Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 42, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 February 1899 — Page 3

FOR THE DRUMMERS. Or. Talmage Preaches to the Army •• of Commercial Travelers. C*«lioa* Tkea «• Start llgkt •• Tfeelr Juararya-Uaicua Work on Ike Sabbatk—The Oatjr of Enplaycra. fWashington, Feb. IS- Copyright. 1S99.) In this discourse Dr. Talmage gives words of good cheer tp commercial travelers and tells of their safeguards and their opportunities; text. Nahum 2:4. *The chariots sjiall rage in thestreets: tbe.v shall justie one against another in the broad ways; they s-halt seem like torches; they shall run like the lightnings.** It has been found out. that many c? the arts and discoveries which we supposed were peculiar to our own age ard merely the restoration of the arts and discoveries of thousands of years ago. 1 suppose tbat.the past centuries have forgotten more than the present century knows. It seems to me that they must hare knoVn thousands of years ago. in the days of Nineveh, of the uses of steam and its application to swift travel. In my text 1 hear the rush of the rad train, the clang of the wheels and the jamming of the car couplings. •"The chariots shall rage in the street®; they shall justie one against another in! ' the broad ways; they shall seem like torches; they shall run like the lightnings." Have you ever taken your position in the night far away from a depot along the track waiting to.see the rail train come at full speed? At first you heard in the distance a rumbling like the coming of a storm; then you saw the flash of the headlight of the locomotive as it turned the curve; then you saw the wilder glare of the fiery ©ye of the train as it came plunging toward you; then you heard the shriek of the whistle that frenzied all the echoes; then you saw the hurricane dash of cinders; then you felt the jar of the passing earthquake and you saw the shot thunderbolt of the express train. Well, it seems that we can hear the passing of a midnight express train in my text. '-“The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justie one against another in the: broad ways; they shall seem like torches; they shall run like the light.Bings.”

1 halt the train long enought to get on board, and I go through the cars, and 1 find three-fourths of the passengers are .commercial traveler*. They are a folk , peculiar to themselves, easily recognized. at home on all the trains, not startled by the sudden dropping of the | brakes, familiar with all the railroad signals, can tell you what is the next station, how long the train will stop, what- place the passengers take luncheon at. can give you information on almost any subject, are cosmopolitan, at home everywhere from Halifax to San Francisco. They are on the eight o’clock morning train, on the noon train, on the midnight train. You take a berth in a sleeping car, and either above you or beneat h you is one of these gentlemen. There are 100.000 professed commercial travelers in the united States* but 500.000 would not include all those who are sometimes engaged in this service. They spend millions of dollars every day in the hotels and in the rail trains. They have their official « newspaper organ. They have their mutual benefit association, about4,000 names on the rolls, and have already distributed taore than $200,000 among the families of deceased members. They are ubiquitous, unique and tremendous for good or evil. All the tendencies of merchandise are toward j their multiplication. The house that stands) back ou its dignity and .waits for customers to come instead of going to seek bargain makers will have more and more unsalable goods on the shelf an<f will gradually lose its control of the markets, while the great, enterprising and successful houses- will have their agents on all the trains, and “their chariots will rage in the streetSi they shall jus>tle one against another in the broad ways; they shall seem like torches; they shall run like the lightnings” I think-commercial travelers can stand a sermon of warm-hearted sympathy. If you have any words of good cheer for them, yon ^a^better utter them. If you- have any good, honest prayers in their behalf, they will be greatly obliged to you. T never knew a man yet who did not like to be prayed for. I never knew a man yet that did not like to be helped. It seems to me this sermon is timely. At this season of the year there are tens of thousands of men going out to gather the spring trade. The months of February and March in all our commercial estab- • lishments are very busy months. In a few days our national perplexities will be settled, and then look out for the brightest ten years of national prosperity which this country has ever witnessed. All our astute commercial men feel that we are standing at the opening gate of wonderful prosperity. Let the manufacturers put the bands on their wheels, and the merchants open & new set of account books in place of those filled with long columns of bad debts. Let ns start on a new commercial campaign. Let us drop the old tune of “Naomi,” and take up “Ariel’*or “Antioch."

Now yon, the commercial traveler, have received orders from the head men of the firm that you are to start on a long excursions. You have your patterns all assorted and prepared. Ypu i have them put up in bundles or cases and marked. You have full instructions as to pricea You know on what prices you may retreat somewhat. You have your valise or trunk, or both, packed. If 1 were a stranger, I would have no right to look into that valise, hut as I am your brother, 1 will take the liberty. 1 look into the valise, aad&.i

congratulate jOU on «u these com* fortable articles of appcieL The see* sons are so changeable yon hare hot taken a single precaution too many. Some night yon will get out in the snow bank and hare to walk three or four mites until yon get to the railroad station. and yon wilt want all these comforts and conveniences. But will you excuse me if 1 make a suggestion or two about this valise? You say : “Certainly; as we are having a plain, frank talk I will not be offended at any honorable suggestion.** ' Put in among your baggage some carefully-selected, wholesome reading. Let it be bistory, or a poem, or a book of pure fiction, or some volume that will give you infbrmation in regard to your line of business. Then add to that a Bible in round, beautiful type—small type is: bad for the eyes anywhere, but peculiarly killing in the jolt of a rail train. Put your railroad guide and your Bible side by side—the one to show you the route through this 'world and the other to show you the route to the next world. “Oh.** you say, “that is superfluous. for now in all the hotels, in the parlor, you will And a Bible, and in nearly' all the rooms of the guests you will find one!** But. my brother, that is not your Bible. Yon want your own haL your own coat. your own blanket. your own Bible. “But,** you say. “1 am not a Christian, and you ought not to Expect me to carry a Bible.” My brothej. a greaj many people are not Christians who carry a Bible. Besides that, before you get home you might become a Christian, and you would teel awkward without a copy. Besides that, you might get bad news from home. 1 see you with trembling hand opening the telegram, saying: “George is d3'ing.** or “Fannie is dead; come home!” Oh. as you sit in the train, stunned with the calamity, going home, you will have no taste for fine scenery, or for conversation, and yet you must keep your thoug-hts employed or you will go’stark mad. Then you will want a Bible whether you read it*or not. It wilf bea comfort to have it near you— that book full of promises which have comforted other people in like calamity. Whether you study the promises or not you will want that Book near you. Am 1 not wise when 1 say put in the Bible? Now, you are all ready to startl You have your valise in the right hand and you have your blanket and shawl strap in the left band. Good-by! May you have a prosperous journey, large sales, greht percentages. Oh. there is one thing I: forgot to ask you about—what train are you going to take? “Well.” you say, “I will take the five o’clock Sunday afternoon traih.” Why? “Oh.”

you say. “I shall save a day bythaj. and on Monday morning 1 will be in the distant city in the commercial establishment by the time the merchants come down!’* My brother, you are starting wrong. If you clip off something from the Lord's day, the Lord will clip off something from your lifetime successes. Sabbath breaking pays no better for this world than it pay* for the nest. Young man. the dollar that you earn on the Sabbath is a red*-hbt dollar, and if you put it into a bag with 5.000 honest dollars that red-hot dollar will burn a hole through the bottom of the bag and let out all the 5.000 honest dollars with it. But you have come now near the end of your railroad travel. I can tell by the motion of the car that they are pulling the patent brakes down. The engineer rings the bell at the crossing. The train stops. “All out!” cries the conductor. You dismount from the train. You reach the hotel. The landlord is glad to see you—very glad! He stretches out his hand across the registry book with all the disinterested warmth of a brother! You are assigned an apartment. In that uninviting apartment you stay only long enough to make yourself presentable. You descend then into the reading-room, and there you find the commercial travelers sitting around a lofig table with a great elevation in the center covered with advertisements, while there are inkslands sunken in the bed of the table, and scattered all around rusty steel pens and patches of blotting paper. Of course you will not stay there. You sapnter out among the merchants. You present your letters of introduction and authority. You begin business. Now. let me say. there are two or three things you ought to remember. First, that all the trade you get by the practice' of “treating" will not stick. If you cannot get custom except by tipping a wine glass with somebody, you had better not get his custom. An old commercial traveler gives as his experience that trade got by “treating” always damages the house that gets it i if one way or the other. ! Again. I charge you, tell the whole truth ahout anything you sell. Lying commercial travelers will precede you. Lying commercial travelers will come right after you into the same store. Do not let their unfair competition tempt you from the straight line. It is an awful bargain that a man makes when he sells his goods and his soul at the same time. A young man in one of the stores of New*York was selling some silks. He was binding them up when he^said to the lady customer: “It is n»y„ duty to show you that there is a fracture in that silk.” She looked at it i ®nd rejected the goods. The head man | of the firm, hearing Qf it, wrote to the father of the young man in tlje country, saying: “Come and take your son away. He will never make a mer

cnant. the father came m agitation, wondering what his boy had been doing, and thejbead man of the firm said: “Why, your son stood here at this counter and pointed out a fracture in the auk. and) of course the lady wouldn't take it. We are not responsible for the ignorance of customer. Customers must look out for themselves, and we look out for ourselves. Your son will never make a merchant.” “lathatVll?” said the father. **Ah! 1 am prouder of my boy than I ever was. John, get joux hat and come home.”

Bat it U tlnat night, and yon ft back to the hotel Now come* the might? tog for the commercial travel* j er. Tell me where he spends his even- j ingv and 1 will tell jou where he will spend eternity, and 1 will tell you what will be hie worldly prospects. There is an abundance of choice. There is your room with the books. There are the Young Men’s Christian association rooms. There are the week night »err- | ices of the Christian churches. There is the gambling saloon. There is the theater. There is the house of infamy. Plenty of places to go>to. But which. Oimniortal man. which? OGod. which? “Well.” you say, “I guess 1 will^-1 guess I will go to the theater.” Do you think the tarrying in that piace until 11 o'clock at night will improve your bodily health or your financial prospects or your eternd! fortune? No man ever found the path to usefulness or honor or happiness or commercial success or Heaven through the American theater. “Well,” you say. “1 guess, then. 1 will go to—1 guess 1 will goto the gambling saloon.” You will first go to look. Then you will go to play. You will make $100. you will make $500. you will make $1,000, you will make $1.500—then you will lose all. Then you will borrow some money so as to start anew. You will make $50. ypa will make $?00. you will make $600—then you will lose all. These wretches of the gambling saloon know how to tempt yon. But mark this—all gamblers die poor. They may make fortunes—great fortunes— but they lose them. “Well,” you say, “if 1 can’t go to the theater, and if 1 can’t go to the gambling saloon, then 1 guess—1 guess 1 will go to the house of infamy.” Comnier cial travelers have told me that in the letter box at the hotel within one hour after tl^jr arrival they have had letters of evil solicitation in that direction, it is far away frt>tc borne. Nobody ^vill

know it. Commercial travelers bare sometimes gone in that evil-path. Why not you? Hult! There are other g^tes of ruin through which a man may go and yet come out. but that gate has a spring lock which snaps him in forever. He who goes there is damned already. He 'may seem to be comparatively free for a little while, but he is only on the limits, and the satanic police have their eyes upon him to bring him in at any moment. Thfc hot curse of God is on that crime, and because of it there are men whose heaven was blotted out ten years ago. There is no danger that they be'lost. They are lost now. I look through their glaring eyeballs down into the lowest cavern of hell l Oh. destroyed* spirit, why comest thou in here to-day?yDost think 1 have the power to break open the barred gateway of the penitentiary of the damned? There is a passage in Proverbs 1 somewhat hesitate to read, but I do not hesitate long. “At the window of my house I looked through my casement and beheld among the simple ones, 1 discerned among the youths, a young man vdtd of understanding, passing through the street near her corner, and he went the wsiy to her house, in the twilight, in the, evening, in the black and dork night, He goeth-after her.straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks, till a dart strikes through his liver.** But now the question is still open. Where will yon spend your evening? Oh. commercial travelers, how much will you give me to put you on the right track? Without charging you a farthing I will prescribe foryou a plan which will save you for this world and the next if you will take it. Go befohe yon leave home to the Young Men's Christian association of the city where you live. Get from them letters of introduction. Carry them out to the towns and cities where you go. If there be no association in the place you visit, then present them at the 'door of Christian churches and hand them over to the pastors. Be not slow to arise in the devotional meeting and soy: “1 am a coinmercial traveler. I am far away from home, and 1 come in here to-night to seek Christian society." The best houses and the highest style of amusement will open before you. and instead of your being depeudeul upon the leprous crew who hang around the hotels, wanting to show you all the slums of the city on the one condition that you will pay their expenses, you \vill get the benediction of God in every' town you visit. Remember jlhis, chat whatever, place you visit bad influences will seek you out. f(iOod influences you must seek out, * O commercial travelers, 1 pray for you the all sustaining grace of Goo! There are two kinds of days when you are especially in need of Divine grace. The one, the day when you have no success—when you fail to make a sate, and yon are ,very much disappointed, and you go back to your hotel discomfited. That night you wla be tempted to go to strong drink and rush into bad surroundings. The other day when you will especially need Divine grace wili be when you have a day of great success and the devil tells you you must go and celebrate that success. Then you will want the grace of God to restrain you from rollicking indulgences. Yes. there will be a third day when you will need

to be Christians, and that will be the last day of your life. 1 do not know where you will spend it. Perhaps in your house, more probably in a rail car, or a' steamer, or the strange hotel. 1 see you on your last commercial errand. You bare bidden good-by to the family at home for the last time. The train of your earthly existence is nearing the depot of the grave. The brakes are falling.' The b<dl rings at the terminus. The train stops. Alt cut fox eternity. Show your ticket now for getting into the gates of the shining city—the red ticket washed in tj»e blood of the Lamb. . ...- ■ Recollections. Mrs. Weeperly—Yea. we pay spot cash for everything. Mrs. Whipperly—Ah l I often strait to my husband about the tine when we *ad to.—Puck.

ROBERTS’ DIVERSIONS His une wu not Robe rts, which is s mod enough reason for ca lling him th*t here. There vas nothing i l range or weird in his appearance or general eharior, but he did one hypnotic tarn, as the music-hall phrase is, that mystified his fellow ranchers to the verge' of lunac r until they got used to it. One gets used to almost anything out west, where, as some one put it, every han has an individuality tha t sticks out like a sore thumb. 'Roberts was one of a.lit!le group of col-lege-bred men who, some from choice and some from example, have located claims in Mason county, Wash. Th<• Olympic moontains tower over their ranc hes, dense forests of fir and cedar surround them, and a hundred miles of salt water separates them vrom civilization. They have all built cabins out of trees which their own axes have felled; they have made *JI their own furniture, and have shot the oik and the bears whose skins carpet their doors. On the walls are photographs of nice girls “at home,” pictures cut from i iustrated papers and magazines, bookshelves full of novels and poetry, shotguns, rifles, knives and fishing tackle. The Skykomish river falls down from the snow hanks a thousand feet above them and rushes past their doors a mile or two into Lake Cushman. Both river and lake swarm with trout, big, gamy, mettlesome fellows, one variety—the Dolly Varden—running six, seven, up to ten pounds in weight. 1 The ranchers ought to enjoy their wild, free lives, and they do. There is a post office at Lake Cushman and a tri-weekly mail by stage from the sound, nine miles distant, “Put” is the postmaster. His name was Putnam original^, and he is a Trinity man. He has a large ranch at the lake and a summer hotel where people came for the fishing. Here the men gather -for their mail, nsually lingering for a smoke and a yarn, and it was here that Roberts began his mysterious performances. There were a dozen fowls, scratching and clucking around the porch steps where he sat alone, apparently engaged in idly drawing short, straight lines in the ground with a stick. Presently “Put” came out and Roberts said: “Put, what in sheol is the matter with those chickens of yours? They seem to be

paralyzed. ^ They certainly did. They all stood like statues with their beaks nailed to the lines Roberts had been tracing ,*.» ‘‘Great Caesar!" cried the astonished Put. “Hi there! Shoo, you beggars!” But not a feather moved- ■ The other men came out and shouted and threw things without effect. Finally Put lifted them, one after the other, from their positions, with an energetic yank, whereupon they broke into wild squawkings and fled. Roberts was in fits of laughter, and the others all5 said: “Pshaw! That wasn’t anything. Anybody could do it. Chickens were easy to hypnotize. All you had to do was to draw a line down their beaks and continue it along the ground." Roberta laughed some more and swung off up the trail. The next time the men met at the post office some one asked him if he knew any more tricks of that kind. He said he didn’t and the conversation turned to spiritualism, mind reading, thought transference, and the like. It was agreed that the whole thing was rubbish—flubdub, as they say in Georgia. If there was anything in it why didn't spiritualists make mililons in wheat and stocks? Why did seers invariably live in cheap lodgings which smelled of boiled cabbage? Not one of them ever made a cent except what their weak-minded dupes paid them. Roberts slid off the table and said he was going. 4 “By the way,” he remarked, “I got a tendollar gold piece in Hoodsport yesterday that looks funny. I’m afraid it’s a counter^ feit.” V He handed a small round dbj jct to the man nearest him. Several heads bent over it, and it passed from one han<j( to another. “It’a all right. Nothing the matter with that,” wag the verdict. “Thanks,” said Roberts, taking it back and throwing it on the table. The men then saw that what they had taken for a tendoilar gold piece was a common iron washer' off a wagon wheel. It was rusty and battered, and it had a hole in the middle. Of course they declared with one voice that they had been flim-flammed. ,, “It was mere sleight-of-hand,” they said. “No, it was flubdub,” answered Roberts.

The uoor opened and two other ranchers came in. > “Hello," cried Roberts. “What do yon fellows think of this ten-dollar go d piece? Is it queer?" ' He hallded them the washer am! they examined it carefully, weighed it in their. palms and turned it over several times. “Don’t see anything queer about that." they agreed. „ ! The trick was repeated a do»sn times j with unfailing success. No one was de- ' eeiveth a second time, and most of them declared that they weren’t really in ea rnest, or the light was bad, or something of 1 he sort. The average victim always has an excuse to offer. The affair was the sensation of the winter, and then something else turned up and it became a back number. The next fall Roberts and two others of the Lake Cushman fraternity ran over to V ictoria for a little celebration. Ore of the men returned from a walk downtewn and told Roberts that he had been “stringing old Williams, the tobacconist, about that act of yours with the washer." The said Williams discrediting the story as absurd, he ha<f bet two pounds of Hudson Bay mixture against the retail price thereof that the tobacconist himself would be fooled by the identical washer before the week was out. Accordingly, the next morning Roberts strolled into old Williams’ shop, w lere he was not known, bought a box of Keb-kaa for $3, handed over the washer, took $7 in change and walked out. The British sense of humor, as everyone knows, ia sadly deficient, and old Williama, when he discovered the washer in Itis till, was filled with wrath. He promptly notified th* police, and Roberts’ friends had to bail him out of jail before 11 o’clock that

night. The courtroom rang with laughter at the trial next day, and the magistrate said that any man who couldn't tell an iron washer from a gold piece deserved- to lose his money. However, it was his duty to discourage confidence games, and he would have to fine the gentleman $10, the amount representing a kind of poetic justice. The tine was paid at once, the magistrate sarcastically warning the clerk not to accept any old iron by mistake. The Americans hurried out of the courtroom amid smiles. After they were gone the horrified»clerk picked up theiroo washer and gave it to the judge without a word. The police found them that evening dining with some English friends at *‘Tht? Poodle Hog.” They were allowed to finish their dinner, but they were notified that the Charmer left for Vancouver at half-past ten and thev would have to leave tows -Ji. X. son.

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W. BASINGER, Physician and Surgeon. Office over Bergen A Ollphant’s drag store, loom No. 9, Petersburg, Ind. All calls promptly answered. Telephone No. 42, office and residence. H. STONECIPHER, Dental Office in rooms 6 and 7, In Carpenter butlding. Petersburg. Indiana. Operations firstclass. All work warranted. Anwstheticsuaad for painless extraction of teeth. CC. MURPHY. | Dental Surgeon, j Parlors in the Carpenter building, Petersburg, Indiana. Crown and Bridge Work a specialty. All work guaranteed to give satisfaction. .. VTOTICE is hereby given to all persons Inis tereMed that I will attend in my office st tuy residence EVERY MONDAY, To transret business connected with the office aftrustee of Marion township All persons having business with said office will nlease take notice. T. C. NELSON. Trustee. Post office address: Winslow. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will attend at my residence EVERY WEDNESDAY, ' To transact business connected with the office af trustee of Madison township. , Positively no business transacted except on office days. J. D. BARKER. Trustee. Postoffice address: Petersburg, Ind. NOTICE ts hereby given to alt parties interested that I will attend at my office in Slendal EVERY SATURDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart township. - All persons having business with said office will please take notice. J. L. BASS, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that I wilt be at my office at Pleaasntville, MONDAY AND SATURDAY af each s eek, to attend to business connected with the office of trustee of Monroe township, Positively no business transacted only on office lavs. J. M. DAVIS, 'Trustee Postofflce address Spurcson. NOTIC E Is hereby given to all persons concerned that 1 will attend at uiy office EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with the office of i rustee of Jefferson township. I* E TRAYLOR, Trustee Pnetoftee address: Algiers, Ind. Surgeon. w T

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