Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 52, Petersburg, Pike County, 15 May 1890 — Page 4

THE ASCENSION, The Final Scene in the Earthly Mission of Christ This Opening of the Everlasting Door* fer the Admission of the King of Glory; Doom that Stand Open for All who WUl Enter. The following discourse on the ascension was delivered by Bev. T. DeWitt Talmsge in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, from the text: Lift up your beads, O ye gates; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in —Psalm xxiv., 7. In olden times when a great conqueror returned from victorious war the people in wild transport would take hold of the gates of the city and lift them from their hinges, as much as to say: “This city needs no more gates to defend it since this conqueror has got home. Off from the hinges the gates!” David, who was the poet of poets, foretells in his own way the triumphal entrance of Christ into Heaven after His victory over sin and death add hell. It was as if the celestial inhabitants bad said: “Here He comes! Make way for Him! Push back the bolts of diamond! Take hold of the doors of pearl and hoist them from their hinges of gold! Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in.”

Among me mountains oi raiesune no one is more uplifting than Mount Olivet. It was the peroration of our Lord’s ministry. On the roof of a house in Jerusalem I asked, "Which is Olivet?” and the first glance transfixed me. But how shall I describe my emotions when, near the close of a journey, in which we had for two nights encamped amid the shattered masonry of old Jericho, and tasted the acrid waters of the Dead Sea, that crystal sarcophagus of the buried cities of the plain, and waded down into the deep and swift Jordan to baptize a man, and visited the ruins of the house of Mary and Martha and Lazarus, we found ourselves in stirrups and on hoirse, lathered with the long and difficult way, ascending Mount Olivet? Oh, that solomn and suggestive ridge. It is a limestone hill a mile in length, and three hundred feet high, and twen-^tjr-seven hundred feet above the level of /- the sea. Over it King David Bed with a broken heart. Over it Pompey led his * devastating hosts. Hero the famous Tenth Legion built their batteries in besiegemenk The Garden of Gethsemane weeps at the foot of it Along the base of this hill flashed the lanterns and torches of those who came to arrest Jesus. From the trees of this hill the boughs were torn off and thrown into the path of Christ’s triumphal procession. Up and down that road Jesus had walked twice a day, from Bethany to Jerusalem, and from Jerusalem to Bethany. There, again and again. He had taught His disciples. Half way up to this mount He had uttered His lamentation: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem!” From its heights Jesus took flight homeward when He had finished His earthly mission. There is nothing more for Him to do. A sacrifice was needed to make peace betweon the recreant earth and the outraged Heaven, and He had offered it. Death needed to be conquered, and He had put His resurrection foot upon it The thirty three years of voluntary exile had ended. Tho grandest, tenderest, mightiest good-bye ever heard was now to be uttered.

un Mount Ulivet Jesus stands m a group of Galilee fishermen. They had been together in many scenes of sadness and persecution, and had been the more endeared by that brotherhood of suffering. They had expected Him to stay until the day of coronation when He would take the earthly throng and wave a scepter mightier, and rule W dominion wider than any Pharaoh, than any David, than any Caesar. But now all these anticipations collapse. Christ has given His last advice. He has offered His last sympathy. He has spoken His last word. His hands are spread apart as one is apt to do when he pronounces a benediction, when suddenly the strongest and most stupendous law of all worlds is shattered. It is the law which, since the worlds were created, holds them together. It is the. law which holds every thing to the earth or, temporarily hurled from earth returns it; the law which keeps the planets whirling around our sun, and our solar system whirling around other systems, and all the systems whirling around the throne of God—the law of gravitation. That law is suspended, or relaxed, or broken, to let the body of Jesus go. That law had laid hold of Him thirty-three years before, when He descended.It had relaxed its grip of Him but once, and that whfenit declined to sink Him from the top of the waves on Lake Galilee, on which He walked, to the bottom of the lake. lliat law of gravitation must now give way to Him who made the law. It may hold the other stars, but it can.not longer hold the Morning Star of the Redemption, it may hold the noonday sun, but it can not hold the Sun of Righteousness. The fingers of that law are about lo open to let go the most illustrious being the world had ever seen, and whom it had worst maltreated. The strongest law of nature which philosophers ever weighed or measured must at last give way. It will break between the rock of Olivet and the heel of Christ's foot. Watch it, all ye disciples! Watch it, all the earth! Watch it, all the heavens! Christ about to leave this planet How? His friends will not consent to have Him go. His enemies catching Him would only attempt by another Calvary to put Him into some other tomb. I will tell you how. The chain of the most tremendous natural law is unliked. The sacred foot of our Lord and the limestone rock part forever. ’ ,

Leaui’vr back, and with pallid cheek .and uplillcd eyes, the disciples see their Lord rising from the solid earth. Then, rushing forward, they would grasp His feet to hold Him fast, but they are out of reach, and it is too late to detain Him. Higher than the tops of the fig trees from which they had plucked the fruit; higher than the olive trees that shaded the mount; higher, until He is within sight of the Bethlehem where He was born, and the Jordan wiiere He was baptized, and the Golgotha where He was slain; higher, until on stairs of fleecy cloud He steps; higher, until into a sky bluer than the lake that could not sink Him He disappears into a sea of glory whose billowing splendors hide Him. The fishermen watch and watch, wondering if the law of nature will not reassert itself, and He shall in a few moments come back again, and they shall see Him descending; first His scarred feet coming in sight, then the scarred side, then the scarred brow, in they may take again His scarred haul. But the moments pass by, and the hours, and no reappearance. Gone out of sight of earth, hut come within sight, of Heaven. And rising still, not welcomed by one angelic choir like those who one Christmas night escorted Him down, but all Heaven turns out to greet Him home, and the temples have espe- ' ‘ 1 anthem, wad the palaces have espe- [ banquet, and the streets sapecjal and all dong the line to tHf tor years vacated ~ then an

arches lifted, and banners wared, and trumpets sounded, and doxologies chanted, and coronets cast down. The angels thong'd His chariot wheels. Anil bore Him to His throne; Then swept their golden harps and sung, “The glorious work is done." It was the greatest day in Heaven! As He goes up the steps of the throne that thirty-three years before He abdicated for our advantage, there rises from all the hosts of Heaven a shout, saintly, cherubic, seraphic, archangelie, “Hallelujah! Amen!”O garden of olives, thou dear honored spot, The fame of Thy glory shall ne’er be forgot. No wonder that for at least fourteen hundred years the churches have, forty days after Easter, kept Ascension Day, for the lessons are most inspiring and glorious. It takes much of the uncertainty out of the idea of Heaven, when bom Olivet we see human nature ascending. The same body that rose from Joseph’s tomb ascended from Mount Olivet Our human nature is in Heaven to-day. Just as they had seen Christ for forty days, He ascended, head, face, shoulders, ‘ hands, feet and the entire human organism. Humanity ascended! Ah, how closely that keeps Christ in sympathy with those who are still in the struggle! Ascended scars, face scars, hand scars, feet scars, shoulder scars! That will keep Him in accord with the suffering, with all the imposed upon. No more is He a spirit now than a body, no more of Heaven than earth. ‘Those of the celestial inhabitants who never saw our world, now walk around Him and learn from His physical contour something of what our race will be when, in the resurrection, Heaven will have uncounted spirits. On Ascension Day He lifted Himself through the atmosphere of Palestine until, amid the immensities. He disappeared. He was the only being the world ever saw who could lift Himself. Surely, if He could lift Himself, He can do the lesser deed of lifting us.

No star goes down but climbs another sky. No sun sets hero except to rise on high. Christ leads us all the way—through the birth hour, for He was bom in Bethlehem; through boyhood, for He passed it in Nazareth; through injustices, for He endured the Outrages of Pilate’s court-room; through death, for He suffered it on Calvary; through the sepulcher, for He lay three days within its darkened walls; through resurrection, for the solid masonry gave way on the first Easter morning; through ascension, for Mount Olivet watched Him as He climbed the skies; through the shining gates, for He entered them amid magnificent acclaim. And here is a gratifying consideration that you never thought of—we will see our Lord just as He looked on earth. As He rose from the tomb He ascended from Mount Olivet. We shall see Him as He looked on the road to Emmaus, as He appeared in the upper room in Jerusalem, as He was that day of valedictory on the ridge from which He swung into the skies. How much we will want to see Him! »

i was rcauing ui a man uorn uuuu. He was married to one who took care of him all those years of darkness. A surgeon said to him: “I can remove that blindness,” and so he did. His sight given him, a rose was handed to the man who never before had seen a rose and he was in admiration of it, and his family whom he had never seen before now appeared to him, and he was inc tears of rapture, when he suddenly cried out: “I ought first to have asked to see the one that cured me; show me the doctor.” When from our eyes the scales of earth shall fall, and we have our first vision of Heaven, our first cry ought not to be: “Where are my loved ones?” Our first cry ought to be; “Where is Christ, who made all this possible? Show me the Doctor!” • Glory be to God for ascended humanity! ttould we realize it, and that it is all in sympathy for us, we would have as cool a courage in the conflict of this life as had Charles the Twelfth when he was directing dispatches to his secretary, and a bombshell fell into the room, and the secretary dropped his pen and attempted flight. Charles said to him: “Go on with your writing! what has the bombshell to do with the letter I am dictating?” If the ascended Christ be on our side, nothing should disturb us. Our felloW-Suffercr yet retains A feltow-feeling in onr pains, And still remembers, in the skies His tears. His agonies, and cries. I am so glad that Christ broke the natural law of gravitation when He shook off from His feet the clutch of Mount Olivet. People talk as though cold, iron, unsympathetic; natural law controled every thing. The reign of law is a majestic thing, but the God who made it has a right to break it, and again and again has broke it, and again and again will break it. A law is only God’s way of doing things, and if He chooses to do them some other way, 'He has a right to do so.. A law is not strong enough to shackle the Almighty. Christ broke botanical law when, one Monday in March, on the way from Bethany to Jerusalem, hy words He turned a full-leaved figTree into a lifeless stick. He broke ichthyological law when, without any natural inducement, He swung a great school of fish into a part of Lake Tiberias, where the fishermen had cast thefr nets for eight or ten hours without the capture of a minnow; and by making a fish help pdv the tax by yielding from its mouth a Roman stater. Christ broke the law of storms by compeling, with a word, the angered sea'hush its frenzy, and the winds ■to’ quit their bellowing. He broke zoological law when He made the devils possess the swine of Gadara. He broke the law of economics when He made enough bread for five thousand people out of five biscuits that would not ordinarily have been enough for ten of the hungry. He broke intellectual law when, by a word, He silenced a maniac into placidity. He broke physiological law, when,, by a touch, He straightened a woman who, for eighteen years, had been bent almost double, and when He put spring into the foot of inhumated Lazarus, and when, without medicine, He gave the dying girl back in health to the Syro-Phoenician mother, and when He made the palatial home of the nobleman resound again with the laughter of his restored boy, and when, without knife or battery. He set cataracted eyes to seeing again, and the drum of deaf ears to vibrating again, and the nerves of paralyzed arms to thrilling again, and then, when in leaving the earth. He defied all atmospheric law, and physiological law, and that law that has in it withes and cables and girders enough,to hold the universe, the law of gravitation.

xne tnn»( wuu pruveu nuuseu uu au many occasions, and especially the last, superior to law. still lives; and every day, in answer to prayer for the good ol the world. He is overriding the law. Blessed be God that we are not the subjects of blind fatality, but of a sympathizing divinity. Have you never seen a typhoid fever break, or a storm suddenly quiet, or a ship a-be am’8-end right it&f, or a fog lift, or a parched »ky break in showers, or a perplexity disentangled, or the inconsolable take solace, or the wayward reform at the call of prayer? I have seen it; multi* tudes have seen it You have, if yot: have been willing to see it Deride non the faith-cqre. Because imposters attempt it is nothing ai'airjst good men fchom God hath honored w^h marvedoua restorations. Pronounoa nothing' impossible to prayer ?**

cau.*K> yon and 1 can not effect it its no reason why others may not By the same argument I coolil prove that Baphael never painted a Madonna, and that Mendelssohn never wrote an oratorio, and that Phidias never chiseled a statue. Because we can not accomplish it ourselves we are not to conclude that others may not There are in immensity great ranges of mists which have proved, under closer telescopic scrutiny, to be the storehouse of worlds, and 1 dp not know but from that passage in James which to some of ^'us is yet misty anti dim, there may roll out a new heaven and a new earth: “The prayer of faith shall save the sick.” The faith-curists may, in this war against disease, lie only skirmishing before a general engagement in which all the maladies of earth shall be routed. Surely allopathy and homoeopathy and hydropathy and eclecticism need reinforcement from somewhere. Why not from the faith and prayer of the consecrated? The mightiest school oh medicine may yet be the school of Christ I do not kiiow but that diseases,- now by all schools' pronounced incurable, may give way under Gospel bombardment. I do not know bnt that the day may come when faith and prayer shall raise the dead. Strauss, and Woolston, and Spinoza, and Home, and Schleiermacher rejected the miracles of tlie far past 1 do not propose to be like them, and reject the miracles of the far future. This I know, the Christ of Ascension Day is mightier than any natural laws, for on the day of which I speak He trampled down the strongest of them all. Law is mighty, but He who made it is mightier. Drive out fanaticism from your theology, and give grace the throne.

Standing- to-day on the Ascension Peak of Mount Olivet I am also gladdened at the closing gesture, the last gesture Christ ever made. “He lifted up His hands and blessed them,” says the inspired account of our Lord’s departure. I am so glad He lifted up l|is ha nds. Gestures are often more significant than words, attitudes than arguments. Christ had made a gesturo of contempt when with His finger He wrote on the ground; gesture of repulsion when He said: ‘“Get thee behind me, Satan, “Woe unto you, Pharisees and byjiocrites.” But His last gesture, His Olive tic gesture, is a gesture of benediction. He lifted up His hands and blessed them. His arms are extended, and the palms of His hands turned downward, and so He dropped benediction upon Olivet, benediction upon Palestine, Donediction upon all the earth. start on a cradle of straw, and at last thrust Him out with the point of the spear; but benediction! Ascending until beneath, He saw on one side the Bethlehem, where they put Him among the cattle, and Calvary on the other side, where they put Him among the thieves. As far as the excited and intensified vision of the group on Olivet could see Him, and after He was so far up they could, no longer hear His words, they saw the gesture of the outspread hands,, the benediction. And that is, His attitude to-day. His benediction upon the world’s climates, and they are changing, and will keep on changing until the atmosphere shall be a commingling of October and June. Benediction upon the deserts till they whiten with lily, and blush with rose, and yellow with cowslip, and emerald with grass. Benediction upon governments till they become more just and humane. Benediction upon nations till they kneel in prayer. Benediction upon the whole earth until every mountain is an Olivet of consecration, and every lake a Galilee on whose mosaic of crystal, and opal, and sapphire, divine splendors shall walk. Oh, take the benediction of His pardon, sinners young and sinners old, sinners moderate, and sinners abandoned. Take the benediction of His comfort, and ye broken-hearted under bereavement and privation and myraid woes. Take His benediction all ye sick-beds, whether under acute spasms of pain or in longprotracted invalidism. For orphanage and childlessness and widowhood a benediction. For cradles and trundlebeds, and rocking-chairs of octogenarians, a benediction. For Ufe and for death, for time and for eternity, for earth and for Heaven, a benediction. Snblimest gesture ever made, the last gesture of our ascending Lord, “And He lifted up {lis hands and blessed them.” world took Him in at the

is our iiunie mu same;- is it mu clenched fist or the open palm? Is it wrath or is it kindness? Is it diabolism or Christism? God (five us the grace of the open palm, open upward to get the benediction, open downward to pronounce a benediction. A lady was passing along the street and suddenly ran against a ragged boy, and she said: “I beg your pardon my boy, I did not mean to run against you; I am very sorry.” And the boy took off the piece of a cap he had upon his head and said: ‘‘You have my parding, lady, and you may run agin me and knock me clear down; 1 won’t care.” And turning to a comrade he said: “That nearly took me off my feet. Nobody ever asked m f parding before.” Kindness! kindness! Fill the world with it. There has always been too much of disregard to others. Illustrated in 1630, in England; when ninety-five thousand acres of marshes were drained for health and for crop-raising, and the sportsmen destroyed the drainage works because they wanted to keep the marshes for hunting-ground, where they could shoot wild ducks. The same selfishness in all age3. Oh, for kindness that would make our life a symphony suggestive of one of the ancient banquets where every thing was set to music; the plates brought in and removed to the sound of music, the motions of the carvers keeping time with the music, the conversation lifting and dropping with the rising and falling of the music. Hut, instead of the music of an earthly orchestra, it would be the music at a Heavenly charm, our words the music of kind thoughts, our steps the music of helpful deeds, our smile the music of encouraging looks, our youth and old age the first and last bars of music conducted by the pierced hand that was opened in love and spread downward in benediction on Olivetic heights on Ascension Day. By a new way none ever trod, Christ mounted to the throne of God.

—At * recen t examination of the divinity students in England, one very dull candidate was so ignorant that the Bishop would only consent to ordain him on condition that he would promise to study Butler’s Analogy after ordination. He made the promise and was ordained. He was the guest of the Bishop, and to on his departure next morning the Bishop shook him by the hand, Baying: “Good-bye, Mr. Brown; don’t forget the Butler.” “I haven’t, my Lord,” was the unexpected reply, “I have just given him five shillings.” —The heliograph is used to flash signals between stations in {few Mexico and Ariisona that are seventy-five miles apart Experiments will soon be made to test the power of the instrument to a distance of one hundred miles. —A high-toned young lady recently to d" a friend that she liked Shakespeare very much and that sl}B ^4 it wlms u first came oufc,

FARM AND GARDEN. PRACTICAL FARM GATE. , A ruwrlnalul Maas on a Subject mt General Interest. Having read an article in these colamns some time ago on farm gates and posts, I will contribute my ideas on apractical gate and manner of setting posts. The gate should he made of clear, white pine or other light, strong wood, and should be in two " parts and always planed and painted. Take five sixteenfoot boards four inches wide, plane them and bevel the edges hack one-fourth inch; lay the five boards down anddh line, the distance apart that you want your gate in height. Now cut eight pieces the length you want your gate in height, planed and bevelled same as the rails. Bolt the rails squarely between two of these pieces at each end. Now ! e. A

A CONVENIENT GATE. bolt two pieces on tbe rails five feet from the end, leave room enough for your saw and bolt on the remaining pieces. Nest bolt on two braces and saw the frame in two, and yon have two perfect gates, one eleven feet and one five feet long. However, it is better to hinge your gates before sawing them down, but if this be done then leave room enough to make two saw-cuts and take out half an inch or your gates will bind for the eleven-foot gate. A solid post should be dug into the ground, not less than two and one-half feet deep, and firmly wedged with ; stone, but if wet or loose soil, then a 1 sill should be dug in the ground the 1 depth of the post-hole and in line with ' the fence, into which fasten the post : and put on a pull-brace opposite the | gate. A post extending six inches j above the ground, with a shoulder on | the top, should be used where the gates ; come together for them both to rest on ' at the same time. But if the gate is j desired to swing both ways, which it should do for convenience, then hooks should be used to hold the gate in place. A slide latch, which is very convenient, if used should slide on the | short gate, so as not to get knocked off or injure stock. The five-foot gate is ' sufficiently large for the admission of stock and gives a fifteen-foot passage when used for the wagon, and neither one is too heavy for the children to ! open or shut. The smaller gate should 1 always swing both ways, as a matter of safety to stock passing in or out. This kind of a farm gate is not patented, but has been used long enough to be common property to any one who 1 chooses to make and use it, and will supersede seven-tenths of the patented ! ones now upon the market, and if kept ; well-painted or whitewashed, with its , beveled edges and smooth surface, will last from fifty to sixty years. In the cut figure 1 represents posts; figure 2, brace; figure 3, sill; dotted lines indicate posts, braces, etc., under the surface of the ground. At figure 3 is represented a post set in low, wet ground, where there are no stones for fastening. -N. Y. World.

Asparagus on Unmanured Soil. At a late meeting- of farmers in Boston, the remarkable statement was | made, and corroborated by several of the participants familiar with the case, than on the asparagus ground of the two Messrs. Coolidge—Joshua and 1 John—who grow some of the best “grass” that goes to the Boston market, no manure at all has been used for at least ten years, other than the tops, and a liberal annual dressing of salt, usually taken from pork or fish barrels People were long prevented from raising this most excellent vegetable because of the preposterous requirements ; laid down by those who first wrote about it The fact is, says a contributor to Vick’s Monthly, that it is the most easi-' ly grown and simplest in its requirements of any vegetable, while there-is none more healthful or more enjoyed, coming before any other and having a distinct and agreeable flavor all its own. Its use is especially recommended as a tonic for the nerves. The chief requirements are dry, warm, fertile soil, some shelter' from high winds and room enough for its mass of roots. It Will do well even in an upland meadow, without culture or manure and surrounded ' by other growths, if the soil is good and if it is not crowded or injured by cattle. About four feet by two is the preferred distance apart A bed will last a lifetime, once planted and not abused. Its 1 few demands for care make it especial- j ly desirable for a farmer’s garden. The j growth and size of the sprouts depend much on the full, uninjured growth of the tops after cutting ceases, about midJune, when green peas come in. Manure enables more good sprouts to be grown on less area, and often tenderer, but not richer.—Farmers’ Be view.

Improved Tree and Plant Label. We show a /cut of an improved label devised by that venerable nurseryman,

isaau mcxa. 100 cut is nearly selfexplanatory. The wire is about the size of a common knitting -needle, and may he of any desired length. The label is of common sheet zinc and may be made larger or smaller according to the amount of writing. The one illustrated gives the name of the variety, date of planting and name of the nurseryman from whom it was purchased. The latter is, many times, of ; considerable importance. The writ- j

lug is uuiic wibu a uuimuuu pou auu ink. This label is far superior to the common wooden kind, as it is practically indestructible, and may be applied to any kind of stake, vine or tree. It is unpateniied.—Rural New Yorker. *—<- Selecting; > Stallion. First, look at his legs. If they are not up to the standard don’t .look any further at that horse, for a horse without legs is no horse. The legs should be large, flat, bony, free from flesh and puffs of any kind, not ioo straight at the pasterns nor yet set too far back—a fault with some draft h or sea. A good flat foot, with the ability to lift it up and place it straight forward the propel distance, is a desideratum. ? Next, look at the back. It Bhould be short, straight and closely coupled. Next, the head. Requisites—broad between the eyes and ears; clear, mild eye, not showing much white; jaw thin. If I the horse be full between the eyes, head sloping backward, and a narrow poll, that horse has no,intelligence, and will breed that Way. Shoulders should be large, sloping well back; wide rump; long hips, not punched up in a knot like your fist doubled up. Wide between the forelegs. Thin throat latch. Neck long and enlarging to the point Where it is set on shoulders. If the horse pos- , sesses the necessary individual merit j his breeding may be looked up. Though ! the horse had a pedigree a mile long don’t breed to' him unless he baa Ur j fWdusi iperth«PWi|:«iawf. I

MEXICAN WAR ANECDOTE. Btory of Bow the Palmetto Regiment Clinched n Victory. Mr. William Gilmore Simms, the son and namesake of the great Strath Carolina novelist, who responded so eloquently to the toast of his native State at the Knights of Pythias banquet recently at the Hibernian hail, related, in the course of his remarks, an anecdote of the Mexican war which was new to the great majority of his audience. It was on one of the bloodiest fields of Mexico, he said. The battle had raged with great obstinacy for hours; and, although the Mexicans had fought for every inch of ground with that desperate valor which is so characteristic of all races reared under a tropic sun, they had matched against them a ice of equal courage; and the victory, though dearly bought, was just within the grasp of the American army. There was one point, however, which was still in the hands of the enemy; and their commander, realizing that it was a forlorn hope, had massed the remnant of the flower, of the Mexican chivalry at this post, and determined to hold it at all hazards. General Shields saw that to win the day this point must be reduced, and he resolved that it should be taken. But it was a desparate resolve. The Mexicans had been pressed back from their original position only by repeated terrific charges, which £n every instance had left hundreds of dead and wounded on the field. , They had not surrendered an inch of ground until they had covered it with the bodies of their bravest men; and now, as they took a last stand, nerved to desperation by the misfortunes of the day, they presented a compact front, bristling with pikes and lances, which General Shield’s practiced eye told him would be hard to break, and which he knew could not be broken without a tremendous onslaught. He determined to call for volunteers to do the desperate work, and, applying to the commander of a Pennsylvania resiment he met with a declination. Not discouraged, however, he asked a New York regiment to undertake the charge, but he was again mortified to find another portion of his army Unwilling to risk so desperate a game. Wheeling his horse, the General galloped to the front of the Palmetto regimont, and demanded of Colonel Pierce M. Butler-if his men would be willing to clinch the victory by this charge. “Yes, sir,” was the gallant Colonel's response; “every man of them, and to the very death.” In less than a minute the regiment, with Colonel Butler riding foremost in the ranks, swept like a tornado nponthe Mexican front. The struggle, as General Shields had anticipated, was a terrible one. The Mexicans met the onslaught with ah unbroken line, and for a few mbments sustainel their position with magnificent valor. But their hot southern blood was no match for the superior prowess ar d cool,- unflinching temper of their more northern foes, and the struggle was br ef. Slowly they were driven back, contending desperately; but their front was broken, and, unable to rally his men to the breach, their leader ordered a retreat, and the day was won. But just here comes one of the prettiest parts of the story. Commanding a company in the New York regiment that had declined the charge was Mayne Reid, that delightful writer of adventure by field and flood, over whose pag es every boy has dwelt with so much interest. Reid was not only a novelist, bu' be was as brave a soldier as ever faced death; and his whole temper was aroused by the cowardly refusal of his Colonel to undertake the charge. When he saw the South Carolinians preparing for the advance he appealed to his men to follow them, but out of his entire company but eleven could bo found who were willing to run so desperate a risk. With these eleven Capt. Reid left his command, and joined the Palmetto regiment; and in the bloody hand-to-hand contest that followed these twelve brave New Yorkers did much to secure The fortunes of the day. Their names are now forgotten, but their gallantry will live always in the memory of those -*who admire brave deeds and love brave men.—Charleston News and'Courier.

$ A CLEVER FRAUD. |Iow a Diamond Smuggler Got the Best of the Customs Officials. Speaking of diamond smugglers, the cleverest fraud ever perpetrated upon the American revenue was invonted by a diamond merchant in New York. For years be was known to he smuggling precious stones, but the custom detectives could not catch him. Every time he returned from Europe he was carefully searched, and it was even proved that he did not swallow his diamonds before going ashore. His buyers, too, were searched, but never was any thing found except a few inferior stones, and these he did not conceal. Traps were set to capture the wily old culprit, but without avail. At last a detective learned that whenever one of the suspected firm, arrived in New York upon a certain stoamer another of the firm or an agent took the same vessel upon its return trip to Europe, and also secured, the same state-room. It was further learned that they invariably took the entire state-room, so thst they were alone upon the voyage. This led to the discovery of the fraud. It appears that the dealer, when on his way from Europe, would cut a small piece out of the flooring under the carpet of the stateroom, and, after concealing the diamonds to be smuggled, would put hack the flooring and replace the carpet. When he left the ship lie left the diamonds, too. in their place of concealment, and, of course, the detective never found any in bis possession. A few days after, when the vessel was about to depart for Europe, the other member of the firm or agent, haviag secured the state-room for the return trip, would go on board accompanied by his confederate. The latter wo ili then remove the diamonds and go ishore perfectly safe. There were no custom officers oil active duty when vessels were departing.—Chicago Herald.

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—Nothing In this country more astonishes an English university-bred men titan our college yells. He never takes the practices as a bit of American fun, but seriously sets to work to prove how even educated Americans follow the customs of the savage Indian, his war-whoop being perpetuated in tbe college yelL —IFirst Tramp—“Jerry; wbat’s your opinion on de eight-hour movement?” Seccnd Tramp—“It’s my honest opinion dat eight-hours’ movement is a heap too nines for one day.”—Terre Haute Express. r Decay, the Universal haw. De, anything in nature become lifeless and nactive and decay follows as a usual sequence. Decay is tbe universal law. Can you yonder when a person feels constantly vroni out and more than half dead, that decay of the lungs or kidneys sets in. They say that decay of the lunes (consumption) and decay of the kidneys ^right’s disease) is ii curable. Who says sol Only those experimental doctors who have failed. Don’t despair. While thene’s life, there’s l ope ! In checking decay *f the lungs or Man sys, in preventing further ulceration, it ii essential that all blood impurities shoe Id be removed, and an alterative influence exerted upon the whole system. The sppetite and digestion must both be improved. The nervous system soothed, and sleep, nature’s sweet restorer, invited and encouraged. Energy must be aroused and men ,al depression banished. In this momen :ous rallying effort Dr. John Ball’s iiars iparilla is an essential ally to nature. Use this remedy. It has res toned many to heal :h and strength, even after doctors bad give ii np all hope, ? An exasperating coincidence—that coal should always come down at the same time the stovepipe does.—Burlington Free Press.

Our Hannah Jane. Our Hannah Jane ww thin and weak. And ashy white her Up and cneek, We often thought—and thought with pain* ** We soon must lose our Hannah Jane.*’ With change of doctots, change of air. She sought for healing everywhere. And. when oufhopes were almost past, ** Favorite Prescription * tried at last. It gave ns jpy, i t gave n» hope, Shec ‘ased to pine, she ceased to mope, [Pierce’s remedies are sure and true] Now Hannah Janets good as new. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is the only medicine for women, sold by druggists, under a pox iiltoe guarantee from the manufacturers, that it will give satisfaction in every case, or motley will be refunded. This guarantee has been printed on the bottleand faithfully carried out for wrapper, many years.

Dr. Pierce’s Pellets—cleanse and regulatetie stomach, bowels and system generally. One a dose ; purely vegetable. Han't a maiden lady’s age is marked down at a low figure that 8 to may bo disposed of at a bargain.—Some Sentinel. 3tatz or Oino, Crrr or Tole do, > Lucas Countt, f Frank J. Cheney makes oath.that he is the senior partner of the firm of F.,J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, bounty and State aforesaid, and that said irm will pay the sum of ognt hundred dollars for each and every case of Catarrh hat can not be cured by flbe use of Hall’s Catarrh Care Frank 3- Chenet. Sworn to before me and siabso-ibed in my aresence,this6th day of Decemher, A.D. 1S8&. .seal] A. W. Gleason, Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally md acts directly upon the blood andrmucona surfaces of the system Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Chenet & Co., Toledo,Q. Sold by Druggists, 73c. A tea-kettle can sing when it is merely filled with water.' But man, proud man, is ao tea-kettle.—Terre Haute Express. t A 'Wonderftil Phenomenon I The man who should pass throitgh life without experiencing a twinge of indigestion might fitly be regarded as a wionderful phenomenon. We doubt if such a privileged mortal has ever existed. If so, we have iever seen him. But thousandp are known to be daily relieved of dy-pepsia by Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, the popefiar remedy for that national complaint, as well as for fever and ague! debility, constitution, rheumatism and kidney troubles. y

Obesitt induces to inactivity. That’s probably why the fat office nevei'seeks the nan.—Binghamton Leader. To ntPKESs a plain truth it is not necessary to paint it to the eye by comic wood cdts or sensational pictures of any kind. Ordinary type is better, if it secures your confidence. To illustrate: If you are the victim of Malaria, and wish to be free from it immediatebi, one bottle of Shallenberger’s Antidote will inf a!I Wu do the work. It may pay you to believe this and getthe medicine without delay. Dr. A. T. S&allenberger, Rochester, Pa., w.ll send it by mail for one dollar. The fisherman considers it n part of his business to scale the heights of fiction.— Yonkers Gazette. Progress.. It is very important in this age of vast material progress that a remedy be pleasing to the taste and to the eye, easily taken, acceptable to the stomach and healthy in its nature and effects. Possessing these qualities, Syrup of Figs is the one perfect laxative and .most gentle diuretic known* ~ • Thebe is usually something on foot when a. man takes his way to the chiropodist— Boston Courier. In another place in this paper will be seen an advertisement of the Hartman Manufacturing Company, of Beaver Falls, Pa. They are an enterprising, reliable firm, and have a great deal of testimony to show that the Hartman Steel Picket Fence is the best thing of the kind on the market You can find out all about it by writing for particulars.

Russian students sail sing “God Preserve •he Czar,” bat they don’t say in what—San Francisco Alta. -—- Mt son is affected with weak lungs and ias tried various treatmen ta, but Bull’s Sarsaparilla has done more good than all other I medicine. 1 cheerfully make this statement for the benefit of the afflicted.—John . S. McGee, Horse Cave, Ky. When a broker loses all his money he’s dead broke; but when he dies he’s a dead broker. ° Six Novels Free, will be sent by Cragin & Co., Philada., Pa., to any one in the U. S. or Canada, postage paid, upon receipt of 25 Dobbins’ Electric Soap wrappers. See list of novels on circulars around each bar. Shad roes by any other name would doubtless taste about the same.—Berkshire Hews. Must not be confounded with common cathartic or purgative pills. Carter’s Little Liver Pills are entirely unlike them in every respect One trial will prove their superiority. It frequently turns out that the queen of diamonds is a knave of hearts.—Ashland Press > — —- Parents, you do yourselves and your children great injustice if you fail to give your children Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers. Manj“ little lives are sacrificed by such neglect The man with a big family is a flat failure, from the landlord’s point of view.— Puck. The Grip of Pneumonia may be warded off with Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. Monet talks, but occasionally too saleslady cries “Cash!”—Pittsburgh Chronicle. Biliousness, dizziness, nausea, headache, are relieved by small doses of Carter’s Little Liver Pills. Tis the guest who is refused permission to run up a bill who runs down a house Rich ! fragrant.! fine! are the expressions of those who smoke “Tansill’s Punch” 5c Cigar A title often sells a book as easily as it buys an heiress. Best, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso’s Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists 25c. The undertaker’s favorite exercise is boxing.

PainsjSdies PROMPTLY OURED BY “•'’Si.’Sk • I suffered two years | with pain in my side; ’ doctors failed to help me; St Jacobs Oil cured me : no return of pain. P. LEMMON, P. M. S&’XtMtt orst^oueuredme.

NEVER BETS ON HIS OWN HOUSE.

They teK a good story of a man who has a fondness for fast horses. A year or two ago he had one that was said to be a “flyer,” and marvelous stories were told of what she had done, and 'fas capable of doing. But an intimate friend noticed that the owner of the wonderful horse never staked any money on her. “ Why don’t you back her for a good, round sum, if she can do what you claim she can?” he asked. “That would prove that you hod confidence in her, but as it it is-." i “See here, my friend,” said the other, with a twinkle in his eye, “ don’t you know me well enough to know that I’m too modest to bet on my own nag, especially when I fed Are that she can’t come out ahead i ” ' When a man-knows he can accomplish what he undertakes, ke doesn’t feel too modest to say so. When Dr. Fierce put his “Fuvorite Prescription” before the public as a certain remedy for “ female weakness,” with “ satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded” on every bottle of it, it proved that he had entire confidence in the preparation. He felt sure of its merits, and

the testimony of thousands of women who hare been cured by it of “weakness,” “irregularities,” and all the peculiar diseases from which their sex suffers so much, proves that his faith was well founded. As a powerful, invigorating tonic, “Favorite Prescription ” imparts strength to tho whole system, and to the Womb and its appendages in particular. For overworked, “worn-out,” “run-down,” debilitated teachers, milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses, “shop-girls,” housekeepers, nursing mothers, and feeble women generally, Dr. Pierce s Favorite Prescription is the greatest earthly boon, being unequaled as an appetizing cordial and restorative tonic, or strength-giver. • • As a soothing and strengthening nervine, “Favorite Prescription” is unequaled and is inyaluable in allaying and subduing nervous excitability, irritability, exhaustion, prostration, hysteria, spasms and other distressing, pervous symptoms;, commonly attendant upon functional and organic disease. It induces refreshing sleep and relieves mental anxiety and despondency.

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