Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 16, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 September 1891 — Page 4

was deli' T. DeWHt Talmage on Y.) Fair grounds. He text: not. until #11 the together, and till they stone from the well's mouth; thon water the sheep.—Genesis xxtx-. 8. There are some reasons why it is apthat I should accept the invito preach at this great interstate fair, and to these througs of councitizens, horsemen -just from their fine charges, the king = of beasts, for I take the crown from lion and pnt it on the brow of the horse, which is in every way nobler, and speak to these shepherds just come from their flocks, the Lord Himself in one place called a shepherd and in another place called a lamb, and all the good are sheep, and preach to yon cattlemen come up from the herds, your4 occupation honored by the fact that Uod Himself thinks it- worthy of immortal 1 record that He owns ‘"the cattle on a thousand hills.” It is appropriate that I borne because I was a farmer’s boy, and never saw a city until I was nearly grown, and having been born in the country I never got over it, and would not dwell in cities a day if my work was not appointed there. My love to you now, and when I get through I will give you my hand, ^ for though I have this summer shaken hands with perhaps forty thousand people in twenty-one states of the union all the way through to Colorado and north and south, 1 will not conclude my summer vacation till I have shaken hands with you. You old farmer out there! How you make me think of my father! You elderly woman out there with cap and spectacles! How you make me think of my mother! And now while the air of these fair grounds is filled with the bleating of sheep, and the neighing of horses, and the lowing of cattle, I can not find a more appropriate text than the one I read. It is a scene in Mesopotamia, beautifully pastoral. A well of water of great value in that region. The fields around about it white with three flocks of sheep lying down waiting for the watering. I hear their ' bleating coming on the bright air, and the laughter of young men and maidens indulging in rustic repartee. I look off, and I see other flocks of sheep coming. Meanwhile Jacob, a stranger, on the interesting errand of looking for a wife, comes to the well. A beautiful shepherdess comes to the same well, ft see Tier ’Approaching, followed

Rner iamer s buck oi sneep. was a memorable meetf. Jacob married that sheprdess. The Bible account of it is: acob kissed Kachel, and lifted up bis TOice and wept.” It has alway bctoa mystery to me what he found toWj about! But before that scene occurred Jacob accosts the shepherds and asks them why they postpone the slaking of the thirst of these sheep, and why they did not immediately proceed to water them. The shepherds reply to the ef^4acV “We are all good neighbors, and as a matter of courtesy we wait until all the sheep of the neighborhood come up. Besides that, this stone on the well’s mouth is somewhat heavy, and several of us take hold of it and push it aside, and then the buckets and the troughs are filled and th'e sheep are ed. We can not, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stjme from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep. ” Oh,1 this is a thirsty world ! Hot for the head, and blistering to the feet,and parching for the tongue. The world's I great want is cool, refreshing, satisfying draught. We wander around and find the cistern empty. Long and tedious drought has dried up the world’s fountains, but nearly nineteen centuries ago, a Shepherd, with a crook in the shape of a cross, and feet out to the bleeding, explored the desert passages of this world, and one day came across —a well one thousand feet deep, bubling and bright, and opalescent, and looked tto the north, and the south, and the east, and the west, and cried out with ■ voice strong and musical that rang through the ages: “Ho, every one that thirststh, eome ye to the waters ” Now a great flock of sheep to-day around this Gospel well. There a great many thirsty souls. I wonir why the flocks of all nations do not ther—why so many stay thirsty; and hile I am wondering about it, my t breaks forth in the explanation, tying: “We can not, until all the ;ks he gathered together, and till >y roll the stone from the. wt-ll's nth; then we water the sheep.” herd of swinfe come to a well igrily jostle each other for the if a drove of cattle come to well, they hook each other back the water, but when the flock of come, though a hundred of them be disappointed, they only exit by sad bleating, they come together peacefully. We want a great .multitude to come around the Qospel welt I know there are those who do not like a crowd—they think a crowd is vulgar. If they are oppressed-for room in church it makes them positively nt and belligerent Not so these oriental shepherds. They until all the flocks were and the more flocks that the better they liked it And so ought to be anxious that all the peoahould come. Go out into the highand the hedges and compel them >me in. Go to the rich and tell them they are indignent without the Gospel of Jesus. Go to the poor and tell them the influence there is jn Christ Go to the blind and tell them of the touch that gives eternal illumlGo to the lame and tell them of Joy that will make the lame leap like a hart. Gather all sheep off* of -all the monnSone so torn of the dogs, none none so worried, none so dying omitted. When the fall elecsole land is scoured a man is too weak or le polls a carriage is when the question is the devil shall rule ew there are to come iiek, and the lost, and the bereft, and the their suffrages for Why hot gather a America in a flock; in a flock. This well of the enough to put out the of the one billion four race. Do not of exclusiveout Let down all aU the gates, scatter wiD. bnd of the If

Yon can not bear to come to ao a fountain; yon do not want with so many others. 11 is to when'you are dry, eon ' pump, as compared to lor sipping out of chased has just been lifted from a ail1 ver. Not so many pul sinners. Yon want to Ret to en, but it must be special car. with your f< a Turkish ottoman and a music on board the train. Yon want to be in company with Jacob and Bachel, and to be drinking out of the fountain where ten thousand sheep bare been drinking before yon. You will have to remove the obstacle of pride, or never find yonr way to the well. You will have to come as we came, willing to take the water of eternal life in any way. and at any hand, and in any kind of pitcher, crying out: “0, Lord Jesus, I am dying of ihirst Give me the water of eternal life, whether in trough or in goblet; (five me the water of life; I care not in what it comes to me.” Away with all your hindrance! of pride from the well’s mouth. Here is another man who is kept liack from this water of life by the stone of an obdurate heart, which lies over the mouth of the well. Yon have :no more feeling upon this subject than if God had yet to do yon the first kindness, or you had to do God the llrst wrong. Seated on His lap till these years, His everlasting srms sheltering you, where is your gratitude ? Where ‘is your morning and evening prayer? Where are your consecrated lives? I say to you, as Daniel said to lielshazzar: “The God in whose hand thy breath is, and all toy way thou -hast not glorified.” If y o« have treated anybody as Wily as y ou have treated God you would have ni ade five hundred apologies—yes, j'our whole life would have been an apology. Three times a day you have been seated at God's table. Spring, summer, autumn and winter He his appropriately appareled you. Your health from Him, your companion from Him, yonr children from Him. your home from Him. All the bright surroundings of your life from Him. O man, what dost thou with that hard heart? Canst thou not feel one throb of gratitude toward God who made you, and the Holy Ghost who has all these years been importuning you? If you could sit down fit e minutes under the tree of a Saviour’s martyrdom, and feel His warm life trickling on your forehead and cheek and hands, methinks you would get some appreciation of what you owe to a crucified Jesus.

Touched by Jesus* cross subdued; See His body.'mstnglod, rent. Covered with » gore of blood. Sinful soul, what hast thou done?' Crucified the Kternal Son. Jacob with a good deal of tug and push took the stone from the well's mouth, so that the flocks might be watered. And I would that to-day my word, blessed of Uod, might remove the hindrances to your getting up to the Gospel well. Yes, I take it for granted that the work is done, and now, like oriental shepherds, I proceed to water the sheep. Come, all ye thirsty! You have an undefined longing in your soul. You tried money-making; that did not satisfy you. You tried office under government; that d id not satisfy you. You tried pictures s.nd sculptures, but works of art did not satisfy you. You are as much discontented with this life as the celebrated IPrench scholar who felt that he could not any longer endure the misfortunes of the world, and who said: At four o’clock this after-noon-I shall put an end to my own existence. Meanwhile, I must toil on np ho that time for the sustenance of my family.” And he wrote on his book till the clock struck four, when he folded up his manuscript, and. by his own hand, concluded his earthly life. There are men here who are perfectly discontented. Unhappy in the past, unhappy to-day, to be unhappy forever, unless you come to this Gospel-well. This satisfies the soul with a high, deep, allabsorbing and eternal satisfaction. It comes and it offers the most unfortunate man so * much of this world as is best for him, and throws all Heaven into the bargain. The wealth of Croesus and of all the Rothschilds is only a poor, miserable shilling compared with the eternal fortunes that Christ offers you to-day. In the far east there was a king who Used once a year to get on a scales, while on the other side the scales were placed gold and silver and genu;; indeed, enough were placed there to balance the king; then at the close of the weighing, all those treasures were thrown among the populace. But Christ to-day steps on one side the scales, and on the other side are all the treasures of the universe, and He says: “All arc yours—all height, all depth, all length, all breadth, all eternity; all are yours.” We don’t appreciate the promises of the Gospel. When an aged clergyman was dying a man very eminent in the church—a young theological student stood by his side, and the aged man looked np and said to him: “Can’t you give me some comfort in my .young subOh, magall dying hour?” “No,” said the man; “1 can’t talk to you on this ject; you know all About it, and have known it so long.” “Well,” said the dying man, "just recite to me some promises.” The young man thought a moment, and he came to this promise: “The blood of Jesus Christ cletmseth lrom all sins:-’ and the old man clapped his hands, and in his dying moment said: “That’s just the promise 1 have been waiting for. “The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin.’” the warmth, the grandeur, the nificence of the promises! Come, also, to this Gospel well, ye troubled. I do not suppose you have escaped. Compare your view oi this life at fifteen years of age with what your view of it is at forty, or sixty, or seventy. What a great contrast of opinion! Were you right are you right now ? Two cups in your bands, the one a sweet other a sour cup. A cup of cup of grief. Which has been est to being full, ard out of have you the more frequent! taken ? What a different _ the cemetery is from what it used to be. Once it was to you a grand city improvement, and you went oat on the pleasure excursion, and you ran laughingly up the mound, and you critcised in a light way the epitaph n“* since the dsy when you heard th gate as you went in wll it is a sad place, and tt rushing memories that s

the reelWell, What do you want? Would you like to have your property back again? “No,” you say, as a Christian man: “I was becoming arrogant, and I think that is why the Lord took it a#ay. “I don't want to hare my property back.” Well, would you hare your departed friends back again? “No,” you say; “I couldn't take the responsibility of twinging them back from a tearless realm to a realm of tears. I couldn’t do it”' Well, then, what do yon want? A thousand voices in the audience cry out: “Comfort; give its comfort” For that reason I hare rolled away the stone from the well’s mouth. Come, all ye wounded of the dock, pursued at the wolves, come to the fourtain where the Lord's aiek and bereft ones hare come. "Ah,” says some one, “y<TB are not old enough to understand my sorrows. You hare not been'in the world as long as I hare, and you can’t talk to me about my misfortunes in the time of old age.” Well, 1 hare been a great deal among old people, and 1 know how they ftel about their failing health, and about their departed friends, and about the loneliness that sometimes strikes through their souls. After two persons have lived together for forty or fifty years, and one of them is taken away, what desolation! I shall not forget the cry of the late Eer. Dr. De Witt, of New York, when he stood by the open grave of his beloved wife, and, after the obsequies had ended, he looked down into the open place and said: “Farewell, my honored, faithful and beloved wife. The bond that bound us is severed. Thou art in glory, and I am here pn earth. We shall meet again. Farewell! Farewell!” To lean on a prop for fifty years, and then hare it break under yon! There were only two years'difference between the deaths of my father and mother. After my mother's decease my father used to go around as though looking for something; and he would often get up from one room, without any seeming reason, and go to another room; and then he would take his cane and start out, and some one would say: “Father, where are yon going?” and he would answer: “I don’t know -exactly where 1 am -going.” Always looking for something. Though he was a ten-der-hearted man, I never saw him cry but once, and that was at the burial of my mother. After sixty years' living together, it was hard to part. And there are aged people to-day who are feeling just such a pang as that. I want to tell them there is perfect enchantment in the promises of this Gos

pei; ana x come to mem ana 1 oner them my arm, or I take their arm and I bring them ’ to this Go6pel-welk Sit down, father, or mother, sit down See if there is anything at the welt for yon. Come, David, the Psalmist, have you anything encouraging to offer them? “Yes,” says the Psalmist; “they shall still bring forth fruit in old age, they flRie fat and flourishing, to show that the Lord is upright; He is myrock, and there is no unrighteousness in me.” Come, Isaiah, have you anything to say out of your prophecies for th^Bx aged people? “Yes,” says Isaian; “down to old age I am with thee and to hoary hairs will I carry thee.” Well, if the Lord is going to cany ycra, you ought not to worry much about your failing eyesight and failing limbs. You get worried for fear sometime you will come to want, *clo you ? Your children and grandchildren sometimes speak a little sharp at yon because of your ailments. The Lord will not speak sharp. Do you think you will come to want? Who do you think the Lord is ? Are His granaries empty? Will He feed the raven and the rabbit, and the lion in the desert, and forget you? Why, naturalists tell us that the porpoise will not forsake its wounded and sick mate. And do you suppose the Lord of Heaven and earth has not as much sympathy as the fish of the sea? But you say: “I am so near worn out, and I am of no use to God any more.” I think the Lord knows whether you are of any more use or not; if you were of‘no more use He would have taken you before this. Do you think God has forgotten you because He has taken care of you seventy or eighty years? He thinks more of you to-day than He ever did, becanse you think more of Him: May the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and Pauld the aged, be your God forever! But I gather all the promises to-day in a group, and I ask the shepherds to drive their flocks of lambs and sheep up to the' sparkling supply. “Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth.” “Though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion." “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.” “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” I am determined to-day that no one shall go away uncomforted. Yonder is a timid and shrinking soul who seems to hide away from the consolations I am uttering, as a child with a sore hand hides away from the physician lest he touch the wound too roughly, and the mother has to go and compel the little patient to come out and see the physician. So I come to your timid and shrinking soul to-day, and compel you to come out in the presence of the Divine Physician. He will not hurt you. He has been healing wounds for many years, and He will give you gentle and omnipotent medicament. But people, when they have trouble, go anywhere rather than to God. DeQuincey took opium to get rid of his troubles. Charles Lamb took to punch. Theodore Hook took to something stronger. Edwin Forrest took, to theatrical dissipation. And men have run all around the earth, hoping in the quick transit to get away from their misfortune. It has been a dead failure. There is only one well that can slake the thirst of an afflicted spirit, and that is the deep and inexhaustible well of the Gospel. Oh, what a great flock of sheep God will gather around the celestial well. No -tone on the well’s mouth, while the Shepherd waters the sheep There Jacob will recognise Rachel the shepherdess. A»d standing on one side of the well of eternal rapture, yonr children; and standing on the other side of the well of eternal rapture, your Christian ancestry, you will be bounded on all sides by a joy so keen and grand that no other world has ever been permitted to experience it Out of that deep well of Heaven, the Shepherd will dip reunion for the bereaved, wealth for the poor, health for the sick, rest for the weary. And then all the flock of the Lord’s sheep will lie, dow*t’in the green pastnres, and world -without end we will praise the Lord that on the first autumnal Sabbath of 1801 we were permitted to study among the bleating flocks and lowing herds of this fair ground, the story of Jacob and Rachel, the shepherdess at the “ a£a““s““ fjh, plunge your Gospel well and that

se?m to know on what dangerous ground they are treading. Hamilton was by no means a protectionist of the McKinley stripe. He held vte ws which are utterly ppposed to the pet notions of McKinley A Co. For example, the protection wbieh Hamilton defended averaged less than eight per cent all around; while our McKinley tariff averages a bon 60 per cent and runs above 100 and even 800 and 810 per cent on some articles. With his little eight per cent tariff, too, Hamilton was satisfied. . In his report on manufactures, issued in 1701, he said: “It need scarcely be observed that the duties on the great mass of articles have reached a point which 11 vfould not be expected to exceed.” And yet our MeKinleyites a century later give ns 60 per cent and denounce as “unpatriotic” the wicked democrats who several years ago were about to give us 40 per cent. Our MeKinleyites, too, make it 'one of the fundamental points of their creed that “the foreigner pays the duty;” and even now the great McKinley himself is defining protection as “taxing somebody else’s property rather than our osm.” But Hamilton was a man of honest mind wh j would practice no cheap deceptions upon himself. Hamilton admitted that it was “true, as a general rale, that the consumer pays the duty.” At another very important point Hamilton stood at variance with onr latter-day protectionists. These insist that domestic manufacturers do not charge more for their goods by reason of the duty on the foreign article. But not so Hamilton. He, simple-minded and honest mar., could not see how there could he any such thing as protection at all, if the manufacturer did not get higher prices Here is the way he put it down in plain black and white: “Doties evidently amount to a virtual bounty; since, by enhancing the charges on foreign articles, they enable onr manufacturers to undersell foreign competitors. Here is another good, square admission of the same thing: “As a duty upon a foreign article makes an addition to its price, it causes an extra expense to the community for the benefit of the domestic manufacturer; a bounty does no more.” Hamilton made no attempt to “whip the devil around the stump.”

THE WOOL HUMBUG. Views ait a Prominent Proteetionlst Trad* Paper—HOw Wool Prices Hare Gone Down Under McKinley's Tllgher Duties — What Kept Up Territory Wools. The American Wool Reporter, of Boston, a protectionist trade paper in favor of free wool, contained an editorial recently on the prices of wool, which every wool-grower should read. The Reporter says; The wool industry in several departments shows greater depression to-day than before the pass ige of the MoKinley bill. Woolen hosiery lias been somewhat benefited. It Is clalmid. and dress goods manufacturers note some improvement, due largely, however. to the tact, as stated a week ago, that fashion has run to fabrics which are especially within the ability of onr domestic mills to produce, and which w uld have been tile ease evm at the old duties. But generally the manufacturer of woolen goods cannot be said to have been materially benefited as yet by the high tariff measure. In spite of the large consumption of goods dne to s seasonable winter, men’s wear woolens are in an unsettled condition, with manufacturers doubtful whether to shut down their mills during the summer or to pile up goodt in anticipation of a demand whoso character may be wholly dis ipp oi a ting. The price of domestic fleeces is from 8 to 4 cents per pound lower than before the passage of the McKinley bill, and the Imports of clothing wools daring tbo eleven 'months ended May si of the fiscal year, which closed June SO. 1891, have been 30,812,sal pounds against H.3i5.tl>l pounds during the corresponding eleven months ended May 31. 189). The kinds of domestic wools tor which the high tariff, it was supposed, would do the most good, have been the very ones that have declined the most since the passage of the bilL The onl v grades whieh have really held up to th -ir former level have been territory wools, due largely to the fact that they have been in suoh large demand for mixing w th Australian wools, and, although they may eiso off In sympathy with the rest of the market, they are likely to hold comparatively firm, as there Is every indication that during tho remainder of the year Australian wools will be sought for and If they are, territory wools will be in demand to be used in connection with them- As to Importations of loretgn wools, there Is no indication of a cessation. American wool buyers.have taken 13,000 bales at the recent London sales, as they reasonably believe that that amount will bo wanted. As a measure, therefore, tor cheeking irap rtationsof foreign wools, and tor enabling the western wool grower to secure better prices for his wool, and for improving the condition of the goods market as a whole, the MoKinley tariff thus tar has not been a success. And we cannot say that with the largo importations of foreign wool, which are sure to continue, there is evidence of any substantial Improvement for the domestic grower, although naturally there may be some reaction from tho present depressed level of values, Just as there Is In the stock market when prices have had a sharp break. But tho '•promised land" into which the domestic wool grower was to be led by his Moses, whom he so trustingly follow -d, has not appeared, and it seems as far off as ever. It Is not to be wondered at that we hear rumblings of discontent from the Ohio, Miohigan and Pennsylvania wool growers. _ WHITE LEAD. Protection to What Might Be Styled Wholesale Bobbery. During the debate on the McKinley bill the supporters of the measure vehemently denied that the tr usts and combinations protected by it were selling their goods at lower prices abroad than at home. Those who claimed that such was the case were invariably called “liars," “traitors” and “haters of American industry.” After the bill was passed, however, the McKinleyites began on« by one to admit the truth of these aitertions. Thus the Chicago Inter Ocean, A rabid , McKinley organ, said oftho cal'ridge I combine: “Four concerns, protected by a stiff tariff against foreign competition, combine and crash ont and buy out all competitors In this country, and thus compel every American consumer to pay 25 per cent more for goods than a Canuck has to pay for the same goods, or a Greaser in Mexico. This is protection with a vengeanceprotection to what might easily be styled wholesale robbery.” But there are other combines which do the same thing. Thus the white lead trust with its capitalization cf $89,447,600, controls the whole trade in white lead in the United States and charges American consumers all that the duty of three oenta per pound will allow. How it does this is shown by the following from Hardware, a paper published in Toronto: “The United States white lead trust has a price for the Canadian market that is as firmly held down below the cost of profitable production as the home market price of the same trust is firmly held above it United States white lead is quoted to he aid down here in carloads, minus the Canadian duty, at $8.70 per hundred pounds spot cash. The Canadian gov>rflment justly requires that fee duty >f 5 per Cent, be calculated, not on the vice quoted here, but upon that quoted io the united trade—that is, upon SAM —which makes the total cost laid down tore $4.08*.” I. not this * protection withnmm

21Special New T*rk Corre*pdn<lenc9.1 The early moraingsand evenings are cool and misty, and we find a demise ason costume most useful at this time. The leading textiles that appear in tailor gowns for this purpose are cheviots, ladies' cloth, rough-sur-faced camel’s hair fabrics and light weight Harris homespun. A pretty early autumn costume is of biscuit-colored doth with brown velvet applique embroidery, edged with brown and gold brail The front breadth is edged with the velvet There is a vest of the brown, and the collar and cuffs are of the same. An Argyll coat, long in the skirl and fitting tightly to the figure, is worn with this costume. Gowns for autumn are as abundantly trimmed as those worn during the summer season; but there are fewer changes in garnitures than in materials, which must, of course, show the changes necessitated bv the season's temuerature. Among the very expensive Parisian dre a garnitures jeweled effects are

inuun lavorea. Parisian design s in tinsel passementerie obtain also, and are used to brighten the effect o f somber dress fabrics. A pretty visiting toilette for autumn •wear is of fawncolored Scotch cashmere, made np with fawn and bine corduroy velvet The border of the under petticoat is of 'the velvet goods, over which the npper k skirt forms deep <'rounded Vandykes. The bodice, without

darts, is lull at tne waist, ana is mauu with basques that are upturned in sling fashion, showing the corduroy underlining. The side forms at the back are of the corduroy, forming banneret basques. The back is in one piece with the semi train. The full sleeves and turned-down collar are of the corduroy. Epaulettes of cashmere and corduroy give a pretty finish to the very stylish costume. Bonnets and hats, according to the latest intelligence from Paris, exhibit a decided tendency towards diminutive sizes. The most fashionable bonnets are composed entirely of flowers, -or trimmed in Greek style. Some lovely

bonnets have a trim min g of flowers in front, and a sm all cluster of feathers in the hack. | Velvet hats and bonnets will be popular for'autumn wear, and are almost nni- j versa! ly be com- J. ing. The deco- Ai ration upon ant- p nmn hats is raised considerab 1 y at the back, or adjnste d moderately in front, as the case may be, and the quantity of trimming has in no wise dimin- / ished. Ifeathers J and flowers, rib- "

bons, tinsel, jet and nail-head shapes are as popular as ever. Autumn dancing toilettes of the beautiful ribbon striped crepalino, over China silk slips, have belted round waists, and at the neck a frill of very rich lace sewed in the V opening and then' caught down outside upon the bodice or otherwise; there are delicious folds of soft crepe lisse around the

opening in isec a m i er style. Other gowns . have lovely Vandyked insertions on the skirt and bodice, those on the skirt oilten reaching hall! its length. Russetcelored English cloth Venetian jackets are worn with pretty blouse waists of tomato-red silk, the waists iaid in fine plaits and f istened with gold and russet ball, buttons. There is a silk embroidery at . the edge of the ^cloth. .jacket, and one model

Is embroidered m (fold, darir brown, end pale russet in Tine embroidery; the other, in tiny palms in which a great deal of reel the shade of the silk blouse appeal's. A reseda cloth jacket shows a rose-col* ored Toreador vest, which has a full front and is finished with a reseda velvet girdle. A pretty jacket of dove gray velvet is lined with gray bengaline, and the vest of white is covered with a delicate silver braid workTHlrfGS MILITARY. Enoi.and has organized a corps of carrier pigeons. The first trace of the British gun'ooat Wasp, which left the port of Singapore in 1887, is a bnoy just found in the China sea. Velocipedes having been introduced in the regular service of the Russian army, os reported, an official name of Slavonic origin has been devised for them. The new name is samosfaaty, “self-roller.” In Paris a society has been organized to encourage artillery practice in the territorial army. Special instructors of the society will also impart in lectures scientific information as to the making and handling of big guns. To form an idea of the experiments that take plaee abroad in the way of testing new devices ip warfare, the station at Liege, Belgium, consumes nearly 4,000,004 cartridges and forty tons of powder a year in testing firearms. Saxony’s cavalry has a new sword, three inches shorter and considerably lighter than the old one. The blade is straight and the handle is of hard lubber. The new weapon is more easily handled but less dangerous than the one hitherto used. The Belgian military authorities have discovered that various songs used in the army are not quite proper, and several poets and composers have been applied to to supply the army with some unobjectionable songs in French and Flemish to take their places. It is related as a curious fact that Paris, with a population of nearly two million five hundred thousand souls, has less than one hundred negroes within its limits. Statisticians say that the whole of France cannot muster a I exceeding

Under favorable circumstances H costs $13 per head to ship cattle from southern California to Chicago. The United States has more miles of railroad than all European countries combined. The mileage in this country is 156,817 miles, and in Europe 154,713 miles. A car has made the distance from San Francisco to New York—over 2,900 miles—in 4 days, 1ft hours and 50 minutes, by being attached successively to the fastest trains on each of four roads. American freight cars carry about thirty tons* weight, the cars weighing about nine tons. They are gradually superseding the English cars in that country, which weigh five tons, and ctuj carry otny seven tons of cargo. In the last ten years the increase was 78,531 miles, or more than 78 per cent.— an average of 7,350 miles each year. If the increase in the next decade is only 5,000 miles per year our railway mileage in 1900 will be about 317,000 miles.Railway Age._* A GENERAL COLLECTION The youngest pupil In a school at Romer, Mich., is the teacher’s aunt. Good News from England. Tbs Medical Reform Society or London •rill send genuine information free of charge to all who are bona fide sufferers fromChrjnlo Kidney and Liver Diseases, Diabetes or Bright's Disease, or may discharges or derangements of the human body, Dropsy, Nervous Weakness, Exhausted Vitality, Gravel, Rheumatism, Sciatica, Dyspepsia, Loss of Memory, want of Brain Power. The discovery is a new, cheap and sure cure, the simplest remedy on earth, as found in the Valley of the Nile, Egypt. Send a self-addressed envelope at once «tnclosing ten cents in stamps to defray expenses, to Secretary, James Holland, 8, Bloomsbury Mansions, Bloomsbury Square, London, England. Mention this paper. The wash of the ocean, of which we hear B0 much, is probably done on the seaboard, though one need not expect to see it when crossing the Una—Baltimore American. THE MARKETS. NSW York. September 7.1891. CATTLE—Native steers.$ 3 65 a 5 90 COTTON—Middiinsr...... 8%» 844 FLOUR-Winter Wheat. 3 15 a S 60 WHEAT—No. 3 Rid.....*. 1 05%a 1 08% CORN—No. a. "5 OATS—Western Mixed. 34 l*OUK—New Mess... 11 51 ST. LOOTS. COTTON—Middling. BEEVES—Fancy Steers. 5 8J . Shipping.. 4 60 HOGS—Common to Select— 4 13 SHEEP-Fair to Choice .... 3 65 FLOUR-Patents. 4 69 Fancy to Extra Do. 4 On WHEAT—No. a Red Winter . 97 CORN—No. a Mixed. 62 OATS-No. a... as RYE-No a. 84 TOBACCO—Lnsts. 1H Leaf Burley. 4 30 HAY—Clear Timothy... ..... S 50 76 37ft ia 00 a 8ft a 6 no a Bn a 6 as a 4 75 a 4 73 a 4 4s a 97\s a 63 a 29ft a 83 a 5 lo a 7 o> a i3oo a 19 a 16 a li 23 a 8ft a 6ft a 32 BUTTER—Choiee Dairy.. EGGS—Fresh-:... .... PORK—Standard Mess.. — BACON—Clear Rib... 8 LARD—Prime Steam.:. WOOL-Choice Tub. 31 CHICAGO CATTLE-Shipping.....,....." 3 55 HOGS—Good to Choice... 4 65 SHREP-Fairto Choice....... 3 65 FLOUR—Winter Patents. 4 23 Spring Patents. 4 50 WHEAT—No. 2 Spring... CORN—No. 2... OATS—No. 2. .... PORK—Standard Moss. .KANSAS CITY. CATTLE - Shipp ing Steers... 3 25 HOGS—All Grades. 4 00 WHEAT-No. 2 Red. 87fta OATS—No. 2. 27 a CORN-No. 2. 55 a NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grade. 4 25 a CORN-No, 2. a OATS—Western. :58ft a HAY—Choice. 15 50 a 16 00 PORK - New Mess .. a 11 62ft BACON-Clear Rib. a 8ft COTTON—Middling. 8*8 8ft LOUISVILLE. WHEAT—No. 2 Red. 98 a 99 CORN—No. 2 White. 69 a 60 OATS—No. 2 Mixed. 29 * 30 PORK—Mess. U 00 a 11 25 BACON—Clear Rib.. a 7ft COTTON—Middling.. 8 a 8* a a 6 23 5 4) 5 33 5 50 5 00 97ft 67ft 29ft 10 75 3 61 5 03 88 27ft 55ft 5 00 72

ipi . r •ll*l| I* ICOWflMnOMi A ringing noise In the ears, headache, deafness, eyes weak; obstruction of nose, dis charges falling into throat, sometimes profuse, watery and acrid, at others, thick, tenacious, bloody and putrid; offensive breath; smell and taste impaired, and general debility. JNot all of thjpe symptoms at once. Probably only a few of them. That’s Catarrh. A medicine that by its mild, soothing, cleansing and healing properties has cured the most hopeless cases. One that will cure you, no matter how bad your case or of bow long standing. A medicine that doesn’t simply palliate for a tune, but produces perfect and permanent cures. That’s Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. A cash payment of 1500, not by you, as you might expect, but to you, If you can’t be cured. It’s an offer that’s made in good faith, to prove their medicine, by responsible men, the proprietors of Dr. Sage’s Remedy. That’s the kind of medicine to try. Doesn’t it seem so? “German Syrup” J. C. Davis, Rector of St. James’ Episcopal Church, Eufaula, Ala.: “ My son has been badly afflicted /with a fearful and threatening cough for several months, and after trying several prescriptions horn physicians which failed to relieve him, he has been perfectly restored by the use of two bottles of BoAn Episcopal schee’s German Syrup. I can recomRsotor. mend it without hesitation.” Chrciift severe, deep-seated coughs like this are as severe tests as a remedy can be subjected to. It is for these longstanding cases that Boschee’s German Syrup is made a specialty. Many others afflicted as this lad was, will do well to make a note of this. J. E. Arnold, Montevideo, Minn., writes: I always use German Syrup for a Cold on the Dungs. I have never found an equal to it—far less a superior.

Tb* Oeif One Evw teftx) ti*e W«2Pr There is a 8 inafi iiaytap adv»wtSseia««li in this paper, this n-esk, hast no two words alike except eae v?ew!» HI same S* true cf each new ma •ptraarina each week, from The Dr. Barter Kodieiw Co. This house place# a ‘•Cn^oai’' ea aTerythmg they Biuhe and pubi ish. Look for it, send them the same of !.h»vmd and teey will return yon book, teeaatSfsJ lithographs or samples free. “Cam I see Mr. X--— this re.;>?olagr, “Mr. X- went to> a blowout hut night and is not yot prseantabta” “indeed,; what kind of a blowimt?” “fr&a.’^-Bu£Slo Express.

That’s what happs us to Eiauy a const'iu- | tton worn out write ucreSsxed fagging at j the desk, the loom wr Key laborious oectapation representing excessive brain or physical labor. Recuperate when 'wearing out ■with the finest of wrrtvsag medicated stim-1 slants, Hostetter’s IStoiatsrii Bitters, fore- j most among remedies for debility, dyspepsia, oonstipatioc, malaria, kidney and blad ; der complaints and the iafirmltios of age. A oes*lbmax, who bod fust returned j from hia anneal sett sido holiday, declares l that several mornin gs in succession, as he j took a stftril upon the beech, he saw the sea 1 bathing.—Judy The gentler sea ofi*» suffer from peculiar weakness that gives them great distress. I.et them not. suffer. A use of Ur. John Boll’s Sarsaparilla strengthens the female organisation, and they soon grow strong and robust. It is woman's best remedy for weakness and declining health. These is a native savagery In every breast that loves to nit In toe dry itsolf and watch those who nro caught out in the rain.—Ram’s Horn. Pain from indigestive, dyspepsia and too hearty eating is relieved at once by taking j one of Carter's Little fiver Pills immediately after dinner. Don’t forget this. *‘I cxperstaxb Jake Simpson struck his mother.” “Yes." "The cruel scoundrel. What did he strike her for*” “Ten dollars.** —N. Y. Herald. Evert trace of salt rheum is obliterated by Glenn’s Sulphur Soap Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents. “is getting through a failure successfully,” said old Mr. Cuiarex, “a good deal depends on a sum’s lie abilities."—Washington Star. _ Mast mothers would wimnglppny a dollar a box for Bull’s Worm Destroyers if they could not get them for 25 cents. They are always safe and always sure “How ete* did you got her to change her mind after she rejected yon once! ” “1 just used a little mild parse-weigh-sioaBos-ton News. Dos’! wait until you aro sick before trying Carter’s Little Liver Pillc,, but get a vial at once. You can’t take them without benefit. The sbort-haired woman must take her cue from somebody else when she needs one.—Galveston News. "•» I* touch with the player- the banjo.— Mail and Express. The best cough medicine Is Piso’s Cure for Consumption. Said everywhere. Sac. Many a reputed wag turns out to be merely a scalawag.—Boston Courier.

ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taker; it is pleas in t and refreshing to the taste, and nets gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system efiectually, dispels colds, head' aches aiid fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is tho only remedy of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste and acceptable to the stomach, prompt in' its action and truly beneficial m Us effects, prepared only from the most healthy ana agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities command it to <01 and have made it tho most popular remedy known . Syrup of Figs is for sale in iWo and $1 bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept liny substitute. SMUFORNIA FIG, SYRUP CO. Cleans Most is Lenox. SAM FRANCISCO, CAL lOWSVUlt, KY. new York. h. r.

JSYf*! • WITHOUT AN EQUAL. « CURES RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, LUMBAGO, SCIATICA, Sprains, Bruises, Burns, Swellings, PROMPTLY AND PERMANENTLY. €

Many Witnesses. 1—.600 wilBetaea twtify to the vlrtaes •? Dr.Tott’s Pills. Wherever Chills and Fever3 BUIotaa Diseases or Lim AffecUoui prevail, they have proven a gfsst blmlug. Readers, a slngk trial wJli mv^ee yon that this Is no catch-pen**.? medicine. Twenty years test has established their merits all over tae world. Gains Fifteen Founds. •* I have tan ul^Titt’iRIla for Ujvpeaala. aa<t had them the Vex* remedy 1 ever tried. irptathattlmneverytMacIatedtoatreed with me. lean now dlKeat any kl,d of fitod[ ever have a eeietinche, and have gained dfteeu poaad* «f solid W. C. SCMUI.TZE, Columbia, S. C. Tutt’s Xtivoy Pills GIVE STRENGTH ANB HA SB MUSCLE. MONEY--™ Hi bms-MONEY NEGRO PREACHERS AM TEACHERS BEAR.

Tcui Mi ex,-dares to tend WKwoaey order‘for a gold ; eatalmuadKiHTMgMa’i xev hook (containing lettern from Ktfro Bishops, wnavefat I' ou(f 1 s.M. Bishop Kewnmn, Senator Cullom. 1'jt-terrorCarte; Harrison, '■ SgeTl ' - JudselUnrston, and many others, 10b pages. ilhistjrated), l>ihuks. papor*, ete., Soliv fc.c*'iainlnu Ms EXs;laY8 pension bill. t 'lttbtt are now forming evory where and are endorsing “Vaughan's bilt.”a& introduced in t'\* Eifty-ftrsl Congress in their behalf, e8tlui*«00caah andWSper *i.>ou;h for some and different amount# for others. Mayo- Vaughan's new book, that is the Best ^ ___ history of the race over writS»t Sr'’-r.COIgor^?“rSS; rrr«Y me uovpr«»mwn Should anti must grant the former -negro ahrra a pei^ siou. Write at once and get your »am«s,ete- .i® his pension register. l.o c-aartr©

except as above until t ac out Dec<HueR*i»w.'L^r YACGHAN,(Ex-Mayor)Waa'aiagtttn,1>.0» B»x*TT« $500iU|.geTMM OVERCOATS «nd SUITS almost mvm awaits n< GLOBE SHOE AXrt *-©■«* BA. AIGIA «A ahv A»f> Tl Jl O CAA ftfpvs that EgaSNS SO KUU»-.:o< H»a, C*y« IMS «* «B0 Mt Wb# C«a slip owtur promptlf filled. Scad for m ardm nMjaptlr filled. Scats for cateiogo*THE GLOBE OCCUPIES THE OTE8L0CK, 70S to 71* FruskSto Awwse* R». S ®OJS *<>■

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