Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 10, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 July 1892 — Page 4

. T. DeWitt Talmagre Disoouraoa l Kollgion. SMk the Lord of i To-I)»v u when IT tittered bj the / The following discourse is selected from those delivered by Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage daring his sojourn in England for presentation to his American readers. The test is: Seek ye the Lord while Bt may bj foaai — lenieh It., ft. Isaiah stands head and shonldera above the other Old Testament authors in vivid descriptiToness of Christ. Other prophets give an outline of our Bavionr’s features. Some of them present, as it were, the side face of Christ, others a bust of Christ; but Isaiah gives ns the full length portrait of Christ. Other Scripture writers excel in some things. Ezekiel more weird, David more pathetic, Solomon more epigrammatic, Habakkuk more sublime; but when you want to see Christ coming out from the gates of prophecy in all His grandeur and glory, to Isaiah. So that' if the prophecies in regard to , Christ might be called the “Oratorio of the Messiah,” the writing of Isaiah is the “Hallejah chorus,” where all the batons wave and all the trumpets come in. Isaiah was not a man picked up out of insignificance by inspiration. He was known and honored. 3osephus, and Philo, and Slrach extolled Him in their writings. What Paul was among the apostles, Isaiah was among the prophets.

say text onus nun huiuuiu^ uu » mountain of inspiration, looking' out into the future, beholding Christ advancing and anxious that all men might know Him, his voico rings down the ages: “Seek ye the Lord while He may bo found.” “Oh, ” says some one, s“that was for olden times.” No, my hearer. If you have traveled in other lands you have taken <a circular letter S. of credit from some banking house in5 London, and in St. Petersburg, or Venice or Rome, or Antwerp, or Brussels, or Paris, you presented that letter and got financial help immediately. And I want you to understand that the text, instead of being appropriate for one age, or for one land, *is a circular letter for all ages and for all lands, and wherever it is presented for help, the help comes. “Seek ye the. Lord while He may be found.” 1 come to-day with no hair-spun theories of religion, with no nice distinctions, with no elaborate disquisition; but with a plain talk on the matters of personal religion. I feci thnt the sermon 1 preach this morning will be the savor of life unto life, or of death unto death. In other words, the Gospel of Christ is a powerful medicine; it either kills or cures.. There are those who say: “I would like to become a Christian. I have been waiting a good while . for the right kind of influence to come;” | and still yon arc waiting. You are wiser in worldly things than yon are in religious things. And yet there are men who say they ore waiting to get to Heaven—waiting, waiting, but not with intelligent waiting, or they would get on board the line of Christian influences that would bear them into the kingdom of God. c; Now. you know v ery well that to seek a thing is to search for it with earnest endeavor. If you want to soe a certain man in London, and there is a matter of much money connected with your seeing him, and you can not at flra^nd him, yoit db not give up the ''TJKrcn. You look in the directory, but can not find the name; you goin circles where you think, perhaps, he may mingle, and, having found the part of the city where he lives, but perhaps not knowing the street, you go through street after street, and from block to bloek, and you keep on searching for weeks and for months. You say: “It is a matter of £10,000 ■ whether I see him or not” O that men were as persistent in seeking for Christ! Had you one-half that persistence you would long ago have found Him who is <, the joy of the forgiven spirit We may pay our debts, we may attend church, we may relieve the poor, 'we may be public benefactors, and yet all our life disobey the text never seek God, neyor gain Heaven. O that the spirit of God would help this morning while I try to show you in carrying out the idea of my text first how to seek the Lord, and in the next place, when to seek Him. “Seek ye the Lord while He may be found.”

I remark, In the first place, you are to seek the Lord through earnest and believing prayer. God is not an autocrat or a despot seated on a throne with ^^Hia arms resting on brazen lions, and a pacing up aud down at the Ht on the throne. God is a Father P^^Pated in a bower, waiting *or His chilPf"“ dren to come and climb on His knee and get His kiss and His benediction. Prayer is the cup with which we go to — the “fountain of living water” and dip up refreshment for our thirsty soul. Grace does not come to the heart as we ket a cask of water to catch the rain in "the shower. It is a pulley fasted to the throne of God which we pull, bringing the blessing. . I do not care so much what posture you take in prayer, nor how large an amount of voice you use. .You might get down on your face before God, if you did not pray right inwardly, and there would be no response. You might cry at the top of your voice, and unless you had a believing spirit within, your cry would not go farther up than the shout of a plow-boy to his oxen. Prayer must be believing, earnest, lovf ing. You are in your house some summer day, and a shower comes up, and a bird affrighted darts into the window and wheels around the room. You it. You smooth its ruffled pluYou feel its fluttering heart. You say: “Poor thing, poor thing!” Now a prayer goes out of the storm of this world into the window of God’s mercy, and He catches it and He fe els its.fluttering pulse, and He puts it in His own bosom of affection and safety. Prayer is a warm, ardent, pulsating exercise. It is the electric battery which, touched, thrills to the throne.of God! It is the diving bell in which we go down into the depths of God’s mercy and bring up “pearls of great price.” There is an instance where prayer made the waves of Gennesaret solid as granite pavement. Oh, how many wonderful things prayer has accomplished! Have tried it? In the days when were persecuted were' ifter them, one head men among the Covenantprayed: “Oh, Lord! we be as dead Thou shalt help us. Oh, Lord! the lap of Thy cloak over these And instantly a Scotch and hid the persecuted itoys—the promise ‘While they are yet have you ever God says: il and pathat? You are

demand I could get it I come, Lord. Keep Thy promise and liberate my captive soul,” , Oh, that you might have an altar in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the store, in the barn, for Christ will be willing to oome again to the manger to hear prayer. He would come in your place of business as He confronted Matthew, the tax commissioner. If a measure should come before congress that yon thought would ruin the nation, how you would send in petitions and remonstrances. And yet there has been enough Bin in your heart to ruin it forever, and you have never remonstrated or petitioned against it. If your physical health failed, and you had the means, yon would go and spml the summer in Germany, and the winter in Italy, and you would think it a very cheap outlay if you had to go all around the earth to got hack your physical health. Have you made any effort,any expenditure, any exertion for your immortal and spiritual health,? No, you have not taken one step. Oli that you might now begin to seek after God with earnest prayer. Some of you have been working for years for the support of your families. Have you given o.ne half day to the working of your salvation with fear and trembling? Yon came hero this morning with an earnest purpose, 1 take it, as I have come hither with an earnest purpose, and we meet face to face, and I tell you, first of all, if you want to find the Lord, yon must pray, and pray and pray.

I remark, ag, n, you must seek the Lord through Uible study. The Bible is the newest bok in the world. “Oh,” you say. “it as made hundreds of years hgo, and ’he learned men of King James translat* d it hundreds of years ago.” I confute that idea by telling yon it is not fire minutes old, when God, by His blessed spirit retranslates it into the heart. If you will, in the seeking of the way of life through Scripture study, implore God’s light to fall upon the page, you will find that these promises are not one seeond old, and that they drop straight from the throno of God into your heart. Thore are many people to whom the Bible does not amount to much. If they merely look at the outside beauty, why it will no more lead them to Christ than Washington’s farewell address or the Koran of Mahomet or the Shaster of the Hindoos. It is the inward light of God’s word you must get or die. I went up to the Church of the Madeleine in Paris, and looked at the doors, which were the most wonderfully constructed 1 ever saw, and I could have stayed there for a whole week; but X had only a little time, so, having glanced at the wonderful carving on the doors, I passed in and looked at the radiant altars, and the sculptured dome. Alas, that so many stop at the outside door of God's holy word, looking at the rhetorical beauties, instead of going in and looking at the altars of sacrifice and the dome of God’s mercy and salvation that hovers over every penitent and believing soul! 0 my friends, if you merely want to study the laws of language do not go to the Bible. It was not made for that. Take “Howo's Elements of. Criticism.” It would be better than the Bible for that If you want to study metaphysics, better than the Bible will be the writings of Win. Hamilton, But if you want to know haw to have sin pardoned, and at last to gain the blessedness of Heaven, search the Scriptures, “for in them ye have eternal life.”> When people are anxious about their souls—and there are some such here today—there are those who recommend good books. That is all right. But I want to tell you that the Bible is the best book under such circumstances. Baxter wrote “A Call to the Unconverted.” but the Bible is the best call to the unconverted. -.Philip Doddridge wrote “The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul,” but the Bible is the best rise and progress. John Angell James wroto “Advice to the Anxious Inquirer,” but the Bible is the best advice to the anxious inquirer. 0, the Bible is the very book you need, anxious and inquiring soul! A dying soldier said to his mate; “Comrade, givp me a drop!” The comrade shook up the canteen, and said: “There isn’t a drop of water in the canteen.” “Oh,” said the dying soldier, “that’s not what I want; feel in my knapsack for my Bible,” and his comrade found the Bible and read him a few of the gracious promises, and the dying soldier said: “Ah, that's, what I wank There isn’t anything like the Bible for a dying soldier, is there, my comrade?” 0 blessed book while we live. Blessed book when wedie. 1 remark again, we must seek God through church ordinances. “What,” say you, “can’t a man be saved without going to church?” I reply there are men, I suppose, in glory, who have never seen a church; but the church' is the ordained meang by which we are to be brought to God; and if truth affects us when wo are alone, it affects us more mightily when we are in the assembly—the feelings of others emphasizing our own feelings.' The great law of sympathy comes into play, and a truth that would take hold only with the grasp of a sick man, heats mightily against the soul with a thousand heart

MiroDs. .When yon eome into the religious eircle, come only with one notion, and only for one purpose—to find tho way to Christ When I see people about sermons, and critical about tones of voice, and critical about sermonic delivery, they make me think of a man in prison. He is condemned to death, but an officer of the government brings a pardon and puts it through the wicket of the prison, and says: “Here is your pardon. Come ant) get it” “What! Do you expect me to take that pardon offered with such a voiee as you have, with such an awkward manner as you have? I would rather die than so compromise my rhetorical notions!” Ah, the man does not say that; he takes it! It is his life. He does not care how it is handed him. And if, this morning, that pardon from the throne of Hod is offered to our souls, should we not seize it, regardless of all criticism, feeling that it is a matter of Heaven or hell? But I come now to the last part of my text. It tells us when we are to seek the Lord: “While He may be found." When is that? Old age? You may not see old age. To-morrow? You may not see to-morrow. To-night? You may not see to-night. Now! Oh, if I could only write on every heart in three capital letters that word N-O-W— Now! Sin is an awful disease. I heaT people say, with the toss of the head and with a trivial manner: “Oh! yes, I’m a sinner.” Sin is an awful disease. It is leprosy. It is dropsy. It is consumption. It is all moral disorders in one. Now, you know there is a crisis in a disease. Perhaps you have had some illustration of it in your family. Sometimes the physician has called, and he has looked at the patient and said: “That ease was simple enough; but the crisis has piussed.” If you had called f, or this moruihg, I could patient It is too late has passed.” Just so it treatment of the soul •at, life.

jf. It never came back again. And so it is in regard to a man's spiritual and eternal fortune. There is a chance; if you let that go perhaps, it. never conies back. Certainly, that one never comes back. ~ There is a time which mercy has set forieaving port. If you are on board before that you will get a passage for Heaven. " If you are not on board you miss your passage for Heaven. As in law courts a, oaso is sometimes adjourned from term to term, and ahrom year to year, till tie bill of costs eats up the entire estate, so there are men who are adjourning the matter of religion from tiujo to time, and from year to year, until heavenly bliss is the bill of costs the man would have to pay for it. Why defer this matter, O my dear hearer? Have you any idea that sin will wear out? that it will evaporate? that itnvill relax its grasp? that you may find religion as a man accidentally finds a lost pocket-book? Ah, no! No man ever became a Christian by accident, or by the relaxing of sin. The embarrassments are all the time increasing. The hosts of darkness are recruiting, and the longer you postpone this matter, the steeper the path will become. I ask those men are before me this morning whether, in tha ten or fifteen years they have passed in the postponement of these matters, they have come any nearer God or Heaven? I would not be afraid to challenge this whole audience, so far as they may not have found the peace of the Gospel, in regard to the matter. Your hearts, you are willing frankly to tell me, are becoming harder and harder, and that if you come to Christ it will be more of an undertaking now than it ever would have been, before 0 fly for refuge! The avenger of blood is on the track! The thi-one of judgment will soon be set; and. if you have anything to do towarej your internal salvation, you had better do it now, for the redemption of the soul is precious, and it eeaseth forever! Oh, if men could only catch just one glimpse of Christ, I know they would love Him. Your heart leaps at the sight of a glorious sunrise or sunset. Can you he without emotion as the Sun of Righteousness rises behind Calvary, and sets behind Joseph’s sepulcher?, lie is a blessed Saviour! Every nation has its type of beauty. There is German beauty, and Swiss beauty,and Italian beauty, and English beauty; but I care not in what land a man first looks at Christ, he pronounces Him “chief among ten thousand, and the one altogether lovely,'’ O, my blessed Jesus! Light in darkness! The i-ock on which 1 build! The captain of salvation! My joy! My strength! How strange it is that men can not love Thee!

\x hy snoulu l stand nere ana pieaa, and yon sit there? sIt is your immortal soul. It h a soul that shall never die. It is a soul that must soon appear before God for reyiewal. Why throw away your ehanefi for Heaven? Why plunge off into darkness when all the gates of glory are open? Why become a castaway from God when yau can sit upon the throne? Why will ye die miserably when eternal life is offered you, nnd it will cost you nothing but just willingness to accept it. “Come, for all things are now ready.” Come, Christ is ready, pardon is ready. You will never find a more convenient season, if you should live fifty years more, than this very one. Reject this, and you may die in your sins. >. Why do I say this? Is it to frighten your soul? Oh! no. It is to persuade you. I show you the peril. I show you the escape. Would I not be a coward beyond all excuse if, believing that this great audience must soon bo launched into the eternal world, and that all who believe in Christ shall be saved, and that all who reject Christ will be lost— would I hot he the veriest coward on earth to hide that truth or to stand before you with a cold or even a placid manuer? My dear brethren, now is the day of your redemption. It is very certain that you and I must soon appear before God in judgment. Wo can not escape it. The Bible says: “Every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him, and all the kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him.” On that day all of our advantages will come up for our glory or for our discomfiture—every prayer, every sermon, every exhortatory remark, every reproof, every call of grace; and while the Heavens are rolling away like a scroll, and the world is being destroyed, your destiny and my destiny will he announced. Alas! alas! if on that day it is found that we have negleeted these matters. We may throw them off now. We can not then. We will all be i n earnest then. But no pardon then. No offer of salvation then. No rescue then. Driven away in our wickedness—banished, exiled forever! Have you ever imagined what will he the soliloquy of the soul on that day, unpardoned, as it looks hack upon its past life? “Oh,” says the soul, “I had glorious Sabbaths. There was one Sabbath in autumn when I was invited to Christ. There was a Sabbath morning when Jesus stood and spread out His arms and invited me to His holy heart. I refused Him. I have destroyed myself. I have no one else to blame. Ruin complete. Darkness unpitying, deen.eternal! I am lrent* NnlniOi.

standing all the opportunities I have had of being saved, I am lost! O Thou long-suffering Lord God Almighty, I am lost! O father, mother, brother sister, child in glory, I am lost!” And then as the tide goes out your soul goes out ■ with it, farther from God, farther from happiness, and I hear your voice fainter, and fainter, and fainter: “Lost! Lo6t! Lost! Lost! Lost!” 0 yo dying, yet immortal men, “Seek the Lord while He may be found." But I want you to take the hint of the text that I have no time to dwell on —the hint that there is a time when He cart not be found. There is a man in this city, eighty years of age, who said to a clergyman who came in: “Do you think that a man of eighty years= of age can get pardoned?” “Oh, yes,” said the clergyman. The old man said: “I can’t; when I was twenty years of age—I am now eighty years—the Spirit of God came to my soul, and I felt the importance of attending to these things, but I put it off. I rejected God, and since then I have had no feeling.” “Well,” said the minister, “wouldn't you like to have me pray with you?” “Yes,” replied the old man, “but it will do do good. You can pray with me if you like to.” The minister knelt down and prayed, and commended the man’s soul to God. It seemed to have no effect upiIS him. After awhile | the last hour of the man’s life came, and through his delirium a spark of intelligence seemed to flash, and with his last breath he said: “I shall never be forgiven!” “0 seek the Lord while He may be found.” —There is a' marked distinction between character and reputation. Character is what we are. Reputation ia only what we are thought to be.

Detroit, Mieh., Jan. 20th, 1892.—A cast has just come to light here, the particular! of which are published In the Evening News, which will bo read with considerable Interest by all Canadians, us it records the remarkable achievement of a Canadian medical discovery, which has already, in its own country, won great and enduring fame. At this added triumph there is ne doubt the fellow countrymen of the proprietors will rejoice, ns it sheds lustre on Canadian scienoe. The story is toldrby tfcs News us follows: The following paragraph, which appeared In the News a short time ago, furnished ths basis of this information--a case that wsw so wonderfully remarkable that it demand, od further explanation. It is of sufficient importance to the News’ readers to report it to thorn fully. It was so importaut then that it attracted considerable attention at the time. The following is the paragraph iu question: "C. B. Northrop, for 23 years one of tha best known merchants on Woodward aveuue, who was supposed to be dying last spring of locomotor ataxia, or creeping parulysis, has secured anew lease of life and returned to work at his slora Tho disease has always been supposed to be incurable, but Mr. Nortbrop's condition is greatly improved, and it looks now as if the grave would be cheated of its prey." Since that time Mr. Northrop has steadily improved, uot only in looks, but in condition, till he has regained his old-time strength. - , It has bcon hinted to the writer of this article, who was acquainted with Mr. Northrop, that this miraculous change had been wrought by a very g-mple remedy called Dr. williams’ Pink Tills for Palo People. TV hen asked about it Mr. Northrop fuliy verified the state rent, and not only so, but lie bad taken pains toinform anyone who was suffering in a similar manner when he hoard of any such case. Mr. Northrop was cuthnsiastie at the result in his own case of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. It was a remedy that he had hoard of after he had tried everything he could hope to give ! him relief He had been In tho care of tho best physicians who did all they could to alleviate this tcrriblo malady, but without any avail. lie had given up hope, when a friend lu Lockport, N. V., wrote him of the case or a person there who had been cured in similar circumstances by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Palo People. The person cured at Look port Imd obtained his information respecting Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills from an article published in the Hamilton, Ont., T'm-s. The case was called "Ths Hamilton Miracle" and told the story of a man in that city Who, nftsr almost incredible suffering, was pronounced by the most omiueut physicians to bo incurable and |>ormanentl.v disabled. He had spent hundreds

of dollars m nil sorts of treatment anil appliances only to be told In the end that there was no hope for him, and that car* was impossible. The person alluded to (Mr. John Marshall, of 25 Little William St, Hamilton, Ont) was a member of the Royal Templars of Temperance, and alter having boon pronounced permanently disabled and incurable by the physicians, was paid the $1,000 disability iusurnnee provided by the order for itR members in sucb vases. For years Mr. Marshall had been utterly helpless, and was barely able to drag himself around IU« house with thenid of crutches. His ngouk-s were almost unbearable and life was a burden to litm, when at last 1 relief eaam Some months after he hud : been paid the disability claim he heard of j Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and was induced to ! try them. The result was miraculous; almost from the outset an improvement was noticed, and in a few months the man whom medical experts had said was incurable, was going about the city healthier and stronger than before. Mr. Marshall waa so well known in Hamilton that all the city newspapers wrote up bis wonderful rccov cry in detail, mid it was thus as before stated, that Mr. Northrop came into possession of the information that led to bis equally marvelous recovery. Oue, could scarcely ooneeive a case more hopeless than that of Mr. Northrop. His injury came about in this way: ©no day nearly four yenrs ago, ho stumbled and fell the complete length of a steep flight of stairs which were at the roar of his store. His head and spine wore severely injured. Ho wss picked up and taken to his home Creepingparalysis very soon developed Itself, aud in spite of the most strenuous efforts of friends and physioians the terrible affliction fastened itself upon him. For nearly two years he was perfectly helpless. He could do nothing to support his strength in the least effort. He had to be wheeled about in an invalid’s chair. He was weak, palo and fast sinking when his timely information came that veritably snatched his life from the jaws of death. Those, who at that time saw a feeble old man wheeled Into his store on an Invalid's chair, would not recognize the man now, so great is the change that Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills have wrought When Mr. Northrop learned of the remedy that hud cared Mr. Marshall iu Hamilton, and tho person in Lockport. ho procured a supply of Dr. Williams’ Fink Pills through Messrs. Bassett & L’Hommedieu, 95 Woodward avenue, and from tho outset found an inj|j| provement He faithfully adhered to the use of the remedy until now he is completely restored. Mr, Northrop declares that there can be no doubt as to Pink Pills being the cause of hts restoration to health, os all other remedies and medical treatment left him in a condition rapidly'going from had to worse, until at last it was declared there was no hope for him and he was pronounced incurable He was in this terriblo condition when he began to use Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, and they have restored him to health. Mr. Northrop was asked what was olatmed for this wonderful remedy, and replied that he understood the proprietors claim it to be a blood builder and nerve restorer; supplying in n condensed form all the elements neoessary to enrich the blood, restore shattered nerves and drive out disease. It is claimed by the proprietogg^hatPink Pills will cure paralysis, rheumatism. sciatica, palpitation of the heart, headache, and all diseases peculiar to females, loss of appetite, dizziness, sleeplessness, oss of memory, and all diseases arising fiom overwork, mental worry, loss of vital force, etc. “I want to say," said Mr. Northrop, "that I don’t have much faith in patentmediclnes, but I cannot say too much in praise of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. The proprietors, however, claim that ihoy are not a patent medicine in the sense in which that term is used, but a highly sdentldo preparation, the result of years of oarefnl study and experiment on the part of the proprietors, and the pills were successfully used in privets practioe for years before being placed for general sale. Mr. Northrop declares that he is a living example that there is nothing to equal these pills as n cure for nerve diseases. On inquiry the writer found that those pills were manufactured by Dr. Williams’ Medicine Oa, Sohnectady, N. Y., and BrockvlUe, Out., and the pills are sold in boxes (never in bnlk by tho hundred), at SO cegts a box, and maybe had of all druggist* or direct lw mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., from either above addresses. Tho pripe at which these pills are sold makes a/ddui'se or treatment with them comparatively inexpensive as compared with other remedies, or medical treatment. This oase is one of the most remarkable on record, and as it is one right here in Detroit and not a thousand miles away, It can be easily verified. Mr. Northrop is very woll known to the people of Detroit, and ns says he is only too glad to testify of the marvelous good wrought In his case. He says he cons ders It his duty to help all who are similarly afflicted by any word he can say In behalf of the wonderful efficacy of Dr. Williams’ Fink Pills.

Tbs Shock of a Cannon. During the receDt trial trip of the British cruizer Beowulf experiments were made for the purpose of determining the shock of tho air at the mouth of a gun at the moment of firing. Babbits, were placed near the muzzles of the guns and shots fired. In every raise the animan fell dead at once. In order to test the probable effects oft the euormous displacements of air upon humso beings figures made of straw were used Th-we i every instance with long bored ' ii ill ? si

The saloon-keepers of fjwnkfort agree to close np on Sunday. The wheat crop around Pern is fine and corn looks well. Evansville collar-makers are on a strike for continuance of the nine-hour agreement. Gkacik Van Gorder, aged 12 years, fell from the second story of a Winimaa hotel and fractured her skulL Elijah Bobbins, of Deputy, arrested charged with making counterfeit money, has been dismissed. Whs. Damsel Bice, of Deputy, near Independence, is in trouble for using a postal card the second time. Two Italian laborers were killed by the collapse of a building near Logansport Joseph Arnold, of Laport, h< s been swindling merchants in Chieago,Indianapolls and South Bend. The express office is filled with goods ordered by him. A six-thousand DOLLAR monument wil\.be placed over Gov. Hovey’s grave at Mt. Vernon. Charles Sherman came from Omaha, Neb., to Valpariso to kill Attorney Dan Kelly because he defended Sherman’s brother-in-law for the murder of his wife, Sherman’s sister, Sherman was jailed before ho succeeded in his object. The republicans at New Albany have nominated Prof. Borden for congress. J. D. Barnett was killed in Warwick county by being crushed by a falling tree under which he had taken shelter during a storm. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Keebler, of Jeffersonville, was horribly mangled by two New Foundland dogs. It lived but a short time. The shortage of President Tyler, of the Vincennes national bank, will aggregate $100,000. Officers and directors will have to make good $60,000 of this amount. The Indiana democratic state central committee met at Indianapolis and selected Judge Leonard Haekey, of Shelby, to take the place of the late Judge New as a candidate for supremo court judge. Mrs. Julie Veneman, of Muncie, took alarge dose of morphine in mistake for quinine, the other evening. The efforts of a half-dozen doctors alone savedher

me. . As oil well, described as the best producer in the state, was drilled in in the eastern part of Grant county the other night. It is on the Sweetzer farm, near Hanfield, and belongs to the Mazaro Pipe-line Co, The flow of gas is just strong enough to bring the oil to the surface. Experts predict that the Grant county oil field will bo equal to that in any part of the state, and operators are aetive in securing leases. At Brazil, Mrs. Lloyd, wife of John Lloyd, gave birth to a boy baby weighing but one pound nine ounces, believed to be the smallest child ever born in Clay county. The child is in every way fully developed, bright and healthy, and is thriving well. Chicken thieves in three raids have stolen over two hundred spring fowls from the poultry yards of Mrs. It. AV. Tuthili; at Huntington. In the last raid a wagon was used and nearly a hundred chickens taken. Ft. Wayne is to have her first sevenstory building. Nkarey the whole fown of Attica has cement sidewalks. Ax electric line from Plainfield to Indianapolis is talked of. There is talk of a railroad from Muncie to Chicago, by way of Pern. The new water works at Danville will furnish water by September. The people's party campaign will be opened at Vincennes by Gen. Weaver, the candidate for president. Lafayette will vote on the question of giving' the Monon Co. $100,000 to have the railroad shops now located at New Albany. Section men on the Wabash road between Peru and Felton struck for higher wages. Capt. Dick Jonas, of Columbus, exmember of the state board of agriculture, is dead. During a drunken quarrel at Martinsville William Rutlin fatally shot AA’ill Chamberlain. Mrs. Emma Reddy, of Crawfordsville, suicided with corrosive sublimate, on account of family troubles, t Kokomo will have no fair this year. A 250-room hotel will be a new thing at Lafayette. Ray Hare, while in bathing at Goshen, got beyond his depth and was drowned. A sub-committee of the house committee on public buildings and grounds has agreed to report favorably the bill passed by the senate appropriating $150,000 for a public building at Muncie. The amount appropriated by the bill will be reduced by the house. Hiram McCaxur committed suicide at the Shannon house, in Logansport, it is said, because he lost the sight of both eyes inside*of two years. Gov. Chase will consider no more pardon cases until after the close of his camoaifra.

Indianapolis, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Anderson parties have combined with $150,000 of stock to boom Fairmont, a small town near Anderson. Superintendent Peck and Mr. Ramsey, of the Big Four are interested. They will locate four factories. The Ohio & Mississippi passenger train, north-bound, ran into a buggy occupied by Mrs- Emma and Blanche Phipps and Frank M. MeCoombs near Jeffersonville. The buggy was smashed, the horse killed and all three occupants were fatally injured. Geo. A. Simon, an old citizen, was run down and killed by an engine at Anderson. Brazil people are negotiating fora sewer pipe works. The commissioners and judge of Monticello are at war over the repair of the court house. The sheriff has forty deputies to protect the workmen, who are doing the work of the judge’s order. Peter R. Story, vice president, treasurer and general manager of the Ohio Falls iron works, New Albany, died the other afternoon, aged GS years. He was a former partner of the late W. C. DePauw. For thirty years he was superintendent of the Wesley M. E. Sundayschool of New Albany. Walter L. Disoo, yardmasterof the Wabash road at Butler, was killed by an engine backing over him. J. F. Darnell, president of the Muncic nail works, has made his annual inspection of the gas wells that have operated the big concern the past three years. Test showed well No. 1 to have I GO pounds pressure, or the same as lost year; well No. 2 had gained five pounds, and No. 3 had increased the pressure fifteen pounds to 180. This news is highly gratifying to residents of the Indiana gas belt, and is conclusive that if wells are properly cared for and not >. they will last eternally.

LITTLE GEMS. Character la something other people’s lires hare brought oat In as. Perhaps all people ore better than their neighbors give them credit for. The man v. ho owns the landscape is seldom the one who pays the tax on it. You never get to irootv a man very well until you have seen him far front home. The difference between a wise man and a fool is that the fool’s mistakes never teach him anything. There are so many people who want to revolutionize the world, who never have time to fix up their own fences.— Ham’s Horn. MONEY IN LARGE LOTS. Dunum spent in 1891 for new- buildings a total of $2,503,039. The wealth of the negro population of Alabama i3 estimated at $20,000,000. The cost of a one-man. sea-diving apiparatus for a depth of 200 feet is $575. It cost over $290 recently in legal fees, in South Carolina, to settle a claim of $5. Gen. Horace Porter will receive $375,000 in place of the $350,000 he asked for to complete the Grant monument THE BUZZING BEES. There are said to be 2,800,009 beehives in the Uni text States. A hive of 5,COO bees will produco about fifty pounds of honey annually. The Guadeloupe bees lay their honey in bladders of wax about as large as a pigeon’s egg. and not in combs.

The August Wide Awake Is a veritable vacation number, especially noticeable for short, practical papers on out-of-door doings: “How^I Botanize,” Annie Sawyer Downs; “Starboard end Port,” Capt. Julius A. Palmer, Jr.; “Let’s Ilave a Fire#” Willis Boyd Allen; “flow Not to Get Lost,” Prof. Charles E. Fay; . “Hints for Trampers,” Charles M. Skinner; “How to Put Paddles on a Rowboat,” Vesper L. George; and such summer articles as “Sport in the Water,” by Alexander Black; “A Mountain Fageant,” Dy Mrs. A. G. Lewis. There is a capital story of camping out, “French Leave,” by Gertrude Adams; Margaret Sidney has a striking and dramatic story of life in the “Sky Country” of North Carolina, “Trypheny’s Bieycle;” Robert Beverly Hale contributes “In a Thunderstorm” to the Fair Harvard Series of stories; Willis Boyd Allen has a characteristic story of life and adveiituro on an ocean steamer, “The Crimson Handkerchief,” and the serials^—Kirk Munroe’s “The Coral Ship” and Kate Upson Clark's “That Mary Ann” are equally absorbing. Price 20 cents a number, $2.49 a year. On sale at news stands, or sent postpaid on receipt of price, by D. Lotlirop Company, Publishers, Boston. “No time like the present,” as the burglar murmured when lie grasped little Eva's birthday clock.—N. Y. Truth. The Only One Ever Printed—Can You Find the Word Jt There Is a 3 inch displav advertisement in this paper, this week, whidahns no two words alike except one word. Alio same is true of each new one apneariigTeach week, from the Dr. Harter MedAne 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. TnE only way it pays a pet-son to be his own lawyer is to keep his'own counsel.— Philadelphia Times. Shat Your Ears To the representations ofunscrupulous dealers who tell you that tlMr bogus nostrums and local bitters are identical with or akin to Hootetter's Stomach Bitters. Such statements are falso. Ask for, and insist upon having, the genuine article, which is a well-ascertained remedy for malaria, dyspepsia, liver complaint, rheumatism, kidney disorder and the infirmities incident to age. j Love makes the world go round—also the young man, about seven nights in the week. —N. Y. Herald__ We will give $100 reward for any cnRe of catarrh that cannot be cured with Hub's Catarrh Curo. Takeu internally. F. J. Cheney & Co, Proprs., Toledo, O. “Heu*1 Help!” as the lady cried after the hired girl iofL—N. Y. Truth.

jni&x s sj-siom is iiim a town, 16 must ire i well drained and nothing is so efficient as' Beeciiam’sfills, for sa^i by all druggists. It’s tho shoe man who enjoys meeting peoplo who put their foot ill it.—Chicago Inter Ocean. The markets are flooded with poor boor. Get “The A. B. C. Bohemian Bottled Beer” of St. Louis. The old woman who “lived in n shoo” evidently had neighbors who kept hens. Hep, angry eruptions yield to tho action of Glenn’s Sulphur Soap. Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye, 59 cents. The radtto of the socialistic mechanic— Halo hours work.—Boston Transcript. Realtii Tip-Bits save weak, nervous men. tl; trial H’c. Ohio Chemical Co. ,Cineinnati,0 Host anything can bo forgiven easier than seltishuess.—Ham’s Horn. The Barn’s Horn is published at Indianapolis, Indiana, at $1.50 per year. Is a race-course picture the jockeys contribute the uiouuliu’ scenery.- -Boston Courier. THE MARKETS. tie* Nkiv York. July 26. CATTLE—Native Steers.8 3 25 ■> COTTON—Middliu*. ® rLOUK-Winter Wheat. 1lea*.® WHEAT—No.3 Red. t6V<» CORN—No. 3 _. 55 * OATS—Western Mixed. 3k a POKK-New Mess. 13 75 ® ST. I.OUli COTTON-Mtddltmi. • BEEVES—Choice Steers. 6 80 Mediniu.' iW HOGS—Fair to Select......... 615 SHEEP—Fair to Choice. 4 10 FLOU R—Patents.. 4 15 Fancy to Extra Do... I 35 WHEAT—No.3 tted VViuter... 77t»3 COHN—NO. 2 Mixed. * OATS—No.3..*. m* BYE—No. 3. CO a TOBACCO-Logs.- It# « Leaf Burley. lei a HA Y—Clear Timothy. . a DU « BUTTER—Choice Dairy.. 14 a EU US—Fresh. ® PuliK—Standard Mess (New). BACON—Clear Kill. LAltD—Prime S eam—.. .... , WOOL—Choice Tub. 30 •* CHICAGO. CATTLE—Sbl pping. 4 00 • HOUS—Fair to Choice.. . 5 4e « SHEEP-Fair to Choice.- 4 50 a FLOU H-Whiter Patents. 4 20 « Spring Patents,. 4 hi a WHEAT—No.3 Spring...... 9 COItN—No. 3... « OATS—No.3. a POHK-Mess (New).. 12 80 « KANSAS CITY CATTLE—Shipping Steers. ... » 50 • HOUS—All Grndes-«» . o 80 » WHEAT—No. 3 Bed. 19 a OATS—No. 3. a UOKN-No.3.,... 43 Hi* NEW ORLEANS FLOU it—High Grade. 3 75 « COItN—No. 2. 03 a OATS-Wosteru. ® 11AY—Choice . 18 <W a POBK—Now Mess. .. .. « BACON—Sides.. a COTTON-Jtiudliug... » CINCINNATI WHEAT—No. 3 Keil. 75 « COBN-No. 3 Mixed. • OA’rs-No.t Mixed. 33% » OOHK—Now Mess. .... 9 FAOON—Clear Bib. 0 » BOTTUN — .diddling '« 1833. 5 15 tM 4 75 88k i,» 37’-s 13 35 7 5 25 4 W) 5 10 fc 10 4 3 * 3 85 - 78% 48ti 3076 113 701 1 5i 17 pij 12 83k :■ .»% 7 *8 Ws 5 35 5 HU 5 75 4 4(1 4 51) 78 L 4t>% 3,-T 12 0> 4 40 5 85 70 2 i ABs * 45 03 40 IS 01 13 12l« 70 51 3t 12 25 U 7% SELL THE PHOENIX. Hold* world's 963 miles in 24 hours. Hi? firm—n*w end old. Forced off cheap. Ems terme* OI«l machines tnken. Get lietend CAt&fofftt* fret*. KMISHT CYCLE CO.,

for Ccnsrun are offering impure. Co .*>- Lang Sts ?Iaus eobditi Bat Just as if. depends upon the blood im its origin, so it depends upon the Mossi for its cure. The surest remedy for Scrofula in every- form, the mast effective bSood-cfenns-er. flosh-buiteer, and stmigtbrestorer that’s known fosaedk csd science, is Doctor Fieroe^l Bolden Medical Biscoverir. For Consraaptfow £e ail its earlier stages, and for Weak

Kona, that is the only remedy so unfailing that it can be gvarmti^d. U - it doesn't Ipneilt or cure, you have your money back. No matter how long jfbn’W had Catarrh, or how severe, Dr. Sage’s Remedy will effect a permanent cure. reward is offered by the proprietors of this Icedioine, for an incurable case of Catarrh.

r ON£ EKJOY® 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 Kidneys, 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 in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to sill and have made it the most popular remedy known. 8yrnp of Figs is for sale In 50c and §1 bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one v/ho wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIO SYRUP C9. SAN FSAUCISCO, CAL Lowsviue. kr. rant, v.r. ‘August Flower’ I used August Flower for Loss of vitality and general debiiity. After taking two bottles I gained 69 lbs. I have sold more cf your August Flower since I have been in business than any other medicine I ever kept. Mr. Peter Zinvi lie says he was made a new man by the use of August Flower, recommended by me. I have hundreds tell me that August Flower has done them more good than, any other medicine they ever took. George W. Dye, Sardis, Mason Co., Ky. # THE WORLD-FAMOUS fif ' NOW FOR 3AX.E ALSO TKBK1TOKY. U tern* w** •!>«<$•*. K'-nP •ndbJn4i-.rvu.ic. * -•(> A PAY CLEARKD WITH IT. Write to ST. LOUIS PHOSOUItAVH CO.. ST. Louts.

?aTQy kPq lISH vines," says srHOtnon. n is-—„ a little cold and allowing it to go without attention : it is getting sick and thinking that it will wear itself out that lays the foundation fo trouble. When you take cold, j once and get a bottle of REID’S GERMAN CHOUGH & KIDNEY CURE. It is the best thing on the market for all 'maladies that attack the throat or lungs. It cannot be surpassed in that particular. It contains no poison or anything deleterious. It is especially good for the children, for old people, and for persons afflicted with asthma and throat troubles. Try it and you will be perfectly satisfied with it. Small bottles 25 cents, large ones 50 SYLVAN REMEDY GO., Peoria, 111.

RELIEVES til Etomacn Disraw. REMOVES Nausea, Sens* of TnllM#, Gokoestioh, Pais. REVIVES Paiuxo ENERGY. RESTORES Normal Circulation, and . Warms io Toh Tips. BS. HASTE# MEDICI## CO..«. t*Bto. —■ “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 by express on receipt of price $1.SO per bottl* BKADF1ELD REGULATOR CO., Atlanta,6a. SC'ia) BY AUj MUOOTSTS. ASTHMA Hay Fever and Difficult lircathtnB fllipcfl Immediate Reiter WIIHCII. and Permanent Cure. Du. f. BitADrnuo’s Aathmatlc llcUci" and Cure. Price, 81 per bottle. CONSTIPATION EffatS AilDCn by the use of ilr. Bradlbrtl « f: lift CO cea. Senthy mall upon n>ceiptof to the BRADIOUD H Kills DY CO., CIS BMg.. C lilt AGO. £T.\ AiiS 'aIUS P APE& «f«J tin* JOU writ* <

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Hat with Pearhne. Directions. First brush out all the dirt possible. Then, with * sponge, wash the hat with the ordinary Pearline solution (in the proportion of a tablespoonful to a pail of water.) Steam it well over the nozzle of a kettle; rinse well with sponge and warm water; press into shape, and dry. You can do all this at home at a cost of , less than one penny! It’s simple enough, if you have Pearline—but, with Pearl- ! ine, every kind of washing and cleaning is simple. Directions for the easiest way, on every package. Peddlers and some nnsern* pulous grocers will tell you __ ** this is §s good as” or “ the same as Peariine." IT’S FALSE—Peariine is never peddled ; if vour grocer sends you an imitation, do the honest thing—soul it far* 311 JAMES PYLE, New York. I Beware * .—~ sic p** vat

IT IS A DUTY you ovr«j y ottr» selfaud family to get iln bee* value for yoar money* Economize in your footwear by par«kasiug \V. JL. Douglas SkeeU) which represent the hest value for prices askeu, &s thousands will testify. W. L. DOUGLAS nr TAKE NO SITBSTITETE. $3 SHOE FOR GENTLEMEN, THE BIST SHOE !H THE WORLD FOR THE MOREY.

A genuine* sewed ehoe, that tails not rift nno calf, seamless, smooth in-siUe, flexible, more comfortabte,styllsh and durable than any other shoe ever sold at the price. Equals custom made shoe* » costing from $4 to $5. 3> and 85 Hand-sewed, fine calf shoes. The most stylish, i vP*# easy amidui able shoes ever sold at these prices. They equal f fine imported shoes costing from $$ to $12. #0 Police Shoe, worn by fanners and all others who want a pood* heavy calf, three soled, extension edge aho% easy to wait in, and will keep the feet dry and warm. ,»n 30 Flna Calf, tii.a3 ar.d Q'Z Workingmen's Shoe* will give n.oro wear lor the money than any other make. Xhey arts made for sfltrfcc. The Increasing sales show that work* logmen havo found this out. ... , aAVC* ar.d Youths’ Si.75 School Shoes an SUT9 worn by the boys everywher,. The roost servloonltieshoeswMatttw^prfcra.^ _j ,A M ^ # ‘ * st BonLADIES*

The $3 shoe i trails custom made sho^ TOstiug fr.‘f>v to #6. Ladies Who Wiati loeoonoraise in their footwear are finding this out. C A17T1 ON.—Beware of dealers gMttattDff rtoes wife" oufcW. L. Douglas' name and the price Groped ffiEHS aou ran tit i nmiAi -so; cuare Such substitutions sre fraudulent and subject toprosecuAoK run W. L. UUMnurto oHu-o. tlon by law for obtaining money under false pretences. If not for sale in yens »J»ce Mend direct to Factory, stating kind* sine and width wanted. Postage free. Will give exclusive sale to shoe dealers and genera Imerchauta where I have no ng^ataTWrite lor Catalogue* W. L. Douglas, Brockton, Mo THE POT INSULTED THE KETTLE BECAUSE THE COOK HAD NOT USED * SAPOLIO GOOD COOKING DEMANDS CLEANLINESS. SAPOLIO SHOULD be used in every KITCHEN. •*