Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 17, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 October 1883 — Page 2

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THE MAIL

A PAPER

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TERRE HAUT&> OCR. HQ, 1883.

TWO EDITIONS S

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Thursday Evening tma a IjLrge circulation in the surrounding towns, where It Is sold by newsboys and vj Ogentt.'

The SECOND EDITION, on .Saturday Evening, goes -toto the handtf of,nearly every reading person in the city, and the fanners of this immediate vicinity. •i* Every WGeklu Issue ia, in fectjs ,*»

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In which all Advertisement* appear for THE PRICE OF ONE ISSUE.

f^jRELIGIODS CRANKS. History tells as that during the lart thousand yfears there have appeared as many as twenty false Messiahs, of which «or own country, commencing with Richard Brothers and coming down to Dorr of Byron, has famished no insignifhant quota. Iti olden times the wild fancies of religious exaltation were confined to the sterner sex, but dating the last century female fanatics have taken a fall share in scandalizing the Christian faith. Of these Ann Lee was pioneer. She commenced her operations in 1776 near Albany, N. Y. She declared herself the woman spoken of in Rev. xii., 1-5. Although to bring forth a Messiah and enjoy immortal life she died, yet death did not destroy the confidence of her dupes, and there are at the present time several thousands of her disciples in the eastern States.

Jemima Wilkinson was another American female fanatical craiik who at Cumberland, R. I., assumed the title of "Universal Friend," and delared that she left the realms of glory for the welfare of mankind, ana that all who believedin her should not perish but have eternal life. She was a communist and freely took whatever "the Lord had need of." She had numerous followers and large contributions rolled in. Although she declared that she should live a thousand years, and then be translated, she

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died in 1810. Her followers refused to bury her, as did the cranks of Byron, poor Mrs. Beekman, until at last they were compelled to dispose of her corpse

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in some secret way. Her disciples are still to be found anxiously awaiting her return to earth.

Probably the most notable of all re--'4 llgious imposters was Joanna Southcott '1 who, in England, in 1818, surrounded herself with many credulous believers.

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She rigidly excluded herself from the society of the opposite sex, and gave out *yiaoned in some wavsidc eatinir that she was with child by the Holy ffeVeVinffwTlert Wm15 lfu Ghost,and that she should be the mother

of the Shiloh promised to Jacob, which should be the second coming of Christ. She was to be delivered on the 19th of October, 1814, being then apward of 60 years of age. Her disciples numbered 100,000, ana they all Implicitly believed that a dropsy from which she suffered was pregnancy: a splendid and costly cradle was provided, and all things were prepared. On the 19th a large crowd gathered, but the event did not come off. On the following 27r.h of Hocernber sb# died, but her convert* formed themselves into a ^religious society still existing in the citjrof London under the name of the Southcottian church

DOW FRIGHTEN THE GHIL,r DREN. he bit of frightening children prevails in many otherwise well-regulated households. Through ignorance or thoughtlessness, mothers and nursegirls bring little ones Into subjection by terrifying them with threats of some black man in the closet, a big bear in the street, a gypsy who will carry them off, etc. The number of cases wherein lifelong Injury has been done to children of nervous temperament by this sort of cruelty will never be known. A noted authoress has put on record that once, when a child, she was shut up in a dark closet and left there to the tender mercy of the ghosts and hobgoblins she had been told were In h. The shock to her nervous system was so great that she never quite recovered from it to tbe end of her life. The slightest surprise or scare ever afterwards produced sensations of fear and terror that were perfectly uncontrollable. It Is only once in a while that fatal results are caused by this bablt of frightening children, but one that occurred recently out West is very sftd and o&rri6& A lesson with it thftt we hope will go home to the heart of

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mother who roads it. A little

who was a bright, beautiful child and a favorite of every one who knew her. happened to be playing In a door yard when a large shaggy black dog wuiewwards her? She immediately plufeked a flower and offered it playfully to the dog. The animal, however, growled fiercely and turned away, leaving the chllTgreally frightened. Her negro nurse happened to be looking on, and

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laid up visions of the 'big dog" for future use in helping to control her young charge. 8ouaenlgbte after, the child being In perfect health, did not care to go to bed at bed-time. The nurse named lately began to threaten that she would call In tbe old dog that growled at her. The poor child at once benune Jcrdfled.. and after being told that the dog had taten up one little cirl and would eat her up too if ahe did not obey at wee, she went to bed. Her father and mother happened to be absent for tin- evening and there wa« no one to qnietthe poor little thinst, or remove tbe dreadful picture of "a big black dog eating little girls up," which no doubt haunted her imagination. She tossed* all night, was delirious In the morning, and cfiod soon after. In her delirium her appeals to those around her vrrre to "save mamma's little girl fruu» that big Wade dog/' Her nervous system had received such a shock recovery was Impossible and the most devoted care of those who idolised her would not aave ber from what had been brought about by the Ignorance of the nqgto "It Is hard to understand how a mother*a heart wtU permit her to ftSghten a child in suv'* a manner, and it 4# almost eaually I to onderttand how any mother ." leave a child so completely In the servants as not to kbow whtfhfr hey are in the habit of fright•ninjr it or not. The practice I* cruel and rong, and If those whoh*ve c^rge of tittle hi\m onlv knew the evil effect* J, li. rfL- la u*k* Alii man

result from it, "the ugly old roan, .a big black bear," etc., woald no jfwr ptay their jpart In nutsery diatne.—Albany Proas.

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THE FEMALE FORM.

THE FIGURE OF THE YOUNG GIRL AND HOW IT ASSUMES A MATURE LOOK.

Clara Belle.

Oiven a sm&ll, straight, flat figure, with a faee delicate in its features, ana the problem of making the girl look like fifteen until she is altogether past her teens is not exceedingly aiffieul&o^Itcan be very simply worked by refusing to let her petticoats grow to a mature length, eschewingall devices of bod"* that produce artificial undulation', and enjoining an innocent simplicity of carriage ana manner. That was what bad been done with the bride whom I have mentioned. There was in her family the usual incentive for thus retarding her apparent growth from childhood to womanhood. Two older sisters -wished to matrimonially place themselves before their ages were emphasized by the youngest daughter becoming an adult. Why, 1 remember that one evening at a reception the dear girl came down to the parlor in a lovely costume of white tulle as simple and infantile as a christening robe, and with a hem no lower than the tops of her high bootee but she bad presumed to give a slight roundness to her corsage. That was an amendment to the family resolution that was instantly voted down though she pleaded hard to earn' it. "I'm a woman,and I want to look like one," she pleaded. "You may be a woman, but you've got to look Uke a child as long as nature will let you," was the maternal mandate.

So she had to go back to her room and flatten tbe bosom in which indignation was swelling. "I'll develop all of a sudden, the first thing they know—see if I don't," she said to me on that occasion.

And she did it on her wedding-day, for certain. The dignified little creature who dragged a train up th6 center aisle of a fashionable church was no longer childish. Her babyish braids of hair had become an elaborate coiffare her ankles Were out of sight, and, instead of their stockinged display, there was a charming disclosure of bare arms that were far more plump and tapering than anybody had expected, and as fair as eighteen years of seclusion could make them her bodice, for the first time, was shapely—by exactly what means is none of the public's business. Improved I should say so. If the bridegroom had fallen in fove with her former aspect he had every reason for augmenting his passion as he beheld her in bridal robes.

NIOHT IN AN EMIGRANT TRAIN. A night in a Western emigrantjtrain is thus described by R. L. Stevens in Longman's Magazine:

I had been suffering in my health a good deal all the way and at last.whether was exhausted by my complaint or house, WE EVAUUIK WO JUPIOUIID, »6ll Sick outright. That was a night which I shall not readily forget. The lamps did not go out each made a faint shining in its own neighborhood, and the shadows were confounded together in the long hollow box of the oar. The sleepers lay in an uneasy attitudes here two chums alongside, flat upon their backs like dead folks there a man sprawling on the floor, with his face upon his arm there another half seated, wlth hls head palsfve^were"oontinaally and roughly shaken by the movement of the train others stirred, turned or stretched out their arms like children it was surprising how many groaned and murmured in their sleep and as I passed to and fro, stepping across the prostrate,and caught now a sdore, now a gasp, now a halfformed word, it gave me a measure of the worthlessness of rest in that unresting vehicle. Although it was chilly, I was obliged to open my window for the degradation of the air soon became intolerable to one who was awake and using the fall supply of life. Outside in a glimmering night, I saw the black, amorphous shoot by unweariedly into our wake. They that long for morning have never louged for it more earnestly than I, and yet when day came it was to shine upon the same loroken and unsightly quarter of the world. Mile upon mile, and not a tree, a bird or a river. Only down the long, sterile canons, the train shot hooting, and awoke the resting echo. That train was the one piece of life in all the deadly land It was the one actor, the one spectacle fit to be observed in the paralysis of man and natnre.

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WHY go about with that aching head? Try Ayer's Pills. They will relieve the stomach, restore the digestive organs to healthy action, remove the obstructions that depress nerves and brain, and thus cure your headache permanently.

irt*&AFC A A LIVING SKELETON IN STOCKINET WAIST.

Why do unshapely girls seys?" asks Clara

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Enquirer. "Blessed if I can tell yon. There ought to be a law against it. This very day I saw a living slseleton showing herself in a stockinet waist, which revealed every bone in her body, ^ot only could the joints be located with the naked eye, but from hips to vertebrae the articulation was perfectly visible. She would have been useful as an Illustration to use in teaching a class in anatomy—tbe embryo doctors must put up with unpleasant sights, I suppose—but as a fashionable and involuntary exhibit ahe waa incomprehensible."

THE MAKING OF THE SIDESHOW FAT WOMEN. -'"Vci Cleveland Herald. "Fat women in side-shows are notoriously short-lived," said an old showman. "I reckon you don't know how thev a*» doctored a p. "They start with a pretty fat woman to begin with. Then with a silver needle little noles are made through the adipose of tatty tissue, dear to the muscle.

Tbe tissues are then blown npaa a butcher blows up meat, until an increase of bulk is obtained, which, in the arm, amount to as much a half or threequarters of an inch. If when, in the progress of the inflating process, a blood vessel be pierced and air get into the Wood, death instantly ensues. The fat woman take® berrtek on that. Thebuslness. If persisted in.will kill offa healthy fat woman in about six veara, and they don't make a great deal ot money, either."

THR testimony of many who long vatfered from ill health, caused by an impure state of tbe blood, goes to prove that the best remedy lor making the blood rich, red and pare, tor beatifying the complexion, for coring aches, puns, stiff joint*, rheumatism, etc.,for increasing no war of endurance, for giving health and strength to every the body, is Dr. Gnyaottfa Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla, Ita effect oaer in every instance. So equals iu

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVE^TJSTG MAIL.

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te quiet and cosy library at the close of a busy day sat a gentlemao and his wife, he absorbed In anew book and she in a newspaper. Quickly glancing toward her husband, she asked, at a certain point in the article: ''John, what is the germ theory$. "The germ theory—well—yes just look in the encyclopedia under *Germ.' that will explain it so much better than I can."

According his wife opened the book at the word named and read: Germ Theory of Disease—A theory advanced by the ablest and best investigators and scientists of the times. It supposes the surface of the earth, the air and water to be inhabited to a greater or less extent with a peculiar growth of the lowest form of fungi—commonly termed ed bacteria, whose power of reproduction, under favorable oonditions, is so great that a single germ will increase to fifteen million in twenty-four hours' time, and unchecked in its increase would grow to a mass of tight hundred tons, in three days' time, if space and food be furnished. There is nocondition under which it can be said to be absent, unless it be from fire or air filtered through ootton-batting In numerous layers. A single drop of water containins & germ, put into wftter bolted ult6T6u and thus freed from bacteria, will grow murky in a day or two from the development of new germs. When it is considered that it requires about forty billion to weigh one grain, some remote idea can be had of the capacity of germ reproduction. Professor John Tyndall, in a late work, elaborately treats of the influence of germs in the propagation of disease and charges upon this cause, the inception and development of very many of the ailments most injurious to man. Professor Pasteur an eminent French savant, has carried his original and beautiful experiments so*lar, and from them deduced such practical results as very greatly to diminish the number of cases of anthrax among sheep and chicken cholera among "fowls,—proving his theory that these are essentially and actually germ diseases. These germs are carried into tbe system through the lungs, the stomach and possibly the skin, but through the lungs chiefly. Once in the system, they begin to develop, poisoning the blood, invading the nerve centers, disturbing the functional activity of the great orgails of the body and including a geneial impairment of the vital processes. They are the cause of fevers, rheumatism. Bright's disease of the kidneys, pneumonia, blood poisoning, liver disease, diptheria and many other ailments. lAtely Professor Koch, a famous German physician, has

roved that consumption of the lungs is to this cause—the presence of a peculiar germ.

When the circulation is bounding, the nerves elastic and the system all aglow with life and energy, the germs seem to develop poorly, if at all. But with weakened nerves, poor digestion or malassimilation ot food or a lowering of vitality from any cause, a change ensues, and in this impoverished and weakened fluid the germ finds a genial home and develops until symptoms of disease are utmiuOtiT

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the everyday experience of au. The healthy man resists the influences around him and does not take cold, while those whose systems have become weak from any cause readily contract colds. This is on the same principle as the germ theory. The germs attack any weakened spot in the Dody, and fixing themselves upon It, begin their propagation. It is plain therefore that it Is only by fortifying the weak portions of the body that the germs of disease can be resisted and driven from the system. Bat this has proved an almost an impossibility heretofore, and it has been the study of physicians for years past to accomplish it. Within the past few years, however, a preparation haa been attracting great attention,not only throughout the entire land, but among the medical profession and scientists generally, which is based upon this theoiy, and it may safely be said, no remedy has ever been found which can so successfully

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the system in a conditioc to resist the germs of disease as Warmr's Safe Care. This articlels unquestioiably the best and most efficient thathasjver been discovered for this purpose, and"John, say, John! does the encyclopedia advertise Warner's Safe Cub "I should not wonder, dear, ita a grand remedy, and that pamphlet wdrecelved the other day stated that Dr. tunn, of the United Statec Medical Cqlege, endorsed It. At all eventa the vwoderful cures It la accomplishing entitle it to be honorably noted among the *reat discoveries ot the present century?'

However the facts above stated may be, the truth remains, that the germ theory of di"*"** is the correct one and that the great remedy mentioned is the only one which has been found that can pat the system in a condition to kill these germs before they obtain a bold upon the body, and undermine the life.

HOW AN INDIGNANT BRIBEGROOM WAS PACIFIED. North Adams (Mass.) Transcript.

In one of our local hotels there appeared one evening last week a granger couple who were on their wedding tour, They had aupper and went to the parlor It grew late, and the bride retired, agreeing to ring to the office when the groom might come. The groom sat on the lounge in the office and waited patiently. Finally he walked to the desk and wanted to know if that bell had not rung. A negative answer sent him backto the lounge. About twelve o'clock be inquired a&dn, and learning that the bell had not rung, went back to the lounge and fell asleep. In .the morning the porter awoke him and he used unparliamentary language, awearing that he would see whether bis wife would make him sleep on a lounge all night. A divorce seemed to be imminent, and the hotel clerk was surprised to aee the twain together in a few hours as happy as turtle doves. Her excuse was satisfactory. While lower* ing the gas in her room she had turned it dear out and could not find, tbe bell.

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some time, and under the doctor's cat?, with what he called the liver complaint and rheumatism In my back and shoaldera. Could find nothing to relieve HM until 1 commenced taking Rheumatic Syrop, After taking one bottle I could feel a decided improvement. I continued it* use a short time and it cured ue. I most cheerfully recommend it to any afflicted in like manner.

A VERY BAD SPELL.

She went about with look benign, And hnng her clothes upon the lign, Then called her husband in to dign. He spoke to her in accents rough, He disparaged the garden stough— ^e was a man of manner grough. He said she knew he hated lamb, The dinner was the merestshamb— Why didntshe prepare some hamb She looked at him and mattered, pugh! And asked what can a woman dugh To please a cranky man like yugh*" w— Was slja a wftman to sit dumb, While he came in with aspect glnmbf S id an it His judgment of good food she doubted, His ground of criticism sooubted Half mad with rage these words shdahouted, Then with a look of dainand worry, The wife arose, and in a floury, Went to her mother's in a hurry,

As We Forgive Our Debtors.

When a mere lad I was struck with the remark of an eminent physician^ and have thought of it hundreds of times since. His collector, in making returns, reported as valueless an account against a gentleman who had recently failed in business. "This bill is good for nothing," said tbe collector. "Tbe man has sunk everything and is now with his family on the world penniless."

The physician took the bill, quietly tore it to pieces, and then, turning to the unfortunate debtor's account, wrote across it, "Settled." "Rather a losing business that," remarked the collector. "I hope to be able to say the Lord|s prayer as long as 1 live," waa tbe physician's reply. 'Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.' When we say that prayer, my friend, it behooves us to look into our hearts, and ask ourselves how we forgive our debtors. 'With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.'"

Hundreds of times since then, in my world-experience and contact with men, have I thought of that physician's re mark. But very few have I met. who like him, could say the Lord's prayer without asking for a curse instead of a blessing for ifthe Lord's prayer forgave their debts as they forgive their debtors, their chances fOr eternal ealvation woulc not be worth the fraction of a mite.

This defect of forgiveness is not con fined to the non-professor—to him whose lips repeat not daily the holy words ot that holy petition. So far as my experience and observation go, they who profess to have "had much forgiv en, because they had sinned much," are as rigid in their exaction of the uttermost farthing, as the men who assume no sanctity of life or conversation. Selflove and self-interest blind us all. They blinded Mr. Harvey Green, notwithstanding he had passed from "death unto life," and had the evidence of the change in the fact that he "loved the brethren."

Harvey Green was a shrewd man of business— honest in all his dealings, yet exacting his own account. He took no advantage of others, and was very careful not to let others take advantage of him. While acting on the precept. "Owe no man anything," be never lost sight of a debtor, nor rested while the obligation remained in force. A very natural result was that Harvey Green prospered in the things of this word—not that he became very rich, but so well off as to leave no reasonable want unsupplied.

man ful struggle with fortune, continued through six or seven years, failed in business. Few men had toiled harder or suffered more and when at last he yield ed to the pressure of iron circumstances, he sank down for a season, prostrate In mind and body, Everything that he had was given to the creditors—the property paid but a small percentage on their claims—and then he went forth into the world, all his business relations broken up, and, under the heavy dis advantage of his situation, bravely sought to gain for his large dependent family things needful to their susten ance and growth in mind and body.

Among his creditors was Harvey Green. Mow Mr. WHkens belonged to the same church that numbered Mr. Green among ita members. When the latter heard of the failure, he was a great deal disturbed, although the sum owed him was not over three or four hundred dollars. On reflection he grew more composed. "Mr. Wilkens is an honest man,"said he to himself. "He'll pay me sooner or later."

It did not take long to sell off at a sad sacrifice tbe stock of goods remaining in the hands of the debtor for he threw no impediment in tbe way of those who sought to obtain their due. "Ah, my friend," said the latter, on meeting with Mr. Green a few days after the closing up of bis insolvent, "this is a sad business! But if God gives me strength, I will pay every dollar of this debt before I die. Aji honest man can never sleep soundly while he owes his neighbor a farthing." "The right apirit, Brother Wilkens, lanswered Mr. Green "the right spirit I Hold fast to that declaration, and all will come out straight in the end. Though 1 cant very well lie ont of my noney, yet I will wait patiently until rou are able to pay me. I always said ou were an honest man and I am sure ou will make good my words. "God helping me, I will," said the tktor bis voice trembled and his eyes tew moist.. Oh, how dark the future oked! What a cloud was on his path! liat a weight of grief, mortification a& despondency on his heart! tbe two men parted' and each took his hoeward way, tbe one with countenafe ereCt, self-complacent feelings, and el tic step tbe other, sad and depressed. night Mr. Green prayed, "Forgi\uaour debts as we.forgiveonr debtors Yet scarcely had the words died on lis Ifps ere he was musing on tbe in fiivor of bis ever receiving frokhe penniless Wilkins tbefewhundrelollars owed him by that unhappy indhual. There was no sympathy for hini his heart, no thought of his terrible istration of spirit, nothing of pltv andlgiveneas. A selfish regard for hu owniterest completely absorbed all humb considerations.

Tinpessed on. Mr. Wilkins was no dronf An earnest, active man, he soon fountnployment—not very remunerative first, but sufficiently so to enable hiin 4ecure many comforts for his familiud to provide ior their education.

One*o, three years glided by. With the grab of his children his expenses increaaand kept so close a tresd upon his tncfe that be had not been able to pay oflly of the old obligationa altbough (never lost sight of them, and to feel troubled on account

never of their! "Ob, sigh lo 1 give to anything limited

debt, deb!P' be would often lf. "What would I not !$ to aay, "I owe no man with ray large family and «?, what hope is there?" »n»»ed state ot mind

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Mr. Green alM to aee lutes before tbe unhappy

man had been reminded of the debt. "How are you getting on?" inquired the creditor, fixing his eyes steadily upon poor Mr. Wilkins, who felt a sense of suffocation, and slightly quailed before his tyrant. "I have much to he thankful for," meekly answered the debtor. "My health has beeft/good, atid I have had steady employment." .. "You are living very comfortably. "And we are grateful to a kind Providence for our blessings." "Your salary is one thousand dollars." *It is and I have six children to support."

You ought to save something. I've bean easy on you for a long time it's three years now, and you haven't offered me one cent. If you'd paid me five or ten dollars at a time, the debt would begin to make some arrangements. You ought to save at least two hundred dollars from your salary. 1 know plenty of men who get only eight hundred dollars a year, and have as large families as yours.' "I have always upheld you as a honest man," continued Mr. Green, in a tone of voice that implied an awakening doubt as to whether this view of the debtor's character was really correct. "That is between God and my own conscience," «dd Mr. Wilkins. lifting his eyes from the floor, and looking with some sternness Into the face of his prosecuting creditor. "For your own sake I trust you will keep a clear conscience," returned Mr. Green, "AS for the present matter between us, all I wish to know is, whether you mean to pay iny debt and if so, when may I expect' to receive something "How much'la the debt?" asked Mr. Wilkins. "It was three hundred and seventy dollars at the the time of your failure. Interest added, it now amounts to four hundreaand fifty," said Mr. Green, '"There were other debts besides yours." "Of course there were but I have noth-

ing to do with them." "The whole amount of indebtedness waa twenty thousand dollars. The yearly interest on this debt is more than my whole income. I cannot pay even the interest, much less the principal." "But you can pay my small claim if you will: you could have paid it before this time if the diposition had existed. You talk of conscience, but I'm afraid Bro. Wilkins. in

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narrow foundation of honesty for conscience to rest upon. I don't put much faith in the professions of men who live after your fashion you live, and refuse to pay their debts. I'm a plain-spoken individual, and you now have my mind freely."

The tone and manner of the creditor were harsh in the extreme. "Perhaps," said Mr. Wilkins, with forced calmness, "there may be less of dishonesty in my withholding than in your demanding."

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Dishonesty! Do you dare!" The creditor's face flushed, and his lips quivered with indignation. "There are ten creditors in all," said Mr. Wilkins, with regained composure. "Let me put to you a question. I owe John Martin six hundred dollars. Suppose I had six hundred dollars, and l'ttle prospect of getting any more, and were to pay the whole over to John Martin, instead of dividing it equally between you and all the creditors, would you deem that right on my part? Or would you think Martin really honest. If he

whole of what mainly Delonged to others? Would you not Bay that ne bad possessed himself of your property? I know you would. And let me say to you plainly, that I do not think your present effort to get me to pay off your claim entire, regardless of theirs, equally as much entitled to be paid as yourself, at all indicative of unselfishness, or a spirit of genuine honesty. If I have anv money to pay it belongs equally to all creditors—not to one of them exclusively."

To be turned upon thus by a man who was in debt to bine—to be charged with a dishonest spirit by the poor creature whose relation to socletv he regarded as essentially dishonest—this was too much for the self-complacency of Mr. Green. He rose up quickly, saying in a threatening tone:

Jtou will repent this insult, sir! have forborne for years, believing that you were really honest but for this forbearance I now meet with outrage shall forbear no longer. You are able enough to find enough to pay me, and I will find away to compel you to do so."

Left alone with his trouble thoughts, poor Mr. Wilkins felt not only humiliated and wretched, but alarmed. There was no way in which his creditor could extort the Bum due him except by seizing upon bis household furniture. His fears proved not altogether groundless. On the very next day, a sheriff's writ was served on him at the suit of Harvey Green. "What do you propose doing?" asked Wilkins, on meeting with his creditor a few days afterwards. •'Get my money," was answered sternly* "But 1 have nothing." "We will see about that! Good dibf'nin__ r. Green imagined that the indignation felt towards Mr. Wilkins was directed against bis dishonest spirit— waa, in fact, a righteoua indignation, when its spring wqs in cupiaity and wounded pride.

It waa the day before the trial of his cause against Mr. Wilkins. when he expected to get judgement by default, aa no answer had been made by the defendent in tbe case. And it waa his purpose as it bad been from the beginning, to order an execution as soon as the matter was through tbe court, and seize upon any property that could be found.

Mr. Green sat, witb bis children around him in bis pleasant home. A sweet little boy knelt before him, his pure hands cla*ped in prayer, while from ibis lips came, musically, the words taught by tbe Lord to bis disciples: "Forgive our debts, as we forgive our debtor*." There seemed to be deeper meaning in tbe words, murmured by innocent childhood than had ever before reached his preceptlons. His thoughts were stirred new emotions awakened. The prayer was •aid, and tbe little one rose and lifted bis rosy lips for the good night kiss. "Father," said he. tnrning back after going across tbe room, "I'm not going to let Harry Williams pay me for that sled. It was brqjcen to pieces the nex^ day after I let him have it." "Me bought it from yon," said Mr. Gre» n. **1 know be did bat Harry's mother is poor, and he only gets a penny now and then. It will take him a long, long time to save a dollar and then tbe sled is broken, and no good to him. have a great many more nice things than be has, and why should I want bis pennies when be has so few?" "What made you think of this?" asked tbe father, who waa touched by tbe wordaof his child. "It came to my mind jnst now when I waa saying my prater. I prayed, Fofgive ua our debts, as we 'Forgive our

debtors.* Now Harry Williams is my debtor, is he not?'.'

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Yes my son*" I "Well, if I don't forgive him his debt| how can I expect God to forgive my debt? If I pray to him to forgive me aa I forgive Harry, and I don't forgive Harry at all. don't I ask God not to forgive me, father?"

The child spoke earnestly, and stood with his large, deep, calm eyes fixed intently upon his father's face. Almost involuntarily Mr. Green repeated the, words:

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ye forgive not mon their tresspasses,' said our Savior, 'neither will your Father forgive y6ur trespassed.'" "I'll forgive Harry tbe,deb|, father^ I'm sure he isn't able to pay for the sled and I have a great

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things than he has. If don't do it, how can I ever pray that pirayer igalh?" "Ob, yes, yes forgive him thedebi, by all means!", replied the father, kissing his boy.

That evening was spent by Mr. Green in closer self-communion than he had not known for many years. The words of his child bad come to him|like rebuking precepts from heaven, and he bowed his head, humiliated and repentant, resolvlng'to forgive, in the future,, as ha would be foiglven.

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On the morning following, as 13r. Wilkins, from whose mind the ctoud had not lifted, who was yet trembling for the home of his children, was passing from his door, a lad placed a lettteP la his hand. He knew the of tbe boy from its likeness to that of Mr. Greef&. "More trouble," he sighed to himself, as he thrust the note into his poclcet. An hour afterward he opened it, and ta his bewilderment and surprise, found within his account fully drawn out, ani receipted with the signature of Harvy Green. Below the receipt Was written, "I stand rebuked. I must forgive, if 1 hope to be forgiven."

It was with difficulty that Mr. Wilkins, could refrain a gush of tears, so great was his instant revulsion of feeling. Ah, if Harvey Green could have seen his heart at that moment, his debt would have been paid fourfold. *\v-

HE HAS NO OBJECTION. INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—The Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees, Uuited States Senatof from thi3 State, remarks: "My opinion sir, 1 have no objection to giving. I suffered from rheumatism of the back, used some St. Jacobs Oil, which gave me instantaneous relief and finally cured me completely. I think it a remarkable remedy, indeed." His candid and courteour expression carries weight.

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If you are Buffering with low and depressed spirits, loss of appetite, general debility^ dlsordered blood, weak constitution, headache, or any disease of a bilious nature, by all means procure a bottle of Electric Bitters. You will be surprised to see the rapid improvement that will follow you win be Inspired with new life: strength and activity will return pain and misery will cease, and henceforth you will rejoice in the praise of Electric Bitters. Sold at fifty cents bottle by Cook A Bell and Gulick & Go's. (6)

Daughters, Wives and Mothers.

Dr. Marchisi's Catholicon, a Female Remedy—guaranteed to give satisfaction or money refunded. Will cure Femala Diseases. All ovarian troubles, inflammation and ulceration, falling and displacements or bearing down feeling, irregularltes, barrenneas, change of life, leucorrhoea besides many weaknesses springing from tbe above, like headaobe, bloating, spinal weakness, sleeplessness, nervuus aeuiiuj-, palpitation ofth© heart, Ac. For sale by Druggists. Prices fl.Ot and fl.60 per Bottle. Send to Dr. J. Marchlsi, Utlca, N. Y., lor Pamphlet, free. For sale by Gulick & Co.

Carry the Newt.

If your days of billiousness, when your liver is torpid and your skin yellow, remember you have a never-failing friend in Dr. Jones' Red Clover Tonic, which is unequaled in purity and efficaciousness. In cases of dyspepsia, costiveness, ague and malaria diseases, and diseases of the blood and kidneys, its action is prompt and cure speedy. Price 60 cents, of Gulick & Co. 1

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To all who are suffering from the errors and indiscretions of youth, nervous weakness early deqay, loss of manhood, Ac., I will send a recipe that wll cure you FREE OF CHARGE. Thl» great remedy was discovered by a missionary in Bouth America. Send a self addressed envelope to the Rev. Joseph T. Inman, Station D., New York City.

Moore's Pilules, a Positive

Malarial Antidote,

Better and Cheaper than Qninin#

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CrleklatbaBaek, Sid* or Hip, Kmnlcl*, Stiff Joints* tad KUSCIMLBon Chart, Kidney TROUBLE* and all pains or ache* either local or daep^eated. It Boothea, Strengthens and Stimulates tbe parta. The lirtoM of hops cos* btoed with rums clean and ready to apply. Superior ta lotion* and aalres. PriceS cent* or Her fLW. Bold by drar gist* aad country atone. Hailed oa receipt of prtoe. Hop PlatUr Compant,

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No other blood^porlf ying medicine la made, or has ever been prepared, which ao completely meets the wants of physicians and the general poblio as

"Ayer's Sarsaparilla.

It lead* tbm 4ist a* a trnljr scientific preparation for all blood diseases. If there fit a lork-

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dislodge It and expel it tromyour system. For eooatitattonal or aerofoknu Catarrh, Area's SAJUAFAJULL* is tbe true remedy. It has eared eaeee. It win stop the naosemu catarrhal dischargee, and remove the sickening odor ot the breath, Which are indications of scrofulous origin.

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Hotto, Te*., Sept. 28, im. "At the age of two yean one of

Qnoce my children was terribly afflicted Wntd with oteeroos running sores on its faee and neck. At tbe same time its eyes were swollen, much Inflamed, and very »ore. Qnnr PUM Physicians told ns a powVtlnC tiW erfnl

alterative medicine must

be employed/ They united in recommending AYen's 8UIAPAMUA. A few doees prodtwed a perceptible improvement, which, by an adherence to yoar directions, was continued to a complete and permanent cure. So evidencehassinceappe£ml of the existence of any scrofaloos tendencies and ao treatmet of any disorder ww ever attended by snore prompt or effectual results.

Yoon truly, B. V. JOHXSOX. I WOEPAJtKD BT f.b.Ayer & Co., Lowef f, Mass. Sold by all DruggMs $1, six bottles for