Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 24, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 October 1897 — Page 6

KINGDOM TO EMPIRE >K3n? of Corea Proclaims Him* self Emperor. • Hermit Kingdom Throw* Off AU Sean* Ibm» of Being the Tome! of Another New nod Join* tho Greet Column of Pmirm WajmBXSTON. Oct. 10.—The Core an lefttioa has received au official cable •fcaung that the “King1 has proclaimed hiatself emperor from this date, October IS, 1807.” The transition which Corea mikes, from a kingdom to an empire, is felt to hare considerable significance in oriaatal affairs, although the cable to the legation gives no details of the change, aad the officials here are without an;

KING (NOW KMPKKOKl OF COREA. Information ms to the leading up to it. It is understood, however, to be a part of the progressive policy on which Const hasembarked'following the lead of Japan mad C hina The king is m member of the progressive party, and shares the wish of that party to bring (Corea up to modern standards. The opposition element is known as the exmaervative party, and is desirous of preserving the old traditions and gov* ernmeatal system of the country. J Mr. Soh. who recently died here, was the leading figure of this progressive etemcnt, while the Corcan minister is a member of the conservative .party. The last step takeu by the king. «ia proclaiming himself etuperor. is regarded as a final stroke of the progress mire and modern element The change also has another aspect. China long has asserted a suzerainty over Corea, and It was this claim that brought on the China-Japan war. While the claim is dormant yet China never Am* relinquished what she has regardad aa au hereditary sovereignty over Corea. With the latter country as a hiagdom. some apparent assent wa? given to the claim of au imperial authority in China, but with Corea herself advancing to the rauk oi aa empire, she throws off every evidence of dependence on any outside power. This independence would apply also to Japan and Kussia, which have been seeking tc gain influence and control in Corea, owing to that country's extensive coast line, and valuable harbors on the North Pacific. To Russia, in particular, the acquisition of Corea's Pacific coast line has been regarded as of great stragetic importance, as Russia's present ports on the Pacific are closed by ice during the winter, while those of Corea are open the year arouud. THE COMPETITOR CASE fan—Idrrvil by the Spanish Cabinet with a View to Final Srttli mmt. llauaui, Oct. 16. —The Spanish oal>inet yesterday discussed tin* ease of the American schooner Competitor, which was captured in Cuban waters on April 2.’*, 1*96. consideration of which, owing to the fear which Premier Canovas del Castillo lutd of stirring up acliou upon the part of the congress of the United States, was (postponed by the feivernmcuL The cabinet yesterday ordered the minister* of foreign affairs, the navy and the colonies to examine the documents in the case with the view of its eventaal settlement by the courts. AUTONOMIST LEADER. •nor (iliurrgK. a Prominent < uban. t on. ferrlns with Madrt.l Auihorlilrt. / TisPRil*. Get. lift. - Sen or Gimerga,U •prom incut leader of the Cuban autotuN, mists, has arrived here incognito, and has had a conference with the «.minister for the colonies, Senor lluret, at which the former weeominended candidates for posts under the proposed, Cuban reform miministration. Among the names mi, gested by Senor Uimerga for an appointment was that of Senor Unison, a distinguished lawyer of Havana. NEW SOUTH WALES.. | nms J Uroncht In the Last Threr Venn. StX'SW. N. S. W„ OcL 16.—During the course, of his speech on the presentation of the budget of the New South Wales, the premier. Sir George 11. ftied, referring to the drought of the last three years, said it has cost the eolouy thousands of head of cattle and 3X.&O0 sheep; but. he added, the pros peek of agriculture were better, the wheat area extending over a million THIRTEEN INDICTED. (m Bills gonad Agiluit tbs Assailants ol Mrs. (ilnuoii. Nbwpobt. Ky.. OcL it*. —The special grand jury of Campbell county reported %he indictmeuts of the gang that criminally assaulted Mrs. William Gleason -on the night pf October i Seven were indicted fur criminal assault, the penalty of which is death. Six wer • in■dicted for complicity in the outrage, Ahe penalty for w nich is from 10 to 61 pears. John Shannon, Matt Meemin, Hubert Metier and Wm. Shorely went ^released. * hare will be speedy triala

POSTAL MATTERS. ■•port or the Sccood Aaotatont Pottmf tW*U«H«Kt, UttU( m Interootiuc Review of the Priuclptl Development* to the Entire t*o«tot- Trooaportotloo ServU-e of the Culled SUM ud Cenewtlitg Forolgo Mailt. Washington, Oct, IK—The annual report of W. S. Shalleuberger. second assistant postmaster-general made pubi lie last night, gives an interesting review of the principal developments in j the entire postal transportation ser- j viee of the United States and connecting foreign mails. It shows an rggre- I gate of appropriations for this large | part of the postal service for the Cur- j rent year of S3l.04I.2SS; the probable deficiency is $500,000, making the estimated expenditures tins year $31,541.- | ass. This will be $L633,l)45, or S.K» per j cent, more than for the fiscal year just j closed. The estimate for the fiscal year 1899 j is S3S.3S7.260. which is $1,796,021 more j than the estimated expenditure for the I current year. The aunual rate of expenditure for the inland mail service j in the year just closed was $49,862,074. i and for foreign mail service $1,791,170, j after deducting $338,029 for inter* j mediary service to loreigu countries. The summary of allclassesof service 'j in operation June SO last follows: Number of routes. S3.491; length of j routes. 470.0S3 miles; aunual rate of ex- j penditures, $49,863,074; number of miles ! traveled per annum. 420.830,479; rate of | cost per mite traveled. 11.84 cents; rate | of cost per mile of length. $106.08; av- : erage uurnber of trips per week, 8.60. For star mail service the estimate for j the fiscal year ending June SO. 1899, is $5,493,000. Last year there was au increase of 3,339,749 miles of travel in star serviee. so. esseutial to rural districts. A current year deficiency of $30,000 is estimated for the steamboat mail service. The estimates for the fiscal year 1 s‘39 include steamboat serviee 8470.000. mail messeuger service, $353.000; transportation by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices,by purchase or otherwise. $323,0**0, aud wagon service $7s-1.009. Last year there was only one pneumatic postal tube iu operation in the country. that in Philadelphia. Since then four more eputracts have been executed iu Philadelphia. New York. Boston and between New York and Brooklyn. Concerning this new postal feature, Gen. ShaUeuberger reports: "It is v|uite possible to carry second, third and fourth-class matter, as well as first, when it can be made profitable. Extension to stations several miles distant from the main office eventually will save clerical force as well as expedite delivery iu distant cities from 12 to 24 hours. The must important source of revenue to the department will be the large.increase of local correspondence ami special delivery letters. The extension of the tubular system will be ' necessarily slow aud probably conI fined to populous centers. The amount reported withheld from ; the Pacific railroads on account of transportation is $1,212,023; estimate for railroad transportation for the fisI cal year 1899 is $33,333,000. No esti- ‘ mate for special fast mail service is j submitted, as it is stated the service in j general will be better if the special I facility appropriation is discontinued. I The estimate for electric aud cable car ! service is $35 000, and ISO applications | for establishment of new service of I this character are on file. As to foreign mails the report makes au estimate of $».901.360 for transportation aud $ 117,003 for balances due foreign countries. The aggregate cost of this service was $2,019,193. including $1,106,276 for transatlantic and $179,132 for transpacific service. The report takes au important position as to newspaper mail, and a plan , to make the profits on short hauls offj set the long runs J Gen. Shallenberger ssys: "There ; seems to be no good reason why the gretst bulk of legitimate newspapers carried by the government, at a great j loss, to remote places should be permitted to be taken away fro nr the mails l*y railroad and express companies whenever there is a short haul that would make the carriage of them profitable to the government. The carriage of newspapers, packages, etc., by railroads and express couipanj ies may Lave l»een justified, : perhaps, years ago, when the railway mail service was less efficient. Hut with our present facilities, aud such as may be easily obtained, 1 am eouviueed L that the department can aud should PVarry the great bulk of newspaper, matter that has been for years withyhekl from the mails and sent in bag'gage cars aud special express tram*.”

NARROW ESCAPE rb« tnltnl Stair* Kstsua* i'uttrr Halutoa 1*. CtiM* »u Cviuiuliig l“olut Mu*lt CmaKUKSTox, S. C.. Oct. 18k—The 1’nited States revenue practice ship Salmon 1*. Chase came into Charleston harbor early yesterday morning, after an exciting incident just off Fort Sum* ter. , The vessel failing to mark all buoys, went aground on Cumming Point shoal. The situation looked serious for a few moments, but the prompt arrival of assistance from the city averted trouble. The Chase was pulled off by the tug Cecils and towed to an anchorage in the stream by the revenue cutter Colfax. The Chase will remain here uutil all danger of yellow fever is past in Florida. KENNEDY ACQUITTED. Alleged B wCat Train Robber Discharge* at Kansas CUjr. Kansas City. Mo.. Oct 18k—John F. Kennedy, who has been on trial in the criminal court for the past week charged with being the leader of the Chicago A Alton passenger train robbery at Uiue Cut, in December last, was acquitted yesterday. Nine ballots were taken. The first resulted a to 4 for acquittal. The verdict was reached at 11:30 Saturday night, but wan udt delivered to J idge Wofford till luA) yesterday mom tug.

TALSAGE’S SEBMON. The Three Taverns on the Road to < Rome. Discourse Appllfd to the Dissipations of the lhj-Xoim Taveras ou the Hood of Lite—A t ribute to Kelormen. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage. in the fol- | lowiug sermon, in a unique way dis-, cusses the dissipations of the day. and j eulogizes the great reformers, past and j present. His text is: They came to meet us as far as Appii Forum j sad the Three Taverns. —Acts xxviii., 15. Seventeen miles south of Rome, Italy, there was a village of unfortu- j nate name. A tavern is a plaee of en- i tertaiument, and, in our time, part of \ the entertainment is a provision of j intoxicants. One such plaee you would j think would have been enough for j that Italian village. No! There were j three of them, with doors open for entertainment and obfuscation. The j world has never lacked stimulating drinks. You remember the condition j of Noah on one occasion, and of Abi-1 gail's husband, Nabal. and the story of | Belshazzar's feast, and Benhadad. and i the new wiue in old bottles, aud whole \ paragraphs on prohibition enactment thousands of years before Neal Dow was born; and no doubt there were whole shelves of inflammatory liquid in those hotels which gave the name Yo the village where Paul's friends1 came to meet him, namely the Three Taverns. In vaiu I search ancient geography for some satisfying account of that village. Two roads came from the seaeoast to that place; the one from Aetiuui. and the other from Puteoli, the last road being the one which Paul traveled. There | were, no doubt, in that village houses | of merchandise and mechanics' shops, aud professional offices, but nothiug is j knowu of them. All we know of tnat | village is that it had a profusion of inns—the Three Taverns. Paul did j not choose any one of these taverns as ■ the place to meet his friends. He cer- j taiuly was very abstemiuous. but they j made the selectiou. lie had enlarged j about keeping the body under, though j once he prescribed for a young the- J ologieai student a stimulating cordial for a stomachic disorder; but he told him to take only a small dose—**a little wine for thy stomach's sake.” One of the worst things about these Three Taverns was that they had especial temptation for those who had just come ashore. People who had just landed at Aetium or Puteoli were soou tempted by these three hotels, which were only a little way up from the beach. Those who are disordered of the sea (for it is a physical disorgauizer), instead of waiting for the gradual return of physical equlpose, arc apt to take artificial means to brace up. Of the one million sailors now ou the sea, how few of them coming ashore will escape the Three Taverns! After surviving hurricanes, cyclones, icebergs, collisions, many of them are wrecked iu harbor. 1 warrant that if a calculation were made of the comparative number of sailors lost at sea aud lost ! ashore, those drowned by the crimson wave of dissipation would far outuuiu- | ber those drowned by the salt water. Alas! that the large majority of | those who go down to the sea in ships should have twice to pass the Three j Taverns, namelj, before they go out, aud after they come iu. That fact was what aroused Father Taylor, the i great sailor’s preacher, at the bailors' Bethel, Boston, and at a public meet- ! ing at Charlestown he said; “All the machinery of the druukard-making, soul-destroying business is iu perfect | i uuuiug order, from the low grog holes on the docks, kept open to rum my poor sailor boys, to the great es- ; tabiishiuents iu Still House square, aud when we ask men what is to be doue about it they say ‘you can't help it," aud yet there is Bunker Hill! aud you say you cau't stop it, aud up there

i are Ltfxtn^iuu auu coucuru. »*e, might'auswer Father Taylor's remark | j by oaring: "The trouble is not that i we can't stop it, but that we won't stop it.” We must have more generations slain before the world will fully wake up to the evil. That which j tempted the travelers of old who came j up from the seaports of Actiurn and j ; Tuteoli is now the ruiu of seafar-! . iug meu as they come up from the ! coasts of all the countincnts—name- j j ly, the Three Taverns. in the autumn, about this lime, in the year | J IStST, the Steamship Home went out j j from New York for Charleston. There j j were about 100 passengers, some of I them widely known. Some of them ; had been summering at the northern : watering places, and they were on I their way south, all expectant of I hearty greetings by their friends on i the wharves of Charleston. But a little more than two days out the ship ; struck the rocks. A lifeboat was j launched, but sunk with all its passengers. A mother was seed standing on the deck of the steamer with her child in her arms. A wave wrenched the child from the mother’s arms and rolled it into the sea. and the mother leaped after iU The sailors rushed to the bar of the boat and drank themselves drunk. Ninety-five human beings went down, never to rise, or to be floated upon the beach amid the fragments of the wreck. What was the cause of the disaster? A drunken sea captain. But not until the judgment day, when the sea shall give up its dead, and the story of earthly disasters shall be fully told, will it be known, how many yaghU, steamers, brigantines, men-of-war and ocean greyhounds have been lost through "captain and crew made incompetent by alcoholic dethronement. Admiral Farragut had proper appreciation of what the fiery stimulus waa to a man in the navy. An officer of the warship said to him: "Admiral, won't you consent to give Jack a glass of grog in the morning? Not enough to make him drunk, but enough to make him fight cheerfully.1* The admiral answered: *T have been at sea considerably, and have seen a battle or two.

---J55ut I never found that I needed rum to 1 enable me to do my duty. I will order i two cups of coffee to each man at two i a’eloek in the morning and at eight [ will pipe all hands to breakfast in Mobile bay.” The Three Taverns of ; my text were too near the Mediterranean shipping. But notice the multiplicity. What could that Italian village, so small that bistory makes but one mention of it, want with more than one tavern? There were not enough travelers coming through that insiguificent town to support more than one house of lodgment. That would have furnished enough pillows and enough breakfasts. Jio, the world's appetite is diseased, and the subsequent draughts must be taken to sl^ke the thirst created by the preceding draughts. So strong drink kindles the fires of thirst faster than it puts them out. There were three taverns. That which cursed the Italian village curses all Christendom to-day — too mauv taverns. There are streets in some of our cities where there are* three or four taverns ou every block; aye, where every other house is a tavern. You can take the Arabic numeral of my text, the three, and put on the right-hand side of it oue cipher, and two ciphers, and four ciphers, and that re-enforcement of numerals will not express the statistics of Americau rummeries. Eveu if it were a good, healthy business, supplying necessity, an article superbly nutritious, it is a busiuess mightily overdoue. aud there are three taverns where there ought to be only one. The fact is, there are ia another sense three taverns now; the gorgeous taveru for the afflueut, the medium tavern for the working classes, ami the taveru of the sliirni, aud they stand iu line, aud many people begiuuiug with the first come down through the second aud come out at the third. At the first of the three taverns, the wiuesare of celebrated Tiutage, and the whiskies are said to be pure, and they are quaffed from cut glass, at marble side tables, uuder pictures approaching masterpieces. The patrous pull otf their kid gloves, and hand their silk hats to the waiter,aud push back their hair with a hand on oue finger of which is a cameo. But those patrous are apt to stop visiting at that place. It is not the money tnat a man pays for drinks, for what are a few hundred or a few thousand dollars to a mau of large income— but their brain gets touched, aud that unbalances their judgment, and they can sec fortuues iu enterprises surcharged with disaster, iu longer or shorter time they .change taverns, aud they come down to taveru the second, where the pictures are not quite so scrupulous of suggestion, and the small table is rougher, and the castor stauding ou it is of German silver, and the air has been kept over from the night before, and that which they sip from the pewter mug has a larger percentage of benziue. ambergis, creosote, heubane, strychnine, prussic acid, coculus iudicus, plaster of paris. copperas aud nightshade. The patrou may be seen almost every day, and perhaps many times the same day. at this tavern/ the second, but he is preparing to graduate. Brain, liver, heart, nerves are rapidly giving away. The tavern the secoud has its dismal echo in his business destroyed aud family scattered, and woes that choke oue's vocabulary. Time passes on, and he euters taveru the third; a red light outside; a hiccoughing aud besotted group inside.lie vvill be dragged out of doors about two o'clock iu the morning, and left on the sidewalk, because the bartender wants to shut up. The poor victim has taken the regular course in the college of degradation- He lias ; his diploma written ou his swollen, bruised and blotched physiognomy. He j is a regular graduate of the three j taverns. As the police take him j and put him in the ambulance the ; wheels seem to rumble with two rolls J of thunder, one of which says: “Look not upon the wine when is is red, when it moveth itself aright in the j cup. for at the last it biteth like a ser- | pent and stiugeth like an adder.” j The other thunder roll says: "All j drunkards shall have their place in j the lake that burueth tire aud with j brimstone.”

1 am glad to find in this scene of the j text that there is such & thing as de- ' cutting successfully great tavernian temptations. 1 can see from what l‘uul ! said and did after he had traveled the j following 17 miles of his journey, that: he had received no damage at the three j taverns. How much he was tempted 1 j kuow not. Do not suppose he w as superior to temptation. That particular temptation has destroyed many of the grandest, mightiest, noblest statesmen, philosophers, heroes, clergymen, apostles of law and medicine aud government and religion. Paul was not physically well under any circumstances; it was not in mock depreciation that he said he was “m bodily presence weak." It seems that his eyesight was so poor that he did his writing through an amanuensis, for he mentious it as something remarkable that his shortest epistle, the one to Philemon, was-iu his own penmanship, saying: 'T. Paul, have Written it with mv own hand.’’ He had- been thrown from his horse, he had been stoned, he had been endungeoned, he hail had his nerves pulled on by preaching at Athena to the most scholarly audience of all the earth, and at Corinth to the most brilliantly profligate assemblage, and been howled upon by the Ephesian , worshipers of Diana, tried for his life before Felix, charged by Festus with being insane, had crawled up on the beach, drenched in the shipwreck, and much of the time had an iron handcuff on his wrist, and if any man needed stimulus, Paul needed it, but with all his physical exhaustion, he got past the three taverns undamaged, yn.< stepped into Rome all ready for the tremendous ordeal to which he was subjected. Oh! How many mighty men feeling that they mast brace up after extraordinary service, and prepare themselves for other service, have I called on the spirit of wine for inspire

lion, and in a few years hare been sac* rificed on the altar of a Moloch, who ills on a throne of human carcasses. It would not (be wise, or kind, or Chris* :ian, to call thetr names in public, but fou call them out of your own memory. Oh! how many splendid men could no* jjet past the three taverns. Notice that a profound mystery is attached to these Italian hostelries. No hotel register tells the names of those who stopped at those taverns; there is no old account book as to how many drank there; there is no broken j fhaliee or jug to suggest what was the I style of liquid which these customers J consumed. So an awful mystery hangs i shout the bar rooms of the modern j taverns. Oh! if they would only keep J s book upou the counter, or a scroll that could be unrolled from the wall, telliug how many homesteads they have desolated, and how many ioiuior, tal souls they have blasted. You say that would spoil your business* Well, 1 suppose it would, but! a | business tnat can not plainly tell its effects upon its customers, is a business that ought to be.speiled. Ah! you mysterious bar rooms, speak out and tell how many suicides went out from you to halter, or pistol, ot ! kuife. or deadly leap from fourth-story j window; how many young men. 1 started well in life, were halted by j you and turned on the wrong road, dragging after them bleeding parental | hearts; how many people who prom- j ised at the marriage altar fidelity until death did them part, were brought ! by you to au eariy and ghastly separa- j tiou; how many uiad houses have you ; tilled with maniacs; how many graves have you dug and filled iu the ceme- j teries; how many ragged and hum- | gry children have you beg- ; gared through the fathers whom j you destroyed. If the skeletons j of those whom you have staiu j were piled up on top of each other, how high would the mountain be? If ! the tears of all the orphanage and ! widowhood that you have pressed out I were gathered together how wide I would be the lake, or how long the ! river? Ah! they make ho answer. Ou j this subj eet the modern tayerus are as silent as the orieutal thr<?e taverns,but | there are millions of hearts that throb with most vehemeut condemnation, uud nanny of them would go as far as the mother in Oxford. Mass., whose sou had been loug abseut from home uud was returning, and at the tavern ou the way he was persuaded to driuk. aud that one drink aroused a former habit, aud again aud again he drauk, aud he was fouud next morning dead iu the barn of the tavern. The owner of the tavern, who gave hnu the rum, helped carry his body home, and ins broKeu-hear ted mother, afterwards telliug about it, said: “It was wrong, but l cursed him; 1 did it. lleavcu lorgive him and me.'* But what a glad time wheu the world comes to its last three taverns for the sale of iutoxieauts, now, there are so mauy of them that statistics are only a more or less accurate guess as to their number. We sit with half-closed eyes ana. undisturbed nerves and hear that iu 1ST- iu the United States there were 1,'JO-l breweries, 4,349 distilleries aud 171,069 retail dealers, aud that possibly by this time these figures may be truthfully doubled. The fact is that thes establishments are iuuumerable. uud the discussion is always dishearteuiug aud the impression is abroad that the plague is so mighty aud universal it can never be cured, aud the most of sermons on this subject close with the .book of lumen talious, aud not with the Book of Revelation. fclxouse me from adoptiug any such intidel theory. The Bible reiterates it until there is no more power iu iuspiratiou to make it plainer, that the earth is to be, not half, or three-quarters, but wholly redeemed. Ou that rock 1 take my triumphant stand, and join iu the chorus of hosannahs.

lu this battle the visible troops are not so mighty as the invisible. The Gospel campaign began with the supernatural—the midnight chant that woke the shepherds, the hushed sea, the eyesight giveu where the patient had been without the optic nerve, the suu obliterated from the noonday heavens, the law of gravitation loosiug its grip as Christ ascended, aud as l he Gospel campaign began with the supernatural, it will close with the supernatural; aud the winds- and the waves and the lightuiugs aud the earthquakes will come in on the right side and against the wroug side; aud our ascended champions will return, whether the world sees them or does not see them. 1 do not think that those great souls departed are goiug to do nothing hearafter but sing psalms, and play harps, and breatue fraukineense, aud waia seas of glass iniugled with tire. The mission they fulfilled while in the body will be eclipsed by their post-mortem mission, with faculties quickened aud velocities multiplied; and it may have been to that our dyiug reformer referred when he said: “I long to be freel*’ There may be bigger worlds than this to be redeemed, aud more gigantic abomiuatious to be overthrown than this world ever saw; aud the discipline gotten here may only be preliminary drill for a campaign in some other world, and perhapb some other constellation. Hut the crowned heroes and heroines, because of their grander achievements, in greater spheres, will not forget this old world where they prayed aud suffered aud triumphed. Church militant and church triumphant but two divisions of the same army—right wing and left wing. One army ot the living God, At His commas J we bow. Part of the host have crossed the flood. And part are crossing now. Power of Prayer. Prayer defines relations. Meditation may become mystical, pantheistic, transcendental, but prayer cats clear of that. Work, too, may be either self-exalting or self-depressing. Prayer imparts power of resistance and reform.—James E. Dan forth, Congregational is t, Cincinnati, O.

Chtldrew Catch Cold Bore easily than grown folks, and their constitutions will not permit of quinine or other radical treatment. Dr. Bell’s Pine* Tar-Honey is not only absolutely harmless, but is pleasant to the taste, and is s certai* cure for all coughs and colds. Not Surprising. Forrester—How time does fly. ... Lancaster—I don’t blame it. Think how many people there are trying to kill it.— Harlem Life. ^ None So Good an Star Tobacco. The consumption of Star plug tobacco i» the largest in the world. No other tobacco is so good as Star plug in all respects. The Important ? Point.—Doctor—“You’ll be on your feet in,& week or so.” Patient— “On my feet? But how soou will 1 be on my wheel?”—Puck. Fits stopped free and permanently cured. No tits after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. Free $2 trial bottle & Ucstise. Dr. Kline, 935 Arch st., Phila., Pa. Any wife can make her husband tremble by saying she “has heart! something” about him.—Atchison Globe. Sore all over and stiff. Cured all Over by-St. Jacobs Oil, and supple. A lawyer doesn't know everything, but he thinks you think he does.—Chicago News. Scrofula Cured Face and Head Covered with Sores, but Hood’s Has Cured Them. “Mv face and head were a mass of sores,, but siuee taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla these sores have all disappeared. I believe Hood's Sarsaparilla has no equal tor scrofula.” Ida A. Weaver, Palermo, 111. Hood’ssp!da Is the best—tn fact the One True Blood Purifier. Hao/1 ’ c D* lie cure hver ills easy to take, ■ 1WU ^ r 114:5 easy to operate. 25 cents. SHOVE! ■v

TASTELESS CHILL TONIC IS JUST ASCOOD FOR ADULTS. WARRANTED. PRICE 60 ots. Galatia, Ills., Hot. M, 1893. Parts Medicine Co.. St. Lcoia, Mo. Gentlemen:—We sold last rear. <00 bottles ol GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC and have bought three gross already this year. In all our experience of H year*. In the drug business, hare never sold an article thalcave such universal aatl» faction as your Tonic. Tours truly, ABNKT. CAJUl ACO.

Go to your grocer to-day and get a 15c. package of Grain-0 It takes the place of coffee at £ the cost. Made from pure grains it is nourishing and healthful. Insist thatroar grooar ffirMpoo GRACT-O.

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