Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 19, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 October 1890 — Page 4

THE HOLY LAND. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmago Discourses Upon His Recent Trip. The Beginning of a Series of Sermon.. Sugseated by Journeying* and Scenea in the Land where Jw.ua Lived and Died. Tho following is the first of a series of sermons by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, suggested by his recent trip to Palestine and the events thereof. The text was; g The half was noi told mo.—1 Kings, x., 7. This is the first sermon in a course of Sabbath morning sermons on “My Recent Journey Through the Holy Land and Neighboring Countries—What I Saw and' What I Learned.” Out of the ‘six-y-four million of our present American population and the millions of our past, only about five thousand have ever visited the Holy Land. Of all those who cross to Europe, less than five per cent. ever get as far as Rome, and less than two per cent ever get to Athens, and less than a quarter of one per cent, ever get. to Palestine. Of the less than a quarter of one per cent who do go to the Holy Land, some see pithing but noxious insects and the filth of the Oriental cities, and come back wishing ~ they had never gone. Of those who see much of interest and come home, only a small portion can tell what they have seen, the tongue unable to report the eye. , The rarity of a successful, ihtelligent and happy journey through the Holy Land is very marked. But the time approaches when a journey to Palestine, will he common. Thousands will go where now there are scores. Two locomotives were recently sent up from Jappa to Jerusalem, and railroads are about to begin in Palestine, and the day will come when the cry will be: “All out for Jerusalem!” “Twenty minutes for breakfast at Tiberias!” “Change cars for Tyre!” “Grand Trunk Junction for Ninevah!” “All out for Damascus.” Meanwhile tho wetlocks of the Atlantic ocean and Adriatic and Mediterranean seas are being shorn, and not only is the voyage shortened, but, after awhile, without crossing the ocean you or your children will visit the Holy Land. A company of capitalists have gone up to Behring Straits, Where the American and Asiatic continents come within thirty-six miles of meeting. These capitalists or others will build a bridge across those straits, for midway are three Islands called “The Diomedes,” and the water is not, deop and is nearer disturbed with' icebergs. Trains of cars will run from America across v that bridge and on down through * Siberia, bringing under more immediate observation tho Russian outrages against exiles and consequently 'abolishing them, and there are persons here to-day who, without the qualm of sea-sickness, will visit that wonderful land whore the Christ-like, Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic, Solomonic and Herodic histories overlap.each other with such power that by tbo time I took my feet out of the stirrups at the close of the journey I feRjso wrung out with emotion that it seemod nothing else could ever absorb my feelings again. Tho chief hinderance for going to Palestine with many is the' dreadful sea. and though I have crossed it ten times it is more dreadful every time, and I fully sympathize with what was said one night when Mr. Beecher and I went ovef to speak in New York at the anniversary of the Seamen’s Friend Society, and tho clergyman making the opening prayer quoted from St. John; “There shall be no more sea,” and Mr. Beecher, seated beside me, in memory of a recent ocean voyage, said; “Amen. I am glad of that.” By the partial abolitio% of the Atlantic ocean, and the putting down of rail tracks across every country in all the world, the most sacred land on earth will come under the observation of so many people, who will lie ready to tell of what they saw, that infidelity will be pronounced only another form of insanity, for no honest man can visit the Holy Land and remain an infidel. This Bible from which 1 preach has almost fallen apart, for 1 read from it tho most of •the events in it recorded on the very ^ places where they occurred. And some of the leaves got wet as the staves dashed over our boat on Lake Galilee, and the book was jostled in the saddlebags for many: weeks, but It is a new book to me, liewer than any book that yesterday camo out of any of our great * printing houses. All my life I had heard of Palestine, and I bad heard about 'it, - and talked about* .it, and preached about it, and sung about it, and prayed about it, and dreamed about it until my anticipations were piled up into something like Himalayan proportions, and yet 1 have to cry out, as did the Queen of Sheba when she first visited the Holy Land: “The half was not told me.”

and vivid a book I have been writing, a life of Christ, entitled “From Manger to Throne,” I left homo last October, and on the last night of November we were walking the decks of the Senegal, a Mediterranean steamer. It was a ship of immense proportions. There were but few passengers, for it is generally rough at that time of the brear, and pleasurists are not apt to he voyag- . ing there and then. The stars were all out that night, Those armies of light seemed to have had their shields newly burnished. We walked the polished deck. Not much was said, for in all our hearts was the dominant word “to-morrow.” Somehow the Acropolis, which a few days before had thrilled ns at Athens, now in our minds lessened in the height of its columns and the glory Of its temples. And the Egyptian pyramids in opr memory lessened their wonders ' of obsolete masonry, and the Coliseum of Rome was not so vast a ruin as it a few weeks before had seemed to be. And all that we bad seen and heard dwindled in importance, for to-morrow, to-morrow we shall see the Holy Land. ‘'Captain, what time will we come in sight of Palestine?” “Well,” he said, “if the wind and sea remain as they are, about daybreak:” Never was 1 so impatient for a night topass. I could not see much use for the night, anyhow. I pulled aside the curtain from the port-hole of my state room, so that the nr it hint of dawn would waken me. But it was a useless precaution. Sleep was among the impossibilities. Who could he so stupid as to slumber when any moment there might start out within sight of the ship the land where the most stupendous scenes of all time and all eternity were hnacted? Land of ruin and redemption, land where was fought the battle that made our Heaven possible, land of Godfrey and Saladin, of Joshua and Jes rs. Will the night ever be gone? Yes, it • is growing lighter, and along the horison there is something like a bank of clouds, and as i watchman paces the deck, I say to him: “What is that out yonder?” “That Is lpnd, sir,” said the sailor. "The land!” I cried, and soon all our friends were aroused from sleep, and the shore began more clearly to reveal itself. Wish roar and rattle and the anchor dropped in the roadfrom land, for harbor

bor on nil tl » weeks no st rocks about small boat ashore. The the skeleton tempted to bark. Twen with one cri rocks. Whol its. Sometimes for stops there. Between renty-flve feet apart a take the passengers >ths are strewn with those who have ator attempted to emren pilgrims perished of a boat against the fleets of crusade'rs, of Romans, of t yrians, of Egyptians, have gone to SDlin tens there. A writereight hundred year i t.go said he stood on the beach in a itorm at Joppa, and out of thirty ships ; 11 but seven went to pieces on the docks, and a thousand of the dead were washed ashore. Strange tl at with va few blasts of powder like that which shattered our American He ll (late, those rocks have not been upn >ol®d and the way cleared, so that great, ships, instead of anchorage far out fi om the land, might sweep up to the i 'harf for passengers and freight. Bu: you must remember that land is undei the Turks, and what the Turks touchi s he withers. Mohammedanism is ag liiist easy Wharvos, against steamers, against rail tfrains, against printing pr< sses, against civilisation. Darkness is always opposed to light. The owl hat< s the morn. ‘"Leave those rocks where hey are,” practically cries the Turkish Tjvernment; “we want no people of e her religions and other habits to laid there; if the salt seas wash over tl ein let it be a warning to other invade rs; away with your nineteenth cente ry. with its free thought and its modi rn inventions.” That Tur iisb Government ought to be blotted f "om the face of the earth, and it will. Of many of the inhabitants of Palestine 11 ask the question; “Has the Sultan o Turkey ever been here?” Answer: “h 0.” “Why don’t he come, when it belt ngs to his dominion?” And, after, the mn n interrogated looked this and th it, so as to know he would way, not bo repo ted, the answer would invariably be “He/dare not come.” I believe it If the’sultan of Turkey attempted to visit Jerusalem, he would never get jack again. All Palestine hates him. 1 saw him go to the mosque for pra rers in his own city of Constantinople and saw seven thousand armed men riding out to protect him. Expensive j rayers! Of course the Government w ints no better harbor at Joppa. Ma ' God remove that curse of nations, thi t old hag of the centuries, the Turkish Government! For its everlasting insi It to God and woman, let it perish! And sc. those rocks at the mouth of the harl: or remain the jaws of repeated desti uction. As we dei cendod the narrow steps at the side of he ship, wo heard the clamor, and qua fel, and swearing, of fifteen or sixteen c ifferent races of men of all features, ar d all colors and all vernaculars; alldi feirent in appearance, but all aliko in de ire to get our baggage and ourselves a exorbitant prices. Twenty boats and only ten passengers to go ashore. T! e man having charge of us pushes asip j some, and strikes with a heavy Stic : „ others, and by violences that would not be tolerated inourcountry, but w lieh seems to be the only manner of making any impression there, clea s our way into one of the boats whi ;h heads for the shore. IVe are % ithin fifteen minutes of the Christ- and. Now we hear shouting from the beach, and in five minutes we will be landed. The prow of the boat is caught by men who, wade out to help us in. We are tremulous with sup; ressed excitement, our breath is quick, and from the side of the boat w » spring to the shore, and Sunday mi rning, December T, 1369, about eight o’clock, our feet touch Palestine. Fc ever to me and mine will that day a nd hour he commemorated, for that pr i-eminent mercy. Let it be mentioned in prayer by my children and childr m s children after we are gone, that norning we were permitted to enter th; t land, and gaze upon those holy hills, ind feol the emotions that rise and fal , and weep and laugh, and sing and .riumph at such a disembarkation.

un the Di ck ot mils one iunarea ana fifty feet hi gh Jippa is lifted toward the skios., It is as picturesque as it is quaint, and as much unlike any city we have over a sen as though it were built in that stai Mars, whore' a few nights ago this v iry September astronomers through ui paralleled telescopes saw a snow-storm raging. How glad we were to be in .lo| pa! Why, this is the city Dorcus, tha t queen of the needle, lived and died at d was resurrected. You remember t! at the poor people camo around tlr i dead body of this benefactress am 1 brought specimens of her kind need e-work and said: “Dorcas made this," “Dorcas sewed that;” “Dorcas cut - and fitted this;" “Dorcas lemmed that" According to L ghtfoot, the commentator, they laid ter out in state in a public room, and the poor wrung their hands and cried, und sent for Peter, who performed a niracle by which the good woman can e back to life and resumed her benefaction,. An especial resurrection da r for ono woman! She was the model tiy which many women of our day ha re fashioned their lives, and at the fir-1 blast of the horn of the wintry ten post there appear 10,000 DorDor sases of Brooklyn, Dorcases casesof New Yo rk:, Dorcases of London Dorcases of all the neighborhoods and towns and cities of Christendom,, just as good a 3 the Dorcas of the Joppa which I lisited. Thank God for the cver-incre ising skill and sharpness and speed and generosity of Dorcas’ needs. But I i thale some of the ordors of the large l anneries around Joppa. It is there to tl is day, a prosperous business, this tann ng of hides. And that reminds ipe of Simon, the tanner, when lived at loppa, and was the host of Peter the \postle. I suppose the olfactories of ! eler were as easily insulted by the o lors of a tannery as others But the li t>le says: “He lodged with one Sin: an, the tanner.” People who go out to do reformatory and misit lo nary and Christian work: must not bo too sensitive. Simon no doubt bre lght to his homestead ever;,' night the m ilodors of the calf skins and ox hides i 11 is tannery, but Peter lodged in that he me, not only because he may not have teen invited to the houses olt merchant princes surrounded by redolent gard< ns, but to teach all men and women ei ga ged in trying to make the) world bet ter, they must not be squeamish and f: stidious and finical and overparticulai in doing the work of the world. 1 he'Churoh of God is dying of fastidious neiss We cry over the suffering: of the world in one hundred dollar pocket handkerchiefs, and then put a cent in the poor box. There art many willing to do Christian ng the cleanly and the refined ejantand the educated; but am from taking a loaf of bread rty alley, excuse them from a mission-school among the ind the unwashed, excuse touching the band of one sr-nails are in mourning for ap. Much religious precisloiin atmospheres laden with work ami and the e excuse th down a di teaching nncombei them fro whose fi: departed ists can t honevsuc air float vats.. Ni lodging ) During th ginia soi soldiers i Go and rosemary, but not in % up from the malodorous no, no! excuse them from h one Simon, the tanner, e last war there were in Vii1sixty or seventy wounded barn on the second floor so of that the beat of the Ait-, as almost insupportable. The dying from sheer exhaustigh

ter ot the Christian Commission said to the nurse who stood there: “Wash the lsoes and feet ot these men, and it will levive them.” “No,”said the nurse, “I. tliin’t come into the army to wash any body’s foot.” “Well,” said the distinguished menAer of the commission, “bring me water and a towel. I will he very glad to wash their feet.” One was 1he spirit of the devil, the other the spirit of Christ. But reference to Peter reminds me that we must go to the house-tops in Joppa where he has taught the democracy of religion. That was about the queerest thing that ever happened. On our way up to the house-top we passed an old well where the great stones were worn deep with the ropes of the buckets, and it must be a well many centuries old, and I think Peter drank out of it Four or five goat or calfskins filled with water lay about the yard. We soon got up the steps and on the house-top It was in such a place in Joppa that Peter one noon, while he was waiting for dinner, had a hungry lit, and fainted away, and had a vision or dream or trance. 1 said to my family and friends on that house-top: “Listen while I read about what happened here.” And, opening the Bible, we had the whole story. It seemed that Peter on the house-top dreamed that a great blanket was let down out of Heaven, and in it were sheep and goats and cattle and mules and pigeons and buzzards and snakes and all manner oif creatures that fly the air or wrlk the fields or crawl the earth, and in the dream a voice told him as he was nungry, to eat, and he said: “1 can not eat things unclean.” Three times he dreamed it. There was then heard a knocking at the gate of the house, on the top of which Peter lay in a trance, and three men asked: “Is Peter here?” Peter, while yet wondeiing what his dream meant, descends the stairs and meets these strangers at the gate and they tell him that a good man by the name of Cornelius, in the City of Caesarea, has also had a dream and has sent them for Peter and to ask him to come and preach. At that call Peter, left Joppa for Cmsarea. The dream he had just had prepared him to preach, for Peter learned by it to reject no people as unclean, and whereas he previously thought he must preach daily to 0 Jews, now he goes to preach to the Gentiles who were considered, unclean. Notice how the two dreams meet— Peter’s dream on the house-top, Cornelius’ dream at Cmsarea. So 1 have noticed providences meet, distant events meet, dreams meet Every dream is bunting up some other dream, and every event is searching for some other event In the fifteenth century (1493) the great event was the discovery of America. The art of printing, born in the same century, goes out to meet that discovery and make the new world an intelligent world. The Declaration of Independence announcing equal rights meets Robert Burns. A man’s a man for a’ that * But staifding on this Joppa house-top, 1 look off on the Mediterranean, and what is that strange sight I see? The waters are black, seemingly for miles. There seems to be a great multitude of logs fastened together. Oh, yes, it is a great raft of timbers. They are cedars of Lebanon which King Hiram is furnishing King Solomon in exchange for twenty thousand measures of wheat twenty thousand baths of oil and twenty thousand baths of wine. These cedars have been cut down and trimmed in the mountains of Lebanon by the | seventy thousand axemen engaged there, and with great withes and iron bolts are fastened together, and they are floating down to Joppa to be taken across the land for Solomon’s temple now building at Jerusalem, for we have lost our hold of the nineteenth century, and are clear back in the ages. The rafts of cedar are guided into what is called the Moon Pool, an old harbor south of Joppa, now filled with sand and useless. With long pikes the lumber is pushed this way and that in the water, then with levers, and many a loud, long “lo, heave!” as the carters get their shoulders under the great weight, the timber is fastened to the wagons, and the lowing oxen are yoked to the load, and the procession of teams mores on with crack of whip and drawled-out words, which translated, I suppose, would correspond with the “Whoa, haw, gee!” of modern teamsters, toward Jerusalem, which is thirty miles away, over mountainous distances which for hundreds of years defied all engineering. And these rough cedars shall become carved pillars, and beautiful altars, and rounded banisters, and traceyied panels, and sublime ceilings, and exquisite harps, and kingly chariots.

X19 biic vya"un itaiu iuuivs uuu uuuj Joppa over the plain of Sharon toward Jerusalem, I say to myself, what vast numbers of people helped build that Templo of Solomon, and what vast numbers of people are now engaged in building the wider, higher, grander temple of righteousness- rising in the earth. Our Chistian ancestry toiled at it, amid sweat and tears, and hundreds of the generatians of the good, and the long train of Christian workers still moves on, and as in the construction of Solomon's Temple some hewed with the axe in the faraway Lebanon, and some drove a wedge, and some twisted a withe, and some trod the wet and slippery rafts on the Bea, and some yoked the ox, and some pulled at the load, and some shoved the plane, and some fitted the points, and some heaved up the rafters, but 'all helped to build the temple, though some of those never saw it. so now let us all put our hands to the work of building the temple of righteousness, which is to fill the earth, and one will bind a wound, and another will wipe away a tear, and another will teach a class, and another will speak the encouraging word, and all of us will he ready to pull and lift, and in some way help on the work until the millennial morn shall gild the pinnacle of. that finished temple, and at its shining gates the world shall put down its last burden, and in its lavers wash off its last stain, and at its altars the last wanderer shall kneel. At the dedication'of that temple all the armies of earth and Heaven will “shoulder arms,” and “present arms,” and "ground arms,” for, behold! a greater man than Soloman is here.” But my first day in the Holy Land Is ended. The sun is already closing his eye for the night. 1 stand on the balcony of a hotel which was brought to Joppa In pieces from the State of Maine by some fanatics who came here expecting tobeo Christ reappear in Palestine. My room here was once occupied by the Christian hero of the centuries—English. Chinese, Egyptian, world-wide General Gordon, a man mighty for God as well as for the world’s pacification. Although tie first of December and winter, the air is full of fragrance from gardens all a-bloom. and under my window are acacia and tamarisk, and mulberry and century plants, and orange groves and oleander. Prom the drowsiness of the air and the fatigues ol the day I feel sleepy. Goodnight! To-morrow morning we sart for Jerusalem. —It has been well said that no omever sank under the burden of the day. It is when to-morrow's burden is added' that the Weight seems more than man can bear, God begs you to leave the west the prmitt.future to Him, and

M’XINLEY RENOMINATED. HU Speech Accepting the Nomination For Congrew-WImt HU forty PromisedHow It Ha* Kept Ito Word-An Interpretation of the Chicago Platform. The St Louis Globe-Democrat the St Paul Pioneer-Press, the Chicago Tribune, the Omaha Bee, the Atchison Champion and many other papers throughout the West which have always been loyal soldiers in the high tariff army, have, of late, been very restive under the leadership of Mr. McKinley and those who think with him. Senators Plumb, Ingalls, Paddock, Manderson, and even Senators Dawes and Blair, and a few of the Representatives, notably Congressman Butterworth, while insisting that they are protectionists, have made more or less vigorous protests against the McKinley bill These papers and*statespien profess the utmost loyalty to their party, and to a National protective system as well.- They have no sympathy with the Democratic party; and yet McKinleyism does not please them. That gentleman has been silent for some time. The leading papers of his own party have abused him without stint, and have discussed his measure in the most savage terms. And in so doing they have assailed his political orthodoxy. It is interesting, therefore, to hear what he has to say for himself. Of course he claims that he belongs to the regular school, and he quotes the Chicago platform, of which he is the reputed author, in support of his claim. What does that document say? What was the issue upon which the party fought the last campaign? What had the ordinary citizen, who understood plain English, a right to expect from the party which asked him to vote for Mr. Harrison? Tariff revision, to be sure, but of what kind? Many peoplo insist that they thought that revision meant reduction, aiid some of them go so far as to say that had it been generally sup- ‘ posed that it meant any thing elso Mr. Harrison would never have reached the White House. Yet the words of this platform aro quite plain, and Mr. McKinley appeals to them in his own defense. The promise was to revise the tariff in such a way as to (heck importation*. That is the party’s latest utterance upon the subject of the tariff. It is bound by it—that is^ if party platforms over bind any one.® It was entrusted with power that it might “check importations.” Millions of dollars were tubscribed to its campaign fund on the strength of that pledge. Protection for protection’s sake was the theme of the orators and the organs. The revenue reformers were denounced as free traders because they proposed to do almost what the Western “kickers” are asking to have done now. 5 ■ The victory was won with the help of the Omaha Bee, the Chicago Tribune, the St. Paul Pioneer-Press and Messrs. Plumb, Butterworth and the rest of them. Then Mr. McKinley set about the work of translating the platform into legislation. The result is the McKinley bill, which has provoked a howl all^long the line. “And what,” he asks, “is‘ the howl about? Have we not done what we could to ‘check importations?’ The Customs Administration bill, which is now the law of tho land, is denounced by the free traders because it does just that thing. The McKinley Tariff bill, which the Senate will pass when it gets ready, will contribute to the accomplishment of tho same result. The party is carrying out its pledges. You, Mr. Plumb, and you, too, Mr. Blaino, approved those pledges when they were made. Shall we stand by them or not? That is the solo question. I say wo shall stand by them. And I say further, that, whatever may have been the case before 1888, in that year our party was committed to the cause of protection as embodied in the McKinley bill. The time for protest has gone by. The record is made up The party must abide by it—at least until tho next National oonventioh®meets. ” Such is Mr. McKinley’s plea. And it must be confessed that it has a plausible sound. The man who makes it is undoubtedly honestly and earnestly dovoted to a bad cause, while the men who aro fighting ‘him usually give the cause just as effective support when voting time comes, though they know it

to be a bad causa Another Kansas paper evidently agrees with Mr. McKinley’s view of the situation. It says that those protectionists who are clamoring for lower duties and an increased free list have no business to be doing it on party grounds, probably sympathizing itself with this clamor it declares that these demands are the very demands that the tariff reformers made in 1888 and are making now. It thinks that the dissatisfied gentlemen will have to admit that they have changed tlieir base; that they are now, occupying the tariff reform position and that all their talk in 1888 about the tariff not being a tax, etc., was purest humbug. It certainly looks that way. The quarrel is a pretty one, but Mr. McKinley seems to have the best of it. There is one other thing which tells in his favor. The Plumbs and Mandersons and the protesting newspapers have invariably come round all right at election time. So it is not specially dangerous to offend them. But it is dangerous to offend the protected manufacturers who kindly allow the “fat to be fried out of them” for the purpose of lubricating the protection machine. These gentlemen must be taken verv seriously. They invested their “boodle.” Their interests must be oared for. It 18 money that talks Mr. Andrew Carnegie’s little finger is thicker than the thigh of the lustiest kicker. Some Points About the McKinley Bill. The duty fixed by the McKinley bill as reported to the Senate on “common brown earthenware, common. stone ware, and crucibles not ornamented or decorated in any manner” is 25 percent. This is the same as it is now, except in one item where it has been raised from 20 to 25 per cent. The duty on cotton thread—except on the very cheapest kind—has been advanced from 15 to 18, 20 to 23, and 25 to 28 cents a pound. The 33 and 38 cent duties are unchanged. The tax of 48 cents a pound is increased to one of 50 per cent Another very “considerable increase” which is * 'believed to be necessary" because of “sharp foreign competition,” is that on collars and cuffs composed entirely of cotton. The increase u considerable; it being from 4C per cent, to 15 cents a dozen and 35 per cent, 30 cents a dozen and 35 per cent, and to 60 per cent In short, if any individual withagrain oi sense or glimmer of manhood were to study this scandalous bill as it was reported by the Senate Finance Committee, he would swear eternal war against the party which is responsible for it, and against every man who voted for it Its iniquities stand revealed on every page. It is a brutal piece of legislation, and is wholly in the interest of the rioh and powerful. —Farmers may as well understand, first as last that if the McKinley bill becomes a law there will be a general boycotting of American products by European nations. They will retaliate by legislating againBt those products which they buy most largely of us. Those things are chiefly grain and provisions. It is not a cheerful outlook for the farmer, but it is the penalty which be pays for the consummate folly of standing by protection and voting in a protective Administration,-ChicafO

HAP, MISHAP AND HAPPENINGS. Dolls that can tarn somersaults are In the market, with their heels In the air. » The latest fad of, Sew York society women isfa rivalry in sec tuingthe hand* Boniest metallic bedsteads. Bi.ue is the Chinese mourning color. When you see a Chinaman wearing a bine coat or with faille braid plaited in his queue you may take it for granted that some relative or friend Is dead. . The Maine Indians find considerable difficulty in procuring birches of sufficient size to furnish material for building their bark canoes, and are substituting canvas, which costs less and will bear rougher handling. It is reported that three nails of the true cross have been found in a very singular place, namely, in the ruins of the theater at Zurich, which was burned down. They were in a lirtle ivory casket, of admirablo workmanship, together with a manuscript of parchment, and were bricked up within a little cavity of the sub-structure. It is presumed that these relics were hidden by monks during the Reformation. Henry McCabe, of Paw Paw, Mich., has a hen wl«ich regularly lays colored hand-painted Easter eggs, of assorted sizes. But she accomplished the feat of her life Tuesday, when she sprang a twin soft-shelled egg that'resembled the Siamese twins, as the two eggs were united by a ligament of the same material as the shell. McCabe will put this egg, or these eggs, into an incubator, hoping to get Siamese twin chickens. A Pomona man came up recently from Redondo. He changed his seat very often, opened the windows^ squirmed about uneasily, and finally, kicked because he supposed there wds a corpse in the baggage cdr. Arrived at Los Angeles, ho reached into his coat pocket for his handkerchief and found five or six fish, which he had carefully placed there three days before to be used for bait. They were of the variety known as molt, and they were “true to name.” A rich man in St. Petersburg died, leaving orders that hifT sealed will should be opened twelve months from his death. When opened it contained another sealed packet, with instructions that it must not he opened for one year. The will had seven seals, the last of which has only just been broken, although the testator died six years ago. The money went to his nieces and nephews, a fourth to be invested till 1810, and then handed to the nephew who was blessed with the most numerous family. Postmaster Nofsixgfr, of Kansas City, says that he has any number like this to answer, and that he does not regard this one as any thing unusual at all: September the 10 1890 Mr. Post Master Kansas Sitty Mo Dear Sir I would like to Establish a gold fish traid in your Sitty and not being acquainted I wod be Ever so thankful to you if you wod send me the names of aney persons that deals in them or ane one that is likely to handle them Such as flouriest or fanse Drugest. yours A singular phenomenon was observed at the farm of J. A. Chase in Sebec, Me. The sun was gradually going down in the west, and as it approached the horizon what appeared to be a small cloud was seen nearly under it. This soon burst into thousands of globular forms, which wero brought apparently by the air current in the direction of Mr. Chase's farm, and were distinctly seen by himself and the other members of his family. As they fell upon the earth or touched other substances they disappeared in -a light smoke. While floating in the air they exhibited all the brilliant hues of the prism or rainbow. The children caught them in their hands, but there was nc residuum.

A QUEER LOT. A blackberry bush at Grand Lodge, Mich., is preparing for a second crop this season. A Kansas bantam which was hatched March 17 has laid twelve eggs and hatched from them twelve chicks. A six-year-old boy, whilo fishing in a Wisconsin stream, was pulled out of a boat and nearly drowned by an immense fish. Entitled to the Best. All are entitled to the best that their | money will buy, so every family should have at once, a bottle" of the best family remedy, Syrup of Pigs, to cleanse the system when costive or bilious. For sale in 50c and *1.00 bottles by all leading druggists. Never be in your place of business when a person wants to bonjiw money oTyouj a person wants to Dori-pw money ox_ you, because if you are in you will be out, but if on aro out you will be in.—Somerville lemocrat. Ta» Great St. Louis Exposition for 1800. IV ith Gilmore’s full band and the grand - a?t Electrical display ever made on earth, will be open nntil October 18th. The Wabash offers the usual low rates to and from St. Louis. Particulars of the nearest Ticket Agent. There is ono thing a woman can never do— she can’t make a man tell her where he has been.—Atchison Globe. I have been an invalid since my sixteenth year, until live months ago, ! began a use of Dr. Bull’s Sarsaparilla. Now at the age of twenty-three I feel myself, for the first time in my life, a man filled wi th health and ambition. I want you to publish this, although I do not sign my true name.—James Smith, Lexington, Ky. The man who proposed at live o’clock In the morning did the business in dew time, —Boston Gazette. The very best way to know w hether or not Dobbins’ Electric Soap fa as flood as it is said » be, is to try it yourself. It can’t deceive tou Be sure to get ho imitation. There ire lots of them. Ask your grocer for just me bar. 8 THE MARKET!*. NEW YORK. Sopt 29, BATTLE—Native Steers.* 8 50 ® COTTON—Middling. ® FLOUR—Winter Wheat...... 8 SS 0 WHEAT-No. 2 Red. I Jilt® OORN-No. 2. MW® OATS—Western Mixed... Jl « PORK—Mess.^.....1150 * ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling,. ..... • BEEVES—Export Steers.. 4 1# ® Shipping.. SI 75 ® HOGS—Common to Select... 400 ® SHEEP—Fair to Choice...*, ill* ® FLOUR—Patents. 5 00 ® YYX to Choice. fi 00 « WHEAT—No. 1 Bed Winter.. 97 « CORN-No. 2 Mixed.OATS—No. .. TOBAOCO-Lugs (Missouri).. 4 00 • Leaf,Burley..... IIS • HAY—Clear Timothy..I’>00 • BUTTER—Choice Dairy. 14 ® EGGS—Fresh. 16®® PORK—Standard MesS.• ® BACON—Clear Rib... . • # LARD—Prime Steam. .. ® WOOL—Choice Tub. » CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping. ... # 2S • HOGS—Good to Choice. I IS • SHEEP—Good to Choice.. S 50 0 FLOUR-Winter Patents.... 4 85 ® Spring Patents. * 20 e WHEAT—No. 2 Spring. • CORN-No. 2. « OATS—No. 2 White. 37*® PORK—Standard Mesa. 0 KANSAS CITY. 1891 6 OS 1C* 6 00 1 04 56 46® 12 25 10 5 00 460 4 60 5 04 5 13 3 75 97® 47® 37® 39 9 00 900 14 00 16 16 10 25 6® 5* 35 5 25 4 40 5 UO 5 6) 3 5t 96® 48 38 9 65 C ATTLE—Sh ipplog Steers... 3 10 HOGS-Salos at.. 4 00 36140 WHEAT-No. 2 Red OATB-No. 2... OORN-No. 2...... NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grade.......... i 75 » CORN-Whlte.....- 60 0 OATS—Choice Western. m HAY—Choice... 15 50 0 FORK-New Mess. 0 UAOON—Clear Rib. 0 COTTON—Middling.. . ® ’ LOUISVILLE. WHEAT-No. 2 Red...... ■ CORN-No. 2 Mixed. ® OATS-No. 2 Mixed. 39®® PORK-iless..,.. ... JO 758 BACON-Olear Rib. 601 goTTON-wuaiia#..,,,,, ■■BP . 4 60 4 87tt 94® 83® 45% 5 83 61 47 16 50 10 75 6® 10 ; » 62® 40 U 25 £ i!.j l(SZ®

Ths Peril* of Tooth. Sow few hate any material sympathy for youth at that period when “Standing With reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet,” They are urged forward by Satire’s stern decree to assume the powers and duties of manhood and womanhood. And yet this is the most critical point In the voyage of human Ufa The# It IS that the danger of a shattered nervous system reaches its crisis and ignorance seiiesits opportunity to plant the seed of future ill-health and misery. Then it is the quack secures his victim and bis purse. This is the session when the hand of experience should take the hand of inexperience and guide its feet to the solid rock upon the farther Shore. At the approach of puberty and during the first years of this new order of being, there are weakening tendencies that should be guarded against. A medicine that has the power to strengthen the various parts of the body and to regulate and give control to its various functions is essential at frequent intervals. Such a medicine has the eminent Dr, John Bull, of 'Louisville, £y., given to the world. It is known as Dr. Bull’s Sarsaparilla. Don’t fall into the hands of quacks, but demand this remedy of your druggist Take nO other. It is exactly what is needed and will carry you safely through to strength and robust health. Evbbt mother own* the beet boy—the worst boy belongs next door every time.— Texas Siftings. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Memory, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is tea fold to the good you can derive from them. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by P. J. Cheney & C0., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally and acts directly upon the blcod and miicous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure and get the genuine. It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by P. J. Cheney & Co. Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle. We believe it has never been decided whether railroads can grant a re-bate to fishing excursionists. — Washington Hatchet. By Steamer, Train or Boot? Which of these have you selected as a means of travel! No matter. Whichever it is, recollect that for sea-sickness, disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels, engendered by rough locomotion and bad food or water, and for malarial troubles, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is the most useful specific you can take with you. -It is invaluable also for' rheumatism, kidney complaint and nervous trouble. After all, tho only way to profit by the experience of others and avoid their troubles is to die young.—Atchison Globes A great mistake perhaps was made when Dr. Sherman named his great remedy Prickly Ash Bitters; but it is presumed that at that time all remedies for the blood, etc., were called Bitters. Had he called itPrickly Ash “Regulator,” “Curative,” or almost anything but Bitten, it undoubtedly would have superseded all other preparations of similar character. The nameBitterslsmisleading; it is purely a medicine, and cannot be used as a beverage. About the first thipg that strikes the man who runs away is the scarcity of places to run to.—Atchison Globe. Common sense teachss ns that' a thorn or splinter in the flesh must be removed before the part can heaL Malaria in the system must be destroyed before health can return. Shallenberger’s Antidote for Malaria does this and health returns immediately. There is no other known Antidote. Sold by druggists, or sent by mail for one dollar. A. T. Shallenberger & Co., Rochester, Pa. Si) iong as history repeats itself the school-boy need not commit it to memory.— N. O. Picayune. There’s a new newspaper in Kansas called Ham and Eggs. It should never appear oftener than once a week. Published every Fried day probably, the system can be cured ^>y using Carter's Little Liver Pills. No pain, griping or discomfort attending their use. Try them. Thbre is a strong resemblance between the friend who pats yon on the back in a quarrel and tho man who says “Sick ’em” to a dog in a fight.—Atchison Globe. Delays are dangerous. Don’t wait for your child to have an epileptic fit Kill at once the worms that are making her feel so poorly by giving Dr. Bull's Worm Destroyers. Lttno may be wicked, but nobody is going to sit up all night if it is.—Binehamton For twenty-five cents yon can get Carter’s Little Liver Pills—the best liver regulator in the world. Don’t forget this. One pill a dose. A pnx manufacturer advertised on tho label: “You take the pills; wodo the rest” —West Shore. Cui:K,your cough with Hale’s Honey of Horghound and Tar. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but you can buy a new dog.—Terra Haute Express. m _ Bronchitis is cured by frequent small doses of Piso’s Cure for Consumption. Many fine dinners are served in a coarse way.

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There are some patent.medicines that are mere marvellous than a dozen doctc rs* jireseriptionsj but they’re not those that profess to a sc everything. Everybody, now and then* Heels “ rim down,” “ piayed out.” They’ve the will, but no power to generate vitality. They're not sick enough to call a doctor, but just :oo sick to he well. That’s where the right klrn^of a patent medicine comes in, and does for a dollar what the doctor wouldn’t do for less than five or ten. We put in our claim for Dr. Pierce’s Goiden Medical Discovery. We claim it to be an onequaled remedy to purify the blood and invigorate she liver. We claim it to be lasting in its effects, creating an appetite, purifying the blood, and preventing Bilious, Typhoid and Malarial fevers if taken in time. The time to take it is when you first feel the signs of weariness rind weakness. The time to take it, on general principles is NOW. " PRICKLY ASH BITTERS On* Of the most important organs of .be human body is the LIVER. When it tail to properly perform its firiieticns the entire system becomes deranged, the 8RA1N, KIDNEYS, STOMACH, BOWELS, all refuse to perform their work. DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, RHEUMATISM, KIDNEY CISEASE, etc., are the results, unless something is done to assist Mature in throwing oft the impurities caused by the inae ion ot a TORPID LIVER. This assistance so necessary will be teusd in Prickly Ash Bittors! II acts directly on fee UVSR, STOMACH and KIDNEYS, and by its mild and cathartic effect and general tonic qualities restores these organs io a sound, healthy condition, and cures all diseases arising from toes* causes It PURIFIES THE BLOOD, tones up the system, and restores perfect health. If your druggist decs ftol beep it ask him to order it for you. Send Sc stamp tor copy Of “THE HORSE TRAINER,” published tr as. PRIGKLf m BITTERS C<LS Sole Proprietors ST. LOCK, MO. LIFE’S HISTORY: ItsSmUesamlTesi^ SwMfthewmrw of life, mado up of stiashino And gloom, gladless 9uid sorrow, rtehoft mid poverty, health and disease. We nmy dispel ibe gloom, banish the sorrow «\nd gala riehesj bolt sickness ttrill overtake as, sconov Ox later, tet, happily, that enemy can iw* vanquished ; Pains and aches can be relieved; there is a palm for every wound, and science has placed it within the reach of all* There is no discovery that has proves so (great a blessing 03 Dr* Ultra IJver £tlls. In malarial regloak Where Fever trnj Ague, Bilious Diseases and ailments Incident tea deranged liver prevail, they have proven an inestimable boon, aa a hundred thousand living witnesses testify. Tutt’s Liver Pills • SURE AMT!BOTE TO MALARIA. Price, 25c. Office, 3§ Si 41 Park Place M. Y.

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