Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 May 1890 — Page 4

60D AND NATURE. o —- Sermon by Rot1. T. DeWItt Telmage, Delivered in Brooklyn. The Wonders of Nature dll Tell of the Tower of God, Illustrating the M* ▼iae Trutlis Upim Which Christianity is Founded. The following seimon was delivered by Rev. T. DeWHt Talmage in the Brooklyn Academy of Music from the text: The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee; the Hr tree, the pine tree and the" box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary.—Isaiah lx, 11. On our way from Damascus we saw the mountains of Lebanon white with snow, and the places from which the cedars were hewn, and then drawn by ox-teams down to the Mediterranean sea, and then floated in great rafts to Joppa, and then again drawn by ox-teams up to Jerusalem" to build Solomon’s temple. Those mighty trees in my text are called the “gloi-y of Lebanon.” Inanimate nature felt the effects of the first transgression/. When Eve touched the forbidden tree, It seems as if the sinful contact had smitten not only that tree', but as if the aiir caught the pollution from the leaves, and as if the sap had carried the virus down into the very soil until the entire earth reeked with the leprosy. Under that sinful touch natiipo wifhpmH 'ITifl inanimate croa

tion, as if aware of the damage done it, sent up the thorn and brier and nettle to wound, and fiercely oppose the human race. Now as the physical earth felt the effects of the first transgression, so it shall also fell the effect of the Saviour's mission. As from that one treafc in Paradise a blight went forth through the entire earth, so from one tree on i Calvary another force shall speed out to interpenetrate and check, subdue and override the evil. In the end it shall be found that the tree of Calvary has more potency than the tree of Paradise. As the nations are evangelized, I think a corresponding change will be effected in the natural world. * I verily belyave that the trees- and the birds, and the rivers, and the sides will have their millennium. If a man’s sin affected the ground, and the vegetation, and the atmosphere, shall Chirst’s work be less powerful or less extensive? Doubtless Codwill take the irregularity and fierceness from the elements so as to make them congenial to the race, which will then be symmetrical and evangelized. The ground shall not be so lavish of weeds and so grudgeful of grain. Soils which now have peculiar proclivities toward certain forms of evil production will be delivered from their besetting sins. Steep mountains, plowed down into more gradual ascent, shall be girdled with ‘flocks of sheep and shocks of corn. The wet marsh shall become the deep-grassed meadow. Cattle shall eat unharmed by caverns once haunted of wild beasts. Children will build play houses in what was once a cave of serpents; and, as the Scripture saitb: “The weaned child shall put his hand on tide cockatrice’s den.” Oh what harvests shall be reaped , when neither drought, nor excessive + rain, nor mildew, nor infesting insects shall arrest the growth, and the utmost capacity of the fields for production shall be tested by an intelligent and athletic yeomanry. Thrift and competency characterizing the world’s inhabitants, their dwelling places shall be graceful and healthy ai|iiadorned. Tree and arbor and grove arouH^_»bout will look as if Adam and Ere had got back to Paradise. Great cities, now neglected and unwashed, shall be orderly, adorned with architectural symmetry and connected with fardistant seaports by present modes of transportation carried to their greatest perfection, or by new inventions yet to spring up ouf/of the water or drop from the air at the beck of a Morse or a Robert Fulton belonging to future generations. Isaiah in my text seemes to look forward to the future condition of the physic|l earth as a condition of great beauty and excelence, and then prophesies that as the strongest and mo3t or

already to some namental tiraoer in ljODanon was brought, down to Jerusalem and constructed into the ancient temple, so all that is beautiful and excelent in the physical earth shall yet Contribute to the ehurch now being built in the world. “The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee; the flr tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary.” Much of this prophecy has been fulfilled, and 1 proceed practical remarks upon the contributions which the natural world is 'leaking to the Kingdom of God, and then draw some inferences. Tho first ( contribution that nature gives to the church is her testimony in behalf of the truth of Christianity- This is an age of profound reseach. Nature can not evade man’s inquiries at once. In chemist's laboratory she is put to torture and competed to give up her mysteries. Hidden laws have come out of their biding place. The earth and the heavens, since they have bean ransacked by geologist and botanist and astronomer, appear so different from what they once were tluit they may be? called “the new heavens and the new earth.” This research and discovery will have powerful effect upon the religious world. They must either advance or arrest Christianity, make them better or make them worse, be the Church’s honor or the Church's overthrow. Christians, aware of this in the early ages of discovery, were nervous and fearful as to the progress of science. They feared that some natural law, before unknown, would suddenly spring into harsh collision with Christianity. Gunpowder and the gleam of swords would not so much have been feared by religionists as electric batteries, voltaic piles, and astronomical apparatus. It was feared that Moses and the prophets would be run over by skeptical chemists and philosophers. Some of the followers of Aristotle, after the invention of the telescope, refused to look through that instrument, lest what they saw would of that overthrow the teachings great philosopher. But the Christian religion has no such apprehension now. Bring on your telescopes and microscopes, and spectroscopes—and the more the better. The God of nature is the God of the Bible, and in all the eternities. He has never once contradicted Himself.. Christian merchants endow universities, and in them Christian professors instruct the children of Christian communities. The warmest and most enthusiastic friends of Christ are the bravest and most enthusiastic friends of science. The Church rejoices much over every disoovery as the Good men have found war betwften science no world rejoic Hint there is and religion. That which at first has seemed to be the weapon of the infidel has turned out to be the weapon of the Christian. Scientific discussions may be divided into those which *re concluded, and those which are still in progress, depending for decision upon future investigation. Those which are concluded have invariably rendered their verdict for Christianity, and we have faith to which are still in me to as favorable The great systems of these disoovbelieve that those prosecution will :»

forced Christianity. Mohammedanism and paganism in their ten thousand forms have been proved false, and by great natural laws shown to be impositions. Buried cities have been exhumed and the truth of God found written on their coffin lids. Bartlett, 'Robinson and Layard have . been not more the apostles of science than the apostles of religion. The dumb lips of the pyramids have opened to preach the Gospel. Expeditions have been fitted out for Palestine, and explorers have come back to say that they have found among mountains, and among ruins, and on the shore of waters, living and undying evidences of our glorious Christianity. Men who have gone to Palestine infidels have come back Christians. They who were blind arid deaf to the truth at home have seemed to see Christ again preaching upon Olivet, and have beheld in vivid imagination the Son of Qod again walking the hills about Jerusalem. Caviglia once rejected the truth, but afterward said: “I earner to Egypt, and the Scriptures and the pyramids converted me.” When I was in Beyrout, Syria, last December, our beloved missionary, Rev. Dr. Jessup,, told me of his friend who met a skeptic at Joppa, the seaport of Jerusalem, and the unbeliever said to his friends “I am going into the Holy Land to show up the folly of the Christian religion. I am going to visit all the so-called ‘sacred places,’ and write them up. and shov the world that the New Testament is an imposi

tion upon the world’s credulity.’ Months after, Dr. Jessup’s friend met the see otic at Beyrout, aftor he had completed his journey through the Holy Land. “Well, how is it?” said the aforesaid gentleman to the sceptic. The answer was: “I have seen it all, and I tell you the Bible is truo! i Yes, it is all true!’ The man who went to destroy came back to defend. After what I myself saw during my recent absence, I conclude that any one who can go through the Holy Land and remain an unbeliever is either a bad man or an imbecile. God employed men to write the Bible, but He took many of the same truths which they recorded, and with His own Almighty hand He gouged them into the rocks, and drove them down into dismal depths, and, as documents are put in the cornerstone of a temple, so in the very foundation of ■ the earth He folded up and placed the records of Heavenly truth. The earth’s corner-stone was laid, like that of other sacred edifices, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The author of revelation, standing among the preat strata, looked upon Moses, and said: “Let us record for future ages the world’s history; you write it thereoil papyrus; I will write it here on the bowlders.” Again, nature offers an invaluable contribution to Christianity by the illustration she makes of Divine truth. The inspired writers seized upon the advantages offered by the natural world. Trees and rivers, and clouds and rocks broke forth into holy and enthusiastic utterances. AVould Christ set forth the Strength of faith, He points to the sycamore, whose roots spread out, and strike down, and clinch themselves amid great depths of earth, and He satd that faith was strong enough to tears that up by' the roots. At Hawarden, England, Mr. Gladstone, while showing me his trees during a prolonged walk through his magnificent park, pointed out a sycamore, and with a wave of the hand said: “In your visit to the Holy Land did you see any sycamore more impressive than that?” I confessed thatl had not. Its branches were not more remarkable than its roots. It was to such a tree as tliat Jesus pointed when He would illustrate the power of faith. “Ye might say unto this sycamore tree: Be thou plucked by the root and be thou cast into the sea, and it would obey you.” One reason why Christ has fascinated the world as no other teacher, is because, instead of using severe argument, He was always telling how something in the spiritual world was like nnto something in the natural world. Oh, these wonderful “likes” of our

Liord: Lake a grain oi mustara seea. Like a treasure hid in the field. Like a merchant seeking goodly pearls. Like unto a net that was cast into the sea. Like unto a householder. Would Christ teach the precision with which He looks after you, He said He icounts the hairs of your head. WeU, ' that is a long and tedious count if the head have the average endowment. It has been found that if the hairs of the head be black there are about one hundred and twenty thousand, or if they lie flaxen there are about one hundred and forty thousand. But God knows tho exact number: “The hairs of your head are all numbered.” Would Christ impress us with the Divine watchfulness and care, He speak3 of the sparrows that were a nuisance in those times. They were'caught by the thousands in the net They were thin and scrawny, and bad comparatively no meat on their bones. They seemed almost valueless, whether living or dead. Now, argues Christ if my Father takes care of them will He not take care of you? Would David set forth the freshness and beauty of genuine Christian character—he sees an eagle starting from its nest just after the moulting season. Its old feathers shed, and its wings and breast decked with new down and plumes, its body as finely feathered as that of her young ones just beginning to try tho speed of their wings. Thus rejuvenated and replumcd is the Christian’s faith and hope by every season of communion with God. “Thy youth is reviewed like the eagle’s.’’ .Would Solomon represent the annoyance of a contentious woman’s tongue, he points to a leakage in the top of his house or tent, whero, throughout the stormy day, the water comes through, falling upon the floor—drip! drip! drip! And he says: “A continual dripping i n a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.” Would Christ set forth the character of those who make great profession of pity, but have no fruit, He compares them to barren fig-trees, which have very large and showy leaves, and nothing but leaves. Would Job illustrate deceitful friendships, he speaks of brooks in those climes, that wind about in different directions, and dry up when you want to drink out of them: “My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away.” David, when he would impress us with the despondency into which he had sunk, compares it to a quagmire of those regions, through which he had doubtless sometimes tried to walk, but sunk in up to his' neck, and he cried; “I sink in deep mire where there is no standing.” Would Hahakkuk set forth the capacity which God gives the good man to walk safely amid the wildest perils, he points to the wild anim al called the hind, walking over slippery rocks, and leaping from wild wag to wild crag, by the peculiar make of its hoofs able calmly to sustain itself in the most dangerous places: “Tho Lord is my strength, and He will make my feet like bind’s feet.’* Job make* all natural objects f ay tribute to thp loyalty of his book; As you go through some chapters of Job you feel as if It were a bright spring morning, and, as you see the glittering drops from the grass under your fee t, you say "with that patriarch: “Who hath begotten the drops of tho dew?” And HOW, jrott re*4 m, jtqu mn ;l» Up

silent midnight to behold the waving of a great light upon your path, and you look up to find it the puror* borealis, which Job described so Jong ago as “the bright light in the clouds and the splendor that cometh out of the north.” An you read on there is dirkness hurtling in the heavens, and the showers break loose till the birds fly for hiding-place and the mountain torrents in red fury foam over the rocky shelving; and with the same poet, you exclaim: “Who can number the; clouds in wisdom, or who can stay the bottles of Heaven?” As you read on, you feel j yourself coming in frosty climes, and, ! in fancy, wading through the snow, you ; say, with that samo inspired writer: ; “itast thou entered into the treasures j of the snow?” And while the\ sharp sleet drives in your face, and the hail 1 stings your cheek, you quote him again: j “Hast thou seen the treasures of the i hail?” In the Psalmist’s writings I hear the voices of the sea: “Deep calleth unto deep;” and the roar of forests: “The Lord shaketh the wilderness of Ksidesh;” and the loud peal of the black tempest: “The God of glory thunderetb;” and the rustle of the lone silk on the well-filled husks: “The valleys are covered with corn;” and the cry of wild beasts? “The young lions roar after their prey;” the hum of palm-trees and cedars: “The righteous shall flourish like a palm-tree, he shall grow like a cedar in Lebiponj” the sough of wings and the swirl of fins: “Dominion over the fowl of the air and the fish of the

sesi. The truths of the Gospel might have been presented in technical terms, and by the means of dry definitions, but under these the world would not have listened Or felt.' How could the safety of trusting upon Christ have been present- i ed were it not for the figure of a rock? ; How could the gladdening effect of the i Gospel have been set forth had not , Zacharias thought of the dawn of the morning, exclaiming: “The day-spring : from on high hath visited us to give ; light to them that sit in dark- j ness.” How could the soul’s intense longing for Christ have been pre- ^ sen ted so well by the emblem of j natural hunger and natural thirst? As the lake gathers into its bosom the shadow of the hills around, and the gleam of stars above, so, in these great dee ps of Divine truth, all objects in nature are grandly reflected. We walk forth in the springtime^ and every thing breathes of the Resurrection. Bright j blossom and springing grass speak to us ; of the coming up of those whom we have loved, when in the white robes of their j joy and coronation, they shall appear. | And when in the autumn of the year ; Nature preaches thousands 7 of funeral ; sermons from the text: “We all do fade as a leaf,” and scatters her elegies in our path, we can not help but think of sickness and the tomb. Even winter, ; “being dead, yetspeaketh.” The world will not be argued into the right. It ; will be tenderly illustrated into the right Tell them what religion is like. When the mother tried to tell her dying chi ld what Heaven was, she compared it to light “But that hurts my eyes,” said the dying girl. Then the mother compared Heaven to music. “But any sound hurts me; I am so weak,” said the dying child. Then she was told that Heaven was like mother’s arms. “Oh, take me there!” she said. “If it is like mother’s arms, take me there!” The appropriate simile had been -found at last •Another contribution which the natural world is making to the kingdom of Christ is the de Tense and aid which the elements are compeled to give to the Christian personally. There is no law in nature but is sworn for the Christian’s defense. In Job this thought is presented as a bargain made between the inanimate creation and the righteous man: “Thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field.” What a grand thought that the lightnings, and the tempests, and the hail, and the frosts, which are the enemies of unirighteousness, are all marshaled as the Christian’s body-guard. They fight for him. They strike with an arm of fire, or clutch with their fingers of. ice. Everlasting peace is de

^narctt ments Detween me nercest eieof nature and the ■ good man. They may in their fury seem to be indiscriminate, smiting down the righteous with the wicked, yet they can not damage the Christian’s soul, although they may shrivel his body. The wintry blast that howls about your dwelling, you may call your brother, and the south wind coming up on a June day by way of a flower-garden, you may call your sister. Though so mighty in circumference and diameter, the sun and the: moon have a special charge concerning1 you. “The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. Elements and forces hidden in the earth are now harnessed and at work in producing for you food and clothing. Some grain- j field that you never saw presented you j this day with your morning meal. The j great earth and the heavens are the : busy loom at work for you; and shootinjy ! light, and silvery stream, and sharp | lightning, are only woven threads in j the great loom, with God’s foot on the j shuttle. The same Spirit that con- 1 verted your soul has also converted the 1 elements from enmity toward you into inviolable friendship, and furthest star and. deepest cavern, regions of everlasting cold as well as climes of eternal summer, all have a mission of good, direct or indirect, for your spirit F inally, I learn from this subject what an honorable position the Christian occupies when nothing is so great and glorious in nature but it is made to edify, defend and instrnct him. Hold up your heads, sons and daughters of the Loid Almighty, that I may see how you bear your honors. Though now you may think yourself unbefriended, this spring’s soft wind, and next summer’s glowing fruits, and next winter’s storms, all seasons, all elements, zephyr and enroclydon, rose’s - breath and thundercloud, gleaming light and thick darkness, are shorn to defend you, and cohorts of angels would fly to deliver you from peril, and. the great God would unsheathe His sword and arm the universe in your cause rather than harm should touch you with one of its lightest fingers. “As the mountains around about Jerusalem, so the Lord is around about His people from this time forth for evermoire.” Oh, for more sympathy with the natural world, and then wo should always have a Hiblfe open before us, and we could take a lesson from the most fleeting circumstances, as when a storm came down upon England Charles Wesley sat in a room watching it through an open window, and, frightened by the lightning and the thunder, a little bird flew in and nostled in the bosom of the sacred poet, and as He gently stroked it and felt the wild boating of its heart, he turned to bis desk and wrote that hymn which will bo sung while world lasts: Jesus, lover of my soul. Let me to Thy bosom fly, While the billows near me roll. While the tempest still is high; Hide mo, O my Saviour, hide, Till the storm of life be past, Safe into the lmven guide, O receive my soul nttast the In whatever pursuit he is engaged, the young man will profit by being thorough. He will thus do good work to begin with, bat be will also make foi himself a character that will alwaya U capable and trustworthy,—United Pr*»

FARM AND GARDEN. COOLING MILK. Sometbiiz About the Use of Ammonia Whore Ice Cam Not Be Obtained. The chemist of the Victorian Government, gives some interesting infor* mat ion about cooling 'milk by the us< ot ammonia. In batter making—if uniformly high quality butter is desired—as soon as possible after milk comes from the cow, the cream should be separated by the centrifugal' separator. Then immediately, and preparatory to churning, the cream, if not already cool, should be cooled down^te a temperature not exceeding 55 degrees Fahrenheit The main object of cooling is to harden the fat globules, so that, during the churning, they may fall together in firm grains. The butter thus obtains a “granular” structure, rendering it more thoroughly cleansable from the buttermilk; it also acquires a waxy consist ency, whereby its keeping qualities and palatableness are improved. For cooling the milk various appliances are in usa Where the operations are on a fairly large scale, a small ice machine will be found most suitable and economicaL Ice machines capable of producing four hundred pounds of ice daily, at an estimated cost Of six shillings per diem, are now being placed on the Melbourne market. Such machines could easily be used on large farms, and would prob

ably be found well suited lor district milk and dairy factories. .The cart bringing tho milk to these factories could take back with them their daily supply of ice. Where ice is not procurable and there is not a sufficient supply of cold wate* for cooling purposes, perhaps no simpler and cheaper means can be adopted than “freezing mixtures.” If crystals of ammoniac nitrate and chloride bp dissolved by gentle stirring in water, in the following proportions: Six and twothirds pounds ammoniac nitrate, three and one-third pounds ammoniac chloride, ten pounds (one gallon) of water1, the temperature of the mixture will quickly fall 51 degrees Fahrenheit. Thus, if the temperature of the water was originally 73 degrees Fahrenheit, it would, after solution of the salts, fall So 24 degrees Fahrenheit, or 8 degrees below freezing point. If a • long, narrow tin containing such solution be stirred about in a cream can, it will in a few minutes reduce the cream to the required temperature. The cooling salts having been once dissolved, may be reobtained for further use by evaporating the solution to dryness. The evaporation may be in open, shallow pans with fire, or even the sun and hot wind may be sufficient. Or it may he conveniently done in old kerosene tins cut in half lengthwise. If a fire bo used for evaporation, it should be a gentle lire, and the solution should not do more than simmer, otherwise there may be loss from splashing. SWINE BREEDING. The United States First Among AipMtions in This Industry. / The United States stands easily first among nations in tho number of its swine. There has been some decrease in the last few years, but the estimates in the Department of Agriculture gave the number, January 1, 1SS8, at 43.544,755, or nearly seventy-five for each 100 of human population. This estimate is made out at a season of the year whenr the total number is nearly at its minimum, as a very large percentage of the pigs are produced in the spring months, and vast numbers of fattened hogs are sent to slaughter during the closing months of the year. The abundant and cheap production of Indian com is the controlling factor in pork production in the United States. Thus the seven .great corn-producing States are estimated to have had, in round numbers, 20,800,000 hogs, or almost half the total number, and an average of nearly 3,000,000 for each State. Their respective rank was, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Kansas, Indiana and Nebraska. No other State had 2,000,000 hogs save Texas, and the poor

quail by ui tuvsc largcij uuoon nm; number. The rapidity with which swine increase, says the Agricultural Department, the early age at which they may be profitably be sent to market, the ease with which the meat may be preserved for future use, and the large vse made* of the fat, as also the abundance of maize so well adapted as a fattening food, have made swine breeding popular in all the great Indian-cbrn-growlng regions, while the readiness with which one or more pigs may be utilized as profitable means of consuming waste products from the table .and dairy have caused farmers and many village residents in almost every part of the country to annually fatten at least a fen pigs. _ Hand Garden Roller. The accompanying illustration of a band garden roller is from a sketch Sent by a subscriber, who says he finds frequent use for it in the garden. Homo seeds are simply scattered over the bed and then with the ! roller pressed into the ground. They germinate better than when covered i with the rake. The roller is u*~l for SSHSllllftllSlle *<v '

' HAND GARDEN ROLLER. i ! i compacting the ground above othpr seeds and between rows of vegetables. If the earth is ridged up against the vegetables the roller can be run ovep the ridge, on each side. A piece of log, twenty inches longj is dressed down until ten inches in diameter. . Iron pins are driven in the center of each end, the pins working in the iron pieces, which unite to form a prong driven into the end of the handle. This roller can be made at home, except the iron pieces. —American Agriculturist Gate Attachment. Who that has had occasion to drire through a farm-gate when alone has not

DOU » YBMWUU3 hunt for a stick of some sort, to use as a prop to hold the gate ? open against wind or gravity? ' The illustration shows a device which avoids snoh hunt A prop is fastened

SHOKT-lSTOP FOB GATE. to the gate, with a ring and staple. When the gate is opened as far as necessary, it is given a sharp pull, as if to close it; the sharpened loinrer end of the prop is forced into the ground, and the gate is firmly held. When the gate is to be dosed, a push in the other direction loosens the prop, whkjh is carried around—if it will not drag along— until the gate is nearly closed; then it is dropped on the ground and, forcing the gate shut, will raise it somewhat on the prop, taking s part of the weight off tie binges, and preventing the nagging of tbs gate, —A»)prioan AgTicultur* 1st. " -

Noblesse Oblige"Tls wisdom's law, the perfect code, By love Inspired; Of him of when much la bestowed. Is much required ; The tuneful throat Is bid to sing. The oak must reign the I (west's king The rushing stream t he wheel most more. The tempered steel Its strength must prove, ’Tis given with the eagle's eyea To face the midday skies* If I am weak and you are strong Why then_wliy then To you the braver deeds belong I And so again. If you have gifts ar.d I have nono, If I have shade and you nave sun, ’Tis yours with freer bond to give, 'Tis yoors with truer grace to live. Than I who giftless, sur ess, stand With barren life and hand. —Carioua Perry. In Iowa State Register. Last Might. Last night strange .rbispertngs woko me. Last nigtt when alii was stilL 1 opened my casern* at gently And leaned from the window sill. I opened my casern* at gently And peered lbroU{;b the silent light And far on the terrc ced roof tree I saw weird forms of while. I heard a round in the darkness, A shuddering her*1 and there; 1 saw wraithed Ggu es tremblinp And vanishing Into the air. A writhing ana in the sbadotir, A swirling and ghostly limb, ; And still through it all the whisp sring That spoke to the midnight dim. The morning broke md the dayli ?bt Came in through my lattice wire. And I looked across- at the roof ti eo With its terraced powers becidc;

And I saw in tbo sheen of the sui shin© Thai tho spirits and sounds of i be nigbt Had been only my neighbor's we?k!y wash Winging its cloth* s-pinned fits', it. Then I opened my casement gent y And leaned from the window sill. And oh! the tones o*f bis loud checked vest Were whispering still. —Kale.Mastersos, in Judge. Slay Day. The sky is all dappled with azure and white The woodlands are dotted with pos es. The blue-hooded larkspur looks smiling and bright, And the butterfly flirts wjtto the ros es. And jack-in the pulpit is nodding bis bead. While the honey bees cheerily hum: The crtolc swings in bis suftg hammock bod. And the robin sings May day has cornel The hawthorns are dropping their petals around, a Tbo humble-bee sighs for the dlcver. The shy little cowslip la byw ays la found. And the jpng-cups are sprinkled al over. The dove softly coos in the shade of the wold,, The woodcock is beating his drum. The moccasin flower dons her slippers of golld. And the cuckoo says May-day has comof The swallows have flown to the chimneys tall. The thrush to his tryst is w inging. The eglantine over the old stone wall Iler censers cf incense is swinging; And down in the meadow, amid the green grass. The crickets so lazily bum: The daisies nod this way and that as yon paisa And the south-wind sayn May day has come —Helen Whitney Clark, in Good Housekeeping The Early Robin. Through the chill of an early April rain I hear the note of a sweet refrain— Has the Robin come so soon? Heavy and dull ore the skies without. And my heart is Ailed ’.nth a dreary doubt, liut the song is a seng of June. O! Robin, Robin, you shame: my faith. Your cheery song to ray spirit said: “Relieve, and away with fear; I am not afraid though the oold winds blow, 1 am conic to the call o. God. and know That spring Is surely here. “So I seek my mate, at d I build my nest And 1 sing my song wti b a keener zest. For the joy is yet to be; Already the fullness of joy 1 share. When my nest shall wing In t he summer air On the bough of tiie maple tree.** Singon, brave Robin, your song shall be An inspiration of faith :o me, I, too. will begin t o sing. , Though my heart is chi i led. and ray poise is lo w And my hopes lie bund under the show, I sun sure of a coning spring. —Maria Upbam Drake in Youth’s Companion ELECTRICAL EXTRACTS. It is estimated that although there are over 100.000 ttlepbono talks a d ay in the city of New York, thero are probably a million people living there who havo neve^ydi talked over a telephone. The long*distanco telephone servico has been m;;.do very efficient^ as may bo gathered from tho fact that the roar of Niagara Falls can now be distinctly heard in the city over its lines. Tiie elecJrt*Hi snow plough, which

Clears LUO traCK. Uluru ij autu efficiently than an ordinary snow plough drawn by twelve horses, has shown Ills superiority so convincingly. during the past winter that a prominent company aro at work on ar.d have nearly completed a special electric sweeper and track cleaner for cleaning tho track of dust, dirt, slight snow-falls and other impediments to tho good running of the cars. Ei.ectkicitt is destined to play a permanent part in domestic life. 4 Electric cooking utensils, utilizing its heating properties, have been designed, and in somo instances put into practical operation. • One of tho latest novelties in this respect is tho electric flatiron. It consists of a hollow flatiron, in tho interior of which a coil i3 placed which is heated by thejeurront passing through it. Tho ease and comfort derived from tho use of such-device^ in hot weather especially, is apparent. How’s This! We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward 1'or any. case of Catarrh that can not be cured by taking Hall’s Catarrh Cure. P. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. «f. Cheney for the last fifteen years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions, and financially able to caiTy out any obligations made by their firm. West&Truax,Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. ... ,,, Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials free. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Some men’s heads are so soft that a shadow from a brick wall will produce a concussion of the brain.—Light. THE MARKETS. a 9B% <8 43% a ss a 14-09 Hew Yoke, April 28,1890. CATTLE—Native Steers.*4 10 ® 4 90 COTTON—Middling. H%® 11% FLOCK—Winter Wheat.,. 2 40 a 5 2» WHEAT—No. 2 Bed..:... 96 COBN—No. 2. .... --- 42 DATS—Western Mixed. 33 FORK—Mess. 13 oO ST LOUIS. COTTON—Middling. .... ... ® BEEVES—Export Steers. 4 69 ® Shipping. 3 25 a HOGS—Common to Select.... 3 60 a SHEEP—Fair to Choice. 4 00 ® FLOCB—Patents.. • •• * 50 a XXX to Choice. 2 40 a WHEAT—No. 2 Bed Winter.. 85%® COBN—No. 2 Mixed. 30%® OATS—No. 2... . .26%® jjYE—No. 2__ __ 59 a TOBACCO —Lugs (Missouri).. 2 50 a Leaf, Burley. 3 50 “ HAY-Choice Timothy. 13 00 BUTTER—Choice Dairy 14 EGGS—Fresh. FORKsrStandard Mess...,-13 00 BACON—Clear Rib.... LARD—Prime Steam.. ... WOOL—Choice Tab. CHICAGO. 5%® . a n% 5 0> 4 59 4 25 5 65 4 69 3 10 86% 39% 26% 51 8 10 a 13 oo a 15 so a 16 a 8% a 13 50 6 6 35 4 00 4 47% 5 30 4 75 5 50 i8% 93% 24% 13 02% CATTLE-Sbipping. .. 3 65 a HOGS—Good to Choice....... 4 2o a SHEEP—Good to Choice. 4 62%® FLOUR—Winter Patents..... 4 50 ffl Spring Patents. 4 50 ® WHEAT—No. 2Spring........ , 8i%® COBN-No. 2. ® OATS—No. 2 White... 24%a FORK—Standard Mess . ® KANSAS CITY. CATTLE-ShippingSteers... 3 50 ® HOGS—Sales at.. 4 00 m WHEAT—No. 2 Red-- •••• » OATS-No. 2. 33%« COBN—No. 2. • NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR-Hlgh Grade .; 4 10 a 5 00 COBN—White .. « ® OATS-Choice Western. » • HAY—Choice.....» 00 a 21 » PORK—New Mess. a 13 (» 4 75 4 10 to% ;i4 27% BACON-Clear Rib... COTTON—Middling. LOUISVILLE. WHEAT-No. 2 Red.. CORN-Na 2 Mixed. OATS-No. 2 Mixed.... PORK—Mest... - . .• mSSl,SR:::;;;;;:;; 6% a .. a 6% 111% a m a iff a ;it% a u;» •ft* # m —■

Hereditary Blood Poison. Man]r of the evils of life are inherited. Parents transmit to their children a state of blood impurity. What a fearful heritage to bequeath an innocent child I Scrofula, skin diseases, erysipelas, sore eves, ringworm, tetter, eczema, scald head, scabby surfaces, syphilitic spmptoms, ulcerative and consumptive tendencies, etc., all of which make life miserable, and the victim a prey to designing quacks. Iti3 surely a disgrace that this should be so. It is manifestly the duty of every one to keep their blood pure and their systems in a condition tion in that compound known as Dr. Bull’s Sarsaparilla. There is no phase of blood poison this incomparable alterative will not relieve; If a sufferer from blood disease, you do yourself great injustice if you fail to try it—Springfield Express. Better to sit by the pine table for which you paid three dollars ten years ago, than send home a new extension, black walnut top and promise to pay for it next week. The “Air Line.” To any one contemplating a journey the shortest and most direct lino is always to be desired, and \Vkere one can get Ihis, together with accommodations which can ° • it n M_At__ ehonlii not be excelled, no further inquiry should be made. The Louisville, Evansville & at. lUdUC. ill" —W Louis “Air Line” comprises each of these 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 tUg most direct route to all points in Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee- the Virginias and Car'olinas. Two Trains each way daily. For ti< kets, information or sleeping-car " — address H. E. reservation, call on or rcooi»awuu, --— ~ Morris, City Passenger Agent, 116 North Fourth street, St. Louis, or at Union Depot. Jos. S. Odiorke, G. P. A.. Louisville, Ky. Better to meet your business acquaintances with a free, “don’t-owe-you-a-ceut” smite, than to dodge around the corner to escape a dun. -Tlie Lady Next Door. Mrs. W. envied the lady netqt door because she always seemed so well and happy. “She enjoys life and I don’t,” said the discontented woman. “How X would like tc change places with her I” At last she made the acquaintance of the object of her envy, and this is what the lady told her: “Happy! Of course 1 am, for I enjoy perfect health. My dear Mrs. W., your fact tells me why you are not happy. You are suffering from functional derangements. 1 was a martyr to female weakness for years, jut Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription cured me, as it will you if you will try it. It is guaranteed to give satisfaction in every case or price ($1.00) returned. Dr. Pierce’s Pellets, one a dose. Cure leadache, constipatiou and indigestion. “Put not your trust in riches,” but there’s no objections to your putting youi riches in trusts.—Ypnkers Statesman. My son twelve years of age, has been afflicted with scrofula for eight years. His hip joint protended through the skin, and he could not walk except on crutches, and he was also nearly blind. I had him under the care of the best doctors without avail, and had given him up to die, when I was urged to try Bull’s Sarsaparilla He has used eight bottles and already his eyesight is restored and his limb much better. Hjs appetite is now good, he looks well and is quite cheerful. I think with a few more bottles he will be completely restored.James lee, Nashville, Tcnn. Better to pay the organ-grinder twe cents for music, if you must have it, that to owe for a gr. nd piano. The Blues. This is a synonym for that gloomy harassed condition of the mind which has its origin in dyspepsia. All the ugly spirit! that, under the name of tnc “blues.” “blut devils,” “megrims” and “mulligrubs' torment the dyspeptic almost ceaselessly banish when attacked with Hostetter'i Stomach Bitters, that, moreover, annihi lates biliousness, constipation, chills am fever, kidney complaints and nervousness The temperance advocate thinks that thi glass which is wrong side up is right sidi up.—Washington Star. Consumpt on Surely Cured. To the Editor Please inform your read ers that I have a positive remedy for thi above named disease. By its timely usi thousands of hopeless cases have been per manently cured. I shall be glad to send twi bottles of my remedy free to any of you readers who have consumption if they wil send me their express and post-office ad dress. Respectfully, T. A Slocum. M. C. 181 Pearl street, New York. When a barrel is full it generally get; bunged up. And this is the case with i man.—Boston Courier Tourists, Whether on pleasure bent or business should take on every trip a bottle of Syruj of Figs, as it acts most pleasantly and el feetually on the kidneys, liver and bowels

preventing levers, neauacnes anu uuiur forms of sickness. For sale, in 50c and $1.00 bottles by all leading druggists. Evert man has his own particular bent, especially the one whose ways are crooked. —Baltimore American. Quinine will often stop the chi.-e J or a brief period, but Shallenberger s Antidote for Malaria removes the- malarious poison from the system and cures yen. A single dose will sometimes do it Sold by Druggist®. There: are some circles whero it is only the man with the income that can come in. —Binghamton Leader. For strengthening and clearing the voice, use “Brown’s Bronchial Troches.” “I have commended them to friends who were public speakers, and thpy have proved extremely serviceable.”—Ht*. Henry 1 Yard Beecher. The young doctor—who fell in love at first sight explained it in one word—cauterize.— Kearney Enterprise. * Six Novels Free, will be sent by Cragin & Co., Philada., Fa., to any one in the U. 8. or Canada, postage paid, upon receipt of 25 Dobbins’ Electric 8oap wrappers.. See list of novels .6n circulars around each bar. Aif Eastern man has patented an elevator boot. It will be popular with stern parents, likely.—Lowell Mail. Do not suffer from sick headache a moment longer. It is not necessary. Carter’3 Little Liver Pills will cure you. Dose, one little pill. Small price. Iftiall dose. Small pill. To get at the real cost of beef-making the animal must be credited for the fertility it leaves on the farm. Mast mothers wonld willingly pay a dollar a box for Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers if they could not get it for less. It costs only 25 cents and is sold by druggist*. Bath-tees are now made of paper—that is, stationary tubs.—Burlington Free Press. FoBTirr Feeble Lungs Against Winter with Hale’s Honey of HorehoundandTarPike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. An, the world may be a stage, but a good man ? of the people are merely supers. Are as small as homeopathic pellets, and as easy to take as sugar. Everybody likes them. Carter’s Little liver Pills. Try them. A man short in his accounts docs not stay long when found out.—51. O. Picayune. Bronchitis is cured by frequent small Joses of Piso’s Cure for Consumption. It is said that the tailor-made eid takes a measured step.—Boston Gazette.. A pocket match-safe free to smokers of “Tansill’s Punch” 5c. Cigar. WnEN a train is telescoped the pas sengerg are apt to see stars. Tutt's Pills ■timnlates the torpid liver, strengthens the digestive organs, regulates the howels, and arenucqualed as an ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE. In malarial districts their vijrtnes are widely recognised, as they possess peculiar properties tu freeing the system from'that poison.^ Mejantlj^sngar Dose sma Sold Everywhere. Office. 44 Murray St., New York. DETECTIVES „ Mtod ta ere. OmbO. RnSBiKOeWMiaSa t> «r gortt Smlo. Enwfcnw m rmuurt. PMtk.tar.jM, gp^ggoj^iusaamM

—Queen Christina, upon receiving the announcement of the baptism of the thousandth child named in honor of her husband, sent the parents a complete layette—a silver cup, a case with knife, fork and spoon, and a savings box containing, besides a handsome nestegg, a paper on which was .written with her own hand; “To the thousandth Alfonso, from a woman whom two Alfonsos have made happy,” —In the neighborhood of Hart’s Road, Fla., live two families with sixteen boys, one having nine and the other seven, and none of the parties is yet forty years old.

^JACOBS Oil r ^ Cures

Backache. Backache. A ■ Backache. ^

Martinez. Cal., October 2.1888. 5 I could hardly walk or lie down iron®. lameback; suffered several week?. St. Jacobs OH permanently cured me, Eg failed to do so._FkkD. HIT1 MAN. Cloverdale, Ind., Feb. 8,1887. From a bad cold pains settled in mv back and I suffered greatly; confined to bed and could hardly move or turn. I tried bt. Jacobs Oil. which cured^ recurrence.

s ' *• I drink this cup to one made up . OX loveliness alone— Or her sex. the seeming paragon.”

These lines of Pinckney bring beforethe mental vision a woman of surpassing beauty, challenging admiration and homage. This sentimental tribute was, no doubt, worthily bestowed by the poet, but st is a prosaic fact that large numbers of our fair country-women are deficient in personal charms, because they do not try and com quer the disorders peculiar to their sex, and from which so many of them suffer martyrdom. As it is the ambition of every woman to look her best , let the afflicted ones use Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, and thus recover their health, without which there can be no beauty. _ . Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is a legitimate medicine,not a beverage; carefully compounded by an experienced physician, and adapted to woman s delicate organization. It is purely vegetable in composition and perfectly harmless in any conditionof the system. Contains no alcohol to inebriate ; 'no syrup or sugar to ferment m the stomach and derange digestion. # . As an invigorating tonic, it imparts strength to the whole system. For overworked, “worn-out," “run-down,” debilitated teachers, milliners, dressmakers, “shop-girls,” housekeepers,

cursing mothers, and feeble women generally, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is tho great-st earthly boon, being unequaled as an appetizing cordial and restorative tonic. As a soothing and strengthening nemne, “ Favorite Prescription ” is unequaled and is invaluable in allaying and subduing nervous excitability, exhaustion, prostration, hysteria, and other distressing, nervous symptoms, commonly attendant upon functional and organic disease of the uterus, or womb. It induces refreshing sleep and relieves mental anxiety and despondency. It is the only medicine for tho cure or all those peculiar wgaknesses and ailments incident to females, sfeld by druggists, under a positive guarantee from the manufacturers, that it will give satisfaction in every case or price (81.00) will be promptly refunded. See guarantee printed on bottlewrapper and faithfully carried out for many years. For a Book of 100 pages on Woman : Her Diseases, and How to Cure them, (sent sffiifed, in plain envelope,) enclose ten cents, in stamps, to World’s Dispensary Mej>- ! ical Association, Ho. 663 Main Street, | Buffalo, N. Y.

ran i r?o purely vegetable and PH I t g 5! PERFECTLY HARMLESS. .. wan Vneqaaled as a LIVER FTM» siest to take. One tiny, Sugar-coated Pellet a dose. Headache. Constipation, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, and ch and Bowels. 25 cents a vial, by druggists. Smallest, Cheapest, Et Cures Sick Headache, Bilious all derangements of the Stems TDISO’S REMEDY FOB CATABBH.—Best. Easiest to use. -t Cheapest. Relief is immediate. A cure is certain. For Cold in the Head it has no equal. It is an Ointment, of which a smalt particle is applied to the nostrils. Price, 60c. Sold by druggists or sent by mail. Address, E. X. Hazei.tiws, Warren, Fa.

To Restore Tone and Strength to the Sy stem when weakened by La Grippe or any other Illness, Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is positively unequalled. Get the BEST. Prepared by Dr, *1,-0. Ayer & Go., Lowell, Mass.

W. L. DOUGLAS $3 SHOE AND $2 SHOE FOR GENTLEMEN AMOthcrAdvertiaedl Specialties ■ire the Seat In the World. None genuine unless name nrrt price are stamped on bottom. SOLD EVERYWHERjg. If year dealer wiU not supply.yon. send postal for instructions how to bay direct from factory without extra eh a “ere. • W., BOt fil.AS, Brochfiin, Moss. X2I5 PAi<*?3. ♦wy tjrmeyoa writ*.

mil*** xnuRitf r&jxiiif ±0/0, Wr BAKER & CO.’S teMM Cocoa X* absolutely pure owl it te soluble,, No Chemicals «rc used m its pretention. It has VHrr9 fbnK t&rca tirea Ike etrtnffih of - Cccm mixed with Starch, Arrowroot or fewgw. and is therefore fir more [ economical* muting leas Mum ewe «** I <% cuv. It is O-liciocs, nourishing, |stWgrti«nBg, Easily BiGiJfiTEi, 3 and admirably adapted for iuvalWi f ns m3 a* tfJr pcrtone ia health.

Solii by Greeegft everywhere. W. BAKES. & COj. Dorchester. Mass. (UOffiS BJ -OF — V RRST-CLASS Timber Lands IN NORTHERN W1S00HSIN. vaiii Im’ sciid at tsjtACJlKE* ®h I»OK® Rich .Oil —Iieslthftt! cHiRAte—goc^l dnnkM wj^cir—Sne »*?■ 1 C HOICK Of- JLAMW. mu laroRMATIUN nn iuK r uiffSwera, etc., jcic.. fukkisrbb PRISS* AMres» LAID C0SIISBIC®, mwitkiBE, Bifrs. nr YOU WANT TO keep mi 8f m USE “BSIUOUS BUTTONS.” BILIOUS BUTTONS SO., St. I.•>»!»- Mo. BEH0DM --HanV* < iMUted SMiUuruer. SrnsjrtsM. ar m, aipnw prwitM, to?.**, s>y w. y STEaSKS, M*aa£*«tBr«. Soon*. Wfc !t« WTO SSis-'-u . ■ - :

VASELINE PREPARATIONS. On receipt of price in postage stamps we will send rceby mail the following valuable articles: )ne Box of Pur© Vaseline,_10 Cents. )ne Box of Vaseline Camphor Ice, 10 Cts. )ne Box of Vaseline Cold Creaxn.15 Cts. )ne Cake of Vaseline Soap..... 10 Cehts. )ne Bottle of Poxpade Vaseline, 15 Cents. If you have occasion to use “Vaseliue” in any orm be careful to accept only gennine goods |fc»t ip by ns in original packages. A great many iruggists are trying to persuade buyers to take f&sennc Preparations put np by them. Never yield o such persuasion, as the article is an imitation without value and will not dp good nor give you be result you expect. A two ounce bottle of lime leal Vaseline is sold by all druggists at ten cents. No Vaseline is genuine unless our name is on the label. itesebraugli Hfg, Co,,24 Stalest,#. Y. I CURE FITS! When I. say cure I do not mean merely to stop them or a time and then have them return again. 1 mean a adical cure. I have made the disease of FITS,jEri,EP3Y or FALLING SICKNESS a life-long: study. I warant my remedy to cure the worst cases. Because others have failed is no reason for not now receiving a ure. Send at once for a treatise and a Free i ottle of ny infallible remedy. Give Express and Post-Office. s:e. ItOOT, M. C-. 1S8 Pc.rl Street, hewN.rk. tarNA3CS THIS PAPBKowy timo yoawnta. _ Ask Him! Who? JOKES OF BIN6KRMT0N, BINGHAMTON, N. Y. What? Why on Scales He Pays the Freight.” RHEUMATISM ^HGDRa. (TUD, SOT MEBELT. RELIEVES but Permanently EOT Fin.I. TREATISE SSET Fit EE to'any address. Ifhs Ydiow Fine lilted Co., •3PXAKK THIS PAPKE WOT time you writ*. BOX 240. .. . P1TTSBIRGJI, PA H,ssELLwiil & CO.’S _ OW READY. Describes their latesl brew?,ere, ThreeLIaffEnsrin**, *»w Mi! tit E,’'tinea, Horse Pcr-vers, Stntionni !est improved ch — Rill* ond Saw no t i’TMM**. iiorwe A ^ lain or Automatic, a*d am ^uia VHSELL & CO., - MASSILLON, OHIO. *-£iAM£ THIS PAPKE btctj am, J®«* write. IT ISlgEUkyCHIl.HHEJi’S €I1ILJ>*S£J • li.l c - Thousands of young men aud women in the U, S. A. owe fhcir Hyes and their health And their happiness to Ridge's Food their daily diet in Infancy and Childhood having been ^ .-—- Ridge’s Food. By Druggists, i5,S“ AU. COCSTIUSSi A c"- 1 —•**- CAVEATS, TRADEMARKS, -1 I.AI1KI.S * UrSI'BVa. “ Send r#nirh sketch or cheap model of invcntion.v-IMM RDFATFI. Y to J. B, _iCRALLE A CO., wasuisctos, u. c. j-yXHS T1U9 Fiftaor-”-“ Si rue in r.| JOHMt.noB kis. kE:RolUl;4v - - IlMi.w. -v .IwMblligtouv B. «’• IW Successfully PROSECUTES CLAIMS. I Late Principal Examiner TJ. S. Pension Bureau. | 5 yrs In last war. 13 adjudicating claims, attfy since. *a“JJA3rt Tms PAPER « ft A Tr AIT A V Invent somethin* and make Patents ^fortune! && ■ “ I OF INSTRUCTIONS FREE. Address W.T. FITZGERALD. WASHINGTON. D. C. *4r5AKK THIS P.VPKR wery tin. you write. AC5KNTS WANTED—Prof. Sldane's : FACTS WORTH KNGWIHS. P""* *•*■*-? ^ - liable. Exclusive territory. Write for circulars. M. S. Barnett. St. Louis?, Mo. for [at. Kutgat Cycle Co.. 207 N. reirli, St. Looie. Learn Telegraphy and Railroad Agent's Business here,and secure good aituations. write J. D. BROWN. Bodalia, Mo. *r*AMEHXIsmiE«wrjti»ajw*wm* Y01TNG MEN] «u and cured without the Jtnireon treatment sent frees. Address ~1ND.M.D., Aurora, Kan® Co.,111. >e to $8 a day. Samples worth Sj^lS in FREE. Line, rot »• milr homes’ feet. 'W« 10* llBKWsTIB SARTT UO HOI.DKB CO., 1I.1Ij.MI,.. VIlEiraarirUreTtnianl. _____ A. N. K. B. 1289. WHEN hkS-ss to abveutisebs nnj* •«•<> that r*« MW Dm Wl