Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 4, Petersburg, Pike County, 15 June 1892 — Page 4

S ARMOR. T. DeWitt Talmago Gives Counsel to Young Christiana. Keep the Armor Bright and the Weapon* . , keen,.and hi Alsraya Ready to Do Un|tle Against the I'oea of Christ.

On the eve of his departure for Europe Rev. T. DeWitt Yulmage delivered the following sermon to young and unI experienced Christians; taking for hi* Pot on the whole armor of God.—Ephesians Tt.U. There in in this text a greet mttle of shields and helmets and swords* Soldiery are getting, ready for battle. W» have had recently in this church new W enlistments, amljl shall address myself ' to those in this ojad other churches who are putting on the armor of Hod, and who may feel thbm selves to be as yet only raw recruits. "Masterly retreat” is a term often used in military circles, but in religion there is no such thing. It is either glorious advance or disgraceful and ignominious falling back. It would be a strange thing If all Wfof anxiety about men ceased the moment they were converted. You would almost doubt the sanity of that faettlW who, having planted the corn hnd seen it just sprout above ground, should 1 say: "My work is all done. I have no more anxiety for the field,” No, There is work for the plow and the hoe, and there must be a careful keeping Op °of the fences, and there must be a frightening away of the bird that would pillage the field. And I say the entrance upon Christian life is only the explantatian of grace in the heart. There is earnest, hard work yet to he done, and perhaps many years of anxiety before there shall be heard the glorious shoiit of “■Harvaefct home.” The beginning t'o be a Christian is only putting down the foundation; hut after that there arc ^ years of hammering, polishing, carving,lifting, before the structnic is completed. It takes live years to make a Christan character; it takes twenty years; it takes forty years;.It takes seventy years, if a man shall litre so long. “In other words, a man dyingnfterhttlfft century of Christian experience feels that he has only learned the “A 11 Cs” of a glorious alphabet. The next year will decide a great deal in your history, young Christian man. It will decide whether you are to be h burning and shining light Of the church or a spark of grace Covered up in a barrel of ashes. It will decide whetheryou are to bo n strong man in Christ .Tcsus, with gigantic blows striking the icon Wail of darkness, or a bedwarfed, whining, grmrtbling soldier, that ought to be drummed out of the Lord’s camp only just been launched; tho voyage Is to be made. Earth and Heaven and hell are watching to sec how fast you will sail, how well you weather the tempest, and whether at last amid the shouting of the angels, you shall come into the harbor. May Hod help me this morning to give you three or four words of Christian counsel, as I address myself more especially to those who have just now entered the Christian life. My first word of counsel is, hold before your soul a Very high model. Do not say: “I wish 1 could pray like that mm, or speak like this man, or have the consecration of this one.” Say: "Here is the Lord Jesus Christ, a perfect pattern,. By that I mean, with <iod\, grace, to shape all my life,” In other words, you will never be any more a Christian than-youfstrive to be. If you build^-a-fcrtrtidHtion twenty by thirty **“'ltet^>U will only have a small house. If you build a foundation one hundred by one hundred feet you will have a large house. If you resolve to he only a middling Christian you will only be a middling Christian. If you have no high aspiration in a worldly direction you will never succeed in business. If you have no high aspiration in religious things you will never succeed in reli■V gion. You have a right to aspire to the V very highest style of Christian eharae- ■ ter. From your feet there reaches out ■ a path of Christian attainment which ■ you may take, and I deliberately say ■ that you may be a better man than was I Paul, or David, or Summerfield, orDod- ■ dridge—a better woman than Hannah I More or Charlotte Elizabeth. Why not? I Did they have a monopoly of Christian [ grace? Did they have a private key of tho store-house of God's mercy? Does God shut you out from the gladness to which they were introduced. Oh, no. You have just the same promises, just the same Christ, just the same Holy «)Rt, just tlie same offers of present [ everlasting.love, and if yon fall rt of what they were—aye, if you dot come up to the point which they ched a»d go beyond it—it is not besc Christ has shut you out from any at of moral and spiritual elevation, but because you deliberately refuse to take it. I admit that man can not become a Christian like that without a struggle; but wha^ do you get w itliont fighting for it? lue fortresses of darkness are to be taken by storm. You may by acute strategy flank the hosts of temptation; but there are temptations, there are evils, in the way that you will have to meet face to face, and it will be shot for shot, gun for gun, grip for grip, slaughter for slaughter. Jhe Apostlle Paul over and over again represents the Christian life as a corntext: March,” You have bat.

When the war vessel of Christ’s shnrch comes into glory bringing its 3rew and its passengers, it will not 3ome in like a North river yacht, beautifully painted and adorned, swinging into the boat-house after an excursion. • Oh, no. It will be like a vessel coining with a heavy cargo from China or India, the marks of the wave and the hurricane upon it—sails rent, rigging spiked, pumps all working to keep her afloat, bulwarks knocked away. I see such a vessel coming and get out my small boat and push towards her, and I shout: “Ahoy, captain! What are you going to do with those shivered timbers ? That was a beautiful ship when you went out, but you have ruined it.” “Ob,” says the captain, “1 have a tine cargo on board, and by this round trip I have made ten fortunes” So 1 believe it will be when the Christian soul at last comes Into the harbor of Heaven. It will come bearing upon it the marks of a great stress of weather. You can see by the very looks of that soul as it comes into glory that it was driven by a storm and dashed in the hurricane; but by so much as the voyis rough, will the • harbor be “If ye suffered with Him on ye shall be glorified with Him in en,” * Aim high. Do not be satisi be like the Christians all around l you. Be more than they have t been for Christ. An old Arabian was showing a beautiful sword ; Jiad been given him, when one of ["courtiers said; “This sword is too t You can aot do anything with Said the king’s son; “To a brave i no sword is too short. If it be too ; take oifb step in advance, and ! it is long enough. ” So I say to liristian who may feel that he has ' weapons with which to fight j and darkness and death: ■mi the enemy. In the1 i of Ctariat go fo« ward. God is

% wwohd word •oi voxfo&\\<>\bm wko have bedmttt WnBtMl upon Cbrifb llato llte Sb< AVfeVnm from all perttldoua i asaw'Mfctiohs, and faAke ohly wto*e twit »Te liseftd atad beWAffeUftt. Stay out oi all assaeikUbftJ, that would damage ShOttf Christian character. TAkd bhl> those associations thatWllt nb\p yob. A learned man "If I stay with that m«U fY’nelon any longer I shall get tO he a Christian in spite of.J&j** Self.” In other words is. a mighty power i» ChlifttlaA Associations U^oVr. What hihd of iajsAoicfatio^* shall We, h's Voung' Christihfti, seolc afteirs' 1 t'htWk We hhjfiii ito get in comJiahy bctWr than ourselves, heVet Bt* ing ilito company Worse UiaH tuirselves. if wb gel life cWhj&hy a little better thhri o«vstives, and there are ten people in thr.t company, ten chances to one we wi.1 be bettered. If we get into company a little worse than rmrwlves, and there be ten people ift that ?'obfp:\hy, ten nhabets to one Yve will m Wadb Worse thin We Werh heftWA. NoW, When A V-oUhg Christian enters the chlirch, God does not, a Sit liini Id fblire from the world. The illicnorite that lives on Aedvfic,is no nearer Heaven than thh man who lives on partridge Und wild dYiek. Isolation is not demanded by the Bible. A WS.il Ifiay like the world with the testti'ettoh Of hot abusing- it. Blit Jhst As shop As you find any Siirrdiiildihgs perdldious to yotti- spiritual Interest, quit those associations. This remark is more especially appropriate to the young. Now it is impossible that the yoUtig and untroubled should seek their associations with those who are aged and worn out. As ttpd intended the aged to associate with the aged, talking oVel1 the past And walking Staff in hand Along the sahie paths they trod thirty, forty Anti fifty years ago, soISuppdee lie intended the young chiefly to associate with the young, 'the grace of Uod does not demand that we be unnatural. I do not want you to take this caution I have given you as that of a growing misanthrope, hating hilarity, rw you must have a spring bow If you want to make the arrow fly. But while this is so, 1 want you Jo be espeeially on guard itt this matter, and let the religion of Jesus Christ control you ill all your associations. I know yoiing people who have meant well enough, but they have floated, off into evil influences, and they have associated day by day with those who hated (tod and despised His commandments, and their characters are all depleted. 1 eftn see they are changed for the worse, but. they are not aYvare of it. O young man. come out of that bad association. I do not know what it is. I do not know to what place you may have a private key. I do not know’ to What place you go without the sanction of those whg love you very much. I do not pretend to point out any evil influences, but are there not some surrounding influences that are pernicious to your growth in grace? Stand back from that furnace in which so many young Christians have been destroyed. In this church there Is a large company of young men and J’ouiig woiiiett consecrated lo Christ. 1 know of no better people than they are. Young convert, I invite you into their frienship. Contact with them will elevate you. All hail, young followers of Jesus Christ, my joy and my pride! My heart thrills at everjh step of your advancement. I talked with you in that hour w’hen ybu first tried to break from sin, and I now rejoice as I see you putting on the armor Of a conflict in which God will give you present and everlasting victory. Stand off from all evil associations. A man is no better than the company he keeps. Go among those who arc better than you are, and you will be made better. Go among those who are worse than you are and you will be made worse.

.My next word of counsel w tnat you be actively employed. 1 see a great many Christians with doubts and perplexities, and thev seem to be proud of them. Their entire Christian life is made up of gloom, and they seem to cultivate that spiritual despondency, when I will undertake to say that in nine cases out of ten spiritual despondency is a judgment of God upon idleness. Who are the happy people in the ehureh to-day? The busy pimple. Show me a man who professes the religion of Jesus Christ artd is idle, and 1 will show yon an unhapw’ man. The very first prescription ttm 1 give to a man when I find him full of - doubts and fears about his eternal interest Is to go to work for God. Ten thousand voices are lifted up asking for your help. Go and help. Here is a wood full of summer insects. An axman goes into the wood to eut firewood. The insects do not bother him very much, and every stroke of the ax makes them fly away. Hut let a man go and lie down there and he is bitten and mauled, and thinks it is a horrible thing to stay in the wood. Why does he not take an ax and go to work? So there are thousands of Christians now in the church who go out amid great annoyances in life—they are not perplexed, they are all the time busy; while there are others who do nothing, and they are stung, and stung, and stung, and covered from head to foot with the blotches of indolence, and inactivity, and spiritual death, t The first thing, then, you have to do, O Christian young man, Christian young woman, is to go to work in the service of the Lord if 'you want to be a happy Christian. When an array goes out, there are always stragglers falling off here and there, some because they are faint and sick, but a great many because they are afraid to fight and too lazy to march. After awhile the lazy men on the road hear the booming of the guns for hours, and they hear the shouts of victory, and- a man on horseback comes up arid says: “We have won the day I” Then ’ they hasten up. llow brave they are after the battle is over. Poor at fighting but grand at “huzza !” So there are stragglers going after the Lord’s host. There come days of darkness and battle. Where are they? We call the roll of the host. They make no answer, but after awhile there comes a day of triumph in the church, and they are all about. “Huzza! huzza! Didn’t we give it to them.” 1 have another word at counsel to give those who have just entered Christian life, and that is, be faithful in prayer. Von might as well, business man, start out in the mortiing without food and expect to be strong all that day—you might as well abstain from food all the week and expect to bestrong physically, as to be strong without prayer. The only way to get any strength Into the soul is by prayer, aud the only difference between that Christian who is worth everything and that who is worth nothing is the faet that the last does not pray and the other does. And the only difference between this Christian who is getting along very fast in the holy life and this who is only getting along tolerably is that the first prays more than the last. You can graduate a man’s progress in religion by the amount of prayer, not by the number of hours, perhaps, but by the earnest supplication that he puts up to God. There is no exception to the rule. Show me a Christian man who neglects this kind of duty and I will show you one who is inconsistent. Show m a *n® Whq prays, and *i»

between theiii, tlieiir fcinjj *>mk jAHilV t», firSt, thought only wheJBwn ip^atel'. The other canie from great prostration before God iii eandesi supplication, asking thAf Odd’* ri*e?ef might cqhW Upori the behoof,. And that W line Afterjhooh she Wight gain the at: tentidn ‘Of thpse iflVe oh Six immortals that, Would he Around ncr. , The one .WWift has., ho control over her class; The, other sit§ ,as with ino Sirerigth 81 the Eqrd God -If ilfiighty. .. minister comes into the pulpit. He has a magnificent sermon, all the sentences rounded according to the laws of rhetoric and fine sermonizing, and the truth makes no impression on the hearts of men. People go away and S»y.i‘ “Vti-y beautitUl, VvhsH’t iW” A !ilaih riiAA fcoSVieS ihtd the ytwiptib. He ‘As heeh 6U ills knees before (loci, Askng for ah especial iriessage thAt da$", And the he^ifts Of iheh opefi th the jjiiaih truth, the broken sentences strike into their consciences, and, though the people may disperse at the close pf the services seemingly Wllhdttl. h^ririg received Hhjf iinjjJrbssi'dn, that bight Voiced Will be lifted in Adrrte household: “Men And bl-ethreri, What shall we do to be saved?” Oh, this power of prayer! Pray! Pray! Another word of counsel I have to give, Be faithful in Bible research. A great many good bodks Ate BOw cording out. We Cali not Bead iiaif df theiri. At every revolution of the printing press they art* Coining. They cOVer our Pablrir tables, Arid tti;e iri phr Sitting i-rtoms Arid librririeA. Glorious books they arc: We thank God every day for the work of the Christian printing press;. But I have thought that perhaps the followers of Christ sometimes allow this religious literature to take their attention from God’s word, and that there may not be as much Bible reading as there ought to he, How is that with your own experience? Just eAiculttte iu your minds how much religious literature you have read during the year, and then how large a portion of the word of God yoit have read, and then contrast the two and answer within your Own soril whether you are giving more Attention to the books that were written by the hand of man or that written by the hand Of God. Now, you goto the driig store and yon get the mineral waters) but you have noticed that the waters are Hot So fresh Or sparkling or healthful as, when you get these very waters at Saratoga and Sharon—getting them right where they bubble from the rock. And I have noticed the same ■thing in regard to the truth of the Gospel; while there is a good deal of refreshment and health of the Gospel of God as it comes through good books, 1 find it is better when I come to the eternal rook of God’s word and drink from that fountain that bubbles up fresh and pure to tho life and the refreshment and the health of the soul. Bead the Bible and it brings you into the association of the best people that ever lived. You stand beside Moses and learn his meekness, beside Job and learn his patience, beside Paul and catch something of his enthusiasm, beside Christ and you feel His love. And yet how strange it is that a great many men have given their whole lives to tho assaulting of that hook. I can not understand it. Tom Paine worked against that Book as though he received large wages, and was inspired by the powers of darkness, confessing that ail tho time he was writing he did not have the Bible anywhere near him. How many powerful intellects nave endeavored to destroy it. Hume, Bolingbroke, Voltaire, have been after it. Ten thousand men now are warring against the truth of God s Word, What do you think of them? I think it is mean, and will prove it. 1 will prove it is the meanest thing that has ever been done in all the cen

tunes. There is a ship at sea and in trouble. The captain and the crew are at their wits’ end. You are on board. You are on old seaman. You come up and give some good counsel, which is kindly taken. That is all right. But suppose, Instead of doing that, in the midst of all the trouble you pick up the only compass that is on board and pitch it over the taffrail? Oh, you say, that is dastardly. But is it as mean as this? Here is the vessel of the world going on with sixteen hundred millions of passengers, tossed and driven in the tempest, and at the time we want help the iniidel comes and he takes Jiold of tho only compass and he tries to pitch it overboard. It is contemptible beyond everything that is contemptible. Have you any better light? Bring it on if you have. Have you any better comfort to give us? Bring it on if you have. Have you any any better hope? Bring it on if you have, and then you have this Bible and I shall never want it again. But 1 can think of a meaner thing than that, and that is an old man going along on the mountains with a staff in one hand and a lantern in the other. Darkness has come on suddenly. He is very old, just able to pick his way out amid the locks and precipices, learning on his staff with one hand and guiding himself with the light in the other. You come up and say: “Father, you seem to be lost You are a long way from home.”* “Yes,” ho replies. And tjren you take him by the hand and lead him home. That is very kind of you. But suppose instead that yon snatch the staff from his hands and hurl it over the rocks, and snatch the lantern and blow it out? That would be dastardly, contemptible until there is no depth of contempt beneath it. If yon have a better staff give it to him. If you have a better light give it to him. When God has put the staff of the Gospel in our hands and the lamp of God’s word to light our feet, are you going to take from us our only support and our only illumination? I love the sting of the wasp and tho rattlesnake better than I do the man who wants to clutch tho word of God from my grasp. There are people here who have been reading it a good while. It is a precious book to their souls. It has been so in times of darkness and trouble. There is a soldier who fell in battle, and alter he had fallen he said in a feeble voice to his comrade: “Give me a drop.” His comrade replied: “There is not a particle of water in my canteen.” "Oh,” he said, “I didn’t mean that. Imok in my pocket and you will find a Bible there. Get out that old Bible and just give me a drop out of that.” And his comrade found the Bible and read a few passages. The dying soldier said: “Oh, George, there is nothing like that, is there, for a dying soldier?” Cling to your Bible. If this Bible should be destroyed, if all the Bibles that have ever been printed should be destroyed, we could makr up a Bible right out of this audience. From that Christian man’s experience I take one cluster of promises, and from that old Christian man’s experience another. I put them nil together, and I think I would have a Bible. —An insurance company is a kind ol contribution box which is passed around all the time for the benefit, of the US

wfsS abroad. W« SyrfUttSi!that ttl? iSfeMs fori: flivlou of,oar corintry.is Isrgely ddf to tho iviss ravelins legislation of the republican eongreari. We believe that Jill articles vvhicti caridot lie M tii the. United States, eicept jnxurics, should Be ridmiltpn f#ep of defy: rinji that 6d all impotftS, fomlng Into isoirinetlbA. rijiS tie. irbdabS of, American labor there , should Be duties levied equal to the, difference between wages abroad and at home. We assert tfot ,tha prie s of mnnufaytiued,articles, pi general wasurantioa have been redrieed rinpet the operations of tho tariff net of 199u. Wo denounce the effortS'Ot the democratic majority of the house to destroy our tariff laws by piecemeal ns manifested by their attacks on wool, and lead ore, and we ask the peoplo for their judgment thereon. We point to the success of the republican policy of reciprocity, under which our export trade has vastly increased, and now and enlarged markets have been opened for the products of our farms and workshop!. We remind the JiSSple Bf the bittSr Opposition of the democratic party td this practical btisinesj measures arid cialnj that, exsciited by it republican aditilrilsttaliod, our present laws will eventually sScute control of thh trride df the world. silver. The American people front .tradition tied intereet favor bimetallism, arid tho repUblicari party demands the use of both gqld and silver it* Standard mqiiejr; IVilh siifo restriction) and ttndef s'icb i>roif Isloris, to be determined hy contemplation of values of the two metals, so that the purchasing and debt-payiug power of the dollar, whether of silver, gold or paper, shall be at all times equal. The interests of the producers of the country, it3 farmers and its workingmen, demands that every dollar, paper or gold, Issued by the government: shall lie is godd is riny, dthor. We commend the Wise riftd patriotic steps alfeady taken by bjir government td secUre art internstlo.nril conference; to adopt etich measures as will Insure a privity df value Betweeri gold and silver tor Use ris money thrdrighout the world. jS|sE(?TIONt}. We demapd that every citizen of the United States shall be allowed to cast one freo and unrestricted ballot in all public elections, and that such ballot shall 1>o counted and returned as cast; that such laws shall be enacted and enforced as will secure to every citizen, bo ho rich or poor, native or foreign born, whito or black, this sovereign right, guaranteed by the constitution, the free and honest popular ballot; tho just and equal representation of all the peoplo as well as the just and eqnal protection undet the lriws as the foundation tlf ohr rephbliCan iflstitntibnS and the prirty witi UeVer relax its efforts hntil ihe integrity of the ballot and tho pUrity bf elections shall be frilly guaranteed and protected ih every state. SobTtlEBN OhfBSGES. We defloUnbe the Continued inhuman britrSges porpetrnted bn American citizens fbr political reasons in bertinh southern states of the Union: boREihN rihiATioha. Wb farbt the extension df, bttr foreign cririmerce; the restoration 8f ottr merchant mririnO by home-built ships and the cbrisiractiori of ri navy for the protection of our national interersts and tho honor of our flag; the maintenance of the most friendly relations with ail foreign powers; entangling alliances, sHtii none; and the protection of the rights of our flsbermeri. We reaffivra cur approval of the Monroe doctrine and believe in the achievement of the manifest destiny of the republic in its broadest sense. We favor the enactment of more stringent laws and regulations for the restriction of criminal, pauper and contract immigration. MISCELLANEOUS. We favor efficient legislation hy congress to prhtect the lifes and limbs of employes of the railroad companies engng >d in carrying interstate commerce, and recommend legislation hy tho respective states that will prot ect employes engaged In inter state commerce, ill mining and in manufacturing. The republican party has always been the champion of the oppressed, and recognizes the dignity of manhood, irrespectve of faith, color or nationality. It sympathizes with the cause ot home rule in Ireland, and protests agansts tho prosecution of the Jews In Russia. The ultimate reliance o" free, popular goverment is the intelligence of the peopl; and the maint .maace of freedom among men. We declare anew our devotion to liberty of thought aiid conscience, of speech, of prcRs; and approve all agencies and iustrnmentaliti'S which contribute to the education of tile children ot the land; hut while insisting npon the fullest measures of religious liberty, we are opposed to any union of church and state. We reaffirm our opposition, declared in tho republican platform of 1888, to all combinations of capital, organized to control arbitrarily the conditions of trade among our citizens. We heartily indorse the action taken on this issno and ask for such further legislation as may bo required to remedy any defects in existing laws, and to render their enforcement more complete and effective. Wo approve the policy of extending to towns and rural communities the advantages of the free delivery service now enjoyed by the large cities ot the country, and reaffirm the declaration contained in the republican platform of 1889 pledging the redneuon of letter postage to one cent at the earliest possi

Die moment. CIVIL SERVICE. We comment the spirit and evidence. of roform in the civil service and tho wi3e and cons'stent enforcement by the republican party of the laws relating to the same. NICARAGUA CANAL. The construction of the Nicaragua canal is of the highest importance to the American people, both as a measure of national defense and to build up and maintain American commerce, and it should be controled by the United States government. TERRITORIES. We favor the admission of the remaining territories at the earliest possible moment, having due regard to the interests of the people of the territories and for the United States. All the federal office-holders appointed in the territory should be selected from the residents thereof, and the right of self-government should be accorded as far as possible ARID LANDS. We favor the cession, subject to the homestead laws, of the arid public lands, jfcqthe states and territories in which they lie, unmhr such congressional restrictions as to disposition, reclamation and occupancy by settlers as will secure the maximum benefits to the people. ' THE COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. The World’s Co’urabian exposition is a great national undertaking, and congress should promptly enact such reasonable legislation in aid thereof as will insure a discharge of the expenses and obligations incident thereto, and the attainment of results commensurate with the dignity and progress of the nation. INTEMPERANCE. We sympathise with all wise and legitimate efforts to lessen and prevent the evils of intemperance and promote morality. PENSIONS. Ever mindful of the services and sacrifice of the men who saved the life of the nation, we pledge anew to the veteran soldiers of the republic a watchful care and recognition of their just' claim* upon a grateful people. Harrison’s admistration. We commend the able, patriotic and thoroughly American administration of President Harrison. Under it the country has enjoyed remarkable prosperity and the dignity and honor of the nation, at home and abroad, have been faithfully maintained, and we offer the record of pledges kept as a guarantee of faithful |>erfonnance in the future.

Dcnth of Sidney Dillon. New York. June 10*—Sidney Dillon died at 11:10 this morning. (Sidney Dillon was born P0 years ngo in Northampton. Montgomery county, N. Y„ of parents recently from Ireland, and very poor. When T years old Dillon found work as a water boy on the first railroad cTer constructed. His .salary was one dollar per week and he saved part of it and kept on saving all his life. He became overseer for railroad contractors, and -then a contractor himself, and as such helped build the ITnion Pacific railroad, of which he afterward became president. At one time he was worth S15,< 00,1)00, but lost about half of it when Union Pacific went down in 1884. He was a director of most of the principal railroads of the country. He was rather peculiar in his manner and tastes and was not very well known by sight to •he public. His wife died in lc83 ] MerTier’s Downfall. Montreal, Can., June 9.—Ex-Premier Mercier has made a voluntary abandonment of the whole of his estate for the benefit of his creditors. The official act was signed on Monday. A list of creditors has been prepared, and they will be notified to attend a meeting to be held here on the 16th instant. Thq amount of liabilities is about *60,000. The news was communicated to the ex-premier’s friends Wednesday, and caused a great sensation, as the abandonment made by Mr. Mercier will bring about his resignation as a mem'oci for Bonaventure. A Lack of Heady Money. Chicago, June 9.—The business of Samuel Eisner, wholesale manufacturer of cloaks, was closed np late Wednesday afternoon by the sheriff. The liabilities arc $50,000, and the assets $25»000. The failure was due, Mr. Eisner says, to the lack of ready money. The Irish Bill to be Dropped. LONDON, Jttne 9.—In the house of commons Mr. Balfour announced that the Irish local government bill would be dropped, and ha would state on Monday what Q$9f &UU W#* F'W**

High At:th arltfSays the Con.om fc*«-rjr Time. W«‘ &ftrficl the following from a jpetoti delivered % Cdh^reisraan Owen Spot!, iii ti e liovtee iff representatives on forfeit IS, l§0-i:. . . jiui the opolciglsts fof this system of Spoil ttioh say that the foreigner pays the tax. The suprenle eoiirt of the United States in the ease of Brown vs. tile state o? Maryland, Unanimously announced “that e-ifoty ori imports is a tax that is paid by the consumers.” Major McKinley in his canvass said: We took tie tax off sugar and now vou don't have to pay It See how ivc have relieved you Fro» taxatior by taking the tariff off from raw In another b’reath this Same. dls< tinguished gentleman says: The foreigner pavs it—you don’t Now, let us see who pays the tax. Marshall Field & Co. imported. $1,200 worth of pearl buttons and paid at Chicago $3,003 duty. This $1,400, with the cost of transportation added, was the cost to them and upon which they based their sales trf this article which Werit td edristiiriers dud was paid by theni. Would tlie but toil makers pay §3,od<) tax td get $1,100 for their products? .... • Aririqur imported 300,003 pounds of tin and paid $6,700 ds duty. Nirietyiiine per cent, of this, as provided in the McKinley law, was refunded to him, because the goods which this tin inclosed were exported. If the foreigner paid the tax on the tin, why throw the government's money away by refunding it to Mr: Armour. Mr. McKinley introduced a bill in this house last session to appropriate $ 23,000 to pay taxes on plate glass for lighthouses to be built by the government, if the foreigner pays the tax;, why wdS this necessary? The Standard Oil Co. paid almost a million dollars duty on tin imported in 1S90. Ninety-nine par cent of this was refunded to this giant corporation under the provisions of the McKinley law. If the foreigner paid the tax on this tin, why was it necessary for congress to provide for throwing away so large a sum of the people's money? It is claimed by the friends of protection that they have saved to the people of the country $5t>,000,Odd by taking the tariff off of sugar. If the foreigner pays the tax. Why take it off? It Would certainly be good business sense to allow tile foreign manufacturer of sugar to pay into the federal treasury this Vast srini of money each year—almost OUe-haif enough to pay the pensions of the disabled and wounded soldiers of dur country, lint, unmindful of the interests of the people, the Fifty-first congress provided that these foreigners should be exempted froni this payment. In this house, after the Chicago lire, Gen. Logan introduced a bill to admit htiilding materials to tliat stricken city free of tariff. If the tax was not paid by the consumer how would it benefit the Chicago people who were trying to rebuild their city from the ashes that Were left by the great conflagration? The earnest protest from the lumber barons induced congress to exempt lumber fioid this provision. All other building materials were made free under the belief that the consumers were being Ijenofited by taking off the tax. The modern theory of protectionists is that the people of Chicago were not benefited in this, but that the foreigners who shipped their iron and lead and other materials that were used in constructing the magnificent temples of trade and commerce to make the wonder of the nineteent’.i century were the beneficiaries by this special provision. Similar requests were asked in regard to other cities that have been unfortunate. At a time whch Eastport, Me., burned down the gentleman from Maine, Mr. Boutelle, a mejmber of this house and insisting that the tariff is not a tax, introduced a bill to take building materials into that city free. It was discovered, though, that the foreigner paid the tax and his bill did not pass. Mr. Wanamaker, the present post-master-general, with others, brought suit against the government to recover between $S,000,003 and $10,000,000 of revenues. If Mr. Wanamaker has returned this to the foreigner it has not been reported. Neither has he paid it' hack to the country merchants who sold to the consumers. In this case the people had to pay this tariff twice, once when they bought the goods and once when the government reimbursed Mr. Wanamaker out of the treasury for the moneys they had paid. It would seem from this that the postmaster-general did not appreciate the fact that the foreigner paid the tax. If he had he would have returned it to the foreigner when he received it from the government, he being an honest man and obeying the Ten Commandments. All this shows conclusively, and the instances might he multijflied, that the tariff is a tax and that the consumer pays it.

Conditions nnd Theories. President Cleveland left us “confronted by a condition, not a theory.”t Said condition consisted of a surplus of millions of dollars and a system of tariff taxation that was' depressing' industry by taxing raw materials and machinery and making life a burden to ninetenths of our people by exorbitantly taxing the necessaries of life. The surplus was due to an economic administration. The tariff system was left over from war times when people were willing to submit to unusually heavy burdens to maintain the integrity of this nation It may be mentioned incidentally that the duties of this war tariff have been increased rather than decreased since the war, notwithstanding the fact that the internal revenue system which gave them an excuse for existence has since been abolished. President Harrison at the end of his term will also leave ns confronted by a theory and a condition. The condition, thanks/to the uneconomic administration anosthc “billion dollar congress, ” no longer) consists of a surplus. The predicament in which our treasury department finds itself, after more than three years of republican raids upon it, is such that its head is put to his wits’ end to devise statements that will conceal the deficit. The theory that confronts and surrounds us, like a heavy fog in a dark night, would be only a mere theory, and a very absurd one, if it had not actually been adopted by this nation. It is that we can enrich this country and “protect" its people by levying taxes, unnecessary for purposes of revenue, that make the raw materials of industry scarce and costly and that compel tlie people to put up with poor and insufficient food and clothing.‘Voters of America, does this thoory represent your best judgment? —The Iron Age of May 19 says: “The export trade in cotton goods is practically at a standstill. The demand from China Is dead. Trade with South America is very quiet, and there is but little doing with Africa.” Hasn’t the Iron Age heard of reciprocity, that friend of the farmer which was to open up new markets for his products in these tea, coffee, sugar and high-pro-ducing regions of the earth? Is it possible that this “new corner stone of protection” is misbehaving so extensively and betraying the trust of its ardent supporters? —Maj. McKinley persistently asserts that foreigners pay the tariff tax. Why, of course they do. They also pay the cost of transportation and even the cost of manufacture. It is clear as McKinley mud that we get Imported goods

Judge Woods In thoTT. 8. Circuit toWrt •t Chicago on June 6th decided a trademark case, which is of interest to all drugand manufacturers of proprietary edfeiues. About a year ago the Hostetter id sell D: Who make and sell Dr. Hostettor’s tomrtch Bitters* discovered that G. A. Mc'ee tv as selling at his department store on ,/c« Madisoil street* Chicago* an imitation Of the bitters. The original bottles, Which had Once been Used, Were employed to hold the imitation article, and the cork sealed With a false or counterfeit metallic can feuit WCs brought by bill in chancery, and the case cainC On tot final hearing* as above, and after argument by counsel for both tides the court decided against McKee* granting a perpetual injunction; with costs, etci ___ The spider probably thinks that the bee is wasting lime in making honey.—Ram’S Horn. •lod Reward *100. The readers' Of this happr Will he pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been ablS to cdr.C in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting direetty upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the 6 vs tarn, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient Strength by building up the constitution hnd assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any ease that it fails to cure. Bend/Or list o.f testimonials. . Atidfess, F. J. CHENEY & Ca, Toledo, 0. tSrSold by Druggists, 73c. Tub Roman augur, in his day, tvns probably the biggest bore in the world.—ricar yuiie.

Turned Completely Topsy-Turvy By tlie malicious sprite, dyspepsia, the stomach may still regain Its accustomed order and equilibrium by the use of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Heartburn, wind on the Stomach, sour eructations, nervous nnnoyauce nnu disturbed rest, all indicative of Chronic indigestion, are obviated by it. It is unparalleled far malaria, constipation, biliousness, rheumatism add la grippe. “Tnts i's my death blow,” remarked the whale, as he came up for the last time. The Only One Ever Printed—Can Ton Find the Word ? There is a 3 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 appearing each week, from The Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house places a “Crescent” on everything they make and publish. Look for it, send them tho name of the word and they will return you book, beautiful lithographs or samples free. The man who was “never overtaken by fear” must have been a mighty fast traveler.—Columbns Tost Bohemias Hops and pale Minn. Barley lnake tho extra flavor of the “A. B. C. Bohemian Bottled Beer” of Bt. Louis. $eats the world—the impecunious tramp. —Texas Siftings. Bick HeauAcUe, lassitude, weakness and loss of appetite caused by malaria can be immediately cured by Beecbam’s Bills. Ax apology is a poultice that doesn’t always cura Rheumatic Pains are greatly relieved by Glenn's Sulphur Soap. Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents. lr vott want to enjoy the sunshine, don’t find fault with your shadow.— Ram’s Horn. Tne Ram’s Horn is published at Indianapolis, Indiana, at §1.50 per year. THE MARKETS. Nkw York. June 13, CATTLF.—Native Steei-s..S 4 (XI ® COTTON—Middling.A • ® FLOUR—Winter Wheat.« WHEAT—No. :i Red.DMV* Corn— No. •;.0 :ti«s> OATS—Western Mixed. 16 “ FORK—New Ales*. ST. I.OU1S. COTTON—MMdliwt. I’s® BEEVES—Choice Steers. 4 20 « Medium.. 4 10 ® HOGS—Fair to Select. 4 40 « SHEEP-Fair to Choice. 10U « FLO Utt—Patents. 4 45 ISO?. 4 60 5 1)0 m 58 39 n uo §l 84*4 « 44*4® t: <a> no Fancy to Extra Do... WHEAT—No.3 Red Winter... CORN—Ho. 3 Mixed. OATS—No. 2... RYE—No.2 . TOBACCO—Lags. _ v ^ Leaf Burley. 4 ad ® HA Y—Clear Timothy.....10 50 <a B UTTEH—Choice Dairy. . 12 ® ECUS—Fresh. .® PORK—Standard Mess (New). ... ® BACON—Clear Rib.,- TV* LaK1>—Priuio Steam. 6‘e* WOOL—Choice Tub. CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping. 3 54 HOGS—Fair to Choice. 4 40 B id EEP—Fair to Choice. 4 2» FLOUR— WinterPatents.. 4 .i0 Sprint; Patou ts...... 4 20 WHEAT—No.2 Spriu*... CORN—No. 2. •••• « OATS—No. 2. ... '** PORK—Moss (Now). 10 cSV* KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Shipping Steers. ... 3 »0 a HOGS—All Grades.4 05 ra WHEAT—No.2Red.. 79 ® OAT'S—No. 2.*.. 31 (m CORN-No. 2. NEW ORLEANi FLOUR-^lligR Grade. « 4 05 a CORN-No. 2.. CO « OATS—Western. *. 42 ® HAY—Choice. 17 5*1 '* PORK—New Mess ... '« BACON—Sides... "V* COTTON—Mi* idling.. * CINCINNATI WHEAT—No. 3 Rod.. • « CORN—No. 3 *U*od.~ 52 ® OATS—No.2 Mixed ..... 35 fe PORK—New Mess.. ® BACON—Clear Rib. 7^^ COT Vi >N — Middlimr. a 73s 4 75 4 ;x> 4 85 5 25 4 55 42» 85 4lih 32*u 73 6T0 7 01 16 00 14 13 11 23 7Fi 6*4 ;.i 4 65 4 97‘u 6 25 4 50 4 05 83C; 0Ul4 itP* *0 C.5 4 20 i 91 80 41*2 4 80 02 43 18 50 11 25 7*8 7V 89*8 53 30^ 10 50 778 7***

r~» — COPYRIGHT I SSI There’s a arido difference between the help that’s talked of and the help that’s guaranteed. Which do you want, when you’re baying medicine? If yon’re satisfied with words, you get them with every blood-purifier but one. That one is Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. With that, yon get a guarantee. If it doesn’t help you, you have your money back. On this plan, a medicine that promises help is pretty sure to give it. But it’s because the medicine is different, that it’s sold differently. It’s not like the sarsaparillas, which are said to be good for the blood in March, April, and May. At all seasons and in all cases, it cures permanently, as nothing else can, all the diseases arising from a torpid liver or from impure blood. It’s tho best blood-purifier, and it’s the cheapest, no matter how many doses are offered for a dollar. With this, you pay only for the good you get. Can you ask more?

The smallest PU1 in the Worldly Provided the great Organs 7 I of the body are not irreparably injur-1 ed, there are few diseases that TUTTS .Tiny will not eon. By their action the I Liver, the Spleen, the Heart and the ■ ' Kidneys are Drought into harmonious . action, and health, vigor of mind and - k liody follow their use. Dose small. ■ Price, 35c. Office, 38 Park Plato, N. Y.

OPm EKJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken J It is pleasant md refreshing to the taste, and eets retitly yet promptly on the Kidneys, Litef arid BnWels. cleanses the system effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers Arid cures habitual sonstipaiion. Syrup of Figs is the mly remedy of its kind ever pro* lucecJ, pleasing to the taste arid acceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy ana agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popnlaf remedy* known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50o md $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 211 Kjji-i fnf a CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. LOUISVILLE. AT- l.'EIV YORK. Nt. “August Flower” “One of my neighbors, Mr. John Gilbert, has been sick for a long time. All thought him pastrecovery. He was horribly emaciated from the inaction of his liver and kidneys. It is difficult to describe his appearance and the miserable state of his health at that time. Help from any source seemed impossible. He tried your August Flower and the effect upon him was magical. It restored him to perfect health to the great astonishment of his family, and friends.” JohiiQuibell, Holt, Ont.@ BUNTING When you buy Flags you want the best. Government Standard is the best; the largest flag dealers in the 1). S. are G. W. SIMMONS & CO., Oak Hall, Boston, Mass. Dealers in Military Uniforms. Write for a Flag Catalogue. FLAGS.

Sri ^ suK -Polish and Faints which i a Iron. jwMlimrnoff. . :o»* P.illsl* la Brilliant, Odnr-1 ■ -pays lor no tin I TIE LAIAWE GUM 2?0P. The Laxative Gum Drop is a new form of laxative that has just been placed upon the market. In form and taste it resembles the gum drop of the confectioners, but it has no medicinal taste.* It is however an effective but pleasant laxative without griping or discomfort. These drops Can be carried in the pocket or the valise without danger or injury. They can be given to children without their suspecting that they contain medicine, are* they will never find this out from the taste, although they will from the effect. In short they contain the elements of a perfect laxative without any of the unpleasant accompaniments that usually surround this class of remedies. There is no spoon, no bottle, no, liquid^ milliters that'.' i no

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RELIEVES all Stomach Distress. REMOVES Netted. Bcr.se of Fullues* Congestion, Pain. REVIVES Failing ENERGY. RESTORES Ntinonl Circulation, and V.’AHMS to Tos 'firs. DR. HARTER MEDICINE CO.. St. Louis. Mo. YOUNG MOTHERS! Tl'e Offer You a Jirtnedy trhieli Insures Safety to life of Mother and Child. “MOTHER’S FRIEHD" liohs Confinement of Its Pain, Ilot't'or and Bisk. After using one bottle of “ ASothrr'. Friend** I suffered bat little pain, and did not experience that weakness afterward usual In each cases —Mrs. Annik GAGn.Lanmr.Mo., Jan. lath. lsei. Sent by express, charges prepaid, on receipt ol price I'/O per bottle. Hook to Mothers mailed freo. BRADFIBLO HUGH LA TOR CO., ATLANTA, GA. SOLD CY ALL DBUGGISTS.

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to ner worK, ana urea with it, too. Pearline makes another woman of her. It washes and cleans in half the time, with half the work. Nothing can be hurt by it, and every thing, is saved \vith it. Pearline does away with the Rub, Rub, Rub. Pearline does more than soap ; soap gives you more to do. you an imitation, be honest—send it back. SSO JAMES PYLE, New Y ork. Peddlers and some unscrupulous grocers will tell you, “this is as good as” or “the same as Pearline.” IT’S FALSE—Pearline is never peddled, if your grocer sends

“RED ELEPHANT” | Binder Twine, made from all pure Ame* I ican Hemp, is OFFICIALLY indorsed b>l the F. M.B. A. and the State Grange oil Illinois as the best and cheapest binder twine \ for farmers to nse. and they urge all farmers to use Red Elephant exclusively. Red Elephant is stronger, cheaper—length considered—and better, than any twine made from mr.nila, sisal or jute. Hard fiber manufacturers and dealers are doing all they can to break down this American hemp inti nstry. for its large success means their greatmss. Beware of COLORED JUTE twine, which is worthless, and is often fraudulently sold a* American Hemp, in order to break down the reputation of genuine American Hemp twine. In 1W0 we raised 1,100 acres hemp; in 1831 we raided 3,300 acres hemp; in 1883 we will control the product of 7,000 acres raised by this companv and farmers near our factory. GENUINE American hemp is the best fiber in the world for binder twine. Do not bo deceived by hard-fiber men, but buy tlie

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AY-FEVERs * ASTHIW IUFFA LO. K. Y. IllUfi kril Learn Telegraphy amt Railroad UJRII K.CI1 Agent s BuMnorKhoro.an 1 sttuatlnns. Write J. l: BROWS. Sm’alla, M» -jtAMji ai r*riue.«r e™ Pi»:'s Remedy for Catarrh la th’ Best, T.asielt to Use. and Cheapest. Stilii by dniggirts oeseat by 50c. S. T. HaaelUr.e, Warren, 1400,