Pike County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 39, Petersburg, Pike County, 14 February 1889 — Page 4

TALMAGBTS SERMON. “Our Own Osnermtioiii*' and How Wo MX? Boot Servo It. thm W»rt mt Part*. *» fwt,fn>tol Uu hr ill* OmmIIiw. »*«• fntUMi trym *« b* Urn Tfcr»lrM»

la a recent sermon at Brooklyn Tabernacle Rev. T. DeWitt Talma#* took tor hU snbject: "Onr Own Generation,” predicating his discourse on the following last: IterW. after be bad served bts own cencra Uos by the wtU of God. tell os sleep. That is a text which hat for a ion# time been runninir'throafch my mind, but not Until now has it been fully revealed to me. Sermons have a time to be born as veil as a tine to die, a cradle as a grave. David, coAboy and stoiie-siittger and lighter, auix ciar and dramatist and blank verse writer and prophet. did his best for the people of his time, and then went and laid down on the southern hill of Jerusalem in lhat sound slumber which nothin# but an arehangeUc blast can startle. “David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep.” I admit that 1 am in sympathy with the child whose father had suddenly died and who In her little evening prayer wanted to continue to pray for her father, although he had gone into Heaven and no more needed her prayers, and looking up into her mother’s face, said: “O. mother, I can not leave him all out. Let me say, •Thank Ood that I had a good father once, so I can keep him iu my prayers.’” Bui - the oue hundred and eighty generations have passed off. Passed up. Passed down. Gone torever. Then there are generations to come after oar earthly existence has ceased, perhaps one huudred and eighty generations more, perhaps one thorn*and generations more. >Ve shall not see them, we shall not hear any of their voices, we will take no part in thetr convocations, their election*, their revolutions. their catastrophes, their triumphs. We will in no wise affect the one hundred ' and eighty generations gone, or the one hundred and eighty generations to come, except a* ' from .the galleries of Heaven the former generations look down and rejoice , at- our victories, or as we may by our behavior start influences, good or bad, that shall roll on through the advancing ages. But our business is, like David, to serve our owu generation, the people now living, those whose lungs now brenthe and whose hearts now beat. And mark you, it is not a silent procession, but moving. It is a ••forced march” at twenty-four miles a day. each hour being a mile. Going with that celerity, it has got to be a quick service on our part, or no service at all. We not only can not teach the one huudred and eighty generations past, and wlU not see the one hundred and eighty generations to come, but this generation.now^n the stage will soon be off, and we oq^ •elves will be off with them. The fact is (hat you and I will have to start very soou for our work, or It will be ironical and sarcastic for any one after our exit to spy of us, as it eta* said of David, "after he had served his owu gennYutioa by the will of God, he fell on sleep.” Well, now. let u» look around earnestly, prayerfully and iu a common sense way and see what wo can do for our own generation. First of all let us see to it that, as far as we can. they have enough to eat. The human body is so constituted that three times a day the body needs food as much as a lamp needs oil—as much as a locomotive need* fuel. To meet this want (At has girdled the earth with sipie orchards, orange groves, wheat flebls and oceans fait of fish, and prairies full of cattle. And, notwithstanding this. I will undertake to say that the vast majority of the human’ family are suffering either for lack of food or the right kind of food. Our civilisation is all a*kow on this subject and God only can set id right. Many of the great*-*!’ estates of to-day have been built oat of the blood and basts of unrequited toll. In olden times, for the huildiug of fort* snd towns, the inhabitants of Ispahan had to contribute seventy thousand human sknlD, and Bagdad ninety thousand human skulls, and that number of people were slain so, as to furnish the skull*. Bui these two contributions added log.-lher made only one hundred and sixty thousand skulls, while into the tower of the world’s wealth and pomp and magnificence have been wrought the skeletons of uncouuted number* of the half-fed populations of the earth, millions of skull*. Don’t sit down at your table with five or six courses of abuudaut supply and think nothing of that-family in the next street who would take any one of those five courses between soup and almond nuts and feel they were in Heaven. The lack of the right kind of food is the cause of much of the drunkenness. After drinking what many of our grocer* call coffee, sweetened with what many call sugar, had rating what many of our butchers call meat, and chewing what many of our baker! call hrra.l. many of the tailoring Classes feel so miserable they are tempted to put into fheir na*tv pipes what the tobacconist emits tobacco, or go tuto the drtnkmg saloon* for what the rum-sell-ers call beer. Good coffee would do much in driving out bat tum. Adulteration of food has got to be an evil against which all the health officers and all Hie doctors and all ’the ministers and all th1- reformers and ail the Christians need to set themselves In ] battle array. How can we serve our gen- ] eration with enough to eat! By sitting down in embroidered 'slippers and loans- I ing back in an arm chair, our mouth ! puckered up around a Havaua of the ' *- x best brand and through clouds of laxuri- j ant smoke reading about political economy and the philosophy of strikes? No! No! By ftuding out who in Brooklyn has been living on gristle and sending them a tenderloin beefsteak. Seek out some family wfio through sickness or conjunction of misfortune have not enough to eat and do for them what Christ did for the hungry multitudes of .Asia Minor, multi- 1 plying the loaves and the fishes, betas quit the surfeiting of ourselves until we can not choke down another cruiub of cake and begin the supply of others’ necessities.

« v wwu uu n musii rv<ur a lessness about the welfare of others which a (Treat warrior expressed ott a large scale, when his offiom ware dissuading him from a certain campaign, saving: **lt would cost two hundred thousand livea,** replying with a diabolism that can never be forgotten: “What are two hundred thousand lives to me?” Ho far from helping appease the world's hunger, there are those whom Isaiah describe* as grinding tire faces of the poor. Yon have seen a farmer or a mechanic put a scythe or an axe on a grindstone, while some one was turning it round and round, and the man holding the axe bore on it harder and harder, while the water dropped from the grindstone.and the edge of the axe, from being round aad dull, got keener aud keener, and the mechanic lifted the axe glistening and sharp, and with edge so keen he must rautiouly run his finger along lest while examining the instrument he cut his hand to the bone. So I have seen min who were put against the grindstone of hardship, and while one turned the crank another would press the unfortunate harder down and harder down until he wm ground sway thinner and thinner, his comforts thinner, his pros- 1 peel* thinner and bis fare thinner. And : Isaiah shrieks out: “What mean ye that i ye grind the faces of the poor?" It is an awful thing to ho hungry. It is an easy thing for a* to bo in. good humor with all j the world when we have no lack. But let full possession of ns and we would nil turn into Whartons aad eaani1 am glad to know that the time is coming—God hasten it—when every family to the round world will sit dowatot a full table, and it will hs> only a question between tomb and venison, or between partridge end quafl on toast, and oat of spoons made of BOvada stiver or California gold the pastries will drop on they have full ledtogatag to let the »>>■ Bow is it I has* ao |a

fallum of a world. The barraa] places will be irrigated. The pomologUts, helped ot Ood. will urge on the trait*. The botanists, inspired ot the Lord, will help on the gardens. The raisers ot stock will send enough animals fit tor human food to the markets, and the last earth* quake that rends the world will upset a banqueting table at which are seated the entire human race. Meanwhile, suppose that some of the energy we are expending in useless and unavailing talk about the bread question should be expended in merciful alleviation*. 1 have read that the battle field on which more troops met than on any other in the world’s history was the battle field of Leipsic, one hundred and sixty thousand men under Napoleon, two hundred and fifty thousand tuen under Schwarxeberg. No, no. Th<» greatest and most terrific battle is now being fought nil the world over. It is the straggle for food. The ground tone of the finest passage in one of the great musical masterpieces, | the artist says, was suggested to him by the cry of the hungry populace of Vienna as the King rode through and they shouted, “Bread. Give us bread!" And all through the great harmonies of musical academy and cathedral 1 hear the pathos, the ground tone, the tragedy of uncounted multitudes, who, with streaming eyes and wan cheeks and broken hearts, in behalf of themselves and their families, are pleading for bread.

Let u» take another look around to.see how we may serve our generation. Let us see as tar as possible that they have enough u> wear. God looks on the human tee atul knows just how many inhabitants e world has. The statistics of the world's population are carefully taken in ! civilised lands, and every few years of* ! fleers of government go through the land and count how many people there are in the United States or England, and great aeeuraey is reached. But when people tell us how many inhabitants there are in Asia or Africa, at best it must be a wild guess. Yet God knows the exact number of people on our planet, and he has made euough apparel for each, and if there be fifteen hundred million, fifteen thousand, fifteen hundred and fifteen people, then there is enough apparel for fifteen hundred million, fifteen thousand, fifteen hundred and fifteen. Not sloueby apparel, not ragged apparel, not insufficient apparel, but appropriate apparel. At least two suits for every being on the earth, a summer suit and a winter suit. A good pair of shoes for every living mortal. A good coat, a good hat, or a good bonnet, and a good shawl, and a complete masculine or feminine ou,flt of apparel. A wardrobe for all nations adapted to all I climes, and not a string, or a button, or a j pin. or a hook, or an eye wanting. But, i alas! where are the good clothes for threei fourths of the human race? The other one-fourth have appropriated them. The } fact Is, there needs to be and will be a rei distribution. Not by anarchistic violence. If outlawry bad its way, it woutd rend j | and tear and diminish until instead of j three-fourths of the world not properly | ! attired, four-fourths would be in rags, j I let yam know how the redistribution will I take place. By generosity on the part of I those who have a surplus and increased | industry on the part of those suffering from deficit. Not all. but the large ; majority of “Cases of poverty in this i country are a result of idleness or | drunkenness, either on the part of the present sufferers or their ancesI tors. In most cases th*' rum jug is the ! maelstrom that has swallowed down the I livelihood of those who are in rags. But | things will change, and by generosity on i | the part of the crowded wardrobes, and' j industry and sobriety on the part of the j i empty wardrobes, there will be enough i for all to wear. God has done His part toward the dressing of the human race. He grows a surplus of wool on the sheep’s back, and (locks roam the mountains and | valleys with a burden of warmth intended j for transference to humsu comfort, when the effittMcs of the factories reaching all ih» way from the Chattahoochee to the Mrrrimsr shall have span and woven it. j ; And here conic forth the Rocky Mountain ; goat and the ca-hmere and the bearer. ! Here are the merino sheep, their origin ! j traced back to the flocks Wf Abrahamic j laud liavidic times. In white letters of I ! showy fleece God has been writing for N» thousand years his wish that there j might be warmth for all nations. While ! other* are discussing the effect of high or | low tariff or no tariff at alt on wool, yon aud I had better see if in our wardrobes we have nothing that we can spare for the shivering, or pick out some poor lad of the street and take him dowu to a clothing store and fit him out for the winter. Don't think that God has forgotten to send ice and snow, because of this wonderful mild January aud February. We shall yet have deep snows and so much frost on the window-pane that in the morning you [ can not see through it: and whole flocks j of blizzards, for God long ago declared that winter as well as summer shall not I cease, and between this and the spring crocus we may all have reason to cry out with the psalmist: "Who can stand out before His cold?’’ Again, let ns look around and see how we may serve our generation. What shortsighted mortals we would be if we were anxious to clothe and feed only the most Insignificant part of a man, namely, his body, while we pat forth no effort to clothe and feed and save his soul. Time | is a little piece broken off a great eternity. What are we doing for the souls of this present generation.* Let me say it is a generation worth saving. Most magnificent men aud women are in it. We make a great ado about the improvements in navigation, and in locomotion, and in art and machinery. We remark what wonders of telegraph, and telephone and I stethoscope. What improvement in electric light over a tallow candle I But all these improvements aft" insignificant compared with the fett^r^s-ment in the human race. In olden times, once in a while, a great and good man or woman would come up ami the world has made a great fuss about it ever since, but now they are so numerous we scarcely speak about them. We put a halo about the people of the past, hut 1 think it the times demanded them it would be found we have now living in this year PC® flfty Martin Luthers, fifty George Washingtons, fifty Lady Huntingtons, fifty Elisabeth Frys. During oar civil war more splendid warriors in North and South were developed in four years than the whole world developed in the previous twenty years. I; challenge the four thousand years before the flood and the eighteen centuries after the flood to show me the equal of charity on a large scale of George Peabody. This generation of men and women is more worth saving than any of the one hundred and eighty generations that have passed

oH. But where shall we begin: With our- j selves. That is the pillar fiom which we must start. Prescott, the blind historian, tells us how Piaarro saved his army for the fight when they were about deserting j him. With his sword he made a long J mark on the ground. He said: “My men,, on the north side are desertion and death, j on the south side is victory: on the north Panama and poverty, on the south side Peru with all Its riches. Choose for yourselves; for my part I go to the south,” I Stepping across the line one by one, his [ troops followed and finally his whole army. The sword of God's truth draws j the dividing line to-day. On one side of I it are sin and ruin and death, on the other I side are pardon and usefulness and hap- I pineas and Ueaven. You cross from the wrong side to the right side and your family wilt cross w ith you and your friends and your associates. The way you go they will go. If we are not saved we will never save any one else. Hpw to get saved? Be willing to accept Christ, and then accept Him instantaneously and forever. Get on the Rock first, and then you will be able to help others upon the same Rock. Men and women have been saved quicker than 1 have been talking abokt U. What, without a prayer? Yes. What, without time deliberately to think It over? Yes. What, without a tear? Yes, tfeUeee! That is all. Believe what’ That Jens died to save yon from sin and death and hell. Will yon? Do you? Yon have. Something makes me think you have. Hew tight has come into your countenances. Welcome! Welcome? Hail! Hail! Saved yourselves, bow are you going to save others? By testimony. Tell it to your family. Tell it to pour business •eeociatee. it everywhere. We will

religion will successfully talk no more than we ourselves have. What if %e could get this whole generation saved I! These people Who are living with os the same pear and amid the same stupendous events, and filing toward the future swifter than eagles to their prep. We can not stop. They can not stop. We think we can stop. We say: "Come now, my friend, let us stop and discuss this subject,” hut we do not stop. The year does not stop, the day does not stop, the hours do not stop. The year is a great wheel, and there is a hand on that wheel that keeps it revolving, and as that wheel turns it tarns three hundred and sixty-five smaller wheels, which are the days, and then each of these three hundred and sixty-five wheels tarn twenty-four smaller wheels, which are the liours, and these twenty-four smaller wheels turn sixty smaller wheels, which are the minu'es, and these sixty smaller wheels turn sixty more smaller wheels, which are the seconds,and they keep rolling,roHing.roHing, mounting, mounting, mounting, and swiftening, swiftening, swiftening. Oh, God! if our generation is going like that, and we are going with them, waken ns to the short, but tremendous opportunity. I confess to you that my one wish is to serve this generation, not to antagonise It, not to damage it, not to rule it. hut to serve'tt. I would like to do something toward helping, uasttap its load, to stop its tears, to balsam Us wounds, and to induce it to pat foot on the upward road, that has at its terminus acclamation rapturous and gates pearline, and garlands amaranthine, and fountains rain bo wed, and dominions enthroned and coroneted, for I can not forget that lullaby In the closing words of my text: "David; after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep.”

Auu *biu a lovely sleep it was. iofilial Absalom did not trouble it. Ambitious Adoaijah did not worry it. Per* scouting Saul did n >t barrow it. Exile did not fill it with nightmare. Since a red-headed boy amid his tether’s flocks at night, he hao not had each a good sleep. At seventy years of age he lay down to it. He has had many a troubled sleep, as in the caserns of Adnllam or In the palace at the time his enemies were attempting his capture. But this was a peaceful sleep, a .calm sleep, a restful sleep, a glorious sleep. “After he had served his generation by the will of Uod, he fell on sleep.” Oh. what a good thing is sleep after a hard day’s work! It takes all the aching out; of the head and alt the weariness out of the limbs and all the smarting onl of the eyes. From it we rise in the morning and it is a new world. And if we, like David, serve our generation, we will, at life’s close, have most desirable and refreshing sleep. In it wilt vanish our last fatigue of body, our Inst worriment of mind, out last sorrow of soul. To the Christian’s body that was hot with raging fevers so that the attendants must, bysheer force, keep on the blauff t*, it will he the cool sleep. To those who are thin blooded and shivering with agues, it will be the warm sleep. To t%»e vA, because of physical disorders were terrifled with night: visions, it will bs the dreamless sleep. To nurses and doctors and mothers who were wakened almost every hour of the night by those to whom they ministered or over whom they watched, it will be the undisturbed sleep. To those who could not go to bed till late at night and must rise early, in the morning and before getting rested, it will be the long sleep. In the museum of Greenwich Hospital, England, there is a fragment uf a book that was found in the Arctic regions amid the reties of Sir John Franklin, who had perished amid the snow and ice, and the leaf of that pieeeof a book was turned down at the words; “When thou passes! through the waters I will be with thee.” Having served his generation in the cause of science and discovery by the will of Uod, he fell on sleep. Why will you keep us all so nervous talking altoui that which is only a dormitory and a pillowed slumber, canopied by angels’wings? Sleep! Transporting sleep! And what a glorious awakening! Yon and 1 have sometimes been thoroughly bewildered after a long and fatiguing Journey; we have stopped at'a friend’s house for the night, aud after hours of complete unconsciousness we have opened our eyes, the high-risen sun full in our faces, and. before we could fully collect our faculties, have said; “Where am I? Whose house is this and whose ate these gardens?” And then it has flashed upon us in glad reality. And 1 should not wonder if, after we have served our generation and. by the will of Uod. have fallen on sleep, the deep sleep, the restful steep, we should awake in blissful bewilderment and for a little while say: “Where am 1? What place is- this? W ho hung this upholstery? What fountains are those tossing in the light? Why, this looks like Heaven? It is. It is. Why, there is a building grander than nil the castles of earth heaved into a mountain of splendor; that must oe the palace of Jesus. And, look there, at those walks lined with a foliage more beautiful than any thing I ever saw before, and see those who are walking down those aisles of verdure. From what 1 have heard of them, those two arm in arm must be Moses and Joshua, him of Mount Sinai and him of the halting sun over Ajalon. And those two walking arm in arm must be John and I’aui. the one so gentle and the other so mighty. And those two with the robes as brilliant as though made out of the eooled-off flames of martyrdom, must be John Huss and Hugh Latimer. But I must not look any longer at those gardens of beauty, but examine this building in which I have Just awakened. 1 look sut of ihe window this way and that and up and down, and 1 And it is a mansion of immense sixe in which I am stopping. All its windows are agate and its colonnades of porphyry and alabaster. Why, 1 wonder if this is not the house of “many mansion” of which 1 used to read? It is, it is. There must be many of my kindred and friends in this very mansion. Hark! whose are those voices, whose are those bounding feet? I open the door and see, and lo! they are coming through all the corridors and up nnd down all the stairs, our long-absent kindred. Wky. there is father, there is mother, there are the children. All young again. All of ns together again. And as we embrace each other with the cry: “Sever mote to part! never wore to part!" the arches, the alcove*, the hallways echo and re-echo the words: “Sever more to part? never more to part.” Then onr glorious friends say: “Come ont with ns and see Heaven.” And, some of them hounding ahead of ns and some of them stopping beside us. we start down the ivory stairway. And ere meet coming up one of the kings of ancient Israel, somewhat small of stature, but having a countenance radiant with n thousand victories. And as all are making obeisance to this great one of Heaven I cry ont: “Who is he!” and the answer comes: “This is the greatest of all the kings of Israel. It is David, who, after he had served his generation by the will of God, fell on sleep.”

»•■>*! hist u Icnm Abeat. Once oar pat otter koto us a (Croat fright AU the members of the household had retired to their rooms sad, were preparing for bed, when we were startled by a aeries of the wildest shrieks proceeding from the servant-girls’ bedroom, la the r«l! persuasion of Sadi eg the house on lit at the very least, we alt rushed frantically to the scene of alarm, where we soon discovered J0o cause of the hubbub. One of the gim. never very remarkable for strength of nerve, had lamped Into bed, gathered the blanket > about bar, aad shoved down her feet, which came into violent ahd unexpected contact with something which olearly had ae legitimate baslaess there. That something waa cur pat otter. His comfortable slumbers thus unceremoniously disturbed, bo had, naturally enough, salted, with what was very much the reverse of gentleness, the big toe of the cffeed.ag feet, aed certainly left his mark there It was not to to ws ode red at that the peer girt gotsgreat fright, although lam happy to ear than was not followed by much die

Ir is not alone the Irish who are coming to this country. During test year 51,6*9 Norwegian mud Swedish immigrants tended at Castle Garden. Oct in Western Kansas church people hare “ penny sociais,” at which cheese, crackers and water, in lieu ot iec-cream, cake and coffee are served. A nsw style of paper collar, a mechanical mocking bird sod a colored baby hare been named after'luge Halford, and an “inauguration grand march " haa been dedicated to Asi Indiana court recently decided that unless a Woman is pleased with her photo graphs she need not pay for them, no matter if n dosen of her friends declare that they ** look just like her.” The I winter fate of the cock robin is a hard eee. In his drnb coat, crimson vest and military crest, be is used in the South nt this time to ornament n piece of brown toast and contrast with a Vernon. Tlu courts of California have decided that a Chinaman's cue must not be cut off When he is sent to prison; hut they are cut off Just the same No warden will allow that n heathen pig-toil te more sacred than American unplaited hair. Tun attendance nt the meetings ot secret societies in 81 Louis is on the decline, end it is believed that unless new methods are adopted they will gradually dwindle away. A member says: “Moss-grown entertainments no longer draw.” Oven one hundred and sixty women matriculated at a Philadelphia woman's medical college last j ear. They represented nearly every nation on the earth, some he-' ing from China and others from Australia, white there were two or more from evety State in the Union. Since the United States statute against tnportmtioa of contract labor has been enforced against laborers in the Lord's fieldminister*—there has arisen from American actors a call for legislation to prevent bringing foreign actors into this country; and right on top of that call comes another cry from New York regular physicians lor protection against the influx of physicians from abroad. Tan Immigration that has poured into Southern and Western Florida has made it a white man's tend, wealthy and prosperous, while the 10,300 negroes south of St. Augustine had grown from 1870 to 1880 to 18,900, the IT,300 whites had grown to 45,900, and aro nearly 70,000 today. In that section of the State the races were nearly equal eighteen years ago; the whites are four to one today, and in a number of the counties the negro population has actually decreased. Tuna have come forward claimants to a vast estate covering a fair slice of Minnesota, nearly half of Wisconsin, with the city of St. Paul thrown in. The claimants are descendants of Captain Jonathan Carver, of the British army, who, during his explorations in 1770, was presented with the land. There is ia existence a deed of an undivided 5,000 acres out of this debatable tract. It ia said that the present claim has not been recognised by Congress because part of the deeds were missing, having been mislaid in Plantation Hall, London. PEOPLE OF ALL LANDS. The Eskimos are naming thoir children after “By Thunder.” “Go to Halifax'* and other expressions used by English sailors. An Arab rule for selecting a good horse is to measure him from the tip of the nose to the top of the withers, aud from the letter point to the%>*®of the tail. The longer the first measurement is in proportion to the tetter the bettor the horse. A New Yeas custom in France, which falls heavily upon young unmarried men of limited income, is that which obliges them to send a boabonniere to every Indy in whoso house they have received entertainment during the old year that is just dead. A person is not a man in Corea until he has a wife. Boys and bachelors part their hair in the middle, and it is braided in a strand which hangs down the back. When a boy is married he has the right to cut off his hair. In Southern Russia and the Caucasus the women smoke almost as universally as the men. A newspaper correspondent writes: “I have had, two or three times, nicely dressed ladies stop up tome in a railroad station or on the platform and beg ot me a light.” The Turkish farmer has no regular time tor planting. Winter wheat is sown in all months from August to December, and even in that mouth, too, plowing and sowing are done. There has been no improvement in farming implements. The same kind is used as for .generations hark. ' Over the main door ot houses in Saxony there is often a stone, on which is engraved the name of the builder and his wife. And on tho beam over the maia door is frequently engraved some such sentiment ns this: “Pray, Lord, save my house and set those of others on fire.” A fekson convicted of any crime in China, except that of murdering one ef the Royal family, can hire n substitute to toko the punishment, even if it is death. The veto of pay of these substitutes has lately advanced about twenty per oent. and the cause is laid to the English. SHORT AND SHARP. . Love may live an age, if you do not ■Barry iV Woman is never too angry to be without ai mouthful of sweet words. Tons patient with fashionable people te the best kind of discipline. ] Ween girls are old enough for a lover, they are a match for any gray head. A wuman te not to he counted your own until ycu have her inside a wedding ring. Tee best evidence of love is to sign a paper relinquishing right to the bride s fortune. Wonts N who buy their social progress will nearly always faint at the sight of a wash? tub. Familiaxitt with servants ia a good indication of the origin ot tome people of the day. Cuwoixex who only preach for effect are never noted for success te salvation uf aoste. __I

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— i Sabbath, the lard’s day, i the actions of theGovernment, especially tel adjournment or tea houses of Congress over the Sabbath day. Bar. T. P. Stevensoi, who, W th others, was recently heard before the Senate Committee bn Education and Labor, when a delegation from the American Sabbath Union were pleading for n National Bund ay-rest bill, directed attention to another fact, which occaalened surprise in the committee, to-wit: “There is one eminent personage In the Nation, the President of the United States, whose right to exemption from public service on the Lord’s dsy is guarded by n fundamental law of the land.” Being challenged tor proof, he cited the constitutional provision: “The President shall have ten days, Sundays excepted, tor the consideration of bills.Interior. Pandora’s Bwx of Evils Kpvef contained n vfbrse one than malaria. Extirpate it when it first shows its hydra head. If yon don’t, it will wind its sinuous length about you, and. perhaps, in the end crush you. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters annihilates and prevents it. So it does dyspepsia, constipation, liver complaint, kidney ailments, rheumatism and nervousness. Yon cannot select « prom pier tonieaud alterative. Tun man who first suggested the use ef an X as the signature of a person who could not write was no philosopher. The fitness of things should have led him to selsct the cipher, which as a uautograph is eminently significant in most cases.— Binghamton Leader. lAtwaTS avoid harsh purgative pills They farst make yon sick and then lea ve you constipated. Carter’s Little Liver T-'-ls regulate t lie bowels and make you weU. Dose, one pill. Wnnx a girt is bent on getting married •he stands straigbler than ever.—Kentucky BWs Journal Tne Twiovr. — “ Brews’* Bronchial TV»chc«“ act directly on the organs ef the voice. Tbev have an extraordinary effect in all disorders of the throat. Tnn premising young men of a community are no better than the paying young -—X <X Picayune. lr you want to be cured of a cough use Bale's Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. A reason who serves ns through fire and water—the cook.—The Yiheyardist. ! Fon any ease of nervousness, sleeplessness, weak stomach, indigestion, dyspepsia, relief is sure in Carter's Little Liver Pills. I A hasp to hand affair—courting in the dark.—Burlington Free Press. Tnn best known remedy for consumption is Oxygen Cura. W rile Dr. Ueppert,Cincinnati. As inveterate Prairie Farmer. smoker — Vesuvius—

CONQUERS PAIN. HEALS, CURES At P*roo»r ANt> bi.itss. 1M CHARLES A. VOCEUrCO.. Saltlmvt. Hi Diamond Vera-Cura FOR DYSPEPSIA. A POSITIVE COM TO* IKWCSSTIOS ABB AIL TwbMm Amis* T lentnra. **nt 6* i lUHlmorr. M. Totfs Pills CUBE CONSTIPATION. T* «r)*j kealth u« nhMld Rat* rtfnl«r cmmtjM* every t«M y four bears. The evils. Mk acatal mA TRADE KEMetdy"‘”pA[N CURES PROMPTLY SPRAINS, STRAIN8, HURTS.

fThe gentleman on thn left look 3l«CT*rT. Fotaah : and Sarsaparilla Mixtures, »hieh rained hl» dues- : lion amt *»e» kin raerenrial rheumatism. The i gentleman on the right took Ssrurr's Srtetnc : IS. S. S-> which foroed out the potion. and Ouilt him up from the Brat dose. ! serirrs SPBCinC Is entirely a eegetable modiMae. amt I* the mly medicine which has e*er cured 1 Blood Poison. Scrofula. Blood Humors wad kindred 1 diseases, Send for our books on Blood and Skin di»1 ease*, mailed free. TliB SWIFT SPECIFIC CO. Drawer X Atlanta. Ga. Head t.

COD LIVER OIL, llkw kmc*. It Wt»M MrsW tknt.lt I. A. MAGEE A CO.. lUwitBCt.'Mttfc ADVANCE IN PRICK. TELL rovn I'RIKXDS ^Ladies’ Home Journal b to fee mule BETTER nut LARGER. J* ran fee b«l now ** cob »» Vemte per it»l Htthtr r««t H tiui t«t *1.00. »• shall double tbe prtea beca use wecannot n®*d to furnish to good a paper iplfee JWWal b to fee tot tat than it* Dollar. but we shaU datable Its amine, and fm'i'wi wore of II for vonr sooner. AGENTS can make haatnii of 4altars securing subscriptions at Half Price up to Jolf 1st. 1889. Re offer theta good pay this ererr sufeecrtfeertis ss^sE sjsqopj£^\ largest number: SioOKr the tecond largwt list? and won. Samite copies and posters win be furnished, to that a great demand can be created in any uetghbcehosd. CURTIS PUBLISHING CO. PHILADELPHIA, PA. I ONLY For any one of 60 _ CHOICE SETS OE Vejelablis or Flower Seeds, Rosts. Slirtibs. Grape Vines, Frail Trees, Etc. _I For example, we tend postpaid and guarantee Ode arrival 38 Packets Choice Ploweir Seeds, M sorts, price fl. SO. for. .«.. $1.00 » Packets Choice Vcgetsble SeedVSB sorts l CO ISKtrcrbtaomtag Roses. Iii beautiful torts 1.00 It Oerat>lums,M splendid sorts........J.J* IS Carnations. 15 elegant sorts.. l.tO U Grape Vines, 4 sorts, our choice.. 1-00 For the other Meets and 1001 things besides [many New and Rare' see our Grasp Petuso Cat.spool’s. 130 pages, sent free to all who wish to purchase either Seeds. Plants or Trees. AU other* wishing It should remit the cost »c. Ours Is one of the eldest, largest and most reliable nurseries in the lT. 8. 35th year, 24 greenhouses, WO acres. THE STORKS ft HARRISON 00., Palmsvlllt, Lake C«.« Ohio. irPAXS TM» PAMJL «N6 «*■*> J. I. CASE T. M. CO. HACINK, - " ha s r racrc as** or =====- trtegto s Sarsaparilla iriOer. it euros Scrofula. Sail Pimples, •» llumhrs. Dyspepsia. _Sick Headache, indigestion, General lebtUtyMatarrh. Rheumatlsu. Kidney «M Mvef omplatnis. overcomes that tired feeling, creates in appetite, strengthens the purres. and builds up he Whole system. Hood’s Sarsaparilla las met pecullarand unparalleled saeeeee at home, inch Is Us popularity in Lowell. Hass., when It ta Bade, that whole neighborhoods are taking tt at the •me time, and Lowell dragrtsu sea more of Iced's Sarsaparilla than of all other sarsaparilla* >r Wood purifiers. It ts told l>T all druggists. Hi lx foe «. Prepared only by C. L HOOD A CD. Apothecaries, Lowell. Hess. IOO Doses One Dollar

mw M11X Machinery tF“S*ND ro*LA*ai KUNMC.nl UUUMl‘1. HAILED rM£i. CTNAXETfllS ■_ “Religious New York” ProfuselyanTbeautifullybiu.lrsied. •**«»"•*£ •hurcbe* of the Jews, Catholic* ami Prta**»B» Mid 8b* portraits of sonw of tbs head* of th* -hatches of the Metropolis and telltnf how *•» ITothers worship, from Urn Jews to the t hristlan s-ieaust*. This article to lieatoroeCs Monthly If altar me for March loew ready > tea eery sptrtted tn* by th* Ktt. Carlos Marty*. It to hotter than a tanday ylslt to Sow York, and will h* of front Inereat to e»ery raemberof the family. Thechtldren rill he delighted toTearn the now naala "Ihaaf ■>r» »tVl»y.~ ibandsomely dliutratod) la the diirrh ttomher. 1*---- **fc r**nr N***»lp*Jer labiishar. ^VC MADE WITH BOILING WATER. EPPS'S GRATEFUL—COMFORTING. COCOA MADE WITH BOILING MILK.

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USINESS BRYANT 4o STRATTON. The Louisville Business Collage, Owner TVW ud Jefienoa Street*, Leakrilte, IftNTBANCK: NO. 40#^ THIRD 8TBK1ET. M&lUiKMhkWMeHiMI*F*r Ckt*k|W .

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J— — ----—— ■ — ISAAC T. WHITE. FRED‘K H. BURTON. MARSHAL C. WHITE. MlIaUEIH. db WHITE, "Wholesale Druggists AKD DEALERS IK Paints, Oils, Bye Staffs, Window Glass and surgical, instruments. No. 105 Main Street' ... Cvansville, Ind. THH1 OSBORN BROTHERS ■■re remored ,o U»ir elcg*n« JWtw BuIMIo^ob whert the, here % l»r*e u| BOOTS AND SHOES, nr Men, Woa»t* ui CVJdyea. Wp*eej>«. I* SterW end Emmenoa'i bread* of Flat Shm Petersburg. Indiana.'