Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 40, Petersburg, Pike County, 25 February 1891 — Page 4

■aterisU 'ever prevail protected bv some efteUiird. Hostetler's 061 a protei-tion and a Who inhabits, or soe region of country, ware this fortifying be finest known remconstipation, kidney remain under her mother's r if she’s a Utue chic.— e gentle action and mild effects of Little Liver Pills. If you try them, certainly please yon. rl with the reddest cheeks will, sees a mouse, change to a yeder Those who use Dobbins’ Electrio Soap each week, (and Vie r name is le d.,n) save their clothes and strength, and let the soap do the work D d poa ever try ii! If not, do so next Monday sure. Ask your grocer for it _ _ AS Inquirer wishes to know what will care a lelos.'. The penitentiary or death.— St Joseph News. Don’t Neglect a Cough. Take some Hale’s Honey of Horehotmd i.ud Tar institute . Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. Bstrqt'GTs are dangerous places Can • man Is-sober when his bealin Is drunk*— Binghamton Republican pring attend »o your personal condi* itjln for t o change to spring season. >t “wintered well,” if you are tired lork, if your blood has become lnb |h confinement in badly v ntllated 1 you should «ake Hood’s S»r«apa* Brill purify and vitalise your blood, ■f dlsct.se. create a good appetite, ■>1 • system toue and strength. Kget bod's saparilla ■raggists. II; six forCS. Prepared only IDt) & C0-. Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass b Doses One Dollar PGerman Syrup”

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the initial discourse of a series just begun by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage on the moral plaguesof New York xud text was: Lot mj people go th tor X w.ll at tliis time i Eioduslx., 13, 14 Last winter, in me museum at t^airo, Egypt, I saw the mummy or embalmed body of Pharaoh, the oppuessortoLfhe ancien t Israelites. Visible are the’very teeth that he gnashed against the Israelitish brickmakers. the sockets of the merciless eyes with which he looked upon the overburdened people of God, the hair that floated in the breeze off the Eel sea, tlie very lips with which ' he commanded them to make bricks without straw. Thousands of years after, whtn the wrappings of the mam- ; my were unrolled, old Pharaoh lifted up his arm as if itiftmploration, but his i skinny bones can not again clutch his ' shattei-ed scepter It was to compel that tyrant to let the oppressed go free that the memorable ten plagues were sept. Sailing the Nile and walking amid the ruinpof Egyptian cities, I saw no rem ains of those plagues that smote the water or the air. None of the frogs croaked in the one. none of the i locusts sounded their rattle in the other, and the cattle bore no sign of the murrain, and through the starry nights hovering about the pyramids no destroying angel Swept his wing. Rut there are ten plagues still stinging and befouling and cursing onr cities, and. like apgels of wrath, smiting not r- ' the first born but the last borr Brooklyn, New York and Jersey Glty, though called three, are practically one. The one bridge already fastening two of them together will be follbwed bv other bridges and by tunnels from both New Jersey and Long Island shores, until what is true now will, as the years go by, become more emphatically true. The average condition of public morals in this cluster of cities is as good if not better than in any other part of the world. Pride of city is natural to men, in all times, if they live or have

lived in a metropolis noted for dignity or prowess. Csesar boasted of his native Eoine; Lycurgiis of Sparta; Virgil of Andes; Demosthenes of Athens: Archimedes of Syracuse, and Paul of Tarsus. I should suspeet a man of basehearted ness who carried about with him no feeling of complacency in regard to the place of his residence; who gloried not in its arts, or arms, or behavior; who looked with no exultation upon its evidences of prosperity, its artistic embellishments, and its scientific attainments. I have noticed that men never like a place where they have not behaved well. Men who have free ndes in prison vans never like th$city that furnishes the vehicle. When'I see in history Argos. Rhodes, Smyrna, Chios, Colophon and several other cities claiming Homer, 1 conclude that Homer behaved well. Let us not war against this pride of city.nor expect to build up ourselves by pulling others down. Let Boston have its Commons, its Fancuil hall, and its magnificent scientific and educational institutions. Let Philadelphia talk about its mint, and Independence hall, and Girard ollege, and its old families, as virtuous as venerable. When I find a man living in one of those places who has nothing to say in favor of them, I feel like asking him: ‘‘Wliat mean thing did you do, that you do not like your native city?” New York is a goodly city, and when I say that I mean the region between Spuyten Duyvil creek and Jamaica in one direction, and Newark flats in the other direction. That which blasts one blasts all. Sin is a giant, and he comes to the Hudson or Connecticut river, and passes it as easily as we step across a figure in the carpet. The blessing of God is an angel; and when it stretches out its two wings, one of them hovers over that and the other over this: In infancy the great metropolis was laid down by the banks of the Hudson Its infancy was as feeble as that ol Moses sleeping in the bulrushes by the Nile; and. like Miriam, there our fatherstood and watched it. The royal spirit, of American commerce cajne down to the water to bathe; and there she found it She took it in her arms, and the child grew and waxed stroffg; and thi ships of foreign lands brought gold ant spices to its feet: and stretching itseli up into the proportions of a metropolis i't has looked up into the mountains ant. off upon the sea—the mightiest of tht energies of American civilization. The character of the founder of a city will be seen for many years in its inhabitants, Romulus impressed his life upon Rome. T he Pilgrims relaxed not thenhold upon the cities of New England

William Penn has left Philadelphia an inheritance of integrity and fair dealing; and on any day in that city you may see in the manners, customs and principles of its people his tastes, his coat, his hat, his wife's bonnet, and his plain meeting-house. The Hollanders still wield an influence over New York. Grand old New York! What Southern thorough aie was ever smitten by pestilence, when our physicians did not throw themselves upon the sacrifice! What distant land has cried out in the agony of famine, and our ships have not put out with breadstuffs! What street of Damascus, or Beyrout, or Medfas, tha t has not heard of our missionaries! What struggle for national life in which our citizens have not poured their blood into the trenches! What gallery of exquisite art in which our painters have not hung their pictures! What department of literature or science to which our scholars have hot contributed! L need not speak of our public schools, where the children of the cordwainer and milkman and glassblowxr stand by the side of the flattered sous of merchant princes; or of the insane asylums on all these islands, where they who went cutting themselves, among the tombs now sit, clothed and, in their right minds; or of w iere the the Magdalen asylums, lost one. of the street comes to bathe the Saviour’s feet with her tears, and wipe them with the hairs of her head—confiding in the pardon of Him who said: “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone at her.” I need not speak of the institutions for the blind, the lame, the deaf and the dumb, for the incurables, the widow, the orphan and the outcast; or of the thousand-armed machinery that sends streaming down the reservoirs the clear, br’ght, sparkling, God-given water that rushes through our aqueducts, and dashes out of the hydrants, and tosses up in our fountains, and hisses in our steam engines, and showers out the conflagration, and sprinkles from the baptismal font of onr churches, and with golden sparkle, and i, says to hundreds of of our population, in the auof Him who said: “I will;

me years ago, when an association for the suppression of gambling was organized, an agent of the association came to a prominent eitizen and askei him to patronize the society. He said: “No, I can have no interest in snch an organization. I am in nowise" affected by that evil.” At that very time his son, who was Sis partner i:a bumness, was one of the heaviest players in Hearne's famous gaming establishment. Another refused his patronage on the same ground, not knowing that his first book-keeper, though receiving a salary of only a thousand dollars, was. losing from fifty to one hundred dollars per night The president of a railroad company refused to patronize the institutions, saying: “That society is good for the defense of merchants, but we railroad people are not injured by this evil;” not knowing that, at that very time, two of his conductors were spending three nights of each week at faro tables in New York. Directly or indirectly this evil strikes at the whole world. Gambling is the risking of something more or less, valuable in the hope of winning more than you hazard. The instruments of gaming may differ, but the principle is the same. The shuffling and dealing cards, however, full of temptation, is not gaming, unless stakes are put up; while, on the other hand, gamtiling may be carried on without cards or dice, or billiards or a ten-pin alley, The man who bets on horses, on elections, on battles—the man who deals in “fancy” stocks, or conducts a business which hazards extra capital, or gois into transactions without foundation, but dependent upon what men call “luck,” is a gambler, whatever you expect to get from your neighbor without offering an equivalent in money or time or skill, is either the product of theft or gaming. Lottery tickets and lottery policies come into the same category. Fairs for the founding of hospitals, schools and churches, conducted on the raffling system, come under the same denomination. Do not, therefore, associate gambling necessarily with any instrument, or game, or time or place, or think the principle ‘ depends upon wheth er you pay for a glass of wine or one hundred shares of railroad stock. Whether yon patronize “auction pools,” “French mutuals” or “book-making,”

WlirrisUC* JUU ClupiUJ idlU Ut UU1UUU9) ' gondo or keno, cards or bagatelle, the very idea of the thing- is dishonest; for it professes to bestow upon you a good for wliieh you give no equivalent. It is estimated that every day in Christendom thirty million dollars pass from .hand to hand through gambling practices, and every year in Christendom one hundred and twenty-three billion one hundred million dollars change hands in that way. ■ There are in this cluster of cities about eight hundred confessed gambling establishments. There are about thirty-five thousand professional gamblers. Out of the eight hundred gambling establishments, how many of them do yon suppose profess to be honest? Ten. These ten professing to be honest because they are merely the ante-chamber to the seven hundred and ninety that are acknowledged fraudulent. There are first-clikss gambling establishments. You go up the marble stairs. You ring the bell. The liveried servant introduces you. The walls are lavendertinted. The mantels are of Vermont marble. The pictures are “Jephthah’s Daughter” and Dore’s “Dante and Virgil’s Frozen Region of Hell,” a most appropriat* oclcctiou, this last, for tlie oftice. There is the roulette table, the finest, the costliest, most exquisite niece oi furniture in the United States. There is the banqueting room, where, free of charge to the guests, you may find the plate, and viands, and wines, and cigars, sumptuous beyond parallel. Then you come to the second-class gambling establishment. To it you are introduced by a card through sonfe “roper-in,” Having entered, you must either gamble or fight. Sanded cards, ■lice loaded with quicksilver, poor drinks, will soon help you to get rid of all your money to a tune in short meter with staccato passages. You wanted to see. You saw. The low villains of that place watch you as you come in. Does not the panther, squat in the grass, know a calf when he sees it? Wrangle not for y'our rights :n that place, or your body will be thrown bloody into the steeet, or ■lead into the East river. You go along a little further and find the policy establishment. In that place you bet on numbers. Retting on two numbers is called a “sa Idle;” betting on three numbers is called a “gig;” betting on four lumbers; is called a “horse,” and there are thousands of our young men leaping into that “saddle,” and mounting that “gig,” and behind that “horse.” riding to perdition. There is always one kind of sign on the door—“Exchange:’’ a most appropriate title for the door, for there, in that room, a man exchanges health, peace and Heaven, for loss of health, loss of home, loss of family, loss of immortal soul. Exchange sure enough and infinite enough:

Men wisningrogamoie wiu nno places just suited to their .capacity, not only in the underground oyster cellar, or at the table back of the curtain, covered with greasy curds, or in the"steamboat smoking cabi n, where the bloated wreteh, with rings in his ears instead of his nose, dea ls the pack, and winks in the unsuspecting traveler—providing free drinks alt around—but in gilded parlors and amid gorgeous surroundings. A youn g man having suddenly heired a large p roperty, sits at a hazard table and taken up in a dice box the estate won by a father’s lifetime sweat, and shakes it and tosses it away. Intemperance soon stigmatizes its victim— kicking him out, a slavering fool, into the ditch, or sending him, with the drunkard's hiccough, staggering up the street where his family lives. But gambling does not in that way expose its victims. The gambler may be eaten up by the gambler's passion, yet you only discover it by the greed in his eyes, the hardnefcs of his features, the nervous , restlessness, the threadbare coat and his embarrassed business. Yet he is on the road to hell, and no preacher’s voice or startling warning, or wife’s entreaty, can make him stay for a moment his headlong career. The infernal Bpell is on him; a giant is aroused within; and though you bind him with cables, they would part like thread; and though you fasten him seven times round with chains, they would snap like rusted wire; and though you piled up in his path heaven-high Bibles, traets and sermons, and on the top should set the cross of tlie Son of God, over them all the gambler would leap like a roe over the rocks, on his way to perdition. Again, this sin works ruin by killing industry. A man used to reaping scores, or hundreds, or thousands of dollars from the framing table will not be content with slow work. He will say: “What is the use of trying to make these fifty dollars in my store when 1 can get five times that in half an hour down at ‘Billy's?" ” You never knew a confirmed gambler who was indusmeo given to this vice " not actively em- , in idleness, or in

tiew victims. This has dulled the carpenter's saw, and cat the band of the factory wheel, sunk the cargo, broken the teeth of the farmer’s barrow and sent a strange lightning to shatter the battery of the philosopher. The very idea in gaming is at war with all tire industries of society. This crime is getting its lever under many a mercantile house in pur great cities, and before long down will come the great establishment, crashing reputation, home, comfort and immortal souls. How it diverts and sinks capital may be inferred from some authentic statement before us. The ten gambling houses that once were authorized in Paris passed through the banks, yearly, three hundred and twen-ty-five million francs. Where does all the money come from? The whole world is robbed! What is most sad, there are no consolations for the loss and suffering entailed by gaining. If men lail in lawful business, God pities and society commiserates; but where in the Bible or in society is^ there any consolation for the gambler?* From what tree of the forest oozes there a balm that Can soothe the gamester’s heart? In that bottle where God keeps the tears'of His children, are there any tears of the gambler? Do the winds that come to kiss the fa led cheek of sickness, and to cool the heated brow of the laborer, whi per hope and cheer to the emaciated victim of the game of hazard? When .an honest man is in trouble he has sympathy.: “Poor fellow!” they say. But d5 gamblers come to weep at the agonies of the gambler? In Northumberland was one of the finest estates in England. Mr. Porter owned it, and in a year gambled it all away. Having lost the last acre of his estate, he came down from the Saloon and got into his carriage; went back, put up his horses and carriage and town house, and played. He threw and lost. He started home, and in a side alley met a friend, from whom he borrowed ten guineas; went back to the saloon, and before a great while had won twenty thousand pounds. HC died at last a beggar in St. Giles. How many gamblers felt sorry for Mr. Porter? Who consoled him on the loss of his estate? What gambler subscribed to-put a stone over the poor man’s grave? Notone!

i< urtnermore, tnis sin is ine source oi uncounted dishonesties. The game of hazard itself is often a cheat. Howmany trickl and deceptions in the dealing of the cards! The opponent's hand is ofttimes found out by fraud. Cards are marked so that they may be designated from the back. Expert gamesters have ther accomplices, and one wink may decide the game. The dice have been found to be loaded with plating, so that “doublets” come up every time. These dice are introduced by the gamblers unobserved 'by honest men who have come into the play; and this accounts for the fact that ninetynine out of a hundred who gamble, however wealthy they began, at the end are found to be poor, miserable, ragged wretches, that would not now be allowed to sit on the doorstep of the house they once owned. In a gaming house in San Francisco a young man having just come from the mines deposited a large sum upon the ace, and won twenty-two thousand dollars. But the tide turns. Intense anxiety comes upon the countenances of all. Slowly the cards went forth. Every eye is fixed. Not a sound is heard until the ace is revealed favorable to the bank. There are shouts of “Foul!” “Foul!” but the keepers of the table produce their pistols find the uproar is silenced, and the bank has won ninetyfive thousand dollars. Do yon call this a same of chance? There is no chance about it. “My beloved parents: You will doubtless feel a momentary joy at the reception of this letter from the child of your bosom, on whom you have lavished all the favors of your declining years. But should a feeling of joy for a moment spring up in your hearts when you should have received this from fire, cherish it not. I have fallen deep— never to rise. Those gray hairs that I should have honored and protected I shall bring down with sorrow to the grave. I will 'not curse my destroyer, but, oh! my God avenge the wrongs and impositions practiced on the unwary in a way that shall best please Him. This, my dear parents, is the last letter you will ever receive from me. I humbly pray your forgiveness. It my dying prayer. Long before you have received this letter from me the cold grave will have closed upon me forever. Life to me is insupportable. I can not, nay, I wiU not, suffer the shame of having ruined you. Forget and forgive is the dying prayer of your unfortunate - son.” Shall I sketch the history of the gambler? Lured by bad company,'he finds his way into a place where honest men ought never to go. He sits down to his first game, but only for pastime and the desire of being thought sociahle. The nlavers deal out the cards.

They unconsciously play into Satan's hands, which takes all the tricks and both the players’ souls for trumps—he being a sharper at any game. A slight stake is put up to add interest to the play. Game after game is played. Larger stakes and still larger. They begin to move nervously on their chairs. Their brows lower and eyes flash, until now they who win and they who lose, fired alike with passion, sit with set jaws and compressed lips and clenched fists, and eyes like fire-balls that seem starting from their sockets, in see the final turn before it comes; if losing, pale with envy and tremulous with unuttered oaths cast back red-hot upon the heart; or, winning, with hysteric laugh—“Hatha! I have it! I have it!” Take warning! You are no stronger than tens of thousands who have by this practice been overthrown. No young man in our cities can escape being tempted. Beware of the first beginnings! The road is a down grade, and every instant increases the momentum. Launch not upon this treacherous sea. * Split hulks , strew the beach. Everlasting storms howl up and down, tossing unwary crafts into the hell-gate. I speak of what I have seen with my own eyes. I have looked off into the abyss, and 1 have seen the foaming and the hissing and the whirling of the horrid deep in which the mangled victims writhed, one upon another, and struggled, strangled, blasphemed and died—the death-stare of eternal despair upon their countenances as the waters! gurgled over them. To a gambler's death-bed there comes no hope. He will probably die atone. His former associates come not nigh his dwelling. When the hour comes his miserable soul wiU go out of a miserable life into a miserable eternity. As his poor remains pass the house where he was ruined, old companions may look out a moment and say: '“There goes the old carcass—dead at last,” but they will not get up from the table. Let him down now into hisgrave. Plant no tree to cast its shade there, for the long, deep, eternal gloom that settles there is shadow enough. Plant no “forget-me-nots” or eglantimes around the spot, for flowers were not made to grow on such a blasted heath. Vipit it not in the sunshine, for that would be mockery, but in the dismal night, when no stars are out, and the spirits of darkness come down horsed on the wind, then visit the i

INDIANA LEGISLATURE! Ifmanapoijs, Feb. It—Sbiati-The Senate this morning passed ibe bill amending tbs metropolitan police lhw. Shortly before noon to-day the Seram treat into Committee ot the who e on the Appellate Colin blit—one of the most important measures that will come before the present session. Senator Bnrke eras in the chair. The purpose of the hill is for the relief of the Supreme Court It Is provided that the court shall be known as the Appellate Court. It shall consist of fire Judges, and have exclusive jurisdiction of all appeals from the circuit superior and criminal courts in coses 11 misdemeanor, etc. It is provided that the Governor th 'll appoint the first judges of said court, one from er.ch district. Not more than three shall be of the same political party. The State in divided into five districts. The salaries of the judge- are fixed at $4.0)0 At five o'clock the committee arose having finished the consideration of the i ll- by sec tions. It reported to tbe flenate recommending that tbe b 11 pass, uml the recommendation was adopted. Hops*—'The House commenced a stubborn and what promts- s to be a long-drawn-out Strangle this morning on ibe fee and salary bill, wh eh had been made ibe spevia' order of lOd'O. For ibe purpose or considering the bill the i ou-e went into Committee of the Whole, with Representative Beaslev in tbe C air. The hlil was considered by .sections, and the entire day was consumed in th • consideration or that portion which fixes the salaries of Stale o(livers and their assistants I dianapous Feb. li—SrKATE—Senator Kerih introdu, ed two bills the combined purpose of which is to ptaee the ihe department < f Evansville nn termotrooo itan police contr 1. Senator French introduced n resolution in ihe Semite last evenin - changing the meeting hour of the Senate from. h> a m. to 9. It was referred to the committee on rules. The Senate accepted an invitation to join with the united soldiers' organization in a celebration ot ihe anniversary of the birth of the Fat er of His Country at Tomlinson Hall on the afternoon of February Si at 9o’clock. HOUSE—The House went into committee of ihe w hole for the constd-ra'lon of tho Fee i nd S lery B11. The pending business was consideration of Seeiion 15 fixing tho salaries of circuit and supr mo court judges at $3,500 a ye r. An amendment was dapied leaving the salaries of circuit and superior oonrt judg -s as they now ere, to-wit: *3 GOO tor circuit judges and 13.009 forsuperior court judges. The altermoon si- devoted to the salaries of county officers Considerable progress was made, and .Section 46. fixing the salaries of recorders of counties of tho six I h class was passed There were no change- in any seot on fixing county officers' fees and salaries. iNDIANAPOUa Feb. 13 —.'tv AT* —Bills passed: Providing tliar where t' ere Is h > paper In a town, it shan be la 'nl to pub s i gal notices in any othijr p.,. erin t.» country; appropriating Si 111 lo pay VV m. Aloellering for interest on State warrants;' au horizing city councils to g ve stveot railway companies lio right to change from the n ule for the electric mptor; authorizing the Alumni of the State Insti'utionof B oomingtouato eiect three of the eight trustees. '

House—B lls passed: To repeal sections 8162 and 2163 (regardinggarnishment pro eedtngs of the-Revised Statutes of 1831; to subj *ct private hanks and bankers to State control; providing for the assessment and taxation of personal property of wards in the hands of guardians, the same to be taxed in the township where the ward resides; pe: m tting accident insurance associations, organ zed under the Haws of the State for doing business under the | assessment plan, to issue tickets of insurance for a period of thirty days or less: Fixing tho amount allowed to the Supreme Court reporter for each volume of reports at $200; to amend the Jaw regarding drainage: defining the jurisdiction and powers of mayors of cities. Indianapolis, Feb. 14.4-Senate—Bittspass-ed: To suppress bucket shops and gambling in stocks, bonds, petroleum, cotton, grain, meat, provisions and other'’produce: providing for the transfer of insane convicts from the State s prisons and reformatories to the Central insane nsylum; authorizing city councils to change district and ward lines for equitable reprosentatioiWri the countv: authonz ng boards of trus^fe oi ?av ngs banks th« de oslts of which reach or exfcouu , by unanim us vote and With the consent of the Ana. or of State, to raise th--* salaries of presidents m *1,5 0 to 12 00; authorizing county commission -r* to cand assume c arge and co itrol of gravel r<f^s constructed by private citizens. House—Bills introduced: Authorizing industrial education at he institut ©»»s for the deaf and dumb, blind and feeble-minded by teachers instead of contrae'ors; authorizing circuit courts to change the time for ho ding court; prohibiting agents from soliciting business for insurance companies not organized under the laws of the f-tate; prohibiting tho use of stoves in coaches, cabooses and mail cars, and providing a penalty *of from $10J to 8500; requiring guardians to schedule the property of wards for t x at von in the township where the wards reside. ]%di anapolis. Feb. 16 —Senate—The Appellate Court- bill was brought up again and amended to the effect that the period of existence of the court shall be for six years from March 1, I8C1. and no longer- Passed. The Live Stock Insur nee bill was passed. It pro* vide8 that iifreen or more personsms.y associate themse ves together and file articles of agreement for insurance against loss of stock either by death or theft. The capital stoek of any such conuukiiy shall not be less than $50 000. Bouse —Bills passed: Providing that the funds arising from the sale of county lands shall go into the school fund af er the ext enscs have been paid: authorizing the formation of abstract companies; making it unlawful to use any counterfeit labels, trade marks, brands stamps, etc., and providing penalties. Tho penis t.y for m-iking or sell ng such labels Is a fine of from 81 000 to $2 000, or imprisonment; for knowingly selling merchandise so labeled the pena'ty is a fine of from $51 to $2J0, or impri on men t . providing that street car companies shall pay for paving and keeping in repair the space between their tracks and two feet on either side; providing for the labeling ol artificial dairy products when sold by grocers or used by resiaurants and hotels, and providing a. fine of from $10 to $lu0 for violations. I VIDIAN APOLIS, Feb. 17.—SE MATE—Bills advanced to second reading: F xing the salaries oi' prison wardens at $2 514). deputy war-" dens 8 i,5-JO; providing Tor the placing of the benevolent instil utions of the State under nonpartisan control; making it mandatory to assess imprisonment from ten to six y days as a part of the penalty for selling liquor without license: abolishing the ofllc • «»f state Oil Inf.pector, and creating the office of State Supervior of Oil Inspectors; providing that surplus money assessed and collected for the construct.ou of free gravel roads shall be paid into the general fund; to abolish water-works boards in cities of five thousand and under; to license the business of pawn brok ing. nf nVlni'V this

afternoon in both legislative branches, was the memi.nal exercises in honor of General William T. Sherman and Admiral David Porter. Suliable resolutions were prepared and adopted. Several eulogistic speeches were made. The Judiciary Committee of the House, to which vita referred Brtpreaentative Cullop’s resolution proviidin* for an nvestigation of the claim that the Terre Haute ami Indianapolis railroad owes the State several million dollars, reported, recommending that the resolution be made a ooncum nt one, and providing that a committee or eight Hve from the House and three from the Senate, be appointed to investigate and report not later th m March 1. Action upon thft report w.is temporarily deferred. EUROPEAN ARMY NOTES. The American saddle is being used by the British mounted infantry. . (J exkrai.s Gibbon and Benet are soon to l>e retired from the army, having both reached the age limit. The British army costs $177,000,000 a' year. This is 810,000,000 more than Germany pays for the support of her soldiery. The armies of the Central Asiatic States under the protection of the Czar will bet officered hereafter by Russians from Russia’s European army. The German navy will have thirtyseven more vessels in active service this year than last. The total number to be assigned to duties lasting from three to ten months is ninety-six. Canisser shot will not be used in the French army in future. The shells are filled with an explosive made of chrysolite and a substance kept secret; and eve:ry battery -has seventy-five rounds of these projectiles. The list of pensioned officers in the German army has swelled noticeably since the accession .to the throne of Emperor William 11. The number of pensioned Generals oicavalry and infantry has increased from 58 to 84; of Lieuten-ant-Generals, from 215 to 240; of MajorGenerals, from 258 to 302, and of Colonels, from 585 to 603. Emperor 1 WElijah's announcement that he will attend the imperial Bavarian maneuvers of 40,000 troops near Munich next fall has created a considerable sensation in the “State’s rights” press of South Germany. Vaterland, a clerical paper, protests that “Bavaria has a regent, has a king, but has not an emperor, and therefore Imperial maneuvers’ are out of the question.” A Wisconsin judge has decided that a pull a tooth on r - ■ /. •'

THE MARCH WIDE AWAKE las something for every taste, and all sof the best and brightest; the maga•■ine is made for the young people, bnt he contributions are of such a sort that (very member of the family trill enjoy >ach page. fthe number opens with ‘An Old-fashioned Witch Story,” from he Danish, by Lavtra E. Poulsson. ‘Under Ground” is a true and thrilling California adventure, by C. R. Parker. ’Tippetoe,” by Maud-Rittenhouse, is a jrief, pathetic Southern story. The rerials this year are unique: “Five Li.,le Peppers Grown Up,” by Margaret Sidney, attracting thousandsof readers; •Cab and Caboose,’’ Ahe railroad story ay Kirk Monroe; andthe autobiographical Italian story, “Marietta’s Good times,” by M. Ambrosi. “Drawingthe Child Figure” is a novel series of pracsical art instruction by the daughter of he Art-Anatomist, Dr. Eimmer. The articles of the number cover a wide range of topics: “Our Government —who made it and why,” with a fine jortrait of Hamilton, by Hon. John D. Long; “A Visit to Winchester College it Commencement Time,” by Oscar Fay idams, with the words and music of he famous old Winchester commencenent song, “Dulce Domum;” “How grandmother's Spoons Were Made,” by Mrs. Ormsbee; entertaining articles by Prof. Otis T. Mason, Mrs. William Claflin, Amanda Harris and others; ■‘Prize Problems in Horology,” by E. H. Hawley, of the Smithsonian Institution; ind several pages of bright anecdotes. Wide Awake is $3.40 a year; 80 cents i number. D. Lothrop Company, Publishers, Boston. Speaking of fasting, sailors have been snbwu to live on salt water for mouths at a time.—Washington Star. How’s This! We offer One Hundred Dollars Reword ’or any case of Catarrh that can not be :ured bv taking Gall s Catarrh Cure. F. J. ‘Cheney & Co., Props, Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the lastfif teen years, and believe rim perfectly honorable in all business ransactions, and financially able to carry >sit any obligations made by their firm. iVest & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, 1 oledo. IVaiding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. . Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, icting directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials free. Price, 73c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. A little poker now and theb sometimes lees up the best of men.—Oil City Blizzard All who wish to aid Nature in her efforts > maintain good healthshoulduse Dr. John lull’s Sarsaparilla. It is as pleasant as rine, and far more strengthening. It is eneficial to every part and every function f the body. It is truly the old man’s need nd the young man's friend. In cases Oi e'oility and weakness it acts like a charm. ft

■•CiT-NLPPKD!” squeaked the mouse as Tabby got agripon b:ni.— Washington Post. Tue best cough medicine is Piso’s Cure for Consumption. Sold everywhere. 25o. A policeman should never cuff a person on the ear. Handcuffs are the only variety be should use.—Pittsburgh Chronicle. THE MARKETS. 54 i U 25 84* 5 40 5 10 3 SO 5 25 4 80 3 60 07 5243 454a 81 ® 9 00 ® 8 50 ® 13 00 ® 24 ® 1443 9 6242 543 643 34 New York, Feb. 13.189L CATTIJS—Native Steers.-S4 20 * 5 55 COTTON—Middling. ® . # FLOUR—Winter Wneat. 4 10 ® 5 65 WIHKAT—No. 2 Bed. 1 1043®= 1 1*43 CORN—No. *.t.. .4 6444® 4.443 OATS—Western Mixed... 51 1©RK—New Mess.10 50 ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling.. ® iBEVES—Choice Steers...... 5 15 ® (Shipping.. 4 8b ® HOGS—Common to S leet- S O ® SHEEP—Fair PrChoiCc. 3 75 ® FLOUR—Patents . 4 65 ® XXN to Choice...... 2 90 W WHEAT—No. 2 Red Winter. . 9643® CQBN-No. 2 Mixed..,. 52 ® OATS—No. 2...i.— • 4544® BYE—No. 2...i..4. 80 ® TOBACCO—Lugs . 1 30 ® LeafBwrley .... 3 00 ■“ HAY—Clear Timothv.. 10 00 BUTTER—Choice Dairy. 20 k» EGGS—Fiesh......-.,.. 14 ® PORK—Standard Mess. ® BACON—Ctc<r Bib.. 543® LARD—Prime Steam. 543® WOOL—Choice Tub. ® CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping.... 4 00 0 HOGS—Good to Choice. 3 40 ® SHEEP—Fair to Choice ..... 4 25 a FLOUR—Winter Patents. 4 60 9 Spring Patents.. 4 40 ® WHEAT—No. 2 Spring.. 9133® CORN—No 2..... 63® OATS—No. 2 White... 4533® PORK—Standard Mess.. .*.. ® KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Shipping Steers.... » 45 ® HOGS—All Grades. 3 00 0 WHEAT—No.■/» Red.. 91 ® OATS—No. 2 . 4443® CORN-No. 2 . 4744® NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grade.. 4 50 ® CORN—No. 2. g OATS—Choice Western.< ® HAY—Choice... 16 00 ® 16 50 PORK—New Mess. ® 10 2o BACON-Cle. rRib. • ® COTTON—Middling. 844® LOUISVILLE. WHEAT—No. 2Bed..l... ® CORN—No. 2 White. 5643® OATS—No. 2 Mixed. « . „ BACON—Clear Rib.. • 543 COTTON—Middling.. 943® 943 5 75 3 75 5 50 4 90 4 95 9142 5*43 4543 9 6242 5 10 3 40 92 4443 4743 5 15 6442 55 543 98 57 4443

Taken away —sicfe headache, bilious headache, dizziness, constipation, indigestion, bilious attacks, and all derangements of the Uycr, stomach and bowels. It’s a large contract, but the smallest things in the world do the business—Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. They’re the smallest, but the most effective. They go to work in the right way. They cleanse and renovate tne system thoroughly—but they do it mildly and gently. You feel the good they do—but you don’t feci them doing it. As a Liver Pill, they’re unequaled. Sugar-coated, easy to take, and put up in vials, and hermetically sealed, and thus always fresh and reliable. _ A perfect vest-pocket remedy, in small vials, and only one necessary for a laxative or three for a cathartic. They’re the cheapest pill you can buy* because they’re guaranteed to give satisfaction, or your money is returned. You only pay for the good you get- ' ■ c* 1 That’s the peculiar plan all Dr. Pierce’s, medicines are sold on, through druggists. I Most is Lenox. Cleans

So SAS’2tt Ibtvmnr csa hu had for Coughs id Colds, or tuii trouble of the Throat, tas “8 Bj-.jiitkMI JVocAs*.” Frit* 25 io. Soui 9 la »» '-OIC& Ms.st ac ttalian-fcaa a personal organ ion after reucelug Otis country.—Tesaa ifttago. MtST little children owe their (food health > Dr. John Rail's Worm Destroyers. “Sice [Rinas iagive them such nice candies.” 1’ns worses men's temper ts, the ceoro ecoiaing and profitable it will be tor him o keep it—itingaamton Leader. For can’t help liking them, they arc sovery mall and their action is so perfect One pill a use. Carter s. Little Ur er Fite, Try them. Ir a courling-mairh is not declared off it auat end in a tie.—S- V. Picayune.

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pp*u #h Under Koch's treatment many have improved. It can only fee used in the early stages of Consumption. It is dangerous, aijd sometimes fatal. Only a few can obtain the lymph. Physicians only ceu use it, evon with great care. It la said that by it 3 u&e disease is sometimes transferred to sound erg ns.

a> fiso 8 cure lor consumption nas cureu us inou* sands, even in advanced stages of sumptionto. It can be used in ail stages, affording infinite relief to the incurable. ^ „ , c. It Is without danger, and cannot be fetal. _ d. It is within the reach of alL Is not expensive. e. Physicians recommend it. _ t NoeYilreeuits-tiroxhitause. Try it.

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