Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 19, Petersburg, Pike County, 23 September 1886 — Page 4

Spher* and OYerl*

T DeWitt Talmage in a recent ser--Ihe Brooklyn Tabernacle, took the (Hager’a exile as Ms theme in il•is God’s ability and readiness to ontcast. His text was: 4iod opened her eyes, and she saw a mter, and she went and filled the h water, and pare lihe lad drink.— fxl. 16. t-ilT^ftcher said: Morning breaks

aeDa. mere is an early stir iof old Abraham. There has vpong the domestics. Hagar, Fin the household, and her tad of sixteen years, ham bejnt and insolent, and Sarah, the household, puts her foot and says that they will the premises. They are Abraham, knowing that his servant and her son g and across desolate dness of his heart sets f seme bread and a bottle It is a very plain lunch Provides, but I warrant you e been enough of it had eir way. “God be with Abraham as he gave the and a good many charges ould conduct the journey, y, I suppose, bounded morning light. Boys hange. Poor Ishmael! He he disasters that are ahead gives one long, lingering jiiiar place where she had appy daya, each scene as* the pride and Joy of her ihmael. noon comes on. The air k^moves acros^thedesert

L Nov, no strong ■though to hear b«i- so^QHfcr a drink. • Heretofore she had cheered Tier boy by ■ promising a speedy end of the Journey, P«ml even smiled upon him when he felt ' desperately enough. Now there is nothing to do hut place him under a shrub and let him die., She had thought she would sit there and watch until the spirit of her boy would go away forever, and then she would breathe out her own life on his silent heart; but ae the boy begins to claw his tongue is agony of thirst, and struggle in distortion, end begs his mother to slay aim, she can not endure the spectacle. She nuts himunder a shrub, and goes off -.. shot, end begins to weep until all desert seems sobbing, anil her cry i~* ",lear through the heavens; and an , —„ —- — (Jodtcomes out or. a cloud and l9bks down Upon the appalling glief, and “Huger, wjut aileth theof” She lxijypf), 'and she sees the angel . to the well of water, where she bottle for the lad. Thank God I jfc-' ! I learn from this Oriental scene in first place, what a sad thing it is when . >ple do not know their place *nd got too prou<l for their business. Hager was an assistant in that household, but she wanted to rule there. She ridiculed and Jeered until her son, Ishmdel, got the same tricks. She dashed out her own. happiness, and threw Sarah Into a great fret; and if she had staid muoh longer in that household 4he would have upset calm Abraham’s f. equilibrium. My friends, one half of the trouble in the world to-day comes from the 1 act that people do not know their |||Ba<l*ip8f,'finding their place, will not stay $U» it. When we come into the world there :.;*#|always a place ready for us. A plaoe s||feAbrahain. A place for Sarah. A place for Hagar. A place forlshmael A place far you and a place for me. Our first duty is to IlMl our sphere; our second is to keep iL Wp may be born tn a sphere far off one for which God finally Intends is V. was born on the low ground a swineherd; God cilled him “ a scepter. Ferguson spent his , in looking after sheep; God din up to look after stars a shepherd watching the M light on the hillsides of Hogarth began by engraving _>ots; God raised him to stand in hanted realm of a painter. The t*s bench held Bloomfield for a . but God raised him to sit in of a philosopher and Christian .The soap boiler of London could his son in that business, for God Ided that Hawley was to be ona of hile;

ivesi astronomers or .England, re other hand, we may be born In a re a little higher than that for which Intends us. We may be born in a cable, and play in a costly conservatory, and feed high-bred pointers, and angle for gold-fish in artificial ponds, and be familiar with princes; yet God may better have fitted us for a carpenter’s shop, er dentist’s forceps, or a weaver's shuttle, okm-hjacksiuith’s forge. The great thing Is to find Just the sphere for which God intended us, and then to occupy this sphere, end occupy it forever. Here is a man God fashioned to make a plow. There is a sian God fashioned to make a constitution. The man who makes the pl,9w is Just as honorable as the man who makes the constitution. There it a woman who was made to fashion a robe, and yonder is »ne intended to 1 e a queen and wear it. It t-oms to me that in the one oase as in ihe other, God appoints the sphere, and he needle it jnst as respectable in Hit tight as the scepter. Ido not know bnt that the world would long ago hays been saved if some of the men ont oi the ministry were in it, and some of thots who art in it were out of it. 1 really think that one-half the world may be divided Into two quarters—those who have not found their sphere, and those who, having found It, are not willing to stay there. How many are struggling for a position a little higher than that for which God Intended thorn. The bondswoman wants to bo mistress. Hager keeps crowding Sarah. The small wheel of a wetoh whioh beautifully weat treading its golden pathway, wants to be the balance-wheel, and th« sparrow with ekggrla drops Into the

la tha Lord's army w* an want to be Brigadier-General*. The sloop says: “More mast, mors tonnage, mors canvas. Oh, that 1 were a topsail schooner, or a full-rigged brig: dr a Cuaard steamer.” And so the world is filled with cries of discontent because we are not willing to stay in the place where God put us and intended u» to be. My friends, be not too proud to do any thing God tells, you to do. For the luck of a right disposition in this respect the world is strewn with wandering Hagars and Ishmaels. God has given each of us a work to do. You carry a scuttle of coal up that dark alley. You distribute that Christian tract. You give ten thousand dollars to the missionary cause. You for fifteen years sit with chronic rhrumatism, displaying the beauty of Christian submission. Whatever God calls you to, whether It win hissing oir huzsa; whether to walk under triumphal arch or lift’the sot out of the ditch; whether it be to preach ou a pentecost or tell some wanderer of the street of the mercy of the Christ, or of Mary Magdalene; whether it be to weave a garland for a laughing child On a spring morning and call her a May queen, or to comb out the tangled locks of a waif of the street, and out up one of your4 old dresses to fit her out for the sanotuary— doit, and do It right away. Whether it be a crown or yoke, do not fidget. Everlasting honors upon those who do their work, and do their whole work, and are contented In the sphere in which God has put them; while there is wandering, and exile, and desolation, and wilderness for discontented Hagar and Isbmael. 8. Again, I find in this Oriental scene a lesson of sympathy with woman when she goes forth trudging in the desert* What a great change it was for this Hagar! There was the tent and all the surroundiugs of Abraham’s hom e, beautiful and luxurious, no doubt. Now she is going out into the hot sands of the desert. Oh, what a change it was! And In one day we often see the wheel of fortune turn. Here is some one who lived in tha very bright home of her father. She had every thing possible to adminter to her happiness—plenty at the table, musio in the drawingroom, welcome at the door. She is led forth into life by some one who can not [appreciate her. A dissipated soul comes Find takes her out into the desert. Cruelties blot out all the lights of that home circle. Harsh words wear out her spirits. The high hope that shone out over the mjjjy'agei altar while the ring was being 'setTand'i!o^^»5?’s W8Si»?dihe b-nedie*

tion pronounced, have all fadeiN^h orange blossoms, an 1 there she is broken-hearted, thinking of past joys,and'' present desolation, and coming anguish. Hagar |« the wilderness 1 Here Is a beautiful home. You can not think of any thing that can be added to it. For years there has not been the suggestion of a single trouble. Bright and ihappy children fill the house with laughiter and song. Books to read. Pictures to (look at. Lounges to rest on. Gup of do- ^ mastic joy full and running over. Dark ‘ night drops. Pillow hot./ Pulses flutter. Eyes close. And the foot whoso well-known steps on the door-sill brought the whole household out at eventide, crying! “Father’s coming,” will never sound on the door-sil} again- Along, deep grief plowed through all that brightness of domestic life. Paradise lost. Widdwhood. Hagar in the wilderness. How often is it we see the weak arm of woman conscripted for this battle with the rough world. Who is she, going down the street in the early light of the morning, pal^yith exhausting work, n<^t half slept out "with the slumbers of last night, tragedies of suffering written all over her face, her lusterless eyes looking far ahead, as though for the coming of some other trouble! Her parents called her Mary, or Bertha, or Agnes, on the day when they held her up to the font and the Christian minister sprinkled on the infant’s face the washings of a holy baptism. Her name is changed now. I hear it in the shuffle of the worn-out shoes. I see it in the figure of the faded calico. I find it in the lineaments of woebegone countenance. Not Mary, nor Bertha, nor Agnes, but Hagar in the wilderness. M'.y God have, mercy upon woman in her toils, her strugg.es, her hardships, her desolation, and may the great heart of divine sympathy inclose her forever; 3. Again, I fiend in this Oriental scene the fact that every mother leads forth tremendous destinies. You say: “That isn’t an unusual scene, a mother leading-her child by the hand.” f Who is that she is leading? Ishmael, you say. Who is Ishmael? A great nation is to be founded; a nation so strong that it is to stand for thousands of years against all the armies of the world. Egypt and Assyria thunder against, it but in vain. Gaulus brings up his army, and his army is smitten. Alexander decides upon a campaign, brings up hia hosts, and dies. For a long while that nation monopolized the learning of the world. . It is the nation of the Arabs. Who founded it? Ishmael, the lad that Hagar led into the wilderness. She had no idea she was leading forth such destinies. Neither does any mother. You pass along the street and see and pass hoys and girls who will yet make the earth quake with their influence.'' Who is that boy at Sutton Pool, Plymouth, England, barefooted, wading down into the slush nnd slime, until his bare foot comes upon a piece of glass and he lifts it, bleeding and pain-struck? That wound in the foot decides that he be sedentary in his life, decides that he be a student, ^hat wound by the glass in the foot decides that he shall be John Kitto,c who shall provide the best religious encyclopedia the world has ever had provided, and with his other writing; a. well, throwing a light upon the word c'f God such as has come from no other man in this century. O mother, mother, that little hand that wanders over your face may yet be lifted to hurl thunderbolts of war or drop benedictions I That little voice may blaspheme God in the grog-shop or cry “Coward 1" to the Lord’s hosts as they go out for their last victory. My mind this morning leaps thirty years ahead, and I see a merchant prince of New Yoyk. One stroke of his pen brings a ship out of Canton. Another stroke of his pen brings a ship into Madras. He is mighty

in all the money markets of the world. Who is he? He aits this morning beside you in the Tabernacle. My mine! leaps thirty years forward from this lime, and I And myself in a relief association. A great multitude of Christian women have inet together tor a generous purpose. There is one woman In that crowd who seems to hare the confidence of all the others, and they all look up to her fo;r her counsel and for her prayers. Who is she: This afternoon you will find her in the Babbath-school, while the teacher telle her of that Christ who clothed the naked, and fed the hungry, and healed tho sick. My mind leaps forward thirty years from now, and I find myself in an Atrloan jungle; and there is a missionary of the cross addressing the natives, and their dusky countenances are irradiated with the glad tidings of great Joy and salvation. Who is he? Bid you not bear his voice this morning In the first Song of the service? My mind leaps forward thirty years from now, and I find myself looking through the wickets of a prison. I see the face scarred with every erime. H i chin On his open palm, his elbow on his knee— a picture of desysir. A* I open the. wicket he starts and 1 hear his chain dank. The jail-keeper tells me that he has bBen In there now three times—first for theft, then for arson, now for murder. He steps Upon the trap-door, the rope is fastened to his neck, the plank falls, his body swings Into the air, his soul swings off Into eternity. Who is he, and where is he? This afternoon playing kito on the city commons. Mother, you are this morning hoisting a throne or forging a in: yon are kindling a star or digging

A good many yean ago a Christ!** j mother sat teaching lessons of religion to I her child; and he drank in those lessons. 8he never knew that Lamphier would come forth and establish the Fulton-street prayer meeting, and by on* meeting revolutionise the devotions of the whol* earth, and thrill the eternities with his Christian influence. Lamphier said it was his mother who brought him to Jesus Christ. She never had an idea that she was leading forth such destinies. But, oh, when I see a mother reckless of her in* fluence, rattling on toward destruction, garlanded for the sacrifice with Unseemly mirth and godlessness, dancing oh down to perdition, taking her children in the Sam's direction, preparing them for a life of frivolity, a death of shame and ah eternity of disaster, I can not help but says “There they go—there they go, Hagar and Ishmael 1” X tell you there are wilder deserts than Beer- sheba in many of the fashionable circles of this day. Dissipated parents leading dissipated children, avaricious parents lead* ing avaricious children, prayer* less parents leading prayer* less children. They go through every street, up every dark alley, into every cellar, along every highway. Hagar and Ishmael 1 And while I pronounce their names it secnis like the moaning ot the death wind, “Hagar and Ishmael 1" 4. I learn one more lesson from this Oriental scene, and that is, that every wilderness has a well in it. Hagar and Ish* mael gave up to die. Hagar’s heart sank within her os she heard her child cryingi i “Water! Water! Water 1” “Ah,” she rays, “my darling, there is no water. This is a desert,” And then God’s angel said from the cloud: “What aileth thee, Hagar?” And she looked Up and Saw him pointing to a well of water, where she filled the bottle for the lad. Blessed be God, that thereis in every wilderness a well, if you only know how to find it—fountains for all these thirsty souls this morning. On that last day, on that great day of the feast. Jesus stood and cried: If any man thirst, let him come to me an« drink. “All these other fountains you find are mere mirages of the desert. Paracelsus, you know, spent his time in trying to find out the elixir of life—a liquid which it taken would keep one perpetually young in this world, and would change the aged back again to youth. Of course, he wat disappointed; lie found no elxir. But here I tell you this morning of the elixir oi everlasting life bursting from the “Rock of Ages,” and that drinking that water you shall never get old, and you will never dio.

■'v Ho, every lean that thlrsteth, come ve t« theKyaters, Ah, hereis a wan who says: ‘l have been looting for that fountain a great while, but can’£dhi<! It.” And Imre is some one else who' scys: ‘‘I believe all you say, but I have beeE trudging along in the wilderness and can’t End the fountain.” Do you know the reason? I will tell you. You never looked in the right direction. “Oh,” you say, “I have looked every where. I have looked north, south, east and west, and I haven’t found the fount* ain.” Why, you are not looking in the right direction at all. Look up where Hager looked, She never would have found the fountain at all, but when she heard the voice of the angel she looked up, and saw the finger pointing to the supply. And, O, soul, if to-day with one earnest, intense prayeryou would only look up to Christ, He would point you down to the supply in the wilderness. Look unto Me all ye ends of the earth, and be ye saved; lor 1 am God, and there is none else. i Look! look 1 as Hager looked! Yes, there is well for every desert of bereavement. Looking over the audience this murniug, I notice an unusual number of signs of mourning and woe. Have you. found consolation? O man bereft, 0 woman bereft, have you found consolation? Hearse after hearse. We step from, one grave hillock to another grave hillock, We follow corpses, ourselves soon to be like them. The world is iur mourning for its dead. Every heart has become the sepulcher of some buried joy.. Hut sing ye to God; every wilderness has a well in it; and I come to that well to,, day, and I begin to draw water from that! well. If you have lived in the country you have sometimes taken hold of the ropo of the old well-sweep, and you know how the bucket came up, dripping with bright, cool water. And 1 lay hold of the rope of God’s mercy this morning, and 1 begin t«i draw on that gospel well-sweep, and I sen the buckets eoraing up. Thirsty soul I Here is one bucket of life! Come and drink of it. Whosoever will, let him come and take ot the water of life freely. I pull away again at the rope, and another bucket oomes up. It is this promise: Weeping may endure for anight, but Joy cometh in the morning. [S' I lay hold ot the rope again, and I pull i! away with all my strength, and the bucket Comes up, bright, and beautiful, and coolL Here is the promise: Gome uhto me all ye who are weary anil heavy laden, and I will give you rest. The old astrologers used to cheat the people with the idea that they could tell from the position of the stars what would occur in the future, and if a cluster «f stars stood in one relation, that would be a prophecy of good. What superstition 1 But here is a new astrology in which I put my faith. By looking up to the star of Jacob, the morning star of the Redeemer, 1 can make this prophecy in regai'd to those who put their trust in God: “All things work together for good to those who love God.” Do you love him? Have you seen the Nyctanthes? It is a beautiful flower, but it gives very little fragrance until after sunset. Then it pours its richness on the air. And this grace of the gospel that X commend to you this morning, while it may be very sweet during the day of prosperity, it pours forth its richest aroma after sundown. And it will be sundown with you and me after awhile. When you come la go out of this world, will it be a desert march, or will it be drinking at a fountain?

A Christian Hindoo was dying, and his heathen comrades came around him and tried to comfort him by reading some ol the pages of their theology; but he waved his hand as much as to say: “I don’t w nt to hear it.” Then they called in a heathen priest, and he said: will deliver you from hell.” He waved hit hand, as much as to say: “I don’t want to hear that.” Then they said: “Call on Juggernaut,* He shook his head, as much as to sayi “I can’t do that.” Then they thought perhaps he was too weary to speak, and they said: “Now, if you can’t say ‘Juggernaut,1 think of-hi^.” He shook his head again, as much as “No, no, no." Then they bent down to his pillow, and they said i “In what will you trgstt” His face lighted up with the very gt<*» ries of tin, celestial sphere >§ he cried out, rallying ail hit dying energies: Oh, oomMiiis morning to the fountain 1 I will tOT you the whole story in t^Ko or three sentences. Pardon for all Comfort for all trouble. Light for ell darkness. And every wilderness has well (n It. , —A gentleman in Athens, Ga., thirty ( three years old, never fired a gun i t hie life. There is a gentleman living in Sohley Comity who shingles his own' heir, and does It as qu ckly and tastth “If you will only recite the Numtra it say: l» H m

useful and suggestive. —Doughnut*; 1 cap sugar, 1 egg, i eup milk, half teaspoonful saleratus, 1 teaspoonful cream tartar, little salt; fry in the usual way.—N. T. Witness. —Prof. Law, of Cornell University, recently examined the milk from cows which had access to water from stagnant pools, and found in every case the milk full of Irving organisms. —Boiled Indian Pudding: One oup •weet milk) part cream, sour milk or buttermilk; three tablespoonfuls of molasses,one teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of saleratus, one cup of meal, one cup flour. Dried fruit if you like. Steam one and one-half hours.—Household. i —England, the greatest live stock country of the world, owes more of her agricultural prosperity to her turnip fields and sheep folds than to any other agency. Every writer on her farm economy gives due importance to this fact. —All small apples and others defective in form or damaged by worms have their best market on the farm as food for animals. If packed with sound fruit, even in small proportion, they reduce the price of all often to the point ^pf-loss.—Prairie Farmer. ’ -Poultry-farming doesn’t take a great deal of land, but with good management the harvest comes every day, and though it is small its multiplication by all the days of the year makes a sum that compares favorably with more pretentions ventures.—Western Rural. —Animals have their personal or individual peculiarities of tastes and habits, the same as persons. Therefore in feeding yon want to notice that some animals are more dainty as to their choice than others. Their likes should be respected.—Chicago Journal. —The best help for a farmer is a man with a family. In order to secure such a man you must provide a place upon the farm for his family to live, as close to the barn as your own house. Then you can obtain help, that, in character, will fairly represent the kind of a house you give them to live in.—Montreal Witness. —The evaporation of sweet corn to save it for wint er use has become a common practice among many farmers. The corn is boiled on the ear and then out off and placed in ovens, on racks, over the fire or in a regular evaporator, and thoroughly dried. When quite dry it is'placed in tight bags and kept in a

—Diseases are often communicated by feeding horses in stalls which have been occupied previously by diseased animals. Such stalls should first be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected. To do this take a pint of sulphuric acid and put'it in a bucket of water. Then, with an old mop, wash all the parts of the stall, especially the trough or manger. All stalls should be occasionally so disinfected, as their constant use permits them to gradually become unfit abodes of the animals.—N. Y. Times. —Horses are all the better for being made to do some work in winter. They need some for exercise, and if well fed, as they should be, will work every day except Sundays without being injured. It shows poor calculation on the part of any farmer who keeps a lot of horses in his stables all winter with nothing, for them to do. The hired help to keep these teams at work can be had much more cheaply in winter than in summer. —Chicago Standard. AUTUMN STYLES. Headed Epaulettes—Velvet and Plushes— Vlsites and Jackets. Epaulettes are still seen upon models for visiting, promenade and dinner dresses of rich materials. Many of these shoulder trimmings are so elaborate as to be really disfiguring. Large palms and scrolls made of silk cord and beads often form the epaulettes. Numberless rows of beads, oach string a little longer than the ‘ one above it, are also seen, and sometimes cockade bows made of picot satin ribbon.some what in the shape of butterflies were worn upon the shoulders. When not exaggerated, these are admirable, but they are absurd looking when the size of a big black bat with, wings extended. A prima donna who recently sang in concert made her appearance in a black satin bead-trimmed gown, and at the first glance one would have been certain that two black crows had perched themselves upon her shoulders in regular Poe’s raven attitude. But a nearer look proved them to be beaded epaulettes, a portion only of the ornaments being fastened to the shoulders, the rounded palms in the design left loose. Velvet and plush by the yard will remain in high favor as accessories to autumn toilets, to give tone to neutral and pale-tinted fabrics. For instance, a visiting gown of dove-gray vigogne will have a long redingote polonaise of this fabric, which meets the front only at a single point in the corsage, and on this will be set very wide revers of dark green or golden-brown velvet, with dogcollar an^d velvet revers on the culls of the same, and a belt with buckle matched to the handsome buttons which decorate the revers. The skirt will be of | plush-striped vigogne either in cross or perpendicular stripes, according as the height of the wearer may require, and will be disposed in five very broad kilts set directly down the front, the long sides of the polonaise hiding the rest of the skirt, with the exception of the narrow foot-pleating of velvet at the vextreme edge. Later on there will appear numberless striped polonaises, of vigogne overskirts of velvet or plain vigogne, kilted at the sides, with two plain straight breadths in the back. Autumn wraps will be made chiefly in visite and jacket fashion, ana trimmed with black lace and handsome ornaments put on separately, and not in one continuous band of nasse

menterie, unless of some novel and unique design. The visite shows many variations, and models arc brought out designed for young and old. For the latter are fanoy wraps made often of three different materials, and lavishly decorated. For elderly ladies are mantles longer and more practicallooking, made of satin brocades in black, golden brown and gray, with, beaded trimmings to match, or of velvet figured etamines lined with silk of the same hue, and garnitures with lace phiHings and rich chenille ornaments. Coats and jackets of black Sicilienne or velvet, open ever vests of white corded silk or ecru Ottoman,, will be very fashionably worn by stylish young bodies the autumn through, overskirts ef silk, veiling, canvas, and cashmere. The^e two styles in wraps promise te lead'*# favorites, they forming a rich and elegant transition from the airy summer scarf to the heavy winter pelisse.—N, Y. Post. Suckers in Corn. It is doubtful if it pays to remove the suckers which sprout from the stalks of corn. It is considerable trouble for little gain, and it is a question if the suckers do enough harm to make it worth the time and labor to remove them, own practice has been to pull them fjtnd use them for feeding to rows; t this was the most necessary beeause e kind of corn grown produced a rge quantity of suckers, and interfered its the growth of the ears. It is a uestion to be decided according to the ircumstances of the esse, each one for iself.—American Dairyman.

Ex-Mayor Latrobe, Baltimore, lid., says the best cough medicine is Red Star Cough Cure. Twenty-fire cents a bottle. Tax St Nicholas tells ot a dog that can count. But it can’t equal a cat in running up a oolumn.—Texas Stftings. rtsst6Ta afi, IZi 7>u stain or injure the skin. Hall’s Hiur Renew* « Dumb ague can be speedily cured by taxing Ayer’s Ague Cure. Try it Two heads ought to be better than one, Four lips are certainly better than Somerville Journal. Between' our thermometers and corteges the degree crop is drawing ahead of 9m oeach ditto.—X/U's. It Should be Generally Known that the multitude of diseases of a scrofulous nature generally proceed from a torpid condition of the li-rer. The blood becomes impure because the liver does not act properly and work oft the poison from the system, and the certain results are blotches, pimples, eruptions, swellings, tumors, ulcers and kindred affections or settling upon the lungs and poisoning their delicate tissues, until ulceration, breaking down, and consumption is established. Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery” will, bv acting upon the liver and purifying the blood, cure all these diseases. fis—“Miss Elsa, do you play on tha piano!” She—“No. sir; I can’t play a single note.” He—“Elsa, I love you.”— Safe, permanent and complete are the cures of bilious and intermittent diseases, made by Prickly Ash Bitters. Dyspepsia, general debility, habitual constipation, liver and kidney complaints are speedily eradicated from the system. It disinfects, cleanses and eliminates all malaria. Health and vigor are obtained more rapidly and permanently by the nse of this great natural antidote than by any other remedy heretofore known. As a blood purifier and tonic it brings health, renewed energy and vitality to a worn and diseased body. It sounds like a paradox to say that • man is laying up money when he is salting it down.—Chicago Journal. Tennyson’s “May Queen.” Who knows but if the beautiful girl who died so young had been blessed with Dr. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescription” she might have reigned on many another bright Mayday. The “Favorite Prescription” is a certain cure for all those disorders to which females are liable. Moonhoht walks with yonr best girl are nothing but lovely strolls.—Lowell Courier. Where are all the bad actors! “Read the answer in the stars.”—Jf. 0. Picayune. Fabrics and Cuticles are both rendered marvelously white by Glenn’s Sulphur Soap. Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye, Black or Brown, 50c.

A suit of armor was the old-fashioned knight dress.—£oston Mulletin. Don't hawk, and blow, and spit, but use Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. When you bury an old Animosity never mind a tombstone. _ The best cough medicine is Piso’s Cure for Consumption. Sold everywhere. 23c. “Dream of eggs, sign of money,” says the Bream-book. Perhaps that is the origin of the term “shell out.”—Chicago Mail. Ip afflicted with Sore Ey es use Dr. Isaac Thompson’s Ey e Water. Druggists sell it. 25c. Every man is said to have his price, but the trouble is nobody but himself knows the private mark.—Chieaao Tribuat. THE MARKETS. New York, Sept. 20,1886. CATTLE—Native Steers.? S 75 COTTON—Middling. 9*® FLOUR—Good to Choice. 3 SO ® WHEAT—No. 2 Red. 85*® CORN—No.'2. 47*® OATS—Western Mixed........ 80 ® PORK—New Mess_......... .... ® 5 40 9* 4 SO 86* 49* 34 11 50 ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling. BEEVES—Good to Choice.... Fair to Medium... HOGS—Common to Select_ SHEEP—Fair to Choice.. FLOUR—Patents.... Medium to Straight WHEAT—No. 2 Red Winter... CORN—No. 2Mixed.. OATS—No, 2. RYE—No. 2..... TOBACCO-Lugs. Leaf—Medium... 4 50 3 75 3 65 2 75 4 10 2 50 25*® HAY’—Choice Timothy BUTTER—Choice Dairy.. EGGj—Fresh. PORK—N ew Mess....... BACON—Clear Rib. LARD—Prime Steam. WOOL—Fine to Choice, new.. 48 2 00 4 75 12 00 18 11 8*® 6*® 35 ® 9 4 65 4 25 5 10 3 75 4 35 3 85 74* 35 25* 50 6 00 8 00 12 50 20 12 11 00 8* 6* 38 CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping.. 3 30 0 5 10 HOGS—Good to Choice. 4 75 @ 5 05 SHEEP—Good to Choice.._ 3 00 ® 3 60 FLOUR—Winter .. 4 00 ® 4 50 Patents. 4 30 ffl 4 60 WHKAT-No. 2 Spring. 74 ® 74* CORN-No. 2... a 87* OATS—No. 2 White...... 25*® 25* PORK—New Mess.......... ® 10 3o KANSAS CITY. ! CATTLE—Shipping Steers... 3 99 ® 4 50 i HOGS—Sales at. 4 20 ® 4 80 ! WHEAT—No. 2. ® 62* : CORN—No. 2. 31*® 31* i OATS—No. 2. ® 24 NEW ORLEANS. 1 FLOUR—High Grades. 4 00 « 4 75 CORN—White. @ 48* I OATS—Choice Western. ® 33* I HAY—Choice..;. 16 00 ® hi :>o i FORK—New Mess.. ® U 25 ! BACON—Clear Rib. 8*® 8* ! COTTON—Middling. .... ® 9* LOUISVILLE. ; WHEAT—No. 2 red.7. « 73 CORN—No. 2 Mixed. 41*® 42 ! OATS—No. 2 Mixed.. .... ® 27' | POUR—Mess...... <al il 00 BACON—ClearKlb. .... 8 i CtmVN— Miauling.,.. .... 9 All We Ask . Of any one Buffering from scrofula, salt rheum, dys. ■ pepsla, headache, kidney and liver complaints, that tired feeling, or any disease caused or promoted by ' Impure hlood or low state of the system Is that you | give Hood’s Sarsaparilla a fair trial. We are oonfli dent th^Mhe medicinal value of this peculiar preparation wfn soon make Itself felt through the system in restoring health, strength and energy. Do not take other artioles claimed to he "Just as good,’. I but ho sure to get Hood’s Sarsaparilla, i “My wife had dyspepsia. She could not keep her j food down, and had that oppressed feeling after eating. She had no appetite, and was tired all the time. She tried numerous medloiaes without being relioTed. but the flrst bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla did her a great deal of good. She has now taken two bottles, and can eat anything she wants without having that distress, and has no trouble in retaining her food.” Jons Battextikud, Marlon, Ohio. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for 15. Prepared oi by C. 1. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass IOO Doses One Dollar WEBSTER. With or without Pat ent Index. IT IS THE STANDARD Authority in the Gov’t Printing Oflfioe, and with the U. 8. Supreme Court, and is recommended by the State Sup’ts of Schools in 30 States. In addition to various useful tables the lai Issue of this work comprises A DICTIONARY, 118,000 Words, 3000 Engraving*. U !fl m u IS I w e A GAZETTEER OF THE WORLD, 25,000 Titles, (Just added) and A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, pearly 10,000 Noted Persona, ALL IN ONE BOOK. It is I invaluable companion in every School and at every Fireside. G. A C. MERRIAM A CO., Pub’rs, Springfield, Mail. ELY'S CREAM BALM when applied into the nostrils, will bo absorbed effectually cleansing i the MU of catarrhal ; virus, causing healthy i secretions. It allays j Inflammation, protects the membrane of the nasal passages from ad- ; hit tonal colds, completely heals the sores • and restores sense oi ) taste and smell. ! HOT A LIQUID or SNUFF. A Quick | * Positive i

BROWN'S IRON BITTERS WILL CURE HEADACHE INDIGESTION BILIOUSNESS DYSPEPSIA NERVOUS PROSTRATION MALARIA CHILLS and FEVERS TIRED FEELING GENERAL DEBILITY PAIN in the BACK & SIDES IMPURE BLOOD CONSTIPATION FEMALE INFIRMITIES RHEUMATISM NEURALGIA ' KIDNEY AND LIVER TROUBLES FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS The Genuine has Trade Mark and crossed Ra4 Lines on wrapper. TAKE NO OTHER. DR. JOHN BULL’S FOR THE CURE OF FEVER and AGUE Or CHILLS and FEVER, j AND ALU MALARIAL DISEASES. The proprietor of this celebrated medicine justly claim, for it a superiority over all renu edies ever offered to the public for the SATE, CERTAIN, SPEEDY and PERMANENT cure of Ague and Fever, or Chill, and Fever, whether of short or long standing. Ho refer, to the entire Western and Southern country to bear him testimony to the truth of the assertion that in no case whatever will it fail to cure if the directions are strictly followed and carried cut. In a great many cases a single dose has been sufficient for a cue, and whole families have been cured by a single bottle, with a perfect restoration of the general health. It iS| however, prudent, and in every case more certain to cure, if its use is continued in smaller doses for a woeh or two after the disease has been checked, more especially in difficult and long-standing cases. Usually this medicine will not require any aid to keep the bowels in good order. Should the patient, however, require a cathartic medicine, after having taken three or fonr doses of the Tonio, a single dose of KENTS VEGETABLE FAMILY FILIN will bo suffi'.l3ni USE no other pill. Price, $1.00 per Bottle; Six Bottles for $5. DR. JOHN BULL’S SMITH’S TONIC SYRUP, BULL’S SARSAPARILLA BULL’S WORM DESTROYER. Tho Popular Remedle* of th. Day. Principal Office, SSI Main St., LOUISVILLE, KT.

IS A PURELY VEGETABLE PREPARATION HP BITTERS CURES AILDISEASESOFTHE ] LIVER KIDNEYS STOMACH AND BOWELS, ALLDRUGGISTS PRICE! DOLLAR;! PRICW3 ''PRiCKLY, SENNA-MANDRAKE-BUCHU [AND OTHER EOUAUYCFFICIENT MMIDItS. It bat (tood the Test of Tears, in Curing all Disease* of the BLOOD, LIVES, STOMACH, KIDNEYS,BOWELS, Ac. It Purifies the Blood, Invigorates and Cleanses the System, DYSPEPSIA,CONSTIPATION, JAUNDICE, SICKHEADACEE,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 Sole Proprietors, St.Louis and Kansas City COCKLE’S ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS, THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY For Liver, Bile, Indigestion, etc. Free from Mercury; contains only Pure Vegetable Ingredients. Amenta— MEYKR BROS. & CO., St. Louis, Mo. THE BEST m ^JHEWORLD.

tar Write for prices. TH»N! Ift FARMERS, ATTESTthere is no dealer in your town sell in* those wagons, write to Factory for wholesale Prices La Belle Wagon Works, Fond du Lac, Wis. FRAZER AXLE GREASE. _world. Wet the genuine. •ry package hus our Trade-mark and la arked Fraser’s. SOLI) EVERYWHERE. 30,000 CARPENTERS Farmers. Butchers andothers CAUI C|| K9C use our LATE MAKE of OAW HUmd to file Hand, Rip, Butcher, Buck, Pruning sndall kinds of Saws, so they cut better than ever. Two Filers free forte. Illustrated ciroulars free. Address K. BOTH & BBOn Oxford, Penn.

PACE, HANDS, FEET, all their imperfection*, Including Fadat lopement, Superfluous Hair, Birin Mark*, e, WarU, Moth, Freckle*, Rad No*a, Acna, 1 Black Head.. Scars, lilting and their treatment 3 Dr. JOHN H. WOODBURY, w l)eve] Moles,

HARTSHORN’S Shade Ro]J®rfe?« • * aiot/' c labels iImitation; WANTED A WOMAN of energy for business in her locality. Salary $50. References. E. J. Johnson, Manager, 1A Barclay St., N.Y, ftPIUM HABIT SSSKVffift 11 time. New. Infallible remedy. Notapartfclepaln •J or self-denial. Pay when cured. Handsome book free. DB. c. J. TVEATHKKBY, Kansas City. Mo. EDUCATIONAL. UAIflC STUDY. Secure a Business Education bj nUIRE mall, from Busixxss Coluiujc, Buffalo, JC.Y. SHORTHAND ESSMMS AmiHI Morphine Habit Cared In 1# OPIUM fc&KStJ£CU=SB2i HAIR WINS, BANGS * WAVES sent 0.0. * anywhere. Send for wholesale Pnicm-UST. 1. TH01K, 140 WibuhlTMM, CklMge* life $5 TO •• A BAT. Samples worth »1.«J FREE. Lines not under the horse s feet. writ. BUW8TH UIRI RKlh UULDKB Moore a Pilules, posture cure for Allll I A nerer fails. Dr. 0.0. Moore. N.Y. City If 111L L V A N. K-, a 1101 WHEN WHITINO TO ABVEETWEKS PLEASE Mote that yea law tka Ad.ertlseaient «» thla

R. BERRIDCE & CO., (Successors to Woods <5t Canatsey.) i PROPRIETORS OP • i-'*‘ ! - ■ - • " I ■ f"- - • Star Livery, Feed and Sale Stabies, CORNER PIFTS AND WALNUT STREETS, PETERSBURG. First-Class Busies and Safe Horses for the public at reasonable priees. Horses boardJd by the day or week. Give this firm your patronage* and you will receive lair treatmentThe well-known hostler, Al. Eaton, will be round always on hand.

FALL STYLES FOR SEND IN AN ORDER FOR Shirts, Menreai < it & P J . GLOVES, SCARES. ETC. SHIRTS TO OH.DBJI. Wett® ai Parly Oats Secern Special AM*. '• , An Approval Order Solicited. Satisfaction Guanmleed. J ■ *F. 131 Alain, Cor.^Second, - JCvnnsviYle. ' J. W. ADAMS. M. 1>. M^CRILLUS ADAMS. «&> SON, Can now bo found In their elegant new Business House on the corner of Kightu and Main Streets, and have one of the handsomest stores in the State. Their Slock of Drugs is New and Complete,1 And they guarantee satisfacthJh to all their customers. They invite special attention to their splendid assortment of new and elegant styles in "Wall Paper, "Window Shades, And their Superior Brands of ' .* i OILS AND MIXED PAINTS. THE BEST BRANDS OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO. CALL AND SEE ns. ADAMS & SON, - - Petersburg, Iiul. F. 3ME. :B^-3XT3ESLS®9 urn a I I Irv es t ? g Saw M v? I 1 B u BL isa B This firm has opened a largo stock of New Fnrultifro, all the latest styles In Meais, Iartate, Safas, Chairs, Bnaasjtail Caa, Tafc, Salas Our goods are all new—no old,stock to select from. Our plaoKof business Is at King s d and. " here we can he found selling as cheap as any house the country. We ai j a full stock of TJjSrDEI^TA.KERS’ SUPPLIES CAL3L. -A.IST33 SEE T7*B. F. AI. HANKS, - - - j> - Fetersburjx] Tnd.

EUGENE HACK. ANTON SIMON. S3U±.C1&L db SIMOW, -Proprietors olTHE EAGLE f BREWERY, VIN(;ENNES, INDIANA, Furnish the Best Article of Beer the Market Aflbrds • t AND SOICIT ORDERS FROM ALL DEALERS BOTTLE OR KEG BEER SUPPLIED TO FAMILIES. On Bale at .All Saloons. ISAAC T. WHITE. FRED’K H. BURTON. MARSHAL C. WHITE. K-ELLEin tfc WHITES, "Wholesale Druggists ANl> DEALERS IS Faints, Oils, Dye Stuffs, Window Glass AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS. No. 105 Main Street, - - - Evansville, Ind. 1884. THE 1S84. OSBORTST BROTHERS Have remove'! to their elegaut New Building on Main street, where they have a large an* _ splendid line of -r BOOTS AND For Men, Women and Children. We keep R. L. Stevens* and Kmmewon'a bran A a of Fine Shoes. OSBORN BROTHERS, Petersburg, - - 7 - ■ Indiana. C. .A.. BURGER * BRO., FASHIONABLE MERCHANT TAILORS, Petersburg, Indiana, Haw Mi Tin Lane M of Lais Styles of fe Geofls, Consisting of the very beat Suitings and Broadcloths. Perfect Fits and Styles Guaranteed. Prices as Lew as Elsewhere. FIHaiS H O *3? KX, , Petersburg, Indiana, CHAfflLE9 SCHAEFE H. Proprietor. Located in the Center of the Business Fart of I ow n. T1‘ RMb rtasOrnbie. A oort Par in connection with ih Hotel. LhoLc* l^aora, TotHMtt and Cigars. Corner ol Seventh and Walnut streets. c4 i