Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 41, Petersburg, Pike County, 4 March 1891 — Page 4

HE NATION’S CURSE* r. T. DeWitt Talmage Discourses t the Plague of Intemperance. Ice that la Gradually Sapping the Life lood of the Nation by Making Slaves of Its People-The Duty Of the Church. 'he second discourse of the series on “Ten Plagues of New York City 1 the Adjacent Cities” was delivered Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage in Brook1 and New York City, The text was: loah planted a vineyard; and lie drank of i wine and was drunken.—Genesis ix. 20,21. This Noah did the best and the worst hag for the world. lie built an ark ninst the deluge of water, but introiced a'deluge against which the hu* an race has ever since been trying to lild an ark—the deluge of drunkeniss. In my text we hear his staggerg steps. Shem and Japhet tried to >ver pp the disgrace, hut there he is, •unk on .wine at a time in the history ! the world when, to say the least, iere was no lq^ck of water. Inebriaon, having entered the world, has not itreated. Abigail, the fair and heroic ife, who saved the flocks of Nabal. her nsband from confiscation by invaders, >es home at night and finds him so indicated she can not tell him the story ! his narrow escape. Oriah came to se David, and David got him drunk, (id paved the way for the despoliation t a household. Even the church bishis need to be charged to be sober and ot given to too much wine, and so failiar were people of Bible times with le staggering and falling motion of the lebriate. that Isaiah, when he comes to :scribe the final dislocation of worlds, ijs: “The earth shall reel to and fro Ice a drunkard.” Ever since apples and grapes and heat grew the world has been temptl to unhealthful stimulants. But the toxicants of the olden time were an nocent beverage, a harmless orangele, a quiet sirup, a peaceful soda war, as compared with the liquids of Hera inebration, into which a madss, and a fury, and a gloom, and a e, and a suicide, and a retribution ve mixed and mingled. Fermentam was always known, but it was not til a thousand years after Christ that (‘illation was invented. While we lit confess that some of the ancient ;s have been lost, the Christian era is lerior to all others in the bad emiice of whisky and rum arid gin. The dern drunk is a hundred-fold worse in the ancient drunk. Noah in his oxication became imbecile, but the tims of modern alcoholism have to •aggie with whole menageries of wild asts and jungles ofchissing serpents, i perditions of blaspheming demons, i arch-fiend arrived in oiir world, and built an invisible caldron of temptaa. He built that caldron strong and rat for all ages and all nations. First squeezed into the caldron the juices the forbidden fruit of Paradise, ten he gathered for it a distilion from the harvest fields d the orchards of the hemireres. Then he poured into this calon capsicum, and copperas, and log>od, and deadly night-shade, and asalt and battery, and vitriol, and um, and rum, and murder, and sulmric acid, and theft, and potash, and ihineal, and red carrots, and poverty, d death and hops. But it was a dry mpound, and it must be moistened, id it must be liquified, and so the •ch-fiend poured into that caldron the ars of centuries, of orphanage and .dowhood, and he poured in the ood of twenty thousand asssinations. And then the arch:nd took a shovel that he id brought up from the furnaces •neath, and he put that shovel into is great caldron and began to stir,and e caldron began to heave, and rock, id boil, and sputter, and hiss, and loke, and the nations gathered around ith cups and tankards and demijohns id kegs, and there was enough for all, id the arch-fiend cried: “Aha! chamon fiend am I. Who has done more r coffins and grave-yards and prisons id insane asylums, and the populating the lost world? And when this cal■on is emptied, I’ll fill it again, and I’ll ir it again, and it will smoke again, id that smoke will join another joke—the smoke of a torment that eendeth forever and ever. I

ove fifty ships on the rocks Newfoundland and the Skerss and the Goodwins. I have lined more senators than gather this inter in the national councils. I have lined more lords than are now gathed in the house of peers. The cup it of which 1 ordinarily drink is a iman skull, and the upholstery of my ilace is so rich a crimson because it is red in human gore, and the mosaic of y floors is made up of the bones of lildren dashed to death by drunken irents, and my favorite music—sweeter an Te Deum or triumphal march—my ivorite music is the cry of daughters aimed out at midnight on the streets ecause father has come home from the arousal, and the seven-hundred-voiced tiriek of the sinking steamer, because be captain was not himself when he put be shipon the wrongcourse. Champion end am l! I have kindled more fires, have wrung out more agonies, I have tretehed out more midnight shadows, have opened more Golgothas. 1 have ailed more Juggernauts, 1 have damned lore souls than any other emmissary f diabolism. Champion fiend am I!” Drunkenness is the greatest evil of bis nation, and it takes no logical rocesses to prove to this audience that drunken nation can not long be a free ation. I call your attention to the fact bat drunkenness is not subsiding, cerlinly that it is not at a standstill, but aat it is on an onward march, and it is double-quick. There is more rum wallowed in this country, and of a rorse kind, than was ever swallowed ince the “first distillery began its work ! death. Where there was one drunki home there- are ten drunken homes, here there was one drunkard’s grave ere are twenty drunkards' graves. It on the increase. Talk about crooked bisky—by which men mean the whisr that does not pay the government I tell you all strong drink is crooked, ooked Otard, crooked Cognac, crooked hnapps, crooked beer, crooked wine, ooked*whisky—because it makes a in’s path crooked, and his life crooked, d his death crooked, and his eternity ooked. [f I could gather all the armies of the ad drunkards and have them come to surrection, and then add to that host l the armies of living drunkards, five d ten abreast, and then if I could ve you mount a horse and ride along it line for review, you would ride that rse until he dropped from exhaustion, d you would mount another horse and ;e until he fell from exhaustion, and u would take another and another, d you would ride along hour after ur, and day after day. Great host, in fiments, in brigades. Great armies them. And then if you had voice intorian enough to make them all ar, and yen could give the command, orward, march!” their first tramp uld make the earth tremble. I do i care which way you look in the imunity to-day, the evil is increasl attention to the fact that there with a

-.—... "" - Ignored. Along some ancestral lines them runs the liver of temptation. There are children whose swaddling* clothes are torn off the shroud of death. Many a father has made a will of this sort: “In the name of God, amen. I bequeath to my children my houses and lands and estates; share and share shall they alike. Hereto I affix my hand and Beal In the presence of witnesses.” And yet perhaps that very man has made another will that the people have never lead, and that has not been proved in the courts. That will put In writing would read something like this: “In the name of disease, and appetite, and death, amen. I bequeath to my children my evil habits, my tankards shall be theirs, my destroyed reputation shall he theirs. Share and share alike shall they in the infamy. Hereto I affix my hand and seal in the presence of all the applauding harpies of hell.” Is drunkenness a state or national evil? Does it belong to the north, or does it belong to the south? Does it be* long to the east, or does it belong to the west? Ah! there is not an American river into which itB tears have not fallen and Into which its suicides have not plunged. What ruined that southern plantation? every field a fortune, the proprietor and his family once the most affluent supporters of summer wateringplaces What threw that New England farm into decay and turned the roseate cheeks that bloomed at the foot of the Green mountains into the pallor of despair? What has smitten every street of every village, town and city of this continent with a moral pestilence? Strong drink. To prove that this is a national evil I call u p two states in opposite direction? —Maine and Georgia. Let them testify in regard to this. State of Maine says: AIt is so great an evil up here we have anathematized it as a state.” State of Georgia says: “It is so great an evil down here that ninety counties of this state have made the sale of intoxicating drink a criminality.” So the word comes up from all parts of the land. Either drunkenness will be destroyed in this country or the American government will be destroyed. Drunkenness and free institutions are coming into a death grapple. Gather up the money that the working classes have spent for rum during the last thirty years, and I will build for every working-man a bouse, and lay out for him a garden and clothe his sons in bro adcloth and his daughters in silks, and stand at his front door a prancing span of sorrels or bays, and secure him a policy of life insurance so that the present home may be well maintained after be is dead. The most persistent, most overpowering enemy of the working classes is intoxicating liquor. It is the anarchist of the centuries, and has boycotted and is now boycotting the body, and mind and soul of American labor. It annually swindles industry out of a large percentage of its earnings. It holds out its blasting solicitations to the mechanic or operative on his way to work, and at the noon-spell, and on his way home at eventide. On Saturday, when the wages are paid, it snatches a large part of the money that might, come to the family and sacrifices it among the saloon-keepers. Stand the saloons of this country side by side, and, it is carefully estimated they would reach from New York to Chicago. This evil is pouring its vitrolic and damnable liquors down the throats of hundreds of thousands of laborers, and while the ordinary strikes are ruinous both to employers and employes, I proclaim a universal strike against strong drink, which strike if kept up, will be the relief of the working classes and the salvation of the nation. I will undertake to say that there is 'not a healthy laborer in the United States who, within the next twenty years, if he will refuse all'intoxicating beverages and be saving, may not become a capitalist on a small scale. Oh! how many are waiting to see if something can not he done for the stopping of intemperance! Thousands of drunkards waiting who can not go ten minu tes in any direction without having the temptation glaring before their eyes or appealing to their nostrils, they fighting against it with enfeebled will and diseased appetite, conquering, then surrendering, conquer|ng again and surrendering again, and crying: “How long, 0 Lord! how long before these infamous solicitations shall he gone?” And ltiow many mothers are waiting to see if this national curse can not lift! Oh! is that the boy who had the honest breath who comes home with }>reath vitiated or disguised? What a change! How quickly those habits of early coming home have been exchanged for the

iTOUing’ oi uie ui^uirKey 11* we uuur long after the last watchman had gone by, and tried to see that everything was closed up for the night! Oh! what a change for that young man who we had hoped would do something in merchandise, or in artisanship, or in a profession that would do honor to the family name long after mother’s wrinkled hands are folded from the last toil! All that exchanged for starfied look when the door bell rings, lest something has happened: and the wish that the scarlet fever twenty years ago had been fatal, for then he would have gone directly to the 'tiosom ’of the Saviour. But alas! poor old soul, she has lived to experience what, Solomon said: “A foolish son is a heaviness to his mother.” Oh! what a funeral it will be when that boy is brought home dead! And how mother will ,sit there and say: Vis this my boy that I used to fondle, and that 1 walked the floor with in the nigh t when he was sick? Is this the boy ithat I held to the baptismal font for baptism? Is this the boy for whom I toiled until the blood burst from the tips of my fingers that he might have a good start and a good home? Lord, why hast thou let me live to see this? CaA it be that these swollen hands are' the ones that used to wander over my face when rocking him to sleep ? Can it be that this swollen brow is that I once so rapturously kissed ? Poor boy! how tired he does look. I wonder who struck him that blow across the temples ? I wonder if he uttered a dying prayer ? Wake up, my son; don’t you hear me ? Wake up! Oh ! he can’t bear me. Dead ! dead ! dead ! ‘O Absalom, my son, my son, would God that I had died for thee, 0 Absalom, my son, my son!” I am not much of a mathematician, and I can not estimate it; but is there anyone here quick enough at figures to estimate how many mothers there are waiting for something to be done? Ay, there are many wives waiting for domestic rescue. He promised something different from that when, after the long acquaintance and the careful scrutiny of character, the hand and the heart were offered and accepted. What a hell on earth a woman lives in who has a drunken husband! 0 Death, how lovely thou art to her, and how soft and warm thy skeleton hand! The sepulcher at midnight in winter is a king’s drawing room compared with that woman’s home. It .is not so much the blow on the head that hurts as the blow on the heart The rum fiend came to the door of that beautiful home, and opened the door and stood there, and said: “I curse this dwelling with an unrelenting curse. I curse that father into (^maniac, Icurse that mother into a pauper. I curse those sons into vagabonds, I curse those daughters into profligacy. Cursed be bread-tray Cursed be couch and chair, ' W*p'

riages and birth* and deaths. Curse Upon curse.” Oh! how many wires are there waiting to see if something can not be done to shake these frosts of the second death off the orange blossoms. Yea, God is waiting, the God who works through human instrumentalities, waiting to see whether this nation is going to overthrow this evil; and if it refuse to do so God will wipe out the nation as He did Phoenicia, as He did Rome, as He did Thebes, as He did Babylon. Ay, He is waiting to see what the church of God will do. If the church does not do its work, then He will wipe it out as He did the church of Ephesus, church of Thyatira, church of Sardis. The Protestant and Roman Catholic churches to-day stand side by aide with an impotent look, gaaing on this evil, which costs this country more than one million dollars a year to take care of the eight hundred thousand paupers, and three hundred and fifteen thousand criminals, and the thirty thousand idiots, and to bury the sev-enty-five thousand drunkards. Protagoras boasted that out of the sixty years of his life forty years he had spent in ruining youth; but this evil may make the more infamous boast that all its life it has been ruining bodies, minds and souls of the human race. Put on your spectacless and take a candle, and examine the platforms of the two leading political parties of this country, and see what they are doing for the arrest of this evil and for the overthrow of this abomination. Resolutions—oh, yes, resolutions about Mormonism! It is safe to attack that organized nastiness two thousand miles away. But not one resolution against drunkenness, which would turn this entire nation into one bestial Salt Lake City. .Resolutions against political corruption, but not one word about drunkenness, which would rot this nation from scalji to heel. Resolutions about protection against competition with foreign industries, but not one word about protection of family and church and nation against the scalding, blasting, all-consuming, damning tariff of strong drink put upon every financial, individual, spiritual, moral, national interest. I look in another direction. The church of God is the grandest and most glorious institution on earth. What has it in solid phalanx accomplished for the overthrow of drunkenness? Have its forces ever been marshaled? No, not in this direction. Not long ago a great ecclesiastical court assembled in New York, < and resolutions arraigning strong drink were offered, and clergymen with strong drink on their tables and strong drink in their cellars defeated the resolutions by threatening speeches. They could not bear to give up their own lusts. I tell this audience what many of you may never have thought of, that to-day—not in the millennium, but to-day—the church holds the balance of power in. America; and if Christian people—the men and the women who profess to love the Lord Jesus Christ and to love purity and to be sworn enemies of all uncleanness and debauchery and sin—if all such would march side by side and shoulder'to shoulder, this evil would soon be overthrown. Think of three hundred thousand churches and Sundayschools in Christendom marching shoulder to shouldgr! How very short a time it would take them to put down this evil if all the churehes of God, transatlantic and cisatlantic, were armed on this subject! Young men of America, pass over into the army of teetotalism. Whisky, good to preserve corpses, ought never to turn you into a corpse. Tens of thousands of young men have been dragged out of respectability, and out of purity, and out of good character, and into darkness, by this infernal stuff called strong drink. Do not touch it! Do not touch it! In the front door of our church in Brooklyn, a few summers ago, this scene occurred: Sabbath morning a young man was entering for Divine worship. A friend passing along the street said: “Joe, come along with me; I am going down to Coney Island, and we’ll have a gay Sunday.” “No,” replied Joe; “I have started to go here to church and I am going to attend service here.” “O, Joe.” his friend said, “you can go to church any time! The day is bright, and we'll go to Coney Island, and we'll have a splendid time.” The temptation was too great and the twain went to the beach, spent the day in drunkendess and riot. The evening train started up from Brighton. The young men were on it. Joe, in his intoxication, when the train was in full speed, tried to pass around from one side to another and fell and was crushed. Under the lantern, as Joe lay bleeding his life away on the grass, he said to his companion: “John, that was a bad business,

your tatting me away irom cnurcn; it was a very bad business. You ought not to have done that, John. I want you to tell the boys to-morrow when you see them that rum and Sabbath-breaking did this for me. And, John, while you are telling them, I will be in hell, and it will be your fault.” ..Is it not time for me to pull out from the great organ of God’s word, with many banks of keys, the tremolo stop ? ‘Impk not upon the wine when it is red, when it moveth itself aright in the cup, for at last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.” But this evil will be arrested. Blucher came up just before night and saved the day at Waterloo. At four o'clock in the afternoon it looked very bad for the English. Gens. Ponsonby and Picton fallen. Sabers broken, flags surrendered. Scots Grays annihilated. Only forty-two men left out of the German brigade. The English army falling back and falling back. Napoleon rubbed his hands together and said: “Aha! aha! we’ll teach that little Englishman a lesson. Ninety chances out of a hundred are in our favor. Magnificent! magnificent!” He even sent messages to Paris to say he had won the day. But before sundown Blucher came up, and he who had been the conqueror of Austerlitz became the victim of Waterloo. That name which had shaken all Europe and filled even America with apprehension—that name went down, and Napoleon, muddy and hatless, and crazed with his disasters, was found feeling for the stirrup of a horse, that he might mount and resume the conflict. Well, my friends, alcoholism is imperial, and it is a conqueror, and there are-good people who say the night of national overthrow is coming, and that it is almost night. But before sundown the conquror of earth and Heaven will ride it on a white horse, and alcoholism, which has had its Austerlitz of triumph, shaU have its Waterloo of defeat. Alcoholism having lost its crown, the grizzly and cruel breaker of human hearts, crazed with the disaster, will be found feeling in vain for the stirrup on which to remount its foaming charger. “8o,0 Lord, let Thine enemies perish!’” —Lewis E. Gurley, of Troy, N. Y., who has recently given $45,000 to the Troy female seminary, to be used in erecting a new building, was born in Troy in 1826, and for many years has been prominent in the moral and religious activities of that city. He is a man of great wealth, which he haa made by his ^bility and industry. ■ —Rev. J. D. Kingsbury, of Bradford, Mass., has been twenty-five years pastor pf the Congregation#! ofauroJ) tbw»

SQUANDERED MILLIONS. Senator Carlisle bUenaaee "the Vanishing Surplus"—He Shows a DeOelt of NV 000,000 For Nest Year—A Tale or Republican Extravagance and High Tariff Taxation. Everybody has known that the Republican majority in Congress has about succeeded in squandering the great surplus in the Treasury. Everybody has heard intimation, too, that a deficit is likely to take the place of the surplus in the near future. Republican Senators themselves have made public statements which showed that the possibility of a deficit was looming up to disturb the peace of the Republican lawmakers. The quiet haste with which Speaker Reed and the small cabal now running the House of Representatives let the direct tax refunding bill drop was another indication that the bottom of the Treasury would soon be reached. The exact state of the Treasury and Its future condition have thus come to be subjects of speculation and prophecy, but there was no trustworthy information which took account of the future demands upon the Treasury together with its resources for meeting them. Such a statement has now been made by the most competent authority in public life, Senator Carlisle, of Kentucky. He does this in astriking article in the Forum Magazine for February, entitled “The Vanishing Surplus.” Senator Carlisle finds that the condition of the Treasury at the close of the present fiscal year, June S3, 1891, will be approximately as follows: ASSETS. Available cash on hand July 1,1J90, including redemption fund—.. fill 029 107 Receipts... ..... 387,wO',o 0 Total............. 1493,029,107 LIABILITIES. Ordinary expenditures...$779,000,001 Re teinpiion of Nation bank notes 2 ,00 0 0 Reba.e on tobacco and snuff. I,t0 ,0JJ Pur.-hases'Of bonds tortbe sinking lund, and other redemptions of debt, with premiums, a,per Secretary’s report.. 1:),0'0.000 Total.:.$512.000"00 This shows a deficit of 814,000,000 for the year. The account for 1892 will show a much larger deficit. Here is Mr. Carlisle’s forecast of the condition of the Treasury at the end of next year: ASSETS. Revenues from ail sources.5373,000,000 LIABILITIES. Deficit for year 1891-...$ 14,002,030 Estimated ordinary expenditures, ? according to tile Secretary's report. .. 337 852 201 Pension deficiency..... 25,0 0,‘ 0U Rivers and harbors.... 10,'Cf!,’ 0 Sinking fund.... 49,224.928 Total...*457,044,3 7 “This shows a deficit of 884,044,387 on July 1, 1892, if the requirements of the sinking fund law are to be complied with, or a deficit of 834,819,459 if nothing whatever is to be paid on that account.” While Senator Carlisle does not claim absolute accuracy for these estimates, he gives good reasons for believing that the deficiency will in each case be above rather than below the amounts stated. Some interesting comparisons are made by Mr. Carlisle to show how rapidly the expenditures of the Government lugHoutstripped the rate at which populatimr has grown. .“While our population,” he says, “in 1893 was only sixteen times as great as in 1790, our expenditures, excluding all payments upon the interest and principal of the public debt, were more than 130 times as great. In other words, the population increased from 8,929,214 in 1790 to 62,480,540 in 1S90, while the ordinary annual expenditures, excluding payments on the principal and interest of the public debt, rose from 81,919,592 to 8201.637,203.” Another interesting comparison is the following: * “From 1830 to 1840, including the period of the Seminole war, the population increased 33.67 per cent, and the expenditure increased 80 per cent.; from 1840 to 1850, during which time the war ivith Mexico was commenced and prosecuted to a successful turmination, the population increased 35.87 per cent, and the expenditures increased 53 per cent.; but from 1880 to 1890, a period of profound peace, population increased 24.57 per cent, and expenditures increased 55 per cent The ordinary expenditures for the current fiscal year, 1891, will be at least 12 percent, greater than in 1890, although the population, as shown by the recent census, is increasing at a rate of less than 214 per cent, per annum.” The record of the Republican-party in increasing the expenditures of the Government will be seen from the following figures, which do not include payments on the interest and principal of the public debt:

per capita. 1660.$ 1.9) 1880... 3 37 1890.. 4.19 In view of this increased expenditure and the increased tariff taxation which it indicates. Senator Carlisle concludes: “The public peace may'be preserved, the rights of person may be'scrupulously respected, and ample remedies may be afforded for all injuries inflicted upon the citizen by private individuals, but all this will not make the people prosperous, or permit them to be so, if the Government itself robs one part of them for the purpose of distributing the spoils to another part. Generosity is a commendable virtue, but justice a greater one. It is the confirmed and incurable habit of the party now in power to dispose of. the public money in ■ a wasteful and extravagant manner, and there is no reason to suppose that it will cease to pursue this course until the Treasury is exhausted. What was two years ago the richest public treasury in the world, will be substantially bankrupt long before the term of the present Administration shall expire, and then, perhaps, even the executive officers of th ■ Government, who now delight in creating deficiencies to be supplied by additional appropriations, will be willing to assist in devising some plan by which expenditures can be curtailed.” _v “Hedging” in Massachusetts, The Massachusetts Republicans got snch a thorough drubbing in the tariff issue last fall that they are already beginning to “hedge.” A meeting of Republicans was recently held at Boston to issue a call for delegates to form a Young' Men’s Republican Club. Hgre is their tariff plank: We believe in a protective tariff that shall Impose duties where they arc needed, and only where needed, to equalize the labor cost ot production and to develop American resources an I American commerce, bnt not to relieve favored corporations or individuals from foreign competition. Which being interpreted means: “But we don’t believe in the McKinley style of protection—not much!” A Woman’s Tax. This country spends about 83,000,000 a year for OBtrich feathers. California has six ostrich farms; and to protect the six owners of these the women of the country are made to pay a duty of 10 per cent on all feathers that have not been dyed or finished for use, and a duty of 50 per cent, on such as have been thus prepared for use. Do the women believe in “protection” of that bind?_ —The protected coal mine-owners of Pennsylvania are having trouble with their labor again. There have been several cases where wages were reduced,. and several Unimportant strikes have taken place. A general strike of some 15,000 laborers was threatened; bnt a compromise has now been made by which-the laborers agree not to strike before May 1.. Another one at th? beauties of protection} l -

' A Fleaalfcr B«m* Or health and strength renewed and of —- and comfort follows the use of Syrup of Figs, as it acta in harmony with nature to effectually cleanse the system when costive or bilious. For sale in SOc and *1.00 bottles by all leading druggists. 8Mn.ii—“So Wantrox didn't marry for beauty I” Brodix—“No; he married for booty.”—Epoch. It is a pleasure to recommend the Hartman Manufacturing Go., whose ad. appears in this paper and will be seen weekly lor some months The volume of their business is immeuse, and their goods areas good as their business is great. This is high praise, but is thoroughly deserved. * It is better for a young man to have bis trousers bag at tho knees than to have his brains bag at tho jars.—Boston Traveller. Any article that has outlived 24 t/ears Of competition and imitation, aud 6ells more and more each year, must have me it. Dobbins’Electric Soap first made in 1865 is that article. Ask your grocer for it. He has it, or will get it. The girl at the boat-race is always 16ok ing around for a beau trace.—Washington Star. ___ You harillv realize that itisfliedicine, when taking Carter's Little Liver Pills; they are very small; no bad effects; al.l troubles from torpid liver are relieved by their use. The front stairs of a club-house are gen orally to be found at the wtudows.— Boston Commercial.__ Thoughtless mothers are they who will not give sickly children Dr. Bull's Worm Destroyers. They remove the worms, and the child grows strong. To the uninitiated it is hard to understand how a game of whist can be honest and still be won by a trick.—Binghamton Republican. __^ For Coughs and throat troubles use “Brown’3 Bronchial Troches.”—"They stop an attack of my asthma cough very promptly.”—0. Faloh, Miamivllle, Ohio. A good text for a baseball sermon— “where are the ninel”—Burlington Free Press. __ If you want to bo oared of a cough use Hale's Honey of Horehoimd and Tar. _ Pike s Toothache Drops Cure in oue minute. A prosperous butcher is always able to meat his indebtedness.—Pittsburgh Chron-icle-Telegraph. Do not purge nor weaken the bowels, but act specially on the liver and bile A perfect liver corrector. Carter’s Little Liver Pills. The reason most poets think to no pug pose is that thei r thoughts are idyl thoughts —Philadelphia Press. ' Best easiest to use and cheapest. so s Remedy for Catarrh. Be’druggists. 23c. Let’s reason together. Here’s a firm, one of the largest the country over, the world over; it has grown, step by step, through the years to greatness—and it sells patent medicines!—ugh! “ That’s enough! ”— Wait a Me— This firm pays the newspapers good money (expensive work, this advertising!) to tell the people that they have faith in what they sell, so much faith that if they can’t benefit or cure they don’t want youfr money. Their guarantee is not indefinite and relative, but definite and absolute—- if the medicine doesn’t help, your money is uon call." I Suppose every sick man and every feeble woman tried these medicines and- found them worthless, who would be the loser, you or they? The medicines are Doctor Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery,” for blood diseases, and his “ Favorite Prescription,” for woman’s pecul iar ills. If they help toward health, they cost $i.co a bottle each! If they don’t, they cost nothing /

W. L. DOUCI.AS $3 SHOE GEN&SlIEH. tf-.OO Genuine llund-sewed, an elegant and styl9 lnh dress Shoe which commends itself. llund-*ewcd welt. A fine calf Shoe unequal- ■§•„ ed tor style and durability. 9Q.50 Goodyear Welt is the standard t ress Shoe, at w a popular price. *Q.50 Policeman** Shoe is especially adapted for O railroad men. farmers, etc. All made in Congress. Button and Lace. 60*®° far Ladies, is the only band*scv ed shoe sold O at this popular price. la Shoe for Ladles, Is a new departure ltongoli-_-mt and promises to become very popular, *A.OO Shoe for Ladles, and *1.75 for Misses still A retain their excellence for style, etc. All goods warranted and stamped with ;iame on bottom. If advertised local agent cannot supply you. send direct to factory enclosing advertised price or a postal for order blanks. W. L. DOIGLA8, Brockton, Mass. WAN TED.—Shoe dealer in every city and town not occupied, to take exclusive agency. All agents advertised in local paper. Send for illustrated catalogue. •SrNAJfS -riH3 PAPER vnry tim* you flOThe BestU.S. h 0+ BUNTING M FLAGS -ABE SOLD BYG. W. SIMMONS & CO., FLA BOSTON, THIS PAPER iwi Mas J"“ r**ta> PAPER .wry Urn. yrovrU*. The universal favor aocorded Tilunguasx’s Puget Sound Cabbage Seeds leads me to offer a P. 8. Grown Onion, tit finest Yellow G'lvbt inexiiunct. To introd ace it and show its capabilities 1 will Toy $100 for the best yield obtain ed from 1 ounce of seed which I will mail for 89 cte. Catalogue free* F. TIIHngha*t, La Plume, Pa. BOILING WATER OR MILK. EPPS'S GRATEFUL-COMFORTING. COCOA LABELLED 1-2 LB. TINS ONLY. ELY’. fRKAM BALM Applied into Nostrils I* Quickly Absorbed, Cleanses the Bead. Beals tbe liores and Cores Catarrh Restores Taste and 8m ell,quick ly Relieves Cold in ilead and Headache. 50c. at Druggists. ELY BROS., OH Warren St., N.Y. __ «TNAM£ TitlS PAPER .raj tim# jouwnM. mm* SMOKE YOUR MEAT WITH „ ?5lS EXTRACT* SI# SouLAILE.KIWJ3HU BRQ.MilM.ft> m* #4^^ PPf ttpsysmufr *

The Faults and Follies of the Agm Are numerous, but of the latter none is more ridiculous than the promiscuous and random use of laxati e pills and other drastic cathartics. These wreuch, convulse and weaken both the stomach and the bowels. If Hostetter s Stomach Bitters be used instead of these no-remedies, the result is accomplished without pain and with great benefit to the bowels, the stomach and the liver. Use this remedy when constipation manifests itself, and thereby prevent it from becoming chronic. The expenses of an electric company may be summed up in current expenses.—Lawreuco American. Mast people think that the word “Bitters” can be used only in connection with an intoxicating beverage. This is a mistake, as the best remedy for all diseases of the blood, liver, kidneys,etc., isPrickiy Ash Bitters. It is purely a medicine and every article used in its manufacture is of vegetable origin of known curative qualities The crockery dealer knows better than to sell his wares by cracking them up.— Binghamton Republican. When you feel all broke up, and lift hardly seems worth liviug. When you hardly feel able to attend to your daily work. W hen you feel you would give half you own for a little more streugth, just give Dr. John Bull's Sarsaparilla a trial and see what a lift it will give you. You will bless the day you tried l)r. John Bull's Sarsaparilla. i ‘ They do not “set ’em up” in Boston; they “set ’em down.”—Washington Star.

The Ohastly Record of4e»t'hiitho» pusalt from malaria is IttI, There la no disease that Is ao I natdMMn In it* attack. Its approach isi stealthy aad It twmeftlw 0v«jy flhre of tae body, ana remedies, which if applied at the outset, by delay lose their power* I>r. Tutts Llwr Pills have proven the most valuable malarial antidote ever discovered* A noted clergyman of New York pronounces then* HUM gmtat blessing of the nineteenth century/* and say*? **1“ these days ofdefeotive plUKihiogr and sewer gas, no family should be without them." They are »nt to take, being covered with a vanilla sugar coating* 'i>~- - Tntt9s Liver Pills, SURE ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA. Bold Everywhere, gSc.

HOW TO GET WELL is a question of vital importance, but it is equally important that you use some harmless remedy; ^ many people completely wreck their health by taking mercury arid potash mixtures; for pimples and blotches, or some other trivial disease. S. S. -S. is purely vegetable containing no mercury or poison of any. kind. And is at the same time an infallible cure for skin diseases. Treatise on Blood and Bkin diseases free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga. “fbm&ybeh-ue wh&t'some men say. iLma^un be truejg_wha^ekmen say* tf mtoM endorsesjfflif Sacpolio.— * IHs a solid CGtKe on%courin£ so&p~* .♦coPYRienr* * • For many years SAPOLIO has stood as the finest and best article of this kind in the world. It knows no equal, an<£ although it costs a trifle more its durability makes it outlast two cakes of cheap makes. It is therefore the cheapest in the end. Any grocer will supply it at a v reasonable price. VASELIN For One Dollar Sent ns by mail, we will ilelirer. free of nil charges, to any person in tbe United Slates, all the following articles earefhlly parked In

One two ounce bottle of Pure Vaseline, 10 ots. One two ounce bottle Vaseline Pomade, 15 “ One jar of Vaseline Gold Cream.15 “ One cake of Vaseline Camphor Ice— 10 “

Gn@ sake el Vaseline Soap, unscented 10 cte. One cake of Vaseline Soap, scented - 25 “ One two ounce bottle of White Vaseline 25 “ Or fijr st«ai?fi «*? Article at tte price* -$1.10

If yon have occasion to use vaseline in any iottd oe cares w m /»*•«»*£»« hr original packages. A great many druggists are trying to persuade buyers to take VASfXIHE them. Never yicb* to such persuasion, as the article is an imitation without value.and y'*11 you 1 * esult you expect. A bottle of BLUE SEAL VASELISE ia *®t«S by •« drngffiaU at ten eeata. CHESEBROUCH NTF’C CO.. ; 24 State Street, New York. Koch’s Discovery and Piso’s Cure for Consumption.

1. Under Koch’s treatment many have improved. 2. It can only be used in the early stages of Consumption. 3. It is dangerous, and sometimes fatal. 4. Only a few can obtain the lymph. 5. Physicians only can use it, even with great care, e. It is said that by its use disease is sometimes transferred to sound organs.

su Pjbq s Cure for Consumption, has cured Its tnousauus, even in advanced stages of Conaffording infinite anmptien. b. It can be used in ail -_ relief to the incurable. . It is without danger, and cannot be ratal. . It is within the reach of all. la not expensive. s. Physicians recommend it. f. J5o evil results from its use. Try it.

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