Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 41, Petersburg, Pike County, 21 February 1896 — Page 6

TALMAGES SERMON. Put Ye in the Sickle, for the Harvest is Pipe. Tk* Kind of Sickle* Ho bo Used in Reaplas tho Spiritual!. Harvcct—Th* Goapel the Moot Potent of AIL Eer. T. DeWitt Talma ge delivered the following discourse on “Bringing in the Sheaves*’ before his Washington congregation, taking for his test: Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe.— Joel ilL, U The sword has been poetized and the world has celebrated the sword of Bolivar, the sword of Cortez, and the sword of Lafayette. The pen has been v properly eulogized, and the world hhs celebrated the pen oi Addison, the pen of Southey, and the pen of Irving. The painters' pencil has been honored, and the world has celebrated the pencil of Murillo, the pencil of Rubens, and the pencil of Bierstadt. The sculptor’s chisel has come in for high encomium, and the world has celebrated Chantrey’s chisel, and Crawford's chisel, and (j reenough’s chisel. But there is one instrument about which I sing the first canto that was ever sung— the sickle, the sickle, of the Bible, the sickle that has reaped the harvest of

many centuries. ,>narp. ana oenv into a semi-circle, and glittering, this reap-ing-hook., no longer than your arm, has furnished the bread for thousands of years. Its success has produced the wealth of nations. It has had more to do with the world's progress than sword, and pen, und pencil, and chisel, all put together. ( Christ puts the sickle into the exquisite sermonic simile, and you see that instrument flash up and down the Apocalypse as St. John swings it, while through Joel in ray text Cod commands the people, a-s through His servants now He commands them—“Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe." Last November there was great rejoicing all over the land. With trumpet and cornet and organ and thou-sand-voiced psalm wo praised the Lord for the temporal harvest. We praised God for the wheat, the rye. the oats, Un cotton, the rice, ail the fruits of the orchard and all the grains of the field: and the nation never docs a bet-; ter thing tlian when in the autumn it gathers to festivity and thanks God for the greatness of the harvest, lint I come to-day to speak to you of richer harvests, even the spiritual. How shall we estim .t • th > value of a man? We say ' !h* worth so many dollars, or he has achieved such and such a position; but we know very well there are si«ne men at the top of the ladder who ought to -be at the bottom, and some at the bottom who ought to be at the top, and the only way to estimate a man is by his soul. We all know that we shall live forever. Death can not kill us. Other crafts may be drawn into the whirlpool or shivered on the rocks, but this life w ithin vis will weather all storms and drop no anchor, and 10.000,000 years after death will shake out signals on the high seas of eternity. V.ou put the mendicant off your doorstep and say he is only a ^eggar: but he is worth all the go d.of the mountains: worth all the pearls of the sea, worth the solid earth, worth sun and moon and stars, worth the entire material universe. ° Take all the paper that ever came from the paper mills, and put it side by side and sheet by sheet, and let men w ith fleetest pens .make figures on that pap r for lO.otfO years, and they will only have l>eguh to express the value of the soul. Hippose I owned Colorado and Nevada and Australia, of how much value would they be to me one moment after I departed this life? How much of Philadelphia aoes Stephen Girard own to-day? How much of Huston property does Abbott . Lawrence ow n- to-day? 1 • mail who to-dav hath a dvillar in. his pocket hath more worldly estate than the millionaire who died ,last year., llow do you suppose I feel, standing here sr.rroumled by a multitude of souls, each one worth more than the material universe? Oh, was 1 not right in saving, this spiritual harvest is richer than the, temporal harvest? 1 must tighten the girdle, I must sharpen the sickle. I. must be careful how 1 swing the instrument forgathering the grain, lest one stalk

_"e uosi poweriui ,s:c«ie!> lor re«.ping this spiritual harvest is the preaching of the Gospel: If the sickle have a 'rosewood! handle, and it 1m* adorned with precious stones, and ye* it can not bring down the grain, it is not much of a sickle, and the preaching amounts t<» nothing unless it harvests souls for Ik’d. Shall we preach philosophy? The Ralph Waldo Kmersons could beat us at that. Shall „we preach science? The Agassizes could beat us at that. The minister of Jesus Christ with weakest arm going forth in earnest prayer, and wielding th: sickle of the Gospel, shall hr.,; the harvest all around him wailing for the angel .sheaf binders. Oh. this harvest of souls! I notice in the fields that the farmer did not stand upright when he gathered the grain. 1 noticed he had to stoop to his work, and I noticed in order to bind the sheaves the better be had to put his knee upon them And as we go forth in this w.>rk for God we can not stand upright ifi our rhetoric, and | our metaphysics, and our erudition. >We have to stoop to our work. ' Ay, we have to put our knee on it or we will never gather sheaves for the Lord’s garner. Peter swung that sukle’on the day of Pentecost, and 3,000 sheaves came in. Richard Baxter swung that sickle at Kidderminster, and Met heyne at Dundee, and vast multitudes came into the kingdom of God. Oh. this is a mighty Gospel! It captured not only John the»lamb, but Paul the lion Men may gnash their teeth at it. and Clinch their fists-, but it is the power of God and the wisdom of God onto salvation. But. alas, if it is tmly preached in pulpits and on Sabbath days! We tunst iro forth into our

stores, our shops, oar banking' houses, our factories, and the streets, and everywhere preach Christ We stand in our pulpits for two hones on the Sabbath and commend Christ to the people; but there are 16S hours in the week, and what are the two hoars on the Sabbath against the 166? Oh, there comes down the ordination of God this day upon all the people, men who toil with head and hand and foot—the or* dinatioa comes npon all merchants, npon all mechanics, npon all toilers, and God says to yon as He says to me: “Go, teach all nations. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned.” Mighty Gospel, let the whole earth hear it! The story of Christ is to regenerate the nations, it is to eradicate all wrong, it is to turn the earth into a paradise. An old artist painted the Lord's Supper, and he wanted the chief attention directed to the face of Christ. When hie invited his friends in to criticise the picture, they admired tl|c chalices more than they did the face, and the old artist said; “This picture is a failure,” and he dashed out the picture of the cups and said: “I shall have nothing to detract from the face of the Lord; Christ is the all of this picture." Another powerful sickle for the reaping of this harvest is Christian song. I know in many churches the whole work is ■ Hblegatled to a few people standing in the organ loft. But. my friends, as others can not repent for us and others can not die for us* we can not delegate to others the- work of singing for us. While a few drilled artists shall take the chants and execute the more skillful musi6, when the hymnis given out let there be hunj dreds and thousands of voices uniting ! in the acclamatla. On the way to ! grandeurs that never cease and i glories that neve. die, let us sing. ! At the battle of Lutzen. a general came to the king and saidh “Those soldiers are singing as they are going : into battle. Shall I stop them?" ; “No," said the king, men that can sing ! light that can fight.'' Oh. the power . of Chri-tiun s mg ! When La gue here you may argue back. The argument you make against religion may be more skillful than the argutnent I make in behalf of religion. But who can stand before pathos of some uplifted song like that which we some- | times sing:

saow puy. uoru. i» i^ora, lorjjiire Let a rt-p^ntina rebel live: Are not Thy mercies la rye anti free? May not a > .nner trust In Thee? Another inightv sickle for the reaping, of the IGospel harvest isHprayer.; What does God do with our prayers? Does lie po on the battlements of Heaven <aud throw them off? No. What do you do w ith pifts given you ; by those w ho love you very much? You keep them with great sa-crednt-ss. And do you suppose God ! will take our prayers, offered in the sincerity and lore of our hearts, and scatter them to the winds? Qh, I no! lie will answer them all in some way. Oh. what a mighty thing prayer is! It is not a long rigmarole of “ohs." and “ahs." and “for ever' and ever. Aniens.'' It i> a breathing of the heart i into the heart of G<&. Oh. what a mighty thing praiyvr is! Elijah with it ureaehed up to the clouds and shook down the showers. With it John Knox shook Se< tt!and. Withit Martin Luther sh ^k the earth. And when Philip Melanchton lay sick unto death, as ( many suppos'd, Martin Luther tame i in and •'aid: “Philip, we can't spare > you!” “Oh.” said he. “Martin, you must let me go: 1 am tired of persecution and tired of lifo. I want to go to be with my God.” “No," said; Martin j J.uther, “you shall not go. you must [take this food and then I w ill pray for you." “No. Martin,”' said MelanchI thon. “you must let. me go.” Martin i Luther said: “Ydm take this food, or I will excommunicate, you.” „He took i the food and Martin Lutherkneltdown , ahd prayed a^ onlly he eould pray, and S convalesce net* came and Martin Luther i went back and said to his friends: ; “Got! has saved the life of Philip Medanelith.m in direct answer to my j prayer." Oh, the power of prayer, j 11ave you tested it? J l)r. Prime, of New York, in his beautiful !> -• k. entitled “Around the World.” described a mausoleum in India which it took 20.000 men 22years to buiHl that and the buildings surrounding and hevsavs: “Standing in that mausoleum and uttering a w< rtl. it is echoed back from a height of 150 feet, not an ordinary echo, but a pro- , longed music, as though there were angels hovering in the air.” And every word of earnest prayer we utter ! has. an ech *. opt from the marble 1 cupola of an Earthly mausoleum, but from the heart df God and from the wings of an.— is ais they hover, crying: “lie hold, he prays!” Oh. test it! Mighty sickle for reaping this Gospel harvest, the sickle of prayer!

“Oh, says some nan, "I hare been going on the wrong rtxtd for 30. 40 or 50 years; I have gone through the whole catalogue of, crime, andgmst fird get myself fixed up.” Ah, you will never get yourself fixed up until Christ takes you in charge. You get worse ami worse until He conies to the rescue. ' Not the righteous* sinners, Jesus came to all.” So. y<j»u see, I take the very worst case there is. If then* is a man here who feels he is | all right, in heart and life.j1 am not talking to him. for he if probably a hypocrite I will talk to him some other times Jtnt if therje is a man who feels himself all wrongji to him l address myself- Though ; you be wounded in the hands and wounded iu the feet and wounded in the hea l and wounded in Ihe heart, and though the 1 gangrene of eternal death be upon yon, one drop of the elixir of divine life will cure your soul. Though you be soaked in evil indulgences, though your feet have gone in unckaa places, though you have e eapanioned with the abandoned and the lost, one touch of Divine grace will save your soul. I do not say that you will not have struggles after that; Oh, no! Bntthey will Ik* a different kind of struggle. [ You go into that buttle and all hell is

against yon and you are alone, and yon fight and yon fight, weaker and weaker and weaker, until at last you fall and the powerayjf darkness trample on your sonL But in the other case yon go into the battle and fight stronger and stronger and st er, until the evil propensity goes i and you get the victory through Lord Jesus Christ. Qh, come out of your sins? Have you not been bruised with sin long enough? Have youjnot carried that load long enough? Have you not fought that battle tong enough? I rattle the gates of your sepulchre to-day. I take the trumpet of the Gospel and blow the long, loud blast. Boland went into battle. Charlemagne’s army had beep driven back by the three armies of the Saracens, and Roland, in almost despair, took up the trumpet and blew three blasts ih one of the mountain passes, and under the power of those three blasts the Sara- | cens recoiled and fled in terror. j But history says that when he had ijlowu the third blast Roland's trumpet Broke. I take this trumpet of the Gospef and blow the first blast. “Whosoever ivviH.” I blow the seeond blast, “Seek ye the Lord while. He may be found.’- Ij blow the third blast. “Now is the accepted time." But the trumpet doei not breaks It was handed down py our forefathers to us. and we will hand it down to our children,that after we are dead they may blow the trumpet, telling the world that we have a pardoning God. a loving God, a sympathetic God, and more to Him than the throne on which He sits is the joy of seeing a prodigal put his finger on the latch of his Father's house. T MM M AM. A * A .-VC-1 ,1 tfk’l

any one the most atheistic. Ij invite him into the kingdom of (loti with’ just as much heartiness as those who have for 50 years been under the (teaching of the Gospel and believed it all. When 1 was living in Philadelphia a gentleman told me of a scene in which he was a participant. In Callowhill street, in Philadelphia, theije had l»een a powerful meeting gqing on for some time, and many wejre converted. anti among others one of the prominent members of the worst clubhouse in that city. The next night the leader of that club-house* tjie president of it. resolved that he would endeavor to get his cdmrade away, lie came to the door, and before he entered he heard a Christian song, and under it^ power his soul was ajgitated. '’lie went in and asked for prayer. Before he came out he was (a sub|i ject of conqueriug mereC. The next night another comrade went i to reclaim the two who had Been lost | to their sinful circle. He wjent, and under the power of the lloly Ghost be- , came a changed man, and the work : went on until they were all s^ved and 1 the infamous club-house disbanded. ; Oh, it is a mighty Gospel! j Though | you came here a child of sin you ean go away a child of grace, you can go away ! singing: ; Amaziasc grace, how sweet the sound Oh. give up your sins! Most of your ) life is already gone. Your children are i going on the same wrong road. Why I do you not stop? "This day jis salvai tiou come to thy house.” Whjy not this | moment look up into the facejof Christ and sav: | • Just as I a,|n. without one pled But that Thy Blood was shed for me: And that Thou bid*st me come to Thee, O Lamb bf God. I come. I ccime God is go:ii|r to save you. |„ You are going to be among the shinjing ones. After the toils of life are over, you are going up to the everlasting rest, you are going up to join your l<j>ved ones, departed parents and departed children. "O, my God," says some man, "how can I come to Thee? I. am so far off. Who will help me, 1 ami so weak? It seems such a great undertaking.” Oh. my brother, it is a great undertaking!, It is so gbeat you can not accomplish it, bat Christ can do the work, lie will correct your heart, and He will correct your life. "Oh.” you say. "I will stop profanity.' That will not save you. "Oh.” you say, "1 will stop £abbhtto-break-ing.” That will not save you. There is only one door into the Kingdom of («V:, and that is faith; only one ship that sails for Heaven, and thjat is faith. Faith the first step, the second the Instep. the hundredth Step, thousandth step, the last.j step, faith we enter the Kingdom: By faith we keep it. In faith we die. Heaven a reward of faith. The earthquake shook down the Philippian dungeon. The jailor said: "What shall I do?” Some of you would say: *<‘Better get out of the place before the Walls crush you:” What did the apostle say? *i" Believe on * the • Lord Jesus Christ and thou slialt lx* saved.” "All,” you say, "there’s the rub.” What is jfa:th? Suppose you were thirsty and I offered you this glass of water, and you bhlieved I meant' to give it to you. and yon came up and took it. You exercise faith. You believe I mean to keep my promise. Christ offers you th% water of everlasting life. You take it. That if faith.

Enter into the kingdom of God. En ter now* The door of life is .set wide open, i plead with you by the bloody sweat of Get h sc mane ami the deathgroan of Golgatha. by cross and crown, by Pilate's court room and Joseph's sepulcher, by harps and chains, by kingdoms of light and realms of darkm'vs, by the trumpet of. the archangel that shall wake the dead*, and by the throne of the Lord God Almighty and the lamb, that you attend now to the things of eternity. Oh, what a sad thing r will be if. having gems so h^ar Heaven, we miss itl oh. to have come within /sight of the shining pinnacles of the city and not have entered. Oh. to have been so near we have seen the mighty throng cuter and we not joining them! Angels of God, fly thus' way! Good news for you, tell the story among th|e redeemed on high! If there be one there especially longing for your salvation, let that one know it now. \Ve put down oar sorrows. Glory be to God for such . a hope, for such a pardon, for such a joy. for such a Heaven, for s>*«h * i Christ!

ONE YEAR'S RECO: D. *<•« N»w Wnwlin »nit Cotton Mi, :U Built la 1895 Thao la 1893—T«xtU« ill iidutHa Flourish Voder a Low Tariff—No N««t for a Kotara to MeKInUjlim. The American Wool and C< ton Reporter published in a special number issued on January 9 its annual statement of the new textile mills built and inaugurated during the year 1395. Its earefully compiled statistics show that the total number of new mill enter- | prises launched during the past 13 months was 357, an increase of 94 over the previous year, 78 over IS93, and ane over 1893, the year claimed by McKinleyites as the most prosperous in |. the history of the country. Of these | enterprises 61 were woolen mills; 146 j cotton factories; 99 were knitti ng mills; 33 silk works, and the remaining 38 miscellaneous. In additior: to this record for new mills, manu facturers [ j generally have made important addi- 1 tions to their buildings and machinery; j in many hundreds of instances the j changes being of such size us to be j | practically new plants. Wont out and i old-fashioned machinery has given way | to tne newest and best that money can L boy, and American mills hre now nearly all equipped with fae ilitieS for producing the maximum amount of j goods at a minimum of cost. This summary of the pror . ess made — during the first year of the Wilson; tariff differs so widely from, all the predictions and statements of the high protectiohists, and is so e ncouraging to the friends of tariff reform that it might be supposed that the Wool ! and Cotton Reporter is a de mocratic | paper. But on the contrary it is an impartial trade journal owned and edited by a Massachusetts republican, j who has on several occasions been elected to the legislature of his state on the republican ticket. There can be no suspicion that its statements are exaggerated, for it publishes the name and location of each new industry on its list. The facts are, therefore, beyond all dispute.

This showing- as to the number of , nfcv^ mills started in one year is in itself the best proof of the prosperous condition of the great American textile industry. ‘Shrewd capitalists do not invest millions of dollars in erecting- uew buildings and equipping them with costly- machinery when the condition of trade is not such as to warrant the investments. Republican pa.pers which have tried to show that business was no better in 1895 than in slS93 and. the first half of 1394, will now have to Explain how it comes that all these new factories have been started, j They will also be called on to show j what basis there is for their whining stories about the injury caused by i lower duties; when 357 manufacturers and corporations found such a demana for goods that it was profitable to inaugurate large enterprises in order to i supply the increased markets. With that number of new mills many thou- - sands of additional operatives have been given employment, and the total output of textile products greatly increased. ^jre the American business men and workers afraid of this kind of I “free-trade ruin?” Additional testimony to the return | of prosperity under the Wilson tariff is also furnished by the Wool and Cot- i h ton Reporter in its annual review of j the wool market nnd statistics regard- I ing consumption for 1395. The latter; show that the volume of sales during the past year have broken all previous j records. - The amount of domestic and j foreign wool disposed of in the three leading markets of the United States* j up to December ^12, 1895, was 347,060,- J 103 pounds, as compared with only j 261,667,229 pounds up to December 15, j 1893* dr over 30,000.000 pounds more , than in the banner McKinley year, j This means that American mills and j American workers were kept busy eon- j verting this1 greatly increased quantity i of wool into warm clothing for the American people. A policy which not only builds new mills, but enables new - and old to use 80.000,000 pounds more wool per year than was used under high protection, heeds no defense from democrats. The trade papers which truthfully reflect the industrial condi- j tion of the country are all campaign j documents in the interest of tariff reform. With these conclusive proofs of the benefits of free wool, what can be said in favor of the attempt by the republicans in congress to restore the tax on the raw material of the people’s clothing? Whidden Gkauah. *

THE BILLS COMPARED. The Wilson Bill ts. tbo McKinley BUI— Jad(« Turner on the Situation. The following is quoted from Judge Turner’s speech in the house, on De- j cember 26, the tariff “for revenue" bill being- untier discussion: “My friend from Missouri (Mr. Dock* ery) has just read a statement estab- 1 lishing the well known fact that Mr. Foster, near the close of his term, pre- j pared to supplement that gold reserve with an issue of a large amount of bonds. At that time we had the full fruition of the McKinley act We had had the beneficent influence of protec- - tion under the leadership of that undaunted man, Mr. McKinley. We had had that system at the highest rads I ever known in the history of the country, and yet the revenues ran down and tho surplus had nearly disappeared, as was admitted by Mr. Fester j in my presence. ' “With this empty treasury, with the j state of alarm existing in the country ; as to the integrity of the currency sys- j tern, growing out <If the Sherman silver j act, with gold withdrawals already go- J icg on at a rate which gave Mr. Foster ; the greatest concern, and with the approach of that season of our commerce : when those gold withdrawals were i bound to increase—in that state of j things, Mr. Speaker, we acceded to i power. The new eongr-a* which was j elected with Mr. Cleveland, revised the i tariff in the interest of the treasury as ! well as of the taxpayer. The revenue the McKinley act promised fiad run down, because that great measure of protection was a restriction upon importations and a prevention of revenue, as it was designed to be. “In th« midst of a panic whicn the credit of the ffoveru

ment itself, tnd in the fjue of t de> j pleted treasury, the party of whifch I am an humble member • courageously went forward and said, ‘the remedy for j the situation is not to raise taxes, but ; to lower them.* We said that we could | increase the revenue of the govern- i ment by taking off the restrictions j upon our commerce and at the same ( time lessen the burdens of the people. How have our anticipations been realised? Even, after all the tribulations of a long session of the last congress! we finally passed a tariff measure | which was not acceptable to many of my friends upon this side, but which we said would produce ample Revenue for all the necessities of the government. If the supreme court of the United States, that highest tribunal in the land, had not reversed its apparent attitude upon the question of the income tax and nullified that feature of the law, we would have had no deficiency at all at the beginning of next year. s “Now, what has been going on under j the customs features of that bill? j Furnaces whose fires had been banked j have resumed operations throughout j the country, and they stand as wit- j nesses to the correctness of the demo* j cratic view. In every town, in every j community, in every place where men j manufacture American goods, almost without an exception, .under the operation of that act, styled a ‘free trade’ act, wages have gone up, and at the same time one of its most glorious effects is that in spite of all the prophecies of ilL, in spite of the desolating effects which were predicted for it, our exports of manufactured goods going out to. sea-and contending with our competitors in the markets of the world have actually incresised by more than $17, OOO.OOOi”

NEW YORK RAILROADS. Aa Increased Prosperity lor 1893-Fact# from ttte Records. The New York state board of railroad commissioners, in its annual report for the year 1S95, states that the summary iof railway traffic in New York state for the past year affords much ground for encouragement. The increase in freight tratfie has been general, showing that the people are buying and selling more goods than in previous years. A comparison of the receipts and expenditures of the principal steam rbads operating in the state* and representing^ four-fifths of the total mileage, shows n gratifying increase of business in favor of 1S93 over 1894. The increase in gross earnings from operation was S3.940.915, and! in operating expenses §2,165,698, making an increase in net earnings from operation of $1,773,217. The total increase in pet income to be passed to the dividend paying account is $1,490,• 243. The commissioners anticipate a •continned improvement during the present year. , ‘ Of course this, official statement of increased business for the railroads will be unpleasarit reading for the republican legislature of New York state. Anything which does not prove that trade is at a stand still since the McKinley law was repealed, is looked on with suspicion by the protectionist statesmen whom Boss Platt sends to Albany to represent him. Under the circumstances the audacity of these railroad commissioners is surprising. They evidently do not know their business. It is thpir duty to hunt for facts to show'that oML industry, including the transportation of freight and passengers, is in a terrible depressed condition. [f they cannot find such facta they must imitate ex-Labor Commissioner Peek, of the same state, and invent them. Thus they will please the partisan republican legislators, and will have a chance to retain their1 po* sitions. Otherwise they will probably be summarily bounced but bf office, aa a warning against telling truths which contradict every plea on which the McKinleyites of New York hope to carr}’ that state at the coming election. Gov. dievi P. Morton, of New York, is an avowed carfdidate for president. If nominated he will have to run on a platform declaring for a revival of the trade restricting laws, which three years .ago plunged the country into, the worst panic ever experienced. He will be forced tp join with the calamity crow who are howling about trade depression, although the gloom of idleness and bankruptcy lightened as soon as the tariff law of 1S99 was repealed. He will be the candidate of the monopolies r,nd trusts which hire newspapers to lie about the condition of business, and to hide the facts of wage advances, increa sed production and greater consumption. He will be placed in the inconsistent attitude of denying the statements of his own subordinates, whose official report testifies to a general improvement *in the carrying trade, and, of necessity, in othei branches of industry. , If Cot. Morton wise he will hasten to disavow the cheering conclusions of his rpilroad commissioners, and to give orders that state officials must at all times wear blue (ruin) spectacles, so that nothing encouraging to reviving business shall ever find it$ way into a public document. Then vy&en he appeals to the voters of the Empire state for a platform of high taxation and calamity wailing, he will not be mot with arguments of his own furnishing. Otherwise he may be reminded by unkind democrats that his party's theories and his state’s official records are very far aoart. By box W. Holt.

Let the Tariff Alone. Th«re may be two opinions about a protective tariff of a revenue tariff, and probably there always will be. Bnt there can be only one opinion about a “tem aorary tariff” It is not an admissible idea. This country has no more need of a temporary tariff than an ocean liner has of a jurymaat. One bad tariff schedule is better than two good ones. Let it be understood that any tariff we adopt is adopted “for good.”—N. Y. World. After the SwetU. The sugar men want uuues advanced, too. All sorts of flies are gathering around the McKinley bunghole.—Cre» ton Herald. 1

TUB WORLD'S XUJKLIKST POTATO, f That 3aL*r’s Earliest, fit for use ia JSdays. Solzer’a new lata potato, Champion of the World, is pronounced the heaviest yielder in the world, and we challenge yon to produce its equal! 10 acres to Salzer’s Earliest Potatoes yield ‘1000 bushels, sold in June at $l.(X)i a bushel—$4000. That pays, now nr you urnt^crrc Tins out axd skxd it with 10c. postage you will get, free, 10 packages grains and grasses, including Teosinte, Lathyrus, Sand Vetch, Giant Spurry, Giant Clover, etc.: and our seed catalogue. (k) His head was turned, yet fame had laid No laurels at his feet. He simply saw a pretty girt While passing on the street. -N.Y. Herald. A Trip to the Garden Spots of the South. On February 11 and March 10, tickets? will be sold from principal cities, towns aMd villages of the north, to all points on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in Tennessee, Alabama. Mississippi, Florida and a portion of Kentucky, at one single fare for the round trip. Tickets will be gpod'to return Within thirty days, on paynjtent of $‘2 to ageut at destination, and will allow- stop-over at any points oo the south bound trip. Ask your ticket ageut aihout it, and if he can not sell yon excursion ticsets write to C. P. Atraore, General Passenger Agent, Louisville, Ky., nr Geo. B. Horne** J> P A.. St. Lotus. Mo. Parrott— ‘ • Do you think that Hen peck .•*ould tVer keep a secret from his wife!” vy iggins—“Well. I’ll bet that ho never lets her kuowwhathe realiv thinks of her!”— rruth.

The Nashville, ChaUaaooj* & St. Loal» Railway Will on March 3rd sell one way homeseekers' tickets to all points in the Southeast, including Florida, at the lowest rate ever known. On March 10th round trip ticket* to many points in. the South, including Georgia. e;ui be purchased at one fare plus $3.00; good for 8tl days. For maps, folders and all information write to or see Brianl F. Hill. N. P. A.. :«5> Marquette Bid’g, Chicago: R C. Cowiurdin. V.. P. A., 405 By Exe. Bld'g, St. Louis. or \V. L. Daaley, G. P. & T. A., Nashville. Teau. Tiikt who ha,vo light in themselves will ikot ixwqIvo as satellites.—Alton. ' NERVOUS People wonder why their nerves are so weak; why they get tired so easily; why they do not sleep naturally; why they haVe frequent headaches, indigestion and ; Nervous Dyspepsia, 'the explanation is simple. It is found in that impure blood feeding the nerves on refuse instead of the elements of strength and vigor. Opiate and. nerve compounds simply deaden and do not ci?re. Hoods Sarsaparilla feeds the nerves pure, rich blood; gives aaturul sleep, perfect digestion, is the true remedy for all nervous troubles. d ' '■ oods Sarsaparilla Is the One Tyne Blood Purifier. AH druggists.SI. Hood’s Pills

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