Pike County Democrat, Number 48, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 April 1886 — Page 4

R*t. T. DeWitt Talma**’* twelfth airmen on “The liarrlage Ring” take* up the subject of “Motherhood," the text being the word*: Moreover hie mother made Mm a little ooat, and brought It to him from year to year, when aheoame up with her huaband to offer the yearly sacriflo*.—L Samuel, 1L.» The stories of Deborah and Abigail are very apt to discourage a woman's soul. She.says within herself: “It is impossible that I ever can achieve any such grandeur of character, end I don't mean to try,” as though a child should refuse to play the eight notes because he can not execute a "William Tell.” This Hannah of thfjtext differs from tlie persons 1 just n6w named. She was an jrdinary woman, with ordinary intellectual capacity, plaoed in the ordinary eircumstanoes, and yeti by extraordinary piety, standing out before all the ages to come, the model Christian mother.

nannon wan inn wire or ttiKtnnnn, who was a person; Tory much like herself—nn--omantic and plain, never having fought a battle or been the subject of a marvelous escape. Neither of them would lave been called a genius. Just what you and I might be, that was Elkannah’ and Hun- « nab. The brightest time in all ths history of that family was the birth of Samuel. Although no sisarran along the Heavens pointing down to his birthplace, I think the angels of Hod stooped at theooming of so wonderful u prophet. As Samuel tad been given in answer to prayer, Elkannah and all his family, save Hannah, started up to Shiloh to offer sacrifices of than ksgiving. The cradle where the child slept was altar enough for Hannah’s grateful heart, but when the hoy was old enough the took him to Shiloh and took three bullocks, and ap ephah of flour, and a bottle ol! wine, and made offering of sacrifice unto the Lord, and there, according to a previous vow, she left him; for there he was i;o stay all the days of his life, and minister in the Ternyle. Years rolled; on, and every year Hannah made with hei own hands a garment for Samuel, and took it over to him. The lad would have got along well witv-’“J that garment, for 1 suppose he was wall clad by the ministry of the Temple; but Hannah ' -on^Anot be contented unless she was all the time doing something for her darting boy. “Moreover, his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to off er the yearly sacrifice.” 1. Hannah stands before you, then, in the first place, as an industrious mother. There was no need for her to work. Elkannah, her husband, was far from poor. He belonged to a distinguished family, for the Bible tells us that he was the son of Jeroboam, the son of Elihu, the son of John, the son of Zuph. “Who were they?” jroo say. I do not know, but they were ^Ugistinguished people, no doubt, or their jE>wejta^uI<Nf)t have been mentioned. ^Jlannah rnijfct have seated herself with ner family, he dyvith folded arms and disheveled hair, re^d novels from year to year, if there had been 'any to read; but when I seiner making that garment, and taking it over to Samuel, I know she is industrious from principle as well as from pleasure. God would not have a mother become a drudge or a slave; he would have hor employ all the helps possible in this day in the rearing of her children. But Hannah ought never to be ashamed to be found making a coat for Samuel. .

Host mother* need no counsel in this direction. The wrinkles on their brow, the pallor on their cheek, the thimble-mark on their finger attest that they are faithful in their maternal duties. The bloom, and the brightness, and the vivacity of girlhood have given place for the grander dignity, and usefulness, and industry of motherhood. But there is a heathenish idea getting abroad in some of the families of Americans; there are mothers who banish themselves from the home circle. For three-fourths of their maternal duties they prove themselves incompetent. They are ignorant of what their children wear, and what thei r children eat, and what their children read. They intrust to irresponsible persons these young immortals, and allow them to be under influences which may cripple their bodies, or taint their purity, or spoil their manners, or destroy their souls,

From the awkward cut of Samuel’s coat you know liismother Hannah did not make it. Out from under flaming chandeliers, and off from imported carpets, and down the granite stairs, there has come a great crowd of children in this day, untrained, saucy, incompetent for all practical duties of life, ready to be caught in the fli of crime and sensuality. IndoU^t an(j ►unfaithful mothers wiU mafcriwlolent and •ufaithful childremjjrtlcan not expect neaJjnessand^Higf'fiaany house where the daughters see nothing but slatternliness and upside-downativeness in their parents. Let Hannah be idle, and most certainly Samuel will grow up idle. Why are the industrious men in all cur occupations and professions? Who are they managiug the merchandise of the world, building the walls, tinning the roofs, weaving the carpets, making the laws, governing the nations, making the earth to quake and helave and roar and rattle with the tread Of gigantic enter* prises? Who are they? For the most part they descended from industrious mothers, ~ o, in the old homestead, used to spin heir own yarn, and weave their own rpets, and plait their own doormats, and their own chairs and do their own rk. The stalwart men and the inIhential women of this day, ninety-nine t of a hundred of them, came from an jistrious ancestry of hard knuckles and nespun. who are these people in society, ht as froth, blown every whither of nptation and fashion—the peddlers of ’ stories, tbe dancing-jacks of political dee, the scum of society, the tavernaging, tbe store-infesting, the men v wink , and filthy chuckle, and breastpins, and rotten associa-. For the most part they from mothers idle and d'sgusting— tndal-mcnger of society, going from hpuso, attending to everybody’s ut their own, believing in witches, [losts, and horseshoes to keep the S of the Churn, and by a godless |ig their children on the verge of mothers of Samuel Johnson, ^Alfred the Great, and of Isaac NewI of St. Augustine, and of Richard I, and of President Edwards for the ( part, were iudustrious, hard-working "mothers. Now, while I congratulate all Christian mothers upon the wealth and the modern science which may afford them all kinds of help, let me sey that every mother ought to be observant of her children’s walk her children’s behavior, he children’s food, her children’s x>oks, her children’s companionships. However much help Hannah may have, I think she ought every year, at least, make one garment for Samuel. The Lord have mercy on a man who is so Unfortunate as <x> have a lasy mother. Again, Hannah stands before you as *n intelligent mother. From the way in which she talked in this chapter, and from the way she managed this boy, you know she was intelligent. There are no persons jty who need to oe so wias lie next. This child lit be in a coi

ards tor one; punishment for anoth ». I Which will make George will nln The rod is receasary in one cairn, while a frown of displeasure is more thin enough in another. Whipping and a dark closet do not exhaust all the rounds of domestic discipline. There hove been children who have grown up and gone to glory without ever having had their ears boxed. Oh! how much care and intelligence ore necessary in the rearing of children! Hut in this day, when there are so many books on the subject, no parent is excusable in being ignorant of the best mo^ of bringing up a child. If parents knew more of electlcs there would not be so many dyspectic stomachs and weak nerves and incompetent livers among children. If parents knew more of physiology there would not be so many curved spines, and cramped chests, and inflamed throat!:, and diseased lungs as there are among children. If parents knew more of art, and were in sympathy with all that is beautiful, there would not be so many children coming cut in the world with boorish proclivities. If parents knew more of Chirist, and practiced more of his seligion, there would not be so many little feet already starting an the wrong road, and all around us voices of riot and blasphemy would not come up with such ecstasy of infernal triumph. The eaglets in the eyrie have no advantage over the eaglets of a thousand years ago; the kids have no superior way of climbing up the rocks than the old goats taught hundreds of years ago; the whelps know no more now tban didl the whelps of ages ago—they are taught no more by the lions of the desert; but it is a shame that in this day, when there are so many opportunities of improving ourselves in the best manner of cultivating children, that so often there is no more advancement in this respect than there has been among f he kids and the eaglets and! the whelps. 3. Again Hannah stands before you as a Christian mother. From her prayers and m the way she consecrated her boy to , I know that she was good. A mother may'hqve the finest culture, the most brilliant surroundings; but sheisnotfltforher duties unless she be a Christian mother. There may be well-read liliraries in the house; and exquisite music in the parlor; and the canvas of the best urtists adorn - ing the walls; and the wardrobe be crowded with tasteful apparel; and the children be wonderful for their attainments, and make the house ring with laughter and innocent mirth, but there is something woeful-looking in that house, if it be not also the residence of a Christian mother. I bless God that there are not many prayerless mothers—not many of them. The weight of responsibility is so great: that they feel the need of a Divine hand to help, and a Divine voice to comfort, and a Divine heart to sympathise. Thousands of mothers have been led into the kingdom of God by the bands of their little children. Titere were hundreds of mothers who would not have: been Christians had it not been for the prattle of their little ones, standing some day in the nursery thoy bethought themselves, “This child God was given me to raise for eternity. lVhat is my influence upon it? Hot being a Christian myself, how can I ever expect him to become a Christian? Lord, help me!” Are there anxious mothers who know nothing of the infinite help: of religion? Then commend them to Hannah, the pious mother of Samuel. Do not think it is absolutely impossible that your children come up iniquitous. Out of just such fair brows, and bright eyes, and soft hands, and innocent hearts, crime gets its victims —extirpating purity from the heart, and rubbing out the smoothness from the brow, and quenching the luster of the eye, and shriveling up, and poisoning, and putrifying, and scathing, and scalding, aud blasting, and burning with shame and woe. Every child is a bundle of tremendous possibilities; and whether that child shall come forth to life, its heart attuned to the eternal harmonies, and after a life of usefulness on earth go to a life of joy in Heaven, or whether across it shall jar eternal discords, and after a life of wrong-doing on earth it shall go to a home of impenetrable darkness and an abyss of immeasurable plunge, is being decided by nursery song and Sabbath lesson, and evening prayer, and walk, and ride, and look, and frown and smile. Oh! how many children in glory, crowding ail the battlements, and lifting a millionvoiced hosanna, brought to God through Christian parentage 1 One hundred and twenty clergymen were together, and they were telling their experience and their ancestry; and of the 120 clergymen, how many of them, do 'you suppose, assigned as the meaus of their conversion the ^influence of a Christian mother! One hundred out of the 120! Phillip Doddridge was brought to God by the Scripture lesson on the Dutch tiles ot> a chimney fire-place. The mother thinks she is only rockihg a child, but at the same time she may be rocking the fate of nations, rocking the glories of Heaven. same maternal power that may lj.K'the child up may press a child dojyjf--A'daughtor'flftBlg-tO TVordly mother and said she was anxious about her sins, and she had been praying ail night, fhe mother said: “Oh, stop praying? I don’t believe in praying. Get over ail these religious notions and I will give you a dress that will cost $500, and I you may wear it next week to that party.” The daughter took the drees, and she moved in the gay circles, and the gayest of the gay, that night; and, sure enough, ail religious impressions were gone, and she stopped praying. A few months after she came to die, and in her closing moments said: “Mother, I wish you would bring me that dress that cost $500.” The mother thought it a very strange request, bul; she brought it to please the dying child. “Now,” said the daughter, “mother, haug that dress on the foot of my bed,” and the dress was hung there, on the foot of the bed. Then the dying girl got up on one elbow and looked at her mother, and then pointed to the dress and said: “Mother, that dress U the price of my soul!” Oh, what a momentous thing it is to be a mother? 4. Again, and lastly, Hannah standi before you the rewarded mother. For all the coats she made for Hainuel, for all the •prayers she offered for him, for the discipline exerted over him, she got abundance compensation in the piety and the usefulness and the popularity of her son Samuel, and that is true in all ages. Every mother gets full pay for all the prayer! ^Atl tears in behalf of her children. That than meful in commercial life; that man prominent in a profession; that master mechanic—why, every step he takes in life has an echo of gladness in the old heart that long ago taught him to be a Christian, and heroic and earnest. The story of what you have done, or what you have written, or the iufluenoe you have exerted, has gone back to the old homestead—for there is some one always ready to carry good tidings, nu-l that story makes the needle in the old mother’s tremulous hand fly quicker, and the flail in the father’s hand comes do wn upon the barn floor with a more vigorous thump. Parents love to hear good news from their children. Do you send them good nows always? God grant that all these psreuta may have the great satisfaction oi! seeing their children grow up Christians. Bnt oh! the pang of that mother who, after a life of street-gadding and gossip-retailiug, hanging on the children the fripperies and follies of this world, sees those children tossed ont on the sea of life like roam on the wave, or nonentities in a world where only bravery and stalwart character can stand the shock! Bat Uennl be the mother who looks upon her children as sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. Oh I the satisfaction of Hannah in seeing Hamnel aervinx afcafc’ Mother H>«e, to see ohild$g "P “£» world, reda*~«- 108

•▼•r «he reads it, and than will be oin*> meat to the the aching limbs of decrepttnde, and light np the dosing hours of life’s day"6lth the glories of an antumnal •unset. There she sits, the old Christian mother, ripe for heaven. Her eyesight is almost gone, but the splendors of the Celestial City kindles up her vision. The gray light of Heaven’s morn has struck through the gray locks which she folded back over the wrinkled temples. She stoops very much now under the burden of care she used to carry for her children. She sits at home, too old to find her way to the house of God; bus while she sits there, all the past comes back, and the children that forty years ago tripped around her arm-chair with their griefs, and joys and" sorrows—those children are gone now. Some caught up into a better realm, where they shall never die, and others out in the broad world, testing the excellency of a Christian mother’s disci* pline. Her last days are full of peace; apd calmer and sweeter will her spirit become, until the gates of life shall lift and let in the worn out pilgrim into eternal springtide and youth, where the lirahs never ache and the eyes never grow dim, and the staff of the exhausted and decrepit pilgrim shall become the palm of the immortal athlete.

A CRUEL FATE. Romantic Career ot a Once Wealthy Tel} "Who Died In Abject Poverty. [Chicago Tribune.1 A sad death occurred ot Red Bonk, N J., a few days ago. A woman who at »ne time was a leader in Washington society and who had great influence with the leadars of the Confederacy died in that New Jersey town nncared for and alone. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Morrell. She was born in Holmdel in 1791 and lived until she reached womanhood with the family of Daniel S. Holmes, for a number of years Sheriff of Monmouth County. Miss Morrell was a beautiful brunette. Her figure , was perfection and her carriage extremely graceful. She dressed with great taste, and the fame of ber beauty traveled all over the State. gToung men rayed about her and the suitors for her hand were in- | numerable. For years she received the homage of her many admirers without showing special encouragement to any one, and it became almost understood that she would not marry. When in her thir-ty-fifth year she visited South Carolina where she at last met her fate in the person of William Warren, collector of the port of Charleston. It was a case of love at first sight. Mr. Warren became madly attached to the beautiful Jersey woman. Besides being of good family he was wealthy, and after a short courtship they were married. They opened a house in the most fashionable part of Charleston and entertained royally. Four years before the war opened Mi* Warreu died, leaving his wife a vast estate] During President Buchanan's Adminstration Mrs. Warren took up her residence in Washington with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Freeman, whose husband was afterward a prominent Confederate General. She was ; received into the best society at the capital, and her charms, which did not lessen with growing years, brought her many friends. Congressmen, Senators and Government officials were alike captivated with her attractive face and winsome manners. She was invited by the President to assist at the social entertainments °at the White House, and urifcl the close of the administration was a familiar figure at all the state receptions as well as society generally in Washington. She had several op- j portunities to marry a second time, but re- • fused them all. To the day of her death she cherished with great fondness the ! memory of her husband and looked for- j ward to the time when they would be re- • united.

When Lincoln was inaugurated Mrs. Warren returned to Charleston and lived there until the close of the war. Her life in Washington bad made her acquainted with all the great men of the day, and throughout the war she took active part in the cause of her adopted home. It is said that her influence over some of the leaders in the Southern cause was great, and many wounded soldiers owed to her the comforts they enjoyed wiien suffering from wounds and sickness. When peace was declared Mrs. Warren found herself a poor woman, for her vast estate had almost been rendered worthless by the havoo of war. Buildings and crops were det stroyed, much of her personal property had been stolen, the banks where her money had been deposited had failed, and her slaves were free. In 1868 she came North, and took up her residence * - ., in Red Bank, a discouraged, » ... .-broken woman without a dollar in the world. She found her family scattered, and that her brother had met with flnancial reverses and jwas—unable to support her. The--' bank books which she brougk%»*'Vith her, representing thou.JSMuls of dollars deposited in Southern banks, were worthless. Through the influence of a well-known man living at Red Bank seven hundred dollars was collected from the receiver of one of the banks in which Mrs. Warren had her deposits—less than one-tenth of the entire sum which was to her credit on the books of that institution before it had failed. On this money, and with what little she could earn, she lived until seven years ago. When the last cent was spent for food, application was made to the town authorities, and up to the time of her death she was supported by them. She died suddenly. A neighbor found her lying dead on the floor of her scantily-furnished sittingroom, and the physician who was called in said her death was caused by apoplexy. The funeral was a’quiet one, only two carriages following the hearse to the cemetery at Rurnssn. The minister read the solemn service for the dead, and the last act in the story of this remarkable woman was concluded. Her given age was ninety five years. The first part of her life was full of sunshine; her last day s were dark with misery; but through it all she was never known to be otherwise than cheerful and resigned.

OLD COTTON. Two Balm Resolved Id the Year MM Re* eently Pitt on the Market. IHot k I1U1 (S. C.) Herald.1 On Tuesday last Mr. R. E. Guthrie, ad* ministrator of the estate of the late J. Harvey Williamson, of Bethesda township, sold two bales of cotton on this market which was raised by slave labor on Mr. Williamson’s plantation in 1862, nearly a quarter of a century ago. On account of the war there was no satisfactory market for cotton, and of the crop raised that year Mr. Williamson stored several bales under his house until the times migh< uprove. After the war had ended. Mr. Williamson swapped three bales o the cotton with the late D. R. 8. Blake for a mule. The remainder was retained. Vf* terward Mr. Williamson brought sa nudes to Rock Mill, and Mr. D. C. Roddey, who was then in business here, offered him :18 1-8 cents per pound in gold for It, bat the offer wm rejected and ’the cotton still, retained. At that time (Old was at a premium of 00 per cent., hence Mr. Roddey’s offer wan equivalent to 80 cants per pound in currency. Strangely enough, Mr. Williamson, in face of this extraordinary price, determined io hold the cotton, and his death lam fall found it still unsold. Why ha kept it so long is a mystery that lies buried in the grave with him. _ vThe cotton was packed before iron tlee came into use and in the days when there eras no roping to be had. Hiokoi-y withes vrere used instead, and the origin ings still hold the bales Armly and are in a good state of yrs^srvatioa. The lint is M good as whw

MONKEY FRIENDSHIP. W Bow • Pot Gibbon Ape Come to Find t Watery Grave. [Chicago Times.] Albert Messner, captain of a Bremen East-lndia-man, vouches for an incident which seems to prove that the friendships »f animals, even of different species, can issume the form of uncontrollable passions, tn Singapore the captain had bought a fine gibbon' ape (Kylobates niger), which teemed rather slow in getting over its shyness, and would squeal at the mere touch of a human hand, but soon became the fast Friend of a good-natured young Newfoundlander. They would roll and romp together on the deck, run races along the bulwarks, and often keep in the same corner, unless the roughness of the weather made it necessary to transfer the gibbon’s Pouch to the cabin. Near Sumbawa the schooner encountered a violent gale, which played havoc with a portion of the rigging, and in the midst of the confusion, Omar, the Newfoundlander, was knocked overboard by a swinging spar. The ship was scudding along at a twentyknot rate, and it would have been worse than useless to lower a boat, but the heart of every man on board was wrung when they heard through night and darkness the howling appeal of their poor dog, who was making desperate efforts to overtake the fast-receding chance of salvation. While all hands were tugging away at the reefing ropes several sailors noticed the gibbon dashing in wild excitement about the deck, and uttering cries that sounded like answers to the cries of his drowning friend. At last the Captain himself heard those yells from the stern of the ship, and, hastening back, thought that he heard a splash in the water, but the darkness of the night prevented him from recognizing the dim object seeming to toss about in the wake of the schooner. As soon as the storm abated they searched and halloed all over the ship, but only the howling of an old tom-cat answered their calls. The gibbon had joined his friend. Apples Without Cores, fsrie (Pa) Herald.| A nurseryman of Warren County, it is said, claims to be able tcgrow apples without cores. His theory is to bend the twig when the size of a small elder and insert the top in the ground. When the top takes root sufficient, cut off near the butt and stake it up perpendicularly. The result will be a tree growing butt end up, which so demoralizes nature that bareness of core and seed ensues. „

A Street Dining Car. [Albany Argus.1 v, The Troy and Lansingburg Street Railroad Company are having constructed at the Pullman car works a dining-car to be used exclusively by the conductors and drivers in their employ. The car will be switched upon a side-track and be used by the employes of the road between the hours of 11:80 and 1:30 each day in which to eat their meals. Ik the United States Senate, daring a recent debate, Senator Vest, of Missouri, paid a high tribute to the merits of St. Jacobs Oil. Boards of Health endorse Red Star Cough Cure as free from poison. Prompt and sure, and only twenty-five cents a bottle. A petrified clock has been found in Rome. Another indication of hard times. —JHttaburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. “Yes; I shall break the engagement,” she said, folding her arms and looking deiant; “it is really too much trouble to converse with him; he’s as deaf as a post, and salks like he had a mouthful of mush. Besides, the way he hawks and spits is disgusting.” “Don’t break the engagement 'or that; tell him to take Dr. Sage’s Caarrh Remedy. It will cure him completely.” “Well, PH tell him. I do hate to creak it off, for in all other respects he’s juite too charming.” Of course, it cured lis catarrh.

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OiUHLACH, KIDNEYS,BOWELS, &C. It Purifies the Blood, Invigorates and Cleanses the System. DYSPEPSIA,CONSTIPATION, JAUNDICE, SICKHE AD ACHE, BILIOUS COMPLAINTS, &c disappear at once under its beneficial influence. It is purely a Hedicine as its cathartic properties forbids its use as a beverage. It is pleasant to the taBte, and as easily taken by children as adults. PRICKLY ASH EITTERSCO Sole Proprietors, StJLouis and Kansas Cm

FOR COUCHS, CROUP AND CONSUMPTION USE The Sweet Gum from a tree of the same name growing in the South. Combined with a tea made from the Mu lleln plant of the old fields. For sale

Don’t Get Caught Tbit Sprint, u Ton may have been before, with your blood full of Impurities, your digestion Impaired, appetite poor, kidneys and liver torpid, and whole system liable to be prostrated by disease—bat get yourself Into good condition, and ready for the changing and warmer weather, by taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla. 1% stands unequaled for purifying the blood, giving an appetite, and for a regulating and general spring medicine. Be sure to get Hood’s Sarsaparilla. 4tMy wife had very poor health for a long time, suffering from Indigestion, poor appetite, and constant headache. She tried every thing we could hear of, but found no relief till she tried Hood’s Sarsaparilla* She is now taking the third bottle, and never felt better In her life. We feel it our duty to recommen 1 It to every one we know.” Gxo. Somibvillx, Moreland, Cook Co., 111. “ I took Hood’s Sarsaparilla for general debility and was wonderfully benefited by it,” J. P. John sox, Martin’s Ferry, O. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. #1; six for |5. Prepared bp C. L HOOD 4b CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar Justice. For *5 years I was afflicted with catarrh. For two months at a time confined to my room. I tried Ely's Cream Balm, from the first I found relief. It Is the best remedy I ever tried.—W. C. Mathews. Justice of the Peace, Shenandoah, la. 1 have improved greatly since using Ely’s Cream Balm for catarrh. 1 feel like a new man. It is a blessiagto humanity .-Jotijf D.Farkkjll, Hartford. Conn. A particle is applied Into each nostril: Is agreeable to use. Price SO cents by mail or at Druggists. Send tot circular. ELY BROTHERS, Druggists, Owego. Y Catarrh HAY-FEVER Relieved at Last! MWe know a gentleman In this county who, six months ago, was almost a hopeless cripple from an attack of rheumatism. He could scarcely hobble across the room, used crutches, and said himself that he had little If any hope of ever recovering. We saw him in our town last week, walking about as lively aa any other man, and in the finest health and splrlta, [ Upon our inquiry as to what had worked such a wonI derful change in his condition, he replied that S. S. S. had cured him. After using a dozen and a half bottles, he has been transformed from a miserable crtppla to a happy, healthy man. He is none other than Mr. E.B. Lambert.”—byicunto Telephone. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. Tit* Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga* Of 137 W. gkl Street, N. Y.

PENSIONS. To Whom Pensions Are Paid. EVERY SOLDIER of ihe States, gets a pensionThe loss of a finger, or the use of a y gun-sii ens 11 g ___ __ seal lungs. If you are entitled to a peu^ finger, or any gun-shot woundorothr injury, gives a pension re, if but slight, will give . Ruptured veins, or disease® of the ive a pension. sion don't delay it. Rejected and JXeglected Claims a Specialty. |£r Send for a circular of Pensioa and Bounty Acts. Address, FITZGERALD & PQWELL, U. S. Claim Agency for w estern Soldi?™.* UiDIANAroUS, I MB

FREE FARMS in £5fiM The most Wonderful Agricultural Parkin A Ulrica. Surrounded !>▼ prosperous mining and manufacturing towns. FARMER'S PARADISE! Magnificent crops raised la 1883. THOUSANDS OF ACRES OP GOVERNMENT LAND, subject to pre-emption* homestead. Lands for sale to actual settlers at $3.00 pep Acre. Long Time. Park Irrigated bv immense canals* Cheap railroad rates. Every attention shown settlers.* For maps, pamphlets, etc., address Colorado Land * Loan Co., Opera House Block, Denver, Colt*. Box, 2890. THE NEW DEPARTURE DRUMS tv are made with patent double acting rods ana

folding Knee rest, fiignt, anil handsome. In the best Bands aud Orchestras. Unequaled for tone, surpass all other in ftnfch and appearance. 14 dearest Music dealer doea keep them, write to ua for illustrated catalogue. & HEALY, Chicago, HI.

guckeye Folflmg Binoer, ««^The lightest running elevator binder In the world Folds so as to pass through farm gates. Requires les« storage room. Never misses a bundle. Mention tliie paper when yon send for our Catalogue. Aultman, Miller A Co., Akron, Ohio. CONSUMPTION ihave a positive remedy tor tue above disease; by its use thousands of cases of the worst kind and of Ions standing have been cored. Indeed, so strong la my faith in its efficacy,, that I will send TWO BOTTLES FREE, together with a VALUABLE TREATISE on thia disease, to any sufferer. Give ExBrass and F. O. address. DR. T. A. SLOCUM, 181 Feari St., K.T. flE-CRAKAi TRAGEDY AND MOLLOY-LEE EXAMINATION. A complete story, including abstract of testimony at examination, ju~t concluded. Profusely illustrated. For sale by newsdealers or Ozark Publishing Co., FoatOffice box 1101, Springfield, Mo. Price 20 cents. AGENTS WANTED FOR SAM JONES’ SERMONS. Only finely illustrated, full and authentic edition. Stenographic reports approved. Send for circulars and S. Barnett & Co., 420 Market St., St. Louie. piso's cure:-f6r CONSUMPTION SHORT-HAND Manual of BRYANT & ST Without a teacher. Send < _ cents for Se-f-Instructor'i _ iof BRYANT & STRATTON’S BUSINESS and SHORT-HAND SCHOOL, St.Louis, Mo. Circulars frea. HAIR Wigs, Bangs and Waves sent C. O. P. any. where. Wholesale ami retail price-listfree B. C. Strehl & Co.,173 Wabush-av.,Chicago

$400 WORTH FOX ONLY $1.00.

i NEW OUTFIT KE8S1KCT0K WORK

olden Kod, 4 i-s in., duncnes oi ru,Batchelor'* Button*,S In.,Barberry, Sin.. Strawberry, 4 in., Tulip 4In.. Moss Roms, S In., Cat 1 'ail* 3 In., Daisy ,, oprfp* of Ferns 8 in., 10 assorted Crystal Etchings (n«m)Ha* ijLnee stitch designs. Birds, Storks, Owls, Butterflies, Boy de, gns,Girl designs. Table ------ -jk.- Vines. Ts\)l# Mat designs Fruit designs Umbrella Case designs, Ac., Ac., also aa Elaborate Fancy Alphabet, and a new Skeleton Alphabet, both designed expressly tor this outfit. THE FANC\ WOBK MANUAL is a new book by a well-known authority on Kens Wgton and fancy work, and contains full In ctlons and directions fo* all kinds of Kensington Stamping, Embroidery and Fainting, Metdiljo Flitter, Imdescent and Lustre Painting, Ribbon Embroidery, Wan Work, Ac., and is the best and most complete book of its kind ever published. This outfit is not made up of small worthless designs* bat b—rilertein u4 reliable, and we will cheerfully refund the money paid for it, if any lady on receding it is dissatisfied. . Crown designs, Grasshoppers, Bicycles, Flies, Cover Corners, Love-in-tne-mist, '* "

which serve* to carry the patterns in when doing stamping tchbors, orui receptacle for the outfit at home. At rear** i« r*tail tHce*tke patterns alone would amount to at leant #4.00. Ladles can make their awn living with this ■foryoi ■lar r Bsaat__ __ __ ■(tamping outfit, dCfng work for their neighbors,besides beautifying the ■home and ornament^* their own and children’s clothing. The reason W we can sell this outtit<or as little money is that we manufacture them all ourselves and nay hq second promts to anyone. Many ladies ars g themselves to-Sav doing stamping, and the “craze”Is becom* prevalent every di*.. Our immense factory front# over 300

iwi on un une oi mo «»w i art, new ni'ia wuu nuuura imuiiuwj. ui tu iiau iu me wunu. iu«« uw muter General havingWently located a poatoflee In oar building expres-le for our mail businc s we have now complete faeilitteefer filling all orders promptly and to the entire satisfaction of oar w e shall be pleased to see>*nv of our customers in person, or THE R. L. SPENCER CO., Wallingford, Conn.

U8T 09 DISEASES ALWAYS CURABLE BY USIN3 MEXICAN MUSTANG liniment.

or muu!t rusH.

or ANIMUS. Scratches, Sores and Galls, Spa Tin, Cracks, Screw Worn, drab. Foot Hot, Hoof All, Lameness, Swinny, Founders, Sprains, Strains, Sore Feet, Stiffness,

No Rope to Cut Off Horses’ Manes.! Celebrated HALTSKand BRIDLE Combined, can not be slipped by an* horse. Sample Halter to auy part or the U. S. free, on receipt of 91. Sold by all Saddlery, Hardware and Harness^ Dealers. Special discount to theii Trade. taT“Send tor Price-List.^ j.C- Liohthous*. Rochester.N.Y

WOODS & CANATSEY, (Successors to Fleming & McCarty) PROPRIETORS OP Star Livery, Feed and Sale Stables, CORNER FIFTH AND WALNUT STREETS, PETERSBURG. . 1?',r®5'cJaas Buwrtea and Safe Horses for the nubile at reasonable prices. Horses boanl•d by the day or week. Give this firm your patrona ge, and vou will receive fair treatment. The well-known hostler, Al. Eaton, will be foun l always on hand.

ADAIR! Men’s Furnishing Goods, SIMs, Collars, Ms, Hoaery, Underwear, Etc. QUALITY, STYLE AND SIZES TO SUIT ALL Prices Guaranteed the Lowest. Wedding Outfits and Shirts to Order MY LEADING SPECIALTY.! T . J . A ID A I R , 131 Main Street, Corner Second, Evansville.

J. W. ADAMS, M. D. McCRILUJS AD. Can now be found in their elegant new Business House on ttie corner of Eiahth Streets, and have one of the handsomest stores in the State. Their Stock of Drugs is New and Comi And they guarantee satisfaction to all their customers. They invite special to their splendid assortment of new ami elegant styles in Wall Paper, Window Slia< And their Superior Brands of OILS AKTD MIXED ] THE BEST BRANDS OF CIGARS^AND TOBACCO! CALL AND SEE TJS. ADAMS & SON, - - Petersburg,!

NEW FURNITURE STO > This firm has opened a large stock of New Furniture, all tho tatest styles tat SsMs, Wardrota, Sofas, dal's, Bnreaas, Dressing: Casas, Talles, Our goods arc all new—no old stock to select from. Our place of business Is at Kl d Stand, where we can be lound selling as cheap as any houso In tha country. We n a full stock of ItNI)EETAKEES’ SUPPLIES CALL and see us. E. r. Kiisra, Petersburg, Ind.

EUGENE HACK. ANTON SIMQN. THE EAGLE BREWERY,

VINCENNES, INDIANA, Furnish the Best Article of Beer the Market Affords AND SOICIT ORDERS FROM ALL DEALERS BOTTLE OR KEG BEER SUPPLIED TO FAMILIES. On Sale at .AJ1 Saloons. • ISAAC T. WHITE. FRED’K H. BURTON. MARSHAL C. WHITE. liELLER. cto WHITE, Wholesale Druggists AND DEALERS IN Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs, Window Glass AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS. No. 105 Main Street, ... Evansville, Ind. 188 4. TUB 1884, OSBORN BROTHERS Have removed to their elegant New Building on Main street, where they have a large ana splendid line ot ^ BOOTS AND SHOES, For Men, Women and Children. We keep R. L. Stevens' and Emmerson’a brands ot Fine Shoes.

BRO., TAILORS,