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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN.
ESITAHLI)fHeD IN 1834,
By CHAS. W. HANCOCK. (
VOL. 18.
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Charles F. Crisp,
Attorney at haw*
AMERICUS, GA.
decl6tf
B. P. HOLLIS
Attorney at Law
AMERICUS, GA.
Office, Forsyth Street, in National Bank
building. dec2otf
E. G SIMMONS,
Attorney (ft Law*
AMERICUS GA.,
Office in Hawkins’ building, south side of
Lamar Street, in the old office of Foit&
Simmons. janStf
J. A. AMHt EV,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
ASiD SOLICITOR IN EQHTY
Or kick, on Public Square, Over Gyles'
Clothing Store, Amehicus, Ga.
After a brief respite 1 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 titles of
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
C A I? D.
I offer my professional services again to the
good people of Americus. After thirty years’
of medical service, I have found it difficult
to withdraw entirely. Office next door to
Dr. Eldridge’s drugstore, on the Square
janlftf It. C. BLACK, M. D.
DR. BACLEY’S
INDUS VEGEI VBi E LIVER AND
KIDNEY PILLS
For sale by all Druggists in Americus.
Price 25 cents per box. jan26wly
M. H. O’DANIEL. M. D
J\ in ei-ioiiN, Gn
Office and Residence, No. 21 Barlow
House.
All calls promptly attended, day or niglit.
Calls left at Eldridge’s Drug Store.
feb7-3m
Dr. J, F. Stapleton
Offers his professional services to the people
of Americus and surrounding couutry. lie
will practice medicine, surgery, obstetrics,
and all other matters pertaining to his pro
fession. A successful experience in the past
will guarantee to him success. Calls left at
the residence of Mrs. Mary Jossey, at Dr.
Eldridge’s Drug Store, and at the office of
Drs. Head & Black, will receive prompt
attention. janl9-3m
Or. 0. P. HOLLOWAY,
DentisT,
Americas, - - - Georgia
Treatssuccessfully all diseases of the Den
tal organs. Fills teeth by the improved
method, and inserts artificial teeth on the
best material known to the profession.
BPOFFIOE over Davenport and Son’s
Drug Store. marllt
Dr. d.bagley,
P. O. Americus, Ga.
Respectfully solicits the patronage of those
afflicted with Chronic diseases; diseases of
women and children made a specialty. Hie
Doctor has had thirty-five years’ experience
in the Eclectic system of practice, eight years
of the time he has traveled and treated ex
clusively diseases of the above character.
Terms, Five Dollars, in advance, for each
months prescription and medicine. Medicine
sent by mall or express. Examinations gratis;
also the visiting of parties by rail at a dis
tance, expenses of traveling being prepaid
Parties may correspond by letter, giving a
full statement of their symptoms. Cancers
cured without the use of the knife, exceptin
advanced stages. oct27-ly
Drs. HEAD & BLA 5 K
Have permanently established the wonder
ful Vitalizing Electro Therapeutic and Elec
tro Magnetic medical dry heat and vapor
treatment rationally combined to meet all
the various Indications of the ills incident to
life, by Imparting a pleasant and vitalizing
sensation to the patient without the shock of
the old manipulations of electricity. It im
proves the complexion, renews the blood,
promotes nutrition and digestion, removes
constipation, and while removing all op
pression qf the system overcomes depression
and exhaustion, removes malaria and pre
vents Typhoid condition. It is tonic, cleans
ing the system internally and externally.
Dr. Black continues to make the treatment
of CANCERS a specialty, he guarantees a
cure of all cases under his treatment.
Office rooms over Mrs. Raines’ millinery
store. Office hours from 8 a. m. to 12 m ,
end front 2tosr. u. Consultation free.
.KOglVtf
Mrs. M. E. HAINES
HAS A
Fine Assotment of
Mas roods i
IN STOCK, SUCH AS
Jswelry, 7m and Toys!
CUPS AND SAUCERS !
Work Boxes, Writing Desks,
Paper Weights, Ink Stands,
Smoking Stands, besides
b rim iikvul mii eooßs.
AND
Millinery of aii Kinds!
Store at the same old stand, Jackson Streep,
west of tiie Public Square, Americus,Ga.
decStf
MEAT MARKET
AND
Provision Store
W. IL & T. MjDOBB
Having purchased from HARE & COBB,
the Meat Market and Provision Store, on
COTTON AVENUS,
Keep on hand the VERY BEST CUTS of
BEEF. PORK KID
AND SAUSAGE
AND ALSO A FULL LINE OF
OBEEN GROCERIES
Provisions, tote ,
embracing all kinds of Vegetables and
Fruits in their season, Canned Goods, etc.
It is their aim to keep a first-class establish
ment, and give their customers good goods
at the lowest prices.
Highest price paid for CATTLE, HOGS,
ami all kinds of COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Amehicus, Ga., Dec. 16, 1882. tf
HARDY & TGMEY,
SEAL ESTATE ABESTS,
AMERICUS, GA.
WANTED 1
Properly of all Kinds to I impose of.
Especial attention given to the
SALE OY{ LEASING
iiy p ro perty placed in our hands.
HARDY & TOMMEY,
Real Estate Agents,
fel>2l-tf Cotton Avenue.
—HUM[■■)■ Jill A Leading London
Elirgaiin Physician establishes
B B ef 8 iaEsk" an office in New York
FIB thccuresil
■3 EPILEPTIC FITS.
0| 0| 0| Am. Journal of Medlclno.
Dr. At>. Meserole (late of London), who makes n spe
cialty of Epilepsy, lias without doubt treated and cured
more case* than any other living physician. His suc
cess has airaply been astonishing; we have heard of
eases of over 20 years’ standing successfully cured by
him. He lias published a work on this disoase, which
fce sends with a largo bottle of his wonderful cure free
to any sufferer who may send tlielr express and P. O.
Address. Wi advise any one wishing a cure to address
I>i. AD. MESEKOLE, No. W John St., New York.
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PROPHYLACTIC
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A Household Article for Universal
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For Scarlet and
B ■ Typhoid Fevers,
9 Juraoicates g Diphtheria, Sall
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Chilblains, Piles, the house again i-uhree
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Rheumatism cured, i u * L ’j.
Soft White Complex- ! inson, Pruladciphia,
ions secured by its use.
Ship Fever prevented. H
T Stt^e ß S: 1 diphtheria
it can't be surpassed. fcl n , * ■
Catarrh relieved and §3 a PGVGHtGCL 9
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Erysipelas cured.
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Scars prevented. UEC Dnrb Flui[l
Dysentery cured. successfully in the treat-
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Scurvy cured. . 'A. Stollehwhrck,
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cr Vegetable Poisons,
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I used the Fluid during Cholera prevented,
our present affliction with Ulcers purified ar.d
Scarlet Fever with de- healed,
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Clirfid B convinced Darbys
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Darbys Fluid is Recommended by
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Rev. Chas. F. Deems, D.D., Church of the
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ios. LrContb,Columbia, Prof..University,S.C.
Lev. A. J. Battle, Prof., Mercer University;
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. The Fluid has been thoroughly tested, and we
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TUTTS
PILLS
A DISORDERED LIVER '
W IS THE BANE
of the present generation. is for the
Cure of this disease and its
fcICK-HEADACHE, BILIOUSNESS, DYS
PEPSIA, CONSTIPATION. PILES, etc., that
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Siscovered that acta so gently" on the
digestive organs, giving them vigor to a£
similate food. Asa natural result, the
Kervoua System is Braced, tiie Muscles
aro Developed, and the Body Robust. .
Chill® and Povor,
B. RIVAL, a Planter at Bayou Sara, La., saya
My plantation la In a malarial district. For
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account of bilious diseases and chills. I was
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They relieve 111© engorged liver, ©leans©
(he Blood from poisonous humors, and
cause the bowclo to net natnraily, tyfiUa*
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TUTTS HAIR DYE.
Guay Hair or Whiskers changed to a Glossy
Black by a single application of this Dyk. It
Imparts a natural color, and acts Instantaneously.
Sold by Druggists, or sent by express on receipt
of One Dollar.
Office, S3 Murray Street, New York.
(Dr. TUTTS MANUAL of
Information and. Useful Receipts B
tcill be mailed. F&SE cn application* ”
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Foutz’s Powders will enre or prevent almost every
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TABERNYCLE SERMONS.
BY REV. T. heWITY TALMYGK
[The Sermons of Dr. Talmage are publish
ed in pamphlet form by Geo. A. Sparks,
48 Bible House, New York. A number
containing 26 Sermons is issued every
three months. Price 30 cents, $l per an
num!. g
it.
ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA.
“A certain man nam'd Ananift, with
Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession; and
tiie young man came in, and found her
dead, and carrying her forth, buried her by
her husband.”—Acts v., 1, 10.
A well-matched pair, alike in am
bition and falsehood, Ananias and Sap
phira. They wanted a reputation for
great beneficence, and they sold all
their property, pretending to put the
entire proceeds in the charity fund
while they put much of it in their own
pocket. There was no necessity that
they give all their property away, but
they wanted the reputation of so doing.
Ananias first lied about it and drop
ped dead. Then Sapphira lied about
it and she dropped down dead. The
two fatalities a warning to all ages of
the danger of sacrificing the truth.
There is thousands of ways of telling a
lie. A man’s whole life may be a
falsehood and yet never with his lips
may he falsify once. There is a false
hood by look, by manner, as well as by
lip. There aro persons who are guilty
of dishonesty pf speech and then after
ward say “may be,” call it a white
lie, when no lie is that color. The
whitest lie ever told was as black as
perdition. There are those so given to
dishonesty of speech that they do not
know when they are lying. With
some it is an acquired sin, and with
others it is a natural infirmity. There
are those whom you will recognize as
born liars. There whole life from
cradle to grave is filled upjwith vice of
speech. Misrepresentation and prevara
cation are as natural to them as the
infantile diseases, and are a sort of
moral croup or spiritual scarlatina.
Then there are those who in after life
have opportunities of developing this
evil, and they go from deception to
deception, and from class to class, un
til they are regularly graduated liars.
At times the air in our cities is filled
with falsehood, and lies cluster around
the mechanic’s hammer, blossom on the
merchant’s yardstick, and sometimes
sit in the doors of churches. They
are called by some fabrication, and
by some fiction. You might call them
subterfuge or deceit, or romance, or
fable, or misrepresentation, or delusion;
but as I know nothing to be gained hj
covering up a God-defying sin with a
lexcographer’s blanket, I shall call
them, in plainest vernacular, lies.
They may be divided into agricultural,
commercial, mechanical, social and
ecclesiastical.
First of all, I speak of agricultural
falsehoods. There is something in the
presence of natural objects that luos u
tendency to make one pure. The trees
never issue false stock. The wheat
fields are alwnys honest, live an--
oats never move out in the night, not
paying for the place they occupy. Corn
shocks never make false assignments.
Mountain brooks are always current.
The gold of the wheat fields are never
counterfeit. But, while the tendency
of agricultural life is to make one hon
est, honesty is not the characteristic of
all who come to the city markets from
the country districts. Yon hear the
creaking of the dishonest farm wagon
in almost every street of onr great
cities, a farm wagon in which there is
not one honest spoke or truthful rivet
from tongue to tailboard. Again and
again has domestic economy in our
great cities fondered on the farmer’s
firkin. When Now York and Brook
lyn and Cincinnati and Boston sit down
and weep over their sins, Westches
ter and Long Island counties, and all
the country districts ought to sit down
and weep over theirs. The tendency
in all rural districts is to suppose that
sins and transgressions cluster in onr
great cities, but citizens and merch
ants long ago learned that it is not
safe to calculate from the character ot
the apples on the top of the farmer’s
barrels wliat is the charactsr of the
apples all the way down toward the
bottom. Many of onr citizens and
merchants have learned that it is al
ways safe to 6ee the farmer measure
the barrel of beets. Milk cans are not
always honest. There are those who
in country life seem to think they have
a right to overreach grain dealers,
merchants of all styles. They think
it more honorable to raise corn than t<>
deal in corn. The produce* sometimes
says practically to the merchaut: “You
get your money easily, anyhow.” Does
he get it easy ? While the farmer
sleeps—and he may go to sleep con
scious of the fact that his corn and rye
are all the time progressing and ad
ding to his fortune or his livelihood—
the merchant tries to sleep while con
scious of the fact that at that moment
the ship maybe driving on the rock,
or a wave sweeping over the hurricane
deck spoiling his (roods, or the specu
lators may be plotting a momentary
revolution, or the burglars may he a<
that moment at his money safe, or the
fire, may have kindled on the very
block where his store stands. Easy,
is it ? Let those who get their living
in the quiet farm and barn take the
place of one of our city merchants and
see whether it is so easy. It is hard
enough to have the hands blistered
with outdoor work, but it is harder
with mental anxieties to have the
brain consumed. God help the mer
chants. (A voice—“Amen!”) And
do not let those who live in country
life come to the conclusion that all the
dishonesties belong to city life.
I pass on to consider commercial
lives. There are those who apologize
lor deviations from the right and for
practical deception by saying it is com
mercial custom. In other words, a lie
by multiplication becomes a virtue.
There are large fortunes gathered in
which there is not one drop of sweat of
unrequited toil, and not one spark of
bad temper flashes from the bronze
bracket, and there is not one drop of
needle woman’s heart’s blood on the
crimson plush; while there are other
fortunes about which it may be said
that on every doorknob, and on every
figure of the carpet, and on every wall
there is the mark of dishonor. What
if the hand wrung by toil and blister
ed until the skin comes off should he
placed on the exquisite wall paper,
leaving its mark of blood—four’fing
ers and a thumb ? Or if in the night
the man should be aroused from his
slumber again and again by his own
conscience, getting himself up on el
bow and crying out into the darkness,
“Who is there ?” There are large for
tunes upon which God’s favor comes
down, and it is just as honest and jnst
as Christian to be affluent as it is to be
poor In many a house there is a
blessing on every pictured wall and on
every scroll, and on every traceried
window, and the joy that flashes in the
lights, and that showers in the music,
and that dances in the quick feet of the
children pattering through the hall has
iu it the favor of God and the approval
of man. And there are thousands and
tens of thousands of merchants who,
from the first day they sold a yard of
cloth or a firkin of butter, have main
tained their integrity. They were
born honest, they will live honest, and
they will die honest. But you and i
know that there are in commercial
life those who are guilty of great dis
honesties of speech. A merchant says ;
“I am selling these goods at less than
cost.” Is he getting for these goods
a price inferior to that which he paid
for them? Then he has spoken the
truth. Is he getting more ? Then he
lies. A merchant says: “I paid $25
for this article.” Is that the price
he paid for it ? All right. But sup
pose he paid for it $23 instead of $25 ?
Then he lies. But there are just as
many falsehoods before the counter as
there are behind the counter. A cus
tomer comes in and asks: “How much
is this article?” “It is five dollars.”
“I can get that for four somewhere
else.” Can he get it for four some
where else, or did he say that just for
the purpose of getting it cheap by de
preciating the value of the goods ? If
so, he lied. There are just as many
falsehoods before the counter as there
are behind the counter. A man un
rolls upon the counter a bill of hand
kerchiefs. The customer says: “Are
these all silk ?” “Yes.” “No cotton in
them ?” “No cotton in them.” Are
those handkerchiefs all silk ? Then the
merchant told the truth. Is there any
cotton in them? Then he lied. More
over, he defrauds himself, for this cus
tomer coming in from Hempstead, or
Yonkers, or Newark will, after awhile,
find out that he has been defrauded,
and the next time he comes to town
and goes shopping he will look up at
the sign and say: “No, I won’t go
there; that’s the place where I got
those handkerchiefs.” First, the mer
chant insulted God ; and secondly, he
picked his own pocket. Who would
take the responsibilty of saying how
many falsehoods were yesterday told
hv hardware men, and clothiers, and
lumbermen, and tobaccoaists, and jew
elers, and importers, and shippers, and
dealers in furniture, and dealers in coal,
and dealers in groceries ? Lies abont
buckles, abont boots, about shoes,
about harness, about coats, about
shovels, abont tongs, abont forks,
abont chairs, about sofas, abont horses,
abont lands, abont everything. I ar
raign commercial falsehood as one of
the crying sins of our time.
I pass on to speak of mechanical
falsehoods. Among tho artisans are
those upon whom we are dependent for
the houses in which we live, the gar
ments we wear, the cars in which we
ride. The vast majority of them are,
so far as I know them, men who speak
the truth, and they are upright, and
many of them are foremost in great
philanthropies and in churches; but
that they all do not belong to that class
every one knows. In times when there
is a qreat demand for labor, it is not so
easy for such men to keep their obliga
tions, because they may miscalculate
in regard to the weather, or they may
not be able to get the help they antici
pated in their enterprise. lam speak
ing now of thoso who promise to do
that which they know they will not he
able to do. They say they will come
on Monday; they do not come until
Wednesday. They say they will come
Wednesday; they do not come nntil
Saturday. They say they will have
the job done in ten days; they do not
get it done before thirty. And then
when a man becomes irritated and will
not stand it any longer, then they go
and work for him a day or two and
keep the job along; and then some one
else gets irritated and outraged, and
they go and work for that man and get
him pacified, and then they go some
where else. I believe thoy call that
“nursing the job!” Ah! my friends,
how much dishonor snch men would
save their souls if they would promise
to do only that which they know they
can do. “Oh!” they say, “it’s of no
importance; everybody expects to be
deceived and disappointed.” There is
a voice of thunder sounding among the
saws and the hammers and the shears,
saying: “All liars shall have their place
in the lake that burns with fire and
brimstone.” So in all styles of work
there are those who arc not woithy of
their work.
I pass on to speak of social lies.
How muoh of society is insincere. You
hardly know what to believe. They
send their regards; yon do not exactly
know whether it is an expression of the
heart or an external civility. They
i ask you to come to their house; you
hardly know whether they really want
yon to come. We are all accustomed
to take a discount off of what we hear.
“Not at home” very often means too
lazy to dress. I was reading this morn
ing of a lady who said she had told her
last lashio.-c.ole lie. There was a
knock at her door and she sent word
down, “Not at home.” That nigln
her husbaud said to her: “Mrs. Bo
and-so is dead. “Is it possible?” she
said. “Yes, and she died in great an
guish of mind; she wanted to see yon
so very much; she had something very
important to disclose to yon in her lasi
hour, and she sent three times to-day
but found you absent every time.”
Then this woman bethought herseit
that she had had a bargain with her
neighbor that when the long protracted
sickness was abont to come to an end,
she would appear at her bedside and
take the secret that was to be disclosed,
and she had said she was “not at
home.” Social life is struck through
with insincerity. They apologize for
the fact that the furnace is out; they
have not had any fire in it all winter.
They apologize for tho fare on their
table; they never live any better. They
decry their most luxuriant entertain
ment to win a shower of approval from
you. They point at a picture on the
wall as a work of one of tho old mas
ters. They say it is an heirloom in
the family. It hung on the wall of a
castle. A duke gave it to their grand
father! People that will lie about
nothing else will lie about a picture.
On small income we want the world to
believe we are affluent, and society to
day is struck through with cheat and
counterfeit and sham. How few people
are natural! Frigidity sail around,
iceberg grinding against iceberg. You
must not laugh outright; that is vul
gar. Yon must smile. You must not
dash quickly across the room; that is
vulgar. You must glide. Society is
a round of bows and grins and grim
aces, and simperings and nam-by-pam
byism, a whole world of which is not
worth one good honest round of laugh
ter. From Buch a hollow scene the
tortured guest retires at the close of the
evening, assuring the host that he has
enjoyed himself. Society has become
so contorted and deformed in this re
spect that a mountain cabin where the
rustics gather at a quilting or an ap
ple paring has in it more good cheer
than all the frescoed icehouses and re
frigerators of the metropolis.
I pass on to speak of ecclesiastical
lies, those which are told for the ad
vancement or retarding of a church or
sect. It is hardly worth your whileto
ask an extreme Calvinist what an Ar
menian believes. He will tel! yon an
Armenian believes that man can saw
himself. An Armenian believes no
such thing. It is hardly worth you>
while to ask an extreme Armenian tvhai
a Oalvanist believes. He will tell you
that a Calvanist believes that God
made some men jnst to damn them
A Calvinist believes no such thing, li
is hardly worth your while to ask a
Pedo-Baptist what a Baptist believes
He will tell you a Baptist believes that
immersion is necessary for salvation.
A Baptist does not believe any such
thing. It is hardly worth your while
to ask a man who very much hates
Presbyterians what a Presbyterian be
lieves. He will tell you that a Pres-
byterian believes that there are infants
in hell a span lang, and that very
phraseology lias come down from gen
(■ration to generation in the Christian
church. There never was a Presbyte
rian who believed that. “O!” you say,
“I heard some Presbyterian ministers
twenty years ago say so.” You do uot.
There never was a man who believed
that; there never will be a man who
will believe that. And yet from that
boyhood I have heard that particular
slander against a Christian church go
ing down through community. Then
how often it is that there are misrepre
sentations on the part of individual
churches in regard to other churches—
especially if a church comes to great
prosperity. As long as a church is in
poverty, and the singing is poor and
all the surroundings are decrepit, and
the congregation are so hardly bestead
in lite that their pasted goes with
elbows out, then there will alway he
Christian people in churches who say,
“What a pity!” But let the day of
prosperity come to a Christian church
and all the music be tiiumphant, anil
let there be vested assemblages, and
then there will be even ministers of the
gospel critical and denunciatory anil
full of misrepresentation and falsifica
tion, giving tho impression to the out
side world that they do not like the
corn because it is not ground in their
mill. Let ns in all departments of lile
stand back from deception. “O!”
says someone, “the deception that I
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practice is so small it don’t amount to
anything.” Ah! my friends, it does
amount to a great deal. "Oh!” you
say, “when 1 deceive it is only about a
case of needles, or a box of buttons, or
a row of pins.” But the article may
be so small you can put it in your vest
pocket, but the s : n is as big $s the
Pyramids, and the echo of your dishon
or will reverberate through the moun
tains of eternity. There is no such
thing as a small sin They are all vast
and sfupendous, because they will all
have to come under inspection in the
day of judgment. You may boast
yourself of having made a fine bargain,
a sharp bargain. You may carry out
what tho Bible says in regard to that
man who went in to make a purchase
ami depreciated the value of the goods,
and then, after he had got away, boas
ted ol the splendid bargain he had
made. “It is naught, it is naught, saith
the buyer; but when he is gone his
way, then lie boasteth.” It may seem
to the world a sharp bargain, but the
recording angel wrote down in the pon
derous tomes of eternity. “Mr. So
and-so, doing business on Fulton
street, or Atlantic street, or Broadway,
or Chestnut street, or State street,” or
“Mrs. So-and-so. keeping house on the
Heights, or on the Hill, or on Beacon
street, oron Rittenhouse square, told
one lie.” May God extirpate from so
ciety all the ecclesiastical lies, and all
she social lies, and all the mechanical
lies, and all the commercial lies, and
all the agricultural lies, and make
every man to speak the truth of his
neighbor. My friends, let us make our
life correspond to what we are. Let
us banish all deception from our beha
vior. Let us remember that the time
comes when God will demonstrate be
fore an assembled universe just what
we are. The secret will come out. We
may hide it while we live, but we can
not hide it when we die. To many life
is a masquerade ball. As at such en
tertainment gentlemen and ladies ap
pear in garb of kings or queens, or
mountain bandits, or clowns, and then
at the close of the dance put off their
disguise, so many, so many,all through
life, are in mask. The masquerade
hall goes on, and gemmed hand clasps
gemmed hand, and dancing feet respond
to dancing feet, and gleaming brow
bends to gleaming brow, and the mas
querade ball goes on. But, after
a while, the languor comes to the feet
and blurs the sight. Lights lower.
Floor hollow with sepulchral echo. Mu
sic saddens into a wail. Lights lower.
Now the masquerade is hardly seen. The
fragrance is exchanged for the sicken
ing odor of garlands that have lain a
long while in the damp of sepulchres.
Lights lower. Mists fill the room.
The scarf drops from the shoulder of
beauty, a shroud. Lights lower. Torn
leaves and withered garlands now hard
ly cover up the ulcered feet. Stench
of lamp-wicks almost quenched. Cho
king dampness. Chilliness. Feet still.
Hands toldecl. Eyes shut. Voices
hushed. Lights out!
The Bud and Worthless
are never imitated or counterfeited.
This is especially true of a family medicine,
and it is positive proof that the remedy imi
tated is of the highest value. As soon as
it had been tested and proved by the whole
world that Hop Bitters was the purest, best
and most valuable family medicine on earth
many imitations sprung up and began to
steal tiie notices in which the press and
people of the country had expressed the
merits of 11. 8., and in every way trying to
induce suffering invalids to use their stuff
instead, expecting to make money on th
credit and good name of H. B. Many others
started nostrums put up in similar style tj
11. 8., with variously devised names in
which the word “Hop” or “Hops” were
used in a way to induce people to believe
they were tiie same as Hop Bitters. All
such pretended remedies or cures, no mat
ter what their style or name is, and especi
ally those with the word “Hop” or “Hops"
in their name or in any way connected
with them or their name, are imitations or
counterfeits, Beware of them. Touch
none of them. Use nothing but genuine
Hop Bitters, with a bunch or cluster of
green Hops on the white label, Trust noth
ing else. Druggists and dealers are warned
against dealing in imitations or counterfeits.
febl7-lm
Temptation is a fearful word. It in
dicates the beginning of a possible se
rios of iniiuite evils. It is the ringing
of an alarm bell, whose melancholy
sounds may reverberate through eter
nity.
A mother who starts out in the bat
tle of life without a bottle ofShriner’s
Indian Vermifuge is like the warrior
who marched upon the battle field
weaponless. Both meet with deleat
because thoy are not prepared for the
battle.
A good wife is like the ivy which
beautifies the building to which it
clings, twining its tendrils more lov
ingly as time converts tho ancient edi
fice into a min.
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