Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 51, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 May 1890 — Page 4

Mercury mad Calomel. Injudicious use of msrcury in the form of calomel or otherwise) leaves very injurious after effects. Much of the distress that afflicts humanity is due to n too per- . various sisteat use of this poison. The functions of the body liecome impaired by its use and even the bones sometimes become affected, causing aches and a general feeling of debility and distress. Any one who has used calomel or mercury in any of its forms, will do well to follow it up with a use of Dr. Bull's Sarsaparilla. This excellent alterative counteracts the. evil effects of mercury and other mineral poisons- It is composed of strictly vegetable ingredients, and there is nothing in its composition that will harm the most delicate. Good health invariably follows its 1190.—Springfield Health Journal. The things wo think at night would bo of great value next day if we could only remember them.—Milwaukee Journal Confidence Begot ef Success. So successful has I>r. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery prov ed in curing chronic nasal catarrh, bronchial and throat diseases, that its manufacturers now sell it through druggists under a positive guarantee of its benefiting or curing in ever; __„___„ _i every case, If given a fair trial, or money paid for 'it WU1 be refunded. Consumption (which is scrofula of the lungs) If taken In time, is also cured by this wonderful medicine. For Constipation or Sick Headache, use Dr. Pierce’s Pellets, Purely Vegetable. One a dose. Evert man has his particular bent, especially after c iting a prematurely pulled watermelon.—Philadelphia Press. ladies Have Tried It. A number of my lady customers have tried “Mother's Friend.” and would not be tried “Mother’s Friend,” ami would not be without for many times its cost. They recommend it to nil who are to become mothers. It A. Patse, Druggist, Greenville, Ala. Write Brad field Reg. Co., Atlanta, Ga. for particulars. By all druggists. The color lino, as applied to tho sngar problem, is a matter of refinement.— Hutchinson News. I have been affected wifti a mercurial headache and a heavy pain in my liver. I made use of different sarsaparillas without success until 1 gave Bull's Sarsaparilfci a trial, three bottles tif which gave me relief. 1 take pleasure rmrScommending it as being superior to other sarsaparillas.—T. H. Owen, Louisville, Ky.' The conceit of somo peoplo is so strong that they, admire their mistakes because they make them. Ske Novdt Free, will be sent by Cragin & Cot, Philada., Pa., to any one in the U. 8. or Canada, postage paid, upon receipt .of 85 Dobbins’ Electric Soap wrappers. See list of novels on circulars around each bar. Tis tho next morning’s press notices that make many an actross critic-ally ill.— Hotel Gazette. Have no equal as a prompt and positive cure for sick headache, biliousness, constiEtion, pain in the side, and all liver troub- . Carter’s Little Liver Pills. Try them. WmsKT is said to improve with age, but somo men never give it a chance.—Somerville Journal.

Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers are no* new and untried. For thirty years they have stood the test of usage, and their large sale is due to merit only. Wats a man is full it is a good time to take his bust measure.—Binghamton Leader. _ Sufferers from Coughs, Sore Throat, etc., should try Brown's lironehinl Troches," a simple but sure remedy. Sold only in boxes. Price 25 cents. Tnouou time Cies it is the man who goes slow who keeps up with it—Atchison Globe. __■ Pais in the Side nearly always comes from a disordered liver and is promptly relieved by Carter’s Little Liver Pills. Don’t forget this. The man who tries to tako things as they come—the base-ball catcher.—Washington Stjir. Explosions of Coughing"'are stopped by Hale’s Honey of Horeliound and Tar. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. Moxr.v talks except* when it is “shut up” iu a bad investment—Washington Star. "The best congh medicine is Piso’s Cure tor Consumption. Sold every where. 25c. Tire self-made man has no prejudice •gainst the tailor-made girl.—N. O. PicayW» recommend “Tansill’s Punch” Cigar. It is the diamond miner who is tho most successful discoverer of strata gems. rTJACOBSQJT J SURE JSmHm CURE. A CLEAN AND PERFECT CURE OF Hurts and Bruises. A Doctor Saw It. Lawrence, Kansas, Aug. 9,1S88. George Patterson fell hom a 'Al-fctory window, striking a fence. 1 found him using St. Jacobs Oil freely all over his hurts. I saw him next morning at work; all the blue spots had goat leaving neither pain, sear nor swelling. C. K. NEUMANN, M. D. At Druggists and Dealers. THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.. Baltimore. Md. r I took Cold, I took Sick, I TOOK scorn EMULSION RESULT: X take My Meals, I take My Rest, AND I AM VIGOROUS ENOUGH TO TAKE ANYTHING I CAN LAY MY HANDS ON ; gritting lilt too, for Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil and Hvpopliosphitesof Lime and Soda not only cured my Incipient Consumption but built ME UP, AND 15 NOW PUTTING FLESH ON MY BONES at the rate or a pound a day. i TAKE IT JUST AS EASILY AS I DO MILK.” SUCH. TESTIMONY IS NOTHING NEW. scorr’s emuision is doing wonders daily. Take no other. ■ >

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“NABBOW ESCAPES.” Sermon by Rev. T. DeWitt T»ilmage from a Homely Text Its Application to Man's Experience/*— Troubles Map Overwhelm Ton, but the Wop or Escape Is Open to All who Seek It. The following discourse was deliver *1 by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, from tie text: I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.— Job six.. JO. Job bad it hard. What with boils and bereavements and bankruptcy, and a fool of a wile, he wished he was.dead; and I do not blame him. His flesh was gone, and his bones were dry. Bis teeth wasted away until nothing but the enamel seemed left He cries puts “1 am escaped with the skin of my teeth.” There has been some difference of opinion about this passage. St Jerome and Schulte ns, and Drs. Good and Poole and Barnes, have tried all their forceps on Job’s teeth. You deny my interpretation, and say: “What did Job know about the enamel of Die teeth?” He knew'every thing about It Dental surgery is almost as old as the earth. The mummies of Egypt .thousands of years old.art* found.to-day with gold filling in their teeth. Ovid and Horace and Solomon and Moses wrote about these important factors of the body. To other provoking complaints, Job. I think, has added an exasperating toothache, and, putting his hand against the inflamed face, he says: “I am escaped witli the skin of my teeth. ” A very narrow escape, you say, for Job’s body and soul; hut there are thousands of men who make just as narrowescape for their soul. There was a time when the partition between them and ruin was no thicker than a tooth's enamel; hut as Job finally escaped, bo have they. Thank God! thank God! Paul expresses the same idea by a different figure when he say3 that some people are “saved as by fire.” A vessel at sea is in flames. You go to the stem of the vessel. The boats have shoved off. The flames advance; you can endure the heat no longer on your face. You slide down on the side of the vessel, and hold on with your fingers, until the forked tongue of the fire begins to lick the back of your band, and you feel that you must fall, when one of the lifeboat comes backhand the passengers say they think they have room for one moro The boat swings under you—you drop into it—you are saved. So some men are pursued by temptation until they are partially consumed, hut, after all, get off—“saved as by fire.7 But I like the figure of Job a little better than that of Paul, because the pulpit has not worn it out; and I -want to show yon. if God will help, that some men mako narrow escape for their souls, and are saved as “with the skin of their teeth.”

It is as easy for some people to look to the Cross as for you to look to this pulpit Mild, gentle, tractable, loving, you expect them to become Christians. You go over to the store and say: “Grandon joined the church yosterday.” Your business comrades say: “That is just what might have been expected; he always was of that turn o|f mind.” In youth, this person whom I describe was always good. lie never'* broke things. He nover laughed when it was improper to laugh. At seven,! he could sit an hour in church,, perfectly quiet, looking neither to the right hand nor to the left, but straight into the eyes of the minister, as though he understood the whole discussion about the eternal decrees. He never upset things nor lost them. He floated in the Kingdom of God so gradually that it is uncertain just when the matter was decided!. ‘^fill ere is another one, who started i n life with an uncontrolablo spirit. He kept the nursery in an uproar. His mother found him walking on the edge of the house roof to see if he could balance himself. There was no horse that ho dared not ride—no tree ho could not climb. His boyhood was a long series of predicaments; his manhood was reckless, his mid-life wayward. Hut now he is converted, and you go over to the store and say: “Arkwright joined the church yesterday.” Your friend says: “It is not possible! You must be joking.” You say: “No; I toll you the truth. He joined the church.” Then they reply: “There is hope for any of us if old Arkwright has become a Christian!” In other words, we will admi t that it is more difficult for some men to accept the Gospel than for others. I may be preaching to some who have cut loose from churches and Hibles and Sundays, and who have come in hero with no intention of becoming Christians themselves, but just to see what is going on; and yet you may find youi'self escaping, before you leave this house, as “with the skin of your teeth." I do not expect to waste this hour. I have soen boats go off from Cape May or Long Branch, and drop their nets, without having'caught a single fish. It was not a good day, or they had not the right kind of a net. But we expect no such excursion to-day. The water is full of fish, the wind is in the right direction, tho Gospel net ig strong. Oh Thou who didst help Simon and Andrew to fish, show us today how to cast the net on the right side of the ship! Some Of you, in coming to God, will

javo to run against skeptical notion;!. It is useless for people to say sharp and cutting things to thoso who reject the Christian religion. I can not say such things. By what process of temptation or trial or betrayal you have come to your present state, I know not. There are two gates to your nature: the gate of the head and the gate of the heart. The gate of your head is locked with bolts and bars that an archangel could, not break, but the gate of your heart swings easily on its hinges. If I assaulted your body with weapons, you would meet me with weapons, and it would he sword-stroke for sword-stroke., and wound for wound, and blood for blood; but if I come and knock at the door of your house, you open it and give me the best seat in your parlor. If I should come at you now with an argument, you would answer me with; an argument; if with sarcasm, yon would answer me with sarcasm; blow for blow, stroke for stroke; but when 1 come and knock at the door of your heart, you open and say; “Como in, my brother, and tell me all you know about Christ and Heaven.” Listen to two or three questions: Ai-e you as happy as you used to be when you believed in the truth of the Christian religion? Would yon like to hare your children travel on in the road in which you are now traveling? You had a relative who professed to be a Christian, and was thoroughly consistent, living and dying in the faith of the Gospel. Would you not like to live the same quiet life and die the same peaceful death? 1 have a letter, sent me by one who has rejected the Christian religion It says: “I am old enough to know that the joys and pleasures of life are evanescent, and to realize the fact that it must be comfortable in old ag e to believe in something relative to the future, »nd to have a faith in some system that proposes to save.* I km free to confess that 1 would be happier if I could exercise the simple and beautiful faith that is possessed by many whom I kwir, | m willing ?ut of Urn

church or out of the faith. My state of uncertainty is one of unrest Some>: times 1 doubt my immortality, and look upon the death-bed as the closing scene, after which there is nothing. What shall I do that 1 havo not done?” Ah! skepticism is a dark and doleful land. Let me say that this Bible is either trie or false. If it be false, we are as well off as you; if it be true, then which of us is safe? Let me also ask whether your trouble has not been that you confounded Christianity with the inconsistent character of some who profess it. You are a lawyer. Ih your profession there are mean and dishonest men. Is that any thing aga'inst the law? You are a doctor. There are unskilled and contemptible men in your profession. Is that any thing against medicine? You are a merchant. There are thieves and defrauders in your business. Is that any thing against smerchandise? Behold, then, the unfairness of charging upon Christianity the wickedness of its disciples. We admit some of the charges against those who profess religion. Some of the msot gigantic swindlers of the present day have been carried on by members of the church. There are men standing' in the front ranks in the churches who would not be trusted for five dollars with good collateral security. They leave their business dishonesties in the vestibule of the church as they go ip and sit at the communion. Having concluded the sacrament, they get up, wipe the wine from their lips, go out, and take up their sins where they left off. To serve the devil is their regular work: to serve God, a sort of play spell. With a Sunday sponge they expect to wipe off from theirbusiness slate all the past week’s inconsistencies. You have no more right to take suck a man’s life as a specimen of religion than you have to take the twisted irons and split timbers that lie on the beach at Coney Island as a specimen of an American ship. It is time that wo draw a line between religion and the frailties of those who profess it Do you not feel that the Bible, take it all in all, is about the best book that the world has over seen? Do you know any hook that has as much in it? Do you not think, upon the whole, that its influence has been beneficient? I come to you with both hands extended toward you. In one hand 1 have the Bible, and in the other I havo nothing. This Bible in one hand I will surrender forever just as soon as in my other hand you can put a hook that is better. Today I invite you back into the good, oldfashioned religion of your fathers—to the God whom they worshipped, to the Bible they read, to the promises on

which they loaned, to the cross on which they hung their eternal expectations. You hare not been happy a day since you swung off; you will not be happy a minute until you swing back.. Again: There may be some of you who, in the attempt after a Christian life, will have to run against powerful passions and appetites. Perhaps it is a disposition to anger that you have to contend against; and perhaps, while in a serious mood, you hear of something that makes you feel that you must swear or die. I know a Christian man who was once so exasperated that he said to a mean custbmor: “I can not swear at you myself.'for I am a member of the church, but if you will go downstairs my partner in business will swear at you.” All your good resolutions heretofore havo been torn to tatters by explosions of temper. Now, thero is no harm in getting mad if you only get mad at sin. You need to bridle and saddle those hot-breathed passions, and with them ride down injustice and wrong. There are a thousand things in the world that wo ought to be mad at. There is no harm in getting red-hot if you only bring to the forge that which needs hammering. A man who has no power of righteous indignation is an imbecile, But be sure it is a^ghteous indignation, and not a pctnlancy that blurs and unravels and depletes the soul. There is a largo class of persons in mid-life who have still in ihem appetites that were aroused in early manhood, at a time when they prided themselves on being a “little fast,” “high livers,” “free and easy,” “hale-fellows well mej.” They are now paying, in compound interest, for troubles they collected twenty years ago. Some of you aro trying to escape, and you will— yet very narrowly, “as with the skin of your teeth.” God and your own soul only know what the struggle is. Omnipotent graco has pulled out many a soul thatwasdee^crin the mire than you are. They line the beach of Heaven —tho multitude whom God has rescued from , the thrall of suicidal babit3. If , you this foy turn your back on the wrong and start anew God will help you. Oh, the weakness of human help! Men will sympathize for awhile, and then turn you off. If you ask for their pardon they will give it, and say they will try you again; but, falling away again under the power of temptation, they cast you off forevers But God forgives seventy times seven; yea, seven hundred times; yea, though this be the ten-thousandth time. lie is

more earnest, more sympathetic, more helpful, this last time than when you took your first misstep. If, with all the influences favorable for a right life, men make so many mistakes, how much harder it is when, for instance, some appetite thrusts its iron grapple into the roots of the tongue, and pulls a man down with the hands of destruction! If, under such circumstances, ho breaks away, there will be no sport in the undertaking, no holiday enjoyment, but a struggle in which the wrestlers move from side to side, and bend and twist, and watch for an opportunity to get in a heavier stroke, until with one final effort, in which the muscles are distendel, and the veins stand out, and the blood starts, the swatby habit falls under the knee of victory—escaped at last as “with the skin of his teeth.” The ship Emma, bound from Gottenburg to Harwich. was calling on, when the man on the lookout saw something that he pronounced a vessel bottom-up. There was something on it that looked like a sea gull, but was afterward found to be a waving handkerchief. In the small-boat the crew pushed out to the wreck, and found that it was a capsized vessel, and that three men had been digging their way out through the bottom of the ship. When the vessel capsized they had no means of escape. The captain took his penknife and dug away through the planks until his knife broke. Then an old nail was found, with which they attempted to scrape | their way out of the darkness, each one working until his hand was well-nigh paralyzed, and he sank backefaint and sick.. After long and tedious work the light broke through the bottom of the ship. A handkorchief was hoisted. Help came. They were taken on board the vessel and saved. Did ever men come so near a watery grave without dropping into it? How narrowly thpy escaped!—escaped only “with the skin of their teeth.” There are mem who have been capsized of evil passions, and capsized mid-ocean, and they are a thousand miles away from any shore of help. They have for years been trying to dig their way out They have been digging away, and digging away, but they oau never be delivered unless they will igtna signal ef giatrew, HmYf?

weak and feeble it may be, Christ will see it, and bear down upon the helpless craft, and take them on board; and it will be known in earth and in Heaven how narrowly they escaped—“escaped as with the skin of their teeth.1* There are others who in attempting to come to, God inust ran between a great many business perplexities. If a man goes over to business at ten o'clock in the morning, and comes away at three o'clock in the afternoon, he has some time for religion; but how shall you find time for religions contemplation when you are driven from sunrise to sunset, and have been for five years going behind in business, and are frequently dunned by creditors whom you can not pay, and when, from Monday morning until Saturday night, you are dodging bills that you can not meet? You walk day by day in uncertainties that have kept your brain on fire for the past three years. Some with less business troubles than you have gone crazy. The clerk has heard a noise in the back counting-room, and gone in and found the chief man of the firm a raving maniac; or the wife has heard the bang of a pistol in the back parlors, and gone in, stumbling over the dead body of her husband—a suicide. There are in this house to-day three hundred men pursued, harrassed, trodden down and scalped, jf business perplexities, and which way to turn next they do not know. Now, God will not be hard on you. lie knows what obstacles are in the way of your being a Christian, and your first effort in the right direction Ho will crown with success. Do not let Satan, with cotton bales, and kegs, and hogsheads, and counters, and stocks of unsalable goods block up your way to Heaven. Gather up all your energies. Tighten the girdle about your loins. Take an agonizing look into the face of God, and thon say, “Here goes one grand effort for life eternal,” and then bound away for Heaven, escaping as “with the skin of your tooth.” 1 find in the community a large clas3 of men who have been so cheated, so lied about, so outrageously wronged that they have lost faith in every thing. In a world where overy thing seems so topsy-turvey they do not see how there can be any God. They are confounded and frenzied and misanthropic. Elaborate arguments to prove to them the truth of Christianity, or the truth of any thing else, touch them nowhere. Hear me, all such men. I preach to you no rounded periods, no ornamental discourse, but put my .hand on your shoulder and invite you into the peace of the Gospel, nero is a rock on which you may stand firm, though the waves dash against it harder than the Atlantic, pitching its surf clear above Eddystone Lighthouse. Do not charge upon God all these troubles of the world. As long as the world stuck to God, God stuck to the world; but the earth seceded from His government, and henco all

tnesc outrages, anu an tnese woes, uuu is good. For many hundreds of years lie has heon coaxing the world to come back to Him; but tho more lie bas coaxed tho more violent have men been in their resistance, and they, have, stepped back and stepped back until they have dropped into ruin. Try this God, ye who have had the bloodhounds after you, find who have thought that God had forgotten you. Try Him and see if He will not help. Try H*m and see if He will not pardon. Try Him and sco if He will not save. The flowers df spring have no bloom so sweet as the flowering of Christ’s affections. Tho sun hath no warmth compared with the glow of His heart. The waters have no refreshment like the fountain that will slako the thirst of thy soul. At the moment the rein dcor stands with his lip and nostril thrust in the cool mountain torrent tho hunter may bo coming through the thicket Without cracking a stick under his foot he comes close by the stag, aims his gun,draws the trigger, and the poor thing rears in its deathagony and falls backward, its antlers crashing on tho rocks; but the panting heart that drinks from tho water-brooks of God’s promiso shall never bo fatally wounded, and shall never die. Oh, find your peace in God. Make one strong pull for Heaven. No half-way work will do it There sometimes comes a time on shipboard when every thing must bo sacrificed to save the passengers. The cargo is nothing, tho rigging nothing. The captain puts tho trnmpot to his lips and shouts! “Cut away the mast!” Some of you have been tossed and driven and you have, in your effort to keep tho world, well-nigh lost your soul. Until you havo decided this matter, let every thing olso go. Overboard with all those other anxieties and burdens! You will hsve to drop the sails of your pride and cut away tho mast. With one earnest cry for help put your cause into tb® hand of Him who helped 1’aul out of tho breakers of Mclita, and who, above tho shrill blast of the wratbiest tempest that ever blackened the sky or shook tho ocean, can hear the faintest imploration for mercy. I shall go home to-day feeling that some of you who havo considered your case as hopeless will take heart again, and that with a blood-red earnestness, such as you have never experienced before, you will start for tho good land of the Gospel—at last to look back, saying“What a great risk I ran! Almost lost, but saved! Just got through and no more! Escaped by tho skin of my teeth.” THE VISITING CARD.

The Many Uftes This Little Pasteboard Is l’nt To. j To many people the vi&ting card is but an insignificant and trifling bit of paper, but those who “know society by heart” mako it serve as a convenient medium of social intercourse. For instance, cards have become very useful as means of conveying somewhat informal invitations. For dinners, balls and othor very ceremonious occasions they are inadequate; but they are in good taste for dances, lunches, “at homes” and tea% The words “at homo” are written upon the card by the hostess herself, also the hour and often the nature of the entertainment, as “Dancing,” “Progressive euchre.” The envelopo should exactly fit the card, and while it is not out of place to send by mail, it is in better taste that they should be delivered by a servant. The convenient card is also used in replying, to invitation. This is frequently correct, but not unless the invitation itself was in that form. -“Where one more formal was engraved or written in the third person, a note also in tbo third person is necessary. In Using the card the phrases “Accepts with pleasure,” or “ltegrets to decline,” are proper, but it is not allowable to merely write “Accepts” or “Declines,” as this is too curt a form to be really courteous. If a call is intended tor more than one member of a family, it is well, though not obligatory, to send up a card for each person. In event of seeing no one, a card must be left for each without fail. It may be turned at the corner or not. In small towns this is not the necessity that it is in cities, where there must he some indication whether the visit was personal or not. And those are a very few of the many uses of cards, which, properly understood. simplify social duties.—flood .Housekeeping. - Tire treat secret of success in life Is to be ready when your opportunity

FARM Ap GARDEN. PRUNING SHEARS. ' Implement* That Everr r unner Should Possess. A good pair of pruning shears which will operate with readiness and ease is an important tool to the gardener who keeps trees and shrubbery within proper bounds, but badly constructed they are not so convenient and useful as the single-bladed knife. We have seen those that were of very little value, requiring a hard pressure i»f the hand to cut oft a small twig; and again we have had the satisfaction to work with those which with little effort sheared off a green limb over an inch in diameter. All the difference existed in the form or construction. When the two blades of the shears meet square together like a common pair of scissors, *hey will not prune off a large shoot;

FIGmtES 1 AND 2. but if one moves over tbe other obliquely with n draw or sawing motion, their efficiency is greatly increased. The tool manufacturers of past years were aware of this difference, and they employed a complex construction like thatropresente l in Fig. 1. The ‘drawcut” was effected by the movable center, so that when the handles were pressed together the connecting rod draws the nearer blade downwards,: and increasing the cutting power several fold over the simple shears. For pruning>or cutting grafts above the reach of the operator, it is still common in some places to attach to a pole the shears represented by Fig. 2, which are worked by a cord attached to the nearer curved blade; but ah the cut is only that of a a pair of scissors, it can be used only on small twigs.; The cut shows where the pivot is on which the nearer blade of these shears moves, being the cen;er of the dotteJ”I:ine. In Fig. 8, with a light alteration, the pivot is placed on

Fieri- !8 a AXD 4, the rod, giving t > the further blacle the motion of the dc; ted line, sawing and cutting off largei limbs, and acting as efficiently as the implement represented by Fig. 1. Fig. 1 shows how a very efficient pair of s: ears may bo made on a similar principle bat all its efficiency would be lost if ' he pivot were placed at the curve.—Country Gentleman. A SJ'D STORY. The Decay of AgrlciiUare In the Sl ate ot 'cnaont. ^ A rather sad s' ory is told by Mr. Valentine, a Vermont official, about the desertion of that beautiful State by its former inhabi ants. Standing with other officials on a hill in Benni ngton County, and looking over tho valley of tho West river, a tributary of the Connecticut, they counted fifteen contiguous farms, of perhaps a hundred acres each, all .ienced, and with dwelling houses and :>arns in at least tolerable condition, without a single inhabitant. Beyond, toward the Connecticut, but hidden by the maple groves in the valley, were, as they knew, fifteen more, also deserted, yet all well, situated and still showing signs ot their former fertility. Statistics show that a similar condition prevails all over the State. In' Windham County alone are more than forty thousand acres of land, once cultivated, but now deserted, and in tho whole State . the number of abandoned farms, complete with houses, fences, barns and outbuildings must be several thousand. ? Yet Vermont is one of the pleasantest, healthiest, most fortilo, and most civilized States in the Union. In its river valleys Is no malaria, while its bills are covorcd to tho summit with vegetation. The reckless agriculture which has made portions of the South nearly barren has never boon favored in Vermont, where a century or more of stock farming has rather enriched than exhausted the s.oil; yet the people who onco found, happy homes there have crowded into the towns, or have left the State altogether. In thirty years, from 1.1530 to 1880, the increase of population in Vermont was five per cent, while tho population of the whole country more than doubled, and that of tho adjoining State of Massachusetts increased by nearly eighty per cent Not pretending to any ideas on political economy, we will not try to account for this strange condition of things, but it is certainly curious that a region so favored in climate and position should bo retrograding s;o rapidly.—American Architect A Home-Made Mane Comb. The comb for the mane and tail of horses shown in the illustration is made, says tie American Agriculturist, of a piece of half-inch board, eight i nches long and five wide, with one end reduced to the forn Of a handle, as shown in the engraving. A hole is bored in the end to hang it by. Seven rows of

' DANK COMB. holes are pierced with a brad-awl, four of the rows with five holes each, and the three intermediate rows with four holes, so that the whole shall be in the “quincunx” form. Stout wire nails driven through the holes serve as I eeth. The whole is finished by nailing » covering of perforated tin plate or the back, to hold tine teeth in place. Pkter Colm tin, of the New York experiment station, tells the repor er of the Qeneva Courier that he finds that some dairymen i.n the State are fe ding cows at a coat i:f twenty-eight cen s per day per cow, I'Mle others are gi ttlng practically as | cod results from n tions costing only fourteen cents per oo * per day. Some dairymen get 308 p finds of butter per cow annually, wh.ch t» fronpSQ 80Q t(f»r oent, ®oft till» •ver»ge.

Thwarted. When lint we met It wee agreed 'That we should banish Cupid. Sbe thought him simple; so. Indeed, Did I, and called him stupid. “And what’u the use,” said she, “othla impertinent attendance J” Adding, with zest; “Up motto is A friendly l*ifen<itnce!" So In the waltz around her waist She let my arm go stealing; v Meanwhile with constant gaze she traced The cherubs on the ceiling. And what I could not understand— Though ignorance was pleasing— Was that her tiny plump white hand Did not object to squeezing. Then out ol friendship I began Directly to discover That naturally girl and man Grow into girl and lover. 1 told her so; and when I did— Her modest love confessing— Her face upon my breast she hid. And Cupid asked the blessing i _—Harper’s Bazar. Hold Fast. Hold fast to hope: though suns have set And rayless night the earth o’erspread. In order, strength and beauty yet Heaven’s countless shining hosts are led. Hold fast; what hoots the tempter's strife? Though waves may roar and winds may wail. Thy buoyant bark—a thing of life— Shall face unharmed the fiercest gale. Hold fast: though cruel wrong bear sway. The right shall triumph; strife shall cease, And, soon or late; will come a day Of clearer vision, deeper peace. Hold fast: no tide of war or wave Can move tho anchor of thy trust: Heaven-held, strong shall it be to save When earthly thrones have turned to dust. Hold fast: tho son no more may rise And moons may wax and wane no more. « Still where thou art shall cloudless skies Bend bright above a peaceful shore. —Luella Clark, in Union Signal. A Pa-Thetlc Tale. A dashing young man from Bryn Mawr A pair of new trouscrlcons wawr, And he called on his girl. With his bruin in a whirl. For such trousers he’d ne’er had befawr. His girl was a miss from Carlisle, Whose face wore a tour-by-eight smisle; And shqhad a bull-pup Which she always chained up When her lover dropped in for awhisle. One day while the young man paid court The bnll-dog broke loose just for spourt, And he soon got a chanco At the young man’s new pence, And ho seized them with ecstatic snourt, Alas! tongue or pea wholly fail To conclude this most harrowing tail; But this much we can say: The young man went away With his coat tails pinned np with a naiL —Frank B. Welch, in Arkansaw Traveler.

Wishes. Would I had ucver Wandered away Frae the faith o’ my childhood. Its flowery May. Would I had never Sounded the sea Whoso musical murmur Sno sweet seemed to me. Would I had never Listened to hear The songs o’ the sirens Strike on my car. Would I had never Followed afar •, The wfll-o’-wisp fatal That gleamed like a start Would I had never Wanted to know The ways o’ world and Its wages of woe. ■ -Susie M. Best, in; Philadelphia Ledger. A Very Sick Man. With bottles and bundles he stood there before me, * In serious tones he exclaimed: “My dear Fan, V • . t Quick, get mo well covered and see that I take these: There’s no doubt about it—I’m a very sick mao.” ) Very soon ho recovered, and went to the office; I laughed in my sleeve at my big husband, Drat; Bo It snuffles or sneezes, or if he but wheezes, Ho always insists—“rm a vory sick man.” I tend and I coddle, I read him the papers. And try to amuse him as well as I can; But good fates defend me, and kind patience lend me. Should ho ever be really—a very sick man. —louo L. Jones, in Jury. Deafness Can’t Bo Cored by local applications, as they can not reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure Deafness; and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is tho result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will bo destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by Catarrh) that we can not cure by taking Hall’s Catarrh (Jure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. Chesev & Co., Toledo, Oi Sold by Druggists, 75c. Bt a strange metamorphosis, tho man who wins in a lialf-mile dash starts outafool and comes in ahead.—Elmira Gazette.

Horrid Torture. This is often felt in every Joint and muscle of the body by turns, by people who, experiencing the earliest twinges oi rheumatism, neglect to arrest the malady, ns they may easily do, wit h Hostetter's Btomach Bitters, a professionally authenticated remedy for the agonizing complaint Recollect that rheumatism unchecked often lasts a lifetime, or abruptly terminates it when the malady attacks the heart The Bitters also remedies chills and fever, dyspepsia and liver complaint. Oy his return homo the immature clubman lets himself in with a minor key.— Pittsburgh Chronicle. Hackbtt, Arkansas, Aug. 90,1887. Dr. A. T. SHAliENBERQKB, Rochester, Pa. Dtar Sir:—I wish you to send me a bottle of your Antidote for Malaria, which I see advertised in the IStlhodiet Advocate, Chattanooga, Tenn., and which I can not get here. Fifteen years ago my mother had third-day chills, and Vi jl * _ _ ii i - e. __.1 mmli after toying the doctors and other medL cines witho iu^ Uic UlA/IAU O auu dues without relief, a friend recommended your Antidote; she tried it, and one dose effected a permanent cure. Truly yours, J. 8. Edwards, Pastor M. E. Church. With the Briton emotion is a matter of cultivation. He nlways loves with his whole ’art.—Philadelphia Pross. THE MARKETS. NEW York, May 5,1890. CATTLE—Native Steers.f 4 10 ® 5 00 COTTON—Middling. .... 0 » FLOUR—Winter Wheat. 2.40 a 5 25 WHEAT—No. 2 Red.. 9942a 1 Oil* CORN—No. 2... 422|0 4312 OATS—Western Mixed. S3 a 36 .. 14 00 a 14 23 YORK—Mess ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling. BEEVES—Export Steers. 4 70 a Shipping.r 3 75 a HOGS—Common to Select.... 3 60 a SHEEP—Fair to Choice.. 4 00 a FLOUR—Patents.A. 4 65 a XXX to Choice. 2 40 a WHEAT—No. 2 Red Winter,. 89V2a CORN—No. 2 Mixed. 3144a OATS-No. 2. 2642® EYE— No. 2.. « ® TOBACCO—Lugs (Missouri).. 2 50. a 11* 5 00 4 65 4 20 5 65 4 65 3 13 8942 3212 27 6541 10 Leaf, Burley. 3 50 a IS 00 14 50 15 842 13 50 6 646 35 <6 50 4 30 7 00 4 80 5 60 9242 3312 2542 13 10 HAY—Choice Timothy....... 11 00 BUTTER—Choice Dairy...... 13 EGGS—Fresh... ® PORK—Standard Mess. ® BACON—Clear Bib. 5%* LARD—Prime Steam.. .... ® WOOL—Choice Tub. ® • CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping.... * 75 a HOGS—Good to Choice. 4 10 a 8HEEP—Good to Choice;. 4 75 a I'LOUR—Winter Patents. 4 A0 « Spring Patents. 4 A0 a WHEAT—No. 2 Spring. 9142a CORN-No. .. ® OATS-No.2White. .,•••• ® I’OKK—Standard Mess. 13 00 0 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE-Shlpplng Steers... 8 50 HOGS—Sales at. 4 00 WHEAT—No. 2 Red..■■■■ OATS-No, 2...•• 26 CORN—No. 2.... NEW ORLEANS. 1FXOCR—High Grade..;.. 4 10 CORN—White-..-. - OATS—Choice Western.*5 HAY—Choice..;. 48 01 PORK—New Mess...,.,. BACON—Clear Rib....... COTTON—Middling. LOUISVILLE. WHEAT-No. 2 Red. g 84 OATS-No. 2 Mixed. 28 g BACON—Clear Bib.. •••• g a t oo a 4 10 0 854 a 2644 0 28 4 90 50 8542 19 00 13 00 642 1142

"AS BIG A FOOL AS THOMPSON’S COLT” ■'Wei's, by-George, I supposed every one’d heard tell of Thompson’s colt Yon see, it was like this: Thompson was an early settler, and owned a team and one colt. He lived on the hank of some big stream—the Mississip, f reckon. Well, whenever that taraal colt of his’n was thirsty, instead of walking down to the water and drinking, like a sensible critter would, what did the fool colt do bat swim to the other side, wade out, shake himself, turn around, walk down and—take a drink.” ' Now, some folks are just like that colt. When they get bilious and constipated, they just let it ran on, until first thing they know they have to swim through a. long, tedious spell of sickness. A few doses of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, taken in time, would prevent all that. There is nothing equal to it for Biliousness, Impure Blood, Scrofula, or even Consumption, which Is really nothing more nor less than Scrofula of the Lungs. The “Golden Medical Discovery” has cured thousands of cases of this most fatal of maladies. But it must, be taken before the disease i3 too far advanced in order to be effective, If taken in time, and given a fair trial, it will cure, or money paid for it will l>e refunded; For Weak Lungs, Spitting of Blood, Shortness of Breath,- Bronchitis, Asthma, Severe boughs and kindred affections, it is an efficient remedy. Woeed’s Dispensary Medical Association, Manufacturers, No. 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. X. ■ L

er Oi'i'jilMEU for an incurable case of 5'oii‘Til M 1 «■"■■■■'1 ■ ... ■■11"“' Catarrh in the Head bv the proprietors of DR. SAGE’S CATARRH REMEDY. RVSWTtHIS OF CATARRH.—Headache, obstruction of nose, discharges falling into throat, sometimes profuse, watery, ami aerki, at otters, thicS, tenacious, mucous, purulent, bloody, putrid and offensive: eyes weak, riug*. ins: in cats, deafness: offensive breath: smell nnd taste impaired, and gonStar eyal debility. Ouly a few of tbeae symptoms likely to be present at once. Dr. Sage’s Remedy cures the worst eases. Only 50 cents. Sold by druggists: ever jit here. Best Sough Medicine. Recommended by Physicians. Cures where all else fails. Pleasant and agreeable to the taste. Children take it without objoetion. By druggists.

Both the method and results -when Syrup of Figs is taken; H is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bottels, cleanses the system ei Jectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste and acceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it ! the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for side in 50c and §1 bottles by all leading druggsste. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept ®»Y substitute. 0 CAL!FORMA F!6 SYRUP CO. 3AN FRANCISCO, CAL nmsvnif. xr. sew fork. n.t. “Oh, 80 Tired!" ta the cry of thousands every Spring. For that Tired Feeling take/' Ayer’s Sarsaparilla and recover Health and Vigor. It Makes the Weak Strong. Prepared toy Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., * Lowell, Mass.

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