Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 37, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 January 1887 — Page 4

ON BROKEN PIECES.” ! 4Sermon by T. De Witt TtAmage, D. D. 1 sinus Dnn a Notable Skip*tack —la Use Mratlto wHk Km aad DnM, UK AU Ka «• and Cite* «a lln Baua at the Cim Bbookltx, H. r., Jan. HI—Dr. Talmage look for hi* text this morning a part of ths forty-fourth verse of the twenty-seventh chapter of Acta: “Some oa broken pieces of the ship." He thet) said: I Rerer o*> Goodwin Bands, or the Skerries, or Cape Halteras, was a ship in worse predicament than in the Mediterranean * hurricane eras the grain ship, on which two hundred and seventy-six passengers vrero driven on the coast of Malta, live suites from the metropolis of that island called Citta Veechia. After a two weeks’ tempest, in which the ship eras entirely disabled and captain and crew had become completely demoralised, an old missionary took command of the vessel Be was am all crooked-backed and sore-eyed, according to tradition. It was Paul, tke only unacared man aboard. He was no more ' afraid of a Baroclydon tossing the Mediterranean S -a, now up to the gates of Heaven, and now sinking to the gates of hell than he eras of n kitten playing with a string. He ordcr -d them ail dowu to take their rations, first asking for them a blessing. Then he insured all their Uvea, telUog them they would he rescued, and, so far from losing their heads, they would not lose so much of their hair as you could cut off with one click of the scissors; aye, not a thread of it, whether it were gray with age or gulden with youth. ‘'Ttiero sliaii not a hair fall from the head of any of you.” Knowing that they oau never get to ths desir.-d port, they make the seaon thi fourteenth night black with overthrown cargo, so that whendhe ship strikes it will not strike so heavily. At daybreak they saw n creek, and in their exigency resolve.) to make for it And to they cot the cables, took in the two paddles that they bad on these old boats and hoisted the mainsail ao that they might com - up with such force aa to be driven high op on the beach by some fortunate billow. There she gees, tumbling towards th' rocks; now prow foremost; now stern foremost; now rolling over to starboard: now a wave dashes t irar over the dock, and it teems as if the old craft has gone forever. But up she comes again. Paul’s arm around a uiast, he cries: "Allis Well; God has given me

ail mw inai sail wim me.' Crush ‘ want the prow with such form that it broke off the mast. C rash! wont the timbers till the seas rushed through from aide U) side of the vessel She parted amidships. and into a thousand f ran moots the vessel goes, and into the wares Two hundred anJ seventy six immortals are precipitated. S >ma of them had been brought up on the sea shor ■ an 1 had iearae 1 to swim, and with their rain just above the ir.vei and bjr stroke of both arms and propulsion of both feet they put out for the beach and roach it- But, alas, for those others! They had never learned to swim, or they wer- wounded By the falling of the must, or th" nervous sb.x-k was too great for them And others hud been weakened by long seasickness. Oh, what will become of lk*m! "Take that piece of a rudder," says Paul to one. “Tali" that fragm *nt of a spar." aaya Paul to another. “Take that table ” ‘Take that image of Castor and Poling.” "Take that plank from the lifeboat." •‘Take any thing and head for the beach." What a struggle for life In the -breakers! Oh. the merciless waters, how they aweep over the beads of men. women and children i Hold on there! Almost ashore, keep up your courage 1, He member what Paul !o'd i2 TOU. There, the rer’dlog wave on the bench leaves in the sand a whole family; there crawls up out of ths surf the centurion; there another plank comes In with a life clinging fast to it; there another piece of the shattered vessel with its freightage of an Immortal soul. They must by this time all be saved. Yes. thet-i comes in last of all—for he had bosk'overseeing the rest— Jhe old minsioiiary. who wrings the water 'from his gray be »rd and cn es out: "Thank Hod all are here!” (lather them around a fire and call the roll Paul builds a fire, and when the bundles of sticks begin to crackle, and, standing and sitting around the blare, the passengers begin to recover from their chill, and Uieir wet < lothea begin to dry and warmth begins to come into all the shivering passengers.’ let the purser of I ho vessel go round and see if any of the poor creatures are missing. Sot one of that crowd that were plunged into the sea How It relieves out anxiety as we read : "Borne ■ - on broken pieces of the ship, and ao it came to past I her all escnpsl safe to land.” Having on previous occasions look 'd at the other passengers, 1 confine myself to- , day to aurxamination of those who came ■ in on broken pieces of the ship. There is i something shout them that excites In mo 1 an intense interest. 1 am not so much in- ' forested in thoso that could swim. They got ashore, as I expected. A mile of water , Isaot a very great undertaking for a strong swimmer, or even taro miles are not. But 1 can not atop thinking about those on broken pieces of the ship The great Gospel ship is the finest vessel of the universe and can carry more passengers than any craft ever constructed, and you could no m»ee wreck It than yon could wreck the thfone of God Almighty. I wish all the people would come aboard of bet. 1 could not promise a smooth voyage, —for oft times It would be a tempestuous or a chopped sea, but 1 could promise a safe 1 arrival for all who tooic passage on that Great Eastern, ao called by me because its 1 Commander came oat of the east, the star of the east a bodge of His authority' I

bui • rui muiuiuae aa not u» regular passage. .Their theology »* broken m j pieces, and their life is broken in ptomnJ nod their worldly end spiritual prospects nre broken in piece*, and yet I bcli,'TC.they are going to rriuh the shining shore. and 'l am encouraged by the experiences of ihoae . people who are spoken of In the teat: “Some on broken pieces of the ship” One object of this sermon is to encourage all those who can not take the whole sys- 1 tern of religion as we believe It, but who really believe something, to come ashore on that one plank. I do Ui underrate the value of a great theological system, but where in all the Bible is there any thing that says: Believe in John Calvin and thou shall he saved; or, believe in Artnfniua and thou shalt be saved; or, believe in the Synod of Dort and thou shalt be saved; or, j believe in the Thirty-nine Articles and thou shalt be saved I A man may be orthodox and go to hell, or orthodox and go to Heaven. The man who in the deep affection of his heart accepts Christ is saved,.! and the man who does not accept Him is kwh I believe ia both the Heidelberg and ' r Westminster catechism, and I wish you all . did, bat you may believe in nothing they contain except the one idea that Christ esme to save sinners, and that yon are one of them, and you are instantly rescued. If you can come in 'ou the grand ofd ship I would rather have you get aboard, hut if yon can Bad only a piece of wood aa long as the human body, or a piece as wide as the outspread human arms, sod either ot them ti a piece of the croon, come ia m ] that piece. Tens of thousands of people are today kept out of the Kingdom of God : became they corn not believe every thing. 1 am talking with a man thoughtful ' about his soul, who has lately traveled through Hew England And passed the night at Andover. He says to me: **I can not believe that ia this life destiny is irrevocably fixed; I think there will he another opportunity of repentance after death." 1 say to him. "My brother, what has that to do srith ycm I Don't yon realise that the man who waits for another chance after death, when he has a rood chance before death, is a stark fool! Had not you better take the plank that ia throws to you aow and head for ahore rather than wait for al plank that may by iavMMe bands bn thrown to yon after yen are dead i Dorn yea please, hot aa for myself, with peidoa for all sly sins offered me now and all tha Joys of time and eternity offered me aow, I instantly taka them rather than run the risk ad such other chance aa wise mea think they oaa peel off or twist out of : a Scripture passage that has for all tha Christina centuries been interpreted aaetharway. You say; “I do not like Priaosloa theology or Andover theology." I do not ask yea oa board either of the great men-of-; war, their port-holes Ailed with great siege I gurt *f ecclesiastical battle. But 1 do ask , to taka tha oaa ptaafc of tbsQoapel

' that you do believe In and strike out flor the peurl-rtrung beach of Bans Kan aw) other assn: “I would attend to religion UT I was quite sore about the doctrine at election and free agency, hat that mixes me all up.” Those things vied to bother me, but I have no more perplexity about them, for 1 say to myself: “M I lore Chris, and lire a good, honest, useful life. 1 am elected to be saved; aad tf 1 do not lore Christ aad lire a bod life 1 will bo damned, sad ail the theological seminaries of the BUTene cam not nuke it any differeat” 1 floundered along while in the sen of tin aad doubt, and it was as rough as the Mediterranean on the fourteenth night when they threw the grain overboard; but 1 saw them was mercy for a sinner, and that plank I took, aad 1 hare been warming myself by the besght fire on the shorn for three decades. White lam talking lo another man about hit soul he tells me: “I do not become a Christian because 1 do not believe them is any hell at alL” Ah! don’t you! Do all the people,' of all beliefs and no belief at all, of good morals aad bad morals go straight to a happy Heaven! Do the holy and the debauched have the same destinations1! At midnight, in a hall-way, the owner of a house and a burglar meet each other, and they both fire, and both are wounded, but the burglar die# la five minutes ami the owner of the bouse lives a week after. Will the burglar be at the gate of Heaven waiting when the house-owner come* int Will the debauche and the libertine go right in among the families of Heaven I I wonder if Herod is playing on the banks of the Rivrr of Life with the children he massacred. 1 wonder if Charles Guiteau aad John Wilkes Booth are up there shooting at s mark. 1 do not now controvert it, rd though I must say for such a miserable Heaven I have no admiration. But the Bible does not say: “Believe is peniitiofi and be saved.”

Because all are saved, according to Tour theory, that ought not to keep too trom loviug and serving Christ. l)o not refuse to come ashore because all the others, according to your theory, are going to get ashore. You may have a different theory about chemistry, about astronomy, about the atmosphere, from- ILat which others adopt, but you are not therefore hindered from action. Because your theory of light is different from others, you do not refuse to open your eyes; because your thWry of air is different, you do not refuse to breathe; because your theory about the stellar system is different, yon do not refuse to acknowledge the north star. Why should the fact that your theological theories are different hinder you from acting upon what you kaowf If you have not a whole ship fashioned in the theological dry dorks to bring you to wharfage, you have at least a plank. “Some on broken pieces of the ship.” ■ But I do not believe in revivals P* Then go to your room, and all alone with your door locked give your heart to God and j .in some church where the thermometer never net* higher than fifty in the shade. “ But 1 do not believe tn baptism!" Come In without it and settle that matter afterward. -But there are so many inconsistent Christians!’’ Then come in snd show them by good example how professors ought to act. ’But I don’t believe ia the Old Testament!” Theu come in on the New, -But 1 don't like the Book of Romans!” Then come in on Matthew or Luke. It "fusing to come to Christ, whom you admit to be the Saviour of the lost, because you can not admit other things, you are like a man ont there in that Mediterranean tempest and tossed in the Melita breakers, refusing to come ashore untii ho ran mend the pieces of the broken ship, i hear him say: ”1 won’t go m on any of these planks until I know In what part of the ship they belong; tyhea I can get the windlass in the right place, and the sails set. and that keel piece where it belongs, and that floor timber right, and these rones untangled. 1 will go ashore. 1 am an old sailor and know all about ships for' forty years, and as soon aa I can get the vessel afloat in good shape I will come in.” A man dr,fling by on a piece of wood bears him and says: “You will drown before you get that ship reconstructed. Better do as I am doing I know nothing about ships, and never saw one before I came on board this, and l can not swim a stroke, but 1 am going ashore pa this shivered timber.” The man in the ofllug while trying to mend his ship goes down. The man who trusted to the plank is saved. O, my brother, let your smashed up system of theology go to the bottom while you come in on a splintered spar. -Borne on broken pieces of the ship.” You may get nil your difficulties settled ns Garibaldi. the magnetic Itatian. got his gardens made. W hen the war between Austria and Nardinia broke out he was living at Caprera, a very rough and uncultured island home. But he went forth with his sword to achteve the li be ration of Naples and Sicily, and gave ViWO.OOO people free government under Victor EmanueL Garibaldi, after being absent two years from Caprera. returned, an 1. when be approached it, he found that his hoqie had by Victor Emanuel, as a surprise, been E ieuixei. Trimmed shrubbery had taken the place, of thorny thickets, gardens the placp of barrenness, and the old rookery: in which he once lived had given way to a pictured mansion where he lived in comfort the rest of his days And I tell yon if you will comi and enlist under the banner of our Victor Emanuel, and follow Him through thick and thin, and fight His battles and endure His sacrifices, you will find after awhile that He has changed your heart from a jungle of thorny skepticisms into a garden all a-bloom with luxuriant joy that you have never dreamed of. From a tangled Caprera of sadness Into a paradise of God!

1 do o at know tow your theologicsd system went to piece*. It msy bo that your parent* started you with only one plank, and you belie rv little or nothing. Or they may hare been too rigid or severe in re.ijrioua discipline and cracked you over thedsepd-with a paalm book. It may be that some partner In buaineaa, who wu n member of an evangelical church, played on you a tri -It that disgusted you with religion. It may be that you have associates who har* talked against Christianity In your presence until you are “nil at sea," and you dwell more on things you do not believe than on things you do believe. You are in one respect like Lord Nelson, when n signal was lifted that he wished to disregard. and he pat his sea glass to his blind -eye and said: “I really do not see the signal-’- O, my hearer, put this Held glass of the Oospel no longer to your blind eye and any I can pot see. but put it to your other eye, the eye of faith, and. you will see Christ, and He is all yon need to tea If yon can believe nothing elan, you certainly believe in vicarious suffering, for yon tee it almost every day in some shape. Last month the steamship Knickerbocker, of the Cromwell line, running between New Orleans and hern, was in a great* storm, and the captain and crew saw tht schooner llary IX Cranmer in distress. The weather cold, the waves mountain high, the Brat officer of the steamship and four men put out in a life-boat to save the crew of the schooner, and reached the veeeei and towel it out of danger, the wind shifting ae that the schooner was saved. Bat the live men of the steamship coming back, iheir1 boat capaixed, yet righted again and came on, the sailor* coated with ice. The boat capaired again, and three timse upset and was righted, and a line was thrown the poor fellow*, but their hands and arms were frosen to they could not grasp It, and n great wave rolled over them, and they went down, never to nse till the sea gives up its dead. Appreciate that heroism and Klf-eacriflce of the brave fellows we all tan. and cap we not appreciate the Christ Who put out in a more biting cold and into a more overwhelming surge to bring ns •at of infinite peril into everlasting safety I The wave of human hate rolled over Him On one side, and the wave of hellish fury rolled over Him oa the other sade. Oh, the thickness of the night and the thunder of the tempest into which Christ plunged for cur rescue! Come in on that one apmw beam, the beam of the eroaa. Let all else go and cling to that Put that under you. and with the eemostnesa of a swimmer struggling for bis life put out fur the shore. There, la a great warm fire of welcome already built, and already many, who were a* far out as you are, are standing in its genial sad Heavenly glow. The angels of God’s reacue are wadiag out into the turf to clutch your hand, and they know how exhausted you are, and all the redeemed prodigals of Heaven are on the bench with new white robes to clothe oil those who comp la on broken pieces of the ship. My sympathies are tor such all the more i because I was naturally skeptical, disposed ] !o Question even thing about Uua life sad

points or theokury in thirty yesm. And daring the rest c f my llIe I do not propose to discuss them ior thirty seconds. I wot ll rather, in n mod scow, try to weather the wotst cyclone that eves swept op from the Cunfaean than risk my immortal Mini in ageless and perilous discos* •ions In which s mie of my brethren in the ministry are indulging. They remind me of Company of sailors standing on Rams* gate pier head, from which the life-boats are*usually launched, end coolly discussing the different style of oar-looks and how deep n txiat ongtit to set in the wu ler. while n hurricane was in foil blast and there are three steamers, crowded with passengers going to pircea In the offing. AnokUar, the muiuries of his face working vrilh nervous excitement, cries out: This it no time to discuss such things. Man the life-boat. Who will volunteer! Out with her into the sari':: Pull my lids, pull for the wreck! Ha! hni now we have them. Lilt them in and lay them down on the bottom of the boat. Jack, you try to bring them to. Put those flannels around their hands and feet, and I wilt pull for the shore. God help me! There! Landed! Huzza!" When there are so many struggling in the waves of sin and sorrow and wretchedness, let all else go but salvation for time and salvation forever, i 1 bethink myself that there are soma i here whose opportunity or whose life is a mere wreck, and they have only a small , p ece left You started in your youth with j all sails set, and every thing promised a j i grand voyage, but you have sailed in the . j wrong direction or have foundered on n . i rock. You have only a fragment of tima ! j left. Then come is on that cue plank. ; “Some on broken pieces of the si lip” ; You admit that you are all broken up ’ S one d<i-ade of your life gone l»y, two d«i cades, three decades, four decades, ora t half century, perhaps three-quarters of a i century gone. Tlie hour hand and the | minute hand of your clock of life are ali most parallel, and soon it will be twelve and your day ended. Clear discouraged, : are you I 1 admit that it is a sad thmsf to j give all of your lives that are worth Say i thing 1<> sin and the devil, and then at last; : to make God a present of 11 first-rate j | corpse. But the past you can notfreedver. j Get on board that old ship you never will, i Have you only one more year left, one 1 > more month, one more week, one more j | dsy. one more hour—cotbe in on that. Per- j | haps if you get to Heaven r d may let you go out <»n some great miasio. to some other world, where you can somewhat atone for your lack of service in this. From many a death-bed I hayW-Speu the hands thrown up in deploration something , like this: “My life has been was.tel. I bad j good mental faculties, and fine social post- 1 tlon. and great opportunity, but through i : world, mess and great neglect all has gone ] to waste save these few remaining hours. I 1 now accept of Christ, and shall enter Heaves through His mercy; but, alas! alas! that wlu.m I might have entered the i haven of eternal rest with a full cargo, and b*en greeted by the waving hands of a multitude in whose salvation l had borne a blessed part, 1 must confess I now enter the j harbor of Heaven on broken places of tba ship” _

HIGHLAND CHILDREN. Ik* lirnrnil I nr* parity for llay Amoaf the Bey* and A.lrla or MailluHt An idiosyeriisy of the children is their paucity of games and general incapacity for play. However it may bo accounted for, by social tendencies, their food or other poverty-stricken causes. Highland boys ! and girls can not only not piny with the j rollicking, robust abandon and enjoyment of thi ir Kay-a brothers aad sisters, but can. scarcely is? said to play properly at alL They :run about, are happy, and even joyous but their repertory of spoils is of the most limited land, and most Lowland games are unknown. The games of camsnoch or shinty.'putting the stone, tossing the caber and otheisio-Cttlled Highland sports belong ! to manhood, and are confined to young men. Ibough 4t times the children do mildly attempt some of them. They much prefer to loll about on the grass or play at I ••tilt" or touching each other. They seem j devoid of the inborn suppressed steam and turbulence of the south, which makes boyhood and girlhood so beautifully noisy, restless and troublesome, bat healthy. 1 have heard'Lowland teach-' ! ers grieve at this want of games, which impresses them painfully, ahd at their own non-success in trying to introduce some. The games flourished, at tbs best, only when fostered by themselves, and thfu died out, killed by the climate or the Osaiantc misty melancholy that seems to ' cling, even to the children, to become s j settled tone in manhood and ajfe in average adult Highlanders. The boys, uotwith- ' standing, delight in physical exercise in a ; mild way. There is one thi ng they cer- . taialy can do, and they do it extremely i well--and that is, they can ran and race ; with each other. The clean and rapid style j of tiheir running, demo all below the < haunches* without useless hitching of the frame and shoulders, is remarkable; as seen,' for example, behind a carnage on the j way to the Quiraing, in Skye. To this they ! are’ unwisely tempted by tbs coppers ’of | the tourist, who,-as a: rale, consults only I his own present pleasure, without a moment’s consideration of the moral effects on its subjects.—Goad Word*. MARBLE AND GRANITE. A Monument Maker Says Th.lt the Lattes Is Supplanting the Ferine*. The use ot marble for important moo- , umemtal structures has b en almost entirely discontinued. Marble readily absorbs ; moisture, and the expansion and contrao- < tion caused by our extreme cUmatie | changes soon brings disinteg ration, which ! ruins the stone within a fen’ years. The finer grades of granite are susceptible ot the moat delicate carving, and the best j statuary tor monumental purposes Is now executed from this indestructible mater.al. ! I find great difficulty in i'ndu.-ing the patrons to depart from the conventional forms to which they are accustomed, and to apply art it tic taste to the monuments which they erectL no the memory of departed friends. The shaft, or modified Egyptian obelisk, is usually chosen, and in' some portions ot Bellofontaiue Cemetery the effect is like that ot a manufacturing district with granite smoke-stacks. The obelisk was used by Egyptian monarch* 10 oommomorate their conquests, and in another form among the Greeks and Romans it had * significance which will not admit of ex plana>tion in this connection. The mortuary monuments of France and Italy are expressions of the best art talent of those nations The Cainpo Santo of Genoa, amedern colossal mausoleum of 00,000 tombs, A one of the wonders at the world. It is located upon is hillside about six miles from the city, and is reached by a ramshackle bob-tailed street railway. Grey Eastern granite is coming In. vogue here for buildings end various other purposes; the difference in cost of labor and the Improved mechanical appliance Of Eastern quarries quite overbalances the freight. It will eventually supplant limestone and sands tone for stops, copings and other uses, which soon cracks and must be replaced, while granite of the best; quality becomes brighter fey the action of tike elements.—St. Lorn* GiaU-Dtmocrai

Harmony at Hum 1. We may be quite *upo that our will ia Uknly to tie crossed during ihe day; so let Us ;prepan) for it. 9. Every person In the house has an evU nature an well as ourselves, and therefore tee must not expect too mudL a. When inclined to give an angry soever. let. us lift up the heart iu prayer. I. If from sickness, pom or infirmity, wo feel, irritable. let us keep a very >tnos •ntch over ourselves.

.1 A gentlerran residing M«r ths Ni.pt sin* Bosoms County lines tolls this story: Ho was oot in the monntslns in quest of t he festive track, recently, and had experienced poor luck until start toon, when Ho spied stall, magnificent deer, the first lie had seen, raising his proud head ulwve a rock pile at a distance of about tvn> hundred yards from him. The branches of a young matrons tree formed a natural canopy of bronse red and a bo re the animal’s head. He tated for tome time. In doubt about chancing n shot at that distance, tbo position of his game being so unfavorable. Ho decided to risk it, however, and biased away. When the little wreath Of smoke cleared away he found that the proudly crested head had disappeared. He made his way as rapidly as possible to this spot and found his game awaiting him. After performing the customary su rgieal operation upon the deer’s throat with Isis hunting knife, he commenced to look for his death wound. W hat appeared t» he a ballet hole was found in the center of the doer’s forehead. In passing his hs.*l carelessly over the wound he detected a, rough, sharp protuberance. Thinking that It was a piece at the shattered frontal hone he tried to withdraw it- He was unable to more It at thei first attempt, and commenced tugging in earnest. He finally succeed, but, to his surprise, it was not a piece of tlnill. It> was a splinter of madrons wood, four inches in length by an inch and a half or a quarter of an inch thick, gradually narrowing to a point at one end. Upon a> careful examination he found that hisbul let had not touched the animal, bat had struck one of the limbo of the modrona tree about six inches above ids head, chipping out the splinter that had killed the deer. The splinter withdrawn from the animal’s skull was fitted to the limb above, and the result proved beyond doubt that thC deer was killed by the splinter of wood. NEW AND FUNNY. me Amusing (tame Invented by n Spurs* ■ Airing Commercial Nuncio, [Boston Traveler. \ A drummer, fresh from a Southern trip, sat in Solan'S the other day, and said: ♦•Boys. I've struck a new ghme since I saw you ti&t. and it is going to be popular sure enough. Cards arc all right enough in it smoking car with the boys, but what a fellow wants is somethingthat will keep hill mind off from the fatigue of traveling, and at the same time give him some amusement. Well, when we left Atlantal ran up against auother drummer, who knew alt about this new game, and we hadn’t been at it more than an hour before the whole train of men, women and children were playing it. Now the modus operandi wait something like this: The game is to count a thousand points. My friend sat on onu side of the car and I on the other. A boy dog. cow, sheep or horse counted 10. a man 15, a woman 3K a girl 55 and a cat 30. A red-headed girl counted 10D. Wi watched out of the car window until wo reached Alexandria. Va. His score was bib. and 1 saw that in ten-minutes' he was likely to make the 1,000. I had 730i, and 1 felt pretty certain that 1 would have to pay for that box of cigars. WelL, ths train ran into Alexandria, and there wers three red-headed girls standing on ths platform, and I ran the game out on hits right there.”

A Snail** Extra Optic. [Boston Budget.] AOertnan professor spent twenty year* in studying the habits and characteristics of a certain snail, and learned this interestin' fact, concerning it: On the Pacific coast of -America, where it s found in great abundance, it is preyed upon by a certain fish which abounds in the Pacific oceafl. As an aid in escaping from its formidable enemy it has been provided with an eye on the back of its heal. The same snail is found on the Atlantic coast exactly like its far-western brother im every particular except that it has no posterior eye. And the reason for this is that there is no corresponding fish to prey up on it in the Atlantic ocean. A Sian Who Can Finger Firs. ° INangatuok (Conn.) Sentinel.] A visitor in town went through s foundry on Friday and, coming to the .moulding department, found the employes pouring a heat. W orking about the cupola is a matt they call “Tom,” who is not much afraid of fire—at least of the molten metal, and while the stranger stood looking at the liquid stream imagine his surprise to see Tom thrust his hand into it several times and pull It away without so much as the sign of even a scorch. Tom has been employed about the foundry for many years, and this little feat is one which he has been accustomed 'to perform for a lime to many cunous people. ' David Boon, champion Australian cricketer, says St. Jacobs Oil acts like magic. Hospitals and curative institutions suecess fully, use Red Star Cough Cure. No opiates. Coats twenty-five cents a bottle. It is the engaging girt that is the soonest engaged. •500 Reward. The former proprietor of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, for years made a standing, pubhc offer in all American newspapers of 1600 reward, for a case of catarrh that he could' not cure. The present, proprietors have renewed this offer. All the druggists sell this Remedy, together with the “ Douche,” and all other appliances advised to be used in connection with ilk No catarrh patient is longer able to say ‘Teas not be cured.'* You get ISOO in case of failure. Rajlboad brakemen should ei&igrata ta Bwitcltertand.—AL Pml IkniL Ftxctioxal derangement of tike female system is quickly cured by the use of Dr. H. V. Pierce’s "Favorite Prescription.” It removes pain and restores health usd strength. By alt druggists. Wash of the stage carpenter—all work and no play.—Tots* Si/timg*. Ir a cough disturbs your sleep, bake Pise's Curs for Consumption sad. rest wall. Ksvn attempt to handle a snow-shorn! without gloves

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"Why, Brown, how short your oat b," Hid Jones one duy to his mend Brawn, who wittily replied: “Tea; but it wiU be Song enough before I get another.” Some men spend so much for medicines that _ _ __f that 8 _ is with’tlwm'iiie angels’ visits— few and far between. Internal fevers, weakness of the lungs, shortness of breath and lingering coughs, soon yield to the magic influence of that royal remedy, Dr. K. V. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Disc)very.” Tn call to arms—“John, take the baby.* —fa*«ds An Expensive Delay, Is failing to provide the proper m eans to ei pel from the sys tem those diseas e germs which cause scrofula, md igestioa^tebility, rheumatism, and sick headache. The only reliable means is Dr. Harter’s Iron Tonic; Kcvgn speak to yourself when ary doe'in near.—The Judye. 1 Tm Commune* or tx«**oi*3m used in making Baowx's Baovcnn, Troches is inch as to giro the best potribls effect with safetv. They are the bast remedy in use for Coughs, Colds, and Throat Diseases. Sold only in boxes. Price SB cts.

Tim trouble wi th a baa-saw ii that it nerer has lalse teeth. “Osi of the bat fHer ds to the Poultry -I'd is the aery effective Bone Mill adver_^*1 by Wilson Bros., Easton, Pa. The one we have . gives entire satisfaction. Grind np the offals of bone and til the eggbasket. It will pay.** cs ' Til homestretch—Trying to make both •ads meet. l.ira la burdensome, alike to the sufferer awl ail arotrai him, while dyspepsia ana ito attending evils holds sway. Complaints ol this nature can lie speedily cured by taking Prickly Ash Bitters regularly. Thousands once thus afflicted now bear cheerful testimony as to ita merits. Jwntssstoss of America—Footprints in this snow.— A't* lfcwn* i'tm. , Hals’s Honey of Horehound and Tar relieves whooping cfongh. Pike's Toothache Props Cure in one minute. ItTrsina down—Feather bed.—X. T. hd+ A QUESTION ABOUT Browns Iron * Bitters ANSWERED. _ i ^W^honBitter*c Uun*?” WeU.itdcwra*t Batk<do«amwjr4ta KsmriSB, a«rat known to tl» and inquiry of any * leadinc ch—irml flam will antmtantiat* d»» umtko ttherra * * - » cf iron ".ban ttf any iiMflwb that irm b acbooMfid to U> tb» moot important factor Mi mccwnfcl medical prawtiro. Iti*. WvrnrjiMnrkiUt fart, thati . _____IpnwtKw. l gpwt.a wmrkiUr fart, that prior to tfea din BROWN’S IRON BITTERS^*0* m,m haadich*. or ndm constipation—all otlfcer hren medicines 4s. BROWN’S IKON HITTERS Drepepahk Malaria, Chill* and Fevers, Tired Feelt««,General licblllty.Fula lathe l or Umha. Headache aad Nenrml-■la-far «B thwe onweat* trash pnoentsddoiij. BROWN’S IRON BITTERS.^t: a Ukeohothor thonachndkteoaltwM Whoa lakoa hr *n da tint m la of mrawndmip. Tho maadoo itnoai become. area basis atoao* to bnsUan: th»i hoahhr eoiore«n** to the ohooto : u. hr. aad it * WWWRm h aapplied far tho child. Boa Bitten to tho ONLY fcoa i

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TECH OSBORN BROTHERS Have removed So shall elegant Kew Balldm^on ««!■ strael, where thoy hare a large and boots and shoes, wot Men. Women and Children. We keep R. i- Mem.*' and Knimernon's brands of Fine Shoes. Petersburg, Indiana. C. A- BURGER & BBO., FASHIONABLE MERCHANT TAILORS, Petersburg* Indiana, Bm Brnnei Tte La® M a! Late Styles of Piece Gjois, Consisting of the very txet Saltings and Broadcloths. Perfect Fits unf Styles Buaratiteel Prices as low as EMete. cj ROTE Petersburg, , Indiana, CHARLES SCHAEFER, I^ropri* Laegt*4 Is tte Cester of tfce Business Part of Tows. *r BMh waaennide. A ceod to eo»we»»» JUs She UoCeL C*>l<* W«uow, T andClgata. Swew #f bvysafa MWt Welans d»o«b