Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 9, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 July 1890 — Page 4

—'... MEETING IN HEAVEN. —- tooourae by Bev. T. DeWitt Talmage at Waseca, Minn. The Array of Argument In Support of tho World's Kxpectnucr of the Meetings and Mutual Recognitions lieyond the Grave* Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage delivered the following sermon to an immense outdoor audience at Waseca, Minn., taking for his text: 1 shall rO to him.—JL SatH., xli., 23. ^ There is a very sick child in the abode of David the King. Disease, which stalks up the dark lane of the poor and puts its smothering hand on the nostril of the wan and wasted, also mounts the palace-stairs, and bending over the pillow blows into the face of a young Prince the frosts of pain and death. Tears are wine to the King of Terrors. Alas! for David tho King. He can neither sleep no eat, and lies prostrate on his faoe, weeping and wailing until the palace rings with tho outcry of woo. What are courtly attendants, or victorious armies, or conquered provinces, under such ^circumstances? What to any paront are splendid surroundings when his child is sick? Seven days nave passed on. Then in that great t house, two eyelids are gently closed, two little hands folded, two little feet quiet, one heart still. The servants come to bear the tidings to the King, but they can not make up their minds to tell him, and they stand at the door whispering about tho matter, and David heard them and he looks up and says to thorn: “Is the child dead?” “Yes, ho is 'dead.” David rouses himself up, washes himself, puts on new apparel, and sits down ' to food. What power hushed that tempest? What onestrength was it that lifted up that King whom grief had dethroned? Ob, it was the thought that ho would come again into the possession of that darling child. No grave-digger’s spade could hide him. The, wintry-’ blasts of deaths could not put out the bright light. There would be a forge somewhere that with silver hammer would ' weld the broken links. In a city where the hoofs of the pale horse never strike the pavement he would clasp his lost treasure. He wfpes away the tears from his eyes, and he clears the ehok- « ing grief from hjs throat and exclaims: “I shall go to him.” Was David right or wrong? If we parton earth will we meet again in tho next world? “Well,” says some one, “that seenis to be an impossibility. Heaven is so largo a place we never could find our kindred there.” Going • into some city, without having appointed a time and place for meeting, you might wander around for weeks and for months, and* perhaps for years, and never see each other; and Heaven isvaster than all earthly cities together, and how are you going to find your departed friend , in that country? It is so vast a realm. fJohn went up on one mountain of inspiration, and ho looked off upon the multitude, and |he said: “Thousands of thousands.” Then he came upon a greater altitude of inspiration and looked off upon it again, and he said: “Ton thousand times ten ■I thousand.” And then he came on a higher mount o$% inspiration, and, looked off again. and ho said: “A hundred and forty and four thousand and thousands of thousands.” And he came on a still greater height of inspiration, and he looked off again and exc\|imed: “A great multitude that no man can number.” Now I ask, how are you going to find your friends in such a throng as that? Is not this idea we have been entertaining after all a falsity? Is this doctrine of future recognition of friends in Heaven a guess, a myth, a whim, or is it a granitic fountain upon which the soul pierced of all ages may build a glorious hope? Intense question! Every heart in this audience throbs right into it. There is in every soulAcro the*tomb of at least one dead. Tremendous question! It makes the lip quiver, and the cheek flush, and the entire nature thrill: Shall we know each other there? I get letters almost every month asking me to discuss this subject. I get a letter in a hold scholarly hand, on gilt-edged paper, asking me to discuss this question, dnd I say: “Ah! that is a curidus man, and ho wants a curious question solved-” But I get anotherj^tter. It is written with a trembling? hand, and on whatsoems to be a torndjut leaf of a book, and here and there is! the mark of a tear; and I say: "Oh, that is a broken heart, and it wants to be Comforted.”

j.uw uujwi ui uuo ammuu aa iu umu this theory out of the region of surmise, and speculation into the region of positive certainty. . People say: “It would be very pleasant if that doctrine woro true. I hope it may be true. Perhaps it is true. I wish it Vvero true.” But 1 believe that I can bring an accumulation of argument to bear upon this matter which will prove the doctrine of future recognition as plainly as that there is any in Heaven at all, and that the kiss of reunion at the celestial gate will be as certain as the dying kiss, at the door of the sepulchor. Now, when you are going to build a ship you must get the right kind of timber. Yoh lay the keel and make the framework of the very best materials, the keel on, stanchions, plank-shear, counter-tiraber-kneo, transoms, all of solid oak. You may build a ship of lighter material, hut when- tho oyolono comes on, it will go down.- Now wo may have a great many beautiful theories about tho future world, built out of our own fancy, and they may do very well as long as we have smooth sailing in the world; but when the storms of sorrow come upon us, and the hurricane of death, we will he swamped — we Will he foundered. We want a theory built out of the solid .oak of God's eternal world. The doctrine of future recognition is not so often positively stated in the word of God as implied, and you know, my friends, that that is, after all, tho strongest mode of affirmation. Your friend travels in foroign lands.- Ho comes home. He does not begin by arguing with you that there are such places as London, and Stockholm, and Pasis, and Dresden, and Berlin, but his conversation implies it. And so this Bible does not so positively state this theory as, all up and down its chapters, take it for granted. What does my text imply? “I shall go to Him.” What consolation would it be to David to go to his child if bo did not 'know him? Would David have ' been allowed to record .this anticipation for the inspection of all ages if it were a groundless anticipation? We read in the first book in the Bible, Abraham died and was gathered to hl-s people. Jacob died and was gathered to his people. Moses died and was gathered to his people. What people? Why, their friends, their coipradcs, their old companions. Of course it means that jit can not mean any thing else. So in tfo beginning of the Bible four times that la taken for .grantod. Tho whole New Testament Is ap arbor over which this doctrine creeps like a luxuriant vine full of the purple clusters of consolaJaities, John and Peter followed A light falls

it into tii® glories of the celestial. Christ's garments glow and His fans shines like the sun. The * door of Heaven *w ings open. Ttvo spirits come down and alight on that mountain. The disciples look at them and recognize them as Mose9 and Elias. No« t if those disciples standing on the eart h could repognize these two spirits who had been for years in Heaven, do you tell me that we, with our heavenly eyesight, will not he able to recognize those who have gone out from among us only five, ten, twenty, thirty years ago? The' Iiiblc indicates, over and over again, that the angels know each other; and then thc'-Bible says that we are to be higher than the angeis, and if the angels have the power of recognition, shalj not we, who are to he higher than they in the next realm, have as good eyesight and as good capacity? What did Christ mean, in His conversation with Mary and Martha, when He said: “Thy brother shall rise again?" It was as much as to say: “Don’t cry. Don’t wear yourselves out with this trouble. You will see him again. Thy brother shall rise again.” The Bible describes Heaven as a great home eiirclo. Well, now, that would be a very queer home circle where the members did not know each oilier. The Bible describes death as n sleep. If we know each other before we go to sleep, shall wo not know each other after we get up? Oh, yos. , We will know each other a grea t deal better than how. “For now,” says the apostle, “we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face." It will be my purified, onthroned and glorified body gazing on your purified, enthroned and glorified body. how, I demand, if you belive the Bible, that you take this theory of future recognition out of the realm of speculation and surmise into the region of positive cortaintv, and no more keep saying: “I hope it is so; I have an idea it is so; I guess it is so.” Be able to say, with all the concentrated energy of body, mind and soul: “I know it is so.” There arc, in addition to these Bible arguments, other reasons why I accept this theory. In the first place, because the rejection of it implies the entire obliteration of our memory. Can it be possible that wo shall forget forever those with whose walk, look, manner wo have been so long familiar? Will death come, and with a Sharp, keen blade hew away this faculty of' memory? Abraham said to Dives: “Soft, remember.” If the exiled and lost remember, will not the enthroned remember? You know very well tha,t our joy in any circumstance is augmented by tho championship of our friends Wo can not see a picture with less than four eyes, or hear a song with less than four ears We want some one besido us with whom to exchange glances and sympathies; and I suppose tho joy ol’ Heaven is to be augmented by tho fact that wo are to hate our friends with us when there rise before us tho thronos of the blessed,-and when there surges up in pur ears the jubilate of tho saved. Heaven is not a contraction, it is an expansion. If I know you here I will know you bettor there. Here I see you with only two eyos, but there the soul shall, have a million oyos It will be immortality gazing on immortality - ransomed spirit in colloquy with ransomed spirit — victor beside victor. When John Evans, the Scotch minister, was seated in his study, his wife came in and said to him: “My dear, do you think wo will- know ea$t other in Heaven?’’ Ho turned to hor and said: “My dear, do you think we will be bigger fool-> in Heaven than we are here?” Again, I accept this doctrine of future recognition because tho world’s expectancy affirms it. In all lands and ages this theory is received. What form of religion planted it? No form of religion, for it is roceivod under all forms of religion. Then, I argue, a sentiment, a feeling, an anticipation, universally planted, must have been Uod-implantel, and if God-implanted it is rightfully implanted. Socrates writes: “Who would not part with a great deal to purchase a mooting with Orpheus and Homer? If it be true that this is to be the consequence of death, I coulij even be able to die often.” AmongJth^ Danes, when a master dies his servant sometimes stabs himself that he mucy erve his master in the future world. Cicero, living before Christ’s coming, said: “O glorious day, when I shall retire from this low and sordid scene, to associato with the Divine assemblage of departed spirits, and not only with the

UUU A IllkVU jUOK UKJUUUIIUU) VJ U V with my doar Cato, the best of sons and most faithful of men. If I seemed to bear his death with fortitude, it was by no means that I did not most sensibly fool the loss I had sustained. It was because I was supported * the consoling rellection that we could not long be separated.” The Norwegian believes it The Indian believes it. The Greenlander believes it The Swiss believes it The Turk believes it. Under every sky, by every river, in every zone, the theory is adopted; and so I say a principle universally implanted must be God-impla»ted, and hence a right belief. The argument is irresistible. AgaiH, I adopt this theory because tliero are featuros of moral temperament and features of tho soul that will distinguish us forever. How do we know eafTh other in this world? Is it merely by the color of theoyo, or the lengtb-of tho hair, or tho facial proportions? Oh, no. It is by the disposition as. well, by natural affinity, using the word in the very best sense and net in the bad sense; and if in the dust ohr body should perish and lie there forever, and there should be no resurrection, still the soul has enough features and the disposition has enough features to make us distinguishable. I can understand how in sickness a man will beoome s'o delirious that ho will not know bis own friends, but will we be blasted with such insufferable idiocy that, standing beside our best friends for all eternity, we will never guess who they are? Again, I think that one reason why wo ought to accept this doctrine is liecause we nover in this world have an opportunity to give thanks to those to whom we are spiritually indebted. The joy of Heaven, we are told, is to be inaugurated by a review of life’s work. Those Christian men and women who have been tolling for Chriist have they seon the full extent of their work? Oh, no. In the church at Somerville, N. J., John Vredenburgh preach od for a great many, years. Ho felt that hie ministry was a failuro, and others felt * so, although he was a faithful minister, preaching the Gospel all the time. He died, and died amid discouragements, and wont home to God; il'or no'one evor doubted that John Vrodcm burg was a good Christian minister. A little while after his death there carne a great awakoning in Somerville, and one Sabbath two hundred souls stood up at theOhristian altar espousing the cause of Christ, among them my own fatberand mother. And wbat was peculiar in regard to nearly all of those two hundred souls was that they dated their religious impressions from the ministry of John Vredenburgh. Will that good Christian man before the throne.of God never meet thoie souls brought to Cbrist through fii«

instrumentality? Ob, cif course ne will know them. I inmember one Sabbath §fternoon, borne dawn with a sense of my sifts. ahd knowing notGod, 1 took ftp Doddridge’s “Rise and Progress.” Oh, what a dark afternoon it was, and I read the chapters, and read the prayers, and I tried to make the prayers my own. Q, I must see Philip Doddridge. A glorious, old hook he wrote! It is out of fashion now. There is a mother before the throne of God. You say her joy is full. Is it? You say there can be no augmentation of It Can hot there be? Her son was a wanderer and a vagabond on the earth when that good mother died. He broke her old heart She died leaving him in the wilderness of sin.. She is before the throne ol God now. Years pass and that son repents of his crimes and gives his heart to God and becomes a useful Christian, aud dies and enters the gates of Heaven. You tell roe that that mother’s joy can not be augmented. Let them confront each other. The son and the mother. “Oh.” she says to the angels of God, “tejoice with me! The dead is -live again, and the lost is found. Hallelujahs I never expected to see this los t one come back. ” The llible says nations are to he born In a day. When China comes to God will it not know Dr. Aheel? When India comes will It not know Dr. John Scudder? When the Indians come to God will they no know David Brainard? I see a soul entering Heaven at last, with covered face at the idea that it has done so little for Christ, and feeling borne down with unworthiness, and it says to itself: “I have no right to be -here." A voice from a throne says! “Oh, you forgej, that Sundayschool class you invited to Christ; I was one of them.” And another voice says; “You forget that poor man to whom you gave a loaf of bread, and told of the heavenly bread. I was that man.” • And another says; “You forget that sick one to whom you gave medicine for the body,, and the soul. I was that one.” And then Christ, from a throne overtopping the rest, well say: “Inasmuch as ye did it to one of the least of these, ye did it to me.” And then the seraphs will take their harps from the side of the throne and cry: “What song shall it be?” And Christ, bending over the harpers, shall say! “It shall be ‘Harvest Home.’ ” One more reason why I am disposed to accept this doctrine of the future recognition is that so many in their last hour on earth have confirmed this theory. I speak not of persons wl> have been delirous in thoir last moment, and knew not what they were about, but of persons who died in calmnoss and placidity, and who were not naturally superstitious. Often the glories of Heaven have struck the dying pillow, and the departing man has said he saw and heard those who had gone away from him. How often it is in the dying moments parents seo thoir departed children and Children see their departed parent-.! I came down to the banks of the Mohawk river. It was evening, and I wanted to go over the river, and so I waved my hat and shouted, and after awhile I saw some on4 waving on the opposite bank, and I hoard him shout,and the boat cao- e across and I got in and was transported. And so I suppose it will be in the evening of our life. We will come down to the river of death and give a signal to our friends on the other shore, and they will give a signal back to us, and the boat.comes, and our departed kindred are the oarsmen, the fires of the setting day tihgeing the tops of the paddles. Heaven is not a stately, formal place, as I sometimes hear it described, a ,verv frigidity of splendor, where people stand on cold formalities and go around about with heavy crows of gold on their heads. No, that is not my idea of Heaven. My idea of Heaven is more like this: You are seated in the eyening-tide by the fire-place, your whole family there, or nearly all of them there. While you are seated talking and enjoying the evening hour, there is a knock at th# door, and the door opens, and there comes in n brother that has been long absent. He has hoen absent for years, you have not soon him, and no sooner do you make up your mind that it is certainly he, than you leap up, and the question is who shall give him the first embrace. That is my idea of Heaven—a great home circle where they are waiting for us. ■ Oh, will you not know, your mother’s voice there? She who always calls you by your first name long after others had given you the formal “Mister?” You were never any thing but James, or John, or George, or Thomas, or Mary, or Florence to her. Will you not know your child’s voice? She of the bright eye, and the ruddy cheek, and the quiet step, who came in from play and flung - herself into your lap, a very shower of mirth and beauty? Why, the picture is graven in your soul. Itcan not wear out If that littlo one should stand on the other side of some Heavenly hill and call to you you would hear her voice above the burst of Heaven’s great orchestra. Know it! You could not l.nlm Yviif Irnrvur if.

Oh. how different it is on earth from the way it is in Heaven when a Christian dies! We say "close his eyes.” In Heaven they say "give him a palm.” On earth we say “let himdown in the ground.” In Heaven they say "raise him on a throne.” On earth it is “farewell, farewell.” In Heaven it is "welcome, welcome.” And so I see a Christian soul coming down to the river of death, and he steps into the river and the water comes to the ankle. He says: “Lord Jesus, is this death?” "Ho,” says Christ, “this is not death.” And he wades still deeper down into the waters until the flood comes to the knee, and he says, “Lord Jesus, tell me, tell me, is this death?” And Christ says: | “No. no, this is not death.” And he wades still further down until the wave comes to the girdle, and the soul says: "Lord Jesus, Is this death?” “No,” says Christ, “this is not.” And deeper in wades the soul till the billow strikes the lip, and the departing one cries: “Lord Jesus, is this death?” “No,” says Christ, “this is not.” But when Christ has lifted that soul on a throne of glory, and the pomp and joy oi Heaven came surging to its feet, then Christ said: “This, oh transported soul! this is death.” Saintar; InflnencD of the Tress. It is gratifying, says the New York Trtbnno, to hoar from so high an authority as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court such words in commendation of the newspaRer press as Associate Justice Harlan uttered in Madison, Wis. He declared that the country largely owes its protection from competition and jobbery to the vigilance of the newspapers. That is in no sense an exaggeration; the significant thing is that it comos from a source that gives it uncommon weight Justice Harlan's utterance is a fitting rebuke to croakers who insist that the press is venal, mercenary, hypocritical, and, in funeral, about as bad as bad oan be. —The .Salvation Army in Paris hat been reinforced by a Salvation Navy. A church boat floats on the River Seine near the font de la Concorde. Tne "floating temple,” as the Parisians cal) it, has been named the “Herald o' Mercy." In the hall amidships there is aecomnjodkUon tot two hundred pep - • *

BLAINE'S REBELLION. He : * Violent Onalaagfct (Tpoe the feSUIc H*4~ter For tHe, IBM-The Farmer Meet Ham a MvThe dispatch from Washington teethe New York Herald in regard to some te ranees of Blaine on the McKinley bill has attracted much attention. The remarks were said to have been made in the Senate Appropriation Committee. Blaine was so outspokon against McKinley’s tariff job that many people were not disposed to believe that the Herald's report was true. It .was not believed that Blaine would make such sweeping statements in opposition to a measure’ which his party had rushed through the House and.is now trying to pat through the Senate. The report printed ifi the New York paper is in part 43 follows! “The Democratic member of the cdidmittee, Mr. .Blackburn, was delighted with the tone of Mr. Blaine’s view, and at an opportune moment he is reported to have said: “ *1 wish you were not Mr. Secretary, and were in this Senate to raise your voice against this McKinley bill.” “Mr. Blaine—I wish so too. It is the most dangerous, if not the most infamous, measure that was ever concocted by any party. The men who vote for this bill will wreck the Republican party. If 1 were, in the Senate, I would rather have my right arm torn out oi its socket than vote ior this bill. “Senator Allison (with some feeling)' —You are winking at Senator Blackburn across the table, and are just say/ ing this to please him. “Mr. Blaine—1 was winking at Senator. Blackburn because he was winking -at me; but I say solemnly that this McKinley bill is an outrage and ought to be killed by the Senate.” Thoro is one touch in this story which gave it a color of truth—that part about Blaine and Blackburn winking at each other, and Blaine’s remark when Allison called attention to it For this reason newspaper men were disposed to think the story genuine. But now the whole thing has been substantially confirmed. William E. Curtis, who attracted considerable attention last winter through his connection with the Pan-American Congress, and who now has a position under Blaine in the State Department, has given out an “authorised explanation” which has been printed in the New York Tribune. = Curtis says: ‘"There is no reason why the actual facts about the incident in the Apppropriation Committee room the other day should not be related. I happened to be a witness and the circumstances were these:” He then goes on to tell how Blaine tr ed to impress the committee with his idea that we should use the sugar duty as a means to secure reciprocity with our Southern neighbors; but Curtis takes good care not to deny the strong language which Blaine was represented as using. He even goes so far as to say that Blaine declared that if he were in the Senate he would fight the sugar schedule to the best of his ability—from which it may be guessed that Blaine may have used the vigorous language above quoted. - And as for that part of the report which refers to the “winking” between Blaine and Blackburn, it is. almost substantiated by Curtis. “Mr. Blackburn,” he says, “indulged in a little chaffing in a jocular way.” What this chaffing was and what Blaine’s answer was he does not venture to tell us; and as this “authorized explanation” does not deny Blaine’s sharp words of condemnation for the McKinley bill, it may be safely assumed that those words are genuine. But Senator Blackburn himself has been heard from and he verifies the published report He says: “I never heard a more earnest or emphatic denunciation of a measure than that of Mr. Blaine on the McKinley bill. He tore it to tatters and warned the Republican members of the committee that if they passed the bill in its present shape the Democrats would sweep the country in 1893. So earnest and vigorous was Mr. Blaine that he brought his silk hat down on the table with crushing force, to considerable damage to the hat” Blaine, then, is in open rebellion against some parts of the McKinley bill. The question now is which represents the Republican party—Blaine or MoKinley? One thing at least is clear. Blaine recognizes the fact that our farmers must have a wider market for their products in order to get good prices. The Home Market Club, of Boston, has for years been .trying to drill into the heads of the farmers that the American market is the only one that we need to concern ourselves about Blaine knows better than that end he knows also that it is the tariffs of foreign nations that keep us out of their markets. He knows that the duty of 110 per centre vied by Venezuela on our flour practically prevents our millers from selling in that oountry. Blaine wants to make these South American countries let in our agricultural products in return for opening up our market for their raw sugar. Blaine evidently sees a sanctity laying about the foreign market which McKinley sneered at and refused to believe in. At a time when there are so many threats of tariff retaliation by foreign nations and when some of these nations have already carried out these threats, it is not to be wondered at that sombrewd • man as Blaine should recognize the value of a foreign market. It is well also that he recognizes the principle that foreign markets can be opened to us only by opening our markets to foreign nations. When Blaine has gone so far as that, how much of his orthodox “protection” remains? Has he not put himself outside the protection camp?

The Sugar Trust. The courts In New York have struck a heavy blow at the sugar trust, but the Republicans Jn Congress have been much more kind. McKinley’s committee at first determined to allow 15 cents per hundred pounds on refined sugar as protection to the refiners. The refiners kicked vigorously at this, and finally there was a conference with the committee late one Saturday night, and the next day it was announced that the protection had been raised to 40 cents per hundred. Claus Sprockets, the sugar king of California and Philadelphia, whois not in the trust, expressed himself as satisfied—40 cents was protection enough for him. But the trust was not satisfied, for a trust always has a voracious maw, and so pressure was brought to bear upon the Senate Finance Committee, whioh had in the meantime taken up the Tariff bill. The result was that the protection was raised to sixty cents a hundred. Under the stimulous of the friendly action of these two Republican committee’s the sugar trust’s certificates advanced in value on the New York Stock Exchange to a point representing a net gain of $15,000,000; and only after the court’s adverse decision did the trust's stocks fall in value. —The home producers, by trusts and combinations, limiting production, for©ing idleness, or half-time work on their, operatives, and maintaining prices a fraction below the foreign price, with the tariff tax and the cost added, pocket all that Congress authorises then* to compel the people to pay

r of the farm ire a few days ohg them two as working- In thicket, when ; more noise 3 these noisy am what the c sd off whichh » birds dashi nd assailing ..aw. Fearing ;nd persist* the horse, ill aid. Even jeae and took ai d led him THEY SOUGHT iVEHGE. tUdeJar* Farlotuljr Atiai a HWI hit Broke t* Tfcel tmL Along one side of a fie] on the Myers farm there is a thick git th of bushed; some of which grow til i:( and strong, says the Lancaster corre ondent of the New York Sun. Many Lnds of small birds find this thicket ost favorably for their nesting pine a, and in the spring cattle and horses sat pasture in the field jirowse on the s- jet and tender young foliage. The owi turned in the field to pas ago a number of cattle, s bay horsey The farmer the field, not far from th he heard blue jays mak than is usual even wi birds. Looking up tio trouble might be. Be sai I oilt bine jays { engaged in a fierce assac t >n one of tflb horses. They were dart ?{* at him frond all sides, pecking at hi ’ace, striking him in the neck and side : nd about the head in a manner tlia i -as evidence enough that the hors« . ad offended them in some aggra -a < way. The poor horse ran first cm « ay and then another to escape the try of theexcited birds, but he was b ever way he turned by ing fiercely in his fan him with beak and that the sharp-billet ent jays would blii the farmer hurried to he arrived on the by the mane >m the spot, tho i furiated birds hovereds^boutmnd folio ad him for a long distance, making fir |uent descen ts upon the horse’s body, and Inflicting blows that nmde him vrii :e and jump as if he wero being deeply rodded with a spur. The farmer led tfc horse to the other ='jdc of the field, t d the bird3 returned to the thicket, wi are they held noisy consultation at a articular spot, and seemed to be in” gr t tribulation. To discover, if possi e, what had aroused this extreme an or of the blue jays against the her s the farmer went over to the thick at, and at the Bpot where the clamor c < the jays was bo great he found the dead oodles of three newly-hatched bln jays. The old birds circled around hln furiously a moment, and then dashed away across the field to where the horse had resumed its feeding, and renews their attack on him. The farmer hurc ed back to the - protection of his horse again. The poor animal was dashing frantically about, while the birds pecked and struck him at every vulnerable point. The farmer rescued the horse a second t ime, and the birds flew back to tho bushes. Every time the horse was left to himself, however, the birds would renew the attack on him, and the owner of the horse was at last compelled to take the animal back to the barn. The jays made no attack on :,he other horse, which was feeding not far from the thicket. The next ds y the horse that had excited the animosity of the bluejays was turned in the lot again, but he had been there only a short time When the birds discovered ids presence and attacked him as fiercely as they tad the previous day, and bo was taken home. A road, passes on the other ride of thicket and is constantly traveled by . teams. On the second day of the attack of the jays on the bay horsa he was hitched up to drive to a neighboring village on the road mentioned. As he was being driven’ pais t tho tbit ket he was set upon by blue jays again, and the result was that tho driver could rot hold him and he ran away, breaking the wagon to pieces, and endangering the life of tho driver. As this state of affairs, if continued, promised to be disastrous to the farm and the fanoer, the offending jays have been hunted down and shot. The only explanation that caij be given of this enmity of tho blue jays against the horse Is that while he was browsing along the edge of the thicket be pulled down a blanch on which a family of blue jays 1 ad their nest and shook the young oner out of the nest to the ground. The jays and neighboring jays sought revenge upon the despoiler of this nest, and hence the bitter and unrelenting fight thoy made upon him._ WAR BETWEEN TURTLE^ A Singular Contest IllMannered ,. Some boys who wd^^^Kerirg watercresses in a pool bes3|Wle Passaic river near Avondab>, N. J.jpcontly witnessed a singular battle among three turtles. Two of tho combatants were common water turtles, each about the size of a man’s hand, and they were arrayed against a small but exceedingl y vicious snapper,hardly half the size of cne of its opponents. When the boys ai-rived on tho scene of action the battle had evidently been raging for some time, for all the reptiles seemed to bo pretty tired. One member of the dual alliance occupied a masterly position. It was holding the snapper’s small tail in its mouth, and though the jaws of ti)p common turtle are not usually very formidable it maintained its grip- with the tenacity of a bulldog. The snapper had taken the other turtle by its wrinkled throat, and it would soon have brought that part of the combat to an end had it not opened its jaws every few moments to try to see what it was that was chewing so vigorously at its rear. Owing to Its anatomy this was, of course, impossible, and eaoh time it turned to renew operations against the enemy in front that cautious creature had drawn its head deep into its shell, and, though it did not attempt to run away, the snapper, hampered as it was behind, found considerable difficulty in poshing its own smaller neck .into the aperture and dragging out the reluotant forequarters of the water turtlb.

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Knowledge Without Sight: A olergyman was ones accosted by a doctor, a professed deist, who asked lite: “Do yon follow preaching to save souls?’* "Ye** “Did yon erer see a soul?” < “No.” “Did you ever taste a 8001?” “No.” “Did jYra ever smell a soul?” “No." “Did yon ever feel a soul?" “Yes.” “Well,” said thodoctor, “there are four of the five senses against one upon the question whether there be a soul.” The clergyman then asked: “Are you a doctor of medicine?” “Yes.” “Did you ever see a tain?" “Na” , “Did yon ever hear a pain7” < “fra” “Did you Srer taste a paid?’* “No.” yon erer smell a pain?" yon erer feel a pain?” Well, then,” saidthe clergyman, “there are also four of the senses against one upon tho question whether there be a pain. And yet, sir, you know that there is a pain and t know that there is a soul.1'—St. Louis Republlo. it Seems Strange. It seems strange Unit anyone will make a use of quinine and take their chances of suffering from such distress as fullness of the head, headache, dizzy sensations, intestinal irritation, nausea, paralysis, etc., when all the good effects of quinine are secured by a use of that harmless discovery -of Dr. John Bull, of Louisville, Ky., known as Smith’s Tonic Syrup. No harmful effect ever follows tho Use of this syrup, and it tastes so good that children Will ask for it It has never yet failed to Cur'S a ease of chills and fever, even when quinine and other preparations did no good. It is well also to take a dose after any Bevere exposure as it will keep off as well as cure a cold. Mbs. Wiseman: “Isn’t your husband a little bald!” Mrs. Hendricks (indignantly): “Thereisn’t a bald hair in his head.”— Chatter. ____ Office of Hahn, Hoopes & Co , Muscatine, Iowa, Aug. 8th, 188k. Dr. A T. SHALLEXHEROER, Rochester, Pa. Dear Sir:—Thirtj rears ago I was a great sufferer from Malaria, until I found your -Antidote and was immediately cured. 1 went south to live, and recommended the medicine toevery sufferer 1 met, always guaranteeing a cure, and without a failure. Sometinfe ago I returned to Muscatine and have been chock full of Malaria ever since. The doctors fed me on quinine until 1 was nearly deaf and blind. I tonH one AundrsAand sixty grains without breaking the cqpTs, when, remembering the Antidote, I sent to the drug store and got a bottle. One dose did the business, and 1 will never be without the medicine.—No mon quinine for me. Respectfully yours, v J. C. Shipley. Because a shoe has a horse squeak it is not necessarily a horse shoe.—Pittsburgh Chronicle. No Time Should Be Lost By those troubled with constipation in seeking relief from Hostetler’s Stomach Bitters. The disease is easily relieved in its earlier stage, and as it is utterly subversive of the general health postponement of the remedy is unwise. The same holds good of delay in cases of fever and ague, kidney complaints, nervousness, debility and rheumatism, ailments to which the Bitters is# particularly adapted. The thoughtful cook puts granulated sugar on the berries when she hasn't time to wash the sand off them.—Ashland Press. Maxt people hesitate (and properly) about sending money to firms of whose responsibility they are not assured. There need be no feeling of this kind in regard to Maher & Grosh, Toledo, Ohio, whose ad. appears in this paper. They are aU old, first class firm, and will scrupulously carry out every promise. A SULKY girl may sometimes be cured by taking her out in a buggy with a seat just large enough Tor two.—Denver Road. Smith’s Tonic Syrup is the best medicine for ague-and malaria Those who are pale and emaciated f rom chills and fever and loss of appetite should try it You will do suffering humanity a great favor by publishing this information.—■jV. M. Smith, Jasper Co., Mo The worst thing about the woman who says “1 told you so” is that she generally tells the truth.—Somerville Journal Thebe is no art file made, thatpurity Isas important in as soap. Thousands, however, buy cheap adulterated soaps, to save a few cents and lose dollars in rotted clothing. Dobbins’ Electric Soap, perfectly pure,*aw* dollars. Every body else gets tired in this world before the men who makes you tired.— Atchison Globe._ Said one lady: “I wish my children looked as bright and healthy as youris do.” Replied the other lady: “Mine would look just as sickly and puny as your’s if I did not occasionally give them Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers.”__ Poverty Is no disgrace to the industrious, but it is hardly a gilt-edge testimonial of ability.—Puck. _ . Pain from indigestion, dyspepsia and too hearty eating is relieved at once by taking one of Carter’s Little Liver Pills immediately after dinner. Don’t forget this. A tennis suit is not very loud, but a racket nearly always goes with it—Washington Star.__ 8. K. Coburn, Mgr., Clarie Scott, writes: “J find Hall's Catarrh Cure a valuable remedy." Druggists sell it, 75c. Earlt to bed and early to rissf-Southern vegetables.—The Jester._ Beauty marred by a bad complexion may be restored by Glenn's Sulphur Soap. Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents. Hotel Hay scales makes a swell name for a weighside inn.—N, O. Picayune Do not purge nor weaken the bowels, but act specially on the liver and bile. A perfect liver corrector. Carter’s Little Liver Pills. Lack decision of character—Cats, or they would spend less time on the fenoe. No Opium in Piso’s Cure for Consumption. Cure* where other remedies fail. 25c.

Don’t read! Don’t think! Don’t believe! Now. are you better ? You women who think that patent medicines are a humbug, and Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription the biggest humbug of the whole (because it’s best known of all)—does your lack-of-faith cure come ? It’s very easy to “ don’t ” in this world Suspicion always cotnes more easily than confidence. But doubt — little faith — never made a sick woman well — and the “Favorite Prescription M has cured thousands of delicate, weak women, which makes us think that our “ Prescription ” is better than your don’t believe. We’re both hoqest. Let us come together. You try Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. If it doesn’t do as represented, you get your money again. Where proof’s so easy, can you afford to doubt? Little but active—are Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. Best Liver Pills made; gentle, yet thorough. They regu-! late and invigorate the liver, tfomach »4 Weis, j

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