Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 40, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 February 1893 — Page 4

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GOD AMONG THE SHELLS. Dr. Talmace’a Discourses on ‘The Conchology oX the Bible." The Pert Mtells Have Flared In the World’* HUtorr—The Care of Ood (for the Moat Insignificant It. of HU Creation*. The following discourse in continuation of his scries on “God .Everywhere” was delivered by Rev. T. DeWitt Talrnage in the Brooklyn tabernacle, from the text: And thef Lord said unto Moses. Take unto thee sweet spices, stacle and onycha.—Exodus xxx.. SI. You may not have noticed the shells of the Bible, although in this early part of the sacred book God calls you to consider and employ them, as He called Moses to ^consider and employ them. The onycha of my text is a shell found on the banks of the Red sea, and Moses and his army must have crushed many of them under foot as they crossed the bisected waters, ■ onycha on the beach and onycha in the unfolded bed of the deep. I shall speak of this shell as a beautiful and practical revelation of God, and as true as the first chapter of Genesis and thS last chapter of Revelations, or everything between. Not only is this shell, the onycha, found at the Red sea, but in the waters of India. It not only delectates the eye with its convolutions of beauty, white and lustrous and seriated, but blesses the nostril with a pungent aroma. The shell-fish, accustemed to feed on spikenard, is redolent with that odorous plant, redolent when alive and redolent when dead. Its ,shells, when burnt, bewitch the air with fragrance. In my text God commands Moses to mix this onycha with the perfumes of the altar in the ancient tabernacle, and I propose to mix some of the perfumes at thecaltar of Brooklyrftabernacle, for having spoken to you on “The Astronomy of the Bible, or God Among the Stars;” “The Chronology of the Bible, or God Among the Centuries; “The Ornithology of the Bible, or God Among the Birds;” “The Mineralogy of the Bible, or God Among the Amethysts;” “The Ichthyology of the Bible, or God Among the Fishes,” I now come to speak of “The Conchology of the Bible, or God Among the Shells.” It is a secret that you may keep for me, for 1 have never before told it to anyone that in all the realms of the natural world there is nothing to me so fascinating, co completely absorbing, so full of suggestiveness as a shell. What? More entertaining than a bird,--which can sing, when a shell can not sing? Well, there you have made a great mistake. Pick up the onycha from the banks of the Red sea, or pick up a bivalve from the beach of the Atlantic ocean, and listen, and you hear a whole choir of marine voices—bass, alto, soprano—in an unknown tongue, but seeming to chant, as I put it to-my car: “The sea is His and He made it;” others singing: “Thy way, oh, God, is in the sea;” others hymning: “He ruleth the raging of the sea.” “What,” says some one else, does the shell impress you more than the star?” In some respects, yes, because I can handle the shell and closely study the shell, while I can not handle the star, and if I study it, must study it at a distance of millions and millions of miles. ’dVhat,” says some one else, “are you more impressed by the shell thun the flower?” Yes, for it lias far greater varieties and far greater richness of color, as I could show you in thousands of specimens, and because the shell does not fade, as does the rose leaf, but maintains its beauty century rafter, century, so that the onycha which the hoof of Pharaoh’s horse knocked aside in the chase of the Isrealites,across the Red sea may have kept its luster to this hour. Yes, they are parti-colored and many colored that you might pile them up until you have a wall with all the colors of Heaven, from the jasper at the bottom to the amethyst at the. top. OI|i, the shells! The petrified foam of the sea. Oh, the shells! The hardened bubbles of the deep. Oh the shells! which are the diadems thrown by the ocean to the feet of the continents. Ilow the shells are ribbed, grooved, cylindered, mottled, iridescent They were used as coin by some of the nations. They were fastened in belts by others, and made in handles of wooden instruments by still others. Mollusks not only of the sea, mollusks of the land. Do1 you know how much they have had to do with the world’s liistory? They saved the church of God from extinguishment The Israelites marched out of Egypt two million strong, besides flocks and herds. The Bible says “the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in the clothes an their shoulders. a * * They were thrust forth out- of Egypt and could not tarry, neither had they prepared tor themselves any victuals.” Just think of it! Forty years in the wilderness. Infidelity triumphantly asks, how could they live forty years in the wilderness without food? You say manna fell. Oh, that was after a long while. They would have starved longbefore the manna fell. The fact is, they were chiefly kept alive by the mollusks of the land or shelled creatures. Mr. Fronton and Mr. Sicard took the same rpute from Egypt toward Canaan that the Israelites took, and* they give this as their testimony:

AlbliUU^ii uuv vmiuivu v/* ioiuviiuuqu i have consisted of about two million of souls, with baggage and innumerable flocks and herds, they were not likely to experience any inconvenience in their march. Several thousand persons might walk abreast with the greatest ease in the very narrowest part of the vailey in which they first began to file off. It soon afterward expands to above three leagues in width. With respect to forage, they would be at no loss. The ground is covered with tamarisk, broom, clover and Saint Foin, ~ of which latter especially camels are passionately fond, besides almost every variety of odoriferous plant and herb proper for pasturage. The whole sides of the valley through which the children of Israel marched are still tufted with brushwood, which doubtless afforded food for their beasts, together with many drier sorts for lighting fire, on which the Israelites could with the greatest ease bake the dough they brought with them on small iron plates, which form a constant appendage to the baggage of an Oriental traveler. Lastly, the herbage underneath these trees and shrubs is completely covered with snails of a prodigious size and of the best sort, and however univiting such a repast might appear to us, they are here esteemed a great delicacy. They are so plentiful in this valley that it may be literally said that it is difficult to take one step-without treading on them.” Thank God for the wealth of mollusks all up and down the earth, Iwhether feeding the Israelites on their Jvay to the land flowing with milk and honey, or, as we are better acquainted with the mollusks, when flung to the beafeh of lake or sea. There are three great families of them. If I should ask you to name three of the great royal families of the earth, perhaps you would respond, the House of Stnanji, the House of Hansburg, the House of

! Bon rbon, but the three royal families of mollusks are the univalve or shell of one part, the bivalve, or shell of two parts, and the multivalve, or shell in many parts, and 1 see God in their every hinge, in their every tooth, in their every cartilage, in their every ligament, in their every spiral ridge, and in their every color, prism on prism, and their adaptation of thin shell for still ponds and thick coatings for boisterous seas. They all dash upon me the thought that providential care of God. What is the use of all this architecture of thesliell, and why is it pictured from the outside lip clear down into its' labyrinths of construction? Why the infinity of skill and radiance in a shell? What is the use of the color and exquisite curve of a thing so significant as a shell-fish? Why, when the conchologist, by dredge or rake fetches the crustaceous specimens to the shore, does he find at his feet whol» Alhambra's and Colloseums and Parthenons and crystal palaces of beauty in miniature, and these bring to light only an infinitesimal part of the opulence in the great subaqueous world. Linnaeus counted two thousand five hundred species pf shells, but conchology had then only begun its achievements. While exploring the bed of the Atlantic ocean in preparation for laying the cable, shelled animals were brought up from depths of one thousand nine hundred fathoms. When lifting ,the telegraph wire from the Mediterranean and Red seas shelled ereatm-es were brought up from depths of two thousand Tathoms. The English admiralty, exploring in behalf of science, found mollusks at a depth of two thousand four’liundred and thirtyfive fathoms, or fourteen thousand two hundred and ten feet deep. What a realm awful for vastness!* As the shell is the only house and wardrobe of insignificant animals of the deep, why all that wonder and beauty of construction? God’s care for them is Jhe only reason. And if God provide so munificently for them, will He not see that you have wardrobe and shelter? Wardrobe and shelter for a periwinkle; shall there not be wardrobe and shelter for a man? Would God give a coat of mail for the defense of a nautilus and leave you no defense against the storm? Does Ho build, a stone house for a creature that lasts a season and leave without home a soul that takes hold on centuries and aeons? Hugh Miller found “The Footprints of the Creator in the Old Red Sandstone,” and I hear the harmonies of God in the tinkle of the sea shells when the tide comes in. The same Christ who drew a lesson of providential care from the fact that God clothes the grass of the field instructs me to draw the same lesson from the shells. But while you get this pointed lesson of providential care from the shelled creatures of the deep, notice in their construction that God helps them to help themselves. This house of stone in which they live is not dropped on them and is not built around them. The material for it exudes from their own bodies and is adorned with a colored fluid from the pores of their own neck. It is a most interesting thing to see these crustacean animals fasliisn their own homes out of carbonate of lime and membrane. And all of this is almighty lesson to those who are waiting for others to build their fortunes, when they ought to go to work and, like the mollusks, build their own fortunes out of their own brain, out of their own sweat, out of their own industries. Not a mollusk on all the beaches of all the seas would have a house of shell if it had not itself built one. Do not wait for others to shelter you or prosper you. All the crustaceous creatures of the earth, from every flake of their covering and from every ridge of their tiny castles On Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean coasts, say: “Help yourself while God helps you to help yourself.” Those people who are waiting for their father or rich old uncle to die and leave them a fortune are as silly, as a mollusk would be to wait for some other mollusk to drop on it a shell equipment. It would kill the mollusk, as in most cases it destroys a man. Not one person out of a hundred ever was strong enough to stand a large estate by inheritance dropped on him in a; chunk. Have great expectations fwnn only two persons—God and yourself. Let the onycha of my text become your preceptor. But the more I examine the shells, the more I am impressed- that God is a God of emotion. Many scoff at emotion, and seem to think that God is a God of cqld geometry and . iron laws and eternal apathy and enthroned stoicism. No! No! The shells w.ith overpowering emphasis deny it. While law and order reign 'in the universe, you have but to see the lavishness of color on the Crustacea, all shades of crimson from faintest blush to blood of battle-field, all shades of „blne, all shades of green, all shades of all colors from deepest black to whitest light, just called out on the shells with no more order than a mother premeditates or calculates how many kisses and hugs she shall give her babe waking up in the -morning sunlight. Yes. My God is an emotional God, and He says: “We must have colors and let the snn paint all of them on the scroll of that shell, and we must have music, and here is a carol for,the robin, and a psalm for man, and a doxology for the seraphim and a resurrection call for the archangel.” Aye, He showed Himself a God of sublime emotion when He flung Himself on this world in the personality of Christ to save it, without regard to the tears it would take, or the blood it would exhaust, or the agonies it would crush out. When I1 see the Louvres and the Luxemborgs and the vaticans of Divine painting strewn ntnnrr the eicht, thousand miles

of coast, and I hear in a forest, on a summer morning, musical academies and Handel’s societies of full orchestras, I say God is a God of emotion, and if he observes mathematics, it is mathematics set to music, and His figures are written, not in white chalk on blackboards, but written by a finger of sunlight on walls of jasmin and trumpet-creeper. In my study of the concliology of the Bible, this onycha of the text also impresses me with the fact that ' religion is perfumed. What else could God have meant when He said to Moses: “Take unto ithee sweet spices, stacte and onycha?” Moses took that shell of the onycha, put it over the fire, and as it crumbled into ashes it exhaled an odor that hung in every curtain and filled the ancient tabernacle, and its sweet smoke escaped from the sacred precincts and saturated the outside air. Perfume! That is what religion is. But, instead of that, some make rt a mal-odor. They serve God in a rough and acerb way. They box the child’s ears because he does not properly keep Sunday, instead of making Sunday so attractive the childj could not help to keep it. They make him learn by heart a difficult chapter in the Book of Exodus, with aU the hard names, because hehasbecnnaughty. How many disagreeable good people there are. No one doubts their piety, and they will reach Heaven, but thtey will have j to get fixed up before they go there, or they will mitko trouble by calling out to us: “Keep off that grass!” “What do you mean by plucking that flower?” | “Show your tickets!” Oh, how many ! Christian people need to obey my |

tost cod take iHio their worship and their behavior and their Consociations and presbyteries and general assemblies and conferences more onycha. I hare sometimes gone in a very gale of spirit into the presence of some disagreeable Christians, and in fire minutes felt wretched; and at some other time I have gone depressed into the company of snare and genial souls, and in a few moments I' felt exhilarant. What was the difference? It was the difference in what they burnt on their censors. The one burnt onycha; the other burnt asafootida. In this conchological study of the Bible, I also notice that the mollusks or shelled animals furnish the purple that you see richly darkening so many Scripture chapters. The purple stuff ia the ancient tabernacle, the purple girdle of the priests, the purple mantle of ltoman emperors, the apparel of Dives in purple and fine linen, aye, the purple robe which, in mockery, was thrown upon Christ, were colored by the purple of the shells on the shores of the Mediterranean. It was discovered by a shepherd’s dog having stained his mouth by breaking one of the shells, and the purple aroused admiration. Costly purple. Six pounds of the purple liquor extracted from the shell-fishes was used to prepare one pound of wool. Purple was also used on the pages of books. Bibles and prayer books appeared in purple vellum, which may still he found in some of the national libraries of Europe. Plutarch speaks of some purple which kept its beauty for one hundred and ninety years.' But, after awhile, the purple became easier to gat, and that which had been a sign of imperial authority, when -worn in .robes, was adopted by many people, and so an emperor, jealous of this appropriation of the purple, made a law that anyone except royalty wearing purple should be put to death. Then, as if to punish the world lor that outrage of exclusiveness, God obliterated the oolor from the earth, as much as to say: “If all can not have it, none shall have it.” But, though God has deprived the race of that shell-fish which afforded the purple, there are shells enough left to make us glad and worshipful. Oh, the entrancement of hue and shape still left all up and down the beaches of all the continents! These creatures of the sea have what roofs of enameled porcelain! They dpell under what pavilions, blue as the sky and fiery as a sunset and mysterious as an aurora! And am I not right in leading you, for a few moments, through this mighty realm of God so neglected by human eye and human footstep! It is said that the harp and lute were invented from the fact that in Egypt the Nile overflowed its bauks, and when the waters retreated tortoises were left by the million on all the lands, and these tortoises died, and soon nothing was left but the cartilages and gristle of these creatures, which tightened under the heat into musieal strings that, when touched by the wind pr the foot of man vibrated, making sweet sounds, and so the world took the hint and fashioned the harp; and am I not right in trying to make music out of the shells, and lifting them as a harp, from which to thrum the jubilant praises of lhe Lord and the pathetic strains of human condolence. But I find the climax of this conchology of the .Bible in the pearl, which has this distinction above all other gems that it requires no human hand to bring out its beauties. Job speaks of it and its sheen is in Christ’s sermon, and the Bible, which opens with the onycha of my text, closes with the pearl. Of such value is this crustaeeous product, I do not wonder that, for the exclusive right of fishing for it on the shores of Ceylon, a man paid to the English government six hundred thousand dollars for one season. So exquisite is the pearl I do not wonder that Pliny thought it made out of a drop of dew, the creature rising to the surface to take it, and the chemistry of nature turning the liquid into solid. You will see why the Bible makes so much of the pearl in its similitudes if you know how much its costs to get it. Boats with divers sail out from the island of Ceylon, ten divers to each boat. Thirteen men guide and manage the boat. Down into the dangerous depths, amid sharks that swirl around them, plunge the divers, while sixty thousand people anxiously gaze on. After three or four minutes’ absence from the air, the diver ascends, nine-tenths strangulated and blood rushing from ears and nostrils, and flinging his pearly treasure on the sand, falls into unconsciousness. Oh, it is an awful an strain exposure and peril to fish for pearls, and yet they do so, and is it not :y wohder that to get that which the Bible calls the pearl of great price, worth more than all the other pearls put together, there should be so little anxiety, so little struggle, so little enthusiam. Would Gqd that we were all as wise as the merchantman Christ commended, “who, when He had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that lie had and bought it.” But what thrills me with suggestiveness is the material out of which all pearls are made. They are fashioned from the wound of the shell-fish. The exudation from that wound is fixed and hardened and enlarged into a pearl. The ruptureiivessels of the water animal fashioned the gem that now

auuiua v'* v»»» hilt or king’s crown. So, out of the wounds of earth will come the pearls of Heaven. Out of the wound of conviction the pearl of pardon. Out of the wound of bereavement the pearl of solace. Out of the wound of loss the pearl of gain. Out of the deep wound of the grave the pearl of resurrection joy. Out of the wounds of a Saviour’s life and ' a Saviour's death, the rich, the radiant, the everlasting pearl of Heavenly gladness. “And the twelve gates were twelve pearls.” Take the consolation all ye who have been hurt, whether hurt in body, or hurt in mind, or hurt in soul. Get your troubles santisfied. If you suffer with Christ on earth, you will reign with Him in glory. The tears of earth are the crystals of Heaven. “Every several gate was one peafrl.” Following Christ. To follow Christ is to do as Christ did —not necessarily in specific acts, but in the motive and trend of His life. He made constant and significant use of personal contact, as with the apostles in their call, and with the men and women whom He converted and healed and helped. Christian workers must imitate the Master m this characteristic. ’Tis a sine qua non. There is too much doing good by proxy nowadays. When the Lord calls for workers, instead oi saying, “Here am I, send me,” shirkers respond: “There is my check; send somebody else.” Why should Christian parents leave • their children to be religiously trained in the Sunday school alone? Why should Christian congregations delegate their pastor to do all their service? How long will it take to evangelize the world od this basis? Can the world be saved by proxy. —In the five Swiss universities of Basel, Berne, Geneva, Laqsanne and Zurich, during the past summer semi» ter, the number of women students was 8S4, of whom 157 were in the medical departments, 63 iu the nhMosophieal aud 6 is the law.

THE USE OP SLANG. b It More Frequent Amdnf thfc Girl* at the Bojri1 A writer in the Baltimore Sun states that girls use more slang—especially ii they are grown up—than boys do. Girls, it is affirmed, talk mnch morq than boys, so that their stock of uncouth words is in more frequent use. It is alserlarger If a boy were a mine of slang his taci turnity wopld keep it concealed from all but a few of his chums. His inventions are confined to a small circle, and his opportunities of borrow-, lng are correspondingly diminished. Not so with the girl. The loquacity of her associates, aided by her own, spreads and multiplies Blang with the greatest rapidity. She is more sociable. At school she is “thick” with a dozen and gathers in all the dozen know. And besides, says the same authority, girls afe so reckless in the use of language that they give a slangy character to good English. With the girl at the period of gigglehood every good thing is “perfectly” so. She “never” does this and she “always” does that. She sometimes “feels hateful,” but it is oftener some one else who is “perfectly horrid.” Nearly everything is "awful.” Such are some of the charges this abominable person brings against the sweet young creatures. Another authority flatly contradicts them all and says the boy is the sum of all villainies. The words he prefers, it is asserted, are so tinged with profanity that he cannot use them at home, and it is thus only that he gets his reputation for freedom from slang. Who can settle the dispute?, Wfe are of opinion that injustice is done to the girls. We are confident also that few boys are as bad as represented. It is possible that the so-called “authority” has been judging the whole world from his few unfortunate as^iates. ENGLISH COMMENT. How We Are Viewed by People Across the Atlantic. The following interesting scraps of information about Americans have been collected by English travelers and published in foreign journals: “Umbrellas in use in America are fitted with a small oblong peep-hole glass, through which the pedestrian views the surrounding country while protecting himself from the storm.” “Americans sweeten their tea and coffee with rock candy.” “Dark gray is the favorite color for American table decoration.” “Ladies at the theater in America have their hats arranged in such a way that they can take them off to use as fans.” “Boston society people,” so a correspondent tells a London paper, “entertain evening visitors with the singularly intellectual device of writing a capital D on ft sheet of paper while standing at a table, and trying at the same time to swing the right foot in a direction exactly opposite from that in which the pen is moving. Prizes are offered for the most successful in the exploit.” • * * “Servants in America, excepting in large cities, are admitted to all the privileges of the family, and frequently in hiring a maid of all work a mistress has to agree to attend the street door herself.” The March Wide Awake Is a vigorous and breezy number. Rose G. Kingsley tells about the quaint “Rag Market at Bruges,” Marion Harland has one of her characteristic stories, “Miss Butterfly;” Mrs. M. E. M. Davis bas a New Orleans Carnival story, “Judy’s Mardi-Gras;” Tello d’Apery, the boy editor, tells about his labors “Among the Barefoots” of New York; Frederick A. Ober continues his Columbus papers in “On the Shores of Cathay,” and Annie Sawyer Downs tells, in “Young Folks at the Eddy,” how children can act as real hosts. Wide Awake Athletics has a brief paper pc “Handling and Training a College Baseball Team,” by Captain “Laurie” Bliss, of Yale, and a description of “Hare and Hounds Runs,” by David W. Fenton, 2d, of Harvard. “The Real Casabianca,” the hero of Mrs. Hemans’ poem, as told by Henry Bacon. Mr. Bacon’s picture of Casabianca and his father is a splendid frontispiece. Price 20 cents a number, $2,40 a year. On sale at news stands or sent postpaid on receipt of price, by D. Lothrop Company, Publishers, Boston. “That will do for the present,” as the young man remarked when he paid for a box of cheap candy for his sweetheart’s birthday gift.—Philadelphia Record. There are a large number of hygienic physicians who claim that disease is always the result of a. transgression of Nature's laws. The proprietors of Garfield Tea are both physicians, and have devoted years to teaching the people how to avoid sickness by following Nature’s laws. They give away with every package of Garfield Tea a little book whic n they claim will enable all persons, if directions are followed, to avoid sickness of all kinds, and to have no need for Garfield Tea or any other medicine. 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A Par-Fetchee Story.—Willie Wilt— “What do you thick of our friend Spynne s writings! Don't you think he carries realism too far!” Maid Marian—“Decidedly. He told me the e ther day that he had had to walk thirty miles to iind a publisher.”— Truth. Unreasonable.— Dime Museum Manager —“What’s that infernal racket upstairs!” Assistant—“The India Rubber man fell down and broke his leg, an'd lie's kicking because they’re carrying him out on a stretcher.”—Puck. ' Worn Out Every Day With hard work, business anxiety, mental application, exposure, close confinement at the desk or the loom, thousands who fail to recuperate their waning strength “give in”' before their time. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is tlie finest, most thorough, recuperator of failing vigor, the surest protector against the host cf ailments which travel in the wake of declining strength. Indigestion, malaria, rheumatic, . nervous, liver and bowel trouble give in to the Bitters. The economical housemaid is an arti3t to a certain extent. She “draws the purse strings.”—Boston Courier. “I am inclined to think ” said the pig which had been taken in off the pasture, “that the pen is far better than the sward.” —Indianapolis Journal. A Certain Cure for Asthma. Dr. Crosby’s Swedish Remedy never fails to afford instant relief and cures where nothing else will. Samnlefreebymail. Collins Bros. Medicine Co. , St. Louis, Mo. “What is pillage, papa?” “It is charging a dollar for eighty cents’ worth of pills, my son. It is a very lucrative business." YOU Can obtain a pack of best quality Burlingon Route Playing Cards by sending 15 cents in postage to D. O. Ives, Gen’l Pass. & Tkt. Agt. St? Louis, Mo. “A brush with the enemy.” as ilie fox remarked when he left his tail in the trap.— Puck. Throat Diseases commence with a Cough, Cold, or Sore Throat. “Brown’s Bronchial Troches'’ give immediate relief. Sold on']/ in boxes. Price 25 cts. An upright judge needn’t be ashamed of his sentences even in the presence of tho strictest grammarians.—Troy Press: BEEcnAM’s Pills cure sick headache, disordered liver, and act like magic on the vital organs. For sale by all druggists. The “hew and cry” is generally raised by the boy who hasjto chop up the stove —Cleveland Plain Dealer. ~ successful in tlie treatment of Consumption than any other remedy prescribed. It has been tried under eveiy variety of climate. In the bleak, bitter North, in damp New England, in the fickle MiddleStates, in the hot, moist South—everywh :re. It has been in demand by eve ry nationality. It has been emplo fed in every stage of Consumption. In brief it has been used by nillions and its the only true and rel able Consumption Remedy. ® “1 ERICA’S MOST POPULAR AUTHOR” CAPTAIN KING’S LATEST HOVEL, TARING’S PERIL, Appears COMPLETE in L-ppincott’s Magazine for MARCH (published February SO), a_. also, TH i NEWSPAPER WOMAN’S STORY. By E. G. Jordan. HO >E DEFERRED. An Illustrated Story. By Lillian A. North. SO IE QUEER TRADES. By CHAS. N. ROBINSON. * A t OSE OF THE MIRE. An Illustrated Sto^y. By Kate Jordan. HEN OF THE DAY.’ By M. Crofton. /. so poems, essays, stories, etc., by favorite aul lore. I I IBlliPATT>6 originated tho complete story LI rlllwU I I tf feature, itnd, with its varied nnf interesting miscellany. Is one of tho mostnttrurUve Magazines now published. Forsaleby all nei-s and bong dealers. Single number, 25 cents; per annum, $3.00. LII’PrXCOTT’S MAGAZINE, Ibilailelpbla.

ELY’S CREAM BALM . I have used two but- E ties of Sly's Cream\ Balm and consider | myself cured. 1 suffered 20 years from j catarrh and,catarrh-1 alheadaehe, and Bus| is the first remedy | that afforded la-dingl relief.—-D. T. Higrjinson, 145 Lake St., J Chicago, Id. _ A particle Is applied into _each nostril and If ipSf-FllEe _ ___ -.ppi__.. agheeabls. Price 50 cents ut Druggists or bv mail. ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren St., New York. ASHARPJOKE YET A POINTED FACT! IN 4 ACTS. ACT I. (Morning.) Man bays paper of tacks—Mao takes home sad uses a few—throws paper into closet Act II. (Noon.). Wife goes to closet for brush— ■pills a tack on th <* floor. Act III. (Night) Man disrobed, finds tack with sole of hi* foot ——--I Air is blue.-See 7 Act IV. (Neit day.) Man tells a merchant his experience and is delighted to buy Home Tacks Csked in a box of six apartments, all different-sized ka which will aecomn.txlata themselves to c.il home uses. You don’t want to indulge in Act III., you do want a box of Home Tacks. Made solely 'by the ITovalty Dept., Atlas Tack Corp’n. - - UonOn, New Tork. Chicago. Bakaam oclioo. Its#. _ Ttiiaw, Km. Faiibaro, Maas. TYbltmaa, Msca* Paxtwy. »1 ui. r lymeath. Mta. FOR SALE EVERYWHERE. lOTHING LIKE Bp R SWIFT’S SPECIFIC is totally unlike any other blood medicine. It cures diseases of the blood and skin by removing the poison, ,nd at the same time supplies good Wood to the wasted parts. Don’t bo imposed on by BubsttSIllfHS IbjfSejH|lb wonderful cures, or relieved so much suffering. «■ My blood was badly poisoned last yea.,..—_ st my whole systeir. out of order—tUseased and car, which appctlfc^and i constant sourco of suffering no u » enjoyment of life. Two bottles of iroinriit me right out. There is no letter remedy tor blood diseases. - . ‘ John Gavin, Dayton, Ohio.’ treatise on bio id aadckindl3easesihaUed free. SWIFT SPECmC CO., AUarta, Ga. ^Ssif SllSlSS®

It’s hard to Buy what the politics of the man in the moo i are Sometimes, the n.oon Is wet and sometimes it’s d ry. Then, ag ain, t is periodically full —N. If. World, ---f-* Mcdge—“Thompson called mo an id ot” fab-ley—“Yoi needn’t mind that. Thompson always doen exas gerate more or lesu”— Indianapolis Journal «^fi0aSES25‘i gBEGREftfll SHILOH’S ; CURE. OUBHCURi |25^yig> Cures Consnnption, Coi gtaa, Croup, I tore Throat. Cold by ail Druggists na a Guarantee.

Hvr S Stove;, poush j w 30 NOT 3E DECEIVED' with Pastes. Enamel!!, and Paints wMch l . SKBUSMSSi.. (Mor* less. Durable, and the consumer pays for no tin f or glass package with every purchase. FLORIDA-SE for health pleasure or recreation, the Louisville & Nashville Railroad offers routes and sleeping car service that you cannot afford to overlook. For folders, etc., address fieo. B. Horner, 0. P. A., SI Louis, Mo. Bulf Coast SiiRiit SMOKE 'll)UR MEAT WITH khaJsers liquid burmtiTsmok? .em£uLAR.LKPAUSEHkBRD.MllJQm iTmmx mta rarsawry tax# juntt. $75.co to $350.00 JOHNSON * CX).. 2600-2-4-6-8 Main St., Richmond, V*, JOHNSON tgrVAMZ THIS PAFX& r«r

• . f b ■■ ■ . • •• . - - . . ■ : WORTH READING. MT. STERLING, Ky., Feb. 13, 1889. F. J. Cheney & Cd, Toledo, O. Gentlemen I desire to make a brief — ■ i ' 1 ' ■ • ' statement for the benefit of the suffering. 1 had been afflicted with catarrh of the head, throat and nose, and perhaps the bladder for fully twenty-five years. Having tried other remedies without*success, I was led by an advertisement in the Sentinel-Demo-crat to try Hall’s Catarrh Cure. I have just finished my" fourth bottle, and I believe I am right when I sav : I am thoroughly restored. 1 don’t believe there is a trace of the disease left Respectfully, WM. BRIDGES, Merchant Tailor. SOLD BY DRU ilSTS. 75 cents.

Brand Now Flowers, Vegetables and Fruits. The King oi Ornamental Plants Is the V eepin ; or Filifera Palm. It Is stately and! beautiful beyond description. It cp-n b-j grown in any windo* as easily as a Geranium, and is a superb addition to any coi* lection of plan is. It <* of a iinrr,niu’iffrftwti i. wtth fiieffant T.irm fan-shatied leavesfrom wnicn bang toi thread-like filament: like it in cultivation._,r_-. -. only 30c we will send by moll, postpaid, al. of th| following: 5 Seeds of this lovely WESPINB JIL3TE id Pi XH. Its chaste beauty wOl astonish you. 1 pit PEAC OCX I ASSY, the grandest ol alL Smiming peacock colors of unrivaled beauty. 1 pkt, BATT HA SffEET YIGHTINGAU:, enor nous sweet lily-like blossoms. IOiuchcslong, purs white. 1 pkt. TREE COCBBCQNGl, plants grow siveralSfeet high aad bear many enormous heads of bloom, l .pkt VERBENA SEIZE WHITE, lovel rlargeitrusaes, mow white and exceedingly fragrant 1 pkt TOMATO MIXED ITYBEIBS, eve y coltr, shape and siao is represented. A unique novelty. S Bulbs GUUI0LJ3, beautiful named so ts, 1 < hits, 1 pink, 1 scarlet all superb varieties. 1 Bulb TTJBSROSE, DOODLE DWARF K TCEU XOR PEARL, enormous spikes of elegaat waxy Mosaoa* 1 Bulb ZEP TYR ] "LOWER lovely freo K oomerilargo blossoms of exquisite-beauty. 1 Bulb CINNAMON VINE, line hardy oli nber. ad our suuerb BRONZE BLUE, Catalogue of 15« page! and 7 H.mific-enb Iks *e Colored P late*. All the above for onto' 30 eta Sontpald.HTese n.re bulis and seeds ( rorth l.Kiwill nil flower this season, and we send tbemfor Oc.« only to ntroduee our superior stock. Get your neighbors to send with yon, and we will send four of these collections for 91. Order at A ace, i a this oflor may noil appear again. ALSO THE FQLL0WIN3 .SIX EXT IA Cl SICE COLLECTIONS BT MAIL, POSTPAID. SO GLADIOLTJ!!, all surfs, anted and the fine it colors, flowering bulbs, as unparallelod offer. 6 LOVELY nrBERCSIS, fluweriug bulbs, S Tall I cable, 2 Dwarf Pearl aid 8 New Variegated.300 8 AMARYLLI S, all elegant dooming variet ea of freatbeauty..- Mia S MEXICAN P3IK110SES, different orlcr, telegi at new perpetual hlooming plants of rare beauty.SOa S GRAND EL 3WEEING CACTUS, i aorta timed including Night-Blooming Cosens.JOo 6 CHRYSANTHEMUMS, new giant flewer A, including pinli Ostrich Plume and Cactiu flowered.-SOo -For only Sl.GOwi will nail all tbo Above six collectons. And to every order irlil add gratis one LITT L.E GE',1 CARL. A, a lovely little sort growing only SlE cbes In height and blooming all the time. A GREAT PFFER OUR B80IZE ESLUE GSTilL06l!E BASH FKl Engravings, St standard varie new Fruits. iJso a _ mums. New Carnations, and _ _ ... _ ... and lete ever issued. 158ip large Coloitd riaiei. wepaBriaennew Seeds, Bulbs s.nd Plants of all kinds and rare d nove ties in Flower md Yt ^stable Seeds, Buiosa.na nants oi an unas anu rare great collection of Ctcti.E lowering Shrubs, Cannas, Aquatic Plants, Chrysanthens, etc Also a large 1st of ;he finest roses at lOcents each. B°n t miss^our'Great Trailing Queen Fuchs la, YeHow and Little Gem Callas, and lastly GIaAMIOUPBI .iter floral novelty of ;bis generation. Flowers finches across, spikesof bloou.over two feet in len?tb,'cclor8 the most beautiful and ; lovel, surpassing orch!d^_ This MAGNIFICENT CATALOGUE '.v .li be s ent free to al who; order anythin* here offered. Otherwise send I for it. It is toe costly to be sent free exec pt to -thope who onier some. hlng. We want agentsto take subscribers for our DeantituI Horticultural Pater. THEMA YFLCiWER, 6C»c. |Pc/‘ye^r,,,r^ pages and tuo eleifant cnlorcd plates saefa aonth. threat Premiums. Sample copy free. Address JOil LEWIS OHILOS, Final Pink, Queens Go., N. Y. l perso i who Driers anythin ( fronr; this advertisement is entitled to our GLA1»I«LCTS , i: they ??nd- °- N. E.—Each i severr.V unites of bloom. .. . _.. -- 0 cent ? to pay postage. Size. 16x33 inches _ It l i well worth a d >llar * it is the finest thing ever produced in floral art. ir great painting of in It colors, showing

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