Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 48, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 April 1891 — Page 4

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GOD’S JEWELS. Or. Tabnage Likens the Christian Religion to the Crystal. Beautiful and Symmetrical, It Commasdi the Admiration of All who View It Except Through Kyra Blinded hr Unbelief. The following discourse was delivered by ReT. T. DeWitt Talmage before Congregations in Brooklyn and New York city on a recent Sabbath, from the text: The Ciyttal ban not equal (t.—Job aVitt.^. Many of the precious stones of the Bible have totte t& prompt recognition. But foe the present 1 take np the less valuable crystal. Job, in my test, compares saving wisdom With a Specimen of topaz. An infidel Chemist or mineralogist would ptOnOtihce the latter worth more Utah the former, but Job makes an intelligent comparison, looks at religion and then looks at the crystal and pronounces the former as of far superior to the latter, exclaiming In the words of my text, “the Crystal can toot equal it.” Now, it Is hot a part of tty SermOnic design to depreciate the Crystal whether it be found in Oornish mine, or Hartz mountain,Or Mammoth cave, or tinkling atteng the pendants of the chandeliers of a palace. The Crystal is the star of the mountain; it is the queen of the o-»t; it is the ear-drop of the hills; it finds its heaven in the diamond. Among all the pages of natural history there is no page more interesting to me than the page cry stallographic. But I want to show that Job was right when, taking religion in one hand and the crystal in the other, he . declared that the former is of far more value and beauty than the latter, recommending it to all the people and to all the ages, declaring: “The crystal catt not I equal it.” In the first plaee 1 remark that religion is superior to the crystal in exactness. That shapeless mass of crystal against which you accidentally dashed your foot is laid out with more exactness than any earthly city. There are six styles of urystalixation, and all of them divinely ordained. Every crystal has mathematical precision. God’s geometry reaches through it, and it is a square, or it is a rectangle, or it is a rhomboid, or in some way it hath a mathematical figure. Now religion beats that in the simple fact that spiritual accuracy is more beautiful ! than material accuracy. God’s attributes are exact. God’s law exact. God's decrees exact. God’s management of the world exact. Never counting wrong, though lie counts the grass blades and the stars and the sands and the cycles. His providences never dealing with ns perpendicularly when those providences ought to he oblique, nor lateral when they ought to be vertical. Everything in our life arranged without any possibility of mistake. Each life a six-sided prism. Bora at the right time; dying at the right time. There are no “hap-pen-so’s” in our theology. If I thought this was a slip-shod universe I would go crazy. God is not an anarchist. Law, order, symmetry, precision, a perfect square, a perfect rectangle, a perfect shomboid, a perfect circle. The edge of God's robe of government never frays out. There are no loose screws in the world's machinery. It did not just happen that Napoleon was attacked with indigestion at Borodino so that he became incompetent for the day. It did not just happen that John Thomas, the missionary, on

a heathen island, waiting lor an outfit and orders for another missionary tour, received that outfit and those orders in a box that floated ashore, while the ship and the crew that carried the box were never heard of. The barking of F. W. Robertson’s dog, he tells us, led to a line of events which brought him from the army into the Christian minis try, where he served God with world-renowned usefulness. It did not merely happen so. I believe in a particular providence. I believe God’s geometry may lae seen in our life more beautifully than in crystallography. Job was right “The crystal can not equal it.” Again, I remark that religion is superior to the crystal in transparency. We know not when or by whom glass was first discovered. Beads of it have been found in the tomb of Alexander Severus. Vases of it are brought up from the ruins of Herculaneum. There were female adornments made out of it three thousand years ago—; those adornments found now attached to the mummies of Egypt. A great many commentators believe that my text means glass. What would we do without the crystal? The crystal in the window to keep out the storm and let ip the day—the crystal over the watch defending its delicate machinery, yet allowing us to see the hour—ithe crystal of the telescope by which the astronomer brings distant worlds so near he can inspect them. Oh, the triiimphs of the Crystals in the celebrated windows of Rouen and Salisbury! But there is nothing so transparent in a crystal as ip our holy religion. It is a transparent religion. Y ou put it to your eye and you see man—his sin, his soul, his destiny. You look at God and you see something of the grandeur of His character. It is a transparent religion. Infidels tell us it is opaque. It is because they are blind. The natural man receiveth not things of God because they are spiritually discerned. There is no trouble with the crystal; the trouble is with the eyes that try to look through it. We pray for vision, Lord, that our eyes might be opened. When the eyesalve cures our blindness then we find that religion is transparent. It is a transparent Bible. All the mountains of the Bible come, out; Sinai, the mountains of the law; Pisgah, the mountain of prospect; Olivet, the mountain of instruction; Cavalry, the mountain -of sacrifice. AH the rivers of the Bible come out; Hidekel, or the river of paradisaical beauty; Jordan, or the river of holy chrism; Cherith, or the river of prophetic supply; Nile, or the river of palaces; and the pure river of life from under the throne, clear as crystal. While' reading this Bible after our eyes have been touched by grace, we find it all transparent, and the earth rocks, now with crucifixion agony and now with judgment terror, and Christ appears in some of His two hundred apd fifty-six titles, as far as I can count them—the bread, the rock, the captain, the commander, the eonqueror, the star, and on and beyond any capacity of mine to rehearse them. Transparent religion! The providence that seemed dark before becomes peUucid. ’Now you find God is not trying to put you down. Now you understand why yon lost that child and why yon lost your property; it was to prepare you for eternal treasures. And why sickness came; it being ' the • precursor of immortal juveneseence. And ne w you understand why they lied about you and tried to drive you hither and thither. It was to pnt you in the glorious company of such men as Ignatius, who, when he went out to he destroyed by the Hons, said: U1 am the wheat and the teeth of the wild beast must first grind me before I am become pnre bread for Jesus Christ;’’ or the company of such men as Polycarp. who, when standing in the midst ot the amphitheater, waiting for the lions to come out of their caves and dej troy him, and fee people in the gal;

lertes jeering and shooting: “The lions for Polycarp,” replied: “tel tot to Conte on;” and then, stooping doWn toward the care, where the wild beasts were roaring to get ont; “tet them cohieori.” Ah, yea, it is persecttUdn to put yob in glorious ccfiipimV; bad while there are thing* that von Will have to post potte to the future world for explanation, I tell y6n that .it is the whole tendency of yodr religion to unravel and explain and interpret and illumine and irradiate, job was right, it i£ a glorious transparency. “The crystal cah hot equal it, ”v I remark again that religion Surpasses the crystal in its beauty. That lump of crystal is put under the magnifyingglass of the crystallographer, and he sees !h it indescribable beauty—snowdrift and splinters of hoar-frost and corals and wreaths and stars and crowns and castellations of conspicuous beauty. The fact is that crystal is so beautiful that I can think of hut one thing in all the universe that is so beautiful, and that is the religion of the Bible. Bb Vrond,er this Bible represents that rC* ligioh as the daybreak, as the apple blossoms, as the glitter of a king's banquet. It is the joy of the Whole earth. People talk toO inUch Shout their cross and not enough about their crown. Do you -know the Bible mentions a cross hut twenty-seven times while it mentions a crown eighty times? Ask that old man what he thinks of religion. Be has been a close observer. Be lifts been culturing an wsthetic tiiste. He has seen the sunrjse of a half centmy. Be has been an early riser. He has been an admirer of cameos and corals and all kinds of beautiful things. Ask him what he thinks of religion and he Will tell you: “It is the most beautiful thing I ever saw,” “The crystal can not equal it.” Beautiful In its symmetry! When it presents Hod's character it does not present Him as having love- like a great protuberance on one side 4f His nature, but makes that love in harmony with His justice—a love that will accept all those who come to Him, fthd a justice that will by no means clear the guilty. Beautiful religion in the sentiment it implants! Beautiful religion in the hope it kindles! Beautiful religion in the fact that it proposes to garland and enthrone and emparadise an immortal spirit. Solomon says it is a lily. Paul says it is a crown. The Apocalypse says it is a fountain kissed of the sun. Exekiel says it 1b a foliaged cedar, Christ says It is a bridegroom come to fetch home a bride. While Job, in the text, takes up a whole vase of precious stones—the topaa, and the sapphire, and the chrysoprasus—and he takes Out of this beautiful vase just one crystal and holds it Up until it gleams in the warm light of the eastern sky, and he exclaims: “The crystal can not equal it.” Oh, it is not a stale religion, it is not a stupid religion, it is - not a toothless hag as some seem to have represented it; it is not a Meg Merrilies with shriveled arm come to scare the world. It is the fairest daughter of Hod, heiress of all His wealth. Her cheek the morning sky; her voice the music of the south wind; her step the dance of the sea. Come and woo her. : The Spirit and the Bride say come, and whosoever will, let him come. Do yon agree with Solomon and say it is a lily? Then pluck it and wear it over your heart. Do you agree with Paul and say it is a crown? Then let this

hour be your coronation. Do you agree with the Apocalpyse and say it is a springing fountain? Then come and slake the thirst of your soul. Do you believe with Ezekiel and say it is a foliaged cedar? Then come under its shadow. Do you believe with Christ and say it is a bridegroom come to fetch home a bride? Then strike hands with your Lord the King while I pronounce you everlastingly one. Or if you think with Job that it is a jewel, then put it on your hand like a ring, on your neck like a bead, on your forehead like a star, while looking into the mirror of God’s word you acknowledge “the crystal can not equal it” Again, religion is superior to the crystal in its transformations. The diamond is only a crystallization of coal. Carbonate of lime rises till it becomes calcite or aragonite. Red oxide of copper crystallizes into cubes and octaehedrons. Those crystals whieh adorn our persons and our homes and .our museums hav.e only been resurrected from forms that were far from lustrous. Scientists for ages have been examining these wonderful transformations. But 1 tell you in the Gospel of the Son of God there is a more wonderful transformation. Over souls by reason of sin black as coal and hard as iron, God by His comforting grace stoops and says: “They shall be minedn the day when 1 make up my jewels." “What,” say you, “will God wear jewelry?” If He wanted it He could make the stars of Heaved His belt and have the evening cloud for the sandals of His feet; but He does not want that adornment. He will not have that jewelry. When God wants jewely Hfc comes down and digs it out of the depths and darkness of sin. These souls are all crystallizations of mercy. He puts them on and He wears them in the presence of the whole universe.' He wears them on the hand that was nailed over the heart that was pierced, on the temples that were stung. “They shall be mine,” said the Lord, “in the day when I make up my jewels.” Wonderful transformation! “The crystal can not equalit.” There she is, a waif of the street; but she shall be a sister of eharity. There he is, a sot in the ditch; but he shall preach the Gospel. There, behind the bars of a prison, but he shall reign with Christ forever. Where sin abounded grace shall much more abound. The carbon becomes the solitaire. “Tne crystal can not equal it.” Now, I have no liking for those people who are always enlarging in Christian meetings’about their early dissipation. Do not go into the particulars, my brothers. Simply say you were sick, but make no display of your ulcers. The chief stock in trade of some ministers and Christian workers seems to be their early crimes and dissipations. The number of pockets you picked and the number of chickens you stole make very poor prayer-meeting rhetoric. Besides that, it discourages other Christian people who never got drunk cur stole anything. But -it is pleasant to know that those who were farthest down have been brought highest up. Out of infernal serfdom into eternal liberty. Out of darkness into light. From coal to the solitaire. “The crystal can not equal it.” But, my friends, the chief transforming power of the Gospel will not be seen in this world and not until Heaven breaks upon the soul. When that light falls upon the soul then you will see the crystal. Oh, what a magnificent setting for these jewels of eternity! I some times hear people representing Heaven in a way that is far from attractive to me. It seems almost a vulgar Heaven as they represent it with great blotches of color and bands of music making a deafening racket. John represents Heaven as exquisitely beautiful. Three crystals. In one place he says: Her light was like a precious stone, elear as crystal.” In another place he says: “I saw a pure river from under the throne, elear as erystal.” In another place he says: “Before the throne there was a sea of glass clear as crystal. " Three crystals! John says crystal atmosphere. That means health.- Balm of atanal June, Wtat weather attar ' •“ v , ' ..I--*’- .w . u

lhf> World’s east wind! No met storm-clouds. One breath of that air will Si'irt . the > Worst tubercle.,. Crystal light .bn all the leaves. Crystal light shimmering on the topaz of the temples. _ Crystal ligfct tossing in the plutaes of this equestrians of Heaven Oh White hdrsos. But “the crys^ tal can* not equal it.. ’’John says crystal iriver. That means $ojr. Deep and ever tolling. N& one drop.fjf the Thame! or the HhdsdU pf thb Rhine to Soil it Not .one tear of huniail sorrow tb embitter it. Crystal, the rain out of which it was made. Crystal, the bed over which it shall roll and ripple. Crystal, its infinite surface. But “the crystal ean not equal it” John says crystal sea. That means mnltitudinously vast Vast in rapture. Bapture vast as the sea. deep as the sea, strong as the sea, ever changing as the sea. Billows of light Billows of beauty, blue with Bkies that were never clouded and green with depths that were never fathomed. A res tics Uhd Antarctica find Mediterraneans and Atlantic^ and Pacifies in crystalline magnificence. Three crystals. Crystal light falling on a crystal rivers Crystal river rolling intd a tsrjrstal sea. But “the Crystal can not eqnal it, “Oh,?’ says some one, putting his hand over his eyes, “can it be that I, who have been in so much sin and trouble, will ever come to those Crystals?” Yes, it may he—it will be. Heaven We taust have, Whatever else We have or have not, and we come here to get it. “How much must I pay for it?” you say. Yon will pay for it jnst as much as the coal pays to become the diamond? In other Words, nothing. The same Almighty PoWer that makes the crystal in the mountain Will change }rour heart Which is harder than stone, for the promise is: “1 Will take away your stony heart ahd 1 Will give you a heart of flesh.” “Oh,” says some one, “it is jnst thd doctrine I want; God is to do everything and 1 am to do nothing.” My brother, it is not the doctrine yod want: The CoUl makes rio resistance. It hears the re surrection vdiee in the mountain and it comes to crystallization, butyour heart resists. The trouble with you, my brother, is the coal wants to stay coal. 1 do not ask yon tb throw open the door and let Christ in. I only ask that you stop bolting it and barring it. Oh. my friends, we Will hate to get rid of our sins. I will have to get rid of toy sins and you will have to get rid of yottr sins. What will We do with our1 sinB among the three crystals? The crystal atmosphere would display our pollution.. The crystal river Would be befouled with our touch. The crystal sea would whelm ns with its glistening surge. Transformation now or no transformation at all. Give sin full chance in your heart and the transformation will be downward instead of upward. Instead of a crystal it will be a cinder. In the days of Carthage a Christian girl was condemned to die for her faith, and a boat was bedaubed with tar and pitch and filled with combustibles and set on fire and the Christian girl was placed In the boat, and the wind was off shore and the boat floated away with its precious treasure. No one can doubt that boat landed at the shore of Heaven. Sin wants to put yon in a fiery boat and shove you off in an opposite direction— off from peace, off from God, offffrom Heaven, everlastingly off; and

the port toward which you would sail would be a port of darkness, and the guns that would greet yon would be the guns of despair, and the flags that would ware at your arrival would he the black flags of death. 0, my brother, you must either kill sin or sin will kill you. It is no wild exaggeration when l say that any man or woman that wants to he saved may be saved. Tremendous choice! A thousand people :are choosing this moment between salvation and destruction, between light and darkness, between Heaven and hell, between charred ruin and glorious crystallization. AN ENGINEER’S MASCOT. How His Train was Saved From Destruction by an Old Han. A prominent Reading railroad official was talking about railroad affairs, and the conversation turned to mascots. “I remember,” said he, “when I was an engineer on the main line, many years ago, and of course you know we all have our little superstitutions. Well, mine was this: While running over the high trestles of the Catawissa division, where, you know, the train seems to be moving through mid air for several miles, and there is nothing but rock and timber below. 1 was in the habit of watching for the appearance of ah old man who, I noticed, always crossed the track just before wo came to the trestle at the same time every day, rain or shine, winter or summer. I came to look upon this old character, with his bent form and white hair, as a mascot for the safety of passengers and our train, and I always breathed hard until I rounded the eurve, which was just a few rods before the trestle, and easier when I saw him. He came to know the sound oi my whistle, and always waved his hand. “Well, one day he didn’t appear as my engine approached the spot where he was accustomed to be, and I was that scared I stopped the engine. Something told 'me all was not right, and I couldn’t have driven that train on to save me until I had investigated. Sure enough, I walked out on the trestle with the conductor and fireman, and about 100 yards out we found a rail loosened and turned to one side. A freight had passed over an hour before and done the mischief. We went on down the road, and the next day my old friend was on hand as usual. I stopped the train to speak to him. and he told me he had been sick the day before: I am not given to foolishness, but I tell you I connect that man with good luck, for the day he died I was promoted and have gone up the laddei aver since.”—Philadelphia Inquirer. In His Name. It was on a St. Louis street-car. A bright-faced, bright-eyed miss tripped lightly into the car at one of the downtown crossings, and before proceeding many blocks every seat in the conveyance was occupied, principally by ladies, when the signal-bell again warned the motor-man to stop, and this time a gentleman entered the car, whose snowy hair and beard indicated he had seen nearly, if not all, of man’s allotted three score and ten years. Seeing no vacant seat, he at once sought the support of a strap, when the young miss, with a sweet smile And becoming deference arose and proffered the aged man her seat. Of course he declined with blushing thanks; but the young lady insisted that she would not sit while such an aged man stood, and the seat was taken under protest that such a thing had never happened to him before. Of course the heroine of the incident became at once the center upon which aH eyes in the car were focused; but she stood the ordeal bravely, and did no* seem to imagine she had done anything very extraordinary. One of the pairs of eyes, however, soon discovered the secret of her action. Suspended from a ribbon at her throat wasa pretty monogram formed of the letters 1. H. N. She was a King’s daughter, and “In His Name” had bravely dope what

fcOMPARiNQ PRICES; A t^otoetlon Organ dri Prices in 1884 nM he tittle Tin Cfip~A Pice* ot ip Ignorance -WKat Has Brought Prices—Steam Transportation and Wing Machinery-McKinley and r Again: >wa protectionist paper prints a list ol| prices “taken from an ancient it in BOonesborough. during the “ and compares with it 8 cor* list of prices in 1890. The e list for 1890 are of course er than in the list for 1854; and tionist organ hastens to con“when the prudent housewife compares? the two sets of figures she will feel that she'is willing to live under republican regime and pay five cents for a tin cup that in 1854 cost four times as much.” The performance of this organ is a fair sample of the cheap and Ignorant arguments pdt forth in defense Of protection by men who know absolutely nothing about the changes in industrial conditions effecting prides since 1854; or if they aid aware of those Changes they ignore them and pretend that protection is the force which has fedUced prices. This republican editor takes a tin cap as a specimen of the reductions which protection has caused. But the tin plates of which tin cups are tfiade. Sre produced in Walds flow cduld Out protective tariff bring down the pride Of tin plates? The truth is that the development of the industry in Wales has caused the cheapening of all the tinware in this country. The causes leading to these developments are pointed out by David A. Wells in his “decent Economic Changes.” The first cause was the cheapening of tin consequent Upon opening of mines in Australia ahd oti the “straits” oi Malacca, “the second Cause was the improvements in the manufacture of iron and, owing to tho invention of the Bessemer steel process, the substitution Of steel plates in place of charcoal and puddled iron plates. The principle cause, however-, is the great improvement in the process df tinning the steel sheets, a modern tin plate mill turning out every twenty-four hours mod? than double the product of the old-fashioned mills, without any increase in expenditure for motive p »wer or labor. Besides these changes in the irtetnod of production, a still greater change has come in the method of distribution. Railroads and iron steamships have revolutionized prices. There were almost no railroad communications be* twden Iowa and the east in 1854, as compared with the great lines of tapid transportation to-day. Mr. Edward Atkinson shows that freight charge between Chicago and New York in 1865 was 8.45 cents per ton per mile and 0.68 of a cent in 1885. Bow this cheapening of railroad freights is still going on may he seen from the faet that the average rate on ail classes of freight on all the railroads of the United States in 1883 was 1.236 cents per ton per mile, and already in 1887 this had fallen to a trifle above one cent. AM /iwm vn nVio

ing the commodities consumed by our people to-day is the great reduction of ocean freights caused by the use of steel and of triple-expansion engines in making ocean steamers. This reduction can be estimated from the fact that the freight charge between Liverpool and New York is now less than onetenth of what it was in 1860. This lowering of freights by land and water has increased the foreign demand for the products of our farmers, and has thus tended to check the downward tendency of prices of these produets. The price of flour is given in these lists as a hundred in 1854 and S3.34 in 1890. The cheapening of flour even is claimed • for protection; but if the western farmers believed this the protectionists would have a hard time convincing them that protection is a good thing for them. The only way in which protection can possibly cheapen flour is by driving our foreign customers to other markets by reason of our high duties on their products. But, as a matter of fact, the cheapening of flour has not been due so much to tariffs as to the invention of labor-saving machinery. The grain drill for planting and the self-binder for harvesting wheat has diminished the labor of the farmer to a very low point. On producing the crop of 1887 in Dakota it was found that the year’s labor produced 5,500 bushels of wheat per man. Since the war the roller mill process of grinding flour has been introduced into this country from Hungary; and now one laborer can in one year turn into flour the 5,500 bushels of wheat of the Dakota man. Thus the labor of two men produces 1,100 barrels of flour in a year, allowing five bushels of wheat to the barrel. Iu this, way, as David A. Wells points out, American flour from the fields of Dakota and the mills of Minneapolis is sold in European markets at rates which are determinative of the prices which Russian peasants, Egyptian “fellahs” and Indian “nyots” can obtain in the same markets for similar grain grown by them on equally good soil, and with from fifteen to twenty cents per day wages for their labor. The cheapening of commodities in the United States under protection is not a thing peculiar to this country. The same thing has taken place in England without a tariff to quite as marked an extent as in the United States with its high tariff. Protectionists never weary of telling us how the first plate glass made in this country at New Albany, Ind., in 1878, cost $3.50 a foot, and that now the price is from 75 to 90 cents a foot; but they overlook the fact that the price of English and Belgian plate glass has gone down to Mss than S3 cents a foot And the parrots go on jabbering that protection lowers prices. In ways like this the protectionists ignore the operation of perfectly natural causes and explain all the cheapening of commodities by calling in the great miracle-worker, protection. Thus it is hoped to lead the people of a state, which has the slightest possible interest in protection, to believe that their prosperity depends upon that system. Hardly one person - in a hundred in a state like Iowa has any direct interest in maintaining a protective tariff; hence the attempt there to make the’ people believe that protection lowers the price of commodities. If this is the effect of the tariff, what, pray, will be the effect of McKinley’s increased duties on corn, wheat, potatoes, hay, barley, etc.? Moreover, if his high duties were intended to lower prices, why did he go up and down the land last fall trying to convince the people that cheapness is a bad thing; that cheap and nasty go together? How the McKinley Well Works. The total imports of foreign dry goods entered at the port of New York during January and February amounted to $35,896,000 against $30,155,000 for the corresponding two months last year. The figures for this year show a decrease of $1,600,000 in woolen manufactures, $1,560,000 in cottons, $1,670,000 in silk manufactures and $180,000 in * manufactures of flax. The McKinley law is getting in its work of preventing the American people from getting what they want. Yet McKinley boasted that it was ar “American bill.” • —The Reading (Pa.) Iron Co. has reduced the wages of its 3,000 employes. And yet it must be that far off in some happy Utopia »tariff eas keep wage*

6f the gigantic *host of advertised remedies for dyspepsia, not one in ten is effective. A bright exception is Hostetler’s Btomach Bitters, a stomachic without fault, sure, speedy and thorough. Nor is it less efficacious for constipation, biliousness, sick headache, nervousness, debility, kidney troubles and rheumatism. A Borrox woman has been granted a patent on a stocking supporter which an expert says will supports Boston woman by a royalty for good many years. “Now good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both." This natural and happy condition of the mind and body is brought about by the timely use of Prickly Ash Bitters. While not a beverage in any sense, it possesses the wonderful faculty of renewing to the debilitated system all the elements required to rebuild and ’wake strong. If you are troubled with a headache, diseased liver, kidneys or bowels, give it a trial, it Will not fail you. Ethel—“Do you know of anything more delightful than a real true loYfr!"' Maud-j “Yes.” Ethel—“Whatl" Maud—“Tvfc or them.”—Harper’s Bazar. tto totr want to enjoy the exuberance Of perfect health! Do you want your cheeks to be rosy, and your whole system thrilled With rich, pure blood coursing through its Veins! Then use Dr. John Bull’s Sarsaparilla. It willdo what no other medicine will do. It will make you feel like another person. - ■toil can tell which billiard player Is playing the poorest game by the frequeneywith which he chalks his cue.—Boston Transcript --—-rDobbins’ Electric Soap has been made tot 34 years. Each years sales have increased. In lS8d sales were 2,047,6610 boxes. Superior quality, and absolute uniformity and purity, made this possible; Do you use it! Try it It i» more natural to a man to lie in bed in the morning and wish he was rich than it is to get up and earn a dollar.—Atchison Globe. Must not be confounded with common cathartic or purgative pills. Carter's Little Liver Pills are entirely unlike them in every respect One trial will prove their superiority. “Strike when the iron is hot,” said the servant girl who made her demand for more wages on ironing day.—Pittsburgh Post “Brown’s Bronchial Troches” are widely known as an admirable remedy for Bronchitis, Hoarseness, Coughs, and Throat troubles. Sotd only in boxes. Although tho carpet purchaser is looking for good qual ty ho wants one that can be beaten.—Binghamton Republican. A Dose in ’time Saves Nino of Hale’s Honey of HOrehound and Tar for Coughs. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure ih one minute. It is to bo expected that Anarchists will make bombastic speeches.—Buffalo Express. Pain in the Side nearly always comes from a disordered liver and is promptly relieved by Carter’s Little Liver Pills. Don't forget this. When a man is compelled to work for wages he is of necessity led to a hire life.— Buffalo Express. Give your children Dr. Bull’s Worm Destjoyefs. These nice candies will never do them harm and may do them much good. The crow is a wily bird. Nature has made him caw-tious. as it wore.—Buffalo Express. The best cough medicine is Piso’s Cure tor Consumption. Sold everywhere. 25c. TnE man who has “a sight of trouble” should go to an oculist.—J udga.

Inc IWMItRC 1 o. new Yoke. April 2t». CATTLE—Native Steers. SGtia ® COTTON—Middling. .. S%® FLOUR—Winter W heat. 8 85 ® WHEAT—Nik 2 Bod. I CORN—No. 2....... 8!»t* OA'Ps—YVeeter.i Minted. *81 a PORK—New Miss. 13 78 ® >T. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling. ® BEEVES—Choice Steers. 5 85 ® Shipping. 8 50 a HOGS—Common to Select— 4 50 ® 8HKKP—Fair to Choice. 1 i « « FLOCK—Patents . 5 10 ® XXX to Choree. 3 75 ® WHEAT—No. 2 Bed Winter. 1 OB*® CORN—So. 2 Mixed. 70 a OATS—No. 2 , .... 51* •# RYE—No. 2. «7 TOBACCO—Lugs. 1 10 Leaf Burley-- 4 50 HAY—Clear Timoty .. 14 0) BUTTER—Cltoiee Hairy. 18 EGGS—Fresh... 1N1RK—Standard Mess. BACON—CH*r ltil>..... 7' LARO—Prime Steam. ® WOOL—Choice Tu4>. ® CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping. 5 50 ® HOGS—Good to Choice....... 5 00 a SHEEP—Fair to Choice. 5 00 a FLOUR—'Vinter Patents. 4 50 a ’ Spring Patents. 4 SO a WHEAT—No. 2 Spring..'. 1 10*® CORN—No. 2.t; -U. ® OATS—No. 2. « l*OUK—Standard Mess. 12 80 a KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Shipping Steers... 3 75 a tiOGS—All Grades. 3 30- a WHEAT—No. 2 Red. 1 03 a <HTS—No 2.. 54 a CORN—Nil 2. .... 88 a / NEW ORLEANS. FLOVKAHigh Grade. 4 75 a CORN-No. 2. 83 a OATS—No. 2.. ® HAY—Choice... 24 Oil ® PORK—New Mess. a BACON—Clear Rib.•" — ® COTTON—Middling.. 8*® LOUISVILLE. WHEAT—No. 2 Red ... a CORN—No. 2 White.. a OATS—No. 2 Mixed. a PORK—Mess.. ® BACON—Clear Rib.. a COTTON—Middling.. . .... 9%« 183L 5 40 9 5 35 1 2544 85 tiS 14 5> 8* 8 40 6 75 5 1712 C 25 5 25 425 1 11 70* 5512 89 5 1(1 7 tO i7 53 21 i m 12 75 7^i Sfe 35 6 25 5 50 6 00 5 15 5 25 1 10% 57 12 85 6 15 5 10 1 (4 '•! 55 68Va 5 30 84 63 24 50 13 25 7*V Sfib 1 00 58 13 00 6% t . THE POINT. <i 1 W Trom a Catholic Archbishop down to the Poorest of the Poor all testify, not only to the ■virtues of ST. JACOBS OIL, The Great Remedy For Pain, but to ita superiority over all other remedies, expressed thus: It Corn Promptly^fermanently; which means strictly, thatiM. pain-stricken seek a’ prompt relief with no return of tho pain, and this, they say, St. Jacobs Oil will give. Thiaia its excellence. Ms Pills To ear* eestlreaess the medicine most be more than a purgative. To bo per. maaeat, it must contain Tonic, Alterative and Cathartic Properties. Tutt's Pills possess these o«alities la au eminent degree, and Speedily Restore to the bowels their watuul perlstaltto motion, so easentinl to regularity. Sold Everywhere. P URIFY YOUR BLOOD. the dangerous i alia and ruin the digestive el the stealach. The vegetable kinggives us the best i Dr. Me and safe reaedy, and all its He gave it the Prickly Ash Bitters! Is so and to the been discovered that ini lor the BLOOD, ter the LIVER, ter tho KIDNEYS »< tor tho STOMACH, This remedy is now so well favorably haovm by all whs haw r ' PRICKLY ASH WJTERS CO ■ • fT* mNm

What Is lacking is truth tod confidence. If there were absolute truth on the one hand and absolute confidence on the other, it wouldn’t be necessary for the makers of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy to back up a plain statement of fact by a $500 guarantee. They say—“ If we can’t cure you ( make it personal, please,) of catarrh in the head, in any form or stage, we’ll pay you $500 for your trouble in making the trial,5’ - “An advertising fake,” you Say. Funny, isn’t it, how some people prefer sickness to health when the remedy is positive and the guarantee absolute, Wise men don’t put money back of “ fakes.” And “ faking ” doesn’t pay. Magical little granules -- those tiny, sugar-coated Pellets of Dr, Pierce—scarcely larger than mustard seeds, yet powerful to cure—active yet mild in operation. The best Liver Pill ever invented. Cure sick headache, dizziness, constipation. One a dose. PLEASE READ —IT MAY INTEREST TOO I SR. OWEN'S Cures Dipeases Without Medicine. Wit I .OOO TtSTIKSBiAU SSSIIYEI TKI PAST TEAR Improved Jas. 1. 1891. CwwhfsH ton at Bh.m« iV. rOStTITILT CdKBD fcy Ska OWEN'S ELECTRIC BELT pociAfc far FEES 356 pa***.

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