Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 2, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 June 1892 — Page 4

Bot. I. Dewitt Tahnage Talks on the Mighty Voice of God. It Speaks from Olt the tnknowu KmIM •si from the Secret Place# It Seaik lie Shafts to Reach the Hearts or Men. The following discourse was delivered by Rev. T. DeVVitt Talmage ip the \ -Brooklyn tabernacle from the text: I answered thee in the secret placj of thunder.—Psalms lxxxi., T. It is post midnight, and 3 o’clock in the morning, far enough from sunset and sunrise to make the darkness very thick, and the Egyptian army in pursuit of the escaping Israelites are on the bottom of the Red sea, its waters having been set up on either side in masonry of sapphire, for God can make a wall as solid out of water as out of granite, and the trowels with which these two walls were built were none the less powerful because invisible. Such walls had never before been lifted. When I saw the waters of the Red Sea rolling through the Sue* canal they were blue and beautiful and flowing like other waters, but to-night, as the Egyptians look up to them built into walls, now on one side and now on the other, they must have been frowning waters, for it was probable that the same power that lifted them up might suddenly fling them prostrate. A great ^lantern of cloud hung over this chasm

between toe two waits. ihe door oi that lantern was opened toward the Israelites ahead, giving- them light, and 'the hack of the lantern was toward the Egyptians, and it growled and rumbled and jarred with thunder; not thunder like that which cheers the earth after a drought, promising the refreshing \ shower, but charged and, surcharged with threats of doom. The Egyptian captains lost thejrpresence of mind, and the horses reaxed and snorted and would dot answer to their hits, and the chariot wheels got interlocked and torn off, and the charioteers were hurled headlong, and the Bed sea fell on iill the host. The confusing and confounding thunder was in answer to , ,ihe prayer of the Israelites. With their hacks cut by the lash, and their feet bleeding, and their bodies decrepit with .* the suffering of whole generations, they had asked Almighty Uod to ensepuleher v their ■ Egyptian pursuers in one great sarcophagus, _ and the splash and the • roar of the Bed sea as it dropped to its natural bed were only the shutting of the sarcophagus on a dead host. That is the meaning of the text when God says: “I answered thee in the secret place of thnnder.” Now thnnder, all up and down the Bible, is the symbol of power. The Egyptian plague of hail was accompanied with this full diapason of the heavens. While Samuel and his men were making a burnt offering of a lamb, and the Philistines were about to attack them,it was by terrorizing thunder they were discomfited. Job; who was a combination of the Damtesque and the Miltonic, was solemnized on this reverberation of the heavens, and cried, “The thunder of his power, who can understand?” and he challenges the universe by saying, “Canst thon thunder with a voice like Him?” and he throws Bosa Bonaeur's “Horse Fair” ipto the shade by the Bible photograph j>f a warhorse, when he describes his neck as “clothed with thunder.” Because of the power of James and John they were called “the sons of thunder.” The law given on the basaltie crags of Mount Sinjti was emphasized with this clondy ebullition. The skies all around about St. John at Patmos were full of -Hie thunder of war, and the thunder of uhristly triumph, and the thunder of resurrection, and the thunder of eter

nny. But when my text says, “I answered thee in the secret place of thunder,” it suggests there is some mystery about the thunder. To the ancients the cause of this bombarding the earth with loud sound must have been more of a mystery than it is to us. The lightnings, which Were to them wild monster* ranging through the skies in our time have been domesticated. We harness electricity to vehicles, and we cage it in' lamps, and every schoolboy knows something about the fact that it is the passage of electricity from cloud tp cloud that causes the heavenly racket which we call thunder. But, after all that , chemistry has taught the world, there are mysteries about this skyey resonance, and my text, true in the time of the Psalmist, is true now and always will be true, that there is .some secret about the place of thunder. To one thing known about the thunder there are a hundred things not known. After all the scientific batteries have been doing their work for a thousand years to come and learned men have discoursed to the utmost about atmospheric electricity and magnetic electricity and galvanic electricity and thermotic electricity and friction electricity and positive electricity and negative electricity my text will he as suggestive as it is to-day, when it speaks of the secret place of thunder. Now right along by a natural law there is always a spiritual law. As there is a secret place of natural threader, there Is a secret place of moral thunder. In other words, the religious power that you see abroad in the church in the world has a hiding place, and in many cases it is never discovered stall. I will use a similitude. I can give only : f^the dim outline of a particular case, for many of the remarkable circumstances I have forgotten. Many years ago there was a large church. It was characterized by strange and unaccountable conversions. There were no great revivals, but individual cases of spiritual arrest and transformation. .A young man sat in one of the front pews. He was a graduate of Yale,brilliant as the north star and notoriously '* dissolute. Everybody knew him and llked him for his geniality, hut deplored his moral errantry. To please his parents he was every Sabbath morning in church. Ono day there was a ringing of the ckrorbell of the pastor of that church, and that young man, whelmed with repentance, Implored prayer and advice and passed into complete reformation - of heart and life. All the neighborhood was astonished and asked, “Why was this*” His father and mother had •aid nothing to him about his soul’s welfare. Op ^pother aisle of the same church _ fat an oTa ^niscr. He paid his pew rent, hut was hard on the poor, and had no i interest in any philanthropy. Piles of money! And people said, “What a struggle he will have when he qiyts this life to part with his bonds and mortgages.” day he wrote to his minister; s to call immediately. I have a at importance about which e you.” When the pastor t the man could not speak for t after awhile he gathered to say, “1 have lived ong. 1 want to know - and, if so.

-that was a _„,p _ do, and In the neighborhood lived it wait hardly i expectable not to go. Worldly was she to the last degree, and all her family worldly. She had at her house the finest germane that were ever dancer, and the costliest fiaTors that were erer given, and though she attended church she never liked to hear any story of pathos, and as to religions emotion of liny kind, she thought' it positively vulgar. Win*®, eards^theaters, rounds of costly gny*ty weie to her the highest satisfa ction. One «|ay a neighbor ;sent in a visiting: card, and this lady came down the stairs in teairs and told the whole story of how she had not slept for several nights, and she feared she was going to lose her soul, and she wondered if some one would not come around and pray with her. From that time her entire demeanor was changed, and though she was not called upon to sacrifice any of her amenities of life, she consecrated her beauty, her social position, her family, her all to God and the church and usefulness. Everybody' said in regard to her, “Have you noticed the change, and what in the world caused it?” and no one eouldl make sat.isfactcuy explanation.

in mo course oi two years, tuougu there was no genera) awakening in that church, many such isolated eases of such unexpected ancl unaccountable conversions took place. The very people whom no one thought would be affected by such consideiations were converted. The pastor a nd the officers of the ehureh were on the lookout for the solution at this religions phenomenon. “Where is it?’ they said, “and who is it and what is it?” At last the discovery was made and all was explained. A poor old Christian woman standing in the vestibule of the ehureh one Sunday morning, trying to get her breath again before she went upstairs to the gallery, heard the inquiry and told the secret. For years she had been in the habit of concentrating all her prayers for particular persons in that church. Sho would see some man oar some woman present, and, though she might not know the pen,on’s nam e, she would pray for that person until he or she was converted to God. All her prayers were for that one person—just that one. She waited and waited for (Communion days to see when the candidates for membership stood up whether her prayers had been effectual It turned out that these marvelous instances of conversion were the result of that old woman’s prayers as she sat in the gallery Sabbath by Sabbath, bent and widened and poor and unnoticed. A little cloud of consecrated humanity hovering in the galleries. That was the secret place of the thunder. There is some hidden, unknown, mysterious source of almost all the moral and religious power demonstmted. Not one out of a million—-not one out of ten million—prayers ever strike a human ear. On public occasions a minister of religion voices the supplic ations of an assemblage, but the prayers of all the congregation are in silence. There is not a second in a century when prayers a*e not ascending, hut myriads of them are not even ns loud as a whisper, for God hears a thought as plainly as a vocalization. That silence of supplication—hemispheric and perpetual—is the secret place of thunder. In the winter of 1815 we were wo* shiping in the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the interregnum of ehurehes. AVe had the usual great audiences, but I was oppressed beyond measure by the fact that conversions were not more nn

merous, On© luesflay i mviieu 10 my bouse five old., consecrated Christian men—all of them gone now, except Father Pearson, and he, in blindness and old age, waiting for the Master’s eall to come up higher. These old men came, not knowing why I had invitisd them. 1 took them to the top room of my house. I said to them: “1 have called y ou here for special prayer. I am in an agony for a great turning to* god of the people. We have vast multitudes in attendance and they are attentive and respectful, but I can not see that they arc saved. Let us kneel down and eaeh one pray and not leave this room until we are all assured that the blessing will come and has come.” It was a. most intense crying unto God. I said, “Brethren, let thjis meeting bo a secret,” and they said it would be. That Tuesday night special sferviea ended. On the following Friday night occured the usual prayer' meeting. No one knew of what had occurred on Tuesday night, but the meeting was unusually thronged. Men accustomed to pray in public in great composure broke down under emotion. The people were in tears. There were sobs and silences and solemnities of such unusual power that the worshipers looked Into each other’s faces, as much as to say, “What does all this mean?” And when the following Sabbath came, although we were in a secular place, over four hundred arose for prayers, and a religions awakening took place that made that winter memorable for time and for eternity. There may 1>e in this building many who were brought to Gqd during that great ingathering, but few of them know that the upper room in my house on Quincy street, where those five old Christian men poured out their souls before God, was the secret place of thunder. The day will come—G od hasten it— when people will find oat the velocity, the majesty, theimultipo'tenceof prayer. We brag about our 1 imited express trains which put us down a thousand miles away in twenty-four hours, but here is something by which in a moment we may confront people five thousand miles away. We brag about our telephones, but here is something that beats the telephone in ut terance and reply, for God says, “Before they call, J will hear.” We brag almut the phonograph, in which a man can speak, and his words and the tones of his voice can Vt kept for ages, and by the turning of a crank the woi-ds may come forth upon the ears of another century, but prayer allows us to speak words into the ears of everlasting remembrance, and on the other side of all eterniti es they will be heard# Oh, ye who art wasting ypr breath, and wasting your brains, Tftid wasting yonr nerves, and wasting your lungs wishing for this good and that good for the church and the world, why do you not go into the secret place of thunder. “But,” sayB someone, “that Is a beautiful theory, yet it does not work in my case, for I am in a cloud of trouble, or a eloud of sickness, or a cloud of persecution, or a cloud of poverty, or a cloud of bereavement, or a cloud of perplexity.? How glad I am that you told me that That is exactly the place to which my text refers. It was from a cloud that God answered Israel—the cloud over the chasm cut through the Red Sea— the cloud that was light to the Israelites to the Egyptians. It tremendous eloud, V

are elevated la their presence; you area better man or a better woman, haring confronted them. Yon know that la intellectual endowment you are their superior, while in the matter of moral and religious Influence they are vastly your superior. Why Is this? To flxd the revelation of this secret you must go hack thirty or forty or perhaps sixty years to the homestead where this man was brought up. It is a winter morning, and the tallow candle is lighted, and the fires are kindled, sometimes the shavings hardly enough to • tart the wood. The mother is preparing the breakfast, the blue edged dishes are on the table, and the lid of the kettle on the hearth begins to rattle with the steam, and the shadow of the industrious woman by the flickering flame on the hearth is moved up and down the wall. The father is at the barn feeding the stock—the oats thrown into tie horses’ Inn and the cattle crauncliing the corn. The children, earlier than they would like and after being called twice, are gathered at the table. The blessing of God is asked on the food, and, the meal over, the family Bible is pnt upon the white tablecloth and a chapter is read and a prayer made, which includes all the interests for this world and the next. The children pay not much attention to the prayer, for it is about: the same thing day after day, but it puts upon them an impression that ten thousand years will only make more vivid and tremendous. As long as the old folks live their p^syer is for their children and their children’s children. Day in and day out, month in and month out, year in and year out, decade in and decade out the sons and daughters of that family are remembered in earnest prayer, and they know it, and they feel it, and they can not get away from it. Two funerals after awhile—not more than two years apart, for it is seldom that there is metre than that lapse of time between father’s going and mother’s going—two funerals put out of sight the old folks. But where are the children? The daughters are in homes where they are incarnations of good sense, industry and piety. The sons, perhaps one a farmer, another a merchant, another a physician, another a minister of the Gospel, useful, consistent, admired, honored. What a power for good those seven sons and daughters! Where did they get the power? Prom tho schools, and the seminaries, and the colleges*? Oh, no, though these may have helped. From their superior

mental endowment? No* 1 do not think they had unusual mental caliber. From accidental circumstances? No, they had nothing of what is called astounding good luck. I think we will take a train and ride to the depot nearest to the homestead from which those men and women started. Th e train halts. Let us stop a few minute!; at the village graveyard and see the tombstones of the parents. Yes, the one was seventy-four years of age and the other was seventy-two, and the epigraph says that “after a useful life they died a Christian death.” How appropriately the Scripture passage cut on the mother’s tombstone, “She done what she could.” And how beautiful the passage cut on the father's tombstone, “Blessed are the dead who die in • the Loitd, for they rest from their labors and their works do follow them.” On over the country road we ride— the road a little rough, for the spring weather is not quite settled, and once down in a rut it is hart! to get the wheels out again without breaking the shafts, llut at last we come to the lane in front of the farmhouse. Let me get out of the wagon and open the gate while you drive through. Here is the arbor under which those boys and girls many years ago used to play. But it is quite out of order now, for the property is iMother hands. Yonder is the orchard where they used to thrash fhe trees for apples, sometimes before they were quite ripe. There is the mow where they hunted for eggs before Easter. There is the doorsill upon which they used to sit. There is the room in which they had family prayers and where they aU knelt —the; father there, the brother there and t(he loys and girls there. Wejshave got to the fountain of pious and gracious influences at last. That is the place that decider! these seven earthly and immortal destinies. Behold! Behold! That is the secret place of thunder. Boys are seldom more than their fathers will let them be. Girls are seldom more than their mothers will le them be. But there come times when it seems that parents can not control their children. There come times in a boy’s life when he thinks he knows more than his father does, and I remember now that 1 knew more at fifteen years of age than I have ever known since. There come times in a girl’s life when she thinks her mother is notional and does not%nderstand what is proper and best, and the sweet child says, “Oh, pshaw!” and she longs for the time'when she will not have to be dictated to, and she goes out of the door or goes to bed with pouting lips, and these mothers remember for themselves that they knew more at fourteen years of age than they have ever known since. But, father and mother, do not think you have lost your influence over your child. You have a resource of prayer that puts the sympathetic and omnipotent God into your parental undertaking. Do not waste your time in reading flimsy books about the best ways to bring up children. Go into the secret place of thunder.

Missionaries to bo Protected. We are triad to learn that the United States government has undertaken to redress the wrongs suffered by American missionaries in Turkey. These unoffending men were arrested without cause, their Bibles and other books were confiscated and their property was spoiled. Had this been done by a mob it would have been excusable, though no less an infringement of right, for a mob has many heads, but no brains. But it was the arbitrary act of a Turkish governor, who ought to be retired to private life. The missionaries axe no less entitled to protection than the tradeis, so long as they conduct their apeiations within the laws, as they should seem to have done in this case. Fold around them the Stars and St.ipes.-St. Louis Republic. —John Bloeher, of Buffalo, has bequeathed his large house to be used as a charitable homo for aged men, and has provided fdir the endowment of the institution by bestowing upon it his fortune of 13,000,000. —I attended a funeral in a crowded church where there was but one really happy faeo, and that was the faee of the dead, sleeping amid white flowers. —Talmage, —A lie i

EXCELLENT CORN CRIB. IU., of acorn him. and also the device he raises half a load of corn This form of crib was built of lumber from on ordinary crib that contained many less bushels of corn, and is as follows: 1 wanted to pot my corn where the rats could not get at it. I also wanted more corn room but I didn’t want to buy more lumber. The result is so satisfactory that I will give others a ehance to toy the same thing. If all would do so ere could exterminate our rats by starring them to death. The old crib was H feet long, 88 feet wide and 8 feet high, with driveway 8 feet wide the whole length, and held 1,800 bushels. The new crib (Pig. 1), built of the same lumber, is 84 feet long, 81 feet wide and 18 feet high, with driveway 8 feet wide at bottom and 6 feet wide on top, holding 8,500 bushels. The shorter length is made up by the grea ter height. The gain in room is by filling the space above driveway. But the greatest economy in lumbar is

AJ brought about by haring dear corn room twenty-fire feet wide abore driveway. As ordinarily built this room would make three cribs, each seven feet wide. Six sides would then be necessary to hold the corn in, but now only two ore used. And still more, the wide roof rises so high in the middle that the corn room is high, yet the sides are low. The driveway and cupola form good ventilation, and when picking early or corn is green a furnaee placed in the driveway could be made to send hot air up through the corn. Our corn crib would then be a dry-housev and our corn could then be picked two car three weeks earlier, thus making use of longer days and less mittens and exposure, besides getting .the stalks for the cattle before they are spoiled. 1 suppose it will be diffienlt fpr some to get the corn np so high, bnt if farmers must compete with machinists they must know how to make and use machinery. Several different elevators or carriers would he suitable for the purpose, bnt I nse a box holding thirteen bushels and raise it as we do a horse fork. Fig. 2 shows its form and position at the u,

fc end of the wagon bos, also the arrangement of the ropes. By unhitehing the team from the wagon tongue and hitching to the rope the corn is raised easier and quicker than it could be shoveled eight feet high. The box is emptied by a rod which Sticks up above the top of the box. When the box reaches the top of/levator shaft this rod is pushed down, the doors are unhooked and fall into the position shown by the dotted lines, the corn then slides out and the box is ready to come down. When the box is down the lower door is put into position and hooked by shoving the rod up to its place. The upper door is held by the lower door. This crib is set on stone piers three feet eight inches apart, eighteen inches high, sixteen inches wide at bottom and six inehes on top. The floors are double boards six feet three inches wide and twenty-four feet long nailed to 0x6 inch sills five feet seven inches long laid on top cf the piers. These sills have tin strips nailed to the top edge and extending four inches out all round, making it impossible for rats to get up to the flooi, as they cannot hang to the tin. The position of other timbers and elevator shaft are shown in the drawing. The studding (11x8) is nailed to the floor and the floor to the sills, a safe and substantial arrangement, although the floor extends three incheR over the ends of the sills. The studding is also set bracing so that no nail-girts are needed and the crib cannot sag or lean. The form'of the roof holds the upper part of the crib together. The tie girts (ax8) extend entirely across the building (twenty-one feet) just above the driveway, four feet apart. Other timbers (txfl) are placed between these over the driveway and the floor is nailed to the under side. Thus this crib is closed against chickens and turkeys above, and rats and mice below. No crib or granary should be made so carelessly as not to be proof against all intruders, who destroy more than they eat._ \ Butter Sold at Auction. Butter does not improve with age, and the first thing for ns to consider is how to get our butter to the consumers* table when it is At its best. Some system of marketing should be brought about that would give ail consumers fresh butter. Then when there was a surpl us it could be shipped to Europe in condition to compete with the bntter of other countries. I would suggest we try the auction system to bring about this end. something on the plan of the Chicago California fruit market. This system would be of invaluable benefit to dairymen, and it would give better returns and stimulate a better quality of products.—W. H. (filbert, in Farm and Home._ To Kill Box* on Vlnpe. In reply to an inqniry of one of yout tubscribers asking fora good method of ridding mnskmelon, watermelon, cucumber and pumpkin vines of the bugs infesting them, 1 give my plan which I have used several seasons with success; Take, in the morning, some fresh cow - «nd di

FROM THE HEART. Hm* fa the W*r Ministers Speak. Ko class of people la the community hare • deeper Interest in the welfare of the people than Minis ter* of the Gospel. They are brought clone to the members of their congregation, study their wantn aad an consulted on all subjects. Of late years, pastors in baocming things which contribute well as spiritual comfort Many ]naton are also seek earnestly for those things believe to bo worthy and valuable. The following statements made hy isters of the Gospel, bearing upon this important. point ire most Taluahle: Her. & V. Smith, Marblehead, Mass.: “For years It suffered from complications of the liver, which caused biliousness, and AnuUy threw me into bilious fever. I eras attended by a skilful physician, bat still I suffered periodical bilious attacks and Intense puin-from the formation of gall-stones. I Anally was obliged to suspend my pastoral work, when, after n thorough treatment with a most wonderful cure, I was entirely restored to health and was able to work harder than ever. My appetite returned, my digestion was perfect, and I feel that I owe my restoration entirely to Warner's Safe Cure. I take pleasure in reeommending it as a great remedy tor all diseases of the Avar.** Her. G. A. Harvey, D. ft., Washington, D. C-: “I take pleasure ia stating that I have for many years been acquainted with the well-known Warner's Safe Cure, and with its remarkable curative efficiency in obstinate and so-called incurable cases of Bright's disease In this oity. In some of these cases, which seemed to be ia the last stages, and which had been given up by practitioners of both schools, the speedy change wrought hy this remedy seemed but little tew Dun miraculous. I am convinced that for Bright’s disease, in all its stages, no remedy heretofore discovered, can be held for one moment in comparison with

uua." Rev. Benjamin Hall, Hew Castle, Westchester Co., N. Y.: “I suffered fof'a long time from malaria. 1 rut down iu weight 30 pounds, could not sleep, and was unable to take care of my parish. I consulted one of the best pathologists in the City of New York, who found my fluids badly impregnated with albumen mucous, with hyaline casts abundant. I commenced Warner’s Safe Cvure and began to mend rapidly. My back ceased to ache, the malarial symptoms disappeared, and I now weigh more than ever before. After my recovery 1 had another analysis made, when my fluid proved to he entirely free from oasts, with only a slight trace of albumen. The doctor said the casts were of the most dangerous character, and that J[ had had a Very narrow escape.” Rev. .Henry C Westwood, D. D., Frovi deuce, 1ft L, declares: “Tea years ago 1 used Warner’s Safe Cure and derived so much benefit from It that I was led to voluntarily writes testimonial ia its favor. Since then some of my friends'have proved the virtues of the medicine, and recently a relative has been greatly relieved by its' use. I therefore beg leave to place more emphasis upon the opinion of this remedial agent, expressed by me some ten years ago.” Rov. J. P. Arnold, Camden, Tenu, makes the following statement: “For eight years I suffered from Bright’s disease of the kidneys. The torture I endured no tongue can tell. One day I was laid up with an abscess, whloh discharged pus for twonty months- The best doctors in the country attended the, t)uti could give no relief. Two abscesses were rauning constantly, and, iu fact, they only ceased to run nftor 1 began using Warner’s Safe Cure, which, I am pleased, to say, restored me to perfect health.” Rev. S. B. Bell, D. D, formerly pastor of First 1’resbyterian Church, Kansas City, Mu, asserts: “Ihave been most wonderfully delivered from many paroxysms of unendurable torture by Warner’s Safe Cure. Its virtues should be known by all the world.” Rev. William C. Powers, Greenwood, S. _C., makes the following graphic assertion: “My wife suffered for years from an almost constant disposition to pass urine, which was done with great difficulty and in very small quantities at n time The pain accompanying the clischargo was excruciating. She was treated by three of tho most skilful physicians, hut without any perceptible improvement. She was completely restored to health by the use of Warner’s Safe Cure” “ a. Can you not see that such earnest and outspoken statements as the above come from the heart, that they are sincere, aud that they are made because these ministers of the Gospel, know hqtond quest.on of what they speakt And does it not show how valuable this groat cure becomes to*those who are in need I A fbjsalx model isnot necessarily u model female.—Boston Journal. Or a pale golden color—“The American Browin g Code “A. B. C. Bohemian Bottled Beer.” Once tried, always used.

friendship. Friendslp is one of the greatest boons that life ean have. As Bacon says, “it redoubleth joys and eutteth grief in halves ” But where brotherhood is united with it it attains a still richer result; fear then it has a world of memories and early associations in common—the mutual lore of the same honored parents, the recollections of the same beloved home and past scenes vividlj impressed on the minds of both, in which no other friend, however dear, can possibly share.—Farm and Fireside. —Parsons who are alwas cheerful and good humored are very useful in the world. They maintain peace and happiness, and spread a thankful temper amongst all who li re round them. —With this resurrection assured our Christian dead are in good hands. We have the absolute assurance that death does not endall, hut only begins all.— Gerok, HirtShstimmen. THE MARKETS. CATTLE—Native COTTON'—Middling. FLOUR—Winter Wheat. WHEAT—No. 8 Red. CORN—No. a. OATS—Western Mixed.. POKK-Hew Mess. ST. LOUIS COTTON—Middling. BEEVES—Choice Steers... Medium. . HOGS-Good to Select. BHKKF- Fair to Choice FLOUR-Pateuts.. Fauey to Extra Do WHEAT-No. a Red Winter COUN-No.8 Mixed?.. OATS—No. 3.. RYE-Nc. 3. TOBACCO—Lugs.. Lent Barley HA V—Clear Timothy.. . B UTTEB—Choice Dairy. . EGOS—Freeh. i..... PORK—Htaudanl Mess (New) BACON-Clear Rib.. LaIID—Prluie Steam- .. -Choice Tub ... . CHICAGO. _r—Shipping.. HOGS—Fair to Choice.. SHEEP—Fair to Choi™.. rLOU K- Winter Patents. . Spring Patents... ... WHEAT—No. 3 Spring.. *4 CORN—No.3 ...« 0AT8—Mo.3. "*■ POKE—Mess (New)... . KANSAS err V. CATTLK-OATS-No. *..... CORN—No- 3.. NEW

Pan oib overcome toapwiiawit? »da a writer in the Christian Union. It is admitted that inherited traits can be modified, if not overcome. Temper, disagreeable voice or gesture, an ungraceful walk, a tendency to untruthfnlneea, lack of confidence—all traits that weaken or mar character-rare being* constantly effaced by those who recognize inherited burdens. If this were not so, what would we mean by development of character? What Is temperament but inherited mental and physical traits expressed In one word? 'And If one evil can be thrown out, or off, is not the force of the character shown by the complete harmony that is the result of a sound, fully-developed chord? “Behavior,’* es Qoethe says, “is a mirror hi which everyone shows hie image.** W —The four Gospels have been likened to four pictures of the seme objects taken at different angels. The historic prohlem of unity in diversity is no harder to solve than the pietoriaL The seeming inconsistencies, as Dr. Alexander reminded ns years ago, resulting in the effort to amalgamate the narratives, ought no more to destroy our faith in their eventual haamony than similar point of disagreement in four photographic views of the same edifice or landscape ought to taake us question either the identity of th\ object or the absolute' truth of the delineation. "Bach would he correct from its own standf point.

Catarrh Cannot Ba Co rod With local, applications, m they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh la a blood or constitutional disease, and In order to cure it yon must take internal remedies. Hail’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall’s Catarrh Cure ia not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular presoriptia-.. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the muooua surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what Sxluces such wonderful results in caring tarrh. Send for testimonials, free. P. J. Chexet ft Co., Props., Toledo, O Sold by druggists, price 15 cents. Smallpox is breaking out again. pitifuL—N. O. Picayune. It is Do Torn Admire John Chinaman’s Complexion f Probably not Even were John’s eyes not cut on the bias and his nose broad in the beam, bis tint would stamp him as the reverse of beautiful. *Yet a white —" ItmUiTO S'* — —- —I with the jaundice is of the same hue, only more pronounced, biliousness, wll _ , ■ ,.. ............ith its symptoms ad furred tongue, yellowtah skin and eyeballs, pains In the right side, sick headaches, vertigo, must if unchecked culminate in jaundice and congestion of the liver. Remedy this trouble and remove its attendant Symptoms, dyspepsia and constipation, with Hostetier’s Stomach Ritters, which also cures malaria, rheumatic and kidney troubles. Ho wonder the minutes fly so fast—they are making up time. ft. Only One Ever Printed—Can Yon Find the Word T There is a S inch display advertisement juwre re a o men urepini mopuaous In this paper, this week, whitfthas no two words alike except one wordj^The same is true of each new‘one appealing each week, from The Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This irutu iuv jur. jmmwi aiou«.*uo vw *•**« house places a “Crescent” on everything they make and publish. Look for it, send them the name of the word and they will return you book, beautiful lithographs or samples free. Tub stenographer does not live from hand ;0 month, although his business is from nouth to hand. Lambs, ladies, think of the engagements ron have broken and the disappointments mnsequent to others and perhaps also to ironrselves, all on account of headache. Bradycrotine will euro yon in fifteen mill ties. All druggists. SO cents. A SHOW of 01 exhibition of folly. very apt to be an Who worm be free from earthly ills must buy a box of Beechain’s Pills. 25 cents a box. Worth a guinea. Some boys’ fishing excursions turntowaii iug o.’ their return home. Glxsn’s Sulphur Soap is m genuine remedy for Skin Diseases. Hili’s Hair and Whisker Dye, SO cents. Pride's next door neighbor is shame.— Ram’s Horn. Tn* Ram’s Horn is published at Indianapolis, Indiana, at $Uw per year. Tn? proper tiling for a jury is to he firm, but not fixed Modern society overlooks a soiled reputation much more readily than it does soiled gloves.—Texas Siftings.

r: onb enjoys Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidnfeys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste and acceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial m its effects, prepared only from the most healthy ana agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to ail and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in BOo 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 any substitute.' CALIFORNIA FIO SYRUP CO. SAM FUUKUtOO, ML tommu. Jtr. new nut. *r. SPECIAL MENTION, g If you hare no appetite, lmllgwtfc™, headache, “all ran down* or katafA flesh, you will find W TUTTS • Tiny Liver Pills* the remedy Ton need. They *l»e ton* w to the atomach, •trensthtot&bodJi brilliancy to the complexion and

Set right —all the proper functions of womanhood. Dt. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is the remedy. ft regulates and. promotes their action, and removes the obstructions and suppressions which cause trouble and misery. At the two critical periods in a woman’s life—■ the change from girlhood to womanhood, and,later, the “change of life* —it is a perfectly safe and an especially valuable remedial agent, that can produce only good results. It’s a powerful, invigorating tonic, and a soothing and s&engthening nervine; a legitimate medicine— purely vegetable, perfectly harmless—and carefully adapted, by an extearsnnred physician, to woman’s delicate neeok ~ - \For all the derangements, irregularities, and weaknesses peculiar to the sex,the “Favorite Prescription" is a remedy so certain that it can be guaranteed. If it doesn’t give satisfaction in evissy ease, the money is returned. Fo other medicine for women is sold in this way. Fo other medicine can be

‘August Flower” “ For two years I suffered terribly with stomach trouble and was for all that time under treatment by a physician. He finally, after trying everything, said my stomach was worn out, and that I would have to cease eating solid food. Ontherecommeudatior of a friejid I procured a bottle of Avgust Flower. Itseemed to do me good at once. 1 gained strength and flesh rapidly. I feel now like a new man, and consider that August Flower has cured me.’1 Jas. £. Dederick, Sangerties, N.Y.& AKB WHISKEY HABITS CCMMi AT V«U(I WITH' OUT FA1S* Of tlculav * »RXT FRKK. ». M. w6olXKYv W. IK f>. nwuuni v w* m* •S« !.»fe WkttaWl«.

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“ MOTHERS’ FRIEND” • “Mothers' Friend” is a scientifically prepared Liniment, every ingredient of recognized value and in constant use by the medical profession. These ingredients are combined in a manner hitherto unknown. “MOTHERS’ FRIEND” • WILL DO all that is claimed for it AND MORE. It Shortens Labor, Lessens Pain, Diminishes Danger to Life of Mother and Child. Book to “MOTHERS” mailed FREE, containing valuable information and voluntary testimonials. Sent ty express oa receipt of price $1.00 per bottle BRAD FIELD REGULATOR CO., Atlanta,G«. SOU> BY JLZ.I. BBUOOIBXB.

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