Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 14, Petersburg, Pike County, 26 August 1892 — Page 4

Ms It la Nothing It Were Well to discourse on a wells was delivered, among others, De!Vitt Talmage during his i in England, it is based on the I will arise sad goto mT f»thor .—Lake xt„ There is nothing like hunger to take the energy out of a man. A hungry 'man can toil neither with peivnor hand nor foot There has been many an army defeated not so much for lack of ammunition as for lack of bread. It was that fact that took the fire out of this young man of the text Storm and exposure will wear out any man’s life in time, hut hunger makes quick work. The most awful cry ever heard on earth is the cry for bread. A traveller tells us that iu Asia Minor there are trees which bear fruit looking very much like the long bean of our time. It it named the carab. Once in awhile the people reduced to destitution would eat these carabs, but generally the carabs, the beans spoken of here in the text, were thrown only to the swine and they crunched themwith great avidity. But this young man of myjtext could not get even them without stealing them. So one day amid the hog troughs he begins to soliloquize. ‘'These are no olothes for a rich man's son to wear; this is no kind of a business for a Jew to be engaged in—feeding swine; I’ll go home; 1*11 go home: I will arise and go to . my father.” I know there are a great many people who try to throw a fascination, a romance, a halo about sin; but notwithstanding ah that Iiord Byron and i Sand have said in regard to it. It is a mean, low, contemptible business, and putting fqod and fodder into the herds of iniquities that root and wallow in the soul of man is very poor business for men and women intended to be sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. And when this yonng man resolved to go home it was a very wise thing for him to do, and the only question is whether we will follow him.

r sawn promises large wages 11 we wm serve him, but he clothes his victims with rags and he pinches them with hunger; and when they start out to do better he sets after them all the bloodhounds of hell. Satan comes to ns today and he promises all luxuries, all emoluments if we will only serve him. Liar, down with thee to the pit! “The wages of sin is death." Oh, the young man of the text was wise when he uttered the resolution: “I will arise and go to my father.” In the time of Queen Mary of England a persecutor came to a Christian woman who had hidden in her house far the Lord's sake one of Christ's servants, and the persecutor said: “Where is that heretic?” The Christain woman said: “You open that trunk and you vrUl see the heretic.” The persecutor opened, the trunk, and on the top of the linen of the trunk he saw the glass. He said: “There is no heretic here.” “Ah,” she said,” “you look in that glass and you will see the heretic!” As I take up the mirror of God’s word to-day, I would that, instead of seei ng the prodigal of the text, might see ourselves—our want, our wandering, our ar lost condition, so that we ght^e as wise as this young man was, and say; VI will arise and go to my father.” 'x The resolution of this text was formed in disgust at his present circumstances. If this young man bad been by his employer set to culturing flowers, or training vines over an arbor, or keeping account of the pork market, or overseeing other laborers, he would not have thought of going home. If he had had his pockets full of money, if he had been able to say: “I have a thousand dollars now of my own; what’s the use of my going back to my father’s house? doyon think I am going back to apologize to the. old man? why, he would put me on the limits; he would not have going oparound the old place such conduct as I have been engaged in; I won’t go home, there is no reason why*T should go home; I have plenty of money, pleanty of pleasant surroundings; why should I go home?” Ah! it was his pauperism, it was his beggary. He had to go home. Some man comes and says to me: “Why do you talk about the ruined state of the human soul? Why don’t you speak about the progress of the nineteenth century, and talk of something more exhiliarting?” It is for this A man never wants the Gospel until he realizes he is in a famine-struck state. Suppose I should come to you in your home, and you are in good robust health, and I should begin to talk about medicines, and about how much better this medicine is than that and some other medicine, and talk about this physician and that physieiip. After awhile you would get tired, and you would say: “I don’t want to hear about medicines. Why do«you talk to me of

pnysicians/ i never nave a doctor. Suppose I oome into your house and I find you severely sick, and I know the medicine that will cure you, and I know the physician who is skillful enough to meet your case. You say: “Bring on all that medicine, bring on that physician. I am terribly sick and want help" If I came to you and you are all right in body and all right in mind, and all right in soul, you have need of nothing; but suppose I have persuaded you that the leprosy of sin is upon you, the worst of all sickness. Oh! then you say: “Bring me that balm of tiie Gospel, bring me that Divine medicament, bring me Jesus Christ.” v But says some one, in the audi^S***e: “How do you prove that we are in a ruined condition by sin?” Well, I ean prove it in two ways, and you may kave your choice. I can prove it either by the statements of men, or by the statement of God. Which shall it be? Yon all say: ‘Let us have the stateit of God." Well, He says in one •The heart is deceitful above and desperately wicked." another place: “What is the should be clean? and he is born of woman that he should righteous?" He says in another “There is none that doeth not one.” He says in an- : “As by one man sin enwortd, and death by sin; upon all men, for sinned.” man, “how do I wants me? how do I I go back, 1 would be re“Oh,” says some man, “you where I have been; you how far 1 have wandered; that way U you knew 1 have committed.’' the angels it is news! Christ

between your soul and God, there is no mercy. Then I see Christ waving His hand toward the mountains, and I hear Him say: "I will come over the mountains of thy sin and the hills at thine iniquity. ” There shall be no Pyrenees, there shall be no Alps.” Again, I notice that this resolution at the young man of the text was founded in sorrow at his misbehavior. It was not mere physical plight It was belief that he had so maltreated his father. It is a sad thing after a father has done everything for a child to have that child be ungratefnl. How sharper than a serpent's toooth. it is. To have a thankless chili. That is Shakspeare. “A foolish son is the heaviness ©f his mother.” That is the Bible. Well, my freinds, have not some of us been cruel prodigals? Have we not maltreated our Father? And such a Father! So loving, so kind. If He had been a stranger, if He had forsaken us, If He had flagellated us, if He had pounded us and turned us out of doors on the aommons, it would not have been so wonderful—our treatment of Him; but He is a Father so loving, so kind, and yet how many of ns for our wanderings have never apologized. We apologize for wrongs done to our fellows, but some of us, perhaps, have committed ten thousand times ten thousand wrongs against God and never apologized. I remark still further that this resolution of the text was founded in a feeling of homesickness. .1 do not know how long this young man, how ..many months, how many years, he had been away from his father’s house; but there is something about thereading of my text that makes me think be was homesick. Some of you know what that feeling is. Far away from home sometimes, surrounded by everything bright and pleasant—plenty of friends —you have saidt "I would give the world to be home to-night.” Well, this young man was homesick for his father’s house. I have no doubt when he thought of his father's house he said: “Now, perhaps, father may not be living.”

We read nothing' in this story—this parable founded on everday life—we read nothing about the mother. It says nothing about going home to her. I think she was dead. I think she had died of a broken heart at his wanderings, or perhaps he had gone into dissipation from the fact that he could not remember a loving and sympathetic mother. A man never gets over having lost his mother. Nothing said about her here. But he is homesick for his father’s house. He thought he would just like to go out ■ and walk around the old place. He thought he would just like to go and see if things were as they used to be. Many a man, after having been off a long white, has gone home and knocked at the door and a stranger had come. It is the old homestead, But a stranger comes to the door. He finds out father is gone, mother is gone, and brothers and sisters are gone. I think this young man of the text said to himself: “Perhaps father may be dead,” Still, he starts to find out He is homesick. Are there any here to-day. homesick for God, homesick for Heaven? A sailor, after having been long at sea, returned to his father’s house, and his mother tried to persuade him not to go away again. She said: “Now you had better stay at home; don’t go away, we don’t want you to go. You will have it a great deal better here.” But it made him angry. The night before he went away again to sea, he heard his mother praying in the next room, and that made him more angry. He went far out on the sea and a storm came up, and he was ordered to very perilous duty, and he ran up the ratlines, and a mid the shrouds of the ship he heart! the voice that he had heard in the next room. He tried to whistle it off, he tried to rally his courage; but he could not silence that voice he had heard in the next room, and there in the storm and darkness he said: “Oh! Lord, what a wretch I pm. Help me just now. Lord God.” And I thought in this assemblage to-day there may be some frho may have the memory of a father’s petition or a mother’s prayer meeting' pressing mightily upon the soul, and that this hour they may make the same resolution I find in my text, saying: “I will arise and go to my father.” A lad at Liverpool went out to lathe, went out into the sea, went out too far, got beyond his depth, and he floated far away, A ship bound for Dublin came along and took him on board. Sailors are generally very generous fellows, and one ghve him a cap and another gave him a jacket, and another gave him shoes. A gentleman passing along on the beach at Liverpool found the lad’s clothes and took them home, and the father was heartbroken, the mother was heartbroken at the loss of their child. They had heard nothing from him day after day, and they ordered the usual mourning for

the sad event. But the lad took ship from Dublin and arrived in Liverpool the very day the garments arrived. He knocked at the door and the father was overjoyed and the mother was overjoyed at the return of their lost son. 0! my friends, have you waded out too deep? Have you waded down into Sin! Have yon waded from the shore? Will you come back? When you come back will you come in the rags of sin, or will you come robed in the Saviour’s righteousness? I believe the latter. Go home to your God today. He is waiting for you. Go home! But I remark the characteristic of this resolution was, it was immediately put into execution. The context says: “He arose and came unto his father.” The trouble in nine hundred and ninety nine times out of a thousand is that our resolutions amount to nothing because we make them for some distant time. If I resolve to beoome a Christian next year, that amounts to nothing at all. If I resolve to become a Christian to-morrow that amounts to nothing at all. If I resolve at the service to-day to become a Christian, that amounts to nothing at all. If I resolve after I go home to-day to yield my heart to God, that amounts to nothing at alL The only kind of resolution that amounts to anything Is the resolution that la immediately put into execution. There the typhoid fever. is a man who had He said: “Oht if I could ever get over this terrible distress; if this fever should depart, if 1 could be restored^ health, I would all the rest of my life serve God." The fever departed. He got well enough walk around dthe block. He got well enough to attend to business. He is well to-day—as well as he ever was. Where vow? There is a man ago: “If I could live to will have and religion,

many who came just as near as you a_ to the kingdom of Ood and never entered it? I was at East Hampton, Long Island, and I went into the cemetery to look around, and in tint cemetery therr ore twelve graves side by side, the graves, of sailors. The crew some years ago, in a ship went into the breakers at Amagansstt, about three miles away. My brother, then preaching at East Hampton, had been at the burial. These men of the crew came very near being saved. The people from Amagansett saw the vessel, and they shot rockets, and they sen t ropes from the shore, and these poor fellows got into the boats and they pulled mightily for the shore, but Just before they got to the shore the rope snapped and the boat capsized and they were lost, and their bodies afterward washed upon the beach. Oh! what a shlemn day it wss—I have been told of it by my brother—when these twelve men lay at the foot of the pnlpit and he read over them the funeral service. They came very near shore—within shouting distance of the shore, and yet did not arrive on solid land. There are some men wbo come almost to the shore of God's mercy, but not quite, not quite. To be only almost saved is to be lost. I will tell you of two prodigals, the one that got back and the other that did not get hack. In Richmond, Ya., there is a very prosperous and beautiful home in many respects. A young man wandered off from that home. He wandered very far into sin. They heard of him often, but he was always on the wrong track, ne would not go home. At the door of that beautiful home one night there was a great outcry. The young man of the house ran down and opened the door to see what was the matter. It was midnight. The rest of the family were asleep. There were the wife and children of this prodigal young man.

i ne iaci was ne nau cuine homo and driven them out. He said: “Out of' this house, Away with these children; I will dash their brains out. Out into the storm !’’ The mother gathered them up and fled. The next morning, the brother, a young man who had staid at home,, went out to find this prodigal brother and son, and he came where he was, and saw the young man wandering up and down in front of the place where he had been staying, and the young man who had kept his integrity said to the older brother, • Here, what does this mean ? what is the matter with you? Why do you aet in this way?” The prodigal looked at him and said: “Who am I? Whom do you take me to be?” He said: “You are my brother.” “No, I am not I am a brute. Have yon seen anything of my wife and children? Are they dead? I drove them out last night in the storm. I am a brute. John, do you think there is any help for me? Do you think I will ever get over this life of dissipation?” He said: “John there is just one thing that will stop, this. The prodigal ran his finger across his throat and said: That will stop it, and I’ll stop it before night. Oh! my brain; I ean stand it no longer.” That prodigal never got home. But I will tell you of a prodigal that did get home. In this country two young men started from their -fether’s house and went down to Portsmouth. The father could not pursue his children; for some reason he could not leave,home, and so ho wrote a letter down to Mr. Griffin, saying: “Mr. Griffin, I wish you would go anil see my two sons. They have arrived in Portsmouth and they are going tor take ship, and going away from home. I wish you would persuade them back.” Mr. Griffin went and he tried to persuade them back. He persuaded one to go. He went with very easy persuasion because he was very homesick already. The other young man said: “I will not go. I have had enough of home. I’ll never go home.” “Well,” said Mr. Griffin, “then if you won’t go home, -I’ll get you a respectable position on a respectable ship.” “No, you won’t,” said the prodigal; “no, you won’t. I am going as a common sailor; that will plague my father most, and what will do most to tantalize and worry him will please me best.” Yeai-s passed on and Mr. Griffin was seated in his study one day when a message came to him saying there was a young man in front on a ship at the dock—a young man condemned to death —who wished to see this clergyman. Mr. Griffin went down to the dock and went on shipboard. The young man said to him: “You don’t know me, do you?” “No.” he said, “I don’t lenow you.” “Why, don’t you remember that young man you tried to persuade to go home and he wouldn’t go?” (it yes,” said Mr. Griffin,- “are you that man?” “Yes, I am that man,” said the other. “I would like to have you pray for me. I have committed murder and I must die; but I don’t want to go out of this world until some one prays for me. You are my father’s friend, and I would like to have you nrfl.v fm* ”

Mr, Griffin went from judicial authority to judicial authority to get that young man’s pardon. lie slept not night nor day. He went from influential person to influential person until in some way he got that young man’s pardon. He cam: down on the dock, and as he arrived on the dock with the pardon the father came. He -had heard that his son, under a disguised name, had been committing a crime and was going to be put to death. So Mr. Griffin and the father went on ship’s deck, and at the very moment Mr. Griffin offered the pardon to the young man the old father threw his arms around the son’s neck and the son said: “Father, I have done very wrong, and I am very sorry. I wish I had never broken yonr heart. I am very sorry.” “Oh!” said the father, “don’t mention it It don’t make any difference now. It is all over. I forgive you, my son,” and he h issed him and kissed him and kissed him. To-day I offer you the pardon of the Gospel—full pardon, free pardon. I do not care what yonr crime has been. Though yon say you have committed a crime against God, against your own soul, against the day of judgment, against the Cross of Christ—whatever your crime has been, here is pardon, full pardon, and the very moment you take that pardon your Heavenly Father throws His arms about you and says: “My son, I forgive you. It is all right You are as much in my favor, now as il you had never sinned.” Oh! there is joy on earth and joy in Heaven. Whi will take the Father’s embrace?

in its true light as unprecedented. Here sre official figures giving the total average annual expenditures, including sinking fund nud postal service, and the average expenditure per capita under two republican adminis trations: Per i Cnnitn ' Per Year Garfleld-Arihur.„*Hs W4»,6lipM Harrison.7 01 449,453,108 Here is an increase for Harrison over the last preceding republican administration amounting to 58 cents per capita per year, or a round #100,000,001 a year. We give the fignros of increase for every head of population because some republicans endeavor to evade responsibility for Harrison’s extravagance by saying that “this is a growing country.” The figures per capita show that his expenditures have increased much above the increase in population. He has made an increase of 9 per eent. over the per capita expenditures and of over SO per cent, over the total expenditures of the Garfield Arthur administration. That is, he costs the people 9 per cent, a head more than Garfield and Arthur cost them, and in the total per year this increase makes $100,000,000, or nearly a third of the total sum ex-, pended annually under Garfield and Arthur. We have made this comparison of two republican administrations that republicans may the better understand how costly are Harrison’s incompetency and radicalism. Here is a similar comparison for three administrations: Per Capita. Per Year. Garfield-Arthur.h! 13 {340.811.000 Cleveland. 6 1* 363.034,000 Harrison...,.>....7 01 449,453,000 The reader will see here a great increase in Harrison’s average annual expenditures over those of both the Cleveland and the Qarfield-Arthur administrations. He will notice also that while Arthur's per capita expenditure is considerably above Cleveland's, Harrison’s is much higher than Arthur’s.

Will Sot Benefit the BeMien Pari*. ___claim that quite as much extravagance was displayed during the recent session ot congress as was indulged in by the much criticised Fifty-first congress has been met by certain democratic statements and comparisons. Mr. Holman, chairman of the house committee on appropriations, shows that the amount appropriate! at the late session was actually less by more than £38,300,000 than the appropriations of the preceding session, when no river and harbor hill was passed. Leaving ont the river and harbor appropriation, the comparison shows over £34,000,000 in favor of the present oongress. But of the appropriations made this year ftfearly £80,000,000 was rendered unavoidable by legislation of the Fifty-first congress for continuing outlays, and if that cou’d have been eliminated the total for the first session of the present congress would have been less by over £113,000,0 >0 than that of the last session of the previous congress and less by 863,000,000 and more than that of the first session of the Fifty-first congress. Representatives Dockery and Sayers have joined in a statement comparing the expenditures of the government under the democratic administration of President Cleveland with .those of the administrations immediately preceding and foliowing it. The showing of these figures is certainly one out of which the republican party can make no campaign capital.—N. Y Times. _ POINTED PARAGRAPHS. -Flatt will not he satisfied this year with verbal promise of offices from the president He wants nothing less than a mortgage on the federal patronage.—Albany Argus. -It appears now that the republican campaign in tbe west is to he directed from Chicago, with an executive committee in charge of one William J. Campbell as chairman. In the words of Senator Farwell: “Is this the same Campbell,” etc.—Chicago Times. -Cleveland redeemed more bonds than Harrison, yet Cleveland’s average

“They Are Going to Try the Old Fake Again.”—Pntk.

The plea that the increase of Harrison’s total is due to increase of population being thus disposed of, no defense remains for Harrison. He stands confessed on his record the costliest as well as the smallest president the country ever had.—St. Louis Republic. M’KlNLEY MIRACLES. Trying to Prove That High Prices A.re a Blessing in Disguise. One has only to admit the accuracy of- current republican claims to bp convinced that the McKinley act should be classified not with laws but with miracles. It was passed originally “to sustain prices.” Fat was fried out of manufacturers on this theory, Maj. McKinley gave all his energies in one campaign to the task of proving that high prices are a blessing somewhat disguised, and - even President Harrison' ventured the assertion that “a cheap coat made a cheap man.” Now Senator Aldrich labors earnestly to prove that the act did not increase prices, from which wH assume that the “cheap-coat, cheap-man” idea has been relegated to the party garret. Again the bill was designed “to reduce imports,” and there was much ado about “home markets for home manufacturers,” “America for Americans” and other expressions of patriotism thought to be very effective. Now the Maine convention that renominated Mr. Reed pops up with the jubilant assertion that “our imports have increased to a point never before reached." , ~ x That miraculous is none too strong an adjective for the McKinley act we think no longer admits of doubt.—N. Y. World.

THE FORCE BILL ISSUE. Desperate Beaorts of the Doomed Republican Party. The advice of some republican organs that President Harrison should repudiate and put aside the force' bill issue in his expected letter of acceptance, shows the desperate straits in which the doomed organization finds itself. It is asking of Harrison something beyond the power of his accomplishment He is capable of accepting or rejecting anything that promises additional strength to his candidacy, but he cannot put aside the platform adopted by the delegated authority assembled at Minneapolis. Even could he compass this feat there would remain the utterly impossible one of turning down the dominant element in his party. It holds higher than any other consideration the possibility of retaining power and making firmer its grip upon the affairs of the^ country. It is unrestrained by the fact that the entire country is mow one and that loyalty is the common possession of our united citizenship. It has kept alive the spirit of sectionalism and, for party purposes, declined to recognize the binding force of terms offered and accepted upon the restoration of an undivided country. It atill plays the role of conqneror and assumes the right of Continued dictation as against those who were restored to equal rights and privileges and have kept faith under the terms of their compact. It is by this element that the force bill is desired as a part of national law, and President Harrison is powerless to change it, whatever the dictates of policy in the premises. The leaders of the party had the objectionable plank placed in their platform, and should republican supremacy again be established they would secure the passage of the obnoxious measure. Harrison favors it, for he aided Davenport in drafting it and lent his influence in having Heniy Cabot Lodge father it On the very day that the Minneapolis convention adopted its platform Davenport was undergoing a cross-examina-tion conducted at Washington by Senator David II Hill, and there admitted the authorship of the bill, volunteering the information that at some future the bill and "

annual expenditures wore only 8363,634,000, white* Harrison’s annual average is 8449.453,000. It is no wonder that he is perpetually scraping the bottom of the treasury. —St. Louis Republic. -The industry which has received most encouragement from the McKinley tariff is that of lying. In the first place, there was the tin-plate liar; he was followed by the pearl-button liar. After him in the procession came the manufacturer of prices, and he is followed by the man who is disposed to swear that wages have been steadily advancing under the McKinley act.— Louisville Courier-Journal --Too much confidence of victory in November must notbe founded upon the evidences of discord in the republican party in this state. Victories are not won by depending npon the supposed weakness in the enemy’s ranks, but by steady and aggressive and united and untiring efforts that will strengthen and solidify the party forces. Democracy Vvould have but a sorry excuse for winning if it expected victory solely because Mr. Blaine is troubled with indigestion and Mr. Platt is suffering from a “swelled head.’’—Albany Argus. -Benjamin Harrison, in order tc please the people of the Pacific coast, signed a bill which brands the negroes as unreliable witnesses, and on that account prohibits them from testifying in certain cases. No other president of any party has ever in this solemn manner placed such a disgraceful stigma upon the colored citizens of the United States. Benjamin Harrison may explain the matter until doomsday, but no intelligent, self-respecting negro will ever forget his deliberate insult.— Atlanta Constitution.

—There is an old East India fable that happily illustrates the yearning of the republican party to protect the struggling workmen of this country. Once upon a time a kind, great-hearted old elephant went out for a stroll in the jnngle, and as he wandered about he came upon a herd of young partridges left by a heartess mother to die of hunger, thirst and exposure. The elephant’s mighty sympathy went out to the wretched partridges, and he said: “You need protection.” And he sat on them.—Detroit Free Press. -In 1878 Whitelaw Eeid was running the New York Tribune in the interest of Horace Greeley, the democratic presidential nominee; Chauncey Depew was the democratic candidate for lieutenant governor of New York, and Frank Hiscock was a democratic candidate for congress. In the hands of these three original mugwumps the republican party in New York this year places unreservedly its hopes and its fortunes. A fatted calf in the shape of a United States senatorship has already been killed for one of the returned prodigals, and now it is proposed to treat the other two to a vice presidency and a secretaryship of state respectively. Evidently, it is considered necessary to hold out large inducements to prevent further backsliding on the part of these distinguished gentlemen.—St. Pan! Globe. A Grand Work. In accordance with the recommendation of' President Cleveland a democratic congress restored to the public domain 8Q,680,780 acres of land given away by various republican administrations to railroad corporations. There was recommended for recovery 65,030,585 Seres more which had been given away to railroads and others, but was forfeited for non-compliance with the terms of the grant. Of this amount the present democratic house has passed bills restoring 54,838,986 acres for the use and occupancy of the people, although the republican senate refused to concur in the passage of the bill, thus defeating it President Cleveland started this grand work, and before it was finished his official career was ended. When he is again inaugurated president and is backed by another democratic house the work thus begun wtll be finished. - Qwlaud I'Uto i ■ v%... _ .

turned the other. A vert elastic and durable horseshoe is made in France by compressing cowhide in a steel mold and then subjecting' it to a chemical process. It i* said to last longer than iron and needs no callrs, as it adheres readily to any surface however smooth. Is a recently invented watch for the blind, a small peg is set in the middle of each ' figure. When the hour hand reaches a given hour, the peg for that hour, drops. The owujr, when he wants to know the time, finds whwb peg is down and then counts back to XIL MIRTH FOR RICH AND POOR. "That young Antonio Fitzgushlcy just dotes on me, papa V “Does he? Well, for goodness’ sake, give him an antidote. PhiladelphiaRecord. “Where’s Tom?” asked the departm< nt clerk. “Taking an outing?” “No," replied the man at the neat desk, “he is taking an inning. He’s gone to the ball game. ”—W ashington Star. “Dear Father—We are well and happy. The baby has grown ever so much, and has a great deal more sense, than he used to have. Hoping the same of you, I remain your daughter, Molly.” —Texas Siftings. Customer (in restaurant)—“Have you any crisp, green lettuce?" “Yes, sir. Perfectly fresh, sir." And some fresh berries?” “Some brought in today, sir.” “And seme nice green tea?” “Yqs, sir; F got some just picked this morning, sir."—Chicago News Record. STRANGE THINGS. There Is a baby at Heppner, Oregon, which weighs less than a poiind. Two pieces of gold and a cartridge hull were fSund inside a duck at Blakely, Ga., recently. A rattlesnake fifteen inches in circumference is said to be in the possession of a man in Kentucky. Seweli. county, Kan., has an ox which measures fourteen feet in length, is six and one-half feet high and, when fat, weighs 4,500 pounds. One of the greatest snakes ever found was a python of the Philippine islands. It was 33 feet 0 inches in length and 2 feet in its greatest eirrumferen. 3. There are three places known where green snow is found. One of these places is near Monnt Hecla, Iceland, another fourteen miles cost of the month of the Obi, and the third near Quito, South America.

The September Wide Awake la a bright, descriptive and storytelling number full of strength and excellence. A charming deJJription by Frances A. Humphrey, of (TO Plymouth and Plymouth Rock as th% look to young tourists, under the title of “A Bed Letter Day.” A paper by S. 6. IV. Benjamin on “Our lighthouses and Lightshipc,” is full of new and interesting ; material. Sophie Swett has a capital boys’ story of school and cricket, “Tafferton of New York.” “Christyann’s Rezavoy Picnic” is by Mary Hartwell Catherwood, and is as bright and homely as are all her character stories; Sophie May, dear to all girl readers, has a real girl story “Patient Kysie,” and Theron Brown commemorates this bicentennial year of the Salem Witchcraft by a strong and stirring story of life at that troublous time, “John Alden’s Peril.” Alice Williams Brotherton contributes a poem, “My Princess,” that will be liked by those enrolled in the ranks of the King’s Daughters. Price 30 cents a Number; $3.40 a year. On sale at news stands, or sent postpaid on receipt of price, by D. Loth hop Compact, Publishers, Boston. “Hard Hues,” said Mr. Flunker, when he couldn't translate a passage in Homer.— Yale Record. ~ Ruined Temples. Our bodies are the temples of our souls , Shquld these temples, fashioned by the Divine hand, be allowed to fall into premature run! Assuredly not. Renovate, therefore, foiling strength, renew lost unpetite and an Impaired power to sleep, recreate vital energy with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which restores digestion, liver, bowel and kidney regularity, and overcomes malaria and rheumatism. Ir yon want toplease a man, catch him in a crowd and ask him some question that he is smart about.—Atchison Globe. Medical science has achieved a great triumph in tlie production of Beechnut’s Pills which at 35 cents a box replace a medicine chest Parker says that if a tree is known by its fruit, the maple must be entirely unknown, because it lias no fruit—Harper’s Bazar. tSoaoon,oonvenientand cheap. The American Brewing Co.’s St Louis “ABC. Bohemian Bottled Beor.” FoodauddrinU. Try It “I ax losing flesh,” said the butcher as the dog stole a sirloin steak.—Washington Biar. Keep the pores open is essential to health. Glenn's Sulphur Moan does this. Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents. A model woman—a posor.—Texas Sittings. " : Hall’s Catarrh Cure is a liquid and is taken internally. Sold by Druggists, Tfic. Has his ups and downs—the balloonist— Truth.

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Which is Wi to try, it yonnaT* tarrh—a taedicine that ciauns tohavs cto«l others, or a iwsrtkiu' that »* badwd money to euro you 1 The proprietor* of Itr, Sages Catarrh^Gemedy agree to care yocr Catarrh, perfectly and permanency, or they’ll pay you $500 is cash, _ S0E2*

ONU ENJOYS Both tho method and results -when Syrup of Figsd# taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the teste, and sets gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. 8^-rup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste and acceptable to tho stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from tho most healthy and agreeable substances, its many oxcellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Fig3 is for sale in 50o and 81 bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAX MANCISCO, CAL. LOUISVILLE. KY. HEW YORK. *.V, 44 ‘August Flower My wife suffered with indigestion ind dyspepsia for years. ^ Life be;ame a burden to her. Physicians 'ailed to give relief. After reading me of your books, I purchased a xittle of August Flower. It worked ike a charm. My wife received imnediate relief after taking the first lose. She was completely cured— low weighs 165 pounds, and can eat mything she desires without any deleterious results as was formerly the case, C. H. Dear, Prop’r Washington House, Washington, Va. ® | AHD WHISKEY HA3ITJ i (IJllitl) AT niwui withot*T PAIN. Bank of tmrtiouiars BEST FUSE. __! ». M. WOOIJ.KY. M. IV. ATI.A.N i .1, fJA. Whitehall ■**- mine HEM Learn TeleSraphT and Railroad UilnB mEn Akent's Business here.ami secure od rltnationr. Wrlto J.D. BHOW.V, Ssdalla, Mo. gjrSAMt SHU, l’APSk w 0=» jwiarta

. - . ■ VTAX/E* ? i k i i*$p .1 nJ . Cl I >1 jjiJ jj J If Girls Who Have Push Oar a&-psge handsome illustrated booklet sent free on receipt of address Girls who Love MUSIC and ART and would like to know how to oecnre complete educations under the be3t masters FREE OF COST should send for it. the LADIES’ HOME JOURHAL Philadelphia %

Hot Weather Maxims, Fat people really suffer less with the beat than thin people. There is this compensation hi carrying a great weight of flesh. He tnat is too fat even for comfort can reflect that he is able to withstand both heat and cold better than if he was like Cassius, lean and unsavory. These people take cold easily. They suffer in warm weather first from the heat in the day time and then by getting chilled at night they bring upon themselves malaria and suffer really from cold. There is however a remedy. Let them take REID’S GERMAN COUGH & KIDNEY CURE. This great remedy acts upon all of the excretory organs and thus enables the system to throw off the waste material that if left in the blood, poisons it. This is the only cough remedy in the world that ministers to the excretory system and thus renovates the whole system. Ask your dealer for it and if he will not order it for you write to us and we will send it SYLVAN REMEDY CO., Peoria, 111. Who are for the first time to undergo woman’s severest trial we offer “Mothers Friend” r A remedy which, if used as directed A few weeks before confinement, robs it of its pain, horror and risk to life of both mother and child, as thousands Who have used it testify. *1 used two bottles of Mothers Friend with marvelous* results,.andi wish t’Jfywoman who has to tslss through theordealof childbirth to know if they will use Mothers FRiENDforafew weeks it will robconfinement of fata and ivffenng, and insure safetytolifiof mother and ehud. Mrs. Sam Hamilton, Montgomery Cl/,Mo. Rent bv express, charges pre-aid, on receipt of price. $1.57 perl'ottle Soldby all druggists. Book To Mothers mailed free. .... r Bradfield Regulator Co . Atlanta, Ua.

You Needn’t Look immediately for the damage that dangerous washing- compounds do. It’s there, and it’s going on all the time, but y ou won’t see its effects, - ^ probably, for several months. It * wouldn’t dd, you know, to have them too dangerous. The best way is to take no risk. You needn’t worry about damage to your clothes, if you keep to the

ir original washing compound—r'earnne; first made and fully proved. What can you gain by using the imitations of it? ✓Prize packages, cheaper prices, or whatever ' may by urged for them, wouldn’t pay you * for one ruined garment.

LJ 13 ____ „ reoaiers ana some unscrupu lous grocers win iai vou, “this is as good as” or “the same as Pearline.” ITS FALSE—Pearllnc is never peddled ; if your grocer sends you an imitation, be honest—vend it back- 346 JAMES PYLE, New York.

IT IS A DUTY yoo m yo»r« scl f and family to cet the best value for your money. Kconomice in yonr footwear by pur« chmiog W. L. Boudin? Shoes, irhich represent the best value for prices asked* as thousands will testify. EFTAttE NO SUBSTITUTE

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IHt Btol SHUfc if! (lit WUHLU NIK IHt IHURtT. A genuine sewed shoe, that vrill no* rtp, floe ca‘f, seamless, traooth Inside, flexible, mors comfortable,stylish and durable than any other shoe ever sold at the price. Equals custom made shoes easting from ti Co fa. I sod $A Uand*sewcd, fine calf shoes. The most stylish. 3*^ i .. .. ——3S*' easy and durable shoes ever sold at these prices. They equal Sue Imported shoes costing from (S to <13. go .50 Police Shoe, worn by farmers and all others who •pen a scant a good heavy calf, three soled, extension edge shoe, easy to walk In, and will knv the feet dry and warm. * t% SO Fine Calf, &1.23 and *3 Werkingmen’e Shoes 9sSs will give more wear for the money than any other make. They are made for service. The Increasing sales show that workhave found this out. _ -I *!i and \ oaths’ *1.7* School Shoes are _ _ worn by the boys everywhere. The most servicemmWVffiUMi tMO. •» w»d *1.7* LADI E O Shoes for Misses are made of the best Dorn k *ola or flue Calf, as desired. They are very stylish, com1®S^ fortoble and durable. The <3 shoe equals custom made ■■feaa shoes costing frnm «4 to*J. Ladles who wish to econo* ynlre in their footwijar fire finding this out. ||pl^ CAUTION;-Beware of dealers substituting shoes with- . snH thanrioafitamredonbottom.

lAu cflD Vf 8 nniini iai eunre Such aubatitudons ere fraudulent and subject to prcecctbA5K FUR W. L. OOUGutS SHUfca. tton by law for obtaining money under faiee vreteno e. If not far sale In your pine* send direct to Facto ry. Mating kind, sine and width ■ ~ re free. Will giro exclusive enle to "hoc deal ere and general m“ uare no ageuta. Write for Catalogue. W» It. Dougins, Brockton. Ma wanted. Poatui chants where I bi

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