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THE THffiD PLAGUE.
Dr. Talmago Discourses on tho Evils
of Bad Literature.
Bad Papers and NoTels I.lkenad te tba
Tlarae of Frops In Egypt The Law
Kvokcd l'ower of Good and Bad
Books Illustrated.
Tho plnffuo of pernicious literature
was the subject of tho third discourse
of Dr. Talmage at Brooklyn on the
"Ten riaffucs of tho Cities." His text
was from Exodus, vii. 0-7: "And tho
frogs carao up and covered the land of
Egypt. And the magicians did so with
their enchantments, and brought up
frogs upon the land of Egypt." Follow
ing is the sermon.
There is almost a universal aversion
to frogs, and yet with the Egyptian
they wore 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
be found among tho sepulchres of
Thebes. These creatures, so attractive
once to the Egyptians, at divine behest
became 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
tho people, and even tho ovens,
which now are uplifted above the earth,
and on the side of cliimnrys, but then
were small holes in the earth with
Mixikcu pottery, were filled with frogs
when the housekeepers came to look at
them. If a man sat down to cat, a frog
alighted on his plate. If he attempted
to put tin a shoe, it was preoccupied by
a frog. I ho attempted to put his head
upon a pillow, it had been taken josses
won of by a frog. Frogs high and low
and everywhere; loathsome frogs, slimy
frogs, iK-si.'ging 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
coed, 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
wrpent charmers imitated the same
thing, and knowing that there wero
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 became
the .serpent. So likewise these magi
cians tried to imitate tho plague of
frogs. "Frogs camo up and covered
the land of Egypt, and the magicians
did so with their enchantment, and
brought up frogs upon the land of
Egypt."
Xmv that plague of frogs has come
back upon the earth. It is abroad to
day. It is smiting this nation.
It comes In the shape of cor
rupt literature. These frogs hop
into tho store, tho shop, the ofiice,
tho banking house, tho factory
into the home, into tho cellar, into the
garret, on the drawing room table, on
the shelf of the librarj'. While the lad
is reading tho bad book tho teacher's
face Is turned tho other way. Ono of
these frogs hops upon the page. While
the young woman is reading tho for
bidden novelette after retiring at night,
rending by gas-light, one of these frogs
leaps ujtoii the page. Indeed, they have
hopped upon tho news stands of the
country, and tho mails at the post ofiice
shake out in the letter trough hundreds
of them.
The plague has taken, at different
times, possession of tins country. His
one of the most loathsome, one of tho
most frightful, one of the most ghastly
of the ten plagues of our modern cities.
There is a vast number of boi ks anil
newspapers printed and published which
ought never to see the light They aro
tilled with a Dostilence that makes the
land swelter with a moral epidemic.
The greatest blessing that ever came
to this nation is that of an elevated
literature, and the greatest scourge has
been that of unclean literature. The
last has its victims in nil occupations
and departments. It has helped to till
insane asylums and penitentiaries and
almshouses and dens of shame. The
bodies of this infection lie in the hos
pitals and in tho graves, while their
souls are being tossed over into a lost
eternity, an avalanche of horror and
despair. 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
charnel house of the morally dead. The
literature of a nation decides the fute of
a nation. Hood lnoks, gxHxl morals.
Had books, bad morals.
1 begin with the lowest of all the
literature, that which does not even
pretend to be respectable from cover
to cover a blotch of leprosy. There are
many whoso entire business is to dis
pose of that kind of literature. They
display it lefore the schoolboy on his
way home. They get the catalogues of
schools and colleges, take the names
ami jost oflicc addresse.s and send their
advertisements and their circulars and
their phaniphlets and their books to
every one of them.
In the possession of these dealers in
bad literature were found 900,000 names
and post otlice addresses, to whom it
was thought it might bo profitable to
head these corrupt things. In the year
178 there wero 1CV establishments en
gnged in publishing cheap, corrupt
literature. From one publishing house
there went out twenty different styles
of corrupt books. Although over thirty
tons of vile literature have been des
troyed by the society for the suppres
sion of vice, still there is euough of it
left in this country to bring down upon
us the thuudcrbolt-s of an incensed God.
In the year 1S0S the evil had become
mi great in this country that the con
gress of the United States passed a law
forbidding the transmi.sN.iou 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 lSCS. Hut in
ll7S another law was passed by the con
pros 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
have 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 corruut literature and how
are the frogs of this Egyptian plague to
bo slain? 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 eoncert 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
for a letter to blast a man or destroy a
home.
1 am not talking about what c-inot
be done. 1 am ialking now about what
is being done. A great many of the
printing presses that give themselves
entirely to the publication of vile liter
ature have been stopped or have gone
into business less obnoxious. "What has
thrown off, what has krpt off the rail
trains of this country for some time
backjicarly all the leprous periodicals?
Those of us who have been on the rail
trains have noticed a great change in
the last few months and tho 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 warning 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 the news stands.
Terror has seized upon the publishers
and the 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 is over 1W)
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 purified? How
has so much of this iniquity been
balked? Iiy 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 profonnd argument try
to persuade it that it Is morally wrong
to bite and to sting and to poison any
thing. The only argument for a cobra
is a shotgun, and tho 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 are to drive
back this plague of Egyptian frogs is
by filling the minds of our young peo
ple with a healthful literature. I do
not mean to saj that all tee books and
newspapers ought to be religious books
and newspapers, or that every song
ought to bo sung to the tune of "Old
Hundred." I have no tg'innatliy with
tho attempt to make the young old. I
would rather join in a crusade to keep
the young young. IJoyhood and girl
hood must not be abbreviated. But
there are good books, 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 be no more room for the
useless and the vicious than there is
room for chaff in a bushel meaurc
which is already filled with Michigan
are 50 per cent, of the criminals
in the jails and penitentiaries of the
United Suites to-day under 21 years of
age? Many of them under 17, under
10, under 15, under 14, under VI? Walk
along one of tho 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. Ileware 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. Ho not glorify the dirk and
the pistol. Do not call the desperado
brave or tho lilertiuo gallant Teach
our young ioople that if they go down
into the swamps and marshes to watch
tho jack-o'-lunterns dance on tho decay
and rottenness they will catch the ma
laria and death.
My word is to this vast multitude of
young people: Ho 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 yesterday may have de
cided you for time and for eternity, or
it may be a book that may corao into
your possession to-morrow.
A good book who can exaggerate its
power? Benjamiu Franklin said that
Ills reading of Cotton Mather's "Essays
To Do (Jood" in childhood gave him
holy inspirations for all tho rest of his
life. George Law declared that a biog
raphy ho read in childhood gave him
all his subsequent prosperities. A
clergyman man' 3ears ago, passing to
the far west, stopped at a hotel. He
saw a woman copying something from
Doddridge's "Itise and Progress." It
seemed that she had borrowed the
book, and there were somo tilings she
wuti ted especially to remember. The
clergyman had in his satchel a copy of
Doddridge's "Itise and Progress," and
so he made her a present of it. Thirty
years passed oil The clergyman came
that way and he nsked where the
woman was whom ho had seen long
ago. They said: "She lives yonder in
that Wautiful house." He went there
and said to her: "Do you remember
me?" She said: ".Vo, 1 do not." He
said: "Do you remember a man gave
you Doddridge's 'Uise and Progress
thirty years ago?" "O, yes; I remem
ber. That book saved my soul. I
loaned the book toall-my neighbors and
thvy 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 that spire yonder, don't
you? That church was built as tho re
sult of that book you gave me thirty
years ago." 0, the power of a good
book! Hut, alas! for the influence of a
bad book.
The assassin of Sir William Russell
declared that he got tho inspiration for
his crime from reading "Jack Shep
panL" Homer's "Iliad" made Alex
ander tho warrior. Alexander said so.
The story of Alexander made Julius
Ciesar 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 nil those books
which, while they havo somo good
things about them, have also an admix
ture of evil. You have read books that
had two elements in them tho good
and the bad. Which stuck to you? Tho
bad I The heart of most people is like
a sieve, which lets the small particlcsof
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 yon are.
"Hut," you say, "how can I find out
whether a book is good or bad without
reading it?" There is always some
thing suspicious about a bad book. I
never knew an exception something
suspicious in tho index or style of illus
tration. This venctnons reptile almost
always carries a warning rattle.
The clock strikes midnignt. A fair
form bends over a romance. The eyes
flash fire. The breath is quick and ir
regular. Occasionally the color dashes
to the cheek, then dies out. The hands
tremble as though a guardian spirit
were trying to shake the deadly book
out of the grasp. Hot tears faU. She
laughs with a shrill voice that drops
dead at its own sound. The sweat on
her brow is the spray dashed up 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
wUl mistake her ringlets for curling
serpents, and thrust her white band
through the bars of the prison, and
smite her head, rubbing it back as
though to push the scalp from the
skull, shrieking: "My brain! my
brainr O, stand off from that! Why
wUl you go sounding your way amid
the reefs and warning buoys, when
there is such a vast ocean in which you
mar voyage, all sail set?
We see so many books we do net tb
dir, si what a book lav Stand ii oc
end. Measure It, tha height of ft, fha
depth of it, the htngth of it, the breadth
of it. You cannot do it. Examine the
paper and estimate the progress made
from the time of the lmpreaaons on
clay, and then on to the bark of tho
trees, and from the bark of trees to
papyrus, and from papyrus to the hide
of wild beastA, 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 aa
an infant's soul waiting" for God's in
scription. A book! Examine tfoc type
of it. Examine the printing of It and
sec the progress from the time when
Solon's lawn were written on oak
planks, and Hesiod's poems were writ
ten on tables of lead, and the Siivaitic
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 tho martyr fires, all the
civilizations, all the battles, all the vic
tories, all the defeats all the glooms all
the brightnesses, aU the centuries to
make it possible. A book! It is the
chorus of the ages It is the drawing
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 thai..
Thank God for good IkxjJcs, healthful
books, inspiring books. Christian boolis,
books of men, books of women, boo: of
God. 1 1 is with thece good books that
wo arc to overcome corrupt literature.
Upon the frogs swoop with these eagles.
I depend much for the overthrow of
iniquitous literature upon the mortality
of books. Even good boo.cs have
a hard struggle to live. Polybius
wrote forty books; only fivo of them
left. Thirty books of Tacitus have
perished. Livy wrote HO books; only
thirty-five of them remain. .Eschylu."
wrote 100 dramas; only beven remain
Euripides wrote over a hundred; onl"
nineteen remain. Varro wrote the bf
ographics of over seven "hundred greal
Romans. 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 that arc dis
cased and corrupt and blasted at tho
very start? .They will die a s the frog
when the Lord turned back tho plague.
Tho work of Christianizatrion will go
on until there will bo nothing left but
good books, and they will tako the su
premacy of the world.
Against every bad pamphlet send a
good pamphlet; dgainst every unclean
picture send an innocent picture; against
every scurrilous song semi a Christian
song; against every ad book send a
good book; and then it wilbo as it was
in ancient Toledo, where tho Tolctum
missals were kept by tho saints in six
churches, nnd the sacrilegious Romans
demanded that those missals bo de
stroyed, and that tho Roinnn missals bo
substituted; and tho war eatue on, and
I nm glad to say that the whole matter
having been referred to champions, tho
champion of tho Tolctum missals with
one blow brought down the champion
of the Roman uiltsaLa.
So it will bo in our day. The good
literature, tho Christian literature, in
its championship for God and the truth,
will bring down tho evil literature in
its chompionship for tho devil. I feel
tingling to the tips of fingers and
through all the nerves of my body, and
all the dephths of my soul, the certainty
of our triumph. Cheer up, O, men aud
women who are toiling for the purifica
tion of society! Toil with j'our faces in
tho sun-light. "If God be for us, who,
who can be against us?"
Lady Hester Stanhope was the daugh
ter of the third carl of Stanhope, aud
after her nearest friends had died she
went to tho far east, took possession of
a deserted convent, threw up fortresses
amid the mountains of Lebanon, opened
the castle to the poor and the wretched
nnd th'e sick who would come in. She
made her castle a home for the unfor
tunate. She was a devout Christian
woman. She expected that tho Lord
would deseend 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 ready for the day
in which her Lord should descend, and
He on one of them and she on tho 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 carthH palfreys gToomed and sad
dled and bridled null caparisoned for
our Lord when He shall come. Tho
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; nnd a crown was given unto
him; and he went forth conquering and
f conquer. And the armies that were
in lleaTen 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 tho palo horse of death.
Jesus forever!
BEATEN BY THE BARBER.
Sad Tale ef m Smart Voting; Man
IVa
Knew It AIL
no was a smart young man and he
thought he knew it alL
"I'm going to fool that barWr," he
said to a friend as they started for a
shave. "I'm in for tho whole pro
gramme to-dav and I'm going to fool
him."
"How?" queried the friend.
"How! Just by forestalling him.
When I go in for a shave he savs 'Hail
cut?' If I take that ifa 'Little oil, sir?
and so on. I'm going to fool him if it
costs me Sl.SQ. Watch me!"
He settled himself in the chair with
great deliWration. Then he said:
"I want a shave and a hair-cut. I
also want a shampoo "
"Yes, sir; dry or regular?" broko in
the barWr.
He was a trifle disconcerted, but he
didn't give up.
"Dry," he said. "I don't care for anj
oil on my hair and I wish it parted oa.
the left side. You may wax my mus
tache a little, but don't curl it too much
on the ends. I don't cmre for any sea
foam, but you may use a little bsyrum.
After you are through with rsel will
have a shine and my coat brushed off.
Then Til Up the porter. By the war, I
want my hair cut short in the back and
brushed up a little on the sides."
"Yes, sir," said the accommodating
barber, betraying not the least surprise.
"Have your hair singed, too? ItU do it
good."
And the smart young man looked
painfully embarrassed. Chicago Trib-
une.
He's a Bra?. Thtria; & war dance
an Indian warrior may bra to Ids
heart's coatcnt and there is no one to
dispnta him. Eack warrior tkerefore
brags of having killed fifty to five hun
dred vrhite men, and he makes himself
believe it for an bonx or two. Tbia k
why the dances are so popular. Tber
are ninety-nine parts brae and one part
daace. Detroit Free Treat,
Fresdex di Ecdiai, oi Italy,
especial xnearaaip for
deelares that hk
ornly
REVOLUTION IN CHILL
Report Assassination of rmlMt Bal
maevda As Oppressed t'eople Revolt
Against tb Rat of One Man.
Lottdox, March 13. There are ru
mors here that information has 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 fight
ing between the in
surgents and the
government troops
and that the former
were victorious. It
BALMACEDA. is reported that the
j republic of Uruguay has offered to me
diate between the contending factions.
The present uprising in Chili and the
, r :.)... i.1. ....1. 1 wmI
i muruer oi i resiueui iiuiiuih.-iu wifttM
j resulted from the autocratic ambitions
of Halmaceda himself which ambitions
were fostered by the peculiar condition
into which Chilian politics had fallen.
The government was modeled origin
ally after that of the United States, the j
' president being chosen every five years j
by electors delegated by the various
i provinces. The pre iident has a cabinet
of six ministers appointed by himself
1 and a council of state composed of
i eleven members, five appointed by the
congress.
These have lieen, however, but mere
figure heads, the executive being really
the government. In his power it L u j
appoint or dismiss tle governors ot
provinces and the governors of depart
ments. The latter have the practical
appointment of the delegates who
choose the president.
The executive can serve but one term,
but by this ai ngeuieitt he can control
absolutely the choosing of his successor.
For some years the main question in
Chilian politics and the Chilians have
always gone into politics with the
fiercest of vehemence has Wen
whether or not the president should
continue to wield the enormous power
which the constitution gave him ami
ivhcther or not he should continue to
corruptly intervene in the choosing of
his successor.
Balmaceda forced the question to an
issue deadly to himself. Eager for
jvower, olrstinate, uiiWiiding, heedless
of the mutterings of the people and au
tocratic Wyond any of hi predecessor,
he, a man of much ability, had pushed
his plan for absolute self-rule Wyond
his people's endurance and the
revolt
followed. He refused utterly to bend
to the will of Wth branches of the leg
islative lody, and both HWrals and con
servativesonce bitterly and vindictive
ly antagonistic united against him.
A REPLY TO. INGALLS.
A Naval OfTlrrr Point Out Wliert
lie
Ttilnk tltr Kt-Seiintor It an Krrrtl.
Washington, March 13. Ex-Senator
Ingalls' recent attack uhiii the navy
naturally excited the .indignation of
naval officers, among them Capt Kich
ard W. Meade, who, in a communication
to a local pajK'r. handle the Kansas ex
senator without glove.
Alluding to the exploits of the con-
j federate cruisers during the late war.
Captain Meade says: "It is difficult for
me to conceive how a man of such long
e.verieiice in public life as Mr. Ingalls
should deliWrately impale himself on
one horn or the other of the dilemma
he is in of Wing regarded by right
thinking men either as a dema
gogue or as ' an ignoramus. His
assertions that Wtween 1S1 and
isr..r the I'nited States created a large
naval force is undeniably true, but ex
Senator Ingalls, of all men, ought to
know that the conditions of 1S11 and
those of 1S91 are vastly ditTcreut. In
lSGO-fll the sails of American commerce I
whitened every sea. the merchant steam !
fleet of the. eountrv was second onlv I
' to that of Great Itritain, and when the j
j tocsin of war sounded hundreds of
merchant officers and thousand of our
sea militia Hocked to the service of the .
navy while every available vessel in the '
merchant marine was pressed into um
The .south, not having any maritime .
strength whatever, was utterly unable
to break the blockade and with all '
its energy and undeniable pluck t
could not put afloat more than
six cruiser, yet what those six cruisers '
did in the way of damage to us Mr. In
j galls explains when he himself men
, tions the fact that Great Itritain com
promised on
the score."
;13,000,000 in payment of
VESSELS LOST.
TrrrlMp KfTrct of a Storm Oft thr Hrltlnh
Cot rtrral VrvurU I.omt and Many
IVmoiiB Ilrowntsl.
London, March 13. Following the
n blizzard a severe frost has set in all
over England, greatly hindering the
' clearing of the railroad lines. Cornwall
i continues isolated from the rest of En
gland. Many wrecks are reported to
have occurred on that coast and at
Land's End and a number of people
have Wen frozen to dcatlu
A foreign steamship was wrecked
near Dartmouth. All the crew and j
passengers were drowned. The Ilritlsh I
ship Dryad Has also Wen wrecked and
her crew, consisting of twenty-four men
and officers, drowned. The Dryad was
an iron vessel of 1,025 tons bur-
den. Among the schooners lost were
the Lnne.sdale, nnd four of her
crcu- drowned; the 5choonr Lizzie
Elicn'twoof her crcu-drowned. Seventy
live have been lost off the coa.t during
the blizzard.
Droajtht In Culn.
IIavana, Alarch li The droneht
me 4 1 1 x tar T t Tj a h - sc- -a
vcrelv felt in the department of Santi-
ago tic Lntia, wnere tne 5mall nvcr are
dried up and the fields parched and
bumed. Heavy losses in cattle have
alreadv leen sustained owinr to the ex-
tremely dry weather, it beinjj impossi-
ble for the animals to get food or
water. T he drought will matrnallvin- .
terfere with the sugar crop, the vield
of the cane &eing much reduced through
lack of rain. The loss of cattle, too,
will affect the crop, oxen for the labor
in the fields being very scarce.
Cemlajr to a rear Footing.
LoxDoy,March 13. Advices from Ber
lin show that the government continues
to cut down expenditures for military
equipment. At S panda n the force em
ployed in the manufacture of small
arms has been reduced from 2.000 to COO
and work is also less active at the dock
yards since the reichstag gave notice
that extravagance in naval construction
would not be permitted. It is said also
that for the present the plan of convert
ing the city of Breslau into a govern
ment fortress wUl not be carried oat.
This is a favorite plan of Count Walder
aee and also had the approTal of Moltke.
Iark Laatra Iaaaraace Cos;
Cxeyxlxxo. a, Slarch IX The se
cret organization of nearly all the fire
insurance companies in the United
States which has been in scsaioa here
lor several days. wUl conclude its work
to-day. The organization is so ?!crct
that no one cstskle its ranks knows J
the casscs of its members A. bul
letin in the catnre of a black list is
isssed every month for the beaet of
the members. It centals the aaaes of
persons whom it & best for iassrsace
men to If itc alo&e. All of the aseet
isfsheidfterc have beea Tery secret.
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Tfca Evtl Kesatts of t'ltreUabla lafoi
tloa.
"I don't know whether they do it In
tentionally or not. thonghtully re
marked young Jack Kanebiter at the
club the other night, "but Mmchow
tVioo nnninin.r tnu imnml an awfm
lot of unreliable information,-
Hows that, old chappie?" inquired
Freddie Choker, his running mate
"Why, I aaw In the Exaniacr last
weekthat a poor voung feBowinChi -
cago borrowed an umbrella of a bank
prcident and the next day returned It.
"Awful lie-that."
'Oh! bathe did. really He walked
into the bank the very next day and re-
turned it. The president was so much
astonished that he called the younk -
man back and made him hi cashier at
a thumping salarv."
i!...n b.. ; ,Itn honest, eh-"
HecaUM; he was so extra nonesuch.
"Exactly. AVell. you see, I thought
it was a big scheme, and that I'd work
the same racket before the other bovs
I got on to it."
the Nevada
"Boss, idea."
"So I rushed around to
bank and asked old Helltnan to loan me
an umbrella. I heard there was going
to be a director:, meeting the next day,
i and I intended to return the umbrella
right in the midst of it, wa to paralyze
the entire outfit; see?"
a What did old Monevbag
"V
.
"Whv. he said that it did not look a
bit like rain. I know my bu.sinevs said
I, 'just yotTproduce your gingham. So
, . , " i . . i .. i.i
i lie t.oiu a CJerK w lei sue uutc aiium uhu
and take five dollars for security, at
regular bank interest."
'Great Scott!"
"Hut that wasn't the worst of it.
When I looked at
the umbrella, I'll W
hanged if it wasn't one that Hellman
.jad borrowed from me himself down at
Los Angeles during the boom."
And they both lit a fresh cigarette
and mused sadly over the utter unre
liability of a sensational pres. Sau
FrancLsco Uxaminer.
Warni't III llorsr.
Stranger Iteg pardon, sir, but what
do you value that horse at?
Native Oh, about ten dollars.
Stranirer You are verv fair in your
valuation, sir.
Native (hastilv)-
-Oh, the hvs ain't
mine. Light.
Fortune .Seeking Emigrant.
Many a poor family that seek the went-
i crn wlltl in tne lioiu oi wiumug a lortune,
is preserved from that iusitlious foe of the
emigrant nnd fronuetsnian cuill-. und
fever be Hotetter" Stomach Itinera. So
effectually doe that incomparable misLc
inablodefrnvi fortify the system agnlnbt
the combined influence of a uudarlou at-
I raotpheru and iu!!tsn.u-t:iinud water, that
protected by it the pioneer, the miner or the
tourist provided with it, muy safely en
counter the dauber.
"How old In the liclaa llyf"nk acor
rcepoudut Old as tho American revolu
tion Wellington made the Hessian fly at
Trenton Toxs Sit Ung.
.
A i"ioixfiEii use of Dr John Hull' Sur
suparilia will cure scrofula and plain,
but Mieh symptoms of impure blood a
pimple, Mires, uche-, puln.s, kidney and
liver weakness, etc, vanish llko mow be
foro tho noon day when this remedy i
usl It stimulates the entire system, and
its beneficial effect is felt at once in every
part.
"Yoc'Hr an angel I" lioasld, nntruardcdly,
'No, I'm not," tho repondcd, with couvio
tlon; "I'm a wonmnT uud I wnt a spring
gown In four week ' -N. Y. Ledger
I'aik from indigestion, dypcpla and too
hearty eat'Ug is relieved at once by taking
one of Carter's Little Liver Pills luimedl
utely after dinner, jpm't forget this.
A candidate for oflloe I very much
like a drowning mau. Al! the mean act of
his life are quickly brought up be foro him.
Puck.
A slight cotn, If neglected, often n tucks
tho lutir. IIkowx's Hkoxi'iiul Titoaic?
give sure nnd immediate relief. .SoM orify
In btjTti. Price i.r cents.
"I tiiocoiit her heart was broken when
her husband died I" "So It war Perhaps
that account for her iuco t ing it with a
knot." Philadelphia Times.
Like Oil Upn Trouble! Wutor Is Halo's
Honey of Iiorchouml und Tar uKn a c-old.
Pike's Toothache Iirops Cureluonemiuute.
Philosophy Question When a man
ay that he knows inat he know nothing
U it not an ub.urdltvl Answor-That do
pcods on tho man. Harvard Lamjoon.
Wur U an boneat bankrupt tbo same as
adUhonest onol Dvaue they both full to
make money. Dry (Jooda Chronicle.
THE GENERAL MARKETS.
KANSAS CITV. March V,.
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HOC CHOLERA
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Entitled to th Beat.
AU are cntlticd to tfco bot th&t Ibelr
mosey will bay, so every famlljr should
hare, at once, a brttUo of the bt fitallv
rcmsly. Syropof Figs, tocsnv tbo tutji
wba costive or btltotiv For al in 30kj
acd ft OJ bottle by all leading drujtgUU.
Tbckc t aa antidote to every roa, ex- ,
rtrBttaot
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tc" can ti ad only m coacecttoa with
' an latexieatinr bcversire This I a ta
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BUtrv ,. ia a anac acd cvrry
. article uoi tn Its waaaUetare 1 of rrgct-
able crista f kaowa ccraUro raht.ca.
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Tn rrfar U alwajr. known a. a
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! Io ice wish to know bow le have
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?a s!a?!aa4KlrB? will ioUu
how ltenio ki io imiuttoa. Taero
are iou oi laom.
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I THrxR aro a pxJ cany p" la pepp'r,
i but bot half w t&i.Bjr a there sro ta cwSce.
; -IUefcaoad ilcordr
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pinch. " Iloun Cvarwr
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m. twy are so rerv :i iroat u
wallow. 2vo pata or grips;; lor tuktas.
.
The pufiiUl yrao ? wwrUsl !rH taut
ho is la the wrtH bx Gitns Fs IUpab
llcao. R&oxrniTU i curwl by frvqum mall
does of llso's Cure for OunsewUva.
Wur. the
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pateh.
in lad l tnh!n?M tSere 1 a
kaiewhrt lltUburgu !!
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 the 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 b'ood of all
and builds up the general health.
j. O. O.
cured mo sound
soon aa I dlo-
cornmenwsj uktng Swiff tjlcciI:o S S S ) and In a few vrrcks 1 fri;a
nonUy curod. (Jroia. Srew r. fiaelbr, 0h.
TreUe on blood acd Skin illrojcs tallied f re.
Tho Sivlfl ajecinc IV , Atlanta, (la.
CM. HENDERSON &C0S
$3
(OF CHICAGO.)
CUSTOM MADE
FINE CALF
QUAES
rt tht BEST in ths Wrli.
They also tnako many other flno
frradra of unequalrd
MEN'S AND BOYS' SHOES;
AL.L, made to nt und wear, with
out any eastern "shoddy" In
them. It will save you
money to demand
them.
"The besb is aye hhe checpesK
2oid imitdation
W oheand subsHhuhes fori
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K'ceJe of scouring S02apTry il-
m
fin your nexh house-cleewning.
REAL ECONOMY.
It is worse than nonsense to buy a cheap article with
which to damage more valuable proprty. Scouring soap
is at best only a trifling expense, but with a poor and
cheap article it is likely to do considerable damage to fine
marble or other property.
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Sage's Catarrh Remedy will
cure them arc more liable
to cet well than those who
donL
If VOU
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as good as their bond.
Begin right. The first stage
is to purify the svstcm. You
don't want "to build on a wrontr
foundation, when vou're build
ing for health. And don't
shock the stomach with harsh
t treatment. Um: the milder
means.
You wind your watch once
cay.
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Your liver and bowels
should act as regularly. If
they do not, use a key.
The key is - Dr.' Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets. One a dose.
poisons
md well of contagious I Hood 1'wlsaa. As
v est I was alSloUd Sth tho UWpsso I
PIANO ?
Don't say you cannot gd it till you
know ho uc will furnish you one
A?k by postal card and we will send
ou FMEE, A CATALMIE. tell ycu
our prices, explain our plan of EAST
PAYMENTS, and gencrallv post you
on the PIANO QUESTION. I
W You may save $50.00 by
writing us a POSTAL CARD.
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