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THE SE VII-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN, ESTABLISHED IN 1854, Bv CM AS. W. HANCOCK VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Bbmi-Weekly, One Year - - - 54 90 Weeks, One Year - - - - - 2.00 SSTPaiable in advance.® All advertisements emulating from public ffices 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 Saits of one hundred are considered one undred words; each figure and initial, with date and signature, isjdouuted as a word. l'he cash must accompany the copy of each advertisement, unless • different arrange ments have been made. A.<lvrtiNtug Kates. One Square hi st insertion, - - - -51.00 Each subsequent insertion, - - - - 50 ;■#* lK Lines of Hiuioa, type solid con stitute a square All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specifying the length *f time for which they are to be inserteo will be continued until ordered out and charged for accordingly. Advertisements to occupy fixed places wifi be charged 25 per cent, auove tegular rates Not.ces in local column inserted for tea cent per line each insertion. Charles F. Crisp, Attorney at Law, AMERICUS, GA. dcc!6tf B. P. HOLLIS Attorney at J Law* AMERICUS, GA. Office, Forsyth Street, in National Bank building. dec2otf E. G. SIMMONS, Attorney at Law 9 AMERICUS GA., Office in Hawkins’ building, soutli side of -Lamar Street, in the old office of Fort* Simmons. janGtf J. A. ANBLEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICITOR IN EQUITY, 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 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 ARD. I offer my professional services again to the good people of Amerffcus. After thirty years’ of medical service, I have found It difficult to withdraw entirely. Office next door to Dr. Eldridge’s drug store, on the Square janl7tf It. C. BLACK, M. D. DR. BACLEY’S INDIAN VEGETABLE LITER AND KIDNEY PILLS. For sale by all Druggists in Americus. Price 25 cents per box. jan26wly Or. D.P. HOLLOWAY, DentisT, Americas. - - - Georgia Treatssuccessfully ill diseasesof the Den tal organs. Fills teeth by the Improved and inserts artificial teeth on the best material known to the profession. tarOFFICE over Davenport and Son’s Drug Store. marllt M. H. O’DANIEL. M. D Americus, Ga. Office and Residence, No. 21 Barlow House. All calls promptly attended, day or night. Calls left at Eldridge’s Drug Store. feb7-3m THEJSUN nßgff THE SUN’S first aim is to he truthful and useful, its second,to write an entertaining history of the times in which we live. It prints, on an average, more than a million copies a week. Its circulation is now larger than ever before. Subscription; Daily (4 35c. a month, or to.so a year; Sunday (8 pages), *1.20 per year; Weekly (8 pages), •1 per year. I, W. ENGLAND, Publisher, , New York City. CONSUMPTION. I hßve A positive remedy for the above and if ease; by it* nse thousands of crush or the worst kind *nd of long standing have been ourod. Indeed, so 1 • in Us efficacy, that I will aeiid TWO BOTTLES FKKK. together with a V> LUABLE TREATISE on this disease, to any sufferer, (live Express and I*. O. address. j DR. T. A. BLOtJUM. I®l Pearl St., Nsw York. DIVORCES.— No publicity; residents of any State. Desertion, Non-Support. Advice and applications for stamp. W. H. Lee, Att’y, 239 Broadway, New York, ADVERTISERS by addressing GEO. P. ROWELL & CO., 10 Spruce Street, New York, can learn the exact cost of any pro posed line of ADVERTISING in American Newspapers. I3FIOO page Pamphlet, 25c. THE ATLANTA SUNDAY PHONOGRAPH Is a lively, spicy Sunday paper, devoted to Local, General, Miscellaneous, Society and Dramatic news, together with Choice Sto ries, Poetry and Literary matter. Samples can be had for a one-cent stamp. Address, feb2-3m PHONOGRAPH. Atlanta, Ga. For Sale I offer a splendid little 40-acre farm three •barters a of mile northwest from Americus i. Ga. Thera is on the place a six-room frame the rooms plastered and very com fortable; house almost new; all necessary outbuildings on the place, and everything in good ordfer, including stable and carriage | bouse. The land lies well for cultivation, | and the soil with ordinary attention could ebe made to produce profitably; excellent water on the place. For price and terms, apply to W. J. DIBBLE, W7-tf Real Estate Agent F i vangement of Liver, Bowels and Kidneys. BYMPTOM3 OF A DISEASED LIVER. 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 seipatiori of leaving undone something which ought to nave 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 De bene ficial, yet one can hardly summon up fortitude to try it—in fact, distrusts every remedy. Several of the above symptoms al tend 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 all 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* Bills will bo saved by always keeping the Regulator _ > in tho House! For, whatever the ailment may be, a thoroughly safe purgative, alterative and tonic can never be 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 elfccts. 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 science. 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 fall* to Relieve.*’ — l have used many remedies for Dyt- 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 to use and prescribe it as a purgative medicine. only the Genuine, which always ha* on the Wrapper the red Z Trade-Mark and Signature of J. 11. ZEILIN & CO. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. TUTTS PILLS A DISORDERED LIVER IS THE BANE of the present generation. It Is for the Cure of this disease and its attendants, fiICK-HEADACHE, BILIOUSNESS. DYS PEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, PILES, etc., that TBITS PILLS have gained a workf-wida reputation. No Remedy haa ever been discovered that acta so gfintly on the digestive organa, giving them vigor to aa ■imilate food. Aa a natural result, the nervous System is Braced, the Mubclb. are Developed, and tho Body .Robust. ClilUa and Fever, B. RIVAL, a Planter at Bayou Sara, La., says. My plantation Is In a malarial district. For several years I could not make half a crop on account of bilious diseases and chills. I was nearly discouraged when I began tho use of TUTT'S PILLS. The result wao marvelous: my laborers soon became hearty and robust, and I have had no further trouble. They relieve tho engorged Liver, eleuus Che Blood from poisonous humors, and cause Che bowels to acC naturally, with out which no one can feel well. Try this remedy thirty, and you wf lljrata a healthy Digestion, Vigorous Body. Pure Blood, Strong Nerves, and a Sound Liver, Price, 23Cents. Office, 39 Murray IL, N. T. TUTT’S HAIR DYE. Gray Hair or Whiskers changed to a Glossy Black by a single application of this Dyb. It Imparts a natural color, and acts instantaneously. Sold by Druggists, or sent by express on receipt of One Dollar. Office, 8B Murray Street, New York. (Dr. TUTTS MANUAL of Folwabfh'w Information and Uoeful Mteeoiptm I mill be mailed FUE on application* J tfOSIETTEIft *!TTER s What the great restorative, Ilostetter’s Stomach Bitters, will do, must be gathered from what it has done. It lias effected rad ical cures in thousands of cases of dyspep sia, bilious disorders, intermittent fever, nervous affectations, general debility, con stipation, sick headache, mental despon dency, and the peculiar complaints and dis abilities to which the feeble are so subject. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally. POUTZ’S HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS flows *sl <ttf Of COUO, Bor. or Lrsio Fe ns. If Fonts'. Powder, are need in time. Fontz's Powders will cure and prevent Ho© Cholera. E°2K5 £ oW J derß will prevent Gapes ix Fowls. Fount's Powders will increase the quantity of mflk and crerun twenty per cent., and make tho butter Arm and sweet. Foutx's Powdera will cure or prevent almost kteby Dwkabs to which Horses and Cottle are subject. EH** • POWDKBS WILL GIVE SATIMTACTIWr. Bold everywhere. PAVID S. *oo*2. Proprietor, \ PALPZXQ9 V MP, INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, §CIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1883. TABERNACLE SERMONS. BY BEY. T. DeWITT TALMAGE [The Sermon, 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 mouths. Price 30 cents, |1 per an num], HELPFULNESS. “Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.”—-Galatians, vi, 2- Evory man for himself. If there be room for upon one more passenger in the lifeboat, get in yourself. If there be a burden to lift, you supervise while others shoulder it. You be the digit while others are the ciphers on the right hand side—nothing in themselves but augmenting you. In opposition to that theory of selfishness; Paul ad vances in my text the gospel theory; “Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.” Every body has burdens. Sometimes they come down upon the shoulders, some times they come down upon the head, sometimes they come down upon the heart. Looking over this assembly you all seem well and bright and easy; but each one has a burden to lift, and some of you have more than you can lift. Paul proposes to split up these burdens into fragments. You take part of mine and I must take part of yours, and each one will take part of the other’s, and so we will fulfil the law of Christ, Mrs. Appleton, of Bos ton, the daughter of Daniel Webster, was dying, after long illness. The great lawyer, after pleading an impor tant cause in the court room, on his way home stopped at the house of his daughter and went into her sick room. She said to him, “Father why are you out to-day in this cold weather without an overcoat?” The great lawyer went into the next room and was in a flood of tears, saying, “Dying herself, yet thinking only of me.” O, how much more beautiful is care for others than this everlasting taking care of our selves - High up in the wall ot the Temple of Balbec there are three stones, each weighing eleven hundred tons. They were lifted up by a style of ma chinery that is now among the lost arts. But in my text is the Gospel machinery by which the vaster and the heavier tonage of the world’s burden is to be lilted from the crushed heart of the human race. What you and I most need to learn is the spirit of helpfulness. Encour age tho merchant. If he have a supe rior style of goods, tell him so. If he have with his clerks adorned the show window and the shelves, compliment his taste. If he have a good business locality, if he have had great success, if he have brilliant prospects for the future, recognize all this. Be not afraid that he will become arrogant and puff ed up by your approval. Before night some shop-going persons will come in and tell him that his prices are exorbi tant, and that his goods are of an in ferior quality, and that his shop win dow gave promise of far better things than he found inside. Before the night of the day in which you say encourag ing words to that merchant there will be some crank, male or female, who will come into the store and depreciate everything, and haul down enough goods from the shelves to fit out a fam ily for a whole winter, without buying a cent’s worth. If tho merchant be a grocer there will be someone before night who will come into his establish ment and tasts of this and taste of that and taste of something else, in that way stealing all the profits of anything that he may purchase—buying three apples while he is eating one orange. Before the night of the day when you approve that merchant he will have a bad debt which he will have to erase, a bad debt made by someone who has moved away from the neighborhood without giving any hint of the place of destination. Before the night of the day when you have uttered encourag ing words to the merchant there will be some woman who will return to his store and say she has lost her purse, she left it there in the store, she brought it there, she did not take it away, she knows it is there, leaving you to make the delicate and compli mentary inference that you prefer to make. Before night that merchant will hear tjiat some style of goods of which he has a large supply is going out of fashion, and there will be some one who will come into the store and pay a bill under protest, saying he has paid it before but the receipt has been lost. Now, encourage that merchant, not fearing that he will become arro gant or puffed up, for there w.ill be be fore night enough unpleasant things said to keep him from becoming apo plectic with plethora of praise. Encourage newspaper men. If you knew how many annoyances they have, if you understood that their most elab orate article is sometimes flung out be cause there is such great pressure on the columns, and that an accurate re port of a speech is expected, although tho utterance be so indistinct the dis course is one long stenographic guess, and that the midnight which finds yon asleep demands that they be awake, and that they are sometimes ground between the wheels of our great brain manufacturers; sickened at the V>|i*u approach of men who want complimen tary newspaper notices, or who want For Dyspepsia, Costive ness, l Sick Headache, Chronic Diar rhoea, Jaundice, Impurity of the Blood, Fever and f Ague, Malaria, and all Diseases caused by De- newspaper retraction; one day sent to report a burial, the next day to report a pugilistic encounter; shifted from place to place by sudden revolution, which is liable to take place any day in our great journalistic establishments, precarious life becoming more and more precarious—if you understood it, you would be more sympathetic. Be affable when you have not an axe to be sharp ened on their grindstone. Discuss in your mind what the nineteenth century would be without the newspaper, and give encouraging words to all who arc engaged in this interest, from the chief of editorial department down to the boy that throws the morning or evening newspaper inta your basement window. Encourage merchants. They will plumb the pipes, or they will kalso mino the ceilings, or they will put down the carpets, or they will grain the door, or they will fashion the ward robe. Be not among those who never say anything to a mechanic except to find fault, if he has done a job well, tell him it is splendidly done. The book is well bound, the door is well grained, the chandelier is well swung, the work is grandly accomplished. Be not among those employers who never say anything to their employes except to swear at them and to find fault with them. Do not be afraid you will make that mechanic so puffed up and arro gant he will never agaiu want to be seen with working apron or in shirt sleeves, for before the night comes of that day when you praise and compli ment that mechanic, there will be a lawsuit brought against him because he did not finish his work as soon as he promised it, forgetful of the fact that his wife has been sick and two of his children have died of scarlet fever, and he has had a felon the finger of the right hand. Denounced, perhaps, be cause the paint is so very faint in color, not recoguizing the fact that the me chanic himself has been cheated out of the right ingredients and that he did not find out the trouble in time, or scolded at because he seems to have lamed a horse by unskillful shoeing, when the horse has for months become spavined, or ringbone, or springhalt. You feel you have the right to find fault with a mechanic when ho does ill. Do you ever praise a mechanic when he does well? Encourage the farmers. They come into your stores, you meet them in the city markets, you often associate with them in the summer months. Office seekers go through the land, and they stand on political platforms, and they tell the farmers the story about the in dependent life of a farmer, giving flat tery where they ought to give sympa thy. Independent of what? I was brought up on a farm; I worked on a farm; I know all about it. I hardly saw a city until I was grown, and I tell you that there is no class of people in this country who have it harder and who more need your sympathy than farmers. Independent ot what? Of the curculio ‘hat stings the peach trees? Of the rust in the wheat? Of the long rain with the rye down? In dependent of the grasshopper? of the locust? of the army worm? of the potato bug? Independent of the drought that burns up the harvest? Independent of the cow with the hollow horn? or the sheep with the foot rot? or the pet horse with a nail in his hoof? Independent of the cold that freezes out the winter grains? Independent of the snowbank out cf which he must shovel himself? Independent of the cold weather when he stands threshing bis numbed fingers around his body to keep them from being frosted? Inde pendent of the frozen ears and the fro zen feet? Independent of what? Fancy farmers who have made their fortunes in the city and go out in the country to build houses with all the modern improvements and make farming a luxury, may not need any solace; but the yeomanry who get their living out of the soil, and who in that way have to clothe their families and educate their children, and pay their taxes and meet the interest on mortgage farms— such men find a terrible struggle. I demand that office seekers aro politi cians fold up their gaseous and imbecile speeches about the independent life of a farmer and substitute some word of comfort drawn from the fact that they are free from city conventionalities and city epidemics and city temptations. My most vivid remembrance of boy hood is of my father coming in on a very hot day from the harvest field, and seting himself on the door-sill be cause he was too faint to get into the house, the perspiration streaming from forehead and from chin, and my mother trying to resusciate him with a cup of cold water which he was too faint to hold to his own lips, while saying to us: “Don’t be frightened; there’s noth ing the matter; a little tired, that’s all, a little tired.” Ever since that day, when l hear people talking about the independent life of a farmer, I see through the sham. Farmers want not your flatteries but your sympathies. Encourage the doctors. You praise the doctor when he brings you up from an awful crisis of disease, but do you praise the doctor when through skillful treatment of the incipient stages ofdis-. ease, he keeps you from sinking down to the awful crisis? There is. a gieat deal of cheap and heartless wit about doctors, but I notice that the people who get off that wit aro the first to send for a doctor when there is any thing the matter. There are those who undertake to say in our day that doc tors are really useless. One man has written a book entitled Every Man His Own Doctor. That author ought to write one more book entitled Every Man His Own Undertaker.” “O!” says someone, “physicians in constant presence of pain get hard-hearted.” Do they? The most celebrated surgeon of the last generation stood in a chemi cal department of one of the New York medical colleges, the student gathered in the amphitheatre to see a very pain ful operation on a little child. The old surgeon said: “Gentlemen, excuse me if I retire; these surgeons can do this as well as I can, and as I get older it gives me more and more distress to see pain.” Physicians have so many hardships, so many interruptions, so many annoyances, I am glad they have so many encouragements. All doors open to them. They are .velcome to mansion and to cot. Little children shout when they see them coming down the road, and the aged, recogniz ing the step, look up and say: “Doctor, is that you?” They stand between our families and the grave, fighting back the troops of disorder that come up from their encampment by the cold river. No one hears such thanks as the doctor hears. They are eyes to the blind; they are feet to the lame; their path is strewn with the benedictions of those whom they have befriended. One day there was a dreadful foreboding in our house. All hope was gone. The doctor came four times that day. The children put away their toys and all walked on tip toe, and at the least sound said “Hush!” How loudly the clock did tick, and how the banister creaked, though we tried to keep it so still. That night he stayed all night. He concentrated all his skill upon the sufterer. At last the restlessness of the sufferer subsided into a calm, sweet slumber and the doctor looked up and smiled and said: “The crisis is past.” When, propped up with pillows, in the easy chair she sat, and the south wind tried to blow a rose leaf into the faded cheek, and the children brought flowers —the one, a red clover top; the other, a violet from the lawn—to the lap of the convalescent, and Bertha stood on a high chair with a brush smoothing her mother’s hair, and we were told in a day or two she might ride out, joy came back to onr house. And as we helped the old country doctor into his gig, we noticed not that the step was broken, or the horse stiff in the knees, and we all realized tor the first time in our life what doctors were worth. Encourage them. Encourage the lawyers. They are often cheated out of their fees, and so often have to breathe the villainous air of court rooms, and they so often have to bear ponderous responsibility, and they have to maintain against the sharks in their profession the dignity of that calling which was .honored by the fact that the only man allowed to stand on Mount Sinai beside the Lord was Moses, the lawyer, and that the Bible speaks of Christ as the advocate. En courage lawyers in their profession of transcendant importance—a profession honored Dy having on the bench a Chief Justice Story, and at the bar a Rufus Choate. Encourage the teachers in our public schools—occupation arduous and poor ly compensated. In all the cities, when there comes a fit of economy on the part of the officials, the first thing to do is always to cut down teachers sal aries. To take forty or fifty boys whoso parents suppose them precocious and keep the parents from finding out their mistake; to take an empty head and fill it; to meet the expectation of parents who think their children at 15 years of age ought to be mathemati cians and metaphysicians and rhetori cians; to work successfully that great stuffing machine, the modern school system, is a very arduous work. En courage them by the usefulness and everlastingness and the magnitude of their occupation, and when your chil dren do well, compliment the instructqr, praise the teacher, thank the educator. Encourage all invalids by telling them how many you have known with the same ailments who got well, and not by telling them of their smitten eye, or asking them whether the color of their cheek is ;eally hectic, or mentioning cases in which that style of disease ended fatally, or telling them how badly they look. Cheerful words are more soothing than chloral, more stimulating than Cognac, more tonic than bitters. Many an invalid has recovered through the influence of cheerful surroundings. Encourage ah starting in life by yourself becoming reminiscent. Es tablished merchants, by telling these young merchants when you got your first customer, and how you sat behind the counter eating your luncheon, with one eye on the door. Established law yers, encourage young lawyers by tell ing of the time when you broke down in your first speech. Established min isters of the gospel, encourage young ministers by merciful examination of theological candidates, not walking around with a profundity and over whelmingness of manner, as though yon were one of the eternal decrees. Doctors established, by telling young doctors how you yourself once mistook the measles for scarlatina. And if you have nothing to say that is encourag ing, O, man! put yonr teeth tightly together and cover them with the cur tain of yonr lip; compress yonr lips and put your hand over your mouth and keep still. A gentleman was passing along, crossing a bridge in Germany, and a lad came along with a cage of j birdß for sale. The stranger said, “How much for those birds and the cage?” The price was announced, the purchase was made and the first thing the stran ger did was to open the door of the cage and the birds flew oat into the sunlight and the forest. Someone who saw the purchase and the liberation said, “What did you do that for?” “Ah!” 6aid the stranger, “I was a cap tive myself once, and I know how good it is to be free.” O ! ye who remember hardships in early life, but have come beyond those hardships, sympathize with those who are in the struggle. Free yourself, help others to get free. Gov. Alexander Stephens, dying a few weeks ago, persisted in having business matters brought to his bedside. There was on the table a petition for the par don of a distinguished criminal, the petition signed by distinguished men. There was also on that table a letter from a poor woman in the penitentiary, written and signed by herself alone. Dying Alexander Stephens said, "You th'nk that because I have been ill so many times and got well, I shall get well now; but you are mistaken. I will not recover. Where is that letter by that woman in the penitentiary? I think she has suffered enough. As near as I can tell she has no friends. Bring me that paper that I may sign her par don.” A gentleman standing by, think ing this was too great a responsibility for the sick man, said: “Governor, you are very sick now; perhaps you had better wait till to-morrow; you may feel stronger and you may feel better.” Then the eye of the old Governor flash ed and he said; “I know what lam about.” Putting his signature to that pardon he wrote the last word he ever wrote, for then the pen fell from his pale and rheumatic and dying hand forever. O, my soul! how beautiful that the closing hours of life should be spent in helping one who had no helper. Encourage the troubled by thoughts of release and reassociation. Encourage the aged by thoughts of eternal juvene cencc. Encourage the herdsman amid the thoughts of sin to go back to the banquet at the father’s homestead. Give us tunes in the major key instead of the minor. Give us “Coronation” instead of “Naomi.” You have'seen cars so arranged that one car going down the hill rolled another car up the hill. They nearly balanced each other. And every man that finds life up hill ought to be helped by those who have passed the heights and are descending to the vale. O ! let us bear each other’s burdens. it gentleman in England died leav ing his fortune by will to two sons. The son that stayed at home destroyed the father’s will and pretended that the brother who was absent was dead and buried. The absent brother after a while returned and claimed his part of the property. Judges and jurors were to be bribed to say that the returned brother and son was no son at all, but only an imposter. The trial came on. Sir Matthew Hale, the pride of the English court-room, and for twenty years the pride of jurisprudence, heard that that injustice was about to be practiced. He put off his official robe He put on the garb of a miller. He went to the village where that trial was to take place. He entered the court-room, lie somehow got em panelled as one of the jurors. The bribes came around, and the man gave ten pieces of gold to the other jurors, but as this was only a poor miller the briber gave to him only five pieces ot gold. A verdict was brought in reject ing the rights of the returned brother. He was to have no share in the inher itance. “Hold! my lord!” said the miller; “hold! we are not all agreed on this verdict. These other men have re ceived ten pieces of gold in bribery, and I have received only five.” Who are you? Where do you come from 9” said the judge on the bench. The response was: “I am from Westminster Hall; my name is Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of tho King’s Bench. Off ot that place, thou villain!” And so the injustice was balked, and so the young man got his inheritance. It was all for another that Sir Mattew Hale took off his robe and put on the garb of a miller. And so Uhrist took off His robe royalty and put on the attire of our hnmanity, and in that disguise He won our eternal portion. Now are we the sons of God. Joint heirs! We went off from home, sure enough, bnt we got back in time to receive our eter nal inheritance. And if Christ bore our burden, surely we can afford to bear each other’s burden. Let ns pray. liules for Trousers. Philadelphia Press. The trousers of to-day are as com plete an institution as can be wished for. There are well-contrived recesses for the watch, the pistol, the whisky flask, keys, knife, comb, handkerchief, pocket-book—in short, everything that the most fastidious man could desire to have about him. The only thing left for a man to do is to learn how to wear breeches. Tall, alim men, with spider legs should wear close, bnt not tight fitting garments. Fat men look best in tight pantaloons; swells wear stripes; gamblers; plaids; Quakers, quiet col ors; ministers, plain black cloth; repor ters glory in broadcloth, mnch to the disgust of the tailors. Josh Billings Heard From. Newport, R. 1., Aug. 11,1880. Dear Bitters— l am hare trying to breathe In all the salt air of the ocean, and having been a sufferer for more than a year with a refractory liver, I i was induced to mix Hop Bitters with . the sea gale, and have found the tinc -1 ture a glorious result. * * * I havo been greatly helped by the Bitters, and am not afraid to say so. Yours without a struggle, Josb Bixungb. Don’t fall to call on Gyles for per i feet fitting clothing. j M)UR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. | Meet Me By Moonlight ALONE! Don’t You Do Ilf Much pleasanter looking people will be found at JOHN l SHAW’S, Who will assist you in mak’ng your selec tions from one of the LARGESTAID BESTSEL£CT£S STOCKS To be found in the city, OF Spring and Summer Dry Goods NOTIONS, FANCY GOODS, PARASOLS, UMBRELLAS* Ladies’ Hats, PERFUMERY, Toilet Soaps. TRTJUKS, CLOTHING, CISTS’ FURNISHING GOODS, Boots and Shoes, Straw, Wool and Fur Hats, At prices Lower ‘h the Lowest. Our infallible rule for success in business is Honest Goods, COURTEOUS TREATBERT, Reliable Statements, low prices: Call early and often, and oblige, Yours trulyi JOHN R. SHAW. NO. 62.