Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 4, Petersburg, Pike County, 3 June 1886 — Page 4

; AGE’S SERMON.

^Rev. T. DeWit* Talmage, in delivering i second sermon on the labor question at dyn Tabernacle, took two texts from tkich to illustrate his subject, as follows:' If ye bite and devour one another, take 1 that ye be not consismed one of anher.—[Galatians v.,15. I Look not every matt on his own things; I every man also on the things of others. -IPhllipplans II, 4. The labor agitation will soon quiet. The iwill again open, the railroads re»their traffic, our National prosperities ain start Of course the damage done ' the strikes ean net immediately be reW ages will not be so high as they Spasmodically they may be highbut they will ilrop lower. Strikes, whether they are right or wrong, always injure laborers more than they do capitalists. You will see th is in the starvation of next winter. Boycotting and violence and murder never pay. They are different stages of anarchy. God never blessed , murder. The worst use you can put a man to is to kill him. Blow up to-morrow all theoountry seats on the banks of the Hudson, and all the fine houses on Madison square, and Brooklyn heights, and Bunker hill, and Rittenhouse square,, and Beacon street, and all the bricks and timber and stones will just fall back on the bare hands of American labor. The worst enemies of the working classes of the United States and Ireland are their demented coadjutors. The assassinations of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland, in the a ttempt to avenge the wrongs of Ireland, only turned away from that afflioted people millions of sympathisers. The attempt to hlow up the House of Commons sin London had only this effect—to throw out of employment tens of thousands of innocent Irish people in England. In this oountry the torch put to the factories that have discharged hands for good or bad reason; obstructions on the rail-tracks in front of midnight express trains, because the offenders do not like the president of the company; strikes on shipboard the hour they were going sail, or in printing offices the hour the paper was t o go to press, or in the mines the day the coal was to be delivered, or on house scaffoldings so the builder fails in keeping his contract—all these are only a hard blow on the head of American labor, and cripple its: arms, and lame its feet, and pierce its heart. Traps sprung suddenly on employers, and violence, never took one knot out of the knuckles of toil, or put one farthing of wages into a callous palm. Barbarism will never cure the wrongs of civilisation. Mark that! But gradually the damages done the laborer by the strikes will be repaired, and some important things ought now to be said. The whole tendency of our times, as you have noticed, is to make the chasm between employer and employe wider and wider. In olden time the head man of the factory, the master builder, the capitalist, the head man of the firm worked side by aide with their employes, working sometimes at the same bench, dining at the same table;-and there are those here who can remember the time when the clerks of large commercial establishments wegp accustomed to boat'd with the head men of the firm. All that is changed, and the tendency is to make the distance between employer and employe wider *nd wider. The tendency is to make the employe feel that he is wronged by the success of the capitalist and to make the capitalist feel: “Now my laborers are only beasts of burden; I must give so much money for so much drudgery, just so many piecas of silver for so many beads of sweat.” In other words, the bridge of sympathy is brokeh down at both ends. That feeling was well described by Thomas Carlyle when he said: i

Adieu, noble splnnurs; drink my health with this groat eaoh, which I give you over and above;" Now what we want Is to rebuild that bridge of sympathy, and I put the trowel to one of the abutments to-day; and I preach more especially this morning to employers as such, although what I have to say will be appropriate to all who are in the house. The outrageous behavior of a multitude of laborers toward their employers during the last three months, behavior infamous aB^S|gorthy of most condign punishment, may have induced spine employer* to neglect the real Chriutian duties that they owe to those whom they employ. Therefore I want to say to you whom I confront face to face, and those to whom these words may come, that all ship-owners, all capitalists, all commercial firms, all master builders, all housewives are bound to be interested in the entire welfare of their subordinates. Years ago some one gave three prescriptions lor becoming a millionaire: ‘ 1. Spend your life in getting and keeping the earnings of other people. 8. Have no anxigty about the worriraeuts, the losses, the disappointments of others. 3. Do not mind the fact that your vast wealth implies the poverty of a great many people. Hpvr there is not a man iu my ^audience who would consent to go out into life with those jhree principles to earn a fortune. It is your desire to do your whole duty to the men and women in yonr service. , f First of all then, pay as large wages as are reasonable and as your business will afford. Not neces-nrily what others pay, certainly not what your hired help say you must pay, for that is tyranny on the part of labor unbearable. The right of a laborer to tell his employer what he must pay, implies the right of an employer to compel a man into a service whether he will or not, and either of those ideas is despicable. When any employer allows a laborer to say what he must door have his business rntned, and the employer submits to it, he does every business man in the United States a wrong and yields to a principal whiob, carried out, would dis solve society. Look over your affairs and put yourselves In imagination in ydfcr laborer’s place, and then pay him what before God and your own conscience you hack hop be too read * lupcvu, v* ov Mwnj VUIIUDIIUI, UUQ ' caneer-like says to t ls men : “Noble spinners, this Is the hundredth thousand we have gained, wheielu I mean to dwell and plant my vineyards. The hundred thousand pound is mine, the ciaily wage was yours.

So you toe It is not a question between yon end your employe so modi es It Is n question between you end your Qod. Do not sey to your employes, “Bow, it you don’t, like this piece get another," when you know they oen not get another. As ter as possible once e year visit et their homes, your clerks end your workmen. That is the only way you can become acquainted with their wants. Too will by such process And out that there la a t^ind parent or a sick sister being supported. You will Snd some pt your young men in rooms without any fire in winter, and in summer sweltering in ill-ventilated apartments. You will find how much depends on the wages you pay or withhold. On Saturday morning, when you come into your counting-room and draw the check which will bring thscmonev tar the wages on the salaries, you will have a thrill ot satisfaction in knowing it is not only the money you give to the young man, but the relief to the dire necessities which stand back of him.

Moreover, It is your duty as employer, its far as possible, to mold the welfare of the employe. You ought to advise him about investments, about life insurance. about savings banks. You ought to give him the benefit ot your experience. There are hundreds and thou-' sands of employers in this country and Suglnnd, I am glad to say, who are settling in the very best possible way the destiny of their employes. Such men as Marshall, of Leeds; Fister, ot Bradford; Akroyd, of Halifax, and men so near at home it might offend their rhodesty if I mentioned their names. These men have built reading-rooms, libraries, concert halls, afforded croquet lawns, cricket grounds, gymuasium*, choral soci“ties for their employes, and they have not merely paid the wages on Saturday night, but through the contentment and the thrift and the good morals of their employes, they are paying wages from generation to generation forever. Again, I counsel all employers to look well after the physical health of their subor linates. You are expected to understand better than they all these questions of ventilation and sunshine, and all the laws of hygiene. There are stores and hanking houses and factories and newspaper establishments where the atmosphere is death. Your employes may not always appreciate your work, that style of kindness was not appreciated in the instance mentioned by Charles Reade, where in a great factory a fan was provided for the blowing away of the dust of tuetal and stone, the dust arisiug from the machinery, aud some of the workmen refused to put this great fan in motion. They seemed to prefer to inhale the filings, the poisonous filings, into their lungs. But in the vast majority of eases your employes will appreciate every kindness in that direction. Then I would have yon carry out this sanitary idea, and put into as few hours as possible the work of the day. Some time ago—whether it has been changed I know not—there were one thousand grocer clerks in Brooklyn who went to business at five o’clock in the ratfrning and continued until ten o’clock at night. Now, that is inhuman. It seems to me all the merchants in all departments ought, by simultaneous movement, to come out in behalf of the early closing theory. These young men ought to have an opportunity of going to the Mercantile library, to the rending rooms, to the concert hall, to the gymnasium, to the church. They have nerves, they have brains, they have intellectual aspirations, they have immortal spirits. If they can do a good round day’s work in the ten or eleven hours, you have no right to keep them harnessed for seventeen. I do not think that any intelligent employer can afford to be reckless of the physical and mental health of his subordinates. But above all, 1 charge you, O employers, that you look after the moral and spiritual welfare of your employes. First, know where they spend their evenings. That decides every thing. You do not want around your money drawer a young man who went last night to see Jack Sheppard. A man that comes into the store in the morning ghastly with midnight revelry is not the man for your store. The young man who spends his evenings in the

society or refined women, or in musical or artistic circles, or in literary improvement, is the young man for your store. Without any disgusting inquisitiveness, without any impertinence, you ought |o have your young men understand that you are interested so much in their welfare that yon want to know where they spend their leisure hours, and they will frankly and gladly tell you. Do not say of these young m“u; “If they do their work in the business hours that is all I have to ask.*’ God has made you that man’s guardian. I want you to understand that many of these young men are orphans, or worse than orphans, flung out into society to struggle for themselves. A young man is pitched into the middle of the Atlantic ocean, and a plank is pitched after him, and then he is told to take that and swim nshore. Treat that young man as you would like to have your son treated if you were dead. Be father to that clerk. There is nothing more beautiful than to bear an aged merchant addressing his clerks, and saying: “My son.” That young man in your employ has a history. His father was a drunkard. His first remembrance of his father was the father coming home late at night intoxicated and the children hiding under the bed frightened. And that young man has stood many a time between father and mother, keeping her from the brutal blow. He is prematurely old in trying to provide for the house rent and clothing for his younger brothers and sisters. He may seem to you like all other young men, but God and his mother know he is a hero. At twenty years of age he has suffered as much as many have suffered at sixy. Do not tread on him. Do not swear at him. Do not send him on a useless errand! Say “good morning” and “good night” and good-bye.” You are deciding that man’s destiny for two worlds. One of my earliest remembrances is of old Arthur Tappan- There were many differences of opinion about his politics, but no one who ever knew Arthur Tappan, and knew him well, doubted his being au earnest Christian. In his store in New York he had a room where every morning he called his employes togeth ,-r, and he prayed with them, read the Scriptures to them, sang with them, and then they en» tered on the duties of the day. On Monday morning the exercises differed, and he gathered the young men together and asked them where thev had attended church, what had been their Si Math experiences and what had he-n the sermon. Samuel Budgett had the largest business In the west of England. He had in a room of his warehouse a place pleasantly furnished with comfortable seats and “Fletcher’s Family Devotions” an l Wesleyan hymn-hooks, and fie gathered his employes together every morning, and, having sung, they knelt down and prayed —side by side—the employer and the employes. - Do you wonder at that man’s success, and that though thirty years before he had been * partner in a sm <11 retail shop inn small village, at bis death he bequeathed many millions. God o«n trust such a man as that with plenty of money. That ie Christian character demonstrated. There are others in this country and in other lands on a smaller scale doing their beet tor their employes. They hare not forgotten their own <s»rly struggles. They remember ;he first yard of nankeen they measured, the first quarter of tea they weighed, the first banister they turned, the first roof they shingle d. Thoy remember how they were discouraged, how hungry they were, and how odd and how tired they were, and though age, ten and

■tamo in roughest ora dies on i««n rocker misfortune had pat her violent foot and tipped them into the cold world. Thoee men an sympathetic with hoys. Rat you an not only to be kind to ithoso who an under you—Christianly kind—but you an also to toe that your boss workman and your head.clerks and your averts and your overseers in the stores are kind to 'those under them. Sometimes a man wilil get a little brief authority in a store or in a factory, and while they an very courteous to you, the capitalist, or to you, the head man of the Arm, they an most brutal in their treatment of those under them. God only knows what some of the lads suffer in the cellars and in the lofts of some of our gnat establishments. They have no one to appeal to. The time will come when their arm will be strong, and they can defend themselves, but not now. Alas, for some of the cash boys, and the messenger roys, and the boys that sweep the store. Alas, for some of them! Now, yon capitalist; you, the head man of the Arm. must look, supervise, see those all around you, investigate all beneath you.

Ana then I charge yon not ro pot unnecessary temptation in the way of your young men. Do not keep large sums of money lying around unguarded. Km* how much money there is iu the till. Do not hare the accouut books loosely kept. There are temptations inevitable to voun? men. and enough of them without your putting any unnecessary temptation in their way. Men in Wall street haring thirty years of reputation for honesty have dropped into Sing Sin? and perdition, and you must be careful how you try a lad of fifteen. And if he do wrong, do not pounce on him like a hyena. If he prove himself unworthy of your confidence do not call in the police, but take him bomb, tell why. you dismissed k im to those who will give him another chance. Many a young man has done wrong once, who will never do wrong again. Ah, my friends! I think we ean afford to give everybody another chance, when God knows we should all have been in perdition if he had not given us ten thousand chances. Then if, in moving around your factory, or mill, or barn, or store, you are inexorable with young men, God will remember it. Some day the wheel of fortune will turn and you will be a pauper, and your daughter will go to the work-house, and your sou will die on the scaffold. If, in moving y oar young men, you see one with an ominouspallor of cheek, or you hear him coughing behind the counter, say to him: “Stay home a day or two and rest, or go out and breathe the breath of the | hills.” If his mother die, do not demand that on the day after the funeral he be in tho store. Give him at least a week to get over that which he will never get over. Employers, urge upon your employes above all a positive religious life. You can do it. You are in a position not. to be laughed at, or scoffed at, or jeered at. You hold the keys of the establishment, and by yonr position you demand reverence. Now, urge all those employes into a religious life. So far from that how is it, young men* Instead of being cheered on the road to Heaven some of you are caricatured, and it is a hard thing for you to keep your Christian integrity in that store or factory where there are so many hostile to religion. Ziethen, a brave General under Frederick the Great, was a Christian. Frederick the Great was an infidel. One day Ziethen, the venerable, white-haired General, asked to he excused from military duty that he might attend the holy sacrament. He was excused. A few days after Ziethen was dining with the King and with many notahles of Prussia, when Frederick the Great, in a jocose way, said: “Well, Ziethen, how did the sacrament of last Friday digest?” The venerable old warrior arose and said: “For your Majesty I have risked my life many a time on the battle-field, and for your Majesty I would be willing any time to die; but you do wrong when you insult the Christian religigp. You will forgive me if I, your old military servant, can not bear in silence an insult to my Lord and Saviour.” Frederick the Great leaded to his feet, and he put out his hand a.nd he said: “Happy Ziethen! forgive me, forgive me. You will never be bothered again.” Oh, there are many being scoffed at for their religion! and I thank God tha t there are as many men as hr»v« .» gioth...

count ot sins forgiven? Oh, dry goods merchants! are those yonng men under your care who are providing fabrics of apparel for head and hand, and foot and bach, to go unclothed—unclothed into eternity? O, you merchant grocers!-are those youug men that under your care are providing food for the bodies and families of men, to go starved forever? O, you manufacturers of these United States! with .so many wheels flying, and so many hands flying, and so many bands pulling, and so many new patterns turned out, and so many goods shipped—are the spinners, are the carmen, are the draymen, are the salesmen, are the watchers of your establishments working out every thing but their own salvation? Can it be- that, having those people under your earn, five, ten, twenty years, you have made no everlasting impression for good on thetr immortal souls? Cod turn us all back from such selfishness, and teach us to lire for others and not for ourselves. Christ sots os the ex ample of sacrifice, and so do many of his disciples. One summer, in California, a gentleman who had just removed from the Sandwich Islands told me this incident. He said on9 of the 8andwich Islands is devoted to lepers. People getting sick of the leprosy' on the other islands are sent to that isle of lepers. They never come off. They are in different stages of the disease, but sll who dte on that island die of leprosy. On one of the healthy islands there was a physician who always wore his hand gloved, and it was often discussed why he always had a glove dn that hand under all circumstances. ■ ■. One day this physician came to the city authorities and he withdrew his glove, and he said to the officers of the law: “Ton see on that hand a spot of the leprosy and that I am doomed to die. 1 might hide this for a little while and keep away from the island of lepers; but I am a physician, and I can go cm that island and administer to the sufferings ot those who are further gone In the disease, and I should like to go how. It would be selfish in me to stay amid these luxurious surroundings when I might be ot so much help to the wretched. Send me to (she isle of the lepers.” They, seeing the spot of leprosy, ot course took the man into oustody. He bade farewell to hit family and his friends. It was an agonising farewell. He could never see them ngeln. He was taken to the isle ot the lepers, and there * wrought among among the sick nutil prostrated by his own death, which at last eame. Ob! that was magnificent self-denial, magnificent sacrifice., only surpassed by that of him who exiled himself from the hearth of Hepven to this leprous island of a world, that ho might

ODD SOUNDS. ly IM In Flr*t-C lass OnkwtrM. [Brooklyn Union. 1 One of the instruments which Davit plays is commonly colled the bells, os Orchestra bells; la Germany called tbs “glockenspiel.” It consists of a number of short bars of steel resting on straw ropes. The bars are played upon by short hammers, the metals of which are connected with the wood handles by whalebone. The full chromatic scale, two and a half octaves, are represented by the bars, which are toned by sine. The instrument most like the bells is the xylophone, which consists of a number of pieces of wood strung together by two cords and resting on ropes of straw. The method of tuning the xylophone is curious. If a note be flat it is corrected in tone by having a section sawed off; if sharp, it is notched on the under side by a saw-cut.

The anvils in an orchestra are far from being such as smiths play upon by the side of a forge, though thetr tones are remarkably like those of the real article. The anvil which Mr. Davis has are two pieces of hemi-octagonal brass, hollow and about <jght inches long. Hemi-octagonal may not be thje scientific term for describing a tube whifch would be octagonal if alike on both sides, but which looks as if it had been octagonal and sliced down its length and the first side covered over. That is what they are. They are contained in a little plush-lined case, and might be carried in an overcoat pocket, but when struck with a little hammer give out a sound like an anvil. It tells a story of the times that there has been so much musio written of late relating to champagne drinking that instruments have been devised and patented to imitate the “pop** of a champagne cork. Mr. Davis has two such instruments. One is a simple wooden cylinder, a piston working in one end and a captive cork in the other. It is as simple as a boy’s pep-gun, but the sound has a flve-dollars-a-bottle bang that is most captivating. The second popimitator, recently invented, can be worked more rapidly and made to imitate the sound around a race-course bar just after the field has won against long odds. This is a long brass cylinder, the piston running through the cork and having a bolt on that end to prevent the cork from flying oft and hitting the ringer in the eye. The piston, pushed in rapidly, causes a deceptive “pop,” and being as rapidly pushed back, plugs the, cork tight in again, ready for another battle, which action can be kept up faster than the thirstiest crowd could cut the wire. The crack of a whip is a noise that is heard under very different circumstances on the stage. It may be a chorus describing a- rollicking sleigh-ride, a Lady Gay Spanker, who emphasises a story with a flourish of a whip, or the overseer in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Whatever the occasion, the man sitting at the end of the orchestra supplies the “crai^t.” Mr. Davis does this with a little instrument that looks like a big razor strop split down to the haddle and there hinged. It is worked with one hand, for very frequently, at the same time, sleigh-bells must be heard, and the other hand is employed in shaking a belt of silver bells right merrily. The Bridegroom Was Not Posted. [Boston Budget.) A young man in a neighboring city applied recently for a marriage license and the clerk in attendance said in answer to his request, after he had made some other inquiries: “What was the name of the lady’s father?” “You’ve got me there,” was the response. “Well, then, what was her mother’s name?” “I give it up,” was the answer. “You seem to be profoundly ignorant regarding your intended wife’s family, but perhaps you’ll be communicative enough to tell me the age of the lady you intend to lead to the altar,” said the long-suffering registrar. The reply was. “Couldn’t, upon my life; I never asked her; she’s got red hair.” Finally an old acquaintance of the lady came forward and and the affair was settled in a short space in a satisfactory manner. L / Talleyrand and t!*e Thin Marquis. [Paris Morning Journal.1 Tortoni’s, the historical ice-house and cafe of this century, is as a piece of Dresden china among the gingerbread establishments of to-day. For sixty years it Is been the gathering place of real wits, d I am pleased to chronicle that it has t lost its reputation. It was at Tortoni’s it Talleyrand said his best things, and sy were many. One day a Marquis of igular thinness, with a court sword nging from his belt, entered. “My dear irquis,” said Talleyrand, looking down at the spindle legs of-the old-fashioned aristocrat, “when I look at you I never know whether you have three swords or three legs.”

Spare the Rod, ami Spoil the Sire, lOglethorpe (Ga.) Echo.] A negro boy is teaching a night school at the old hotel place, and has for an motto: “Spare the rod; spoil the child." -He numbers among his pupils his aged father, who seeks for knowledge, but the parental head sometimes stalls on the simplest proposition. The other day the dutiful son thought it necessary to grease his teachings with “hickory oil” in order that his ancestor might take them in, and when he had showered down about twenty licks with all his might, making it rather too warm for the old man, he exclaimed: “W’at.you mean, boy; don’ yer know I’sa ger daddy?” Going In For Economy. [Exchange.] In his amusing book, “Music in Fogland,” M. Remo tells the following: “The butler of a great lady of fashion was overheard by her one day discussing thd vicissitudes of life with a fellow-servant. ‘My dear fellow,’ he ejaculated, ‘I am afraid that our people are going in for economy. Only fancy, at the party yesterday evening I see with my own eyes my lady and Miss Hisabel a playin’ one piano at the tame time!*” THE MARKETS. FLOUR—Good to Cho ice ..... *85 WHEAT,—No. 3Red.... 85! DORN—No. 2. 48 OATS—Western Mixed. $5 PORK—New Mesa. .... ST. LOU18. COTTON—Middling. .... BEEVES—Good to Choice..., b 10 Fair to Medium.... 4 70 HOGS—Common to Seleot.... 3 60 SHEEP—Fair to Choice. 2 80 FLOUR—Patents. 4 55 Medium to Straight 3 25 WHEAT—No. 2 Red Wmter... 78 CORN—No.2 Mixed....... OATS—No. 2. 29! RYE—No. 2. 60 TOBACCO-Lugs...- S 25 Leaf—Medium.— 5 so HAY—Choice Timothy.11 80 BUTTER—Choice Dairy.. U EGGS—Fresh.... 7 pork—New Mesa.. .... BACON—Clear Rib. 6! LARD—Prime Steam... S! WOOL—Fine to Choice, new.. 20 CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping........... 4 70 HOGS-Good to Choloe. 4 00 SHEEP-Good to Choice. S 00 FLOUR—Winter.. S 50 Patents..... 4 6i WHEAT—No. 2 Spring.. .... CORN-No. 2... OATS-No. 2 White. .... PORK—New Mess..... KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Shipping Steer*.... 4 40 HOGS—Sales atT. 3 40 WHEAT—No.2. 80 CORN-No. 2. 28 OATS-No. 2. 28

A LIBERAL OFFER. *h» Tkouui Boilers to any Charitable Institution, If It Cm Mot be Doh m It bSItM IftWmlsr. K r. Mm and Adtcrtiaar. Friends of KxPreaident Arthur ora vasy much disquieted. Of course he is not going to diet He ta in the bends of every perticuler physician. His doctor does not cell it Bright's Disease ! No, it is stomsch disorder that he is coffering from now. end troy few hoars he takes e cold, and from time to time many other symptoms ere developed. These symptoms the public should know ere really secondary to Bright’s Disease. His physicians say that everything that medical skill can do for him is being done. That is not sol This case is a prominent one because the General is an ex-President; and yet there are thousands of farmers quietly dying, in their farm houses, of secondary symptoms of Bright’s Disease, called by every other conceivable name; thousands of workmen, likewise dying, leaving helpless families; hundreds of thousands In all walks of life who have sickened, end are likewise dying, helpless victims of powerless physicians Eight years ago a very well known gentleman was about to enter upon large commercial transactions His medical adviser quietly dropped into his office one day and told his confidential clerk that he would he dead in three months, and that he ought to settle up his business affairs at

That mu is Birrs and well to-day, yet he wee given np as incurable with the same disease that is killing General Arthur! Our reporter met this gentleman yesterday and m conversation about the General’s case, he said: “ I will i _give <5,000 to any charitable in- “ stitution in the State of New York, to be “designated by the editor of the New • “ York World, the editor of the Buffalo “ Arm and W. E. Kisselburgh of the Troy '* Times, if Warner’s safe cure (taken ae- “ cording to my directions) which cured u me eight years ago, can not cure General “ Chester A. Arthur of Bright’s disease “ from which he is suffering.’’ “Now I want you to understand,” ha •aid, “that we do not profess to make new “ kidneys, but we do know from personal “experience and from the experience of “ many thousands of similar cases, that “ we can stop the consumption of the kidneys. Many a man .has gone through “ life with one kidney without inconven- “ ience. Thousands of people have lived “ a majority of their life with one lung. “ They did not have a new lung made. We “ do not make new kidneys, but if the kid- “ ney is not consumed too much we can “ stop disease ana prolong life if taken in “time” This offer comes from H. H. Warner, proprietor of Warner’s safe cure, of this city. Mr. Warner also said: “My dear sir, “there are Governors, Senators, Fresi“dential candidates, members of Congress, “prominent men and women atl over the “country whom I personally know have “been cured of disease, such as Genera) “Arthur suffers from, by our Warner’s “safe cure, but owing to the circles in “which they move they do not care to ‘ give public testimonial to thefact.” Warner is interested in General Arthur’s case because he is personally acquainted with him and he says that it is a shame that any man should he allowed to die under the operation of old-fashioned powerful cathartics, which have no curative effects, rather than that a modern, conceded specific for kidney disease whose worth is acknowledged world-wide, should save him. “If you doubt the efficacy of Warner’s safe cure,” say the proprietors, “ask your friends and neighbors about it. This is asking but little. They can tell you all you want to know.” “We have kept a standing offer before the public for four years,” said Mr. Warner, “that we will give <5,000 to any person who can successfully dispute the genuineness, ao far as we know, of the testimonials we publish, and none have done it.” Were General Arthur a poor man, unable to be left “In the hands of his physician,” he would use that great remedy, as many thousands of others have done, and get well. How absurd then for people to say that every thing that can be done is being done for the ex-President. when the one successful remedy in the world that has cured, or that can cure a case like his, has not been used by them. Thb worm must be contagious or the early bird would not catch it—Merehmni Traveler. •800,000,000. Many splendid fortunes lie in the English Court of Chancery, which belong to Amer can citiseus. The court has held possession in some cases, for more than one hundred and fifty years. Cox & Co., London, England, have with great care and diligence Compiled a book containing the names ol fifty thousand heirs and their descendants who have been advertised for to claim these fortunes. The book gives Christian and surnames, and instructions how to proceed for the recovery of money and estates. Sent free to all parts of the world upon receipt of one dollar. Remittance may be made by registered letter or money order. Address COX & CO., 41 Southampton Buildings, London, England. Cox & Co. refer by permission to the Kellogg Newspaper Company, New York.

Orthography for Americans—Dyspepsia With three letters: P-i-e.—Tid-Mts. “Over and Over Again.” Repetition is sometimes the only way to impress a truth upon the mind. Accord ingly take notice that Dr. Pierce’s “Pleasani Purgative Pellets,” (the original Little Liver lulls) continue to be wonderfully effect ive in cases of sick and nervous headache, constipation, indigestion, rush of blood tc the head, cold extremities, and all ailment! arising from obstruction of the bodily func tions. Their action is thorough yet gentle, and the ingredients being entirely vegetable, they can be taken with impunity intc the most delicate stomach. All druggists Something you will never find out—An inn.—iV. r. Herald. Prickly Ash Bitters warm up and Invigorate the stomach, improves and strenghtens the digestive organs, opens the pores, promotes perspiration, and equalizes the circulation. As a corrector of a disordered system there is nothing to equal it. Gobs without saying—A deaf and dumt man.—Lowell Conner. The Weaker Sex are immensely strengthened by the use o! Dr.R. V. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescription,’ which cures all female derangements, anc gives tone to the system. Boldby druggists As ode to a goat may be called a nanny versary poem.—Lowed Citizen. When every thing else fails, Dr. Sage’i Catarrh Remedy cures. Thb key of a butcher’s voice is natural!] beef-flat.—Newman Independent. Can not be washed off. The color produo ed by Buckingham’s Dye for the Whiskers As an antidote for malarial disorders Ayer’s Ague Cure has no equal. It neve: fails. TAB best cough medicine is Piso’s Cur for Consumption. Sold everywhere. 2oc A last farewell—A shoe-maker givint up his business. Ir afflicted with Sore Eyes use Dr. Isaai Thompson’s Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 35c ‘Through by daylight”—The house breaker.—Life. PrasTooTHACHxDrops oureini minute, 26 Olenn’z Sulphur Soap heals and beautifies. 26c German Corn Remover kil Is Corns a Bunions O* much ado—tornado.—Waterloo Oter That Tired Feeling Is so general at this season that every one knowi what 1s meant hy the expressitm. A change of sea son. climate, or of life, haa each a depressing eC.ci upon the body that one feels all tired oat. almost com pletely prostrated, the appetite Is lost, and there Is u ambition to do anythin*. The whole tendency of tin eystem la downward. In this condition Hood's Sarsi partita Is ]ust the medicine needed. It parlies thi Mood, sharpens the appetite, overcome# the ttrci feeling, and Invigorates every function of the body Try It. “I never took any medlctqe that did me so moot good In so short a time as Hood’s Sarsaparilla. I wto very mat* run down, had no strength, no energy, ant fait very tired all the time. I commenced takln; Hood's Sarsaparilla, snd before I had nsed one bottl, felt like a different person. That extreme tired feel has gone, my appetite returned, and It toned m< np generally. My brother and slater hSTe also re •elved great benelt from It." Clara W. Phxips Shirley, Mass. Hood’s Sarsaparilla

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ACH, KIDNEYS,BOWELS, Ac. It Purifies the Blood, Invigorates and Cleanses the System. DYSPEPSLACONSTIPATION, JAUNDICE, SICKHE&DACHE, BILIOUS COMPLAINTS, Ac disappear at once under its beneficial influence. It is purely a Medicine as its cathartic properties forbids its use as a beverage. It is pleasant to the taste, and as easily taken by children as adults. PRICKLY ASH BITTERS CO Sol® Proprietor*, StJLouis and Kansas Citt

OR SKIN CANCER. For seven years I suffered with a cancer on my face Eight months ago a friend recommended the use of Swift’s Specific* and I determined to make an effort tb procure it. In this I was snccessfnl, and began ita use. The influence of the medicine at first was to somew hat aggravate the sore; but soon the inflammation was allayed* and I began toimproveafterthe first {ew bottles. My general neiiith has greatly improved.' am stronger* and am able to do any kind ox work. The cancer on my face began to decrease and the ulcer to heal, unth there is not a vestige of it leftonly a little scar marks the place, Mrs. Joicik A. McDonald. Atlanta. Ga., August 11* 1SS5. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. Tub Swift Specific Co* Drawer S* Atlanta, G* K.Y-1SZW. 23d Street.

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HS. R. KIINTO’S NEW FURNITURE STORE! This firm has opened a large stock of New Furniture* all the latest styles hi f Mates, tartrate, Sofas, (Ms, Borate Dressing Cases, Tallies, Safes Our goods are *11 new—no old stock to select from. Our place of business Is at Stag s <1 Stand, where we can be found soiling as cheap as any bouse In the country. Ift aT-o P a full stock of ' ■ . uistbertakeRs’ SUPPLIES CALL AND S£l£! US. f E. R. KING, - - - Petersburg, Ind. EUGENE HACK. ANTON SIMON. -Proprietors of— 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 All Saloons. ISAAC T. WHITE. FRED’K H. BURTON. MARSHAL C. WHITE. KLE3LLBR. tfc WHITE, "Wholesale Druggists AND DEALERS IN Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs, Window Glass AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS. No. 105 Main Street, - - - Evansville, Ind. 1884. THE 3.884. OSBORN BROTHERS ) Sara removed to their elegant Near Building on Main street, where they have a large ana splendid line of BOOTS AND SHOES, for Ken, Women and Children. We keep R. L. Stevens’ and Emmerson’a brand* of Ktne Shoes. Petersburg, - - - • - - Indiana.

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