Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 39, Petersburg, Pike County, 3 February 1899 — Page 7

ANOTHER’S BURDENS. £r. Talmnge Asks Us te Assist the Betty Laden. We Skoald Beware mi teUatoearKtei Ward* Are aa CaM Water ta a Tklraty Seat—Help t|kc Seedy.

^Washington. Jan. 29.—Copyright, 1899.) 1 In this discourse Dr. Taluxage shows how it is possible to help others who | -are under the pressing load of fatigue -*td rare and responsibility. The text is Galatians vi., 2: “Bear ye one another’s hardens, and so fulfill the law -of Christ.” f' 'Every man for himself! If there be rxtm for only one more passenger in the lifeboat, get in yourself. If there be a burden to lift, you supervise while -others shoulder it. You be the digit w hile others are the ciphers on the right hand side—nothingin themselves, bat augmenting you. In opposition to that theory of selfishness Paul advances in my text the gospel theory: "“'Bear yeone another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” Everybody has burdens. Sometimes they come down upon the shoulders, sometimes they come down upon the htad. sometimes they come down upon the heart. Looking over any assembly. they all seem well and bright and easy, but each one has a burden tjo lift, and some of them have more than they -can lift. Paul proposes to split up tj>e$e hardens into fragments. You tiike part of mine and 1 must take part -© yours, and each one will take part of the Other’s, and so we will fulfill the law o:: Christ. Mrs. Appleton, of Boston, the daughter of Daniel Webster, was dying after lc eg illness. The great lawyer, after pleading an important case in the courtroom, on his way home stopped at the boose of his daughter and went into her sickroom. She said to hftn: “ Father, why are you out to-day in this eold weather without an overcoat?” The great lawyer went into the next room and was in a flood of tears, saying: “Dying herself, yet thinking only of me.” Oh, how much more beautiful is, care for others than this everlasting taking care of ourselves. High up in the. wall of the temple of Baaijhec there .are t^ree stones, each weighing 1.100 tons. > They were lifted by a style of machinery that is now among the lost arts. But in my text is the gospel ma--chinery. by which the vaster and heav* itr tonnage of the world’s burdens is to oe lifted from the crushed heart of the human race. What you and I most need to learn is the spirit of helpfulness. Encourage the merchant. If he have a superior style of goods, tell him so. If lie fca^e with his clerks adorned the show windows and the shelves, compliment his taste. If he have a good business locality, if he have had, great -success, if he have brilliant prospects I iof the future, recognize all this. Be apt afraid that he will become^arrogant and puffed up by your approval. Before night some shopgoing person, will come in and tell him that his prices are exorbitant and that hts goods are of an inferior quality and that his show window gave promise of far better things than he found inside. Before the night of the day in which you say encouraging words to that merchant there will be some crack, male or female, who will -potpe into the store and depreciate -everythingand haul down enough goods from the shelves to fit out a family for ■a whole winter without buying a cent’s worth. If the merchant be a grocer, there will be some one before night who will come into his establishment and taste of this and taste of that and taste of everything else, in that way stealing a J the profits of anything that he may purchaser-buying three apples while he

eauEg one orangei Before the night of the day wheifyou approve that merchant he will have a bad debt which he will have to erase, a bad debt made by some one who has moved away from the neighborhood: w ithout giving any hint of the place of’ destination.. Before the night of the',, day when you have uttered eneourag-. ihg words to the merchant there will be some woman who will return to his store and say she has lost her purse; she left it therein the store, she brought it there, she did not .nice it away, she Itnows-it is there, leaving you to make any delieate and complimentary inference that you wish to make. Before night that merchant will hear that .i»me style of goods of which he has a large supply is going out of fashion, and there will be some one who will come . i nto the store and pay a bill under protest. saying he has paid it before, but the receipt has been lost. Now, encourage that merchant, not fearing that be will become arrogant or puffed up, for 'there will be before night enough unpleasant things said to keep him from becoming apoplectic with plethora of praise. Encourage newspaper men. If you knew how many annoyances they have, if you understood that their most elab*orate article is sometimes flung out because there is such great pressure on the columns and that an accurate report of a speech is expected, although the utterance b«t so indistinct, the discourse is one long stenographic guess, and that the midnight which finds you -asleep demands that they be awake, and that they are sometimes ground between the wheels of our great brain manufactories; sickened at the often approach of men who want complimen- • tary newspaper notices, or who want newspaper retraction; one day sent to report a burial, the next* day to report • a pugilistic encounter; shifted from place to place by sudden revolution which is liable to take place any day in onr great journalistic establishments; precarious life becoming more and more precarious—if you understood ii .yon would be more sympathetic. Be -affable when you have not an ax to tie

sharpened on their grindstone. Ductus in your mind what the nineteenth century would be vitket the newspaper, and encouraging words to all who are engaged in this interest* from the chief of editorial department down to the boy that throws the morning or evening newspaper into your basement window..

Encourage mechanic*. They will plumb the pipes, or they wiM calcimine the eeilingvor they will put down the carpets, or they will grain the doors, or they will fashion the wardrobe. Be not among those who never say anything to a mechanic except to find lanlt. If he has done a job well, tell him it is splendidly done. The book is well bound, the door is well grained, the chandelier is well swung, the work is grandly accomplished. Be not among those employers who nerer say anything to their employes except to swear at them. Do not be afraid yon will make that mechanic so puffed up and arrogant he will nerer again want to be seen with working apron or in shirt sleeve*, for before the night comes of tuiat day when you praipe him there will be a lawusit brought against him because he did not' finish his work as soon as he promised it, forgetful of the fact that his wife has been sick and two of his children hare died of scarlet ferer an d he has had a felon on a finger of the right hand. Denounced perhaps because the paint is so very faint in color, not recognizing the fact that the mechanic himself has been eheated out of the right ingredients, and that he did not find out the trouble in time, or scolded at because he seems to hare lamed a horse by unskillful shoeing when the horse has for months had spariu or ringbone or springhalt. You feel you have the right to find fault with a mechanic when he does ill. Do you ever praise a mechanic when he does well? Encourage the farmers. They come into your stores, y ou meet them in the city markets, yon often associate with them in the summer months. Officeseekers go through the land, and they stand on political platforms, and they tell-the farmers the story about the independent life of a farmer, giving flattery where they ought to give sympathy. independent of what? 1 was brought up on a farm; 1 worked on a farm; 1 know all about it. 1 hardly saw a city until I was grown, and 1 telll^ you that there is no class of people in the country who hare it harder and who more need your sympathy than farmers. Independent qf what? Of the curculio that stings the peach trees, of the rnst in the wheat*, of the long rain, with the rye down? Independent of the grasshopper, of the locust, of the army worm, of the potato bug? independent of the drought that burns up the harvest? Independent of the cow with the hollow horn, or the sheep with the foot rot. or the pet horse with a nail in his hoof? Independent of the cold that freezes out the winter grain? Independent of the snow bank out of which he must shovel himself? Independent of the cold weather when he stands thrashing his numbed fingers around his body to keep them from being frosted? Independent of the frozen ears and the frozen feet? Independent of what? Fancy farmers who have made their fortunes in the city and go out in the country to build houses with all the modern improvements and make farming a luxury may not need any solace, but the yeomanry who get their firing out of the soil and who that way have to clothe their families and educate their children and pay their taxes and meet the interest on mortgaged farms, such men find a terrific struggle. I demand that officeseekers and politicians fold up their gaseous and imbecile speeches about the independent lifg of a farmer and substitute some word of comfort drawn from the fact that they are free from city conventionalities and citv

epidemics and city temptations. My most vivid remembrance of boyhood is of my father coming in on a very hot day from the harvesting' field and seating himself on the doorsiu because he was too faint to get into the house, the perspiration streamingfrom ;forehead and from chin, and my mother trying to resuscitate him with a cup ©f cold water which he was too faint to hold to his own lips, while saying to us: “Don’t be frightened; there's nothing the matter. A little tired, that’s all; a little tired.*'* Ever since that day. when I hear people talking about the independent life of a farmer I see through the sham. Farmers want not your flatteries, but your sympathies. Encourage the doctors. You praise the doctor when he brings you up from an awful crisis of disease, but do you praise the doctor when, through skillful treatment of the incipient stages of disease, he keeps you from sinking down to the arffut crisis? There is a great <|e«i of cheap and heartless wit about doctors, but 1 notice that the people who get off that wit are the first to send for a doctor when there is anything the matter. There are those who undertake to say in our day that doctors are really useless. One man has written a book entitled: “Every Man His Own Doctor.” That author ought to write o3e more book entitled: “Every Man His Own Undertaker.” “Oh,” says some one, “physicians in constant presence of pain get bard hearted!* Do they? The most celebrated surgeon of tbe last generation stood in a clinical department of one of the New York medical colleges, the students gathered in the amphitheater to see a very painful operation on a little child. The did surgeon said: “Gentlemen, excuse me if 1 retire. These surgeons can do this as well as I can, and as I get older it gives me more and more distress to see pain.” Physicians have so many hardships, so many interruptions, sermany annoyances, I am glad they have so many encouragements, All doors open to them. They are welcome to mansion and to cot. Little children shoot when they sec them comiiur down the road.

and the aged, recognizing the step, took ■P and mj: “Doctor, Is that year* They stand between oar families and the grave, fighting back the troops of disorder that come np from their encampment by the cold river. No one hears such thanks as the doctor hears. They are eyea to the blind, they are feet to the lame, their path is stream j with the benedictions of those whom I they hate befriended. Encourage the lawyers. They are i often cheated out of their lees, and so ; often hate to breathe the villainous air of courtrooms, and they so often have to bear ponderous responsibility, and they have to maintain against the | sharks in their profession the dignity | uf^ that calling which was honored by i the fact that the only man allowed to stand on Mount Sinai beside the Lord was Moses, the lawyer.and that the Bible spoke of Christas the advocate. Encourage lawyers in their profession of transcendent importance—a profes- ] sion honored by having on the bench a | Chief Justice Story and nt the bar a Rufus Choate.

Encourage the teachers in our public schools—occupation arduous and poorly compensated. In all the cities when there comes a fit of economy on the part of officials the first thing'to do is always to cut down teachers’ salaries. To take 40 or 50 boys whose, par- | entfc suppose them precocious and keep the parents from finding out their mistake,. to take an empty head and fill it. to meet the expectations of parents who think their children at 15 years of j age ought to be mathematicians and i metaphysicians and rhetoricians, to work successfully that great stuffing machine the modern school system, is a very arduous work. Encourage them by the usefulness and the everlastingness and the magnitude of their occupation. and when your children do well ; compliment the instructor, praise the teacher, thank the educator. Encourage all invalids by telling them how many you have known with the same ailments who got well and not by telling them of their sunken eye or asking them whether the color of ■ their cheeks is really hectic or me a- J tioning cases in Which that style of disease ended fatally or telling them how badly they look. Cheerful words are more soothing than chloral, more stimulating than cognac, more tonic than bitters. Many an invalid has recovered through the influence of cheerful surroundings. Encouraging all starting in life by yourself becoming reminiscent. Es- i tablished merchants, by telling these I young merchants when you got your first customer, and how -you sat behind the^counter eating y&ur luncheon, with one eye on the door. Established lawyers, encourage young lawyers by* ; telling them the time when you broke clown in your first speech. Estab- j lished ministers of tlte gospel, encour- j age young ministers, by merciful exam- i ination of theological candidates^ not j walking around with a profundity and ; overwhelmingness of manner as I though you were one of the eternal decrees. Doctors established, by telling young doctors how you yourselves once mistook the measles for scarlatina. And if you have nothing to say that is encouraging, O man, put your teeth tightly together and cover them with the curtain of your lip; compress your lips and put your hand over your mouth and keep still. Encourage the troubled by thoughts of release and reassociation. Encourage the aged by thoughts of eternal juveneseence. Encourage the herdsman amid the troughs of sin to go back to the banquet at the father’s homestead. Give us tones in the major key instead of the minor. GiTe us “Coronation” instead of “Naomi.” You have J seen cars so arranged that one car ! going down the hill rolled another ear ‘ up the hill. They nearly balanced each j other. And every man that finds life | up hill ou^ht to be helped by those who have passed the heights and are descending to the vale. Oh, let us bear

one anotner s burdens! A gentleman in England died leaving i bis fortune by will to two sons. The son that stayed at home destroyed the father’s will and pretended that the brother;who was absent was dead and buried. The absent brother after awhile returned and claimed his part of the property. Judges and jurors were to be bribed to say. that the returned brother and son was no son at all. but only an impostor. The trial j came on. Sir Matthew Hale, the pride of the English courtroom and for 20 years the pride of jurisprudence, heard that that in justice^ was about to be practiced. He put off his official robe. He put on the garb cf a miller. He went to the village where that trial was to | take place. He entered the courtroom, j He somehow got empaneled as one of j the jurors. The briber came around, and the mail gave ten pieces of gold to the other jurors, bat as this was onij a poor miller the briber gave to him only five pieces of gold. A verdict was brought in rejecting the rights of this returned brother. He was to have no j share in the inheritance. “Hold, my ! lord!” said Urn miller. “Hold! We are I not all agreed on this verdict. These i other men have received ten pieces of ; gold in bribery, and i have received, i only five.” “Who axe you? Where do you come from?” said the judge on the i bench. The response was:* “1 am from j Westminster halL. My name is Matthew Hale, lord chief justice of the king’s bench. Off of that place, thon villain!” And so the injustice was balked, and so the, young man got his inheritance. It was all for another that Sir Matthew j Hale took! off his robe and put on the garb of a miller. And so Christ took off His robe of royalty and put on the attire of onr humanity, and in that disguise He wop our eternal portion. Now. are we the sons of God! Joint heirs! We went off from home sure enough, but we got back in time to receive our eternal inheritance. And if Christ bore our burden surely we con afford to hear each other’s burdens.

THE EAGAafeoURT-MAKTIA U Tfc* Cm* C»«m4, Um Tw4kt Mad* Ey tM fM ft* tlw Hm* Washington, Jan. 28,.—The case of Commissary-General Curies P. ISagitn, charged with conduct unbecoming ap officer and a gentleman, and with ct >nduct tending to the prejudice ©l gcod order and military, discipline, is »>w in the hands of the receiving authentic*. - CoMamd Law tku Eicht Hmin. The trial had lasted three days, aad consumed less than eight hours of a rival sitting. A session behind closed doors of an hour or so sufficed for t he court to reach a conclusion and embody it in a report. What the verdict was is altogethe r a matter of speculation and. officially at least, will not bemade public, the trial hoard military regulations requiring that its findings shall go through prescribed channels and be kept secret until action be bad and promulgaed by the proper reviewing authorities.

The attendance at the court-mart Lai was much larger than at any other time since $he trial began, and axnc tg the spectators was a score or more of ladies. Several of them were frienls of Gen. Eagan's daughter, who wis called as a witness, while others were attracted by curiosity. The testimony at the closing session of the court was directed largely to establish the fact that the general had lost his mental balance as a result of the charges made against him by Gea. Miles. Chaagwl Condition »r the Geont. Bis daughter and her husband told of the general's changed condition and maintained that they had great fears that he might at any time kill his accuser. Mr. McKee, a life-long friend, stated that at times he believed him. actually insane. | A The facts in this connection were brorght out strongly by Mr.lWorthr ington, in his efforts to show that Gen. Eagan, at times, was wholly irresponsible. *H*rwel«ed by Gen. Miles." A dramatic incident of the trial was the testimony of the general's daughter, in which she described her fathers appearance oh the day he had first read Gen. Miles’ statement. Standing in the door of his house with the newspaper containing the evidence in his hand, he had exclaimed wildly: “I have been crucified by Gen. Miles.” Gave Mo Hint of What Causing Thrnagh Their MiotU. Throughout the three days of the trial the members of the-^ourt sat in their places and attentively listened to every word of the testimony; Only on two or three occasions did they ask the witnesses any questions. Then the answer of “Yes, sir,” or “No. sir,” sufficed. WJiere their sympathies %ere or what was passing in TTTeqr minds was not disclosed by even the slightest change of expression. AN IMPORTANT MISSION. 8*nor Qamdit Dispatched to Cabs on a Mission that Is Deemed of the , - Utmost Importance. Washington, Jan. 27.—It Is anda, who throughout the late war and before, was one of the diplomatic representatives of the Cuban junta in Washington, will leave Washington at or ce on a special mission for Cuba. He .will go first to Havana and then proceed with all dispatch to join Gen. Gomez as soon as he can exactly locate that officer. Senor Quesada is acting directly in this mission %nder the instructions of President Palma of the junta, and while it is not ceemed expedient at this moment to say mere of the nature of Hie mission with which he is charged, it is known that the Officials here feel tfie utmost confidence that results beneficial to Cuba and satisfactory to the United States government are likely to follow.

A POPULAR CHANGE. GtibLcottanl Wood tuSurmd Gob. Brooke as .VUUarjr Governor of Cuba February 1. Washington, Jan. 25.—It is announced on excellent authority tonight that the president hafd decided to remove Gen. Brooke, military governor of Cuba, and appoint Gen. Leonard Wood in his place. The change is to take place February 1. Gen. Wilson is reported to be scheduled for second in command. No reason is known for the change. This news will be hailed with delight by the Cubans, who have not been pleased with Gen. Brooke's stern methods. An Objectionable Order Revoked. Washington, Jan. 28.—The war department's order of the 7th inst„ providing that the Spanish bank of Havana should collect the taxes in Cuba for the fiscal year ending June 30. next, was yesterday revoked by the secretary of war, and the bond returned to Dr. Jover Antonio, and by him accepted. Gen. Brooke, at the same time, was cabled to establish a system for the collection of the taxes, introducing such machinery us iu his judgment may be necessary for the purpose. Loqc-DUUnr« Power TransmUaion. Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 28.—The longest power transmission system iu the world, that which supplies the city of Los Angeles with electricity, with power, developed at the head of the Santa Ana river, 80 miles away. Is completed. Americau Horse* for fed trope. Chicago, Jan. 28.—The Record says; Chicago will supply Europe with 10,000 coach and buss horses. They axe to eome f rom different parts of Illinois and Iowa, and will be shipped at the rate of 200 head a week.

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J^ICHARESON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Lam. Prompt stttottoa gtnn to alt bwtaeee, A Notary Public constantly In the office. Office In Carpenter building, Kisbth and Maln-sts., Petersburg, Ind. ^SHBY A COFFEY. G. B. Ashby, C. A. Coffey. Attorneys at Lam. Will practice In all courts. Special attention given to alt civil business. Notary Public constantly iu the office. Collections made and promptly remitted. Office over W. L. Barrett’s store, Petersburg, lad. S. G. DAVENPORT, Attorney at Lam. Prompt attention given to all bnstnesa. Office over J. H. Adams A Son’s drug store, Petersburg, Indiana. -i_-i—— C* M.AC.L HOLCOMB, A ttorneys at Lam. Will practice in all courts. Prompt attention riven to all business. Office In Carpenter block, fiist floor ou Eighth-si., Petersburg. E.WOOLSEY, Attorney at Lam. All'business promptly attended to. Collections promptly made and remitted. Abstracts of Title a s;>erial'y. Office In Frank's buildlug, opposite Press office, Petersburg, Iud. R- RICE, Physician and Surgeon. Chronic Diseases a specialty. Office over Citizens’ State Bank, Petersburg, Indiana BASINGER, Physician and Sargeon, A Office over Bergeu A Oliphant’s drug i loom No. Petersburg. Iud. All ealts prompt ty answered. Telephone No.tt office and residence.

H.3TONECIPHER, Dental Surgeon. Offlf* In room* « and 7. in Carpenter bnfldIng, Petersburg., Indiana. Operations firstclass. All work warranted. Anaesthetics UKd for painless extraction of teeth. t Q ,(\ MURPHY. Dental Surgeon. Par ors In the Carpenter building, Petersburg. Indiana. Crown and Bridge Work a specialty. All irork guaranteed to give satisfaction. N OTICE is hereby given to alt persons In-. tcrested that 1 will attend iu my office at my residence EVERY MONDAY. To tnMjVsrct business connected with tbcoffleo >f trustee of Marion township Ail persons I havii.g business with said office will utease j take notice. T f' SEI.SbX. Trustee. Posroffice address: Winslow. N OTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that 1 will attend at my residence EVERY WEDNESDAY, To transact t.nsinoss connected with the office of t rust c of Madison township. Positively no business transacted except on office dsys. J. D. BA UK HR. Trustee. PostoHice addn-ss: Petersburg; Ird. : 'VTOTICE is hereby* given to alt Parties inis terested that } will attend at u£y office in Stential;. ' EVERY SATURDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Ia>cithart township. All persons having otisiuess with said office will please take notice. J. L. BASS, Trustee. .VTOTICE is hereby given to ail parties conks cerned that I will ue at my office at Pleasantville. MONDAY AND SATURDAY of each week, to attend to business connoted with the office of trustee of Monroe township. : Positively no business transacted only on office lays. J- M. DAVIS, Trustee Postoffice address Spur-won. NOTICE is hereby eiven to all persons concerned that I will attend at m v office EVERY MON%Y , To transact i»isiness coo.toted with the efficeof trustee of Jefferson township. L. E TRAYLOR. Trustee FoUoffiee address: A igiers, Ind. i C. A. SNOW & CO m*iiwiswtiwtsAwi

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