Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 18, Petersburg, Pike County, 23 September 1892 — Page 4

Th« following discourse was one among the many delivered by Rev T. DeWitt Talmage during his preaching tour in England. The text is: The spider tsketh hold with her hands and la In king’s palaces.—Proverbs xxx., 28. Permitted as I was a few days ago to attend the meeting of the British Scientific association, at Edinburgh, I found that no paper read had excited more interest than that by Bey. Dr. McCook, of America, on the subject of spiders. It seems that my talented countryman, banished from his pulpit for a short time by ill-health, had in the fields and forests given himself to the stiffly of Insects. And surely if it is not beneath the dignity of Cod to make spiders, it is not beneath the dignity of man to study them. We are all watching for phenomena. A sky full of stars shining from January to January calls out not so many remarks as the blazing of one meteor. A whole flock of robins take not so mueh of onr attention as one blundering bat darting into the window on a summer eve. Things of ordinary sound, and sight, and occurrence, fail to reach us, and yet no grasshopjK^ ever springs up in our path, no ro no ever dashes into the evening cang ’ mots ever floats in the s"nj£ w:ndmv pouts through the crack of huU nQ shutter, no barnacle on fa cli i to burr on chestnut, no li- artichoke but a rock, no rind a W(J were not would teach ns an His Bible ^ forth so stupid. 92fetion the lily, and the for onr cons^nd the loeaat) and the Bn°r, ^V and the hind’s foot, and ®ora borealis, and the ant hills. r*0 Si the sacred writers, sitting amid mountains, sees a hind skipping over the rocks. The hind has such a peculiarly shaped foot that it can gi» over the steepest places without falling, and as the prophet looks upon that marking of the hind’s foot on rteks, and 'thinks of the Divine care over hiip. He says: “Thou makest my feet like hind’s feet that I may walk on high places” And another sacred writer sees the ostrich leaving its egg in the sand of the desert, and without any care of inenbation, walk off; and the Scripture says that is like some parents, leaving their children without any wing of protection or care. In my text, inspiration opens before us the gate of a palace, and we are inducted amid the pomp of the throne and the conrtier, and while we are looking and on the magnificence, inspiraoints us to a spider plying its and weaving its net on the hfloes not call us to regard the (fundings, of the palace, hut ad earnest consideration at: “The spider taketh nds, and is in kings’ in what was the t spoken of to learn Divine rlain nd, and and

tut unliur inion r^lnd it more wondrous of construction than ..the embroideries on . the palace wall and the upholstery so delicate and beautiful as the prehensile with which that spider clutches its prey, or as any of its eight eyes. We do not have to go so far up to see the power of God in the tapestry hanging around the windows of Heaven, or in the horses or chariots of fire with which the dying day departs, or to look at the mountain swinging out its sword-arm from under the mantle of darkness until it can strike with its scimetar of the lightning. I love, better to study God in the shape of a fly’s wing, in the formation of a fish’s scale, in the snowy whiteness of a pond-lily. I love to track His footsteps in the -mountain moss, and to hear His voice in the hum of the rye-fields, and discover the rustle of His robe of light in the south wind. Oh! this wonder of Divine power that can build a habitation for God in an apple blossom, and tune a bee’s voice until it is fit for the eternal orchestra, and can say to a firefly: “Let there be light;” and from holding an ocean in the hollow of His hand goes forth to find heights and depths and length and breadth of omin a dewdrop, and disits from the chariot of midnight hurricane to cross over on the suspension bridge of a spider’s web. You may take your telescope and sweep it across the heavens in order to behold the glory of God, but I shall take the leaf holding the spider, and the spider’s web, and I shall bring the microscope to my eye, and while I gaze and look and study and am ggnfounded, I wfll kneel down in the grass and cry: “Great and marvelous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty!” Again, my text teaches me that insignificance is no excuse for inaction. This spider that Solomon saw on the wall might have said: “I can’t weave a web worthy of this great palace; what can 1 do amid all this gold embroidery? 1 am not able to make anything fit for so grand a place, and so I will not work my spinning-jenny.” Not so, said the spider. “The spider taketh hold with her hands.” Oh, what a lesson that is for you and me! You say if you had some great sermon to preach, if you only had a great audience to talk to, if you had a great army to marshal, if yon only had a constitution to write, if there was some tremendous thing in the world for you to do—then you would show us. Yes, you would show us! What if the Levite in the ancient temple had refused to snuff the candle because he could not be a high priest? What if the humming-bird should refuse to sing its song into the ear of the honey-suckle because it can not, like the eagle, dash its wings into the What if the rain-drop should reto descend beeause it is not a i? What if the spicier of the text should refuse to move its shuttle because it can not weave a Solomon's Away with such folly. If you with the one talent, you would with the ten talents. If Milo not lift the calf he never will have to lift the ox. In the Lord’s is order for promotion; but not be a general until you a captain, a lieutenant and It is step by step, it is inch it is stroke by stroke that our is bullded. Thereit to do what God comyou to da God is not [ to do small thinga He is not to be found chiseling a or helping a honey bee ■ML— . bell in

Again, my next text repulsiveness and lent . lometimes olimb up into very elevated places. Yon would have tried to have killed the spider that Solomon saw. Yon would have said: “This is no place for it. If that spider is determined to weave a web, let it do so down in the cellar of this palace, or in some dark dungeon.” Ah! the spider of the text could not he discouraged. It clambered on, and climbed up higher and higher and higher, until after awhile it reached the king’s vision, and he said: “The spider taketh hold with her hands and is in kings’ palaces.” And so it often is now that things that are loathsome and repulsive get up in* to very elevated places. The Church of Christ, lor instance, is a palace. The King of Heaven and earth lives in it. According to the Bible, her beams are o* cedar, and her rafters of fir, and. »er-windows of agate, and the foun**lns °* salvation dash a rain of liont U is a glorious palace—the Ch~rch of God is; and yet, sometimes, -nseemly and loathsome things crerp np into it—evil-speaking, rancor -*n<! slander, and backbiting, and n’J'use> crawling up on the walls of church, spinning a web from arch , j arch, and from the top of one. commnnion tankard to the’’ top of another communion tankard. Glorious palace in which -there ought only to be light, and love, and pardon, and grace; yet a spider in the palace. Home ought to be a castle. It ought to be the residence of everything royal. Kindness, love, peace, patience and forbearance ought to be the princes residing there; and yet sometimes dissipation crawls up into that home, and the jealous eye comes up, and the scene of peace and plenty becomes the scene of domestic jargon and dissonance. You say: “What is the matter with the home?” I will tell you what is the matter with it. A spider in the palace. A well-developed Christian character is a grand thing to look at. You see some man with great intellectual and spiritual proportions. You say: “How useful that man must be!” But you find, amid all his splendor of faculties, there is some prejudice, some whim, some evil habit that a great many people do not notice, but that you hare happened to notice, and it is gradually spoiling that man’s character—it is gradually going to injure his entire influence. Others may not see it, but you are anxious in regard to his welfare, and now yon discover it. A dead fly in the ointment. A spider in the palace. Again, iny text teaches me that perseverance will mount into the king’s palace. It must have seemed a long distance for that spider to climb into Solomon’s splendid residence, but it started at the very foot of the wall and went lip over the panels of Lebanon cedar, higher and higher, until it stood higher than the highest throne in all the natrons—the throne of Solomon. And so God has decreed it that many of those who are down in the dust of sin and dishonor shall gradually attain to the King’s palace. We see it in worldly things. Who is that banker in Philadelphia? Why, he used to be the boy that held the horses of Stephen Girard while the millionaire went in to collect his dividends. Arkwright toils on up from, a barber’s shop until he gets into the palace of invention. Sextus V toils on up from the office of a'&vineheard until he gets into the palaeqrof Rome. Fletcher toils on up from 'the most insignificant family the Christian eloquence. Hogarth, engraving pewter pots for a living, toils on up until he reaches the palace of world-renowned art And God hath decided that, though yon may be weak of arm, and slow of tongue, and be struck through with a great many mental and moral deficits, by His A1-. mighty grace you shall yet arrive in the King’s palace—not. such an one as is spoken of in the text—not one of marble, not one adorned with pillars of alabaster and thrones of ivory, and flagons of burnished gold—hut a palace in which God is King and the angels of Heaven are the cup-bearers. The spider crawling up the wall of Solomon^ palace was not worth looking after or considering, as compared with the fact that we, who are worms of the dust, may at last ascend into the palace of the King immortal By the grace of God may we all reach. Oh, Heaven is not a dull place. It is not a worn-out mansion with faded curtains, and outlandish chairs, and* cracked ware. No; it is as fresh, and fair, and beautiful as though it were completed but yesterday. The Kings of the earth of the earth shall bring their %onoi and glorv into it.

A palace means splendor of apartments. Not/, I do not know where Heaven is, and I do not know bow it looks, but if our bodies are to be resurrected in the last day I think Heaven must have a material splendor as well as a spirital gTandeur. Oh, what grandeur of apartments when that Divine hand which plunges the sea into blue and the foliage into green and sets the sunset on fire shall gather all the beautiful colors of earth around His throne, aud when that arm, which lifted the pillars of Alpine rock and bent the arch of the sky, shall raise before our soul the eternal architecture, and that hand which hung with loops of fire the curtains of morning shall prepare the upholstery of our Idmgly residence. A palace also means splendor of associations. The poor man, the outcast san not get into Windsor castle. The sentinel of the queen stands there and cries ‘'Haiti" as he tries to enter. But in the palace of which I speak we may all become residents, and we shall all be princes and kings. We may have been beggars, we may have been outcasts, we may have been wandering and lost as we all have been, but there we shall take our regal power. What companionship in Heaven! To walk side by side with John, and James, and Peter, and Paul, and Moses, and Joshua, and Caleb, and Ezekiel, and Jeremiah, and Micah, and Zachariah, and Wilberforce, and Oliver Cromwell, and Philip Doddridge, and Edward Payson, and John Milton, and Elizabeth Fry, and Hannah More, and Charlotte Elizabeth, and all the other kings and queens of {leaven. O, my soul, what a companionship. A palace means splendor of banquet There will be no common ware on that table. There will be no unskilled musicians at the entertainment There will be no scanty supply of fruit or beverage. There have been banquets spread that cost a million of dollars each; but who can tell. the untold wealth of that banquet? I do not know whether John’s description of it is literal or figurative. A great many wise people tell me it is figurative; but >rove it I do not know hut that t may be literal. I do not know cut that there may be real fruits plucked from the tree of ife. I do not know but that Christ reerred to the real juice of the grape when he said that we should drink new ■ “ our Father’s kingdom, but not “ of

us filling, and all the ng with pearl i »nd carbuncle are lifted tips of the myriad while standing in robes of sp<6wy white they drink to the honor a*" our glorious King. “Oh,” you sajfT “that is too graM a place for .you and for me.” No, it is not If a^pider, according to the text could jarSwl upon the wall of Solomon’s paAace, shall not our poor souls, thromgh the blood of Christ mount up frond the depths of their sin and shame, and finally reach the palace of the eternal King? “Where sin abound* rd, grace shall much more abound, that whereas sin reigned unto death, even so may grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord,” One flash of that coming glory obliterates the sepulcher. Years ago, with lanterns and torches, and a guide, we went down in the Mammoth cave of Kentucky. You may walk fourteen miles and see no sunlight It is a stupendous plSce. Some places of the roof of the cave are one hundred feet high. The grottoes filled with weird echoes, cascades falling from invisible height to invisible depth. Stalagmites rising up from the floor of the cave—stalactites descending from the roof of the cave, joining each other and making pilloar of the Almighty’s sculpturing. There are rosettes of amathyst in halls of gypsum. As the guide carries his lantern ahead of you, the shadows have an appearance supernatural and spectral. The darkness is fearful. Two people getting lost from their guide only for a few hours, years ago, were demented, and for years sat in their insanity. You feel like holding your breath as you walk across the bridges that seem to span the bottomless abyss. The guide throws his calcium light down into the caverns, and the light rolls and tosses from rock to rock, and from depth to depth, making at every plunge a new revelation of the awful power that could have made such a place as that. A sense of suffocation comes upon you as you think that you are two hundred and fifty feet in a straight line from the sunlit surface of the earth. The guide after awhile takes you into what is called | the “Star Chamber,” and then he says to you: “Sit here,” and then he takes the lantern*and goes down under the rocks, and it gets darker and darker, until the night is so thick that the hand an inch from the eye is unobservable. And then, by kindling one of the lanterns, and placing it in a cleft of the drock there is a reflection cast on the dome of the cave, and there are stars coming out in constellations—a brilliant night Heaven—and you involuntarily exclaim “Beautiful, beautiful!” Then he takes the lantern down on other depths of the cavern and wanders on, and wanders on, until he comes up from behind the rocks gradually, and it seems like the dawn of the morning, and it gets brighter and brighter. The guide is a skilled ventriloquist, and he imitates the voices of the morning, and soon the gloom is all gone, and you stand congratulating yourself over the wonderful spectacle. Well, there are a great many people who look down into the grave as a great cavern. They think it is one thousand miles subterraneous, and all the echoes seem to be the voiles of despair, and the cascades seem to be the falling tears that always fall, and the gloom of earth seems coming up in aetite, making pillars of indescribable horror. The grave is no such place as that to me, thank God! Our Divine Guide takes us down into the great caverns, and we have the lamp to our feet and the light to our path and all the echoes in the rifts of the rock are anthems, and all the falling waters are fountains of salvation, and, after awhile, we look up, and behold! the cavern of the tomb has become a King’s’ star chamber. And, while we are looking at the pomp of it, an everlasting morning begins to rise, and all the tears of earth crystalize into stalagmite, rising up in a pillar on the one side, and all the glories of Heaven seem to be descending in a stalactite,' making a pillar on the other side, and you push against the gate that swings between, the two pillars, and as the gate flashes open you find it is one of the twelve gates which are twelve pearls. ^Blessed be God, that through this gospel the Mammoth cave of the Sepulcher has become the illumined star chamber ofthe King! Oh, the palaces! the eternal palaces] the King’s palaces!

A Stmager la the Pew. A Brooklyn preacher who has been considerably advertised of late told a New York Advertiser man of an incident which many people may not have heard. He said that a man who had not been to church in a very long time finally hearkened to the persuasions of his wife and decided to go. He got the family all together, and they started early. Arriving at the church, there were yet very few people in it, and no ushers on hand, so the man led his family well up the aisle and took possession of a nice pew. Just as the services were about to begin a pompous-looking old man came in, walked to the door of that pew and stood there, exhibiting evident surprise that it was occupied. The occupants moved over and offered him room to sit down, but he declined to be seated. Finally the old man produced a card and wrote upon i.t with a pencil: “I pay for the pew.” . Hs gave the card to the stranger occupant, who, the preacher remarked, had ho been like many people, would have at once get up and left. But the stranger adjusted his glasses, and, with a smile, read the card. Then he calmly wrote beneath it: “How much do you pay?” To this inquiry the pompous gentleman, still standing, wrote abruptly: . “Two hundred dollars a year, sir!” The stranger smiled as though he were pleased, looked around to compare the pew with others, admired its nice cushion and furnishings, and wrote hack: . “I don’t blame you. It is well worth it” The pompous gentleman at that stage collapsed into his seat The preacher remarked that he would rather have a pew-holder of the style of the stranger than of the pew lessee. —A Scotch clergyman In a recent sermon on “The Hills Whence Cometh My Help,” sakl .among other things: “Whenever a church loses sight of the big things of religion and gives itself up to petty things, such as disputing over questions of doctrine and church government or piddling about rituals and garments, it inevitably ends in atheism or indiflerenetism.

ting . jMH ress in constructing machinery drawn by horses for cutting the com crop, the great majority of the corn fields in the country at large are still harvested by means of hand labor, when hot allowed to go to waste. It is important, therefore, while millions of dollars are expended in labor by the cultivators of this crop, that every facility shonld be afforded, and the labor reduced as far as practicable. The suggestions we offer on this subject are not only intended to abridge labor, bnt to prevent much of the existing waste by the needless exposure of the corn fodder. The practice of 'planting com in “hills” is still very largely pursued throughout the country, and when the crop is ripe enough and the grain has well hardened, it is cut by hand and secured in shocks. These remain several weeks till the season arrives for husking and stacking, during which time the shocks are exposed to weather and storms, and a portion of them are commonly beaten down and prostrated, soaked with rain and rotted so as to be of little value for fodder. A reason for this prostration and waste is the one-sided way in which the shocks are built. Instead of placing the shocks in an equal circle around the center, they are often placed nearly all on one side, pressing them more or less out of the center, giving the shocks a one-sided tendency, and entirely prostrating a portion of them. This waste could be prevented by taking the nec

essary care to build t^m with equal additions ou every side, and by thus giving them a firmly erect position. A regular system in cutting each shock may be adopted, saving time and labor, which the accompanying figure may fully explain. The field is cut by taking five rows of hills at a time, and placing the shocks in the center one. Twenty-five hills will make one shock, the center being first taken; all the others are cut and placed around it. If the corn is of a large variety, three hills will be as much as the operator will hold in the grasp of his left arm while he cuts them with his right hand and places them against the forming shock. In the figure, the shock is larger and in the center; and the first three bills are those indicated by the letters AAA, carried to the shock on the dotted line. The next three are I1IS15, cut and placed beside the others. Each successive three are marked by the letters CCC, DDD, EEE, FFF, GGG and HI111; and being taken and cut in this regular order they will be placed in separate positions equally all around the shock, and the laborer can hardly avoid making it equally upright. The regular system will abridge his steps, and make' the work much easier than cutting at random. As every shock requires the . same order, the operator soon becomes accustomed to it and works rapidly. 'The Rame general course will apply to larger sllOCKs. Tor 'ro trrase made ~oT' smaller corn. With slight modification, it will apply to corn in drills. The arrows show the direction for the operator to work. In making a single shock, if the hills are three and a hall feet apart, it will require about ten rods walking, and for a field of a hundred shocks, more than three miles; ■while with an irregular mode, without system, several miles would be required. Saving the-fodder would be still more im}>ortant, making all the difference betvyeen such us is fresh, green and unin jured, and that which is ■destroyed by prostration and rotting with rains.—Country Gentleman. i - ——----— GROWTH OF WEEDS. It Fays to Destroy Them Just as They Are Coming to the Surface. Cultivators who have triecLboth ways know the several advantafjfes of destroying weeds just as, they are coming to the surface. The ground is then wmmmgmm A * I

£ '7' , . / \ ■ _ rendered mellow and clean with a teeth part of the labor required to destroy large weeds; the crop has not "been retarded in growth nearly to Us •entire failure. The estimate is made that weeds after growing a fortnight and becoming a foot high, contain by cubic measure one thousand times as’ much substance in growth, or more, than when first making their appearance at the surface, and with this A > A • . i

gTe at difference it is easily understood ■why they retard or destroy growth. Take as illustration the common ■turnip er^r If the weeds are not allowed entrance, the turnips will appear like those in Fig. 1. If the weeds are rampant, the turnips will make no headway, and will resemble those in Fig. 2. Late in the summer is the season when so many weeds steal a large growth.—American Cultivator. Decks and Corn Fodder. Ducks will greatly enjoy green corn fodder, if it is cut fine, and especially the suckers. A few rows of corn with the seed very thick in the rows, may be cut and cured for dudes when the corn is about two feet high. If the fodder is cut very fine in winter and sprinkled with bran and cornmeal the ducks will highly relish it The blades of corn fodder may also be stripped, out fine and scalded for them. It is best to always scald their dry food at all seasons. Training n Horse. One of the most important things in training a horse is to teach it to stand at the word of command. Adopt soma single word to convey yonr order, and never vary it Then compel the horse to obey it fnlly every time it is nsed. Do not nse two different words to convey the same meaning, nor attach different meanings to the same word if you expect the horse to learn and obey them 'ely.—Indiana Farmnr.

TEAVELEES AT ST. LOUIS. ---— Throe Thousand Men to Parade with Military Escort. n>e Illumination Attracting Omit Crowd* —Increasing Popularity of th« “Ki.* —Other Attractions. St. Lonni, Sept. US.—The illuminations to-night embraced all the grand features of the earlier displays, and were even grander than the earlier illuminations, owing to the arrival of several thousand additional globes and an immense quantity of electrical apparatus. The whole of the 75,000 gas and electric lights were alight, and the proceedings passed oft without a hitch and amid great enthusiasm. Several visitors from eastern cities and from Europe were loud in their expressions of opinion that the illuminations are far grander than anything ever seen in any other city. After the lights were turned out there was. a general rush to Exposition Building, and the magnificent structure was thronged with delighted guests. This, the ninth conseoutive season of the St. Louis exposition, is far exceeding all past efforts, both in the matter of beauty and attendance, and Gilmore with his band of one hundred men holds the crowd enraptured four times daily. A large number of special attractions are announced for the Exposition, including a Travelers’ Protective association celebration on Saturday,- October •t On the evening of that day the T.

P. A. will take charge of the Exposition programme. An oration will ‘he delivered by W. C. P. Breckinridge and by the governors of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and other states. A general invitation has been issued by the national president and directors of the T. P. A., and the largest gathering of traveling men of the west seen for years will be the result. About 3,000 will parade with a military escort, and a very elaborate programme has been prepared for the entertainment of the visitors during the day. The. Veiled Prophet will also arrive on October 1st, and will give his annual parade and ball on the following Tuesday. The route of the parade has been considerably extended and the pageant will be grander than ever. From October 3 to October 8 the annual fair will be open, and for this a large number of additional attractions are announced with two grand street illuminations and other treats. The carnival is proving a remarkable and unprecedented success. The railroads are offering exceptional inducements to tourists and excursionists, and full advantage is being takeg of their enterprise and liberality. As is well known throughout the commercial and business fraternity of the United States, St. Louis is the best railroad center on the continent, an immense number of trunk lines either terminating or passing through the city. It is on the line of three or four favorite routes from New York to the Pacific coast, and is the natural terminus of all roads running south and southwest and into the Mexican republic. St. Louis is so highly appreciated as a great manufacturing and commercial center, as well as a unique carnival city, that the/ practice of securing tickets through it and stopping off a few dass to wi*r w»Uau>{ city is becoming more and more common. Tourists in making their arrangements should bear this fact in mind, and not omit from their itinerary one of the most important and interesting points of the new world. —In Cochin, a town on the coast of Travancore, a state in the southwest of India, (here is a small body of Jews who are called White Jews, because their skin is fair and their hair light. They were once very numerous along this coast, but in Cochin, where they have a quarter all to themselves, there are now only some two hundred of them. They have dwelt here for hundreds of years as a distinct race, and claim to be descendants of the Jews who fled from Jerusalem after its destruction by the Romans (A. D. 70).— Little Folks Magazine. —How many truffle eaters know that the dainty is a fungous growth found in loose soil a few inches under ground, usually in forests where oak, beech and chestnu t trees abound? All truffles are imported, none being found in this country. In olden times in England truffle hunting was a sport, pigs being used to scent them out.—N. Y. Times, j Breathes There a Man Who can inbale malaria-breeding air with impunity? No, not unless ho be fortified uga.nst its insidious poison with Hostetler’s Stomach Bitters. Then, indeed, is he defended. Not only is this medicine most thorough as a bulwark against chills and fever and bilious remittent, but it thoroughly relieves dyspepsia, constipation, rheumatism, biliousness, nervousness and kidney trouble. Rioos—“How long has your wife kept servants!” Jiggs—“Two weeks, sometimes.”—Elmira Gazette. Bohemian Hops and Minn. Barley is what “The A. B. C. Bohemian Bottled Beer” of St Louis is made of. Nothing healthier. A max is relied a confirmed liar when nothing that he says is confirmed.—Boston Transcript, THE MARKETS. Nnw York. CATTLE—Native Steers COTTON—Middling. FLOUR—Winter Wheat.. WHEAT-No. 2Red ... CORN-No. 3. OATS—Western Mixed — PORK—New Mess. ST. LOUIS. COTTON-Middling.... BEEVES—Choice Steers. . Medium. 4 HOGS-Fair to Select . 6 SHEEP—Fair lo Choice.. 3 FLOUR—Patents. 3 Fancy to Extra Do . 3 WHEAT-No. 2 Red Winter... CORN-No. 2 Mixed. OATS—No. 3. RYE-No. 2.. TOBACCO-Lugs... ...... Leaf Burley.... HAY—Clear Timothy (new). BUTTERe-Choice Dairy..... EGGS—Fresh..... ............ PORK—Standard Mesa (new). BACON-CtaarRib. LARD—Prime Steam. WOOL—Choice Tub. CHICAG 1892. 7 25 50 40 75 70 35 68% 43% 29 52 10 10 15% 10 82% 50 72 .T—No. 3 Red. OATS-No. 2.. DORN—No. 3 . NEW ORLEANS. FLOUB-High Grade. 8 CORN—No. 2.. DATS-Western.. 40 .Y-Choice . MOO -New Mess. JN^Midd ling I!!!!!! OINCINN. ATI.

A few old-timers still remember tile grasshopper dinner given in this city a lumber of years ago, during the first treat grasshopper plague in Kansas, fhe ’hoppers were brought in from Kansas, the feast was prepared by d well-known caterer, and there were hoppers in every style. There was hopper‘soup of two or three kinds, th^j hoppers were boiled, roasted and fried, (ftere made into pates and entrees, were served np in hash and omelette, Were dried, ground to powder and served as pemmican. In short, were brought to the attention pf the assembled scientists In so many different ways that the learned professors, who gathered td teach the people of the west how ’hoppers might be made a blessing in disguise, after the first taste or two, placed their hands on their afflicted stomachs, took a glance down the bill of fare, and unanimously adjourned to a neighboring restaurant to get something that they could eat. Only one or two had the courage to eat the bill of fare, and it is said that they did not feel Weil foi* several days. As an object lesson In education the hopper banquet was a failure; as an illustration of scientific heroism it was a brilliant success on the part of those who endured to the end. It was never imitated and never repeated, and the best comment on it was made by an old farmer of Kansas, who, when told by an entomologist that grasshoppers conld be eaten, for John the Baptist lived on locusts and wild honey, replied: “Well, John the Baptist might have done that, for, those were the days of miracles, and I reckon a man would eat almost anything then, hut if he lived nowadays he wottld have to be fitted out with a different kind of stomach to enjoy these ’hoppers.”—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. I t —Gateau de Plumes: Boil in a pint if water one and a half pounds of loaf ugar until it becomes a rich sirup; vcigh two pounds of apples after they nave been peeled, cored and cut into mall pieces; boil them in the sirup vith the grated peel and juice of a arge lemon till they are reduced to a >nlp; put it into a mold. The followng day serve it, turned out in a glass lish with a rich custard.—Boston Her—Tho Isles of Shoals, a favorite New ngland watering place, have been sold > a syndicate which includes one wesm man. Seven men make up the indicate and the price paid was 150,000 for the islands and the buildigs on them just as they stand. The riucipal islands are Star, Applcdore id Siputty Nose. Ttie biggest fur pool: Philadelphia Record. Behring sea.— Have You Asthma? Da. R. ScniFVMASS, St Paul, Minn., will mail a trial package of Schiffuwnn’s Asthma Cura Jree to any sufferer. Gives instant relief in worst eases, aud cures where 01 hers full Name this paper aud seud address. Appi.t the rules of hifpr criticism to ■Krve yourself to iast beef and you will jath.—Ram’s Horn. ^ Conductor E. D. Loomis, Detroit, Mich., lys: “The effect of liali’g Catarrh Cure is omlerfuL” Write him about it. Sold by ruggista, 73a Rob—“Are trout easy to oatch!” Bob— 'No, tbey'ne a very fly fish.” For a Cough or Sore Throat tho best medicine is Hale’s Honey of Horehouml audTar. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. The man with no music in his soul should hire a hand organ. Who suffers with his livert constipation biiiou3 illf, poor blood or dizziness—taki Beecham’f fills. Of druggists. 35 cents. aversatjou.- ■■ -A

S FACE AND FIGURE 1/ show ft, if you're a healthy t 'woman. They'll have! a ' beauty of their own, ho matter what yotir features. Petlfect health, with its clear iy cheeks, and bright _ is enough to make any woman attractive. To get perfect health, nse faithfully Dr. Pieyce's Favorite Prescription. That regulates and promotes all t the proper functions of wort manhood, improves digesI tion, enriches the blood, disIpels aches and pains, brings I wfrochinw cldbD nml rostnrps

health, flesh and strength. For periodical pains, prolapsus and other displacements, bearing-down sensations, and “female complaints” generally, it is so effective that it can be guaranteed. If it doesn’t benefit or cure, von have yonr money back. Is anything that isn’t sold in this way likely to be “just as good.” I

ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy, or its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste and acceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial m its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend ii to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Byrup of Figs £5 for sale in 50o and $1 bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA F/6 SYRUP CO. 10UI8YIUE. KY. 8AM FRANCISCO, CAL, NEW YORK. N Y. •rMAMS THIS PAPER every tim.yo^WTtti.

U N. Keiiagg Hsgspapef Co.I We offer to oar Sm and Tie Trade ansralSj H» most satisfactory writ pwelSie ( i these branches, Oar facilities enable as ' > tint o«t work very rapiaiy. if m desire ; i release yoar type eo seme isrge job, send ] to as for either stereotyping or eieetrotyp- j ig, and it sli! be retorted to you proaptfy ; ad in good order, We Bake a specialty fif Newspaper Head- ! igs and Cats, end lave the largest assort- , lent io these lines to ba foand anywhere in lie country from Bligh ts seisst. UJeiSgIewspaperGo., : SS8 & 870 DEARS'RN ST.. CHICAGO. IU. !2« St 288 WALHUT STREET. ST. LCUIS, MO. 71 & 73 ONTARIO STREET. CLEVELAND, OHIO ,77 St 179 ELM STREET. CIVQINNATL OHIO. 401 wrMmorre street, Kansas city, mo a S 40 JEtTESS.'N ST., MEMPHIS. TENN. 7-. TO 80 EAST 6TK STBSET, ST. PAUL, MINT “August Flower” I have been troubled with dyspepsia, but after a fair trial of August Flower, am freed from the vexatious trouble—J. B. Young, Daughters College, Harrodsburg, Ky. I had headache one year steady. One bottle of August Flower cured me. It was positively worth one hundred dollars to me—J. W. Smith, P.M. and Gen. Merchant, Townsend, Oat. I have used it myself for constipation and dyspepsia and it cured me, It is the best seller I ever handled—C. Rugh, Druggist, Mechanicsburg, Pa. ® AMD WtiSSKEY HABITS (T’ltED AT HOME WITHoirr «*ain. n<j>k of n«tlcnl&r* SEST FJIJS. 1!. M. WOOU.BY. M. 1>. OIBee VWi WMte-Wt BL 13 111 Wanted. Salary and expenses, Permanent sRAfl plarr; whole or part time. Appty at one®. Brown Sroa. Co., Nurserymen. Chicago. **-SA»E TIUS T4TSB «*>• no i-nta.

‘ Moral I An Old Quotation. The quotation, “ who shall rhen doctors disagree, and » asubts doubi: like you and me? mtteti by Alexander Pope, “ issays,” Epis'le line 1. The orig* aai aid not apply to doctor* of medi* ine, but to doctors of philosophy, ‘here is one fact all doctors agree ipori and that is that indigestion is at he bottom of half the ills that afflict he human race. When the stomach 5 all right the system is all but vhen the stomach is aH wrong the *n-» ire system is a wreck. There is nt* scape from this fact. If when you re tormented with dyspepsia you will et a box of the laxative gum drops nd take them regularly you will soon e relieved of all trouble. These drops ave no taste of medicine and they an be given to children as so much onfectionery but they act gently as cathartic without pain or griping nd they will help the most obstinate ase. Get them of any dealer. Small oxes 10 cents; large ones 50 cents. iYLVAN REMEDY CO., Peoria, 11L liniika the Dutch Process

No Alkanes Other Chemicals J3e> are used in tha pgf preparation of W. BAKER & CO.’S JreakfastCocoa teAieh to absolutely puro and soluble. i! Ithssmorethanthreettmet , tho strength of Cocoa mixed • with Starch, Arrowroot or ' Sugar, and is far more eeo

BASIL* noDiicai, cosct7*y iws .*#*«*/* v*w vo»« It is delicious, nourishing, and DIGESTED. - Sold by Grocers everywhere* W, BAKER & CO., Dorchester, DO YOU DUNCE? kESsK tkirtv m'nute* the waits and reverse. Doap« l^ghed SI* | EXPERT WALTZING MASTER. TWO CHARTS AND COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS. agents WANTED. tJf-SESD for circoiar. PROF. PARKE & CO., 6301 S- Broad* AT. St Loam, Mo. KILL’S MANUAL M[ standard in Social and Business Life. New edl< ion Julj. 1892). w th latest records of best achievement# in ail kinds of sport, ror prices write DANKS & CO.S3 B-arbornSt..Chicago. cisyabseraWASTBD. *arSAXZ this PAPra ran urajwais PEACH SEED WanW.SMSLSBt STttAXS THIS PAPS& mzj Lima joawtlt*.

To the plain facts about Pear line', and then give Pearline a chance to prove them, by giving it a fair trial. Nothing else will give the same V \ result. It washes safely, as well as surely; it cleans carefully,

r as well as easily, it is as cheap as soap ana better. Anything that can be washed, can be washed best with Pearline. It lightens labor and does lightning work. As nearly as we can figure; about eight millions of women use it. Do you ? You will sooner or later. t To peddlers or unscrupulous grocers who offer imitations of Peariine, anti say, “it is just as good as,” or “the same as" Pearline. Lis^CIl —**earl‘ne has no equal and is never peddled.^ IT’S JAMES PYLE, New York. ITISA I5CTYyoeowoyonriclfand Oiniilrte set ska beat vniue'for yonr money. Economizein your footwear by pbr.Shoes, chasing W. I,. Douglas_ which represent the best value for prices asked, a» thousands will testify. ET-TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE, W. L DOUGLAS $3 SHOE IRE BEST SHOE IN THE WORLD FOR THE HOMEY, A genuine sewed shoe, that mil net rip, One calf, seamless.

ouiwm iuoiuc, ucai juj, uiuir wuuuiwuio,bi^u any ether shoe ever sold at the price. Equals custom made shoe* costing from $4 to fs. &JL and *5 Hand-sewed, line calf shoes. The most styltah. si? v easy and dtp able shoes ever sold at these prices. They equal due Imported shore costing from $8 to $13. (SO 90 Police Shoe, worn by farmers sad all others who <itla want a good heavy calf, three soied, extension edge shoe, easy to walk In, and will keep the feet dry and warm. &Q 90 Fine Calf, 02.29 and 02 Workingmen's Shoes «pSa ■ will give more wear for the money than any other make. They are made for service. The increasing sales show that workingmen have found this out __ _ . . BAYQ' 02 and Youths’ 01.99 School Shoes an JSV# 1 O worn by the boys everywhere. The moet serviceahlc shoes sold at these prices. ■ AniCC) #3 Hand-Sowed, 03.50, Wand OljjTS ItAUlRw Shoes for misses are made of the best Dongoto or line Calf.es deelred. They are very stylish, comfortable and durable. The $3 shoe equals custom made shoes costing from gl to $& ladles who wish to economize in their footwear sre finding this out. CAUTION.—Beware of dealers substituting shoeswithout if. L. Douglas* name and the price stamped on bottom. Such substitutions are fraudulent and subject to p1

I uii n. k. uuMOknu whum. non &y law ror obtaining money under raise prewacra. If not for sale In yoar place send direct to Factory* stating kind* sine and wldtk wanted. Postage free. Will give exclusive sale to shoe dealers and generaljner* chants where I hare no agent*.Write for Catalogue. W. L. Douglas, Brockton* Mass. V —. IF NO DEALER SELLS ^ ' IVERS & POND In your locality write us and we will send Catalogue free. We ship pianos for examination, sell on easy payments at what* ever distance you live from Boston, take old pianos in exchange, and would like an opportunity to correspond with intending piano purchasers. WRITE US. IVERS & POND PIANO CO., BOSTON. THE POT INSULTED THE KETTLE BECAUSE THE COOK HAD NQT USED SAPOLIO GOOD COOKING DEMANDS CLEANLINESS. SAPOLIO SHOULD be used in Ievery KITCHEN. PIANOS

CURES RISING TIER’S FRIEND" £*fSB child-bearing woman. 1 have been a e for many years, and in each case Mother’s Friend” had bean used it has lisheit wonders nod ieUsTed Dfuch g. It is the best remedy for rising of ist known, and worth tbs price foftlutt l ean tell all expectant mothers if they win use a few bottles of Mother's Friend they win go through the ordeal without, any psfct end suffering. Mbs. May Bkakuam, ArjTOSvJUe, N. D. ^Tsed Mother’s Friend before birth o* Say Blghth child. Will never ecass its praise. Mbs. J. F. Moors, Colusa, CBS. Bent by express, charges prepaid, oil receipt of price, $1.50 per bottle. BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., Boldly all druggists. ASPAWSA,

$500 HADE-CUT THIS OUT! CATARRH OVERCOATS*" SUITS ALMOST GIVEN AWAY! The GLOBE SHOE AND CLOTHING CO. al Bt Louis offer SSOO to any one who can prose that i $2-50 to $10 on any Suit or Overcoat, mil Overcoats are sold elsewhere __ __ o guarantee a saving of It percent. „j all Bools, Shoes, Hats, Cape and Furnlshinc Quads. Satisfojlion guaranteed or money refunded. Country orders promptly tiled. Send 'or illustrated catalogue. T.'lf GLOBE OCCUPIES THE ENTIRE BLOCK, 70S to m franklin Arenas, ST. LOUIS. MO.