Pike County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 16, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 September 1888 — Page 4

TALMAGETS SERMON. 4a Interesting Sermon on An Krery-Dny Subject. Tkat WU1 Nat Stink." or Worldly rtUoupkni Virui Christ's Mr oiylM u Minister* to Troab1*4 Spirit*.

The following wmoi was dervered by He*. T. DeWltt Talmage at But Humpton, If. Y.. where he U spending hta summer vacation. His tost was: Miserable comforters are ye all—Job, xvl., S. The man of TJi had a great many trials —the loes of his family, the loss of his property, the loss of his health; but the moat exasperating thing that came upon him was the tantalising talk of those who ought to have sympathised with him. ' Looking around upon them, and weighing what they had said, he utters the words of my text Why did God let sin come into the world? It is a question I often hear discussed. J>ut never satisfactorily answered. God made the world fair and beantiful at the start. If oar first parents had not sinned in Bden they might have gone ont of that garden and found fifty paradises all around the earth—Eu- , rope, Asia, Africa, Njrth and South Americano many fioWer gardens* or orchards of fruit* redolent and luscious. I suppose that when God poured out Hie Gihoa and the Hiddekel, he posred ont, at the same time, the Hudson,'. and the Susquehanna: > the whc.le earth was very fair and beautiful to look upon. Why aid it not stay so? God had the power to keep back sia anil woe. Why did He not keep th etn back? Why not every cloud poeeate, and every step a Joy, and every sound music, and all the ages a long jubilee of sinless men and sinless women? God can make a rose as easily as He can make a thorn. Why, then, the predominance of thorns? He can make good, fair, ripe fruit as well as gnarled and tour fruit Why so much, then, that is gnarled and sour? Hn can make men robust in health. Why. then, are there so many invalids? Why not have for onr whole race perpetual leisure, instead of this toy and toil and tussle for a livelihood?

i win nu yon wny uoa i*i sin romp inu> the world—when I get on the other side of the River of Death. That is the place where each questions will be answered end each mysteries solved. He who this eide of that river attempt* to answer thU questlou, only illustrate* hia own Ignorance and incompetence All 1 know U one great act, and that Is. that a herd of woe* hare come in upon us, trampling down every thing fair and beautiful. A sword at th« gate of Eden, and a sword j at every gate. More people under the ground than on it. The graveyards in vast majority. The six thousand winters have made more scars than the six thousand summers can cover up. Trouble has taken the tender heart of this world in Its two rough hands, and pinched it nntil the nations wail with the agony. It all the mounds of graveyards that have bead lifted ware put side by side, you might step on them, and nothing else, going all around the world and around again, and arouml again. These are the facta And now 1 have to say that,,in a world like this, the grandest occupation is that of giving condolence. This holy science of imparting , comfort to the troubled we ought all of ns to study. There are many of you who could look around upon some of your very beat friends who wt.sh yon well end are very intelligent, and yet be able truthfully to say to them in your days of trouble: * . Miserable comforMp are ye all. 1 remark, ia the first place, that very voluble people are iucom|>etrnt for the work of giving eomfort. Bildad end Eliphaz had the gift of language, and with their word* almost bothered Job’s life out Ala* for these voluble jieople that go among the houses of the afflicted and talk, anil talk, and talk, and talk! They rehearse their own sorrows and then they tell the poor sufferers that they feel badly now, but they will feel worse after awhile. Hilencel Do you expect, with a thin rourtplaster of words, to heal a wound deep as the soul? Step very gently around about a broken heart. Talk vary aoftly around those whom Rod has bereft. Then go your way. Deep sympathy has not much to say. A firm grasp of the hand, a compassionate look. I just one word that means as much as a whole dictionary, and you have given, perhaps, all the comfort that a soul I needa A man has a terrible wound in his arm. The aargeon comes and binds it np. e. “Mow," be say*, “carry that arm in a sling, and lie very careful <>! it Let no •os touch It." But the neighbors have heard of the accident, and they come in, and they sav: “Let us see it” And th- bandage is palled off, and this one and that one mast feel it, and see how mack it is swollen; and there is irritation, and inflammation, and exasperation, where there ought to be healing and cooling. The surgeon comes la and says: “What does all this mean? You have no business to touch these bandages. That wound wilt never heal unless you let It,alone.” Ho there are sonls broken down ia sorrow. What they most want is real, or _ very careful and gentle treatment; but the neighbors have hearll of the bereave * ment or of the loss, and they come In to sympathise, and they say: ‘tthow us now ths wound. What were hia last words? Rehearse now the whole scene. How did you feel when you found you were an orphan?” Tearing off the bandages here, an I pulling them off there, leaving a ghastly wound that the balm of Rod’s grace had already begun tibeal. Ofi, let no loquacious people with ever-rattling tongues go into the homes of the distressed. Again, 1 remark that all those person* are Incompetent to give any kind of comfort who act met ely as worldly philosophers. They come la and say: ‘‘Why, this ia what yon ought to have expected. The lam of nature must bare their MPI t” and then they get eloquent over aomathlng they have seen in the post-mortem examination. Now, away with all human philosophy at such a time! What difference doe* it make to that father and mother what disease their sou died of? He it dead, and it makes no difference whether the trouble was in the epigastric or hypogastric region. It the philosopher be of the stoical school ha will com* and say: “Yon ought to control your feelings. You must not cry to. You mast cultivate a cooler temperament. You must have self-reliance, seif-go Tern meet, selfcontrol:” an iceberg reproving a hyacinth tor having a drop of dew in its eye. A violinist has hia instrument, and he sweep* hi* Angers across the strings, now evoking strains of joy and bow strains of sadness. Ha can not play all the tones on one airing. The human soul is an instrument of a thousand strings, and nil aorta of emotion* were made to play on it—now an anthem, now a dirge. It is no evidence of weakness when one is overcome of sorrow. Edmund Burke was found in the pasture held with hi* arms around a horse’s neck, “Why. the great man baa lost hia mind!” Ho; that horse belonged to his aoa, who had recently died, and his great heart broke over the grief. It is no sign at weakness that men are overcome of

•ttild to sails if yon foot like ik fto not drive may more hearses through that poor soml. Do mot tell hint the trouble was forewordaUedt it *1U mot he any comfort to kaow it was one million pearl coming. If you want to had splints for a broken bona, do not take cast iron. Do not tell them it is God’s justice that weighs oat grist They want now to hear of God’s tender mercy. In Other words, do not give them aqua fortia when they need valerian. •Again I remark that those persons are poor comforters kbo have never ha d any trouble themselves. A larkspur ean not lecture on the nature of a suowltake-it never saw a snowflake' and those people wbo have always lived in the bemmet bf prosperity «tm not talk lo those who hrt troaen in disaster. God k*e|* > aged people in the world, I think, for this very work of sympathy. They have ftedn through all these trials. TheV know all that which irritate* and all that which sooth :s. If there are men aad women hCfe who have old people id ‘hr.if house, of near at hand so that they can easily reabh them. 1 congratulate them. Some of ns hate had trials in life,and although W6 have had many friend s around about us, we have *i«hed that father and &other were still alive that we might go and tell them. Perhaps they could not say much, but it would have been such a comfort to have them around. Tnc aged ones wbo have been all through the trials of life know how lo give Condolence. Cherish tbeml lei them lead on your arm —these aged pestle. If, when yon speak lo them, they can not hear just What yod say the first time, and Jou have tb sav H a second time, when you say it the second time, do not say it sharply. If you do. you will be sorry for H on the day when iron take the last look and brash back the silvery locks from the wrinkled brow jtlst before they screw lbs lid On. Blessed be God for tbe old people! They may not have se much strength to go around, but they are God’s appointed ministers of comfort to a broken heart.

People who Bare not tad trials themselves ban not (tire comfort to others. They may talk Tery beautifully, and they may give you B great deal of poetic sentiment, bnt while poetry Is perfdrae that smells sweet. It makes a very poor Salve. If you have a grave in your pathway, and some body Conies and ttoVers it all over With dowers, it Is a grave yet Those who have not had grief themselves know hot the mystery of a broken heart They kr ow not the manning of childlessness, and tb« having no one to pat to bed at night, or the standing in a room where every book and picture and door Is full of memories—the door-mat whore she sat the cup out of which she drank—the place where she stood at the door and clapped her hands—the odd figures that she scribbled, the blocks she built lU to a house. Ah. no, Vou must have trouble yourself before you can comfort trouble in others But come all y# who have been bereft and ye who have been comforted in your sorrows, and stand around these afflicted souls, and say to them: “I had that Tery sorrow myself. God comforted me, and He will comfort yon,” and that will go right to the spot. In other words, to comfort pth' rs we mnst have faith in God, practical experience, and good, sound common sense. But there are three or four considerations that I will bring this morning to those who are sorrowful and distressed, and that We can always bring to them, knowing that they will effect a cure. And the first consideration is, that God sends our trouble in loVe. I often hear people in their troubles say: “IVhv, I wonder what God has against me!” Ttiey seem to think God has some gru lge against them h-rause trouble and misfortune have couie. Oh, no. Do you not remember that passage of Scripture, “Whom the Isird loveth He chastenetb?” A child comes in with a very bad splinter in its hand, and yon try to extract it. It is a very painful operation. The child draws back from yon, but you persist. You are going to take that splinter out, so yon take the child with a gentle but firm graspt for although there may be pain in | it, the splinter most come out And it is ! Iotc that dictates it ami makes you persist My friends, I really think that ail onr sorrows in this world are only the hand of our Father exdracting some thorn. If all these sorrows were sent by enemies, I would say, arm yourselves against them; and, as in tropical climes when a tiger conies down from the mountains and carries off a chil d from the Tillage, the neighbors band tog dher and go Into the forest and bunt the monster. So I Would have you, if I thought these misfortunes were sent by enemies go out and battle against them. But no; they come from a Father so kind, so loving, so gentle. that the prophet, speaking of His tenderness and mercy, drops the idea of a Father, and says: As one whom his mother comforteth. so will I comfort you. | Again, I remark, there is comfort in the thought that God, by all this process, is going to make you useful. Da you know that those who accomplish the most for God and Heaven have all been nnder the harrow* Show me a man that has done any thing for Christ in this day, in a public or private place, who has had no [ trouble and whose path has been smooth. Ah, no! 1 once went through an axe factory, and I taw them take the bars of iron and thrust them into the terrible furnaces. I Then be sweated workmen with long tongs stirred the blaze. Then they brought out a bar of iron and put it into a crashing machine, and then they put it between jaws that bit it In twain. Then they pnt it on an anvil, and there were great hammers swung by machinery, each one I a half ton in weight, that went thump! I tharap! thump! It that iron could have spoken it would have said: “Why ail this beating? Why must I be pounded any m >re than any other iron?” The workmen would have sa d: “We want to make axes out of yon, keen, sharp axes—axes with which to hew j down the forest, and build the ship, and ] erect houses, and carry on a thousand enterprises of civilixaUaS, That’s the reason we pouad yon.” Now, God puts a soul into the furnace of trial, ard then H is brought out and I run through the crushin g ravhine , and ih»u it comes down upon the anvil, and Xon It blow after blow, blow after blow, d the soul cries oat: “0 lord, whit (loss all this mean?” OMS says: “I want to mike something y .-ry n»efnl out of you. Yen shall be something to hew with and something to build With. It is a practical process through which I am patting you.” Yes, my Christian friends, we want more tools in the Church of GoX Not more wedges to split with; we have enough of these. Not more bores with which to drill; we have too many bores. Mr bat we really want is keen, sharp, welltempered axes, and U there be any oth« r way of making them than in the hot furnace, and on the hard anvil, and under the heavy hammer. I do not know what it is. Remember that if God brings any kind of chastisement upon yon, it is only to make yon useful. Do not sit down discouraged, and say: “I hare no more reason for living. I wish ! were dead.” Ob. there never was so much reason for your living as now. By this ordeal yon have been consecrated a priest of the most high God. Go oat and do yonr whole work for the Master, Again, there is comfort in the thought all oar troubles ore a revelation. Have yoa ever thought of it in that connection? The man who has never been through chastisement is ignorant about a thoamn 1 things in his soul be ought to know. For instance, here is a man who prides himself on hip cheerfulness, with hi* fine house, his frilled wardrobe and well-strnng instruments of music, and tapestried parlor, and plenty of money in the bank waiting for some permanent investment. It is easy for him to be cheerful. Bnt suppose his fortune goes to > and the banks will _ to do with his paper. Suppose those people who were once ele

Anger* that playdd on it trill W more touch the key*, end the childish void* that asked mi many questions will aak no more; Then is it so easy? When a man wakes up and dads that his re* sources are dll goaei he begins to rebel; andheaafsi . , „ u, "Godin hard; God is. ontraeeo^l; Hd had no business to ftd Ibis to me.” My friends, those of ns who hare been through trouble know what a sinful and rebelloos heart we hare and how much God has to pat up with and how much we need pardon. It is only in the light of • darning I’llfnade that *re dan Ward ddf o#n Weakness and odr dwh lack UC rtiolrai There it also a great deal of comfort in the fact that there will be A fajjilly relron* struction in a better pi Ace., Prom Scotland dr itngland or Ireland a child emigrates to this country. .It is very hard pdrttnr, but he comes, after awhile Writing home as to what a good land it is; Another brother comes; a sister corned; and adotheir, and after awhile tile mother comes, and after awhile the father comes, tail now thsy are all here and they have a time of great congratulation and a very pleasant reunion. Well, it is just so with our families—‘.hey are emigrating to a better land. Now, one goes ottt. Oh. bow hard it Is to part with him® Another goes. Oh, how hard it is to part With her! And another, and another, and we ourselves will after sWhile gd over, add then We wrllj bd together. Oh, what a fa* unibni Do Jrotl hfclieva that? l‘Yesr" yott say. You do doti You do nol be* llevg It as rod believe other things. If rod did, add with the same emphasis, why. it would take nine-tenths of your trouble off your heart The fact is, Heaved to nianv of ds is a great fog. _lt. is awa>‘ off somewhere, Ailed with an un* certain aud indefinite population. That is the kind of Heaven that many of ds dream afcotit; but if is the most tremendous fact in all the universe—this Heaven of the Gospel. Our departed friends are not afloat. The residence in which yott live is not so real ns the residence in which they stay. Yod are afloat; yott do not know in the morning what will hap* pen before night. They are housed and safe forever.

“Do mot. therefore, pity yonr u*partea friends who hard died in Christ They do not need any of your pity. You might at well send a letter of condolence to Queen Victoria on Iter obscuritr. or to the Rothschilds on their poverty, as to pity thoso who hare won the palm. Do not say of those who are departed: “Poor child!” “Poor father!’’ “Poor mother!” They are not poor. You are poor—you whose homes hard been shattered—not they. Yon do not dwell much with yonr families in this world. All day long you are off to business. Will it not be pleasant when you can be together all the while? it yon hare had four children and one is gone, and any body asks bow many children you have, do not be so infidel as to say three. Bay four—one in Heaven. Do'yon think that the grave is un’rlendly? You go into your room and dress for some grand ent*rtain*. rnent, and you c one forth beautifully appareled: and the grave is the only pirce where we go to d-es« for the glorious resurrection, and we will come out radiant, radiant, mortality having become immortality. Oh. how much condolence there is in this thought! I expect tott* my kinIred in Heaven; 1 expect to see them as CJrtaiuly as I exp-ct to go home to-day. Ave. I shall more certainly see Ut -m. Eight or ten will come up from the graveyard back of Bom-rville, ami one will com - up from the mountains back of Am >n China; and another will come un from the sea off Cape Hatteras; and thirty will come up from Greenwood: aid X shall know them better than I never knew them here. And your friends—they may be across the sea, but the trumpet that sounds here will sound there. You will come up on just the same day. Borns morning yon have overslept yourself, and you open your eyes and see that the sun is high in the heavens, and you say: “I hive overslept and I must be up ami off,” 80 you will open your eyes on the morning of the resurrection, in the full blase of God’s light, and you will say: “I must be up and away.” Oh, yes; you will come up, and there will be a reunion, a reconstruction of yonr family. I tike what Halibiirlon, I think it was —good old Mr. Haliburton—said in. his last moments: “I thank God that I ever lived, and that I have a father in Heaven. and a mother in Heaven, and brothers in Heaven, and sisters in Heaven, and I am going up to see them.” a I remark once more: Oar tronbles in this world are preparative for glory. What a transition it was for Paul—from the slippery deck of a foundering ship to the calm presence of Jesus! What a transition it was for Latimer—from the stake to the throne! What a transition it was for Robert Hall—from insanity to glory! What a transition It was for Richard Baxter—from the dropsy to the ‘‘saint’s everlasting rest!” And wtikt a ' transition it will be for yon—'rom a world j of sorrow to a world of joy! John Holland. when he was dying, said: “What: means this brightness in the room? Have you lighted the^candles?” “No,” they replied, “we have not lighted ! any candles.” Then said he: “Welcome Heaven!” the light already ! beaming upon his pillow. O ye who are persecuted tn this world, your enemies I will get off the track aftbr awhile, and all , will speak well of you among the thrones. Ho! ye srho are sick now, no medicines to : take there. One breath of the eternal hills will thrill you with immortal vigor. I And ye who are lonesome now, there will be a thousand spirits to welcome yon into ; their companionship. O ye bereft souls! there will be no grave-digger’s spade that will cleave the side of that hill, and there will be no dirgs wailing from that temple. The river of God, deep as the joy of Heaven, will roll on between banks odorous with balm, and over depths bright with jewels, and under skies roseate with gladness, argosies of light going down the stream to the stroke of glittering oar and the song of angels! Notoae sigh in the wind; not one tear mingling with the waters. There shall 1 bathe ay weary soul la seas of heavenly rest. And not a wave of trouble roll Across ay peaceful breast. WOMEN IN EUROPE. Why American Girls Should Civ* Thanks for Botox Ryrs la This Coontry. A somewhat extravagant speaker once declared that he considered the duty of every American-born citizen to thank God, night and morning, that he had been born in this country. If he hid said every woman, he would hare been nearer the truth. There Is no country in the world where women have an easier time or are treated with more respect In Great Britain women and girls work in the coal mines; in all continental countries they are little better than besets of burden, while in Asia aad Africa they are simply slaves. Even iin the republic of Switzerland, no sooner are girts large enough to possess the requisite physical strength than they are set to the most servile work the land affords. The child hss a pan ter basket fitted to her shoulders at the earliest possible moment, and she drops it only when old age. premature but merciruL robs her of power to carry it longer. Bweet little girts of twelve to fourteen can be seen staggeri ng down a mountain side or along n rough pathway under the Weight of bundles of fagots as large as their bodies, which they have ao sooner dropped than they arc hurried back for others. Girls of fifteen or sixteen can he seen bare fooled aad bareheaded, la the blistering rnyi of an August sun, breaking np the ground by swinging mattocks heavy enough to tax the strength of ae ablebodied man, aad it is not unusual for a girt of sixteen to be employed to a porter for carrying the baggage of travelers up and down the steepest mountain path in all the region round about The side-bodied. stout-limbed guides are

■ttf.Vt ktigimWh n tnSm CUTE and clever. A max famous for hia discreet habit of speech once said^that ha often regretted a bachelor can. He gets his wife to do it for him. This hop is said to he becoming obsolete at fashionable watering places, but any slimmer hotel proprietor can inform you that the skip is not. ." WitA* af* alt thou girts shouting 'cash' lor nil the timet What Id the# hieaa by ltt" asked a country visitor id a city ba*ar, “Oh; it’s a mere buy-word;” wad the fy it Wore riot for the auburn butter fif iiitj mountain resort, you could not Swallow the bread that set instead of rising. And if (t Were not for the bread, you could not svralloty the butter. . Titn old adage1 “Bettef the assMbetter the ScCd.'--;Which is ofteii quoted tc justify Work on Sunday, does not always bold good, especially when the deed is of real estate executed on the Sabbath. Ir young men in this country put half ns much energy into their daily work as they do into playing ball, the young men of this counter would bo rich enough to marry before the# were two fears older A C u iroRvn judge recently granted 4 dtrorte t<* a husband on the ground that he Was insane When married. There arc thonsattds tit husbands Wild thtrikthat the# biight * Id be divorced on the sasle plea “ Mt denr, if you don’t tjuit annoying me, I—I shall really have to inove to Mexico,” said a Washington mat to his wife the other dsy. “ What good would that do. I'd like td know?" “There is a law there cone polling males, and males only,to wear pnntaisops, ”

it is easy 10 mane a loan—go in aeot. too forms are all prepared, the road Is smooth. But there" are no forms waiting to pay it. The road is rough, the weather is lowering and stormy. Circumstances conspire to block the Way and defeat ail enterprises tending in that direction. Lrf no person flatter himself that because a man is loud of voice and blunt In speech, ever ready with cruel Judgment of others and free with advice on all matters, that he will pleasantly accept such treatment from others, for he is quite as likely to resent interference with his affairs as the man of gentler speech and greater charity. It is easy to form the habit of meddlesomeness and to persuade one’s self into the belief that onc'6 mission it to be a “ private investigator and public advisor," that one i s apt to forget that in the regulation of one’s own conduct life presents enough perplexing problems without trespassing upon the rights of others in a mistaken teal to convert them to a better way. * NOTES FROM ABROAD.

A canal across Italy is being planned, to connect the Adriatic and the Mediterranean. It will begin at Fano. This wearing of gloves of a different color —the right hand different from the left— is increasing in Paris. Pope Leo has decided that all his Jubiloe „ presents which are of a sacred nature are to form a Leonine Museum. The Hondurian Ooverilment has ordered a scientific survey to be made of the ruins of Copan, and take sketches of the same. Ttil Sultan of Turkey lately ordered several typewriters for the ladies of his harem who can write in the French language. A statve of Shakespeare is to be erected in one of the most conspicuous and fashionable parts of Paris, but it is at the expense of Englishmen. After an expenditure of three-quarters of a million -of dollars for machinery and prospecting. Egypt has abandonod the search for petroleum. The consumption of wheat in New South Wales, Australia, is said to average 6.4 bushels per head yearly, a rate claimed to be higher than that of any other country. The number of rabbits killed for the bounty last year in oncsAustralian colony was 19,1*2.539, and the bounties paid that year have been estimated at <2,500.000. Iri addition millions of dollars have been paid for hundreds of mites <<f rabbit-proof fence. An, still tbc rabbits scorn to bo as numerous as ever. Queen Victoria has now reigned over England longer than any monarch but two, Henry III. and George III. She overtook Queen Elizabeth six years ago, and has outdone Ediv.nil III., who only reigned 148 days over half a century. If she lives a few years longer Victoria will have reigned longer than any royal personage of history. As the annual local consumption in France of brandy is 12,000,000 gallons and the yearly product only 18,000.000 gallons, American lovers of eau de no are wondering what the stuff is which comes across the Atlantic labeled as Freueh brandy. Scientific experts say that, most of it is cheap German spirits, flavored with cunningly devised cxtacts and cordials. - m - 1 — .. How to Overcome the Dangers of Exposure. Francis O’Reilly, the well-known livery man of No. 13 Prince street. New York, says of Allcock’s Porous Plasters : “ For the last forty-two years I have been engaged in the livery and hacking business I am greatly aided by my four boys. We are much exposed to the weather, and we bare found Allcock’s Plasters of very great service. We use them as chest protectors, placing one on the chest and one on the pit of the stomach. They not only ward off the cold, but act as a tonic. We are frequently affected with rheumatism, kinks in the buck, and pains in the aide; but one or two of Allcock’s Piasters quickly cure us. My wife and daughter have been using Allcock’s Plasters for weak back and think the world of them. I, hare now been using them for twenty years, and always have a box in the house.” It Is not always the most sensitive baseball player who is the most easily put -KuMutm Critic. Is PaicRLT Asm Bitters good for anything! Rend what Frank Gnggsbv, of Dodge City, Kas., says: •• For three years I •offered from n disease that my physicians pronounced incurable. My frwnds had given me up to die, when 1 arts induced to try your remedy. 1 took It for three months and have gained 83 pounds in weight. Am a well man and Prickly Ash Bitters saved a life. I am under life-long obligations to medicine, and will never cease to recommend it/’ ___ Wsr are bakers very self-denying pee pie! Because (hey sell what they kiteed themselves— JftcMonn Farmer.

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sLrsssaw ier»f Cnf* c*rELY ^ CREAM BALM Mad catarrh to bad then were great torn u* my note, one place teat eaten through. Tito bottlee of Eig’t Cream Ritm did the tcorh. Mg note apd head are erolL C. S. McMillen, Sibleg, Mo. A particle b applied In:i each noetrll and b aynoOThe :UYBB8’CrUn>Eia iwu March and Sept., onch •oar. It is an encyclopi ia or useful infor. xnati: > for all who purchase the luxuries or tho nocer titles of life. We een clothe you si i furnish you with all the necessar: and unnecessary appliances to ridi, walk, dance, sleep, eat, hah. hunt, ’> ark, go to church, or stay at home, mid in various sixes, atylea and quant: as. Just figure out what ia required S :> do all Utew things CMFORTAIU. anil you eon make a fair eetiraate of the vti tie of the IimBff QUIDS, which rill be stmt upon reoetpt of 10 on: to to pay postage. MONTOOMEP YWARO 4 CO. lll-U*Iftohlgan .!.venue. Chicago,111. <oUm ployed hltok A f»w IP.J91SMI ACOe 1 VUBK tUS nm mrj pay. Ootftt free. Ptau

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R. BERRIDCE & C (Succes sors to Woods &> Canatsey.) PROPRIETORS OF Star Livery, Feed and Sale Stables; CORNER FIFfH AND WALNUT STREETS, PETERSBURG. First Class Boggles rod .Safe Horses for the public at reasonable prices. Horses boarded by the day or week. Hive this firm your patronage, and, yon will receilre fair treatment. The well-known hostle . At. JEiTOX. will be foefrl always on band. HAMMOND JEWELER GRAND OPPORTUNITY -TO BUYWatches, Clocks, Jewelry. PRICES OK ALL, GOODS CUT DOWN TO THE LOWEST NOTCH TO SUIT THE HARD TIMES ESM 3P. i>ltY goods. JC'HjST HAMMOND. > N E W GOODS To which he directs attention. Ills DItY GOODS art flrst-elass, and the stock Is targe Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes and Notions. Give him a call and yon will be convinced that he Is gi ring BARGAINS on Ills entire stock. , SOLID GOODS AT LOW PRICES. £UUENE HA( K. ANTON SIMON. -Proprietor* of—— i 1THE EAGLE BREWERY, VINCENNES, INDIANA, Furnish the Best Article of Beer the Market Affords 1 .NO SOICIT ORDERS FROM ALL DEALERS BOTTLE Oft B EG BEER SUPPLIED TO FAMILIES. , On Bale at All Saloons. ISAAC T. WHTE. FRED' K H. BURTON. MARSHAL C. WHITE. KliLLEB. cfo WHITES, Wholesale. [Druggists £ND DKAlaERS Itf Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs, Window Glass and surgical instruments. Ho. 105 Ml tin Street, - Evansville, Ind. 1

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