Pike County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 47, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 April 1889 — Page 4

TALMAGE’8 8ERM0N. A. Diaoourao on tho Pttfalla and Dan* gera tba: Boaat Young Hen. Tho InflMniM of Saotott a«d Tbalr Too* dooer to Bo«at Kotro vocooce—Dohld and DUhoMaljr the btatl-Rf lllloo tho Ootf Aochor.

The following sermon by Ret. T. t>»TVitt Talmage U directed particularly to the young men of our great elite*. It wm predicated on the teat: A* an ox to the slaaghter.-Prabcrb* »U., <1. '•* There i* nothing in the voice or manner of the butcher to indicate to the ox that there le death ahead. The ox thinks he 1* going on to a rich paaturv field of clover, where all day long he will revel In the herbaceous luxuriance; but after awhile the men and the boys close la upon him with sticks and stones and shouting, and drive him through, bars and Into a doorway, where he is fastened, ead. with a _ well-alined stroke, the ate fells him; and * so the anticipation of Ihe redolent pasture field is completely disappointed. 80 mauy a young man ha* been driven on by temptation to what bm thought would be paradisiacal enjoyment; but after awhile influences with darker hue aud swarthier arm close In upon him, and he finds that instead of making an incursion into a garden be has been driven "as an ox to the slaughter.” % 1. We are apt to blame young men for being destroyed when we ought to blame the Influences that destroy them. Bociety slaughters a great many youug men by tho behest: “You must keep up appearances;” whatever bo your salary, you mast dress as well as others, you must wine nad brandy as'many friends, yon v must smoke ns costly cigars, you must * give as expensive entertainments aud you must live in as fashionable a boardingbouse. If you haveu't the money, borrow. If you can't borrow make a false entry, or subtract her* and there a bill ' - from a bundle of bank bills, you will only hare to make the deception a little while; in a few months, or in a year or two, you can make all right. Nobody will be hurl by U; nobody will be the wiser. You yourself will no! be damaged.” By that nsrfni process a hundred thousand men have been slaughtered for time and elaipshtered for eleraliy. Bupposa you borrow. There is nothing wrong about borrowing money. There is hardly a man In the house bat has sometimes borrowed money. Vast estates have been built on a boi rowed dollar. But 1bere are two kinds of borrowed money. Money borrowed for the purpose of starting or keeping up legitimate enterprise and expense, aud -money borrowed to gel that which yon can do without. The first is right, the other is wrong. If yon have money enough of your own to buy a coat, however plain, aud then you borrow money for n dandy’* outfit, you havo taken the first revo^Pbu of the wheel ; downgrade. Borrow for the necessities; j that may be well. Borrow' for the lux. uries; that tips your prospect* over in the wrong direction. The Bible distinctly gays the bifrrowjur is servaut of the lender. It Is a bad xtatri of things when yon have to go down some i 'other street to *»cai e meeting some one ! whom you owe. If young mrn knew whnt ! is the despotism of being in d-bt. more of them would keep out of it. Whnt did debt J do for Lord Bacon, with a mind towering above the centuries? It Induced him-to take bribes and convict himself as a crini- J Inal before all age*. Whnt did debt do] for Walter Scott? Broken-hearted at j Abbottaford! Kept him writing until his hand gave out in paralysis, to keep the sheriff %way from his ptetures nnd statuary. Belter for him if he had minded the maxim which he bed cbhtelod over the fireplace at Abbottaford: "Waste not, want uot.’^ The trouble is, my -friends, the people do not understand the ,et hies ot going in debt, and that if you purchase good* with no expectation of paying for them, or go ! Into debts which you can not meet, you lust steal so much money. If I go into a ! grocer's store, and I buy sugars aml-'cof- 1 fees and meats, with no capacity to pay j for them and no intention of paying for ! them, I am more dishonest than if I go into the store, and when the grocer's face ! is turned the other way 1 fill my pocket* j with article* of merchandise and carry off a ham. lu the one case 1 take the ' merchant's time, and I take the time of i his messenger to transfer the goods to tny bouse, while in Ihe other ease I take none of the time of the merchant, and i wail upon myself, and I transfer Ihe goads without anv trouble to him. lu other words, a sneak thief is not so bail as a man who contracts for debts he never expects to. pay.. * Yet in all onr cities there are families ’ that move every May day to get into proximity to other grocers, and meat shops, aud s pother uric«. They owe every body , " within half a mile of where they now live, and next.May they will more Into a distant part of the city, finding a new lot of victims. Meanwhile you, the honest tarn- ' ily in Ihe new house, are bothered day by day by the knocking at the door of disappointed bakers, and butchers, aud dry* j goods dealers, and uew* paper carriers, | and Jron are aske.l where your predecessor I I*. You do not know. It was arranged you should not know. Meanwhile your predecessor has goue to some distant |>art I of the city, and the people who hsve any thing to sell have sent .their wagons and atopped there to solicit the' “valuable” custom of the new neighbor, and he, the new neighbor, -with great complaceucy nnd with an air of affluence, orders the finest steaks, and the highest-priced sugars, and the best of the canned fruits, and. perhaps, all the newspa|»er*. And Ihe debts will keep on accumulating until be gets his goods on the XHh of next April on the furniture cart. Now let me say, tf there are any such persons in the house, if you have any regard for your own convenience yap had better remove to soro* greatly distant parlot the city. It ts t-»o bad that, having had all the trouble in consuming the goods, you should also have the trouble of being dunned. Aud let me say that if yon find this picture your own photograph, instead of being in church you pught to be in the penitentiary. No wonder that so many of our merchants fail iu business. Thy are swindled Into bankruptcy by these wandering Arabs, these nomads of city life. They cheat the grocer out of the green apples which made them sick, the physician who attends their distress, and the undertaker who fits them, out for de;>arture from the neighborhood where they owe every body when they pny the debt of nature, the only debt they ever do jmy. Now our young meu are coming up iu this depraved state of commercial ethics, and I am solicitous about them. I want to warn them against being slaughtered on the sharp edges of debt. You want many things you have not, my young friends. You shall have them if you have patience and honesty and industry. Certain lines of conduct always lead out to certain auccesse*.

mere u a law wuich control* even those thins* *bat seem haphazard. 1 have been told by those who here observed that it U possible to calculate just how . many letters will be sent to the DeadLetter OfBce every year through misdirection; that it is possible to calculate just how many, letters will be detained (or lack o( postage stamp* through the forgetfulness of the senders, and that it U possible to tell just how many people will fall in the streets by slipping on an orange peel, in other words, there are no accident*. The most insignificant event yon ever heard of is the link between two eternities—the eternity of the poet and the eternity of the future. Head the right way, young man, and yon wilt come oat at the right goa-t Bring me a young man and tell me what his physical health is, and what his mental caliber, and what Us habits, and I will tall yon what will be hU destiny for this world, and his destiny for the world to come, and I will not make five inaccurate prophesies out of the five hundred. Ail this makes me solicitous in regard to young men, and I want to make them nervous in regard to the con traction of unpayable debts, l give yon a paragraphtrom my owa experience. Mydrst setlemsst as pastor was in a tlUatje, *7 Hi*ry «m «4«M taafrwi

dollar* and * par*oUuge. fh« amount wmtfl euormoUs to mo. 1 onid to my••Ifi “Whatl nil this for ono yeart** I «m UfraU of rotting worldly under to »«ck prosperity! I resoWod to Invite nil the congregation to tty house lu group* of twenty-five each. We begun, and m they Were the but congregation In the world* and we felt nothing W«4 loo good for them, we piled all the luxuries *n the table. I never completed the undertaking. At the end of six month* I was in financial despair. I found what every youug man learnt in time to save himself, or too late, that you must measure the site of a man's body before you begin to cut the cloth for hi* coat.

tv yuuntj mail wiuuiif ami 01 thulcc, having tin comforts of life, goes luto the contraction of impayab o debts be knows not into what he (foes. The creditor* set after the debtor, the pack of honnds in full cry, and alas! for the reindeer, They jtugie his door bell before he Seta Up in the mornlug. they jingle his Obr Ml after he has gone to bed at night. They meet him as he comes off his front steps. They send him a postal card, or a letter, in curtest style, tel line him to pay up. They attachable (foods. They want cash, or a note atXJhirty days, or a uote on demand. They cSTT him a knave. They say he lies. They want him disciplined at the church. They want him turned out of the bank. They come at him from this side, and from thnt side, and from before, and from behind, and from above, and from beneath, and be Is Insulted and gibbeted, and sued, nud dunned, and sworn at, until be gets the nervous dyspepsia, fts neuralgia, gets liver Complaint, gels heart disease, gets convulsive disorder, gets consumption. Now he is dead, and you »a.v: “Of course they will let him nlone.” Oh, hot Now they are watchful to see whether there are any unnecessary ex|tcnses at the obsequies, to Mg whether there is any useless handle tor the casket, to see whether there is any surplus plait on the shroud, to see whether the hearse is cosily or cheap, to see whether the flowers sent to the casket have been bought by the family or donated, to see in whose r ime the deed to the grave is made out. Then they rausack the bereft household, the books, the pictures, the carpets, the chairs, the piano, the mattresses, the pillow on which he dies. Cursed be debt! for the sake of your own happiness, for the sake o’f your good morals, for the sake of your immortal soul, for Hod's sake, youug man, as far as possible, keep out of it, 2. But I think more young men are slaughtered through- irreligjon. Take away a young man's religion and yon make him the prey of evil. We all know that the Bible is the ouly perfect system of morals. Now if you wait to destroy the young man's morals take his Bible away. Uow will you do that? Well, you will caricature hts reverence for the Scriptures, yon will take all those Incidents of the Bible which can be made mirth of—Jonah’s whale, Simeon's foxes, Adam’s rib—then you will caricature eccentric Christians or inconsistent Christians, then you will pass off as your own | all those hackneyed arguments against Christianity which are as old as Tom 1'ame, as old as Voltaire, as old as sin. Now you have captured his Bible, and you have taken his strongest fortress; the way is comparatively clear, and all the ! gates of his soul are set open in invitation i to the sins of earth and the sorrows of ! death.'that they may come in nud drive ! the stake for their encampment A steamer fifteen huudred miles from i shore with broken rudder aud lost com- | pass, aud hulk leaking fifty gallons the j hour, is better off than a young man when j you have robbed him of his Bible. Have ! you ever noticed how despicably men it Is ! to take away the world’s Bible without j proposing a substitute? It is meaner | Ihau to come to a sick man and steal hts medicine, meaner than to come to a cri(>- i pie and steal his crutch, meaner than pome to a pauper and steal his crust, j meaner than to come to a jmor man and ! burn his house down. It is the worse of . all larcenies to steal the Bible, which has beau the crutch and medicine and field and eternal home to so many! Wbat a generous and magnanimous business infidelity ha* gsrie iuto! Tills splitting up of life-boat* and taking away of fire escapes and vxtiugui*hiug liglit-jiouses. 1 come out and I say to such people; ‘•What are you doing all this for?” “Oh, ” they say. “ju*^ for fun.” Ii is such fun t<> see ChrlsthlfM try to hold on to their Bibles! Many of them have lost loved ones, and have been told that there is a resurrection, and it is such fun to tell them there will be no resurrection! Many of them have believed that Christ came to carry the burdens and to heal iha wound* of the world, aud it is such fun to tell them they will have to bo their own Saviour I Tlunk of the meanest thing you ever heard of ; then go down a thousand feet underneath it, and you will find yourself at the lop of a stairs a hundred miles long'.go to the : .Otto m of the stairs, aud you will find a ladder a thousand miles long; | then go to the foot of the ladder aud look j off a precipice half as far a* from here to China, ami you will find the headquarters Of the meanness that would rob this world of its only comfort lo life, its ouly peace j in death ami its ouly hope tor immortali- j ty. Blaujhter a young man’s faith in j (tod, and there is not much more left to : slaughter. Now. what ha* become of tbe slaugh- ! tered? Well, some of them are in their fa- i ther’s or mother's home broken down in ] health, waiting lo die; others atr in the i hospital; others are in Greenwood, or | rather, their bodies are, for their souls j have guae on to retribution. Not much | prospect for n young man who started life | with good health, and good education, > and a Christian example set him, and op- j portuuity of usefulness, who gathered all j his treasures aud put them in one box, j and tbeu dropped it it into tbe sea. • Now, how is this wholesale slaughter to j be stopped? There is not a person in the j house but is interested in that' qnestion. Young man. arm yourself. The object of my sermon is to put a weapon in each of i your hands for your own defense. Wait! not for Youfig Men's Christian associations to protect you'or churches to protect yon. Appealing to God for help, take care of yourself. First, have a room somewhere that you can call your own. Whether it be the back iwrlor of a fashionable boardiughouse or a room in the fourth story of a cheap lodging, I care not. Only have that one room your fortres*. . Let not the diesipator or uudean step over the threshold. If they come up the long Bight of stairs anti knock at the door, meet them face to face and kindly, yet firmly, refuse them admittance. Have a tew family portraits on the wail, if yon brought them with you front your country home. Have a Bible on the stand. If you can afford it, and you can play on one. have am instrument of music—harp, or flute, or cornet, or melodeon, or violin, or piano. Everv morning, before you leave that room, pray. Every night, after you come home in that room, pray. Make that .room your Gibraltar, your Bcbastopol, your Mount Zion. Let no bad bonk or newspaper come into that room, any more than you would allow a cobra to coll on yonr table.

Tuke care of yourself. Nobody else will lake care of you. Your help will nut come up two or three or four flights of stairs; your help will come through the roof, down from Heaven, from that Uod who in the six thousand years of the world’s history never betrayed a young man who tried to be good and a Christian. Let me say in regard to your adverse worldly circumstances, in passing, that you are on a level now with those who are Anally to succeed. Mark my words, young man, and think of it thirty years from now. Yon will And that those who thirty yean from now are millionaires of this country, who are the orators of the country, who are the poets of the country, who are the strong merchants V the country, who are the great philanthropists of the country—mightiest in Church and Stafte—are this morning on n level with yon, not an inch above, and yon In straightened circumstances now. Hersehei earned his living by playing n violin ut parties, and in the interstices of the play he would go out and look np at the midnight heavens, the fields of Ms immortal conquests. George Stephenson rase from being the foremen in n colliery to he the most renowned of tho world’s •Bftofiw, Jfo IW8* g» Wttni to (tort

with! Young muni go down to tne Mer» cantile Library and got soma books nnd fond of what wonderful meohanlsm God gars yott in your band, in your foot, in your aye, in your ear, and then as* Sdfct* doctor to take you into tbs dissecting room And illustrate to 'yoU what you have r*ad about, and never again commit the blasphemy of saying you have no capital to start with. 1 equipped! Why, the poor* est young man in this house is equipped As only the God of the whole universe Bottld afford to equip him. Then his body —a very poor affair compared with hli; wonderful soul—oh, that ts what makes tne solicitous, 1 am not so much anxious about you, young man, because you have so little to do with, as i am anxious about you because you have much to risk and lose or gain.

miTw n«> cius ui in-rMJus uioi w •«« my sympathies as young men in great cities. Not quite enough salary to live on, and all the temptations that come from that deficit. Invited ‘"1 all hands to drink, anil their ekhnusted ervous system seeming to demand stimulus. Their religion caricatured by the most of the clerk* in the store and most of the operatives In the factory. The rapids of temptation and difath rushing against that young man fifty miles the hour, nnd he in a frail boat headed up stream, with nothing hot a broken oar to work with. Unless Almighty God help them they will go under. Ah! when I told you to take care of yourself you misunderstood me if you thought II meant you are to depend upon human resolution, which may he dissolved in the foam of the wine cup, or may be (down oat with the first gust of temptation. Here Is the helmet, the sword o'! Lord God Almighty. Clothe yourself in that panoply, and you shall not be put to confusion. Bin pays well neither in this world nor the next, but right thinking, nnd right believing, and right acting will take you in safety through this life and in transport through the next I never shal l forget a prayer I heard a young man make some fifteen years ago. it was a very short prayer, but it was a tremendous prayer: “Oh, Lord help us. We find it so very easy to dong wrong and so hard to do right. Lord, help ns." That prayer, I warrant you, reached the car of Clod, and reached hts heart. And there are in this house a hundriMl men who have found out—a thousand young men, perhaps, who have found out that very thing, it is so very easy to do wrong, and so hard to do right. 1 got a letter, only one paragraph of which I shall read: “Having moved around sosnewhhat, I have run across many young men of intelligence, ardent strivers after that will-o'-the-wisp, fortune, and of Tine, of these I would speak. He was a youug Englishman ot twentythree or twfdy-four years, who came to New York, where he had acquaintances, with barely sufficient to keep him a couple of weeks, lie In^ been tenderly reared— perhaps 9 shoulu say too tenderly—and was not used to earning his owu living, and found it extremely difficult to get any positiou that, he was. capable of filling. After many vain efforts in this direction he found himself, on Sunday evening, in Brobklyu, near your church, with about Hirer dollars left of hts small capital. Providence seemed to lead him to your door, and b* determined to go in and hear you. “He told me his going to hear you that night was undoubtedly the turning point in his life, for when he went luto your church ho fell: desperate, but while listening to your discourse his better nature got the mastery. I truly believe, from what this young man told me, that your sounding the depths of his heart that night alone brought him back to his Hoi whom he was so near leaving.’* The echo, that Is, of multitudes in the house. I am not preachiug an abstraction, but a great reality. Oh! friendless young man. oh! prodigal young man, oh! broken-hearted young matt, discouraged young man. wounded young man, 1 commeud you to Christ this day, the best friend man ever had. He meets you this morning. You have come here for this blessing. l>»spi»e not that emotion rising in your soul; it Is divinely lifted. Look into the face of Christ, Lift one prayer to your father’s Hod, to your mother’s God. and gst the pardoning blessing. Now, while 1 speak, yot are at the forks of the road, nnd tltnt is the wrong road, and I see you start on the right road. One Sabbath utorniug, at the close of my service, 1 saw a gold watch of the world renowned aud deeply lamented violinist Ole Bull. You remember he died in bis island home off the coast of Norway. That gold watch he had wouud up day after day through his illness, and llteu he said to his cotnpauion: “Now, i j want to wind this watch as long as 1 can, ! and then when I am gone I want you to keep It wound up until it gets to my friend. Hr. Doremus, In New York, and then he will keep it wound up until his life is done, and then 1 waut the watch to go to his young son, m.v especial favorite.” The gTcaj musician, who more than any other artist had made the violin speak aud sing and weep and laugh nud triumph— for it seemed when he drew the bow across the strings as if all the earth and liriiveu trembled in delighted sympathy —the great musician, in a room iookiug off upon the sea, and surrounded by his favorite instruments of music, closed his eyes in death. While ail the world was mourning at his departure, sixteeu crowded steamers fell into line of funeral procession to carry his body to the main land. There were fifty thousand of his countrymen gathered in an amphitheater of the hills waitiug to hear the eulogium, and it was said wheu the great orator of the day |rith stentorian voice liegan to speak, the fifty thousand people on the hillside* burst into tears. Oh! that was the close of a life that hud done eo much to make the world happy. But 1 have to tell you. young man, if you live right and die right, that was a tame scene compared with* that which will greet you when from the galleries of Heaven the one hundred and forty and four thousand shall accord with Christ in crying: "Well done, thou good and faithful servant.” And the influences that on earth, yon put tn motion will go down from generation to generation, the influences you wound up handed to your children, and their influenees wound np and handed to their etiildren until watch and clock are no more needed to mark the progress, tiecause time itself shall be no longer.

PLANTS IN WITCHCRAFT. H*» "Spoilt" Arc CownUtwrted by the Fwaulty of Korop*. Occx.ionaUy when . the dairy ■ maid churned for a long time without making butter aha would stir the cream with a twig of mountain-ash and beat the cow with (mother, thus breaking the witch's spell But, to prevent accidents of this kind, it has long been customary in the northern counties to make the churn-staff of ash. For the same reason herd-boys employ ail ash twig for driving cattle, and one may often see a mountain-ash growing near a hone. On the continent the tree la in equal repute, and in Norway and Denmark rowan-branches are usually put over stable doors to keep out witches, a similar notion prevailing in Germany. No tree, perhaps, holds such a rrominent place in witchcraft lore as the mountain-ash, its mystic power having rarely failed to render fruitless the evil Influence of these enemies of mankind. To counteract the spell of the evil eye, from which many innocent persons were hollared to suffer in the witchdraft period, many flowers have been in requisition antosig the numerous charm* used. Thus, the Bosnian maidens still hang round the stem of the birch-tree red ribbon, the Brahmans gather rice, and in Italy rue is in demand The Hootch peasantry pluck twigu of the ash, the Highland women the groundsel, and the German folk wear the radish. In early times the riagwort was recommended by Apnteiua. and later on the fern was regarded as a preservative against this baneful influence. The Chinese put Mill is the garlic ; and. in short, every eountry has Its own special plants. It would seem, . too, that after a witch was deod and buried, pree-intinnary meeauraa were token to frustrate her baneful influence. That, in BusMs. aspen is laid on a witch's grave, the dead taroereee being then prevented from **s * InQpipw 5PWf MttWVi

CMk and 1‘hlUnthrepy. "Do rojJ by stealth and blush to And • tamo'' may have boon excellent advice when Mr. rope wrote, but It would require reshaping to bring It Into harmony with modern requirements A Yorkxhire coal dealer who hae been doing good by itealth ou quite an extensive scale, now baa cause to blush nt finding hlmaolf fined by a police magistrate. This philanthropic trader own* a weighing machine which given hla customers twenty-one pounds overweight on every hundred weight Some time ago hts attention was officially drawn to the fact, and he received solemn warning that If he continued hts sinful benevolence he would be summoned. A weighing machine that gives overweight is as illegal as One that does the Other thing, the law demanding a perfect adjustment of (balance. This cosily Samaritan refused to believe, however, that his stealthy benefactions were punishable, and so persisted in adding the little bonus to every hundred weight of black diamonds that left bis shop. A fine of five shillings and costs Is the result, the bench expressing the opinion that It looked a little hard to punish a man for ebeating himself to benefit hie customers. It does look hard, undoubtedly, but what a splendid advertisement!- London Globe. ii

Medical Monopoly Not Wanted. Boston Dally Globe, Feb Tth, '89 Id the Legislature of Massachusetts a bill ia now pending whose object is to prohibit, under penalty of line and imprison meui, the practice of "medicine, surgery or midwifery”, by any other than the “regular” physicians. The attempt to pass such a bill has been made before, but it failed. It is a measure which ought not to pahs, because it Invades the personal liberty of the ritisen; not tho personal liberty of the ‘irregular’ physician only.butof tho patient “Only yesterday Dr. Holt, in a paper read before the Massachusetts Mcdico-Le-gal Society, an organisation of "rogulaV” physicians, complained of the Ignorance of his professional brethren as shown in the notorious Robiusou poisoning cases. "This crime,” said the doctor, “one of the greatest in our medical history, would never have been discovered but for tho suspicions aroused outside the profession.” Add be called attention to the fact that in five of the poisoning cases the regular physician certified the cause of death to be pneumonia, typhoid fever, meningitis, bowel iiseascand Bright’s disease respectively. | "This shows how far the ‘regular’ physicians are from being infallible. “it would seem to be more in accordance with justice and common sense wero they to perfect their own knowledge before they Appeal to law to prohibit others from heajng. "Not long ago a Globe reporter called ipon ten "regular” physicians on the same lay, and described his symptoms in exactly die same language to each. The ten phflicians informed him that be was suffering from ten different diseases aud gave him an different prescriptions, each utterly iajonsistent with the others. "The implied claim that there is any cerainty in ‘regular’ medicine as at present xrectieed, is absurd. All medical practice, mtside of tbe simplest complaints, is moire ir less guess-work and experiment, whether regular or irregular“When Garfield was shot five of the moat ’amous regular physicians in tho country tpent three months probing for the bullet in .be region of his left hip, and after his death t was found under his right shoulder>iade.” We have but a word to add, which a that' the above is the doctrine Messrs. 3. H. Warner & Co., proprietors of Warler’s Safe Cure, have fought for aud pronulgated for the past ten years. Wo know if scores of cases, and so docs tho reader, where doctors have treated tho wrong d|siase. They say advanced Kidney Disease •an not be cured, yet thousauds of cases lave been cured with Warner's Safe Cure; ft so bigoted arc the medical profession at the majority of them will not use it, al,bough they know they could thereby save nany valuable lives, because, forsootb, it is igainst thetr fossilized code. Out upon such jigotry. Every method to prolong lifq thou Id bo utilized, and the regular medical irofession should be the first to welcome it nstead of encompassing themselves in sdffxinceit aud bigotry, doctoring symptoms initead of disease, and sending their patients a tbe cemetery, poisoned with drugs, but m tho death certificate that they died frem typhoid fever, meningitis, pneumonia, or ionic other equally foreign cause. Planters in North Carolina are much alarmed at the exodus of uegroes. Many Agricultural sections will not be able to se:ure hands to cultivate the lands this year. Reforms Need More Than a Day : ro bring them about, and are always more ,-oinpletcanrt lasting when t hey proceed with •toady regularity to a consummation. Few if the observant among us can have failed jo notice that permanently healthful changes in the human system are not wrought by abrupt aud violent menus, and ibat those are the most salutary m«di;ines which are progressive. Hostetler's stomach Bitters is the chief of those, dyspepsia, a disease of obstinate charac*r, is obliterated by it. '_ New Zealand offers a bounty of five oenis each for the destruction ol English sparrows. _ SnALLEXBEHocu's Antidote fer Malaria Jestroyes the rasse of disease, which Quinine and other remedies do not protend to do. It effectually neutralizes tbe poibon n the system aud thus prevents the chill, it contains no arscuic or poisonous ingredient of auy kind, and may safely be given to an infant. Bold by Druggists. H costs twenty five dollars fine or thirty days in jail to sell boys cigarettes in Ohio. Vnx be found an excellent remedy for k headache. Carter's Little Liver Pills, ousands of letters from people who have *1 them prove this fact. Try them. Jtab is so anxious for Statehood that*he irmons declare that they will abolish iygamy to bring about tho desired result. BcrFEijMS from Coughs, Bore Thro etc., should try Brow*’* Bmnrlua> Trothm, simple but sure remedy. SoM only <* l*u Price 35 cents. tax dark oranges grown in Florida are own there as the “African russet.” They s growing in popular favbr. Foxnrr Feeble Lungs Against Winter with Hate's Honey of Horebound and Tar. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. A Frenchman is anxious to arrange for a fight between a devil-fish and a shark in a tank where 30,000 people can zee the com bah in in the Side nearly always comes from ordered liver and is promptly relieved by *r’aLittleLiverPills. Don’tforgetthis. Thorocb preparation before sowing tbe Bed induces a better gyrmmation, stronger Lasts, and lessens the coat of cultivation.

This is the Season Whea a. good esedletae 1» » aaeanelty. Tbanm^pre MAW or lb* blood. lb* otrund dHaatkm. and the «Nt condition o( the body, all c»U tor the purifyIn*, re* a Inline, bad strengthenln* ladaenees so happily nod •■OctlTtir (oaUMd la Hood * Sarsaparilla. It oeercomes that Wed feelii* «i« t—aSb aad dyspepsia. aad expels eeery «*>■“ »t icrotnk from the blood. - Mr danthtar bad DM nllln* aom Mate wUh ■moral debility. aad Hood** BareeparlUa ora* nr. ommendadloos. Attar aba bad taban ttorraibottlaa tba aaa completely cared and built op. It Ha wild neat pleeaare that I recommend Hood’* Sarsaparilla." But M. MiKKULCts. Saps. CindouaU * Umtarllle Mall Lina Oo, Cincinnati. To Purtljr Your Blood. * “Two months a*o I commenced labia* Hood's Baraapartlla a* an experiment, its 1 bad no sppauta arauenctb. and taU tired all tbottaaa. laurlboied my condition to acrofakmt bamor. I bad titled teeoral different kinds ot medietas, nltbont recelrln* any baacSt. Bat as sooa aa 1 bsd taken bait a bottie ot Hood's Sarsaparilla. mr appetite ett restored, and my elomeeh fell better. I bare now takea nearly three bottle*, and 1 narar was eo wall la my life." MM. i. F. Douitna*. Pascoa*. B. I. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by dmsfftsda. H: eUfortk Prepared only by C. L HOOD * OO- Apothecaries, Uowell. Mess. fOO Doses One Potter

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by return mill, , nil descriptive circulars of ' n,foVsm oriumiTTMi. Any lady of ordinary Intelligence) can easily and quickly learn to cut and make any garment. In any style to any measure for lady or child. Address l MOODY & CO.,

Regulate The Bowels. t'oettTeuess (Ifrttnrn the whole ejo> tern and beget* illwun, eueh a. Sick Headache, Dyspepsia, Fevers, Kidney Diseases, Bilions Colie, Malaria, etc. Tntt'a Pills produce regular habit of body and pood digestion, without whieb, no one can enjoy good health. Sold Everywhere.

saomux cass. For two years I bad rheumatism so bad that It d isabird me for work and coRJlocd me to my bed for a whole year, during which time I o-Kild not even raise my handa to my head, and for 3 months could not more myself in bed,was reduced In flesh from IldltoMlbs. Was treated by best physicians, only to grow worse.

finally i looa owiue opecuic, ana anon ocean to lrapiove. After a while waa at hit work, and For the pool five months have been as well as 1 over was—aU from the effects of Swift's Specific. Joint IUt, Jan. 8, 1889. Ft. Wayne, lad. Books on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. Swirr Spicing Co., Atlanta, On. B in =_ Cures alt Diseases PecuhSr to Women! Book to "Woman'1 M.ui.Vu Knit*. ttKABFHCl.lt KEWVLATOH CO.. ATLANTA, 6A. Sold by all Dhuggists. rr ham* rma rarta m amtjrt net CATARRH flift Crcam Balm Cold in Head ELY BltOa. M Warren X. I. PATENTS For IXYFNTORS. 40-pape BOOK FRFK. A44rm VC. T. FiUfrrmJd, Auorn**T at La*, Washington. D. C. MTN AMI THW FAP&R etsrj lusts • »« true

An Honest Statement. In endeavoring to give to their preparation a greater publicity and a wider Held of neefulness, the proprietors of Magee's Emulates are presenting no new medicine for popular favor, nor ire they attempting to attract public attention to any mysterious compound or doubtful decoction of dangerous drugs and chemicals. „ . It baa been on the market long enough to prove Its rare merits to the satisfaction of the thousands who hard been benefited by Its use, and whose restored health and happy Urea bear living testimony to the power and virtue of this excellent preparation. It has stood the most severe testa of the medical profession, and the fact that no other preparation on the market has been so freely prescribed by doctors In their regular practice. Is conclusive evidence that this has been the most efficacious in all wasting diseases, such as Consumption, Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Scrofula, Dyspepsia, General Debility, and any low state of the system brought on by exposure, overwork. Impurities in the blood, hereditary taints, eto. —\ Ask your Druggist, and be sure you get MAGEE’S EMULSION, Manufactured by J. A. MAGEE A CO.. Igttrrenoo, Mass. J. I. CASE T. M. CO. itACiira, - ,* wig., MAXcram naas or

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Calf Shoe. Gentlemen: C. M. HENDERSON & Cr CUSTOM MADE Fine Calf $3.00 are made, all Styles, at their factory FO\D DC LAC, with their other FINK tilt A DBS of HEN’S and BOA'S’ SHOES. Hade of the Choicest West' era Calf. Made on the basis of stylo and Merit, to lit and wear, IT WILL SAVE TOW MO.NET TO DEMAND THEM. Vonrs truly. C. M. HENDERSON A CO., Chicago.

CUPID’S HARNESS. Most women naturally look forward to matrimony as their proper sphere in life, but they should constantly bear in mind that a fair, rosy face, bright eyes, and a healthy, well-developed form, are the best passports to a happ y marriage. All those wasting disorders, weaknesses, and functional irregularities peculiar to their sex, destroy beauty and attractiveness and mike life miserable. An unfailing specific for these maladies, is to be found in Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It is the only medicine for women, Bold by druggists, under a positive guarantee from the manufacturers, that it will give satisfaction in every case, or money will be refunded. This guarantee has been printed on the bottle-wrappers, and faithfully earned out for many years. $1.00 per Bottle, or Six Bottles for 99.00. Copyright, 18®, hr World’s Dispbhsart Medical Association, Proprietors.

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1884. TSB 1884. OSBORN BROTHERS Have removed to *heir elegant New Building on Main street, where they have a large and1 splendid line of BOOTS AND SHOES, Kor Men Women and Children. We keep It. I* Stevens' and Emmerson'e brand* of Fine Shoes. Petersburg, Indiana.

d A. BURGER & BRO, FASHION ABLE MERCHANT TAILORS, Petersburg, Indiana, In BeceM Heir Lane M of Late Styles of Piece Goods, U, . 9 Consisting ot the very best Suitings and Broadcloths. Perfect Fits and Styles Guaranteed. Prices as Low as Elsewhere. BOOK.KEEPIMG, SHORT-HAND, TELEGRAPHY, PENMANSHIP, ETC. Every Young Man and Woman Who desires to bettor his or hor condition in life, should write fqt tho Catalogue of the BRYANT & STRAlTON “SSESSRmdT NO. 400 THIRD STREET, LOUISVILLE, KY.

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PATENTS, Oaveats^and Trade-Marks obtained, and a Patent bus ness conducted for Moderate Fees. Our ofdce is opposite 17. S. Patent Oflloe, and we can secure patents in less time than tbo remote from Washington. ©end model, draw ng or photo, with desori lion. We advise if patentable or not frfee charge. ,Our fees not due till patout is secured* A pamphlet, * ‘How to Obtain Patents," with names of actual clients in your State, county or town, sent free. Address c. A. SNOW & co., Opposite Patent Offioe, Washington, D. 0. DR. HARTLEY’S CATARRH REMEDY I, the best remedy Unown for the cure of Catarrh and its attendant ailments: tt is safe, painless, and never falls to eve relief. Thli remedy oloansea the nose, head and throat ol all unhealthy sccretiors. and soothes and heals the inflamed parts. Wuen the remedy is once tried the beneflclnl results are so prompt and sat sfactory that the sufferer never fails to continue the treatment unt 1 permanent relief is obtained. DO HOT NEGLECT A BAD COLD. Jao Hartley’s Catarrh Routed/ for Its Ins met! ate Cure. '

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83V TREY ALL WANT IT r.r It doe. raeh beautiful work. Stnpit Machine at Fester; PriM. ETESYIACB1IEIAEEAS1XD F03 5 TEAES. Apii Wantetin UnoeciM Territory. ■ jbbe wunsmm ca, BElVIOERi. ILL.