Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 39, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 February 1893 — Page 4

Hood’s Cures

Mus Huntley.

The manrckma cared Hiss Let tie Huntley d Cortland, N. Y., has attracted widespread at tension. She was nigh to death’s door with hemorrhages caused by ulcers in the stomach. Could eat nothing. When the physicians said then was no Hope, her mother urged her to try Hood’s

ea'saparma. reluctantly consented, end tn a few days felt stronger, bloating subsided, appetite gradually returned, and in a month she eeuli walk, across the room. In six months she was as wen as ever in her life, and has been la perfect health ever since. She ■ays: “1 know that Hood’s Sarsaparilla and that alone, aared Sty life.” HOOD'S PILLS cure User Ills. Jaundice Biliousness, Sick Ueadaehe and Constipation.

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Dr. Talmiige Dlsoouraf on the Great Roman Amphitheater. The Terrible Rlasehter Therein Enacted —The Heroism of Telcmachus — Madera Brutality—The East Mtmest In a recent sermon in the Brooklyn tabernacle, Rev. T. DeWitt Talraage discoursed on Rome, taking the Colosseum as the subject matter. His text was; i sra read) to preach ths Gosoel to you that are at Rome, also.—Romans L, 15. Rome! What a city it was when Paul visited it! What a city it is now! Rome! The place where Virgil sang and Horace satirized, and Terence laughed and Cataline conspired, and Ovid dramatized and Nero fiddled, and Vespasian persecuted and Solla legislated, and Cicero thundered, and Aurelius, and Decius, and Caligula, and Julian, and Hadrian, and Constantine, and Augustus reigned, and Paul, the apostle, preached.the Gospel. I am not much of a draughtsman, but I have in my memorandum book a' sketch which I made in the winter of 18JS9, when I went out to the gate through which Paul entered Rome, and walked up the very street he walked up to see somewhat how the city must have looked to him as he came in on. the Gospel errand proposed in the text. Palaces on either side of the street through which the little missionary advanced. Piled up wickedness. Enthroned accursedness. Templed cruelties. Altars to sham deities. Glorified delusions Pillared, arched, domed, targeted abominations Wickedness of all sorts at a high premium, and righteousness ninety-nine and three-quar-ters per cent. off. And now he passes by the foundations of a building whieh ■is to he almost unparalleled for vastness You can see by the walls, which have begun to rise, that here is to he something enough stupendous to astound the centuries Aye, it is the Colosseum started. Of the theater at Ephesus where Paul fought with wild beasts,; of the temple of Diana, of the Parthenon, of Pharoah’s palace at Memphis, and of other great buildings, the ruins of which I have seen, it has been my privilege to address you, but a member of my family asked me recently why I had not spoken to you of the Colosseum at Rome, since its moral and religious lessons are so impressive. Perhaps, while in Rome, the law of contrast wrought upon me. I had visited the Mamertine dungeon \vhere Paul was incarcerated. I had measured the opening at the top of the dungeon through which Paul had been let down, and it was twenty-three inches by twenty-six. The ceiling, at its highest point, was seven feet from -the floor, but at the sides of the room the ceiling was five feet seven inches. The room, at the widest, was fifteen feet. There was a seat of rock two and one-half inches high. There was a shelf four feet high. , The only furniture was a spider’s web suspended from the roof, which I saw by the torchlight I carried. There was the subterraneousqjassage from the? dungeon to the Roman forum, so that the prisoner could be taken directly from prison to trial. The dungeon was built out of volcanic stone from the Albano mountains. Oh, it was a dismal and terrific place. You never saw a coal-hole so dark or so forbidding. The place was to me a nervous shock, for I remembered that tras the best thing that the • world would afford the most illustrious being, except One, that it1 ever saw, and that from that place Paul went oat to die. From that espot I visited the Colosseum, one of the most astounding miracles of architecture that ‘ the world ever saw. I saw it morning, noon and night, for it threw a spell on me from which I could not break away. Although now a vast ruin, the Colosseum is so well preserved that we can stand in the center and recall all that it once was. It is in shape ellipsoidal, oval, oblong. It is, at its greatest length, six hundred and twelve feet After it had furnished seats for eighty-seven thousand people it had room for fifteen thousand more to stand, so that one hundred thousand people could sit and stand transfixed by its scenes of courage and martyrdom and brutality and horror. Instead of our modern tickets of admission they enter by ivory checks, and a check dug up near Rome within a few years was marked: “Section six, Lowest Tier, Seat Number Eighteen-” You understand that the building was not constructed for an audience to he addressed by human voice, although I tested it with some friends and could be heard across it, hnt it was made only for seeing and was circular, and at any point allowed full view of ■ the spectacle, 'fhe arena in the center in olden times was strewn with pounded stone or sand, so as not to be too slippery with human blood, for if it were too slippery, it would spoil the fun. The sand flashed here and there with sparkles of silver and gold, and Nero added cinnabar and Caligula added chrysocolla. The sides of the arena were composed of smooth marble,, eleven feet high, so that the wild beasts of the arena could not climb into the audience. On the top of these sides of smooth marble was a metal railing, haying wooden rollers, which easily revolved, so that if a panther should leap high enough to scale the wall, and with his paw touch any of those rollers, it would revolve and drop him hack again into the arena. Back of this marble wall surrounding the arena was a platform of stone, adorned with the statues of gods and goddesses and the artistic effigies of monarchs and conquerors. Here were movable seats for the emperor and the imperial swine and swinesses with which he surrounded himself. Before the place where the emperor sat the gladiators would walk immediately after entering the arena, crying; “Hail, Caesar! Those about to die salute thee.” The different ranks of spectators were divided by partitions studded with mosaics of emerald, and beryl, and ruby, and diamond. Great masts of wood arose from all sides of the building, from which festoons of flowers were suspended, crossing the building, or in time of rain awnings Of silk were suspended, the Colosseum having po roof. The outside wall was encrusted with marble, and had four ranges, and the three lower ranges had eighty columns each and arches after arches, and on

or a hero. Into one hundred and eighty feet of altitude soared the Colosseum. It glittered and flashed and shone with whole sunrises and sunsets of daszlement. After the audience had assembled aromatic liquids oozed from tubes distilled from pipes and rained gently on the multitudes, and filled the air ith odors of hyaeinth, and heliotrope, frankincense, and balsam, and and saffron, so that Lucan, the ot it: saffron currents flow, their odors on the crowd below. Bat where was the sport toedme from? Well, I went into the cellars opening off from the arena, and I saw the places where they kept the hyenas ami

_ for the arena, and X saw the underground rooms where the gladiators were accustomed to wait until the clamping of the people outside demanded that they come forth armed to murder or to be murdered. AH the arrangements were complete, as enough of the cellars and galleries Still remained to indicate. What fun they tnnst hate had turning lions without food or drink for a week upon an unarmed disciple of Jesus Christ! At the dedication ol' this colosseum. nine thousand wild beasts and ten thousand immortal men were slain; so that the blood of men and beast was not a brook but a riter, not a pool bnt a lake. Haring been in that way dedicated, be not surprised when 1 tell yon that Emperor Probus on one occasion threw into that arena of the Colosseum one thousand stags, one thousand boars and one thousand ostriches. What fun it must hare been! the sound of trnmpets, the roar of wild beasts and the groans of dying men! while in the gallery the wires add children of those down nnder the lion’s paw wrung their'llVB<?5-"fihd shrieked out in widowhood and orphanage, while one hundred thousand people clapped their hands, and there was a “Ha! Ha!” wide as Rome and deep as perdition. The corpses of that arena were put on a cart or dragged by a hook through what was called the Gate of Death. What an excitement it must hare been when two combatants entered the arena, the one with sword and shield - and the other with net and spear. The swordsman strikes at the man with the net and spear; he dodges the sword, and then flings the net over the head of the swordsman and jerks him to the floor of the arena, and the manwho flung the net puts his foot on the neck of the fallen swordsman, and, spear in hand, looks up to the galleries, asmuch as to say: “Shall I let him up, or shall I plunge this spear into his body until he is dead?” The audience had two signs, either of which they might gire. If they waved their flags it meant spare the fallen contestant. Tf they turned their thumbs down it'meant slay him. Occasionally the audience would wave their flags and the fallen would he let up. but that was too tame sport for most occasions and generally the thumbs from the galleries were turned down, and with that sign would be heard the accompanying shout of “Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!” Yet it was far from being' a monotone of sport, for there was a change of programme in that wondrous Colosseum. Under a strange and powerful machinery, beyond anything of modern invention, the floor of the arena would begin tbrock and roll and then give away, ajad there would appear a lake of "bright water, and on its banks trees would spring up rustling with foliage, and tigers appeared among the jungles, and armed men would come forth, and there would be a tiger hunt. Then, on the lake in the Colosseum, armed ships would float and there would bo a sea fight. What fun! What lots of fun! When pestilence came, in order to appease the gods, in this Colosseum a sacrifice would be made, anfl the people would throng that great amphitheater, shouting: “The Christians to the' wild beasts,” and there would be a crackling of human bones in the jaws of leonine ferocity. But all this was to be stopped. By the outraged sense of public decency? No. Thereis only one thing that has ever stopped cruelty and’sin, and that is Christianity, and it was Christianity, whether you like its form or not, that stopped this massacre of centuries. One day, while in the Colosseum, a Roman victory was being celebrated, and one hundred thousand enraptured spectators were looking down upon two gladiators in the arena stabbing and slicing each other to death, an Asiatic monk by the name of Telemaehus was so overcome by the cruelty that he leaped from the gallery into the arena and ran in between the two swordsmen, and pushed first one back and then the other back, and broke np the contest. Of course, the audience was affronted at having its sport stopped, and they hurled stones at the head of Telemaehus until he fell dead in the arena. Bnt when the day was passed and the passions of the people had cooled off, they deplored the martyrdom of the brave and Christian Telemaehus, and, as a result of -the overdone cruelty, the human sacrifices of the Colosseum were forever abolished. What a good thing, say you, that such cruelties have ceased. My friends, the same spirit of ruinous amusements and of moral sacrifice is abroad in the world to-day, although it takes other shapes. Last summer in our country there occurred a scene of pugilism on which all Christendom looked down, for I saw the papers on the other side of the Atlantic ocean giving whole columns of it. JYill some one tell Me in what" respect that 'brutality of last summer was superior to the brutality of the Roman Colosseum? In some respects it was worse, by so Much as the nineteenth century pretends to be raore.mereiful and more decent than the fifth century. That pugilism is winning admiration in this country is positively proved by the fact that years ago such collision was reported in a half dozen lines of newspaper, if reported at all, and now it takes the whole side of a newspaper to tell what transpired between the first blood drawn by one loafer and the throwing np of the sponge'by the other loafer, and it is not the newspaper’s fault, for the newspapers give only what the people want, andAvhen newspapers put carrion on their table it is because you prefer carrion. The same spirit of brutality is. seen to-day in many an ecclesiastical court when a minister is put on trial. Look at the countenances of the prosecuting ministers, and, not in all cases, but in many cases, yon will find nothing hut diabolism inspires them. They let out on one poor minister who can not defend himself, the lion of ecclesiasticism and the tiger of bigotry and the wild boor of jealousy, and if they can get the offending minister flat on his back some one put his feet on the neck of the overthrown gospelizer and looks up, spear in hand, to see whether the galleries and ecclesiastics would have him

tei up or Siam, ana, 10: many or toe thumbs are down. In the worldly realms look at the brutalities of the presidential election eight years ago. Bead the biographies of Daniel Webster and Alexander H. Stevens and Horace Greeley and Charles Sumner and Lucius Quintius Lamar and James G. Blaine, and if the story of defamation and calumny and scan* dalizatioif and diatribe and scurrility and lampoon and billingsgate and damnable perfidy be accurately recorded, tell me hr what respects our political arena and the howling and blaspheming galleries that again and again look down upon it are better than the Roman Colosseum. When I read a few days ago that the supreme court of the United States had appropriately adjourned to pay honors to the two last distinguished men mentioned, and American journalism, north,? south, east and west, went into lamentations over their departure and said all complimentary things in regard to them, I asked. 3,iKȣli# sboos

for the downfall of good men, and in the divorce of those whose marital life was thought accordant, and In the absconding of a hank cashier. Oh, my friends* the world wants more of the spirit of “Let-him np," and less of the spirit of “Thumbs down.” There are hundreds of men in the prisons of America who ought to be discharged, because they were the' victims of circumstances or have suffered enough. There are in all professions and occupations men who are domineered over by others and whose whole life is a straggle With monstrous opposition, and circumstances have their heel upon the throbbing and broken hearts. For God’s sake, let them np! Away with the spirit of “Thumbs down!” What the world wants is a thousand men like Telemachus to leap out of the gallery into the arena, whether he be a Roman Catholic, monk or a Methodist steward, of a Presbyterian elder, and go in between the contestants. “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.” Onc-half the world is down and the other half is up, and the half that is up has its heel on the half that is down. If yon, as a boss workman, cur as a contractor, or as a bishop, or as a state or nationat official, or as a potent factor in social life, or in any way, are oppressing anyone, know that the same devil that possessed the Roman Colosseum oppresses you. The Diocletians are not all dead. The cellars leading into the arena of life’s straggle are not all emptied of their tigers. The vivisection by young doctors of dogs and cats and birds most of the time adds nothing to human discovery. hut is only a continuation of Vespasian's Colosseum. The cruelties of the world. generally begin in nurseries and in home circles, and in day schools: The child that tranfixes a fly with a pin, or the low -feeling that sets two dogs into combat, or that bullies a weak or crippled playmate, or the indifference that serves a canary bird, needs only to be developed in order to make a first-class Kero or a full armed Apollyon. It'would he a good sentence to he written on the top line of a child’s book, and a fit inscription to be em-. broidered in the arm-chair of the sitting room, and an. appropriate motto for judge and jnry and district attorney and sheriff to look at in the court room: “Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.” The last evening before leaving Rome for Brindisi and Athens and Egypt and Palestine, I went alone to the colossenm. There was not a living sonl in all the immense area. Even those accustomed to sell curios at the four entrances of the building had gone away. The place was so overwhelmingly si- ; lent I could hear my own heart beat with the emotions aroused by the place and hour. I paced the arena. I walked down into the dens where the hyenas were once kept I ascended to the place where the emperor used to sit I climbed up on the galleries from which the mighty throngs of peoi pie had gazed in enchantment. To break the silence I shonted, and that seemed to awaken the echoes, echo upon echo. And those awakened echoes seemed to address me, saying: “Men die, but their work lives on. Gandepitns, >the architect, who planned this structure, the sixty thousand enslaved Jews brought by Titus frotn Jerusalem and who toiled on these walls, the gladiators who fought in this arena, the emperor and empresses who had place on yonder platform, the millions who, during centuries, sat and rose in these galleries, have passed away, but enough of the Colosseum stands to tell the story of cruelty and pomp and power. Five hundred years of bloodshed.” Then, as I stood there, there came to me another hurst of * echoes, , which seemed throbbing with the prayers and songs and groans of Christians who had expired in that arena, and they seemed to say: “How much it cost to serve God in ages past, and how.thankfnl modern centuries onght to be that the persecution which reddened the sands of .this amphitheater have been abolished.” And then I questioned the echoes, saying: “Where is Emperor Titns who sat here?” The answer came: “Uone to judgment,” “Where is Emperor Trajan .who sat here?” “Gone to judgment.” “Where is Emperor Maximinns who sat here?” “Gone to judgment.” “Where are all the multitudes who clapped and shouted and waved flags to let the vanquished np, or to have them slain, put thumbs down.” The echoes answered: “Gone to judgment.” I inquired: “AH?” And they answered: “AIL” And I looked np to the sky above the ruins and it was full of clouds scurrying swiftly past, and those clouds seemed as though they had faces, and some of the faces smiled and some of them frowned, and they seemed to ; have wings; and some of the wings were moon-gilt and the others thundercharged, and the voices of those clouds overpowered the echoes beneath. “Behold, lie cometh with elonds and every eye shall see Him.” And as I stood locking up along the waUs of the Colosseum they rose higher and higher* higher and higher, nntil the amphitheater seemed to filled with all the nations of the past and all the nations of the present and all the nations of the future, those who went down under the pav s of wild beasts, and those who sat wa /- ing flags to let np the conquered, and those who held thumbs down to command their assassination, and small and great, and emperor and slave, and pastor and people, and righteous and wicked, the amphitheater seeming to rise to infinite heights on all sides of me, and in the center of that amphitheater, instead of the area of combatants, a great throne stood, rising higher «and higher, higher and higher, anunn it sat the Christ for whom martyrs died and against whom

tne moeienans pioneu meir persecu- | tions, and waving one hand toward the ; piled up splendors to the right of Him, He cried: “Come, ye blessed,” and waring the other hand toward the piled up glooms on the left otHim, He cried: “Depart, ye cursed.” And so the Colosseum of Rome that evening of 18S9 seemed enlarged into the amphitheater .of the last judgment, and I passed from under the arch of that mighty structure, mighty even in its ruins, praying to Almighty God, : through Jesus .Christ, fcr mercy in that ! day foh which ail other days, were made, and that as I expected mercy from God, I might exercise mercy toward others, and hare more and more of the spirit of “Let-him-np” and less and less of the spirit of * Thumbs down. ” We may not all be able to.do a sum in higher mathematics, but there is a sum in the first rule of Gospel arithmetic which we all may da It is a sum in simple addition. "Add to yonr faith rirtue, and to rirtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness, and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness cbari

Daring the list campaign protectionists devoted much time And energy trying to make tie American people Lieve that “the tariff is not a tax” or at least, if it is,, that some half-starred foreigner flairs it Of course the tariff iii a tax. when tie Article tpoa rihicK it it levied is inipdricd. Easiness died do mot pay duties upon imported goods unless they can colleet these duties from their customers. Their part of the proposition seems to be evident to the majority of the people, and, indeed, was not disputed except by some of the bKSt fandtiddl and reckless advocates of McKinleyism, including the major himself. . ■ & mistake is often made, however, by ill ,'erring that a tariff is not a tax when t l v articles upon which it is nominally In r'« d are not imported. This is the gTe,’ t mistake of protectionists. Tariff duties are responsible for more taxes salleeted on American than on foreign made goods. Whenever home prices on oertain articles are such that these articles would be imported if there' were no duties, the tariff is a tax. Thi? is the true test It matters not that ag^rticle sells here for less than what the duty upon it would be; the duty, or so much of it as is effective in keeping out importations, is a tax. The American Economist, during the last year, edified and instructed us with pictures of articles that sell for about the am mint of the duty upon them. In most sf these cases the tariff is not a tax, but in some cases it probably is, and in all cases the logic is had. We now manufacture some of the smaller sizes of pearl buttons here, the duty upon which Is 9X cents per line and 93 per cent.— etpial to 300 or 400 per cent. These buttons sell abroad for less than 1 cent per line. If we should be foolish enough to retain this exorbitant duty we might, in a few years, be making enough of these buttons to supply our home demand at 9% cents per line Of coarse there would then be no importations, but would the duty not be a tax to the extent of IX cents per line? Whenever a duty is needed to protect a home manufacture, it is a tax. This is bad enough, and probably makes a total tax five times as great as the total customs revenue collected by the government, (all of which comes out of the pockets of the people) hut, what is worse, a duty that gives needless protection is often a tax. Ey needless protection is meant protection to manufacturers who could continue to manufacture and compete in our own and foreign markets if all duties were removed. Millions and hundreds of millions of dollars of these worse than useless tariff taxes are. paid annually by us. Indeed, these are the particular variety on which trusts seem to thrive best. Hundreds of articles manufactured with less cost here than anywhere else are, by means of trusts and tariff duties, sold higher here than abroad. A few of these are axes, saws, and, indeed, most kinds of tools and hardware, agricultural implements, steel rails and many other forms of iron ana steel; typewriters, sewing machines, sugar, jartringes, lead, and some kinds of cotton g*ods The production of most of thete articles, is in the hands of trusts. There are no importations of these goods and the duties, graciously left on by McKinley, produce no revenue and serve only to increase the profits of the holders of trust certificates. Take sugar. The duty of X cent per pound on refined sugar brings no revenue to the government, hut enables the Sugar trust to sell sugar just so much higher than it could do if there was no duty. As we consume annually over 4,000,000,000 pounds of sugar the duty is worth at least $90,000,000 to the trust. But this trust needs no protection, for besides the protection of the cost of transportation across the ocean, the cost cf refining is less here than anywhere else in the world. But the most cursed duties of all are those that protect trusts that sell their products cheaper to foreign than to home consumers. The makers of the McKinley bill appear to have reasoned that duties that are not needed do no harm and may some time do good in helping some poor straggling trust to get on to its feet, which same trust may some day contribute handsomely to the funds of the party that made its existence possible. The McKinleys may have been right from their standpoint, but, from the standpoint of the people, they were entirely wrong. The duties that do no good are likely to do great harm. The best of tariff duties are bad enough, bnt useless ones—those that are left on simply because they have been on and there was no demand to take them off—are unmitigated evils Our manufacturers sell agricultural implements, sewing machines, typewriters, cartridges, axes, shovels and many other articles cheaper to foreigners than to stay-at-home Americans. Bnt for these duties Americans could purchase abroad instead of at home and thus compel the manufacturers to sell at the same price in all markets. Indeed, cases were reported last year when plows and sewing machines were bought in ’Europe by Americans, who saved money even after paying duties and return freights It is evident that all tariffs may be taxes The only safe course for congress is to abolish all duties not levied for strictly revenue purposes As “the only good Injun is a dead one,” the only good protective duty is the one that has been abolished.

Gian Duties sad Trusts. One of the fundamental principles cf democracy is free competition. The incoming administration should see to it that all duties that protect trusts and prevent free competition are abolished or sufficiently reduced to offer no temptation to trusts. The following from the Commoner and Glassworker,of January 7, 1893, shows the use made of the duties on glass and should be pasted in each congressman’s hat: “As may be seen on the first page of this issue the plate glass manufacturers have succeeded in agreeing upon a plan that will put a stop to over-production of plate glass, ft is in effect what window glass manufacturers have been trying to do for a year past, yet after a few short weeks of discussion the plate glass manufacturers are ready to go into business on the new plan. The plate glass manufacturers will sell "lass only through one general sales agent in this city. The {dan has a very good aspect and ought to succeed. * Tariffing Menage—A Fable. Certain grand old pickpockets after being warned to desist from their corrupt praetioes were finally arrested. Thereupon they said: “Ton should not call an extra session of the court on accennt of the expense,” and the head of their government said also: “Beware lest you disturb onr industries which has brought us unexampled profile farther recommended that no one -should reform, bo that the entire responsibility of throwing them out of ^employment rested on the police.

;■ ■ . ■ - A pabUsatloa, always foremost, Is botore us, brimful of sound sfl0oa and tie raciest bits cf fan, original: from the pens of snob Bill Eye, Qpia i. Head, lonfcury-JIew*-Man and others, it is a free e :ft of the isason atthe Drrggists* ddtttittf; End Witt be sought tr as the highly f’flpnlar tit* Jacobs Oil Family Almanac and Book *t Health and Humor, j S03. Ti e work differ somewhat from its f irmer editions, but is nonetheless attractive and in mapy of its features is the superior of former numbers, due specif feature-is 'the “Offer of One Hundred Dollars,”open to aii eotttestanls, the details of which it peiust i of the bonk will more fully rive. The rlmucac is issued by The en tries A. Vegelfer CoiSpany. Baltimore, Me., pi-opr:etor» of soind of the best knov n and most reliable medicinal preparations. A copy will be mailed to any address on receipt of a3^ent stamp by the above Srm. It must be on aclean t of their relative sizes tliat the elephmt silways travels with a trunk, while the hear is satisfied With A grip and the kangaroo has but a inert pouch.—Truth. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by locsl application;, as they cannot reach the diseased portions of the ear. There is only one way to cure Deafness, and that ia by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, end when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of tea are caused by. .catarrh, whtc*. BafTlug but an inflamed, condition of tho mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be et.red by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. _ F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. KySoId by Druggists, T5c. Doctor (to tow-headed urchin)—“Hosv is our mother, my little man?" Tow headed (robin—“She’s getting romantic in her ight knee, see.”—Wasp. Go West t Right enough. But If yon go to a malaria troubled region, protect yourself against the prevalent scourge in bottom lands and new elearings. How? With Hostetter’a Stomach Bitters. The answer comes clear and unanimous from thousands of new settlers and pioneer emigrants, whom the great preventative lias kept m health when threatened by miasma. Use the Bitters for kidney, livor, bowel, rheumathf and stomach difficulty. Teacher of English literature—“What are posthumous works!” Bright Pupil— “They are the works an author writes after he is dead.” “ I can heartily say to any young man who is wanting good employment, work for Johnson & Co., follow their instructions and you will succeed.” So writes an agent of B* F. Johnson & Co., Richmond, Va., and that’s the way all of their men talk. A certain eity in the west has a Chinese policeman who is spoken of S3 the “Asiatic Cellarer.” We eat too much and take too tittle outdoor exercise. This is the fault of our mod ern civilization. It is claimed that Garfield Tea, a simple herb remedy, helps Nature to overcome there a buses. _ THE MARKETS. New York. Feb 11. tWV CATTLE—Native Steers-.$ 1 65 a 5 85 CtmVS-WUltr.. 0 FLOUR-Winter Wheat. 2 10 0 WHEAT—No. 2 Red. SI%0 CORN-No. 2,... OATS—Western Mixed—FORK—New Mess..*..... ST. LOUTS. 53 e 3S%0 9% 125 81% E4>» 39% .*1 uo COTTON—Middling. * BEEVES—Choice Steers. 4 61) a Medinrn. . 4 30 a HOGS—Fair to Se lect. 7 15 a SHEEP—FairtoChoica. STS 0 FLOUR-Pateuts .. 8 45 a FancytaExtra Do. IS) 0 WHEAT—No. Sited Winter... 18%® CORN—No. 2 Mixed. 0 OATS—No. 2. 0 RYE—No. 2. 53 0 TOBACCO—Loes.. 149 0 Leaf Barley... ... 4 51 0 HAY—Clear Timothy. 10 03 0 13 00 BUTTER—Choice Dairy. 3» 0 » EGGS—Freeh. 0 21 PORK—Standard Mess (newl — 0 21 10 S50« 4 15 8 55 5 3) S65 1.25 63% 39% 31 55 6 W; 10 1 BACON-Clear Rib.. LARD—Prime Steam. .. '0 13% 0 CHICAGO. CATTLE—SWpi far. 3 40 0 6 13 HOGS—Fair to 4 hoiee. j. Toil 0 ST) SHEEP—Fair to Choice.. 3 50 0 & 25 FLOUR—Winter Patents,.... 360 0 4 «1 Spring Patents.- 3*5 WHEAT—No.* Soring.No 2 Red.. 0 CORN—No. 2. 42*s « OATS-No. 2. 31 <e PORK-Mess (New). 19 12*9*. 19 35 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE —Shipping Steers— 3 60 « 5 25 HOGS—All Grades.- 6 00 « 8 3» WHEAT—No.2 Red .. » 72 OATS—No. A.... 291a» :0 CORN-No. 2. 0 35 NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grade. 3:0 0 CORN—SO-2,—4. « OATS—Western... 0 HAY—Choice....... 16 00 e IS 50 11% 12% 4 10 75% 7 % 42% 3 76 55 PORK—New Mess.. BACON—Sides .. COTTON—Middling. CINCINNATI. WHEAT- No, £ Red. CORN—No. 2 Mixed. OATS—No. 2 M xed. PORK—New Mess.. . BACON—Clear Rib. COTTON—iu,.‘ ituig . « 20 on a 11% 34 73% 42% 34% ra 2 ) HO 'a 12% 0 9%

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—“Mental cHtlimetie*’ in. East Indian schools a vastly more seriens; matter than it is in the schools of the United States. THie oriental mind is: fertile in the indention of catch qn lotions, and the mnltinlkation tab!; is swelled into s mountain of difficu ty by native teachers. Tiiiy half-nakedi brown creatuns of ten years and i rider are taught to carry the mnltipli ration table np to lorty tines forty, s nd to complicate iaa iters hr the intsrod rction of fraction! parts. An Important To make it apparent to thousands, vh rni ill t-hnf f-! ton am nn!1. a think themselve3 ill, that they are not fected with any Jr: ease, bat that thesys! i simply needs cleansing, is to bring com: i home to their he srt a, as acesti ve conditio a ii easily cured by usiig Syruj > o! Figs. Mam faetured by the California Jiig Syrup Co To pretext postage stam os from stiel Inf; together in your picket, carry but one • t y time. -i.---, S Ax Extexoed Forcnaurnr. Bsovx's Beoxchlu, Trcciie.- have for many y ai s been the most pop ilar article in use for r> lieving Coughs and Throat troubles. | Ttix best answer yon caa make to tel feoaeeit is to keep stilt.—Ram’s Horn. Beecham's Pitts will cure wind and n in the stomarii, 'g ddino^ 5, fullness, c i ness, drowsiness, chills and loss of appe t WnExa bicyclist goes at top specL, ye calls it a spin.

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oilier diseases c Like oilier so ci is well adverts We offer you a ready made medicine for ' Coughs, Bronchitis, and the Throat and Lungs, iled Patent Medicines, it and haying merit it *has attamed a Tn de sale under the name of Piso’s Cure mt Consumption^ it is norr a Nostrum, pi eecription by a regular p on :he marke as a propri' pieieription ever a thousa ell's for Consumption,” a c e< Heine kno'rn all over tt Y'hy is it not just as t ft x a prescription and ad e ■hough at first it was compounder, after a lysician, with no idea that it would ever go tsiry medicine nut after compounding that n times in one year, we named it “Pise's all began advertising it in a small way. A el world is the result. •cad as though costing fifty cents to a dollar p al sum to have it put up at a drug store?

i W. L. DOUGLAS J3 SHOE GENTLEMEM. * A sewed Aoe that will not rip; Calf. i seamless, smooth inside, more comfortable* * stylish and durable than any other shoe ever sold at the pride. Every style. Equals custom* i made shces costing from |4 to fc. V^U.JDofctl.AS Nob Bin. with. ut VV. L. Doafliu lutSIb. is "Bn® Best-1S iiw ealotc Jogtfe« If* AH canaot posses & $][0.000 Souvenir (This sum was paid for ti e first World's Fair Souvenir Coin minted.) in the «hipe of a coin, but miry can havefac-slmiles of this valuable work of art—enly special coin evt r issued by the U. & Government—for $1 each. United States Government

World’s Fair Souvenir Coins— The Official Souvenir of the Great Exposition— 5,000, Of Oof which were do ia:ed to theWorld’s Columbian Exposition by the Government, are being rapidly taken by an enthusiastically patriotic people. t& there e;ur!y promied to be a demand fear these Souvenirs that would render th an very valutbki in the hands of speculators, the Exposition Authorities decided to phculp price at , $!.©Q l!or iach Coin and sell them d irect to the' people, thus realizing <5,000,030, and using the additional mccly for the further development of the Fair. Considering vhe fact th.it there were but 3,000,000 of these coins to be districted amorrig 63,000, m* people, hi this country alone (to say nothing of thi! foisgij demand,) ai id thiit many have already been taken,those wishing to iturchas s these mementoes of our Country’s Discovery and of toe grandest; Expos ition ever lekt, should ecure as many as they desire at once. For Sail Idealizing Shat every patriotic wB'. want one or more of these and in order to make it convenient hir i to get them, we have made meats to have them sold thi the country by all the leading M send <1.00 ea* * 'pssfpst Ipti* I Tiv f i >r" ■c^:'