Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 17, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 September 1891 — Page 4

HUMAN KINDNESS. A. Cardinal Virtue Discoursed Uj>On by Rev. Dr. Talmage. "Kindness" ■ Mult (potent Word that Embraces All that Oeads Mankind to Vwlbrm Aota for the Benefit of Their -Fellowa. I

• recent Sabbath service in lyn tabernacle Rev. T. De discoursed on “Kindw his words on the text: Tbe barbarous people showed os no little kindness.—Acts xxvlii., ?. Here we are on the island of Malta, another name for Melita- This island, which has always been an important commercial center, belonging at diffei'ent times to Phoenioia, to Greece, to, (Rome, to Arabia, to Spain, to Franco, now belongs to England. The area of the island is abont one hundred square miles. It is in the Mediterranean sen, and of such clarity of atmosphere that Mount Etna, one hundred and thirty miles away, erih be distinctly seen. The V island is gloriously memorable, because A the Knights of Malta for a long while ■ruled there, but most famous because of the apostolic shipwreck. The txi- . stormed vessel on which Paul sailed ivhad "laid to" on the starboard tack, and the wind was blowing east-north-east and the vessel, drifting, probably, a mile and a half an hour, struck at what is now called St. Paul’s'bay. tical sailors have taken up the account and decided beyond coii■versy the place of the shipwreck. The-island which has so rough a coas t is for the most part a garden. Richest fruits and a profusion of honey characterized it in Paul’s time as well as now. The finest oranges, figs attl olives grow there. When Paul and his comrades crawled up on the beach, saturated with the salt water, and hungry from long at>stinence from food, and chilled to the bone, the islanders, though called baibarians, beoause they could not speak Greek, opened their doors to the shij> wrecked unfortunates. Everything had gone .to the bottom of the deep, and the barefooted, bareheaded apostle and ship's crew were in a condition to appreciate hospitality. About twenty-five such men a few seasons ago I found in the life-station near East Hamilton, Long Island. They had get ashore in the night from the sea, and not a hat or shoe had they left. They found out, as Paul and his fellow-voy-agers found out, that the sea is the roughest of all robbers. My test finds the shi^ crew ashore on Malta, and around a hot fire drying themselves, and ’ with the best provisions the islanders can offer them. And they go into government quarters for three days to recuperate, Publius, the ruler, inviting them, although he had severe sickness in the honse at that time, his father down with dysentery and typhoid fever. Yea, for three months they staid on the island watching for a ship, and patting the hospitality of the tvlanders to a severe test. But it enl dured the test satisfactorily, and it is k recorded for all the ages of time and I eternity to read and hear in regard lo ■ the inhabitants of Malta: “The bar- ^ barous people showed us no little kindness.” Kindness! All definitions of that mu 1tipotent word break down half way. You say it is clemency, benignity, ge ierosity; it is made up of good wishes, it - m an expression of beneficence, it is a •Contribution to tbe happiness of others. Someone else says: “Why, I can give you a definition of kindness—it is su nshine of the soul. It is affection perc finish it is a climacteric grace, it is the combination of hll graces. It is compassion. It is the perfection of gen,tle manliness and womanliness.” Are you all through? You have mode a dead failure in your definition. It can not be defined. But we all know what it is, for we all felt its power. Some 'Jf you may have felt it as Paul felt it, on some coast of rock ns the ship went x> pieces, but more of us have again nnd L Jwgain in some awful stress of life hod MLdher from earth or Heaven hands stretched out, which "showed us no little kindness.” k There is kindness of disposition, fc kindness of word, kindness of act, and ■ there is Jesus Christ, the impersonation ■ of all of them. Kindness! You Can not B affect it, you can not play it as a part, ■ you can not enact it,- you can not dramatize it. By the grace of God you must have it inside yon, an everlasting summer, or rather a combination of June and October, the geniality of the one ar.d the tonic of the other. It can not dwell with arrogance or spite or revenge or malevolence. At its fii-st . appearance in the soul all these Ama- ■ lekites and Gergishites and Ilittites and ■ Jebusites mast quit, and quit forever. I Kindness wisheseverybody well—every f man well, every woman well, every f _ child well, every bird well, every horse * weU, eVery dog Well, every cat well. Give thiz spirit full swing, and you would have no more need of societies for prevention of cruelty to animals, no more need of protective sewing women's associations, and it would dull revery sword until it would cat skin deep, and make gunpowder of no more use in the world except for rock-blasting or pyrotechnic celebration. Kindness is a spirit divinely implanted, and in answer to prayer and then to be sedmonsly cultivated until

it nils an me nature iron a penume r and more pungent than migiioaml, as'f you put a tuft of that ,tic beauty behind the clock on t he .tel or in some corner where nobody can see it, you find people walking about youf room looking this yay and that, and yon ask them: “What are yon looking for?” and they answer: “Where is that flower?” So if one has in his soul this infinita/sweetness of disposition its perfume will whelm everything. But are yon waiting and hoping for some one to be bankrupted or exposed, or discomfited, or in some way everthrown, then kindness has not taken ^^besession of your nature. Yon ire ^Ntecked on a Malta where there are no \<jS|binges. Yon are entertaining a guest so unlike kindness that kindness will not come and dwell under the same roof. The most exhausting and unhealthy and urinous feeling on earth is a revengeful spirit, as 1 know by experience, for I have tried it for five or ten minutes at a time. When some m -an been done me or said about me, *1 will pay him in hiscwn show him up. The intraitor! The liar! The viltlve or ten minutes of so unnerving and ex1 have abandoned it, and lean ‘ how people can go about Ives five or ten trying to get even with !he only way you will over your enemies is by and wishing them all 1. As malevolence

sud1 shall not be content nm.il I have in some wise helped them or benefited them or blessed them. Let us all pray for this spirit of kindness. It will settle a thousand questions. It will change the phase of everything. It will mellow through and through our entire nature. It will transform a lifetime. It is not a feeling gotten up for oocasions, but perennial. That is the reason I like petunias better than morning glories. They look very much alike, and if I should put in your hand a petunia and a morning glory you could hardly tell which is the petunia and which the morning glory; but the morning glory bloomis only a few hours and then shuts no for the

nay, wnue me petunia is iu spread a glow at twelve o* noon and six o’clock in the ev at sunrise. And this grace of 1 is not spasmodic, is not iotermi not for a little while, bat it ir. the whole nature, all through * on till the sunset of our earth encc. Kindness! I am rest get it Are you resolved to It does not come by hap-hazi through culture under the Dhri Thistles grow without culture. dock at ening as indness ttent, is radiates nd clear ly existlved to get it? ird, hut ne help. Rocky mountain sage grass grows without culture. Mullein stalks grow without culture. But the great red roue in the conservatory, its leaves packed on leaves, deep-dyed as though it had been obliged to fight for its beauty and it were still reeking with the caimage of the battle, that rose needed to be cultured, and through long years its floral ancestors were-cultured. Oh, God! implant kindness in all our souls, and then give us grace to watch it, to enrich it, to develop it! The king of Prussia had presented to him by the empress of Russia the root of a rare flower, and it was put in the royal gardens on an island, and the head gardener, Herr Kintlemann, was told to watch it. And one day it put forth its glory. Three days of every week the people were admitted to these gardens, and a young man, probably not realizing what a wrong thing he was doing, plucked this flower and pnt it in his buttonhole, and the gardener arrested him as he was crossing at the ferry, and asked the king to throw open no more his gardens to the public. The Icing replied: “Shall I deny to the thousands of good people, of my country the privilege of seeing this garden because one visitor has done wrong? No, let them come and see the beautiful grounds.” And when the gardner wished to give the king the name of the offender who had taken the royal flower he said: “No; my memory is very tenacious, and 1 do>n<djgHUit to have in my mind the name of^^TOTender, lest it should hinder me granting him a favor some other time.” Now, I want you to know that kindness is a royal flower, and blessed be God, the King of mercy and grncerthal 10b Divine gift and not by purloining we may pluck this royal flower and not wear it on the outside of our nature, but wear it in our soul and wear it forever, :lts radiance and aroma not more wonderful for time than wonderful for eternity. Still further, I must speak of kindness of word. When you meet anyone, do you say a pleasant thing c>r an unpleasant? Do you tell him of! agreeable things yon have heard about him, or the disagreeable? When he leaves yon does he feel better or does he feel worse? Oh, the power of the tongue for the production of happiness or misery! One would think from the way the tongue is caged in we miight take the hint that it has a dangerous power. First, it is chained to the back part of the mouth by strong muscle. Then it is su rrounded by the teeth of the lower jaw, so many ivory bars: and then by the teeth of the upper jaw, more ivory bars. Then outside of all are the two lips with the power of compression and arrest And yet notwithstanding these four imprisonments for limitations, how many take no bint in regard to the dangerous power of the tongue, and the results are laceration, scarification and damnation. There are those if they know a good thing about you and a bad thing, will mention the bad thing and act as though they had never beard the good thiug. Now there are two sides to almost every one’s character, and we have the choice of overhauling the virtue or the vice. W’e can greet Paul and the ship’s crew as they come up the beach of Malta with the words: “What a sorry looking set you are! How little of navigation you must know to run on Jhose rocks.! Didn’t you know better than to put out on the Mediterranean this' wintry month? It was not much of a ship, anyhow, or it would not have gone to pieces so soon as that Well what do you want? We have hard enough work to make a living for ourselves, without having thrust on us two hundred and seventysix ragamuffins.” Not so, said the Maltese. I think they said: “Come in! Sit down by the fire and warm yourselves! Glad that you all got off with your lives. Make yourselves at home. You are welcome 1» all we have until some ship comes in sight and you resume your voyage. He re, let me put a bandage on your forehead, for that is an ugly gash you got from the floating timbers, and here ila a man with a broken arm. We will have a doctor come to attend to this fracture.” And though for three months the kindness went on, we have but little more than this brief record: “The l>arbarous

people showed us no lHtle kindness.’ Oh! say the cordial thing. Say the useful thing! Say the hospita ble thing! Say the helpful thing! Say the Christlike thing! Say the kind thing! I admit that this is easier for some temperaments than for others. Some are born pessimists, and some are born optimists, and that demonstrates itself all through everything. It is a cloudy morning. Yon meet u pessimist and you say: “What weather to-day?” He answers: “It's going to storm,” and umbrella under arm and a, water-proof overcoat show that he is honest in that utterance. On the same block, a minute after, you meet an optimist, and you say: “What weather to-day?” “Good weather; this is only i* will soon scatter.” The umbrella and absence of overcoat show it is an On your way at noon meet an optimistic say: “What do you think “Glorious. Great great have fog and you you the com surmore grain ri

off the track like that There are two aides to this story, and I will wait to hear the* other aide before I condemn him ” My hearer, If yon are by nature a pessimist, make a special effort by the Rrace of God to extirpate the dolor ous and the hypocritical from your disposition. Believe nothing against any, body until the wrong is established by at least two witnesses of integrity. And if gnilt be proven find out the extenuating circumstances, if there are any. And then commit to memory, so that you can quote for yourself and quote for others that exquisite thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians about charity tost suffers long and is kind, and hopeth all things, and endureth all things. By pen, by voice, in public and in private, say all the good about people you can think of, and if there be nothing good, then lighten the chain of muscle on the back end of your tongue, and keep the ivory bars of teeth on the lower jaw and the ivory bars of teeth on the up

per jaw locicea, anu me gaie ox jour lips tightly dosed, and your tongue shut up. What a place Brooklyn would be to lire in, and all the other cities and neighborhoods to lire in, U charity dominated! What it the young and old gossipers were dead. The Lord hasten their funerals 1 What it tittle-tattle and whispering wero out of fashion 1 What if in ciphering out the value of other people’s character, in our moral arithmetic, we stuck to addition instead of subtraction! kindness! Let us, morning, noon and night, pray for it until we get it When you can speak a good word for someone, speak it If you can conscientiously give letter of commendation, give it Watch for opportunities for doing good fifty years after you are dead. AH my life has been affected by the letter of introduction that Bev. Dr. Van Vranken, of New Brunswick theological seminary, wrote for me, a boy under him, when I was seeking a settlement in which* to preach the Gospel. That letter gave me my first pulpit Dr. Van Vranken has been dead more than thirty years, yet 1 feel the touch of that magnificent old professor. Strange sensation was it when I received a kind message from Rev. Thomas Guard, of Baltimore, the great Methodist orator, six weeks after his death. By way of the eternal world? Oh, no, by way of this world. I did not meet the friend to whom he gave the message until nearly two months after Thomas Guard had ascended. So you can start a word about some one that will bo on its travels and vigorous long after the funeral psalm had been sung at your obsequies. Kindness! "’hy, if fifty men aU aglow with it should walk through the lost world methinks they would almost abolish perdition. The east wind and the west wind were one day talking with each other, and the east wind said to the west wind: “Don’t you wish you had my power? Why, when I start they hail me by storm signals all along the coast. I can twist olf a ship’s mast as easily as a cow’s hoof cracks an alder. With one sweep of my wing I have strewn the coast from Newfoundland to Key West with parted ship timber. I can lift and have lifted the Atlantic ocean. I am the terror of all invalidism, and to fight me back forests must be cut down for fires, and the mines of continents are called on to feed the furnaces. Under my breath the nations crouch into sepulchers. Don’t you wish you had my power?” The west wind made no answer, but started on its mission, coming somewhere out of the rosy bowers of the sky, and all the rivers and lakes and seas smiled at its coming. The gardens bloomed, and the orchards ripened, and the wheat fields turned their silver into gold, and the health clapped its hands, and joy shouted from the hill-tops, and the nations lifted their foreheads into the light, and the earth had a doxology for the sky, and the sky an anthem for the earth, and the warmth and the sparkle and the gladness and the foliage and the flowers and the fruits and the beauty and the life were the only answer the west wind made to the insolence of the east wind’s interrogation. Kindness to all! Surely it ought npt to be a difficult grace to culture when we see towering above the centuries such an example that one glimpse of it ought to melt and transform all nations. Kindness brought our Lord from Heaven. Kindness to miscreants, kindness t3 persecutors, kindness to the crippled and the blind and the cataleptic and the leprous and the dropsical and the demonical characterized Him aU the way; and on the cross, kindness to the bandits suffering on the one side of Him and kindness to the executioners while yet they pushed the spear, and hammered the spikes, and howled the blasphemies. All the stories of the John Howards, and the Florence Nightingales, and the Grace Darlings, and the Ida Lewises pale before this transcendent example of Him whose birth and life and death are the greatest story that the world ever heard, and the theme of the mightiest hosanna that Heaven over lifted. Yea, the very kindness that allowed both hands to be nailed to the horizontal timber of the cross with that cruel thump! thump! now stretches down from the skies those same hands filled with balm for all our wounds, forgiveness for all our crimes, rescue for all our serfdoms. And whUe we take this matchless kindness from God, may

iir uc iuuuu uiai wc nave uiwreu our last bitter word, written our last cutting paragraph, done our last retaliatory action, left our last revengeful heart-throb. And it would not be a bad epitaph for any of us if by the grace of God from this tims- forth we lived such beneficent fives that the tombstone’s chisel could appropriately cut upon the plain slab that marks our grave a suggestion from the text: “He showed us no little kindness.” But not until the last child of God has got ashore from the earthly storms that drove him on the rocks like Mediterranean Euroclydons, not until all the thrones of Heaven are mounted, and all the conquerors crowned, and all the harps and trumpets and organs of Heaven are thrummed or blown or sounded, and the ransomed of all climes and ages are in full chorus under the jubilant swing of angelic baton, and we shall for thousands of years have seen the river from under the throne rolling into the “sea of glass mingled with fire,” and this word we now inhabit shall be so far in the past that only a stretch of celestial memory can recall that it ever existed at all, not until then will we understand what Nehemi&h calls “the great kindnesB,” and David calls “the marvelous kindness," and Isaiah calls “the everlasting kindness” of God! —Learn that between body and body there is an infinite difference. The senses of one man’s body are porches to a fair or market, within which one lives who desires to make gain and gratify the fieidt The senses of another man’s body are porches to a temple; within there lives one who ta face to face with GoA-John Pulsford. —The chief secret of personal cornsuffering trifles to vex ir undergrowth

THE TARIFF AND THE FARM Eh. What a Protection!** Professor Thinks oa That Snhject —Prsefc Admission That the Tariff Hurts the Fsrmer-Ssys It Must Be -•Improved"—Jbst Robert P. Porter ConProf. E. J. James, of the university of Pennsylvania, who enjoys the distinction of being one of the very few able teachers of political economy in this country who are advocates of the protective system, has recently made an address before the American Association for the Advanoememtof Science on the subject of “Taxation and the Farmer.” This protectionist professor has something to say on the farming situation which does not exactly square with 'Robert P. Porter’s extravagant and foolish claim that tfee former gets more advantage from protection than any other clasa Prof. James, on the other hand, sees that the farmer is falling behind in the race for wealth and comfort He save:

Tho remarkable phenomena occurring in connection with tlie Farmers* Alliance movement shows at once how deeply the iron has entered into the soul of tho Anieri • can farmer, and how thoroughly he has become aware that for some reason or other he Is not keeping pace In hie material, intellec'.ual and social progress with other classes In the community. Porter’s nonsense about the farmer’s great advantages over other people is effectually exploded in the following words: As a matter of fact the wealth rf the United States Is flowing away from its farms into its factories and railroads: from the country into the city; from the rural Into the urban districts. The policy of our railroad companies has borno hard upon the individual farmer and upon thu farmer as a cl iss. It has altered all the con lltlons of agrli ulture in many sections of the country, and in nearly till of them in sn h a way as needlessly to burden and embarrass the farmer. Onr system of taxation as a whole rests most heavily upon the farmer. There Is little doubt that aider tho method of a general property tax, now prevailing In this country, the rural dlstrlot is. relatively speaking, far more heavily taxed than the city. tho farmer pays more than the merchant or the railroad owner. The American farther has a grievance—a real and trne grievance—one that will not bdeome less by pooh-poohing it. but one which must be carefu ly studied by students of economics and statistics to ascertain, if possible, how far It is Justified and whether It can be remedied, and. It so, by what means. Coming down to the tariff question itself this Pennsylvania protectionist professor shows that he is not blinded by the delusions which prevail among nearly all other protectionists. He goes on: Nor Is there any doubt , that the financial polioy of the country, using that term in the broadest ssnse, as including the whole ays temot monetary transactions, built up hr the combination of governmental act'on and private Initiative, discriminates directly and keenly against the tanner and the farming ola-s, or at least that it discriminates in favor of other classes, which amounts to the same thing. Nor ean It be said that the tarlfi policy of the country has been managed at least directly with an eye as mne i,tithe farmer's interest as to that of other c'asses. I am aware that this Is a much-mooted question :but I do not believe t h it anyone who hat taken pains to study our tariffs will olalm that the farmors, as a class, have had such immediate influence in fixing given rates of duty as the manufacturer, tor example. Notwithstanding the immediate bright outlook for the farmer in this year’s 'large crops and good prices, Prof. James concludes that ‘‘the American farmer is in a bad way and likely to be in a worse one.” Among the remedies he suggests are the following: The system of taxation must be readjusted and the farmer rel lev *d of nnjnst burdens. The tariff must bo Improved; ths banking a id general monetary policy of the country changed in many respocts. Pretty* good for a protectionist pro fessor. _ ABOUT WAGES. How Wages Have Risen In England -Oar Wages Under Protection Have Gone Down In Some Places—A Case Por Protectionist Eying. That wages in general are lower in Ei^gland than in the United States is a well known fact; but it is one which gives onr protectionists occasion for much downright lying. They .pretend that it is the system of “British free trade” which has made wages lower in England thaoCSoW; whereas the fact is that wages havombt been made lower in England at all, but have constantly tended upward since England adopted her present policy. A recent Session of the Royal Commission of Labor in London was devoted to an examination into the condition of labor in the cotton spinning and weaving industry. Among the many witnesses examined was 'Mr. Albert Simpson, of Preston, a cotwn spinner, cotton manufacturer and East India merchant, who said that during the last thirty-five years the wages of cotton operatives had increased from 25 to 50 per cent., and at the same time a fall in the price of commodities had taken place. There is doubtless much poverty among the working classes in England; bnt the above statement does not look as if “British free trade” had any part in cansing that poverty. It is not enough for onr protectionists to point ont that wages in England are low; the decisive fact is that wages there are becoming higher. Bnt how is it with ns? Wages have gone up here to some extent in thirty years, bnt not so much as the wages of the English cotton spinners and weavers just referred to; and in some states, where protected industries are most numerous, wages have actually gone down. Here, f°r example, are the wages in the chief industries of Massachusetts in 1860 and 1880, as given by Carroll Di Wright in his report for 1883 as labor commissioner for the state of Massachusetts:

Average Weekly wa«w S8-0. 1880. Boots and shoes...... Carpets... Clothing... Cottons... Furniture.. Leather........ Linen and jute. Paner.... 811k... Worsteds.. 11.43 6.8* 836 &80 11.17 10 01 4.61 8.63 6.01 6.10 a«o * 67 8.81 7.87 aw ara 183 8.17 187 166 Average In nil Industries.. «. m wss From this table it will be seen that wages in the cotton industry rose from $6.50 to only 87.37 in twenty years, or only 13 per cent, against a rise of from 83 to SO per cent, in England in thirtyfive years. But this official report shows that wages in the ten leading industries of Massachusetts were actually lower by 0 per cent in 1880 than in 1860, before high protection began. —“Indiana,” says a McKinley organ of this state, “will collect from Europe not less than *30,000,000 of the *50,000,000 that will be paid for Indiana wheat this year.” Probably this estimate is not far wrong. It only goes to sh*>w that it is the European market and not the home market which keeps oar farmers alive If it were not for the foreign demand wheat would not fetch fifty cents a bushel this year.—Indianapolis Sentinel —McKinley said to the people of East Liverpool, Oi: “There is one thing abont the republican party my friends; it can face both ways without shame.” Precisely so; it can tell the farmer that the duties on farm produce raise prices, and that those on manufactured i make prices lower. And as for “shame,” nobody expected any. aggregate capital The ‘trusts” in the ted four

FOR WAR ON THE SEAS. Hatal Minister Bamwt, in»r««a« investigation of the French marine, became convinced that many of the higher naval Officers were totally incompetent. 1 Aii the iron and steel vessels of the navy are to be painted white, because it is found that in a hot climate white hulled vessels are twelve degrees cooler than those painted black. Gloucester, Mass., wishes one of the boats of the new navy named after her, claiming that she is the homeport for more of American merchant marine to-day than any other place. Admiral Elliott expresses the opinion,since the recent British maneuvers, that “numerical superiority in torpedo gun vessels is of equal, if not greater, importance than in battle ships.” Since the Japanese have had Tranships they hovfe been experimenting with lacquer as a protection to the bottoms, with marvelously satisfactory results. The Fuso-Kan, after haring been lacquered for a year, was found to he in perfect condition.

CHILDREN’S READY ANSWERS. Grammatical — Teacher — "la the sentence: ‘The sick boy loves his medicine,’ what part of speech is low?” Johnny—“ft's a lie, mum.” Perfection. — Teacher— “Ned, yon are V perfect blockhead.” Pupil — “Thank yon, sir! That's the first time yon have called me perfect in anything.” Teacher—“Willie, I have observed, with great pain, that for several mornings past you have been tardy.” L ittle Willie (proudly)—“Yes, sir. I tfe my own neckties now-” A Crushing Answer.—Uncle James— "What, smoking again. Tommy? Don’t you know that no smoker ever grows tall?” Tommy—“They don’t, eh? Well, just look at that chimney. It smokes likS-sixty, and papa’s just had it made sis feet taller.” A shale boy who had disobeyed his mother and gono off to play was reproved with the greeting: “Why, Johnny, aren’t yon ashamed of ironrself?” To which the boy replied: “ Yes, ma, but I’d rather be ashamed than miss all the fund had.” FLOWERS FOR THE HOUSE. Flowers in porous pots require «nort water than those in hard-burned pots. It is not the number of one’s plants but their health and vigor that determines the quantity of winter bloom. •A north window is only suitable for such plants as need shade and are grown for their foliage rather than for blossoms. Ferns, palms and lycopodiums do well in such a place. Rake the leaves off the lawn as they fall and pile in a*eonvenient place, pour over them soap suds and other slops to keep them damp, and you will l ave a valuable compost for potting purposes. The supply of water to plants through their roots is always more abundant when the soil is kept warm; hence, when plants begin to wilt, mere warming the earth around the roots will sometimes cause them to re vivo. A southeast window is the best for window plants. Keep the glass dean, so as to admit all the light and heat possible. Ventilate the room occiisionally, but avoid cold draughts of air on the plants._ THEIR FIRST TRIALS. A kind husband will eat a little of his young wife’s first bread if it kills him outright.—Galveston News. Young Wife—“Did yon try any of my veal-and-hom pie, dear?” Husband— “No, dear; I forgot to renew my life insurance policy yesterday. I’ll do so today and try the pic to-night.” “Yes,” she said gravely, “I am satisfied that no life is so happy as the married one.” “And how long have you been married?” “Since Tuesday last,” she replied.—Philadelphia Record. “John, dear, I wish you had married cook instead Of me.” “Maud, dear, that’s a strange thing to say.” “But I mean it, because then yon would have had a wife who could be tho boss of the house.”—Philadelphia Times. Young Husband—“Isn’t there something peculiar about the taste of theso onions, my dear?” Yofpg Wife (anxiously)—“Oh! I hope not, my dear. I took such pains with them. 1 even sprinkled them with Jockey Club before I pnt them to boil, to take away the unpleasant odor.”—Dcmorest’s Magazine. SOCIETY’S LATEST. The rulers of Russian society disapprove of flirting. They have made an unwritten code that no man must waltz more than once around the room with his partner. A Bangor (Me.) jeweler tired of souvenir spoons has hit upon the idea of souvenir scarf pins. His first effort in the line is the Hamlin pin, with a bust of the deceased ex-vico president for a head. The latest fad among women who entertain a good deal is the autograph table spread, upon which each guest is invited to write his name with a bine pencil. The outlines are afterwards embroidered. It is a popular fad to have the portraits of yourself and your family lithographed upon tho bottoms of cups and saucers. A popular superstition has prevented the custom from extending to soup plates.—Chicago Times. HISTORICAL DATA. Tea was first used in England in 1066. Peru was discovered by Perez de la Rua in 1513.

THE MARKETS. Nxw York, September 14,1881. CATTLK-Natlve Steers.t 8 6S • » 40 COTTON—Middling.- • J4t FI.OUB—Winter Wheat. 8 78 • B 65 WHKAT-No. 3 Bed. 1 08 • 1 OB It CORN—No. 1............ WA* MW OATS—Western Mixed.. S3 • M PORK—New Mess.IB 3S • 13 76 ST. LUCIA COTTON—Middling. .... • „ BKBTKS-Panoy Steers.. B 80 » 6 00 Shipping. 4 BO • B 75 HOGS—Common to Select.... 4 SB • B BO SHEEP—Fair to Choice.. 3 63 a 4 60 FLOOR—Patents. 4 BB • 4 « Fancy to Kxtra Do.. 4 00 m 4 65 WHEAT—No. 1 Bed Winter.. Safe* »» CORN-No. t Mixed. 8*Vt« 61 OATS-Mo. 3, RYE-No. B.r TOBACCO—Lugs 83 1 10 Leal Barley..... 4 80 HAY—Clear Timothy. 9 00 SOW 86 8 10 7 00 IB 00 BO HOTTER—Choice Dairy. 18 EGGS—Fresh. • 1« 1-0UK-Standard Mess.... • 11B0 BAC< >N—Clear Rib.. 8«« 8M LARD—Prime Steam.. . .... • Jtt WOOL—Choice Tub. 01 • 83 CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping. 8 38 • 6 BB HOG 8-Good to Choioe. 4 90 • B 48 SHEEP—Fair to Choice. 8 B0 • 4 OB FLOUR—Winter Patents. 4 7# • 4 8B wheat«sW:::::: 4 8*2 ::::::::: :::: S S* PORK—Standard Mesa. • 10 87«i KANSAS CITY. "H^iTiW.*.^".--. *.U 2 58 WHEAT-NO. 3 Red. 88 • 84 oats—No. a.... am; » NEW ORLEANS. rLOUU—Hish Grade. 4BB • 4 90 OATS-Western. 89 • »» HAY-Choloe. IB 60 • 16 00 PORK-New Mess .. • 11 BACON-Clear Bib .. • COTTON—Middling. • LOUISVILLE. WHEAT—No.3 Bed.... 88 • 89 CORN—No. 3 White. * • 67

A contemporary summarises Iks interesting account of “Neighborhood Guilds’’ givetftiy Dr. Stanton Colt, the young American who has been applying to London life the experiment which he had already carried out In the heartUf New York poverty. A neighborhood guild consists of a number of small clubs formed according to age. Dr. Coifs field is divided into five clubs —two for young boys and girls, two for youths and maidens and one for adults. In each guild the clubs are small, enough for the leader to know each member personally —the vice of excessive Bize being one which Dr. Coit condemns. Several guilds may federate—the theory of the guild is that of reproducing the family as the best type of corporate life. Above all, everything is built on a democratic basis, and each guild is self-governing. ’Tis the chief idea of each guild-worker that there is to be* no condescension, no “going down” to the poor. The success of the various experiments in guilds shows that this form of charity meets certain needs of the age, and undoubtedly leads to an extension of social sympathy, and to a better understanding between the rich and the poor.

Good New* from England. The Medical Refoum Sociirr or London will send genuine Information free of charge to all who are bona fldesufferers f romChronlo Kidney and Liver Diseases, DiabetesCr Bright's Disease, or any discharges or do, rangements of the human body, Dropsy, Nervous Weakness, Exhausted Vitality, Gravel, Rheumatism, Sciatica, Dyspepsia, Lossof Memory, want of Brainpower. 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 en doting ten cents in stamps to defray expenses, to Secretary, James Holland, 8, Bloomsbury Mansions, Bloomsbury Square, London, England. Mention this paper. A thikf died in an Iowa poorhoose, and a local paper solemnly declares that a “thief can’t make an honest living in that state.” —Columbus Post. Dm ObIjSm Ever Printed—Can Ton Find the Word? There is a 8 inch display advertisement in this paper, this week, which has no two words alike except one word. The same is true of each new one nprearing each week, from The Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house places a “Crescent” on everything they make and publish. Look for it, send them the name of the word and they will return yon book,' beautiful lithographs or samples free. \ “Thanks,” said the guest to the colored man who brought his soup at last. “You have taken a great wait oft iny mind.”— Washington Star. “Oh, That Day Would Comet1* Is the prayer of many a sleepless invalid who tosses the night out upon a couch whose comfort might well induce slumber. The finest inductive of health-yielding, refreshing sleep is Hostetler’s Stomach Bitters, since It invigorates the nerves, allays their super-sensitiveness, and renovates failing digestion. It is Incomparable also in malaria, constipation, rheumatism, neuralgia, liver and kidney complaint. I? is said that the early bird catches the worm, but the man who takes the latest nap in the morning gets the latest snoose.— Texas Siftings. Tourists, Whether on pleasure bent or business, should take on every trip a bottle of Syrup of Figs, as it acts most pleasantly and effectually on the kidneys, liver ana bowels, preventing fevers, headaches and other forms of sickness. For sale in 50c and $1.00 bottles by all leading druggists. A clock is always an appropriate wedding gift. It means on its face that there is no time like the present.—Baltimore American. Invalids, aged people, nursing mothers, overworked, wearied out fathers, will find the hnppicst results from a judicious use of Dr. Bhermau’s Prickly Ash Bitters. Where the liver or kidneys are affected, prompt notion is necessary to change the tide to* ward healt h, ero the disease becomes chron ic—possibly incurable, and there is nothing better to be found in the whole range of maiqria medtea. Bold everywhere. When yon see a rattlesnake with ten rattles and a button, you touch the button and " the snake will do the rest.—1Topeka Journal. A prolonged use of Dr. John Bull’s Sarsaparilla will euro scrofula and syphilis, but such symptoms of impure blood as pimples, sores, aches, pains, kidney and liver weakness, eto, vanish like snow before the noon day when this remedy is used. It stimulates the entire system and its beneficial effect is felt at once in every part. “My pet, I want a quick lunch to-day.” “Very well, dearest; I'll give you a hasty pudding.”—Baltimore American. Pain from indigestion, dyspepsia and too hearty eating is relieved at once by taking one of Carter’s Little Liver Pills immediately after dinner. Don’t forget this. “I get your views,” said the sheriff, as he iroceeded to seise the photographer’s stock n trade.—Buffalo Enquirer. Don’t let the worms eat the very life out of your children. Save them with those dainty candies, called Dr. Bull's Worm Destroyers. “This is a regular skin game,” remarked the banana peel to the sprawling pedestrian. —Binghamton Republican. PiorLB Are Killed by Coughs that Hale’s Honey of Horehonnd and Tar would cure. Pike’s Toothache drops Cure in one minute. “That breaks the long, hot spell,” said the printer when he pied the weather bulletin. —Washington Star. For any case of nervousness, sleeplessness, weak stomach, indigestion, dyspepsia, relief is sure in Carter’s Little Liver Pills. The person who is chased by a bear has proof positive that trouble is a brewin’.— Lowell Courier. Brst, easiest to use and cheapest Pi so*! Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. 25c. The knife-grinder ought not to be out oi work in dull times.—B. O. Picayune.

\ Nothing can be laid in favor of the best medicine in the world that may not be said of the most worthless. In one case, it’s true; in the other, it isn’t;—but how can you distinguish ? Judge by what is done. There’s only one blood-purifier that’s guaranteed. It’s Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery—and this is what is done with it; if it doesn’t benefit or cure, in every case, you get your money back. Isn’t it likely to he the best? All the year round, as well at one time as another, jit cleanses and purifies the system. All blood-poisons must go. For Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Sorofula, .Salt-rheum, Tetter, Erysipelas, or any blood-taint or disorder, it is an unequaled remedy. It’s the cheapest, too. With this, you pay only for the good you get. And nothing else is M just as good.” It may be better—for the dealer. fc be But he isn’t ■ wsik

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There are {foods in tbe znarkv ithaibipk very nice I ¥ but Trill leak at every seam, we warrant \ [ Towtr»$ IMPROVED Fist? Bra.r»4 li SUcktr to be water tight at every seam and a everywhere else; also not So pee! or stieL\ and ■ authorize oar dealers to make good any Slicker \ that fails in either point. . Watch Oat for the Wooten Cottar 1 and Fi*h Brand Trade Mark. fl. J. TOWER? A\fr.( Before Buyio* Water Proof Ely’s Gisam Balm WU.li COBB CATARRH rpa^raressri Acplr Sai® into each nostril. SLY BROS., fid Warren 8V, N.Y, R AG JSF Fi-TtNO-1 Sbottl* arsnu this para* *>««? «■»*** tVERS SHOULD SEND AT ONCE w. OUKlAftQE CATAVOOUIof . /va» Loom, we have Patents! Pensions Send for inventor** ©ante cr How to Obtntn a Patent end for Digest of 1PEK810N sum* Kttl hTi I.\\% 8. •ATRICK OIAWEXX, * WASHINGTON, D. 0.

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