Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 37, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 January 1897 — Page 6

LIST MESSAGE , _ Of Gov. Matthews to the Indiana Gen* era! Assembly. the School* Are In Good Condition—The State Itobt'Keducod Two Million Dollar*—Intermediate 1'rUon and Some Btfurn* Kficgnted - A Ptea for the Caban Patriot*. I»DIA>AF -MS It d . Jan a—Got. Matthews Frid »y deLv< red hi? last message to the senator* and roruesentitive* in joint session. He “ was received with nppau?e. uad in the hour and a hair read nc of the message many point* were approved with clapping of hands. This •Tidonoe of appreciation was especially enthusiastic at his reference to the Cuban war. Got. Matthews, in the beginning of his message. called attention to the gratifying condition of the public debt, which, during his administration, has been reduced til IQ,(MX Of tbi' sum IbiO.OUO was paid the first two ye rs and ci..*OO.OQO the last two In addition there has been a sav.eg of 81.000 in the annual Interest charnel With this t reduction cf the principal of the debt there has been a reduction of .ihs tax levy of t‘» nl a still further net reduction p: J e.-nt*. The governor thought a further moi.crato increase in the levy could be made. Ee advised the maintenance of the state debt ain^ieg fund, at the present ievr of three cents The. present assessed valuation of pro--'ty :u t-hc >t te Is 81 S881-50 53i. ami there i- iso a to believe that itwilimaaerially vary from this sum in the future. The total domestic debt Is .’.000. and foreign dc £ «ia. 12. making the total state debt •E,? < ' u The governo* attributed much of Ik i good condition to thetas lawp.ssedby the democratic icgi-latureof 1891. TllK HAC1MI W4K K**.'erring to his war with peculiar racing associations, he conrratul ted the state unoo its cow b. me rid r f the demoralizing ir.fi Jeace* of such icsmuuona He commended the management of the state institutions oed recommended the establishment of an intermedia* prison, as thr two prison* no-' contain 40) more convicts than con be conveniently or comfortably accommodated in them. The third institution he commended aa one for the reformation of poung criminals He said its operation should be supplemented by laws which would p-rnfit the conditionalreletse of the inmates for a practical test of the genuineness of their reformation when considered wise by the author Die* of the reformatory. The governor advised the repeal of the law pasted two years ago providing for the release Of convicts in the counties from which tbev were rent to prison. He approved the hiil when it was presented to him. with over one hundred others Just three day# before th" adjournment of the general assembly. He did not npprectate than as he docs now its inhumanity ■ This law it wrong and should be repealed " hrsaid. ‘It often occurs that th^ prisoners do not desirs to return. to the county from which convicted, either through shame or that it is not tuelr home in the latter case, to return a prisoner and -end him from the jail door hi mei»ss penniless ar.d friendless, Is not on.y unjust and inhuman, but often forces the pri-dner into the

aKCoMMISMOft OrCSIMK.” He advised that the discharged prisoner be provided with a rcmfortable suit of clothes, paid a small sum :n rush, with a railroad ticket, procure * b the warden /? the prison, to ruty paint eithla tb»» limits of the state -Ihirine th- last two years." the message continued, ‘l hiv pardoned or paroled ill* priso ners and granted Sd remissions of fines ami forfeiture*. "h* diet rest lag depression In business : Ultra. uck of employment by a '' large number of our ettizens. has rendered the pacatlons for remission of tines most bur»i -isomc l hare released a number of youTig convicts, serving for first ofiense. by tak‘ng off from one to three months before the expiration of their sentence. In the majority of cases 1 b ve exercised the right to p role or a conditional pardon ** After giving milch space to detailed mention of the reports from the many state institutions the governor called attention to the #x-ecil-nt public school system of IadlsJia He •bowed that the OOMMOJI SCHOOL. FUND Of the state now amounts to HO.818.43J19. ard that the school levy is 11 cents on the •t*> valuation The total enumeration of. school children In ISOS was 731.MO and the total revenue from nil scarves for the school ye r In ISM was tt.90l 4id.0t There sre 10*075 children not enrolled In public nc~iOois. bat 30.00> of this nnmber attend private and parochi-l schools leaving 100.OX) children not in schools of anr kind The governor then gave a long and exhaustive presentation of compulsory education. which he t ivored On this point he said in conclusion: <“1 am convinced that a moderate and judicious law. compelling the attendance of children. say. between th* ages of 7 and 12. In the public, private or parochial schools for a certain number of months, ear. four, each y«ar. could be enforced, and would be productive of •rust good to the state and nation." Ee did not comment the complex and sxpens ve system of health regulations pro* posed by the board of health He thought the board, as now constituted, could accomplish great good if the power at its command be wisely used. As a rule, the simpler the method* adopted the more effective and valuable' It U easy to f sten upon the state expensive methods, requiring large numbers of Officers, but difficult to get rid of them The governor praised htgblv the national gttr i. and gave at length the work of the Chickamauga commission. He suggested In* dt na’s co-operation in the Tennessee centenm L but did not altogether commend the plan reported for celebrating Indiana’s centeunUL On this point his views v-ere: “The plan proposed by the commission. Which, offered in the proper patriotic spirit. aa<i commensurate with the occasion, would entail no light expense upon the citix*ns of the state, and should cause you to seriously consider whether vou would be justified In adding to th-Ir burdens. "Th* condition of a people can be such at times that the slightest additional burden could be oppressive and unjust 1 doubt that a better p.nn could be presented than this of the commission, nd should you. efter careful del lb r*ti ns. conclude to adopt it. I desire to dire t your attention to one of iui recommendations. and that is the appropriation lor the sits of THE C&ffTtSMAL BriLPIUG Of the two squares of ground la the city of Indianapolis belonging to the state and now Occupied by the Indiana Institute for the education of the blind " T he message covered building associations, improvements of the rivers of this state, and Wave In detail the proceedings relating to <5rren river island, long in dispute between Kentucky sad Indiana The governor next referred to the Cuban

srar on which be said: •While it U true that domestic matters, promoting the welfare of the people of the •t^te should seriously engage your attention, ea 1 that Questions of national poller of ioreig; or international relations era?. no: properly come within year province, yet there * one subject wholly without the state, but e-earing the earnest attention pf our pecp!e. to which I be!i*Te you cot.2d fittingly give expression While you are peacefully assembled here under the benign tafiHeners of free government and in the full ♦njcvment of all that hum n liberty can bestow, there is n people, our closest neighbors, at this time ear ..red in a desperate and bloody atruF'.’le for freedom, from a brutal and degr. dim: despotism These struggling patriots ere sain nted with the a.-.me ambitions and aspr-itlens that'bunted within the breasts «f oar tathors over' one hundred year# ipx The patriots of Cuba are making a brave and e.rcti; rtcr- pub miscn. id appral to—nay. kav«* the right to !»epe for and receive our warmest avmpathies. Sympathy. even substantial aid. is more due from the American people than from any other os thf face of the globe. Almost within

Um sound of the bell that run* out 'liberty throughout all the lend to ell the inhabitants thereof -Almost within the shadow o* the stars and stripes, the proud emblem of a nation’s freedocs, almost breathia* the liberty-loving air wafted from onr shores, we have aroused la their souls a longing for the blessings which we as a people exult in Can we turn a deaf ear to their pleadings? > Should we not at least comfort and encourage them with words of sympathy? Do we not owe is in justice to ourselves to bid them Godspeed in their aacred pause, and express the hope that soon the last vestige of a miserable and eftet > despotism shall be swept from the western hemisphere? •Toe people of Indiana are brave and generous. and but one generation ago her sons sealed with their bloo.1 their sublime faith in free government and human liberty. It seems to ire that their chosen representatives assembled could well give voice to the generous sentiment that pervades the state, through a resolution, requesting our senators and representatives in congress to use every effort that at least belligerent rights be accorded by our government to the Cuban patriots'* AT CLEVELAND Jackson Day Was Cetebr »ted by the Democrat* by a Grand D ili. Cleveland. O., Jan. 9.—Jackson day was celebrated or the democrats o£ Cleveland by a grand ball Friday night, at which all the leading lights of the party throughout th; city and county were preseut. The bail was preceded by a series of speeches. C. P. Salon, president of the W. J. Bryan association of Cuyahoga county, made a stirring add-ess in which he declared that no gold bug would eyor again obtain recognition in the party. H. K. Hackney declared in favor of obtaining control of city governments so as to keep the organization in shape for fighting the federal battle. John 11. Coffinberry, mayor of Lorain, also spoke. A letter was read from il J. liryan, expressing regret at his inability to be r resent and declaring that the only salvation of the country lay in the triumph of Jacksonian principles. * _" OLD HICKORY. The Wettcruoo Club, of Louisville, ©*»!#» brute tb« Victory of Gen. Jackson Over the British. v? Louisville. Ky., Jan. 9.—The Watterson club, in pursuance of its constitutional custom, made its Jackson day meeting one for all democrats, and a special invitation was extended to the silver wing and freeiv accepted. Harmony was the watchxvord Many fra ik but pleasant speeches were made an l it was the consensus of all that in local and state affairs the parly should be united and national issues left entirely to individual members and national elections. Hartnouy is especially desired because of present republican control of the state s nd city. Leading speakers of the silver wing were \V. B. Hoke and Hancock Taylor. For the gold standard men the strongest speeches w;-— made by W. 11 lialdeman, John II. Leathers and Charles II Long.

LEXINGTON PASTIMES, B* Tat Ills Eye Oat With m P«k«r. and Th«n Dodced the K<in(ed Furuifr'l Halletn. Lexixgtox, Ky.. Jan. 9.—John Day* ton, a farmer, bought two shirts from Len Lambert in Rosenbaum's stora Friday, and tendered a five-dollar bill : in payment, Lambert didn’t have the change, and started out to get it. Dayton objected, drew his revolver, demanded the $5, and started out with the shirts. Lambert kicked out one of Dayton’s eyes with a poker, and then did a hop, skip and jump to ge out of the way of Dayton’s bullets. ' Jtiuri Harvey Firm. Wilmixgtox, 0., Jan. 9.—Seth Harvey, brother of the alleged wife murderer, spent Friday morning in the jail endeavoring to secure a confession, but to no avail. The grand jury has finished the investigation. Late Friday afternoon the grand i jury returned an indictment against James Harvey for the wilful murder of his wife. The jury was unable to de1 termine whether the deatn resulted from drowning, clubbing, kicking, sandbagging or being thrown down stairs. _ ° With Forsvry. Colcmbvs, 0., Jan. 9.—A young man giving the name of F. J. Spronell was arrested here on a charge of forgery. On his person was found one check for $29 and two for $10 each. Spronell is a paroled prisoner, who was receivad at the penitentiary from Hamilton county November 15, 1893, to serve six years for receiving stolen goods. He was paroled in April, 1895, and his sentence would expire in September, 1897. lie says he is hard up and would like to serve out his sentence. Gov. Uashnell ffonf. Colcmbcs, O., Jan. 9.—The governor's office attaches were advised Friday that Gov. Bushnell was too ill at home in Springfield to sit up, and can not be here this week, even under favorable circumstances The physicians think it is the grip, but there is some apprehension that it may.be typhoid fever that has attacked the chief executive. His sou, John Bushnell, is just recow ing from typhoid fever.

Tho XiMlBC r W»l» Not «•** Him. Fbankvobt, Ky., Jan. In the case of Commonwealth vs. Si Shelby, from McCracken county, the court of ap» peals Friday decided that in an indict- > ment charging' a man with “biting off - an ear," the leaving off of one **t" in the word “off" does not invalidate the indictment. They also decided in the case of Commonwealth rs. Knkland,- - from Monroe county, that it is lawful to shoot gray squirrels at any seasor of the year._ __ P«ltf» Ju!;» Robbed. LAwaKXcr.ciEO, Ky., Jam 9.—The most remarkable theft reported in this section for cany years is one wherein Police Judge Porter Clay Walker is the Victim. He ?ives on Woodford street, and a hundred, yards beyond his residence is his largo tobacco bam. This structure was entered at night and 1,500 pounds of his finest tobacco taker by some nervy burglar. I Conn Jt.ee Oon to Prison. I Lot"ISA. Ky., Jan. 9.—John Rice, aged 59, was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for breaking into F. B. Branham’s residence and stealing i mm clothing and provision*

TALMAGE’S SEBMON. A Greeting: to the Congress Assembled at the CapitaL N* Power So Greet as the Will of the Al-mighty-All Element* Are as Kothius Compared with Omnipotence. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage took lor the •object of a recent sermon before his Washington congregation: “Stormiug | the Heights,” basing it on the text: Who art thou, 0 great mountain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain.— Zecharlah. It., 7. Zerubbabel! Who owned that difficult name, in which three times-the ! letter “b” occurs, disposing most peopie to stammer iu the prouuuicatiou? Zerubbabel was the splendid man call to rebuild the destroyed temple of Jerusalem. Stone for the building had been quarried, and the trowel had rung at the laying of the corner-stone, atui all went well, when the Cuthaeaus offered to help iu the work. They were a bad lot of people, and Zerubbabel declined their help, and then the trouble began. The Cuthaeaus prejudiced the secretary of the treas- 1 ury against Zerubbabel, so that the wages of the carpenters and masons could not be paid, aud the^neavy cedar timbers which had been dragged from Mount Lebauoa to the Mediterranean and floated in rafts from Beyrout to Joppa, and were to I be drawn by ox team from Joppa to ! Jerusalem, lmd halted and ash result : of l ie work o.‘ those jealous Cuthaeaus for Id years the building of the temple was stopped, llut after 16 years, Zerubbabel. the mighty soul, got & new call from God to go ahead with the temple building, and the angel of the Lord in substance said: “They have piled up obstacles iu the way of Zerubbabel uutil they have become as a i mountain, height above height, crag I above crag; but it shall all be thundered down and made flat aud smooth j as the floor of a house. “Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel | thou shall become a/plaiu.’” > Well, the Cuthaeaus are not all dead yet. They are busy iu every neighborhood and every eity and every nation of every age, heaping obstacles iu the way of the cause of God. They have piled up hindrances above hindrances uutil they have become a hill, I uud the Hill has become a mountain, I and the mountain has become an Alp, and there it stands, right in the way of all movemeutsfor the world's salvation. Same people are so discouraged about the height and breadth of this mountaiu iu front of them that they have done nothing for 16 years, and many of those who are at work trying to do something toward removing the mountain toil in such a I

way that I can see they have not much faith that the mouutaiu of hindrances will ever be removed. They feel they must do their duty, but they feel all the time—1 can hear it in my prayers and exhortations—that they are striking their pickaxes and shovels into the side of the Rocky mountains. If the j good Lord will help me while I preach i i will give you the names of some of the high mountains which are really in the way, and then show you that those mountains are to be prostrated, torn down, ground up, leveled, put out of sight forever. “Who art thou, 0 great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou alialt become a plain.” First,vthere is the Mountain of Prejudice, as long as a range of the Pyrenees. Prejudice against the Bible as a dull book, an inconsistent book, a cruel book, an unclean book, and in every way an unlit book. The most of them have never read it. They think the strata of the rocks contradict the account in Genesis. The poor souls do not know that the Mosaic account agrees exactly with the geological account. No violiu or flute ever were in better accord. By crowbar and pickax and shovel and blasting powder the geologist goes down in the earth and says: “The first thing created iu the furnishing of the earth was the plants.” Moses says: “Ay! 1 told you that in the book ! of Genesis: 'The earth brought forth I grass and herb, yielding seed after his : kind, and the tree yielding fruit.’” ! The geologist says: “The next thing in the furnishing of the earth was the ! makiug of the creatures of the sea.” I Moses says: “Ay! 1 toid you that was next in the book of Geuesis: 'God said: Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creatures that have life; and God created great whales.’” The geologist goes on and says: “The next thing in the furnishing of the ea^rth was the creation of the cattle and the reptiles and the beasts of (he field.” “Ay!” says Moses. “I told you that was next in the first chapter of Genesis: "And God said, let the earth bring forth the living creature! after his kind, cattle, and creeping thiug, and beast of the earth after his kind.’” The geologist goes on digging in the earth and says.” “The next creature was the human family.” “Ay!” says Moses, “I told you that was next in the book of Genesis: “So God. created man in ilis own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female, created lie them.’” Another mountain of hindrance is that of positive and outspoken imrnor* ala. Thera is the Mountain 'of luebriaev. It is piled high with kegs and demijohns and decanters and

hogsheads, on which sit the victims of that traffic whose one business is to rob earth and Heaven of the most generous and large-hearted and splendid of tbe human race. If their business was to take only the mean and stingy and contemptible and useless, we would not not say much against the work, for there are tens of thousands of men and women who are a nuisance to the world, and their obliteration from human society would he an advantage to all that is good. The re movai of these moral deficits would not aroAse in us much of a protest. Bat insobriety takes the best. The Mountain of luebriacy stands in the nay of the Kingdom of tiod, and hundreds of thousands of men, but for

that hindrance, would step right into the ranks of the Lord’s host and mareh heavenward, each one taking a regiment with him. The mountain of Inebriacy is not an ordinary mountain; but it is armed. It is a line of fortresses continually blazing away its destructive forces upon all our neighborhoods, towns and cities, their volleys of death poured down upon the homes and churches. Under this power more than 100,000 men and women in this country are every year imprisoned, and an army of 000,000 drunkards almost shake the earth with their staggering tread. It causes in this country 300 tndrders and 400 suicides a year. This Mountain of Inebriacy has not only assaulted the land, but bombarded the shipping of the sea, and some of the most appalling shipwrecks on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts have been the result. What sank the steamer Kotlisay* Castle, on the way from 'Liverpool to Dublin, destroying 100 liumau lives? A drunken cea captain. What blew up the Ben Sherrod on the Mississippi and sent 150 to horrible death? A drunken crew. What drove on the breakers a steamer making her way from New York to Charleston, aud sent whole families, on the way home from summer watering places, to the merciless depths of the sea? A drunken sea captain. Gather up from the depths of the rivers, and lakes, and oceans the bones of those shipwrecked by intoxicated captains and crews, aud you could buiid*ou.t of them a temple of horror^-aiLthe pillars and altars and ceilings fasmoued of human skulls. It is possible that such a Mountain of Inebria^Jcan ever be made a plain? Yocdevr^slTsd, is the Mountain of Crime, with >ts strata of fraud, and malpractice, aud malfeasance, and blackmail, and burglary, aud piracy, and embezzlement, and libertinism, and theft, all its height manned wijth the desperadoes, tffe cutthroats, the pickpockets, the thimble-riggers, the plunderers, the marauders, the pillagers, the corsairs, the wreckers, the bandits, the tricksters, the forgers, the thugs, the garotters, the fire fiends, the dynamiters, the shoplifters, the kleptomaniacs, the pyromauiaos, the dipsomaniacs, the smugglers, the kidnapers, the Jack Sheppards, the Robert Macaires, and the Macbeths of villainy. The crimes of the worldl Am 1 not right in

cal hug them, when piled up together, a mountain? But yve can not bring ourselves to appreciate great heights except by comparison. You thiuk,of Mount Washington as high, especially those of you who ascended as of old, on mule-back, or more recently by rail-train, to the Tip Top House. Oh, no! That is not high! For it is only about 6,000 feet, whereas rising on this Western Hemisphere are Chimborazo, 21,000 feet. high, and Mount Bahama. 23,000 feet high, aud Mount Sarota, 24,800 feet high. But that is not the highest mouutain on the Western Hemisphere. The highest mouutain is the mountain of crime, aud is it possible that this mountain, before our Zerubbabel, can never be m^de a plain? There is also the Mountain of War, the most volcanic of all mountains— the Vesuvius which, not content, like the Vesuvius of Italy, wi£h overwhelming . two cities, Herculaneum and Pompeii, has covered with its fiery scoria thousands of cities, and would like to whelm all the cities of both hemispheres. Give this mountain full utterance, and it would cover up Washington aud New York and London as easily as a householder, with his shovel, at ten o'clock at night, banks a grate tire with ashes. The mountain is a pile of fortresses, barricades, and armories, the world’s artillery heaped wheels above wheels, columbiads above columbiads, 74-pounders above 74pounders, wrecked nations above wrecked njatious. This Mountain of War is not ouly loaded to canuouade the earth, but it is also a cemetery, holding thp corpses of 30,000,000 slain in the wars of Alexander and Cyrus, 60,000,000 slain in Roman wars, 180,000 slain in war with Turks and Saracens, and holding about 35,000,000,000 corpses, not million, but billion, which was the estimate made by Edmund Burke more than a hundred years ago of those who had been destroyed by wars, so that you would have to.add many more millions now. Twenty years ago a careful author estimated that about fourteen times the then population of the world had gone down in battle or in hospital after battle.! Ahl This Mountain of War is not like an ordinary mountain. It is like Kiiauea, one of the Sandwich Islands, which holds the greatest volcano in all the earth, and concerning which 1 wrote from the Sandwich Islands a few years ago: “What a hissing, bellowing, tumbling, soaring force is Kiiauea! Lake of unquenchable fire; convolutions aud paroxysms of dame; elements of nature in torture; torridity and luridity; congregation of dreads; molten horrors; sulphurous abysms, swirling mystery of ail time;infinite turbulence; chimney of perdition; wallowing terrors; fifteen acres of threats; glooms insufferable and Dantesque; cauldron stirred by the champion with of Pandemonium; camp-fire of the armies of Diabolos; wrath of the mountains in

futi bloom; shimmering incandescence; pyrotechnics of the planet; furnace blast of the ages—KilaueaH The mightiest, grandest movement for driving brutal war out of the earth dates from January 11, 1897. The men who on either side of the sea did most to effect that plan of arbitration have made themselves immortal. The even* ing of the present adminstration of the United States government has been honored with the gladdest event of the 18 centuries. All | civilised nations will copy the sublime example. 1 impure the illustrious senate of the Unit* ed States to allow nothing to interfere with a vote of ratification, that the bells of all Christendom may ring out, “Peace on earth, good will toward men.” Senators, many of yon my personal friends, let me say that this is the opportunity of your lives. By em

phatic and enthusiastic rote rise to the splendor of the occasion and win the favor of all the good on earth and all the mighty in Heaven. Let th« “Aye! aye!” of our American senate resound through all the capitals ol Europe, and make all the arsenals and armories of the round world hear that there shall be no more murder among nations. , . s There is also the long range of moun* tains, longer than Appalachian range, longer than Caucasian range, longer than Sierra Nevada range—the piledup opposition of bad literature, had homes, bad institutions, bad amusements, bad centuries, bad religion; Paganism, Hindooism, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, and buttressed and enthroned Godlessness devoted to ambitiou and lu^t and hydraheaded, argus-eyed abominatiou, as it stands with lifted fist and mocking lips, challenging Jehovah upon the throne of the universe to strike j if He dare. Oh, it is a great mountain, i as my text declares. There is no use in denying The most authentic statistics declare it. The signs of the I times prove it. Ail Christian workers I realize it. It is a mountain. “The i mountain can never be brought down," says worldly speculation. “The moun- : tain can never be made a plain,"; says small faith in the churches. i Well, let us r,oe. Let us look about for the implements we can lay our hands on. Let us count the ; number or >ur side who are w iling to dig with a hovel, to bore a i mnel, or blast a rock. Let us see if tl.cre is any foreign help that will come in to re- j enforce us. I do not want to make ; myself absurd by attempting an impossibility. If it is only one spade at j the fooli of Mount Blanc; if it is only j one arm, capable of lifting but a few pounds, against a mountain that j weighs a hundred milliou tons, let us quit before vve make ourselves the travesty aud caricature of the universe. If we are to undertake this job, first of all we must have a competent engiueer, one who knows all about excavations, about embankmeuts, about tunuels, about mountains. I know engineers who have carved up mountains, cut down mountains, removed monntams. I will do uothiug unless I know who is to be our engineer. Zerubbabel led at the rebuilding of the aucient temple, and MatChew Henry, the greatest of coimuefixators, declares that our Zerubbabel is the. Lord Jesus Christ The Zerubbabel of my text was only

a type of the glorious and omnipotent Jesus, and as 1 look up into the face of this Divine engineer and see it glow with all the splendors of the Godhead, and see that ! in His arm is thef almightiness that | flung out all the worlds that glitter in 1 the miduight heavens, and that to lift j the Himalayas would dost Him no more j effort than for me to lift an ounce, my | courage begins to rally, and my faith ; begins to mount, and my enthusiasm is all aflame, and the words pf my text this moment just fit my lips and express the triumph of inv soul, and I cry out: “Who art thou, O great mountain, before Zerubbubel thou shdlt become a plain.” Sometimes a general begins a battle before he is ready, because the enemy forces it on him. The general says: “The enemy are pushing us, and sp I opeu battle. We are not sufficient to cope with them, but I hope the reserve forces will come up in time.” The battle rages, and the general looks through ' his field glass at the troops, but ever and anon he sweeps his field glass backward and upward toward the hill, to see if the reserve forces are coming. “Hard pushed are we!” says the general. “1 do wish those re-enforcements would come up.” After awhile the plumes of the advanciug cavalry are seen tossing on the ridge of the hill, and then the flash of swords, and then the long lines of mounted troops, their horses in full gallop, and the general says: “All is well. Hold out, my men, • a little longer. Let the sergeants fide along the lines and cheer the men, and tell them re-enforcemeuts are coming.” And now the rumbling of the batteries and gun carriages is distinctly heard, and soon they are in line, and at the first roar of the newly-arrived artillery the enemy, a little while before so jubilant, fall back in wild retreat, their way strewn with canteens and knapsacks and ammunition, that the defeated may be unhindered in their flight. That is just the way now. In this great battle against sin and crime and moral death the enemy seem too much for us. More grogshops than churches.- More bad men than good men, and they come up with bravado and the force of great numbers. They have opened battle upon us before we are, iu oar owu strength, ready to meet them, and great are the discouragements. Hut steady, there! Hold on! Re-en-forcements are coming. v Through the glass of inspiration I look, and see the flash of the sword of “Him Who Hath on His vesture and on His thigh a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.” All Heaven ; is on our side, and is coming to the rescue. 1 hear the rumbling of the King’s artillery, louder than any thunder that ever shook the earth, and with every roll of the ponderous

wheels oar courage augments, and when these re-enforcements from llearen get into line with the forces of God already on earth, all the armies of righteousness will sec that their hour of doom has come, and will warer and fall back and take flight and nothing be left of them save here and there, strewn by the wayside, an agnostic’s pen, or a broken decanter or a torn playbill of a debasing amusement or a blasphemous paragraph, or a leper’s scale, or a dragon’s tooth, to show they ever existed. Let there be cheering all along the lines of Christian workers, over the fact that what the shovels fail-to do will be accomplished by the thunderbolts. “Whoart thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou Shalt become a plain.” - The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea, Shrine of the mighty can it be That this is all remains erf thesl

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