Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 10 March 1893 — Page 7

■ - . - ■ ■- THE SHIPMAN’S TALK. Ultra, my masters. 1 spike naught but troth, from dawn to dawn they drifted on and on, Not knowing whither or to what derlt and. Now the north troxe thorn, now tho hot south •oborohsd. Some colled to God, and found great comfort go; Borne gnashed their teeth with onraee, and lomii toughed An empty laughter aeelng that they Head, So sweet was breath between their foolish lipa Day after day the tame rentless ann, Night after night the sums unpltylng stars. At intervals florae lightings tore the clouds, Hhowlng'hAst hollow spaces, and the sleet Hissed, und the torrents of the eky were loosed. From time to time a hand relaxed its grip, And some pale wretch klld down into the dark With stilled moan, and transient horror seised The rest who waited, knowing what must bo. At every turn strange shapes reached up and clutched The whirling wreck, held on awhile, and then Blipt back Into that blackness whence they Ah, bnpMss folk, to be so tost and torn. Ho racked by hunger, fever. Are, and wave, And swept at last into the natneleesi voidFrail girls, strong men, ami mothers with their babes I And wore none saved ? My masters, not a soul t O shipman, woful, wofulis thy tale I Our hearts are heavy and our eyes are dimmed. What ihlp is thii that nuffertd inch Hl fate? What ship my ma*ter«? Know ya not?-the world. —Harper's Monthly. THE RUN ON THE BANK. There was a run on the Sandhill and District Bank. It had lasted the whole of one day and showed no signs of abating in the evening. If it lasted another day—old* Mr, Bradshaw wiped his brow. It was no use talking to his son Dick, for he took no interest in business and had spent the day in a boat with the Flirtington girls; still Mr. Bradshaw was .bound to talk to some one. “We shall have to put the shutters np. One day’s grace would save us, I believe; we could get the money then. But if they’re at us again to-morrow morning, we can’t last two hours.” Dick sympathized, but had nothing to suggest, except that it would not make matters worse it he carried out his engagement to go to the circus with the Flirtington girls. “Oh, go to Hong Kong with the Flirtington girls,if you like, ’’groaned Mr. Bradshaw. So Dick went—to the circus (the other expedition, as he observed, would keep) and enjoved the performance very much, especially the lion-taming, which was magnificent, and so impressed Dick that he deserted his companions, went behind the scenes, and insisted on standing Signor Philippini several glasses. “Is that big chap quite safe?” he asked, admiringly. “I can do anything with ’lm,” said the signor (whose English was naturally defective); “but with any one belse’e’s a roarer, 'e is, and no mistaka ” After the performance, Dick took the Flirtington girls home; then, with a thoughtful look on his face, he went and had some talk with his father, and came away, carefully placing a roll of notes in his breastpocket. Then he sought Signor Philipplni’s society once more. And that 7 is all that is really known about it—- ( if, that is, we discard the obviously ) fanciful statement of Fanny Flirting- / ton that, as she was gazing at the moon about 2 a. m., she saw a heavy ' wagon, drawn by two horses and driven by Signor Philippini, -pass i along the street in the direction of \ the bank. She must have been wrong; for Philippini, by the evidence of his signora—whose name, notwithstanding that Philippini’s morals were perfectly correct, was Mrs. Buggins

K ' • —went to bed at 11:30 o’clock, and snored all night b However these things maybe, this, is what happened next morning. When the first of the depositors arrived at 7 am., they found one of the windows of the bank smashed to pieces and the shutter hanging loose. * A cry went up that there had been a robbery, and one or two men began to climb in. They did not get far before a fearful roar proceeded from the neighborhood of the counter. They looked at one another, and said It would be more regular to wait for the officials. The roars continued. They sent for Mr. Bradshaw. Hard* ly had be arrived (accompanied by Dick, breathless and in shirt-sleeves) before the backmost rows of the now considerable crowd became agitated with a new sensation. The news spread rapidly. Frantic men ran to and fro; several ladies fainted; the circus proprietor was sent for. A lion had escaped from the menagerie, and was supposed to be at large in the town. •‘Send for’Phibppinif” cried the proprietor. They did so. Philippini had started early for a picnic in the country, and would not return till just before the performanc in the evening. The proprietor was in despair. “Where’s the beast gone to?” he cried. A roar from the bank answered his question. “Well, I’m blowed if he’s not. in the bank!” exclaimed the proprietor. It Certainly appeared to be the fact that Atlas (that was the lion’s name) had taken refuge in the bank and was in full possession of the premises and assets. Under these circumstances there was, Mr. Bradshaw explained, a difficulty in resuming cash payments; but If his checks would be accepted > The crowd roared almost as loud as Atlas at such an idea. Semething must be done. They sent for the mayor; be repudiated liability. They sent for the fire brigade and the ' life-boat crew; neither would come. They got guns and peppered the furniture. Atlas retired behind the fire-proof safe and roared worse than .ever. Meanwhile the precious hours were passing. Mr. Bradshaw’s money was also on its way from London. At last Dick took a noble resolution. “X will go in at any cost," he cried; and, in spite of Fanny tears, he scaled the window and disappeared from view. The crowd waited to hear Atlas scrunching; but he only roared. When Dick was inside, he paused and asked in a low voice, “Is he chained?” “You,” answered bignor Philippini from behind the safe. “Is the Aunt Sally business over?” and he came out with a long pole in his hand. He used the pole to stir poor Atlas up when the roars became deficient in quantity or quality. “The money ought to bo here in three hours,” said Dick. “Have you Philippini reassured him. Then]

Dick took a wild running leap at ths window; Philippini stirred up Athte, who roared lustily. Dick escaped with his life and landed a breathless heap at the mayor's feet The mayoi raised him and said ho should write to her majesty and suggested that Dick would be a proper rcclp ent of the Albert Medal, and tMo vicar (who had no money in the hank) indignantly asked the crowd if they could not trust a family which produced scions like that. Several people cried, "Hear, bear!” and told Mr. Bradshaw that they never really meant to withdraw their deposits. Mr. Bradshaw thanked them and looked at his watch. At half-past three, Philippini ran up; be was breathless, and his shoes were dusty from walking in the country. At once he affected an entry, amid a scene of great excitement. A moment later, he appeared at the window and cried, in a terrorstricken voice: "I can’t ’old ’Jml I can’t 'old 'iml He’s mad! Look out for yourselves!” and he leaped from the window. The crowd fled in all directions, and two boys were all but run over by a cart which was being driven rapidly from the railway station to the bank. “All right," said Dick to the signor; “bring up the wagon." And then, with great difficulty ana consummate courage, the s!gnor and Dick brought an iron cage up to the window and drove Atlas in. The operation took more than an hour,because they had to feed Atlas and drink a bottle of champagne themselves before they set about it So that it was 6 o’clock before Atlas was out and the money was in and the Sandhill and District Bank opened its doors for business. “We gained Just the time we needed.” said Mr. Bradshaw. “It was dirt-cheap at fifty pounds!" And Dick, although he did not get the Albert Medal, was taken into partnership and married Fanny Flirtfogton. It was the only way ot preventing her seeing things she was not meant to see out of the window at 2 a. m., and chattering about them iv public.—St James’ Gazette. • ======?========= Sat On by. a Smuggler. A few miles from Lochnow is the little harbor of Daily Bay. Here smugglers had landed a cargo of their usual wares and these were carried up the hill of South Cairn, waiting till a band of volunteers arrived with a string of packhorses to transport them Inland for distribution, says the Boston Herald. The Custom-house officer in charge of the district received information of their doings, and, hurrying to thC spot with the only coast guardsman disengaged, he promptly effected a seizure of the goods. The smugglers skulked off and the one guardsman was sent back to press men and ' horses in the King’s name to carry the precious treasure to Stranraer. The officer, pluming himself not a little on his alacrity, saunterec sentry fashion round and round hi prize, which lay heaped before him in rich profusion, his sword and q brace of formidable pistols at hii side. Presently Maggie McConnell approached the great man, wishing him a good morning, to which he affably .eplied and accepted Maggie’s proffered hand. His arm was thrust upward and at the same time he wai> encircled, by the siren’s arms, and, with a heavy fall, was thrown helplessly on his back.

Maggie then sat coolly down upon her victim and, having placed her J apron over his eyes, she held him firmly down, as if held in a vice. At last, but only when it suited ’ her pleasure, Maggie released him ' from her grasp. Be t when he looked up not one of the articles lay in its place, as he had himself seen them before on the ground. By and by his companion reappeared, but only to find the head officer tete-a-tete with this Galloway matron, who, bidding them adieu, disappeared without further loss ofj time, wishing them both a pleasant ride into Stranraer. Sure Riddance for Rata. The best way to get rid of rats t na mice is not to poison them, but to make them thoroughly tired of the locality and so induce them to leave. They are generally too smart to eat poison, even when it is prepared for their benefit in the most seductive fashion, but they are not so particular about tartar emetic. When a little of this is mixed with any favorite food they eat as greedily as though the physic were not there, but in two or three hours there will be the most discouraged lot of rats about the place that anybody ever saw. The tartar will not kill them; it only makes them deadly sick. Sometimes they will crawl out and walk about like a seasick man, so ill tnat they do not seem to care what becomes of them. But it disgusts them with the whole vicinity, and as soon as they are able to travel they march off and you see them no more.—Globe. Democrat. Fast Railroad Time. Exceedingly fast time has been made on some American railroads within the past few years, in several instances a speed Os more than a mile a minute having been attained. But in nearly all these cases the runs have been short, often covering only a few miles. For a trip of nearly two hundred miles, the record made a short time since on the Chicago and Alton road between Chicago and Springfield has rarely been equalled —never, it is said, on a western road, whether for a long or short run. The distance traveled in this case was 186 miles, which was accomplished in 196 minutes, maxing fourteen stops and eight slow-ups. The train consisted of seven cars, and was drawn by an' eight-wheel engine, the weight of which is stated at 93,000 pounds. London Reni Estate. Several lots in Cornhill, London, in the immediate neighborhood of the Bank of England, were sold several days ago at a price that averaged £SQ per foot, or something over £2,000,000 an acre. Several neighboring lots of equal size were offered for sale some weeks ago, and were bought in by the owner at a price considerably higher. Thb Lord loves every one, but it is His nature, not because the peopla | deserve it.

DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. DECADES FROM 20 TO 70 HAVE LESSONS FOR MAN. Age at the Patrlnreh.—The Tear. Allotted by th® I’.alintot—Though Some Have Exceeded Them, Yet Seventy Year® Are Nature'. Usual Limit. At the Tabernacle. A most striking and characteristic sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Talmage to a great audience In the Brooklyn Ta< ernacle last Bunday, the subject announced being “From Twenty to Seventy." The text selected was Psalm xn. 10, “The days of our years are threescore and ton.” The seventieth milestone of life Is here planted as at the end of the .Journey. A few go beyond it; multitudes never reach It. The oldest person of modern times exolred at 101) years A Greek of the name of Stravarlde lived to 132 years. An Englishman of the name of Thomas Parr lived 152 years. Before the time of Moses people lived 150 years, and If you go far enough back they lived 500 years. Well, that was necessary, because the story of the world must come down by tradition, and It needed long life safely to transmit the news of the past If the generations bad been sbor.t lived, the story would so often have changed lips that it might have got all art'ray. But after Moses began to write it down and parchment told it from century to century It was not necessary that people live so long in order to authenticate the events of the past. If In our time people lived only twenty-five years, that would not affect history, since it is put in print, and Is no longer dependent on tradition. Whatever your age, I will to-day directly address you, and I shall speak to those who are In the twenties, the thirties, the forties, the fifties, the sixties, and to those who are in the seventies and beyond. Rejoice, Young Man. in thy Strength. First, thcia I accost those of you who are in the twenties. You are full of expectation. You are ambitious —that is, if you amount to anything—for somo kind of success, commercial or mechanical or social or moral. If I find some one In the twenties without any sort of ambition, I feel like saying: “My friend, you have got on the wrong planet. This is not the world for you. You are going to be in the way. Have you made your choice of poorhouses? You will never be able to pay for your cradle. Who is going to settle for your board? There is a mistake about the fact that you were born at all.” But, supposing you have ambition, let me say to all the twenties: “Expect everything through Divine manipulation, and then yon will get all you waut or something better. Are you looking for wealth’ Well, lemernber that God controls the money markets, the harvests, the droughts, the caterpillars, the locusts, the sunshin* the storm, the land, the sea, and you will get wea.th? Perhaps not that which is stored up in banks, in safe deposits, in United States securities, in houses and lands, but your clothing and board and shelter, and that is about all you can appropriate anyhow. You cost the Lord a great deal. To feed and clothe and shelter you for a lifetime requires a big sum of money, and it you get nothing more than the absolute necessities you get an enormous amount of supply. Expect as much as you will of any kind of success. If you expect it from the Lord, you are safe. Depend on any other resource, and you may be badly chagrined, but depend on’ God. and all will be well. It is a great thing to have a moneyed institution stand behind you in vour undertaking. But it is a mightier thing to have • the God of Heaven and earth your coadjutor, and you may have him. I am so glad that I meet you while you are in the twenties. You are laying out your plans, and all your life in this world and the next for 500,000,000 years of your existence will be affected by those plana It

i is about 8 o clock in, the morning of your • life,and you are just starting out. Which > way are you going to start? Oh, the tweltles!” The Twenties in the Bible. "Twenty” is a great word in the Bible. . Joseph was sold for twenty pieces of sil--1 ver. Samson judged Israel twenty years. > Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities. The i flying roll that Zechariah saw was twenty cubits. When the sailors of the ship on which Paul sailed sounded the . Mediterranean sea, it was twenty fath- , oms. What mighty things have been done in the twenties! Romulus founded , Rome when he was 20. Keats finished I life at 25.- Lafayette was a world renowned soldier at 23. Obenßn accomplished his chief work at 27. Bonaparte was victor over Italy at 26. Pitt was prime minister of England at 22. Calvin l had completed his immortal "Institutes” ) by the time be was 26. Grotius was at- , torney general at 24. Some of the mightiest things for God and eternity have been done in the twenties. As ‘ long as you can put the figure "2” before the other figure that helps describe your i age I have high hopes about you. Look ■ out for that figure “2.” Watch its con- • tinuauce with as much earnestness as you ever watched anything that prom- ’ ised you salvation or threatened you demolition. What a critical time, the twenties! While they continue you de--1 cide your occupation and the principles 1 by which you will be guided. You make 1 your most abiding friendships. You ar- ■ range your homo life. You fix your 1 habits. Lord God Almighty, for Jesus , Christ’s sake have mercy on all the men and women in the twenties! ■ Next I accost those in the thirties. You are at an age when you find what a tough thing it is to get recognized and ’ established in your occupation or profession. ' Ton years ago you thought all that was necessary for success was to put on your shutter the sign of physician or dentist or attorney or broker or agent, and you would have plenty of business. How many hours you sat and waited for business and waited in vain,three persons only know—God, your wife, and yourself. In commercial life you have not had the promotion and increase in salary you anticipated,or the place vou expected to occupy in- the firm has not been w Gated. The produce of the farm, with which you expected to support yourself and those depending on you and to pay the interest on the mortgage, has been far less than you anticipated, or the ' prices were down, or special expenses for sickness made drafts on your resources that you could not have expected. In some respects the hardest decade of life is the thirties, because the results are generally so far behind the anticipations. It is very rare indeed that a young man ' does as did the young man last Sunday , night, when he came to mo and said, “I have been so marvelously prospered 1 since I came to this country that I feel, ' as a matter of gratitude, that I ought to dedicate myself to God.” Nine4enths of the poetry Os life has been knocked , out of you since you camo into the , thirties. Men in the different proses- ( along and occupations saw that you were ' rising, and they must put an estoppel on , you or you might somehow stand tn the j way. They think you must be sup- ' pressed. From 80 to 40 it is an especially hard time for young doctors, young lawyers, young merchants, young farmers, young mechanics, young ministers. , The Stru«lo ot Middle Lifts ( The struggle of the thirties is for hon- 1 est and helpful and remunerative recog- i nltlon. But few old people know how 1

to treat young people without patronising them on the one band or snubbing them on the other. Oh, the thlrtiosl Joseph stood before Pharaoh at 30. David was 30 years old when he began to reign. The height of Solomon’s temple was 30 cubits. Christ entered ‘Bpon His active ministry at 30 years of aga Judas sold Him tor 30 pieces of silvers’. Oh. the tbirtlesl What a word, 1 suffgestivo of triumph or disaster! Yupr decade is the one that will probably afford the greatest opportunity for victory, because there is the greatest necessity for struggle. Read the world’s history and know what are the thirties for good or bad. Alexander the Groat closed his career at 32. Frederick the Great made Europe tremble with his armies at 35. Cortez conquered Mexico at 30. Grant fought Shiloh and Donelson when 38. Raphael died at 37; Luther was the hero of the Reformation at 35. Sir Philip Sydney got through by 32. The greatest deeds for God and against Him were done within the thirties, and your greatest battles aro now and between the time whi)n ( cease expressing your ago by ppttlnff first a figure ‘*2” and the time when Vbir will cease expressing It by putting first a figure “3.” As it is tho greatest time of the struggle,! adjure you. In God'S name and by God's grace, make it the greatest achievement. My praver is for all those In the tremendous crisis of the thirties. When Man Known Himself. Next I accost the forties. Yours Is the decade of discovery. I do not mean the discovery of the outside, but the discovery of vourself. No man knows himself until ho is 40. He overestimates or underestimates himself. By that time he has learned what he can do or what he cannot do. He thought he had commercial genius enough tcT become a millionaire, but now he Is satisfied to make a comfortable living. Ho thought he had rhetorical power that would bring him into the United States Senate. Now he is content if he can successfully argue a common case before a pettit jury. He thought he had medical skill that would make him a Mott or a Grosse or a Willard Parker or a Sims. Now ho finds his sphere Is that of a family physician, prescribing for the ordinary ailments that afflict our race. He was sailing on in a fog and could not take a reckoning, but now it clears up enough to allow him to find out his real latitude and longitude. He has been climbing, but now he has got to the top ot the hill, and he takes a long breath. Ho is half way through the Journey at least, and he is in a position to look backward or forward. He has more good sense than he ever had. He knows human nature, for he has been cheated often enough, to see tho bad side of It, and he has met so many gracious and kindly and splendid souls ho also knows the good side of it Nowcalm yourself. Thank God for the past and deliberately set your compass for another voyage. You have chased' enough thistledown. You have blown enough soap bubbles. You have seen the unsatisfying nature ot all earthly things. Open a new chapter with God and the world. This decade of the forties ought to eclipse all its predecessors in worship, in usefuluess and in happiness. Premonitory Symptoms of Old Age. My sermon next accosts the fifties. How queer it looks when In writing your age you make the first of tho two figures a "5.” This is the decade which shows what the other decades have, been. If a young man has sown wild oats add he has lived to this time, he reaps-the harvest of it in the fifties, or if by necessity he was compelled to overtoil in honest directions he is called to settle up with exacting nature some time dur-. ing the fifties. Many have it so hard in. early life that they are octogenarians at 50. Sciaticas and rheumatisms and neuralgias and vertigos and insomnias have their playground in the fifties. A man’s hair begins to whiten, and, although he may have warn spectacles before now he asks the optician for No. 11 or No. 12 or No. 10. When he gets a cough he is almost cured, he hacks and clears his throat a good while afterward. Oh, ye who are in the fifties, think of it! A half century of blessing to be thankful for, and a half epntury subtracted from an existence which, in the most marked cases of longevity, hardly ever reaches a whole century. By this time you ought to be eminent for piety. You have been in so many battles you ought to be a brave soldier. You have made so many voyages you ought to be a good sailor. So long protectedrapd blessed, you ought to have a soul fiwof doxology. In Bible times in Canaan every fifty years was by God’s command a year of jubilee. The people did not work that year. If property had by misfortune gone out of one's possession, on the fiftieth year it came back to him. If he had fooled it away, it was returned without a farthing to pay. If a man had been enslaved, he was in that- year emancipated. A trumpet was sounded loud and clear and long, and it was the trumpet of jubilee. They shook hanos, they laughed, they congratulated. What a time it was that fiftieth year! And if under the old dispensation it was such a glad time, under our new and more glorious dispensation let all who have come to the fifties hear the trumpet of jubilee that I now blow. Wear Out* But Do Not Rust Out. My sermon next accosts the sixties. The beginning of that idecade is more startling than any other. In bis chronological journey tho man rides rather smoothly over tho figures “2” and “3” and “4” and “5,” but the figure “6” gives him a big jolt He says: “It cannot be that lam 60. Let me examine the old family record. I guess they made a mistake. They got my name down wrong in the roll of births.” But no; the older Brothers or sisters remember the time of his advent, and there is some relative a year olderand another relative a year younger, and, sure enough, the I fact is established beyond all disputation. Sixty! Now your great danger is the temptation to fold up your* faculties and quit. You will feel a tendency to reminisce. If you do not look out, you will begin almost everything with the ■ words, “When I was a boy.” But you ■ ought to make the sixties more memor-; able for God and the truth than the fifties or the forties or the thirties. You ought to do more during the next ten years than you did in any thirty years of your life because of all the experience you have had. You have committed i .enough mistakes in life to make you ' wise above your juniors. Now, under the accumulated light of your past experimenting, go to work for God as never before. Waiting for tho Shadow. ’ My subject next accosts those in tho seventies and beyond. My word to them is congratulation. You have got nearly if not quite through. You have safely crossed the sea of life and are about to enter the harbor. You have fought at Gettysburg, and the war Is over. Here and there a skirmish with the remaining sin of your own heart and the sin of the world, but I guess you are about done. There may be some work for you yet on small or largo scale. Bismarck of Germany vigorous in the eighties. The Prime Minister of England strong at 84. Haydn composlng-'%lB oratorio, “The ■ Creation,” at 70 years of age. Isocrates doing some of his best work at 74, Plato busy thinking for all succeeding cen- i turies at 81. William Blake at 67 learn- . ing Itelian so as to read Dante in the ' original. Lord Cockburn at 87 writing 1 his best treatise. John Wesley stirrlag great audiences at 85. William C. Bryant, without spectacles, reading in 1

my house “Thanatopsls” w 83 years ot age. Christian men and women In all departments serving God after becoming septuagenarians and octogenarians and nonagenarians prove that there aro possibilities of work for the aged, but I think you who are passed the seventies Are near being through. How do you feel about It? You ought to be Jubilant because lite is a tremendous struggle. And if you have got through respectably and usefully you ought to feel like people toward the close of a summer day seated on the rocks watching the sunset at Bar Harbor or Cape May or Lookout Mountain. I am glad to say that most old Christians are cheerful. Daniel Webster visited John Adams a snort time before his death and found him in very Infirm health. He said td Mr. Adams: “I am glad to see you. I hope you are getting along pretty well.” The reply was: "Ah.sir, quite the contrary. I find lam a poor tonant occupying a bouse much shattered by time. It sways and trembles with every wind, and, what Is worse, sir, the landlord, as near as I can make out, does not Intend to make bny repairs.” His Disease Was Aano Domini. 1 Dr. Beman, after passing Into the Seventies, was asked by my friend. Rev. Di 1 . Spear, “Dr. Beman, how is your health now?” and he replied, “I have on me an Incurable disease." “What is that?” asked my friend, and the septuagenarian Replied, “Old age.” Both of the old men I have mentioned intended their remarks for facetiousness, and old people have a right to bo facetious. An aged woman sent for her physician and told him of her ailments, and tho doctor said: “What would you have me do, madam? I cannot make you young again.” She replied: “1 know that, doctor. What I want you to do is to help me grow old a little longer.” The young have their troubles before them; the old have their troubles behind them. You have got about all out of this earth that there is In it Be glad that you, an aged servant of God, are going to try another lite and amid better surroundings. Stop looking back and look ahead. Ob, ye in the seventies,and the eighties, and the nineties, your best days are yet to come; your grandest associations are yet to be formed; your best eyesight is yet to be kindled; your best hearing is yet to be awakened; your greatest speed is yet to be traveled; your gladdest song Is yet to be sung. The most of your friends have gone over the border, and you arc going to join them very soon. . They are waiting for you. They are watching the golden shore to see you land. They are watching the shining gate to see you come through. They are standing by the throne to see you mount. What a glad hour when you drop the staff and take the scepter; when you quit the stiffened joints and become an immortal athlete! But hear! hear! a remark pertinent to all people whether in the twenties, the thirties, the forties, the fifties, the sixties, the seventies or beyond. What we al! need is to take the supernatural into our lives. Do not let us depend on brain and muscle and nerve. We want a mighty supply of the supernatural. We want with us a divine force mightier than the waters and the tempests, and when the Lord took two Steps on bestormed Galilee, putting one toot.on the winds and the other on the waves, he proved himself mightier than hurricane and billow. We want with a divine force greater than the fires, and when the Lord cooled Nebuchadnezzar’s furnace until Shadrach, Meshaeh, and Abeduego Cid not even have to fan themselves he proved himself mightier than the fire. We want a divine force stronger than the wrath of the jungles. • There are so many diseases in the world ‘ we want with us a divine physician cap- ' able of combating ailments, and our Lord when on earth showed what he could do With catalepsy and paralysis and ophthalmia ana dementia. Oh, take this supernatural into all your lives! How to get it? Just as you get anything you want —by application. If you want anything. you apply for it By prayer apply for the supernatural. Take it into your daily business. Many a man has been able to pay only 50 cents on the dollar who if he had called in the supernatural could have paid 100 cents cn the dollar. Why do ninty-eight men out of 100 fail in business? Because there are not more than two men out of 100 who take God into their worldly affairs. “Behind the great unknown standeth God within the shadows keeping watch upon his own.” Slake Got! Your Partner. A man got up in a New York prayer meeting and said: “God is my partner. I did business without Him for 20 years and failed every two or three years. I have been doing business with Him for 20 years and have not failed once.” Oh, take the supernatural into all your affairs. I had such an evidence of the ! goodness of God in temporal things when I entered active life I must testify. Called to preach at lovely Belleville, in New Jersey, I entered upon my work. But there stood the empty parsonage, and not a cent had I with which to furnish it After preaching three or four weeks the officers ot my church asked I me if I did not want to take two or three weeks’ vacation. I said “Yes,” for I had preached about all 1 knew, but I feared they must be getting tired of me. When I returned to the village after the brief vacation, they handed me the key of the parsonage and asked me if I did not want to go and look at it. Not suspecting anything had happened, I put the kev into the parsonage door and opened it, and there was tho hall completely furnished with carpet and pictures and hatrack, and I turned into the parlors, and they were furnished, tho softest sofas I ever set on, and into the study and found it furnished with bookcases, and I went to tho bed-rooms, and they were furnished, and into tho pantry, and that was furnished with every culinary article, and tho spiceboxes were tilled, and a flour barrel stood there ready to be opened, and I went down into the dining-room, and the table was set and* beautifully furnished, and j Into the kitchen, and the sfove'was full | of fuel, and a match lay on the top of i tho stove, and all I had to .do in starting housekeeping was to strike the match. God ‘inspired the Whole thing, and if I over doubt his goodness, all up and down the world, call me an ingrate. I testify that 1 have been in i many tight places, and God always got me out, and He will get you out of the tight places. ; But the most of this audience will never reach the eighties or the seventies or the sixties of the fifties or the forties. He who passes into th6 forties has goue far beyond the average of human life. Amid the uncertainties take God through Jesus Christ as your present and eternal safety. The longest life is only a small ; fragment ot the greateternity. We will , alt of us soon be there'. Eternity I how near it rolls; Couutfthe vast value ot your souls. C Beware and count the awful cost What they have gained whose souls are lost. A Texas editor being asked why he discontinued publishing replied, “Everybody else stopped my paper, so I concluded that I would, toa ’’ The girl who runs away with the hired man is held up to ridicule, but she frequently does better than the One who marries a poet When no one is bothering him, how beautifully £ man counsels peace! ■

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The Lyon & Healy Organ Is the best and most salable Organ of the Day feSlil Organs sold on Installment Payments at Low Figures. SEND JOE CATALOGUE. . Fred K. Shafer, Agt. ’■B®’ BERNE. IND. ARANGE BLOSSOM 3 —■ A POSITIVE CURE FOR--ALL FEMALE DISEASES* eoooo QftUC AC TUC QVHDTAUQ* -A tired. languid feeling, low spirited and despondent,-with no apparent uuihL Ui I ill. v I iiti I Ulrt J • cause. Headache, pains in the back, pains across the lower part of bowels. Great soreness in region of ovaries. Bladder difficulty. Frequent urinations, Leucorrhoeh, Constipation of bowels, and with .til symptoms a terrible nervous feeling is experienced by the patient. THE ORANOE BLOSSOM TREATMENT removes all these by a thorough process cf absorption. Internal remedies will never remove female weakness. There must be remedies appked right to the parts, and then there is per* manent relief obtained. EVERY LADY CAN TREAT HERSELF. O. B. Pile Remedv. | *I.OO for one month’s treatment. iO. B. Stomach Powdertk O. B. Catarrh Cure. I —prepared by— ■J) I O. B. Kidney Cones. J. A. McCILL, M.D., & CO., 4 panorama place. Chicago, ill TOR SAXZE T 3Y‘ Holthouse & Blackburn. Decatur. Ask for Descriptive Circulars. HOFFMAN & 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. -•- » ' 111 “'.'-L-L. wa ft At Magley, keeps a large stock of Dry |AR||AAA Goods, Notions, Groceries, Boots, Shoes ■k||||| and in fact everything kept in a general 11II11| store. Buys all kinds of Country Produce JSjM MW or whlch h*gh eßt market price is paid. Kg J ten guarantee to cure all nervous diseases, such as Wenk Memory, QOf Ijea I.osaof* SralnPower. Headache, Wakefulness, Lout MaatVW \ ) hood. Nightly JEmisalons, Quickness, Kvl! Dreams, (Lack of k* 1 Confidence, Niervononess, JL-asaltude, all drains and low of w SmML > power of th© Generative Organs in eithter sox caused by ovorexer1 tlon, youthful errors, or excessive use of tobacco, opium or stimu* . -/ffifolanta which soon lead to Intinnltv. Consumption and Insanity* J-*ut \ convenient to carry in vest pocket. Sent by mail in plain package address for Ml* or 6 for S 3. (With every SA order we a written ruurantee to cure er refnad the wsaeyJ « BXFQBIAKD AITKBDBIMG. * For Sale by W. H. Nachtrieb, Druggist, Decatur, Ind. *■

Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Trains run on Central Rtandard Time, M antautos slower than Columbus or former tiara. Took effect Sunday, Dec. Id. UVS. ' GOING NORTH. STATIONS. Ne. 1 No. 3 No. » No. T Cincinnati..lve Rnsam 910 pm Richmond ..... 2 20pm HIM.. 11 a.......... Winchester.... 317. 1155 .. 12« arr. Portland 4m. 12.16 pm 128.. Decatur 6 10. 1 31.. 220 Ft.Wayne...arr 600.. 2 15.. Hun “ “ ...Ive 236.. 320.. SOltom Kendallville 3 41.. 426.. 910.. Rome City 3M.. 4 40.. 9 2d„ Wolcottville 4«l 931., Valentine I 411 942 .. IjiGrango 4 19.. 606.. 961 .. Ltma 429 .. .., .... 10 08.. Sturgis 440 .. 526 .. 10 19.. Vicksburg 6 36. 6 50.. 11 <».. Kalamazoo.arr 6 06 .1140'.. ..Ire 4°onm 626.. 9 00.. 1226 pm Gr. Rapids..arr 645 .. 810 2 20... '• ..Ive 720.. 1010.. 1 inprn 4 15.. D..GH.*M.cr 10 45 7 27 Howard City 1160 ■ 841 Big Rapids .. 1238 am 945 Reed City 1 Cadillac arr 1130.. 205 .. 610 •• ....Ive 230 .. .. 910 .. Traverse City 7 Ot'pm Kalknaka ....... 348 Petoskey ........ 636 .. 915 «... MackinacClty 800,. 1036 GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 6 No. « No. 8 Mackinac City. 715 pm 7 45am* 200pm Petoskey...... 9 10., 9 20.. 345 — Kalkaska 12 36. 1136.. 602 TraverseClty 1110.. 450 Cadillac... arr 220 am 115 pm 7 00.. 8 06am ....Ive 215.. 136.. 650 pm 810.. Reed City..... 3 28.. 2 30.. 7 50.. 9 00.. Big Rapids 4 00.. 258 .. 8 26.. 945 .. Howard City.. 456r>. 3 43.. 9 20.. 10 32 .. D.IG.H.&M.cr 6 06.. 5 05.. 10 25.. 11 35 .. Gr. Rapids .arr 631.. 515.. II 00.. 150., “ “ ..Ive 7 00.. 6 00.. 1120.. 200ptn Kalamazoo.arr 850 .. 800 .. 12 55am * 340.. •’ ..Ive 866 .. 805 345 .. Vicksburg..... 9 24.. 833 412 .. Sturgis 1019.. 926 606.. Lima 10 32 .. 940 517 .. LaGrange... . 10’44 .. 952 .. 529 .. Valentine 1053.. 1002 531„ Wolcottville... 1104 .. 1014 ~.. 547 .. Rome City ill 09.. 1019 52.. Kendallville... 11l Z> .. 10 39 608.. Ft. Wayne..arr 1240 pm 11 50 715.. “ “ ..Ive 100.. Usßam 5 45am Decatur 146.. 12 58.. 630 Portland 2 40.. 165.. 730 Winchester..,. 317 .. 2 36.. 809 Richmond 4 20.. 3 40.. 915 Cincinnati 700 . 655 . Igniem .... ••• Trains 5 and 6 run daily between Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. C, L. LOCKWOOD. Gen. Pass. Agent JEFF. BRYSON. Agent. Decatur, Ind First Clau Night and Day Servloe between Toledo, Ohio, St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS DAY TRAINS—MODERN EQUIPMEHT THBOUCHOUT. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON NIGHT TRAINS. W-RMIS SERVED EN ROUTE, any tear, SM OR RIOHT, at moderate cost. Ask f#r tickets via Toledo, St Louis 4 Aansis City 11 Clover Leaf Route. For further particulars, call on noarooff Agent of the Company, or address Q. C. JENKINS. 1 Swurtl fuMinr A<raA TOLEDO, OHlft W. L. DOUGLAS S 3 SHOE CENTLENIEN. And other specialties for Gentlemen, Ladies, Boys and Misses are the in the World. \*l See descriptive advertise■Kv 1 meat which will appear in JjjadL ! this paper. Take no Substitute, but insist on hating W. Im DOUGLAS’ SHOES,wtth name and price stamped oa bottom. Sold by For Sale by Henry Winnes, Second door West of Adams County Bank, Monroe St.