Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 48, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 April 1890 — Page 4

BUYING AND SELLING. Rev. T. DoWitt T aim age Talks cm the Trickeries of Trade. The Deelre for Wealth Often Overmasters Han’s Better Nature—The Result Mar be Present Prosperity, Rat the End is Ruin. The following discourse, more directly addressed to business men, was delivered in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, by Bev. T. DeWitt Talmage from the text: * It is naught, it is naught, sayetli the bu yer; but when he Is gone his way, then be boasteth—ProT. xx., It Palaces are not such prisons as the world imagines. If you think that the only time Kings and Queens come forth from the royal gates is in proc ession j and gorgeously attended, you are mistaken. Incognito, by day or by night, and clothed in citizens’ apparel, or the dress of a. working woman, t'ey come out and see the world as it is. In no other way could King Solomon, the author of liny text, have known every

thing that was going on. From tr.y text I am sure he must, in disguise, some day have walked into a store of ready-made clothing, in Jerusalem, and stood near the counter and overheard a conversation between a buyer and a Beller. The merchagrt put a price on a coat and the customer began to dicker and said: “Absurd! that coat is not worth what you ajk for it Why, just look at the coarseness of the fabric! See that spot on the collar! Besides that It does not lit Twenty dollars for that? Why, it isn’t worth more than ten. They have a better article than that and for cheaper price, down at Cloathem, Fitem & Bros. Besides that, I don’t want it at any price. Good morning.”- “Hold,” says the merchant; “don’t go off in that way. 1 want to sell you that coat I have some payments to make and I want the money. Oomo now, how much will you give for that coat?” “Well,” says the customer, “I will split the difference. You asked twenty dollars, and I said ten dollars. Ndw, 1 will give you fifteen dollars.” “Well,” says the merchant “it’s a great sacrifice, but take it at that price.” Then Solomon saw the customer with a roll under his arm start and go out and enter his own place of business, and Solomon in disguise followed him. He heard the customer as he unrolled the coat say: “Boys, I have made a great bargain. How much do you guess I gave for that coat?” “Well,” says one, wishing to compliment his enterprise, “you gave thirty dollars lor it” Another says: “I should think you got it cheap if you gave twenty-five dollars.” “No,” says the buyer in triumph, “I got it for fifteen dollars. I beat him down and pointed out the imperfections, nutil I really made him believe it was not worth hardly any thing. It takes me to make a bargain. Ha! Ha!” Oh, man, you got the goods for less than they were worth by positive falsehood; and, no wonder, When Solomon went back to his palace and had put oil hits disguise, that he sat down at his writing desk and made for all ages a crayon sketch of you: “It is naught, it is naught, sayeth the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.” There are no higher styles of men in all the world than those now at the head of merchandise in Brooklyn and New York and in the other great cities of this continent Their casual promise is as good as a bond with piles of collaterals. Their reputation for integrity is as well established as that of Petrarch residing in the family of Cardinal Colonna, and when there was great disturbance in the family the Cardinal called all his people together, and put them under oath to tell the truth, except Petrarch, for when he came up to swear the Cardinal put away his book and “As to you, Petrarch, your; word is sufficient” Never since thw world stood have there been so many merchants whose transactions can stand the test of the ten commandments. Such bargain-makers are all the more to be honored because they have withstood, year after year, temptations which have flung many so flat and flung them so hard they can never recover* hemse Ives. While all positions in life have powerful besetments to evil there are specific forms of allurement which are peculiar to each occupation and profession, and, jt will be useful to speak of the peculiar temptations of business men. First as in the scene of the text business men are often tempted to sacrifice plain truth, the seller by exaggerating "the value of goods, and the buyer by depreciating them. We can not but admire an expert salesman. .See how he first induces the customer into a mood favorable to the proper consideration of the value of the goods. He shows himself to be an honest and frank salesman. How carefully the lights are arranged till they fall just right upon the fabric! Beginning with goods of medium qcal

lty, be gradually advances toward those ol more thorough make and of more attractive pattern. How he watches the moods and whims of his customer! With what perfect calmness he takes the order, and bows the purchaser from his presence, who goes away having made up his mind that he has bought the goods at a price which will allow him a living margin when he again sells them. The goods are worth what the salesman said they were, and were sold at a price whieh will not make it necessary for the house to failevory ten years in order to fix up things. Bnt with what burning indignation we think of the iniquitous stratagems by which goods are sometimes disposed of. A glance at the morning papers shows the arrival at one of our hotels of a young merchant from one of the inland cities. He is a comparative stranger in the great city, and, of course, he must he shown around, and it will be the duty of our enterprising houses to escort him. He is a large purchaser and has plenty of time and money, and it will pay to be very attentive. The evening is spent at a place of doubtful amusement Then they go back to the hotel. Having just come to town, tjfcey must, of course, drink. A-friend from the same mercantile establishment drops in, and usage and generosity suggests that they must talked warned drink. over, Business prospects and the stranger are is against certain dilapidated mercantile establishments that about to fail, and for such kindness, and magnanimity of caution against the dishonesty of other business houses, of course it is expected they will—and so they do—they take a drink. Other merchants lodging in adjoining rooms find it hard to sleep for the clatter of decanters, and the coarse carousal of “hail fellows well met” waxes londer. all They notr cup. They Bnt they sit night at the wine must see the sights, stagger forth with cheeks flashed and eyes bloodshot. The outer gates of hell open to-let in the victims. The wing’s of lost souls flit among the lights, and the ateps of carouse re sound with the rumbling thunders of the damned. Farewell to all the sanctities of home! Could mother, sister, father,slumbering in the inland home, in some vision of that night catch a glimpse of the ruin wrought they would rend out their hair tar the root* and bite the tongue until anne^ ikliUlrinA Allt! “Ofid the blood sported, shrieking out; •are hlpt” • WUh Mffm jVb m wm ww

BDfih business establishments? and there are hundreds of them in the cities, j They may boast of fabulous sales, and they may have an unprecedented run of buyers, and the name of the bouse may he a terror to all rivals, and from this thrifty root there may spring up branch houses in other cities, and all the partners of the firm may move into their mansions and drive their full-blooded span, and the families may sweep toe streets with the most elegant apparel that human art ever wove or earthly magnificence ever achieved. But .a curse is gathering somewhere lor those men, and If it does not seize hold of the pillars and in one wild ruin bring down the temple of commercial glory it will break up their peace, and they will tremble with sicknesses and bloat with dissipations, and pushed to the precipice of this life, they will iry to hold back, and cry for help, but no help will come; and they will clutch their gold to take it along with them, but it will be snatched from their grasp, and a voice will sound through their soul: “Not a farthing, thou beggared spirit!” And the judgment will come and they will stand aghast before it, and all the business

iniquities or a motirae win gainer around them, saying: “Do you remember this?” and ‘>Do you remomlier that?” And clerks that they compelcd to dishonesty, and runners and draymen and book-keepers who saw behind the scenes, will bear testimony to their nefarious deeds, and some virtuous soul that once stood aghast at the splendor and power of these business men will say: “Alas! this is all that is left ’of that great firm that occupied a block with their merchandise and ovor-shad-owed the city with their influence, and made righteousness and truth and purity fall under the galling fire of avarice ind crime.” While we admire and approve of all acuteness and tact in the sale of goods, we must condemn any process by which a fabric or product is represented as possessing a value which it really does not have. Nothing but sheer falsehood can represent as perfection boots that rip, silks that speedily loose their luster, calicoes that immediately wash out, stoves that crack under the first hot fire, books insufficiently bound, carpets that unraved, old furniture rejuvinated with putty and glue, and sold as having been recently manufactured; gold watches made out of brass; barrels of fruit;;the biggest apples on the top; wine adulterated with strychnine, hosiery poorly woven, clothes of domestic manufacture shinning with foreign labels, imported goods represented as rare and hard to get, because foreign exchange is so high, rolled outon the counter with match! ess display. Imported indeed! but from the factories in the next street. A pattern already unfashionable and unsalable palmed off as a new print upon some country merchant who has come to town to make his first purchase of dry goods and going home with a large stock of goods warranted to keep. Young business man, avoid the first business dishonor, and you will avoid all the rest. The captain of a vessel was walking near the mouth of a river when the tide was low, and there was a long stout anchor chain, into one of the groat links of which his foot slipped, and it began to swell and he could not withdraw it The tide began to rise. The chain could not be loosened nor filed off in time, and a surgeon was called to amputate the limb, but before the work could -be done the tide rolled over the victim, and his life was gone. And I have to tell you, young man, that just one wrong into which you slip may bo a link of a long chain of circumstances from which you can not bo extricated by any ingenuity of vour own, or any help from others, and the tides will roll over you as they have over many. When Pompoy, the warrior, wanted to take possession of a city, and they would not open the gates, he persuaded them to admit a sick soldier. But the sick soldier after awhile got well and stong, and he threw open the gates and let the devastating army come in. Ono wrong admitted into the soul may gain in strength until, after awhile, it flings open all the avenues of the immortal nature, and the surrender is complete. Again, business men are sometimes tempted to throw off personal responsibility upon the moneyed institution to which they belong. Directors in banks and railroad and insurance companies sometimes shirk personal responsibility underneath the action of the corporation. And how often, when some banking house or financial institution explodes, through fraud, respectable men in the board of directors say: “Why, I thought all was going on in an honest way, and I am utterly confounded with this misdemeanor!” The banks, and the fire and life and marine insurance companies, and the railroad companies, will not stand up for judgment in the la3t day, but those who in them acted righteously will receivq,. each for himself, a reward, and those

who acted the part of neglect or trickcry will, each for himself, receiv^ a condemnation. Unlawful dividends are not clean before God, because there are those associated with you who srrab just as big a pile as you do. lie who countenances the dishonesty of the firm, or of the corporation, or of the association, takes upon himself all the moral liabilities. If the financial institution steal, he steals. If they go into wild speculations, ho himself is a gambler. If they needlessly embarrass a creditor, hi^himself is guilty of cruelty. If they swindle the uninitiated, he himself is a defrauder. No financial institution ever had a money vault strong enough, or credit stanch enough,or dividends large enough, or policy acute enough to hide the individual sins of its members. The old adage, that corporations have no souls, is misleading. Every corporation lias as many souls as it has members. Again, many business men have been tempted to postpone their enjoyments and duties to a future season of entire leisure. What a sedative the Christian religion would be to all our business men il, instead of postponing its uses to old age or death, they would take it into the store or factory or worldly engagements now! It is folly to go amid the uncertainties of business life with no God to help. A merchant in a New England village was standing by a horse, and the horse lifted his foot to stain p it in a pool of water; and the merchant, to escape the splash stepped into the door Of an insurance agent, and the. agent said:: “I suppose you have come to renew your fire insurance.” “Oh,” said the merchant, “I had forgotten that.” The insurance was renewed, and the next day the house that had been- insured was burned. Was it all accidental, that the merchant, to escape a splash from n horse's foot, stepped into the insurance office? No, it was providential. And what a mighty solace for a business man to feel that things are providential! What peace and equilibrium in such a consideration, and what a grand thing if all business men could realise it! Many, although now comparatively straitened' in worldly circumstances, have a goodly establishment in the future planned out They have in imagination built about twenty years ahead a house in the country not difficult of access from the great-town, for they will often have business, or old accounts to settle, and investments to look after. The bouse is large enough to aocoipwodale all their friend**,

halls are wide and covered with picture* of hunting scenes and a branch of antlers, and are comfortable with chairs that can be rolled out on the veranda when the weather Is inviting, or set out under some of the oaks that stand sentinel about the bouse, and ruytling in the cool breeze, and songful with the robins. There is just land enough to keep them interested, and its crops of almost fabulous richnesis springing up under application of the best theories to be found in the agricul tural journals. The farm is well stocked with cattle and horses, and sheep that know the voice and have a kindly bleat when one goes forth to look at them, in this blissful abode their children will bo instructed in art and science anireligion. This shall be the old homestead to which the boys at college will direct their letters, and the hill on which the house stands will bo called Oakwood or Ivy Hill, or Pleasant Retreat, or Eagle Eyrie. May the future have for every business man hero all that and more beside! But are you postponing your happinoss to that time? Are you adjourning your joys to that consumimation? Supposo that you achieve all that you

expect—ana the vision l mention is not up to the reality, because the fountains will be brighter, the house grander and the scenery more picturesque—the mistake is none the less fatal. What charm will there be in rural quiet for a man who has thirty or forty years been comforting- his entire nature .to the excitement of business? Will flocks and herds with tlieir bleat and moan be able to silence the insatiable spirit of acquisitiveness which has for years had full swing in the soul? Will the hum of tho breeze soothe the man who now can find hijs only enjoyment in the stock marke t? Will leaf and cloud and fountain charm tho eye that has for threefourths of a lifetime fonnd its chief beauty in hogsheads and bills of sale? Will parents be competent to rear their children for high and holy purpose, if their infancy and boyhood and girlhood were neglected, when they are almost ready to enter upon the world and ha ve all their habits fixed and their principles stereotyped? No, no; now is the time to be happy. Now is the time to serve your Creator. Now is the timo to be a Christian. Are you too busy? I have known men as busy as you are who had a place in the store loft where they went to pray. Some one asked a Christian sailor where he found any place to pray in. He said: “I can always find a quiet place a t mast-head. ” And in the busiest day of the season, if your heart is right, you can find a place to pray. Broadway and Fulton streets are good places to pray in as you go to meet your various engagements. Go home a little earlier and get introduced to your children. Be not a galley slave by day and night, lashed fast to the oar of business. Let every day have its hour for worship and intellectual culture and recreation. Show yourself greater than your business. Act not as though after death you would enter upon an eternity of railroad stocks and coffees and ribbons. Boast not your manhood before the perpetual fires of anxiety. With every yard ol: cloth you sell throw not in your soul to boot. Use firkin and countingroom desk and hardware crate as the step to glorious usefulness and highest Christian character. Decide once and forever who shall bo master in your store, you or your business. Again, business men are often tempted to lot their calling interfere with the interests of the soul. .God sends men into the business world to get educated, just as boys are sent to school and college. Purchase and sale, loss and gain, disappointment and rasping, prosperity, the dishonesty of others, panic and bank suspensions, are but different lessons in the school. The more business, tho more means of grace. Many have gone through wildest panic unhurt. “Are you not afraid you will break?” said some ono to a merchant in time of great commercial excitement He replied; “Aye, i shall break when the fiftieth, Psalm breaks, in the fifteenth verse, ‘call u{>on nqe in the day of trouble and I will deliver thee.’ ” The store and the counting house have developed some of the most stalwart .characters. Perhaps originally they had but little sprightliness and force, but two or three hard business thumps woke them up from their legarthy, and there came a thorough development in their hearts of all that was good and holy and energetic and tremendous, and they have become tho men in Christ’s great army, as well as light-h Duses in the great world of traffic. But business has been perpetual depletion to many a man. It first pulled out of him all benevolence, next all amiability, next all religious aspiration, next all conscience, and though he entered his vocation with large heart and noble character he goes out of it a skeleton, enough to scare a ghost. Men appreciate the importance of having a good business stand, a store on

tho right side oi tne street or me ngnt block. Now, every place of business is a good stand for spiritual culture. God’s angels hover over the world of traffic to sustain and build up those who are trying to do their duty. To-mor-row if in your place of worldly engagement you will listen for it, you may hear a sound louder than the rattle of drays and the shuffle of feet and the chink of dollars scaling into your soul, saying: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all other things shall l>e added unto you.” Yet some of those sharpest at a bargain are cheated out of their immortal blessedness by stratagems more palpable than any “drop game” of the street They make investments in things everlastingly below par. They put their valuables in a safe not fire-proof. They give full credit to influences that will not be able to pay one cent on the dollar. They plunge into a labyrinth'teom wbich no bankrupt law or “tw<j-thirds enactment” will ever extricate Jfchem. They take into their partnership the world, the flesh, and the devil, and the enemy of all righteousness will boast through eternal ages that the man who in all his business life could not be outwitted or overreached, at last tumbled into spiritual defalcation, and was swindled out of Heaven. Perhaps some of you saw the fire in New York in 1833. Aged men tell us that it beggared all description. Some stood on the house-tops of Brooklyn, and looked at the red ruin that swept down the streets, and threatened to obliterate the metropolis. But the commercial world will yet be startled by a greater conflagration, even the last Bills of exchange, policies of insurance, mortgages and bonds and Government securities, will be consumed in’ one lick of the flame. The bourse and the United States Mint will turn to ashes. Gold will run molten into the dust of the street. Exchanges and granite blocks of merchandise will fall with a crash that will make the earth tremble. The flashing up of the light will show the righteous the way to their thrones. Their best treasures in Heavon, they will go up and take possession of them. The toils of business life, which racked their brains and rasped their nerves for so many years, will have forever ceased. “There the wicked cease from troub ling and the weary are at rest” Many of our cares are out a morbid way of looking at W privilege*, tPflKW#

AGRICULTURAL HINTS. COOPS FOR CHICKENS. ” This Is the Simplest and Best end Is, Besides, Easily Hade. The season is at band when coops for ehickens are in demand. As success depends largely on the kind of shelter provided, we here present the illus tration of a triangular coop with movable floor. This cobp is recommended as among the best by H. H. Stoddard in his manual gn poultry architecture, and is, moreover, easily made. Make the coop of half-inch stuff, so that it might be light and moved easily, a piece of wood being fastened to the roof (as in the figure) each side for a handle. The door, A, is hinged to open upward. s A small door in the rear allows the chickens to pass out that way when the

A TRIANGULAR CHICKEN COOP. door, A, is closed in cold weather. In one roof is set a large pane of glass (not shown in the cut), useful in early spring foy warmth, that side being turned to the south, but in summer to the north. An opening for ventilation is made near the peak on both sides jnd covered with wire cloth. The floor (Fig. 2) is made of inch boards, b b, and nailed, planed side up, to the cleats, c c. Let both ends of each cleat project three inches, and the outside edge of each two inches. This movable floor must be of such size that the coop shall rest entirely upon the ends and edge of the cleats, so that when the doors are closed all rain will 'be shed outside the floor. Fig. 3 shows

MOVABLE FLOOR AND SECTION OF COOP, a sect on of this form of coop with the movable floor in its place. Every few days, the door, A, being opened, stand at the rear, and, taking hold of the handles slide the coop lengthwise of the cleats away from the floor, which may then be scraped with a hoe, fre3h earth spread on, and the coop replaced by reversing the motion. This coop, it is claimed, will keep out rats and wet more effectually than any other cheap,, simple affair.—N. Y. World. THE POTATO. Points on Its Successful Culture—How to Kill the Bugs. The potato crop always pays for good, clean, constant cultivation, says the Western Rural. As the potato season is short, the crop should be pushed as rapidly as possible. Some people begin cultivation even before the plant appears abovo the ground, and it is a good plan, especially if the weeds begin to show themselves. Cultivation should be continued until the vines cover the ground, provided it is necessary to keep the land clean. Different seasons will require different degrees of cultivation, perhaps, but even in a dry season when the weeds are not as aggressive, stirring the soil and keeping it in fine condition is to assure a greator degree of moisture. So perhaps the rule laid down should be: constant cultivation. After horse cultivation is no longer practical, the weeds, if they start, should still be kept out, and it must then be done by hand. A potato fi eld filled with weeds can not produce as good a crop of potatoes as it would if the weeds were not there. After the weeds are in blossom there is an idea that the weeds can not hurt the crop, but that cultivation will. It is a big error. If it were not a fact that weeds must be supported by a soil that should be made to devote its entire strength to the potatoes, it would be true tha t it would cost more to harvest the crop, when the field would be full of weeds; and more than that and worst of all, is the seeding of the ground to weeds for the next season, and the expense of keeping them down. Whoever is an implacable enemy to a weed under all circumstances, is an excellent friend to himself and practices economical farming. The potato beetle, of course, will be on hand for its share of the crop. Season his meal with Paris green, being careful not to make the mixture too strong. It is the bugs you want to kill and not the vines. The quantity of Paris green that will settle a bug is exceedingly small. Hence there is no necessity of a strong mixture. One of our most prominent farmers and agricultural writers has not used Paris green, however, for a number of years. He

cultivates twice a week, and attaches to the end ot the singletree a light brush. This brushes off the beetles ahead of the cultivator, and many of them are killed. But the Paris green diet is by all odds the most efficient of any thing. Push the growth as much as possible and sprinkle with Paris green. Everybody's Graft. The method shone in the engraving Is a convenient one for grafting stock that is too large for lap-grafting and too small for cleft-grafting. Fig. 1 shows the stock with the notch, cut in as it would be if filled in with a threecornered file. Fig. 2 shows the cion cut

Ifc f HOW TO OBAFT. to fit the notch. Fig. S shows the cion held in place by a cord wound about it and tied. All the exposed surface of the stock and cion should be covered with wax. By sliding the cion up or down a little in the notch a very close matching of the bark may be made. 1 have had as good results from using this method as any I have ever tried, and think less skill is required in getting a good joint —Farm and Home. If your horse gets frightened at an unusual sight or noise do not whip him, ^orif you do he will connect the whipping with the object that alarmed him and be afraid of it ever after. If he merely shies at an object give him time to examine it, which, with some encouraging words from the driver, will persuade him to pass it You get frightened, too, sometimes, and would noit like to lx) whipped for it A sajvdt soil becomes warm sooner than a heavy soil. While the seeds may germinate and appear earlier on a sandy soil, yet there ahoujd not he too much harry i» planting lor fear s( :i*te fmtft

—London has a “Thlieeri Club.” Its heroic members bind th * msolves to dine together on,-.the thiriient,h of every month and jib sit dew - thirteen at a table. They propose i so to set at defiance other convention;!. superstitions, and, among other thing*, to spill salt at table and to walk under a ladder whenever they have the oppt tunity of doing so, and when there is i o risk of being smeared with paint —Japanese money is i iyided in to sens and yens. A sen is j orth about one cent, and the yen about ninety cents. Thebe is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all oth ; r diseases put together, and until the last)w years was supposed to be incurable. I'ora great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local rem i dies, and by constantly failing to cure wil h local treatment pronounced it incurable, ilcienee has proven catarrh to be a constitui onal disease, and therefore requires constil ational treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, man afactured by F. J. Cheney* Co., Toledo, Ot. o, is the only constitutional cure on the m irket It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts direct .y upon tho blood and mucous surfaces of me system. They offer one hundred dolls. ~s for any case it fails to cure. Send for c rculars and testimonials F. J.XIueset is Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. She can go to church a nd afterward tell you what every woman in the congregation had on, and in some rare instances can give you some faint Idea of what the text was. A riTTsncRGn reporter tells about a yawning oil well. Somebody must have been boring it.—Binghamton Republican.

The “Air Line.” To any one contemplating a journey the shortest and most direct line is always to be desired, and where one can get this, together with accommodations which cau not be excelled, no further inquiry should l>e made. The Lmiisnlle, Evansville «£ St. Louis “Air Line” comprises each of ihaso features, being sixty miles the shortest line between St. Louis and Louisville, and the only liue running elegant Parlor Cars on day trains and Pullman Sleepers on night trains. This line is also the most direct route to all points in Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee- the Viryinias and Carolina*. Two Trains each way daily. Fortiiksts, information or sleepiug-ear reservation, call on or address H. E. Morris, City Passenger Agent, 116 North Fourth street, St. Louis, or at Onion Depot. Jos. S. Onions*, G. P. A., Louisville, Ky. Sometimes the lover who is fired with passion for the daughter is put out by the father.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. ' Hr. John Ball’s Sarsaparilla. Our druggists tell us they are selling a great deal ox Dr. John Bull's Sarsaparilla It has not been advertised much in this vicinity, and we take it that the large demand for it is attributed merely to its extraordinary merit as a blood purifier and strengthening alterative. We know ol several instances where it has put sick men and women on their feet after physicians had exhausted their Skill. It is a medicine; that certainly goes right to the spot, the; very first dose seeming to do good. The; blood is the life and we believe there is no other medicine made so powerful as a blood, purifier as this remedy. And it does loot: as if when the blood is made pure a person, naturally gets well. We advise any of our subscribers who are ailing and feel sick from any cause whatever to give Dr. Bull's Sar sapariila an immediate trial.—Covington, Express. The heat in Russia and other parts of Northern Europe has been intense of late, The Central Observatory at SL Petersburg: has not recorded such a high temperature at the same time of tho year since 1774. A Woman Two Hundred Tears Old. A case is on record of a woman who lived to this advanced age, but it is scarcely necessary to state that it was in “the olden time.'’ Now-a-days too many women do not liry half their allotted years. The mortality due to functional derangements in tho weaker sex is simply frightful, to say nothing of tho indescribable suffering which makes life scarcely worth the living to so many women. But for these sufferers thero is a certain relief. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription will positively cureleuchorrhea, painful menstruation, prolapsus, pain in the ovaries, weak back; in short, all those complaints to which so many women are martyrs. It is the only guaranteed cure, see guarantee on bottle; wrapper. Cleanse the liver, stomach, bowels and whole system by using Dr. Pierce’s Pellets. Lite insurance is a sfreat consolation to the truly good, but firi; insuranco availetli the wicked nothing.—N. Y. Commercial. Governor Rusk Potato. A magnificent new potato, originated by John A. Salzer, the La Crosse, Wis., Seedsman, who no doubt grows more seed potatoes than any firm iii the world. It is am enormous cropper, fine shape, cooks mealy and white, is medium late, and contains ai l the qualities that go tc make up a good potato. It is named ill; honor of the great farmer Governor of Wisconsin, Jeremiah M. Rusk, at present Sixjretary of Agriculture at Washington. It can be had only of John A. Salzer. La Orosse, Wis., at $l.5C per bushel, or $3.50 per barrel It is a mistake to say that rain falls alik a on Vie just and the unjust. The latter always has an umbrella —Puck. All Sorts and Condit ions of Men Acknowledge the. effi cacy of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters-as a met ns of extirpating dyspepsia, constipatio n.m alariai and biliou s troubles, nervous debility and kidney ailments. The learned ai d sacred professions, the press, the mercantile, manufacturing, agricultural and mining c immunities have, for the past thirty years, bison furnishing each their quota of testimony in its behalf, until that has reached ui wieldy but gratifying proportions, affording unequivocal proof that the public is di scerning. As fencing is such a naniy art it is odd that there is so much feinting in it.—Baltimore American.

“The proof of the puddi ag is in the eating of it” How slow we are to believe in what we have not tried. How many times have you read in th!s paper oi Shallenbergers Antidote for Malaria, and instead of testing it, gone to the drug store by mere force of habit for your quinine to simply patch up a, (nree with disease! The Antidoto will cure you. Bold by Druggists. Mant a beau who wears a sweet-smell-ing boutonneire is without a cent in his pocket Cottohs, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, etc., quickly relieved by Brown’s Bronchial troches. A simple and effectual remedy, superior to all other articles for the same purpose. Hold only in boxua.

Half-Rate Kxenntons vt» I the Wabash. On Apr322 and May 20 .the Wabash Railroad will sell tickets at one fare for the round trip to points in Kansas, Nebraska, Indian Territory, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado. Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, North and South Dakota, Northwestern Iowa and Minnesota. Tickets will be good returning thirty (oOi days from date of sale. For particulars apply to the nearest ticket agent of the Wabash i>r connecting railroads. ton Post. M,._____ is the economical dressmaker.- Bos‘Oxb good turn deserves another' motto of the i Consumpt on Rarely Cared. { To the Editor Please inform your readers that I 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 tree to any of your readers who have consi ____consumption if they will send me their express and post-office address. Respectfully, T. A. Sloctm, M C., 181 Pearl street, New York. It can never be said of the miner that ho does not “got down to business’'—Youker3 Gazette. Entitled to the Best. All are entitled to the best that their money will buy, so every family should have, at once, a bottle of the best family remedy, Syrup of Figs, to cleanse the system when costive or bilious. For sale in 50o and *100 bottles by all leading druggists. Hailstoxes intended for publication arc usually as big as hen’s eggs.—N. O. Picayune. n & . 8. or Six Nore?s Free, will be sent by C; Co., Philada., Pa., to any one in the Canada, postage paid, upon receipt of 25 Dobbins’ .Electric Soap wrappers. See list of novels on circulars around each bar. It does not require a legal education to go into the son-in-law business.—Rome Sentinel. I ksow of a man who was cured of a forty year old sore on his leg by Bull’s Sarsaparilla, also a lady that it cured pf erysipelas, which doctors failed to benefit.—Joseph D. Andrews, Mitchell Co., Ga. The iceman weighs the block and blocks 'ho way simultaneously.—It ashmgton Post. Ir you are tired taking the largo old fash oned griping pills, try Carter’s Little Inver onea griping pills, try Carte ?ills and take some comfort. A man can t stand everything. One pill a dose. Try them. gas can throw a stone with a curve that would be a fortuno to a baseball pitcher. Ask for Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers. ■Don’t let your druggist sell you some other kind of worm medicine. None other are so safe and yet so sure. Six of them can talk at once and get along first rate, and no two mon can do that. Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar relieves whooping cough. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute Tiie cool poker player never shows a flush on bis face.—Binghamton Republican. Are unlike all other pills. No purging or pain. Act specially on the liver and bile. Carter’s Little Liver ■ Pills. One pill a dose. Ir a man is fit to go higher, ho will snow t bv being faithful where he is. The U. S. Government makes regular purchases of “Tansill’s Punch” for the army. She can say “no" in such a low voice that it means “yes.” Best, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso’s Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. 25c. The end sought in business transactions is divid-end. For Stablemen and Stockmen. CURES Cuts. Swellings, Bruises. Sprains, Calls, Strains, tameness, Stillness, Cracked Heels, Scratches, Contractions, Flesh -Wounds. Stringhalt, SoreThroat, Distemper, Colic, Whitlow.-.Poll Evil, Fistula, Tumors, Splints; Ringbones and Spavin in their earl/ Stages. Directions with each bottle. At Druggists and Dealers. THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.. Baltimore. Hd.

UUltlJ HiiU&b, r/Uiia, 18V3. W. BAILER & CO.’S la absolutely pure and it is soluble. No Chemicals arc wed in it* preparation. It hits more than three ti net the etrength ot Cocoa mixed with Starch, Arrowroot i cr Sugar, and is therefore far more economical, coating teas them one cent I a cup. It is delicious, nourishing, | strengthening. Easily DIGESTED, g and admirably adapted for invalids I as well as lor persons in health. '

9W$kPoio‘ Hwfever' Ihad catarrhm bad there were great tores in my note, one place tecs eaten through. C» bottles of Ely's am Ealm did the work My nose and head are well. C. 3. McMitlen, Sibley, Mo. A particle is applied Into each nostril and is agree' able. Price EOcents otdmggists; by mail, registered. *> cents. ELY BROTHERS, It Warren St., New York. DRINKING TOO MUCH they will promptly relieve the nausea SICK HEADACHE

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CrNAXX THIS PAPER mrjtim. you vr**x I CURE FITS ! When In; ear® I do not mean merely to stop them for a time and then have them return again. 1 mean a radical cure. I have made the disease of FITS, EPILEPSY or FALLING SICKNESS a life-long study. I warrant my remedy to cure the worst cases. Because others havef ailed Is no reason for not now receiving a cure. Send at once for * treatise and a Free rottle of my Infallible remedy. Give Express and Post-Ofllee. B. O. M. C.. 185 Pearl Street, New York. •arXAMB THIS PAPER evur tbs* you wrrtu. _

Adolphus passed outside the doot To interview the scraper; Within those -waits her father sat Intern on Sunday’s paper. Six times before he’d sought that door On this same mission bent; His courage failed—but. now, to-night. Ho will ash papa’s consent,

“ Respected Sir: I’ve come to tett— ♦ To ask—my fate—oh—ecnl— Oh! Since the early springtime came I've felt—I mean—I feel. — Adolnhiu paused—with pallid check— *• why, boy, don’t look morose! It’s biliousness 1 I've had it! Here— Pierce's Pellets: Take a dose 1 ”

Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets are sugar-coated, easy to take, and gentle in action, cleansing and regulating the system without wrenching it with agony. They are gectiy aperient, or strongly cathartic, according to size of dose. Unequaled as a liver pill. Smallest, cheapest, easiest to take. As a laxative, only one 4iny Pellet necessary for a dose. Cores Sick Ileadachc, .Bilious Headache,- Constipation, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, and all derangements of the Liver, Stem >ch and Bowels. Put up in vials, hermetically sealed, therefore always fresh an! reliable. Being purely vegetable, they operate without disturbance to the iiystem, diet, or occupation. Sold by druggists, at 25 cents a vial.

For “run-down,” debilitated and overworked women. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is the best of all restorative tonics. It is a potent Specific for all those Chronic Weaknesses and Diseases peculiar to Women; a powerful, general as well as uterine, tonic and nervine. It imparts vigor and strength tc the whole system. It

promptly cu -es weakness of stomach, nausea," Indigestion, bloating, weak back, ncrvbus prostration, debility and ' sleeplessness, in either sex. It is care- ! fully compounded by an experienced physician and adapted to woman’s delb cate organization. Purely vegetable and perfectly harmless in any condition of the system. It is the only medicine for women, sold by druggists, under a positive guarantee of satisfaction in every ease, or price ($1.00) refunded. This guarantee has been sprinted on the bottle-wrapper, and faithfully carried out for manv years. World's Dispensary Medical Association. Proprietors, No. 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.

PESO'S REMEDY FOB CATARRH.—Best Easiest to use. A Cheapest. Relief is Immediate. A cure Is certain. For Cold in the Head it has no equal. It is an Ointment of which a small particle is applied to the ostais. Price, SOr. Sold by druggists or sent by mail. Address, E. T. Hazki.tisis, Warren, Pa.

“Oh, So Tired!” u, the cry oi thousands every Spring. For that Tired Feeling take Ayer’s Sarsaparilla and recover Health and Vigor. It Makes the Weak Strong. Prepared by Dr. J. O. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. WCIENT EDITION. A so-cafimi “Webster’s Unabridged stionary" is being offered to the public st a my fey price. The body of the boob, from A ts C is a cheap reprnt, cage for page, of the edition of 1847, which was is its day, a trainable book, bn! in the progress of w has bees completely superseded, R is now reproduced, broken type, errors and all, by photo-lithograph process, Isprinted an cheap paper and funnily bound. A brief comparison, paao by page, between the reprint and the latest and enlarged edition, wilt show the great sanerio! ity of the latter, These reprints areas oat of date as a last year’s abnanae. So tanorahle dealer will allow the boyar of sash to suppose that he is getting the Webstar which to-Jay is accepted as the Standard and THE 8EST,—every copy of which bears onr imprint as given below. 3®“ If persons who have been induced to purchase the “ Ancient Edition" by any misrepresentations w&l advise on of the facts, we wilt aadartak® to see that the seller is punishes! as fee deserves. S. & C. MERIHAM & CO. - I-aOPKCEl) BY THB - PARKHILL M’FR CO., Fltablbursv AAauMk DENNY, "POOR & COn SKLUX® AtiEXTS, MEW YORK and BOSTOM. ABSOLUTELY FEFFECT its MANUFACTURE. Tin Hut wssn riSWC in conntry for Si*lies’ *ad CSitldrsD/s Npriny and Snnuaer wear. TOIi FS?EP. .1.-7. ~i VTi.;. free by mail She fsBowSg valuable articles: One Bos of Prare Vaseline,.... 10 Coni*. One Boa of YaseJiiseCamphor Ice,1C Cts. One Box of Vaseline Cole Cream. 15 Ota. One Cake of Vasoliae Soap... • • 10 Cents. One Bottle of Pomade Vaseline, 16 Cents. ir yon how Oceanian to «« •‘Vsseiiae’* to any fonn do onefai to .weeps <*!y senain* goods jm. up by «u la original paeiagw. A great Many drartfrta ST® trying to tnKKit.de bnjTOB lo take Vaseline I*repsratlo5s P»t op by them, Never yield to each pereussieu, s5* the. srticln is en Imitation without raise and wU! not do good nor Rive yen the result tea expect A two onww bottle *i Rga Seal \WiiL!c la cold by *1! d?»s*l»ts»tten cents. No Vaaelln, It genuine uuiera ear Kiaae Is on the hfed. Cteutogii m|,aj4Stit8St.,Ne V.

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