Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 40, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 February 1887 — Page 4

DR TALMAGE. "PiOua of Smoko" the Sahioot of His Lut; An U4ImHm ef Um cation Um Ckink XG«I * —A SjrMbol of Ik it in fo. ro« H*ib ■coat Mkhoi Bboocvtx. IT. Y.t Feb. 0—Dr. Taltnage took for his text this morning s portion of the sixth remo of ths third chapter of Bons't “Who is ths that out of the wilderness like pillars of smoker’ He spoke an follows: - - The eiehuectere of the smoke is won* droes, whether God with His gager corta it into a cloud, or rounds It intake dome, or points It into a spire, or sprawls it inn g, or, as In the text, hoist)% into* Wur.' Watch it winding np from the country farm-house in ths early morning, wing that the pastoral industries have begun, or see it ascending from the chimneys of the city, telling of the homes fed. the factories turning out valuable fabrics, the prl^tiug presses preparing book and newspaper, and all the ten thousand wheels in motion. On a dear day this vapor ap. ken of mounts with such buoyancy, and r praads such a delicate rail across the i-ky, and tra-oi such graceful lines of c irate and semi-circle, and waves, and ' tosses, end sinks, and soars, and scatters, with such effluence of shape and color and suggest! venose that if you hare never noticed it yon are like a man Who has all hit Jfo lived in Paris aad yet never seen the Luxembourg, and ell his life in Komi end never seen the Vatican, and all his life at Lockpen and never seen Kiagaru. Forty-four times the Bible speaks of t‘ smoke, and It is about time some foOii.r precchei asennpi. . .cognising this st range, weird, beautiful, elastic, charming, terriflo and fascinating vapor. Across the Bibls sky floats the smoke of Hinal, the smoke of Hodom, the smoke of Al, the smoke of tho pit. the smoke of the volcanic hills when God touches them, end in my test the glor.oue church of God coming out of the wildr roes* like pillars of smoke. , In the first place those pillars of tmo’ro in bit text indicate the altering the church of Oxl has endured. What do I mean by the i huruh! ! mean not a building, not a sect, but thtsu who in all ages an 1 all leads, and of sdldfelieft, love Uod and are trying to do right For many centuries toe heavens have been black with the smoke of martyrdom. If set s d<? ‘by side you could girdle tho earth with the Arcs of persecution, Howland Taylor turned at Hadieigh: Latimer burned at'; Oxford; John Rogers burned at Pm.thfleld ; John Hooper burned at Gloucester; John liusa burned at Constance; Lawrence (founders burned at Coventry; Joan of Aw burned at K men. Protestants have sometimes pointed t» Catholics as persecutors, but both Protestant and Catholic have practiced infamous cruel Ups. The Catholics, during the reig » of Hunnerir, were by Protestants put to the worst tortures, stripped of tlielr clothing. hoisted in the air by pulleys with weights suspended from their feet; the* let down, and ears a id eyes, none aad tongue were cmpulated. an 1 red-bet plates of iron were put against the tenderoat parts of their bodies.

Oeorge Bancroft, too historian, says of the State of Maryland: “In the laid which Catholic* had opened to Protests (a mass might not be said! publicly,; no Cat ho l c pri -st or bishop might utter his faith in a voice of persuasion; no Catholic might teach the young. If the wayward child #f qj*apiat would but become an apostate toe law wrested for him from bis parent), a . share of thetr property. Such wees the methods adopted to prevent the growth of Popery.” Speak tig of Ireland, the same hlatonsn says: “Such priests as were permitted to reside in Ireland were required to be registered. and were kept like prisoners at large within prescribed limits. All Paptita exercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction, all monks, friars and regular priests not then actually Is partakes and to be registered, were baliished from Ireland under pate of traasportatlsa, ami, on return, of being hanged, drawn and quartered. " Catholicism agsrell as Protestantism liad Its martyrs. It does seem as if when any - one sect got complete dominanoy in any land the devil of persecution and cruelty took possess.00 of that sect. Then tee the Catholics after the Huguenots See the f •entiles after the Jews ia Too rains, where n great pit was dug and fire light-1 at the j bottom df the pit. and one hundred- sad sixty Jewish victims were consumed. Boe ! (lie Presbyterian parUunenl of Eoglsnt, more tyrannical la their treatment of opponent* than had been the criminal courts; persecution against the 1 laplists by Pedo-Baptists; persecution of the Established Church against the Methodist Church; persecution against the Quakers; persecution againr't the Presbyterian*. Coder Emperor iDiocletian 1*4,nor) Christians were maasac-el, and 7U0.0CI.) more of them died from banishmeataad exposure. Witness the sufferings of tha Wal ienses, of the Albigenaea of the Nest orient; witnessSt Bartholome w's massacre; witness the Duke of Alva driving out of lifo 1H.0J0 Christians; witlie w Herod, and Hero, aad Decius, and Hildebrand, aad Torquemada, and Earl of Mont fort, and Cord Claverhouse, who, , .when told that bo must give account for his cruelties, said 1 “I have no need to account to man. and aa for Uod, 1 will lake r Him in my. own hands. ” A red line runs through the church history of nineteen hundret years—a Una of blood. Not by the hundreds of thousands, but by the Bullions must we qpuat those ; slain tor Christ's sake. Ho wonder John Milton put the groans of the martyrs to an immortal tune, writing: “ Avenge. O lsnl, Thj slaughtered SI Hats, •hese boast IM scattered oa the Alpine mountains cold” Tho smoke of martyrs’ homes aad martyrs’ bodies, if rolling up all at race, would have eclipsed the nooadar sun and turned tha brightest day ths world over saw Into a midnight; -“Who ia this that cometh up out of the wiidsruoai liko pillars of smoke f

IV AIK Ullt min, who is trying to be n Christian, in s store or factory, whore from morntug to night he Is the butt of all the mean wilUciims of Unit*tiering employes. Ask that wife, whose husband makes her fondness for the house of God and seen her kneeling j raver by the bedside a der.sion. and is no more fit for her holy companionship than a filthy crow would best fit companion for s robin or a golden oriole. Compromise with the world and surrender to its oonvenlioaalities and it may let yon aieno, but all who wjl lire Godly ta Jeans Christ most suiter persecution. Be n theater-going, cardplaying, wine-drinking, rvupd-dancing Christian, and you may escape criticism and social pressure; hut be an ip-and-desrn and out-and-out follower of Christ, and worldling wtU wink to worldling as ho ipeeks your name, and you will be put in many a doggerel and snubbed by those not worthy to black your oldest shoes. When the bridge at Ashtabula bn ke and let down most of the carload of passengers to Instant death Mr. F P. BU-a was seated oa one side of the aisle of the car writing down a Christian song wliich he group of men were playing cards. Whose tending place In eternity would yoti prefer —that of P. P. Bites, the Gospel singer, or of the card-players! A great complaint ceases from Uta theMars about the ladles' high hats, because they obstruct the new of the stagut sad a tedy reporter asked me the other d ty what 1 thought shoot it, and I told tier that ' if Urn indecent pictures of actressra ta the show windows of Brooklyn sad New York ware accurate pictures of what goes op in many of the theaters night by night them it would he wall if the ladies' hat- srere a talk) high, w m to completely obst ruct the vision. It professed Christians go te such place* J the week no one will ever perse, them for the;r religion, for tliey have , and they are the joke of holL But a Has a consecrated and Christian 1 they will soon run against sneering l Tot s compromise Christian _i aa easy time new, hut toe ooo- », rack » srmb £*2 The of a

tor tbe troth, aa Immortal aonl shall Kv% U to with Qofi and ivo forever. Bat, Ml already hlattd id the first mb. twice of this aormoD, nothing cui be DM beautiful than the figures of anoke on a clear akjr. Tan <»a aae what yoa will la the contour of tiiis trolatUe vapor, enchanted caatlea, now troops of bantered procession, couriers, now a blue): angel of wrath under a spear ot the sunshine turned to aa angel ef light, end now from liorixon to horisoo the air is a picture galJi'wy ailed with master-pieces of which iol is the artist, morning c'.ouds of smoke bora in the sanrua, and eveuuig clouds of smoke laid in ths burnisKed sepulchers of the sunset. The brsuty of the transfigured smoke la h divine symbol of tbe beauty of like church. Tbe fairest of ell the fair is alie.. Do not call those persecutors of whom I spoke the church. They ere the parasites of the church, not the church Itself, iler mission is to cover the earth vrith a supernatural gladness; to op ■* hll the prisma doors; to balsam ell the wounds; to mass ell the graves; to burn up the night Is the fireplace of s great morning; to change Iron handcuffs into diamond wristlets; to turn the whole race around, and, whereas It faced death, commanding It: “Hight about fate for Heaven." According to ths number of spires of the churches In all our <1 ies, towns and neighborhoods are the g -od-homes, tl e wealthy pros.-erlties and the p trp morals and the happy nouls. Meet me at any depot \ ths world over, and with my eyes closed take me by the hand, and lead me so that my feet wilt not stumble, and without my once looking down, or looking to the level, take me to some high roof or tower, and let me aee the tops of ths churches, and I will toll you tbe proportion of suici ies, of arsons, „f murders, of theft* According as tbe churches ere numerous are the crimes few; according as the churches are few the crimes ate numerous. The most beautiful organization tho world ever saw or ever wiU see Is the much-maligned church, the friend of all good; the foe of all evil; “fair u the moon and clear as the sun." Beautiful in her Author; beautiful ia her mission; tho heroine of the centuries; the bride of Christ; the queen of the nation* There are hundreds of kindly institutions, some caring for inebriates; some for the crippled; some for the imbecile; some for the mislod; some for the blind; -but the church is the mother of all thes.* kindly institution* There are asylums— American or English, or Scotch, or Irish, or French, or Herman, or Italian—but tbe church spreads her mantle orer all these, and will yet spread it over all nation* Her gate* are beautiful; her songs are beautiful; her prayers are lieautlful; her convocation* are beautiful; her work it beautiful. All Kings and warriors will yet bow down at her altars; all chains of serfdo m bo shatters I against her doorstep: all nations will ret follow her leading. How amiable are Thy tabernacles: Howau-red Thy altar*t How glorious Thy au li tori urns! So graceful. so aspiring, so graud and rolling on an 1 rolling on, we cry out ia regard to Her: "Who Is this that cometh out of the wilderlike pillars of smoke I"

Men may desecrate it, as Cromwell did when he stabled his cavalry horses in Ht Caul's cat bed rati or break oil the image of Christ, as did the iconoelaat* in York* minster; or burl against it august literary antipathies, as did Gibbon; or plot its over throw, as do some in every community whose pride and hate and debauchery are reproved by the teu cotamwidmcuU which it thunders, an i the sermon bn the mount which it breathes But it trill stand as long as the earth standi., the same unique • and wonder-working and beatific and miraculous thins: for which Ocd decreed tv You lying and hypocritical world, shut up those slander* about the church of Christ, an institution which, lar from being what it ought to be. an 1 never pretending to be perfect, is :Sve {hundred t ines better than any other institution that the world ever saw or dreamed of. The highest honor I have ever had, and the highest honor 1 shall ever receive, and the highest honor 1 ever want is to have my name on her records aa a member. At her altars I repented. At heir sacraments 1 believed, la her service let me die. From her doom let me be. buried. O, church of God: Thouhomeof the righteous! Thou harbor from tempest! Tbou refuge for the Weary! Thou light-house of many nations! Thou type of Heaven! I could kiss thy very dust with ecstasy of affection. - Fur her my tears shall fall. For her my prayers ascend. To'hcr my tolls and cares be fives TUI tolls sad caret shall end.'1 •'Fcrlumrd smoke," says Solomon, in the words following my text. Not like the fumes coughed up from the throat of a steam pipe, or poisoned with the gajies of chemical factories, or floating in ifilack wrath from the conflagrations of homestead* or sulphurous from biasing batteries; but sweet as a burning grove of cinna men, or jungle of sassafras, or the odors of a temple censer. “Whois this that cometh out of the wilderness Uke pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense!" Hear It, men and women everywhere, that the advance of the gednine church of Christ meins peace for all nations Victor Hugo. Id his book entitled ‘-Ninety Three," says: “ Nothing calmer than smoke, but nothing more startling. There areepeacrful smokes, and there are evil ones. The thickness and color of a line of smoke make the whole differeace between war aad peace, between fraternity and hatred. The whole happiness of man or his complete misery is sometime*! expressed in this thin vapor which the wind scatters at wlU." The great Frenchman was right; but t go further, and say that as the Kingdom of God advances like pillars of smoke, the black volumes belching from batteries of war and pouring out from port-holes of ah pi will vaoish from the sky.

A distinguished gentleman of the late war told mo recently that Abraham Lincoln prop >s>d to avoid our civil cofiflict by purvhaae of all the alavea of the 8outli and netting them free. He calculated what would be a reasonable prioo for them, and, when the number of millions of dollar* that would be required for anch a purpose waaannounced.the proposition waa scouted, and the North would not. have mado the offer end the South would not have accepted It if made. “But," maid my military tr end, “the war went cm, and just the number of millions of dollars that Hr. Lincoln calculated would have been enough to make a reasonable purchase of all the alavea were spent in war, besides nil the precious lives that were hurled stray in the taro hundred, and fifty battles." In other words, there ought to bo some other way for men to settle their controversies without wholesale butchery. The church of God will yet become the arbiter of nations. If the world weild allow it, It could to-day step In bstweea Germany and Fiance and settle the trouble about Alsace and Lorraine, sad between Russia and Bulgaria, and belweea England and her antagonists, and between nil the other nations that are flying at each other’s throats, and command peace and disband armies and harness for the plow tike war horses now bring bitched to ammunition wagons or saddled for cavalry charge, That tuna mast coma, or through the increased facility for shooting men ami blowing up cities nud whelming heats to instant death, so that we can kill a regiment easier than we could ones kill a company, and kill a brigade enab/T than we could once kill a regiment, the patent offices of the world mors busy than ever in recognising the enginery of destruction, the human raco wilt after awhile go fighting with one arm, and hobbling with one foot, and stumbling along with one eye. and some ir genious inventor, inspired of the archangel of all mischief, will contrive a machine that will bore a hole to the earth's coster, and some deeper* te nation will throw into that hole enough dynamite to blow this hulk of a planet into fragments, dropping him meteoric * tones ow surrounding stellar habitations. But this shall nc« bo, for whetevur alas t let go I hang oo to my Bible, which tells me that the blacksmith’s simp shall yet sad the aster It aide by throw into its shall pick It up a plowshare, usd the ttraighteat spear shall be beet taw a crook at each aad and then eat In two, sad wlpit was oae spear shall be two pruning forks R»wn with Moloch nud op with Christ! Ut >w mats war horse* eat wit at tiw "KKl JffibYSJWttfitjfclf*?«• HK*

pillars of smoke from the Marengo* ia4 Balamancas mud Borodin oe and Bedsn* tad Gettysburg* at earth I And right after them ndt into toe heavens toe peaceful vapor* of toe chimneys of farm-home*, and asylums, and churches, and capltalii of Christian nation*, and aa toe sunlight strikes through these vapors they will write hi letters of Jot sad gold nil over too sky from horizon to setdth: “Glory to God In toe highest, end oaearth peace, good will toward man I” Then let alt the man-of-war fire* broadside and all the forts thurder forth a resounding rotley, and the eartli ho girled with the cannonade over the final victory of the troth. While thinking of thesis things I looked from my window and the wind tree vio, lently blowing. And I sow from many chimneys the smoke tossed. In tho air and whirled in great velocity, volume after volume, fold after fold, and carried on the swift wind were the great pillari of smoke. And helped by Solomon in tho tut I sow the spend of toe church symbollist Do yon realize the momentum tho church of God to under! Why, toe smoke of a chimney on the top of Mount Washington when the wind b blowing uixty miles the hour Is slow as compared with the celerity of good iafloet-cea. For fiftv-nine centuries tho devil had it his own way among the nations. Nearly all the missionary movements have been started within toe century and see what one century has done to recover the world from fifty-nine centuries of devastation. What great revivals I What mighty churches! What saved millions! What advancing civilisationt In all the United States, Great Britain, France, Ireland, Germany, Italy, full freedom to worship God according to consciences Along tho - coasts of China, Japan and Africa the batteries are planted which, are to tore all those empires for God and civilization From the rums of Babylon and Assyria and Nineveh and the valley* of the Nile outtfiruistion* have been exhumed proving to all fair-minded men that the Bible is tho truest book ever written. The mythologies of Egypt were found to have eralmdied in them the knowledge of man's expulsion front Paradise, and the sacrifice of i. great emancipator. Moses’ account of the creation, corroborated by the hammer of geologists) toe oldest profane writers tike Hiromus, Helen ions an 1 Berosua, confirming the Bible account of aneie. i >nse ity; Tacitus and Pliny confirming toe Bible accounts of destroyed Sodotn and Gomorrah; Tacitus and Porphyry toiling toe tame story of Christ as Matthew and Luke told; Macrobius toiling of the massacre of children in Bethlehem, anil Phlegon sketching the darkness at the crucifixion. It is demonstrated to all honest men that it is not so certain that William Cullen 1 Bryant wrote Thanatopsis or Longfellow wrote Hiawatha as that God by the han t ; of prophet anil apostle wrote the Bible Ail I toe Wise men in science ,an-l law and mod- ' tcine and literature and merchandise are gradually coming to believe in Chris tianity, and soon there will be no people who disbelieve in it, except those conspicuous for tack of brain or men with two families, • u;ho do not like the Bible because it re-, bukes their swinish propensities.

tur iuuc is uwirmuK much uu-ru wiu no Infidels left except libertines un i her- i lot* anil murderer*. Millions of Christians ! where once there were thousands, and thousands where once th«re were hun- ! dreds. What a bright evening this, the ! evening of the nineteenth century I and ( the twentieth century, which will dawn in thirteen years from now, will, in my opinion, bring universal victory for Christ and the church, that now is marching on with step double quick or, if you piefer the figure of the text, is being swept on in the mighty gales of blessing, imposing and grand and majestic and swift, like pillars of smoke. Oh, come into the church through Christ, the door, the door more glorious than that of the Temple of Hercules, which had two pillars, and one was gold and the other emerald: Come ih to-day! Conte in anil be one of the eternal victors! The world you leave behui is a poor world, and it will burn and pass off like pillars of smoke. Whether the final conflagration will start In the coal mines of Pennsylvania, which, In some places, have for many years been burning and eating into the heart of the mountains; or whether it shall begin near the California geysers, or whether from out of the furnaces of Cotopaxi nnd Vesuvius and Btromboli. it shall burst forth upon the astonished nations 1 make no prophecy, but all geiogists tell us that we stand on the lid of a world the heart of which Is a raging, roaring, awful flame, aad some day (.tod will let the red m inster* out of their imprisonmnent of centuries, and New York on^jKv in 1835, and Charleston ou fire in 1995, nnd Chicago On tire in 1871, and Boston on fire in lsirirers only like one spark from a blacksmith's forge a* compared with that Iasi; universal blase, which will be seen in other worlds. Bat grsdualiythe flames wdl lessen and the world will b'corns a great living coal, and that will take an ashen hue, an 1 then our ruined planet will begin to smoke, and the mountains will smoke, and the valleys will gmoka, and the islands will amoks, and the seas will smoke, and the citiee trill smoke, and the five continents wiil be five pillars -of smoke. But the black vapors will begin to lessen In height nnd density, nnd then will become hardly visible to those who look upon it from the sky galleries, nnd after awhile l.-om just one point there will curl up n thin solitary vapor, and then even that w'll vanish, and there will be nothing left except the charrsd ruins of a burnedout world, the corpse of a dead star, the ashes of an extinguished planet, a fallen pillar of smoke. J But that will not interfere with your in-.-istments If you have uk ?n Christ as your Saviour. Secure Heaven ns your eternal home, and you can look down on a dismantled; disrupted and demolished earth without any perturbation. “ When wrapped in fire the realms of ether fk>»,. I j had Heaven's last thunder shake the earth below, -? Thou, undismayed, ihalt o'er the rains smiles i hnd light thy torch at nature's funeral pile." <

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experience of ■ well-kno wn East Buffalo stock man, as told by himself, is calculated to enlist interest and sjiapeth.T. A couple of his teeth became badly ulcerated, and the way in which Uwy ached was enough to make a eaatrtron man howl, and deep were the potaUms imbibed by the sufferer in this instance, but to no effect as the intensity of the pew counteracted the soothing qualities of tide benzine. His estimable wife pitied bint for his misfortune, and viewed with anxious concern the industry with which he kept 'filling up. He betook himself to the «l«utist, but that functionary declared that the tusks couki not be yanked until the ukwrtion had broken. Nothing could be dime, and finding comfort nowhere else, the Vie tim about ten o’clock in the even ing raced borne. He entered the bouse by the ki tchen side doors and as he did so in rushed a rat of enormous ilie. Here was something to divert hi* attention from his own misery, and in a twinkling he picked up a heavy poker and pursued the rodent. The rat ran through the dining-room and parlor and into a down-stairs bad-room, •where bis bettor half, iu her robe de unit, bed just mounted a chair to turn off the gas. She didn’t happen to see the invading animal, and her consternation can be imagined when she did see her seemingly frenzied husband bound in, with boots, overcoat and cep still on, and bong with the poker right and left She sought to reason with him. but he only replied: ‘TU get tbst rat if I die for him.” “O, my dear, there’s no ret,” she plaintively objected, but he kept right on with his anties, struck savagely at some of her clothing which lay oa a loungo, and the next moment held np the carcass ot the rat now defunct The wife looked at it, and with inexpressible feeling exclaimed: Heaven, there was a rat sftor I alL” lk<is further related that our hero’s excited eiturUon broke tk e tooth ulcer* tion, the puih-dun ini shed, he got a good ' night’s rest, and sunshine fills his borne A CHILD’S DEVOTION. The Sublimity of aa Auxlous Little (UHN Mother-tVit. [Cassell's Magazine.] Some years ago there was a country gentleman in Derbyshire who met with terrible reverses, and was bereft olf wile and ton, only a little daughter about twelve years of ago being left him. A neighbor sent a few chaira and a rouple of beds into an emptvvcottage, so that tin: father and child might have a root over their heads, hut could do no rao\e, though she would gfadlyhave kept this, little gir'.who, however. Insisted! that she * must lie at' home in the new Bouse to welcome her father, and make hi\ as comfortable as she could. The only \jossession she had clung to was a small rosewood work-box, which [tad belonged to her dead mother. ...A l.ft nlowa

return from the country town, she opened her work-box and sat down with her needle like a little old woman. lit was a warm autumn afternoon when she thus settled herself, but in the course of an hour heavy rain came on, which lasted the whole evening, and it was long after dark when she heard het father’s weary footsteps' approaching, and joyfully opened the door to let him in. Be was wet through and almost broken-hearted, a thoroughly beaten man, and the child’s one idea was that a cup of tea would comfort him. She had been provided with the tea and the pot to make it in, and is kettle and everything necessary for a simple meat, but her despair maybe imagined when she fouqiuthat there was not s particle of fuel^t the house. The sight of her father sitting shivering, with his fare buried 1h his hands, was inspiration to her, and quick as a thought she broke up her work-box, pulled out the slight divisions for cottons, etc., set light to them on the hearth, added the thicker feces as the Hame was strong enough, boiled the kettle and made him the hot cup of tea There was something sublime about that child's motlier-wit and devotion. Sugar Sweetened to His Taste. •± (Boston Record.] Another story is told of a grocer;,"maa of the shrewd old Yankee stock, who on several occasions was surprised to And sums of money in his sugar. Where it came from was a mystery. It may have been hidden by slaves for some purpose, but for what it would be hard to say. The storekeeper, being too conscientious to keep the money without trying to find an owner, and likewise being very loath to give it up, bit upon this plan to satisfy conscience and keep the money. Going to the merchants of whom he purch ased the goods he inquired whether they were re sponsible for the sticks and stones and things that were in it. “So, sir,’ was the reply, “you must take the sugar just as we received it. We are not responsible for any thing in the barrels.’’ It Is needless to say that the storekeeper did not press the matter. The First Newspaper. To the city of Antwerp belongs toe utonor of having published the first daily paper in Europe. This periodical was printed and published by Abraham Verhoere, a member of the "Sint Lucasgilde.” An early copy of this paper is still preserved in the public library at Antwerp M Consumption Care*’ would be a truthful name to five to I>r. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery,” the most efficacious medicine yet discovered for arresting the early development of pulmonary disease. But “consumption cure” would not sufficiently indicate the scape of Us influence and usefulness. In all the many diseases which spring from a derangement of the liver and Moot the “ Discovery" is n safe and sun specific. Of all druggists. Bn* was a very pert mist ones, but mar* riage tamed her aad she is an ex-pert.— Mf.. . 4 f Ti isnsfsaJKraiuim 4 IMnilrs The advertisement of the old reliable establishment, The Btorrs and Harrison Co., Painesville, Ohio, appears in this issue, offering flower and vegetable seeds, roses, plants, grape vines, fruit and ornamental ben. They an running one of the most complete nurseries in the world, and issue n large, attractive catalogue which they will mail you free, on application. They have no traveling agents, aad are only responsible for orders sent direct Give them a trial aad save dealen’ commissions, They

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(Successors to Woods Sc Canatsey.) PROPRIETORS OP t <f:.' Star Livery, Feed and Sale Stables; CORNER FIFTH AND WALNUT STREETS, PETERSBURG. Flrat-CMsa Bnnttt tad Ssue Horses for the pnbile at reasonable prtces. Worse* h'trde<l by the day or week, ©tve this firm your patrcnase, and .,*•»» win receive fair treatment.^ The well-known hostler, ae. K.vrox, w8i be found always on hand. FALL STYLES FOR MEN. SEND IN AN ORDER FOR Shirts, Underwear, Hosiery, GLOVES, SCARFS, ETC. " Well ad fan; Otis Jew Special Attention. An Approval Order Solicited. Satisfaction Guaranteed. J. J. ADAIR, 131 jVTain, Cor. Second, Evansville. ——. m II Mil i. .am >—p .1—1— ■ I I ■ I 'll. TEWPLE OF ECONOMY. j ^ The following are a few of the WhtcL I now offer to the public: _A.cme Frying Pans from 15c to 60e Each. Best Hand-Mido Cedi feed Wash-Tubs from 75e to $8.15 Each. COAL. SCUTTLES FROM 35c TO «Oc EACH. Goal Shovels from 5c to 15c Each. Pokers, 5c to 15o Each. SAX) X'Jfc- OW», CSo A POUND. . ' TUI tutlin nc sice Is given I will sell any of the above at TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT. OFF. Repairing ef 1 itches and Clocks a Specialty. ■Quick Sains un i Snul Profit.” Is my motto. These goods will be sold, will lose a bargain It yon do not call. , wxxaXtXAM axsoimar, sr., Petersburg, Ind.

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