Pike County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 45, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 March 1889 — Page 4

TALM AGE’S SERMON. “Tough Things in iho Bibb” Intoiesiingly Discuno4. Mart on llw *»»ta»W«'lT Hl> la Mat In Ike Ufkt at Sliritn RwMrrli—CrltlrUn Answered.

Rev. T. DeWitt Tafmage took the earner* to task in n recent sermon at the Brooklyn Tabaruaeie. The subject chosen «u: ‘Touji Things in the Bible,” and the text: . Ia which are tom: tht»s» hart to be understool.—II Peter ill,». The Bible i* the mast common-aenso book in all the world. But th -re are many things in it which require explanation. It all depends on the mood ia. which yoa come to this grand old Book. You .may take hold of the handle of the sword or its sharp edge. Yon may employ oa its mysteries the rule of multiplication or subtraction. There are things a* my text suggests, hard to be understood, but t shall solve some of them, hoping to leave upon all honestmiuded people the impression that it four or five of them can be explained, perhaps they may all ba^xplaiued. Hard thing the first: The Bible says the world was created iu six days, while geology says it was hundreds of thousands of years in process of building. “In the beginning, (tod created the Heaven and the earth.” “Iu the In-ginning.” There you can roll in ten million years, if you want to. There is no particular daie given-—no coutest between science and revelation. Though the world may have been in process of creation for millions of years, suddenly and quickly, and In one week, it may have been fitted up for mau’s residence. Just as a great mansion may have been mauy years in building, aud'yet ia one-week jt may be curtained and chandeliered and cushioned and upholstered for a bride and groom. , You are not comjwled to believe that the world was made in onr six days, it may aii* have been a day of twenty-four hours, the day spoken «f iu the first chapter; it may have !>een (tod's day, and a thousand years with Him are a* one day. " And the eveuing and the morning were the first day”—Owl's day. “And the evening and the moniiug were the second da>*‘—(tod's dav. “And the evening and the uioruing were the sixth day”—(tod’s day. You and 1 living in the seventh day, the Sabbath of fhe world, the day of (to*pet redemption, the grandest day of all th- week, in Which each day may have been inade Mp of thousands of year*, (,‘au you tell the how a man cau get his miudaud soul into such a blasphemous twist as to scoff at thal. first chapter of (teuesis, it* ver-c* billow^ of light surgiug up from sapphire seas of glory?

The Bible represents mat ugut was created un M<udav. ami the »uu was u>»l created until Thursday. Just thin’* of III A Boo* declaring, that ligj. aril create 1 three days before tbs suushone! Why, don't you kuow that U-it and electricity emit jieat amt lizlil lndcpendv.il of tie , *un? Beside* that, when the earth was in the process of coudensaliou, it was surrounded by thick vapors and the discharge of many volcanoes in the primary period, and all thi* obsoarstiou may have hindered the light of the sun from falling on th^ earth until that Thurs-i day moruitig. B-sides that. lUvid Brewster and Hcrsehel. the ' astronomer, and alle the modern meu «l their class, agree in the fact that the sun is not light, that it is au opaque mass, that it is only the candle*tick that hold* the light, a phosphorescent atmosphere floating around it changing aud changing, so it is not to he at all wondered at that not until that Thursday morning its light fell on the earth. Beside that, the roeks, ir crystalization, emit light from a thousand surfaces, the alk»iie«, for instance. Tiie metalic base* emit liihl. There was a time iu the history of the world when there were thousands of miles of liquid granite flaming with light. Beside that, it has been found that there are burned-out volcanoes In other world* which, wheu they were iu explosion aud activity, must have cast torth an iu-uffer-able light, throwing a glare all over our earth. Beside that, there are the aurora IsTi-alis uud tile aurora am halts. J| b>*ok on physical science says: "Captain Bonnyjnastle; coining np thI*iiIf of St. Lawrence on t! l^th c s- j<tember, l'id, was aroused by the mate of the vessel in great alarm from au cnusnal ap|iearanee. It was a starlight night, wheu suddenly the sky became overcast. In the direction of the high land of t'.-ru-wallts Cottuly au iustantanco i- atid jn-^eusely-viviil light.rv*ersbl:ag the aurora, shot out on the hitherto gh* «;uy and,dark sea on the lee bow. that was so brilliant it lighted every thing distinctly, even to the masthead. The light spread over th* whole sea b-twe:ti “The two shores, and the waves, which before had been tran*|uil. bys-amc a jitated Captain Bonuveasile describ.-s the scene a* that of a blazing sheet of awful aud nt >s! brilliant light—a long and vivid line of light that showed the face of the high frowniug laud abreast. The sky became lowering atid more intensely aUcarr. L<»ng, tortuous lines of light showed immense uumhers of large* fish darting about as if in canstomation. Th“ topsatl yard and nt zieu booth were lighted by the glare as if gaslight* h»d been horned directly oelow them, and until just before J daybreak, at four o’clock, the most min* ute objects Were distinctly vt-ible." My hearers, these are ten thousand sources of light besides the light of the suu. Another hard thing: The story of the "deluge aud Noah’s ark.. They s.iy that from the account there it must have rained eight hundred- feet of water each day iu^prdcr-thal it might be fifteen cubits aiiove the hills. They say that the ark could not have been large enough to contain “two of every sort.” for there would have been huudred* of thousands aud hundreds of thousands , of creatures. They say that these creatures would have come from all lands aud all xones.They aay thsre was only one small window iu thi ark, and that would not have given fresh air io keep the animals inside the ark from suffocation. They say that the ark finally landed on a mountain seven-, teen thousand feet high. They say they do not believe the story. Neither do 1 There is uo such stnry in the Bible. 1 will tell you what Ute Bible story is. lmust say that I" have changed my mind in regard to some matters w aeh once were to me very 'mysterious. They are no more - mysterious. This is the key to the facts. This is the story of au eye-witness, Noah, his story incorporated afterward by Moses in tne account. Noah described the scene-just as it appeared to him. He ! ■aw the flood, and he fathomed its depth. : As far as eyWconld reach every thing was ! covered up, from horizon to horizon, or, j as it says, “under the whole Heaven.” ■ He did not refer to the Sierra Nevada*. or to Mount Washington, for America had not been discovered, or, if it hail been discovered, he could not have seeu so far off. 1 He is giving the testimony of an eye-wit-ness. (tod speaks after the manner of men when He says every thing went under, and Noah speak* after the manner of men when he says every thing did go nnk der. An eye-witness. There is no need of thinking that the kangaroo leaped the ocean or that the polar bear came down from the lee. Why did the deluge come* It came for the purpose of destroying the outrageous inhabitants of the then thinly-populated earth, nearly all the population; probably eery near the ark before it was launched. What would have been the use or submerging North and South America, or Europe, or Africa, when they were not inhabited; And as to the skeptical suggestion that in order to hare the water z>s deep as the Bible states, it must hate rained eight hundred feet every day. I reply, the Biljle distinctly declares that the moat of the flood roae instead of fall - » lug. Before the account where it says "th* windows of Heaven were opened. ” It says, “all the fountains of the great * deep were broken up.” All geologists agree in saying that there are caverns in the earth filled with trater.and they rushed forth, and all the lakes and rivet s forsook their beds. The fountains of the great deep were broken up. and then the win. (fpMi of Befit** w opened, f» t» V

• strange thing that we should he naked to believe In this flood of the Bible, when geologists tell ns that again and again and again the dry earth ha* been drowned out! Just open your geology and yon will read of twenty floods. 1* it not strang ? that infidel scientists, wanting os to believe in the twenty floods of geological disco very.sbould, as soon as we believe in one flood of the Bible, pronoance ns non compos mentis. Well, then, another thing, in regard to the sise of the ark. Instead of being a mud scow, as some of those skeptics would have us understand, it eras a magnificent ship, nearly as large as the Great Eastern, three times the sise of an ordinary man-of-war. At the time in the world whan ship building was unknown, God had this vessel constructed, which turned out to be almost in the same pro- ! portions as our staunchest modern vesi sels. After thousands of years of expe- ! rimenting in naval architecture aud in ship cmrpeutery, we have at last got up j to Noah's ark, that ship leading ait the fleet* of the world: on all the oceans. Well. Noah saw the animal creation going into this ark. He gave the account of an clh-witness. They were the animals from the region where he lived; for the most part they were animats useful to inau. aud if noxious insects or poisonous reptiles went in it was oiily to discipline the patience and to keep alert the generationAfter the flood. He saw them going in. There was a great number of them, and he give* the account of an eyewitness. They wentiu two and two of all

“But how could yon pi them into the ark?" asked infidel scientists. “How eould they be induced to g» into the art? He would hate to pick them out and drive them in. and coax them in." Could no* the same God who cave instinct to the animal inspire that iustinct to seek for shelter from the storm? However, ubthinc more than ordinary animal instinct was necesaagg. Have you never been in the country when an August thunderstorm was coming up and heard the cattle moan at the bars to get in? and seen the affrighted fowl go upon the perch at uoohday. and h-ard the affrighted dog and cal railing at the door, supplicating entrance? And are you surmised that in that age of the world, when there were fewer place* of shelter for dumb beasts, at the muttering and rumbliug ami flashing aud quaking and darkening of an approaching deluge, the animal creation came moaning and bleating to the sloping embankment reaching up to the ancient Great Eastern anil passed iu? I have owned horses and cattl^and sheep and dogs, but I never had a horse or a cow or a sheep or a dog that was so stnpid it did not know enough to come in when it rnt,ue<!. And then, that one window in the ark which afforded such poor ventilation to the creatures there ^assembled—that small window iu Me ark which excites so much niirthfulTiess on the part of infidels. If they knew as much Hebrew as you could put on your little Huger nail they would have known that that worst translated window there means window course, a whole rauge for lights. Those ignorant infidels do not kuow a window pane from twe ity windows. So if there is any criticism of the ark, there seems t« be too much window for such a'long storm. And »s to the other charge that the windows of ?the ark mu-t have been kept shut, aud consequently all inside would have perished from suffocation, I have to-ay that there are people iu this house to-day who, all the watt' | from Liverpool to Harnegat Highthouse, 1 and for two weeks, were kept under deck, : the hatches buttoned down because of the | storm. Some, of you. in the old-time sail- . mg vessels, were kept nearly a mouth ; with the hatches down because of some j long storm. Then infidels say that the ark landed oa ' a mountain seventeen thousand feet high. and that, of e«ur-e u» soon as the animals 1 ranio forth they would all be frozen in the ice. That is geographical ignorance! Ararat ts not merely the name of a mountai l. but for a hilly district, and it may | hare been a hill one hundred feet high, or five huudred or one thousand feet high on which the ark alighted. Noah measured j the depth of the water above the hill, aud j it is fifteen cubits, or twenty-seven feet. 1 Ah! my friends, this story of the ark is no : more incredible than if yon should say , to ate: ''Last summer I was among the | hills of New England. and there came on i the most terrible storm 1 ever saw. aud i the whole country was flooded. The waters came up over the hills, and to save j onr lives we got iu a boat on the river, \ and even tte- dumb creatures w.erc so affrighted they ciune moaning aud Ideating until *! It i tbctft^'tb- -am* boat.** We ate u-'t dependent upon the Hibje for the story of the flood, entirely. All ages and nil literatures have traditions, broken tradition*, indistinct traditions, but still traditions. The old books of the lVr-iau- tell about the floods at th ■ time of Abraham, who so polluted'the earth that it had to be washed by a great stortu. The traditions of the Chaldeans say that in the time when Xtsuthrus was King there was a gre it flood, aad he put |iis family and his friends in a large vessel, anil al’ outside of them were destroyed, end after awhile the birds went forth and they e ime back aud their claws were tinged with mud. Lucian and Ovid, celebrated writers, who hail never seen the Bible, described a flood in the time of Deucalion. He took his friends iuto a boat, and the animals came running to him in |>airs. t So alt lauds ahd all ages aud all literatures seem to have a broken and indistinct traiiti >u of a calamity which Moses, here incorporating Noah’s account, so grandly, so beautifully, so accurately. so solemnly records. Sly prayer is that tile l»od who created the world may create as anew iu Christ Jesus; aud that the God who made light three days before the sun shone may kindle iu our hearts a light that will burn on long after th- suu has expired; and that the God who ordered the ark built and kept open more thau one hundred years that the antediiuvans might enter it for shelter, may graciously incline us to accept the invitation which this morning rose iu music from the throne, saying: “Come thou ami all thy house into the ark.”

Amnner nam tautg it» w* understood: The s*orv that the sun anil niix>n Aood still to allow Joshua to complete his victory. lulidrl scientists declare that an impossibility. Bus if a man have brain and strength enough to make a clock, can he not start it again and stop it again? It a machinist have* strength and brain enough to make a crop thresher, can he not start it and stop it anil start it again and stop it again? If God hare strength and wisdom to make the dock of the universe, the great machinery of the worlds, has He not strength enough and wisdom enough to start it and stop it. and start it again and stop it again? Or stop one wheel, or stop twenty wheels, or stop all the wheels? Is the Hoek stronger than the clock maker? Does the corn thresher know more than the machinist? Is the universe mightier than its God? But people ask how could the moon have been seen to stop in the daytime? Well, If you have never seen the moon in the daytime, it Is because yon have not been a very diligent ohserver of the heavens. Besides that, it was n it necessary for the world literally to stop. By unusnal refraction of the son's rays the day might' have been prolonged. So that, while the earth continued on its path in the heavens, it figuratively stopped. You must remember that these Bible authors used the vernacular of their own day, just as you and I say the son went down. The snn never j goes down. We simply describe what appears to the human eye. Besides that, the world, our world, could have literally stopped without throwing the universe out of balance. Onr world has two motions—the one around the sun and the other on its own axis. It might have stopped on its own axis, while at the same time it kept on its path through the heavens. Bo there was no need of stellar confusion because our world slackened its speed or entirely stopped in its revolution on its own axis. - That is none of the business of Jupiter, or Mars, or Mercury, or Saturn, or the Dipper. -Besides that, within the memory of max there have been worlds that were born and that died. A few years ego astronomers telegraphed, through the Associated Press, to all the world—the astronomers from the c ty of Wavhia?too—that aaother world had bee* discovered. WithLa a company vtU skirt space of Use,

astronomer* tell ns, thirteen worlds hare boned down. From their observatory, they notice lirst that the world* look like other worlds, then they became a deep red, showing they were oa fire; then they became ashen, showing they were burned down; then they entirely disappeared, showing that even the ashes were scattered, Now,. 1 say” if God can start n world, he eoaM stop one or two of them without n great deal of exertion. or he could by unusual refraction of the sun’s rays continue the illumination. But infidel scientists* say it would hare been tielitUingfor other worlds to stop on acooant of such n battle. Why, sirs, what Yorktown was for Bevolutionsiry time*, and what Gettysburg was in our civil contest, and what Sedan was in the Franco-German war, and what Waterloo was in the Napoleonic destiny—that was this battle of Joshua against the five allied armies of Gibeon. It was that battle that d tanged the entire coarse of history. It was a battle to Joshua as important as; though a battle now should occur in which England and the United 8tates and France and Germany and Italy and Turkey and Russia should fight for victory or annihilation. However much any other world, solar, lunar or stellar, might be hastened in its errand of light it would be excusable if it lingered i n the heavens for a little while and put down its sheaf of beams and gaaed on such an Armajjeddon.

Then there is the Bible statement tnat a whale swallowed Jonah auil ejected him upon the dry ground in three days. If you will go to the museum at Nantucket, Mass., you will find the skeleton of a whale large enough to swallow a man. 1 said to the janitor, while I was standing I in tne museum; “Why it does not seem from the looks of this skeleton that that story in the Book of Jonah is so very improbable, does it?” ‘18'j, no,” he replied. "it dors not.” There is a cavity in the mouth of the common whale, large enough for a man to live in. There have I been shark* found again and again with an entire human body in them. Beside* that, the Bitile says not hung about a whale. It sacs; "The Lord prepared a great fish;” and there are scientists who tell us that there were sea monsters in other days that make the modern whale seem very insignificant I know in oae place in the New Testament it speaks of the whale as appearing in the occurrence I have just mentioned, but the word may just as well be translated, “sea monster”—any kind of a sea monster. Procopius says, in the year MS. a sea monster was slain j which had for fifty years destroyed ships. 1 suppose this sea monster that took [ care of Jonah may have been one of the j great sea monsters that conld have easily taken down a prophet, and he could have ! lived there Ihroe days if he had kept in | motion so ns to keep the Rubric juices | from taking hold of him aud destroying j him, and at the end of three days the . monster would naturally he sick miough ; to regurgitate Jonah. Befldes that, my | friends, there is one wont which explains" | the whole thing. It says: “The Lord I prejsared a great fish.” If a ship car- | penter prepare a great vessel to carry | Texan beeves to Glasgow, I suppose it can ; carry Texan beeves; if a shit* carpenter I prepare a vessel to carry coal to"bne of j. the Northern ports, I suppose it can carry j coal; if a ship carpenter prepare a vessel to carry passengers to Liverpool. I supj*ose it can carry passengers to LiverirJMOt; and if the lord prepared a fish to 1 carry one passenger. I suppose it could carry a uasseuger and the ventilation have been all right. So all tile strange things in the Bible can l>e explained if you wish to have them explained. Aud you can build them into | a benntifui aud healthful fire for your hearth, or you can with them put vourimW^rtal iuteirests into conflagration. But you had. better decide about the veracity “t the Bible very soon. I waut this morning to caution you against puttiug off making up your mind about this Book. Ever since 1772 there has been great disctmioa as to wh» was the author of Jontu's* Letters, those letters so ft|H of sarcasm anil virtuperatiou and power. The whole, English nation stirred up 'with it. More than one hundred volumes written to discuss that question: “Who was Junius?* “Who wrote the letters of Junius?” Well, it is an interesting question to discuss, but still, after all. it makes hut little practical difference to you and to me who- Junius vras, whether Sir Philip Francis. or lord Chatham!, or John Borne Tooke. or Horace Walpole, •>r Henry Grattan, or any one of the forty-four men who were seriously charged with the authorship. But it is an absorbing question, it is a practical question. it is an overwhelming question to you and to me. the authorship of this Holy Bible—»hether the Lori God of Heaven and earth dr a pack of duties, scoundrels or imposter*. We ean not afford to adjourn that question a week, or a day. or an hour, any more than a sea captain can afford to say: “Well, this is a very dark night. I have really lost my bearings; there is a light out there. I don*t know whether it is a lighthouse or a false light on the shore; 1 don't know what it is; but I’ll just go to sleep, and in the morning I’ll find out.” Iii the morning the vessel might lie on the rocks and the l»each strewu with the white faces of the dead crew. The lime for that sea captain to find out about the lighthouse is before he goes to sleep. Oh, my friends, 1 want you to understand that in our deliberations about this Bible we are not at calm an- . ■ horage, but we are rapidly coming toward the coast,.coming at the rate of seventy heart throbs a minute, aud I must know whether it is going to be harbor Or ship- : wreck. I wa< so glad |o read in the papers of the fact that the steamship Edam had come safely into harbor. A week before, the Persian Monarch, plowing its war toward the Narrows, a huudred miles out, saw signals of distress, bore down upon the vessel and found it was the steamship EdaifiT She had two hundred passengers on Ward. The merciful captain of the Persian Monarch en lenrored to bring her in, but the tew line broke. He fastened it again, but the sea was rough and the tow line broke again. Then the night came on aud the merciful captain of the Persian Monarch "lay to,” thinking in the morning he could give rescue to the passengers. The morning came, bat during the night the steamship E lam had disappeared, aud the Captain of tllte Persian Monarch brought his vessel into harbor, saying how sad he felt because be coaid not give complete rescue bo that lost ship. 1 am glad that afterward another vessel saw her had brought her into safety. But when I saw the story of that steamship Edam, drifting. drifting, drifting. I do not know where, but w ith no rudder, no lighthouse, no harbor, no help. It said: -That is a skeptic, that is an infidel, drifting, drifting, drifting, not knowing where he drifts.” , And then, when I thought of the Persian Monarch anchored in harbor, 1 said: “Thai: is a Christian, that is a man who does all he can on. the way, crossing the sea to help others, coming, perhaps, through a very rough voyage into the harbor, there safe and safe forever.” \V onid God that there might be some one to-day who would go forth and bring in these souls that are drifting. In this assemblage,bow many a score shall I say, or a hundred, or a thousand?—not quite certain about the truth ef the Bible, not certain about any thing. Drifting, drifting, drifting. Oh, how Iwould like to tow them in. I throw you this cable. Lay hold! of thnt cable of the Gospel. Lay hold of it. I invite you nil in. The- hnrbor is wide enough, large enough for all the shipping. Come U. oh you winderera on the deep. Drift no more, drift no more. Come into the harbor. See the glorious lighthouse of 'the Gospel, “Peace on earth, good will to men.” Come into the harbor. God grant that it may be said of all of you who tire now drifting in your unbelief ns it might have been said of the passengers of the steamship ISdam, and as it was said centuries ago of the wrecked corn ship of Alexandria: "It came to pass that they all escaped safe to lane.” As sunn attracts a straw, so does lieanty admiration, which only lasts whilst the warmth conlinaaa; butt virtue, wisdom, goodness and real wortli. Uka the toadntoqa, never Iona their powar. Tbeae ago tha true graces, whtoh. an Homar feigns, are baked and Mod hand in hand beoauaa it tahythntr Influanoe thnt human hsarmareso jtrmly Hit** to M0I| A .

DM It Elect Harrison? per? hare beat using all subterfuges to ao-ount for their overwhelming defeat, and. numerous are the causes alleged, “I was talking with several of the vanquished on Fourth street the ether day, opgiosite a bill board, and one of the party exclaimed: “If it had not been for the closeness of the National Committee in the exiienditnre of money, we would hare elected out- man. The Republicans advertised their man like a circus.” Several of the party remarked that no advertising uras done except smalt announcements in {the papers, and a tew “ bangers ” oa the deed walls. *"Hangers!” said our informant. “What do you call that but s circus poster!” pointin;; to a twelve-sheet medicine poster cm the biill hoard, hearing the cuts of Gen. Harrison and his grandfather. ‘"If the Democrats had advertised like that, Cleveland would have boon reelected.”

ma poster reierrea to was one oi tno familiar black and white Log Cabin Sarsaiwurilla posters sent out by an enterprising linn engaged in the manufacture of old logcabin home-cures, under the name of Warner's Log Cabin Remedies, and among other equally valuable articles includes the famous Log Cabin Sarsaparilla, which is everywhere recognised as the best of all spring medicines and stands without a rival for the cure of all disorders which are the res ults of impure blood. 11m spring time of the year is the season when the system needs renovation; the tong winter has caused the blood to become tilled with impurities. There exists no better means to aid and strengthen the system at such an urgent period than the use of Warner's Log Cabin Sa-saparilla. which speedily restores the blood to a pure and healthy state, which tnsuies health and happiness. The reputation of the firm putting out the medicine is above reproach, and is the same firm which manufactures Warner's Salle Cure, the standard remedy for the cute of all those diseases peculiar to the k.dneys as well as those which are the results of disease in those organs, amt which has met with sucb phenomenal success for the past ten years. We understand that the posters referred to made their appearance in many parts of the country sometime prior to the Chicago Convention which nominated Oen. Harrison as a candidate for the Presidency-hence the use made of the portraits of the Harrisoiis, father and grandson—was either the res ult of remarkable political foresight or in accordance with the historical association of the old Log Cabin with the name of Harrison._■ _ —Eminent experts in naval warfare have come to the conclusion that in the future the nation which puts most science into its ships and their armninents and handles them the most scientifically, will have an immense advantage in sea fights over less : scientific rivals. It is said that the I French seem to be drawing ahead of other people in these matters, but the Americans and the English are still ready to trust largely to native grit and fortitude for the triumph of their respective countrymen on the sea and all: along shore. _ Trips Cndertaken for Health's Sake Will be rendered more beneficial, and the fatigues of travel counteracted, if the voyager will take along with him Hostetter s I Stomach Bitters, and use that protective i and enabling tonic, nerve invigormut and appetiser regularly. Impurities in air amt water are neutralised by it, and it is a matchless tranquilizer and regulator of the stomach, livugaud bowels. It counteracts malaria. rhfuraJsiii. and a tendency to kidney and bladder ailments. Tnc total appropriations made by the Fiftieth Congress amounted to FSl.S<S,69ft, i gSl,738,300 of which was on pension account. Jlras A. PmiNi. editor and publisher of the CoTbolic Viator, Richmond, Va.. says: Haring tried Bhallenberger’s Antidote for Malaria, we do not hesitate to say, from personal experience, that in ourcase it acted like a charm, and did all the doctor claims for it, and we would assuredly have recourse to it again it exposed to Malaria. Sold by Druggists. _ H arrison is Saul to have a mascot in the shape of a yellow cat that appeared with his comiug and haunts the White House. Aix cases of weak or lame back, backache, rheumatism, will find relief by wearing one of Carter's Smart Weed and Belladonna Backache Plasters. Price 35 cents. Try them. A fine portrait of Mrs. Cleveland has 1stelr been placed in the Corcoran Uailcry at Washington. “ Ba<»wx'« Bronchial Trociies” are widely known as an admirable remedy- for Bronchitis, Hoarseness, Coughs " aud Throat troubles. Sold only in bore*. Caribou (Me.) citurns were recently treated to the unusual sight of a rainbow by moonlight. _ Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar relieves whooping cough. Pike's Toothache Drops £ure in one minute. It is a grave error to think every Bostea woman is a mass of culture. THE MARKETS. New Yoke.. March *3. CATTLE—Nr t ve Steers..» 3 0 U COTTON-Mddnax . «* FUiUK-Wti ti-r Wheat. 3 45 it WHEAT-Nh SIS-d. corn—sb. a..«*.<• OATS “Western Mixed.. -9-, 5 PORK—Mess (newi. 13 30 d ST. LOT IS. COTTON—M cldlm*. . . »V4 UKKVKS-tlood lo Choice— * ~ Far to Med um ... HOGS—Common U> Select — SHEEP—Fair to Choice.. >» FLOVR—Patents .. 4 » “• 3 Tj 3 S3 say i % c* a tv >« 4iSA * T3 x\x to moire WHEAT—No. S Red Winter. CWW-Sa * Mixed. OATS—No. S... • RYE—No. a.. TOBACCO—Lug-. Hurley .. Lear. Barley. » 63 HAY- Choice timothy. » IPJTTER—Choice Dairy E'.lilS- Fresh.. PORK—Standard Mess iut»r .... % BACON—Clear Rsb.. LARD-Prune Steam......... W OOL—Choice Tub.. .. CHICAOO. cattia:—shippiog.. HiHS—Oood to Choice./ SHKEP-Uood to Choice./ FLOCK-Wmter../. 4 40 l» «» 130 lit n it .. • ... ® a s9> © 4 at »A 3 30 © Patentu . ft 0B • WHEAT—No.*Bpriaf.. 1 »l*i » CORN—No a. (ft OATS—No. * White. it POKE—New Mess..... IS S3 <4t KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Shipping Steers — * T» It HOGS—S-des aL . 4 S3 is WHEAT—No. .'. » OATS-No S.. SI i© CORN-No. * . *P4* NEW ORLEANS. ELOCR-High Grade . 4 S', ft CORN—Wh te .. * H OATS-Choice Westers.,. fi HAY—Choice.... K <U <4 PORK—New Mess. « BACON—Qear Rib.«a COTTON—Middling .. fttl* LOUISVILLE. VVBEAT-No. S Red. W O OORN-No. a Mixed.. .... sa'itt OATS-No. a Mixed. » U POKK-Mess. KST'i* BACON—Clear Rib. T vtt ivs» 4 to *Hn 3 a-. 84\ 43*. » 13 13 - s* 4 13 3 <3 4 13 5 «1 3 <41 * SO »a S'* IT 0* li 30 as * 1*30 :>» s*. « 4 «J 4 ftl 4 T> 3 10 4 *3 1 Ibh 34 N .#4*4 »a 46 4 13 4 IB _ ,*# «*» 3 Kl 4B 34 IT 30 13 00 ~h 1 to S3 a* f 13 00 7«

Your Blood Kaada * thoroeth eteaasmc this sprint, ta ordar to s spsl the I as parities which kniiaanlatritin ta tbs winter. or which mar be beredttarp. aad chase poo ranch nkrloi. Wa roBffdentlp rtcoastand Hood's Sarsaparilla as the earp bast sprint ■irdtriaai Bp Its ass tba blood Is par**#*, enrrcbed •tt ritaliicd. that Iliad feel in* Is eaiiralp osarnat and the whom hodjr «1is» strentth aad sltar. The appetite Is restored aad sharpened. tba digestt re orteos are toned, aad th? kidnaps andltasr lnv iterated. Blood Poison "Fur peers at irratvlar iotrnals ta all seasoas. I ••3tnd tha Intolerable haraiat aad Itehiat of ttoodpoisoalathplsy. Itwontd break oat an str tits, ta at throat aad apes. Last sprint t took Hood's Sarsaparilla, as a Mood partner, with no I hoatht of It as a ipoets! reaaadf for lap poisonmt. tint It has effected a pcntaaoataad thoroath cor*." CiLTtN T. Sam, Wentworth, ft. H. Salt Rheum “I base a little cirl who eras trerp sarioaslp ndketed with salt rkoass. I triad aarioas d setors. ’rltkoat aap pxd effect, aad at length I had renowns to Hood's Sarsaparilla. Two bottles eoorIdatatp eared bar aad ska has remained wall scar I Sara." Maa. Trod- Danas. Clerataad. Ohio. Hood’s Sarsaparilla IMdbpaUdnadau. fl: tutor* Prepared oalp Iff CL UOOU A OX Apotlteoariaa. Lowall. Hue. m P«tw 9flf P«Msr

C l turon Ml, lit eb organ, III a, Sot. « * Hit. I : iarm «t«4 » leobaOtltor * di.i teadtolem '-will; i gnat ana- . etmi i Kray *>wl ^ all! :ted «ttk Oki ttnamvaa miii 1 by it and

,o Diamond 1U •»<* IMPARTING ¥ j o v a i ■teal f»r n« •• teann ■ I Mr*. "foa «o iloobj are aware that oar IlSN I,: I IRSON ce i. Iced*1'' RED SCHOOL Null!!! E” SHOES [or Bora aad dirts are naequaled. I i 'are truly D. M. HENDERSO N & CO. ■4 liver. •o the kidney*. Bladder The) are adapted to eld on1 SOU) EVEKYWH I SHE. In 1*31 contract'll Blood Potson of bad type, and wit i treated with mercury, potash M i sarsapariUh mixtnreagrowing win i rail the timev I took 7 small bottlin' i S. S. S. which cured me entirely, iui no sign of the dreadful disease is returned. O. Nssicr. Jan. 10, '*». y lit s bbjvilk, lad. My little niece hail i rhlte swelling to soeh an extent til l she wasconSncd to the bed fit! a long time. More than *0 piece ! i f bone came ont of her leg, and d-'t doctor* said amputation eras the tie’remedy to save her life. 1 refuse 1 tw operation and put her on S.S.85. i nd she to now npand active and in .m vxxl hesdthas any child. Miss A.i; i n Grrsuit®. Feb. 11, 'S9. olnuibus, tfa. Book on Blood Disc i s sent free, SwirTMr ictricC®. Drawer:. Atlanta, On. stun i to tow si.an Mia, t-oa t» > t.n Qnrtnr me is on the Sottom of ewe i boo. ohrdealer for Fargo's BovTipShoes I f he <1 . loop them send toyts »od we wilt furiuMi rou a pair cm QATIRRH Cold 8b H«ad | Ely1* Cttiiii Bala | MOTHERS' nan ■an onto nti IUST Book to “MorngniV 3tau.li i: Fan. L* KKCI LATWK rau At 'LAXT*. Sh Bon. nr aLLDnrcoiirn.

A Word to Consumptives that It is wrraocT a* mjcal w4irut^H farmery kind at UnsdlBenlty. AltHMwtoll *0 far gone id consumption aalokssnaWMoneaka MA«iTEMilL8K)N tee. and what is more, •eaothortst all refund the purchase money to aoy pate a reasonable condition. and who, after taktnc two bottles of oar KmuMon. does not ifato In we%h*. II Is plain that If a consumptive patient continues to gain la weight, a fnasneat care least mUt, A Gass ov wtwnrAMY cossrrpno.t CCfts 8raaccss.lt. T. J. A.MAOH A OO.: Sirs—I hn»s been a long and patient saAffer from a lnngdlfkettltj; hare takes attest amount of medicine, and; been under thf earn of eererai physicians. all of which anally failed to beneSt mo. I had lost too tiatersaad on* brother from the dread dilease of consumption, and when the doctors tare me np I. thosght 1 ehoaM follow them by the rarages of thosammdlsease. I was terribly tednred la weight. naareeir weighing MOponadswhereloaca welshed 130. I Mokyonr Kmalatoa aad at once began to mperlenes relief, sained strength, aad bow weish BO pounds, fio other medicine coukl hare done- as moeh foe mf tangs I am sure, and! can recommend it wtthhat hccttaUon on Its own merits. Tears truly. KmitKout. rmsstst sells yw* emly Magee’s Emulsion 9 PKKPAKSD BY J. A. MAGEE * CO.. Lawrence, Mass. J. I. CASE T. M. aayrraCTrssBS oe

$5 TO $10 A SAY AGENTS WANTED! OT CIRCULARS FRKJK* 1W RrewHeim Safety Retn Hold*** OIVKN AWAY ^ Every hors# owner boys front I to 0« lanes never n ruler horses* feel. Sen A IS cents in stamps -----—

uus rtru ■ urnsjm •hip to C* C* DALY * CO*. L Merchant®. National Stock Yard®, US PERT Salesmen from lonroi USHEll SEVENTEEX YI and returns. WRITE FOR F PORTS. Inquiries by IttMr ar w PATENTS experience. Semi stau: p for 40If . CO obtain th* J!«BT TL*.o.-Sheep. •hip to c. C. DALY A CO.. Lire^tock Conijtfcuwo Merchants. National Stock Yards, Base St. LocmA EXPERT Salesmen from Ion* experience. KST. LIS H Ell SEVENTEEN YEARS. Pron ud returns. WRITE FOR FREE MARK! FORTS. lnquiriM by letter ar wire answered at MM*. >ROCrREO. ilko 1 TkaubMakks. etc. Advice free. Hlgh- _ _ m v est references I .ore experience. remd stamp for10-pnge book. Addreoa ». t. hnauu. umwi m l>». fnintwtx c. vsui tuu raixa... t». re...... pensions ■ Address *. H. NTN AMI tuts Ftm H«7 te» ?m «tUa IV>oumi quickie. K pamphlet on Pension ami Bounty Laws ms*. FITZGERALD, V. s. Claim Agency for Western Soldier*. IndtaaapoUs. tad. find Piso** Cute Cor Consumption THE BEST remedy for hoarsened and to ctoar the throat. FLORIDA! FREE INFORMATION. Fur map. State bulletin pamphlet and Sample Weekly. •• Smith Flvri,lit Peeress, send «e postage. “Ffnrsrd.i Facts." litpaxes,Ski; JhPp..doth.St. f»1 valaaUr. O. M. CROSBY. »• Franklin St.. N. T. pAANk rata r.\ u srere • mCC «WS58k5!fK!!5lfJSF8.55 LULL S3.1 Mhre s.-Uclre esre »e«M > KKk <-r m i nrr««*• s»1 »»u* •!»»>:■- I 11 MW !■ Inquire rewwrcMl sttwhak *f Mir ks.se. k. UMished MM. W« *** C f Wrtw fcr | THE RnnhW * MY»OI srsisi tuia rare. smss ■ CJ» Write fcr purilrelan. ILM Cta. Day to*. •• BRYANT ft STRATTON fESSV&SX Louis. Ha Has MO Students Yearly. UraduatM are ••cren-fal la getting positioaa. Scuil for Circular. CUnDTUAUn s«ecr«.ful Hume Instruction. • nVIl I ninll llAI:M S' SH>RTH\SL>H>LLtUE.St. Louis. Vo. Aa old-rrlah'ished school. Writ* for circular. YOUNG free. Address YtUMTtXi Bkos.. Janese.lle. Wla cj-saxk tuis rutin e«jt« r~ »"*. v BDAEIT1BI C east Kvployw«xt. Address PnuMIACLt 1 a>till Vism. Co, Knit. FA. rxuuxao Bhrussw? uMsrss.a*. A. K. K. B. ,1238 WHEN W RITING TO A»YERTI»r.B» FLEAS* stale that yaw aaw Ik* Adierlteereeat ia US

JOSEPH H. HUNTER,

MIBAC LOUS RESTORATION.

That dainty lady tripping by, How light her step, bow tctnl it her eye. How fresh her cheek with hu thful glow, like roses that in Maytime U: w* And yet few weeks hare pans: d away « Since she was fading, day fer ay. Ihs doctor s skill oouid nsnir ■ t avail; Weaker she grew, and thin im it pale.

At last, while in a hopeless fiwms. ' One day she arid. “There la a name I've often seen—a remedy— Perhaps Twill help: I can hot try." And so. according to direction. N She took Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, And every baleful symptom led. And she was raised as from the dead.

Dr. Pierce s Favorite ra ncription K me worw-rameti. tnviyor&ting tome ana nervine. carefhHv compounded by an experienced and skillful physician. and adapted to womans delieati! organization. It is purely Teyetable and perfectly K.mi«K in any condition <un the system. It is the only medicine for the distressing weaknesses and d« ingements peculiar to women, sold by druggists, under a positive gttaraniee. i om the manufacturers, that it will give satisfaction in every case, or money will lie refunded. This guarantee lias been printed on the bottle-wrappers, and fax fully carried out for many years. copyright, 1888. hg Worn , s DiSwosabt Msnicai. Association, Proprietor*.

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ran business education. SRYAJSTT Ss STJRATTOjST. The LouisvilEa Business College, t Ounar Third and Jefforson Streets, LoaierlKa, Ej, ENTRANCE: 1*0. 4LO« THIRD S’i'KKKT. Booklecpii t Mint Fens jsiip, SboM, Telepapl I EilM Traioinf. C®IIee® •» Aken. \

MITCHELL’S ACA3EMY BUSINESS COLLEGE Evansville, Tnd., jts a Very Thorough, Practical i Progressive School. Gives Better Advantages than any Like School in % Southern Indiana. Oook-Kf epiny MA Busings I'm™.; Business Calculations and S.'Srresnond^nce; frai-tical Gr. Uimw, Si ori-Mand ana Tyi*-Wr>tt«g. Etc., Etc AU at greatly reduced rates. Address T. W. MITCBiatrXy 314 Haint Street, Betwaen Swond and Third, t i fYAHSViLLE, INDk

R. BERRIDCE & CO., (Successors to Woods fc Car atsey.) PROPRIETORS OF Star Livery, Feed and Sale Stables, j . . , CORNER FIFTH AND WALNUT STREETS, PETERSBURG. Tlrtf Class Bneaies »r*i •d by tka (t«T op week. Gb rbc welb known bottler, Al CALL ON THE “DEMOCRAT” FOR The Cincinnati Enquirer, Indianapolis Journal or Sentinel, Globe-Democrat or St. Louis Republic, Godey’s, Peterson’s, Scribner, Demorest, The American, or any good Paper or Journal published. MONEY SAVED BY CALLINfPoN THE “DEMOCRAT,” - Saf* Horae, tor tbe public a* reasonable price,, llorsce bon'd. '« thl* arm your patron#*#, anti you *111 receive ialr treatment . E*to». will be found always on hand. ■'SOMETHING! PETERSBURG, IND.

JOHN HAMMOND. NEW GOODS To which be directs attention. Ilia DRY GOODS are Ornelas*, and the stoek Is larg* Hats, Gaps, Boots, Shoes and Notions. Glee him a call and you wilt be convinced that ha la Riving R.\Ku UN'S on his entire stock SOLID GOODS AT LOW PKK KS.

EUGENE HACK. ANTON SIMON. THE EACLE BREWERY, VINCENNES, INDIANA, Furnish the Best Article of Beer the Market Affords : Jh. I AND SOICIT ORDERS FROM ALL DEALER8 BOTTLE OR KEG BEER SUPPLIED TO FAMILIES. On Sale at _A_11 Saloons. ISAAC T. WHITE. FRED'K H. BURTON. MARSHAL C. WHITE. ' BLELiLEFI db WHITlil, "Wholesale Druggists AND DEALERS IN Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs, Window Glass AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS. No. 106 Main Street, ... Evansville, Ind.

OSBORN BROTHERS Bare restored to their elegant Saw Bntjdtn^on Maln^street, where they hare a large and BOOTS AND SHOES, For Men, Women and Children. We heep R. &. Stereas'asd Emtereon*a breads of Fine Shoe*. V <T Petersburg, Indiana? C. A-. BUEGEE, & BEO, FASHIONABLE MERCHANT TAILORS, Petenkuif, Indiana, Bate Recarei TSar Lans S*kI gf Lai? Styles of Pises fioods, *•’ Coaaiatlsg of the very ban boltings and Broadcloths. Pwfwt Ftta «y SMB* Mo