Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 43, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 March 1890 — Page 4

Uoascmpt on Rarely Oared. Toth* Editor:—Please In form yourrtp.iers that l have a positive remedy for the above named disease. By its timely use thousands ot hopeless oases have been per. manently cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy free to any of your readers who hare consumption if they will send me their express and post-office address. Respectfully, T. A. Slocum. M. C., 181 Pearl street, New York. Wb often hear of a man being carried •way by his ideas: this must be when ha jet into strain of thought—Philadelphia l Notice. Attention of those suffering with Dropsy Is called to Dr. H. H. Green & Son’s fair offer to furnish free a ten days’ trial treat mentto every sufferer. These physicians have made hundreds of almost miraculous cures in various parts of this country, and to-day stand as Hie only successful Dropsy specialists in ths world. See their ad. in this paper. Butcher* are authority for the statement that a largo percentage of “good livers” are ^oing to the dogs’’ nowadays.—Prison Those who wish to practice economy should buy Carter’s Little Liver Pills. Forty pills in a vial; only one pill a Bose. Dime museums that adveftise for midgets are in mitey small business—Texas Siftings. March April May Are the best months In which to parity yoar blood. Daring the long, cold-winter, till) blood becomes thin end Impure, the body becomes weak and tired, the appetite may be lost, and lost now. the system crares the. Id of a reliable modtctnc. Hood'a Sarsaparilla Is peculiarly adapted to parity and enrich the blood, to create a good appetite and to overcome that tired feeling. It Increases In popularity every year, for it la the Ideal a >ring medicine. "My health wea very poor last spring and seeing an adrertlsementof Hood’s Sarsaparilla 1 thought 1 would try IL It haa worked wondera for me as It has built my system srp. I have taken four bo’tlcs an I am on the nftti I recommend It to my acquaintances." johs-Matthiivs, Oswego, N. X. If.fi, fieaoretogmonly Hood’s Sarsaparilla Bold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only by C. 1. 1IOOD & CO.. Lowell, Mass. ^ IOO Doses One Dollar

V k 4 The best Dressed^ a 3 3 a 3 3 a 3 3 a Woman in Town k k earned money to buy fine dresses and a seal skin sacque by working evenings. A smart woman can easily earn her own pin money and be independent, by working for the Ladies’ Home Journal. We offer a splendid paying position to any woman (or man), who will act as our special agent. k k k k k k Curtis Pubushikg Co., Philadelphia, Pa. k k k k k k k k k v> Stop tbat Chronic Cough Now: I For If you do rot It may become consumptive. For Coit.'tumptton, Serofnla, GenrnU DebU it jf and II asting Diseases, | there Is nothing like SCOTTS F MULSIOH '■ ‘ Of Pure C<Hl Liver Oil and HYPOPHOSPHITES Zdme and Boda. It Is almost as palatable as milk. Far better than oilier so-called Emulsions. A wonderful flesh producer. There are poor Imitations. Get the 0e»*M<Me. j

Intelligent Headers will notice that Tutt’s Pills amt “nwrswtedtoeore" »11 elaasea or diseases, hut only inch aa result Irons a disordered liver, vist Vertigo, Headache, Dyspepsia, Fevers, Costiveness, Bilious Colic, Flatulence, etc. For these they are not warranted t»fnlllbU, hat are asaearly soasltlspoo* Bible to make a remedy. Price, 23cta> SOLDEVEBYWHEBE. THIS IS THE CLASP wherever found, That holds the Roll on which is wound The Braid that is known the world around. KILLS ALL PAIN 2S>C A BOTTLE DrJkdrsConshSynqi^rr^SS THE DIN6EE& CON ARD CO.’S Salvation IRADr ■ ■ I '.f MARK

NEW BOOK a FLOWERS! to all w wrftteftr it.

ROSES HARBY PLANTS, BULBS «l SEEDS. Wc •TerPWTPAID aiYttl'R 1MH)K, mutt,

,**■»*! Choice Krer-Bloomiag Rom, ail labeled.$1.M Choice Keer Blooming Ro*e*. all labeled. JM Best Chrysanthemums. * kind*, labeled. JM> 1 pkfc. each, 10 Tars. Flower Seed—StJ.r Coliec’n .15 Choice ▼are. Veifct. Seed, for Family Garden l.«« Write to-day for onr mpirWy ill oat rated SEW ROOK ©F Jr L4IWE KB—Free to all, describe* the above complete net and acoren of ofbej^- Address THE -?S1 ft COWARD ca. Box 86, Wert Owe, Fa.

CATARRH | Eli’s Ciiai Balm | Gold io Head ELY IKS., M Warns CS.1.1

r

TMUTII rtwntnv ccbed *Mk ■_ a,-.- ^^W-SaS5SSK I hopcl __^wNon. Ifeiftbg ot ~izri. sriiis'i •wK-si »r*W »■***!«<!» •***!*

A PERTINENT QUESTION, An Interesting Sermon by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage. ■A* W« Can Not Live Oar Uvea Over Again, let l'« Atone for the Past Vjy Redoubled Holiness and Industry. The following sermon was delivered in tho Brooklyn Academy of Music by ! Bev. T. Do Witt Taimagc on the subIjeet:. “Would Y6u Like to Live Your | Life Over Again.” His text was: Alithuta man hath will he give for his life.—Job 11., 4. . ] That is untrue. The Lord did not say | it, but Satan said it to the Lord, when I the evil one wanted Job still more afflicted. The record is: “So went Satan j forth from the presence of the lord and smote Job with sore boils.” And Satan has beon the author of all eruptive diseases since then, and he hopes by poisoning the blood to poison the soul. But the result of the diabolical experiment which left Job victor proved the falsity of the satanic remark: All that a man hath will he giveforhis life. Many a captain has stood on the bridge of the steamer till his passengers got off and be drowned; many an engineer has kept his hand on the throttle "valve or his foot on the brake until the most of the train was saved, while he went down to death through the open draw-bridge; many a fireman has plunged into a blazing house to get a ■sleeping child out, sacrificing his own life in tho attempt, and thousands of martyrs have submitted to fiery stake and knife of massacre and headsman's axe and guillotine rather than surrender principle, proving that in many a case my text was not true, when it says: All that a mall hath will he Rive for his life. But Satan's falsehood was built on a truth. Life is very precious, and if wo would not give up all there are many things we would surrender rather than surrender it. AVe see how precious life is from the fact that we do every thing to prolong it. Ilentte ail sanitary regulations, all study of hygiene, all fear of drafts, all water-proofs, all doctors, all medicines, all struggle in crisis of accident. An-Admiral of the British navy was court-martialed for turning his ship around in time of danger and so damaging the ship. It was proved against him. liut when his* time came to be heard he said: “Gentlemen, I did turn tho ship around and admit that it was damaged, but do you want to know why I turned it? There was a man overboard, and I wanted to save him, and I did save him, and I consider the life of one sailor worth all the vessels of the British navy.” •

nuiiuot UC Wil9 uuu is indeed very precious. Yes, there are tliose who deem life so precious they would like to try it again. They would like to go back from seventy to sixty, from sixty to fifty, from fifty to- forty, from forty to thirty, from thirty to twenty* I purpose for very practical and useful purposes, as will appear before 1 got through, to discuss the question we have all asked of others, and others have again and again asked of us,-would you like to live your life over again? The faot is that no intelligent and right-fearing man is satisfied with his past life. Wo have all made so many mistakes, stumbled into so many blunders, said so many things that ought not to have been said, and done so many things that ought not to have been done, that we can suggest at least ninety-five per cent, of improvement. Now, would it, not be grand if the good Lord would say to you: “You can go back and try it over again. I will by a word turn your hair to brown or black or golden, and smooth all the wrinkles out of your temple and cheek, and take tho bend out of your shoulders, and extirpate the stiffness from the joint and the rheumatic twinge from the foot, and you shall be twentyone years of age amir just what yop were when you reached that point before.” If the proi>osition were made I think many thousands would accept it. That feeling caused the ancient search for what was called the Fountain of Youth, the waters of which taken would turn the hair of the octogenarian into the curly locks of a boy, and however1 old a person who drank at that fountain he would be young again. Tho island was said to belong to the group of the ltahamas* but lay far out in the ocean. The great Spanish explorer, Juan Ponce de Leon, fellow voyager with Columbus, I have no doubt felt, that if he could discover that Fountain of Youth he would do as much as his friend had done in discovering America. So he p«t out in 1513 from Porto Kico and cruised about among the Kahamas in search of this fountain. I am glad ho did not find

There is no such fountain, but if there were and its waters were bottled up and sent abroad at one thousand dollars a bottle, the demand would bo greater than the supply, and many a map whp has come through a life of uselessness, and perhaps sin, to old age would be shaking up the potent liquid, and if he were directed to to take only a. teaspoonful after each meal would be so anxious to make sure work he would take a tablespoonful, and if directed to take a tablespoonful would take a glassful. ltut„some of you would have to go back further than to twenty-one years of age to make a fair start, for there are many who manage to get all wrong before that period. Yes, in order to get a fair start some would have to go back to the father and mother and get them corrected; yea, to the grandfather and grandmother and have their life corrected, for somo of you are suffering from bad hereditary influences which started a hundred years ago. Well* if your grandfather lived bis livei oyer again and your father lived his life over again and you lived your life over again, what a cluttered up place this world would be, a place filled with miserable attempts at repairs. 1 begin to think that it is better for each generation to have only one chance, and then for them to pass off and givo another generation a chance. Beside that, if we were permitted to live life over again it would be a stale and stupid experience. The zest and spur and enthusiasm of life come from the fact that we. have never been along this road before, and every thing is new, and we are alert for wbat may appear at the nest turn of the road. Suppose you, a man in mid-life or old ago, were, with your present feelings and large attainments, put back into tho thirties, or the twenties, or intp the teens, what a nuisance you would be to others, and what an unhappiness to yourself. Your cotemporaries would not want you and you would not want them. Things that in your previous journey of life stirred your healthful ambition,yr gave you pleasurable surprise, o<paM^-y°u into happy interrogation, woworonly call forth from you a disgusted “Oh, pshaw!” You would be blase at thirty and a misanthrope at forty an! unendurable at fifty. The most insane and stupid thing imaginable would bo a second journey of life. It is amusing to hear people say: “I would like to live my life over again if I could take my present experience and knowledge of things back with me and begin under those improved auspices.” Why, what an uninteresting boy you would be with your present attainments |p # ebjJ4’» Wind, t»9 <«? would w«Bt .

such a boy around the house: A philosopher at twenty,a scientist at fifteen, an archseologist at ten, and a domestic nuisance all the time. An oak crowded into an acorn. A Rocky mountain eagle thrust back into the egg-shell from which he was batched. Resides that, if you took life over again, you would have to take its deep sadnesses over again. Would you want to try again the griefs and the heart breaks and the bereavements through which you have gone? What a mercy that'we shall never be called to suffer them again! We may have others bad enough, but tbose old ones never again. Would you want to go through theprocess of losing your father again, or your mother again, or your companion in life again, or your child again? If you were permitted to stop at the sixtieth milestone, or the fiftieth milestone, or the fortieth milestone, and retrace your steps to the twentieth, your experience would be something like mine one day last November in Italy. I walked through a great city with a friend and two guides, and there were in all. the city only four persons, and they were those of our own group. We went up and down the streets, we entered the houses, the museums, the temples, the theaters. Wo examined the wonderful pictures on the walls and the most exquisite mosaics on the floor. In the streets were the deep-worn ruts of wagons, but not a wagon in the city. On the front steps of mansions the word “Welcojpe,” in Latin, but no human being to greet us. The only bones of any of the citizens that we saw were petrified and in the museum at the gates. Of the thirty-five thousand people who once lived in those homes and worshiped in those temples and clapped in those theaters, not one,, left! For eighteen hundred years that City of Pompeii had been buried before modern exploration scooped out of it the lava of Vesuvius. Well, be who should be permitted to return on the pathway of his early life and live it over again would find as lonely and sad a pilgrimage. It would be an exploration of the dead past. The old school-house, the old church, the old home, the old play-ground either gone or occupied by others, and for you more depressing than was our Pompeiian visit in November. Beside that, would you want to risk the temptations of life over again? From the fact that you are here I com elude that though in many respects your life may have been unfortunate and unconsecrated you have got on so far tolerably well, if nothing more than tolerable. As for myself, though my life

has been far from being as consecrated as I would like to have had it, I would not want to try it over again, lest next time I would do worse. Why, just look at the temptations we have all passed through, and just look at the multitudes who have gone completely under. Just call over the roll of your school-mates and college-mates, the clerks who were with you in the same store or bank, or the operatives in the same factory, with just as £ood prospects as you, who have come to complete mishap. Some young man that told you he was going to be a millionaire and own the fastest trotters on Westchester turnpike, and retire by the time he was thirty-five years, of age, you do not hear from for many years, and know nothing about him until some day be comes into your store and asks for five cents to get a mug of beer. You, the good mother of a household, and all your children rising up "to call you blessed, can remember when you wore quite jealous of the belle of the village, who was so transcendentty fair and popular. But while you have these two honorable and queenly names of wife and mother, she became a poor waif of the street and went into the blackness of darkness forever. Live life over again? Why, if many of those who are now respectable were permitted to experiment, the next journey would ho demolition. You got through, as Job says, by the skin of the teeth. Next time yon might not get through at all. Satan would say: “1 know him better than I did before, and have for fifty years been studying his weaknesses, and I will weave a stronger web of circumstances to catch him next time.” And Satan would concenter his forces on this one man, and the ’ last state of that man would be worse than the first. My friends, our faces are in' the right direction. Better go forward than backward, even if we had the choice.' The greatest disaster I can think of would be for you to return to boyhood in 1890. Oh, if life were a smooth Lucerne or Cayuga lake, I would like to get into a yacht and sail over it, not one, but twice—yea, a thousand times. But life is an uncertain sea, and some of the ships crash on the icebergs of cold indifference, and some take fire of evil passion, and some lose their hearings and run into the skerries, and some arc never heard of. Surely on such a treacherous sea as that one voyage is enough. • nil ihio iron Irnnnr if iron

could lijvc your wish and live life over again it would put you so much further from reunion with your friends in Heaven? If you are in the noon of life or the evening of life you are not very far from the golden gate at which you are to meet your transported and cmparadised loved ones. You are now, let us say, twenty years or ten years or one year off from celestial conjunction. Now suppose you went back in your earthly life thirty years, or forty years, or fifty years, what an an awful postponement of the time of reunion! It would be as though you were going to San Francisco to a great banquet and you go to Oakland, four or five miles this side of it, and then came back to Hoboken or Harlem to get a better start; as though you were going to England to be crpwned,and having come in sight of the mountains of Wales you put back to Sandy Hook in order to make a better voyage. The further on you got in life, if a Christian, the nearer you are to the renewal of broken up com. - panionship. No; the wheel of time truss in the right direction, and it is well it turns so tagt Three hundred and sixty-flvo revolutions in a year and forward, rather than three hundred and sixty-five revolutions in a year and backward. But hear ye! hear ye! while I tell you hgw you may practically live your life over again, and be all the better for it. You may put into the. remaining years of your life all you have learned of wisdom in your past life. You may make the coming ten years worth the preceding forty or fifty years. When a man says he would like to live his life over again becauso he would do so much better, and yet goes right on Hying as he has always lived, do you not sen be stultifies himself? "He proves that if he could go back he would do almost the same as he has done. It a man eats green apples some Wednesday in cholera time, and is thrown into fearful cramps, and sa.ys on Thursday: “I wish I had been more prudent in my diet; oh. if 1 could live Wednesday, over again,” and then on Friday eats apples just as green, he proves that it would have been no advantage for him to live AVodnesday over again. And it we, deploring our past life and with the idea of improvement, long for an opportunity to try it over again, yet go on making the same mistakes and committing the same sins, we only demonstrate that the repetition of our existence would afford no improvement It was green apples before and it would be ftreea apples pv«r ft^ftio. A* W# M ft

ship captain strikes a rock in the lake or sea he reports it and a buoy is swung: oyer that reef aud mariners, henceforth stand off from that rock. And ail our mistakes in the past ought to be buoys warning us to keep in the right channel. There is no excuse for us if we split on the same rock where we split before. Going along the sidewalk at night where excavations are being made, we frequently see a lantern on a framework, and we turn aside, fer that lantern says, keep out of this hole. And all along the pathway of life lanterns are set as warnings, and by this time we come to midlife we ought to know where it is safe to walk and where it is unsafe. '* My young friends, I am. glad you made this application of the sermon yourself. When a minister toward the close of his sermon says: “Now a few words by way of application,” people begin to look around for their hats and their arm through one sleeve of their overcoats, and the sermonic application is a failure. I am glad you have made your own application, and that you are resolved, like a Quaker of whom I read years ago, who, in substance, said: “I shall be along this path of life but once, and so I must do all the kindness I can and all the good I can.” My hearers, the mistakes of youth can never be corrected. Time gone is gone forever. An opportunity passed the thousandth part of a second has by one leap reached the other side of a great eternity. In the autumn when the birds migrate you look up and see the sky black with wings, and the flocks stretching out into many leagues of air, and so to-day I look up and see two large wings in full sweep. They are the wings of the flying year. That is followed by a flock of three hundred and sixty-five, and they are the flying days: Each of the flying days is followed by twenty-four, and they are the flying hours, and each of these is followed by sixty, and these are the flying minutes; Where did this great flock start from? Eternity past. Where are they bound? Eternity to come. You iriiglB as well go a-gunning for the quails that whistled last year in the meadows or the robins that last yearcaroled in the skjt as to try to fetefr down and bag oiiir of the past opportunities of your life. Do not say: “I will loungo now and make it up afterwards.”

Young men ana boys, you can t make it up. My observation is that those who in youth sowed wile. oat3, to the end of their short life sowed wild oats, and that those who start sowing Genesee wheat always sow Genesee wheat. And then the reaping of the harvest is so different There is grandfather now'. He has lived to old age because his habits have been good. His eyesight fc(r this world has got somew'hat dim, but his eyesight for Heaven is radiant. His hearing is not so acute as it once was, and he must bend clear over to hear what his little grandchild says, when she asks him what he has brought for her. But he easily catches the music raised from supernal spheres. Men passing in the streets take off their hats in reverence and women say: “What a good old man he is.” Seventy or eighty years all for God and for making this world happy. Splendid! Glorious! Magnificent! He will have hard work getting into Heaven, because those whom he helped to get there will fill up and crowd the gates to tell him how glad they are at his coming until he says: “Please to stand back a little till I pass through and cast my crown at the feet of Him whom having not seen I love.” I do not know what you call that. I call It the harvest of Genesee wheat Out yonder is a man very old at forty years of age, and at a time when he ought to be buoyant as the morning. He got bad habits on him very early, and those habits have become worse, He is a man on fire, on fire with alcoholism, on fire with all evil habits, out with the world and the world out with him. Down and falling deeper. His swollen hands in his threadbare pockets, and his eyes fixed on the ground, he passes through the street and the quick step of an innocent child or the strong step of a young man or the roll of a prosperous carriage madden him, and he curses society and he curses God. Fallen sick, with no resources, he is carried to the alms-house. A loathsome spectacle, he lies all day long waiting for dissolution, or in the night rises on his cot and fights apparitions of what he might have been and what he will be. He started life wltbi as good a prospect as any man on the American continent, but there he is a bloated carcass, waiting for the shovels of public charity to put him five feet under. He has only reaped what he sowed. Harvest Of wild oats! “There is a way that seemeth right to a man, but the end thereof is death.” Young man, as you can not live life over again however you may long to do so, be sure to have your one life right. There is in this august assembly I wot not, tor we are made up of all sections of this land and from many lands, some young man who has gone away from homo and, perhaps, under some little spite or evil persuasion of another, and his,parents know not where he is. My son, go home! Do not go to sea. Don’t go to-night where you may be tempted to go. Go home! Your father will be glad to see you and your mother. I need not tell you how she feels. How I would like to make your parents a present of their wayward boy, repentant and in his right mind. I would like to write them a letter, and you to carry the letter, saying:

-isy the blessing 01 uoa on my sermon I introduce to ypu one whom you hare never seen before, for he has become a new creature in Christ Jesus.” My boy, go home and put your tired head on the bosom that nursed you so tenderly in your childhood years. A young Scotchman was in battle taken captive by a band of Indians, and he learned their language and adopted their habits. Years passed on, but the old Indian chieftain never forgot that he had in his possession a young man who did not belong to him. Well, one day this tribe of Indians came in sight of the Scotch regiments from whom this young man had fieen captured, and the old Indian chieftain said: “I lost my boy in battle, and I know how a father feels at the loss of a son. Do you think your father iB yet alive?” The young man said: “I am the only son of my father, and I hope he is still alive.” Then said the Indian chieftain: “Because of the loss of my son this world is a desert. You go free. Return to your countrymen. Revisit your father, that he may rejoice when he sees the* sun rise in the morning and the trees blossom in the spring.” So,I say to you, young man, captive of waywardness and sin: Your father is waiting for you. Yonr mother is waiting for you. Your sisters are waiting for you. Do home! Go home! Hebe is a short sermon by a woman, though not preached from a pulpit. It is a good one, and is pretty sure to hit yopr own case somewhere, whatever may be your age and circumstances: “The best thing to give to your enemy' is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to your father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.—Interior. Give what yovThsm To ipme one It nay be better than you dare fp think.-rs Longloll ow.

BITS FROM ABROAD. An English railway company has set apart a special fund from which to reward aots of bravery on the part of its j employes. Five years ago there were five girlu’ schools in Yokohama and Tokio. Today there are more than thirty, and all well patronised. Isr one day last summer 106 Americans visited Burns' birthplace. The pilgrims during the-year numbered 80,000 to tho cottage and SO,000 to the monu- | ment. In the British na vy in 1888 the sick list included 087 men out of every 1,000 in the service, and that was the hest showing the navy had made since 1850. The death rate was 5.71 to 1,000. Theke is no taxation upon eijfier real or personal property at Para, but when4 a piece of real esta te is sold the pu r- ! chaser is required to pay a fee to tie Government of five per cent, on the selling price. The Minister of the Interior at Rome recently ordered a committee to investigate and compare the police uniforms of all nations, preliminary to a choice for the municipal and rural police throughj out Italy. It is proposed both in Vienna and in Paris to water the streets with a disinfectant mixture—with water haybug ; powerful antiseptic ma&ers dissolvedln ! it. They are tired waiting upon ttie microscopists to discover the influenza microbe and mean to get rid of the di 3order as best they may. The French papers are . filled wit h 1 sensational telegrams concerning tlie war of laces in the United States, re»- 1 resenting the condition of affairs in the Southern States as most critical. “Pour i America!” says one paper; “fighting ■ over the question of color for a hua-j dred years—and not settled yet.” , Aj As: English bride received a gre™ shock of surprise the other day when l Queen Victoria actually sent her for a wedding present a diamond pendant containing a lock-of her Majesty's ha r. j The Queen has rarely given any thing tor many years but India shawls (which are given to her by hundreds), so that ' her wedding presents do not cost her j much. The recently-published statistics of the Imperial German Post-Office I epartment show that in 1888 there we-e 18,508 post-offices in Germany, wish 10;016 telegraph offices and 03,888'officials of all grades: 3,336,807,950 piec \T of mail were handled, 22,135,167 te! egrams were sent. The money orders >t \ all offices in the country amounted o 17,088,962,416 marks.

Russia to give married women person al passports. Hitherto they could only ie inscribed on choso of their husban',; s. They could not leave the country wit hout their husbands’ consent. This neform, if carried out, will put an end » the intolerable sufferings of those pc >r women to whom d vorce is impossible bccauso of its expense. The Pall Mall Gazette states that there lately arrived from Alexandria :it Liverpool a consignment of hearty twenty tons of cals, numbering some 180,000, taken out o.' an ancient subt: rranean cats’cemetery discovered about one hundred mile-; from Cairo by an Egyptian fellah, who accidentally fi ll into this cats’ ceme :ery, which he found completely filled w ith cats, every one of which had been separately embalmed and dressed in clo t, after the manner of Egyptian mudrn ies, and all laid out in rows. In ancien times tho Egyptian cat was buried w: th all honors, lmt those shipped to Li rerpool will be used as fertilizing mater al. HISTORICAL HINTS. Ix 1G16 there wo -e only 350 English people in all North America. The true blephan first made his appearance in the epoch jnstprecedingr the “Great Ico Age” in Hurope and America. Ix Scotland a similar functionary to tho English Christmas Lord of Misrule used to bo appointee, under tho title of tho Abbot of Uutiason till the year 1555, when the offic<was abolished by act of Parliament Seattle was founded thirty-eight years ago by some thirty or forty men who went there in the schooner Exact, which had boon chartered by a party of California miners to go to Alaska. These young men were Ian led at Alki Point, and went to the sit® of Seattle, whiich was then an Indian .settlement and Plainly a dense forest. General Shersia i says that Russians were the first settle s of California. His authority is a Russian officer who ga.vo him facts to. substai tiate the statement. The Russian said 1 is countrymen had settled on the presc at si te of San Francisco twenty yeans 1 efore the field fever. At that time the/ were engaged in hunting furs in A laska>, and. the San Francisco villago vas a supply de]?ot for the Arctic hunt rs. It was the goddess Strenna (strength) who gave her nimo to strenna, tho Italian for New 1'ear’s gift, whence came the French word etrenue, which means tho same tiling. On the first d ay of the year, in the earliest Roman tim es, champion wrestlers used to be conduc ed amid musio and dancing to her temple, and there crowned with verbena—a plant which had the reputation of givi ng strength to those w ho inhaled it. For that It was planted allround Strenna’s temple, and also in court-yards and g ardens. _ _____ PHILOSOPHICAL FRAGMENTS. The truest sign of a broad man is a cheerful toleration of narrow men. Nature has wisely arranged matters so that a man can neither pa; his buck nor'sMflr himself. ■ 1 '_ .

3 50 0 5 IB 3 80 0 405 5 00 0 5 70 4 10 » 4 40 4 50 0 4 75 lilt* 775 nous—antes at.—. < WHEAT—No. 2 Re«l. OATS—No. 3 .. CORN-No. 2... NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Gr«.le. I CORN—White. ©AT8—Choice West am. HAY—Choice. » PORK—New Mess.. . BACON—Clear Rib... COTTON—Middling. LOUISVILLE. VrHEAT-No. 2 Rci..

—Dr. 8. "Weir Mitchell, the famous Philadelphia physician, is said to have lately received a rather curious present from a young lady whom he had rescued from nervous invalidism. It was a cord of white oak chopped down and sawed up by her own hands, and sent as circumstantial evidence of the health she had gained by following his directions to live an open-air life in the woods. Mt stomach and digestive organs were In a chronic state of disorder aDd my liver and bowels so torpid at times that I had to resort to the most drastic cathartics, which would always leave me in a delicate condition I suffered from general debility and my whole system became deranged. Sick headaches and violent cramps in my stomach were common, as also frequent skin eruptions, and no woman suffered from the weaknesses of our sex as 1 did. I was under treatment of several physicians and also used a much advertised sarsaparilla without the least apparent relief^ but instead my health became worse. X reluctantly consented to try Bull's ’Sarsaparilla. The first dose convinced me it was stronger than any other and I felta warmth through my whole system. Before I had finished the first bottle 1 began to improve I have only taken five bottles, and now my appetite is splendid, my bowels regular, and my digestion as good as it ever was. My headache and other troubles have ceased and I am better than I have been for ten years.—Ann. L. Cooke, Mt. VernonrInd. Tub ner ous timidity of brides and grooms can be easily explained, since it is natural for contracting parties to have a shrinking manner.—Baltimore American. A mas who has practiced medicine for 40 years, ought to know salt from sugar; read what he says: Toledo, O., Jan. 10,188T. Messes. F. J. Cheney 8s Co.—Gentlemen: I have been in the general practice of medicine for most 40 years, and would say that in all my practice and experience have never seen a pre paration that I could prescribe with as mui h confidence of success as I can Hall’s Cat >rrh Cure, manufactured by you. Have prescribed it a great many times and its effect is. wonderful, and would say in conclusion that I have yet to find a caseof Catarrh that it would not cure, if they would take it according to directions. Yours Truly, In L. Gorsuch, M. D., Office, 2i5 Summit St We will give $100 for any case of Catarrh that dan not be cured with HaU’s Catarrh Cura Taken internally. F. J. CnENTET & Co , Props., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c.-<■ Where is the boasted liberty of the press if a paper may not indulge in the luxury of grammatical errors without being hauled over the coals for iti—Binghamton Leader. The Women! God Bless Them! What would the world be without women 1 Our mothers, our sisters and our wives— what Would there be without them in life worth living? And yet whom do we neglect so cruelly i Our horses and our cattle are carefully sheltered and fed, and their first symptoms of ailing given quick attention. But our best friends among the gentler sex grow thin and pale beforo our very eyes, and because they do, not complain we fail to notice it. Oh! let the mist fall from our eyes and let us realize how weak and fragile is woman,.and how zealous we should be in their behalf when it comes to a question of health. Let us remember that for thin, pale wan looking women Dr. John Bull's Sarsaparilla is just their need. It will make their cheeks rosy and they will grow in strength and flesh.—Gaiiienvil’e Advocate.

Whex a dramatist says that his play has been produced “with varyingvsurcess,” you may conclude that it has been unvaryingly unsuccessful.--Texas Siftings. Sumter, Soria Carolina, June 2d, 1387. Dr. A. T. Shallexrerger, Rochester, Pa. Dear Sir;—l have been using your Antidote for Malaria in my family for several years. For more than a year 1 had chills, and was so low down that 1 had not strength to walk. Mr. Whomsley begged me to try the Antidote, and it cured me at once. I am now a strong, healthy man. We use no other medicine in the family, as we find it the quickest, safest, and also the cheapest. Yours very truly, Samuel Clark. What nonsense it is to say a man is “inclined to be bald ” When a man is becoming bald it is quite against his inclination. —Boston 'transcript. •‘Fair l'lay ” is all that is asked for Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, when taken for catarrh in the head, or for bronchial or throat affections, or lung scrofula (commonly known as consumption of the lungs) and if taken in time, and given a fair trial, it will cure or the money paid for it win be refunded, it is the only guaranteed cure. Cleanse the liver, stomach, bowels and whole system by using Dr. Pierce’s Pellets. Manners make the man—which explains why some men arc only half done. The force was too small for the job,—Puck. The “Mother’s Friend" Not only shortens labor and lessens pain attending it, but greatly diminishes the danger to life of both mother and child if used a few months before! confinement. Write to The Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga, for further particular. Sold by all druggists. The average waiter holds a tray, but the boarder generally finds him playing the deuoe.—Binghamton Leader. We moved here recently and the druggist said he didn’t have any Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers, but when I said I wouldn't have any other, he said he would get some in a few days, and so he did I know what Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers will do, and will not give my children any other.—Mr*. J. D, Blair, Burton, Cal. There are plent of barks upon the sea, but they have nothing to ib with the ocean grayhounds.—Boston Globe. No soap has ever been imitated as much as Dobbins’ Electric Soap. The market is fuU of imitations. Be careful that you are not deceived. “J. B. ’Dobbins, Philadelphia and New York,” is stamped on every bar. A married couple may be one but that one can not travel without two railroad tickets.—Rome Sentinel. Harsh purgative remedies are fast giving way to the gentle action and mild effects of Carter’s Little Liver Pills. If you try them, they will certainly please you. When a Prohibitionist goes out to paint the town he does it in water colors.—Binghamton Republican.

The Throat.—“Brown'* Brm chial Troche*” act directly on the organs af the voice. They have an extraordinary effect in all disorders of the throat. It Is a very strong-minded man who can have a bad cold and not have the influenza —Syracuse Herald. Check Colds and Bronchitis with Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. The position of Minister to Greece is looked upon as a fat office.—Yonkers Statesman. The best cough medicine is Piso’s Coro for Consumption. Sold everywhere. 25c. ANCiKHTAspinsterhood is the flirt’s punishment for cdhtempt of court—PuckW* recommend “Tansill’s Punch” Cigar. Kkowlkdoe is power — horse-power in some of the classical colleges.—Puck. Cures Promptly and Permanently RHEUMATISM, Lumbago, Headache, Toothache, NEURALGIA^ Sore Throat, Swellings, Frost-bites, SCIATICA. Sprains, Bruises, .Borns, Scalds. THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.. Baltimore. MR.

I

To enre Biliousness. Sick Headache. Constipation, Malaria. Urer Complaints, take the safe and certain remedy, SMJffH'8 BILE BEANS Use the SMALL 8IZR (40 little bean* to the bet. tie). They are the moat eonrentent; suit all aces. Price of either die, 35 cents per Pottle. KISSING S&&MSSKln cents (coppers or stamps). « Maker*of • ‘libBem*^StJ&ela. Mo. Mir,

f Customers ter®-- * Will find all they call foi^1 never -do business by halves— Lacking aught in tho trade that I seek to succeed to, 1 miss the success that is sought. The above grocer reminds ns of a celebrated physician whose cor' plete knowledge of the natural disorders in the human frame, has en. bled hint to compound a medicine that never “Misses the success that sought.” At cures all humors, from the common pimple, blotch, or era: tion, to the worst Scrofula or blood-poisoning. « Salt-rheum, Tette Eczema, Boils, Carbuncles, “Fever-sores” Hip-joint Disease, “Whi Swellings,” in short, all diseases caused by bad blood, of whatever nan ip or nature, are conquered by this powerful, purifying and invigoratir medicine. * So confident ate the manufacturers of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Jim «, real Discovery that it will accomplish all that is claimed for it; tb they have long sold it, through druggists, under a positive guarani that it will, iii every case, either benefit or cure, or money paid for it w L _ be promptly refunded. World's Dispensary Medical Association, Proprietors, No. 6> ! *: Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. - CATARRH Ilff THE HEAI no matter of how long utamling, Is p; mauently eared by OB. SAGE’S CATARRH REMEDY. 50 cents, by druggists.

•as—r,TWO MfcN C*«T;--312.00 *90^KBI5CCr *46,80 * lOS&SSH AHN K SS *4*7.8

BUY"PRICE: DIRECT from FACTORY A laves MIDDLEMAN’S7'. _ , _jPR0FIT8 for CASH. SI 2 1 U. S, BUGGY & CART WORKS. CINCINNATI, O.

I

OHB ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste ana acceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 60c and #1 bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who nay not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute. , CALIFORNIA FIS SYRUP CO, S/V ftuumco, CAL lovtsimu,ot._new tpm, n.r.

files La Mode. COLORED rum J1A SH3t FAJISS A3» SXlf iOKX FAS.tUOS S. &y Ortfer i i of yaor Ne ws-'fcttiler or SS Mftfcr for iau^t naruNrr to W. J. M«*KSE, Pablisker. 8 J&u* little **., A*W Yewrls.

#OKH!OfsJ RfiiOiKEO AS TO THE KaVti.Tr OF ll«EH71«54H»V*U®r» 0PWTEHTS. RCJEtTlS AmiosTscss vwmxrm Aaeus*Es$REur«6 w PWittn; F«catfi»AiTs«M r» SIKD STAMP FOR PAMPHLET On receipt of prim in protege stamps we will send ftcebj mail the ialinwina yaiaabie articles: One Box of l*oro Vaseline,_10 Cents. One Box of VaselineCampinn- Ice,l# Cts. One Boic of Vaseline (Via Cream.15 Cts. One Cake of Vaseline Soap..... 10 Cents. One Boiitte id Pomade Vaseline, 3 5 Cents. If mslitS Dotation So s» “Vasetia*’". to any form be osrtisl io accept only £« no** ft°o°* P°i Sp by as in eriffinai Pdbb>*!!j A ***** rat*!* me tr/ti* to ,«*u»«ie baym to tab* Vaseline Pwpwttfons P«? *P «g «*“»- K«™»J*,A to socfc persuasion, as !ae ariiclo is aa imitation withoat tslae sad will not do sood raw Kite yea the resalt yoa e:p«t.. A two onaee bottle of 81m Beal Vaw»>in» is su'd sty sil draatlne a* ten cant*. BoViatJUwta Sisals* shit**"'***™* It so ft* Ubfi.

I THE VETERANS REAL FRIE DOLTON’S Certain Rheumatism Cui o SUFFERERS, READ This is POSITIVELY the ONLY CERTAIN Rheumatism Cu It is also the BEST for Sciatica, Ohilfcftc Bunions. Backache, etc. 91 for4-os.$o ! SEO. E. DOLTON. stVou.sIi!

MADE WITH BOILING WATER. EPPS’S GRATEFUL-COMFORTING. COCO/ MADE WITH BOILING MILK. I JIKDIf INK CO., B0CH1STH, NEEDLES, f§a£2S?*£S< SHUTTLES, 3KSSSS3S!: nr.n - mn 11 list. Bi.iCot K Sl'ir’H REPAIRS. I 300Locust st.bLLool B-SlHt THIS CAPItt «.«. ym«t«. $75.S2to$250.22 icrred who can fnrnisj a horse ami give their W time to the business. Spare moments may be profit employed also. A few vacancies in towns and c B. F. JOHNSON * CO.. lOOP Main St., Richmond «a*KAJfi; THIS PAPER emry Um r—wtWw * . | CAVEATS, TRADEMAf _LABEIJi A DESIO GP“ Send rough sketch or cheap mod invention lMMimi ATEI.Y )o * CHIUMI jA.UHid.in * *« , IALLE * CO., HA8HIS6TOS, i NORTHERN PACIFIf. II LOW PRICE RAILROAD LARDS 3 FREE Government LANE . g!ILLIpN8 OF ACRE8 1. Mln^wla. North otii, Moutaan. Idaho, Tt iiAhing ton and Ore Cturt CAfi lhiblieations With maps describing atnil run BIST Agricultural, G rasing and fir Land^how open to Settlers. SENT FREE* SHAS. 6. LAMBORN,' and Gommlsslor ST. PAUL, MIN 1 CURE FITS When I say cnre I do not mean merely to stop |! for a time and then have them return again. I me radical cure. I haTe made the disease 4>f PITS, LEPST or FALLING SICKNESS a life long study. I rant my remedy to cure the worst cases. Bee others have failed Is no reason for not now receivi cure. Send at once for a treatise and a Ffeei ott my infallible remedy. Give Express and Post-O B. «. BOOT. U. C-. 1S8 Pearl Street, Sew Y CT»m THU I’APEK «*«ry ti». ynwtif. WAU-KA-ROO-SH/ THE GREAT INDIAN TOBACCO PLANT tt and positive antidote and CUBE for the evil ef from CHE WINC or SMOKING TOBACCO? good for Catarrh. Asthma, etc. Price, per package 3 for 91 by mail; 3 packages euros worst cases. Ad< ' WA'-ttC-BACGlI IStlAK J - •st-hare xms rarut • earFAME THIS PAPER ecj tim. jou wtha

FI ET BUI C* 1 w-wni< bNOlUNWartilng ton, V s ire in last war, 1A adjudicating claims, att j s irlUH IBIS PAPER mtjlta« jmmHA. niTPIITA I Invent something »nd n PA] ENTS ^ FORTUNE! * ■ ■» ■ I” I or INSTRUCTIONS FH>/ AMN» W. T. F1TZGEKAUK WASHINGTON, 6f every siae make, both J _ and Secom> H WK1TK FOR CATALOGUE. ST. IX* WHEEL CO., 311 N. Fourteenth Street, St. Louis BICYCLES; <tsoo iroBsaiBinTtEC work. AnyWly can do it. No capital req *._■ _»i____» VT.ita r<up no $IJ»i to $ gywuw^uRE. if ^pitai required. Busi f.v» noptii-nlnni. work. Any body cannon. newpiwi..,--.-. — MUST H AVE «a« fcrSs. stamp. Immense l nrlynllrd. Ub!i(P» ever invented. Beats weights. Sates unparatelted. f toy. Write fair*. Brolturd & €0., Clarksburg, t to *8 a day. Samples worth $ FRKK. hint's not voder horses’ feet. V . BUKIt 'TKR SAPETT BUS BOLDER CO., IWIj. M-xaaa ibis paper .m, u». paw. fta worn Treated anil cared without the k l.rt^lirn Book on treatment sent free, Ad( Uffll ULIIK I,. POSU.M-D-AnroraOtaneCi or seat mis paper mea«i«««»_* Root Grafts—Everythin r!^Nr>^l» stock in u. 8.: $5 TREES not. „■ ... No belter. No obei PIKE CO. NURSERIES, Louisiana liAMP STUDY. Book-keeping.Penmanship,/ II If ME metic, Shorthand, etc., thoroughly ta ‘‘T™ circulars free. *!»rARTSCOLLEGE, EsEhte n-RAWE IBIS PAPER ..wj iu~ !« n*._' EXPhORATIOr- . IisI Co., St. I ctri lARANT Loots. SStSBSiol US WU$ bc'Naiu irate paper ma uujnn«k JYEOTOAT, PROPOSAL, ACCEPTANCE CAEDS, RLE' Fbj kiU, Ktied, W*. CHAN DOS A CO., W ftr* Itew, «riuau Katie PAPER amr Mm yN«nl». A. N. K. B. I2S2. mat i \ffm. gHg *** I- P** >i >02iti ir»** *i fifljggf; i ttfM