Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 26, Petersburg, Pike County, 14 November 1889 — Page 4

Desertion, a matter of much practical Importance to tke army and to the country, receives further and intelligent discussion by Lieutenant McAnaney, Ninth Cavalry, in his graduating essay at the Utiltary School, Fort Leavenworth. This officer, who, it appears, served live or more years as an enlisted man. and therefore speaks with unusual authority, attributes the tendency to this crime to the extreme cans* engendered by the trivial and constantly "unfinished” work that employs the soldier in garrison, to certain restraints which, under ordinary conditions, he regards as quite unnecessary, and to the bar to rational entertainment and respectabio society which the uniform imposes. The points seem well taken. The essayist dentes that there is ill treatment, moral or physical, worth noticing, and speaks well, and justly so, of the general character of the average recruit. The wqak point seems to lie to account lor thbs^dlsregard of the oath of enlistmont'',bjtvthese good men. Perhaps that tv- partly found in * the very informal and unimposing way, so unlike the ancient aicr.ii/.ci.fi/m, in which it Isadtni Ad«*yd, and especially in the popular Tiding that a deserter is more sinned ajjLnst than sinning and therefore to tie shilded. Hut with it ail there must be Mims lack of moral liber. Nevertheless, as hah ts'en pointed out. in great emergeneies the enlisted man stands firm. Ho does not desert in the face of the enemy, and it wrU lie to the perpetual glory of the I'nited Statyp soldiers that, at the beginning of the rebelion, when officers by scores discarded their uniforms not a man in the ranks although hundreds as unwilling prisoners in Texas were sorely beset, was false to his allegiance. Lieutenant Mc.Vnanejr would remove the minor but irritating restraints especially the tattoo rollcall; would infuse more vitality intotho daily exercises of the men. with induK gences for excolenee in them; would gige men greater liberty out of uniform, and would punish with the utmost severity those offences of the very small minority which bring disgrace upon it The conspicuous dress mark/ the wearer. ami brands all his comradVs when ho misbehaves. The essay fs written with force and clearness, many of the view s nns original, and all clearly expressed; end the fact that the author himself has risen from the ranks gives a very favorable conception of the rank and file.— N Y. I'oat. ago PERSISTENT STRUGGLE. It b iLtlsilntrljr' Necessary to tlvvrruuie a Weakness or a Fault. Mark Boyd, in his autobiography, bills us thathe once knew intimately a man named Christmas, one of the chief offi- . rials of the Bank of England, and. dur- j ing an acquaintance of many years, never saw him moved or excited in any | way. Boyd asked him one day how "ho managed to preserve this impregnable calm under great annoyances. ‘<»n the first day that I entered business,” replied Christmas.. "William i*itt gave mo a piece of advice, it was ‘Neve^to lose my temper while at-my. desk.' 1 resolved to observe the rule, j For ten years, though naturally Irtitable. I was always master of myself from the hour of nine until three. After that time I was able to retain the control of myself throughout the whole day.” William l*iU's own highest ambition wait probably to obtain complete mastery over all his weaknesses. It is said that be hail a nervous dislike to the touch of a peach, and that he competed himself for an hour each day to ruh the skin of the fruit upon his hands. After some weeks thc„ dislike was completely overcome. Nothing will increase the strength ol a character more than a steady, persistent struggle to overcome a weakness or . a fault, , - Yet young people and their guardian? khoujd remember that this very struggle and victory require a strong, deliberate will, which a quick-tempered, emotional man may not possess. They should consider. t«w\ thaj the power to bo angry or to feel keenly is neither a weakness nor a fault.

i ne nign-icmpercu man » no noias tns (tassion *ith a hard hit in likely u> do stronger work in the world than his cold, a|kathelic neigh hor. in whose nature thefe are no strong impulses. “A Are." said a successful teacher lardy, “is a power, if kept in the right ' place. There are hoys with tempera-, menus like boiling water. Very good. One does not coniine the steam until it expands to the bursting point. One gives work to do.” nervous, sensitive boy or girl w ho plenty of hard, congenial w ork to do 11 find it . the surest escape-valve for excitement .whieh else will find relief in passionate outbursts of temper. llut the work must be congenial; one which will naturally develop the character. the taste and the faculty of tho child. Gardeners know exactly what kind of noil and exposure and food each of their plants requires. When will teachers learn what place and work in the world will suit each scholar?—Youth's Companion. ^^Vll 1% THE UMBRELLA TREE. )ta Origin Wrapped In Mystery a* Far wa Am.-rtrw Is t'owreravd. While J. C. Walker, of Texas, was driving about Tulare and vicinity today, he noticed the numerous umbrella trees, which species of shade trees have been familiar to him for many years. Ilia attention was particularly attracted by their low growth, and he remarked that he had caused them to grow fifteen feet in height before branching. Tho Register representative became suddenly interested, as the only objection we have ever heard urged against Texas umbrella trees was that they did not grow high enough for a shade tree, and If trimmed of their lower limbs they would n*>l branch well again. In response to our inquiry as to the way It was don* Mr. Walker informed us that be took young trees and punched off all but the top bud. This he repeated whenever it budded out again, always leaving the top one. and when the tree had attained n sufficient height he allow*si it to branch out and it made a splendid shade tree. Sometimes he leaves more than one of .the top buds until'they begin to sprout in order to are which is the most healthy and atraightest. lie treats the white mulberry In the same manner and says there are mulberry trees In his yard which put forth their first limbs twenty feet from the ground. Mr. Walker further informed m that there was a town called OwewviUe th Texas, which died when the county scat was removed, scarcely a vestige now remaining, and that here the umbrella tree originated, at least so far as the United States is concerned. No one knows whence the seed came, hut there they were found growing. end are now scatter**! all through Texas. Mr. Walker has lived thirty-six years in Texas, and being: an intelligent, gentleman, it is quite probe* i well posted on the products of - >■—Tuiarp

TALMAGE AT ROME. The Visit or Paul, the Apostle, to Borne Recalled. Studying Theology on Historic Ground •ad Trending la the Footstep* of the Great ltlaermat—Christina Cariosity. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage. en route to the lioly Band. visited Romo, hud according to programme delivered the fedlowing discourse in that city. His text ! was: 1 must also set- Rome.—Arts six.. H. Here Is Paul's itinerary. He was a traveling or circuit preacher. He had been mobbed and insulted, and the more good he did the Worse the world treated him. But he went right on. Now he proposes to go to Jerusalem, and soys: “After that I must also see Rome.” Why did he want to visit this wonderful city in which 1 am to-day permitted to stand? “To preach the tJospel,” you answer. No doubt of it; but there were other reasous why he wanted to see Rome. A man of Paul's intelligence and classic taste had fifty other reasons for wanting to see it. Your Colosseum was at that time in process ’of erection, and he wanted to see it. The Forum was even then an old structure, and the eloquent apostle wanted to see that building in which eloquence had so often thundered and wept. Over the Appian Way the triumphal processions had.. already marched for hundreds of years, and he wanted to see that. The Temple of Saturn was already an antiquity, and he wanted to see that. The architecture of tiie world-renowned city, he w anted t.i see fhat. The places associated with the triumphs, the cruelties, the disasters, the wars, the military genius, the poetic and the rhetorical fame of this great city, he wanted to see them. A man like Paul, so many sided, so sympathetic, so emotional. so full of analogy, could not have been Indifferent t£ the antiquities and the splendors which move evwy rightlyorganized human being. And with what thrill of interest he walked these streets, those only who for the first time like ourselves enter Rome can imagine. If the inhabitants of all Christendom were gathered into one plain, and it were put to them w hich two cities they would above all others wish to see. the vast majority of them would vote Jerusalem and Roifie. So we can understand something of the record of my text and its'surroundings alien It says. Paul purposed in the spirit when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia to go to Jerusah-m, saying: “After that 1 must also see Rome.” 'As some of you art1 aware, with my family, and onKTor the purpose of what we can learn and the good we can get. 1 am on the way to l*»lestine. Since leaving Brooklyn, N. Y,. this is the first place we have stopped. Intermediate cities art- attractive, hut we have visited them in other years, and we hastened On. for 1 said before starling that while 1 w as going to see Jerusalem 1 must also nee Rome. Why do 1 w ant to see it? Because l wanUby visiting regions associated with the great apostle, tows- the UcnliWto have my faith in Christianity confirmed. There are those w;ho w ill go through large expenditure to have their faith weakened. In my native land 1. have known persons of very limited, rt vans to pay fifty oeifts or a dollar to hear a lecturer prove that our Christian religion is a myth, a dream, a cheat, a lie. On the contrary. 1 will give the thousands of dollars that this journey of my family will cost to have additional evidence that our Christian religion is an authenticated grandeur, a solemn, a joyous, a rapturous, a stupendous, a magnificent fact. So 1 want to see Rome. I want you to show tpe the places connected with apostolic ministry. ?1 have head that in your city and amid its surroundings apostles suffered and died for Christ's sake. My common seuae tells me that people do not die for the sake of a falsehood. They may practice a deception for the purpose of gain, hut put the sword to their heart, or arrange the halter around their ueok. or kindle a fire around their foot, and they would say my life is worth more than any thing 1 can gain hy losing it. 1 hear you have in this city Ihutl's dungeon. Show it to me. 1 must -oo Rnmcalw WliiltjjJ am interested in this city l>eoause of hoTcitizens w h£> are mighty in history or virtue, vice or talents. Uomulas. and Caligula. and Cineinnatus. and Vespasian.and Coriolanus. and lirutus. and a hundred others whose names are bright with an exceeding brightness, or hlack with the deepest dye. most of all am 1 interested in this city because the preacher of Mars Hill, and defier of Agrippa, and the hero of the shipwrecked vessel in the breaker- of Moll's, and tin man, who held higher than any one that the world ever saw the torch of Resurrection, lived and preached ami was massacred here. Show inc every place connected with his memory. 1 must also see j Rome.

Hut my text suggests that in Haul j there was the inquisitive and curious { spirit. Had ray text only meant that he wanted to preach here, he would have said so. Indeed, in another .place, he declared: "1 am ready to preach the gospel to you who are at Home also.* Hut my text suggests a sight-seeing. This man w ho had l»een under I>r. tiamaliel had no lack of phraseology, and was used to saying what he meant, and ho said: "1 must also see Home." There 1* sueh a thin? as Christian curiosity. l*aul had it and some of us have it. A Unit other people!* business 1 have no curiosity. About all that can cohfirm my faith in , the Christian religion and the world's salvation and, the soul's future happiness 1 am full of an all-ale sorbing. all-compelin? curiosity. Haul had a great curiosity about the next world, and so have we. I hope some day. by the grace of tiod. to go over and see for myself; but not now. No well man. no prospered man, I think, wants to go now. Hut the time will come, .1 think, when 1 shall go over. I want to see what they do there, and I want to see how they do it. 1 do not want to be looking through the gates ajar forever. 1 want them to swing right open. There are ten thousand things 1 want ex-plained-about you, about myself, about the government of this world, about tiod. about every thing. We start in n plain path of what we know and in a minute come up against a high wall of what we do not know. 1 wonder how it looks over there. Somebody tells me it is like a paved city-paved with gold; and another man fells me it is like a fountain, and it is like a tree, and it is like a triumphal procession; and the next man I meet tells me it is all figurative. I really want to know, after the body is resurrected. what they wear and what they eat; and I have an immeasurable curiosity to know what it is. and how It is. and where it Is. Columbus risked bis life to find the American continent, and shall we shudder to go out on a voyage of discovery which shall reveal a vaster and more brilliant country? John Franklin risked his life to find a passage to eternal summer? Men in Switaerlaad travel up the heights of the Matterhorn. With alpenstock and guides, sad rackets and ropes, and getting haltway up, stumble and fall down in a horrible massacre. They just wanted to say they had bsen on the tops of those fcijfh paato And atoll wt iw la *»

out tor the ascent of the eternel pills which start one thousand miles berond where stop the highest peaks oflthe Alps, and when in that ascent there Is no peril? A man doomed to die stepped on the scaffold, and said in joy: “X<ta, in ten minutes I will know the great secret.” One minute after the «tal functions ceased, the little child [that died last night knew more than Patti himself before be died. Friends, the exit from this world, or death, if you please to call it, to the Christian is glorious explanation. It is demonstration. It is illumination. It is sunburst. It is the opening of all the windows. It is shutting up the catechism of doubt, and the unrolling of all the scrolls of positive and accurate information. Instead of standing at the foot of the ladder and looking up, it is standing at the top of the ladder and looking down. It is the last mystery taken out of botany, and geology, and astronomy, and theology. Oh. will it not he grand to have all questions answered? The per|>etually recurring in-, terrogation point changed for the mark of exclamation? All riddles solved. Who will fear to go out on that discovery, when all the questions are to he decided which we have i>een discussing all our lives? Who shall not dap his hands in the an ticipation of that blessed country, if it be no better than through holy curiosity? As this l*aul of my text did not suppress his curiosity, we need not suppress ours. Yes. 1 have an unlimited curiosity about all religious things, and as this city of Rome was so intimately connected with apostolic times, the incidents of which emphasize and explain and augment the Christian religion, you will not take it as an ovU ilenec of a prying spirit, hut as the odtS* bursting of a Christian curiosity when I say 1 must also see Rome. Our desire to visits this city is also intensified by the fact that we want to be confirmed in. the feeling that human life is brief, but its work lasts for centuries, indeed, forever. Therefore, show us the antiquities of old Rome, about which we have been reading for a lifetime, but never seen. In our beloved America we have no antiquities. A church eighty years old* overawes us with its age. We have in America some cathedrals hundreds and thousands of years old. hut they are in Yellowstone Park or California Canyon, and their architecture and masonry were by the omnipotent God. We want to see the buildings, or ruins of old buildings, that were erected hundreds and thousands of years ago by human hands. They lived forty or seventy years, but the arches they lifted, the liaintingf they penciled, the sculpture they chiseled, the roads they laid out. 1 understand, arc yet to he seen, and we want vou to •l ow them to us. 1 can hardly wait until Monday morning. I must also see Rome. . We want to be impressed with the fact that what men do on a smalt scale or large scale lasts a thousand years, lasts forever, that we build for eternity and that we do so in a very short space of time, liod is the only old living presence. Rut it is an old age without ; any of the infirmities or limitations of old age. There is a passage of Scripture . which sneaks of the birth of the mountains, fpr th+w was a time when tie Andes weW, Wrn. and the Pvronnes were hiru.amVfho Sierra Nevada.- were born, but' before the birth of those mountains the Bible tells us. God was horn, aye was ne ver born at all, becaus^ lie always existed. l*salm xc. 3: "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting. Thou art God." llow short is human life, what antiquity attaches to its worth! llow everlasting is God! Show us the antiquities, the things that were' old when America was discovered, old when Paul went upand down these streets sight seeing, old when Christ was born. 1 must—I must also see Rome! Another reason for our visit to this city is that we want to sec the places where the mightiest intellects and the greatest nature- wrought for our-Chrts-tian religion. We have been told in America by some people of swollen .heads that the Christian religion is a pusillanimous thing, good for children under seven years of age and smallbrained pimple, hut not for the istelligvnt and swarthy-minded. We have heard of your Constantine, the mighty, who pointed his army to the cross, saying: “By this conquer." If there lie any thing here connected with his reign or his military history, show it to us. The mightiest intellect of the ages was the author of my text, and. if for the Christian religion he was willing to labor and suffer and die. there must be

something exalted and sublime and tremendous In it; and show me every place he visited, and show me if you can where he was tried, and which of your roads leads out to (totia. that 1 may see where he went out to die. We expect" Indore we finish this journey to see Lake Galilee and the places where Simon, IVter and Andrew fished, and perhaps we may drop a net or a hook and line into those waters ourselves, but when following the track of those lesser apostles 1 will learn quite another lesson. 1 want while in this City of Rome to study the religion of the brainiest of the apostles. I want to follow, as far as we can trace it, the track of this great intellect of my text who wanted to see Rome also, lie was a logician, he was a metaphysician, he was an(all-conquer-ing orator, he was a poet of the highest 'type. He had a nature/that could swamp the leading men df his own day, and hurled against the7 Sanhedrim, he made it tremble. He learned all he could get in the school of bis native village then he had gone to higher school, and there had mastered the Greek and the Hebrew and perfected himself in belles letters, until in after years, he astounded the Cretans and the Corinthians, and the Athenians, by quotations from the own authors. 1 have never found any thing in Carlyle, or Goethe, or Herbert Spencer that could compare in strength or beauty with Paul's epistles. I do not think there is any thing in the writings of Sir William Hamilton that shows such mental discipline as you find in Paul's argument about justification and resurrection. 1 hare not found any thing in Milton finer in the way of imagination than I can fin 1 In Paul's illustrations drawn from the amphitheater. There was nothing in Robert Emmet pleading for his life, or in Edmund Burke arraigning Warren Hast- , ings in Westminster llall, that compared with the scene in the eourt-room when, before robed officials, Paul bowed and began his speech, saying: “1 think myself happy, Kiag Agrippa. because I shall answer tor myself this day.” I repeat, that a religion that can capture a man like that must have some power in it. It is time our wiseacres stopped talking as though all the brain of the world were opposed to Christianity. Where Paul leads, we can afford to follow. I am glad tofknow that Christ has. in the different ages of the world, had In His disclpleship a Mosart and n Handel In music; a Raphael and a Reynolds in painting: an Angelo and n Canova in sculpture; a Rush and a Harvey in medicine; a Urotius *and a Washington in statesmanship; a Blackstone. a Marshall and a Kent in law, and the time will come when the religion of Christ will ooaqaer all «•» oheervalories and universities. and philosophy will, thfbugh her telescope, behold the morning star of deans, and in bar laboratory m wg*k

together for good,” Mid with her geo* logical hammer discern the “Rock of Ages." Oh, instead of cowering and shivering when the skeptic stands he* fore us, and talks of religion as though it were a pusillanimous thing—instead of that, let us take out our New Testament and read the story of Paul at Rome, or come and see this city for ' ourselves, and learn that it could hare I been no weak gospel that actuated such i a man, but that it is an all-conquering ' gospel. Aye, for all ages the power of God and the wisdom of God unto salvation. Men. brethren and fathers! I thank I you for this opportunity of preaching the Gospel to you that are at Rome also. The churches of America salute you. Upon you who are, like us, strangers in Rome, 1 pray the protecting and journeying care of God. Upon you who are ' resident here. 1 pray grace, mercy and j peace from God our Father and the Lord ! Jesus Christ. After tarrying here a few | days we resume our journey for Palestine, and we shall never meet again, either ' in Italy, or America, or what is called the Holy Land, but there is a holier j land, and there we may meet, saved by the grace that in the same way saves Italian and American, and there in that supernal clime, after embracing l^jjm who, by His sufferings on the hill back of Jerusalem, made our Heaven possible, and given salutation to our own kindred whose departure broke our hearts on earth, we shall, 1 think, seek out the traveling preacher and mighty hero of the text who marked out His journey through Macedonia and Achaia to Jerusalem, saying: “After i have been there, I must also jsee Rome.” A MILLION OF BABIES. gotlowluc Them l> from Their Kirth ta Their Death. Take your pencil and follow me while we figure out on what will happen to the 1,000.000 of babies that have been born in the last 1.000.000 seconds. 1 believo that is about the average—“one every time the clock ticks.” October 1, 1890, if statistics don't belie us, we will have lost 150,000 of these little "prides of the household.” A year later 55.000 more will be keeping company with those who have gone before. At the end of the third year we find that 2-2,000 more have dropped by the wayside. The fourth. year they have become rugged little darlings, not nearly so susceptible to infantile diseases, only 8,000 having succumbed to the rigors imposed by the master. By the time they have arrived at the age of twelve years but a paltry few hundred leave the track each year. After three score years have come and gone we find less trouble in counting the army with which we startl'd in the fall of 1889. Of the 1,000.000 with which we began our count but 870,000 remain; 6SO.OOO have gone the way of all the world and the remaining few have forgotten that they ever existed. At the end of 80, ot, . taking our mode of reckoning, by year 1969, A. J)., there are still 97,000 grayhaired, shaky old grannies and grandfathers. toothless, hairless and happy. In the year 1981 our 1.000,000 babies with which we started in 1880, will have dwindled to an insignificant 228 help-, less old wrecks ''stranded on the shores of Time.” In 1993 all but seventeen have left this mundane sphere forever, while the last remaining wreck will probably, in seeming thoughtlessness, *(#u-h the sands filter through the hourglass of Time and die in the year 1997 at the age of 108. What a bounteous supply of food for reflection!—St. Louis Re* public. Let Chll<lr*u Have Pet IK>c>. “Ho you know,” says a doctor, “that a young dog is the healthiest thing in the world to bring up a young child with? I don't mean that the dog shall actually sleep with the child, but be with it continually—be played and romped with. There is something in the mere healthy animalism of the dog which goes to make the child healthy. For a dog can catch every disease from a child, and just by being about can often decrease the violence of an attack—take off some of the disease, you know. But a child never takes a disease from a dog. Of course the dog should be accommodated to the infant. A delicate baby should not be with a rough and vigorous young dog. Nor should a healthy and hearty child have too small a companion puppy. To carry out this principle still further, a dog is of great benefit in a consumptive's room. For one in the early stages of that disease the constant presence of a dog is the best thing I know of.”—Chicago Journal.

Mnllral rr«p»rtl*» of Vegetable*. Spinach has a direct effect upon the kidneys. The common dandelion, used as preens, is excellent tor the same trouble. Asparagus purges the blood. Celery acts admirahly upon the nervous system, and is a cure for rheumatism and neuralgia. Tomatoes act upon the liver. 1 toots and turnips are excellent appetirers. lettuce and cucumbers are cooling in their effects upon the system. Onions, garlic, leeks, olives and ahalots, all of which are similar, possesses medicinal virtues of a marked character, stimulating the circulatory system, and the consequent increase of the saliva and the gastric Juice promoting digestion. Red onions are an excellent diuretic. and the white ones are recommended to he eaten raw as a remedy for insomnia. They are a tonic and are nutritious. A soup made from onions is regarded by the French as an excellent restorative in dehillty of the digestive organs.—Scientific American. Curious IKualuess Combination. I don't know—and I never will, 1 sup puee—why it is that so many men flock to a city to make a living. It is hard work here for a poor man. 1 was out on one df the side streets a few days ago collecting, when I saw a strange sign, or two of them, to he more accurate. On one window was the announcement, "Undertaking.” On the other was the sign, "Fresh country butter.” I went in. The man looked as it he would be the flrst victim tor the undertaker, lie said he had to scratch to make a living1 and that he was agent for an undertaker down-town. "1 have had some esperiJ cnee in making coffins." he said, and he looked it. "But business is kind of slow,” he continued, "and so we got to selling milk and Anally to making butter. Between the two we manage to live. My wife makes the butter and I sell coffins on a commission."—Chicago Tribune. Patent* and Daughter*. There ate parents, usually mothers, we are sorry to say, who force their daughters into marriages, or use influences that practically amount to that. On the other hand, there are daughters who reject the counsel of the parents and pursue their own willful way, preferring. even, to lose the sympathy of their early homes to giving up the man upon whom they have fixed their affections. It may not be so that the wrong is squal in the two cases, but in each there is a mistake. No parent has a right to coerce a child in such a matter, and no child, though the ultimste choice must rent with herself, has a right to disregard the affectionate advice of a mother. If judicious help is to he expected from any quarter, it must be from that one.—United Presbyterian Os* has never so much need of his wit as when be ha* to dq frith a. foetr* CW**P*VT«rt,

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. —At a social meeting or reception the following three topics should be avoided—dress, disease, domestic affairs. —Do not be deceived by agents who have a * •superior furniture polish" for sale. Use linseed oil, there is nothing better. —It is said that collodion dissolved in alcohol and applied with a light brush will prevent silver from becoming tarnished. —If you desire comfort and long life be abate mious in your diet. Ove^patlag not only corrupts the blood, but destroys nervous energy. —Pure air is the food of the lungs. This is obtained by scientific ventilation, which consists in admitting currents or movements through two or more apertures. —Eggs are very nourishing, and contain much brain food. They agree with the most delicate stomach. Being in a concentrated form, a pound of eggs contain more nutriment than a pound and three-quarters of beef. —Chocolate Cornstarch. —One quart of chocolate made as for drinking, mixed smoothly with four tabirspoonfuls of cornstarch, sweeten and mold in small cups, when cold put on a flat dish with n little whipped cream.—The Hornet. —Buy fine copper wire by the pound for hanging pictures. It does not cost half what a twisted wire or cord does, ! and looks far better. Take time to | paste light manilla paper over the back of each picture frame not already protected in this way. as it effectually prevents dust from reaching the pictures. — Lime has lately been found & handy material to uso in removing the frost from the ground in winter, and also in melting out water pipes. A heap of lime, laid on the earth, wet ' slightly, and covered over with blan- , kets and other non-conducting mate- j Hats, will quickly draw the frost out of the ground. —Cold in the head is not only annoying. but likely to develop into catarrh. One teaspoonful of mustard dissolved j in a tumblerful of cold water and used j as a gargle three times a day, will j often effect a speedy cure. In more obstinate cases, equal parts of loaf sugar and pulverized aiura used as suuff will give instant relief. AMONG THE POULTRY. rractlchl Su 11 on a ofaHreotter of Con* Wheat is-the be^grain that can be fed to secure eggs. Properly managed the feathers can be marketed to a good advantage. A place to scratch and wallow is a necessity if health is maintained. The water supplied to the poultry must always iw fresh if they are kept in the best condition. Onions fed twice a week will promote the health and better the condition of the laying hens. Store all the small turnips and the cabbage that have but headed; they make a good winter feed. An ounce of prevenj^e is worth a pound of cure in the management of poultry. Unless too many are kept the poultry will not crowd one another if they are made comfortable. Forcing the fowls together from any cause increases materially the risk ol disease. Warmth is an essential item in getting eggs from now until spring. Usually it is poor economy to feed damaged grain of any kind to the poultry. Good sound grain is more healthy and nutritious. As a rule thore is no grain that will equal corn, either for fattening or for maintaining animal heat; at least one . good feed of it a day can be given. Fowls will usually look cleaner and plumper tf they are. picked dry, while the feathers will be moro readily prepared for market Coal oil is one ol the cheapest and best materials that can bo used to rid the fowls and their quarters of vermin of all kinds. A barrel or two filled with dry dust or soil will bo found useful during the winter in providing the fowls with a good dust-bath. It is not so much the breed as the management that is given that determines the amount of profit that is possible to derive. The bronze turkey is one of the best. It makes a rapid growth and is one ol the very best for the table, being far superior to the common turkey. Poultry, hogs and sheep take uf much that would otherwise go to waste in feeding the cattle and horses, and for this-reasou they should be kept on every farm.

A UOUUtUl s»«*uuv ««v* v«v« i a week to a dozen hens will aUl materially in keeping them in good health; and in addition they will add much to the appearance of plumage. It is beet not to feed or use sulphur during the fall or winter and especially after the weather becomes cold and wet. Other materials can he used that | will answer the samo purpose with less j risk of injury. If the bones are gathered up and stored, they can be used to good advantage during the winter. They are better ground, but can be used to good advantage if they are broken into pieces small enough for the fowls to eat. When the fowls are confined. a variety of feed is an important item. As long as they can have a good range they will pick up more orless, so that it is not necessary to provide. Guineas are noisy fowls and many consider them valuable to frighten away stray dogs, or such animals as foxes, coons and skunks. A small punch can be used to mark the fowls in the web of the feet, and in many cases this wilt be found very desirable. especially with those kept for breeding-St Louis Republican. Four Remarkable Oddities. The irony of fate is curiously illustrated in the tact that two Jews now own the site of Babylon, the place where their ancestors were held captive. Gallium and aluminum not excepted, platinum is one of the most wonuerful metals in the world. It may be drawn so fine that it can not be seen with the naked eye. even if placed across a piece of perfectly white card board. It is recorded that a woman was once burned alive In France for murdering some babies. To make her agony more terrible she was placed in an iron cage over a fire with 14 live cats as bar companions, so that the animals in their agony would tear her while bunting. Pure crystalline sulphur 100 feet in depth and extending over aa undetermined area of country, in southern Louisiana, has lately been discovered. It is from 2QD to 300 feet below the write* -St Louis Republic

OF RECENT OCCURRENCE. This Gabilan ranch of T.6A5 acres in ! Monterey Count* was sold the other day for $330,000. - The courts of Berks CountyH’x, hare decided that a type-written will is illegal. • Delaware County, Pa., le£ her one hundredth anniversary go ty recently without taking note of it. Tus Chicago public library has been awarded a gold medal by the jury on instruction and education at the Paris exposition. A uon in the Philadelphia Zoo, suffering from the toothache, his keeper administered laughing gas, put the beast to sleep and safely extracted the offending molar. A Washington lady recently purchased In Winchester a mahogany sideboard over one hundred years old and shipped it to the ^ife of ex-President Cleveland as a prwtent. At Memphis, Tenn., Mrs. Annie Evans (colored) lately brought an action against Patrolman Conway (white) for calling her “Aunty” on the street. She lays her damages at $i,000. Tire tallest, smoke-shaft in America was completed recently on the grounds cf the Fall River iron works. The chimney is 840 feet high abovo the granite base, and is thirty feet square at the bottom. a Mks^HcAhow, one of the owners of the SjBed Horse Mine of Montana, recently on»ve into Helena in a buekboard, unattended, carrying a gold brick worth $10,000. It took two porters and a truck to get the heavy mass of gold from the wagon into the hank. A woman of St. Paul while walking on the railroad track was struck by a rap-idly-moving train, hurled into the air and over a barbed-wire fenee into a vacant lot. She was not seriously hurt, and after giving the engineer a piece of her mind she started off at a rapid gait. Tire sheriff of Warren County, l*a., is a humane man. The other day he started for Allegheny with a prisoner whom he was to land in the Western penitentiary. They had to stop over night in Oil City, and sheriff and prisoner, the latter manacled, attendod'The entertainment at the opera-house. CATARRH. Catarrhal DeufUms— Hay Fever—A New Home Tr^uent. Sufferers are not friendly aware that these diseases aro awntagious, or that they arc duo to the presence of ljRiug parasites in the lining membrane oBhe nose and eustaehian .tubes. Microscale research, however. Improved this tojbe a fact, and the result o”his discovery iAthata simple remedy has been formuH'd •whereby Catarrh, Hav Fever and Pat^haTPeafness are perma^fctly cured in from one to three simple ajBFations made at home by the patient on^ in two weeks. N. B-—This treatment is not a snuff or an ointment; both have been discarded by reputable physicians as injurious. A pamphlet explaining this new treatment is sent on receipt of three cents in stamps to pay |H>stage bv A. H. Dixon & Son, cor. of John and King Street, Toronto, Canada.—PAra(ian Advocate. _ Sufferers from Catarrhal troubles should carefully read the above. Axxiocs father of nine blooming daughters (attired in his night-clothes and examining the bed-posts): “Maria, are the children all in? I can And only eight lumps of gum." A New Kind of Insurance Has been put in operation by the manufacturers ' of Dr. Fierce’s medicines. His “Golden Medical Discovery" and “Favorite Prescription" are sold by druggists under the manufacturers’ poritftw i/uarants*. Either benefit or a complete cure is thus attained, or money paid for these medicines is returned. The certificate of guarantee given in connection with sale of these medicines is equivalent to a policy of insurance. The “Golden Medical Discovery" cures all humors and blocd taints, from whatever cause arising, skin and scalp diseases, scrofulous sores and swellings. The “Favorite Prescription" cures all those derangements and weaknesses peculiar to women. Don't hawk, hawk, and blow, blow, disgusting everybody, but use Dr, Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. A fisherman at Poylcstown, Fa., saw a aunfish swallow a bee. and a few minutes later saw the fish on the water dead. He cut it ooon and the bee flew off. •_ Consumption Surety Cured. TO tbs Euitor:—Please inform your readers that l have a positive remedy for the above named disease By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured. 1 shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy r*M to any of your readers who will send me their express and post-office address. Respectfully. T. A. Bloccm. M.C.. 1S1 Pearl street. New York A veteran trapper of Belfast. Me., is engaged in the novel business of catching wild hares to ship to sportsmen who wish to stock game preserves.

Tourists, Whether on pleasure bent or business, should take on every trip a bottle of Syrup of Figs, as it acts most pleasantly and effectually on the kidneys, liver and bowels, preventing fevers, headaches and other forms of sickness. For sale in SOe and $1.00 bottles by all leading druggists. "Brigade” meant originally a noisy crew or company, from Italian brigare, to brawl. It is of course a near relative of “brigand.” Src dents. Teachers, Clergymen, and others in need otthange of employment should not fait to flk to B. F. Johnson ft Co., 1009 Main su, Richmond, Va. Their great success shows that they have got the true ideas about making money. They can show you how to employ odd hours profitably. “Honeymoon bow” Is the name given a row of houses at West Chester, Pa., occupied by newly-married couples exclusively. A medicine prepared for the general public should contain nothing hurtful in any dose. Such a medicine is ShaUenberger’s Antidote for Malaria; it destroys Malaria as water puts out fire, and is just as hannSold by Druggists. THE MARKETS. NEW Yobx. Nov. U, >***■ PATTLK—Native Steers.* A10 * * ‘ j* CtnmMt-MMdllag. • ,1®'* FLOCK—Winter wheat. * » * * **• WH K AT—No. 3 Red. WWW rnav-Na S. Ub« 42W OATS—Western Mixed. ?tW« PORK—Mesa. . U 00 # U * ST. LOI RS. COTTON—Middling. BEEVES—Kxport Steers. 4 «0 $bippiitg ** .. s* HOGS—Common u> Select— J30 SHEEP—Fair to Choice. 3 «S FLOCK—Patents. 4 10 XXX to Choice- 3 » - WHEAT—No. 2 Red Winter... KW CORN—No. 3 Mixed.. a»W« OAT*—No-3.... » • gw wyk—No. 2.. S» « W TOBACCO—Lugs (Missouri) 3 “» • < 2 Leaf, Burley...... 3 » #10“ HAY-Choiee Timothy. S 00 BITTER—Choice Dairy. If KGCr Freeh. . ■-L— ■ ■■— " 18 POKK—Standard Mess (new). « 9* it i 00 « 4 40 • 3 9ft • 4 3 « 4 35 300 W 6W« » 11 30 # 30 • l«tx « 11 » 5W 33 BACON—Clear Bib LARD—Prime Steam WOOL—Choice Tub.. CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping.■ . 12 i 15 HOUS-Good to Choice- *5 5 IS SHEEP—Good to Cliolee. *2212 FLOCK—Winter I*atents... . 4 30 # 4 « Spring “ ..... 4 40,# 490 WHEAT—No. 4 Spring. • CORN—NOut.--- • ** OATS—No. 3 White. • }*** POKE—Standard Mess. »« • 9 » KANSAS CITY. CATTLE-Shippin*Steers... 3 » # 4 SO HOGS—Sale* at.. • •... -.. 3 S8 • 4 00 W HEAT—No. 3 (hard). «% OATS—No, 3.... .. CORN—No. 3.- » • NEW ORLEANS. FIAH'R—High Grade . SSO • 4» CORN—White.i. . » • « OATS—Choice Western. • » HAY-Choice.... U M 2 £ 2 PORK—New Hess. • 1* “ BACON—Clear Rib. K COTTON—Middling WHEAT—No. l««l.. CX>EN-No.3Miwrd. 3 MjxihI.

the large advertisement of Twi Youth's lour.in ion which we pubUshed last week! rhU remarkable paper lias the phenomenal circulation of 430,000 eopies weekly. No >ther journal is more welcomed by old and ,-oung in the families throughout the land, rhe publishers make a special ejf'f oncea rear, and to all who subscribe now will lend the paper fn» fo, v.uary f, 1R90,axdhir i fkU year from that d atr. The subscription jirlce is $1.75. Address, Tus Youth's Com -anion, Boston, Mas*. SomsboRT who belioTes In old-fash-ioned methods of discipline reoentlv sent a young lady toaclter In Maine iir bundle of shingles. Oregon, the Paradise of Farmers. Mild, equableclimate, certain and abundant crops. Best fruit, grain, grass, stock country n the world. Pull information free. Address Oregon Immigration Board,Portland,Oregon At the rate of increase in the past few fears the wool cropof Colorado will soon »xoeed in value the output of her silver nines._; It you have ever used Dobbins’ Electric luring the 34 years it has been sold, you mow that it is the best and purest family map made. If you haven’t tried it, ask your grocer for it now. Don’t take imitation. Fielding lies in the burying-ground of the English factory at Lisbon without a stone to marl: the spot. Do sot suffer from sick headache a moment longer. It is not necessary. Carter’s Little Liver Pills will cur.c you. Dose, One little pill. Small price. Small dose. Small pill. A dandei.iox v hlch has grown to the top of a ten-foot j ole is the product of a New Haven truck pdteh. Cnxcx Colds am Bronchitis with Hale’s Honey of Horohou d and Tar. Pike's Toothache 1 -ops Cure In one ciinuVjlj Goldsmith's iear of Wakefield" was sold for a trifle to save him from the grip of the law. s Yor can't help lil ng them.thev arc so very small and their act >n isso perfect. l>ne > ilia lose. Carter's Lit :e Liver Pills. Try them. Savaok died n a prison at Bristol, where he was t onflned for a debt of forty dollarsIt afflicted will Sore Eyes use Dr. Isaac. Thompson'sEyicY iter. Druggists sell it 3oc iO child of genius and itroyed himself at CnATTEimiy. misfortune, d eighteen. BnoNcnttis is rred by frequent small loses of Piso's ( re for Consumption. Santa Cnn. months-old bab duck. *1., reports a thirteenthat can swim like a A pocket eigai -ase free to smokers of "Tansili's Punch c. Cigar. Maryland e: iccts to produce 10,000.000 bushels of o iters this year. Direction wiuieac^ FOR BURNS and SCALDS. A B .by Burned. A lUd. Minn., Sept». 1SS3Our baby—1V$ ehn old—burned her hand on a hot store an . we put St. Jacobs Oil onit It look the pain c l out. at once; after putting it on 3 or 3 lilacs t was all cured up. P. STAVK and Family At Dad iisrs and Psalms. THE CHARLES A. 06ELER CO.. Balthnors. HA

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.■ ■*» Danger from Gatanfc Catarrh la an exeeedirgly disagreeable diabase. Its varied symptoms.-discharge at the bom. bad braatb. pain between the eyes. coughing, choking sensation, ringing noises In the ears, etc..—being not only troublesome to the sufferer. but oUenairo toothers. (Xiterrhisajodntcrroiu,becausellmay lead to bronchitis or consumption. Being a blood disease, the true method of cure Is to parity the blood by taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which has eared many severe eases of catarrh. "Hood’s Sarsaparilla has helped mb more foe catarrh and impure blood than anything else I eter used.” A. Bald,. Syracuse, K. Y. N. B. Be sure to get Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. Hi six forts. Prepared only by C. 1. HOOD A Ctx, Apothecaries, Lowell. Hass. IOO Doses One Dollar vom ▲ con or The Best and Cheapest of the Lady’s-Books. It Is without a rival In the execUeacb jyf its stories and novelets, the beauty of its Ulttstrations, the completeness of its fashion and work-table departments, and tho helpfulness of Its many miscellaneous articles. It nunrtiers among its contributors some of our bestknown authors. Right novelets, nearly o:ie hundred short stories, sketches of travel, history, biography, etc., articles on home dressmaking, the care of the sick, and household management, numerous designs for needlework, embroidery, knitting, painting. ot:\, will be given during ISW, making a volume of nearly 1,200 pastes. Terms: Two Dollars per year, with great reductions to chibs and fine premiums for •retting up clubs. Sampte-eopy nuns, togetStpaelubwlsh. , Address PETERSON’S MAGAZINE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. OrJUXI TBX9 PA?I& «tn UiMjmvnU.

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JOS EPH H. HUNTER ».C..*tU.CITYQFB T)I.SO r to i CATARRH It is an Oim to the nostrilsby mail. Address, T. Bazxltute, Warren, Pa. rs Kf.MKOV tOK CATAKJ.it i.—Best. Kasiest _ _) use. Cheapest Kelier^"imuietiiate A core is certain, for Cold in the Head it has no equal. Of which a small wrticlcja applied SOe. Sold by druggists or sent n, wane 1