Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 10, Petersburg, Pike County, 25 July 1889 — Page 4

“HOW TO COrigUEIt/’ XtII Habit* and the Moans for Their Eradication. Immi by Ktf. T. DtWIII Tnlmsge at tok« Maxlakuekee. lad.. on the r«roe of Evil Habit), aad the InHueuee of M Company. The (following sermon was delivered by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage at Lake Maxiukuckee, lnd., on tlie subject of “How to Conquer." Hts text was: When shall I awkn? I will seek It yet again. —Proverbs xxtiL, a With an insight into human nature such as no other nau ever reached. Solo, mon, in my text, sketches the mental op. erations of one who, having stepped aside from the paih of rectitude, desires to return. With a wish for something better he said: “IVhen shall 1 awake* When shall 1 come out of this horrid nightmare of iniquity?” But, seixed upon by jineradlcaled habit, and forced down hill by his passions, he cries out: “I will se»k it yet again. 1 will try it once more.” Onr libraries are adorned with an elegant literature addressed to young men pointing out to thofft all the dangers and perils of life, complete maps of the voyage, showing all the rocks, the quid* sands, the shoals. But suppose a man has already made shipwreck; suppose he is already off the track: suppose he has » already gone astray. How is lie^ to get back? That is a field comparatively uutouched. I propose to atMret* myself M such. There am those fu this audience who. with every passion of their agonized soul, are ready to hear such a discussion. They compare themselves with what they were teu years ago, and cry ont from the bondage In which they are lncarcerateit Now, if there be any here, come with an earnest purpose, yet feeling they are beyond the pale of Christian sympathy, and that the sermon can hardly be expected to address them, then, at this moment, I give them iny right hand. * aud call them brother. Look Up. Thore 1m glorious aud triiuophaut hope for you yet, I sound the trumpet of Gospel de-' liveranee. The Charch is ready to spread a banquet at your return, and the hierarchs of Heaven to fall Into line of bannered procession at the news of your emancipation. So far as God may help me, T propose to show what are the obstacles of your return, and then how you are to surmount those obstacles. The first difllcnllty In tlie way of your return is tho force of moral gravitation. Just as there is a natural lew which brings down te the eirth anythin; you throw into the air, so there is a corresponding moral gravitation. In other words, it is easier lo go down than it is to go up; it is easier to du wrong than it is to do right. Call to mind tho comrades of your boyhood day*—some of them good, some of them bad. Which most affected yon? Call llo iniud the anecdotes you have heard in the last live or ten years—some of them pure and some oL them impure. Which the more easif sticks to yonr memory? During the years of your life you have formed certain courses of conduct—some of them good, $ome of them bud. To which style of habit did you the more easily yield? Ah, my friends, you have to lake but a moment of self-intpcction to find out that there is iu all our souls a force of moral gravitation! But that gravitation may be; resisted. Just at you may pick up from the earth something and hold it iu your hnnd toward Heaven, just so, by life |wwor of God's gram*, a soul fallen may be lifted Inward pence, toward pardon, toward Heaven. Force of moral gravitation iu every one of u*. but power in God's crace to overcome that force of moral gnPitation.

the next thing in the way of your return U the powrr.of evtl habit- 1 know there are those who say it is very easy for them to give up evil habits. 1 do not belierc them. Here is a man Riven to iutoxieation. He Knows it U dUgr.u-lug his family, destroying hi* property, ruiuiug him. hotly, mind oml soul. If that man, being an intelligent tuau, and loving bis family, could easily give up that habit, would he not d<y so? The fact that he dor* not give If, tii|> prove* that it i» hard to give it up. It is a very easy thing to sail down stream, the tide carrying you with great force; but suppose you turn tbe boat up-stream, is U so easy then to row it? As loug as we yield to the evil inclinations io our hearts, and our bad habits, we are sailing down-stream; but the m.intent we try to tttru. we put our boat in the rapids just above Niagara, aad try to ruu up-stream. Take a man given to the habit of using tobacco, as most of you do, aud let hint resolve to stop, aud he finds it very diflteult. Twenty-seven years ago 1 quit the habit, aud I would as soon dare put my ' ri^t hand in the Are asouee to iudulgr iu it. Why? Because it was such a terrible struggle to get over it. Now, let a man be advised by hi* nhvsi.ciau to give up the u -e of tobaoeo. He goes around uot knowing what to do with hi mself. He can not add up a line of figures. He cau not , sleep nights. It seems as if the world had turned n|>*itle down. He feels hts business Is goittg to ruin. Where he was kind and obllgiug he isscoldiug and fretful. Tho composure (hat characterised him has given way to a fretful restlessness, and he has become a cfimplet* fidget. What power is it that lias rolled a wave of woe over the earth and shaken k pirtent in the heavens? He has tried to stop smoking or chewing! After awhile he says; “I am going to do a* 1 please The doctor doesn’t understand my case. I'm going bark to my old habit." Aud he returns. Kvrry thing assumes its usual composure. Hts business seats to brtghleu. Tbe world becomes an attractive place to live it- III* children, seeing the difference, Imil the return of their father’s genial disposition. What wave of color has dashed blue iu the sky, aud greenness into tbe mountain foliage, aud the glow of sapplirre into the sttuset? What enchantment has lifted a world of beauty and joy on his soul? He has gone back to tobacco! Ob, the fact Is, as we alt kuow in onr own experience, that habit is a taskmaster; as long at we obey it, it does not chastise us; bat let’us resist, aud we find we are to be lashed with scorpion whips, and bound with ship cable, aud thrown into the track of bone-breaking Juggernauts! IHtring the warof 1*12 there was a ship set on fire just above Niagara Falls, and then, cut loose from its moorings, it catne on down through the night and tossed over the fnlls. it was said to have been a scene biilliaot beyond all description. Well, there are thousands of them on fire of eril habit, coming down through the rnpitils aud through the awful inight of temptation toward the eternal plunge. Oh, how hard It is to arrest them. God only can arrest them. Suppose a mail, after fire or ten or tweuty year* of evil-doing, resolves to do right? Why, all the force* of darkness are allied against; him. He can not sleep nighu. He goes down on hi* knee* in tbe midnight and cries: “God help me!" He bites his lijn. He grind* his teeth. He clinches his fist in his determination to. keep hi* purpose. He dare not look at tbe bottles in the window of a wine store. It was one long, bitter, exhaustive, hand-to-hand fight with inflamed, tantalising and merciless habit. When he thinks ho is entirely free, the old inclinations pounce upon tint like a pack of hounds with their mustes tearing away at the flanks of one poor reindeer. In Forts there is a senlptured representation of Bacchus, the god of revelry. He is riding on a panther at fnll leap. Ob, how suggestive! Let every one who is speeding on bad ways understand he is not riding a docile and well-broken steed, but be is riding a monster, wild and blood-thirsty, going at a death-leap. How many there ore who resolve on n better life and say: "When shall I awake?" Bat seised on by their old habits cry: "I will try it once more; I will seek it yet again!** Years ago there were some Princeton student* who were skating, and the ice was very thin, and some one warned the company back from the air hole, and Anally warned them entirely to leave the place. Bat one young man with bravallo, after all the rest had stopped, cried oat: “One round more!’* Be swept around and toil down, and

wm br< tight opt a corpse. My friends, •her* aim thousands and tana of thou* gauds of men losing their tools In that way. It is the one round more. 1 have also to say that if a man weals to return from evil practices society rt - poises him. Desiring to reform, he says: “Now I will shake off my old as* sociate* , and I will And Christian eompaniotmhip.” And he appears at the church door some Sabbath day, and the usher greets him with a look, as much as to say: “Why, you here? You are the last man I ever expected to see at church! Come, lake this seat right down by-^the door!’* Instead of saying: ‘nioodmorning; l am glad you are here. Come; 1 will give you a first-rate seat, right up by the puluit.” Well, the prodigal, not yet discouraged, enters the prayer meeting, and some Christian man, with more seal than common sense, says: “Glad to see you. The dying thief was saved, and I suppose there is mercy for you."’ The young man, disgusted, chilled, throw s himself back <on his dignity, resolved he never will enter the house of God again. Perhaps not quite fully discouraged about reformation, he sides up by some higlily-respectable man he used to know guiug down the street, aud immediately the respectable mau has an errand down some other street. Well, the prodigal, wishing to return, takes some member of a Christian association by the hand or tries to. This Christine young man looks at him, looks at the faded apparel and marks ajf dissipation, and instead of giriug him a warm grip of the hand offers him the tip end of the long lingers oi the left hand, which is equal to [striking a man in the face. Oh, how few Christian people understand how much force and Gospel there is in a good, honest hand-shaking! SoineI times, when you have felt the need of encouragement, and some Christian man lias taken you heartily by the hand, have you not felt that thrilling through every fiber of your body, mind and soul, an encouragement that was just what you ueededf You do not know any thing at all about this unless you know when a man tries to^cturn home from evil courses of conduct, he rims against repulsions innumerable. We say of some man, he lives a block or two from (he church, or half a mile from the church. There are people iu our crowded citios who live a thousand tulles from the church. Vast deserts of indifference between them aud the house of God. The fact is. we must keep our respectability, though thousands and tens of thousands perish. Christ sat with publicans and sinners. But if .there comes to fho house of God a man with marks of dissipation upon him, people throw up their hands iu horror, as much as to say: “Isn’t it shocking?” How these dainty, fastidious Christians iu ail our churches are goiag to get into Heaven 1 don't know, unless they have an especial train of cars, cushioned and upholstered, each one a car to himself? I They can not go with the great herd of | publicans and sinners. Oh, ye who curl your lip of scorn at the fallen, 1 tell yon plainly, it you had bceu surrounded by [the sam» ufluences, instead of sitting toffu.tr amid the cultured aud the refined and Christian, yon would have been a crouching wretch in stable or ditch, vo/ered with filtli and abomination! it is trot because you are naturally any better, but because the mercy of God lias protected voti. Who are you that, brought up in Chrisllau circles, and watched by ChrU- | tiau parentage, you should be so hard on the fallen?

I lotnk men also are or ten Hindered from return by the fact that churches are loo action* uh.iut-their membership and t<«> utiioai about their ileuotnination, nmi they rush out wheu they see a man about to give up his sin ami return to, God, and ask him how he is going to be baptise'1, whether by sprinkling or by immersion, and what kind of a church he is going to join. Oh, uty friends! It is a poor time to talk abont Presbyterian catechism and Episcopal liturgies and Methodist love feasts, aud baptisteries to a man that is corndug out of ilie darkue-s of sin into the glorious light of the Gospel, Why, it reminds us of a man drowniug lni.hr sea, and a life-boat puts out for him, and the man in the boat says to the man out of the boat: “Now if 1 get yon ashore are you goiug to live iu my street?" First get him ashore and then talk about the non-essentials of religion. Who cares what church ho joins if he only joins Christ and starts for Heaven? <)b, you ought to have, my brother, an illuminated face and a hearty grip for every one that tries to turn from bis evil way. Take hold of the same book with him. though his dissipations shake the book, tememberiug that he that couverteth a sinner from the error of his ways shall save a soul from death and hide a multitude of sins. Now, 1 have shown these obstacles because 1 w ant you to understand l know all the difficulties in the way; but 1 am now to tell you how Hannibal may scale the Alps and how the shackles may be, uuriveted aud how the paths of virtue forsaken may be regained. First of all, my brother, throw yourself on God. Go to Him fraukly and earnestly aud tell Him these habits you have, and ask Him, if there is any belli in all the resources of Omnipotent 1 ', , to give if to yojk. Do not go with a long rigmarole people call prayer, made up of “oh>” and “abs” and “forever and forever aniens!” Go to God and cry for help! help! help! jpd if yon can mu cry for twig just look and live. I remember in the war 1 was* at Autietam, and I went iDtu the hospitals after the battle, and 1 said to a man: “Where are you hurt?" He made no auswer, but held up his arm. swollen aud splintered. I saw .where he was hurt. The simple fact is, when a man has a wounded soul, all he has to do is to hold it up before a sympathetic ls>rd and get it healed. It does uot take any long prayetj; Just hold up the wound. ’ Oh, it is no small thing when m man is nervous and weak and exhausted, coming from his evil ways, to feel that God puts two Omnipotent arms around about him and says: “Youngman, t will stand by you! The mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but 1 will never fail you,” Aud tbeu. as the soul thinks the news is too good to be true, and cannot believe it, and looks up iu God's face, God lifts Ills right hand and takes an oath, an affidavit, saying; "As I liTe, saith The Lord God, 1 have no pleasure in the death of him that dietb.” Blessed be God for inch a Gospel as tbis! ,-Cut the slices thiu.” aaid the wife to the husband, “or there will not be enough to go all around for the children; out the slices thiu." Blessed be God, there is a fall loaf for every one that wants it; bread enough and to spare. No thin slices at the Lord’s table. 1 remember when the Master Street Hospital, in Philadelphia, was opened during the war a telegram came, saving: “There will be three hundred wounded men to-night; be ready to take care of them;” and from my church there went in some twenty or thirty men and women to look after these poor wounded fellows. As they came, some from one part of the land, some from another, no one asked whether this nmu was from Oregou, or from Massachusetts, or from Minnesota, or from New York. There was a wounded soldier, and the only question was how to take off the rags most gently, and put on the bandage and admiuister the cordial. And when a soul comes to God He does not ask where you came from or what yonr ancestry was. Healing for all your wounds, pardon for all your guilt, comfort tor all j your troubles. Theu, also, 1 counsel you. if you want to get back, to quit all your bad associations. , Ou« unholy intimacy will fill yonr soul with moral distemper. In all the ages of the church there has not been an instance where a man kept one evil associate and was reformed. Among the fourteen huadred millions of the race not one instance. Go home to-day. open yonr desk, take out letter paper, stamp an envelope, and then write n letter something like this: “My Old Companions—I start this day for Heaven. Until I am persuaded you will join me in this, farewell.” Then sign yonr name and tend the letter with the first poet. Give np yonr bad | companions or give np Heaven. It la not ten bud companions that destroy a mac, nor five bad companions, nor three had companions, bat one. Wait chance is there for that young man I taw along the j

_ ;...1street, four or fir* y oung men wttn him. baiting in front of a grog (hop, urging him to go in, ha rMistinff—violently rattling—until after awhile they forced him to go inf It waa a rammer night and the door waa left open, and I aaw the process. They held him fast, and they put the cup to hia Ups, and they forced down the atrong drink. What chance it there for each a young manf I counsel you also seek Christian adnee. Every Christian man is bound to help you. Pint of all, seek God; then set k Christian counsel. Gather up all the energies of body, mind and soul, and, appealing to God for success, declare this day everlasting war against all drinking habits, all gambling practices, all houses of sin. Half-and-half work will amount to nothing; -it must be a Waterloo. Shrink back now and you are lost Push on and you are saved. A Spartan General fell at the very moment of victory, but be dipped hia finger in bis own blood and wrote on a rock neaf which be was dying, “Sparta has conquered.” Though your struggle to get rid of siu may seeir to be almost a death struggle, you can dip your Auger iu your own blood and write on the Rock of Ages: “Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” Oh, what glorious news it wonld be for some of these young men to send home to their parents. They go to the post-office every day or two to see whethor there are any letters from you. How anxious they are to hear. Some one said to a Grecial General: “What was the proudest moment in your life*” He thought a moment and said: “The proudest moment in my life was when I sent word home to my parents that 1 bad gained the victory.” And the proudest and most brilliant moment in your life will be the moment when you can send word to your parents that yon have conquered your evii habits by the grace of (tod and become eternal victor. Oh, despise n»t parental anxiety! The time will come whSn. you will have neither father uor mother, and you will go around the place wheie they used to watch you and find tbedKgone from the house, and gone from thefield, and gone from the neighborhood. Cry as loud for forgiveness as you may over the mound in the churchyard, they will not answer. Dead! Dead! Add then you will take out the white lock of hair that was cut from your mother’s brow just before they buried her, and you will take the cane with which your father used to walk, and you will think and think and wish that you had done just as they wanted you to and would give the world if you had never thrust a pang through their dear old hearts. God pity the poor young man who has brought disgrace on his father’s name! God pity the young man who has broken his mother’s heart! Better if he had never been born—better if, in the first hour of his life, instead of being laid against the warm bosom of maternal tenderness, he hadAeen coffined and sepulchered. There is no balm powerful enough to heal the heart of oue who has brought |>areuts to a sorrowful grave am! who wauder no»t# tbrm(|h the dismal cemetery, rending the hair nud wringing the hands and crying: “Mother! mother !’’ Oh. that to-day, by all the memories o! the ]>ast and by all the hopes of the future, you would yield yottr heart to God! May your father’s God and your mother’s God be your God forever!

MEAT TOR LAWYERS. ! CnrliHM !«{■! Srqn«l< Is tlie Conemangh Valley Flood. * There ate other losses, difficulties and [ emltarrassmeuta beyond all yet indicated I that may come in the wake o( this deluge. Great numbers of Imjmrtant papers and documentary evidence havo been washed away amHn part or wholly destroyed —cvl-t deuces ot debts due or of credits claimed— 'notes, bills, bonds, agreements, contracts, book accounts-memoranda of work and labor done—and papers relating to all ot the great Tarietv of relations between debtor and creditor and employer and employed. It will require the highest exercise ot honesty, equity and forbearance to bring Instlce and right ont of the coil that might tome from the loss of such a mass ot psprre Fortunately, Johnstown is not a county seat, or there might havo to be [ added the destruction of court dockets, the I records of deeds, wills, leases and other documents relating to the titles ot real property which would have caused enormous trouble. ltut the greatest of ail the embarrass mente remains vet to be mentioned—that relating to the Inheritance of real property growing out of the impossibility of proving the precise moment of the death of any property-owner, husband, wife, father, son. sister, brother, who was overwhelmed, m l who perish'd in this cataclysm; the kindred Impossibility of proving which ol several direct or possible heirs, grantees, or devisees perished before the other; and the still farther Impossibility in the instances of unrecovered or unrecognised dead, of proving even the fact of death Itself. These improvable facts all touch and affect the descent of property the inheritance of property—and there must he a luge nnmher of instances wherein such questions must arise, seeing that the major I .art of whole communities, as well as of whole families, have beeu destroyed—hundreds. perhaps thousands, at the mm< insianl, so far as we can tall - and other hundreds. and perhaps thousands, have gorte out of human sight-nobody cut tell where. Only lawyers can fully understand whaf j difficulties, what long-continued litigation nud losses may uise from the uncer atntv as to whether the father perished first or the child; whether the wife was the first to die or the husband, whether the brother or sister lived a moment longer than the father or the mother; for upon such sorvi voi ship depends, tn many instances, tho direction that property must take under our inter-State laws or tn the execution oi wills; for here all of a family, or all ol them, at least, who did perish, went at oue fell swoop, without leaving sign or trace as to the moment of the decease of any one ot them And what an opportunity there la for pretenders and false claimants of kin. ship.—Philadelphia Ledger INDIVIDUAL EFFORT. Upon It fie pends AU Intellectual. Moral and Rebgious Growth. The plane ot life on which we move and hare our being is. to a greater or less extent. a matter of our own choosing. If a man will strive to ascend to the loftier levels of the intellectual life, he will pioh ably be found there by and by. He need not reach the crowning summit of the highest peak. Indeed, the loftiest crests are uninhabitable. But he will be fu out of the valleys. Or if he muka out for himself a circle in any of the many ranges ot social Hfe, be will probably be able to enter that circle and abide there. If he aeta his heart on reaching the exalted altitudes ot a religious life, where intimate communion with God is possible, it I* probable that the habitation ot his personal life will be found even there But If, on the other hand, his desires descend into the low-land of indolence and the rankly luxuriant swamps of sensuality, and his choices and efforts do not determinedly overcome his desires, he will sorely get down to the ; bottom-lands with surprising eaae. Any plane almost, whether up or down, in nearly every department of individual life, fa accessible and can be reached by proper sets of choices and efforts, or fail to be reached by the laek of these. Let us realise that the altitude of our persona] life In the various spheres of existence is In general the result of our own choosing Where we desire, decide and strive to rear our iote Uectual, moral, religious, social. Bathetic home, whether up on the bracing mountain or down by the sluggish pool - then it will be.—S. & Times. Hew Character Shows Itself; Character shows itself la the little acts ot every-day life, even before strangers. He who talks to another in a load tone of voice in n public place or in a public conveyance, thereby discloses his lack of fine sensi buttles. He may say that he has nothing to conceal from the public, and that therefore he is ready to speak ont before all But every man ought to have much to conceal from toe public, tn hta personal 11 and in Ms relations to others. Unless indeed, a man shrinks from ths tall disclosure of his thoughts and feelings before toe world, there is tittle of moredneas is his thoughts and feelings even in bis «*a wtt«natwn.-a 8. Time*

SUMMARY OF EVENTS. Lot Aitexua, CaL, ku decided to build a sewer to the sea, at a oo«t of 10.000,000. At a New Torh wedding the other dajr the bride received eae million dollars’ worth ot preeenta. Xr is reported that e floating island three hundred yard* la diameter has been found In Honey Lake, I. T. Taa flood dumped fully •900,000 worth gt lumber, which can not he identified, on a farm near Milton, Pa. Tk* thousand eight hundred and ten persons ascenhed to the top of the Washington monument during the month of Nay. Neaklt every oountry is to hold a National exhibition to celebrate the semi-cen-tennial of the discovery of photography. Italy is the latest to be heard from. Ax eclipse of the sun occurred on theSStflt of last June, but it was visible no further north than Southern Arabia. It was annular only over a portion of Southern Afriea. Aboct five thousand people have received railroad passes to leave Johnstown. Some of them have been sent na far ns New Mexico. A Msnnisen license was issued nt Pittsburgh Tuesday to a couple whose ages toot up one hundred end thirty-five years. Both have been married before. A well of so-called electrical water has been upped nt Fort Scott, Kan. To place both hands in the water at the same time iis utterly impossible. The shock is so forcible that it throws one aside with vigor. A small creek at Blossburg, Pa., ripped up the mountain side durtag the flood rampage. and revealed a good vein ol coal and two of iron ore, one being over four feet thick, a splendid bed of flie-clay and a valuable bank of building and molding sand, A ct Rtgi’S walking match took place at Portsmouth, O., the other morning between a merchant, formerly of Cincinnati, and a clerk. It was to decide which would wed a fair young indy to whom both gentlemen bad been paying attention. They walked five miles, the merchant winning by fifty feet. Ocntxo the first six months of tho present year there have been about 300 strikes, | involving about 75.000 men, against 440' i strikes and nearly 113,000 men in the same i period in 1888, in the first six months of| j 1887 the strikes were over 300 in number, and more than 900,000 men engaged in ' them. T Jiooiso from the rush for timber land in Washington Territory, its fortbts are doomed to speedy destruction. At Beattie ; recently two townships of valuable timber j land in Skagit County were thrown open tor ; entry, an<l the land office was blocked with ' filers. In a few hours over one hundred timber claims were filed. The members of the Montauk Club, of* Brooklyn, recently went through a genuine; Chinese dinner. The chief of the occasion was a CnJestisl, the waiters were, from Hong Kong, the dinner was prepared and served in the Pekin style, tho guests used ! ivory chopsticks, the beverages were Chinese, the menu was inscribed on a fan of red firecracker paper, and tho banquetmg hall was decorated with pictures from the flowery fcmydnm. At Mount Siemens, Mich., the other dqy : all hands took a ride at the school gradu- | atlng exercises. One scholar recited “Paul | Revere's Bide;” another, “The King; of Denmark's Ride;” another, "The Bicycle Hide,” and then came “Sheridan's Ruh*'’ “Whitman's Bide,” “The Ride from Ghent to Aix.” “John Gilpin’s Ride,” “Locking var's Ride,” “The Johnstown Paul Rriverc,” and “A Railroad Ride.” The music was: “We're Qalloping, GallopingoGn,” and “Boat Ride Song."

BITS FOR BACHELORS. Agree with the Kiri’s father in politics and the mother in religion. If you have a rival keep an eye on him; if he is a widower keep two eyes on him. l)oN'a|uiLmuch sweet stuff on paper. If you do voWvill hear it read in after years, when your wife has some especial purpose in inflicting upon you the severest punishment known to a married man. Go bomb at a reasonable hour in the evening. Don’t wait until the girl has to throw her whole soul into a yawn that she can’t rover with both hands. A little tiling like that might cause a coolness at the very beginning of the game. Ir, on the occasion of your first call., the girl upon whom you have placed your young affections looks like an iceberg and actsilikc a cold wave, take your leave early and stay away. Woman in her hours of freeze is uncertain, coy and hard to please. In cold weather iinish saying good-night in the house. Don'f-’stretch it all the way to the front gate, and thus lay the foundations for future asthma, bronchitis, neuralgia and chronic catarrh to help you worry the girl to death after she has married you. Don't lie about your financial condition. It is very annoy mg to a bride who has pictured for herself a life of luxury in her ancestral halls to learn too late that you aspect her to ask a bald-headed i arent who has been uniformly kind to her to take you in out of the oold. Ir you sit down on some molasses candy that little Willie has left on the ehair while wearing your new summer trousers for the first time, smile sweetly and remark that you don't mind sitting down on molasses ‘ candy at all, and that “boys will be beys.” Reserve ycur true feelings for future reference. " LIGHT AND LAUGHABLE. Port Huron (Mich.) has a man whose forehead is so low that when he weeps the tears run down his back. Tub latest medical pronunciamento is that smoking after meals is injurious. Since It is already established that smoking be. tore meals is injurious, the only refuge is to stop eating. It is said of a Can ad ian mother who died the other day: “She was a true wife, a fond mother, and so managed affair»*s to marry off her nine girls before any other female in the neighborhood* could even get • beau.” Abe as small as homoeopathic pellets, and as easy to take as sugar. Everybody likes them. Carter's Little Liver Pills. Try them. Trusts are combinations of men and; corruptions that can not trust one another. If afflicted with Sore Eye* use Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 35c Tbb next thing to haring wisdom ourselves. is to profit by that ofothers THE MARKETS. NEW York. July 33, CATTLE—Native Steen.»3» tit COTTON—Middling.... « FLOUR-Wmier Wheal. i« O WHEAT—No. S Red. WH® CORN—No. S. OATS—Western Mixed. as as PORK-Mess (new).. _ IS ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling.. IOS!» BEEVES—KxportSteers...... 3 75 ® Shipping " . 3 *5 tt HOGS-Common to Select.... too lit SHEEP—Fair to Choice...... 3 » fh FLOUR—Patent*. 4»i « XXX to Choice. ti WHEAT-No. a Bed Winter.. 74H® CORN-No.a Mixed...... sa O OATS-No. a. 33 fit RYE—No. S.... « TOBAOCO-Lugs (M ssourt).. 1 OS Leaf, Burley. 3 W HAY—Choice Timothy.. * W BUTTER—Choice Dairy .. ... 11 EGGS—Fresh. 3 PORK—Standard Mess (new). O BACON—Clear Bib. OX® LARD-Prime Steam- Stitt WOOL-Cbolee Tub. ft CHICAGO. CATTLB—Shipping. —. * «* • HOGS—Good to Choice. 4*.) tt SHEEP-Good to Choice. 3 50 ft FLOUR—Winter. 4 0#,« Patents. 4 80 tt WHEAT-No. a Spring. *>*« corn-no. a... . a OATS-No. 3 White. «Htt TORK-New Mess. 11 10 ® KANSAS CITY. 1»A I 4160 1M* 4|10 •I* 43* O 13 as CATTLE—Shipping Steen — 3 BOGS—Sales st. 4 WHEAT-No. 8... .. OATS—No. 3.... CORN-No. 3... NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR-High Grade... 4 CORN—White... OATS—Choice Western- . HAY—Choice. » PORK-New Mess...,. BACON-Clear Rib. .. . COTTUN—Middling.. LOUISVILLE. WHEAT-No. * Red........... CORN-No. 3 Mixed.. OATS-No. 3 Mixed. PORK—Mess 70 • 400 fi 4X3 #7 WM 30 ® 330 ... ® 4* SO a IT 30 ... a nr a .. a ox ... a u TSH« 73H 37 a 37* 35 ® 85* t 11 00 BACON-Clear Rib... 6* * T COITO.N-Middllllf..,......... 9 U

— .AT. . c„ Feb. aoth, Pa. Dtnr Sir:tbi say a word in behalf of your wo Chill and Fever Pdto. hnto friend, who kn«?w that my wife hi alfticbjd for months, sent me a pad your mils. I gave them to her cured her at once. A neighbor, 3 bad suffered with chills for more rear, and had taken Quinine until ‘ mg was greatly injured. Seeing wrought in my wife's case, ho pro bottle of pills and was speedily res perfect health. 1 feel that this you. Very truly, Rkv. J. A Swiss chemist has Invented minaiing mixture that can be carric with perfect safety, but will explo a deafening report if brought in with a drop of ether or alcohol. fulabout with intact uFt>* seven long years I struggU fanning, running a mill, &c.. unt fortunately introduced to B. F. Jo po., Richmond, Va., by broth went to work at once, andhad made more dear money than 11 an the seven years before. They right by the hand from the start an to be verv glad of the chauco to t how to do it” This is about what man said a year or so ago of the ab tioned firm. Since that time he 1 steadily at work for them, and is of the happiest men in America. If employment it would be agoodthii to follow this young man's example away 1 was son & 1 and 1 mtlu I 'made 9 ok me teemed i>w me i s-men- « been r w one cuneed 'or you T«» New York Legislature, ju ! before adjournment, authorised the creati :> of five extra normal schools, csetiug the t Me this year about *330,0u0. Enterprises of Great Pith and J Have, ere now. had their current' awry,” as Hamlet says, by an alta pepsia. Napoleon failed to impro vantage at Austerltt* in conseuue said, of indigestion brought on by discretion in eat ing. In order to I pepsia. abstain from over indulgi precede the meal by a wineglassiv tetter’s Stomach Bitters, more effe. any dietetic in improving the t< stomach. Liver complaint, chills ; and rheumatism are annihilate! Bitters. i! Stoat 1 turned «of dys»his ad- <«, i\is "me lucid dys-i'-e; and nf Hosivethan id of the id fever by the Wnxs the Saxon dynasty was ov rihrown by the itormans all persons below , certain rink were forbidden to wear licklaces under heavy penalties. _ It Don’t Pay to use uncertain means when from diseases of the iiver. blood such; as biliousness, or ‘’liver eo skm diseases, scrofulous sores ort or from lung scrofula (commonly 1 consumption of the lungs) when Or Golden Medical Discovery is guai cu rt all these affections, if taken i money paid for it will be promptly Soring r lungs, iilaint," »idlings. ii own us !*icrce’s ii teed to ime, or ntuuded. $300offered for au incurable c# < of Catarrh in the Head, by the proprieu n of Dr. Sage's Remedy. Thousands of people place no daces of coral beads around the necks of ba i?s, with the belief that they will assist thi children in teething. Five cents saved ou soap; live <i liars lest on rotted clothes. I* that eetnom I There is not 3 cents difference between i ts cost of a bar of the poorest soap made at i the best, which’is as oil know, Dobbins’ El Jiric. It Is estimated that the I rotestant churches of the I'nited Suites ) attribute annually $11,250,000 for foreign m nions. All disorders caused by a bilio s state of the system can be cured by usiu Carter’s Little Liver Pills. No pain, grip; i ? or discomfort attending their uso. Tr. I hem. when the policeman says “Mo eon I’’ it is’.vise to move. He has two ad outages; a club and the semblance of law. A sallow skin acquires a her. thv clearness bv the uso of Glenn’s Knlpht f Soap. Hill’s Hair aud Whisker Dye, 5' cents. Tins Jnmytown (Pa ) School Eoard has issued orders forbidding lady t »,otjers to embark either iu courting or rna: imony. ‘ A pocket mirror free to smoke 3 of “Tai sill’s Punch” 5c. Cigar. Men would be less wicked if hunt for fewer opportunities. iisy would ^JACOBS till For Rheumal ism. NEW EVIDENCE Several Years. OF CURE. 241 north St, Fa: IE_ Rochester. M. T.. Ju: 1 24. 1888 SuStvd severs1 years with rheum Warn; unable t» walk: after rubbiajs with St. Jac n Oil it di*> appearod, has not returned in four j a re. In the Knees. V£s! Rochester, N. T lily 6. '88. Had rheumatism in knees four wet n Onebcti nf 8t. Jacobs Oil cured me entirely Lrely. £. H. MASK Pub. of* In the Side. Stceatna. Cat, Jr b 14, 1888. Had rhsumatlsm in side for over i. week; used 8V Jacobs Oil; it cured me and 'I u remaned cured. JULZl SSDX& AT DmTGMlSTS AND l»EAL! B*. THE CHARLES A. VQ6EIER CO.. fc i

GOLD MEDAL, F 103,1878. W. BAKER S; CO.’S atBrete Cocoa abtolulrlt <nm and it U »•/ Sv. No Chet rivals are u*e<l in Us prep it ton. It has mor* thtn ihrrd ti '•* it 0 of Cueoa mixed with St <h, Arrowroot or Sugar, and is the fw* far more tcenomkal, amimy l \ than m« crxt • cwp. It is delict- s, nourishing, strengthening, Eab 1 lNorKTCU, ar.d admirablr adaj i] for invalid* as well as Sir peraor i ci health.

Sold by Grocer* «■ 4 ry where. W BAKER & CO., Dorche bar, Hass. DUE ALLS 3LDIERS it V|UiMAi<l»' iRmj.etc.: IH*> --sorters rt*h< :Law> frv. n ■rCOftllCfc * SOS's ClMlsuU.a,,,! V *»kl«st«.,b.C. •r.uM tuis r&rtA w>-m>KA PENSIONS

Vigor and Vitality Ala quickly given to nvary part ot the bn.It by Hood's s>n>p>rl!l>. That tired feeling Is entirely me. The bio uirmiiuu. 1WJ blood lb purified, ~ -——- vitalised, end carries health Instead of disease to every organ. The stomach Is toned and strengthened, the appetite restored. The kidneys and liver ate roused and Invigorated. The brain is refreshed, the nerves strengthened. The whole system Is built up by Hood's Sarsaparilla. was all run down and unfit for badness. I was Induced to take a bottle of Hood’s Sareapnrttla. and It built me right up so that 1 was soon able to resume work." IX W. Buatk. 4 Martin Street. Albany, N. Y. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists, Hi six forth. Prepared only by C. J. HOOD A CO.. Apothecaries, Howell. Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar Kansas City, Wyandotte & Northwestern R. R. NEW TO n;o ANOXIE, MoLOUTH. iXSKAl.OOSA, VALLEY FALLS, LANSING ASD Also to all Points on Island XKWMAK EKII, WP. ami GwTl MV r. IaXKTTs oitY St. doa A Crtind will save the dyspe days of misery, ana i whatever he wishes. [ttlc flrom many « liable him to eat They prevent Siok Headache, cause the food to ass: ish the body, give ke ilate And none en appetite, and Develop! Flesh and solid mnsele. (Elegantly sugar coated. Price, IBcti per box. SOLD EVERYWHERE._ "sA'el^ Woven; Wire Fencing WIRE ih-n i^wt ro Rope Selvage All £f RrS.Sr'dAlrr, tn »hi» liiu* of FRKIGIIt Ft ID. Information freS. TIIF MeV r I.I.F.N W«u:K WIRE FENtX I O., > ‘»rth Market ant! Ontulrla »(»., CM » > UL trSAMM mra pa»’Sk mo t» ,<f* »r,u.

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W-XOU tun P*f«.wr| tttajjjciienfe Tiff*"*. Best T'-vtns. HOT OITFIT Mta. MISSOURI NURSERY ruis rAraa ■ Newest and Choimt Jk FRUITS. (0., LOUISIANA, MO. AGENTS WAlfTSD.Jo^V^" Biff profit". Biff premium* for terms, or send ’-lo cent TIME. NATIONAL PI' PATENT r.\iK« THIS PA^LU*.»ry liR CA |- A MONTH J, 3 or h iff host c<»mt Hssion v v CBEDIT to .Veei ~ P.W KlEiiLEK A C1». * “ «*-*•»»* TUW PAP*R *"*1 * V SALESMEN Biff sale*. IW) a day. Writ* , for OUTFIT and SAVE (USHINU CO., ST. Lons. SPor INVENTORS. 40-n**t BOOK KEEK. A-rfw! W. T. Ktu**ra)4. Attorney at taw, Wxituujtaa, 1>. C ► XD HOARD PAID, d SO DAYS’ WN«tv Rnok. if»7ilarfc*l SI., SL Leaia, Xu. EDUCATIONAL. V*%I118G MEM Learn Tbletrrapbf am! Ratlrc 1 UURU InLN Affent's liusinesabere,am! sec» ow! situations. Writ# J. D.BROWN, Scdalm. N Bait mad WMu. VJPKIXiFm.n HII-: BCSISIS* COlUBBt ii Yimntf men send for CuttlOfO#. H. B. l.mcREX. Bloomington uli.j law school. f»u w™ troffinsSiept. For tSr pilar ad »ILM. Benjamin U~ NIONCOILLCKof LA; W.tplea*-. FallTVrmbo' gins. opt. IS. K\.r circular atki.U. Booth. Utieauo. A. N. K. B. 1249. WI1EN WRITING TO IDVERTINEKN I'lJIASK plate that yea mv tip AdverU»e«*»t la this paper.

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PATENTS. (Invents anil Trade-Marks obtained, and a Pat-*-nl business conducted tor ModrHMs Pee*. Ourolttce Is opposite U S. Patent Oflleo, und we can secure patents in less ttine than those remote troui Washington. Send model, draw ng or photo, with description. Wo advise if patentable or not" free of charge. Our fees not due till patent is scoured. A pamphlet, "How to Obtain Patents,” with names of actual clients in your State, oouuty or town, sent free. Address C. A. SNOW & CO., Opposite Patent Offioe, Washington, D. 0. DR. HARTLEY’S CATARRH REMEDY Is the best remedy known for the cure of Catarrh and its attendant ailments; It Is sale, painless, and never falls to Rive relief. This remedy cleanses the nose, head and throat ot all unhealthy scoretloes, and soothes and heals the inttamed parts. Wuen the remedy Is once tr.ed the beneficial results are so prompt and sat sf u-torv that the sufferer never, fails to con- s' tinue the treatment uut 1 permanent relief is f obtained. . . DO HOT HEGLEOT A BAD GOLD. Use Hartley's Catarrh Bomedy for Its Im mediate Cure, ,y ECU PS £ LINIMENT. ELLIPSE UV/ER PILLS V RE f'JSSTIpAf.ON ONf CI '*• r ;r»' *, >. vrECLIPSE WEP.MIftl'v- * ECtlPSE SARSfiP/.U'" .P. ■* ECLIPSE. HIT TER::. • Ti « . ! .■ ' ’I f!C , A .'!/, - F*j k . w KHt . j ^ A WISE WOMAN nought <h« Splendid HIGH ARM: CHINE BECAUSE IT WAS TMS BSSTi i

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