Pike County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 3 December 1885 — Page 4

TALM AGE’S SERMON. “Hissed Off the Stage" the Brooklyn Preacher's Theme. The Never-Ending Drama of Every-Day Ufe and the Characters It Develops—Why Some Succeed aad Others Miserably Fall.

In a recent sermon delivered by the Rev, T, DeWitt Talmage at tho Brooklyn Tabernacle, he announced as the subject of his , discourse “Hissed Oft the Stage,” taking the following as at* text: Men shall olap Vlier hands at Met Mhd 'shall bias him out ot Ills place_Jobs S.fvll, a. This allusion seems to be dramatic. ''Hie Bible more than Ohce makes such allusion. Paul says; “We are made a theater (or spectacle) to angels and to men.” The theater is so dlil that no one can fix the data, of its birth. Archilochus, Simonides Slid Solon, who wrote for it dithyrambics, lived about (100 or TOO years before Chrisit. It is evident from the text that some of the theater-goers were known in Job’s time, because in the text he describee an actor hissed off the stage. The impersonator ® comes on the boards, and, either through lack of study of the part he is to take or inaptness or other incapacity, the audience arc offended, and express their disapprobation aud disgust first by over-Oppiause, attempting by great clappiftg of hands to drown out What he soys; and that failing to stop the performer, they put their tongue against their teeth and make terrific sibillation until he disappears behind the curtain. 1-Men shall clap their hands at him and shall hiss him out of his place.” "My text suggests that each Ofteof us is put on the stage of this World to take some part. McCullough, the actor recently buried, was no more certainly appointed on any occasion to appear as Spartacus, or Edwin Forrest as King Lear, or Charlotte Cushman as Meg Merrilies, or John Kemble as Macbeth, or Cooke as Richard ttt, 'or Kean as Othello, than you Mid I are expected to take some special and particular part in tho great,drhma of human and immortal life. Through what hardship and suffering and discipline these artists went year after year that they might be perfected ip their parts, you have often read. But, vre, put on the stage of this life to rep* losent charity and faith and humility and helpfulness—what little preparation we have made, although We have three gallerios.of spectator*, earth and heaven and hell. Have we not been more attentive to 1 he part taken by others than to the part taken by ourselves, and while we heeded to be looking at home and concentrating on ”ur. own duty, vre have been criticising the other performers and saying “that was too high” or “too low”, or “too feeble” or “too extravagant” or “too tame” or “t&o demonstrative,” while we are making ourselves a dead failure and preparing to be ignominiously hissed off the stage? Each one is assigned a place; no supernumeraries hanging around the drama of life to take this or that or the other part, as he may be called upon. No one can take our idfcce. tVe can take no other place. Aye, it is not the impersonation of another; we ourselves are the real Merchant of Venice, or the real Shylock, the real filial Cordelia or the real cruel Regan, the real Portia or the real Lady Macbeth. The tragedian of the playhouse, at the close of the third scene of tho fifth act, takes off the attire of Gonsalo, or Edward Mortimer, or Henry V., and resigns the character In which for three hours he appeared. But we never put off our character, and no change of apparel can make us any one else than that which we eternally are. Many make a failure of their part in the drama of life through dissipation.! They have enough intellectual equipment and guod address, and geniality unbounded. But they havo a wine closet that contains nil the forces for their social and business and moral overthrow. Sojfar back as KW King Edgar of England made a law that the drink-cups should have pins fastened at a certain point in the side, so that the indutger might be reminded to stop before he got to the bottom. But there are nq pins projecting from the sides of the modem wine cup or beer mug, and the first point at which millions stop is at the gravelly bottom of their own grave. Br. Sax, of France, has recently discovered something which all drinkers ought to know. He has found out that alcohol in every shape, whether of wine, or brandy or beer, contains 'parasitic life called bacillu; potumaniae. powerful microscopes these living things are discovered, and when y.ou take strong drink you take them iuto your stomach, and then into your blood, -and getting iuto the crimson canal of life they go into every tissue of your body, and your entire organism is taken possession of by these noxious infinitesimals. When in delirium tromens a man sees every form ol reptilian life, it is only these parasites of the brain in exaggerated size. It is not a hallucination that the victim is suffering from. He only sees in the room what is actually crawling and rioting in his own brain. Every time you take strong drink you swallow those maggots, and every time the imbiber of alcohol in any shapo feels vertigo or rheumatism or nausea, it is only the jubilee of these maggots. Efforts are being made for the discovery of some germicide-t^gt can kill the parasites of alcoholism, bufcthe only thing that will ever extirpate themiis abstinence, to which I would before God swear *21 these young men and old.

>% America is a fruitfufc country, and we raise large quantities of wheat and com and oats, but the largest crop we raise in this country is the crop of drunkards. IVith sickle made out of the sharp edges of the broken glass of bottle and demijohn they are cut down, and there are whole ' wathes of them, whole winrows of them; and it takes all the hospitals and penitentiaries and graveyards and cemeteries to „ hold this hardest of hell. Some of you are going down under this evil and the neverdying worm of alcoholism has wound around you one of its coils, and by next New Year’s Day it will have another coil around you, and it will, after awhile, put a coil around your i tongue, and a coil around your brain and a ceil around your lungs, and a coil around your heart; and some day this never-dy-ing worm will,' with one spring, tighten all the coils at once, and in the first twist of that awful convulsion you wiil cry out “Oh, my God!” and be gone. The greatest of dramatists, in the tragedy of the Tempest, sends staggering across the stage Stephano, the drunken butler: but across the stage of human life strong drink sends kingly and queenly and princely natures staggering forward against the footlights of conspicuity, and then staggering back into failure, till the world is impatient for their disappearance, and human and diabolic voices join in hissing them off the stage.

Many also make a failure in the drama of life through indolence. They are always making calculation how little they can do for the compensation they get. There are more lasy ministers, lawyers, doctors, merchants, artists and farmers than hare ever been counted upon. Community is full of laggards and shirkers. 1 can tell it from the way they crawl along they street, from their tardiness in meeting engagements, from the lethargies that seem to hang the foot when they lift it, to the hand when they put it up, to the words ..•hen they speak. Two young men in a store. In the morning the one gees to his post the last minute or one minute behind. The other is ten minutes before the time, and has his hat nnd coat hung up and is. at his post waiting for duty. The one is ever and anon in the afternoon looking at his watch to see if it is not most time to shat up. The other stays half an hour after he might go and, when asked why, says he wanted to look over some entries he had made to be sure he was right, or to pvt op some goods that 1}*<1 been left out of place. Theoveis very

punctilious about doing trork not exactly ] belonging to him. The other in glad m ' help the other clerks ih their wijrt. The The Hreii will be a prolonged nothing and he wiU le poorer at sixty than at twenty. , The ether will be a merchant prince, Indolence is the canse of mere failures & all occnjiations than yon have ever suspected. People an too laty to do What they

van <10, and want to undeirtike tfi'it wkvh they can not do. In the fifima of li/e they don’t want to hat & common soldier carrying a h*' berd across the stage, or a falcon* hr, ora mere attendant, add*e fOtinge about th e scene* till t£ny isftati be called to *>« a Maoreedy ir a Junius Brutus Booth. They ftjr, “Give me the part of Timon, of Athens, rather than that of Flavin, his steward.” “Let me be Gyrttbeline, tire King, rather titan flsaio, the servant.” AftW- iwhiie tlisy, by some accident #f prosperity or circumstances, get in the plitCe for which they have no qualification. And very soon, if the man bo a merchant, he is going around asking his' creditors to compromise for ten cents oh the dollar. Of, if a clergyman, he is miking tirades against the ingratitude of churches. Or, if an atWrUey, by unskillful management he loses a case in which widows and orphans are ribbed Of their portion. 0r, If a physician, he by thalpractlr* gives his patient rapid transit from this world W tab next. Toward the end of life these people are out of patience, out of money, out of friends, out Of everything. They go to the OOOr-iidUse dr keep out of it by running in debt to all the grocery and dry gddde stores that wUl trust theta, begin to wonder when theedrtaih will drop on the scene. After awnile, leaving nothing but their compliments to pay their doctor, undertaker and Gabriel Grubb, the grave digger, they disappear. Exeunt! Hissed off the stage-. Others fail la the drama Of life thrdiigh demonstrated selfishness. They make ail the rivers empty into the sea, all the roads Of emolument end at their door, and they gather all the plumes of honor for their brow. They help no one, encourage no one, rescue no one. “How big a pile of money can I get?” “How much of the world can I absorb?” are the chief Questions. They feel about the common people as the Turks felt toward the Asapi, or common soldiers—considering them of no Use except to fill up the ditches with their dead bodies while the other troops walked over them to take the fort. After awhile this prince of worldly success is sick. The only interest society has in his illrteSS is tho effect that his probable decease may have OH the money markets. After awhile he dies. Great newspaper capitals announce how he started with nothing and ended with everything. Although for sake of appearance some people put handkerchief to the eye, there is not one genuine tear shed between Central Park and the Battery or between Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn HiU. The heirs sit up all night while he liies in state, discussing what the old fellow has probably done with his money. It takes all the livery stables within two miles to furnish funeral equipage* anil all the mourning stores are kept busy in selling weeds of grief. The stonecutters seifd in proposals for a monument. The minister at the obsequies reads of the resurrection, which makes the hearers fear that if the unscrupulous financier does come up in the general rising he will try to get a corner on tombstones and graveyard fences. All good men are glad that the moral nuisance has been removed. The Wall stree t speculators are glad because there is more room for themselves. The heirs are glad because they get possession of the long-delayed inheritance. Dropping every feather of all his plumes, every certificate of all his stock, every bond of all bis investments, every dollar of all his fortune, lie departs, and ail the rolling of Dead March in Saul, and all the pageantry of his interment, and all the exquisiteness of sarcophagus, and all the extravagance of epitaphology can not hide the fact that my text has come again to tremendous fulfillment: “Hen shall clap their their hands at him and shall hiss him out of the place.” - ,4 “ You see the clapping comes before the hiss. The world cheers before it damns. So, it is said, the deadly sap , tickles before it stings. Going up is he? Hurrah! Stand back and let his galloping horse dash by, a whirlwind of plated harness and tinkling headgear and arched neck. Drink deep of his Maderia and Cognac. Boast of how well you know him. All hats off as he passes. Bask for days and years in the sunlight of his prosperity. Going down, is he? Pretend to be nearsighted so that yon can not see him as he walks past. When meu ask you if you know him, halt and hesitate as though you were trying to call up «i dim memory, and say: “Well, y-e-e-s, yes, I believe I once did know him, but have not seen him for a long time. Cross a different ferry from the one where you used to meet him, lest he ask for financial help. When you started life he spoke a good word for yon at the bank. Talk down his credit now that his fortunes are collapsing. He put his name on two of your notes; tell him that you have changed your mind about such things and never indorse, After awhile his matters come to a dead halt, and an assignment or sus - pension or Sheriff’s sale takes place. You say: “He ought to have stopped sooner. Just as ][ expected. He made too big a splash iu the world. Glad the balloon has burst.” Ha! ha! Applause as he went up, sibilant derision when he came down. “Men shall clap their hands at him, and hiss him out of his place.” So high up amid the crags the eagle

nutters oust into me eyes ot ine roebuck, ami then with eyes blinded it goes tumbling over the precipice, the great antlers crashing on the rocks. Now, compare some ot these goings out of life with the departure of men and women who in the drama of Ufa took the part that God assigned them and then went away honored of men and applauded of the Lord Almighty. It is almut fifty years ago that in a comparatively small apartment: of the city a newly married pair set up a home. The first guest that was invited in that residence was the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Bihle given the bride on the day of her espousal was the guide of that household. ' Days of snnshine were followed by days of shadow. Did you ever know a home that for fifty years had no vicissitude? The young woman who left her father's house for her young husband’s heme started out with a parental benediction and good advice she will never forget. Her mother said to her the day before the marriage: “Now, my child, you are going away from

us. Of course as long as your father and 1 lire you will feel that you can uouie to us at any time. But your home will be elsewhere. From long experience I find it best to iierre God. It is rery bright with you now, my ehild, and you may think you can get along without religion, but the days will come when you will want God, and my advice is to establish a family altar, and, if need be, conduct the worship yourself.” The counsel was taken and that young wife consecrated, every room in the house to God. Years passed on and there were in that home hilarities, but they were good and healthful, and sorrows, bat they were comforted. Marriages as bright as orange blossoms could make them and burials in which alii hearts were riven. They have a family lot in the cemetery, but all the place is illuminated with stories of resurrection and reunion. The children of the household that lived have grown up, and they are all Christians, the father and mother lending tike wny and the children followed. What caie the mother took: of wardrobe and education and character and manners! How hard she sometimes worked! When the head of the household was unfortunate in business she sewed until her Angers were numb and (deeding at the tips. And what clone calculation of economies, and whut ingenuity in refitting the of the elder children for the younger, and only God kept account of that malhsr’s sideaehes *nd head

tchehidti heartaches, add the tkemufous &»***» by the side dl the tick child’s cradle add by the coach of thu one fully sjriwh. The neighbors often noticed hew tired she looked, end. did acquaintences hardly kdew her in the street, bat Without complaint she waited and toiled hnd eddered and aceompished el) these Veai-s.

The children are oat in the world, an honor to themselves a'Ad *!selr parents. After a .iMstle the mother’s last illness ciM&es. Children and grandchildren, summoned from afar, come softly into the room one by one, for she is loo weak to see more than one at a time. She runs her dying fingers lovingly through their hair, an,d teHs thedi not to cry and that she is going now, but they will all meet again in a little while in a better world, and then kisses them good-by and “(toad bless and keep you, my dear child!” The day of the obsequies comes, and the offi ciating clergyman tells the story of wifely ithd ifiotherly endurance i aiid niaiiv hearts Oh e&rth and ifi iteafeb echo the sehtinient, ahd as she it carried off the stage Ojf this mOrtal life there are cri.es pf “faithful uoto de’a'.h, she hath Johe wftat shepOuld, while overpowering II the Vdlces of earth and Heaven is the plaudit of the God who watched her from first to last, saying: “Well, done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler aver many thifigs. Eiiter thou into the jOy Of tliy Lord.” But What became of the father of this household? He started out; as a young man in business and had small income, and having got a little ahead, sickness in the family swept it all away. He went through all the business panics of forty years, met many losses and suffered many betrayals, bttt kepi Oh trusting in God, Whether bn iness was good or poor, setting his children a good example, giving them the best of counsel, and never a prayer did he offer for all those years but they were mentioned in it. He is old now and realizes it can not be long before he must quit all these scenes; but he is gdiitg to leave his children afi inheritance of prayer and Christian principles which all the defalcations of earth can never touch, and, as he goes out of this world, 'the Church of God blesses him, and the poor ring his door-bell to see if he is any better. And his grave is surrounded by a multitude who went on foot and stood there before the procession of carriages came Up, as some say there will be no one to take his place, and others say, “Who will pity me now?” and others remark, “He shall be held in everlasting remembrance.” And as the drama of his life closes; all the vociferations, and bravos and encores that ever shook the amphitheaters, and the Drury Lanes, and the Covent Gardens, and the Haymarkets, and the Coliseums of earthly spectacle, were feeble and tame compared with the long, loud thunders of approval that shall break from the cloud of witnesses in the piled-up gallery of the heavens. Choose ye between the life that shall close by being hissed off the stage, and tiie life that shall close amid the acclamations supernal and archangclic. O men and women on the stage of life many of you in the first act of the drama, and others in the second, and some of you in the third, ami a few in the fourth, and here and there one in the fifth, but all of you between entrance and exit, and I quote to you as the peroration of this sermon, the most suggestive passage that Shakspeare ever wrote, although you never heard it recited. The author has often been claimed as an infidel and atheist, so the quotation shall be hot only religiously helpful to ourselves, but grandly vindicatory of the great dramatist: “In the name of God, amen. I, William Shakespeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the County of Warwick, gentleman, in perfect health and memory (God be praised), do make this my last will and testament in manner and form following: First, I commend my spul into the hands of God, my Creator, hoping and assuredly believing through the only merits of Jesus Christ, my Saviour, to be made partaker Of life everlastiug.” Then follow the bequests and the signature, “By me, William Shakspeare.” “Witnesses to the publishing hereof, F. Collyns, Jesse Shaw, John Iiobinson, Hamnet Sadler, Robert Whattcott.” HOLE-1 N-TH E-DAY. The Parentage of the Young Cb! ppewa Who Wants a West Point Cadetship. . [Washington Cor. St. Paul Press.) |§- There is quite a romantic story surrounding the young Chippewa Indian whom Governor Ramsey has’ brought to Washington as a piece of ethnological bric-a-hrac. This young Hole-in-the-Day, who is a magnificent specimen of the American Indian, stands six feet one inch tall, tawny complexion, with black eyes and tawny black hair. His mother was a white woman. In 18t>7 his father, Hole-in-the Day, came to Washington, and while stopping at the National Hotel became enamored of one of the chambermaids, a very pretty Irish girl. At that time olcl Hole-in-the Day was the most conspicuous chieftain in the Northwest. While in Washington a great deal that was romantic was told about him, aud the girl got the idea that he was a very wealthy man. To her simple imagination it seemed, a great streak of good fortune to be able to marry an Indian Chief who was reputed to be worth a great sum—possibly his millions. Hole-in-the-Day’s white bride was a plump, blueeyed, rosy-cheeked lass, with a beautiful head of auburn hair. This accounts for the tawny shade in young Hole-in-the-Day’s black thatch. She went with her Indian King to Minnesota, a nd bore him

one child. General Sanborn, who visited the Chippewas in 1868 or 1809 in company with Indian Commissioner T«,ylor, remembers seeing this little boy, then a plump, healthy child, playing about Hole-in-the-Day’s house. The old chief seemed to be living very happy wiith his Irish spouse. The dinner was olt wild rice and wild duck, excellently cooked and served, and the visitors were very pleasantly entertained at the chiePs house. In one room Hole-in-the-llliy had his gifts from white people and from his own people displayed on the walls and tables. There was no arrangement of the great mass of things that had been given to him, but medals and saddles and guns and fine clothes and American flags were all mixed up in confusion. After the assassination of Hole-in-the-Day by the Leech Lake Indians, who suspected him of making dealings with the whites which gave away a portion of their lands, Mrs. Hole-in-the-Day still remained at 8 wan Lake, choosing to live in the land of her adoption, where she had rank and dominion as the wife of the Chippewa King.

A Lesson to Uncivil Peirsons. [Chicago Times.] Jennie Jones is a pretty young lady, residing at Highland, Ulster Connty, N. Y., and is a dressmaker by trade. About a year ago, while employed in New York, she befriended an old lady, who had lost her pocket-book, by loaning her a small amount, and also assisted her across the street. Miss Jones gave her name and place of residence to the lady whom she had befriended, at her request, and thought no more of it. A day or two ago Miss Jones receiTed a letter from a Buffalo lawyer, stating that, by the death of a wealthy lady of that city, she was heiress to fifty thousand dollars. The lady who bequeathed the money was the gxrson whom Miss Jones assisted. A Pleasing Story of a Horse. [Santa Clara (CaL) Journal. I Judge Billings is the possessor of a young ' horse on which his little son lias been in the hebfl of riding in driving tihe family cow to and from the pasture. A few days since the boy rode to the pasture , let out the cow, and not taking hold of the horse soon enough, it turned away and want after the cow, driving her home as usuil The next morning the horse was saddled and bridled ami brought out and sent after the cow, to see if it would return with the cow to the pasture, and, sure enough, it drove the opw home as usual.

Paper intonquin; «h* Laborioa* Pwnw By trUeli it ii Manufactured.

Xbe principal material tised in tht manufacture of paper in Tonquin is the ke-yiok or paper tree; which grows in abundance on the mountains in the environs, of Sontay. thb dried Wk oi diis is brought in bundles lipon the backs of oxen or buffaloes from the mountains, where it is gathered for the numerous paper mills, whose principal center is in the vicinity of Hanoi. It is worth about two cents a pound. This bark is macerated and then rubbed up in mortars, so as to reduce it to a fine pulp. This latter is extended with a certain quantity of water in order to form a dear paste, which is sized with an infusion made from the shavings of the pa-mao, a tree tyhieh groWs ih abundance on the Black River MouhtaiHS; "the paper is manufactured sheet by sheet by Womeh by means bf delicate bamboo screens that they alternately dip into the paste and take out therewith a thin sheet of paper, which they deposit upon a board. At th<* end of the day these sheets are put into a press in order to extract the moisture from them, and are then dried by placing them one by .one upon a hot masonry wall. Filially they are put up in packages and trimmed. Each woman makes a thousand sheets a day. The thickness of the paper depends upon the consistency of the paste. One establishment that was visited by the person who furnished these data was capable of producing eighty thousand Sheets per day with eighty women and forty assistants. Paper was being made here worth sixty-five cents per thousand sheets.—Gutenberg Journal. Valuable Libraries. The three oldest consulting libraries ih the United Stales are those of Harvard, Yale and the New York Society. Harvard College began its career with a library which was a part of the bequest from John Harvard, but in 1764 a fire totally destroyed its accumulation of 126 years. Yale College began its collections ill 1700, and was aided thirty-three years Istet by the bequest of 1,000 volumes from Bishop Berkeley; yet in 1764 it amounted to only 4,000 volumes. The New York Society’s library, now containing 80,000 volumes, was founded in 1700, but did not take this name until 1754. The fourth oldest library is that in Philadelphia, founded by Benjamin Franklin and his friends in 1731. This library has now over 130,000 volumes, and in some respects is unsurpassed by any other collection of books in the country. Its income is about $26,000 a year, of which a third only is available for the purchase of new books, yet it attempts, with much success, to do the •same kind of public service that is accomplished by the Boston Public Library, whose income is $125,000.—K Y. Star. The Spinning Wheel. It is gravely announced that the spinning wheel cures insanity. The poor patient becomes so bewildered by the attempt to keep hands and feet going at the same time that she forgets to be crazy. Her nervous excitement is allayed by the buzz arid rattle, and she is calmed bv a noise which used to drive our grandmothers mad. All the spinning wheels in the country are consequently being sent to insane asylums, and we would like to suggest that if the supply gives out It is barely possible that a few pumas might serve the purpose as well. But this is too good to be true.— N. 1. Herald. The New Russian Cruiser. The Admiral Nakhimofl’is another of the so-called “Admiral” ships of reeent construction for the Russian navy. She was begun in December, 1883. Her measurements are: Length along loaded water-line, 333 feet; breadth of beam, 61 feet; medium depth, 25 feet 3 inches; displacement. 7,781 tons; compound engines, 8,000 indicated strength; armament, eight long range 8-inch guns, ten 6-inch guns, and torpedo cannon. This is the first war ship in which all the steel and iron used are of Russian home produetion.—N. Y. Post. —The latest musical freak is a surgical operation for the benefit of piano players—clipping a cord between the third and fourth fingers to improve the touch.—Boston Post. —Florida was the only Southern State that accepted the oiler of the Federal Government to pay half the expense of taking a census in 1885.— UhiCiiuo Times

From the National Capital. The Washington JW says: We admire the stand taken by numerous eminent physicians in changing the mode of treatment of coughs and colds, and publicly endorsing Red Star Cough Cure because it is efficacious, free from dangerous ingredients and without morphia or opium. This excellent remedy costs but twenty-five cents. —In Sooth Carolina no railroad trains are allowed to run on Sunday, except thos t whi h carry the Uni ed' States mail. Divorce is absolutely forbidden. —A cordial wish is thus expressed in Nevada: -May he live tIH every hair on the top of his head is as long as a Mexican lasso. ” —Springfield, M ass., possesses a curious guide-stone. on State street, near the head of Walnut, which'was placed there in 176:5.

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Politics Too Mach for Him. A lady on. fifth Arenac, New York, quickly sumnioued a doctor' “ Oh, doctor, my hhsband is nearly dead. He attended a caucus last night. He made four speeches and promised to be with his fellow citizens again to-day. Bat oh, doctor, he looks nearly dead.” “Has he been in politics long?” , “ No; only last year. He worked hard for ‘James Macaulay's election.” “He will gei^weU; madam! He hash stomach for any disease, if he worked for him!” Political life, of short or long duration, Is yery exhausting, as is evident from the great mortality which prerails among public men. Ex-U. S. Senator B. K. Brace, who has been long in public life, says: “The other day, when stepping into a car at a crossing, X found Dr. — within, who eyed me up and down in a surprised way, remarking: Why, Senator, how well you look 1* “ * Well, I feel pretty well,* 1 answered.” The doctor uttered an incredulous reply, when,the Senator frankly told him, in answer to an inquiry, that it Was Warlter's Safe Cure which accomplished for him what the profession bad failed to do. Senator Bruce says his friends are yery much astonished at this revelation of power.— The Globe. •Overwhelmingly Detested. The Draft Horses of France. While some people (n America eall all horses imported from France So#1 mans, if is a foci that there is no breed in France called by that name by the French people; the name, Normaii, therefore, is purely American. The principal breeds of France are known as Percherons and Boullanais. The Pcrcherons are the most highly prized of all French races, and all departments of France go to the Perehe for stallions to improve their local breeds. The Percheron stud book of France, published under the authority of the French Government, is the only stud hook of draft horses that is or ever has been published in France, and now contains the pedigrefc'S of about 6,000 animals. But some importers are offering certificates from France of Norman draft horses that may mislead people who do not understand the French language into believing these records of origin. Not one of them issued contains a pedigree. They are furnished at the request of American buyers by the secretary of one of the French Agricultural societies, who says there is tio Intention of publishing them in stud book form, as they have no pedigrees and are of no value whatever. It is a well known fact that what a man gives for a horse over from $500 to $800—the price of a good grade—is paid for purity of blood; and where the seller is not able to give the recorded pedigree of the animal sold as evidence of additional value, he has no right to ask it With these facts before him, no intelligent man will buy a horse imported from France unless he is recorded with his pedigree in full in the Percheron Stud Book of France. A Hand-Weaving Machine. An ingenious kind of hand-weaving machine or loom has been invented in Germany, by means of which silk, wool, yarn, cords, strips of fabric, etc., can be woken into pieces that may be applied to various useful purposes in the household. In using this machine the warp threads are first arranged parallel either on the backs of two chairs or secured to the knobs of two doors. The warp threads are then passed through the heddles, arranged on a suitable frame, and the ends of the warp threads are tied together and fastened to the back of the ehair upon which the person operating the loom sits and the other ends of the threads are held in a suitable clamp on the table. The heddle frame or comb is raised by means of the left hand, whereby the threads are separated, and then the shuttle is passed through the warp threads, the latter are shifted, the shuttle passed through in the inverse direction, and so on.—N. T. Sun. “ Consumption Cure” would be a truthful name to give to Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery,” the most efficacious medicine yet discovered for arresting the early development of pulmonary disease. But “consumption cure” would not sufficiently indicate the scope of its influence and usefulness. In alt the many diseases which spring from a derangement of the liver and mood the “Discovery” is a safe and sure specific. Of all druggists. The flower of the family is often the latest to rise.—Albany Argus. The Northern Pacific Railroad Compnay issue several illustrated pamphlets and sectional land maps for free distribution which contain valuable information concerning the rich agricultural and grazing country traversed by the line through Minnesota, Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washingtou ana Oregon. The publications contain a synopsis of the United States larfd laws by which Government lands caybe secured free under the homestead pre-emp-tion and timber culture acts and theterrus of sale of railroad lands, the rates of, fare and freight rates on emigrant movables and household goods and much other infobmation. They are mailed free to any address by addressing Cbas. B. Lambom, Land Commissioner, St. Paul, Minn. Antique furniture — The kind usually found in a newspaper office. How often is the light of the household, clouded by signs of melancholy or irritability on the part of the ladies. Yet they are not to be blamed, for they are the resalt of ailments peculiar to that sex, which men know not of. But the cause may be removed and joy restored by the use of Dr. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescription,” which, as a tonic and nervine for debilitated women, is certain, safe and pleasant. It is beyond all compare the great healer of women. The best kind of servants for hotels— Inn- experienced. Rupture, Breach or Hernia permanently cured or no pay. The worst cases ffuanmteed! Pamphlet and references, two three-cent stamps. World’s Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.___ Gnovs clerks are counter-fitters.—Sochss-Ur Post-Express. Pice’s Toothache Drops cure in 1 minute, 2Bo Glenn’s Sulphur Soap heals and beautifies. 25c. German Cork Remover kills Corns a Bunions. Note shavers use soft soap entirely.— Boston Fast. Ip afflicted with Sore Eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompeon’sEye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c.

Th* successful author has a fortune is hia own write. Jones calls his dog Hickory, because has a rough bark —Waterloo Obeerver. Bronchitis is cured by frequent small doses of Piso’s Cure for Consumption. A romantic story—the one in which your best girl lives.—Danville Breeze. —The father of Catharine Wolfe, the wealthiest spinster in America, made his money out of Schiedamschnapps. He was the first of famous merchants to advertise extensively.—AT. Y. Times. The editor of the Diana (D. T.) Monitor offers two affidavits in support of his statement that he saw 'a spear of grass taken from Long Lake that was tnirty-four feet long.—St. taut Globe.

Ame-ricasMI ndian). _ MB PAMEXTS TO OOIT9I7MPTIONt f# Chmknftncdj ad NuRm. • The 8»eet Com from a tree of the dame name *row?ngin the South, combined with a tea made from the MuIIeth plant of the old fields. For sale by all drug* gists at 9S cents and *1 .©Oper bottle. WALTEU A. Atlanta, 6a. PATTERNS OP ANT SIZE. UNPARALLELED OFFER1 g^ENIOREST’8 THE BES Of aJl the Magazines sT Illustrated with Original' Steel JEngravi iags, Photogravures and Oil Pictures. Each copy of “ Perooik<*st*s Monthly Magazine” con* tains A5 Coupon Order, entitling the holder to the selection of any pattern Illustrated in the fashion department in that number, in any of the sizes manufactured. •Subscribers or Purchasers sending the coupon with a two-cent stamp for postage, wiil receive by return mad, a complete pattern, of the siae and kind they may select, from the Magazine containing the order. »-* .ONLT TWO DOLLARS p4r teal', including twelve full size, eut patterns, of sizes and kinds selecte*!. , Send twenty cents for the current humber with Pattern Coupon and you will certainly subscribe for a year and get ten times its value. W .Jennings Demorest, Pub'isher,17E. 14th Si, New York. VoL 22] Sold by all Jicwsdealers and Postmasters. (1864

Lawyers. N»en afflictod with catarrh for 2D years. It became chronic, and extended to my throat, causing hoarseness and great difficulty In speaking. 1 also, to a great extent, lost the sense of hearing and of taste. By the use of Ely’s Cream Balm all dropping of mucous has ceasSd find my voice and hearing have greatly improved.— Jas. W. Davidson, At - torney at Law Mon* mouth. 111. A partlcle.isapplted li cse. Priced) cents bv 1 Circular. SLY BliOTH

DatarrH HAY-FEVER to each nostril; Is agreeable td mil or at Druggist b. Semi for Druggists, Owego, N. T.

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B. H. DOUGLASS A SONS’ Capsicum Cough Drops for Coughs, Colds and Sore Throats, an Alleviator of Cons umption, and of great benefit in most cases of dyspepsia, (3EWASE OF ISIITATIO!*S.) fhey are tho result of over forty years* cxperieno® iu compounding COUGH KEMEDIErf. Retail price 15 cents per quarter pound. FOR SaLE by all dealers.

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°a&OMi' Suitable far 1000 to 10.000ft. pbr<1»J. | IQH.r.KuVIne. AbLSIZF-s .TIIULS, WOOU-'.VmiKlXU MAC81NEHY, SAWS, Etc. PIIDTlt Bf PfS Mahiifacttirlntf C*, UUP 1£6 bUi st. unis a cuicauo I CURE FIT9! When i say cure k do not moan merely to stop them lor r time and then have them return aguirul mean a radical cure. I hare made the disease of FITS, EPILEPSY Or FALLtNQ SICKNESS a life-l<»ng study. I warrant my remedy to enre the worst cnaoa Because others hare failed is no reason for hot now receiving a cure. Send aft once for a treatise and a Free Bottle of my infallible remedy. 6ive Express ah d Post Office. 1ft costa yon nothing for a trial, and I will cure you. Address Dr. H. G. BOOT, 18a Pearl 8ft., NewYorB. Senl fori — — Description and — — _ Maps of NORTHERN PACIFIC I ‘COUNTRY, the Free Govern- " ment Lands and CHEAP RAILROAD ’ LANDS in Minnesota. Dakota, Montana. Idaho, Washington and Oregon^ The Best Agricultural, Grazing and Timber Lands noyfopen to Settlers. SENT FREE. Address, CKAS. B. LAMBORN, JLand Commissioner, St. Paul, Minn* PIANOS-ORGANS The demand for the improved MASON A HAM* IAN P1AXOS is now so lar^e rtiat a second addition to the factory has become imperative. Do not require one-quarter as much tuning as Pianos on the prevailing wrest-pin system. Consult Catalogue, free, 100 Styles of OROANS. to «90«. For Cash, Easy Payments, or Rented. MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN AND PIANO COMPANY, Wabash Ave., Chicago, III.

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PAW ■ land ENCINE8 III Portable and St*. ALL SIZES. B ■ ■ tionary. Illustrat* Hundreds in use. ed Price List Freeh LANK * BODLEV CO., CINCINNATI, O. CONSUMPTION __positive remedy for tuo above disease; by Its MW thousands of rases of the worst kimi and of Ion; stand inf have been cored. Indeed, so strong Is my faith in its eficaryu that 1 will send TWO BOTTLES FREE, together with a VALUABLE TREATISE on this disease, to any sufferer. Give R*> Sresa and F O. address, PR* T. A. SLOCUM, LSI Fearl St., N.Z> Send one 2c. stamp for latest BABYL AND. end two 2c. stamps for latest Our Littlr Mbit A end two 2c. stamps for lat est PAN SY. |W oatnsr, end live 2c. stamps for latest WIDE AW AK K, _ To D. LOT11ROP & CO., 32 Franklin St.. Boston. Y<m» cam then select Maaruzlnee for your Fiuolly anil V nunc Friend. un<ierstan<llncly. ST. BERNARDS*? PUGS The best pete, csntmnlon, Mnd. protect. om, watchmen. Largest stock In America. OHUHIASSKT KJENNJEUS, Lancaster. Han, WAN | An eetirw Man or Woi TED.__ ■prlMIudEipniM. Expenau in ad. ranee. Canvassing outfit lull Psrticulaia See. atandnid Surer-ware Oo. ~ 'county to sell our goods. sSte^r'etZ —.. —a--Tense. m ad. AND resaw QPP£^ To introduce them, wo will w — -- GIVE AWAY !.'<*> SWfWashjjig Machines. If you want one u your name, P. o. and express office at The National Co., 90 Dey K..N.Y. 6EM.S>AlirS MEMOIRSiS^^^i Write for particulars to Appomattox. Bor- 446, St. Louis, Mo ORGANS The most beautiful and nnest tone* in the world. Lowpricts* ea*u? o;/* -- —-—7. litre t _jf. Send for catalogue,__ W eaver Organ* Piano Co^YorkJP* niVHTD and eared without the knife uARulul SVUMBCW* tree. Addres* • r’.L.PuNli.MJk.Aurora.KaneC&JIA HAIR Wins. Bangs and Wave, lent C. O. D. uni where. Wholesale and retail price!! ttfrt B. C. Strchl* Co.,naWabaslmv..Chicags AGENTS WANTED. tnenvo fne »kn IV , - . .. . V . ■ mnyivjureuii aVI tanw ioc extra terms for the best and I'astest- selling: Pictorial Books, Bibles and Albums, to N atkmial Pvt*. Co., Sr-Louis. Me, * C.A.LOJ AnVALLT GIVEN AW AX BftflUC ITTDY. Secure a Business Education by hUNl mall, from Bvsinkss (Ioiusk, BcSilo.N.1, 'Xjkjt.'a . WHEN 1089 WRITING TO ADVERTISERS please nj yon sew the advertisement la Mala paper.' Advertisers like to know

WOODS & CANATSEY, (Successors to Fleming & McCarty) PROPRIETORS OF Star Livery, Feed and Sale Stables, CORNER EIFTH AND WALNUT STREETS, PETERSBURG.. First-Class Basrgtos and Safe Horses for the public at reasonable prices. Ilorses boarded by the day or week. Give this firm your patronage, and you will receive ftir treatment. The well-known hostler, Al. Eaton, will be fouu l always on hand. J. J. ADAIR, Importer of Mien’s English and French FURNISHING GOODS, I

Shirts, Underwear, HOSIERYand GLOVES, Largest Stock la the City.

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Fine Shirts to Order a Specialty. Your Order Will Have Prompt and Careful Attention. 131 MAIN STREET, CORNER SECOND, - EVANSVILLE, IND. J W.. AD AMS, M. D. McCRILLUS ADAMS. JSJDAJML1S db SON, Can now be found in their elegant new Business House on the corner of Eighth and Main Streets, and have one of the handsomest stores in the state. Their Stock of Drugs is New and Complete, And they guarantee satisfaction to ail their customers. They invite special” attention to their splendid assortment of new anti elegant styles in "Wall Paper*, AVindow Shades, .• • 6 And their Superior Brands of OILS ANX> MIXED PAINTS. THE BEST BRANDS OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO. CALL AND SEE US. - ADAMS & SON, - - Petersburg, Ind.

HEW FURNITURE STORE! This firm has opened a targe stock of Sew Furniture, all the latest styles in Be&ieais, Wrote, Sofas, Chairs, Bnreans, Uresis Cases, Tallies, Safes. Onr ;romU are all new—no old stock to select from. Our place of business is at Kina'* Old stand where we can be found selling as cheap as any house in the country. We aiao keep a fu‘, stock of ' UNTOEPTAUEPS’ SUPPLIES E. R. KING, Petei'sburje, Ind. EUGENE HACK. ANTON SIMON. -Proprietors ofTHE EAGLE BREWERY, VINCENNES, INDIANA, Market Affords Furnish the Best Article of Beer the . and soicit orders from all dealers BOTTLE OB KEG BEEK SUPPLIED TO FAMILIES. On Sale at _A.11 Saloons. ISAAC T. WHITE. FRED’K H. BURTON. MARSHAL C. WHITE. S KELLER cfa WHITE, Wholesale Druggists AND DEALERS IN Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs, Window Glass and surgical instruments. No. 105 Main Street, - - - Evansville, Ind. 1884. THE 1384. OBBOEN BROTHERS Have removed to their elegant New Building on Main street, where they have a large i splendid line of BOOTS AND SHOES, For Men, Women and Children. We keep K. L. Stevens’ and Emmerson’a bran da of Fine shoes. f.... Petersburg, Indiana.

C. A.. BURGEE & BBO., FASHIONABLE MERCHANT TAILORS, ^Petersburg, Indiana, Hate RwraTMr Larp Stock of Late Styles of PiEce Goods, Consisting of tbe very best Suitings and Broadcloths. Perfect Fits aa^Styles Guaranteed. Prices as low as Elsewhere. PIKE H O TEL, ^Petersburg, Indiana. * CHARLES SCHAEFER, Proprietor. Located in the Center of the Business Part of Town. fKRMS reasonable. A good Bar in connection with the Hotel Choice Liquors, Tobacco and Cigars. Comer of Seventh and Walnut1 Streets. ,