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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1854, By CHAS. W. HANCOCK, f VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Semi-Weekly, One Year - - - 00 Weely, One Year - - - - - 2.00 in advance.® All advertisements eminating from public offices will be charged for in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia—7s cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and 35 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of one hundred are considered one hundred words; each figure and initial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. The cash must accompany the copy of each Advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. ■ ■ ' Advertising: Ratal. One Square first insertion, - - - -|1.98 Each subsequent insertion, - - - - 50 ly TEN Lines of Minion, type solid con stitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specifying the length ef time for which they are to be inserted will be continued until ordered out and charged for accordingly. Advertisements tooccupy fixed places will be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates Notices in local column inserted for ten cent per line each insertion. Charles F. Crisp, Attorney at Law- AMERICUS, CIA. deciGtf B. P. HOLLIS, Attorney at Law* AMERICUS, GA. Office, B'orsyth Street, in National Bank building. dec2otf .J. A. ANSLEY 7" ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICITOR IN EQFITV. Office on Public Square, Over Gyles' Clothing Store, Americus, Ga. After a brief respite I return again to the practice of law. As in the past it will be my earnest purpose to represent my clients faithfully and look to their interests. The commercial practice will receive close atten tion and remittances promptly made. The Equity practice, and cases involving titlesof land and real estate are my favorites. Will practice in the Courts of Southwest Georgia, the Supreme Court and the United States Courts. Thankful to my friends for their patronage. Fees moderate. novlltf Dr. D. ?. HOLLOWAY. DewtisT, Americus, - Georgia Treatssuccessfullyall diseases of the Den tal organs. Fills teeth by the improved method, and inserts artificial teeth on the best material known to the profession. EFOFFICE over Davenport and Son’s Drug Store. marllt Change of Firm. THE FORMER FIRM OF CROCKER & TULLIS, ON COTTON AVENUE, has been dissolved by the purchase of Mr. C. E. CROCKER’S interest by Mr. B. 11. JOSSEY, and the new firm of TULLIS & JOSSEY, will assume the responsibilities of the for mer firm, and will he pleased to have their friends call and examine their new and low priced stock of goods. TULLIS & JOSSEY, decistf Americus, Ga. THE CELEBRATED SEXTUPLE SPRING BED. To breathe, eat and sleep well is the first requirement of physical organization. S. FLEISOHMAN’S SEXTUPLE BED SPRING. [Patented Aug. 22, 1882. L Is the first and foremost to accomplish this end, as it facilitates the first, accelerates the second, and perfects the last of these grand purposes. It Is a “thlngof beauty and a [oy forever.” Last with life, perfect in its adaptation forcomlort, being disconnect ed in the center prevents sagging. Made by S. M- LESTER, who will put them on, and is from long experience aide to guarantee satisfaction. AGENTS WANTED to sell these Springs. Territory and Spring outfit furnished and large commissions paid. S. FLEISCHMAN, Patentee and Manufacturer, octll-6m Cotton Ave., Americus. Ga. BRICK. BRICK. BRICK. I hare THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND good new brick, which I wifi sell cheap. Apply at once. decOim K. E. COBB. "LUMBER FOR SALEr One hundred and fifty thousand feet of assorted LUMBER for sale, at 75 cents, per hundred feet. Apply soon. novl7tf JESSE SALTER. CkeGuTaTORJ tangement of Liver, Bowels and Kidneys. SYMPTOMS OF A DISEASED DIVER. Bad Breath; Pain in the Side, sometimes the pain is felt under the Shoulder-blade, mistaken for Rheumatism; general loss of appetite; Bowels generally costive, sometimes alternating with lax; the head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy, with considerable loss of memory, accompanied with a painful sensation of leaving undone something which ought to have been done; a slight, dry cough and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often mistaken for consumption; the patient complains of weariness and debility; nervous, easily startled; feet cold or burning, sometimes a prickly sensation of the skin exists; spirits are low and despondent, and, although satisfied that exercise would be bene ficial, yet one can hardly summon up fortitude to try k—ln fact, distrusts every remedy. Several of the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases have occurred when but few of them existed, yet examination after death has shown the Liver to have been extensively deranged. It should be used by all persons, old and young, whenever any of the above symptoms appear. Persons Traveling or Living in Un healthy Localities, by taking a dose occasion ally to keep the Liver in healthy action, will avoid aU Malaria, Bilious attacks, Dizziness, Nau sea, Drowsiness, Depression of Spirits, etc. It will invigorate like a glass of wine, but is no in toxicating beverage. If You have eaten anything hard of digestion, or feel heavy after meals, or sleep less at night, take a dose and you will be relieved. Time and Doctors’ Dills will be saved by always keeping the Regulator * in tho House! For, whatever the ailment may be, a thoroughly safe purgative, alterative and tonic can nev.er dc out of place. The remedy is harmless and does not Interfere with business or pleasure. IT IS PURELY VEGETABLE, And has all the power and efficacy of Calomel or Quinine, without any of the injurious after effects. A Governor’s Testimony. Simmons Liver Regulator has been in use in my family for some time, and I am satisfied it is a valuable addition to the medical sciencfr. J. Gill Shorter, Governor of Ala. Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Ga., says: Have derived some benefit from the use of Simmons Liver Regulator, and wish to give it a further trial. “The only Thing that never fails to Relieve.”—l have used many remedies for Dys pepsia, Liver Affection and Debility, but never have found anything to benefit me to the extent Simmons Liver. Regulator has. I sent from Min nesota to Georgia for it, and would send further for such a medicine, and would advise all who are sim ilarly affected to give it a trial as it seems the only thing that never fails to relieve. P. M. Janney, Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. T. W. Mason says: From actual ex perience in the use of Simmons Liver Regulator in my practice I have been and am satisfied lo use and prescribe it as a purgative medicine. only the Genuine, which always has on the Wrapper the red Z Trade-Mark and Signature of J. 11. ZEILIN & CO. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. TUTT’S -EIFtCTOMHT la composed of Herbal and Mucilaginous prod ucts, which permeate tlie substance of the Dungs, expectorates tlie acrid matter that collects ia the Bronchial Tubes, and forms a soothing coating, which relieves the ir ritation that causes the cough. It cleanses the lungs of all impurities, strengthens them when enfeebled by disease,invigor ates the circulation of the blood, and braces tho nervous system. Slight colds often end in consumption. It is dangerous to neglect them* Apply the remedy promptly* A test of twenty ycars/warrants the assertior that no remedy has ever been found that Is as prompt mils effects as TUTT’S EXPECTORANT. 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SIMPSON, Louisville, Ky. eDffieoiJl 5 Murray St., New York, f Dr. TUTT’S MANUAL of FseftiL ' Receipts FREE on application. / ((OSTETTEu^ inters Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters Rives steadiness to the nerves, induces a healthy, natural flow of bile, prevents constipation withoutunduly purging the bowels, gently stimulates the circulation, and by promoting a vigorous condition of the physical system, promotes, also, that cheerfulness -which is the truost indication of a well-balanced condition of all the animal powers. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally. DAVENPORT’S Belle of Americus, Davenport & Son Are Sole Agents for BELLE OF AMERI CUS. It is made of the best Havanna, long fillers, is not flavored or doctored and the only 5c Cigar im the market that is as good as an imported cigar. bct6-5m "to rent. TWO FINE PLANTATIONS, ALSO MULES, CORN, FODDER, dOTTON SEED and TOOLS on the farms. Apply at once io Mrs. E. BARLOW, o.WStf orJNO. WINDSOR.. INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS, AMERICUS, GEORGIA; SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1888. TABERNACLE SERMONS. B¥ REV. T. DeWITT TALMAGE THE STAB. “And 10, the star which they saw in the East went before them.”— St. Matthew ii. 9. The old sexton of the village church is about to put his hand ou the rope m the bell. The cylinder of the chime oi the city belfry i beginning readjusted. All around the world the air will vi brate with sweetest tintinnabulation with the roar of cathedral tower, the jingle of the lighter metal submerged by the overmastering boom. When this afternoon at 4.38 o’clock the sun sets, there will come on a night of jubi lant commemoration. Two plain peo ple centuries ag® hotelled in a village barn after a walk of eighty miles, too long a trudge for one in poor health. No lords of state awaiting in ante-cham ber as when other kings are born, no messengers mounted at the doorway ready to herald the advent Iroin city to city, no medical skill in attendance, no satin-lined cradle to receive the infantile guest, but a monarch born in the hos telry called the house of Chim Ham, the night with diamonded finger point ing down to the place; the door of heaven open that it may look out; from orchestral batons of light dripping the oratorios of the Messiah; on lowest doorstep of heaven the minstrels ot.God discoursing of glory and good cheer. Soon after tho white-bearded astrolo gists kneel, and from leathern pouch chink the sheckels, and from open sacks exhale the frankincense and rustle out the bundles of myrrh; the loosened star, the escaped doxology of celestials, the chill December night afiush with Mav morn; our world a lost star, and anoth er star rushing down the sky that night to beckon wanderer home again, shall yet make all nations keep Christ mas. Are there no new lessons from the story not yet hackneyed by oft re peating? O! yes. Know, in the first place, it was a siderate appearance that led the way. So, the star which they saw in the East went before them.” Why not a black cloud in the shape of a hand or finger- pointing, down to the sacred birth place? A cloud means trouble, and the world had had trouble enough. Why not a shaft of light ning, quivering and flashing and strik ing down to the sacred birthplace? Lightning means destruction—a shat tering and consuming power —and the world wants no more destruction. But it was a star, and that means joy, that means hope, that means good cheer, that means ascendency. A star! That means creative power, for did not the morning stars sing together when the portfolio of the world was opened? A star! That means defence, for did not the stars fight in their course against Sisera and for the Lord’s people? A star! That means brilliant continu ance, for are not the righteous to shine as the stars forever and ever? A star! That means the opening of eternal joy. The day star in the heart. The morn ing star of the Redeemer. The unusual appearance that night may have been a strange conjunction of words. As the recent transit of Venus was fore told many years ago by astronomers,and astronomers can tell what will be the conjunction of worlds a thousand years from now, so they can calculate back wards; and even infidel astronomers have been compelled to testify that about the year one there was a very unusual appearance in the heavens. The Chinese record, of course entirely independent of the Word of God, gives as a matter of history that about the year one there was a strange and unac countable appearance in the heavens. But it may have been a meteor, such as you and I have seen flash to the horizon. Only a few nights ago I saw in the northern sky a star shoot and fall with such brilliancy and precision, that if I had been on a hill as high as that of Bethlehem, on which the shepherds stood, I could have marked within a short distance the place of the alight ing. The University of lowa and the British Museum have specimens of me teoric stones picked np in the fields, fragments flung off from other worlds, leaving a fiery trail on the sky. So that it is not to me all improbable, the stellar or the metoric appearance on that night of which we speak. I only care to know that it was bright, that it was silvery, that it flashed and swaved and swung and halted with joy illustrious; as though Christ, in haste to save our world, had rushed down without his coronet and the angels of God had hurled it after him! Not a black cloud of threat, but a gloaming star of hope is our glorious Christianity. One glimpse of that stellar appearance kin dled up the sonl of the sick and dying college student until words flashed from his fingers and the star seemed to pout its light from his white lips as Kirk White wrote these immortal words; When, marshalled on the nightly plain, The glittering hosts bestrewed the sky, One star alone of all the train Can fix the sinner’s wandering eye Hark!—hark to God—the chorus breaks From every host, from every gem; But one alone, the Saviour speaks: It is the Star of Bethlehem! Once on the raging seas I rode; The storm was late, the night was dark, And rudely blew the wind that tossed my foundr ringbark. Deep horror than my vitals froze: Death-struck, I ceased the tide to stem— When suddenly a star arose; It was the Star of Bethlehem. Notice also in this scene that other worlds seemed to honor our Lord and Master. Bright star of the night, wheel on thine orbit. “No.” said the star, For Dyspepsia, Costiveness, tSick Headache, Chronic Diar rhoea, Jaundice, Impurity of the Blood, Fever and | Ague, Malaria, and all Diseases caused by De- “I most come nearer, and I must find and I must watch and see what you do with my Jesus.” Another world that night joined our world in worship. That star made a bow of obeisance. I sometimes hear people talk of Christ’s dominion as though it were to be mere ly the few thousand miles of the worlds circumference; but I believe the millions and the billions and the quadrillions of worlds are all inhabited, if not by such creatures as we are, still such creatures as God designed to make, and that all these worlds are a part of Christ’s do minion. Isaac Newton, and Kepler, and Herschel only went on Columbus’ voyage to find these continents of our King’s domain. I think all worlds were loyal but this. The great organ of the universe, its pedals and its pipes and its keys all one great harmony, save one injured pedal, save one broken stop of oUr world—the vox human of the human race. Now you know that howsver grand the instrument may be, if there be one key out of order it spoils the harmony, and Christ must mend this key. He must restore this broken stop. You know with what bleeding hand, and with what pierced side, and with what crushed feet He did the work. But the world shall be attuned and all worlds will be yet accordant. Isle of Wight larger in comparison with the British Empire than our island of a world is compared with Christ’s vast domain. If not, why that celestial escort? If not, why that sentinel with blazing badge above the caravansary? If not, why that midnight watchman in the balcony of heaven? Astronomy surrendered that night to Christ. This planet for Christ. The solar system for Christ. Worlds ablaze and worlds burnt out—all worlds for Christ. In tensest microscope cannot see the one side of that domain. Further reaching telescope cannot find the other side of that domain. But I will tell yen how the universe is bounded. It is bounded on the north and south, and east and west, and above and beneath by God. and that God is Christ, and that Christ is God, and that God is ours. O! does it not enlarge your ideas ot a Saviour’s dominion when I tell you that all the worlds are only sparks struck from His anvil? That all the worlds are only the fleecy flocks following the one Shep herd? That all the islands of light in immensity are one great archipelago belonging to our King? But this scene also impresses me with the fact that the wise men of the East came to Christ. They were not fools, they were not imbeciles. The record distinctly says that the wise men came to Christ. We say they were the magi, or they were the alchem ists, or they were the astrologists, and we say it with depreciating accentua tion. Why, they were the most splen did and magnificent men ot the century. They were the naturalists and the scientists. They knew all that was known. You must remember that as trology was the mother of astronomy, and that alchemy was the mother of chemistry, and because children are brighter than the mother you do not despise the mother. It was the lifelong business of these astrologers to study the stars. Twenty-two hundred and fifty years before Christ was born the wise men knew the procession of the equinoxes, and they had calculated the orbit and the return of the comets. Prof. Smith declares that he thinks they understood the distance of the sun from the earth. We find in the book of Job that the men of olden time did not suppose the world was fiat, as some have said, but that he knew and the men of his time knew the world was globular. The pyramids were built for astrological and atronomical study. Then the alchemists spent their lives in the study of metals and gasses and liquids and solids, and in filling the world’s library with their wonderful discoveries. They were vastly wise men who came from the East. They understood embalmment as our most scientific men cannot understand it. After we have gone on in studying hun dreds and thousands of years we may come up to the point where some of tlie ancient wise men began to forget. I believe the lost arts are as mighty as the living arts. They were wise men that came from the East, and tradition says the three wisest came—Casper, a young man; Balthazar, a man in mid life, and Melchior, an octogenarian— the three wisest men of all the century. They came to the manger. So it has always been. The wisest men come to Christ; the brainest men come to the manger. Who was the greatest meta physician this country ever has pro duced? Jonathan Edwards, the Chris tian. Who.was the greatest astrono mer of the world? Herschel, the Chris, tian. Who was the greatest poet ever produced? John Milton, the Christian. Who was the wisest writer in law? Blackstone, the Christian. Who is the mightiest intellect in Great Britain to-day? Gladstone, the Christian. Why is it that every college and uni versity in the land has a chapel? They must have a place for the wiso men to worship. Come now, Ist ns under stand by ounces and inches this whole matter. In post mortem examination the brain of distinguished men has been examined, and I will find the 'largest, the heaviest, the mightiest brain ever produced in America, and I ask what that brain thought of Christ. Here it is, the brain weighing fifty eight ounces, the largest brain ever produced in America. Now let me find what the brain thought of Christ. In the dying moment that man said: “Lord, I believe; help Thon mine un belief. Whatever else I do, Almighty God, receive me to Thyself, tor Christ’s sake. This night I shall be in life and joy and blessedness.” So Daniel Web ster came to the manger. The wise men of the East followed by the wise men of the West. Know also in this scene that it was a winter month that Christ chose for His son’s nativity. Had it been tht month of May—that is the season of blossoms. Had He been born in the month of June—that is the season of roses. Had He been born in the month of July—that is the season of great harvests. Had He been born in the month of September—that is the season of ripe orchards. Had He been born in the month of October—that is the reason of upholstered forests. But He was born in the month of December, when there are no flowers blooming out of doors, and when all the harvests that have not been gathered up have perished, and when there are no fruits ripening on the hill, and when the leaves are drifted over tho bare earth. It was in closing December that Ho was horn to show that this is a Christ tor people in sharp blast, for people un der clouded sky, for people with frosted hopes, for people with thermometer be low zero, for people snowed under. A December Christ! That is the reason He is so often found among the desti tute. Yon can find Him on any night coming off the moors. You can see Him any night coming through the dark lanes of the city. You can see Him putting His hands under the faint ing head in the pauper’s cabin. He remembers how the wind whistled around the caravansary in Bethlehem that December night, and he is in sym pathy with all those who in their pov erty hear the shutters clatter on a cold night. It was this December Christ that Washington and his army wor shipped at Valley Forge, when without blankets they lay down in the Decem ber snow. It was this Christ that the Pilgrim Fathers appealed to when the Mayflower wharfed at Plymouth Rock, and in the years that went by the graves digged were more in number than the houses built. O! I tell yon we want a December Christ—not a Christ for fair weather, but a Christ for dark days, clouded with sickness, and chilled with disappointment, and suffocating with bereavement, and terrific with wide open graves. Not a springtime Christ, not a summer Christ, not an autumnal Christ, but a winter Christ. O! this suffering and struggling world needs to be hushed, and soothed, and rocked, and lullabied in the arms of sympathet ic omnipotence. No mother never with more tenderness put her foot on the rocker of the cradle of a sick child than Christ comes down to us, to this inva lid world, and 11. rocks it into placid ity and quietness as He says; “My peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you.” O! you broken-hearted; O! you persecuted and tried souls; Olyou burden-bearers, this day I declare unto you a December Christ. Notice, also, a fact which no one seems to notice—that this Christ was born among the sheep, and the cattle, and the horses, and the camels, in order that He might be an alleviating influ ence to the whole brute animal crea tion. It means mercy for overdriven, underfed, poorly sheltered, galled and maltreated creation. Hath the Christ who compared Himself to a dove no care for the cruelties of tho pigeon shooting? Hath the Christ who com pared Himself to a lamb no care for the sheep that are tied and contorted, and with neck over the sharp edge of the butcher’s cart or the cattle train, in hot weather, from Omaha to New York with no water—l,soo miles of agony. Hath the Christ whose tax was paid by a fish, the coin taken from its mouth, no care for the tossing fins in the fish market? Hath the Christ who strung with His own hand the nerves of dog and cat no indignation for the horrors of vivisection? Hath the Christ who said, “Go to the ant” no watchfulness for the transfixed insects? Hath the Christ who said, “Behold the fowl of the air.” Himself never beheld tlie out rages heaped upon the brute creation which cannot articulate its grief? This Christ came not only to lift the human race out of its trouble, bat to lift out of trouble and hardship the animal crea tion - And in the glorious millennial time the child shall lead the lion and play with the cockatrice only because brute and reptile shall have no more wrongs to "avenge. To alleviate the condition of the brute creation, Christ was born in the cattle pen—the first bleat of the Lamb of God heard amid the tired flocks of the Beth lehem shepherds; the white horse of eternal victory stabled in a barn. But notice also in this account the three Christmas presents that are brought to the manger. Gold, frankin cense and myrrh. Gold to Christ— that means all the affluence of the world brought to Christ. For lack of money, no more asylums limping on their way like the cripples whom they helped, feeling their slow way like the blind people whom they sheltered. Millions of dollars for Christ where there are now thousands for Christ. Railroads owned by Christian stock holders, and governed by Christian directors, and carrying passengers and freight at Christian prices. George Peabodys and Abbot Lawrences and James Len noxes no rarity. Bank of England, Bctirse of France, United States Treas ury, all tho moneyed institntions of the world for Christ; the gold for Christ. That not merely paid the way for Joseph and Mary and .the divine fugi tive into Egypt, but it was typical of the fact that Christ’s way shall be paid all around the world. The gold for Christ, the silver for Christ, the jewels for Christ. Australia, Nevada and Golconda for Christ. The bright, round, beautiful jewel of a world set like a solitaire on the bosom ofChrist! But I notice that these wise mco also shook out from their sacks the myrrh. The cattle came and they snuffed at it. They did not eat it because it was bit ter. The pungent gum rosin of Abys sinia called myrrh brought to the feet of Christ. That means bitterness. Bitter betrayal, bitter persecution, bit ter days of suffering, hitter nights of woe. Myrrh. Tnat is what they put into His cup when he was dying. Myrrh. That is what they put under His head in the wilderness. Myrrh. That is what they strewed His path with all the way from the cattle pen in Bethlehem to the mausoleum at Joseph’s country seat. Myrrh. “Yea,” says the psalmist, “all thy garments smell of myrrh.” That is what the wise men wrapped in the swaddling clothes of the babe, of a crucified Christ. The myrrh. O, the height, the depth, the length, the breadth of the Saviour’s sorrow. Well might the wise men shake out the myrrh. * Rut I notice, also, from another sack they shake out the frankincense. Clear up to the rafters of the barn the air is all filled with perfume, aud the hostlers and the camel drivers in the furthcrest part of the building inhaled it, and it floats out upon the air until the passers by wonder who in that rough place could hayo by accident dropped and broken abox of alabaster. Frankincense. That is what they burned in the censer in the ancient temple. Frankincense. That means worship. Frankincense. That is to fill all the homes, and all the churches, and all the capitals, and all the nations, from cellar of stalactited cave clear up to the silvery rafters of the starlit dome! Frankincense. That is what we shake out from our -hearts to-day, so that the nostrils of Christ, once crimsoned with the hemorrhage of the cross, shall he flooded with the per fume of a world’s adoration. Frank incense. Frankincense in song and sermon and offertory and handshaking and decoration. Praise Him, mountains and hills, valleys and seas, and skies and earth and heaven-cyclone with your trumpets, northern lights with your flaming ensign, morning with your castles of cloud, and evening with your billowing clouds of sunset. Do you know how they used to hold the censer in the olden time, and what it was made of. Here is a metal pan, and the handle by which it was held. In the inside of this metal pan were put living coals, on the top of them a perforated cover. In a square box the frankincense was brought to the temple. This frankincense was taken out and sprinkled over the living coals, and then the perforated cover was put on, and when they were all ready for worship, then the cover was lifted from this censer, and the covers were lifted from all tho other censers, and the perfumed smoke until it hung amid all the folds and dropped amid all the al tars, and then rose in great columns of praise outside and above the temple, rising clear up toward the throne of God. So we have two censers to-day of Christmas frankincense. Here is the one censer of earthly frankincense. On that we put our thanks for the mer cies of the past year, the mercies of all our past lives, individual mercies, fam ily mercies, national mercies, and our hearts, building with gratitude, send aloft the incense of praise toward the throne ofChrist. Bring on more incense and higher and higher let the columns of praise ascend. Let them wreath all these pillars and hover amid all these arches, and then soar to the throne. But here is the other censer of heavenly thanksgiving and worship. Let them bring all their frankincense—the cher ubim bring theirs, and the seraphim theirs, and the one hundred and forty and four thousand theirs, and all the eternities theirs, and let them smoke with perfume on this heavenly censer until tho cloud canopies the throne of God. Then I take these two censers— the censer of earthly frankincense and the censer of heavenly frankincense— and I swing them before the throne, and then I clash them together in one great hallalnjah tint® Him to whom the wise men of the East brought the gold and the myrrh and the frankincense as the star which they saw in the East went before them. A Fatal Mistake, would be not to take R. V. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery” if you are billious, suffering from impure blood, or fearing consumption (scrof ulous disease of the lungs.) Sold by all druggists. The finer the nature, tlie more flaws will it show through the clearness of it. The best things are seldomest seen in their best form. The wild grass grows well and strongly one year with another, but this wheat is, by reason of its great nobleness, liable to a bitter blight. Notice to Druggists and Storekeep ers. I guarantee Shiner’s Indian Vermifuge to destroy and expel worms from the human body, where they exist, if used according to the directions. You are authorized t 6 sell it on the above conditions. David E. Foutz, Proprietor, Baltimore, Md. NEW VARIETY ! Extra Early Pearl Onion Sets! Grows larger, comes earlier, is mild er and better than any other variety. Plant once and you will always plant them in the future. They can be had at Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store. , | FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. NO. 30. FOOD FOR THOUGHT. The world doe. not require so mnoh to be informed as to be reminded. Aou had better take for business a man somewhat absurd than over for mal. The best remedy against an evil com panion is to refuse an introduction to him. Slumber not in the tents of your col umns. The world is advancing, ad vance with it. All the scholastic scaffolding falls as a ruined edifice before one sing!, word—faith. Action may not always bring hap piness without action. To correct an evil which already ex ists is Bot'-so wise as to foresee and prevent it. The devil always either comes him self or sends someone when you call for him. To prove a fool is simply lost labor: therefore do not sit down and scold yourself. The master of superstition is the peo ple. And in all superstition wise men follow fools. It was old Sam Johnson who said: “ Words are men’s daughters, but God’s sins are things. \\ hen you receive a favor you ought never to forget it; when you do one you ought not to remember it. Common sense does not ask an im possible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game. “Raise no more spirits than you can conjure down,” is the motto of the liq uor dealers of this country. Talking very much and lying just a little are a good deal nearer to each other than most people think. We think our civilization is near its meridian, but we are yet only at the eockcrowing and the morniDg. Be independent as far as a man can he if you would honor yourself; or be hon ored by others, or be happy. You must have confidence in your abil ities to serve the public, if you desire to contribute to their wants. Exact nothing beyond your just dues; exhorbitant claims engender distrust, and bar the way to advancement. Every man knows what is right, even if, as Swift says, “his under standing, at the best, is of the middling size. Live according to your light, and seek not to diminish the reputation of others in order to increase your own. Be courageous and noble-minded; our own heart, and not other men’s opinions of us, forms our true honor. Nothing makes the world seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance, they make the latitudes and longitudes. It is probable that the world owes every man a living, but liis best claim for what is due is that he has earned it. Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for 1,000 years do not spring up in beauty like a reed. If “prosperity is the worst enemy man ever had,” we can only say that all our life we have been surrounded by fronds. Pleasure may he aptly compared to many great books, which increase in real value in the proportion they are abridged. There is very little that we do in the way of helping our neighbors that does not come back in blessings on our selves. We live in progressive times. Holmes said only ten years ago. “Put not your trust in money, put your money in trust,” but we have learned that it is not safe to do even that. Every duty well done adds to the moral and spiritual stature. Each op portunity eagerly grasped and used is the key to larger privdeges. The next thing to excellence is to love excellence, and to love its opposite is to be its opposite. To hate excel lence is to be at its opposite pole. As in nature things move more vio lently to their place, and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition ie violent; in authority, settled and calm. To express no move than is really meant is one of tho first steps towards correct speech, just as careful pruning is as important to the vine as a rich soil. The history of every discovery, of every enterprize, of benevolence, of every reform, is the history of toil and watching through long discourage ments. Simple-minded John Wesley, when preaching against riches, “To ride in a coach here and to get to heaven here after” is almost too much for any man to ask. A sharp retort is sometimes better riian an argument. When Sir John became exasperated at a puppy who persisted in asking impertinent ques tions he suddenly turned upon him and said, “Who pays the dog tax for yon, sir?” and there really seemed no room for further remarks. A fear that present joys are “too good to last,” and that a sadder day ie coming, is hardly less common, and not a whit more excusable, than the thought that the former days were bet ter than these. If Spring puts forth no blossoms, in Summer there will be n. beauty, and in Autumn no fruit. So, if youth be trifled away without improvement, riper years will be contemptible, and old age miserable.