Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 5, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 June 1899 — Page 1

A Corset Sale 500 While Summer Corsets, |H>rfeet fitting, regular length, made of strong wire cloth. boned with 14 full /flf] strips, gtaal strung clasps, just the cool corset for hot weather; this sale / WO Corsets in Drab atifij/ White, all sizes, glove fitting, some high busffr C An *>me with shoulder strajis, sh»|ies to |)llf: lit all forms. A great corset to fit vvw \ Dresses over: a 75c value; this sale

Try the world famous G. D. Chicago Corset Waist, a beautiful Corset, a Corset that don’t have to be broke in. If you want dti A AA a graceful form, an easy, healthful Corset, try the G. 1). Chi- IIII eago Waist. You will notice this advertised iu all the leading magazines, including the Home Journal. We have the sole ageticy for Petersburg.. .. Cool Gauzy Dress Goods. For this hot weather, pretty Piques and Ducks for Skirts; cool Sheer Organdies,”Nulls, Dimities, etc., not too loud, nor too dull, but just “Like poets faucies or artists’ dreams.” For cool gauzy Dresses. Why Will You Sew and Sweat This hot weather when you can buy Ladies' Cameic Underwear at such prices? Gowns nicely embroidered, 75c; Skirts with Umbrella Ruffles 75c; Drawers trimmed iu lace, 40c; Pretty Corset Covers, m-; Calico Dresses, 49c. Come iu and see them. Make our Store vour headquarters, always plenty of fans and ice water. A Present With Each $5.00 Purchase. '\JD."0.'\C.ar^TO\)e THE PEOPLE’S STORE. ^PETERSBURG, IND<?

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The Best Cough Remedy on Earth. » Luther, Michigan, February 8, 1892, I)r. C. D. Warner, C’oldwater, Michigan, Dear Sir: I am well acquainted with the merits of your White Wine of Tar Syjup. I have used it on several occasions when very hoarse from public speaking and when suffering from sore ' throat. Our postmaster, Mr. Nichoson. had la grippe and it, left him with a very bad cough, had spells of coughing every morning for an hour dr more. I met him on the street three weeks ago and recommended White Wine of Tar Syrup, which he commenced taking and today he is a well man. _ A little j^irl

I'- - ■■■» N • ——— ■here had coughed all winter and no cure could l>e found. I asked her mother to get White Wine of Tar. She did so and in two weeks the child was cured. As you say, it is the best cough remedy on earth. Please send me six bottles by express. Yours most respectfully, Rev. E. L. Odle, Pastor M. E. church. For sale by Paul Bros. j Farm for Sale.—I will sell my 200acre farm in Madison township, seven miles from Petersburg: 100 acres improved: good orchard: fair buildings: good water; line body of laud. Call on or address, Jacob Williams, Petersburg, lad. 49-m2 --Jsr'K :u < V-.. % > . ' ■ %.< . ’

AN INTERESTING PAPER. Should He Head and Preserved by Kvery Sunday school Worker. The following paper on the subject of “The Relation of the Sunday School to the Church,” was prepared ami read before the Sunday School convention at Winslow by 4Rev. W. S. Rader of this city: The relation of the Sunday school to the church is about the same that the public school sustains to the work of higher education. In the education of the child the public school is the preparatory dc|»artnient, dealing with primary principles aud fitting the child for the higher and more extended courses off study in the college or university. And all this to a certain extent is preliminary to the highest possible success of the individual in his chosen profes

»ion. In like manner is the Sunday school the nursery or primary department of the church. The training and instruction here received is all preparatory to, and qualities for, the most effective usefulness in aggressive church work. And these taken together are the means that furnish the best equipment for the highest possible attainments in the religions life. It will be admitted, 1 suppose, by all present, that the purpose of the Sunday school, as well as that of the church, is to bring the individual into right relations with God. With this in view, we will consider first the Sunday school in its adaptation to the needs of childhood. When Jesus said, “Suffer little children to come unto me," he meant something more than for us merely to stand aside and let them coma if they would, lie meant that we should assist them or bring them to Him, Before they arrive at the age of accountability all children are, under the atoneraen* in Christ, fit subjects for the kingdom of heaven. But there is a period in early life whettrchildren pass out of this state of initial justification into youthful accountability to God. Then regeneration becomes necessary and may take place at a very early period after they merge into the years of accountability. And although the regeneration or conversion of a child may not be attended with the same outward manifestations, yet it may be as real, radical and positive at five or six years old as at fifty. Samuel, Jeremiah and John the Baptist, all knew the Lord in early life. Polyearp, Richard Baxter, Dr. Watts, Mathew Henry, Robert Hall and Bishop Foster were all converted before they were twelve years old. Children are- more easily led to Christ while young than at any other period in life. The person who has refused the offers of mercy for fifty years, has not only his native depravity to hinder him, but the accumulated habits and sins of half a century piled up between him and the sin forgiving Christ. But between the youth aud Christ there is no such barrier. It is easy and natural to lead a child to Christ. The affinity between the Savior and the sinless is incalculable. Christ said of himself, “I, if I be lifted- up, will draw all men unto me.” He is therefore the great magnet of heaven drawing ail (lungs pure unto himself. To all infants, and to all children who stand at the threshold of accountability, the heavenward attraction is the strongest, because l hey are the freest from sin. But with the adult it is different. The one who neglects to be religious until he is old finds that the downward attraction is the greatest. If Christ is the magnet of the upper world, Satan is the magnet of the lower. If one attracts tho innocent and pure, the

other draws unto himself the corrupt and guilty. And as the force of the heavenly attraction increases with time, so does the force of the downward attraction increase with age. For this reason it is easier to bring ten children ten years old to Christ than it is to lead one hardened sinner fifty years of age to the same Savior. For a long tuue in the history of the church this fact, vital as it is, was overlooked or neglected. Hut the time came at last when God by Jus spirit touched the heart aud opened the eyes of some of his chosen servants, and these entering into the Saviors feelings of tenderness and love for children, were made to see the importance of winning them early in life to the service of Christ. But commendable as their efforts were in this direction their work did not culminate in an organisation until a little more than one hundred years ago. As early as 1769 Hannah Ball, an English lady, gathered togethor on Sundays a number of poor neglected children and taught them the word of God. Twelve years later, in 1781, Robert Itaikes, a printer in Gloucester, in passing back and forth to his place of business, was forcibly impressed at seeing a group of children, miserably ragged and j dirty, playing in the streets. Being a rich j man and Tull of benevolece, he established schools and employed teachers at his own expense in which these children were taught to read aud instructed in the church cate-! eh ism. Hannah Ball, of which mention was made a moment ago, was converted early in life aud became a member of the church at High Wycombe. She was a woman full of faith and the Holy Ghost, and accosding to* Tyeruiati, organized & Sunday school at High Wycombe fourteen

years before Robert Raikesdi«l bis at Glou-1 cester. Gradually the idea of making the school a branch of the church work, for the special benefit of the children of the church, grew and developed until it is now a settled and fixed department of the church. The enterprise from the beginning commended itself in such splendid results that Christian hearts everywhere caught the inspiration, moved forward in their respective denominations, aud today the work of the Sunday school [ervadcs the entire family of churches. Jf, therefore, we can ascertain the mission of the Sunday schoolwnd grasp the work it is designed to accomplish today, we may obtain a clear and defiuite idea of t he church of tomorrow. For the Sunday school of the present is without question the germ of the church of

me lucure. I know of no question half so important to us then, as this one, What shall the church of the future be? I have great in. terest in otherquestious. f it is a matter of great concern to me to know what the future of our civil anil social institutions will be. The future of science, art and commerce is of great interest to ns ail. So is also the question of imperialism and national expansion. And the future of our great Republic! What is to be its destiny? Shall it continue the home of a free, prosperous and happy people, or is it to be consumed with greed and cursed by rum? All these are questions of deep interest, and the future success and happiness of the race is bound up in them. But, important as these questions are, they do not concern me half so much, as the question, What shall be the character of the church of the future? All other questions, no matter how important they may be, all center in this, hence any agency or organization that has anything to do with molding the character of the church for the next century should be carefully nurtured; for be it small or great, it is nevertheless a factor in the problem of the world's civilization and evangelization. Such a force is the Sunday school. In this is onropportunity: 1. To impress the mind of the child with a clear and distinct conviction of a personal and holy God. Among the dangers that threaten the church none are to be feared more than the free thought and Skepticism of the times. Of all the agencies suited to counteract this evil none are more potent than the Sunday school. It sets before the child's mind, at a time in life when the mind is most susceptible to such impressions, the fact of a real personal God, a God of love and justice, faithfully rewarding the rigliteousand punishing the wicked. Ami as the young are thus indoctrinated with the true idea of God, their belief will be carried into the church, and the more thorough their knowledge of the bible, the more securely will the church be fortified against the assaults of unbelievers. Thus the knowledge which the Sunday school imparts to the young is the strongest and surest safe-guard against the infidelity of the future. 2. No ether agency is so well suited as the Sunday school to develop conscience. It requires something more than learning, logic and ridicule to do this. The hidden and secret emotions of the heart must be touched, and the moral nature must be stirred and aroused. The Sunday school is the best agency that 1 know of for the accomplishment of this purpose. It gives

to the public mind a conscience by stamping upon the heart ot the young the first principle of conscience, viz., the great fact of a just and iinjmrtiat God. And what more is needed just now than this? Some say one thing and some another. One says a freer and more equal distribution of the wealth of the land is the supreme need: Another declares his belief in the existing need for higher education. While another would have us believe that the obliteration of the whisky traffic and the overthrow of other social evils are the only things lacking to make the world a paradise. But to my mind the supreme want, that which lies at the foundation of all that is right, and will go the farthest in removing all that is wrong, is conscience. Individual and public conscience. The Sunday school is the best and most effectual means tor the cultivation and promotion of this quality in the lives of our young people. This is*the only type of manhood that can safely lie entrusted with the great problems of tiie next century. And with men with cultivated consciences and high moral sensibilities at the front we shall have nothing to fear. It is the mission ot the Sunday school to enrich the church with just such characters. The boys and girls of today are the hope of the future. Only let their young hearts be imbued with the love of God, only let them be trained and nurtured in the Sunday school as they should be, and the question of the future destiny of the church will be settled, settled forever and settled right. Thus the two particular things that 1 would impress upon your mind as of vital importance to the church of the present and imiminently necessary to its future greatness and grandure, are: 1. Right ideas of God, and 3. An awakened, enlightened and properly developed .conscience. When these two things become the dominant idea in Sunday -school work, the result will be the moral and spiritual regeneration of our young people, and the church movntg on in her triumphant march, “fair as the moon, clear as the san and terrible as an army with banners.”

TOWNSHIP REFORM LAW/ The Attorney (iec erml <«lves HI* Opinion on tu e Xew Law. In answering inquiries respecting the duties of township trustees, acting as school trus :ces, under the township reform law of 1899, W. L. Taylor, attorney general of the state, says: First. I advise that for the year 1899 township trustees, as trustees of school township, make their annual reports in August for the year ending July 31. This is true, because threefourths of the year had expired before the township reform law went into effect. Second. I advise that all township t trustees make a complete report to I the advisory boar 1 of the township, at

their annual meeting of the 5th daj of September, of . ill their acts,doings, receipts and expenditures, since the »7th day *of Apr il, 1899, pursuant to said township reform law. This shall include all theii acts as township trustees and as trustees of the school township and ove; “seers of the poor. Third. Township trustees in Indiana this year alter rendering their report to the boa; d of county commissioners in August should publish such report, as provide 1 by section 1. of the act of March 7, 1£ 95. Fourth. I also advise that all township trustees ih Indiana post up a statement of the i indebtedness of their respective townships on the first Monlay of August of each year, as provided for in said set of March 7, lb95. This in nowise wi! 1 relieve them from the necessity of m aking the estimates and statements o the township advisory board, as provided for in the township reform ' aw. Fifth. Incidental repairs on school aouses, roads aul bridges should be made by the township trustees and reported to the advisory board in September. It is not necessary that they have an ordir from the advisory board to make t iese repairs needed between now and the meeting of such advisor)' board. Sixth. The evident intention of the township reform law was to prohibit the creation of lionded indebtedness by the townships. Section 1 provides that indebtedness existing at the time of the taking effe ct of the reform law :an be distributed over a period of ive years thereafter. Section 4 provides that the trustee, at the annual meeting, shall pr ;sent a detailed and itemized stateme nt in writing of his estimated expenditures for the succeeding year; ant section 3 provides that this shall le for the calendar year. This, of course, covers estimates for all schc ol houses, as well as all other proposed expenditures for the entire year. Section 6 provides that, in case of an emergency, the township trustees may call a meeting of the advisory 4 board, which may authorize the trus tee to borrow money to meet such emergency; and that said board at its x ext annual meeting, shall make a lev) sufficient to create

a fund to pay the debts so created, out of the next year’s taxes. And, further, that in n > event shall a debt of the township n ot embraced in the annual estimates fixed and allowed, be created without such special, that in no event shall i debt of the township not embrace* in the annual estimates, fixed and allowed, be created without such special authority, and any payment of such unauthorised debt from the public funds, shall be recoverable upon the bond of the trustee. Section 9 provides the method of advertising and letting contracts for school houses, school supplies, repairs to school louses, repairs and construction of br idges, etc. Section 11 provides as foil >ws: “All contracts made in violation of this act, shall be null and void.” / township bond is a contract. It is therefore clear that there is no ahth* rity now vested in the board of coun ty commissioners to authorize a towns] lip trustee to create any indebtedness. The advisory board will meet on Sept* unber 5th this year. These boards may authorize a township trustee to c -eate any debt for the township that may be deemed necessary, and au horize a levy therefor, which levy shall be certified to the county audita r, all as provided for in said reform lav . Seventh. I do not think there is authority for the advisory boards to organize prior to September 5, 1899, and, therefore, 11 mow of no provision that would warra at their taking any action that woulc bind the township prior to that tin te. It would be entirely proper for the members of the board already appointed, to consult with the trustee, and be advised of j the needs of the t ownship prior to the meeting of that board, and to advise

with the trustee fully concerning all such matters. Eighth. The township reform law has no application whatever to school trustees of towns and cities, p '.£§1 Ninth. The advisory boards would undoubtedly be authorised to approve purchases made by township trustees between the taking effect of the reform law. towit: April Tu Wm, and the 5th day of September. 1899, where such supplies are indispensibiy necessary to meet the needs of the township This, of course, would not include new buildings or extensive purchases. •' " WM-'-Tenth. In all cases where contrac ts are to be let. notices are required to be posted for three weeks in dec public places in the township and also at the door pf each postoihce in such township, if the expenditures in any one class are to exceed $500. then, in addition to such posting he shall give notice in two leading newspapers in the county. It is the duty of the advisory board to attend all lettings of contracts. All as provided in article c !*of the reform law. * *Wm

Had Kidney Disease 27 Years. Mr.-G. A. Stillman, a merchant of Tampice. Illinois, writes; ‘Foley’s Kidney Cure is meeting with wonder' ful success. 1 It has cured cases here that physicians pronounced incurable. I myself am able to testify to its merits. My face today is a living picture of health, and Foley s Kidney Cure has made it such, I had suffered twenty-seven yearr with the disease, and today 1 feel ten years younger than I did one year ago. I can obtain some wonderful certificates of its medical qualities, J. 11. Adams COMMENCEMENT EXEftCtSES. The (irammar Department ol the Petersburg School*. The commencement exercises of the Petersburg schools were held at the city hall last Friday evening. There were 47 graduates, and of the« number 40 were present aud received diplomas. A large audience was present to witness the exercises, which were most excellently rendered by individual members of the elsuis. The musical part of the program was splendid. Miss Frank It Taylor, principal of the grammar department, had charge of the exercises, and to her much credit must be given for the success of the young ladles and gentlemen in their school work. The music was arranged and under the direction of Mrs. Fannie Mount. The program of the evening was as follows: ' 'JM Chorus—“Duys, Bright Days”...... ;v Clo>» Prayer .. ilev. T. C. Prubot Solo—“The School House on the Hilt" ...... — ...I— .. . Katherine Carle ton Salutatory—“Our Schools Musi impart Moral Culture” . .Jessie Keith “ Room at the Top” — Bernard Taylor Duel—“The Midnight Moon is Beautiful. —Glover—Kalph Lewi* ami Bessie Jamil* “Lincoln” .. — Ethel Kohllng “•Electricity” - . . .. Charles Probert Solo—“Breuk the News to Motljer.”— Harris...v.'Helen Kin* “The lh»ncc of the leaves” Hamiunud “The Flag”. |U»ph Lewis Song ami Chorus—“Our Flag” vy Class •• ’Blah CathcarCs Proposal”... Ada Kiotx “The Brakeman’s Church”.. Guy Johnson Trio—“The Mermaid’s Evening JBftmg**— Straub .Jessie Lemmon, Bessie Lamb ... .and Nettie Bowman Valedictory—“The l>ram» of Life”;. . . . .. . . .. .Awyif Awarding Diplomas. §£ ' ] % Chorus—“Good Night1' ... ... .... . ..Class Benediction. v Pianists-Misses Berenice Ashby,Helen,King. & Son. Jessie Lemmon and Bessie Ltuub.

Cured When Others Failed. S. A. Ingalls, Crown Point, N. Y., writes: “My wife suffered from kidffey trouble for years. She consulted several physicians and tried a number of kidney cures without getting relief. She was induced to try Foleys Kidney Cure and in less than a week after she began using it, she was greatly improved and three bottles cured her. J. R. Adams & Son. i Real Estate Transfers, The following transfers of real estate have been recorded in the county recorder's office during the past week: Sarah A. Shrode to SarahE. Mitchell, lot 18, Stendal. Sarah E. Mitchell to William Shrode. lot 18, Stendal. James McLanghlin to Everett Me Laughlin, s pt se qr se qr sec 18, to* 1 south, range 6 west, 33 acres. Everett McLaughlin to Q. M. Laughlin, se qr se qr sec 18, town south, ran^ti west. ' Samuel F. Dedmau, by adsnl tor, to Alexander Heaeock, se qr qr sec 32, town 1 south, Isaac Loveless, sr., to Rumble, pt sw qr se qr south, range 8 west. Margaret Robling to ling, lots 23 and 32, Buy your shirt secli KHH