Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 2, Petersburg, Pike County, 20 May 1886 — Page 4

'^IMAGE’S SERMON. Am JJtofforioal Discourse On The Return From the Chase. The Hunt For the World and Ita Pleas, area la the Morulug »t Lire—The Peace et God the Cinly Result Worth Returning With.

Tt«r. T. DeWRt Talmage preached an allegorical sermon at the ItrooUyn Taberaacle, recently, the subject of which he announced as “Return From the Chase,*1 taking for his text: In the morning he shall devour the prey, and- at night he shall divide the spoil— fGeaesls xltx, W. Dr. Talmage said: There is in this chapL ter such an affluence of simile and allegory- such a mingling of metaphors, that there are a thousand thoughts in it not on the surface. Old Jacob, dying, is telling the fortunes of his children. He prophesies the devouring propensities of Benjamin and his descendants.- With his dim •Id eyes he loots off and sees the hunters going out to the fields, ranging them all day and at night-fall coming home, the game slang over the shoulder: and reaching the door of the tent th<i hunters begin to distribute the game, and Ope tabes a coney and another a rabbit and another a roe. In the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. Or, it may be a reference to the hahits of wild beasts that slay their prey, and then drag it back to the cave air lair and divide it among the young. There is nothing more fascinating than the life of a hunter. On (a oertain day in aii England you can hear; the crack of the sportsman’s gun because grouse hunting has began; and every mau that can afford the time and ammunition and can draw a bead starts for the fields. On the 20th of October our woods and forests will resound with the shock of firearms, and will be tracked with pointer? and setters because the quail will then be a lawful prise for the sportsmau. Xenophon grew eloquent in regard to the art of hunting. In the Hr East people, el sphant-mounted, chase the tiger. The American Indian darts "" his arrow at the buffalo until the fright - •ned herd tumble over thtTocks. European nobles aye often found in the foi ohase and at the stag hunt. Francis I. was called the father of hunting. Moses declares of Nimrod: jj He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore in all ages o'f the world the imagery of my text ought to be suggestive, whether it means a w olf after a fox or • man after a lion. In the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. I take my text, in the first place, as descriptive of those people *vho, in the morning of their life, give themselves up to hunting the world,, but afterward, by the grace of Sod, in the evening of their life divide among themselves the spoils of Christian oharacter. There are aged Christian men and women in this house who, it they gave testimony, would tell you that in the morning of their life they ware after the world as intensely as a hound after a hare or as a falcon swoops upon a gazelle. They wsorted the world’s plaudits and the world’s gains. Th'ey felt that if they could get this world they would have.every thing! Some of them started out for the pleasures of the world. They thought that the man who laughed loudest wa„ happiest. They tried repartee. and conundrum, an I burlesque, and madrigal. They thought they would I ke to be Tom Hoods or Charles Lambs or Edgar A. Poes. They mingled wine and music and the spectacular. They were worshipers of the harlequin, and the Merry Andrew, and :he buffoon, and the jester. Life was; to them foam, and bubble, and cachinns tion, and roystering, and grimace. They were so full of glee they could hardly repress their mirth, even on solemn occasions, and they came near bursting out hilariously even at the i burial, because there was something so dolorous in the tone or countenance of the undertaker. After avghile misfortune , struck them hard on The back. They found there was something they could uot laugh at. Under theirj. late hours their health gave way or there was a death in the house. Of every green thiug their soul was exfoliated. Th sy found out that life was more than a joke. From the 1 heart of God there biased iuto their soul an earnestness they had. never felt before. They awoke to their sinfulness and immortality, and here tf'ey sit to-day at sixty or seventy years oi age, as appreciative of all iuuoceht mirth as they ever were, but they are bent fin a style of satisfaction which in early life they never hunted; theevening of their days brighter than tWmorning. In the morning they devoured the prey, but at night they are dividing .the spoil.

tor financial success. They see how limber a man’s hat is when he bows down before some one transpicuous; They felt they would like to see how the world looked from the window of ti $i,0t)J turnout. They thought they would like to have the morning sunlight ta sgled in the head- : gear of a dashing spat. They wanted the bridges in the park to resound under -^-.the rataplan of their sw ift hoofs. They . , * wanted a gilded baldiick, and so they s started on the dollar hunt. They chased , l *Jt up one street and chased it down annother. They followed it when burrowed _ >. *n the cellar. They treed it in the roof. .-^Wherever a dollar was expected to be [fcjf^fcey were. They chased it across the HpX Ooean. They chased it across the p | iWud. . They stopped iiot for the night, fit earing'that dollar et‘en in the darkMss thrilled them as an Adirondack sportsman is thrilled by a loon’s laugh. 'They chased that dollar to the money wAult. They chased it to the government treasury. They route! it from under »he counter. All tie hounds were out—all the pointers and setters. They "tamed the hedges f9r that dollar, an4 they cried: “Hark away la dollar! a dollar!” And when ut'last they Came vein it and had actually captured it, their * > citement was like tha t of a falconer who has idhcessfully flung Ids ^flrst hawk. In the morning of their life,.’ oh how they ' devoured the prey! But there came a better time to their soul. They found out that ah Immortal nature can not live on government bonds. They took up a' Northern Pacific bond and there was a hole in it t {trough which they could look into the uncertainty of all earthly treasures. They saw some Ralston, living at the rate of $29,000 a month, leaping from Ban Francisco wharf because he eontd not continue to live at the same o. They saw the wizen and paralytic kfrs who had changed their souls into tampeCc with the image of <y saw some great ed into homunculi, lives:- “I will seek nre.” Froin# that, time whether they walked or walked with them; nor in s. mansion or a hut the shadow of the Alwhether they were robed in roadcloth or, in a homespun if they of i^e Saviour’s righteouswhether th'CV were sandaled with fskid it they were washed iratlon c f gospel. Now lountenance. Na w i,be enchanted with Ike more satisfac>ha service of Ood it years of my life e this eventhan I orning I it is ding the

l**f lato the tthchk. it fires to tie rheumatic limbs t strength to leap like ti e roev Christopher North’s pet gun, tie muckle-mouthed Meg, going off in tiie summer in the forests, hod its echo In the winter time in the eloquence thnt rang through the university hail of Edinburg. It is healthy to go hunting in ttie teldi bill 1 tell you that it it belittling and bedwarftng and belaming for a man tso hunt this world. The hammer comes doWh on the gun-cap and the barrel explodes and kills yon instead Cf that which yon are pursuing. Whett you turn out to hunt the world, the world turns out to hunt yon; and as many a sportsman aiming his gun at a panther’s heart has gone down under the striped claws, so while you have been attempting to devour this world, die world has been devouring yott. So it *i»4 with Lord Byron, So it was with Coleridge, So it was with Catherine of Russia, Ilenry II. went ont hunting for this world and its lances stuck through his heart. Francis I. aimed at the world, but the assassin’s dagger put an end to his ambition and his life with one stroke. Mary, Queen of Scots, wrote on the window of her castle:

vrom toe top of all my trust - Mishap hath laid ms In the dost. The Queen dotvager of Navarre was offered tor her wedding day a costly and beautiful pair of gloves, and she put them on, but they were poisoned gloves and they took her life. Better a bare hand of cold privation thau a warm and poisoned glove of ruinous success. “Oh,” says some young man in the audience, “1 believe what you are preaching. I am going to do that very thing. In the morning of my life I am going to devour the prey, and in the evening I shall divide the spoil of Christian character. I only want a little while to sow my wild osds and then I will be good.” Young man, did you ever take the census of all the old people! How many old people are there in your house? One, two Or none? How many in a vast assemblage like this? Only here and there a bald head, like the patches of snow here and there in the fields on a late April day. The fact is that the tides of the years are so strong that men go down under them before they get to be sixty, before they get to be fifty, before they get to be forty, before they get to be thirty; and if yon, my young brother, resolve now that you will spend the. morning of your days in devouring the prey, the probability is that you will never divide the spoil in the evening hour. He who postpones until old age the religion of Jesus Christ, postpones it forever. Where are the men who, thirty years ago, resolved to become Christians in old a{f«, putting it off a certain number of years? They uever got to be old. The railroad collision or the steamboat explosion or the slip on the ice or the falling ladder or the sudden cold put an end to their opportunities. They have never had an opportunity since and never will have an opportunity again. They locked the door of Heaven against their soul and they threw away the key, and if they could now break jail and come up shrieking to this audience I not do think they would,take two minutes to persuade us all to repentance. Th ey chased the world and they died in ’the chase. The wounded tiger turned on them. They failed to take the game that they pursued. Mounted on a swift courser they leaped the hedge, but the courser fell on them and crashed them. Proposing to barter their soul for the world, they lost both and got neither. While this is an encouragement to old people who are yet unpardoned, it is no encouragement to the young who are putting off the day of grace. This doctrine that the old may be repentant is to be taken cautiously. It Is medicine that kills or cures. The same medicine given to different patients in one case saves life and in the other destroys it. This possibility of repentance at the close of life may curi the old man while it kills the young. B cautious in taking it. Again, my subject is descriptive of thos who come to a sudden and radical change You have noticed how short a time ill 1 from morning to night in the wintereight or ten hours. You know that a win ter day has a very brief life.' The heart of the longest day beats twenty-four timei and then it is dead. How quick the transition in the character of these Benjaminites! In the morning they shall devour the prey and at night they shall divide the spoil. Is it possible that there shall be such a transformation in any of our characters! Yes, a man-may b# at seven o’clock iu the morning an all-devouring worldling and at seven o’clock at night he may lie a peaceful distributive Christian. Conversion is instantaneous. A man passes into the Kingdom of God quicker than down the sky runs the sig-xag lightning. A man may be anxious about his soul for a great many years; that does not make him a Christian. A man may pray a great while; that does not make him a Christian. A man may resolve on the reformation of his character and have that resolution going on a great while; that does not make him a Christian. But the very insfent when he flings his soul on the mercy of Jesus Christ, ''that instant is lustration, emancipation, resurrection. Up to that point he is going in the wrong direction; after that point he is going in the right direction. Before that moment he is a child of sin: after that moment he is a child of God. Before that moment, hellward; after that moment, heavenward. Before that moment, devouring the prey; after that moment, dividing the spoil. Five minutes is as good as five years.

My bearer, you know eery well that; the best things you have done you hare done in a flash. Tou made up your mind in an instant to buy or to sell, or to invest, or to stop or to start. It you had missed that one chanoe, you would have missed it forever. Row just as precipitate and quick and spontaneous will be the ran som of your soul. This morning you aie making a calculation. You are on the track of some financial or social game. With your pen or pencil you are pursuing it. This very morning you are devouring the prey; but to-night you will be in a different mood. You And that all heaven is offered you. You wonder how you can get it for yourself and for your family. You wonder what resources it will give* you now and hereafter. You are dividing peace and comfort and satisfaction and Christian reward in your soul. You are dividing the spoil. On a Sabbath night at the close of the service I said to some persons; “When did you first become serious about your soul?” And they told n. <: “To-night.” And 1 said to others: “When did you give your (heart to Hod?” “ And they said: “To-night.” And 1 said to still others: “When did you resolve to serve the Lord all the days of your life?” And they said: “To-night.” I saw by their apparel that when the grace of God struck them they were devouring the prey; but I saw also in the flood of joyful tears and In thei kindling raptures on their brow, and in their exhilarant and transporting utterances, that they were dividing the spoil. At night, with one touch of electricity, all these lights blase. Oh, I would to God that the darkness of your souls might be broken up, and that by one quiok, overwhelming, instantaneous flash of illumination you might be brougt into the light and the liberty of the sons of God ! You see that religion Is a different thin', from what some of yon people supposed. You thought it was decadence; you thought religion was emaciation; you thought It was highway robbery; that It struck one down and left him half dead; that it plucked out the ayes; that It , plucked out the plumes of the soul; that it broke the wing and crushed the heal: a* It , cam* (flawing with it* blaok talons through i i

ah. Ho, that la not religion. What la religion? It ia dividing the apoil. It in taking a defenseless soul and panoplying it tor eternal conquest. 4t ja the distribdtimt of prises by thk king’s hand, every htedal stamped with a coronation. It in an exhilaration, an expansion. It is imparadisation. It is enthronement. Re- j llgion makes a man master of earth, and death, pad hell. It goes forth to gather the medals of victory won by Prinoe Km* manual, and the diadems of heaven and the glories of realms terrestrial and celestial, and then, after ranging all worlds tor everything that is resplendent, it divide* the spoil. What was it that lames filrner, th* famous Knglish evalgeiist, was doing when ih his dyiflg moment he said: “Christ is alii Christ is all!” Why, he was entering into light; he was rounding the Cape of Good Hope; he was dividing the apoil. What was the aged Christian Quakeress doing when at eighty years of age she arose in the meeting one day and said: “The time of my departure is come. My grave-clothes are falling off,” She wa* dividing the spoil. She longed With Wings to Sy sw»y. And mih with that eternal day. What is Daniel now doing, the liontamer? and Klijah, who was drawn by tbe flaming coursers? and Paul, the rattling of whose chains made kings quake? and all the other viotims of flood, and fire, and wreok, and guillotine? Where are they? Dividing the spoil. Ten thousand times teu thousand, In sparkling raiment bright. The armies of the ransomed saint* Throng up the steeps of light. ’Tis finished, all ih finished, "heir fight^With death and sin; 1.1 It high your golden gates And 1st tbe victors In. Oh, what a grand thing it Is to be a Christian! We begin on earth to divide the spoil, but the distribution will not be completed to all eternity. There is a pov-erty-struck soul, there is a business-de-spoiled soul, there it a sin-struck soul, there' is a bereaved soul—why do yon not come and get the spoils of Christian oharaoter,, the comfort, the joy, the peace, the salvation that I am seut to offer you in my master’s name? Though your knees knock together in weakness, though your hand tremble in tear, though yoUl' eyes rain tears of uncontrolahle weeping-*-oome and get the spoils. R .st for all the weary. Pardon for all the guilty. Labor for all the bestonned. Life afor all the dead. I verily believe that there are some who have come in here outcast because the world is against them, and because they feel God is against them, who will go away to-day saying: I came to jesns as I was. Weary, and worn, and sad; I found In him a resting place. And He has made me glad. Though you came in children of tho world, you may go away heirs of Heaven. Though you were devouring the prey, now, all worlds witnessing, you may divide the spoil. AN ECCENTRIC GENIUS. Oareer of an Inventive Recluse Who Lived and Died Almost Unknown. [Marlboro (Mass.) Cor. Boston Ulobe.l A large white house, with immense pil lars at the front, which is situated at tho corner of Lincoln and Pleasant streets, facing the latter, which is the Beacon street of West Marlboro, is where Georgs Clisbee has lived with his mother for , years. Signs of life have seldom been noticeable about the house, which stands in the center of a thickly-settled portion of the town. The blinda^ipon the sides facing the two streets are ever closed, and so dismal and unlifelike are the surroundings that the small boys believe the place to be haunted. There George Clisbee has lived the life of a recluse. To be sure he has

to do so did not give him the contract no build an organ tor the Unitarian Church, and he never forgave or forgot them, and it is said that he kept a hook in which was jotted down what was said about him, good or otherwise, that came to his ears. It is stated that he never failed to solve any mechanical problem which he studied upon. He was a skilled organist. He played his first tune when six years of age, but never in his life took a musical lesson. George Clisbee was an inventive and musical genius, and might easily have won a distinctive position in the world, but he had no ambition in that direction; he was satisfied to remain at home, aloof from all outside enjoyment and contact with the world; he was content to do the bidding of his aged mother, whose interests and welfare he looked after most assiduously. For a long time Mrs. Clisbee has been an invalid, and it is stated upon authority that for over twelve months the man who smothered his genius with hit filial love has not had his clothing off for the purpose of getting rest for fear that lie should not be prepared upon Hie moment to render that aged and feeble mother all possible assistance. -For more than thirty years George Clisbee has officiated as organist at the Meth - odist and Univerealist churches. His labors for the day ended, he would, perhaps, go home, and there to remain without tie- : ing seen in or without the house until an- | other Sabbath rolled around. Rich in ! genius, while his nature was surcharged '• with eccentricities, having all the elements to make an illustrious record, hS sacrificed all for the undying affection he fejt for that mother who survives him. Marlboro thus losses one of its most peculiar citisens. A TRAIN-TELEPHONE. A Chicago Man Claim* to Have iDTflalad Such an Instrument. [Chicago News.] Cornelius Spillane, a stationary engineer, living at 3825 Dashtel street has invented a device for telephoning between moving trains and railway stations. The invention is an extremely simple affair, consisting of a circuit wire resting on an insulated slab between the railway tracks. On this wire rests a circuit-rod made of a strip of metal roller making a continuous connection to all stations and all trains on the line of route. The return o rcuit is gained by means of the rail-wheel and axle and op through the frame-work of the engineer’s cab to the telephone. A w ire runs through the traiu connecting all the 1 cars, so that conversation can be kept up j from all parts of the train to all stations | on the road and between all other trains on the line. Mr. Spillane thinks the adoption of his devioe on railway trains would render needless the employment of telegraph operators at railway stations, and would afford direct means of communication between any ons tram and nil other points, so that in the event of au accident ths intelligence would be promptly communicated and relief summoned. It would also, he says, prove an absolute check on trainrobbers, and were any deed of violenos at tempted on the cars the authorities would I receive prompt notice of it ip time to sr ffpt the guilty parties

LIFK IN PARI*. A Warning la American Girls With GnoA Wiett llAnii .tccotirita. •m iParis Cor. X. T. Stair.] An American geutlomen. who, for many years past, has been established in business in Paris, received one day a call from a handsomely-dressed female in whom hr "•'•ognizxl a notorious American adventuress. She came, she said, to propose to him a lucrative business transaction. She bad in her possession a list of sundry high-born and titled gentlemen who •vished to marty rich American girls, and hhe dismayed sucii A list inscribed with some rif the proa lest Hamos of the French aristocracy. If my countrvman would inform her of the arrival in Paris of any wealthy American ladies, and the presumed amount of their fortuues, she \t ould, ou the accomplishment of a marriage between any one of these and one of her clients, at once pay over to him half of her stipulated percentage on the dowry, which In her easo was to amoulit to ted per cent. It is heedless to say that the woman’s offer Was refused; liut the very fact of its being made showed how widespread is the system of the matrimonial agency in Paris, and how extensive and elaborate must be its arrangements for obtaining information. There is an Austrian gentleman moving In the best society of Paris whom I strongly suspect of being one of the secret and accredited agents of one of these establishments. He tried hard, but in vain, some years ago to bring aboht a match between the daughter and only child of a wealthy American gentleman then visiting this city and a French Duke of ancient family. Ihe Duke turned out iinally to be an impostor, and was forced to take flight from Paris. Employes of these agencies, are also found at the priucipal hotels here. They are usually women, generally bear high-sound-ing titles, and are pleasant of mauner and affable of bearing. Their business is to make acquaintance with rich Americans who have daughters, so that the daughters aforesaid may be presented to impecunious adventurers on the lookout to repair their lortuues bv marriage. The matter is vory adroitly managed, an opera or a theater party or a little dance being gotten up by the amiable French lady to amuse her sweet, now young friend, the luckless damsel whose dollars, real or rumored, have caused her to be selected as a fltting victim. At the dance or at the theater the introduction takes place, and the fascinations of the gentleman are supposed to do the rest. Very often, indeed, the promoter of the whole series of maneuvers .s not connected with any agency whatever, but is acting on her own account The Prise Snake Story, fbewlston (Me.) Spceia'.] For six months a young man named Ferguson, residing at Great Falls, had been in failing health despite the care of the physicians, none of whom eoul l fathom the cause of his decline. Among many odd symptoms was that of a peculiar choking sensation, which was not understood until a snake thrust its head out of the young man’s month. The sick man called his sister, and. when next, the hissing head appeared, she seized it and with a quick pull landed the venomous reptile at her feet. Her action killed her brother. The tad of the snake had grown into the young man’s body, and in tearing it away a Hood vessel was broken, and the young man bled to death. Rev. W. M. Leftwicu, D. D., Nashville, Temp, publicly, endorses Ked Star Cough Cure, which costs only twenty-five cents a bottle. Dows East singing-masters always look out for the Muiue chants. The best cobblers do not talk. “Least said, soonest mended.”—.V. O. Fivatjaae. The best preparation for coloring the beard is Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers. To strengthen and invigorate the stomach, and to stimulate the appetite, take Ayer’s Pills. Chief Two-Beu.y, of the Crow tribe, la dead. There is rejoicing at his old board-ing-house.—-Jioston Post How Women Gifi'er from Men. At least three men on the average jury are bound to disagree with the rest just to show that they’ve got minds of their Own; but there is no disagreement among the women as to the merits of Dr. Pierce’s “ Favorite 1‘rtscripiiuH.** They are ail unanimous in pronouncing it the best remedy in the world for all those chronic diseases, weaknesses and complaints peculiar to their sex. It transforms the pale, haggard, dispirited woman, into one of sparkling health, and the ringing laugh again “roigns supreme” in the happy household. Living on tick—Telegraph operators.— National Weekly.

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Win* G. W. was a small boy they vied ! to call him Figures, because they can not Whatever name or pFever and Ague or other intermittent Bskase# it Is safe to say that llalaria or • iisordered state Of the Liter is at fault Eliminate) the .impurities from the system md a sure and prompt Cure is the iwmedi* its result Prickly Ash Bitters is the gaf* sst and most effective remedy for all biF ary troubles, kidney diseases, and like complaints that has ever been brought before [he public. A trial is its best recommendation. A woman refused to feed a dwarf, beiause she was opposed to dine-a-mite.— Boston Globe. PiRweTooTtlACHE Drops cure ini minute, 2Se UteriH's Sutplmr Sn,ip heals at0 beautifies. 25o. German Corn Remote ft kills Corns a Bunlona The watering cart man is always ready to “doiru with the dust”—Foil filter Adcerter. Get the Best ts * good motto to follow in baying » spring mediclnew fcswell as in everything else. By the universal satin* PacE «n it has given, and by the many remarkable cures It naS accomplished. Hood's Sarsaparilla hat proven itself uue^uak fi bull ing up ahd strength* suing the system, and for all diseases af king from of promoted by impure blood. Do not experiment With any unheard-of and untried art cle whieh yo* are told Is “just as good,** but be sure to get only Hood's Sarsaparilla. $* - “I consider Hood's Sarsaparilla the best medicine I ever used. It gives me an appetite and refreshing sleep, and keeps the cold out.'* John S. Foog, 10t Spruce Street, Portland, Me. “1 find Hood’s Sarsaparilla tho best remedy for impure blood I ever used.” M. H. Baxter, ticket agent, P. & R. Kd., Bound Brook, K. J. “Hood's Sarsaparilla takes less tfane and quantity to shdtr than anv pre;*aratlon I ever heard of." Mbs. C. A. Hubbard W. Chili, N. Y* Hood’s Sarsaparilla Bold by all druggists, 81; six for 15. Prepared hf C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar Scrofula of Lungs. I am now 49 years old, and have suffered for the last fifteen years with a lung trouble. I have spent thou, sands of dollars to arrest the march of thts disease; but temporary relief was all that I obtained. I waa unfit for any manual labor for several years. A friend strongly recommended the use of Swift's Specific (S. S. S.), claiming that he himself had been greatly benefited by its use in some lung troubles. 1 resolved to try it. The results are remarkable. -My cough haa left iqe, my strength has returned, and 1 weigh sixty pounds more than 1 ever dtd in my life. It has been three years since I stopped the use of the medicine, but l have had no return of the disease, and there are ao pains or weakness felt in lily lungs. I do the hardest kind of work. T. J. Holt. Montgomery. Ala.. June 25,1885. Swift's Specific is entirely vegetable. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. The swtrr Specific Co., Drawers, Atlanta, Ga., or 157 W. aid Street, X. Y. FREE FARMS w saiTiM The most Wonderful Agricultural Pork in America, Burrouuded by prosperous mining and manufacturing towns. FARMER'S PARADISE! Magnificent cropa raised in 1885. THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF GOVERNMENT LAND, subject to pre-emption A homestead. Landsforsale to actual settlers at 13.00 per Acre. Long Time. Park irrigated by'immense canals. Cheap railroad rates. Every attent »on shown settlers. For maps, pamphlets, etc , address Colorado Land 41 Loan Co., Opera House Block. Denver. Colo. Box, 2390. OEE8S V ( A.VSOV FOR TRIAL rrtKL r0?,’bcs*J1e,d __ ____er known, beared stalks; t’AXXSX BALL CAftitAUS, sure to head, winter keejp* ■11 er; UOSEYSlCkLK WATKRSELOX. very early and W sweets SWEAT POTATO PFSHtlJU - *“ extra good for eattnvr. These are all very superior new seeds, which I wi^h introduced. and mail all for dime or any one for nickel. JAKES HASLET, Seed Grower, MADISON, Ark. ■ DOLLARS each for New and Perin|'t SEWING MACHINES. ■ MW arrauted five years. Sent on t rial I # if desired. Buy direct and save 815 ■ mm to 835. Organs given as premiums. Write for FREE circular with 1.000 testimonials from every State. GEORGE PAYNE A CO., 48 W. Monroe St., Chicago.

BULL’S SARSAPARILLA.

THE LIVER SmlnlbMkwlMli like • niter to 'leant* Impnritl" of Ike blood. By Irregularity In It* action or suspensions of Its functions, the bile poison* the blood, causing jaundice, tallow completion, weak eyes, " eye*, bilious diarrhea, a languid, it her distressing symptoms * weary feeling, and many oth< . ly termed liter troubles. These are relieved at once by tko ase of DR. BILL'S SARSAPARILLA, the great bitted I tolveaL Dr. Jobk Bull.—I have been for a number of years severely afflicted with a mercurial headache and a dull, heavy pain in my liver. Three bottles of Bull's Saksaparilla gave me more relief than all the others combined. T. H. OWENS, Louisville, Ky. Dr. John Bull.—I have examined the prescription for the preparation of Dr John Bull’s Sarsaparilla, and believe the combination to be an excellent one. and well calculated to produce an alterative impression on the system. 1 have used it both iu public and private practice, and think it the best article of Sarsaparilla in use. U. PYLES, M. D., Louisville, Ky.

ituv uvop> KIDNEYS Are tb» |ml iffpftory orvran* ef the body. Ut» ud through the kltluevs How the waste ■aids eoatalalnic poisonous matter taken fr#« the system. If the kidneys de ant act properly this matter la retained and poisons the blood.

causiag neauacue, pain iu me ttaiaii or met ami Solas, lashes of heat, chills, with disordered stomach aad bowels. BI LL'S SARSAP.UULLA acta as a diuretic ea the kidney* aad bowels, aad directly oa the blood as well, causing the great organs of the body to resume their natural fyactloas, aad health la at ante restored. Dr. John Bull.—I have used Bull's Sarsaparilla for rheumatism and kidney trouble, and my son it as taken it for asthma and general debility. It has given us both great relief. Yours truly, THOS. H. BENTLEY. Roesvilla, I1L BULL'S SARSAPARILLA. BULL’S WORM DESTROYER. BULL’S SMITH’S TONIC SYRUP. THE POPULAR REMEDIES OF THE DAY.

DYSPEPSIA rariable appetite, feint, gnawlu* folia* at pit aft he iteaich, heartburn, wind la the deaaeh, had breath, had taste la the mouth, low spirits, general prostration. There la ao form of disease more prevalent thaa Dyspepsia. and It eaa la all ease* ho traced to aa enfeebled or poisoned condition of the blood. BI LL’S SARSAPARILLA by cleansing aad aorlfjjitsc the blood, tunes up the digestive organs, and relief la Dr. John Bttll.—I have no hesitation In saying that l believe your SARSAPARILLA to be the w>st medicine manufactured for the cure of Scrofula, Syphilis and many other cutaneous and glandular affections, having used it with entire success ia numbers of the above cases. JAMES MOORE. Louisville, Kj. Dr. John Batll.—I procured one bottle of BULL’S SARSAPARILLA for my eldest son. Among the remedies and various prescriptions that he has tried for weak lungs and chest, this one bottle has been of more benefit to him than all. It has curv'd me of Dyspepsia ■nMmasweU. JOHN S. McOEE.

iHli BLOOD IS THE LIFE.

Xiorseuave, iwy. SCROFULA Is a pmllar morbid toodltloa of tkf mlm, paused dlreetly by Impurities tu tbe blood or t»y tbe luck of suBelent nourishment famished to tbe system throuyh tbe blood, usually ib* iplinda. iiflm rMnllliiv In n.ill.

I«ts MUiffd Joiuts, ibwfiMH, nor* mm, blotchy cn»ptlous on the fkce or nock. KrjVipeUs Is akla to It ud b oft* ea Mistaken for Scrofula a* it comes froa the uuac cum, _„ up the system r#rm the Impurities from the blued feed cleanses the system through the nfuhr chrneh. Dr. John Bull.—It is my opinion that your preparation of SARSAPARILLA is decidedly superior to any other now in use, and I will take great pleasure in recommending it for the cure of Scrofula and all diseases of the blood and kidneys. B B. ALLfcN, M. D., Bradford, Ky. PRINCIPAL OFFICE: 831 West Main Street, Louisville, Ky. Price, $1; Six Bottles for $5. For Sale by all Druggists

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CONSUMPTION 1 have * positive remedy for the above disease; by its use remedy for the above disease; by its use eases of the worst kiud and of lone standing kevebwn cured. Indeed, so strong Is my faith In its efficacy, that 1 will send TWO BOTTLES FREE, together with a_ CABLE TREATISE on this disease, to any sufferer. Give Kx* press and F.O. address. DR* T. A. SLOCUM, m Fsarl 8L, M.V. The best and sorest Remedy for Core of all diseases caused by any derangement of the Liver, Kidneys, Stomach and Bowels. Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Constipation, Bllioos Complaints and Malaria of all kinds yield readily to the beneficent influence of It is pleasant to the taste, tones op the system, restores and preserves health. It is purely Vegetable, and cannot fail to prove beneficial, both to old and yonng. ■ As a Blood Purifier It Is superior to all yttanik^SOjl^evcar^taijM^tLDO^bott^ MUSTANG Survival of the Fittest. |A FAMI LI MEDICINE THAT HAS HEALED MILLIONS BORINS U TEARS 1 iEminwEiT. |A BAUM FOB EVERT WOUND OF MAN AND BEAST I |The Oldest & Best liniment XVBB MADS IN AMBB1CA. SALES LARGER THAR EVER. I Th» Mexican Mustang Liniment has Jbeen known for more than thirty-five Stare as the beat of all Llulmenis. for, a1 Beast. Its sales to-day are ■larger Iban over. It cures when all ■others fail, and penetrates skin, tendon land musele, to the very bone. Sold ■•▼orywiiero.

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