Pike County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 34, Petersburg, Pike County, 31 December 1885 — Page 4

PIKE DKMOCiUT. 'Published Kwry %kunA»r> l'KTKKSBUHC;. - INDIANA. NEW YEAR’# EVE. Only » year :,sro— And do yu’.i ktmcnitwr how "® S1*t wwi are sitting now. . And the lire was low? Ana Jdi the room wosiSAVh Bch'ud us, table and chair, . , oavc whoa a trustless spark la'upt Irotu Jhe embers there; And the tlcK'of the clock on the stuns fit * Creak In the oaken Boor W»s all we heard—no more. For the bells In the tttittMer-tower Had ended their muffled chime: And we WgtehhB through the solemn time Before 111 Strike of the hour, roiqt It seemed. as with breath Bated, hnd straining ear, ^ e as still ds deutligfK till we eemed to hoar __ The wings of the Hying year Beat, as it sped apace Above, through the night and space' How fast the years go byl We are sitting here again As we sat together then To see the old year die. Hark! how thewiud outside In the garden among the trees Sighs with the sound of a risiug lids In far-olf seas: And blown ou the ntful breeM The toll of muffled bells Swells and-sinkshutd swells. There—thev „... And all the SJv Am^wizajrd 'nememefe come To SStjurejro-fiGe past, theghosyor days gone by _ ■“ wclMtnotrn shapo begins at last; T^Jlso before myoyc. ^ * *sv wiviv ItlJ V,l V. ulU sorrows, joys «ml sins. Dead triumphs and chagrins, Dong-buried hope and pain— l sec them ail again. These moments fo&vc one space To step aside from the crowd, Where the Vac© runs hot and loud. And meet self face to face. They give us time to whet Our wills and rear a heap Ol arms we soon upset, And vows we can not keep, And know we can not keep. Dow eagerly we weave This hollow make-believe! Yet, if it were not thus, vre should almost die of despair; So let the illusion fair stay and encourage us. Whenever we will what is good We are better because wo wilted: And there's worth In an honest would* Although it be not fulHUed. For 'tis not with success we build Our life, but with noble endeavor; Full success is a prise won never. JBut listen! the bells ring out To usher in the year. Farewell to every fear! Farewell to every doubt! It seems so easy now (Holla touch ono's blood with dame) To compass every vow. And realise each aim; And will it be the sarao 4* By to-morrow morning's light 1 O, ask not that—not that to-night! —Good Word#.

A GLAD NEW YEAR. By Simply Doing Good It Game to Mrs. Trillard. Old Mr. Vanbrugh knew that he had ’*• Wn very sick; and now that he was just able -to sit up with pillows at his baek, and his poor, withered old limbs * wrapped in a tlannel dressing-gown, he ■ wondered, weakly, that he had over Jived through the awful crisis. And as be sat there, he heard his sharp-tongued landlady's voice on the stairs. ■•More gruel, Mrs. Trillard!” she vried. shrilly. “And a wing of chicken? IV ell, upon my word, you are heliiin®' yourself!” “I bought live pounds of oatmeal this morning,’ pleaded a softer tone. “And tiie chicken’s wing was a part of my own luncheon. Mr. Vanbrugh could not tat that salt ham that you sent-up, su’d 1 thought—” “Then let him go where the fare suits hun better,” said Mrs? Juggott, the landlady. “If you can afford to spend your money in buying oatmeal and ©ranges and pint bottles of wine for •very old vagrant that comes along, I’ll just trouble you for the arrears of board that yon owe me.” ‘ I—I can not pay yon just now,” faltered poor Mrs. Trillard; “but Gracie will have her pay next week, and I am in hopes that the piano cover I workod in arraseno will ho sold at the Women’s Kxe.iange before long." "Pshaw!” said Mrs. Juggett. I never did believe in all that silly art embroidery. If you were to advertise for good, sensible, plain sewing, now—” "I have done so,” said Mrs. Trillard, faintly, “but no notice was taken of my advertisement. Indeed, indeed, I . have left nothing undone to secure remunerative employment.” "Well, then I think yon had better be going around to the employment bureaus and intelligence offices instead of spending vour time in nursing sick people," said Mrs. Juggett. “Oh! you needn t deny it. Dr. Spofford said if it badn t been for your care and assiduity Mr. Vanbrugh would have died.” , “1 hank Heaven for that!” said Mrs. Trillard, softly, “lint lie’s nothing to you,” said Mrs. Juggett.

i nau an old father once, said Mrs. Trilhird,6\vho was very dear to me; and there was something in Mr. Vanbrugh that made.me think of him.” "I don’t believe in false sentiment,” retorted Mrs? Juggett; and I’ve no more time to stand talking here. I’ll thank you to remember what I'vo said about settling your bill, Mrs. Trillard." She. passed on, muttering something to herself; and presently Mrs. Trillara brought in the invalid’s lunch—a bowl of delicately prepared oat-meal and milk, a chicken’s wing, and a cluster of white Malaga grapes. ‘■Our landlady sets a good table,” he •aid, glancing sharply at the face of the gentle widow, who occupied tho room above him, with her daughter, who ■ worked on a type-writer down town. “1 hope you will like it,” said Mrs. Trillard, evasively. ■ "You have been very kind to me, madam,” he said, brusquely. “I don’t know why.” “I have only endeavored to do a Christian’s part,” said Mrs. Trillard. “ I never had a daughter,” said the old man, meditatively. “If I had she might have done for me what you have done,” _ “Try to think of me as a daughter, sir,” said Mrs. Trillard, tenderly rearranging the folds of the worn old dressing gown. '. The next evening the old man was allowed to walk about a little, leaning on a cane. He soon grew weary of the cramped limits of his room. ? “I will go out iflto the hall,” he thought. “A turn tip and down will not hurt me.” And as he hobbled slowly and painfully baek and forth, the soft, flute-like voice of Gracie Trillard talking in the room above reached his ears. “I told them I could not go, of course," she said, “I had no dress to wear.” 1 “My poor Gracie!” murmured the widow. “It’s very silly of me to cry, I know," added Gracie, with a little falter in her voice. "I don’t feel so very bad about it now, although I did at the time, because I felt that I was young, and no Wor?o looking than the other girls. And they were all going to Aunt Chisholm’s to receive calls on New Year’s day; and 1 couldn’t go because we are so poor. And Milly Jennings says it’s so pleasant to receive calls at a house like Dr. Chisholm’s. They are all to be dressed in white, with real flowers in their hair; > rooms are to bo lighted with -oh, it must be like fairy land! dear, I didn't mean »those dear eyes.

And I’M put it Ab out of jday head, and Mend the stockings as, cheerfully ak I fchM Only, mamma, darling it is so hard to be poor!” . “lfumph I” Said old Mr. Vanbrugh to hint sell. “So this angel of meroy, wW has lifted me on her white Widgu Out of the valley of deaths ft poor! Yes, yes; she saoriffom her comfort to buy the old Man luxuries, because her heart is ten* aer towards him! Very well. Henca forward she shall be my da>t|’hter in very truth as well as in name!” ' Mrs. Juggett'cUmeto Mr. Vanbrugh’s room that evening. She was very sorfy> out she required his apartment for another gentleman. And as he had not paid her anything lately—“How much do you Want!” crisply inquired the old gentleman. Mrs, Jttggett Ranted the supt "Hand me toy'ehee.k-book\” !>»id Mr. Vanbrugh, imperiously, motioning to a desk ott tire lame. Mrs. Juggett’s respect for him increased forty per cent, at that moment* “If you would like to keep the SOOifi, sir—” she began, ebjeqUiUUSly. “Keen the teem? What should I keep it ror’ said Mr. Vanbrugh. “If yott Want it, you shall have it this day Week, In the meantime, be so kind as to tell one of your people to send aft easy carriage around from the livery stable to-morrow. I’ve a fancy tbit I should like to take a drive. A close cowne, please. ' Mrs. duggett stared-. , • "Hut this day Week is New Year’s Eve. sir,” she said. "Then it is all tho better to move in,” said the eccentric old gentleman. Mrs. Juggett began to regret hUl' precipitancy. How was she lo know that •Mr, Vanbrugh Was Croesus in disguise? The old man had only sojourned m her house a few days before that unlucky fever set in. He had como hither with voucher or recommendations what1 no ever. Was it possible that she ha<! mado a mistake? If so, it Was past rectifying now’, the more Was the pity' Mr. Vanbrugh took a long drive tht noxt day. At least he was a long lim< absent, but he came home cheerful ant in good spirits. “My dear,” be said to Mrs, Trillard ’’you said, the other day, that I was te consider yon as a daughter. Now I aft going to take you at your word. Yov and little Oracle there must come tc live with me.” "You-are very kind,” said Mrs. Tril laid. “Mis. Juggett has given us notice to leave these rooms, and—” also! "Yes, yes, exactly,” said the old tleman with a chuckle, "Me Well, we’ll see if We can’t suit ourselve better elsew here, daughter—for that,’ with a kindly pat on her down-droop ing head, “is what I intend to call yoi henceforward. I’ve taken a house my self.”

u&uiaiuuuu jura. wuwo uunsur Trillard. “Why not?” said Mr. Vanbrugh. “And we'll move on Now-Years-Eve.” On Now-Years-Eve—a delicious, crisp winter's day—the carriage came to the door, just at dusk; the most discouraging of all hours to those of a sensitive temperament. “I would rather have seen the house in the morning glow, or the afternoon sunshine,” said Mrs Trillard. "I am afraid it is rather desolate and undesirable, or Mr. Vanbrugh could scarcely have afforded it, “ Never mind, mamma, said Grade, brightly. “My hours will be cheerful when you and I and dear old Grandpapa Vanbrugh can be together. And only think! what a thing it will be to get away from old Jnggett’s tongue!” A brown stone palace on Fifth Avenue, lighted up as if for some illumination—marble paved halls, with glowing Turkey rugs, laid here and therg— a carved, oaken staircase, leading up into galleried perspectives above—the scent of hothouse flowers, the softened gleam of marble statues—Mrs. Trillard thought she must bp dreaming!! Graeie uttered a cry of amazement as she stood on the threshold. “Oh, Grandpapa Vanbrugh!” she cried, “the man has made a mistake!” “No mistake at all,” said Mr. Vanbrugh. “Wc are to get out hero, This is home. My daughter, my little Grade,” turning with a smile, from oneto the other, “1 am not poor, save jp relatives and friends, although Mrs. Juggett behoved me a pauper. I have more money than I ever have known what to do with. Now I can spend it on you! I bought this house ready furnished, ou Wednesday last Your room, daughter,” to Mrs. Trillard, “is in violet and gold. Yolo's, Graeie, is rose and silver, as a young lassie's should be! And you’ll find a dress up there that I ordered from Mademoiselle Eliseth’s, fit to go to Dr. Chrisholm’s reception in.” so the widow and her daughter became rich; and when Mrs. Juggett heaial, from a Wall street broker, who subsequently took rooms at; her house, that old Vanbrugh, the Nevada capitalist was supposed to be one of the richest men in America, sihe gnashed her very teeth. “But how was one to know?" said she.—W. F. Ledger. THE SENSE OF PAIN.

How Sir Humphry Davy Learned to Be* lievo In the Injury of Pain. Sir Humphry Davy, when a boy, did not believe in tho injury of pain, but he was not long in that belief, for one day when he was in the water a crab savagely took hold of his big toe and so earnestly bit it as to make him cry out from pain. This proof of pain made him guard against it,from other causes, for when he was experimenting wit)* carburetted hydrogen and other gases injurious to life, on feeling oppression on his chest and a sense of sufliocation he was thereby warned to desist or risk his life by going any further in the process. Lord Karnes advises parents to slightly cut their children’s fingers to make them sensible to pain, and to teach them to avoid whittling sticks, for fear of pain, by cutting th e finger. The skin is .advance guard and sentinel against any injury and violence beneath it, and is the seat of sensibility. Sir. Charles Bell says that the surgeon who makes use of the knife informs his patient that the worst is over when the skin is passed, and if in the progress of an operation it is found necessary to extend the outer incision, the return to the skin proves more trying than the original out. The tendons, muscles and -ligaments which hold together the joints and the cartilages feel neither outs or bruises. Paley describes the contrivances by which everything we eat and drink glides over the entrance to the windpipe on its road to the gullet without falling into the windpipe. The slit at the top of the windpipe. which never closes while we breathe, is endued with $in acute sensibility to theislightest particle of matter, so that tile least thing which touches the margin of the aperture causes its sides to come 'firmly toge ther, and the intruding body is stopped at the inlet. The convulsive coughing we have when choking i&the energetic effort of nature to drive off whatever has evaded the epiglottis. Oculists have observed that if the eye be touched even so lightly as with a feather the muscles are thrown into uncontrollable spasms, but that it can bear considerable pressure between the eyelids upon the eyo itself with but little sensation and without any suffering. If the eye had not been endowed with the properties which excite constant winking we would be stone blind.— Christian Umam. r Guimam of Hollis. N. Containing 9,794

f ALMAGE’S sermon. A Discourse bn "Winter, end How to Meet It" The Dissipations Incident to &s Swoh Forcibly Presented attfl illustrated— A Jttt lor Abstinence On the Natal Day of the New Tear. Hev. T. DeWitt Talmage, oh Ms recent return to Brooklyn from his WeStorh lecture tour, chose the above timely topic tor his first Sunday evening discourse, taking lor his text; ^ Pray jo tlAt £.our High* bo hot lh the ttinThe inhabitants of the old cities were here told that they would have to fly for their lives. Such flight would be painful, even iu the flush of spring tiihe, but superlatively aggravating if in cold weather; therefore they were told to pray that their flight be not in the winter. There is something in the winter season that not only tests our physical endurance but, especially in the city, tries our moral character. It is the winter ittotitbS tbit rrtih morally andtot'eVer ninny rtf rtrtr yourtg men. We , Mt ih the house oh a winter’s night, add hear the storm ragirtg rth the outside ajad imagine the. helpless crafts driven on the toast,_ bot It '6ur ears were only good btoligh, we could on any winter night hear the crash of 100 moral shipwrecks. Many who came last September l;etrt\Vtt, by the first of March will fchbe been blasted. It Wily Ihkos one winter to ruin a ycmbg man. When the long winter evenings have come many of our young men will improve them in forming a more intimate acquaintance with books, contracting higher social friendships and strength - ening and ennobling characters. But tint So with all. 1 will shrtw yrtu before I get through that at this season of the y ear temptations are especially rampant, and toy counsel is, took out how you spend your Sviuter nights! 1 remark, first, that there is no season of the year in which vicious allurements are so active. In warm weather places of dissipation win their tamest triumphs. People do not feel like going ih the hrtt nights cf summer aliirthg the biasing gaslights or bi'eathihg the fetid air of assemblages. The receipts of most grog shops in a December night are three times what they are in any night in July or August, X doubt not there are larger audiences ih the Casinos in tvttttbr thflh ih the summer weather. Iniquity plies a more profitable trade. December, January and February are harvest months for the devil. The playbills of the low entertainments then are more charming, the acting is more exquisite, the enthusiasm of the spectators more bewitching. Many a youtag man who make* out to keep right the rest of the year, capsiae* now. When he came to town in the autumn his eye was bright, his cheek rosy, his step elastic; but before spring, as you pass him you will say to your-friend: “What is the matter with that young man?*’ The fact is that One winter Of dissipation has done the wrtrk of ruin.

mis is we season ior parties, ana it tney are ot the right kind, our social nature is improved and our spirits are cheered up. But mafly of them are not of the right kind, and our young people night after night are kept in the whirl of unhealthy excitement, until their strength tails, and their spirits are hroken down, and their taste for ordinary life corrupted; and by the time the spring weather comes they are in the doctor’s hands or sleeping in the cemetery. The certificate of their death is made out, and the physician, out of regard for the family, calls the disease hy some Latin name, when the truth is that they died of too many parties. Away with these wine-drinking convivialities. How dare you, the father of a household, trifle with the appetites of our young people!1 Perhaps out of regard for the minister or some other weak temperance man, you have the decanter in a sideroom, where, after refreshments, only a select few are invited; and you come back with a glare in your eye .and a stench in your breath that show that you ha ve been out serving the devil. The excuse which Christian men often givo for this is that it is necessary, after such late eating, by some sort of stimulant to help digestion. My plain opinion is that if a man have no more control over his appetite than to stuff himself until his digestive organs refuse to do their olllce, he ought not to call himself a man, but rather to class himself among the beasts that perish. I take the words of the Lord Almighty, and cry: “Woe to him that putteth the bottle to his neighbor’s lips!” Young men, take it as the counsel of a friend when I bid you be cautious where you spend your winter, evenings. Thank God that you have lived to see the glad winter days in which your childhood was made cheerful by the faces of fathers and mothers brothers and sisters, some of whom, alas! will never again wish you a “Happy New Year” or “Merry Christmas.” Let no one tempt you out of your sobriety. I have seen respectable young men of the best families drunk on New Year’s Day. The excuse they gave for the inebriation was that the ladies insisted on their taking it. There have been instances where the delicate hand of woman hath kindled a. young man’s taste for strong drink, who, after many years, when the attractions of that holiday scene were all forgotten, (Touched in her rags and her desolation and her woo, under the uplifted hand of the drunken monster who, on that Christmas morning so long ago, took the glass from her hand. And so the woman stands on the abutment of the bridge on the moonlit night wondering if down under the water there is not some quiet place for a broken heart. She takes one wild leap—and all is

Oh, mingle not with the harmless beverage ot your festive scene this poison of adders! Mix not with the sugar of the cup the snow of this awful leprosy 1 Mar not the clatter of cutlery at the holiday feast with the clink of a madman’s chain! Stand back, young man! Take not the first step in the path that leads there. Let not the flame of strong drink ever scorch your tongue. You may tamper with these things and escape, but your influence will be wrong. Can you not make a sacrifice for the good of“others? When ishe good ship London went down, the captain was told that there was a way of esca pe in one of the lifeboats. He said: “No: I will go down with the passengers." All the world acknowledged that heroism. Car you not deny yourself insignificant indulgences for the good of others!1 Be not allured by the fact that you drink only the moderate beverages. You take only ale, an^ a man has to drink a laryj amount of it to become intoxicated. Yea; but there’s not in all the city to-day an inebriate that did not begin with ale. “XXX,” what does that mark mean? “XXX” on the beer barrels; “XXX” on the brewer’s dray; “XXX” on the aide of the bottle. Not being able to And any one who could tell me what this mark means, I have had to guest that the whole thing was an allegory: “XXX”— that is, thirty heart-breaks, thirty agonies, thirty desolate^ homes, thirty chances for a drunkard’s grave, thirty ways to perdition. “XXX?” If I were to write a story the first chapter would be “XXJC,” the last the pawnbroker’s shop. Be watchful! At this season all the allurements to dissipation will be especially busy. Let not your flight to hell be in the winter. 1 also remark that the winter evenings, through their very length, allow great •wing for indulgences. Few young men would have the taste to go to their rooms at seven o’clock and sit nntil eleven, rc^ftog Motley’s Dutch Republic or John FaSier’s essays. The young men who have bash confined to the store all day want fresh air and sight-seeing; and they must go somewhere. The most of them have of a winter’s oven ug three or four hour* ot Maure. After the eventag repastthyonaf »*n puts on hi*

■jipd coot add goes oat “Com# In hew,” eries another. “Go,” say* Satan; “yon ought to see lor yourself.” Why don't you go?" says a comrade, “it is a shame for a young man to he ah green as you are. By this time you ought to hare seen etrery thing.1' Especially is temptation strong when business is dull. I hare noticed that men spend more money when they hare little to spend. The tremendous qdestloU td .he settled by our great population, darby day, is, how to get a livelihood. Many Of OUr young men just starting for them* selves are very much discouraged. They had hdjped before this to hate set Up a r odsehold of their own. But their gains have been slow, their discouragements mahy. The young man can hardly take care of himself. How can he take.chre Of another!1 And, to the ciirse of modern society, before a young man is able to set tigi a home Of his own, he is expected to hare enough to support in idleness somebody else, when God intended that they should begin togetRer and jointly earn a liveli* hood, So, many of our roung men are utterly discouraged and Utterly uiiflt td reSittteihptatiOh. The ttoe when the pirate bore dowh Upon the ship was when its sails Were down and it was making ho hcadwoV. People wish they had more time to think. The trouble is, in dull tithes, that people hare too much time to think. Give to many of our commercial men the four hours of these winter nights, with nothing to divert them, and before spring they will hare lodgings in au insane asylum. I remark further that the winter is especially trying to the moral character of our young men, because some of their homes in winter are especially unattractive. In summer they can sit on the steps or hare h bouquet iri the vase dii the Uiaiktel, ahd the eVeutttgS ire Sd short that soon after gastight they teel like retiring. Parents do hot tike ehdUgh pains to make those lphg winter hights attractive. It is strange that old people know so little about young people. One would think that they had never been young themselves, but had been born. with spectacles on. It is dolorous for young people to spend the three dk ft)ttr hours Uf a winter’s evehihg with parents ttn.o sit talking over their own ailments ahd misfortunes and the nothingness of this world. How dare you talk such blasphemy I God was busy six days in making the world, and has allowed it to hang six thousand years on his holy heart; and that Urdrid kith fed you and clothed yon ahd shone on you for fifty years, and yet you talk about the nothingness of this world? Do you expect the young people in your family to sit and groan about this magnificent, star-lighted, sun-warmed, shower-baptised, ttower-strewn, angelwatched, God-inhabited planet? iffdrti such homes yottUg nleii make a wild pidhgc into dissipation. Many of ydii hare the means—why do you not buy them a violin dr a picture? dr have your daughter cultured in music until she can help to make home attractive? There fife ten thousand wars Of liehtimr

up the domestic circle. It requires flb large income, no big house, no rich whrdrdbe, nd chased silver, ho gorgeous upholstery, but a parental heart awake to its duty. Have a doleful home and your children will not stay in it, though you block up the door with Bibles and tie fast to them a million catechisms. I said to a man: “This is a beautiful tree in front of your house.” He answered, with a whine: “Yes; but it will fade.” I said to him: “You have a beautiful garden.” He replied: “Yes, but it will perish.” I found out afterward that his son was a vagabond, and I was not surprised at it. 'ton can not groan men into decency, but you can groan them out of it; Pray ye that yoUr flight bo not in the winter Arm yourself against the especial temptations of this sea son. Poets and painters have represented Satan as horned and hoofed. If I were a poet I should describe him with manners polished to t^e last perfection; hair flowing in graceful ringlets; eye a little bloodshot, but floating in bewitching languor; hands soft and diamdnded; step light and artistic; voice mellow as a flute; boot elegantly shaped; conversation facile, carefully toned and Frenchy; breath perfumed until it would seem that nothing had ever .touched his lips save balm and myrrh. But his heart I would encase with the scales of a monster, then fill with pride, with beastliness of desire, with recklessness, with hypocrisy, with death. Then I would have him touched with some rod of disenchantment until his two eyes would become the cold orbs of the adder, and on his lips would come the foam of raging intoxication, aud to his feet the spring of the panther, and his soft hand would become the clammyhand of a wasted skeleton; while suddenly from his heart would burst in crackling aud all-devouring fury the unquenchable flame, and in the affected lisp of his tongue would come the hiss of the worm that never dies; But, until disenchanted, nothing but myrrh and balm and ringlet and diamond and flute-like voice and conversation aromatic, facile and Frenchy. O, it is beautiful to see a young man livin g a life of purity standing upright where thorn sands of other young men fall! You will move in honorable circles all your days and some old friend of your father will meet you and say: “My son, how glad I am to see you looks so well. Just like your father, for all the world. I .thought you would turn out well when I used to hold you on my knee.”

.uuv uoic in « jrvuug uinu wuu iukss mu other route. The voices of sin charm him away. He reads bad books, lives in vicious circles, loses the glow from his cheek, the sparkle from his eye, and the purity from his soul. The good shun him. Down he goes, little by little. They who knew him when he came to town, while yet lingering on his head was a pure mother’s blessing, and on his lip the dew of a pure sister’s kiss, now pass him and say: “What an awful wreck!” His eyes bleared with frequent carousals, his cheek bruised in the grogshop fight, his lip swollen with evil indulgences. Look out what you say to him; for a trifle he will take your life. Lower downand lower down until, outcast of God and man, he lies in the alms-house a blotch of loathsomeness aud pain. Sometimes he calls out for God, aud then for more drink. Now he prays, now curses, now laughs as fiends laugh. Then bites his nails to the quick. Then runs both hands through the shock of hair that hangs about his head like the mane of a wild beast. Then shivers until the cot shakes with unutterable terror. ; Then, with uplifted fists, fights back the devils or clutches the serpents that seem winding him in their coils. Then asks for water which is instantly consumed his cracked lips. Going his round some morning the surgeon finds him dead. Straighten the limbs. You need not try to comb out out or shove back the matted locks Wrap him in a sheet. Put him in a box. Two men will carry it down to the wagon at the door. With chalk write on the top of the box the name of the destroyed. Do you know who it is!1 That is you. Oh, man, if, yielding to the temptations to a dissipated life, you go out and perish. There is a way that seemeth bright and fair and beautiful, but the end thereof it death. Devote these December, January and February evenings to high pursuits, innocent amusement’, intelligent, socialities and Christain attainments. Do not waste this winter. We shall anon have seen the last snow-shower, and passed up into the companionship of him whost raiment is white as snow—as no fuller ol earth can whiten it. To the rightijigarted the winter nights of earth will soon end ii the June morning of heaven. The river of God from under tte throne never freeses over. The fptfage of life's fair tree is neywr frostbitten. The festivals and hUtrtrities And family gatherings of Christinas times on earth wUl give way reunions, and the brightai gladder scenes, and tto ' to the li lights, ai sweeter pf the l

GREENLAND. w« ill* But Coast Settled By Northmen in the Middle AgeeT The old controversy as to whether 6* not the east coast of Greenland was settled by the Northmen, who built thriving colonies on the west const in the early middle ages, has been decided by a Danish Government expedition, sent out in the spring of 1888 to explore the little visited coast. The early 'Norwe; gian record speak of sixteen parishes and nearly three hundred villages on Greenland eight or nine hundred years ago, when it had its own Bishop; but this entire civilisation had perished when Davis penetrated along the WbSt coast to the strait that bears nis name in 1585. The.fact that an “eastern” and a “western” settlement were spoken oif in the records led to the belief that both coasts had been settled in the early days, while modern explorations have made progress only along the West coast. Nordetiskiolif) Who visited these regions ih 1888, believed that llo had found traces of ancient habitations on the east side similar tb those fotind along the west coast. The Danish explorers have proved llith wrong. They spent two winters on the east coast and penetrated a hundred miles further north than the point (65 degrees 18 minutes) reaehed by Graali in 1829, mapping out the land and calling it “King Christian the Ninth’s land;” but they found no trace of previous occupation, except a beer bottle which the Esquimaux who inhabit these high latitudes lyul looked askance at for several yearsV believing it to be Sdbieliow connected with the elMs til the inland glaciers, which they fetir as evil spirits. The explorers Were unable to account for Ihe presence Of the bottle, that bad the name of a wellknoWn Norwegian brower blown ih the glass, until they learned of Nordenskjold's previous visit to the neighborhood. The coast was unite accessible last summer north of the dreaded glacier 1‘uissorto.k, a«d presented an unexpected vifeiv of handsouib mouiitiiihs and greeh valleys, with very little ice. No dotibt remains, from the report of the expedition, that by the “eastern Settlement” in the; old record was meant the one further south on the west coast, for in tile lower latitudes this coast trends sharply toward the east. Important ruins have been found there.— Qhkago Tribune. —Prof. Rioe, of -Wesloyan University, in a recent lecture, told of a froshot at one time' when the Connecticut Rivet’ was fifteen miles wide at Hartford and 2tl0 feet deep at Middletown. The mountains between the latter city jtikt Meriden were islands in the river that run to the Sound in two channels, the new one running over the Wallingford olaihs in New Haven.—New Haven Tost.

—An exchange says that a bath litiit boon established in Albany, N. Y., where orthodox Jews may bathe in accordance with the requirements of the Talmud. This custom is still observed throughout the Old World, and in somo places iu this country. There are two other baths of the kind in the United States. Maryland, Mr Maryland. Maryland legislators, who are always alive to the public interests, have endorsed the new discovery. Red Star Cough Cure, because It contains neither morphia nor opium. and always cures. Ihe price is onijr 35 cents, il A miss is as good as a mile,” and a treat deal better. You can’t kiss a mile.— 'hiladelphia Calh PERCHERON HORSES. 40 Years’ Experience. To a Tribune reporter, Mr. A. S. Chamberlain, who for40 years has been the proprietor bi the “ Old Bull's Head Stables,” New York City, said: “] keep exchange and sale stables fot horses, thousands of which annually come to my stables from all parts ol the country. I don’t deal on my own aeeount to any extent. The French horses have good feet and stand the pavements better than the Clydesdales, Mid bring a better price on the market. The Clydesdales are short^ribbed, slim waisted and lack action. Comparatively few of them are now brought to this market. The demand is largely for French horses. I would advise the farmer anil breeders, who are breeding horses to sell on tho New York market, to breed from French horses in preference to all others.”—Chicago Tribune. Porchoron stallions of the finest quality and with choicest pedigrees, registered In the Percheron Stud Book of France, are annually imported in immense numbers. Within the past two years 1,000 have been imported and collected by one firm alone. Wmis a fire-engine called “she"! Because she is most at home when sparking. -i t Haul Herald. * Tk* bowels may bo regulated, and the Stomach strengthened, with Ayer’s Pills. Cvniovs investigators have discovered that the Siamese twins were well connect-ed.-AT. Y. Herald. IVb Opium in Fiso’s Cure for Consumption. Cures where other remedies fail. 25c.

A proverb says—Hunger is the best cook. That may be so, but hunger hasn’t got any* thing to cook.—Texas Siftings. Pike’sToothache Drops cure ini minute, ala Glenn’s Sulphur Soap heals and beautifies. 2Sc. German Corn Remover kills Corns a Bunions. Tar and secure a place in everybody’s good-will, not forgetting your rich uncK’s. —Troy Times. EypRv one is perfectly satisfied who Buckingham’s Dye for the Whiskers. uses No one knows the value of flowers wba hasn’t botany.—Boston Tost. If afflicted with Sore Eyes use Dr. Isaac ThompsoiCsEyeWaUrc^DnjggistsseUiCjitc. THE MARKETS. , New York, December 18, 1886. CATTLE—Native Steers.| 3 90 a 6 00 COTTON—Middling. OX* 9>i FLOUR—Good to Choice. 3 80 a 6 50 WHEAT—No. 3 Med.a 92X COHN-No. 3. 485f« 80If OAT’S—Western Mixed. SIX© 36 l*OHK—New Mess.. a 10 50 ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling. BEEVES-Good to Prime. t 35 Fair to Medium.... 4 00 HOGS—Common to Select.... 3 25 SHEEP—Fair to Choice. 1 75 FLOUR—XXX to Ohoico. 3 15 WHEAT—No. 3 Red Winter... 92 No. 3 “ " . .. 8» CORN—No. 2 Mixed.. OATS—NO. 2.... llYE-No. 2. TOBACCO—Lugs. 3 00 Leaf—Medium.... « oo HAY—Choice Timothy. 13 00 BUTTER—Choice Dairy.. 23 EGGS—Fresh.................. 16 FORK—New Mess. BACON-Clear Rib... LARD—Prime Steam. *7X« 50 8X 4 75 4 75 3 80 3 00 3 85 93X 90* 32 If 27 X 58« 8 50 8*X«& a sxa sya CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping.\.... 3 50 a HOGS—Good to Choloe. 3 65 a SHEEP—Good to Choice. 2 00 FLOUR-Winter... 4 40 Patents.. .. 4 75 WHEAT—No. 2 Spring. No. 2 Red. CORN-No. 2. a OATS—No. 3. a FORK—New 5he8d..... .... a ■ / KANSAS CITY. CATTLK^NaWve Steers. 4 10 a HOGS—Sales at. 3 15 a WHEAT—No. 3. 60S*© COKN-No. 3.20 « OATS—No. 2. a NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grades... 4 40 © CORN—White. .... * OATS-Cbolce Western. 37 a 41AY -Choloe.. 17 00 a PORK—Mesa 13 00 25 slOlf 10 00 *X 3X 6.85 3 05 4 00 4 75 5 SO SIX 3SX 37 » 80 5 25 3 70 70X 20 if 25X llAtDN—Clear Rib.. COTlON—Middling. LOUISVILLE. Red. 5 so 43 37 X 18 00 0 87X

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EUGENE HACK. 1 ANTON SIMON. -Proprietors ofTHE EAGLE BREWERY, VINCENNES, INDIANA, ! Furnish” the Best Article of Beer the Market Affords » AND SOIC1T ORDERS FROM ALL DEALERS * BOTTLE OR KEG BEER SUPPLIED TO FAMILIES. On Sale at A.11 Saloons. ISAAC T. WHITE. FRED’K H. BURTON. MARSHAL C. WHITE. liEJLLER. dts WHITE, Wholesale Druggists AND DEALERS IX Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs, Window Glass AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS.. No. 105 Main Street, - - Evansville, Ind. 1884. THE 1384. OSBORN BROTHERS Have remove-) to tholr elegant New Unildlng on Main street, where they have a large and splendid line of •- BOOTS AND SHOES, For Men, Women and Children. We keep R. L. Stevens’ and Kmmerson** brands nf Virtu Khrtna v * Petei'sburg, - - - - - Indiana.

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