Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 8, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 July 1890 — Page 4

WITNESSES for GOD. Sermon by Rev. T. DeWitt T&lxnago at Beatrice. Neb. n» Testimony of Millions Throughout the World more Potent for the Boread of the Geepel Then All the Logie of Chrletlan Preachers. ' The following discourse was delivered by Rev. T. DeWilt Tnlmage »t Beatrice, Neb., to an immense throng which gathered In the open air to listen to the noted preacher. He took for his text: We are witnesses—Acti 111., 15. In the days of George .Stephenson, the perfectoc of the locomotive engine, the scientists proved conclusively that a railway train could never he driven by steam power successfully ami without peril; but the rushing express trains from Liverpool to Edinburgh, and from Edinburgh to London, have mr.de all the nations witnesses of the splendid achievement. Machinists and navigators proved conclusively that a steamer could never cross the Atlantic Ocean; hiit no sooner had they successfully proved the impossibility of such an undertaking .than the work was done, and the passengers on the Cunard, and the Inman, and the National, and the White Star lines are witnesses. There went up a guffaw of -wise laughter at Prof. Morse’s proposition to make the lightning of. heaven his errand-boy, and it was proved conclusively that the thing could never be done; but now all the news of the wide world, by Associated Press, put in your hands every morning and night, has made-all nations witnesses. So in ’ the 4ime of Christ it was proved conclusively that it was impossible for Him to rise from the dead. It was shown logically that when a roan was dead, he was dead, and the heart, and? the liver, and the lungs havingj^jjseed to perform their offices, the limbs would be rigid beyond all power1 of friction or arousal. They .showed it to be ar absolute absurdity that the dead Christ should ever get up alive; but no sooner had they proved this than the dead Christ arose, and the disciples beheld Him, heard His voice, and talked with Him, and they took the witness stand to prove that to be true which the wiseacres hf the day had proved to be impossible the record of the experience and or the testimony is in tho text: “Him hath God raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses.” Now, let me play the skeptic for a moment. “There is no God,” says the skeptic, ‘Tor I have never seen Him with my physical eyesight. Your Bible is a pack of contradictions. Th«% never was a minaele. Lazarus was nbt raised from the dead, and tho water was never turned into wine. Your religion is an imposition on the credulity of the ages.” There is an aged man mbving over yonder as* lbough he would like to respond. Here are hundreds of people with faces a little flushed at these announcements, and all through this assembly there is a suppressed feeling which would like to speak out in behalf of the truth of our glorious Christianity, as in the days of the text, crying out: “We are witnesses!” The fact is, that if this world is ever ■ brought to God, it will not be through

argument, duc inrougn testimony. 1uu might cover the whole earth with apologies lor Christianity and learned treatises in defense of religion—you would not convert a soul. Lectures on the harmony between science and religion are beautiful mental discipline, but never saved a soul, and never will save a soul. Put a man of the world and a man of the church against each other, and the man of the world will in all probability get the triumph. There are a thousand things in our religion that seem illogical to the world, and always will seem illogical. Our weapon in this conflict is faith, not logic; faith, not metaphysics; faith, not profundity; faith, not scholastic exploration. But then, in order to have faith we must have testimony, and if five hundred men, or one thousand men, or five hundred thousand men, get up and tell me that they have felt the religion of Jesus Christ a joy, a comfort, a help, an aspiration, I am bound as a fair-mind-ed man to accept their testimony. I want just now to put before you three propositions, tbe truth of which I think this audience will attest with overwhelming unanimity. - The first proposition is: We are witnesses that the religion of Christ is able to convert a soul. The Gospel may have had a hard time to conquer us, we may have fought it back, but we were vanquished. You say conversion iB only an imaginary thing. We know better. t'We are Witnesses.” There never was so grept a change in i our heart and life on any other subject as on this. People laughed at the missionaries in Madagascar because they preached ten years without one convert; but there are thirtythree thousand converts in Madagascar to-day. People laughed at Dr. Adoniram Judson, the Baptist missionary, because he kept on preach- — ing in Burmah five years without a single convert; but there are 20,000 Baptists in Burmah to-day. People laughed at Dr. Morrison, in China, for preaching there seven years without a single conversion; but there are 25,000 Christians in China to-day. People laughed at the missionaries for preaching at Tahiti fifteen years without a single conversion, and at the missionaries for preaching in Bengal seventeen years without a single conversion; yet in all those lands there are multitudes of Christians today. But why go so far to find evidence of the Gospel’s power to save a soul? "We are witnesses.” We were so proud that no man could have humbled us; we were so hard that no earthly power could have melted us; angels of God were all around about us, they could not overcome us; but one day, perhaps at a Methodist anxious seat, or at a Presbyterian catechetical lecture, or at a burial, or on horseback, a power seised us, and made us get down, and made us tremble, and made us kneel, and made us cry for mercy, and we tried to wrench ourselves away from tbe grasp, hut we could not It flung us flat, and when we arose we were as much changed as Oourgis, the heathen, who Went into a prayer-meet-ing with a dagger and a gun to disturb - the meeting and destroy it, but the next day was found crying: "Oh, my great sins! Oh, toy great Saviour!” and for eleven years preached the Gospel of Christ to his fellow-mountaineers, the last words on his dying lips being: “Free grace!" Oh, it was free grace! There is a'man who was for ten years a hard drinker. The dreadful appetite has tent downdts roots around the palate and the tongue, and on down until they were interlinked with the vitals of body, mind, and ami;'but he has not , takep any stimulants for ten years. What did that? Not temperance societies. Not prohibition laws. Not moral suasion. Conversion did it. “Why,” said one upon whom the great change had come, “sir. I feel just as though I were tain who swore all the Way from New York to Havana, and from Havana to San Francisco, and when he was in port he was worse than when be was on the What power was

■ ii M— ands of people in this assemblage today who are no more What they once were than a water-lily Is a nightshade,, or a morning lark Is a vulture, or day Is night. Now, il I should demand tha& all those people here present who hate felt the converting power of religion should rise, so far from being as bathed, they .would spring to their feet With more alacity than they ever sprang to the dance, the tears minglibg With their exhilaration as they cried: “We are witnesses!” And if they tried to sing the old Gospel hymn they wouldbreak down with emotion by the timo they got to the second line: Ashamed of Jesus, t hat dear friend On whom my hopes of Heaven dependt No! When 1 blush,.he this my shame: That 1 no more revere His name Again I remark that we are witnesses of the Gospel’s power to comfort There are Christian parents here whq are Wilh ing to testify to the power of this Gospel to comfort' VoUr son had just graduated from school or college and was going into business, and the Lord took him. Or your daughter had just graduated from the young ladies’ seminary, and you thought she, was going to he a useful woman and of long life; but the Lord took her, and ' you were tempted to say: ‘•’All this culture of twenty yoars for nothing!” Or the little child came home from school with the hot fever that stopped not for the agonised prayer or for the skillful physician, and the little child was taken. Or the babe was lifted out of your arms by some quick epidemic, and you stood! wondering why God ever gave you that child at all, if so soon He whs to take 11:, away. And yet you are not repining, you are not fretful, you are not fighting against God. What has enabled you to stand all the trial? “Oh,” you say, “I took the medicine that God gave my sick soul. In my distress 1 threw myself at the feet of a sympathising God; and when X was too weak to pray or to loot:: up, lie breathed into me a peace that 1 think must he the foretaste of that Heaven where there is neither a tear nor a farewell, nor a grave." Come, all yet who have been out to the grave to weop there—come, all ye comforted souls get up off your knees. Is there no power Iii this Gospel to soothe the heart? Is there no power in this religion to quiet the worst paroxys of grief? There comes up an answer from comforted widowhood, and orphanage, and childlessness, saying: “Ay, ay, we are witnesses!” When a man has trouble the worjii comes in and says: “Now get your mind off this; go out and breathe the fresh air; plunge deeper into business, What poor advico! Get your mind off il l When ovory thing is upturned with the bereavement, and every thing reminds you of what you have lost Get your mind off it? They might as well advise you to stop thinking. You can not stop thinking, and you can not stop thinking in that direction. Take i walk in tho fresh air, Why, along that very street or that very road, she once accompanied you. Out of that grass plat she plucked flowers, or into tha t show window she looked, fascinated, saying: “Come seq the pictures, ” Go deeper into business? Why, she was associated with all your business ambition, and since she has gone you have no ambition left Oh, this is a clumsy world when it tries to comfort a broken heart 1 can build a Corliss engine, I can paint a Raphael’s

Aiauonna, 1 con piay o ueemoven s “Erotco Symphony,” os easily as this world con comfort a broken heart. And yet you have been comforted. How was it done? Did Christ come to you and say: “Oet your mind off this; go out and breathe fresh air; plunge deeper into business?” No. There was a minu te when He came to y.ou—perhaps in the watches of the night, perhaps in your place of business, perhaps along the street—and He breathed something into your soul that gave peace, rest, infinite quiet, so that you. could take out the photograph of tho departed one and look into tho eyes and the face of the dear one, and say: “It is‘all right; she is better off;, I would not call her back. Lord, I thank Thee that Thou hast comforted my poor heart” Again, I remark that we are witnesses of the faot that religion has power to give composure in the last moment I never shall forget the first time I confronted death, We Went across the cornfields ih the country. I was led by my father’s hand, and we came to the farm house where the bereavement had conue, and we saw the crowd of wagons and carriages, but there was one carriage „ that especially attracted my boyish attention, and it had black plumes. I said: “What’s that? what’s that? why those black tassels on tho top?” And after it was explained to me I was lifted up to look upon the brignt face of an aged Christian wome n, who three days before had departed in triumph; the whole scene made an impression I never forgot '■ In our sermons and' in our lay exhortations we are very apt, when we want to bring illustrations of dying triumph, to go back to some distinguished personage—to a John Knox or a Harriet Newell. But I want you for witnesses. I want to know if you have ever seen any thing to make you believe that the religion of Christ can give you composure in the final hour. Now, in the courts, attorney, jury and judge will never admit mere hearsay. They demand that the witness must have seen with his own eyes, or heard with his own ears, and so I am critical in my examination of you now; and I want to know whether you have seen or heard any thing that makes you believe that the religion of Christ gives you composure in the final hour. “Oh, yes,” you say, “I saw my father and mother depart. There was a great difference in their death-bed^.' Standing by the one we felt more veneration. By the other, there was, more tenderness.” Before the one, you bowed perhaps in awe. In the other case yon felt as if you would like to go along with her. flow did they feel in that last hour? How did they seem to act? Were they very much frightened? Did they take hold of this world with both ha nds as though they did not not want to give it up? “Ob, no,” you say; “no, I remember, as though it were yesterday; she'had a kind word for us ail, and there were a few mementoes distributed among the children, and then she told us bow kind we must be to our father in his loneliness, and then she kissed us good-bye and went asleep as oalnnly as a child in a cradle.” What made her so composed? Natural courage? “No,” you say, “mother was very nervous; when the carriage inclined to the side of the road she would cry out; she was always rather weakly.” What, then, gave her composure? Was it because she did not care much for you, and the pang of parting was not great? “Oh,” you say, “she showered upon ns a wealth of affection; no mother ever loved her children more than mother loved us; she showed it by the way she nursed us when we were sick, and she toiled for us until her strength gave out.” What, then, was it that gave her composure in the last hour? Do not hide it. Be frank and let me know. “Oh,” yon,say, ‘It was been,use she was so good; she made the Lord her portion, and she had faith that she would go straight to glory, and that we would all meat her at J*»t at the left Ml

ttert ire people whtt say: “1 »w i Christian brother die, and he triumphed. ” And some one else: “I saw a Christian sisterdie, and she triumphed.” Some one else will saw: “I saw a Christian daughter die, ittd shft triumphed. Come, ill m Who hake seen the last moments of a Christian, add give testimony id this fcadse on trial. Uncover your heads, put your hand on the old family Bible from which they used to read the promises, and promise in the presence of high Heaven that you will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. With what you have seen with your own eyes, and from what you have heard with your own ears. Is there power In this Gospel to give salmness and triumph ifl the last exigency? The response comes from ill sides, from young, and old, and middle-aged: "kYYe ire Witnesses!” Yhtt see, my friends, t have dot pat before you an abstraction, or chimera, or any thing like guesswork. I present you affidavits of the best men and women, living and dead. Two witnesses in court will establish a fact. Hero are not two witnesses, hut thousands of witnesses —on earth millions of witnesses, and in Heaven a great multitude of witnesses that no man can number, testifying that there is power in this religion to convert the soul, to give comfort id trouble, and to afford composure ih the last hour. If ten mea skbuid Come id you whelk you are sick with appalling sickness, and sav they had the same sickness, attd took a Certain medicine, and it CUred them, yod would probably take it. Now, suppose ten other men should come up apd say: *‘We don’t believe there is any thing in that medicine.” “Well,” I say, “Have yon ever tried it?” “No, I never tried it, but I don’t believe there is any thing in it.” • Of oourse you discredit their testimony. The skeptic may come and hay: “There is dd power In yottr religion.” Have you ever tried it?” “No, no.” “Then avaunt?” 'Let mo take the testimony of the millions of souls that have been converted to God, and comforted in trial, and solaced in the last hour. 'We will take their testimony as they cryt “We are wit1 nesses!” Some time ago Trot Henry, of Washington, discovered a new star, and the tidings sped by submarine telegraph, and all the observatories of Europe were watching for that new star. Oh, hearer, looking out through the darkness of thy soul to-day, canst thou not see a bright light beaming on thee? “Where?” you say; “where? How can 1 find it?” Look along by the line of the Son of God. lk> you not see it trembling with all tenderness and beaming with all hope? It is the Star of Bethlehem, Deep Horror then my vitals froze, Death -struck, 1 ceased the tide to stem. When suddenly a star arose— ft Was the star of Bethlehem. Oh, hearer, get your eye on it It is easier for yon now to become Christians than it is to stay away from Christ and Heaven. When Mme. Son tag began her musical career she was hissed off the stage at Vienna by the friends of her rival, Amelia Steininger, who had already begun to decline through her dis

sipauon. i ears passeu on, ana one day Mine. Son tag, in her glory, was riding through the streets of Berlin, when she saw a little child leading a blind woman, and site said: "Come here, my little child, come here. .Who is that you are leading by the hand?” and the little child replied: “That’s my mother, that’s Amelia Steininger. She used to be a great singer, but she lost her voice, and she cried so much about it that she lost her eyesight.” '"Give my love to her,” said Mme. Sontag, “and tell her an old acquaintance will call on her this afternoon.” The next week itt Berlin- a vast assemblage gathered at a benefit for that poor, blind woman, and it was said that Mme. Sontag sang that night as she had never sung before. And she took a skilled oculist, who in vain tried to give eyesight to the poor blind woman. Until the day of Amelia Steininger’s death, Mme. Sontag took care of her, and her daughter after her. That was what the queen of song did for her enemy. But, oh, hear a more thrilling story still. Blind immortal, poor and lost, thou who, when the world and Christ were rivals for my heart, didst hiss thy Lord away —Christ comes now to give thee sight, to give thee a home, to give thee Heaven. With more than a Sontag’s generosity He comes now to meet your need. With more than a Sontag’s music He comes to plead for thy deliverance. ••Dm for the Ministry of Periodical U» •rature." Prof. Murray, of Princeton College, in an interesting paper on, the “Use for the Ministry of Periodical Literature,” which appears in the Homiletio Review for July, says, among other things: “Such reading is the best way of keeping in contact with the currents of thought that are circulating freely in the world. It will not answer in this age for the minister to have much of the recluse about him. He is expected to have a broad scholarship, and one that is conversant with the nineteenth century. Clergymen could be named who are reasonably well versed in the theology of the seventeenth century who have little or no acquaintance with what is stirring in the thought of to-day. Their ignorance of current thought affects their preaching. It has a far-away sound. Even when the truth proclaimed is true alike for all centuries, somehow the accent of to-day is not in it The influence ol such a man is curtailed. If ho is not weill read some members of his congregation are—the lawyers, the doctors, the young collegian who comes home in vacation. These wonder whether their pastor ever heard of the discoveries at Bubastis, or of the theory of conscience which the philosophy of Herbert Spencer maintains Even though the preacher make no direct use of his knowledge in his sermons, and never alludes to any discussion in the Forum or in the Nineteenth Century, still if he knows what they are saying his preaching will have a different tone. It will not be one wbit less evangelical, but it will have the power which comes when a man is able to say: "Yes, I have read what is said on the other side, and have not oonfined myself to commentaries and systems of theology.” Hew Is the Time. Babbl Eleger said to his deciples: “Turn to God one day before your death.” Whereupon they answered: “But how can a man know the day of his death?” “True,” assented the rabbi; “therefore, you should turn to Ood to-day; perhaps you may die to-morrow.” —A writer in the Popular Soience Monthly, says the Christian at Work, wants Prof. Huxley to formulate a new word to express “the positive side of agnosticism.” This is very funny. Agnosticism has no positive side. It simply says, ‘T don’t know.” If, though, a word is wanted to express the positive side of that which assumes to declare wbat others do not know, we already have such a word, and Prof. Huxley need not be trouble^ for | substitute It

FEDERALIST ASSAULTS. The Descendants of tho Men Who Fought Jefferson Still on Deck. Cabot Lodge, tiie Massachusetts Republican who stands as sponsor in the House of Representatives fbt the infamous Federal election bill, is a descendant of George Cabot, who was a member of the notorious Essex junto. The Essex junto was a cabal of old Federalists who held out for many years against the Democracy of Jefferson and in favor of the aristocracy of Hamilton. It was this junto, aided and abetted by tho preacbersof Hew England, that carried the old Federalist opposition to Jcfforson, almost to the point of treason and*seceasioft. Its members were aristocrats who hated the people arid who believed that this GoVeinment ! should be managed by the ttise and the good, they being the persons tihbweNs to decide who were wise and good. As : for the idea that there could possibly be any wisdom or virtue in the body of the people, such a proposition never entered their heads. They regarded wealth as the first requisite of good citizenship, and a man’s poverty was to them sufficient evidence that he was not wise and not good. The Essex junto was overthrown by the triumphs of Democracy; its members went croaking and lamontihg tb their graves; some of them publicly deplorihg the separation of tho colonies from the Bri tish crown, and although their descendants organized further opposition to bemocracy on practically tho same lines they never again dared to,, raise aloft in the light of day the old Federalist motto of “Down with th# people.” The triumph of Democracy over this element was of as much importance as the triumph of the revolutionary army against King George’s regulars and mercenaries. The one was the complement of the other, and Without tho triumph of bemocracy over American aristocracy and privilege the triumph of tho patriot army over the British monarchy would have been of little avail. There would have been a change of masters and no more. , Cabot Lodge fears and hates the people to-day as his ancestors hated and feared them three generations ago. tte wants to govern them and to control them. If they do not vote as he wishes, or if they do not vote at all, he would like to have in use official machinery that would compel them to vote and to vote as he thinks they should vote. He has no sympathy with and no understanding of the Jeffersonian idea that the people are capable of governing themselves, of correcting errors as they may arise and of Working irresistibly and continually toward jtastice and right. He believes in drastic measures and he is never quite sb happy as when he is laying down rules and regulations for other people. It is fit and proper that the party which is the direct descendant of the old Federalist party should have for a leader in its newest assault upon the liberties of the people a man who is a direct descendant of one of the bitterest of the old Federalist leaders. The business is congenial all around.—Chicago Herald. FALL STATE ELECTIONS. tfpott thalr Result* Depends the Fdlitiesl Complexion ot the Senate; Thh infamous outrage perpetrated on the people of Montana gave the Republicans ten majority in the United States Senate, instead of the six to which they were entitled. On the 4th of March next twenty-eight Senators will have completed their terms, and in the election of their successors some important political changes may be expected. The condition of affairs in Wisconsin is not by any means favorable to the hopes Of Senator Spooner for re-election, as there are good grounds to look, for a Democratic Legislature. The contest in Illinois will be a most stubborn one, General Palmer, the Democratic candidate for United States Senator, being exceedingly popular, and being prepared to’use all his influence as an effective campaign speaker for the election of a Democratic Legislature. California will likely send a Democrat to the Senate in Leland Stanford’s place, and Connecticut Democrats expect to replace Orville H. Platt with a representative of the popular party of the State. Difficult though the task may be, on

a^wUUb im. iuujtuLUUo uvuiucuu that prevails here, the New York Democracy are prepared to enter upon a spirited contest in the fall to elect a Democratic Assembly with a majority large enough to overcome the Republican majority in the Senate on joint ballot, and thus insure a Democratic successor to William M. Evarts. With an assured Democratic House and a Senate that may be a tie, the country might rest easy for the remainder of the Harrison administration, as an effectual check will he put to reckless and extravagant appropriations. A radical change in the Senate would he of incalculable benefi t to the country, for that body has hitherto exhibited the most profound indifference in regard to the welfare of the people. All the monopolies and pernicious elements which have so long controlled the councils and action of the Republican party, hold the Senate in their grasps An infusion of new blood of a different nature from that of Ingalls, Stanford, Evarts, Platt, Farwell and Spooner would have a most healthful effect upon the Senate. There will he more general interest in the elections of the various State Legislatures this fall, on which depends the political complexion of the United States Senate after March 4, than has been felt for many years before. The Republicans are considerably handicapped by the widespread public sentiment against the Garrison administration and this most outrageous Congress. They will not hesitate to resort to all kinds of hulldosing tactics to retain power. But naught can avail against the voice of the people.—Albany Argus._ Recklessly Kitrangent t*It is a bold thing,” says the Buffalo Express (Rep.), “to tell the truth about pensions, and most men fear to be accused of unpatriotic or selfish motives in objecting to the supposed demands of old soldiers. But the conference pension hill is not born of patriotism and justioe, nor is it based gn principles of good, government The Republican party, it is urged, stands pledged todo' justice to the soldier. Do pension appropriations of $100,000,000 a year go for naught? Must* $60,000,000 more be given to prove that the Republican party is the soldier’s .friend? That party has pledged itself to be just and it has magnificently redeemed the ■ pledge. When It becomes recklessly extravagant it forgets its duty to the American people. A deficit of $60,000,000 can never he explained, excused or’extenuated. Right or wrong. It invites a disastrous rebuke at the pollB.”_‘_ THROUGH ONE ADMINISTRATION ILife-l * r \

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BENNY'S POPULARITY. The Doctor Bepndlated by the Colored Tote re of the Sooth. That was a curious and significant accidentwhioh betel the Administration in the capital of Tennessee. Benjamin Harrison bin been President of the United States for a little more than sixteen moznha. Though elected as an avowed ad. rocate of civil service reform, on a platform sensationally aggressive in favor of the extension of the principles of that reform to . all grades of the public i ervlce, he has made a record never befc re equaled in in the "displacement of office-holders opposed to him in politico and the appointmept of party wort era of his own political feith to succeed them. This ought to have endeared 1 ini to that ole* irient of his party, which is numerical}.? id rich the larger part of 1 g which looks upon politics as a means of getting something for one's self. Somehow, this result has dot been achieved. Humiliating as the confession may be, it is certain that Dr. Harrison is not a popular man, even in the ranks of his own party. He has not voluntarily forfeited the respect of the rank and file of the g-a. p. He hair, i n truth, striven hard to give satisfaction. Though a man that has been tar jelj advertised as possessing piety hi the (tost hare lent* ing variety, he has ndt jrOseribed the unregenerate who aided iii his eiectiod: In his official family sits i mad whose presence there is due id his success id raising corruption f inds. His most trusted and influential adviser, outside the Cabinet, is a ms i who refuses to deny the charge of taring abstracted* S660.000 from a State Treasury. Some of his appointees hare been convicted of felonies, and a gveat many others ought to have been. These facts indicate that the Preside: it has been anxious to shoar* that he is dot too proud or too good to recognize the services df aiiy element df his party. Add yet they dh not love him. It is significant, toe, that the colored element of the Nashville convention was conspicuous in tha opposition to the resolution to indn rse the administration. The colored vu ters in thB South did not contribute lattch to HfcHarrison’s election, but I lose of thB North held the balance of power in several States, and it was th: ir votes ttiat made his success possible.. On the basis of the white vote, 3Ir. Harrison was beaten badly. His presence in the White House is due to the prejudice which compels colored men to vote the Republican ticket, contrary to their oWn interests and the good of the Country. And yet one of these Republicans testified that, there is ail OVdr the South, under the reign df Dri Hal* rison; an effort to siap th6 negro id the face. The Democratic pa rty is fiht particularly interested in the unpopularity of the President. His renomination would not be an overwhelming misfortune for the Democratic candidate in 189:1 If wc may judge of his whole term by that part of it already past, we could go to the country upon the record thus presented with the most sanguine hopes of success. But unless he does something to strengthen bisr hold upon the dissatisfied element of his parly his renomination seems hardly among the possibilities. The Nashville incident is certainly ominous. Heretofore the Federal office-holders have generally been omnipotent ih Republican councils in the South, but all their influence at the Nashville meeting was exerted in vain. There are many indications that the sentiments expressed there are shared by Republicans in every section of thecountry.— Louisville CourierJournal.

WHAT BLAINE: -WANTS. Reasons for the Plumed! Knight's Latest Political Summerset. Secretary Maine has arrayed himself against the leaders of the Republican party as to the tariff question, and he has three things in view. Wheri the Republican party was striving for supremacy in 1S88 the necessity for tariff reduction was recognised, and in the organs, upon the stumis and everywhere there was constant talk of a general revision and reduction. As soon, however, as victory perched dpou the Republican banners all pledges were forge tten and the wishes of Eastern raahu ictiircrs for increased duties were cot ;si<iered. In the McKinley bill a hundre 1 industries have been taken care of in a way that will benefit the few at the expense of the many. At this Mr. Bl; ine sees a chance to bring himself to the front again, and, it is said, he pnpo ei to take a stand against the preset t leaders and cause a bill to be present* i to Congress that will be ini accord with his own views. Reciprocity is another ques tion that Mr. Blaine desires to aocom] lish, but with the present conditions tb 9 chances of failure are good. By becc ming the champion of the larga number of dissatisfied Republicans he can poss: bly carry out his plans'and add duster to his name. He has worked hard in his panAmerican venture, anil dislike; to suffer defeat. As a third reason for acticn at this time he sees a dange rous fat tion arising who will look to Speaker Reed for leadership. Mr. Reed's ambit on is not an humble one, and. both Blaine and Reed come from the same Ltate ode must shine with a secondary 1 ght. Mr. Blaine has too long consider* d himself the leading Republican statesman to care to share his glory with aifbther, and he will fight hard for supremacy. If there is a breach im the rarty Mr. Blaine may be expected to t: ke a position that will be prominent.—Chicagt .Times._ DRIFT OF OPINION. -The Republican; of Illinois have beaten themselves at the sti.rt They are down, and all the Democrats have to do in the campaign is to hold them down. Chicago Herat L —-A Federal supervision of Thomas B. Reed’s district, by vhich the sale of votes could be preven ed, might have a wholesome effect u ser wicked Southern communities.—Louisville Courier-Jour-nal. -The statement that a sign is to be erected upon the grounds of Mrs. Hat rison’ssummer home at Cape May, reading: “Buy your bathing suits at Wanamaker’s,” is probably ill-founded.— Detroit Free Press. -trover Cleveland, upon a tariffreductlon platform, will be something more than a possibility—a probability, atAeast, in 1802—should the Republicans not revise the McKinley bill in suoh a manner as 1» muke it protective of all the people and of all the country’s material interests, and coddling of none. —Philadelphia Telogra >b (Rep-). -Labor desires tc share ■ in the prosperity of tho munulacturer, hut the proposition is treated i s an insult If persisted in tho miuiufi oturer sends to Hungary, or • Cunila >r Bohemia for cheaper labor and the 1;borer does not get his raise. Yet hi} h-tariff orators claim that protection helps the laborer. The claim is a delusion, a fraud and a lie.—Chicago Globe. -The little town o ' Johnsonburg, Pa., is in rebellion., Postmaster-General Wanamakor has issued tin edict changing the name of the pos t office to Quay. The people pf the village seem to know Quay too well to feel honored by this change and absolutely refuse to bo reconciled to it, They do not wish to be called by a name that.is a gvuonyw for dishonor.-Nor lb wefcttgn fydj.

TIPS ON TABLE TOPICS. Forks are used with the right hand, and are pointed toward the mouth no, more directly than M necessary to put food between the lips. Spools with tea, coffee, chocolate and bouillon romain in the saucer when not conveying liquid to the mouth. They are correctly .placed at the right of the cup whenever not in use. Lat your knife and fork parallel vrifS each other and obliqaely across a plate that is to be removed for the coming of another course. To forget this increases noise when an attendant is gathering them together. It is in bad taste to lay a napkin over 1 the breast. At elegant tables the napkin is only partly shaken from its folds, and is then dropped in the lap to use forWiplitg the lips and fingers. It Is supposed that those Who have refined table manners do not scatter crumbs or drop food. It olives are served with tongs, or a spoon, or fork, use the same to lift the fruit to your plate, but eat it with your fingers. If there are SO spoons, tongs, or forks, with wkioh to serve ycmrself, take the olives with your fingers aria not with your own fork or spoon. Do the same with cut Sngar. Most food is eaten with a fork, the knife being only Its preparer, except wbeii cheesd that is neither grated nor creamy, is partaken of as an ever-re-spected part of a dessert. Here it is that knives retain their grip Oil ahCieht custom and bring it down to modern tables. Cheese is eaten with a knife. Ax attempt has been made to 'Introduce the wearing Of gloves at s table. This plan is too absurd an innovation, and will never become a custom. Gloves are worn to the table by women always, and a few men prefer to wear them; but they are removed by both men and women as soon as they are seated. ' Do Not pass to incither a plate tbit has been sent to you by £ best of hostess, because it disturbs the plan of your entertainer. It is silently taking an exception to his sense of fitness or courtesy and substituting your own in its stead. Of oourse this applies only when competent service is at hand. In its absence, with the approval Of a hdsfcj to aid at table is obligatory.' - Never bite off a piece from your dinner bread. Do not cut the bread served you at any time. If it is to be buttered tako a small bit, not more than two mouthfuls, and spread it. A slice ol buttered bread is much too suggest!vo ol tho nursery to please fastidious fellow guests. All warm bread should be torn api rt, or broken, and never Cut. if it is served in large pieties break It for jroiir neighbor also. Forks are laid for such dessert as are not wholly liquid, these instruments being used to sop broken bits of pudding in its sauce, thus banishing tho spoon whenever possible. Ice-creams are eaten with forks, but water ices with spoons, and good form does not tell us why. Its commands are not often thus arbitrary. Strawberries are eaten with forks, unless their leafy tips have' a stem, in which case it is proper and graceful to take each with the fingers, touch it to the sugar lying upon one’s plate, then half dip it in cream and place it to the mouth. The same service of sugar and Cream is performed by a fork when strawberries are not sorted With their stems._ . Malaria. Nothin" makes One feel sp mean and Incapacitated for work as a touch Of malaria. How the bones ache. What chilly and lifeless sensations. What a poor appetite and what poor digestion. Here, James, run and Set me some quinine; or stop, quinine oesn’t Just agree with me either. It makes my head feel like it would burst. It creates a buzzldg sound in my ears. It impairs my digestion. It fcakes me feel diziy. It gives me nausea; and a physician Once told me that qninine sometimes causes paralysis. Nql you. needn’t get it. I won’t take quinine. What is that! You say your mother takes Smith’s Tonic Syrup when she has malaria, and that it always cures her, and that it also edred your brother of chills and fevet Well, get m0 a bottle of Smith’s Tonic Syrup, and be quick.. ComS to think about it, I have read that this medicine has all the good effects of quinine and none of its evil nature. Strange I haven’t tried it before.

The hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that goes through a man’spockets in the wee sma’ hours.—Munsey's Weekly. Children Enjoy The pleasant flavor, gentle action and soothing effects of Syrup of Figs, when in need of a laxative and if the father or mother be costive or bilious the most gratifying results follow its use, so that it is the best family remedy known and every family should nave a bottle. A sermon is too often transformed Into a highway over which a parson parades his literary attainments.—Atchison Globe J. a Parker, Fredonia, N. Y., says: “Shall not call on you for the $100 reward,for I believe Hall’s Catarrh Cure will cure any case of catarrh. Was very "bach” Write him for particulars. Sold by Druggists, 75c. The difference between a suitor and an office Beeker is that one pays court and .the Other courts pay.—Washington Post. Six Novels Prtt, will be sent by Cragin & Co., Philada., Pa, to any one in the U. S. or Canada, postage paid, upon receipt of * Dobbins’ Electric Soap wrappers. See list of novels on circulars around each bar. The dearest spot on earth is the summer resort. In comparison, there is no place like home.—Sioux City Journal. The most obstinate cases of chills and fever have been cured in this section by Smith’s Tonic Syrup.—J. E. Wcscott, Oatton, Ala. __ Ah Austin shoe-maker is writing a book. There will probably be a great many footnotes.—Texas Siftings. PnfPi.ES are inexpressibly mortifying. Remedy—Glenn’s Sulphur Soap. Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye, SO cents. “He a pillar of the churchl Why, he’s a perfect frapd.” “Sort of a pillar-sham.H ~K Y. Herald. THE MARKETS. New York, July 7,1890. CATTLE—Native Steers.$ 4 00 0 5 00 COTTON—Middling. 0 12 FLOUR—Winter Wheat. 2 45 « 5 25 WHEAT—No. 2 Bed. 91140 97 COBN—No. 2.. 41140 4241 OATS—Western Mixed. 31 0 35 POKE—Mess.. 13 25 0 13 75 ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling... BEEVES—Export Steers.. 4 40 Shipping..... 4 00 HOGS—Common to Select.... 3 40 SHEEP—Fair toChoice... 3 75 FLOUR—Patents.. 4 55 XXX to Choice. 2 15 WHEAT-No. 2 Bed Winter.. COBN-No. 2 Mixed.. OATS—No. 2...... BYE—No. 2. TOBACCO-Lugs (Missouri).. 1 50 Leaf, Bnrley. 3 00 -— - — " 10 00 iit» 4 60 4 35 3 65 5 00 4 70 3 00 8614 34 29 4514 2 90 6 10 13 50 10 0 13 7140 8 0 11 25 86140 33440 28440 45 0 HAY—Choice Timothy.. BUTTEB—Choice Dairy.—. EGGS-Fresh. PORK—Standard Mess.. BACON—Clear Bib. 5440 544 LABD-Prlme Steam.644 0 514 WOOL—Choice Tub.-0 .35 CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping. 365 0 465 HOGS—Good to Choice. 3 60 0 3 624k SHEEP—Good to Choice.. 3 50 0 4 75 FLOUR—Winter Patents;.... 4 75 0 5 20 Spring Patents. 5 00 0 5 25 WBBAT—No. 2 Spring. .... 0 8644 COBN-No. 2.. ...-....... 32440 3244 OATS—No. 2 White. 0 2744 POKE—Standard Mesa... 0 12 25 KANSAS CITY.. CATTLE—Shipping Steers.... 3 35 0 3 40 HOG8—Sales at.. 3 40 0 3 50 WHEAT-No. 2Bed......... 78440 78 OATS—No. 2...... 26 0 3644, COBN—No. 2. 26 0 27 NEW ORLEANS. FLOUB-aHigh Grade.... 4 25 0 4 90 COBN-Whlte. 0 « OATS—Choice Western. 0 3614 HAY-Choice.. 16 50 0 17 60 PORK—New Mess. IS BACON-Clear Bib. 6*0 6 COTTON—Middling. 11460 U14 LOUISVILLE. WHEAT-No. 2 Red. 0 86 COBN-No. 2 Mixed OATS-No. 2 Mixed.. 12 TS 0 30 0 .. 0 6

ntun 1dfc» r. Circuit of K5«aS»3o Wire*. The human BteJSerium resembles a circuit of electric wires, the '.‘arsons sets of nerves fonpi*- . -■•aa «* "' “»*— g«» . JnwB’urw it win noswJiwar f Stomach Bit’ers, m& the nervous organism grows traheuil and reposeful. Fever and acie onnstMiioii, tieiihlM and ague, constipation, kiey.ey troubles and liver complaints retreat before this remedy. Silent parte or ia one who keeps hSM mouth shot vrb:le his active partner is spending his money.—H. O. Picayune. /. Reap carefully ivtet !a sa.td in next week’s issue of this paper by J. v. Shipley, of Muscatine, lows, about Shallenbei-gef’.s Antidote toy MtUaria. If yea are a stifferer H pz^ytbcl otifltere?t to yen.. CtsRprvHy apelike rnliway brakaroeo In otte particular. Tuev do a great deal of coupling.—Haas’s Horn Pais from indigestion, dyspepsia and too loarty baiting is relieved at Once by taking >ne of Carter’s little Liver Fills imineliateiy after dinner. i)o u’fc forget this. ■fws truth about the matter of luck and pluck sit'ms to be that seme man have luck and some get pfaeked. Gnns your children Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers. -These little candies won’i do them any harm and may do them much good. PEontfc Who wait for what is offered gensrally have long §pel!.* between meals.— Milwaukee feuruai. To rsotoatk toe stomach,liver add bowels, ?nd promote digest ion, take one of Carter's ittle Liver Fills every night. Try them. Tktrra may be stranger than fiction, but a a rule it isn’t half so entertaining.—Boson Trareiler. Best, easiest to use sad cheapest Piso’s Remedy for Catarrh, By druggists. 35c. RasTACBAXT K3EPEBS are always ready to sihafi » roan when he baa money .--N. O. Picayune. ■aaeaewi

«A BACE WITH BEATS 1» Ariieng Che nafliet^ heroes, none are Chore worthy of ;' .artyl'3ortt than he who rode down the val ley of the Conemaugh, warning the pecbie ahead of the Johns* town flood. A ounted on a powerful horse, foster am, faster went the rider, but the flood w •$ swiftly gaining, until it caught the lnlucky horietlan and swept on, grinding, crushing, annihilating both weak and strong. In the same way is disesiSe lurking near, like unto the sword oi Damocles, ready to fall, without warr ing, on it3 victim, who allows his system to become clogged up, and^bis blood poisoned, ami thereby his health endangered. To eradicate these poi3ons from the system, no matter wbat their name or nature, and save yourself a spell of malarial, typhoid or billons fever, or eruptions, 'swellings, tumors and kindred dwiighreirients, keep the liver and kidneys healthy and vigorous, by the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It's the only plood-pnrifier sold on trial. Your money is returned if it doesn’t do feiftctly as recommended. A concentrated vegetable extract Sold by druggists, in. large bottles, at 91.00. treated free. posrriVKt.iT erm wstk v«c**aM* *•*««*» . ; J1 .. .1 in i>n riasii it dos© symptoms rapidly disapp&& ftad In ten damp M least two-thirds of ail symptoms are feffioTcd. Bend for FREE ROOK-■'«£ testimonials of mfraeiudtti jnmsi Ten days treatment furnished fre© by mail, it order t rfaf'somi ‘ i<i ©exits in stamp* to pav Po$/;*ga* -R. H. SI. «RE3pT Jb Sli'SiS, ATU»TA, GAjgrxwt SR® PAPtaevegx tbu» Jtwwote. Mow5“AW CLAIMS. PENSIONS^ tfulSlBOSil* 1418 S' Steeat. Wi ». o. DG Ysu s,iwe IB > If so, you want a _HAKTMAS Steal Wire Mat. Absolutely flexible endorsed 19 Physicians ana U. 3. Government., .'end for prices.- HARTMAN MF(i. CO.. Beaver Falls.l a. aui inn ptKBmwr sw»r»iwau.

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W BAKER & CO., Dorcaester. Mass, DEPENDENT PENSION BILL I hUMcomealov. 518 Per MONTH to all honorably discharged ‘Soldiers and bailors of the late war.wboare incapacitated from earning: a support. Widow* the same, without regard to cause of de ath. Dependent Pn rentii and Minor Children also interested. Over 2o years’ experience. References in all parts of the country. No charge if unsuccessful. Write at once fop * Copy of Law,” blanks and full instructions alu mi to K. MeALUBTER dr €». (Suwcssors to WilHam Coward & Co.), P it. Box 715, U'aahingloK, D. ©. , fV&KlCB T*I3 PAPER mrj ti “THE BEST JS THE CHEAPEST.” SSHjffiB For Ftas|fcleCs write to tbi: astLTBM a nv!.M csewurt, ■ CLOVER HUllERS linncuii. (Say where joe PENSIONS UVe® Invalid. pr’t, or are you drawing*— Uuw »ia psa fimW ' ** want relief—aw! w lIBOr S.orare j uu uh' ^b *—- ’*<6 you a claim pending hut ^ jis and fcceive by return mail ^^YEJMOK NOW USAlTST. Describes their impr^_rd SIB iLnirine*. UorW f •J'JS.f1?! !“I5j5itaU’ Plain »!■ Antamottc, asi WlljESPS iKlIO RUSSE LL A GO., - MASSILLON, OHIO. this r*w;t« DOES U&SJK: Thousands of joung men and women in the V. 8. A. owe their Utcs aati their health mad rheir happiness to Xidge‘3 Pood their daily diet in Infancy flftd Childhood haringh< ^^ J Ridgh's Pood. By DrogF*' W^rsTiiitsiBisii WOB w ALL CUtaTSIM. 4t CO., Palnaor, Maw. PENSIONS titled tc.*18 aiina Fee WOwhen you | Blanks Ifi-ee. JOSEPH H. IHJTTRlt, ittj, *r*SA*fi THUS PAPER mu His jo*mtta. 0Ti“;t PENSION Bill Soldiers, iM* ITlIaw,Math era and B'k^ere are en» henyodgetyt^rnaonej. NEW PENSION LAWJ :o;l>,OOt> Dames to_be added to the Pension List. , Thousands ENTITLED I under the NEW LAW. ’ Write immediately for i BLANKS for appllc®* _ tioc. J. B. CRALLE A CO.. Waeklnfftew, B.O gV-VAJU THIS PAPER wwyd— yam**___ Invent somethinjrjind make -moSl- - - OSMEROTRIJCTIOrfS FttEJSL. Address W. T: FITZGERALD. WAJSH1RQXUN.JD.CX •riiMV PATENTS !BMW I irl I Sail IV I OF* INSTRUCTIONS 1

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