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A NATION'S DANGERS. Dr. Talmage. Eloquently Portrays the Country's Destiny. Mnaopolf' the Overshndowlnsr Carse ' ( Oar Land-Nlhlllsm aa Evil Power Inaaellty Source of WMkmi, Copyright, 1899, by Louis Klopsch. Washington, May 28. In this discourse Dr. Talmage speaks of some of the perils that threaten our American institutions, and points out the path of safety; text, Isaiah 62:4: "Thy land shall be married." As the greater includes the less, so does the circle of future joy around our entire world include the epicycle of our own republic. Bold, exhilarant, unique, Divine Imugery of the text. At the close of a week in which for four days our national capital was a pageant and all that grand review and bannered proces sion and nutionul anthems could do, celebrated peace, it may not be inapt to anticipate the time when the Prince of Peace and the heir of universal domin ion shall take possession of this nation, and "thy land shall be married." i In discussing the final destiny of this nation It makes all the difference In the world whether we are on the wny to a lunenrl or a wedding. The Bible leaves no doubt on this subject. In pulpits and on platforms and In places of pub lic concourse I hear so many of the muffled drums of evil prophecy sound ed, as though we were on the way to na tional Interment, and besides Thebes and Babylon and Tyre in the cemetery of dead nations pur republic was to be entombed, that I wish you to under stand it is not to be obsequies, but nup tials; not mausoleums, but carpeted altar; not cypress, but orange blos soms; not requiem, but wedding march ; lor "thy land shall be married." I propose to name some of the suitors who are claiming the hand of this re public. This land is so fair, so beauti ful, so affluent that it haBmony suitors, and it will defend much upon your ad vice whether this or that shall be pc eepted or rejected. In the first place, I remark: There is a greedy, all-grasping monster who comes in as suitor seeking the hand of this republic, and that monster is known by the name of monopoly. His scepter is made out of the rail track and the wire of teleg raphy. He does everything for his own advantage and for the robbery of the people. Things went on from bad to worse until in the three legislatures of New York, New Jersey and Pennsyl vania for a long time monopoly decided everything. If monopoly favor a law, it passes; if monopoly oppose a law, it is rejected. Monopoly stands in the railroad depot putting into his pockets In one year $200,000,000 In excess of all reasonableehnrgesfor services. Monop oly holds in his one hand the steam jwwer of locomotion and in the other the electricity of swift communication. Monopoly has the republican party in one pocket and the democratic party i . i , i i , 1 1 i . .1 .1 in inn oiner pocnex. jmmupuiy ucciura nominations and elections city elec tions, state elections, national elec tions. With bribes he secures the votes of legislators, giving them free passes, giving appointments to needy rela tives to lucrative positions, employing them as attorneys if they are lawyers, tarrying their goods 15 per cent, less if they are merchants, and if he find a case very stubborn as well as very important puts down before him the hard cash of bribery. But mbnopoly is not so easily caught now as when during the term of Mr. Buchanan the legislative committee in one ftt our states explored and exposed the manner in which a certain railway company had obtained n donation of public land. It was found that 13 of the senators of that state received $175, 300 among them, 60 members of the lower house of that state received be tween $5,000 and $10,000 each, the gov ernor of that state received $30,000, his clerk received $5,000, the lieutenant governor received $10,000, all the clerks of the legislature received $5,000 each, while $50,000 was divided among the lobby agents. That thing on a larger or smaller scale is all the time going on In some of the states of the union, but It Is not so blundering as it used to be, and therefore not so easily exposed or arrested. I tell you that the overshad owing curse of the United States to day is monopoly. He puts his hand upon every bushel of wheat, upon every sack of salt, upon every ton of coal, and every man, woman and child in the United Stales feels the touch of that moneyed despotism. I rejoice that in 84 states of the union already anti-monopoly leagues have been established. God speed them in the work of libera tion. 1 have nothing to say against capi talists; a man has a right to all the money he can make honestly. I have nothing to sny against corporations as such; without them no great enter prise would be possible, but what I do say is that the Bame principles are to be applied to capitalists and to cor porations that ara applied to the poor est man and the plainest laborer. What is wrong for me Is wrong for great cor porations. If I take from you your property without any adequate com pensation lama thief, and if a railway damages the property of the people without making any adequate compen sation that is gigantic theft, yhnt is wrong on a small scale is wrong on a large scale. Monopoly in England lias gronnd hundreds of thousands of her best people Into semlstarvntion, and In Ireland has driven multitudinous tenants almost to madness, and in the United fitutes proposes to take the wealth of 60,000,000 or 70,000,000 of peo ple and put it in a few silken wallets. Monopoly, brazen-faced, iron-fingered, vulture-hearted monopoly, of fers his hand to this republic. He stretches it out over the lakes and tip the great railroads and over the tele graph poles of the continent and says: "Here are my heart and hand. Be mine forever." Let the millions of the people north, south, east and west forbid the banns of that marriage, forbid them nt the ballot box, forbid them on the plat form, forbid them by great organiza tions, forbid them by the overwhelming sentiment of an outraged nation, forbid them by the protest of the church of God, forbid them by prayer to hlgR Heaven. That Herod shall not have Ihis Abigail. It shall not be to all-de-toiu-lng monopoly that this land is to bs married. .. . Another suitor claiming the hand of this republic is nihilism. He owns nothing but a knife for uni versal cutthroatery and a nitroglycerin bomb for universal explosion. He be lieves in no God, no government, no Heaven and no hell except what he can make on earth. He slew the czar of Kussia, keeps many a king practically Imprisoned, killed Abrahora Lincolu, would put to death every king and pres ident on earth., and, if he had the power, would climb up until he could drive the God of Heaven from His throne ond take it himself, the universal butcher. In France, it is called communism; in the United States it is called anarchism; in Russia It is called nihilism, but that last is the most graphic and descriptive term. It means complete and eternal smash-up. It would make the holding of property a crime, and it would drive a dugger through your heart and put a torch to your dwelling and turn over this whole land into the possession of theft and lust and rapine and murder. Where does this monster live? In all the towns and cities of this land. It of fers its hand to this fair republic. It proposes to tear to pieces the ballot box, the legislative hall, the congres sional assembly. It would take this land and divide it up, or, rather, di vide it down. It would give as much to the idler as to the worker, to the bad as to the good. Nihilism! This pan ther, having prowled across other lunds, has set its paw on our soil, and it is only waiting for the time in which to spring upon its prey. It was nihilism that burned the' railroad property nt Pittsburgh during the great riots; it was nihilism that slew black people in our northern cities during the war; it was nihilism that mauled to death the Chinese Immigrants years ago; it is ni hilism that glares out of the windows of the drunkeries upon sober people as they go by. Ah, its power has never yet been tested. I pray God its power may never be fully tested. It would, if it had the power, leave every church, chapel, cathedral, schoolhouse and col lege in ashes. Let me say it is the worst enemy of the laboring classes in any country. The honest ery for reform lifted by op pressed lulioring men is drowned out by the vociferation for anarchy. The criminals and the vagabonds who range through our cities talking about their rights, when their first right is the pen itentiaryif they could be hushed up, and the downtrodden laboring men of this country could be heard, there would be more bread for hungry chil dren. In this land riot nnd bloodshed' never gained any wages for the people or gathered up arty prosperity. In this land the best weapon is not the club, not the sliillnlnh, not firearms, but the ballot. Let not our oppressed liiboring men be beguiled to coming under the bloody banner of nihilism. It will make your taxes heavier, your wages smaller, your table scantier, your chil dren hungrier, your suffering greater. Yet this nihilism, with feet red of slaughter, comes forth and offers its hand for this republic. Shall the bamrs be proclaimed? If so, where shall the marriage altar be, and who will be the officiating priest, and what will be the music? That altar will have to be white with bleached skulls, the officiat ing priest must be a dripping assassin, the music must be the smothered groan of multitudinous victims', the garlands must be twisted of night shade, the fruits must be the apples of Sodom, the wine must be the blood of St. Iiartholo' mew's massacre. No! It is not to ni hilism, the sanguinary monster, that this land is to be married. Another suitor for the hand of this nation is infidelity. When the midnight ruffians despoiled the grave of A. T. Stewart in St. Mark's churchyard ev erybody was shocked; but infidelity proposes something worse than that the robbing of all the graves of Chris tendom in the hope of a resurrection. It proposes to chisel out from the tomb stones of your Christian dead the words "Asleep in Jesus" and substitute the words "Obliteration annihilation." Infidelity proposes to take the letter from the world's Father, inviting the nations to virtue and happiness, and tear it up Into fragments so small that you cannot read u word of it. It pro poses to take the consolation from the broken-hearted and the soothing pillow from the dying. Infidelity proposes to swear in the president of the United States, and the supreme court, and the governors of states, and the witnesses in the courtroom with their right hand on PnineV'Age of Iieason," or Vol taire's "Philosophy of History." It pro poses to take away from this country the book that makes the difference be tween the United States and the king dom of Dahomey, between American civilization and llornesian cannibalism'. If infidelity could destroy the Scrip tures it would in 200 years turn the civilized nations back to semibarbur Ism, and then from semibarburism into midnight savagery, until the morals of a menugerie of tigers, rattlesnakes and chimpanzees would be better than the moruls of the shipwrecked human rnce. The only impulse in the right direc tion that this world has ever had has come from the Bible. It was the moth er of Iioman law and of healthful juris prudence. That book has been the mother of all reforms and all charities mother of English magna charts and American Declaration of Independence. Benjamin Franklin, holding that holy book in his hand, Btood before an infi del club In Paris and read to them out of the prophecies of Habakkuk, and the Infidels, not knowing what book it was, declared it was the best poetry they had ever heard. That book brought George Washington down on his knees in the snow nt Valley Forge, and led the dying Prince Albert to ask some one to sing "Itock of Ages." I tell you that the worst attempted crime of the century Is the attempt to destroy this book. Yet Infidelity, loath some, Btenchftil, leprous, pestiferous, rotten monster, stretches out its hand, Ichorous with the second death, to take the hand of this republic. It stretches It. out through seductive magazines, and through lyceum lectures, and through enricaturesof religion. It asks for all that part of the continent al ready fully settled ond the two-thirds not yet occupied. It Bays: ' "(live me all east of the Mississippi, with the keys of the ehurch and with the Chris tian printing presses. Then give me Wyoming, give me Alaska, give me Montana, give me Colorado, give me all the states west of the Mississippi anil I will take those places and keep them by right of possession long before the Gos pel enn be fully intrenched. And this, suitor presses bis esse bp- palllngly. Shall the banns of that mar riage be proclaimed? "No!" say tbe home missionaries of the west, a mar. tyr band of whom the world is not worthy, toiling amid fatigues and ma laria and starvation. "No, not if we can help it. By what we and our chil dren have suffered we forbid the banns of that marriage!" "No!" say all patri otic voices. ' "Our institutions were bought nt too denr a price and were de fended nt too great a sacrifice to he so cheaply surrendered." "No!" says the God of Bunker Hill nnd Independence hall and Gettysburg. "I did not start this nation for such a farce." "No!" cry 10,000 voices. "To Infidelity this land shall not be married!" But there is another suitor that pre sents his claim for the hand of this re public. He is mentioned in the'verse following my text where It says: "As thebridegroomrejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee." It is not my figure. It Is the figure of the Bible. Christ is so desirous to have this world love Him that He stops at no hu miliation of simile. He compares His grace to spittle on the eyes of the blind man. He compares Himself to a hen gathering the chickens, and in my text He compares Himself to a suitor beg ging a hand In marriage. Does this Christ, the King, deserve this land? Be-, hold Pilnte's hall and the insulting ex pectoration on the fnce of Christ. Be- Jiold the Calvarean massacre and the awful hemorrhage of five wounds. Ja cob served 14 years for Ituchel, but Christ, my Lord, the King, suffered in torture 33 years to win the love of this world. As often princesses at their very birth are pledged in treaty of marriage to princes or kings of earth, so this na tion at its birth was pledged to Christ for Divine marriage. Before Columbus and his 120 men em barked on the Santa Maria, the Pints and tbe Nina for their wonderful voy age, what was the last thing they did? They sat down and took tbe holy sac rament of the Lord Jesus Christ. After they caught the first sight of this coun try and the gun of one ship had an nounced it to tbe other vessels that lund had been discovered, what was the song that went up from all the three decks? "Gloria in Excelsis." After Columbus and his 120 men had stepped from the ship's deck to the solid ground, whut did they do? They all knelt and con secrated the new world to God. Whut did the Huguenots do after they lunded in the Carolinus? What did the Hol land refugees do after they landed in New York? What did the pilgrim fathers do after they landed iu New England? With bended knee and up lifted face and Heaven besieging prayer, they took possession of this continent for God. How was the first American congress opened? By prayer, in the name of Jesus Christ. . From its birth this nation was pledged for holy mar riage with Christ. And then see how good God has been to us! Just open the map of the con tinent and see how it is shaped for im measurable prosperities. Navigable rivers, more in number and greuter than any other land, rolling down on all sides into the sea, prophesying large manufactures and easy commerce. Look at the great ranges of mountains timbered with wealth on the top and sides, metaled with wealth underneath. One hundred and eighty thousand square miles of coal. One hundred and eighty thousand square miles of iron. The land so contoured that extreme weather hardly ever lasts more than three days extreme heat or extreme cold. Climate for the most part brac ing and favorable for brawn and brain. All fruits, all minerals, all harvests. Scenery displaying an autumnal pa geantry that no land on earth pretends to rival. No South American earth quakes. No Scotch mists. No London fogs. No Egyptian plagues. No Ger manic divisions. The people of the United States ure happier than any peo ple on earth. It is the testimony of every mon that has traveled abroad. For the poor, more sympathy; for the industries, more opportunity. Oh, how good God was to our fathers, and how good he has been to us and to our chil dren. To Him blessed be His mighty name to Ilim of cross and triumph, to Him who still remembers the prayer of the Huguenots and Holland refugees and the pilgrim futhers to Him shall this land be married. Oh, you Christian patriots, by your contributions and your prayers, hasten on the fulfillment of the text. While some people may stand back at the gates of the city saying: "Stay back!" to foreign populations, I press out as far beyond those gates as 1 can press out beyond them and beckon to foreign nations, saying: "Come, come, all ye people who are honest and in dustrious and God loving!" But nay you: "I am so afraid that they will bring their prejudices for foreign gov ernments nnd plant them here." Ab surd. They are sick of the governments that have oppressed them, nnd they want free America! Give them the great gospel of welcome. Throw uround them all Christian hospitalities. They will udd their Industry and hard earned wages to this country, and then we will dedicate all to Chrfc-t and "thy land shall be married." But where shall the marriage altar be? Let it be the Rocky mountains, when, through artificial and mighty irrigation, all their tops shall be covered, as they will be, with vineyards and orchards and grain fields. Then let the Bostons and the New Yorks and the Charlestons of the Pacific coast come to the nmrriuge altar on one side, and then let the Bos tons and the New Yorks nnd the Charlestons on, the Atlantic const come to the marriage altar on the other side, and there between them let this bride of nations kneel, and then if the organ of the loudest thunders that ever shook the Sierra Nevadas on the one side or moved the foundations of the Alle ghanies on the other side should open full dinpson of wedding march, thator gun of thunders could not down the voice of Him who would take the hand of this bride of nations, saying: "As a bridegroom rejolccth over a brjde, so thy God rcjoiceth over thte." At that marriage banquet the platters shall be of Nevada silver, and the chalices of California gold and the fruits of north ern orchards and the spices of south ern groves and the tapestry of Ameri can manufacture and the congratula tions from all the free nations of earth and from all the triumphant armies of Heaven. And so thy land shall be "mar. ried." ' Of the 109,020 inhabitants of the Ha waiian islands, 44.000 are Confucianists, Buddhists and Shintoists, who have come in from China and Jitpan. CONVENIENT FARM BARN. Arranged fto That tbe Feeding mi the Different Kinds of Stock la Made Very Enar, My barn, the ground plan of which 'is shown herewith, I find to be very con venient for all purposes. The alleys in front of the horse and cow stables make it very easy to feed the different kinds of stock, and also to clean the mangers of any refuse that may be left. The lofts above tbe stables are reached by short ladders from the al leys. On one end of the cow stable is a box stall,' which I find to be almost in dispensable when the cows begin to drop their calves. So, also, is the stable used for ewes when they begin to drop I ,M STABUhaii JTABIt ' f-o. 4ttr J 17X40 WW -EL GROUND PLAN OF BARN. their lambs. The stables and alleys are well lighted by windows. In the alley in front of the horses, and next to the side of the barn is a grain box large enough to hold several bushels, which is mouse proof. The barn floor is roomy, and affords a convenient place for storing wagons, as well as some farm tools. A track for a horse fork is fastened to the rafters in the peak of the barn and runs the whole length, so the hay can be unload ed from the floor and deposited in the bays or in the lofts over the stables at either end of the barn, by horse power. The sheep stable has an earth floor, which is thickly covered with dry strow before the sheep are put in for the win ter. This stable is not cleaned out un til spring. The contents of the horse stable are thrown out through windows, while those of the cow stable are taken out on a wheelbarrow, and deposited with the horse manure, thus mixing tbe two. Orange J udd Farmer. BREEDING HORSES Great Care Must Be Taken In Railing Colts and Prenarinif Them for the Mnrkei. It will be admitted readily by a very large per cent, of men engaged in all lines of business that times have great ly changed and that methods of doing business have changed decidedly, says Spirit of the -West. New conditions must be met. No intelligent or well posted man will doubt the above, yet we have altogether too many farmers and breeders who have made very few changes in the method of producing horses as regards breeding a higher class and also in care of the colts and maturing them fOr market. Somehow or other the same ambition to produce B first-class horse is not as strong as to produce first-class corn, wheat or oats. The impression prevails that the colt will, some time or other, without much care or attention, grow into a horse and sell at the average market price. There was a time when this was true, but that time has gone by. From the time the breeder contemplates breeding a colt he must begin to carefully study all the conditions. In the first place, he must breed to a first-class, well-bred, stylish, good-gnited stallion, and when the produce arrives he must count on giving it the best possible opportunity to develop as quickly as possible and be ready for market. The growing and developing process is just as important as the breeding, and unless both are judiciously looked after and wisely per formed the result will not prove satis factory. As time advances other con ditions will follow that will have to he met, just the same as now. Conditk;s at the present time differ from tuosc of 20 years ago. There is only out way to succeed, and that is to keep up with the times. Muslin Runs for Chlrka. Muslin'may be made to answer many purposes to poultrymen. It allows the heat of the sun to enter as readily as through glass, and does not radiate the heat away as rapidly as does glas9. It is very cheap and may be rendered wa terproof In many ways. Fresh bullock's blood and freshly slaked lime make an excellent waterproof paint for such purpose, but pure linseed oil will prob ably answer nearly as well. If the muslin be drawn tightly in position it will turn the water without prepara tion. For covered runs to the chicken coops, or for shelter during storms, or as protection against the heat during the middle of the dny, it is the cheapest material that can be used. Farm and Fireside. Alfalfa and Corn for Hoars. Farmers of the corn belt can get a good pointer on pig feeding from the alfulfa belt. I hove seen a pig that was farrowed September 20. 189S, and raised on a ration two-thirds of which was alfalfa hay, which is as large as any pig I can find in the corn belt farrowed in June, July or August, Tl;e nup tials of King Corn and Queen Alfalfa are announced to take place on my fnrm at an early date. The fourth cutting of alfalfa is the best hay for hogs in winter. This cutting is done late in (he all and is raked immediately nnd shocked, thus curing without very much sun. The leaves and all are saved In a succulnt condition, thus making a feed that is relished by the pigs. Homestead. Chareoal for the Hove. Unquestionably charcoal is a vnhmble hygienic agent for pigs. It is a cor rective and certainly prevents some dis eases arising from disordered digestive functions. Wood ashes acts similarly, or at least ministers to similar wants. Both charcoal and ashes are freely used by our best swine growers. There is no) need to fix quantities. The best wny is to keep both substances within reach of the pigs and allow them to consult their own tastes and needs. If you use com mercial charcoal throw half a sack at a time in a clean, dry corner and re place when used up. All the wood ashes from the house fire can be used in the same way-Prairie Farmer. Exaanerailaa;. 1 Mrs. HIgg'iley Clara, I most iniirt that von send young Mr. Oranlev sway earlier. It ii long tfirr 11 o'clock last night when you closed, the front door after bim. ClaraI know it, mamma, and I have made up my mind a dozen different timea to make him leave early, but he hat a way, somehow, of alwavt giving the impression along after the thank of the evening has passed that he ia juit about to say some thing one haa been waiting for. It's aw fully exasperating. Chicago Evening News. HoWs'tdI.v We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall'a Catarrh Cure. K. J. Cheney it Co., Prop., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all buaineaa transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their Arm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo, O. Wslding, Kinnan & ' Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall'a Catarrh Cure ia taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucoui surfaces of the ayatem. Price 75c. per bot tle. Sold by all Druggiata. Testimonial free. Hall's Family Pills are the beat. Woman's Lons; Suit. "Man was made to mourn," mused the old man with long white whiskers, "but women seem to have taken the job away from him! By hokey, but they do enjoys funeral!" Kansas City Independent. From Banr In the His7 Chair to grandma in the rocker Grain-0 ia good for the whole family. It is the long-desired sub stitute lor conee. is ever upsets the nerves or injures the digestion. Made from pure grains it is s food in itself. Has the taste and appearance of the best coffee at the price. It ia a genuine and scientific article and is come to stay, it makes lor health and strength. Ask your grocer for Grain-O. Conflicting Emotions. ician. The baby's swallowed your diamond stud! Bachelor Brother Physician be hanged! I'll bring & aurgeon. Jeweler'a Weekly. Do Yonr Feet Ache nnd Bnrnf Shake into vour shoes, Allen's Foot-Ease. s powder (or the feet. It make tight or New Bhoes feel Easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot, (Callous, Sore, and Sweating Feet. All Druggists and Shoe Stores sell It, zoc. ham pie sent ritt. Addreaa, Allen B. Olmsted, Le Roy, M. Y. More Information. Tommy Paw, what do they put water in stork for? -Mr. Figg To soak the investor! with, my son. maianapons journal. Lane's Family Medicine. Moves the bowela each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and Kidneys, cures sick neao ache. Price to and SOc. Ancient Roquefort Cheese, It is said that Roquefort chef bp dates back to Pliny'a time. Some of it smells as though it were a great deal older than that. Bos ton Transcript. To Cnre a Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo (Quinine Tablets. AU druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 20c. Look (he Same. Yeast Did you ever take any 'of those mud baths? Crimsonbeak Well, I ran for office once. Yonkers Statesman. A sallow skin acquires a healthy clear ness by the use of (llenn's Sulphur Soap. Hill a Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents. When a boy comes home with a string of fish, it is a mean trick to ask him if he caught them all. Atchison Globe. I believe Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my bov's life last summer. Mrs. Allie Douglass, LeKoy, Mich., Oct. 20, 'W. A Powerful Incentive, The condition of a man's liver has more to do with his reputation for generosity than is generally understood. St. Louii Stat. Every time we meet s school-teacher, we find that we have always been pronounc ing another word incorrectly. Atchison Globe.. THE MARKETS. New York, May 2 FT.OUR. I 8 SO a lit WHEAT No. 2 red. Kiii KSH COKN-No. 2 0 (ft 41 OATS-Na white SIX - RYE No, 2 western Hr (B HKEF-Kxtra mess. 75 M FOKK-Familv 10 60 44 10 75 LARD Western steamed 6 6J a b 85 UUTTKK Western creamery 15 H I8v4 CHEESE Lare white. Blta 'i EUliS Western 15 & It WOOL Domestic deece. 18 A Texas 12 & 1 CATTI.E-Steers. 4 KO 5 HO BHEEP Common to extra... 4 00 t 25 HUGS 4 10 u IS CLEVELAND. FLOUR Winter wheat pat s.. 4 IS "l 4 80 Minnesota patents. 4 00 ffl 4 10 Minnesota bukers.. (10 ' 8 15 WHEAT No 2 red 75,4 COKN-No. 3 yellow on truck.. SS 10 OATS No. 2 white 2tl 31 BL'TTER-Creamery. ftrsts... 10 3t 17 CHEESE-York state, cream. it 11 Ohio state, new.... HHti II EOGS-Fresh laid IS i 14 POTATOES Per busheL 85 ( 45 StJEDS-I'rlme timothy 1 SO 1 40 Clover S 00 S 8 Ml HAY Tlmothv 10 00 H 12 50 Hulk on market II 0) 14 00 CATTLE Steers, choice 4 70 5 15 SHEEP-Falrto R-ood 5 00 a 5 5a POOS Mediums and Yorkers IN I 85 CINCINNATI FLOUR Family 2 85 t "0 WH EAT No. 2 red 78 74 CORN No 2 mixed 84 a Xi OATS No 2 mixed 27H 28 RYE No 8 MHt IB HOGS 8 15 a 85 TOLEDO. WHEAT No 2cssb, WW M' CORN No. t mixed. 84sa 84 OATS No. 2 mixed "y X1H BUFFALO. BEEVES Good steers. 5 50 a '00 Commcr to fair. .. SSI a 8 75 SHEEP Good (frames 5 2) a 5 80 Good luu-os 5 6 a 00 HOGS Yorkers IM a I HO Pigs 8 7i a 8 80 PITTSBURG. BEEVES Extra steers 8 45 a 5 55 Fair 4 40 a 4 85 SHEEP Good wethers 4 10 a Best Lambs 15 (i t 25 HOOS-Yorkers. 4 00 a 4 05 I'Uiu. lii 6 IM LETTER. TO MRS. PIXKHAJt MO. 48,970 "I had female com plaints so bad that it caused me to have hysterical fits; have had as many as nine in one day. "Five bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured me and it has been a year since I had an attack. nrs. Elna Jsckson, Petri, La. If Mrs. Pinkham's Componnd will cnre such sever cases as this surely it ' must be a great medicine ia there any sufferer foolish enough not to give It a trial TO REDUCE SEAL HERDS j The California Fl.h CommlMloa Will Sena On I lillUns; Bxnealtlnna. The Pacific coast seal nerds are to be reduced without interference by the government. The treasury department has indorsed the moveim-nt, and in struction have been issued to Com mander Sebree, of the Twelfth light house district, to allow the CaUforsia fish commission to send deputies to the Farallones, Ano Nuevo, Point Reyes nnd otlier reservations for the purpos of killing' seals. In accordance with the instructions, the commissioners will send out an ex pedition of four men. Two will go to the Farallones and two to Ano Nuevo point. Owing to the numerous com plaints from fishermen along the Sac ramento river, it may be found necet snry to send a launch to cruise on the tributaries of the bay. A rigid set of rules has been, drawn by the government to regulate the slaughter of the sea lions and seals. No person except those designated by the commission will ibe allowed on the res ervation while the animals are being killed. The Coldest. Yabsley What was the coldest weather you ever saw? Mudge I don't know. You don't expect a man to carry a thermometer in his pocket when he is proposing to a heiress, do you? Indianapolis Journal. A man does not know what trouble is until he attempts to be the whole thing. Atchison Globe. In talking up s trade with a real hors jockey, never close the bargain till the next day. L. A. W. Bujletin. Ayefs Sarsaparilla is the Medicine of Auld Lang Syne Old friends, old wine, trusty kinds. For half a A AYER'S has been the Sarsaparilla uhich the people hate bought uhen they were sick and wanted to be cured. If the best is none too good for you, you uill get Ayer's. One bottle of Ayer's Sarsaparilla contains the strength of three of the ordinary kind. BEFORE SI SAPOLI THEY USED TO SAY "WOMAN'S WORK IS NEVER DONE." HE I "w",1'3"'"3p"T In the Qreat Grain and BWl ' PVJ II arming Belts of West- IWiirlnvCslK' ,rn Canada and Intor- I S.IM?'! svLttis matlon as to how to I Erl JA DfH aecure them can be had rufSilfl&Zl on application to Su- I 1 J'UsTirt'l' perintendent of Imml I .... est'"0- Ottawa, Cans 1NNES. No. I Merrill Block. Detroit, Mich. As black as QhfourWhiskers Your A NmtwrmlBlaok with Buckingham's Dye. s.Ocli.efrfrutiiitiarR.a.H.llai Ca.,NtitM. N. M. 9i What would the world do without just think of it I CARTER'S INK I8THI BEST INK. Forty npfiarnr la thi makJnr. Corti ymm mo mora than poor Ink. Why not fear ui THB finirVII theworlll'sr.ttlifre.M I IFF flF nrULIILI "lsBd. AOKNTS -""'" w I til. only Bl.so. EDUCATIONAL. BUCHTEL COLLEGE, o. iscsescs ink? fl n a Hard hllur. ' "Erigifs ran strike an awful Now." ' "He doesn't look it." "N'o, he doesn't. He came home lat the other night, tt. was a dark night, nnd liriggs was slightly muddled. He felt around nnd f,-nnd he'd lost bis key. He knew it wouldn't do any good to ring the bell, so ihe thought he'd rap sharply on the door ond ihis wife might bear it He drew bock bis right arm anil then let it shoot out viciously, and, by Jove, Ihis fist went right through a panel!" "No!" , ., j "Yes. 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