Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 12, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 August 1889 — Page 4

TALMAGE’S SERMON. » Brooklyn Dir too Freaohna in the Mountain* of Montana. The following discourse ni delivered oy Rev. T. D« Wilt Talmsgc at Liviugston, Mont. the subject being: “Outwitted by the World,” nod the text: The children of the world ere In their generaUon wiser then the children of tight—L>uke «Ti„ 8. That is another way of saying that Christians are not so tikillful In the m»nlpulation of spiritual affairs as wordlings are skillful in the niitnagemeat of temporalities. I see ail around me people who are alert, earnesi; concentrated and skillful in monetary matters, who in the affairs of the soul err laggards, insane, inert. a The great want of this world is more common sens * in mat ers of religion. If one-half of the skill a;ad foroefulness employed in financial affairs were employed in disseminating the truths of Christ and trying to make the world better, within ten years the last jngifernaut would fall, the last throne of oppression npset, the last iniquity tumble, e nd (he anthem that was chanted over Bethlehem on Christmas night wo*ild be echoed and re-echoed from all nations and kindred and people: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, good will to men.’* ^ Borne yeari ago, on a train going toward the Houthwent, as the porter the eleepiag car was making up the bertha at tho evening tide, l saw a man kneel down to pray. Worldly people In the car looked on, an much aa to aays •'What does this mean?” I suppose the most of the people in the oar thought that man was either Insane or that he was a fauatlc; hut he disturbed no one when he knap, and ho disturbed no one when he agoie. In after conversation with him 1 found out that he was a member of a church in my own city; that he was a seafaring man, and that he was on his way to Mew Orleans to take oommand of a vessel. I thought then, as 1 think now, ten such men—men with such courage for God as that man had—would bring the whole city to Christ; a thousand such wen would bring this whede land to God; ten thousand such men, in a short time, would bring the whole earth into tho kingdom of Jesus That be was successful In. worldly affairs 1 found out That he was skilled In spiritual affairs you are well persuaded If men had tho couratre, the pluck, the alertness, the acumen, the industry, the common seme in matters of the soul that they have In earthly matters, tills would be a very differeut kind of world to live in.

*** |>ians wc wau i more cominoa inut in Ikt bull ling and conduct of oar churches, The idea of adaptiveness is always paramount in any other of stmotare. It bankers meet togetflwand resolve upon patting up a bank, the bank to especially adapted to banking pur. poses; If a manufacturing company put up a bnilding, it is to bo adapted to manufacturing purposes; but adaptiveness Is not always the questiou in the rearing of churches. Iu many cf our churches we want more light, more room, more ventilation, more comfort Vast sums of money are expended on ecclesiastical structures, and men sit down in them, and yon ask a man how he likes the church. He says; j "I like it very well, bnt I cant't hear." As though a shawl! factory were good tor every thing but making shawls. The ▼otpof the preacher dashes against the pillars. Men sit dowu under the shadows of the Uotiiic arches t>nd shiver, and feel they most be getting religion, or something else, they feel so uncomfortable. Oh, my friends, we want more common aense in the rearing of churches. There Is no excase for lack of light when the heavens are fall of it; jbo excuse for lack of fresh air when the world swims In tt It ought to be an expression not only of our spiritual happiness, bat Of our phyeleal comfort when we say: “How arala* bteare Thy tabernacles. O lord God of hosts! A day in Thy courts is better •hah a thousand." Again 1 remark: Vfe want more com* tnon sense in the obtaining of r ligtous hope. All men understand that in order to succeed u worldly directions they must concentrate. They, think on that one subject until their mind takea fire with the velocity of tbelr own thoughts. All their acumen, all their strategy, ail tbelr wisdom, all their common sense, they put in tbat one direction and they succeed. But how seldom It is trne in the matter of eeeking after God. While no man expect* to aommpllsh any thing for this world without concentration and enthusiast^how many there are expectlug after awhile io gen into the kingdom of God without the u*o of may each j means. A miller In California, many years ago, held op a sparkle of gold until it bewitched nations. Tens of thousands of people left their homes. They took their blankcu and their pickaxes and their pistols and went to the wilds of California. Cities sprang up suddenly on the IPacific coast. Merchants put aside their elegant apparel and pat on Iho miner’ll garb. All the land , was full of the talk aikout gold. Gold in the eyes, gold in the aura, gold in the wake or ships, gold in the i treets-gold, gold, gold. Word comes to ns that the mouutain of God’s love is foil of bright treasures; that tuen have been digging there, and have brought rip gold, and amethyst, and carbuncle, and Jasper, and sardonyx, and chrysoprsMis, aril all the precious stones out of which the walls of Heaven were builded. Word comes of a man who, digging in Unit mint* for one hoar, has brought up trrasures irorlb more than nil the stars that keep vigil over our sick and dying world. Is it a bogus company that to formed? Is it undeveloped territory? Oh, no; the story U trne. There are tbousaudi of jieople In this audience who would be willing to rise and testify that they have discovered that gold, and have it in their possession. Notwithstanding all this, what Is the circumstance? One would suppose that the announcement wonld send people in great excitement up and down onr streets; that at midnight men would knock atyonr door, asking hew they may get those trees ores. Instead of that, many of as pat oar hands behind our books, and walk ap and down in front of the ml as of eternal riches, end ssy: “Well, If 1 am to be saved I will be saved, and If I »m to be damned, 1 will be damned, and there to ' nothing to do about It.” Why, my brothers, d o you not do that way In business matters? Why do you not to-morrow go to jntr store and sit down and fold your arms and say: “If these goods art to be sold, they will he sold; and If nkey are not to be sold, they will not be sold; thereto nothing for me to do about it" H<* you dispatch yotr agents, yen print pour advertisements, yon adorn your show windows, yon path thorn goods, you use the iastriimeets!) ty. Oh, that men were ee wise la the matter of the tool as they srre wise tn the matter of dollars and cents! This doctrine of God’s sovereignty, how tt to misquoted end spoken of as tkoogh tt were eu Iron chain which hound ae hand and foot for time and for etarnity when, so far from that, la every fiber of yoer body, to every fatally of your ■dad, in every passion of yoar sent, yon ter of free choke whether yon will to

Again 1 remark: We want more com* ■non tense In I he building ay and enlarge log of oar Chris lit a character. Thera are men here who hare for forty years been running the Christian w oe, ana they have net ran a quarter of a mile! No business man would be willing to have his invest, mento unaccamulative. If yon invest a dollar you expect that dollar to come home bringing another dollar on its back. What would yon think of a man who should invest ton thousand dollars in a monetary institution, then go off for live years, make no inquiry in regard to tbs investment, then come back, step up to the cashier of the institution, and sayt '•Have yon kept those ten thonsand dollars safely that I lodged with you!” but asking no quest tlon about interest or dividend. Wby. yon say, “That is not common sense.” Neither is i|, bnt that is the way we act in matters of the sonL We make a far more important investment than ten thousand dollars. We invest our soul, is it accumulative? Are we growing in grace? Are we getting better? Are we getting worse? Ood declares many divU deads, but we do not Collect them, we do not aek about them, we do not Want them. Ob, that in this matter of accumulation we era as wUe in the matters of the sonl as we are in the matters of tbs world t How little common sense in the reading of the Scriptures! Wo got any other book and we open U and we snyi "Now, what does this book moan to teach me? It is a book on astronomy! It will teach me astronomy, It Is n book on political economy! it will teach me political economy." Taking up the Bible, do wo ask onrselves what it means to touch? U mease to do iust one thing: get tbe world converted and get si! to Heaven. That is what it proposes to do. Bnt instead of that we go into the Bible as botanists to pick flowers, or we go as pugilists to get something to light other Christians with, or we go as logioiana trying to sharpen oar mental faculties for s bettor argument, and we do not like this about the Bible, and era do not li^e that and we do not like the other thing. What would you think of a man lost on tbe mountains? Night flu come down, he can not find bis way home and he sees a light in a mountain cabin | he goes to it, he knocks at the ijor; the mouot. alneor conies out and flnds the traveler and says:

nni, «rre i nave a lantern; you vau take it sad it wilt guide you oo the way horoe," and suppose that man should say: “Idon't like that lantern; I don't like the handle of it; there are ten or fifteen things about it I dou’t like. If yon cau’t giro me a better lantern than that 1 won’t have any.'* Now, Uod says this Bible is to be a lamp to our feet and a labtern to itur path, to guide us through the midnight'•if this world to the gates of the celestial city. We take hold of It in sharp criticism. and deprecate this and deprecate that. Oh, bow much wiser we would be if by its holy light we fonnd our. way to our evorlasling home! Then we do not read the Bible as we read other books. We read perhaps four or fire minutes Inst before we retire at night. IV e are weary and sleepy, so somnolent we hardly know which end of the Book is up. We drop our eyoa, perhaps, on the story of ttamsou au 1 the foies or upon some gimealogical table, important In its place, but stirring no more religious emotion than the announcement that somebody begat somebody else, and he begat somebody olse, instead of opening the Book and saying: "Now i must read for my Immortal life. My eternal destiny is involved in this Book." How little wo nse common sense in prayer! We say: "Oil, bird, give me Ibis," and “Oh, i-ord, give me that," and "Oh, bord, give me something else,"and we do not expect to get it, or. gettidg it, we do not know we have tt. We have no auxiety about it. We do not watch and wait for its coming. As a mercbaut, you telegraph or yon write to some other city tor a bill of goods. You say: "Head ma by such express, or by a steamer, or by such a rail train." The day arrives. You send your wagon to the depot or to tha wharf. The goods do not come. Yon immediately telegraph: “What is the matter with those goods! We haven't received them, (tend them rijbt away. We want them now, or we don't want them at all.” And yon keep writing and you keep telegraphing, and you keep sending your wagon to the depot, or to the express ofHce, or to the wharf, until yon get the goods. In mailers of religion we are not so wise as that. We ask certain things to be sent from Heaven. We do not know whether they come or not. We bare not any special anxiety as to whether they come or not. We may get them and may not get them. Instead of at seven o'clock in the morning saying: "Have I got that blessing!” at twelee o’clock noonday saying: “Have 1 got that, blessing?” at seven o’clock in the evening saying: "Have I received that blessing!” and not gettiug it, pleading, pleading—begging, begging—asking, asking nnlil you get it. Now, tuy brethren, is not that common sense! If we ask a thine from God. who has sworn by His eternal throne that He will do that which we ask. is it not common sense that we shonld watch and wait until we get it! But 1 remark again: We want more common sense in doing good. How many people there are who want to do good and yet are dead failures! ’ Why is Uf They do not exercise the same tact, the same ingenuity, the same stratagem, the same common sense in the work of Christ Uiat they do in worldly things. Otherwise they would succeed iu Ibis direction ns well as they succeed in the other. There are many men who hare an arrogant way with them, although they may not feel arrogant Or they have a patronising way. They talk to a man of the world in a manner which seems to say: "Don’t you wish you were as good as I am! Why, 1 have to look clear down before I can see yon, you are so far beneath me," That manner always disgusts, always drlces men away from the Kingdom of Jesus Christ instead of bringing them in. W hen 1 was a lad 1 was one day in n village store, and there was a large group of young men there full of rollicking and fun, and n Christian man came to, and without any introduction of the subject and while they were in great hilarity, said to one of them: “George, what is the first step of wisdom?” George looked up and aaid: "Every man to mind his own business." Well, It was a very rough answer, but It was provoked. Retigiou had been hurled iu there as though It were a bombshell. We must be adroit in the presentation of religion to the world. Do yon suppose Mary in her conversation with Christ-lost her simplicity? Or that Paul, thundering from Mara Hill, took the palpit tone! Why Is It people can not talk as naturally in prayer-meeting and on religious subjects as they do In worldly circles! For no one ever snooeeds in any kind of Christian work unless ha works naturally. We want to imitate the Lord Jesus Christ, .who plucked a poem from the grass of tbs field. We nil want to Imitate Him Who talked with farmer! about the man who went forth to sow, and tnlkod with the fishermen about the drawn net that brought in fish of all sorts, and talked with the Tine-dresser about the . Idler in the vineyard, and tnlkel with those newly affianced about the marriage supper, and talked with the man cramped In money matters about the two debtors, and tnlkod with the woman about the yeast that leavened the whole lump, and talked with the shepherd about the loot sheep. Oh. wo might gather even the stars of the sky andtwlut them like forget-me-nots in the garland of Jeans. Ws roust bring svery thing to Him-the wealth of language, the tenderness of sentiment, the delicacy of morning dew, the saffron of floating oloud, the tangled surf of tha tossing sen, the borstiag thunder gnu ef the storm's bombard meat Tea, eve.-y

— twedo 1 think will dspond up* i three great facts. the first faot that P rained as. It has blasted body, •ad tosh We want no Bible tft prove that ire are sinners. Asp men who is net willing to acknowledge himself an imperfect and a ainfol being is simply a fool and not to be argued with. We all feel that alii has disorganised ottr whole nature, that is one fact Another faOt is that Christ came to reconstruct, to re* store, to revise, to correct, to redeem, that ie a ewsond fact, The third faot M that the only time we are sure Christ will pardon tts hi the present. How, what M the common sense thing for ee to do in view of these three facto? ton wflt all agree with ihb to quit sin, take Christ, and thks Him now. Suppose some business man in whoso skill you bad psrfect confidence should tell you that to-morrow (Monday) morning, between eleven and twelve o'clock, yon oonld by a certain finanotai transaction make fire thousand dollars, bnt that on Tuesday perhaps yon might make it, but there would not be any po« _ any positivsnesii about it, and on Wednesday, there wonld not be sO much, and on Thursday less, Friday less, and so on less sod less, when would yon attend to the matter? Why, your common tense would dictate: “Immediately I will attend to that matter be - tween eleven and twelve o'clock to-mor-row (Monday) morning, for then 1 can surely accomplish it, but on Tuesday I Say not, and on Wednesday there Is lead prospect. I will attend to it to-mor* row.” - How let us bring our common eeuso in this matter of religion. Here are the hopes of tile Gospel. We may get them ^iow, To-morrow we may get them amt ^we may not. Next day we may and we may not The prospect less and less and lass and lees. The only sore time nownow. 1 would not talk to you in this way if 1 did not know that Christ was able to cave all the people, and save thousands as easily as save one. I would not go Into a hospital and tear off the bandages if I had no balm to apply. I wonld not have the face to tell a man he la a elnner unless 1 had at the same time the authority of saying hs may be saved. Suppose in Venice there is a Raphael, it faded picture, great In its time, bearing some marks of its greatness. History describes that picture. It is nearly faded away. Yoti say: “Oh, what a pity that so wonderful • picture should be nearly defaced!” After awhile a man comes up, very unskillful in art, and he proposes to retouch it Yousn'r:

“Stand off! I would rather have it just a* U U; ran wilt only make it worse.” After awhile there cornea an artltt who waa the equal of Raphael. He says: “1 will retouch that picture and bring out all its original power.” You hare full conlldenoe in hi* ability. He touche* it here and there. Feature after feature come* forth, and when he 1* done with the picture ijmU complete in all its original poweri How, God impressed Hi* image on our race, but that image has been defaced for hundred* and for thousands qf yeartPgelling fainter and fainter. Here comes up a Divine Raphael. He says: “loan rostore that picture.” He has all power in Heaven and on earth. He is the equal of the One who made the picture, the image of the One who drew the image of God in our soul. He touches this sin and it is gone, that transgression and it disappears, and all the defaoemeut vanishes, and “where sin abounded graoe doth much more abound.”! Will yon have the defacement or will you have the restoration? 1 am well per* sneded that If 1 could by a touch of Heavenly pathos in two minutee put before you wbat has been done to save your soul, there would be an emotional tide overwhelming. “Hamms,” said a little child to her mother, when she was put to bed at night 'mamma, what malms your hand to scarred. aud twisted and unlike other people’s hands.” “Well,” said the mother, “ray child, when yon were younger than you are now, years ago, one night after I had put you to l>od 1 heard a cry, a shriek upstairs. 1 came up aud fouud the bed was on Are. aud you were on Are, and I took bold of you and I tore off the burning garmeuts. and while I was tearlug them off and trying to get you away 1 burned my hand, and it has been burnod and scarred over slooe, aud hardly look* any more like a baud; but l got that my child, in trying to save you. ” Oman! O woman 1 I wish to-day 1 could show you the burned hand of Christ— burned in plncking you out of the Arc, burned iu snatching you away from the flame. Aye. also the bnrned foot, and the burned brow, and the burned heartburned for you. By His stripes ye are healed. FANCIES IN BOOKS. Extravagant Price* Recently Paid for Certala First Kdltk.es. A summitry of the English old book market showt that Illustrated Arst editions are bringing prices that not long ago would have besa considered extravagant Works relating to the American continent during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries realise enormous sates; An* specimens of old typography are rising in the market, as are works printed In Scotland before IW, and early editions of old English authors, old Bibles, Testamonts and typographical works Tbs value of second-hand works on natural history depend* on whether their plates are colored, those with colored pistes bringing high prices and th* no. colored oniw being practically unsalable Art works itre falling; antiquarian, genealogical and heraldic works are stationary; theological and technical works sluggish, and old Greek and I.«lln classics, aeve hero and there where special beauty of typography reoommsnds them, are being knocked down in parcels and inferior lots. A curious dsvelopmsat is nfed for original editions of comparatively modern authors, who** works ware issued la parts, tn original paper coven In which the different parts were bound. “Vanity Fair" in its original coven of brlmstoae-oolored paper sold for All*, while the seme edition with the eoren torn off brought only AT. 50. Did aue' “Master Humphreys Clock" :u the paper cover* of the three-penny parte in which it was fir t Issued brought *17.50. while A5 w;u all anybody would pay for the mine r dittos bound into one book. Bookowners, therefore, who tore off. or allowed their binders to tear off, the paper covers from the 01.111001 books, thus throw away what prove* to b* worth, to lb* taste of buyer* of the present day. many Mum* h much as the rest of the book, letter-press and Illustrations Th* trade in old and curious books M so important la England that a apodal book of prfaea cunent has bean published. At a recent sale la London s small volume containing nine plays, Ave of them Shake, spear*'*, hut none tat editions, sold for A3.A50, and Audubon's "Birds of Amerlon” brought AL.5S1 “Prymar After the Dm of Serum in Eaglyashe," published in 15U. vent tor Illti W, and a soiled tat edition of Burns for ASJ0.-K X.; It !a very easy to be at fault, either wlUInUy or unintentionally. It is very easy to Lad an excuse for one s self when one * [salt is pointed out It Is *ol very easy for me to sse that he is at fault when he la told of the fact Nor is tt very easy for ooe to acknowledge frankly that be km been a* [suit without proffering an excuse for himteU when he is told by another that he hm keen so. There is nothing man nntuml dran lor a man to be la error ou almost any point, and to see why he was so. There to nothing nobler than for a man to see that he hm been In error, and tn my m without s word of sxoum for himself. What a pity It to that, while so many men are ooeatently falling Into errortnthetr course, an few >f them have the noblenam to pororire their errors, and to confess them without mlltation as often as they have a malty of doing so!-& & Times

PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE. CaiEF Jerries Foujui’s handr.ritins; is described as the “worst that coaid possibly GxsehaL StttuuASi recently made the ascent of Pike’s Peak and was delighted With the experience. Mas. Huustsos's dislike tor notoriety increases every day. On her recent trip from Deer Park to Washington she displayed n nervous dread of reporter#. Jat Goons says that for the first year of his married life he lived on $100, got up at daybreak, went td church every Sunday, and was ns* happy ns a boss bumble bee in sweet clover. Mrs. Emsos sticks to her husband like a shadow. She is always at his elbow in working hours, with book and pencil, taking down bis ideas and experiments. She is, in fact, a helpmate in every way worthy of his abilities. Mu. Scvnoxos, the well-known London preacher, has a beautiful residence at Beulah, Upper Norwood,With cxtettstVe grounds and handsome conservatories. A silver casket from the Queen ia ouo of his most precious household gods. The late Chief Justice Waite was seventytwo when ho died. Justice Bradley is seventy-five, Matthews sixty-four, Uarlan fifty five, Blatohford. sixty-eight, Gray sixty,. Field seventy-two, Miller seventytwo and Lamar sixty-threo. PRxsiDcnt Haantsox plays n fairly good game of billiards. There is nothing brilliant about it, aud almost anybody in regular practice could give him odds, but he has sufficient command of the balls to make a very respectable score. Ho is fond of the game. Tux grand reception room in Mrs. Score tary Whitney's Washington bouso ia said tor mind one of the salons of Versailles ami Fontainebleau. The walls are oovered with brocaded silk, made in France to order, after the styles of Louis XVI. and old masters, and there is an abundance of Gobelin tapestry hang about. Mas. Geoxge Gocut has the credit of drat introducing into this country the fashionable tan Suede shoes which arc now so popular. Mia. Gould has s curious fancy for lau-colored garments, and it is said that more than lalf or hor extensive wardrobe Is devoted 10 dresses mado up in that color.

THE ROCK ISLAND’S POSITION. Owenl llui(w St. John** llaply to the Statement of Alton OflirlaU IProm Um Chicago Times.) General Manager St. John, of the Chicago, Bock Inland A Paoiflo road, antboriaaa the following etatement In reply to assertions recently made by Yloe-lTesldeut J. G. McMutlln of the Chicago A Alton In a published interview: “Mr. McMutlln. in a reoent published Interview, hat clearly defined the present position and policy of tho Alton road. It la to ‘Insist on through rates being made on a basis that will give to It a fair ward of the traffic which goes to and oomes from points west of Kansas City. Ho illustrates his meaning by citing a shipment of live stock from Topeka on the Rock island road through Kansas City to Chioago. Upon such a shipment the tariffs of all the lines as heretofore adjusted provided for a through rate somewhat less than the sum of two locals This practice was In accordance with well recognised principles of rate-making as universally practiced by carriers, and has been approved by the Interstate commerce commission, whloh In a recent case used the following language: ‘As through rates are made by tho American system of roads, agreed percentages of the total rate, considerably leas in amount than the local rates of roads receiving such percentages, are usually a leading feature, and it is eminently proper as a general rule that this should be so. * * * Commerce and trade require It and competition compels it Such rates, when reasonably and fairly adjusted to local boat ness, are greatly favored In the law, because they furnish cheapened rates and greater facilities to the public, while at the same time they give Increased employment and earnings to a larger number of ^wilera’ the rates as adjusted heretofore upon ltve-stook traffic from polntB In Kansas, Indian Territory, Texas, etc., through Kansas City to Chicago, the difference between the sums of tho locals and the through rates was an entirely reasonable difference, and the tariffs in question were precisely upon the line of the reeolulion which Mr. McMullio quotes approvingly. Notwithstanding this, he says that he proposes to get what he calls a fair share of the tariff by reducing the local rate from Kansas City to Chicago to the amount of tho proportionate rate between these points charged by the Bock Island on the through shipment “This statement Is certainly candid. His Une has no extension west of Kansas City. The Rock Island has He proposes to make the latter divide with him traffic which originates npon the extension that It has furnished means to construct and this he will do by reducing the established rate from Kansas City to Chicago. This declaration follows his announcement at the commencement of the same Interview that "the Alton does not out any rates; It only reduce* when necessary to meet out rates of other roads' Vet the Alton has just forced a large reduction in all rates on live stock and products from Kansas City to Chicago in accordance with the policy abote stated. “Naturally and Inevitably when the Alton reduces Its rate from Kansas City to the division of the through rate charged upon the lines where the live-stock shipments originate those lines must meet the reduction in the local and at the same timo reduce their through rate correspondingly. This la necessary for their preservation; thev will not think that they can roesonably'bo asked to ‘out their Unas in two’ for tho benefit of the Alton, nor can the latter justly expect them to surrender trsffio which they have constructed long lines of road to secure. This step will apparently Involve a new reduction by the Alton to the level of the new -proportionate rates:’ and the process will he repeated until all the lines are doing business at a loss and somebody surrenders. “Ill* a'soqlation has no desire to punish the Alton for He withdrawal nor for any thing else. Action necessary for the protection of Its lines ar :ilust the Alton's raid will probably be token, however.” Tit* Sultan of Esnsibar has a German wife, and by a singular coincidence (terra a nr obtains valuable concessions from his Majesty’s-Government denied toother powers. A dormant liver, or you will suffer all the tortures incident to a prolonged bilious attack. Constipation, headaches, dyspepsia, furred tongue, sour breath, pain in the right side, wJU admonish you of neglect. Discipline the recalcitrant organ at once with Ho*tetter's Stomach Bitters sad expect prompt relief. Malaria, rheumatism-kidney complaint, nervousness aud debilky are thoroughly relieved by the Bitters 1» watering, watt until the plan) that they need it, then give copiously, rag baskets are best watered by nl i into n pail of water. plants Show «*iy-Hang-by plunging THE MARKETS. Naw Yonx. August 3. CATTLE—Native Steers.» 183 *• «l COTTON—Middling.. I FLOUR-Winter Wheat WHKAT-NoS. Red CORN—No. *. OATS-Western Mixed PORK—Mess (new).» ST. LOUISCOTTON—Middling. .... HREYES-Exp^Stror.;...- *» BOGS-Common to Select. ... 4«> SHEEP—Fair to Choice. 3 «0 FLOUR—Patents.. 4 13 xxx to choice.. a at WHEAT—No. 8 Red Winter... CORN-No. t Mixed....... OATS—Ho. 3.. —......... ....... 31: RYE—No. t. . » TOBACCO-Logs (Missouri).. J« Leaf, Burley...... 3 10 HAY—Choice Timothy. » «0 PORK—Standard Mess (new). .... • tl BACON-Ctear Rib.. *V# LABO—Prime Steam.. as WOOL—Choice Tnb. • CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shlpplag.. I« ft I HOGS—Good to Choice. 403 • 4 SHEEP—Good to Choice.. IB I I FLOUR—Wister... 4 00 O 4 Patents. 4 80 • » WHEAT—No. > Spring. CORN—No. OATS—No. * Whit#. _ „ PORK—New Mew.10 43 • 10 KANSAS CITY. SSESSKf?.8?’?..:. SS 8 i WHEAT—N*. 8..... OATS—He. a CORN—No. *

Live Oak, Ala., Dec. £ [essrs. A. T. 8hau.rkb*roek & Rochester, Pa. «Vnt«.-L»st st jived by wail a bottle of your A [alarm for ray brother, who ha lore than si* months. He frequ* ieth With Quinine, but they wot irtt; t gave him the Antidote ills for tbroke ooure* he has IT is Ihlf-tv-throo years sin horse-ear ever run in New Eng trip from Cambridge to Bosl Are you busy< Are you toak * money? If so, stick to it, you are fortun it It you nr* not, tbefh our advice is tha iou write' at: anco t» B. F. Johnson & Co !«# Main St., Richmond, Va. They car show you howto enter quickly upon a prof 1 bio work. The great fire at Seattle, W !?., is said to have been started by the up .ting ot a glue-pot. __ ______ Au who use Dobbins’ El rio Soap praise it as the most mmominil unil.v soap made; but If you will try it nee it will tell a still stronger tale of its i arils U*if. 1* immedi1 this. •ras is exitrai Pacific Tns fluel supply of the E hausted along the line of the ( railroad. Rep, angry eruptions yield of Olemi’s Sulphur Soap. HUl'a Hair and Whisker Dy the action 30 cents, brothers-in-jphews and The Princoof Wales has law, 10 uncles, 57 cousins, 5S t, headache, artor’s Liti BinorsEESs, dial ness, nau nre relieved by small doses os ths Liver Pills. d a perfect re years. s Punch” 5c. r Gocjrrr, Miss., has tpfor sixteen consecv Old smokers prefer ‘-Tans Cigar to most IQ centers. emblyof the There is a grave-diggers’ r Knights of Labor. lr afflicted with Sore Evet Thompson's Eye Water. Drut ir not allowed i California Wombs and children are t a work over ten hours a daj ntMEDY^! XT OONQUERC

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~T~ _ WM by the toning. - ^PB^“SS«he. dy.pepsle ecrof ulu. und part I it “ miiei til# <r«#k' strong* ’ ***My health «as poor, m I iWk headaches, coakl not **eepweJl. m not tote much aoMtitSi Mid bail bo whWUob to worts. I hat# ukM leu then a bottle of feel like » new iwreon.” Mbs. W. a. Tlbkbb. West Hanover, M—Si _ _ K. B. If yon decide to teke Hood • SareaperUla, do not be Induced to buy uny other. Hood’s Sarsaparilla tttgssna sssatssra: IOO Doses One Dollar

trl'JLU BXJ/AKl fJUMB. iOlW W. B41v3ER «: CO.'S JTo Chemicals ant wed Hi Ml preparation. It ha* ■M «<i* Una Itcee (be rareripe* ot Cocoa hdaed with Starch. Aitonra* or Sugar, and i» therefor, far mcao economical, caeHaf leu Uaa ana cat I a cVp, II 1* delleirmi, noOruhln*, litren«thenin£, BaslLT DtoiamB, I and admirably adapted fcr inTotldf I at cell aa for peraon. la health.

Sola by urocem ereryw nere. W.BAKEB & CO.. Dorchester, Mass. The dyspeptic, the dVbllltaWd. whether from excess of work of mind or bod jr, drink or exposnre In Malarial Regions, will find Tint’s Pills the most gental restorative ever oSkrti the sunTriuj Invalid. Try Them Fairly. A vtcorons body, pure blood, strona nerves and a cheerful mind will result. SOLD EVERYWHERE.

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•VffAXI Til 18 Nm«M7 «M|H If you want .toobtaiallid HHHHBHI6HEST rK8 [or, itb.r Caltlt. Hoi. or Sheep, •hip !» C. C. DALY £ CO.. Uee-Stock Comratnion Marchanto. National Stock Yards. Hast St. Louis. III. KXPERT Salesmen from Ionic experience, KSTAHUSHKD SEVENTEEN TEARS. Prompt^ee and rotarni. WHITE FOR FRKJ5 KAliKKT RKPOSTS. lnqalriM bj letter or wire answered as oaoa. NEEDLES, SHUTTLES, REPAIRS. ■ r mil Sewine Machine* ST4NPARDGOODS Only The Trade Supplied. Send for wholesale price list. Bl.EI.OCK M’r’O Co. 30) Locu st steSLLouUeMc arXAU THIS rmt ttmyvmtjm «Ra AGENTS waKTED. Bis profits. Biff premiums. Biff sales. 30 a da,. Write lor terms, or send S3 cento (or OUTFIT and SAVE TIME. NATIONAL PUBtlSHINO CO..SS-Utca. Orators find that Pino’s Coro (or Consumption not only PREVENTS, bat also CUKES HoarsePATENTS For INVENTORS. 40r*£* ROOK FREE. A*lr«u »#-N AMK Til 18 FAFC* #»«ry (Um j« »»*•. W. T. Fiuimld, Altnr; at Law, MTuhteftn, D. C. PENSIONS iliiliSI if disabled; pay.etc.; I>eeerier* relievetUIsaw? free. A. W. EeCORXKK A SONS OatlaaaU,0., * WathlagUa,!>• C. or MAMA THIS PATER owjiwiw* $65 A MONTH AND BOARD PAID, or highest commission and SO DAYS* ('RE It IT to Agents on ourXew LP.W.ZIEULLK A ( ».. SEE *uk*t 8t., 8L ImK la onw^scwE srtttt this rawt WJIWJ" mwCO At CCBERTilme. Bond for price list. OvAlsCd Woeks’ScaloWork»,llutIalo,N.Y. trrut nun ram* mn us.rwi.as. EDUCATIONAL. VAIIMfi yen Learn Telegraphy and Railroad I UUnU Rita Agent's Business here, and secure eiUint situations. Write J. D. BBOWN, Sedalia. Mo. A BUSINESS EDUCATION AT BOIL For circulars, address CUBE’S « OLLEtiK, Erie. Fa n jam In. UMOJS COLLEGE of LAW.Chics g* Fall Term be gins ept.tti. burcircularadd.il. Bo. tb, Ummgo. A. N. K. B. 1251. WHEN WHITINU TO ADYKIiTIBEKS PLEASE atatn that in aaw the AdtrcrUsmcai la thto

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ANTON SIMON. To which hi route attention. Hi* DRY G£OpS are flrstelaas, nod the stock Is larg* Give him a ». Caps, Boots, Shoes and Notions. and yon will bo convinced that ho Is giving BARGAINS on hts entire stock.1' SOLID GOODS AT LOW Purni?.] the Best Article of Beer the Market Affords* AND SOICIT ORDERS FROM ALL DEALERS BOTH S OR KEG BEER SUPPLIED TO FAMILIES. On Sale at All Saloons. !—! 9 THE < SBORN BROTHERS Rnve rc nc a t-» toelr elegant Now Building on Main struct, where they havo a largo and “ splendid line of yis AND SHOES, »crt Women and Children. We keep It. L. Stevens’ and Emmerson’o brand* of Fine Shoes. Petti' mrg, Iixfliana.

C A-. BUEGEE & BEO., I tis ilONABLE MERCHANT TAILORS, | • Petersburg, Indiana, Have 1 :M Tbeir Larp M of Late Styles of Piese (Ms, Consisting of She Tory boat Baitings and Broadcloths. i Perfiii its and Styles Guaranteed. Prices as Low as Elsewhere. BOOR EEPIHG, SHORT-HARD, TELEGRAPHY, PEHMAHSHIP, ETC. Eve y Young Man and Woman Q Txo - slru to hotter Us or her condition in life, should write for the Catalogue of the BffijNT Sl STRATTON MO. 408 TtaIRtNTREKT. LOUISVILLE, KV. liilfjfi

ESTATE AGENCY W. CHAPPELL, INDIANA All lai in ml i fo Or 'ici and town property placed ii le wilt be adyeriiaed free of ah p-stair ov er City Drag Store. tin ntatir Ki.! y 111 «5r_- »' .p.r'.mOO loay.'KT. la 1h« e! I and moat popular aclentlBe ard >»l'«r publtahrd and haa the Umaat f any paper of Ita elaaa i* ihe world, iled. Beat elaaa of Wood Knrrarahed weekly. Send fot a, not y. I> (a a year. Four monlha' tr UCilNi u, I'cnuans, Ml Broadway, ARC TECT"S& fll Ed inJJSS c« or r ftIK l I'm hauli Vi d cf ScitutiSo Aroericsu. ee«*s. Faeh l»«i# contain* colored pl&Ue of country amt city recldene bulldinp*. .’iiinior-iw cn«raTti|ra 09 and apeeitlratmna for the u*e of i*ra plate hot Hit of. Pile* JJWajMf, r. MUSN * CO.. 1*1.AiUaUKi:*. >8? mm POHdeni Tiea* eni OlBi COP\ Itc.qnl Hey Uk tnay he aeeer* rd by app'rit'at to Ur.i.1 A Coha»" bad •>' at , cxperlanea and bare mart, oyer ppilcatlona for Amrrican a"' F~f•nta. Send fur Handbook. bvrrae. rleUy cynddentlal. *RADE MARKS. af mark ta not registered In the Pet.pply Ut Ml’NX Co., and prucuie •rotectloo. Send for liaudbook. IOHTK for hnoku, chart*, nape, procured. Atlilrrx fc CO., Patent Solicitor*. lal otrrici: «B.i ieitoAowar. N. T

PATENTS, Caveats -and Trade-Marks obtained, and a Patent business conducted for Moderate Fee*. Our office is opposite U. S. Patent Office, and we can secure patents in less Umo than those • craotc from Washington. Send model, draw ntt or photo, with desorip* tion. We ndrise if patentable or not free of charge. Our lees not due till patent is secured. A pamphlet. "How to Obtain Patents," with tMuies of act ual clients in your State, county or town, sent free. Address C. A. SNOW & CO., Opposite Patent Offioa, Washington, D. 0. DR. HARTLEY’S CATARRH REMEDY Is the best remedy known for the cure of Catarrh and its attendant nilnients: it is safe, painless, and never fails to K-ve relief. This remedy cleanses the nose, head and throat el all unhealthy secretinrg, and soothes and heals the Inflamed parts. Ween the remedy is once tred the beneficial results are sn prompt and sat sfactory ilhat the sufferer never fails to continue the treatment unt 1 permanent relief is obtained. DO HOT 2TEGLE0T A BAD GOLD. Js«* Hartley’* Catarrh Remedy for 1U J metl ate Cure. T L "pr.M -1 § k>, •v-x-' ;s-- eclipse v lvniment. e. K'jrc. Cf pa^v ’^itLr5- -s ECLIPSU LIVER PILLS. ECLIPSE MtRMif.UOgJ.e, ECLIPSlE SAPSAPKM' '--i Sf. HI rft-'V.r A WISE WOMAN Bought the Splendid HIGH ARM JUNE SINGER SEWING MACHINE 8T WAS THE BUT*