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DEMOCRATIC NORTHWEST, NAPOLEON, O., APRIL 8, 1897. Constipation Causes fully half the itckoeM in the world. It retain the digested food too long In the bowcli and produces biiMusnesa, torpid liver, lad cestlon, bad taste, sotted mm tongue, sick headache, In- u I Im aomnta, etc. Hood's Pills j I I I O cure ronsU nation and all its results, easily and thoroughly. 25o. AUdrugglKta. Prepared by C L Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. Toe only Fills to take with. Hood's Sarsaparilla. UNION MEAT MARKET. BUILDIXO THE CITY. DR. TALMAGE ON NEHEMIAH'S RIDE IN WRECKED JERUSALEM. Tha EMbantman ( tha Moonlight and Kehmlahs Beaolva Lova of the Church of (Md Bain and Redemption The Great Good That Comet From Trouble. TTiSKISGTOS, April 4. From the weird and midnight expriences of one of ancient tlmoa Dr. Talniage In bis sermon draws lesson startlmgly appropriate. 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WoulJst Iboa view fnir Melrose Bright, Go visit It by tho palo mooDligbt. Washington Irving describes the Andn- luslun moonllaht xrpon tho Alhambra ruins amounting to an enchantment. llv text rrcscnts tou JeruHalem ln ruins. The tower down. The (rates down. The walls down. Everything down. Nehemlah on horseback by moonlight looking upon the ruins. While he rides there are some friends on foot going with him, for they do not want tho many horses to disturb the suspicions of the people. These people do not know tho secret of JNcnemian s ucnrt, but they ore going as a sort of bodyguard. I hear the clicking hoofs of the horse on which Nchemlnh rides as he guides it this way and that, into this gate and out of that, winding through that gate amid the debris of once great Jerusalem. Rebuilding the City. Now tho horse comes to dead halt at the tumbled masonry where ho cannot pass. Now ho shies oil nt tho charred timDers. Now ho comes along where the water un der the moonllaht flushes from the mouth of the brazen dragon after which the gate was named. Heavy hearted Hehemiahl Biding in and out, now by his old home desolated, now by tho defaced temple, now amid the scars of the city that had gone down under buttering rum and conilngro- tlon. The escorting party knows not wnut Nchcmiah means. Is ho gottiDg crazy? Have his own personal sorrows, added to the sorrows of the nation, unbalanced his Intellect? Still tho midnight exploration goes on. Nehemlah on horseback rides through the fish gate, by the tower of the furnaces, by the king's pool, by the dragon well, in nnd out. In and out, until tne midnlfibt ride Is completed, and Nehemlah dismounts from his horse, and to the amazed and confounded and incredulous bodvaunrd declares tho dead socrct of his heart when he says, "Come, now, let us build Jerusalem." "What, JNehcmian, have you any money?" "No." "Have vou anv klnely autnorityr" -sso. - "jciave you any eloquence?" "No." Yet that mid night, moorjight ride of Nehemlah result ed in the glorious rebuilding of tho city of Jerusalem. Tho pooplo knew not now tne thing was to be done, but with great en thusiasm they cried out, "Let us rise up now and build the city." Some people laughed and said it could not be dono. Some people were Infuriated and offered physical violence, snylng tho thing should not be done. But tho workmen went right standing on the wall, trowel in one hand, sword ln the other, until tho work was gloriously completed. At that very time in Greece Xenophon was writing a history, and Plato was mnkingphllosophy, and Demosthenes was rattling ms rne- torical thunder. But all of them together did not do so much for the world as this midnight, moonlight ride of praying, cour ageous, homesick, close mouthed Nehe mlah. I.0T0 of the Church. My subject first Impresses me with the Idea, whatan Intense thing lscburcn anec tion. Seize the bridle of that horse and stop Nehemlah. Why are you risking your life here ln the nlghtr xour norso wm stumble over these ruins and fall on you. Stop this useless exposure of your life. No. Nehemlah will not stop. He at last tells us the whole story. He lets us know he was an exilo in a far distant land, and ho was a servant, a cupbearer in the palace of Artaxerxcs Longinianus, and one day, while he wag handing the cup of wine to the king the king said to him: "What is the matter with you? You are not siek. I know you must have some great trouble. What is tho matter with you?" Then he told the king how that beloved Jerusalem was broken down ; how that his father's tomb had been desecrated; how that the temple had been dishonored and defaced; how that the walls were scattered and broken. "Well," says King Artaxerxcs, "what do you want?" "Well," said the cupbearer Nehemiah, "I want to go home. I want to fix up tho grave of my father. I want to restore the. beauty of the temple. I want to rebuild the masonry of the city wall. Besides I want passports so that I shall not bo hindered in my journey. And besides that," as you will find in tho con text, "I want an order on tho man who keeps your forest for just so much timber as I may need for the rebuilding of the city." "How long shall you begone?" said the king. The time of absence is ar ranged. In hot haste this seeming adven turer comes to Jerusalem, and in my text we find him on horseback in the midnight riding around tho ruins. It is through the spectacles of this scene that we discov er the ardent attachment of Nehemlah for sacred Jerusalem, which ln all ages has been the typo of the church of God, our Jerusalem, which we love just as much as Nehemiah loved his Jerusalem. The fact Is that you love the church of God so much that there is no spot on earth so sacred, unless it be your own fireside. Viewing- tho Kulns. Tho church has been to you go much comfort and illumination that there is nothing that makes you so Irate as to have It talked against. If there have been times when you have been carried into captivity by sickness, you longed for the church, our holy Jerusalem, just as much as Nehemiat longed for his Jerusalem, and the first da? you came out you came to the house of tlk Lord. When the temple was ln ruins, lit. Nehemiah, you walked around and lookcO at it. and in the moocllsht von stood lis tenlng IT you sou Id aos baa tfw voice of the dead organ, the psalm of the expired Sabbaths. What Jerusalem was to Nebe mlah. the church ot God la to yon. Skep tics and Infidels may scoff at the church as an obsolete affair, as a reus of the dark ages, as a convention of goody goody peo ple, but all the Impression, they have ever made o; your mind against the church of God is absoluvely nothing. You wooid make mora sacrifices for It today than any other Institution, and If It were needful you would die n its defense. You can take t). words of the kingly poet as be said. If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning." You un derstand in your own experience the pathos, the homesickness, the courage, the boly enthusiasm of Nehemiah in his midnight, moonlight ride around the ruins of his beloved Jerusalem. Exploration NeueMaiy. Again, my text impresses me with the fact that before reconstruction there must be an exploration of ruins. Why was not Nehemiah asleep under the covers? Why was not his horse stabled ln tho midnight? Let the police of the city arrest this mid night rider, out on some mlscntcl. no. Nehemlah is going to rebuild the city, and he is making the preliminary explore tion. In this gate, out that gate, east, west, north, south. All through the ruins. The ruins must be explored before tho work of reconstruction can begin. The reason that so muny people in tins aay, apparently converted, do not stay eon verted is becanso they did not first explore the ruins of their own heart. The reason that there ara so many professed Chris tians who in this day Ho and forgo and steal, and commit abominations, and go to tho penitentiary, is because they first do not learn the ruin of their own heart They have not found out' that the heart Is deceitful above all things, and desperate ly wicked." They had nn idea that they were almost right, and they built religion as a sort of extension, as an ornamental cupola. There was a superstucture of re ligion built on a substratum or unrepenB ed sins. The trouble with a good deal of modern theology is that instead of build ing on the right foundation, it builds on the debris of an unregenerated nature They attempt to rebuild Jerusalem before, ln the midnight of conviction, they have seen tho gbastlinesg of the ruin. They have such a poor foundation for their re ligion thnt tho first northeast storm of temptation blows them down. I have no faith in a man's conversion if he is not converted in the old fashioned way John Bunyan'g way, John Wesley's way, John Calvin's way, Paul's way, Christ's war, God's way. A dentist said to me, "Does thut hurt?" Said I: "Of course It hurts, It is in your business as in my profession, We huvo to hurt before we can help. " You will never understand redemption until you understand ruin. Tho Old and the New. A man tolls me that someono is a mem ber of tho church. It mnkes no impression on my mind at all. I simply want to know whether ho was converted ln the old fash ioned way, or whether he was converted in the new fashioned way. II ne was con verted in the old fashioned way, he will stand. If he was converted in tho now fashioned way, he will not stand. That is all thero 1b about it. A man comes to mo to talk about religion. The first question I ask him is, "Do you feel yourself to bo a sinner?" If ho say, "Well, I yes," the hesitancy makes me feel thnt that man wants a ride on Nehomlah's horso by mid night through the'ruins in by the gate of his affections, out by the gato of bis will and before he has sot through with that midnight ride he will drop the reins on the horse's neck, and will take his right hand and smite on his heart and say, "God bo merciful to me a sinner," and before he has stabled his horse he will take his feet out of tho stirrups, and he will slldo down on the ground, and he will kneel, crying: "Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy loving kindness, ac cording unto the multitude of thy tender mercies. Blot out my transgressions, for I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sins are ever before thee." Ah, my friends, you sec this is not a complimentary gospeL Thnt is what makes somo people so maa, It comes to a man of a million dollars, and Impenitent in his sins, and says, "You're a pauper." It comes to a woman of fair est check, who has never repented, and soys. "You're a sinner." It comes to a man priding himself on his independence, and says, "You're bound hand and foot by the devil." It comes to our entire face, and says, "You're a ruin, a ghastly ruin, an Illimitable ruin. sntan sometimes says to me: "Why do you preach that truth? Why don't you preach a gospel with no repentence in it? Why don't you flatter men's hearts so that youmako them feel all right? Why don't you preach a humanitarian gospel, with no repentence in it, saying nothing about the ruin, talk ing all the time about tho .Redemption? Redemption a Force Without Ruin, I say, "Get thee behind me, satan." I would rather lead five souls into safety than 30,000 into perdition. The redemp tion of the gospel is a perfect farce if thero is no ruin. "The wbolo need not a physi cian, but they that are sick." "If any one, though he be an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel than this," says the apostle, "let him be accursed." There must be the midnight ride over the ruins before Jerusalem can be built There must bo the clicking of the hoofs before thero can be the ring of the trowels. Again. My subject gives me a speci men of busy and triumphant sadness. If there was any man in the world who had a right to mope and give up everything as lost, It was Nehemiah. You sny, "Ho was a cupbearer in the palace of Shushnn, and it was a grand place." So it wos. The hall of that palace was 200 feet square, nnd the roof hovered over 88 marblo pll lars, each pillar 60 feet high, and tho in tense blue of the sky, and tho deep green of the forest foliage, and the white of the driven snow, all hung trembling in the upholstery. But, my friends, you know very well that fine architecture will not put down homesickness. Yet Nehemiah did not give up. Then when you see him going amoug theso desolated streets, and by these dismantled towers, and by tho torn up grave of his father, you would sup noRe that he would have beon disheartened, and that he would have dismounted from his horse and gone to his room and said: "Woe Is mel My father's grave Is torn up. The temple is dishonored. Tho walls are broken down. I have no money with which to rebuild. I wish I had never been born. I wish I wero dead." Not so says Nehemiah. Although ho had a grief so 1, . that: it excited the commentary of The Greatest Cure on Earth for Pain. Cures permanently Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Sprains, Cuts, Bruises, Scalds, Burns, Swellings. Backache or any other pain. SALVATION OIL is sold everywhere for 35 cts. Refuse substitutes. Chra LANGE'S PLUGS. Tbt Gnat Tobacco Rtkloli.l0c Dtttara or Bill JLCMaisr Ca Batto. JM. his king, yet that penniless, expatriated Nehemiah rouses himself up to rebuild the city. Ho gets his permission of absence. He gets his passports. He hastens away to Jerusalem. By night on horseback he rides through the ruins. Ho overcomes the most ferocious opposition. He arouses the piety and patriotism ot the people, and In less than two months namely, 63 days Jerusalem was rebuilt That's what I call busy and triumphant sadness. Tha Deaign of Trouble. My friends, the whole temptation Is with you when you have trouble to do just the oppesito to the behavior 01 Aenemian, ana THE PRACTICE OF MASSAGE. 4 Demand That It Should lis Restricted by Law to tha Inatrurtod Only. While the publio Is protected by neces sary laws and regulations against the de ception and quackery formerly existing ln many professions and vocations having re lation to its health and general affairs, there exist, so far as I know, ln no state j of the Union any protection, under any law or government against the palpable Incompetency of a certain very numerous '. class of masseurs and masseuses, who, I while professing a profound knowledge of that is to give up. You say, "I have lost mechanoal therapeutics in general, ami m nhilil nnd. ran never smila amin. " esoeolully massage, are yet wholly desti- You sav. "I have lost my property, and I i tuto of tha requisite education, ability never cau repair my fortunes." You say, . anu tuient. "I have 'aIV'U Into sin, and I never can I In many cojcs where mnssnge, as an . , . ,. t. i auxiliary to medical ana surgical practice, ware again icr a new .u vnu produce a most desirable effect it is make you fnn that resolution and make J P iffnorant imnostors of All Cleaning about the house, paint, floors, pots and pans, dishes and glassware, silver and tinware, can be done better, quicker and cheaper with lfVftSHING PoWoS than with any other cleansing compound. Largest package: greatest economy. THX V. K. FAJKBAHX C0MPA1TT, Chicago, at, Louis, Hew York, Boston, Philadelphia. vou keep It, he has ruined you. Trouble a not sent to crush you, but to arouse you, to animate you, to propel you. The black imith does not thrust the iron into tho forge and then blow away with the bel lows and then bring the hot iron out on the anvil and beat with stroke after stroko to ruin the iron, but to prepare it for a better use. Oh, that the Lord God of Ne hemiah would rouso np all broken hearted people to rebuild 1 Whipped, betrayed, Bhipwrecked, Imprisoned, Puul went right on. The Italian martyr Algcrlus sits ln his dungeon writing a letter, and he dates it. 'From the delectublo orchard of the Leonino prison." That is what I call tri umphant sadness. , I knew a mother who buried her babe on J rtduyana on babbatn appeared ln the houBe of God and said : Give me a class. Ulvo me a ten our tn. school class. I have no child now loft me, and I would liko to have a class of little children. Give mo a class off the back street." That, I say, is beautiful. That is triumphant sadness. At 8 o'clock every Sabbath afternoon for years in a beauutul parlor ln Philadelphia a parlor pictured and statuetted there were from 10 to 20 destitute children of the street Those destitute children received religious in struction, concluding with cakes and sand wiches. How do I know that that was go ing on for 18 years? I know it ln this way: That was the first home in Phlludelphio where I was called to comfort a great sor row. They had a splendid boy, and he had been drowned at Long Branch. The father and mother almost idolized the boy, and tho sob and shriek of that father and mother as they hung over the coffin re sound in my cars today. There seemed to be no uso of praying, for when I knelt down to pray the outcry in the room drowned out all the prayer. But the Lord comforted that sorrow. They did not for got their trouble. If you should go any afternoon Into Laurel Hill, you would find a monument with the word "Walter In scribed upon it and a wreath of fresh flowers around tho name. I think there was not an hour m so years, Winter or summer, when there was not a wreath of fresh flowers around Walter's name. Triumphant Sadness, But tho Christian mother who Eont those flowers there, having no child left, Sab bath ufternoons mothered 10 or 20 of the lost ones of tho street. That Is beautiful. That Is what I call bupy nnd triumphant eadncES. Here is a men who has lost his property. He does not go to hard drink ing. He does not destroy his own life. He comes and says: "Harness me for Chris tian work. My money's gone. I have no treasure on earth. I want treasures in heaven. I have a voice and a heart to serve God." You say that that man hns failed. He has not failed ho has triumphed. Oh, I wish I could persuade all the peo ple who have any kind of trouble never to give up! I wish they would look at the midnight rider of the text, and that the four hoofs of that beast on which Nehe miah rode might cut to pieces all your dis couragements and hardships and trials. Give upl Who is going to give up when on the bosom of God he can have all his troubles hushed? Give up I Never think of giving up. Are you borne down with pov erty? A little child was found holding her dead mother's hand in the darkness of a tenement house, and some one coming in tho littlo girl looked up, while holding her dead mother's hand, and said, "Oh, I do wish that God had made more light for poor folkB!" My dear, God will bo your light, God will be your shelter, God will be your home. Are you borne down with the bereavements of life? Is the house lonely now that the child is gone? Do not give up. Think of whnt the old sexton said when the minister asked him why he put so much care on the little graves in the cemetery so much more care than on the larger graves and the old sexton said, "Sir, you know that 'of such is tho king dom of heaven,' and I think tho Saviour is pleased when he sees so much white clo vcr growing around theso littlo graves." Do Mot Give tip. But when the minister pressed the old sexton for a more satisfactory answer the old sexton said, "Sir, about these larger graves, I don't know who are the Lord's saints and who are not, but you know, sir, it Is clean different with tho bairns." Oh, If you have had that keen, tender, inde scribable sorrow that comes from the loss of a child, do not give up. The old sexton was right It is all well with the bairns, Or, if you have sinned, if you have sinned grievously sinned until you have been cast out by tho church, sinned until you have been cast out by society do not give up. Perhaps there inny be in this house ono that could truthfully utter the lanicn tation of another: Once I was pure as the snow, but I fell- Fell like a snowfiake, from heavon to hell- Fell to he trampled as lilth in the street Fell to bo scoffed at, spit on and beat, Praying, cursing, wishing to die, Selling uiy soul to whoever would buy, Dealing in shame for u morsel of bread, Hating the living and fearing tho dead. Do not give up. One like unto tho Son of God comes to you today, saying, "Go and sin no more, " while he cries out to your assailants, "Let him that is without sin cast the first stone at her." Oh, there is no reason why any ono in this house by reason of any trouble or sin should give upl Aro you a foreigner and In a strange land? Nehemiah was an exile. Are you penniless? Nchemiuh was poor. Are you homesick? Nehemlah was homesick. Aro you brokon hearted? Nehemiah was bro ken hearted. But just see him ln the text, riding along the sacrilcged grave of his father -and by the dragon well and through the fish gate and by the king's pool, in and out, in and out, the moon light falling on the broken masonry, which throws a long shadow, at which the horse shies, and at tho same time that moonlight kindling up the features of this man till you see not only tho mark of sad reminiscence, but the courage and hope, the enthusiasm of a man who knows that Jerusalem will be rebuilded. I pick you up today, out of your sins and out of your sorrow, and I put you against the warm heart of Christ "The eternal God la thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arfna " either sex, with no qualification beyond their own assertion displayed on sign boards or la deceptive advertisements In certain newspapers. The danger of this practice is easily perceived. Tho limits of mussage aro well defined. But these bold adepts of Ling and Metzger fear no conse quonces. They will "rub" a malignant tumor as cheerfully as thoy will treat s purulent process or any Infectious disease when noil mo tangere should be the watch word. I have known them in onscs of lat eral ourvature of the spine toi rub. and ex ercise tho muscles of the concave side and consecrate this method by giving to It the assuring name of "Swedish" massage. The embellishment and modification of the female figure are the latest achieve ments in modern mechanical therapeutics of this category. The fact Is that the pro vailinn "massage operator," or so called "medical rubber," is woll awaro that he can do no good. But his utter Ignorance of the physiological effects of massago pre vents him from knowing that bo can in flict (treat Injury. It Is strange tua tne unitoa orates should nossess the best physicians and surgeons ln the world, but the worst mas seurs. The virtue of massage Is not over looked. But tho difficulty of finding edu cated and skillful men la tho root of the evil. Proofs of this assertion are visible every day. In a recent nrtlclo In Tho Med ical Record a well known physician re marks that: "Massago, to bo of any value, must bo properly and scientifically dono. Thero aro muny pooplo who pose ns ma scurs nnd masseuses who do not know the first thing alnut tho subjcot, and theso people must be avoided if one would not do his natient harm Dr. Benjamin Lee, in his valuable essay on "Swedish Movements and Massago," confirms this opinion by saying "It is not too much to rcquiro thnt no one of either sex shall attempt to perform remedial manipulations upon our patients who does not possess a knowledge of the leading foots ln anatomy, such as tho po sition and comparative sizo of tbo various organs agd the position and course of tho larger blood vessels and nerves anu ot such facta in physiology as the funotlons of the organs, the course of tno circulation, asslmilution and nutrition, ot tho modes of applying massago and movements in such a way as to secure the best results in tho briefest time and with tho least dis comfort to tho patient, of the effects pro duced locally and generally upon tho sys tem bv the different mothods of procedure, of tho order ln which they should be used nnd of tho injury which may bo inflicted by employing them improperly or ln map propriate cases. No ono is competent to acquire such knowlodge who has not had a certain amount of eduoation. 10 mosc endowments of nature and education must be added a manual dexterity ln tho nppli cation of the various procedures which can onlv bo acquired by caroful training undor an experienced instructor. Hcnoo it will be understood that the stablo and tho laun dry are not, on tho whole, tho best schools from which to graduate practitioners of this art. There exists no good reason why the practice of massage should not bo regulated and restricted. In Sweden and other coun tries where the practitioners of mechano therapy enjoy the confidence of tho med ical profession no one Is permitted toad- minister massage who is not qualified by tho state board of medicine. The same method could easily be adopted here. If a reputable masseur or masseuse should ap ply to a state board of medicine for a cer tificate, lot his or her competency and rec ord bo vouched for by a cortain number ol physicians. I believe that a legislative act of this kind would bo hailed with delight by tho publio, the medical profession and by all legitimate masseurs. - Until some thing is dono in this direction cheap schools of massage will continue to furnish grooms and servant girls with "diplomas and a valuablo auxiliary to medical and surgical practice will remain a constant source of danger and abuso ln the hands ol unlettered nnd unskilled assumcrs. Axe) O, Hallbeck in Now York Sun. Vaa& With Tai The rain bad been coming down almost In a cloudburst for several days and the gulches were filled with rushing torrents. The Ozark mountains lay in a mist, dense as fog on the banks of Newfoundland. Word came to town that many of toe low land dwellers were ln need ot help and res cue parties were organized, in one of the hollows the rescuers me another Noah. Ho was seated upon the roof of bis house, with s pig, hens, roosters, ducks and tur keys. "Come on. Get Into tha boat," shouted one of tho rescuers. "Not unless you take the stock." "Woll, pass it along." The stock was quickly transferred to the boat and then Noah got in. The party wero about to leave when the old fellow said: "Hold onl I most forgot. There's the old woman I" "Wherotssho?" "Up on the barn yonder. I was so busy getting up the stock that I didn't have time to take kecr on her." They rowed over to the barn, and ther sure enough, was bis wife, so overdon e with cold that she could hardly speak and had to bo almost carriud into the lurge flat boat "Any one else around here?" sternly asked one of the rescuers. "We've got about aB the live stock. There's one pig, too honvy for mo to carry to the roof. Ho's around somewhere it he ain't washed out Don't you think you might look around for him a bit?" But the party rowed away, paying no heed to tho sinful Noah's solicitude for his live stock and thoroughly disgusted with his indifference for his better hulf, whom he left to look after herself. Detroit Free Press. 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If yoa have, yon probably ned reliable medicine like Foley's Honey and Tar to heal yon r lungs and stop the racking eough incidental to this disease. C. F. Clay. Napoleon, O. Helping- Mamma. ' Juvenile Volea (from the kitchen Mamma, things are always red when they're burning, ain't they? Mamma Yes, dear. Juvenile Voloe Then these biscuits yoa told me to watch ain't burning yet. They're only black." Chicago Tribune. Eaolproaity. Bacon When bo was courting her, hi promised to throw everything at her feet Bgbert And did snn reciprocate? Bacon Well, I should rather say she did! After they were married she threw everything at bis head. Yonkers States man. Not Superstitious. Friend Do you consider it a sign of a death in the family when your dog keeps yon awako by howling nil night? Colonel Kaintuck No, sun. Nevah con sidered tho dog as a membab of the fam ily, suh. Truth. At the- Managerle. First Street Aral) I heard tell that camels often has to go a week in the desert without a drink. 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The members of the league all expressed the opinion that, though the state, banking luws wero not perfect, yet the danger that any changes made in them would not be for tho better was so great that tho co operative bunks would bo quite content if tho present statutes remain unamended. The league represents a capital stock of about $13,000,000. It is especially opposed to the suggestion, made by the Massachu setts commissioners of savings banks, thut all theso co-operativo Institutions abolish tho rule by which a depesitor who with draws before his shares muturo shall for feit a portion of bis accrued profits. Years of experience, the speakers ut the meeting said, had demonstrated that this rule is wise, just and practical, and as beneficial to depositors as to the banks. The president of ono bank said that or ganizations of this kind wero of Invaluable service to tho community in fostering habits of thrift and industry, and that as educators of the peoplo they ranked with churches and schoolbousos. These co-oper ativo banks, It Is hardly necessary to say, are much like tho building and loan asso ciations, that are commoner than they are ln this state, and the methods and results of each are to a great degree similar. New York Times. T F" ' When you must lay aside your T"gBEfllfyWlllTE58E j DO rOU NEED A Has j New jSpring Suit (ffy ffll Fj TO TAKE IT'S PLACE? CASTORIA ' We have the ''Hottest" Line of New Spring Suits ever W shown in Napoleon. ' f :-: Boys Clothing in Endless Variety. :-: g I GENTS' PUMISHING GOODS I In the Latest Makes and Styles. jj J We have Clothing to supply the county, and at prices 0 For Infants and Children. TOifM Hail. tigauua which will make the-stock take like wildfire. COME IN AND SEE US. ...HENRY MEYER, 0 0