Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 29, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 November 1896 — Page 6

BY CANNIBALS of Gold Hunters on th< Solomon Group 4 hr Their Katie* Guide*. Bar dud. Killed a id Probably Katea— Oae of the Guide* Capterad—Property of th« Pro* pec tor* Found. ! Sam Fsahcmco, Not. *1.—‘The Hullo'tin prints the following: Following close upon the details of tlw massacre of Baron Von Norbeck mod the party of scientists from the .▲asLrian guardship Albatross by naSiees of the fatuous bolomon group of islands, comes another story of death and treachery at the hands of these violent cannibals. News is received per steamship Ala* aaeda from Sydney that the steamship "Tims that was recently dispatched from Australia to visit the coaat o! New Uniaua knd the Solomons is now at Port Jackson on her return voyage from Mauru Sound, Solomon group, ^t'he vessel lay near Bougainville fut cume days and started a search for a party of gold hunters, six whites and dire natives, who started in a whale boat for the new gold fields at Moubara from bauioria. The officers of thi Titus, which arrived at Port Jacksun on the ISth of October report that it is their opinion the estire party of - whites were massacred, either on Bougainville by the bead hunters or on the coast directly across the straits. The Titus fell iu with the revenue cutter Lily Rock, which was also cr uising ou a search for sire party and lear&cd from Capt. Oates of that craft thut investigation instituted by the goveruureut officer* pr oved beyoud the shadow of a doubt SUat the gold hunters had put ashore to pitch camp on tin? beach and were betrayed by their native guides, sur-a-ouruled, killed and probably eaten. Tire L;ly Hock cruised aloug the voast of the several islands, and finally ctiuv across one of the natives who bad acted as a guiue for the miners. The fellow was surprised, seized and brought on board, and told a remarkable story about the whale boat having bccu capsized and all hands being tirowned. lie said he had floated •bout the straits fur several days, aud buuliy had been picked up by a native oauoe. The officers did uot believe Ihe story •O^pseut a detail of tueu ashore to investigate. After a long search a WinCuSaWr rifle aud a revolver were found *• a native village, neither weapon %teow it.g any signs of having been in *Jie water. The weapons were ideuti4fed as the property of the gold hunt

latter it was learned Iftat the whaleboat was iu the possession of a ehief ■on one of the Salomon islands and that various other property of the jH-ospcctor* was scattered along the ooa&l villages of the islaud*. THE WAR IN CUBA.^, Vart'hir Acroanti of llg itlu;-l'arMiM' able Sp tnioh claims. if a vans, Nov, 21.—It is officially announced that on Wednesday last the euluBiu commanded by Gen. Lope2 Amur and the forces undeV Col. Arini* sum, met 2.000 rebels, led by Sarahua douches. Tlie iusurgeuts occupied igood positions, which commanded the jMsvage of the liiver Zazas. After an engagement which lasted two hours the-troops forced their way across the j river, disperse 1 the rebels and encamped iu the position that had been iield by them. The insurgents earned their wounded with them iu their retreat. It is stated that the rebels buried 00 of their uumber killed in the h^liL Cuban sympathizer* question the truth of too government report, and iay it is incredible that the iusurgeuts when retreating = from the troops thou Id stop to bury their dead. The -qiauish losses are said to have been .rneiieuteuaut killed aud two lieuten* tnU aud 20 privates wounded. Several oinor reports of unimportant engagements hi which the Span ards v vie i.- uniformly victorious arc issued V* gov .•rumen’.. Operations in the pro*; lies of ^iiiar del Hio are uppar.ntly at a standstill. There has been :jo serious encounter with the rebels ztider Muuox. No information is vouch-afisl regarding the movements .»( Gen. Weyler, aud the impression grows tiiat the authorities here know nothing about huu. lie is unofficially loci ted at ban Cristobal, but nothing Nleha.te is known as to his where* I shoals. ' Uca. Lcque reports that the rebel winders Sanchez and Moles have been ciitbd aud Carrillo wounded.

/ CHARLES O. KAISER. «IUi Mara to Stand Trial for Wife Murder. >'ouisiovx, Pa.. Not. SL —Charles O Kaiser will have to stand trial (or tlw murder of his wile, Mis. Kawua 1*. Kaiser, who w as ahot aud kiUed ou Che uight of October Kaiser was also wounded at the time, and claimed that he had been robbed by highwaymen who shot ban and im wife. Some hf the aliened stolen articles were afterwards found, aud Kaiser was arorated charged with, the murder of ills wife. The inquest took place yesterday uioruiug aud the evidence produced Was decidedly against Kaiser. The jury reudered a verdict that she same to her death as the result of a conspiracy entered upon by Kaiser .aud others. lint— OoriMs ou rroMblt I settle ilea ] •I Ik* Short mu«s New Yoke. N ot. 81.-*Senator Gor cuan, in an interview aoco%led a repre tentative of the United Associated 4*resses yesterday, on the tariff outlook, said: "x he chances are against anykind )f legislation beyond tue appropriation bills at a short sessiop.- Tho trouolc in the present instance is that the republicans do not know exactly what they want. The only thing that the democrats can do is to quietly wait and see what the reauUliraua

TALES OF SUFFERING CMih« la From tk« FMtaMN* off »M CmmwIm—Miners la«h Th»n>«il*«* to Tnm to Atold Htlai C»rfM lato »*»• CMjrmts b; Earth and Snow SIM**— Tarrtbis Destruction of KnUroad Erojh •Tty—At O standatUL Siattu, Wash., Not. 18.—Residents of Seattle mod vicinity, who by reason of the floods and snow hare been virtually prisoners io the fastnesses of the Cascade moan tains since Friday last are coming in, some on train, some afoot, and others by boat. They tell harrowing tales of suffering, devastation and destruction. The situation as described in these dispatches from day to day has not been exaggerated in the least, if, indeed, the fury and fierceness of the storm has been fully portrayed. There has been human suffering, and no doubt many miners and prospectors in the Cascades have bepn either drowned or have met death lyom anow slides. Four prospectors, headed by Joseph Nicholson, operating a claim on the Snoqualimie pa-.-*, arrived this afternoon. One of the u«eu is a raviug maniac by reason of the suffering and hardships endured in their effort to get out of the mountains. Saturday uight to prevent being swept down the mountains by snow slides they lashed themselves to trees, where they remained in the drenching rain for six or eight hours. t Meanwhile great bowlders of earth and huge sections of snow | kept slidiug down into the canyons and gulches below. Trees were torn up by the roots aud carried away by the ^ivalanche, and the noise waa indescribably horrifying. At daybreak on Sunday the prospectors tore away the lashings and began their perilous journey out of the mountains. They followed Gold creek to Lake Keechsler, tramping through snow | four aud five feet deep, crossing small streams on logs and driftwood, finally tiuding their way to the point where the Northern Pacific crosses the Cascades, aud thence they proceeded down the railroad track to this city. Two Seattle business men were caught at Index Thursday. They were three days walking 33 miles to Snohomish, crossing small streams by lueaus of driftwood and the larger ones in row boats. They report tnat the Great Northern west-bound oveiS land passeuger train with 41 passengers, due here last Friday morning, is stalled between Wellington aud Madison, owing to great washouts on both sides. Wheu last heard from 13 firstclass passengers on the train were being supplied with half rations from the dintug car, while the day coach aud secoud-class passengers, including ?4 Chinese, managed to procure scant food supplies from Wellington.

me gentlemen giviug mis iniormalion say that there are ten washouts on the Great Northern between Index and Sullivan, a distance of 14 miles; that on the upper falls of the Snohotnish river two bridges are gone, together with 1,200 feet of track. ja When the flood was at its heinL the Great Northern line between Monroe and Snohomish, a distance of seven miles, was inundated to a depth of from six to fifteen feet. To-day's advices, however, are to the effect that the waters of all rivers have receded except at Snohomish. In the flats and bottoms, water covered thousands of acres of rich farm land. The Great Northern is making no attempt to run trains, save on the coast line north to Stanwood. Large forces of men are now at work on the const and main line, but there is little prospect of early resumption of traffic. On Saturday night, three minutes after the Northern Pacific passenger train from Portland had passed Ainslee, half a mile of track and roadbed near that place slid into the Cowlits river. The eastern mails due here Saturday and Sunday were received to-day, but there has been none from San Francisco and the south since last Friday night. The Northern Pacific, by transferring. Is now running trains east from Tacoma, aud making steamer connections from this city to PortaudL MADE ACOR RED.

Qnlrk Worii on a llrokrn Shaft la Mid ocean Nkw York, Not. 19.—The Anchor line steamer Anchor!*, Capt. Wilson, arrived lasl night from Glasgow and Muville, with 1-6 cabin and 52 steerage passenger*, (.'apt. Wilson says that last Sunday at 6:14 o'clock in the evening, the eugines stopped and * an examination showed that the trust shaft was broken. The vessel was then 134 miles east of Sandy lluok and souudiugs were taken, tiudiug 3? fathoms and she soon rode smoothly. The cargo and part of ihe ballast was broken out aud when the break was uncovered, the thrust shaft was seen to be broken through. Luckily a duplicate length of ahaftiug was bn board, and all bands turned to help the chief eugiueer, Anthony Thompson, take out the broken part and bolt in the new uue. A record was made on the job, aa the total delay from the time of the stopping to the staring of the vessel was only 59 hoars and SC mum lev At 5:34 o'clock yesterday morning the steamer started ahead and signaled Fire island at 2:2b p. m. and arrived at the bar at' 5:15 p. ra.r&fter which the health officers inspected her and she proceeded to her dock. ELECTION JUDGES. Osu4 Over on a Svrlou* Charge sod Sam to Jail for Ucadtnuni Ckicaoo. Xov. 19.—Thomas Morrissey, a judge of election in the eleventh precinct at the last election, was yesterday bound over to the criminal court in bail of $3,00i> upon the charge of changing ballots, and was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail for eontempt oi oourt in being drank. W. F. Dick, another election judge, was given ten days in jail for contempt of court and for misbehavior in Um polling place- i of water. The anchor

--—..—- TALMAGE’S 8EBM0N. Eloquent Appeal to the Higher Aspirations of Young Men. Tfce Youth of the Country Chnltenr«d to NohilUjr of thought nod Purpose— Lot tush Aim* ho the Uof orulnK Principle. Rtv. T. PeWitt Talmage delivered | the following sermon on the subject: j “Young Men Challenged to Nobility” j before his Washington congregation, i taking for his text: And the Lord opened the eyes of the young j men.—U. Kings, vt., 17. Oue morning, in Dothan a young theological student was, scared by finding himself and Elisha the prophet, ■ upon whom he matted, surrounded by a whole army of enemies. But veneresble Elisha was not scared at all, because he saw the mountains full of defense for him, in chariots made of tire, drawn by horses of tire—a super* natural appearance that could not be seeu with the natural eye. So the old | jniuister prayed that the young minis* ter, might see them also, and the prayer was answered, aud the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he also saw the fiery procession, looking somewhat, 1 suppose, like the Adirondack or the Alleghanies in autumnal resplendence. Many young men, standing among the most tremendous realities, have their eyes half shut or entirely closed. May God grant that my sermon may open wide your eyes to your safety, your opportunity, and your destiny! A mighty defense for a young man is s good home. Some of my hearers look back with tender satisfaction to their early home. It may have been rude and rustic, hidden among the bills, and architect or upholsterer never planned or adorned it. But all the fresco on prineely walls never looked so enticing to you as those rough-hewn rafters. You can think of no park or arbor of trees planted. on fashionable country seat so attretive as the pluin brook that ran in front of the old farm house and sang under the weeping willows. No barred gateway, adorned with statue of bronze, and swung opeu by obsequious porter in full dress, has half the glory of the old swing gate. Many of yoH have a second dwelling place, your adopted home, that also is sacred forever. There your built the first family altar* There your children were born. All

Uiose imsyou puiuieu. iimiruuiu is solemn, because once in it, over the hot pillow, tlappeil the win# of death. Under that roof you expect, when your work is dope, to lie down and die. You try with many words to tell the excellency of the place, but you fail. There is only one word in the language that ean describe your meaning. it is home. Now, 1 declare it, that young man is comparatively safe who goes out into the world with a charm like this upon him. The memory of parental solicitude. watching, planning and praying, will be to him a shield aud a shelter. 1'never knew a man faithful' both to his early aud adopted home, who at the same time was given over to any gross form of dissipation or wickedness. He who seeks his enjoyment chiedy from outside association, rather than from the more quiet and uupresuming pleasures of which 1 have spoken, may be suspected to be on the broad road to ruin. Absalom despised his father's house, and you know his history of sin and his death of shame. If you seem unnecessarily isolated Irom your kindred aud former associates, is there not some room that you can eall your own? Into it gather books and pictures. Have a portrait over the mantel. Make ungodly mirth stand back from the threshold. Consecrate some spot with the knee of prayer, lly the memory of other days, a father's counsel, and a mother's love,and a sister's conddence, call it home. Another defense for a young man is industrious habits. Many vouug rneu, in starting upon life in this age, expect to make their way through the world by the use of their wits rather thau the toil of their hands. A boy now goes to the city and fails twiee before he is as old as his father was when he first saw the spires of the

threat town. hitting m -some office, rented at $1,000 a .year, he is watUug (or the bauk to declare its dividend, or goes into the market expecting before night to be made rich by the rushing up of the stocks. l»ut luck »eemed so dull he resolved on some other tack. Perhaps he borrowed from his employer's money drawer, and forgot to put it back, or, for merely the purpose of improving his penmanship, makes a copy plate of a merchant's signature. Never mind; all is 'right In trade* lit some dark night there may come in his dreams a vision of the penitentiary; but it soon vanishes. lu a abort time he will be reauy to retire from the busy world, and amid his flocks and herds cultiveto the domestic virtues. Then those young men who were his schoolmates, snd knew uo better than to eugage in honest work, will come with their ox teams to draw him logs, and with their hard hands to help, heave up his castle. This is no fancy picture. It is every-day life. 1 should not wonder if there were some rotten beams in that beautiful palace. 1 should not wonder if dire sickness should smite | through the youug man, or if Ged should poor into his cup of life a draught that would thrill him with unbearable agouy; if his children ! should become to him a living curse, mskiug his home a pest and a disi grace. 1 should not wonder if he goes ’ to a miserable grave, and beyoud it into |he gashing of teeth. The way j of the ungodly shall perish. My young friends, there is no way to genuine success except through toil, either of head or hand. At the battle of Crecy, in 1346, the prince of Wales, finding himself heavily pressed by the enemy, sent word to hut father for help. The father, watching the battle from a wind mill, and seeing

-. I -- his son was not wounded and co -1 d train the day if he would, sent word: “No, I will not come. Let the boy win his spurs, for, if God will, I desire that this day be his with all its honors.’* Young man, fight your own bat* tie, all through, and you shall have the victory. Oh, it is a battle worth fighting! Two monarchs of old fought a duel, Charles V. and Francis, and the stakes were kingdoms, Milan and Burgundy. You fight with sin, and the stake is Heaven or hell. Do not get the fatal idea that you are a genius, and that, therefore, there is no need of close application. It is here where multitudes fail. The curse of the age is the geniuses; men with enormous self-conceit and egotism, and nothing else. I had rather be an ox than an eagle; plain and plcfttding and useful, rather than highflying and good for nothing but to j pick out the eyes of carcasses. Extraordinary capacity without work is ex-1 traordinary failure. There is no hope j for that person who begins life resolved to live by his wits, for the proba-1 bility is that he has not any. It was | not safe for Adam, even in his unfall-! en state, to have nothing to do. and, therefore, God commanded him to be I a farmer and horticulturist Ue was to dress the garden and keep it, and had he and his wife obeyed the divine Injunction and been at work, they would not have been sauntering under the. trees and hankering after that fruit which destroyed them and their posterity; a proof positive for all ages to come that those who do not attend to their business are sure to get into mischief. I do not know that the prodigal in Scripture would ever have been reclaimed had he not given up his idle habits and gone to feeding swine for a living. The devil does not so often attack the man who is busy with the pen, and the hook, and the trowel, and j the saw and the hammer, lie is afraid of those weapons. But woe to the man whom this roaring lion meets with his hands in his pockets. Do not demand that your toil always he elegant and cieauly and ret'ned. ! There is a certain amount of drudgery through which we must all pass, whatever be our occupation. You know | i how men are sentenced to a certain number of years to prison, and after \ they have suffered and worked out the j j time, then they are allowed to go \ j free. So it is with all of us. God [ passed on us the senteuce; “lly the j j sweat of thy brow sbalt thou eat bread.” We must endure our time of drudgery, and then, after awhile, we i will he allowed to go into comparative I

liberty. We must be willing to ensure the senteuce. We all know what drudgery is connected with the beginning of any trade or profession; but this does not continue all our lives, if it bo the student's, or the merchant's, or the mechanic's life. I know you have at the beginning many a hard time, but after awhile these things will become easy. You will be your own master. Uod’s sentence wiU be satisfied. You will be discharged from prison. Bless God that you have a brain to thiuk, and hands to work, and feet to walk with, for in your constant activity, O, young man, is one of your strongest defenses. Put your trust in God and do your best. That child had it right when the horses ran away with the load of wood and he sat on it. When asked if he was frightened, he said: “No, I prayed to God and hung on like a beaver." ^ Respect for the Sabbath will be to the young man auolher preservative against evil, God has thrust into the toil and fatigue of life a recreative day, when the sou! is especially to be fed. It is no uew-fnngled notion of a wild-brained reformer, but an institution established at the beginning. God has made natural and moral laws so liarmouious that the body as well as the soul demands this institution. Our bodies are seven-day clocks, tha,t must be wound up as often as that or they yvill run down. Failure must come sooner or later to t he man who breaks the Sabbath. Inspiration has calied it the Lord’s day, and he who devotes it to the world is guilty of robbery. God will not let the sin go unpunished either in this world or the world to come.

This is the statement of ft man who has broken,bis Divine enactment: “1 was engaged in manufacturing ou the Lehigh river. Ou the Sabbath I used to rest, but never regarded God in it. One iteautiful Sabbath when the noise was ail hushed, aud the day was all that loveliness could make it, 1 sat | down on my piazza, and went to work I inventing a new shuttle. 1 neither stopped to eat uor drink till the sun went down, By that time 1 had the invention completed. The next morning 1 exhibited it, aud boasted of my day’s work, and was applauded. The shuttle was tried, aud worked well, but that Sabbath day's work cost me 8*0,000. We branched out and enlarged, and the curse of Heaven was upon me from that day on want” While the Diviue frown must rest upon him who tramples upou this statue, God> special favor will be upon that young man who scrupulously obserres it. This, day, properly observed, with throw a hallowed influence over all the week. The song aud sermon and sanctuary will hold back from presumptuous sins. That young man who begins the dutiesof life with either secret or open disrespect to the holy day, 1 venture to propheey, will meet with no permanent successes. God's curse will fail upou his ship, his ; store, his office, his studio, h:s body | and his soul. The way of the wicked i lie turneth upside down. In one of i the old fables it was said that a wonderful child was born in Bagdad, and a magician could hear his footsteps 6.UUU miles away. But I can hear in the footstep of that young ipan on his way to the house of worship Vwity the step not only of a lifetime, of use- ! fulness, but the oneomiug step of eternal ages of happiness yet millions of years away. A noble Ideal and confident expectation of approximating to it are an infallible defense. The artist completes In hie mind the great thought that he i

wishes to transfer to the canvas or tha marble before he takes up the crayon or the chisel. The architect plans out the entire structure before he orders the workmen to begin. and though there may for a long while seem to be nothing but blundering and rudeness, he has in his mind every Corinthian wreath and Gothic arch and Byzantine capital. The poet arranges the entire plot before he begins to chime the first canto of tingling rhythms. And yet, strange to say, there are men who attempt to build their character without knowing whether in the end it shall be a rude Tartar’s tent or a St. Mark’s of Vince —men who begin to write the intricate poem of their lives without knowiug.whether it shall be a Homer's “Odyssey” or a rhymester’s botch. Nine hundred and ninety-nine meu out of 1,000 are living without any great life-plot. Booted and spurred and plumed, and urging their swift courser in the hottest haste, I ask. Hallo! man; whither away?” Rush into the busy shop or store of many a one, aud, taking the plane out of the man's hand, or laying down the yardstick, say: “What, man, is all this about, so much stir and sweat?” The reply will stumblo and break down between teeth and lips. Every day's duty ought only to be the filling up of the main plan of existence. Let men be consistent. It tney prefer misdeeds to correct courses of action then let them draw out the design of kuavery and cruelty aud plunder. Let every day’s falsehood and wrong-doing bd added as coloring to the picture. Let bloody deeds red-stripe the picture, and the clouds of a wrathful God hang down heavily over the canvas, ready to break out in clamorous tempest. Let the waters be chafed and frothtangled, and green with immeasurable depths. Then take a torch of burning pitch and scorch into the frame the right name for it—the soul's suicide. If one entering upon sinful directions would only, in his mind or on paper, draw out in awful realty this dreadful future, he would recoil from it and say: “Am I a Dante, that by my own life I should write anotherTuferual?’” Many years ago word came to mo that two imposters, as temperance lecturers, had been speaking in Ohio, in various places, and giving their experience, and they told their audience that they had long been intimate with me, and had become drunkards by dining at my table, where I always had liquors of all sorts. Indignant to the last degree, I went down to the chief of Brooklyn police, saying that I was

going 10 siari mni nigm lor unto ia have the villains arrested, and I wauted him to tell me how to make the arrest. He smiled and said: “Do not waste your time by chasing- these men. Go home and do your work and they can do you no harm.” I took his counsel, and all was well. Long ago 1 made up my mind that if one will put his trust in God and be faithful to duty, he need not fear any evil. Have God on your side, young man, and all the combined forces of earth and hell can <lo you no damage. You may uow have enough strength of character to repel the various temptations to gross wickedness which assail you, but I do not know in what strait you may be thrust at some future time. Nothing short of the grace of the cross may theu be able to deliver you from the lions. You are not meeker thau Moses, not holier than David, nor mote patient than Jacob, and you ought not to consider yourself invulnerable. You may have some weak point of character that you have uever discovered, and in some hour when you are unsuspecting the Philistines will be upon thee, Samson. Trust not in your good habits, or your early training, or your pride of character; nothing short of the arm of Almighty God will be sufficient to uphold you. You leek forward to the world sometimes with a chilling despondency. Cheer up; I will tell you how you may make a fortuue. “Seek tirst the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all other things shall be added unto you.” I know you do not waut be mean in this matter. Give God the freshness of j*our life. You will not have the heart to drink down the brimmiug cup of life and then pour

fche dregs on God s altar, lo a saviour so infinitely generous you have not the heart to act like that. That i9 not brave, that is not honorable, that is not manly. Your greatest want in all the world is a new heart. In God’s name, I tell you. Ami the blessed spirit presses through the solemnitiesjkud privileges of this holy hour. Put the eupof life eternal to your thirsty lips. Thrust it not back. Mercy offers it; bleeding mercy, long-suffering mercy. Reject all other friendships, be ungrateful for all other kindness, prove recreant to all other barga'us, bit to despise God’s love for your immortal soul—do not do that. I would like fo see some of you this hour press out the ranks of the workl and lay *yoUr conquered spirit at the feet of Jesus. This hour is no waudering vagabond -staggering over the earth; it is a winged messenger of the skies whispering mercy U> thy soul. Life is smooth now. but after awhile it may be rough, wild and precipitate. There comes a crisis iu the history of every man. We seldom understand that turning point until It is far past. The road of life is forked, and 1 read on two sign boards: “This Is the way to happiness. ” “This is the way to ruin.” Mow apt we arire to pass the fork of the road without thinking whether it comes out at the door of bliss dr the gates of darkness. “Rejoice, O, young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth; but know thoa that for all these things God will bring thee into judg meat.” Activity. Don’t stand still Intellectually or spiritually; don’t fritter away opportunity. He more than simply one of the mass; seise every opportunity for influence.—Rev. W. E. Barton, Cong re

Sarsaparilla Is the best—to fact the One True Blood Partner Hood’S Pillc^ tasteless, mild, ell«^ ■ IUUU 2» rillb Uve All druggists. »P » No Local Color.—“So Bost on rejected MacMonnies* ‘Bacchantel”* “Yes, they were annoyed because she carried a bunch of crapes instead of a pot of baked beans.’’ —Chicago Record. Seckbt Societies—“Mr pa’s an odd fel- ; low,” boasted a little bov. “My pa’s a ; freemason,” replied the other, ‘*an’ that's : higher, for the hod fellows wait on the masons—Tit-Biis. How’s This? Wo offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that can not bo S cured by Hail’s Catarrh Cure, F. J. Cornet & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, Hie undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15. years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business ! transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by thoir firm. West & Truar, Wholesale Druggists, To- | ledo, O. . r Waldixo, Kixxax & Maryix, Wholesale ; Druggists, Toledo-, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bote j tie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonial* free. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. Dr. Kcrxit (writing a prescription)— ••Take tins every morning.” Pat—“Divil a bit I will. Do yes t'iuk Oi'm a dumbed • billy-gnat, that yes kin fade me on a bit o’ paper J”— Dp-to-Dato.

Home-Seekers Excursions. On November 17 and December 1 and 15. 18S#v the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Pant railway will sell round trip excursion tickets from Chicago to a great many points iu the Western end Southwestern states both on its own Hue and elsewhere, at greatly reduced rates. Details as to rates, routes, etc^ may be obtained on application to any coupon ticket agent or by addressing Gso. i H. HsArroKD, General Passenger Agen^ Chicago, 111. Goujst—“Is there a ball-room in this hotel?” Giulser-"Yes. sir; downstairs to tie left; only wo generally call it the bar in j this part of the country.”—Roxbury Gazette. Don't Start for California Os Puget Sound until you have to the undersigned for the Rurtinatou's Sheet of Tourist Rates, Variahie Routes 1 and Side Trips. It gives attractions eti route, describes .train service and person1 ally eouduetedVtourtst sleeper excursions to California. L. \V. Wailelky, G. P. A., St. Louis, Mo. TAQLKtan (facetiously)—"A juan can always dictate to his Stenographer, you know.” Wagleigh—“Yes; but she takes him down, just the same.”—Vogue. Cascakets stimulate liver, kidneys and bowei3. Never sicken, weaken or gripe. Hicks—“Are you. fond of children?” Wicks—‘‘Immoderately. A house is so restful after the litt'e dears have been put to bed.”—Boston Transcript. Ladt (to drunken beggar)—“Are yon not ashamed to beg!” D. B.—“Yes, ma'am, but Pm full; when Pm sober I’m a burglar." —N- Y. Tribune. Just try a 10c box of Cascarets, the finest liver and bowel regulator ever mado. Cojrvicr—“Pm in here for having five wives ’* Visitor—“How are you enjoying your liberty {”—Londou Figaro. 'I

Gladness Comes With a better understanding of the r transient nature of the many physr u , r* ical Uls, which vanish before proper ef- W forts—gentle efforts—pleasant efforts— rightly directed. There is comfort in ' the knowledge, that so many forms of sickness are not due to any actual disease, but simply to a constipated condi- ' tion of the system, which the pleasant family laxative. Syrup of Figs, promptly removes. That is why it is the only remedy with millions of -amilies, and is everywhere esteemed so highly hr all who value good health. Its beneficial What organ shall 1 buy t Why not buy the one which holds the world’s record for largest sales— the effects are due to the fact, that it is the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness without debilitating tho organs on which it acts. It is therefor® all important, in order to get its beneficial effects, to note when you purchase, that you hare the genuine article, which is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by all repu table druggists. If in the enjovment of good health, and the system is regular, laxatives or other remedies arc then not needed. If afflicted with any actual disease, one may be commended to the most skillful physicians, but if in need of a laxative, one should have the best, and with tho well-informed everywhere, Syrup c* Figs stands highest arid is most largely used apd gives most general satisfaction 1,000 SALESMEN WANTED urut > A it?.■ i