Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 4, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 June 1889 — Page 4

“Christ, the Villa** L*d” to the subject of a sermou reesutly delivered by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmajr* in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Hiatextaaa: And tbrehtldgrew and <r*x-dstrong in spirit, Oiled vita wisdom; andtae graes of God was with Him.-Luke U_ 40. About Christ as a Ullage lad I speak. There is for the most part a silence more than eighteen ceuturiei long nbont Christ between Infancy and manhood. What kind of a boy was He? Was lie a genuine hoy at all. or did there settle upon Him from the start all the intensities of martyrdomt We hare pn this subject only a _ little guessing, a few surmises, and here ' and there an unimportant “perhaps." J Concerning what botudod that boyhood > on both sides we hars whole libraries of books and whole galleries of canvas and acnlpture. Before the infant Christ In ^ Mary's arms, or takirj His first sleep in rough oat-house, s.ll the painters bow, " n and we hare Paul Veronese’s "Holy FaraV Uy," and Perugtno’s * Nativity.” and Angelico da Fiesole’s “Infant Christ,” and ^ Rubens’ “Adoption of the Magi,” and Tintoret’s “Adoration of,the Magi,” and Chlrlandojo’s “Adoration of the Magi,” and Raphael’s “Mado inn.” and Orcagda’s “Madonna,” and Murillo’s “Madouna.” and Madounas’b)’ all :be schools of painting, In all lights and shades, and with all styles of attractive fentnre and Impressive surroundings, but peir'Ttaii pencil and chisel have, with fevT exceptious, passed by Christ the villa* lai. Tet by three conjoined evidences! 11 think we can come td as accurate anislw* of whnt Chrtst was as a boy as we can of what Christ was as a man. First, we have the brief Bible account. Then we have tho prolonged aooount of what Christ was at thirty years of age. Now you have only to minify that account somewhat and you find whnt He was at ten years of age." Tjmperainents never change^.,A sanguine temperament ucver becomes a phlegmatic temperament. A nervous temperament never becomes a lymphatic terapciament. Religion changes one’s affections' and ambitions, but it is the same old temperament acting in a different direction. As Christ had no religious rhi tge, Hr was as a lad what He was as a man. ouly on not so *=farge a scale. When all tialition and all art and all history represent Him as a blonde with golden h itr 1 know Ue wga In boyhood a blonde. We have. besi<K an uninspired book that was, tor the Ar t three or four centuries after Christ’s uppenrsnoe. received by many as Inspire!, ami which gives a prolonged account of Christ’s boyhood. Some of it may be true, most of it may bo true, noue of it may be true. It may be partly built on facia, or, by the passage of ages, some real fuels may have bet) .distorted. But bees use a bonk ts not di- - vinely inspired, we s.re not therefore to conclude that there are not true things tu It. Prescott’s “Conf|ii«>st of Mexico” was not inspired, bui we believe it, although it may contain mistaken. Macaulay’s “History of Englautl” was not inspired, but %e believe it. although it may have ; Wen marred with many error*. Tho socalled apocryphal Gospel In which the boyhood of Christ is dwelt upon 1 do uot believe to b* divinely inspired, ami yet it may present facts worthy of- consideration. Because it represents the boy Christ as performing miracles some have overthrown thatswhole apocryphal book. But what right hare you to say that Christ did not perform miracles at ten years of age aa well a« at thirty? He was In boyhood at certainly divine as in man hood. Then, while a lad He must have had the power to work miracles, whether He did or did uot work thfa When, hav• I ing reached manhood, ^Christ turned i water iulo wine, thst was said to lie the beginning of mirerles. But that may mean that it was the beginning of that series of manhood miracles. In a word, I think that the New Testa- | meat fs ouly a small transcript of what I Jesus did and said, ludeed, the Bible declares positively I jat if all Christ did and said were wrilteu. the world would not contain the books. Ho we are at liberty to bdlieve or reject those parts of the apocryphal Gospel which say that when the boy Christ, with his mother, passed a band of thieves, Ho told his mother that two of them, Dumachus and Titus by name, would be tho two thieve* who afterward would expire on crosses beside Him. Was that more, wonderful than some ot Christ’s manhood prophesies? Or the uufnsplred story that the boy Christ ftiade a fountain spring front tho roots of a sycamore tree to that His mother washed His coat in the stream—was that more unbetterable than the manhood miracle that ‘hauged cammon water into a marriage beverage? OrtheuuInspired story that two nick children were recovered by bathing In the water where Christ had washed? Was that more wouderful than the nauhood miracle by which the woman twelve years a complete invalid shot'Id have been made airtight by touchin [ the fringe of Christ’s cs>ut? In other words, sdiile 1 do not believe

that any >4 the so-called apocryphal -New Testament U inspired, 1 believe much of it is true; just as I believe a thousand books, none of which are divinely inspired. Much of il; was just like Christ. Just as certain at the man Christ was the most of the time gettiug men out of trouble, I think that the boy Christ was the' most of the time getting boy* out of trouble. I have declared to you this day a boys’ Christ. Anil the world wants such a one. He did not lit around moping over what was to be, or what was. Prom the way In which natural objects uuwreathed themselves into Uiu sermons after He had become a man, I conclude there was nut a rock, or h hill, or a cavern, or a tree for miles around that He was not familiar with fit childhood lie had cautiously felt HU way down Into tho caves, and had, with lithe'and agile limb, gained a poise on many a high tree-top. His boyhood was passed among grand scenery, a* most all the great natures bare passed early life among the mountains. They may live now on the flat*, but they passed the receptive days of ladhood amoug the hills. Among the mountains of New Hampshire, or the mountains of Virginia, or the mountains of Kentucky, or the mountains of Swiuerland, or Iialy, or Austria, or (Scotland,, or mountain* as high and rugged as they, many of the world’s thrilling biographies begin. Our Lord’s boyhood eras passed in a neighborhood twe lve hundred feet above the level of the tea and surrounded by mountains five or six hundred feet still higher. Before it could shine on the village where this boy slep : the sun had to climb far enough np to look over hills that held their leads jar aloft. From yonder height His eye at one sweep took in the mighty scoop of the valleys and with another sweep took in the Mediterranean Baa, and yon hear thegrahdeur of the cliffs and Ue surge of the great waters in HU malchlen* sermonology. One day I see thal Divine boy, the wind flurrying HU hair over His sun-browned forehead, standing on a hill-top looking oft upon Lake Tiberias, on which at one time according t<» profane hUtory were found four thousand ships. Authors have taken pains to say that Christ was not affected by these surrounding*, and that He from wit a in lived outward and independent of ircumitenres. So far from that being true. He waa the moat sensitive being that ever walked the earth, and if i> pale invalid’s weak lingv could not touch. HU robe without going out fi-om Him. these and seas could not have i aye wilhont irradiating His i with their mafnt&<fcnce. I Ho had mounted and explored nil tho ftftien hills around Nasarath, among then HMwmjgtth^Us crys* Gilboa, and they nil I echo in after time from the *imtal coronet of pe

and similes, and metaphor* in manhood discourse, 1 know that He had been a boy of the field*, and had bathed in the strpatps, and heard the nightingale’* rail, and broken through the fiowery hedge, and looked oat of the embrasures of the fortress, and drank from the wells, knd chased the butterflies which' travelers say have always been one of the flitting beauties of that landscape, and talked with the strange people from Damascus, and Egypt, and Sappboris, and Syria, who in caravans or on foot passed through, HU neighborhood, the dogs barking at their approach at suudown. as afterward He was a perfect mau. In the time of which 1 speak He was a perfect boy, with the sprlag of a boy’s foot, the sparkle of a boy’s eye, the rebound or a boy’s life and just the opposite of those juveniles who sit nrouud uiorbid and unelastic, old men at ten. I warrant He was able to take His own part and to take the part of others. In that village of Naxareth I am certain there was what is found in ail the1 neighborhoods of the earth, that terror of children, the bully, who seems born to strike, to puuch, to bruise,.to overpower the less muscular and robust. Tlie Christ who afterward in no limited terms denourtftwl hypocrite and Pharisee, I warrant, never let such Juvenile villain impose upon less vigorous childhood and yet go unscathed and undefended. At ten years He whs iu sympathy with the underlings, as He was at thirty aud thirty-three. 1 want no farther inspired or uninspired Information to persuade me that He was a spleudid boy, a radiant buy. the grandest, holiest, mightiest boy ofhll the ages. Hence I commend Him as Christ. What multitude* betweenTen and fifteen years have found Him out as the one just suited by HU own personal experience to help any boy. Let the world look out bow it treads on a hoy, for that very moment it treads on Christ. ■%!! strike a boy, you strike Christ; yon insult a bov, you insult Christ; you cheat a'Xbov. you cheat Christ. It is an awful and- infinite mi stake, to come as far as manhood without a Christ wheu here is a boy Christ. That Was one reason, 1 suppose, that Jonathan Edwards, afterward the greatest American logician and preacher of his time, became a Christian at seven years of age; aud Robert Halt, who afterward shook Christendom with hU sacred eloquence, became a Christian at twelve years of age; and Isaac Watts, who divided with Charles Wesley, the dominion of holy song, became a Christian at nine years of age, aud if in any large religious assemblage it were asked that all the me a and women who learned to love Christ before they were fifteen years of age would please flfl their right hand, there would bo enough hands lifted to wave a coronation. What is true in a religions sense is true iu a secular sense. Themistocies atnaxed his school-fellows with talent which in after yeprs made the world ttare. Isaac Newton, the boy, by driving pegs in the side of a house to mark the decline of the sun. evidenced a disposition * towards the experiments which afterwards showed the nations how the world swing'. Robert Stephenson, the boy, with his kite on the commons experimented with electric currents aud prophesied work which should yet make him immortal. "Get out of my way?" said a.rough man to a boy, "get out of my What are ’you good for, anyhow?” ^PVe boy answered: "They make men out of aurh things as we are.” He ur u, lijklH " Bear it, philanthropists and patriot*; hear It, all the young! The temporal aud eternal destiny of the, most of the inhabitants of this earth is decided before fourteen years of age. Behold the N.itareth Christ, the village Christ, the country Christ, the boy Christy But having shown yon the Divine lad iu the fields, I must show you Him in the mechanic's shop, Joseph, Hi* fallow, died very early. Immediately after the famous trip to the Temple, and this lad had not only to support Himself, but support His mother, and what that is some of yon know. There is a royal race of boys i>n earth uow doing the same thing. They wear nr* crown. They have uo purple robe adroop from their shoulders. The plain chair on which they sit Isa* much unlike a throne as any thing you can imagine. But God kuows what they are doing and through what saorifices they go-, and through all etfrulty God will keep paying them, for 'their filial behavior. They shall get full measure .of reward, the measure pressed-down, shaken together and running over. They have their example in this boy Christ taking care of His mother. He had been taught the carpenter’s trade by His father. The boy had done the plainer work at the, shop while Ills father had pnt on the finishing touche* of the work. The boy also cleaued away the chips and blocks aud shaviugs. He helped hold the different pieces of work while the father joined them. In our day we have all kinds of mechanics, and the work is divided up among them. But to be a carpenter in Christ’s boyhood days meant to make plows, yokes, shovels, wagons, tables, chair*, sofas, houses aud almost

♦very thiug taut was made. Fortunate was It' that the boy had learned the trade, for, when the head of the family dies, it is a grand tiling to hare the child able to take care of himself and help take care of others. Now that Joseph. His father, is dead and the re* sponsibility of family support comes down on this boy, I hear from morning till uight SUa hammer pounding. His saw vacillating. HU axe descending. His gimlets boring, and standing amid the dost and debris of the shop 1 find the perspiration gathering on His temples and notice the fatigue of His arm. and as He stops a moment to rest 1 see Him panting. His band on His side, from the exhaustion. Now He goes forth in the morning loaded with implements of work heavier than any modern kit of tools. Under j the tropical sun Ha swelters, Lifting. pulling. adjusting. cleaving, splitting all day long. At uightfall | He goes home to the plain tapper \ provided by HU mother, and aits down I too tired to talk. Work I work! work!! You tan not telt Christ any thing now 1 about blistered hands, or aching ankles, or bruised Angers, or stiff joints, or rising in the morning as tired as when you laid down. While yet a boy He knenbit all, I He felt It all. He suffered it all. The boy carpenter! The boy wagon-maker! The boy house-builder! O, Christ! we have seen Thee orhen full-grown in Pilate's policevourt room; we have aeen Thee when full-grown Thou were assassinated I on Golgotha, but O, Christ, let all the! weary artisans and mechanics of the earth see Thee while yet undereixed and I arms not yet muscularixed, and with the j undeveloped strength of joveneseence, j trying to take Thy father’s place in gaining the livelihood for the family. Bat, having se?n Christ the boy of the ] Acid* and the boy in the mechanic's shop, 1 ahow yon a more marvelous scene, j Chrfit the smooth-browed lad among the long-bearded, white-haired, high-fore-headed ecclesiastics of the Temple. Halt ! dreds of thousands of strangers had (hiH to Jerusalem to keep a great rteUgiofc festival. After the hospitable home} were crowded wtth visitors,'the tent* were spread all around the citato shelter immense throngs of strangers. U was very easy among the vast throngs coming and going to lose a child. More than two hundred thousand people have been known to gather at Jerusalem .for that national feast You mast not think of those regions as sparsely settled. The ancient historian Josephus says there were In Galilee two hundred cities, the smallest of them containing Afteen thousand people. No wonder that amid the crowds at the tithe spoken of Jesus the boy of was lost His parents, knowing that He was mature enough and agile enough to take ears of Himself, are on their way home without anxiety, supposing that their boy is coming with some of the groups. But after awhile they suspect He is lost, and with flushed cheek and a terrorised look they rush this way and that saying: “Have you seen any thing of my boy? He to twelve years of age, of fair complexion and has blue wyes and auburn hair. Have you seen Him sines we left the city?” Back they go In hot haste, in and out the streets. In and out the private houses and abttoog the surrounding mils, forwrite*

quire, wondering If He has been trampled under foot of some of the throngs or hat ventured on the cliffs or fallen off a precipice. Bend through all the streets and lanes of the city and among all the surrounding hills that most dismal sound. “A lost child! ▲ lost child t” And lo, after three days they discover Him In the great Temple, seated among the mightiest religionists of all the world. The walls of no other building ever looked down on such n scene. A child twelve e ars old surrounded by septuagenarians. e asking His own questions and jtnewerIng theirs. Let me tntr «luceypU'£?some of these ecclesiastics. ThtS' w the Habbin Simeon I This is the venerable IlUlet l This is the famous Bhammai. These are the sons of th* distinguished Betirah. What can this twellre-year lad teach them,' or what questions can He ask worthy their cogitation! Ah, the first time in all their U’res these religion* ists have found their match and more than their match Though so young. He knew tdl about that famous Temple under whose roof they held that most wonderful diseussion of all history. He knew the meaning of every altar, of every sacrifice, of every golden candle* .stick, of every embroidered curtain, of ■eswy crumb of shew bread,, of every drop of oil in that sacred edifice. Hs knew all about God. He knew all about man. He knew all about Heaven, for He came from it He knew ait about tht* world, for He made it. He knew all worlds, for they were only the sparkling morning dewdrops on the lawn In front of HU heavenly palace. Put these seven Bible words in a wreath of emphasis: “Both hearing them and asking them questions. ” 1 am not so much interested in the questions they ssked Him as in the questions He asked them. He asked' the questions, not to get information from the doctors, for He knew it already, but to humble them by showing them the height and depth and length and breadth of their own ignorance. While the radiant boy thrusts these self-conceited philosophers with the interrogation point, they put the forefinger of the right hand to the temple as thoneh to start their thoughts into more vigor, and then they would look upward, and then they would wrinkle their brows, ■ and then by absolute silence or in positive wordSVoufess their incapacity to answer the interrogatory. While any one of a hundred questions about theology, about philosophy, about astrouomy, about time, about eternity. He may have baiked them, disconcerted them, finug them Hat, Behold the boy Christ asking questions and listen when your child asks questions. He has the right t» ask them. The mors he asks the hotter. I Alas for the stupidity of the child without inquisitiveness! It is Christiaulike to ask questions. Answer them If you can. I)o not say: “I can’t be bothered now.” it is your place to be bothered with questions. If you are not able to answer, surrender and confess your incapacity, as 1 have no doubt did Rabbin, Simeon and Hillel and Bhammai aud the sons of Retirah wheu that splendid boy, sitting or standing there with a garment reaching from neck to ankle, and girdled at the waist, put them to their very wits’ end. It is no disgrace #o say: “I don’t know." The learned doc- | tor* who environed Christ that day in the Temple did not know, or they would not have asked Him any questions. TbAnlv being in the universe who never needs to Isay: "l do not know” is the lewd Alj mighty. The fact that they did not know | sent Keppler and Cuvier and Columbus and Humboldt and Herache! and Horse and Sir William Hamilton and all the { others of the world’s mightiest natures into their life-long explorations. Telescope aud microscope and stethoscope and clectrie batjfery and ail the scientific apparatus of dll the ages are only questions asked at (he door of mystery. Behold this Nnaareue lnd asking questions, giving everlasting dignity to earnest interrogation. , But while I see the old theologians standing around the boy Christ I am impressed as never before with the fact thnt what theology most want* is more of childish simplicity. The world and the Churelt have built up immense system* of theology. Half bf them try to tell what God thought, what God planned, what God did five hundred millions years before, the s'mall star on which we live waa created. I have had many a sound sleep under sermons about the decrees of God and the eternal generation of the Bon. and discourses showing who Melchisedek wasn’t, and 1 give a fair warning that if any minister ever begins a sermon on snch a subject in my presence 1 will put my head down on the pew in frout aud go into the deepest slumber 1 can reach. Wicked waste of [slbne, this tryiug to scale the unscalable and fathom the uufathomable while th* nations want the bread of life and to be told how they can get rid of their sins and their sorrows. Why should you and 1 perplex ourselves about the decrees of God? Mind your own business and God will tak&rare of His. In the conduct of the universe I think He will somehow manage to get along without us. If you want to love and serve God, and be good and nseful, aud get to Heaven, 1 warraut that nothing which occurred eight hundred quinlilliou of years ago will hinder you a minute. It is not the decrees of God that do us )■■■■■■ any harm; It is our own decrees of sin aud folly. Yon need not go auy further back in history than about 1HJ6 'years. You'see this is the year 1*0. Christ cited about k! years of age. You substracl 33 from and that makes it 1*M years. That is as far back as you need to go. Bomething occurred on that day under an eclipsed sun that sets us all forever free it with our whole heart and life we accept the tremendous proffer. Do not let the Presbyterian church, or the Methodist church, or thb Lutheran church, or the Baptist church, or any of the other evangelical churches, spend any time in trying to fix up old Creeds, ail of them imperfect. as every thing man does is imperfect. 1 move a new creed for all the Evangelical churches of Christendom; only three articles in the creed, and no need of any more. If 1 had all the consecrated pejople of all denominations of the earth on »u< great plain, and I had voice load enough to pat it to a vote, that creed of three articles would be adopted with a unanimous vote and a thundering aye that would make the earth quake and the heavens ring with hosanna. This is the creed 1 propose for all Christendom: Article 1. God so' loved the world that He gave His only begotten Bon that whosoever beliveth in Him shonld not perish, but have everlasting life. Art. %. This a faithful raying and worthy of ail acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, even the

Art. S. Worthy i* the Lamb that *»» slain to receive blessing and riche* anil honor and story and power, world with* out end. Amen. But yon so to tinkering op yonr old creeds and patching and splicing and in* terlintng and annexing and subtracting and adding and explaining and yon will lose time and make yourself a target for earth and hell to shoot at Let ns hare creeds not fashioned out of human inge* nuitles, bat oat of scriptaral phraseology, and all the gnns of bombardment biasing from all the port*holes of infidelity and perdition will not In a thousand years knock off the church of God a splinter as big as a cambric needle. Wnat is most needed now Is that we gather all our the* ologies 'around the boy in the temple, i the elaborations around the simplicities, . and the profundities around the clarities, 1 the octogenarian of scholastic research around the nnwrinkled cheek of twelve year jurenescenc*. “Except yon become as a little child yon can in* no wise enter into the kingdom;” and except yon become as e little ohild yon can not understand the Christian religion. The heat thing that Rabbin Simeon and Hillel and Sbammai and the eons of Betirah ever did was in the Temple, to bend over the lad who, first made ruddy of cheek by the breath of the Judean hills and on His way to the mechanic’s shop where He was soon to be the support of His bereaved mother, stopped long enough to grapple with the venerable dialecticians of th< Orient, “both hearing them and asking them questions." Some referring tc Christ have exclaimed Bdee Dens 1 (Be* hold the God). Others havs exclaimed Bee* homo] (Behold the man). Bat to- j day, in conclusion of my subject, I erj Been adolescent i (MraM th* b«r)i t

4MBEYOND OUR BORDERS ihQc*mtc paper says that the volume of emigrvion from that province to the United States this year will reach over 100,000, and it wants to know If something can’t be done to prevent it Tn cost of the Sues canal in construction and improvement^ up to 188# is £20,234,868; and the total receipts for the same length of time were nearly £36,000,000. Three thousand one hundred vessels made the passage of the canal last year. Th» government of Europe is Just now largely in the hands of women. Spain and the Netherlands are under Queens Regent, and it is not unlikely that Queen Natalie will virtually hold the regency of Servla. Queen Victoria is, of course, tho only Queen regnant lx remembrance of her good work for Hindu women, a number of large photographs of Lady Pufferm, done on porcelain and handsomely framed, are being dlstrih uted by subscription to most of the hospitals in India, where they will be hung up in the wards. Tub question of how old a woman must ho before she ceases to wear hats does not seem to be definitely settled in England. Queen q Victoria wore one the other day at Sandringham, a hat having a good broad brim and trimmed with ostrich feathers, and she is s great-grandmother. Tub largest cat's-eye in the world arrived in London recently from Ceylon. Its present weight cut is 170 carats, and it is insured for 80,000 rupees. It is wonderfully beautiful, the gem giving out a wide, warm beam of opalescent light. Cat’s-eyes of tha first-class are now as valuable as diamonds in the London market. Another old servant of Queen Victoria died lately. She was Miss Hiidyard, and Aral at one time governess to tho Princess Royal and the Prince of Wales. She re. mained in the Queen’s service nearly twenty years, and then became a Bister of St. Kut heriae. All the royal family were very fond of her. A Paris fakir is making a fortune by advertising a cure for corpulency, which will, without injury to health, takeoff two pounds in ten minutes. In return for a franc he advises a trip up the Eiffel tower, at the top of which reduced atmospheric pressure reduces the average man's weight temporarily by about two pounds. Cbaso, the pleasant-faced Chinese giant that Hr. Barnum transported about the country with his famous show, is buried in his owu ccuintry. An enterprising museum proprietor cabled to Chins offeringfl.OOO for his skeleton; but tho Chinese Government frowned on the proposition and refused to allow the bones of the great man to be sent out of the Celestial kingdom. A. remarkable story comes from Pesih, the Hungarian capital, thata boy in one ol the schools has confessed to his father that he has for some time past taken money f rom tho till in his shop, being ordered to do so by a man who had made him tho subject of experiments in hypnotism. The father went to the school authorities, and it was discovered that a whole class of boys was iu a similar plight. They acted as “mediums.'’ and by a process known as “suggestion’’ were "made to steal money from their parents and bring it to tho ardent scientist in question. News has -been received at tho City of Mexico of a discovery of great archmotogical importance in the State of Chiapas, near the ruins of Palanque, being nothing less than a largo city hidden in the depths of-the forests. Some buildings are five stories high and in a good state of preservation. There is a well-paved road several miles in length still perceivable in the midst of a tropical forest. Very few particulars have been received, but the report comes from good sources. Palanque is said to be a mere village tn comparison with this lost city of prehistoric times. TRANSPIRING EVENTS. Some years ago ftM.000 were refused for the famous Jersey cow, Mary Anne, of St. Lamberts. Blie was sold at auction a short time since for (2,100. ^ Thb Minnesota Legislature, following New York's example, has made it a misde- * meaner for any rewspaper to print more than the mere announcement of a criminal’s execution. lx pursuance of tho co-operative system of profit-sharing with his employe*, adopted by Mr. Wauamaker two years ago, CUM,MS were distributed by his firm recently among nearly four hundred of their em ployes. This makes a total of 1213,785 m two years. -> At some of the New York theaters now, when there is a certainty of a crowd at a matinee performance, they refuso to sell any seats to a man unaccompanied by a lady. Tlie theory is that the matinees are for tho ladies especially, and that a man who wants to go alone deserves to stand. Tub oriental dignity of Hadji Hassein Ghooty Khan, the Persian Minister at Was hiegton, received a rude shock the other day. He started to make tome calls, and went to the residence of a prominent Government official The domesti ■ refused to admit him and sent him away, thinking he was a peddler. One of the largest suits ever commenced in this country is the one now progressing m tW? United States Court at Pittsburgh between tho Westmghouse company and tne Edison company. It involves the ownership of the entire system of mcandoscent lighting in this country, and affects business interests amounting to more than (25,ouo.ooa Iowa is having great difficulty to get enough convicts to complete its contracts at the Fort Madison penitentiary. Every year the number of prisoners is smaller, so that the convicts who would naturally belong in the Fort Madison territory do not begin to be enough to do the work contracted for, and that In consequence two thirds of dhe State must be scoured for eon victsto help out Fort Madison, where alt the shops are and where the contract labor is done. What is supposed to be a hidden treasure j was found lately in the North Town Moss, Island of Burray, Orkney, by George Petrie, while cutting peats for fuel Afterward a sheriff proceeded to the plaoe and secured the find, which consists of attver coins, armlets and necklets. The coins are of the eleventh century. There are twentyflve armlets of bangles and other pieces, and twenty-two neck rings of silver wire, repo pattern. All the articles are in a good stole of preservation. The largest armlet or bangle weighs over two ounces, the smallest about one-half ounce.

4l>i® »::» TH^ MARKETS. New Yoke. June 10.18 CATTLE-NaUre Steen..1 3 80 • « COTTON—Middling.. It XU FLOUR—Winter Wheat_ 8 45 <A 5 WHEAT—No. * Red. 81 “t« CORN-No. *..■ OATS—Western Mi ted. PORK—Mew (new). ST LOUIS. COTTON—Middling. «>S® BEEVES—Export Steen..... 4 00 «£ Skipping “ . 3 74 o HOGS—Common to Select.... 4 flu 4* SHEEP—Fnir to Choice. 1IU 9 FLOUR—Patents.*.... . 4S Q XXX to Choice.. X 80 4n WHEAT—No.* Red Winter... W O CORN-No. > M:zed.. SIX* OATS-No. *. »X<1 RYRi-No. t.. S» • TOBACCO-Lugs (Missouri).. 1 AS Lent, Burley TO tf1 (4 4* » SO 4 80 .. »» O 7 .1* . 4 8 u 4 e. 390 d 4 . 410 a 4 . 4 n a » .. a HAY—Choice Timothy. BUTTER—Choice Dairy. EGGS—Fresh... . PORK-Standard Mess (new). BACON—Clear Rib... •« LARD-Prime Steam..... LSQ WOOL—Choice Tub.. a CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping. 8 40 a 4 HOGS—Good lo Choice. 48 « 4 SHEEP—Good to Choice. 8 80 FLOUR—Winter. WHEAT—No. 8 Spring. CORN—No. *. MX® OATS-No. t White. SIX • PORK—New Mew..11 80 ® 11 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Shipping Steen.... 8 85 HOGS—Sales at.. 4 no WHEAT-No.*... . .. OATS-NowS.. *1 CORN-No.*... *5 NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR-HighGrade.... 4 00 l ©RN—White... OATs—Choice Western. M HAY—Choice.... . 18 00 PORK—New Mean. BACON—Clear Rlh.. T COTTON—Middling .. .... LOUISVILLE. WHEAT-No.* Red.. TO CORN-No. It Mixed...... SIM OATS—Now * Muted.. rORK—Me**.. .. I* » • « BACON-Oear Rih.. **» PfflWt—MiMHH nninnn on 41 30 *5 S'* r 80 30 18 11 *5 85 ST an so 81 TO SO TOli •X l V U 1* r ii » 8H4 m »1V4 » TO 80 »«*. to TO »* 10* TO r »■ 7 m

this community than an; oth»n who has overlived in ix He talk Tery mueh in public, and not try. Ho is not wor h two ifl dollars, and it is very li tie he down on a subscription paper*. But a new family never moves into the village that he does not find it out and give them a neighborly wet con ■> and offer them some - service. le is ou the lookout to give strau l itre a seat in his pew at church. He ji always ready to watch with tt sick neighbor and look after his affa -s for him. I believe he and his wif keep house plants in winter mainly that they may be able to send iitt.o bouquets to friends and invalids He finds time for a pleasant word to every child he meets, and you'll alw .rs see them climbing into his or -horse wagon widen he has no othe load. He has a genius for helping to!kit, and it does me good to meet him ilt the streets.—St. Louis Globe-Demo rat. The llostetlsr Stomach Hitter People Score Auothrr Point. In tbs United States Circuit Cour for the Southern District of New York, Jut I sji Shipman handed down an opinion a < w days ago in the suit of the owners of t ,s trade marks tcverlng Hostetler's Stemar 11 Bitters agains t Arnold Thetler and Cornell Theiler, the compounders located on Veecy street, New Y orfc City, in which it was decided that, although the defendants ma n use of their own names on the labels affix ' d to the bottles containing bitters prepared by them, jret as they were evidently designed to imitate tho Hostetter labels they -ere infringe-*, and a perpetual injunction was granted and an accounting of dai : ages ordered, together with the costs of the-suit. It is the evident intention of the Hostetter people to protect their valuable tr io mark against aU infringers. Enr Aiui Bvtw** Dickens, the j congest sou of Charles Dickens, represent a a protection district in the Parliamei 6 of New South Wales Distance*! >11 the Bare Why should Dr. Pierce’s med ones not distaheehli competitors in amour, of sales, as they are doing, since they ni the only medicines sold bv druggist* possessed of such vonder'ul curative properue is to warrant their manufacturers in gum nn teeing them to cure the diseases for v rich they are remuuneaded. You get a cun or money paid :for them returned. Thi Doctor's ''Golden Medical Discovery” cus s all diseases caused by derangement of he liver, as biliousness, indigestion or t yspepsia; also all bleed, skin and scalp diseases, tetter, salt-rheuni. scrofulous iwree and swellings and kiudred ailments. Don’t hawk, hawk, and blow, tilotv, disgusting every body, but use l>e. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy and bo cured. Ctovrscame to ns from the Incites, and take their name from the Latin elauvus, mean eg a nail, to which they h ive a resemblance. A Veil of Mist Rising at morning or evening _ .. ')ta some lowland, often carries in Us fold; the seeds of nitiiaria. Where malarial few: prevails no one is safe, unless protectee by some efficient medicinal safeguard. Hostetter’s Stomm-h Bitters is both a proto ion and a remedy. No person who mhnbiia, or sojourns' in a miasmatic region <:•” country, should omit to procure this fortif,' lag agent, which is also the finest known i medy for dyspepsia, consumption, kidney trouble and rheumatism. Hog. Mrs. Haxwell-Scott, of Abbots ford, is preparing tor the press some tm Bublished journals of her great-grandfa ler, Bir Walter Scott. G. M. Scott, of Okolcna, Miss., wrote to Dr. SihaUfcnbergor: “Your Antidote for Malaria is oertainly the best thing for chills and fever that ha* ever bee# sold iq tho South. I have been selling itfor teed* pairs, and know it to be the test hiedigioe I have ever dealt in. It is perfectly harmless, and a si;ni cure in every case. Bold by Druggists. The bej»t way to mark table lit n: Leave the baby and a blackberry pie n!one at the table forlbree minutes. Oregon, tho Faraillse of F -mors. Mil), equable climate, certain and abundant craps. Best fruit, grain, grass, stork country In the world. Pull information frao. Address Oration Immigration Board. Port! and,Oregon BiLrasjr, Ireland, is the center of real linen nakiffg. as Dundee, U Sco itind, is of hempen fabrication. ^ EitTKAbitDiNABT but nevertheless true. We refertotbeannouncementol B. F. Johnson St Co., of Richmond. Va., it which they propose |o show working andet rgetle meu how to niako from t<5 to fciSO a month above expenses. Women who have to attrart attention by improprieties are always Us; nn the procession. When an article has been iold for !M vears. jrn spite of competition a> 1 cheap imItatijiowit mast have superior q siity. Dobbins’ Electric Soap has bee: constantly made au«t sold since 1885. A»i |*mr onxer. Louisa M. Ai.cott wrote the t nly hymn of her life, "My Kingdom,” at thi teen years of <ge. Have no equal as a prompt md positive cura for sick headache, bilious iss^eonstipation, pain in the side, and all over troubles. Carter's Little Liver PjjU. Try them. «Is the easiest thing in th?- rid for ths mleof Vanity Fair to make f ils of them tea.

Vl(wu4 Vitality ere auk-ki jlren to every pan ef tlaebodybyllood'aSanapa lila. That tired fee] lot li entirely orertodle. the b (d U punned, enriched, and TltalUed. the Moma la toned and j atrenetbeocd, the appetite reetor> . Try Ilood'a I dan ape HI la no*. |

Gleam's Sulphur Soap is a ffenuine ren.#ij for Skin Diseases. „ ' Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye. 80 cents. Tn* woman who has the fewest number of “conddeutial friends" is always the happiest. Do not puree nor weaken the bowels, hut act specially ou the liveraud bile. A perfect ticer corrector, Carter’s Little Infer Fills. , Cntw.Es P. A. Mekhkicsa began as a clerk aud now has i5,tXW,00& lr afflicted with Sore Eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomason's Eye Water. Druggists, sell it. 33c Gisoer is a native of the East and West Indies. HemSKaiN For Stablemen and Stockmen. CURES c^tJsS?n,u£2rct5Ra,«“iia,i=JS£S: Cutrudou. S3 Wf»a4j. SUtestat* *«- Ta.-»i«. ClIMIJH. C*IU. WMUOW. roll Ertl. Ttetwla. Tutor., (yttau, SlBfbtnM u« tuna UIU Hrii IUt» niruUuswlia atl fettle. At Dkvuuiro Ann Diaiara THE CHARLES A VOCELER CO.. ■aRhsan. *4 TS* TfJSLS ( The world ought to done forme inthecuro width waesobadasto b!e by th® physicians I went to be treated. One I ne a copy of an atlvcr-1 Sw ift's Vpeeific. and 11 rclkffrrm the first tow graduiilly forced ont of aooa cured sound and mouths since I quit tak. ItlRTS | know wharSiS. 8. has of a malignant Cancer, bo considered incuratn Chicago, wuere I of my neighbors sect tisement in regard to began taking it. I got [doses; the poison was my system, and 1 was I well. It is now ten IngS.8. and 1 hare n. __ ■Inj-S.l had no sign vf return of the dreadful dMbs. Ass Dotuwku. Au Sable. Mich., Dec. S9. ’SS. Send for books oh Blood Diseases and Cancers, mailed free. Tua Swrrr Pretmfi Co. t Drawer A Atlanta. Qa.

GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878. XV. BAKER & CO.’S it is soluble. No Chemicals t are u*cd in its preparation. It Km I Mrf« lt<n ttoo* ft «M the strength of | Coco* mixed with Starvh, Arrowroot I or Su£»r, and is therefore fsur more m economical, cvmin# U*» tk<u% m* cm* II * It is delicious, nourishing, { I strengthening. Easily IXQSSTKB, jj and admirably sda;?tc4 R»r invalid* P as veil as for persons in health. Uklal RriMvrH I'vervuhera.

vnsillfi MFD T«*l«mph» «n<J Railroad IWDIIH nltllAiii'nl's Ravine**bore, and recur** rood Mtnatiuna. Writs J. U. BROWN, Sedalia. Mu. HaEIMFJS 8AMPLFS FRCI both HIM. WflM MW. SCOTT. N«* Tort ClVA. N. K_ B. 124a WHEN wkitinb toadvfkt7*i:hspi.k var •at* that i*a aaw the A4*rrtWae*i ta thte IlM* W. BASER & CO., Dorchester, Mass. CURED OF SICK HEADACHE. W. D. Edwards, Palmjrra. O.. write* t **I have been a (treat sufferer from Conttvenru and Mirk Heudaehe, and have tried inaaj medicine*. bat Tutfs Pills Is the only one that ware me relief. I find that one pill arts better than three or any other hind, and does not weaken or crl|K." Elegantly sugar Ikoae small. Price, IS ecata. SOU) EVERYWHERE. Office, 44 Murray Street. New York. Woven Wire Fencing WIRE ifefc yWIrs Ropo Selvage All sixtf ueor7l«ilert ta this lino i>f V'-K FKK1UI.T 1‘aID. hifarauitloa frvo. T11K MeMrl.I.I V RAVEN WIRE FEX t*E CO.. X*rth Market a*d Ontario KU., CK «>,UL its am* :w» ijanut tmi u»a« wen BRAOFIELD’Sfr -FUMALiNlREGULATOR Cures all Diseases Peculiar to Women! Book tu "Woman" Mailxo Kbk«. BKAUt l£Ll> RKUIT.ATOH CO. ATLANTA. «ASold by all Dbcuoists. vnneiii rmtMiaijasa JONES IIE ^wwaagSE: Iron Lever* Sted Lcarimf\ Lrtua Inxv lkam *:'A Bosun Xka. lor filCJC^d ErfTTrf*eScali'. For frre pricelist mention this paper and addrees jones of Binghamton. BINGHAMTON. N.X •TN4MR THIS nnittwr Urn* ym If JO« WMl to obtain the PTurPs HA inert. -HIGHEST Hoc* or Sheep, ■hip to C. C. DAI.Y & CO*. Lhr«-Stoc k Commission Merchant.. National Stock Varda. East ST. Lons. ILL. EXPERT Salesmen from long? experience. ESTAB* ItlSH Kl> 8 K V KNTKKN YEA US. Prompt ak* and returns. WKITE FOR FREE MARKET REPORTS. Inquiries by letter or wire answered at occo. E 6YPTIAN ROSE-BLOOM, bt-wu'UW ft* th* <>>H3|>A’\k>a. iwmeeee ui>. aioJee and frrctS*-* UMe mask-. Lca> tlw akin UX« « v-inX-tiou-t fwerl. _iiunraawwt hamleds. Trial hw\ eal* M c-a**. AWmi kauosal riux*u y co., box ta, wiuii&ciqji, o. c. •ITS ARB TUt* r APJta •*«*? urn* *»• who have used Pi^o’a SW$ Cur* for Coiuimiptioo ■aj 1,1* BEST OF ALT. Bold avaryirher*. a#c. $65 A MONTH AMD BOARD FA lit. orhichevtMamksion and 30 DAY'S* CKRUlTio Aizienteon our New Book. - ' “ - Ml : — - - . - P.W.ZIRHUK A WU vnuuMMiArttawrirniw |i# AMTMn^I^n. Newest, Choice* fPItll I E»l#Frutt». Besttree*,terms,plan; kriwutatfree. MO. NCUSBRT CO.. Louisian*. Ma «j»>AMXTlitA tAnAmySMynmb

.HUNTER D.C.,W ILLGKTYOt* fUTSlOX vtotMldday.

JOHN* HAMMOND. NEW GOODS Yd which he directs attention. Hi* DUY GOOD? Dr* first.et&sa, au<l «bo»too* Hats, Gaps, Boots, Shoes and Notions. ’ Give him a call and you will l* oouvluced that he la giving BARGAINS on UU enUre utooh. : SOLID GOODS AT LOW PHH’RS. KUGENK HA 'K. ANTON SIMON. —Proprietors THE EAGLE BREWERY, » VINCENNES, INDIANA, Furnish the Best Article of Beer the Market Affords : - W * AND SOIC1T ORDERS FROM ALL DEALERS BOTTLE OR KEG BEElt SUPPLIED TO FAMILIES. | Oil Sal© at A.11 Saloons. '

1801. 1804. Or HORN BROTHERS j , * Have remove-.! t their elegant New Building on Main Street, whore they hare a large and splendid lmu ot BOC TS AND SHOES, For Men, e omen and Children. We keep R. l^tfrenlSBWfewheraon’a brande ot Fine shoes, " a: Peter s»biai rgr. Indiana.

C. A. BURGER * BRO„ j FASHIONABLE MERCHANT TAILORS, Vett'rsburjj, Indian;;Have Bet TleirAai® M of Late Stiles of Pisce Goods, J . Consisting of the very best guttings and Broadcloths. Perfect F and Styles Guaranteed. Prices as low as Elsewhere. BOOK-KI PINS, SHORT-HAND, TELEGRAPHY, PENMANSHIP, ETC. Ever 'Young Man and Woman Who dot m to hotter his or her condition in life, should write for the Catalogue of the BRYA IT & STRATTON ^SSSSSTcm, NO. 400 THIRD STREET, LOUISVILLE,^T.

It tha oMmi 4 »o*t iKvpniar tclenUflc ard mechanical v r published and htt tha UrcaM ctmlaMnol jpaptPotltaelanaintha'aorM. Kulij Utuatm . Bast ciaM of Wood Krvrar* tnpa. I>bU? l weakly. bead for specimen rup». I’rtW your, Kour months'triaMl. Ill NN 4 CC* l »lub»H8, Mi Broadway. N. Citlo QUO CTS & r Scientific American.1 ». I?aeh tssna coot tint colored lot of country tiul fih naM«R> tjtldin**. .Nmnwi-fl* etutravit e* itfl » neediest ions for the uao of iat* bwliulm.*. hlnUSOMtar, Bl'.N.N 4 CO., CWtUaUttUK may be recur* ed-M ri»i’ »- tn« to 1!l I'd.. »bo haT*had<‘«ef mtdo *»ar *r»<* untt* ADE MARKS. itrk It not rcflitered In thr Tatr to Buns a Cm., and prucuia Action. hand for liautiU* k. ITS for books, tUartt, inapt. *care»t. Address 'O., 1‘nifM Solicitors, urru * «*. liawAUvir. K. T REAL STATE AGENCY. p. v . nHAPPELL, PETERSBl it All land, land* tor u Owe—l’ IS DIAS A

] THE i UDIES* FAVORITE. MET R OUT OF ORDER. If scudc i: 3topuroJmsoawrw!n(c machine, ask our X < it at your I'lnco for terms and prices. I 3 M cannot find our agent, write direct tot e; rest address to youbejowaamod. ;WSNG MACHINE m 28 UNION SQUARE,NX ‘Ximi.tpccicuj i

PATENTS, euvcntyu|d Trade-Marks obtained, and a Put* fin buSTWWJi conducted for Moderate PeesOur office i* opposite U S. Puteut Office* ami we cat secure patents in leas time than those i remote from Washington. - j Scud model, draw u« or photo. with descrip* lion. We advice if patentable or not tree of eh ante. Our fees not due till patent is secured. A pamphlet. "How to Obtain Patents." with names of actual clients iu your State* couuty or town, sent free. Address c. a. sxow & co., Opposite Patent Offioj, Washington, D, 0. DR. HARTLEY’S CATARRH REMEDY Is the best remedy known for the'cure of Catarrh ana its attendant ailments; It is safe, painless.'and never falls to K ve relief. Thu remedy cleanses the nose,,head and throat ol all unhealthy seeirciioett, anti soothes and heals tho iutlamed parts. W.ion the remedy is once tr ed the benetteiat results are so prompt and sat sf.ictpry that the sufferer never falls toeon-tt-iue the treatment unt 1 permanent relief it obtained. DO NOT NEGLECT A BAD COLD. so Hartley’s Catarrh H.inmly for Its Im niied ate Cure. 7f#R'S ps£ 6 - J - Vi - ’ x :VV • :3r■ eclipse t' LIN IM ENT. TM I; • ••■ i*u C.jCT fllw' jl'lLCH ~j ECLIPSE tl\^ER PILLS.-c-1 jfir cos;-rjpMtoN iWoiOKSt.u'}t~. ECLIPSE UERMIHiGEW ssnTN .■ <r.» ECLIPSE SaRSAPM*?,H.JJ. * T'nE jGRV AT^ H*»NC .1 .Mw-rt iTJi'H • ECl.tPSRBITa.HSl. .tt ciii hr v(.-'nf<j;-A-Tcri7«'e FOR.i-f J R pi'; } oufsviL.r.-Kv . A WISE WOMAN Bought tho Splendid HIGH ARM JUNE SINGER 8EWINC MACHINE BECAUSE IT WAS THE BEST*

■<I«T I Bad kLU WIU11 II For It <!•»* raeh bo«cUfi.l work. tanpte MiichLio at Factory Price. EraiTBUimSflKAIIEB FQJt J TUB. Ms Waifeiia Unoociipled Territory,