The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, March 20, 1891, Image 3
-& THE THIRD PLAGUE. Dr. Talmago Discourses on tho Evils of Bad Literature. Bad Papers and Xovsla likened t tut) I'laene of Frog In Egypt The Lw Evoked 1'owcr of Good and Had Books Illustrated. The plague of pernicious literature was the subject of the third discourse of Dr. Talinage at Brooklyn on the "Ten Plagues of the Cities." His text was from Exodus, vii. 0-7: "And the frogs carao up and covered the land of Egypt. And the magicians did m -with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt." Follow ing is the sermon. There is almost a anircrsal aversion to frogs, and yet with the Egyptian they were honored, they were sacred, and they were objects of worship while alive, and after death they were em balmed, and to-day their remains may le found among the sepulchres of ThelHJS. These creatures w attractive once to the Egyptians, at divine behest lecamc obnoxious and loathsome, and they went croaking and hopping and leaping into the palace of the king, and into tho bread traj's and the couches of the jtcoplc, and even the ovens, which now are uplifted above the earth, and on the side of chimiu'j's, but then wore small boles in the earth with sunken potter', were filled with frogs when the housekeepers came to look at them. I f a man sat down to eat, a frog alighted on his plate. If he attempted to put on a shoe, it was preoccupied by a frog. If he attempted to put his head iiK)ii a pillow, it had been taken posses sion of by a frog. Frogs high and low and everywhere; loathsome frogs, slimy frogs, besieging frogs, innumerable frogs, great plague of frogs. What made the matter worse, the magicians said, there was no miracle in this, and they could by sleight-of-hand produce the same thing, and they seemed to sue eeed, for by sleight-of-hand wonders may be wrought. After Moses had thrown down his staff and by miracle it became a ser pent, and then he took hold of it and by miracle it again became a staff, the herjent charmers imitated the same thing, and knowing that there were serpents in Egypt which by a peculiar pressure on the neck would become as rigid as a stick of wood they seemed to change the serpent into the staff, and then throwing it down the staff Iwcamo the serpent- So likewise these magi rians tried to imitate the plague of frogs. "Frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt, and the magicians did so with their enchantment, and brought up frogs upon the laud of Egypt." Now that plague of frogs has come back ujtou the earth. It is abroad to day. It is smiting this nation. It comes in the shaie of cor rupt literature. These frogs hop into the store, the shop, the oflice, the banking house, tho factory into the home, into the cellar, into the garret, on the drawing room table, on the shelf of the library. While the lad is reading the bad book the teacher's face is turned the other way. One of these frogs hops upon the page. While the young womau is reading tho for bidden novelette after retiring at night, rending by gas-light, one of these frogs leaps uon the page. Indeed, tliej have "honiKjd noon tho news stands of the country, and the mails at the ost oflice shake out in the letter trough hundreds of them. The plague has taken, ut different times, Kssession of this country. It is one of the most loathsome, one of the most frightful, one of the most ghastly of the ton plagues of our modern cities. There is a vast number of books and newspapers printed and published which ought never to see the light They are filled with a pestilence that makes the land swelter with a moral epidemic. The greatest blessing that ever came V this nation is that of an elevated literature, and the greatest scourge has been that of unclean literature. The last has its victims in all occupations and departments. It has helped to till iitsuuu asylums and penitentiaries and almshouses and dens of shame. The Ixxiios of this infection lie in the hos pitals and in the graves, while their Mmk are being tossed over into a lost eternity, an avalanche of horror and duspair. The London plague was noth ing to it. That counted its victims by thousands, but this modern pest has already shoveled its millions Into the cliiu-iicl house of the morally dead. The literature of a nation decides the fute of a nation. Good Itooks, giM.nl morals. Und books, bad morals. I lgin with the loweNt of all the literature, that which does not even pretoud to be respectable from cover to oover a blotch of leprosy. There are masty whose entire business is to di.v poe-of that kind of literature. They dktplav it lefore the sohoolhv on his why ltouic- Thev get the catalogues of Hcaoois and colleges, talce tne names ud post oflice addresses and send their advertisements and their circulars and their nhamtmlets and their books to every one of them. In the possession of these dealers in btd literature were found 900,000 names and :ost oflice addresses to whom it was thought it might Ikj profitable to M-nd these corrupt things. In the vcar IsTS there were 1G5 establishments en gaged in publishing cheap, corrupt literature. From one publishing house there went out twenty different styles of oorrupt books. Although over thirty tons ox vile literature nave oeeu ues- troyed by the society for the suppres sion of vice, still there is enough of it left in this country to bring down upon us the thunderbolts of an iucensed God. In the year lS the evil had become so great in this country that the con gress of the United States passed a law forbidding the transmission of bad lit erature through the United States mails; but there were large loops in that law through which criminals might crawl out. and the law was a dead failure that law of 1CS. But in li-TS another law was passed by the con gress of the United States against the transmission of corrupt literature through the mails a grand law, a potent law, a Christian law and under that law multitudes of these scoundrels hav? been arrested, their property con fiscated and they themselves thrown into the penitentiaries where they be longed. Now, my friends, how are we to war against this corrupt literature and how are the frogs of this Egyptian plague to be alain? First of all, by the prompt and inexorable execution of the law. Let all good postmasters and United States district attorneys and detectives and reformers concert in their action to stop this plague. It ought not to be in the power of every bad man who can raise a one-cent stamp for a circular or a two-cent stamp Jot a letter to blast a man or destroy a home. J am not talking about what C-tnnot be don!. I am talking now about what is idng done. A great many of the prinamj presses that give themselves entirely t the publication of vile liter store hare hm stopped or have gone ist btisinesE luss obnoxious. What " taserrn off. -ens has K-pv off the rail j train of "ttds country 1 t en: time it&cksearlr iJl the leprotss j3odicalT "Tiotc-ol -a who hare bes on the rail ictaw larr jrtitiaa in. I y ; iAj- rrimmtS-mmPA" -mf i - - - - ..---. :- ' iiMjSm: ,-.,. r,.. .! -' - --------- f 'Tllm-m-B-min-msf S,- - ;.,MfcM.M.,.asmsaBsm slsmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm the last few months and the last year or two. Why have nearly all those rile periodicals been kept off the rail trains for some time back? Who effected it? Those societies for the purification of railroad literature gave warninj to the publishers and warning to railroad com panies and warning to conductors and warning to newsboys to keep the in fernal stuff off the trains. Many of the cities have successfully prohibited the most of that literature even from going on tho news standa. Terror has seized upon the publishers and tho dealers in impure literature, from the fact that over a thousand ar rests have been made, and the aggre gate time for which the convicted have been sentenced to the prison Ls over 110 years, and from the fact that about 2, 000,000 of their circulars have been de stroyed, and the business is not as prof itable as it used to be. How have so many of the newsstands of our great cities been pnrified? How has so much of this iniquity been balked? By moral suasion? O, no. You might as well go into a jungle of the East Indies and pat a cobra on the neck, and with profound argument try to persuade it that it is morally wrong to bite and to sting and to joison any thing. The only argument for a cobra is a shotgun, and the only argument for these dealers in impure literature is the clutch of the police and bean soup in the penitentiary. Another way in which we arc to drive back this plague of Egyptian frogs is b' filling the minds of our young peo ple with a healthful literature. I do not mean to say that all tee books and newspapers ought to be religious books and newspapers, or that every song ought to be sung to the tune of "Old Hundred." I have no symnathy with the attempt to make the young old. 1 would rather join in a crusade to keep the young young. Boyhood and girl hood must not be abbreviated. But there are good boolcs, good histories, good biographies, good works of fiction, good books of all styles with which wo arc to fill the minds of the young, so that there will le no more room for the useless and the vicious than there is room for chaff in a bushel meaure which is already filled with Michigan wheat. "Why arc 50 per cent- of the criminals in the jails and penitentiaries of the United States to-day under t!l years of age? Many of them under 17. under ltt, under 15, under 14, under 13? Walk ulong one of the corridors of the Tombs prison in New York and look for your selves. Bad books, bad newspapers bewitched them as soon as they got out of tho cradle. Beware of all those stories which end wrong. Beware of all those books which make the road that ends in perdition seem to end in paradise. Do not glorify the dirk and the pistol. Do not call the desperado brave or the libertine gallant. Teach our 3oung eoplc that if they go down into the swamps and marshes to watch the jack-o'-lanterns dance on tho decay and rottenness they will catch the ma laria and death My word is to this vast multitude of young people: Do not touch, do not borrow, do not buy a corrupt book or a corrupt picture. A book will decide a man's destiny for good or for evil. The book you read j'esterday may have de cided j-ou for time and for eternity, or it may be a book that may come into your possession to-morrow. A good book who can exaggerate its power? Benjamiu Franklin said that lils reading of Cotton Mather's "Essays To Do Good" in childhood gave him holy inspirations for all tho rest of his life. George Law declared that a biog raphy he read in childhood gave him idl ids subsequent prosperities. A clergyman many years ago, passing to the far west, stopped at a hotel. He saw a woman copying something from Doddridge's "Ilise and 1'rogress." It seemed that she had borrowed the boolc, and there were some things she wanted eseeiall' to remember. The clergyman had in his satchel a copy of Doddridge's "I lit and Progress," and so he made her a present of it. Thirty years passed on. The clergyman came that way and he asked where the woman was whom he had seen long ago. They said: "She lives yonder in that beautiful house," He went there and said to her: "Do you remember me?" She said: "o, I do not." He said: "Do you remember a man gave you Doddridge's Kie and 1'rogress' thirty years ago?" "O, yes; 1 remem ber. That book saved my souL I loaned the book to all-my neighbors and they read it and they were converted to God. and we had a revival of religion which swept through the whole com munity. We built a church and called a pastor. You see thut spire yonder, don't you? That church was built as the re sult of that book you gave me thirty years ago." 0, the power of a good book! But, alas! for the influence of a bad book. The assassin of Sir William Kusscll declared that he got the inspiration for his crime from reading "Jack Shep pard." Homer's "Iliad" made Alex ander the warrior. Alexander said so. The story of Alexander made Julius Cesar and Charles XII. both men of blood. Another way in which we shall fight back this corrupt literature and kill the frogs is by rolling over them the Christian printing press, which shall give plenty of healthful reading to all adults. Abstain from all those books which, while they havo some good things about them, have also an admix ture of eviL You have read boolcs that bad two elements in them the good and the bad. Which stuck to you? The bad! The heart of most people is like a sieve, which lets the small particlesof gold fall through, but keeps the great cinders. Once in a while there is a mind like loadstone, which, plunged amid steel and brass filings, gathers up the steel and repels the brass. But it is generally just the opposite. If you at tempt to plunge through a fence of burrs to get one blackberry, you will get more burrs than blackberries. You cannot afford to read a bad book, how ever good you are. "But," you say, "how can I find out whether a book is good or bad without reading it?" There is always some thing suspicions about a bad book. I never knew an exception something suspicious in the index or style of illus tration. This rencmons reptile almost always carries a warning rattle. The clock strikes midnignt. A fair form bends over a romance The eyes flash fire. The lircath is quick and ir regular. Occasionally the eclor dashes to the check, then dies out. The hands tremble as though a guardian spirit were trying to shake the deadly book out of the grasp. Hot tears falL She laughs with a shrill voice that drops dead at its own sound. The sweat on her brow is the spray dashed cp from the river of death. The clock strikes 4 and tne rosy dawn soon after begins to look through the lattice upon the pale form that looks like a detained specter of the night. Soon in a madhouse she will mistake her ringlets for euriinr serpents, and thrust her white h&sd tnrocgn xne oars o: tne prison. smite her head, rubbing it back as Vhough to push the scalp from the skull shrieking: AIy brain! ay braiuT Q, stand off from that! Why will yon go sounding- yoer war amid the reef s and warning baoys, when there Sssach a vast ocean in "which xos sar wyage, all sail set? We'sceiaosay tKWkswed set slr. -d what a book ia, Suad jmmA. Ammmmmmm end. Measure it, lb height of ft, fha depth of it, the hingth of it, the breadth of it- You cannot do it. Examine tb paper and estimate the progress made from the time of the impreaaons on clay, and then on to the bark of tho trees, and from the bark of trees to papyrus, and from papyrus to the hkle of wild beast, and from the hide of wild beasts on down until the miracles of our modern paper manufactories, and then see the paper, white and 'pure as an infant's &oni waiting for God's in scription. A book! Examine the type of it. Examine the printing of it and see the progress from the time when Solon's laws were written on oak planks, and Uesiod's poems were writ ten on tables of lead, and the Siuaitic commands were written on tables of stone, on down to Hoe's perfecting press. A book! It took all the universities of the past, all the martyr fires, all the civilizations, all the battles, all the vic tories, all the defeats all the glooms, all the bnghtncsv'S, aU the centuries to I make it possible. A book! It is the chorus of the ages it is the drawing t room in which kings and queens, and ' orators and poets, and historians and philosophers come out to greet you. If I worshiped anything on earth, I would worship that If I burned incense to any idol, 1 would build an altar to thaf Thank God for good looks, hcalthftd books, inspiring boolcs. Christian boolis, books of men, books of women, booh of God. It is with thenc pood books that we are to overcome corrupt literature. U pon the frogs swoop with these eagles. I depend much for the overthrow of iniquitous literature upon the mortality of books. Even good boq's have a hard struggle to live Polybiui wrote forty boks; only five of them left- Thirty boolcs of Tacitus have iwrished. Livy wrote 140 books; only thirty-five of them remain. 'Eschylur wrote 100 dramas; only seven remain Euripides wrote over a hundred; onlj nineteen remain. Varro wrote tho bf ographics of over seven hundred grca" Bomans. All that wealth of biography has perished. If good and valuable books have such a struggle to live, what must be the fate of those th:ct are dis cased and corrupt and blasted at the Tcry start? .They will die swi the frogn when the Lord turned back the plague. The work of Christiauizatrion will go on until there will be notlii ug left but good books, and they will take the su premacy of the world Against every bad pare pldet send a good pamphlet; dgainst every unclean picture send an innocent picture; against everj' scurrilous song send a Christian som i., iiKuiua, i w. v... .wiv crciiit , nrnnLt ......... .i1 ti.sL m.w! good look; and then it wilfbe as it was in ancient Toledo, where the Toletum missals were kept by the saints in six churches, and the sacrilegious Bomaus demanded that those missals be de stroyed, and that the Bomr.u missals bo substituted; and the war eame on, and I am glad to say that the whole matter having been referred to champions, tho champion of the- Toletum missals wiUi one blow brouglrt down the champion of the Boman mbrala. So it will be in our day. The good literature, the Christian literature, in its championship for God aud the truth. will bring down tho evil literature in its chompionship for the devil, I feel , u "al IIvr. nanaies tne Kansas ex tint'linir to the tins of finders and , senator without gloves. through all the nerves of my bodv. and Alluding to the exploits of the con all the dephths of mv soul, the certainty I 'derate eruisers during the late war. J of our triumph. Cheer up, O. men aull Captain .Meade says: "It is difficult for j women who arc toiling for the purilica- j ae lo conceive how a man of such long . tion of societv! Toil with vour faees in . exiwrieuce in public life as .Mr. Ingalls ttio itn.i;crti "if firui i fur ivi.rt -w whs s.saw sa w'M m s7 Va who can be nt'ainsL ns?" Lady Hester Stanhope was the daugh - fprnfflm .?! ..t-1 r,f Ki t.ni.r.r.. n,.,i after her nearest friends had died she w.nt to ihu trr ik innr v.umn 4 -v 4a m wut wwn wtiin.uavsi a deserted convent, threw up fortresses amid the mountafnsof Lebanon, opened the castle to the poor and the wretched and Uie sick who would come iu. She made her castle a home for Uie unfor tunate. She was a devout Christian woman. She expected that tho Lord would descend in person, und she thought ujon it until it was too much for her reason. In the magnificent stables of her palace she had two horses groomed and bridled and saddled and caparisoned, and all rrady for the day in which her Lord should descend, and He on one of them and she on the other should start for Jerusalem, the city of the Great King. It was a fanaticism and a delusion; but there was romance, and there was splendor, and there was thrilling expectation in the dream! Ah! my friends, we need no earthly palfreys g-roomed and sad dled and bridled and caparisoned for our Lord when He shall come. The horse is ready in the equerry of Heaven, and the imperial rider is ready to mount. "And I saw, and behold a white horse, and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him; and he went forth conquering and K conquer. And Uie armies that were in Heaven followed him on white horses, and on his vesture and on his thigh was written: King of kings, and Lord of lords." Horsemen of Heaven, mount! Cavalrymen of God, ride on! Charge! Charge! until they shall be hurled back on their haunches the black horse of famine, and the red horse of carnage, and the pale horse of death. Jesus forever! BEATEN BY THE BARBER. Sad Tale of a Smart Young? Maa Wks Knew It AIL He was a Kmart young man and ho thought he knew it all "I'm going to fool that barber," he said to a friend as they started for a shave "I'm in for the whole pro gramme to-dav and I'm going to fool him." "How?" qncried the friend. "How! Jnst by forestalling him. When 1 go in for a shave he says II ail cat? If I take that its 'Little oiL sir? and so on. I'm iroinr to fool him if it cots me S1.M. n atch mel" lie settled himself in the chair with great deliberation. Then he said: "I want a shave and & hair-cut. I aLso want a shampoo ' "Yes. sir; drr or tegnlar?" broke in the barber. lie was a trifle disconcerted, bnt he didn't pirc up. "Drr,' he said. "I don't care for anj oil on my hair and I wish it parted oa. the left side. You mar wax ot mus tache a little, but don'tcurl it too much on the ends. I don't care for any sea foam, but you may use a little bar rum. Af tcr you are through with ise I will hare a Rhine and my coat brushed o: TVi.n T?! tin ntvrmr. TW V- - T want my hair cut short'in the back and brushed on a little on th w " Yes. sir," said the accommodatine t 1 V- . Z ...l. o-bcs. ueTUHrao.. e iea.x surprise. "Hare your hair singed, too? t.ni j . good." And the smart , , . , youmj man loosed rTZo-vm t painfully embarrassed. Chicago Trib une- He's a Bragv Dsrkb? a war daace an Infliaa warrior may bra; to bis heart's cosiest aad there is so oae to dispute him. Each warrior therefore braes of baring killed fifty to fire hun dred white xaes, aad he makes kimself ncBereJifor an hoar or two. This it why the daacea are so popalar. Tiettj are idnety-sise part Txug aad ose part riflscc. Detroit Free ?rea. rremkrdillsdiatrflUir, . " . a .n. m s i csp3au Truman mf declares thai his catlyj nMft. MmC flf TimC TmTlim iTllll mi lsmMm-mf I I mmll tSmmf I mm ssmmsssssm smmam. mVmT - m-sB-sa sbssh m - I - ,M1 rmTs--l - I ammssmamm. mm stommmLsmmm mm mvsmsv " mmammt mm mmm msmsmsmC. mmmsi a fax smvae-BW mm. sJsVHlaxevSne-amKfnKHaf- i Mmmml-mWk WSVme-'-im-Wl----mmm ' mVfeMsml mtfmVmsVmVmtmmV X ? Sw sfmWmsesam-ejStmmm- m-HWrnt sm SSHP VVWw REVOLUTION IN CHILL Kportd A mtlon of rrrsJdrnt Hal-asacs-ds An Opfirrsel People KTolt Against Ut Xclc of Om Mjux. Imxdos, March 13. There are ru mors here that information lias been received at Hamburg by private cable grams from Chili to the effect that President Balmace da has been mur dered. Up to a late hour last night there was no con firmation of the ru mor in any way. Advices from Chili state that there has been further fights ing between the in- iurgent and the government troopn and that the former were victorious. It is reported that the EAl-MAClTDA. republic of Uruguay has offered to me diate between the contending factions. The present uprising in Chili and the murder of President Balmaceda largely resulted from tho autocratic ambitions 0f Balmaceda himself which ambitious were lostereti oy tne peculiar conumon into which Chilian politics had fallen. The government was modeled origin- f nllv niU'T- th.it of the United States, the ' president being chosen every five years ' ,y electors delegated by the various . provinces. The president has a cabinet nf dr ministers aniointed bv himself and a council of state comjoseu o: eleven members, five appointed by the congress. These have ln-en, however, but mere figure heads, the executive being really the government. In his power it is Ut apiKiiut or dismiss the governors of provinces and the governors of depart ments. The latter have the practical appointment of the delegates who J choose the president. ' The executive can serve but one term. ' but bv this at ngeuient he can control absolutely the choosing of his successor. Tor some years the main question in Chilian politics and the Chilians have always gone into politics with the fiercest of vehemence has been whether or not the president should continue to wield the enormous jower which the constitution gave him and whether or not he should continue to corruptly intervene iu the choosing of his successor. Balmaceda forced the" question to an Issue deadly to himself. Eager for . .isii'... tl4.t tnn .. tiril.tifltrirr )ti.l !. I of the muttering of the iicoplc and uu irnt.., v -v...m.- , uiiiiiMiiu,,) - ..... j tocnitic beyond any of his predecessors. he, a man of much ability, hud pushed his plans for abvjlute self-rule beyond his eopl-'s endurance and the revolt followed He refused utterly to bend to the will of loth brunches of the leg islative IkkIv, and lioth liberals and con servatives once bitterly and vindictive ly antagonistic united against him. A REPLY TO iNGALLS. A NhvuI onlrer I'uIuU Out Vlu-r llr Tli I ilk the Ki-SriiHtiir l!u Krrr-tl. Washinoion, .March 18. Ex-Senator Iugalls' recent attack upon the navy naturally excited the .indignation of naval officers, among them Capt. Bich- I Iml w- I--ade. who, in a communication ', should deliberately impale himself on ( - one horn or the other of the dilemma I1"5 Ls in of hihi reganied by right! thinking men either as a dema- 'tf015. or as ' assertions that an ignoramus. Ills between IVil and 1 CtT the I'nited States created a large navul force is undeniahby true, but ex Senator Iugalls, of all men. ought to know that the conditions of lbOl and those of lS'Jl are vastly different- In lSOO-fll the sails of American commerce whitened every sea, the merchant steam lleet of the country was second only to thut of Great Britain, aud when the tocsin of war sounded hundreds of merchant officers and thousands of our sen militia Hocked to the service of the navy while every available vessel in the merchant marine was pressed into use. The south, not huving any maritime strength whatever, was utterly unable to break the blockade and with all its energy and undeniable pluck could not put afloat more than six cruisers, yet what those six cruisers did in the way of damage U us Mr. Iu galls explains when he himself men tions the fact that Great Britain com promised on Si5,000,RK) in payment of the score." VESSELS LOST. Trrrll.lr Kftt-ct r a Storm Oft tlit- IlrltUti Cot Srvrral Vraarla I.ont it nil Many I'rraoii IlrowntMl. It.VDO."?, March 13. Following the blizzard a severe frost has set in all over England, greatly hindering the clearing of the railroad lines. Cornwall continues isolated from the rest of En gland. Many wrecks arc reiorted to have occurred on that coast and at Land's End and a number of people have been frozen to deatlu A foreign steamship was wrecked near Dartmouth. All the crew and passenccrs were drowned. The British ship Dryad lias also been wrecked and ' her crew, consisting of twenty-four men and officers drowned. The Dryad was an iron vessel of 1.035 tons lnir- j den. Among the schooners lost were ( the Lnnesdale, and four of her crew drowned; the schoontar Lizzie , Ellcn'two of her crew drowned. Seventy ' lives have been lost off the coast during the blizzard. Drought in Cuba. IXavaxa. ilurch 13. The dronirht still prevails. Its effect are most se- i vcrely felt in the department of tjanti i ago de Cuba, where the small river?, are ' dried up and the fields parched and burned. Heavy losses in cattle have already been s-ustained owing to the ex- trcmely dry weather, it being impossi- uie iur luc animnis to get joou or . rr-t j la r . r j v.tiicr- iuc urougui iu znaicruiuyin- i terfere with the sugar crop, the yield j of the cane being much reduced through ' 1c3c r&"1- T6 1&ss ' cattle, too, J will affect the crop, oxen for tie labor ( in the xldds being tctt scarce. i CoasiBc to a Feme Footing. ' LojrooyMarch IS.- Acviccs from Bcr- ' lin show that the goreminent continses . to cut down expenditures for military equipment. At Spandaa the force etn- . ployed in the manufacture of small " 1SaW aV a aa. m ll a mt I IS aiai - " att fmrmi n A (VI av. w m an wrvu rcunxu s .'Ui wv K uw aBS"ro?C k lf F rewhsta? p-Te notice tbat extraTarasce in saral cosstrsction would not be permitted. It is said also i ,. t . .. ',. ., . . " j is the dty of Breslau into a goTem- . -w -. . krr iaii vi wvA-. tr zaestlortress win not be carried oat. m.' t .. T T. Cr,, Tiu H fonte plan of Count VTxlder- aee and also had the approral of iloltke. IXksrk jmmlrm Isnsswr "r fs Cxrvtuuzv Ol, 2iarch 2i The ae- -- t"""' nrst ti. iicatnj avu ii Sre insurasee eosinecW i f & rj states waica has bees in sessjos here 1 lor seTeral days. wCl cosdade its week it to-day. The orranisatios is so sestet i that so cse cxtside is ranks kasywal tJthe ssaes of its meaBOcrs. A bS- letii in the atnre of a black list is .SssacTeryasonth for the beae&t of j the-Bembers. I txmXxzaa. the same of J sersoaa whom it Js best fee- o hsmrc aiose, A32 the 2-spiheMiere aT hea-rrT flC i 4 mj -sc? T assssi rcJmX IbbV hA -Wk ZmmmKV SWHto .-."V -?. V" rtTH "r" "aK . SSaSiMISS II I 'II Saai I jl A.H-Ka? I33l TiTst mmieEto icare atose. AH tie jateV t -T: , mUHmf Ljs -JS.TLm7 tSgaa-fggaELg V ?"?'- ' . --Jrirrr mm B mm- I " " SBBBBBBBm IT DIDNT WORK. BW .T14 "Vll Lmrrumww Mm mam . ,. .. w ii-t.i- r..-. tlOB. "I don't know whether they do it In- tcntlonally or not. tboughtJully re - marked young Jack Kanebitr at the cluo tne otner nigut, -ouv vjaacnuw- j Tbe U bb wlMoio to rty poica. n thru nkinmnm tijw around an awful . cept tae ixJlMBter of ssalldcci ifOMljv Tix lot of unreliable information." "How's that, old chappie?" inquired mrmm.m-mr mm ' - V - W -- - w - Freddie Choker, his running mate. "Why, I saw in the Exaniacr last week that a poor young fellow in Chi- cago borrowed an umbrella of a bank preucui acu mc ncn wt rciiuuw i- "Awful He - that." "Oh! but he did. really. He walked into the bank the very nxt day and re turned it. The president was so much t astonished that he called the youmr man back and made him his cashier at a thumping salary." "Because he wa to extra honest, ck" "Exactly. AVcll, you see, I thought it was a big scheme, and that I'd work the same racket before the other boy got on to it." "Boss idea." the Nevada bo I rushed around to bank and asked old Hellman to loan me . ttn umbrella. I hcarU tUere was going 1 to be a directors' meeting the next day. anj j intended to return the umbrella i T-writ ?n tn. t.ttiUt uf tt i iu totiamlvr.- ! tl,e entire outfit; see?" I D "What did old Moneybags say?" j "Why, he said that "it did not look a .w lit,.. ,?r t knmrmrtm,iuiss'x:ill I, 'just yotTproducc your gingham, iv he told a clerk to let me have an old olio and take five dollars for security, at regular bank interest." -Great Scott!" "But that wasn't the worst of it. When I looked at the umbrella. I'll K hanged if It wxtsn't one that II oilman had iKirrowed from me himself down at Ios Angeles during the boom" And they both lit a fresfc cigarette and mused sadly over the uUr unre liability of a sensational press. San Francisco Examiner. Wmii't III llor Stranger ileg panlon, sir, but do you value that horse at? Native h, about ten dollars. Stranger Vou are verv fair in hat vour j valuation, sir. Native (hastily) Oh, the hov. aiu't mine. Light. Furtuue StUIiic Fnilcrftiit. Many u noorfauiilj that seeks the west ern wildh in lli: lio-e or wiiiuiiic u tortune. Is preserved from that luidiuu loo of the ( eunraut nnu irunucisuian chllln unu fever tv Hostetter'sHtoumch Hiilor. So cffoetually does that Ineouijiarable tuedic iuablo dei-:iso fortify the tetu iKRlnt ttie combined hilluenco of a iaaluriu at ' xaoiiphero uiid n:laMuu-UimWl water, that protected h' it the pioneer, Uie minor or U tourist provided with it, uisy safeiy en counter ttiu Uauer. "How old Is the Boslun My f asks a cor repouuVut Old a the Ainerlcso revolu tion tVusblnpton tnude the Hessian ny ut Treatou Tex.s HltUugs. I A I'hnuiNoen uo of I)r John Bull hur t Ruparlliu will cure scrolula and pb.lt. but hucb symptoms of impuro blood n pimples, wires, uche, pulun, kidney m.d liver wealtne, etc , vudihIi llko snow W fore the noon duy when this remedy i Un-d It siiuiuhttes Id' entire ttystem, utid its beneocial elluct I fell ut once in every purl. "Vou'kk an anfcl!" ho ssid, urnruardsi!y 'o, I'm not," sbo responded, with oouvio tion ; -'I'm a wotaun, uud I wnt u spniiK g'nvn in four weeks ' N V. ledger I'siK from imhjreslioti,dyiipopiia and toe lieartA eutni; i relieved at ume by takini: one gf CarkTit Littlo Liver llll imu.edl vxsswsjvs - ss i uuiiy inter uinuor. on'l forget this. A CaXuxdate for office Is very much like a drowulncr man. All the m-an acta of his life are quickly brought up before him. Puck. A H.IOHT cot.n, it negleeUsJ, often attacks the luns. Ukowns liitoNetiuL TMociir give sure and immediate relief. Wil imt'j in botti. l'rice iJ5 cents. "I TiiotoiiT her heart was broken whcti bvr husband died!" 'So it nai 1'erbaps thut account for bur since tjbig it with a kuot." l'lilladelphia Timra. Like Oil Upon Troubled Wators is Halts' Honey of liorehound und Tnr hjhiu a cold 1'lke'sTootiiucbe Drops Cure in uuu minute. Philosophy Question When u maa says that be know that ho kbows artthinir Ultuolun ub.urdilvt Answir That do pcads on tbo man. 'Harvard Lampoon. War is an honest bankrupt tho ameio a dlsboncat onol Bo-aue they both tail tu mako money. Dry Goods Chronlclu THE GENERAL MARKETS. KANKib CITJ. March IC CATTtXShlpplnit :rt-r. ..$ i U I W Ituleher' stnr 2 2 it 123 l't KJ tt Native cow HOGS Coixl to eboico heavy 19' WHEAT No. 2 rrO J No. 3 bard... ....... i CvJilN No. 2. .................. UAT9 o. . ...... ........... EYE No. 3 i"LOL'E Patents, per nack ... Kancy- ' HAY Itslrd. IIU1TI.11 Choice creamery.. CUEEbE Pull crtsato. EOO Choice. ' EACUN Hsiik fchouldcM ClU vs. ............... --- ltt". ..................... lVTATOEd. tT. LOUIS. CATTLE "blpplnjt steers... itatcbers steers... UOS Pscklnr - SHEEP Pair to choice FLOfU Choice WHEAT So. 2 red. COUN No.2 - OATS No. 2 ................ EYE No. 3 ..... ELTTEU Creaiaery , i ! f7M fi 3 2 19 w ; w u X at m 12 a 10 t at T U & -l4 KVi IV 2U IS w r, u ii ih t c 1 29 fOliA ... . .. . . . . .-- ; CHICAGO. CATTLE h!pplns t-rs.... , IHtGS Packlnc an2 ablppta; fcUEEP Pair to choice ' rLOCE Wtoter wheal - t WHEAT So. ini . ; CO KS No. 2 .......- ' ETE No. 3 - r KCTTEU Creamery -. I-OUK . NEW TOEC t CATTLE Comnaon to prtiK. HOGS Good to choice- - FLOCK ooJ locholee....... WHEAT No. 2 red .-.-.. COKN No.2, " OAT5 Wertera mixed. . BCTTEE Creaiocry,.. ..... s to m ? i m i m i St id aw I A " 1 !? it r. 19 SO at IMS? tx e is 'U X Sf 21 m xe itt 55 CmmTPtt Vnevupee. SfflfeetSoreqen i, Ka.T ccaji asta x xswt o. ?uJ. HmlmmStreJBCOtnm Cataiii -mm USasTaSH SSl'TaSlf 1 St aavts Gcse ss Kr mmSjmftejt Hrmlmi cr wmmafix.r l-ro- BUSIIItESS 5I.Q0 fir (ur of maaBaJ KKas al mmmWjSmV 100 ISSMml m -om- -. -..---- u - l 12JLt a nmiimtxtm9. m "T n mifTTrrril ffsii larBiiisrrrti i i . T BST BatatLatatataatB mmmmW mmTmmmmV AWmmm mW mm9 mmmmWrnm m - - - - . . . . , - aV-afc U aaVaaaaaaaal La aaaaaaaaaaaaa,aaaaaaaaaaatattmST aaaai mmWmmmmmmmW r B mmm SSSasa A - .. .-m -cr. I HOC CHOI-ERA S?SI!r I Lmmlr l-MT!C?r. ifr!sayjJ2,5!!iir5rartliS mm - a a- a- ai - - BW aSaSSaSSaSSBJSa aSay-aV-BSW TSSaaaaaaaaaaaaS BaaaSS Sraaaaaaaaaaaaaa BTBaaaS B SV-WWar a t I I SS. M v aSH- -aav4BSSBSS' aBBBBBBT-K mWmmm lSBaaBBBaBaBw af aS- n r mmmwrnmr pnai v a. . t aBBBBBl Kallttrd to tt Beat. All are entitled to tbe txt that tbir t mr.,v vein nut. a ricrr idmitr ibouiu I i-rmmj -.. r w .- ,- - -w .- - - - - -i aare, at oace, a u"tu oi uw wi uwur j 7,; ? acdflU)boUle hyull leading drujrjtfu. K -wm ."". , cab f reaedyasaiJBM .that Is .to pcUoa U ' ' i 3LiT pcdple think that the word "lUt .? i- nu.! ntiir in rontiiviian t 1th ters" can fce ued oaijr 1a eoaaecttea w lib i ' an iataxJcatlnc beverage. Taw' a m, TlaatoPHSAS jjijut. " purely a weOictHe ana errry i . article ud In ! waoufsewre l of vegvt- sole oriole l XBwacaUTeuia:iue. Tub rcrfsaior t siwsrs kcetm & a Kste-abto fedew Maf iiaav tMJ Itr?ab- Ik-ia. Io ioc vrtsb t know how to have n tfcara, aud oat bIf iWe ua&l tawr a w4 u.sv,aiKriwdtrtvss.wuitiiu Ur Itrt ct io lsuUUec There dajr f Ax vor erwor lor a bar &l wr' ore lots ef liuistt. 1 Tkeas are a croJ taasv p' ia pepper, I but net half t au.j- tberr are la os&cc. i -IUofcuawad lUonsr IST lot the wrru eat tbc vry Hf rat if ynr ctatdrea Sar itm wtta the daiut. cium19, called Dr. laii Wrt Ihv i slrwyers. lpa tuk cotutosr. th sw7 tukor win ! luea lltca Courier AxroficcaR tab Crkr Utile Liter I'll!.. Utey are vo terr nUl No trfc U BwatHnv. 3a Mtst r rtjir af uw iujubs. The purist who irt uvrnSfd : Ut he I ia tae wrwng bux Gimt 1-JI Repub lican. HnoxruiTU 1 eirt Uy frquai swult doses ot lis' Car Ir OuMiiUuti. Who tite s re Uro piU-h utid ! itahtavi tttMst 1 s waaicH-fcsrA IttulKr a IM Keep Your Blood Pure. A small quantity of prevention is worth many pounds of cure. If your blood is in good condition the liability to any disease is much reduced and die ability to resist its wasting influence is tenfold greater. Look then to your blood, by taking' Swift's Specific (.S. S. S.) every few months. It is harmless in its effects to the most delicate infant, yet it cleanses the blood of all jioisons and builds up the genera! health. fO O O cured mo souud m4 well of cokUUHu HJooJ I'. As O. Oi O. n,ja M jjj, , j Wu, nfliuiud wit U dtst I couiroeneed taking KvviU' HjxKMe s a 8 and 1b a fevr nttki 1 tLm neatly cured." (iMtuuc Hti-x kt. Shelby. OUw. Treitux o Ukiod and Hkfo dlsfie laiUird irc, Tb Hwift H-M:tfl. ( V , AUaaU, Us. G. M. HENDERSON & COS $3 (OF CHICACO.) CUSTOM MADE FINE CALF QUAES Art Iht BEST in th Wtrll They also makti many other rrndfs of unequalttd MEN'S AND BOYS' SHOES: ALL made to fit und wonr, wltn- I out any nustrn "shoddy " In ! them, money them. It will save to demand mmmmmmmmmmmmmm&mmmmmmmmmmr mMmmmmmmmmmM fmmmmm ' The besb is aye Hne checpesK KJ4 ?oid tmitdAion Il3 W ohe.nd subsMbuhes Po 0SAPOLIO-HMsa.so.id ccvke ofscouring socipTry i' jfiwm m t L lasttttti Mm r . vmA in your nexr nouse-cieesning. r- REAL ECONOMY. It is worse than nonsense to buy a cheap article with which to damage more valuable prop-rty. Scouring soap is at best only a trifling cxicnse. but with a oor and cheap article it is likely to do considerable damage to fine marble or other projerty. DO YOU WANT A NEW S II lISaHsaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaif mmmm ttf) at I ft JsVamIaaasCaaaaa5aaaaaaS5slaaaaai 121 U tVW fagBMBteMMlataalaaaaaaaaaaSaaaaaal IU) kt mJLmmmmmmmmmnkWmmmW i i j gMfmgtWtmmiMttmmmmmmwmmm x oxtj a 2 mmmmJ!mnmmmm IM Z HaaflHaHaHHaaaaalaaaaaaaaal 5IH '"1 , BSaBiaSBBlaaaBaaaal " i7 1km tmmmmtlM EESTSSIIH U U3 at XX 171 " tM 1 KLaaaal HOKB 9 Saaaalja ' iJmLmmm mmtmmmml I SaBtt'' I 1 I, -1- HTaBsaaT' vm&BmFf IVERS dt POND PIANO CO., JKSilS1 VASELINE. m tn mr be tf hn hmm, 19 s. Smtomnml&liuSmhmmt,-" telvtViMssvCts.CrMs. 15" hiaiuf tilt CawissT )m W K 7 )Mr aarutM la w ttanawlMr(n W rrtti U a. pt tmtf frlw f yt rf m t nttut'Mr-. A rrm aaa7 tnrr1 rf a y- im ! iCUI f. r K7 rn riyri. 1 1 t i I'lrrinrn t frtrmr ! mtt i s f ssvt r i-r CHESCBflOUCH MfrC CO.. : 24 State Street, New York. iCoasd. Hdida- Cam b?s all el fails. QdMrrs tak H vittei! &beQou By djTsjxirt. eOKJMQ WATER OR JsTiUC rpps'S COCOA TftlTTTf" S-2 LB- TIMS OM1.Y. ' av M lavaavamjaTViBBiVMi . wmmmmmmmm m mmt SjauaaVA. La a. tmt in w amai ! mm aaaaa avTmmV aSaaaaSCaa "a 1 I' SI mmWmWm mTWmmmm S I II" W " I mmwrnw aaa aar a III II II aa4- . -- BaaaaaaaaS .-aamlUlsiiOOmi - "J - . "' '" " r ffTRi S-Bf mtJmmi a.l-a . . H t smmV i S a. 4 PM Saahaa.aaatoJSL ..vaS rW -avJg S Jpl las. - a ll Slaa 'mmmm. I.tl S SSS 1 1 SS ll, S .I.SstS ' 1 11 -TlaSlal m.H.aa.aS aaaSaSaSaSSSSSa SaaaVtSVQSSW-AatSV JSmtSaS-S-B mmmm Those who believe that Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy wil! cure them arc more liable to get well than those who donL If vou happen to be one of I &0Sfl wfc0 don't bcllCYC, thcTC'i . j a matter of $500 to help your j . faith. It's for vou if the male-1 y CrS Ot Dr. Sajrc's. remedy can't . CUHi VOU, HO matter h.O.V bad or of how long standing your catarrh m the head may be. The makers are the World's Dispensary Medical Associa tion of Buffalo, N.Y. They're known to everv newspaper publisher and every druggist ' ,i -nrl nn, vn rnn ,- ily ascertain that their words as good as their bond. Begin right. The first stage is to purify the svstem. Vou i don t want to build on a wronir, foundation, when you're build ing for health. And don't shock the stomach with harsh I treatment. Use the milder means. Vou wind your watch once a day. Vour liver and bowels should act as regularly. K thev do not, use a Iry. fhc key is - Dr. Pierce's . Pleasant Pellets. One a dose. m " PIANO ? Don't ay you cannot get it till you know hov e will furnish ou one, ATk hv pcrtal card and we will lend ou FE I CATALHVE, Ml you our pners, explain our pbn of EASY PIYMU7S, and generally post you on the PIANO QUCtTION. wYw may save SSO.OO by 7T?m tu a fOSTAL CARD For One Dollar trmr CM rKars. to j y to m lmtU4 Urn, m Sa M tt sr&rsas tmr1Bf ymttwA to mft mjtt I Rriuinw1ir. Irr fhrtiMura Pi snsrT st crssK-e W its A EOBBEE OR UlraTlkmOVh9 imscuat kmmx' Ul. 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OOI.D MKDAU I'AKIrJ 187H W.HAhKIUV (O.'S 'i- DMAnlfnn pAAAn DiDd&ittDi vnnua K. t.H ftm W, 1$ JU. Xo ( lirmicalH , w -- .- Swi t M '.i. imI4 f aK 4 r wsf, . J 4 tl rlw J Unlit - ., - .1 t-g SS w . ,! . sr i .fmlrmt-tr ttf'i ! taMUs ft III til t.ll fcwrt W BAXER&CO.DorcbMtrr.MaM. Beautiful Flower ilJ frm tfm lot Uw s'stliSl TVf sf it STANDAtfU OF CXCeLLKNCX tk4liatf Ui -Ua! la Ilxitii4tit(i4.tl IV laaa s txrUf f tlttllll) W MI a4 fas, fU MIL Jt ba.k(ar !' MUtCT i U W .M r UK. risii. ttt rii. iNiKMSf mil. aic .h Tt !. I.rala. timai. mi aUlaafWslf Ms. ItrlU for r (rSa4 Ultltx (l mm, KtSi; Illa.laUa; af tUaaUfat IUm, lUf. tar llaU a.d H.IU, aa. U,. HmWrnttfrn, FHEI 't . tni41 C. IDl 4 SUIT CQ U0 Olt, ti, 51 Us -k 00at J 4 $mX SMMf f FURNITURE Carpets, Mttf Etc., On Easy Payments! LOW PRICES. IMMCN8C STOCK, t mrAt rrttiAH mm A. C. WUKMSEi ft CI.'S GREAT INSTALLMENT HOUSE, KANSAS CITY, MO. I ritAti is-it Kr iirtRtsT ?i. I XDI. 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