol*. Layard and Wilkinson found the fish an oblect of Idolatry all through Assyria 'and Egypt. The Nile was full of fish, and that explains the horrors-ot the plague that slaughtered the finny tribe all up and dbwn that river, which has been and Is now the main artery of Egypt’s life. In Job you hear the plunge of the spear Into the hlppotamus as the great dramatic poet cries out, “Canst thou fill his skin with barbed Irons or hfs head with fish spears?” Yea, the fish began to swim in tho very first book I of Gem-sls, where my text r<sords, ‘‘And God said, Let the waters bring forth ■ abundantly the -moving creature that hath I life.” Do you realize that tho first living thing that God created was the fish? It preceded the bird, the quadruped, the human race. The fish has priority of residence over every living thing. The next thing done after God had kindled for our woild the golden chandelier of i the sun and the silver chandelier of the ' moon was to make the fish. The first

motion of tho principle of life, a principle that all the thousands of years since have not teen able to define or K analyte—the very first stir of life—was in a fish. Importance ol Plain Food. The Lord, by placing the fish in the i, first course of the menu in paradise, tt making it precede bird and beast, indln cated to the'world the importance of the fish as an article of human food. The reason that men and women lived three and four and five and nine hundred years was because thev were kept on parched ’ corn and fish. We mix up a fastastio , food that kill the most of us before 30 . years of age. Custards and whipped sil- , labubs and Roman punches and chicken salads at midnight are a gantlet that few ' have strength to run. Wo put on many a tombstone glowing ' epithets saying that tho person beneath ' died of patriotic services or from exhaustion iu religious work when nothing . killed the poor fellow but lobster eaten at a party four hours attor be ought to havo been sound asleep In. bed. There . are men to-day in our streets so many walking hospitals who might have been . athletes if they bad taken the hint of Genesis in my text and of our Lord's remark and adhered to simplicity of diet. The rerson that tho country districts ' have furnished (most of the men and women of our time who are doing tho mightiest work in merchandise. In me- ' chanlcs, In law, in medicine. In theology, in legislative and congressional halls,and ’ all tho Presidents from >v ashington down ' —at least those who havo amounted to ’ anything—is because thoy were in those country districts of necessity kept on . plain diet. I No man or woman ever amounted to anything who was brought upon floating island or angel cake. Tho world must turn back to paradisiac diet if it is to get paradisiac morals and paradisiac > health. The human race to-day needs I more phosphorus, and the fish is charged 1 and surcharged with phosphorus—phos- > pborus, that which shines in the dark ' without burning. : The Miracle of Jonah and the Great -Fish. Know also tn order to understand tho , ichthyology of the Bible that in the deeper waters, as those of the Mediter- , ranean, there were monsters that are now Extinct. The fools who become in- , fidels because they cannot understand , the engulfment of the recreant Jonah in . a sea monster, might have saved their souls by studying a little natural history. ! “Oh,” says some one. “that story of Jonah was only a fable.” Say others, -‘lt ' was interpolated by some writer of later , times.” Others say, “It was the reproduction of the story of Hercules devoured and then restored from the monster.” But my reply is that history tells us that there were monsters large .enough to whelm ships. The extinct ichthyosaurus of other ages was 30 feet long, and as late as the sixth century of the Christian era up and down the Mediterranean there floated monsters compared with which a modern whale was a sardine or a herring. The shark has again and again been found to have swallowed a man entire. A fisherman on the coast of Turkey found a sea monster which contained a woman and a purse of gold. I have seen in museums sea monsters large enough to take down a prophet. But I have a better reason for believing the Old Testament account, and that is that Christ said it was true and a type of his own resurrection, and I suppose He ought to know. In Matthew xii, 40, Jesus Christ says, “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly, so shall the Son Os Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” And that settles it for me and for any man who does not believe Christ a dupe and an impostor. Notice also how the Old Testament writers drew similitude from the fisheries. Jeremiah uses such imagery to prophesy destruction, “Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them.” Ezekiel uses fish imagery to prophesy prosperity, “It shall come to pass that the fisbers shall stand upon It from En-gedi even to Eneglalm; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of toe great sea, exceeding many,” the explanation of which is that En-gedi and En-eglaim stood on the banks of the Dead Sea, in the waters of which no fish can live, but the prophet says that the time will come when these waters will be regenerated, and they will be great places for fish. Amos reproves idolatries by saying, “The day shall come unon you when he will take you away with hooks and vour posterity with fishhooks.” Solomon, in Ecclesiastes, declares that those captured of temptation aro as fishes taken iu an evil net Indeed Solomon knew all about the finny tribe and wrote a treatise on ichthyology'which has been lost The Ancient Fishermen. Furthermore, In order that vou may understand the Ichthyology of the Bible, you must know that there were five ways of fishing. One was by a fence of reeds and canes, within which the lish ; were caught But the Herodfc government forbade that on Lake Galilee, lest pleasure boats be wrecked by the stakes 1 driven. Another mode was by spearing. 1 the waters of Galilee so clear good aim 1 could be taken for the transfixing. An--1 other was by hook and line, as where ' Isaiah says, “The fishers also shall 1 mourn, and they that cast angle into the 1 brooks shall lament” And Job says,1 “Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook?” And Habakkuk says, ‘They take ■ up all of them with the angle.” Another mode was by a casting net or ' that which was flung from the shore; another, by a dragnet or that which I was thrown from a boat and drawn through the sea as the fishing smack I sailed on. How wonderful all this is ■ inwrought into the Bible imagery, and ‘ it leads me to ask in which mood are you 1 and I fishing, for the church is the ’ boat, and the gospel is the net, and 1 the sea is the world, and the fish ' are the souls, and God addresses us as he • did Simon and Andrew, saying, “Follow 1 me, and I will make you fishers of mem” 1 But when is the best time to fish for i souls? In the night Peter, why did I you say to Christ “We have tolled all the night and have taken nothing?” • Why did you not fish in the daytime? He replies, “You ought to know that the ' night is the best time for fishing.” At Tobyhanna Mllls,among the mountr ains of Pennsylvania,! saw a friend with 1 high boots an<l fishing tackle starting out at 9 o'clock at night, and I said, “Where are you going?" He answered, i “Going to fish.” “What, in the’night!” l He answered, “Yes. in the night." So , the vast majority of souls captured for i God are taken In times of revival in the i night fneetings. They might Just as i well come at 12 o’clock at noon, but f some of them will not Ask the evangeli Ists of olden times, ash Finney, ask Neti tlcton, ask Osborn, ask Daniel Baker, t and then ask all the modern evangelists : which is tho best time to gather souls, i and they will answer, 'The night; bv al ; odds, the night” Not only the natural 1 night, but the night of trouble. i 1 Suppose Igo around In this audience t and ask these Christians when they were converted to God. One would answer, t "It was at the time I lost my child by t membranous croup, and it was the night i of bereavement,” or the answer would f be, "It was just after I was swindled a out of my property, and it was the night i of bankruptcy," or it would be, "It was f during that time when 1 WM down wlth e awful sickness, and it was the night of t physical suffering," or It would be. It

- was that time when slander took after a mo, and I was maligned and abused.” r Ah, my hearers, that is the time for you a to ge after souls, when a night of trouble Is op them. Miss not that opportunity to save a soul, for it is the beat of all ops portunltiea , Go up along the Mohawk, or the - Juniata, or the Delaware, or the Toma bigbee, or the St. Lawrence right after a a rain, and you will find tho fishermen all a up and down the banka Why? Because i a good time to angle Is right after the 1 rain, and that is a good time to catch a souls, right after a shower of misfortune, ) right after floods of disaster. And as a - pool overshadowed with trees is a grand i place tor magtng a fine haul of fish, to r when the soul Is under the long dark shadows of anxiety and distress It is a t good time to make a spiritual haul, i People In the bright sunshine of pros- - parity are not so easily taken. I Th. Best Fl .here ol Men. ! But be sure before you start out to the gospel fisheries to get the right kind of , ball. “But how,” you say, “am Ito get it?” My answer fa, “Dig for It.” Where , shall I dig for it?" “In the rich Bible , grounds” .We boys brought up in the country had to dig for bait before we started for the banks of the Raritan. We put the sharp edge of the spade ’ against the ground and then put our foot on the spade, and with one tremendous plunge of our strengthof body and I will we drove it in upto the handle and then turned over the sod. , We bad never read Walton's “Com- , plete Angler" or Charles Cotton's "Instructions How to Angle for Grayling In a Clear Stream.” We knew nothing about , the modern red hackle or the fly of orange . colored mohair, but we got the right kind of bait No use trying to angle for ' fish or angle for souls unless you have , the right kind of bait, and there Is plenty of it In the promises, the parables, the miracles, the crucifixion, the Heaven of the grand old gospel. Yea, not only must you dig for bait, but uso only fresh bait You cannot do anything down St the pond with old angleworms. New views of truth. New views of God. New views of the souL There are all the good books to help you dig. But make up your mind as to whether you will take the hint of Habukkuk and Isaiah and Job and use hook and line, or take tho hint of Matthew and Luke and Christ and fish with a net. I think many lose their time by wanting to fish with a net, and they never get a place to swing the net. In other words, they want to do gospel work on a big scale or they will not do It at all. I see feeble minded Christian men going around with a Bagster’s Bible under their arm, hoping to do the work of an evangelist and use the net, while they might better be content with hook and line and take one soul at a time. They are bad failures as evangelists. They would.be mighty successes as private Christians. It you catch only one soal for God, that will be enough to fill vour eternity with celebration. All hail the fisherman with hook and line! I have seen a man in roughest corduroy outfit come back from the woods loaded down with a string of finny treasures hung over his shoulder and his gamebag tiliefi, and a dog with his teeth carrying the basket tilled with the surplus of an afternoon’s angling, and it was all the result of a hook and line, and in the eternal world there will be many a man and many a woman that was never heard of outside of a village Sunday school or a prayer meeting burled iu a church basement who will cbme before the throne of God with a multitude of souls ransomed through his or her instrumentality, and vet the work all done through persona) interview, one by one, one by one. You do not know who that one soul may. be. Staupitz helped one soul into the light, but It was Martin Luther. Thomas Binlev brought salvation to one soul, but it was Hugh Latimer. An edge tool maker was the means of saving one soul, but it was John Summerfield, Our blessed Lord healed* one blind eye at a time, one paralyzed arm at a time, one dropsical patient at a time, and raised from the dead one girl at a time, one young man at a time. Admire the net that takes in a great many at once, but do not despise the hook and line. The Application to Christianity. God help us amid the Gospel fisheries, whether we employ hook or net, for the day cometh when we shall see how much depended on our fidelity. Christ Himself declared: ’The kingdom of Heaven Is like unto a net that was cast in the sea and gathered of every kind, which, it was full, they drew to shore and sat down and gathered the good in the vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall It be at the end of the world—the angels shall come forth and separate the wicked 'from the just.” Yes, the fishermen think it best to keep the useful and worthless of the haul in the same net until it Is drawn 'upon the beach, and then the division takes place, and if it is off Long Island coast the mossbankers are thrown out and the bluefish and shad preserved, or if it is on the shore of Galilee the fish classified as sllurolds are hurled back into the water or thrown upon the bank as unclean, while the perch and the carp and the barbel are put into pails to be carried home for use. So in the church on earth the saints and the hypocrites, tho generous and the mean, the chaste and the unclean, are kept in the same membership, but at death tbe division will be made and the . good will be gathered into Heaven, and the bad, however many holy communions they may have celebrated and however many rhetorical prayers thev may have offered, and however many years their names may have been on the church rolls, will be cast away. God : forbid that any of us should be among i the “cast away.” But may we do our I work, whether small or groat, as thoroughly as did that renowned fisherman, i George W. Bethune, who spent his I summer rest angling in the waters i around the Thousand Isles and beating i at their own craft those who pli<?d it all ' the year, and who the rest of bls time ’ gloriously preached Christ in a pulpit ’ only fifteen minutes from where I now I stand, and ordering for his own obseI qules: "Put on me my pulpit gown and ’ bands, with my own pocket Bible in my i right hand. Bury me with my mother, i my father and my grandmother. Bing also my own hymn: ‘Jesus, thou prince of life t l Thy ohoaen cannot die; . Like Thee, they conquer iu the strife, To reign with Thee on high.* Michigander. “Michigander” has become something like a received and an established word. i Wo believe it first came into use in ; 1848, and then it was given to Gen. ’ Cass, the Democratic candidate for the • Presidency, by one of the supporters of Mr. Van Buren, who was leading the i bolting Barnburners of New York. j “Wolverine" is the best name for a 1 native or resident of Michigan, when I you would be irregularly civil. Like the corresponding term for an Ohioan—- ’ B iickeye—it has a good sound. r Galloway robes dressed like bust falo robes, are handsome and valuable. 1 This opens a new avenue of profits 1 from hides. t - - ■ .r i One advantage in using old brood f sows is that tbe pigs are so much t stronger and grow up so much faster.

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The Lyon & Healy Organ Is the best and most salable Organ of the Day jjSM Organs sold on Installment Payments at Low Figures. SEND IOR CATALOGUE. Fred K. Shafer, Agt. ’■■■P BERNE. IND. K (BLOSSOM tITIVE CURE ALE DISEASES. J©©®® a! > nuuwnt relief obtained. EVERY LADY CAN TREAT HERSELF. 08. Pile Remedy. I »1J» for oae moatk’s treatment. 10. B. Stomach Powders. <X P. Catarrh Cure. I —pbxpabkd I O. B. Kidney Cones. J. A. McCILL, M. D. y & CO., 4 panorama puce, Chicago, ill 3XOB. BAXZD "BY Holthouae * Blackburn. Decatur. Aik for Descriptive Clrculart. HOFFMAN A GOTTSCHALK Keep a full line of Drugs, Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils, Groceries, Lamps, Tobaccos, Cigars, and a general stock of ' Merchandise. Prescriptions carefully compounded. LINN GROVE, IND. ’ - ■■ is d ' 1 " • ii AhT' ’ wfo, # At Magley, keeps a large stock of Dry ;|| At* 11A AA Goods, Notions, Groceries, Boots, Shoes ( and in fact everything kept in a general 11IIIH hill store. Bu y® all kin<jß ot Country Produce ” , Illi IIU IBM II or which the highest market price is paid. I X^MANHOODRESTORED: ; S»; \* w/ v uA r CamSdeaea.Tfervnnmie.., Lauitnde, all drains and loss of I X power of the Generative Organs in either sex canned by over axor1 Uon, yonthful enors, or excessive use of tobacco, opium or stlmugEeitJS. wk ■ -Am tante whloh soon lead to InSnnlty. Consumption and insanity. Put JMOWWWWWIF' rive a written guarantee to enre or refund the money.l I BSrOU AMD AITBB USEfC. . . ■ For Sale by W. H. Nachtrieb, Druggist, Decatur, M

Granil Rapids 4 Indiana Railroad Trains run on Central Standard Time, Mate GOING NOBTH. u - - - 1 Was— STATIONS. No. 1 No. 8 No. 6 No. f QinoinnaU .lyo dMam yiljpm Richmond 3 30pm 10to.. H4J.. , Winchester.... # if.. 11» • MS::::::: I?.:: W 1: WTrtSll:: wa A, Kendallville..: ...841.. 436. »W.. Home City 881 .. 4 40. J«.. Woloottvfils... 40i 88) .. Valentine 411 LaGrange 4!• .. 606.. »fi.. Lima .. 438 KOfl.. Nturffto 4 40.. 838.. Ml#.. Vicksburg. BM.. 8 80.. 110#.. Kalamazoo.arr 606.. ........ 114#•„ ..ive 4 30am <36.. #OO.. 18Mpm - Gr. Rapids , arr <46 .. 810 " K ..lye TW .. 1010,.. 110 pm AU.. * D.,G.H.*M.or W 4».. 737 ’ Howard City 1180 . 841 Big Rapids. liStam #45.. , Cadillac arr 1180.. 3 06.. 010 “ ....Ive 380.. #lO .. i Traverse City. 700 pm ........ Petoskey <86.. 016 ;.. MaokinsoOtty.l 800 .. 1086 GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 3 No. < No. 1 No. 8 Mackinac City. 713 pm 748 am 300 pm ........ Petoekey 910.. #30.. BU. Kalkaska 13 80 * 1138 6(B Traverse City 11W.. 430 Cadillac....arr 330 am 116 pm 7 00.. 806 am " ....Ive 818 .. 183 .. <Bopm <lO .. Reed City 888.. 880.. 760.. #OO.. Big Rapids..... 400 .. 3 40.. 826.. #48.. Howard City.. 4NI». 343.. #30.. 10.0.. D.G.H.AM.or <06.. 606.. 1086.. 1136.. Gr. Rapids .arr 68').. 316.. 11 00.. 160 .. ’’ “ ..ive 700 .. <OO.. 1180.. 800 pm Kalamaxoo.arr 860.. 8 00.. 1866 am i 840.. “ ..ive 866 .. 803 . 846.. Vicksburg #24.. 883 413.. Sturgis Wl#.. »M 606.. Lima 10 83.. #4O 517.. LaGrange.... 10 44 .. #tt 68#.. Valentine 10 68 .. 10 03 337 Wolcottville... 11 M.. 1014 6« .. Home City 110# .. 101# 33 .. Kendallville... 1126 .. 108# <06.. Ft. Wayne..arr 1840 pm 1160 7U.. '* ..ive 100.. IzMam 645 am Decatur 146 .. UM .. <BO Portland 8 40.. IIS.. 780 Winchester.... 8 17.. 8 38.. 80# Richmond 430 .. 8 40.. #l6 Cincinnati 7 00.. <66.. ItOlnm Trains 6 and 6 run dally between Grand , ' Rapids and Cincinnati. C, L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pam. Agent JEFF. BRYSON. Agent. Decatur, Ind First Clam Night aad Day Berries beSwwea Toledo, Ohio, IANDI St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS MY TKAIKS—MODERN IQUIPMIin THMBCMBI. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON NIOIHT TRAINS. srwfdtß sesyto cm soure. sum, Mr OK MIKHT, at modarau tort. Aik fir tkhb th TIHI, St Uih I turn CRy L L Clover Lmf Route. Fer further particulars, call ea aeasert Ageatof the Company, or addreoe o. O. JBNKINB, •mmlMMswtemh TOLEDO, OHIO. W. L DOUGLAS S 3 SHOE oen/i?Aien. And other specialties foe Gentlemen, Ladles, Boys and IL Misses are the Best in the Worid ' Bee deuriptlve advertise* wK:. set I meat which wIU appear ta JBL I this paper. Take no Substitute, but insist on having W, L. a DOUGLAS* SHOES, with name and price stamped ea bottom. Bold by For Sale by Henry Winnes, Second door West of Adams County Bank, Monroe St.