Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 3 December 1897 — Page 6

ULIGIOUS JOURNALISM. Or. T&imaffe Talks on the Mission of Religious Newspapers. i tinwd Work of tho 8«Marlu Pf« off Asarrtoo—Opportunities nod Eo words of UadauuotuUoaal Joarulki

Having in a previous discourse spoken > wt the opportunilies of the secular prw Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage in the following tells of the mission of reli- . jiou newspapers. His text is: Ttoa I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and knfl and behold a flying roll. —Zoehariahv, L la a dream the prophet saw soinedtXting rolled up advancing through the Reavetu. It contained a Divine mesafe. It moved swiftly, as on wings, gt had much to do with the destiny of aalioos. But if you will look up you will aee many flying rolls. They come with great speed and have messages for all the earth. The flying rolls of this neatary are the newspapers. They carry messages human and Divine. They will decide the destiny of the hemispheres. There are in the United States about M,(M newspapers. The religious aewapaper of which I am the editor was born 19 years ago, but born again •even years ago. Our country was Meat with many religious journals, edited by consecrated men, white their aoatributors were the ablest and best of all professions and occupations. Some of those journals for half a cenUary had been dropping their benedictions upou the uatiou, and they live m, and will continue to live on until i * there will be no more use for their atuaions. the world itself having become a dying roll on the tempests of • the last day, gonig out of existence. There will be no more use for such agencies when the world ceases, because. in the spiritual state, we shall . have such velocity that we can gather * for ourselves all the news of Heaven, or. aeeiug some world iu conflagration, may go ourselves in an iusiaut to examine personally the scene of disaster. Was ther j room for another religious Journal ia this land, already favored with the highest style of religious Journalism? Oh. yea if undenominational, plenty of room. Nothiug can «ver take the placeof the denominational newspaper. When the millenium comes ia. it will find as many denominations as there are now. IVople, ac- • cording to their temperaments, will always prefer this or that form of church goverunu ut, this or that style of wur- . whip. Yon might as well ask us all to worship iu one house ak to ask us ail to worship iu one denomination, or to abolish the regiments of an army in order to make them one great host. But then, there «re great movements ia which all denominations wish to Iota, and we want more undenominational newspapers to marshal and advance and inspire such movements. -Undenominational journalism is absolutely necessary to demonstrate the enity of the Christian world. Wide and desperate attempt is made to show ghat the religion of Jesus Christ is only a battlegroudd of sects; and the cry •has been; "If you waut us to accept your religion agree, gentiemeu, as to what the religion really is. This denomination says a few drops of water dripping from the end of the fingers is baptism, and another demands the submergence of the entire laxly. This •ae prays with books, and that one makes extemporaneous utterance. The rector of one delivers his ter mow iu a gown, while the backwoods preacher of another sect addresses the people iu his shirt-sleeves. Some of pour denominations have the majestic slouiiuaut in the service, and others.

apoulam-itv. home of you think that front all eternity some were predestiaohti to be saved, aud that from all eternity others were doomed.” Now, it is the business of Young Men's Christ au avsocial.ous and tract societies ansi Suuday-School unions ami pronounced uudenominatioual journals, to .show the falsity of the charge that we are fighting among • ouirsel ves. by gathering all Christian denominations on one platform or Launching Uie unite sentiment of ail Christendom from one style of religious priuting press. Hut we have in all our denominations got tired'of trying to make other people think as we.do on all points. The heresy-huulers in all denominations are nearly ali dead, thauk God, ami we sure learning that when men get wrong in their faith, iustead of martyrizing them by arraign nent, see do better to arait for the natural roll of years to remove them. Men die. but the truth lives on. We may not all agree as to the uutuber of teeth in the jawbone with which bamson slew the Philistine*. or agree as to what the exact aolor of the foxes which he set on dre to burn up the corn shocks; but, on the vital* of relic ion we all agree. if we could call into one great convent.on the 645.563 Episcopalians. the L.43J.V05 Lutheraus. the 1.406.346 l’res-byU-nauv the 4.Jc3.Ssi7 baptists, the £.•53.ittt* Methodists, putting unto them the following questions we would get unanimous answer in the aflirmatire: Do yon believe in a God, good, holy, jut, omnipotent? D> you believe in Jesus Christ as a Saviour? IX> you believe in the convicting, converting and sanctifying power of the Holy Ghost? Do you believe that thcGuapel is going to eouquer all nations? if you should put these questions to those assembled aaillions ou millions, while there would wot be a aoiitarv negative, there would to an aye! aye! loud enough to make th« foundations of the earth trvmt.de and the arches of the heavens resound, laet there be platforms, let there be )grest occasion*, let there be undenominational printing presses to thunder forth the unity all Christendom. One. Lord. One faith. One baptism. One tied and Father. One Jesus Christ.One cross. One Heaven. So also there is room for a religious journal that stands for liberty against nil oppression. No authority, political or ecclesiastic, must be permitted to *mmk* ft believe this or that Liberty

1 of th* Armenian to worship God lade* pendent of the Turkish government. Libert? of Cuba as against Spanish domination. Liberty of Hawaii aa against all monarchical authority which it has thrown off. Civil liberty, political liberty. Religious liberty. The religions journal on whose seventh anniversary I preach has had for its owner and publisher one who, in his ancestry, experienced just the opposite. His father, an exile from hia native land because of his opinions, his property confiscated, his life imperiled, landed on American soil bereft of everything that foreigh oppression could rob him of. Naturally, his son knows right well how to appreciate liberty. The most of us are descended from those who imperiled all to gain the natural and religious rights. Let the type and the printing presses and the editorial chairs be overthrown which dare to surrender to any attempt again to put on the shackles. The movement has started for the demolition of all the tyrannies of church aud state. Religious newspapers must stand shoulder to shoulder in this i mighty march for God and the world’s ! rescue.

Again, on this seventh anniversary, ■ I say there is room for a religious paper charged with old-fashioned evangelism. Other styles of religious newspaper may do for advertising purposes, or for the presentation of able essays on elaborate themes, but if this world is ever brought to God it will be through unqualified, unadulterated, unmixed, unmistakable evangelism. It was astounding that the Lord Almighty ; should have gone into great bereave- ! incut, submitting to the loss of llis ouly Sou. that Son stepping off the doorsill of Heaven into a darkness and an abysm that no plummet has ever yet been able to fathom; and through that funeral of the Heavens life is offered to our world; but how to get the tidings to all people and in such an attractive way that they will take hold of them, is the absorbing question. The human voice can travel only a few feet away, and the world wants something further and wider-reaching, and that is the newspaper press; and as the secular press must necessarily give itself chiefly to secular affairs, let the religious newspaper give itself to the present aud everlasting salvation of all who eau read. or. if uot able to read, have ears to hear others read. If there be an opportunity higher, deeper, grander than that offered to newspaper evangelism, name it and guide us to it, that we may see ita altars, its pillars, its infinitude. Again, 1 notice there is room for a religious paper thoroughly humanitarian. The simple fact is. the majority of the human race have uot euough to eat or wear. The majority of the human race are in trouble. How to multiply loaves of bread and iucrease the fuel aud heal the wounds aud shelter the homeless, are questions that Christ met equally as soon as He did spiritual necessities. The first heart to respond to the cry of sufferers from drought, or floi*d. or earthquake, or cruelty, should be the Christiou heart Therefore, let the pages of religious journalism spread out the story of all such woes, and collect relief. and disburse alms all around our suffering world. 'Religious journalism ought to become the aqueduct through which the Christian charities of the world should , pour until there is no more hunger to be fed. and no more ignorance to be edneated. and no more nakedness to be clothe i. and no more suffering to assuage. In trying to do that practical thing, the religious paper whose anniversary 1 celebrate has, during the pastsevcu years, raised and distributed over 9400,000 for the relief of physical distresses.

A train. I notice that there is an especial mission for a religious journal truthfully optimistic. The most optimistic hook 1 know of is the Uible, and its most impressive authors were all optimists. David was au optimist. Paul an optimist. St. John au optimist. Our blessed Lonl au optimist. 1 can not look upon a desert but I am by the Old Hook reminded that it will “blossom like as the rose." 1 cau not in a menagerie look upon a lion aud leopard but 1 am reminded that *‘a little child shall lead them." 1 cau not see a collection of gems in a jeweler's window without tbinking of - Heaven aflash and ablaze aud incarnadined aud empurpled with ail mauuer of precious stones. 1 can uot hear a trumpet, but 1 think of that o^e which shall wake the dead. All the* ages of time, bounded on one side by tne paradise iu which Adam aud Kve walked, and on the other side by the paradise which St John saw in apocalyptic vision. The Scriptures optimistic and their authors optimistic, all religious newspapers ought to be optimistic. Not only should ail ministers aud all religious editors have their hearts right, but their liver right. The world has enough trouble of its own. without our giving them an eitra dose in the shape of religion. This world is going to be saved, and if you do not believe it you are au intidei. None of us want to get on board a train which, instead of reaching the depot, is surely going dowu the embankment. AU aboard for the millennium! For the most part, in a religious journal, let the editorials be cheerful and the pictures cheerful. If in one column there be a ghastly woodcut of the famine-stricken in India, in the next column have a list of contributions for alleviation of the suffering, or a picture of a ship carrying breadstuffs. If in one column there be the death of an old minister of the Gospel whom we can not spare, in the next put the name of some young Elisha who can wear the mantle of Kiijah. If some evil of society is depicted in one column, in the next show the Gospel machinery that is to drive it back into the perdition from which it ascended. More and more sunshine let there be in religious journalism. 1‘ublisU in it more sermons on texts like “O, give thanks unto the Lord, for lie is good.” ami fewer on texts like “Out of the depths of bell have 1 cried unto Thee. O Lord.” If anv one has anything gloomy to say.

I let him say it to himself. If he umst write it. let him not send it to editorial I rooms, but put it in the pigeon-hole of j his own desk for his heirs and assigns to read it farther on, for probably | they can stand it better than we. I once gave seven dollars to hear J*any Lind sing; I never will give a cent . to hear a man groan. Up with the I blinds and throw back the shutters, and let the morning light come in. There is not so much religion in the | dampness of a cellar as in the breath [ of an appie orchard in blossom week, i What a victory David got over himself ■ when he closed the Psalms with six | chapters of “Praise ye the Lord.” say- ! ing it over and over again, until, in ! any other book, it would have become ! monotonous. If in our diaries, and ! our family records, and our religious | newspapers we would write two honest : catalogues, the one a catalogue of j blessings, and the other a catalogue of troubles, the former would be five I times larger than the latter.

rray lor sue religious uewspapers oi America, because of the fact that, if they hare the right spirit, each oue does as much good as fire, or 50, or 200 churches. What are the 500 or 5,000 people making up a Sabbath audience compared with the 10,000, or 50,000, or 200,000, that the religious journal addresses? Such journals are pulpits that preach day and uight. They reach weekly those who, through invalidism, J or through indifference, never enter j churches. They reach people in their J quietude, when their attention is not j distracted, as in church, by the fine ! millinery that appeals to the eye, or ' the rustle of attire that attracts the ear. It will always be our duty aud our privilege, not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together, but I believe the consecrated printing press I is the chief agency under God to save : the world. And now, let all of us who are con- | nected with either secular or religious j journalism remember that we will be , called into final account for every j word we write in editorial, or reporto- j rial, or contributors’ columu—foreverv ; type we set, for every press we move, j aud for the style of secular or religious j newspapers we patronize or encourage, j In Ezekiel's prophecy the Angel of God. | supposed to be Christ, appears with an ; ink-horn hung at his side, as an attor- 1 ney's clerk in olden time had an ink- * horn at his side. And 1 have no doubt j the ink-horn will have an important part in the day of judgment. Those who have used it well to receive eternal plaudit, and those who have misused it to receive condemnation. Piled in all the wood’s printing offices, secular and religious, are the publications, of past years, bound up year by year; and in those office# they cau tell just what they priuted any day for the last 2J years; and iu the great day of judgment all that we have ever written or printed will be revealed from tbe mighty volumes of eternity. All those who have ruthlessly , pried iuto the secret pf un- • happy domestic life and despoiled homes. come to judgmeut! All those who have had anything to do with salacious and depraved literature. come to judgmeut! All those who have produced pictures administrative of vice, couie to judgment! No one will then dare say: "I knew it was not true and I ouly inteuded it for a joke;*' or, **i had to make my liviug.aud the paper that I worked for paid me in proportion to the startling nature of the stuff I prepared,"’ or, “I corrected the falsehood iu tbe uext issue;” or, “I felt my power in the edi- ! to rial chair, having opportunity to ad- ! dress such multitudes week by week, and I wanted to keep the church aud

tue world m awe of me. On that great day of judgment all the power we have on earth will he insignificant compared with the p over that will pro- I nouuce our rapture or our doom, and that ! which might have beeu considered a joke in the “composing room,” because , it humiliated au enemy, will be uo joke at all amid the wreck of mountains aud seas; and the ink-horn will there tell of all we wrote tinouyiuous aud under the personality of a newspaper, as well as that which was sigued with our owu name. Hut what a beautiful day for a Frances Havergal, when she gets rewarded for all the kind things she ever, wrote with the tears of her invalidism; or when the authors aud authoresses of all lauds and ages are told how many came to Heaven through their instrumentalities; aud for all those who use the iuflueuce of the press to correct the errors, aud extirpate the wrongs, and break ! the serfdom of mankind!. Then the ink-horn by the side of the Augel of the New Covenant will speak out and tell of what it had to do with ail letters of kindness written, with ail emancipation proclamations, with all editorial aud re potto rial euiogtesof the good, with a.t the messages of salvation to a lost world. Better in that day will it be to have set up the type for oue line of Christian encouragement, or written oue paragraph of useful sentiment, or published oue page of helpful truth, loan to have written books as big as Uio- | bon's five large volumes concern- I ing “The Decline and Fail of i the Roman Empire,” if these volumes put Christianity at a disadvantage; or j as brilliaut as Voltaire's “Discourses Upon Miiu." if tuey inculcated injurious theories; or as rhythmic as Byron's “Don Juan,” if it sacrificed the decencies. Uu that day the flying roll which Zechariah of the text saw thousands of years ago. and the rolls which we see flying over all our towns aud cities, aud flying from the swiftest printing presses that were ever invented, will be fouud to contain messages Divine or satanic., Not only the ink-horn wnich Ezekiel saw, but all the ink-horns will come tojudgmeo * “And 1 saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; aud tue booas were opened." There is no sanctity but love, and no love bat sacrifice.—Rev. Theodore T. Munger.Congregationalism New liaven. Conn. , L«>e and Saerittc*

A MURDER MYSTERY. Wttrod Up by • HorHU* Krciul of De. tail* of How In. Merry *u 1Kiu« to Ibath by Hor Haabend. Chicago, Not. 2&—The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Mrs. Pauline Merry from her home at 53 Mope, street was solved yesterday by the confession of Thomas Hickey, who was arrested on suspicion. Hickey told a revolting story of how Christo* pher Merry choked and beat his wife a week ago last Friday. Then, finding it impossible to restore his wife to consciousness, Hickey says that Merry decided to put her “out of her misery” by beating out her brains with a po

The horrible story told by Hickey was extorted from him after hours of questioning iu the “sweat box.” Lute yesterday afternoon he led a party of police to an uniuhabited portion of the city near Eighty-seventh street and Western avenue, where Mrs. Merry’s body was found buried beneath a few inches of loose dirt by the roadside. The disappearance of Mrs. Merry excited almost as much interest as that of Mrs. Luetgert. A week ago the police learned that she had been made away with by her husband at his cottage in Hope street. Merry was a peddler and owued several horses. When the police began their investigation, a three-year-old sou of Merry’s told them that his father had killed his mother and had lowered her body through a trap door iuto the cellar. Following this clew it was fouud that Merry had driven away from his place Saturday rnorniug with a covered wagon, but no further trace of him has been discovered. Thomas Hickey, an employe of the stable where Merry kept his horses, was put in the sweat box and yesterday confessed that he and James Smith had been present wheu Merry beat and choked his wife. The three men sat up Friday night and tried tc restore Mrs. Merry. On Saturday, Merry, he says, decided to kill his wife, which he did with a poker. The body was carted away and Merry although, still in the city, has successfully eluded the police. VOLUNTARY CONFESSION. The*. Shackelford TclU of th* ColdBlooded Murder of George W. Taylor. St. Lotris, Nov. 29.—Thomas Shackelford made a voluntary confession to CapL O’Malley last night of the part he had taken in the coldrblooded murder of George W. Taylor. He implicated Nettie Taylor, wife of the dead negro, and accused her of administering the dose of arsenic, which caused Taylors death. The woman admits nothing and remains positive in the declaration that she is innocent of any attempt to kill her husband with poison. The evidence agaiust her, however, aside from Shackelford’s statements, is very strong. The plot to murder Ta3’lor was, according to Shackleford'^ confession, most deliberate, and the murderers were diabolically persistent. At least four or five large doses of poison were given to the victim during the four days that he lived in horrible agony, after the first dose was administered. The mother of the murderess was to get him out of the way, secure the $1,000 insurance on hi* life and then leave the city.

WILL BE PLACED IN CHAINS SllMuarl'i Wickedest Man TrlM to Commit Salclde. Libkrtt, Mo.. Not. 29.—In his cell in the county jail yesterday afternoon, Win. Carr, under sentence to be hanged next month for drowning his three-year-old child in the Missouri river, tried to commit suicide by swallowing a quantity of pounded glass. Although two hypodermic injections were administered, Carr failed to vomit the stuff, and it is not yet known what the result will be. The county physician thinks he will recover because of his giant strength. It appears that Carr had stolen a bottle of medicine from a fellow prisoner. spilled the contents ou the floor and pounded the bottle into small particles. These he drank in a glass of water. When Deputy Sheriff CaVe and Dr. Sevier tried to administer the injection, Carr fought like a fiend, threatening to braiu Cave with a chair and was > only conquered by being choked until he was black iu the face. When finally overpowered Carr begged the jail officers to choke him to death. He will be placed in chains. Carr has grown more repeatedly expressed a desire to be dead and “over with it all.” SETTLERS REJOICE. James McConnell, a Notorious Canadian Desperado, Killed. Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 3S.—A dispatch to the News from Mattawa, Out., says: “Samuel Tongue and Wm. Dow, two promiuent citizens of this place, who went to Lake Teillen a week ago ou a hunting expedition, returned home yesterday and reported that they had shot and killed James McConnell, a notorious desperado who has terrorized the settlers of Nippissing district for many years. McConnell attacked them while they were crossing the lake, and in self defense Tongue shot him through the stomach. McConnell died a few minutes later. Settlers in the vicinity are rejoicing over his death.” ▲ FathcrShouU Ills Nlos-Year-Old Daughter and Kills Himself. Mason, Mich., Nbv. 3$.—Scott A. Bowdish shot his nine-year-old daughter Friday night, fatally injuring her, aud then killed himself. The tragedy was not discovered until morning. According to the little girl, her father awakeued her during ttie night, kissed her and asked her where her heart was. He felt about her breast, and after locating the girl’s heart, he drew a revolver and fired. Again he fired, the ball this time penetrating the child's right side. After this he located his owe heart and ahnt hiiiuw!! d*ad.

Hit Sinister Intention. Oklahoma Landlord—If thar is a shoo tin* ajar or two along toward midnight don't git scared, Mr. Eastman. You won’t be in no danger yourself. Eastern Tourist—Certainly not! I have seen such sights before, but I was not aware that there was to be a meteoric display at this time. “Wall, I don’t know for certain that thar is goin’ to be any, but I’ve got it figgered out that them three members of a busted Uncle Tom’s Cabin company that have been boardin’ on me for the last two weeks while they waited for remittances from home are goin’ to try to vamous to-night an’ leave me holdin’ the bag. an’ I am yere to say that they hain’t goin’ to git away without settlin’ in full, not if my old revolver works with ith usual neatness an’ dispatch! That’s the kind of a—by gosh—landlord I am!”—N. Y. World. Bean or Ohio, Citt or Toledo, 1 _ Lee as County. » Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senit.i partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney k Co., doing business in the city of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1SS6. A. W. GLEASON, [Seal] Notary Public. Hall’sCatarrhCure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, *ree. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by druggists, 75c. HaU’s Family Pills are the best. Not « Diplomat. “You never tell me that I look young and sweet any more,” pouted Mrs. Lovelace. “No,” her brute of a husband replied, “I teem of latFto have lost my powers of imaginatioh almost completely. ’—Cleveland Leader. Quit Coaching Is easy enough, if you take Dr. Bell’s Pine-Tar-Honey. It cuts the mucus and allays the inflammation so that there is no inclination to cough. It soothes the bronchials, and is strengthening to the throat and lungs. All good druggists sell it. I'sanlly the Way. Kenna—I understand you’ve bought a dog to keep burglars away? Henna—\ es. “You are not troubled any more at night, then, I suppose?” “Only by the dog.”—Up-to-Date. Not yourself? Use St. Jacobs Oil for Soreness and stiffness. It will cure. Not nearly all the funny things in this world are with & museum.—Washington Democrat. Lane’s Family Medicine. Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. Valuable Advice. “Do you think that stimulants would hurt me, doctor?” “Not if you leave them alone.”—Detroit Free Press.

I have found Piso’s Cure for Consumption an unfailing medicine.—F. R. Lots, 1305 Scott St., Covington, Ky., Oct. 1, 1S04. There are but few people who know enough not to say “that is what I thought" when anybody tells them anything.—Washington Democrat. Frost-bites are like burns, and both Are cured by St. Jacobs Oil promptly. - There is a remedy for everything except •ome of the remedies.—Chicago News. Coaghlag Leads to Consumption. Kemp’s Balsam will slfcop the eough at once. Clo to your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Large bottles, 50 cents and $1.00. Go at once; delays are dangerous. A Good Bed. Hostess—I hope you found the bed comfortable, Mr. Jenkins? Jenkins—Excellent, madam! I nearly fell asleep in it.—Chicago Tribune. Keep on and suffer if you think St. Jacobs Oil won't cure rheumatism. fou can’t convince an editor that "no news is good news.’’—Chicago News. !toae So Good as Star Tobacco. The consumption of Star plug tobacco is the largest in the world. No other tobacco is so good as Star plug in'all respects. You can tell a good deal about people by the appearance of their back porch.—\Yashington Democrat. Why suffer with an ache or pain When St. Jacobi Oil will cure. Why? No man is ever justified in lorrowing money to buy a dog.—Chicago News. Don’t Neglect a Cough. Take Some Hale’; Honey of Ho rehound and Tar instanter. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in onemir.ute A man’s only chance to get a head in this worltl is to be born with one.—Chicago News.

Great Distress A Combination of Troubles Causes Much Suffer!n«. BIRD ISLAND, MINN —“I was trou bled with my stomach. Nearly everything I ate would sour and I would belch it up. At times my stomach gave me great distress. My back was lame on account ol kidney difficulty. I bought six bottles of Hooh’s Sarsaparilla; when I had taken fool bottles I was cured.” Norman Hickok. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the best—in tact the One True Blood Purifier. Hood’s Pills are the favorite cathartic. 25a Studying: a Doubtful Problem. "It,” the idle wanderer heard the man say to his companion, "will run about 1,200 to the ton.” Theu the idle wanderer, after the man* ner of his kind, speculated in his mind. “I wonder,” said he to himself, “whether he was talking about a gold mine or his winter supply of coal?”—Cincinnati Ex* quirer. It Matce* Cold Feet Warm. Shake into your under shoes Allen’s Foot Ease, a powder for the feet. It gives rest and comfort, prevents that smarting sensation and keeps your feet from perspiring. Allen’s Foot-Ease makes cold feet warm. After your feet perspire they usually feel cold at this season. Ask your druggist or shoe dealer to-day for a 25c box of Allen’s Foot-Ease and use it at once. Sample sent Free. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy.N.Y. Why is it that a boy always insists upon raising pigeons or bantam chickens, instead of something useful, like turkeys or pigs?—Atchison Globe. Fat-Forming Oxygen. Dr. Bell’s Pine-Tar-Honey cures coughs and colds and soothes the air passages. It heals the bronchial tubes and strengthens weak lungs. It builds up the tissues and enables the blood to receive its proper supply ■ of oxygen. 25c at ail druggists. No cure no pay. The Final Touch.—“Hello. Jerry; got vour new fiat all fitted up?” “Not quite. Say, do you know where I can buy a folding tooth-brush?”—Chicago Record. Sprained last night. To-day vou are Well if you use St. Jacobs Oil to cure. The easiest way to catch a flirt ifi not to attempt it.—Chicago News. Take the Air Lime To Louisville aud Eastern Cities, 53 miles he shortest from St. Louis, makes quickest ime, Pullman Sleepers, Parlor and Dining ’■•rs. All trains leave from St. Louis Cnion Station. For complete information tddress J. R. Tapp, Traveling Passenger \gent. Kansas City, Mo. R. A. Campbell, General Passenger Agent, St. Louis, Mo. The world seems a narrow place when ws wish to avoid our enemies, but wide and vast isjt when we part from those we love. —N. Y. Independent.

Feel it pass away—when St. Jaeobs Oil cures Neuralgia. Soothes it out. Chairs are cheaper than backbones.—N Y. Independent. When You Take Cold nothing comes in so useful as a bottle of Dr. Bell’s lfine-Tar-Honey. Good for children, good for everybody. A remedy you may al-a-ays rely upon to cut e a cough, an attack of croup or other bronchial trouble. May Have Meant That. “He told me to get off the earth. What do you suppose he meant?” “lie seemed to think that you needed a bath, evidently.”—Louisville Courier-Jour-nal. Reputations Made in a Day Are precious scarce. Time tries the worth of a man or medicine. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is a forty-live years' growth, and like those hardy lichens that garnish the crevicea of Alaska's rocks, it flourishes perennially, and its reputation has as firm a base as the rocks themselves. No medicine is more highly regarded as a remedy for fever and ague, bilious remittent, constipation, liver and kid* ney disorders, nervousness and rheumatism. Had Some Motive, ot Coarse. Mrs. Bellows—I believe you married rae for mv money. Bellows—A-hem! Well, I certainly didn t go to the altar for my health.—N. \. Journal. Dr. Bell*s Flue-Tar-Honey acts as a balm to the lungs, cutting th© mucus, allaying the inflammation, healing and strengthening. It will cure a cough or a cold in one night and exhilarate the lung* against the inception of disease. The young gentleman who seeks a situation isn't as likely to succeed as the voung man who hustles for a job.—Chicago News. *To Cure n Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablet*. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. In giving thanks for vour blessings, don’t forget the criticisms you have received.— N Y. Independent.

TRYING ORDEALS FOR WOMEN, j

Mrs. Pinkham Tells How Women May Avoid Painful Examinations. To a modest, sensitive, highstrung young1 woman, especially an unmarried woman, there is no more trying or painful ordeal than the “examinations.” which are now so common in hospitals and private practice. An examination by speculum, or otherwise, is sometimes a positive ( necessity in certain stages of many diseases peculiar to women, so at least it is declared by the profession. This would not be the case if natients heeded their svmotoms in time.

If a young girl's blood is watery, her skill pale and waxy looking, her lips colorless, bowels torpid, digestion poor, her ears and temples throb and j she is subject to headache, begin at once to build up her I, system with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. u Do not allow her to undergo a physical examination, f, Here is a letter from a young lady who requests that i) her name should not be used, but gives her initials and ^ street number so that any inquiry addressed to her / ■

will be received. She says: “ Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—It affords me great pleasure to be able to say a few words in regard to the merits of your Vegetable Compound. I was tempted to try it after seeing the effects of it upon my mother, and now I feel like a new person. I am a stenographer and was troubled with falling of the womb and female weakness in general. I continued to work until 1 was so weak I could no longer walk, and the last day I was forced to stop and rest. “ I was then so ill that I was compelled to stay in bed and so nervous that I could not hold anything in my hands. The least noise or surprise would cause my heart to beat so loudly, and I would become so weak that I could hardly stand. I suffered for almost a year. It is different now. I qua go about my work with pleasure, while before, work was a drudge. “ Trusting that my words of praise may help some other afflicted person, and be of benefit to womankind in general, I remain, %'oura in gratitude, L. H., 444 S. East St.. Indianapolis, Ind.” •