Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 7, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 July 1890 — Page 4

■V fa* CLOAKS FOR SEN. Bermon by Rev. T. DeWitt Tal-mag-o at Winfield, Kaa. Outward Morality. Klecaoco «r Manner*, the Cloak of one., All C*ed to Cover an Alarming Decree of Moral Depravity. The following discourse upon the characteristics of the times was delivered by Rev. T. lie Witt 'Jalmago, during hi* Western trip, at Winfield, Kas., from the text: 1 • But now they have no cloak for their sin. —John xv.. U Sin is always disguised. Decked and glossed, and perfumed, and masked, it gains admittance in places from which it would otherwise be repelcd. As silently as when It glided into Eden, and as plausibly as when it talked to Christ at the lop of the temple, it now addresses men. Could people look upon sin as it always, is—an exhalation from the pit, the putrefaction of infinite capacities, the ghastly, loathsome, Cfod-smitten monster ’ that' uprooted Eden and killed Christ, and would push the entire race into darkness and pain—the infernal charm would be broken. Before our parents transgressed sin appeared to them the sweetness of fruit and the becoming as gods. To Absalom it was the pleasure of sitting upon a t throne. To men now sin is laughter, and permission to luxurious gratification. Jesus Christ in my text suggests a fact which every body ought to know, and that is that sin, to hide its deformity and shame, is accustomed to wearing a cloak, and the Saviour also Bets forth the truth that God can see straight through all such wrappings and thicknesses. I want now to speak of several kinds of cloaks with which men expect to cover up their iniquities, for the fashion in regard to these garments is constantly changing, and every day beholds some new style of wearing them, and, if you will ta.rry a little while, I will show you five or six of the patterns of the cloaks. First, I remark that there are those who, being honored with official power, expect to make that a successful cloak for their sin. There is a sacredness in office. God Himself is King, and all who hold authority in the world serve under Him. That community has committed a monstrous wrong which has elevated to this dignity persons unqualified either by their ignorance or their immorality. Nations who olevate to posts of authority those not qualified to fill them Will feel . the reaction. Solomon expressed this ^thought when he said: “Woe unto thee, O, land, when thy King is a child and thy Princes drink in the morning.” While positions of trust may bo disgraced by the character of those who fill them, I believe God would have us respectful to the offices, though we may have no admiration for their occupants. Yet this dignity which office confers can be no apology for transgression. Nebuchadnezzar, and Ahab, and Herod, in the day of judgment, must stand on the level with tho herdsmen that kept their flocks, and the fishermen of Galilee. Pope, and King, and President, and Governor, must give an account to God, and bc judged by the same law as that which judges the beggar and the slave. Sin is all the more obnoxious when it is imperial and lordly. You can not make pride, dir injustice, or cruelty, sacred by giving it a throne. Belshazzar’s decanters could not keep tho mysterious finger from writing on the wall. Ahab’s sin literally hurried him from the throne to the dogs. The imperial vestments of wicked Jehoram could not keep Jehu’s arrow from striking through his heart Jezebel’s queenly pretension could not save her from being thrown over the wall. No barricade of thrones can ar

rest uoa s justice in its unerring marca. No splendor or thickness of official robes can be a sufficient oloak of sin. Henry VIII., Louis XV., Catherine of Russia, Mary of England—did their crowns save thorn? . No ruler ever sat so high that the King of Kings was not above him. All victors shall bow before Hiin who on the white horse goeth forth conquering and to conquer. Again: Elegance of manners can not successfully hide iniquity from the eye of God. That model, gentlemanly apostle, Paul, writes to us: “Be courteous.” That man can neither be a respectable woniding nor a consistent Christian who lacks good mannors. Ho is shut out from refined circles, and he certainly ought to be hindered from entering the church. We can not overlook that in a man which we could hardly excuse in a bear. One of the first effect of the grace of God npon an individual is to make him a gentleman. Gruffness, awkwardness, - implacability, clannishness, are fruits of the devil; while gentleness and meekness are fruits of the Spirit But while these excelences of manned are so important they can not hide any deformity of moral character. How often it is that we find attractiveness of person, sauvity of manners, gracefulness of conversation, gallantry of behavior, thrown like wraths upon moral death. The flowers that grow upon the scoriw of Vesuvius do not make it any less of a volcano. The sepulchers in Christ’s time did not exhaust all the whitewash. Some of the biggest scoundrels have been the most fascinating. If there are any depending on outward gracefulness and attractiveness of demeanor with any hope that because of that God will forgive the sin of their soul, let me assure them that the Divine iustlce can not be satisfied with smiles and elegant gesticulation. Christ looks deeper than the skin, and such a ragged cloak as the one in which you are trying to cover yourself will be no hiding in the lay of His power. God will not, in the judgment, ask how gracefully 'you walked, nor how politely you bowed, nor how sweetly you-smiled, nor how impressively you gestured. The deeds done in the body will be the test, and not the rules of Lord Chesterfield. Again: Let me say that the mere profession of religion is but a poor wrapping of a naked soul. The importance of making a public profession of religion if the heart be renewed can not be exaggerated. Christ positively and with the earnestness of the night before His crucifixion commanded it. But it is the rebult of Christian character, not the cause of it Our church certificate is a poor title to Heaven. We may have the name and not the reality. There are those who seem to throw themselves back with complacency npon their public confession of Christ although they gave no signs of renewal. If Satan can induce a tnan to build on such a rotten foundation as that, he has accomplished his object We can not imagine the abhorrence with which God looks upon such a procedure. What would be the feelings of a shepherd if he saw a wolf in the same fold with his flocks, however quiet he might seem to lie, or a General if among his troops he saw one woarlng the appointed uniform who; nevertheless really belonged to tbo Opposing host Thus must the heavenly shepherd, look upon those who, though they are not His sheep, have climbed up some other way, and thus must the Lord of hosts look upon those who pretend .iRjejgJdiwstif the ^HWLwbil# they

1 are His armed eremles. If any of yon find yourselves deficient In the (frent testa of Christian character, do not. I beg of you, look upon your profession of religion ns any thing consolatory. If you have taken your present position from a view that you have of Christ and your need of Him, rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory and clap your hands for gladness, but if you find yourself with nothing but the name of life, while dead in trespasses and sins, arouse before the door is shut. That gilded profession—the world may not be able to see through it, but in the day of Divine reckoning it will be found that you have no cloak for your sin. Furthermore: Outward morality will be no covering for the hidden iniquity of the spirit The Gospel of Christ makes no assault upon good works. They are as beautiful in God’s eyes as in ours. Punctuality, truthfulness, alms-giving, affection and many other excelences of life that might be mentioned will always be admired of God and man, but we take the position that good works can not be the ground of our salvation. What we do right can not pay for what we do Wrong. Admit that you have all those traits of character which give merely worldly respectability and influence, you must at the same time acknowledge that during the course of your life you have done many things yoii ought not to have done. How are these difficult matters to be settled? Ah, my friends, we must have an atonement. No Christ, no salvation. The G-eat Redeemer comes in and*says, “I will pay your indebtedness.” So that which was dark enough before, is bright enough now. The stripes that we deserve are fallen upon Christ On the scourged and bleeding shoulders He carries us up over the mountain of our sins and the hills^of our iniquities. Christ’s good works accepted are sufficient for us, but they who reject them, defending upon their own, must perish. Traits of character that may make us influential on earth will not necessarily open to us the gate of Heaven. The plank that will be strong enough tor a house floor would not do for a ship’s hulk. Mere morality might be enough here, but can not take you through death’s storm into Heaven’s harbor. Christ has announced for all ages: “I am the way, the truth and the life, him that cometh unto Me I will in no wise cast out” But pitiablo in the day of accounts will be the condition of that man, though he may have given all his estate to benevolent purposes and passed his life in the visiting of the distressed and done much to excite the admiration of the good and the great, if h e have no intimate relation to Jesus Christ There is a pride and a depravity in his soul that he has never discovered. A brilliant outside will be no apology for a depraved inside. It is no theory of mine, but an announcement of God, Who can not lie: “By the deeds of the law shall no flesh living be justified.” Open the door of Heaven and look in. Howard is there, but he did not secure his entrance by the dungeons be illumined nnd the lazzarettos into which he carried the medicines. Paul is there, but he did not earn his way in by the shipwrecks and imprisonments and scourgiings. On a throne overtopping perhaps, all other, except Christ’s, the old missionary exclaims: “By the grace of God T am what I am.” Again: Exalted social position will be no cloak for sin. Men look through the wickets of prisons, and seeing the .incarcerated wretches exclaim: “Oh, how much vice there is in the worldl”

Aim IUCJ luruujju liUO ouicows Wl A degraded city, and looking into the doors of hovels and dens of corruption they call them God-forsaken abodes. But you might walk along avenues; through which the opulent roll in their flourishing pomp and into mansions elegantly adorned, and find that even in the admired walks of life Satan works mischief and death. The first temptation Satan wrought in a garden, and he understands yet most thoroughly how to insinuate himself into any door of ease and splendor. Mon frequently judge of sin by the places in which !t is committed, but iniquity in satin is to God as loathsome as iniquity in rsigs, and in the day of judgment the sins of Madison avenue and Elm street will all be driven in one herd. Men can not escape at last for being respectably sinful. You know Dives were clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day, but his fine olothes and good dinners did not save him. He might on earth have drunk something as rich as champagne and cognac, but at last he asked for one drop of water. You can not trade off your attractive abodes hore for a house of many mansions on high and your elegant Bhado groves here will not warrant you a seat under the tree of life. When God drove Adam and Eve out of Eden, He showed that! merely living in a garden of delights and comforts will never save a man or a woman. By giving you so much earthly luxury and refinement, He intimated that He would not have you enjoy yourselves, but He would not have you wrap yourselves up in them as a cloak to hide your sihs. God now walks in your garden as He did in Eden, even in the cool of the day, and He stands by your well as He did by a well in Samaria, and He would make your comfort on earth a type rof your rapture in Heaven. Furthermore! Mere soundness of religious belief will not'hido our iniquities. There are men whose heads are as sound as Jonathan EdwardsfSr John Wesley, whose hearts are as rotten as Tom Paine’s or Charles Guiteau’s. It is important that we be theoretical Christians. It is utter folly in this day for a man to have no preference for any one form of faith, when it is so easy to become conversant with the faith of the different sects. An intoxicated, man staggered into my house one night begging lodging. He made great pretentions to religion. I asked where he went to church. Ho said: “Nowhere; I belong to liberal Christianity.” But there are those who never become Christians because their obstinacy prevents then; from ever taking a fair view of what religion is. They are like a brute beast in the fact that their greatest strength lies in their horns. They are combatant, and all they are ever willing to do for their souls is to enter am ecclesiastical fight I have met mem who would talk all day upon the ninth chapter of Romans, who were thoroughly helpless before the fourteenth chapter of John. But there are those who, having escaped from this condition, are now depending entirely upon their soundness of religious theory. The doctrines of man’s depravity and Christ’s atonement and God’s sovereignity aie theoretically received by them. But alas, there they stop. It is only the shell of Christianity containing no evangelical life. They stand looking over into Heaven and admire its beauty and its song, and are so pleased with the looks from the outside that they can not be induced to enter. They oould make a better argument for the truth than ten thousand Christians who have in their hearts received it If syllogisms and dilemmas and sound propositions and logical deductions could save their souls, they would be among the host of Christians. They oould correctly define repentance and | faith and the atonement, while they j

never felt one sorrow fur sin nor exercised a moment’s confidence in the great sacrifice. They are almost immovable in their position. Wo. can not present any thing about the religion of Christ that they do not know. The Saviour describes the fi.te of such a one in His parable: “And that servant which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with' many stripes.” Theories in religion have a beauty of their own, but if they result in no warmth of Christian life it is the beauty of hornblende and feldspar. Do not call such coldness and hardness religion. The River of 1/ife never freezes over. Icicles never hang on the eaves of Heaven. Soundness of intellectual belief is a beautiful cloak, well woven and well sat, but in the hour when God shall domand our souls it will not of itself be e.ufflcient to hide our iniquities. My friends, can it be that I have been unkind and torn from you some hope upon which you were resting for time and e ternity? Verily, I would be unkind if, having taken away your cloak, I did not offer you something better. This is a cold world, and you want some thing to wrap around your s^&it. Christ offers you a robe today. He wove it Himself; and He will now with His own band prepare it just to fit your soul. The righteousness He offers is like the coat He used to wear about Judea, without seam from top to bottom. There is a day of doom. Coward would I be if I did not dare tell you th is. It shall bo a day of unutterable disappointment to those who have-trusted in their official dignity, in their elegant manners, in their outward morality, in their soundness of intellectual belief. But I see a soul standing before God who once was thoroughly defiled. Yet look at him and you can not find a single transgression anywhere about him. How is this? you ask. Was he not once a Sabbath-breaker, a blasphemer, a robber, a perjurer, a thief, a murderer? Yes, but Christ hath cleansed him. Christ hath lifted him tip. Christ hath rent off his rags. Christ hath clothed him in a spotless robe of righteousness. That is the reason why you can not sue bis former degradation. This glorious hope in Christ’s name is proffered to-day. Wandering and wayward soul, is not this salvation worth coming for, worth striving for? Do you wonder that so many with bitter weeping have besought it and with a very enthusiasm of sorrow cried for Divine compassion? Do you wonder at the earnestness of those who stand in pulpits Ijeseeching men to be reconciled to God? Nay, do you wonder at the importunity of the Holy Ghost who now striveth with thy soul? In many of the palaces of Europe the walls are mosaic. Fragments of shells and glass are arranged by artists and aggregated into a pictoral splendor. What! made out of broken shells and broken glass! Oh, yes; God grant that by the transforming power of His spirit wo may all he made a part of the eternal palaces, our broken and fragmentary natures polished and shaped and lifted up to make a partof the everlasting splendors of the Heavenly temple. For sinners, Lord, Thou ctun’st to blood. And I’m a sinner vile. Indeed. Lord,I believe Thy grace ie free; OU, magnify Thy grace In me. HIS FIRST EARNINGS. How Victor Emmanuel Made Forty Centa by Honest Work. - King Victor Emmanuel of Italy was in his youth a keen sportsman and a fine shot One day, having wandered away from his party, be was returning by an isolated road from a hunting expedition. He espied a covey of partridges in a copse near by, and raising his fowling piece he killed a brace at a shot. A peasant who had been watching him attentively now hurriedly crossed the road and halting him said: “That was well done. Whosoever you aroyou know how to handle a gun.’’ “I'm glad you think so,” responded the King, laughing. “I only wish you could shoot a fox who is robbing me, one by one, of all the fowls in my barnyard.” “Well, perhaps I can. PU see what I can do for you.” “If you kill that fox,” said the peasant, Impressively, “I’ll give you two lira.” “Very well. ■ I’ll bring my dogs and be herb to-morrow.” “Will you give me your hand on it?” said the farmer, extending his horny digits. The King gave him hits hand and was punc tual to the hour appointed on the following day. The fox was on hand, too, hut King Victor’s sure aim brought renard’s career to a sudden end. Bis Majesty hastened to the farmer with his prize. “See!” he called opt, “now you owe me two liar.” “You shall have it You have earned it,” answered the delighted farmer cordially. The King looked curiously at the coins as they were banded to him. “Only to think,” he muttered to himself, “that this is the first money lever earned.” ^ The following day the peasant’s wife received a present of a gown, a necA lace, and a pair of ear-rings. Then it was that the farmer learned who it was be had hired to kill his fox.—Deutsche Rundschau.

THE DEADLY CIGARETTE. A (Solemn Warning to Smoker* of ill* Dangerous Little Things. “Let any boy who smokes cigarettes look at me now and know what I have suffered, and he will never put another in his mouth.”. These were almost the last words of Samuel Kimball, sixteen years of age, who died at St John's Hospital, Brooklyn, not long ago. As he lay upon his pot, he was indeed a satil spectacle, and a glance at him undoubtedly would have been a forcible warning to millions of youthful cigarette smokers. His body was of a deadly yollowish hue; his face, arms and trunk were emaciated, and his legs were swollen to twice their normal size. His sunken cheeks, livid lips and dull eyes gave a ghastly appearance to bin face, more like the face of the'dead than the living. The fresh air oame through the hospital window and played around his head, hut every breath that he took cost an effort, and at times it seemed as if he would strangle to death. No nourishment had passed his lips for hours, and his life, wps rapidly ebbing away. A faithful nurse sat at his bedside chafing his hands and trying to cheer his last hours. Eis case at first puzzled the physicians, but an examination showed that he was suffering from a dropsical condition of the legs. He, experienced great difficulty in breathing, and the action of his heart was extremely weak, though there seemed t* be no structural break. His system, seemed oompletly filled With nicotine, and his stomach, liver and kidneys were unable to perform their functions. He experienced great difficulty in taking nourishment, saying it burned him like firn. The physicians at the hospital say that young Kimball smoked no more than many other young men, but he was of a peculiarly nervous temperament, and the cigarettes wore poison to lila system,—N, ¥. Letter,

THE TARIFF AS A BRIBE. Why tha IMttRbnrgh Iron and Steel Men Pulled Congressman Bayne through— Mow the TarllT Uieldea Hanofoettuen Into “Bloeka of Flee”—A Flre-crnt Bribe to the Parmer. Republican* always resent the charge that the grand qld party Is subservient to the manufacturing interests of the country and is dependent upon them for financial and moral support in return for tariff laws made for their benefit. When these laws are put through Congress the manufacturers are expected to show their gratitude by supporting the : high tariff makers for re-election and to contribute a liberal supply of fat fo.' campaign expenses. This is the theory of the celebrated “fry-the-fat circular," in which a prominent Republican Senator from Kansas or Vermont claimed that the manufacturers got practically the sole benefit of protection and that they should therefore coma down liberally with their cash. An interesting practical illustration of all this is found in the case of Congressman Bayne, of Pittsburgh, Pa. The other day he declined to run for Congress again, after having been renominated by the convention of h:s | district Colonel Bayne gave as a reason for | his declination the fact that he had, i grown weary of public life and he had, | intended lor some time to quit it for | pr vate life. i But why is fie tired of politics? Onq j reason given is the ingratitude of the] rich manufacturers of his district Col-' ! onel Bayne is the author of the metal j schedule in the McKinley bill, and for. ] years he has done the tariff work for ! tho iron and steel men of h<s district | many of whom are now millionaires, j He succeeded in getting the metal duties i through tho House without amendment j —tin-plate duty and all. ! Notwithstanding all thisjhe iron and | steel men of his district were seeking j the defeat of the very man who had [ looked after their interests so carefully.j But the Tariff b 11 had in the meantime i gone over to the Senate, and the news had gone forth that tho Senators were going to butcher the metal schedule to such an extent that it would not be recognized when it got back into the House. Under the fear of such a calamity the Pittsburgh iron and steel men decided four days before the primaries that they would rally to the support of Bayne and have him renominated. This was done and the maker of cast-iron tariffs was again honored with a nomination, but he declined, and the high protectionist thick-and-thin party organ of Pittsburgh speaks of “a base conspiracy.” of “tho whole disreputable business,” and accuses Bayne “of a most wanton and indefensible act of bad faith.” But “the whole disreputable business” is very instructive in one way; it furnishes a proof—if proof were needed—of what tariff reformers have all along been saying of the evil effect of class legislation. Tho protective tariff is the best example we have of this legislation. It is enacted into law for the benefit of a class,, as was confessed, by the prominent Republican Senator referred to, and legislation for the benefit of any class of men clearly acts as a bribe for tho support of these men. To buy a vote is everywhere among honest men looked upon as corrupt and criminal- Is it any less corrupt and criminal for a great party to pass laws for the enrichment of a class of cit zens in order that they may gain their votes and also fry the fat from them for uso in “blocks-of-five” campaigns of direct bribery? Furthermore, we usually look upon tho poor devils who are Out of a job and to whom a few dollars mean bread and' butter for a week or two, as the men who are most susceptible to a bribe. Everybody who ukes money in elections approaches the poor fellow who is hard up; nobody will make an attempt on the rich, well-fed man who drives up to tho polls in bis carriage. But is it certain that he is above taking abr.be? Is it certain that Congress has not put him into a “block of five” for j election day? Look below the surface and | both these men have sold themselves i and are therefore equally base. lint with the bribe-givers the case is j different. When a Dudley writes a letter from his party's headquarters directing that the floaters be divided into “blocks of five” that is a case of very grave corruption—but it is the corrup- j tion in the management of a particular ' party only—what, on the other hand, ! shall he said of this party when jt uses tho law-making power of the Government in such a way as to divide ; the manufacturers into “blocks of five” I for the support of that party? Is

j not this a prostitution or the uovernj mont to the basest party uses; and ; is it not a corrupting of the people in j the most insidious and dangerous manner? 'What shall be thought of men j who arc elected to guard the interestsoi 1 the whole people and to establish jus- | tice between man and man throughout the whole land—what shall be thought I of them when they use their legislative ! functions for party purposes by corrupting a large class of voters through special laws in their private interests? ! The party that does such things knows only too well the meaning of its act ons. Accordingly it glosses owej with glib words of patriotism tho shameful policy that it pursues—steals the liv ! ery of the patriot to serve the party in, Lite the cuttle-flsli it blackens the water around it so that its crooked course can not he followed. After buying up the manufacturers with high protective duties which make the conditions of life harder for the groat farming population, they turn around and put higher duties on corn and wheat—a few bushels of which are imported by our farmers for seed—and then have the brazen impudence to call the high tariff : fabric which they have reared “the ! farmer’s tariff.” Do these McKinleys and Dingleys and Baynes take the farmers to be tho very blankest of all the blank fools in creation? Do they think they can parade these tariff absurdities before tho farmers forever and that the farmers will not see through them? Last year we imported 3,410 bushels of corn and 109,181 bushels of wheat. McKinley pretends to see a danger in this to our farmers; and accordingly he changes the duty on corn from ten to fifteen cents a bushel, and on wheat from ten to twenty-five cents a bushel. Governor Gear, of Iowa, is reported as saying that this will do the farmers a great deal of good. But the farmers know that those little flve-eent and flfteen-cent duties are worth to them simply nothing at oil, and that even a duty of five dollars a bushel on wheat: and corn could not help them one pennyworth. Such a duty might prevent them from importing a few bushels of seed wheat, which we now get from abroad, and thus harm them instead of helping &em. In reply to all this attempted deception let the farmers tell these would-be bribe-givers that we exported last year £125,000,000 worth of corn and wheat and flour, and that we liavo no reason whatever to fear the few thousand bushels brought into the oountry by somebody who wants seed wheat. —The McKinley bill continues to ioceive the most deadly stabs in the Houso of Its friends. The Minneapolis Journal, which is a Republican paper, talks out In this frank fashion: “That McKinley hill is too hard to defend, and the party doesn’t want, oortainly, to he forced into the field perpetually explaining apologising for its own

FASHION LETTER. Watering-Plaee and Other iummr Toll, ets—Elegant Import; .lions (Special New York Com i jondence.l A decided feature of watering-place toilets is the white cloth tailor gown, much braided with wUise*r*lk and

gold Beautiful silver (fray doth gowns have gfey silk and silver embroideries. These gowns are in sheath style with Greek draperies, with full, puffed sleeves, and slightly draped bodice. Other toilets in cream white are trimmed with perpendicular rows of cream moire ribbon, Highland kiltrf showing on the skirt with the ribbon rows upon every alternate kilt. Pale ecru cloth gowns are

combined with beetle brown velvet with becoming effect. The tne wool ba- ! reges worn a generation ago are re- ! vived for summer dresses, both in plain and figured patterns. New sheer wool nun's vailings have large single blossoms worked amid the rows of drawn work that border one selvage. Combinations continue to play an important part on drossy gowns, furnishing, as they do, the material for most of the novelties which lend fresh variety to dress. Among the summer silks are many light-weight Fife tartans which t.ro

combined wth neutral woolens, cream, mushroom, putty color and farm. The sleeves, lower skirt and upper portion of the corsage are mtalo of the plaided silk. The re- , mainder of tho I bodice and the drapery are of the fine wool. Fancy outing cloths and tennis flannels are very pope lar country dresses, their ginghamlike stripes and plaids giving

them great variety m color, ana making thorn strong rivals of the blue and white sorgo flannels so long popular. The blouse or belted French waist and full English skirt with Gordon sash of the same, or the open blazer with shirt-waist and loose tennis bolt of silk, are the simple designs for those most comfortable and inexpensive dresses. White cloth blazers with deep cellar and widely spreading lapels of blacfca velvet, with cricket caps to match. aro| popular for coaching, driving and vari- ' ous other uses at the summer resorts. ^Exquisitely One French camel’s hair fabrics are used for small dinners and five o’clock teas in the violet, vieiix rose, amaranth and palo neutral dyes of the season. Many of these costumes are in princesse fashion, clinging and full of grace, with semi-Greek draperies

and d c m 1 - trained. Others In Empire form have full sleeves with. Vandyke trimming s on the bodice and skirt. Oblo n g buckles, girdles, chatelaines and antique clasps in gold, silver, cut steel and pearl, are worn with stylish effect. Among the elegant importations are black Chantilly lace dresses with Dircetoire collars, and sloeves of black and gold

lam a.iu guiu riuuiULO au kuo waist, run through immense buckles of gilt and onyx. Waists and supper jackets of Fedora lace are worn over draped skirts of crepe de chine. Other pretty skirts of surah, foulard, vailing, challie and crepaline have fitted blouse waists of Spanish or Chantilly lace, or net, with a full shower of ribbons at the belt matching the stripe or figure in the skirt fabric. All sleeves are full, and many of the mutton-leg variety button up the inside of the arm to the depth of ten inches. Accordion-plaited skirts still meet with great favor, and this plaiting is used on silk, muslin, sh ier wool, gauze, foulard and ladies’ clotl. Some of the new cotton toilets ire made as elaborately as a summer s Ik. They are in many cases so rich and d dicate in effect, that they appear on “di ess parade” in the evoning on the beacl or pier. Russet, tan and Russia leaf her Newport ties are worn with every : ort of plain or elegant toilet. The wearing of vests., waistccvts, blouses, cut-aways and blazers amoi ot.s to a rage; they aro epidemic in e> ery quarter of the civilized globe. In h its, the sailor shape and the flapping eg* born, trimmed with ostric h plume i or flower garlands, are having it all t leir own way. Tailor-made traveling 30stumes of checked cheviotu;t> very natty. very simple, and very Engiish^in^efleet. FROM VARIOUS SOURCES Tub fund raised in Gucrgia for the benefit of Mrs. Jofforson Davis amoi nts to nearly §8,000. ‘ A Paw Paw man worth §100,000 nar, ried water for a circus and thus got inside the tent free. A gold nugget jvovth 15100 was taken from a mine in the Big Rug district. A. T., recently. It is now c>n exhibition at Prescott In a recont railway wreck at Islets, N. M., 770 sheep were killed. The Indians skinned the carcasses and preserved the meat A swarm of bees tool: po session of the soda fountain in a Montezuma ('3a.) drug store, and put an «nd to business for tho rest of the day. A New York dresumti fear refused to give tho census-taker liar permanent address for foar that her country cousins would hear of it and c< ne to visit her continually. Near Weaversville (Ci.l.) the bodies of forty-five deer were iiund not long since, piled up at tho bo item of a cliff, from which they had e . idontly fallen during the deep snows o t he past winter. A story comes from 4 am eland, Me., of a largo hole In tho gro nt near Blackington's Corner that appi bottom, all efforts ’So £ 1 proved useless. It is m quarry. The Limbless Leaf rue U t to la tost political organization. It £ mrishes in Schuylkill County, Penn , nd, according to it? founder, Arthur ,1 nes, has 3,700 members, who Rare arm or a legs A J15WELBR of Rockfc cently presented the put-; a clock: This was folio expensive one by a rival ;| the time the enthi pvery twin ig the ; to have no ; up having a lime rook it either an Wash., reiohool with I: by a more der, and by id subsided a clock.

—The sphere of woman continues to inlargo. The latest evidence comes from Connecticut, where a young woman has ust been given a license as a dispens,ng chemist. It deserves to be added shat She not only got her license, but passed the best examination that has rettbeen had befoie the examining Poard. A Rsmirkftbta Showing, It is estimated tint Smith’s Tonic Syrup made by Dr. John Bull, of Louisville, Ky , is used in not less than eight hundred thousand families. In many localities it has entirely taken the place of quinine, having all the good qualities of this drug and none of its evil tendencies. Its use has a most ben Bficial effect on the circulatory system and mucous membrane. It instills life in ltd these important portions and prevents congestion. It reduces inordinate temperature and allays all feverish symptoms. It is- a true anti-periodic and will prevent or cure chills and fever with invariable oertainty. In malarial districts, where colds, fevers, influenza, etc., are common, it is almost a sacred duty to take Smith’s Tonic Syrup occasionally, as by this means the good health of the family is preserved. There is a notion which finds lodgment n many minds that success in going through he world is commensurate with suocess m toing through the inhabitants.—Jury. Tibbeb, Hiss., Oct 6, 1SS8. Messrs. A. T. Shallbnberqrk & Co. Rochester, Pa. (lent*-.—The bottle of Sballenberger’s Pills sent me in February last 1 gave to W. O. Anderson, of this place; a long-standing case of chills and fever. He had tried everything known Without any permanent good. In Iccsthan tea days after taking yo;tr Antidote he was sound and well, and has gone through the entire season without any return. It seems to have effectually driven the Malarious poison from his system. Yours truly, V. A. Anderson. Competition begets enterprise and cntcririso has induced a grocer to advertise ‘genuino horse-radish, fresh from the lorse. ’’—Binghamton Leader. Are Yon Going to Travel T If so, and In whatever direction, or by whatever route, have a sufficiency of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters with you. Then Sou may bid defiance to seasickness, brave le influence of a malarious climate or abrupt transitions of temperature, avoid dyspepsia, and the stomachic pangs begotten of bad food and water, and counteracts an unexpectedly developed tendency to constipation, biliousness and rheumatism. Labor is honorable; always excepting, Kssibly, tho laboring jaw of tno demagoguo >r ignoramus.—Olathe (Kan.) Mirror. A Boon to Wives. Having used “Mother's Friend” I would not be without it. It is a boon to wives who know they must pass through the painful ordeal of childbirth. Mss. C. Melburne, Iowa. Write the Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga., for further particulars. Bold by all druggists. The music that hath charms to soothe the savage was produced by bis victim while being scalped—Binghamton Leader. Children that are peevish and sickly frequently owe their disposition and distress to the presence of worms in their little intestines. They will be more healthy, happy and pretty if yon give them Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers. 3vbn when a rattlesnake manages to op its head all right it is liablo to get ratd at the tail—N. O. Picayune. Six Novell Free, will be sent by Cragin &■ !o., Philada, Pa, to any one in the 1J. S. or lanada, postage paid, upon receipt of 25 lobbins’ Electric Soap wrappers. See list f novels on circulars around each bar. The reason diost poets think to no purose is that their thoughts are idyl houghts.—Philadelphia Press. Reliance may be placed in every representation made by Maher & Grosh, Toledo, O , whose ad. will be found elsewhere in this paper. No risk in sending them money; they will do exactly as they agree. In South America rooms are sometimes ;htcd by fire-bugs. In th» country flreigs light whole houses. A. M. Priest, Druggist, Shelbyvflle, Ind., says: “Hall’s Catarrh Curegivesthe best of satisfaction. Can get plenty of testimonials, as it cures every one who takes it.” Druggists sell it, 75c. How sad it makes a man feel to observe a flvo-dollar straw hat on a seven-cent head. —Kearney Enterprise. on hardly realize that itis medicine, when :ing Carter’s Little Liver Pills: they are ■y small; no bad effects; all troubles from pid liver are relieved by their use. Mant a man can sell a fifty-cent article for a dollar and then not be able to hold on to the dollar.—Puck. Half-cured eruptions will return. Eradicate them with Glenn’s Sulphur Soap. Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents. It is only when a man begins to dictate his letters that he finds out how poorly ho can talk.—Puck. Smith’s Tonic Syrup is giving universal satisfaction in this place.—J»o. U. Bingham, McKinney, Texas. The trouble with justice is that she does so little besides holding hor scales.—Galveston News. Any one can take Carter’s Little Liver Pills, they are so very small. 'No trouble to swallow, pain or griping after taking. r is blow for blow when tho backer* prize-fighters are boasting!.—N. O. PioThe best cough med cine is Piso’s Cure for Consumption. Sold everywhere. 25c. K man should be sure he’e right, then folv his knows.—Yonkers Statesman.

THE MARKETS. Nkw York, June 80, 1890i CATTLE—Native Steers:.....-* 3 90 ® 5 00 COTTON—Middling.11%0 FLOCK—Winter Wheat. 2 35 ns WHEAT—No. 2 Bed. 92(2® COEN—No 2.... 41 <a OATS—AVestern Mixed-— 32 a FORK—Mess... 13 25 ® £T. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling.... a BEEVES—Export Steers.. 4 60 Shipping...,.. 4 35 IIOGS—Common to Select.... 3 40 SHEEP—Fair to Choice.. . .. s 75 FLOUK—Patents. 460 XXX to Choice...... 2 “ 12 .5 25 95(S 42 34(2 13 75 83% a 33 28 44 1 50 WHEAT—No. 2 Red Winter.. CORN—No. 2 Mixed. OATS-No. 2... RYE—No. 2. TOBACCO—Lugs (Missouri).. Leaf, Burley. S(I0 » IIAY—Choice,Timothy.. .... 10 00 a BUTTER—Choice Dairy. 11 a EGGS—Fiosh. 7(2® FORK—Standuril Mess.. 11 25 a BAI ON—Clear Rib-...- 5(fca 11(2 4 80 4 50 3 70 5 00 4 76 3 CO 84 32(2 2H2 45 2 90 6 10 13 '.0 13 8 11 50 5(2 5(1 35(2 5 16 3 80 6 26 5 20 5 25 85(2 34(2 27(2 LARD—Frime steam. ..... ■WOOL—Choice Tub..' 35 a CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping.3 75 a HOGS— Good to Choice....... 3 6j a S11KEF-Good to Choice., 4J5 8 F'LOUR—Winter Patents. 4 75 a Spring, Putents. 6 OO a WHEAT—No. 2 Spring. a OORN-No. 2.. .. .. . i .... ® OATS—No.2.Whlto. a FORK—Standard Mo3S. » 12 50 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Shipping Steers-.. 3 50 a 4 50 JIOUS— Sales at . 3 50 a 3 60 AVHEAT-No. 2 Red. 79(2 a 80 OATS—No. 2. 27 a 27(8 CORX—No. 2. 28(2 0 28(2 NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grade. 4 25 0 * 00 CORN—White. 46 0 46(1 OATS—Choice Western. 0 87 HAY-Choice. 16 60 0 17 00 f—New Mess.. ....l .... a 12 11(2 86 38 30 13 25 6 12 FORK—New Mess.* .... a 12 50 BACON—Clear Rib.. 5%a 6 COTTON—Middling. 0(8® 11' LOUISVILLE. WHEAT—No. 2 Red...® CORN—No. 2 Mixed .. a OATS-No. i Mixed.C.... .... a l*ORK—Mess.12 7a 0 BACON—Clear Rib. 0 COTTON-Middling. U(2» “THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST.” iHHEtHiBS SAW MIL18 For Pamphlets write to TIC AULTMAR * TAYLOR OORCAtlY. ENGINES ’CLOVER HULLERS ■ARtriELS.O. m DCES FOOD 0*18 TNB laKADINfl FOOD IT 18 C8E1) by CHIT; DUEJi’S CU1U*K£X. Thousands of joung men and women in U»« V. 8. A. owe their lire* and their health and their happiness to Sldge's Food their daily diet In Infancy and Childhood having been * CO- Palmer. Mam. D-3 HARTmIu?sESsiwffeSSt.^A.Uo'BtelyflSblo*

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