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ELDER SISTER'S POWER
To Influence the Younger Brother's
Way Through This Life.
Mat for Miriam There Would Have Keen No
Aloxtn ller Mrvotlon Saved Him to the
World Iteautiful Sermon by Kev.
lr. T. UcWltt Taltuiige, ! u
Talmairc's text last Sunday was Ex-
ruU.. ; j- Ami his sister stood afar
off. to wit what would bo done to hiiu."
Princess Tlieriuulis, daughter of
Pharaoh, looking out through the lat
tice of her bathing house on the banks
of the Nile, saw a curious boat on the
river. It had neither oar nor helm,
aud they would have bi-en useless, any
how. There was only one passenger,
and that a baby buy. It"- th Me
llower, that brought the Pilgrim
l athers to America, carried not so
precious a load. The boat was made
of the broad leaves of papyrus, tight
ened together by bitumen. 1Io:i
were sometimes made of that material,
as we learn from Pliny and Herodotus
and Theophrastus. "Kill all the He
brew children born," had been Pha
raoh's order. To save her boy. .loehe
hed. the mother of little Moses, had
put him in that oncer boat and
launched him. His sister Miriam
&tood on the bank watching that pre
vious craft. She was far enough off
not to draw attention to the boat, but
urenoiiirh to offer protection. J here
tihe stands on the bank Miriam, the
poetess; Miriam, the quick-witted; Mi
riam, the faithful, though very human.
for in after time she demonstrated it.
Miriam was a splendid sister, but
had her fault, like all the test of u
ll.iw .ir.-fnllv she. waUdied the boat
containing her brother! A strong wind
mi.rht unset it. '1 he bMilalocn oircu
found there might in a sudden plunge
jf thirst sink it- Some ravenous water
owl might swoop and pick his eyes out
1 Some crocodile or
hippopotamus, crawling through the
hushes, iniarhtcrunch the babe. Miriam
watched and watched until Princess
Therinutis. it maiden on eat;Ii side of
her holding palm leaves over her head
to shelter her from the sun, came imvn
and entered her bathing house. When
from the lattice she saw that boat she
ordered it brought, and when the
leaves were pulled hack from the face
of the child and the boy looked up he
cried aloud, for he was hungry and
frightened, aud would not even let the
nrineess take him. The infant would
rather stay hungry than acknowledge
nnr one of the court as inotlicr.
Now Miriam, the sister, incognito,
jio one suspecting her relation to the
child, leaps from the bank and rushes
down and offers to get a nurse to
nacifv the child. Consent is given, and
she brinoJochebed, the baby's mother,
incognito, none of the court knowing
that she was the mother; and when
Jochebed arrived, the child stopped
crying, for its fright was calmed and
its huntrcr appeased. You may admire
Joehcbed the mother, and all the ages
may admire Moses, but I clap my
hands in applause at the behavior o
"Mirinm. the faithful, brilliant ami
strategic sister.
"Go home," some one might have
said to Miriam: "why risk yourself ou
there alone on the banks of the Nile
breathing the tuiasma, and in danger
of being attacked of wild beast or ruf
fian? Go home!" Io; Miriam, the sis
ter. more lovingly watched aud brave-
v defended Moses, the brother. Is he
worthy her care and courage? Oh, yes
the CO centuries of the world's history
have never had so much involved in the
arrival of any ship at any port as
the landintr of that papyrus boat
calked with bitumen! Its one passengc
was to be a nonesueh in history law
yer, statesman, politician, legislator,
organizer, conqueror, deliverer. II
had such remarkable beauty in child
hood that Josephus says, when he was
carried along the road, people stopped
to trazj at him. aud workmen vvouh
leave their work to admire him. When
the king playfully put his crown upon
this boy, he threw it off indignantly
and put his foot on it. lnc king.
fearing that this might be a sign
that the child might yet take
down his crown, applied another
test. According to the Jewish
legend the king ordered two bowls to
he put before the child, one contain
ing rubies and the other burning
coals; and if he took the coals, he was
to live, and if he took the rubies he
was to die. l'or some reason the child
took one of the coals, and put it in his
mouth, so that his life was spared, al
though itburned the tongue till he was
indistinct of utterance ever after. Hav
ing come to manhood, he spread ope
the palms of his hands in prayer, au
the Ued sea parted to let -2,500,00a peo
pie escape. And he put the palms of
his hands together in prayer, and the
lied sea closed on a strangulated host
His life so'utterly grand, his burial
must be on the same scale. God would
let neither man nor saint nor arch
angel have anything to do with weav
ing for him a shroud or digging for
him a grave. The omnipotent God
left his throne in Heaven one day, and
if the question was asked, " hither
the King of the Universe Going?" the
answer was, "1 am going down
bury Moses." Aud the Lord took
this mightiest of men to the top
of a hill, and the day was clear,
and Moses rau his eye over the mag
nificent range of country. Here, the
valley of Esdraelon, where the lln
battle of nil nations is to be fough
and youder, the mountains Hermon
and Lebanon, and Gerizim, and the
liills of Judea: and the village of Beth
lehero therr,uand the city of Jericho
younder. the vast stretch
landscape that almost took the old law
eiver'i breath away as he looked at i
And then with a pang as I learn from
the statement that the eye of Moses
was undimmed and his natural force
unabated God touched the great law
eriver's eyes, and they closed: and h
lungs, and they ceased: and
his
heart, and It stopped; and commanded
saying: "To the skies, thou immor
tal spirit!" And then one Divine hand
was put against the back of Moses and
the other hand against the pulseless
breast, and God laid himsoftly down on
Mt Nebo. and then the law-giver, lifted
in the Almighty's arms, was carried
the opening of a care and placed in
"crypt, and one stroke of the Divine
hand smoothed the features Into
everlasting calm, and a rock was ro
ed to the door, and the only obsequies
at which God did all the offices
priest, and undertaker, and grave dig
ger, auu ujuuiuci. .uu.w
Oh, was not Miriam, the sister
cWoses. doing a good thing, an impor-
itant thing, a glorious thing when she
watched the boat woven oj river plants
nd made water-tight with asphaltum
,'carry its one passenger? Did she sol
put all the ages of time and of a com-
ing eternity under obligation when
she dcrepded her helpless nrouiui
from the perils aquatic, reptilian
and ravenous? She it was that
brought that wonderful babe and
his mother together, so that he
was reared to he the deliverer of his
nation, when otherwise, if saved at all
from the rushes of the Nile, he would
have been only one more or the God-defying
Pharaohs;for Princess Therinutis
of the bathing-house would have inher
ited the crown 01 i'jypi;itu .rou
child of her own this adopted cJu.a
ould have come to coro
nation. II ml mere .-
iiiain there would have been no Mo-
What a garland of faithful sisler-
ood! For how many a lawgiver, aim
ow many a hero, ami how niaiiy it
liverer and how many a biliiil nro
the world and the church indebted to
watchful, loving, faithful, godly sis-
r? Come up out of the farmhouses.,
ome nil oui in i Ml- """""i'"-
ionics, come up from the bnnljs (jf the
udsoii, and Penobscot, ami llitsMivsiii
ah, and the Mobile, and the .uissii-
ppi, and nil the other MU's 01 Aincrt
a, and let usseeyou, mo Miriams woo
atched mid protected the leadens it,
iw.and incdiciiicand njerchandlse.and
rt, and agriculture, and mechanics,
and religion! If I .should ask all pliyst-
ians and attorneys ana merchants ami
linisters of religion, and successful
len of all professions and trades, who
re indebted to an elder sister for good
ullticiiees nd perhaps for an educa
tion or a prosparoHS start, to let it be
uown, hundreds would fesiuy. uo.i
tows how many of our Greek lehii&ns
id how flinch of our schooling was
lid for by minify that would oth-
rwise. have gone for thti j!i1eshing
f a fcjster'.s wardrobe. While JJjc
rother sjiHcd oil' for a resounding
prce the sister wotchetl him from the
tanks of self-denial.
Miriam was the eldest of the famliy.
Moses and Aar. her brothers, were
ounger. Oh, the power of the elder
sistir to help lUfide the proiners
character for usefulness and for j
II.
:iven! She can keep off from j
brother more evils than Miriam
could have driven back water fowl or
roekodih; from the ark of bulrushes.
hit older sister decides tin- direction
in which the cradle boat shall sail. Ity
gentleness, by good sense, by Christian
principle she can tarn it. toward me
alare. not. of wicked Pharaoh, but ot
loly God; and a brighter princess than
riiermutis should lift him out of peril.
even Religion, who-e ways are ways of
pleasantness and all her paths are
peace.
The older sister, how much me worm
owes her! Horn while yet the family
was in limited circumstances, she had
to hold and take care of her younger
brothers. And if there is anything
that excites my sympathy, it is a little
girl lugging around a great l:i. child
and gctjling her ears boxed because she
can not keep him quiet! uy the tune
she gets to young womanhood she is
pale and worn out, and her nttract-
veness has been sacrificed on Hie
altar of sisterly hdelttj-, and she is
consigned to ccjibuey, and society calls
her by an unfair name; hut in Heaven
they call her Miriam. In most
families the two most undesir
able places in the record of
births are the first and last; the first
because she is worn out with the eares
of a home that can not afford
to hire help, and the last because she
is spoiled as a pet Among the grand
est equipages that sweep through the
streets of Heaven will be those occu
pied by sisters who saerilie.'d them
selves for brothers. They will have
the finest of the Apocalyptic white
horses, and many who on earth looked
down upon them will have to turn out.
to let them pass, the charioteer cr-ing:
Clear the wayj A Queen is coming!
Let sisters not begrudge the time
nnd care bestowed on a brother. It is
hard to believe that any boy that you
know so well as your brother can ever
turn out anything very useful. . W elj
he may not be a Moses. J here is only
one of that kind needed for 0,000 years.
Rut I tell you what your brother will
be either a blessing or a curse to so
ciety, and a candidate for happiness or
wretchedness. He will, like Moses,
have the ehoice between rubies and liv
ing coals, and your influence will have
much to do with his decision. He may
not, like Moses, be the deliverer of a
nation, but he may, after your father
and mother are gone, be the deliverer
of a household. What thousands of
homes to-day are piloted by brothersl
rhere are properties now well vested
and yielding income for the support
of sisters and younger brothers be
cause the older brother rose to the
leadership from the day the father lay
down to die. Whatever you do for
your brothers will come back to you
again. If you set him an ill-natured,
censorious, unaccommodating exam
ple, it will recoil upon you from his
own irritated and despoiled nature,
If you, by patience with his infirmities
and by nobility of character, dwell
with him, in the few years of your
companion ship, you will have your
counsels reflected back upon you some
day by his splendor of behavior in some
crisis where he would have failed but
for you.
Don't snub him. Don't depreciate
his ability. Don't talk discouragingly
about his future. Don t let Miriam get
down off the bank of the Nile and wade
out and upset the ark of bulrushes.
Don't tease him. Brothers and sisters
do not consider it any harm to tease.
That spirit abroad in the family is one
of the meanest and mostdcvilsh. There
is a teasing that is pleasurable, and is
only another form of innocent railery;
but that which provokes and irritates
and makes the eye flash with anger is
to be reprehended. It would be less
blameworthy to take a bunch of thorns
and draw them across your sister's
cheek, or"to take a knife and draw Its
sharp edge across your brother's hand
till the blood spurts, for that would
damage only the body, but teasing, is
the thorn and the knife scratchin
and lacerating the disposition
of the soul. It is the
curse of innumerable house
holds that the brothers tease the sis
ters and the sisters the brothers.
Sometimes it is the color of the hair,
or the shape of the features, of an af
fair of the heart Sometimes it is by
revealing a secret or by a suggestive
look, or a guffaw, or an "Ahem!
Tease! Tease! Teasel For mercy's
sake, quit it Christ says: "He that
hateth his brother is a murderer.
Now, when you, by teasing, make your
brother or sister hate, you turn him or
her into a murderer or murderess.
Don t let jealousy ever touch a sis
ter's soul, as it so often does, because
ber brother gets more honor or more
means. Even Miriam, the heroine of
the text, was struck by that evil pas
, sion of jealousy. Sbe had possessed
unlimited influence over Moses, and
now lie marries, ami not oijjjt so,
but .marries n black woman from
Ethiopia, and Miriam is so disgusted
and outraged at Moses, first be
cause he had married at ali, and
r.c.t because he had .practiced misce
genation, that she is drawn into a'
frenzy, and then legius to turn white,
and gets white as a corpse, and then,
w Inter than a corpse. Her complexion
is 1 ke chalk; the laet is, she has the
Egyptian leprosy. - And now the
brother whom she has defended
.on the Nile comes to her reaeue
in a j rayer that brings her
restoration. Let there be no room in
your hoiss s for jealousy either to sit or
stand. It is a leprous abomination. Your
brother's success, oh sister., is your
success. His victories will he your
victories. Fop while. Mosjs, tin broth
er, led the vocal music after t cross
ing of the HM sea, Miriam, the sister,
with two sl.e.'ts of .shilling brass up
lifted and glittering in the sun, I 'd
the mstrum;-2ital music, clapping thu
cvmbals till the last frisrhtenad luigli
of pursuing cavalry hopiJ waj, f,.po;h
civil In the wave and the la-tKgyptiaa j
helmet went under.
How strong it makes a family when
all the sisters and brothers stand to
gether, and what an awful wreck when
they disintegrate, quarreling about a,
father's will and making the surrot
gate's, ofiice horrib e with their wrang
les. JJetter, whan you were little thil-s
dre 1 1 in the nur.iery, that with y.ui'
playhouse inall.'t you hud accidental
ly killed each other lighting iscro.vj
your cii.i'.le thou that, having come to
the a;e of maturity, and having in
V!-U" veins and arteries the blood of
'the h:iiic fittluv :-i',d mother, you light
i i:ch other across thu paternal gravj
in the cenu tery.
If you only knew it. your in teres s
are id.-iitieah 0.' all tins families of
Hie earth that ever stoo I together,'! r
ha;v; the i.io.t i on.vucuou ; i fiu
famijy of the Hqthseii.hls. A . Mayer
Aiiselm Roliiselii 1 was about to d'u in
181'i, he gathered his cltihlivu about
lip A use lu 111. ,-voiomon, .uiiiau,
(Jinnies, aiid James an.l mala taem
promise that they voild always ba
united on change. Obeying that in
junction they haws b-jen the mightiest,
ommeieial pjwer on earth, and at t.io
lising or lowering 'of Lieu s.-ept r
latmns have ris?n or tai-
len. That illustrates ho.v
tick. on a large scale a i I
for selfish purposes, a unit.'d faar.ly
may achieve. P.ut suppo.' t'.i it, in
stead of a magnitude of dollars as thq
objeet, it is doing giud and making
salutary impression and raising tin.-
sunken world, how much more ennob
ling Sister, you do your part, and
brother will do his part. If Miriam,
will lovingly watch the boat on the
Nile, Moses vi I help her when lepruu.j
disasters strike.
When father and mother are gone
and they soon will be, if they have not
ilrcady made exit- the sisterly and
fraternal bond will hi: the only liga
ment that will hold the family to.?.th-
llow inanv reasons for your deep
iiid unfaltering affection for each oth-
Iloekcd in the same cradle; bent
over by the same motherly tenderness;
toiled for by the same fathers weary
inn and aehingbrow; with common in
heritance of all the family secrets, and
with names given you by parents whq
started you with the highest hopes foi
your happiness and prosperity, I
charge you, he lov'nig and kind forgiv-
If the sister sec that the brother nev
er wants a S3'nipathi.er, the brother
will see that the sister never wants an
escort. Oli, if the sisters of a house
hold knew through what terrific and
damning temptations their brother
oes in city life, they would hardly
sleep nights, in anxiety for his sal
vation! And if you would make a
holy conspiracy of kind words and
gentle attentions and earnest pray
ers, tnat wouui save nis sotit
from death and hide a multitude ot
sins, lint let trie sister uasn o.i in 0113
direction in discipl 'ship in the world,
and the brother llj'S oil in another
direction in dissipation, audit will not
be long before thev will meet again at
the iron gate of Despair, their blist
ered feet in the hot a lies of a con
sumed lifetime. Alas! that brothers
and sisters, though living together for
years, very often do not know each
other, and that they sec onlj- the im
perfections and none of the virtues.
INTERESTING ITEMS.
Acconnixc to mathematicians, it re
quires less exertion to ride 50 miles on
safety bicycle than to walk three
miles.
A sensation has been created in
Madagascar by the appearance of a
carriage in the streets of Antanana
rivo. It is the first one that has ever
been seen in the country, and belongs
to the mayor of the city, Capt. Des
lions. Miss May Fum.ku, of Tacoma.Wash.,
has been appointed harbor mistress of
that port and is the only woman in the
world holding such a position. Miss
Fuller became prominent in the west
a number of years ago by being the
first woman to ascend ML Tacoma.
An English paper says that Hishop
Ellicott, of Gloucester, envoys the priv
iliges of being allowed to travel on any
railroad in England free of charge. This
unusual favor was conferred upon him
in recognition of his heroic exertion in
administering spiritual consolation to
dying victims in a railway accident
near Tottenham, notwithstanding his
own serious injuries. This was while
the bishop was still a young man
Cytkess lumbermen of Louisiana a re
devising plans for tli3 settlement of
men who cut timber upon the cleared
lands. Mr. II. J. Luteher, in an inter
view with the New Orleans Pieaj-unc,
said that in Pennsylvania and other
states where the lumber business has
flourished the land was settled up and
placed under cultivation after the tim
ber was exhausted, while in the south
it was left to grow up with brush and
was of no further value, as it would
have been very expensive to cut off the
brush. What is proposed now is to
look after the settlement of that land
by the men who were employed in cut
ting off the timber.
To kktain, and even acquire a good
complexion, eat plentifully of fruiL
This is better than any outward appli
cations. All fruit is good when in sea
son, but the best of all are those in sea
son at the present moment, as apples
and oranges, etc., and especially ap
ples, which act on the liver and help
digestion. Digestive troubles are the
worst enemies that the skin has to
fight against, and apples arc its best
soldiers. While in season they should
be eaten every day. whether with or
without other fruit. Their- cosmetic
qualities are positively marvelous, and
they clear the skin and beautify it
S when all other means faiL
B.ii-L PASSED
Vruy W.iifr fir the Imp -c!i- -of Food
,ii:lsay IIiolul inn I':is;i-it.
I'HANKAHtT. Ky.. Feb. I). Senate The
Ilrnastou r solution to appoint ii rommluue. t-j
reply to Stuator Lindsay's spo-ecli was the
lirst thins tn'cn up in Uio t-en.itu Tuusdsiy. ami
it was adopted without further ttclmu by u
Vote of '0 to 0; -.lie Frazler billto requisite ilio
manufacture nnd sale or foo.l wis pas-cd by a
vole or 28 to 0; tlio houiu bill to anicu.l
th'e laws in rcsrsml to admission
o" testimony bi ; llow'uu; tJio husband
or wife to tr-'tir.v ,or or uiailnxt each oilier hi
divorce, ea.-e was deft idea I-.n- hick of, a oonsti
tutioniil majcrity. lMls introduce;:' U'oninirnd
"aud concerning mundians. ' by aiuhorizln
the county judrc to :ypoiut the shcrilf to act
as guardian in curtain cv.se.s; to ptini.sli burn-In-;
or poison inj; stock, to ami nil ' lie actcou
ecniSiu! guardians so the mother t an not in; du
Jilh'.'d of the m.lody or a child under II by
will or deed or thu father.
IIor.su -Dills kurn.lnet4: Providing tli.it no
primary clccti n shall In held ;i tliu same day
that asp cial or general elect ton is held: au-
tnori.tii tne SJ15 r the KorUiru Kentucky
not mal school propm ty and lo UKpoo or the
I rceeedh thereof: to compel steam engineers
to pass an exvin'um'.ton ami obtain a certill
c to I I'foi'ii taking charge of an engine; i ro
t ( ling for iiislallim-ul pajin. mis or property
holders for street Uuprovim -n:s; exempting
road over.scers from sen ue on jiiric-i and frum
poll tax for road and bridge purposes. After
passing the Maliory bill, r pealing suction
131'i of the Kentucky statu'e.s relating tl vuu
fes.ionof juilgm:!nt. and the- IJolr-w bill, to teg-
ula.e the. amilyMu of fertilizers, the liou-u took
Hp thu China school book bill, ltcprcsuuluiivc
Chi mi inaile a strong argument In favor ot the
hill, which provides for tho contract system,
j:'sides Using a maximum price Jo,' till school
hooks. Passu 1,
COVINGTON COUNCILMEN
Uruntcil a Writ of ll.tbi-as Corpus In the
Contempt Case.
I.ir.ri:.i!:.'ci:, Ky.. Feb. 9. The
Kenton circuit court win reassembled
at Independence at 1U:05 a. in. Ttas
(hiy by Judge 'i'arvin. The seven
eoiineihnen who arc charged with con
tempt were present.
Judge Tarvin Tue-day rescinded his
decision as to Attorney Henry llallaiu
and a.,ain ordered the attorney held
for contempt of court.
Jn taking this action Judge Tarvin
said he had been misled l.v Halhint's
jidviser. Hut now he believed llallau
responsible for the trouble. "Xo one."
said Tarvin, 'Van practice in liii
court who embarrass s it."
llallam tried to argue and appeal,
hut was not allowed to.
XnwrouT, Ky., Feb. . At -2 a. m
Tuesday the seven Covingtoa council
men, through their attorney, obtained
a writ of habeas corpus from Circuit
Court Judge Hodge, of Catnpbi.il conn
tv against ShoriM: Ho.iku and tin
jailer, at Independence, returnable
at 10 a. in. Wednesday. Tl
ivi'it js returnable to Judge Tarvin, al
though the writ is a direction to the
coroner of Kenton county. Tarvin
will have to decide whether his first
action was coerert. Each of the conn,
cilmen is under .",0JU bond. Thh
Wits done to show the opinion o;
the judge on the gravity of the situa
tion.
Judge Tarvin refused to discuss the
writ before its presentation. It was
utid- rstoud that an effort would be
made to swear him oil' the bench to
prevent his hearing it.
The writ was served at 11:53 a m.
Tuesday. Tarvin men say it gives th
judge the control of the matter, as it
prevents a similar application before
anyone clse
THE VINTER SALE
Of Trotters at T.i-viiigton, Ky., the lie:
in HS-iiiy Veais.
T.r.xiNOTO.N", Ky., Feb. l. Second day
01 u inter sale troltcr.s best here
years, havers from all parts of the
country bid.
Wilkes Hoy. the lS-year-old trottin
.stallion, brought S.'5,CU0, going to 11. C.
Estill, Lexington,
Kincora broodmare, 19-year-old, dam
of four batter than :2::JJ, went to A. A.
Austin, I'oston, 31 ass., for .:00.
Austin also paid Sl.O'iO for yearlin
bv Wilkes Hoy daai Kincura.
John Kelly, New York, bought An
nunciata, two-year-old, by Wilkes Ho'
for soyo.
Eagle Hird, 10-year-old trotting stal
lion, sire of Monb.irs. 'Jul,1!, etc., went
to II. A. Hell, Louisville.
(!. Itetisens, of New York, bought
Prince of. India, 0 years old, by Haron
ilkes, for S1.5S0.
William .Simpson, New York, bought
tVmarylla, S year old mare, by Liberty
Hell, for SI, GOO, and Amaryllis, 10 years
old, by Director, for 31,0i)0.
John Cudahy, Chicago, pork packer.
bought Alta Vista, stallion 0 years old
by Ouy A ilkes, for S9J5.
'out GO head averaged over S500,
Market Quotation
Corrected weekly by II. B. North
cotL
Eggs
...dull, 10 and 11
Chickens
5 to
Ileus
Young Roosters
3 to )
Old Roosters
Turkeys
GJ to 7
Old Gobblers
, 5 to ."Jc
Ducks
5 to .1'
Geese
$3.00to:fl.OO per doz,
Hides, Green
Butter
G to
10c
Feathers, fine white
;ecse "8 to
" 25 to
gray
Duck feathers
Kags
20to'ilc
...15 to 20c per hundred
Iron
t 8 to 15c
Hones
20 to 2;
Calves, veal
. . . 4J 50 to $5.50 per head
The King of Jollity
Holds Court
Mardi Gras festivities of the most
elaborate chrracter this year at New
Orleans and at Mobile. The Roy
al Road is the Queen & Crescent.
Vestibuled trains Cincinnati to New
Orleans in 24 hours. Excellent
through service. Only line run
ning Cafe, Parlor and Observation
cars, One fare round trip for the
occasion, from all points North.
All lines connect with the Queen &
Crescent at Cincinnati and with S.
R'y at Louisville.
You get to New Orleans 8:30 in
the morning. An important mat
ter as a night; arrival when the city
is full of strangers, offers difficulty
in finding lodgings.
Queen & Crescent trains are the
finest in the South.
Interesten In the South? Then send 10 cents
3 months subscription for new paper "Zand
and a Living" W. C RINEAESON, Gen'l
Pass'r. Agt. Cincinnati, O.
THE
MIIH Ml
OF LEXINGTON, KY.
Our plan is a new application of an old principle, aud is based up
on the. actual experience of successful life insurance companies, cover
ing a period of over 200 years. The same principles govern both, ouly
WE pay while you LI VIS.
THEY pay when you DIE.
WE offer the INVESTMENT features.
THEY protect in case of DEATH.
With them, death is the moving
policy; witlwus, a definite and fixed
matures the policy.
INSURANCE IS A LAW OF AVERAGE.
The)' figure 011 so many men out
on so many policies, They kill the
There is 110 reason why a man
fit of his investment.
We return an average of $2.30
assume an obligation less than one-third as great as has been assumed
and paid for years by the leading life insurance companies of America.
MISSION.
Only about twenty (20) per cent, of the people are insurable. Only
the .sound and healthy, who least
life insurance.- Why should there
the other eighty (So) per cent, of the
ment the same as the favored few who can get.life insurance? Our mis
sion is to open the door to the entire population to enjoy the same or
greater benefits for an equal or less expenditure, considering the ad-
autage to be derived, and that those
life by the one making the investment.
NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS.
That our plan is popular and based upon sound business princi
ples, is evidenced by our large and increasing membership, as shown
by our remarkable 'Exhibit of Growth, See literature.
We court the clysest scrutiny and
statement made that cannot be verified by actual results.
Others Make Money. Why Not You?
The endorsement given this Company by the investment of bankers, law
rs, merchants, ministers, doctors, railroad men, mechanics in fact, nun of
business sagacity in every vocation of life is an evidence of the soundness of
our sys'em.
ACTUAL RESULTS, AND OPINIONS OF SOME OF OUR CER
TIFICATE
Rkv. J. V. Rii.kv, of Mortonsville,
in the Southern Mutual Investment Co.,
years. 1 have hail couoons to mature by redemption, wiuea eost me less
than S503.0), and returned to me 51,-110,00."
To whom it )? concern.
This is to certify, that my husbanl,
vested in the Southern Mutual Investment Co. Since that time there have
been 20 coupons to mature, on which the
Thes2 coupons cost his estate lass than
with tho investment he made, anl am
A Smith Browman, Mgr.
No. 11 Cheapside,
Lexington, Ky.
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Or by LociSVItiX. KY.
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T J. HOOD,
SURGEON-DENTIST,
LANCASTER, KY
Office over J. C. Thompson's Jewelry store
on Danville Btreet.
Land and a Living
Are best and cheapest in the New
South. Land S3 to So an acr-i. Easy
terms Good schools and churches.
No blizzards. No cold waves. New
illustratel paper, "Land and a Liv
ing," 3 m inths, for 10 cents, in stamps.
W. C. KisEAitsox, G. P. A., Queen &
Crescent Route, Cincinnati
Co.,
factor, causing the payment of the
mathemalical rule, in lieu of death,
of a thousand dying we figure
man we kill the policy.
should die to reap the hen-
for every dollar paid us, and yet we
need it's advantages, can obtain
not be a means provided whereby
population can carry au invest
advantages may be enjoyed during
most thoroug investigation. No
HOLDERS.
Ky., says: "I have had an investment
of Lexington, Ky., for more than three
Lexixgto.v, Kv., September 10, 139".
W. F. White, about three years ago, in
Company has paid his estate Sl,''"21 00.
700,00 to mature them. I am pleased
still carrying 01 coupons in the Company,
Mauy E. White.
J. C Hemphill, Agt.,
Lancaster,
Kentucky
IWarlit Kiiort.
Taken from the Louisville Times of
"Wednesday alternoon:
WHEAT No. 2 red aud longbeiry 95c
No 3 red and Ionsberry IWc; rejected 2Sc
less; on levee lc less.
CORN No. 2 white M'.;c; No. 2 mixed SOc
CATTLE Kxtra shipping $1233 4 50
Light shipping 4 C0 4 2."
r.est Butchers I 0O' 4 25
Fair to good Imtchers o."0 3
Common to medium butchers SCO 3 50
Thin, rough steer.?, poor cows and
scalawags 1 25 2 25
Good to extra oxen 3 50 3 S5
Common to medium oxen 2 25 SCO
Feeders 3 75 4
Stcckeis 2 C5 3
Bulls 2 50 3 50
Veal calves 5 50 5 75
MILCH COWS Choice 35 0045CO
Fair to good 15 0C23 00
HOGS Choice packing and butch
ers, 225 to SCO lbs 3 90 3 90
Fair to good packing, ISO to 200 lbs.. 3 SO 3 90
Good to extra light. ICO to lbO lbs.... 3 70 3 SO
Fat shoats. 120 to 150 lbs 3 50 3 75
Fat shoats, 100 to 120 lbs 4 25 3 50
l'igs CO to 901bs 2 75 3 25
Roughs 150 to 400 lbs 2 75 3 25
SHEEP and LAMBS Good to ex
tra shipping sheep 3 50 3 75
Kair to good 3 C) 3 25
Common to medium 2 00 2 50
Bucks 2 75 3 0o
Skips and smliawaes. per head f.0 1 00
bxtra .shipping lmbs 4 75 5 CO
Best butcher Iambs 4 2506 4
I -air to good butcher lambs 3 7.V 4 25
Tail ends 2 50 3 00
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Built on strictly Scientific prin
ciples and of the highest grade m -
terials. DURABLE, PORTABLE,
INVINCIBLE.
$35.00.
not belonging to the Typewriter Trust
honest price. The Blickensderfer is
Highest Award at World's Fair. Im
Washington, D. C.
Queen & Crescent Route.
Handsome historical lithograph, col
ore I birds-eye view of Chattanooga,
Missionary Kidge, Wallen's Ridge,
and portions of the Chickamauga field
as seen from the summit of Lookout
Mountain. Ilighest style of litho
grapher's art. On fine paper; plate
10 x 24. Mailed for 10 cents in stamps
W. C. Rinearsox, Gen'l PjssV AgU, Q.
& C. Route, Cincinnati, O.
TYPEWRITER
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HQ JIG JIZIIJE
FOR 1898
A GREAT PROGRAMME.
The Story of the Revolution by
Senator Henry Cabot Lod;e. to run
throughout the year. (For the first
time all the modern art forces and re
sources will bj brought to bear upon
the Keyolution. Howard 1'3'le and a
corps o: artists are making1 over" 10")
paintings and drawings expressly for
this gmat wcrlc.)
Captain A. T. Mahan's "The Amer
ican .Navy in the devolution,"' to ba
illustrated by Carlton T. Cli.ipman, the
marine arttst; Harry Fenn, and others.
ThontasNelson Page's Fijst Long
Novel, "ded dock A Chronicle of
deconstruction.-' Mr. I'age has de
voted four years to the story, and he
considers it his best work. (Illustrated
by 1. West Clinedinst.)
Rntlyartl Kipling, Richard Har
ding Davis, Joel Chandler Harris,
George IV. Cable, and others, arc
under engagement to contribute sto
ries during lbl)3.
Robert Grant's "Search-IJght
Letters" repliet to various letters
that e.itiic in consequence of his "d.L-IL-ctions
o a .Married Man" and "-he
Opiniyns of a Philosopher."
"The Workers" in a new field Wal
ter A. WyckolT, the college man who
became a laborer, will tell about his
experience with sweat-shop laborers
and anarchists in Chicago. (Illustra
te I from life by W. 1L Leigh.)
The Theater, The Mine, etc., w;ll
be treated in "The Conduct of Great
Kusiness"' series (as were "The AN heat
Farm," "'1 he Newspaper, etc., in 'J7).
with numerous illustrations.
Life at Girls' Colleges like the ar
ticles' on "Undergraduate Li "eat Har
vard, I rinceton and Yale," acd as,
richly illustrated.
Political Reminiscences y Senator
Hoar, who has been in puLI.c life for
forty-hve years.
C. I). Gibson will contribute two
serial sets of drawings during ''JS, "A
New York Day," and "The Seven Ages
of American Woman."
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nnd decorations by Ma-tield 1'urrish), ii'Z
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reform it of its excesses, and to restore
it to its better uses, than to pursue an
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real, would have resulted in the elec
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singular unanimity, the voters have
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can; and it will under no circumstan
ces or conditions pursue a policy whesa
only FiFect is to continue the republi
can party in power."
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a democratic paper, of six or eight
pages, issued Wednesday and Saturday
of each week. The Wednesdav issue-
prints all the Clean News, and the.
Saturday issue prints Stories, Miscel
lany, Poetry, all matters of special in
terest in the home. It is edited by
Ilenry AVatterson.
Price $1.00 a Year.
You get 104 good papers, of six or
eight pages each, for St Less than
one cent a paper.
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Are given Club Raisers, aud good-paying
commissions are allowed agents.
Daily Courier-Journal, I year $6.00
Dally dnd Sunday. 1 year S.00
Sunday alone, x ve.ir 2.00
Twicea-Week .
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And the
CENTRAL RECORD,,
Roth one year
For Only $1.50.
We have made a special clubbing ar
rangement with the Twicj-a-week Courier-Journal,
and will send that paper
and ours for the price named to all our
subscribers who will renew and pay
in advance, or to all new subscribers
who will pay in advance. Sample
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application.
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