The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, April 17, 1891, Image 3
V Y PLAGUE OF INFIDELITY. Dr. Talmago Continues His Sormons on tho Ton Plaguos. Xnflrtollt y'b Attack on the nililo Ansirrrwl Tlic lnht) Chargm ofSkpptlcs ChrUti- 4M1U5- Kvrr tho lYlcnil of Women Clorlcs For Truo Christiana. In continuing his scries of sennons at HrooUiyn on the "Ten Plngncs of the r Cities," Iter. T. DcWitt Talmngc in a ? lntc discourse took for liis subject "The Plague of Infidelity." His text was from Romans iii. 4: "Let Gol lx true, but every man a liar." lie said: That is if (Jod says one thing and the whole human race says the opjx)sitc, "Paul would accept the Divine veracity. Put there are many in our time who have dared to arraign the Almighty for falsehood. Infidelity is not ony a plague, but is the mother of plagues. ' It soems from what we hear on all jiilr.s, that the Christian religion is a huge blunder; that the Mosaic account if the creation Is an absurdity; that Adam and Eve Jiever existed; that the ancient flood and Noah's arlc were im possibilities; that there never was a miracle; that the l.ible is the friend of cruelty, of murder, of polygamy, of all forms of base crime; that the Christian religion is woman's tyrant and man's tittillification; that the l.ible from lid to lifl is n. fable, a cruelty, a hum bug, a lie ; that the martyrs who died for its truth were miserable lujies; that the church of Jesus Christ il , properly gajfeltoTlas'a fool; that when Thomas Carl.yle, the skeptic, said, "tho Hible is 11 noble book," he was dropping into imbecility; that when Theodore Parker declared iu .Music hall, 1istou, "never a boy or girl in all Christendom but was profited by that great book." lie was becoming very weak minded; that it is something to bring a blush to the eheck of every patriot that John Adams, the father of American inde pendence declared, "the Hible is the best book in all the world;" and that lion-hearted Andre'v Jackson turned " into a snivelling coward when he said: "That book, sir, is the rock on which our republic rests;" and that Daniel Webster abdicated the throne of his intellectual wcr and resigned his logic, and from being the great cx jxmhhIit of the constitution and the great lawyer of his age, turned into an idiot when he said: "My heart assures me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be a divine reality. From the time that at my mother's feet, or on my father's knee, I first learned f to lisp ver-.es from the sacred writing, they have Wen my daily study and vigilant contemplation, and if then; is anything in my style or thought to be eommended, the credit is due to my kind parents in instilling into my mind an early hive of the script ures;" and that William II. Seward, the diplomatist of the century, only showed his puerility when he declared: "The whole hojf of human progress is sus pended on the ever-growing iufiuences of the Hible;" and that it is wisest for us to talce that liook from the throne in j the. 11 fleet ions of uncounted multitudes, ami put it under our feet to be trampled upon by hatred and hissing contempt; - and that your old father was hood winked, ami cajoled, and cheated, and befooled, when he leaned on this as a Muff after his hair grew gray, and his hands were tremulous, and his steps shortened as he came up to the verge of the grave: and that your mother sat with a pack of lies on her lap while reading of the better country and of the ending ot all her aches and pains and ff reunion not only with those of you who stood around her, but with the children she had buried with Infinite heartache, Alas! that for forty and fifty years they should have walked under this de lusion and had it under their pillow when they lav a-dying in the back room, and asked that some words from f, the ulil book might be cut upon the tombstone under the shadow of the old country meeting house where they sleep to-day, waiting for a resurrection that will never come. This book, hav ing deceived them, and having deceived the mighty intellects of the past, must not be allowed to deceive our larger, mightier, vaster, more stupendous in tellects. And, so out with the book from the court room, where it is used in the solcmni-ition of testimony. Out with it from under the foundation of church and asylum. Out with it from the domestic circle, (hither together all the Hibles the children's ltibles, those newly bound, and those with lid nearly worn out and pages obliterated by the fingers long ago turned to dust- bring them all together and Jet us make a lHiifiicof them, and bv it warm our cold criticism, and after that turn , under with the plowshare of public in dignation the polluted ashes of that loathsome, adulterous, obscene, cruel and deathful book which is so antago nistic to man's liberty and woman's honor and the world's happiness, Now that is the substance of whatin fidelity proposes and declares, and the attack on the Hible is accompanied by great jocosity, anil there is hardly any subject about which more mirth is kindled than about the Hible. It is not healthy to giggle alont God, or chuckle A uliout eternity, or smirk about thingxof the immortal soul. Now in this sentiment of infidel think ers I cannot join, and I proiose to give you some reason why 1 cannot be an in fidel, and so 1 will try to help out of this present condition any who may have been struck with the awful plague of skepticism. First, 1 cannot be an infidel because infulelitv has no good substitute for the consolation it proposes to take away. You know there are millions of people who get their chief consolation from this book. SupjK'se a man should re solve that he would orgauize a con spiracy to destroy all the medicines from all the apothecaries and from all the hospitals of the earth. The work is done. The medicines are taken and thrown into the river, or the lake, or the sea, A watient wakes tip at mid night in a paroxysm of distress and wants an anodyne. "Oh," says the nurse, "the anodynes are all destroyed: we have no drops to give you. but in stead of that I'll read you a book on the absurdities of morphine, and on the absurdities of all rcmedies.," Hut tluj man continues to writhe in pain, and the nurse says: "111 continue to read you some discourses on anodynes, the cruelties of anodynes, the indecencio of a nody nes the absurdities of nnody nes. For your groan I'll give you a laugh." Hero in the hospital is a patient having a gangrened limb amputated. He says; -S "0. for ether! 0. for chloroform." The doctors say; "Why, they are all de stroyed; we don't have any more chloro form or ether: but 1 have got some thing a great deal better. I'll read you a pamphlet aginst James Y. Simp son, the discoverer of chloroform as an ansesthetic, and against Drs. Agnew nnd Hamilton, and Hosack, and Mott, and Harvey, and Ahrrnethy." "Hut," says the man. "I must have some anaesthetics. "No." say the doc tors, "they are all destroyed, bat we have got something a great deal bet .tcr." "What is that?" "Fun." Pun almut medicines. Lie down, all ye pa tients in Hollevue hospital and stop your groaning all broken-hearted of alt the cities and quit your crying; we haw the catholicon at last! Hero Ls a Uso of wit, here L - a strengthening plaster of sarcasm, here Ls a bottle of ribaldry that you arc to keep well shaken up, and take a tcaspoonful of it after each meal, and if that does not cure you here is a solution of blasphemy in which you may bathe; and here is m tincture of derision. - Infidelitr Ls a religion of "Don't know." Is there a God? Don't know! Ls the soul immortal? Don't knowl If we should meet each other in the future world will we recognize each other? Don't know! A religion of "don't know" for the religion of "I know," "I know in whom I have lnJievcd," "I know that my Redeemer livcth." Have 3011 heard of the conspiracy to put out all the lighthouscson the coast? Do you know that on a certain night next month Eddystone lighthouse, Dell Hock lighthonHc,Sherryvore lighthouse, Montauk lighthouse, Hattcras light house, NcwvLondon lighthouse, Harne gat lighthouse, and the CIO lighthouses on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts are to be extinguished? "O," yon say "what will become of the ships on that night? What will be the fate of the one million sailors following the sea? What will be tho doom of the millions of passen gers? "Who will arise to put down such a conspiracy?" Exery man, woman and child in America and Ihc world. Hut that is only a fable. That is what in fidelity is trying to do, put out all the lighthouses on the coast of eternity, letting the soul go up the "narrows" of death with no light, no comfort, no peace all that coast covered with the blackness of darkness. Instead of the great lighthouse, a glow worm of wit, a firefly of, jocosity. Which do you like the liettor, 0 voyagerfqr eternity the firefly or the lighthouse? What u mis sion infidelity has started on! Furthermore, I cannot be an infidel because of the false charges infidelity is all the time making against the Hible. Perhaps the slander that has made the moht impression and that some Christians have not been intelli gent enough to deny is that the Hible favors jHilygamy. Docs the God of the Hible uphold polygamy, or did he? How many wives did God make for Adam? He made one wife. Does not your common sense tell you when God started the marriage institution he started it as he wanted it to continue? If God had favored polygnmy he could have created for Adam five wives or ten wives or twenty wives, just as easily as he made om. At the very first of the Hible God shows himself in favor of monogamy and antagonistic to io"yg amy. Genesis ii. 24: "Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife." Not his wives, but his wife. God permitted polygamy. Yes; just as he iermits to-day murder and arson and nil kinds of crime. He permits these things as you well know, but he does not sanction them. Wh would dare to say he sanctioned them? He cause the presidents of the United States have permitted polygamy in Utah, 3'ou are not, therefore, to con clude that they patronized it, that they approved it when, on the contrary tiny denounced it. All of God's ancient Israel knew that the God of the Hible was against polygamy, for in the -riO years of their stay in Egypt there is only one case of polygamy recorded only one. All the mighty men of thcHihlc stood aloof f nun jKjlygnmy, except those who, falling into the erime, were chas tised within an inch of their lives. Adam, Aaron, Noah, Joseph, Joshua, Samuel, monogamists. Hut you say: "Didn't David and Solomon favor polygamy?' Yes, and did they not get well punished for it? Read the lives of those two men, anil you will come to the con clusion that all the r tributes of ('oil's nature were against their behavior. How did Solomon get along with polj'gnmyV Head his warnings 111 Proverbs, read his self-disgust in Eccle siastes. He throws up his hands in loathing, and cries out: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." His 700 wives nearly jtestered the life out of him. Solomon got well paid for his crimes well paid. I repeat that all the mighty men of the Scriptures were aloof from polygamy, save as they were pounded and flailed, and cut to pieces for their insult to holy marriage If the Hible is the friend of polygamy why is it that in all the lands where the Hible pre dominates, polygamy is forbidden, and in the lands where there is no Hible it is favored? Another false charge which infidelity has made against the Hible is that it is antagonistic to woman; that it enjoins her degradation and belittles her mis sion. Under this impression many women have been overcome with this plague of infidelity. Is the Hible the enemy of woman? Come into the pict ure gallery, the louvre, the Luxem Ixuirg of the Hible, and sec which pict ures are the more honored. Here is Eve, a perfect woman, as perfect a woman as could Ik; made by a erfect God. Here is Deborah, with her womanly arm hurling a host into tho battle. Here is Miriam, leading the Isrnelitish orchestra on the banks of the Ked Sea. Here is motherly Hannah, with her own loving hand replen ishing the wardrolte of her son Samuel, tho prophet. Here is Abi gail, kneeling at the foot of the mountain until tho 400 wrath ful men, at the sight of her leauty and prowess, halt, halt a hurri cane stopped at the sight of a water lily, a dewdrop dashing back Niagara. Here is Ruth, putting to shame all the modern slang about mothers-in-law as she turns her back on her home and her country, and faces wild beasts and exile and death, that she may be with Naomi, her husband's mother, Kuth, the queen of the harvest fields. Ruth, the grandmother of David. Rutli, the ancestress of Jesus Christ, The story of her virtues nnd her life sacrifice the most beautifiul pastorial ever written. Here Ls Vashti, defying the bacchana of 1.000 drunken lords, and Esther will ing to klirow her life away that she may deliver her people. And here is Dorcas, the sunlight of eternal fame, gilding her philanthropic needle, and the woman with perfume in a box made from the hills of Alabastron, pouring the holy chrism on tho head of Christ, the aroma lingering all down the corri dor of the centuries. Here is Lydia. the mcrchnntess of Tyrian purple, im mortalized for her Christian behavior. Here is the widow with two mites, more famous than the Pcabodys and the Lenoxes of all ages, while there cornea in slow of gait and with careful attendants and with especial honor and high favor, leaning on the arm of in spiration, one who Ls the joy and pride of any home so rarely fortunate as to have one. aa old Christian grandmother. Grandmother Lois. Who has more worshipers to-day than any being that ever lived on earth, except Jesus Christ? Mary. For what purpose did Christ perform his first miracle upon earth? To relieve the embarrassment of a womanly housekeeper at the fall ing short of a beverage. Why did Christ break up the silence of the tomb and tear off the shroud and rip up the rocks? It was to stop the bereavement of the two Kethany sisters. For whose comfort w as Christ most anxious in the hour of dying excruciation? For a woman, ah old woman, a wrinkle faced, woman, a woman who in other days had held him in her arms, his first friend, his last friend, as it Ls very apt to be, his mother. All the pathos of the ages compressed into one utter ance. "Hehold thy mother." Does the Hible antagonize woman? If the Uible is so 'antagonistic to woman how can you account for the difference in woman's condition in China and Central Africa and her condi tion in England and America? There Ls no difference except tliat which the Hible makes. In lands where there U no Hible she is hitched like a beast of burden to the plows, she carries tho hod, she submits to Indescribable in dignities. She must be kept in a pri vate apartment, and if she comes forth she must be carefully hooded and re ligiously veiled, as though it were a shame to be a woman. Do you not know that the very first thing the HIblo docs when it comes into a new country is to strike offthc shackels of woman's serfdom? Since you put the Hible on your stand in the sitting room, has the Hible been to you. O woman, a curse or a blessing? Why it that a woman when she is troubled will go to her worst enemy, the Hible? Why do you not go for com fort to some of the great infidel books? No, the silly, deluded woman persists in hanging alout the Hible verses, "Let not your heart be troubled," "All things work together for good," "Weeping may endure for a night," "I am tha resurrection," "Peace, be still." Furthermore, rather than invite I re sist this plague of infidelity, because it has wrought no positive good for the world, and is always a hindrance. I ask you to mention the names of tho merciful and the educational institu tions which infidelity founded and is supporting and has supported all the way through; institutions pronounced against Gixl and the Christian religion and yet pronounced in behalf of suffer ing humanity. What are the names of them? Certainly not the United States Christian commission, or the .sanitary commission, for Christian George II. Stuart was the president of the one and Christian Henry W. Hellows was tho president of the other. Where are the asylums and merciful institutions founded by infidelity, and supported by infidelity, pro nounced against God and the Hible, and yet doing work for the alleviation of suffering? Certainly, if 3011 come to speak of educational institutions it is not Yale, it is not Harvard, it is not Princeton, it is not Middletown, it is not Cambridge or Oxford, it is not any institution from which n diploma would not be a disgrace. Do you point to tho German universities as exceptions? I have to tell you that all the German universities to-day arc under positive Christian influences, except the Uni versity of Hcidclbenr, where the ruf fianly students cut and maul and mangle and murder each other as a matter of pride instead of infamy. There stands Christianity. Thero stands infidelity. Compare what they have done. Compare their resources. Here is infidelity, no prayer on her lips, no benediction on her brow, both hands clenched what for? To fight Christianity. That is the entire busi ness. The complete mission of infidelity to fight Christianit3'. Where are her schools, her colleges, her asylums of mercy? Let me throw 3011 down a whole ream of foolscap paper that you may fill all of it with the names of her beneficent institutions, the colleges and the asylums, the institutions of mercy and of learning, founded by infidelity and supported alone hy infidelity-, pro nounced against God and the Christian religion and yet in favor of making the world better. Is infidelity' so poor, so starveling, so mean, so useless? Get out, 3011 miser able pauper of the universe! Infidelity standing to-day amid the suffering, groaning, dying nations and 3'ct doing absolutely nothing, save trying to im pede those who are toiling until they fall exhausted into their graves in trying to make the world better. Gather up all the work, all the merciful work, that infidelity has ever done, add it all together, and there is not so much no bility in it as in the smallest bead of that sister of ohurity who bust night went up the dark alley of the town, put a jar of jelly for an invalid appetite on broken stand, nnd then knelt on tho bare floor, praying the mercy of Christ on the ilying soul. Infidelity scrapes no lint for tho wounded, bakes no bread for tho hungr3, shakes up no pillow for tho sick, rouses no comfort for the bereft, gilds no grave for the dead. While Christ, our Christ, our wounded Christ, our risen Christ, the Christ of this old fashioned Hible blessed be I lis glorious name forever! our Christ stands this hour pointing to the hospital, or to tho asylum, sa3Ing: "I was sick and ye gave me n couch, I was lame and 30 gave mo a crutch, I was blind and 3c physicianeil 1113' eyesight, I was orphaned and 30 mothered my soul, I was lost on the mountains and 30 brought me home; inasmuch as 3-c did it to one of the least of these, 3e did it to me." Hut I thank God that this plague of infidelity will be stayed. Many of those who hear me now b3 tho Holy Ghost upon their hearts will cease to be disciples, and the day will arrive when all nations will accept the Script ures. The Hook is going to keep right on until the fires of the last day arc kindled. Some of them will begin on one side nnd some on the other side of the old Hook. Thin will not find a bundle of loose manuscripts, easily con sumed like tinder thrown into tho fire. When the fires of the last day aro kindled, some will burn on this side, from Genesis toward Revelation, and others will burn on this side, from Rev elation toward Genesis, and in all their way they will not find a single chapter or a single verse out of place. That will be the first time we can nfford to do without the Hible, What will be the use of the book of Genesis descriptive of how the world was made, when the world is destroyed? What will be the use of th? prophesies when they are all fulfilled? What will le the use of the evangelistic or Pauline description of Jesus Christ when we see Him face to face? What will be the use of His photograph when we have met Him in glory? What will be the use of the Hook of Revelation, standing as you will with your foot on the glassy sea, and your forehead chaplcted with eter nal coronation, amid the amethystine and twelve-gated glories of Heaven? The emerald dashing its green against the beryl, and the beryl dashing its blue against the sapphire, and the sapphire throwing its light on the jacinth, and the jacinth dashing its fire against the chrysoprassus, and you and I standing in the glories of ten thousand sunsets. TTppT Kthlc. A newspaper gains neither character nor influence by abandoning good man ners. It may indeed make itself dis agreeable and annoying, and so silence opposition, as a polecat may effectually close the wood path which yon had de signed to take. It may be feared, and in the same way as that animal feared and despised. But this effect must not be confounded with newspaper power and influence. It is exceedingly annoy ing, undoubtedly, to be placarded all over town as a liar or a donkey, a hypo crite or a sneak-thieL But although the effect is moat unpleasant, very little ability is required to produce it. A little paper and printing, a little paste1 a great deal of malice and a host of bHl-stickers are all that are needed aad even the pecuniary coat Ls not large. The effect is produced, bat It docs not show ability or force or influence upon the part of its producer. Gcorgt William Curtis, in Harper's M.qjprTv. FARM AND GARDEN. A BIT OF CRITICISM. ftrrticeable and Simple TrtlU for Wack Ixrry Vine. I would like to criticise Mr. E. P. Powell's notes on raspberries and blackberries, particularly his method of trellising, which Ls to run a wire 4K feet from the ground, supported by stakes at intervals of 20 feet, topping the canes at a height of six fret. In my opinion mine is a far better and simpler method. My plan is to take good fence posts five feet in length, wt one at each end of a row, 3' feet in the ground, leaving 'JO inches above grouud I use No. 12 galvanized wire and draw it as tightly as possible However long the rows may le, a post set firmly at each end is suflielent- After the canes ure tied to the wire they form a perfect support, and there no stakes in the way of the hoe. I top my canes at throe feot. just the right height to be handy for the pickers. By running the wires 20 inches from the ground they pass Ife n v-V 't & TI'KM.IA FOlt W.ACKIIRUKY VINES. below the branches so that it is xnnch more convenient to tie them, and less twine is required, while the tops are in liottor sha'ie for picking. I remove the old canes as soon as tho fruit Ls off, and tie the new ones to the wire to prevent their being twisted off by the wind. I am well aware that a large number of fruit growers dispense with stakes or wires; but 'after having used both for three years, I regard them as indispensable, if one wants the crop to be the liesL I would not ml vise anyone to use saw dust as a mulch for anything, as its effects on the soil are not ilcsirab'c, and it also makes an excellent breeding place for injurious insects. To keep the soil moist, cool and rich each winter I cover a space aliout two feet wide along the rows with manure, and start the cultivator as soon in the spring as the soil is in fit condition, and continue it use until August Blaeklorrios re quire the same treatment if one wants to be sure of a gixxl crop During the drought at fruiting time in the past season, I noticed that the neglected berries on the wild as well as the tamo bushes were drying up. while mine were ripening nicely and in large quan tities. Mr. Powell says: "Set this lcrry in your lowest land;" that would bo bad advice for growers in Ohio, for instance, on account of the liability of the vines to winter-kill. I say, set them on the highest laud, and thus avoid this danger to a considerable ex tent E. A. Trout, in Rural New Yorker. GOOD FARM FENCE. One That 'oni!ilin- KtrrnKtli. Ni'iitDCM unit Ciiiil-tr rtirtuliM'ljr. Below I give a description of what I believe to lie one of the lst general purpose farm fences, as it combines strength, durability, neatness, cheai ness and complete portability. It also can be made either in the field on the posts or in the shop or barn. For common farm fence I would make it four feet high, or fur those who wish a cheap jxniltry fence I would make it. six feet high. The cost would be alout as follows in this section of country: it. ilolctrt. ,v-"4 1".. 1 ft- "', ' .1 traniN .single No. ISwIrc "" Two-pnlnteil tacks to staple over wires Ui Post "4 In. Iron. 4 It. Iouk. per roil if. Safj wire, per nsl "' Total cost per rod "'' The posts I would put about twenty feet apart Use only three strands of single wire and weave the pickets in and staple over every wire. The fence is to Ik- made in lengths of live or ten rods, as would be most con venient, unless it is wished as a per manent fence, when it can bo made in one continuous length. The sag wire is only to be stapled to about live pickets near their lower ends and the center carried up and hung over the top of osts. It should be short enough to raise the center of stretch between "Mists uln-tit two inches. The fence is fastened to posts by a loop of wire wrapped on main wires which the -post passes through. The post should extend a little alnivo the center wire and should be driven inUi the ground aliout eighteen inches. As a poultry fence it will cost about five cents per nnl less than as a stock fence. There is no patent on this fence, so any farmer can take advantage of this and get a good fence cheap. Clarence Walter, in Farm, Field and Stockman. FARM GATE LATCh. Ono That Can KaHr lto Aildnl to tlio Cite Now In IV, A home-made latch for farm gates, one that will never get out ot order, is easily made and can be added to most gates now being used, is worth having, especially if its coustruction tikes but a few minutes and its operation is auto matic and sure. Alwiut one foot from the end of the gate nail a cleat on each side, so the latch can slide between these and on the upper edge of a IoanL Next cut off a two and one-half foot piece of furring and slide it in for a latch. Drive a light staple in its upper edge and another in the top tHKird and con nect the two by a wa&tc piec of bale wire, raising the inner end of the latch an Inch or two. The upper staple must be placed at least one foot nearer the end of the gate than its mate in the latch. Then when the latch is forced toward the gate's hinges its inner c d Ls lifted and its ourn weight forces it back into position. A smooth slot of sufficient size must be cut in the post to receive the latch. 1L S. Eden, inN. E. Homestead. Jailcroeat In the Dulry. One peculiarity of cows must be borne ia mind by the dairyman. A cow put on short rations immediately falls Ou in quantitv of milk and is not so easily brought back to a full flow again, but j it takes a long course of regular feeding tobnng her to her best quality and quantity. Poor feeders often milk cows for years without dreaming what they are capable of. either in quantity or quality. To develop the normal, or best possible production, requires 1 months and sometime rears of careful feeding on the food best adapted for milk and hutter. This is where care and judgment pay in the dairy. N. W- Z - t-1" ' r tibs-dff Agncultcri THE SELFISH HUSBAND. Tffhea Me I Sick He l!eeonie ft Veritable Tjrant. A thoroughly selfish man U a nui sance under any circumstances, but as an invalid he is intolerable. Daring his convalescence woe to his wife, if he ha one His couch or easy chair Ls as a throne, from which he die tiles to his household as an absolute monarch to hLs serfs. No consideration has he for their tired muv-les. their brains dated for lack of sleep, their spirits faint and . tveary with fruitless eudeavors tosootno his causeless irritation. He pots him self, ho commLseratcihU own condition, he sighs as he surveys his attenuated visage in the looking-glass; but not a jot of sympathy, not a grateful word lias he for tho wasted watchers to whow nursing he one hb life, whose love, stronger than death, has rescued him from the crip of tho Destroyer. Is such a creature worthy of the ten der care ho thus undervalue- and con temns? Well, that is a family question which must be loft to the decision of j tho self -worshiper's noble half, and it Ls not difficult to gucv how she will de cide Somehow or other your exactiug. pitiless men generally marry gentle, patient, loving women, and tho amount of contumelv and ingratitude which a gentle, patient, loving wife will bear uncomplaining3 from a "brute of a husband" Ls beyond all computation. Byron makes his barbaric hero Mazcppa say that "time at last sets all things even; but we suspect that it will re quire a goodly jxirtion of eternity to "even up" all things with a selfish hus band. N. Y. ledger. I'nrraxiiinl'lr. A father who is fond of telling his lit tle son aliout tho famous men of old time, was talking the other day aliout one of his favorite heroes, Philip of Macedon. "I think he should have been called 'Philip the Groat"' he said. Just at that moment Aunt Sally, the colored servant came in. Sho caught the last three words. "Fill up de grate?" she cried. "Why, I'm Jos' put a hod o' coal on!" Youth's Companion. I.t-tuno Colornl Tropic, If they belong to the Caucasian race, havo jaundiced livers. But when HoteUor' Stoiuuch Hitters is used the bile sec!' Its natural channel, and tho skin resumes a ticalUiv tint, Naunea, nick headaches, fur utKin the Unjue, constipation ami pain in the niflon or tho liver, also disapjiear when it is used. Malaria, kidney troubles, rheuma tism and dyspepsia succumb to the Hitters. J)iitTi.r.iJii "Rwil entate Is tho only In vestment, ufter all. that u man can deiH-tid upon." Sotlleluh Tlmt'i so, old man. I've just botiKhtu lot In the cemetery." Wasu lUKtoti Knir. lotnit in Soiitlieni IlllnoU. Ouo hundred and lift., thousand acre-, of fered for sale by tbu Illinois Central It It Co. at an average prlco of .'"" jut acre, adapted to fruit growing or general funn ing puriHisOH; s'Mvinlly adapted alM'to ruts )ug of sheep For particular address K P Ski-.M. I .and Commissioner, 7S Michigan Ave, Chicago. In Ihitaw, Ala., lut week teu girl bublcs were born, while u hoy baby has not been loni In the town In two month. This cnu-ion the islitor of the local paper to 111 iilro: "Whither an- uoilrlftli.gf" Now noon digestion wait on appetite, nnd health on both " This natural and han pv condition of thoiimiil hud ImkI.v is brought alxiut bv the timely use of Prickly Ash Hit torn. While not n'bovorago in any eiie, It possesses tho wonderful faculty of renewing to tho debilitated system all tho elements required to rebuild and innke strong. If vou are troubled with a headache, diseased liver, kidneys or bowels, give it a trial, it will not fall you. sJtiiiki: when tbo iron Ih hot," said the servant girl who made her demand for more wages on Ironing duy. Pittsburgh Post, Sir .VnrW. Frrr. will lo sent by Crngin & Co , I'hilnda , P.i.,to any one in the V S. or Canada. Hstagtj paid, ukii receipt, of ".Ti Dobbins' Electric Soup wrap-rs. Ki) list of novels tin ctrculars around each bar. Tun Interest you talto In another man's luiiiiii'sn ! never prolUablo. Atchison tilobe. Poou little child I Kho don't look welt. Sho don't eat well. Papa, she needs a box of Dr. Hull's Worm Destroyers. Tin; average man would sooner pay dues at a gvnuslutn than saw his own wood for exercise N. O. Picayune. Hii.ioitssks", dizzlnesR, naif-ci, headache, aro relieved by small doses of Carter's bit tie Liver Pills. Tin: spottisl veil 5jit freckled fsiecs to u dot N. Y. Picayune THE GENERAL MARKETS. KA.VSAH CITY. April IX CATTLE Phlpplnx slier.. J 3 51 it S sS ItutrlicrV htfcru . 8 ) it 4 70 Nuttvorowjj J ) it C IICK'S Oood to choico heavy E 25 U 5 00 WUEAT No. 2 red W it 1 00 No. 2 liunl W'tc '.'Hi COKN No. 2 iVUVc rc OATS No. 2 24f 6i KYK No. 2 S8 w W 'LOllt rntcnt. per sack. ... 7 t 2 25 Fancy- 7 10 u 2 IJ HAY llsilwl 100) tt 15 (W UUlTKIt Cholcw creamery.. 31 CIIL'K.SK Full cremu l-Kt' 1" KUGS Choice. 11 H 11 DACON Ham SU Wj Shoulders i Si r. cluci. .... .. tf ?tf &... I.. ....................... ... V)v FOTATOES- 1 00 W 1 W FT. MMi'Ia, CATTLK Shipping ntcora.... 10) COO I'utclier utecrj... I m ft 4 75 IKW.S I'ncWIng I in a J 15 SHEEP Fair to choice 15 O fi 3. FLOt'lt Cholco 2". w 4 60 WHEAT No. 2 red. It! 4 1 OJtj 0Olt.N'-Ko.J - f.S4' fttj OATS No. 2 Lii9 U ill r"""" f 4 . rS9 w (Si HLTTEU Creamery 32 31 I-OUK 12 13 m 12 VI CHICAGO. CATTLE ShlpptmrMrrs.... 4 0) ft 6 00 jjOT.S Packing and hippln? 4 0) a I 15 SHEEP Fair to chotco - 4 75 4 CM FIjOCIJ Winter wheat 4 40 w in WHEAT No. 2rwi 1 0H4 4 1 OU COUN No. 2 , C7 X C7t OATS No. 2 - 14 U4 KYE No. 2 S5iv W llUTTEIS Creamery 2 w Ji POllK 12 55 v 12 17 j NEW YOlttC rwTTLE fommon in prima. 4 SO 0 C 1) (x;s Jfxxi to chofc". tS3 u 5(0 FIjOCU 7ood tocholco ... 4 10 w IU WHEAT No. 2 red.. 1 17Uw J SM COKN No. 2. - 7'w 7U O.Vn? Western mixed........ t7 10 3 HLTTEU Crt-aincry ........ . 21 w (5 I-UUK - 12 SO m II U3 StJacoBsOil cures r ? al1 ACHES Promptly Many Witnesses. ISMIUiiilUlirirUIMflrlwof SV.TM ruk. Wkrvr CTkMto m4 rntr, BI 'Hwnn mr Liver JkU 9 vmll. Ukry x m sraS tHiMlaj Buitrt. la9 trial wtH vtec T tk tkla la tsltk-rraij mmClclmm. Tvta trTmruimthmmmwtmtlmnthKirwncwnmmH GtOms TifUmm Pommds. "mmmT9mm.manmTmtCTWHr-w-9jmm. m, aia,J 14 fbra tike tbrvt rr4f I -er trtrA. lfikatlkSUaBerrtktlBtl. niT4ltlBc. Iaaair4lcraCaa7Tkl4 efmmmi kefirr ! m mrm4mb. mm ka sla4 mtla mfmmH tavlk.' "ST. C. SCM CLTZC C-laakMrn. k. C Tntt's Liver Pills1 QVE STfcOrGTH AJH) RAM sKSCLE. j trncrra. It i very Important In lhl ? of val material proerroi that a rrnvly li pa. jar to thn ta.U ami to tho rje, eUly taken, acceptable to tho stomach and lienllhv in It nature ami effect. Poclnjr U-.i qualities. Svrup of Kig i the one porfevt Uxatlvo and raot gvatlo dluroilc known. Kmrt -MIo you kcow of an? thine roorw dellantlul thou a real truo l.wrrl" Maud -Yc." Ethel -What I" M-ud-4Tnoof tbcra." Hn-r'" TUt&r Yhex tho fair kln I dSjflgured with ugly eruptions, when fcll cartitiuclr and sore ma Wo life tutvrabl when the wbolo Xcm feW weak and feeble, and mere tu intencc is painful, do not hrtlato butcotn racacc at onco a uc of Dr John Hull Sac ftapardla. It will drive out all blood lia. purity aud make ou well and si-Mag. A Borux woman ha tevn gfaatcd a patent on a kUxkiug mipimrtrr which an ex- ! port mjb will upiTt ltotnu woman by a royalty for gju many j car. Cocon, flu in. etna.. Sokk TiiKotT. etc , , quickly relieved by Huown IU'mul TfUN-iic. A sitnplo and effectual rxuncdj, !u:rlor to all other article for tho saaio 1 purjiuxj. .Wil wtu'y 1 Utxt-t. It ! more natural to a unin t U In U'sl In the tnornlu; anJ wish he wa rich taau . It U to Ret Up and earn a doUur. AlchHan J!oN - IlAVr.no equal a a prompt and jMtivo euro for sick headache, bih.usness. cunU , nation, l-aln in the side, and all liver tnu- hies. Carters UttJc Liver Pills. Try thorn. You can tell which billiard player U ikv. mg tho poorest game by the frequency wiUi which ho chalks his cul Huston Trau tcript. Httx's Honey of Horehound und Tar re lieves whooping cough. Pike's Tootliacho Drops Curvin onemlunte Tin: dude's mission ! to np the founda- ttotis of society Hvtii Courier. . lluosriirm Is cured by fnsjuont Miiall doses of Puki's Cure lor Consumption A Cixcinxati wife recently put machine oil In her oaltn Instead of lemon extract. L BEWARE Cheap imitations should be avoided. S. S. S. WILL CURE. Uf y daughter had Eczema, which for l.ni TKntYtiul Ml., aVSll siclan A ho wns daily icrowinp; Take n0 worse, I quit nil other treatment nnd commenced uainir S. S. 8. Before ' Other. finishing tho second bottle tho scaly -v' -.--- - -incrustations had nearly dimtpponrod. I continued using S. S. 8. until sho wits tmtiroly cured. I wnited boforo reporting tho case to soo if tho euro w;t r.urmu nont. Being satisfied that sho Is freed from tho an noying disease for all timo to come, I send you this. V. VAUOHN, Sandy Bottom, Va. They never cure and are often dangerous. BOOKS ON BLOOD AND THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ca. irt defies vSL4srtvm? &"Bn rB If-the old SLJ SAP0LI0 SWnov royally ihselj-: Ty ttinyournexh house-cle&ning: Grocers keep ih DO YOU LIVE IN GREASE? As a truo patriot and citizen you t-hould naturalize younwlf by using tho best inventions of tho day for removing tmch a ch.irgo. 1 To livo in Grease is uttorly unnecessary when SAPOIdO is sold ill all tho stores, and alxmshos J'mmmiKim I ,'M.J Li 'i i"i,ii2iV 'A IH a TSBL Hi SBBBBji ' 1 1 ff wi ' in JJiHHI VtJ - klMJ5 IVERS & POND PIANO CO., 'lllP For th W.H J,M. imA tl .W HTM ANO BROADWAY. - . "7rl? m VulZZ' t Tk-i t-ui? itnc-r cmi i mi mn crimTiriR M1NNIR imu mm ifx viuJ Oi..'--. wtiii Mm .! nnr r -u--.. 'i lki r...it.Jo trm. r f.rik.f i.(f.iu. f.'J 04i. ;ffi;X,M i" Brt Conch MMIrfnn. Ctm -rlifn all iUi faiLi. toato. Clilln.-ii take It without objrctwm. l-j lnnrjrlu. llk?PrM"alil--lNlMMs?l VIRGINIA "THE BONANZA OF THE FUTURE." Tfcf Cuing Iron, Agricultural and Slues-Raising District OTFTIIE ITZtlThZiy KTATEH. Tor I;i. tfrrr3- Bock. Pashltta. & d- aiptiT of ti j&darfal al&rk" ted inrrtcvli- htkI rosrccf t& &-!. t-jr to acat ef tb ' KOBTOuc a jrnntM jlaxxoas. 200 ArkbUvta Stmt. Botoa: 303 Srowtvar. r Term I 33 Pfrjsr:raU A. , irkblBta. IX C.:orta GwmX OS. OAVOXe. VA. ixxTXil run mr v 1 Mm 1 PLEASE IEAI-IT NAT IITEICST T8B ! DR. OWKlff'S ELECTRIC BELT Cures Ot9s Without dleirt. fU I.OOO TU7IMIAU tfCtm. TBI till XtlM IlTV.fl 3,m. I If? f....W m kfw .4 Hmim i-Ji5SS'".r. r,,rt,.a', a x T - M JlUhlIAi3lll 1 1 in u nui b. win . mtmt. Ikylmn I .ik. W.. r mg fcU. r-a-. ZXXCTKIC IStOZXS. Tn tl. Try tUn. W'.ii'nnio. - - - c - ,,n .ni enrrs xxxcrric rtvr im!a ce 'J WO LbMlnf. T. LQuik ma. LBSOIIS IN -- BUSINESS Sl.00 rrnx xcTOtffrrs axo. ca, rirra-isa. caso. -aBrx yon oJi. I. innruTjf-ir' -.t a Bib I ULC rua.T& lx-.- IW 0 JtCOXO-HAKO. St.Uull.Mo. f K 4lfVLBKBSS!dSSSrkf.. PaTv ' ut ttT. -I ':'! STaS&SBj75kBSjECr'' k-1 " S-BJBSSsvaSTflB-f nmrnittu. MIWTT. Vzip r '" - " 'f " 100 p m "W JKt f m 4rV JlV-v trtib Js2?c1Rj3 . I " '.:.., . J-'tjJitQti'i j'tieorite fail, centers in tint famou, fascina tini game lawn tcr.ni.. But the.ru aru women who cannot cursigu in ny pastime. They arv delicate, feeblo ami easily exhausted. They are sutTcrenJ from wt.-aTknt-s.iea anil "disorders peculiar to female, which aro accompanied by sallow complexion., expresaionlesd eyes and bajard looks. For overworked, "worn -out," " run - down," debilitated teachers milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses, " shop-girls,' housekeepers, nunnnj mothers, and feeblo women gen erally. Dr. Pierce's Favorite l'rt Mrip'tion is tho greatest earthly boon, being uncnttaled as an appe tizing cordial ami restorative tont It's tho only medicine for women, sold by druggists, under n Xstti''a guarantee from the makers, of sat isfaction in every ease, or money re funded. This guarantee has lecu faithfully carried out for years. OF TffEft- There is only one a case of chronic ovor live your f tKit t.kt r)i o. o &. SKIN DISEASES FKEE. -"1v 9 '-3ftTsTBh-. tne kind': proverb be true. is greener Hwi grease ana uiru FYOU WMTI PIANO JS'S-d Si; 100-page CATALOGUE FREE, glvlntr IhI4 InforitioUon W mtha It ,r to.lrol v.U. UkWHERCVCR VOO LIVC. Our Jlf Iftll Hff. IIIO.I tMkJMJTilUW IJf IV . WW . A. IV 4 CIJV8M I-IAKUH. W Easy I'ayraenls. WK TAKK OLD PIANOS in Exchange, EVEN THOIJ01I YOU LIVCTWO TIIOVA- MII.ICS AWAY ri MU.fwtl- n er Iljo to ! rt irm1 " u AT OUM KX1K VOIt IIAIX.WAY KKEIOIITM IIOTH WAYS. 1S3 TREMOMT STREET. BOSTON. MASS. THE KANSAS CITY MEDICALS SURGICAL SANITARIUM Trlmfit at all Chranlc ani Surflcal Disaasas. 'k.iJMOlmU.'1'nmUu'ot i. . w ti i..k..lj ltlll.lMlU. . tfl ," .!xJ I. MM i4 .i'k .". ttf I- -- ... .. .. 4WmHi ih !.. l.f.p.i. .,-.... fc. iw ... . iirroKK TI- l k IIUMH . i.- w.iii r m' rt wv t k-, iwl .f' fc Mk IwU M.w Twi. rtU.f' in 3. Xr .l.frk. I IM TVI IrwW If rf4 tit fntt M1 iid I..M..M, arr t m t J.4 DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. WH nl.Hr fW.fl "t I. U kvkf . ! . " f.I -.f - f-jf f f I. t 5 DIStAStS Or THE ITt AND tAH THCATIO IM rni r, . ..3 '. - ' ' DD. C. M. CDE. prOIOOni. Broadway. KANSAS CITY, MO ncumrocndcil lrr Thpifrwoj. l'liraxant anl -Mrrrrt!ilo W tbo LIVE STOCK CUTS. , wtn - vt LIVE STOCI CUTS or s rUi-r Csi kbwwa to !. n or .tc-m pwVj -?fJee Sot A. N. KCLLOCC NEWSRAREK CO.. tbW t4Tr. Dtrojrf at Ww TJttntr. KAXA tirr, m. YOU FULL ft SrT " wrl v4 tv . tJkkt ril f mfrlr mm MIMTUrt.l It t rt r SA 4T- r. XlMf 2kTrVW.fr rUU:..-tlw. t5 tlrmMm, y. . 1CW TOSISl. . $500 REWARD wfl tt ?& to tfae vxSL t mn altT 6 TON WAGON SCALE, S0 kii-ait.iftri-1 aeau fee jmrScsixr, hi t'l wi oeif Inn if Eigimitt, Blsustn, If. 2806 lbs TSFO OI.C'fc. WlMtl k2?ill9,-0lmtl.'H--Tmi . m. ZtVKX C, Cka. . asssssssaiaassasM M aBBBBBBmQaV VIl .aaaaTBTrSai SSaaXa GZM-7Kmi-'. assaKBsajrX- .ZiZiXl?tZ.t1mm9mmm. The Soap that Cleans Most IS L en ox. W. L. DOUCLAS S3 SHOE CKMTLCMKN. IC1."! II.mJ.w.4, . c (3 & Mtl w r . t - s,, . 9 Jt ll4..4 w.li. 4 fj , . ..t W ri -- i . O t 1 . W li t. t-tj o .1 O I ,s ' O "" I'.lfcr. . afc.. W ... If df-t t- O miBiM . . O ' '!-. '- k... -.l ". te-l O Ik .!. ,.. . AM IhMavi W . I .J l... I. .r- A .irnt 1 ..-.. ; iiim rt k ! Uii.v - ! ; MM .-! & t.l.ta Ik. .. t Ai( (- -L rf - -t 4 .T -H mwk . t. M. If .!.. ..4 ., ... ..m.1 .-.ytj r MM.tl'cll I. .. . n4 4..n.w )4r k ..l.. t ' ''fMVt I. IMIl 1)1. . Itrkl. V.m. ttft t . J. ,).,,., ...It-.aii I OOLD MKDAU TAKIM 10711 W. HVKKK A CO. Breakfast Cocoa f. . . . KlK. . ....I . i lv i.,i( m i4. rtl.Mlrlv ..m.I it KlHMr. Xo Ctrwtrats a v bJ t fr. .ftw 11 ). 90 14 iA K.i.. H . .,K -t I -mm ti I'll It H'.llk. lfr.t or .. -I I. liwnrl. Ut 11 I tt. nil. .1. imltmf ! ,f )t. Amttm III. 1 f. .tr.MfkIM. I'l ., t ! l.kl MlfJ !.- k.'W . tav ) k. f ff j1 r k. Ih l.lih kI4 kj r.i fjkf W BAKEIt&CO.Dorche.tcr.MrtM. VIWU 'T-tCBt Latist Stylts -4 L'Art D La Mode. r ni.isrLATs. tit. mr uiirr rtsM a m ukk llUWK r t - r 1 MwWl M J kloU-l- l-.kll.k-.r, a .. ik . lk FURNITURE Cirptts. Sfovis. EtCtf On Easy Payth! LOW F'RICES. IMMIH3E STOCK, ' inrnAt TERMS i. C. WURMSER I CO.'S great itallmenthouse, KANSAS CITY, WO. If ilOI t;i Cn p;-,-w L1 EWIS' 98 LYE rowucicKS tnu rttrvuzn r r' r- W tuakt V " I' f t I ,r"-v.i. t Jitl vj'"v - 1 1 I I li ll f r Hi"fijf Ht '" in' ft i Jrt. vrU lug m ill J0i. tr5". ' PEHSA. SALT KT0 CO., Ar-- nia.. 'a- OUR SPRING AND AUMMI CATALOGUE Y. r t t f r f 9 t tUm,rt W m4 'SkABsrtfl lkB.. !. Tfrj Ovl. ifr r "'. H- "; !- (r.il tun rirl ,-. L.mrRjBs. Th "Trm cn fyimmx. -. Ms Bat 1sstjps mmm WSH BRK M trm wrM4. iTWi-R-J wt I tr Hmmnm-m Sn I- t i. ('. U) larrbge IV M)'-M'tlnl " ...4 k " jv- I . kr v f k4 kr - '" k ifir . w'jM --' ' ' ftttfr" . C BABT CAHSIACt CO., . ttrntm . Sum t. Sf. w . m.t r a-v -h "up im mm m-f - 4vmM&Mki' &rwt if iBsSitcji. 1 NOTICE r -"-- - : .. M tfAvV AirroH f . '-- THCGCNUINC Iwi aiHARTSHORH HVEI??I BLUES TaitlriM7e X rot: a us, t r- jr re kt -- . - w-w mtr-mi am .Mhj m w r Drtfp.DaiMinrK-n!a1mc ' wHT jvr tatiffimF&SSX c. " 60LDEW MEMOBlESriTrrj . ta '"- t m -mtt mst"" . A. W. C O. 33. .Ei. fj-J, mm k -mritjmW t VflB-tV $-Jrtjf H m an LM 1 III XM M Midi hu W cBs &$ &5Ml - m -p mrm, " r f M ZmX.i t-Wt.r. -"rr 111