Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 12, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 August 1890 — Page 4

SUMMER RKSORTS Tholr Abuse Portrayed in a Sermon by Dr. Talmage. The Semrcli fjr lleilth and Innocent Re- • creation Hot on All Si les br Temptatlons A»!ix>al!of to the Grosser Side of Hamas Nature.

• * Tho following discourse was delivered by Rev. T. DoWitt Talraage in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, from the text: Gome jr* yourselves apart unto a (loser: piacu anti rest awhile.—Mark vl.. at. Here Christ advises Ills disciples to take a vacation. They have been living an excited as well as a usoful life, and He advises that they get out into the country. 1 am glad that for longer or shorter time multitudes of our peoplo will havo summer vacation. The railway trains are being laden with passengers and baggage on their way to the mountains and the seashore. Multitudes of our citizens are packing their triinks for a restorative absence. The city boats are pursuing tbe peoplo with torch and fear of sunstroke. The long silent halls of sumptuous hotels are all abuzz with excited arrivals. Tho crystalline surface of Winnipiseogeo is shattered with tho stroko of steamer laden with excursionists. The antlers of Adirondack deer rattle under the shot of city sportsmen. Tho trout make fatal snaps at the hook of adroit sportsmen and toss their spotted brilliance into the game basket. Already the baton of the orchestral leader taps the music stand on the hotel green, and American life puts on r festal array, and the rumbling of the ton-pin alley, and the crack of tho ivory balls on the greenbaized tables, and the jolting of the bar-room goblets, and the explosive uncorking of champagne bottles, and tbe whirl and the rustle of tho ball-room danoe, and the clattering hoofs of the race courses, attest that the season for the great Amorican watering plaoes is fairly inaugurated. Music—flute and drum and cornet-a-piston, and clapping cymbals—will wake tho echoes of the mountains. Glad I am that fagged-out Amorican life for the most part will havo an opportunity to rest, and .that nerves racked and destroyed will find a Uethesda. I believe in watering places. Let not the commercial firm bogrudgo the clerk, or the employer the journeyman, or the patient the physician, or the church its paster, a season of inoccupation. Luther used to sport with his children; Edmund Burke used to caress his favorite horse: Thomas Chalmers, In the dark hours of the church’s disruption, played kite for recreation—as 1 was told by his own daughter—and the husy Christ spid to the busy apostles: “Come ye apart awhilo into the desert and rest yourselves.” And I have observed that they who do not know how to rest do not know how to work. But 1 have to declare this truth today,that some of our fashionable watering places are the temporal and eternal destruction of “a multitude that no man can number,” and amid the congratulations of this season and tho prospect of the departure of many of >. you for the country VI must utter a note of warning—plain, earnest and unmistakable.

i ne nrsi temptation mat is apt 10 hovor in this direction is to leave your piety all at-home. You will send the dog and cat and canarj bird to bn- well ► cared for ‘ Somewhere else; but the temptation will bo to leave your religion In tlie room with the blinds down and thd door Bolted, and then-you will come back in-* the autumn to find that it is starved and suffocated, lying stretched on the rug stark dead. There is no surplus of piety at the watering places I never knew any one to grow very rapidly in grace at the fashionable sura men resort. It is generally the case that the Sabbath is more of a carousal than any other day, and there are Sunday walks and Sunday rides and Sunday excursions. Elders and deacons and ministers of religion who aro entirely consistent at homo, soroo times when the Sabbath dawns on them at Niagara Falls or the White mountains take the day to themselves. If they go to the church, it is apt to be a sacred parade, and tbo discourse, instead of being a plain talk about the soul, is apt to be what is called a crack sermon—that is, some discourse picked out of the effusions of tho year as the one most adaptod to excite admiration; and in thoso churches, from the way the ladies hold their fans, you know that they are not so much impressed with the heat as with the picturesqueness of half-disclosed features. Four puny souls Uanl in the organ-loft andaquall a tune that nobody knows, and worshlporo, with two thousand dollars’worth of diamonds on the right * hand drop a cent into the poor-box, and then the benediction is pronounced and the farce is ended. - The air is bewitched w»t)» *;the world, the flesh and the day 11.” There are Christians who in three or fopr weeks in .such a place have had such terrible rents mado in their Christian robes that they had to keep darning it until Christmas to get it mended. The health of a great many people makes an annual visit to some mineral spring an absolute necessity; but take your Bible along with you, and take an hour for secret prayer every day, though you be surrounded by guffaw and saturnalia. Keep holy the Sabbath, though they denounce you as a bigoted Puritan. Stand off from tho isstitntlons which propose to Imitate on this side of the water, the iniquities of oiden-thno lladen-lladcn. hot your nml and your immoral health koep paoe with your physical recuperation, and remember that all tho waters of Hathorne and sulphur and chalybeate springs can not do you so much good as the mineral, healing, perennial flood that breaks from the "Rock of Ago*." This may be your last summer. It so, <mslce It s fit vestibule of Heaven. Another temptation around nearly our watering-places is the hor-e-racing business. We all admire the horse. There needs to be a redlstribu--tioft of dhronets among the brute creation. For ages tho lion hat been called the king of.bcasts. 1 knock off its ooronetand put the crown npon the. horse, in every way nobler, whether in shape dr spirit of sagselty or intelligence, or affection or usefulness. He is semibumsn, and knows bow to reason on a small acple. Theoentaur of olden times, part horse end part man, seems to be • suggestion of the fact that the horse is something more than a beast Job sets forth his strength, bis beau ty, his majesty, the panting of his nostril, the pawjng of bis hoof and his enlbuslj asm for the battle. What Rosa Bonbeur did for the cattle, and what Landseer did for the dog. Job, with mightier pencil, does for the horse. Eighty-eb-fai times -does tho Bible speak of him. «fe comes Into every kingly processionVnd into every great occasion and into every triumph. It is very »t Jbb and David, and Isaiab, tnd John He cams

death; a white horse—that meant victory. As the Bible makes a favorite of the horse, the patriarch and the prophet and the evangelist and the apostle, stroking bis sleek hide, and patting his rounded neck, and tenderly lifting his exquisitely formed hoof, and listening with a thrill to the champ ofhis bit, so all great natures in all ages have spoken of him in ccomiastlc terras. Virgil in his Georgies almost seems to plagiarize from the descriDtion of Job. The Duke of Wellington would not allow any one irreverently to touch his old warhorse, Copenhagen, on whom he had ridden fifteen hours without dismounting at Waterloo; and when old Copenhagen died* his master ordered a military saluto fired over his grave. John Howard showed tbht he did not exhaust all his sympathies in pitying the human race, for when Sick he writos home: “Has my old chaise-horse become sick or spoiled?” But we do not think that the speed of the horse should be cultured at the expense of human degradation. Horse races, in olden times, where under the ban of Christian people, and in our day the same institution has come'bp t-nder fictitious names, and it is called a “Summer Meeting,” almost suggestive to positivo religious exercises. And it is called “Agricultural Fair,” suggestive of every thing that is improving in the art of farming. But under these deceptive titles aro the same cheating and tho samo betting, tho same drunkenness and the same vagabondage and the samo abominations that were to be ound under the old horse-racing system. I never know a man yet who could give himself to the pleasures of the turf for a long reach of time and not be battered in morals. They hook np their spanking team, and put on their sporting cap, and light their cigar, and take ithe reins, and dash down the road to perdition. The great day at Saratoga, Long Branch, and Capo May, and nearly all tho other watering places, is the day of the races. The hotels are thronged, nearly every kind of equipage is taken up at an almost fabulous price, and there are many respectable people mingling with jockeys, and the gamblers, and libertines, and foul-mouthed men and flashy women. The bartender stirs up the brandy smash. The bets run high. The greonborns, supposing all is fair, put in their money soon enough to lose it Throe weeks before the race takes placo the struggle' is decided, and tho mon in the secret know on which steed to bet their money. The two men on the hdrso3 riding around long before arranged who sha 11 beat.

Leaning from the stand or from the carriage are men and woraon so absorbed in the struggle of bona anl muscle and mettle tha.t they make a grand harvest for the pickpockets, who carry off tho pocket-books and portemonnaie3. Men looking on soe only two horses with two ridprs flying around the ring; but there is many a man on that stand whose honor and domestic happiness and fortune—white mane, white foot, white flank—are in the ring, racing with inebriety, and with fraud, and with profanity, and with ruin—black neck, black foot, black flank. Neck and neck they go in that moral Epsom. Ah, my friends, have nothing to do with horse-racing dissipation! this summer. Long ago tho English Government got through looking to the turf for tho dragoon and light-cavalry horse. They found tho turf depreciates the stock, anl it is yet. worse for men. Thomas, Hughes, ths member of Parliament and tho author, known all the world * over, hearing that a now turf enterprise was being startod in this country, wroto a lottor, in which lift said: “Heaven help you, then; for of all the cankers of our old civilisation, there is nothing in this country approaching in unblushing maanmsi, in rascality holding its head high, tothis belauded institution of the ltritish turf.” Another famous Sportsman writes: “How many fim**8bmain! have been shared araongj£^fiieso hosts, . of rapacious sharks' during the last 200 years; and unless tho system be altered, how many more aro doomed to fall into the same surf!” Tho Duko of Hamilton, through his horse-racing proclivities, in throe years got through his entire fortune of $330,000, and I will say that semo of you are being undermined by it With the bull-fights of Spain and the bear-battlings of 'the pit may the Lord God annihilate the infamous and accursed horse-racing of England and America. I go further and speak of another temptation that hovers over the water-ing-places; and this is tho temptation to sacrifice physical strength. The modern llethesda was meant to Recuperate the physical strength; and yet how many come from the watering places, their health absolutely destroyed! New York and llrooklyn idiots boasting of having imbibed twenty glasses of Congress water before breakfast Families accustomed to going to bed at ton o'clock at night, goisiping until one or two o'clock in tho morning. Dyspeptics usually very cautious about their health mingling ico-creams and* lemons and lobster salads and cocoanuts, until tho gastric juloos lift up all their voices of lamentation and protest Delicate women and brainless young men chassezlng themselves into vertigo and ca talepsy. Thousands of men and women coming back from our watering-places in the autumn with tho foundations laid for ailments that will last them all their life long. You know as well as 1 do that this is the

the gayly -pain tod yacht* ner regatta to find war to go among the light regatta tier that cai >»t strugglo battle of 3 VI M HI. In the summer you say to your good health: "Good-bye, 1 am going to have u good time fora little while. I will be very glad to see you again in the autumn.” Then in the autumn, when you are hard at work, in your office, or shop, or counting-room, Good Health will come and say: “Good-bye. I am going.” You say: "’Whore are you going?" “Oh,” says Good Health, “I am going to take a vacation!” It is a poor rule that will not work both ways, and your good health will leave *yoii choleric and plenetic and exhausted. You coquetted with your good health in tbo summer time, and your good health is coquetting with you in the winter time. A fragment of Paul’s charge to the jailer would bo at: appropriate inscription tor the 'hotel register in every watering place: "Do thyself no barm.” Another temptation hovering around the watering-place is to the formation of hasty and life-long alliance. The watering-places are responsible for more of the domestic infelioitiei of thin country then all the othor thing) combined. Society is so artificial there tha t no sure judgment of ebaraoter can he formed. Those who form companionships amid such circumstances go into a lo ttery where thero are twenty blanks to one prise. In tbo severe tug of life you want more than gutter and splash. Life is not a ball-room, where the music decides tbo step, and bow and pianco and graceful swing of long trial can make up for strong common souse. Yon may as well jo among of a t vessels spray of Ind eba »f the ft mer to summer watering place to can stand the test of human life. > you want a

croquet mallet The-load of life is so heavy that in order to draw it you want a seam stronger than one made of a masculine grasshopper and a feminine butterfly. Another temptation 'that will hover over the watering-place is that of baneful literature. Almost every one starting oil for the summer takes some reading matter. It is a book out of the library or off the book-stand, or bought of th* boy hawking books through the cars. I really believe there is more pestiferous trash read among the intelligent classes in July and August than in all the other ten months of the year. Men and women who at-home would not bo satisfied with a book that was not really sensible, 1 found sitting on hotol piazzas or under the trees reading books,, the index of which would make them blush if they know that you knew what the book was. “Oh,” they say, “you must have intellectual recreation!” Yes. There is no need that you take along into a watering place “Hamilton’s Metaphysics,” or some thunderous discourse on the eternal decrees, or “Faraday’s Philosophy.” There are many easy books that are good. You might as well say: “1 propose now l, to give a little rest to my digestive organs; and, instead of eating heavy meat and vegetables, I will for a little while take lighter food—a little strychnine and a few grains of ratsbano.” Literary poison in August is as bad as literary poison in December. Mark that. Do not let the frogs and the lice of a corrupt printing press jump and crawl into your Saratoga trunk or White mountain valise. Would it not be an awful thing for you lo be struck with, lightning some day when you had in your hand one of those paper-covered romances—the hero a Parisian roue, the heroine an unprincipled flirt—chapters in the book that you would not read to your children at the rate of one hundred dollors a line! Throw out that Stuff from your summer baggage. Are there not good books that are easy to read —books of congenial history, hooks of pure fun,‘ hooks of poetry ringing with merry canto, books of fine engravings, books that will rest the mind as well as purifv the heart and elevate the wholo life? My hearers, there will not be an hour between this and the day of your death when you can afford to read a book lacking in moral principle.

Another temptation hovering all around our watering-places is the’ intoxicating'leverage. I am told that it is becoming more and more fashionable for women to drink. I care not how well a women may dress, it she has taken enough of wine to flush her cheek and put glassiness on her e/es, she is intoxicated. She may he handed into a twenty-flve-hundrod-dollar carriage, and have diamonds enough to con found the Tiffanys—she is intoxicated. She may be a graduate of a groat institute, and the daughter of some man in danger o'f being nominated for the presidency—she is drunk. You may have a larger vocabulary than I have, and you may say in regard to her that she is “convivial,” or she is “merry,” or she is “festivo,” or she is “exhilarated,” but you can pot with all your garland of verbiage cover up the plain fact that it is an old-fashioned case of drunk. Now, the watering-places are full of temptations to men and women to tipple. At tho close of the ten-pin or billiard game they tipple. At.tho close of the cotillon they" tipple. Seated on the piazza cooling themselves off, they tipple. Tho tinged glasses come around with bright straws, and they tipple, hirst they take “light wines,” a* they call them; but “light wines” are heavy enough to debase the Appetite. It is not a very long road between champagne ’at five dollars per bottle and whisky at five cents a glass. Satan, has three or four grades down which he takes men to destruction. One man he takes up, and through one spree pitches him into eternal darkness. That is a rare case. Very seldom, indeed, can you find a man who will be such a fool as that When a man goos down to destruction Satan brings him to a plane. It is alalmost a level. The depression is so slight that you can hardly seo it Tho man does not actually know that he is on the down grade, and it tips only a little toward darkness—just a little. And the first mile it is claret and the second mile it is sherry, and the third mile it is punch, and the fourth mile it is ale, and the fifth mile it is porter, and the sixth mile it is brandy, and then it gets steeper and steeper, and the man gets frightened and says: “Oh, let me get off!” “No,” says tho conductor, “this is an express train, and it does not stop until it gets to the grand Central Depot of Smashupton.” Ah, “Look not thou upon tho wine when it is red, and when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright At tho last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.” My friends, whether you tarry at home—which will be quite as safe and perhaps quite as comfortable—or go into the country, arm yourself against temptation. The grace of Uod is the only safe shelter, whether in town or oountry. There are watering places accessible to all of us. You can not open a book of the llible without finding out some such watering nlace. Fountains Open for sin and unoleanness: wells, of salvation; streams from Lebanon; a flood struck out of the rock by Moses; fountains in the wilderness discovered by Hagar; water to drink and water (o bathe in; the river of Uod, which is full of Water; water of which if a man drlrik he shall never thirst; wells of water in the Valley of Baca; living fountains of water; a pure river, of water as blear as crystal from under the throne of

uou. Tlio so are watering places accessible to all of us. Wo do not bavo a laborious packing-upt before we start—only the throwing aw|y of our transgressions- No expensive hotel bills to pay; it is “without money and withoutprice:” j No long and dirty travel before we get there—4t is only one step away. In California in five lqinptes I walked around and saw ten 'fountains, all bubbling up, and they were’ all different And in five minutes I can go through this Bible parterre and find you fifty bright sparkling fountains bubbling up into eternal life. A cbejpist will go to one of these summer watering places and take the water and analyse it and tell you that it contains so much of iron, and so much of lime, and so much of magnesia. I,come to this Gospel well, this living fountain, and analyse the water, and I find that its ingredients are peace, pardon, forgiveness, hope, comfort life, Heaven. “Ho, every one that thlmteth, come yo" to this watering place! Crowd around this Bethesda to-day! Ob, you sick, you lame, you troubled, you dying, crowd around this lletbesda! tjtep in it! Oh, step in it! The angel of the oovenant to-day stirs the water. Why do you not step in it? Homo of you are too weak to take a step in that direction. Then we take you up in the arms of our closing prayer and plunge you clean under the wave, hop ing that the cure may he as sudden and as radical as with Captain Naaman, who, blotch ed and carbunoled, stepped into the Jordan, and after the seventh dive oi me up, bis skin roseate-coin felegloned m Ute flestf 9f»little ebU& '

For Oar Volley ifUat Sliot For High frotration. Speaker Heed is a mighty mart when it comes to making members of Congress vote ns he wants them to vote, but he bos not yet acquired the jtower of putting a gag into the mouths of a few members of Congress. Otits'do of Congress Ulai'so continues to “breathe out threatonings and slaughter," and. emboldened by his example. Congressman lluttonvorth has indulged! his soul by giving rent to aomo more fine reciprocity talk. * liulterworth, as is well known, has long boen a strong advoca tft of roo proeIty w th Canada. Ho 1b not one of those blind leaders of the b ind protectionists who think it a (food thing to shut ourselves up with tar if belts and bars and.“have' nothing to do with abroad.” In b s celebrated attack on the McKinley bill it will bo' remembered that Butterworth complained of our policy toward Canada in those words: “Against our own countrymen hero on ttao North, in whose veins courses the same blood that courses in our own—united to us by a dest ny which is above the control of Kings or Congresses—we shut the door, we refuse even to accept their lumber, but send our children shelterless to bed rather than hiuro a fair exchange with them.” In that strain Butterworlli went on to show lh:4 under President Grant a treaty was negotiated "designed to open iho avenues of trade between the northern part of our continent and the southern. not only providing for a free exchange of manufactured and natural products, but opening up the canals and railroads in order that the healthful tide of qur commerce might sweep North and Mouth, as it docs East and West.” Hut this treaty was not confirmed. “What prevented it?” a sits Kuttcrwortb, and be answers his own question: The avarice in certain lo. alit cs. Tha opposition was tlictatml from the potato patch, fio-n the cabbage patch, from the hop patch. [iaiUKhter and applause.] And he* fore the bill is over you will see my honored lrteud in cliarg • of the hop brlpa Je, associa ed with the cabbage cavalry, endeavoring to persuade the farmer that hla higho-t g od lain routining onrseives to a market wheie we do not sell now more than three-fourths of what we oroduco. - After Butterworth bad made such a brave onslaught on McKinley’s queer measure—with its duty on eggs amounting to “just one omelet a year to each of our people”—some persons wore led to suppose that he would vote against it; but party pressure was too great, even for a man with “no star of ambition above him that would tempt him to climb on false ladders.” So Butterworth keeps up his Spirits by talking against the bill he voted for. Ilis latest talk- was suggested by Harrison's little reciprocity message to Congress transmitting Blaine’s letter on the same subject Butterworth has a very positive opinion that we have carried this protection business too far, and lie rejoices that there are signs that a halt is to be called. Here is the way in which he expresses himself: "Tire country does not believe such h’gh rates are essential to adequate protect on. There is no nation in Europe whore tho Government shows less inclination than our own to mind its own business and let the private concerns of tho people alone. IVhen conventions are brought to approve a policy they do not under- ] stand, and app’aud particular acts of which they bavo no definite knowl- I edge, we have reached perfection in j political machinery. In tho presence of such trying conditions it is refresh- i ing to read the message and letter men- ! tioned. pointing out the necessity of multiplying tho opportunities of onr poople by enlarging tho area of our trade And commerce.” .

iuu u: uiu party lor roaa docs not by any means please the Ohio Congressman and he asks; “What is our situation as a party? The tariff un- : revised, and no consoling prospect that the Sonato will do more than transpose the exorbitant rates than abound in the present schedule.” Then he comes back ,to the subject of rociproc'ty as a means of widen.ng the farmers’ market, and complains 1 b.tterly of a “Congress'onal policy that would narrow the field of our commerce and snub the nations of this hemisphere, with whom alone wo could hope to secure enlarged and favorable trade relations. We make proffer of a plan to give farmers sugar at a reduced rate, j but we won’t let him sell his corn or pork in order to pay for his sugar. We pacify him by pointing to his home market, as if we had to stand guard over it to keep him from losing it Yes, the farmer has a-home market and he holds it by a litie above the power of Congress. He is shown a tariff schedule which run^the whole gamut from snap beans through peas, onions, peanuts, squashes, cabbages, eggs, oranges, hops, corn, rye, and wheat—all of which is as useful to him as aduty on tin whistles.” McKinley’s “farmer’s tariff” is further derided by Butter worth: What use to him (the farmer' is a tariff on whom? We don’t inipoi t any. Of what avail is a duty on corn? We can’t biinga peek fiom abroad. But we have succeeded in shutting ourselves out ft the Canadian market. a here we sold over til.ooo.ono worth of farm pro lucts each- year. “But,” says the adversary, "wo shut the Canadian out of our mat ket” Yes, wo burned the farmer’s cand e at both ends. We enchered him by shutting aim out of the market where he sold a large part cf his surplus nnd kept our people from burlng if the Canadiun what we don’t pr dime In kind and quality at home. And what are the protected manu-facturers-doing to deserve the high protect on that we are giving them at the expense of the farmers? llutterworth answers:

• u iuu uiruuviUIV i» la vmuiuvu w mi a onun. or Jistier that tho favored ones arc charging y-iur ho'iio folks more for th-- output of their plants than they eh irge foreigners for n any in s«f go dr. And there are th- se w..o deem It i ossible that the people will approve of that course of conduct, rely ng on alt publican Senate to disregard the pro.tests of those who suffer. And what a flno attao't is this on the present rage for high and higher duties: 1 repeat again—and the appr« v jig echoes aro coming hrek from all points of the compass—that every increase in the rate of protective duty cyond what Ir essential to secure to ou manufa turers an cqwal < pportunity with their foreign r val* In tho competitive Hold is a gross wrong to the taxpayers. the consumers, uitd is antl-Ucpub-llcan. It Is a blunder th it is akin toa crime. And we are • onfronted with the charge that we are still . hindering and voting it in the lntcrcst of a few t onsands and nt the rigoense of tho in liions. The injury comes In v irious forms. Its most humiliating aspect is In the faet t at It m ikes our prosperity pari la> and makes the mass oi the people th > servants of the few, and does It In the name and under the gu se of protecting labor and cherishing our infant Industries. As the remedy, finally, to all this unreasonable high tariff policy of exclusion Uutterworth says we must “remove all the barriers that hamper our commerce and rnlo us out of the markets of the Western Hemisphere.” Wemustnot yield to "the clamor of a few along the border who would ignorantly or selfishly sacrifice (ho broad interests of a nation of sixty-five millions of people to the special, peculiar and wholly partial advantage (if it could. In fact, prove an advantage, which 1 utterly deny,) of a very few,” for "this is a Nation, not a neighborhood, and our legislation must be fashioned to promote the good of all.” Now let liutter worth vote as he thinks, and all friends of a low and reasonab e tariff will believe iq his sincerity. and claim him as a oo-worlds? for the fc«|t WHHp of tft* 99Wtr*.

s Tire colloquial style Is by far the most agreeable while a dldautlo method or expression is unpleasant and to be avoided. v Ik fashionablo stationery the faintest shade of ptnlc Is the latest, there being a water mark of Cupid with his suggestive bow and arrow. A married woman's letters always should be addressed In the name of her husband, as “Mrs. Romania Brown,” Ihsioad of “Mrs. Amelia Brown.” Bi.ack ink is the rule, although some women, notably those with . romantie proclivities, affect violet ink, which. It must be admitted, flows easier and is of a superior quality to the ebony fluid. Tire angular English stylo of handwriting. although neither legible nor symmetrical, is the one in high favor, the' flowing Italian and the cramped French chirography being quite out of date. e Good sense and good taste should govern one's correspondence as it should all other things, and a man or woman of One breeding, education and heart will not go very far astray in the inditing of polite epistles. Women who should know better often sign themselves “Mrs. So-and-So” or “Miss So-and-So,” instead of using their Christian names. This is the acme of vulgarity, but if, when writing to a stranger, it is necessary to state whether Miss or Mrs., place the prefix in parentheses as “(Mrs.) Amelia Brown.” Crests, monograms and initials, once so fashionable, are rarely seen, although certain people have never given up the illuminated cipher or crest. The most fastidious letter-writers have simply the address, engraved in either black or colors, in a fac simile of their own bandwriting, and running across ono corner or at the top of the page. Thick, cream-laid note, hand-finish linen, or linen-bond paper is plain, elegant and agreeable to write upon. The fashionablo paper folds but onco into a square onvelope, and outre sizes are hut little used. The square correspondence card is a thing of the pa3t, and dainty note paper, which fits into an envelops without folding, is substituted. The gray paper and whito Ink. which was a French caprice, had a brief existence, and was received with favor by misses in their teens and women in search of tho bizarre. A BATCH FOR THE BOTANIST. Tire newest freak in bc^mlas is a tuberous-rooted variety bearing fringed flowers. Itissaid^obe very beautiful. Tiik common sweet-william—Dianthus barbatu*—in tbo woods of France, where it is indigenous, has. smallish bloodred flowers, without any of that beautiful variety common to it in gardens. A California judge is the posses80f of a night blooming corous that is tho largest of its kind in the United States. It is thirty feet high, with branches that cover his house and porch nearly 250 squaro feet. The kali mujah, or death plant, of Java has flowers whiebcontinmmy give off a porfumoso powerful as tocl'fcyvqdiah,. If inhaled for any length of time, aral‘1grown man, and which kills all forms of insect lifo that approach close enough to oomo under Its influence. The trunk of a rosebush at Tentura, Cal., is said to be throe foot in circumfdAonce. and-the first branch it throws out is twenty-one inches in circumference. It runs over a lattice work, and since trimming covers a space of 1,200 square feet. It yields thousands of flowers.

A vouno. lady of Altoona observed by the roadsido a wild rose, upon one of the branches of whieh was growing a small bunch of burrs, healthy and perfect in every particular, as was a'so tho rose branch to which they worn singularly attached, a freak of nature which was unexplainable. A .novel flower has boon discovered at the Isthmus of Tebuantepeo. This floral chameleon has tho power of changing its colors during tho day. In the morning it is white, when tho sun is at its zenith it is red. and at night it is blue. Only at noon does it give out any perfume. A nkw violet has been discovered in Sykesville, Md., whose odors are unsurpassed even by those wondorfully sweet plants, the daphne odora and oleo fragrans. Its foliage leaves are longer than thoso of the ordinary wilder cultivated violet and its petals are a soft white, striped or mottled with light and dark purple. __$ SOME LATE INVENTIONS. Ax enterprising follow at-Grand Bapids has invented a machine for making cbocolato drops. A ruinous trap at tho pate nt office is an imitation rat that hasa piece of toasted cheese stuck x>n tho end of a little spear that projects from bis i ose a short distance. When a real rat ce mes to nibble at the cheese the spear jumps out about six Inches and impales the unfortunate. A new shell has lately been invented by an Austrian for the purp se of scattering oil over the wavesdur ng a storm. It is a wooden cylinder Knot with shellac to keep tho oil from penetrating the wood, and it carries in add Ltion a calcium light, which illuminates the water for a considerable distance. A hkm auk able invention has been made in Austria, whereby the serious effects of railway collisions t re prevented. Glass tubes project before tho train, and if they are broken by an obstacle an electric movement is applied to the brakes, bringing the train immediately to a standstill.

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Standard o!' tfcl I’rophcti There s isome controversy as to to* present whereabouts as well as to the actual composition of the famous “Standard Of Mohammed,” the “SanyakSherlf ’ or sacred flair of Mohammedism. According the North German Gazette it is in the museum of artillery at Turin, Italy. The Gazette says that it was formerly id the mcsque of Abou Ayoub, Constantinople, hut that Baron Tecco, the Sardinian Ambassador, purchased it in the year 18S9 and sent it to King Charles Albert. The same account says that it is of red silk, with several verses from the Koran embroidered upon it in yellow letters, and that its height itj slightly OTer six feet and its width four and a quarter feet. A correspondent for one of the big London dailies, who claims to have recently seen the sacred emblem in the Seraglio, says that it is of yellow silk, and that it was formerly one of the flowing ourtains that adorned the room Of' Mohammed’s favorite wife.—St Louis Republic. Malaria. Is your system full of malaria! Do you feci weak and mean all over ! Have you got the ague! Then why don’t you do something to get well. You say quinine doesn’t do you any good. Well, you needn't let that discourage you. There is one remedy, Smith’s Tonic Syrup, made by Dr. John Bull, of Louisville, Ky., that is far ahead of quinine. It will cure chills and fever when quinine and everything else fails. This remedy neger has failed. In some neighborhoods wherd'chills and fever are common, it is found in every household. Why a man would as soon refuse his family food to eat, as to refuse to get another bottle of Smith’s Tonic Syrup when the old bottle gave out. It is a great preventive of ague. A single dose will sometimes keep off an attack- A few doses will break up the fever and cure the chills. It does not leave any unpleasant after effects as quinine sometimes docs. It will not harm the most delicate invalid. Give it a trial and you will soon be welL Tub lazy bootblack does not improve each shining hour. Ho should take a lesson from Howdoth, the little busy Bee.—N. O. Picayune. ■s> The world is full of shoddy and shams, but real merit is always reeognized. Thirty years ago Dr. Shallenberger discovered au Antidote to the poison of Malaria, which has tioii an immense sale, although until recently it has not been advertised in a single newspaper. Merit alone lias sold it all these years, because it cures when all else fails, and is just what is claimed for it It Vhlu destroys Malaria and could not harm an infant. Sold by Druggists, or sent by mail for oue dollar. Address, Dr. A. T. Suallexbekgkr, Rochester, Pa. Sarcasm is all very well in its way, but when its way is your wav, and it isn’t your sarcasm, you are% not likely to enjoy it— Somerville Journal.

Though Totally Destroyed By dyspepsia, bodily comfort may be revived again by the potent aid of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, which renews the processes of digestion and assimilation, thus furnishing the system with the elements of vigor, the groundwork of functional regularity. Fever and ague, constipation, liver and kidney troubles, rheumatism, are overcome by this superb regulator, tonic and appetizer. e Hosestt may not always pay phenomenal dividends, but it never creates deficiencies or overbooms tho foreign passenger traffic. —Washington Post Ixvalibs, aged people, nursing mothers, overworked, wearied out fathers, will find tho happiest results from a judicious use of Dr. Sherman's Prickly Ash Bitters. Where the liver or kidneys are affected, prompt action is necessary to change the tide toward health, ere the disease becomes chronic —possibly incurable, and there is nothing better to be found in the whole^range of materia medico. Sold every whore. Thb difference between the martyr of old a;id tho martyr of to-day is that one was b irnrd at the stake and the other has his s oak burned for him.—Atchison Globe. New ancf Elegant Train Service. The train service on the New York Cento al is being constantly improved. Never b >fore in the history of the Company were ti.ere so many fine trains being run on this li 10, and the business is steadily increasing L ist year, the Company carried over 18,000, 0< 0 passengers, and it is expected this yeai the number will be considerably larger.. Toe paragrapher that was hanged said to t! is crowd around tho gallows: “This life il bat a hemp-tie show.”—N. Y. Graphic, s A private wedding and a “pat hand” are simewhat alike;, it is “no cards” in both cases.—Boston Commercial Bulletin. Gratifying to AIL The high position attained and the universe! acceptance and approval of the pleasant li juid fruit remedy Syrup of Tigs., as the tr ost excellent laxative known, illustrate the v due of the qualities on which its success is based and are abundantly gratifying to tho California Fig Syrup Company. Ip the tobacco habit could be cured like I: aeon, by smoking, how easy it would be to s wear off.—Binghamton Republican. There has never been anything discovered that will equal Dobbins’ Electric Soap for a l household uses. It makes paint look like new, and clothes as whi'e as same. Our wash woman says it is a pleasure to use it. Ask your grocer for it. It seems quite natural that the threads of conversation should sometimes produce a 1 jng yarn.—Binghampton Republican.

All through summer and fall I was troubled with ohills and fever. I finally got a bottle of Smith's Tonic Syrup,which stopped the chills at once.—C. H. Weils, Midville, Ua. A private wedding and a “pat hand’’ are somewhat alike; it is “no cards” in both cases.—Boston Commercial- Bulletin. Do not suffer from sick headache a mo ment longer. It is not necessary. Carter’s Little Liver Pills will cure you. Dose, one little pill; Small price. Small dose. Small pDL “Tub match is off,” remarked Squillkin, as the newly-married pair started on their wedding tour.—Binghamton Republican. Yocr child is troubled with worms. That's why he is so peevish and cross. Dive it Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers. They taste good and will make him healthy. It is best always to choose a tall man for State Treasurer, so that ho may not be found short when he goes out of office. X O. Picayune. E. R Walthall * Co., Druggists, Horse Cave, Ky., say: “Balls Catarrh Cure cures every one that take? it.” By Druggists, 75c. The difference betwoen knave and fool is slight A thief is a fool if he get caught, and a knave if he doesn’t.—Ashland Press. Honestt is the best policy, but all, the same, it isn’t safe to give many peoples fair chance to steal.—Somerville Journal. Rgfi, angry1 eruptions yield to the action of Glenn’s Suit hur Soap. Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents. “How no you feel nowf’ asked the sledgehammer. “All broken up," replied the scrap-iron. Have you seen the Ram's Horn 1 If not write' to E. P, Brows, 66)4 North Penn. St, Indianapolis, Ind. Woe lost the detectives achieve better results if they were shod with “hunting boots 1”—Shoe and Leather Reporter. Biliousness, dizziness, nausea, headache, are relieved by small doses of Captor's Little Liver Pills. ■£' ■ ‘. The only reliable ground hog lathe common domestic pork sausage.—H. Y. Herald Bronchitis is cured by frequent small doses of Fiso’s Cure for Consumption. Wn are shoes like Congressmen » That’s easy; because they’re so frequently paired. Ms Pills FOR TORPID LIVER. A earpld Hver derange, the whole system, and produce. Sick Headache, Dyspepsia, Costiveness, Rheumatism, Sallow Skin and Piles. for these «’■ Liver let, MC. 0*M STtqrwlMV*! I

I- co«"rn,6*T 1*93 I • The turning po m in woman’s life brings pecui ai weaknesses. and ailments. ^ 1 )r, Pierce’s Favorite Prescript on brings relief and cure. It is a powerful, invigorating, restorat ve tonic and nervine. It impsrts strength to the whole system in general, and to the uterine orgraa and appendages in partiou ar. “Run-down,” debilitated and d jlicate women need it. It’s a legitimate medicine—purely vegetable, perfectly harmless.* It’s guarani ted to give satisfaction in every case. or money refunded. Nothing else <3 oes as much. You only pay for the good you get. Can you ask mo re ? As a regulator and promoter of functional action, at that critical period of change from girlhoor to womanhood, “ Favorite Prese ription” is a perfectly safe remelial agent, and ean produce only good results. It is equally efficacious and valuable in its effects when taken for’ those disorders and derangements incident to that later and most critical period, known as “ the Change of Life.”

rlRIGKLY ASH BITTERS One of ihe mast Important organs of she human body Is the LIVER. When if fails to properly perform its functions the entire system becomes deranged. The BRAIN, KIDNEYS, STOMACH, BOWELS, ail refuse to perform their work. DYSPEPSIA, CON* STIPATION, RHEUMATISM, KIDNEY DISEASE, etc., are the results, unless something is done to assist Mature in throwing off the impurities caused by the inaction ot a TORPID LIVER. This assistance so necessary will he found in Prickly Ash Sitters l It acts directly on the LIVER, STOMACH and KIDNEYS, and by itsmlid and cathartic effect and general tonic qualities restores these organs to a sound, healthy condition, and cures alt diseases arising from these causes. It PURIFIES THE BLOOD, tones up the system, and restores perfect health, If your druggist does not keep it ask him to order it tor you. Send Sc stamp for copy of “THE HORSE TRAINER,” published by as. PRICKLY ASH HITTERS CO., Bole Proprietor?, ST. LOUIS, S£0. DIPVPt CO Rail ordinaries. $U); cone. Ji. Ball Safeties, DluIllLXv'new, 570 and upward. Get list and state preference. IMSTAltMSSTS, Kni*ht Cycle C©.. Si. Louie.

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